Full text of "Biographical and genealogical history of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton counties, Indiana"

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OUT OF THE depths of his mature wisdom Cailyle wrote: " History- is
the essence of innumerable biographies." Farther than this what pro-
priety can there fie in advancing reasons for the compilation of such a work
as the one at hand ' The group of counties here considered has sustained
within its confines men who have been prominent in the histor\- of the state
and nation from the earl)' territorial epoch. The annals teem with the records
of strong and noble womanhood, and, as Sumner said, " The true grandeur
of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the
individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of indixidual men
and the destinies of states are often the same. They are usnallv remote arid
obscure ; their influence wholly une.xpected until declared by results. Wlien
they inspire men to the e.xercise of courage, self-denial, enterprise, industrv,
and call into play the higher moral elements ; lead men to risk all upon con-
\iction, faith, — such causes lead to the planting of great states, great nations,
great peoples. That nation is greatest which produces the greatest and most
manlv men, and the intrinsic safety depends not so much \\\n>u methods and
measures as upon that true manhood from whose dee[) sources all that is
[irecious and ]>ermanent in life must at last proceed. Such a result may not
consciously be contemplated by the individuals instrumental in the pr,)duction
(jf a great nation. Pursuing each his personal good by e.xalted means, the)-
work out this as a logical result. They have wrought on the lines of the
greatest good.

Ceaselessly to an;i fro flies the deft, shuttle which weaves the web of
human destiny, and into the \ast mosaic fabric enter the iiidividualit\ , the
effort, the accomplishment of each man, be his station that most lowl\-, or
one of majestw pomp and jviwer. Within the textile foKls may be traced
the line of each individuality, be it the one that lends the beautiful sheen of
honest worth and honest endeavor, or one that, dark and zigzag, finds its way

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through warp and woof, marring the composite beauty by its blackened
threads, ever in evidence of the shadowed and un|)rolilic life. Into the great
aggregate each individuality is merged, and yet the essence of each is never
lost, be the angle of its influence wide-spreading and grateful, or narrow and
baneful. In his efforts he who essays biography finds much of profit and
uuich of alluring fascination when he would follow out, in even a cursory
way, the tracings of a life history, seeking to find the keynote of each re-
spective personality. These efforts and their resulting transmission can not
fail of value in an objective wa}-, for in each case may the lesson of life be
conned, '' line upon line ; precept upon precept."

Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the indi-
vidual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial devel-
opment, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a successful
life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of
this same uncertainty. So much in excess of those of successes are the
records of failures or semi-failures that one is constrained to attempt an
analysis in either case and to determine the method of causatinn in an ap-
proximate way. The march of improvement and progress is accelerated
day by da}-, and each successive moment seems to demand of men a broader
intelligence and a greater discernment than did the preceding. Successful
men must be live men in this age, bristling with activity, and the lessons of
biography may be far reaching to an extent not superficially evident. A
man's reputation is the jjroperty of the world. The laws of nature have for-
bidden isolation. Every human being either submits to the contiolling
infiueuce of others, or, as a Lnaste;", wields a power for good or evil on the
masses of mankind. There can be no impropriety in justly scanning the acts
of any man as they affect his public, social and business relations. If he be
honest and successful in his chosen field of endeavor, investigation will
brighten his fame and point the path along which others may follow with
like success. Not alone are those worthy of biographic honors who have
moved along the loftier planes of action, but to an equal extent are those
deserving who are of the rank and file of the world's workers, for they are
not less the conservators of public prosperity and material advancement.

Longfellow wrote, " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of
doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." If this golden
sentence of the New England bard were uniformly applied, many a man who

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is now looking:; down witli lianKhtN' stare upon tln' noble toilers on land ami
sea. sneering; at the omission ol the as])irate, the cut n[ his nei,t;hhor's coat
or the hiinihleness o[ his dwelling, would be xoluntarily doin- penance in
sackcloth and ashes, at the end of which he would han<lle a spatle or, with
pen in hand, burn the' inidni.i;ht oil in his stud}-, in the endeavor to widen the
bounds of liberty or to accelerate the material and spiritual progress of his
race. The humble and lowly often stand representative of the truest nobility
of character, the deepest patriotism and the most exalted purpose, and
through all the .gradations of life recop;nition should be had of the true values
and then should full appreciation be manifested.

In the Bioj^xaphical and Genealoj^ical History of Cass, Miami, Howard
and Tipton Counties the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully
realized the magnitude of the task set them. The work is purely biograph-
ical in its pro\-ince, and in the collation of material for the same there has
been a constant aim to use a wise discrimination in regard to the selection
of subjects, and yet to exclude none worthy of representation within its
pages. Those who have been promment factors in the public, social and
industrial makeup of the counties in the past ha\e been gi\en due recogni-
tion as far as it has been possible to secure the retjuisite data. Names
worthy of perpetuation here ha\e in se\eral instances Iteen omitted, either
on account of the apathetic interest of those concerned, or the inabilit}' to
secure the information demanded. Yet, in both the contemporary narrative
and the memoirs of those who ha\-e passed on to " that undiscovered country
from whose bourne no traveler returns," it is believed that there has been
such utilization of material as to more than fulfill all stipulations and prom-
ises made at the inception of the undertaking.

In the compilation recourse has been had to dixers authorities, includ-
ing \arious histories and historical collections, and implying an almost end-
less array of papers and documents, public, pri\ate, social and ecclesiastical.
That so much matter could be gathered from so many original sources and
then sifted and assimilated for the production of a single work without
incurring a modicum of errors and inaccuracies, would be too much
to expect of anj- corps of writers, no matter how able they might be as
statisticians or skilled as compilers of such works. It is, ne\'ertheless,
believed that no inaccuracies of a serious nature can be found to impair the
historical value of the volumes, and it is further believed that the results

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will supply the demand which called forth the efforts of the publishers
and the editorial corps.

To other and specific histories has been left the task of tuuchinj,' the
general history of these counties, for the function of this work is aside from
this, and is definite in its scope, so that a recapitulation would be out of
harmony with the compilation. However, the incidental references made to
those who have been the important actors in the public and civic history of
the counties will serve to indicate the generic phases and will shadow forth
much to those who can "read between the lines." In conclusion we can
not do better than to quote another of Carlyle's terse aphorisms: " There
is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, — the life
of a man."

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.

T T GRACE P. BIDDLE. — One of the most conspicuous figures in the his-
*■ ^ tory of Indiana is the distinguished jurist whose name introduces this
review. At the venerable age of eighty-seven years, he is now living retired
in his beautiful "Island Home" situated on an isle in the Wabash, at
Logansport, — honored as a citizen whose career has conferred credit and
dignity upon the state, and whose marked abilities have heightened the fame
of her judiciary. An enumeration of those men of the present generation
who have won honor and public recognition for themselves, and at the same
time have honored the state to which they belong, would be incomplete
were there failure to make prominent reference to Judge Biddle. He holds
distinctive precedence as an eminent lawyer, statesman and judge, and a man
of high literary attainments, his reading and investigation having been carried
into almost ever}' line of thought and research which have occupied the atten-
tion of the brightest minds through the ages. A strong mentality, an invin-
cible courage, a most determined individuality have so entered into his
make-up as to render him a natural leader of men and a director of opinion.
A native of the Buckeye state, Judge Horace P. Biddle was born in
Fairfield county, Ohio, on the 24th of March, 181 1. His parents were pio-
neers of the Marietta colony of Ohio, to which state they emigrated in 1777.
In 1802 they located in Fairfield county on the Hocking river, about a mile
below the town of Logan, where the father opened up a farm, giving his
entire time to agricultural pursuits. On that place Horace Biddle was born
and reared. He is indebted to the schools of the neighborhood for the early
educational privileges which he received, his studies being pursued through
the winter months, while in the summer he received an excellent physical
training in farm work, which provided him with the strength and vigor that
have enabled him to accomplish his prodigious life work. In 1836, at the age
of twenty-two, and in pursuance of the advice of Hon. Thomas Ewing, then

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United States senator, Judge Biddle entered upon the study of law in the
office and under the direction of the late Hocking H. Hunter, of Lancaster,
Ohio. In April, 1839, after three years of close application and diligent
preparation, he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio, at
Cincinnati, and in October, of that year, located in Logansport.

For almost sixty years Judge Biddle has been a member of the bar of
Indiana, although for some time past he has not engaged in active practice.
His marked intellectuality and evident fitness for leadership almost immedi-
ately called him to prominence in public affairs,, and in 1844, when Henry
Clay was nominated for the presidency, he was placed on the electoral ticket
by the Whig party. The following year he was a candidate for the state
legislature, but his party being in the minority he was defeated. In Decem-
ber, 1846, he was elected president judge of the eighth judicial district, in
which office he continued until 1852, adding judicial fame to his already bril-
liant record as a lawyer. In 1850 he was elected a member of the constitu-
tional convention, receiving a majority of over two hundred votes, although
the opposition usually carried the district by a large vote. In that assembly
he was a prominent figure, for his comprehensive knowledge of constitu-
tional law made his service very valuable in framing that important state doc-
ument. In 1852 he was nominated for congress, but was defeated; in 1857,
however, he was elected supreme judge, by a large majority, but Governor
Willard refused his commission on the ground that there was no vacancy in
the office.

On the completion of his judicial service in 1852, Judge Biddle resumed
the practice of law, and his successful handling of the important litigation
with which he was connected won him a reputation that extended throughout
the country. Again in 1S60 he was elected president judge of the eleventh
judicial circuit, and so ably did he discharge the duties of his high office that
he was re-elected in 1866, without opposition, completing his second term in
November, 1S72. His decisions were everywhere quoted as authority, being
regarded as models of judicial wisdom. His popularity was unbounded, and
it is a noteworthy fact that on no occasion when nominated for judicial service
has he ever met defeat. In October, 1874, he was chosen one of the judges
of the supreme court of Indiana by the largest majority ever received by any
candidate in the history of the state. Horace P. Biddle is one of the class of
American jurists which the people regard as a Gibraltar of justice. In the

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hands of such judges the individual and tlie state realize that every interest
is safe and that the law will be administered with the broadest intelligence
and with a keen regard for equity. A man of unimpeachable character, of
unusual intellectual endowments, with a thorough understanding of the law,
with distinctive patience, urbanity and industry, he took to the supreme
bench the very highest qualifications for this most responsible office in thesys-
tem of government, and his record as a judge was in harmony with his record
as a man and a law^-er, distinguished by unswerving integrity and a masterful
grasp of every problem that presented itself for solution. The judge on the
bench fails more frequently, perhaps, from a deficiency in that broad-mind-
edness which not only comprehends the details of a situation quickly and
that insures a complete self-control under the most exasperating conditions,
than from any other cause; and the judge who makes a success in the discharge
of his multitudinous delicate duties, whose rulings are seldom reversed, and
before whom counsel and litigant come with an unshakable confidence, is a man
of well rounded character, finely balanced mind and of splendid intellectual-
attainments. Such a man is Judge Biddle, and his course on both the cir-
cuit and supreme bench is such as has just been indicated. In January, iSSi ,
a few weeks before completing the Psalmist's span of three-score years and
ten, he retired from all active participation in the current affairs of life, and
has since given his attention to the pleasures that his literary pursuits bring.
Judge Biddle also became distinguished as a poet as early as 1S42, when
he became a contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger. His first col-
lection of poems was published in 1S50 and other editions were issued in
1852 and 1858, and 1868 and 1873. He is the author of the following
volumes: The Musical Scale, Elements of Knowledge, A Few Poems, I3id-
dle's Poems, American Boyhood, Glances at the World, Last Poems, Prose
Miscellany. It was during the first year of his retirement that he published
all the works named, with the exception of the Musical Scale. His beautiful
Island Home is one of the most attractive and interesting residences in Indi-
ana, and contains the largest private library in the state, numbering over
eight thousand five hundred volumes. There, with the master minds of all
ages, he is passing the evening of life, rich in the honors and respect which
follow an upright life that has ever been true to its ideals and its highest
possibilities — a life that has been of pre-eminent benefit to his fellow men by
conserving the public good. Strong in his individuality, he never lacks the

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courage of his convictions, but there are as dominating elements in his indi-
viduality a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which, as taken
in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, have
naturally gained to Judge Biddle the regard and confidence of all.

r^LLSWORTH HUNT, county surveyor of Howard county, Indiana,
^— ' resides at No. JJ East Monroe street, Kokomo. He is a young man
who has made his own way in the world, and who stands high in this local-
ity where he has spent the most of his life and where he is so well known.
Following is a brief review of his life:

Ellsworth Hunt was born in Wayne county, near the city of Richmond,
Indiana, November 23, 1865, son of Aquilla and Lydia (Thornburg) Hunt,
both natives of Indiana. He is one of a family of eight children, five sons
and three daughters, four of whom are now living, viz. : Ellsworth, Walter,
Kelsey and Omar. The father was by occupation a stationary engineer.
He lived in Wayne county until 1866, when he moved with his family to
Howard county. Here he spent the residue of his life, his death occurring
in 1897, at the age of sixty-two years. His widow survives him and resides
at Dunkirk, Indiana, with her two sons. She is a devoted Christian and
faithful member of the United Brethren church, as also was her husband.

Referring to the grandparents of Mr. Hunt, we find that his Grandfa-
ther Hunt was one of the earliest settlers of Wayne and Henry counties, and
lived to a ripe old age. The maternal grandfather, Walter Thornburg, was
likewise one of the pioneers of Wayne county. He reached the advanced
age of eighty years. Both were men of sterling integrity and were highly
respected by all who knew them.

At the time the Hunt family removed to Howard county and settled at
Kokomo, Ellsworth was a year old. Here he grew to manhood, receiving
his education in the Kokomo schools, and at an early age learning the trade
of harness-maker, which he followed about three years. At the end of this
time he went to work on the Clover Leaf railroad with a bridge gang, and
six months later got a job as axman with the engineer, and became assistant
engineer. His next venture was in business for himself, he and W. B. Ray,
of Logansport, opening an engineer's office in Kokomo, which they con-

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ducted together for about one year. Then Mr. Hunt went to work for
County Surveyor John E. Hohiian, later opened an office of his own again,
where he did business for two years, and in 1S92 he was elected county sur-
veyor. Since then he has twice been elected to succeed himself, has served
three terms, and now has the nomination for a fourth term, these favors
being tendered him at the hands of the Republican party.

Mr. Hunt was married July 25, 1S95, to Miss Ella Gray, daughter of
Charles Gray. Fraternally, he is a Knight of Pythias.

TOHN \V. BALL.-\RD, M. D.. a leading physician and surgeon of Cass
^ cjunty, who is now enjoying an e.xtensive and lucrative practice in Lo-
gansport, was born in Carroll county, Indiana, on the 28th day of Feb-
ruary, 1S5S, and is the fourth in a family of si.x children whose parents
were Anson and Mary J. (Hornbeck) Ballard. His father was born in Hamil-
ton county, Ohio, and is of French descent. In the state of his nativity he
married Miss Hornbeck, who was born in Fountain county, Ohio, and was of
Scotch-Irish lineage. On removing to Indiana they took up their residence
in Carroll county, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits. He
was a leading citzen of the community and held several positions of public
trust, such as county commissioner and township trustee.

On his father's farm the Doctor spent the days of his boyhood and
youth, assisting in the labors of field and meadow through the summer months,
while in the winter season he pursued his education in the district schools of
the neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he entered Purdue University
and was graduated in that institition in 1S76. He taught school, and with
the money thus earned completed both his literary and professional education.
Determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he pursued a
course of study in the Ohio Medical College and was graduated in the class
of 1S79. He put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test in Lock-
port, Indiana, and soon displayed marked ability in applying the principles he
had learned to the needs of suffering humanity.

Dr. Ballard continued in practice in Lockport until 1881, when he
removed to Logansport, and for seventeen years has been a valued represent-
ative of the medical profession of this city. He has a broad and compre-

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hensive knowledge of the science of medicine, and his skill and ability are
attested in his liberal patronage. He is very energetic and in the faithful
performance of each day's duty finds inspiration and encouragement for the
labors of the next. He is a valued member of the Logansport Medical &
Surgical Association, and by his professional brethren is accorded an enviable
position in their ranks.

The Doctor was married in 1876, to Miss Mary Ellen Milroy, of
Carroll county, Indiana, and theirs is one of the hospitable homes
of Logansport. Socially, Dr. Ballard is connected with the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a Master Mason. In politics he
is a Democrat, and has served two terms of two years each as county coroner.
In whatever relation of life we find him, whether in professional or social
circles, or in official service, he is always the same honorable and honored
gentleman, whose worth well merits the high regard which is universally
given him.

N TATHAN PICKETT is president of the Howard National Bank, Kokomo.
■^ ' There are many poor men who have good business talent. Some of
them have made themselves wealthy in former years by their commercial
ability, but have lost their fortune by some accident, as the incompetency or
treachery of a partner in business or of a trusted employee, or a fire or flood,
or sickness or financial panic overspreading the country; and some there are,
even, who have never made a fortune and yet have the capacity for such an
accomplishment, especially among the poorer classes in the Old World,
with whom it is impossible to obtain the means to start with. Some, again,
have inherited talent of a certain kind but are too far removed from the scene
where they can have any opportunity of exerting it. But in this country, while
we must acknowledge in the abstract that there are many poor men of good
business capacity, yet the only thing "standing in evidence" to the average
American, of such capacity, is the actual possession of wealth or at least of
a competency.

The possession of wealth alone, however, is not considered evidence of
morality. For the ethical and the esthetic we must look back of all the out-
ward show; and it is by this scrutiny that vce ascertain the character of the

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subject of this sketch, Mr. Nathan Pickett, to be worthy of honorable consid-
eration in this volume. He was born October 26, 1S18, in Chatham count}'.
North Carolina, and was ten years old when his parents left that section in
search of better facilities for a comfortable home.

His father, \\'i]liam Pickett, a farmer, in the fall of 1828, moved from
his Carolina home to this state, locating in Parke county, where he purchased
a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he added by entering and
purchase until he had in the home farm two hundred and forty acres, and he
had given several of his sons one hundred and si.xty acres apiece. He con-
tinued his residence there until his death, which occurred in August, 1837,
when he was in his si.\t3'-second year. He was a native of North Carolina, as
was his wife, whose name before marriage was Catharine Maris. She died
in October, 1843, aged about sixty-two years. Both were members of the
Friends' church. They had four sons and four daughters, but of these the
onl}- one now living is ^fr. Nathan Pickett, whose name heads these para-
graphs.

John Pickett, grandfather, passed the most of his life in North Carolina.
He was probably of English ancestry, was a member of the Society of Friends,
and died in the Old North state. In his family were seven or eight chil-
dren. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Pickett, Mr. Maris, was a native of
that state, was a Friend and a consistent Christian.

Mr. Pickett grew to manhood in Parke county, this state, employed on
the farm and attending the old-time subscription school, which was two miles
distant from his home; but the most of his education he received through
business habits. At the age of seventeen, on account of failing health, he
quit the farm and obtained employment in a store, but he soon returned to
the farm: this was in 1S41. Being full of energy, however, he over-worked
and was compelled to quit the heavy, tedious and protracted duties of agri-
cultural life in the "pioneer west," and he engaged in merchandising in the
village of Annapolis for the period of fifteen years.

In 1878 he moved to Kokomo, where he was elected president of the
Howard National Bank, which was organized and opened for business in Jan-
uary, that year; the charter, however, was dated in the November preceding.
The duties and responsibilities of president of this bank have ever since been
faithfully performed by him, who has now reached the age of eighty years
and is as vigorous and active as ever. He still owns the old homestead in

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Parke county, containing four hundred and ten acres, seven miles from Rock-
ville, the county seat.

November i8, 1841, is the date of Mr. Pickett's union in matrimony
with Miss Harriet Emily Carter, daughter of Jehu and Lydia (Thompson)
Carter, of Morgan county, Indiana, near Monrovia. They had two sons and
eight daughters, named Louisa, Catharine, Lydia, Sarah, Jehu, Emma,
Amanda, Walter, Ella and Ida. Louisa was married three times and has
two children, — Foster Branson and Grace Ni.xon, being children of the first
and second husbands respectively. Her last husband's name was Branson
also; she is now a widow. Catharine died at the age of ten years. Lydia
became the wife of William A. Moore, and had two children, of whom only
Amanda is now living. Mr. Moore was a teacher for a number of years in
Earlham College at Richmond, this state, and is now deceased. Sarah is
now Mrs. D. T. McNeil, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her children,
Walter and Paul, are attending the university. Jehu, now a traveling man,
married Miss Louisa Lindley, and they reside at Wichita, Kansas. Their
children are Emma and Ella. Emma, his sister, married Louis F. Horna-
day and they live in Crawfordsville, this state. x\manda died at the age of
twenty years. Walter married Miss Jessie Vansickel, of Crawfordsville, and
has one child, named Catharine. He and his brother-in-law are in business
together in that city, dealing in groceries, queensware, house-furnishing
goods and stoves. Ella, twin sister of Walter, is unmarried. Ida, now
deceased, became the wife of Julius Ayres and has one child, named Warren.

Mrs. Harriet E. Pickett, the first wife of our subject and mother of the
above children, departed this life May 30, 1888, in her sixty-si.xth year. She
was a noble woman, a member of the Society of Friends. On the 20th of
October, 1894, Mr. Pickett chose for his second wife Mrs. Catharine (Cox)
Overman, widow of Charles Overman and formerly a resident of Parke
county.

In his political views Mr. Pickett is a Republican, but he has never had
any taste for public office.

Now, the subject of the foregoing sketch is an example of rising to a
competency by honest methods and a steady aim, perseverance and intelli-
gent application, courage and fidelity. When his parents settled in this
state other settlers were there before them but two years. There were eight
children in the family. At one time his father endeavored to buy some

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wheat for manufacture into Hour, and at length succeeded in finding two
bushels, which was ground, bolted by hand; and that was all the wheat Hour
the family had for a number of months. The staples of their table fare were
corn, pork, pumpkin, milk and butter. Now, besides his finely improved
farm at the old homestead in Parke county, he has a nice property here in
Kokomo, his residence being at No. 140 ^^'est Sycamore street, where he is
enjoying life.

JOHN B. SHULTZ, M. D.— Devoted to the noble and humane work
which his profession implies. Dr. John B. Shultz has proved faithful,
and has not only earned the due reward of his efforts in a temporal way, but
has proven himself worthy to exercise the important functions of his calling,
through his ability, his abiding sympathy and his earnest zeal in behalf of
his fellow men. His understanding of the science of medicine is broad and
comprehensive, and the profession and public accord him an honorable and
distinguished place among the medical practitioners of Logansport and Cass
count}'.

The Doctor is a native of Carroll county, Indiana, born September 22,
1839, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Dunbar) Shultz. The father was
born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1795, of German parentage. In 1824 he
removed to Ohio, thence to southern Indiana in 1830, to Tippecanoe county
in 1S34, and about 1837 took up his residence in Carroll county. He was a
farmer and miller and resided for many years in Carroll county, where his
death occurred in 1855. His wife was a native of Kentucky and lived to
the advanced age of eighty-six years. By her marriage she became the
mother of nine children, but only two are now living.

Dr. Shultz, of this review, having acquired a good English education,
entered upon the study of medicine, and in i860 was graduated in the Eclectic
Medical Institute, of Cincinnati, Ohio. In February of the same year he
located in Logansport and entered upon his professional career, which has
been such as to distinguish him as one of the ablest physicians and surgeons
of this part of the state. He soon secured a liberal patronage, and with
the passing years his practice has increased, for he has always been a close
student of his profession and has kept fully abreast with the advancement
that has been made therein.

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In his political views Dr. Shultz has long been a stalwart Republican, and
he does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the
party. He has been honored by election to several local offices, and his loy-
alty and public-spirit were manifested in his prompt, able and faithful service.
In 1 870 he was elected county treasurer, and so well did he discharge the duties
of the office that he was re-elected in 1872, filling the position for four years.
He also filled the office of mayor of Logansport for two years and his admin-
istration of the affairs of the city was wise, progressive and discriminating. He
has always given his support to the enterprises calculated to prove of public
benefit, and his labors in this direction have been instrumental in the upbuild-
ing of town and county. Socially he is connected with the Improved Order
of Foresters, and the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Orient Lodge, No.
272, A. F. & A. M.; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M. ; Logansport Council,
No. II, R. &. S. M., and St. John Commandery, No. 24, K. T.

T T L. MORELAND, justice of the peace, Kokomo, deserves mention in
^ -^ this volume, inasmuch as he is an exemplary citizen who has done his
share in the development of the interests of the communities in which he has
resided. Without any air of pretentiousness he has humbly and faithfully
fulfilled his duties in all the relations of life.

Mr. Moreland is a native of the Keystone state, born in Franklin county,
August 8, 1824, a son of David and Isabella (Lang) Moreland, also natives of
that state. They had seven children, of whom five are now living, all in
Indiana, namely: John, in Delaware county; Henry L. , the subject of this
sketch; Rebecca, widow of Gideon Keefer and now living at Ale.xandria;
David, of Bourbon; and Isabella, wife of Hiram Murphy, of Newcastle.

David Moreland, the father, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
in 1792, and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. In 1864 he emigrated
to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1868, aged
about seventy-seven years. His life companion had left this world long
before, namely, December 20, 1844. Both were sincere Christians, holding
their ecclesiastical membership in the Presbyterian church.

Before leaving the subject of Mr. Moreland's genealogy, we may notice
that his paternal grandfather, Thomas Moreland, was an emigrant from Ire-
land in the second year after our Revolutionary war, who settled in Pennsyl-

aJSS. .MI.IMI, HOIJUJW A\D TIPTOA' COVATIES. U

vania, %vhere he was a follower of agricultural pursuits and finalh' died. He
had a large number of children.

Henry Lang, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Moreland, was a native of
the Keystone state and of Scotch parentage. He was a graduate in the
classical course at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; studied medi-
cine under the preceptorship of Dr. McClelland, a noted surgeon; practiced
there a short time, and then for a while was a resident and practitioner in
Rockbridge county, \'irginia; and returning to his native state, he located at
Greencastle, where he at length abandoned the medical profession and
became a school-teacher. He died at the latter place, when he was about
seventy-five or eighty }ears of age. He was a very intelligent and social
gentleman. His father, named James Lang, was a Presbyterian minister,
who died in Pennsylvania.

Henry L. Moreland, the subject proper of this brief biographical outline,
was brought up in agricultural life in his native county, attending, during the
winter seasons, the old-style subscription schools, where the children had to
occupy slab seats and have but one window for the whole room.

During the winter of 1S44-5, when he was about twenty years of age,
he took a load of goods by wagon and a six-horse team over the mountains
to Pittsburg, before a railroad was completed to that city. The distance
was about one hundred and fifty miles, and the trip was a tedious and hazard-
ous one, especiall}' for a man so young, requiring twenty-one days. During
his youth he was a member, for a time, of a military company raised for
service in the Mexican war; but, although he drilled with them for a time, he
was not called into active service.

In 1847 he emigrated to Ohio, settling in Xenia, where he remained
about eighteen months and learned the cooper's trade. In 1848 he came
still further west, locating at Middletown, in Henry county, where he
remained about seven years, following his trade as cooper. It was the 20th
of October, 1857, that he arrived in Howard county, from Grant county,
this state, and he devoted his attention and energies to agricultural pursuits
until 1872, when he moved to Kokomo, purchased a cooper shop and fol-
lowed his favorite vocation until 1889, when he sold out in order to give his
attention to official business. Previously, at the June (1865) term of the
county commissioners' court, he was appointed by that body to fill the unex-
pired term of John Moulder as a member of that board, and at the conclu-

12 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEjYEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

sion of that term he was rej^ularly elected for the full three-years term, sa
that altogether he served as a member of the county legislature for a period
of four years and six months. He proved to be a very popular officer; and
the public, recognizing his capacity and fidelity, elected him in 1874 to the
office of county auditor for the regular term of four years, and in 1878 for
another term; and in this responsible position he served eight years, with
unabated acceptability. In the summer of 1S89 he began work in the city
treasurer's oiBce and served several months. In April, 1890, he was elected
justice of the peace, which office he still holds; and in March, 1898, he was
renominated lor the office, and at this writing is a candidate for re-election.
Thus as a public official we see that Mr. Moreland has demonstrated his title
to the popular esteem.

On the 8th day of May, 1849, Mr. Moreland was united in marriage
with Miss Almira J., daughter of Chauncey H. and Jane Burr. By that mar-
riage there were nine children, namely: Oscar LaSere, Loren O., Zerelda,
John Edgar, Isabella, Chauncey D., Addie Eliza, Henry L. and one who was
not named. All died young except Loren O., Addie Eliza and Henry L.,
Jr. Loren O. married Miss Jennie Bowers and had three children, — Gracie,
Chauncey and Morah. Loren O. was engaged in the loan and abstract busi-
ness in Kokomo for some years, and later was assistant deput}- auditor in his
father's office; but, on account of close confinement, and the work of the-
office not being congenial to his taste, he left it and went to Texas, on busi-
ness, and while there he fell a victim of typhoid fever, due to the use of
alkaline and impure water, and the result was his death in Ivokomo, August
8, 1S78. Henry L. Moreland, Jr., married Miss Bessie Tenant and lives at
Alexandria, where he is a glass-cutter; he has two children. Addie Eliza
married Edward T. Hatton and lives at Center, Howard county; they have
two children, — Ruth and Zerelda.

Mrs. Almira J. Moreland died March i, 1870, and subsequently Mr.
Moreland was united in matrimony with Mrs. Margaret M. Neil, widow of
John Neil and daughter of Joshua Belt. By this marriage there have been
four children, two of whom are deceased; the living are Olive and Willia M.
Mrs. Moreland is a devout Christian, identifying herself with the Congrega-
tional church, with which the daughters also are connected. They have a
pleasant home at 204 South Union street, in a large frame dwelling erected,
in 1 89 1.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWABD AXD TII'TOX COU.A'TIES. m

"Squire" Moreland is a Royal Arch Mason in his fraternal relations,
and politically he is a stanch Republican. Previous to the rise of the Repub-
lican party he voted for two Whig candidates for president o{ the United
States, — Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.

Such is but a brief outline of some of the principal points in the life
career of a worthy and exemplary citizen of Kokomo.

"pvR. JAMES M. DARNALL. of Kokomo, came to the Wabash valley
-*— ^ when the public appraisers were fixing the price of the land through
which the famous \\'abash & Erie canal was to run from the mouth of the
Tippecanoe river. The government purchased a large strip of land from the
Indians and made a donation for the construction of the canal. And ever
since that extremely early day in the settlement and development of this
state has the Doctor been an ej'e witness of the multitudinous changes
involved in the progress of improvement.

Dr. James Milton Darnall is a native of Kentucky, born in Jessamine
county, June 28, 1817. His father, Zenas Darnall. a native of W'est Vir-
ginia, married Miss Agnes Bridges, a native of North Carolina, both of Eng-
lish descent. They were taken to Kentucky when children by their parents,
and were reared and married in that state. They had six sons and two
daughters, and three sons and one daughter are still living, namely: Dr.
James M. (our subject); Harvey B., of Lebanon, Indiana; Riley W., a mer-
chant in the Great Northern Hotel building in Chicago; and Mary E., wife
of Joseph E. Pedigo, an attorney at Lebanon, Indiana. The last named
served as a soldier in the Civil war. Zenas Darnall, a farmer by \'ocation,
moved from Kentucky to Decatur coimty, Indiana, in 1822, and purchased
at first eighty acres of land and afterward more, and brought up his children
there. Losing his wife in 1852, at the age of fifty-four years, he moved to
Boone county, this state, where in 1857 he died, aged sixty-nine years. He
was a Baptist in early life, but at length he united with the Christian church,
of which his wife had been a member and of which he was an elder at the
time of his death. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, taking the part of
musician in a volunteer company. He was a fine musician and to some
extent taught vocal music. He was a prominent man in Decatur county and
held various offices. '

14 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

John Darnall, father of the preceding, was a native of Maryland, started'
from that state for Kentucky with his family, and, learning of the hostility of
Indians, stopped in Virginia until the hostility had cooled down, and then
resumed his journey westward until he reached the desired section of coun-
try, to which point two of his brothers also came. He died in Kentucky,
aged about fifty-five years. His wife lived to be eighty-seven years of age,,
and she brought up si.xteen children.

James Bridges, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native
of North Carolina, a miller and millwright by trade, and owned a large
tract of land in his native state. He finally died there, well advanced in life.
He had two brothers, one of whom, Charles, was an active man in the
Society of Friends.

Dr. Darnall's ancestry came to this country with Lord Baltimore, and
two of them were members of his privy council and one of them was his
land agent, and was acting as governor of the province of Maryland when the
Protestants succeeded in obtaining a majority of the legislature and took the
government of the province out of Lord Baltimore's hands. These facts
were recorded in history many years ago by a member of the Baltimore bar
named Davis, whose statement has been corroborated by a later standard
history of Maryland. The Darnalls were all Catholics in those days, and
those remaining in the east generally continue to be Catholics, while those in.
the west are Protestants.

Dr. James M. Darnall, whose name heads this biographical record, was
reared on a farm in Decatur county, attending the district and common,
schools and later the seminary at Greensburg, and still later Hanover College,.
in Jefferson county. For a number of winter seasons he taught school.

In 1849, having determined to devote his life to the medical profession,,
he began the study of the healing art, under the instructions of Dr. Brown,
of Connersville, and in due time he was licensed under the auspices of the
Indiana Medical Institute, and he opened out in practice at Burlington, Indi-
ana. After following his profession there for twenty-two years, he moved,,
in 1 864, to Kokomo, where he continued in practice and also kept a drug-store.

About 1879 he drifted into the milling business, in connection with the
Kokomo Milling Company, later Darnall & Hooper, and since 1886 the firnij
style has been Darnall & Dawson, while the establishment is known as the
Howard Mills. Its capacity is one hundred barrels of flour per day.

CASS, MLIMT, JI0]J:JIW JXD TII'TU.V COCYTIES. 15.

Dr. Darnall has with great credit served in a public capacity. While a
resident of Burlington he was a justice of the peace for many years. In 1854
he was elected a member of the state legislature, where he served with satis-
faction to his constituents. Soon after the city of Ivokomo was organized he
was elected a member of its common council; and in 1S79 he was elected
mayor of the city and served two years. In his political principles he was in
early life a ^^'hi^^ but has been a Republican ever since the organization of
that party.

Fraternally, he belongs to Kokomo Lodge, No. 133, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and to Kokomo Encampment, No. 61, of the same order.

August 19, 1845, is the date of the Doctor's marriage to Miss Mary
Gwinn, daughter of Samuel and Magdelene (Johnson) Gwinn, and they have
had only one child, who died in infancy; but they have brought up two chil-
dren — John Doremus, now deceased, and Elizabeth Davis, now the wife of
Miles McBeth. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Christian
church, in which he holds the office of elder. Mrs. Darnall is a native of
Virginia and was brought to this state when a child. The Doctor and his
wife have their residence at 56 East Walnut street, in a brick house which
was the second or third of the kind built in the town. Dr. Darnall, person-
ally, is a large, well-proportioned man, of a rugged constitution and well pre-
served for one of his age.

JOHN E. SUTTON. — The enterprising city of Logansport is fortunate in
the citizens who make up its quota of business men, for it- is a well
established fact that a community is measured by the character of its
representative men. The daily newspapers of a place, too, are usually just
indices of its commercial and civic status, and, this being the case, too much
importance cannot be attached to them and to their mission.

The young man of whom this sketch is penned is the sole proprietor
and business manager of the Daily and Weekly Reporter, one of the wide-
awake journals of Cass county. It was established by him in 1889, its first
issue being dated October ist. It was a doubtful venture, as he was
repeatedly warned by his many friends, but he had had an extended experience
in various live western cities and towns in this same line, and he confidently
believed that a paper of the description he proposed would flourish here.

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Time has abundantly proved his wisdom, for by its own intrinsic merits the
Reporter has thrived from the first and is daily becoming more popular. The
energy and zeal which its owner has at all times manifested have brought
their reward. It has been his policy to employ the best obtainable talent
and to make the paper independent of any particular person's genius, but
broad and liberal, reflecting the brilliancy of numerous minds. During the
summer of 1895 he travelled extensively in Europe, and in an original
manner jotted down his impressions of places of interest, customs, etc. These
letters, published as special correspondence in the Reporter at the time, have
since been compiled by him and brought out in a small volume.

John E. Sutton is a native of Fulton county, Indiana, his birth having
occurred October 21, 1863. Blessed by having the wise and careful super-
vision of his work and play and his studies, by his father, a man of scholarly
attainments, the lad grew to manhood, well rounded in character. When he
was but six years of age the family removed to Logansport, and here our
subject has made his home most of the time since. He received his educa-
tion in the excellent public schools of this place, graduating from the high
school in 1882. After teaching school for a short time he concluded to enter
the field of journalism, and served three years in the office of the Logansport
Pharos as city editor of the paper. Desiring to widen his mental horizon, to
see something of his own country and to gain more extended and practical
experience, the young man went to the west, and found employment with the
metropolitan dailies of the various western cities at points along the line,
between here and Los Angeles, California. There he engaged in publishing
the Real Estate Reporter, which, during its rather brief life, had a wide cir-
culation and a very prosperous career. It was during the great real-estate
boom in southern California in 1886-7, and when the crash came, the paper,
very naturally, was no longer needed. As a whole, however, it had served
its mission and had met with a flattering success.

Returning to Logansport after an absence of about two years, he founded
the Reporter here, as mentioned previously. It is the product of his own
energy, unassisted by outside influence or capital. Here, as elsewhere, suc-
cess has crowned his efforts. He is also proprietor and publisher of the
Logansport Advance and Galveston Sun, Indiana. Many of the papers which
he started in western cities and towns are still in existence and stand as
monuments to his undaunted enterprise and faith.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD A.A'D TIFTO.K COUXTIES. 17

Politically Mr. Sutton is always independent, conducting his paper
entirely on neutral lines. A Knight of Pythias, he belongs to Apollo Lodge,
No. 62, and is also a member of Company No. 26, U. of R.

The stay of Mr. Sutton in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, in the ' ' land
of sunshine," was attended with greater effect upon his destiny than the
mere experience which he there obtained in the journalistic line, for there it
was that he became acquainted with the lady who is now his wife. She was
at that time Miss Inez May Stanley, and their marriage was solemnized in
Los Angeles, in January, 1887. Their two children. Psyche and Lindley
Reporter, aged ten and nine years, respectively, are the pride of their pleas-
ant and attractive home. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are members of the Presby-
terian church.

Andrew J. Sutton, father of John E. Sutton, has been a permanent
resident of Logansport for twenty-nine years, but has been associated with the
history of Cass county for a much longer period. He was born in Fayette
county, Ohio, July 7, 1826, being a son of Ferdinand and Mary (Shellen-
berger) Sutton. They were natives of \\'est Virginia and Pennsylvania,
respectively, and were of Scotch and German ancestry. When he was young
Andrew J. removed to Clark county, Ohio, with his parents, and there
attended the district schools of the period. At the age of nineteen he secured
a certificate to teach in the common schools of Miami, Cass and Fulton coun-
ties, Indiana, having come to this state in 1844. For twenty successive
winters he was occupied in pedagogic work, and the success which he had in
" training the young idea how to shoot," is abundantly shown by the fact
that he was always in great demand in the districts where he had once been
in charge of a school.

From 1 87 1 to 1880 Mr. Sutton was engaged in mercantile pursuits, in
this city, in the meantime being also interested in the buying and selling of
real estate. While living in Fulton county he was honored with the office
of justice of the peace, in which capacity he served, very acceptably to all
concerned, for a full term' of four 3ears. In 1882 he was elected by his
Democratic friends a member of the board of commissioners of Cass county.
At the close of his three-year term, he surrendered the trust, and carried
with him the respect of his political opponents, as well as those belonging to
his own party, on account of the efficient and faithful manner in which he
had met the requirements of the position. Since 1885 he has given his

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attention to his real-estate investments, as formerly, and has met with suc-
cess. He is now practically retired from the world of business, as he is
well advanced in years and has served a long and faithful apprenticeship.
For more than thirty years he has been a member of the Methodist church,
and since he cast his first ballot he has been identified with the Democratic
party.

In May, 1850, Andrew J. Sutton married Miss Barbara Horn, who was
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Three sons and two daughters
came to bless their hearts and home. Two of their number have been called
to the better land and those who survive are: John E. Sutton, whose biog-
raphy precedes this; Charles E., an attorney of Bozeman, Montana; and
Mrs. H. S. Wilson, of Logansport.

CHARLES L. HARRY, superintendent of the Citizens' Light & Power
Company, of Kokomo, and also of the Kokomo City Railway Company,
is a representative of the modern era of invention, enterprise and prosperity.

Mr. Harry was born in Seneca county, Ohio, January 7, 1855, a son of
Baldwin W. and Sarah H. (Lawrence) Harry, who also were natives of the
Buckeye state. They had three sons and one daughter, namely: Charles
L. , of Kokomo; William H., of Shiawassee county, Michigan; Frank C. , of
East Saginaw, Michigan; and Delia A., wife of Thomas Smeeth, of Bay City,
same state.

Mr. Baldwin W. Harry by trade was a millwright, contractor and
builder, and he is still living, in Hancock county, Ohio. The major part of
his life has been passed in, and in the vicinity of, Seneca county, that state.
His wife, who was an illustrious member of the Christian (Disciples') church,
departed this life about the year 1889. Mr. Harry's grandfather on his.
father's side was a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, and a physi-
cian, practicing the most of his life in Ohio, had three sons and three daugh-
ters, and died in middle life, in Hancock county, Ohio. L. C. Lawrence,
Mr. Harry's maternal grandfather, was also a native of Pennsylvania, emi-
grated to Ohio, and conducted an extensive buggy trade in Fostoria for a
number of years; then removed to Flat Rock, Michigan, where he resided
the remainder of his life, passing away at the advanced age of ninety years.
He was a very energetic man, made considerable money, was patriotic and,

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AA^D TIFT OX CO UNTIES . 19

a fine Christian gentleman, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church, of
which body his wife also was an exemplary member. They had eleven
children.

Mr. Charles L. Harry, whose name introduces this sketch, passed his
youth in Wood county, Ohio, in a small village called Portage, in the Black
Swamp, most of the time until he had reached the age of eighteen years. After
attaining his elementary education at Portage he went to Bay City, Michigan,
where he engaged in sawmill engineering and steamboating for a number of
years. At length he drifted from those occupations into electrical engineering
and the electric-light business, being seven years with the Swift Electric Light
Company, at Bay City and Saginaw, Michigan, three years of that time as
engineer and the remaining time acting as superintendent for the company.
He also was on the road selling machinery, erecting electric-light works at
Menasha, Wisconsin, and Fremont, Ohio, and changing the horse-car lines at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to electric. Then returning to Bay City, Michigan,
he put in an electric line, both in Bay City and West Bay City, and was
there about four years.

On the loth of September, 1S96, he arrived in Kokomo to take charge
as superntendent of the Citizens' Light and Power Company and the I\okomo
City Railway, and this position, for which he is so well fitted by many years'
experience and by inherited capacity and a system of honest principles, he
now fills, to the satisfaction of the Ivokomo public.

On the 5th day of July, 1877, he was united in the bonds of matrimony
with Miss Clara J. Affleck, a daughter of John and Hattie (Coomer) Affleck,
and they have had two children, — a son and a daughter, — Merrill L. and
Florence J ; the latter died at the age of five years, inflicting a spiritual loss
upon her parents than can never be mitigated. Mr. and Mrs. Harry are mem-
bers of the Westminster Presbyterian church of Bay City, Michigan, and they
have a fine home in ^^'est Bay City, as well as one in Kokomo, at 202 East
Sycamore street. They are zealous members of the Order of the Eastern
Star, while Mr. Harry is an appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity,
also of the Order of OJd Fellow.-;, the Ancient Order of United Work-
men, the Afodern Woodmen of America and the American Association of
Stationary Engineers. In his political principles he is a Republican. In
West Bay City, Michigan, he was a member of the board of education there
and also of the water-works board.

20 BIOGRAPHICAL AMB GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

JOHN O. HEATON, a retired farmer living in the northeast part of
ICokomo, Indiana, is classed among the early settlers of this place.

Mr. Heaton was born in Warren county, Ohio, September 22, 1821,
one of the family of eight children of Hon. William and Rachel (Osborn)
Heaton, natives respectively of New Jersey and Ohio. Of this family only
three are now living, namely: John Osborn, subject of this sketch; Lucinda,
wife of Isaac Voor, of La Fayette, Indiana; and William, of Boise City,
Idaho. The father was a tailor in early life, and later gave his attention to
milling and farming. He came west to Louisville, Kentucky, with his par-
ents when a child, and afterward moved to Warren county, Ohio. The first
weather-board house he ever saw was in Cincinnati, and it was covered with
clapboards. That was when Cincinnati was called Fort Washington. In
1829 he came from Warren county, Ohio, to La Fayette, Indiana, and eight
miles southeast of that place built a mill and bought a half of five sections of
land, where he lived until 1848. He came to Kokomo in 1848, and here he
died the following year, at the age of si.xty-three. His wife died in Tippe-
canoe county in 1843, at the age of forty-three years. Both were members
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a man of prominence in his
day. In 1832 he served as a member of the Indiana state legislature, repre-
senting Tippecanoe county; and at one time was a director in the La Fayette
State Bank. During the war of 1812 he was employed by the government
to make garments for the soldiers.

Jonah Heaton, the grandfather of John O., was a native of New Jersey.
From there he moved to Pennsylvania, thence to Kentucky, and later to
Ohio. He died on Caesar's creek, in Greene county, Ohio, at the age of
sixty-five years. A gunsmith by trade, he made the first gun ever made in
the west, that being before the Revolutionary war. He had a family of eight
children, five sons and three daughters. The Heatons are of Welsh origin.
The original progenitor of the family in this country came to America with
the Pilgrims early in the seventeenth century. The maternal grandfather of
our subject was John Osborn, a native of North Carolina. Leaving the south
he came up into Ohio at an early day and purchased a part of the north tier of
the great Symmes tract of land, at twelve and one half cents per acre. There
he carried on farming for several years and became a wealthy man. The last
few years of his life were spent in New Orleans, where he died at the extreme
old age of ninety-five years. While in Ohio he was a " Minute Man " under

C.JSS, MIAMI, noniJL'D JXD TIPTOX COU.yTIES. l>1

Sinclair, and was in Sinclair's defeat near Greenfield, in a fif^lit with the
Indians.

Having thus referred to his ancestry, we turn now to the life of our
immediate subject, John O. Heaton. He spent eighteen j-ears of his early
life in Tippecanoe county, being nine years old at the time his people moved
there, as above stated. He recalls that La Fayette at that time had only
one frame house. In June, 1847, he came to Kokomo and in the fall of
that year pre-empted a claim of eighty acres, which has been his home ever
since. He has, however, sold off all his land e.xcept ten acres, his home
place, and twenty acres of the land he sold he first platted as an addition to
the town. In his early manhood Mr. Heaton taught school one term. He
has made his own way in the world since he was twenty-one, has never been
afraid of honest toil, and has so lived that he has won and retained the con-
fidence and good will of all with whom he has in any way come in contact.

Mr. Heaton was married February 25, 1S44, to Miss Louisa Blj'stone,
daughter of Henry and Julia Ann (Eckleburner) Blystone. Nine children
were born to them, four sons and five daughters. The sons all died in
infancy except one, George P. , who was drowned at the age of twenty-two
years. The daughters are Rachel, wife of Cyrus H. Clark, who has one
child; Lucinda, wife of Ezra Jackson, who has six children; Emma, wife of
O. A. Somers, who has two children; and Alice and Sarah, at home. Mrs.
Heaton and her daughters Alice and Sarah are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

Politically, Mr. Heaton is a Democrat. He served as school commis-
sioner for many years and also has filled the office of township trustee.
About 185S he ran for county treasurer, had a big Republican majority to
overcome, and while he received a Battering vote he was defeated.

T~\R. AUBREY WILBUR HOLCOMBE, homeopathic physician and
'-^ surgeon, ofBce at 44 West Mulberry street and residence at 16S West
Taylor street, Kokomo, was born in Gibson count}', Indiana, near E\ansville,
February 7, 1867, a son of Tihlman H. and Mary Elvira (Roseborough)
Holcombe, who also were natives of this state. The Doctor has no brother
and his only sister died in infancy. His father was a school-teacher until he

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went into the army, in which he served as a member of a regiment of Indi-
ana Infantry Vokinteers, and filled the position of corporal. After the
war he moved upon a farm, and- while moving received a sunstroke, from the
effects of which he died in 1870, at the early age of thirty years. His widow
subsequently married Rev. E. D. Thomas, a Baptist minister, who died in
June, 1897, and she survives, a second time a widow. By her last marriage
she had six children, of whom five are living, namely, Harvey, Frank, Mary,
Raymond and Nellie.

Silas Holcombe, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of Virginia, of
Welsh-English descent, cama to Indiana in early day and located in Gibson
county, near Fort Branch, upon a farm. He also was a regular Baptist minister
and lived to a great age. He had three sons and one daughter. James Patrick
Roseborough, Dr. Holcombe's maternal grandfather, was a native of Indiana
and of Irish descent, his father having been born on the Emerald isle and
emigrated to this country when young, settling in Indiana. He was a soldier
in the war of 18 12, was a miller by trade, and followed his vocation as
such at Poseyville, this state, and besides he owned a small farm. He had
seven daughters and one son, and finally died near Owensville, Gibson county,
when about fifty years of age.

Dr. Holcombe was four years old when his mother married Rev. Mr.
Thomas, and he was brought up by them, in Hendricks county, on a farm
near Danville. He attended district schools and later the Central Nor-
mal college at Danville, then taught school for three years. Entering
Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, he applied himself diligently to the
scientific studies underlying the art of medicine, and finally graduated at
Hering Medical College, same city, in 1893. He began the practice of his
chosen profession at Danville, Indiana, and from there came to Kokomo, the
same year, where he has ever since been engaged in his favorite calling. He is
professor of materia medica in Dunham Medical College, at Chicago, and
belongs to the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, of which he is secretary.

On the loth day of May, 1894, the Doctor was united in marriage with
Mrs. Belle McClain, widow of John McClain and daughter of James Thomp-
son, a native of Howard county; her mother was Nancy Jane (Adair) Thomp-
son. Dr. and Mrs. Holcombe have one child, whom they have named Helen
Ariel. In religion, the Doctor belongs to the regular Baptist church, and in
respect to the fraternities he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men
and the Sons of \'eteraus. Politically he is a " iniddle-of-the road"
Populist.

T UDGE JOHN C. NELSON.— Prominent in the le^al profession of Cass
'-' county stands the sterling citizen whose name heads this brief tribute to
his worth. At all times a most true and loyal citizen, faithful to the best
interests of his country in peace or war, he is honored and highly respected
by all who enjoy his acquaintance. His admiring fellow citizens of Logans-
port, where he has dwelt for many years, elected him to the position of
mayor in 1887, and for two years he served, to the entire satisfaction of all,
in that responsible office. During the more than thirty years which have
elapsed since his location here, he has always had deeply at heart the well-
being and improvement of the city, and has used his influence whenever pos-
sible for the promotion of industries and institutions calculated to be of last-
ing benefit to this section.

The birth of Judge Nelson occurred in Adams county, Ohio, February
27, 1S41. He received a common-school education and was but sixteen
years of age when he obtained a certificate to teach. Thus he was employed
for several years, a portion of his time being devoted to the improvement of
his own education. In October, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in
Company A, Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A little later he was made
second sergeant, and when the regiment was fully organized he was appointed
sergeant major. In that capacity he served until March, 1862, when he was
promoted to be second lieutenant of Company G. The regiment rendez-
voused at Ripley, Ohio, and was ordered to Paducah, Kentucky, and
assigned to the third brigade of the division commanded by General \\'illiam
T. Sherman, General Buckland, of the Seventy-second Ohio, being the brig-
adier commander. Prior to the battle of Shiloh Mr. Nelson was detailed as
aide to General Buckland, and acted as such in the ensuing engagement.
Subsequently he rejoined his company and was commissioned first lieutenant,
ranking as such from October 4, 1862. The division to which he belonged
then took part in the siege of Corinth and were then sent to Memphis, Ten-
nessee. There, under General Sherman, they participated in Grant's advance
upon Vicksburg, and after the capture of Holly Springs the regiment was

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stationed at points along the line of the Memphis & Nashville Railroad until
May, 1863. With his regiment, Lieutenant Nelson proceeded next to Vicks-
burg, for the purpose of re-enforcing Grant's army, then laying siege to the city.
During the following winter the young man was detailed as ordnance officer on
the staff of Brigadier-General Buckland, commander of the division, and acted
in this capacity until the general was relieved by William Suey Smith, his
successor. Our subject's next duty was as aid-de-camp of General Smith,
but after the last of April, 1863, he was detailed to serve on the staff of
Colonel Cockerill, who was in command of a brigade in the same division.
He continued in this office while Vicksburg was besieged and until after Mis-
sionary Ridge had been fought. March 11, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran
in his old regiment and was commissioned captain of Company G. From
that time until he was wounded at the battle of Ezra Church, he gallantly
led his command from Chattanooga to Atlanta, serving under Sherman.
After spending some time in the hospital he was sent to the north to
recuperate.

As soon as he was able he rejoined his regiment, reaching the front in
October, 1864. The following month he was appointed commissary of mus-
ters to serve on the staff of General Hazen, who commanded the Second Divi-
sion of the Fifteenth Army Corps. Continuing in this capacity, he went with
Sherman's army on the march to the sea, from Atlanta to Savannah, from
Savannah to Goldsboro, and from Goldsboro to Washington city. While in
the capital. Captain Nelson mustered out nine regiments whose time had
expired, and in June the remainder of the division commanded by General
Oliver was ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas. At that point the Captain
assisted in mustering out the entire division, and was himself honorably dis-
charged from the service October 18, 1865, having served three years and
ten months.

When his country no longer needed him. Judge Nelson returned to the
peaceful vocations of life. Going to Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended a business
college for several months, and in July, 1S66, came to Logansport. He em-
barked in the boot and shoe business here, but subsequently disposed of his
interest to his partner. In the winter of 186S-9 he commenced the study of
law in an Albany, New York, law school. Having completed the required
course of lectures and study, he returned to this city and was in partnership
with Judge D. H. Chase up to the time that the latter was elected judge of

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the Cass county circuit court. From that time until 1S77 Judge Nelson was
a partner of Dyer B. McConneli, and in the year mentioned was appointed
judge of the Cass county superior court, by Gox-ernor Williams. In this dis-
tinguished position he administered the duties devolving upon him with dig-
nity and wisdom, serving until the court was abolished, in 18S1, by act of
the state legislature. Since then he has been giving his whole time to the
general practice of law, and has met with most gratifying success. Since iSgi
he has been in partnership with Ouincy A. Myers. In his political faith he
adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.

/^^APTAIN FRANK SWIGART. —For over thirty years this honored
^-^ hero of the civil war has been successfully engaged in the practice of
law in Logansport, Cass county. His record as a business man, as a loyal
patriot and as a private citizen is one of which he has occasion to be proud,
and we are pleased to be able to present a sketch of his career to the
public.

Born near the town of New Carlisle, Clark county, Ohio, April 29, 1S40,
the Captain is a son of Samuel and Jane (McPherson) Svvigart. In 1842 the
family removed to Cass county, and, taking up their abode upon a tract of
timber land, in Clay township, became pioneers of that portion of the county.
There, in ths beautiful and fertile Eel River valle}', our subject grew to
manhood, rugged and strong, on account of his outdoor life and hard toil,
for he was of great assistance to his father in cutting down the forests and in
clearing the farm. He attended the district school about three months of
the year, and was a mere boy when he developed an especial fondness for
books, reading all that he could borrow or buy. In 185S he became a stu-
dent in a select normal school in Burnettsville, Indiana, continuing therefor
six months. The following j-ear he went to Kokomo, this state, and for
two full terms of si.x months each pursued his higher studies in the normal
academy there. At the end of one of these terms he was selected to
represent his class in an oratorical contest and was victorious.

In 1 86 1 the young student was still attending the Kokomo normal
school, and when war broke out he was among the first to respond to
his country's call. He first enlisted under Colonel William L. Brown, who

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failed to get into the service with his men, and in October, 1861, our subject
became a private of Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, and was
soon appointed to serve as a sergeant. Upon April 20, 1862, he was made
a second lieutenant and in October of the same year was commissioned cap-
tain of the company. He took part in several of the most memorable and
important campaigns of the war; and, among others, was in the one that
included the expeditions against New Madrid and Island No. 10; the reduc-
tion of Fort Pillow and Fort Randolph and the campaign of White river, for
the relief of General Curtis. He also was engaged in the Yazoo expedition,
whereby Grant hoped to find a waterway leading to the rear of Vicksburg.
The Captain's division was selected to cross the Mississippi river at Grand
Gulf and assault the rebel works, as soon as the Union ships silenced the
heavy guns, which, however, they failed to do. The division was disem-
barked and marched past the batteries, and on the morning of April 30,
Captain Swigart was ordered to embark with his command on the Benton
gunboat and cross the river. Complying with this order, he and his men
were the first company landed on the eastern side of the " father of waters "
in the movements that resulted in the capture of Vicksburg, the Confederate
stronghold. He participated in the many and fateful battles of the ensuing
campaign, including that of Port Gibson, May i, 1863, Champion Hills, and
the actual siege and capture of Vicksburg, when his brave little company were
for forty days in the trenches in the front ranks of the battle. At the Cham-
pion Hills engagement his division suffered fearfully, as in -three and a half
hours of desperate fighting twelve hundred and two of their brave boys in
blue were cut down by the enemy. After the second siege of Jackson, which
surrendered July 17, 1863, the Captain was sent to the Department of the
Gulf, and took part in the campaign preceding the battle of Sabine Cross
Roads. In the last named encounter with the rebels he was severely wounded
and as soon as it was possible he returned home, receiving his honorable dis-
charged in October, 1864. His army record is replete with examples of his
bravery and fidelity to duty, and his superiors always found in him one upon
whom they could safely relj'.

Not the least test of the character of the young soldier in war times
comes when he returns home to the comparatively tame routine of business
life and other interrupted plans. Captain Swigart, as soon as he was suffi-
ciently recovered from his injuries, entered the office of Judge Lewis Cham-

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berlain, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in September,
1865, and at once embarked upon a career that has been very successful and
prosperous from ever}' point of view. He has always retained a sincere
interest in his old comrades, and has served as post commander of the
Logansport Grand Army of the Republic four different times, and has once
been their delegate to the national encampment.

He has always been a stanch worker in the Republican party, and in
1 888 was elected to act in the electoral college, being placed on the Harrison
ticket. Though frequently a nominee of his party for prominent offices, he
has always been at a great disadvantage, as his county and district are
strongly Democratic. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him to the
responsible position of chief of the law division of the comptroller's
office, in the treasury department, in Washington. While he was acting in
that capacity his division decided upon about forty thousand cases, and of
this large number but three were overruled, two by the comptroller and one
by the secretary of the treasur}'. Since he resigned his office the Captain
has devoted himself exclusively to his professional duties.

October 3, 1865, Mr. Swigart and Margaretta I. Inline were married.
Their union has been blessed with five children, namely : Charles E. , ^^'illiam
M., Jesse E. , John F. and Peter D.

p^R. ROBERT Q. WILSON.— The career of Dr. W^ilson is another
■*— ' impressive example of push and energy against all obstacles and the
■consequent rise from comparative poverty to affluence. When he first came
to this state in 1843 he had but forty cents. He has made his own way in
the world, educating himself and honestly earning every dollar he has ever
possessed. He has now been so long a resident of this state and of Kokomo,
doing honor to his profession, that he can well be considered a "stand-by, "
a pillar of society which cannot be broken down.

Referring first to his genealogy, we may state that his parents, James
and Mary Ann (Wallace) Wilson, were Scotch-Irish from the north of Ireland,
which section of Christendom has probably furnished the world with more of
the best elements of society and of the state, proportionally, than any other
country of equal area in the world. His father in this country was a furni-

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ture dealer and manufacturer of spindles at Concord, Pennsylvania, twenty-
miles from Chambersburg. While a resident there he was for twenty-five years
the postmaster, and each of his sons served his time in the post-office; and
when he came west they in succession have taken charge of the office. He
moved to Wooster, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying
at the age of about seventy years; his wife had died many years previously.
Both were members of the United Presbyterian church and were as exemplary
in their conduct as any people who ever lived. He was married three times,
— first to a Miss Ray, by whom he had one child, named John; secondly, to
Miss Wallace; and thirdly to Mrs. Devor.

John Wilson, grandfather, was also a native of the north of Ireland and
died in middle life, a few days after his arrival in America. He had only
two children, — a daughter besides the father of the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Wilson's grandfather on his mother's side, James Wallace, was a native
of "Erin's green isle," a Presbyterin, and emigrated to this land of promise
and opportunity, locating in Tuscarora valley, Pennsylvania, where he passed
the remainder of his daj's, dying at the age of about seventy-five years. His
occupation was that of dealing in cattle, driving them mostly to the
Philadelphia market.

James W'ilson had seven sons and one daughter, of whom four are now
living, namely: William, now a resident of Washington, Iowa; Robert Q.,
who is the subject proper of this biographical mention; Benjamin, a farmer
at Wooster, Ohio; and Alexander, residing at Frankfort, Indiana. Dr.
Robert O. Wilson was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, November 23,
1822, and was reared in Concord, that state. His first educational training
he received in the old-time log-cabin subscription schools. In 1843 he came
to LaFayette, Indiana, where he attended the county seminary; but, con-
tracting that tedious malarious disease called ague, he went to Wooster,
Ohio, where he enjoyed better conditions and pursued a classical course of
instruction under Professor John Rankin; but it required about three years
for him to fully recover from his aguish condition!

Having a predilection for the science of medicine, he began his study,
in Wooster, under the preceptorship of Dr. Bissell, and completed it under
the guidance of his brother, graduating, however, at Rush Medical College in
Chicago. Opening out in practice at Rossville, Clinton county, Indiana, he
enjoyed good success and remained there eighteen years.

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In 1866 he removed to Kokomo and has ever since been a resident of
this city, doing honor to his profession and enjoying a remunerative patron-
age, except that since 18S8 he has lived retired from practice.

October 9, 1848, he was united in marriage with Miss Belle Robinson,
a daughter of William and Mary (Eaton) Robinson, and he has had five chil-
dren, namely: William, Edwin R., Belle, James and Mary, — the last two
being twins. Three of these children died when young; Belle died at the age
of twenty-two years; and Edwin R., now deceased, married Miss Alice Riblet,
daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Reisinger) Riblet, and had seven children, of
whom five are living, — I^annie, Edna, Elizabeth, Helen and Lois. In 188S
the Doctor suffered the loss of his worthy and estimable wife. In religious
matters Mrs. Wilson was a sincere and consistent member of the Presby-
terian church, of which body the Doctor also is an influential member and
in which he has served as a ruling elder for many years. They were indeed
the prime movers in the establishment and organization of their church here
in Kokomo, beginning the work at their own home.

Dr. Wilson is a member of the Masonic order, and in politics is a Repub-
lican. He is a fine scholar, Latin being his favorite study and Virgil and
Horace his favorite authors. In English the Bible is his first, Shakespeare
the second; while in fiction Sir Walter Scott is his favorite. Having been
educated by his own efforts, he places a high value on his attainment and
constantly advises young people intending to take up a profession to obtain
first a good education by all means. He is a graduate of Rush Medical Col-
lege, of Chicago, and in his benevolence he has also assisted several other
students at that institution.

He has lost all his family, and has taken to his home the family of his
son, Edwin, and adopted them as his own, their father being dead.

T^LWOOD HAYNES. — Honored and respected by all, there is no man in
*— ' Kokomo who occupies a more enviable position in industrial and finan-
cial circles than Elwood Haynes, not alone on account of the success he has
achieved, but also on account of the honorable, straightforward business pol-
icy he has ever followed. He possesses untiring energy, is quick of percep-
tion, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution; and his

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close application to business and his excellent management have brought to
him the prosperit}- which is to-da}- his.

Born in Portland, Indiana, on the 14th of October, 1857, he represented
one of the pioneer families of this section of this state. His paternal grand-
father was a native of Massachusetts and of English descent. By trade he
was a carriage-builder and harness-maker, and he spent his entire life in the
east, where he reared a large family. In his religious views he was a Con-
gregationalist. Judge Jacob M. Haynes, father of our subject, was also born
in the Bay state, and at an early day came to Indiana, locating in Muncie,
where he studied law and engaged in practice for many years, his ability
gaining him a distinctively representative clientage. He was elected com-
mon-pleas judge and later was elevated to the circuit bench, whereon he
served for many years. He removed from Muncie to Portland almost fifty
years ago, and the latter city was his home during the greater part of his
judicial service. Although he is practically living retired, during the past
year, when eighty years of age, he was called upon to act as judge in some
special cases. His knowledge of the law is broad, profound and accurate,
which, combined with an inherent love of justice and right, has made him
one of the most impartial and capable jurists who have ever sat upon the
bench of his district. For about twenty years he has also served as presi-
dent of the People's Bank, of Portland. In politics he has always been a
Republican. He is now living, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, hon-
ored for his upright life and for the ex-cellent work he has accomplished, using
the talents with which nature endowed him to the best possible advantage —
in a way which not only benefitted himself, but also proved of benefit to his
fellowmen.

Judge Haynes was united in marriage to Miss Hilinda S. Haines, a native
of Ohio, and a daughter of William Haines, a native of Pennsylvania, and of
English descent and Quaker stock. Her father was a tanner by trade and
was proprietor of a hotel in Indiana for a number of years. He also specu-
lated in land and was of a very energetic nature, but of a somewhat roving
disposition. He came to the Hoosier state at a very early day, and died in
Portland, where he had resided for many years. He was twice married and
reared a very large famil_y. Mrs. Haynes, the mother of our subject, died
in Portland in 1885, at the age of fifty-seven years. The Judge and his wife
had a family of ten children, eight of whom are now living, namely: Jose-

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phine; Susan, wife of C. F. Headington; Walter M., cashier of the People's
Bank, of Portland; Sumner W., an attorney; Elwood; Frank; Calvin and.
Edward M. All reside in Portland with the exception of our subject.

Elwood Haynes was reared in Portland, and in the public schools of
that city acquired his preliminary education, which was supplemented by a
course in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, at Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he was graduated in iSSi. He then engaged in teaching in the high
school in his native city, also the normal in Portland, followed by one year's
study, 1SS4-5, in the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, Maryland,
where he pursued a post-graduate course in chemistry and biology, of which
branches he afterward made a specialty while teaching in the normal, at
Portland. Later he became financially interested in the Portland Natural
Gas & Oil Company, serving as its manager from 1887 until 1890. For
two years thereafter he was field superintendent of the Columbus Construc-
tion Company, and in 1S92 became superintendent of the Kokomo division
of the Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Company, which position he still fills, his
superior business ability, keen discrimination and energy contributing not a
little to the success which attends the enterprise. Nor is his ability confined
alone to one line of effort Associated with Elmer Apperson, for the past
three years he has been engaged in the manufacture of the " Horseless car-
riage, " or motor cycle, which is propelled by a gasoline motor, and they are
now perfecting arrangements to build these carriages on an extensive scale.
Mr. Haynes has also made some analyses of natural gas, which have enabled
him to compute its heating value as compared with coal, wood and other
fuels, and has also made some practical tests of the heating power of the gas
by consuming it in stoves and under boilers, the results being compared with
those of wood and coal, showing the great superiority of the gas. His com-
prehensive understanding of chemistry has proved of great practical value to
him in these experiments, and his broad general information and literary
ability have enabled him to produce some interesting as well as very instruct-
ive articles for the State Geological Reports and for different encyclopedias.
He has also placed upon the market several useful inventions, including a
thermostat for controlling the temperature of rooms heated by natural gas.

On the 20th of October, 1S87, Mr. Haynes married Miss Bertha Lan-
terman, a daughter of W^ D. and Mary (Firth) Lanterman. They have had
four children, two sons and two daughters: Bernice, March, and two who

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died in infancy. The parents are leading and influential members of the
Presbyterian church, and Mr. Haynes is serving as elder and as teacher of
the Bible class. His views on the temperance question lead him to support
the Prohibition party, and his influence can ever be counted upon in advo-
cacy of any measure or enterprise designed for the public good.

T EX J. KIRKPATRICK, e.\-circuit judge of the thirty-sixth judicial cir-
•'— ' cuit of Indiana, composed of Howard and Tipton counties, is the subject
of this brief outline. Notwithstanding all the cheap jokes, in newspapers as
well as in light conversation generally, the legal profession is as highly hon-
ored in this country as in any other in the world. Both the bench and the
bar throughout the United States are regarded everywhere as on a par with
the corresponding branches of the public service in England, the model of
the world. This profession has for many years been honored by the scru-
pulous and impartial conduct of Judge Kirkpatrick, both as an attorney and
as a judge; and we take pleasure in presenting a brief outline of a few facts,
commencing, chronologically, with his parentage, etc.

Judge Kirkpatrick is a native of Indiana, born in Rush county, Septem-
ber 6, 1853. His parents, Stephen and Rebecca J. (Jackson) Kirkpatrick,
also natives of that county, had three children, — two daughters and a son, —
the last mentioned only remaining a survivor. Mr. Stephen Kirkpatrick was
born in Rush county, Indiana, February 10, 1832. He has devoted his life
to the pursuits of the farm and horticulture. Since 1854 he has been a resi-
dent of Howard county, and since 1871 his home has been in Kokomo. He
is still an active citizen, and has held various township offices. He is an
honored member of the Christian church. His estimable wife is also an
influential co-worker with him in all public movements designed for the
uplifting of humanit3^ She was born in Rush county, Indiana, February 14,
1834. John Kirkpatrick, grandfather of the Judge, was a native of Ken-
tucky, of Scotch ancestry and an agriculturist. He was born October 23,
1802. The Judge's great-grandfather, William Kirkpatrick, was born June
8, 1776, and died July 13, i860. Joseph Jackson, the Judge's maternal
grandfather, was a native of North Carolina, born March i, 1794, was a
farmer by occupation, and removed to Rush county, Indiana, where he passed
the remainder of his life.

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After attending the public schools in Taylor township, in his native
county, the subject of this sketch pursued a curriculum at Oskaloosa (Iowa)
College; returned to Kokomo, and attended Howard College, and after that
the Central Law College, at Indianapolis, graduating there in June, 1875.
The same year he opened out in practice in Kokomo, forming a partnership
with J. F. Elliott, Esq., under the firm name of Elliott & Kirkpatrick. This
relation was continued until November, 1890, when Mr. Kirkpatrick was
elected judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit. In this election his popular-
ity was demonstrated by his running far ahead of his ticket, as his name was
upon the Democratic ticket in a district usually giving heavy Republican
majorities. He assumed the duties of his office fourteen days after his elec-
tion and served until November, 1896, exhibiting no sign either of partiality
or incompetency; rather he was expeditious and direct in his methods, his
natural acumen and executive character enabling and impelling him to arrive
at the proper results with the least ado. He has tried many important cases,
among them the following: The state of Indiana against Calvin Armstrong,
deputy county treasurer of Tipton county, for embezzlement, of which charge
he was convicted; the state against Augusta Schmidt, a case on change of
venue from Logansport, in Cass county, wherein the defendant was con\icted
of murder; as special judge in January, 189S, at Marion, in Grant county, in
the case of the state against Noah Johnson, who was convicted of murdering
the object of his matrimonial affections, Miss Tacie Mang, and sentenced for
life to the penitentiary; in February, 1897, also as special judge, at Marion,
in Grant county, the case of the state against John W. Crum and John C.
Evans, the former an insurance agent and the latter the president of the
Jonesboro Bank, which was a "green-goods" case: the conviction which
resulted was the first of the kind in the state of Indiana, and was brought to
issue under the charge of " grand larceny;" the Racer ditch case, as special
judge at Hartford City, Blackford county, in December, 1897; the Jacob
Cross will-contest case, as special judge at Rushville, Rush county, in March,
1898. He has presided as judge in important cases in the counties of
Howard, Tipton, Hamilton, Cass, Miami, Grant, Wells, Blackford and Rush.

On the 1st of December, 1896, Judge Kirkpatrick joined the firm of
Morrison & McReynolds, well known and prominent lawyers, the new asso-
ciation taking the firm name of Kirkpatrick, Morrison & McReynolds. They
occupy beautiful offices in the new building of the Home Building & Loan

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Association, and enjoy a lucrative patronage; indeed it is one of the leading
law firms in this section of the state.

The 22d day of September, 1881, is the date of the Judge's union in
matrimony, with Miss Emma Palmer, of Adrian, Michigan, the daughter of
Stephen and Letitia (Saville) Palmer. Stephen House Palmer was born in
Monroe county, New York, January 29, 1824. Letitia W. Saville was born
in Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana, September 13, 1828. They now
reside at Holloway, Michigan. The Judge and his wife are active and influ-
ential members of the Christian church, of which ecclesiastical body he is a
deacon. For three years he was president of the Indiana State Union of
Christian Endeavor, and he is still a member of the state committee of that
body, and one of the vice-presidents of the World's Christian Endeavor
Union., his term expiring in 1900. He was for thirteen years superintendent
of the I\okomo Sunday-school of his church. The school had an average
attendance of four hundred and thirty-si.\ for a period of si.x years. He
resigned his position there on account of the pressure of the state work upon
his time and attention.

MAURICE WINFIELD.— On the roster of Indiana's able jurists is found
the name of Judge Maurice Winfield, who has gained distinctive pre-
ferment in the legal profession. The reason is not far to seek. Advance-
ment in the "learned professions" depends entirely upon merit; and the
intellectual vigor, analytical power and argumentative ability of the Judge
have gained him a leading place in the ranks of the fraternity.

New York has sent out her gifted sons into all parts of the Union, and
our subject is one of these. He was born in Ulster county, of the Empire
state, on the 27th of January, 1841, and is a son of Zenas and Mary (Ter-
williger) Winfield. In the common schools he acquired his early education,
and at the age of fourteen entered the academy in Montgomery, Orange
county, New York, where close application enabled him to complete the
preparatory course in a little less than a year. Entering Princeton College,
in the fall of i860, he was graduated in the class of 1S65, having been forced
to relinquish his studies for an entire year on account of ill health. How-
ever, he completed the regular four-years course and won special honors
for his proficiency in Greek.

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In April, 1865, he came to Logansport, where for one year he was
engaged in teaching in the Presbyterian Academy. Predilection led him
into the study of law, and, under the guidance of Judge Horace P. Biddle,
he pursued a course of reading which fitted him for the bar, and he entered
upon his professional career in 1867. Possessing the advantages of a colle-
giate education, and having a studious nature and a keenly analytical mind,
it is not strange that Judge Winfield soon won success at the bar. He dem-
onstrated his ability in several well conducted litigated interests and from
that time has enjoyed a liberal clientage. He prepares his cases with great
thoroughness and care, and never loses sight of an available point that will
enhance the interests of his clients. His arguments are forceful, clear and
convincing, and his deductions follow in logical sequence.

In his political associations Judge Winfield is a Democrat, but prefers
the triumph of principle to the domination of party. In 18S2 he was elected
judge of the circuit court and two years later assumed the duties on the
bench. For five years he acceptably served in that position, and his decis-
ions were a full embodiment of the law applicable to the litigated points,
and were entirely free from judicial bias. Resigning, he at length resumed
the practice of law, and his enviable reputation with the public and the
profession is most creditable.

In 1868 Judge Winfield was united in marriage to Miss Jennie M. John-
son, a daughter of the late William H. Johnson, one of the leading business
men of Logansport. They have one son, Maurice J., a graduate of Prince-
ton College, of the class of 1895, and a member of the Cass county bar. In
social circles Judge Winfield occupies an enviable position, and he has a
strong hold on the confidence and respect of his fellow townsmen, due not
less to an irreproachable life than to recognized natural gifts.

499915

IV/IILTON SHIRK. — Honored and respected by all, there is no man in
^ ' ^ Peru who occupies a more enviable position than Milton Shirk in finan-
cial circles, not alone on account of the brilliant success he has achieved, but
also on account of the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever
followed. He possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his
plans readily and is determined in their execution; and his close application

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to business and his excellent management have brought to him the high
degree of prosperity which is to-day his. It is true that he became interested
in a business already established, but in controlling and enlarging such an
enterprise many a man of even considerable resolute purpose, courage and
industry would have failed; and he has demostrated the truth of the saying
that success is not the result of genius, but the outcome of a clear judgment
and experience.

Milton Shirk was born in Peru, — the present place of his residence, —
November 2i, 1849, and is the eldest son of Elbert Hamilton Shirk, whose
name is so closely interwoven with the commercial interests of Miami county
as to become an integral part of its history. He, too, was a native of this
state, born in Franklin county, in 1 8 1 8, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stout)
Shirk. The former came from Ohio to Indiana, and the latter from Kentucky.
In boyhood the father of our subject pursued the ordinary life of the farmer's
son in a country where the farms were comparatively new and the advantages
limited. He attended the district school through the winter months and after
he had attained his majority entered Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where
he remained for two years, studying ancient and modern languages and math-
ematics. For the ensuing two years he was employed as instructor in the
Rush County Seminary, in Rushville, but the commercial instinct was para-
mount in his nature, and he early sought the opportunity of engaging in a
vocation more congenial and at the same time more lucrative than that of
teaching.

With that purpose in view Elbert H. Shirk located in Peru in 1S44 and
formed a partnership with John Harlan, an established merchant of the
town. From that time until his death, in 18S6, his career was one of
unbroken prosperity and almost unparalleled success. In June, 1845, he
wedded Mary Wright, of Franklin county, a lady of English descent and of
rare gentleness yet strength of character. Their home life was ideal in its
beauty and harmony, and exerted a strong influence over Mr. Shirk in all his
future career. From that time forward the two lives were blended as one
in sentiment, in purpose, in domestic tastes, in hope and enjoyment, and no
other force in the career of Mr. Shirk had such an effect upon him as did the
quiet, gentle influence of his home.

He terminated his first mercantile partnership at the end of one year,
but in that time he had mastered the principles of mercantile life, and con-

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tinned business on his own account. He studied the markets and adapted
his purchases to the wants of his customers. He made money rapidly and
his profits were clean. Every year witnessed an expansion of trade with
corresponding enlargements of substantial wealth. He made the most of his
opportunities, which he was quick to note, and at the same time did not lose
sight of the possibilities of the future in the work of the present. He was
sagacious and far-sighted, and this characteristic was an essential factor in his
accumulation of wealth. On one occasion when he visited New York for
the purpose of purchasing merchandise, he discovered in the hands of
brokers a large number of depreciated land warrants, issued by the govern-
ment for services rendered in the Me.xican war. Having knowledge of the
fertile prairies of the west and foreseeing the rapid development of new states
and territories, he invested all of his cash in those land warrants, which he
used at par value in the purchase of rich agricultural lands in Kansas, Iowa
and Nebraska. These lands he exchanged at a profit with farmers who
desired to go west for valuable improved farms near his home in Indiana.
This was the inauguration of a series of real-estate transactions which were
continued systematically through all the years that followed and contributed
greatly to the colossal fortune he accumulated. While conducting these oper-
ations he anticipated the phenomenal growth of Chicago by a concentration
of the largest investments in that city.

In 1857 Mr. Shirk opened a private bank for deposits, which was the
foundation of the strongest fiscal institution ever established in Indiana. It
became the nucleus of the First National Bank of Peru, which he organized
in 1S64, soon after the enactment of a law by congress authorizing such
banks. Although it was incorporated as the First National, it has been pop-
ularly known as "Shirk's Bank." As a matter of course its founder was
elected president and annually re-elected, no other name ever being con-
sidered in connection with the position during his life-time. His banking
operations were conducted strictly according to law, and the favorable con-
ditions immediately following the war enabled the judicious lianker to make
large profits. In a few years hundreds of thousands of dollars were added
to the surplus and invested in United States securities bearing good rates of
interest. Dividends were declared and paid semi-annuall}' with unfailing
regularity, and the well established and unassailable reputation of the presi-
dent for integrity, sound judgiVrent and financiering ability brought deposits

38 BIOGRAPHICAL AMB GEMEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

to his bank from all sources until the aggregate sometimes amounted to ten
times its capital stocl^; and they sustain about that ratio at the present time.

In the management of his mercantile interests Mr. Shirk exhibited great
wisdom in the selection of his employees. He was rarely mistaken in his
estimate of the honesty and capacity of a boy. His confidence was seldom
or never misplaced. Among the boys whom his intuitive judgment selected
was George C. Miller, who entered his store in 1862, was trained in all the
departments and details of the business and entrusted with responsibility.
In 1873 he was admitted to a partnership and in a few years became manager
of the store. His success as a managing merchant is due to the impression
made on his youthful mind by the counsel, example and sympathy of his
employer. Mr. Shirk's business enterprises were essentially of three classes,
banking, mercantile and real estate. He knew every detail of merchandising
as a buyer and seller. He was familiar with the theory and practice of
banking; in a word he was a broad-minded, far-seeing financier with great
mental grasp and remarkable penetration. Had he lived and operated in
New York or Chicago his fortune would probably have been far greater,
and the achievement would have been less marvelous than the one that
crowned his forty years' residence in Peru.

He believed in humanity and maintained a high standard of morality.
To those who knew him best his life was much more than a financial success.
In politics he was a Whig and Republican, and was always informed on the
issues of the day, but left to others the management of party affairs and the
contest for official preferment. He was a mjember of the Baptist church,
observant of Christian duties and liberal in his contributions to church and
charitable work. When the congregation of which he was a member under-
took to build a commodious house of worship he paid half the cost. It is a
pleasing commentary on the influence of good example that his family later
contributed one-half the cost of the superb edifice built by the same con-
gregation in 1894.

Mr. Shirk was rather slight and apparently frail physically, but his nerv-
ous energy and will-power were very great. His cordiality and courtesy
were unfailing, and his self-control was perfect. His home life was ideal;
when he crossed his threshold he put aside all business cares and anxieties
and entered heartily into the delights of his own fireside. He delighted to
entertain his friends and his hospitality was most generous and pleasing.

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After a long, useful and honorable life, he passed away April S, 1886, and his
wife, surviving him several years, died in August, 1894. The surviving
members of the family are two sons and two daughters.

Milton Shirk, the eldest, was trained in the details of banking and suc-
ceeded his father as president of the First National Hank. His educational
advantages were such as the public schools afforded, supplemented by
thorough business discipline under his father. In 1867, when but eighteen
years of age, he entered the bank of which he is now president, and was soon
afterward made cashier, while on the death of his father he succeeded to the
presidency, becoming a worthy successor of that able financier. Under the
wise management of the son the estate has largely increased in value and the
bank is in a most tfourishing condition. Milton Shirk is a public-spirited and
progressive citizen and occupies a conspicuous place among the representa-
tive men of Peru and Miami county. On the 6th of June, 1868, he married
Miss Ella Walker, daughter of Hon. Joseph H. ^^'aIker, of Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, and they have two sons, — Elbert \\'alker and Joseph Henry.

Alice Shirk, the elder daughter, was married January i, 1880, to R. A.
Edwards, then professor of English literature in Knox College, of Gales-
burg, Illinois, and now cashier of the bank. Their children are Richard
Elbert, Milton Arthur, Mary Alice, Clara Ellen and Florence Esther. The
younger son, Elbert W. Shirk, married the only daughter of John W. Mur-
ph}-, the oldest wholesale dry-goods merchant of Indianapolis. He is vice-
president of the First National Bank, of Peru, although a resident of Chi-
cago, where he has large business interests, including the presidency of a
trust company.

/->HARLES OGLETHORPE FENTON.— The general public takes great

pleasure in following the history of a young man who has started out in

his life's career handicapped in innumerable waj's, without capital or influen-
tial friends, and who, notwithstanding all these obstacles, pushes manfully
toward the goal of success which he has set before him. Such a man is the
one whose name heads this article, and who is now well and fa\orably known
as the editor and proprietor of the Times, published in Logansport, Indiana.
In almost every respect he is self-made and self-educated; and too much

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credit cannot be given him for the brave and manly way in which he has over-
come difficulties that would have made the spirit of most men despondent.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was David Fenton, who was
born in Newville, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1798, and
in early manhood moved to Ohio, settling in Mantua township. Portage
county. David Fenton's father was Samuel Fenton, who came from Ireland
when five years of age. His wife was Ann Shannon and they had thirteen
children, — eleven sons and two daughters, — the names of the latter being
Ann and Polly.

After a busy and useful life spent chiefly at the carpenter's trade and in
agricultural pursuits, David Fenton was summoned to his reward. May 9,
1874, at his home in Streetsboro, Ohio. He married Emily Dunscomb, who
was born at Wethersfield, that state, July 31, 1801, and died April i, 1864.
Their son Green, father of C. O. Fenton, was born on the old homestead in
Mantua township, December 23, 1829, and upon arriving at mature years
chose for his companion and helpmate along the journey of life, Miss Louisa
Frost, who was born in the same neighborhood, March 12, 1S34, a daughter
of John and Elvira (Kellogg) Frost, and as children they were constant play-
mates and friends. Mrs. Fenton, who died January 16, 1886, was the
mother of nine children, of whom all but two survive, our subject being the
fourth child.

Charles O. Fenton's birth occurred January 31, 1S63, in the same house
in which his mother had been born about thirty years previously. The farm
on which this house stands is called the " old John Frost place." When he
was an infant the parents of our subject removed to Ravenna township, in
the same county, and later settled in the township of Streetsboro, also in
Portage county. Before he was twelve years old our hero started out from
home and for about eighteen months lived with his mother's sister (nick-
named "Aunt Tip"), wife of R. O. Halstead, at that time residing upon the
farm before mentioned as the "John Frost place." Then for three years or
more the lad worked by the month for farmers in the immediate neighbor-
hood of his old home in Streetsboro, attending school during the winters,
doing chores nights and mornings and working Saturdays for his board and
lodging. He made progress in his studies, and, after he had spent a few
weeks in the public school in Ravenna in the autumn of 1880, he applied for
position as district-school teacher. Successful in his endeavor, he conducted

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the school in his old home district that winter, after which he found employ-
ment in a cheese factory carried on by Frank Hurd, near Shalersville Center,
Ohio.

Having a desire to see something of the world outside the narrow bound-
aries of his own county, he next engaged as book agent for the Central Pub-
lishing House, of Cincinnati, and during the succeeding eighteen months
travelled in West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. Upon returning home he
resumed his interrupted work as teacher and was in charge of district schools
at Mantua Corners, Streetsboro Corners and Twinsburg, Ohio. June 14,
1883, he completed a commercial course in the Northwestern Ohio Normal
School, at Ada.

In 1885 he came to Logansport, arriving April 17, with the purpose of
further perfecting his education, and met with a sad disappointment. He had
been offered his board, room rent and tuition and his general expenses by
two proprietors of the American Normal College, in return for which
opportunity to finish his college course he was promised a position as editor
of a local school paper to be connected with the institution; but upon his
arrival here teachers' agency circulars were issued in his name and he found
himself obliged to take his choice of two courses, — either to engage in what he
regarded as dishonorable work or to entrust his case to the mercy of the Fates,
three hundred miles from home, among strangers and with scarcely a dollar
in his pocket; and he did not hesitate to choose the latter.

During the following winter Air. Fenton taught school in Harrison town-
ship, Pulaski county, Indiatia; then had charge of the Stone school in CHnton
township, Cass county, and in the spring of 1S88 finished a term at Clyiner's
Station school, also in Clinton township. The intervals of his work he
industriously improved by pursuing his studies at the Amercian Normal College,
his last week here being at the head of the commercial department of the
institution. For the last six months of his course his forenoons were gi\en
to editorial work and reporting for the Logansport Times, for the "munifi-
cent " salary of just one dollar per week! May 28, 1888, he purchased the
journal of a stock company, paying and assuming nearly a thousand dollars,
— the owners, however, receiving cash on the spot. This was an important
undertaking for the young man, for, added to all the rest, he had had no
practical business experience, very little as a writer, and none whatever as
manager of a newspaper or printing establishment. It was a doubtful

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experiment, as he himself afterward realized; but, to the surprise of every
one, he has made a remarkable success of the enterprise, and the time of
uncertainty as to the result has long since passed. The paper is considered
one of the leading periodicals published in Logansport, and its high standing
speaks well for the owner and manager. He is painstaking and accurate,
and scrupulously prompt in his financial obligations.

Though his father and relatives were all affiliated with the Democratic
party, Mr. Fenton had never voted that ticket. Had he been of age at the time,
he would have voted for Garfield, and his first presidential ballot was cast for
Blaine, but for twelve years he has given his energies to the Prohibition
party, and its policy is advocated by the paper which he edits.

When teaching in Harrison township, Pulaski county, this state, Mr.
Fenton boarded in the family of S. R. Tyler, whose daughter, Carrie B. he
married May 28, 1SS7; they have one child, born August 17, 1888, named
Sagie Velle. The maiden name of Mrs. Fenton's mother was Roxie \\
Usher, she being a niece of John P. Usher, secretary of the interior in
President Lincoln's cabinet.

T EANDER DEWEES, M. D. — The medical profession of Howard county,
■»— ' Indiana, includes among its ranks Dr. Leander Dewees, whose location
is at Hemlock, where he stands in high repute both as a physician and citizen.
Dr. Dewees was ushered into life in Preble county, Ohio, January 15,1847,
and is a son of David B. and Hannah (Hartley) Dewees, the latter of Penn-
sylvania-Dutch descent and the former descended from Virginia ancestors.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewees were born, reared and married in Ohio, and made two
moves to Indiana. On coming here the first time they settled at Richmond,
Wayne county. Their stay, however, was not long, and they soon returned
to Ohio. In 1854, coming to Indiana again, they took up their abode in
Morgan county, near Monrovia, where Mr. Dewees improved a farm and
where he spent the rest of his days, successfully engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. He died in 1883. His widow is now seventy-five years of age and
makes her home with her son at Tipton. She has long been a faithful mem-
ber of the Friends' church, to which he also belonged. Mr. Dewees was
twice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Rachel Kirby, he

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had four children, namely: Thomas, who is engaged in farming in Missouri;
Isaac, deceased; \\'illiam, a farmer; and Hannah, now the wife of F. G.
Cooper. The children of his second marriage are: Leander, whose name
appears at the head of this review; S. E., Oklahoma; J. A., deceased; H. G.,
who is engaged in the milling bu.siness in Illinois; J. C, a tra\'eling man; A.
J., a resident of Plainfield, Indiana; Rachel, wife of A. Harvey; R. M., a
mail clerk; and R. N., engaged in farming.

Leander's education, begun in the common schools, was carried forward
in Earlham College, Richmond. Indiana. He was reared on the farm and
was engaged in farming up to the time he was thirty-five years of age, with
the exception of time spent in the army. In June, 1862, when in his si.xteenth
year, he enlisted in the Union arm\' for three months' service. In October
■of that year he was honorably discharged, and the following year he re-en-
listed, becoming a member of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
Colonel Benjamin Harrison's regiment, and continued in service until the
close of the war. He was honorabl)' discharged August 5, 1865, and was
mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky. At Resaca he was wounded in the
face and neck, but soon recovered. This, however, was followed bj- a siege
•of typhoid fever, and he was for some time in the hospital. During all his
service he was never captured.

Mr. Dewees began the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr.
Harvey and Dr. Horton, of Monrovia. For two terms he was a student in
the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, that state, of which institu-
tion he is a graduate. Immediatel}- after his graduation he began the prac-
tice of his profession at Monrovia, his home, a short time afterward removed
to Phlox, Howard county, where he spent one year, and since 1896 he has
been at Hemlock. Here he has already established a nice practice and is
meeting with well deserved success.

Dr. Dewees has been twice married. In 1871 he wedded Miss Sarah
Thompson, who was born and reared near Monrovia, Indiana, daughter of
George P. Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a native of North Carolina, who
came to Indiana in pioneer days and settled in Morgan county, where he
carried on farming the rest of his life and where he died. Mrs. Sarah Dewees
died in 1889. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In
1891 the Doctor married Miss Nancy Hornaday, daughter of William and
Abigail (Stafford) Hornaday. Mr. Hornaday also was a North Carolinian.

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He settled at Monrovia, Indiana, where he was a farmer and blacl<smith, and
where he ranks with the substantial an/d respected citizens of his locaHty.
Mrs. Dewees is the youngest of a family of six, the others being Mary, wife
of T. Staton;Ruth, wife of D. W. Overton; Ora, unmarried; D. H., a black-
smith; and Viola. By a former marriage Mr. Hornaday has one son, T. B.,
a resident of Wichita, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Hornaday are Methodists.
Dr. and Mrs. Uevvees have two children: Kenneth, five years of age; and
Herbert K., five months old.

The Doctor was reared in the Friends' church and is a consistent mem-
ber of the same, as also is his wife. Politically, he is a Republican, and has
served in some local offices, such as township trustee of Monroe township,
Morgan county. He maintains fraternal relation with the Masonic order, I.
O. O. F. and G. A. R., and is a member of two medical organizations, — the
Indiana State Medical Society and the Howard County Medical Society.

JUDGE JOHN MITCHELL.— The inevitable law of destiny accords to
^ tireless energy and industry a successful career, and in no field of endeavor
is there greater opportunity for advancement than in that of the law, — a pro-
fession whose votaries must, if successful, be endowed with native talent,
sterling rectitude of character and singleness of purpose; while equally impor-
tant concomitants are close study, careful application and broad general
knowledge, in addition to that of a more purely technical order. Judge
Mitchell fully meets all these requirements of his chosen profession, and
stands to-day among the most distinguished and able members of the bar of
northern Indiana.

A work of this character, circumscribed by essential limits, cannot give
in detail the life record of such a man as the subject of this review, interest-
ing though it would be, but the historian desires to present to the readers of
this volume in strong outlines the character of the man and his accomplish-
ments, knowing that it will prove of interest to his many friends and be of
value as a memorial to those of future generations. The Judge was born in
Bristol, England, September 24, 1829, and is of German and English lineage.
His father, Samuel Mitchell, was born in Breslau, Germany, February 12,
1790, and having arrived at military age when Napoleon was overrunning
Europe with his conquering armies, he joined the Prussian forces organized

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to resist the encroachments of the French emperor, and at the siege of May-
ence on the Rhine was severely wounded and taken prisoner. After his
release by the French he was honorably discharged from the Prussian army
on account of his wounds, and when he had partially recovered he went to
England. He remained there, howe\-er, but a short time, crossing the
Atlantic to America in 1809, when but nineteen years of age. After three
months spent in Norfolk, Virginia, and six months in Halifax, he embarked
for England on a sailing vessel and was a resident of London at the time the
memorable battle of Waterloo was fought, after which he saw the victorious
■commander of the English forces, the Duke of Wellington, together with
several other famous generals of the allied powers on their return to Great
Britain. Samuel Mitchell was married in Bristol, England, in October, 1828,
to Elizabeth Maria Heness, a native of that place and a representative of a
well known family of Sussex.

In 1832, having decided to make his home in America, he again embarked
for the New World, leaving his family to follow when he should have deter-
mined upon a favorable location. He first made his home near Philadelphia,
and worked at his trade of tailoring. In November, 1833, his wife with their
two children, John and Helen, joined the husband and father in their new
home. A daughter, Fann}' Barnes Mitchell, was born at the home near
Philadelphia, and died at the age of hve years. Another daughter, Caroline
Louisa, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania. The two sisters, Helen
and Caroline, are residents of Peru, and, together with the Judge, they con-
stitute the surviving members of the family of Samuel Mitchell.

In September, 1839, the parents with their family removed to ^^'ayne
county, Indiana, and four years later, October 2, 1843, became residents of
Peru. The wife and mother passed away May 5, 1874, at the age of seventy
years, her birth having occurrred in March, 1804, and the husband and father,
who survived her only a short time, died in January, 1875, at the age of
eighty-five years. Samuel Mitchell was an energetic and successful business
man, and possessed exceptionally pleasing social qualities. His opportunities
for education in his j'outh were limited, but he had a wide knowledge of the
world, and reading and observation largely compensated for his lack of early
educational advantages. In his political affiliations he was a Democrat and
believed emphatically in the principles of that party as embodied in the teach-
ings of Jefferson and Jackson. Believing that the principle of slavery was

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entirely wrong, he opposed the practice of holding the negroes in bondage
and adhered to the Union when its destruction was threatened by the south.
He was an attendant on the services and a liberal supporter of the Episcopal
church, of which all of his family are devout members. His home, as is that
of the Judge, was always the abiding place of the bishops on their visits to
this part of the diocese, and among these was the famous Bishop Kemper of
beloved memory. In all respects he was a most worthy and esteemed citi-
zen, and his loss to the community was deeply felt.

Judge Mitchell, the only son of the family, accompanied his parents on
their various removals, and in Wayne county, Indiana, was for some time a
pupil of Professor Samuel K. Houshour, a famous educator of that day. At
Peru his preceptor was the scholarly Godfrey B. Pampell, of Strausberg,
Germany, who in his early youth was made permanently lame by being run
over by a troop of Napoleon's cavalry as they galloped through the streets of
his native city. Under such able instructors Judge Mitchell made consider-
able progress in his studies and laid an excellent foundation on which to raise
the superstructure of professional knowledge in later life. He learned the
tailor's trade with his father and followed that occupation for fourteen and a
half years. In the meantime he entered upon the study of law, devoting his
spare moments to the acquirement of knowledge that would enable him to
enter his chosen profession. In iS6i he was elected justice of the peace
and this stimulated his desire to become a member of the bar, so that he
continued the study of law with renewed ardor and was admitted to practice
in November, 1862. On the ist of December, 1863, he entered into part-
nership with Hon. Harvey J. Shirk, and with the exception of a short inter-
val this relation was maintained until the death of Judge Shirk, on the 12th of
September, 1889. In October, 1872, Mr. Mitchell was elected common-
pleas judge of the twenty-fifth judicial district of Indiana, comprising the
counties of Cass, Miami and Pulaski, and served in that capacity until the
court was abolished by act of the legislature in March, 1873. He then
resumed the private practice of law and his partnership with Judge Shirk.
After the death of the latter he was alone in practice until September 10,
1894, when he took into partnership William B. McClintic, son-in-law of
Judge Shirk. On the ist of January, 1896, the present firm of Mitchell,
Antrim & McClintic was formed, and still continues, holding marked prestige
among the law firms of this part of the state.

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On the 24th of February, 1S59, Judge Mitchell married Miss Caroline R.
Foote, who passed away September 16, 18S3. Two sons and two daughters
were born of that marriage, one of whom, John Foote, died at the age of
nine years. The others are Emily M., Samuel Carter and Mary Foote. On
the 3d of October, 1888, the Judge wedded Ellen Shields, his present wife,
who in connection with her husband e.xtends the hospitality of their pleasant
home to a very large circle of friends.

Judge Mitchell has ever taken a commendable interest in whatever tends
to promote the welfare of the community in which he lives, is a warm friend
of the cause of education and for eight years served as president of the school
board of Peru, in which time he did very effective service in advancing the
standard of the schools. He has served as attorney of the First National
Bank of the city since 1863, and his long connection therewith indicates his
strict fidelity to the interests of his clients, which is one of his most marked
characteristics. His law practice has been general and of a very important
character, for important litigated interests are never placed in unskilled hands.
His marked ability is recognized by the public and the profession, and is the
outcome of close study, thorough preparation of his cases, keen analysis of
the facts and a logical application of the law that bears upon them. Before
a jury or the court he throws himseJf easily and naturally into the argument.
There is no straining after effect, but a precision and clearness in his state-
ment, an acuteness and strength in his argument which indicate a mind
trained in the severest school of investigation, and to which the closest rea-
soning is habitual. During a long and honorable career as a lawyer and
citizen, Judge Mitchell has ever had the respect and esteem of his brother
members of the bar and of the community at large, and stands to-day among
the honored representative men of Miami county.

ICHAEL WENDLING, one of the most scientific and successful farm-
ers of Cass county and one whose advice is greatly sought for in all
branches of agriculture and stock-raising, is the worthy subject of this brief
biographical account. He is a native of Alsace, France, now a part of Ger-
many, born near Strasburg, August 14, 1830, a son of John and Margaret
(Schini) Wendling, and was fifteen years of age when he was brought to this

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country by his parents in tiieir emigration hither. He received a good edu-
cation both in German and French. To afford him a broader field of
action than was possible in the old country was indeed one of the objects for
which his parents came to to this land of opportunity.

The first location the family made in America was upon a farm in Butler
county, Ohio, where they went to work with a will and encouragement and
hope. The senior Wendling passed the remainder of his life there, which
he closed when seventy-two years of age. His wife Margaret, to whom he
was united by his second marriage and who was the mother of the subject
■of this sketch, passed to the other world in the same county, at the vener-
able age of eighty-two years. She became the mother of three children:
Michael, whose name heads this sketch; and Christian and Catharine, both
still residing in Butler county, Ohio.

Mr. Michael ^^'endling remained with his parents until of age. In
obtaining his education in the English schools of this country the children
were inclined to laugh at his droll attempts to master the English language,
and he became disgusted, left school and educated himself, even far more
rapidly than the average of children at school, and he familiarized himself
with our language until he could speak it fluently, besides mastering several
other branches of learning.

Commencing life with little or no capital, he has ever since made his
own way in the world, accumulating a handsome competence, and has at
the same time ever maintained the highest integrity. He is a man of good
judgment. In 1863 he emigrated to Indiana, locating on section 34, Wash-
ington township, Cass county, and has ever since made that place his home.
He has improved it scientifically and made it indeed a home of comfort.
He first selected a tract of land apparently without much promise. A small
clearing had been made upon it by a man named Robert Ballou. He
brought with him from Ohio a quantity of drain tile, which is now so uni-
versally used by the farming community throughout the northern states; but
at that time it was a new thing to the people here, who looked upon the
innovation with curiosity and skepticism.

January 10, 1854, Mr. Wendling was united in marriage with Miss Mary
M. Schmitt, a daughter of George and Barbara (Mochel) Schmitt, also
natives of France. Mrs. Wendling was born July 5, 1830, in France,
received a good education, and, in 1848, came to America alone and settled

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in Pittsburg, Penns3-lvania. Mr. and Mrs. ^^'endli^g have had sex'cn chil-
dren, all of whom are lix'ing, e.xcepting one: John H., the eldest, born
August 28, 1S55, married Emeline Martin and resides in Cass county; George
W., born January 4, 1S57, married Mamie Leach Cooper and is a civil
engineer in Tennessee; Christian F., born October 8, 1858, married Laura
B. Walker, and lives upon a fine farm in Tipton township, this count}';
\\'illiam D., born August 5, 18G0, married Malinda C. Toney, and is a
farmer of Tipton township, Cass county; Charles S., born September 5,
1864, is engaged in agricultural pursuits on the home farm; Jacob B., born
October 14, 1867, graduated as a civil engineer at the head of his class at
the Danville (Indiana) College, but by exposure he brought on a fata! illness,
-which terminated his life at the age of twenty-one years; he had gone to
Tennessee at the age of nineteen }ears. He was an unusually intelligent
young man. Eli F., born April 14, 1871, married Dora Ruth. He is the
youngest of the family and is a resident of Tipton township, this count}'.
In his political views Mr. Wendling is a Democrat; in his fraternal rela-
tions he has been a member of the Odd Fellows order; and, in respect to
religion, both himself and wife are consistent and influential members of the
Lutheran church.

/~\RSON DURAND, the present mayor of Peru and a well known citizen
^-^ of Miami count}-, dates his coming to this place in 1842. He was born
in Cleveland, Ohio, December 25, 1S37. His father, Samuel Durand, was
a native of New England, descending from an early family of Connecticut,
in which state he was born. The family is of French origin. It is related
that three brothers named Durand emigrated from France to America, from
whom all bearing that name in this country have descended. The Durand
family still traces living representatives across the sea to France, the land of
its forefathers. It has ever been noted for longevity, many of its representa-
tives having attained to a remarkable old age. Recent investigations in the
ancestral line have resulted in a remarkable discovery, explained by the fol-
lowing account published in the Peru Sentinel of January 31, 189S:

"The oldest living being on earth to-day is Marie Durand, who is a
great grand ancestor of Mayor Orson Durand, of this city. She is a native
of France, in which country she still resides, at the age of one hundred and

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thirty years, and not by any means a wreck of humanity, but a fairly upright
figure with only a trace of extreme old age in the mouth, drawn down a little
to one side, with few wrinkles, but impaired vision and hardly any hair.

"The Durand connection of this country, which is quite extensive and
well advanced in years, became interested some years ago in tracing up the
genealogy of the family, and as a result of investigation discovered this
remarkable progenitor. A representative of the St. Louis Sunday Post-
Dispatch visited the more than centennarian at her home at Auberive, and
after seeing and conversing with her as well as he could, the aged lady being
a little deaf, he was convinced that his mission was partly satisfied. He was
directed to the abode of this venerable woman by the waiter at the hotel,
and after visiting the lady called on the mayor of the city to obtain the
address of a former mayor, an aged man over seventy, for a certificate of the
extraordinary longevity, which is as follows:

" PARIS, Jan. 4, 189S.
" At the request of Monsieur, the representative of the Sunday Post-Dispatch of St. Louis>
I, Jean Baptiste Bachasson, formerly maire of the municipality of Auberive, in the arondisse-
ment of Langress, in the department of Haute Marne, certify to the best of my knowledge and
belief that the charbonniere Marie Durand is more than one hundred and thirty years of age.
She was born, according to the records in the mairie, m September, 1760; and I myself recollect
the centenary of her wedding day, in January, 1885. She is well known in the arondissement,
and I have known her ever since I came here forty-si.\ years ago.

■• JEAN BAPTISTE BACHASSON,

" Ancien Maire Auberive.

"The representative took a photograph of the old lady, which is pub-
lished with an account of his visit.

" Another member of this family, Louise Durand, died at her home at
Egg Harbor, Connecticut, at the advanced age of one hundred and three
years. She left over a million dollars in legacies to relatives, and bequests
to fisherman and other poor people of the place. Mayor Durand is proud of
the staying qualities of his ancestors and expects to reach the century mark
himself.

Samuel Durand emigrated from his native state, Connecticut, to the
state of New York, where he married Sarah Earner, a native of Schoharie
county, that state. He removed thence to Ohio and in 1841 came to Peru,
on a tour of investigation, and decided to locate here. The following year
he returned to Ohio and brought out his family, and he and his wife passed

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the remainder of their hves here, which were useful and happy. The wife
and mother passed away in the year iS68, and the husband and father in
1872.

Orson Durand is one of the six children born in the family of his parents,
— three sons and three daughters. The eldest, Sylvester, is a resident of Min-
nesota; Orson is the next in order of birth; Orange is also a resident of Min-
nesota; Minerva is the wife of John H. Hinsey, of St. Louis, Missouri; Hat-
tie is the wife of Samuel Reynolds, of Minnesota; and Dessa is Mrs. G. M.
Webb, of St. Louis. Samuel Durand was twice married, and by his first
wife had several children, of whom two daughters are living and are resi-
dents of Schoharie county. New York.

Mr. Orson Durand was about five years of age when he came with his
parents to Peru, and here he grew to mature years, passing a number of years
in the occupation of farming in the township of Peru; but he finally located
permanently in the city, that his children might have the advantages of the
public schools. Since his location in the city he has been for eight years
street commissioner, and for an equal length of time was deputy sheriff of
Miami county. In his political creed he is a Democrat, and he is an hon-
ored member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Elks, and also of the National
Union; socially he is highly esteemed, and his administration of the city
government is popular.

His wife, before marriage Elizabeth Davis, is a native of Peru and a
daughter of Jonathan Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Durand have four children, viz:
Adele, widow of Clarence Holt, of New York city; Maud, the second daugh-
ter is a well known actress; and Dessa and Edna are at home.

'T'XR. WILLIAM H. BUCK. — Whenever we begin contemplating the career
•*-^ of a physician, the first and most important thoughts which spontane-
ously present themselves in our mind are derived from the great value of the
knowledge which is in the possession of the well trained practitioner of the
healing art, and the^ intense desire he must have, especially if he be at all
philanthropic, that all the people should be well acquainted with the laws of
health, so as to be able to take care of themselves; and for a very small
remuneration, too, he is willing to instruct them. Especially are we

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reminded of these things, as well as of the highest qualifications of a ph3si-
cian, when we contemplate the character of our subject.

In order to give a systematic biographical outline of Dr. Buck's career,
we may state first that he was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on
the 7th of May, 1840, being the fourteenth and youngest child in his father's
family, but only the seventh child of his mother, who was his father's second
wife. When we consider the uniformit}' of the death rate in nearly all large
families, it seems indeed a remarkable fact that all the fourteen children
above referred to grew up to years of maturity.

Peter Buck, the father of these children, was born in Muncy, Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania, in the year 17S9. His parents were "Low Dutch,"
or Hollanders. His mother, whose maiden name was Rhode-Armor, was of
an old prominent family of that name in Holland. Mrs. Louisa Buck, the
Doctor's mother, was the daughter of John and Mary (Ivnott) Holmes, born
in the town of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1799. Her parents were of
Quaker ancestry. Thomas Holmes, an early American ancestor, was a sur-
veyor who came from England with William Penn and made the original
.survey of the city of " Brotherly Love".

A descendant of the latter, John Holmes, was a young man in the "days
of '76, "and he served for a time in a company of local or state militia,
whose duty it was to run down and suppress the "refugees," that is, the
Tories, who infested the section of the country in the vicinity of Philadel-
phia. About 1804 he removed with his family from New Jersey into what
is now Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, then a dense wilderness terrorized by
savage animals. A few years later Peter Buck purchased a tract of land
upon which was a " clearing," a few iniles away, and there, with the help of
his boys, he both cleared the land for a large farm and operated a sawmill,
which he had built on a small stream passing through the tract; but hard
work and great e.xposure brought "old age" prematurely upon him and he
died at the age of sixty-six years. Soon after his death his widow removed
with the younger members of the family to De Kalb county, Illinois, where
two of the older sons had previously settled; and here William H., then
nearly fourteen years of age, in company with a brother five years his senior,
rented a farm, which they cultivated for five years, thus affording a home
for themselves and their invalid mother, who had been disabled by an injury
received on the railroad while removing to Illinois.

a-iSS, JILLMI. H0]VA1W AXD TIPTOX COr.VTIKS. ^

After five \-ears of unprofitable fanning, the suliject of tliis sketch
decided to avail himself of better facilities for obtainiii<^ an etiiicatioa.
Accordingly, for the next three years he pursued a course of study and also
taught school, alternating with manual labor, mostly in farming. His study
embraced a commercial course at Duff's Merchants' College at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. On approaching the age of twenty-two jears, he entered
Todd's Seminar}' at Woodstock, Illinois, and pursued his studies there from
April, 1862, to June, 1S65, first as a student, then as a student and teacher
and lastly as a teacher only.

Deciding to become a physician, he began the study of medicine, during
the above period, under the instructions of Dr. James Northrup, of Wood-
stock. After leaving the seminary he continued his medical studies for eighteen
months under the preceptorship of Dr. W. H. Misick, of Marengo, Illinois,
e.xcept that during the winter of 1S65-66 he was a student at the Hahne-
mann Medical College at Chicago. Six months later he opened an office in
the hamlet of Richmond, Illinois, where he secured a fine practice, although
his location there, which he made by the advice of friends, he considered
unwise. The following year he returned to Woodstock to take the practice
of Dr. I. H. Lewis, and this he considered a permanent location, and bj- this
time also he was married.

In the winter of 1869-70, m order to fulfill a desire long entertained, he
went to New York city and entered the New York Homeopathic College,
where he graduated on March i, 1870.

Returning to Woodstock, he continued in active practice there until
August, 1889, breaking down his health, however, by hard work and much
e.xposure. He then sold his practice and good will to Dr. J. W. Primm.
After recuperating for more than a }-ear he removed with his family to Chi-
cago to resume the practice of medicine, and this he continued, with success,
till the fall of 1895, when he again sold out in order to remove to Kokomo,
Indiana, and take the field vacated bj' Dr. Baker. Although at this writing
he has been here less than three years, he has long since gained a lucrative
practice, having the confidence and patronage of many of the best citizens
both in the city and in the country surrounding.

^^'hile in Illinois he was a member of the Illinois State Homeopathic
Medical Society and the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Society. He is now
a member of the Indiana State Medical Society.

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Dr. Buck is a strong temperance man and a Republican. On two
occasions, however, he voted the national Prohibition ticket. From these
facts the reader will properl}' infer that in local affairs the Doctor always
votes against any franchises to the liquor traffic. He has never had any
ambition for public office, and accordingly he has never held an important
office above that of township trustee, which by successive elections he has
held for twelve years.

On October 24, 1866, Dr. Buck was united in marriage with Miss Mary
A. Ellsworth, who for three years had been a student and teacher in Todd's
Seminary. She was the only daughter of Philander and Eliza Ellsworth,
early pioneers of McHenry county, Illinois, who removed from Yates county,
New York, in 1843. Her father died when she was a child, leaving a widow
with four small children on an unimproved prairie farm. Her mother, Eliza
(Scofield) Ellsworth, was a descendant of Puritan ancestry, who "enjoyed
the full benefits of the old Connecticut ' blue laws,' under which they ' lived
and moved and had their being ' " for many years. Mrs. Buck has therefore
inherited a tendency for, and been trained in, the most essential principles
of strict piety. Endeavoring to be consistent, these principles have of course
permeated her practical life. She, as well as the Doctor himself, is a faith-
ful member of the Congregational church.

They have had three children. One son, Charley, died in his eighth
year; another son, Ralph b}' name, died at the age of six months. The
daughter, Ada M., is now in her twenty-first year.

FRANK W. YAGER. — In the pioneer days of northern Indiana the Yager
family became identified with its history, and at an early period of our
American history representatives of the name located in the Old Dominion.
Industry, energy, honesty and fidelity, — these are some of the most marked
characteristics of the Yagers, and the elemental strength of character in the
subject of this review shows that these qualities are predominant in his
nature. His life has been well spent in devotion to all public and private
duties, and his history is an open scroll inviting the closest scrutiny.

Born in Madison county, \'irginia, on the i6th of October, 1822, he is a
son of Labern and Sarah (Carpenter) Yager. The paternal grandparents

a.4ss. .MIAMI, Howjiw A.VD riprox ('or.A-Tii:s. 55

were John and Margaret (\\'ilhite)- Yager, and the former was a native of
German}-, whence he sailed for the new world, thiid<ing to better his financial
condition in this country, where greater opportunities are offered to ambition
than in the older countries of Europe. Locating in \'irginia, he there fol-
lowed farming throughout the remainder of his days. He married Margaret,
daughter ol George Wilhite, also a native of Germany and the only repre-
sentative of his family to come to America. His two brothers remained in
the fatherland and were never married. They died in that country and left
considerable wealth. Margaret Wilhite was born in Virginia, and died in
Kentucky, whither she removed after her marriage.

Labern Yager, the father of our subject, was three times married, and
after his second marriage he removed from Virginia to Kentucky, in 1S36,
carrying on farming in the latter state. He managed his plantation with the
aid of slave labor and was a ver}- prominent and influential citizen of the com-
munity. In his church relationship he was a Methodist, and in his political
faith was a Democrat, but though he took a deep interest in political affairs
and was well informed on the issues of the day he never sought or desired
office. His death occurred at his Kentucky home in 1S71. His first wife,
the mother of our subject, died in 1827, in the faith of the Lutheran church,
of which she was a member. They were the parents of five children: Jane,
wife of J. Avinger; \\'illiam H., a resident of I\entucky; Franklin \\\ ; John
W., also of Kentucky; and Sarah, wife of J. Sayres, of Illinois. After the
death of his first wife Mr. Yager married Malinda Johnson, and they had four
children, as follows: James M., deceased; Elizabeth, wife of R. Davis;
Champ C., of Kansas; and Joseph, of Indiana. The mother of this family
died in 1838, and for his third wife Mr. Yager chose Mrs. Frances Price, a
widow, who died in 1895. Their children are Frances, deceased, and Elijah,
Eli and Thomas, all of whom reside in Kentucky.

To the schools conducted on the old subscription plan Frank W. Yager
is indebted for the educational privileges which he received. He grew to
manhood in Kentucky, being reared upon his father's farm, where he early
became familiar with all the duties that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In
iS5ohe removed from Kentucky to Johnson county, Indiana, where he oper-
ated rented land for seven years, when, in i860, he came to Howard county
and purchased a tract of farming land, also fifteen town lots in the village of
Fairfield. There he erected substantial residences, one of which is still his

56 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEJfEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

home, and for seven years he conducted a hotel in connection with the man-
agement of his farming interests. Since that time he has devoted his energies
entirely to the farm, and excellent success has crowned his labors. His land
is under a high state of cultivation and is improved with substantial and com-
modious buildings which stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise.

In 1S46, while residing in Kentucky, Mr. Yager married Miss Harriet
Kelly, who belonged to an honored and influential family of that state, her
father being Captain Samuel Kelly. Five children were born of this union:
Jane, wife of A. Rhodes; Daily S., a farmer of Howard county, Indiana;
Albert F. , also an agriculturist; Brilla B., deceased; and Jessie H., who died
at the age of fourteen years. Mrs. Yager is a member of the Baptist church
and has been to her husband an able companion and helpmeet on the journey
of life. In politics he is a Democrat but has never been an aspirant for office.
His business interests have always claimed his time and attention, and through
his careful management, sound judgment and unflagging industry he has
overcome many obstacles and steadily worked his way upward until prosperity
has crowned his labors with a fitting reward.

A LBERT B. KIRKPATRICK, ex-Mayor of Kokomo. Indiana, dates his
■'»■ birth in Hendricks county, this state, March 17, 1S55. His parents,
William and Sarah (Walker) Kirkpatrick, were natives, respectively, of Indi-
ana and North Carolina and had a family of five children, of whom Albert B.
is the only living representative. William Kirkpatrick, was a farmer, carried
on his agricultural pursuits in Rush, Hendricks and Howard counties, and in
the two counties last named served for fifteen or sixteen years as a justice of
the peace. He died in 1874, at the age of forty-nine years, and his wife sur-
vived him until 1890, when she died, in her sixty-sixth year. Both were
devoted members of the Christian church, in which for years he was a deacon.
The paternal grandfather of ex-Mayor Kirkpatrick was John Kirkpatrick.
He was a native of Tennessee and of Scotch descent. From Tennessee he
came to Indiana in an early period of the history of this state, and settled in
Rush county, where he was engaged in farming and where he died at the age
of forty years. He was the father of three sons and one daughter. John
Walker, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was born in North Carolina.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWAED AXD TIFTOJh' COIWTIES. 57

He was a farmer and Christian minister. The latter part of his life was
passed in Indiana and he died in Hendricks count}-, at the age of scxentj'-two
years, his death resulting from an accident he sustained.

Albert B. Kirkpatrick was two years old at the time he was brought by
his parents to Howard count}', their settlement being on a farm, and on the
farm his boyhood days were passed up to the time he was si.xteen, when the
family removed to Kokomo. His education, begun in the public schools, was
continued in Howard College and Butler Uni\-ersity and was completed in
the Indiana Law School, he being a graduate of Butler University with the
class of 1878, and of the law school with the class of 18S0. In the mean-
time, before entering Butler, he taught school one year, and after completing
his course in the law school he traveled for some time in the interest of the
Home Fire Insurance Company. On severing his connection with this com-
pany he located in Kokomo and engaged in the practice of law, anti in con-
nection with his law practice he was for two years, from 1882 to 1884, one
of the editors of the Kokomo Gazette. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting
attorney for the thirty-si.xth judicial circuit, comprising Howard and Tipton
counties, and served a term of two years. At the e.xpiration of this term he
was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for Howard county; in 1890 he
was reappointed, and served until 1892, making six years in all. In 1894
he was honored by his fellow-citizens with election to the highest executive
office in the town for a term of four years, and as mayor performed most
excellent service. He still conducts his law practice.

Mr. Kirkpatrick was united in marriage, December 12, 18S3, to Miss
Susie Bradley, daughter of L. J. and Martha Bradley.

Politically he is an ardent Republican, always active and influential in
advancing the interests of his party, and the honors it has conferred upon
him have been fittingly bestowed. Both he and his wife are members of the
Christian church, in which he officiates as elder.

TAMES T. DYAR. — For a third of a century James T. Dyar has resided
^ on the farm in Taylor township, Howard county, which he now owns and
cultivates. He was born in Virginia, January 30, 1S24, his parents being
William and Matilda (Thurman) Dyar, both of whom were natives of the

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Old Dominion, and were probably of English descent. The father was a
farmer by occupation and followed that pursuit as a means of livelihood
throughout his business career. He was a public-spirited and influential cit-
izen and held the office of justice of the peace and other minor positions.
In politics he was a Democrat, and he and his wife were members of the
Methodist church. His death occurred at the age of fifty-three years, and
Mrs. Dyar, surviving him for some time, passed away in 1866, at the age of
si.xty-seven years. She was a daughter of James Thurman, a West Virginia
farmer and a man of sterling worth, who realizing the value of education
provided his children with good school privileges, and several of them
became successful teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman died in Virginia, and
their children removed to various parts of the country. To Mr. and Mrs.
Dyar were born six children: Evaline, who died in childhood; Mary, wife
of Dr. Coe; Elizabeth and Roena, both deceased; Dr. E. C. , who died in
Kentucky, at the age of twenty-eight years; and J. T. , of this review.

In his early manhood James T. Dyar left the state of his nativity and
removed to Kentucky, where he followed the profession of teaching. In
1857 he was married and then turned his attention 10 agricultural pursuits.
The following year he removed to Indiana, locating in Howard county,
where he purchased a tract of land and developed a farm upon which he
placed good improvements. In 1865, however, he sold that property and
removed to his present home in Taylor township. His residence is a com-
modious and comfortable two-story brick structure, and this is supplemented
by substantial barns and outbuildings, affording ample shelter for crops and
stock. A fine walnut grove which adorns the place was planted by him and
many other improvements make this one of the most desirable farms in
the county.

As before stated, Mr. Dyar was married in Kentucky, in 1857, the lady
of his choice being Miss Jane Reid. of that state. Her father, John Reid,
was a prominent farmer and slaveholder of Kentucky, and she was a lady of
superior intelligence and culture. By this union were born four children:
Arvilla, wife of Dr. Ault; Arsinoe, who died at the age of twenty years;
John E., who was liberally educated and now manages the affairs of the
farmstead; and one who died in infancy. The mother of this family passed
away in July, 1871, mourned not only by her immediate family but also by
a large circle of friends. She was a consistent member of the Methodist

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■church and an exemplary Christian woman. In 1S73 Mr. Dyar was again
married, his second union beine with Mrs. Lida Armstrong, a daughter of
Daniel and Lavina (.Ackland) Markham, the former a native of \'irginia' and
the latter of Tennessee. Their marriage was celebrated in Tennessee, and
later they removed to Kentucky, where the father died. He was a farmer
and blacksmith. After his death his widow removed to Ohio and later came
to Indiana, where she remained three years. On the expiration of that
period she went to \\"ichita, Kansas, where her death occurred. In her
early womanhood Lida Markham became the wife of Dr. Horace A. Arm-
strong, and they had one son, Edward A. Armstrong, who makes his home
with Mr. and Mrs. Dyar. The last named was one of six daughters: Louisa,
•who married a Mr. Cunningham, and after his death wedded J. Davis;
Nancy, wife of j. D. Wilson; Lucy, wife of O. Haskett; Mrs. Mildred Craig;
Sally, wife of O. M. Davis; and Margaret, wife of William Elliott. To Mr.
and Mrs. Dyar has been born a son, James H., his birth occurring June 10,
1 88 1. The parents ha\'e a wide acquaintance in Howard county, and are
people of the highest respectability whose genuine worth has gained them
many warm friends.

\\7 H. HULL, M. D. — The various prosperous towns of Howard county,
' ' Indiana, ha\e their full quota of able physicians and surgeons, and
among this class of professional men we find, located at Center, the worth}'
gentleman whose name graces this review, — Dr. ^^^ H. Hull.

Dr. Hull is a native of the "Keystone state." He was born at Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1850, and is a son of George H. and Mary
(Stout) Hull, both natives of that state. His father, a blacksmith by trade,
and for years engaged in agricultural pursuits, is now eighty-three years of
age and a resident of Ohio; his mother died in 1879. The venerable father
has long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal church, as also was
the mother. Christian Stout, the Doctor's maternal grandfather, was of
Pennsylvania birth and German descent, and by trade was a cabinet-maker.
In the Hull family were ten children, three of whom died young. Those
living are as follows: Mrs. Louisa Walker; W. H., of this sketch; Jesse, a
resident of Missouri; George, Kansas; Daniel, Ohio; and Winfield, Oklahoma.

Dr. Hull was reared on a farm in Champaign county, Ohio, near Urbana,

60 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEJS'EALOGICAL HISTORY OF

was educated in the district schools, and remained on the farm until he was
sixteen years of age. He then began the study of medicine. His first pre-
ceptor was Dr. J. C. Libabridge, and later he continued his studies under the
instructions of Dr. J. McDonald and Dr. R. M. Fulwiler, of Liberty, Ohio.
He attended lectures in the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he graduated in the spring of iSSi, both in surgery and medicine. Imme-
diately after his graduation he entered upon the practice of his profession at
West Liberty, Ohio, and continued there until 1883, when he came to
Indiana and located in Center, Howard county, where he has since remained
and built up a large and increasing practice. His patrons are among the
leading citizens of the town and surrounding country. He enjoys the confi-
dence and esteem of all who know him, is permanently and pleasantly
located here, and has a large and attractive residence, nice office, etc.

In 1876 Dr. Hull was united in marriage to Miss Mary Stout, daughter
of Abraham and Caroline Stout, of West Liberty, Ohio. She died in Novem-
ber, 1879, without issue. In 1888 the Doctor was again married, the lady
of his choice being Miss Fannie E. Ma.xwell, an amiable and accomplished
young woman, daughter of John E. and Elizabeth fTownsend) Maxwell.
Her parents were born, reared and married in England, and are now residents
of West Liberty, Ohio, where he is a merchant tailor. Mrs. Maxwell is a
descendant of the famous Townsend, the cotton manufacturer of England.
Of their family, Mrs Hull is the eldest, the others being George, Florence
and Nettie.

Dr. Hull is identified with the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and
several medical associations. Politically, he is a Republican.

JOSEPH B. KUNSE, of Peru, is a representative of one of the pioneer
^ families of Miami county, Indiana, his maternal grandfather, Jacob
Brower, having come west from the state of Pennsylvania and after a number
of years' residence in Preble county, Ohio, settled in Jefferson township of
this county, in 1837. He was one of its most substantial and esteemed
•citizens.

George P. Kunse, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in.
Montgomery county, Ohio, January 25, 1825. His father, George Kunse,

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and family removed from Ohio to Carroll county, Indiana, wlierc he died
when his son George P. was only three years of ape. The latter grew up in
this state and in Montgomery county, Ohio, and at the age of twentj' settled
in Cass county, Indiana, and was married here to a daughter of Jacob and
Catherine Brower, who, as before stated, settled in Jefferson township in
1837. Both the parents and grandparents of Joseph B. Kunse have long
since joined the great majority of the early pioneers in the better lanti. The
Kunses, as the name indicates, are of German origin.

Joseph B. Kunse was born in Jefferson township, Miami county, Indiana,
October i, 1854, and was reared to farm life and educated in the district
schools. He continued farming for a number of years after attaining man-
hood, until a severe injury to one of his hands permanently disabled him for
manual labor. On this account he retired from the farm and since 1S85 has
been a resident of Peru, wliere he is engaged in a general loan, abstract,
real-estate and insurance business, under the firm name of King & Kunse.

Mrs. Kunse was formerly Miss Margaret Beecher, she being a daughter
■of William V. Beecher, a well-known pioneer of Jefferson township. To
Mr. and Mrs. Kunse two children have been given, a daughter and son.
The former. Peach, is a graduate of the Peru high school with the class of
1S97. The son is named Chester.

It should be further stated in connection with Mr. Kunse's family history,
that he is an only son and that he has only one surviving sister. Mar}-, wife
of John Bell, of Peru. A sister, Emma, died at the age of thirteen years.

WILLIAM H. THOMSON.— In a history of the prominent and influen-
tial citizens of Howard county this gentleman is certainly deserving of
mention, for his well spent life, his ability, his loyalty to public duty and his
fidelity in private life have all gained him a place among the leading residents
of the community. He was born in the city of New York, March 10, 1825,
and is a son of Samuel L. and Susan Cushman (Wendall) Thomson, the
former a native of Peimsylvania and the latter of Boston, Massachusetts.
The maternal grandfather, Henry Wendall, was of German descent, although
the members of the family who became its founders in America crossed the
Atlantic from England, where they had lived for a time after leaving the father-

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land. The Wendalls are a prominent family of Boston and are connected
with Charlotte Cushman. The paternal grandmother of our subject was a
member of the Logan family of Scotland, which sent its representatives into
both Ireland and America.

When a young man Samuel Thomson removed to the west, locating at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He also inspected timber in the south for the gov-
ernment and eventually returned to New York city. Subsequently he bought
for a firm in Spain. He resided for a time near Syracuse, New York, and
then removed to Belmont county, Ohio, opposite Wheeling, West Virginia,
where he carried on the milling business. He was a very enterprising and
industrious man and engaged in many speculations. About 1847 he removed to-
Logansport, Indiana, where he died a short time afterward. His wife passed
away in Rockport, Indiana, about 1S67. They were members of the Pres-
byterian church, and in his political affiliations Mr. Thomson was a Whig.
In their family were the foliowing named children: William H. ; Theodore,
a steamboat man, who removed to the south and took an active part with the
Confederacy until killed in a steamboat accident on Red river; Adaline E.,
wife of Colonel McClellan, of Danville, Illinois; John E. , who was also in
the Confederate service and after the war was connected with the street rail-
road interests of Louisville, Iventucky, where his death occurred; Henry W.,
who was a prominent attorney and citizen of Chicago, where he died; and
Mrs. Henrietta G. Kinchelo. The last named and Mrs. McClellan and our
subject are the only ones now living.

William H. Thomson accompanied his parents on their various remov-
als, and to a limited e.xtent attended the public schools, but acquired the
greater part of his education under the guidance of his mother, who was a
most cultured and intelligent lady and personally superintended the educa-
tion of her children. The independent business career of our subject began
by his accceptance of a contract for building a plank road south from Logans-
port. He manufactured the lumber for that purpose and satisfactorily com-
pleted the work, and afterward, in 1S57, he came to Oakford, Indiana, where
he engaged in the lumber and grain business and in merchandising. He
built a large warehouse, which he conducted until 1866, after which he
engaged inthe grain and milling business for some time. He is now practically
livingretired from business cares, save for the attention demanded by his invest-
ments. He owns considerable farming property and has a handsome cap-

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ital, which has been acquired solely through his own well directed and ener-
getic efforts.

In 1851 Mr. Thomson married Miss Elizabeth J. Whiteman, a daughter
of Abraham F. Whiteman, one of the pioneer settlers of Clinton county, Indi-
ana, and a native of North Carolina. He came to this state in 1834, and
followed agricultural pursuits until his deith, which occurred in 1S92. He
took a very active part in public affairs, gave his political support to the
Democracy and served for twenty j-ears as county connnissioner. Unto Mr.
and Mrs. Thomson were born five children, namely; Emma G. and Theo-
dore W. , who died in childhood; Willie H., a contractor; Eddie, who fol-
lows farming; and Mrs. Mary D. Durham. The mother of this family, a con-
sistent member of the Christian church, was called to the home bejond in

1893-

In early life Mr. Thomson gave his political support to the Whig party
and 01 its dissolution joiued the ranks .of the new Republican party, with
which he has since continued to affiliate. During the Civil war he was a
loyal advocate of the Union ?nd did effective service for his country by
recruiting troops for the front. He has long been a recognized leader in
political circles, has frequently been a delegate to the county and state
conventions and has delivered many campaign addresses in support of the
principles of his part}-. He has served as justice of the peace and as a mem-
ber of the state legislature, and in all positions of public trust and responsi-
bility which he has been called upon to fill he has discharged his duties with
marked promptness and fidelity. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity
and is an e.xemplary member of that benevolent organization. In all life's
relations he meets his duties fully and discharges with care and precision
every obligation that rests upon him. His splendid business and e.xecutive
ability, supplemented by unswerving integrity and fairness have brought to
him a handsome competence, and now in the enjoyment of the fruits of his
former toil he is spending his declining days in rest and comfort well earned.

■pREDERICK A. BUSJAHX, M. D.— The history of Dr. Busjahn is one
*■ which sets at naught the old adage that a prophet is never without
honor save in his own country, for in his native city of Logansport he has
attained distinctive precedence as an able medical practitioner and is now

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enjoying marked success in this chosen calHng. He was born December 28,
1856, and is a son of August S. and Barbara (Rabus) Busjahn, both of whom
were natives of Germany, but resided for many years in Logansport, where
the father followed the blacksmith's trade. Their children are Frederick A. ;
John J., who is engaged in the drug business; and Dora.

No event of personal importance affected the boyhood of our subject, who
was reared under the parental roof and pursued his preliminary education in
the public schools. Resolving to devote his energies to professional labors,
he prepared for the practice of medicine under the direction of Drs. Hermann
and Bell, of Logansport, and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of
Indianapolis, being graduated in the institution named, as a member of the
class of 1878. The following year he was graduated in Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, New York, and thus splendidly equipped for his chosen life-
work he returned to Logansport, where he has since engaged in practice with
good success. His business has steadily increased as he has demonstrated
his skill and ability, and his able ministrations in the sick-room have gained
him the recognition and commendation of not only his professional
brethren but of the public as well. He holds membership in both the Cass
County and Indiana State Medical Societies.

In 1S82 the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Liene-
mann, and they have two children — Marie and Edwin. In politics he is a
Democrat and his fellow citizens, recognizing his worth, have called him to
several public positions of honor and trust. He served as county coroner
from 1892 until 1894 and was again elected in 1896, for a two-3'ears term.
He was a member of the city council in 1890-1 and is the present secretary
of the county board of health. In all public offices he discharges his duties with
marked fidelity and promptness, and in Logansport he is held in the highest
regard, his best friends being those who have known him from boyhood.

T E\\TS KERN, M. D., physician and surgeon, 232 East Markland avenue,
■*— ' Kokomo, has been a resident of Howard county ever since 1845, when
this section of the state was called the Miami reserve and afterward Richard-
ville county. It was ultimately named Howard county, in honor of Tilman
A. Howard. It is indeed interesting to contemplate the diflerence between
"the sentimental state of the mind of one looking at the environment with

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which it has been surrounded constantly for a long time and that of a person
who has been absent for nearl\- a lifetime and returns to visit the scenes of
childhood. There must be many differences, and the wonder is what they
are, and whether they are at all describable. At any rate the subject of
this sketch is venerated as one of the oldest and most honored residents of
Howard county, whose life record has been an open one, read by all his con-
temporaries and seen to be as clear as midday.

Dr. Kern was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, near Amsterdam,
June 4, 1S31. His father, Jacob Kern, was a native of \'irginia, born at
Kernstown, four miles from Winchester, and was a blacksmith by trade. He
married, first, Sarah Ryan and after her decease he was united with Delphia
Ann Stanley, a native of South Carolina and the mother of the subject of this
sketch. She died in \'irginia in 1836, a smcere and consistent Methodist.
Jacob Kern moved from Virginia to Indiana in 1838, locating in Shelby
county, near Freeport, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in
1842, at the age of about sixty-two years. Adam Kern, father of the latter,
was a native of Germany who came to America, settled in Virginia and was
the founder of Kernstown. He reared ten children, and died in Virginia at a
very advanced age. Pleasant Stanley, the Doctor's grandfather upon his
mother's side, was probably a native of South Carolina, was of Scotch descent
and a Presbyterian, a farmer bj' occupation and died upward of eighty years
of age. Of the twelve children born in the family of Jacob Kern, only three
are now living, namely: Nicholas, residing near Cumberland, Marion county,
Indiana; Jacob H., of Botetourt county, Virginia, residing at Hollins Springs
village; and Dr. Lewis Kern, whose name heads this sketch as its subject
proper.

Dr. Kern was seven years of age when his parents settled in Indiana,
and was therefore brought up in Shelby county, where he was inured to the
monotonous drudgery of a pioneer farm life and blacksmithing in his father's
shop until impaired health compelled him radically to change his mode of
life. Improving the opportunity, as well as the necessity, he attended
school, in \\'arren county, Ohio, at Obanon, and then taught school for
two or three years. Ne.xt he began reading medicine, under the guidance of
his brother. Dr. J. H. Kern, and in due time attended the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons of Cincinnati and subsequently the Indiana Medical Col-
lege, graduating at the letter in February, 1870. He opened out in practice

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at Alto, Howard county, where he studied and practiced from 1852 to 1878,
and then changed his residence to Kokomo, where he has ever since been a
resident. The scope of his work is that of general practice, such as is
demanded by a common-sense public without the adoption of every passing
" fad " that has originated in the brain of a specialist in chemistry who had
not the first idea of the true law of vital action. The Doctor's success,
therefore, can be favorably measured by the best of them. His home and
office adjoin, and he is therefore ready to answer calls without much delay.
He is a member of the Indiana Medical Association, the American Medical
Association, the Howard County Medical Society and the Kokomo Academy
of Medicine, and is an honorary member of the Medical Society of Tipton,
Cass and Miami counties. He took -much interest and active part in medical
societies in his younger days, whereby he further educated himself in his
profession.

On the 20th day of January, 1852, he was united in matrimony with
Miss Virginia Pitzer, daughter of Davidson and Mary (Snodgrass) Pitzer,
and by this marriage there was one son, named Theodore, who died at the
age of thirty-nine years. He was born June 20, 1S55. He received a good
■common-school education, and in 1873 began the study of medicine under
the direction of his father. In 1876 he was graduated from the Indiana
Medical College and in 1877 he received the ad-ciindcin degree. He was a
member of the Indiana State Medical Association and the Howard County
"Medical Society and Kokomo Academy of Medicine. He practiced in part-
nership with his father until his death, September 21, 1894. He married
Miss Vige Sharpe, and they had one daughter, by name Nellie Virginia. The
Doctor and his wife are intelligent and influential members of the Markland
Avenue church, Methodist Episcopal. He also is an honored member of the
Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat,
and in public position he has been a member of the city council for two years.

DR. BENJAMIN HENTON, the pioneer physician of Miami county,
Indiana, was a representative and prominent citizen here, leaving his
mark as a great factor in the march of civilization.

He was born in Rockingham county, Virgin'a, in 1793, a son of Thomas

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Henton, who was a son of \^'illiam Henton. In 1S03 Thomas Heiiton
removed with his famil\- across the mountains to what is now West Virginia
and located in Greenbrier coinitj', and thence the family removed to High-
land count}-, Ohio. Dr. Henton was one of a numerous family, comprising
nine sons and two daughters. Four of the former became residents of Miami
county. The first to come was Sylvester, in 1835, who became a prominent
farmer of Erie township and died many years ago. Dr. Benjamin Henton
■was next to arrive, in 1837. Thomas came soon afterward, pre-empting and
entering a farm in Washington township, where he lived until his decease.
Elam, the last of the four brothers who came to Miami county, settled here
in 1843, in Erie township and later in Peru. He served two terms as auditor
of Miami county, and is well remembered as a prominent citizen. William
H., another brother, died at Danville, this state. Peter Henton died in
La Porte county, also in this state. James was long a resident of McLean
count}', Illinois, where his da\'s on earth were ended. Samuel Henton, still
another brother, removed south, passing the last years of his life in the state
of Arkansas. Evan died at his home at Hillsboro, Ohio. The sisters were
Mrs. Nancy Skillman, who lived many years and died in Highland county,
Ohio. The second sister, Mrs. Sarah Brooks, was killed by a stroke of
lightning at her home in Illinois.

Dr. Benjamin Henton in his youth receiN'ed as good a literary education
as the schools of his day and locality afforded. His medical studies were
prosecuted under the preceptorship of Dr. Boyd, near Hillsboro, Ohio. He
pursued a college course of medicine at Lexington, Kentucky, and began prac-
tice in Ohio.

In that state he was married to Rachel Stinson, a native of Ross county,
Ohio, who on her mother's side was a descendant of the Harrods, formerly
of Pennsylvania and afterward of Kentucky, after one of whom, James, Har-
rodsburg is named. James Harrod was an associate of the noted Daniel
Boone in the Indian wars of Kentucky.

In 1837 Dr. Henton and family became residents of Peru. The country
then was but thinly settled, and his rides, which were always on horseback,
were very extensive, and in a day when the roads were unimproved and often
nearly or quite impassable. When he first located here Indians were even
■more numerous than the whites. But under all these untoward circum-
stances Dr. Henton was e\'er ready to respond to the calls of the suffering.

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Those who were able and vvilhng to pay for medical attendance and those so
poor as to preclude all expectation of remuneration for his services, received
the same consideration. In fact he was governed by a sense of duty in his
professional career, as he was in all his relations with his fellow men.

He was a most consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and in his daily conduct was ever governed by practical Christianity. In his
political faith he was a Democrat, and was called on by his fellow-citizens to
serve two terms in the state legislature, electing him to the lower house in
1846 and to the senate in 1852. As a legislator he served his constituents in
a conscientious and satisfactory manner. His death occurred, after a well
spent life, in 1863, when he had arrived at the age of si.\ty-nine years; his
wife passed away in 1S65.

They had two sons and three daughters, viz. : Coleman, of Peru; Maria,
who married Alvin Thayer and died many years ago; Harriet, who married
D. O. Adkison and is also deceased; James T., of Peru, is next in order of
birth; and Mrs. Sarah H. Cole, widow of Alphonso A. Cole, is also a resident
of Peru.

Coleman Henton, the elder of the two sons of Dr. Henton, was born at
Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio, March 7, 1822, and was
about fifteen years of age when he came with his father's family to Peru,
where he has now been a life-long resident. As early as 1847 he was elected
sheriff of Miami county, as a Democrat, and served two terms. From 1856
to i860 he was mail agent, running over the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago
route. In 1854 he was cashier of the State Stock Bank of Peru. In 1898
he was trustee of Peru township.

November i, 1855, he was married to Miss Caroline Skinner, who was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1822, a daughter of Corson Clark Skinner, who
was an early citizen of Miami county. Mr. and Mrs. Henton have three
children, — Cole, Harriet and Hal.

James T. Henton, the younger of the two sons of Dr. Benjamin Henton,
was born at Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio, April 14, 1S29,
and was eight years of age when he was brought to Miami cour.ty. He
attended the village schools here, learned and for some time practiced the
art of telegraphy, and afterward for some time engaged in merchandising, hnt
as a grocer and subsequently as a dry-goods merchant, as a member of the
firm of Henton & Lindsey. During the war of the Rebellion he bought lum-

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ber and horses. In 1S65 he enf:;ap:ed in tlie marble business, wiiich he con-
tinned until 1870. Next he was for a time occupied in the cij,'ar and drug
trade, but more recently and for many years he has been engaged in the real-
estate business, in which he is lioins: well.

He married Eliza J. Junkin, a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania,
whose parents were early settlers of Miami county, Indiana. Their children
are James Harrod, a resident of Kansas; David C, a railroad machinist; and
Margaret J., who is at her parental home.

JAMES O. GARR, M. D.— A skillful physician and well known farmer of
Clay township, Howard county, Dr. Garr is accounted one of the valued
and representative citizens of the communit}' in which he makes his home.
He was born in Johnson county, Indiana, on the 20th of July, 1850, a son
of Dr. John \V. and Ann (Clore) Garr. On both the paternal and maternal
sides he is of German descent. The Garr family was founded in America by
Andreas Garr, of Bavaria, who emigrated to this country in 1732, locating
in \'irginia. He was the father of Lorentz Garr, and the latter was the
father of John Garr, both natives of \'irginia, and John Garr was the father
of Benjamin Garr, the grandfather of the Doctor. Benjamin was also a
native of the Old Dominion and was a soldier in the war of 1812."

John W. Garr, the Doctor's father, removed to Indiana in 1846, locat-
ing in Johnson county, whence he came to Howard county in 1851. He
was a physician and surgeon, a graduate of a medical college, and after
coming to this county he purchased land and improved a farm, making his
home thereon until his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church and his wife belongs to the Christian church. She yet survives her
husband and is living on the old homestead near Kokomo, at the age of
seventy- five years. Her father, James Clore, was a son of John Clore, and
his grandfather, John Clore, Sr., came to America from eastern Germany,
at an early day, locating in Madison county, \'irginia, where he carried on
farming. Later the branch of the family of which Dr. Garr is a representa-
tive removed to Kentucky and became prominently identified witli the agri-
cultural interests of that state. The Garr family also went to Kentucky and
eventually the two families were united through the marriage of Dr. John

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W. Garr and Ann Clore. This worthy couple became the parents of five
children: Mary, wife of J. H. Kerlin; James O. ; Leonard, who manages
the homestead farm; John C. , of Jacksonville, Florida; and Sally, wife of
C. M. Piercy, principal of the schools of Ivokomo.

Dr. James O. Garr spent his boyhood days on his father's farm and
acquired his preliminary education in the common schools. Later he attended
the Howard College and high school, and thus with a broad literary educa-
tion to serve as a basis for professional knowledge he took up the study of
medicine, in 1873, under the direction of Drs. William Scott and E. A. Arm-
strong, of Kokomo. For two years they guided him in his acquisition of
medical knowledge, and in 1873-4 he attended medical lectures in Indian-
apolis, while in 1875 he was graduated in the Medical College of Ohio, at
Cincinnati. He began practice in Ivokomo in company with Dr. Scott, his
former preceptor, and after two years went to Great Bend, Kansas, where
he also practiced two years. He then returned to Indiana and was located
at different points in Howard county, taking up his residence upon his present
farm in 1888. Here he has since made his home, and in the practice of his
profession he has been very successful, paying close attention to his business
and inspiring the confidence of the public by his pronounced ability. He
now has a large and lucrative practice, and is the owner of a valuable farm
which claims part of his time and energies. It is pleasantly located six miles
west of Kokomo and is splendidly improved. His residence and other build-
ings are located in a beautiful grove of forest trees, and a large office stands
by the roadside. He raises horses and other stock and also carries on general
farming, with good success.

In 1875 the Doctor married Miss Edna M. Overton, daughter of C. B.
and Mary (Neff) Overton, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of
Ohio. The latter was a daughter of Captain Neff, a native of Connecticut
and at one time a member of the board of trustees of the O.xford Female
College, of Ohio, and also captain under General William Henry Harrison in
the war of 18 12, being present at the battle of Tippecanoe. The father of
Mrs. Garr, C. B. Overton, was formerly a druggist of Kentucky, but in 1856
came to Howard county and purchased a farm upon which he and his wife
spent their remaining days. He was a member of the Presbyterian church
and Mrs. Overton belonged to the Methodist church. Their children were
Augustus, Josephine, Marietta, Edna and William C, the last named an

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attorney of Kokorno. To the Doctor and his wife wure born four children:
Ernest, Mable, Anna and Mary.

The family is a \ery prominent one of the community and all hold meiii-
bership in the Christian church. Their home is noted for its hospitality and
in social circles they hold an enviable position. The Doctor is a Royal Arch
Mason and is a valued member of the County and State Medical Societies.
In politics he is a stanch Prohibitionist, and has often been the nominee of
his party for office, frequently against his wish. He is a man of fine physique,
large and well proportioned, with a kindly face and pleasant address, and his
genial manner and genuine worth make him a great favorite with a large circle
of friends and acquaintances.

r^DGAR R. ANDERSON. — Kokorno has been the home of Edgar R.
*— ' Anderson from the time of his birth, which occurred in this city, Janu-
ary 26, 1865. He represents two of the oldest and most prominent families
of the county. His grandfather, Thomas G. Anderson, was a farmer and
merchant, and on emigrating westward located in Franklin county, Indiana,
where he remained for several years. He then removed to Howard county,
but afterward returned to Franklin county, where his death occurred in 1S89,
at the age of seventy-five )'ears. He had a family of three sons and four
daughters, including the father of our subject, Joseph C. Anderson, who for
some }-ears was a merchant of Kokomo, where he died in 1S66, at the early
age of twenty-nine years. His widow bore the maiden name of Sarah J. Rich-
mond, and is a nati\-e of Indiana. Her father. Dr. Corydon Richmond, is
living, at 'he age of ninety years, being the oldest resident of Kokomo.
Mrs. Anderson also makes her home in the same city. B}' her marriage she
became the mother of three children; Fannie L. , now the wife of J. R.
Morgan, of Ivokomo; Maude A., wife of James D. Johnson, of Kokomo; and
Edgar R.

Reared in the city of his birth, Edgar R. Anderson is indebted to its
public-school system for the educational privileges which he receised, and
later he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the store of S. Da\-is lS: Sons,
remaining with that firm from iSSo until 1SS7. He then entered the office
of J. D. Johnson in the abstract and loan business, and at the same time

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served as bookkeeper for the Kokonio Loan & Savings Association, of which
.Mr. Johnson was secretary. \\'h'en the latter retired from that office, in
1894, Mr. Anderson became secretary and has since acceptably served in
that capacity. He also represents eight or ten of the rehable fire insurance
companies and his business along that line adds not a little to his income.
On the iith of April, 1888, Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Louisa
McClung, daughter of David A. and Elizabeth (Harker) McClung. They
have two children, Julia and Loraine, who are the light and life of the home.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are prominent and active members of the First Con-
gregational church, in which he is serving as treasurer, and in the Sunday-
school he holds a similar position. He has a membership connection with
the Knights of Pythias, and in politics is a stalwart Republican. He has
spent his entire life in Kokomo, is one of the leading young business men
of the city, and not only comes of a prominent family, but is also highly
esteemed for his own good qualities of head and heart.

HARRY G. TUCKER, the popular merchant tailor of Logansport, is
located at the corner of Fourth street and Broadway. Mr. Tucker is
a native of the capital city of Indiana, and dates his birth January 9, 1866,
his parents being Joshua and Adda (Hippard) Tucker. The Tucker family is
a large one and is widely scattered. The first in America to bear this name
was Robert Tucker, who came across the Atlantic from England, his native
place, to America and made settlement in Weymouth, Massachusetts, as
early as 1635. Mltchnor Tucker, the grandfather of Harry G., was a Penn-
sylvanian by birth and early association, and was a pioneer of Indiana, his
location in this state being in Noble township, Cass county, where he died.
His son Joshua was born in Cass county in 1830, was a merchant in Logans-
port for a number of years, and at the time of his death was a traveling
salesman. He died in Indianapolis in 1S72. His w'idow is still a resident of
that city. She was born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Samuel Hippard, a
Pennsylvania-German, who was among the early settlers of Cass county,
Indiana, and who was for years engaged in the manufacture of woolen
goods at Logansport.

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there until iSS:;, wlicn he came to Logansport, at that time accepting a
position as stamp cleri< in the postoffice. He next learned the trade of tailor
in the shop of Jacob Herz, Logansport, remaining with him from 18S3 till
1888. February i, 18S9, he engaged in business for himself. In the mean-
time he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and took a thorough course in the C'leve-
land Cutting School, in order to acquaint himself with the latest and best
methods empIo3'ed in his art, and this spirit of enterprise and progressive-
ness has characterized all his work and brought him into special favor with
the trade. His first location was on Pearl street, and from there he moved
to the corner of Fourth street and I3roadway. From a modest beginning.
with limited means, Mr. Tucker has worked his way to the front, gaining a
trade that extends beyond the city, and keeping one man on the road all the
time.

Mr. Tucker has identified himself with the Knights of Pythias and the
Order of Elks. He was married in 1S93 to Miss Sybil Bender, a daughter
of Captain D. S. Bender, of Logansport, Indiana.

JAMES OSBERX WARD, M. D.— The firm of Brenton & Ward, physi-
cians and surgeons, have been engaged in the practice of their profession
in the city of Peru for a period of thirty years, and hence are the best known
physicians in the county. As a coincidence in the life history of these gen-
tlemen we may mention that they became residents of Peru in the same year,
with but a few weeks' interval, and they have been associated in practice ever
since 1879.

Dr. Ward is a native of Indiana, born in Clinton county, February 9,
1S44. His father, the Rev. Beverly Randolph Ward, was also a native of
this state, born in Rush county, in 1S25. The Ward family traces its ances-
try back to the early colonial history of New England, from which section of
the Union one branch of the family emigrated to the state of Kentucky.
Our subject's paternal grandfather, also named Beverly Randolph Ward, had
twelve children, all of whom excepting his namesake were born in Kentucky.
Rev. Mr. Ward was a well-known Baptist clerg3'man for many years, but is
now retired and is a resident of Kokomo, this state. He had five sons and
one daughter; the latter is Mrs. Anna, the wife of Joshua C. Leach, who
now occupies .the position of state gas inspector and resides at Kokomo.

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The eldest of the sons, \\'illiamson Dixon, is a Howard county farmer; the
subject of this sketch is next in order of birth; Samson L. is a fruit-grower
of San Diego county, Cahfornia; John H. is a resident of Peru, a boiler-
maker by trade; and the joungest is Carey Judson, a farmer residing in Clay
township, Miami county.

Dr. Ward's literary education was obtained at the public schools. He
served six months in the war of the Rebellion, as a member of the One
Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment of the Indiana \'olunteer Infantry, the
field of whose operations was in east Tennessee. Soon after his return from
the army in 1864, he began the study of medicine, under the instructions and
guidance of Drs. Cooper and Johnson at Kokomo, Indiana, and in 1867
graduated at the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, and first practiced at
Galveston, Cass county, and next a short time at Hillsborro, Clinton county,
whence in 1869 he came to Peru. It will, therefore, be seen that he has
been a resident of Peru during nearly the entire period of his professional
career thus far which extends over an interval of thirty years. He is a mem-
ber of the county, state and national medical associations. From 1868 to
1883 he occupied the position of pension examiner at Peru, and was the-
only physician and surgeon so employed during that time, r esigning on
account of ill health, and went to Denver, Colorado, where he practiced his-
profession two and a half years. During the long series of years that he
has been a resident of Peru he has ever possessed the confidence of his fel-
low citizens as a reliable and skillful ph}sician and surgeon, as his extensive
practice amply testifies. He is held in high esteem as a public-spirited and
progressive citizen. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, in
politics is a Republican, and with his family is a member of the Baptist
church.

He was married in the autumn of 1867 to Miss Amelia B. Clements, a
native of Ohio and a daughter of Charles Clements, who was a native of
New Jersey but long one of the most successful farmers of Deer Creek town-
ship, Miami county. The Doctor has two sons and a daughter, all of whom
are graduates of the Peru high school. Harry Beverly, the eldest, is now a
student of the University of Chicago. The daughter, Lottie, after her high-
school course, pursued a course of instruction at Franklin College, Indiana.
The youngest of the family, Lewis Samson, has also been a student at the
University of Chicago.

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r^ARL F. STEWART. — Eiif^af^ed in the li\ery business in Lof;;uisport is
^ Earl F. Stewart, one of the native sons of Indiana, his birth havinj;
occurred in Boone county on the 25th of February, 1S49. His parents were
Edward and EHzabeth (Williamson) Stewart, both of whom were natives of
Virginia. They were also married in the Old Dominion, and thence removed
to Indiana in 1848. They had three children, Virginia, William and Earl F.
The father died at Thorntown, Indiana, in 1854, and the mother afterward
married J. C. Endicott, a farmer of Howard county, by whom she had four
children.

Mr. Stewart of this review resided with his mother in Thorntown until
ten years of age, when she married, and four years' e.xperience with his step-
father, who was also his guardian, led him to believe that he would rather
make his own way in the world than remain at home, and, accordingly, he
started out at the age of fourteen to fight life's battles unaided. For five years
thereafter he labored arduously as a farm hand. He was married January
28, 1869, to Miss Rachel Stout, and then began farming on his own account,
but on the 2d of June, 1871, his wife died, leaving one child, who died the
following September. His stepfather and guardian had also died in 1869,
before Mr. Stewart had reached his majority, and on the settlement of Mr.
Endicott's estate our subject got but three dollars out of fifteen hundred dol-
lars which had been left him by his father, for his guardian's bondsmen were
bankrupt. This indicates under what discouraging circumstances Mr. Stew-
art was forced to begin life, but, though he had no capital, he possessed a
resolute spirit, good business ability and a strong determination to succeed.
That he has accomplished his purpose is shown by his present excellent
standing in business circles.

In the fall of 1871, in connection with his brother, Earl ¥. Stewart
rented a large farm five miles west of Kokomo, Indiana, operating that land
for two years. Our subject then removed to Young America, Cass county,
in the fall of 1S73, and began the operation of hack lines to Logansport,
Kokomo and other towns, and on the 3d of July, 1874, he removed to Cam-
den, Carroll county, where he opened a livery stable, conducting the same
for six years. On the 30th of June, 18S0, he took up his residence in
Logansport. On a limited capital he opened a livery stable, and in the enter-
prise met with deserved success. He now owns a fine brick livery barn on
Fourth street, near the Panhandle depot, valued at twenty thousand dollars,

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and an adjoining residence, worth three thousand dollars, and has a livery
stock valued at eighteen thousand dollars. His possessions stand in abund-
ant evidence of his success, for which he is deserving great credit, as it is all
due to his own unaided efforts. July 7, 1898, Mr. Stewart bought a farm of
eighty acres, five miles east of Logansport, on the north bank of Eel river,
where he intends carr3-ing on general farming in connection with his livery
business.

While in business in Camden Mr. Stewart married a second time. Miss
Mary C. Harrison becoming his wife. Their wedding was celebrated June
15, 1875, and they have three daughters, Olive, Bessie and Frances. In his
social affiliations, Mr. Stewart is connected with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of For-
esters. In politics he is an ardent Republican and is a strictly temperate
man. He has many admirable qualities of head and heart, and an honorable,
upright business career has gained him the deserved confidence and regard of
all with whom he has been brought in contact.

WALTER J. DIXON was born in Howard county, near New London,
October 7, 1865; he is a son of Nathan and Emma (Trueblood) Dixon.
The former was a native of Orange county, Indiana, and a son of Silas
Di.xon, who was born in North Carolina. He was a farmer and blacksmith,
and came to the Hoosier state at an early day, locating in Orange county,
where he died in middle life, from an injury sustained in a runaway. The
mother of our subject was born in Washington count)-, Indiana, and was a
daughter of James Trueblood, who engaged in merchandising in that count}'.
For a number of years prior to his death he resided in Indianapolis. He
was the father of seven children. Nathan Dixon, father of our subject,
became a resident of Kokomo in 1867, and was engaged in business as a hard-
ware and grain merchant until 1S86. He died in 1895, at the age of sixty-
seven years, but his widow still survives. Both held membership with the
Friends' church.

Walter J. Dixon, their only child, has resided in Kokomo for thirty years,
and in the public schools acquired his preliminary education, which was sup-
plemented by a course in Earlham College, of Richmond. As a boy he clerked

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in his father's store, and on the completion of his school daj's entered the
hardware business, in which he was engaged for four j-ears. He then pur-
chased the Dimock steam laundry, which he has converted into the Kokomo
steam laundry, having recently comjileted an excellent brick building for
laundry purposes, the same being fitted up with the latest improved machin-
ery and all accessories for turning out a high grade of work. The volume of
the business may be imagined from the fact that employment is furnished to
twenty hands, and in addition to a large home trade considerable out-of-town
work is handled.

On the 19th of October, 1892, Mr. Di.xon married Miss Nellie Taylor,
daughter of William and Louisa (Silveri Taylor. They now have one
daughter, Mary Louise. Mr. Di.\on is a member of the Friends' church,
and belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of
Pythias lodge. In politics he is a Republican, and keeps well informed on
the issues of the day. Mr. Di.xon is one of the enterprising and public-spir-
ited business men of Kokomo, and although a young man is widely known
for his energy, push and determination.

r^DWARD L. MILLER, the secretary and treasurer of the Miami County
*— ' Loan & Savings Association, and a resident of Peru, is a nati\e of Cass
county, this state, born February 23, 184S, a son of John L. Miller and a
grandson of Peter Miller, a pioneer of Cass county. He was a child when
his father died, was educated in the public schools of Peru and was for many
years employed in the mercantile house of Shirk & Miller. He possesses
superior business qualifications and was largely instrumental in establishing
the association with which he is connected, and its success has been greatly
due to his earnest endeavor and executive ability.

This association has become one of the most important institutions of
Miami county. Its growth has been phenomenal, showing at once the
appreciation of the public in its liberal manner of doing business and the
people's confidence in the honor and integrity of its board of othcers and
directors. The officers comprise the following named well-known citizens:
^^'illard Griswold, president; C. R. Cox, vice president; E. L. Miller, secre-
tary and treasurer; W. C. Bailey, attorney; and the directors are C. R. Cox.

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Willard Griswold, W. S. Mercer, M. S. Lane, J. H. Lohmyer and F. M.
Statesman.

The assets of the association on the 1st of January of each of the seven
years of its existence are as follows: 1892, $26,722; 1893, $108,527; 1894,
$115,278; 1895, $151,445; 1896, $176,113; 1897, $199,494; 1S98, $225,
831; July, 1898, $260,576.

Loans are made by the association on the most generous terms, and
absolute safety and security to depositors is assured.

Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Kate Leonard, daughter of
the Rev. G. E. Leonard, formerly pastor of the Baptist church in Peru and
now in charge of the Baptist mission work in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Miller
have one son, Leonard by name, born February 2, 1892. They are mem-
bers of the Baptist church in Peru, in which Mrs. Miller is a most active
worker and in which Mr. Miller is a deacon. He is an influential man both
in church and society circles, highly esteemed by all who know him.

T H. .KELLAR, of the firm of Kellar & Company, furniture dealers and
1 undertakers, Kokomo, was born in this f Howard j county, on the 28th of
November, 1857, representing two of the old families of the county by his
relationship and descent, and has lived in this county all his life, and con-
sequently, by his innate good character, has a ver}' e.xtended acquaintance
in the county and a host of substantial friends. His parents were William
A. and Susan M. (Garr) Kellar, father a native of Kentuckj' and mother of
Virginia. They had ten children, of whom seven are still living, namely:
Mary E., widow of Mr. Steele Clore; S. Katie, wife of A. W. Moore; Lewis
C.; Edward B. ; Rebecca E., wife of G, I. Sellers; Isaac H. and Charles
R. Of these Lewis is a farmer, and the other three brothers are in the furni-
ture and undertaking business together in Kokomo.

\\'i]liam A. Ivellar, the father, was a farmer who came to Howard county
in 1854 and ran one of the first sawmills in the county, also engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits. His first purchase of land was of eighty acres, which he
subsequently sold, and he afterward bought a farm of one hundred and si.xty
acres, which is still in the possession of the family, and this is the place
where he brought up his children. At one time he had nearly five hun-

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■dred acres of land, from which he gave all his children a portion for a start
in independent life. He completed his useful life on the old homestead
mentioned in 18S7, ap;ed sixt^-'Seven j'ears. The widow is still liviiii;, making
her home in Kokomo.

Moses Kellar, the grandfather, was a native of Kentuck}', of German
descent, a farmer by occupation, had a large number of children, two of
whom are j-et living and one of these now eighty-two years of age, and he
died in his native state at the age of about forty-five years, from sickness
that he contracted on the ground of the battle of Tippecanoe, which
engagement he witnessed while in the hospital there. His sickness was
brought on while nursing his son. Benjamin Garr, Mr. Kcllar's maternal
grandfather, was a native of \'irginia, of German descent, the youngest of
twelve children, was a farmer, moved into Kentucky, had a large number of
children, and finally died there in the state of his adoption, at the age of
eighty-eight years.

Mr. Isaac H. Kellar, of this sketch, was reared on the home farm where
he was born, attending the district schools and the duties of the farm, and
later in life was a pupil at the high school in Kokomo and the Indiana State
University at Bloomington. Arriving at the age of majority he engaged in
agriculture independentlj- and on his own account, and continued in this pur-
suit, with that success that characterizes industry and good judgment, until
1S91, when he engaged in the furniture business in Kokomo, first in partner-
ship with M. C. Kitchen, who died in 1892. Mr. Edward B. Kellar then
purchased the interest of Mr. Kitchen and the firm name became Kellar &
Company. A little later Mr. Charles Kellar was associated with the firm,
the name remaining the same. This company handle all kinds of fine furni-
ture and are prospering in their operations, by reason of their reliable goods
and reliable methods of representing them. Mr. Charles R. Kellar has
charge of the undertaking department, and is an accomplished funeral
director.

On the I2th day of June, 1878, Mr. Isaac H. Kellar was united in matri-
mony with Miss Adda Flora Sellers, daughter of Alfred P. Sellers, and in
their family they have no children excepting an adopted daughter, nameil
Lulu. They enjoy a pleasant home at No. 177 ^^'est Mulberry street, where
their many friends find a cordial welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Kellar are devoted
people in religion, being members of the Christian church. Mr. Kellar is a

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member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being connected with
Kokomo Lodge, No. 133, Kokomo Encampment, No. 61, and with the lodge
of Daughters of Rebekah, to which Mrs. Kellar also belongs. Both also
belong to the Tribe of Ben Hur. Politically Mr. Kellar is a believer in the
principles promulgated by the Democratic party.

The subject of the foregoing sketch is a thorough business man, and by
his affable and genial manners and straightforward dealing has built up a
large and rapidly increasing business. The firm has two large rooms filled
with the handsomest designs of furniture, and are ready to supply anything
in their line on a very short notice.

JUDGE ALBERT COLE. — From early pioneer days the life of Judge
Cole was inseparably connected with the history of Miami county, and
he exercised a potent influence in the development and advancement of Peru.
He was of early New England stock, his ancestry being traced back to his
grandfather, Stephen Cole, who located in Farmington, Connecticut, and
died in Kensington of the same state, in 1777. In the latter city Judge Cole
was born on the 13th of May, 1790, his father being Stephen Cole, Jr., and
his mother Lucy (Deming) Cole. When about twenty-two years of age
Albert Cole went to the state of Louisiana, where an elder brother was liv-
ing, and participated in the memorable battle of New Orleans, January 8,
I Si 5, holding a commission on that occasion. In August of the same year
he returned to Connecticut, and the following September married Miss Mary
Galpin.

Not long afterward Judge Cole removed with his bride to Zanesville,
Ohio, where he purchased a farm and also engaged in the tanning business.
In 1833 he became a resident of Goshen, Indiana, and in July, 1834,
removed to Peru, where he soon formed a partnership in the mercantile busi-
ness with D. R. Bears?, a connection that was maintained for about a year.
Judge Cole, however, continued to engage in mercantile pursuits for a num-
ber of years, and served as postmaster from 1848 until 1851. He then
retired to a farm which he had purchased just north of the city, but after
devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits for a time he disposed of that
land and invested his capital in city property. From 1834 until his death,

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which occurred in November, 1879, he was one of the leading citizens of
Peru, and was intimately connected with its growth and prosperity. He
favored all measures of a progressi\-e nature and all movements that had for
their object the general welfare. His enterprise and energy were infused
into many interests which proved of considerable benefit to the community,
and he was also prominent in political affairs. He was elected judge in
1840, when the court was composed of a judge chosen by the state legis-
lature and two associate judges, one from each county, elected by the people.
He was appointed by William Henry Harrison, then president o( the United
States, to the position of commissioner for the distribution of surplus
revenue, and in all positions which he was called upon to fill discharged
his duties with marked fidelit}' and ability.

In 1857 Judge Cole was united in marriage to Mrs. McClany, of Zanes-
\ille, Ohio. His children, all of whom were born of his first marriage, were
Mrs. Emma A. Bearss; Alphonzo A.; Lucy, who became the wife of Lewis
D. Adkinson, and is now deceased; Mary L. , who became the wife of James
T. Miller, and died a number of years ago; James O., of Peru; and Ellen,
wife of H. G. Fetter, also of Peru.

Alphonzo A. Cole, the elder son of the family, was born in Ohio,
December 25, 18 18, and was si.xteen years of age at the time of the removal
of the family to Peru in 1834. He was married in this city to Sarah H. Hen-
ton, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel (Stinson) Henton, who were natives
of Rockingham county, Virginia, and Ross county, Ohio, respectively, com-
ing to Peru in 1837. Alphonzo A. Cole was a civil engineer in early life, and
later studied law, following that profession until declining health compelled
him to give up its practice. His death occurred in 1862, at the compara-
tively early age of forty-four years. He was in all respects an exemplary
citizen. For four years, beginning with 1847, he represented his county in
the state legislature and was an active member of that body. He was a
lawyer of superior ability and a most valued and worthy citizen whose loss to
the community was widely felt. His wife, whose birth occurred in 1S31, is
still a resident of Peru. Their surviving children are Richard H. and Charles
A. Cole. Another son, James Omar Cole, died at the age of twenty-
three years.

James O. Cole, of Peru, the younger son of Judge Albert Cole, was born
December 23, 1828, and was in his si.xth year when the family emigrated to

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Miami county and took up their residence among the pioneers of this locality.
He received such educational advantages as were then afforded by the schools
of Peru, and remained in his adopted city until the discovery of gold in Cal-
ifornia, when he made his way to the Pacific slope, remaining in the mining
districts of the Golden state until 1867, when he returned to Peru. He is
one of the successful capitalists of the city and since that time has been
prominently identified with the business interests of this place, promoting
many enterprises which have not only added to his individual prosperity but
have also advanced the general prosperity as well. Mr. Cole was married to
Miss Rachel Henton, daughter of Sylvester Henton, and her death occurred
July 2, 1890. His present wife was formerly Bessie Labont, and his chil-
dren, born of the first marriage, are Lewis, of Peru, and Kate, wife of F.
S. Porter, also of this city.

CC. WILLITS, a farmer who is a representative and early settler of
Howard township, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, December 25,
1827, brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools. His par-
ents, William W. and Mary (Fix) Willits, natives of Virginia and of English
descent, were married in ^^'ayne county, where Mr. Willits improved a farm
and finally died, in 1850. All his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits,
and in his character he was an upright, reverential man, but never attached
to any church. In politics he was a Republican, but never aspired to office.
Of his ten children, three died young and one has died since attaining years
of maturity. The living are: Waldo, C. C. , Ira L., Ellen, Vashti, Matilda
and Sarah.

Mr. ^^'illits, the subject proper of this sketch, grew to manhood in
Wayne county, this state, where he was married, and after that event rented
a farm one season, and in 1853 came to this county and purchased the land
whereon he yet resides. At that time there was a small house upon it and
a limited area cleared. Some roads were cut through in the vicinity but
they were full of stumps. All the farms in this section of the state were very
small, sprinkled through the wilderness at considerable distances apart like
oases in a desert. Fever and ague was at every house, and Mr. Willits
made his calculations on shaking every year. Even to remain in the country

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required considerable nerve. Many people returned east, and inan\' would
have gone with them had they even the means or strength to tra\cl. Hard
work and ague stared everybody in the face. Mr. Willits outlived that
dreadful period, however, holding himself down to the land he liad chosen
for his home. This place, which is on the pike six miles east of Kukomo,
now comprises one hundred and se\enty acres of land, of which one hundred
and forty acres are ditched and tiled, cleared and in a good state of cultiva-
tion. On the place there are also a commodious two-story frame house,
a large barn and outbuildings, orchard, etc.

In 1852 Mr. Willits was married to Miss Mary Warman, a lady of intelli-
gence and refinement and of an honored pioneer family. She was a daugh-
ter of Enoch and Mary (Brockmyer) ^^'arman, of German descent. The
Warman family came from Virginia to this state when the Indians were still
prowling about in these woods and when all the white settlers kept them-
selves within ready reach of the block house. Mr. Warman, a farmer and
stockm.an, died in Wayne count}', this state, in 1838. In his polftics he was
a Democrat. In his family were the following named children: Joshua,
Eliza, Thomas, Frank, Enoch, Sarah, Mary (wife of Mr. Willits), Amanda
and Catherine. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Willits are: Omar, a farmer;
Mrs. Kate A. Toby, and Alice, unmarried. The parents in their religion are
members of the "Church of God." Politically, Mr. \\'illits was a Repub-
lican until the campaign of 1896, when he voted for "free silver."

Mr. and Mrs. Willits left the comforts of old Wayne and came to this
new and wild country to fight the battle of life together, met all difficulties,
experienced many pri\ations and hardships, survived attacks of disease and
sickness, and victory is theirs. As the poet Young says, "some start aright,
but the black blast blows hard and puffs them wide of hope;" but the family
of which we write reached their goal, a happy home surrounded with the
comforts of ci\ilization. They have a beautiful and fertile farm, in a beauti-
ful and fertile section of " God's country."

T 1 TILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD, the editor and proprietor of the Peru

' ' Republican, of Peru, Indiana, is a native of Preble count)', Ohio, born

December 24, 1835. The Lockwood family is of English origin and was

planted on American soil by Robert Lockwood, who emigrated from England

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and took up his residence in the colony of Massachusetts in 1730. The
paternal grandfather of our subject, William Lockwood, was born in Dela-
ware in 1773, and in 1S27 emigrated to Preble county, Ohio, where his death
occurred the year following. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Phoebe
Dingle, was also a native of Delaware, born in 1775, and died in Ohio in
1840. Their son, George W. Lockwood, was born in Sussex county, Dela-
ware, in 1809, and married Belinda Jackson, whose birth occurred in Preble
county, Ohio, in 181 3. The former met his death by accident in 1837, and
the latter died in the county of her nativity in 1840.

The subject of this review is the elder of two brothers, and because of
the early death of his parents he was reared by relatives. In his tenth year
he came to Miami county, Indiana, with his uncle, Daniel D. Lockwood,
and attended the common schools of the neighborhood, afterward supple-
menting his early educational pri\-ileges by a brief course of study in Wabash
College. In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-sixth Regiment of Indi-
ana Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. From 1865 until
1867 he was employed in the Indianapolis post-office, and in the latter year
•turned his attention to educational work, successfully engaging in teaching
until 1 878. His ability in that direction was acknowledged by all who had
occasion to observe his work in the school-room, and he has always been a
warm friend of the cause of education, doing all in his power to promote the
interests of the schools and extend their field of usefulness.

Mr. Lockwood has been identified with the interests of Peru since 1878,
in which year he came to Miami county and purchased a half interest in the
Peru Republican, to the editing of which he has since devoted his energies.
He has made it an excellent journal, keeping abreast in all particulars with the
progress that has been made in the "art preservative of arts," and his con-
stantly growing subscription list indicates the favorable opinion of the public.
He advocates through its columns the measures of the Republican party, for
he has always been a stalwart and zealous advocate of that great political
organization since casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in
i860.

On the 28th of December, 1869, Mr. Lockwood was united in marriage
to Miss Mary E. Waite, daughter of Sullivan and Margaret (Woods) Waite.
She was born in Allen township, Miami county, February 24, 1848, and by
Jier marriage has become the mother of ten children, six sons and four

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daughters. As they have arrived at a suitable age they have been given
excellent educational advantages to tit them for life's responsible duties, and
several are graduates of the De Pauw University. The eldest, Charles W.,
is assistant editor of the Republican. George B. is the present private sec-
retary for Congressman Steele, and while in Washington is the Indiana cor-
respondent for the American Press Association. The others in order of
birth are Margaret H., W'dliam W. , Florence B., Arthur S., Albert L.,
Edward H., Mary and Dorothy.

Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church and Mr. Lockwood is a valued representative of the Masonic frater-
nity of Peru, and of the Grand Army Post, and is a charter member of the
Knights of Pythias fraternity, of Peru.

BENJAMIN D. BRADFIELD, M. D.— Back to stanch old Irish stock
does Dr. Bradfield trace his lineage, and that in his character abide
those sterling qualities which have ever marked the true type of the Irish
nation, is manifest when we come to consider the more salient points in his
life history, which has been one marked by consecutive industry and invin-
cible spirit, which have eventuated most naturally in securing him a position
in the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. The Doctor was born in
county Cork, Ireland, July 9, 1850, and is one of a family of si.\ children
whose parents were Thomas G. and Mary (Dean) Bradfield, also natives of
county Cork. The father came to Logansport, Indiana, in 1S50, and was
placed in charge of forty-two miles of the Wabash & Erie canal, Logans-
port being a midway station on that part of the water-way. He continued
in that position for seven j'ears and then removed to a farm south of
Logansport, where he carried on agricultural pursuits until his death. In
earlj- life he was a civil engineer. He died in 1S93. at the age of seventy-six
years, and his wife passed away in 1S94, at the age of eighty-three years.
Of their family of six children all were born on the Emerald Isle with the
exception of the youngest.

It was during his infancy that Dr. Bradfield was brought to America,
and in Cass county, Indiana, he was reared to manhood. His elementary
education was acquired in the common schools near his home and later he

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attended a Presbyterian academy in Logansport, followed by a course in the
Logansport high school, in which he was graduated with the class of 1873,
He immediately continued his education by pursuing a professional course to
fit him for the responsible duties of life, and in 1877 he was graduated in
the medical department of the University of Michigan. He began the prac-
tice of medicine in Deer Creek, Indiana, and in 1891 he pursued a post-
graduate course of study in the Chicago Policlinic, after which he located in
Logansport, where he has since enjoyed a large and constantly increasing
practice. He is a member of the Cass County Medical and the State Med-
ical Associations, and constant reading and study keeps him well abreast of
the times and familiarizes him with the progress that is continually being
made m the line of his profession.

Socially Dr. Bradfield is affilated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Knights of Pytliias fraternity. He e.xercises his right of
franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy, and from
1 88 1 until 1885 he was township trustee of Washington township, Carroll
county, while during President Cleveland's second administration he was a
member of the Cass county board of pension examiners, serving as president
thereof. In 1878 he married Miss Marietta Carney, a member of an hon-
ored and respected old family of Cass county, and they now have four living
children, two sons and two daughters. As a citizen, no one in Logansport
stands higher than the Doctor. Upright and reliable, he commands the
respect of all and is known as a supporter of all measures for the public good.

T~\ AVID IRWIN, the energetic, efficient and popular city clerk of Peru, is a
'-^ native of this city, born January 27, 1S47. His parents, Hezekiah and
Matilda (Coughenour) Irwin, natives of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,
settled in Peru in 1845, more than half a century ago, emigrating to this place
by the primitive methods of travel, crossing the Alleghanies in the old-time
stage coach, coming down the Ohio river and up the Mississippi to Galena,
then by stage coach to Logansport, this state, and from that point to Peru
on a canal packet. Although this place was their destination when they left
Pennsylvania, they seemed to be disappointed with first appearances here,
and Mr. Irwin concluded to look further before determining on a place of

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settlement. Accord ins^I}', he and liis wife continued their journey to north-
western Ohio; but, finding themselves no better pleased with what they saw
there, they began to entertain a desire to return to the old home in the Key-
stone state. Before undertaking a trip so tedious and expensive, Mrs. Irwin
concluded that it would be better to return to Peru, which, accortiingl}', they
did, and made it their home during the remainder of their li\es. Mr. Irwin
was born November i, 1S15, was a plasterer by trade, and some of the work
he did half a century ago still remains as samples of the permanent quality
of his material and thoroughness of e.xecution. His death occurred Novem-
ber 10, i860, and his wife survived for more than thirty j'ears, passing away
in 1893. They were married in 1845, but a short time before the)- started on
their long journe}' to the wilds of the west. They became the parents of four
children, of whom David is the eldest. Carrie, the second born, is the wife
of John \\'eist, of Huntington, Indiana. William, the next in order of age,
was accidentally killed by a railroad train at Anoka, Indiana, a number of
years ago. Samuel, the }'oungest, is a resident of Peru.

David Irwin, in his boyhood, attended the public school of Peru, when
the facilities for education were very meagre compared with those of the
present day. xAfter growing up he conducted a meat market for many years,
having learned the business of Henry Mack, long since deceased. In 1894
he was elected city clerk of Peru, and has proved a careful and efficient
officer. In politics he is a Democrat; he is a worth}' member of the fraternal
orders of Odd Fellows and of the United Workmen.

September 28, 1876, he was married to Miss Emma N. Stigleman. He
has a son (by a former marriage, however), named Harry, who was born Jan-
uary 27, 1872.

TUDGE SAMUEL DAVIS, a retired merchant of Kokomo and one of the
*-' best and favorably known citizens of Howard county, is a native
of Ohio, born in Miami county, near the village of Milton, August 2, 181 3.
> His father, John Davis, was a native of Georgia, and his mother, whose

name before marriage was Lydia Coate, was a native of South Carolina; and
they were married in Miami county, Ohio, about 1809, as Quakers, as they
were members of the Society of Friends. They had four sons and one
•daughter, namely: Henry, who died in Colorado on the very day he was

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eighty years old; Samuel, the subject of this sketch; Isaac, who died in June
1897, in Miami county, Ohio, at eighty years of age or more; Jonathan, now
living in Miami county, Ohio, at Laura post-office, and over eighty
years of age; and Mary, who died in middle life in Ohio, the wife of Eli
Hoover.

Mr. John Davis was a farmer by occupation. He accompanied his
father in the emigration from Georgia to Miami county, Ohio, in 1803, while
the Indians were still in the vicinity. His father settled upon a tract of six
hundred and forty acres, which they proceeded to clear and bring into culti-
vation. John Davis, to whom his father had given one hundred and sixty
acres, also entered an eighty-acre tract, and, having married a lady who had
land, they were in a condition to accumulate considerable property. This
lady, the mother of the Judge, our subject, died in 1826, when our subject
was thirteen years of age. About 1834 or '35 Mr. Davis married again, tak-
ing this time Mrs. Elizabeth Elleman, whose name before marriage was Hay-
worth, and by this marriage there were. two children, both of whom are now
deceased.

Abiathar Davis, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania and a Quaker. Emigrating to Georgia he enjoyed considerable thrift
in that state, accumulated land, and married; but, being opposed to slavery,
he sold out his interests there and removed to Ohio. He had four sons and
five daughters.

Henry Coate, the maternal grandfather of Judge Davis, was a native of
South Carolina, who moved to Ohio from the south on account of the evil of
slavery. He was a farmer and manufacturer of sickles, enjoyed prosperity,
married three times, and had a large number of children.

Judge Davis, with whose name we began this biographical outline, grew
up to manhood in Miami county, Ohio. His early schooling was received
in the old-time subscription schools, when the teachers "boarded around. "
He afterward studied grammar, after night, and read law, in company with
John P. Greer, whom he afterward aided in his legal studies and in obtain-
ing for him the office of minister plenipotentiary to Mexico. It was while a.
young man that he had to work hard and economize. Always energetic,
rather than be idle and spend what he happened to have,, he cut cord-wood,
even when he could get but twenty cents per cord for cutting. In Mont-
gomery county he worked for wages as low as six and a fourth cents a day.

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He worked and saved money at twelve and a half to twenty-tive cents a day,
a part of the time in a brick-yard, until he had earned $102.50, with which
he started to the land office at Cincinnati, distant from Milton about seventy
miles, on foot, through the mud, in the spring of the year, and entered
eighty acres of land. He paid one hundred dollars for his land and returned
home, with only eighteen cents in his pocket! He made the trip in advance
of a man who rode there on horseback for the same purpose.

While studying law he began to clerk in a store, and in the fall of 1836
commenced business for himself, in Darke county, Ohio, and later moved to
his native town, Milton, where he was engaged in general merchandising for
a number of years. Next he moved to Tippecanoe City, in the same county
(Miami), where he continued in mercantile business.

In i860 he was nominated for the office of judge of probate, and was
elected. After serving his term of three years he was re-elected and served
another term, fulfilling the duties of this responsible office with fidelity. In
the meantime he formed a partnership with a man named Dillawa^', of Troy,
Ohio, in the dry-goods business, the firm name being Dillaway & Davis. At
the same time he also formed a partnership in the shoe business with a man
named Kincaid, under the firm name of Kincaid & Davis; and also in the
grain business, with a Mr. Warner, under the firm name of Warner & Davis.
These lines of business were all conducted at Troy, Ohio. Then followed a
partnership with a man named Durant, in the dry-goods line, and they
continued two years or more together, when Judge Davis bought Mr. Durant's
interest in the concern. After selling goods there alone for a time, he moved
his stock to Ivokomo, Indiana, in March, 1872, and brought his family here
in October following, and ever since that date this city has been his home.
He was in partnership with his sons, Henry C. and Walter, the firm name
being S. Davis iS: Sons, until about 1S94, when Mr. Davis retired, and his
sons now have separate stores, — Henry C. continuing at the old stand,
while Walter conducts a large clothing store; and both are leading merchants
in the city. For some years Judge Davis was vice-president of the Howard
National Bank.

In his political principles the Judge is a stanch Republican, and was a
member of the old Liberty Guard. When in Milton he was mayor of that
place several times, and also township trustee. He has never held office in
Kokomo.

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In Januar}-, 1S40, Judge Davis was united in niatrimonj' with Miss Sarah
McConnell, who was born near Hamilton, Ohio, and whose grandfather,
James Mills, erected the first brick house in West Hamilton. She was the
daughter of Jesse and Eliza (Mills) McConnell. Her paternal grandfather came
from Ireland, and her mother's father was a representative to the state legisla-
ture from Darke county, Ohio. Also, her uncle, Mark T. Mills, was for a time
one of the commissioners of Darke county, and afterward sheriff of that
county and a representative to the state legislature. Judge Davis has had
six children, — five sons and one daughter, namely ; lanthus, born January 25,
1843; Alonzo, June 10, 1846; Omar, November 12, 1S47; Laura Adelaide,
July 22, 1849; Henry C, November 26, i 85 i, and Walter H., October 6, 1857.
Of these only Henry C. and Walter are now living. The sketch of Henry C.
appears elsewhere in this volume. Walter married Miss Lucy Brouse, daugh-
ter of Judge Brouse, whose sketch also appears on another page. They had
two children, — Agnes and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Sarah Davis died
July 9, 1884, at the age of sixty-three years, two months and eighteen days.
She was a sincere and intelligent member of the Congregational church. The
Judge by birthright was a Quaker, but he generally attended church with his
wife, being a liberal supporter of religious institutions.

In conclusion, we can say that we reflect with great pleasure upon the
long and successful life of Judge Davis, which exemplifies the value of a
steady aim and presence of mind. By care he has preserved his constitution
to a happy old age, and can with a clear conscience enjoy a rest and ease
earned by a long life of toil.

JOHN H. STEPHENS, the publisher and proprietor of the Miami County
^ Record, at Peru, is a gentleman whose public career is so well known
throughout Miami and adjoining counties that his friends will be pleased to
see some record of the main points of his life in this volume.

He was born in Pulaski county, this state, on the 6th of January, 1866,
his parents being Joel and Mary (Fisher) Stephens. Being left an orphan at
an early age, he was reared in the family of James B. Smith, near the city of
Peru, in Washington township; and he was brought up to the hard work of
the farm, where the loneliness of the situation has a tendency to develop in
the soul of the thinker those poetical instincts and noble ambitions which are

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"known only to himself and otherslike him: they rannot he describeil. After
attending the common country school until his sixteenth year he entered the
high school of Peru, where he was a student for two years, and then, paying
his own way by teaching school at intervals, he attended other institutions
of learning for a number of years, as the Indiana State Normal School at
Terra Haute and an elective course of two 3'ears at De Pauw University at
Greencastle. Then he taught one term of school in Illinois.

Having long desired to become the publisher of a newspaper, as a step-
ping-stone in that direction he entered the service of the Logansport Reporter,
as manager of out-of-town work. Soon afterward he was requested to do
reportorial work on the Miami County Sentinel, and while thus engaged he
wrote a history of Miami county for the columns of that paper. In 1896 he
published an elaborate volume of three hundred and eighty pages, entitled
the History of Miami County, a work of great merit as it involved long and
careful research and is replete with valuable information.

In January, 1891, he purchased the Bunker Hill Press, and also estab-
lished at that place an agricultural paper called The Stock and Farm, which
became a success from the start; but he at length formed other plans, which
compelled him to relinquish the publication of what promised to be — in fact
had already become — a most useful and valuable periodical in the interests
of agriculture. July 3, 1S94, he removed the plant of the Bunker Hill Press
to Peru and changed the name of the paper to the Miami County Record,
and has since conducted it here, with that success that attends intellectual
ability and physical energy. Editorially it is an advocate of the ' ' free-silver "
Democracy; it has a large circulation and is an able exponent of the princi-
ples it advocates and a faithful " record " of the news of the day.

Mr. Stephens is a member of the orders of Masons, Odd Fellows and
the Maccabees, and, with his wife, is a member of the Baptist church.

He was married September 29, 1892, to Miss Lillie J. Rife, daughter of
William Rife, an earh' settler of Miami county, and they have two children
— Lelah and Clarence.

CHARLES A. DeHAVEN, attorne}- at law, Kokomo, the son of James
W. DeHaven, Esq., whose sketch is given elsewhere in this volume,
was born August 15, 1S65, near Xenia, Ohio, and was but two years old

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when his parents emigrated to this state, settling in Howard county. He
was brought up at the trade of miller, under his father's training, and his lit-
erary education he obtained at the district schools and the Kokoino high
school.

Enchanted by the charms of legal principles and the rights of man, he
began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Cooper & Harness in Kokomo,
and was admitted to the bar in 1894, since which time he has been engaged
in the practice of his chosen profession in Kokomo, where he is well known
for his intelligence and probity. He is also a collecting and renting agent.

Politically he is a Republican, well versed in the principles and history
of the part}'. He has been called upon to deliver speeches upon the rostrum
in political campaigns. Socially he is a Master Mason and a member of the
order of the Sons of Veterans.

COLONEL ROBERT CROMER.— One of Indiana's native sons who
has attained distinction in military and commercial circles and who is
now an honored resident of Logansport is Colonel Robert Cromer. He was
born in Indianapolis, August 10, 1842, and resided in that city until sixteen
years of age. His parents were Robert and Rachel (Laselle) Cromer, the
former a native of Philadelphia, and the latter of France. It is said that
the Cromers are of English origin, and came to America from Cromerville,
England. The mother of the Colonel died when he was a youth of nine
summers, and at the age of si.Kteen he was left an orphan by the death of
his father. He was then sent to school in the east, and was a student in
Yale College at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. Prompted by
a spirit of patriotism, he determined to join the armj', and returned to
Indianapolis, where he volunteered his services, but on account of his
extreme youth and slight stature he was not accepted. In the fall of 1861,
however, he entered the United States secret service, and therein did effective
work under Anderson, Sherman, Buell, Grant and Banks until the spring of
1865, when, upon examination, he was commissioned by Governor Morton,
of Indiana, as first lieutenant of Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-first
Indiana Infantry, and ordered to Tullahoma and then to Nashville, where he
was given charge of the arsenal and arsenal stores. Later he was detailed

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by General Thomas to take charge of the field medical transportation of the
Department of the Tennessee, as acting assistant quartermaster, and in this
capacity he served until mustered out, in the autumn of 1865. His duties
were often very arduous and dangerous, and with niarkcd loyalty he dis-
charged the tasks allotted to him.

Soon after the close of the war he went to Cincinnati, where he engaged
in teaching in a commercial college, and while there, in connection with
another teacher of the school, he issued a calculator, wdiich sold very rapidly.
They then issued a larger work and with their book, known as the Lightning
Calculator, each started out to lecture. Colonel Cromer tra\eled as a light-
ning calculator and lecturer until 1S73, visiting hundreds of towns and cities,
and meeting with gratifying success in his undertaking. In the }ear men-
tioned he embarked in the live-stock commission business in Cincinnati,
where he continued operations until 1886, when he removed to I^ouisviJle,
Kentucky, where he carried on the same line of business until 1S91. In the
latter year he came to Logansport, where he has since resided. In the
meantime he had studied law, and on coming to Cass county was admitted
to the bar, after which he practiced law e.\clusi\'ely until the spring of 1S96,
when he established the Logansport Cement Works. In the fall of 1S97 he
erected his present plant at the foot of Market street, where he carries on
both a wholesale and retail business, handling cement, sewerpipe, building
blocks, vaults, window caps, window sills, vitrified pipe, flue pipe, flue lining,
chimney tops, fire brick, fire clay and all kinds of cement, and also deals in feed
and grain. His business has now assumed extensive proportions and his large
trade brings to him a handsome income. Recently he has also revised and
issued a second edition of his Lightning Calculator and Accountant's Assist-
ant. He has unusual talent and ability as a mathematician and in this
direction his reputation extends thoroughout the United States.

Since his war service Colonel Cromer's interest in military affairs has
never flagged, and in 1878 he organized the First Cincinnati \'eteran
Regiment, of which he was chosen to take command, and thus he derived the
title by which he is now uniformly known. He was instrumental in organiz-
ing from this regiment the \'eteran Guard Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic, was chosen its first and second commander, and held that office
for two terms. The Post was organized on the beneficial plan, paid four
dollars per week for sick benefits and is still in existence, with Colonel

94 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEjXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

Cromer as one of its valued members. On the death of General Grant,
however, its name was changed to the U. S. Grant Post. In 1895 the Colo-
nel was a delegate to the Grand Army of the Republic in national encamp-
ment at St. Paul. He is also a prominent member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, belonging to all branches of the fraternity, including the
militant rank, and in politics is a stanch Republican, his labors in behalf of
the party having been most beneficial.

In 1872 Colonel Cromer was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Heth,
of Logansport, a daughter of Harvey and Mary A. Heth, and their home has
been blessed with two children — Robert Heth, sergeant of Company I, One
Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and Julia, wife of H. B.
Kerlin, of Chicago, who now resides in Coshocton, Ohio. The Colonel is a
man of scholarly tastes and broad general information, of genial, pleasant man
ner and gentlemanly deportment, and his many admirable qualities of head and
heart have gained him a large circle of warm friends, while in social, business
and military circles he has an enviable popularity. Colonel Cromer is now
engaged largely in real estate and building operations on his addition to the
city. He is making very extensive improvements on Broadway. Market
street and Dewey avenue, which last he named and dedicated in honor of
Dewey, the hero of Manila.

JACOB THEOBALD.— For a number of years Jacob Theobald has been
recognized as the leading contractor and builder of Peru and is one of
the most prominent and influential citizens, taking an active part in munici-
pal affairs. He was born in Bavaria on the 19th of August, 1839, his par-
ents being Peter and Catherine (LichtJ Theobald. In 1849 the father,
accompanied by his wife and four children, crossed the Atlantic to the New
World, and after a residence of a few months in the city of Syracuse, New
York, removed to Wisconsin, locating on a farm in the eastern part of Wash-
ington county, in the fall of 1849. Peter Theobald was an industrious and
energetic farmer and a highly esteemed citizen. In 1878 he and his wife
spent several months in visiting at the home of their son Jacob in Peru, and
when on the return trip in the fall of that year the father was taken ill. He
never recovered, dying two weeks after reaching home. His wife survived

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him about live ^-ears and died in Hrown county, Wisconsin. Adam Theo-
bald, a brother of our subject, came to America prior to the eniif,Mation of
the family, and engaged in contracting and buildiu':^ in Peru until his lieath,
which resulted from a fall from a building in 1S71. He left two children, a
son and a daughter. Tlie former, John Theobald, is a resident of Peru, and
the latter, May, is now living in Illinois. Peter Theobald, who resides in
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and Jacob, of this review, are the only surviving
members of their father's family. There were also two sisters, Catherine
and Margaret, but both hive been dead for a number of years.

Jacob Theobald remained on the home farm until his twenty-second year,
but from early boyhood had manifested special aptitude in the use of tools,
and now turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, in which he soon
attained a high degree of proficiency. After working at the trade for three
years he began contracting and building on his own account, and since 1861
has been connected with the building interests of Peru. He has long been
recognized as the leading contractor of the city, anci the greater number of
the fine buildings on Broadway and in other streets have been erected by him
under contract. He employs e.xperienced and reliable workmen, always
faithfully lives up the terms of a contract and has the confidence and there-
fore the liberal patronage of the public. Many of the best buildings of Peru
stand as monuments to his skill and industry, and the pleasing appearance
of the city is due in no small measure to his efforts. In connection with his
building interests he is also president and the chief stockholder of the Stand-
ard Cabinet Manufacturing Company, e.xtensive manufacturers of various
forms of woodwork, including that for sewing-machines and show-cases. He
is a man of resolute purpose and sound judgment, and carries forward to suc-
cessful completion whatever he undertakes; but not only does prosperity
crown his efforts, for he has also manifested such trustworthiness and upright-
ness in all business transactions that he has the unlimited confidence of all
with whom he has been brought in contact.

Mr. Theobald has been twice married. He first wedded Miss Mary
Scheuerman, a native of Germany, who died in 1873. Three children were
born of that union — Edward, Catherine and May — but the son died in infancy.
The present wife of Mr. Theobald bore the maiden name of Martha C. Keyl,
and is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but at the time of their marriage
was living in Michigan. Four children grace this union: Ernest, Oscar,

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Clara and Martha, the last two being twins. They have a pleasant home at
No. 203 West Third street, and their circle of friends is very extensive.

In politics Mr. Theobald has always been a stalwart Democrat since
casting his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas in i860. Firm in
support of the party principles he does all in his power to promote the growth
and insure the success of his party and is one of its leading members in Peru.
He is now a member of the city council and is serving his seventh consecu-
tive year in that body, while on two previous occasions he was also alder-
man. He is now chairman of the tax committee and for five years was
chairman of the finance committee. In his official capacity he gives
a zealous support to all progressive measures for the public good and
his aid and influence have secured many needed and valued improve-
ments in the city. Endowed by nature with a sound judgment and an accu-
rate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to busi-
ness so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has ever
been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment
only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by a fairness
of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.

MRS. ANN ELIZABETH MARSHALL, a lady of remarkable talent resid-
ing on section 9, Washington township, Cass county, near Logans-
port, has inherited a grand physical and mental constitution which has
enabled her to endure an immense amount of trouble. Her husband died
some years ago, leaving her ten children and a farm of eighty acres encum-
bered heavily with debt and even with adverse claims to the title; but, with
the business tact and heroism which characterized her noted father, she has
been able to keep the farm and bring up her numerous children in good
style. Like her father, also, she has an excellent voice, which, had it been
cultivated by masters, would have made her a prima donna.

Her children are: Ida May, who is now the wife of Frank Morton, of
■Oklahoma, and has one child, named William Thomas; Charles D., of Log-
ansport, who has one child, Raymond; George Dexter, who has two children
— June and Mildred E., and lives in Logansport; Oliver, who also is a resi-
dent of Logansport; and Teressa, Mary Elizabeth, Francis A., William Oscar,
Richard Henry and U. Valentine — all at their parental home.

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David Woodling, father of Mrs. Marshall, was born Februarj- 20, 181 5,
in Union county, Pennsylvania; and his father, John Woodlin;,', was a native
of Germany who married Susanna Hendricks, a native of the Keystone state
and also of German ancestry. Da\-id received a good school education and
learned the carpenter's trade, at which he was an expert and made money.
AVhen twenty-four years of age he emigrated to Bucyrus, Ohio, where,
March 22, 1S3S, he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Jane Aurant,
also a native of Union county, Pennsyhania, born January 9, 1S20. Her
parents, Jonathan and Susan (Whittenmyres) Aurant, were natives of the
same county and also of German ancestry. Removing to Crawford county,
Ohio, in 1S27, they passed there the remainder of their li\'es.

Mr. David Woodling after his marriage removed first to Darwin, Illi-
nois, and soon afterward to Terre Haute, Indiana, where Mrs. Woodling's
health failed, and they concluded to emigrate to a more healthful locality.
Accordingly, in 1844, they came to Cass county, settling upon a tract of wild
land which is now a beautiful farm occupied by Michael Bauman. The
reader will recollect that at that early day the wilderness was fearfully dense
and rife with game and savage animals and even Indians. Being a good car-
penter, Mr. Woodling built an excellent residence for the time, which is still
standing upon the old farm. In this the family resided for a period of
forty years, during which time not a death occurred in the family. The
wilderness was cleared away by the vigorous hand of Mr. Woodling, whose
industry and good judgment enabled him to "hew out a home " amid the sur-
rounding wilderness.

Some time after his settlement here he purchased one hundred acres
near the river on section },},, Washington township, three miles from Logans-
port, to which point he moved in March, 1S78, and where he passed the
remainder of his life, dying on the i6th of April, 1882. He was a pious and
prominent member of the Evangelical Lutheran church who could give a
good "reason for the faith that was in him." The church for some time
held their meetings in the Woodling school-house, which was named after
him. Having an excellent voice and being a good singer, he generally led
in the musical devotions of the congregation and also taught singing-school.
He was a gentleman of fine appearance, dressed well, and among strangers
was sometimes taken for a clergyman. Being liberal, he also aided all the
•churches in his community, besides being the poor man's friend generally.

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His home was the headquarters for social gatherings and reHgious meetings,
where everybody was welcome; and every one knew that at his house "the
latchstring always hung on the outside of the door." Occasionally there
would be as many as thirty at dinner at his house atone time; bat the supply
furnished by that liberal man seemed never to be exhausted. Politically he
was a strong Republican.

His wife survived until May 19, 1S94, then passing away to the invisible
world, a sincere and worthy member of the Lutheran church.

The children of David and Margaret Woodling may be enumerated
as follows: Thomas Jefferson, born June 28, 1S39, now resides in St.
Louis, Missouri; James Harvey, born November 14, 1841, lives in Tipton
township, Cass county; Reason L., born November 12, 1S43, resides in
Washington township; Martha J., born February 27, 1846, died March
13, following; William F. , born July 10, 1S47, is now a resident of Washing-
ton township; Ann Elizabeth, the subject proper of this sketch, born Novem-
ber 19, 1848; Maria S., born August 29, 1850, lives in Iowa; John I.,
born August 19, 1852, died April 7, 1854; Henry D., born September 20,
1854, -is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri; Sarah E., born August 27,
1856, is at the asylum; Samuel P., born May 25, 1858, occupies the old farm
near the river; Mary Margaret, born June 2, 1861, is deceased; George
Jonathan, born March 11, 1863, is a carpentei: following his trade in Cass
county; and Charles Ulj'sses, born May 21, 1867, is a resident of Jackson
township, Cass county.

IT ON. CORYDON RICHMOND, M. D., a retired physician of Kokomo,
•■ -^ Indiana, is rounding out a long and useful life and, although now in his
old age deprived of sight, he can turn memory's pages, decade after
decade, for nearly a century, and note the development of state and nation,
having just reason to take pride in the fact that he has done his part in
paving the way to the advantages and privileges enjoyed by the present
generation.

Corydon Richmond was born in Onondaga, Onondaga county, -New York,
November 22, 180S, son of John Lambert Richmond and Loraine (Patchin)
Richmond, and the only survivor of their family of five sons and five daugh-
ters. John Lambert Richmonj was a native of Massachusetts. Q In early

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life he was a laborer, and afterward went to preaching, as a Baptist minister.
In the meantime he studied medicine, and in 1817 he came west to Ohio and
located in Hamilton county, ten miles east of Cincinnati, where he began the
practice of his profession. He continued his residence in Hamilton county
until 1832, but several years prior to that date made his home in Cincinnati.
He graduated in the Ohio Medical College in 1S22. From Cincinnati he
moved to Indianapolis and some years later took up his abode in Covington,
Indiana, where he spent his last days and died, being about seventy-one at
the time of his death. His remains are buried at LaFayette, Indiana. His
wife was a native of New York state. Her death occurred a year prior to
his, when she had attained the age of sixty-eight years. Both were members
of the Baptist church throughout their lives. During the war of 1812 he
belonged to the organization known as the "Minute Men."

Information regarding the grandparents of our venerable subject is as
follows: Nathaniel Richmond, his grandfather, was a native of Massachu-
setts and a descendant of English ancestors. He was a soldier in a Massa-
chusetts regiment during the Revolutionary war, by occupation was a farmer,
and was the father of a large family. In 1,817, the year his son John L. set-
tled in Hamilton county, Ohio, he came to Indiana and located in Lawrence-
burg. Some years later he removed to Pendleton, Madison county, Indiana,
where he died. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Walter Patchin,
and he, too, was of English descent and by occupation a farmer. He died
in New York state.

Dr. Richmond passed the first nine years of his life in his native state.
From 18 17 to 1832 his home was in Ohio. He began the stud_\' of medicine
there and in Cincinnati practiced for some time with his father. In 1S32 he
came to Indiana and located at Pendleton, Madison count}'. He practiced
there until 1836 and from that time until 1841 in Indianapolis. Then
returning to Pendleton, he resumed practice there and continued at that
place four years, and since 1845 he has been a resident of Kokomo. At the
time of his settlement here he had the red man for his neighbor, for it was
not until 1S48 that the Miami Indians were removed from this locality. Here
he was engaged in professional duties for many years until, on account of
rheumatism, he was compelled to retire from practice. He did not, however,
entirely quit practice until after the close of the Civil war.

The Doctor has been thrice married, and as many times death has bereft

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him of a loving companion. In 1830 he married Miss Nancy Page Stockton,
daughter of Joseph Stockton, and they had one child, that died in infancy.
Mrs. Richmond died in 1833. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Three years later Dr. Richmond married Miss Frances Hawkins,
of Indianapolis, daughter of Jameson and Ruth (Threlkeld) Hawkins. The
fruits of their union were four children, namely: Louisa W., who became the
wife of Josiah M. Leeds, died in I\ansas in March, 1895; Lucinda, who died
at the age of four years; Sarah Jane, who became the wife of Joseph C.
Anderson, and has three children, Fannie L. Morgan, Maud A. Johnson and
Edgar R. Anderson: and Margaret Ann, who lived only four years. The
mother of these four daughters died in 1871, at the age of si.\ty-five years.
She was a Baptist. On the gth of September, 1873, the Doctor wedded,
for his third wife, Mrs. Lydia E. Saxton, widow of Henry M. Sa.xton and
daughter of Abel Fowler, of Monroe county, New York. She departed this
life January 26, 1898, on her eighty-third birthday. She was a member of
the New Jerusalem church.

Fraternally the Doctor is a Freemason, and politically he has always
given his support to the party he believed was acting in the best interests of the
people. His first vote was cast with the Whigs, some years later he allied him-
self with the Republicans, and, always a prohibitionist in sentiment, he has of
late years given his support to the Prohibition party. While he never sought
official position, it was time after time thrust upon him, and wherever duty
called he obeyed. He served with credit to himself and his constituents, in
numerous places of trust anl responsibility when he was in his prime, and
throughout his whole life he has maintained a deep interest in all that has
tended toward the development of his town, county, state and nation. In the
fall of 1847 he was elected a representative to the state legislature from Cass
and Howard counties. For three or four years he was school examiner for
Howard county. Several years he was county surveyor. In 1S68 he was
elected mayor of the city of Kokomo, and served one term. At its expiration
he was appointed by the county commissioners to fill a vacancy in the office
of justice of the peace, and as such served two years, afterward being elected
for a term of four years.

During the Civil war Dr. Richmond notified a friend at Indianapolis that
he was ready at any time to render assistance as surgeon if his country needed
him, and immediately after the battle of Stone river he was called to Mili-

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tary Hospital No. 3, at Nashville, to assist as surgeon. Also in 1865, after
the battle of Nashville, he was calleil back there and assisted in establishing
a hospital for colored troops, took charge of this hospital and remained there
until his services were no longer needed. For some j'ears past the Doctor's
eyesight has been failing, and since January, iSoj.he has been totally blind.
Speaking of his early life in Howard county. Dr. Richmond states that
when he settled here there was not a road in the county, and his professional
duties were attended with no little difficulty. Frequently he had trouble in
finding his way through the almost pathless woods to homes of the jiioneer
settlers among whom he practiced. He had been here a number of years
before he ever saw a buggy driven through this part of the country. Fre-
quently he walked as far as twenty miles to see a patient. When he went to
Indianapolis to the legislature he made the trip in a lumber wagon, taking
his family with him. All honor to the sterling pioneer!

RODNEY STRAIN. — A popular business man, a faithful citizen and a
gentleman whom to know is to respect and honor, Rodney Strain has
resided in Logansport since March, 1S66. He was born in London, Madison
county, Ohio, on the 14th of February, 1S41, and is a son of William A.
and Mary (McMillen) Strain. The father is a physician and was for many
years successfully engaged in practice in London, Ohio, where he is widely
known for his skill and ability. He is now living in Greenfield, Ohio, and
has passed the eightieth milestone on life's journey. His wife passed away
in 1S80, at the age of fifty-two years. They were the parents of nine chil-
dren, four of wb.om are \ et living: Rodne\'; John C. and Anna, who reside
in Greenfield, Ohio; and William A., of Hillsboro, Ohio.

In the city of his nati\ity Rodney Strain remained until 1S60, and
then removed to Springfield, Ohio. He Wad acquired a fair English educa-
tion in his youth, and had clerked in a drug store in London. After his
removal to Springfield he was employed in a similar capacity, and thus with
broad experience in that line he came to Logansport in March, 1866, open-
ing a drug store, which he conducted with marked success until December,
1S84. He made many friends and built up a very good business. In
February, 1885, he bought a half-interest in the undertaking business at 613

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Broadway, and since that has engaged with B. A. Kroeger in the undertaking
business, under the firm name of Kroeger & Strain. He had no experience
in that direction at the time, but his knowledge of chemicals proved of
value to him, and he had soon mastered the new enterprise. They have
met with good success in this work and have a splendidly equipped under-
taking establishment, doing embalming and every class of work in the best
style.

In 1S67 Mr. Strain was united in marriage to Miss Susan McMillen, of
Logansport, and to them were born two children, but the older, Anna, is
now deceased. Geneva, the younger, is still with her parents.

Mr. Strain manifested his loyalty to his country during the Civil war by
enlisting in the Union army, in April, 1864, as a member of Company E,
One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry, with which he served for
nearly six months. In politics he has always been a stalwart adherent to
the principles of the Republican party, and is deeply interested in its growth
and success. The cause of education finds in hirii a warm friend, and for
nearly twelve yeai;s he served on the school board of Logansport, as one of
its most efficient and capable members. His support and co-operation are
given to every movement calculated to advance the moral and intellectual
well-being of the community and Logansport numbers him among her most
valued citizens. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason, belonging to Orient
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he is also a comrade of Logansport Post, No. 14,
G. A. R. He is an active member of the First Presbyterian church, is a
member of the session and was a trustee for several years, having ever taken
a commendable interest in church work. He is at this time rendering efficient
service in an endeavor to compile a history of the church, and, though many
valuable data have been lost, he has succeeded in finding considerable that
will furnish a full and authentic history of the organization. He is a genial,
kindly Christian gentleman; and what higher praise can be bestowed.'

JOSEPH N. TILLP:TT, an attorney and counselor at law and the present
prosecuting attorney for the Miami circuit court, is a native of Peru
township, born November 27, 1865. His father, William Tillett, is a Miami
county pioneer, having settled in Peru township in 1834, where he still lives.

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He has se\-en children, never having lost any, as is almost universally the
case in families.

The youngest of these children, the subject of this sketch, attended the
district school in earlier bo\hood and then became a student of the Peru
high school, and two years later entered Wabash College, graduating in the
class of 1888. In the autumn of the same year he entered the law depart-
ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in
1890. In July following he formed a part'nership with Nott N. Antrim, a
prominent member of the bar of Miami count}', and the law firm of Antrim,
& Tillett continued for five years. Mr. Tillett was elected prosecuting
attorney of Miami county in November, 1894. Though still a j'oung man
he is recognized as an able lawyer and a safe counselor. His administra-
tion of the office of prosecuting attorney has been such as to commend him
to the highest consideration as an able, upright and conscientious lawyer.
In his political relations he is a Democrat, and is at present chairman of the
Democratic central committee of Miami county.

In matrimony he was united with Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, daughter of
Rev. Robert R. Baldwin, a well-known clergyman of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Mrs. Tillett is a native of Daviess county, Indiana. Their
daughter, Lois Elizabeth, was born December 24, 1895.

TJENRY C. DAMS, proprietor of the " Beehive" store, devoted to the
^ ■* sale of dry goods, carpets, cloaks and notions, in Kokomo, is a son of
Judge Samuel Davis, of whom we give an account on other pages, and was
born in West Milton, Miami county, Ohio, November 26, 185 i, the fifth in
the family. He was eight years of age when his parents moved to Tippe-
canoe City, that state, where the family resided for eighteen months. In the
spring of i860 they moved to Troy, same state, where the subject of this
sketch grew to manhood, attending the elementary and high schools there,
and the commercial school at Dayton, Ohio. At the age of si.xteen years he
began clerking in his father's store, and has remained with him ever since.
From the time he came to Kokomo until 1894 he was associated with his
brother, Walter H., when their father retired and the brother entered the
clothing trade at another place in the city. Since 1894, therefore, Mr. Henry

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C. Davis has been conducting the business at the old stand alone. He car-
ries an immense stock, his trade is well established and his reputation is
beyond suspicion. He employs about twenty persons in the store, a fine
building on the north side of the court-house square. He is also a director
in the Howard National Bank, in which he is one of the largest stockholders.

Politically he is a Republican. He is a member of Howard Lodge, No.
93, A. F. & A. M. ; Kokomo Chapter, No. 104, R. A. M. ; of Kokomo Coun-
cil, and of Kokomo Commandery, No. 36, K. T. ; also of Good Intent Lodge,
No. 29, Knights of Pythias; was one of the charter members of Kokomo Divi-
sion, No. 6, Knights of Pythias, Uniformed Rank; and from 1883 to 1888
was captain of the division, during which time the division took seven prizes,
among them the international prize at Toronto in 18S6.

On the 1st of October, 1872, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary
P. McClung, daughter of David and Elizabeth T. (Harker) McClung, and
they have three children, — Emma Louise, Henry C. , Jr.. and George. Henry
C. is employed in the store of his father. Emma Louise is the wife of Harry
Bruner, vice-president and manager of the Rockford Bit Company. Mrs.
Bruner is a fine musician. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the First
Congregational church, of which he has been a trustee for twenty years.

The family prestige, the business training and the high moral character
ever sustained by Mr. Davis are well known to the citizens of Ivokomo and
throughout Howard county.

i^OL. THOMAS H. BRINGHURST.— One of the most conspicuous
^^ figures in the history of Logansport is Thomas Hall Bringhurst, who for
more than a half century has been a resident of the city, during which time
he has been a leading spirit in many of its business and public enterprises.
Through two wars he loyally maintained the honor of his country, and at
all times and in all places he has been known for his fidelity of purpose,
his lofty principles and his strict adherence to the ethics which govern all
human existence. Such qualities have won him an exalted place in the
esteem of his fellow-men, and now, in the years of his retirement from
active life, he is honored as one whose career is undarkened by an}' esoteric
phases, it having ever been an open scroll capable of bearing the closest
scrutiny.

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Colonel Bringhurst is a nati\e of Philadelphia, born August 20, 18 19,
and is of American and Irish extraction. His parents were Robert K. and
Mary (Wood) Bringhurst. The father was a mechanic and died at the
advanced age of eighty years. The Colonel was reared under the par-
ental roof, and though he is now the possessor of a handsome competence,
he began life for himself with a cash capital of one dollar, most of which he
spent for postage. He was apprenticed for a term of five \'ears, to learn
the trade of cabinet-making, that period being considered necessary for the
acquisition of a mechanical art. In 1840 he emigrated to Alabama, but the
following year returned to the north, locating in Dayton, Ohio, where he
worked at his trade for four years. He then came to Logansport, in 1845,
and erected a sawmill at the mouth of the Eel river, where he engaged in
the manufacture of lumber for the eastern markets, making a specialty of
walnut veneer.

His business career, however, was interrupted by military service, for
in May, 1846, he enlisted in the First Regiment of Indiana Volunteers for
service under General Ta\lor in the Mexican war. He remained at the front
for a year and then returned to Logansport, resuming the operation of his
sawmill, which he successfully conducted until 1S49, when he purchased the
office and equipments of the Logansport Telegraph, at the solicitation of
the Whigs, who wished a party organ in this locality. The purchase price
was three hundred and fifty dollars, and he had a cash capital of thirty dol-
lars, which he had received from the government as extra pay as a soldier.
With that plant he established the Logansport Journal, which he conducted
as editor and proprietor until 1870, making it one of the leading newspapers
in this part of the state. He built up a large circulation and the enterprise
proved a profitable one.

Again, however, he laid aside business cares and donned the blue as a
defender of his country. In 1861 he assisted in raising and enlisting the
Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry, of which he was commissioned major on the
30th of September, 1861. On the 26th of May, 1862, he was commissioned
lieutenant-colonel, and on the Gth of August following was made colonel,
with which rank he served until the close of the war. His regiment figured
prominently in the Mississippi river campaign, being with Grant until \'icks-
burg was reached, and later did active and meritorious service in Mississippi,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana, being with General Banks on

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the Louisiana and Texas expeditions, participated in the investment of \'icks-
burg and in the Red river campaign. When the war was ended and the
country no longer needed his services Colonel Bringhurst returned to the
north, with a brilliant militar\' record, for he had led his men in man}- a gal-
lant charge and by his own bravery had inspired them to deeds of valor.

On his return the Colonel resumed the publication of the Journal, which
he continued until December, 1869, when he was appointed special agent in
the post-office department, occupying that position until 1876, when he
resigned. The following year he became a partner in the finn of Charles
Ivahlo & Company, doing an extensive business, under the firm name of the
Logansport Manufacturing Company, in the manufacture of spokes and other
wood materials for wagons and carriages. For some years he was \ice-pres-
ident of the company, and under able management the enterprise became
one of the leading industrial concerns in this section of the state. Through
the legitimate channels of trade, embracing connection with various interests,
Colonel Bringhurst accumulated a comfortable property, which now enables
him to live retired from further arduous cares.

Colonel Bringhurst has been twice married. He first wedded Mary
Spencer and after her death Elizabeth Ross. Socially he was for many years
a member of the Masonic fraternity, but is not connected with it now. He
belongs to both the subordinate lodge and encampment of the Odd Fellows
society and has served as past grand. In politics he was originally a Whig
and when the Republican part}- was formed, to prevent the further extension
of slavery, he joined its ranks and has since been one of its stalwart advo-
cates. He is a man of broad mind, of firm convictions and of honorable
purpose, and his bravery and loyalty in the time of his country's peril plainly
indicate the character of the man, for Colonel Bringhurst is one whom to
know is to honor and respect.

JOSEPH LUTZ. — The scenes and experiences of pioneer life in Indiana
were familiar to this gentleman, who is now a prominent farmer of Cass
county, living in Jackson township. He came to the state when Indians
still had their haunts in the forests of northern Indiana, and when the land
was wild and unimproved, giving little indication of the rapid changes which

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were soon to work a wonderful transformation. Mr. Lut/; was born in Lt'high
county, PennsyKania, on the "tli of January, 1S27, and spent liis earl_\- boy-
hood days on a farm there. In 1S37 his parents removed to the western
reserve of Ohio, locatin,t;- in Trumbull count}-, where our subject continued
his residence until 1S46, when he remo\'ed to Wabash county, Indiana, mak-
ing the journey b}' way of the canal. The red men still lived in the nei^'h-
borhood and the land had not yet been brought under cultivation, save in
isolated places where a few bra\-e pioneers had pushed beyond the settle-
ments of the districts further east. He leased land in Wabash county and
engaged in farming there until 1S56, when he came to Cass county, locating
in Jackson township. Here he also leased land until he came into posses-
sion of forty acres, which he secured in payment of his labor in clearing
another forty-acre tract for John T. Howard. This was in 1S5S, and in the
spring of 1859 he removed to his new farm upon which he has since made
his home. It was then a wild and unimproved tract, on which not a furrow
had been turned. There were no roads in this section of the county and Mr.
Lutz cut one through to Lincoln and Bunker Hill, thus gaining some con-
nection with the outside world. He erected a log cabin of one room and
with characteristic energy began the development of his land, which in course
■of time was made to yield to to him abundant harvests.

In 1S50 Mr. Lutz was united in marriage to Miss Almina Misner, and
found in her a faithful companion and helpmeet on the journey of life. She
not only cared for their little home, but in the early days would lead the o.xen
while her husband made the furrows with a single shovel plow. Thus by
their united efforts they overcame the dif^culties and obstacles in the path to
success and won a well deser\-ed prosperity. Mr. Lutz is now the owner of
one hundred and twenty acres of rich land, all of which is under a high state
of cultivation. He has two thousand rods of ditches on the place, and inany
excellent improvements indicate to the passer-by his thrift and enterprise.
He carries on general farming and stock-raising, and his careful management
and untiring labors have brought to him success.

To Mr. and Mrs. Lutz were born eleven children, ten of whom are
li\iug: Lorinda, Mary E., Elizabeth A., Frank J., Samuel NL , Stephen A.,
Emma, \'allay L., \\'illiam C. and Minnie. The family attend the United
Brethren church, of which Mr. Lutz is a member. In his political associa-
tions he is a Democrat, but has taken no active part in politics, save in cast-

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ing an intelligent vote for the men and the measures of his party, as he
prefers to devote his time and attention to his farming interests. Forty-two
years have passed since he came to Cass county, and his life throughout this
long period has ever been such as to gain and retain the high regard of all
whom he has met.

SYLVESTER C. BOWYER,— The farm which is still his home was the
birthplace of Sylvester Clayton Bowyer, whose natal day was February
i6, 1S49. Throughout his entire life he has resided at what is known as
Lewisburg, Cass county, and his family history is one of close connection
with the growth and development of this part of the state. His father, Lewis
Bowyer, was a native of Virginia and a farmer by occupation. In 1832 he
journeyed by team to the west and purchased canal land in Cass county, — a
wild tract entirely destitute of improvement. He erected a rude cabin for
temporary shelter, and during the first year placed about si.x acres of land
near the river under cultivation. That was the nucleus of a finely developed
and richly improved farm. He cleared his land, planted crops and in those
early days passed through the usual e.xperiences and hardships incident to
the development of a farm in a wild region. Economy, industry, personal
sacrifice and strong determination all characterized his career through that
period in which he was reclaiming the wilderness, but at length his indefati-
gable labors were crowned with success, a? his abundant harvests brought him
good financial returns.

Lewis Bowjer was very progressive, and in addition to his farming
operations laid out the town of Lewisburg, which was named in his honor,
and which for some years was a trading point of considerable importance. A
number of untenanted houses still stand in mute evidence of the busy life of
that once thriving village. Mr. Bowyer was a very useful and influential
citizen in the community, was regarded as a man of excellent judgment, and
his adxice and counsel were often sought by his neighbors and friends. He
was born June 5, 1801, and died in 1S55, his death being the occasion of
deep regret throughout the communitj'. He was married April 7, 1S25, in
Greenbrier county, ^■ irginia, to Miss Malinda Wilson, who was born May 9,
1806, and died in 1883. They were the parents of twelve children: Lewis
Franklin, who died December 5, 1S25; Mary Jane, who was born April 22,

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1S27, and died October 11, 1S34; \'irginia C, who was born December iS,
182S, and is living in ^^■alton, Indiana; Eliza Ann, who was born January 8,
1S31, and died August 3, 1S54; Andrew W., who was born November 24,
1832, and died Februar}- 15, 1833; Allen W. , who was born luly 31, 1834,
in Tipton township, Cass county; Charles G., who was born in Cass county,
August 3, 1839; John M., born April 24, 1841; Napoleon, who was born
August 7, 1843, and is now deceased; America Ann, who was born November
3, 1846, and died February i, 1850; Sylvester C, our subject; and Utah
M., who was born December 28, 185 i, and who also has passed away.

Sylvester C. Bowyer, the ele\'enth child of the family, was born and
reared on the farm which is now his home, and it is therefore endeared to
him by the associations of childhood as well as by the memories of later years.
He attended the district schools through the winter season in his early youth,
but his educational pri\'ileges were somewhat limited, as the family was
large and his labors were needed upon the home farm. Business e.xperience
and observation, however, have brought him a good practical education, and
he is to-day a well-informed man on matters of general interest. His labors
in the active affairs of life ha\'e been crowned with a fair degree of success.
In addition to the old home farm he owns one hundred acres of valuable
land lying in Tipton township, across the river, and his well. cultivated fields
3-ield to him a golden tribute in return for the care and labor he bestows
upon them.

On the 14th of March, 1871, was celebrated the marriage which united
the destinies of Mr. Bowyer and Miss Lucretia Smoot, a native of Tipton
township, Cass county, whither her parents came from Ohio. Five children
grace this union: Lula D., now deceased; and Albert Roscoe, Laura Cath-
arine, Clara M. and Arthur Russell, all at home.

Mr. Bowyer is an esteemed member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, is past grand, and also belongs to the encampment, while with the
Knights of the Maccabees he also has a membership connection. In his
political views he is a stalwart Republican, and takes a commendable inter-
est in local affairs, although he is not a politician in the sense of office
seeking. However, his fitness for office has occasioned his selection on the
part of his fellow townsmen for various public duties, and for fi\e years he
served as trustee, while for four years he was assessor. His time, h.owever,
is usually given to his farm and home interests, and he is accounted one of

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the practical and progressive agriculturists of the community. In addition
to general farming he also raises some stock of high grades, and his business
interests are so well conducted as to bring him a good income. He is strictly
honorable in all things and he owes his success to energy, industry and per-
severance. The old family residence still stands on the hill, but Mr. Bovv-
yer has erected a more commodious and modern residence down by the
river, where, surrounded by his family, he is spending his days in quiet
happiness and honest toil.

WILLIAM M. WAMPLER.��� Included among the successful and well-
known farmers of Jackson township, Cass county, Indiana, is the
gentleman whose name appears above. He was born in Preble county, Ohio,
near the town of Winchester, August i, 1843, son of John L. and Agnes
(Mack) Wampler. When he was five years old his parents left the ' ' Buck-
eye state " and came over into Indiana, locating on a farm in Wabash county.
In 1S50 they removed to Peru, where for six years the father ran a tannery.
In the spring of 1856 he returned to \\'abash county and the next four years
were spent near Manchester. Late in 1859 the family home was again
changed, this time to Jackson township, Cass county, and in 1863 they
moved upon the farm now owned and occupied by the subject of our sketch,
and which the father had traded for in 1856. On this farm he spent the rest
of his life, and died in 1896, when within eleven days of his eighty-fifth mile-
post. By his first wife he had two children, William M. and Agnes. The
latter died in infancy. By his last wife, ncc Isabella V. Stone, whom he
wedded in 1850, he had no children. She survives him.

The subject of our sketch moved with his parents to the various places
above indicated and was living in Cass county at the time the war came on.
In April, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company K, One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Indianap-
olis, going thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and on to Nashville, Tennessee.
He shared the fortunes of his command until taken sick with bilious fever,
the result of exposure, and for a time was in a hospital. Later he was with
his company when it was detached as a provost guard for General Milroy,
and participated in the battle of Manchester. At the close of the war he

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returned to Iiulianapolis, wliere he recci\ed his lionoiable (hschiirf;c, in No-
vember, 1865.

Shorth' after liis return from the army Mr. Wanipler nuuie a triji throu;,'h
the west, but returned to Indiana, and has since made his home in Jackson
township, Cass county. In the fall of iSfx^ he purchased eii^'ht)- acres from
his father, and has since then been en,s,'a^ed in af,'ricu]tural pursuits. He
now owns one hundred and sixty acres ol land, one hundred and forty of
which are under cultivation, devoted to general farming.

Mr. Wampler has been twice married. March 16, 1S69, he married
Miss Tamsey A. Hensley, who died March 15, 1875, leaviuj:; one child, Anna
A., who is now at home. September 12, 1876, he married his present wife,
whose maiden name was Miss Isabella I. Fox. Her father, Jacob Fox, was
a captain in the Civil war, with a Kentucky regiment, and saw four }-ears of
arni\- service. He died in 1874.

Politically, Mr. Wampler is a Republican. He has long been identihed
with the G. A. R., having membership in Dan Pratt Post, No. 50, in which
he served several years as chaplain. He is a member of the Baptist church
of Gaheston.

JUSTUS MINICK is one of the men who went to the front "from Cass
^ county, Indiana, in the troublous days of the Civil war and fought
bravely for the old flag, and who still lives, a representative citizen of
this county.

Justus Minick was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1S37,
and in his native place spent the first five years of his life. When he was
five years old his parents came west to Indiana and located in Tipton town-
ship, Cass count}-, which has since been his home. His educational advan-
tages were limited to the common schools of the township. When he was
eighteen he left the parental home and started out in life to take care
of himself. He was employed by the month, doing farm work, until his
marriage, after which he lived on the home farm and cultivated a portion of
the same. We find him thus situated at the time the Civil war came on.

February 19, 1S64, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Eight}' -sixth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and at once went to Indianapolis, where he was
nmstered in. ^^'ith his command he went south to Chattanooga. Among

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the engagements in which he participated were those of Buzzards' Roost,
Resaca, Kenesaw mountain, Peach Tree creek, siege of Atlanta, Lovejoy
Station, Frankhn and Nashville. At the last named place he was injured by
the falling of a stone on his foot, which resulted in his being sent to the
hospital. He was in the general hospital at Nashville two months, was then
transferred to Jeffersonville Hospital, where he remained until the close of
the war, and July 28, 1865, he was honorably discharged.

Returning home at the close of the war, Mr. Minick settled at his pres-
ent location in Tipton township, where he has forty acres of land and a com-
fortable home.

Mr. Minick married Miss Susan Betchdal, and the fruits of their union
are the following named children: Sarah, Martin, Ella, Nelson and Mathias.

In his political views Mr. Minick harmonizes with the Democratic party.
His religion is that preached and practiced by the Christian church, of which
he is a consistent member.

JUDGE HENRY A. BROUSE.— That Virginia is the mother of presi-
^ dents was a true saying at the time it originated, but it did not remain
true long. For many years now, it has been just as true that Ohio is
the mother of American statesmanship and legal talent. As an example
of honor to this state we cite the subject of this sketch. It was in Stark
county, that state, January 10, 1820, that Judge Brouse was born. His
father, John Brouse, a native of Virginia, was a potter by trade, and was the
first to follow that vocation in Canton, Ohio, establishing himself there in
that calling as early as the year 1812. While a resident of that place he
was a stockholder and director in the old Canton Bank. After living in Can-
ton for many years he removed to Montgomery county, same state, and
engaged in agricultural pursuits ten miles west of Dayton, where he passed
the remainder of his life, reaching more than three-score and ten years. In
his religious belief he was a Presbyterian. His wife, whose name before
marriage was Mary Adams, was a native of Maryland, and survived him a
number of years, dying at the age of eighty-si.x, a Lutheran in her religious
sympathies. They had six sons and five daughters.

A brother of John Brouse, William by name, was a colonel in the war
of 18 12. The paternal grandfather of Judge Brouse, named Michael, was a

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native of Virginia, of German descent, a farmer by vocation and a Revolu-
tionary soldier. He attained a remarkable age, living to be more than one
hundred years old. John Adams, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was
a native of one of the eastern states and of English ancestry. He also par-
ticipated in the struggle for American independence.

Judge Brouse, who is the subject proper gf this brief biographical outline,
was reared in the counties of Stark and Montgomery, Ohio, receiving his
school education partly in those counties and partly in O.xford University,
Ohio. Ne.xt he began the study of law, in Dayton, and in due time was
admitted to the bar, in ^^'a3•ne county, Indiana, in 1S46. For the first si.\
years after this event he practiced his chosen profession in Centerville, this
state, and in 1S52 came to Howard county, locating about a mile and a
quarter south of the present site of Kokomo, tiiere being no town here at
that time. Soon a village was started here, however, and in 1859 Judge
Brouse mo\'ed into it, and he has e\er since been a resident of Kokomo. On
moving into the place he purchased a new home and began the practice of
law, and after proceeding alone for a time he admitted as a partner Richard
Markland, from Cincinnati, and after the termination of this relation the
Judge had for his partner in practice Mr. Rawson Vale. The firms of Brouse
& Markland and Brouse & Vale stood highest in this section of the state.

In 1866 our subject was appointed judge of a new circuit, and in that
official position served for a number of years. Many important cases
came up before him, among them a number of trials for murder. One
was the case of a man named White, in Madison county, wherein he was
accused of killing a Mr. Copies, and he was convicted and executed upon
the gallows, in Madison county. In another case a Dr. Cole was accused
of murder before Judge Brouse, in Tipton county, but was cleared, having
for his attorne>-s United States Senator Voorhees and other able lawyers.
Both these cases were very exciting and involved a prolonged and severe
investigation.

Judge Brouse confined himself exclusively to law until about the year
1886, when he retired from its practice. As a member of the Howard
county bar he is the oldest in the county, as well as one of the oldest resi-
dents here. His dwelling is a fine brick structure at i 58 Sycamore street.
Years ago he brought into cultivation a good farm, two hundred acres, a
short distance south of town, which he afterward sold. He owns, however,

114 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

several valuable pieces of property in Kokomo, consisting of both residences
and business houses.

In his political principles the Judge is a Republican, and in his 3'ounger
days took an active part in politics, speaking upon the rostrum and aiding
in organization. Fraternally, he is a member of Lodge No. 93, A. F. & A.
M., and of the Chapter, R. A. M.

In the spring of 1844 the Judge was united in matrimony with Miss
Elizabeth Leopold, daughter of John and Mary (Reese) Leopold. The
names of the three sons and five daughters in the family of the Judge are
Cerilla, Laura, Emma, Lucy, Dora, William, Charles and Macy. All are
living except Dora and Charles, each of whom died at the age of seventeen
years. Cerilla married Charles Becktel, and they live in Chicago; they have
one child, named Allie. Laura became the wife of Albert Southard, lives
also in Chicago and has one son, by name Daniel. Emma is now Mrs.
Daniel Russell, in Chicago, and has one son, also named Daniel. Lucy
became the wife of W'alter Davis, lives in Kokomo and has one child, a
daughter named Agnes. William married Miss Nellie Harvey. William is
clerking in the clothing store of Mr. Walter Davis, his brother-in-law, in
Kokomo; and Macy is an attorney at law in Salt Lake City, Utah, yet
unmarried. Mrs. Brouse died in February, 1896, at the age of seventy
years, a sincere member of Grace church, Methodist Episcopal, of which
religious body the Judge also is a member.

In conclusion we feel justified in saying that Judge Brouse as a lawyer
was always honorable and high-minded, as a judge was strictly and consci-
entiously impartial, and in both capacities was thorough and punctilious; as
a citizen he has always been considered one of the most valuable in the
community as far as he is known; and as the head of a family, exemplary.
He is a well-wisher to all public movements designed for the general good.

PROFESSOR SHERIDAN COX.— In one of the most exacting of all the
learned professions Professor Cox has attained enviable distinction, being
known as one of the most able and successful educators of Indiana. He is
now engaged in teaching the various college preparatory studies, including
German, French and bookkeeping, in Kokomo, and a liberal patronage is
the reward of his well directed and capable efforts.

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The Professor was born in Harrison county, Ohio, near Cadiz, Decem-
ber 20, 1833, 3'id is a son of Elijah and Christina (Sheplerl Cox, the former
a native of Maryland, the latter of the Buckeye state. The paternal grand-
father of our subject was likewise born in Maryland and was of English
descent. At an early day he emigrated to Ohio and followed farming in Har-
rison county, where his death occurred at an advanced age. He reared a
large family. Elijah Cox also was an agriculturist and followed that calling
in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he owned about one thousand acres of
land and a large sheep range. He did an extensive business in raising sheep
and selling wool, and was quite successful in his undertakings. He also held
a number of township offices, including that of justice of the peace, in which
capacity he served for a number of years. He died in 1875, at the age of
seventy-five years, and his wife passed away several years previously. They
were the parents of four sons and four daughters, and four of the family are
now living: Malinda, widow of John Luke, of Coschocton count}', Ohio;
Sheridan; Jackson, of Coshocton county; and Jonathan, of Mound, Ohio.

Professor Cox, of this re\iew, was reared on his father's farm, in Coshoc-
ton county, remaining at home until eighteen years of age. His preliminary
education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by a course in
the McNeelv Normal School, at Hopedale, and subsequently he attended the
Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he was graduated in 1S62,
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The same institution conferred upon
him the degree of Master of Arts. Prior to his graduation he had engaged
in teaching, and after that event he taught for one year in Marshall College,
of Marshall, Illinois. He then returned to Ohio and was superintendent of
the city schools of Roscoe and Canal Dover. On leaving his native state
once more, he took up his residence in Winchester, Indiana, where he taught
for one year, after which he went to Logansport and organized the schools of
that city, becoming superintendent, in which capacity he acceptably and faith-
fully served for seven years. In 1873 he came to Kokomo, organized the
schools of this city and was superintendent for twenty years. Since that
time he has conducted a private school, preparing students for college work.
He is one of the most successful and able educators the state has known.
He is a man of scholarly tastes and studious habits, and his knowledge is
broad and comprehensive. Moreo\er he has the somewhat rare faculty of
imparting concisely, clearly and readily to others the knowledge he has

IIG BIOGRAPHICAL AJfD GE.WEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

acquired, and is an excellent disciplinarian, always winning the respect and
confidence of his students.

Professor Cox was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Goodbarne, daughter
of William and Esther (Towse) Goodbarne, of New Philadelphia, Ohio. They
hold membership in the Grace Methodist Episcopal church, and Professor
Cox is a prominent Mason, belonging to Howard Lodge, No. 93, A. F. &
A. M. ; Kokomo Chapter, No. 104, R. A. M. ; Kokomo Council, No. 60, R. &
S. M., and Kokomo Commandery, No. 36, K. T. He and his wife are also
members of the Order of the Eastern Star. In the line of his professional
labors Professor Cox also has several society relations. He belongs to the
Indiana State Teachers' Association, to the Northern Indiana Teachers' Asso-
ciation and the National Educational Association. In his political views he
is a Republican, and he is well informed on the issues of the day. He is a
proficient, successful and popular teacher, and in his present school is ably
assisted by his wife, who also has had a number of years' experience in the
work. They have reared two children, one of whom, the Professor's nephew.
Dr. Cox, is now a practicing physician of Kokomo. The Professor is a
prominent and influential citizen, a leader in public thought and action. He
is a man of high intellectuality, broad human sympathies and tolerance and
imbued with fine sensibilities and clearly defined principles. Honor and
integrity are synonymous with his name, and he enjoys the respect, confi-
dence and regard of the community.

A BID J. SHARTS. — Among the well known farmers of Cass county is Abid
J. Sharts, who was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 24th of October,
1845. He came to this locality when four years of age, and is one of the
representative citizens of the community. His parents were George P. and
Frances (Bear) Sharts, both natives of Maryland, born in the vicinity of
Hagerstown. From there they removed to Preble county, Ohio, locating
near Germantown, where the father operated a gristmill until 1S48, when he
came to Cass county, Indiana. The following year he located in Tipton
township on the farm now owned by N. B. Richinson. His first home was
a log cabin which he occupied for a few years, when the primitive dwelling
was replaced by one of more modern construction. He cleared and improved

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his land and made his home on that farm nntil his lieath, which occurred in
1853, at the age of tifty-two years. His wife survived him until 1875, and
passed away at the age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of
eleven children, namely: Mary M.; Rose Ann, decea'^ed; Elizabeth; Cath-
arine; Abraham, deceased; John, who also has passed away; Eli;;a J. ; George
P.; William O. ; Abid J.; and Caroline.

Spending his early boyhood days on his father'.-, farm in Tipton town-
ship, Cass county, Mr. Sharts acquired his education in a log school-house,
which is still standin;.; but is not in use at the pre.sent time. There he
acquired a fair knowledge of the common English branches of learning and
at the age of fifteen he started out in life for himself, assuming the manage-
ment of the home farm, which he operated until 1879. He then removed to
the farm he now occupies and has since given his attention to its care and
cultivation. Here he owns one hundred and fifty-five acres of valuable land,
all under a high state of cultivation and improved with the accessories and
conveniences of the model farm of the nineteenth century. The fields are
well tilled, fences and buildings kept in good repair, and everything about
the place is neat and thrifty in appearance.

In 1867 Mr. Sharts married Miss Ellen Alice Wilson, and they are now
parents of si.\ children: Harry, deceased; Benjamin F. , exchange teller of
the State Bank of Logansport; Elmer, at home; Walter deceased; Blanche
and Charlev", who are still at their parental nome.

Mr. Sharts takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the
community, and faithfully performs every duty of citizenship. During the
war of the Rebellion he enlisted as a private of Company F, One Hundred
and Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, in June, 1863, and was mustered in at Indian-
apolis. From there he went with his command to La Fayette, Indiana, and
later to Detroit, Michigan, where he was in camp until sent to Cleveland,
Ohio. Later he was transferred to Camp Nelson, Kentucky. He partici-
pated in the battle of Knoxville, and most of the time was under the com-
mand of General Burnside, doing guard duty at Cumberland Gap, Greenville
and Tazewell, Tennessee. He served until March, 1864, when he was mus-
tered out, at La Fayette, Indiana. Today he is as true and faithful to his
country's interests as when he "donned the blue " in her defense, and gives
his loyal support to every measure which he believes will promote the public
good.

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PSQUIRE JAMES W. DeHAVEN, justice of the peace, of Kokomo, has
*— ' long been a resident of Howard county, and is well known as an esti-
mable citizen. He was born in Greene county, Ohio, March 21. 1833, a son
of John and Athaliah (DeHaven) DeHaven. His parents were natives of
Frederick county, Virginia, and had seven children, of whom three are still
living, — Henry F., of Peru, Indiana; James W., our subject; and Harriet,
widow of Ira Collier. Mr. John DeHaven, a miller by trade, moved to
Greene county, Ohio, by wagon over the Alleghany mountains before the
day of railroads. He followed his vocation as a manufacturer of flour at his
new home for many years, and died at the comparatively early age of forty-
one years, in the year 1851. His wife, however, lived to reach the age of
eighty-nine j-ears, closing her life at Springfield, Ohio. She was an exem-
plary member of the Methodist church in her later years, and was a noble
woman.

William DeHaven, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Vir-
ginia and of French descent, who moved to Ohio at the same time that his
son John made his emigration to that state, and he finally died, in Greene
county, about 1863, well advanced in life. In his family were five sons and
several daughters. The maternal grandfather of Esquire DeHaven also was
named John DeHaven. He, too, was a native of the Old Dominion, and
participated as a soldier in the war of 18 r2 with Great Britain. His father
was a manufacturer of guns and ammunition during our Revolutionary war
and held a responsible position at or near Philadelphia under the Colonial
government. John DeHaven died in Virginia, in old age, after having been
the parents of a large number of children.

Mr. DeHaven, whose name honors the introduction of this brief bio-
graphical record, was reared to manhood in his native county, learning the
trade of miller. His schooling was of the usual character. His patriotism
was demonstrated early in our late war, as on October 19, 1861, he enlisted
in Company C, Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until
August, 1862, being always found faithful to his post of duty. A nervous
affection, however, interfered with his desire to continue in the service, and
he returned home, partially paralyzed.

In 1863 he emigrated to Indiana, settling in Howard county and resum-
ing his vocation as a miller at Dorman's mill, as lessee and employer, and
contmued the management of the institution for a period of eight 3'ears; and

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for many years afterward he had the maiiaf^ement of other millS" -at (iordon,
Fairfield, Jerome, and West Libert)-, and even in DeWitt county, IHinois.
In the year 1880, being elected sheriff of Howard county, he abandoned the
business of milling and devoted his time and energies to the duties of his
office. This responsible public position he tilled for the full term of two
years, with a fidelit}' that was marked, and he continued to be connected
with the otiice as bailiff for ten jears longer. In 1892 he was appointed
justice of the peace, an office for which he is peculiarly fitted and which he
still holds.

The 17th of April, 1S63, was the day he united his fortunes in marriage
with those of Miss Mary V. Grouse, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth
(Milburn) Grouse, a noble woman who was compelled to succumb to the fate-
ful grasp of death on the uth of July, i88o. She was a pious and intelli-
gent member of the Methodist church. By the marriage just mentioned
there w-ere two sons and two daughters: Gharles A., an attorney in Kokomo:
Ada, deceased; Nora, now the wife of T. W. Richardson and has one child;
and John, of Kokomo. On the ist of October, 1SS4, Mr. DeHaven was united
in marriage with Mrs. Evaline Ray, widow of Milton Kay and daughter
of Jacob Brunk and Mary (Robey) Brunk. Esquire DeHaven and his
wife are both consistent and honored members of the Methodist church. In
other social relations, he also is an appreciative member of the Masonic order
and of Thomas J. Harrison Post, No. 30, G. A. R. In his political principles
he coincides with the Republican party. His home is at No. 267 South Main
street, Kokomo.

ANDREW WILSON. — This gentleman was numbered among the pioneers
of Cass county who laid the broad and deep foundations of the present
prosperity and advanced position of the county. Coming here at a very early
day he took his part in subduing the wild land and converting it to purposes of
civilization, and through more than half a century he was numbered among
the leading and substantial farmers of the community.

Mr. Wilson was born in Virginia, on the 7th of April, 1812, and when
si.x months old was taken by his parents to Greenbrier county, that state,
where he was reared to manhood. Determining to seek a home and for-
tune in the then wild western district, he came to Cass county, Indiana,

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about 1829, making the journey by team, for it was before the era of rail-
road travel. Purchasing a farm near Waverly he continued the cultivation
of that land until 1840, when he secured a government claim, developing
therefrom the fine farm upon which his widow now resides. He bought the
tract of two hundred and ten acres of land in Tipton township for a dollar
and a quarter per acre and at once began its development, for it was covered
with timber and was wholly unimproved. The effort required in clearing a farm
is long and laborious. Trees were cut down, stumps grubbed up, the land
plowed, the seed planted, and in due season abundant harvests were gathered,
but all this was the work of years, and unremittingly Mr. Wilson worked on
until he had transformed his wild land into a rich and valuable farm.

Mr. Wilson's parents lived with him during the first few years of his res-
idence upon this place, for at the time of his removal thereto he was not
married. It was on the loth of November, 1842, that he was joined in wed-
lock to Miss Eleanor D. Tucker, who was born in Clark county, Ohio, on
the 17th of December, 1824, a daughter of James and Charlotte Tucker.
Her father was a native of the Buckeye state and her mother was born in
Augusta county, Virginia, and came to Cass county about 1829, having for a
year previous resided near La Fayette, Indiana. They located in Clay town-
ship, Cass county, where the father purchased a tract of wild land from
which he developed his homestead farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were
born twelve children, eleven of whom reached years of maturity and were
married. They are William H., born December 4, 1843; Harry G., born in
1845; Marcallus T., born in 1847; Alice, born December 26, 1848; Cara,
born May 4, 185 i; Linnie J., born August 8, 1853; Mary L. , born June 22,
1855; James A., who was born October 5, 1857, and died in infancy; Jennie,
born February 24, 1859; Charles B., born July 26, 1861; Martha E., born
November i, 1863; and Laura, born October 12, 1868.

On locating on his farm Mr. Wilson built a little log cabin, which was
afterward replaced by a commodious and substantial log house near the site
of the present Wilson residence. The land was covered with a heavy
growth of walnut, beech and elm trees, and soon the sound of the woodman's
ax awakened the echoes of the forest as one by one the trees fell beneath
his sturdy strokes. When the land was left free for cultivation he plowed
and planted it, and soon golden harvests rewarded him for his indefatigable
labors. He continued his farming operations until his death and became

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the owner of a very desirable property of one Inindrcd and seventy-two
acres. He passed away December 22, 1892, and liis remains were interrc(i
in the Anoka cemeter\-. He was a member of the United Brethren church,
and in his political affiliations was a Republican. He never slighted any
duty of public or private life, and his career is that of an honorable, upri.i;ht
man, whose record won him the respect and esteem of many friends. His
widow still resides on the old homestead, whither she went as a bride, having
lived there for fifty-six years. She is widely known throughout the com-
munity and held in the highest regard by all with whom she has been brought
in contact.

EDWARD S. SHAUMAN.— At the head of Kokomo's fire department,
filling the responsible position of chief, is Edward S. Shauman, a well-
known citizen, who is numbered among Indiana's native sons. He was born
in Peru, this state, on the Sth of July, 1856, and on the paternal side is of
German descent. His grandfather, John P. Shauman, was a native of Mary-
land, and at one time was the owner of the land upon which the battle of
Antietam was fought. Leaving the state of his nativity he removed to Penn-
sylvania and in an early day went to Peru, Indiana, where he engaged in
farming until his death, which occurred in 1864, at the age of seventy-two
years. He had a familj- of ten children, one of whom, John Shauman, was
the father of our subject. He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
about 1S48 became a resident of Peru, Indiana, where he carried on agri-
cultural pursuits for many years. In 1864 he joined the Union army and
defended the old flag until the close of the war. Later he engaged in team-
ing, and in 1875 removed from Peru to Stanton, Michigan, whare he has
since engaged in the news business. He and his wife belong to the Method-
ist church. Mrs. Shauman bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Worley, and
is a native of Carlisle. Pennsylvania. They became the parents of nine chil-
dren, si.\ of whom are now living, namely: Adelia, Ozro, Edward S. , Charles
W., Omer and May. The last named is the wife of Frank Crick.

Edward Shauman was reared in the city of his nativity, acquired his
education in its public schools, and at the age of fifteen began learning the
blacksmith's trade, which he followed for twenty years. In 1881 became to
Kokomo and conducted a smithy until 1885, when he went to Henderson,

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Kentuck}', where he spent three years. On the expiration of that period he
returned to his native state, making his home in Evansville for four 3'ears,
after which he again located in Kokomo, where he has resided continuously
since. In 1882 he became a volunteer of the fire department, and was cap-
tain of a hose company at the time of his removal to Kokomo. After his
return he was made chief, May 3, 1893, the department having, in 1891,
been organized as a pay department. For five years, by election of the city
council, he has been continued in that position, the duties of which he dis-
charges in a most satisfactory and acceptable manner. He is cool in times
of danger, and his sound judgment and discretion make him a valuable chief.
On the 6th of October, 1880, Mr. Shauman was united in marriage to
Miss Rebecca Smith, daughter of Francis M. and Nancy (Godfrey) Smith.
They became the parents of two sons and four daughters: Carrie, Frederick,
Addie, Edward, Hazel and Nellie. Carrie died in 1896, at the age of sixteen
years, and Nellie died in infancy. The others are still with their parents.
Mr. Shauman is a member of the Odd Fellows' society, and in politics is a
Republican, keeping well informed on the issues of the day and giving an
intelligent support to the party of his choice. The headquarters of the fire
department are in the rear of the city building, and there is a force of six men
who receive pay. All sleep at the headquarters in order to answer a sum-
mons at any time, and the department is characterized by the utmost neat-
ness and system. An engine, hook and ladder and hose cart constitute the
equipments for fighting the fiery elements, and these are manipulated in a
most commendable manner by the members of the fire department, under
the direction of their worthy chief.

"T^ANIEL MILLER. — A native son of the Keystone state, Daniel Miller
■^-^ was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1831, and spent his boy-
hood days on a farm there. His educational privileges were somewhat
meager, owing to the fact that at the early age of ten years he started out to
earn his own livelihood and in consequence had no time to attend school.
For five years he received no compensation for his services save his board
and clothes. At the age of sixteen he received a mowing scj-the and five
dollars in money for a year's work, in addition to his board and clothes. He

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continued his labor as a farm hand until attainin.t;- his inaj(jrity, when he
removed to Ohio and worked at the carpenter's trade for one year. On the
expiration of that period he returned to Pennsylvania, where he followed
carpentering for five years, after which he married and tiirmnl his attention
to farming. He was thus connected with the agricultural interests of his
native state until 1S65, when he again went to Ohio, where he carried on
farming until 1SS4, and at the same time operated a saw and grist mill.
Through the past fourteen years he has resided in Tipton township, Cass
county, Indiana. On his arrival here he purchased a farm of two hundred
and fifty acres, upon which he made his home until 1896, when he removed
to his present farm, comprising one hundred and forty acres of rich and
arable land.

Mr. Miller has three children, — Levi, Annie and Lizzie, — the last named
now the wife of James Wilson, of Tipton. His attention has ever been
largely given to the interests of his family and his business, yet he never
withholds his support from any enterprise or movement which he believes
will prove, of public good. He has worthily won the proud American title of
"self-made man," for all that he has acquired is due to his own efforts and
energy. He possessed resolute purpose, and b}- earnest labor and unfalter-
ing determination he has o\-ercome the obstacles in his path and worked his
way upward to success. His example may well serve to encourage others,
who, like himself, have to begin life empty-handed. He has not only won
a comfortable competence but also shares in the high regard of his fellow
citizens, and justly merits the esteem which is so freely accorded him.

pRANK N. STRATTOX, of the firm of Herron & Stratton. attorneys at
■^ law, with offices in the Ruddell building, Kokomo, Indiana, is one of the
promising young lawyers of this place and is at this writing (September, i 89S)
a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney on the Republican ticket.
From a recent reference to him in one of the local papers, we clip the follow-
ing: "Mr. Stratton has the right sort of stuff in him for this office. With-
out means, and solely by his own efforts, he has fought his way from the saw-
mill, the clearing and the farm to the front rank at oar bar. An untiring
student, he has so educated himself by the 'midnight oil.' that there is per-

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haps no one in the county better versed in the wide field of literature, and
especially in the domain of history, sacred and profane, and upon questions
of law his opinion is respected by the oldest members of our bar. His expe-
rience with men and affairs has been very wide and varied. He has been
engaj^ed in many cases, criminal and civil, some of them of local celebrity."

Mr. Stratton was born in Madison, Indiana, September 18, i860, and is
a son of Francis J. and Hester A. (Donnellan) Stratton, the former a native
of New York and the latter of Ohio. Of their family of five children, four
sons and one daughter, Frank N. is the only one now living. Francis J.
Stratton was for some years in the United States secret service, until he was
severely wounded, and then practiced medicine in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and
for a time was surgeon in the penitentiary. He had formerly practiced in
Preble county, Ohio, having moved to Ohio from New York, and it was in
Preble county that he was married. On account of poor health, having been
wounded through the lungs, he was obliged to resign his. position as surgeon
in the penitentiary, and through Secretary of State William H. Seward he
received a good position in the patent office at Washington, D. C. _ He died
there in 1863. In the early part of the Civil war he offered his services to
the Union but because of his wound was unable to pass muster and was not
accepted. Under these circumstances he did the best he could; he was
active in relieving sickness and suffering among the soldiers in and about
Washington. While in the detective business he succeeded in putting a stop
to a large amount of work done by the Stephen \\'ing gang of counterfeiters,
on the St. Lawrence river, in Canada, capturing the entire gang. The
mother of our subject, after remaining a widow for some time, became the
wife of Samuel E. Strattan, who at the time uf their marriage was county
commissioner of Howard county. By him she had one child, who died in
infancy. She died September 18, 1894, at the age of fifty-eight years.

Referring to the grandparents of Frank N. Stratton, we find that his
grandfather Stratton was a native of Vermont, a farmer by occupation, and
for many years a resident of New York state, where he died. He was a
strict Covenanter. His family was composed of three children. The
maternal grandfather of our subject was Nelson Donnellan. He was born
in Virginia, the son of an aristocratic planter of the " Old Dominion," who
was a native of Ireland. Being refused by his father the permission to
marry the girl he loved, he left home and, though without money, married

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the girl and took her with him to the wiids of Ohio, their settlement being
in Preble county, where he practiced medicine and accumulated considerable
property. He afterward mo\cd to Indianapolis and subsequently to Ander-
son, and at the latter place died near tlie age of eighty years. He joined
General Lew \\'allace in the defence of Cincinnati during the war of the
Rebellion, belonging to the organization known as the " Squirrel Hunters."
The Straitens were intimate with the Seward and Lincoln families.

Coming now to the immediate subject of this review. Frank N. Stratton,
we record that when he was si.x years old he was brought by his mother and
stepfather to Howard county, and in Monroe township, this county, he grew
to manhood, spending his youthful days in working on a farm and in a
sawmill. He attended school for a short time at New London and later
spent six months in a business college. In 1892 he began the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar in August, 1894, and began the practice of his
profession in Kokomo, having formed a partnership with Joseph C. Herron,
under the firm name of Herron & Stratton.

Mr. Stratton and his family reside at No. 222 Fort Wayne avenue,
Kokomo. He was married, March 8, 1S88, to Miss Otilie Shellsmith, daugh-
ter of Ferdinand and Kate Shellsmith, and they have three sons, Frank,
Frederick and Ferdinand. Mrs. Stratton at the time of her marriage was a
teacher in the public schools of Indianapolis. Her father was a musician by
profession, and the whole family are musically inclined.

Fraternally, Mr. Stratton is identified with the Improved Order of Red
Men.

HORATIO F, FIELDS, whose pleasant home and line farm are located
on the road leading from Logansport to Peru, in Tipton township, Cass
county, Indiana, is a native Hoosier.

Mr. Fields was born near Peru, in Miami county, Indiana, January 22,
1857, eldest of the three children of William D. Fields by his third wife,
whose maiden name was Martha Ryan. Mr. P^ields has a brother, Adrian
Fields, who is a resident of Logansport and employed as engineer on the
Pan Handle railroad. When Mr. Fields was three years old his father
removed to Champaign county, in the state of Ohio, where he lived for five
years. Returning to Indiana at the end of that time, he settled in Lewis-

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burg. Here young Horatio F. passed from boyhood to man's estate. At the
early age of thirteen he became self-supporting. For ten years he was
employed by the month on farms, being thus occupied up to the time of his
marriage. Renting the farm he now owns and occupies, he settled on it
immediately after his marriage, and for two years resided here, after which
he rented his father-in-law's farm in Tipton township, which he cultivated
one year. Following this he cultivated another farm three years and still
another twelve years, at the end of which time he took up his abode at his
present home, that being in 1896. This last place, comprising one hundred
and sixty acres, he purchased in 1893, is utilized for general farming and
stock-raising, is well improved and under a high state of cultivation, and is
one of the most desirable farms in this locality.

Mr. Fields was married in 1878 to Miss Mary C. Smith. Having no
children of their own, they adopted a little girl, Dora May, daughter of Mrs.
Fields' brother, George Smith, whom they are rearing as their own.

Mr. Fields has always affiliated with the Democratic party. He is a
worthy member of the Masonic order, fraternizing with New Waverly Lodge,
No. 484, F. & A. M.

T YCURGUS EMMETT is an offspring of two noted families of marble
-^ and granite workers, the Emmetts and the Powells — the former hailing
from Yorkshire, England, and the latter being scattered through the states
of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and North
Carolina.

His father, William Emmett, one of several brothers noted for their con-
summate skill with mallet and chisel, spent a large portion of his earlier life
in the construction of the noted Liverpool docks, the massiveness and per-
manent character of which are not surpassed by even the pyramids of Egypt.
Later he came to America, and after pursuing his vocation for some time in
Seneca Falls, New York, he went to Galveston, Te.xas, where he embarked
in the marble and tombstone business, on a large scale, becoming very pros-
perous, and also famous for the excellence and beauty of his workmanship
and designing.

The Civil war came as a crushing blow to his high aspirations and dreams
of the future, and he finally found his way to the north land, to re-enter the

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battle for fame and fortune. After serving several of the principal niarhle
dealers in Indiana and states adjoining, he settled in Lo^ansji )rt, and on
Januarj' i, 1864, was married to the mother of I^N'curgus, Miss Mary M.
Powell, daughter of Lycurgus and Hannah (Foster) Powell. During his
business career in Logansport he executed, from his own designing, such cel-
ebrated pieces of work as the unrivaled monument to the memory of the
gallant Captain Palmer Dunn, which consisted of an Italian marble shaft,
fluted and molded, upon which hung in has relief a counterpart of the sword
carried by this gallant officer when he was killed at Chickamauga; the figures
on the clasp, the rings and str-,ips, even the stitches in the leather, were so
plainly reproduced in the marble that people looked upon it as one of the
proudest achievements of art. It would be impossible to enumerate here all
of the celebrated pieces of carving and designing executed by this wonderful
man, but his last and greatest work was a design and drawing for a monu-
ment to the memor\- of our martyr president, Abraham Lincoln, which was
awarded the prize, as the best and most appropriate, but on account of a
lack of funds they were obliged to adopt a cheaper monument.

Lycurgus Powell, the grandfather of our subject, was a pioneer in the
tombstone business in Indiana, and all his sons, six in number, worked more
or less at this calling, some of them arriving at great proficiency before
engaging in other lines of enterprise. What wonder then that young Lnnnett
should spring into prominence as a man well fitted to carry forward the work
so well begun by his efficient ancestors, — a work for which he was well fitted
both by birth and education.' for he spent his babyhood playing around the
benches of his father's fine workmen and later on received such advice,
instruction, and example as to equip him for the honorable position he
now holds.

His father despised a " botch" workman and would not tolerate him for
a moment; he despised cheap-John work of any sort, and he was as scrupu-
lous regarding the solidity of his foundations as he was of the beauty and
symmetry of the noble shaft which he designed and executed. Lycurgus
was a chip of the old block, and though beginning his career as a business
man in the face of the most discouraging circumstances, having become an
orphan early in life and having lost a limb in a railroad accident, he forged
his way to the front, and encouraged by the example of his father, the
prayers of his sainted mother, and the help and assistance of a good, true

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Tvife, he has achieved a success equaled by few young men of this busy age.
He is building monuments of a high order, embodying beauty,- art and per-
manency, he is conducting an honest, straightforward business, relying only
on the merit of his product and the integrity of his intentions for success.
He believes in good honest work, at a fair living price, and upon this founda-
tion he has built up a business that has no equal in its line in this part of the
country.

JOHN A. MORRISON, county treasurer, K.okoino. --It is not worth while
here to expatiate in cant phraseology upon the well known reputation of
'Quakers for honesty, integrity and reliability; but we maybe justified instat-
ing that the mental and moral constitution of the honorable gentleman who
is chosen as the subject of this brief sketch is such as to account for his suc-
cess in business and his reputation for fidelity in public office. Despite all
his efforts to prevent his left hand from knowing what his right hand doeth,
the public recognize in him a merit that should have its reward, and they
would elevate him to a still higher position had they the opportunity. All
his life has been an open record, right here in Howard county, wherein he
was born.

His parents-were Daniel and Margaret (Haslet) Morrison, natives of
Ohio, who had five children, namely: Mary E., who is now the wife of W.
J. Dake, of Preston, Kansas; Hannah J., now Mrs. Mulford Horseman, of
Kokomo; William A., a resident of this county; John A., the subject of this
sketch; and Sadie, the wife of William Weddell, of Russiaville, Indiana. Mr.
Daniel Morrison, a farmer, emigrated to Indiana in pioneer times, locating
upon a tract of land in the western part of Howard county, and he finally
■died there, near New London, in 1879, aged fifty-three years. His wife sur-
vived him until 1893, when, at the age of seventy-two years, she was called
to her eternal rest. They were pious and exemplary members of the church
of the United Brethren in Christ. Mr. Morrison proved his loyalty and
heroism by serving as a private soldier in the great war of the Rebellion, in
which he received a wound. William Morrison, the grandfather of our sub-
ject, was a native of Pennsylvania and of Scotch-Irish descent, had a large
number of children, came to Howard county in an early day, and lived to a
■ great age. Mr. Morrison's grandfather on his mother's side married Miss

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Hamilton, who was a direct desccmlant of the celebrated statesman, Alex-
ander Hamilton, and died in midiile life.

Mr. John A. Morrison was born lune lo, 1857, and reared to farm life
at his native place, attending dnrinj:,' the winter seasons the district schools
and the high school at New London. At the age of eighteen years he began
learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed for several years. Being a
scholar, a good disciplinarian and apt to teach, he taught school for twenty
winter seasons. This statement brings the account in this brief outline up to
the year 1S96, when Mr. Morrison was elected county treasurer, which office
he now fills, with satisfaction to all concerned, having been renominated in
March, 1898, for a second term. He is a Republican in his political views,
a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias (uniform
rank) fraternities, and the Improved Order of Red Men, Junior Order of
American Mechanics, Sons of Veterans, Elks, Daughters of Rebekah and the
Ladies' Aid Society.

The 13th day of July, 1882, is the date of his marriage to Miss Flora A.
Young, daughter of Oliver and Catharine (P}'le) Young, and they have two
children, named Nida H. and Audra M.

Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are members of the Society of Friends, unas-
suming but strictly consistent in their Christian character. Mrs. Morrison is
a noble woman and is a member of the order of Daughters of Ivebekah.

ROBERT HUMPHREYS. — Among the enterprising, progressive men
whose business interests have made Logansport one of the thriving cen-
ters of commerce in Indiana is Robert Humphreys, who is numbered among
the native sons of the Keystone state. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsyl-
vania, on the 8th of August, 1S57, and is a son of John C. and Nancy C.
(Ross) Humphreys. His father was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in
1 83 1, and is a son of Robert and Margaret J. (McCord) Humphreys, both of
whom were natives of Ireland. The grandfather engaged in the grocery
business for many years near Pittsburg, and in later life, retiring from busi-
ness, removed to \'enus, \\'ashington county, Pennsylvania, where his death
•occurred. The father was through a long period connected with the buHding
interests of Pittsburg, and since 1893 has resided in Logansport. His wife

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was born in Allegheny and was of Scotch-Irish descent. By her marriage
she became the mother of six daughters and four sons.

Robert Humphreys, the second of this family, was reared in Pittsburg
and attended the public schools of that city until eleven years of age, when
he entered upon his business career. Seven years passed in which he was
employed at various pursuits that would yield him a living, and thus depend-
ent upon his own resources he developed habits of self-reliance, industry and
enterprise which have brought to him the success which crowns his active
career. At the age of eighteen he entered the office of the Christian Advo-
cate, at Pittsburg, and learned the printer's trade, which was the beginning
of what has proven a successful business career.

In September, 1879, Mr. Humphreys came to Logansport and accepted
the position of salesman in the hardware store of I. N. Crawford, with
whom he remained until 1882, when he resumed his trade in the office of
the Logansport Journal. In May, 1885, he was elected to the position of
city clerk of Logansport, on the Republican ticket, and filled that office for
two years. After the expiration of his term he became a member of the
present well-known firm of Wilson, Humphreys & Company, which was
organized in August, 1887, and is to-day doing an extensive business in print-
ing and binding, the establishment being one of the largest concerns of
the kind in Indiana. The volume of their trade is an indication of good
workmanship, and the house sustains a reputation for honorable dealing
that is indeed enviable. From the beginning Mr. Humphreys has had prin-
cipal charge of the printing and binding departments, and his own practical
experience and thorough knowledge of the business have contributed materi-
ally to the gratifying success which the firm enjoys. Mr. Humphreys is also
treasurer of the Home Music Company.

In 1883 he was united in marriage to Annie, daughter of John and Isa-
belle Donaldson, of Logansport, and they have had three children: Robert
J., who died in infancy; William R., born January 24, 1886; and Helen A.,
born August 27, 1889.

/^^ EORGE P. WOOD, secretary of the Kokomo Paper Company and the
^^ Kokomo Wood Pulp Company, was born at Piqua, Ohio, March 3, 1845.
His father, Charles L. Wood, was a native of Hollis, New Hampshire, and the

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grandfather was also born in the old Granite state. The latter was of lui),'lish
descent. He served his conntr\' in the war of 1S12, and earned his liveli-
hood by following farming,' and the \vheeKvrif,dit's trade. He reared a large
family, comprising eight or nine sons and two daughters, and when death
called him had passed the ninetieth milestone on life's journey. Charles L.
Wood was a cooper by trade and in early life followed that pursuit, but later
engaged in farming. He came to the west in 1S42, locating first in Picjna,
Ohio, where he conducted a coopering business. At a later period he fol-
lowed farming, and subsequently engaged in a manufacturing business which
he carried on for some years. He is now living retired in Picjua, Ohio. His
wife bore the maiden name of Hannah F. French and she also was a native
of Hollis, New Hampshire. Her father, also born in the same state,
defended his country in the second war with Great Britain, and died at an
advanced age. Mrs. Hannah Wood passed away in 1S70. Like her hus-
band, she was a member of the Methodist church, and was highly esteemed
by many friends. Her grandfather, Peter Robinson, was one of the heroes
who valiantly fought for the independence of the nation, and was specially
recognized for his bravery by his commander. At the battle of Bunker Hill,
he was wounded in the right hand.

George P. Wood, of this review, was the second in a family of three sons,
his brothers being Charles L. and Marcus D. Wood. On the home farm
near Piqua, Ohio, he was reared, and in the district schools of the neighbor-
hood he acquired his education. Laying aside his te.xt-books in 1864, when
nineteen years of age, he enlisted in his country's service as a member of the
One Hundred and Forty-seventh Ohio Infantrj', and was in the campaign in
the Shenandoah valley under General Lew Wallace. \\'hen the war was
over he went to Indianapolis, where he engaged in the manufacturing and
cooperage business. In 1888 he came to Kokomo, where he aided in the
construction of the plant of the Kokomo Wood Pulp Company and the
Kokomo Paper Company, and in the organization of these companies he was
an important factor. They manufacture wood pulp and bo.x board of \ari-
ous kinds, and employ an average of one hundred workmen. The products
of the plant are of a superior grade and this has enabled them to command an
excellent price on the market. There is always a demand for the goods that
come from these factories, and the business has steadily increased until it has
now assumed extensive proportions. F"aithful service is recognized by promo-

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tion, and good, living wages are paid the operatives, so that pleasant relations
exist between employer and employees, and the factory has never been shut
down except for repairs.

On the 27th of February, 1868, Mr. Wood wedded Miss Mary E. Hines,
a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Apgar) Hines. Her father was a native
of Germany but was brought to America in early childhood. Her mother
was born in Ohio, but was descended from an old Virginian family. To
Mr. and Mrs. Wood have been born six children, two sons and fourdaughters:
George H., who married Miss Fannie Beroth, of Wabash, Indiana, and is
engaged in the manufacture of binders' boards in Kokomo, but was formerly
superintendent of the Wood Pulp and Paper Companies; Charles R., who is
timekeeper in the Kokomo Wood Pulp works; Etta M., wife of Lee Albaugh,
of Kokomo, by whom she has one child. Aline; Mary Elizabeth, a student in
Fairfax Hall, Winchester, Virginia; Dorothy and Margaret, at home.

The parents and all the children are members of the Grace Methodist
Episcopal church, and Mr. Wood is very prominent in the Masonic frater-
nity, having membership connection with Center Lodge, A. F. & A. M. , of
Indianapolis; Kokomo Chapter, R. A. M. ; Kokomo Commandery, K. T. ;
and he and his wife belong to the Order of the Eastern Star. He also
belongs to Marion Lodge, No. i, K. of P., of Indianapolis, and to the Order
of Elks. Politically he adheres to the faith of the Republican party, and
while residing in Indianapolis was a member of the board of city aldermen.
He is one of the good business men of Kokomo.

TEETER I\ELLY, one of the most estimable citizens of Peru, and the pres-
■^ ent efficient city engineer, is a native of county Cork, Ireland, where he
was born July 5, 1849. His parents, Patrick and Hanora Kelly, were also
natives of Erin's green isle. His mother's maiden name was Toomey. His
father, a farmer by occupation, died in 1S62.

The subject of this sketch, thirteen years of age at the time of his father's
decease, obtained his knowledge of surveying under the instructions of an
uncle in his native land. In April, 1867, accompanied by his mother and a
sister and her family, landed in New York, crossing the Atlantic to find a
home in broad America; and in the fall of the same year they came to Peru,

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to which place an eUier son and brotlicr, Dennis Kcllw iiad preceded tiieni.
Here the mother lived till her ilecease, which occurred in 1S75. Mr. Kelly's
business career thus far has been such as requires a knowledge of tiie prin-
ciples of survejing. For a loni,' time, under the tirm name of Morrisey &
Kelly, he was engaged in making, by contract, ditches for drainage and
country and city gravel roads; and this work was not conlined to Miami
county, for also in Huntington county they were extensively engageil. build-
ing the first free gravel road which that county ever ordered. The}- also
built nearly all the gravel roads in Peru. Mr. Kelly has been acting sur-
veyor of Miami county for the past five j-ears, and has been cit\' engineer of
Peru since 1S96. He is also drainage commissioner of Miami county. In
his religious connection he is a sincere Catholic, holding his ecclesiastical
membership in Father Meissner's church; he is also a member of the total
abstinence societ}- of Peru and is in all respects a most worth}- and esteeriied
citizen.

The surviving members of the family are Dennis and Peter, residing in
Peru; Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, living in the state of Illinois; and Mrs. Mary
Burke, of Crawford county, Iowa. A brother, named John Kelly, died in
Logansport in 1862.

HENRY F. DRITT. — Among those leading and representative farmers of
Cass county whose labors ha\e contributed to the material advance-
ment and general welfare of the community was Henry F. Dritt. His life
was a busy and useful one and furnished an e.xample of honorable dealing,
steadfast purpose, fidelity to principle and invincible moral courage that is
well worthy of emulation. At his death the community mourned the loss of
one of its esteemed citizens, and his meniory is enshrined in the hearts of
many friends.

Mr. Dritt was a native of Lancaster count}', Pennsylvania, born on the
25th of September, 1836, his parents being Andrew and Elizabeth (Fiscel)
Dritt. His parents also were born in Lancaster county, and with them he
came to Cass county, Indiana, in 1853, the family locating on the farm, in
Clay township, where Mrs. Henry Dritt still makes her home. Our subject
was then onl}' si.xteen }ears of age. He entered upon his business career as
a salesman in a general store and was thus employed for some time, during

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which he completely mastered business methods as concerning merchandis-
ing. He afterward entered the dry-goods business on his own account and
successfully conducted a store for five years, his close application, earnest
desire to please his patrons, courteous treatment and honorable dealing win-
ning him a liberal patronage. On the expiration of that period he turned his
attention to farming, which he followed throughout the remainder of his life.
The same energy and careful foresight that characterized his mercantile expe-
rience marked his farming operations, and his labors resulted in making his
property one of the best improved farms of the township.

On the 30th of April, 1S6S, Mr. Drift was united in marriage to Miss
Emma Adams, a native of Logansport and a daughter of George E. and
Sarah (Kinnear) Adams, the former a native of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and
the latter of Ireland. In 1836 they came to Indiana, taking up their resi-
dence in Logansport, where Mrs. Drift was born and reared. She also
attended the Logansport schools, and for two terms was a student at College
Hill, Ohio Her father was a very prominent citizen of Cass county and was
frequently honored with public office. For two terms he served as mayor of
Logansport, for three terms was alderman of the city and for two terms was
county treasurer. His administration of the affairs of those offices was always
safe, yet progressive, and while concerned with the municipal government of
Logansport he did much to advance the interests of the city. In his political
affiliations he was a Democrat and warmly espoused the principles of his
party. Socially he was connected with the Improved Order of Red Men,
and all who knew him esteemed him for the sterling rectitude of his character.
His death occurred in 1885, when he had attained the age of seventy-one
years.

To Mr. and Mrs. Dritt was born one daughter, Sarah, now the wife of
Robert Reed, a native of Marshall county, Indiana. They likewise have one
daughter, Emma R. Mr. Reed is a teacher and farmer and is living on the
old Dritt homestead, of three hundred and twenty acres, which is under a
high state of cultivation and is improved with all the accessories and con-
veniences of the model farm of the nineteenth century. This property was
accumulated through the well-directed efforts of Henry F. Dritt, whose
industry enabled him to overcome all obstacles in his path and work his way
steadily upward to affluence. He was thus able to leave his family in com-
fortable circumstances, but more valuable than the property which they

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inherited was the untarnished name. He died on the 24tli of September,
1891, at tlie age of fifty-six years, and the deep regret of many friends was
added to the grief of wife and daugliter over the loss of a devoted husband
and father.

r^LI J. JAMISON, a highly esteemed citizen of Miami county, is a native
*— ' of Maryland, born in Frederick county, November 24, 1.S20. His first
American ancestors on his father's side were immigrants from Scotland.
John Jamison, his father, was a natixe of Maryland and the \oungest of
twelve children, all of which generation have passed away. John Jamison
married Sarah Harris, also a native of Maryland, but her father was a native
of Wales. John Jamison and wife passed all their li\es in their native state,
both dying in 1823, within three months of each other. Their children who
grew to mature years were Benjamin, Susanna, William, Kli J. and John.
Being left an orphan in childhood, the subject of this sketch was thrown
upon his own resources at an early age. In 1837, when in his se\-enteenth
year, he came to Indiana, which has now been continuously his home for
more than sixty years, ^^'e can say to this man, as did Daniel Webster to a
patriarchal citizen, "Venerable man, you have come down to us from a
former generation. Heaven hath lengthensd out your life that you might
behold this joyous day." His first place of residence in the Hoosier state
was at Centerville, then the county seat of \\'ayiie county, and there he
served an apprenticeship of three years to the trade of cabinet-making. In
184S, in connection with his brother, John Jamison, he established himself
in business at Muncie, Indiana. His residence in Peru dates from 1857,
from which time, for many years, he was engaged in the furniture and under-
taking business, dropping the former in 1880. He was undertaker and
funeral director until 1891, when he was elected to the office of county re-
corder; in 1895 he was re-elected to the same position, and is now serving
the third year of his second term. During his residence of more than forty
years in Peru he has ever had the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.
For many years he was a member of the city council, and has ever had in
view the best interests of the community where he has so long resided. He is
prominent in the orders of Masons and Odd Fellows, belonging to the blue
lodge, chapter and council of the former, and has had conferred on him

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all the degrees of the latter. For many years he was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, with the doctrines and usages of which denom-
ination he is still in sympathy, though not a member of that ecclesiastical
body.

November 25, 1841, is the date of his union in matrimony with Miss
Sarah Dinwiddle, a native of Pennsylvania. Their children are Henry B.,
of Peru, and Elizabeth L. , wife of James Troutman, of Chicago. The esti-
mable mother of these children departed this life July 8, 1846; and on the iith
of June, 1848, Mr. Jamison was united with Mary S. Marshall, a native of
Kentucky, and by this marriage there is one son, Eugene, a resident of Peru.

ADDISON F. ARMSTRONG. —It would be difficult to name an essential
element in the progress and advancement of Howard county that does
not bear the impress of the strong individuality of Addison F. Armstrong.
He has been a very important factor in the industrial and commercial
activity of the county, has advanced its moral and educational interests, has
been one of its prominent representatives in the field of politics, and indeed
is one of the founders of the city of Kokomo, which stands as a monument
to the enterprising and well directed efforts of such men as he whose name
initiates this review. His life record is an essential part of the history of
Howard county, and this work would be incomplete without a review of his
career.

His parents were Thomas A. and Sarah E. (Grant) Armstrong, the
former a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Virginia.
They were married in Clinton county, Ohio, July i, 1824, and became the
parents of eight children. In 1851 they took up their residence in Howard
county, Indiana, among its pioneers, and the family has since been promi-
nent in its growth and development. Addison F. Armstrong was born in
Clinton county, Ohio, April i, 1833, and acquired a common-school educa-
tion there. In 1851 he came to this county, where he has since made his
home. In 1856, in connection with Dr. J. A. James and H. A. Armstrong,
he founded the business of which he is now the head, and has continued his
connection with it throughout the intervening years. Many changes in the
partnership have occurred, but the house has ever remained as the leading

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hardware and implement house in the county. The present style is the
Armstrong-Landon Company, and the subject of this review is the president.
The business occupies a handsome brick block, forty-four by one hundred
and thirty-two feet, three stories in height, with basement, and is situated at
the southeast corner of the courthouse scjuare. It was erected in 1875, and
is now splendidly equipped with a large and con^plete stock of hardware,
agricultural implements, wagons and bicycles. The members of the iirui
are wide-awake, energetic and accommodating business men. and tlie reputa-
tion of the house is most enviable. In addition to their store they operate
a large planing-mill and conduct a luurber-yard, doing considerable contract
work and employing a large force of workmen, thus adding greatly to the
material welfare of the community. Mr. Armstrong is also interested in
other enterprises, and carries forward to successful completion whatever he
undertakes. For about forty-five years he has been actively connected with
the commercial interests of Kokomo and has been remarkably prosperous
from the beginning. His career has been one of continuous success, owing
to his unabating industry, his integrity, sound judgment and honorable busi-
ness methods.

While thus laboring for his own interests Mr. Armstrong has never been
unmindful of his duties of citizenship. He aided in organizing the city of
Kokomo and was a member of the first city council, in which capacity he
served for eight consecutive years, taking a very active part in formulating
the policy of the municipality. He has given his aid to all progressive
measures for the improvement and advancement of the county and has done
much for education, serving as a member of the school board of Kokomo for
a number of years. In politics he has always been an ardent Democrat and
is an influential member of the party. In 1870 he was elected to the state
senate, where he served four years, including the special session of 1872.
His genial and gentlemanly deportment and his sincere interest in his fellow
men and the public welfare have made him very popular in his district, and
in 1S76, when a candidate for the nomination for state auditor, he received
nearly as large a vote as the numerous candidates combined, with the excep-
tion of General Manson, who received the nomination. He has held various
county offices and has ever been most true and faithful in the discharge of
his duties.

In June, 1863, Mr. Armstrong married Miss Mary S. Brandon, daughter

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of Montgomery and Martha Brandon, of Kentucky, who became pioneers of
Indiana. Her father died in Ivokomo in 1881, surviving his wife only a few
months. He was for many years prominently identified with the development
of the state and was a highly respected citizen. Two children were born to
Mr. and ]\frs. Armstrong, one of whom died in infancy. They are leading
members of the Christian church, with which they have been identified for
many years. Mr. Armstrong has given largely of his time, means and energy
to the advancement of the cause, helped to organize the first church of that
denomination in Howard county and assisted in erecting the first house of
worship. Further than this, Mr. Armstrong has for many years been inter-
ested in the higher. educational enterprises of the state, having been an active
member of the board of directors of Butler College, of the University of
Indianapolis. He is now serving his second term as president of the board
of directors, and in i8go Mr. and Afrs. Armstrong gave a practical demon-
stration of their interest in education by endowing the Armstrong chair of
Germanic languages in Butler College. His works of charity and benevo-
lence are manifold, yet entirely free from ostentation and display, and are fre-
quently known only to himself. Mrs. Armstrong is president of the Orphans'
Home, the Suffrage Club, and the Ladies' Lecture Association, besides tak-
ing an active interest in the cause of temperance and all charitable work.

"pvANIEL E. GILBERT. — "Business is the salt of life," sa3S Feltham,
*-^ "which gives not only a grateful smack to it but also dries up those
crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all
those blowing files that would corrupt it." Fire, life, accident and cyclone
insurance is a business that insures business and is therefore a prime factor
in all the industries of civilization; and this enterprise is ably represented in
Tipton, Indiana, by Mr. Gilbert, who is the subject of these remarks.

Mr. Gilbert was born in Whitehall, Washington county, New York, Feb-
ruary 7, 1827. a son of William and Anna (Delamater) Gilbert.. His father,
a native of Rutland, Vermont, was a carriage-maker by trade, who emigrated
to Indiana in 1827, locating in Muncie, where he engaged in the fur business,
and he served as sheriff of that (Delaware) county for six }'ears, after which
he resumed the fur trade. He was a soldier in the war of 181 2. He died

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in Muncie in 1S56, at the age of fifty-eiglit years. His wife, who was a
native of Albany, New Yorl<, died in 1S47; botli were consistent members of
the Presb}'terian church. For his second wife he married a Mrs. Brown, and
they had one son, \^'illiam, now hvin;;' at Eaton, Delaware county, this state.
By the first marriage there were seven children, — two sons and five daugh-
terr, only two now living, as follows: Cornelia, of Wapello county, Iowa,
widow of Hamilton Olney, her second husband, her first husband having
been Alexander T. Sackett, wiio lost his life at the close of the war on the
ship General Ljoi^s, which was burnt between Fortress Monroe anti Wil-
mington. Her second husband also lost his life by accident. Mr. 1). I£.
Gilbert is the next and only other member of this family now living.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was also a native of the Green
Mountain state, in which state he died in middle life. He was a Revolutionarj'
soldier, a farmer by occupation and had three sons and four daughters.
Benjamin Delamater, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native
of Albany, New York, born in 1773, a farmer by vocation, married Miss
Anna Barnes, and died in 1S15. In the war of 18 12 he was a captain of a
military company.

D. E. Gilbert, whose name heads this sketch, was brought to Muncie,
this state, by his parents the year of his birth, and he grew up to manhood
and lived in that place until 1861. After obtaining the usual common-school
education he learned the carriage-maker's trade, under the instructions of
his father, and followed that vocation until some time in 1854, when he sold
out and entered the drug trade in Muncie, and continued therein till 1861;
then selling out, he established a new drug store in Tipton, and continued
to do business there until January, 18S0, when he again sold out and
engaged in the insurance business, which he has ever since followed. For
several j'ears he was city clerk and for another period he was city council-
man. His residence is at the corner of Madison and Independence streets,
where he has three lots, which property he purchased when he first came to
Tipton and to which he has added many improvements until he now has
one of the finest residences in the city. The large shade trees and the
orchard which now adorn the premises are his planting.

June 19, 1849, he was united in matrimony with Miss Emma Y. Ross,
daughter of John and Emma (York) Ross, — her father a native of Dublin.
Ireland, and her mother of Stonington, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert

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have had three sons and two daughters: George E., Clara A., OHver S.,
Francis A. and Corneha M. George E. died when a babe. Clara A. mar-
ried Edwin M. Davis, of Frankfort, Indiana, a railroad man, and has three
children — Besta C. , Halfred G. and Lois A.; Oliver S. lives in Chicago,
engaged in the jewelry and music trade: he married Miss Alice Moore, of
Kokomo, and they have one child, named Julia. Francis A. died at the age
of nine years. Cornelia is unmarried and is the assistant bookkeeper and
cashier of the Home Insurance Company, of New York, in the Chicago
office, which is the headquarters of the western department

Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Gilbert have lived in Tipton ever since 1861, and
both are sincere and exemplary members of the Presb3terian church, as well
as their children: Mrs. Gilbert's father was a Presbyterian minister. He
left Ireland at the age of si.xteen years and landed on one of the West India
islands, with only pants and shirt, but no hat. He was fed by a colored
women who, smuggled victuals so him and his companions.

In his politics Mr. Gilbert is a Republican.

PHILIP WOLFORD.-— The record of Mr. Wolford is that of a man who
has by his own unaided efforts worked his way upward to a position of
affluence. His life has been one of industry and perseverance, and the sys-
tematic and honorable business methods which he has followed have won
him the support and confidence of many. He not only occupies a leading
position among the agriculturists of Harrison township, where he makes his
home, but is also prominent in political and social circles, and is now occu-
pying the position of township trustee, his election thereto being a tribute to
his personal worth and popularity.

Mr. Wolford was born in Noble township, Cass county, February 13,
1847, and is a son of Abraham and Rebecca (Kline) Wolford, both of whom
were natives of Ohio, whence they came to Indiana at an early day, settling
in Boone township, Cass county. They had a family of seven children:
Jacob and Lottie, who are now deceased; George; Philip; Eliza; Lettie
and Maggie.

Under the parental roof Philip ^^'olford spent his boyhood days, living
in Noble township until sixteen years of age. Although but a boy, he then
enlisted in the service of his country, joining the army in November, 1863,

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at Logansport. He was assigned to duty with the boys in blue of Company
F, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, to serve for three years or during the war, and
was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, in November, 1865. He partici-
pated in the battles of Mobile and Murfreesboro, and displayed as great
bravery as that of the time-tried veterans before the enemy's guns. He now
receives a pension of eight dollars per month in slight compensation for his
service.

With an honorable military record he returned to the duties of the farm,
and in connection with agricultural pursuits engaged in the marble business
for some time. He is now the owner of one hundred and si.xty acres of land,
in Harrison township, and has made his farm one of the most highly culti-
vated tracts in that locality. A good residence, substantial barns and out-
buildings, improved machinery, good stock and well-tilled fields all attest
the enterprise of the owner, whose efforts have been consecutive and well
directed, bringins; him therefore a substantial financial return.

On the 13th of July, 1879, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wolford
and Miss Dora Leach, a native of Pulaski county, Indiana, and a daughter
ot John Leach, a farmer. They have had seven children, five of whom are
living: Mary, Daisy, George, Owen and LeRoy; Grace and Harley are
deceased. In his political affiliations Mr. Wolford is a stalwart Republican,
unswerving in support of the principles of that party, and in a township
which usually gives a Democratic majority of forty he won a large majority
when made the nominee of his parts' for the office of township trustee, in
1894. He was elected for a five-years term, and is now capably and accept-
ably discharging the duties of that position with a singleness of purpose in
behalf of the public good that has won him high commendation. Socially,
he is connected with Lucerne Lodge, No. 680, I. O. O. F., has passed all
the chairs, and also belongs to Lucerne Post, No. 591, G. A. K., both of
Lucerne. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian church, and
their fidelity to its teachings has gained them the confidence and good will
of all.

GEORGE L. GW'INN, a farmer, and trustee of Center township, Howard
county, wasbornin Carroll county, this state, January 14, 1852, the
son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Taylor) Gwinn, natives of Virginia, who had

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four sons. Of these three are still living, namely, John, Sylvester and George
L. ; E. Allen is the name of the one deceased. Mr. Joseph Gwinn, also a
farmer by occupation and a stock-raiser, on his emigration westward arrived
in Carroll county in the autumn of 1851 and purchased a tract of land at
Young America in an adjoining county, and after a residence of three years at
that place he moved back into Carroll county and lived there about four
years. Then he moved to Howard county, settling in Center township three
miles southwest of Kokomo, where he bought two hundred and forty acres of
land. In 1864 he purchased eighty acres more, in 1865 another eighty, and
in 1 870 ninety-five acres, on which last tract is the present residence of the sub-
ject of this sketch. He died in 1S75, at the age of fifty years, on the place
he had purchased in 1864. He was a faithful member of the Christian
church. Some time subsequently his widow married Mr. Barnabas Busby,
and they now live on North Main street in Kokomo. She also is a member
of the Christian (Disciples') church, sincere, intelligent and zealous. As a
humble and loyal citizen he set a good example, never aspiring for office but
working and voting conscientiously for the men of the Republican party.
During the Civil war, although unable to do military duty, he hired a man to
add his services to those of the Union army.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, also named Joseph Gwinn, was
a native of Virginia and of German descent, a farmer by occupation, and
finally died in his native state, at the age of sixty-two years. Although he
owned a large plantation and was a zealous Democrat, he never owned slaves.
He had a large family of children, — twelve in number. Mr. Gwinn's mater-
nal grandfather, John Taylor, was also a native of Virginia, who came to
Indiana in an early day, settling in Madison county. He had thirteen chil-
dren, and was upward of seventy years of age when he died, his death tak-
ing place in that county.

Thus it is seen that Mr. George L. Gwinn represents two very old fam-
ilies of Indiana, especially of Howard county, where they have so long main-
tained a high reputation for honesty, industry and general intelligence. Mr.
Gwinn was reared on a farm in Howard county from the time he was seven
years of age, forming that sturdy character which only a life in the pioneer
west, especially in a community like that in Indiana, can develop. Besides
obtaining the usual education afforded by the district schools, he followed
blacksmithing in Kokomo about eighteen months, during his youth; and

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until the present time he has been an industrius and judicious farmer, his pros-
perit}- evincing his good judgment. In August, 1894, he was elected trustee
of Center township, where he resides, and entered upon the duties of his
office a year afterward, in due course of law; and he is still holding this posi-
tion. He is a gentleman of very modest disposition, many of whose best
qualities can be ascertained only by close scrutiny and long acquaintance.
Being very careful of the rights of his neighbors, he enjoys their profoundest
respect.

On the first day of January, 1S35, Mr. Gwinn was united in matrimony
with Miss Mary E. Gwinn, a daughter of Joseph L. Gwinn and Amanda
(Allen) Gwinn, and they_have one daughter, named .Arline. Mrs. Gwinn is
a member of the Christian church.

WILLIAM H. AMOS. — One of the most greatly esteemed agriculturists
of Clay township, Howard county, is the gentleman whose name
appears above. He is a native of this county, born November 20, 1S50,
reared to honest toil on the farm and educated at the common schools. His
father, \Mlliam C. Amos, was a native of Bourbon count}', Kentuck}-, who
married Elizabeth Perkins, a native of Rush county, Indiana, and of Irish
and German descent.

Mr. William C. Amos was born June 29, 1S08, in Kentucky, and reared
to manhood in that state, becoming in a very earl}- day a pioneer settler in
Rush county, this state. In 1844 he removed to Howard count}-, locating
in what is now Ervin township, upon canal land which he purchased in the
wilderness and wliere he cleared land and made a good farm. \\'hen he
arrived here Indians, game animals and other wild beasts were still plentiful.
The nearest gristmill was at a great distance, to which the settlers would
take their corn in bags on horseback, following a trail which was often diffi-
cult to discern. Mr. Amos was an industrious man and honorable in all his
dealings, was a Republican in his politics but never aspired to office. He
died at his homestead in 1869, but his wife yet survives, living in Ervin town-
ship, now age J seventy-five years, and is a consistent member of the Meth-
odist church. Herchildren are: Jasper, afarmerof this count}-, who served
in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infan-

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try during the Civil war; Ira, who also was a soldier in that war and died
in the service; Harriet, who is now Mrs. John Barnet; Lucy, who became
the wife of John Wheeler; William H., the subject of this sketch; Eliza,
who is now Mrs. George East; Marion L., James W. and Samuel P., well
and favorably known farmers of Ervin township.

Mr. William H. Amos passed his young life till he was grown at his
parental home. In 1873 he married, and then made his livelihood upon
rented farms for a number of years. In 1897 he purchased the place which
he now occupies and where he has made many radical improvements, remod-
eling the buildings, etc. He is an industrious and prosperous farmer.

In his political principles he is a Republican, and he takes an active
interest in public affairs, and has filled some of the township offices.

In matrimony he was united, December 29, 1854, with Miss Eliza Mil-
ler, a member of an honored pioneer family, being a daughter of Stephen J.
and Emeline (Crisman) Miller. Her father was born in 18 19 and her mother
in 1826. Her father came from Ohio to Howard county in early times, pur-
chased land and made a farm in the wilderness, and died there August 6,
1897. He was an efficient factor in the development of the country and was
widely known for his many excellent qualities. He was an intelligent mem-
ber of the Missionary Baptist church, and in his politics was a decided Dem-
ocrat, but he never aspired to office. His wife left the shores of time many
years ago, dying March 2, 1855. Their children were : Lewis C. , who now
owns and manages the homestead; and Eliza, the wife of our subject. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Amos are: Anna B., who is now Mrs. W. L.
Thompson; Stephen J., unmarried; Flora, Ira, Glen, Cora, Carrie and
Clyde Grover.

Mr. Amos is an exemplary member of the Missionary Baptist church and
is an esteemed citizen.

/'"^EORGE W. FIPPEN, one of the honored and highly esteemed citizens
^-^ of Tipton, is the gentleman whose name appears above and who is a
justice of the peace. He was born in the edge of Hamilton county, seven
miles from Tipton, June i, 1848, the son of Samuel and Mahala (Foutch)
Fippen, natives of Maryland. His mother was of German descent and his
father of French and English. They had five children — four sons and one

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daughter, namely: George W., our subject; Ardilla, wife of Oliver |ayne;
James M. ; Ebenezer; and John \V. N., deceased. The father, who was a
farmer all his life, came to Indiana, October 9, 1847, locating in Hamilton
county, where he purchased a tract of eighty acres of the man who had entered
it from the government. He improved the land, brought up his children there,
and died March 6, 1872, aged forty-nine jears. His wife survived until
March, 1884, dying at the age of fifty-four years, a Presbyterian in her relig-
ious belief. Mr. Samuel Fippen was a Democrat in his political \iews, but
never held any public office. Being a man of good business ability and integ-
rity, he was often appointed as administrator of estates, as road viewer, etc.,
and as an arbitrator in the settlement of disputes among his neighbors. He
was a director of the first gravel road constructed in his neighborhood, run-
ning from Atlanta to Ekin, on the Hamilton and Tipton county line.

Ebenezer Fippen, our subject's paternal grandfather, was a native of
Maryland, moving in 1837 to Muskingum county, Ohio, and in 1847 to
Hamilton county, Indiana, where he died March 6, 1S74, at the age of
eighty-four years. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812. He had five
children: Burton, Samuel, James, Elizabeth and Margaret. By occupa-
tion he was a farmer and stock-raiser.

The maternal grandfather of Escjuire Fippen was John I'outch, a native
of Maryland and a farmer, who came to Indiana, about 1847, from Ohio,
where for a time previously he had been a resident. He settled in the
northern part of Tipton county when it was called the Indian reser\-e, where
Indians were still living and wild game of all kinds was plentiful. He died
in Hamilton count}', about 1863, at the age of about sixty-five years.

Mr. Fippen, the subject of this biographical notice, was reared to the
heavy duties of farm life in Hamilton county, attending the district school
in the winter time, until he was twenty-one years of age.

In June, 1869, he was married, and October 14, 1869, moved to Tipton
county, where he has ever since lived — in the city of Tipton since 1882, his
residence at present being at No. 32 Third street, which he bought in 1887.
His long residence in and near the place of his nativity has ever been a test
of his integrit)', while his fidelity in official position has been equal!}' a test
of his capacity, as well as integrit}-. He was first elected justice of the
peace in 1882, when he served four years ; the next four years he declined
to have the office; and in 1890 he was again elected, since which time he

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has served in that office eight years; thus he has administered the duties of
this judicial office for a period of twelve years altogether. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, being a Royal Arch Mason as well as a member
of the blue lodge, also of the Improved Order of Red Men, in connection
with which he also belongs to the Pocahontas degree, to which his wife also
belongs. In religion he and Mrs. Fippen are members of the Christian
church, in which body he is a deacon.

June 3, 1869, is the date of Mr. Fippen's marriage to Miss Rachel E.
Rushton, daughter of John P. and Alice (Horn) Rushton, and they have had
three daughters and one son, Ardilla J., Ethel Ola, Admiral A. and Alice M.
Ethel Ola became the wife of O. L. Bohanan, who is the proprietor of the
City Barber Shop, and they have one child, Lester L. Admiral A. died
when six months old. Ardilla J. married John Taylor, and they now reside
in Pasadena, California, and have three children; and Alice M. lives at her
parental home. Mrs. Fippen, the mother of the above children, died Janu-
ary 31, 1881, a member of the Christian church; and November i, 1883,
Esquire Fippen was united in matrimony with Miss Catharine J. Pennock,
daughter of Alexander and Barbara (Bennett) Pennock.

T RA F. KEISLING. — One of the highly esteemed citizens of Clay township,
* Howard county, is a farmer named Ira F. Keisling, a native of this state,
born October i, 1868, in Decatur county, brought up in agricultural life and
educated at the common school.

His parents, William R. and Harriet (Miller) Keisling, were also natives
of Decatur county and were married there. William Keisling, the father of
William R. , was born in Virginia about 1825, was a farmer by vocation, and
moved to Indiana, locating in Decatur county. In his religion he was a consist-
ent Methodist. His children were Sophia, Lloyd, William R. , Joseph, Lewis
and Sarah. Of these William R., the father of our subject, was the only one
who emigrated to Howard county, Indiana, which was in 1S78. He purchased
the tract of land where Ira F., our subject, is now living, and passed there the
remainder of his life, dying in 1888. His life was an honorable one, and his
death was mourned by all who knew him. His vocation during life was that
of agriculture. His wife survives, residing in Kokomo. Her father, Joseph

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Miller, was also a native of Virginia, whciu he married ami came to Indiana
in its pioneer days, settling in Decatur county, where he improved a farm.
In 1856 he removed to Howard county, purchased hind where Mr. Kcisling
now resides, at a time when there was only a log house on tlie place and no
other valuable impro\ ements. He made this place his home, improving it, etc. ,
until his death. He was a pious Methodist and an exemplary citizen. His
wife had died in Decatur county. Their children were Johnson, Sally, Polly,
Harriet, Elizabeth and Marion. The children of William R. Kcisling were:
Julia, now Mrs. E. M. Moore; Phcebe, now Mrs. A. Shaffer; John, who is a
farmer; Alba, now Mrs. Stevens; George, a Methodist minister in Nebraska;
Ira F., whose name heads this sketch; and Emry, of E\-ansville. After
the death of Mr. Miller, William R. Keisling bought the farm he owned,
and since the death of Mr. Keisling it was purchased by the subject of this
sketch.

Mr. Ira F. Keisling grew up to manhood at the place where he yet
resides, was married ia 1892, and removed to a farm in Tipton county, where
he lived two and half years, then mo\ing to the old home place, where he now
lives. He is a good manager in agricultural pursuits and prospers accordingly.
His industrious hands have produced a comfortable living, and his honorable
dealings have established a good reputation. In his political views he is a
Republican, but he has no taste for public position.

In matrimony he was united with Minnie Tarkington, a lady of intelli-
gence and culture, being a daughter of John E. and Amelia A. (Honey) Tark-
ington. She was born September 24, 1870. By this happy union there are
the following three children, interesting sons: Lloyd, born in July, 1893;
Paul, in January, 1S95; and^Frank, in Januar}', 1897. Both the parents are
intelligent and highly esteemed members of the Methodist church.

JAMES F. STUTESMAN.— One of the native sons of Peru is the well-
known lawyer, James F. Stutesman, and his family has been connected
with the history of Miami county since pioneer days. His father, James M.
Stutesman, located in Peru in 1842 and still resides in this citj', where for a
long series of years he was recognized as one of the most prominent business
men.

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The son was born July 19, i860, and having acquired his elementary
education in the primary and grammar schools entered upon a course of study
in the Peru high school, in which he was graduated in the class of 1875, at
the early age of fifteen years. Through the three succeeding years he was
employed as bookkeeper and cashier in the mercantile establishment of John
S. Hale & Company, and in 1879 he continued his education by matriculat-
ing in Wabash College, in which he pursued a five-years classical course and
was graduated. During the summers of 1884 and 1885 he acted as one of
the assistants of Professor Campbell, chief of the United States geodetic sur-
vey for Indiana. In the meantime he had taken up the study of law, enter-
ing upon that work in the fall of 1S84 in the office of Cole & McClintic. A
few months later, however, he discontinued his studies for the time being and
accepted a clerkship in the employ of George D. Baldwin & Company, on
ths Chicago Board of Trade, where he remained two years. On the expira-
tion of that period he engaged in the banking and real-estate business in
Kansas, carrying on operations along that line for four years. In 1891 he
was appointed by Attorney-General Miller to the position of examiner in the
department of justice, his duties consisting in the examination of the accounts
of United States attorneys, commissioners, marshals and clerks of the cir-
cuit and district courts, and to observe the administration of- the federal
courts generally.

At the close of the Harrison administration, Mr. Stutesman returned to
Peru and resumed the study of law in the office of Loveland & Loveland,
and on being admitted to the bar entered at once upon the active practice of
his profession. He now occupies a place in the front rank at the Miami
county bar, and excels as an able, eloquent and convincing speaker. His
knowledge of the law is comprehensive and accurate, and this, supplemented
by keen analytical power which enables him to make correct application of
the law to the points at issue, gives him a standing at the bar among its most
prominent members.

In 1S94 Mr. Stutesman was nominated on the Republican ticket to rep-
resent in the state legislature the district composed of Miami and Cass coun-
ties. The fact that he was elected by a large majority in a district strongly
Democratic attests his popularity and the confidence of his fellow citizens in
his qualifications as a legislator. He proved to be one of the most active
and useful members of the general assembly, and it was said of him: " His

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voice was heard on nearly everj- important question. He was a fa\orite in
the caucus, in the lobby and in the house. He served his constituents with
ability, and won a name lor himself not confined to the limits of his own
state." He was warmly supported for speaker and was a member of a num-
ber of very important committees, serving as chairman of two of these.

Socially he is held in high estimation and is respected as a public-spirited
and progressive citizen.

ROBERT F. JOHNSTON.— A resident of Logansport, Robert F. John-
ston is now serving as trustee of Eel township, and is one of the leading
and influential citizens of the community. A modern philosophical writer
has aptly said, " Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your
life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers
is to be able to condition your life in e.xact accord with what you would
have it." It is this. understanding of his own capabilities, and the careful
selection of a business to which he was especially suited that led to Mr.
Johnston's success, and made him what he is to-day, one of the substantial
citizens of Cass county.

He is a native of Stark county, Ohio, born on the 31st of August, 1834,
and is a son of John and Elizabeth (McDowell) Johnston, who were also
natives of Stark county. With their family they removed to Wells county,
Indiana, locating on the larm whereon our subject grew to manhood, while
in the public schools of the neighborhood he acquired a good English educa-
tion, which has been supplemented by that knowledge which only travel and
experience in the practical affairs of life can bring. In 1862 he came to
Logansport, after which he was for ten years engaged in carpentering here.
Going upon the road as a traveling salesman, he represented shoe houses of
Toledo and Chicago for twenty-two years, and his cordiality, genial disposi-
tion, unfailing courtesy and thorough reliability made him very popular all
along his route and won him a liberal patronage.

On the first of January, 1S57, Mr. Johnston married Miss Sarah A.
Donaldson, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and unto them have
beenborn four children, namely : Isaac S.,John M.,Eben E.and Robert M. Mr.
Johnston and his family belong to the Presbyterian church, and enjoy the
hospitality of many of the most cultured homes of the city. In his political views

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Mr. Johnston is a stalwart Republican, and on the 5th of Auo;ust, 1895, was
elected township trustee of Eel township for a four-years term, overcoming a
very strong Dsmocratic majority, — a fact which indicates his personal pop-
ularity and the confidence reposed in him by his fellow townsmen. In the
discharge of his duties he is prompt, faithful and progressive, and he is recog-
nized as a most capable offlcial. Socially he is an esteemed member of the
Masonic lodge of Logansport.

Since the above was set in type we learn that Mr. Johnston has departed
this life, leaving a wide circle of friends who mourn his loss.

nPHOMAS PAUL. — Forty-three years have passed since Thomas Paul
■^ became a resident of Tipton county, and with the passing decades, by
the exercise of his powers, by industr}- and enterprise, he has laid by in store
a comfortable competence, which now enables him to live retired. He was
born in Henry county, Indiana, on the 27th of June, 1S24, and is a son of
Daniel and Leah (Swope) Paul, natives of Virginia. The former was a son
of Isaac Paul, who also was born in the Old Dominion and was of Scotch
descent. He was a farmer by occupation and some time in the '30s removed
to Indiana, locating in Henry county, where he made his home until his
death, which occurred when he had arrived at the age of seventy-six years.
During the war of the Revolution, he valiantly aided in the struggle for
independence. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Michael Swope,
was a native of Virginia and was of German descent, his parents having
come from the Fatherland to the New World. For five years he served his
country in the Revolutionary war, and lived and died in Monroe county, Vir-
ginia, where he carried on agricultural pursuits. He had long since passed
the eightieth milestone on life's journey when called to the other world. He
had a large family of sixteen children, the youngest being the mother of
our subject.

Daniel Paul, who also carried on farming operations, emigrated from Vir-
ginia in 1820 to Indiana, locating in Henry county, where he entered eighty
acres of land from the government. Later he added to that another eighty-
acre tract and cleared and improved the place, raising his family upon that
farm, which was situated near Dublin and nine miles from Newcastle, the
county seat. He died there in 1872, at the age of seventy-five years. His

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widow survived him some years and died in Wabasii county at an advanced
age. They were members of the Cliristian church, and in politics Mr. Paul
was a Democrat until i S40, when he voted for William Henry Harrison, and
in his later years was a Republican. His family numbered twcKc children,
four sons and eifj;ht daughters, of whom three are ntjw living; Thomas;
Elizabeth, wife of James Kendall, of Wabash county, Indiana; and John, also
a resident of ^^'abash county.

We now take up the personal histor}' of Thomas Paul, knowing that it
will prove of interest to many of our readers by reason of his long residence
in the county, his sterling worth and his extended acquaintance. He was
reared to manhood on his father's farm in Henry county, and attended the
subscription schools. He remained with his parents until twenty years
of age and was then married, on the 8th of February, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth
Rumsey, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Maples) Rumsey. They began
their domestic life upon a rented farm in Henry county, and in 1845 Mr.
Paul purchased a farm of eight}- acres in Clinton county, Indiana, to which
he removed the following year, making his home there until 1S54. He then
sold the property and entered upon a mercantile career in a little town in
Clinton county, called Berlin, but in December, 1855, sold out and removed
to Tipton county, locating on a rented farm in Jefferson township. In 1S58
he removed to Tipton, where he engaged in the lumber and sawmill business,
continuing the same until 1S61, when the troubled condition of the country
caused him to join the ranks of the defenders of the Union.

With a patriotic spirit, Mr. Paul enlisted in Company F, Eleventh Indi-
ana Infantry, with which he served three months and a half. On the 27th
of November, 1861, he re-enlisted and joined the "boys in blue " of Com-
pany K, Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, in which he was made orderly ser-
geant. He served with that command four years, lacking twenty-seven days,
and was promoted in regular order until he became captain of the company,
with which rank he was mustered out. He participated in the battle of
New Madrid and Island No. 10, where his command captured si.x thousand
prisoners. He was in the battle of Port Gibson in 1863, also at Champion
Hills, where sixteen of the thirty-three men of his company were lost. Cap-
tain Paul was also all through the siege of Vicksburg, and on the 5th of July,
I 863, started in pursuit of Johnston, driving him back into Mississippi. When
that was accomplished the troops returned to Vicksburg and then started

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south, joining Banks at New Orleans. Later Captain Paul returned home
on a thirty-days furlough, and when his leave of absence had expired rejoined
General Banks' command and made a trip to Alexandria, being engaged in
many skirmishes but no hard battles until the Mobile campaign in the spring
of 1865. He was mustered out at Baton Rouge, October 23, 1865, and was
honorably discharged at Indianapolis on the ist of November. His son,
Charles B., was also in the service as a member of the Forty-seventh Indiana
Volunteers. Captain Paul was a brave and loyal soldier, his own courage
inspiring his men to deeds of valor, and until after the cessation of hostilities
he stood firm as a defender of the starry banner and the cause it represented.

When the war was over he returned to the north and purchased a farm
of sixty acres two miles northeast of Tipton, where he resided for two years,
when he sold out and opened a grocery store in Tipton, conducting the same
for about five years. His store was then destroyed by fire, and as there was
no insurance upon it he not only found himself penniless but even with a
debt of twelve hundred dollars. With dauntless courage and resolution,
however, he set to work to retrieve his lost possessions, paid off all indebt-
edness, and through the two succeeding years engaged in the sawmill busi-
ness. He then followed draying for eight years and was in the restaurant
business for eight years, since which time he has lived retired in his pleasant
home in Tipton. His well-directed labors have brought to him good finan-
cial returns, and he is now the owner of three residences in Tipton and half
owner in a business block. He and his wife are now living quietly, sur-
rounded by many friends, and in the high regard of all they hold an enviable
position.

Eleven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul, — six sons and
five daughters: Edgar R., who died at the age of sixteen years; Charles B.,
who married Miss Josie Turpin and has a daughter, Grace; Mary E., who
died in 1863, at the age of fifteen years; William D., who died in 1876;
Daniel C, who died in childhood; Edmond C, who died at the age of two
years; John E., who also died at the age of two years; Martha L., wife of
Charles F. Waffler, of Tipton, by whom she has one living child, Marie;
Margaret Viola, wife of Henry Fritz, of Tipton, by whom she has a daughter,
Leona; Georgia A., wife of Charles M. Short, of Henry county, by whom
she has two children, Benton Paul and Lillian; and Sarah Alice, wife of
Allen Bates, of Tipton.

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The parents have traveled life's journey to,L,'etlier for tifty-four years,
and in 1894 they celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wcddinj,'. Mr.
Paul is a member of the Christian church, his wife of the Presbyterian.
He belongs to James Price Post, No. 203, G. A. R., and is now servinj; his
third term as its commander. He was a member of the town council for
one term before the ori;anization of the city and for a short time was city
marshal. He has always been deeply interested in the welfare and advance-
ment of the county, and in all the relations of life has been found true and
faithful to the trust reposed in him and the obligations resting upon him.
No man in Tipton county is more worthy of the high regard of his fellow
citizens than Captain Paul.

JOHN W. O'HARA.— The firm of Reasoner lS: O'Hara is one of the lead-
^ ing law firms of Miami county, the present partnership having been
entered into April i, 1892. Mr. O'Hara is a native of Indiana, born at
Connersville, Fayette county, September 22, 1853, of Irish parentage. His
father, James O'Hara, was b(jrn in county Clare, in 1825. He was the
eldest child of his father and the only child of his mother. By his father's
second marriage there were three children.

In 1847 James O'Hara came to the United States, and about 1852
settled at Connersville, Indiana, removing thence to Rush count)', where he
died, October 21, 1S61. His wife, whose maiden name was Catherine
Galvin, was also a native of county Clare, Ireland. The sudden death of the
father, at the early age of about thirtj'-five years, left the mother with a large
family of small children to rear and provide for. James O'Hara had been
an industrious man, and from his earnings had saved some money which he
had applied on the purchase of a new and unimproved tract of land near
Galveston, Cass county. Here he had intended to locate and make a home
for his family, and to this place the widow removed soon after her husband's
death, with her six children, the eldest but ten years old and the \oungest
born after the death of the father.

And now began the struggle of this truly noble woman. Addison said
that " poverty palls most generous spirits, cows industry and casts resolution
itself into despair;" but against all this, Mrs. O'Hara kept up her resolution

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and with her own hands assisted in the clearing of the land while she
struggled to provide for the wants of her children. As the latter became old
enough to be of service they assisted their mother and ultimately, as a local
writer savs of them, "by unremitting energy the woodland was converted
into the growing field, and the poverty which the family had long endured
gave way to prosperity." The good mother lived to see her children all
grown to mature years and settled in life. She passed to the other world in
September, 1897, "full of years" and dearly beloved by her children and
esteemed and respected by all who knew her.

Of the seven children born to James O'Hara and wife, five are living, —
three sons and two daughters. Of these the immediate subject of this sketch
is the eldest. Mary E. is the wife of Cornelius Fitzgerald, a resident of the
state of Illinois; Elizabeth is the wife of M. A. Harbert, the station agent
at Hoopeston, Illinois; Henry is station agent at Lagro, Indiana, for the
Wabash Railroad; and Thomas J. lives at Alexandria, Madison county, this
state.

At the age of fourteen years John W. O'Hara, our subject, left home to
work in a mill, continuing to assist his mother by the wages he earned, in the
meantime attending the winter terms of the public school. At the age of
nineteen he began to feel the value of a more thorough educational training,
and for some time he was a student at the Galveston high school, the normal
school at Walton and the school at Bunker Hill. In October, 1875, he
entered upon a career as teacher of district schools, which he continued for a
number of terms, finally becoming the principal of the Bunker Hill graded
school.

In June, 1883, he bought the office and equipments of the Bunker Hill
Press and became its editor and proprietor, and successfully conducted it for
four years, as a Democratic journal, in the meantime serving as postmaster
at Bunker Hill, to which office he was appointed in September, 18S5.

Selling out his paper in 1887, he resolved to resume his legal studies,
which he had begun some time previously. Accordingly he entered the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he took an
elective course of study, condensing a tA'o-years course into one. On com-
pleting his course he located at Bunker Hill to begin the practice of his pro-
fession, but in May, 1889, removed to Peru. In 1892 he formed the present
partnership, in connection with Ethan T. Reasoner.

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Mr. O'Hara was forinerl}- a Democrat in his political sjinpatliics. hav-
ing been broiipjht up in the principles of that party; but in the presidential
campaign of 1S92, which resulted in the election of Benjamin Harrison, he
espoused the principles of the Ixepublican part\- on the tariff issue and has
since affiliated with that party. He occupies a pro;ninent place in the bar
of Miami county and is esteemed as a worthy and enterprising cili/en.

In matrimony he was united, Januar)- 15, 1S78, with Miss Ella C.
Thornton, a most estimable and cultured lad}' and a writer of acknowledged
merit. She is a native of Gah'eston, Cass county, Indiana. Her father,
James Thornton, was born in county Lowth, Ireland, resided sex'eral jears
in England, crossed the ocean to \ew Orleans about 1850, came to Indiana
in 1853 and for a time operated on the \\'abash & Erie canal. Finally he
opened a store at Lewisburg, and he there married Ellen Brown, a native of
county Kerr}', Ireland. In 1856 he remo\ed to Galveston, Cass county,
where he resumed merchandising, and where his death finally occurred in
1S72. Mrs. O'Hara was born at Galveston in 1857. In the family of Mr.
and Mrs. O'Hara are seven children, — Bessie G., James H., Genevieve,
John, Patrick L., Helen and Thomas Joseph. Alice May and Catherine are
the names of the deceased children. In their religious connections the family
are devout members of the Catholic church. Mr. O'Hara is a prominent
member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, being president of that organi-
zation in Indiana. He was also state treasurer of the same for two years.

AC. MERRICK. — The gentleman whose name initiates this review is one
of the well-known citizens of Russiaville, Indiana, — a lawyer and pen-
sion agent. His history is that of a self-made man, and is as follows:

A. C. Merrick was born in Brook\ille, Franklin county, Indiana, May
22, 1844, and traces his ancestry through the agnatic line back to Ireland.
His father, Samuel H. Merrick, was born in Beaver count}-, Penns}'lvania,
son of John Merrick, Sr. John Merrick settled in southern Indiana in 1836,
when his son, Samuel H., was a boy of thirteen years. Samuel H. made
Ripley county his home until 1845, when he came to Clinton county and
located three miles west of Russiaville. He was a successful farmer and a
man of local prominence, esteemed for his many excellent traits of character.

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From an early age he was a great worker in the Baptist church. He died
July I, iSSo, and his widow, who still survives him, is now seventy-seven
years of age. Her maiden name was Rachel Vanzile, and she was a daugh-
ter of William and Mary Vanzile, of Ripley county, Indiana, long since
deceased. Her father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Six children were
born to Samuel H. and Rachel Merrick, of whom three are living: A. C,
whose name heads this sketch; Perry V., of Clinton county; and W. T. , also
of Clinton county.

A. C. Merrick was a year old at the time he was brought by his parents
to Clinton county, Indiana. His early training received in the common
schools was supplemented by a high-school course at Frankfort, Indiana, and
in 1866 he entered the school-room as teacher, in Warren township, Clinton
county. For several years he farmed in the summer and taught school in
the winter, and in the meantime he took up the study of law, spending all
his leisure time in study along this line at home, and in 1873 he was admitted
to the bar. He continued farming, however, until 1880, keeping up all the-
while his legal studies. In 1880 he moved to Russiaville, where he has since
devoted his time and attention to a general law practice. He has made a
study of the pension laws, has a large clientage in this department of his
practice, and has been successful in securing many pensions the claims for
which had been previously rejected.

Mr. Merrick is a Republican. He has for j'ears been an active campaign
worker and has rendered his party much valued and effective service. March
8, 1898, he was nominated at the primary election of Howard county as a
candidate for representative to the state legislature.

In church and fraternal circles also Mr. Merrick is prominent and active.
He has long been identified with the Baptist church, in which he is promi-
nent and influential, at different times serving on important committees. He
is secretary of the local organization of Odd Fellows, and in the Masonic lodge
has passed all the chairs, having been a Mason since 1865, also a member of
the Knights of Pythias order and of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in
his post has filled the offices of commander and quartermaster. As a mem-
ber of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry, he entered the United States service in
September, 1863, and served until July 28, 1865, when he was honorably
discharged, having participated in eleven engagements.

Mr. Merrick married April 26, 1866, Miss Sarah E. Childers, daughter

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of Benjamin Childers, of Clinton c juiit}-, Indiana. She died Novoniber 14,
1896. Of her fonr children, three arc living: May, wife of Charles Ix Tal-
bert; Samuel B., Clinton county, Indiana; and Fay, at home.

LEWIS McMILLEN. — One of the fine farms of Cass county is the prop-
erty of Lewis McMillan. It comprises two hundred and forty-eight acres
of rich and arable land, and the well-tilled fields surround substantial build-
ings, a pleasant residence, commodious barns and outbuildings. Tha owner
is accounted one of the most practical and progressive agriculturists of the
community; he uses the latest improved machinery in the development of his
farm, studies th? best methods for producing the various cereals adapted to
this climate, practices rotation of crops, and above all brings to his work that
unflagging industry which seldom fails of accomplishment. It is this factor
that has brought him a desired success and gained him a place among the
well-to-do farmers of the community.

Mr. McMillen is a worthy representative of one of the pioneer families
of the county, the family name having been interwoven with the history of
development and advancement here through the alloted period of human
existence, three-score years and ten. In 1828 his parents, George and Susan
(McMillen) McMillen, became residents of Cass county, and entered upon life
in the west in true pioneer style. The father was a native of Pennsylvania,
and the mother of Highland county, Ohio. Locating on a farm in Noble
tov/nship, Cass county, they there reared their family of four children, Lewis,
Milton, William and Elizabeth J. They e.Kperienced many of the hardships
and difficulties incident to frontier life and to the development of a new farm
in the forest, but as the years passed theirs became one of the comfortable
homes of the com.munity and their labors contributed not a little to the sub-
stantial development of the community. The father took a prominent part
in public affairs and for four years filled the office of trustee of Noble town-
ship. He gave his political support to the Republican party, and in his
church relationship was a Presbyterian. His death occcurred in 1849, at
the age of forty-four years.

Lewis McMillen, the only surviving member of his father's family, first
opened his eyes to the light of day March 2, 1832, his birth occurring on the

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old homestead. That farm was also his pla3'ground in youth and the train-
ing school in which he was fitted for business cares. Having attained his
majority he married Miss Frances Jane McCauley, the wedding being cele-
brated on the 2d of October, 1861. The lady was a native of Noble town-
ship, Cass county, and a daughter of Elias McCauley. By her marriage she
became the mother of three children: James E., Minnie and William L.
Her death occurred on the 24th of October, 1S86, at the age of forty-four
years, and many friends mourned her loss, for her sterling traits of character
had endeared her to all with whom she came in contact.

Mr. McMillen exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and
measures of the Republican party, and for one year served as supervisor of
Noble township. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and lends
his aid and influence to all movements for the public good. His business
methods are ever honorable and straightforward, and his close application,
perseverance and unabating energy have enabled him to work his way steadily
upward to a position of affluence. He is loyal as a citizen, faithful in his
friendships, devoted to his family, and enjoys the warm regard of all with
whom he has been brought in contact.

■p^R. M. V. B. NEWCOMER. — The profession of medicine is character-
*—' ized in these times with more discoveries and inventions than any other,
— probably more than even are embraced in any one trade. A medical stu-
dent or practitioner must "run fast to keep up with the profession." Dr.^
Newcomer, aware of this fact from the start, has been a laborious student,
furnishing himself with all the necessary books and periodicals and availing
himself of the aid of his fellow practitioners throughout county, state, nation
and the world. He is a member of the firm of Newcomer & Dickey, who
have a large library and a fine office in Tipton, where they have been prac-
ticing together for the last seventeen years. But to give the details more
systematically, let us glance first at our subject's genealogy and early life.

He was born in Cambridge City, Indiana, October 30, 1836, a son of
Christian and Elizabeth (Hartman) Newcomer, natives of Pennsylvania, who
had thirteen children,— nine sons and four daughters. Of these only five are
living, — Benjamin P., of Hesper, Iowa; the subject of this sketch is the next

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in order of age; Martha M., widow of C. F. Cunuitt, now of Slicridan,
Indiana; Melissa]., widow of C. S. W. Pettijolin, living in the vicinity of
Hortonville, Indiana; and Levi N., residing near Sheridan.

Christian Newcomer, the father, was a tailor by trade, who came from
the Keystone state to Wayne county, Indiana, about 1S25, and followed his
trade several years at Cambridge City. Then he moved to Hamilton county,
settling upon a farm of one hundred and twenty acres which he had pur-
chased west of Xoblesville, from the government early in the 'twenties, and
he continued to make that his residence for over forty years, dying in the
year 1877, aged nearly eighty-seven years. I^emg a pioneer there, he cleared
the farm and labored industriousl)- and long, but with his skillful manage-
ment he succeeded in making and for many \ears enjoying a comfortable
home. There he brought up his children. His wife passed to the other
world only si.x months previous to his death, at the age of eighty years, after
a married life of over si.xty years. The}' were members of the Methodist
church. He was a captain of militia, and while holding that office took part
in the war of 18 12, commanding a company.

John Newcomer, father of Christian, was also a native of the Iveystone
stale, of German descent, married a lady who was born on the Atlantic
ocean during the emigration of her parents to America, had two sons and
three daughters, and died in his native state.

Frederick Hartman, the Doctor's maternal grandfather, was a native of
Pennsylvania and of German ancestry, and emigrated to Bartholomew county,
Indiana, during the earliest period of its settlement and lived there till his
death. He had a large number of children, one of v\hom lived to be over
ninety years of age.

Dr. Newcomer, of this sketch, was reared in Hamilton county, on a
farni, attending the district and subscription schools, and just before he was
twenty-one years of age he began teaching school and followed the profession
for several years. About 1858 he commenced the study of law, and the
next year was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession as an attor-
ney until some time in the year 1 86 1 , when he took up the study of medicine ;
in 1865 he began its practice; March i, 1867, he graduated at the Ohio
Medical College at Cincinnati, alternating, however, two years of stud)- with
intervals of practice. He has now been engaged in the general practice of
medicine and surgery for thirty-four years, in Tipton, and is therefore the

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best and most favorably known physician in the county. His office building
and business block is on the east side of the court-house square, and this
building he erected in 1887. In company with Joseph A. Moore, he also
built a business block on the northwest corner of the square; and his beauti-
ful residence he built in 1884. Dr. Newcomer is the surgeon for all the
railroads running through Tipton; is a member of the Tipton County Medical
Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the American Medical Associa-
tion, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, the International Association
•of Railway Surgeons, the Railway Academy of Surgeons, the New York
Medico-legal Society, the Indiana Medico-legal Society; and is an honorary
member of the Rush County Medical Society and of the Academy of Kala-
mazoo, Michigan. In politics he is a Republican.

December 14, 1865, the Doctor was united in matrimony with Miss
Izora J. Wilson, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Craig) Wilson, and they
have had three daughters, namely: Ora B., who became the wife of James
A. Shirk, of Delphi, Indiana, and has one son, whose entire name is Herbert
Newcomer Shirk; Miss Clelia C. , who is at her parental home; and Ethel
May, who died when five weeks old. The two daughters living are graduates
of De Pauw University. Mrs. Newcomer is an exemplary member of the
Methodist church.

JOSEPH M. DARBY, D. D. S.— It is eminently fitting that Dr. Joseph
M. Darby, a prominent dentist of Denver, Colorado, be represented in
this volume, for he was the first white child born in Jackson township, How-
ard county, and represents a family that for more than half a century has
been connected with the substantial development and progress of this section
of the state, the name being inseparably interwoven with its history. His
father, Samuel Darby, was born in Butler county, Ohio, October 30, 1807,
and was a son of Owen and Margaret (Frits) Darby. He spent his boyhood
days in that locality, acquired his education in the district schools, and in
Butler county married Lovey Ann Carter, a native of Warren county, Ohio,
and a daughter of Robert and Ann (Morley) Carter. Her father was a native
of North Carolina and was of English descent. In early colonial days repre-
sentatives of the name crossed the Atlantic from the " merrie isle" to

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New England, and prior to the war of tlie Kcvokitioii their descendants
removed to North Carolina. Thev were members of the Society of
Friends, or the (juaker church. Robert Carter, on leaving his native state,
took up his residence in Warren count}', Ohio, near Lebanon. He was a
blacksmith and farmer and became a wealthy man, acquiring large realty
holdings. In his later life he removed to Plainfield, Indiana, where he died
when about seventy years of age. His children were Mary, Mordecai, Cath-
erine, Lovey Ann, William, Samuel, Robert, Ann, Margaret, Sarah, Eliza-
beth, Marley and James. In the war of 1812 the father had ser\'ed his coun-
try with an officer's rank.

After his marriage Samuel Darby located in Butler county, Ohio, and
about 1 83 I removed toEaFayette, Indiana, where he remained for five years.
He then returned to Butler count}-, and in 1846 came to Howard county,
Indiana, locating in Jackson township, where he purchased of the govern-
ment one hundred and si.xty acres of wild land, upon which not a furrow had
been turned or an improvement made.

It was covered with a growth of timber, but soon the woodman's ax
awakened the echoes of the forest and as the trees fell before the sturdy
strokes of the owner the plow was put into the \'irgin soil and at length the
wild track was transformed into rich and fertile fields. Good buildings were
also erected and the farm became one of the most desirable of the locality.
During the days of its early de\elopment, however, the family experienced
many of the hardships and trials of pioneer life, and also enjoyed the pleas-
ures which are unknown to our more modern civilization. The children of
the family were Thomas J., \\'illiam S., John R. , Mary A., James K., Sam-
uel C, Caleb C, Elizabeth J., Jo.seph M. and Orange V.

Samuel Darby and his wife were very prominent members of the Meth-
odist ch':rch. They were among the founders of the church of that denomi-
nation in this locality, and their log cabin was in pioneer times the jilacc of
worship of the earl}- Methodists. The first sermon ever preached in this
part of the count}- was delivered in their honie. Mr. Darby became a very
active worker in the church and ser\ed as class leader. In his political \-iews
he was a Democrat. He \vas well known as an honored pioneer and was
greatly respected for his sterling character and fearless defense of what he
believed to be right. During the ci\-il war he was a stanch Union man, and
sent six of his sons to fight the battles of their countr}-. James and Samuel

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were privates of Company I, Eighth Indiana Infantry, and served for three
years, participating in many battles and in the Vicksburg campaign. Caleb
was a private of Company K, Thirty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers,
entered the service for three years and was wounded in the charge on Vicks-
burg. Thomas J. was a private in the ■ Regiment. William

enlisted for one year's service, was sergeant in the Twelfth Indiana Volun-
teer Battery, and took part in the engagement at Nashville. Joseph M. was
a private of Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Infantry. He
enlisted when only seventeen years of age, and was wounded in a skirmish.
The family has always been noted for its loyalty, its patriotism and its devo-
tion to any duty, and the name of Darby is one which is honored and
respected in Howard county.

The Doctor, whose name begins this review, is numbered among the
county's native sons, his birth occurring May 13, 1847, and as before stated
he has the distinction of being the first white child born in Jackson township.
He was reared on the old family homestead amid the wild scenes of frontier
life and pursued his education in the old-time log school-house. The work
of the farm early became familiar to him and he assisted in the labors
of the field until 1S64, when he joined the Union army for one year's
service, — a soldier boy of seventeen. He took part in a number of minor
engagements and continued at the front until after the expiration of his term
of enlistment. Later he attended school in Kokomo and in Xenia (now
Conover), Indiana, and in January, 1870, went to Missouri, where he was
engaged in merchandising. There he wedded Mary H. Smith, and made his
home in that state for two and a half years. He then went to Colorado,
arriving in Denver August 15, 1872. In that city he also engaged in mer-
chandising for a time, but subsequently took up the study of dentistry in a
dental college of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in r882. He then
returned to Denver, where he has built up a large and lucrative business, a
liberal patronage being secured by reason of his pronounced ability.

Dr. Darby and his wife became the parents of three children, two daugh-
ters and a son: Norah, the eldest daughter, died at the age of fifteen; Frank
W., of Company I, Second Regiment, United States Army Engineers, is
now in Honolulu; Elma, the youngest daughter, is in school at Terre Haute,
Indiana. Socially the Doctor is connected with the Masonic fraternity and
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a stanch Demo-

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crat. He is a man cf hroad experience, of strong mentality, and he is
genial, pleasant gentleman who has many friends in the neighborhood
which his boj'hood and j oiith were passed.

JOSEPH D. GATES.— In the life history of this gentleman is found e.\em-
plication of the truth that success is the result of labor, — well directed
and untiring labor. Starting out in life with no advantages and with the
additional detriment caused by lameness, Mr. Gates has triumjihed over
e%'ery obstacle and steadily worked his way upward to prosperity. He is
numbered among the leading and substantial citizens of Peru, where ho has
made his home since 1S71.

He was born in New Buffalo, Berrien county, Michigan, June 30, iS5r,
his parents being Joseph U. and Hannah (Austin) Gates, the former a natis'e
of London, while the latter was born in Indiana. When the subject of this
sketch was but two years of age his parents removed to Lake counts-,
Indiana, and immediately after this change of residence he met with a most
serious accident which rendered him permanently lame. His father died in
1856 and his mother in 1S63, and thus at the early age of twelve years he
was left an orphan. His father was for many years engaged in sailing on
Lake Michigan, but finally retired to the farm in Lake county, where his
death occurred.

Practically thrown upon his own resources in early boyhood and deprived
of the kindly watchful care of loving parents, the childhood days of our sub-
ject were fraught with many hardships and privations. He went to li\e in
the home of a maternal aunt in La Porte, Indiana, but this relative seemed
to manifest but little love for the orphan boy and his home was not a happ_\-
one. During the years of the war he sold newspapers on the streets of La
Porte. That was his first business venture and proved to be a successful one.
In 1865, when he had attained the age of fourteen years, he left La Porte
and went to the home of his sister in \'alparaiso. Soon afterward he went
to live with a farmer in Porter county, with whom he remained until 1S68,
attending school for a part of three winter terms during that time. In the
year mentioned he returned to La Porte, where he secured emplojinent in a
chair factory, and while working there he obtained considerable knowledge

164 BIOGRAPHICAL AJ\'B GEJs'EALOGICAL HISTORY OF

ot cabinet-making. In July, iSji.he came to Peru and through the suc-
ceeding twelve years was emplo3-ed in the factory of the Howe Sewing Machine
Company, and in 1883, owingto the influence of his wife and his own desires,
he decided to leave the shop and endeavor to carry on business in another
channel. He then opened a real-estate, insurance and loan agency, and his
excellent business and executive ability, combined with integrity of character,'
has long since won him the confidence of his fellow citizens, and public pat-
ronage has followed as a logical result.

In 1878 Mr. Oates was united in marriage to Miss Indiana E. Snively,
daughter of John M. Snively, deceased, formerly a prominent citizen of Peru.
Mrs. Oates was a native of F"ort \\"ay.ne, Indiana, and died May 31, 1886,
leaving to the care of her husband four little children, the youngest being only
a year old. In order of birth they are as follows: Fred M., Alice E., Merle
E. and Indiana M. Mr. Oates was again married in October, 1S91, his
second union being with Mrs. Sue N. Gregory, an estmiable lady who pre-
sides over their home with gracious hospitality.

Mr. Oates is one of Peru's \alued and representative citizens. He is
now a member of the city council, and at the expiration of his present term
will have served in that body for a long period of fourteen years. What
higher testimonial could be paid to his faithful service and his fidelity to the
best interests of the community 1 He is at present chairman of the com-
mittees on finance and water-works, and at all times he has been a pro-
gressive member of the council, giving his support to all measures which
will promote the general good and advance the welfare of the city. For a
number of years he has also been secretary of the Peru board of trade.
He is a valued member of the orders of Knights of the Maccabees, the
Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows, and in the last named has filled
all the chairs and represented the subordinate lodge in the grand lodge. In
religious belief he and his family are Methodists, holding their membership
in the church of that denomination in Peru. Politically he has been a life-
long Republican.

He has justly won the honored American title of "a self-made man."
From his boyhood days he has depended upon his own exertions for a li\-eli-
hood, and has not only secured a living, but has overcome man_\- obstacles
and disadvantages in accjuiring a comfortable competence. He is now at
the head of a good business and his success is justly deserved. He is a

aJSS, MLLMI. HO]\\nU) .LVD TIl'TO.V ('Ur.YTl KS. IC:,

man of great enerf,'y and enterprise, of force of character and resolute pur-
pose, and at all times his business has been conducted alon;^ the lines of
commercial hon )r and intej^rity. He has the contidence and resjiect of his
fellow men, and is well deserving of mention among the represeutative cit-
izens of Miami countv.

SS. RICHARDS figures as one of the leading citizens of Russiaville,
Indiana. He occupies the jiosition of township trustee of Honey Creek
township, is one of the editors and proprietors of the Observer, and is prom-
inently identified in various ways with the best interests of the town.

S. S. Richards was born in IJartholomew county, Indiana-. January i8.
1855, son of Robert O. Richards, also a native of this state, his birth having
occurred in Switzerland county sixty-eight years ago. Jeremiah Richards,
the grandfather of S. S., was a North Carolinian who emigrated to Indiana
at an early period in the history of this state and made settlement in Switz-
erland county. His father was an Englishman and a pioneer of North Car-
olina. Robert O. Richards was a successful farmer. During the Civil war
he acted the part of a brave soldier, and in the early part of his army life
he was a member of the Thirty-ninth Indiana \'olunteer Infantr)-, and later
•was with the Eighth Indiana Cavalry, which was commanded by Kilpatrick,
and was a veteran of four years. On mo\ing to Howard count}' he located
four miles southeast of Russiaville, where he remained until 1892, when he
moved to Russiaville, where he still lives, retired from active business. Mr.
Richards' mother, lu'c Mary Howbert, was a native of Pennsylvania and of
German descent. She also is living, — seventy-two years old. They are
parents of six children, four of whom are living, of the following names:
Elwood A., a resident of Kansas and an e.\-soldier; S. S., our subject;
Kate; Clara F. , wife of Gilbert Ratcliff, a successful farmer of Honey Creek
township.

S. S. Richards, the second child, received his early training in the com-
mon schools of Honey Creek township and finished his education in the
Kokomo high school, graduating there with the class of 1875. On complet-
ing his high-school course he accepted a position as deputy in the office of the
county recorder, which he filled six years. The next nine years he was
employed as express messenger on the road for the American Express Com-

166 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

panv. In January, 1891, he resigned his position and came to Russiaville.
Here he engaged in the furniture business, which he conducted successfully
for five years, at the end of that time disposing of his furniture establishment
and turning his attention to the hardware business. Two years later, in
November, 1897, he sold his hardware store, and for a time was retired from
business. Since then he has given more or less time and attention to his
fruit farm of seven acres at Russiaville. In December, 1S97, he bought the
Observer, which he has since owned and edited, in connection with his son-
in-law, under the firm name of Richards & Zenor.

Politically, Mr. Richards affiliates with the Republican party, and is
active in promoting its interests. He was in the fall of 1894 elected to the
office of township trustee of Honey Creek township and is now the incumbent
of this office. In fraternal circles also he is prominent and active. He is a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he maintains a mem-
bership in the Knights of Pythias. His religious creed is that of the Method-
ist Episcopal church, of which he is an active member and one of its lead-
ing supporters.

Mr. Richards was married June 15, 1876, to Miss Mary E. Ream,
daughter of Captain L. V. Ream, a prominent citizen of Kokomo. They
are the parents of three children, namely: Daisy D., wife of James M.
Zenor, who, as already stated, is associated with Mr. Richards in the publi-
cation of the Observer; and Cora C. and Mary M., both at home.

JAMES JACKSON, of Logansport, arrived in Cass county, Indiana, in that
year which marked the middle of the century and here he has since main-
tained his home and in various ways has been identified with the best interests
of the county.

Mr. Jackson was born in Stark county, Ohio, February 8, 1822, and is
a son of James and Nancy (McGahey) Jackson, the former a native of Nova
Scotia and the latter of Ireland. Their family was composed of three chil-
dren, Maria, Robert and James.

The grandfather of our subject, James Jackson, was a native of Liver-
pool, England, and was by occupation a sailor, running between Liverpool
and America, touching at Nova Scotia and New York. He never settled in

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the United States. His son James, the father of our subject, was reartd in
Nova Scotia and remained there until he reached manhood. In iSi i, at the

age of twenty-two, he came to Ohio, and in Stark county settled on a farm
of one hundred and sixty acres, which he purchased from the government,
and there he passed the rest of his life, dying in 1865, at the venerable age
of seventy-six years.

It was on his father's farm in Stark county that the subject of our sketch
was born and reared. His education was obtained in the schools of Akron,
Ohio. Early in life he engaged in teaching school, a work for which he
seemed particularly adapted, and followed this profession for a period of
thirty-si.x 3 ears, in Ohio and Indiana. He came to Indiana in 1850, and as
above recorded, at that time settled in Cass countv, making Logansport his
home. In this county he has performed much public service, both as a dep-
uty and as an office-holder. He has served as a deputy in the county clerk's
office and also in the office of the auditor. In 1869 he was elected township
trustee of Eel township and was re-elected in 1872 and again in 1888, his
service altogether covering a period of twelve years. In politics he is a
Democrat.

Mr. Jackson was a sufferer for forty-seven years from white swelling,
and finally, in 1886, was induced to have his limb amputated, which was
done just above the knee, thus rendering him a cripple for life.

He was married in October, 1851, to Miss Ann Sanderson, a native of
England and a daughter of Austin Sanderson, who 'came to this country with
his family and settled in Stark county, Ohio. Mrs. Jackson died June 18,
1892, at the age of about sixty-four years, leaving two children, Jennie, wife
of John Wagner, of Detroit, Michigan, an engineer, and Frank P., who mar-
ried Lucy P. Kirk. They reside in Logansport at the old home of our subject.

IW. GARDNER, justice of the peace at Russiaville, Howard county, In-
diana, is a venerable citizen of this place who at this writing is nearing his
seventy-fifth mile-post. The history of his life, in brief, is as follows::

I. W. Gardner was born in Hart county, Kentucky, August 25, 1823.
Both his father and grandfather, lilisha and Haith Gardner, were natives of
Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and the latter's father was when a babe

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picked up from a vessel that was wrecked off the isle of Nantucket. Beyond'
that their history cannot be traced. Haith Gardner was a soldier all through
the Revolutionary war, and was also a participant in the war of 1812, coining
out of the latter with the rank of captain. His son Elisha also was in the
war of 18 12. Elisha Gardner was a prominent and successful farmer, own-
ing a thousand acres of land in Kentucky, and by all who knew him was
highly respected for his many excellent traits of character. For many years
he was a worthy member of the Baptist church. He died in 1865. His
wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Wadkins, was a daughter of James-
Wadkins, who removed from Maryland to Kentucky at an early day, being
among the pioneers of Kentucky. She died in 1854. Of the nine children
composing their family, only two are now living: I. W. , whose name forms
the heading of this review; and Lydia, wife of Abner Gooch, of Hart county,
Kentucky.

I. W. Gardner received his early training in one of the logschool-houses
of his native state. He remained in Kentucky and was engaged in farming
there until 1864, when he came up into Indiana and settled in Tipton county,
and there he carried on farming operations till 18S1. That year he disposed
of his farm and moved to Russiaville, Howard county, where he has since
lived retired.

Until the outbreak of civil war, Mr. Gardner was a Democrat and since
that time he has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party. He was
in i8go elected a justice of the peace, and is now serving in that capacity,
his present term to expire in 1900. During the war and previous to it he
saw some trying times in Kentucky. He offered his own services to the
Union cause, and when he was not accepted he sent his sixteen-year-old
son. For fifty years Mr. Gardner has been a member of the Baptist church,
and also he has long been identified with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, having membership in both the subordinate lodge and encampment.
He is a charter member of Sharpsville Lodge, No. 347, I. O. O. F., and he
and one other are the only ones of the charter members now living.

Mr. Gardner was married November 25, 1S45, to Miss Elizabeth Sey-
mour, a daughter of Powan Seymour, of \'irginia. She is still living, and
although now seventy years of age has not a silver thread among her dark
tresses. Eleven children were born to this worthy couple, seven of whom
are now living, namely: Thomas, a Baptist minister of Kokomo, Indiana;

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William L., Russiaville, Iiuliaiui; James, Scdalia, Missouri; Hcmy, St.
Louis, Missouri; Edward, Frankfort, Indiana; Eliza, wife of Isaac Cirasliau,
Sharpsvilie, Indiana; and Katie B., at home.

1~\R. ANDREW S. DICKEY. — "Everyman who rises in any profession
*-^ must tread a path more or less bedewed by the tears of those he passes
on his way." Talent for,e;es ahead. Genius cannot wait. Nor can those at
the head support all the others. Scanning the life and career of the physi-
cian whom we have selected as the subject of these few remarks, we cannot
but see that he is one of thoss persevering men whose ambition leads them
to the goal of success.

Dr. Dickey, who is a member of the tirni of Newcomer & Dickey, phy-
sicians and surgeons, Tipton, Indiana, was born in Fayette county, this state,
September 7, i S50, a son of Hugh and Hannah (Manlove) Dickey, also natives
of the Hoosier state aid of Fayette county. They had two sons, — George
A., a farmer arfd dairyman, and the subject of this sketch. The father, also
a farmer, grew to manhood in his native county, and moved to Tipton county
in 1852, settling upon a farm of one hundred and twenty acres six miles south-
west of Tipton, which he cleared and reduced to cultivation, and to which he
subsequently added one hundred and sixty acres. From iS64to 1 869 he
resided in the town of Tipton, during which time he purchased another farm,
consisting of one hundred and eighty-eight acres, a mile and a half west of
town, and in the latter year moved out upon the place and continued to
make that his home for ten years. Then he removed back to tlie old farm
southwest of town and lived there till 1S91, when he exchanged it for another
of one hundred and fifty acres east of Tipton, where lie made his home during
the remainder of his life, passing to the other world on the 9th of June, that
year, aged seventy-one years; and his widow still resides there, with her son,
George A. P'rom 1861 to 1865 he was sheriff of Tipton county, and for the
next two j-ears was county treasurer. For one term he was also trustee of
Cicero township. He was an exemplary member of the United Presbyterian
■church, in which religious body he was a ruling elder. Mrs. Dickey is also a
faithful member of the same church.

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count}', Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, a fanner by vocation, moved
to Ohio, married Margaret Spence in Kentucky and came as a pioneer to
Fayette county, Indiana, locating upon a farm, and in 185 i came to Tipton
county, where he died, at the age of eighty-tour years, while still engaged in
agricultural pursuits. He also was a man held in high esteem, for during
one term he served the public as county collector for Fayette county, in
which he discharged his duties faithfully and promptly. He had twelve
children.

George Manlove, maternal grandfather of our subject, emigrated from
North Carolina when a young man, locating on a farm in Fayette count}',
this state, and in his family was born the first white child in Posey township.
Of his nine children, eight grew up, married and had children. He died at
the age of forty-seven or eight years, of Asiatic cholera.

The subject of this sketch was but two years of age when his parents
came to Tipton county, and he has e\er since been a citizen of this county.
He attended the public schools of Tipton, the Waveland Academy at Wave-
land, Indiana, and finally graduated at the Indiana State University at
Bloomington, in 1877. His home up to this time was with liis parents on
the farm, where he was employed at manual labor during the intervals of
school.

In 1878 he began the study of medicine at the Miami Medical College,
at Cincinnati, and he completed the course at the Central College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons at Indianapolis, in 1881, when he received his diploma.
The same year he commenced the practice of his chosen profession at Tipton,
not confining himself to any specialty, and here has since continued, with the
success that attends a faithful application of modern methods. He is a mem-
ber of the Tipton County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society,
the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, was for a time a member of the
board of examining surgeons for pensions at Tipton, during Cleveland's
administration, and for the past fifteen years has been county health officer.
Politically he is a Democrat, and religiously he is a member of the United
Presbyterian church. His home and office are together, on Court street.
He has never been married. He is a genial gentleman whom it is a pleasure
to meet. He and his partner. Dr. M. V. B. Newcomer, have been asso-
ciated together for the past seventeen years, and they are among Tipton's
leading physicians, as well as the leading citizens in all local interests. The

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medical librar}' w liicli they possess is an exceptionally large and well selected
collection of books, and with this and the medical periodicals they study they
keep themselves abreast with the discoveries and improvements which so
prominently characterize the science of medicine.

O P. HOLLIXGSWORTH.— Prominent among the industries of Russia-
^ ville, Howard county, Indiana, is th; milling business owned and con-
ducted b}' the subject of this sketch, S. P. Hollingsworth.

Mr. Hollingsworth is a native of the township in which he lives and was
born March 5, 1861. He is of Holland extraction. His people, however,
have long been residents of America, having come to this countrj- in the colo-
nial period. The Hollingsworths were represented in both the I'Jevolution-
ary war and the war with Mexico. Joseph Hollingsworth, the grandfather of
the subject of our sketch, was born in North Carolina, and his son, Isaac,
the father of S. P., is a native of Miami county, Ohio. Isaac Hollings-
worth was a miller by trade. He and his father were the first white
settlers who came to Howard county, in 1841. In 1S5S he came to Rus-
siaville, where he owned and operated a mill, and where he made his
home until 1S92. That year he mo\ed to Alabama, where he owns a
large fruit farm and where he still lives, being now seventy-eight years
of age. His wife, ;/<V Peniah Cosand, died in 1888. Of their six chil-
dren, five are living at this writing, namely: Benjamin, a resident of
Russiaville; S. P., whose name forms the heading of this sketch; L. M.,
Ridgway, Indiana; C. J., Howard county; and C. W., also of this county.

S. P. Hollingsworth passed his boyhood days in attending the common
schools and assisting his father in the mill. He continued to work in the
mill for his father until 1S89, when he moved the mill to its present location
at Russiaville and has since had charge of the same doing a successful busi-
ness. For a number of years Mr. Hollingsworth has been an enthusiastic
bicyclist and for four j^ears was a world's champion wheelman. He held the
record for a mile and for twenty-four hours' run. Fraternally, he is a
worthy member of the I. O. O. F.

Mr. Hollingsworth was married May 2, 188S, to Miss Lottie Haum, and
they have two children — Trucy and Lucile.

17-2 BIOGRAPHICAL A.WD GE^fEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

GEORGE W. HAUM. — The subject of this sketch has been engaged in
milling at Russiaville, Indiana, since 1868. He is of " Hoosier " birth
and is the son of a miller. He was born in Boone county, Indiana, May 8,
1840, son of Sheppard B. Haum, whose birthplace was in Carter county,
east Tennessee, and whose father was Abraham Haum, a native of Pennsyl-
vania. The last named was a soldier in the war of 1812. Sheppard B.
Haum came to Indiana when very young, and for years ran a mill in Boone
county, moving thence to Warren county, Indiana, in 1863, where he was
engaged in milling at the time of his death, in March, 1864. He was a man
of generous, genial nature, kind and accommodating, and was highly esteemed
by all who knew him. His wife, Thersey, was a daughter of William
McDaniel, a Virginian and a captain in the war of 1812. She died in Novem-
ber, 1897. The fruits of their union were ten children, of whom seven are
living at this writing, namely: George W., whose name initiates this review;
Martin G., Burlington, Indiana; Ella, wife of A. T. Whittaker, postmaster
at Kokomo, Indiana; A. H., Williamsport, ex-sheriff of Warren county,
Indiana; Nettie, wife of Thomas Secrist, Kokomo; Mary G., wife of John
Sheffy, La Fayette, Indiana; and Katy. wife of William Swadley, of Green-
town, Indiana.

George W. Haum in his youthful days attended the common schools,
but while yet a mere boy left school and in his father's mill learned the trade
of miller. When the Civil war came on his sympathies were enlisted in the
Union cause, and in 1862 he showed his patriotism by enlisting as a member
of Company I, Si.\ty-third Indiana Volunteers. His war record covers a
period of thirty-five months. He was in sixteen different engagements, and
throughout his whole army service he acted the part of a true, brave soldier.
The war over, he was honorably discharged and returned home. For a time
he was engaged in milling in Boone county, went from there to Kirkland,
Clinton county, and two years later, in 1S68, came to his present location at
Russiaville. That year he purchased a mill here, which he operated until
1870, when it burned. Then, in connection with his brother, M. G. , he
built his present mill, which they have since run. He has had a successful
career and is ranked with the leading and enterprising men of the town.
Fraternally, he is both an Odd Fellow and Red Man, and at the present
writing is treasurer of the Red Men's local organization.

Mr. Haum was married June 14, 1867, to Miss Francis A. McKenzie,

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daughter of John \\'ilHams McKenzie, of Chntori countj-, Indiaim. They
have had four children, two of whom are living: L-jttie, wife of S. \\ Hol-
lingsworth, of Russiaville; and William M., in the mill with his father.

lOHX JACKSOX. proprietor of a livery establishment in Logansport,
^ Indiana, and one of the respected citizens of this place, has maintained
his home here since about the time he reached his majority, the date of his
arrival in I.ogansport being 1850.

Mr. Jackson is a nati\'e of the Buckeye state. He was born in Stark
county, Ohio, March 2, 1S29, and is a son of James and Sarah (Stout) Jack-
son, the former born on the Atlantic ocean and the latter a native of Penn-
sylvania. Grandfather Jackson was an Englishman by birth and by occupa-
tion a sailor, and it was on one of his vo3-ages that his son James was born.
The senior Mr. Jackson finally left the deep and settled in America, but
eventually returned to England and died at Liverpool. James Jackson set-
tled on a farm in Stark count}-, Ohio, where he passed his life. He and his
wife were the parents of thirteen cliildren, John, our subject, being the
seventh in order of birth.

John Jackson was born and reared on his father's farm in Stark county
and in early life learned the trade of wagon and carriage maker. In June,
1S50. at the age of twenty-one, he came to Cass county, Indiana, and set-
tled at Logansport, where he began working at his trade by the month.
Four years later he started in the carriage business for himself, doing an
extensi\-e business. He continued in this line of enterprise until 188S. when
he turned his attention to the livery business, in connection with which he ran
for some time a repair shop. He now conducts one of the best livery estab-
lishments in th; city. Daring his business career he has from time to time
made valuable investments in real estate in Logansport and to-day is the
owner of much desirable realty here. Politically he is a stanch Democrat.

-Mr. Jackson has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name
was Miss Caroline Weimer, was a native of Indiana. She bore him si,\ chil-
dren, four of whom are deceased, those living being Allie and Xewton. For
his second wife he married Miss Lmaline Downing, a native of Penton
countv, Indiana, and she also gave birth to si.\- children, four of whom are
living: Charles, Ida, May and Fred.

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DR. WILLIS B. HURON. — In the opinion of the world generally,
without any reference to religion or politics, the medical profession is by
far the most useful to humanity, notwithstanding the quackery attending it,
for the hygienic advice given by physicians generally — which by the way is
not sought after as much as it should be — and the many thousand sacrifices the
faithful physicianis obliged to make with no prospect of pecuniary reward, prove
the general statement we have just made. On this account we should revere
the practitioner of the healing art, at least until we find him unworthy. Besides,
the physician is usually characterized by a knowledge of the sciences generally,
and is, therefore, useful in giving interesting and modern information on all
points, and, moreover, he is as social as any other professional man. We
bear these things in mind when we consider the life and character of Dr.
Huron, a homeopathic physician and surgeon of Tipton, Indiana.

He was born in Hendricks county, this state, April 5, 1858, a son of
Benjamin A. and Catharine (Harding) Huron. His father was a native of
Ohio and his mother of Kentucky, and they had five sons and five daughters,
as follows: Othniel; George A.; Francis H. ; Lu Ellen, wife of Dr. J. D.
Bennett, of Crystal River, Florida; Sarah J., single, postmistress at Crystal
River; Esther A., wife of S. H. Kelsey, of Atchison, Kansas; A. Kate, wife
of David Gilbert, Mitchell, Indiana; Seth Thomas; Mary, wife of Dr. J. S.
Ragan, of Plainfield, Indiana; and Willis B., whose name heads this sketch.
All are living, excepting the first named, who died at the age of five years.

Benjamin A. Huron, the father, came to Indiana in 1832, locating in
Hendricks county upon eighty acres of land which he had entered from the
government and which is still in his name; subsequently he added to this
tract eighty acres more. Here his children were brought up, in the pursuits
of agriculture. At the age of seventy-six years he was killed by an engine
on the railroad near his home, on the 23d of February, 1888. His widow is
still living, passing her time at the various residences of her children, and is
now eighty-three years old, hale and hearty. She is a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church, as was her husband. He held a number of town-
ship offices, as trustee, assessor, etc. His two oldest sons were soldiers in
the Civil war.

Othniel Huron, the paternal grandfather of the Doctor, was a farmer of
Warren county, Ohio, and died there at a very advanced age. He had four-
teen children. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Huron, Aaron Harding by

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name, was a native of X'irginia, of English descent, and a farmer, who
moved to Kentucky- but soon left there on account of slavery and came to
Hendricks county, Indiana. At length he removed to Jasper county, Illinois,
where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. At the death of his wife and all
his children but two, he returned to Indiana, and finally died near Browns-
burg, at the great age of ninety-si.\ years.

Dr. Huron, of whom we more particularly write, was reared at his
parental home on the farm. After the usual attendance at the public
schools, he pursued the curriculum at the Central Normal College at Dan-
ville, this state, graduating in i8Si. Then he taught for three years as
principal of a town school at Farmland, Indiana; ne.\t he attended Hahne-
mann Medical College, at Chicago, graduating in 1886, and began the prac-
tice of his chosen profession at Charleston, Illinois. In October, 1887, he
came to Tipton, where he has ever since been engaged in successful practice.

He is a member of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, and is secre-
tary of the Board of U.iited States Examining Surgeons; is one of the direct-
ors of the Standard Building, Loan & Savings Association. From 1S90 to
1896 he was a member of the city council, when much of the street improve-
ment was made and the water-works system established. Politically he is a
Republican and fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and of the
order of Knights of Pythias. In religion he is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in which religious body he holds the office of steward.

September 13, 1882, is the date of the Doctor's union in matrimony
with Miss Jennie Osborn, a daughter of Mahlon and .Arcadia (Phillipsj
Osborn. The Doctor and Mrs. Huron are the parents of three children —
Glen O., Loyd B. and Esther. Mrs. Huron was originally a Quaker, but is
now a member of the Methodist church. The residence, which was built bj'
the Doctor in 1888, is at 204 North West street, Tipton.

DENJAMIN C. STEVENS, M. D.— In a comparison of the relative value
*—' to mankind of the various professions and pursuits to which men devote
their time and energies, it is widely recognized that none is more important
than the medical profession. F"rom the cradle to the grave human destinj' is
largely in the hands of the physician, not alone on account of the effect he

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may have on the physical system, but also upon men's mental and moral
nature. A cheery presence, a bright smile, a sympathetic disposition often
do as much for the patient as the medicines administered, and are, therefore,
essential qualifications to the successful practitioner. In none of these is
Dr. Stevens lacking, and for twenty-five years he has been a member of the
profession in Logansport, where he has gained marked distinction by reason
of his broad knowledge, his skill and his honorable efforts in the line of his
chosen calling.

Dr. Stevens was born near Montreal, Canada, on the 6th of April, 1850.
The Stevens family was founded in America about the time of the settlement
of Massachusetts by the Puritans, and in later years its representatives
removed to the New Jersey colony. The grandfather, John M. Stevens, was
a native of Plymouth, New Jersey, and when twelve years of age accompanied
his parents on their removal to New Brunswick, Canada. This was immedi-
ately after the Declaration of Independence was written, and, as the family
were among those who opposed the continental government, they were per-
mitted to leave the colonies.

When Dr. Stevens was five years of age he was adopted by an uncle,
who resided in St. John, New Brunswick, and with him he remained until
fourteen years of age, after which he was employed for three years in a drug
store in St. Stephens. It was during this period that he began the stud}' of
medicine. At the age of seventeen he went to the west, where he was
employed in various ways until the spring of 1869. when he came to Logans-
port, Indiana, and worked at the carpenter's trade, but, stimulated by his
love for the profession with which he is now connected, he took up the study
of medicine, continuing his reading privately until 187 1, when he matricu-
lated in the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.
There he was graduated, on the completion of the course, in the spring of
1873, and immediately afterward opened an office in Logansport, where he
has since engaged in a successful practice. His business has steadily increased
as the years have passed and he is now physician to many of the best fam-
ilies m Cass county. Keen discrimination in the diagnosis of a ca.'se, sound
judgment in prescribing medicines and methods of treatment, thorough under-
standing of anatomy and marked skill have won him rank among the ablest
physicians in his section of the state. He holds membership in the Cass
County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the American

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Medical Association and [or eight years held the position of county pli3sician,
and for one term was county coroner.

In his political associations Dr. Stevens is a Democrat, ami on the
issues of the day he keeps well informed, thereby givin.i; an intelligent sup-
port to the measures of his party. Socially he is connected with the Knights
of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Masonic
fraternity, and in the last named his membership is with Orient Lodge,
No. 272, A. F. & A. M. ; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M. ; Logansport Coun-
cil, No. II, and St. John Commandery, No. 24, K. T.

In 1S76 he married Miss Luella E. Malott. He is esteemed for his
social qualities, his fidelity to the duties of citizenship and more than all for
his honorable record as a medical practitioner, for through his own efforts he
has attained an enviable position in the profession and gained a financial suc-
cess which indicates his superior ability.

JOHN HARDING. — "Biography is the best form of history," says an eini-
nent writer. In this sketch we study the career of an honest and indus-
trious laborer who is now enjoying the restful evening of life which he has
so faithfully earned, at his pleasant home, which he purchased in 1872, at
136 North Main street, Tipton, not far from the business center.

Mr. Harding is a native of this state, born in Brownsville, Union county,
February 18, 1834. His father, Thomas K. Harding, a native of Butler
county, Ohio, learned and for a while followed the trade of blacksmith in
Cincinnati, and emigrated to Indiana, locating first in Union county. In
Brownsville, that county, he worked at his trade for several years, and then
moved to Marion township, Boone county, this state, settling on a farm of
eighty acres, which, with the aid of his family, he cultivated while he also
continued blacksmithing; and this trade, indeed, he followed until near the
close of his life, his death occurring January 10, 1S67, in his tifty-si.xth year.
His wife, before marriage named Rachel Knott, was a native of North Caro-
lina and was si.x years old when she was brought to Indiana by her parents
in 1S17, who located at the present site of Brownsville. They had si.x sons
and four daughters, namely: James W., who met his death in infancy by
the accident of falling into a tub of scalding water. The other children were

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Samuel, John, William K., Rebecca (deceased), Mary Hannah (deceased),
Margaret J. (wife of Alexander McConnell), Thomas J. (deceased, dying when
a soldier at Nashville, Tennessee, in the hospital, during the war of the
Rebellion), Martha Ann (widow of Abraham Kutz) and Francis Marion.
Mrs. Rachel Harding left this " world of sin and sorrow" May 25, 1887, at
the age of seventy-six years and four months. Both were faithful members
of the Christian church.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Harding, was a native
of Ohio, married Margaret Kane, and was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and
died three weeks after arriving home from the battle-field, in middle life.
His three children were Thomas K., Samuel and Mary.

James Knott, our subject's maternal grandfather, was a native of North
Carolina, a farmer by occupation and died at the age of fifty-seven years, in
184s, in Union county, this state. His wife, a native of Virginia, lived to
be one hundred and three years and three months old, spending the last
twenty-three years of her life at the home of the subject of this sketch.

Mr. John Harding was eleven 3'ears of age when the family to which he
belonged removed from Union county to Boone county, Indiana. Tempora-
rily they dwelt in the log school-house which was upon their place until they
could build a cabin, and it was in this school-house that young John after-
ward obtained his education. On approaching manhood he began practical
life for himself by running a blacksmith shop and a hotel. These establish-
ments he afterward sold and purchased eighty acres of land northwest of
Kirklin, raised one crop, moved back to town and was employed at a dollar
a day to help pay the balance due on his farm.

In 1862 he enlisted in the army for the Union, in Company A, Eighty-
sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Lebanon, Indiana, and served twenty-
seven and a half months. On the 25th of November, 1863, he was wounded
at the battle of Missionary Ridge; and he also participated in the battles of
Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and many skirmishes. His wound
proved so serious that the limb affected (the left leg) had to be amputated, at
the upper joint, and he is still a great sufferer on account of this trouble.

After the close of the war he entered the harness business in Kirklin,
and after following that for two years he went into the grocery trade, in part-
nership with D. McKinsey, and was thus engaged for three and a half years.
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and lived there until 1872. On the last day of January, that year, lie came
to Tipton and was again engaged in the grocery business for a year; tiien he
exchanged his stock for a harness shop and sixty acres of land in Tipton
county, which he disposed of in 1S75; and after that he followed teaming for
a time. Then he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Milford
Downard, and opened a grocery store, which they ran for several years.
Next he engaged in buying and shipping timber, hauling saw-logs, etc. , for
two or three years, then for twelve years sold sewing-machines and organs;
and he is now retired, as before stated.

Mr. Harding is a pleasant-mannered man, well informed on tiie issues
and current topics of the times and is a good converser.

November 17, 1859, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E.
Downard, a daughter of James T. and Mary Cynthia (Miller) Downard, and
they have three children, — Ora B., Dell Uba and William Thomas. Ora B.
became the wife of Joseph A. Innis, of Tipton, and had three children, only
one of whom is now living, named Bertram; Dell Uba married Professor
WiUiam H. Clemmons, and they now live in Fremont, Nebraska, where Mr.
Clemmons is the principal and owner of a college; and William T. is at his
parental home, being the proprietor of the " Model " shoe store in Tipton.
Mr. and Mrs. Harding are members of the Christian (Disciples') church, and
politically Mr. Harding is a Republican.

JEROME TAYLOR, who has resided on his present farm in Jackson town-
ship, Cass county, Indiana, for nearly thirty years, is well known as one
of the representative farmers of his locality. His history includes an honor-
able war record, and, briefly, his biography is as follows:

Jerome Taylor was born in Putnam county. West \'irginia, May 4, 1845.
When he was eight years old his parents came west to Indiana and settled
in Cass county, his father, Ruben Taylor, being among the pioneers of
Tipton township. Here the subject of our sketch grew to manhood. When
the Civil war came on both he and his brother, George I., entered the L'nion
ranks. The latter, a member of Company A, Thirty-ninth Indiana
\'olnnteer Infantry, fell in the engagement at Stone River and died on the
battle-field. Jerome Taylor enlisted in May, 1862, for three months'

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service, in Company B, Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and as a
member of tfiat command was a participant in tfie battle of Richmond,
Kentucky. Returning home at the expiration of the three months, he
re-enlisted, joining Company A, Thirty-ninth Volunteers o; Indiana, but did
not pass muster, being rejected on account of his weight. Afterward he made
an effort to join the navy, but was again rejected, for the same reason, his
his weight being only one hundred and twelve pounds. Finally, however, he
was accepted and in August, 1863, as a member of Company K,One Hundred
and Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers, went to the front. His term of enlist-
ment was for six months, but he was in the service seven months and ten
days, and among the engagements in which he took part where those of Bull's
Gap and Walker's Ford. But this did not end his service. The war was
not over, and he was not one to remain at home when he felt he was needed
in battle line. Accordingly in March, 1S64, we again find him enlisting, this
time as a member of the Ninth Indiana. Sickness, however, at this time
kept him at home. After his recovery from a siege of typhoid fever, he
enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana, for a year, and
was in the battle of Nashville, after which he was on provo ;t duty. Septembe r
19, 1865, he received his honorable discharge, and immediately thereafter
returned home.

After the war Mr. Taylor worked on a farm by the month until his
marriage in 1869, and after marriage he brought his bride to his present
farm, where they began housekeeping and where they have ever since
resided. Politically, Mr. Taylor is a Republican.

Mrs. Taylor was formerly Miss Mary E. Beebe. They have four chil-
dren: Charles A., Samuel S., George R. and Donnie.

T~\R. S. O. DUNCAN, a druggist and practicing physician of Russiaville,
*-^ Howard county, Indiana, is a native of this county, born in Hone)'
Creek township, on a farm, June 2, 1868.

Dr. Duncan traces his lineage back to Scotland, his great-grandfather
Duncan having been chief of a Scottish clan. At an early period in the his-
tory of America he left his home in Scotland and came to America, settling
in North Carolina, where his son Peter, the grandfather of our subject, was

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born. Peter Duncan came in early life to Indiana and located in S\vil;^crland
county, and his son, F. M., the Doctor's father, was born in that county. In
1S48 the Duncan family removed to Howard county, and here F. M. •,'re\v to
manhood, was for many years enfjaf;;ed in fanning and still lives, his present
home being in RussiaviUe, he bavins; recently retired from the farm. Duringf
the Civil war he served as a pri\atc in the One Hundred and Fighteenth
Indiana Volunteers, enlistinLC August, i8('i2, and being honorably discharged
at the close of the war. He married Miss Hannah Runk, daughter of Samuel
Runk, the third \\hite man to settle in Honey Creek township, Howard
county. Mr. Duncan is now tifty one years of age and his wife fifty-two.
They are the parents of five children, three of whom are living, namely:
S. O., the subject of this review; Orpha, wife of Joseph D. \'an Sickel, Miami,
Indiana; and Earnest, a student in the Indianapolis Law School.

S. O. Duncan attended school near his home until he was seventeen.
At that age he entered Franklin College, where he graduated in 1S03, with
the degree of A. B. Choosing the medical profession, he pursued his studies
in Rush Medical College, completed the course in due time and received his
diploma in 1896. Immediately after his graduation, he entered upon the
practice of his profession in Edinburg, Indiana, and remained there until
September, 1897, when he came to RussiaviUe. Here he has since been
engaged in the drug business and in the practice of medicine. He is an up-
to-date young physician, well posted on all that pertains to his profession,
and in touch with the medical brotherhood, ha\ing membership in the John-
son and Howard Counties Medical Society and also the Indiana State Med-
ical Society. Other fraternal organizations with which he is identified are
the Knights of Pythias and the Red Men.

Dr. Duncan is a member of the Baptist church. His father belongs to
New-Light or Christian church, in which he is a trustee and deacon.

MARCELLUS RACOBS.— The present city marshal of Tipton, Mr. Mar-
cellus Racobs, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, near Washington
Court House, August 13, 1845, a son of Joseph and Ruth (\'antrees) Racobs,
natives of the Buckeye state. They had five sons and five daughters, of
whom live are now living, namely: Marcellus, whose name heads this

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sketch; Jane, the wife of Edward Coffiiian, of Cloverdale, Indiana; Anna,
now Mrs. Coon, residing in the state of Iowa; Ella, wife of Plimpton Reed,
of Greenfield, this state; and Frank Racobs, also of Greenfield. The father,
a farmer bj' vocation, emigrated to Indiana in 1868, locating in Cicero town-
ship, Tipton county, near Tipton, where he rented a farm and lived about
three years; he then moved to Montgomery county, Kansas, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits there till about 1877, when he returned to this state,
locating in Putnam county and again engaging in farming. In 1882 he had
the misfortune to lose his mind, and Marcellus went and brought him to his
own home and has cared for him ever since. His wife lives at Cloverdale,
Putnam county; she is a member of the Christian church.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, Frederick Racobs, was a native
of Virginia, who moved to Ohio in an early day and located in Fayette
county. He died in middle life, while on his way to Indiana, near Eaton,
Ohio, and his family then returned to Fayette county, that state. He had
six children. Mr. Racob's mother's father, Mr. Vantrees, was also a native
of Virginia and of German descent, became a merchant in Kentucky and
resided also for a time in Ohio, and at length died in Kentucky. He was
married three times and had altogether twenty-seven children.

Mr. Marcellus Racobs, our subject, was reared in Fayette county, Ohio,
principally in the village, attending the common schools and received a fair
education. During the summer seasons he clerked in a grocery until sixteen
years of age, when he entered the army for the Union, enlisting as a
member of Company C, Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year
as a private; he then re-enlisted, in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, in
Company A, and served in that body from June 23, 1S63, to August 23,
1865, participating in the battles of Cross Keys, Virginia, Harper's Ferry, in
1862, and taken prisoner there, but immediately paroled; was afterward in
the battles of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Cleveland, same state; Strawberry
Plains; the battle of Mouse creek and a great many skirmishes.

After the war he returned home and followed agricultural pursuits in
Fayette county, Ohio, from 1865 to 1867, and in March of the latter year
came to Tipton county, this state, where he engaged in farming until 1872,
when he moved to Kansas and also followed farming in Montgomery county
there for two years. Returning to Tipton, he has ever since been a resident
of Cicero township, engaged in agriculture until 1880, when he moved into

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town and ran an engine for six years. He was then elected city marshal
and by re-election served three terms altogether, always a Democratic nom-
inee; was twice defeated, but in iSqS was elected for the fourth term, antl he
is now acceptably serving in that capacity. He is a member of the Improved
Order of Red Men, the Independent Order of Foresters, and of lames Price
Post, No. 203, Grand Army of the Republic. He and Mrs. Racobs are
members of the Christian (Disciples') church, which they joined in 1869.
He built his own residence on South Third street in iSS-, where he has since
lived. He has been in the count}' now about thirty years. He is a kind-
hearted, good man and highly regarded in the community. In the language
of Washington Irving, he has "that inexhaustible good nature which is itself
the most precious gift of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest
weather." He thinks a great deal of his friends, and this is indeed the best
thing that can be said of any man. Physically, also, he is a fine specimen,
being six feet and three inches tall and well proportioned.

August 23, 1 868, is the date of his union in matrimony with Miss Jennie
A. Recobs (almost the same name as his own), a daughter of James and
Lydia (Burnett) Recobs. By that union there were twelve children, — six
sons and six daughters, namely; James Franklin, who died in infancy; the
next two were girls, who died also in infancy; William Henry, who died at
the age of twelve years; Catharine, who died at the age of eighteen years;
Carra, Henry, Robert, May, Dayton, Ella and ^^'alter. Seven of the chil-
dren are still at their parental home.

WH. EIKENBERRY, one of the prominent young business men of
Russiaville, Howard county, Indiana, has for the past ten years been
at the head of a carriage and buggy establishment at this place. As one of
the leading spirits in the business circles of this prosperous little town, his
career as a business man and his personal history are of interest in this
connection, and, briefly, a rcsiiiiiJ oi his life is as follows;

W. H. Eikenberry is a native " Hoosier," born in Monroe township,
Howard county, Indiana, February 5, 1 866. He is of German origin, the
Eikenberrys having been among the earl}' settlers of the " Old Dominion,"
and several generations of the family having lived and died in this country.

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Henry Eikenberry, his grandfather, was born in Virginia. In the year 1810
he moved to Ohio and two years later, in 1812, came over into Indiana and
pitched his tent in Union county. It was in Union county, at College Cor-
ner, that his son John, the father of our subject, was born. John Eiken-
berry moved to Howard county some thirty-five years ago and has resided
here ever since, engaged in farming until recently. For the past four years
his home has been in Russiaville and he is now interested with his son in the
buggy business. His life has been such that it has earned him a place
among the representative citi;5ens of his locality. He is a member of the
New-light Christian church and a deacon in the same, and enjoys the high
esteem of all who know him. His wife was before her marriage Miss Delilah
Clark and is a daughter of William Clark, of Union county, Indiana. Of the
eight children of this worthy couple, the following named are now living:
Sarah Ann, wife of B. F. Bock; Lydia, wife of Ephraim Reinheart, of River
Forest, Indiana; Jennie, wife of Ad. Gordon, residing near Russiaville; W.
H., whose name forms the heading of this sketch; Carl C, of Russiaville;
and Miss Laura, at home.

W. H. Eikenberry was reared on his father's farm in Monroe township,
Howard county, and up to the time he was nineteen spent his summers in
farm work and his winters in attending school. On leaving the farm, he
engaged in the carriage and buggy business as a traveling salesman, and for
two years was on the road. In 1888 he established his present business in
Russiaville. He deals in carriages and buggies and also in bicycles, and in
connection with this business has a sales barn and buys and sells horses. In
the buggy trade, however, his chief interest is centered, and he sells from
three to four buggies a day the year round, his trade covering a large terri-
tory as he has men on the road all the time. In business terms he is what
is called a hustler. He started out, as stated, as a traveling man, saved his
money and made good investments, and whatever he has undertaken has
prospered.

In political affairs, and especially those of a local nature, Mr. Eikenberry
takes a lively interest, but has never sought nor would he accept office. Fra-
ternally, he is a Knight of Pythias.

March i, 1891, he married Miss Katie Gordon, daughter of W. F. Gor-
don, of this place. But their happy married life was of short duration, ending
with her death fifteen months after the wedding day.

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BENJAMIN B. RICHARDS.— This gentleman has spent his entire life in
the Hoosier state and is now residing in Galveston, Cass county, where
he is successfully engaged in the practice of law. lie was born in Ripley
county, Indiana, on the 13th of September, 1S47, a son of Benjamin and
Eliza (Marquis) Richards. When five years of age he accompanied his par-
ents on their removal to Decatur count}-, where he was reared to maiihood
on a farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to
the lot of the agriculturist. He continued to assist in the cultivation of the
fields until 1865, when he entered Hartsville IJniversity in Bartholomew
county, Indiana, pursuing a three years collegiate course in that institution.
In the autumn of 1S67 he went to Howard county, Indiana, where he suc-
cessfully engaged in teaching in the public schools for five years. He then
went to New London, where he was engaged in the harness business for two
years, after which he engaged in the manufacture of harness in Russiaville
for eight years.

On the expiration of that period Mr. Richards began preparation for a
professional career, having determined to engage in the practice of law. He
was admitted to the bar in 1S81, and during the earlier years of his profes-
sional career, in addition to his practice, he edited the Russiaville Observer
for three years. In 18S7 he removed to Kokomo, and continued a member
of the bar of that place until the autumn of 1888, when he came to Galves-
ton. Here he has built up a good business, and in addition to general law
practice he makes a specialty of the settlement of estates. He is well read
in the law, forceful and earnest in the presentation of his case before judge
or jury, and has been connected with some very important litigation in the
courts of Cass county.

. On the lothof May, 1870, Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss
Rebecca Gossett, and they have two children: Olie, wife of W. A. King, of
Galveston; and John O., a resident of North Dakota.

In his political views Mr. Richards is a Republican and keeps well
informed on the issues of the day, thus being able to cast an intelligent ballot
for the men and measures of his party. He served as justice of the
peace for one term in Russiaville, but has never been an office-seeker.
Socially he is connected with Amity Lodge, K. of P., and the Odd Fellows
society of Galveston, and in religious belief is a Methodist. He gives his
support to all measures and movements for the public good, and in his town

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is a leader in thought and action. His many admirable qualities have gained

him a large circle of friends, and Galveston numbers him among her promi-
nent and influential citizens.

HON. JAMES McCLELLAN PURVIS. —The profession of law is highly
honored by the character of Mr. Purvis, of the firm of Fippen & Purvis,
attorneys at Tipton. This gentleman has always been a resident of this
county and is therefore well known, as are also the two greatly esteemed
families which by consanguinity he represents.

He was born seven miles northwest of Tipton, in Tipton county, in Lib-
erty township, July 4, 1863, a son of Andrew J. and Margaret J. (Bess)
Purvis. His father was a native of I\.entucky and his mother of Indiana. Of
their eleven children — seven sons and four daughters — four are now living, —
John W. , James McC, Orville Sylvester and Zena Annetta, unmarried. The
father was a farmer, who came to Indiana in an early day and settled first in
Decatur county, where he lived for a few years, and in 1852 came to Tip-
ton county, where he was married, and engaged in farming, which he fol-
lowed in Liberty, Prairie, Jefferson and Cicero townships. His wife died in
1887, at the age of about fifty-two years, and he then came to Tipton to
make his home with his son James, and here he died in i8go, at the age of
sixty-three years. When a young man he enlisted for the Mexican war, but
that contest was closed before he was called into action. During the last
war a lot fell upon him for service in the army, but the physician declared
him exempt. He and his wife were members of the Christian or "New-
Light" church, but after her death he united with the "Disciples" branch.

The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Calvin Purvis,
was an old settler of Kentucky and all his life was a great hunter and trapper,
but his general occupation was that of agriculture. He lived to be over one
hundred years of age, never having a day's sickness; he died simply of "old
age." He was married twice and had a large number of children, — eleven by
his first wife and several by his second.

Harrison Bess, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Purvis, was one of the
pioneers of Indiana who came from Johnson county to Tipton county early
in the '40s, was a farmer in Liberty and Prairie townships, had a large fam-
ily and died upwards of sixty years of age.

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Mr. James McC. Purvis, wliose name heads this sketch, was hrouKht up
on his father's farm in Tipton count}-, attended the district schools and the
Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana, and tiien taught school about
eight terms, and during that time was reading law, so far advancing that in
1887 he was admitted to the bar. In 1S92 he formed a partnership with ].
M. Fippen, under the firm name of Fippen & Purvis, and they have now
practiced together for six years. They are well known for their painstaking
care and responsibility in the serious matters of the law, while Mr. Purvis is
equally well and favorably known for his jolly good nature. His intellect is
well rounded by nature, which fact leads him to keep it well rounded by his self-
training. He is a Democrat in his political principles, and fraternally a
member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1896 he was elected a member of tiie
state legislature, and his term therein has not yet expired. In 1 S90 he was
a candidate for prosecuting attorney for the thirty-sixth judicial district, and
was defeated by only seventy-one votes in a district that polled about eleven
hundred Republican votes. He has always taken an active part in politics and
has spoken from the rostrum a number of times in the interest of his party.
He has also been a delegate to numerous conventions and on various occa-
sions has served on committees.

On the 14th day of April, 1S97, Mr. Purvis was united in matrimony
with Miss Adonis B. Clarke, a daughter of W'illiam and Ophelia P. (Jesse)
Clarke; she is a member of the Episcopal church. Their home is on South
Independence street, where he purchased a lot in the spring of 1898.

*T^HOMAS FLINX. — A native of Ireland, born on the 6th of January,
•^ 1844, Thomas Flinn came with his mother to America in 184H. His
father died in the old countr}-. They located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where our
subject remained until fifteen years of age. He then went to Rush county,
Indiana, where he began work as a farm hand by the month. He spent the
summer there and then returned to Cincinnati, where he attended school
through the winter season, again resuming farm work in the following sum-
mer. He continued to make his home in Ohio until the spring of 1865,
when he again came to Indiana, locating in Carroll county, where he rented
land and engaged in farming until 1875. In that year he removed to his

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present farm in Deer Creek township, Cass county, having purchased the
property in 1873. For almost a quarter of a century he has made liis home
thereon, and has wrought great changes in the appearance of the place. He
owns eighty acres on section 13, and carries on general farming and stock-
raising. The buildings upon his place are kept in good repair, fences divide
the farm into fields of convenient size and all the modern accessories and
conveniences are there found. The place is neat and thrifty in appearance,
and his labors are rewarded with good harvests.

On the 2d of February, 1865, Mr. Flinn was united in marriage to Miss
Rebecca Brossius, and to them have been born five children: William, who
resides on the farm with his father, married Nora Ray and they have three
children, Willard R., Melnott and Pauline; Isabella is at home; Margaret is
the wife of T. H. Beck, of Clinton county, Indiana; Janette is a student in
the State Normal School, at Terre Haute; and Johnny is deceased.

In his political views Mr. Flinn is a Democrat and firmly advocates the
party principles. In 1894 he was elected on that ticket to the office of
trustee of Deer Creek township and acceptably served for a term of four
years. He is a self-made man, for he started out in business life empty-
handed, and all that he has is the result of his own efforts. Energy and
industry are the salient points of his character, and the e.xercise of these
qualities have brought to him a comfortable property which numbers him
among the substantial agriculturists of the community.

■p^R. A. MICHAEL. — The medical profession is honored by the superior
^-^ talents of the able physician of Tipton, Indiana, Dr. A. Michael. He is
a native of this state, born in Clinton county, December 28, 1859, a son of
Samuel and Caroline (Minck) Michael. His father was a native of Virginia
and his mother of Pennsylvania, and they had six children, namely: Eliza-
beth A., wife of John Haverstick; Sarah L. , wife of Louis Schimmel; Joseph
D., Isaac, Dr. Addison and Dr. Charles W. Their father, a farmer by occu-
pation, came to Indiana in 1S38 and located in Clinton county, where he
purchased a farm at four dollars an acre, brought up his children and died
January 5, 1891, aged si.xty-nine years and nine months. His wife died
December 28, 1896, a sincere member of the German Baptist church. Mr.

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Michael had first married a Miss iMcC.uire, a sister o( his oldest sister's hus-
band, and she died without children.

William Michael, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of (".crmany
who came to America and settled in \'irj:;inia, but died in Clinton connt\-,
Indiana, in 1S72, at the a^e of seventy years. By occupation he was a
farmer and he had twelve children. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Michael,
Charles Minck, was a native of Penns_\-lv«nia, of German descent, a black-
smith by trade, who came west in a one-horse wagon from Allentown, of his
native state, with si.\ children, and driving a horse that was eighteen years
old. His family walked most of the way. The last few years of his life was
devoted to a poultry farm. He was a pioneer in Clinton county, and died
there in 1890, at the age of eighty-four years.

Dr. Michael, whose name heads this article, was reared on his father's
farm in Clinton county, where 'he remained until he was twenty-one years of
age. He attended the district schools of his neighborhood and the Northern
Indiana Normal at Valparaiso, earning by his own labors the means to defray
his school expenses; and such was his diligence that he well qualified himself
for the teacher's profession, and accordingly he devoted himself to that most
noble calling for about ten years, in the meantime studj'ing medicine and
theology. In 1SS7 he was licensed to preach by the " Dunkard " church,
and he was two years in the ministry, his first charge being at Brooklyn,
Iowa, where he received a call at eight hundred dollars a year, and taught
school during the winter. He was very studious and economical, often burn-
ing the midnight oil. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one, he was by
his limited circumstances deprived of school, and when he attended the
normal he felt unable to pay even the one dollar and forty cents a week
required at the boarding-house, and boarded himself. Then, to consider
that he qualified himself for three different professions despite all these
obstacles, is to behold an example of energy and heroism seldom seen.

His medical diploma he received from the Kentucky School of Medicine,
at Louisville, in 1891, and he began practicing the "healing art" in
Tippecanoe county. Four years afterward he moved to Flora, Carroll
county, where he followed his profession one year, when ill health compelled
him to abandon his practice and resort to- the mountains of the southern
states.

March 15, 1897, is the date of his arrival at Tipton, wiiere he opened

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an office and has since devoted his attention to the most important of all
professions, that of medicine, with the success that might be expected of a
natural insight into the nature of vitality and thorough qualification in medical
studies. His office is in the Moore Brothers' block. He is a member of the
Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, and fraternally he belongs to the Odd
Fellows and the Improved Order of Red Men. Politically he is a Republi-
can, and in Clinton county he held the office of justice of the peace.

On the 2Sth day of December, 1S84, he was united in matrimony with
Miss Louisa J. Saylor, a daughter of Rev. Sanford H. and Sarah Ann (Bates)
Saylor, and they have two children, — Guy G. and Sanford A. Mr. and Mrs.
Michael are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The home of the
family is at 109 South East street.

"T^ANIEL BRIMERMAN, a highly esteemed citizen of Harrison township,
-*-^ Howard county, whose post-office address is Alto, was born November
27, 1827, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Casten Brimerman, was a
native of Germany, born December 26, 1797, became a cooper by trade and
emigrated to the United States, settling in Baltimore. In the year 1832 he
removed to Preble county, Ohio, where he followed his trade. He finally
died in Indianapolis, February 1 1, 1883, at the age of eighty-five years. For
his wife he married Margaret Huffman, a daughter of Daniel Huffman,
a native of Germany, born June 23, 1801, and she died May 14, 1883, aged
eighty-one years. Of their nine children, five are living: Daniel, the sub-
ject of this sketch; Frederick, of Webb City, Missouri; John, of Boone coun-
ty, Iowa; Joseph, a resident of Illinois; and Henry, living in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

Mr. Daniel Brimerman was five years of age when his parents removed
to Preble county, Ohio, and he attended school there in the old-time log
school-house; but the labors necessary to sustain a livelihood for the family
did not permit him to attend school after he had arrived at the age of fifteen
years, even in the winter seasons. At the age of eighteen years, by permis-
sion of his father, he left home to strike out into the world for himself, and
he obtained employment in sawmills and in other capacities, working by the
day. In the autumn of 1848 he came to Howard county and at first was

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employed in the sawmill owned by Isaac Hollingsworth, near his present
residence. Dnring the summer he worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1850
he purchased eighty acres of land and began to engage in improving it and
following agricultural pursuits. By purchase he has added to his really pos-
sessions, having now one hundred and twenty-sc\en acres of good farming
land, well improved. For some time he has made a specialty of sheep rais-
ing. In all his business he has bean successful. At present he rents his
farm.

In his politicnl views Mr. Brimsrman was at first a Whig, and ever since
the dissolution of that party he has been a Republican. In fraternal relations
he is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Howard Lodge, No. 93,
in Kokomo, and to Alto Loige, No. 276, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of which he is past grand. He is also a member of the grand lodge, and
has been district deputy.

For his wife Mr. Brimerman married, November 15, i S60, Miss Rachel
A. Newton, a daughter of Calvin Newton, of Rush county, this state, and
formerly of Kentucky. His father, John Newton, was a soldier in the Rev-
olutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Brimerman have had four children, but none
are now living. They are bringing up a grandson, named Roy Morris: he
is a son of their daughter Lucy, who married Hilas Morris June 17, 1886, and
died March 23, 1S92.

The above is but a meager outline of some of the principal events in the
life of a worthy and greatly respected citizen of Howard county.

JACOB L. NEFF, M. D. — Successfully engaged in the practice of^medi-
^ cine in the town of Walton, Dr. Neff has spent his entire life in Cass
count}', and is to-day numbered among its leading and representative citizens.
He was born in Deer Creek township, Cass county, on the 9th of April,
1856, near the old Studebaker mills. His father died when the Doctor was
only si.x weeks old, and at the age of eight years he was left an orphan by
the death of his mother. He then lived with different families to whose
care he was entrusted by his guardian, and at the age of fourteen he began
working as a farm hand by the month, being thus employed until eighteen
years of age, after which the winter season was devoted to teaching school.

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while in the summer months he continued his farm wori<, until thirty years of
age. He was a successsui teacher, having the faculty of imparting readily
and clearly to others the knowledge he had acquired. He was also a good
disciplinarian, and his educational work was most satisfactory. At length
he determined to devote his energies to the medical profession and began
reading with his brother. Dr. J. N. Neff, then of Walton but now a promi-
nent physician of Logansport. Under his direction our subject continued
his preparation until he entered the Louisville Medical College, of Louisville,
Kentucky, in which institution he was graduated with the class of 1891. He
then returned to Walton and entered upon the practice of his chosen pro-
fession in a partnership with his brother, which business connection was main-
tained for a year. Since that time he has been alone, giving his entire atten-
tion and time to the duties of his calling. His success was marked and
immediate, and he now has a very extensive and lucrative practice among
the best people of this locality.

The Doctor is a very prominent Mason, and holding membership in
Walton Lodge, No. 423, A. F. & A. M. ; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.,
and St. John Commandery, No. 24, K. T., all of Logansport. He is an
■exemplary member of that most ancient of all the fraternities, and shows
forth in his life its benevolent and helpful spirit. To the duties of his pro-
fession he is very devoted and finds in the faithful performance of each day's
work inspiration and strength for the labors of the ne.xt. He has a broad
and comprehensive knowledge of the science of medicine, and* his ability
and success are indicated by his extensive practice.

WASHINGTON NEFF. — One of the progressive and representative
farmers of Clinton township, Cass county, Washington Neff is num-
bered among the worthy citizens that Ohio has furnished to the Hoosier
state. He was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 1st of November, 1827,
and is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Kinnaman) Neff. The father was born
June 30, I 797, and in September, i 830, came to Cass county, purchasing from
the government three hundred and twenty acres of land just southwest of
Logansport, developing there a farm upon which he resided until his death,
which occurred fifty years later, in February, 1880. He erected a cabin by

WASHINGTON NEFF.

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the spring that is situated on the tract now owned by the widow of iiis son
Daniel, and in true pioneer style began life in the west. The land was still
covered with a growth of native forest trees, and soon the woodman's ax
awakened the echoes of the forest, as acre after acre was cleared and pre-
pared for the plow. His industrious efforts soon placed much of the land
under cultivation and he became the owner of a highly improved farm. His
work was at length rewarded by a handsome competence, as the result of his
ambition, energy and industry, and his farm was equal in improvements and
appearance to any in his section of the count}'. When he had finished the
active labors of life he divided his farm, by will, among his children, and
spent his last years in retirement. His wife died at the advanced age of
eighty-four years. They were worthy farming people, whose well spent lives
won them the confidence and regard of all with whom they came in contact,
and through a fifty-years residence in the county they became widely and
favorably known. Their family comprised the following children: Jacob;
Washington; Daniel and Mary, twins, both now deceased; William; Sarah;
Jonathan and Lucinda, both deceased.

Washington Neff attended the district school for about three months in
the year until reaching his 'teens, at which time his educational training was
superseded by manual labor and the text-books were exchanged for the plow.
He continued to assist in the cultivation and improvement of the home farm
until twenty years of age, when he secured a situation as a farm hand, being
employed in that capacity for three years. He was then married, and,
building a cabin on a part of the old homestead, has since resided there,
■devoting his energies to the further development and cultivation of his land,
■which is now divided into well tilled fields of convenient size. Steadfast
purpose has characterized his business career. When a thing is to be done
he never falters until it is accomplished, and it is this element that has made
him one- of the prosperous agriculturists of the community. His success is
well deserved and his farm is a monument to his thrift.

On the 3d of November, 1S50, Mr. Neff was united in marriage to Mi?s
Nancy J. Carter, daughter of Walter Carter, deceased, and stepdaughter of
the late John Watts. The children born of this marriage are as follows:
Lucinda, wife of Theodore Miniman, a railroad conductor of Logansport;
Amanda J., who married John Shuey, of Clinton township; Emma E., wife
•of Charles Chambers, of Clinton township; Laura, wife of Oliver Brown, of

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Logansport; and Edward C, who married Sarah Cooper, and resides on his
father's farm.

Mr. Neff exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and
measures of the Democratic party, and his interest in the political affairs of
the country leads him to keep well informed on the issues of the day. The
honors or emoluments of office, however, have had no attraction for him,
and he has never filled an elective public position until December, 1897,
when he became a member of the board of county commissioners, to which
office he was elected in November of that year. He is proving an able and
conservative incumbent, and is recognized by all as a public-spirited citizen,
loyal to the best interests of county, state and nation. His religious views
are in accord with the Christian church, with which he became united when
about thirty years of age.

GEORGE STANLEY has for a period of twenty-seven years been a resi-
dent of Harrison township, Howard county, Indiana, and since 1881
has resided upon his present farm near Alto.

Mr. Stanley was born in the neighboring state of Ohio, September 13,
1844, and in his native state spent his youth and early manhood. Some of
his remote ancestors came to this country from England and settled in Vir-
ginia, and it was in the " Old Dominion" that both the grandfather and the
father of our subject, Jonathan and James, respectively, were born. James
left Virginia at an early day and moved west to Ohio, locating in Mahoning
county, moving thence to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he died in 1875.
His history was that of a successful farmer and a conscientious, devoted
Christian, a member of the Friends' church. His wife, whose maiden name
was Elizabeth Johnson, was a daughter of Dempsey Johnson; she died in
1846. She was a Christian woman, kind and sympathetic, and, like her
husband, was a consistent member of the Society of Friends; and she was
not only a woman of deep piety, but she was also cultured and educated, and
was the author of some articles on religious subjects which brought her into
local prominence as a writer. Of their five children three are now living:
Laura, widow of Joshua Bonsell, is a resident of Nebraska; George, whose
name heads this sketch; and Eli, also a resident of Nebraska.

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At an early age deprived of a motlier's loving care, George Stanlc)-, when
he was four years old, went to live with an uncle, in Pennsylvania, Dr. Abra-
ham Stanley, in whose family he passed the \-ears between four and thirteen.
He then returned to Ohio and from that time forward provided his own sup-
port, working on a farm at first and later at the carpenter's trade and in a
machine shop. In 1871 became o\er into Indiana, and engaged in the sawmill
business near West Middleton, Howard county. Next we find him settled on
a farm near Kokomo, and since 1881 he has resided on his present farm, he
having that year purchased eighty acres of land. Mr. Stanley has been fairly
successful in his farming operations, and his nice farm and comfortable home
with its pleasant surroundings are all the result of his own efforts, with a
little assistance from other sources, for he started out in life a poor bo\- with
no capital save pluck and energy and a determination to do the best that he
could.

Not long after coming to Howard county, September 22, 1872, Mr, Stan-
ley was united in marriage to Miss E. J. Terrell, daughter of Richmond
Terrell, of this county. They have no children.

Mr. Stanley has for some years been identified with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and maintains a membership in Alto Lodge, No. 2j6,
in which he has passed all the chairs and which he has represented in the
grand lodge of the state. He is a prominent member of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Alto and a trustee and steward of the same.

|\ yi W. PERSHING. — The editor and proprietor of the weekl}- and semi-
^ ' 1 weekly Tipton Advocate, Mr. M. W. Pershing, was born in Warsaw,
Indiana, January 15, 1849, a son of I)a\id R. and Sarah M. (Sellers) Persh-
ing, his father, a native of Pennsylvania, was also a " newspaper " man, who
came to Indiana about 1S40 and entered a piece of land in Whitley county,
married in Wabash county and was a school-teacher by profession and a
plasterer by trade. In 1848, the year of his marriage, he moved to Warsaw,
where he soon became deputy auditor and established the first newspaper
ever published in that town. Three years later he moved to Rochester, Ful-
ton county, this state, and became deputy auditor there also, followed by an
election to the same office, and there, too, he was the pioneer in establish-

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ing a newspaper. After a residence there of about ten years he was for a
short time on a farm, and then he returned to Warsaw and until about 1873
spent nearly all his time lecturing and organizing lodges of Good Templars.
In 1875 he was editor of the Fort Wayne Gazette. In 1876 he purchased a
half interest with A. C. Mellette in the Muncie Times, of this state, and, after
remaining there a year or more he retired to private life. He died January
15, 1889, at Muncie, at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, who was a
native of Ohio, survived him four years to a day, leaving the "shores of
time" January 15, 1893, at the age of sixty-six years. Both were devout
members of the Methodist church. They had four sons and one daughter,
viz.: Marvin W. , Arthur C., O. Howard, Ivan W., and Cora, who became
the wife of William Brown and is now deceased.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was born in Germany and came
to America, settling about the year 1780 in Pennsylvania, where he died
many years ago, at an advanced age. Nathan D. Sellers, grandfather of our
subject, was a native of Kentucky and of Scotch descent, settled in Ohio in
an early day and came to Wabash county about 1840; was a farmer by occu-
pation, reached an advanced age, and had ten children. Longevity charac-
terizes the ancestry of Mr. Pershing in both lines: both his grandmothers
lived to be over ninety years of age.

Mr. Pershing, whose name heads this sketch, was thirteen years of age
■when his parents returned to Warsaw, and there he began to learn the
printer's trade. He first established a paper in Kokomo in 1869, called The
Journal, which he conducted for a year; then for some years he was vari-
ously occupied; in 1876 he established a journal in Tipton called The Repub-
lican, which he ran for a year; the next two years he traveled for a stationery
house; and in September, 1878, he founded The Tipton Advocate, of which
he has had both the editorial and business management ever since. It is
Republican in politics, was only a weekly until the first week in June, 1898,
when it was enlarged by the addition of a semi-weekly issue. The printing-
office is also well equipped for job work, of which he has a good share. He
is the oldest member of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, has
now been a resident of Tipton for twenty-six years, is a member of the
Methodist church, of Tipton Lodge, No. 122, I. O. O. F., of Cicero Encamp-
ment, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Independent Order of Foresters.
In matrimony, December 24, 1872, he was united with Mrs. Melissa

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Cox. a dauf^hter of G. \\'. Marsli and Cynthia (Gleason) Marsh. By her
first marriaf:;e there were tlirec children, — Ella, Hattie and Charles. The
first mentioned became the wife of C. F. Swart/, of Los Angeles, California,
and has two children, — Marvin and Mellette; Mattie married C. W. I'arr,
now of Chica:;o, where he is the assistant counts' superintendent of scliools, and
they have two children, — Forest and Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. Pershinj,' have
one daughter, Cora. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pershing are members of the
Methodist church, and are honoralile and highly esteemed in church and
social circles. Their home is on North Independence street.

JAMES O. LE.\S, for many years ^ well-known citizen of Peru, was born
in Lewisburg, Preble county, Ohio, July 30, 1816, was reared at Eaton,
in his native state, and the earlier part of his life was spent in Ohio and
Indiana. In 1852 he assumed the duties of freight and ticket agent for the
Eaton & Hamilton Railroad, which position he held for fourteen years.
December 27, 1S66, he became, with his family, a resident of Peru. For a
short time after coming to Peru he was engaged in the sale of sewing
machines. Later he was in the employ of O. P. Webb, in the grocery busi-
ness, and still later of .\. N. Dukes, in the same business. In 1878 he
engaged in photography with his son George, which he continued till his
death, March 1 5, 1S98.

Mr. Leas was one of the oldest Freemasons in Indiana, having joined
that order in 1836. His wife, son George, and three daughters survive him.

HUGH SMITH. — Among the representative young business men who
have recently come to the front in Logansport, Indiana, is the subject
of this review, Hugh Smith, druggist, at No. 115 Sycamore street.

Mr. Smith is a native of Indiana. He was born in Pulaski county, Sep-
tember 7, 1872, and is a son of William M. and Margaret E. (Woodsi Smith.
William M. Smith, likewise a native of Pulaski county, was born August 23,
1849, his parents being David and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Smith, the former a
native of Washington county, Indiana, and the latter of Lexington, Kentucky,

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they being among the primitive settlers of Pulaski county. William M.
Smith and Margaret E. Woods were married in the year 1871. They resided
on a farm in Pulaski county until 1881, when they removed to Logansport,
where they still reside. They have two children, Hugh and Asa.

Hugh Smith was only nine years of age when he came with his parents
to this city, where he was reared and received his business training. In the
city schools he obtained a fair common-school education and supplemented
the same with a course in Hall's Business College. After completing his
commercial course he was for a short time assistant bookkeeper for W. C.
Routh, of Logansport, and following that accepted a clerkship in the grocery
store of Mr. Powlen. He did not, however, remain long in the grocery, but
turned his attention to the drug business, becoming a clerk in the store of
Dr. H. D. Hattery, with whom he remained five years. During the period
he was in Dr. Hattery's establishment, he not only learned the drug business,
but he also saved a portion of his earnings, and at the end of five years he
engaged in business for himself, — this being in 1 897, — since which time he has
conducted business at his present location. No. 115 Sycamore street, keeping
a nicely stocked store, and by his genial, pleasant manner coming into favor
with the trade, and thus establishing a good business.

Mr. Smith was married in 1895 to Miss Laura Bunker. He and his wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

RICHARD R. BRADFIELD is a scientific and prosperous farmer on the
old Thomas Bradfield homestead on section 34, Washington township,
Cass county. His parents, John and Mary (Reed) Bradfield, natives of Ire-
land, never came to this country, his father dying at the age of sixty-three
years, and his mother at the age of fifty-eight. His paternal grandfather was
Richard Bradfield, after whom he is named; and his great-grandfather,
Thomas Bradfield, who was a native of England, lived to be over eighty
years of age. John Bradfield was the j-oungest of eleven children, and he
himself had seven children, of whom all are living but one, and of whom
only two came to America, our subject and a sister.

Mr. Bradfield, whose name heads this sketch, is a native of county Cork,
Ireland, born January 8, i860, reared in agricultural and kindred pursuits in

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his native land, being tiioroughly versed in all the details of farm work and
life in the country. In fact he attended a model school where he was espe-
cially prepared for a thorough study and understanding of agriculture and all
the industrial arts supplementar}-. When about twenty-four years of age he
conceived the desire of emigrating to New Zealand in order to find greater
opportunity for the exercise of his talents, but his father dissuaded him and
he concluded to come to America, to which his father had but little objection.

Mr. Bradfield landed at New York and came at once to Indiana, engag-
ing in farming and stock-raising, having cattle, hogs, etc., on the place
already described. He is a systematic worker, readily adapting himself to
all unavoidable circumstances. At present he is clearing and reducing to
cultivation an additional tract of land.

Mr. Bradfield was united in marriage with Miss Mary Bradfield, and they
have two children, — John and Mary.

In his political principles Mr. Bradfield is a Democrat, and in his religion
an Episcopalian, as were his parents and ancestry as far back as can be
traced.

HON. J. T. COX, a prominent representative of the judiciary of Indiana
now occupying the bench of the Miami circuit court, seems to realize
as few men have done the importance of the profession to which he devotes
his energies, and the fact that justice and the higher attribute of mercy he
often holds in his hands. His enviable reputation as a lawyer was won
through earnest, honest labor, and his standing at the bar is a merited trib-
ute to ability of a superior order.

The Judge was born in Clinton county, Ohio, January 27, 1846, his par-
ents being Aaron and Mary (Skeggs) Cox, the former a native of Ohio and of
English descent, while the latter was born in Kentucky and was of German
lineage. Se\'eral of the maternal ancestors of Judge Cox were soldiers in the
war of the Revolution and also in the second war with Great Britain, thewar
of 1812. His great-grandfather, Thomas Watts, was a native of South Car-
olina, and served as an officer in the war which brought independence to the
nation. After the close of hostilities he removed to Nashville, Tennes-
see, and became a personal friend of Andrew Jackson, under whom his son,
James Watts, served in the battle of Talladega. Two great uncles of the

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Judge were killed in the famous battle of New Orleans, and at all times the
representatives of the family displayed a loyalty to the country most com-
mendable. It was in 1800 when the Cox family became identified with the
then territory of Ohio, whither some of the name removed from North Car-
olina. In the Buckeye state Aaron Cox was born, in 18 19, and some years
after his marriage he removed with his family to Indiana in 1850, locating
near Noblesville. He is now a resident of Indianapolis, in which city his
wife died in September, 1890. They were the parents of five sons and three
daughters, and one of the number, Charles E. Cox, is now judge of the
police court of Indianapolis, while another brother, Millard F. Cox, was
formerly judge of the criminal court of the same city.

Judge J. T. Cox attended the public schools in his early childhood and
later pursued a course of instruction in \\'estfield Academy. After success-
fully engaging in teaching for a number of terms, he began the study of law,
the first money that he earned being invested in a copy of Blackstone.
After diligently pursuing his law studies as opportunity offered, it became his
privilege, in 1865, to enter the law office of Hon. N. R. Overman, of Tip-
ton, as a student, and in 1866 he was admitted to practice in the circuit
court, and in 1872 in the supreme court.

Judge Cox was married in 1867 to Miss Jennie Price, of Tipton, and on
account of his wife's health he removed to Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1875.
While there he was nominated on the Democratic ticket, in 1878, for the
position of attorney-general of Kansas, but was defeated on account of the
large Republican majority of the state, although he ran ahead of his ticket
thirty-five thousand votes. On account of the continued ill health of his
wife, he soon afterward removed to Colorado, where Mrs. Cox died in the
spring of 1882. Not long afterward the Judge returned to Indiana, locating
in Peru in April, 1883.- Here he soon gained prestige as one of the most
able attorneys of the district, and in 1S86 he was honored by an election to
the state legislature, where he ably represented his constituents, winning
high commendation. In 1890 he was elected circuit judge for a six-years
term, and in 1896 was re-elected and is still upon the bench. In the hands
of such judges the individual and state feel that every interest is safe, and
that law will be administered with the broadest intelligence and with a keen
regard for equity. A man of unimpeachable character, of strong intellectual
endowments, with a thorough understanding of the law, patience, urbanity

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and industry. Judge Cox took to the bench the very highest qualilications
for this responsible office, and his record as a judge has been in harmony
with his record as a lawyer, distinguished by unswerving integrity and a
masterful grasp of every problem that has presented itself for his solution.

In 1884 Judge Cox was united in marriage to Lizzie Meinhardt, of Peru,
who died in 1S93. In 1895 he married his present wife, who bore the
maiden name of Addie Allman and was a native of Huntington, Indiana.
Edward E. Cox, of the Hartford City Telegram and Evening New.-^, is a son
of Judge Cox, and he has two daughters, — Inez E. and Mary.

The Judge has always been loyal to every duty of citizenship, and in
1864, when only eighteen years of age, he entered the service of the Union
as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, serving
from the spring until the fall of that year. In politics he is a Democrat,
and is everywhere recognized as an able lawyer, a conscientious and upright
judge, and a worthy and progressive citizen.

GODFREY TWELLS.— The gentleman to a review of whose life we
now turn, has long been identified with the interests of Logansport and,
as a grocer, is now ranked with the representative business men of the city.
Mr. Twells traces his ancestry back to England and is of pure English
origin, his great-grandfather having been born in England. Pcnnsyhariia
was the home of the Twells family for many years, several generations having
resided there. It was in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that God-
frey Twells was born, September 28, 1838, son of James S. and Harriet
Amelia (Henderson) Twells, the former a native of Philadelphia and the lat-
ter of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Godfrey Twells, the grandfather of
our subject, was likewise born in the Keystone state. James S. Twells, by
his first wife, the mother of Godfrey, had four children, two sons and two
daughters, and by his second wife he has two daughters and one son. In
the year 1841, accompanied by his family, he came west to Indiana ant! took
up his abode in Bethlehem township, Cass county, where he was engaged in
farming until 1853. That year he sold his farm and he and Mr. Giberl \V.
Wall laid out the town of Walton. For ten years he lived in that t(jwn and
from there he removed to a farm in Washington township, Cass county, where

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he passe'd the residue of his life and where he died in the year 1887, at
about the age of seventy-two years.

At the time his father came west Godfrey Twells was a child of only
three years, and his early recollections are of pioneer life in Cass county. He
was reared on the farm and received as good an education as the common
schools then afforded. After reaching his majority he engaged in farming on
his own account, which occupied his time and attention for ten years, and at
the end of that time he moved into Logansport, where he has since resided.
For twenty years he was engaged in draying here. In the spring of 1896 he
established himself in the grocery business in which he has built up a good
trade, and by his square and honest dealing gained a representative place
among the grocers of the city.

Mr. Twells was married in 1S61 to Miss Christiana Cox, a daughter of
James G. Cox of Bethlehem township, Cass county. She died in 1887, leav-
ing four children, viz.: Richard S., Edward C. , Jesse H. and Godfrey, Jr.
In 1888 Mr. Twells married, for his second wife. Miss Annie H. Kloenne,
daughter of Julius C. Kloenne, of Logansport. The fruit of this union is one
child, Geneva A.

Fraternally, Mr. Twells is a member of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and the Knights of Pythias. He is in his political views a free-
trade Democrat.

MICHAEL HORAN, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Peru,
is a native of Roscommon county, Ireland, born September 22, 1841,
a son of Michael and Margaret (Byrne) Horan. He had the misfortune to
lose his mother by death when he was an infant, and in 1847, when he was
six years old, his father and the other members of the family came to Amer-
ica, leaving him in Ireland. Ten years later, in 1857, he crossed the Atlantic
and joined his father's family in Hamilton, Ohio. He had received fair
advantages for education in his native land, and after coming to Ohio was
for three years a student in the Hamilton high school, subsequently to which
he was under the direction of a special tutor. In the meantime he had
decided to fit himself for the work of civil engineer, and to this end bent his
energies. He came to Peru, Indiana, in 1861. Here he was for a time
engaged in the occupation of painting, a knowledge of which he had gained

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in his boyhood. In iS8o he was elected surveyor of Miami county, and
served in that capacity eight years, and for nine years was city engineer of
Peru.

Mr. Horan was married September 23, 18S6, to Miss Elizabeth Camp-
bell, a daughter of John Campbell, a well-known citizen of Cass county,
Indiana. They have two sons, — John and Thomas.

Politically, Mr. Horan has always affiiated with the Democratic party,
and religiously he was reared in the Catholic faith. A man of sterling worth,
honest and upright in all the relations of life, he has the confidence and
esteem of his fellow citizens.

"\ 1 HLLIAM W. GARR. — Numbered among the early settlers of Howard
' ' county is William \V. Garr, who now owns and operates a valuable
farm of two hundred and forty acres in Taylor township. The ancestry of
the family can be traced back to Bavaria, Germany, where Lawrence Garr
was born and reared. Determining to seek his fortune in America, he sailed
to the New \\'orld in 1732, and a cop}' of the original church certificate and
passport which were given him before his embarkation is in possession of our
subject. Lawrence Garr tirst located in Pennsylvania, and afterward removed
to Virginia, whence the family has branched out in all directions, having its
representatives in many of the states of the Union. Most of the name have
followed agricultural pursuits, and have lived industrious, upright lives.
The parents of our subject were Benjamin and Nancy (Smith) Garr, the for-
mer a son of John and Margaret (Wilhite) Garr. About 1829 Benjamin Garr
removed with his family to Kentucky and purchased a farm, becoming a
prominent planter and slave owner of that state. His wife died at the age
of si.xty-nine years, and his demise occurred at the age of eighty-two. Both
were reared in the faith of the Lutheran church, but later in life became
identified with the Primitive Baptist church. He was a man of limited edu-
cation, of natural strength of mind and considerable force of character, and
his life work was creditable and commendable. His honesty and reliability
were proverbial, and he was frequently called upon to settle estates and
attend to the business of the courts. His wife was a daughter of William D.
and Diana (Yager) Smith, natives of Virginia, and the former of English

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descent. Mr. and Mrs. Garr were the parents of twelve children: William
W., John W., Mrs. Parnielia Smith, Mrs. Mary Shrader, Mrs. Susan Kellar,
Winston B., Robert L. , Fountain J., Lewis Cass, Diana J., Benjamin F. and
Mrs. Priscilla Fenton. Seven of this number are yet living.

William W. Garr, the eldest of the family, was born in Madison county,
Virginia, on the 30th of October, 181 5, and at the age of fourteen accom-
panied his parents on their removal to Kentucky, where he was reared to
manhood and acquired his education in the subscription schools. His choice
of an occupation was that to which he had been reared, — farming, — and all
his life he has followed that pursuit with industry and energy, accumulating
thereby a comlortable competence. In early manhood he married Miss Mary

A. Garr, a distant relative, who died two years later, leaving one son, Hiram
Jefferson, who was an engineer and was scalded to death while serving in the
Civil war under General Buckner. Three years after the death of his first
wife, Mr. Garr was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Lucy

B. Vance, daughter of Abraham Clore, who was then engaged in farming in
Kentucky, but was a native of \'irginia. He became a very prominent and
influential citizen of the former state, and there remained until his life labors
were ended. Nine children have been born to-the second marriage of Mr.
Garr, and in order of birth are as follows: Florence H., wife of W. B.
Elson; Mildred S., who carried on farming; Mary E., who died at the age
of si.xteen years; Abraham and Crawford, who are also farmers; Betty,
deceased; Jesse D., a physician ; John F., an agriculturist; and Barbara, wife
of Arthur B. Kelly, who manages the homestead farm. He is a native of
Muskingum county, Ohio, and in his early life followed farming and school-
teaching. Coming to Indiana, he located in Howard county, where he met
and married the youngest daughter of Mr. Garr, and they now have two
children, Mary B. and Harry.

Mr. Garr removed to Howard county from Kentucky in 1852, and
located on the farm which he yet makes his home. He purchased one
hundred and si.xty acres of land on which few improvements had been made
and with characteristic energy began the development of a fine farm. He
extended its boundaries from time to time by additional purchase and at one
time had a very large tract, but has since sold some of this, his landed pos-
sessions now aggregating two hundred and forty acres. He has made many
excellent improvements on the place, and all the modern accessories and

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■conveniences of a model farm are there found. In addition to general farin-
ng, Mr. Garr was extensively engaged in the raising of stock and has bought
and fed cattle for the markets. He has been very successful in his opera-
ions and has acquired a very desirable competence. He always has very
fine grades of both horses and cattle and has done much to secure better
stock in Indiana.

When he arrived in Howard count}', it was largely wild and unimproved,
and in the work of development he has ever borne an active part. He gives
his support to all measures for the public good, and believing firmly in the
principles of the Democrac)-, he casts his ballot for the men and measures of
that party. His wife is a member of the Christian church and, like her
husband, shares in the high regard of many friends.

GEORGE BURKHART, manufacturer of lumber and other building
material and dealer in the same and in saw-logs, with mill on section
13, in Washington township, has been a resident of Cass county since 1S66.

His father, John G. Burkhart, a native of Germany and a miller by
trade, came to this country when si.xteen }ears of age, settling in Pennsyl-
vania, afterward in Ohio, next in Fulton county. Indiana, and lastly in Cass
county, this slate, during the Civil war, and died at the age of sixty-six years.
He was united in marriage with Miss Susan C. Felmley, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, who passed to the other life at the age of fifty-five years. They had
three children: John, who resides in Chester township, Cass county; George,
the subject of this sketch; and Eliza, who died at the age of twenty-eight
years.

Mr. George Burkhart is a native of Center county, Pennsyh'ania, where
he was born September 14, 1846, and was five years old when his parents
removed with him to Ohio, where he was reared to hard work on various
farms. Being early thrown upon his own resources, he commenced to take
care of himself at the age of thirteen \ears. He never had any opportunity
of attending school more than three months during all his young life. He
has a good practical education, however, which he has obtained by his own
industry. Having a clear and acute understanding, he has a more accurate
knowledge of things in general than many who have been far more favored
with opportunity.

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On coming to Indiana he was employed one year on a farm in Fulton
county. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-sixth Regiment of Indi-
ana Volunteer Infantry, and faithfully served for three years. He was in the
Thirteenth Army Corps and also in the Sixteenth Army Corps, and later in
the Department of the Gulf. He participated in many hard-fought battles,
among which were the famous engagements at Vicksburg, Nashville, Yazoo
Pass, etc. He was always true to his post of duty, never flinching. Although
he never received a wound in action, the hard service which he was obliged
to undergo wore him down considerably. Ever since the war he has been
engaged in lumbering and in the manufacture and sale of building material,
and in this business his fair dealing and pleasant manner have won him success.

He was united in matrimony with Miss Rosetta H. Seybold, of Cass
county, and they have had five sons and two daughters, named and resident
as follows: John I., at his parental home; Harry F. , living in Fulton county,
this state; Jossph and Frank, at their parental home; Mary, deceased; Clar-
ence and Geneva.

Mr. Burkhart is one of the most active Democrats in the county and a
most efficient "stump " speaker, being a free-silver champion. During the
campaign of 1896 he was even called out of his state to deliver campaign
speeches in Ohio. Having a wonderfully retentive memory and an emphatic
style of expression, his utterances on the rostrum are "telling " and impress-
ive. He is extraordinarily well posted in the history of this country and
with the personal record of all the presidents and other eminent statesmen,
and is also deeply versed in the history and nature of finance and money.
Indeed, he is so familiar with his subject that all his utterances are delivered
"pat" and his ideas slip from his tongue all fully fledged, and he is there-
fore a ready debater, able to sustain his positions against the opposition of
any man. He is a natural campaign orator.

MOSES B. LAIRY. — During the pioneer epoch in the history of Indiana
the Lairy family was founded within its borders, and its representatives
have since figured prominently in promoting its development and substantial
improvement. Daniel Lairy, the grandfather of our subject, left his Ohio
home and took up his residence in Tippecanoe county when that locality was
almost an unbroken wilderness, and there he made his home until his death.

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Thomas Lairv, the fatlier, was born in Hiitler county, Ohio, but in liis l)i)\-
hood accompanied his parents on their removal to Tippecanoe county, wliere
amid the wild scenes of pioneer life he was reared to manhood. He aided in
the cultivation and improvement of his father's land and also became the
owner of a raw tract which he entered from the f;i)vernment and upon which
he located at the time of his marriaj^e. When about forty years of af^e he
wedded Miss Eliza J. Barnett, a daughter of Moses Barnett, one of the pio-
neers of Cass county, where he lived for many years. Mrs. Lairy, however,
was a native of Ohio and by her marriage she became the mother of two
sons, Moses B. and John S. , both of whom are members of the Logansport bar.

Judge M. B. Lairy, whose name introduces this re\iew, was born in
Harrison township, Cass county, August 13, 1859, and in his youth became
familiar with all the duties that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He
assisted in the planting, plowing and harvesting and then, when the crops
were garnered in the autumn, pursued his preliminary education in the dis-
trict schools. Later he entered the Northern Indiana Normal School, and
engaged in teaching and attending school alternately until fitted for more
important duties in life. For about ten years he devoted his energies to
teaching, and during the latter part of that period studied law at intervals.
In 1889 he was graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan, and immediately afterward began practice in Logansport, where
his pronounced ability has gained him marked prestige. His arguments are
logical, his reasoning clear and cogent, his utterances forceful and convincing
and the weight of fact and law which he brings to bear upon his cause has
won him many notable forensic victories.

In politics Mr. Lairy is a pronounced Democrat, unwavering in support
of the party whose principles he believes are calculated to promote the coun-
try's best interests. In the fall of 1894 he was the Democratic candidate for
the judgeship of the Cass county circuit court, but with the others on the
ticket met defeat. In 1895, on the resignation of Hon. D. B. McConnell.
then circuit judge, he was appointed to fill the unexpired term and served on
the bench for twenty months, when he was succeeded by Judge D. H. Chase,
who had defeated him in the election of 1894. In 1897 he became the senior
partner in the well-known law firm of Lairy & Mahoney and is now enjoying
an extensive general practice, handling with masterful skill the intricate
problems of jurisprudence which are entrusted to his care.

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Judge Lairy was married in 1892, the lady of his choice being Miss
Mazetta Rogers, of Logansport. Religiously he is connected with the
First Presbyterian church, and fraternally is a member of the Masonic
order and Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Upright, reliable and
honorable, his strict adherence to principles commands the respect of all.
The place he has won in the legal profession is accorded him in recognition
of his skill and ability, and the place which he occupies in the social world is
a tribute to that genuiue worth and true nobleness of character which are
universally recognized and honored.

ELLIS H. ANDREWS, the superintendent of schools of Miami county, is
a native of this county, born at Macy, in Allen township, November 12,
1870. Besides attaining a common-school education he was for some time a
■student at the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso; but outside of
■school hours, he has also been an ardent student from early boyhood. Be-
ginning in 1S87, he taught nine terms of district school. In 1895-6 he taught
the grammar department of the graded school at Me.xico, Indiana, and in
1896-7 was principal of that school. His reputation as an educator led to
his nomination and election as county superintendent in 1897, to succeed
John H. Runkle. Mr. Andrews is one of the youngest county school super-
intendents in the state of Indiana; and although his e.xperience in all the edu-
cational relations mentioned has been attended with success, he does not
intend to follow the teacher's profession as a life work.

He has in view the medical profession. On May 23, 1893, he entered
upon the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. Jay W. Newell, of Den-
ver, Indiana, and he has already taken two courses of lectures at the Ken-
tucky School of Medicine at Louisville. In fact he was a student at that
institution when he received the nomination for the office of county superin-
tendent, and he intends, at the end of his term as superintendent, to resume
his medical studies.

Our subject is a son of Amos B. Andrews, one of Miami county's suc-
cessful teachers, as well as a veteran of the war of the Rebellion. He is a
native of Pennsylvania, and came to Randolph county, this state, in 1855,
and to Miami county in 1859. He served in the war for the Union, first as a

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member of Company D, Thirteenth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
enlisting in April, 1861. At the end of a year he was honorably discharged
and three months afterward he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company
H, Eighty-eighth Regiment of Indiana \'olunteer Infantry, and faithfully
served till the close of the war. He has taught thirtj-three terms of school,
all but three of which have been in Miami count}-; he is now retired from the
profession.

He was born in Pennsylvania, September 23, 1S40. His father was a
native of \'erniont, and on his mother's side he is of German descent. His
mother's grandfather, Valentine Balsbaugh, was born on the Atlantic ocean
while his parents were on their journey to America. They were early settlers
of the Keystone state. Valentine Balsbaugh died in 1850, in his ninety-ninth
year. Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Andrews have five children: Sarah E., Ellis
H., Merton E., Orion B. and Amos V. The family are residents of Rich-
land township, Miami county.

JESSE FOOTE. — This gentleman is the only surviving representative of
the family of Charles Foote, who was long one of the most prominent
and influential citizens of Peru. Charles Foote was born in Middle Haddam,
Connecticut, July i, 181 7, and became one of the pioneer business men of
Peru. In connection with Jesse Smith he conducted a mercantile establish-
ment and grain business for many years, and his capable management, sound
judgment and unflagging industry brought to him rich success. His older
brother, Carter Foote, was the bookkeeper of the firm, and these two were
the only members of the family who ever came to Peru. Charles Foote was
united in marriage, in Peru, to Miss Caroline Zern, of this city, a daughter
of Henry and Deborah (Shepherd) Zern, who emigrated from Pennsylvania
to Indiana and located in Peru in 1837. Her father became actively identi-
fied with its early business interests and erected the Peru Flouring Mills, one
of the most important early enterprises of the place. He was also one of the
county commissioners in pioneer days and a well known and highly respected
citizen. His death occurred January 21, 1868, at the age of sixty-three years,
and his wife passed away in December, 1876, at the age of seventy-eight
years.

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Charles Foote was a successful business man and a worthy and respected
resident of Peru. He invested the profits of his business in real estate, which
rapidly rose in value, making him one of the wealthy citizens of the county.
He died on the 25th of October, 1862, and his widow afterward married
again, but she, too, is now deceased. Charles Foote and wife became the
parents of three children who grew to mature years, the eldest being Mary,
who was born April 7, 1852, and died -January 3, 1890. Roger, the elder
son, was born in 1854, and died in 1873.

Jesse Foote was born in Peru, on the 26th of October, 1858, and was a
child of but four years when bereft by death of his father. In the public
schools of his native city he acquired his literary education, which was
supplemented by a commercial course in Bryant & Stratton's Business College,
thereby fittinghim for the responsible duties that came to him as he reached his
majority. He then succeeded to his father's estate, which had already
become very valuable, and since that time he has engaged in the real-estate
business and managed his own extensive property. He is a man of excellent
ability, keen discrimination and untiring enterprise, and these qualifications
have enabled him to control his affairs so as to gain therefrom a handsome
profit. He owns a beautiful home in Peru and by reason of his genial, cordial
manner is one of its popular citizens.

JOHN W. LEARNER. — One of Howard county's native sons who has
attained distinction in business circles and who ranks among the most
enterprising and progressive citizens of Kokomo is John Wesley Learner,
secretary and treasurer of the Opalescent Glass Works. He was born near
the city which is now his home, February 7, 1848, and is the youngest child
of Barnhart and Catharine (Raymond) Learner, who are mentioned else-
where in this work. The father was a native of Germany and in 1833 came
to America. After some time spent in Pennsylvania he came to Howard
county and purchased land on what was known as Little Wild Cat creek.
Subsequentl}' he bought his present farm and for fifty years has made his
home thereon.

It was upon the old homestead that the subject of this review was
reared to manhood, and in the district schools he acquired his education,

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together with one term's attendance at Howard College. Subsequently he
engaged in teaching for several terms, after which he engaged in farming
and in selling agricultural implements. Later he manufactured drain tile
for three or four years, and then became deput}- sheriff, serving for two
years. On his retirement from oflice he became proprietorof a livery stable,
which he conducted two years, and for a year he dealt in carriages. In the
fall of 1 89 1 he became one of the organizers of the Opalescent Glass Works
Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. They manufacture art
window-glass and furnish employment for from fifteen to twenty hands. He
entered upon a practical business experience at a very early age, for during
the war his brother Benjamin went to the front and served his country for
four years. He was on the Sultana at the time of its explosion, being one
of the few survivors of that disaster. While Benjamin was fighting for the
Union the father became afflicted with sore eyes, and thus the management
of the farm devolved largely upon Mr. Learner, who displayed many of the
qualities which have since made him a prominent and successful business man.
On the 25th of December, 1879, Mr. Learner was united in marriage to
Miss Hattie Adamson, daughter of Jackson and Rachel Adamson. They had
three children, Grace A. and two who died in infancy. In 1890, the mother
was also called to the home beyond, and on the 8th of July, iSg;^, Mr. Lear-
ner wedded Mrs. Emma J. Wilson, widow of John \Mlson, a brother of
Wilson, the inventor of the Wilson sewing machine. She had one daughter
by her former marriage, Belle, who is now attending DePauvv University.
Mr. and Mrs. Learner belong to Grace Methodist church, of which he is
treasurer; he also holds membership in the Masonic lodge, and in politics is
a Republican. His life is that of a thoroughgoing business man. He is
particularly prompt in keeping his business engagements and expects the
same consideration from others. He is at all times reliable and his business
career and private life are alike above reproach.

HENRY GOTSHALL, a highly respected farmer of Washington township,
Cass county, has been a resident here ever since 1852, and is therefore
entitled to the honored term " old settler."

First, with reference to his parentage, we give the following record:
His father, Peter Gotshall, was born in Pennsylvania, and in 1837, with a

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large company of emigrants seeking homes in the then far west, with twenty-
eight teams altogether, came by way of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Rich-
mond, Indiana, with the intention of settling in Illinois. On the way, how-
ever, he stopped in Indiana for a short time, where he rented a piece of land,
and changed his intention to go to Illinois, and located at a point eight miles
south of Terre Haute, Indiana, whence, in 1845, he came to Cass county,
settling in Noble township on a tract of land which he had purchased during
the autumn of the preceding year. Here he built a log house and in true
pioneer style began to develop a farm and fit out a comfortable home; and
here he spent the remainder of his days, as a farmer, and died in 1857, at
the age of fifty-seven years. His wife, whose name before marriage was Ann
Woodling, survived him until she had reached the age of seventy-nine years.
Their seven children are named as follows: John, who now lives in Kansas
City, Missouri; Henry, whose name heads this sketch; Elizabeth, deceased;
Frank, Jacob and Eliza, residents of Noble township, and Alva, who is
deceased.

The subject of this sketch, Henry Gotshall, was born April 25, 1S27, in
Pennsylvania, reared to farm work and habits of industry and economy, but
had very little opportunity for a school education. The schools during the
time of his youth were kept in the primitive log structures so universally uni-
form throughout the pioneer west, furnished with slab seats and writing desks,
greased-paper windows and a large fire-place, for which the boys of the school
cut the wood. Being sustained only by volunteer subscription, these schools
were of course very meager in their accommodations and were correspond-
ingly limited in their duration, being kept but a few months during the year.
When twenty-one years of age Mr. Gotshall attended the first free school
taught in the state. However, he has obtained considerable education of
the practical kind, from experience, observation and study. Being a man of
good judgment and of industrious habits, he has naturally prospered in his
calling, and has ever been a faithful citizen and useful member of the com-
munity.

For his wife he married Miss Maria J. Rodrick, a native of Maryland
and a sister of Martin G. Rodrick, a pioneer of Washington township, who
came here when eighteen years old. For a time she and her brother men-
tioned resided in Ohio, on their westward emigration. Her father, Daniel
Rodrick, departed this life at the age of seventy-two years.

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The children of Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall are: Sarah, who died leavint,'
ti\e children — Ledy, Florence E., Edith, Burt and Charles H.; Alice, who
died at the a^e of seven j-ears; Charlotte, the wife of \\'illiain Riley, who
have three children — Maud, Harvey and Katie; Hamlin Franklin, who resides
on a portion of his father's land; Amanda, who married Charles Wilson, of
Tipton township, and has two children — Henry J. and Byron; and Harvey,
at his parental home.

Politicalls- Mr. Gotshall is a Republican, casting his first \ote as a Whig
for Zachary Taylor in 1S4S. In religion he is an active and influential mem-
ber of the I')unkard church, and has a reputation for honesty, industry and a
disposition to attend humbly and faithfully to his own affairs without mixing
up with "politics" and neighborhood gossip. He succeeds in his endeavor
to preach more by example than precept.

CHARLES R. HUGHES. — Says Shakespeare, " The purest treasure mor-
tal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded
loam or painted clay." Reputation is indeed the greatest treasure one can
have in this world. The life and career of the gentleman of whom we in
these paragraphs write constitute a practical illustration of the value of this
maxim, but back of all this is the native carefulness which leads to self dis-
cipline and a good reputation.

Mr. Hughes, the popular and efficient clerk of the Miami circuit court,
was born in Marion county, this state, near Indianapolis, November 30,
1858. His father, Isham Hughes, was a son of Nixon and Eliza Hughes, who
were pioneers of that county. The birth of Nixon Hughes, the paternal
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, occurred December 27, 1806, and
that of his wife Eliza, iicc i^uchanan, May i, 1S08, and her death occurred
September 29, 1862, at the age of sixty-four years. She was the daughter of
Robert and Sarah Buchanan, the former born October 20, 1780, and the lat-
ter July 16, 1784. These, as will be observed, were great-grandparents of
Charles R. Hughes, and the maternal grandparents of his father, Isham
Hughes. The last mentioned married Sarepta A. Orm, a native of Mays-
ville, Iventucky, who came to Indiana with her parents when a young girl.
Her death occurred October 6, 1897, at Indianapolis, where her surviving
husband still lives.

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To Isham Hughes and wife were born eight children, five of whom are
living. The latter comprise three sons and two daughters, as follows:
Charles R. ; Fanny, wife of James Dildine, of Columbus, Ohio; James A.,
of Bakersfield, California; Frank, of Evansville, Indiana, and Luella, of
Indianapolis.

Charles R. Hughes was born in Indianapolis and lived on a farm a few
years in early life, but when very young his parents returned to Indianapolis,
where he attended the public schools, graduating in 1 87 5. During school vaca-
tions and for a short time after leaving school, he was engaged as clerk in two
of the large dry-goods houses in that city, and was for a time employed by the
law firm of Baker, Horde & Hendricks; but his chief occupation for many
years was railroading, beginning his career in that line as an employee of the
Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad Company; and during his railroad life
he was employed also on all the lines of the Wabash system east of the Mis-
sissippi river, and was regarded as one of the best engineers of the system.
He was elected as clerk of the Miami circuit court at the election held
Novemtier 4, 1894, and took charge of the office in June, 1895. He is
held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, and is a valuable member of the
fraternal orders of Odd Fellows, Freemasons and Elks. In his political
sentiments he is a Democrat.

April 19, 1 88 1, he was united in marriage with Miss Maggie E. Burnett,
daughter of Absalom and Elizabeth (Baughn) Burnett, pioneers of Miami
county. Mrs. Hughes before her marriage was a teacher in the public
schools, where she was accomplished and successful. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes
have two children: Fannie May, born May i, 1883, and Charles, August
I, 1886.

GEORGE L. MURDEN, proprietor of a livery and sale stable in Peru,
Indiana, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Miami
county, his parents being Thomas W. and Cynthia A. (Smith) Murden.

Thomas W. Murden was born in the state of Maryland, September 25,
1822, son of Charles and Martha (Williams) Murden. Charles Murden and
family emigrated to Indiana in 1833, and the following year became residents
of Miami county, the family home being established near the village of Mex-
ico. There he passed the residue of his life and died. His widow survived

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him for many years, passinj,' away at the as;e of niiiety-hve. They were the
parents of thirteen children, and of this number nine are still livin,^. Thoiiiis
William Murden was about twelve years of age at the time he came with his
father's family to Miami county. Here, August 15, 1S44, he was married to
Miss Cynthia Ann Smith, who was born November 13, 1S26, daughter of
Thomas and Catherine Siiiith, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter
of North Carolina. Thomas Smith and family came to Miami county, Indiana,
in 1830 and settled on land a short distance south of Mexico, where he lived a
few years, and whence he removed to Chili, same county. At the latter place
he made permanent settlement, passing to the spiritual world there February
28, 1865, at the age of sixty-five years; the wife and mother following her
husband a few days later, her death occurring on the 2d of March, following,
at the age of fifty-eight years. They were the parents of fifteen children, and
as far as known thirteen are still living.

In December, 1846, Thomas W. Murden and family settled near
McGrawville, Miami county, and March, i860, removed to the farm in Clay
township, which became the permanent home of the family, and where Mr.
Murden died August 13, 1S95, at the age of seventy-three years, and after
fifty-one years of married life. Mr. Murden and wife were the parents of ten
children, nine of whom grew to mature years and seven of whom are still
living. These are Mrs. Ann Hutchinson; Mrs. Catherine Erb; Irvin, a res-
ident of Marion, Indiana; George L. , whose name introduces this sketch;
Philora, wife of R. Bayless; Oliver S., and Rebecca Ann, wife of Daniel F.
Deish. The deceased are Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Fiser, who died in 1894;
William, who died at the age of thirty-three years; and Mary Adelle, who died
in infancy. Mrs. Murden still resides at the old home. She is a woman of
more than ordinary intelligence and her memory of the early times in Miami
county is remarkable. Having come to Miami county with her parents in
1830, when but four years of age, she has passed nearly seventy years of her
life here, being one of the oldest inhabitants of the county in point of years
of residence.

It was on the home farm in Clay township, Miami county, that George
L. Murden was ushered into life, tha date of his birth being September 6,
1S60. He has spent all his life in this county. On leaving the farm he
came to Peru and engaged in the livery business at the corner of Second and
Miami streets, where at this writing he is doing a prosperous business. Octo-

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ber 2 1, 1897, Mr. Murden sustained a loss of five thousand dollars by fire, at
which time his barn, fourteen horses, harness, grain and vehicles were
destroyed. He at once rebuilt, on the same site. He and his wife, whose
maiden name was Miss Hettie Hamilton, have had three sons, only one of
whom, Jesse, is living.

TAMES H. STROUSE has had a successful railroad career covering a
^ number of years, and as one of the skilled engineers running in and out
of Logansport he is deserving of personal mention in connection with bio-
graphical sketches of other representative railroad and business men of this
locality.

James H. Strouse is a native Hoosier. He dates his birth in Rockville,
Indiana, January 7, 185 1. Samuel Strouse, his father, is a native of Ger-
many, who came to this country in the year 1840 and settled in Parke county,
Indiana, where he has since maintained his home. During the Civil war he
was a prominent dealer in horses and mules, as agent for the government,
and since the war he has devoted himself to the profitable pursuits of stock
dealing and farming. He married Miss Frances Baker, and James H., our
subject, is the third of their five children.

James H. Strouse spent his childhood on his father's farm, and while
the war of the Rebellion was in progress he was a drummer boy in the state
militia, helping to recruit companies and bury the dead. His railroad
experience had its beginning in 1864, when he accepted the position of train-
boy on the Evansville & Crawfordsville railroad, between Rockville and
Evansville. Later he was in the employ of the same road as brakeman on
a passenger train. In the meantime, however, he spent several years in the
Rockville schools, for he began railroading before his schooling was com-
pleted. When the Logansport, Crawfordsville & Southwestern Railway
Company took possession of the Crawfordsville & Evansville Railroad, in
1870, Mr. Strouse came to the new corporation and was a passenger brake-
man on the first train that the company ran into Logansport. He ran bag-
gage eighteen months of the first two years after the road was finished to this
pomt. Deciding to put himself in line for the locomotive service, he obtained
a position as fireman, and was promoted in 1877, after three years' firing, to
engineer, and was placed on the extra passenger list. He has now a per-

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manent passenger run on the \'andalia line from Logansport to St. Joseph,
Michigan.

At Rockville, Indiana, in 1872, Mr. Strouse was united in marriage to
Miss Ella Viquesne)', who died a few j-ears later, leaving him with one child,
Kate A., who is now an accomplished young woman, employed in the kinder-
garten department of the Arkansas Deaf Mute Asylum. She was educated
in Mrs. Blaker's kindergarten school in Indianapolis. May 26, 1887, Mr.
Strouse wedded Miss Clara M. Moore, daughter of John F. Moore, of Boise
City, Idaho. Mr. Moore is one of the oldest gold-miners of the Rockies.
His three sons, John M., William F. and Melvin A , are with him engaged
in mining near Boise City. By his present wife Mr. Strouse has two chil-
dren, Samuel F. and Nellie M.

WILLIAM H. STALEY, of the firm of Staley & Staley, proprietors and
editors of the Kokomo Evening News and the Kokomo Weekly News,
Kokomo, Indiana, is a native of this state, born in Carroll county, April 19,
1845, son of Aaron and Rebecca (Baker) Staley, natives of Ohio.

Aaron Staley was one of the early pioneers of Indiana, the date of his
arrival here being 1826. He settled in Carroll county, and there for a num-
ber of years worked at his trade, that of cabinet-maker. A consistent
Christian and worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church, he was a
man whose influence for good was felt in the community in which he lived.
He died in 1S54, at the age of fifty-seven years. By his first wife he had
four children, two of whom are now living: Erastus H., of Frankfort, Indi-
ana, and Marietta, wife of Henry Fowler, of luka, Kansas. His second
wife, the mother of our subject, bore him three children, of whom one is
deceased. Those living are William H. and Lewis, the latter a resident of
Peru, Indiana. Their mother, also, was a Methodist. She died in 1852.

The Staleys are of German origin and representatives of the family
were among the early settlers of PennsNlvania. Grandfather Staley was
born in Pennsylvania and was a soldier in the war of 1812. About the
beginning of the present century he left his home in Pennsylvania and came
west, settling in Ohio, then a frontier district known as the Western
Reserve. He died in Ohio at an advanced age, as also did his wife.

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She was a native of the Old Dominion state. The maternal grand-
father of WilHam H. Staley was Daniel Baker, a native of Virginia and a
descendant of French-Huguenot stock. He, too, was a veteran of the war
of 1812, and his father was a Revolutionary soldier. In the year 1822 he
came to Carroll county, Indiana, and settled on a farm, where he passed the
residue of his life and where he died at the age of seventy-seven years. He
was the father of thirteen children.

William H. Staley, the immediate subject of this resume, spent his boy-
hood days on a farm in Carroll county. After completing his studies in the
common schools he entered the Battle Ground Academy, where he was a
student at the time the cloud of civil war gathered and burst upon the coun-
try. His grandsires, as above stated, had been participants in the earlier
wars which were waged in this country, and when civil strife was inaugu-
rated young Staley was not slow to show his patriotism. In 1861, at the
age of seventeen, he tendered his service to the Union cause and went to
the front as a member of Company K, Tenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
the fortunes of which he shared for three years. The last five months of
his service he was a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana
Regiment and had the rank of lieutenant. Among the engagements in
which he participated were those of Mill Springs, Perryville, Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain,
New Hope Church, numerous skirmishes, and the whole of the Atlanta
campaign. At Chickamauga he was wounded in the left shoulder. Through-
out his army life he acted the part of a brave, true soldier, and his pro-
motion to the lieutenancy was an honor fittingly bestowed.

At the close of the war Mr. Staley returned to Indiana and engaged in
railroading, first on the Wabash and later as an engineer on the Mississippi
Central, spending in all twelve years in railroad employ. On severing his
connection with railroad service he turned his attention to the newspaper
business. For one year he was editor of the Frankfort (Ind.) Banner, and at
the end of that time he and his son, Edwin T. , established the Frankfort
Evening News, which they together published two years. Then Edwin T.
sold his interest to Edward H. Burns, who was associated with Mr. Staley
in the publication of the News until 1896. They purchased the Frankfort
Banner, the organ of the Republican party in Clinton county, in 1887, and
continued the issue of both papers until i8g6, when Mr. Staley sold out to

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Mr. Burns, and came to Kokomo. Here he and his son estabhshed the
Kokomo Evening News and the Kokomo \\'eekly News, Republican papers,
which they have since ably conducted.

Mr. Staley resides at 198 East Sycamore street. Hewasmarried March
29, 1 866, to Miss Elizabeth J. Guinn, daughter of Thomas \V. Guinn, and
they have an only child, Edwin T.

Reared in the Methodist church, Mr. Staley still clings to this faith, he
and his wife both being active members of the Methodist Episcopal church
of Kokomo. Fraternally, he is identified with the Masonic order, Knights
of Pythias and Grand Army of the Republic. While he has always been a
stanch Republican, earnest and efficient in advocating Republican principles
through the columns of his paper, he has never held a public office nor has
he ever been a candidate.

Edwin T. Staley is ranked with the enterprising and up-to-date young men
of Kokomo. He started out in life as a teacher, .at the age of sixteen, taught
two years and then began learning the printer's trade, which he followed two
years, at the end of that time becoming associated with his father in establishing
the News. Since then he has devoted his whole time to the newspaper busi-
ness. After selling out to Mr. Burns, as stated above, he was city editor of the
News-Banner, a position he tilled until he engaged in his present enterprise.

He was married September 20, 1894, to Miss Jeannette Coulter, daugh-
ter of James W. Coulter, president of the First National Bank of Frankfort.
Mrs. Staley is a member of the Presbyterian church. The fraternal organi-
zations to which Mr. Staley belongs are the Knights of Pythias, Improved
Order of Red Men, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and Sons of
Veterans.

DANIEL LEEDY, deceased, in his life-time a resident on section 3,
Washington township, Cass county, was born December 3, 1815, near
Dayton, Ohio, and emigrated thence to Miami county, this state, coming on
horseback, and after a residence there of fifteen years he located on section
3, Washington township, Cass county, where he was a pioneer, cleared the
land and made a fine farm, and where he ultimately died, September 3,
1868. He was indeed a pioneer in two different localities, developing good
farms, and had more than his share of the hardships and privations of fron-

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tier life. When he located upon his place in Washington township there
were twenty-three acres cleared; but all the rest of the improvements since
seen there have been the result of his own taste and the handiwork of his own
toil. Economj' and good judgment characterized his life, with the success
that is certain to come from such qualities.

He was married in Miami county, this state, to Elizabeth Jane Nelson,
who was born two miles from Cincinnati and when ten years of age was
brought by her parents in their emigration to Rush county, this state. Her
father, a farmer, was conspicuous for energy and great tenacity of purpose.
Mr. and Mrs. Leedy had nine children, as follows: Susannah, who had six
children, and is deceased: the four living children are Bertha, who is mar-
ried and has one child, named Charles; Frank, who also is married and has
two children — Maud and Jesse. Ati is single, and Ira, who is married and
has one child, Agnes. Ira, the third-child of the subject of this sketch, died
leaving five children — Alva, Flora, Edith, Mary and Harrison. Barton, the
fourth born, has one child, Mary, and resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ann, who became the wife of Samuel Long and has the following six chil-
dren: Charles H., Louis Jasper (who has one child. May Rena), Minnie A.,
Angle A., Joseph G. and Ruby G. Lewis J., whose children are named
Percy, Cully, Carl and Sadie, resides in Howard county, Indiana. William
H., whose children are Bessie, Ruth and Grace, lives in Indianapolis, this
state. 'Rebecca, who married P. K. Schaffer. Charlotte became the wife
of Peter Duncan and has two children — Delmar and Bessie. Henry, whose
one child is named Maggie, is a resident of Plymouth, Indiana. Thus it is
seen that Mr. Leedy was fortunate in having many grandchildren to " rise
up and call him blessed."

In his views of the great national questions Mr. Leedy coincided with
the Republican party. In religion he was brought up intheDunkard church;
later in life he became connected with the Christian church, which relation
he sustained for twenty years, and then returned to his "first love" and
remained a member of the old "Dunkard" or "German Baptist " church
the rest of his life. The surviving widow is an active and intelligent lady,
successfully managing the old farmstead since the death of her husband.
Surrounded by her loyal children and grandchildren, she is enjoying the
evening of her useful life. Mrs. Leedy has nine great-grandchildren and
twenty-four grandchildren.

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WILLIAM E. MOWBRAY.— Peru, Indiana, is honored by the profes-
sional career of one of its oldest citizens, Mr. \V. E. Mowbray, attorney
and counselor at law. A representative of a pioneer family of this county,
he was born in what is now the city of Peru, on the lothof September, 1841.

His father, \\'illiam R. Mowbray, was born in Ross county, Ohio, in
1806, a son of William Mowbray. The original American ancestor was from
Scotland and a resident of the state of Maryland. On arriving at man's
estate, William R. Mowbray was united in marriage to Harriet S. Fcnimore,
who became the mother of the subject of this sketch. She was a native of
Ohio, a daughter of Ebenezer Fenimore. Her paternal ancestry is not very
well defined, but the name is a common one in the earlier history of New
England and of the " Middle States," and the ancestry of Ebenezer Fenimore
were doubtless among the earlier settlers of this country. Her mother's fam-
ily name was Rhett, a name prominent in the history of the south, from
which portion of the Union the famil_\- formerly came.

In October, 1834, William R. Mowbray and wife emigrated from Ohio
to Indiana and located on the site of the present city of Peru, which was
then but a hamlet. The W^abash & Erie canal was then in process of con-
struction, and even then Peru gave promise of becoming an important point.
Mr. Mowbray was a boot and shoe maker by trade, and he has the honor of
making the first pair of boots and shoes in the place. The^amily' continued
to reside here till 1845, when they removed to the farm which Mr. Mowbray
had purchased in Harrison township, and this was the home of the family
till the death of the parents. The wife and mother passed away in 1878,
and the death of Mr. Mowbray occurred on January 29, 1881, at the age
of nearly seventy-five years. He was esteemed as an honorable, upright
citizen and Christian gentleman. In public office he served as the second
treasurer of Miami county. Being one of the early Methodists he assisted in
organizing the first Methodist Episcopal church in Peru. He and his good
wife left to their children the example of lives worthy of emulation. Of their
ten children only five grew up to mature years and three are now living, viz.:
Mrs. Maria Woolpert, of Kalkaska, Michigan; William E., of this sketch;
and Joseph F., also of Kalkaska. Those who attained to mature years and
have passed away were Mary B. and Rhoda R., both of whom left families.

William E. Mowbray was educated in the public schools and was a stu-
dent of the high school of the city when the war of the Rebellion was inau-

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gurated by the secession of the southern states. Like many thousands of the
youth of the land he left the school-room to shoulder a musket in defense of
the Union, enlisting in August, 1862, in Company C, Twelfth Regiment Indi-
ana Volunteer Infantry. He was severely wounded at the battle of Mission-
ary Ridge, which resulted in his honorable discharge from the service. His
disability on account of his wound was so great as to prevent his re-enlist-
ment, which he desired to do. He had previously participated with his reg-
iment in the unfortunate battle of Richmond, Kentucky, where the regiment
lost one hundred and seventy-six men, killed and wounded; but in that disas-
trous affair he escaped without injury.

Mr. Mowbray had decided to enter the legal profession before the war
and had pursued the study of law to some extent. He now resumed his
study in the office of Judge John Mitchell, under whose kind and able instruc-
tion he made rapid progress, and was admitted to practice in 1865; and he
has followed his chosen profession in the city of his birth ever since 1867,
having been previously located at Warsaw for about a year. He is recog-
nized as an able and conscientious lawyer, and as a citizen he is held in high
esteem. He is prominently connected with the Methodist Episcopal church,
of which he has been a trustee since the two churches of the city were con-
solidated in 1875. I"^ his political affiliations he is a Republican, and while
not an office-seeker he takes a commendable interest in the success of the
principles of his party.

In matrimony he was united with Miss Mary Whitezel, a native of
Boone county, Indiana, and a daughter of Balthazer Whitezel, who was
born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, near Frankfort-on-the Main, and emi-
grated to America at the age of eighteen years; his death occurred in Miami
county in 1873. The mother of Mrs. Mowbray is still living. Mr. and Mrs.
Mowbray have seven children, five sons and two daughters, viz. : Frederick
W. , Stella R. , now Mrs. Allen G. Trippeer, Merrill, Herman S., Ralph H.,
Clara A. and Albert W.

GEORGE R. CHAMBERLAIN, the assistant cashier of the First
National Bank of Peru, is the only son of George W. Chamberlain,
an early and well known contractor and builder of the city. He was born in
Lambertsville, New Jersey, June 13, 1822, a son of Jacob Chamberlain, who

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removed with his family to Melmore, Seneca county, Ohio, in 1836, his son
George W. being then in his fourteenth year. There Jacob Chamberlain and
his wife, whose maiden name was EHzabeth Johnson, spent their remaining
days, the wife surviving her husband for a number of years. They had ii\e
children, four sons and a daughter, and George W. was the last sur\i\ing
member of the family. He learned the trade of carpenter and builder and
removed from Tiffin, Ohio, to Peru, Indiana, in 1851. Here he at once began
contracting and building, which pursuit he followed as a life work, and many
of the finest residences and business houses in Peru and the adjoining country
where erected under his personal supervision.

On the 6th of September, 1853, George W. Chamberlain was married
in Peru to Miss Margaret Morrison, who was born in Chester count}', Penn-
sylvania, June 26, 1S32, adaughterof William and Hannah Morrison, natives
of county Cork, Ireland, who came to America in early life. By their marriage
they had five sons and two daughters, but all have passed away with the
exception of Mrs. Chamberlain and her brother, John Morrison, who resides
in the township of Balville, Sandusky county, Ohio. During the infancy of
Mrs. Chamberlain her parents removed to that township, where her father
cleared and developed a new farm, upon which he and his wife spent their
remaining days. The mother of our subject was in her si.xteenth year when
she came to Peru, Indiana, accompanied by her two brothers, James and
William Morrison. The brothers here learned the carpenter's trade under
the training of Joseph Harper, an early builder of Peru, and later James
removed to Indianapolis, where he married and became a well known citizen,
his death there occurring in October, 1890. William Morrison was a resi-
dent of Peru for many years and was for a long time employed in the rail-
road shops of the city. He finally returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he
died in July, 1897. George W. Chamberlain, the father of our subject, died
August 22, 1S95, at the age of seventy-three years, and he and his wife
became the parents of four children, two of whom died in early infancy. Mrs.
Chamberlain and a son and daughter are the surviving members of the family.
The last named is Nellie, wife of Charles R. Co.\, of Peru. Mr. Chamberlain
was a well known and highly esteemed citizen, and his memory is cherished
by many friends.

George R. Chamberlain, whose name begins this review, was born in
Peru, August 4, 1854, was educated in the public schools here and graduated

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in the high school with the class of 1870, when in his sixteenth year.
Through the succeeding year he was employed as salesman in the mercantile
establishment of John S. Hale & Company, of Peru, and in February, 1872,
he entered the First National Bank of this city as bookkeeper. In May,
1 88 1, he was promoted to the position of teller, and since June, 1888, has
occupied the position of assistant cashier.

On the iith of February, 1892, Mr. Chamberlain married Miss Alice
Harris, of Peru, daughter of Andrew J. Harris, an early settler of this city,
now deceased. They have a son, Richard H., born June 4, 1896, and lost
a daughter, Alice, at the age of five months.

In his political associations Mr. Chamberlain is a Republican, and
socially is connected with the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Benevo-
lent Protective Order of Elks. He has been in the employ of the institution
with which he is now connected for the long period of twenty-seven years,
which fact is ample testimony of the high esteem in which he is held as a
gentleman of integrity and business ability.

/'^EORGE W. CHARLES.— The Charles family is of Welsh origin, and
^-* was founded in America by the grandfather of our subject, Robert
Charles, who was born in the little rock-ribbed country of Wales, whence he
-came to the " land of the free." His wife was a native of England. Taking
up his residence in New Jersey, he died in Glassboro, that state, in middle
life. His only child, John Charles, was born in New Jersey, and after attain-
ing his majority followed farming near Bridgeton for many years. He
married Amanda Loper, daughter of Beriah and Abigail (Jerrell) Loper.
Her father was a native of New Jersey, a farmer by occupation and was a
soldier in the war of 1812. He died in his native state, at the age of eighty-
six years, and his wife passed away at the age of eighty-four. They were
the parents of six children. Mr. and Mrs. John Charles became the par-
ents of five children, namely: Charley R., of Camden, New Jersey;
Albert A., of Kokomo, Indiana; George W. ; John B. ; and Elnora, who died
at the age of four years. The parents are now residents of Bridgeton,
and both are active and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal
church.

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George W. Charles was born in Bridgetc)n, Ciunberland county, New
Jersey, September 4, 1857, and remained upon his father's farm until six-
teen years of age, when he became an employee in a canning factory in
which his father owned an interest. He acquired his early education in the
schools of Bridgeton, and later was graduated at the South Jersey Institute
at the same place, his time being divided between the duties of the school-
room and service in the canning factory. His life has ahva\-s been a very
busy and useful one, and the habits of industry and persistence which he
cultivated in youth have been important factors in his business success. He
remained in the canning factory until he had attained his majority, after
which he engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business in Camden,
New Jersey, for one year. He then went to Oilman, Iowa, where he estab-
lished a canning factory, and a year later removed to Belle Plaine, same
state, where he conducted a similar enterprise until his establishment of a can-
ning factory in Newton, that state. On leaving the Hawkeye state he spent
a few months in \\'ashington, D. C, after which he returned to Bridgeton,
New Jersey, whence he removed to Greenwood, Indiana, where for five years
he operated the canning factory of J. T. Polk.

In 1 89 1 Mr. Charles came to Kokonio and purchased the interest of N.
S. Martz in the firm of Charles & Martz, the firm of A. A. & G. W. Charles
being then organized. After three years the senior member sold his interest
to O. P. Klinger, and the present firm of Charles & Klinger was formed.
They put up all kinds of canned goods, their specialties being tomatoes and
peas; and their popular brands. Ruby and Red 0.\, are handled very exten-
sively throughout the middle and western states. They have secured a very
large patronage, and through the busy season employ about four hundred
hands. Their trade is constantly increasing, and the enterprise has proved
of great benefit to the community as well as to the owners by reason of fur-
nishing a market for the garden products of this vicinity. Mr. Charles is a
man of resourceful business ability, and his efforts are not confined alone to
one interest. He is one of the stockholders in the American Pulp Works, of
Marion, Indiana, which emplo\s a large force of workmen; he is also a director
in the Citizens' National Bank, of Kokomo, and a stockholder and the treas-
urer of the Monocycle Manufacturing Company of this cit}'.

On the JOth of March, 1895, Mr. Charles married Miss Belle Klinger,
daughter of O. P. and Hattie Klinger, who was born in Plymouth, Indiana,

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received her education in the higli schools of that place, and in 1889 accom-
panied her parents to their home in Kokomo. She is an intelligent and
charming lady, and her mild and pleasant ways have won for her a host of
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles have one son, born September 14, 1896, and
named Grafton O. Their pleasant home at No. 246 East Monroe street is
one of the most hospitable in Kokomo, and is a favorite resort with a large
circle of friends, who entertain for their host and hostess the highest regard.
Mrs. Charles is a member of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Charles is a
liberal contributor to its support. In his political views he is a Democrat;
but the cares of business life have left him no time to take an active part in
political affairs aside from casting an intelligent ballot in support of the prin-
ciples which he believes will best secure the welfare of the nation. Notwith-
standing the above, the popularity of Mr. Charles was shown when, unsolic-
ited, his friends elected him councilman of the second ward, May 3, 1898,
with a majority of ninety-one votes over an average Republican majority
of two hundred and forty-five.

Mr. Charles is regarded as one of the busiest, most energetic and enter-
prising men of Ivokomo, and his methods in commercial life are above ques-
tion. Honesty is synonymous with his name, and the well known reliability
of the firm has secured them a very liberal patronage. Courteous, genial,
well informed, alert and enterprising, he stands to-day as one of the leading
representative men of the state, — a man who is a power in his community.

JOHN A. GROH, a respected citizen of Logansport, Indiana, and an
employe of the Pan Handle Railroad Company, acting in the capacity of
extra passenger and local freight conductor, is a native of this state, born at
Camden, Carroll county. May 8, 1861.

Mr. Groh is a son of George and Catherine (Schmidt) Groh, the former
a native of Bremen, Germany, born in 1820; the latter a native of Buffalo,
New York. George Groh when a young man left his native land and emi-
grated to America, landing here in the early '40s and coming direct to
Logansport, Indiana. He was married in this state to Miss Catherine
Schmidt, passed the first two or three years of his married life in Camden,-
and about 1863 located permanently in Logansport, where he was for a short

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time engaged in the grocery business. He died here in 1872. His widow is
still a resident of this city. The surviving children of their union are as fol-
lows: Mrs. Mary Riddle, Logansport; Frank M., the Logansport baker;
John A., whose name forms the heading of this sketch; Christina; and Lizzie,
wife of Edward Davis, Logansport.

John A. Groh was a small boy at the time his parents removed to Logans-
port. His education was received in the common schools of this city, and at
an early age he began his railroad career as an employe of the Pan Handle,
his first position being that of " caller," which he filled till November, 1879.
At that time he received a promotion and went out on the road as brakeman
on a freight train. As such he was prompt and faithful, "steady as clock-
work," and in due course of time promotion again came his way. Since
July I, 1S83, he has been a freight conductor, and for some time has been
running one of the locals between Effner and Logansport.

Mr. Groh was married in Logansport, December 12, 1888, to Miss Mary
Rau, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Mr. Scott. Mrs. Groh's father,
John Rau, was a native of Germany and for many years was a resident of
Logansport and an engineer on the Pan Handle road. He died in this city
in 1897, at the age of si.\ty-three years. Her mother was before mar-
riage Miss Lena Redman. Their children, besides Mrs. Groh, are John,
Kate, Peter, Minnie and Emma. Mr. and Mrs. Groh have no children.
Mr. Groh is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

JOHN A. BENSON, one of the leading contractors and builders of Logans-
port, Indiana, has, by virtue of his trade, contributed no little to the
development of this city and vicinity.

He is a native of Cass county, Indiana, born on a farm October 2, i860.
His father, Robert G. Benson, is a well-known man in Jefferson township,
this county, where he has resided since 1835 with his father, John Benson,
having come here when a boy of five years. As far back as their history can
be traced the Bensons were residents of Pennsylvania. It was in that state
in 1830 that Robert G. Benson was born. On reaching manhood he was
married in Jefferson township to Miss Lucy Chase, daughter of Abel Chase,
and the fruits of their happy union are three children: John A.; Ella, wife of

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Frank Banta, of Chicago; and William, a student in the Chicago Homeo-
pathic Medical College.

John A. Benson was reared on his father's farm in Jefferson township.
His opportunities for intellectual improvement were confined to the rural
schools and the home fireside, and his ambition, on approaching man's estate,
was to become a mechanic and thus avoid the toil and frequent disappointments
of the farm. Accordingly, at the age of seventeen, he came to Logansport
and entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter, in the shop of
Joseph Crane, and after completing his trade worked as a journeyman till
!88r. That year he engaged in the business of contracting on his own
responsibility. His first contract was for the erection of a school-house in
Jefferson township. Since then he has been an important fac:or in the build-
ing enterprises which have been carried forward here, much of his work
adding beauty as well as a substantial appearance to the city. Notable
examples of his skill as a workman are to be found in the residences of A. W.
Stevens, William Walker, A. J. Murdock, John Mulcahy, L. R. Clevenger,
S. A. Vaughn, Henry Jo.x and Leonard Wecht, a number of them being
among the best buildings in the east end.

Mr. Benson has a wife and two sons. He was married in Logansport
an February, 1885, to Miss May Wimer, daughter of Hon. John W. Wimer,
and their children are Herbert W. and Earl G.

/"^HARLES A. NEAL, who figures as conductor on one of the through
^^ freights that run out of Logansport over the Pan Handle, has spent many
3-ears in railroad service and is one of the most reliable men his company has
in its employ. A brief sketch of his life is herewith presented:

Charles A. Neal .first saw the light of day on a farm near Economy,
Wayne county, Indiana, and is a son of Edward and Hannah (Cranor) Neal.
Edward Neal was a Virginian, born about the year 1826. Early in life he
left the Old Dominion and came west to make his home in Wayne county,
Indiana, where he met and married Miss Hannah Cranor, a daughter of
Joshua Cranor, one of the pioneers of Wa3'ne county. Of their family of
children, those surviving are as follows: Ella, wife of Lee Page, of Rich-
mond, Indiana; Mattie and Charles A. Mr. Neal died in Wayne county in
1S93. His widow is still living and makes her home in Richmond.

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When Charles A. was quite small iiis parents inoveil from their farm,
near Economw to \\'illiamsburg and some time later took up their abode in
Kichniond. It was in Richmond that he completed his common-school edu-
cation. On lea\ing school he secured employment in French's livery estab-
lishment of that place and later went into the country and worked as a farm
hand. Thus he was occupied from the time he was fifteen until he reached his
eighteenth \ear. At eighteen he began railroading. His first position was
as a brakeman on the Pan Handle, with Logansport as headquarters, and later
we find him serving in the same capacity on the Louisville cS: Nashville Rail-
road, his run being between Bowling Green and Nashville. He was with the
latter company for a year and a half, and soon after severing his connection
with it he married and settled down to farming, his location being on a farm
ten miles south of Peru, Indiana. A few years of farming, howe\'er, sufficed
to satisfy him in this line and again we find him turning to railroad business.
He came back to Logansport and in the fall of i8Si secured a position as
brakeman in the freight service of the Pan Handle, and two \-ears later, in
January, 1SS3, was promoted to his present position, that of conductor.

Mr. Neal is actively identified with the Order of Railway Conductors at
Logansport, at this writing occupying the position of assistant chief.

He was married December 16, 1877, to Miss Jennie Wright, a daughter
of Robert Wright. She died March 18, 1898, leaving four children, namely:
Rex R., Earnest E., Roy C. and Ada. Robert Wright came from Ohio to
this state and settled in Miami county, where he lived for a number of years.
He and his wife now reside with Mr. Neal in Logansport.

JOSHUA S. L.-\ROSE. — The states of the central Mississippi valley have
been and are the center of the most marked progress of America. The
development and transformation of this region seems almost a miracle; yes-
terday barren prairies and uncut forests; to-day fine farms, blossoming fields
and thriving towns and cities. The very spirit of progress and enterprise
seems to dominate this portion of the country, and the life-work of its citi-
zens is proof of this statement. Mr. LaRose is among those who by his own
unaided efforts has overcome the difficulties and obstacles attendant upon the
settlement of a new region, and by his industry, perseverance and capable
management worked his way upward to a position of affluence, at the same

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time gaining the respect and confidence of the entire community by his hon-
orable deahng and well spent life.

Born in Preble county, Ohio, October 31, 1823, he is a son of Philip J.
and Mary (Shearer) LaRose, both of whom were natives of Guilford county,
North Carolina. Their family numbered eight children, but only two are
now living, — Joshua S. and John S. The ancestry of the family can be
traced back to John Lewis LaRose, the great-grandfather, who was a native
of Germany and came to America in 1740, locating in Lehigh county, Penn-
sylvania, where the Rev. John Jacob LaRose, his son and the grandfather of
our subject, was born and reared. He was a tailor by trade, but when the
war of the Revolution was inaugurated he put aside all business and personal
considerations to aid in the cause of independence. Leaving his southern
home, Philip J. LaRose became a resident of Wayne county, Indiana, in
1826, and in 1834 removed to Cass county, locating on an eighty-acre tract
of land in Clay township. To that property he kept adding from time to
time as his financial resources increased until his landed possessions aggre-
gated over seven hundred acres. His was a busy and useful life and his suc-
cess was well merited. He died March 28, 1871, at the advanced age of
ninety-one years, and the community thereby lost one of its honored pioneer
settlers.

Joshua S. LaRose was a lad of eleven years when he accompanied his
parents to Cass county, but since his third year he has been a resident of
Indiana. He was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier. All around
stretched the forests, standing in their primeval strength and beauty. The
abundance of wild game showed that civilization had made but few advances
into the woodland, and where here and there a frontier cabin was to be found
it was built of logs, and its inmates lived in the true style of the frontier.
After assisting in the development of his father's farm until after he had
attained his majority, Mr. LaRose went to a home of his own. He is now
the owner of more than two hundred acres of valuable land, highly cultivated,
and improved with all the accessories and conveniences of the model farm of
the nineteenth century. He has been the architect of his own fortunes and
has builded wisely and well, his success coming as the reward of earnest
application and unflagging perseverance. At the time of the Mexican war
he responded to the president's call for troops and went to the front under
command of General Taylor.

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On the I ith of November, 1847, Mr. LaRose was united in marriage to
Miss Amanda A. Jones, a native of Champaign county, Ohio, and a daughter
of John D. and Sarah (Baity) Jones, the former a native of Mason county,
I\entucky, the latter of Pennsylvania. In 1844 they came to Cass county,
Indiana. Their family nnmbercd six children, as follows: Amanda .\., John
D., Miles B., Elizabeth E., Rulla V. and Hannah K. The paternal grand-
father of Mrs. LaKose was Benjamin Jones, a native of Kentucky and a sol-
dier in the war of 1S12. Our subject and his wife have three children; Alice;
Dora, deceased; and Noah J., a practicing physician.

Mr. LaRose is a man of strong convictions, fearless in defense of what
he believes to be right, and his name is a synonym for honorable business
dealing. He is a strong advocate of temperance principles and embodies his
views on this subject in his active support of the Prohibition party. For
almost sixt\--five years a valued resident of Cass county, his name is engraved
high on the roll of her honored pioneers, and in her history he well deserves
prominent mention.

HON. HENRY V. PASSAGE, M. D., M. A., was born in Dayton, Ohio,
on the 20th of December, 1835. His father, John Passage, was a
native of Onondaga county, New York, born October 8, 1808, and was of
French descent. The great-grandfather of our subject, Bernard Passage,
and the grandfather, Henry Passage, came to America with La Fayette,
under whom they fought for the independence of the colonies which were
attempting to throw off the yoke of British tyranny. Bernard Passage gave
his life for the cause of freedom, and Henry Passage continued to aid the
American forces until the war was ended, after which he located in western
New York, whence he removed to Ohio. He died at the home of his son,
John Passage, in Columbus, Indiana, in 1841, at the age of eighty-seven
years, and throughout his life was a loyal citizen of the republic which he
had helped to establish.

John Passage, the Doctor's father, was reared in Miami county, Ohio,
and was by occupation a brick and stone mason. He wedded Mary Reed,
who was born near Lebanon, Ohio, a daughter of Brutus Reed, a native of
Dutchess county. New Y'ork, and a soldier of the war of 1812. He was with
Commodore Perry in the memorable battle which occurred on Lake Erie,

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being on board the flagship with the commodore, when a shot from the
enemy's guns disabled the vessel. He then accompanied the gallant Perry in
an open boat in the face of the English fire to another vessel. The success
of the American arms in that naval engagement is now a matter of history,
and among the prizes captured was a set of surgical instruments, which inter-
esting relic the Doctor now has in his possession. In 1836 John Passage
removed with his family to Indiana and for some time was engaged in the
construction of the stone work on the Wabash & Erie canal. He finally
located on a farm near Waverly, Cass county, and at the time of his death
resided on a farm near Macy. He passed away in 1876, and his wife, sur-
viving him some years, was called to her final rest in 1888. They had one
son, William B. , who was a loyal defender of the Union in the war of the
Rebellion, serving with the Twentieth Indiana Infantry until the 22d of June,
1862, when he met his death in what is known as the seven-days fight before
Richmond. Three sisters of the family are living: Eliza, a resident of
Miami county, Indiana; Sarah, of Los Angeles, California; and Kate, of
Peru. One sister, Elizabeth, is now deceased.

The Doctor is the only surviving male representative of his father's
family. He has practically spent his entire life in the Hoosier state, having
been brought to Indiana by his parents in early childhood. His literary edu-
cation was completed in the Indiana University, of which institution he is a
graduate, and, having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life
work, he entered Rush Medical College, of Chicago. He completed, by
graduation, the regular course of study in that school, and is also a graduate
of Bellevue Medical College, of New York city. Well prepared for medical
practice by a comprehensive knowledge, he opened an office in Fortville,
Indiana, in 1857, and three years later came to Peru, where he has since
remained. He has always been a close student of his profession, and read-
ing and study have kept him in touch with the advancement that is continually
being made in scientific research and medical practice. His fidelity to the
arduous duties that devolve upon the physician, and his unremitting attention
to the needs of his patients, are also indications of the excellent success which
he has won in his chosen field of labor.

On the 25th of November, 1858, Dr. Passage was united in marriage to
Miss Martha Cooper, daughter of Elijah S. and Berrilla (Noel) Cooper, prom-
inent citizens of Hancock county, Indiana. The Doctor and, his wife have

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one daughter, Florence M. , wife of Walter H. Xcsljet, of Peru, whose four
children, Henry, Mary Berrilla, Esther Noel and Martha, have brightened
many days at the grandparents' home.

For a number of years Dr. Passage has taken a \-er_\' active part in polit-
ical affairs, and is an ardent ad\-ocate of the Democracy. He has served
two terms in the state legislature of Indiana, having b^en elected to represent
his district in the general assembly in 1SS4 and again in 1892. While a
member of the house he gave careful consideration to the various important
questions which came up for settlement, and labored earnestly to promote
what he believed to be the best interests of the state. He is the author
of the law of 1885 compelling corporations to pay laborers monthly and mak-
ing their wages a preferred claim in cases of bankruptcy. The Doctor is a
man of scholarly attainments, a tiuent and entertaining writer, and for a
number of years has been editor of the ^liami Record. He is a man of
strong individuality, of much force of character and is highly esteemed, both
professionally and as a citizen.

JAMES SULLIVAN, the popular freight conductor on the Chicago divis-
ion of the Pan Handle Railroad, was born in Sidney, Ohio, on the 15th
of March, 1861, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary (Morarity) Sullivan. The
father was born in Ireland, and, emigrating to America, followed farming in
Grant county, Indiana, for many years. His death occurred in 188 [ at the
age of seventy-two years, and his widow still survives him, her home being
in Marion, Indiana. Their children are Michael, a resident farmer of Grant
county; Mary, wife of Cornelius Sullivan, of Marion; James, of this review;
and William, who also resides in Marion, Indiana.

Upon his father's farm James Sullivan s|)cnt his early youth and as soon
as old enough to handle the plow he began working in the fields, assisting in
the cultivation and development of the land until he had attained his se\en-
teenth year, vv'hen he began railroading on the Erie line, in the capacity of
brakeman. He was in the service of that company until 1879, in December
of which year he came to Logansport and at once secured employment on the
Pan Handle road, beginning work on the 1st of January, 1S80. He was pro-
moted to conductor in 1882 and for some years has been running the local

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freight between Logansport and Chicago. His uniform courtesy to and con-
sideration for the passengers on that hue has made him a popular -employe
and his faithful service has gained him the high regard of the company.

Mr. Sullivan was married in 1888 to Miss Maud F., a daughter of W.
H. H. Carter, a prominent stock-buyer and shipper of Cass county, now
residing in Washington township. Mr. Sullivan is very popular among train-
men, by whom he is familiarly known as " Jim." A spirit of justice, a love
of " fair play," disinterested kindness and generosity have won him the warm
regard of those with whom he is associated and he has the friendship of those
to whom the term means much.

CHARLES E. MIDDLETON, deputy county clerk of Howard county,
Indiana, and the Republican nominee for the office of county clerk, is
one of the most genial and accommodating servants of which the county of
Howard can boast.

Mr. Middleton is a native of this county and represents two of its oldest
families. He was born in Honey Creek township, November 19, 1856, son
of William and Jane (Moulder) Middleton, both natives of Indiana. Their
family was composed of three children, Charles E. being the eldest, the
others being Mary Florence, wife of W. H. Orr, and John M. The father, a
farmer by occupation, came from Montgomery county, where he was born,
to Howard county, locating here during the early settlement of this county,
and for many years carried on farming and stock-raising near West Middle-
ton. For the past year he has been a resident of Russiaville. He owns a
fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Harrison township. Both he
and his wife are members of the Friends' church.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was Levi Middleton. He was
a native of Ohio, by occupation a farmer, and died after he had passed the
meridian of life, leaving a large family of children.

John Moulder, the maternal grandfather of Charles E. Middleton, is of
German descent, came to this state from North Carolina, first settling in Parke
county and coming from there to Howard county, where he figured promi-
nently as a pioneer settler. He was a member of the commission which was
appointed to lay out and name the city of Kokomo. For many years he was

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engaged in merchandising in Kokoino, but farming has been his princijial
occupation. He is now a resident of Kussiaville, has attained tiie ripe old
age of ninety-three years, and is honored and esteemed by all who know him.

Charles E. Middleton was reared in Harrison township, on his fathers
farm, and attended the common schools until he was sixteen, at which time
he secured a position as clerk in a general-merchandise store at West Mid-
dleton, where he was emplo\'ed for len years. Then for one ^ear he was a
clerk in the grocery store of John T. Lett, at Kokomo, at the end of the Near
returning to West Middleton, where he remained until 1S90. That year he
came back to Kokomo, and has resided here ever since. For two \ears he
was bookkeeper for Sparker Brothers, brick and tile manufacturers, and from
their establishment came to the office of the county clerk, as deputy for Mr.
Cooper, and this position he has since held. In March, 1S9S, he received the
nomination for the oflice of count\- clerk at the hands of the Republican
party, of which he has always been a stanch supporter.

Mr. Middleton resides at No. 173 ^^'est Taylor street, Kokomo, and has
a wife and two children. He was married October 20, 1880, to Miss Mary
Torrence, daughter of Robert E. and Sarah J. (Jones) Torrence. Their chil-
dren are Eva Pearl and Charles Louis. Born of Quaker stock and reared in
this faith, Mr. Middleton still adheres to it, both he and his wife being mem-
bers of the Friends' church. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow.

JULIUS FALK. — The name of Falk has long been prominently associated
*^ with the commercial history of Peru, and the subject of this sketch is
now one of the prominent business men of the city, successfully conducting
an extensive mercantile establishment. He is a son of Moses Falk, a well
known pioneer of Miami county, Indiana. The father was born in \\'urtem-
berg, Germany, February 8, 18 16, was left an orphan in early childhood and
during his youth came to America. In early life he learned the carpenter's
trade, but soon after his arrival in .America he went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he entered upon his business career as a merchant by purchasing goods
in that city, and, in the capacity of an itinerant peddler, traveled on foot
over the states of Ohio and Indiana. He followed that vocation for a num-
ber of years, after which, in 1837, he located near Peoria, Miami county,

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Indiana, where he opened what became known as the "Dutch Grocery."
Many of his customers were Indians, and with their language he thus became
famiUar. Through the exercise of excellent business qualities, he met suc-
cess in that enterprise, and at the same time he conducted a farm which he
had purchased near by. In 1S50 he located in Peru, and from that time
forward until his death was prominently connected with the business inter-
ests of this city. He had previously sent to Germany for the Sterne brothers,
who became well known citizens of Peru, and under the firm name of Falk
& Sterne they carried on a mercantile establishment until about 1S59. The
partnership was then dissolved, Mr. Falk continuing the business until 1878,
when he retired and was succeeded by his son, Julius.

Moses Falk was twice married. In Peoria he wedded Miss Helen
Redelsheimer, a native of Germany, but at the time of her marriage a
resident of Fort \\^ayne, Indiana. Her death oocurred in 1858, and Mr.
Falk afterward married Jennie Kuppenheimer, who survives her husband
and is now a resident of Chicago. Seven children were born of the first mar-
riage, four of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Paulina Kaufman, of Boston,
Massachusetts; Mrs. Carrie Meyer, of Michigan City, Indiana; Julius, and
Mrs. Flora Bernard, of Cleveland, Ohio. Francis married William Levi, of
Peru, and died in 1889. The others passed away in childhood. The chil-
dren of the second marriage are Mrs. Molly Rosenthal, of Crookston, Minne-
sota; Mrs. Elba Wile, of Chicago; and Harry, also of Crookston, Minne-
sota. The father of this family, Moses Falk, died at his home in Peru, Feb-
ruary I I, 1880. He was a successful business man and a respected citizen.
Very charitable, he was ever ready to assist the poor and needy, and extend
the hand of assistance to those who were earnestly endeavoring to work their
way upward. He is held in kind remembrance by those who were his con-
temporaries in the early development of the city, and his name is inseparably
connected with its upbuilding and material advancement.

Two of his brothers, Isaac and Loeb Falk, also became residents of
Peru. Isaac met a tragic death. At the beginning of the Mexican war in
1846 he enlisted under Captain, afterward Colonel, John L. \\'ilson. It
appears that after his enlistment he was engaged in securing enlistments for
the company and one night started for Wabash with that purpose in view.
While en route by way of the tow-path of the canal, he lost his life by drown-
ing. Whether he fell into the water or was thrown in by a boatman was

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never clearly established. The other brother, Loeb, remained in Peru until
his death.

Julius Talk, his father's successor in business and the only one of the
family now resident in Peru, was born in the city which is still his home,
February 25, 1S55. He attended the public scliools here nntil about four-
teen years of age, and was afterward for two years a student in Earlham
College, in Richmond, Indiana. He then entered his father's store and suc-
ceeded to the business on the latter's retirement in 1878. He has occupied
his present location at the corner of Main street and Broadway since 1887
and is recogni;;ed as one of the most successful, enterprising and progressive
business men of Peru. He carries a large stock of clothing, men's furnishing
goods and boots and shoes and has one of the most complete and finely
appointed stores in his line in the state. He has inherited the business
qualities of his father, and has added to them the modern methods which
enable one to carry on e.xtensive enterprises. He is persistent in the pur-
suit of a purpose, is energetic and far-sighted, and his capable management
has brought to him excellent and well deserved success.

Mrs. Falk was formerly Miss Jennie Wile, a native of Owensboro, Ken-
tucky, and they have three daughters, — Fanny, Corinne and Aimee. The
family is one of prominence in the community and many warm friends delight
in the hospitality of their pleasant home.

JAMES H. WILLIAMS, a veteran in the railroad service, has had ma
rough and interesting experiences in the quarter of a century he has
been running an engine, and has had some narrow escapes, but has passed
through all with only a few bruises and without forfeiting the life of a single
human being. His life history, brief!}' given, is as follows:

James Harvey Williams was born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 23, 1844,
and is of English descent. John F. ^^'illiams, his father, was a native of
England, who emigrated to this country when a j-oung man and settled in
Louisville, Kentucky, whence he subsequently removed to St. Louis, Mis-
souri. For a number of years he was an ice dealer. During the gold
excitement in California, in the days of '49. he left his little family and
started overland for the gold fields of the Pacific coast. His death occurred

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on the plains, and he was not permitted to reach sunny Cahfornia or realize
his dreams of wealth. His widow, whose maiden name was Sarah T. Cox,
subsequently became the wife of M. H. Eastham, now of Baxter Springs,
Kansas. Following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Williams: John R., deceased, was a passenger conductor on the
Pan Handle Railroad for a number of years, and was killed in an accident,
August 14, 1870, between Pittsburg and Columbus; James H., whose name
forms the heading of this sketch; Mary J., now Mrs. William G. Mason, of
Fort Worth, Texas; and Annie, wife of J. B. Boyer, of Baxter Springs,
Kansas.

James H. Williams spent his boyhood chiefly in his native city, St.
Louis. Besides attending the schools of that place, he was for a time a
pupil in the country schools of Montgomery county, Missouri, the schools of
Taylorville, Kentucky, and the Catholic schools in Bloomfield, Kentucky.
At an early age he became self-supporting. At the age of fourteen he began
working for wages, two dollars per week, in a bagging factory in St. Louis.
He was later employed as a farm hand in Montgomery count}', Missouri, up
to 1859, when he went to Alton, Illinois, and began his railroad career as a
brakeman on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad. He was given a
fireman's position in i860 and remained with the road until 1863, when he
went to Newark, Ohio, and took a position as conductor for the original Pan
Handle Company. He remained on that end of the road until 1867, since
which time he has been identified with Logansport. Here he accepted a
position that year on the old C, C. & I. C. , and rode " the rear end of the
train" till 1873, when he was given an engine. For fourteen years he was
in the freight service as engineer. In 1887 his faithful services were
rewarded by promotion to the passenger service, and since that date he has
had charge of a passenger engine running between Logansport and Chicago.
As already stated, Mr. Williams has had some thrilling experiences and nar-
row escapes. In 1897 he ran into an open switch at Sherryville, Indiana,
and his engine was turned over and wrecked. He, however, stuck to his
post, and extinguished the fire before he realized he was badly burned.

Mr. Williams was married in Logansport, February 20, 1884, to Eva
Knight, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Mehaffey) Knight. Mr. Knight
was a Canadian and his wife a native of Ireland. He was for some years night
foreman of the shops of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Logansport,

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and died here March 27, 1885, at tlie asi;e of filty-two years. iMjllnwiii,;; arc
the names of his ciiildren: Mrs. Kate Sheridan, Mrs. Elsie Minnenian,
Mrs. NeIHe Grain, Mrs. James H. Williams, William J., Thomas, Ri)bert
and George. Mr. and Mrs. W'illiams have two children, Harry W. and
Mabel E.

Mr. Williams is a man of genial and social nature, and is popular with
the various organizations to which he belongs. He is an Odd Fellow, a
Forester and a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

WILLIAM COOPER, M. D. — For twenty-two years a practicing physi-
cian of Kokomo, Dr. Cooper ranks among the leading representatives
of the medical profession in Howard county, for earnest, persistent labor and
close application have gained him pre-eminence in his chosen c;dling. If
fame and success were purchasable qualities many a man whom fortune has
favored with wealthy ancestors would be occupying leading positions in pro-
fessional circles; but learning and labor are the ladders by which all must
rise, and it is those qualities which have enabled Dr. Cooper to win a place
in the foremost rank of his medical brethren.

He was born in Preble county, Ohio, near Eldorado, nine miles north
of Eaton, on the 21st of August, 1839, and is a son of James and Delilah
(Baker) Cooper, natives of \'irginia. The former is a son of Alexander
Cooper, a native of Virginia, who, emigrating to Ohio, in 1S32, made the
journey by wagon. Securing a tract of wild land he cleared and developed
a farm, upon which he made his home throughout his remaining days, his
death occurring in middle life. He had a family of eight sons and five
daughters. The maternal grandfather of our subject, John Baker, was a
native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and died in the Old Dominion at an
advanced age. The Doctor's father was for many years a farmer of Preble
county, Ohio, and is now living retired in Eldorado. About 1853 he
removed to Cass county, Indiana, locating near Galveston on a farm
which continued to be his home for some time. He then sold his land,
removed to the town and afterward went to Iowa, where he remained for
several years. On the e.xpiration of that period he returned to Gaheston,
purchasing his old home there; next removed to Denver, Indiana; several

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years later located in Kokomo, and in 1889 returned to Eldorado, Ohio,
where he is now living. \\'hile a resident of Kokomo his wife died, in Febru-
ary, 1887, and two years later he returned to Preble county, Ohio, where
he married Mrs. Charlotte Disher. He is a member of the Baptist church,
as was the mother of our subject. They were the parents of six children:
William; John; Isaiah A. ; Martha A., wife of William Bossam, of Kokomo;
and Margery, wife of Herbert Johnson, of Chicago. Four of the children
yet survive.

The Doctor spent the first si.xteen years of his life in the county of his
nativity, and then accompanied his parents to Indiana. He acquired his pre-
liminary education in a log school-house, school being conducted on the sub-
scription plan, and remained with his father on the home farm until he had
attained his majority, ^^■hen a young man he engaged in teaching school,
receiving one dollar per day for his services. While thus engaged he was
married, September 2, 1858, to Miss Eliza Newcomb, daughter of John and
Emily (Braden) Newcomb. Later he determined to devote his energies to
the medical profession, and commenced reading medicine with his brother
John. Later he entered the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati, and
was graduated Ma}' 27, 1867. Soon afterward he began practicing in Bur-
lington, Carroll county, Indiana, where he remained until March, 1876, when
he came to Kokomo. His practice here soon assumed extensive proportions,
for his success in the handling of difficult cases demonstrated his superior
talent and ability. He has ever been a close and thorough student of the
science of medicine, has kept abreast with original lines of thought and
investigation as they have been advanced and with all new inventions to aid
in the practice. As his financial resources have increased, by reason of his
large patronage, he has made judicious investments in realty and is now the
owner of several valuable farms.

To Dr. and Mrs. Cooper were born four children: Sarah F., widow of
Dr. Charles Lovell, by whom she has one child, John K. ; Anna Lisle, wife
of Dr. J. B. Shultz, of Logansport, by whom she has two living children;
Arminta A., wife of John W. K.ern, ex-reporter of the supreme court of
Indianapolis; and Ronaldo M., who pursued a two-years military course at
Orchard Lake Academy, Michigan, and later graduated in the literary and
law departments of the University of Michigan. Subsequently he pursued a
post-graduate course in that institution and is now engaged in the practice

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of law in Indianapolis, in connection with his brother-in-law, John W. Kern.
The mother of this family died, and May 15, 1887, the Doctor was again
married, his second union being with Mrs. Mary A. Jacl^son, widow of Amer
Jackson and daughter of Jacob and Fannie Rhodes. She is a member of
the Christian church and a most estimable lady. The Doctor belongs to the
Odd Fellows society, and is a prominent and highly respected citizen, who
throughout his connection with Kokomo has always manifested a public-spir-
ited interest in its welfare and done all in his power for its upbuilding and
advancement. His life has been well spent and he commands the regard of
all, by reason of his sterling qualities of mind and heart.

r^'R.'W'K C. MURPHEY belongs to the army of railroad men who have
*■ their homes in Logansport, Indiana. He was born in Chicago, Illinois,
October, 4, 1S56, and is a son of one of Chicago's first settlers.

Edward C. Murphey, his father, was a native of the Emerald Isle, who
came to this country at the age of eighteen or nineteen years; was married
in Girard, Pennsylvania, and migrated to the " metropolis of the lakes "
before the whistle of the locomotixe was ever heard in Cook count}'. He
acquired a large amount of property on what is known as the West Side,
much of which he improved, and was for many years engaged in a real-estate
and brokerage business. Among other property, he owned his office at the
corner of Harrison and Halstead streets and the block which has since been
replaced by the New Era building. In local political circles he was known
for his outspoken opinions and for his firm belief in the principles of Democ-
racy. He retired from business with large means some twenty years before
his death, which latter event occurred in 1889. His wife, whose maiden
name was Sarah Dimpsey, died in 1872. Their children were: John,
deceased, who was a stock-grower in Colorado; James, a gas-fitter, corner
of Harrison and Halstead streets, Chicago; William, who died at Denver,
Colorado, in 1889; Frank C, whose name introduces this sketch; and Mary,
who died in Silver City, Colorado, in 1883.

Frank C. Murphey was educated in the Chicago schools. At a youthful
age he became a bookkeeper for Cook & McLain, dyers, of that city, and
upon severing his connection with them he entered his father's office as book-

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keeper, where he remained in that capacity four years. All the while he had
a strong pencha7it for railroading and was waiting and watching for the proper
opportunity to begin the business for which he believed himself best suited.
At last the longed for opportunity arrived and he commenced his railroad
career as a passenger brakeman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road. He, however, remained with that company but a short time. Then he
entered the service as news agent for the old firm of Riley & Sargent, pioneers
in the business of introducing news agents on trains. In October, 1877, ^'l^-
Murphey entered the employ of the old C, C. & I. C. Railroad, now a part of
the Pan Handle, as passenger brakeman between Chicago and Bradford Junc-
tion, the longest run on the division. He had that run four years, at the
end of which time he was transferred to the freight service, in the same
capacity, but was soon promoted to the position of freight conductor.
September 9, 1888, he was made conductor of a passenger train, the posi-
tion he has ever since filled.

In August, 1897, Mr. Murphey was sent by the trainmen west of Pitts-
burg as a delegate and one of a committee to wait upon the general mana-
ger to suggest the advisability of making changes in uniforms worn by pas-
senger-train men.

He was married in Logansport to Miss Jessie F. Grover, a daughter of
the late Captain John B. Grover, a veteran of the Mexican war. Mr. and
Mrs. Murphey have three children, namely: Florence M., Winifred A. and
Frances S.

ALBERT A. ROGERS, Logansport, Indiana, resides on the Rogers home-
stead near this city, and is one of the enterprising young farmers of Cass
county.

Mr. Rogers is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and was born January 4, 1868,
son of Joseph P. and Hester A. (Hawver) Rogers, the former a native of the
" Buckeye " state and the latter of Maryland. Their family was composed
of three children, — Ada C, Harry A. and Albert A. Joseph P. Rogers, the
father, was by trade a carriage-maker, which he followed up to 1869. That
year he came over into Indiana and in Clay township, Cass county, purchased
two hundred acres of land, upon which he settled and where he was engaged
in agricultural pursuits until 1894. He then retired, moved to Logansport,.

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and here passed his last days in quiet and comfort. He died December 14,
1896, at the age of sixty-eight years.

It was the year following the birth of Albert A. Rogers that the family
removed to Cass county, and here on the farm above referred to he was
reared and early became familiar with all kinds of farm work. On the re-
tirement of his father, he took charge of the home place, and is now the
owner of one hundred and twenty acres of it, — a nicely improved and well
cultivated farm.

Mr. Rogers has a wife and two little daughters. He was married Sep-
tember 28, 1892, to Miss Corda Michaels, a native of Logansport, and their
children they have named Esther and Blanche.

On reaching his majority, Mr. Rogers espoused the cause of the Repub-
lican party and has since been an ardent supporter of the same.

JOSEPH M. CHESNUT. — Among the representative citizens of Cass
^ county, Indiana, none, perhaps, are more entitled to the high esteem in
which they are held than is the subject of this re\iew, Joseph M. Chesnut,
whose home is at Adamsboro, in Clay township, and who is now practically
retired from active life.

Mr. Chesnut was born in the neighboring state of Ohio, Clark county
being the place of his nativity; the date. May 7, 1832. He is a son of
David S. and Johannah (Bodkin) Chesnut, both natives of the "Old Domin-
ion." Their family was composed of five children, namely: Mary M. ;
Lucretia; Joseph M., the subject of this sketch; David S. , who was a soldier
in the Civil war and who is now deceased; and John T.

Joseph Chesnut, the grandfather of Joseph M., was a Revolutionar)-
soldier, who after that war moved with his family from Virginia, his native
state, to Ohio, locating in Clark .county. There David S. Chesnut, the
father of Joseph M., carried on farming until 1840, when he came over into
Indiana and took up his abode in Cass county, his settlement being on a farm
in Bethlehem township, where he spent the rest of his life and where he died
at the age of sixty-four years.

Joseph M. Chesnut was a boy of only seven years when he came \\ith
his parents to Indiana, and here he was reared to farm life and received his

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schoolng in one of the primitive log school-houses of the county, which
stood not far distant from his home. The whole of his life has been devoted
to agricultural pursuits. He started out when a young man with one hundred
and sixty acres of timber land, the clearing of which he set about and which
he accomplished in due time, and to this tract of land he subsequently
added until now it comprises three hundred and twenty acres, all well
improved. This farm is located in Bethlehem township; and besides it he
owns his home, a nice little place of sixteen acres, in Clay township.
While he is practically retired from the active work of the farm, he still
exercises a general supervision over his farming operations, his land being
devoted to general farming and stock raising.

Mr. Chesnut was married April i6, 1857, to Miss Mary F. Custer, a
native of Fairfield county, Ohio, and a daughter of John and Nancy (Hedges)
Custer, both natives of the " Buckeye state." Mr. and Mrs. Chesnut have
no children. They are members of the Christian church, and, politically, he
co-operates with the Republican party.

/^HARLES W. FINCH, superintendent of bridges and buildings on the
^-^ Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad, residing at Logansport, has been
engaged in this line of work from his boyhood up, having started out as
water-boy with a bridge crew on the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad.
From this humble position he worked his way to the superintendency, and
his long continuance in the same is ample evidence of his qualifications for it.

Mr. Finch is a native of Ohio. He was born in Athens county, Sep-
tember 29, 1850, son of Walter G. and Juliette (Smith) Finch, the latter a
daughter of Henry Smith, of New York city. The senior Mr. Finch was
left an orphan at an early age and was reared by a Mrs. Dean, sister of the
late William P. Cutler, ex-congressman from Ohio, and the builder of the
Vandalia Railroad. Farming has been his life occupation and he is now
sixty-eight years of age, respected and esteemed by all who know him. Of
his seven children, Charles Walter is the eldest.

Charles Walter Finch passed the first nineteen years of his life on his
father's farm, and then, as above stated, joined a bridge crew on the Colum-
bus & Hocking Valley Railroad, as water-boy. His next job was as a work-

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man on a bridge crew on the Logansport, Crawfordsville & Southwestern
Railroad, now the Vandalia line. From there he went to the Eel Kiver
branch of the Wabash Railroad, where he had charge of the construction of
bridges and buildings of the road. In 1874 he came back to the Vandalia
and took charge of the bridge and building department, as superintendent,
and has been emplojed in the capacity of superintendent ever since.

Mr. Finch has a wife and two daughters. He was married at Catnden,
Indiana, in April, 1874, to Miss Anna Jones, daughter of Enoch and Susanna
Jones. Their children are Juliet and Alice B.

Mr. Finch was made a Mason at the time he reached his majority, and
has maintained a membership in the order ever since, affiliating with Clinton
Lodge, No. 54, at Frankfort, Indiana.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, one of the genial and popular young business men
of Kokomo, Indiana, has a grocery store at No. 40 West Mulberry street.
He has been a resident of this city for the past fourteen years and is
thoroughly identified with its interests.

Mr. Sullivan was born in Rush county, Indiana, December 7, i860, son
of Joseph P. and Mary (Lenan) Sullivan, both natives of Ireland. In the
Sullivan family were twelve children, si.\ sons and si.x daughters, whose
names in order of birth are as follows: Maggie, wife of Thomas Comaford,
Miami county, Indiana; Ella, wife of Pat Milet, Miami county; Mary,
wife of Dennis Fitzgerald, of Rush county; Bridget wife of Thomas
Cane, Kokomo; John L. , whose name forms the heading of this sketch;
Lizzie, wife of John McCoy, Rush county; James, deceased; Joseph;
Katie, wife of Austin McGrail, Kokomo; Thomas, Kokomo; Leo, of Anderson,
Indiana; and William, Kokomo. Joseph P. Sullivan, the father of this large
family, Jeft his native place on the Emerald Isle in 1837 and came to the
United States, settling in Rush county, Indiana, of which place he was a
pioneer farmer. There he reared his family. In 1884, having sold his farm
in Rush county, he came to Howard county and purchased a tract of land
three miles north of Kokomo, upon which he lived until three years ago,
carrying on agricultural pursuits. The past three years he has been a resi-
dent of Kokomo, and he still has a supervision over his farm.

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The paternal grandfather of our subject was Humphrey SuHivan. He
reared a small family and passed his entire life in his native land, Ireland,
being well advanced in years at the time of his death. The maternal grand-
father of Mr. Sullivan was Thomas Lenan. He, too, was of Irish birth and
on his native isle lived and died, his death occurring in old age. He was a
farmer and was the father of six or seven children.

John L. Sullivan was reared in Rush county, receiving his education in
the district schools near his home, and remaining a member of the home
circle until he attained his twenty-fifth year. On leaving the farm, he
secured a clerkship in Kokomo, having accompanied his parents to Howard
county. He clerked for McCaffrey & Company, and Lyman & Company,
both engaged in the grocery business in Kokomo, and in 1897 he opened an
establishment of his own, which he has since conducted. His courteous
manner and his honorable and upright business methods have already
won for him a large trade and his prospect for the future is bright.

Mr. Sullivan was married January 13, 1892, to Miss Katie Williams,
daughter of Frank and Mary Ann (McCarty) Williams, and they have two
children, Mary Regina and Ida Loretta. Their residence is at No. 210
South Washington street, Kokomo.

Mr. Sullivan was reared by Catholic parents and both he and his wife
are members of the Roman Catholic church. He is also identified with the
Catholic Benevolent Legion.

JESSE LEE. — The pioneers of Indiana are fast passing away and few are
now left to tell the tale of frontier life in the Hoosier state. Jesse Lee,
however, is one who forms a connecting link between the past, when this
section was on the border of civilization, and the present, when all the
advantages of the older east are now enjoyed by the people of this region.
The traveler of to-day seeing the richly cultivated farms, substantial homes,
thriving towns and villages, industries, commercial interests, churches and
schools can scarcely realize that half a century ago Mr. Lee and his con-
temporaries were endeavoring to open up this section of the state to the
advances of civilization; that the Indian wigwam was not an unusual feature
of the landscape; that forests still stood in their native strength, and that

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furrows had never been turned on the rich prairies. But ail this our hon-
ored pioneer has seen, and with the passing years he has witnessed the trans-
formation of wild land into rich farms, has seen the advent of tlie railroad
and the telegraph and has watched the onward march of progress until Indi-
ana is now occupying a leading position in the bright galaxy of states that
form the Union.

Mr. Lee was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 30, 1820, and is
a son of Dennis and Annie (Hagerman) Lee. It is thought that the Lee
family is of English origin, but there is no history to substantiate this belief,
for Dennis Lee was left an orphan in infancy and knew nothing of his ances-
tors. His parents both died very suddenly of yellow fever and he was reared
by strangers. It is believed, however, that his mother was a Miss Morris,
as one of the early territorial governors of Ohio, Governor Morris, claimed
to be her brother and the uncle of Dennis Lee. The latter became an inmate
of the home of Mrs. Shafer, of New Jersey. He was born about 1781, and
in his early boyhood accompanied Mrs. Shafer to Warren count}', Ohio, a
location being made on the banks of the Miami river, where he was reared
to manhood. He attended school but fifteen days during his entire life. He
educated himself, however, and became very proficent in mathematics and
German, being considered the best German scholar in Circleville, Ohio, which
fact was the occasion of his being called frequently into court to act as inter-
preter for witnesses. He was a saddletree-maker by trade, following that
business for many years. In Pickaway county, Ohio, he married Annie
Hagerman, a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of
Abraham Hagerman, of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry. Mr. Lee resided in
Circleville for a long period and there followed his trade. In 1834 he went
to Hancock county, Ohio, where he purchased land, making his home in
Findlay. There in the midst of the forest he developed a good farm of one
hundred and si.xty acres, upon which he spent his remaining days, his death
occurring in 1873, at the age of ninety-one years and six months. By his
marriage to Annie Hagerman they became the parents of the following
named: Abraham H., who was a wealthy steamboat owner, having vessels
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in later life became the owner of the
famous Crosby House, of Chicago, which was put up at a lottery and sold
for two hundred thousand dollars, Abraham holding the lucky ticket which
drew this rich prize. The other children of the family were Jesse, Morris

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and Harriet. Morris served as a soldier throughout the Mexican war, par-
ticipating in all the engagements from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, and
died six months after his return home. Dennis Lee, the father, was a Meth-
odist in religious belief and in early life a Jacksonian Democrat in political
faith, but subsequently became a strong Republican.

Jesse Lee received only such educational privileges as were afforded in
in the pioneer schools of that day. In his youth he learned the cigar-maker's
trade, and later the printer's trade in Circleville, Ohio, becoming an expert
type-setter. He worked for two years at the latter trade, and when fifteen
years of age went with his father to Hancock county, Ohio, where he followed
farming. He was married November 8, 1840, in that county, to Nancy
Bond, who was born June 26, 1820, a daughter of William and Catherine
(Thomas) Bond. Her father, who was of English descent, was born near
Baltimore, Maryland, his parents being Benjamin and Nancy (Barney) Bond,
the former a member of one of the old and honored colonial families of that
state. His father was a native of England, and on coming to America
located on land where the city of Baltimore now stands. This he leased for
ninety-nine years, and subsequently returned to England, where he became a
Tory. His property is now in the heart of the city and is very valuable.
Benjamin Bond, grandfather of Mrs. Lee, had a large family, including Will-
iam, Thomas, John, Barney, George, Sarah, Betsey, Nancy, Michael, Atti-
cus and Temperance. Benjamin Bond was married in Virginia and later
removed to Brooke county, now West Virginia, and subsequently to Tyler
county, where he cleared up a farm. He had several sons in the war of
t8i2, among them John, who lived to be eighty-four years of age and died
on his farm in .Virginia.

William Bond, the father of Mrs. Lee, was a farmer and blacksmith and
possessed much mechanical ingenuity. When fourteen years of age he went
with his father to Tyler county, where he afterward married Catherine
Thomas, who was of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent. Their children were
Thomas, Jacob, Bolton, Benjamin, Charles, William, George, John, Sarah,
Nancy, Atticus and Elizabeth. The mother died in Virginia, and Mr. Bond
afterward married Elizabeth Harbor, by whom he had three children: Mary
A., Selina and Lewis. In 1836 William Bond removed to Hancock county,
Ohio, locating in the midst of a forest, where he developed a good farm. He
came to Miami county, Indiana, in 1844, locating on a quarter section of

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timber land, which he entered from the government. Indians were yet in
the county, and all the usual experiences and hardships of pioneer life were
to be met by these brave frontiersmen. Mr. Bond cleared his land and be-
came a substantial and respected farmer of the community. In politics he
was an old-line Whig. His death occurred in 1853, at the age of sixty-si.\
years. His son John served for four years in the Civil war and pa rticipated
in many battles for the defense of the Union. He was a member of the One
Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Infantry, which was reorgani^ad into the
Eighth Indiana Cavalry.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lee located on his father's farm in
Hancock county, Ohio, and in 1S45 came to Miami county, Indiana, where
our subject secured one hundred and si.xty acres of land, upon which he now
resides. The government survey had not been made, but was accomplished
in August, 1847, ^t which time he entered his land and found that he had
made most of his improvements on land adjoining his own farm, so that much
of his tyvo years' labor was lost. He lived in a log cabin for many years and
the trials and difficulties encountered by the pioneer fell to his lot. The
Miami Indians were located on the east side of Pipe creek, where the bridge
now crosses that stream, but later were sent by the United States govern-
ment to Kansas. They were peaceable, but not very communicative, and Mr.
Lee several times saw Frances Slocum, " the white squaw," but she would
not talk much to the white settlers. At one time an Indian visited Mr. Lee's
cabin and was so much pleased with the silver-mounted rifle which he there
saw that he started away with it, saying, " Me take gun and give pony;" but
Mr. Lee did not wish to exchange the rifle for the pony and started after the
Indian, who, after some talk, was induced to return it. From his cabin
door our subject has shot wild turkey, and other game was also plentiful. He
performed the arduous task of developing the wild land, and through his own
efforts has cleared in Harrison township two hundred and five acres. He
now owns four hundred acres of valuable land, and his property is the reward
of his own well-directed labors and indefatigable industry. In an early day
he also made shingles, cutting and riving them out of the logs and shaving
them by hand. Such were his experiences in pioneer times, but the years
have wrought many changes, and an occasional log cabin is now the only
landmark which indicates that mode of life. Mr. Lee's early home was
replaced by a frame residence, and in 1873 his present brick residence was

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erected. While cherishing pleasant memories of by -gone days, he has always
kept pace with the progress and improvement of the times, and is regarded
as a practical, enterprising farmer.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee became the parents of the following children: Cath-
erine, Dennis, Alice, Harriet, Frances and John. Dennis served in the war
of the Rebellion as a defender of the Union. After a service of six months
he re-enlisted, in 1864, in the One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Infantry,
and remained at the front until the close of the war, participating in several
engagements. He died soon after his return to the north. In politics Mr.
Lee was first an old-line Whig, and was one of the first twelve Republicans
in the county. When his township was organized he served as the first
township trustee, which position he filled three terms, and for two terms
was assessor. At the first election only eighteen votes were cast. He was
also superintendent of pikes in the southeastern part of the county for two
years, having charge of forty miles of turnpike. More than half a century
has passed since he and his estimable wife came to Miami county. , He is
now seventy-seven, Mrs. Lee seventy-eight years of age, and together they
have traveled life's journey for fifty-eight years, sharing with each other its
joys and sorrows, its adversity and prosperity. All who have known them
esteem them for their sterling worth, and they enjoy the warm regard of
many friends who will be glad to see the history of these honored pioneers
in the record of the county with which they have so long been prominently
identified.

T OHN RILEY COX is a son of one of the early pioneers of Miami county,
^ Indiana, residing here since he was a boy of twelve years.

Elijah Cox, the father of John Riley Cox, was born in the state of Ten-
nessee, March 23, 1795, and when ten years of age went to Ohio with his
parents, where he grew to manhood and married Miss Barbara Brannaman,
a native of Virginia. In 1834 he removed with his family to Miami county,
Indiana, and settled on a tract of government land in the valley of Eel river.
The family consisted of parents and four sons and three daughters. The
land was all heavily timbered and the father and sons cleared away the for-
est and developed the tract into a fine farm. Here the father died October
13, 1854. The wife and mother survived her husband a number of years,

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passing away June 20, 1S66. Elijah Cox was a typical pioneer, and an hon-
est, upright man. He and his wife were faithful members of the Christian
church, and were among the earliest representatives of that denomination in
Miami county. John Riley Cox and two sisters — Mrs. Mahala Reed, on the
old homestead, and Mrs. Mar}- Johnson, ot Des Moines, Iowa — are all of the
family now living.

John Riley Cox was born in Ohio, June 25, 1822, and was twelve years
of age at the time he came with his parents to Indiana. He well remembers
the appearance of the country sixty-five years ago when Indians and wild
game abounded throughout this part of the state. Miami county was then
chiefly a wilderness. His youth and early manhood were spent in helping to
clear his father's land and his later years were devoted to agricultural pur-
suits on the home farm, which came into his possession. In 1874 he left the
farm and moved with his family to Peru, and they now reside in their pleas-
ant home at No. 216 West Main street.

February 18, 1862, Mr. Cox married Miss Elizabeth Young, who was
born in Indiana in 1839. They have two daughters, namely: Jennie Belle,
born January 4, 1863, now the wife of John C. Stoke, a railroad conductor,
and resides in Peru; and Mary Fayetta, born December 30, 1865, at home.

"TXANIEL CLOSE. — Among that large class of substantial, trustworthy rail-
^-^ road men who make their homes in the city of Logansport, is found the
subject of this review, Daniel Close, an engineer on the Indianapolis division
of the Pan Handle.

Mr. Close is a native of Michigan. He was born in Summerfield, Mon-
roe county, June 20, 1S38, son of Patrick and Catherine (Close) Close, the
former a native of \'ermont who emigrated to the southern peninsula of
Michigan at an early day and on a farm in Monroe county passed the rest of
his life, dying there February 12, 1849, at the age of forty-six years; the
mother was a native of St. John, Canada. Daniel was the fifth in order of
birth in their family of nine children, the surviving members being as follows:
James, of Carlton, Michigan; Mary A., a resident of Ann Arbor, that state;
Carrie C, widow of James Ely, Chicago, Illinois; Helen J., Chicago; Daniel;
Margaret, married and settled at Hartford, Connecticut; and Elizabeth C,
-widow of James Bodle, Chicago.

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Daniel Close spent his youth on his father's farm, and was engaged in
agricultural pursuits until 1865. The next four years he was engaged in saw-
milling in one of the lumber regions of Michigan. In 1870 he turned his-
attention to railroading, being employed first as a fireman on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railway, and running between Adrian and Detroit.
He covered the roads between Adrian and Jackson, Coldwater and Toledo, and
Adrian and Monroe the few short years he was on the pay rolls of that com-
pany. For a time immediately succeeding his " lay-off " he was engaged in
repairing telegraph lines, building new ones, etc., aiding in the construction
of the line from Jonesville to Lansing. This work was ended by his securing
a position as brakeman on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Later he
spent one year on the Adrian and Detroit line, and for a short time was on the
Elkhart & Toledo main line. He resigned his place in 1874 and came to
Logansport to enter the service of the Pan Handle Company, with which he
has been connected for a period of nearly twenty-five years. He made his
first run out of Logansport on the 9th of January, 1874. On the 22d of Sep-
tember following he was promoted to the position of engineer. For eighteen
months he ran a yard engine, at the end of that time was placed in charge of
a freight engine, and since 1888 has been in the regular passenger service.

Mr. Close was married, in the township of Bedford, Monroe county,
Michigan, December 5, 1S60, to Miss Margaret W., daughter of William and
Margaret (Logan) Downs, natives of England. She is one of two children,
her sister being Lydia A., wife of Henry Smith, of Summerfield, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Close's children are: Frances L. , wife of George B. Tanguy,
an employe of the Pan Handle Compan}' and a resident of Logansport, their
five children being Helen, Frederick, Lillian, Edwin and Russell; William,
an engineer and a promising young man, died at the age of thirty; Gertrude
A., of Washington, Iowa; and Carrie M., at home.

JAMES H. ARNETT, Jr., of Kokomo, is the county coroner and the
bailiff of both the circuit and superior courts. He was born in New Bur-
lington, Greene, county, Ohio, January 26, 1847, a son of Valentine M. and
Mary (Jones) Arnett: His father was a native of Guilford county, North
Carolina, and his mother of Ohio. The name Arnett is probably derived

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from the old French Arnauh, which was pronounced Arno. The ancestry
in the paternal line were French Huguenots. In the family of \'alentine M.
Arnett there were but two children, — Sarah, who is now the widow of Ur.
Calvin Hess, and is now living at Indianapolis; and James H., the subject of
this sketch. The father was a blacksmith by trade, a justice of the peace
for twenty years. He was but nine years of age when his parents removed
with him from North Carolina to Ohio and settled in Greene county, where
the lad grew to manhood and was married. In 1852 he emigrated to this
state and located in Wayne county, and in 1854 in \\'estfield, Hamilton
county, where he still resides. He has passed through all kinds of pioneer
privation, hard work, monotonous life and peculiar experiences. He has cut
cord-wood for the compensation of twenty-five cents a cord, and done much
other heavy work. He followed his trade of blacksmithing until the break-
ing out of the war of the Rebellion, when he received a special commission
from Governor Morton as a recruiting of^cer; and later he entered active
service himself in the ranks, in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-seventh
Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made sergeant,
and was stationed on Maryland Heights, where Lee surrendered. He was
faithful to all his posts of duty and at length honorably discharged.

After the war he resumed his old occupation and continued in the same
until his health broke down, and it was then that he was elected justice of
the peace. His wife, the mother of our subject, died in 1850, a fervent and
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. For his second wife
Mr. Arnett was united to Mary E. Johns, whose father was a well-known
abolitionist and a conductor on the "underground railroad." By this mar-
riage there was one child, named Mary. For his third wife Mr. Arnett chose,
in 1856, Elvina H. Williams, who is still living, and by this marriage there
are three children, — Edward, Emma and Winnie. Mr. Arnett was origin-
ally a Whig and ever afterward he has been a decided Republican. In his
religious predilections he is a member of the United Brethren church.

Asbury Arnett, father of the latter, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, who
came to this country when a small boy. After growing up he became a
soldier in the war of 1812, was a cabinet-maker by trade and built the old-
fashioned hall clocks, in addition to many other articles of beauty and utility.
He moved from North Carolina to Ohio with a one-horse wagon, and later he
came on to Wayne county, Indiana, and a short time after that he moved

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again, this time to New London, Howard county, where he died at the age
of ninety-two years. He had four sons and two daughters.

Noah Jones, Mr. Arnett's maternal grandfather, was a native of Ohio,
ran a large distillery at Mount Holly, in that state, and died there after having
reached a very advanced age. His children comprised two sons and three
daughters.

Mr. James H. Arnett was five years of age when his parents came to
Indiana in 1854, and he lived in Hamilton until 1859. Returning to Ohio
he attended school at Buck Run, in a wealthy Quaker settlement, and coming
again to Indiana, in the autumn of i860, he continued to attend school until
some time in the year 1863.

On the 1 2th of December, this year, he enlisted for the cause of his
country and the Union, by joining Company L, Eighth Indiana Veteran Vol-
unteer Cavalry, and faithfully served until July 21, 1865, when he was hon-
orably discharged. He was in all that campaign, then at Bentonville, North
Carolina, Waynesboro, Georgia, the capture of Savannah, that state, and
in numerous skirmishes. He was wounded in the side by a musket ball, and
at Pulaski, Tennessee, his horse fell upon him, injuring him severely in the
chest, for which he receives a pension. Mr. Arnett belongs to a soldier fam-
ily, in which five generations have characterized themselves by devotion to
their country in the hour of peril. His great-great-grandfather's brother was
a physician in Napoleon's army, and the great-great-grandfather himself was
a soldier in the same great military organization.

After the conclusion of the war Mr. Arnett learned the trade of painting
and paper-hanging, which he followed for twenty-seven years. He was
appointed court bailiff by Sheriff Isaac Wright, and since then has been
filling that position under four different judges, a period of about twelve
years. Also he has served as county coroner for four years, and at this writ-
ing is a nominee for a third election.

On the loth day of December, 1867, Mr. Arnett was married to Miss
Annie M. Shaw, daughter of Alva B. and Nancy B. Shaw, and they had one
child, Mary, who is now the wife of Leland Baker, and has two sons — AUie
and Leonard. For his second wife Mr. Arnett was united with Miss India
Logan, daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Sands) Logan, and by this marriage
there are a daughter and a son — Garcia and Fay. The former became
the wife of Howard Cotty, and Fay died at the age of seventeen months.

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after only two days' illness. Mrs. India Arnett died December 6, 18S2,
a faithful member of the Presbyterian church and an estimable woman.
In 1883 Mr. Arnett was united in matrimony with Miss Lucinda A. Martin,
daughter of Marquis La Faj'ette and Rebecca (Fisher) Martin, and by
this union there are two children — India M. and Irma A , the former of whom
died at the age of eleven years and si.x months.

Mr. and Mrs. Arnett are exemplary members of the Presbyterian church
and are highly respected throughout the community. He also is a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and an ex-member of the Uniformed
Rank of the order of Kniy;hts of Pythias, division No. 6, of Indiana. Polit-
ically he is a strong Republican, and, having been a resident of Ivokomo e\-er
since 1856, he must be considered one of the " old settlers," and his honora-
ble record is known and read of all men in Howard county.

ISAAC N. HOOVER, a prosperous farmer of section 34, Washington
^ township, deserves the honored title of "old settler," having lived in this
county ever since 1S52, in which year he emigrated from Butler county,
Ohio. Learning the trade of carpenter early in life, he followed it as an
occupation while in Ohio. His father, Daniel Hoover, was a native of the
Keystone state, a farmer, who soon after marriage emigrated to the southern
part of the Buckeye state, thence to Fayette county, Indiana, where he died
at the age of fifty-four years. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary
Patton, formerly of Maryland, and she passed to the other world while on a
visit to her son in Illinois, at the age of eighty-two years. Daniel and Mary
Hoover had nine children: Jemima, Nancy, Catharine, Mahala and Thomas,
all deceased, Isaac N. (our subject), Mary and Christina, of Shelby county,
Illinois, and Jacob, who is deceased.

Isaac N. Hoover, the sixth in order of age in the above family and the
oldest of the living children, was born in Fayette county, Indiana, Decem-
ber 22, 1824, moved to Ohio when young and later returned to his native
state, where the most of his life has been spent. He had but little school-
ing, and that was obtained in the limited and meager subscription schools of
the pioneer period, kept in the old-fashioned log school-house so often
described elsewhere in this volume. He has, however, obtained a high

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degree of practical education, such as is more needed in practical life than
the most of what has been taught in the school text-books. In Ohio he was
united in marriage with Miss Jane Guinnup, whose father died in the west a
number of years ago and whose mother departed this life here in Indiana, at
the age of eighty-two years. Of their children only three are living, namely:
Mrs. Jane Hoover, Mary Jones (at West Point) and Elias, of Peru, Indiana.
Mr. Hoover has always been a supporter of the Democratic party. He
is now spending the evening of his life quietly upon his farm. He has
always been an honorable, upright man, industrious, temperate, economical
and in every way exemplary, and well deserves the rest which he is now
enjoying, surrounded as he is with a host of friends.

JACOB JESSUP.— The agricultural interests of Howard county are well
represented by the subject of this review, who is a practical and enter-
prising farmer of Taylor township. He was born in Hamilton county, Ohio,
on the 7th of June, 1823, and his parents, John and Mary (Smith) Jessup,
were natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch descent and the latter of
German lineage. They were married in the Buckeye state and in 1823
removed to Parke county, Indiana, where the father entered land from the
government and also purchased some that had previously been improved to
a limited extent. Indians still lived in the neighborhood, and the work of
development and progress seemed scarcely begun. The father, however,
opened up a good farm there and became one of the leading and influential
agriculturists of the community. In politics he was a stanch Democrat, but
never aspired to office. He died March 4, 1841, and his wife passed away
previously. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Smith, who
died in Indianapolis; Stephen, who died in Illinois; John, who died in Parke
county; Mrs. Jarutha Wolverton; Aaron, who went to the west; Jackson,
who died in Parke county; Catherine, also deceased; Jacob; and Mrs. Liddia
Curren.

During his early infancy our subject was brought by his parents to
Indiana, and midst the wild scenes of frontier life in Parke county was reared
to manhood. To the common schools he is indebted for the educational
privileges which he received. He was eighteen years of age at the date of

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his father's death, at which time he took charge of the home farm. The
father had given land to his other sons, and Jacob and his sister remained
on the old home place. He was married March 15, 184S, and continued to
reside at the parental home until 1852, when he came to Howard county
and purchased a large tract of land upon which he yet resides. It was
covered with timber, which he cleared away and let the warm sunshine
sweeten the plowed land and ripen the golden grain. He placed many rods
of tiling upon the place and has made his home one of the most desirable
in the county, for the well-tilled fields surround a comfortable residence and
good barns and outbuildings. He uses the latest improved machinery in the
cultivation of his land and the conveniences of the model farm may be found
upon his place. He also raises all the stock which he utilizes. Very ener-
getic and industrious, he has steadily advanced from the starting point of
limited means to the goal of prosperity, overcoming the obstacles in his path
by determined purpose.

In 1S48 Mr. Jessup was united in marriage to Miss Nancy J. Sparks,
daughter of Wesley and Eliza A. (Mitchell) Sparks, both natives of Virginia
and pioneer settlers of Parke county, Indiana, where they lived to old age.
In their church relationship they were Methodists. To Mr. and Mrs. Jessup
were born the following children: Elizabeth, wife of James Lorts, a farmer;
Mrs. Mary Mugg, now deceased; Minerva, wife of Ira Folk, a farmer; Emily,
deceased; Anna; Mrs. Sarah Garr; Lidda, who became the wife of Wesley
W. Reed, and died leaving four children; John; Normanda, wife of A. J.
Werts, of Anderson, Indiana; and F"lorence, deceased. John, the only son
of the family, is now operating the homestead farm. He married Georgia
Hobson, a lady of intelligence and culture and a daughter of Absalom and
Martha (Foster) Hobson, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of
Ohio. Her father is now living retired in Greentown. To John and Georgia
Jessup has been born a son, November 29, 1887, and named Fred. Mrs.
Nancy Jessup, wife of our subject, died January 19, 1866. She was a con-
sistent member of the Christian church and many friends mourned her death.
In 1872 Mr. Jessup was^again married, his second union being with Mrs.
Hester A. Morgan, whose maiden name was Sprunce. By this marriage
there is a daughter, Gertrude, now Mrs. Coburn. She has been twice mar-
ried. Mr. Jessup, his daughter Anna and his son John are all members of
the Christian church, while the wife of the last named belongs to the Meth-

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odist church. In his political views our subject is a Democrat, and is a pub-
lic-spirited citizen who manifests an intelligent interest in political affairs and
in all movements or measures which have for their object the promotion of
the social, material, moral or mental welfare of the community.

WILLIAM D. AUGHE, of Logansport, Indiana, is a retired railroad man
who was for thirty-four years a faithful and trusted employee of the
Pan Handle Railway Company, twenty-five years of this time being spent as
foreman of the company's blacksmith shop at Logansport. His history is of
more than passing interest in this connection, and is as follows:

Mr. Aughe is a Virginian by birth. He was ushered into life in Rock-
ingham county, Virginia, February 17, 1826. William Aughe, his father,
was born in the same county, while his mother, ttce Catherine Tofflemire,
was a native of Essex county, Upper Canada. Pope Creek, Albemarle county,
Virginia, was the earlier home of the Aughes, for it was there that Jacob
Aughe, the grandfather of our subject, lived and ran a gristmill. The Aughes
trace their ancestry back to England, while the Tofflemires are of Holland
origin. Adam Tofflemire, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was
closely related to the original representative of the family who emigrated to
this country.

Turning now to the immediate subject of this review, William D. Aughe,
we find him to be the eldest of seven children and the only survivor of the
family. He left home at the early age of seven years, and was bound by an
uncle of his to what was afterwards known as the Tredger Works, one of the
most prominent establishments in Virginia before the war, for the manufact-
ure of coaches, steamboat work, etc. To this concern young Aughe agreed
to sell his labor for a term of seven years for the privilege of acquiring the
blacksmith trade. After half his term of apprenticeship had been served he
became dissatisfied and decided to "jump" his contract. Accordingly, he
left without notice and went to Berksville, Virginia, where he secured work
at a dollar per day, a condition much more to his liking just then. He was,
however, not long to enjoy his freedom, for he was sought by his old masters
and upon their discovery of him he was compelled to return and complete his
trade as per contract.

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After completing his apprenticeship in the above named cstabhrihinent,
Mr. Aughe went south into Alabama and worked at Livingston, Montgomery
and Mobile. From the last named place he went to New Orleans and thence
to the republic of Te.xas, working his way, and, among other places, being
employed at San Antonio.

While in the south Mr. Aughe tendered his services to the United States
for the war with Mexico. He enlisted in the Seventh Kentucky Regiment,
under the name of William D. Achy, going out under an assumed name in
order to successfully elude pursuit by his father, fearing the latter would try
to reclaim him on account of his youth. He saw ser\'ice and remained on
active duty until the close of the war.

In 1849 Mr. Aughe came north, stopping at Dayton, Ohio, to which
place all his brothers and sisters had moved, and there for four years he was
engaged in repair work. At the end of this time he entered the employ of
the Indiana Central, now the Indianapolis division of the Pan Handle, as a
blacksmith in their shops, under John Farnesworth as foreman, Yankee
Smith as superintendent, and H. L. Pope as road-master. Inside of two
years he took a job on the Richmond division, under Superintendent Alorse,
the road at the time being only twenty-eight miles long. He was in charge
of the shop and yard property of the company and was notified not to per-
mit any hand-cars to be used for other than in the interests of the company.
He, however, took the responsibility to do this upon one occasion when a
party wanted to make a trip to an adjoining town for an evening's outing,
assuring Mr. Aughe that they would keep in the proper mental condition and
restore the car to him in safety. The car never came back to him, and he
resigned from the company's service without letting them know of it and
without asking for his balance of salary.

The ne.xt ten years Mr. Aughe was employed in the shops of the Dayton
& Michigan Railroad Company. He came thence to Logansport in the year
i860 and became connected with the Air Line Road, now the Richmond
division of the Pan Handle, and since that date has not been off its pay roll.
In 1869 he was made foreman of the blacksmith shop, and at the end of
twenty-five years' service was retired, according to a rule of the company in
recognition of like service.

At Troy, Ohio, October 16, 1856, was consummated the marriage of Mr.
Aughe and Miss Catherine Browne, daughter of William and Catherine (Sim-

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mons) Browne, and the last survivor of a family of twelve children. Will-
iam Browne was a native of York county, Pennsylvania, and by trade was a
cabinet-maker. Mr. and Mrs. Aughe have children and grandchildren as fol-
lows: Catherine, wife of Martin Granger, of Logansport, has five children,
Catherine, Frederick, William, Ganelle and Carroll; Susan, wife of Walter
Chapman, of Logansport; May, wife of John Richardson, of Logansport, has
one child, June; and Miss June, at home.

Mr. Aughe has been a Democrat since the early days of the party.
He voted for James K. Polk a little before he was twenty-one years old.
Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and the Improved Order of Red Men.

JAMES B. KIRKPATRICK, M. D.— The world instinctively pays defer-
ence to the man whose success has been worthily achieved, who has
attained success by honorable methods, acquired the highest reputation in
his chosen calling by merit, and whose social prominence is not less the result
of an irreproachable life than of recognized natural gifts. Greater than in
almost any line of work is the responsibility that rests upon the physician.
The issues of life and death are in his hands. A false prescription, an unskill-
ful operation, may take from man that which he prizes above all else — life.
The physician's power must be his own; not by purchase, by gift or by
influence can he gain it. He must commence at the very beginning, learn
the very rudiments of medicine and surgery, continually add to his knowledge
by close study and earnest application, and gain reputation by real merit.
If he would attain prominence it must come as the result of superior skill,
knowledge and ability, and these qualifications are possessed in an eminent
degree by Dr. Kirkpatrick.

He was born in Rush county, Indiana, July 31, 1855, and is a son of
John and Abalena (Mock) Kirkpatrick, also natives of the Hoosier state.
They had five children: Nancy Jane, widow of M. M. Reeves, of Columbus,
Indiana; Clara, wife of Perry McBride, of Knightstown, Indiana; Mary Mag-
dalene, wife of S. B. Purvis, of Kokomo; Sarah M., wife of Will McBride,
of Rushville, Indiana; and the Doctor. The father of this family was a
farmer, and, reared in Rush county, he continued a resident of that locality

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until 1864, when he came to Howard count}-, where he purchased a farm of
six hundred and forty acres, improving and cultivating the same until his
death. W'hile driving across the railroad track with a mower he was struck
by an engine drawing a freight train, and was killed. He was at that time
sixt}--nine years of age. His wife died in June, 1868, at the age of thirty-six
years. He afterward married Mrs. Millie Hamilton, and they had a family
of two children, son and daughter, Jesse D. and Carrie M.

The paternal grandfather of the Doctor, David Kirkpatrick, was a native
of Kentucky and was one of the pioneers of Rush county, Indiana, where he
resided for about sixty }-ears. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was a
" hard-shell ' Baptist in religious faith. The maternal grandfather, John
Mock, was born in the east, came to Indiana at an early day and followed
farming in Rush county until after the Mexican war broke out, when he
raised a company for the service. He was drilling them preparatory to going
to the front, when he was taken ill and died.

The Doctor remained in the county of his nativity until nine j-ears of
age and then accompanied his father on his removal to Howard county, where
he has since made his home. He acquired his education in the district and
normal schools and in the high school of Kokomo. In 1876 he began study-,
ing medicine and was graduated in the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati,
in 1879. He entered upon the active practice of his profession at Center
postoffice, six miles south of Kokomo, and in 1S84 came to this city, where
he has since remained, building up a very extensive business. He is now con-
ducting an electro-medical institute, consisting of ten rooms, thoroughly
equipped with the latest improved and approved instruments and appliances
for the successful treatment of chronic diseases. He has a very large home
practice, and is often called to distant parts of the state, for his reputation
has extended far beyond the limits of his adopted county. He has always
been a close student of his profession and has made constant and rapid prog-
ress, keeping well informed concerning all the theories and discoveries
relating to medical science and leading the way in some lines of original
investigations. He has been most successful, and the public and the profes-
sion accord him a prominent place among the leading practitioners of north-
ern Indiana.

On the 22d of April, 1S80, Dr. Kirkpatrick was united in marriage to
Miss Kate M. Longfellow, daughter of George W. and Jane (Hazeltine)

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Longfellow and a distant relative of the poet. They have three children,
LeRoy E., Monell and Laura. The Doctor and his wife are faithful members
of the Christian church, in which he is serving as trustee. Theirs is one of
the most beautiful homes of Kokomo, the large brick residence being sur-
rounded by an extensive and lovely lawn, and the hospitality of the house-
hold is proverbial.

The Doctor is a member of Kokomo Lodge, No. 19, A. F. & A. M;
Kokomo Chapter, No. 104, R. A. M; and Kokomo Commandery, No. 36, K.
T. He also has membership connection with the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a stalwart Democrat,
and for two years, from 1889 until 1891, was mayor of Kokomo, being elected
over a usual Republican majority of four hundred. He has been a member
of the school board since 1891, and is now serving as its president, his effect-
ive labors and wise judgment largely advancing the cause of education in his
adopted city. His administration in the mayoralty was also progressive and
business-like, and he has ever been earnest and public-spirited in support of
all measures for the general good. Of quiet manner and kindly disposition,
he is highly respected, and his long residence and successful practice here
have gained him a wide acquaintance and won him prestige in his chosen
calling.

JN. POUNDSTONE, a resident of Cass county for more than half a
century and now living retired in the little town of Young America, is a
native of the "Keystone state." He was born in Fayette county, Pennsyl-
vania, January 11, 1817, and m his native state passed the first thirteen
years of his life. At that age he accompanied his parents on their removal
to Ohio, the family home being established in Licking county, in a pioneer
settlement, and there the subject of our sketch grew to manhood, receiving
his education in one of the primitive log school-houses for which early Ohio
and Indiana are noted. On attaining his majority, he left the parental
home and commenced working out on farms by the month. He remained
in Ohio until 1841, when he came to Indiana and settled first in Carroll
county. In 1843 he came to Cass county, selecting a location in Deer Creek
township, where he entered eighty acres of governnient land, the purchase
price of same being one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Here he

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made a little clearing, built a log cabin, and settled down to pioneer life.
The Indians had not yet abandoned this part of the country and the white
settlers were few and far apart. On this farm Mr. Poundstone lived and
labored for a period of fort}-one years, developing it from a tract of land in
nature's state to a well-impro\ed farm. In 18S4 Mr. Poundstone retired
from the active duties of the farm and moved into Young America, where he
is spending the closing years of his life in quiet retirement.

He has been married twice. In 18 38 he wedded Miss Magdeline Hamp-
shire, by whom he had five children, namely: Richard, Henry, George W. ,
Elizabeth A. and Caroline. In 1878, some time after the death of his first
wife, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Nancy Welty, widow of David
Welty and a daughter of Abner Ratcliff. She has six children by her former
marriage, as follows: Marion, Marcus, Angeline, Alonzo L., Aralius and
Oscar.

Mr. Poundstone has always given his support to the Democratic party,
and earlier in life was for six years assessor of Deer Creek township. He is
a member of the Presbyterian church.

QILAS STORER. — The farming interests of Cass county are well repre-
^ sented by this gentleman, who resides on section 14, Washington town-
ship, where he has made his home for thirty-eight years. He was born in
Preble county, Ohio, on the 3d of October, 1847, and is the third child of
Samuel B. and Mary C. (Miller) Storer, also natives of Ohio. On leaving
the Buckeye state for a district further west, Samuel Storer journeyed by
wagon, and finally purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Pulaski
county, Indiana, which he afterward traded for the farm upon which our
subject now resides. He literally hewed his farm out of the forest, for the
land was covered with a dense growth of timber, which alternating with
swampy regions formed the surface of this section of the state. The devel-
opment of a farm necessitated much hard labor, but with characteristic
energy the father continued the work of clearing, plowing, planting and
harvesting until he was the owner of a valuable property, which yielded to
him a golden tribute in return for the care and labor he bestowed upon it.
He died at the age of seventy-three years, but his widow is still living and
makes her home with our subject.

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This worthy couple were the parents of six children: Isaiah, who was-
a soldier of the Union army, serving his country from 1861 until 1865 as a
member of Company K, Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, died in 1884;
Mary Ann, wife of David Kensinger, of Washington township, Cass county;
Silas, of this review; Lorinda, who is living with our subject; Adeline, wife
of John Novinger, of Washington township; and William, who is also living
in the same township.

Born and reared on a farm, Mr. Storer, of this review, accompanied his
parents to Cass county during his early boyhood and assisted in the arduous-
labor of developing a new farm. In a log school-house he pursued his edu-
cation, school being conducted on the subscription plan, and his attendance
was limited to about three months in the winter season, during which time
he mastered the elementary branches of an English education. In the sum-
mer montl]s his labors were needed on the home farm, and from the time of
early planting in the spring until crops were gathered in the late fall he
assisted in the work of the fields and in the other departments of farm labor.
When his brother enlisted in the army the responsibility of the farm largely
devolved upon him, and though he was but a youth at the time he faith-
fully performed every duty. His life has been one of indefatigable industry
and enterprise, and as a result he has won a very comfortable competence,^
which places him in the rank of the substantial citizens of Cass county.

In his political views Mr. Storer has always been a Republican and
does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his
party, but has never been a politician in the sense of office-seeking. How-
ever, in the fall of 1894, his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and
ability, elected him to the position of trustee, and in that incumbency he has
discharged his duties with marked promptness and fidelity, winning the con-
fidence and regard of all concerned. Fraternally he is connected with Eel
River Lodge, No. 417, I. O. O. F., and enjoys the esteem and regard of his
brethren of the society as well as of other acquaintances.

WALTER S. ARMSTRONG. — In studying the lives and character of
prominent men, we are naturally led to inquire into the secret of their
success and the motives that prompted their action. Success is not a ques-

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tion of genius, as held by many, but rather a matter of experience and sound
judgment; for when we trace the careers of those who stand highest in public
esteem we find that in nearly every case the prosperous man is he who
has risen gradually. Self-reliance, conscientiousness, energy, honesty —
these are the traits of character that insure the highest emoluments and
greatest success. To these we ma\- attribute the prosperity that has crowned
the efforts of Mr. Armstrong, one of the most prominent citizens of Kokomo,
and now the honored and efficient mayor of the municipality. His devo-
tion to the public good is seen in his progressive adiuinistration and his con-
stant watchfulness over the welfare of the city. Not only in the mayoralty
through several terms, but also as a .member of the city council has he
labored for its upbuilding and substantial advancement, and Kokomo regards
him as one of her most valued representatives.

Mr. Armstrong was born in Clinton county, Ohio, February 3, 1838,
and represents one of the old families of that locality. His grandfather,
Abraham Armstrong, a native of Pennsylvania, married Miss Nancy Geary, a
relative of Governor Geary, and, removing to Ohio, died in the Buckeye
state at an advanced age. He was of Irish lineage. His widow returned to
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and spent her last days in the home of her son.
She had four sons and one daughter. Of this family, Thomas Andrew Arm-
strong, father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and for many years
was a resident of Clinton county, Ohio. He came, however, from Pennsyl-
vania to Kokomo in 1S51, and here entered upon the practice of his j)rofes-
sion, that of law, continuing an active member of the bar until i860. He
also engaged in farming, owning forty acres of land in the northwest part of
the town, and upon that place his death occurred in 1888, at the age of nine-
ty-two years. In early manhood he married Sarah E. Grant, a native of \'ir-
ginia, whose birth occurred with that of the century. She was a daughter of
Robert Grant, a native of \'irginia, whence he removed to Clinton county,
Ohio, where he died in middle life. By occupation he was a farmer. One
of his sons served as a soldier in the war of 1812. Both Mr. and Mrs. Arm-
strong were prominent members of the Christian fDisciples) church, and Mr.
Armstrong served as elder for more than forty years. He was one of the
charter members in Kokomo and was very active in church work. After
abandoning his profession, he served for four years as justice of the peace.
His political support was given the Democracy until 1856, when he joined

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the newly organized Republican party, and he continued as one of its earnest
advocates until his death. Mrs. Armstrong died four years previous to the
death of her husband, passing away at the age of eighty-four. They were
parents of seven sons and one daughter, and six of the number are still liv-
ing: Thomas S., Charles G. , Addison F., Alexander C. , Walter S. and Eliz-
abeth A., wife of H. A. Lindsay.

Walter S. Armstrong was thirteen years of age when his parents came
to Kokomo, and with the exception of fifteen years he has resided continuously
m the city since 185 1. He attended the district schools of Ohio, spent two
years as a student in Pennsylvania, and later attended the Normal School
of Kokomo. He was reared on the home farm and assisted in its cultivation
through the summer months, while in the winter season he pursued his
studies. He read law one winter, and in 1862 began clerking in a hardware
store for his brother, T. S. Armstrong, with whom he remained for four years.
During that time he was elected township trustee, and served from 1863 until
1 866. He was appointed to the position of county auditor and afterward elected
for two terms, so that he filled the office for about eight and a half years.
From 1874 until 1878 he was engaged in farming in Tipton county, where
he resided during that time. In the latter year he again took up his resi-
dence in Kokomo, where he has remained continuously since. On his return
he re-entered the hardware business, and later resumed farming, but for the
past four years, in connection with his sons, Walter W. and Horace Howard,
he has again conducted an extensive and successful hardware business.
From 1881 until 1885 he served as mayor of the city, from 1885 to 1889
was postmaster at Kokomo, and in 1898 was again elected mayor of the
city, while in former years he served as a member of the city council.
He has always been a prominent factor in public affairs during his residence
here, and his progressive and enterprising spirit has been a potent element
in the substantial development and advancement of Kokomo.

In 1868 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Armstrong and Miss Martha
Winfield, daughter of William S. and Martha (Cochran) Winfield. They
have five children: Walter W., who married Carrie Martin and has one child,
Ernest Martin; Howard H., who married Nellie Smith; and Jessamine,
Merle and Ralph, at home. The parents and children, with the exception
of the youngest son, are members of the Christian church. Mr. Armstrong
belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and in politics is a Democrat.

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His life has been a busy and useful one, his business methods have ever
been above reproach and in all rehitions he has been true to tiie duties and
obligations that rest upon him. He enjoys the popularity which comes to
those generous spirits who have a hearty shake of the hand for all those
with whom they come in contact from day to day, and who seem to throw
around them in consequence so much of the sunshine of life.

TOHN P. HETHERINGTON, M. D.— The physician whose aim is to suc-
*-* ceed in his noble profession to-da\- must possess not only genius of mind
and rare experience and skill, but an almost intuitive sympathy and native
kindliness of heart. He must keep thoroughly posted in all the new methods
used in the treatment of disease, must study the leading medical journals
published in the interests of his fraternity and must be an earnest and zeal-
ous student, otherwise he retrogrades.

For the past eight years the medical profession of Logansport, Cass
county, has numbered among its brightest and most promising young men
the subject of this notice. He has won the respect and friendship of the pro-
fession at the same time that he has made a place for himself in the esteem
of our citizens, entirely by his genuine merit. Since locating here, in 1890,
he has been associated with Dr. John B. Shultz, one of the oldest and most
prominent physicians of this county. In fraternal circles Doctor Hethering-
ton stands equally high. He is a member of Orient Lodge, No. 272, Free &
Accepted Masons, and is connected with the Independent Order of Fores-
ters and the Knights of Pythias.

The Hetheringtons were an old and honored clan in the history of Scot-
land in the middle ages. The ancestors of the Doctor came to America in
the latter half of the seventeenth century, settling in New York. His father,
Augustus S. Hetherington, was a native of Ohio, and died in Hamilton
county, Indiana, when our subject was a child of scarcely three years. The
mother, whose maiden name was Catherine Teters, later became the wife of
Dr. D. L. Overholser, of Logansport.

The birth of Dr. John P. Hetherington took place in the town of Cic-
ero, Hamilton county, Indiana, February 15, 1869. In 1875 he came to
this city with his mother and stepfather, and here was reared to man's estate,

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his education being sucii as our public schools afforded. When he was im
his seventeenth year he left home, and going to the west spent three years in
Nebraska. While there he took up medical studies, devoting considerable time
to the subject, and in 1888 he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Cin-
cinnati. Having completed the required course of study he was graduated-
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1890. Since that time he has.
been engaged in practice in Logansport, as previously stated in this sketch.
June 17, 1896, the Doctor married one of the accomplished and charm-
ing young ladies of Logansport, Miss Mame Lux, daughter of our well known
citizen, John Lu.\. The young couple have a very attractive home and have
hosts of friends in this community.

JOSEPH P. COLTER. — Mr. Colter, a representative prosperous farmer
and a pioneer settler of Deer Creek township, Miami county, was born
in Montgomery county, Ohio, November 26, 1833, a son of Reece Colter.
His father was born in Virginia, a descendant of old colonial stock, was a
farmer, and moved to Ohio when a young man. He married Miss Rhoda, a
daughter of David Pugh, who was an agriculturist of that (Montgomery)
county, spending the remainder of his life there, and whose children were
David, John, Rhoda and Patience.

After his marriage Mr. Colter continued his life on a farm in his native
county, where his children — Harrison, Richard and Joseph — were born.
In the autumn of 1839 he emigrated to Indiana, locating in Randolph county
on a quarter section of wild, wooded land, which he partly cleared and where
he began the establishment of a comfortable home. His children born here
were Sarah, Israel and James (twins) and Evan. Mr. Reece Colter was a
pioneer farmer who passed his remaining days in Randolph county, this state,
dying at the age of fifty-four years. In his politics he was an old-line Whig.
He was an industrious and highly esteemed citizen. Of his brothers and sis-
ters those who are remembered are William, who settled in Grant county,
Indiana, and Sarah.

Mr. Joseph P. Colter, our subject, was but si.x years old when brought
by his parents to Randolph county, Indiana; but he can well remember thfr
journey, which was made with horse teams. His father drove one yoke of

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large cattle, two cows and a number of sheep. The milk-sickness, however,
•carried off the cows and horses, and the sheep were all destro3'ed either by
wolves or by eating wild parsnips. Young Joseph attended school in a pio-
neer log school-house, which was built by subscription, and the school was
likewise maintained by subscription. Reared to farming pursuits, he con-
tinued in them as a life vocation.

February 22, 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Catharine Pressel,
who was born in Henry county, Indiana, September 29, 1834, a daughter of
John and Barbara (Hoffman) Pressel. Her father, of German ancestry, was
born in Montgomery county, Ohio, became a farmer, and after his marriage
moved to Henry county, this state, in pioneer times, entering land and clear-
ing a farm of four hundred acres, which enabled him to furnish each of
his children with a goodly quantity of land, namely, John, Catharine,
Susanna, Elizabeth and Lucinda. Mr. Pressel settled in Henry county,
this state, in 1848; was a Baptist in his religion, and in his genera! character
was an industrious and honorable citizen.

After his marriage Mr. Colter located upon a part of the property
belonging to his father-in-law, containing seventy-five acres of land in the
wild forest, which he partly cleared and improved by the erection of build-
ings, etc. This place he at length sold, for two thousand dollars, and in
November, 1859, moved to Miami county, Indiana, locating in Deer Creek
township, on a part of his present farm, which then consisted of eighty acres
partly cleared. By his energies and perseverance he has completed the im-
provements on this place and now has a nice, comfortable home. His sub-
stantial two-story brick house he erected in 1882. His prosperity has enabled
him to add to his original purchase of land, so that he now has one hundred
and sixty acres. In his politics he is a Democrat, and he is a straightforward
and upright man, well known for his honorable career. His children are
Alvira, James, Alvilda, John R., Dora F. , Benjamin F. and Emma B.

JOHN W. MILLER.— Through a long period of thirty-six years John
Wesley Miller was numbered among the leading and enterprising farm-
ers of Cass county. His life was well spent and commanded the confidence
and respect of all with whom he came in contact, for it was characterized by

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strict fidelity to all the duties of home and of citizenship. He started
out in the world empty-handed, but by his perseverance and energy he
accumulated a handsome competence and left to his widow a comfortable
property.

Mr. Miller was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 14th of September,
1829, and spent his childhood days on a farm in his native state. In his
youth he started out to make his living for himself, his mother and two sis-
ters, and at first worked as a farm hand for nine dollars per month. He was
employed in that capacity until sixteen years of age, when he secured a situ-
ation in a distillery, near Troy, Ohio, where he remained for eight years.
On the expiration of that period he resumed his farming operations,
renting land which he cultivated until 1857, when he came to Indiara.

Locating in Tipton township, he made Cass county his home until his
life's labors were ended and soon won a place among the progressive agri-
culturists of the community. He first purchased eighty acres of land, a wild
tract on which had been erected a log house containing two rooms. The land
was covered with heavy timber and at once he began to clear away the trees
and develop the fields. He made his home upon that farm for seven years,
after which he purchased the property which he left to his widow. He first
had there a tract of eighty acres, later extended its boundaries by the addi-
tional purchase of thirty-six acres and subsequently bought forty acres more.
The farm now embraces one hundred and twenty acres, all cleared and under
a high state of cultivation. The work of clearing wild land is necessarily
slow and laborious, but Mr. Miller prosecuted his labors with zeal and dili-
gence, and bounteous harvests afterward rewarded him. He also erected
good buildings upon the place and the neat and thrifty appearance of the
farm indicated the careful supervision of the owner.

On the 26th of January, 1854, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Schell, and they have one child, Loretta, now the wife of R. Thomas.
Mrs. Miller ever proved an able helpmeet to her husband and now manages
her farm with signal ability. Mr. Miller was for ten years a director of the
Cass County Fair Association, to which position he was elected in the second
year of its organization. He did all in his power to promote the agricultural
interests of the community and to stimulate ambition and progressiveness
among the farmers, and his own energetic example inspired many others.
He was entirely a self-made man and the success he achieved was attributa-

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ble to his own svell-directed efforts. He was very industrious, and his prompt
execution of any tasit that devolved upjn him was one of the secrets of his
prosperit}-. Of the United Brethren cliurch he was a worthy member, and
in that faith he died on the 28th of June, 1S93, his remains being interred in
Mount Hope cemetery. His widow still resides on the home farm and her
many excellencies of character and kindly manner have won her the esteem
of many friends and neighbors.

Mrs. Mary (Schell) Miller was born in Clark county, Ohio, near Carl-
isle, July 5, 1833. Her father, Isaac Schell, was born in Virginia and was
of English and German descent. Her mother, Anna Prillaman, was born in
Ohio, of English descent. Mrs. Miller is the fifth child of ten children, and
was reared in her native place until twenty years of age, attended school
until eleven years old, when she had to quit in order that her younger bi oth-
ers and sisters might attend.

/^EORGE A. SHIDELER.— An honored and life-long resident of Cass
^^ county, this citizen, whose death occurred December 22, 1895, enjoyed
the distinction of having been the first white male child born in Clinton
township, the date of the event being February 5, 1832. His sturdy pioneer
parents, Elias and Catherine Shideler, natives of Ohio, came to the wilds of
Cass county, and settled in Clinton township in 1830. In the almost unbroken
forest the boyhood of our subject passed pleasantly and rapidly, for those
were busy days with him, as plenty of arduous tasks awaited him from the
time that he could wield an axe or handle a plow.

As he was gifted with a genius for mechanics, George A. Shideler left his
old home at about eighteen years of age, and learned the blacksmith's trade,
which was more to his taste than farming, under the hard conditions that
surrounded him. Having mastered his new calling in Logansport, he
returned to his native township and opened a shop, where he successfully
plied his trade for many years. Notwithstanding his youth, he was elected
justice of the peace in the '50s, and performed the important duties of that
office with gravity and ability far beyond his years. A few years later he
abandoned his trade and for several years was extensively interested in saw-
milling, not only in this state but in Missouri, Florida and other parts of the

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Union. Honest and upright in all his transactions, he bore the respect and
good will of every one, wherever he went. For a few years after he had
retired from his active career, he lived upon a homestead which he purchased
in Harrison township, Cass county, but in 1878 he removed to Logansport,
and there continued to dwell as long as he lived. In 1891 he was stricken
with disease, and after four years of patient suffering was released from his
mortal body, and passed to his reward. For years he was connected with
the Masonic order.

August 14, 1852, George A. Shideler married Miss Mary Clymer, daugh-
ter of William Clymer, a pioneer of Clinton township. They became the
parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters. Mrs. Shideler is still
living and enjoys good health. Her children are all living and all were born
in Cass county, their names being as follows: Adolphus, Montgomery,
Robert, Burroughs, Ella, Nora, Alma, Martha and William D.

William D. Shideler, son of George A. and Mary (Clymer) Shideler, is
one of the native sons of Logansport, and is one of its representative young
men. He received his education in the public schools, completing his literary
studies when he was fifteen years of age. In 1893, soon after attaining his
majority, he commenced reading medicine with Dr. E. R. Taylor, a well-
known physician of Logansport. Two years later the young man went to
Indianapolis, where he was soon enrolled as a pupil in the dental department
of the University of Indiana. Having finished the required course of studies
and practice he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery
in 1896. Desiring to make his future home in Logansport, as he had done
in the past, he opened an office here in a central location, and has since
given his whole time and attention to his work. He has gained the respect
and confidence of the public by his skill and excellent workmanship, and is
rapidly building up a remunerative practice.

MORGAN A. CHESTNUT is a well known citizen of Kokomo, Indiana,
engaged in an insurance, real-estate and loan business at No. 2}, North
Main street. His personal history is of interest in this work, and is as fol-
lows:

Morgan A. Chestnut was born in Clark county, Ohio, September 11,
1826, son of Joseph and Nancy P. (Butcher) Chestnut, natives respectively

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of New Jersey and Virginia. Of their family of nine children, eight sons and
one daughter, only two are now living, — Andrew, a resident of Des Moines,
Iowa, and Morgan A. Joseph Chestnut, the father, came to Indiana in the
early part of 1842 and traded for a farm in Tippecanoe county, but died in
Ohio, in May of that year, before he could move his family here. He was
sixty-three years of age at the time of death. The following September his
widow brought her family over into Indiana and settled on a farm at Miamis-
port, now a part of the city of Peru, where she lived until 1844, that year
moving to Cass county and locating on a farm north of Logansport. She
lived on that farm and in Logansport until 1861, when she came to Howard
county to live with her son Morgan, a resident of New London. She died at
his home in 1862, at the age of seventy-six years. Both she and her hus-
band were members of the Christian, or New-Light church. A few years
before her death, however, there being no church of this denomination near,
she placed her membership with the United Brethren church.

Mr. Chestnut's ancestors were patriotic and soldierly. His father was
a veteran of the war of 18 12 and both his grandfathers fought for independ-
ence during the American Revolution. His paternal grandfather, John Chest-
nut, was a native of New Jersey and a descendant of English ancestors.
Grandfather Ezekiel Butcher, the father of Mr. Chestnut's mother, was born
in the Old Dominion of German descent, and died in Virginia at a ripe old
age. By occupation he was a planter.

Morgan A. Chestnut passed the first sixteen years of his life in Clark
county, Ohio, on a farm, and accompanied his mother on her removal to the
farm above referred to, near Peru, and later to the Cass county farm. Since
then he has been engaged in various occupations and has lived in numerous
places. For four years he was interested in wheat-fan making at Logans-
port and Springville, Indiana; from the latter place went to Boonville,
Indiana, and thence to New London, where during the year 1852 he was
engaged in the manufacture of wheat fans; from 1852 until about 1856 he
was occupied in the dry-goods business at New London; went thence to
Cherokee county, Kansas, where he spent a year and a half, coming back at
the end of that time and locating in Howard county. For six years he
clerked for Davis & Company, dry-goods merchants of Kokomo, and five
years was with the Hunt sash and door factory of this place. Since then he
has been engaged in the insurance, real-estate and loan business.

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Mr. Chestnut has a pleasant home in East Jackson street, Kokomo,
where he and his wife reside. He was married September 9, 1852, to Mrs.
Mary Helton, widow of Horace V. Holton and daughter of Charles Foster.
They have no children.

Fraternally our subject is identified with both the Masonic order and
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political affiliations have always
.been with the Republican party, and formerly he was active in local politics.
He served as township treasurer in 1855 and 1856, and for two terms he
filled the office of justice of the peace, resigning at the end of a term of six
years.

EMIL F. KELLER. — The present manager of the Barnett House has
been in charge of the hotel for the past three years, and under his
administration of its affairs has increased its patronage and high standing
among the leading hotels of the 'state. He is well known, not only in
Logansport, but throughout this section, as his position brings him into con-
tact with people from the surrounding counties, as well as those from more
distant points. He is genial and courteous, ever seeking to meet the wishes
and provide for the comfort of the patrons of the house, and to his judicious
supervision of every detail and department connected with the establishment
is due its high reputation.

Mr. Keller is a young man, now in the prime of life, as he was born the
year that witnessed the close of the Civil war, the date of the event being
June 12, 1865. He is one of the two surviving children in a family that
originally numbered five, the other being his brother, Carl W. The parents
were Emil F. and Frederica (Zimmerman) Keller, natives of Germany. The
father followed the occupation of grocer and was industrious, energetic and
successful. A true citizen of his adopted country, he sought to promote her
best interests and to do his full duty. He settled in Dunkirk, New York,
about 1850, and continued to make his home in that beautiful little city.

The boyhood and youth of Emil F. Keller passed swiftly and pleasantly
in his native place, Dunkirk, his education being acquired in the public
schools. In 1884 he started out for himself and, coming to Logansport, he
entered into partnership with A. L.. Turbee. They established and carried
on the first steam laundry ever located here and were quite successful from

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the start. At the end of about a year, Mr. Keller sold his interest in the
business and went to St. Louis, where he became the assistant bookkeeper
for the Trorlicht, Duncker & Renard Carpet Company, wholesale and retail
dealers in carpets. Our subject retained his place with this enterprising firm
for some four years, at the expiration of which time he returned to Logans-
port and accepted a position as secretary of the Shroyer & Uhl Company,
dealers in notions in wholesale quantities. A year later Mr. Keller resigned-
and embarked in the tailoring business upon his own responsibility. Finding
a purchaser of the business in the person of his brother, Carl \\'. , he next-
turned his attention to his present occupation, for which it seems he is
specially adapted. His general and diversified business experience, his wide
knowledge of men and his natural qualifications make him just the man for
the place of manager of a hotel. The " Barnett " is a house of which
Logansport is justly proud, as it is conducted upon modern plans, is spacious
and finely fitted up and is first class in every respect.

In 1889 Mr. Keller married Miss Frances Shroyer, of this city. She
was born in Logansport and was here reared to womanhood. Mr. Keller is
identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a Mason
of the thirty-second degree. He belongs to Tipton Lodge, No. 33, F.'& A.
M., of Logansport; Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, of Indianapolis;
Saraiah Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Rose Croix Chapter, R. A. M., of
Indianapolis; Indiana Consistory, S. P. R. S. , of Indianapolis, and Murat
Temple, Mystic Shrine, of the same city.

/^ FORGE MAUGHMER. — The veneration and respect which should
^— *■ always accompany old age is unreservedly given George Maughmer, one
of the pioneers of Miami county, who has passed the eighty-fourth milestone
on the journey of life. His path has ever been that of integrity and virtue,
of trustworthiness and fidelity, and his mind bears the impress of the historic
annals of the state of Indiana from an early epoch in its history. For many
years he has retained his residence in Miami county, and is one of the revered
patriarchs of the community. Such a life contains many lessons well worthy
of emulation, and it is with pleasure, therefore, that we present his record to
our readers.

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Mr. Maughmer was born in Ross county, Ohio, on the 2d of February,
1 8 14, a son of Jacob and Margaret (Nichols) Maughmer. His father was
born in the Keystone state and represented one of the old Pennsylvania-
Dutch families. He served his country in the war of 181 2, and again in the
war for the preservation of the Union, a half century later! After his mar-
riage he removed to Ross county, Ohio, casting in his lot with its pioneer
settlers, and there, where the country was an unimproved forest district, he
cleared and developed a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. This, how-
ever, was but the beginning of his labor, for his industry and enterprise con-
tinued through his life, and as the result of his diligence he became the
possessor of eight hundred acres of land. He carried on farming on an
extensive scale and so directed his energies as to secure a handsome financial
return for his labors. His views in regard to political issues were in harmony
with Democratic principles. His death occurred in 1859, at the age of sev-
enty-five years.

To the common schools near his home George Maughmer is indebted for
the educational privileges he enjoyed. His training for the practical duties
■of life came through his work on his father's farm. He soon gained consid-
erable knowledge of the best way to clear and cultivate fields, and all through
his life he has carried on agricultural pursuits. He was married in Ross
county, Ohio, January 8, 1835, to Miss Mary A. Street, who was born in
that county August 17, 1813, a daughter of Bazil and Hannah (Lease) Street.
Her father was a pioneer hunter of Ross county, whither he removed from
Pennsylvania. He became a well-known citizen of that locality. His death
occurred at the age of seventy-five years. He had six children, namely:
George, Samuel, Jonas, Catharine, Sallie and Mary A.

Mr. Maughmer, after his marriage, took up his residence upon a part 01
his father's land and made his home there for a quarter of a century. He
received from his father two hundred acres, which he transformed into a
valuable farm, erecting thereon a good dwelling. In 1859 a hurricane swept
over the place, ruining much of his timber and destroying his fences, but the
buildings were unharmed, being rather aside from the path of the storm.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Maughmer was blessed with four children: Sarah
€., Hannah J., John and Dr. George Clinton. Another daughter, Cornelia,
had died in 1870. Hannah J. married William O'Briant and had two chil-
dren, George and Clara. Sarah C. became the wife of Edward Mobray and

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had three children, — Bell, Frank and Fremont. These daughters, with their
respective families, accompanied our subject and his family to Miami county
in i860. Mr. Maughmer sold his Ohio property in that year, and with two
four-horse teams made the journey to Clay township, where they arrived
after two weeks of travel. Here he purchased two hundred and forty acres
of land, mostly covered with timber, and in the development of a farm the
ax was quickly followed by the plow and soon bounteous harvests rewarded
his labors. Industry and thrift have characterized his entire life and have
brought to him a well merited success.

Mrs. Maughmer died March 16, 1893. In her early life she was a mem-
ber of the Methodist church and afterward became identified with the United
Brethren church. After the death of his wife Mr. Maughmer divided the
greater part of his land among his children, retaining a homestead of eighty
acres. He was again married December 19, 1895, in Kokomo, to Elizabeth
Hoffman, who was born in Wayne township, Fulton county, Indiana, March
17, 1850, a daughter of Jacob Frederick and Eve D. (Schaefer) Hoffman.
Her father was born in the kingdom of Bavaria, July 25, 1799, and his wife,
whose maiden name was Eve Dorothea Schaefer, was born in the kingdom of
Wurtemberg, August 20, 181 1. She was three times married. In Balti-
more, Maryland, she wedded Adam Yeakel, a cabinet-maker by trade, and
they had one son, John, who served in the Civil war, was wounded in the
battle of Chickamauga and died in the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee.
Adam Yeakel and his wife removed to Indiana, and his death occurred in Miami
county, after which she married Frederick Miller, by whom she had a daugh-
ter, Mary A. Her third husband, Jacob F. Hoffman, was a butcher by trade,
but located on a farm of two hundred acres in Wayne township, Fulton
county, Indiana, and carried on agricultural pursuits. He developed a good
farm, secured a substantial home and became one of the leading agriculturists
of the community. In later life he lived retired in Logansport, Indiana,
where his death occurred July G, 1874, at the age of seventy-five years. He
and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and were prominent
and highly respected citizens. Their children were: Phcebe, who died a
married woman in Carroll county, Missouri; Catherine, who died eight years
of age; Elizabeth; Louisa B. ; Doroth}'; and Frederick J., who was a soldier
in the Civil war, and after the war traveled in Mexico and Colorado, where
he mined for gold. He was also a gold miner in South Africa at Pilgrim

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Post mine. He was finally killed b}' an Indian, while on a trip for supplies
in Colorado.

Mr. and Mrs. Maughmer are living on the old homestead where he first
located on coming to Miami county, and have a pleasant and attractive
home. He is a member of the United Brethren church, in which he has held
the office of class-leader, and has been instrumental in church work, having
assisted in erecting a number of houses of worship of that denomination in
his neighborhood. His wife has been a member of the Presbyterian church
since 1875. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never sought or desired
office, preferring to give his attention to his business interests, in which
he has met with good success. Such in brief is the history of one who
has long been an honored resident of Miami county, and who now receives
the respect and veneration which should crown an honorable life.

Mary A. Miller, half sister of Mrs. Maughmer, married Fredrick Schaefer.
They settled in Peoria, Illinois, where Mary A. is still living.

CHARLES E. HALE. — In no profession is there a career more open to tal-
ent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded
a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute
ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all
human rights and privileges. Unflagging application, intuitive wisdom and a
determination to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which
insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as
the stern conservator of justice; and it is one into which none should enter
without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the battles to be
won, for success comes only as the diametrical result of capacity and unmis-
takable ability. Mr. Hale has won a place among the representative and
honored members of the Cass county bar, and Logansport numbers him
among her valued citizens.

Charles Edward Hale is one the worthy sons that the Green Mountain
state has furnished to Indiana, his birth having occurred in Rutland, Vermont,
on the 1 2th of February, 1S48. In the town of his birth he was reared, and
there prepared himself for college as a student in Barre Academy. In 1872
he was graduated from Middlebury College, of Vermont, prior to which time

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he successfully engaged in teaching. Just after completing his collegiate
course he was offered and accepted a position as principal of the preparatory
department of Thayer College, in Kidder, Missouri, remaining in that place
until the winter of 1875, when he came to Logansport as teacher in the
Smithson College. Later he was employed as a teacher in the public schools
of this city for two years, and then entered upon the study of law under the
preceptorship of the Hon. D. P. Baldwin, of Logansport, who directed his
reading until he matriculated in the law department of the University of
Michigan, where he was graduated in 1S7S. Three years later we find him
enrolled among the members of the Logansport bar, and his comprehensive
understanding of the principles of law, his careful preparation of cases and
and his fidelity to his clients' interests have gained him an enviable position.
Mr. Hale has always been a stanch Republican and has three times been
the candidate of his party for the office of prosecutor. He was first nomi-
nated in 1892, but Cass county in that year gave its usual Democratic
majority. In 1894 he succeeded in overcoming the great Democratic strength,
but in 1896 was again defeated, although every one acknowledged that his
services in the office were most commendable. During the Civil war he
manifested his loyalty to the government by joining the ranks of the boys in
hlue, in the autumn of 1862, as a private of Company H, Fourteenth Ver-
mont Infantry, which formed a part of the celebrated Stanard Brigade. Just
after participating in the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, he received an
honorable discharge. He now belongs to Logansport Post, No. 14, G. A. R. ,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Order of Elks and
the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In 1879 he married Miss Kate M. Austin,
of New Haven, Vermont, and their circle of friends is almost coequal with
their circle of acquaintances.

THOMAS B. JONES. — A retired farmer residing at the corner of Smith
and Monroe streets, Kokomo, Thomas B. Jones was born in Owen
county, Indiana, October 2, 1829, and belongs to one of the prominent pio-
neer families of that locality. His father, Thomas Jones, was a son of
Mathew Jones, a native of \'irginia, who was for seven years a soldier in the
American army in the war of the Revolution, serving until the war closed.

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He reared a large family, and died in Owen county, Indiana, when about sev-
enty-seven years of age. He was of Welsh descent. Thomas Jones, father
of our subject, was born in Virginia, and at an early day removed to Ken-
tucky, whence he cams to Indiana, locating in Oiven county among its
frontier settlers. There he resided for many years and then took up his
residence in Tipton county. He married Frances Biby, likewise a native of
Virginia, and a daughter of Nealy Biby, a native of Ireland. He was a crip-
ple. He had several children and spent his last days in the Old Dominion.
Thomas Jones died in Tipton county, in August, 1859, at the age of seventy-
six years, and his wife died in Howard county, Indiana, at the age of eighty-
three. Both were members of the Baptist chnrch and consistent Christian
people. The father served his country in the war of 18 12.

Thomas B. Jones, whose name begins this record, was reared in Owen
county, Indiana, and had -to go a distance of three miles to the district or
subscription school. He early became familiar with all the duties that fall
to the lot of the agriculturist, and with the family shared in the hardships and
trials of pioneer life. At the age of nineteen he came to Tipton county and
resided on one farm for forty years. He then removed to Kokomo, where
he now makes his home, resting in the quiet enjoyment of the fruits of his-
former toil. He still owns three hundred and twenty acres of land in Tipton
county, and one hundred and sixty acres in Howard county. He also has
several houses and lots in Kokomo, where he has made his home for eight
years.

Mr. Jones has been twice .narried. He first wedded Zerilda E. Mont-
gomery, daughter of Archibald and Cynthia Montgomery, and of their chil-
dren we make record as follows: Sarah Frances, deceased, became the wife
of J. Aldridge; Eliza Jane, who became the wife of James H. Duncan, died
April 10, 1898, leaving eight children, namely: Elsie F., Nora May, John
Henry, Charley, Andrew, Thomas, Blanche Ellen and Ula Paul. William,
who married Jane Cooper, has five children. — Frank and Charley, twins;
Rosa May; and Maudie G. and Claudie D., also twins. Mary Belle is the
wife of Edgar Veir, by whom she has three children, Dessie, Rena and
Cecil. Rosa Alice was the next in order of birth. Charley Gran, who mar-
ried Jennie Hinckle, has two children, Edith and Leroy. Richard Thomas,
who married Melie Winkler, has two children, Fred and Carl. Elmer S. ,
who married Ada Boswell, has one child, named Benton. Albert S., twin of

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Elmer, married Bertha Coe. Delia May is the wife of !Mex Bous. On the
15th of December, 1887, Mr. Jones married Miss Martha Isabel Clark,
daughter of Reuben and Agnes (Davis) Clark, natives of Hancock county,
Indiana. Five children have been born of this union, those living being:
Gracie N., Ethel L., Roy M. and Lester Paul. They also lost one child,
Oliver Lamar, who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Methodist church, and in poli-
tics he is a Republican. In Tipton county he held several township offices,
including that of supervisor. His life has been well spent, and in the quiet
pursuits of the farm he acquired a handsome competence, which is the mer-
ited reward of his labor and which now enables him to live retired,,
unburdened with the heavier cares and responsibilities of business life.

JOSEPH B. GOODALL, of Peru, one of the leading contractors and
builders of the state of Indiana, for many years has been prominently
identified with the building interests of this locality, and has been the archi-
tect of his own fortune as well. The struggle to rise from comparative pov-
erty to affluence has been his, and his career has been characterized by
unfaltering perseverance, strong determination, keen discrimination and
great energy. These qualifications have brought to him excellent success,
and he stands to-day among the representative and substantial citizens of
Peru. He came from England to the New World, hoping to find better
opportunities than were afforded in the old country; nor has he been disap-
pointed in this hope.

He was born in Yorkshire, England, September 20, 1S54, a son of
Thomas and Nancy (Roper) Goodall. In early life he began to learn the
stone-mason's trade, under the direction of his father, who followed that
occupation, and thus by years of practical experience was trained for his
present prosperous business career. In April, 1875, Mr. Goodall was united
in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Garnet, daughter of John and Elizabeth Gar-
net, and in August, 1879, sailed for America. He left his family in Eng-
land until he could secure a home for them, but was accompanied by his
brother William, who is now a resident of Peru. Landing at Quebec, he
went at once to Toronto, thence to Detroit, Michigan, and on the 12th of
September, 1879, arrived in Peru. Here he was soon after joined by his

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father, who, however, remained only a short time, returning then to Eng-
land, where he died in June, 1880. In 1882, the mother of our subject,
accompanied by her three sons then in England, — Othniel, Thomas and
James, — crossed the Atlantic and made her way to Peru, where she spent
her remaining days, her death occurring December 25, 1896.

In the spring of 1880 Mr. Goodall, of this review, was joined by his wife
and their little son, and thus established in a comfortable little home in Peru
he entered upon his business career in the New World, resolved to win suc-
cess if it could be done through earnest efforts and honorable dealing. As
the years passed and he demonstrated his skill and ability, work of more
important character was entrusted to him, his first very important contract
being the cut-stone work on the Bearss Hotel. This he executed in 1887
and the same year took a contract for the stone work on the First National
Bank building. Similar contracts followed in rapid succession, and, his
reputation soon extending beyond the bounds of Indiana, he was called into
adjoining states, where he has executed some very difficult work in a most
artistic and satisfactory manner. He took the contracts and superintended
the stone work on the fine court-houses in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Allegan
and Ludington, Michigan, also the Hackley high-school building and the Tor-
rence residence in Muskegon. More recent specimens of his handiwork are
found in the fine Baptist church and the Schnoll and Brownell blocks of
Peru; in 1898 he erected the fine Central school building of Peru, and has
now under contract the erection of the Wabash Hospital.

In addition to his contract work Mr. Goodall has an extensive yard in
Peru, where his stone is cut and prepared for the builder. This is located
one block west of the Union depot, and he has his own railway switch, afford-
ing excellent shipping facilities. There is also an extensive warehouse, and
all the other modern conveniences and accessories that enable one to turn
out the finest grade of stone work. His trade in the sale of building stone is
very extensive, and in addition he deals largely in builders' supplies, includ-
ing cut stone, sidewalk flagging, fire brick, mantels and grates, and tiles for
floors and wall. He receives a liberal patronage not only in Peru, but also
from adjoining towns and counties, and his business is accounted one of the
leading industries of the city. It not only brings to him a handsome profit
but also promotes the prosperity of Peru by advancing commercial prosperity
and furnishing employment to a large force of workmen.

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The home relations of Mr. Goodall are very pleasant, and his beautiful
residence, located at No. 274 East Sixth street, is celebrated for the hospi-
tality so graciously extended there by the owner and his estimable wife.
They have three children, viz.: Fred, who was born in England, November
14, 1876, has learned his father's traia and n^w has charge of the yard in
Peru; Sadie, the only daughter, who was born in Terre Haute, Indiana,
December 26, 1SS5; and Joseph, the youngest, who was born in Peru,
March 17, 18S8. The family are members of the Baptist church.

Mr. Goodall is a thirty-second-degree Mason and is a valued member of
the orders of Knights of Honor and the Macabees. A public-spirited and
progressive citizen, he gives a loyal and efficient support to all measures for
the public good, and during his long service as alderman he was a promoter
of every measure which had for its object the substantial development of the
city. In 1890 he was elected to represent the third ward of Peru in the city
council, the first Republican chosen to that office in sixteen years, — which
was certainly a compliment to his personal popularity and an indication of
the confidence reposed in him. In 1894 he was re-elected and continued to
serve until early in the year 189S, when, his important business duties
demanding his time and attention, he resigned.

MATTHIAS SCHNEEBERGER.— This worthy German-American citizen
of Logansport, Cass county, has always taken an interested part in all
local enterprises and is justly esteemed to be one of the representative busi-
ness men of this community. For several years he was the assistant chief
and for one year was chief of the city fire department, and at one time was
employed in the city jail. The business prosperity which he now enjoys is the
result of his well applied efforts, unflagging attention to duty, his judicious
investments and general financial ability. He started out in his commercial
career empty-handed, with no resources save an active and far-seeing mind,
a rugged constitution, and a sturdy determination to win a respected position.
For over forty-two years Mr. Schneeberger has made his home in Logans-
port, and has been an eye-witness of the great changes which have here
been brought to pass in that period. From a small hamlet the town has
grown to its present large proportions, being now a well-improved, beautiful,

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modern city, ranking witli the foremost in the state. He was born in the
province of Bavaria, Germany, July 25, 1837. His parents, John and EHza-
beth (Ginder) Schneeberger, natives of the same section of the Fatherland,
crossed the Atlantic in 1856, and in the following year settled in Cass
county, Indiana, where they continued to reside until claimed by death.

The education of our subject was obtained in the schools of Germany.
He was a youth of about nineteen when he decided to cast in his lot with the
inhabitants of this favored land, and upon his arrival in the United States
he spent one year in La Fayette, Indiana. Coming then to Logansport, he
worked at whatever he could find to do, whereby he might earn an honest
livelihood. He chopped wood, cut logs, was variously employed at the
Barnett House; from 1859 to 1862 was connected with the Forest Mills
and then for about two years was occupied in teaming upon his own account.

Having been frugal and careful of his means, the young man at last had
a sufficient sum laid aside to enable him to embark in business for himself.
Since 1864 he has been more or less connected with the liquor business, for
a time running a boarding-house in conjunction with the other line. For
fifteen years he was the general agent at Logansport for the Indianapolis
Brewing Company, and of late years he has represented the Columbia Brew-
ing Company, of this city. In 1896 he embarked in the livery business, and
the following year erected a substantial brick stable and carriage-house on
Third street. From time to time he has invested judiciously in real estate,
'and now owns many valuable pieces of property in Logansport and else-
where. In addition to numerous houses and lots in the city, he owns fine
farm-lands near the corporation limits. His success in business is, indeed,
somewhat remarkable, in view of the fact that at the start he was handi-
capped by being a stranger to the language and customs of America; had no-
capital or influential friends and was literally forced to "paddle his own
canoe."

From the time that he became a voter Mr. Schneeberger has used his
franchise in favor of the Democratic party. Fraternally he is a member of
the Improved Order of Red Men, the Independent Order of Foresters and-
St. Joseph's Mutual Benefit Society. He was reared in the Catholic church
and adheres to its teachings.

The first marriage of Mr. Schneeberger took place in i860, Miss Annie
Sommers being the lady of his choice. They became the parents of five

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children, only one of whom, Mary, is living. After the death of his first wife,
our subject married, in 1875, Miss Mary Lash. Two children, a son and a
daughter, Frederick and Clara, bless their union. They have a pleasant
home and have many sincere friends and well-wishers.

GEORGE W. WILSON. — Born on a farm in Union county, Indiana, near
Liberty, on the iith of May, 1843, George W. Wilson came with his
father to Cass county when twelve years of age and has since resided upon
the farm which is now his home. Previous to that date he had remained in
the county of his nativity and his childhood days were quietly passed after
the usual manner in which farmer lads spend their time. In 1855 the family
came to Cass county, making the journey by team to Deer Creek township,
where the father purchased a farm, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres
of wild land, on which not a furrow had been turned or an improvement
made. Upon the old homestead our subject grew to manhood, and with the
passing years he assisted in the labors that placed the land under cultivation
and made it to bring forth abundant harvests. His educational privileges
were limited, but his training at farm work was not meagre. He carried on
business with his father until the latter's death in 1871, since which time he
has managed the farm alone.

On the 29th of January, 1873, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wil-
son and Miss Catherine Beamer, and their home has been blessed with six
children: Harry, a farmer of Deer Creek township, Cass county; Lora, Stella
and Carl, at home; and William A. and Alma I., now deceased.

In addition to his home farm Mr. \N'ilson owns a tract of seventy-eight
acres on section 20, Deer Creek township, and has both places under a high
state of cultivation. He has made most of the improvements on the old
homestead, and these stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. He
carries on general farming and stock-raising, and his well-tilled fields indicate
his ability in the former line, while the excellent appearance of his horses
and cattle also show that he is progressive in the latter department of his
business. He is industrious, careful in management and sagacious in the
direction of his business affairs. His methods, too, are honorable and com-
mend him to the confidence of all. Idleness forms no part of his nature and

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his energetic prosecution of his farm duties has brought to him prosperity
which he well deserves. In politics Mr. \\'ilson is a Republican, and in his
religious associations is a member of the Christian church.

NELSON W. CADY, M. D. — In the subject of this review we have one
who has attained to distinction in the line of his profession, who has
been an earnest and discriminating student and who holds a position of due
relative precedence among the medical practitioners of Logansport. "Earn
thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth," said the sage Epicharmus, and
the truth of the admonition has been verified in all human affairs in all the
ages which have rolled their course since his day. The subject to whose
life history we now direct attention has, by ceaseless toil and endeavor,
attained a marked success in professional life, has gained the respect and
confidence of men, and is recognized as one of the distinctively representa-
tive citizens of Cass county.

Dr. Cady was born in Indianapolis, October 3, 1850, and belongs to one
of the oldest American families. Only fifteen years had passed after the
landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock when Nicholas Cady, a native of
Wales, braved the dangers of a voyage across the Atlantic in the little sea-
craft of that day. He took up his residence in Watertown, Massachusetts,
in 1645, 3-nd in 1648 removed to Groton, that state. He married Judith
Knapp and they had nine children, including Joseph Cady, who became the
father of eleven children. Of this number was David Cady, and of his
eleven children, this son, Joseph Cady, also had eleven. The latter's son,
Albe Cady, had a family of five, which number included Charles Warner
Cady, father of our subject. He was born in Keene, New Hampshire, and
married Abigail Aikman Kiersted, who was descended from an old Knicker-
bocker Holland-Dutch family, of New York. Mr. Cady was connected with
the fire-insurance business throughout his entire life and was the first fire-
insurance agent in Indiana. He died in Indianapolis in 1855, when only
forty-five years of age, having been a resident of the state from 1840.

Dr. Cady was one of a family of six children and was only five years of
age at the time of his father's death. He was reared in the city of his nativ-
ity, and completed his literary education by graduation in Cornell University,

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with the class of 1S74. A man of stroiif; mentaht}', his tastes naturally
tended in the direction of a professional career, and deciding to prepare for
the practice of medicine he matriculated in the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, of New York city, in which institution he was graduated in 1S77.
The same year he located in Logansport, where he has since engaged in the
practice of medicine with excellent success. He is a close student of his
profession and keeps fully abreast with the advancement that is continually
being made therein. His knowledge is comprehensive and accurate and his
skill is demonstrated in the excellent success which has followed his efforts in
the sick-room. He possesses marked judgment and discernment in the diag-
nosing of disease and is peculiarly successful in anticipating the issue of com-
plications. He observes most closely the ethics of the unwritten professional
code and shows most careful courtesy to his fellow practitioners. Along pro-
fessional lines he is connected with the Cass County Medical and the Indiana
State Medical Associations.

In 1883 the Doctor married Mis.-5 Jennie M. Miller, of Waverly, New
York, and in the social circles of Logansport they hold an enviable position.
The Doctor has been a member of the city board of health for about twelve
years. He is very prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Orient Lodge,
No. 72, A. F. & A. M.; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M. ; Logansport Coun-
cil, No. II, R. cS: S. M., and is also identified with Apollo Lodge, No. 62,
Knights of Pythias. His political support is given the Republican party, and
while not an aspirant for office he keeps well informed on political issues, as
every American citizen should d-j, and in local affairs gives a public-spirited
and generous support to all measures and enterprises for the public good.

NOTT N. ANTRIM, a member of the leading law firm of Peru, Mitchell,
Antrim & McClintic, is a native of this county, born March 25, 1847,
and is the youngest son of Benjamin and Frances Antrim. He was ten years
old when (his father and mother being dead) he went to make his home with
an elder brother, L. W. Antrim, where he continued to live for two years; then
he sallied out into the "cold world." "Our life is but a battle," says a
writer, "and like the winds, never resting, homeless, we storm across the
water of the convulsed earth." So our homeless lad undertook the voyage
of life unaided, to take care of himself as well as he could. He labored upon

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a farm during the warmer portion of the year and during the winter attended
school until eighteen years of age.

Then he endeavored to enlist in the war for the Union, where Uncle
Sam would have the care of him, but no, he was too sniall! In the spring
of 1866, having some money saved from his earnings, he entered- Union Col-
lege at Merom, Indiana, and, having already qualified himself for teaching,
he. alternately taught and attended school, and at length located in Peru,
where he read law in the office of Shirk & Mitchell, and in 1873 he was
admitted to practice at the Miami county bar. In the spring of 1874 he
opened an office and entered into practice. In the fall of 1874 he was elected
prosecuting attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial circuit, composed of
Miami and Wabash counties, and held that office for two consecutive terms.
In 1888 he was elected by a pluralty of forty-one on the Republican ticket,
as a representative of Miami to the state legislature, the fifty-third general
assembly, the county at the same time giving a Democratic plurality of two
hundred and ninety-seven for secretary of state.

After a partnership of one year's duration with W. C. Bailey, he formed
a business union with Hon. James M. Brown, under the firm name of Brown
.& Antrim, which continued for nine years and was terminated by the appoint-
ment of Mr. Brown as judge of the Miami circuit court. In 1890 he formed
a partnership with Joseph N. Tillett, the present prosecuting attorney for the
fifty-first judicial circuit, under the firm name of Antrim & Tillett, and this
relation existed for five years. January i, 1896, the present law firm of
Mitchell, Antrim & McClintic was formed. These gentlemen have a good
■business, as they deserve, for their honorable and thoroughgoing manner of
prosecuting all the business entrusted to them.

February 11, 1875, Mr.- Antrim was united in marriage with Miss M. S.
Adkisson, of Bellair, Illinois, who died March 6, 1894, leaving three children,
— Macy C, Nott W. and Minnie F.

GEORGE W. LANDON. — Kokomo has become one of the most thriving
and enterprising industrial and commercial centers of the Hoosier state,
and its prestige in the business world is due to such men as Mr. Landon.
His efforts toward advancing the material interests of the city are so widely
recognized that they can be considered as no secondary part of his career of

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signal usefulness. He belongs to that class of representative Americans who
while gaining individual success also promote the public prosperity, and he
stands pre-eminent among those who have conferred honor and dignity upon
the city of his home no less by his well conducted business interests than
by his upright life and commendable career.

Mr. Landon was born in Franklin county, Ohio, near Columbus, Feb-
ruary 6, 1847, and is a son of Orin and Delilah (Triplett) Landon, the former
a native of New York and the latter of Virginia. The paternal grandfather
was also born in the Empire state and was of English descent. He followed
farming during the greater part of his active business career, and in the last
years of his life engaged in preaching to some extent, as a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He had a family of fourteen children. His
death occurred near Columbus, Ohio, when he was aged eighty-three years.
Orin Landon also carried on agricultural pursuits. During his boyhood he
removed to the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, with his parents, and having
attained his majority was married there to Miss Delilah Triplett, who was
born in Virginia, as was her father, who in an early day removed to the Buck-
eye state. He followed farming and died in Franklin county, Ohio, at the age
of eighty-three years. Mrs. Landon was one of his three children, and by her
marriage she became the mother of three sons and a daughter: Hannibal, of
Remington, Indiana; Imogene, who lives with her brothers; George W. ; and
Eugene, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri. Orin Landon continued his resi-
dence in Ohio until 1866, when he removed to Ligonier, Indiana, where he
engaged in farming. He was also a contractor and builder. With his wife
he came to Kokomo in 1S84, and died in this city in 1890, at the age of
seventy-si.\ years. His wife passed away in 1889, at the age of seventy-two.
Both were members of the Methodist church.

George \V. Landon, whose name introduces this review, was born on the
farm near Columbus, Ohio, but was reared in that city and attended its pub-
lic schools. Later he was a student in Otterbein University, at W'esterville,
Ohio, and in 1864 he entered his country's service as a member of Company
B, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, in which he served for five
months. His service was almost one continual battle, for he was stationed
in front of Petersburg during the siege of the city. On account of disability
he was discharged.

After his return from the army Mr. Landon engaged in teaching school

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for several years, having also previously followed that profession for one
year before the war. He was employed as a teacher in Columbus, Ohio,
Leavenworth, Kansas, Muscatine, Iowa, and LaFayette, Indiana, and then
began traveling for the Buckeye Reaper & Mowing Machine Company, act-
ing as collector in a number of states. In March, 1874, he came to Kokomo,
where he has since made his home, and has been and is a very important
factor in the commercial activity of the city. He first engaged in the hard-
ware business, buying an interest in the firm of Armstrong, Nixon & Com-
pany, which was succeeded by the firm of Armstrong, Pickett & Company,
the partners being A. F. Armstrong, Edward A. Armstrong, Nathan Pickett
and George W. Landon. Those gentlemen were associated in business until
1883, when Mr. Pickett sold his interest to the other members of the firm,
and the name was changed to Armstrong, Landon & Company, under which
style business was conducted until January i, 1888, when it was consolidated
with the firm of Hunt & Colburn, and the business incorporated under the
name of the Armstrong, Landon & Hunt Company. That corporation did
business until January i, 1898, when Mr. Hunt sold his interest to the other
stockholders and the corporate name was changed to the Armstrong-Landon
Company, which is now at the head of one of the important business inter-
ests of the city. The officers of the company are A. F. Armstrong, presi-
dent; A. B. Armstrong, vice-president; and George W. Landon, secretary
and treasurer. In addition to the hardware and implement business the
corporation owns and operates a planing-mill and lumber-yard, does con-
tract work, and manufactures all kinds of building materials, interior finish-
ings for private dwellings, church seats and bank furniture, and employs, on
an average, seventy-five men. For almost twenty-five years Mr. Landon
has been connected with the business through its various changes, and his
able management, keen discrimination and executive ability have contributed
largely to its success. His efforts, however, have not been confined to one
line, as he is a prominent factor in a number of leading business interests of
the city. He is now secretary of the Kokomo Rubber Company, which
employs about one hundred men in the manufacture of bicycle tires. He is
a director in the Citizens National Bank and president of the Kokomo
Natural Gas Company, and all of these associations contribute to the welfare
of the city as well as to his individual prosperity.

On the 2d of October, 1S66, Mr. Landon married, in Leavenworth,

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Kansas. Miss Emma Alice Reeves, daughter of William and Muiy (McLane)
Reeves, of Rcss county, Ohio, but later of Bloomington, Illinois. Her father
served for several years as a member of the legislature of Ohio. Mr. and
Mrs. Landon have a son and daughter: Hugh McKennan and Maud. They
also raised a son, Joseph McDonald. Hugh is the secretary of the Manu-
facturers' Natural Gas Company and a director of the Indianapolis Water
Works, both of Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Andover Academy, of
Andover, Massachusetts, and of Harvard University, completing his course
in the latter institution as a member of the class of 1892. He married Miss
Susette Davis, daughter of F. A. W. Davis, of Indianapolis, and has two'
children, Elizabeth and Mary Alice. Their home is in Indianapolis. The
daughter, Maud, is the wife of Dr. L. A. Miller, of Peru, Indiana.

Mr. and Mrs. Landon are members of the Congregational church, of
Kokomo, with which they have been connected for twenty jears, and for a
long period the former served as president of the board of trustees. He
belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternit}' and the Benevolent Protecti\e
Order of Elks, and in his political views is a Republican. A man of scholarly
tastes, of genial temperament and kindly disposition, Mr. Landon holds an
enviable position in the esteem of his fellow men by reason of his irreproach-
able life, as well as by his business abilit}- and pronounced success.

r^ATRICK McHALE. — ^^'hatever success Patrick McHale has achie\ed in
^ life — and it is considerable — is due entirely to his own well directed
efforts. In his boyhood he started out to make his own way in the world
unaided, and by resolute purpose, indefatigable industry and sound judgment
he has steadily worked his way upward to a position of affluence. The mon-
ument to his labors is his fine farm in Deer Creek township, Miami county,
comprising more than two hundred acres of rich land, all under a high state
of cultivation and yielding to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care
he bestows upon it.

Mr. McHale is one of the worthy citizens that the Emerald Isle has fur-
nished to the New World. He was born in county Mayo, Ireland, March 15,
1826, and is the son of Edward and Mary (Brown) McHale. The grand-
father, Edward McHale, Sr., belonged to one of the old families of Ireland,

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was a farmer b}' occupation and spent his entire life in his native land. He
had two sons — Edward and Anthony — and eight daughters. The father of
our subject, Edward McHale, Jr., was born in Ireland about 1788, and in
his early manhood wedded Mary Brown, daughter of Henry Brown. They
became the parents of five children, — Bridget, Sidney, Nellie, Patrick and
Ann, — who were reared on the home farm and brought up in the faith of the
Catholic church. The father carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his
entire life, and died of pleurisy in Ireland, when forty three years of age.

In the common schools Patrick McHale acquired his education, but his
school privileges were somewhat limited, as his father died when he was only
five years of age and he was early forced to earn his own livelihood. His
youth was one of labor and not of play. He began learning the stone-mason's
trade when only thirteen years of age, receiving no pecuniary recompense for
his services and very little clothing. At the age of seventeen and a half years
he resolved to try his fortune in America and accordingly sailed from Liver-
pool, England, in September, 1843, on the vessel Mazeppa, which after a
voyage of seven weeks dropped anchor in the harbor of New Orleans,
November 17, 1843. In the Crescent City he worked as a hod-carrier until
the following April, when he secured a situation as fireman on a steamer. He
■was thus employed until the middle of June, when he began working for a
■farmer about thirty-five miles east of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was employed in
that neighborhood for four years, during which time he was married. He
'then located in Brown county, Ohio, where he purchased twenty acres of
land for two hundred dollars. After three years he sold that property for
three hundred dollars, having in the meantime built thereon a little log cabin
and made other improvements. In the fall of 1850 he removed to Deer
Creek township, Miami county, and purchased forty acres of his present farm,
— a tract of timber land, only eight acres of which had been cleared. A
log cabin, sixteen by sixteen feet, constituted the improvements, and thus
again he began the arduous task of developing a new farm. For twelve years
he remained in the cabin home, which was then replaced by a more modern
residence. He now has a good set of farm buildings upon his place, and
these are surrounded by waving fields of grain giving promise of abundant
harvests. As his financial resources have increased he has extended the
the boundaries of his farm until it now comprises two hundred and six acres
of rich land.

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Mr. McHale has been twice married. While in Ohio he wedded Miss
Ehzabeth Good, on the 26th of September, 1847. The lady was born
January 19, 1827, in Hampton county, Virginia, her parents being Philip and
Elizabeth (Abernathyj Good. Her father belonged to one of the Pennsyl-
vania-Dutch families, and his wife was of Irish lineage. He followed farm-
ing, became a farmer of Brown county, Ohio, and died on his farm there
eight years before the marriage of his daughter. He had two children —
Philip and Eh'zabeth. His widow afterward married Eli Osman and their
children are Frank, Morris, Eliza, Alice and Jane. To Mr. and Mrs. McHale
were born five children — James, Rebecca, Ann, Philip L. and Nellie. The
mother died February 2t,, 1885, at the age of fitty-si.x years, and Mr.
McHale was again married May 30, 1S86, in Galveston, Indiana, his second
union being with Sarah J. Groves, who was born in Batavia, Ohio, a daugh-
ter of Michael Groves. Her father was a farmer belonging to an old Amer-
ican family, and became one of the early settlers of Clermont county, Ohio,
where he died at the age of eighty-six years. He was twice married and
the children of the first union were John, George, William, Mattie and
Sarah J.

Mr. and Mrs. McHale reside on his excellent farm in Miami county. He
is a stanch Republican in politics, but has never been an office-seeker, giving
his time and attention to his farming interests, in which he has met with
gratifying success. He stands high in the regard of his fellow townsmen by
reason of his upright life and fidelity to duty, and commands the respect
of all.

A LFRED P. SELLERS, of the Kokomo Furniture Manufacturing Com-
^*- pany, is an illustrative example of that class of citizens who, we can
conscientiously say, are the mainstay of a prosperous nation. His energy
and good humor are alike a source of popularity, and he is equally well known
as an honest, capable and reliable citizen.

Born in Preble county, Ohio, November 28, 1824, he was but a small
boy when his parents removed with him to this state, settling in Logansport.
The family then removed to Miami county, where he received his "book"
education in the old-fashioned subscription school, meanwhile being brought
up as a farmer's boy, for nearly all the old settlers of this county in pioneer

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times were necessarily agriculturists. After he had grown up and there were
more residents in the community and more building required, Mr. Sellers
learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for more than thirty-five
years, being employed first in Miami county; but ever since the year 1856 he
has been a resident of Kokomo. Here for some years he has followed his trade,
taking contracts, etc., and also working considerably at the millwright's trade;
indeed, he has built nearly all the mills in the county.

In March, 1888, he and his sons, Ira and Will, organized the Kokomo
Furniture Manufacturing Company, and in their operations they supply deal-
ers in all parts of the United States, especially in the line of kitchen furni-
ture. They recently filled an order for Paris, France. Commencing on a
very small scale, they have reached such a capacity as to require the employ-
ment of twelve to fifteen hands, using the latest and most improved rra-
chinery. During the war Mr. Sellers erected a barracks in Kokomo, with a
capacity for accommodating fifteen hundred men.

By way of reminiscence we should add that Mr. Sellers remembers the
counties of Cass, Miami and Howard from their early settlement, and can
recall many amusing experiences with the Indians. In fact, he may be
called a pioneer of four counties, namely, Preble county, Ohio, and Cass
and Miami and Howard counties, Indiana; and besides he is strictly an " old
settler " of Howard county. If you want to know a genial, whole-souled
man, you can find such a gentleman by making the acquaintance of " Uncle
Sellers." He has been an energetic and hard-working man; but his constitu-
tion, both mental and physical, is such that he endures an enormous amount
of exertion, exhibits a high degree of vitality, and at the same time preserves
a youthful appearance, so that very few persons would guess that his age had
reached the term of seventy-four years. He is cordial, full of humor and
fond of good jokes. He can read either with or without spectacles.

In his political views he is a Democrat, and in religion both he and his
wife are members of the Christian church. Their home is at 241 North
Washington street.

The parents of our subject, John and Nancy (Sellers) Sellers, were
natives of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and had seven children, but of all
these only the subject of this sketch is now living. The father, a farmer by
vocation, moved to Preble county, Ohio, with his parents and several other
families, during an early period in the settlement of that part of Ohio. In

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1829 John Sellers moved to Logansport, Indiana, and lived in that \iciiiity
until the spring of 1835, when he moved into Miami county, locating upon
Eel river, near Chili, where he purchased a farm and brought up his chil-
dren. He was captain of a militia company in Cass county. He ami his
wife and two sons and a daughter changed their residence to Kosciusko
county, where he at length died, aged about sixty-six years; his wife died
eleven years previously. Both were members of the Christian church.

Joseph Sellers, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of
Kentucky, of Scotch descent, a soldier in the war of 1S12, brought up four
sons and five daughters, was a Christian (or " Disciple") minister and a lit-
erary man of wide influence.

William Sellers, the maternal grandfather of Alfred P., was also a native
of Kentucky, a farmer and a resident of Indiana many j-ears, reared a large
number of children, and at an advanced age died in Wabash county.

Mr. Alfred P. Sellers, the subject of this sketch, was married on the 8th
day of November, 1849, to Miss Mary Jane Cole, a daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Ritzenberger) Cole. In the family of our subject are four sons and
five daughters, namely: Elizabeth, who married Mr. A. Mote, a hardware
merchant in Kokomo and has three children living, — Lee, Frank and George
Roscoe; Lewis C, a clerk in a Kokomo grocery, who married Miss Lida
Banta and has two children living, — Clarence and James A.; John F. , who
married Miss Maggie Hayworth, and is a commercial traveler; George Ira,
who married Miss Rebecca Ellen Kellar and has si.x children, — Lena, Ida,
Wilford, Mary, Charles and George; Addie Flora became the wife of Isaac
H. Kellar; Will P. married Miss Jane Brown; Mattie became the wife of
John W. Dawson, of Kokomo, and has one child, named Esther; Mary Alice
became Mrs. Charles A. Cooper and has one child, named WMlliam A. ; and
Cora B. married William Cline.

RAYMOND C. TAYLOR, of Logansport, Indiana, has been identified
with this city for more than three decades, has enjoyed a prosperous
business career here and is now living retired. The record of his life, as
gleaned by the publishers of this work, is as follows:

Raymond C. Taylor was born in Cayuga county. New York, September
€, 1834, and is a representative of a family long resident in America. His

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father, Smith Taylor, was a native of Balston Springs, Connecticut, born
about 1785, and from that place, about the close of the last century, accom-
panied his parents to New York state, settling there when land was worth
only a pittance, — seventy-five cents an acre. There Captain Noah Taylor,
the father of Smith Taylor, acquired a large tract of land and was one of
the prominent early farmers of eastern New York. He was a patriot during
the Revolutionary war, and rendered valiant service as a captain in the
American army.

Smith Taylor was both a mechanic and a farmer, and it was on his
New York farm that his sons were reared and, by hard work in the field,
brought to a realization of the seriousness of life. He married Miss Sylvia
Barnes, a daughter of Captain Thomas Barnes, who marched with the Conti-
nental armies and contributed his mite to the eradication of British misrule
in the colonies. Thus it is seen that both the paternal and maternal grand-
fathers of our subject were Revolutionary soldiers.

Raymond C. Taylor is the youngest of eight children and in his youth,
beginning with his twelfth year, was employed more or less in driving stock,
and in this way he was led into the butcher business, which he learned under ,
the instructions of his brother-in-law, William Faatz. From the age of
eighteen to twenty-si.x he was engaged chiefly in farming, working at his
trade only during the winter seasons. He came to Logansport January 13,
1864, and established himself in the meat business at the corner of Broad-
way and Si.xth streets, and some years later removed to 501 Broadway,
where he continued a prosperous business. His business career on this
street covered a period of thirty-four years, during which time he acquired a
competency sufficient to maintain his household in his declining years, and
since January 11, 1897, he has been retired. Some fifteen years ago he
purchased a farm in Clay township, Cass county, which he has handsomely
improved, and to which he now devotes much of his time.

Politically the Taylors have been adherents to the Democratic faith.
Smith Taylor declared for the doctrines and principles as set forth by Jack-
son, and was a strict party man; but while Raymond C. Taylor avows
allegiance to the political faith of his ancestors, he votes for the person
rather than the party, holding that the character of the candidate for public
office is of more consideration than the platform set forth by some political
convention.

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Mr. Taylor has been twice married. In 1853 he wedded Miss Fiorilla
M. Miner, daughter of Elizer Miner, and the surviving children of thair union
are Flora M. and Jay D. The latter married Miss Lorain Ridinger and has
a son, Raymond C. Mr. Taylor's second marriage was consummated Jan-
uary 24, 1865, when he took for his companion Fiorilla A., daughter of
William and Lucretia (PierceJ Doty. The Dotys were among the first set-
tlers of New England and were conspicuous as patriots in the Revolutionary
war, Mrs. Taylor's great-grandfather being General Washington's drum-
major. Mrs. Taylor's first husband was T. Doty Taylor, a brother of her
present husband.

In Masonic circles Mr. Taylor has long had standing. He was made a
Mason in 1868 and affiliates with the following organizations: Orient Lodge,
No. 272; Logan Chapter, No. 2; Logan Council, No. 11, and St. John
Commandery, No. 246, and both he and Mrs. Taylor are members of the
Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter No. 58. Their daughter, Flora M., who
is still at the parental home, is also a member of the Eastern Star.

DEXTER C. BENNETT. — Among the younger representatives of the
business interests of Kokomo, none have attained a more distinguished
position than Dexter C. Bennett, who is now manager of Bennett's Saw &
Machine Works. He is descended from Scotch and German ancestry and
has inherited some of the best characteristics of the two peoples, having the
reliability and perseverance of the former, together with the adaptability and
untiring energy of the latter.

His grandfather, George Bennett, was a native of New Jersey, and at an
early day emigrated to Lewisbiirg, Indiana, where he operated a sawmill.
He was twice married and had seventeen children. His death occurred in
Walton, this state, when he had attained the age of sixty years. Henry
Shafer, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Ohio and of
German descent. He followed farming and became one of the pioneer set-
tlers of Cass county, Indiana, locating twelve miles from Logansport, where
he died at an advanced age. He had a family of seven or eight children.

The parents of our subject are Elwood and Sarah (Shafer) Bennett, the
former born in New Jersey, while the latter was born on her father's farm in

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Cass county. For many years Elwood Bennett owned and operated a saw-
mill. He came to Indiana about 1853, locating in Lewisburg, Cass county,
to which place his father's family removed. He resided there for some
years and then took up his residence in Walton, where his father died, after
which he assumed the management of the sawmill, which he conducted until
1870. He then turned his attention to the lumber business, which he con-
ducted until 1880, when he disposed of his interests in Walton and came to
Kokomo, where he established a little saw-hammering shop. When the de-
velopment of the natural-gas resources of this section was begun, he added
plumbing and gas fitting to his business. In 1893 he leased what was
known as the Star Machine Works, remodeled the plant, and changed the
firm name to the Bennett Saw & Machine Works Company, associating with
him his son. Dexter C. , as the manager. In connection with the operation
of this plant the elder Bennett also continues the saw-hammering and plumb-
ing business, established soon after his arrival in Kokomo. The principal
manufacture of the company is wind straw-stackers, known as " Bennett's
Uncle Tom's Farmers' Friend Straw Stacker," which is without doubt the
most perfect wind straw-stacker for threshing in the market; the stacker is
attached to the threshing machine and the chute is so constructed and oper-
ated that it discharges the straw with equal force at any point within a full
■circle. The Bennett Saw & Machine Company also manufacture engines,
boilers, sawmills and general mill supplies, such as rubber and leather belt-
ing, endless thresher belts, pulleys, hangers, shaftings, oil cups, hard-oil
brass goods of every description, etc. Employment is furnished to from six
to twelve men and the business is a profitable one, being wisely conducted,
carefully managed and operated along the line of the most honorable business
principles.

Elwood Bennett is a prominent and influential citizen of Kokomo, and
for about eight years has represented the third ward in the city council. He
and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and reside at
No. 164 West Taylor street. They became the parents of five sons and one
daughter, and those now living are Dexter C. , George H., James E., Albert
E. and Hazel.

Dexter C. Bennett was reared in Cass county until seven years of age,
and since that time has lived in Kokomo, where he acquired his education in
the public schools, supplemented by a commercial course in the Kokomo

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Business College. He learned the machinist's trade, mastering the business
in every detail and becoming a proficient workman. He has since followed
that pursuit and now occupies the responsible position of manager of one of
the leading industrial concerns of Kokomo. He is a very progressive, ener-
getic and active young business man, and though only twenty-five years of
age takes rank with many of twice his years.

On the 27th of November, 1895, Mr. Bennett married Miss Grace l^an-
abaker, daughter of Samuel and Minerva (Puterbaugh^ Panabaker, pioneer
residents of Cass county. They reside at No. 151 North Main street, and in
social circles the}' occupy a x'ery enviable position. Mr. Bennett gives his
political support to the Ivepublican party.

WILLfAM H. HOLLAND.— Among those who, long connected with the
county, were always foremost in the support of movements and meas-
ures for the public good was William H. Hollar,d, a man whom to know
was to respect and honor. He was born on a farm in Union count)', Indi-
ana, May II, 1818, and was reared on that place, it proving his training
ground for the labors of life. In 1S45 he came to Cass county, locating in
Deer Creek township on the farm now owned by Mrs. Gish. It was all wild
land, undisturbed from the condition in which it was left by the hand of
nature. There he erected a log cabin and began to clear the place prepara-
tory to planting crops. His labors were energetically prosecuted until the
greater part of the farm, three' miles west of the farm where he died, was
under a good state of cultivation. He also made substantial modern improve-
ments on the farm and continued his residence there until 1855, when he
removed to the farm which was his place of abode until his labors of life were
ended. He made all the improvements on this place and successfully carried
on general farming and stock-raising. At his death he was the owner of
four hundred acres of valuable land, all of which had been acquired through
his own efforts. He was a busy man and never knew a time when he had
nothing to do. He kept everything about his farm in good repair, raised
good crops and in his dealings with his fellow men was well known for his
reliability and trustworthiness.

On the i6th of February, 1841, Mr. Holland married Miss Mary A.

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Murphy, and their union was blessed with seven children: Charles L. , who>
was a corporal in Company H, Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and died in.
1862 from disease contracted in the service; Martha J., wife of James Hiller,
of Galveston; Alice, who resides on the old homestead; Caroline, deceased!
wife of L. F. Murphy; Joshua, deceased, and two who died in infancy.

Mr. Holland was once elected county commissioner of Cass county but
resigned before the expiration of his term. He gave his political support to
the Republican party and kept well informed on the issues of the day, but
preferred the quiet of the home to the duties of the office-holder. He held
membership in the Masonic lodge of Galveston, and was highly esteemed,
by his brethren of the order. His death occurred April 23, 1898, at the
ripe old age of eighty years, and his remains were laid to rest in the family
cemetery in Deer Creek township, near the Center church. Thus passed
away a worthy citizen, an honored pioneer, a faithful friend and a devoted,
husband and father.

AUSTIN HERRELL. — Among the pioneers of Deer Creek township,
Miami county, Indiana, is found the gentleman whose name initiates,
this sketch, Austin Herrell. Mr. Herrell was the first to occupy the office of
township trustee in this township, he assisted in the erection of the first
school-house in the township, and in many ways he was prominently identi-
fied with the early history of this part of the county. This interest he has
maintained throughout the years that have intervened between that time and
the present. A sketch of his life is therefore of interest here.

Austin Herrell was born near New Castle, Kentucky, August 15, 1825,
son of William and Rachel (Wiley) Herrell. William Herrell was the son of
John and Amelia (Deacons) Herrell, and John Herrell was a native of Ten-
nessee, a descendant of English ancestors who settled in Tennessee previous
to the Revolution. The family was represented in that war. John Herrell
married in Tennessee Miss Amelia Deacons, and the fruits of their union
were Richard, James, William, Deacons, Absalom, Joseph, Isaac, John,
Rachel, Polly, Malinda and Orne. The Deacons owned a large tract of land
on the Chuckle river in Tennessee and were prosperous farmers. About
1812, John Herrell moved to Kentucky and settled in Shelby county and

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TITTOX COIWTIES. 301

•subsequently he removed to Henry county, that state, where he improved
a farm and where he passed the rest of his hfe and died.

William Herrell, the father of Austin, was born in Tennessee, on the
Chuckie river, and went to Kentucky about the time he was grown. In
Kentucky he married Rachel Wiley, a native of that state and a daughter of
Benjamin and Rachel (Collett) Wiley. The Wileys were among the early
pioneers of Kentucky. Betsey Collett, the mother of Mrs. Rachel Wiley, had
remarkable business ability for a woman of her day. She had a large tract
of land surveyed, paid the taxes on it and thus acquired several thousand
acres. William Herrell, after his marriage, settled in Henry county,
Kentucky, about six miles from New Castle, on part of the Betsey Collett
land, where he cleared up a farm and made a good home, the land being
very fertile. He moved to Indiana in 1833 and located in Johnson county,
and here again he cleared a tract of land and made a comfortable home,
which he subsequently repeated in Ripley county. His next and last move
was to Miami, Miami county, where he bought a small piece of land and
where he passed the rest of his days and died. He was twice married. The
children of his first wife, Rachel Wiley, were John, Wiley, Isaac, Henry,
Austin and Eliza. The mother of these children died in 1S2S, and some
time later he wedded, near New Castle, Kentucky, Elizabeth Hensley, a
native of that state and a daughter of Benjamin Hensley. The children by
this union were Richard, William, James, Calvin, Absalom and Mildred.
Mr. Herrell lived to the venerable age of eighty-three years. Throughout his
life he was industrious, honorable and upright. He was a devoted member
of the Baptist church, to which his family also belongs. Politically, he was
in early life a Jacksonian Democrat, but identified himself with the Repub-
lican party at its organization and continued to give it his support. Three of
his sons — William, Absalom and Calvin — were in the Union army, in ihe ,
Ninth Indiana Cavalry, and two of them, William and Absalom, were
wounded.

Austin Herrell, the subject of this sketch, was deprived of his mother's
love and care when he was three years old. His boyhood days were spent
in attending the district schools, held in log cabin school-houses, and when he
was eight years old he came with his father and family to Indiana. In 1842,
at the age of seventeen, he came to Miami county, and from that time until
he was twenty- one worked for his brothers, Wiley and Isaac, who had set-

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tied in Richland township some time before. About the time ha reached his
majority he married, and in 1846 he pre-empted eighty acres of land in Deer
Creek township. On this land he built a log cabin and in it began his mar-
ried life in pioneer style. Honest toil and good management filled the days
and years that followed and in due time his land was cleared and brought
under cultivation. As prosperity attended his efTorts he purchased other
land and at one time his holdings comprised four hundred acres, cleared and
well improved, constituting one of the finest farms in the locality. He has
disposed of a part of his land, however, and now retains only two hundred
and sixty acres.

Mr. Herrell has been twice married. His first wife was before marriage
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, her parents being Isaac Hicks and wife, nrc Beard;
there were no children by this marriage. His second wife was formerly Miss
Mattie Julian, and she is now deceased. Her father, Jesse Julian, was a
native of Ohio and moved to Indiana about 1S46, settling in the woods in
Miami county, where he entered eighty acres of land and became one of the
well-known pioneers of his locality. Some ten years ago he moved to Okla-
koma, Vv'here he is still living. Mr. Herrell by his second wife had four chil-
dren, Frank, Lulu, Clyde and Belle. This wife and mother died some
si.xteen years ago. She was a devoted Christian and a member of the Baptist
church, and of this church Mr. Herrell also has long been a member and a
liberal supporter.

He is broad and generous in his views and has contributed freely to the
support of all the churches in his neighborhood. Politically he is a Repub-
lican and was one of the organizers of the Republican party in his township;
in fact, he helped to organize the township itself. He attended the first
meeting held in the township, and at that meeting was elected township
trustee, which office he held for seven years. He assisted in the building of
the first school-house in the township, the money for the same being raised
by subscription, and the house, a hewed-log structure, was built on his farm.
During his early life here he was for a time interested in general merchan-
dising in Miami, and he was the second man to build a " store " in the town.
The first warehouse here was built by him in i860. For twenty years he
did a warehouse business. A man of sterling integrity, honorable and upright
in all his dealings, he has during his more than half a century of life here
won a host of friends.

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ABRAHAM SHIDELER.— ThrouK'liout his life span Ahraluim Siiidelcr
has resided upon the farm which is now his home, aiui to-day he is
accounted one of the substantial and entorprisinj^ a;:;ricalturists of Clinton
township, Cass county. His natal day was July 22, 1835, and he is a son
of Geor^'e and Elizabeth (Neff) Shideler. The father was born in Washin;;-
ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and emigrating westward took up his
residence in Preble county, Ohio, whence he came to Cass county in 1832,
casting in his lot with the pioneers of Clinton township. He shared in the
experiences and hardships of frontier life, aided in the transformation of the
wild land into a productive tract and ever bore his part in the work of pub-
lic progress and improvement. He had visited the county four years previ-
ously, in 1S28, and purchased the farm upon which he later located, and
which is now the home of our subject. With unabating energy he continued
to place this land under the plow, and as the years passed made it a valua-
ble property. He took no active part in politics or public interests, aside
from the faithful performance of his duties of citizenship, and in his life he
exemplified his belief that man was placed in this world to do good. In
accordance with his religious faith, — that of the Dunkard church, — he
believed it wrong to bring legal proceedings against a fellow man, and he
lived peaceably with his neighbors and all with whom he came in contact.
His death occurred, in the home of his son Abraham, in 1875, and his wife
passed away in 1S81. She was six years his junior, and in consequence
both died at the same age. Mrs. Shideler was a native of Washington
county, Virginia, and was a daughter of Jacob Neff, a farmer of that state.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shideler were as follows: Lavina, deceased
wife of Martin Miller; Mary, deceased wife of Thomas Dillard; Catherine,
deceased wife of Jacob Neff; Naomi, wife of Adam Yost, of Clinton town-
ship, Cass county; Jonathan; Jacob, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of Zachariah
Cragun, of Clinton township; Abraham and Isaac, twins, the latter a retired
merchant and prominent citizen of Logansport.

Abraham Shideler has spent sixty-two years upon the old family home-
stead which his father entered from the government in pioneer days. He
was early trained to habits of industry and economy and drilled in the labors
of the farm, beginning work in the fields as soon as old enough to handle the
plow. His education was acquired in a log school-house, such as were com-
mon in those days, and in the school of experience has he also learned many

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valuable lessons, which have enabled him to conduct a successful business.
He has made farming his life work, and the well-tilled fields on the Shideler
property indicate his energy and careful supervision, while the excellent
improvements in the way of buildings stand as monuments to his thrift and
enterprise.

On the 14th of April, 1859, Mr. Shideler was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Barbara (Libenguth) Mummey, the
former a representative of a Pennsylvania family of German origin. The
■children of our subject and his wife are: Amelia, wife of Herman Homburg,
of Clinton township, Cass county; Elmer G., who died at the age of twenty-
■four years and five months; and Asa J., who resides on the old homestead
and who married, November 25, 1896, Florence Tyner, by whom he has a
son, William Abraham.

Throughout the years of its e.xistence the Shidelers have been connected
with the Republican party, warmly advocating its principles. The father
was a Whig in early life and on the formation of the Republican party joined
its ranks and became one of its zealous advocates. No one questions the
position of Abraham Shideler on political issues, for he has given material
aid in all the successful battles for Republican supremacy in Cass county.
Soon after attaining his majority he was elected township assessor, and was
again elected a few years ago to the same posiiton. In November, 1894, by
the vote of the people, he was called to the office of county commissioner,
serving until December, 1897, and acting as chairman of the board during the
last year. The board performed much good work in that time, but the princi-
pal progress made was in the line of bridge-building, and the excellent Market
street bridge in Logansport, together with others, is a monument to the
■ enterprising efforts of Mr. Shideler and his colleagues. Socially he is a Mas-
ter Mason, and religiously is a member of the Christian church, to which his
wife also belongs.

HON. L. D. ADKISON, a prominent citizen and pioneer of Peru, is a
native of Fayette county, this state, born about three miles west of
Connersville, May 26, 1816. His parents, Robert and Rebecca (Hender-
son) Adkison, were born in North and South Carolina respectively, of Irish
lineage. In 1829 the father removed to Fountain county, where his death

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occurred one year later. The mother wms l)orn in 1776 iiiid departed this
Hfe on the 27th of August, 1846.

Lewis D. Adkison, the subject i>l tliis sketch, when thirteen years of age
accompanied his parents to Fountain (-oimt\ , where for \\\o years he worked
on his father's farm. His early educational advantages were limited, being
only those derived from attendance at the indifferent subscription schools of
that time for about three months each year until he arrived at the age of
eighteen. He left home in the spring of 1835 and went to I.ogansport,
where he worked at brickmaking until the following fall, at which time he
came to Peru and secured employment 'in the Wabash & Erie canal, then in
process of construction, .\fter one years work on the canal he accepted a
clerkship in the mercantile house of I). K. Bearss, and later was engaged in
the same capacity by Mr. ISearss' successor, Jacob I.indsey, acting as clerk
in all about three years.

In 1838 he was appointed by Go\crnor Wallace sheriff of Miami count}',
to till the unexpired term of Asa Leonard, who died in office, and at the
ensuing election in 1840 was chosen sheriff, the duties of which position he
discharged for about four years. On leaving the office he engaged in the
plasterer's and bricklayer's trades for about four years, and then opened a
general store in Peru, which he conducted with good success. He subse-
quently abandoned that line of trade and for some years was engaged in the
lumber business, which he carried on extensively in connection with a general
hardware trade.

In 1855 he disposed of his mercantile interests in Peru and emigrating
to California opened a general store at Oak Valley, in the mines, in 1856,
and while there he attached himself to the order of Freemasons. On the
organization of the Republican party in that year he was nominated without
his r,,nsent for representative. He was subsequently elected supervisor of
Yuiia county, that state, an office similar to that of county commissioner in
Indiana, and after serving a year and a half was chosen sheriff, the duties of
which office he discharged for about four years. In 1868 he returned to
Indiana and settled in Fulton county, wiiere until 1874 he was engaged in
agricultural pursuits, disposing of his farm at the end of that time and return-
iuL; to Peru. In 1874-5 he was assistant doorkeeper of the Indiana state
scr.ate, and in 1882 was elected state senator from the counties of Miami and
H -ward. He took an active part in the deliberations of that body and served

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on some of the most important committees, among which were those on banks
and bankmg, public printing, public building, swamp lands, fees and salaries,
etc. Since the expiration of his term as legislator, Mr. Adkison has been
engaged in the insurance business and money-lending at Peru, and is enjoy-
ing a good patronage.

In politics he was originally a Whig, but since the organization of the
Republican party he has been an ardent supporter of its principles. He is
a member of the Presbyterian church and belongs to the Odd Fellows fra-
ternity.

On December i6, 1840, he married Mrs. Lucy Davis, daughter of Judge
Albert Cole, of Peru, by whom he had four children, only one of whom, Lucj'
A., wife of James H. Fetter, is living. Mrs. Adkison was born in 1820 and
died March 11, 1885.

JOHN MARION LaROSE, one of the most enterprising and thorough-
going farmers of Clay township, Cass county, Indiana, owns and occu-
pies a portion of the original LaRose homestead, where he was born and
reared, near Logansport. As the representative of a prominent and highly
respected family and as a man who, aside from family relations, stands high
in his locality, it is fitting that personal mention be made of him in this com-
pendium.

John Marion LaRose dates his nativity April 25, 1854, and is the only
son of John S. and Lucretia (Chesnut) LaRose, natives of Ohio, who were
among the early settlers of Cass county, Indiana. Mr. LaRose has one sis-
ter, Annie V. For a more extended notice of the LaRose family the reader
is referred to the sketch of Joshua S. LaRose, which will be found on another
page of this work.

In his youth Mr. LaRose attended the common schools near his home
and finished his schooling in Logansport, where he was a student three
years. From his boyhood up to the present time his energies have been
devoted to agricultural pursuits. His farm comprises two hundred and ten
acres, is well improved with good buildings, etc., and is regarded as one of
the best farms in Clay township.

March 6, 1876, Mr. LaRose was united in marriage to Miss Nancy M.
Brown, a native of Cass county, Indiana, and a daughter of Isaac Brown,

(\j^;s, Mi.i.Mi, now.iiu) .i.M) t/ptoj^' coiwnj<:.s :t(iT

one of the prominent farmers of this county. They are the parents of one
child. John B.

Mr. and Mrs. LaKose are members of the Methodist Episcopal church,,
and politically he harmonizes with the Democratic party.

WILLfAM B. SMITH More than half a century has passed smce Will-
iam B. Smith, a leading farmer residing in Kokomo, came to Howard
county. He is classed among the honored pioneers who have not only been
eye-witnesses of the progress and advancement of the community, but have
borne an active part in the work of development and improvement.
Throughout all the long years he has been prominently identified with the
agricultural interest, and although his efforts have been crowned with excel-
lent success, he still continues his active labors, for indolence and idleness
form no part of his nature. The growth of the city has extended its bounda-
ries until much of Mr. Smith's land is now within the corporation iiniits and
is very valuable. Great changes lia\e occurred during his residence in the
county; wild lands have been tr:uisf(Mined into beautiful homes and farms;
villages and towns have sprung up; railroads, the telegraph, telephone and
all modern improvements have been introduced, industries and commercial
interests have been established. Thus the work of progress has been carried
forward, Mr. Smith lending his aid and influence as opportunity has offered,
and in this way has been laid broad and deep the foundation for the present
prosperity of the community. He well deserves mention among the honored
pioneers, and it is with pleasure that we present a review of his life to
our readers.

He was born in Ross county, Ohio, near Chillicothe, on Paint creek,
December i, 1818, and is a son of Ephraim and Charity (Weliver) Smith,
natives of Pennsylvania. The grandparents on both sides were also natives
ot the Keystone state and were farming people. The father of our subject
was an agriculturist, and at an early day removed to Ohio, whence, in 1821,
he went to Henry county, Indiana, where he carried on a tavern by the Big
Blue river until his death. He passed away at the age of fifty, and his widow
died in Montgomery county, Indiana, near Crawfordsville, at the age of
eighty-six years. She was a member of the regular Baptist church.

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William B. Smith is the only surviving member of their family of four-
teen children. He was about five years of age when his parents removed
from Henry to Montgomery county, Indiana, where he was reared on a farm
amid the wild scenes of frontier life. His educational privileges were limited.
He pursued his studies, as opportunity offered, in a log school-house two
miles from his home, but his father died when he was quite young and his
services were needed on the farm. He was married at the age of eighteen and
was afterward persuaded to attend school for a few months. He then began
iteaching, which profession he followed for two years, having charge of the first
•school taught in Clay township, Howard county. He came with his family to
this county on the i8th of February, 1845, and has made his home within its
borders continuously since. For four years he resided on a farm six miles
west of Kokomo, and then, selling that property, purchased one hundred and
sixty acres of land three and a half miles southwest of Kokomo, to which he
added another quarter section on the south. He still owns that property,
together with a ninety-acre tract which adjoins the original purchase on the
north. In 1859 he purchased a farm of seventy-two acres that is now a part
of the best residence portion of the city of Kokomo. The purchase price
was thirty-two hundred dollars and he went in debt for the entire amount,
■which, however, was soon paid. The growth of the city and the consequent
rise in property has made this very valuable, and a part of the tract he has
sold for five hundred dollars per acre. He now owns ninety acres in the
edge of the city, and upon this stand eight good residences, which he rents.
His own home, replacing the old structure which was destroyed by fire, was
built in 1887, and is a fine modern residence.

Mr. Smith was married February 18, 1836, to Miss Sarah Ann Canine,
daughter of Cornelius and Dorothy (Vannice) Canine. Eight children, five
sons and three daughters, were born to them: Mary Ellen is the deceased
wife of Robert McClellan and by her marriage had two children, Margaret
and Edward; Cornelius C. married Georgie Kellar, and two of their three
children are living, Alonzo and Lew Henry. The mother died and
he afterward married Mollie Thompson, by whom he has three children,
Emma, Sadie and Julia. Charity is the wife of David Fawcett, and
their children are Albert, William. Charles, Frank, John P. and Nel-
lie. Milton died when about seventeen years of age. Richard H., a ph\-
sician of Kokomo, married Miranda A. Freeman, and they have six chil-

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dreii livin|^^ May L , Byron K., Mary Pearl, Raymond F. , Fred \l. and Will-
iam Carl. Isaac V. married Fannie Dennison and has two children, Earl
and Elsie. Dorothy died at the age of two years. William C, an attorney
of Delphi, Indiana, married Julia Gwinn and they have five children, Ada,
Carl, Dorsey, Edna and Gwinn. Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, the mother of this
family, died June i , 1 896, at the age of seventy-seven years. She was a mem-
ber of the Christian church and a most estimable lady. On the 14th of
December, 1896, Mr. Smith wedded Mrs. Louie S. Farmer widow of Mil-
ton B. Farmer, and a daughter of Lewis and Eliza A. (Swindler) Cooper.
She is a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and by her first marriage
she had one son, Calvin Wallace F'armer, who died at the age of twenty-
one years.

Since casting his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren, Mr.
Smith has voted for every presidential nominee of the Democratic party
with the exception of Horace Greeley, and is a stanch advocate of the party
principles. He was county assessor of Howard county for four years, and
township assessor several terms. For four or five years he filled the office of
supervisor, and has always proven a capable official.

Mr. Smith started out in life empty-handed and has steadily worked his
way upward to success, overcoming the difficulties and obstacles in his path
by resolute purpose and unflagging energy. His life has been one of great
industry, and he manages his property, working with the vigor and deter-
mination of a young man who has his own way to make in the world. His
life has been well spent, and the honesty of his dealings and the continuity of
his labors furnish an example that is well worthy of emulation by him who
would gain a competence and win the respect of his fellow men.

ANDREW DODDS. — Success to some seems an elusive thing, but failure
usually results from a lack of one of the elements which may be acquired
by all, — perseverance, energy, industry and resolute purpose. An analysis
of the life records of the successful men shows that these qualities have been
the causation of their prosperity, and such is the case with Andrew Dodds, a
leading and successful farmer of Clinton township, Cass county, who owns
and occupies a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres, pleasantly situ-
ated near Logansport.

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His father, the late John Dodds, was one of the pioneers of the county
and was prominently identified with its progress in an early day. He was
born in Ireland, and soon after his marriage came to the United States,
locating in Butler county, Ohio, where he carried on agricultural pursuits
until 1835. On the tide of emigration then steadily pouring into Indiana he
came to this state, and purchased canal lands at a dollar and a quarter per
acre. He spent the remainder of his life in the development and improve-
ment of his new farm, and died in 1851. He was an industrious and ener-
getic man, entirely unassuming, and passed his time " in the clearing," where
he trained his children to practical habits of industry and enterprise. He
was not known in politics, other than as an adherent of the Republican faith.
He married, and his seven children were: David, the eldest; Margaret,
deceased wife of Jacob Neff; Nancy, who married Thomas Stevens; John,
deceased; Matthew, a resident of Clinton township, Cass county; Andrew;
Matilda, widow of Alfred Wagoner.

.'\ndrew Dodds, of this review, was born in Butler county, Ohio, in
November, 1826, and was therefore but nine years of age when he accom-
panied his parents to this county. He was reared in the midst of the rural
scenes of the frontier, where he had ample opportunity for work, but few
educational privileges. He remained an inmate of his father's home until
twenty-two years of age, when he began farming on his own account, and at
the age of twenty-five he was married and located on his father's farm. His
capital was small, but he possessed unbounded energy and resolution, and as
time passed his financial resources were increased and were wisely invested in
farming land and he made excellent improvements on his property. He has
a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres, the greater part of which is
under a high state of cultivation, while the substantial buildings, modern
machinery, good grades of stock and other accessories of modern times
render this one of the desirable farm properties of the county.

Mr. Dodds was married in Clinton township, Cass county, to Miss Eliz-
abeth Spader, daughter of Benjamin Spader, one of the pioneers of Cass
county. Their children are Margaret, who married Robert R. Reed, a
prominent and prosperous farmer of Clinton township; Ira, who married
Frances McKinney; Edna, wife of John McKinney; Benjamin, who married
Sophia Homburg, and resides in Minnesota; Carrie, wife of Isaac Yost; Henry,
Willard, Charles, Minnie and Josie, at home. Having spent almost his

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entire life in Cass county, Mr. Uodds is widely and favorably known to her
settlers, and has the regard of many friends, for his life has ever been upright
and commendable.

"I X 7ILLIS R. CLEM. — A worthy representative of the agricultural inter-
^ ^ ests of Miami county and a member of one of the pioneer families of
the state, Willis R. Clem was born in Kentucky on the 26th of April, 1822,
his parents being Isaac and Nancy (Sheppard) Clem. The family is of Ger-
man descent. The grandfather, Philip Clem, a native of Germany, crossed
the Atlantic to America in colonial days and located in Virginia near Powell's
Fort at a time when the settlers often had to contest their right to the land
with the Indians. He died in the Old Dominion and his wife afterward
removed to Pennsylvania and later to Kentucky. She lived for a time in
Henry county, that state, and then went to Trimble county, three miles from
the mouth of the Kentucky river, where she was married again. Subse-
quently she came with her husband and children to Indiana, and died in
Johnson county when between eighty-five and ninety years of age. The
children of Philip Clem and his wife were John. Adam, Isaac, Jacob, Susan,
Betsy and Peggy.

Isaac Clem, the father of our subject, was born in Virginia and during
his boyhood removed to Kentucky. There he enlisted for service in the war of
18 1 2 under Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky. In that state he
was married to Nancy Sheppard, daughter of James Sheppard, and they
located on a farm in Trimble county, where they reared their children,
namely: Jemima, William, David, Peggy, Willis R., Louisa, Jane, Francis
M. and Sallie. In 1832 Mr. Clem, accompanied by his wife and children,
removed to Johnson county, Indiana, then an almost unbroken wilderness,
and at once began to develop a farm. He made his home there throughout
his remaining days, but died while visiting our subject, in Miami county, at
the age of eighty-five years. He was a life-long member of the Methodist
church, and his fidelity to his Christian faith won him the confidence and
respect of all.

Willis R. Clem was between eight and nine years of age when he
accompanied his parents to their frontier home in Johnson county, Indiana.
He acquired his education in a log school-house, furnished in primitive style.

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and there he familiarized himself with the common branches of learning.
He received ample training in farm work, field and meadow claiming his
attention until he became familiar with all the duties that fall to the lot of
the agriculturist. The occupation to which he was reared he has made his
life work and has ever been progressive and practical in his methods so that
he has acquired a handsome property.

As a companion and helpmeet on life's journey he chose Miss Elizabeth
Pierce, their marriage being celebrated December 25, 1846. The lady was
born February 12, 1823, in Orange county, Indiana, and is a daughter of
John and Frances (Nichols) Pierce, the former a native of Kentucky. Her
grandfather, George Pierce, was of German descent, and was one of the pio-
neers of " the dark and bloody ground. " Mrs. John Pierce was also a native
of Kentucky, and by her marriage she became the mother of thirteen chil-
dren, namely: Nancy, Polly, Elizabeth, William, John, Jacob, Eliza,
Rachel, Sallie, George, James, Lettie and Jariah. PriortoiSig John Pierce
located in Orange county, Indiana, where he secured eighty acres of wild
land, which he transformed into a good farm. He afterward spent three
years in Greene county, Indiana, and then went to Morgan county, this state,
where he improved a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, making his home
thereon until his death, which occurred when he had reached the advanced
age of eighty-eight years. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat, and
was a member of the Baptist church.

The first home of Mr. and Mrs. Clem was in Morgan county, where our
subject carried on farming for a time. He then sold his property there and
removed to Johnson county, Indiana, where he purchased eighty acres and
made a good home, continuing his residence there until his removal to Miami
county in 1872. Locating in Deer Creek township, he purchased one hun-
dred and seventy-five acres of improved land, which he has further devel-
oped until he now has one of the finest farms in the county, with substan-
tial buildings, the latest improved machinery, well kept fences, fertile fields
and verdant meadows. His business interests have been so capably man-
aged that he is now in prosperous circumstances. Honesty and integrity have
characterized all his transactions; industry has been the keynote of his suc-
cess, and his perseverance has been rewarded by affluence.

Mr. and Mrs. Clem became the parents of nine children: Sarah F. ,
Isaac, John, Willis G., George W., Nancy J., Angeline(died an infant), Tinna

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E. and Angeletta C". The first named was married and is now deceased.
The parents are botli members of the Christian church and their hves are in
harmony with their professions. In pohtics Mr. Clem is a Populist, but is
independent in his views and claims the privilej^e of settling all matters, polit-
ical and otherwise, by means of his own good judgment. He is worthy the
high regard which is uniformly e.xtended him, and it is with pleasure that we
present to his many friends the record of his career.

CHESTER O. PHILBRICK. — Born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, on
the 30th of December, 1854, Chester O. Philbrick is a son of Caleb
and Mary (Travis) Philbrick. The father is also a native oi the old
Granite state and is now a resident of Keene, New Hampshire. Throughout
his life he has followed the stone-mason's trade. His family numbers six
children, as follows: James G., of Chicago, an employe of the Pan Handle
Railroad Company; Chester O. ; Lucretia A., wife of Jonas White; Reuben;
Ann Eliza, wife of William Vose; and Elbridge J., a painter. The four last
named reside in the vicinity of the old home in New Hampshire.

During his boyhood and youth, Chester O. Philbrick attended the public
school and by his mastering of the English branches of learning was fitted for
the practical affairs of life. He entered upon his business career as an
employe in a clothespin factory in the state of New York, occupying that
position about two years, when he returned to Keene, New Hampshire, and
learned the tanner's trade under the direction of Frank Foster. On the
completion of his apprenticeship he resolved to try his fortune in the west,
believing that the less thickly settled district of the country would furnish
better opportunities to a young man having his own way to make in the
world. In 1879 he arrived in Terre Haute, Indiana, and secured a position
in the foundry department of the car shops at that place. He considered
this, however, merely a temporary step, — a means of earning a livelihood
until he could secure something more to his taste. On the 4th of March,
1882, he entered the service of the Vandalia Railroad Company, in the
capacity of hostler's assistant in the Terre Haute roundhouse, and on the
27th of June of the following year he was made fireman on the Terre Haute
& Logansport division of the Vandalia Railroad, making his first trip with

B14 BIOGRAPHICAL A.WD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

Arthur Holton as engineer. He was promoted from the position of fireman
to that of engineer on the 1 8th of September, 1889, and went into the regular
freight service in 1891. For almost ten years he has served in the capacity
of engineer, and his great care, faithfulness and promptness have gained him
the confidence of the road and made him one of their most trusted employes
in the engineering department.

Mr. Philbrick was married in Logansport, June 30, 1886, to Mrs. Anna
McDonald, daughter of David Cothram. She has one daughter by her
former marriage, Lovie McDonald. In 1891 Mr. Philbrick removed
his family to Logansport, where he has since made his home, and on Syca-
more street he has a pleasant residence and highly improved property. He
is a member of both the firemen's and engineer's orders, and in his association
with his brethren of those fraternities he has won their high regard.

JAMES W. FAIRMAN, a conductor on the Pan Handle Railroad, with
headquarters at Logansport, has rounded out more than a quarter of a
century in railroad service, and is the son of a retired railroad man.

Mr. Fairman was born December 27, 1849, near the town of Frankfort,
Canada, where his father, the venerable James C. Fairman, was born eighty
years ago. The latter was married in the Queen's Dominion to Miss Cath-
erine Smith, ten years his junior, and together they have traveled life's path-
way for many years and are now living retired in Logansport. Of their five
children, only two, George, an engineer on the Pan Handle, and James W. ,
are residents of Logansport.

James W. Fairman spent the greater part of his boyhood on a farm near
Monticello, White county, Indiana. About the time he reached his twen-
tieth year he left home and went to Battle Ground, Tippecanoe county,
where he worked for monthly wages for more than a year, and then, in 1871,
came to Logansport. His first employment here was as a laborer in build-
ing a spoke factory, and succeeding this he secured a place in the car
department of the Pan Handle Company as helper. In 1873 he went out
on the road as a brakeman, in which capacity he served three years, when
his prompt, faithful service was rewarded by promotion to the position of
freight conductor, and he has been a conductor ever since, with the following

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exception: In 1877 he received an injury which necessitated a change,
and he was on that account placed in the position of baggageman, where he
remained two years.

Mr. Fairman was married in Middletown, Indiana, in November, 1876,
to Marj' Armilda Ellison, daughter of Jesse Ellison, of Henry county. Mrs.
Fairman died August 18, 1897, leaving two daughters, Daisy and Ida, both
young ladies.

WILLIAM S. KISTLEK. — Indiana is celebrated for her tine farms, and
among those who aid in sustaining this reputation at the present day
is William Kistler, an enterprising, progressive agriculturist of Boone town-
ship, Cass county, who owns and operates one hundred and seventy-five acres
of rich land, pleasantly located about two miles south of Royal Center. This
is a valuable property, owing to the well directed efforts of the owner, who
has placed the fields under a high state of cultivation and made many excel-
lent improvements in the buildings and other accessories of the farm. His
business methods are above question, and industry and energy are his pre-
dominant characteristics, so that in business circles he occupies an enviable
position, having the confidence and good will of all with whom he has been
brought in contact.

Mr. Kistler is a native of Boone township, Cass count}, i)orn July 24,
1844, his parents being William B. and Mary (Randall) Kistler, the former
a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Kentucky. The grandfather, Jacob
Kistler. was also born in the Keystone state and was a miller by trade.
William B. Kistler became a very prominent agriculturist of Boone township
and held the office of township trustee for about twenty years, discharging his
duties with a promptness and fidelity that won him the highest commenda-
tion of all.

Of a family of five children, William S. Kistler is the only one now liv-
ing. He was born and reared on the old family homestead and his education
was pursued in the district schools of the neighborhood, after which he
engaged in teaching school for ten years. F"arming, however, has been his
principal occupation through life, and in that pursuit his efforts have been so
well conducted that he has achieved a handsome success, and is now the
owner of a very valuable property.

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On the 1 2th of March, 1867, Mr. Kistler wedded Miss Helen Fultz, a
native of Hancock county, Ohio, and a daughter of Amos Fultz, who came
from that county to Indiana, taking up his residence in Boone township,
Cass county, in the spring of i860. Mr. and Mrs. Kistler became the par-
ents of seven children, of whom two died in infancy. Those still living are
Oliver P., Dr. Frank M. , Milton W., Ida and Lillian. The mother of this
family was called to her final rest, September 20, 1890, at the age of forty-
six years. She was a faithful member of the Baptist church and her many
excellencies of character had won her many friends.

Mr. Kistler also belongs to the same church. In his political views he
is a stalwart Populist, and in 1894 he was elected township trustee to serve
five years, in which office he is discharging his duties with such commendable
zeal as to win the approval of all parties. He belongs to Royal Center Post,
No. 501, G. A. R., his right to admission thereto coming through his service
in the Civil war. In February, 1865, at the age of twenty years, he loyally
responded to his country's call, and became a member of Company C, One
Hundred and Pfty-fifth Indiana Infantry, for one year or "until the close of
the war." He received an honorable discharge at Dover, Delaware, in
August, 1865. He is a man true to every principle in which he believes,
earnest in support of his honest convictions, industrious and energetic in the
practical affairs of life, cordial and genial among his many friends, and at all
times a gentleman whom to know is to respect.

/->HARLES LEWIS BROWN.— The man who goes forth to conquer the
^-^ wilderness and open the way to civilization must possess many heroic
qualities^the patient endurance that enables him day after day to bear
the privation of frontier life, the constancy that enables him to perform week
in and week out the arduous task of clearing and developing new land, and
the fortitude to bear uncomplainingly the lack of advantages and privileges
which could be secured in older settlements. All these are characteristic of
the pioneer who pushes forward to the westward borders of the frontier that
he may make a home for himself and family. Among those who were lead-
ers in this work in northern Indiana is Charles Lewis Brown, now a resident
of Deer Creek township, Miami county.

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He was born in Perry county, Kentucky, December i6, 1825. a son of
Abijah and Sarah (Lewis) Brown. His father was born in Virginia in 1797,
and his parents were John and Elizabeth (Adams) Brown. Shortls after
Daniel Boone had made his way to the forests of Kentucky, throuj^h which
no white man had ever previously strayed, John Brown left his Virginia home
to become a pioneer in the new state, and in the midst of the green woods of
Perry county developed a good farm. About 1839 he removed to Montgom-
erj-, Indiana, becoming one of the first settlers of that locality. He was a
well known citizen and substantial farmer, and spent his last days in the
Hoosier state. His children were: John, William, Levi, Ananias, Abijah,
Daniel and Dusdy. Of this number Abijah Brown, father of our subject,
was married in Kentucky, and for a time made his home in that state, remo\ -
ing in 1839 to the forests of Boone county, Indiana, where he secured eighty
acres of land, then wild and unimproved. He converted it into rich and fer-
tile fields and in 1853 removed to Howard township, Howard county, where
he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, devoting his energies to
its cultivation until his death, which occurred at the age of sixty-eight years.
He was a prominent and faithful member of the Methodist church and served
as class-leader. His right of franchise was exercised in support of the men
and measures of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Abijah Brown were
the parents of ten children, namely: William, Elizabeth, Charles I^., Nancy,
Susannah, Mary, Samuel, Regina, Thomas and Clark.

During his early childhood Charles L. Brown was brought by his par-
ents to Indiana, and for almost sixty years has been identified with the inter-
ests of the state. On the 6th of October, 1846, he went to tlie farm of his
uncle. William Hudson, in Howard township, Howard county, and on the
29th of October. 1850. was married in that county to Miss Regina Vernon
Knorr, who was born March 20. 1831. in Columbia county, Pennsyhania. a
daughter of Peter and Lydia (Coher) Knorr. Her father represented one of
the old Pennsylvania-Dutch families, and was a son of John Knorr, wlm
resided in Columbia county among its earlj- settlers. Peter Knorr was ;i
farmer and blacksmith, and spent liis entire life in Cukunbia county. I'enn-
sylvania, where he died in the prime of life. His children were Louisa.
Angelina, Regina. Aaron, Elisha. Reuben and Joseph. After the death of
the father the mother married Solomon Zimmerman, a blacksmith, who
removed to Mercer county, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty years.

31S BIOGliAFHICAL AJ^'D GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

He was a member of the Swedenborgian church, and by his marriage to Mrs.
Knorr he had three children, — Mary F. , George and Stephen.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown began their domestic Hfe on his uncle's farm in
Howard county, and then came to Miami county, locating on their present
farm in October, 1851. Mr. Brown purchased a claim in Deer Creek town-
ship, on which a pre-emption log cabin had been built, but no other improve-
ments had been made. Now the farm is one of the best in the township.
In 1883 a tasteful and commodious two-story frame residence was erected, —
one of the most attractive homes in this part of the county; good barns have
been built, the latest improved machinery has been secured, and all the
accessories that go to make up the model farm are there found.

The home of our subject and his wife was blessed by the presence of
four children, as follows: Elizabeth A., Sarah A., Malissa J. and Miriam E.
The parents are leading and influential members of the United Brethren
church, contribute liberally to its support, take an active part in its work and
have assisted in building ten churches of different denominations in Indiana.
Since its organization Mr. Brown has always cast his ballot with the Repub-
lican party and keeps well informed on the issues of the day. His life has
been given to agricultural pursuits and success has crowned his efforts, mak-
ing him one of the substantial farmers of the county. For sixty years he has
been a witness of the growth and progress of Indiana, has aided in its devel-
opment and promoted its interests. Great changes have come in that period.
Roads have been made through the forests, trees have been replaced by
waving fields of grain, log cabins by stately and comfortable residences,
industries and commerce have been introduced and all the evidences of an
advanced civilization now indicate Indiana's claim to rank among the fore-
most states of our great Union.

r^DWIN S. GARDNER, of Logansport, is a passenger conductor on the
^ Pan Handle Railroad and has been a resident of this city for the past
twenty-nine years. He was one of the brave boys who donned the blue in
the troublous days of the early '60s, and who fought for the Union through-
out the whole of the Rebellion, the first part of his service being in the navy,
and he being one of the survivors of the naval battle in Hampton Roads.

Edwin Stanley Gardner is a native of New York. He was born in Cat-

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taraugus county, January 14, 1844, son o{ Daniel W. Gardner. The lattcr's
native place was Woodstock Green, \'ermont, whence, about 1830, he went
to New York state, where he became ;i prosperous farmer and prominent in
public affairs, filling public office with faithfulness and efficiency. He mar-
ried Miss Laura Crossfield, a lady of Irish-Canadian blood, who bore him
eight children, all of whom are still living. The father died in 1861 and the
mother in 1868.

The Gardners trace their origin to Scotland. They have, however, lung
been identified with America, the first of the family having emigrated to the
New World many years before the Revolution, in which war they were well
represented. George Gardner, the paternal grandfather of our subject,
served his country under General Washington, and afterward became a resi-
dent of the first state to be admitted into the Union.

Edwin S. Gardner attended the common schools and for two terms was
a student in an academy. I^efore he had completed his academic course
the war came on. and his spirit of patriotism urged him to enlist in his coun-
try's service. .\pril 19, 1S61. the day of the Baltimore riot, he enlisted in
the United States Navy, aboard the receiving-ship North Carolina, upon
which he remained until about the last of July of the same jear, when he
was transferred to the historic, ill-fated Cumberland. The Cumberland \\ as
one of the Federal squadron which was attacked in Hampton Roads on the
8th of March, 1862, by the first effective ironclad in the history of the world.
This rebel engine of destruction sailed out from Norfolk harbor on that nieni-
orable day and made for the Cumberland, moving right under the muzzles of
the latter's thirty guns, but the huge projectiles fired at her only glanced
harmlessly into the water. After sending four shots into the wooden ship,
the Merrimac, wishing to test her ram, steamed toward the Cumberland,
struck the vessel with sufficient force to sink her iron prow into the Cumber-
land's vitals, and she settled beneath the waves. At the moment the damage
to the Cumberland was inflicted and the sinking of the ship was apparent the
feelings of the seamen were indescribable.

Mr. Gardner was discharged from the service upon the loss of his ship,
and he returned home. On the ist of September, that same year, he en-
listed in the Ninth New York Heavy Dragoons and was transferred to the
Eleventh Army Corps' scouts, where he served until the close of the war.
These scouts were afterward known as the Army of the Potomac scouts.

320 niOGBAPHICJL .J.¥D GE.WEALOGIC.iL HISTOEY OF

Receiving an honorable discharge from the army in October, 1865, Mr.
■Gardner entered the service of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. In
1869 he came to Logansport in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company,
and has since made this city his home and has continued in railroad service.

He was married in June, 1892, to Miss Delia M. Kestler, and they have
•one child, Tokio Margarite.

Fraternall}^ he is identified with Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 66, both of Logansport.

OAMUELFRYE, one of the highly respected pioneer farmers of Cass
■*^ county, .Indiana, still maintains his residence upon the farm which he
entered as government land many years ago, when he came to Indiana a
young man. This homestead is located three miles from Royal Center, in
Boone township, and is one of the best farms in the locality. A rcsiivic of
Mr. Frye's life is herewith presented.

Samuel Frye was ushered into life on the 2d of October, 1824, in Frank-
lin county, Penns3lvania, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Frederick)
Frye, both natives of that place, he being the third in order of birth in a
family of ten children.

Andrew Frye, the grandfather of our subject, was a Virginian by birth.
He left the Old Dominion at an early day and established his home in Penn-
sylvania, where he reared a large family, several of his sons being partici-
pants in the war of 1 8 1 2 .

On his father's Penns\lvania farm Samuel Frye was born and reared,
remaining there until he was twenty-two. At that time his parents emigrated
ito Cass county, Indiana, and he accompanied them, the date of their settle-
ment here being in June, 1844. Young Frye selected a location in Boone
township and here entered one hundred and sixty acres of government land,
(paying for it at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and
here he has rounded out more than half a century of his life. Ail the build-
ings and improvements upon the farm have been placed here by him. A fair
•degree of prosperity has attended him throughout these years, and now in his
advanced age he is comfortably situated to enjoy life.

Mrs. Frye was formerly Miss Sarah J. Benson and is a native of Penn-

SAMUEL FRYE

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sylvania, born near Pittsburg. Her parents were John and Elizabeth (Gray)
Kenson, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Indiana and settled in Cass
county about the year 1834, beinj,' anu)nf;- the ori|,Hnal settlers of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Frye have had three children, vi2.: Mary, deceased; Alexan-
der, married and settled in life; and Liz/ie, at home.

In his political views Mr. Frye is stanchly arrayed with the Republican
party, of which he has been a supporter since its organization.

H.AKl-ilSOX H.\RL.\N'. a farmer residing on section twenty-three, Center
township, Howard counts, was burn in Fayette county, Indiana, on the
3d of August, 1S42, his parents being Enoch and Mary Ann (Honey wells)
Haiiaii. the former a native of South CaroHna, and the latter of Pennsyl-
vania. The paternal grandfather, Samuel I4arlan, was also born in South
Carolina, and became one of the ])ioneers of Fayette county, Indiana, locat-
ing upon a farm which he made his home until his death, which occurred in
his ninety-first year. He was a Democrat in politics, but all of his sons
espoused the cause of the Republican party. He had eleven sons and three
daughters. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Israel Honeywells,
was a native of one of the New England states and was a carpenter and
model-maker. He made the model that wove the first seamless sack and
possessed considerable genius along that line. His death occurred in Penn-
syhauia.

During his boyhood Enoch Harlan accompanied his parents on their
removal from South Carolina to Indiana, and was reared in Fayette county
where his father entered five (luarter-sections of land from the government.
There he grew to manhood, was married and located, spending his remaining
days in that county. His death occurred in 1851, at the age of thirty-two
years, and his wife, surviving him about two years, passed away at the same
age. She was a member of the Methodist church. To them were born
three children who reached years of maturity; Harrison: Judith, now
deceased; and James M., of Fayette county.

Harrison Harlan was reared in the county of his nativity, and attended
the subscription schools. His mother died when he was only eleven years
of age and he then began to earn his own livelihood. At the age of seven-
teen he began farming for himself, inheriting some property from his father's

322 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEjYEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

estate. He first operated the old homestead of two hundred and eighty
acres, and after about eight years came into possession of eighty-one acres
of that property. He afterward sold that and in 1881 came to Howard
county, where he purchased ninety-eight acres of land, to which he has
since added a tract of eighty acres. He has resided thereon continu-
ously since and has a well developed farm, adorned with substantial build-
ings, which stand in the midst of well tilled fields, divided into convenient
size by fences that are always in good repair. Everything about the place
is neat and thrifty in appearance, and the owner is accounted one of the
practical and progressive farmers of the community.

On the 9th of November, 1863, Mr. Harlan was united in marriage to
Miss Mary C. Corbin, daughter of William and Sarah Jane (Allen) Corbin.
Her parents and grandparents were pioneers of Fayette county, and for sev-
eral years her father conducted a sawmill in partnership with Elisha Cocke-
fair. He was also a singing teacher. In his family were four daughters:
Sarah F., who married John H. Stoops, but both are now deceased; Saman-
tha M., who died a few days before the seventeenth anniversary of her birth;
Serilda M., who died at the age of two years, just two days before her
father's death; and Mary Catherine. The father of this family died in July,
1843, at the age of thirty-one years, and Mrs. Corbin afterward became the
wife of Gilbert V. Thomas, who died about twenty years ago. They had
nine children: Dora; John; William; Melinda, wife, of Henry E. Edwards:
Alice, wife of Charles Maze; Ada, wife of Melvin Conaway; Ross B.; Maggie,
wife of Charles Newland, of Fayette county; and Harrison. The paternal
grandfather of Mrs. Harlan was Elijah Corbin, a native of Kentucky and of
English ancestry. He was a farmer, reared a large family, and died at an
advanced age. The maternal grandfather, John Allen, was also an agricult-
urist and one of the pioneers of Fayette county. He was numbered among
the first settlers of Connersville, aided in laying out that town, and conducted
a hotel there. Later he made his home in Franklin county, where he died
when past the prime of life. He was a justice of the peace for some years
in Franklin county, and a very prominent citizen. His wife was Fannie
Thompson, who survived him a number of years. They were both buried
on the old homestead in Franklin county, where they had long conducted a
hotel.

To Mr. and Mrs. Harlan were born six children: Mary E., wife of J.

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C. Jackson, b}- whom she has three children — Lena, Grace M. ami Russell
H.; Katie Maud, who died at the age of eight months; William 1£.. who is
yard and baggage master of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, in Kokomo,
and married Belle D. Corbin, by whom he has two sons: Russell B. and
Howard Harrison; John E., Charles M. and Sarah F. are at home.

In his political views Mr. Harlan is a Republican, and during the Civil
war he served for a few days with the troops who went forth to repulse
Morgan in his raid of the north. He is a genial, social gentleman, who looks
upon the bright side of life, and his uniform courtesy and kindness have
made him popular with all. He and his estimable wife are widely known
and their circle of friends is e.xtensive.

JAMES P. HENDERSON. — The character of a town or community
depends almost wholly upon the standing of its business men, — their
reliability, push and enterprise, integrity, and fidelity to contracts and agree-
ments, being, in most instances, a measure of the prosperity and growth of
the place. Logansport is especially fortunate in her citizens and men of
business, and among them no one is held in higher respect than is the gentle-
man whose name stands at the beginning of this article. He is a member of
the firm of J. W. Henderson & Sons, one of the old and well-known business
houses of this place.

The birth of James P. Henderson occurred in the pretty little town o:
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, November 24, 1844. His parents, Joseph and S. A. Hen-
derson, removed with their family to Cincinnati when James was about
a year old, and in that city he was reared to manhood. He obtained a lib-
eral education in the common schools of the period, and, being an apt pupi!.
made good progress in his studies. When he was a youth of fifteen year.-:
he entered a furniture establishment and learned the turner's trade and cab-
inet-making, as it was formerly exclusively termed. Since that time he has
devoted his whole attention and energies to this craft, and has made a dis-
tinct success in the vocation of his choice.

At the commencement of the war, James P. Henderson, thou in hi-;
eighteenth year, accompanied his father to Logansport, and started a furni-
ture factory. Under the wise management of the senior Henderson th-

324 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GEJfEALOOICAL HISTORY OF

business soon assumed large and promising proportions, and in 1866 the
present firm of J. W. Henderson & Sons was organized. Up to that time
our subject had been merely an employe, but had taken such an earnest
interest in the success of the enterprise that his father was glad to have him
become a partner and sharer in the now large profits of the business. For
several years he has had charge of the actual management of the factory,
from which are sold all grades of fine furniture to both the wholesale and
retail trades. Our subject thoroughly understands the needs and wishes of
the public in the matter of furniture, and may well be proud of the produc-
tions of his factory. His trade is widespread, orders being constantly received
from various middle states.

During his long residence in this city Mr. Henderson has gained the
good will and esteem of all with whom his business or social duties have
brought him into contact. He has alwa3's taken pride in the city of his
adoption and has used his inliuence in favor of local improvements. For
some years he has been a valued member of the Broadway Methodist Epis-
copal church, contributing liberally to its support. In his political attitude
he is a stanch and true Republican. Fraternally he is associated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks.

In 1869 Mr. Henderson married Miss Maria E. Haney, daughter of W.
W. Haney, then of this city, but since deceased. Mrs. Henderson was sum-
moned to the better land in 1870, leaving a large circle of friends and
acquaintances, who treasure her memory and often speak of her in loving
remembrance.

WILLIAM SIMS. — From the land of hills and heather came the original
American ancestors of our subject. The grandfather, William Sims,
served this country as a soldier in the war of 18 12, and made his home in
Maryland, where he spent his entire life and reared his three children —
Francis, Robert and William. The first named was the father of our sub-
ject, and was born in Maryland in 1805. He made farming his life work and
in early manhood chose as a companion and helpmeet on life's journey Miss
Sallie Turk, a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish descent. The children
born of this marriage were William, Robert, John, Eveline, Nancy and

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Sarah. The father removed from the state of his nativity to Pennsylvania,
subsequently went to Virginia and later to Belmont county, Ohio. About
1866 he went to Nodaway county, Missouri, where he passed the residue of
his life, dying at the age of seventy-five years.

William Sims, our subject, was born in Marylantl, August 30, 1834, and
when two years of age went with his parents to Pennsylvania. He was
about ten years of age when they removed to Ohio, and there he remained until
si.xteen years old, when he began steamboating, being employed in that way
on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers for two years. He next worked on the
Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad for one year, and when but nineteen years of
age came to Indiana, after which he spent two years at farm work on the
Eel river.

In Clay township, Miami county, in August, 1856, Mr. Sims was united
in marriage to Miss Salome Studebaker, a native of Ohio and a daughter of
William and Salome (Crull) Studebaker. Her father was of sturdy Pennsyl-
vania-Dutch stock and located in Cass county, Indiana, among its pioneer
settlers. In the fall of 1S54 he removed to Clay township, Miami county,
taking up his residence in the midst of the forest, where he cleared a consid-
erable tract of land and developed a good farm. He gave all his children
land which he had entered from the government, thus enabling them to make
a good start in life. He was a worthy and respected citizen, and died at the
advanced age of eighty-one years. His children were two sons and a daugh-
ter, — John, Henry and Salome.

At the time of his marriage Mr. Sims located on a tract of one hundred
and sixty acres about a mile from his present home. The land was in its
primitive condition, but he possessed the tenacity of purpose so characteristic
of the Scottish race, and never faltered in the work of clearing and develop-
ing the ground until it was all under a high state of cultivation. He has
since added to his landed possessions, which now aggregate three hundred
and twenty-nine acres, the farm being one of the finest in the locality. The
buildings are modern and substantial, the latest improved machinery is found
there, and all the accessories and conveniences of the model farm are in evi-
dence on the premises. He has always carried on agricultural pursuits with
the exception of a short period spent in Montana.

In 1864 he crossed the plains in company with Dr. Baldwin, Solomon
Bossard and Daniel Walters, the last named being afterward killed by a half-

326 BIOGRAPRICAL AMD GE.WEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

breed Indian. The party took three yoke of oxen, shipped them from Delphi,
Indiana, to St. Joseph, Missouri, and thence drove across the country to Vir-
ginia City, where they arrived on the 9th of August, 1864, having left St.
Joseph on the 15th of April. They encountered many Indians along the
way but had no trouble with them. They saw many buffaloes and other
large game and experienced many of the hardships incident to travel over the
plains in those days. For four years Mr. Sims engaged in gold-mining and
met with excellent success, bringing home with him the gold that enabled
him to get a good start in his agricultural work. He was in Virginia City
when the famous vigilance committee organized to enforce law and order,
and while he was there two men were hung; and he also saw a party of fifty
' ' vigilants " start on horseback to try a man.

To Mr. and Mrs. Sims have been born seven children: John, Philena,
Nancy, Nettie, Charles, George and Tilden. The family is one of promi-
nence in the community where they have so long made their home, and their
circle of friends is an extensive one. Mrs. Sims is a member of the German
Baptist church. Mr. Sims is a Democrat in his political affiliations, voting
for that party on matters of state and national importance, but at local elec-
tions, where no issue is involved, casts his ballot for the man whom he
regards as best qualified for office. His life record is that of a practical
business man, and, unclouded by shadow of wrong or dishonorable dealing,
it commends him to the confidence and regard of all.

TTON. NATHAN OLIN ROSS.— The annals of the legal profession of
* ^ Indiana would be incomplete were the history of this worthy member
of the bar omitted, for any reason. He is one of the pioneers of the state,
as well, and for almost sixty years has been a resident of Peru, Miami county.
During this period he has been actively engaged in the practice of law and
for a quarter of a century he has maintained an additional office in Logans-
port, where his business frequently calls him. Though now nearly eighty
years of age, his mind is as clear and keen as ever, and he is considered an
authority not only upon law and kindred topics but also upon the history of
this portion of the state.

The father of our subject was William O. Ross, a native of Connecticut

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and of Scotch extraction. In his young manhood he went to Kentuci<y,
where he met and married a pretty girl, lihzabeth Wilson by name. She was
a daughter of the " Blue-grass" state, but her father, Moses Wilson, was a
son of the Emerald Isle. In 1821 Willam O. Ross removed with his family
to Decatur county, Indiana, and settled upon a farm near Greensburg. For
that time he was well-educated, and after his arrival in the Hoosier state he
studied law and became more or less engaged in practice in the local courts.
He lived in several counties of this state ere he died, his last place of resi-
dence being in Wabash. To himself and first wife ten children were born,
and by his later marriage he had four children.

Hon. Nathan O. Ross, the eldest child in his father's large family, was
born in Boone county, Kentucky, September 14, 18 19. While he was a
mere boy the duties and cares of life began to rest heavily upon his youthful
shoulders and he was his father's main reliance. The lad had inherited a
strong desire for learning and a marked preference for legal affairs. When
he had exhausted the resources of the district schools he determined that he
would have something better in the way of an education, and, in proof of his
eagerness to attain his desire, we may cite the fact that he walked from his
father's house in La Porte to Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he became
enrolled as a student in Wabash College. The next two years were spent
by him in that institution, and at the end of that time, in 1838, he removed
with the family to a tract of wild land in the vicinity of the town of Wabash.
In order that their father might have his time to devote to the practice of
law, 3-oung Ross and his brothers set about clearing this property. In the
summer he worked on the larm and the following winter taught school for
one term. The second winter he split rails all day long, his task being two
hundred rails per day, and at night, by the aid of the bright glow of the hick-
ory-bark fire, he poured over such volumes of legal lore as his father pos-
sessed. As may be imagined, the young student, wearied by his long and
hard day's work, often fell asleep over his self-imposed task, but he persist-
ently clung to his idea of becoming a lawyer.

Judge Ross was licensed to practice in 1839. The first case that he
pleaded was that of a negro, his father being counsel for the opposite party, a
white man. The earnestness and eloquence of the young lawyer, together
with the justice of his side, won the suit for him. The same year he became
a permanent resident of Peru, Indiana, where he was greatly honored and

328 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

esteemed. In 1848 he was elected to the state legislature and again in 1865.
The following year he was the Democratic candidate for congress, his oppo-
nent being the late Hon. D. D. Pratt. He made a sturdy fight, but, as the
district had had a Republican majority of about four thousand votes in the
previous election, the matter was hopeless, as far as he was concerned, from
the first. Though he has always taken a warm interest in the success of the
Democratic party, he has not been a politician in the ordinary sense of the
term, but has given his chief attention to his professional duties. In 1873
he became counsel for the Pan Handle Railroad, a position he has since
continued to fill with ability. As frequent trips to the county-seat of Cass
county were thus necessitated, owing to its position on one of the divisions
of the road, he opened an office in Logansport, and is about as well and
favorably known in that city as in his home town.

In 1 841 the Judge married Miss Mary Minerva Ewing, who was summoned
to the silent land in 1875. Of the ten children who blessed their union, five
are still living. (See sketch of one of our subject's sons, George E. , printed
elsewhere in this work.) Since 1837 the Judge has been a member of the
Presbyterian church. Genial and sympathetic in nature, upright and honor-
able in all his actions, small wonder is it that his friends are innumerable,
and that his name is a synonym for noble Christian manhood among his
associates and acquaintances of a life-time.

GEORGE M. FORD, engaged in the pump business at No. 312 Fifth
street, Logansport, Indiana, is one of the energetic and up-to-date men
in his line. For eight years previous to his going into business for himself
he was in the employ of George Linton, of Logansport, in whose establish-
ment he learned the trade of pump-maker and became proficient in every-
thing that pertains to the business, putting in pumps, making repairs, han-
dling supplies, etc.; and since 1891 he has been doing a prosperous business
of his own.

Mr. Ford was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, March 29, 1853, and
is a son of William Ford. The latter was a native of the Buckeye state,
and was very young when, in the early part of the first half of the present
century, he emigrated to Indiana and settled on a farm in Kosciusko

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county, where he was siibseiiiiently inurrietl. He entered the federal service
during the war of the Kehellicm, died in the arm}-, and is buried at White-
side Farm, Tennessee. The mother of our subject, who was by maiden
name Miss EmeHne Claris, was born in Ohio, in [S32, daughter nf Jesse
Clark, and died in 1891.

The only surviving child of William and Eineline Ford is George M.,
who was reared on a farm, leaving it in 1S71 and removing to Logansport
with his mother. Here he was at first employeil in roof-painting, which
business he followed si.x seasons. .\t the end of that time he returned t(j the
farm and the next four years was engaged in agricultural pursuits. It wus at
the close of this period that he came again to Logansport and entered the
employ of George Linton, as above stated, with whom he remained until he
engaged in his present business.

Mr. Ford was married in Hel township, Cass county, Indiana, in Sep-
tember, 1876, to Alice M., daughter of Alexander Gray, and she died March
28, 1896, leaving no children.

JOHN E. SMITH. — Indians were still numerous in the neighborhood when
John E. Smith became a resident of Howard county, their village being
located about two miles from his present home, which is on section nine-
teen. Center township. The land was wild, forests still stood in their native
strength, and the work of progress and civilization seemed scarcely begun.
He has therefore witnessed the greater part of the growth and development
of the country.

Mr. Smith was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, near Crawfords-
ville, November 25, 1830, and is a son of Peter and Melinda (Elmorej Smith,
the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of North Carolina. Mrs.
Smith was a daughter of John Elmore, who was born in North Carolina and
was a pioneer of Montgomery county, where he reared his family and died at
the advanced age of eighty years. Peter Smith also carried on agricultural
pursuits and located in Montgomery county in the days of its early develop-
ment. He died in 1837 at the age of fifty years, and his wife died about ten
years later. Both were members of the Methodist church. After the death
of her first husband Mrs. Smith married Jefferson Mason, by whom she had

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two sons and one daughter, but Franklin Mason is the only one now living.
By her first marriage she had five sons: John E., Ephraim E., William E.,
Henry E. and Joseph. Only John E. and William E. are now living.

The subject of this review remained in the county of his nativity until
fifteen years of age, and for three months in the year pursued his studies in
the subscription schools of the neighborhood. He was bound out to his
uncle, William B. Smith, the oldest resident of Howard county, and lived
with him for six years, when, having attained his majority, he started out in
life for himself. He had a good suit of clothes and five dollars in money,
and from his father's estate he received five hundred dollars. With this he
began business on his own account. With the five hundred dollars he pur-
chased eighty acres of land in Harrison township, Howard county, four miles
from Kokomo.

In 1853 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Minerva Ellen Canine,
daughter of Cornelius and Dosie (Vanise) Canine. They began their domestic
life upon her father's farm, where they resided for sixteen years, Mr. Smith
caring for her parents until their death. He then purchased the old farm in
Montgomery county, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, paying for it sev-
enty-five dollars per acre. A year later he sold it for eighty dollars per acre,
cash. In 1867 he returned to Howard county, and in order to educate his
children made his home in Kokomo for a time, there engaging in the grocery
business for three years. In 1868 he purchased his present farm, two miles
northeast of the courthouse, containing two hundred and forty acres of land,
which he has placed under a high state of cultivation. He also owns a
number of lots in the north part of Kokomo. Throughout the greater part
of his life he has carried on farming and stock-raising, and the enterprise
and energy which are so characteristic of the man have brought him very
gratifying success.

To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born four sons and five daughters,
one of whom died in infancy. The others are Mary Melins and William, who
died of diphtheria in childhood; Annie A., widow of J. M. Jessup, who died in
1889, leaving two children, Elsie and Earl; Joseph H., who married Minnie
Lewis and has one son, Clyde; Alice A., who became the wife of James
Short, by whom she had one child, Ruby, and after his death became the
wife of Frank Lightfoot, by whom she has one child, Frank M., who resides
at home and operates the farm; Mary Josephine, wife of Daniel Smith, by

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whom she has one child, William; Isaac Newton, of Kokomo, who married
Maud Benson and has one child, Merl.

The parents are faithful members of the Presbyterian church, and since
iS6o Mr. Smith has been a member of the Odd Fellows society. He has
tilled all the chairs in the subordinate lodge and also belongs to the encamp-
ment and to the national lodge. In politics he is a Democrat in his support
of national and state issues, but at local elections, where no issue is involved,
he votes for the man whom he believes best fitted for office, regardless of
party affiliations. He has never sought or desired office, preferring that his
energies shall be devoted to his business interests, and his honorable dealing
and unabating industry have brought him a handsome property.

P)ETER GLASSBURX.— One of the tine farms of Clay township, Miami
* county, comprising o\ er three hundred acres of rich and arable land, is
the property of Peter Glassburn, who for a half century has resided in this
locality. He located amidst the green woods and a log cabin was his first
home. Now he has a commodious and substantial residence, near by are
good barns and other outbuildings, and these in turn are surrounded by
waving fields of grain which indicate the thrift and enterprise of the owner.
The work of developing and improving the farm has all been performed by
the owner, who ranks among the practical and progressive agriculturists of
the county.

Mr. Glassburn was born near Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia,
on the 19th of April, 18:21, a son of Frederick and Mary (Persinger) Glass-
burn. The Glassburns were of German lineage and through more than a
century the family has resided in America. The first of the name to cross
the Atlantic was David Glassburn, the grandfather of our subject, who left
his native land to try his fortune in the New World, and located in Alle-
ghany county. He was married there to a lady of Irish birth, and then gave
his attention to agricultural pursuits. Their children were: David, John.
George, Samuel, Peter. Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel and Frederick. The
grandfather was one of the heroes who fought for the independence of the
nation, and three of his sons, Peter, Samuel and George, served their coun-
trv in the war of 18 12. The first named was wounded in battle and his death

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resulted therefrom, and William Glassburn was in a battle with the Indians
at Point Pleasant, Virginia, where he was shot through the body. He lived
to the extreme old age of one hundred and twelve years, and our subject
remembers seeing the scar of his wound.

Also a native of Alleghany county, Virginia, Frederick Glassburn, the
father of our subject, followed farming as a life work. Near his childhood's
home he married Miss Mary Persinger, who was born in Botetourt county,
Virginia, a daughter of Andrew Persinger, who was of German descent, and
carried on farming among the hills of the Old Dominion. He lived to be
more than eighty years of age, and his children were Zebulon, Martin,
Aaron and Mary. About 1834 Frederick Glassburn removed to Johnson
county, Indiana, and cast his lot with its pioneer settlers, making his home
there until his death, which occurred when he was of the age of about sixty
years. He had seven children, namely: Samuel, Andrew, David, Peter,
Joseph, Ellen and Martha.

The educational privileges afforded Peter Glassburn in his youth were
somewhat meager. In his early boyhood he accompanied his parents to
Indiana, the first location being made in Hamilton county, whence they
removed to Johnson county. He shared with the family in all the hardships
and privations of pioneer life and assisted in the arduous task of developing
new land and transforming it into a good farm, but this proved of practical ben-
efit to him when he began farming on his own account. For a time he carried
on agricultural pursuits in Johnson county, and in 1850 settled on his present
farm in Miami county, which he had located in May, 1848, — a tract of eighty
acres covered with a dense growth of timber. One by one the trees were cut
down, fields were plowed and crops planted. As his financial resources
increased he extended the boundaries of his land until his farm now comprises
more than three hundred acres. All this has been accumulated through his
own efforts, and it required very earnest, persistent work to hew the farm
out of the forest and add to his possessions until he won a place among the
substantial citizens of the county. He not only cleared away the trees and
plowed the virgin soil, but also mauled the rails for his first fence and carried
on the work of improvement in many other directions. He has always been
a lover of the forest, keenly appreciative of its beauty, and still has upon his
farm a fine body of native timber which he "keeps to look at."

Mr. Glassburn was married in Johnson county to Miss Catharine Bishop,

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who was born in Alleghanj- county, X'irginia, in 1827, a daiiglitur of Abra-
ham and Mary Bishop, also natives of the same state, whence they removed
to Johnson county, Indiana, at an early day. There the father developed a
good farm and made his home until his death, which occurred at the age of
eighty-two years. His children were Henry, Catharine, Margaret, Rebecca,
Sarah, Mary, Harriet, Nancy and Emeline. Four children graced the union
of Mr. and Mrs. Glassburn: Alfred, Mary A., Minerva and Jasper.

In his political views Mr. Glassburn is a Democrat and bimetalist. He
served as constable of his township from 1855 until 1876 and was a most
efificient officer, as is indicated by his long term of service. He is a man of
sterling worth, whose word is as good as his bond, and his fidelity to duty in
every relation of life is one of his marked characteristics. Through his long
residence in the county, he has witnessed much of its growth and develop-
ment and well deserves mention among the honored pioneers whose depth of
character and resolution in facing the hardships of pioneer life have been
the means that have placed Indiana among the foremost of her sister states
of the Union.

DAVID DARLAND was born on the farm on which he now lives, in Jack-
son township, Cass count)-, Indiana, November 13, 1856. His father,
Samuel Darland, a native of Ohio, was born in the year 1825. Coming over
into Indiana, he located first in Clinton county and about 1854 removed to
Cass county and settled on this land, which he had purchased from the gov-
ernment about 1848, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Here he
made a little clearing amid the heavy timber and in true pioneer style built
his one-room cabin, which for a time served them for a home, its location
being on the site of the present farm residence. Here he reared his family
and devoted his energies to the clearing and cultivation of his land. .\ public-
spirited and enterprising man, he helped to lay out and build the roads and
organize the school districts, build school-houses, etc., in his township. He
died in 1879. He and his wife, lu'c Elizabeth Clarke, were the parents of
five children namely: Martha A., David, John H., William R. and Albert.
David Darland has spent his whole life on the farm above referred to.
His early education was received in a log school-house; he assisted his father
in conducting the farming operations, and after his father's death took entire

334 BIOGBAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

charge of the farm, which comprises one hundred and forty acres and is now
owned by our subject and his brother, William R.

A Democrat in politics, Mr. Darland has for several years shown con-
siderable interest in local affairs, and has been honored with official position.
He was in 1890 elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of township
trustee of Jackson township, and served as such five years. Also he has been
road supervisor and filled other minor offices.

ADAM REIIMBOLT. — Among the faithful and trusted employes of the
Pan Handle Railroad Company is found the subject of this sketch,
Adam Reimbolt, an engineer on the Chicago division, with headquarters at
Logansport.

He is a native of Ohio and is of German descent, his birth having occurred
at Tiffin April 15, 1853, and his father, Frank Reimbolt, being a native of the
province of Alsace. Alsace at the time of his birth was a part of the French
nation, that being in 1822. In 1834, a boy of eleven years, he landed in
America and located at Tiffin, Ohio, where he grew up and was married, the
lad}' of his choice being Miss Catherine Hoot. They became the parents of
ten children, viz.: Michael, a blacksmith of Toledo, Ohio; Henry, a carpen-
ter of Bascom, Ohio; Joseph, a stationary engineer, is a resident of Wiscon-
sin; Frank, whose present whereabouts are unknown, was a Union soldier in
the Civil war; John, a blacksmith of Toledo, Ohio; Adam, whose name
heads this sketch; George, of Tiffin, Ohio; Christ, of Fostoria, Ohio; Jacob,
who is a resident of New Riegel, Ohio; and Barbara, the wife of Mart Blazer,
of Seneca county, Ohio. Frank Reimbolt has reared his children to habits
of industry on his farm near Tiffin and taught them the principles of honesty
and integrity. He was a plain farmer who lived well and who enjoyed the
confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. He died in 1 889.

Adam Reimbolt, the immediate subject of this review, saw little or noth-
ing of the home fireside or of the school-room after he was fifteen years old.
At that age he hired to a man by the name of Martin Luce, to feed cattle at
twenty dollars a month. He remained with this employer, in the neighbor-
hood of Henpeck, Ohio, for two years, when he decided to try army life.
Accordingly he enlisted in the Nineteenth Regiment, United States regulars.

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which was stationed in the soiitli ninst of the time during his term o[
enhstmeiit, beiiis at New Orleans. ICast Mississippi, and at Fort liliiott in
the Indian Territory. Tiiis fort Mr. Keimboit helped to build, and it was
there that his term of enlistment expired and that he received his dischar.i^e.

Ivcturning from the army, Mr. Keimboit spent three months at his Ohio
home and came thence to I.oi^ansport, which has since been his home. He
secured work on the farm of John Seybold for six months and spent the next
six months hauling logs for George Burkhart. He was three years in the
employ of Isaac Himmelberger, then the most e.xtensive lumlier manufact-
urer in Cass county, and the year 1879 he spent in getting out staves. In
1880 Mr. Reimbolt began his railroad career as a fireman on the Pan Handle,
and continued to do duty in that capacit\- for six years, two months and
eleven days. He was then promoted to the position of engineer, and has
since had charge of an engine in the freigiit service. He is a member i>f the
Brotherhood of Locornotixe Engineers.

Mr. Reimbolt was married in Logansport, November 22. 1SS5, to So-
phronia, daughter of Charles Reneau. Their children are Clara H., Claude
L. , Leo F. and Lenora J.

TOHN H. KAILSBACK, of Logansport, while yet comparatively a young
*-' man, is, however, one of the oldest in point of continuous service on
the Pan Handle Railway at this point. He is a native of Indiana, born
in Richmond, Wayne county, (ktober 15, 1854, the son of one of the early
pioneers of that count)'.

David Railsback, his father, was for many years a prcjminent man in
Wayne county as a distiller, farmer and florist. He was born in North Car-
olina in 1S09, and belonged to a <_)uaker settlement that came out of the
Carolinas very early in the history of the state of Indiana and settled in
Wayne county, where he was subsequently married to Mary .A. Smith, of
Kentucky birth, who is still a resident of Richmond. He died at that place
in 1882. Their family was reared in the \icinity of Kichmond, and of their
five surviving children, John H., tlie subject of this sketch, is the eldest.

John H. Railsback did his first day's work for the Pan Handle Company
in March, 1S72, when he began as a brakenian from Logansport. He was

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promoted to the position of baggagjeman and then to that of passenger con-
ductor, and has run all sorts of trains and on all divisions out of Logansport,
but for some years has been assigned to the Cincinnati division. His pro-
motion from time to time and his long continued service for the company
are ample evidence of his faithfulness and his popularity. Fraternal!}' Mr.
Railsback is identified with the Masonic order and the Order of Railway
Coi'.ductors.

Mr. Railsback has a pleasant home and an interesting family. He was
married in Logansport, December 23, 1886, to Miss Kate Schaumleffel, a
descendant of German ancestors, and their children are Nettie and Helen.

a /I .\RVIN S. LANE, No. 366 West Sixth street, Peru, Indiana, has been
•^ ' * a resident of this city for twenty-two years and is now serving his eighth
year as a member of the city council, representing the fourth ward.

Mr. I^ane is a native of Miami county, Indiana, born in Erie township,
April 4, 1850, a son of William W. Lane, whose settlement in this county
was in 1S42. William W. Lane was born in Ontario county, New York, in
1 8 JO, and was a son of William Lane, who was born in Schoharie county,
that state. He was a son of William Lane, who emigrated to Ontario county.
New York, when the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was thirteen
years of age. There the latter grew to manhood and married, and in 1832
removed with his family to Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Of their nine children
nearly all became early settlers of Miami county, the sons being William W.,
David Benton, Marvin and Peter, and the sisters, Phcebe, Laura and Lucy.
Later several of them took up their residences elsewhere, but it is supposed
that all have passed away e.\cept Peter, who was born in 181 2 and who is a
resident of Peru. William W. Lane came to Wabash county, Indiana, and
went thence to Grant county, where he married Miss Mary Ann Cole, daugh-
ter of Joseph Cole, who was born in New Jersey and removed to Ohio with
her parents and thence to Grant county. Joseph Cole was a farmer by occu-
pation. After marriage he lived for a time in Grant county and subsequently
moved from there to Miami county. In 1858 he removed to Cass county
and in 1861 returned to Miami county, where he made his home until 1876.
That year he settled in Wabash county, where he passed the residue of his

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life, dying in iSS6. He \va<a suldior \i\ the war of the Rebellion, enlisting
in 1.S63 and serving neaily two years, in the Twelfth Regiment, Indiana Cav-
alry. The wife and mother survives her husband and is a resident of Wabash
count}'. They became the jiarents of ten children, those who are now living
being as follows; William, the eldest, who ser\ed in the same regiment with
ills lather, is now a resident of the state of Oregon; Marvin S., whose name
forms the heading of this article, is the second in order of birth; James, a
resident of Wabash county; Sarah, wife (jf fames Arnistrong, Miami county;
Ada. wife of Andrew Kudisal; Geneva, wife of Benjamin Bannister, of
Wabash count}-; and Edward, also a resident of Wabash coimt}'. The
<iereased members of the famil}- are Viola, Alice and Charles.

.\Iar\in S. Lane, as stated above, was born in Miami count}-, and made
tile several changes of residence as indicated by the removal of the family.
He was edu-^ated in the public schools and taught ten terms of school, and
\\-;ls for a time engaged (or the Chicago publishing house of Hugh Heron, in
the sale of a publication in \\'isconsin. He has been employed at the Lake
Erie ^: Western Railway shops since 1S81, and as foreman since 1883.

Mr. Lane was maried in Peru, June 26, 1881, to Miss Jennie Drunim,
daui;hter of William Drumm, of this city, and they have two children; ."Knna,
born July 8, 1883; and Hazel, February 7, 18S5.

Mr. Lane is-identified with the Miami County Loan & Savings Associa-
tion, which he helped to organize, and of which he has since been a director.
Politically, he is a Republican. As already stated, he is a member of the
cit\ council, to which he has been elected from time to time to represent
the fourth ward, and at this writing he is chairman of the fire committee.
Mrs. Lane and daughters are members of the Baptist church, at Peru.

.•\s has been seen, Mr. Lane is a representative of one of those pioneer
families that more than half a century ago settled in what was then a com-
parative wilderness, and who amid privations unknown to the present gener-
ation laid the foundation and made possible the privileges of civilized life
now enjoyed by their children and children's children.

DR. JOHN E. YARLING, a rising ytung physician of Peru who deserves
mention in this biographical work, was born at Shelbyville, Indiana,
Dec-iiber 25, 1868, a son of George and Mary E. (Pickett) Yarling, and he

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was ten years of age when he lost his father by death : his mother passed
away in 1886. The Yarlings were of German ancestry.

Dr. Yarling was educated at the Danville (Indiana) Normal School, and
from 1888 to 1894 was engaged in the occupation of teaching. During the
last four years of his pedagogical career he was principal of the graded school
at Cynthiana, Indiana. In the meantime he pursued the study of medicine,
and he at length graduated at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati,
April 19, 1897. The native talent which this young physician evinces in-
sures him a rise in his chosen profession.

In politics he is a Democrat, in fraternal relations a Freemason, and in
religion he is a member of the First Baptist church of Peru.

Dr. Yarling is one of six surviving members of his father's family. His
brother, William .\., is an attorney at ShelbyviUe, this state; Burnett is a
merchant of that place; Mary is the wife of Dr. Joseph Bowlby, also of Shel-
byviUe; Zora is the wife of Walter Hungerford, a farmer of Shelby county;
and Emma, who is now wife of Otto Billman, a farmer near ShelbyviUe.

13 ARNHART LEARNER.— Probably the oldest living resident of Howard
*-^ county is Barnhart Learner, who resides on section twenty-six, Howard
township, and was born in Baden, Germany, near the Rhine, May 5, 1808.
His parents, Martine and Mary (Freiiin) Learner, were both natives of Wur-
temberg, Germany, and the father was a cooper by trade. He died in
Baden, at the age of eighty years, and his wife passed away at the age of
seventy. They were meinbers of the Catholic church. They had nine chil-
dren, five sons and four daughters, namely: George, John, Joseph, Barn-
hart, Reimmond, Mattalien, Anna Maria, Marian and Catharine.

The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch was reared in the
land of his birth, and acquired his education there, but his school privileges
were rather meager. When a boy his father bound him out to learn boot
and shoe making, paying the man to whom he was apprenticed to instruct
his son in that pursuit. He served for two and a half years, and in 1832
crossed the Atlantic to .\merica, working for a time at his trade in Philadel-
phia, after which he went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he remained
for five years as a journeyman.

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On the 31st of December. 1835, Banihart Learner married Catharine
Huitter, daughter of George and Elizabeth Huitter, and they became parents
of eight children: Elizabeth. Mary. Julia. Catharine, George, Emanu(;l, H.
Franklin and John Wesley.

Finally leaving Pennsylvania, Mr. Learner went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he left his family while he started out on a prospecting tour in search
of a home. He went to Dayton, Ohio, first and then to Germantown, Indi-
ana, where he worked at his trade for three years. On the expiration of that
period he purchased a distillery, which he operated for eighteen months, but,
owing to the hard times and the trickery of those who pretended to be his
friends, he lost all that he had. He then went to Marion, Indiana, and later
to Broad Ripple, where he again worked at shoe-making. In 1841 he came
to Howard county, where he pre-empted one hundred and sixty-eight acres
of land, upon which he has since made his home, devoting his energies to
farming and stock-raising. In 1850 he made a trip to California with his
neighbor, Ephriam Bates, who raised a company for that purpose. They
made the journey with ox teams, and si.\ months were consumed before the
completion of the trip.

Mr. Learner remained in California two years, and met with only fair
success. In 1852 he returned to his Indiana farm and while making his way
to his home met an old neighbor, Nathaniel Lindsay, of whom he asked for
news concerning his family, and learned for the first time that his wife was
dead. Their log cabin had caught fire and Mrs. Learner, who went outside
to extinguish the flames in the lath and mud chimney, met her death by
the chimney falling upon her. This left Mr. Learner with a family ol
motherless children. His old neighbor, Mr. Bates, with whom he went to
California, had died in Sacramento, of cholera, leaving a widow with five
children, Jane, Matilda, Anna, William and Aaron. In 1853 Mr. Learner
married Mrs. Bates, the children all joyfully agreeing to the marriage, and
the union proved a very happy one. Mrs. Learner died in 1897, at the age
of eighty-seven years. She was a member of the Methodist church. Mr.
Learner was a Catholic in early life and his first wife was a Lutheran, and
each, without the other's knowledge, joined the Methodist church on the
same day, wishing to break the news to the other as a surprise, and thus
they were happily united in one religious faith. In his political views Mr.
Learner was formerly a Whig and is now a Republican. In his business

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interests he has been very successful, and at one time was the owner of more
than five hundred acres of land, but has given much of this to his children.
He still, however, retains possession of the old homestead together with
some other property, and on the old farm has resided for half a century.
His life span covers ninety years, and throughout this long period his ster-
ling worth has ever commanded the respect of all men and made him a most
worthy citizen of the community.

WILLIAM P. CHICK. — P""or more than a third of a century William P.
Chick has resided on the farm in Jackson township, Cass county,
which is now his home, and unaided has placed one hundred acres of the
quarter section which he owns under a high state of cultivation. The well
tilled fields and substantial improvements on the place indicate his busy life,
and to-day he is numbered among the substantial and highly respected citi-
zens of his community.

Mr. Chick was born in Gallia county, Ohio, on the i6th of March, 1825,
and when four years old accompanied his father on his removal to Scioto
county, Ohio, where he remained until seventeen years of age. He acquired
his education in a log school-house of primitive construction, furnished with
slab seats, and therein mastered the common English branches of learning.
At the age of seventeen he began life for himself by working as a farm hand
hy the month. Leaving the parental roof he went down the Ohio river to
Missouri and remained in that state for five years, chopping wood in the
lumber regions and working on a farm. On the expiration of that period he
returned to Ohio, where he engaged in farming until 1854.

In that year Mr. Chick came to Cass county, Indiana, making the jour-
ney by team and locating in Tipton township near Walton, where he pur-
chased sixty acres of wild land. He developed that farm and made his home
thereon until the fall of 1863, when he removed to his present farm, which
he had purchased in the spring of 1854. It was a tract of one hundred and
sixty acres of canal land, heavily covered with timber, wild and unimproved.
•Only about one acre had been cleared, but with characteristic energy Mr.
Chick began its development, and soon acre after acre was placed under the
plow. The rich soil yielded good harvests in return for the seed planted,

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and by the careful nlal)a.^'eIllelU of his business interests and the utmost fair-
ness in all trade transactions, the owner has become one of the substantial
farmers of the conmmnity. His tirst home was a lojj cabin of three rooms,
but in 1886 it was replaced by a more modern ami commodious residence.

Mrs. Chick, who has been to her luisl),iiid a faithful companion and help-
meet on the journey of life, bore the maiden name of Mary A. Shope, and'
by her marriage she became the mother of three children, but one died in.
infancy and James A. died at the age of hve \ears. Nancy E., the daughter,
is now the wife of John Shope. Mr. riiicl< has resided in Cass county for
forty-four years, and has not only been an eye witness of much of its growth
and development but has also bnrne his part therein. He aided in laying
out the roads in his section of the county, and has largely advanced the agri-
cultural interests of the community which have added greatly to the general
prosperity and progress. He is highly esteemed for his many excellencies
of character and his worth is widely recoLMiized.

ANDREW J. PHELPS, late of Miami county, Indiana, was born in Lewis
county. New York, November Ji, 1S36, son of Bissell and Margaret
(Louks) Phelps. This branch of the Phelps family in America trace their
history to New England, their founder having come to this country from Eng-
land in colonial days. Bissell Phelps was a sou of Noah and Ruth Phelps
and was born in Lewis county. New York, March:!/, 1S04, was reared to farm
life and received for that time a good education. He married, in Herkimer
county, New York, Margaret Louks, a native of that county and a repre-
sentative of an old Holland-Dutch famih that settled in New York at an
early day. The children of Bissell and Margaret Phelps were Andrew J.,
Charles, Margaret and Caroline. In the spring of 1853 Bissell Phelps came
to this state and settled on eighty acres in the woods in Clay township,
Miami county, where he passed the rest of his life and where he died April
4, 1898, at the ripe old age of ninety-three years and eight days. He
cleared and placed his land under cultivation. He took an interest in all that
pertained to the welfare of his locality, and he lived to see the wonderful
development which has transformed this part of Indiana from a wilderness
to a well cultivated farming district .

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Andrew J. Phelps was about seventeen years old when he came with his
parents to Indiana. Previous to this time he had had good educational advan-
tages and had graduated in an academy in his native state and after coming to
Indiana he engaged in school-teaching. For ten years he taught in Miami
county, chiefly in Clay and Deer Creek townships, and for nineteen years he
served as township trustee. He was a great student. His reading covered a
wide field and his love for books led him to accumulate a large and well selected
library, the best library in the county, outside of Peru. After his marriage he
purchased eighty acres of the farm now occupied by his widow and family,
having earned every dollar of the purchase money by school-teaching. The
improvements on this place at the time he bought it consisted of a log cabin
and four acres of cleared land. He carried forward the work of clearing
and cultivating, and as the years passed by and prosperity attended his efforts
he purchased other land until his farm contained three hundred acres, and
in 1884 he built a modern and commodious residence which has since been
occupied by his family and where the surroundings give evidence of culture
and refinement as well as prosperity. For a number of years Mr. Phelps
was largely interested in the stock and dairy business, and the dairy business
is still carried on here by his sons, their herd numbering about thirty milch
cows.

Mr. Phelps was married in Deer Creek township, Miami county,
December 21, 1869, to Miss Caroline Wyrick, who was born in De Kalb
county, Indiana, February 8, 1844, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Fegley)
Wyrick. Jacob Wyrick was a son of Martin and Ruth Wyrick, the former a
native of Maryland and the latter of North Carolina. At an early day
Martin Wyrick removed to Montgomery county, Ohio, and improved a farm
where now stands the city of Dayton. Both he and his wife were of English
origin. Their children were Jacob, Maggie and Sarah. The father died in
middle life and the mother lived to be ninety-six years old. Both were
members of the Baptist church.

Jacob Wyrick, the father of Mrs. Phelps, was born in Montgomery county
Ohio, and was reared on his father's frontier farm. He married Mary Fegley,
daughter of John and Catherine Fegley. After marriage they settled on the
old Wyrick homestead and remained there until November, 1837, when they
removed to Indiana and took up their abode in De Kalb county, their loca-
tion being on one hundred and sixty acres of timber land, to the development

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and cultivation of which he devoted his energies. It was on this farm that
Mrs. Phelps was born. He continued farming at this place until late in life,
when he retired. He died at the residence of his son William, in Steuben
county, this state, at the age of eighty-two years. To him and his wife were
born the following named children : Drusilla, Joseph, Julia, Rebecca, Susan,
Elizabeth, Caroline, Herman, Wood, Edmund and William. Mr. Wyrick was
a member of the United Brethren church.

Mr. and Mrs. Phelps became the parents o{ five children, — tieorge H.,
Frank, Albert J., Thomas and Nelson. George B. is a graduate of Amboy
Academy and the other children are in school, having the advantage of both
good schools and a refined home. Mrs. Phelps is a member of the United
Brethren church, and Mr. Phelps, while not a member of any church organ-
ization, was a liberal supporter of churches. He donated the ground on
which the United Brethren church is built and contributed liberally toward the
erection of the building. He died August i, 1897.

MARK WALLACE, Logansport.— Among the trustworthy and popular
passenger engineers of the Pan Handle Railway Company who make
their daily runs from and to Logansport, none perhaps are more worth}'
of personal mention in this work than the subject of this sketch, Mark
Wallace.

Mr. Wallace is an Irishman and possesses all of the sterling character-
istics which have brought his countrymen to the front in the New World.
He was born in county Wexford, Ireland, December 5, 1848, son of John
and Ellen (Mahoney) Wallace, the former a butcher by trade. Of the five
children composing the Wallace family, Mark is the only survi\ing son and
the only ofte of the five that came to America. He may be said to have
begun life at the age of fourteen, when he started out as a farm hand in his
native county. Although he had ample employment at fair wages from time
to time till he came of age, he had not accumulated more than sufficient to pay
his passage to the United States. He was induced to come to this country
by the presence of friends at that time in Logansport, Indiana, and came t'/<?
Castle Garden, in 1869, landing in this city with less than a dollar in his
pocket. His first job was as a section man. This he discarded after six

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months for the more promising and remunerative position of " wiper " in the
Pan Handle round-house. He went from the round-house to the blacksmith
shop, as a helper, and in 1872 was placed on an engine as a fireman. His
work was satisfactory and his promotion to the position of engineer catne in
the ordinary course of events. In 1876 he was given a switch engine in the
Chicago yard and ran it till 1879, when he went out on the road. He
remained in the freight service till 1893, when he was promoted to the pas-
senger service, running on the north end of the Chicago division.

In November, 1874, Mr. Wallace was married, in Chicago, to Miss
Mary Farrell, and they have six children, namely: Annie, John A., Will-
iam, Thomas, Mary and Charles. John A. is a shop clerk in the employ of
the Pan Handle.

Mr. Wallace is an active member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, has been chief engineer in the order and is now its first assist-
ant chief.

WILLIAM H. SELLERS. — For many years an active factor in the busi-
ness life of Kokomo, Mr. Sellers is now living retired, for his former
toil through many years brought to him a capital that now enables him to
put aside the more arduous duties of life. He comes from an old Kentucky
family of Scotch descent, and his grandfather, Robert Sellers, born in that
state, spent his entire life there, following the occupation of farming. He
had four sons and three daughters, which family included Joseph Sellers,
father of our subject. He, too, was born in Kentucky and prepared for the
bar, becoming a well known lawyer. In early life he removed to Preble
county, Ohio, where he married Miss Elizabeth Ward, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, and a daughter of Samuel Ward, who was born in the Keystone state,
and was of German descent. He devoted his life to agricultural pursuits,
and emigrating westward located on a farm in Pulaski county, Indiana, at
an early day. His death occurred there at the age of seventy-five years.

In 1827 Joseph Sellers removed to Logansport, Indiana, and for a num-
ber of years resided on a farm near that city, at the same time practicing law
in the county seat. About 1848 he took up his residence in Logansport,
where he continued in the active and successful practice of his profession until
he had attained a ripe old age. He died in that city in 1882, when about

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eightj'-six years of aj^e, and liis wife passed away in 1886, at the same aj^e.
She was a member of the Christian rlmrch, and Mr. Sellers was a n-f^Milar
attendant on its services and always contributed liberally to the support of
the church. Before the war of the Rebellion he served as a member of the
I^ogansport city council for a number of years and was also justiceof the peace
several years. He took an active part in public affairs and was a leader in
thought and action. When a boy of about fifteen years he joined the Amer-
ican arm}', then engaged in its second war with Great Britain, the war of 18 13,
and throughout his life, like a loyal soldier, he discharged the duties and obli-
gations that rested upon him. He had twelve children, eight sons and four
daughters, of whom five are now living: Morris L. ; Joseph S., of Logans-
port; William H. ; Henry C, of Kokoino; and Irene, wife of William M.
Kreider, of Logansport.

William H. Sellers was born near Logansport, Cass county, February
28, 1836, and resided on the home farm until twelve years of age, when his
parents removed to the city. He attended the district schools of the coun-
try, the public schools of the town, and at the age of sixteen began learning
the machinist's trade, serving a tour-years apprenticeship. On the expira-
tion of that period he went to Camden, Preble county, Ohio, where he
engaged in clerking in a dry-goods store for his uncle, William Pottenger, for
ten years. In 1863 he responded to the call of his country for aid, and
joined the •■ bo)-s in blue " of Company E, One Himdred and Fifty-sixth Ohio
Infantry, being one of six brothers in the army.

After the war Mr. Sellers came to Kokc*rno, September 28, 1865, with a
stock of boots and shoes, but sold his store ten months later and followed
carpentering until 1873, when he joined his brother, Henry C, in the estab-
lishment of a grocery store, which they conducted for twenty years, the jiart-
nership being dissolved in 1S93. In 1882 our subject was elected county
auditor and filled that position for four years. In 1886, in company with
Oscar Henderson, A. Y. Comstock, F. M. DuVall and James W. Parker, he
formed an electric-light comp:iny and was made president of the corporation,
ably managing its affairs until 1892, when he sold his interest. Since then
he has lived practically retired, although he is still president of the Ki)koma
Loan and Savings Association. In companj- with his wife, he spent the
winter of 1894 in California.

On the 1 8th of January, 1866, Mr. Sellers married Miss Cecelia Shaffer,

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daughter of Samuel and Augusta (Widdikenj Shaffer. They are members of
the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Sellers has served as elder for thirty years.
He belongs to Thomas |. Harrison Post, No. 30, G. A. R. , and is a stanch
Republican in politics, warmly interested in his party, to which he gives an
intelligent support, being well informed on the issues of the day. In 1874-5
he represented the fourth ward in the city council and is now chairman of
the Republican central committee of Howard county. He is a man of marked
prominence in political, business, church and social circles, and has been an
important factor in the substantial growth and development of the city. His
influence has always been felt for good, and over the record of his life there
falls no shadow of wrong to darken his fair fame.

JOHN S. LENHART, one of the leading business men of Peru, has been
a resident here for nearly forty years, and for the past twenty-four years
has been identified with the furniture and undertaking business. Since 189©
his sons have been members of the firm, the business name now being John
:S. Lenhart & Sons.

Mr. Lenhart, whose name introduces this brief sketch, is a native of the
Buckeye state, born in Mahoning county, near North Lima, March 22,
1830, a son of Jacob and Lydia (Sprenkle) Lenhart. He received his educa-
tion in the pioneer schools, all of which throughout the pioneer west were
kept in cheap log houses and furnished with slab benches and an abecedarian
for a teacher; and all the time that he could attend amounted to about one
month each winter till he was eighteen years of age. Reared to the hard and
monotonous work of the pioneer farm in the woods, he was inured to all
those habits of industry and economy that are necessary to success through-
out life. At the age of eighteen years he began to learn the carpenter's
trade, and at the age of twenty he made a slight change by drifting into the
trade of cabirjet-making, in which he completed his practical knowledge at
Findlay, Ohio, being employed there for three years. Then he found em-
ployment at his trade at several places, as Gilboa seven years, Lima, Ohio,
Coldwater and other places in Michigan, LaPorte, Indiana, Lima again for
two and a half years, and in 1859 came to Peru, this state, where he has
since remained. His present business he established in 1874, and in this he

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ami his sons have loii^ bt-un ilri\ iiij; a prosperous trade. They carry a large
stock and in all the nioiierii styles, are reliable in their representation of
goods and are accomplished funeral directors.

December 22. 1857, Mr. l^enhart was united in matrimony with Miss
Ellen E. Sparks, of Meadviile, Pennsylvania, who was born April 19, 1839.
a daughter of Andrew and Mercy Marilla Sparks. Mrs. Lenhart is the third
in a family of six, all deceased except one sister, Mrs. Susie Mann, of Chi-
cago. Mr. and Mrs. Lenhart have had six children, namely: Charles H. is
a traveling salesman residing in Chicago; William F. is present coroner of
Miami county, elected in 1896, and is giving satisfaction to all parties in the
execution of the duties of the oiTice; E. M., who died at the age of two
years; Francis, who died an infant; Mary A. and Margaret B.

Mr. Lenhart is a member of the Catholic church and in his political
views is a Democrat. He has been a member of the city council for eight
years, stands high in the estimation of his fellow citizens and is a useful
member of the community.

Jacob Lenhart, his father, was a nati\e of the Keystone state, of the old
standard Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, was a farmer of York county and a
member of the German Baptist church. He moved to Mahoning count} .
Ohio, where he located upon a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He
moved to Hancock count\ , that state, in 1849. and in 1859 to Putnam
county, same state, and purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land
where he became a substantial farmer. He departed this life in August, 1864,
a devoted Christian and a man of sterling worth, greatly esteemed by the
-entire community. His children were Harriett, George, Jacob (deceased),
Henry and David (twins), Peter, Catherine. John. Lydia, Reuben, Martha,
William, Anna and Jonas. Mrs. Lenhart, the mother of these children,
closed her useful life in 1867 in Putnam county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-
seven years. All the memories of her character are very tender in the minds
all that ever knew her.

HON. MARCUS W. COLLETT.— A prominent farmer who in the polit-
ical and public affairs of Cass county has gained distinctive precedence
is Marcus W. Collett, an honored citizen of Bethlehem township. The study
of the life of the representative American never fails to offer much of pleas-

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ing interest and valuable instruction, developing a mastering of expedients
which has brought about most wonderful results. The subject of this review
is a most worthy representative of that type of American character and of
that progressive spirit which is always alive to the best interests of the com-
munity, doing much for the general welfare and public good.

Mr. Collett is a native of Miami county, Indiana, born near Mexico, on
the 6th of February, 1847. His father, William Collett, was born in Mary-
land November 18, 1817, and in early manhood emigrated to Ohio, making
the journey by wagon and camping along the roadside at night. After a
short period spent in the Buckeye state, he removed to Miami county, Indiana,
in 1845, becoming one of the early settlers of that locality. With the work
of development and advancement he was prominently identified, especially
in the line of placing its wild land under cultivation. He married Susannah
Coler, who was born November 14, 1823, in Montgomery county, Ohio, and
they became the parents of four children: Nancy Jane, now deceased; Eliz-
abeth A., widow of Edward Mason, and a resident of Dayton, Ohio; Marcus
W. ; and Susannah, who resides in Dayton, Ohio. The mother of this fam-
ily died March 26, 1850, and the father afterward married again. His death
occurred June 6, 1878, in the sixty-first year of his age.

On his father's farm Marcus W. Collett was reared to manhood,
and was early trained to habits of industr}- and enterprise, which have
proved valuable factors in his business career. He followed the plow as
soon as old enough to make a straight furrow, assisted in the work of
harvesting the crops and early became familiar with the other duties that
fall to the lot of the agriculturist, so that when he entered upon his busi-
ness career he was well fitted therefor by practical experience. His educa-
tional privileges were somewhat litnite<i. He attended the country schools
to some extent during his youth, but that he is now a man of broad general
information is due less to their discipline than to the fact that he possesses
an observing eye and retentive memory, so tiiat in the business and public
affairs of life he has gained a knowledge that the school-room did not yield.
He worked uninterruptedly on the home farm until 1S64, when, prompted by
a spirit of patriotism, he enlisted in his country's service. He was then only
seventeen years of age, but his loyalty and valor equaled that of many a
time-tried veteran. As a member of the First Indiana Light Artillery he
saw some hard service with the Sixteenth Army Corps and participated in

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one hotly contested en-aj;enieiit after the surrender of Lcc, before news of
snch surrender had reached his connnand, wliich was then stationed at
Mnl,ile.

\Mien hostiUties had ceased and the coinitry no lonf^er needed his serv-
ices. Mr. CoUett n'tumed to liis home with an honorable military record,
and resumed the quiet pursuits of civil life on the old home farm. There he
remained for two years, when he was married and went to a home of his
own. He wedded Sarah A. Stroud, who was born in Cass county, August
31, 1849. a daughter of William and Rebecca (Richardson) Stroud. Mr.
Collett then determined to follow some other pursuit than that to which he
had been reared, and for three or four years was engaged in the hardware
trade, but ultimately resumed the work of the farm. He purchased his pres-
ent property in 1S81 and has snice made it his home. It was then but par-
tially improved, eighty acres having been cleared. He cleared one hundred
and seventy acres additional and now has a valuable property of a half sec-
tion, the greater part of which is under a high state of cultivation, the rich
fields yielding to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care and labor
bestowed upon them. He leases different fields, which are cultivated under
his supervision, and in addition to his general farming labors, he handles
some stock, making a .specialty of r.heep-raising. He owns some registered
Shropshires and belongs to the Shropshire Association.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Collett has been blessed with five children,
namely: Grace C, who was born June 25. 1870; William S.. a fireman on
the Pan Handle Railroad, living at Logansport, who was born March 21,
1872, and married Bertie Buchanan, by whom he has one son, Milton;
Blanch Z., who was born Jul}' 9, 1874, and is the wife of Walter Mabin, of
Logansport; Charlie C, born November 8, 1879; and Walter, who was born
September 20, 1880, and died in early life.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Collett is a Mason, having been a member
of Orient Lodge, of Logansport. for twenty-six years. He also belongs to
the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics is a stalwart Republican,
casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He is popular in the
ranks of his party and is one of its recognized leaders. He served for two
terms as trustee, and for two years was chairman of the county central com-
mittee, during which time his sound judgment and keen discrimination were
manifest in his wise management of the party movements and his able plan-

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ning of the campaign. Kis advice carries weight in the councils of his party,
and his efforts met recognition when, in 1894, he was nominated for the posi-
tion of state senator. Elected to that office he proved an active and influential
member on the floor of the upper house, and in the first session was a member
of the committee on military affairs and chairman of the committee on coun-
ties and townships. In the second session he was chairman of the committee
on benevolent institutions, and gave to his duties the utmost care and con-
sideration, laboring earnestly for the best interests of the state. When mat-
ters of public moment came up for settlement, deliberation marked his course,
and his action was guided by a sincere devotion to the public welfare.

Mr. Collett is a member of the Presbyterian church and assists in every
good work. Success has crowned his efforts in business life, and he con-
tributes liberally of his means to the support of all measures which are calcu-
lated to benefit his fellow men. He is genial in manner, kindlj' in disposi-
tion, cheerful in temperament and has the warm regard of all with whom he
has come in contact. His life also demonstrates the possibilities that are
■ ipen to young men of energy and ambition, for through his own unaided
efforts he has worked his way upward to a position of affluence.

ISAAC N. CORY, the pioneer poultry and game dealer of Logansport, has
for twenty years maintained an establishment that has been a valuable
adjunct to the commercial interests of this city.

Mr. Cory was born in Cass county, Indiana, April 29, 1839, a son of
early settlers of this locality. Nathan Cory, his father, was a native of Ross
county, Ohio, and a descendant of English ancestry. He came over into
Indiana early in the '30s and settled in Cass county, where he engaged in
farmmg and where he passed the rest of his life and died. His wife, whose
maiden name was Miss Maria Corbett, was a daughter of Joseph Corbett,
and of the four children born to them only two are now living: Jane, widow
of Pendergrass Shumaker, a resident of Chicago; and Isaac N., the subject
iif this review.

On his father's farm in Cass county Isaac N. Cory was reared. When
quite young he learned the trade of painter, under the instructions of George
E. Adams, in Logansport, and after completing his trade he was a journey-

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man workniaii in this cit,\ an.i m Adrian, Mirln,t;an. an.i ClHllirotiic, Ohi...
Ketiirninj,' to Logansport ttoni ()liio, lie scttlcii liow ii licic to a new business,
tliat of butchering, which lie followed (or ten years, and from which he drifted
into the poultry, hide and game business, and for the past twenty years he has
dealt in these products. He has been and is an extensive shipper, and has
not only been instrumental in sustaining and stimulating the raising of poul-
try, on a paying basis, but also has enjoyed a measure of prosperity himself
that has placed him among the substantial men of the city.

Mr. Cory is a veteran of the Civil war. He enlisted in the fall of 1.S62,
in Company G, Seventy-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and v\as in the
battles of PerryviUe, Richmond and .Mmfreesboro. .After the last named
battle he was taken sick, and on acccjunl of sickness was unable to do further
service and was honorably discharged.

In October, i,S6o, Mr. Cory was married, in Logansport, to .Mi.ss l-:ii/a-
beth Tyner, daughter of Richarif Tyner, wIkj came to Indiana irum Mary-
land. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Cory is Harry, who, although a young
man, has had a wide experience in travel, having been a member of the
company composing Col. W. F. Cody's "WiKl West Show," and basing
traversed Europe during the journeyings of that attiaction through many oi
the nations of the Old World. He enlisted in April, 1S9S, in Captain Ben-
der's company, under the volunteer act, for service in the war between the
United States and Spain.

JOSEPH MARTIN ELLIOTT, of Logansport, Indiana, popularly known
as " Mart" Elliott, is one of the best horse-shoers of this city, and has
resided here since 1870. As one of the representative citizens of Logar.s-
port, it is fitting that S(jme personal mention of him be made in this work.

Mr. Elliott was born on his father's farm in Harrison township, C'ass
county, Indiana, January 13, 1853, son of Joseph and Martha (Lincoln)
Elliott, who came to Cass county from Tippecanoe county, this state, about
1S50. Joseph Elliott was a native of North Carolina, born in 1801, son of
an Irishman; and at an earl\- day came north and settled in Darke comity,
Ohio, where he married Miss Martha, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, an uncle
of the martyred president. Joseph Elliott died on his farm in 1853, and his
widow died a number oi years ago. Of their twelve children Joseph M. is

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the youngest. Those surviving of this large family are as follows: Alfred,
a prominent farmer of Cass county: Ambrose, who is also a farmer; Bcnja-
inin, of Bangor, North Dakota; Mary, wife of Jam.=s De Wese, of Marion,
Indiana; Elias and Eliza, twins, the former a farmer of Cass county, and
the latter the wife of William Anderson, of Frederick, South Dakota; and
Joseph Martin, whose name heads this article.

Joseph M. Elliott passed his boyhood days not unlike those of other
fariiiLT boys whose parents are in moderate circumstances, and at the age of
sixteen began to learn the trade of blacksmith under the instructions of Add
Massena, whose shop was located in the neighborhood of the Elliott farm.
Later he worked for John Jackson, now the popular liveryman on Sixth
street, Logansport, and with this gentleman completed his trade. He came
to Logansport in 1870 and went to work as a blacksmith for Fred Busjahn,
the father of Dr. Busjahn, of this city. In 1873 he opened a shop of his
own on Wall street, later moved to Court street, where he was in business
for twenty years, and thence, in 1896, he came to his present location on
Third street, having at that time purchased the property he now occupies.
He IS an expert at his business and is well known as the leading blacksmith
of the city.

Mr. Elliott was married March 14, 1877, to Miss Priscilla Castle,
daiighter of Thomas Castle, of Harrison township, this county. They have
three children living, namely,-^ Blanche, Harry and George.

Mr. Elliott is a Republican in his political views, and was nominated for
for sheriff by that party in June, 1898. He is a member of the Masonic
ord;-r, — of Tipton Lodge at Logansport; of the Knights of Pythias and of the
uniformed rank of the same; also of the Elks, Lodge No. 66, Logansport,
and of the Foresters of the same place.

WALTER W. COLES, proprietor of Maple Hill Rose farm. No. 299
East Jefferson street, Kokomo, Indiana, is a florist who has won name
and fame in this state. His history is that of a self-made man and is of
interest in this connection.

Walter W. Coles was born in Somersetshire, England, May 22, 1857, son
•of Henry and Mary|i](Binding) Coles, both natives of England, and he was the

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eldest of :i family uf li\e children, his brothers and sisters being as follows:
Emily, wife of Charles f^urns, Somersetshire, England; James; Albert V-\ and
Kli/a M.,wife of Henry Duddy, of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. The father of
this family is a shoe dealer in Somersetshire. The mother died in 1890.

Joseph Coles, the grandfather of onr subject, lived and died in England,
at the time of death being ab:)ut fifty-live or sixty years of age. By trid.; he
was brick mason. He was the father of a large family. The Bindings were
also English people. (Grandfather Binding died at about the age of seventy
years and Graiidinother Binding was eiglity at the time of her death.

Walter \\'. Coles, to whose life history we now wis'i to call attention,
grew up in his natixe land and at an early age became an apprentice to a
nurseryman. He has made this business his life study. In 1880 he came to
.\merica, and the two years following his arri\al here he was employed in
nurseries in New York and New Jersey. At the end of that time he rented a
gruenliouse at Clavniont, Delaware, which he conducted five years, meeting
with prosperity. Then, in partnership with a Mr. ^^'hitely, he purchased
property at Landsdowne, a suburb of Philadelphia, and built a greenhouse,
and tof^ether they did business until 1S91, under the firm name of Coles &
\Vhitel\-. In 1881 Mr. Coles sold out to his partner and that same year
came to Indiana, locating at Kokomo and establishing his present greenhouse
and Horal gardens.

The first year of his residence in Kokomo Mr. Coles built the elegant
brick house which has since been his home, the grounds around which com-
prise twehe acres. At another place he has eight acres. Ever since he
engaged in business he has given special attention to roses, growing the
finest and rarest that can be produced, and as an exhibitor of roses he has
become famous. lie had four e.xhibits at the World's Fair, at Chicago, in
1893, two of which received first premium, and one a medal; and this, too,
against the strongest competition. \\. other- exhibits he has recei\ed many
premiums. He has shown at Indianapolis every year since he came to Indi-
ana, and has never come away without bringing premiums. He was pres-
ident of the Society of Indiana Florists for the years 1894 and 1895.

Mr. Coles has a wife and four children. He was married September
5, 1882, to Miss M. Jennie Graham, and their children are Lincoln .A., S.
Blanche, Mable L. and .\nnie Elsie.

His parents being members of the Protestant Episcopal church, Mr. Coles

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was reared in that faith and both he and his wife are Episcopahans, but at
Kokomo they attend the Congregational church. He is a member of numer-
ous fraternal organizations and in not a few of them is prominent and active.
In the Masonic order he has been a recipient of all the degrees up to and
including those of the Knight Templar, and maintains membership in How-
ard Lodge, No. 93, F. & A. M. ; Kokomo Chapter, R. A. M. ; Kokomo
Council, R. & S. M. ; and Kokomo Commandery, K. T. He is also a member
of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and both he and his wife have
membership in the Order of the Eastern Star and the Ben Hur society. He
was a charter member of the Philadelphia Florists' Club, and since coming
west has been made an honorary member of that club. He is also a char-
ter member of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticult-
urists, and at this writing is a member of its executive committee; he is
also a member of the American Carnation Societ}-. His political views are
in harmony with the Republican party.

pROFESSOR F. M. SPRAKER.— The history of Logansport would be
^ incomplete without mention of Francis Marion Spraker, who for eighteen
years has been prominently identified with her educational interests. The
position which America occupies among the nations of the world is attributa-
ble to her educational institutions, ^^'hat other country provides such excel-
lent school privileges for the youths of the land, thereby fitting them for the
practical and important duties of life and pre()aring them for the heavy
responsibilities that come as man wins advancement in the \arious callings
of life.'' The schools of Logansport take high rank among those of the state,
and their position is attributable in no small measure to the progressive
efforts of Professor Spraker, who is now occupying the position of special
teacher of Latin in the high school of the city.

Indiana numbers him among her distiu'^uished sons who have conferred
honor and dignity upon the mother state. He was born in Decatur county,
this state, on the 6th of February, 1850, and is a son of Daniel Spraker, a
farmer, who was born in West Virginia. His immediate ancestors were
German,, and the family was founded in \'irginia. Daniel Spraker, who was
born in 1824, died in 1880. He wedded Mary, daughter of John Miller, who

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was also of C'.eriiiiui parenta^'e, and her death occiined in 1894. Two chil-
dren of the family survixe; Francis \I,, of this review; and John S. , a farmer
of Howard county, Indiana.

Reared on a farm in the counts of his nativity. Professor Spraker
aci]uired his pre]iminar\ education in the district schools of the neighbor-
hood, and at the aj;e of eighteen years began teaching in a country school in
Howard county. From the beginning he manifested special aptitude in thi.-;
line of work and his career has been one of distinctive preferment. On
completing his first school he entered Hartsville University, where he con-
tinued his education for a year and then matriculated in the State Univer-
sity, at Bloomington, being graduated in the class of 1878. On leaving that
institution he accepted the position of principal of the schools of Sardinia,
Decatur county, and during his two years incmnbency in that office demon-
strated his particular ability as an instructor and his efficiency in school man-
agement. He was then offered a position in the schools of Logansport and
was appointed to the principalship of the north-side school in 1880. Two
years later he was transferred to the west-side school, where he remained
for two years, after which he temporarily retired from the school-room and
for two years was engaged in the grocery- business in Logansport. He is still
financially interested in the enterprise, being the senior member of the well-
known firm of Spraker & McCord. Upon resuming his professional labors he
was appointed to the position of teacher of mathematics in the high school,
and two years later was made principal of the high school, acting in that
capacity until the new high-school building was erected, or for a period ol
three years, when he was assigned to the department of languages as special
teacher of Latin.

Professor Spraker ranks among the leading educators of the state. He
is an excellent disciplinarian and has the somewhat rare power of impartini:
readily and clearly to others the knowledge he has actjuired. These quali-
ties, combined with his strong mentalit)' and broad general scholarship, have
made him especially proficient \\\ educational work and won him prestige as
a representative of the profession in Indiana. He is connected with several
associations for the mutual impro\ement of the teachers of the state, belongs
to the State Teachers' Association, the Northern Indiana Teachers' Associa--
tion and for one year served as president of the high-school section of the
first mentioned organization. Socially he is connected with the Royal Area-

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num. He is also an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of
Logansport, and is secretary of its official board. His scholarly attainments,
his varied mental culture, his broad humanitarian spirit, his genial manner
and uniform courtesy have gained for him the sincere respect of the commu-
nity in which he ranks as an honored and influential citizen.

WILLIAM H. REISER, ex-member of the city council from the third
ward, Logansport, Indiana, and one of the business men of this city,
has resided here since 1867.

Mr. Keiser is a native of Perry county, Pennsylvania, born April 8, 1844,
son of John and Sarah (Dale) Keiser, and one of a family of ten children —
live sons and five daughters. In the town of Duncannon in his native county-
he grew to manhood, and in the shop of Washington Dunkle, the village
blacksmith, he learned his trade. While he was yet a boy the Civil war
broke out, and in 1S62, at the age of eighteen, he tendered his services to
the Union cause, joining Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Penn-
sylvania Volunteers, and served in the First Brigade, First Division, First
Corps, Army of the Potomac, under General John T. Reynolds. He was in
the battles of Fredericksburg, South Mountain and Chancellorsville, and was
honorably discharged just before the battle of Gettysburg. His anxiety,
however, to see the last named battle caused him to hasten in the direction
of the battle-ground, and being still in full private's uniform was taken pris-
oner at Carlisle, but succeeded in making his escape. His army service
covered ten months.

In 1867 Mr. Keiser deserted the scenes of his childhood and made his
way westward to Logansport. Here he formed a partnership with Arthur
Finegan and opened a blacksmith and horse-shoeing shop. Later, upon the
dissolution of this firm, Mr. Keiser associated himself with Milton Crane,
with whom he was in business two years. During the past eighteen years
Mr. Keiser has done business under his own name. He located his place of
business on the banks of the Wabash when he first "pitched his tent " in
Logansport, and the only change which has occurred in the appearance of
his grounds is caused by the new building he erected in 1881.

Recently Mr. Keiser has engaged also in the manufacture of brick, his

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location bein^' at the oki Johnston brick-yard. This Liitcrprise is one i>f miuh
importance not only to liitnself but also to tht? city.

Politically Mr. Keiser is a Republican, interested and active in pLiblic
affairs and especially those of a local nature. He was in 1894 elected to the
city council from his ward, and duriuy; his term of ser\ice he was nn tlic
ordinance, hre, electric-lij^ht. printinjj; and sewer committees, and was chair-
man of the last named committee, and at present he is chairman of the park
committee. Also he is at present on the street, electric-lii;ht, sewer and
printing committees.

Fraternally our subject is identified with Odd Fellowship. He has
passed the chairs in both the subordinate and encampment lodges and has
represented his lodge in the grand lodge, I. O. O. F., of Indiana.

Mr. Keiser has a wife and (oin- children. He was married in Duncaii-
non, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1869, to Harriet 1>. Wilson, and their children
in order of birth are as follows: Jesse; Jennie, wife of Milo Ford; Willard, a
sergeant in the signal corps No. 14, of the United States; and Marion.

TJENRYM. MALLOW.— The Mallow family are of German extraction
^ ■* and trace their history in this country back to colonial days in the " Old
Dominion." The subject of this sketch, Henry M. Mallow, was born in
Alleghany county, Virginia, June 22, 1825, son of George and Catherine
(Tresslerj Mallow. His grandfather, Michael Mallow, was the son of a Rev-
olutionary soldier, and both were Virginians by birth. Michael Mallow and
his wife were the parents of Michael, Jacob, John and George. The records
show that Michael Mallow died and is buried in Alleghany county. He was
a man of the highest integrity, was a member of the Lutheran church, and
had the respect and esteem of all who knew him. His son George, the father
of Henry M., was born in Alleghany county, in December, 1787, and was a
participant in the war of 1812. He married in his native county, Catherine
Tressler, daughter of Peter Tressler. Several generations of the Tressler
family were born in Alleghany county. Peter Tressler was twice married,
the children by his first wife being Henry, John, Michael and Catherine.
By his second wife the children were Jacob, George, Michael. He died in
his native state, an aged man.

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In the fall of 1834 George Mallow came west with his family and set-
tled in Johnson county, Indiana, on a tract of partially improved land which
he purchased from the man who had entered it from the government. Here
he passed the rest of his days in honest toil, and died on his farm, at the age of
ninety-three years. He was a typical pioneer. In his religious views he
Avas a Universalist. He read the Bible thoroughly and he was broad and
liberal in his views. Politically, he was a Jacksonian Democrat and in all
matters pertaining to the public welfare he took a lively interest. He held
the office of justice of the peace eight years in Virginia and for five years
filled the same office after coming to Indiana. The children of this worthy
pioneer, in order of birth, are William H., Elizabeth, George A., Juliette A.,
Islartha J., Henry M., Catherine and Maria.

Henry M. Mallow was about ten years old when he accompanied his
parents on their removal to Indiana, — just the age to appreciate the novelty
of such a trip. Their journey to this state was made by means of horses and
wagons — two four-horse wagons — and about a month was consumed on the
way. The children walked and rode by turns. They camped by the road-
side wherever night overtook them and pitched their tent, sleeping, however,
in their wagons. Arrived in Johnson county, they settled on a frontier farm,
as already recorded. In the log cabin school-house of the neighborhood
Henry M. received his education, and in early life he learned the black-
smith trade.

Mr. Mallow married, September 9, 1849, in Johnson county, Miss
Catherine Brunnemer, like himself a native of Alleghany county, Virginia,
the date of her birth being February 9, 1825. Her parents were Peter and
Elizabeth (Bishop) Brunnemer, and her father traced his ancestry to Ger-
many, but his people had for years been residents of Virginia. He moved
to Johnson county, Indiana, about 1835, and improved a farm there. Later
he moved to Howard and thence to Miami county, and at the latter place
his wife died. He returned to Johnson county and died there. Their chil-
dren are Moses, William, Catherine, John, Jeremiah, David, Margaret and
Elizabeth.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mallow settled in Johnson county on land
his father had given him, consisting of eighty acres partly cleared, and to it
he subsequently added by the purchase of ten adjoining acres. He contin-
ued to reside here until 1870, when he removed to Clay township, Miami

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county, and bouf;ht two hundred and forty acres of land that had l)C(jn
slight!}- improved. The work of rlearinj^, cultivating and building was car-
ried forward by him. He erected a brick residence, of two stories, and
made various other improvements, and in time his farm ranked with the
best in the locality. Here his wife cfied March 12, 1889. She was a mem-
ber of the Methodist church, while he is a Universalist. Politicall\-, he is a
Democrat. In all matters, religious, political and otherwise, he has done
his own thinking and takes a pride in keeping posted and up with the times.
As a citizen of sterling worth, he has the confidence and respect of all who
know him.

His children are si.\ in number, viz.: Emily A., Martha ]., MaryC,
Sarah E., William M. and Margaret M.

HOWARD E. HENDERSON, managing editor of the Kokomo Dispatch,
is a representative of a prominent Indiana family and is himself well
known throughout the counts .

The Kokomo Dispatch, of the publication of which he is the manager,
was established in 1870 by his father. Dr. John F. Henderson, a prominent
politician in Democratic ranks, and it has always been a Democratic organ.
Dr. Henderson named it the Kokomo Radical Democrat. In 1875 he turned
it over to his sons, John O. and Howard E., who changed the name and who
have since conducted it. Up to 1S90 it was issued as a weekly publication.
That year they erected a new building, enlarging their plant, and have since
published the paper semi-weekly and daily. The daily Kokomo Dispatch is
now a publication too well known throughout Indiana to need comment
here.

Howard E. Henderson was born in New London, Indiana, December
22, 1849, one of the seven children of Dr. John F. and Cynthia A. (Whitson)
Henderson, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Indiana. Five of this
family are now living, namely: Dr. G. L. , Kansas City, Missouri: John O.,
Indianapolis; Howard E. ; Dr. Ernest L., Kansas City, Missouri; and William
F., Kokomo. The father came to Indiana in early life, settling first in Dayton,
later in New London, and coming from the latter place to Kokomo in the
spring of i86i, the day of his removal hither being that on which Ft. Sumter

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was fired upon. Kokomo continued to be his home the rest of his Hfe and he
died here at the age of sixty-eight years. His widow still survives him and
is a resident of this city. During the Civil war Dr. Henderson was surgeon
of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he rendered val-
iant service, and after the war he continued the practice of medicine and also
ran a drug store and had other commercial interests, including a large lumber
business. And, as above indicated, he was prominent in the councils of the
Democratic party. He was the candidate of his party for state senator and
also for congress, but was not on the winning side in this district.

Amos Henderson, the grandfather of Howard E., was a native of Penn-
sylvania, of Scotch and English descent, and was an inn-keeper in Dayton,
Indiana, during the pioneer days of that place. He was a soldier in the war
of 1812, lived to the advanced age of eighty years, and died in Dayton.
Grandfather Whitson was a wealthy farmer of Tippecanoe county, Indiana.
He also died in Dayton.

Howard E. Henderson was eleven years old when he came with his par-
ents to Kokomo, where he was reared and received his early education.
After completing his studies in the public schools of I\okomo, he entered
Asbury (now De Pauw) University, where he was a student until 1872.
That year he became associated with his father in the newspaper business,
and since 1875 he has occupied his present position, that of managing editor
of the above named publication.

Mr. Henderson resides in the pleasant home he built in 1880, its loca-
tion being No. 47 East Sycamore street. He was married in 1870 to Miss
Belle Williams, daughter of Rev. Thomas \^'illianlS, a pioneer Methodist
preacher of Indiana, with headquarters at Rushville. The fruits of this union
are three children, viz. : Frank, who is associated with his father in the
newspaper office; Oscar Leander, who died in infancy; and Eva. Mr. Hen-
derson's mother is a Methodist, he married a Methodist, and he himself is iden-
tified with the Methodist Episcopal church. He maintains fraternal relations
with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. His college
fraternity is the Delta Kappa Epsilon.

In concluding this sketch we take pleasure in referring to the life history
of Mr. Henderson's brother, John Oscar Henderson, who is known through-
out Indiana both as a state official and as a journalist, he having been asso-
ciated, as already stated, with his brother Howard E., in the newspaper

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business since 1875. Fur many years he was editorial writer for the Dis-
patch, and his editorials were lar,L;els' inslniniental in securinj^ him the posi-
tion of state anditor, which position he held two terms, — from 1892 to 1896,
His home since 1892 has been in Indianapolis. He married Miss Mary
George, danghter of W. W. (leorge, of Kokcjmo.

SAMUEL N. BO\\LAXD.— It is always interesting to watch from the
beginning the growth and development of a locality, to note the lines
along which marked progress has been made and to take cognizance of those
whose leadership in the work of advancement and improvement have made
possible the present prosperity of the locality nnder consideration. Samnel
N. Rowland, of this review, is one of tlujse who have seen almost the entire
growth of Miami county, for more than a half century ago he cast his lot
with its pioneers. He has alscj been an important factor in its continued
progress toward the vanguard of cisilization, and his name is therefore indel-
ibly engraved on its history and well deserves a place in the record cf the
representative men. He reached Peru in April, 1849, and has since been
associated with its agricultural interests. He was born in Perry county,
Ohio, September iS, iS::4, and is of Irish lineage. His parents were .\\e\-
ander and Susan (Tamsyj Bowland, the former a native of Kentucky,
whence he removed to Perry countv, Ohio, where, in the midst of the green
woods, he cleared a tract of land and developed a good farm. Subsequently
he removed to Seneca county, Ohio, about 1830, and purchased one hundred
and sixty acres si.\ miles south of Tiffin. The cultivation of that farm
claimed his energies until his death, which occurred in the seventy-third
year of his age. In religious faith he was a Baptist, and in politics a Demo-
crat. He had seven children, namely: John C. , William T., Samuel N.,
Absalom A., David, Eleanor and Elizabeth.

In the district schools near his home Samuel N. Bowland acquired his
education, but his privileges were somewhat meager owing to the primitive
condition of the schools on the frontier and to the fact that his services were
needed on the homestead. His training at farm labor was not meager, for
he began work in the fields almost as soon as old enough to handle the plow.
Having arrived at vears of maturity he chose as a companion and helpmeet
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Seneca count}', Ohio, about 1845. The lady was a native of that count}'
and a daughter of David and Susan Wagner, the former a pioneer settler of
Seneca county and a native of Pennsylvania, representing one of the old
Pennsylvania-Dutch families. He owned one hundred and sixty acres of
land, became a well-to-do farmer and gave to all of his ten children eighty
acres of land each. His political views were in harmony with the principles
of Democracy. Faithful to truth and duty he commanded the respect of all,
and at his death left many friends to mourn his loss. His children were
Jacob, Daniel, George, Polly, Nancy, Betsey, Sallie, Anna, Elizabeth and
Catharine.

Mr. and Mrs. Bowland spent the first two years of their married life in
Seneca county, Ohio, and then came to the farm in Clay township, Miami
county, on which our subject now resides. It was then a tract of timber
land on which the trees grew in such density that some had to be cut down
in order to make room on which to erect their log-cabin. Mr. Bowland pur-
chased this land of his father, who had entered it from the government. He
at once began to clear it and when the trees were cut down the plow soon
turned the furrows and seeds were planted for the coming harvest. It re-
quires the most earnest and indefatigable labor to develop a good farm, and
with unremitting zeal Mr. Bowland prosecuted his labors until he was the
owner of more than five hundred acres of rich land, the greater part under
cultivation and well improved. He has since given each of his children an
eighty-acre tract, retaining possession of one hundred acres for his immediate
use. He was ably assisted in all his efforts by his wife, who frequently
worked in the clearing and in the fields by the side of her husband, to whom
she proved a helpmeet indeed. The substantial brick residence was erected
in 1856 and many excellent improvements have been made, adding to the
value and attractive appearance of the place.

In 1888 Mrs. Bowland was called to her final rest, and her death was
•deeply mourned, for she had many sincere friends who entertained for her
the highest regard. She left five children, David, William, James, Samuel
and Susan T. The sons, like their father, are stalwart Democrats, and sup-
ported Colonel W. J. Bryan for the presidency. In all business matters Mr.
Bowland is discriminating, sagacious and diligent, and his careful manage-
ment and industry have unlocked for him the portals of success and brought
out some of its rich treasures.

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ISAAC HIMMELBERGliK.— For in. .re than three decades this .uentlenian
* has been a resident of Loj^ansport, Indiana, and all these years has
figured prominentl}' as an enterprising and public-spirited man, both as a
private citizen and as an official winning the confidence and esteem of iiis
fellows.

Mr. Himmelberger is of Pennsylvania birth and comes of German
ancestry. He was ushered into life in Berks county, August 13, 1840, son
of Charles Himmelberger and grandson of Jonathan Himmelberger, both
natives of the Keystone state. Charles Himmelberger was born in Berks
county, in 181 5, was in business there, and died in Lebanon county, in 1890.
His wife, lu'c Elvina Hain, died in 18S7. They were the parents of eight
children, four of whom survive, Isaac, the subject of this review, being the
eldest.

Isaac Himmelberger was educated in the common schools of his native
county, was reared to habits of industry, and early in life was taught to rel\
upon his own resources, .\niong his first ventures in business was his
launching out as a grain dealer in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in a part-
nership concern. In this business he was engaged four years. On closing
up his affairs in Lebanon county, in 1865, he came west to Indiana and
located in Cass county. Here he engaged in the manufacture of hard-wood
lumber, which he continued with success until some eighteen years ago, when,
in consequence of the practical e.xhaustion of the supply of desirable timber,
he closed up his business here and removed his plant to southeastern Missouri,
New Madrid county, where he now operates three large mills, his total yearly
output being fifteen million feet of lumber. This product he markets through-
out the territory extending from Boston to San Francisco and also is an
•e.xpurter to some of the European ports.

Mr. Himmelberger has always affiliated with the Republican party and
taken an enthusiastic interest in public affairs. In 1878 he was a candidate
on the Republican ticket for the office of sheriff of Cass county, and such
was his popularity that although he had a Democratic majority of five hun-
dred to overcome he received the election by a majority of four hundred and
fifty votes. He succeeded Sheriff Louthain, made an efficient officer, and
at the close of his term retired from the office with the confidence and good
will of all his constituents and with the knowledge that he had done his
■duty faithfully and well.

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Mr. Himmelberger is a man of family. He was married in Lebanon
county, Pennsylvania, in 1861, to Catherine, daughter of Henry Haak. The
surviving children of this union are John, manager of the Himmelberger &
Luce Land & Lumber Company at Morehouse, Missouri, who married Miss
MoUie Keesling and has three children — Harry, Charles and Catherine; Jane,
wife of Samuel Fisher, of Cass county, is the mother of six children, namely.
Nettie, Earl, Dwight, Fay, Eddie and Glen; Lillie, wife of H. J. Crismond,
of Logansport, is the mother of two children — Charlotte and Catherine;
and Miss Nettie, who was married on September 20, 1898, to William O.
Murdock. Three sons and a daughter are deceased.

JAMES BUCHANAN. — The history of Cass county would be incomplete
without mention of James Buchanan, who is numbered among its hon-
ored pioneers, his residence here covering a period of almost sixty years.
He saw here raw prairies and unbroken forests, Indian wigwams and wild
beasts; the home of the white settlers were log cabins, indicating that only
the first steps toward civilization had been taken. Reared thus on the fron-
tier, he bore his part in the work of development from the earliest days, and
has been a prominent factor in bringing about the transformation which has
made this one of the leading counties in the state, with its highly cultivated
farms, thriving towns and villages, its school-houses, churches and all other
evidences that show the mark of progress and culture.

In the spring of 1839 the Buchanan family was founded in Cass county,
at which time the father, two of his brothers and the grandfather all located
within its borders. The last named, James Buchanan, Sr. , was originally
from Maryland. In early life he married Pleasant Moore, who died in Penn-
sylvania, May 16, 1833, after which he wedded Mary Wilson, whose death
occurred in Terre Haute, Indiana, in October, 1838. James M. Buchanan,
father of our subject, came from Blair county, Pennsylvania, to the Hoosier
state, and made his first settlement in Terre Haute, whence he removed to
Cass county in the spring of 1839, the journey being made with a four-horse
wagon. At night they camped along the roadside, for their way lay through
a thinly settled section of the state, where other shelter could not be obtained.
He had followed both, farming and merchandising in the east, but after com-

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iiig to this county gave liis attention to the latter pursuit. Indians were still
in the neighborhood, but they were always peaceable and friendly and becanie
very much attached to oursubjerl. then a \ery small child, whom thej- called
•• nice papoose, " often carrying him abmit with them. Only ten acres of
the home farm had been clearei] at the time of the arri\al of the family, and
the members of the household bore all the usual experiences and hardships
of frontier life, but as the \ears passed and the section was opened up to civ-
ilization the family experienced easier times. The father died March 23,
iSg-, at the advanced age of eighty-six j'ears, his birth having occurred in
1810. His wife was born in i.Si4on the historic battle ground of Gettys-
burg, and bore the maiden name of Mar}' A. Gorley. By her marriage she
became the mother of six children, namely: James; Samuel M., who died
February 8, 1S72; Martha Jane, who was born October i, 1844, and died
August 8, 1849; George Washington, who was born October 3, 1847, and is
living in Cass county; John Gorley, who was born November 15. 185 1, and
resides in Locust Grove; and Edward Boyd, who was born September 20,
1854, and is also a resident of Cass county.

James Buchanan was born in Terre Haute, Oct(3ber 3, 1838, and was
brought by his parents to Cass county in April of the following year, so that
practically his entire life has been passed in this locality. His mother, who
was a most excellent woman, taught him to read and write and he thus laid
the foundation for the knowledge that he has acquired through experience
and in the practical affairs of life. When eight years of age he entered the
" log-cabin college " of the country, with its rude furniture, consisting of slab
seats and rough benches, while an immense fireplace was supposed to give
forth heat enough to counteract the winter blasts. This small institution
was a mile and a half from his home, and later he walked two miles to a log
school-house which stood on the present site of the town of Metea. His
educational opportunities were thus somewhat limited, but to-day he is an
intelligent and well informed man, having gained a broad fund of information
in the school of experience.

Mr. Buchanan continued on the old home farm until twenty years of age
and was early trained to habits of industry and economy. His father was of
a very saving and careful disposition and he thus learned the value of a dol-
lar, so that in his own business career, before success had come to him, he
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competence. He was married at the age of twenty-four, and six months
later he left the old homestead — in September, 1863 — to go to a home of his
own. He moved into a log cabin which still stands upon his present farm
and which is in marked contrast to the commodious and substantial residence
which is now his place of abode. He has made many excellent improve-
ments upon his farm, and his well-tilled fields and high grade of stock indi-
cate him to be a progressive agriculturist, fn 1879, wishing to improve the
grade of stock in the county, and knowing the value of good breeds, he
secured some e.xcellent full-blooded Durham cattle, of which he has since
kept a herd. Only the finest grades of stock are found upon his place, and
in all ways he is a most progressive, up-to-date and enterprising farmer, who
is accounted one of the leaders in that line of endeavor in Cass county. His
business methods are straightforward and honorable and are conducted with
that care and discrimination which lead to success.

On the iith of December, 1862, Mr. Buchanan was united in marriage
to Miss Mary C. Buchanan, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (McKillic)
Buchanan. The lady is a native of Hollysburg, Pennsylvania, and by her
marriage has become the mother of seven children, as follows: Martha Pleas-
ant, who was born September 24, 1863, and is the wife of William Randall,
of Ambia. Benton county, Indiana, by whom she has one child, Anna R. ;
Thomas Blair, who was born October 29, 1865, and is now deceased; Clais-
sa Williams, who was born July 31, 1868, and is the wife of William Sharp,
of Washington township, Cass county; Edward Bowman, who was born
December 8, 1870, married Hattie Brown, and resides a mile north of his
father's farm; George Chester, born March 18, 1873; James Judson, who
was born July 17, 1875; and Rea, who was born March 24, 1879, and is now
in Logansport.

In his political views Mr. Buchanan is a Democrat, and though not a
politician in the sense of office-seeking he yet takes a commendable interest
in local political affairs, and in the fall of 1882 was elected county commis-
sioner, in which office he was continued, by re-election, for seven consecutixe
years. He was most faithful in the discharge of his duties, and the confi-
dence reposed in him is shown by his long service. He belongs to the Pres-
byterian church and gives his support and co-operation to every movement
and enterprise designed to prove of public benefit. Throughout all the years
of his residence in Cass county, since the time when the Indians were his

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friends to the present, he has been the advocate of everything tending; to pro-
mote the general good and is a valued citi^^en and honored pioneer, his name
being inscribed high on the roll of those who have been instrumental in plac-
ing Cass county in her present proud position.

JOHN M. LEACH, manufacturer of brick and ice, aud president of the
^ J. M. Leach Natural Gas Company, at Kokomo, has been a resident of
this city ever since 1854, and is a gentleman well known to be intellii;cnt,
upright, faithful, energetic, enterprising and of good judgment in business
affairs, so that he is generally successful in his undertakings. The qualities
mentioned are characteristic of the people of Connecticut, the •• land of
steady habits," whom he represents by descent. He was born in f^itchtiekl
county, that state, June 19, 1S44, liis parents being Elijah C. and Anni.s 13.
(Bird) Leach, natives also of the same prosperous state. In the fann'ly were
two sons, — Charles H., besides our subject.

Elijah C. Leach, was a blacksmith by occupation, came to Kokomo in
1854, erected a sawmill in the vicinity, and later removed into town and
engaged in blacksmithing during the remainder of his life, his death takinj;
place in September, 1870, when he had attained the age of forty-eight years.
His wife had departed this life in 1S68, at about the same age. Both were
Universalists in their religious belief. He was a man of public spirit, but of
humble pretensions. For a tune he served as a member of the city council.
He was but six years of age when Daniel Leach, his father, died. The latter
was a manufacturer of hats by trade, was of Puritan stock b\- descent, and
had a large number of children. James Bird, the maternal grandfather of
John M. Leach, also a native of Connecticut, of Puritan stock, a farmer by
occupation, was a captain in the war of 1812, reared rqany children, and wa.^^
eighty-four years of age at the time of his death.

At the time of the settlement of the family in Kokomo, it will be noticed,
John M. Leach was ten years of age. He therefore obtained his educa-
tion mostly here, at the public schools, at intervals assisting his father in the
blacksmith shop. After his school days had terminated he engaged in the
livery business and continued therein for thirteen years. However, in May,
1S63, he demonstrated his patriotism by enlisting in the war for the Union.

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He served as a member of the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry, engaged in the
battle uf Columbia, Tennessee, Franklin, Nashville, and in the campaign
against Hood, and during the last year of the war was sent out against the
Indians in the west. He was not mustered out until November, 1865, when
he returned to Kokomo and the pursuit of the arts of peace.

■Abandoning the livery business, he launched out in the business embrac-
ing his present scope of operations, dealing in ice and brick. In 1868 he
began the manufacture of brick, and for the last three years he has also been
manufacturing ice. He has furnished brick for nearly all the brick structures
in the city, — at least eighty or ninety per cent. The quality of his products
and his honesty and promptness have insured him a good and lucrative pat-
ronage from the inception of his business to the present time.

In the month of December, 1867, Mr. Leach was joined in matrimony
with Miss Mary E. Rittner, daughter of Peter and Rachel (Wise) Rittner, and
a niece of ex-Governor Joseph Rittner, of Pennsylvania, who was elected
governor on the anti-Masonic ticket some time in the fourth decade of this
century. Mr. Leach has had two children, — Nettie R. and Howard H. The
former married Mr. H. J. Meek, a druggist of Kokomo, and has a daughter
whom they have named Ruth. Mr. Leach lives with this family, as he lost
his wife in March, 1875. The residence is at the corner of Home street and
Markland avenue. Howard H. married Miss Myrtle Butcher, and in con-
nection with his father he conducts the ice factory and superintends the brick
machinery.

.Mr. Leach is a member of Thomas J. Harrison Post, No. 30, G. A.
R. Politically he is a " gold " Democrat. For three terms he served as a
member of the cit\- council of Kokomo, representing the first ward for a time
and afterward the fifth. In office he has been faithful to the interests of the
•community and won high commendation.

BYRON POWELL. — Devoting his energies to farming and sheep-raising
Byron Powell still makes his home in Bethlehem township, Cass county,
winch was the place of his birth and probabl}' will be the place of his aboili.
until he is gathered to his fathers. He is a representative of one of tl t
honored pioneer families of the community. His parents were Jeptha ai.d

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Riihaina (Treen) Powell, wlui wen- hmj; nmnbered amonj,' the prominent
residents of Cass county. The fatlur was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in
iSiS, and followed farniin;.,' thn>iii;licmt the greater part of his life. In 1836
he removed from the Buckeye state to Indiana, locatinn;' in Cass counts' upon
a farm in the midst of the forest His first home was a lo^ cabin, built of
the native timber. Much of his land was covered with a heavy f^rowth of
trees, and with characteristic eners,') he began to clear tht?se away, in order to
raise crops. He experienced the usual hardships of the pioneer farmer, and
worked early and late to make his farm a i)roductive tract which would yield
enough to support his faniil\ in ((unfort. This was accomplished after some
vears had passed, and he continued his farming operations with good success
until about 1S71, wdien he turned his attention to general merchandising in
Metea. and also served as postmaster there. He died in 18S1 and his wife
passed away in February, 1SS2. at the age of tifty-one years, her lurth hav-
ing occurred November 17, 18^0.

Mr. and Mrs. Powell had a family of ten children, as follows: Byron;
Virgil, who carries on farming; Margaret Elizabeth, wife of John A. Fuller,
of Logansport; Josiah C, the present auditor of Cass county; Aletta Grace,
deceased; Matilda, wife of William Skinner, of Logansport; Lillie D., widow
of William Randolph and a teacher in the schools of La Fayette, Indiana;
Melsenna and Harry, who died in childhood; and Anson B., a soldier in
Company M, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Byron Powell was born in IJethlehem township, Cass county, on the 19th
of C>ctober, 1849, on the old family homestead where he yet resides. His
education was acquired during two or three months' attendance at the district
schools during the winter seasons and through practical experience and obser-
vation in the affairs of life, and it is a cpiestion whether the latter was not the
more efficient teacher. His training at farm labor was not meager, however,
and from boyhood he was an able assistant on the home farm, where he con-
tinued to work for his father until the latter removed to Metea. He then
assumed the management of the property and on the division of the estate
he located upon his share of the farm, erected substantial buildings thereon
and has since devoted his energies to the cultivation of the land. The
place is well improved, the fields well tilled and its neat and thriltv appear-
ance well indicates his careful supervision and progressive spirit.

Mr. Powell was united in marriage to Miss Clara Tilton, who was born

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in Bethlehem township, near her present home. Her father, Ira Tilton,
was a native of Wayne county, Ohio, born November 4, 1822, and his wife,
who bore the maiden name of Adeline Foster, was born in Stark county,
Ohio, February 20, 1821. They were married in 1843 and became pioneer
settlers of Cass county. Their family numbered seven children, who are
now widely scattered, in Iowa, Oregon, Indiana and other western states.
Mr. and Mrs. Powell have one daughter. Flora, wife of James M. Buchanan,
of Logansport.

Since casting his first presidential vote, for General Grant, Mr. Powell
has given his political support unwaveringly to the Republican party, its men
and its measures, but has never sought office for himself. He was, however,
trustee of his township for five years, and is now deputy postmaster of Metea.
His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church and both are widely known
in the community, while their well spent lives have won them high esteem.
Mr. Powell is known as one of the leading agriculturists of Cass county, and
while it has not been varied by exciting incidents or thrilling episodes, it has
been at all times true to upright principles, and he has ever been faithful in
his duty to his home, his neighbor and his country.

JOHN W. |ENI\INS. — The gentleman to a review of whose life we now
turn, John W. Jenkins, township trustee of Clay township, Miami county,
Indiana, is one of the substantial farmers of his locality.

He was born in Franklin county, Virginia, November 20, 1845, a son of
David C. and Mary (Fielder) Jenkins. The Jenkinses are descended from
Welsh ancestry, and the first of the family who came to this country settled
in Virginia and Delaware. Gentry Jenkins, the grandfather of John W. ,
was born in Delaware and was by occupation a farmer. He married, in Hali-
fax county, Virginia, Mary Davidson, a native of that county; settled there
on the Roanoke river and opposite the famous John Randolph farm. Sub-
sequently he moved to Franklin county, where he passed the rest of his life
and died, his age at death being ninety years. His children were Anderson,
Rebecca, Edward, David C, Elijah, Pauline, Pleasant T. and Louisa.
David C. was born in Halifax county, Virginia, and in Franklin county
wedded Mary Fielder, a native of Bedford county, that state. By trade he

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was a carpenter. He died in Franklin county March 24, i860, at the age ot
forty years.

John W. Jenkins, whose name initiates this review, attended the com-
mon schools in his early boyhood, and at ten years of age began to learn the
trade of manufacturing plug and smoking tobacco, in his native county, which
occupied his time for five years, following which he was engaged in farm
work. At the opening of the Civil war his youth prevented him from enlist-
ing, but before the strife was ended he enrolled his name in the Confederate
army. He enlisted May 4, 1864, as a private in Company B, Fifth Virginia;
Volunteer Infantry, to serve one year or during the war, and remained in the
service until he was honorably discharged, one week within the time speciiied,
the war being over. He was with his command in the engagements in which
it participated, escaping wounds and capture but suffered great inconvenience
occasioned by thort rations, and came out of the war in a bad state of health.

At the close of the war Mr. Jenkins returned home and resumed faiiii
work, remaining there a few years. Then he came out west to Indiana and
landed at McGravvsville, Miami county, Januarj' 24, 1868, and engaged in
sawmill work. In March, 1868, he went to Putnam county, this state, and
secured employment on a farm, remaining there, however, only a short time
and then coming back to Miami county. The next year he went to Missouri,
but January i, 1870, he again " landed " in Indiana, this time in Miami
county. In the spring of that year he married and shortly afterward settled
in Clay township, Miami county, and in 1872 he bought sixty acres of timber
land, on which he settled and which he cleared and improved. This prop-
erty he sold and in 1890 bought the eighty acres which he now occupies.
This land also he has cleared and brought under cultivation. He now has a
desirable farm whicli, under his careful management, is rapidly increasing in
value.

Mr. Jenkins was married March 2, 1870, in Miami county, Indiana, to
Miss Mary E. Morris, who was born June 14, 1849, in Franklin county, \'ir-
ginia. Their children are James B. , who died in infancy; |ohn T., ixjrii
October 13, 1871; Louisa A., May 4, 1874; Melissa J., December 2;?, 1876;
Walter E., October 4, 1880; Charles H.. October 11, 188.:;; George W. ,
October 18, 1885; and William B., June 28, 1885. Mrs. Jenkins is a mem-
ber of the German Baptist church.

Politically, Mr. Jenkins is a Democrat and bimetalist, and takes a

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pride in keeping himself posted on the general topics of the day. He was
elected trustee of his township in 1886, and held the office continuously until
August I, 1890, and was elected again in November, 1894, his present term
to expire in November, 1900. As the incumbent of this office he has been
the means of bringing about much substantial improvement, always taking
an active interest in building up the schools. He introduced the school
library in each district, purchased a substantial book-case and reading table
for each school, and each year has added to the school library until there are
irom five to six hundred volumes in the township. A great interest has been
accordingly awakened among the people, as his work has been of permanent
value. In all directions he has been progressive. As trustee he has also
been the means of building three new school-houses, and of putting down a
well at each school-house in the township. Besides, he has had eighteen
.new bridges built, and the nineteenth is now under way. A large amount of
ditching has also been made under his direction. As a farmer, citizen and
officer he is held in high repute.

DAVID C. SPRAKER, president of the Kokomo Rubber Company, is a
prominent citizen of Howard county who has held one of its highest
offices and has enjoyed a life's career which illustrates a high order of intelli-
gence, dignity of bearing, nobleness of purpose and a steady aim; for as a
business man he has been successful, and as a public officer he has been
thorough and faithful, giving satisfaction to all parties in the execution of the
embarrassing duties of the position he held.

His parents, Daniel and Martha (Miller) Spraker, natives of Virginia,
had nine children, six of whom are now living, namely: Elizabeth E., now
the wife of Samuel G. Woodfield, of Nevada, Missouri; Paulina, residing in
Kokomo; Martha, now Mrs. William Power, of Millroy, Indiana; David C. ,
who is the subject proper of this biographical outline; Simeon E., of Wind-
sor, Illinois; and Lewis C. , of Kokomo.

Daniel Spraker, a farmer, was one of the first settlers of Decatur
county, this state. He purchased land near Greensburg, in that county,
:ind reared his family there, and died in 1859, at the age of forty-four years.
He was a public-spirited man and an exemplary citizen. As an agriculturi.st

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he was prosperous: his first purchase of land comprised eighty acres, but at
the time of his death he was in possession of two hundred and twenty acres.
His widow died in i860, at the age of fort\-fonr years. They were active
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

George Sprai<er, our subject's grandfather, was a native of Virginia and
of German descent. The family in this country originated in Pennsylvania
and New York. The subject of this paragraph was a farmer by occupation,
had a large number of children, and died in Virginia at the advanced age of
ninety years.

George Miller, Mr. Spraker's grandfather on his mother's side, was also
a native of Virginia, a farmer by vocation, and also conducted a distillery
for a time. Very early in the settlement of this state he located within its
borders. He moved from Decatur county, Indiana, to Iowa, settling in Van
Buren county, where he departed this life at an advanced age.

Mr. David C. Spraker was born in Greensburg, this state, and was
brought up in Howard county from the period when he was a small boy,
attending the Kokomo public schools and later the academy at Thorntown.
On starting out in business life he was first engaged in a drug store at New
London, where his fidelity and competency kept him for si.\ years. Being
then elected county treasurer, he moved to Kokomo and served his term of
four years, — from 1880 to 1SS4; and since that time he has been engaged in
trading, manufacturing, etc.

In 1895 the Kokomo Rubber Company was organized and Mr. Spraker
was made its president and manager, and in these capacities he is the right
man in the right place, for the company is prospering under his management.
The scope of their manufacture embraces as specialties mechanic. d rubber
appliances, bicycle tires, etc., and the business gives employment to eighty
and sometimes as many as ninety persons.

Mr. Spraker is a public-spirited man, believing in the encouragement of
all enterprises that will benefit the community- He is an affable g. ntleman.
has a host of friends and has a bright future before him.

TTENRY W. HOPPE. — America can boast of no better citizens than hosts
^ ■* of her German-Americans, who, though they ever hold dear and sacred
their beloved fatherland, are no less devoted to the fair land of tlicir adop-

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tion, and would unfalteringly go forth to do battle for her should the neces-
sity for such a course present itself. Nearly half a century ago the gentle-
man of whom we write cast his lot with the citizens of Logansport, and dur-
ing the intervening years has not only been an interested witness of her
steadily increasing prosperity but has also aided greatly in the happy result.

Henry W. Hoppe is one of four children, three of whom were sons, whose
parents were John and Rebecca (Sturken) Hoppe. He was born in the
province of Hanover, Germany, May 28, 1833, and spent his boyhood in that
country. When he was about eighteen years of age he decided that he would
go to the United States, the fair land of whom he had heard and read so
much, and there found a home. He carried out his plan and two years after
his arrival in this city he was gladdened by the coming of his parents, in 1853.
Here they quietly and happily passed the remainder of their lives, being ten-
derly watched over and cared for by their son. The father was a merchant
and by trade a book-binder, and taught the mysteries of the craft to Henry
^^^, who worked at the trade in Toledo, Ohio, before coming to Logansport.

Soon after landing in Logansport, in 1852, our subject obtained a posi-
tion as a clerk in a dry-goods house. He was very attentive to business and
careful of his small earnings, and at the close of two years had sufficient
capital to enter into partnership with a Mr. Sturken, and together they
opened a grocery on the southeast corner of Market and Third streets. A
3ear later our subject purchased his partner's share, and has since been alone.
When he had rented a building for ten years he concluded to buy the prop-
erty and in 1866 he erected a substantial three-story brick store, the one in
which his grocery has ever since been located. For years he enjoyed the
distinction of having the bulk of the trade in his line in Logansport, and during
the war he carried on a large grocery in Rochester, Indiana, as well. Begin-
ning, as he did, upon a very small scale, his success has been the more remark-
able, and reflects great credit upon his business ability. For some years he
transacted a wholesale business, in addition to his regular retail trade.

The matter of affording the rising generation the best possible school facil-
ities is a subject dear to the he'art of Mr. Hoppe, as was shown during the
nine years that he served as a member of the Logansport board of educa-
tion, namely, from 1879 to 1888. He has used his franchise in favor of the
nomineesand principlesof the Democratic party since he was admitted to cit
izenship, but has never sought or desired public office.

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In 1876 the marriage of Mr. Hoppe and Miss Mary Hedde, of this city,
was solemnized. Three daughters bless their home, their names, in order of
birth, being Mary, Annie and Dora. The parents and daughters are all mem-
bers of Saint James' church, German Evangelical Lutheran, of this place.
They have a pleasant home and many sincere friends and well-wishers in this
commiinitv-

HON. GEORGE EWING ROSS. ^For over a score of years this ster-
ling citizen of Logansport has occupied a distinctive place among the
members of the legal profession of the state of Indiana. His superior attain-
ments and ability placed him in the front ranks ere he had been engaged
in practice many years, and, indeed, from his initial steps in his chosen pro-
fession it was manifest that his success was assured. By nature and acquired
knowledge he is pre-eminently fitted for his vocation, as his clear, judicial
mind takes in a situation at a glance, rapidly passes in review the arguments
pro and con, and renders a swift verdict as to the merits of a case.

The parents of the above-named gentleman are Hon. Nathan O. and
Mary (Ewing) Ross, who are represented elsewhere in this volume. George
E. l^oss in a native of Peru, Miami county, Indiana, born January 15, 1858.
He was but fourteen years of age when he entered Wabash College, at
Crawfordsville, and there passed the three succeeding years, making rapid
progress in his studies. Having completed the sophomore year, he bceame a
student in the law department of the Indiana State University, but received
his chief instruction from his father. Having passed the requisite examina-
tion, young Ross was admitted to the bar April, 1877, when but nineteen
years of age.

The first time that George E. Ross came before the notice of the public
as a lawyer was in the fall of 1878, before he had reached his majority. The
case, that of Harvey versus the People's Bank, was tried in the superior court
of Logansport, Mr. Ross appearing as counsel for the plaintiff, while his own
father. Judge Dykeman. Winfield, and McConnell were on the side of the
defence. Against this array of noted legal talent the task of our young hero
was no light one, as may readily be seen. He made a gallant fight, however,
and the jury failing to agree the case was taken to Miami county, on a change
of venue; there he was successful in gaining a complete victory for his client.

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The casa was then appealed to the supreme court, which also rendered a
decision in his favor. From that time on, he made rapid strides forward in
his profession, became an able and eloquent speaker and commanded the
respect of all. He has always been an earnest supporter of the Democratic
party, and in the fall of 1892 became their candidate for the office of judo;e of
the appellate court of Indiana. He was duly elected in November following
and entered upqn his new, responsible duties on New Year's day, 1893.
With credit to himself and friends he continued to discharge the high duty
devolving upon him for the next four years, giving up the insignia of his office
January i, 1897. For fifteen or more years he has been the assistant
solicitor for the Pan Handle Railroad Company. He has a general practice,
and numbers among his clients many of the leading business firms of this
county.

In 1877 Judge Ross married Miss Martha I. Boice, of Goshen, Indiana.
They have two enterprising and ambitious sons, namely, Nathan O., a
graduate of the Columbia Law School, of New York city, a member of
the class of 1898, and now doing business in company with his father;
and George E., Jr., a pupil in the Howe Military School in Lima,
Indiana.

OLIVER P. KLINGER, of the firm of Charles & Klinger, proprietors of
the Brookside Canning Works, Kokomo, Indiana, has been a resident of
this place for ten years and is ranked with its most enterprising business
men. The record of his life, in brief, is as follows:

Oliver P. Klinger was born near West Baltimore, Preble county, Ohio,
June 2,5, 1845, one of the seven children of Peter E. and Sarah (Hopper)
Klinger, natives respectively of Ohio and Tennessee. Of this family only
three are now living — Oliver P.; Andrew J., of Arcanum, Ohio; and Belle,
widow of William A. Albright. The parents both died in middle life, the
father at the age of thirty-two years; the mother a few years earlier. He was
a farmer in Preble and Darke counties, Ohio, and it was in the latter county
that he died. His religious creed was that of the Lutheran church, while his
wife was a Baptist.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was Jesse E. Klinger. He was
of Pennsylvania birth and German parentage, by occupation was a farmer,

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and was one of the early settlers ol tlu- Western Reserve, locating first in
Ohio and later coming over into IiiJiana and taking up his abode at l'"ort
Wayne while the Indians were yet inhabitants of this region. He died near
Fort Wayne at about the age of tifty-eight years. Mr. Klinger's grandfather
on his mother's side was Charles Hopper. He had a large family, was a
great hunter, and his character was that of the typical pioneer. Leaving his
native state, Tennessee, he removed with his family up into Ohio, and in
Preble county, that state, passed the closing years of his life and died, his age
at death being about si.\t}-three or si.\t\-four years.

Oliver P. Klinger, the immediate subject of this review, was reared in
Darke count}-, Ohio, and received his earlier education in its public schools.
Later he took a course in Notre Dame College, South Bend, Indiana, and
was for a short time a student in a school taught by his aunt at New Paris,
Ohio. But his education was interru()ted by the Civil war. In iS6i, at the
age of fifteen years, he enlisted in Company K, Thirty-fourth Ohio Zouaves,
A. S. Piatt's regiment, and as a private served with that connnantl three
years and two months. Among the engagements in which he participated
were those of Winchester. Lynchburg. Fayetteville, Charleston, and Harper's
Ferry.

On his return from the army young Klinger went to Preble county. (,)hio.
and, as above recorded, went to schtxjl to his aunt for a time. After this he
was assistant surveyor at Plymouth, Indiana, and later was employed in the
office of county recorder and treasurer as deputy, and in March, 1869, he
accepted a position in the clerk's office, where he served as deputy clerk
twelve years. Subsequently he was elected county clerk, and was re-elected
to succeed himself, and served eight years as the incumbent of that office.
Thus he rounded out twenty years in the clerk's office — twelve years as dep-
uty and eight as clerk. In iS8y he came to Kokomo and became bookkeeper
in the Citizens' National Bank, in which institution he had an interest, and
was occupied as bookkeeper until failing health compelled him to le;i\ii the
close confinement of the bank. From this he turned to the grocery and fur-
niture business, and in 1895 he became a mend)er of the firm of Charles &
Klinger, of the Brookside Canning Works, which was established in 18S7 and
which employs m the busy season about two hundred and seventy-tive per-
sons in the factory alone, in addition to the large number of those employed
indirectly in the country. Their goods are used in all parts of the L'nited

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States; they can all kinds of floods the market here affords, and their well
■known "Ruby" brand of tomatoes is in demand wherever their product is
sold.

Mr. Khnger's home is at No. 70 North Union street, Kokomo. He was
married October 8, 1869, to Miss Hettie E. Losey, daughter of John and
Harriet (Kelsey) Losey, and the fruit of their union is one daughter, Edna
Belle, now the wife of George W. Charles, Mr. Klinger's partner. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles have one child, Grafton Oliver Charles. Mrs. Klinger died in
1875. Hers was a beautiful Christian character. She was a devoted mem-
ber of the Episcopal church, a loving wife and mother, and a kind, true
friend. Mr. Klinger is identified with the Presbyterian church.

For a number of years he has been prominently connected with the
Masonic order. He was the first eminent commander of Kokomo Com-
mandery, No. 36, K. T., and at this writing is its prelate. Politically he
afifiliates with the Democratic party, and while in Plymouth took an active
part in local politics. Aside from the office already named as filled by him,
he served two terms as a member of the city council of Plymouth, Indiana.

B.-^RNABAS BUSBY, one of the venerable citizens of Kokomo, now living
retired at No. 125 North Main street, has rounded out more than a
lialf century of life in Howard county. His history in brief, is as follows:

Barnabas Busby was born in North CaroHna, October 8, 1820, son of
Ezekiel and Judith (Jones) Busby, natives of that state; he was one of a fam-
ily of ten children, six sons and four daughters. Of this number only three
are now living — Barnabas; Daniel, of Yamhill, Oregon; and Moses, of Ver-
non, Missouri. The father was a farmer. He came from North Carolina to
Indiana, accompanied by his family, about 1822, and settled at Madison,
where he lived a number of years. Late in Hfe he went to Arkansas, where
he died about 1843. His wife's death occurred several years prior to his.
They were members of the Christian church. The grandparents, both pater-
nal and maternal, of our subjects, were natives of North Carolina. Grand-
father Busby died in that state. Grandfather Jesse Jones went to Arkansas,
where he died.

Barnabas Busby was reared on his father's farm three miles north of

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Madison and was early inured to all kinds of hard work known to farm life.
His education was obtained in one of the primitive log school-houses of
southern Indiana. In his youth he learned the trade of carpenter, which he
followed for several years. He came to Howard county February i8, 1841,
and located east of Kokonio, before the land in this locality was on the
market. Here he took up a claitn, cleared a little patch and built a cabin,
and some time afterward sold out for ninety-six dollars. With this sum he
purchased eighty acres of land near Burlington, Howard county, which he
improved and sold. In 1853, with the price of his eighty-acre farm, he pur-
chased one hundred and si.xty acres in Center township, which he still owns.
He came to Kokomo in [880 and bought one of the finest residence proper-
ties in the city, the house being of brick, and the lot ninety-four and one-half
feet front by two hundred and thirty-one feet deep. In this place, surrounded
by all that goes to make life enjoyable, he has lived for the past seventeen
years.

Mr. Busby was first married in 1843, when he wedded Miss Ruth Hol-
lingsworth, daughter of Joel and Annie Hollingsworth. She died in 1846,
leaving one child, William F., who now resides on the old homestead in Cen-
ter township, and who married Miss Ettie Landon, and has one son, Paul.
In June, 1852, Mr. Busby wedded for his second wife Miss Melinda Thresher,
-whose life was blended with his for a period of forty-two years, her death
occurring in June, 1894. November 11, 1896, was consummated his mar-
riage to Mrs. Elizabeth Gwinii, his present companion.

Mr. and Mrs. Busby are members of the Christian church. Fraternallj ,
he is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic,
having membership in the Thomas J. Harrison Post, No. 30, Grand Army of
the Republic.

He has a war record that includes service in two wars. In 1847 he
■enlisted in the United States Army for the war with Me.xico, and was in the
army a little over a year. When the Civil war broke out he was among the
first to tender his services for the suppression of the rebellion. He enlisted
in .\pril, 1861, in Company E, Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of
■which he was first lieutenant, and the fortunes of which he shared for a year
and nine months. At the end of that time he came home and raised another
company, Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, of which he was captain. With Company A he served four months.

880 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTOBT OF

During all his army life he was never reported on the sick list. He was in
the battles of Rich Mountain, Alleghany, Winchester, and many smaller
engagements. In Virginia he was in a great many small fights, and was ia
the eight-days fight at Richmond.

After the war he returned to his farm. Howard county has been his
home for fifty-seven years, and he has never paid taxes in any other county.
He has traveled quite extensively over the United States and in Canada
and Mexico. In all his seventy-eight years he has never had but two spells
of sickness.

JESSE BOND, who resides on section 31, Richmond township, Miami
^ county, dates his arrival here in the spring of 1841. He was born in
Wayne county, this state, in 1822. His father, Jesse Bond, Sr., was born
in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1776, where he grew to manhood and
married Phcebe Commons, a native of Virginia. They were both of Quaker
birth, and emigrated to Wayne county at a very early period in its settle-
ment. Mr. Bond entered from the government the land on which the
Friends' College at Richmond is situated. Later Mr. Jesse Bond, Sr. ,
removed to Washington, Wayne county, where he established a Friends'
church, and has also been influential in the establishment of the church
at Richmond. He was a minister of his church, and lived at Washington
until his death, which occurred in 1862.

His fir.-^t wife passed away in 1846, and for his second wife he chose the
widow of Rev. Isaac Willets, who also was a minister of the same society.
The second wife survived her husband many years. Jesse Bond, Sr. , was a
man of marked ability, and in his views much in advance of his time; pos-
sessed great influence among his people, and was in all respects a most
worthy man.

By his first marriage he became the father of twelve children who grew
up to maturity and had families of their own. The parents lived to see all their
children settled in life; the father gave to each of his children a farm, and all
but two of them settled in \\'ayne county not far from the old home. Of
these, all have passed to the life beyond this visible face of nature except
two sons and two daughters, viz. : William, who is the oldest of the sur-
vivors, and lives where he settled when he left his paternal home: he was

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born in August, 1808; Mrs. Haiiiiali Wilson, also residing in Wayne county;
lesse, the next in age and the youngest of the sons; Mrs. Men(hinhall,
another daughter, is a resilient of Henry county, Indiana, near Newcastle;
Isaac and Jesse became resiilents of Miami ounty; and the names of the
deceased members of the family were Nathan, the eldest of the children,
who died at the age of eighty-six years, Robert, John, Enos, Isom, Rutii
and Isaac.

Jesse Bond was born in Wa}'ne county, Indiana, April 4, 1S22, grew up
to manhood on the old homestead, and came to Miami county in 1S41. In
this county, in Jefferson townshipi, in 1841, he married Miss Elizabeth Jane
Cox, daughter of Elijah Cox. She died in 1856, and for his second wife Mr.
Bond was united to Harriet Hough, who died in 1S88. His present wife was
Mrs. Isabel Titus, widow of George Titus, her maiden name having been
I\iug. By his first marriage Mr. Bond had three sons and a daughter, all of
whom are living, — Robert, David, Enieline and Charles. By the second
ni.irriage the children were Mrs. Ruth Hood and Benjamin, of Macon,
C.eorgia. They lost two sons, — Ira and Alfred, — both of whom left
families.

Mr. Bond's first settlement in Miami county was in Jefferson township,
ne^tr the Cass county line, where he made his home for over fifty years, when
he moved to the place he now occupies, in the spring of 1894. He has given
all his children homes, and is passing his declining years in contentment. He
has ever led an industrious, honorable course of life, has ever adhered to the
upright Christian principles in which he was reared, and has ever been
esteemed as an honest, upright citizen.

DR. EDWARD R. TAYLOR, dentist.— The dental profession in Logans-
port is well represented by Dr. Taylor, who has attained prestige in his
chosen calling by reason of his marked ability. Dentistry may be said to be
almost unique among other occupations, as it is at once a profession, a trade
and a bu-iness. Such being the case it follows that in order to attain the
highest success in it one must be thoroughly conversant with the theory of
the art, must be expert in the use of the many tools and appliances incidental
to the practice of modern dentistry and must possess business qualifications

382 BIOGBAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

adequate to dealing with the financial side of the profession. In none of
these requirements is Dr. Taylor lacking; on the contrary close study has
given him a broad understanding of the science of dentistry, and his prac-
tical experience is demonstrated by his e.xtensive patronage, which at once
indicates his high standing in the profession.

A native of New Market, Canada, the Doctor was born April 6, 1852.
and was the youngest child of Joseph and Sarah (Laing) Taylor. His father
was of English lineage, was born in New Jersey, followed farming as a life
occupation, and died on the 14th of September, 1.SS5. His wife, who was a
native of New York, and was of Scotch descent, died about the year i860.
Dr. Taylor was reared in the vicinity of New Market, Canada, and in the
school of that town obtained his preliminary education, which was supple-
mented by a two-years collegiate course in the city of Whitby, Canada. He
afterward engaged in teaching for a limited period and at the age of twenty-
two years began the study of dentistry. In March, 1876, he came to Logans-
port, where he completed his studies under Dr. D. L. Overholser, with whom
he remained for more than two years. Having in that time gained a prac-
tical as well as theoretical knowledge of the science of dentistry he entered
upon his professional career under embarrassing circumstances financially.
In 1878 he opened an office of his own in Logansport and for .twenty years
has continued to exercise his skill in the line of dental surgery, winning an
excellent reputation by his pronounced ability. He has a pleasant suite of
rooms, well equipped with the latest improved instruments and appliances,
and his methods are modern and progressive. He still further perfected him-
self for his work by pursuing a post-graduate course in the Indiana Dental
College and to-day he ranks among the most eminent members of the pro-
fession in this section of the state.

In his fraternal relations Dr. Taylor is a valued representative of the
local lodges of Logansport of the Masonic order, the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Independent Order of
P'oresters. By his ballot he supports the men and measures of the Repub-
lican party and always keeps well informed on the issues of the day, but has
had neither time nor inclination for public office.

On the 20th of September, 1883, was celebrated the marriage of Dr.
Taylor and Miss Clara E. Eox, daughter of Josiah Fox, of New Waverly,
Indiana. They have three children, — Edith, George and Vivian. They aro

6W&V, MIAMI, now. Hi 1) .I.^D Tf/'TOjY COCYT/KS. H8:-?

members of the Uni\ersalist church, enjoy the hospitality of the best homes-
of Logansport and figure prominentlj- in its social circles where true worth
and intelligence are received as the passports into good society.

f I ON. SAMUEL E. NICHOLSON, author of the famous temperance
1 ^ bill which bears his name, was ushered into life on a farm near Eliza-
bethtown, Bartholomew county, Indiana, June 29, 1862, and is the only-
child of Samuel Nicholson by his marriage to Khoda H. Holliday, the father
being a native of Indiana and the mother of North Carolina.

Samuel Nicholson's parents were North Carolinians who emigrateti to
Indiana about the year 1813 and located in Washington county. When
their scin Samuel was a boy of nine )ears they removed to Bartholomew
county, where he was reared and where he was engaged in farming ot) the
same farm until 1.S91, when he came to Howard county and settled at New
London. Here the mother of our subject died, at a little over seventy \ ears^
of age. She had come with her parents from North Carolina to Indiana
when si.xteen years old, settling in Wayne county and a j'ear later removing
to Orange county, where she was married. She belonged to the Friends'
church, as also does her husband, who still survives and who now makes his
home with his son, the subject of this sketch. The senior Mr. NichoLson by
a former marriage, to Miss Pennina Parker, daughter of Phineas and Zdpha
Parker, had six children, four of whom are now living, namely: Elias P., of
Bartholomew comity; and Abigail, William T. and Benjamin C, of Kokomo.
Elias P. was a soldier in the late war and has an honorable four-years war
record.

The paternal grandfather of our subject also was named Samuel Nichnl-
son. He was a native of North Carolina, a member of the Society of
I'riends, and died in Indiana at about the age of seventy-six years. The
maternal grandfather of Mr. Nicholson was Samuel Holliday. He came tO'
Indiana fnmi North Carolina, about 1838; was by occupation a farmer and
miller, and gave most oi his time and attention to milling. He died in
Orange county, Indiana, at a ripe old age.

Samuel Edgar Nicholson was reared on the farm. He attended the
I'nends' Sand Creek Seminary, in which he completed a high-school course.

:384 BIOGE.-IFHJCUL .A^-JJ (iKXKALOGICAL HISTOKT OF

and alterward entered Earlhani Collej^je, Richmond, Indiana, at which well-
known Onaker institution he graduated with honors in the class of 1885.
The next six years he was engaged in teaching. He was principal of the
Sand Creek Seminary one year, three years principal of the schools at
Azalia, and two years principal of the New London high school. Until he
came to Howard county he farmed in the summer while he went to school
or taught in the winter seasons. While in college he was editor of the
college paper two years, the last year being editor-in-chief, and from the
school-room he turned to the newspaper field. At Russiaville he was editor
and publisher of the Russiaville Observer in 1892-93. Selling out in 1893,
he came to Kokomo and published a new paper, called the Morning Times,
for about a year. In 1895 he engaged in the real-estate business.

While publishing the Morning Times he was nominated on the Repub-
lican ticket as representative to the state legislature, to represent Howard
county, was elected in November following, and served two terms, being re-
elected in 1896. During that time he drafted the celebrated Nicholson tem-
perance bill, which became a law in 1895. At the close of his first session,
having been identified with that bill, he was chosen president and organizer
of the Indiana Good Citizens' League, and has devoted his energies largely
to that work, lecturing throughout this and other states, principally on ' ' Good
Citizenship." In the 1897 session of the state legislature he was chairman
of the Republican steering committee of the house, and was recognized as the
leader of the Republican forces on the floor of the house.

For eight years Professor Nicholson has been recording clerk of the
\\'estern Yearly Meeting of the Friends' Church, one of the thirteen confer-
ences or bodies into which the Friends on the American continent are
divided. He has been recognized also as a minister in that body since 1891,
though he has never held a regular pastorate. Before he was made clerk of
the yearly meeting he was for two years superintendent of education in the
yearly meeting. Every five years a quinquennial conference is held, and the
third of these was held at Indianapolis in October, 1897. He was a delegate
to that conference, and was made presiding officer of the body on that occa-
sion. He is also one of three trustees of the Friends' International Christian
Endeavor Union, whose conventions are held apnually.

In his manner Mr. Nicholson is grave and earnest, but never severe. He
is a magnificent specimen of joung manhood, handsome in feature and of

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commanding stature. He has the complexion of a boy and the robust figure
of an athlete. His voice is. clear and strong. Always cool and impertur-
bable, he is never taken by surprise and never gets e.xcited. He has an
enormous capacity for work and a persistenc}- of purpose that makes him a
winner. At the close of his last term in the house of representatives the
press all o\'er the state spoke of him in the most flattering terms and pre-
dicted for him a place in the senatorial halls of the United States.

Professor Nicholson was married, May 28, 1889, to Miss Rhoda Elma
Parker, daughter of Jesse H. and Caroline Parker; and they have two chil-
dren, Vincent DeWitt and Caroline Lucile. Mrs. Nicholson was a teacher
for ten years of her life, and is an active member of the Friends' church.
They reside at No. 176 East \^'alnut street, Kokomo.

ISAAC FISHER, an esteemed citizen residing on section 28, Jefferson town-
ship, Miami county, has one hundred and si.xty acres of land, in good con-
dition, on which the first improvements wer^ made by John Albaugh, one of
the pioneers of the township. Mr. Fisher settled here in March, 1876, but
he has been a resident of Miami county ever since 1840.

This old settler was born in Franklin county, Mrginia, in 1827. His
father, Jonathan Fisher, emigrated from there to Preble count}-, Ohio, and
in 1840 all the family came to Miami county, Indiana, locating in Richland
township. The father did not survive many years, passing away in 1847.
The wife and mother, whose maiden name was Susanna Neff, survived her hus-
band for many years, passing away at the old homestead in Richland town-
ship. Jonathan Fisher was an esteemed and worthy citizen, was a consist-
ent member of the German Baptist church, as are his family still, and he
was a man of cheerful disposition, upright and honorable in all his dealings,
and respected and esteemed by all. They became the parents of ten chil-
dren, the majority of whom were born in \'irginia and Ohio. At the date
of this writing there are seven living: Isaac, the subject of this sketch;
Nancy, on the old homestead; Magdeline, widow of Absalom Wilson; Eliza-
beth, wife of Gabriel Yoder; Noah, Moses and John, of Richland township.
The deceased were Jonathan, Susanna and Deliah.

Mr. Isaac Fisher, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, was in

886 BIOGRAPHICAL AMB GENEALOGICAL HISTOBT OF

his fourteenth year when he came to Miami county with his father, and
aided in clearing the old homestead, and, as he was the eldest, he was natur-
ally much depended upon. November 4, 1853, he was married to Miss
Mary Lybrook, whose father closed his life in Union county, this state, and
who came to Miami coimty with her stepfather, William Moss. She was
born in Union county, Indiana, in 1829, and died July 4, 1858. In Janu-
ary, i860, Mr. Fisher was married to Miss Sarah Moss, a daughter of David
Moss, who is a resident of Cass county. She died April 21, 1897. By the first
marriage there was one child who attained to mature years, namely, Joseph,
of Howard county. By his second marriage Mr. Fisher had nine children,
eight of whom are still living, as follows: Simon, of Lyon county, Iowa;
Sylvester, Leander, Susanna, Mary, at home; Jennie, wife of Marcus Mor-
row, of Cass county; Amos at home, and Noah C. The deceased is Levina,
who died April 6, 1896, at the age of twenty-three years.

TOHN TRUMAN, of Logansport, has the distinction of being the oldest
^ locomotive engineer of the Pan Handle Company now in active service,
and is one of the few men who have rounded out a full half century in train
service. He has followed railroading from almost its incipiency through its
periods of greatest development down to the day of palaces on wheels and
to the development of a system in the operation of trains undreamed of fifty
years ago.

John Truman was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in September,
1828. The death of his parents when he was very young left him to the
care of others, and he knows nothing of his antecedents. He was reared by
Samuel Hoops, a farmer of Chester county, remaining with him until he
reached the age of eighteen. At this time he started out for himself and
earned his first money as a driver on the canal from Columbia to Hollidays-
burg, Pennsylvania. During the one season he followed the tow-path he
encountered many amusing incidents and mat with soma mishaps, and loaks
back now to that experience as one of the most unique in his life. When his
time with the canal people had expired he determined to engage in railroad-
ing, providing he could get a position. He applied to the Columbia & Phil-
adelphia Railroad Company, through some political agency, which was nee-

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essary then, and was appointed a kind of siippl}' or extra man. He was so-
well liked for the manner in which he performed his work ia this capacity
that in 1852 he was placed regularly on the roll and became a fireman rim-
niny between Mifflin and Altoona. The next year he went to the Pennsyl-
vania & Ohio, now the Fort Wayne road, and fired an engine between Alle-
gheny and Crestline, Ohio, for six months, at the end of that time entering
the emplo)' of the Illinois Central, with which he remained for seven years,
as fireman or as stationar\- engineer. In 1865 he went back t(j the I-'itts-
burg, t'ort Wayne & Chicago road, ami ran an engine three years between
Crestline and Alliance, Ohio. He came in the year 1868 to the C, C. & I.
C, now the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, and has since that
time been upon the pay-roll of this company, and for the past sixteen years
has been in the passenger service.

Only three accidents of a serious nature have occurred to Mr. Triiman's
train in the period of his long service. His first was near ^fassillon in 1S65.
Trains were not run then on strict telegra[)h orders as now, but it was the
practice to wait at stations forty-five miiujtes at meeting points, and then
make the next station. Mr. Truman left Alliance fi\e hours and ten minutes
late on this particular day without orders to be on the watch for the east
bound train, while the latter received orders at Orrville to run with a clear
track, and the consequence was a collision just out from Massillon, but with-
out injury to himself. In i86g, while running out of Logansport, Mr. Tru-
man had his engine turned over completely by the removal of a rail, and
although he went with his charge he escaped unhurt. The last incident
of this kind occurred in the Logansport yard at the Wabash crossing, when
he failed to distinguish the proper signal and his engine collided with a
Wabash freight, and this time he also escaped unhurt.

Mr. Truman has been one of the most constant and faithful men in his
department of the service. He has seldom been off duty, and then not to
enjoy an extended \acation. He has manned no less than seventy-two dif-
ferent engines since he first took an engine out of the Logansport round-
house.

While running west of I^ittsburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Truman met at
Derry station the young lady who afterward became his wife, Miss Abigail
Albright, daughter of the station agent at Derry's, her parents being Fred-
erick and Margaret (McKee) Albright. Their marriage was consummated at

388 BIOGRAPHICAL AJfB GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

that place March 15, 1854, and the children of their union are as follows:
La Fayette F. , an engineer on the Erie, who married Miss Alice Lee, and
has four children — Mary, Fred, Harold and Ralph; Lawrence L., assistant
road foreman of engines for the Pan Handle, married Miss Ada McKnight,
and has one child, John H. ; and Charles H., an engineer on the Pan Handle,
who married Miss Nellie Jackson, and has one child. Ivy. Mr. and Mrs.
Truman also have an adopted child, Laura, whom they have reared from
infancy to womanhood.

THOMAS McKINSTRY.— This gentleman is an ex-sheriff of Miami county,
Indiana, a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county,
and is ranked with the leading citizens of Peru. He is a son of James B.
McK-instry, of South Peru, who was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania,
June 13, 1828, and whose father, Thomas McKinstry, was born in Pennsyl-
vania, October 21, 1793. Thomas McKinstry married Margaret Bratton,
whose birth occurred January 21, 1800. The Mclvinstrys are of Irish origin
and were for several generations residents of Pennsylvania. In the year
1S46 Thomas McKmstry left the Keystone state, accompanied by his family,
and came west to Indiana, arriving in Miami connty, June 2d. He settled
on a farm in Washington township, which he improved and on which he
passed the rest of his life. He died here April 18, 1859. His wife passed
away August 19, 1870. They brought with them to Indiana three sons and
two daughters. George H., the eldest, is now a resident of Kansas. James
B. was the second in order of birth. Joseph died at the age of twenty-one
years. The two sisters were Sarah Ann and Caroline, the latter being now
deceased. Another daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Marks, had preceded the fam-
ily to Miami county, having come in 1 840; and there were three daughters
who remained in Pennsylvania. James B. McKinstry has been engaged in
farming the greater part of his life. He owned and occupied the homestead
farm for many years. He married Louisa -A. Marquis, a native of Miami
county, and seven children have been born to them, viz.: Anabel, wife of
John L. York; George, of Anderson, Indiana; Thomas, whose name graces
this sketch; Nellie, who married James D. Rhinebarger, diedsome years ago;
Jennie, wife of Frank Pyle; Herman and Joseph.

Thomas McKinstry, whose name initiates this review, and who inherits

CJSS, MIAMI. HO]fAlW .J.VD Tll'TO.V COUMIKS. ;:iS9

the name of liis grandfather above mentioned, was born in Peru township,
Miami county, Indiana, September jS, 185S. He was reared to tlie occu-
pation of farming and remained at hoine until the age of twentj'-one years,
living in Peru, Butler and Washington townships, his educational advan-
tages in youth being none other than the public schools afforded. On leav-
ing home, he was employed by the superintendent of the county farm for a
period of four years. After this he was engaged for a time with the firm of
Steve Tudor & Compan\-, of Peru. Ne.xt we find him acting as deputy sher-
iff or traveling bailiff, for Sheriff James Khinebarger, a position he tilled
about three years. At the end of this time Mr. McKinstry became a candi-
date for the nomination as sheriff to succeed Mr. Rhinebarger. He was the
choice of fourteen candidates for the nomination on the Democratic ticket,
and in the fall of 1892 was elected by a majority of five hundred over his
opponent, Clinton B. Woods. In 1894 he was re-elected for a second term,
his opponent being the same gentleman he had defeated at the former elec-
tion. At the close of his second official term, he retired from the office with
a consciousness that he had performed faithful service, and with the good
will of his large number of acquaintances throughout the count}-. Shortly
after retiring from office he purchased a farm in Butler township, and he is
also manager and one of the proprietors of the S. Tudor & Company packing
house, of South Peru. His residence is at 213 East Sixth street, Peru.

Mr. McKinstry was married November 20, 1S95, to Miss Ada M. Kees
Her father, Noah Rees, a native of Fayette county, Ohio, came to Miam
county, Indiana, when a young man, an<l here married Rebecca Sullivan
who came to Miami count\-, with her parents, from Athens county, Ohio
when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Rees are now residents of Washington town
ship, this county.

'tAT'ILLIAM DONNEI^LY. — Among the representative business man of
' Kokomo, Indiana, is found the subject of this sketch, William Donnelh'

of the firm of Ford & Donnelly, founders and machinists.

Mr. Donnelly is a native of the Keystone state. He was born in .Adams
county, Pennsylvania, October 23, 1830, and is a son of John and Lydia
(Riley) Donnelly, both natives of that state. In the Donnelly family were
nine children, seven sons and two daughters, and of this number only four

390 BIOGRAPHICAL AMD GENEALOGICAL EISTOBY OF

are now living, namely: William; Martha, wife of David Anderson, of Ship-
pensburg, Pennsylvania; Annie, a resident of Shippensburg: and Allison,
also of Shippensburg. John Donnelly, the father, was a moulder by trade
and was in the foundr_v business for many years, having charge of charcoal
furnaces in the Cumberland valley. He died at Shippensburg in 1884, at
the age of seventy-nine years. His wife died thirty years before. She was
a Catholic.

The grandparents of our subject also were Pennsylvanians. John
Donnelly, his grandfather, was of Irish descent but was born in Pennsylvania,
and in that state passed his life and died, being well advanced in years a
the time of his death. By occupation he was a collier. He had a family of
six children. The maternal grandfather of our subject died in middle life,
near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

William Donnelly was reared in his native state, attending school at
Millerstown, now called Fairview, and remained in Pennsylvania until 1888,
when he became identified with Ivokomo. His father being a foundryman,
he early learned the trade of machinist and has all his life been engaged
in the foundry and machinist business. On coming to Kokomo in 1888,
he bought the Kokomo Foundry and Machine Works and re-established
the business, employing about forty men, and has since been connected
with this establishment, having as his partner Mr. C. A. Ford, his son-in-law.
They manufacture tin-plate machinery and boilers and do all kinds of job
work. Also they do a large amount of repair work. Besides this, Mr. Don-
nelly is interested in The Atlantic Steel & Tin-Plate Company, at Atlanta,
Indiana, which employs about three hundred men, and which markets its
goods all over the United States.

Mr. Donnelly resides at the corner of Washington and Elm streets. He
was married in 1857 to Miss Marion Purdy, and their two children are Emma
and Ida, the former the wife of Mr. C. A. Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have
four children, namely: Ida Belle, Lenora, Carl and Harry. Politically,
Mr. Donnelly supports the Republican party.

CARL W. KELLER. — Among the younger business men of Logansport
this energetic, wide-awake merchant has been numbered for the past
four years. Coming here a stranger, in 1893, he soon won the esteem and

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respect of all with whom his business brought him into contact, and from
that time until the present his popularity has steadily increased. He is the
fortunate possessor of just those qualities which are essential to success in
any line of business, and, having hail much experience in the commercial
world, he is an able financier. Thoroughly understanding the needs of his
customers, he spares no efforts to please them and to meet their wishes in
every regard.

Born January i6, 1867, .Mr. Keller is thus in the prime (jf early man-
hood, with a prosperous future opening out before him. He is a son of limil
F. and Frederica (Zimmerman) Keller, who are of German descent, as their
names indicate. The birth-place of Carl W. Keller is Dunkirk, New York.
He was favored with a liberal education, his preliminary learning being gained
in the public schools of Dunkirk. Having determined to enter the business
world, he decided to fully equip himself by taking a commercial course of
instruction, and accordingly went to Buffalo, where he attended Bryant &
Stratton's Business College and thoroughly mastered the intricacies of book-
keeping, banking, higher mathematics, etc.

Leaving the college he had but stnall difficulty in obtaining a good situa-
tion, and for the following year, 1SS6, was bookkeeper for a wholesale tea
and coffee house in Buffalo, New York. Returning then to his old home he
was offered a position in a railroad office and was thus employed for about
twelve months. A better place then presenting itself, he became the book-
keeper in a wholesale plumbing supplies house of Dunkirk, retaining this
place for two years.

In 1S90 Mr. Keller came to the Hoosier state, and locating in Indian-
apolis he became assistant treasurer and bookkeeper of the Indiana Mutual
Building & Loan Association of that city. In this important and trustworthy
position he continued for nearly four years, at the end of which period he
resigned and came to Logansport. Arriving here, he purchased the tailor-
ing establishment formerly managed and owned by his brother, Lmil F.
Keller. From that time to the present he has devoted himself to his new
undertaking and is meeting with deserved success. He handles only the
best lines of goods, makes a point of securing skilled workmen and turns out
nothing but first-class, artistic work.

Wherever he has resided for any length of time, Mr. Keller has gathered
around him hosts of sincere friends, and in Logansport there has been no

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exception to the rule. He is a member in high standing of the Masonic fra-
ternity, having reached the Scottish rite degrees, and is also identified with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

TOSEPH C. HEREON, of the firm of Herron & Stratton, lawyers of
^ Kokomo, dates his birth at Falmouth, Fayette county, Indiana, March
28, 1866.

Thomas Herron, his father, was born on the Emerald Isle and lived
there until 1856, when he came to America, landing at New York and com-
ing west from there to Brookville, Indiana, where he lived a short time.
Then he went to work on a farm in Fayette county. Shortly afterward he
married Miss Lucy Fisher, a native of this state, and for a number of years
he and his wife lived on a farm of David Baker. In the spring of 1871 he
came to Kokomo with his family, and bought a farm of forty acres three
miles northwest of town. Later he purchased one hundred and twenty acres
of land adjoining it, but has since sold forty acres, and now his farm com-
prises one hundred and twenty acres, well improved and nicely cultivated.
He has recently built a new house and barn on his original purchase and
still resides here. In their religious views he and his wife differ somewhat,
he being a Catholic and she a Methodist. Their children are Joseph C. and
Belle, the latter being the wife of Ulysses G. Mills, who resides near
Kokomo.

Of our subject's grandfathers, be it stated that Grandfather Herron lived
and died in Ireland, and little is known of his history; Grandfather Solomon
Fisher was a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, and earned his
daily bread by honest toil. He served as a soldier all through the war of the
Rebellion, was wounded in battle, and was a pensioner up to the time of his
death. He was the father of a large family.

Joseph C. Herron was reared on his father's farm, attended the district
schools in his boyhood and later the Kokomo high school and the Ohio
Normal University, at Ada. At the early age of fifteen he commenced teach-
ing school and from that time on paid his own way. He taught for nine
years. In the meantime he devoted all his leisure moments to the study of
law. Indeed he began the study of law about the time he commenced

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teaching, and for want of means to push his study in a law school he was
compelled to delay the preparation for his profession. Finally, however,
after ionj^ and tedious hours of home study, he passed a successful examina-
tion and was admitted to the bar of Howard county. That was in 1891.
Immediately after his admission he engaged in law practice in Kokoino,
where he has sinc^ continued and where he has already built up a good
business.

Mr. Herron resides at 31 I North Smith street. He was married May
12, 1886, to Miss Anna Staatz, and they have three children, one son and
two daughters: Thomas. Charlotte and Kuth.

Politically, he is a Democrat; fraternally, a Knight of Pythias, with
membership in the Uniform Rank, and also a member of the B. P. O. E.
Personally, he is kind-hearted and genial. He believes in extending sympa-
thy to the poor and oppressed and is in highest favor with those who know
him best. The law firm of Herron & Stratton occupy a fine suite of rooms,
and have a good law library.

ANDREW J. PRESCOTT, of Logansport, road foreman of engines of
. the Pan Handle Railway Company, is a gentleman well known in rail-
road circles throughout the east and middle west. He has been constantly
in the train service of some road for nearly fifty years, having begun railroad-
ing in 1849 as a fireman on the Boston, Concord «& Montreal Railroad. He
remained with that company three \-ears, and was then induced to come west
to the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad, now a part of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and take a position as engineer. At that
time he remained in Indiana- only one season, being forced to abandon the
swamps and malarious atmosphere of the state to rid himself of the ague,
which was fastening itself upon him, and which was a constant menace to
the lives of the first settlers of the state. Upon his return to New England,
he took a position in the shops of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company,
where he remained four years. He went to the Philadelphia & Reading
Company about i860, and ran an engine for four years, at the end of which
time he was appointed master mechanic on the Catawissa Railroad, filling the
position ten years. He came to the Pan Handle Company in 1873, as trav-

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eling engineer, coming to Logansport on the i8th of September. He took
charge of an engine some time later and was in the passenger service until the
year 1890, when he was appointed to his p'-esent position, that of road fore-
man of engines.

There are few men in the active service of the Pan Handle Company
whose experience has been as diversified as has Mr. Prescott's. When he
engaged in the railroad business in 1849, it was little more than an experi-
ment instead of an established and permanent industry. The few lines of
the east were operated independently, and system in their operation and
management, now so much valued, was then unknown. No man has given
his time and talents more unreservedly than has Mr. Prescott, during his
almost fifty 3'ears of continuous service, to reach that great ultimate pertain-
ing to any department of the service with which he has been identified.

Mr. Prescott \\as born at Meredith, Belknap county. New Hampshire,
October 16, 1832. John D. Prescott, his father, was a native of Gilmanton,
same county; was by occupation a farmer; and was married in early life to
Miss Mary Gipson, who bore him eight children, Andrew J. being the seventh
in order of birth. Andrew J. Prescott's life work was begun as a clerk for
John Blaisdell, a grocer at Lakeport, with whom he remained until he turned
his attention to railroading.

Mr. Prescott was married in 1854 to Elizabeth Huntington, a branch of
the same family to which the great railroad magnate, Collis P. Huntington,
belongs. Their children are George H. and Mar}' G.

Fraternally, Mr. Prescott is a Mason and has received all the degrees in
the Masonic order up to and including the thirty-second.

JOHN MORROW.— The junior member of the firm of McCune & Mor-
row, dealers in real estate, loans, etc., Kokomo, Indiana, John Morrow,
was born in Howard county and has spent the whole of his life in the vicin-
ity of Kokomo. His biography, in brief, is as follows:

John Morrow was ushered into life on his father's farm three miles south
of Kokomo, Indiana, August 16, 1S52, and is a son of Charles and Sarah
(Lame) Morrow, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Pennsyl-
vania. Charles Morrow came to Indiana from Kentucky in 1839 and was

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located for a short time in Hamilton cnnnt\-. In 1S45 lie came to Howard
counts- and bought a farm of eighty acres, three miles south of Kokomo.
Afterward he sold this farm antl purchased another, comprising ninety-four
acres, located a mile further south, and to it he subsequently added fifty
acres more. On this farm he reared his family, and made his home until a
year ago, when he removed to Fairfield, where he has since resided. His
first wife died in 1S73, leaving him \vith six sons, namely: Jackson, \^"ill-
iam, John, Alfred, Charles and Edmund. She was a devoted member of the
Baptist church, to which he also belongs. His present wife was formerly
Miss Sarah Beatey, and by her he has had six children, four of whom are
now living, viz.: Mattie, wife of Henry CruU; Mahlain, Emma and Virginia.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was James Morrow. He was
of Irish descent and a native of Kentuckv; by trade he was a cooper, but
the greater part of his life was devoted to farming. He came to Indiana in
pioneer days and settled first in Hamilton county and later in Howard
county. He died on a farm one mile south of Kokomo, at a ripe old age,
leaving a large family. Grandfather John Lame, the father of our subject's
mother, was of Pennsvhania birth and descended from German stock. He,
too, was one of the pioneer settlers of Indiana, li\'ing first in Howard and
later in Porter count}', where he died, leaving a large progeny.

John Morrow was brought up on his father's farm, as above indicated,
and received his education in the district schools near his home. While still
a boy at home he began life for himself by renting a piece of ground and
raising a crop. Later he purchased twenty-four acres, to which he after-
ward added ten acres, this being a portion of the home farm, and here he
lived and carried on agricultural pursuits until 1S95. For the past three
years he has been engaged in the real-estate business in Kokomo, and resides
at No. 272 South Buckeye street.

Mr. Morrow was married May 3, 1873, to Miss Cynthia Elliott, a daugh-
ter of Abraham and Hannah (Weeks) Elliott, and their happy union has been
blessed in the birth of three daughters — Pearl, Maudie and Nellie.

The Morrow family attend worship at Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, of which both Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are consistent and worthy mem-
bers. Politically, Mr. Morrow was formerlj- a Democrat, but now gives his
support to the Prohibition cause and is one of the active workers of the
party.

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TAMEST. YOUNG.— Ohio is the native state of James T. Young, pro-
^ prietor of the West End sawmill. He was born in Miami county, on the
9th of April, 1847, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Young,
the former a native of Maryland and the latter of the Buckeye state. The
paternal grandfather of our subject was likewise a native of Maryland and
was of Scotch descent. He was a soldier in the war of 18 12, during which a
band of Indians attempted to take his life. Seeing their approach he started
to run. the red men following. At length he gained the fort. Re died about
1852. He reared a large family, and three of his sons are still living. The
maternal grandfather of our subject, James Thompson, was a native of Ohio
and was of German lineage. His business pursuits were those of farming
and speculating, and he died in Ohio at an advanced age.

John Young was a cooper and farmer, and spent much of his life in
Miami county, Ohio, where he located during the early settlement of that
part of the state. He purchased a farm of two hundred acres lying near
Covington, buying out the heirs of his father-in-law's estate, and greatly
improved the farm. He also carried on quite an extensive cooperage busi-
ness and hauled the products of the shop and farni to Cincinnati, before the
day of railroads, keeping a number of teams employed in that way. He died
on his farm about 1855, at the age of forty-six years, and his wife passed
away during the infancy of her son, James. Both were members of the
Christian (New-Light) church, and the father held various township offices.
After the death of his first wife he married Miss Martha Shepherd, who died
in 1868, and their two children have also passed away. There were three
children by the first marriage, but one died in infancy, and Cynthia Ann
died at the age of five years.

James T. Young is the only survivor of the family. lie was reared in
the county of his nativity, upon the farm of his guardian, Samuel Duncan,
for at an early age he was left an orphan. In the district schools he acquired
his education, and he co;itinued to make his home with Mr. Duncan until
he had attained his majorit}', with the exception of the time which he spent
in the army. In 1863, prompted by a spirit of patriotism, he responded to
his country's call for troops, and became a member of Company G, Eighth
Ohio Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war. He was
wounded at the battle of Liberty, in eastern Virginia, June 19, 1864, and,
being left on the field of battle, was captured by the enemy and sent to

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Andersonville prison, where he wns incarcerated about fonr inontlis. He
was very seriously wounded and reported killed. He participated in tiie raid
at Lynchburg and the battle of Lexington, \'irginia, together with a number
of skirmishes, being six weeks in the saddle. Alwa\'s faithful to the starry
banner and the cause it represented, he remained at the front until the close
of hostilities, and returned home with an honorable war record.

Mr. Young was married May 5, 1868, to Miss Lucretia English, daughter
of James and Lucretia (Russell) English. Two sons and a daughter were born
to them: Samuel O., who operates a hoop factory in Daviess county, Indi-
ana; ^^'arren W., traveling salesman for a lace house of New York; and
Martha Dillola, wife of George H. Stratton, who is in partnership with
Samuel O. Young.

After his marriage the subject of this sketch removed to Darke county,
Ohio, and, near Versailles, built a tile factory, which he operated for three
years. In 1872 became to Indiana and located at Redkey, Jay county,
where he manufactured brick and tile for three years, on the expiration of
which period he sold out and remove to Geneva, Adams county, where he
carried on a similar enterprise until 1890. He also followed farming there.
Through the past eight years he has resided in Kokomo. On his arrival
here he purchased the sawmill owned by J. M. Dawson, and has since
engaged in the manufacture of lumber of various kinds, shipping his product
to various parts of the country. He employs from ten to fifteen men, and
is doing a prosperous and gratifying business.

Mr. and Mrs. Young have a very pleasant home in Kokomo, a residence
built in modern style, tastefully furnished and pervaded by an air of hospi-
tality that is most charming. They are members of the Presbyterian church
and Mr. Young is now serving as church treasurer and a member of the
board of trustees. He belongs to Thomas J. Harrison Post, No. 30, G. A.
R., and in his political views is a Republican.

JAMES H. FETTER.— On the nth of October, 1861, there arrived in
Peru one who was destined to play an important part in the commercial
activity of Peru, and who is now known as one of its leading and most enter-
prising merchants, James H. Fetter. He was born in Sunbury, Pennsyl-

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vania, on the 28th of February, 1842, his parents being Samuel and
Mary (Wise) Fetter, also natives of the Keystone state. The great-grand-
father of our subject on the paternal side, was a native of Germany and was
the founder of the family in America. The maternal ancestors were English.
Samuel Fetter first learned the trade of cabinet-maker and was an excellent
workman. He. later became a carpenter and builder by occupation, follow-
ing that pursuit as a means of securing a livelihood throughout his business
career. After a long residence in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he removed with
his family to Sunbury, where he and his wife spent their remaining days.

James H. Fetter was the eleventh in order of birth in their family of
twelve children. He acquired an academic education and for a time was
engaged as instructor in the academy in which he had been a student. Sub-
sequently he secured a clerkship in a store in his native town, and in Octo-
ber, 1 86 1, as before stated, became to Peru, where he has since made his
home. He .at once assumed the duties of deputy postmaster under his
brother, H. G. Fetter, and continued to serve in that capacity until August
6, 1865, when he was commissioned postmaster. He administered the
affairs of the office in a most prompt and efficient manner until April i,
1879, winning the commendation of all concerned, and then retiring after
seventeen and one-half years of service there — four years as deputy and
almost fourteen years as chief. About a year after his retirement from
the postoffice Mr. Fetter engaged in the furniture business, and a year later
broadened his field of operations by adding an undertaking department. He
has since conducted this enterprise and has one of the principal business
houses in his line in northern Indiana. He carries a large and well assorted
stock of furniture, which is an indication of the liberal patronage which he
enjoys.

On the 19th of March, 1873, Mr. Fetter was united in marriage to Miss
Lucy A. Adkison, daughter of Lewis D. Adkison, one of the well known
and highly respected pioneers of Peru. Mrs. Fetter accompanied her par-
ents to California, in 1855, and remained there for thirteen years, acquiring
a liberal education on the Pacific slope. Mr. and Mrs. Fetter have a son
and daughter, Robert A. and Florence C. The parents hold membership in
the First Presbyterian church of Peru, with which Mr. Fetter has been con-
nected since 1863, and in point of service he is the senior elder of the church.
The historical sketch of the church, which appears in connection with the

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biography of its present pastor, Rev. Harry Xyce, was principally taken from
an acconnt of the church that Mr. Fetter compiled several years ago. He is
also a valued member of several societies and fraternal orders, including the
Odd Fellows, Masonic, the Royal Arcanum, Ben Hur and Sexennial League.

A LBERT F. NYE, M. I). — The numerous friends of this rising young
•'»■ physician of Logansport, Cass county, are safe in their predictions of
success for him in his chosen field of work. Energy, perseverance in what-
ever he undertakes, and many other strong traits of character are noticeable
qualities in his nature and are the basis of his friends' belief in his future
prosperity. The same will power and determination which he has mani-
fested in gaining an education and foot-hold w^ill unquestionably bring hiin to
the front ranks of the medical profession within a few jears.

One of the native sons of the Bucke)'e state, Dr. Nye was born in the
enterprising town of Fostoria, Seneca county, September 4, 1873. He is a
son of John P. and ^fary A. (I\ern) Nye, both of whom are natives of the
state of Ohio. The first nine years in the life of our subject were spent at
his parental home, and in 18S2 he came to make his home in Logansport
with an uncle, J. D. Johnston, the proprietor of the Johnston hotel. The lad
attended the grammar schools of this place and later pursued the curriculum
of studies comprised in the high-school course. Having completed his liter-
ary and scientific education the youth went to Te.xas, being then about
fifteen or si.xteen years of age. He was variouslj' occupied in the "Lone
Star" state for the succeeding three years, returning to Logansport when in
his twentieth year.

Having fully made up his mind as to his future vocation Dr. Nye entered
the office of Dr. Af. A. Jordan, a well-known physician of this city, and began
the study of medicine under his judicious tutelage. After finishing his pre-
liminary work, he entered the medical department of the University of Cin-
cinnati, formerly styled the Ohio Medical College. From this justly cele-
brated institution of learning our subject was graduated with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1807. He immediately returned to
Logansport and established an office in a convenient portion of the business
center. He is a great student and passes much of his leisure time in perus-

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ing tne leading journals published in the interests of his profession. It is his
laudable ambition to keep fully abreast of the times in all modern discoveries
in the treatment and cure of disease and to be progressive in all his methods.
At the same time he is sufficiently conservative to deem it wise to adhere to
the old and tried ways the merit of which is unquestioned.

Socially Dr. Nye is deservedly popular. His cheerful, genial disposition
is such as readily wins friends, and, what is still better, he has the faculty of
keeping friends once made. He uses his right of franchise on behalf of the
nominees and principles of the Democratic party.

"\ X riLLIAM W. HANEY. — It has been left to modern civilization to per-
' ' petuate by written record the lives of those who have been prominent
factors in the upbuilding of towns, cities and countries. Deeds of battle
have been the theme of story and song for the earliest ages, but the man
who quietly remained in the ranks of business, performing each day's duty as it
came to him and promoting the general prosperit}' through his individual
efforts and close attention to business, was unnoticed by the singer, poet
and historian. To-day we would know who are the founders of cities, and
we find in biography a subject that yields in point of interest and profit to no
other. In the development of the state of Indiana Mr. Haney bore a very
prominent part. He came to the west in its pioneer days and was a leading
factor in the promotion of those interests that open up the way to civilization
and that constitute the foundation upon which the future growth and sub-
stantial prosperity of a community or state is effected. His name is insep-
arably interwoven with the history of Indiana's splendid advancement and
he ranks among the honored pioneers of the state.

Mr. Haney was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born December
25, 1809, a son of Joseph and Mary (Weaver) Haney. His parents were in
limited financial circumstances, and in consequence could not provide their
son with educational privileges beyond those afforded in the country schools
of that early period. Therefore Mr. Haney was not a well educated man
in the sense of academical or college training but he nevertheless possessed
keen powers of perception and a retentive memory, was a close student of
-current events and through an active business career acquired a fund of

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knowledge and a practical training tluU enal)lcd him to achieve more than
ordinarj' success in life. His father was an agriculturist and on the home
farm his boyhood days were passed. I^ater he worked in a hotel for a lim-
ited time and then secured a clerkshiji in a store. At the age of seventeen,
-with no capital, he left the paternal fireside to take up the battle of life for
himself, and in the struggle he won many a brilliant victory, triumphing
over obstacles, difficulties and discouragements. About the time he left
home the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania canal was being constructed
from Eaton to Bristol, and. the opportunity presented, he joined the engi-
neering corps and for one year w as employed on that work. He was next
•engaged in running coal out of the river, followed by service in a hotel in
Easton, Pennsylvania. Later he was made superintendent of a division of
the Pennsylvania canal, and after serving in that capacity for a year he again
spent a year in boating coal. On the e.xpiration of that period he was induced to
resume the supervision of the Pennsylvania canal, which duty occupied his atten-
tion for two years, when he took a contract for the construction of the Delaware
& Raritan canal feeder, on the New Jersey side of the Delaware river. A year
served for the completion of that task and through the following year he
superintended the operation of the feeder.

I'.elieving then that the west furnished better opportunities for ambitious
and energetic young men, he traveled by steamer, fiatboat and pirogue to
Indiana, taking up his residence at Peru, on the 4th of July, 1835. The
tow n was an unbroken wilderness and vast sections of this now populous and
prosperous state were still in their primitive condition. Not long after his
arrival Mr. Haney was given charge of a number of men engaged on the
•construction of the Wabash & Erie canal. In connection with that work he
opened a stone quarry below Peru for John Cooper, contractor for the Peru
dam. The same fall Mr. Haney took a contract for the construction of a
section of the canal at Lewisburg, completing the work the following year.
He then formed a partnership with Alexander Wilson and turned his atten-
tion to merchandising in Lewisburg: also traded with the Indians. Three
years later he purchased Mr. Wilson's interest in the store and continued the
business alone, trading largely in real estate, canal script and other securities
until the summer of 1851, when he left Lewisburg and took up his residence
in Logansport, on the 15th of July, of that year. No resident of this city
■was ever more widely or favorably known throughout Indiana than Mr.

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Haney. The beneficial effect of his labors cannot be overestimated. Ip
those early days before the advent of the railroad, transportation was almost
entirely by water, and the construction of the canals with which he was con-
nected opened up this country by opening up the markets to the hardy pio-
neers who had founded homes in the midst of the western wilderness.

On arriving in Logansport, Mr. Haney opened a general mercantile
establishment, but after a short time he sold out his entire stock. He then
turned his attention to real estate and the discounting of moneyed obliga-
tions, doing a kind of private-banking business, which he continued with
marked success until his death, which occurred April 20, 1889. For several
years he served as president of the Logansport branch of the Bank of the State
of Indiana. He became a member of the Logansport bar soon after locat-
ing in this city, but beyond a limited amount of office business never practiced
law. He was a man of sound judgment and not only could plan brilliant
business enterprises but had the executive ability to carry them into success-
ful operation. His career was governed by the strictest regard to the ethics
of commercial life and his reputation was unassailable. Whether as a con-
tractor, merchant, banker or real-estate dealer, his transactions were marked
by the most honorable business methods, and added to this was a uniform
courtesy and gentlemanly demeanor thai won him the regard and good will
of all with whom he came in contact. He was one of the richest men in the
state, his wealth being estimated at six hundred thousand dollars. He con-
tinued the management of his extensive affairs until failing health compelled
him to place his interests in the care of his son, W. E. Haney, who seems to
have inherited his father's excellent business qualities.

Mr. Haney was married December 13, 1836, to Miss Louisiana Fidler,
who survives him and is now, 1898, in her seventy-ninth year. They had
two children, William E. and Maria Emma, but the latter died several years
ago. Mr. Haney was a loving husband and an exceptionally kind parent.
He was known to every man, woman and child in Logansport, and his death
was a shock to the entire community. He lived an upright Christian life
and was a member of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal church, to the sup-
port of which he contributed liberally. A true friend of the poor and needy,
he extended a helping hand to all who required assistance; and although he
became a wealthy man he used his wealth so wisely and well that the most
envious could not begrudge him its possession. True to every trust reposed

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in him, faithful to every duty of citizenship, he \v;is one of the honored pio-
neers of the state, whose name is engraved lii^h on the roll of her eminent
representatives. At his death Judse I). 1^. Baldwin, one of his most inti-
mate friends and associates, wrote of him:

"The late Mr. Haney was a remarkable man in many respects. This
is proven by the grand fortune he accumulated in this little city where monej
is scarce and riches the exception. I do not hesitate to say that Mr. Haney
had the best financial brain of any man that, at least in my time, ever lived'
in Logansport. At seventy-nine years and until his last sickness his mind
was as clear and quick as that of any man in mid life. Mr. Haney's honesty
was very remarkable. No scandal was ever connected with his great fortune.
His word was sacred. He took no undue advantages. He was a remarka-
bl)- friendly man. He was as kind and sociable with a tramp as with a
millionaire. He did not know what pride was any more than he knew what
deceit and double dealing were. He was always clean-mouthed. No one
ever heard him retailing scandal or speakins^ unkindness. Mr. Haney's j;reat
wealth brought upon him, as wealth or exceptional success always does, a
great weight of envy and raillery, but he took it good-humoredly. Xo one
ever knew him to get angry or excited, much less vindictive or sullen. No
one knew better of good and ill of life and humanity. Mr. Haney did not
pretend to be anything else than a business man, and never sought office or
promotion of any kind. He did not set up to be a charitable man any more
than a talented man; and yet his kindly voice, friendly ways and unquestioned
honesty gave him a happy and honored old age and made him a general
favorite with all classes. "

WILLIAM TII^LETT, of l^eru township, is a well-known pioneer of
Miami county. His father, James Tillett, became a resident of this
county in the fall of 1834. He was a native of Montgomery county. \'irginia.
and his parents were natives of I^ondon, Lngland. James Tillett grew up in
his native state of Virginia and married Susanna Buck, a native of Rockingham
county, that state, and a daughter of Martin I-5uck. In 1S2S James Tillett
emigrated with his family to Wayne county, Indiana, and in 1834 came to
Miami county, locating upon a new farm about four and a half miles west of
Peru. Purchasing at first eighty acres, he proceeded to impro\e it, and sub-

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sequently he added to the tract so that at length he was the possessor of
twelve or fourteen hundred acres. His death occurred in July, 1879. His
wife had died five years previously. Mr. James Tillett was an industrious
and energetic man and secured large possessions, was a well-known and
respected citizen, a representatise of the typical American, and an exem-
plary member of the community. For a time he was county commissioner.

Of his thirteen children seven were living at the time of his death, and
five are still living, — 1898. William, the eldest, was born in Montgomery
county, Virginia, February 28, 1822, and was about twelve years of age
when he came to Wayne county. He well remembers the wild condition of
the country more than sixty years ago. He assisted his father in clearing
the land, remaining with his parents until he was about twenty-one years old,
when he was employed on a state boat on the Wabash & Erie canal, which
was engaged in keeping the canal in repair, and continued in this work for
nine years.

Mr. Tillett was married on the 4th of April, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth
Grimes, a daughter of Reuben Grimes, and soon afterward settled on a farm
in Pipe Creek township, where he lived two years, and then located where
he now lives, in Peru township.

Mr. and Mrs. Tillett have four sons and three daughters, all of whom
are residents of Miami county but one. Their names are William Floyd,
James Reuben, Oliver Jackson, Joseph N. , Mrs. R. M. Boone (the eldest),
Mrs. Susanna Kunkle and Mrs. Zetilo Josephine Miller. Mr. Tillett is a well-
known citizen, has been successful in business and owns a large amount of
land. There are several other sons of James Tillett living, namely, Henry
J., Oliver, Giles, John and Jasper.

JAMES M. WOOLLEY, now in the employ of Layman & Company has
been a resident of Howard county for more than thirty-nine years and is
therefore a well known citizen.

He was born in Orange county, Indiana, July 29, 1844, a son of James
and Rachel (Guthrie) Woolley; he was born on Tom's river, in New Jerse}',
and her birth-place was near the famous " natural bridge," in Virginia. Of
their nine sons and five daughters, six are yet living, namely: Hubbard, of

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Galveston, Indiana; Franklin M., of \\'allace, this state; Martin, of North
Ontario, California; Sarah, now the wife nf Orin Maker, of Westfield, Indi-
ana; Catharine, now Mrs. John T. Hercules, of Howard county; and James
M., the subject proper of this sketch.

James Woolley, the father of our sul)iect, was a wagon-maker by trade,
doing all the work without the aid of machinery. He emigrated to Hamilton
county, Ohio, during the pioneer period, as did also his wife with her father's
family; they were married there, and came to Indiana, settling in Orange
county, where they brought up their children. From 1S5:! to 1S5S they
were residents of Parke county, Indiana, and then they removed to Howard
count}-, locating upon a farm three and a half miles south of Kokomo, where
the husband and father died in 1872, at the age of seventy-five years, a
faithful member of the United Brethren church. His widow survived him
until 1880, departing this life at the age of eighty years, a sincere member of
the Presbyterian church.

William Guthrie, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Woolley, was a native
of Ireland, had a large number of children, and died in Hamilton county,
Ohio, after having attained an advanced age.

Mr. James M. Woolley obtained his school training in Orange, Parke
and Howard counties, and in young manhood learned the trade of carpenter.
At the age of twenty-two he left home and was employed in nurseries and at
farm work. He rented a farm of fifty acres, where he followed agricultural
pursuits for four years. During his early residence in Howard county, he
kept a toll-gate for eighteen years, and at the same time did some work as a
carpenter. He came to Kokomo in the spring of 1859, and has been a resi-
dent here ever since that date; and he was engaged in the grocery business
from 18S0 until April, 1S9R, when he sold out, and has since been in his
present position. He is not onl)' a good business man, but also an affal)le
gentleman, high-minded, public-spirited and philanthropic.

The 13th day of June, 1865, witnessed his union in matrimony with
Miss Margaret O. Albright, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Snowderly)
Albright. She was the youngest of thirteen children, while Mr. Woolley is
the youngest of fourteen. Her parents came to Howard county about the
year 1837, when the Indians were still living in this section. She was born
in Euphemia, Ohio, and was but five years of age when brought to Howard
county by her parents in their emigration to this state. Her father, a brick

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mason and contractor and a general mechanic, was a Methodist local preacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Woolley have had three sons and two daughters, viz. :
William Clarence, who died in infancy; Clara Alice, a teacher in the Kokomo
high school; Ora Ashton, who is a traveling salesman for the Indianapolis
Basket Company; Annie Francis and Charles Clayborn, attending school.
The parents and children are all intelligent and zealous members of the Main
Street Christian church, in which society Mr. Woolley is a deacon. He also
belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics. As to the political
parties, he is an independent voter. He is a conscientious, Christian gentle-
man, a zealous worker in the church, is of a quiet and retiring disposition, is
highly respected throughout the community and has a host of friends.

THEODORE R. SEWELL, police commissioner of Logansport, Indiana,
and chief clerk of the master mechanic of the Pan Handle Railway
Company, at this place, has resided here since January, 1883. His history
is that of a self-made man, and is of interest in this connection.

Mr. Sewell was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, February 7,
1855, and passed the first twelve years of his life in the village of Vienna,
that county. Then the death of his widowed mother left him without a
home and he went to live with an uncle, a farmer, where, however, he was
not treated in the most kindly manner. So he ran away and drifted from
place to place, earning a livelihood at whatever presented itself till he was
seventeen. At this age he found himself in the city of Baltimore, and there
he entered the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as a machinist
apprentice, and while serving his time in this department he attended the
night school of drawing and designing, completing the course by the time he
reached his majority. At twenty-two he went into the service of the North-
ern Central Railroad Company, as draftsman, and remained with that cor-
poration till 1882. At that time he severed his connection with railroading
and engaged in the produce commission business in Baltimore, but in six
months' time tired of this and in January, 1883, accepted an offer of the Pan
Handle Company to come to Logansport as their draftsman and chief clerk
in the shops, a position he has since filled with marked ability.

Mr. Sewell's parents were Garrison and Martha (Turner) Sewell. The

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Sewells are of English origin and ha\e long been residents of America, the
arrival of the first representatives of the famil\- in the New World dating
about the time the Calverts lande<l here. Garrison Sewell was a native of
Marjland and by occupation was a merchant tailor. The Turners, the
maternal ancestors of our subject, ha\e likewise been residents of this coun-
try for many generations. They were of the old slave-holding families and
consequently sympathizers with the secession movement of the early '60s.
On this account our subject's first impressions political were formed along
the line taken by the great mass of slave-owners. He believed this to be
the true position and the Democratic party to be the most righteous political
organization. Later, however, his researches through the records of the
two great parties convinced him that his position was one inherited from a
prejudiced ancestry rather than one taken as a result of conscientious inves-
tigation after the truth, and he deserted Democracy and espoused Republic-
anism. For this act he was ostracised by his relatives for a time and he
earned the frown of disapproval from former political associates.

Mr. Sewell received his appointment to the position of police commis-
sioner at the hands of Governor Mount, for the short term, one year, and
upon its expiration he was re-appointed for three \ears.

At Baltimore, Maryland, November 4, iSSo, was consummated the
marriage of Mr. Sewell and Miss Isabel Stone, daughter of Richard Stone.
They have one child, Harriet.

JACOB G. OFF. — Tipton county is honored by the life and career of this
representative farmer of Liberty township. He is a native of Germany,
whence most of our industrious and thrifty citizens have come, born at
Wurtemberg, southern Germany, December 25, 1839, the youngest of the
eight children of George P. and \\'alburga (Mertz) Off, natives also of that
country, where they passed their entire lives. The father was a successful
farmer by occupation and a man of thrift and superior intelligence. Both
himself and wife were prominent members of the Lutheran church.

Three brothers, of the name of Off, came to America and located at
Indianapolis, Indiana. First came the two older brothers, — Philip and
Christian, — in 1852, and afterward John, and in 1854 Jacob G., of this
sketch, and they all located at Indianapolis. Jacob G. remained at his

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parental home in Germany until he obtained his education and was con-
firmed as a member of the Lutheran church; then, leaving his fatherland
and his parents, he emigrated to the new El Dorado, America, coming direct
to Indianapolis, joining his brothers. He soon found employment at the
deaf and dumb asylum, where he continued for two years. Next he appren-
ticed himself to the carpenter's trade for three years, during which time he
attended night school, in order to familiarize himself with the English
language and other most useful branches; and he was a very apt pupil both
in his chosen trade and in general scholarship. After the expiration of his
term as an apprentice he was employed as a journeyman until 1863, during
which time he was engaged upon some of the largest blocks in the city, and
some of these structures are still standing as monuments of his skill and
reliability. In 1863, in company with two brothers, he rented a sawmill in
Indianapolis, which they successfully operated until some time in the year
1865, when they moved to Tipton county and purchased a sawmill at
Jackson Station and four hundred acres of timber land, and here they
labored industriously and perseveringly, buying more timber land as their
needs required, and selecting the best trees, but never using rail timber.
Soon they commenced improving some of their land, preparing it for culti-
vation, and in 1873 quit the mill and gave more attention to clearing and the
development of farm land. In 1877 they made a division of their property,
and Jacob G. thus came into possession of four hundred acres of his present
homestead. He now has over three hundred acres cleared, well ditched
and in a fine state of cultivation. All the improvements have been made
under his direct supervision, and his farm is one of the largest and best in
the county. Mr. Off is still a hard-working man, looking after all the
details of his large landed interests and keeping everything neat and in its
place. His first house and barn he lost by fire, and he has replaced them
with superior buildings, finished with slate roof and all modern conveniences.
All the auxiliary buildings and structures are neat and well arranged.

Politically, Mr. Off has always been a Democrat, believing that the prin-
ciples of the party of his predilection are best suited to the interests of the mid-
dle classes and laborer. While running the sawmill at Jackson Station he was
appointed postmaster and served as such for a number of years. For several
years he was also a supervisor of the county; and the people, recognizing his
financial ability in business and his uns