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Abliott,  Joseph,  933. 
Addli'iiian,  William  S.,  546. 
Alk'ii.  lames  B.,  liSO. 
Alvev,c;eora;e  W.,  834. 
Andres,  Manin,  1054. 
Anness,  William  R.,1015. 
Appletcate,  lohn  A.,  826. 
Applegate,  "Mary,  826. 
Ardery,  lames  N.,  503. 
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1452663 


llaker,  James  S..  905. 
liaker,  Maxwell.  929. 
Baker,  Walter  S.,  908. 
Ballard,  Micajah  B.,  291. 
Ballint;er,  Isaac,  659. 
Raliinger,  Samuel  H.,  224 
Banes,  William  M.,  638. 
Barbour,  Francis,  1057. 
Barefoot,  W.  B.,  50  i. 
Barnes,  lobn  W.,203. 
Bassett,  David  1)..  1017. 
Baxter,  William,  107. 
Bean,  )ohn,  .591. 
Beard,  Everett  R.,  616. 
Beard,  O.  P.,  935. 
Beard,  Williani,  516. 
Beck,  John  W.,442. 
Beeson,  Benjamin  B.,  645. 
Keeson,  Beniamin  F.,  43. 
Beeson,  Charles,  987. 
Beeson,  Elwood,  571. 
Beeson,  Florance  K.,  654. 
Beeson,  Ge.orj.'e  W.,  879. 
Beeson,  Lycuriius  W.,626. 
Beeson,  Marquis  I).,  665. 
Beeson,  O.  H.,  613. 
Benbow,  Joseiih,  962. 
Benbow,  Arthur  T..  963. 
Bennett,  Thoma.s  W.,  392. 
Berry,  Ann,  145.  . 
Berry,  Genrjie,  144. 
Berry.  William  H.,  719. 
Best,' William  P..  1044. 
Bieshle,  Alexander  W.,  10 
Bilby.  Frantis  M..  46. 
Binkley,  Charles  C,  36. 
Bishop,  Georu'e,  42S. 
Blacklidpe,  Alfred,  6.56. 


Blose,  John  V.,  1041. 
Bond,  Ahner  D.,  104. 
Bopd,  Henry  T.,  104. 
Bond,  lesse,  104. 
Borton",  Jesse  D.,  873. 
Bourne,  Nathan,  948. 
Bowman,  John,  583. 
Boyd,  John  C,  694. 
Bracken,  William  H.,  880. 
Bradbury,  William  H.,  265. 
Bradnck,  As.i  V.,  958. 
Bra.lv,  Inlin  1'..  1008. 
Bniid.lus,  HnMKM-  M.,  796. 
Bruokii.,111,  |,.hii   W".,  .590. 
Brooks,  lames  E.,  746. 
Brown,  Franklin  J.,  820. 
Brown,  Lewis  J.,  1019. 
Brown,  Rebecca  M.,  229. 
Brown.  Martin  V.,  139. 
Buckingham,  George  B.,  781. 
Bulla,  Daniel,  998. 
Bundrant,  Charles  H.,  550. 
Bundy,  John  E.,  226. 
Burbank,  John  A.,  395. 
Burchenal,  Charles  H.,  84. 
Burner,  Jacob,  889. 
Bur-ess,  Andrew,  211. 
Buri/oyni-,  lulius  C,  985. 
Burk.Elisha,  825. 
Burke,  L.  L.,  536. 
Burkharl,  John,  898. 
Burnside,  Ambrose  E.,  48. 
Burnside,  Edghill,221. 
Burnside,  Thonias  C,  219 
Burt,  Aretus  F.,  185. 
Byram,  .Silas  1).,  286. 


Callowav,  John,  975. 
Campbell,  Thomas,  330. 
Canaday,  Nathan  F,  567. 
Carpenter,  Walter  T.,  235. 
Carter,  Abraham  S.,  838. 
Carter,  Calvin,  740. 
Case,  Absalom  R.,  1029. 
Gates,  Jesse,  3S4. 
Gates,  Rebecca,  384. 
Chance,  Euphrates  I.,  900. 
Chandlee,  Webster,  938. 
Chrisman,  Jesse,  684. 
Clark,  Hezekiah,411. 
Claypool,  .Austin  B.,  752. 


INDEX. 


Claypoiil,  Benjamin  F.,  874. 
Clevenger,  Francis  M.,  922. 
Clevenger,  Joseph,  862. 
Clevenger,  Samuel  S.,  455. 
Coddington,  Benjamin  F.,  47 
Coffey,  Bert,  974. 
Colburn,  Clarence  P.,  727. 
Coleman,  Rowland,  419. 
Conn,  Clemenc,  892. 
Connaway,  Joseph  W.,  374. 
Conwell,  Abram  B.,  563. 
Cook,  Alexander  P.,  748. 
Cook,  John  W.,682. 
Cook,  William  H.,  71.8. 
Corrin-ton,  Joseph,  848. 
Cory.  Clement  R.,  816. 
Cranor.  Milo,  253. 

Crist,  Casiier  c'.,  690. 
Crist.  Henry,  795. 
Crockett,  Charles  C,  402. 
Culhertson.  lohn  M.,  944. 
Cully,  l.eander  J.,  742. 
C  unninshani,  Robert  A.,  277. 
Ciirine,  Arthur  A.,  376. 
Curry.  iMilton,  976. 
Curry,  Ralph,  9ti0. 
Custer.  B.  B.,  292. 
Cutter,  Henry,  471. 


D. 

Dale,  Joseph,  .541. 
Davis,  Albert,  .343. 
Davis.  T  Henrv,  670. 
I-teal,  Beniaiuin  F,,  l,-,0. 
Deal.Otis  F.,  152. 
Decl,-r.  Allvn  S.,3(ll. 
Di-li;n-,.n,  i;un.  s  1     "><S 
D^'iiii    .•v,"\\,'lliam  ,S.,348. 
!>■-.;,,  l-avul  W.,  17. 
l>.-iinis,  Matt,,- C., 'JO. 
nerbyshirc,  Kphraini,  31. 

I)iiks..n,  lohn,  1037.  ""  ' 
Dilk.s  C„  ;,rt;e   K.,49S. 
Dilks,  Wilham  \V.,999. 
Dillinjr.  l.cvi  S.,  7.55. 
Dillnian,  l.iirtun  D..  S.^4. 


J.,  45 


D.  Hid  rid-, 

Dn,l,h-id.;,,  M>,nkcai  U.,  98. 
Doty,  John  A.,  lo:d. 
Dougan,  h.lm  B..  592. 
Dougherty,  lames  P.,  318. 
Douthit,  Charle.s,  H21. 
Downs,  Tlmmas,  34. 
Douns,  William  F.,  116. 
l)ra|.i(T,  Charles  A.,  739. 
Drul.^y,  Flmer   M.,  57S. 
Drury,  Isaac  N..  415. 
Dugdale,  [ames  K.,  49.5. 
Dugdalc',  Samuel  C,  12(i. 
Du  Hadway,  Caleb  S.,  504. 
Du  Hadway,  Charles  R.,  505 


Egelston,  Benjamin  F.,  1061. 
Eikenberry,  Daniel,  260. 
Elliott,  Jesse  P.,  749. 
Ellis,  Elwood  O.,  436. 
Elwell,  Hiram   C,  1.53. 
Erb,  William  H.  H.,  886. 
Erk,  Edward  H„  710. 
Exans,  Isaac  P.,  302. 
Evans,  Thomas  D.,  171. 


F. 

FaL,'an,  William  B.,  697. 
Farl.uv.  Willam  S.,3fi6. 
Fer-uson.  Charley,  7.32. 
Ferguson,  Elizabeth,  706 
Ferguson,  Linville.  704 
Ferguson,  Oliver,  6.50. 
Finfrock,  William,  731. 
Finney,   loseph,  258. 
Fisher,  James  T.,  839. 
Fletcher,  Samuel  F.,  9.54. 
Ford,  Thomas  J.,  608. 
Fosdick,  Albert  C,  445. 
Fox.  Henrv  C.  3. 
Freeman,  Perry  }..  237. 
Fries,  John  A. ,711. 
Fi<,st,  Hyatt  I.„  7(is. 
Fulghum,  F.  C,  Ii(l4 
Fulghum,  ().  B.,  242. 
Fulghum,  Oscar  E.,  Ii03. 


C.aar.  Abram,  24. 
(iaar,  Clem  A.,  26. 
Gaar  Fanulv,  The, 
(~.aar.  Fielding,  30. 
C.aar,  Jolin  ,A1.,  27. 

C.aar,  "jonas,' .Sr.'.  2. 


(.ant,  N\ 


el  W., 
m.  10( 


41 II  I. 


<  .ardner,  Stei>hen.  .'171. 
Gardner,  Warner,  386. 
Garwood,  Nathan  F.,  281. 
Getz.  Jacob,  512. 
Gifford,  .Samuel  A,,  996. 
Gifford,  Thomas,  99li. 
Gilmore,  |oseph  C,  724. 
(7oble,  Samuel    H.,  S!I4. 
Goodwin,  Charles  F-,  803. 
Goodwin,  John  K.,  silO. 
Gordin,  Si.nitim  1-;,,  11136. 
Gordon,  J.  liennnt,  205. 
Gordon,  iMahlon  C,  062. 
Graef,  John  L.,  865. 
Graham,  W.  B.,364. 
Graver,  Christian  H.,  435. 
Gray,  J.  E.,  674. 
Grubb,  Hezekiah,  114. 


Hackman,  Joseph  F.,  1072. 
Had  ley,  Edwin,  263. 
Haman,  John  F.,  120. 
Hamilton,  Samuel  N.,832. 
Hanilyn,  Walter,  847. 
Hammond,  lames,  1009. 
Handler,  Weslev,  81.=.. 
Hanna,  House  .1,  KiL'i;. 
Harold,  Isa.ic  S.,  4(il. 
Harrell,  Samuel  S..  1>)2. 
Harrell,  Sarah  C,  I'.U. 
Harris.  Branson  L.,  102. 
Harrison,  Thomas  H.,  178. 
Harrison,  Timothv,  17(i. 
Hartley,  John  iM.,'542. 
Harvey,  Daniel  T.,  267. 
Harvev,  Joseph  J.,  965. 
Hastings,  E.  R.,  658. 
Hau^hlon,  Richard  E.,  325. 
Hawkins.  David,  994. 
Hawley,  Andrew  D.,  299. 
HavVorth,  David  B.,  4U6. 
Haworth,  Richard  M.,  403. 
Hays,  Joseph,  818. 
Hays,  Josiah  A.,  818. 
Heim,  George  iM.,  493. 
Henry,  James  W.,  486. 
Henrv,  lesse  S.,  367. 
Hen  wood,  |ohn  S.,  916. 
Higgs,  Johh  M.,  197. 
High,  Edwin  W.,  483. 
Hill,  Benjamin,  341. 
Hill,  Daniel,  413. 
Hill,  George,  82. 
Hill,  Kiitridge,  231. 
Hill,  Lloyd  k.,  233. 
Himelick,  John  W.,  1035. 
Hite,  William,  10.50. 
Hoerner,  David  1.,  240. 
HotTman,  A.  Z.,  1010. 
Holland,  George,  55. 
Holliday,  Martin  V„  810. 
Hoover,  David,  183. 
Hoover,  Elias  M.,  63.5. 
Hoover,  Larkin,  290. 
Hoover,  Lewis,  569. 
Hopkins,  Edward,  1048. 
Hopkins,  R,  R.,  312. 
Hoshour,  Philip  J.,  9,50. 
Hosier,  A.  M.,  06. 
Howell,  Erastus  H.,  407. 
Howren,  Guy  B.,  602. 
Hubbell,  Charles  W.,  732. 
Huddleslon,  Sdas,  660. 
Huff,  Daniel,  805. 
Huff,  Oliver  N.,800. 
Hughes,  Charles  E.,  518. 
Hughes,  Isaac  M.,  474. 
Hunt,  William  M.,  702. 
Hurst,  Cyrus  O.,  141. 
Hurst,  Horace  L.,  127. 
Hutton,  Jesse  NL,  307. 
Hutton.John  H.,  :!32. 


J- 
Jackson,  Caleb  B.,  609. 
Jackson,  Richard,  346. 
Jay,  Allen,  6. 
Jay,  Eli,  .574. 
Jemison,  John  K.,  24i;. 
Johnson,  Bcni.iimn,  448. 
Johnson,  James  H.,  479. 
Johnson,  lames  ().,  269. 
lohnson,  'Melvne  i\L,  433. 
lohnston,  E.  Dwight,  96. 
[ones,  .•\bram  B..  931. 
Jones,  Charles  F.,  992. 
Jones,  Philip  T.,  966. 
Jones,  P.  T.,  758. 
Jones,  Sylvester  H.,  677. 
Jordan,  Charles  W.,  309. 


Kaler,  William  S.,  1046. 
Kamp,  Henry  F.,  744. 
Kennedy.  James  P.,  640. 
Kennepohl,  Bernard  A.,  491. 
Kenworthy,  |esse  J.,  228. 
J<err.  |.  IX,  21U. 
Kibbey,  John  F.,  13.3. 
King,  James  K.,  .597. 
King,  John,  799. 
Kinsey,  Isaac  E.,  812. 
Klein,  George  L.,  743, 
Koogle,  John  W.,  560. 

L. 

Lacey,  M,  M.,  389. 
Lackey,  Charles  L.,  699. 
Lackey,  John  S.,234. 
La  Fuze,  Danford,  169. 
La  Fuze,  Joseph,  477.  • 

Lamb,  Isaac,  lOOL 
Lamb,  Phineas,  .54. 
Lamberson,  Samuel,  1065. 
Lamberson,  William  T.,  1070. 
Land,  Frank,  693. 
Land,  Horatio  N.,776. 
Langfermann,  John  B.,  10.52. 
Lee,  Anna  C,  91.5. 
Lee.  Isaac  K.,  915. 
Lee,  Joseph  J.,  939. 
Lewis,  Allen  W.,  29.5. 
Lewis,  Charles  S.,  174. 
Lichtenfels,  Peter,  1040. 
Limpus,  Wdham  F.,  980. 
Lindemuth,  Arthur  C,  443.  , 
Lvons,  David,  682. 


M. 


Manlove,  Allre( 
Manlove,  John 


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sli,  lames  M.,  IW 

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McK. 

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Me;,;   Lliiisiian,  in:,;:. 
Men.l.  n'nall,  Carver  |.,  42U. 
Men.!eiihall.  W illiani,  ::-J4. 
Me.-e,lith.  Henrv  C.  7N'J. 
Mer.-dith,  S..loiii<in.  'J7F 
Mer.-.lith,  N'nx'inia  C,  4.VJ. 
\l--reM,  William,  (W;,. 

'■.-on.  William  H.  H.,fi42 
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ii;.  Ali:],.!,.  :>24. 
Moore,  Keiiry  H.,  515. 
Moore,  Joseph,  IVtO. 
Monre,  Matthia.s  ^F,  4ili;. 
Moore,  .Samuel,  y»l. 
Moore,  Theodore  A„  497. 
M., ore,  William  D.,  497. 
Moorman,  lienjaniin,  199. 
Moorman,  Henry,  2«). 
Moorman,  Richmond,  294. 
Moriran.  David  L.,  778. 
Morgan,  Nathan,  21(i. 
A!organ,  Richard,  991. 
M  irgan,  Spencer,  $9U. 
Morris,  Samuel  H.,  180. 
M. -ton,  Oliver,  P„  91. 
Mou,  Thoiiias  A.,499. 
Mount,  Charles,  8811 
Muir.  William  H.,  857. 
Mull.  Philip  L.,  911. 
Munirer,  Lazarus,  13. 
.Murray,  W.T.,  767. 


X. 

Xevvkirk,  \\'illiam,  875. 
Newman,  Edmund  B.,  79 
Newton,  Abner  N.,  555. 
Nicholson,  Timothy,  422. 
Nye,  Zadock  A.,  439. 


O^born,  .\i1iert  G..  409. 
O'sbcrn,  Al..n/o,  1014. 
Osb.irn,  Inlin,  ;-;i4. 
Osborne,  Clarenee  W.,  Hb; 
Osburn.  William,  103ii. 
Ostheimer,  Simon,  928. 
Overhiser,  Willard  B.,  68(>. 


Paddack,  Cassandra  E..  91 
Paddack,  Charles  R.,  912. 
Paige,  Ralph  A.,  201. 
Parker,  Samuel  VV.,  239. 
Parrv,  M-irdecai,  509. 
Parrv,  William,  S4<;. 
ParrV,  Webster,  511. 
Parsons,  Cr.irue  W.,  417. 
I'axs.in,  Isa.ic  H„  50S. 
Pearce,  .\slier,  5S5. 
Peelle,  h,hn,  s(;4. 
Pelsnr,  Peter  D.,  (>23. 
Phillips,  George  W.,  1051. 
Pierce,  Elnn-r  £.,  759. 
Pierce,  X.  F..  SO. 
Pi-man  Familv.  The,  432. 
Pigman,  (Jeorge  W.,  432. 
Powers,  Thomas,  956. 
Price,  Charles  T.,  Sr.,  526. 
Price,  Joel  B.,  947. 

Quick,  John  H.,  760. 
yuinn,  Harlan  R.,415. 
Ouinn,  Jonathan  B.,  420. 


Kanck,  Geoixe  W.,  904. 
RathlF  Cornelius,  16.5. 
Ratlin,  loseph  C,  164. 
Ratiiff,  Walter  S..  222. 
Reed,  Frank  1.,  456. 
Reed,  Irven,  456. 
Reeves,  James  K.,  63. 
Rehling,  William,  73S. 
Reid.  Daniel  G.,  320. 
Reid,  Klla  D.,  322. 
-Reid.  William  D.,  68. 
Reilel,  Charles  C.  1071. 
R.vn..ias,  losiah   lU'.l. 
Reynolds,  ^Marcus  D.  L., 
Rklenour,  Tobias  M.,  26.- 
Ridge,  Jacob,  159. 
Riegel,  David,  337. 


INDEX. 


R.iisbv.  Iuhn,;f70. 
kik.T.'.Aios.-s,  (;68. 
Rolihms.  Cenr^e  W.,  538. 
R.ibbins,  Ii.hnF.,  252. 
RdliL-rts,  Klizaheth,  fJSB. 
Roberts.  Frank  C,  4t;:l 
Roberts.  Jonathan.  121. 
Roberts,  Thomas  W.,  .'i72. 
Robinson,  Hanson  J,,  8T0. 
Rockwell,  Wilham,  s:',(l. 
Rodman,  James  .\.,  794. 
Rose,  lames  C„  4VI4. 
R.K.ts,' Francis  M.,  78:). 
Roots,  Francis  T.,  Kil. 
Ross.  .Andrew  I.,  lOtW. 
Roth,  Willianr.A.,  tiilU. 
Rude  Brothers  Mnt\'.  Co..  3.58. 
Rude  Family,  The,  Hr,x. 
Rude,  Geortfe  W.,  Ml'd. 
Rude,  John' F.,:3I12. 
Rude,  Squire  ll.  ;!(10. 


Sanders,  Wesley,  1023. 
Schmuck,  Moses,  589. 
Scholl,  George,  87f;. 
.Schurman,  Geort;e,  f>i'4. 
Schuriuan,  Henrv  G.,  &A. 
.Sclnvr-Dumn,  loseph,  Sr.,  105 
Scoti,  Andrew  F.,  109. 
Scuti,  Aii-ustiisC,  ll;i. 
Scott,  Fhas  1'.,  173. 
Scott,  Smith,  1060. 
Scott,  William  G.,  72. 
Scott,  William  f.,  1045. 
.Seal,  Frank  F.,"840. 
Seal,  Henrv  H.,  775. 
S.-al.   ioli,;;  1111.,-,. 
Sedu'wick,  l.s],am,488. 
Sh.ihr,  i.roruv  W.,  902. 
ShalVr,  ].,>^-f\u  '^90. 


Shields,  Mar-aret,  5. 
Shipley,  Samuel  J.,  218. 
Shirk.  Andrew,  362. 
Shirk.  John  C,  352. 
Shively,  Josiah,  .562. 
Short,  John  H.,  89. 
Showalter,  James  C,  724. 
Shult/,  James,  1033. 
Sinks,  Augustus  M..  072. 
Sinks,  (ieorge  M.,  383. 
Sipe,  Richard  VV.,76. 
Skinner,  John  T.,  632. 
Sinalley,  Allison  A.,  872. 
Sinelser,  Isham,  10(). 
Smelser,  John,  106. 
Snielser,  Nicholas,  276. 
Smith,  Alpheus  M.,  764. 
Smith,  Andrew  J.,  633. 


Smith,  lienjamin,  926. 
Smith,  Caleb  11.,  319. 
Smith.  Is.iac  N'..  <i76. 


Smith.  John 

W.,  842. 

Smith,  Lew 

is  P.,  248. 

Smith.  Oliv 

.r  H.,245. 

Sniollev.  M 

,iud  C,  957. 

Snvdei-;  l,.s 

hiia  M.,311. 

Spain-,  |,.s.; 

ph  D.,  482. 

Si.arks.'Fli 

/.ibeth,  896. 

Sparks,  Mil 

,1111,  896. 

S|.ekenhier 

.John  A.,  692. 

nren/o  D.,  600. 

Squier,  (I.-, 

irge  K.,  769. 

eland  H.,  208. 

Stanley,  Ah 

■s.  /..  H.,  .398. 

Stanley,  Za 

chariah  |.,  .•«)7. 

Stanton,  Fr 

anklin,  465. 

Starr,  diarl 

;es  W.,  .V_'9. 

Starr,   janie 

s   M..  XU. 

Starr,  \\  illi 

.1111   C.,    "i-'d. 

St.irr,  Willi 

.1111   (  '.  .,  ti'.l'.t. 

St.  Cl.iir,  !>: 

ihn  \\  .,  11111:1. 

Sti-xi-n-;    Sti 

■vch  C '.,  SS4. 

Steyrnsim, 

(ir,,,-,.  W  ,  339. 

Strattan,  Sti-phi-n  .s.,  7,1 
Straltan,  St,-plien  S..  Ir., 
Straiih,  CleopliHS,  I'sil. 
Stu.irt,  .\m<iS,  -VJll. 
Surface  .^  Flickinger,  46' 
Surface,  Daniel,  469. 
Swain.  Charles  G.,  255. 
Swift,  Ferdinand  S.,  736. 


Talbert,  Jabez,  388. 
Tatman,  John  M.,  .535. 
Te.i-lr,  l.r.indrr  A.,  .556. 
Teri,r.  L.«i^  W.,  .548. 
Ti-nnis,  iM-arl,  349. 


Test,  Jam.-  W  .,  515. 
Test,  William,  513. 
Test,  Zar,  hens,  148. 
Thistlethwaite,  'I'imothy,  261. 
Thomas,  llUis,  357. 
Thomas,  Franklin  Y.,  605. 
Thomas,  John  A.,  982. 
Thompsr.n,  John,  823. 
TlK,mp.<on,  William  .M..  131. 
Thornbiirg,  Oliver  .M.,  715. 

Thursion.Kli  H.,  843. 
Theistoii.  losrpli  M..5S0. 
Tm-I,  .  l,,hii  W  ..  -.'97. 

r,,l.i-\,  k.Mib,  i     .122. 

rruhl.  I,  P      ,n.,n,  936. 
Truebi.H.   ,  William   N.,  440. 
Trusl   ,,  .Milton,  9. 


Turner,  lobn  W..  254. 
Tuttli-,  Samuel,  111. 
Tyner,  John  H.,  74. 


Uhl,  John,  207. 

Union  County  Schools,  616. 

I'nthank,  Charles  R..  722. 


Van  Meter.  J.  Al.,  845. 
\'oorhees.  Herbert  S.,  264. 
\'oris,  Oliver  L.,  67. 


\V. 

Waddell,  Walter,  747. 
Waggoner,  .^bram,  868. 
Waggoner,  Lot  S.,  888. 
Watker,  James  H.,  118. 
Wallace," Joseph,  942. 
Wallace,  Lewis,  41. 
Ward,  George  W.,  838. 
Watt,  Anthony,  728. 
Watt,  Robert,  859. 
Waist,  Jacob  R.,  186. 
Westcott,  John  M.,  124. 
White,  Alexander  S.,  689. 
Whitesell,  Samuel  C,  427. 
Whitney,  Asa  T.,  681. 
Whitney,  Isaac  W.,  918. 


Whitridgc,  lohn  C,  816. 
Wilev.  Adohiiah,  978. 
Wilev.  Cnrntiius  E.,  1021. 
Wilev,  S,,encer.  720. 
Williams,  Albert  E.,  93. 
Williams,  Charles  R.,  852. 
Williams,  Joseph  B.,  552. 
Williams,  Olive,  835. 
Williams,  Richard,  595. 
Williams,  Thomas,  837. 
Williamson,  Franklin,  480. 
Wilson,  Lemuel  J.,  878. 
Wineburg-,  W.  E.,  971. 
Wissler,  Benjamin  P.,  304. 
Witter,  Joseph,  467. 
Wolfe,  John  E.,  486. 
Wood,  Alexander,  350. 
Wood,  John,  466. 
Wood,  William  L.,  351. 
Worster,  Thomas  W.,  565. 
Wright,  C.  T.,  737. 
Wright,  Frank  A.,  883. 
Wright,  John,  8&3. 

Y. 

Yager,  loseph,  700. 
Yocom,' William  M.,  696. 
Young,  >L  L.,  701. 


Zacharias.  William  J.,  7S6 
Zeller,  Daniel  K.,  568. 


INTRODUCTORY. 


Out  of  the  depths  of  his  mature  wisdom  Carlyle  wrote:  "  History  is 
the  essence  of  innumerable  biographies. "  Farther  than  this  what  propriety 
can  there  be  in  advancing  reasons  for  the  compilation  of  such  a  work  as  the 
one  at  hand.'  The  group  of  counties  embraced  in  this  work  has  sustained 
within  its  confines  men  who  have  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  the  state 
and  nation  from  the  early  pioneer  epoch  of  the  middle  west.  Its  annals  teem 
with  the  records  of  strong  and  noble  manhood  and  womanhood,  and,  as  Sum- 
ner 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  individual  men  and  the  destinies  of  states  are  often  the  sanje. 
They  are  usually  remote  and  obscure;  their  influence  wholly  unexpected  until 
declared  by  results.  When  they  inspire  men  to  the  exercise  of  courage,  self- 
denial,  enterprise,  industry,  and  call  into  play  the  higher  moral  elements; 
lead  men  to  risk  all  upon  conviction,  faith, — such  causes  lead  to  the  planting 
of  great  states,  great  nations,  great  peoples.  That  nation  is  greatest  which 
produces  the  greatest  and  most  manly  men,  and  the  intrinsic  safety  depends 
not  so  much  upon  methods  and  measures  as  upon  that  true  manhood  from 
whose  deep  sources  all  that  is  precious  and  permanent  in  life  must  at  last  pro- 
ceed. Such  a  result  may  not  consciously  be  contemplated  by  the  individuals 
instrumental  in  the  production  of  a  great  nation.  Pursuing  each  his  personal 
good  by  exalted  means,  they  work  out  this  as  a  logical  result.  They  have 
wrought  on  the  lines  of  the  greatest  good. 

Ceaselessly  to  and  fro  flies  the  deft  shuttle  which  weaves  the  web  of 
human  destiny,  and  into  the  vast  mosaic  fabric  enter  the  individuality,  the 
effort,  the  accomplishment  of  each  man,  be  his  station  that  most  lowly,  or 
one  of  majesty,  pomp  and  power.  Within  the  textile  folds  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  through  warp  and  woof,  marring  the  composite  beauty  by  its  blackened 
threads,  ever  in  evidence  of  the  shadowed  and  unprolific  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   biograph\-  finds   much  of  profit   and 


X  INTRODUCTORY. 

much  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  respect- 
ive personality.  These  efforts  and  their  resulting  transmission  can  not  fail  of 
value  in  an  objective  way,  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  uncertaint}-.  So  much  in  excess  of  those  of  successes  are  the  rec- 
ords of  failures  or  semi-failures  that  one  is  constrained  to  attempt  an  analysis 
in  either  case  and  to  determine  the  method  of  causation  in  an  appro.ximate 
way.  The  march  of  improvement  and  progress  is  accelerated  day  by  day, 
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  reputa- 
tion is  the  property  of  the  world.  The  laws  of  nature  have  forbidden  isola- 
tion. Every  human  being  either  submits  to  the  controlling  influence  of 
others,  or,  as  a  master,  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  con- 
servators 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 
is  now  looking  down  with  haughty  stare  upon  the  noble  toilers  on  land  and 
sea,  sneering  at  the  omission  of  the  aspirate,  the  cut  of  his  neighbor's  coat  or 
the  humbleness  of  his  dwelling,  would  be  voluntarily  doing  penance  in  sack- 
cloth and  ashes,  at  the  end  of  which  he  would  handle  a  spade  or,  with  pen  in 
hand,  burn  the  midnight  oil  in  his  study,  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  char- 
acter, the  deepest  patriotism  and  the  most  exalted  purpose,  and  through  all 
the  gradations  of  life  recognition  should  be  had  of  the  true  values  and  then 
should  full  appreciation  be  manifested. 


INTRODUCTORY.  xi 

In  the  Biographical  and  Genealogical  History  of  W'ajne,  Fajette,  Union 
and  Franklin  counties  the  editorial  staff,  as  well  as  the  publishers,  have  fully 
realised  the  magnitude  of  the  task  set  them.  The  work  is  purely  biographical 
in  its  province,  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  sub- 
jects, and  yet  to  exclude  none  worthy  of  representation  within  its  pages. 
Those  who  have  been  prominent  factors  in  the  public,  social  and  industrial 
makeup  of  the  counties  in  the  past  have  been  given  due  recognition  as  far  as 
it  has  been  possible  to  secure  the  requisite  data.  Names  worthy  of  perpetu- 
ation here  have  in  several  instances  been  omitted,  either  on  account  of  the 
apathetic  interest  of  those  concerned  or  the  inability  to  secure  the  information 
demanded.  Yet,  in  both  the  contemporary  narrative  and  the  memoirs  of 
those  who  have  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  promises  made  at  the 
inception  of  the  undertaking. 

In  the  compilation  recourse  has  been  had  to  divers  authorities,  including 
various  histories  and  historical  collections,  and  implying  an  almost  endless 
array  of  papers  and  documents,  public,  private,  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  incur- 
ring a  modicum  of  errors  and  inaccuracies,  would  be  too  much  to  e.\pect  of 
any  corps  of  writers,  no  matter  how  able  they  might  be  as  statisticians  or 
skilled  as  compilers  of  such  works.  It  is,  nevertheless,  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  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  touching  the 
general  histor\'  of  the  counties,  for  the  function  of  this  work  is  a,side  frorti 
this  and  is  definite  in  its  scope,  so  that  a  recapitulation  would  be  out  of  har- 
mony with  the  compilation.  However,  the  incidental  references  made  to 
those  who  have  been  the  important  actors  in  the  public  and  civic  history  of 
the  counlj'  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 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY 

...OF  ... 

WAYNE,  FAYETTE,  UNION  and  FRANKLIN  COUNTIES 


THE  GAAR  FAMILY. 

If  a  complete  account  of  the  events  which  form  the  history  of  Wayne 
county  were  written  no  name  would  appear  more  frequently  or  figure  more 
prominently  in  connection  with  leading  events  than  that  of  Gaar.  Through 
many  decades  representatives  of  the  family  have  been  important  factors  in 
the  public  life,  especially  that  department  bearing  on  the  industrial  and  com- 
mercial development  whereby  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  county  has 
been  assured.  From  the  Fatherland  came  the  first  American  ancestors,  who 
left  their  Bavarian  home  and  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the  shores  of  the  New 
World.  Their  first  location  was  made  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania, 
whence  they  removed  at  a  later  date  to  Virginia.  In  1807  the  first  settle- 
ment of  the  family  was  made  in  Wayne  county,  then  a  wild  western  region 
on  the  very  borders  of  civilization.  The  Indians  had  not  departed  for  west- 
ern hunting  grounds,  fleeing  before  the  oncoming  tide  of  civilization;  the  for- 
ests stood  in  their  primeval  strength,  and  the  broad  prairies  had  been 
unturned  by  the  plow. 

Such  was  the  condition  of  the  country  into  which  Abraham  Gaar  made 
his  way  more  than  four  score  years  ago.  He  was  born  in  Madison  county, 
Virginia,  February  28,  1769,  and  was  there  reared  to  manhood.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Dinah  Weaver,  who  was  likewise  born  in  the  Old  Dominion  and 
was  also  of  German  lineage.  In  1805  they  became  pioneers  of  Kentucky, 
and  in  1807  they  made  their  wa\' to  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  locating  in  what 
is  now  Boston  township,  where  Abraham  Gaar  secured  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  land  from  the  government.  A  little  clearing  was  soon  made 
and  a  log  cabin  erected.  Then  other  trees  were  cut  down  and  such  veg- 
etables and  grains  planted  as  would  supply  the  family  with  the  necessaries  of 
life.  As  the  years  passed,  however,  and  the  work  of  development  was  con- 
tinued, the  entire  tract  was  placed  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  wav- 
ing fields  of  grain  svere  seen  where  once  stood  the  uncut  timber.      The  father 


2  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  the  family  thus  took  an  active  part  in  reclaiming  the  wild  tract  for  the 
uses  of  civilization,  and  was  active  in  promoting  the  agricultural  interests  of 
the  count)'.  His  untiring  industry,  energy  and  well  directed  efforts  at  length 
were  crowned  with  success,  and  ere  the  end  of  his  earthly  pilgrimage  he  found 
himself  in  possession  of  a  good  home  and  a  comfortable  competence.  His 
religious  obligations  were  never  neglected,  and  even  in  the  days  when 
churches  had  not  been  established,  and  when  ministers  had  not  found  their 
way  into  the  new  region,  he  gathered  his  family  around  him  for  worship  on 
the  first  day  of  the  week,  and  was  ever  observant  of  his  Christian  duties  as  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  wife  was  alike  faithful  and  earnest,  and 
they  gave  a  generous  support  to  the  erection  of  a  house  of  worship  in  their 
locality  and  to  the  establishment  of  a  Baptist  congregation.  Having  for 
more  than  half  a  century  borne  an  important  part  in  the  development  and 
upbuilding  of  Wayne  county,  Abraham  Gaar  passed  to  his  final  rest  August 
20,  1 861,  and  his  wife  died  September  26,  1834,  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years, 
ten  months  and  one  day. 

This  worthy  couple  were  the  parents  of  eight  children:  Jonas;  Fielding, 
•who  died  in  Utah;  Larkin,  who  resided  on  the  old  family  homestead  in  Bos- 
ton township,  Wayne  county;  Abel,  who  made  his  home  in  Michigan;  Fan- 
nie, deceased  wife  of  William  Lamb,  of  Iowa;  Rosa,  deceased  wife  of  John 
Ingels;  Martha,  who  was  the  wife  of  Jeptha  Turner;  and  Eliza  J.,  wife  of 
Thomas  Henderson,  of  Iowa.  All  of  this  family  are  now  deceased  except 
Eliza  J. 

Jonas  Gaar,  who  was  the  eldest,  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Virginia, 
February  i,  1792,  and  came  with  the  family  to  Wayne  county  in  1807.  He 
was  therefore  reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of  frontier  life,  enduring  many  of 
the  hardships  and  privations  which  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  pioneer.  He  pur- 
sued his  studies  in  a  log  school-house,  but  acquired  his  education  largely 
through  self-culture.  He  was  a  great  reader  and  a  close  observer  of  men  and 
events,  and  in  the  busy  affairs  of  life  added  greatly  to  his  knowledge.  He 
and  his  younger  brother.  Fielding,  were  soldiers  in  the  war  of  1812,  doing 
duty  on  the  frontier  in  defence  of  the  homes  and  lives  of  the  border  settlers. 
He  assisted  in  the  work  of  the  home  farm  until  attaining  his  majority,  when 
he  resolved  to  learn  a  trade,  and  took  up  that  of  cabinet-making.  In  1820 
he  established  a  little  cabinet  shop  of  his  own  in  Richmond,  where  he  carried 
on  business  for  a  number  of  years. 

In  1836  he  extended  his  operations  into  other  fields  of  labor  by  estab- 
lishing a  foundry  and  machine  shop,  in  connection  with  Abel  Thornbury  and 
Job  W.  Swain.  The  plant  was  operated  by  a  rotary  steam  engine,  the  first 
steam  engine  in  the  county,  but  the  enterprise  was  conducted  for  only  a  few 
years,  and  for  a  decade  thereafter  Jonas  Gaar  was  connected  with  other  busi- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  3 

ness  lines.  In  1849,  in  connection  with  his  sons,  Abram  and  John  M.,  and 
his  son-in-law,  William  G.  Scott,  he  purchased  of  Jesse  M.  and  John  H. 
Hutton  their  machine  works,  which  later  became  the  extensive  Spring  foundry, 
then  A.  Gaar  &  Company  and  lastly  the  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company's  machine 
works.  This  was  the  foundation  for  the  present  mammoth  establishment 
now  conducted  under  the  last  mentioned  title.  Mr.  Gaar,  his  two  sons  and 
his  son-in-law,  were  all  natural  mechanics  and  soon  the  old  foundry  business 
was  placed  upon  a  paying  business  basis  and  its  patronage  steadily  increased. 
Prior  to  this  time  it  had  never  been  a  profitable  enterprise.  On  the  ist  of 
April,  1870,  the  name  was  changed  to  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  and  Jonas 
Gaar  continued  to  be  identified  therewith  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
June  21,  1875.  In  1870  the  business  was  incorporated  with  a  paid-up  capi- 
tal of  four  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Abram  Gaar  then  became  president 
of  the  company,  and  so  continued  until  his  death. 

In  1818  Jonas  Gaar  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sarah  Watson,  a 
native  of  Kentucky,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  eight  children:  Abram, 
born  November  14,  1819;  Malinda,  born  November  11,  1821;  John  Milton, 
born  May  26,  1823;  Samuel  W.,  born  October  22,  1824;  Fielding,  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1827;  Emeline,  born  June  16,  1829;  Elizabeth,  born  June  27,  1831; 
and  Fannie  A.,  born  October  5,  1853.  All  have  now  passed  away  with  the 
exception  of  John  M.,  Fielding,  Emeline  Land  and  Elizabeth  Campbell.  The 
father  died  June  21,  1875,  and  the  mother's  death  occurred  November  8, 
1863.  Though  his  business  demanded  much  of  his  attention,  he  yet  found 
time  to  labor  for  the  advancement  of  many  movements  and  measures  cal- 
culated to  benefit  the  community  and  promote  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  men. 
He  was  a  public-spirited,  progressive  citizen,  honored  for  his  integrity  in 
industrial  life,  for  his  fidelity  to  every  trust,  and  his  faithfulness  to  family 
and  friends.     A  portrait  of  Jonas  Gaar  appears  as  frontispiece  of  this  volume. 

JUDGE  HENRY  C.  FOX. 
Henry  Clay  Fox,  judge  of  the  circuit  court  of  Wayne  county,  and  a  dis- 
tinguished jurist  of  eastern  Indiana,  was  born  near  West  Elkton,  Preble 
county,  Ohio,  on  the  20th  day  of  January,  1836,  a  son  of  Levi  and 
Rebecca  (Inman)  Fox,  the  former  of  English  and  the  latter  of  Irish  lineage. 
On  the  paternal  side  he  is  descended  from  the  celebrated  Fox  family  of  Eng- 
land that  furnished  to  that  nation  some  of  its  most  eminent  and  prominent 
representatives.  His  grandfather,  Thomas  Fox,  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey 
and  there  spent  his  entire  life,  devoting  his  energies  to  farming.  He  was 
quiet  and  unassuming  in  manner,  but  merited  and  gained  the  high  regard  of 
his  neighbors  and  friends.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Nancy  Pitman, 
and  was  a  native  of  New  York.      Levi  Fox  also  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 


4  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

where  he  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth.  In  1810  he  removed  to 
Preble  county,  Ohio,  where  he  was  extensively  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1867.  He  was  a  practical,  progress- 
ive and  enterprising  fanner  and  met  with  very  gratifying  success  in  his  under- 
taking. His  wife  passed  away  in  1846.  In  politics  he  was  an  ardent  Whig, 
and  a  great  admirer  and  a  supporter  of  Henry  Clay,  whose  name  he  bestowed 
upon  his  young  son, — the  future  judge  of  the  Wayne  county  circuit  court. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  were  active  and  influential  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  and  their  labors  largely  promoted  its  usefulness.  Mr. 
Fox  took  a  commendable  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  general 
welfare,  and  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  of  the  Eaton  &  Hamilton  Railroad, 
doing  much  good  to  secure  its  location  and  completion.  He  was  public- 
spirited,  loyal  to  American  institutions,  and  by  his  activity  in  public  affairs, 
as  well  as  by  his  upright  character,  won  the  respect  of  all  with  whom  he  came 
in  contact. 

Judge  Fox  spent  the  days  of  his  childhood  and  youth  in  the  place  of  his 
nativity,  and  having  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the  public  schools 
continued  his  studies  in  Whitewater  College,  in  Centerville,  Indiana.  In 
i860  he  removed  from  Preble  county  to  Centerville,  which  was  then  the 
county  seat  of  Wayne  county,  and  began  the  study  of  law  under  the  direction 
of  George  W.  Julian,  a  very  able  attorney,  who  recently  died  in  Irvington, 
Indiana.  After  pursuing  a  thorough  course  and  largely  familiarizing  himself 
with  the  underlying  principles  of  jurisprudence,  Mr.  Fox  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1861,  but,  instead  of  devoting  his  energies  to  building  up  a  practice,  he 
put  aside  all  personal  considerations  and  offered  his  services  to  the  govern- 
ment, becoming  a  member  of  Company  C,  Fifty-seventh  Indiana  Infantry. 
He  was  made  first  lieutenant  and  served  for  thirteen  months,  at  the  end  of 
which  time  he  was  forced  to  resign  on  account  of  failing  health.  During  that 
time,  however,  he  participated  in  the  hard-fought  battle  of  Pittsburg  Landing. 

After  his  return  home  Lieutenant  Fox  began  the  practice  of  law,  and  for 
that  purpose  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  Nimrod  H.  Johnson,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Johnson  &  Fox.  Judge  Johnson  was  the  father  of  the  Hon. 
Henry  U.  Johnson,  late  representative  in  congress  from  this  district.  In 
1875  Judge  Fox  removed  from  Centerville  to  Richmond,  and  has  since  made 
his  home  in  this  city.  He  opened  an  office  and  successfully  engaged  in  prac- 
ticing law.  In  1862  Judge  Fox  was  elected  district  attorney  for  the  common- 
pleas  district,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Wayne,  Union,  Fayette  and 
Franklin.  In  1864  he  was  re-elected,  serving  in  all  four  years  in  this  office. 
In  the  year  1878  Mr.  Fox  was  elected  judge  of  the  Wayne  superior  court, 
which  office  he  held  until  the  office  was  abolished.  On  the  25th  day  of 
August,  1892,  he  was,  by  Governor  Chase,  appointed  a  judge  on  the  appel- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  5 

late  bench  of  Indiana.  He  was  nominated  for  this  position  in  that  year  by 
the  Republican  party.  At  the  regular  fall  election  he  was  defeated  with  the 
balance  of  the  Republican  ticket.  In  the  year  1896  Judge  Fox  was  elected 
judge  of  the  seventeenth  judicial  circuit  of  Indiana,  which  position  he  now 
holds.  Judge  Fox  commands  the  respect  and  attention  of  the  bar  who  prac- 
tice before  him,  as  well  as  of  the  voters  who  elected  him. 

In  politics  the  Judge  has  been  an  ardent  Republican  all  his  life,  uncom- 
promising in  his  political  views.  For  thirty-five  years  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  is  now  a  member  of  Richmond  Lodge,  Rich- 
mond,   Indiana. 

In  May,  1S61,  Judge  Fox  was  married  to  Helen  S.  Linsley,  of  Trumbull 
county,  Ohio.  She  was  of  Scotch  and  Welsh  descent.  She  was  at  the  time 
he  married  her  a  teacher  of  music,  and  they  first  met  in  the  town  of  Seven- 
mile,  Butler  county,  Ohio,  where  Miss  Linsley  was  teaching  music  for  the 
celebrated  Professor  Hanby,  who  was  the  author  of  the  well  known  song, 
"Nellie  Gray,"  and  other  popular  ballads. 

Judge  Fox  and  his  wife  now  have  three  living  children:  Francis  L.  Fox 
is  an  attorney  in  the  city  of  Richmond.  Frederick  H.  Fox  was,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1898,  by  the  federal  government,  appointed  in  the  postal  service  for 
Cuba,  and  was  assigned  to  the  city  of  Bayamo,  military  station  No.  22,  in 
the  province  of  Santiago  de  Cuba,  as  postmaster.  This  position  he  held 
until  May,  1899,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Baracoa,  in  the  same  province, 
at  which  place  he  now  is  acting  as  postmaster.  Florence  J.  Fox  is  the  third 
child.  She  is  an  artist  of  rare  ability,  her  specialty  being  in  oil  painting  of 
animals.  She  also  excels  as  a  painter  of  portraits.  She  was  for  some  time 
a  pupil  under  Professor  Bell,  of  New  York. 

The  Judge  has  also  had  some  experience  in  literary  matters,  having  a 
very  fine  library  of  miscellaneous  books.  He,  as  a  matter  of  recreation,  has 
indulged  in  some  literary  work, principally  of  a  humorous  character.  He  won 
considerable  reputation  by  the  publication  of  a  book  entitled  "The  Advent- 
ures of  a  Philosopher,  a  Dun  Mule  and  a  Brindle  Dog,"  of  which  two  editions 
were  quickly  sold.  The  book  is  now  out  of  print  and  probably  will  never  be 
reprinted.  The  Judge  has  never  been  a  society  man,  but  has  all  his  lifebeen 
a  hard  worker,  confining  himself  to  his  profession  and  to  his  family. 

MISS  MARGARET  SHIELDS. 
Miss  Shields  is  well  known  to  the  residents  of  Connersville  township, 
and  her  home,  adjoining  the  city  of  Connersville,  is  a  most  beautiful  spot, 
has  been  in  the  family  for  years,  and  many  tender  memories  cluster  around  the 
grand  old  place.  The  name  is  an  honored  one  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana, 
Miss  Shields  having  secured  a  warm  place  in  the  affections  of  a  wide  circle  of 


6  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

friends  who  esteem  her  for  the  many  estimable  quahties  she  possesses,  as 
well  as  for  the  fact  that  she  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  Ralston  and  Anna 
(Huston)  Shields.  Her  grandparents  were  Robert  and  Nancy  Shields,  the 
former  a  native  of  Ireland,  whence  he  came  to  America  with  his  parents  in 
his  childhood.  They  settled  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  in  early -colonial 
times  and  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and  there  his  life  was  passed. 
Ralston  Shields  was  one  of  a  family  of  seven  children  and  was  the  first 
to  venture  into  the  western  country.  He  was  born  in  1790,  in  Franklin 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  remained  a  resident  of  the  Keystone  state  until 
1817,  the  year  after  Indiana  was  admitted  into  the  Union,  when  he  came 
here  and  purchased  a  tract  of  land,  in  Fayette  county,  some  two  and  one- 
half  miles  west  of  the  present  site  of  Connersville.  The  following  year  he 
returned  to  his  native  state  and  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Huston,  daughter 
of  William  and  Margaret  Huston,  whose  relatives  fought  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  He  brought  his  young  bride  to  his  Indiana  home  and  there  they  lived 
a  short  time,  until  he  had  an  opportunity  to  sell  the  land  to  advantage, 
which  he  did,  buying  other  property  farther  west  in  the  same  township. 
Here  their  children  were  born  and  reared.  His  death  occurred  in  1859,  when 
he  was  almost  seventy  years  of  age.  His  wife  survived  him  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  dying  in  1887,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-one  years. 
Ralston  Shields  was  always  industrious  and  upright  and  enjoyed  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  fellow  citizens  to  a  remarkable  extent.  Both  he  and  his 
wife  were  reared  in  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  their  lives  were  patterned  after 
the  Divine  model.  More  to  be  esteemed  than  all  the  property  left  to  the 
children,  is  the  heritage  of  a  good  name  and  worthy  parentage  with  which  they 
endowed  them.  Six  children  were  born  to  them,  namely:  William,  Robert, 
John,  James,  Benjamin  and  Margaret.  Three  of  these  are  living, — Robert,  a 
resident  of  the  state  of  Kansas;  James,  a  resident  of  California;  and  Mar- 
garet, our  subject,  who  resides  on  the  homestead  which  was  shared  by  her 
twin  brother,  Benjamin,  until  his  death,  in  1896. 

REV.  ALLEN  JAY. 
One  of  the  most  prominent  ministers  of  the  Society  of  Friends  is  Rev. 
Allen  Jay,  who  is  known  throughout  the  entire  countr}'  among  the  people  of 
his  denomination.  He  was  born  in  Miami  county,  Ohio,  on  the  iith  of 
October,  1831,  and  is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Rhoda  (Cooper)  Jay.  The  family 
is  of  English  origin,  and  its  members  have  long  been  orthodox  Quakers. 
The  father  was  a  native  of  Miami  county,  born  February  19,  181 1,  on  the 
old  homestead  which  had  been  settled  by  his  father  at  a  very  early  period  in 
the  history  of  the  Buckeye  state.  There  he  was  reared,  and  when  he  was 
married  he  took  his  bride  to  the  old  home  place.      He  carried  on   agricult- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  7 

ural  pursuits  for  many  years.  For  thirty-five  years  he  was  connected  with 
the  ministry  of  the  Friends'  church  and  traveled  extensively  over  the  coun- 
try, preaching  the  doctrines  in  which  he  so  firmly  believed.  He  also  engaged 
in  teaching  for  a  few  years  after  his  marriage,  and  possessed  a  good  educa- 
tion for  that  day.  In  his  evangelistic  work  he  visited  all  sections  of  the 
United  States  and  won  the  love  and  confidence  of  the  Friends  throughout  the 
country.  He  was  a  member  of  the  representative  meeting,  clerk  of  the 
quarterly  meeting  and  filled  many  other  offices.  In  1850  he  sold  his  property 
in  Ohio,  and  removed  with  his  entire  family  to  Indiana,  locating  at  Marion, 
Grant  county,  where  he  died  in  1880.  He  had  four  sons  and  one  daughter, 
Allen,  of  this  review  being  the  eldest.  Milton,  a  prominent  physician  of 
Chicago,  was  for  some  time  dean  of  the  Bennett  Eclectic  Medical  College  of 
that  city, — in  fact  was  one  of  its  organizers.  He  resigned  his  position,  how- 
ever, in  1890,  and  afterward  served  as  director  of  the  Cook  county  hospital. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  able  physicians  of  Chicago,  especially  skilled  in  sur- 
gery, and  is  now  leading  surgeon  of  the  Rock  Island  Railroad  Company. 
Walter  D.  died  on  a  farm  near  Marion,  Grant  county,  Indiana,  when  thirty- 
seven  years  of  age.  Abijah  formerly  followed  farming,  but  sold  out  and  is 
now  a  general  business  man  of  Marion,  Indiana.  Mary  E.  is  the  wife  of 
Asa  Baldwin,  and  a  minister  of  the  Friends  meeting,  of  Marion,  Indiana. 

Rev.  Allen  Jay  spent  his  boyhood  days  under  the  parental  roof  and 
attended  school  through  the  winter  seasons,  while  in  the  summer  months  he 
assisted  in  the  cultivation  of  the  fields.  After  the  removal  of  the  family  to 
Marion,  this  state,  in  1850,  he  entered  Friends'  boarding  school  (now  Earl- 
ham  College)  at  Richmond,  where  he  spent  some  time,  then  was  a  student 
in  the  Farmers'  Institute,  at  Lafayette,  Indiana,  for  one  year.  He  next 
became  a  student  in  Antioch  College,  where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of 
1854,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to  farming.  He  located  on  a  tract  of 
land  on  the  Wea  plains,  near  Lafayette,  and  there  carried  on  agricultural 
pursuits  until  1867.  In  1864  he  became  a  minister  in  the  Friends' meeting, 
and  through  the  three  successive  years  both  farmed  and  preached.  In  the 
autumn  of  1867  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  a  work  projected  by  the 
"Baltimore  Association  of  Friends,"  under  the  presidency  of  Francis  Y. 
King.  The  war  had  left  Friends,  in  common  with  other  people,  destitute  in 
North  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  and  Mr.  Jay  was  appointed  to  ascertam  their 
needs  and  improve  their  condition.  Making  his  home  at  High  Point,  North 
Carolina,  he  traveled  extensively  over  those  two  states,  alleviating  the  tem- 
poral sufferings  of  the  Friends,  building  up  churches,  establishing  schools, 
preaching  and  teaching  among  the  people  of  those  districts.  He  established 
thirty-one  schools,  with  an  enrollment  of  three  thousand  students,  and  told 
the  gospel  message  to  the  people  in  many  districts.     He  had  the  oversight  of 


8  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  work  embraced  within  nine  churches  in  Tennessee,  and  twenty-two  in 
North  Carohna,  and  during  most  of  the  time  his  work  necessitated  his  driving 
from  place  to  place,  so  that  this  period  was  not  without  its  hardships;  yet  he 
regards  it  as  the  greatest  work  of  his  life. 

After  eight  years  of  such  service  Mr.  Jay  turned  his  work  over  to  the 
yearly  meeting  of  North  Carolina.  In  1875  he  went  to  Europe,  visiting  the 
churches  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  Norway.  In  1877  he  went  to 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  served  as  treasurer  and  minister  of  the 
Friends'  boarding  school,  which  had  an  enrollment  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
boys  and  girls.  There  he  remained  for  four  years,  after  which  he  came  to 
Earlham  College,  in  1881,  acting  as  superintendent  and  treasurer,  while  his 
wife  filled  the  position  of  matron.  For  six  years  he  labored  in  that  institution, 
during  which  time  he  raised  a  large  amount  of  money  for  the  school  and  for 
the  erection  of  two  substantial  and  commodious  college  buildings, — Lindley 
and  Parry  Halls.  In  1887  he  removed  to  his  new  home  near  the  college, 
and  has  since  served  as  one  of  its  trustees  and  as  solicitor  for  the  college, 
raising  money  in  all  parts  of  this  country  and  in  England  and  Ireland  for  the 
institution.  He  has  for  six  years  been  superintendent  of  the  evangelistic  and 
pastoral  work  of  the  Indiana  yearly  meeting,  retiring  from  that  position  in 
1895.  He  has  visited  all  the  yearly  meetings  of  the  Friends  Society  in  the 
world  and  is  well  known  throughout  this  country  in  connection  with  his 
church  work. 

Mr.  Jay  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Ann  Sleeper,  who  was  a 
native  of  Ohio,  but  when  two  years  old  was  taken  by  her  parents  to  Tippe- 
canoe county,  Indiana,  where  she  was  married  in  1854.  Five  children  have 
been  born  to  them:  Rhoda  died  at  the  age  of  six  years.  Charles  died  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  months.  William  died  in  West  Richmond,  in  1897.  He  was 
graduated  at  the  Providence  boarding  school,  studied  medicine  under  the 
direction  of  his  uncle.  Dr.  Milton  Jay,  of  Chicago,  and  was  graduated  in  the 
Bennett  Medical  College  of  that  city  in  1882.  He  practiced  for  six  years  in 
Richmond  and  then  removed  to  New  Sharon,  Iowa,  where  he  successfully 
practiced  until  1896,  when,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  retired.  He 
died  in  1897,  3-t  the  age  of  thirty-seven  years.  Edwin  is  a  farmer,  living 
near  Richmond,  Indiana.      Isaac  is  with  his  father  in  Richmond. 

Rev.  Allen  Jay  is  now  serving  as  preacher  of  the  East  Main  Street 
Friends  meeting,  a  position  he  has  occupied  for  the  past  eleven  years,  the 
society  having  no  regular  preacher.  Thus  almost  his  entire  life  has  been 
devoted  to  the  work  of  instructing  men  in  the  higher  things  of  life,  and  his 
labors  have  been  followed  by  excellent  results;  but  who  can  measure  the 
influence  for  good.''  Not  until  the  heavenly  record  is  read  will  it  be  known 
how  great  is  the  work  that  he  has  accomplished.      His  own  career,  in  perfect 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  9 

harmony  with  his  teachings,  has  won  him  the  love  and  respect  of  all,  and  he 
well  deserves  mention  in  the  history  of  his  adopted  county. 

Since  writing  the  foregoing  sketch,  Mr.  Jay's  wife  has  passed  away. 
The  following  obituary  notice  we  quote  from  the  American  Friend: 

Martha  Ann  Jay,  a  daughter  of  Buddell  and  Elizabeth  H.  Sleeper,  was  born  tenth 
month,  22d,  1883,  in  Clark  county,  Ohio,  and  died  at  her  home,  opposite  Earlham  College, 
Richmond,  Indiana,  fourth  month,  27th,  1899,  aged  sixty-five  years,  six  months  and  five  days- 
Her  parents  moved  to  Tippecanoe  county,  Indiana,  when  she  was  two  years  old.  She  was 
married  to  Allen  Jay  on  ninth  month,  20th,  1864,  and  they  settled  on  a  farm  near  the  old  home, 
where  their  five  children  were  born,  and  the  two  eldest  died,  the  third  one  dying  fifteen  months 
ago  in  the  same  room  she  died  in.  In  1868  she,  with  her  husband,  moved  to  Bush  Hill  (now 
Archdale),  North  Carolina.  After  nine  years  they  moved  to  Friends'  Boarding  School,  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  After  spending  four  years  there,  in  1881  they  went  to  Earlham  College, 
where  she  served  as  matron  for  six  years,  and  then  retired  to  the  home  where  she  died. 
Martha  A.  Jay  was  of  a  retiring  disposition,  never  seeking  popularity.  Converted  at  the  age  of 
seventeen,  she  endeavored  to  carry  Christianity  in  all  her  life  work.  She  was  much  interested 
in  humane  work  among  the  children,  the  birds  and  all  dumb  animals;  for  several  years  had  a 
band  of  mercy  in  her  own  home  and  one  in  the  Orphan  Home  near  by.  She  was  appointed  an 
elder  at  an  early  age,  and  held  that  position  in  the  four  different  yearly  meetings  to  which  she 
belonged.  She  was  a  great  strength  to  her  husband,  who  was,  as  -a  minister,  often  called  to 
labor  away  from  home;  she  never  murmured  at  the  separation,  but  encouraged  him  to  faithful- 
ness when  the  Master  called.  She  bore  a  long  illness  with  Christian  resignation;  the  closing 
hours  were  peaceful;  the  last  audible  words  were:  "Blessed!  Blessed!"  "Blessed  are  the 
dead  that  die  in  the  Lord!  " 

MILTON  TRUSLER. 

Not  all  men  order  their  lives  to  their  liking;  nor  yet  are  all  men  true  to 
themselves  in  living  as  nearly  to  their  ideals  as  possible  and  attaining  to  such 
heights  as  their  opportunities  and  talents  render  accessible.  We  now  turn 
to  one  who  has  done  much  and  done  it  well,  wherein  all  honor  lies.  Not  a 
pretentious  or  exalted  life  has  been  his,  but  one  that  has  been  true  to  itself 
and  its  possibilities,  and  one  to  which  the  biographer  may  revert  with  a  feel- 
ing of  respect  and  satisfaction. 

Hon.  Milton  Trusler's  identification  with  the  history  of  that  section  of 
Indiana  with  which  this  compilation  has  to  do  has  been  one  of  ancestral  as 
well  as  individual  nature,  and  would  on  that  score  alone  demand  considera- 
tion in  this  connection;  but  such  has  been  his  personal  prominence  in  posi- 
tions of  public  trust  and  responsibility;  such  his  influence  in  furthering  the 
progress  and  material  prosperity  of  the  state  at  large,  that  his  individual  dis- 
tinction clearly  entitles  him  to  representation  in  this  work.  Back  to  that 
cradle  of  much  of  our  national  history,  the  Old  Dominion,  must  we  turn  in 
tracing  the  lineage  of  the  subject  of  this  review.  He  was  born  in  Franklin 
county,  Indiana,  on  the  31st  of  October,  1825,  the  son  of  Samuel  W.  and 
Martha  (Curry)  Trusler.  The  original  representative  of  the  family  in  Indiana 
was  James  Trusler,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  review,  who  was  a 
native  of  Virginia,  where  he   was  reared  to   manhood  and   there   married. 


10  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

About  the  year  1812  he  emigrated  with  his  family  to  the  wilds  of  the  Hoosier 
state,  coming  to  Franklin  county  and  settling  on  a  tract  of  excellent  land  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  present  little  village  of  Fairfield.  Here  he  developed  a 
good  farm,  upon  which  he  passed  the  residue  of  his  days,  passing  away 
about  the  year  1 840,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two.  He  was  a  man  of  strong 
individuality  and  upright  life,  being  known  as  one  of  the  successful  and  influ- 
ential farmers  of  this  section,  where  he  was  uniformly  honored  and  respected, 
by  reason  of  his  sterling  character.  In  his  religious  adherency  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  was  a  most  devout 
and  earnest  worker. 

In  the  family  of  James  Trusler  were  five  sons  and  two  daughters.  Of 
these  Samuel  Wilson  Trusler,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Virginia 
on  the  9th  of  July,  1795,  and  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to 
Indiana  in  the  early  pioneer  days.  In  1830  he  removed  to  Jackson  township, 
Fayette  county,  this  state,  where  he  thereafter  continuously  devoted  his 
attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  until  called  from  the  scene  of  life's  labors. 
He  owned  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres,  which  he  brought  under 
most  effective  cultivation,  bringing  to  bear  those  methods  and  that  judgment 
which  insure  success.  The  old  homestead  farm  is  now  owned  by  his  son,  the 
subject  of  this  review.  Samuel  W.  Trusler  was  in  politics  a  stanch  supporter 
of  the  Whig  party,  and  though  he  had  no  predilection  for  official  preferment, 
he  was  called  upon  to  serve  in  certain  township  offices  and  was  for  many 
years  a  school  director,  maintaining  a  lively  concern  in  all  that  conserved 
the  public  welfare.  While  other  members  of  the  family  had  clung  tenaciously 
to  the  tenets  of  the  Methodist  church,  his  intellectual  powers  led  him  to  adopt 
somewhat  more  liberal  views,  and  he  became  a  zealous  and  devoted  member 
of  the  Universalist  church;  ordering  his  life  consistently  with  the  faith  which 
he  espoused.  The  death  of  Mr.  Trusler  occurred  on  his  farm  August  4,  1846, 
and  the  community  realized  that  a  true  and  noble  character  had  been  with- 
drawn from  their  midst.  His  devoted  wife  had  been  summoned  into  eternal 
rest  in  1838,  at  the  age  of  thirty-four  years,  her  birth  having  occurred  on  the 
4th  of  July,  1804. 

Of  the  children  of  Samuel  W.  and  Martha  (Curry)  Trusler  five  grew  to 
maturity,  and  of  these  we  offer  the  following  epitomized  record:  Nelson, 
who  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  May  13,  1822,  died  at  Indian- 
apolis, in  1878,  aged  fifty-six  years.  He  was  one  of  the  representative  mem- 
bers of  the  bar  of  the  state  and  wielded  a  wide  influence  in  political  affairs. 
He  served  for  three  years  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  having  held  commis- 
sion as  colonel  of  the  Eighty-fourth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  had 
held  distinguished  public  preferment,  having  served  as  secretary  of  state  and. 
being  the  incumbent  as  attorney  general  of  Indiana  at  the  time  of  his  death. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY.  11 

He  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Connersville  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  after  which  he  removed  to  the  capital  city  of  the  state,  where 
his  death  occurred.  The  next  of  the  family  is  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Barnard,  widow 
of  William  D.  Barnard,  of  Indianapolis.  She  was  born  November  9,  1S27. 
Gilbert,  who  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  on  the  21st  of  July,  1830,  died  in 
Indianapolis.  He  was  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  was  engaged  in  practice 
at  Connersville.  At  the  time  of  the  war  of  Rebellion  he  effected  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Thirty-sixth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers,  with  which  he  went 
to  the  front  as  captain,  being  promoted  major  before  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  service.  He  served  as  mayor  of  Connersville,  was  county  clerk  for 
two  terms  and  was  Fayette  county's  representative  in  the  state  legislature. 
Thomas  J.  Trusler  was  born  February  11,  1838.  Like  his  brothers,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  state,  having  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his- 
profession  in  Connersville  and  Liberty  for  a  number  of  years,  after  which  he 
located  in  Indianapolis.  He  served  as  deputy  secretary  of  state  under  his 
brother  Nelson  and  also  under  Hon.  W.  W.  Curry. 

Of  the  children  who  grew  to  maturity  the  subject  of  this  review,  Milton 
Trusler,  was  the  second  eldest,  and  his  career,  like  that  of  his  brothers,  has 
conferred  dignity  and  honor  upon  the  state.  He  was  five  years  of  age  at  the- 
time  his  parents  took  up  their  abode  on  the  farm  in  Jackson  township,  and  at 
the  old  homestead  he  was  reared  under  the  sturdy  and  invigorating  discip- 
line of  farm  life.  It  is  interesting  to  revert  to  the  fact  that  he  never  wavered 
in  his  allegiance  to  the  great  basic  art  of  agriculture  during  the  long  years  of 
his  active  business  life.  It  is  still  more  worthy  of  note  that  for  sixty-five 
years  he  lived  on  the  old  family  homestead,  which  is  still  owned  by  him  and 
from  which  he  removed  only  when  prompted  to  seek  retirement  from  the 
active  labors  protracted  over  many  years  and  crowned  with  merited  success. 
Mr.  Trusler  received  his  educational  training  in  the  common  schools,  com- 
pleting a  course  of  study  in  the  high  school  at  Liberty.  He  assumed  the 
personal  responsibilities  of  practical  business  life  by  engaging  in  the  line  of 
enterprise  to  which  he  has  been  reared  from  his  boyhood  days.  His  original 
farm  comprised  sixty-five  acres,  but  he  has  added  to  it  from  time  to  time,  as 
prosperity  attended  his  industrious  and  well  directed  efforts,  until  he  now 
owns  a  finely  cultivated  place  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  well  im- 
proved with  substantial  buildings  and  figuring  as  one  of  the  most  valuable 
farms  in  this  section  of  a  great  agricultural  state. 

On  the  17th  of  April,  1894,  Mr.  Trusler  removed  from  his  farm  to  East 
Connersville,  where,  in  a  pleasant  home,  he  is  enjoying  the  rewards  of  a  life 
of  honest  and  successful  endeavor,  well  deserving  that  otiin/i  cuvi  dignitatc 
which  is  his  portion  as  the  shadows  of  his  life  begin  to  lengthen  into  the 
grateful  twilight.      On  the  9th  of  March,  1848,  was  solemnized  the  marriage 


12  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  Mr.  Trusler  to  Miss  Isabelle  Thompson,  a  native  of  Fayette  county,  and  to 
them  were  born  four  sons  and  four  daughters,  concerning;  whom  we  incor- 
porate the  following  data:  M.  Anna  became  the  wife  of  Daniel  Brumfield,  a 
farmer  of  this  county;  Laura  J.,  the  widow  of  James  M.  Backhouse,  resides 
in  Connersville;  Samuel  F.  is  a  farmer  of  this  county;  M.  Henry, also  a  farmer 
of  this  county;  Sidney  E.  is  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Anderson, 
Indiana;  Nina  C.  is  the  wife  of  J.  B.  Rose,  of  Miami  county,  this  state;  Ira 
T.  is  a  resident  of  Connersville;  and  Juanita  is  the  widow  of  William  A. 
Stewart,  of  Connersville. 

In  conclusion  we  will  glance  at  the  more  salient  points  in  the  public  or 
official  life  of  Mr.  Trusler.  In  his  political  proclivities  he  was  originally  a 
supporter  of  the  Whig  party,  from  which  he  withdrew  to  place  his  allegiance 
with  the  new  and  stronger  candidate  for  public  favor,  the  Republican  party, 
of  whose  principles  and  policies  he  has  ever  since  been  a  zealous  advocate. 
He  has  wielded  a  marked  influence  in  the  political  affairs  of  this  section,  and 
has  served  in  various  township  offices.  In  1872  he  was  the  incumbent  as 
trustee  of  Jackson  township,  a  position  which  he  resigned  upon  being  elected 
to  represent  his  county  in  the  legislature,  in  which  he  served  as  a  member  of 
the  lower  house  during  the  sessions  of  1872,  1873,  1874  and  1875.  His  per- 
sonal popularity  and  the  appreciation  of  his  value  as  a  representative  in  the 
legislative  councils  of  the  state  were  manifested  soon  after  his  retirement 
from  the  lower  house,  since  he  became  the  successful  candidate  of  his  party 
for  the  state  senate,  in  which  he  served  during  the  sessions  of  1876  and  1877. 
In  the  councils  of  his  party  and  as  a  legislator  he  showed  himself  to  be  a  man 
of  strong  intellectuality,  broad  and  exact  knowledge  and  mature  and  prac- 
tical judgment.  His  influence  was  at  all  times  cast  on  the  side  which  looked 
to  the  conservation  of  public  interests;  his  views  were  marked  by  distinctive 
wisdom,  and  the  confidence  in  his  personal  integrity  and  ability  was  unwaver- 
ing. In  1892  Mr.  Trusler  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  the  office  of 
secretary  of  state,  in  which  connection  he  made  a  very  thorough  canvass  dur- 
ing the  incidental  campaign,  but  he  naturally  met  defeat  at  the  polls,  since 
that  year  marked  one  of  the  most  memorable  general  land-slides  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Republican  party.  His  strength  in  the  state  was  shown,  how- 
ever, in  the  fact  that  he  ran  two  thousand  votes  ahead  of  his  ticket.  He  has 
a  large  acquaintanceship  throughout  the  state  and  has  a  strong  hold  upon  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  farming  class,  with  whose  interests  he  has 
naturally  had  a  most  pronounced  sympathy.  He  was  for  seven  years  master 
of  the  state  Grange,  in  which  connection  he  did  active  and  effective  work  in 
every  section  of  the  state,  striving  at  all  times  to  spur  farmers  onward  to  the 
point  of  making  agriculture  and  its  allied  industries  occupy  the  dignified  posi- 
tion which  is  intrinsically  due.      He  has  done  much  to  elevate  the  standard 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  IS 

of  husbandry  in  Indiana,  and  no  man  is  more  honored  among  the  agricultural 
classes. 

Mr.  Truster  was  enrolling  officer  for  Fayette  county  during  the  war  of 
the  Rebellion  and  was  unflagging  in  his  zeal  for  the  Union  cause.  Frater- 
nally he  is  prominently  identified  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, being  one  of  the  charter  members  of  Everton  Lodge,  with  which  he  has 
been  connected  for  more  than  half  a  century,  and  in  which  he  has  filled  all 
the  chairs,  besides  representing  the  lodge  a  number  of  times  in  the  grand 
lodge  of  the  state. 

As  one  of  the  venerable  citizens  of  Fayette  county,  and  as  one  whose 
life  has  been  one  of  signal  usefulness  and  honor,  the  publishers  of  this  work 
realize  that  even  more  distinct  representation  in^  this  connection  would  not 
do  justice  to  this  well  known  scion  of  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  Indiana, 
a  state  which  has  been  honored  and  enriched  by  his  example. 

LAZARUS   MUNGER. 

The  ancestors  of  Lazarus  Munger,  a  representative  citizen  of  Posey  town- 
ship, Fayette  county,  as  far  back  as  their  history  can  be  traced  in  the  annals 
of  America,  are  noted  for  the  sterling  traits  of  character  that  mark  the  valuable 
citizen  of  this  great  republic.  At  all  times  they  have  been  ready  to  uphold 
righteous  and  just  laws,  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  land  of  their  nativity, 
and,  if  needful,  to  lay  down  their  lives  on  the  altar  of  her  liberty  and  main- 
tenance. The  majority  of  the  Mungers  have  led  the  quiet,  independent  lives 
of  agriculturists,  though  a  few  marked  exceptions  to  this  rule  have  occurred. 

One  of  the  very  early  pioneers  of  Ohio  was  General  Edward  Munger, 
the  grandfather  of  our  subject.  He  was  born  in  Connecticut,  September  30, 
1763,  and  after  his  marriage,  on  the  5th  of  December,  1785,  to  Eunice  Kel- 
logg, a  native  of  the  same  state,  born  August  13,  1767,  he  resided  in  the 
town  of  Washington,  Connecticut,  for  a  few  years.  Then,  removing  to  Rut- 
land county,  Vermont,  they  dwelt  there  until  the  spring  of  1798,  when  they 
located  in  Belpre,  Washington  county,  Ohio.  A  short  time  subsequently 
they  permanently  settled  on  land  purchased  by  the  General  in  Montgomery 
county,  Ohio,  and  there  he  cleared  and  made  a  good  farm  prior  to  his  death, 
which  took  place  April  14,  1850.  He  was  a  man  of  great  enterprise  and 
strong  individuality,  looked  up  to  and  consulted  as  one  having  authority. 
During  the  war  of  181 2  he  raised  and  trained  a  regiment  in  the  defense  of 
the  young  republic,  and  for  this  invaluable  service  was  commissioned  briga- 
dier general,  being  superceded  in  this  position  by  the  celebrated  General 
Hull.  Nor  did  his  public  services  end  here,  as  he  was  elected  and  won  new 
honors  in  the  Ohio  state  legislature,  and  in  local  offices.  General  Munger 
and  his  wife,  Eunice,  were  of  Puritan  ancestry,  their  forefathers  being  num- 


14  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

bered  among  the  early  colonists  of  New  England.  The  eldest  child  of  this 
worthy  couple,  Warren,  born  in.  Washington,  Connecticut,  February  28, 
1787,  returned  to  his  native  state  about  181 1  for  the  purpose  of  studying 
law,  and  subsequently  was  state's  attorney  of  Miami  county,  Ohio,  besides 
holding  other  important  local  offices.  He  continued  to  practice  law  until 
1840,  when  he  retired  to  his  farm,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  in  1877. 
Truman,  born  January  19,  1789,  came  to  Indiana  in  1821,  bought  and 
improved  land,  which  he  afterward  sold,  then  removing  to  the  vicinity  of 
Petersburg,  Illinois.  He  bought  a  farm  there,  and  in  1876  retired  from  the 
active  duties  of  life  to  pass  his  remaining  days  in  Prairie  City,  where  he  died. 
Edmund  K.  was  the  ne.xt  in  order  of  birth.  Minerva,  born  in  Vermont, 
November  5,  1792,  married  Judge  Amos  Ervin,  of  Ohio,  and  died  April  26, 
1874.  Reuben  born  in  Vermont,  October  30,  1794,  died  in  Ohio.  Elisur 
and  Festus,  died  in  infancy.  Eunice,  born  in  Montgomery  county,  Ohio, 
February  lo,  1801,  married  William  McCann,  of  Ohio,  who  purchased  land 
in  Posey  township,  this  county,  and  sold  the  property  after  making  some 
improvements.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  brick-making,  and  later  car- 
ried on  a  farm  which  he  bought  in  Rush  county,  this  state.  There  his  wife 
died,  in  1841,  and  after  marrying  again  he  went  to  Iowa,  where  his  last  days 
were  passed.  Sarah,  born  in  Ohio,  March  15,  1803,  died  September  12, 
1883.  She  became  the  wife  of  Elam  Ervin,  an  Ohio  farmer,  born  Novem- 
ber 17,  1 801.  At  an  early  period  they  went  to  Rush  county,  this  state,  where 
he  died  when  but  forty  years  of  age.  Festus  E.,  born  April  11,  1805,  was 
a  farmer,  and  died  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  He  reared  six  children,  and  three  of 
his  sons,  Timothy,  Lyman  and  Alvin,  were  soldiers  in  the  Union  army,  the 
first  two  being  members  of  the  Forty-fourth  Ohio  Regiment  band.  They 
enlisted  in  1861,  and  were  so  unfortunate  as  to  be  taken  prisoners  and  Tim- 
othy was  confined  in  the  famous  Libby  warehouse,  while  Lyman  languished 
and  suffered  for  seventeen  months  in  the  dreadful  pens  of  Andersonville.  In 
spite  of  all  their  hardships  the  three  brothers  lived  to  return  home  and  to 
resume  their  accustomed  occupations  at  the  close  of  the  war.  Milton,  born 
October  5,  1807,  was  a  farmer,  and  died  near  Piqua,  Miami  county,  Ohio,  in 
1874.  One  of  his  sons,  William,  entered  the  service  of  the  Union  during  the 
civil  war,  and  what  his  fate  was  his  parents  never  learned.  Isaac  N.,  born 
August  12,  1812,  and  now  living  retired  in  Piqua,  Ohio,  not  only  conducted 
a  farm  but  was  a  successful  teacher  of  music  for  a  long  time. 

Edmund  K.  Munger,  who  was  born  in  Rutland  county,  Vermont,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1790,  remained  with  his  parents  in  Ohio  until  his  marriage,  in 
18 1 2,  to  Mary  Cole,  a  native  of  Botetourt  county,  Virginia,  born  October  15, 
1794.  The  same  year  the  young  man  volunteered  his  services  to  his  country, 
.but  the  quota  was  complete  and  he  was  not  needed.     Settling  in  Montgomery 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  15 

county,  Ohio,  he  was  industriously  occupied  in  the  cultivation  of  a  farm 
until  the  spring  of  1 82 1 ,  when  he  bought  the  two-hundred-acre  farm  on  which 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  now  resides.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  the  fam- 
ily removed  to  their  new  home  here,  and  for  many  years  the  humble  log 
cabin  which  the  father  erected  served  them  as  a  home.  In  time  the  land  was 
reduced  to  cultivation  and  in  1835  the  brick  house  in  which  our  subject  lives 
was  built.  The  double-room  cabin  in  which  they  first  dwelt  was  looked  upon 
as  almost  palatial  by  their  neighbors,  and  many  happy  hours  were  spent  in 
the  hospitable  abode.  The  brick  house,  likewise,  was  one  of  the  first  erected 
of  that  material  in  the  county,  and  travelers  and  those  in  search  of  a  home 
and  location  were  directed  to  this  place,  where,  as  it  was  known  far  and  near, 
liberal  and  hearty  hospitality  was  ever  to  be  found.  Politically,  Edmund  K. 
Munger  was  a  Whig  and  Republican.  Reared  in  the  tenets  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  by  parents  who  were  extremely  strict,  he  never  became  identi- 
fied with  any  church,  though  his  life  was  above  reproach  and  his  actions  were 
consistent  with  the  teachings  of  Christianity.  He  lived  to  a  good  old  age, 
dying  June  to,  1872.  His  faithful  wife,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  died  September  9,  1853.  She  went  with  her  parents,  Samuel  and 
Catherine  (Bryan)  Cole,  from  Virginia  to  Montgomery  county  early  in  this 
century.  The  father,  who  was  a  wagon-maker  by  trade,  came  to  this  locality 
in  1826  and  settled  upon  a  small  tract  of  land  north  of  Bentonville,  where  he 
plied  his  calling  and  cultivated  his  farm.  Late  in  life  he  and  his  wife  lived 
with  their  children,  he  dying  January  i,  1849,  and  she  September  7,  1844. 
Both  were  active  members  of  the  Christian  church.  Their  children  were: 
John,  Philip,  Jacob,  Andrew,  M.  B.,  William,  Elizabeth  (now  Mrs.  T. 
Munger)  and  Mary. 

Eunice,  the  eldest  child  of  Edmund  and  Mary  Munger,  was  born  in  Ohio, 
February  24,  18 14,  and  she  never  married.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist church  and  died,  happy  in  her  faith,  February  5,  1884.  Norman,  the 
eldest  son,  born  August  28,  181 5,  was  a  representative  farmer  of  Wayne 
county,  where  his  death  took  place  April  30,  1885.  Margaret,  born  June  12, 
18 1 7,  married  William  Manlove,  who  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Posey 
township,  his  birth  having  taken  place  in  1815.  Truman,  born  December 
14,  1 8 18,  lived  on  farms  in  Henry  and  Rush  counties,  dying  at  his  home  in 
the  last  mentioned  county,  January  17,  1857.  Elizabeth,  born  May  4,  1821, 
married  Samuel  S.  Ewing,  of  Ohio.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and 
engaged  in  surveying  and  farming  in  Wabash  county,  Indiana.  Samuel,  born 
March  6,  1824,  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  after  his  marriage  settled 
on  an  Illinois  farm,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  August  18,  1896.  He 
was  a  leader  in  the  Christian  church  and  Sunday-school,  and  was  highly 
esteemed  by  all   who  knew   him.      Martha,   born  April  6,  1827,  became  the 


16  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

wife  of  M.  B.  Vandegrift,  a  blacksmith,  and  died  March  6,  1880,  leaving 
three  children.  Mary,  born  April  30,  1829,  and  now  a  resident  of  Anderson, 
Indiana,  married  William  T.  Hensley,  of  Fayette  county.  Lazarus  and 
Edmund  are  the  next  of  the  family.  Louisa,  the  youngest,  born  May  31, 
1836,  died  June  i,   1843. 

Lazarus  Munger  was  born  September  11,  1831,  in  Posey  township,  on 
the  old  homestead  which  he  now  owns.  In  the  district  schools  he  obtained 
a  fair  education,  and  under  his  father's  instruction  he  acquired  practical 
knowledge  of  farming  when  a  mere  boy.  After  the  death  of  the  parents, 
Lazarus  and  Edmund  and  three  sisters  lived  together  and  carried  on  the  work 
of  the  farm.  Then,  when  two  of  the  sisters  married  and  the  third  died,  our 
subject  chose  a  wife.  His  brother  remains  unmarried,  and  has  always  been 
associated  with  him  in  business.  Having  accumulated  a  little  capital  they 
invested  it,  in  1863,  in  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  acres  of  the  homestead, 
and  in  August,  1882,  our  subject  bought  the  other's  share.  Edmund  Mun- 
ger, who  is  an  energetic  business  man,  has  been  interested  in  various  things 
besides  farming,  and  has  acted  as  agent  for  different  concerns,  among  them 
being  the  Union  National  Building  &  Loan  Association,  of  Indianapolis,  and 
the  Wayne  International  Building  &  Loan  Association,  of  Cambridge  City. 
For  both  of  these  companies  he  has  transacted  a  large  amount  of  business, 
and  still  represents  them.  His  capital  he  invests  in  good  securities  of  various 
kinds,  and  his  integrity  and  square  dealing  are  undoubted.  He  has  always 
made  his  home  and  headquarters  at  his  birth-place,  being  a  valued  member 
of  our  subject's  household.  For  several  years  he  has  devoted  much  attention 
to  the  buying  of  shorthorn  cattle  and  Poland-China  hogs,  frequently  going 
into  neighboring  states  in  search  of  especially  fine  specimens.  Lazarus  Mun- 
ger, likewise,  is  interested  in  high-grade  live  stock,  and  always  keeps  large 
herds  of  shorthorns  and  Poland-China  hogs.  He  has  added  to  his  original 
purchase  of  land  until  he  now  owns  five  hundred  and  eighteen  acres,  all  of 
which  is  under  fine  cultivation.  His  prosperity  is  well  deserved,  and  is  the 
direct  result  of  application,  sound  judgment  and  perseverance  in  a  line  of 
action  when  once  determined  upon.  He  has  upheld  the  Republican  princi- 
ples, and,  though  he  has  attended  conventions  in  the  county  and  state  and 
has  endeavored  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  party,  he  never  has  been  pre- 
vailed upon  to  accept  a  public  office  of  importance,  and  though  often  urged 
to  become  a  candidate  for  the  legislature  has  persistently  refused.  He  has 
served  his  own  township  as  assessor,  with  credit  to  himself  and  friends,  but 
has  no  desire  for  public  office. 

On  the  loth  of  September,  1866,  the  marriage  of  Lazarus  Munger  and 
Miss  Savanna  Ferguson  was  solemnized.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Linville  and 
Elizabeth  (Loder)  Ferguson,  whose   history  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 


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She  was  born  February  8,  1843,  and  is  one  of  five  brothers  and  sisters,  the 
others  being,  Oliver,  now  a  resident  of  Milton;  Elmer,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  twelve  years;  Mrs.  Emma  Thornburg;  and  Charley,  who  owns  and  carries 
on  the  old  homestead  which  belonged  to  his  father.  The  latter,  who  was 
one  of  the  most  successful  stock  dealers  of  this  section  of  Indiana,  himself 
cleared  about  five  hundred  acres  of  land,  and  divided  fifteen  hundred  acres 
among  his  children.  He  was  very  prominent  in  every  way,  acting  in  public 
offices,  and  for  twenty-three  years  was  connected  with  the  Cambridge  City 
National  Bank,  being  its  president  for  fifteen  j'ears. 

The  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Munger  was  blessed  with  two  daughters  and 
one  son,  namely:  Lorena  M.,  born  March  5,  1869,  and  now  the  wife  of 
Philip  F.  Weaver,  a  farmer;  Warren  H.,  born  February  20,  1878;  and  Helen 
E.,  born  October  i,  1879.  The  younger  daughter  and  the  son  are  students 
in  Earlham  College,  and  are  receiving  e.xcellent  training  for  the  serious 
duties  of  life. 

DAVID  W.   DENNIS,   A.   B.,   A.   M.,   Ph.   D. 

For  twenty-five  years  the  name  of  Professor.  David  Worth  Dennis  has 
been  inseparably  interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  educational  interests  of 
Richmond.  His  broad  intelligence,  scholarly  attainments  and  his  full  appre- 
ciation of  the  value  of  knowledge  as  a  preparation  for  life's  responsibilities 
make  him  one  of  the  ablest  educators  who  have  promoted  the  interests  of 
Earlham  College  and  advanced  the  intellectual  status  of  his  adopted  city. 
The  ever  broadening  influence  of  his  work  is,  of  course,  incalculable,  for 
when  was  ever  a  measurement  for  the  psychic  forces  of  nature  invented  .' 
His  labors  are  permeated  by  broad  humanitarian  principles  which  render 
them  not  merely  a  means  for  gaining  pecuniary  returns,  but  a  source  of 
assistance  to  his  fellow  men,  whereby  he  advances  the  scheme  of  our  human 
existence, — the  constant  uplifting  and  betterment  of  the  race. 

Professor  Dennis  is  a  native  of  Dalton  township,  Wayne  county,  and  is 
a  son  of  Nathan  and  Evelina  (Worth)  Dennis.  Both  on  the  paternal  and 
maternal  sides  his  ancestors  were  from  Nantucket,  but  his  grandparents 
removed  to  North  Carolina,  locating  in  Guilford  county,  where  the  father  of 
our  subject  was  born  in  181  5,  the  mother  in  18 13.  The  latter  was  -a  sister 
of  Governor  Jonathan  Worth,  of  North  Carolina,  whose  grandson,  Ensign 
Worth  Bagley,  was  the  first  man  who  lost  his  life  in  the  Spanish-American 
war.  Nathan  and  Evelina  (Worth)  Dennis  were  married  in  Wayne  county, 
Indiana,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  their  days  in  Dalton  township,  where 
the  father  successfully  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  the  locality,  was  the  promoter  of  many  local  enterprises,  and 
was  an  active  and  consistent  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends;  he  was  for 


18  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

more  than  twenty-five  years  clerk  of  West  River  preparative  meeting  of 
ministers  and  elders.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  union  being  with  Mary 
Lamar,  by  whom  he  had  four  children,  namely:  William,  who  died  in  early 
manhood,  in  1871;  Osborn,  a  minister  of  the  Friends'  church  in  Randolph 
county,  Indiana;  Edwin,  of  Wabash,  Indiana;  and  Mrs.  Mary  Ebrite,  a 
resident  of  Muncie,  Indiana.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  Mr.  Dennis 
married  Evelina  Worth,  and  their  only  child  is  Professor  D.  W.  Dennis. 
The  father  died  in  1872  and  the  mother  in  1887. 

Until  sixteen  years  of  age  Professor  Dennis  remained  on  his  father's  farm 
in  Dalton  township,  Wayne  county,  attending  the  common  schools  and  those 
conducted  under  the  auspices  of  the  church  to  which  his  people  belonged,  his 
father  being  one  of  five  men  who  contributed  to  extend  the  term  of  the  public 
schools  longer  than  the  public  funds  would  permit,  and  thus  gave  his  and 
other  children  the  advantage  of  better  educational  facilities.  When  only 
seventeen  years  of  age  David  W.  Dennis  began  teaching  school,  which  pro- 
fession he  followed  for  three  years,  when  he  further  continued  his  own  edu- 
cation by  study  in  Earlham  College.  He  was  graduated  in  that  institution 
when  twenty-four  years  of  age,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  since 
that  time  he  has  taught  almost  continuously  in  the  Richmond  high  school 
and  Earlham  College,  with  the  exception  of  one  year,  1889-90,  which  he 
■spent  with  his  family  in  Europe.  He  remained  for  fourteen  months,  during 
-which  time  he  visited  Germany,  France,  Switzerland,  Italy,  England  and 
Scotland.  During  six  months  of  that  time  he  was  a  student  in  the  universi- 
:ties  of  Bonn  and  Edinburgh,  pursuing  a  course  of  embryology  in  the  latter, 
of  biology  in  the  former.  The  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon 
him  by  Earlham  College  in  1878  and  that  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  by  Syra- 
cuse University  in  1886.  For  fifteen  years  he  has  occupied  the  chair  of  biol- 
ogy in  Earlham  College,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  successful  and 
•  capable  professors  ever  connected  with  the  faculty  of  that  institution.  After 
ihis  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  Earlham  College,  then  four  years  as  a 
teacher  in  the  high  school  at  Richmond,  and  two  years  as  president  of  Wil- 
imington  College.  He  then  spent  a  year  in  rest  and  study,  after  which  he 
■resumed  his  pedagogic  labors  as  a  teacher  in  the  Bloomingdale  Academy, 
where  he  remained  two  years.  He  then  returned  to  Earlham  College,  where 
his  labors  have  been  continuous,  with  the  exception  of  the  period  passed  in 
Europe.  Some  one  has  said  "Travel  is  the  source  of  all  true  wisdom,"  and 
certainly  in  the  year  spent  abroad  Professor  Dennis  gained  a  broad  fund  of 
knowledge  which  will  enrich  his  life  and  its  labors  for  all  time.  To  a  mind 
of  great  discernment  and  a  nature  of  broad  and  acute  sympathies,  the  world  is 
continually  offering  valuble  lessons,  and  he  availed  himself  of  the  opportunity 
±0  improve,  bringing  with  him  from   the  Old  World  strong  impressions  and 


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vivid  and  pleasant  memories  which  are  constantly  coloring  and  enriching  his 
views  of  life. 

In  addition  to  the  work  of  the  class-room,  Professor  Dennis  lectures 
frequently  on  various  general  educational  topics.  His  services  in  this  regard 
are  in  frequent  demand  for  teachers'  institutes,  and  he  often  illustrates  his 
lectures  with  stereopticon  views.  He  is  also  well  known  in  educational 
circles  by  reason  of  his  able  articles  on  pedagogic  and  scientific  subjects, — 
articles  that  frequently  appear  in  the  leading  journals  of  the  country.  Not 
the  least  important  branch  of  his  work  is  in  connection  with  the  different 
•clubs  of  Richmond  organized  for  intellectual  improvement.  He  has  long 
been  vice-president  of  the  Tuesday  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Tourists'  Club 
and  of  the  University  Extension  Center.  He  delivers  many  addresses  in 
connection  with  the  work  of  these  organizations,  and  has  been  chairman  of 
the  program  committee  of  the  Tourists'  Club.  He  takes  a  broad-minded 
interest  in  the  political  situation  of  the  country,  and  gives  his  support  to 
the  men  and  measures  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  sought  nor 
desired  political  preferment.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  money  question 
■during  the  last  campaign,  is  a  stanch  advocate  of  the  "gold  standard,"  and 
believes  most  thoroughly  in  the  territorial  expansion  of  our  government. 
Of  the  Friends'  meeting  he  is  an  active  lay  member  and  delivers  many 
addresses  before  the  society,  on  moral  questions,  but  is  not  connected  with 
the  ministry. 

In  1876  Professor  Dennis  was  united  in  marriage,  in  Parke  county, 
Indiana,  to  Miss  Martha  Curl,  a  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Sarah  (Gifford) 
Curl,  both  of  Parke  county.  One  son  was  born  to  them,  William  Cullen, 
who  was  graduated  at  Earlham  College  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
when  seventeen  years  of  age.  The  following  year  he  was  graduated  at  Har- 
vard College  with  the  same  degree.  Although  the  youngest  man  in  the 
class,  his  standing  was  very  high.  He  then  spent  another  year  within  the 
classic  walls  of  that  time-honored  institution,  won  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  and  the  honor  of  delivering  the  oration  for  the  graduate  school.  He  is, 
now,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  a  student  in  the  law  department  of  Harvard. 
The  home  life  of  Professor  Dennis  and  his  family  was  ideal.  The  most 
perfect  companionship  existed,  and  so  strong  was  the  influence  of  the  beau- 
tiful Christian  character  of  Mrs.  Dennis  upon  the  life  of  this  community  that 
this  work  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record  of  her  life,  which  we  here- 
with append.  Professor  Dennis  is  still  actively  carrying  on  his  life  work, 
continuing  his  labors  among  the  young,  whose  thought  he  directs  to  nobler, 
higher  things,  with  a  realization  of  the  truth  that  even  intellectual  attain- 
ments count  for  naught  save  as  they  aid  in  the  development  of  an  upright 
•character. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


MATTIE  C.  DENNIS. 

When  Mrs.  Mattie  Curl  Dennis  passed  away  one  more  name  was  added 
to  the  Hst  of  honored  dead  whose  earthly  records  closed  with  the  words, 
"Well  done,  thou  good  and  faithful  servant;"  but  as  long  as  memory 
remains  to  those  who  knew  her  the  influence  of  her  noble  life  will  remain  as 
a  source  of  encouragement  and  inspiration.  "  Our  echoes  roll  from  soul  to 
soul,"  and  the  good  we  do  lives  after  us  through  all  ages,  handed  down  from 
generation  to  generation.  Who  then  can  measure  the  results  of  a  life  work, 
and  especially  such  a  life  work  as  that  of  Mrs.  Dennis  .'  To  the  uplifting  of 
humanity  her  best  energies  were  ever  devoted.  With  unerring  judgment  she 
recognized  the  "  spark  of  divinity"  in  each  individual  and  endeavored  to  fan 
it  into  the  fiame  of  righteousness.  Not  to  condemn  but  to  aid,  she  made  the 
practice  of  her  life,  and  the  world  is  better  and  brighter  for  her  having  lived. 
But  though  the  voice  is  stilled  in  death,  the  spirit  of  her  worth  and  work 
remains  as  the  deep  undercurrent  of  a  mighty  stream,  noiseless  but  irresisti- 
ble. Her  influence  was  as  the  delicate  fragrance  of  a  flower  to  those  who 
had  the  pleasure  of  her  friendship.  Her  sympathies  were  broad,  and  quietly 
yet  strongly  she  called  forth  the  best  in  one,  ennobling  all  by  her  own  Chris- 
tian character.  Her  life  was  beautiful  in  its  purity,  goodness  and  Christian 
virtues,  and  her  memory  will  long  remain  as  a  blessed  benediction  to  all  who 
knew  her. 

Mattie  Curl  Dennis  was  a  native  of  Parke  county,  Indiana.  In  the  pub- 
lic schools  she  acquired  her  early  education,  and  then  began  teaching  in  the 
district  schools  of  her  native  county.  Desirous  of  acquiring  more  advanced 
education,  she  subsequently  attended  Bloomingdale  Academy,  then  entered 
the  Normal  School  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  and  in  1874  was  graduated  at  the 
Indiana  State  Normal.  Her  labors  as  an  educator  were  most  acceptable  and 
satisfactory.  She  taught  for  twelve  years  in  the  district  schools,  in  the  city 
schools  of  Indianapolis  and  in  the  academies  at  Bloomingdale  and  Ladoga. 

She  was  married  June  22,  1876,  to  David  Worth  Dennis,  after  which 
they  made  a  trip  to  the  east,  visited  the  Centennial  Exposition,  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  then  returned  to  establish  their  home  in  Richmond,  where  she 
remained  from  September,  1876,  until  June,  1879.  During  this  time  her 
only  child,  William  Cullen  Dennis,  was  born,  December  22,  1878.  On  becom- 
ing identified  with  the  new  community  almost  her  first  thought  was,  how 
could  she  assist  and  be  assisted  by  those  with  whom  she  would  be  thrown  in 
contact,  and  during  her  early  residence  at  Richmond  she  organized  and  con- 
ducted a  normal  Bible  class,  taught  in  the  Sunday-school,  and  studied  with 
a  ceramic  art  club.  From  1879  to  1881  she  was  employed  as  a  teacher  in 
Wilmington  College,  and  within  that  time  organized  the  Browning  Literary 


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Circle,  of  Wilmington,  Ohio,  which  has  ever  since  maintained  its  existence. 
In  1882  she  accepted  a  position  as  teacher  in  the  Bloomingdale  Academy, 
where  she  remained  until  February,  1884,  when  failing  health  forced  her  to 
seek  rest  in  the  south.  She  passed  the  months  of  February,  March  and 
April  in  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  North  Carolina,  and  on  the  ist  of  May,  1884, 
returned  to  Indiana.  From  that  time  until  her  death  she  was  a  resident  of 
Richmond,  with  the  exception  of  fourteen  months  spent  abroad,  and  no  other 
woman  has  exerted  so  wide  an  influence  upon  the  social,  intellectual  and 
moral  life  of  the  city. 

Mrs.  Dennis  was  identified  with  many  of  the  leading  clubs  of  Richmond, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State  Reading  Circle  Board  from  1884 
until  1889.  In  the  former  year  she  organized  a  reading  circle,  which  later 
became  known  as  the  Aftermath.  She  continued  her  membership  therewith 
until  her  death,  and  was  its  leader  until  failing  health  forced  her  to  resign. 
In  1892  she  became  a  member  of  the  Contemporary  Club,  of  Indianapolis, 
joined  the  Tourists'  Club  in  1896,  became  a  member  of  the  Variorum  at  its 
organization,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  North  End  Literary 
Society.  In  all  of  these  she  retained  her  membership  until  her  death  and  of 
the  last  named  was  leader.  She  organized  the  History  Class  in  1890,  was 
its  leader  until  her  death,  and  was  ever  untiring  in  her  efforts  to  promote  its 
advancement.  In  1866  she  became  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church,  and  her  Christianity  was  ever  of  the  practical  kind  which  prompts 
ready  assistance  for  the  needy,  the  promotion  of  literary  culture  and  the 
advancement  of  science  and  art. 

Always  quiet  and  unostentatious  in  manner,  Mrs.  Dennis  nevertheless 
left  a  strong  impress  of  her  individuality  and  beautiful  Christian  character 
■upon  all  whom  she  met.  She  endeared  herself  to  thousands  of  pupils,  one 
of  whom  wrote:  "  Mrs.  Dennis  gave  me  my  first  real  insight  into  the  Eng- 
lish language,  and  what  a  wonderful  study  it  was!  She  was  so  spirit-like,  so 
unlike  the  world  and  its  ways,  that  it  was  an  inexpressible  pleasure  to  me  to 
hear  her  talk  of  people  and  things;  and  after  my  college  days  I  never  passed 
through  Richmond  but  that  I  made  it  a  point  to  call  at  her  delightful  home." 
Mrs.  Dennis  loved  her  pupils  and  always  won  their  love.  She  had  a  singular 
power  in  getting  work  from  them;  what  she  said  they  could  not  think  was 
trivial, — ^her  lessons  must  be  learned.  She  could  help  students  find  their  own 
powers  in  a  way  few  others  could  do.  She  did  this  by  working  with  them, 
by  encouraging  them  to  believe  in  themselves.  She  never  uttered  a  dogmatic 
sentence;  she  treated  her  pupils  as  tenderly  and  considerately  as  she  did  her 
neighbors;  and  when  she  came  to  work  in  clubs  with  other  ladies  and  gentle- 
men her  school-room  manners  were  all  that  she  required.  She  trusted  her 
pupils  implicitly,  and   always  believed  that  this  would  save  them  if  anything 


22  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

would.  In  all  matters  of  discipline  she  sought  to  control  through  the  under- 
standing, and  from  within;  never  by  rule  or  from  without. 

Mrs.  Dennis  had  an  unfeigned  love  of  the  beautiful  in  all  forms,  in  art 
and  in  nature.  In  Dresden,  Rome,  Florence  and  Paris  the  art  galleries  were 
her  homes,  and  the  masterpieces  her  personal  friends.  In  literature  and  his- 
.tory  she  had  a  quick  eye  for  the  heroic,  the  beautiful,  the  true,  the  purpose- 
ful. In  life  she  saw  through  the  soul  of  things  at  a  glance,  and  parted  com- 
pany with  insincerity  as  perhaps  the  one  incurable  mischief.  She  loved  the 
trees;  they  were  beautiful,  genuine,  restful,  always  the  same.  She  loved  the 
flowers  and  gathered  them  in  many  lands  and  climes.  She  loved  the  birds 
as  St.  Francis  loved  them.  They  were  not  afraid  of  her;  she  fed  them  by 
hundreds  in  her  yard,  and  talked  to  them  as  though  they  could  understand, 
and  all  summer  long  they  answered  her  call  with  a  cheer  which  they  seemed 
to  know. 

The  strength  of  her  life  for  thirteen  years  was  given  to  the  betterment 
of  women,  and  she  was  not  long  a  resident  of  Richmond  before  she  became 
an  active  factor  in  the  organization  and  promotion  of  several  clubs  for  the 
advancement  of  literary  and  artistic  culture.  The  Tuesday  Aftermath  was 
organized  in  1884,  and  was  the  inspiration  of  Mrs.  Dennis,  whose  untiring 
zeal  and  unselfish  devotion  carried  it  safely  through  the  perils  of  infanc}',  as 
her  genius  was  the  guiding  star  of  its  later  years.  During  the  different  win- 
ters they  studied  American  authors;  spent  two  years  in  studying  Shakespeare, 
— one  year  in  England  and  one  in  Scotland;  one  year  on  Russian  literature; 
one  year  on  French  literature,  and  one  on  German  literature.  Mrs.  Dennis 
was  also  the  organizer  of  the  History  Class  of  Richmond.  Its  first  meetings 
were  held  in  the  lecture  rooms  of  the  Baptist  church,  but  the  increase  in 
numbers  in  attendance  was  so  great  that  within  a  few  months  it  was  neces- 
sary to  hold  the  meetings  in  the  auditorium  of  the  church.  There  were  no 
tickets  nor  fee  for  admission,  no  limit  as  to  numbers,  age  or  capacity.  The 
subject  first  chosen  fcr  study  was  Chaldean  history,  but  Mrs.  Dennis  did  not 
restrict  herself  to  that  alone;  she  varied  the  lessons  with  little  moral  talks, 
reading  of  selections  from  the  poets  and  by  giving  quotations  to  be  copied  by 
the  class  as  reference  in  future  work.  The  subject  of  art  was  very  early 
introduced,  and  has  always  proved  one  of  the  most  attractive  features.  In 
the  second  year  the  subject  of  Jewish  history  was  taken  up,  in  connection 
with  Christian  art,  and  an  e.xcellent  stereopticon  outfit  was  purchased  for  the 
purpose  of  illustrating  these  lectures.  Greek  history  and  art  have  also 
claimed  the  attention  of  the  class,  followed  by  a  winter's  study  of  Italian  his- 
tory and  the  painters  and  architects  of  that  country.  Through  all  the  years 
Mrs.  Dennis  was  the  inspiration  of  the  society;  she  planned  its  work  and 
made  it  one  of  the  most  effective  organizations  in  Richmond  for  intellectual 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  23 

advancement.  When  abroad  in  Europe  she  was  not  forgetful  of  her  club 
associations,  and  frequently  wrote  letters  of  the  most  entertaining  character 
to  the  Tuesday  Aftermath,  the  History  Class  and  other  societies  with  which 
she  was  connected.  Her  essays  and  addresses  before  these  clubs  were  always 
of  the  most  entertaining  character.  She  possessed  high  literary  ability,  and 
her  reading  covered  the  wide  realm  of  science,  art,  history  and  classical 
literature. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  soul  finds  its  best  and  truest  expression  in 
poetry,  and  thus  it  seemed  to  Mrs.  Dennis.  Those  things  which  touched  her 
most  deeply  often  inspired  her  to  set  down  her  thoughts  in  poetry,  and  some 
of  her  poetic  productions  deserve  to  be  classed  with  those  of  our  best 
American  writers.     The  following  was  written  on  the  i6th  of  October,  1894: 

The  world,  all  wrapt  in  summer  robes, 

Lay  hushed  in  the  arms  of  sleep, 
While  a  presence  fair  from  the  depth  of  air, 

Stole  by  on  hurrying  feet. 

Then  the  winds  sighed  low  'neath  the  star's  soft  glow 

And  the  flowers  bowed  down  their  heads, 
While  the  purple  mist,  by  the  moonlight  kissed, 

Clung  close  o'er  their  perfumed  beds. 
And  the  forest  blushed  with  a  tender  grace 

When  it  woke  in  the  morning  sun, 
But  a  tear-drop  fell  on  the  earth's  fair  face 

For  the  loss  of  a  something  gone. 
And  thus  it  is  with  our  human  hopes. 

When  our  life  has  richer  grown; 
The  fair  sweet  day  into  autumn  slopes, 

And  the  dreams  of  our  youth  are  flown. 
The  golden  wedding  bells  chime  low 

In  the  light  of  the  settling  sun; 
And  so,  in  the  gleam  of  this  after  glow. 

Fair  autumn,  thy  race  is  run. 
On  presenting  a  volume  of  Alice  and  Phcebe  Carey's  poems  to  her  hus- 
band she  wrote  on  the  fly-leaf: 

Sometimes  the  way  seems  hard  and  long. 

And  life  seems  big  with  care. 
But  faith  in  God  and  you  still  strong. 

Gives  power  to  do  and  dare. 
And  if  sometimes  a  shadow  plays, 

Across  our  life's  sweet  June, 
It  but  awakens  holier  lays, 

And  strikes  a  grander  tune. 
And  so  I  give  this  little  book. 

With  woman's  wealth  of  love; 
The  poets'  words  their  color  took 

From  faith  in  God  above. 


24  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Death  came  suddenly  to  Mrs.  Dennis,  and  she  was  thus  permitted  to 
continue  in  the  active  woric  of  life  to  the  last.  No  woman  in  Richmond  has 
ever  exerted  a  broader  or  more  beneficial  influence  upon  the  life  of  the  city. 
The  highest  tributes  of  love  and  respect  were  paid  her.  Resolutions  were 
passed  by  all  the  organizations  and  societies  with  which  she  was  connected, 
and  Richmond  mourned  the  loss  of  one  who  was  at  once  friend,  teacher, 
counselor  and  companion.      She  has  gone  to 

"  Join  the  choir  invisible 
Of  those  immortal  dead  who  live  again, 
In  minds  made  better  by  their  presence." 

ABRAM  GAAR. 

In  the  death  of  Abram  Garr,  Wayne  county  lost  one  of  its  most  valued 
citizens.  His  entire  life  was  spent  within  its  borders,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  he  was  in  control  of  what  is  probably  the  chief  industrial  interest  of  the 
county.  In  America  "labor  is  king,"  and  the  sovereignty  that  the  liberty- 
loving  people  of  this  nation  acknowledge  is  that  of  business.  The  men  of 
influence  in  this  enlightened  age  are  the  enterprising,  progressive  representa- 
tives of  commerce,  and  to  such  ones  advancement  and  progress  are  due. 
Abram  Gaar  was  one  who  had  the  mental  poise  and  calm  judgment  to  success- 
fully guide  and  control  gigantic  business  afl'airs,  and  at  the  same  time  he  had 
a  keen  appreciation  of  the  ethics  of  commercial  life,  so  that  he  not  only  com- 
manded the  respect  of  his  fellow  men  for  his  uprightness,  but  also  excited 
their  admiration  by  his  splendid  abilities. 

Mr.  Gaar  was  born  in  Wayne  county,  November  14,  18 19,  and  during 
his  infancy  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Richmond,  where  he  spent  his  remain- 
ing days.  His  educational  privileges  were  those  afforded  by  the  subscription 
schools  of  the  period  and  he  received  his  manual  training  in  his  father's 
cabinet  shop.  He  served  a  regular  apprenticeship,  and  in  1845,  when  his 
father  embarked  in  the  foundry  business,  Abram,  being  a  natural  mechanic, 
worked  at  pattern-making,  building  wooden  machinery  and  other  labors  in 
connection  with  the  foundry  business.  After  a  short  time,  however,  misfort- 
une overtook  the  enterprise  and  he  was  thus  thrown  out  of  employment. 
He  was  then  about  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  during  the  two  succeeding 
years  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Ellis  Nordyke,  a  millwright.  All  this  time  he 
was  gaining  a  good  practical  knowledge  of  mechanical  work  that  well  fitted 
him  for  his  greater  responsibilities  in  connection  with  the  Gaar  Machine 
Works.  About  1840,  however,  a  period  of  financial  depression  and  conse- 
quent business  inactivity  came  upon  the  country,  and  as  there  was  not  much 
demand  for  mechanical  work,  he  turned  his  attention   to  literary  pursuits. 


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He  attended  school  for  some  time,  his  last  teacher  being  James  M.  Poe,  under 
whose  direction  he  pursued  his  studies  in  1842.  The  following  year  he 
entered  the  employ  of  J.  M.  and  J.  H.  Hutton  in  the  old  Spring  foundry 
machine  shops,  and  there  devoted  himself  untiringly  to  his  duties,  thus  mas- 
tering the  business  in  principle  and  detail.  He  also  saved  the  major  part  of 
his  wages  until,  in  1849,  having  acquired  considerable  capital,  he  purchased 
the  plant,  with  his  father,  his  brother,  John  M.,  and  his  brother-in-law,  Will- 
iam G.  Scott,  as  partners.  The  business  was  reorganized  and  conducted 
under  the  name  of  A.  Gaar  &  Company,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death, 
forty-five  years  later,  Abram  Gaar  was  actively  connected  therewith  and  con- 
tributed in  no  small  measure  to  its  success.  On  the  ist  of  April,  1870,  the 
business  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company  with  a 
paid-up  capital  of  four  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent, a  position  which  he  continued  to  fill,  with  marked  ability,  until  his 
demise.  The  business  steadily  grew  in  volume  and  importance  until  it  had 
assumed  extensive  proportions  and  was  accounted  the  leading  industrial  con- 
cern of  the  county.  In  its  management  Abram  Gaar  displayed  splendid 
executive  power  and  keen  discrimination,  and  he  was  widely  recognized  as  a 
most  capable  business  man. 

Onthe  26th  of  March,  1851,  Mr  Gaar  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Agnes  Adams,  born  May  2,  183 1,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Agnes  (Chapman) 
Adams.  She  was  born  on  a  farm  south  of  Richmond,  but  spent  the  greater 
part  of  her  girlhood,  until  her  ninth  year,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  Illinois. 
Her  mother  died  in  the  latter  state,  after  which  the  family  returned  to  Wayne 
county.  Mr.  Adams  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company 
for  a  long  period,  and  died  in  his  seventy-fourth  year.  Mrs.  Gaar  was  reared 
in  Richmond  from  the  age  of  nine,  and  from  her  thirteenth  year  until  her 
marriage,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  she  acted  as  her  father's  housekeeper.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gaar  were  born  four  children:  Oliver  P.,  Clem.  A.,  Samuel 
W.  and  Nettie  R.  The  daughter  is  the  wife  of  S.  S.  Stratton,  Jr.,  and  all 
are  residents  of  Richmond. 

In  1867  Mr.  Gaar  became  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  to  which 
his  widow  belongs,  and  at  all  times  was  a  liberal  contributor  to  church  and 
charitable  interests.  His  support  and  co-operation  were  withheld  from  no 
enterprise  calculated  to  prove  of  public  benefit.  He  voted  with  the  Demo- 
cracy in  early  life,  but  when  the  Missouri  Compromise  was  repealed,  his 
opposition  to  slavery  led  him  to  join  the  RepubHcan  party,  with  which  he 
affiliated  until  his  death.  Education,  temperance,  political  reform  and  mor- 
ality always  found  in  him  a  friend,  and  in  1883  he  donated  five  thousand 
dollars  toward  the  erection  of  the  First  Methodist  church  in  Richmond.      In 


26  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

1868  he  was  elected  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Home  for  Friendless  Women, 
and  for  nine  years  gave  his  services  to  that  institution  without  pecuniary 
reward.  He  was  a  man  of  large  heart  and  broad  humanitarian  principles, 
and  his  public  career  and  private  life  were  alike  above  reproach.  In  1876 
he  erected  a  beautiful  residence  on  his  farm  two  miles  from  the  city,  and 
made  it  one  of  the  most  attractive  homes  in  Wayne  county.  There,  in  the 
midst  of  family  and  friends,  he  spent  many  delightful  hours,  for  he  was  a 
man  of  domestic  tastes  and  was  never  happier  than  when  ministering  to  the 
happiness  of  his  wife  and  children.  He  died  February  10,  1S94,  and  the 
community  mourned  the  loss  of  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens. 

CLEM  A.   GAAR. 

Clem  A.  Gaar,  the  second  son  of  Abram  and  Agnes  Gaar,  was  born  in 
Richmond,  Indiana,  on  the  13th  of  April,  1859.  His  youth  was  spent  in  the 
usual  manner  of  lads  of  the  period,  study  in  the  school-room  and  the  pleas- 
ures of  the  play-ground  engrossing  his  attention.  Entering  upon  his  business 
career  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  he  began  serving  an  apprenticeship  in  the 
pattern-making  department  of  the  works  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  his 
term  covering  a  period  of  four  years  and  eight  months,  during  which  time  he 
became  an  expert  workman.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  began 
farming  on  the  old  homestead  and  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  for  eight 
months,  but  not  finding  that  occupation  to  his  taste,  he  embarked  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  in  connection  with  John  Shroyer,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Shroyer  &  Gaar.  They  conducted  that  enterprise  until  1890,  and 
in  1894  Mr.  Gaar  aided  in  organizing  the  National  Church  Furniture  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  has  since  served  as  vice-president.  They  have  built  up 
an  extensive  business  and  are  now  enjoying  a  large  and  lucrative  patronage. 
In  addition,  Mr.  Gaar  is  engaged  in  general  farming,  making  a  specialty  of 
the  raising  of  wheat,  and  a  glance  at  his  broad  and  well  tilled  fields  indicates 
his  careful  supervision.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  corporation  conduct- 
ing business  under  the  name  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company.  He  possesses  the 
true  western  spirit  of  enterprise,  and  is  quick  to  note  a  favorable  business 
opportunity.  Therein  lies  the  secret  of  many  a  man's  success,  and  the  pros- 
perity which  our  subject  enjoys  is  largely  attributable  to  that  quality. 

On  the  15th  of  November,  1882,  Mr.  Gaar  was  married  to  Miss  Fannie 
McMeans,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Alfred  L.  and  Anna  L.  McMeans,  of  Rich- 
mond. They  now  have  two  children,  Lucille  and  Russell  A.  Mr.  Gaar  is  a 
leading  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  is  serving  as  trustee, 
and  is  a  valued  representative  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  and  his  wife  have 
spent  their  entire  lives  in  Richmond,  and  in  their  large  circle  of  friends  are 
many  who  have  known  them  from  childhood  to  the  present. 


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March  3,  1863,  and  having  acquired  a  good 
schools  pursued  a  course  in  the  Richmond  1 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1884. 

Thus  prepared  for  the  practical  and  re:  ^ 
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institution,  which  has  the  reputation 
ing  houses  in  this  section  of  the  state.    He  is  ais^. 
sive  manufacturing  business  conducted  by  Gaar,  S 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1885,  was  celebrated  tlu.  : 
W.  Gaar  and  Miss  Mary  E.  Matthews,  a  daughter  of  Edwai 
Matthews,  of  Richmond.  They  have  one  child,  Mildred  '•' 
hospitality  of  the  best  homes  of  the  city,  and  their  frien  ; 
are  many.  Mr.  Gaar  is  quite  prominent  and  widely  kn< 
cles,  holding  membership  with  Webb  Lodge,  No.  24,  A.  J: 
Solomon  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Richmond  Commandery, 
belongs  to  J.  N.  S.  Council,  Royal  Arcanum.  He  exercises  ht?  right  of  fran- 
chise in  support  of  the  men  and  measures  of  the  Republican  p^rty,  but  for 
himself  has  never  sought  nor  desired  the  honorsor  emoluments  1  public  office, 
preferring  to  devote  his  energies  to  his  business  interests,  iit:  is  a  worthy 
representative  of  one  of  the  prominent  families  that  has  figiir'-.l  conspicuously 
in  the  history  of  the  county  from  the  time  of  its  earliest  piune  •:  development 
flnwn  to  the  present,  with  its  wonderful  commercial  and  •■.■\  -.triri!   ?.dvance- 


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■OHN  M.  GA 
ii  i:.;:;  ouen  bein  siaced  and  commented  upc.; 
always  presented  great  opportunities  to  men  of  in 
integrity,  and  as  long  as  men  have  the  aspiratio; 

improve  their  condftions  of  life  and  earn  the  succoss-  wincli  it  is  pos^^: 
obtain,  the  theme  will  never  be  exhausted.  Om-  i.f  the  most  prom^ 
Indiana's  busmess  men  whose  enterprise  and  sound  judgment  have  n  • 
promoted  their  individual  prosperity  but  have  advanced  the  public  \v' 
is  John  Milton  Gaar.  As  the  president  of  the  extensive  corj 
business  under  the  name  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  he  is  too 


28  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

need  introduction  to  the  readers  of  this  volume,  and  his  fame  in  this  connec- 
tion is  not  even  confined  by  the  bounds  of  his  native  land,  but  as  a  business 
man  in  other  lines  of  endeavor,  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  friend,  we  would  pre- 
serve the  record  of  his  career  among  a  people  who  have  learned  to  admire, 
respect,  honor  and  esteem  him. 

John  M.  Gaar,  the  son  of  Jonas  Gaar,  was  born  in  Richmond  on  the 
26th  of  May,  1823,  and  is  indebted  to  the  subscription  schools  of  the  city  for 
the  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed.  His  early  life  passed  unevent- 
fully, and  as  his  parents  were  not  then  wealthy  his  youth  was  by  no  means  free 
from  labor.  In  1835,  by  the  firm,  whose  members  were  Job  W.  Swain,  Abel 
Thornbury  and  Jonas  Gaar,  he  was  employed  to  operate  a  stationary  engine, 
and  continued  to  serve  in  their  employ  until  1838,  when  his  employers  failed. 
He  afterward  worked  at  anything  he  could  get  to  do  that  would  yield  him  an 
honest  living.  In  1839  he  secured  a  situation  in  a  brickyard  and  followed 
that  pursuit  until  he  became  an  expert  brickmaker.  He  was  employed  in 
that  line  until  the  6th  of  November,  1841,  when  he  began  working  in  the 
blacksmith  shop  of  the  Spring  foundry,  owned  by  J.  M.  and  J.  H.  Hutton. 
In  January,  1845,  when  he  was  receiving  one  dollar  per  day,  he  and  his 
brother,  Abram,  each  asked  for  an  advance  to  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  per  day, 
but  the  firm  compromised  by  giving  each  of  them  a  one-fifth  interest  in  the 
business,  their  father  also  having  a  fifth  interest.  On  the  20th  of  September, 
1849,  in  connection  with  their  father,  Jonas  Gaar,  and  William  G.  Scott, 
they  purchased  the  interest  of  J.  M.  and  J.  H.  Hutton,  and  organized  the  firm 
of  A.  Gaar  &  Company,  the  partners  being  Jonas  Gaar  and  his  two  sons, 
Abram  and  John  M.,  and  William  G.  Scott.  From  the  beginning  their  pat- 
ronage steadily  increased.  It  was  a  healthy  growth,  for  their  products  com- 
manded the  commendation  of  the  public,  and  good  goods  upon  the  market, 
sold  at  reasonable  rates,  always  secure  purchasers.  From  the  beginning 
John  M.  Gaar  of  this  review  was  one  of  the  partners,  and  he  so  continued 
until  1870,  when  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  Gaar, 
Scott  &  Company,  at  which  time  he  was  elected  a  director  and  treasurer. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  brother  Abram,  in  1894,  he  succeeded  to  the  presi- 
dency, and  for  five  years  has  remained  at  the  head  of  the  most  extensive 
business  in  this  line  in  the  entire  country.  Their  plant  has  been  constantly 
enlarged  to  meet  the  growing  demands  of  the  trade  until  it  now  covers  ten 
acres  of  land,  and  is  fitted  out  with  the  most  modern  buildings  and  improved 
machinery  known  to  the  trade.  They  are  among  the  most  extensive  boiler 
and  engine  builders  in  the  world,  and  the  products  of  this  great  foundry  in- 
clude threshing  machines,  clover-huUers,  boilers,  portable  and  traction  engines 
and  sawmills.  The  trade  which  the  house  enjoys  is  very  extensive,  their 
manufactures  being  shipped  to  every  state  in  the  Union,  in  addition  to  which 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  29- 

they  have  a  large  export  trade.  The  name  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company  upon 
any  piece  of  machinery  is  a  guaranty  of  its  excellence  and  a  recommenda- 
tion that  is  everywhere  received,  for  the  reliability  of  the  company  is  a  matter 
widely  recognized  throughout  the  business  world.  The  present  officers  of 
the  company  are:  John  M.  Gaar,  president;  Joseph  B.  Craighead,  vice-presi- 
dent; S.  S.  Stratton,  Jr.,  secretary;  and  Howard  Campbell,  treasurer  and 
general  manager.  They  employ  an  army  of  skilled  workmen,  each  depart- 
ment being  under  the  direction  of  expert  machinists,  and  every  machine  sent 
out  from  the  foundry  is  made  with  a  degree  of  perfection  unsurpassed  up  to 
the  present  time.  The  men  are  paid  good  wages,  and  the  relation  between 
employers  and  employes  is  most  harmonious,  owing  to  the  justice  and  con- 
sideration on  the  part  of  the  former,  which  awakens  the  good  will  and  respect 
of  the  latter. 

While  John  M.  Gaar  is  at  the  head  of  one  of  the  leading  foundry  enter- 
prises of  the  world,  his  efforts  have  been  by  no  means  confined  to  one  line  of 
endeavor.  It  would  be  difficult  to  imagine  what  the  business  life  of  Richmond 
would  be  without  his  guiding  hand,  his  wise  counsel  and  his  financial  assist- 
ance. He  is  now  president  of  the  Second  National  Bank,  of  the  city,  presi- 
dent of  the  F.  &  N.  Lawn  Mower  Company,  and  president  of  the  Richmond 
Natural  Gas  Company,  and  has  been  a  most  potent  factor  in  the  success  which 
has  attended  these  various  enterprises.  In  addition,  he  has  engaged  in  stock- 
raising  on  a  large  scale  and  has  managed  an  extensive  farm.  Thus  has  he 
been  prominently  connected  with  the  agricultural,  industrial  and  commercial 
interests  of  the  city,  and  is  none  the  less  prominent  in  social  circles.  He  is 
a  valued  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  and  his  genial,  unassuming  manner  has  gained  him  the  sin- 
cere friendship  of  many  of  the  representatives  of  these  lodges.  His  early 
political  support  was  given  the  Democratic  party,  but  on  the  organization  of 
the  Republican  party  he  joined  its  ranks,  and  has  since  been  one  of  the  stal- 
wart advocates  of  its  principles. 

On  the  20th  of  January,  1848,  Mr.  Gaar  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Hannah  A.  Rattray,  who  died  June  6,  1849,  leaving  a  daughter,  H.  A.,  who 
is  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  B.  Craighead,  vice-president  of  the  Gaar,  Scott  & 
Company's  Works.  On  the  i6th  of  September,  1865,  Mr.  Gaar  was  again 
married,  his  second  union  being  with  Helen  M.  Rattray,  who  was  born 
March  2,  1840.  Three  children  were  born  of  this  union:  William  W.,  a 
resident  of  Richmond;  Jennie,  wife  of  W.  B.  Leeds,  of  Chicago,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Tin  Plate  Company,  of  Elwood,  Indiana;  and  John 
M.,  Jr.,  deceased. 

For  seventy-six  years  Mr.  Gaar  has  been  a  resident  of  Wayne  county, 
and  has  long  been  accounted  one   of  the  most  prominent  and   progressive 


30  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

citizens  of  Richmond.  He  may  well  be  termed  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
city,  for  he  has  been  the  promoter  of  many  of  the  leading  business  interests, 
and  tlie  history  of  Richmond,  as  of  that  of  all  other  modern  cities,  is  largely 
the  history  of  commercial  activity.  He  has  earned  for  himself  an  enviable 
reputation  as  a  csfreful  man  of  business,  always  known  for  his  prompt  and 
honorable  methods  of  dealing,  which  have  won  him  the  deserved  and 
unbounded  confidence  of  his  fellow  men. 

FIELDING  GAAR. 

After  a  successful  business  career,  in  which  he  has  acquired  a  handsome 
competence.  Fielding  Gaar  is  now  living  a  retired  life  in  Richmond.  He  was 
born  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  on  the  ist  of  January,  1827,  his  par- 
ents being  Jonas  and  Sarah  (Watson)  Gaar.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent 
under  the  parental  roof,  and  in  the  subscription  school  he  obtained  his  educa- 
tion. Early  trained  to  habits  of  industry,  he  served  a  regular  apprenticeship 
to  the  machinist's  trade,  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  completing  his  term 
on  attaining  his  majority.  Throughout  the  remainder  of  his  active  business 
career,  he  was  employed  along  that  line.  He  is  still  a  stockholder  in  the 
factory  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  and  held  a  similar  connection  with  the 
predecessor  of  this  company, — A.  Gaar  &  Company.  A  mammoth  business 
is  conducted  by  this  factory,  and  its  extensive  sales  have  brought  to  the  stock- 
holders a  most  desirable  income.  Their  trade,  in  the  sale  of  the  boilers,  saw- 
mills, threshing  machines  and  portable  and  traction  engines  which  they  con- 
struct, extends  not  only  throughout  this  country  but  to  foreign  lands  as  well, 
and  brings  to  the  owners  marked  prosperity.  Fielding  Gaar  is  also  the  owner 
of  a  valuable  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  south  of  Richmond. 

In  his  political  views  he  is  a  Democrat  and  formerly  took  quite  an  active 
part  in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  Democracy,  but  is  not  aggressively  par- 
tisan. At  one  time  he  represented  the  second  ward  in  the  city  council  and 
gave  his  support  to  all  progressive  measures  for  the  public  good.  He  belongs 
to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has  attained  the  Knights  Templar 
degree,  holding  membership  in  the  commandery  of  Richmond.  For  thirty- 
five  year  he  has  been  connected  with  Whittier  Lodge,  No.  41,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
and  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  the  brethren  of  the  fraternity. 

Mr.  Gaar  was  married  in  Richmond,  in  1865,  to  Miss  Mary  J.  Gallagher, 
and  four  children  have  been  born  of  this  union,  namely:  Jonas,  of  Rich- 
mond, who  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pogue,  Miller  &  Company;  Charles, 
a  machinist  with  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company;  Indiana,  wife  of  Harry  Gilbert, 
of  Richmond;  and  Earl,  who  is  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  is  with  his  par- 
ents. Mr.  Gaar  is  now  resting  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of  his  former 
toil.      He  has  reached  the  age  of  three-score  years  and  ten,  and  now,  on  the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  31 

■western  slope  of  life,  he  is  resting  from  arduous  cares,  in  the  midst  of  family 
and  friends,  who  esteem  him  for  his  honorable  record  and  his  many  com- 
mendable characteristics. 

JONAS    GAAR. 

Numbered  among  the  younger  business  men  of  Richmond  is  Jonas  Gaar, 
whose  whole  life,  save  the  time  spent  in  the  east,  at  college,  has  been  passed 
in  this  flourishing  little  city.  The  eldest  son  of  Fielding  and  Mary  J.  (Galla- 
gher) Gaar,  he  was  born  in  Richmond,  on  the  22d  of  January,  1867.  After 
completing  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  this  place,  he  matriculated 
in  Cornell  University,  where  he  passed  two  years  in  earnest  study,  qualifying 
himself  for  the  more  serious  duties  of  life. 

In  1886  our  subject  returned  home,  where  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
assistant  postmaster,  and,  accepting  the  place,  served  under  J.  F.  Eldor,  un- 
til 1890,  making  an  efficient  and  popular  official.  He  then  became  interested 
in  the  firm  of  Pogue,  Miller  &  Company,  buying  a  share  in  the  business. 
This  well  known  hardware  house  was  established  in  1880  by  Charles  H. 
Pogue  and  George  W.  Miller,  both  of  Richmond,  the  firm  name  being  Pogue 
&  Miller  until  Mr.  Gaar  was  admitted  to  the  partnership.  In  1893  Mr. 
Pogue  retired  from  the  business,  and  Mr.  Gaar  acquired  a  half  interest, 
though  the  old  style  of  the  firm  remains  as  formerly.  The  location  of  their 
store  is  on  Fort  Wayne  avenue,  and  by  judicious  management  their  trade, 
which  is  exclusively  wholesale,  is  growing  steadily,  year  by  year.  Mr.  Gaar 
possesses  marked  business  ability,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  for  him  a  suc- 
cessful and  useful  future. 

On  the  23d  of  October,  1889,  Mr.  Gaar  married  Fanny  C.  Pogue,  daugh- 
ter of  A.  L.  Pogue,  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  Richmond.  Two 
interesting  children  bless  the  home  of  our  subject  and  his  estimable  wife; 
Mary  Frances,  born  July  2,  1890,  and  Americus  Fielding,  born  July  17,  1894. 
The  family  reside  in  a  beautiful  home  in  the  most  desirable  portion  of  east 
Main  street,  and  are  surrounded  by  all  of  the  comforts  and  many  of  the  lux- 
uries that  denote  refined  and  cultured  tastes. 

EPHRAIM  DERBYSHIRE,  M.  D. 
Doctor  Derbyshire  is  not  only  a  leading  physician  of  Indiana,  but  stands 
as  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  and  honored  families  of  the  state,  the  name 
having  been  identified  with  the  annals  of  American  history  from  pre-Revolu- 
tionary  times  and  having  ever  stood  for  the  stanchest  integrity  and  honor  in 
all  the  relations  of  life.  The  Doctor  is  a  native  of  Franklin  county,  having 
been  born  near  Laurel,  on  the  17th  of  February,  1846,  a  son  of  James  A. 
.and  Hannah  (Palmer)  Derbyshire. 


32  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

The  Derbyshire  family  is  of  stanch  old  English  stock,  and  records 
extant  show  that  representatives  of  the  name  settled  in  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  the  old  family  homestead 
having  been  located  near  the  town  of  Yardley,  that  county.  In  this  old 
Pennsylvania  homestead  both  the  grandfather  and  the  father  of  the  Doctor 
were  born.  The  former,  Alexander  D.  Derbyshire,  passed  his  entire  life  in 
his  native  county,  and  he  died  in  the  old  ancestral  home  mentioned.  He 
was  a  weaver  by  trade,  but  he  devoted  the  greater  part  of  his  life  to  agricult- 
ural pursuits. 

James  Alexander  Derbyshire,  the  father  of  the  Doctor,  was  born  in 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  24th  of  April,  18 17,  the  son  of  Alexan- 
der Derbyshire,  who  was  likewise  a  native  of  the  same  county,  as  has  already 
been  noted,  his  death  occurring  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years,  while  his  wife 
passed  away  when  James  A.  was  a  child  of  but  three  years.  On  the  old  home- 
stead James  A.  Derbyshire  grew  to  maturity,  receiving  such  educational 
advantages  as  were  afforded  by  the  public  schools,  and  preparing  himself 
for  the  active  duties  of  life  by  learning  the  trade  of  carpenter.  In  1836  his 
brother-in-law,  Joel  Palmer,  came  from  Pennsylvania  to  Indiana  to  engage 
in  the  construction  of  the  Whitewater  canal,  and  in  connection  with  this 
work  Mr.  Derbyshire  was  induced  to  come  to  the  state  in  the  succeeding 
year,  1837.  His  brother-in-law  was  a  contractor,  and  Mr.  Derbyshire  found 
employment  with  him,  being  engaged  in  the  construction  of  locks  and  bridges 
on  the  canal,  continuing  to  be  thus  employed  until  work  on  the  canal  was 
suspended.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits,  having  for 
several  years  carried  on  farming  operations  on  rented  land  in  Posey  town- 
ship, Franklin  county,  where  he  has  ever  since  continued  to  reside.  In  1846 
he  purchased  his  present  farm,  which  is  located  on  section  20,  and  his  enter- 
prise and  sound  judgment  conserved  the  success  of  his  efforts,  and  he  has 
been  long  recognized  as  one  of  the  representative  men  of  the  county,  being 
held  in  the  highest  confidence  and  esteem  in  the  community  where  he  has  so 
long  resided. 

In  the  year  1842  was  solemnized  the  marriage  of  James  A.  Derbyshire 
and  Hannah  Palmer,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Palmer,  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  seven  children,  two  of  whom  are  now  deceased.  We  here  give  a 
brief  record  concerning  the  children:  Oscar  is  a  resident  of  Laurel,  this 
county;  Ephraim  is  the  immediate  subject  of  this  review;  Albert  and  Alexan- 
der are  residents  of  the  state  of  Oregon;  Caroline  is  the  wife  of  Prof.  Felix 
Shelling,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania;  Elizabeth  became  the  wife  of 
John  Withers,  and  her  death  occurred  several  years  ago;  and  William  P.  died, 
in  infancy.  Mrs.  Derbyshire  had  been  in  declining  health  for  some  time,  and 
in  the  hope  of  relief  she  went  to  California  in  1886,  being  shortly  afterward. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  33 

joined  by  her  husband.  They  continued  to  reside  in  California  for  a  year, 
but  with  no  appreciable  or  permanent  benefit  to  the  health  of  Mrs.  Derby- 
shire. They  accordingly  returned  to  their  home  in  Indiana,  and  the  devoted 
wife  and  mother  survived  but  a  short  time  after  her  arrival,  her  death  occur- 
ring in  Connersville. 

In  his  poHtical  adherency  Mr.  Derbyshire  has  long  rendered  a  stanch 
allegiance  to  the  Republican  party  and  the  principles  and  policies  for  which 
it  stands  sponsor.  He  was  originally  a  Democrat,  but  left  the  ranks  of  that 
party  at  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party  and  gave  his 
support  to  its  presidential  candidate,  John  C.  Fremont.  In  earlier  years  he 
took  quite  an  active  part  in  local  political  affairs,  and  served  for  some  time 
as  a  justice  of  the  peace.  In  his  religious  views  he  holds  to  the  faith  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  is  a  member.  Fraternally  he  has 
been  long  and  conspicuously  identified  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  being  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  that  organization  in  the  state. 
He  was  initiated  into  its  mysteries  in  1839,  and  has  thus  been  a  member  for 
the  long  term  of  sixty  years.  He  has  on  many  occasions  represented  his 
lodge  in  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state,  having  been  a  delegate  as  lately  as 
1898.  On  this  occasion  he  received  much  attention  and  fraternal  deference 
as  a  veteran  member  of  the  order  and  as  the  oldest  representative  present. 
Mr.  Derbyshire  has  ever  been  held  in  the  highest  esteem  in  the  community, 
has  ordered  his  life  on  a  high  plane,  and  is  honored  as  one  of  the  venerable 
pioneers  of  the  county. 

Dr.  Ephraim  Derbyshire,  son  of  the  venerable  gentleman  whose  life  his- 
tory has  just  been  briefly  outlined,  was  reared  on  the  old  homestead  in  Posey 
township,  securing  his  preliminary  educational  discipline  in  the  public  schools, 
after  which  he  completed  a  course  of  academic  studies  in  the  old  Brookville 
College.  After  leaving  school  he  learned  the  tinner's  trade,  to  which  he 
devoted  his  attention  for  a  time.  His  ambition  and  natural  predilections, 
however,  prompted  him  to  seek  a  wider  and  higher  field  of  endeavor.  His 
ambition  was  distinctly  one  of  action,  and  he  determined  to  prepare  himself 
for  the  medical  profession.  He  began  his  technical  studies  in  the  line,  and 
in  1873-4  he  took  the  course  of  lectures  in  the  Ohio  Medical  College.  Thus 
thoroughly  fortified  by  careful  and  discriminating  study,  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  chosen  profession  in  New  Salem,  Rush  county,  Indiana,  where  he 
remained  until  1880,  having  built  up  an  excellent  pr:tctice  and  established  a 
reputation  as  an  able  and  skiljful  practitioner.  Desiring  to  still  farther  per- 
fect himself  for  the  work  of  his  profession,  he  then  matriculated  in  the  Med- 
ical College  of  Indiana,  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  completed  the  full  course 
of  study,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  i88r. 

Immediately  after    his    graduation    the   Doctor    located   in   Bentonville, 


34  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Fayette  countj',  this  state,  where  he  continued  in  the  active  and  successful 
practice  of  his  profession  until  1897,  when  he  located  in  Connersville, 
where  his  prestige  and  success  have  been  equally  marked.  He  has  a  deep 
appreciation  of  the  responsibilities  of  his  laborious  and  exacting  profession, 
and  not  only  does  he  keep  fully  abreast  of  the  advances  made  in  the  sciences 
of  medicine  and  surgery,  but  he  is  animated  by  that  lively  sympathy  and 
geniality  of  nature  which  are  so  essential  in  the  true  physjcian.  The  Doctor 
is  a  member  of  the  State  Medical  Society  and  also  the  district  association, 
and  at  the  present  time  he  is  the  incumbent  as  secretary  of  the  county  board 
of  health.  For  the  past  thirty-iive  years  Dr.  Derb3'shire  has  been. a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  whose  work  he  has  a  deep  and  abid- 
ing interest. 

The  marriage  of  the  Doctor  was  celebrated  in  the  year  1868,  when  he 
was  united  to  Miss  Amy  C.  French,  of  Decatur  county,  Indiana.  They 
became  the  parejits  of  two  children,  one  of  whom  is  deceased.  The  surviving 
child,  Catherine,  gives  additional  brightness  in  the  home,  which  is  the  center 
of  a  cultured  and  refined  hospitality.  The  Doctor  and  his  family  enjoy  a 
^distinctive  popularity  in  the  little  city  of  their  home. 

Reverting,  in  conclusion,  to  the  Doctor's  father,  James  A.  Derbyshire, 
we  may  say  that  he  is  conceded  to  be  the  oldest  Odd  Fellow  in  the  state, 
and  on  the  occasion  of  the  meeting  of  the  grand  lodge,  at  Indianapolis,  in 
1898,  that  distinguished  body  voted  him  a  medal  in  honor  of  his  long  and 
prominent  service  in  the  fraternity.  Mr.  Derbyshire's  fine  farm  comprises 
two  hundred  acres,  under  most  effective  cultivation  and  equipped  with  sub- 
stantial improvements.  On  his  farm  are  the  locally  famed  Derbyshire  falls, 
which  are  known  for  their  picturesque  beauty,  attracting  many  visitors  to 
the  place. 

CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DOWNS. 

For  m.any  years  an  active  factor  in  the  industrial  interests  of  Conners- 
ville, Captain  Thomas  Downs,  through  his  diligence,  perseverance  anti  busi- 
ness ability  acquired  a  handsome  competence,  and  also  contributed  to  the 
general  prosperity  through  the  conduct  of  enterprises  which  furnished  employ- 
ment to  many.  Reliability  in  all  trade  transactions,  loyalty  to  all  duties  of 
citizenship,  fidelity  in  the  discharge  of  every  trust  reposed  in  him, — these  are 
his  chief  characteristics,  and  through  the  passing  years  they  have  gained  to 
him  the  unqualified  confidence  and  respect  of  his  fellow  townsmen. 

Captain  Downs  was  born  in  Anderson,  Indiana,  and  is  of  Irish  descent; 
but  at  an  early  day  the  family  was  founded  in  America,  and  the  grandfather, 
Thomas  Downs,  removed  from  his  native  state  of  Maryland  to  Fleming 
county,  Kentucky,  in  1800.  Thirty  years  later  he  became  a  resident  of 
Franklin  county,  Indiana,  where  he  continued   farming,  v\hich  he   had   made 


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his  life  work  until  called  to  his  final  rest.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Ruth  House,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  in  their  family  were 
three  sons  and  two  daughters.  Hezekiah  Downs,  the  father  of  the  Captain, 
was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1818,  and  went  with  his  parents  to  Rush  county  at 
the  age  of  twelve.  Through  much  of  his  life  he  followed  farming  in  Madison 
county,  this  state,  but  in  1862  brought  his  family  to  Connersville  and  here 
his  last  days  were  passed.      He  died   in  1882,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years. 

Captain  Downs  received  his  scholastic  training  in  Madison  county,  and 
in  May,  1862,  when  only  sixteen  years  of  age  enlisted,  at  Anderson,  for  serv- 
ice in  the  civil  war,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  K,  Fifty-fourth  Indiana 
Infantry.  On  the  expiration  of  his  three-months  term  he  re-enlisted,  Octo- 
ber 2,  1862,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  K,  Sixteenth  Indiana  Infantry, 
continuing  at  the  hont  until  November  10,  1865,  when,  the  war  having 
ended,  he  was  honorably  discharged  at  Vicksburg.  He  was  with  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  and  participated  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign  and  the  Red 
river  expedition.  After  the  former  he  was  ill  for  three  months  with  typhoid 
fever,  but  with  this  exception  he  was  always  found  at  his  post  of  duty,  faith- 
fully performing  every  service  allotted  to  him,  whether  upon  the  field  of  bat- 
tle or  on  the  picket  line  during  the  silent  watches  of  the  night. 

When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  services  Captain  Downs  came 
to  Connersville,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  For  many  years  he 
engaged  in  contracting  and  building.  He  was  alone  in  business  until  January 
I,  1874,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Andre,  Stewart  &  Com- 
pany, contractors  and  builders  and  owners  and  operators  of  a  planing-mill. 
A  year  later  he  purchased  the  interests  of  his  partners,  with  the  exception  of 
Mr.  Stewart,  and  the  firm  of  Stewart  &  Downs  was  organized.  This  relation 
was  maintained  for  a  year,  when  Mr.  Stewart  sold  his  interest  to  Mr.  Martin, 
and  in  1877,  by  the  admission  of  Mr.  Wait  to  an  interest  in  the  business,  the 
firm  of  Martin,  Downs  &  Company  was  established.  In  1878  they  sold  the 
planing-mill  to  L.  T.  Bovver,  but  Mr.  Downs  and  Mr.  Wait  continued  together 
in  the  contracting  and  building  business.  Subsequently  they  purchased  the 
planing-mill  of  Martin  &  Ready,  and  Mr.  Ready  bought  a  third  interest  in  the 
business,  operations  being  carried  on  under  the  style  of  Downs,  Ready  & 
Company  until  January  I,  1899,  when  the  Captain  withdrew.  This  firm  ran 
a  very  extensive  planing-mill  and  did  the  largest  contracting  and  building 
business  in  the  city  for  many  years.  Many  of  the  finest  residences  and  other 
buildings  of  Connersville  stand  as  monuments  to  the  enterprise,  thrift  and 
ability  of  Captain  Downs,  whose  commendable  efforts  made  his  success  ^ell 
merited. 

Into  other  fields  of  endeavor  also  has  he  directed  his  energies  and  his 
wise  counsel  and  sound  judgment  have  contributed  to  the  success  of   a   num- 


36  BIOGRAPHICAL   AXD    GEXEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ber  of  the  leading  bosmess  concerns  of  the  city.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Fayette  Banking  Company  and  is  a  director  of  the  Central  Manafactnring 
Company,  which  he  aided  in  organizing  in  1S98.  serving  as  its  president  the 
first  year.  He  is  a  member  and  director  of  the  Fayette  Bnilding  &  Loan 
Association,  of  which  he  served  as  president  for  a  number  of  years.  On  the 
i6th  of  Jnly,  1898,  he  was  appointed  assistant  qaartermaster  in  the  United 
States  Army,  with  the  rank  of  captain.  He  was  stationed  at  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks, Missouri  one  of  the  largest  and  oldest  military  posts  and  distributing 
stations  in  the  country,  having  been  established  in  1S27,  and  entered  npon 
the  duties  of  the  oSce  August  8.  1898.  He  is  now  stationed  at  Fort 
Stevens,  Oregon. 

On  the  loth  of  November,  1866,  Mr.  Downs  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Mary  J.  Eisemann,  of  Conneisville,  and  their  chOdren  are:  Florence; 
Sosan  J.,  wife  of  Charles  A.  Rieman,  a  florist  of  Connersville  and  superin- 
tendent of  the  city  cemetery  ;  Augusta,  wife  of  J.  P.  Rhoads,  who  is  employed 
at  Jefferson  Barracks,  Missouri;  William,  who  died  in  188S,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years ;  and  George,  a  graduate  of  Purdue  University.  The  Captain 
maintains  pleasant  relations  with  his  old  army  comrades  through  his  member- 
ship in  Connersville  Post,  No.  126,  G.  A.  R.,  and  is  now  serving  as  its 
commander.  He  also  belongs  to  Otonka  Tribe.  No.  94,  I.  O.  R.  M. ;  War- 
ren Lodge.  No.  17.  F.  &  A.  M. :  and  Maxwell  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  An  ardent 
advocate  of  the  principles  of  the  RepubUcan  party,  he  does  all  in  his  power 
to  iMX>mote  its  growth  and  insure  its  success.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of 
the  city  council  and  was  on  the  school  board  for  nine  years,  acting  at  differ- 
ent times  as  its  secretary,  treasurer  and  president.  The  cause  of  education 
finds  in  him  a  warm  friend,  who  has  effectively  advanced  its  interests,  and 
other  measures  for  the  pubUc  good  receive  his  hearty  support  and  co-operation. 
He  possesses  a  social  nature  and  jovial  disposition,  and  the  circle  of  his  friends 
is  almost  co-estensive  with  the  circle  of  his  acquaintances. 

HON.  CHARLES  C.  BINKLEY. 
The  final  caus^  which  shape  the  fortunes  of  individual  men  and  the 
destinies  of  states  are  often  the  same.  They  are  usually  remote  and  obscure. 
their  influence  wholly  unexpected  until  declared  by  results.  When  they 
inspire  men  to  the  exercise  of  courage,  self-denial,  enterprise,  industrj-,  and 
call  into  play  the  higher  moral  elements,— such  causes  lead  to  the  planting 
of  great  states,  great  nations,  great  peoples.  That  nation  is  greatest  which 
produces  the  greatest  and  most  manly  men,  as  these  must  constitute  the 
essentially  greatest  nation.  Such  a  result  may  not  consciously  be  contem- 
plated by  the  individuals  instrumental  in  their  production.  Pursuing  each 
bis  personal  good  by  exalted  means,  they  worked  out  this  as  a  logical  con- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AXD   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  37 

elusion.  Thej-  wrought  on  the  lines  of  the  greatest  good.  Thus  it  is  that 
the  safety  of  our  republic  depends  not  so  much  upon  methods  and  measures 
as  upon  that  manhood  from  whose  deep  sources  all  that  is  precious  and  per- 
manent in  life  must  at  last  proceed. 

We  are  led  to  the  foregoing  reflections  in  reviewing,  even  in  a  cursorj' 
way,  the  salient  points  which  mark  the  career  of  him  whose  name  appears 
above.  He  has  not  alone  attained  prestige  and  success  in  the  practice  of  a 
laborious  and  exacting  profession,  but  has  been  conspicuously  identified  with 
many  interests  which  have  subserved  the  material  prosperity  of  Indiana;  has 
proved  a  valuable  factor  in  the  legislative  and  political  councils  of  his  state 
and  nation;  has  attained  marked  distinction  in  one  of  the  great  and  noble 
fraternal  organizations;  has  been  in  that  constant  s\mpath}'  and  touch  with 
the  work  of  Christianity  that  stand  as  an  earnest  of  eSective  and  zealous 
personal  labor:  and,  while  not  without  that  honorable  ambition  which  is  so 
powerful  and  useful  an  incentive  to  activit\-  in  public  affairs,  he  has  ever 
regarded  the  pursuits  of  private  life  as  being  in  themselves  abundantly 
worthy  of  his  best  efforts.  As  one  of  the  representative  men  of  Wayne  county 
and  of  the  state,  consideration  is  due   Senator   Binkley  in   this  compilation. 

Sixty  years  ago  in  the  attractive  little  village  of  Tarlton,  Pickaway 
count}-,  Ohio,  there  was  born  to  George  S.  and  Margaret  (Lybrand)  Binkley 
a  son  to  whom  was  given  the  name  of  Charles  C.  He  whose  nativit}-  is  thus 
recorded  figures  as  the  immediate  subject  of  this  sketch.  His  father,  George 
Simon  Binkley,  was  born  in  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  and  his  mother,  Margaret 
(Lybrand)  Binkle\-,  was  a  native  of  Ross  count}-,  Ohio, — both  being  of 
stanch  German  lineage,  their  respective  grandparents  having  emigrated  from 
the  Fatherland  and  established  homes  in  America.  Senator  Binkley  was 
one  of  five  children,  there  having  been  two  sons  and  three  daughters  in  the 
family.  It  should  be  noted  that  all  grew  to  maturity,  that  all  are  married 
and  that  all  are  active,  successful  and  honorable  in  the  earnest  discharge  of 
life's  duties. 

Charles  C.  Binkley  was  reared  in  his  native  village,  attending  the  public 
schools  in  his  boyhood  and  preparing  himself  for  entrance  into  the  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan  University,  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  where  he  prosecuted  his  studies  for 
some  time,  later  matriculating  in  the  Ohio  University,  at  Athens,  where  he 
completed  his  essentially  literary  course.  Having  decided  upon  and  forma- 
lated  his  plans  for  his  life  work,  he  began  reading  law  at  Brookville,  Frank- 
lin county,  Indiana,  where  he  became  a  student  in  the  office  of  Hon.  John  D. 
Howland,  who  was  subsequently  clerk  of  the  United  States  courts  for  Indi- 
ana. For  a  short  period  he  was  a  deputy  for  Hon.  John  U.  Johnston,  clerk 
■of  the  Franklin  circuit  court.     Prior  to  entering  upon  the  practice  of  his  pro- 


38  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

fession  Mr.  Binkley  was  elected  clerk  of  Brookville  township,  and  this  prefer- 
ment gave  distinctive  evidence  of  his  eligibility  and  personal  popularity,  for 
he  was  a  stanch  Republican  in  his  political  proclivities,  while  the  political 
complexion  of  the  township  was  very  strongly  Democratic.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Brookville,  and  is  still  in  the  active  practice  of   his  profession. 

Mr.  Binkley  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Georgianna  Holland,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  George  and  Elizabeth  (John)  Holland,  of  Brookville,  and  he 
somewhat  later  entered  into  a  professional  partnership  with  Judge  Holland, 
with  whom  he  was  associated  in  Brookville  until  1861,  and  thereafter  at  both 
Brookville  and  Richmond,  Indiana,  until  the  death  of  his  honored  colleague, 
November  30,  1875,  offices  being  maintained  in  both  places  noted.  Senator 
and  Mrs.  Binkley  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  married. 
A  man  of  broad  mental  grasp  and  marked  business  ability,  Senator  Binkley 
naturally  became  prominently  concerned  in  many  undertakings  and  move- 
ments which  have  distinct  bearing  on  the  material  prosperity  of  this  section 
of  Indiana.  In  1865  he  was  an  active  participant  in  securing  legislation  that 
enabled  the  Whitewater  Valley  Canal  Company  to  sell  to  the  Whitewater 
Valley  Railroad  Company  the  right  to  build  a  railroad  on  the  bank  of  the 
canal.  About  the  same  time  he  was  elected  president  of  the  canal  company 
mentioned,  and  as  such  executive  made  the  transfer  to  the  railroad  company 
of  the  right  to  construct  its  line  as  noted.  He  continued  in  the  office  of 
president  of  the  canal  company  until  its  waterway  was  no  longer  in  use  as  a 
means  of  traffic,  having  been  superseded  by  more  modern  and  eft.'^ctive 
methods  of  transit,  he  having  been  the  last  incumbent  of  the  position  of 
president. 

From  its  organization  until  the  time  of  his  abandoning  business  associa- 
tions in  Franklin  county,  in  the  fall  of  1875,  he  was  the  attorney  for  the 
Whitewater  Valley  Railroad  Companj',  and  was  very  prominently  concerned 
in  its  construction  and  subsequent  management.  As  attorney  he  prepared 
the  organization  for  the  several  hydraulic  companies  occupying  the  canal, 
from  Cambridge  City,  Indiana,  to  Harrison,  Ohio, — the  list  including  the 
Connersville,  Ashland,  Laurel,  Brookville  &  Metamora  and  Harrison 
Hydraulic  Companies.  In  1867,  about  the  time  he  removed  with  his 
family  from  Brookville  to  Richmond,  Mr.  Binkley  found  the  Cincinnati,  Rich- 
mond &  Fort  Wayne  Railroad  Company  making  a  desperate  effort  to  build 
its  road.  It  had  been  struggling  to  accomplish  its  object  from  as  early  a 
date  as  1854,  but  its  efforts  had  not  been  attended  with  any  appreciable 
measure  of  success.  In  1S67  Mr.  Binkley  was  elected  secretary  of  the  com- 
pany, and  shortly  afterward  William  Parry  was  chosen  president.  In  these 
offices  the  gentlemen   continued — Mr.    Binklej'  subsequently  becoming  treas- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  39 

urer  also — until  long  after  the  road  was  constructed  and,  in  fact,  for  years 
after  the  time  when  its  line  was  leased,  in  1871,  to  the  Grand  Rapids  & 
Indiana  Railroad  Company,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  still  a  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  company.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  he 
brought  to  bear  his  rare  executive  ability,  his  mature  judgment  and  indomi- 
table energy  and  enterprise  in  shaping  the  affairs  of  the  company  and  gaining 
to  it  the  object  which  it  had  so  long  struggled  to  attain.  His  efforts  in  the 
connection  unmistakably  had  potent  influence  in  placing  the  company  and  its 
properties  upon  a  substantial  basis. 

In  his  political  adherency  Senator  Binkley  has  ever  been  stanchly  arrayed 
in  support  of  the  Republican  party  and  its  principles,  and  it  was  but  in  natural 
sequence  that  he  should  become  an  active  worker  in  the  cause  and  one  of 
the  leaders  in  political  work.  He  has  been  in  no  degree  a  seeker  for  political 
preferment,  but  the  conspicuous  place  he  has  held  in  the  councils  of  his  party 
is  evident  when  we  take  into  consideration  the  fact  that  from  the  j'ear  i860 
up  to  the  present  time  he  has  been  a  delegate  to  every  Republican  state  con- 
vention in  Indiana,  with  the  one  exception  of  that  of  1898,  when  he  was 
absent  from  the  state.  In  1872  he  was  a  delegate  from  his  district  to  the 
national  Republican  convention,  held  in  Philadelphia,  when  General  Grant 
was  nominated  for  his  second  term  as  chief  executive  of  the  nation,  and 
Henry  Wilson  for  vice-president. 

In  1898  Mr.  Binkley  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  from  Wayne 
county,  and  in  the  session  of  1899  was  a  member  of  ten,  and  clfairman  of 
two,  of  the  important  committees  of  the  upper  house  of  the  state  legislative 
assembly.  He  prepared,  and  took  a  leading  part  in  securing  the  passage  of, 
the  bill  providing  for  the  return  of  the  battle  flag  captured  during  the  war  of 
the  Rebellion  from  Terry's  Texas  Rangers.  The  success  of  Mr.  Binkley  in 
a  professional  way  affords  the  best  evidence  of  his  capabilities  in  this  line. 
He  is  a  strong  advocate  with  the  jury  and  concise  in  his  appeals  before  the 
court.  Much  of  the  success  which  has  attended  him  in  his  professional 
career  is  undoubtedly  due  to  the  fact  that  in  no  instance  will  he  permit  him- 
self to  go  into  court  with  a  case  unless  he  has  absolute  confidence  in  the  jus- 
tice of  his  client's  cause.  Basing  his  efforts  on  this  principle,  from  which 
there  are  far  too  many  lapses  in  professional  ranks,  it  naturally  follows  that 
he  seldom  loses  a  case  in  whose  support  he  is  enlisted.  He  is  not  learned 
in  the  law  alone,  for  he  has  studied  long  and  carefully  the  subjects  that  are 
to  the  statesman  and  man  of  affairs  of  the  greatest  importance, — the  ques- 
tions of  finance,  political  economy,  sociology, — and  has  kept  abreast  with 
the  thinking  men  of  the  age.  A  strong  mentality,  an  invincible  courage,  a 
most  determined  individuality  and  a  sterling  character  have  so  entered  into 
his    make-up   as   to   render  him    a  natural    leader  and  a  director  of  opinion. 


40  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

He  is  distinctively  a  man  of  high  intellectuality,  broad  human  sympathy  and 
clearly  defined  principles.  These  attributes  imply  predilections  which  have 
naturally  led  him  into  associations  aside  from  his  professional,  business  and 
public  life,  and  in  conclusion  we  consistently  may  revert  to  the  more  import- 
ant of  these. 

In  early  life  the  Senator  was  initiated  into  the  mysteries  of  that  noble 
fraternity,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  in  the  same  he  has 
risen  to  high  distinction  and  has  ever  maintained  a  live  interest  in  its  affairs. 
In  1889  he  was  elected  and  installed  as  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge  of 
the  state  of  Indiana,  and  therefrom  was,  in  1891  and  1892,  grand  represent- 
ative to  the  sovereign  grand  lodge  of  the  order.  As  such  representative  he 
attended  the  session  of  the  sovereign  grand  lodge  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in 
1891,  and  that  at  Portland,  Oregon,  in  the  succeeding  year.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  a  trustee  of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  and  is  also  a  member  of 
the  I.  O.  O.  F.  home  committee,  comprising  five  members,  that  recently 
located  and  is  now  engaged  in  building  a  home  for  aged  and  indigent  Odd 
Fellows,  and  Odd  Fellows'  wives,  widows  and  orphans,  the  home  being 
located  at  Greensburg,  Indiana,  and  standing  as  one  of  the  noble  benevolent 
institutions  of  the  state  and  as  an  honor  to  the  great  fraternity  which  brought 
it  into  being. 

From  his  youth  up  Senator  Binkley  has  been  a  zealous  and  devoted 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  has  been  particularly  active 
in  Sundayschool  work.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  at 
Brookville,  and  as  soon  as  his  family  came  to  Richmond  he  was  elected 
superintendent  of  the  school  of  the  Union  Chapel,  which  subsequently  became 
and  is  still  known  as  Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  an  interim  of  a  few  months  he  was  thus  continued  as  superintendent 
for  twenty  successive  years.  He  served  as  delegate  to  the  general  confer- 
ence of  the  church  at  its  session  in  1880,  having  been  elected  to  represent 
the  North  Indiana  conference.  In  1884  he  was  elected  as  one  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  conference  composed  of  representatives  from  all  the  Methodist 
bodies  in  America  to  celebrate  the  close  of  the  first  century  of  organized 
Methodism,  attending  the  conference,  which  was  held  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, December  9-17,  in  the  year  mentioned. 

In  1883  Senator  Binkley  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  De  Pauw  University,  at  Greencastle,  Indiana,  and  was  thereafter  re-elected 
and  served  for  twelve  consecutive  years,  during  the  greater  portion  of  which 
time  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  finance.  He  has  always  had  an 
abiding  interest  in  educational  and  all  other  matters  that  subserve  the  prog- 
gress  and  well-being  of  his  fellow  men,  and  he  has  been  recognized  as  a 
power  for  good  in  any  community  where  his  influence  has  been  directed. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 


GENERAL  LEWIS  WALLACE. 

It  is  seldom  accorded  one  man  to  attain  eminence  in  such  varying  walks 
of  life  as  has  General  Wallace.      At  the  bar  he  has  won  distinction,  and  upon 

the  battle-fields  of  the  south  he  gained 
B|[^^'*"""™'"^""^HHH||^^^B  distinguished  honors,  while  no  name  is 
^^E  j^^^^^^^^H      ^ore  prominent  as  the  representative 

W^        ^tiUly^^^^^^^H      °^  °^^  American  literature  than  that  of 
r  ^^^■H*       ^^H^H     the  author  of  Ben  Hur.      Indiana,  in- 

deed, may  well  be  proud  to  claim  him 
as  one  of  her  gifted  sons.  He  was 
born  in  Brookville,  Franklin  county, 
April  10,  1S27,  a  son  of  David  Wal- 
lace, who  was  a  popular  political 
speaker,  a  well-known  congressman, 
and  a  laborious  and  impartial  jurist. 
The  son  received  a  common-school 
education,  and  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Mexican  war  was  a  law  student  in 
Indiana.  At  the  call  for  volunteers  he 
entered  the  army  as  a  first  lieutenant 
in  Company  H,  First  Indiana  Infantry.  In  1848  he  resumed  his  profession, 
which  he  practiced  in  Covington  and  subsequently  in  Crawfordsville,  Indiana, 
and  served  four  years  in  the  state  senate. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war  he  was  appointed  adjutant  general  of 
Indiana,  soon  afterward  becoming  colonel  of  the  Eleventh  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, with  which  he  served  in  West  Virginia,  participating  in  the  capture  of 
Romney  and  the  ejection  of  the  enemy  from  Harper's  Ferry.  He  became 
brigadier  general  of  volunteers,  Septembers,  1861,  led  a  division  and  the 
center  of  the  Union  lines  at  the  capture  of  Fort  Donelson,  and  displayed 
Siich  ability  that  his  commission  of  major  general  of  volunteers  followed  on 
March  21,  1862.  The  day  before  the  battle  of  Shiloh  his  division  was  placed 
on  the  north  side  of  Snake  creek,  on  a  road  leading  from  Savannah,  or 
Crump's  landing,  to  Purdy.  He  was  ordered  by  General  Grant,  on  the 
morning  of  April  6  (the  first  day  of  the  battle),  to  cross  the  creek  and  come 
up  to  Gen.  William  T.  Sherman's  right,  which  covered  the  bridge  over  that 
stream,  that  general  depending  on  him  for  support;  but  he  lost  his  way  and 
did  not  arrive  until  the  night.  He  rendered  efficient  service  in  the  second 
day's  fight,  and  in  the  subsequent  advance  on  Corinth.  In  November,  1862, 
he  was  president  of  the  court  of  inquiry  on  the  military  conduct  of  General 


42  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Don  Carlos  Buell  in  the  operations  in  Tennessee  and  Kentucky.  In  1863  he 
prepared  the  defences  of  Cincinnati,  which  he  saved  from  capture  by  Gen- 
eral Edmund  Kirby  Smith,  and  was  subsequently  assigned  to  the  command  of 
the  middle  department  and  the  Eighth  Army  Corps,  with  headquarters  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  With  five  thousand  and  eight  hundred  men  he  inter- 
cepted the  march  of  General  Jubal  A.  Early  with  twenty-eight  thousand  men, 
on  Washington,  D.  C. ,  and  on  July  9,  1864,  fought  the  battle  of  Monocacy. 
Although  he  was  defeated,  he  gained  sufficient  time  to  enable  General  Grant 
to  send  re-enforcements  to  the  capital  from  City  Point.  By  order  of  General 
Henry  W.  Halleck  he  was  removed  from  his  command  and  superseded  by 
General  Edward  O.  C.  Ord;  but  when  General  Grant  learned  the  particulars 
of  the  action  he  immediately  reinstated  Wallace,  and  in  his  official  report  in 
1865  says:  "  On  July  6  the  enemy  (Early)  occupied  Hagerstown,  moving  a 
strong  column  toward  Frederick  City.  General  Wallace,  with  Rickett's 
division  and  his  own  command,  the  latter  new  and  mostly  undisciplined 
troops,  pushed  out  from  Baltimore  with  great  promptness  and  met  the 
enemy  in  force  on  the  Monocacy,  near  the  crossing  of  the  railroad  bridge. 
His  force  was  not  sufficient  to  insure  success,  but  he  fought  the  enemy  never- 
theless, and,  although  it  resulted  in  a  defeat  to  our  arms,  yet  he  detained 
the  enemy  and  thereby  served  to  enable  Wright  to  reach  Washington  before 
him."  Returning  to  his  command,  General  Wallace  was  the  second  member 
of  the  court  that  tried  the  assassins  of  President  Lincoln,  and  president  of 
that  which  tried  and  convicted  Captain  Henr}'  Wirz,  commandant  of  Ander- 
sonville  prison.      He  was  mustered  out  of  the  volunteer  seivice  in   1865. 

Returning  to  Crawfordsville,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  there  and 
continued  an  active  member  of  the  bar  until  1878,  when  he  was  appointed  gov- 
ernorof  New  Mexico,  serving  until  18S1.  In  that  year  he  became  United  States 
minister  to  Turkey,  serving  until  1885,  when  he  again  resumed  practice  in 
Crawfordsville.  His  labors  as  a  representative  of  the  legal  profession  having 
been  interwoven  with  that  of  the  author  and  the  lecturer,  he  has  delivered 
many  public  addresses  throughout  the  country  and  his  writings  have  won  for 
him  world-wide  fame.  Among  his  most  popular  productions  are  the  Fair 
God,  a  story  of  the  conquest  of  Mexico;  Ben  Hur,  a  Tale  of  the  Christ;  Life 
of  Benjamin  Harrison;  The  Prince  of  India;  and  The  Boyhood  of  Christ. 
Few  novels  that  have  ever  been  produced  have  attained  the  wonderful  sale 
which  was  accorded  Ben  Hur. 

General  Wallace's  wife  also  possessed  considerable  literary  ability.  She 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Susan  Arnold  Elston,  and  was  born  in  Crawfords- 
ville, Indiana,  December  25,  1830.  Her  education  was  there  acquired  and 
in  1852  she  became  the  wife  of  General  Wallace.      She  has  written   many 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY.  43 

articles  for  newspapers  and  magazines;  her  short  poem,  The  Patter  of  Little 
Feet,  attained  wide  popularity.  Among  her  other  productions  are  The 
Storied  Sea,  Ginevra  or  The  Old  Oak  Chest,  The  Land  of  the  Pueblos,  and 
The  Repose  in   Egypt. 

BENJAMIN  F.   BEESON. 

This  gentleman,  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  farmers  of 
Wayne  county,  whose  home  is  in  Washington  township,  was  born  on  the 
farm  where  he  yet  resides,  August  ii,  1S24,  and  is  a  worthy  representative 
of  one  of  the  most  distinguished  pioneer  families  of  this  region,  being  a  son 
of  Benjamin  and  Dorcas  (Starbuck)  Beeson,  natives  of  North  Carolina, 
where  their  marriage  was  celebrated.  The  paternal  grandparents  were  Ben- 
jamin and  Phoebe  Beeson,  and  the  former  was  the  son  of  Isaac  Beeson,  who 
was  of  the  sixth  generation  in  direct  descent  from  Edward  Beeson,  the 
founder  of  the  family  in  the  New  World.  He  was  reared  in  Lancastershire, 
England,  where  George  Fo.x  originated  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  with  that 
denomination  the  family  became  connected.  Edward  Beeson  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1682  with  one  of  William  Penn's  colonies  and  located  first  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, later  removed  to  a  Quaker  settlement  in  Virginia,  and  subsequently 
to  one  near  Wilmington,  Delaware.  He  had  four  sons, — Edward,  Richard, 
Isaac  and  William.  Of  these  Isaac  went  to  North  Carolina,  and  from  him 
the  Indiana  branch  of  the  family  is  descended.  They  continued  their  con- 
nection with  the  Society  of  Friends  until  coming  to  this  state,  but  finally  left 
it,  and  they  wished  to  be  more  enterprising  and  progressive  than  accorded 
with  the  customs  of  that  sect.  However,  they  still  adhered  to  the  good 
religious  qualities  of  the  Friends'  church,  doing  all  the  good  possible  and  as 
little  harm.  Three  brothers  came  to  Indiana:  Isaac  settled  near  Richmond, 
^^'ayne  county,  in  18 12;  Benjamin  located  where  our  subject  now  resides,  in 
1814,  and  Thomas,  on  first  coming  to  the  county  in  18 18,  lived  with  Benja- 
min for  a  few  years  and  then  bought  the  farm  where  his  son,  Elwood,  now 
resides.  Although  they  came  here  in  limited  circumstances,  they  were  soon 
in  possession  of  comfortable  competencies,  secured  by  their  enterprise,  energy, 
industry  and  perseverance,  and,  in  advancing  their  own  interests,  did  much 
toward  the  building  up  and  beautifying  of  their  adopted  county.  They  also 
won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  entire  community. 

Benjamin  Beeson,  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  blacksmith  and  wagon- 
maker  by  trade,  and  before  leaving  North  Carolina  made  himself  a  good 
wagon,  in  which  he  brought  his  family  to  this  state  with  a  four-horse  team. 
While  on  the  road  he  sold  the  wagon  and  after  his  arrival  in  Wayne  county 
returned  it  to  the  purchaser  in  Tennessee  and  rode  his  horses  back  to  Indi- 
ana.     In  181 3  he  had  come  to  this  section  of  the  state  and  selected  his  tract 


44  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  land,  which  he  entered  at  Cincinnati.  On  bringing  his  family  here  the 
following  year  he  left  them  with  his  brother  Isaac  while  he  delivered  the 
wagon.  On  his  return  he  erected  a  cabin  upon  his  place,  and  began  the 
arduous  task  of  clearing  and  improving  the  wild  land,  which  he  at  length 
transformed  into  a  fine  farm.  He  soon  found  out  that  eighty  acres  adjoin- 
ing his  one-hundred-and-sixty-acre  tract  was  for  sale,  and  as  he  desired  it  and 
had  no  money,  he  again  went  to  Tennessee,  where  he  was  able  to  borrow 
the  needed  money,  at  twenty-five  per  cent.  For  three  years  he  made  a  trip 
to  that  state  to  pay  the  interest  and  was  then  able  to  cancel  the  debt.  His 
family  assisted  him  in  every  possible  way,  spinning,  weaving  and  making  all 
the  clothes  needed,  and  as  prosperity  crowned  their  combined  efforts  the 
boundaries  of  the  farm  were  extended  from  time  to  time,  and  the  father  was 
at  length  able  to  give  to  all  of  his  children  a  good  home.  He  was  ever  a 
friend  to  the  poor  and  needy,  was  charitable  and  benevolent,  and  the  latch- 
string  of  his  cabin  was  always  out.  Many  an  early  settler  has  been  aided  by 
him,  and  in  assisting  in  opening  up  the  country  to  civilization  Wayne  county 
owes  to  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  which  can  never  be  repaid.  In  connection 
with  general  farming,  he  engaged  in  stock-raising,  and  in  early  days  drove  his 
hogs  to  Cincinnati,  while  he  went  to  Lawrenceburg  on  the  Ohio  river  to  mill. 
He  was  a  strong  Democrat  in  politics,  and  most  acceptably  served  as  justice 
of  the  peace  for  many  years,  his  decisions  being  always  final.  When  he  had 
a  log-rolling  his  neighbors  would  come  from  far  and  near  without  his  notify- 
ing them  as  he  was  held  in  high  regard  by  the  entire  community  and  had  a 
host  of  warm  friends.  Although  he  was  a  member  of  no  religious  denomi- 
nation he  led  an  upright,  honorable  life  and  will  certainly  reap  the  reward  of 
the  just.  For  many  years  he  suffered  with  one  of  his  legs,  and  as  amputa- 
tion was  at  length  necessary  he  made  his  will,  giving  everything  to  his  wife, 
and  prepared  to  die  if  the  operation  was  not  successful.  He  lived  only  a 
month  after  it  was  performed,  dying  March  i,  1852,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four 
years.  His  wife  survived  him  many  years  and  passed  away  in  October,  1872. 
She  was  a  devoted  wife  and  affectionate  mother.  To  this  worthy  couple  were 
born  eleven  children,  the  birth  of  the  first  two  occurring  in  North  Carolina, 
the  others  in  Indiana.  They  were  as  follows:.  Bezaleel;  Othniel;  Temple- 
ton;  Delilah,  wife  of  John  Patterson;  Rachel,  wife  of  James  Harvey;  Gulelma, 
wife  of  William  Dick;  Cinderella,  wife  of  William  Harvey;  Benjamin  F.,  our 
subject;  Amanda  M.,  wife  of  Thomas  Emerson;  Mark  D.,  a  prominent  farmer 
of  Wayne  county;  and  Charles,  who  died  in  1852.  Only  three  are  now  liv- 
ing: our  subject,  Mark  D.  and  Mrs.  Dick,  of  Kansas. 

Benjamin  F.  Beeson,  of  this  review,  was  reared  on  the  farm  where  he 
still  resides,  and  obtained  his  education  in  the  subscription  schools  which  he 
attended  for  three  months  during  the  winter  season.     The  school-house  was  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  45 

primitive  structure,  built  of  logs,  with  a  puncheon  floor,  and  seats  also  of 
puncheons,  with  pegs  for  legs.  He  remained  at  home  until  his  marriage,  in 
January,  1848,  when  he  located  upon  a  tract  of  new  land  given  him  by  his 
father,  and  during  the  four  years  he  resided  there  he  placed  eighty  acres  under 
cultivation,  and  built  thereon  a  commodious  residence,  to  replace  the  little 
log  cabin  where  he  commenced  his  domestic  life.  He  and  his  wife  then 
returned  to  the  old  homestead  to  care  for  his  widowed  mother  in  her  declin- 
ing years.  He  purchased  the  interest  of  the  other  heirs  in  the  place,  and 
there  continues  to  reside.  He  has  cleared  sixty-five  acres  of  the  two-hun- 
dred-and-forty-acre  farm,  erected  thereon  a  pleasant  residence,  large  barns 
and  other  outbuildings,  and  now  has  one  of  the  finest  improved  farms  of  the 
locality.  The  place  is  conveniently  located,  three  and  a  half  miles  south  of 
Milton,  and  is  adorned  with  a  beautiful  grove  of  ornamental  trees.  He  has 
successfully  engaged  in  both  farming  and  stock-raising,  and  has  bought  large 
tracts  of  land,  most  of  which  he  has  given  to  his  children,  except  one  tract 
which  he  sold.  He  still  retains  the  old  homestead,  however,  and  is  still  act- 
ively engaged  in  his  chosen  calling. 

In  January,  1848,  Mr.  Beeson  married  Miss  Catherine  Howard,  who 
was  born  in  Wayne  county,  January  22,  1827.  Her  parents,  John  and 
Sarah  (Calaway)  Howard,  natives  of  North  Carolina,  came  to  the  county 
about  1 8 14  and  located  at  Nolan's  Fork,  where  the  father  entered  and 
improved  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Elijah  Hurst.  There  his  children  were 
all  born,  but  he  finally  sold  the  place  and  moved  to  Madison  county,  Indiana, 
where  he  improved  another  farm.  On  disposing  of  that  place  he  returned 
to  Wayne  county  and  bought  the  farm  where  the  Valley  Grove  church  now 
stands.  After  his  children  were  all  grown,  he  gave  that  farm  to  a  son  and 
bought  a  small  piece  of  land  in  the  same  neighborhood,  built  a  residence 
thereon  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  upon  that  place.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Democrat.  He  was  three  times  married  and  by  the  first  union  had 
two  sons:  Samuel  and  Joseph.  The  latter,  an  able  financier,  died  at  the 
age  of  forty- eight  years,  leaving  a  fine  estate.  There  was  one  son,  Charles, 
by  the  last  marriage.  Twelve  children,  two  sons  and  ten  daughters,  were 
born  of  the  second  union.  The  following  are  most  of  their  names:  Mary 
E. ,  wife  of  N.  Waymore;  Sarah,  wife  of  B.  Hurst;  Mrs.  S.  Dwiggins;  Ged- 
dia,  wife  of  James  Thorp;  Rachel,  wife  of  E.  Waymore;  Cynthia,  wife  of 
A.  Lowery;  Catherine,  wife  of  our  subject;  John  A.,  a  resident  of  Franklin, 
Indiana;  Neill,  of  Oklahoma;  and  Margaret,  widow  of  M.  Pursnett  and  a 
resident  of  Kansas.  The  children  born  to  our  subject  and  his  wife  were: 
William,  who  died  in  1873,  aged  twenty-two  years;  Oliver  H.,  a  prominent 
farmer  of  Wayne  county;  Joseph  F. ,  who  died  in  1873,  aged  eighteen  years; 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Albert  Williams,  a  farmer  of  Wa3'ne  count}';  Sanford   G., 


46  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

who  died  in  1873,  aged  thirteen  years;  Elmer  E.,  who  conducts  a  meat  mar- 
ket in  Cambridge  City;  Ira  J.,  who  died  in  infancy;  May,  wife  of  J.  Coyne, 
a  farmer;  and  Minnie,  wife  of  F.  Flora.  The  wife  and  mother  died  April 
14,  1873,  her  death  and  that  of  her  three  children  occurring  within  four 
months  and  being  caused  by  spinal  meningitis. 

Mr.  Beeson  was  again  married  in  1879,  his  second  union  being  with 
Miss  Kate  Roadcap,  who  was  born  in  Virginia,  August  5,  1844,  but  was  only 
eight  years  old  when  brought  to  Indiana  by  her  parents,  Henry  and  Lydia 
(Myres)  Roadcap,  also  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion.  Her  father  improved 
a  farm  in  Henry  county,  where  he  still  resides,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four 
years.  He  is  of  German  descent  and  a  consistent  member  of  the  Dunkard 
church.  After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Beeson's  mother  he  married  again.  His 
children  are:  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Milton  Rains;  Frances,  wife  of  Conrad 
Koontz;  Mary,  wife  of  Joab  Rains;  Barbara,  wife  of  George  Mathias;  Kate, 
B.  F.  Beeson,  Benjamin  F.,  Joseph  and  Peter.  Mr.  Beeson  has  no  chil- 
dren by  his  second  marriage. 

Politically,  Mr.  Beeson  follows  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  and  gives 
his  support  to  the  Democracy,  and  though  he  has  often  been  solicited  by  his 
friends  to  accept  office  he  has  steadily  refused,  as  he  cares  nothing  for  polit- 
ical honors.  He  is  very  charitable,  being  always  ready  to  respond  to  the 
appeals  of  the  needy  and  distressed,  and  ever  ready  to  pay  his  last  respects 
to  the  dead.  He  is  one  of  the  most  honored  and  highly  esteemed  citizens 
of  his  community,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man  in  Wayne  county  has  a 
wider  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  than  Benjamin  F.  Beeson. 

FRANCIS  M.   BILBY. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  Francis  M.  Bilby,  of  Connersville,  Indiana, 
is  one  of  the  prominent  and  influential  farmers  and  stock  dealers  of  Fairview 
township.  He  is  a  native  of  Fayette  county  and  has  been  identified  with  it 
all  his  life.  He  was  born  June  5,  1830,  son  of  Stephen  C.  and  Jane  (Lud- 
low) Bilby,  and  is  of  English  descent.  His  grandfather  Bilby  came  from 
England  to  America  on  board  a  pirate  ship,  by  surprise,  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary period,  and  fought  for  independence  in  the  American  army.  After 
the  war  he  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  his  death  occurred  some  years 
later.  His  children  were  John,  of  Ohio;  Joseph,  of  Terre  Haute,  Indiana; 
Stephen  C,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Richard  and  Mrs.  Lois 
Johnson. 

Stephen  C.  Bilby  grew  to  manhood  in  Ohio  and  was  married  there,  and 
in  1828  came  to  Indiana,  settling  in  Fayette  county.  He  subsequently 
entered  land  in  the  new  purchase  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  improved  a  farm. 
This  farm  he  sold  in  1856  and  at  that  time  purchased  a  small  farm  in  Harri- 


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son  township,  where  he  passed  the  closing  years  of  his  Hfe,  his  death  occur- 
ring in  1873.  His  wife  died  in  1883,  at  the  home  of  her  son,  Francis  M. 
They  were  old-school  Presbyterians,  strict  in  their  religious  views,  and  plain 
and  unassuming  in  manner.  By  trade  Stephen  C.  Bilby  was  a  blacksmith, 
and  through  the  greater  part  of  his  life  followed  it,  in  connection  with  his 
farming  operations. 

The  Ludlows  were  New  Jersey  people,  and  it  was  in  that  state  that  Mrs. 
Bilby  was  born.  She  was  reared  and  married  in  Ohio,  to  which  place  her 
parents  emigrated  and  where  they  passed  the  rest  of  their  lives  and  died. 
Their  family  comprised  four  children:  Henry,  John,  Jane  and  Osa,  the  last 
named  the  wife  of  Mr.  S.  Phipps.  Stephen  C.  and  Jane  (Ludlow)  Bilby 
were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  as  follows:  Mrs.  Julia  A.  Wallace;  Mrs. 
Viola  Moffit;  Salona,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years;  Francis  M., 
whose  name  introduces  this  sketch;  Albert  G. ,  a  resident  of  Wayne  county, 
Indiana;  Jasper,  deceased,  left  a  family;  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lesord, 
deceased. 

Francis  M.  Bilby  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm.  After  completing  his 
studies  in  the  common  schools,  he  taught  school  and  with  the  proceeds 
attended  Fairview  Academy,  in  this  way  obtaining  a  good  education.  He 
remained  a  member  of  his  father's  household  until  his  marriage,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1854,  when  he  settled  on  a  rented  farm.  He  farmed  rented  land  for 
eleven  years.  During  this  time  careful  economy  and  honest  industry  enabled 
him  to  lay  by  a  snug  little  sum,  and  in  1865  he  purchased  the  farm  upon 
which  he  has  since  lived.  He  has  made  additional  purchases  from  time  to 
time  until  his  landed  estate  now  comprises  over  one  thousand  acres,  in  Fay- 
ette and  Delaware  counties.  Mr.  Bilby, has  always  carried  on  general  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising,  and  since  1850  has  dealt  more  or  less  in  stock,  some- 
times buying  in  large  quantities  and  shipping  to  market,  taking  a  pride  in 
handling  only  the  best  the  county  afforded.  While  his  operations  have  in  the 
main  been  successful,  he  has  had  his  full  share  of  misfortune,  meeting  with 
losses  in  many  ways.  He  has  lost  by  cholera  as  many  as  a  thousand  hogs. 
Throughout  his  whole  career  Mr.  Bilby's  transactions  have  always  been 
strictly  on  the  square.  He  has  never  defrauded  any  one  out  of  a  single  penny 
and  he  has  reason  to  take  just  pride  in  his  high  standing  among  the  capital- 
ists of  the  country,  who  regard  his  word  as  good  as  his  bond. 

Mr.  Bilby  married  Miss  Dorcas  A.  Etherton,  daughter  of  Stout  Ether- 
ton,  of  Ohio,  who  came  to  Indiana  about  1832  and  bought  and  improved  a 
farm  in  Fayette  county.  Mr.  Etherton  died  in  Milton,  Indiana.  He  was 
known  as  a  Whig  in  early  life  and  was  a  supporter  of  the  Republican  party 
from  the  time  of  its  organization.  Religiously  he  was  a  Baptist.  His  chil- 
dren were  Charles,  Joseph,  Aaron  and  Dorcas  A.  by  his  first  wife.      Charles 


48  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  Aaron  died  in  early  life.  Joseph  was  a  volunteer  in  the  Union  army 
during  the  civil  war  and  died  in  the  army.  By  his  second  wife  Mr.  Etherton 
had  the  following  named  children:  Margaret,  Mary,  Sarah,  Nancy.  Adeline, 
Samuel  and  Sophia.  After  the  death  of  his  second  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Rachael  Martin,  Mr.  Etherton  married  her  sister,  Sarah  Martin.  There 
were  no  children  by  this  union.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  M.  Bilby  are  the  par- 
ents of  ten  children,  whose  names  in  order  of  birth  are  as  follows:  Charles 
and  Emerson,  farmers;  Florence,  who  was  the  wife  of  Alva  Hardy,  died, 
leaving  three  children;  Mrs.  Clara  Kendry;  Elmar,  a  farmer;  Mary  Anna, 
wife  of  E.  Williams;  and  Alva  E. ,  Morton,  Palmer  \V.  and  Sherman,  all 
farmers. 

Mr.  Bilby  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party  and  takes  an  interest  in 
public  affairs,  but  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  political  favors,  nor  has  he 
ever  filled  office  of  any  kind,  his  own  extensive  business  affairs  occupying^ 
the  whole  of  his  time  and  attention. 

AMBROSE  E.   BURNSIDE. 

General  Ambrose  Everett  Burnside  was  born  in  Liberty,  Indiana,  May 
23,  1824,  and  died  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  Septembers,  1881.  The  Burn- 
side  family  are  of  Scottish  origin.  Having  followed  the  fortunes  of  Charles 
Edward,  the  pretender,  until  his  final  defeat  at  Culloden,  in  1746,  the  found- 
ers of  the  American  branch  emigrated  to  South  Carolina.  The  revolt  of  the 
American  colonies  against  Britain  divided  them,  some  joining  the  patriots, 
others  remaining  loyal  to  the  crown.  Among  the  latter  was  James,  grand- 
father of  Ambrose,  who  was  a  captain  in  one  of  the  regiments  of  South  Caro- 
lina royalists.  When  it  became  certain  that  the  revolution  would  be  success- 
ful he,  in  company  with  others  whose  estates  were  confiscated,  escaped  to 
Jamaica,  but  eventually  obtained  amnesty  from  the  young  republic  and 
returned  to  South  Carolina.  After  his  death  his  widow  and  her  four  sons 
migrated  to  Indiana,  manumitting  their  slaves,  from  conscientious  motives. 
Edghill,  the  third  of  these  sons,  settled  in  the  new  town  of  Libert}',  and  in 
1 8 14  married  Pamelia  Brown,  another  emigrant  from  South  Carolina.  He 
taught  school  for  a  time,  and,  having  some  legal  knowledge,  was,  in  1S15, 
elected  associate  judge  of  the  county  court,  and  subsequently  clerk  of  court, 
which  office  he  held  until  1850.  Ambrose,  the  fourth  of  nine  children,  was 
born  in  a  rude  log  cabin  at  the  edge  of  the  wilderness.  The  village  schools 
were  exceptionally  good  for  a  frontier  town,  and  at  seventeen  he  had  acquired 
a  better  education  than  most  boys  of  his  age,  but  his  father  could  not  afford 
to  give  him  a  professional  training,  and  he  was  indentured  to  a  merchant 
tailor.  After  learning  the  trade  he  returned  to  Liberty  and  began  business 
as  a  partner  under  the  style  of  Myers  &  Burnside,  merchant  tailors.      Con- 


^w^::^ 


J^mbrose  €.  !^urnsicie. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  49^ 

versation  with  veterans  of  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain  interested  him 
in  military  affairs,  and  he  read  all  the  histories  and  other  books  bearing  on 
the  subject  that  he  could  procure.  In  1847  he  was  appointed  a  cadet  at  the 
"West  Point  Military  Academy,  where  there  were  more  than  a  score  of  future 
generals,  including  McClellan,  Hancock  and  "Stonewall"  Jackson.  The  war 
with  Mexico  was  nearly  over  when  Burnside  was  graduated,  but  he  accom- 
panied one  of  the  last  detachment  of  recruits  to  the  conquered  capital,  and 
remained  there  as  second  lieutenant  of  the  Third  Artillery  during  the  military 
occupation  of  the  place.  Then  followed  years  of  life  in  garrison  and  on  the 
frontier,  including  some  Indian  fighting. 

In  1852  he  married  Mary  Richmond,  daughter  of  Nathanial  Bishop,  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  in  November  of  the  same  year  resigned  his 
commission,  having  invented  a  breech-loading  rifle,  the  manufacture  of  which 
he  wished  to  superintend.  In  August,  1857,  a  board  of  army  officers  reported 
favorably  upon  the  Burnside  breech-loader;  but  the  inventor  would  not  pay 
his  way  among  the  underlings  of  the  war  department,  and  was  forced  to  go 
into  bankruptcy.  He  devoted  all  his  personal  property  to  the  liquidation  of 
his  debts,  sought  employment,  found  it  at  Chicago,  under  George  B.  McClel- 
lan, then  vice-president  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  and,  by  practicing 
strict  economy,  he  eventually  paid  every  obligation.  In  June,  i860,  he  be- 
came treasurer  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  his  office  being  in  New  York 
city.  In  the  autumn  of  that  year  he  visited  New  Orleans  on  business,  and 
gained  an  insight  into  the  movement  for  secession  that  shook  his  lifelong 
faith  in  the  Democratic  party.  So  confidently  did  he  anticipate  war  that  he 
set  his  business  affairs  in  order,  and  was  ready  to  start  at  once  when,  on 
April  15,  1861,  Governor  Sprague,  of  Rhode  Island,  telegraphed  for  him  to 
take  command  of  the  First  Regiment  of  detached  militia.  On  April  20  the 
regiment  left  Providence  by  sea,  and  marched,  with  the  other  battalions  that 
had  been  hurried  forward,  from  Annapolis  to  Washington,  reaching  the  capi- 
tal on  the  26th  of  April.  The  preliminary  operations  about  Washington  soon 
culminated,  owing  mainly  to  popular  outcry  and  political  pressure  at  the 
north,  in  the  premature  advance  of  the  federal  army  and  to  the  battle  of 
Manassas  or  Bull  Run  on  the  21st  of  July.  Colonel  Burnside  commanded  a 
brigade  on  the  extreme  right  of  Hunter's  division,  which  was  detached  from 
the  main  army  early  in  the  morning  and  sent  across  an  upper  ford  to  turn  the 
Confederate  left.  The  movement  was  anticipated  by  the  enemy,  and  a  sharp 
engagement  took  place,  at  the  beginning  of  which  General  Hunter  was 
wounded,  leaving  Burnside  in  command.  The  Confederates  were  forced 
back,  losing  heavily,  until  nearly  noon,  when  they  were  reinforced  by  Gen- 
eral Johnston's  advance  brigade  under  Jackson,  who  stemmed  the  tide  of 
fugitives  and  there  won  his  name  of  "Stonewall."       By  this  time  Burnside's 


50  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ammunition  was  exhausted,  and  his  command  had  to  fall  back.  It  made  no 
further  aggressive  movement,  but  retained  its  organization  after  the  rout  of 
the  army  and  on  the  retreat  toward  Washington.  A  period  of  comparative 
inactivity  followed,  during  which  Colonel  Burnside's  regiment  was  mustered 
out,  on  the  expiration  of  its  term  of  service.  On  August  6,  1861,  he  was 
commissioned  a  brigadier  general  of  volunteers,  and  given  a  command  of  the 
three-year  regiments  then  assembling  at  Washington.  On  the  23d  of  Octo- 
ber General  Burnside  was  directed  to  organize  a  "  coast  division,"  with  head- 
quarters at  Annapolis.  This  force  was  largely  composed  of  regiments 
recruited  on  the  New  England  coasts,  and  was  intended  for  operations  along 
the  lower  Potomac  and  Chesapeake  bay.  The  plan  was  changed,  however, 
the  expeditionary  force  was  largely  increased,  and  on  January  12,  1862,  a 
corps  of  twelve  thousand  men,  on  a  fleet  of  forty-six  transports,  sailed  from 
Hampton  Roads  with  sealed  ordere  directing  them  to  rendezvous  in  Pamlico 
sound  by  way  of  Hatteras  inlet.  Within  twenty-four  hours  a  heavy  gale 
arose,  which  lasted  nearly  two  weeks,  scattered  the  fleet  and  imperiled  its 
safety.  On  the  25th  of  January,  however,  all  the  vessels  had  passed  through 
Hatteras  inlet  and  were  safe  in  the  sound.  On  the  5th  of  February  the  fleet, 
with  an  escort  of  gunboats,  moved  toward  Roanoke  island,  a  fortified  post  of 
the  Confederates,  and  engaged  the  gunboats  and  batteries.  Within  a  few 
hours  a  landing  was  effected,  and  on  the  8th  of  February  the  Confederate 
position  near  the  middle  of  the  island  was  carried  and  the  garrison  captured, 
numbering  two  thousand  five  hundred  men.  The  possession  of  Roanoke 
island  gave  command  of  the  extensive  land-locked  waters  of  Albemarle  and 
Pamlico  sounds,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest  substantial  successes  of  the 
national  arms.  Newbern,  North  Carolina,  was  occupied,  after  a  sharp  strug- 
gle, on  the  14th  of  March.  The  surrender  of  Forts  Macon  and  Beaufort 
soon  followed,  and  when  General  Burnside  visited  the  north  on  a  short  leave 
of  absence  he  found  himself  welcomed  as  the  most  uniformly  successful  of  the 
federal  leaders. 

During  the  campaign  in  the  Carolinas  and  the  early  summer  following, 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  under  McClellan,  had  been  defeated  before  Rich- 
mond, and  had  in  turn  repelled  the  Confederates  at  Malvern  Hill.  Burnside 
relinquished  the  command  of  the  department  of  North  Carolina,  and,  with 
his  old  division  reorganized  as  the  Ninth  Corps,  was  transferred  to  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  which  held  the  north  shore  of  Rappahannock,  opposite 
Fredericksburg.  The  chief  command  was  offered  to  Burnside,  but  he  abso- 
lutely declined  it,  frankly  declaring  that  he  did  not  consider  himself  com- 
petent. On  the  27th  of  June  the  order  was  issued  relieving  McClellan  and 
placing  Pope  in  command.  The  fortunes  of  the  Confederacy  now  seemed 
so  distinctly  in  the  ascendant  that  it  was  determined  at  Richmond  to  assume 


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the  offensive.  The  preparations  for  the  movement  were  at  once  known  in 
Washington,  and  the  administration  urged  General  Pope  to  create  a  diver- 
sion along  the  line  of  the  Rappahannock.  This  he  attempted,  but  was  foiled 
almost  at  all  points,  and  the  Army  of  Virginia,  as  it  was  temporarily  desig- 
nated, fell  back  sullen  and  demoralized  after  a  second  defeat  at  Manassas, 
upon  the  defences  of  Washington,  where  Burnside  was  again  asked  to  take 
command,  but  again  declined.  In  its  extremity,  the  administration  again 
called  upon  McClellan,  who,  in  a  remarkably  short  time,  brought  order  out 
of  chaos  and  reinspired  the  army  with  a  degree  of  confidence.  By  this  time 
Lee's  advance  had  crossed  the  Potomac  near  Sharpsburg,  and  Burnside  was 
sent  to  meet  him  with  the  First  and  Ninth  Corps.  On  the  3d  of  September 
he  l^ft  Washington.  On  the  12th  of  September  he  met  the  enemy's  pickets 
at  Frederick  City,  and  on  the  14th  encountered  the  Confederates  in  force  at 
South  Mountain,  and  very  handsomely  dislodged  them  from  a  strong  position. 
The  energy  of  this  movement  was  probably  not  anticipated  by  General  Lee. 
He  retreated  to  Antietam  creek,  threw  up  intrenchments  and  awaited  attack. 
To  Burnside's  Ninth  Corps,  on  the  morning  of  the  battle  of  Antietam  (Sep- 
tember 17th),  was  assigned  the  task  of  capturing  and  holding  a  stone  bridge. 
This  was  done  at  a  terrible  sacrifice  of  life;  but  it  was  the  key  to  the  position, 
and,  according  to  a  high  Confederate  authority  (Edward  A.  Pollard,  the  his- 
torian), if  the  bridge  could  have  been  recaptured  the  result  of  the  battle  of 
Antietam  would  have  been  decisive.  The  army  remained  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Sharpsburg  until  early  in  November,  when  McClellan  was  relieved, 
and  on  the  loth  of  November  Burnside  reluctantly  assumed  command.  At 
this  time  the  Confederate  army  was  divided,  Longstreet  and  Jackson  com- 
manding, respectively,  its  right  and  left  wings,  being  separated  by  at  least 
two  days'  march.  McClellan  and  Burnside  were  always  warm  personal 
friends,  and  the  former  gave  his  successor  in  command  the  benefit  of  his 
projected  plans. 

A  month  passed  in  reorganizing  the  army  m  three  grand  divisions,  under 
Generals  Sumner,  Franklin  and  Hooker,  with  the  Eleventh  Corps  under  Sigel 
as  a  reserve.  The  plan  was  to  cross  the  Rappahannock  at  Fredericksburg, 
and,  if  possible,  crush  the  separated  wings  of  the  Confederate  army  in  detail. 
The  movement  began  on  the  15th  of  November,  and  four  days  later  the  army 
occupied  the  heights  opposite  Fredericksburg,  but  with  the  river  intervening 
and  no  pontoon  train  ready.  The  responsibility  for  this  failure  has  never 
been  charged  to  General  Burnside,  nor  has  it  ever  been  definitely  fixed  upon 
any  one,  save  a  vague  and  impersonal  "  department;"  but  it  necessitated  a 
fatal  delay,  for  Lee  had  moved  nearly  as  rapidly  as  Burnside,  and  promptly 
occupied  and  fortified  the  heights  south  of  the  river.  During  the  period  of 
•enforced  inaction  that  followed.  General   Burnside  went   to  Washington  and 


52  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

expressed  his  doubts  as  to  the  pohcy  of  crossing  the  river,  in  view  of  the  fail- 
ure of  the  attempt  to  divide  Lee's  forces.  But  he  was  urged  to  push  a  winter 
campaign  against  Richmond,  and,  returning  to  the  front,  gave  orders  to  place 
the  bridges.  This  was  gallantly  effected  in  the  face  of  a  sharp  resistance, 
Fredericksburg  was  cleared  of  the  enemy,  and  on  the  13th  of  December,  the 
whole  national  army  had  crossed,  and  was  in  position  south  of  the  Rappa- 
hannock. The  situation  in  brief  was  this:  South  and  in  the  rear  of  Freder- 
icksburg is  a  range  of  hills  irregularly  parallel  to  the  course  of  the  river;  the 
space  between  is  a  plateau  well  adapted  for  the  movement  of  troops.  This 
was  occupied  by  the  national  army  in  the  three  grand  divisions  specified, — 
Sumner  holding  the  right.  Hooker  the  center,  and  Franklin  the  left.  The 
Confederates  occupied  the  naturally  strong  position  along  the  crest  of  the 
hills,  and  were  well  intrenched,  with  batteries  in  position.  Longstreet  com- 
manded the  right  wing,  and  Jackson  the  left.  The  weak  point  of  the  Con- 
federate line  was  at  its  right,  owing  to  a  depression  of  the  hills,  and  here  it  was 
at  first  intended  to  make  a  determined  assault;  but,  for  some  reason,  orders 
were  sent  to  Franklin,  at  the  last  moment,  merely  to  make  a  demonstration, 
while  Sumner  attempted  to  carry  Marye's  hill,  which,  naturally  a  strong 
position,  was  rendered  nearly  impregnable  by  a  sunken  road,  bordered  by  a 
stone  wall  along  its  base.  The  best  battalions  in  the  army  were  sent  against 
this  position,  but  the  fire  of  artillery  and  infantry  was  so  severe  that  nothing 
was  gained,  although  the  struggle  was  kept  up  till  nightfall.  General  Hooker's 
division  being  the  last  to  attack,  only  to  be  repelled  as  its  predecessors  had 
been.  Burnside  would  have  renewed  the  attack  on  the  next  day,  but  Sum- 
ner dissuaded  him  at  the  last  moment,  and  that  night  the  whole  army  re- 
crossed  the  river,  having  lost,  in  killed  and  wounded  and  missing,  more  than 
twelve  thousand  men.  Some  of  these,  however,  afterward  returned  to  their 
regiments.  The  Confederate  loss  was  five  thousand  three  hundred  and  nine. 
Insubordination  was  soon  developed  among  the  corps  and  division  command- 
ers, and  Burnside  issued  an  order,  subject  to  the  president's  approval,  sum- 
marily dismissing  several  of  them  from  the  service,  and  relieving  others  from 
duty.  The  order,  which  sweepingly  included  Hooker,  Franklin,  Newton, 
and  Brooks,  was  not  approved,  and  General  Burnside  was  superseded  by 
Major-General  Hooker. 

Transferred  to  the  Department  of  the  Ohio,  with  headquarters  at  Cincin- 
nati, Burnside  found  himself  forced  to  take  stringent  measures  in  regard  to 
the  proceedings  of  southern  sympathizers  on  both  sides  of  the  river. 
On  April  13,  1863,  he  issued  his  famous  general  order  defining  certain 
treasonable  offences,  and  announcing  that  they  would  not  be  tolerated. 
Numerous  arrests  followed,  including  that  of  Clement  L.  Vallandigham,  who 
was  tried    by  military    commission    for  making  a  treasonable  speech,   was 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  53 

found  guilty,  and  sentenced  to  imprisonment  during  tiie  remainder  of  the 
war.  This  sentence  the  president  commuted  to  banishment,  and  Vallan- 
digham  was  sent  within  the  lines  of  the  Confederacy.  The  Democrats  of 
Ohio  thereupon  nominated  him  for  governor,  but  he  was  defeated  by  a 
majority  of  more  than  one  hundred  thousand.  In  August,  1863,  Burnside 
crossed  the  Cumberland  mountains  at  the  head  of  eighteen  thousand  men, 
marching  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  in  fourteen  days,  causing  the  Confeder- 
ates, who  had  their  headquarters  at  K^noxville,  to  make  a  hasty  retreat. 
He  pushed  forward,  and  Cumberland  Gap  was  captured,  with  its  garrison 
and  stores.  Attacked  by  Longstreet,  with  a  superior  force.  General  Burn- 
side  retreated  in  good  order,  fighting  all  the  way  to  Knoxville,  where  he  was 
fortified  and  provisioned  for  a  siege  by  the  time  Longstreet  was  ready  to 
invest  the  place.  This  movement,  according  to  General  Burnside's  biogra- 
pher, was  made  on  his  own  responsibility  to  draw  Longstreet  away  from 
Grant's  front, and  thus  facilitate  the  defeat  of  General  Bragg, which  soon  fol- 
lowed. The  siege  of  Knoxville  was  prosecuted  with  great  vigor  for  a  month, 
when  the  approach  of  General  Sherman  compelled  Longstreet  to  raise  the 
siege.  Immediately  afterward  General  Burnside  was  relieved,  and  devoted 
himself  to  recruiting  and  reorganizing  the  Ninth  Corps.  In  April,  1864,  he 
resumed  command  at  Annapolis,  with  the  corps  nearly  twenty  thousand 
strong.  Attached  once  more  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  this  time  under 
General  Grant,  he  led  his  corps  through  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and 
Cold  Harbor,  and  the  operations  against  Petersburg.  In  these  latter  engage- 
ments the  corps  suffered  very  heavily,  and  General  Meade  preferred  charges 
of  disobedience  against  Burnside,  and  ordered  a  court-martial  for  his  trial. 
This  course  was  not  approved  of  by  General  Grant,  and,  at  Burnside's 
request,  a  court  of  inquiry  was  ordered,  which  eventually  found  him  "  ans- 
werable for  the  want  of  success."  He  had  always  held  that  the  failure  was 
due  to  interference  with  his  plan  of  assault,  and  before  a  congressional  com- 
mittee of  investigation  much  testimony  was  adduced  to  show  that  this 
was  really  the  case. 

General  Burnside  resigned  from  the  arrriy  on  the  15th  of  April,  1865, 
with  a  military  record  that  does  him  high  honor  as  a  patriotic,  brave  and  able 
officer,  to  whom  that  bane  of  army  life,  professional  jealousy,  was  unknown. 
He  always  frankly  admitted  his  own  unfitness  for  the  command  of  a  large 
army  and  accepted  such  commands  only  under  stress  of  circumstances. 
Returning  to  civil  life  he  became  at  once  identified  with  railroad  construction 
and  management.  He  was  elected  governor  of  Rhode  Island  in  April,  1866, 
and  re-elected  in  1867  and  1868.  Declining  a  fourth  nomination  he  devoted 
himself  successfully  to  the  great  railroad  interests  with  which  he  was  identi- 
fied.     He  went  to  Europe  on  business  during  the  height  of  the  Franco-Prus- 


54  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

sian  war,  and,  as  a  soldier,  naturally  wished  to  witness  some  of  the  siege 
operations  before  Paris.  Visiting  the  Prussian  headquarters  at  Versailles 
simply  in  a  private  capacity,  he  found  himself  called  upon  to  act  as  an  envoy 
between  the  hostile  forces,  which  he  did,  passing  back  and  forth  under  a 
flag  of  truce,  endeavoring  to  further  negotiations  for  peace.  In  Paris,  and 
among  the  German  besiegers,  he  was  looked  upon  with  the  greatest  curiosity, 
and,  although  his  efforts  at  peace-making  were  unsuccessful,  he  secured  the 
lasting  respect  and  confidence  of  both  sides.  In  January,  1875,  after  his 
return  to  this  country,  he  was  elected  United  States  senator  from  Rhode 
Island  and  in  1880  was  re-elected.  He  took  a  leading  position  in  the  senate, 
was  chairman  on  the  committee  of  foreign  affairs  and  sustained  his  lifelong 
character  as  a  fair-minded  and  patriotic  citizen.  His  death,  which  was  very 
sudden,  from  neuralgia  of  the  heart,  occurred  at  his  home  in  Bristol,  Rhode 
Island.  The  funeral  ceremonies  assumed  an  almost  national  character,  for 
his  valuable  services  as  a  soldier  and  as  a  statesman  had  secured  general 
recognition,  and  in  his  own  state  he  was  the  most  conspicuous  man  of  his 
time.  Burnside  was  a  tall  and  handsome  man,  of  soldierly  bearing,  with 
charming  manners,  which  won  for  him  troops  of  friends  and  admirers.  He 
outlived  his  wife  and  died  childless. 

REV.    PHINEAS    LAMB. 

One  of  the  best  known  and  most  generally  loved  citizens  of  Richmond 
and  vicinity  was  Rev.  Phineas  Latnb,  whose  whole  life  was  passed  in  this 
immediate  section  of  Wayne  county.  From  his  youth  he  seemed  to  be  of  a 
serious,  deeply  religious  nature,  and,  as  he  grew  older,  the  meaning  and 
responsibilities  of  life  wore  a  yet  graver  aspect  for  him.  He  was  thoroughly 
earnest  and  sincere  in  all  his  thoughts,  words  and  deeds,  and  his  noble,  manly 
life  has  proved  an  inspiration  to  many  of  his  old  friends  and  associates. 
Though  he  has  passed  to  his  reward,  the  influence  of  his  conscientious,  just 
career,  his  kindly,  generous  heart  and  sympathetic  manner  abide. 

A  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Lamb,  and  brother  of  Isaac  Lamb, 
a  well  known  resident  of  Wayne  county,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
on  the  old  family  homestead,  two  and  a  halt  miles  northwest  of  Richmond, 
September  5,  1824.  His  boyhood  was  passed  in  the  usual  active  labors  com- 
mon to  frontier  life  in  those  days,  and  when  quite  young  he  was  competent 
to  manage  a  farm.  He  continued  to  dwell  on  the  parental  farm  until  1875, 
when  he  took  up  his  abode  in  the  western  part  of  Richmond  and  gave  his 
attention  to  gardening.  There  he  was  still  living  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
January  26,  1887,  when  he  was  in  his  sixty-third  year.  For  many  years  he 
had  been  a  licensed  minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination  and 
was  very  active  in  the  work  of  the  church.      On  numerous  occasions  he  occu- 


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pied  the  pulpit,  and  for  years  he  served  as  a  class-leader,  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday-school  and  in  other  official  positions  in  the  West  Richmond 
church.  He  had  been  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  but,  after 
studying  the  gospel  and  the  doctrines  of  various  churches,  he  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  none  surpassed  in  beauty,  simplicity  and  the  amount  of  good 
accomplished  in  the  elevation  of  the  world  that  of  the  Methodists,  and  he 
accordingly  enlisted  in  its  wonderful  army  of  communicants.  As  would  be 
expected  of  such  a  man,  true  in  all  his  relations  to  his  fellows,  he  was  loyal 
to  his  duties  as  a  citizen  of  this  great  commonwealth,  and  used  his  franchise 
in  favor  of  all  noble  principles  and  upright  candidates  for  public  office.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  national  affairs,  while  in  local  matters  he  voted  for  the 
man  rather  than  for  the  party. 

On  the  26th  of  November,  1846,  a  marriage  ceremony  united  the  des- 
tinies of  Rev.  Mr.  Lamb  and  Miss  Sarah  Jones.  Five  children  were  born  to 
this  estimable  couple,  namely:  Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of  James  Bryant,  of 
West  Richmond;  Rebecca,  who  married  Henry  Owens,  also  of  West  Rich- 
mond; Edmond,  also  a  citizen  of  Richmond;  Ruth,  who  became  the  wife  of 
James  Duke,  and  lives  in  this  city;  and  Albert,  who  lives  on  a  part  of  the  old 
family  homestead.  Mrs.  Lamb,  who  survives  her  husband,  is  still  a  resident 
of  West  Richmond,  where  she  has  a  host  of  sincere  friends  and  well-wishers. 
She  was  born  January  4,  1824,  near  Centerville,  Wayne  county,  being  next 
to  the  youngest  of  nine  children,  whose  parents  were  Edmond  and  Ruth 
(Jarrett)  Jones.  Five  of  the  number  were  sons,  and  three  were  born  in  Vir- 
ginia, while  the  other  six  were  natives  of  this  county.  Mr.  Jones  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  Centerville,  his  farm  being  situated  four  miles  south  of  that 
place,  formerly  the  county  seat  of  this  county.  He  was  a  successful  agri- 
culturist and  a  man  of  considerable  influence  in  his  community.  Politically 
he  was  a  Democrat  and  for  a  score  of  years  he  served  as  a  justice  of  the 
peace.  In  his  religious  faith  he  was  a  Baptist,  and  died,  as  he  had  lived, 
a  sincere,  trusting  Christian.  Though  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  has 
elapsed  since  his  death,  in  1875,  he  is  kindly  remembered  by  many  of  his 
old  acquaintances  and  friends  of  former  years. 

GEORGE  HOLLAND. 

No  compendium  such  as  the  province  of  this  work  defines  in  its  essential 
limitations  will  serve  to  offer  fit  memorial  to  the  life  and  accomplishments  of 
the  honored  subject  of  this  review,  —  a  man  remarkable  in  the  breadth  of  his 
wisdom,  in  his  indomitable  perseverance,  his  strong  individuality,  and  yet 
one  whose  entire  life  had  not  one  esoteric  phase,  being  able  to  bear  the  clos- 
est scrutiny.  True,  his  were  "  massive  deeds  and  great"  in  one  sense,  and 
yet  his  entire  accomplishment  but  represented  the  result  of  the  lit  utilization 


56  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  the  innate  talent  which  was  his,  and  the  directing  of  his  efforts  along  those 
lines  where  mature  judgment  and  rare  discrimination  led  the  way.  There 
was  in  George  Holland  a  weight  of  character,  a  native  sagacity,  a  far-seeing 
judgment  and  a  fidelity  of  purpose  that  commanded  the  respect  of  ail,  but 
greater  than  these  was  his  absolute  honesty,  and  "an  honest  man  is  the 
noblest  work  of  God." 

George  Holland  spent  almost  his  entire  life  in  eastern  Indiana.  He  was 
born  in  Westmoreland  county,  Pennsylvania,  September  28,  181 1.  There, 
nine  years  before,  his  parents,  John  and  Ann  (Henderson)  Holland,  had  taken 
up  their  abode.  They  were  poor  Protestant  peasants  from  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, and  after  their  marriage  and  the  birth  of  two  of  their  children  they 
crossed  the  Atlantic,  in  1802.  Not  long  after  the  birth  of  their  son  George 
they  removed  to  Ohio,  and  made  their  home  near  Zanesville  until  iSi/.when 
they  became  residents  of  Franklin  county,  Indiana.  The  father  purchased  a 
farm  upon  the  west  bank  of  Whitewater  river,  about  five  miles  from  Brook- 
ville,  the  county-seat,  making  a  partial  payment  upon  the  place,  expecting 
soon,  as  the  result  of  his  labors,  to  have  the  money  to  discharge  the  remain- 
ing obligation.  Death,  however,  set  aside  his  plans,  for  in  the  autumn  of 
181S  both  the  father  and  mother  were  stricken  with  a  malignant  fever,  and 
while  thi  ir  bodies  were  interred  in  a  cemetery  of  their  adopted  land  by  the 
hands  of  strangers,  their  seven  children,  all  yet  in  their  minority,  were  ill  at 
home,  unable  to  attend  the  funeral.  There  were  si.x  sons  and  a  daughter, 
and  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  they  had  no  relative.  It  was  a  sad  fate,  made 
still  harder  by  cruel  treatment  which  was  meted  out  to  them,  and  of  which 
George  Holland  wrote  in  an  autobiography  found  among  his  papers  after  his 
death: 

"  We  now  first  began  to  learn  something  of  the  great  world  around  us. 
Its  rush  and  roar  we  had  before  heard  only  in  the  distance;  but  those  being 
gone  who  had  kindly  preserved  us  from  exposure  and  had  borne  for  us  all  the 
cares  of  life,  we  found  ourselves,  helpless  and  unprotected,  afloat  upon  the 
current.  We  tasted,  too,  for  the  first  time,  the  bitter  falsehood  of  human 
nature.  The  man  of  whom  my  father  had  bought  his  land  came  forward  in 
the  exigency  and  charitably  administered  the  estate.  His  benevolence  was 
peculiar.  It  resulted  in  appropriating  to  himself  the  real  and  personal  prop- 
erty, and  turning  us,  the  children,  as  paupers,  over  to  the  bleak  hospitalities 
of  the  world." 

In  Indiana,  at  that  time,  it  was  the  custom,  on  the  first  Monday  in 
April,  to  gather  the  poor  of  a  county  at  the  court-house  and  hire  them  out  to 
such  persons  as  would  engage  to  maintain  them  at  the  lowest  price.  The 
winter  being  passed  in  the  cabin  of  a  neighbor,  Mr.  Holland  and  his  four 
brothers  were  conveyed  by  the  overseers  of  the  poor   to   Brookville,  on  the 


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first  Monday  in  April,  1819,  to  be  thus  placed  in  the  care  of  the  lowest  bidder. 
Although  but  seven  years  of  age,  Mr.  Holland  deeply  felt  the  humiliation  of 
the  position,  but  kind-hearted  people  of  Brookville  interposed  in  behalf  of 
himself  and  his  brothers,  and  found  permanent  homes  for  them  as  appren- 
tices until  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Thus  it  was  that  he  became  an  inmate 
of  the  home  and  a  member  of  the  family  of  Robert  John,  a  man  who  had  no 
property  but  was  possessed  of  a  kind  heart  and  proved  a  benefactor  to  the 
boy.  In  return,  however,  Mr.  Holland  was  most  faithful  to  Mr.  John,  and 
for  many  years  was  his  active  assistant  in  whatever  work  he  engaged.  When 
he  was  about  thirteen  Mr.  John  purchased  an  interest  in  a  printing-office,  and 
Mr.  Holland  began  work  at  the  case  and  press,  soon  gaining  a  practical 
knowledge  of  the  business  and  becoming  a  good  workman.  When  Mr.  John 
became  sheriff  he  served  as  deputy,  and  on  retiring  from  office  he  worked  in 
a  woolen  factory  which  his  employer  rented,  having  charge  of  a  set  of  wool- 
carding  machines  for  two  seasons.  In  the  summer  of  1830  Mr.  John  was 
elected  clerk  of  the  circuit  court,  and  took  charge  of  the  office  in  February, 
1 83 1,  Mr.  Holland  again  becoming  his  deputy.  This  was  a  year  and  a  half 
before  he  attained  his  majority.  His  experience  in  the  office  had  determined 
him  to  make  the  practice  of  law  his  life-work,  and  on  coming  of  age  he  began 
reading  without  the  aid  of  a  teacher.  The  county  clerk,  John  M.  Johnson, 
witnessing  his  ambitious  efforts,  permitted  him  to  use  his  law  library,  and  at 
the  same  time  he  read  all  the  miscellaneous  volumes  he  could  procure,  thus 
daily  broadening  his  general  as  well  as  professional  knowledge.  He  was 
always  a  man  of  scholarly  tastes,  and  throughout  life  found  one  of  his  chief 
sources  of  pleasure  among  his  books.  A  short  time  before  attaining  his 
majority  he  successfully  passed  an  examination,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
One  who  knew  him  well,  in  referring  to  his  early  life,  said:  "As  a  boy  and 
youth  he  was  gentle,  kind  and  considerate,  full  of  energy,  and  possessed  of 
the  most  indomitable  perseverance.  His  vigorous  and  unremitting  efforts  to 
educate  and  prepare  himself  for  the  profession  of  his  choice  in  the  midst  of 
irksome  and  exacting  duties,  and  his  early  struggles  in  the  profession,  in  the 
face  of  poverty  and  ill-health,  indicate  the  heroic  spirit  and  fixedness  of  pur- 
pose which  even  then  distinguished  him,  and  which  he  afterward  so  conspicu- 
ously displayed  under  such  trying  circumstances." 

Mr.  Holland  had  not  a  dollar  at  the  time  of  his  admission  to  the  bar. 
He,  however,  borrowed  fifty  dollars,  purchased  a  small  law  library  at  auction 
and  opened  an  office  in  Brookville.  About  this  time  he  secured  the  office  of 
county  assessor  and  the  outdoor  exercise  proved  very  beneficial  to  his  under- 
mined health,  while  the  nature  of  his  business  made  him  acquainted  with 
many  people  and  thus  paved  the  way  for  future  law  practice.  He  received 
seventy-five  dollars  for  his  official  services,  which  enabled  him  to  repay  the 


58  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

borrowed  money.  He  was  not  only  well  equipped  for  his  professional  career 
by  a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  but  his 
experience  in  the  clerk's  office  had  given  him  a  thorough  and  practical  knowl- 
edge of  forms  and  practice.  One  from  whom  we  have  before  quoted,  said  of 
him:  "  His  early  success  at  the  bar  was  marvelous,  and  may  be  attributed 
mainly  to  the  thorough  knowledge  of  his  profession,  which  he  acquired  by 
the  most  indefatigable  reading  and  study.  He  read  everything  he  could  get 
hold  of  in  the  way  of  general  and  professional  literature.  Few  lawyers  of 
the  day,  at  the  Indiana  bar,  were  as  thoroughly  grounded  in  the  principles 
of  law  and  as  familiar  with  the  English  and  early  American  reports  as  he 
was.  His  range  of  professional  reading  was  most  extensive  and  included 
most  of  the  rare  works  in  black-letter  lore  that  could  then  be  procured.  At 
the  same  time,  and  in  fact  almost  during  his  entire  life,  even  when  in  later 
years  he  was  almost  overwhelmed  with  financial  cares  and  responsibilities, 
his  delight  was  in  general  literature, — it  was  his  rest  and  recreation, — and  in 
historical,  political,  scientific  and  religious  learning  his  mind  was  a  cyclo- 
paedia of  facts.  While  he  had  none  of  the  elements  of  a  popular  speaker, 
and,  consequently,  made  no  mark  as  an  orator,  he  was  a  logical  and  persua- 
sive reasoner  before  a  jury,  and  had  great  force  in  presenting  an  argument  to 
a  court.  The  care  with  which  he  prepared  his  cases,  the  skill  and  shrewd- 
ness he  displayed  in  their  management,  his  unrivaled  power  in  dealing  with 
a  complicated  and  tangled  chain  of  issues  and  circumstances,  together  with 
his  extensive  professional  knowledge,  made  him  a  most  formidable  opponent 
in  the  lower  courts,  and  gave  him  an  excellent  reputation  at  the  bar  of  the 
supreme  court,  where  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  May,  1835,  when 
twenty-four  years  of  age." 

Prosperity  attended  his  efforts  for  many  years.  The  important  litigated 
interests  entrusted  to  his  care  brought  him  handsome  financial  returns,  and 
much  of  his  capital  he  judiciously  invested  in  property  and  added  not  a  little 
to  his  income  through  wise  speculations.  At  length,  however,  disaster  over- 
took him.  Honorable  himself,  he  was  slow  to  distrust  others,  and  when 
those  in  whose  worthiness  and  friendship  he  relied  implicitly  wished  him  to 
go  security  for  them  he  complied.  It  was  in  November,  1853,  that  some  of 
his  merchant  friends  failed,  leaving  him  to  pay  their  indebtedness  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars.  This  seemed  a  great  deal,  but  was  as  nothing  com- 
pared to  what  awaited  him.  In  November,  1854,  he  awoke  to  the  realiza- 
tion that  he  was  endorser  for  a  broken  and  bankrupt  merchant  for  one  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  in  blank, — all  due  within  sixty  days  and  for  which  he 
was  unmistakably  liable.  Utterly  discouraged  and  disheartened,  in  the  midst 
of  this  gloom  and  desolation,  yet  encouraged  by  his  sympathizing  wife,  he 
resolved  that  with  the  help  and  blessing  of  God  he  would  pay  the  debt,  and 


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resolutely  set  to  work  to  accomplish  the  task,  with  an  abiding  faith  that  he 
would  live  to  accomplish  it.  And  he  did  live  to  accomplish  it  after  a  struggle 
of  twenty-one  years,  paying  the  last  of  these  debts  just  fourteen  years  before 
his  sudden  death,  and  never  was  a  word  of  suspicion  breathed  against  his  fair 
name.  Anxiety  pressed  heavily  upon  him  and  he  suffered  a  purely  nervous 
fever,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  never  recovered,  but  he  paid  off  dollar 
for  dollar.  The  true  character  of  the  man  now  shone  forth;  his  ideas  of 
commercial  honor  and  integrity  were  of  the  highest  character  and  his  deter- 
mination to  pay  that  awful  debt,  most  of  it  fraudulently  put  upon  him,  was 
inflexibly  fixed.  The  financial  skill  and  business  ability  he  displayed  at  this 
critical  period  in  his  affairs;  the  zeal  and  ingenuity  he  exhibited  in  getting 
extensions  of  the  bank  paper  upon  which  he  was  liable,  until  he  could  have 
time  to  turn  about  and  handle  his  property;  his  unvarying  success  in  dis- 
posing of  the  latter  to  the  best  advantage;  in  making,  when  necessary, 
new  and  advantageous  loans,  and  generally,  in  meeting  his  obligations 
promptly  as  they  became  due,  are  simply  marvelous.  When  one  considers 
that  all  this  was  done  in  connection  with  the  exacting  duties  of  a  large  law 
practice,  which  he  never  suffered  to  be  neglected,  it  indicates  more  strongly 
than  words  can  express  the  strength  and  fertility  of  his  mind  and  his  great 
business  and  professional  capacities. 

In  May,  1869,  Judge  N.  H.  Johnson  died  suddenly,  leaving  a  vacancy  on 
the  bench  of  the  criminal  court  of  Wayne  county,  and  to  the  position  Mr. 
Holland  was  appointed.  Previous  to  this  time,  his  only  child  had  married 
C.  C.  Binkley,  a  young  lawyer,  whom  Judge  Holland  admitted  into  partner- 
ship in  his  business,  this  connection  continuing  until  his  elevation  to  the 
bench.  In  July,  1861,  he  had  determined  to  remove  to  Richmond,  and  in 
May,  1862,  had  established  his  family  in  the  new  home.  When  elevated  to 
the  bench  he  was  in  very  poor  health,  but  after  a  few  months  spent  at 
Martha's  Vineyard,  Massachusetts,  he  returned  much  improved,  and  with 
characteristic  energy  entered  upon  his  judicial  labors.  He  was  re-elected  to 
that  office,  and  administered  justice  without  fear  or  favor  until  the  court  was 
abolished  by  legislative  act.  His  professional  brethren  spoke  of  him  as  one 
of  the  foremost  lawyers  of  Indiana  of  his  day  and  his  record  reflects  honor 
upon  the  bench  and  bar  of  the  state. 

When  twenty-three  years  of  age  Judge  Holland  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  John,  daughter  of  Robert  John,  in  whose  family  he  was 
reared,  and  he  never  lost  an  opportunity  to  acknowledge  his  indebtedness  to 
his  wife  and  her  parents  for  all  that  they  were  to  him.  To  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Asenath  John,  he  attributed  all  the  ambitious  and  honorable  influences  which 
permeated  his  youth,  and  to  the  assistance  and  encouragement  of  his  wife  he 
attributed  the  success  which  crowned  his  many  years  of   effort  in   paying   off 


60  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  debts  of  another.  One  daughter,  Georgiana,  was  born  of  this  marriage, 
and  from  the  time  of  their  removal  to  Richmond  Mr.  Holland  and  his  wife 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Binkley  with  their  children  lived  in  one  family.  Mrs. 
Holland  survives  and  still  resides  with  her  daughter.  In  1849,  having  no  son 
of  their  own,  they  adopted  Edwin  Holland  Terrel,  then  only  nine  months 
old.  He  was  left  motherless  at  that  age,  and  his  father,  Rev.  Williamson 
Terrel,  was  an  itinerant  Methodist  minister.  The  boy  proved  entirely  worthy 
the  love  and  tender  care  bestowed  upon  him.  For  some  years  he  was  a 
prominent  practitioner  at  the  bar  at  Indianapolis.  Having  married  at  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  he  removed  there  and  entered  the  practice  at  that  place. 
Soon  afterward  he  drifted  into  railroad  and  other  enterprises,  resulting  very 
successfully.  In  1888,  his  merit  and  qualification  being  well  known  to 
Benjamin  Harrison,  president  of  the  United  States,  he  appointed  him  United 
States  minister  to  Belgium,  which  place  he  filled  with  great  renown  and  dis- 
tinction to  the  close  of  that  administration.  He  is  still  living  in  San  Antonio, 
occupied  with  the  care  of  his  property  and  accumulations,  enjoying  the  com- 
forts of  one  of  the  most  elegant  homes  of  Texas  and  reveling  in  the  delights 
of  one  of  the  finest  private  libraries  in  the  state. 

In  politics  Judge  Holland  was  a  stalwart  Republican,  and  in  i860  he  was 
a  delegate  to  the  national  convention  in  Chicago,  which  nominated  Abraham 
Lincoln  for  the  presidency.  In  the  spring  of  1842  he  acknowledged  his  belief 
in  the  Christ  and  was  ever  afterward  a  follower  in  His  footsteps,  having  an 
abiding  faith  in  the  Christian  religion.  He  was  always  at  his  place  in  the 
church,  and  manifested  his  belief  in  that  practical  spirit  of  helpfulness  of  the 
One  who  came  not  to  be  ministered  unto  but  to  minister.  Death  came  to 
him  unexpectedly,  November  30,  1875,  but  his  upright  life  had  fully  prepared 
him  to  meet  it,  and  he  passed  from  earth  as  "  one  who  wraps  the  draperies 
of  his  couch  about  him  and  lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams." 

No  death  in  Wayne  county  has  ever  been  more  deeply  lamented  than 
that  of  Judge  Holland.  He  was  a  man  who  regarded  home  ties  as  most 
sacred  and  friendship  as  inviolable.  Emerson  says  "The  way  to  win  a 
friend  is  to  be  one,"  and  no  man  in  the  community  had  more  friends  than  he. 
He  was  a  man  of  very  sympathetic  and  generous  nature,  a  pleasant  compan- 
ion, and  especially  congenial  to  those  who  cultivated  all  that  was  highest  and 
best  in  life.  Resolutions  of  the  highest  respect  were  passed  by  the  bar  of  the 
county  and  circuit  and  the  bar  of  Brookville, — his  old  home, — and  the  sym- 
pathy of  the  entire  community  was  with  the  family.  Almost  a  quarter  of  a 
century  has  passed  since  Judge  Holland  was  called  to  the  home  beyond,  but 
he  is  well  remembered  by  all  who  knew  him,  his  memory  is  cherished  in  the 
hearts  of  his  friends,  and  his  influence  still  remains  as  a  blessed  benediction 
to  those  among  whom  he  walked  daily. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 


ENOS  M.  McCREADY. 

Enos  M.  McCready,  of  Falmouth,  Indiana,  is  an  ex-sheriff  of  Fayette 
county,  Indiana,  and  is  one  of  its  representative  farmers.  Mr.  McCready  is 
a  native  of  the  Keystone  state.  He  was  born  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  lO,  1836,  a  son  of  Pennsylvania  parents,  Samuel  and  Rebecca 
A.  (Taylor)  McCready.  Samuel  McCready  was  a  son  of  Samuel  McCready, 
Sr. ,  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  America  with  his  parents 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  worked  at  the  trade  of  carpenter.  In 
1837  Samuel  McCready,  and  his  son  Samuel,  came  to  Indiana  and  located 
at  Fairfield,  in  Franklin  county.  The  elder  Samuel  McCready  died  at  the 
home  of  his  son  in  1845.  His  children  in  order  of  birth  were  John,  Nancy, 
Elizabeth,  George,  Samuel,  Rachel  and  Isaac.  John,  the  first  of  the  family 
to  come  west,  located  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  a  few  years  later  came  over 
into  Indiana  and  settled  in  Franklin  county.  Other  members  of  the  family 
scattered  in  different  states  and  some  of  them  subsequently  came  to  Indiana. 
Samuel,  at  the  time  he  came  to  Indiana  from  Pennsylvania,  had  only  limited 
means.  He  settled  at  Fairfield,  as  already  stated,  and  during  the  first  years 
of  his  residence  there  followed  the  trade  of  shoemaker.  Later  he  bought  a 
farm  in  Posey  township,  Franklin  county,  but  sold  out  not  long  afterward 
and  moved  to  Orange  township,  Fayette  county,  where  he  bought  a  farm 
and  lived  three  years.  His  next  move  was  to  Blooming  Grove  township, 
Franklin  county,  where  he  continued  his  residence  a  number  of  years.  After 
his  wife  died  and  his  family  scattered  he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Iowa.  He 
subsequently  returned  to  Indiana,  and  died  at  Fayetteville,  Fayette  county, 
February  15,  1880,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  He  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  from  time  to  time  filling  its  various 
offices,  and  for  years  his  house  was  the  home  of  the  Methodist  preacher,  who 
always  found  a  cordial  welcome  at  "Brother  McCready's."  His  wife, 
Rebecca  A.,  was  a  daughter  of  Francis  Taylor,  who  was  of  Scotch  descent 
and  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  The  Taylors  were  Presbyterians.  Mrs. 
McCready  was  the  only  one  of  the  family  that  came  to  Indiana.  Samuel  and 
Rebecca  A.  McCready  were  the  parents  of  the  following  named  children: 
Enos  Miller,  whose  name  introduces  this  sketch;  Sarah,  who  has  been  twice 
married,  her  first  husband  being  a  Mr.  Price  and  her  second  husband  John 
Curry;  Rachel,  who  died  in  infancy;  Ray,  deceased,  left  a  wife  and  one 
child;  John  W.,  a  Union  soldier  in  the  civil  war,  died  in  the  service;  James, 
deceased,  was  a  railroad  man;  Joseph  L.,  resides  with  his  brother,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch;  and  George  is  located  in  the  far  west. 

Enos  Miller  McCready  was  reared  on  a  farm  from  his  eleventh  year  and 
remained  a  member  of  the  home  circle   until   he  was  twenty-two.      At   that 


^2  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

age  he  started  out  in  life  to  do  for  himself.  In  1861,  in  answer  to  his  coun- 
try's call  for  volunteers  to  help  put  down  the  southern  rebellion,  he  enlisted, 
at  Connersville,  as  a  member  of  the  Forty-first  Indiana  Regiment,  Second 
Cavalry,  which  was  assigned  to  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  under  General 
Nelson.  Mr.  McCready's  first  battle  was  at  Green  river,  and  with  his  com- 
mand he  was  on  active  duty  through  the  south.  At  Gallatin,  Tennessee,  he 
was  wounded  in  the  right  leg,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  has  never  recov- 
ered, the  wound  resulting  in  a  running  sore.  He  remained  with  his  com- 
mand, however,  keeping  to  his  post  of  duty  notwithstanding  the  wound.  At 
the  time  his  regiment  was  captured  at  Hartsville,  Tennessee,  he,  with  five 
others,  was  absent  on  detailed  duty  and  thus  escaped  capture.  During  the 
whole  of  his  army  service  he  was  home  on  a  furlough  only  seven  days.  Four 
months  after  the  term  of  his  enlistment  had  expired  he  was  sent  to  Indian- 
apolis and  mustered  out,  receiving  an  honorable  discharge  in  October,  1864. 

At  the  close  of  his  army  service  Mr.  McCready  returned  to  Franklin 
county,  where  he  was  married  soon  afterward  and  settled  on  a  rented  farm. 
He  farmed  for  several  years  successfully  on  rented  land,  on  his  father's  farm 
and  on  land  which  he  bought.  Selling  out,  he  moved  to  Mount  Carmel  and 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business.  Also  at  the  same  time  he  was  for  four 
years  postmaster  at  that  place.  Honest  to  the  letter  himself,  he  trusted 
others  too  much,  the  result  being  that  he  lost  the  major  portion  of  what  he 
had  saved.  From  Mount  Carmel  he  came  to  Connersville  and  for  a  time 
was  employed  in  the  pork  house.  Turning  again  to  agricultural  pursuits,  he 
rented  land  for  several  years  and  then  accepted  the  position  of  superintendent 
of  the  county  infirmary,  which  place  he  filled  acceptably  for  three  years.  In 
1890  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Fayette  county,  was  re-elected  in  1892,  and 
served  in  that  office  four  years,  giving  entire  satisfaction  to  the  officers  and 
law-abiding  people  of  the  county.  The  proceeds  of  his  office  he  invested  in 
land,  buying  the  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  where  he  lives  and 
another  tract  consisting  of  forty  acres.  The  year  after  his  term  of  office  had 
expired  he  spent  in  settling  up  a  shoe  business  for  which  he  was  assignee. 
Then  he  moved  to  his  present  farm.  He  is  a  man  of  sterling  integrity,  and 
the  old  saying,  oft  quoted,  "His  word  is  as  good  as  his  bond,"  may  be 
applied  to  him  without  fear  of  contradiction. 

He  married  Miss  Emaline  Brothers,  a  native  of  Franklin  county, 
Indiana,  born  September  14,  1841,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret 
(Swift)  Brothers,  natives  respectively  of  North  Carolina  and  Maryland.  Ben- 
jamin Brothers  was  the  elder  of  two  children.  Their  mother  dying  when 
they  were  young  and  a  stepmother  later  comirig  into  the  home,  Benjamin  and 
his  sister,  when  the  latter  was  twelve  years  old,  came  to  Indiana,  where  she 
subsequently  became  the  wife  of  Harrison  Lynn.     Benjamin  learned  the  car- 


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penter's  trade,  which  he  followed  in  Franklin  county,  where  he  spent  the 
rest  of  his  life  and  died,  the  date  of  his  death  being  July  17,  1852.  He  was 
a  strong  temperance  advocate  and  a  leading  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church.  His  widow  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Genn.  She  died  in 
1893.  There  were  no  children  by  her  second  marriage.  The  two  children 
by  Mr.  Brothers  were  Hannah  and  Emaline,  the  former  dying  in  infancy,  the 
latter  being  the  wife  of  Mr.  McCready.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCready  have  had 
the  following  named  children:  Frank,  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  Parry 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  Indianapolis,  with  headquarters  at  Kansas  City; 
Clara  B.,  wife  of  V.  M.  Mendenhall,  of  New  Castle,  Indiana,  died  August 
27,  1892,  without  issue;  Benjamin  F.,  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  McFarlan 
Carriage  Works,  of  Connersville,  has  his  headquarters  at  Des  Moines,  low*; 
Birta  B.,  wife  of  Harry  Bragg,  of  Connersville;  and  Tina,  at  home. 

Mr.  McCready  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party  politically,  and  fra- 
ternally with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic. 

JAMES  E.    REEVES. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  and  respected  citizens  of  Richmond  is  James 
E.  Reeves,  a  man  whose  history  furnishes  a  splendid  example  of  what  maybe 
accomplished  through  determined  purpose,  laudable  ambition  and  well 
directed  efforts.  Starting  out  in  life  a  poor  boy,  he  has  steadily  worked  his 
way  upward,  gaining  success  and  winning  the  public  confidence.  For  thirty- 
si.\  years  he  has  occupied  the  position  of  president  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Richmond,  but  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  was  occupying  a  humble  clerkship 
in  a  small  store. 

He  was  born  November  27,  18 14,  in  the  village  of  Berkley,  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  which  was  also  the  birthplace  of  his  parents, 
Mark  and  Ann  (Ewan)  Reeves,  who  in  1823  came  to  Richmond  with  their 
family,  consisting  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  father  was  a  carpen- 
ter by  trade,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneer  contractors  and  builders  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  state.      He  died  in  1855,  and  his  wife  passed  away  in  1842. 

James  E.  Reeves  was  only  nine  years  of  age,  when  he  came  with  the 
family  to  Richmond.  The  school  system  of  the  county  had  not  been  formu- 
lated, but  he  received  such  educational  privileges  as  the  neighborhood 
afforded,  and  experience  and  observation  have  given  him  that  practical  knowl- 
edge without  which  there  is  no  success  in  the  business  world.  At  the  age  of 
fifteen,  being  ambitious  to  provide  for  his  own  maintenance,  he  secured  a 
clerkship  in  the  first  drug  store  ever  established  in  Richmond,  then  the 
property  of  Dr.  James  R.  Mendenhall.  (It  was  established  by  Dr.  Morri- 
son and  Dr.  Warner.)  He  remained  with  him  for  a  year,  then  went  to 
Liberty,    Indiana,   as    a  salesman    in  the  employ  of    Dr.    Mendenhall,   who 


64  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

had  opened  a  dry-goods  store  at  that  place.  A  year  later  he  accepted 
a  position  in  a  store  opened  by  his  brother,  Mark  E.  Reeves,  who 
began  operations  on  a  small  scale  in  Washington,  now  Green's  Fork,  Wayne 
county,  conducting  a  general  store,  in  which  James  E.  Reeves  was  employed 
as  a  salesman  for  eight  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  the  brothers 
formed  a  partnership  under  the  firm  name  of  M.  E.  &  J.  E.  Reeves,  con- 
ducting a  general  store  in  Washington  for  three  years,  when  the  junior  part- 
ner returned  to  Richmond  and  opened  a  general  store  here,  successfully  con- 
ducting the  enterprise  from  February,  1840,  until  1848.  During  this  time  he 
also  established  a  cotton  factory  north  of  Richmond,  and  for  two  years  he 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cotton  yarns  and  batting.  In  1848  he  went 
to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  became  a  wholesale  dealer  in  boots  and  shoes, 
hats  and  caps  and  straw  goods.  After  a  year  he  admitted  his  brother,  Mark 
E.,  to  a  partnership  in  the  business,  and  when  another  year  had  passed  they 
were  joined  by  Isaac  Stephens,  under  the  firm  name  of  Reeves,  Stephens  & 
Company,  a  partnership  which  was  continued  until  1855,  when  our  subject's 
health  failed  him  and  he  returned  to  Richmond. 

Here  he  purchased  one  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river  from  Robert  Morrison  and  engaged  in  farming  for  eight  years,  finding 
in  the  outdoor  pursuits  just  what  he  needed  to  restore  his  health  and  strength. 
In  1863  he  took  up  his  residence  in  the  city  and  in  connection  with  hi& 
brother  Mark  established  the  First  National  Bank  of  Richmond,  this  being 
the  seventeenth  national  bank  established  in  the  United  States  and  the  second 
in  Indiana,  the  other  having  been  founded  in  Fort  Wayne.  It  was  originally 
capitalized  for  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  He  was  elected  president,  the 
doors  were  opened  for  business  June  15,  1863,  and  since  that  time  James  E. 
Reeves  has  continued  at  the  head  of  the  institution,  which  has  had  a  pros- 
perous existence  of  thirty-six  years.  During  the  financial  panics  when  other 
banks  have  failed,  it  has  never  been  forced  to  suspend  for  a  single  day,  but 
has  followed  a  wise  and  conservative  business  policy  which  has  made  it  one 
of  the  strongest  and  most  reliable  financial  institutions  in  this  part  of  the 
state.  Its  success  is  largely  due  to  the  capable  management,  splendid  exec- 
utive ability,  untiring  efforts  and  firm  purpose  of  Mr.  Reeves,  whose  reputa- 
tion in  commercial  circles  is  above  question  and  whose  word  is  as  good  as 
any  bond  that  was  ever  solemnized  by  signature  or  seal. 

Other  business  interests  have  also  claimed  his  attention  and  ha\e  been 
promoted  through  his  ability.  He  is  president  of  the  Champion  Roller  Mill- 
ing Company,  aided  in  its  organization,  and  its  business  is  now  the  largest  of 
the  kind  in  eastern  Indiana.  He  is  connected  with  the  Richmond  City  Mill 
Works,  was  one  of  the  directors  for  a  number  of  years  and  throughout  his 
active  business  career  has  been  most  faithful  to  the  ethics  of  commercial  life. 


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meeting  fully  every  obligation  and  dealing  most  fairly  and  honorably  at 
all  times. 

Mr.  Reeves  has  been  twice  married.  On  the  iSth  of  August,  1842,  he 
wedded  Isabella  Cornell,  of  Philadelphia,  and  to  them  were  born  three  chil- 
dren: James  F.,  a  well-known  business  man  of  Richmond;  Isabella  May, 
deceased;  and  one  who  died  in  infancy.  The  mother  died  in  1863,  and  Mr. 
Reeves  was  again  married  in  April,  1863,  his  second  union  being  with  Mrs. 
Hannah  More  Ireland,  ncc  Peters,  of  Illinois.  They  have  two  children. 
The  elder,  William  Peters  Reeves,  Ph.  D.,  a  graduate  of  Johns  Hopkins 
University,  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  now  occupies  the  chair  of  English  liter- 
ature in  the  University  of  Iowa,  at  Iowa  City,  and  is  a  most  able  young  man 
of  high  scholarly  attainments  and  superior  mental  endowments,  whose  future 
will  undoubtedly  be  a  brilliant  and  successful  one.  Jesse  Siddall,  the  younger 
son,  is  also  a  graduate  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University,  has  won  the  Ph.  D. 
degree,  and  is  now  an  enterprising  young  attorney  of  Richmond  and  United 
States  commissioner. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Reeves  gave  his  political  support  to  the  men  and 
measures  of  the  Whig  party,  and  on  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party  joined  its  ranks.  His  first  presidential  vote  was  cast  for  W^illiam 
Henry  Harrison,  in  1836.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council 
of  Richmond,  but  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  was  one  of  the 
three  trustees  appointed  by  Robert  Morrison,  deceased,  to  effect  the  purchase 
of  what  is  now  known  as  the  Morrison-Reeves  library.  This  is  one  of  the 
best  libraries  in  the  state,  creditable  to  the  city  and  an  enduring  monument 
to  its  founders.  In  1865  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Morton  treasurer  of 
the  Indiana  Agricultural  College,  now  Purdue  University,  and  served  during 
the  preliminary  organization.  Early  in  the  '70s  he  was  the  receiver  for  the 
Cincinnati  &  Fort  Wayne  Railway  Company.  Mr.  Reeves  has  long  been 
actively  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  general  welfare  and  advance- 
ment of  his  city,  and  has  also  aided  many  movements  for  the  amelioration  of 
human  suffering.  He  is  rather  reserved  in  manner,  dignified  and  entirely 
unostentatious, yet  at  all  times  kindly  and  courteous,  possessing  those  instinct- 
ive traits  of  culture  and  worth  which  in  every  land  and  clime  command 
respect.  His  friends  have  the  highest  appreciation  of  his  many  excellent 
qualities,  and  all  esteem  him  for  a  life  over  which  there  falls  no  shadow  of 
wrong  or  suspicion  of  evil. 

A.  M.  HOSIER. 

One  of  the  boys  in  blue  of  the  civil  war,  and  at  all  times  a  loyal  citi- 
zen true  to  the  interests  of  county,  state  and  nation,  A.  M.  Hosier  is  num- 
bered among  the  representative  farmers    of  \\'ayne    county,  which   is   one  of 


66  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  richest  agricultural  districts  in  this  commonwealth.  The  Hosier  family 
was  one  of  the  first  founded  in  this  locality  and  its  members  took  an  active 
part  in  its  development  through  the  pioneer  epoch  in  its  history.  The 
grandfather  of  our  subject  was  a  strong  adherent  of  the  Hicksite  faith,  which 
had  a  very  large  following  in  Wayne  county.  The  parents  of  our  subject 
were  Jesse  and  Martha  (Dunham)  Hosier,  the  former  a  native  of  Indiana, 
born  in  1816,  and  the  latter  of  Liberty,  Union  county,  Indiana.  In  1S07 
Lewis  Hosier,  grandfather  of  Jesse,  left  the  place  of  his  nativity  in  North 
Carolina,  and,  emigrating  westward,  located  in  Wayne  county  amid  the 
Indians,  who  were  more  numerous  than  the  white  settlers,  for  the  tide  of  emi- 
gration had  not  then  swept  through  the  forests  and  over  the  prairies  of  this 
district.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  two  sons,  and  in  this  frontier 
settlement  they  made  homes  and  aided  in  reducing  the  wild  land  to  pur- 
poses of  civilization.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  Jesse  Hosier 
here  continued  his  farming  operations  until  his  death,  which  was  occasioned. 
by  cancer  in  1866,  when  he  was  fifty-two  years  of  age.  His  wife,  long  sur- 
viving him,  passed  away  in  1891,  at  the  age  of  seventy  years.  They  were 
the  parents  of  ten  children,  namely:  Aurelius  M.,  now  deceased;  Hender- 
son O.,  Henry  O.,  A.  M.,  Mary  Elizabeth,  Caroline,  Frances,  Laura  Ann, 
William  and  Minomia.  The  last  named  is  also  deceased.  Four  of  the 
brothers  loyally  served  their  country  through  the  dark  days  of  the  rebellion, 
but  all  lived  to  return  to  their  homes  and  are  yet  faithful  citizens  of  the 
republic  save  Aurelius  M. ,  who  responded  to  the  roll  call  above  in  1S95, 
when  a  resident  of  Iowa. 

A.  M.  Hosier,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  passed  his  boyhood 
in  a  manner  similar  to  other  farmer  lads  of  the  period,  working  in  the  fields 
through  the  summer  months,  while  in  the  winter  season  he  pursued  his  edu- 
cation in  the  district  schools  of  the  neighborhood.  At  the  age  of  twenty, 
ihowever,  he  left  home  and  went  to  the  front  as  a  defender  of  the  Union 
■cause,  enlisting  in  December,  1862,  as  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-first  Regiment  or  Ninth  Indiana  Cavalry.  He  participated  in  Hood's 
•campaign  in  1863,  and  in  all  the  engagements  in  which  his  command  took 
■part  was  always  found  at  his  post  of  duty,  loyally  upholding  the  starry  ban- 
ner and  the  cause  it  represented.  On  the  loth  of  June,  1865,  he  was  mus- 
tered out,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  with  a  creditable  military  record 
returned  to  his  home. 

Mr.  Hosier  at  once  resumed  the  labors  of  the  farm  and  throughout  his 
business  career  has  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits.  He  located  on  his 
present  farm  in  Harrison  township,  Wayne  county,  in  1870  and  has  since 
devoted  his  time  and  energies  to  the  cultivation  of  his  fields  and  the  care  of 
his  stock.      He  follows  advanced  and  progressive  methods  of  agriculture,  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  67 

his  place  is  neat  and  thrifty  in  appearance,  owing  to  his  consecutive  labors 
and  careful  supervision.  In  1898  he  further  improved  his  property  by  the 
erection  of  a  substantial  and  tasteful  residence. 

On  the  25th  of  March,  1869,  Mr.  Hosier  married  Miss  Rebecca  E., 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Rachel  (M3'ers)  Hamm,  natives  of  Berks  county, 
Pennsylvania.  His  father  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-five,  the  mother  when 
eighty-six  years  of  age.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hosier  have  been  born  four 
children:  Credwell,  born  May  12,  1873;  Roscoe  P.,  born  May  31,  1880; 
Frederick  M.,   born  January  5,   1884;  and  Scott  H.,  born  October3i,  1885. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hosier  has  always  been  a  stanch  Republican, 
and  on  that  ticket  was  elected  in  1894  to  the  position  of  township  trustee, 
in  which  position  he  has  served  most  acceptably  since  August,  1895.  He 
was  at  one  time  a  member  of  Colonel  M.  D.  Leason  Post,  at  Jacksonburg, 
but  the  organization  disbanded  some  years  since.  He  is  a  man  of  very  genial 
temperament,  and  this  quality  renders  him  an  agreeable  companion. 

OLIVER  L.   VORIS. 

Professor  Oliver  L.  Voris,  the  efficient  and  popular  principal  of  the 
Hagerstown  high  school,  is  a  native  of  this  state,  his  birth  having  taken  place 
in  Switzerland  county.  May  21,  1859.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Major 
Cornelius  Voris,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  whence  he  removed  to  Switzer- 
land county  at  an  early  period,  becoming  one  of  its  founders  and  influential 
citizens.  Our  subject's  father,  Joseph  Voris,  was  born  in  1825,  in  the  county 
named,  and  after  passing  his  entire  life  in  that  section,  was  called  to  his 
reward  on  the  8th  of  December,  1898.  The  wife  and  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Mary  Van  Nuys,  is  still  living  at  the  old  homestead.  Of  their  ten 
children,  eight  sons  and  two  daughters,  seven  are  yet  living,  and  at  different 
times  all  have  been  engaged  in  teaching.  Joseph  H.  is  in  charge  of  the 
scientific  branches  in  the  Huntington  high  school;  Peter  V.  was  superintend- 
dent  of  the  Hagerstown  schools  for  five  years;  John  A.  is  now  engaged  in 
farming  in  Johnson  county,  Indiana;  Harvey  B.  resides  on  a  farm  near  his 
father's  old  homestead;  Cornelius  A.  is  carrying  on  a  portion  of  the  parental 
estate;  and  Rose  E.  is  with  her  mother  in  the  old  home. 

In  his  early  years  Professor  Oliver  L.  Voris  lived  on  a  farm  and  received 
his  preliminary  education  in  the  district  schools.  In  188 1  he  entered  the 
Terre  Haute  State  Normal  School,  where  he  was  graduated  seven  years  later. 
In  the  meantime,  as  he  had  been  obliged  to  pay  his  own  way  through  school, 
he  had  spent  considerable  time  in  teaching,  which  method  was  not  without 
its  peculiar  advantages,  though  it  was  not  a  matter  of  preference  with  him. 
Two  of  his  brothers,  Peter  V.  and  the  youngest,  likewise  were  graduated  in 
the  same  institution.      In  the   course  of  his  career  as  an  educator  Professor 


68  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Voris  has  taught  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  county  three  years;  was 
two  years  in  Boone  county;  then  taught  in  the  schools  at  Lebanon,  Indiana, 
for  one  year;  for  two  years  was  principal  of  the  Centerville  high  school,  and 
for  six  years  was  the  superintendent  of  the  schools  there.  His  connection 
with  the  Hagerstown  high  school  dates  from  the  beginning  of  the  school  year 
of  1898,  and  marked  changes  for  the  better  have  been  inaugurated  here  in 
the  interim.  He  is  a  ripe  scholar  and  assiduous  student,  and  to  his  well 
directed  energy  and  zeal  is  due,  in  large  measure,  the  excellence  of  the  high 
school,  which  now  ranks  with  the  best  in  the  state. 

The  marriage  of  Professor  Voris  and  Miss  Carrie  S.  Peitsmyer,  a  native 
of  Warren  county,  Ohio,  was  celebrated  in  1891.  Mrs.  Voris,  who  for  ten 
years  was  successfully  engaged  in  teaching  in  Wayne  county  prior  to  her  mar- 
riage, was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  but  is  now  identified 
with  the  Presbyterian  church,  as  is  the  Professor.  They  are  the  parents  of 
one  child,  a  daughter  named  Edna.  Their  home  is  a  happy  and  attractive 
one,  where  warm-hearted  hospitality  is  always  to  be  found  by  their  numerous 
friends. 

WILLIAM  D.  REID. 

William  D.  Reid,  who  is  one  of  the  best  known  citizens  of  Richmond, 
comes  of  good  old  Protestant  Irish  stock,  his  ancestors  having  been  promi- 
nent and  influential  in  county  Donegal,  Ireland.  His  great-grandfather, 
John  Reid,  was  born  in  the  early  part  of  last  century,  and  spent  his  whole 
life  in  Donegal,  his  native  county. 

His  son,  Patrick,  the  next  in  the  line  of  descent,  was  born  near  Church- 
town,  in  the  same  county,  in  1744,  and  for  a  period  of  forty  years  was  the 
presiding  elder  in  the  Episcopal  church  of  that  place.  In  1822  he  emigrated 
to  the  United  States,  and  for  the  following  seven  years  he  resided  near  Wil- 
mington, Delaware,  whence  he  then  removed  to  a  farm  one  and  a  half  miles 
north  of  Richmond.  He  had  learned  the  trade  of  a  stone-mason,  but  after 
coming  to  this  locality  he  devoted  himself  exclusively  to  agriculture.  In  the 
Richmond  Episcopal  church  he  was  the  first  communicant,  and  was  ever 
afterward  one  of  the  most  influential  members.  A  thorough  Bible  scholar, 
—  one  of  the  best  in  the  country,  in  fact, — few  cared  to  meet  him  in  an  argu- 
ment, and  man}'  a  mmister,  even,  was  defeated  by  him  when  discussions 
arose  as  to  the  truths  and  doctrines  presented  in  the  Scriptures.  Yet  for  his 
day  he  was  liberal  in  his  views,  and  was  the  possessor  of  an  extensive  fund 
of  general  knowledge  and  information.  He  lived  to  the  extreme  age  of 
ninety-six  years,  dying  in  1840. 

His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  McCauley,  and  all  of  their 
children,  were  born  in  county  Donegal.  The  children  were  five  in  number, 
namely:  Francis,  Eleanor,  Sarah,  Alexander  and  Jane,  and  all  are  deceased. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  69 

Sarah,  the  wife  of  WilHam  Donan,  started  to  come  to  the  United  States  in 
1812,  but  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  British  (as  war  had  been  declared 
between  the  two  countries)  and  was  kept  at  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland,  until 
after  the  decisive  battle  of  New  Orleans,  January  8,  181 5,  after  which  she 
went  to  Wilmington,  Delaware.  Her  husband  died  in  1828,  and  she  never 
married  again,  though  she  lived  until  1890,  when  she  died  at  Port  Orange, 
Florida. 

Alexander  Reid,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  man  of  high  standing  in 
Donegal,  taking  a  leading  part  in  local  affairs.  After  the  famous  rebellion  of 
1798,  in  Ireland,  he  was  appointed  by  the  government  to  collect  the  arms 
and  ammunition  of  the  defeated  insurgents,  and  discharged  his  duties  with 
fidelity.  He  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  people  of  the  United  States  in  1821,  and 
was  quietly  engaged  in  farming  in  the  vicinity  of  Wilmington,  Delaware,  until 
1843,  when  he  removed  to  Whitley  county,  Indiana,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death,  in  1869.  As  a  raiser  of  wheat  he  was  especially  successful,  and  in  his 
various  transactions  he  generally  was  prospered.  Both  he  and  his  sons  allied 
themselves  with  the  Republican  party  upon  its  formation,  and  were  thence- 
forth zealous  and  enthusiastic  workers  in  the  organization,  though  never  office- 
seekers.  Like  his  father,  he  was  an  earnest  member  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
and  the  regard  of  all  who  were  associated  with  him  in  any  manner  was  his  in 
an  enviable  degree. 

William  D.  Reid,  a  son  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Hannah)  Reid,  was  born 
in  Newcastle  county,  Delaware,  on  a  farm  three  miles  north  of  Wilmington, 
July  6,  1823.  The  young  man  removed  to  this  state  with  the  family.  The 
mother  died  when  William  D.  was  twenty-eight  months  old,  and,  as  his  father 
never  married  again,  they  continued  to  live  together,  as  just  stated.  Our 
subject  remained  in  Whitley  county,  busily  engaged  in  farming,  until  March, 
1879,  when  he  removed  to  a  homestead  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  Richmond. 
He  now  owns  a  valuable  farm  in  Spring  Grove  borough,  and,  aided  by  his 
sons,  he  carries  on  the  place  successfully.  While  a  resident  of  Whitley 
county  he  was  one  of  the  projectors,  stockholders  and  directors  of  the  Eel 
River  Railroad,  which  was  constructed  in  1873  and  is  now  owned  by  the 
Wabash.  Just  fifty  years  to  the  day  after  his  grandfather,  the  first  communi- 
cant of  the  Richmond  Episcopal  church,  had  joined  it,  William  D.  Reid 
became  a  member  of  the  congregation  and  an  active  worker  in  the  cause  of 
Christianity.  He  cast  his  first  presidential  ballot  for  Henry  Clay,  and  has 
been  a  stanch  defender  of  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  for  more 
than  two-score  years.  His  life  has  been  one  of  modest,  unassuming  worth — 
a  life  well  rounded,  and  a  fitting  example  to  be  held  up  for  the  emulation  of 
the  young. 

On  the  isth  of  June,  1851,  Mr.  Reid  married   Fannie  F.  Reid,  and  five 


70  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

children  blessed  their  union.  Mary  C,  the  fourth  child,  married  Benjamin 
F.  Simmons,  and  died  in  1897.  The  others,  Jennie  E.,  David  L.,  Alexander 
S.  and  William  A.,  still  spend  much  of  their  time  at  the  old  homestead,  in 
loving  companionship  with  their  father,  their  mother  having  died  in  1874. 
Alexander  Reid,  who  for  several  years  was  a  successful  teacher,  and  for  the 
past  eighteen  years  has  been  a  trusted  bookkeeper  in  the  employ  of  John  W. 
Grubb  &  Company,  wholesale  grocers  of  Richmond,  was  honored  by  election 
to  the  responsible  office  of  county  auditor  in  November,  1898.  He  ran  ahead 
of  his  ticket,  county  and  state,  fifty  votes,  a  fact  which  attests  his  great  pop- 
ularity and  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  his  capability  and  trustworthiness. 
He  was  married  in  1889  to  Anna  Cadwallader,' who  died  about  two  years 
later.  Like  his  brothers  and  sisters,  his  parents  and  forefathers,  the  newly- 
elected  auditor  is  deeply  interested  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  Episcopal  church 
and  the  propagation  of  the  doctrines  of  Christianity.  In  short,  he  stands  on 
the  side  of  progress,  advancement  and  civilization,  favoring  educ  ition,  relig- 
ion, law  and  order,  and  whatever  makes  for  the  good  of  the  people  as  indi- 
viduals and  as  communities. 

ALFRED  MANLOVE. 

The  subject  of  this  review  is  a  well  known  farmer  of  Posey  township, 
Fayette  county,  Indiana,  whose  skill  and  ability  in  his  chosen  calling  are 
plainly  manifest  in  the  well  tilled  fields  and  neat  and  thrifty  appearance  of 
his  place.  He  was  born  November  21,  1840,  on  the  farm  where  he  still 
resides,  and  early  in  life  he  became  familiar  with  every  department  of  farm 
work.  His  early  education,  acquired  in  the  common  schools,  was  supple- 
mented by  a  course  in  the  Fairview  Academy. 

Our  subject  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  the 
county,  being  a  grandson  of  William  and  Prudence  (Cook)  Manlove,  natives 
of  South  Carolina,  who,  with  their  two  children,  took  up  their  residence  in 
what  is  now  Posey  township,  about  18 12.  After  a  short  residence  here  the 
grandfather  went  to  Cincinnati,  with  a  team,  for  supplies,  and  while  there 
contracted  the  cholera,  from  which  he  died  on  the  way  home.  His  widow 
and  six  children  were  thus  left  almost  destitute  in  a  new  and  wild  country, 
but  the  former  managed  to  keep  her  family  together.  She  made  a  desperate 
effort  to  secure  a  home  for  them  by  taking  up  a  tract  of  government  land,  on 
which  she  erected  a  cabin  and  cleared  three  or  four  acres.  She  hoped  soon 
to  get  the  money  to  enter  the  land,  but  one  of  her  neighbors,  John  Hueston, 
a  money-loaner,  entered  it  and  took  it  from  her.  She  afterward  married 
James  Mclvonkey,  of  Irish  descent,  who  entered  land  and  improved  a  farm. 
He  was  a  very  stern  man,  and  the  Manlove  children,  not  being  able  to  stand 
his  tyranny,  soon   left  home.      They  were  Cynthia,  who  became  the  wife  of 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  71 

John  Miller;  Phoebe,  wife  of  John  Stevens;  Jesse,  father  of  our  subject,  who 
was  the  second  white  child  born  in  Fa3'ette  county;  Absalom,  who  located 
near  Jesse;  Alfred,  who  died  young;  and  William,  a  resident  of  Fayette 
county.  By  her  second  marriage  the  mother  had  three  children:  Eli, 
Sophrona,  wife  of  Reuben  Allen,  and  Thomas. 

Jesse  Manlove,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  April  13,  1815,  and  on 
leaving  home  was  compelled  to  work  for  the  small  wages  of  fifty  cents  per 
day  at  hard  labor,  but  his  determination  to  make  for  himself  a  home  gave 
him  energy,  and  he  steadil}'  persevered  until  the  end  was  accomplished. 
Saving  his  well  earned  money,  he  purchased  eighty  acres  of  land,  of  which  a 
few  acres  had  been  poorly  cleared,  while  some  fruit  trees  had  been  set  out 
and  a  cabin  erected  upon  the  place.  He  kept  adding  to  his  original  purchase 
until  he  had  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  fine  land,  which  he  placed  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  improved  with  good  buildings,  including  a  com- 
modious two-stor}'  frame  house.  He  gave  his  entire  attention  to  farming  and 
stock-raising,  feeding  most  of  the  products  of  his  farm  to  his  stock.  In  early 
days  he  drove  his  hogs  to  the  Cincinnati  market  and  walked  home,  carrying 
his  money  with  him.  It  often  required  thirty  days  to  make  the  trip.  Polit- 
ically he  was  an  ardent  Democrat,  and  religiously  was  a  consistent  member 
of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church.  His  life  in  all  respects  was  above  reproach, 
he  was  ever  a  friend  of  the  poor  and  needy,  and  the  latch-string  on  his  door 
always  hung  out.  Mr.  Manlove  married  Miss  Lana  A.  Colvin,  who  was  born 
in  Rush  county,  Indiana,  January  8,  18 19,  a  daughter  of  Boswell  and  Lydia 
(Hatfield)  Colvin.  Her  father,  who  was  a  shoemaker  and  stone-mason  by  trade, 
came  to  this  state  from  Kentucky  at  an  early  day  and  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life  here.  His  children  were  Lana  A.;  John;  Levi;  Charles;  Mrs.  Hannah 
Vernon;  William;  Nancy,  wife  of  William  Sprong;  Owen;  Sarah,  wife  of 
N.  Williams;  Mary,  wife  of  James  Sprong;  Lewis  and  Mrs.  Lydia  A.  Pouts, 
twins;  and  Jane,  who  died  young.  Mrs.  Manlove  also  was  an  earnest  mem- 
ber of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother 
of  eleven  children,  namely:  Francis  M.,  a  resident  of  Missouri;  Alfred,  our 
subject;  Levi,  who  died  leaving  a  wife  and  one  child;  Jane,  who  married  N. 
Cummins  and  died  April  5,  1879;  William  A.,  a  resident  of  Missouri;  Lydia 
A.,  who  married  J.  Stephens  and  died  February  18,  1876;  John  H.,  a  farmer; 
Absalom,  who  died  February  4,  1890,  leaving  a  wife  and  three  children; 
Prudence  E.  and  Jesse,  who  both  died  young;  and  Sarah  C,  wife  of  C. 
Jackson. 

During  his  boyhood  and  youth  the  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  school 
during  the  winter  and  assisted  his  father  with  the  labors  of  the  farm  through 
the  summer  months.  After  attaining  his  majority  he  engaged  in  teaching 
school  to  some  e.xtent  and  followed  farming  on  his  own  account.      After  his 


72  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

marriage,  in  1867,  he  bought  a  small  farm  and  located  thereon,  but  the  fol- 
lowing year  purchased  the  old  homestead  of  his  father  and  has  since  resided 
there.  To  his  first  purchase  of  eighty  acres  he  has  added  forty  more,  and 
has  successfully  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising. 

In. 1 867  Mr.  Manlove  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Hettie  R.  Rea, 
who  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  May  18,  1844,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Lucinda  (Hines)  Rea,  natives  of  Virginia  and  Indiana,  respectively.  The 
father,  who  was  a  farmer  and  blacksmith  by  occupation,  improved  a  good 
farm  from  a  heavily  timbered  tract  in  Fayette  county.  He  was  a  man  of 
stern  habits,  but  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  though  a 
sufferer  from  rheumatism  he  bore  this  misfortune  with  Christian  fortitude. 
He  was  first  married  in  Virginia  and  lost  his  wife  after  coming  to  this  state. 
By  that  union  he  had  ten  children:  Elizabeth  J.,  Mary  F. ,  Martha  S., 
Christian,  John,  James  W. ,  David  D.,  Minerva  C,  and  Emeline  and  Evaline, 
twins.  By  the  second  marriage  there  were  four  children:  Caroline  and 
Jacob  L.,  who  both  died  young;  Hettie  R. ,  wife  of  our  subject;  and  Ben- 
jamin F.  The  father  died  January  19,  1874,  and  the  mother  August  23, 
1855.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manlove  have  two  children.  Osman  R.,  born  June  9, 
1868,  received  a  liberal  education  as  a  civil  engineer  and  electrician  and  is 
now  chief  engineer  at  the  school  of  the  feeble-minded  at  Fort  Wayne.  Cora 
L.  is  now  the  wife  of  Elmer  Caldwell,  a  farmer  of  Fayette  county. 

Although  not  a  member  of  any  religious  denomination,  Mr.  Manlove 
endeavors  to  live  up  to  the  teaching  of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church,  in  which 
he  was  reared,  and  his  life  has  ever  been  such  as  to  command  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him.  Politically  he  adheres  to  the  principles  of 
the  Democracy  and  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  party  in  his  section  of  the 
county.  He  keeps  well  posted  on  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  has 
served  as  a  delegate  to  judicial  and  county  conventions,  and  most  creditably 
and  satisfactorily  served  as  trustee  of  his  township  for  one  term,  but  did  not 
have  any  desire  to  serve  longer. 

WILLIAM  G.   SCOTT. 

When  a  man  passes  away  we  look  back  over  the  life  ended  and  note  its 
usefulness — its  points  worthy  of  emulation  and  perpetuation.  What  William 
F.  Scott  did  for  his  fellow  men  might,  in  a  manner,  be  told  in  words,  but  in 
its  far-reaching  influences  cannot  be  measured.  Many  business  concerns  and 
moral  enterprises  owe  their  excellence  and  progress  largely  to  his  influence. 
He  was  in  touch  with  ihe  people,  and  from  a  sincere  and  deep-felt  interest 
in  their  welfare  labored  for  all  that  would  prove  of  public  benefit  until  the 
busy  and  useful  life  was  ended. 

Mr.  Scott  was  born  in  Harrisonburg,  Rockingham  county,  Virginia,  Sep- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  73 

tember  17,  1824,  and  was  a  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Logan)  Scott,  who  were 
natives  of  county  Monaghan,  Ireland,  and,  crossing  the  Atlantic  to  the  New 
World,  located  in  Virginia,  in  1826.  There  they  resided  until  1827,  when 
they  removed  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  the  father  died  in  the  year  1833, 
his  wife  passing  away  in  1849.  After  his  father's  death  William  G.  Scott 
made  his  home  with  his  uncle,  Daniel  Reid,  who  resided  in  Richmond, 
Indiana,  until  1838,  when  he  removed  to  Fort  Wayne,  this  state.  To  the 
public  schools  of  those  cities  William  G.  Scott  was  indebted  for  the  educa- 
tional privileges  which  he  received,  but  he  put  aside  his  text-books  when  six- 
teen years  of  age  in  order  to  assist  his  uncle  in  the  land  office  at  Fort 
Wayne,  in  which  Mr.  Reid  was  receiver.  In  1844  he  returned  to  Richmond 
and  soon  afterward  entered  the  employ  of  J.  M.  &  J.  H.  Hutton.  foundrymen, 
under  whose  direction  he  learned  the  moulder's  trade. 

On  the  3d  of  June,  1847,  Mr.  Scott  married  Miss  Malinda  Gaar,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Jonas  Gaar.  She  lived  only  a  year  after  their  marriage,  and  their  only 
child  died  a  few  months  later.  In  1849  he  joined  his  father-in-law,  Mr. 
Gaar,  together  with  the  latter's  two  sons,  Abram  and  John  Milton,  in  the 
formation  of  the  firm  of  A.  Gaar  &  Company.  They  purchased  the  Hutton 
foundry  and  Mr.  Scott  became  the  first  bookkeeper  and  one  of  the  original 
promoters  and  leading  spirits  in  the  mammoth  enterprise  which  is  now  con- 
ducted under  the  name  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company.  In  1870  the  business 
was  incorporated  under  the  name  now  used,  the  officers  being  Abram  Gaar, 
president;  William  G.  Scott,  secretary';  and  J.  M.  Gaar,  treasurer.  These 
young  men  began  business  with  very  little  capital,  but  a  gradual  and  substan- 
tial growth  has  transformed  the  plant  from  its  original  proportions  to  one 
of  the  most  extensive  of  the  kind  in  the  world.  They  were  all  practical 
mechanics  and  thus  capable  of  directing  the  labors  of  others.  Their  force  of 
workmen  was  increased  from  time  to  time  in  order  to  meet  the  growing 
demand  of  the  trade,  until  at  length  several  hundred  names  were  on  their  pay- 
roll, and  the  boilers,  engines,  sawmills  and  threshing  machines  which  are 
manufactured  are  sent  into  every  state  in  the  Union,  besides  into  a  number 
of  foreign  ports.  The  phenomenal  growth  and  success  of  the  enterprise  was 
attributable  in  no  small  degree  to  the  sagacity,  energy  and  wise  business 
policy  of  Mr.  Scott,  whose  judgment  in  all  business  matters  was  most  relia- 
ble. He  served  as  secretary  of  the  company  until  his  death,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  the  management  of  the  extensive  foundry  business  which  has 
proved  such  an  important  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  Richmond. 

His  labors,  however,  were  not  confined  to  one  line  of  endeavor,  but 
were  an  essential  element  in  the  prosperity  of  many  other  successful  business 
concerns  of  the  city.  In  1872,  when  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Richmond 
■was  organized,  he  became  vice-president,  and  filled  that  position  until  1895, 


74  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

when  he  was  elected  president  of  the  bank,  acting  in  the  latter  capacity  until 
his  death.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Wayne  Agricultural  Works,  and 
whatever  he  undertook  he  carried  forward  to  successful  completion.  He 
held  a  high  position  in  business  circles  in  the  community  for  nearly  fifty 
years,  and  his  activity  in  that  direction  justly  entitles  him  to  be  numbered 
among  the  founders  of  Richmond,  for  it  is  those  who  promote  commercial 
and  industrial  activity  who  are  the  real  builders  of  a  place. 

Mr.  Scott  was  a  second  time  married  about  1850,  the  lady  of  his  choice 
being  Miss  Bets}'  Rogers,  by  whom  he  had  three  children,  viz. :  Charles  E. 
and  Clara  R.,  who  are  now  deceased,  and  Helen  L.,  wife  of  John  B.  Dougan, 
vice-president  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Richmond,  and  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  of  Wayne  county.  The  mother  died  in  1863,  and  in 
1864  Mr.  Scott  married  Clara  McCoy,  daughter  of  Colonel  W.  F.  Robie,  of 
Plymouth,  New  Hampshire.  She  survives  her  husband  and  resides  at  Rich- 
mond. Mr.  Scott  was  reared  in  the  Presbyterian  faith,  but  afterward 
became  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected until  about  1862.  He  then  returned  to  the  Presbyterians  and  it  was 
largely  through  his  liberal  donation  that  the  house  of  worship  belonging  to 
the  First  Presbyterian  church  was  built.  He  withheld  his  support  from  no 
philanthropic  or  benevolent  movements  or  enterprises  for  the  public  good, 
aided  in  building  all  the  churches  in  Richmond  and  labored  earnestly  for  the 
betterment  of  mankind,  realizing  most  fully  that  financial  success,  fame  or 
high  position  count  for  naught  unless  supplemented  by  an  upright,  honorable 
character.  He  had  a  mind  above  all  personal  considerations,  concerned  with 
those  large,  loving  interests  belonging  to  humanity.  H'e  passed  away  Novem- 
ber 18,  1897,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years,  but  in  the  hearts  of  his 
friends  are  enshrined  many  pleasant  memories  of  him,  and  his  iniiuence  for 
good  remains  with  those  who  knew  him. 

JOHN  H.  TYNER. 

An  energetic  and  progressive  farmer  and  honored  citizen  of  Posey  town- 
ship is  John  H.  Tyner,  who  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  Fayette  county,  his 
birth  occurring  in  Harrison  township,  October  3,  1821.  His  parents,  John 
and  Fanny  (Martin)  Tyner,  were  born,  reared  and  married  in  South  Corolina. 
The  family  was  one  of  prominence  in  that  state,  its  representatives  being 
mostly  planters.  The  paternal  grandfather  was  killed  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Three  of  his  sons,  William,  and  John  and  James  (twins),  came  to  Indiana 
in  1 8 16  and  located  in  Fayette  county,  where  they  entered  land  from  the  gov- 
ernment and  improved  farms. 

John  Tyner,  the  father  of  our  subject,  entered  three  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  in  Harrison  township,  and  from  the  wild  land  developed  a  fine  farm,  on 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  75- 

which  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  influential  farmers  and  stock-raisers  of  his  day,  and  in  his  undertakings 
met  with  well  deserved  success.  He  was  broad-minded  and  liberal,  public- 
spirited  and  enterprising,  and  was  a  genial  and  entertaining  companion.  By 
his  ballot  he  supported  the  Democratic  party.  He  always  refused  to  become 
a  candidate  for  office,  though  often  solicited  by  his  friends  to  accept  that  of 
county  commissioner.  He  was  an  earnest  and  faithful  member  of  the  Primi- 
tive Baptist  church,  and  served  as  deacon  in  the  same.  His  wife's  brothers 
were  Stephen  Martin,  William  Martin  and  George  Martin;  Stephen  lived  in 
Frankhn  county,  and  William  and  George  in  Fayette  county.  Our  subject 
is  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  ten  children,  the  others  being  Drury,  who  died 
in  Wabash  county,  Indiana;  Mrs.  Serena  Kolb;  Nancy,  wife  of  J.  A.  Cook; 
James,  who  died  in  Hancock  county;  Emily,  wife  of  D.  Gordon;  Stephen, 
who  died  in  Tipton  county;  Anna,  wife  of  F.  Taylor;  Mehitable,  who  died 
young;  Milton,  who  died  in  Harrison  township,  Fayette  county. 

John  H.  Tyner,  whose  name  introduces  this  sketch,  passed  his  early  life 
upon  his  father's  farm,  attending  the  subscription  schools  taught  in  an  old 
log  school-house  for  three  months  during  the  winter  and  assisting  his  father 
during  the  remainder  of  the  year.  The  latter  died  when  John  H.  was  small, 
but  he  continued  with  his  mother  until  she  too  was  called  to  her  final  rest, 
and  as  soon  as  large  enough  he  took  charge  of  the  homestead.  In  1840  he 
was  married,  and  about  two  years  later  the  mother  died,  at  which  time  the 
estate  was  amicably  divided  by  the  heirs.  Soon  afterward  Mr.  Tyner  pur- 
chased eighty  acres  of  heavily  timbered  land,  and  after  erecting  a  cabin 
thereon  he  commenced  to  clear  and  improve  the  place,  which  required  much 
hard  labor.  As  his  financial  resources  increased  he  bought  more  land,  and 
now  has  a  fine  farm,  whereon  he  has  successfully  engaged  in  general  farming 
and  stock-raising. 

Mr.  Tyner  was  married  in  1840  to  Miss  Mary  Carver,  a  daughter  of 
Lewis  and  Mehitable  (Castiline)  Carver,  natives  of  New  Jersey,  where  they 
were  married.  In  1822  they  removed  to  Steuben  county.  New  York,  where 
the  father  engaged  in  farming  for  ten  years,  and  then  came  to  Fayette  county, 
Indiana.  Purchasing  a  farm  near  Bentonville,  he  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits  here  for  several  years,  and  on  selling  out  moved  to  Madison  county, 
where  he  purchased  another  farm,  on  a  portion  of  which  the  town  of  Orestes 
now  stands.  There  his  death  occurred.  His  occupation  through  life  was 
farming,  and  he  met  with  a  fair  degree  of  success.  He  was  a  strong  Demo- 
crat and  was  well  posted  on  the  leading  issues  of  the  day.  He  wielded  con- 
siderable influence  in  his  party,  but  would  never  accept  office.  He  was  a 
loving  husband  and  an  indulgent  father,  and  lived  amicably  with  all  men, 
never  suing  nor  having  been  sued   by  any  one.      Both  he    and   his   estimable 


76  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

wife  were  faithful  members  of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church.  To  this  worthy 
couple  were  born  eleven  children,  namely:  Mary,  wife  of  our  subject; 
Rebecca,  wife  of  S.  Wickston;  Charlotte,  who  first  married  Thomas  Stanley 
and  second  W.  Willitts;  Orin,  a  resident  of  Kansas;  Rachel,  wife  of  J.  Harris; 
Sarah,  who  died  when  a  young  lady;  Hulda;  Calvin,  a  resident  of  Kansas; 
Lloyd,  a  railroad  man;  Zilla,  wife  of  I.  Ellis;  and  Byron,  a  farmer  of  Fayette 
county,   Indiana. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tyner  were  living  at  their  beautiful  country  home,  in  the 
full  enjoyment  of  well  spent  lives,  surrounded  by  a  host  of  warm  and  admiring 
friends,  when,  on  the  ist  day  of  October,  1899,  Mrs.  Tyner  passed  away  in 
death.  Religiously  she  held  membership  in  the  Primitive  Baptist  church,  as 
does  also  her  husband.  Mr.  Tyner  is  a  leader  in  all  social  and  political  mat- 
ters of  his  township,  and  although  a  strong  Democrat  he  votes  at  local  elec- 
tions for  the  ones  whom  he  considers  the  best  men,  regardless  of  party  ties. 
He  has  been  chosen  to  fill  several  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  and  for  four- 
teen years  served  as  township  trustee,  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  per- 
fect satisfaction  of  his  constituents.  During  that  time  he  saved  for  the 
township  considerable  in  the  building  of  school-houses  and  on  all  public 
works. 

RfCHARD  W.    SIPE,    M.    D. 

For  a  period  of  thirty-five  years  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Dr.  Richard 
W.  Sipe,  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Fayetteville,  Fay- 
ette county,  Indiana,  and  his  name  is  a  household  word  in  the  homes  of  this 
community.  His  long  identification  with  this  place  and  his  prominence  here, 
entitle  him  to  more  than  a  passing  notice  in  a  work  of  this  character, 
devoted  as  it  is  to  a  portrayal  of  the  lives  of  representative  men  and  women 
of  the  county. 

Richard  W.  Sipe  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Indiana,  on  his  father's 
farm,  April  8,  1840,  son  of  William  I.  and  Mary  J.  (Wasson)  Sipe,  and  on 
the  maternal  side  is  of  Scotch  origin.  Richard  Wasson,  his  grandfather,  was  a 
Scotchman  and  was  educated  at  Glasgow  for  the  ministry  of  the  Covenanter 
church.  After  coming  to  America  he  located  in  Pennsylvania,  and  because 
of  his  deep  interest  in  the  political  matters  of  that  state  he  was  not  allowed 
to  preach  there.  Seeking  a  home  further  west,  he  came  to  the  territory  of 
Indiana  and  took  up  his  abode  in  Jefferson  county,  where  he  was  soon  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading  spirits  of  the  frontier  community.  He  filled  some 
prominent  political  positions.  When  the  canal  and  locks  were  built  at 
Louisville,  he  was  a  sub-contractor  and  did  his  part  toward  pushing  along 
that  enterprise.  He  had  settled  on  a  farm,  and  in  connection  with  his  farm- 
ing operations  dealt  in  stock  and  produce,  taking  the  same  down  the  river  to 
New  Orleans  to  market.    While  on  one  of  his  marketing  trips  he  was  drowned. 


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His  family  consisted  of  six  children,  namely:  John,  Thomas,  Samuel,  Rich- 
ard, Mary  J.  and  Eliza.  Two  of  his  sons  died  while  in  the  service  of  their 
country  during  the  civil  war.  William  I.  Sipe,  the  father  of  Doctor  Sipe,  was 
born  in  Jefferson  county,  Indiana,  the  son  of  William  Sipe,  who  came  from 
Ohio  to  Indiana  in  its  territorial  days  and  located  in  Jefferson  county,  where 
he  reared  his  family.  He  was  an  unassuming  farmer,  honorable  and  upright 
in  all  his  dealings.  He  died  in  Jefferson  county.  William  Sipe  had  si.x  chil- 
dren, in  order  of  birth  as  follows:  William  I.,  Henry,  David,  Ann,  Lizzie 
and  Margaret.  The  old  homestead  of  William  Sipe  is  still  owned  by  mem- 
bers of  the  family.  William  I.  Sipe,  like  his  father,  passed  his  life  in  the 
quiet  of  farm  pursuits,  honest  in  all  his  dealings  with  his  fellow  men,  and 
never  seeking  notoriety  of  any  kind.  He  died  in  1886,  his  wife  having  passed 
away  the  year  previous.  Both  were  members  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church.  Following  is  the  record  of  their  children:  John,  a  wood-carver  by 
trade,  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Stone  river;  Richard  W. ,  whose  name  heads 
this  sketch;  Fred,  a  farmer  and  a  veteran  of  the  civil  war;  and  Thomas  and 
James,  both  also  veterans  of  that  war,  the  latter  now  engaged  in  farming. 

Richard  W.  Sipe  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  in  Jefferson  county  and 
had  the  advantage  of  a  good  education.  His  early  training  was  in  the  com- 
mon schools.  He  was  one  year  in  school  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  four 
years  at  Hanover  College,  and  for  two  years  he  taught  school,  one  year  in 
Kentucky  and  one  in  Indiana.  At  the  early  age  of  seventeen  he  decided 
upon  the  medical  profession  for  his  life  work,  and  at  that  time  was  for  a 
while  a  student  in  the  office  of  Doctor  Morrison  at  Lexington,  Indiana. 
Later  he  had  Doctor  Copeland,  of  Kent,  Indiana,  for  instructor.  In  the 
winter  of  1863-4  he  attended  lectures  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College,  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  returning  to  Kent  and  spending  the  following  summer  and  fall  in 
practice  with  Doctor  Copeland.  In  November,  1864,  he  came  to  Fayette- 
ville,  Fayette  county,  and  opened  an  office,  and  he  has  remained  here  ever 
since,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  except  the  winter  of  1872-3, 
when  he  took  a  course  in  the  Indiana  Medical  College,  at  Indianapolis,  of 
which  he  is  a  graduate.  His  long  professional  career  has  been  attended  with 
marked  success.  His  promptness,  his  sympathetic  nature  and  his  generosity 
are  well  known  factors  in  his  make-up,  and  those  who  have  known  him 
longest  esteem  him  most  highly. 

Doctor  Sipe  is  a  Republican.  He  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in 
the  political  and  public  affairs  of  his  locality,  and  while  he  has  never  sought 
official  position,  was  elected  township  trustee,  in  which  office  he  served 
four  years. 

The  Doctor  is  a  man  of  family.  He  was  married,  in  Jefferson  county, 
to  Miss  Sarah  A.  Phillips,  a  native  of  that  county,  born   November  8,   1844, 


78  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

daughter  of  William  and  Nancy  (Herron)  Phillips,  who  came  from  their 
native  state,  Kentucky,  to  this  county  at  an  early  day.  William  Phillips  died 
when  Mrs.  Sipe  was  quite  young,  and  her  widowed  mother  reared  the  family 
and  lived  to  advanced  age.  Her  death  occurred  in  1889.  She  was  an  active 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Her  five  children,  in  order  of 
birth,  were:  David,  Scott,  Andrew,  Mrs.  Mary  J.  McCan  and  Mrs.  Sarah 
A.  Sipe.  The  three  sons  served  in  the  civil  war.  Andrew,  who  was  a 
prominent  physician,  is  deceased.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Sipe  have  had  six  chil- 
dren, viz.:  William,  a  farmer;  John,  a  physician  of  Carthage,  Indiana; 
Clara,  deceased  wife  of  Robert  Titsworth,  left  two  children,  John  R.  and 
Frank  L. ,  who  are  being  reared  by  their  grandfather  Sipe;  Fred,  a  farmer; 
Florence,  wife  of  Jesse  B.  Kennedy,  a  postal  clerk,  of  Rush  county,  Indiana; 
and  Richard,  a  student  at  home.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Sipe  are  consistent 
members  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church. 

COLONEL  JOHN  S.   McGRAW. 

This  gentleman  may  well  be  called  a  representative  citizen  of  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  and  also  one  of  the  most  highly  respected  and  esteemed. 
He  is  an  ex-soldier  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  and  his  bravery  inspired  his 
men  to  redoubled  efforts  and  aided  in  no  small  way  the  cause  for  which  he 
victoriously  fought.  He  is  a  son  of  George  and  Rebecca  (Bispham)  Mc- 
Graw,  and  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  Frida}',  July  13,  1827.  His  grand- 
father. Samel  McGraw,  was  a  sailor  and  died  soon  after  the  close  of  the 
Revolution,  at  Quarantine,  Maryland. 

George  McGraw,  the  father,  was  born  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  iSoo, 
and  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1835.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  pursued 
that  occupation  all  his  life.  His  marriage  to  Rebecca  Bispham  resulted 
in  the  birth  of  five  children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  two  of  whom, 
one  son  and  one  daughter,  died  in  infancy.  In  1836,  after  the  death  of  the 
father,  Mrs.  McGraw  and  her  three  children  moved  to  Richmond,  where  the 
mother  died,  February  13,  1885.  Of  the  sisters,  Mary  resides  in  Richmond, 
and  Mrs.  Rebecca  Morrison  died  in  1857. 

John  S.  McGraw  received  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Philadelphia 
and  Richmond.  He  was  but  a  little  more  than  seven  years  of  age  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  death,  and  was  obliged  to  curtail  his  school  days  in  order 
to  earn  a  living,  but  he  had  a  taste  for  reading  which  enabled  him  to  lay  up 
a  store  of  information  at  once  comprehensive  and  useful.  As  a  boy  he 
worked  at  carpentering,  and  in  1843  began  general  blacksmithing  for  George 
McCullough,  of  Richmond,  and  this  occupation  he  followed  for  almost  fifty 
years,  until  1889,  when  he  retired  from  active  business.  He  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  Richmond  Plow  Works,  and  carried  on  carriage-repairing  for 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  79 

some  time;  also  at  one  time  had  a  shoe  store,  which  was  under  the  manage- 
ment of  his  wife  for  five  or  six  years.  His  wife  was  Miss  Mary  A.  Jukes,  to 
whom  he  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  on  October  25,  1848.  Four  children 
were  born  to  them  of  whom  but  two  are  living,  viz.:  Rebecca  A.,  wife  of 
Benjamin  Mann,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  William  Mann  &  Company,  of 
Philadelphia;  and  Ida  M.,  wife  of  Charles  W.  Morgan,  assistant  manager 
of  I.  R.  Howard  &  Company,  wholesale  grocers  of  Richmond.  Colonel 
McGraw  is  a  Republican,  and  was  twice  a  candidate  for  sheriff  and  served 
as  chief  of  police  for  a  short  time  after  the  war,  and  resigned.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  since  1859,  and  is  past 
grand  in  White  Water  Lodge,  No.  41,  and  Oriental  Encampment,  both  of 
Richmond.      He  is  also  a  member  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Indiana. 

In  1 86 1  Colonel  McGraw  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Morton  as 
captain  of  the  Fifty-seventh  Indiana  Infantry,  which  enlisted  in  November  of 
that  year,  and  his  gallant  service  won  him  steady  promotion.  On  July  28, 
1863,  he  received  the  rank  of  major;  the  15th  of  the  following  May  he  was 
promoted  lieutenant-colonel;  and  one  year  later  to  the  rank  of  colonel.  He 
participated  in  many  severe  battles,  and  was  in  every  engagement  fought  by 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  always  at  the  front,  where  he  encouraged  and 
cheered  his  men  to  greater  endeavors  by  his  own  undaunted  conduct.  While 
leading  his  men  in  a  bold  charge  on  the  breastworks  at  Mission  Ridge, 
Georgia,  he  received  an  ugly  gunshot  wound,  which  came  near  ending  his 
career.  He  wore  a  broad-brimmed  hat,  through  which  the  ball  passed, 
striking  him  in  the  center  of  the  forehead  and  passing  to  the  left  temple, 
taking  with  it  a  portion  of  his  skull,  three-fourths  of  an  inch  in  width  and 
two  and  a- half  inches  in  length.  This  unfortunate  occurrence  disabled  him 
for  about  fifty  days,  when  he  once  more  joined  his  command.  He  took  part 
in  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  the  encounters  at  Stone  River  and  Chickamauga,  and 
then  joined  Sherman  in  his  grand  march  to  the  sea.  After  the  capture  of 
Atlanta  he  was  with  those  sent  to  watch  General  Hood.  The  two  forces  came 
together  at  Spring  Hill  and  Franklin,  which  collision  resulted  in  the  entire 
routing  of  Hood's  army  at  Nashville,  in  August,  1864.  They  then  started 
for  Richmond,  Virginia,  going  through  West  Virginia,  when  Lee  surrendered 
and  put  an  end  to  the  war.  He  was  sent  with  his  command  to  Te.xas,  where 
he  was  mustered  out  December  14,  1865.  He  brought  his  command  to 
Indianapolis  and  disbanded  January  8  following. 

The  Colonel  is  an  amiable,  pleasant  gentleman,  with  whom  it  is  a  privi- 
lege and  an  enjoyment  to  converse,  as  his  life  has  been  filled  with  rich  experi- 
ences, which  he  relates  in  an  unassuming  and  highly  interesting  manner.  He 
is  a  well-known  person  in  Richmond  and  vicinity,  and  enjoys  a  wide  popu- 
larity. 


80  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


N.    F.   PIERCE,   M.   D. 

Fayette  county,  Indiana,  has  its  full  quota  of  skilled  physicians  and  sur- 
geons, and  among  them  may  be  noted  the  subject  of  this  review,  N.  F. 
Pierce,  of  Harrisburg. 

Dr.  Pierce  is  a  Kentuckian  by  birth.  He  was  ushered  into  life  in  Mor- 
gan county,  Kentucky,  November  23,  1852,  son  of  William  S.  and  Sarah  W. 
Pierce.  William  S.  Pierce  was  a  native  of  Bourbon  county,  that  state,  and 
was  among  its  prominent  citizens,  filling  numerous  positions  of  trust  and 
responsibility,  including  that  of  member  of  the  state  legislature,  during  which 
service  he  secured  the  passage  of  the  bill  that  brought  into  existence  Menifee 
county.  He  served  as  county  judge,  was  for  eight  years  circuit  clerk,  and 
for  twelve  years  was  master  commissioner  of  the  circuit  court  of  Menifee 
county,  being  the  incumbent  of  this  last  named  position  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  in  both  the  Mexican  and  civil  wars.  In  the  former  he  was 
commissioned  captain  and  in  the  latter  he  held  commissions  as  major  and 
colonel.  After  a  useful  and  interesting  career  he  passed  away  at  his  home  in 
Kentucky.  His  wife  survived  him  until  1896.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  D.  and  Martha  (Wells)  Perry.  Mr.  Perry  was  a  farmer  and  slave- 
holder of  Kentucky  and  carried  on  extensive  operations  there.  At  the  time 
of  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Pierce  she  was  the  widow  of  Mr.  Gooch,  and  had  one 
child  by  him,  Martha  A.  Gooch,  who  was  reared  by  Mr.  Pierce,  and  who 
became  the  wife  of  Dr.  F.  M.  Carter,  of  Kentucky.  William  S.  Pierce  and 
his  wife  were  consistent  members  of  the  Christian  church.  Their  children, 
in  order  of  birth,  were  as  follows:  Barbara  E.,  deceased,  was  twice  married, 
first  to  Joseph  Johnson,  and  after  his  death  to  Henry  K.  Armitage;  N.  F. , 
whose  name  introduces  this  sketch;  James  W.,  deceased;  Sarah  E.,  deceased; 
and  Rachel  F.,  who  was  twice  married,  first  to  Isaac  McGuire,  and  after  his 
death  to  R.  J.  White,  editor  of  the  Agitator,  at  Frenchburg,  Kentucky. 

Dr.  N.  F.  Pierce  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  received  his  early 
training  in  the  common  schools.  He  took  a  commercial  course  in  the  South- 
ern Business  College,  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  was,  however,  not  suited  with  the  practice  of  law 
for  his  life's  work,  and  abandoned  it  for  the  medical  profession.  He  began 
his  medical  studies  in  the  office  of  Dr.  J.  M.  Cash,  of  Hazel  Green,  Kentucky, 
and  later  had  Dr.  Carter  of  Mount  Sterling,  Kentucky,  for  his  instructor. 
During  the  winter  of  1882-3  he  attended  lectures  at  the  Louisville  Medical 
College.  Afterward  he  attended  lectures  at  the  Kentucky  School  of  Medicine, 
and  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  American  Medical  College  of  Cincin- 
nati, of  which  last-named  institution  he  was  for  four  years  demonstrator  of 
anatomy.      He  had  an   extensive  practice  before   his  graduation,    which   was 


.   BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  81 

not  until  1889,  and  after  that  he  returned  to  Mount  Sterling,  where  he 
continued  practice  until  March,  1899.  At  that  time  he  came  to  Fayette 
county,  Indiana,  and  purchased  what  was  the  Eliza  Florea  property, 
and  here  he  established  himself  in  practice  and  expects  to  remain  per- 
manently. During  his  professional  careeV  in  Kentucky  he  was  for  ten 
years  physician-in-chief  of  the  county  infirmary  and  for  some  time  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  United  States  Medical  Examiners.  He  was  sec- 
retary of  the  local  board  of  health  and  of  the  state  board  of  health,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Montgomery  County  Medical  Society.  He  takes  a  pride  in 
keeping  himself  up-to-date  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  his  profession,  and 
that  he  has  chosen  Harrisburg  for  his  place  of  abode  is  reason  why  the  people 
of  this  place  should  congratulate  themselves. 

Dr.  Pierce  was  first  married  in  1873  to  Miss  Cordelia  Cassity,  a  member 
of  a  prominent  Kentucky  family,  her  parents  being  Shelton  and  Caroline 
(Casky)  Cassity.  Shelton  Cassity  was  a  son  of  Reuben  Cassity  and  son-in- 
law  of  Robert  Casky,  the  last  named  being  a  native  of  Germany,  who  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  early  life  and  settled  in  Kentucky,  where  he  was  a 
farmer  and  miller  and  owned  a  large  number  of  slaves.  Shelton  Cassity,  a 
blacksmith  and  wagonmaker,  did  an  extensive  business;  he  was  born  and 
lived  and  died  in  Kentucky.  His  widow  is  still  living.  Their  children  are: 
Mary  J.;  Mrs.  Martha  Cooper;  Alice,  wife  of  Albert  Wills;  and  Cordelia,  who 
was  the  wife  of  Dr.  Pierce.  The  parents  and  all  the  children  identified 
themselves  with  the  Christian  church.  By  this  marriage  Dr.  Pierce  had  two 
children,  namely:  Blanch,  wife  of  A.  L.  Adams,  an  attorney-at-law,  French- 
burg,  Kentucky;  and  Herman,  who  is  connected  with  a  furniture  factory  at 
Connersville.  Mrs.  Cordelia  Pierce  died  in  1S77.  In  1879  the  Doctor  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife  Miss  Mary  Myers,  a  graduate  of  medicine  and  a 
woman  of  much  culture.  Previously  to  taking  up  the  study  of  medicine  she 
was  for  some  time  engaged  in  teaching.  She  was  born  in  Kentucky  August 
16,  1856,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Julia  A.  (Greenwade)  Myers,  both  natives 
of  that  state.  Her  grandfather,  John  Myers,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers 
of  Kentucky,  where  he  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  and  a  number  of  slaves. 
He  was  of  German  descent.  Mrs.  Pierce  was  the  second  born  in  a  family  of 
eight  children,  the  others  being  as  follows:  Sarah,  wife  of  W.  B.  Howard; 
John,  a  resident  of  Kentucky;  Ellen,  wife  of  I.  W.  Horton;  J.  C,  a  farmer 
of  Fayette  county,  Indiana;  Mordecai,  o(  Kentucky;  Anna,  wife  of  C.  Hazle- 
rigg;  and  Nannie,  at  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Myers  and  fiimily  are  members  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  By  his  present  wife  Dr.  Pierce  has  one 
son,  Ray  H.,  born  August  27,   1887. 

Dr.  Pierce  is  associated  with  numerous  fraternal  organizations.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  F.  cS:  A.  M.,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  K.  of  P.  and  I.  O.  R.  M.      In  the 


82  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Masonic  lodge  he  has  filled  all  the  chairs  except  that  of  worshipful  master;  is 
noble  grand  elect  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  and  is  past  chancellor  in  the  K.  of  P. 
and  Sir  Knight  in  the  uniform  rank  of  that  order.  He  and  his  wife  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  church  at  Harrisburg  and  are  active  workers  in  the  Sun- 
day-school. 

GENERAL  JONATHAN  McCARTY. 

General  McCarty  was  born  in  Virginia,  August  3,  1795,  reared  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  within  sight  of  the  village  of 
Brookville  and  on  the  banks  of  Whitewater  river,  and  in  the  little  log  school- 
house  of  that  place  he  received  his  education.  For  a  time  he  assisted  his 
brother  in  the  duties  of  the  clerk's  office,  at  intervals  reading  law,  without 
the  assistance  of  a  living  teacher,  and  at  length  he  was  licensed  to  practice 
at  the  bar.  He  was  soon  elected  to  the  legislature  from  Franklin  county, 
and  as  a  member  of  that  body  he  procured  the  passage  of  a  law  creating  the 
county  of  Fayette. 

Soon  afterward  he  removed  to  the  new  county,  settling  at  the  county 
seat,  Connersville,  where  he  was  the  first  clerk  of  the  courts  and  also  per- 
formed other  duties  in  county  offices,  ex  officio,  serving  until  1828.  The  next 
■year  he  was  appointed  receiver  of  public  moneys  in  the  land  office  at  Fort 
Wayne,  Indiana,  and  in  1830  he  moved  his  family  there.  In  1828  he  ran  for 
congress  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  but  was  defeated  by  Judge  John  Test,  of 
Brookville,  a  National  Republican.  In  1 83 1  he  was  elected  to  congress  from  his 
district,  defeating  his  former  competitors.  Judge  Test  and  Oliver  H.  Smith, 
in  a  heated  canvass.  He  served  his  district  from  1831  to  1837,  and  in  1848 
or  '49  removed  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he  died  about  1852,  and  where  now 
rest  his  remains.  He  was  a  man  of  limited  scholastic  training,  but  possessed 
great  natural  powers.  He  was  one  of  the  most  talented  men  of  Indiana,  a 
iorceful  and  eloquent  speaker. 

GEORGE  HILL. 

•One  of  the  early  residents  of  Richmond,  Wayne  county,  was  George 
Hill,  whose  death  occurred  in  this  town,  August  21,  1882.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  a  period  of  perhaps  a  dozen  years,  when  he  was  engaged  in  farming  in 
Madison  county,  he  was  actively  associated  with  the  development  of  this 
region  during  his  entire  life,  and  no  one  was  more  thoroughly  interested  in 
■everything  which  pertained  to  the  progress  of  the  community  in  which  he 
•dwelt.  His  life  was  strictly  honorable,  upright  and  just,  being  in  accord 
■with  the  highest  principles  of  human  conduct,  and,  as  far  as  known,  he 
had  not  an  enemy  in  the  world.  Kindly  and  obliging  in  disposition,  he 
always  strove  to  do   good   to  those  with  whom   he  had  dealings,  and   many  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  83 

•poor  and  needy  one  whom  he  assisted  in  his  quiet,  unostentatious  way  still 
Temembers  him  with  affection  which  time  does  not  dim. 

Robert  Hill,  father  of  George  Hill,  was  a  native  of  Guilford  county, 
North  Carolina,  and  a  son  of  William  Hill,  of  that  state.  In  1801  Robert 
Hill  settled  in  Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  near  the  present  city  limits  of  Cincin- 
nati, and  engaged  in  his  accustomed  calling,  agriculture.  At  the  end  of  five 
•years  he  removed  to  what  is  now  Richmond,  but  then  a  vast  forest,  and 
took  up  a  quarter-section  of  land  from  the  government.  This  property,  now 
owned  by  Augustus  C.  Scott  (son  of  Andrew  F.  Scott),  is  two  and  a  half 
miles  east  of  the  present  city  limits  of  Richmond.  There  were  but  very  few 
families  living  here  in  the  wilderness  when  he  came  here,  but  gradually  the 
on-coming  wave  of  immigration  drifted  families  here  by  the  scores  and  civil- 
ization became  an  assured  fact  in  the  back-woods  of  Indiana.  In  1831,  hav- 
ing previously  cleared  and  cultivated  his  farm  for  many  years,  he  retired  and 
conducted  a  gristmill  in  Richmond  for  a  few  years,  where  the  Starr  Piano 
Works  now  are  located.  In  his  younger  days  he  dealt  extensively  in  live 
•stock  and  drove  cattle  and  hogs  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  disposed  of  them. 
He  was  retired  for  many  years  before  his  death,  in  August,  1850.  He  died 
on  the  old  homestead  in  the  same  house  that  had  sheltered  him  for  many 
years,  his  son-in-law,  Benjamin  Stratton,  then  having  charge  of  the  place. 
Religiously  he  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  was  actively 
engaged  in  church  work,  always  faithfully  attending  the  meetings.  In  poli- 
tics, he  was  a  Whig.  For  his  wife  he  chose  Susanna  Morgan,  of  North  Car- 
olina, and  ten  children  were  born  to  them.  Only  three  of  the  number  sur- 
vive, namely:  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Shute,  of  Richmond;  Charles,  who  was  a 
farmer  and  teamster  but  is  now  retired  and  a  resident  of  Richmond;  and  Rob- 
ert, a  farmer  of  Willow  Branch,  Hancock  county,  Indiana.  Those  who 
have  passed  to  the  better  land  are  Martha,  William,  Benjamin,  Samuel,  Mrs. 
Mary  Parry,  Mrs.  Penninah  Shaw  and   George. 

The  birth  of  George  Hill  occurred  in  Richmond,  November  7,  1825,  and 
in  the  private  and  public  schools  of  this  place  he  received  his  education. 
When  he  arrived  at  his  majority  he  took  charge  of  a  farm  on  the  Williams- 
burg turnpike,  three  miles  north  of  Richmond,  it  consisting  of  eighty  acres. 
After  several  years  he  removed  to  Madison  county,  and  was  there  occupied 
in  agricultural  pursuits  for  twelve  or  thirteen  years.  As  a  business  man  he 
was  practical  and  progressive,  making  a  success  of  nearly  everything  which 
he  undertook.  Reared  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  continued  to  be  active 
in  that  organization  as  long  as  he  lived,  and  held  various  official  positions  in 
the  local  church. 

March  30,  1853,  Mr.  Hill  married  Miss  Tacy  B.  Hibberd,  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Charity  (Beeson)  Hibberd.      Mrs.    Hill  is  a  native  of  Rich- 


84  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

mond  and  has  spent  nearly  her  whole  life  here.  Four  children  were  born  to- 
herself  and  husband:  one  is  deceased,  and  the  others  are  Alice  J. ,  wife  of 
George  R.  Dilks,  of  Spring  Grove  (see  his  sketch  printed  on  another  page  of 
this  work);  Theodore  H.,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Louck  &  Hill,  lumber 
manufacturers  and  contractors  of  this  place;  and  Annie  E. ,  wife  of  T.  J. 
Ferguson,  of  Richmond.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Hill  was  born  in  Carroll  county, 
Maryland,  but  came  to  Richmond  in  1825,  and  was  soon  numbered  among 
our  most  enterprising  citizens.  Before  coming  here  he  had  been  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  woolen  goods  in  Maryland  and  in  Virginia,  and  soon  after 
reaching  Richmond  he  bought  thirty  acres  of  land  and  founded  the  Fleecy 
Dale  Woolen  Factory,  the  site  of  the  works  being  where  Sixteenth  street 
now  is.  He  conducted  the  factory  very  successfully  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  later  rented  the  premises.  For  a  score  or  more  of  years  prior  to  his 
death  he  was  practically  retired,  but  to  the  last  maintained  his  deep  interest 
in  the  world's  progress  and  was  an  earnest  student  and  thinker.  For  years 
an  elder  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  was  always  present  at  meeting  and 
used  his  influence  and  means  in  the  support  of  the  church.  His  children 
were  three  in  number, — Jane,  Alice  and  Tacy.  Jane  died  in  1894  and  Alice 
twenty  years  previously,  and  thus  Mrs.  Hill  is  the  only  survivor  of  the  family. 
Her  loved  and  honored  father  passed  to  his  reward  in  1864,  aged  seventy- 
seven  years. 

CHARLES  H.  BURCHENAL. 

One  of  the  most  distinguished  jurists  that -ever  practiced  at  the  bar  of 
Richmond  was  Charles  H.  Burchenal.  The  following  sketch  is  taken  largely 
from  a  memorial  published  at  the  time  of  his  death  and  is  a  well  merited 
tribute  to  the  abilty  of  this  honored  man. 

The  only  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  E.  (Cockayne)  Burchenal,  he  was 
born  at  Greensboro,  Caroline  county,  Maryland,  on  the  18th  of  September, 
1830.  His  remote  ancestors,  of  French  origin,  came  from  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Caen,  in  Normandy.  At  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror,  some 
members  of  the  family  settled  in  England,  where  they  remained  and  kept 
up  the  name  for  many  generations.  One  or  more  of  them  came  to  America 
with  Lord  Baltimore's  first  colony  and  settled  on  the  eastern  shore  of  Mary- 
land. Mr.  Burchenal's  branch  of  this  family  is  descended  from  Jeremiah 
Burchenal,  a  planter  of  Kent  county,  Maryland,  where  some  of  the  family 
still  reside.      He  was  born  in  1700. 

When  Charles  H.  Burchenal  was  still  a  child,  his  parents  removed  to 
Zanesville,  Ohio,  where  his  mother  died  in  1836.  His  father  was  engaged  in 
business  in  that  place  until  1838,  when,  while  visiting  his  old  home  near  Bal- 
timore, Maryland,  he  too  died,  and  the  boy  was  brought  by  his  grandmother, 
a  member   of   the    Society    of    Friends,  to  Wayne  county,  Indiana.      At  her 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  85 

death,  four  years  later,  Mr.  Burchenal  went  to  live  with  Achilles  Williams, 
with  whom  he  remained  eight  years.  In  1844  Mr.  Williams  was  elected 
treasurer  of  Wayne  county  and  removed  from  Richmond  to  Centerville, 
which  was  then  the  county  seat.  While  he  lived  in  Richmond  Mr.  Burche- 
nal attended  the  common  schools  of  that  city,  and  after  his  removal  to  Cen- 
terville became  a  pupil  in  the  county  seminary.  In  1847  he  was  appointed 
clerk  in  the  office  of  the  county  treasurer,  a  place  which  he  held  until  1850. 

He  was  a  boy  of  extraordinary  promise,  bright,  quick  and  clear-headed, 
but  very  fond  of  fun  and  "mischief."  Early  in  1850  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  Newman  &  Sidall,  and  he  was  allowed  to  sit  within  the  enclosure  of 
the  court-room  reserved  for  lawyers,  a  privilege  from  which  the  general  public 
was  excluded.  Mr.  Newman,  then  the  leader  of  the  Wayne  county  bar, 
greatly  aided  the  ambitious  pupil,  and  two  years  later  the  young  man  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  Although  the  new  constitution  of  Indiana,  adopted  in 
185 1,  provided  that  any  citizen  of  full  age  and  good  character  should  be 
allowed  to  practice  law  with  no  further  qualification,  Mr.  Burchenal  was 
unwilling  to  enter  the  profession  upon  such  terms,  but  voluntarily  submitted 
to  an  examination  by  a  committee  appointed  by  the  lawyers  of  the  county, 
an  examination  which  he  passed  with  credit. 

The  best  legal  talent  in  Indiana  was  then  collected  in  the  little  town  of 
Centerville,  and,  thrown  into  contact  with  such  men  as  Oliver  P.  Morton, 
George  W.  Julian,  Nimrod  H.  Johnson,  etc.,  he  was  stimulated  to  put  forth 
his  best  efforts.  During  the  early  years  of  his  professional  career  he  became 
a  member  of  the  "  Dark  Lyceum,"  a  debating  society  of  Centerville,  the  pur- 
pose of  which  was  to  improve  the  members  in  extemporaneous  debate.  Its 
sessions  were  held  in  the  dark,  so  that  they  might  speak  and  gesticulate  with 
greater  freedom.  Mr.  Burchenal  was  prominent  in  this  order.  Sometimes 
the  members  were  tried  in  solemn  form  for  misbehavior.  Judge  Kibbey,  for 
instance,  was  indicted  for  marrying  without  the  consent  of  the  lyceum.  He 
had  violated  the  following  by-law:  "Members  are  absolutely  prohibited 
from  engaging  in  any  matrimonial  alliance  without  first  obtaining  the  appro- 
bation and  consent  of  the  lyceum,  and  having  granted  unto  them  a  marriage 
dispensation  in  due  form,  under  the  signature  of  the  prelate  and  seal  of  the 
lyceum.  Any  member  convicted  of  wilfully  violating  the  provisions  of  this 
by-law  shall  be  ignominiously  expelled,  his  books  confiscated  and  his  mar- 
riage declared  utterly  null  and  void."  Mr.  Burchenal  was  the  "  prelate  "  of 
the  organization  at  the  time  and  defended  his  friend,  who  was  acquitted 
because  the  "  prelate  "_himself,  who  had  been  duly  notified,  had  forgotten  to 
inform  the  lodge.  Many  are  the  reminiscences  of  the  forensic  triumphs  in  the 
Dark  Lyceum.  The  Monroe  doctrine,  the  Wilmot  proviso,  the  Kansas- 
Nebraska  bill,  Kossuth  and  Hungary  and  other  great  problems  were  disposed 


86  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  by  its  invisible  oratory,  and  tlie  practice  and  experience  thus  gained 
proved  of  no  little  benefit  to  its  members,  especially  to  the  representatives  of 
the  bar. 

After  his  admission  to  the  bar  Mr.  Burchenal  advanced  rapidly  in  the 
profession.  In  1854  he  was  elected  district  attorney  of  the  common-pleas 
court  of  Wayne  county  and  served  for  two  years.  He  never  held  any  other 
office.  In  1861  he  moved  from  Centerville  to  Richmond  and  entered  into 
partnership  with  William  A.  Bickle,  afterward  judge  of  the  superior  court,  a 
connection  which  lasted  until  September,  1864.  After  this  he  practiced  alone 
for  many  years.  In  1885  he  formed  a  partnership  with  John  L.  Rupe,  which 
continued  until  August,  1895,  a  short  time  before  his  death.  His  e.xtra- 
ordinary  ability  brought  him  at  an  early  day  to  the  front  rank  in  his  profes- 
sion. He  was  for  many  years  the  leader  of  the  bar,  being  engaged  on  one 
side  or  the  other  of  nearly  every  important  case^  and  his  practice  was  the 
largest  and  most  lucrative  in  the  county.  But,  although  he  had  the  utmost 
regard  for  his  professional  reputation,  he  cared  little  for  money.  He  was 
not  a  good  collector  of  the  debts  which  were  due  to  himself,  and  saved  but 
little  from  his  income.  In  knowledge  of  the  general  principles  of  law,  in 
skill  in  pleading  and  readiness  in  practice  he  had  no  superior  in  Indiana.  He 
was  never  so  dangerous  as  after  he  had  been  apparently  overthrown.  He 
always  landed  upon  his  feet.  One  of  his  associates  said:  "I  remember  two 
cases  in  which  he  had  been  defeated  in  the  trial  court,  and  again  in  the 
supreme  court.  There  seemed  to  be  no  possibility  of  success,  and  yet,  by  a 
masterly  argument,  he  secured  in  each  case  a  re-hearing  from  the  same 
judges  who  had  decided  against  him.  Then  followed  a  reversal  of  each  case, 
and  favorable  settlement  in  the  court  below."  Mr.  Burchenal  was  not,  how- 
ever, fond  of  compromising  his  cases.  He  generally  fought  to  a  finish. 
Although  physically  weak  and  apparently  exhausted  during  a  long  trial,  he 
would  often  test  to  the  utmost  the  endurance  of  his  adversary.  "  I  remem- 
ber well,"  said  one  who  opposed  him,  "  the  case  of  Horney  versus  Patterson. 
We  had  been  several  months  in  making  up  the  issues.  Finally  the  case 
came  on  for  trial,  and  we  worked  on  it  night  and  day.  We  were  both  com- 
pletely worn  out,  but  neither  of  us  would  give  up  until  finally  Judge  Col- 
grove,  who  tried  the  case,  became  ill  and  could  proceed  no  further.  Then 
we  continued  the  suit  until  the  following  fall,  and  went  to  Europe  together 
to  recuperate,  after  which  we  came  back  and  fought  it  out  !  " 

Mr.  Burchenal  never  entertained  personal  animosity  toward  those  whom 
he  opposed  in  litigation.  His  professional  antagonists  were  his  warmest  per- 
sonal friends.  He  was  a  consummate  master  of  the  art  of  pleading.  He  never 
betrayed  the  slightest  sign  of  weakness  to  an  adversary,  although  in  confer- 
ence with  his  own  clients  and  those  who  were  associated  with  him  he  gave 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  87 

due  weight  to  the  advantages  of  his  antagonists.  It  was  often  wonderful  to 
his  associates  to  hear  him  unfold  in  consultation,  one  line  of  defense  after 
another,  things  which  had  been  entirely  overlooked  by  others,  but  which  pre- 
sented an  impenetrable  barrier  to  the  prosecution.  He  was  not  naturally  a 
fluent  speaker;  he  did  not  cultivate  the  graces  of  oratory;  he  never  sought  to 
impose  upon  a  jury  by  the  thundering  tones  and  artificial  impressiveness  by 
which  many  lawyers  of  second-rate  ability  seek  to  win  success;  there  were 
few  figures  of  speech;  but  all  the  points  in  the  case  were  clearly  and  exhaust- 
ively stated  in  a  manner  which  appealed  mainly  to  the  reason  and  very  little 
to  the  prejudices  of  his  hearers. 

In  the  adjuncts  of  his  practice,  in  a  knowledge  of  medical  jurisprudence, 
of  handwriting,  of  bookkeeping  and  of  business  methods,  his  information  was 
extensive  and  accurate. 

One  of  his  most  marked  characteristics  was  his  love  of  nature.  He 
enjoyed  nothing  more  than  long  rides,  drives  or  walks  with  his  family  and  inti- 
mate friends.  During  the  summer  months,  when  he  was  at  home,  Sunday 
afternoons  were  spent  by  the  family  in  driving  through  the  beautiful  country 
surrounding  Richmond,  and,  toward  evening,  picnicking  at  some  favorite  spot; 
and  there  were  many  such  places,  each  one  having  a  particular  name  invented 
by  the  children.  His  literary  and  intellectual  resources  were  inexhaustible. 
He  had  continually  some  allusion,  some  story,  some  quotation  from  every 
field  of  literature  and  from  actual  life,  opposite  to  the  question  under  dis- 
cussion. 

He  read  and  enjoyed  all  that  was  best  in  modern  fiction.  Tolstoi 
especially  attracted  him,  not  only  by  his  wonderful  powers  of  description  and 
his  deep  knowledge  of  human  nature,  but  also  by  his  remarkable  religious 
and  social  views.  Mr.  Burchenal  was  especially  impressed  by  the  doctrine 
of  non-resistance  as  developed  by  the  Russian  author,  although  not  satisfied 
that  it  would  apply  to  present  conditions.  He  insisted  that  Tolstoi's  ideas 
of  self-sacrifice  and  non-resistance  to  evil  represented  something  toward 
which  humanity  should  constantly  strive.  He  was  also  an  admirer  of  the 
works  of  the  Polish  novelist,  Sienkewicz,  discovering  in  them  a  virility  of 
thought  and  power  of  description  beyond  that  of  most  contemporary  literature. 
He  also  read  and  admired  Balzac,  whose  power  of  portraiture  he  fully 
appreciated.  He  insisted  that  of  all  men  he  had  seen  and  known, 
Robert  G.  Ingersoll  and  his  own  townsman,  Oliver  P.  Morton,  had  most 
impressed  him  by  the  personal  magnetism  which  they  exercised  over  those 
around  them.  Early  in  life  Mr.  Burchenal  joined  the  Episcopal  church,  and 
retained  his  membership,  always  enjoying  the  service  and  mode  of  worship. 
His  belief,  however,  was  far  from  orthodox.  His  natural  interest  in  religious 
topics,  and  especially  those  of  a  more  spiritual  nature,  led  him   to   a  close 


88  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

study  of  the  works  of  Emanuel  Swedenborg,  and  his  religious  belief  was 
largely  founded  upon  them. 

In  politics  Mr.  Burchenal  was  originally  a  Whig,  having  cast  his  first 
vote  for  General  Scott  in  1852.  When  the  Republican  party  was  formed  he 
attached  himself  to  that  organization  and  continued  firm  in  his  adherence  of 
it  until  his  death.  He  was  stalwart  in  his  Republicanism,  and  had  little  con- 
fidence in  any  reform  to  be  accomplished  by  destroying  or  weakening  the 
party  which  had  saved  the  Union,  overthrown  slavery  and  established 
universal  suffrage. 

In  i860  M^.  Burchenal  married  Miss  Ellen  Jackson,  who  died  in  1863, 
leaving  one  son,  John.  In  1871,  in  Baltimore,  he  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Day, 
by  whom  he  had  three  daughters,  Ruth,  Elizabeth  and  Emma,  and  two  sons, 
Carlos  and  Selden.  Mr.  Burchenal  was  the  most  hospitable  of  men.  His 
house  and  heart  were  always  open  to  his  friends.  Even  during  the  extreme 
suffering  of  his  last  days,  no  one  could  visit  him  but  he  would  make  some 
faint  effort  to  renew  the  old  times  of  jovial  companionship.  'He  died  Decem- 
ber, 1896,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness.  The  tributes  paid  to  his  memory 
in  the  letters  written  to  his  widow,  and  in  the  memorial  and  speeches  made 
at  the  b.ir  meeting  on  the  occasion  of  his  death,  were  not  the  mere  customary 
tributes  to  the  memory  of  the  dead;  they  were  the  heartfelt  expressions  of  a 
genuine  conviction  of  his  great  ability  as  a  lawyer  and  worth  as  a  man. 
E.  B.  ^:artin,  who  had  known  him  for  years,  said  :  "  His  singular  refinement, 
generosity  and  sincerity  of  nature,  his  breadth  and  variety  in  sympathy  and 
acquirements,  and  his  strength  and  delicacy  of  apprehension,  added  to  his 
warmth  and  faithfulness  in  friendship,  made  him  a  man  among  ten  thousand  ;  " 
while  General  Benjamin  Harrison  said,  "  He  added  to  fine  intellectual  powers 
a  high  sense  of  personal  and  professional  honor.  "  At  the  bar  meeting  Judge 
Comstock  thus  appropriately  summed  up  his  qualities  :  "  Any  true  estimate 
of  Lis  character  must  credit  him  with  marked  individuality.  He  never 
copied  any  one.  He  was  very  quick  to  see  the  imitation.  He  was  a 
law  unto  himself.  He  was  independent  and  self-reliant.  In  his  judgment  of 
men  he  was  indulgent.  He  was  a  modest  man.  He  never  obtruded  himself 
either  in  social,  public  or  professional  life.  The  success  of  others  never  gave 
him  pain.  He  was  free  from  the  base  passion  of  envy.  He  did  not  attempt 
to  exalt  himself  by  the  disparagement  of  a  brother.  He  performed  his  duties 
in  life  fearlessly  and  honestly,  without  expectation  of  applause.  He  was 
absolutely  free  from  fraud  or  sham.  There  has  not  been  at  this  bar  any  one 
of  his  fine  mental  fibre,  nor  of  his  learning  in  law,  history  and  general  liter- 
ature. I  have  heard  members  of  the  bar  say  that  they  had  more  confidence 
in  his  first  impressions  upon  a  legal  proposition  than  in  the  mature  judgment 
of  most  lawyers.      He  was  not,  in  the  popular  sense,    a  great  advocate,  but 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  89 

his  thorough  familiarity  with  the  principles  of  the  law,  and  the  precedents  in 
the  decisions  of  our  highest  courts,  and  his  own  fertility  and  coolness,  which 
never  forsook  him,  made  him  always  formidable.  He  was  a  versatile  man. 
He  might  have  succeeded  in  literature  and  art.  He  had  the  taste  and 
touch  of  a  true  artist,  and  knew  more  of  painting  and  music  than  many 
professionals." 

He  was  a  self  educated  man,  yet  so  e.Ktensive  and  thorough  was  his 
reading  that  there  was  no  branch  of  literature  which  he  left  unexplored.  He 
was  a  great  lover  of  poetry  and  the  drama.  He  wrote  verses  of  no  mean 
ability,  but  he  never  disclosed  this  fact  except  to  his  intimate  friends.  Among 
his  papers  the  following  stanza  was  •  found,  added  to  Tennyson's  poem, 
"  Crossing  the  Bar:" 

"  Dawn  and  the  morning  light 
That  shines  above  the  deep, 
And  there  will  be  rare  visions  of  delight 

When  I  awake  from  sleep. 
.  What  though  through  dark  and  gloom  my  bark  shall  sail 
On  its  strange  quest, 
So  in  the  morning  I  the  goal  may  hail 
The  islands  of  the  blest." 

JOHN  H.  SHORT. 

This  well  and  favorably  known  citizen  of  Boston,  Wayne  county,  is  now 
living  retired  from  the  active  duties  and  cares  of  life,  enjoying  the  fruits  of 
his  years  of  toil  in  the  past.  About  four  years  ago  he  gave  up  the  manage- 
ment of  his  farm,  which  is  located  in  the  suburbs  of  Boston,  a  portion  of  the 
place  having  been  cut  up  into  town  lots,  indeed,  and  since  then  his  eldest  son 
has  carried  on  the  homestead.  Though  born  and  reared  in  the  south,  Mr. 
Short  was  not  in  sympathy  with  the  Rebellion,  and  in  April,  1864,  he  enlisted 
in  the  one-hundred-days  service  in  Company  A,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
third  Indiana  Infantry,  under  Captain  William  R.  Mount.  He  was  stationed 
chiefly  at  Bridgeport,  Alabama,  and  employed  in  doing  guard  duty,  until  his 
time  was  up,  when  he  was  mustered  out  in  Indianapolis. 

Born  near  Greensboro,  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina,  July  25,  1834, 
a  son  of  Alfred  and  Hannah  Short,  our  subject  was  left  an  orphan  at  the  age 
of  fourteen,  at  which  time  his  father  died,  while  death  had  bereaved  him  of 
a  mother's  love  and  care  some  four  years  before.  With  his  sister  and  five 
brothers  John  H.  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native  state,  and  there  they  all 
•continued  to  live,  with  the  exception  of  himself!  They  stayed  on  the  old 
farm  until  the  marriage  of  the  eldest  brother.  John  H.  is  now  the  only  sur- 
vivor of  the  family,  besides  one  other  brother,  Alonzio  Short,  who  is  now  in 
the  south. 

When  he  was  sixteen  years   old  John  H.  Short   started    out  to  make  his 


90  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

own  way  independently.  Going  to  Rockingham,  Virginia,  he  found  employ- 
ment as  a  traveling  salesman  for  a  tobacco  manufacturer.  His  business  was 
to  take  a  well  equipped  wagon  and  travel  from  one  town  and  plantation  to 
another,  selling  tobacco,  of  which  he  had  a  full  supply  in  all  grades  and 
prices,  and,  as  was  customary  in  those  days  in  the  south,  he  followed  the 
courts,  which  convened  at  the  various  county  seats.  Thus  employed,  two 
years  rapidly  rolled  away,  and  we  next  find  him  at  school  again,  in  James- 
town, North  Carolina,  for  he  felt  the  need  of  better  educational  training  by 
this  time.  Afterward  he  was  employed  with  a  railroad  engineering  force,  in 
the  testing  of  the  ground  for  grades  in  a  line  laid  out  by  railroad  surveyors. 

On  the  1st  of  May,  1857,  Mr.  Short  arrived  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  on 
his  way  to  Kansas,  in  company  with  a  friend  and  former  schoolmate.  \\'ith 
not  the  slightest  intention  of  remaining  here,  Mr.  Short  concluded  to  stay 
over  until  the  following  Monday,  in  order  to  visit  with  George  Irwin,  an  old 
friend  whom  he  fortunately  met  here.  For  several  reasons,  and  because  he 
liked  the  looks  of  the  country  hereabouts,  he  stayed  and  found  employment 
at  cutting  wood  and  in  manufacturing  brick.  He  helped  manufacture  much 
of  the  brick  that  went  into  the  houses  of  Joel  Railsback,  near  Chester,  Daniel 
Brower,  near  Boston,  and  John  D.  Josheawaj',  of  Abington.  The  next  winter 
he  took  a  contract  for  cutting  one  hundred  cords  of  wood  and  the  following 
year  he  went  to  Illinois  and  worked  in  a  brickyard  at  Bloomington  for  one 
season.  The  succeeding  winter  he  again  cut  wood  and  the  next  three  years 
he  was  employed  on  the  farm  of  Benjamin  Brown,  of  Boston  township.  He 
also  worked  for  J.  M.  Bulla,  James  Hart  and  others,  some  across  the  line  in 
Union  county. 

October  4,  1863,  Mr.  Short  married  Margaret  Conley,  who  was  then  liv- 
ing with  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Judith  Grimes,  lately  deceased,  and  then  a  resident 
of  Wayne  township.  Mrs.  Short  was  a  daughter  of  John  J.  Conley,  formerly 
proprietor  of  large  nurseries  and  greenhouses  in  Richmond,  and  later  the 
owner  of  the  farm  which  is  now  the  property  of  our  subject  and  wife.  For 
one  year  Mr.  Short  rented  a  farm  of  John  Ropers,  and  subsequently  leased 
land  of  George  Davidson.  In  1866  he  took  charge  of  the  toll-gate  on  the 
Boston  pike,  a  mile  south  of  Richmond,  and  continued  to  occupy  that  posi- 
tion for  nearly  thirteen  years,  after  which  he  bought  his  present  farm,  the 
old  Conley  estate.  One  of  the  noticeable  features  of  the  homestead  is  the 
splendid  orchard,  one  of  the  best  in  the  county,  and  the  fine  stately  rows  of 
pine  trees  which  adorn  the  landscape.  Oran,  the  eldest  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Short,  is  an  energetic  young  farmer  and  is  caring  for  the  farm  with 
ability.  He  built  a  neat,  modern  farm  house  on  the  turnpike  a  few  years  ago 
and  there  he  and  his  cheerful,  thrifty  wife,  formerly  Minnie  Millott,  dwell  in 
comfort.      Louie,    the  only   living  daughter   of  our  subject,    is  the   wife  of 


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Douglas  Druley,  and  mother  of  Hattie,  Maggie,  Eva,  John  and  Ernest. 
Mattie,  youngest  daughter  of  Mr.  Short,  died  at  the  age  of  ten  years,  three 
months  and  twenty-three  days;  and  Albert  and  Walter  are  at  home.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Short  are  consistent  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  in  politics  Mr.  Short  is  a  Republican. 

Four  brothers  of  Mr.  Short  were  Union  soldiers  in  the  civil  war, — Jasper 
N.,  Winster  M.,  Alonzio  P.  and  Albert.  Alonzio  P.  rendered  service  for  four 
long  years  in  a  cavalry  regiment,  and  yet  was  never  wounded.  He  and  the 
subject  of  the  foregoing  sketch  are  the  only  sons  now  living. 

OLIVER   P.    MORTON. 

One  of  the  "war  governors"  of  the  nation  was  Oliver  Perry  Morton,  of 
Indiana.  At  the  period  when  the  country  was  in  the  throes  of  civil  war, 
upon  the  chief  executives  of  the  states  rested  a  responsibility  second  only  to 
that  of  the  president.  The  course  of  the  governor  at  this  crisis  largely 
shaped  the  conduct  of  his  people,  and  his 
unswerving  allegiance  and  determined  loy- 
alty, or  his  strong  opposition  to  the  Union, 
were  either  greatly  instrumental  in  securing 
^ggf  ^^^^^        ^^^  support  of   the  commonwealth  for  the 

r  JhBc  ,jgg  j^^^^Kk  national  government  or  in  causing  the  de- 
r  *  ll^^"  '^^  ^^^^^B  velopment  of  secessionist  principles.  No 
i  "^^  J^^^^^^H     governor    throughout    the    entire    country 

manifested  greater  patriotism  or  fidelity  to 
the  cause  of  liberty  and  union,  or  more 
courageously  upheld  the  hands  of  the  presi- 
dent, than  Oliver  Perry  Morton,  and  under 
his  guidance  Indiana  won  as  a  loyal  state 
honors  exceeded  by  none  of  her  sister  states. 
Mr.  Morton  was  born  in  Saulsbury, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  August  4,  1823, 
and  died  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  on  the  ist  of  November.  1877.  His 
father,  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  whose  ancestors  came  from  England  with 
Roger  Williams,  dropped  the  first  syllable  in  the  family  name  of  Throck- 
morton. At  the  age  of  fifteen  the  son  was  taken  from  school  and  indentured 
to  a  brother  who  was  a  hatter.  After  working  at  his  trade  for  four  years  he 
determined  to  fit  himself  for  the  bar,  spending  two  years  in  Miami  Universit}^ 
and  studying  law  in  Centerviile,  where  he  began  practice  in  1847.  He  soon 
attained  professional  eminence,  and  was  elected  a  circuit  judge  in  1852,  but 
at  the  end  of  a  year,  when  his  term  expired  by  the  adoption  of  a  new  state 
constitution,  he  willingly  left  the  bench,  and  before  resuming  practice  spent 


92  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

a  year  in  a  law  school  in  Cincinnati.  Having  been  a  Democrat  with  anti- 
slavery  convictions,  he  entered  into  the  people's  movement  in  1854,  took  an 
active  part  in  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party,  and  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Pittsburg  convention  the  same  year,  and  the  candidate  of  the  new  party 
for  governor.  In  a  joint  canvass  with  Ashbel  P.  Willard,  the  Democratic 
nominee,  he  established  a  reputation  for  political  ability,  but  was  beaten  at 
the  polls  and  returned  to  his  law  practice. 

In  i860  Mr.  Morton  was  nominated  for  lieutenant-governor  on  the  ticket 
with  Henry  S.  Lane,  and  during  the  canvass  took  strong  ground  in  favor  of 
exacting  from  the  southern  states  obedience  to  the  constitution.  Upon  con- 
vening, the  legislature  elected  Governor  Lane  to  the  United  States  senate, 
and  on  the  i6th  of  January,  1861,  Mr.  Morton  took  the  oath  as  governor. 
He  opposed  every  compromise  with  the  secessionist  party,  nominated  to  the 
peace  congress  men  of  equally  pronounced  views,  began  to  prepare  for  the 
coming  conflict  before  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  and  when  President  Lin- 
coln called  for  seventy-five  thousand  volunteers  he  offered  to  send  ten  thou- 
sand from  Indiana.  The  state's  quota  was  raised  at  once.  He  reconvened 
the  legislature  on  the  24th  of  April,  obtained  authority  to  borrow  two  million 
dollars,  and  displayed  great  energy  and  ability  in  placing  troops  in  the  field 
and  providing  for  their  care  and  sustenance.  He  gave  permission  to  citizens 
of  Indiana  to  raise  troops  in  Kentucky,  allowed  Kentucky  regiments  to  be 
recruited  from  the  population  of  two  of  the  southern  counties,  procured  arms 
for  the  volunteer  bodies  enlisted  for  the  defense  of  Kentucky,  and  by  thus 
co-operating  with  the  Union  men  in  that  state  did  much  toward  establishing 
the  ascendancy  of  the  national  government  within  its  borders.  When  the 
■question  of  the  abolition  of  slavery  arose,  the  popular  majority  no  longer 
upheld  the  governor  in  his  support  of  the  national  administration. 

In  1862  a  Democratic  legislature  was  chosen,  which  refused  to  receive 
the  governor's  message,  and  was  on  the  point  of  taking  from  him  the  com- 
mand of  the  militia,  when  the  Republican  members  withdrew,  leaving  the 
house  without  a  quorum.  In  order  to  carry  on  the  state  government  and 
pay  the  state  bonds.  Governor  Morton  obtained  advances  from  banks  and 
county  boards,  and  appointed  a  bureau  of  finance,  which,  from  April,  1863, 
until  January,  1865,  made  all  disbursements  of  the  state,  amounting  to  more 
than  one  million  dollars.  During  this  period  he  refused  to  summon  the  legis- 
lature. The  supreme  court  condemned  this  arbitrary  course,  but  the  people 
subsequently  applauded  his  action,  and  the  state  assumed  the  obligations  he 
incurred.  The  draft  laws  provoked  the  secessionists  in  Indiana  to  form 
secret  organizations  and  commit  outrages  on  Union  men.  They  plotted 
against  the  life  of  Governor  Morton  and  arranged  a  general  insurrection,  to 
take    place    in    August,    1864.      The   Governor  discovered   their   plans    and 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  93 

arrested  the  leaders  of  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle,  or  Sons  of  Liberty, 
as  the  association  was  called. 

In  1864  Mr.  Morton  was  nominated  for  governor,  and  defeated  Joseph 
E.  McDonald  by  twenty  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-three  votes,  after 
an  animated  joint  canvass.  He  resigned  in  January,  1867,  to  take  his  seat 
in  the  United  States  senate,  to  which  he  was  re-elected  in  1873.  In  the 
senate  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  privileges  and  elections  and  the 
leader  of  the  Republicans,  and  for  several  years  he  exercised  a  determining 
influence  over  the  political  course  of  the  party.  On  the  question  of  recon- 
struction he  supported  the  severest  measures  toward  the  southern  states  and 
their  citizens.  He  labored  zealously  to  secure  the  passage  of  the  fifteenth 
amendment  to  the  constitution,  was  active  in  the  impeachment  proceedings 
against  President  Johnson,  and  was  the  trusted  adviser  of  the  Republicans  of 
the  south.  After  supporting  the  Santo  Domingo  treaty  he  was  offered  the 
English  mission  by  President  Grant,  but  declined,  lest  his  state  should  send 
a  Democrat  to  succeed  him  in  the  senate.  At  the  Republican  national  con- 
vention in  1876  Mr.  Morton,  in  the  earlier  ballots,  received  next  to  the 
highest  number  of  votes  for  the  presidential  nomination.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  electoral  commission  of  1877.  After  a  paralytic  stroke,  in  1865,  he 
was  never  again  able  to  stand  without  support,  yet  there  was  no  abatement 
in  his  power  as  a  debater  or  in  the  effectiveness  of  his  forcible  popular  ora- 
tory. Immediately  after  his  return  from  Europe,  whither  he  had  gone  to 
consult  specialists  in  nervous  diseases,  he  delivered,  in  1866,  a  political 
speech,  of  which  more  than  one  million  copies  were  distributed  in  pamphlet 
form.  After  visiting  Oregon  in  the  spring  of  1877,  as  chairman  of  a  sena- 
torial committee  to  investigate  the  election  of  Lafayette  Grover,  he  had 
another  attack  of  paralysis,  and  died  soon  after  reaching  his  home. 

ALBERT  E.  WILLIAMS. 
This  well  known  farmer  and  honored  citizen  of  Washington  township, 
has  throughout  his  active  business  life  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
agricultural  interests  of  Wayne  county  and  has  for  over  thirty  years  resided 
upon  his  present  farm.  He  was  born,  however,  in  Rush  county,  Indiana, 
March  26,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Olive  (Elwell)  Williams,  both 
natives  of  Washington  township,  Wayne  county.  The  father,  who  was  born 
June  15,  1820,  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Charity  (Adams)  Williams,  natives  of 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  respectively.  In  early  life  Joseph  Williams 
came  with  his  parents  to  Brookville,  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  where  his 
father  died.  The  latter  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  The  son 
was  married  in  Franklin  county  and  continued  to  make  his  home  there  until 
after  the  birth  of  two  of  his  children.   About  1S14  he  came  to  Wayne  county, 


-94  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

where  he  entered  land  and  improved  a  farm.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
Methodist  ministers  of  this  section  and  was  highly  respected  by  all  who  knew 
him.  After  his  children  had  all  married  and  left  the  parental  home,  he  sold 
his  farm  to  a  son  and  moved  to  Fairview,  Rush  county,  where  he  served  as 
a  local  preacher  until  called  to  the  better  world  in  1856.  He  was  a  devoted 
Christian  who  labored  earnestly  for  the  betterment  of  his  fellow  men,  and 
the  world  is  certainly  better  for  his  having  lived.  His  children  were  Wesley, 
a  resident  of  Hancock  county,  Indiana;  William,  a  Methodist  minister,  now 
deceased;  Deborah,  who  first  married  a  Mr.  Pettigrew,  and  secondly  a  Mr. 
Hardin;  Mary,  wife  of  John  Howard;  Thomas,  father  of  our  subject;  James 
and  Joseph,  both  farmers,  now  deceased;  Mrs.  Rachel  Hart;  and  Polly. 

Thomas  Williams  grew  to  manhood  upon  a  farm  in  Wayne  county  and 
remained  with  his  parents  until  his  marriage,  when  he  settled  in  Rush  county, 
where  he  improved  a  good  farm  of  over  four  hundred  acres  and  built  thereon 
a  good  brick  residence  to  replace  his  first  home,  which  was  a  log  structure. 
In  1864  he  removed  to  Knightstown,  where  he  engaged  in  the  marble  busi- 
ness for  four  years,  and  then  located  on  the  old  Elwell  homestead  in  Wayne 
county,  where  our  subject  now  resides.  After  operating  this  place  for  ten 
years  he  removed  to  Milton,  where  he  lived  retired,  though  he  still  ownqd 
this  farm  and  one  in  Rush  county  until  his  death,  which  occurred  December 
2,  1889,  when  he  disposed  of  all  his  property  by  will.  He  was  an  ardent 
Democrat  in  pohtics  and  served  as  township  trustee  in  Rush  county.  He 
was  an  active  worker  in  the  Methodist  church,  and  was  a  social,  genial  gentle- 
man who  commanded  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact.  His  widow  is  still  living  and  continues  to  make  her  home  in  Milton. 
To  them  were  born  seven  children,  namely:  Samantha,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  years;  Caroline,  who  died  at  the  age  of  six;  Olinda,  widow  of  L. 
F.  Hinchman,  a  farmer  and  stock  dealer;  Parnitha,  wife  of  Dr.  D.  H. 
Miller,  a  druggist  of  Franklin,  Indiana;  Ellen,  wife  of  J.  B.  Payne,  a  busi- 
ness man  of  the  same  place;  Alice,  wife  of  M.  H.  Moore,  a  grocer  of  Em- 
poria, Kansas;  and  Albert  E. ,  our  subject. 

Albert  E.  Williams  began  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Rush  county, 
and  later  attended  the  common  schools  of  I\nightstown  and  Wayne  county, 
the  seminary  at  Spiceland,  Indiana,  and  the  Northwestern  University,  at 
Irvington.  He  was  thus  well  equipped  for  life's  responsible  duties  and  is 
to-day  one  of  the  most  intelligent  and  well  informed  men  of  his  community. 
He  grew  to  manhood  upon  his  present  farm  and  after  his  marriage,  in  1878, 
commenced  housekeeping  there,  his  father  having  given  him  one  hundred 
acres,  to  which  he  has  since  added  eighty  acres.  He  also  owns  another  well 
improved  farm  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-three  acres.  This  is  the  original 
£lwell  homestead.      He  has  remodeled  the  brick  residence  and  made  many 


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other  improvements  which  add  to  the  value  and  attractive  appearance  of  the 
place.  He  has  carried  forward  quite  successfully  the  work  inaugurated  by 
his  father,  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  well-to-do  and  prosperous  citizens  of  his 
community.  In  connection  with  general  farming  he  is  engaged  in  stock- 
raising,  making  a  specialty  of  Short-horn  and  Durham  cattle.  Although  an 
ardent  Democrat  in  politics  he  has  never  cared  for  the  honors  or  emoluments 
of  public  office.  His  honorable,  upright  life  has  gained  for  him  the  confi- 
dence and  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact,  and  he  has 
been  called  upon  to  act  as  guardian  for  others  and  as  e.xecutor  of  his  father's 
will. 

In  1878  Mr.  Williams  married  Miss  Lizzie  E.  Beeson,  who  was  born  in 
Washington  ■  township  May  25,  1858,  a  daughter  of  B.  F.  and  Catherine 
(Howard)  Beeson,  who  are  represented  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Her  paternal 
grandfather,  Benjamin  Beeson,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina  and  a  son  of 
Benjamin  Beeson,  whose  father,  Isaac  Beeson,  was  of  the  fifth  generation 
removed  from  Edward  Beeson,  a  native  of  Lancastershire,  England,  who 
came  to  America  with  one  of  William  Penn's  colonies  in  1682  and  first  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania.  A  number  of  years  later  he  moved  to  a  Quaker  settle- 
ment in  Virginia,  and  from  there  went  to  Brandywine,  near  Wilmington, 
Delaware.  His  descendant,  Isaac  Beeson,  previously  mentioned,  removed 
from  there  to  North  Carolina,  and  from  him  springs  the  Indiana  branch  of 
the  family.  Three  brothers  came  to  this  state:  Isaac,  in  1812,  located  near 
Richmond;  Benjamin,  in  18 14,  settled  where  Mrs.  Williams'  father  now  lives; 
and  Thomas,  in  18 18,  lived  where  his  son,  Elwood  Beeson,  now  makes  his 
home. 

B.  F.  Beeson,  Mrs.  Williams'  father,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
highly  respected  farmers  of  Wayne  county,  and  the  poor  and  needy  are  never 
turned  from  his  door  empty-handed.  He  married  Catherine  Howard,  a  lady 
of  more  than  ordinary  attainments,  who  is  beloved  by  all  who  know  her. 
She  was  born  in  Wayne  county  January  22,  1827,  and  is  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Calaway)  Howard,  who  came  here  from  North  Carolina  about 
1 8 14,  and  entered  land  and  improved  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Elijah 
Hurst.  There  all  their  children  were  born.  Finally  selling  that  place  they 
moved  to  Madison  county,  Indiana,  but  later  returned  to  Wayne  county  and 
bought  the  farm  where  the  Valley  Grove  church  now  stands.  After  his  chil- 
dren were  all  grown  Mr.  Howard  gave  that  place  to  a  son  and  built  for  him- 
self a  residence  in  the  same  neighborhood,  where  he  spent  his  last  days.  He 
was  thrice  married  and  by  the  last  wife  had  one  son,  Charles.  There  were 
two  sons  by  the  first  union, — Samuel  and  Joseph, — and  by  the  second 
there  were  twelve,  including  the  following:  Mary  E. ,  Sarah,  Mrs.  Dwiggins, 
Lydia,    Rachel,    Cynthia,    Catherine,   John  A.,    Neill    and  Margaret.      Mrs. 


96  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Williams  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  seven  children,  the 
others  being:  William,  who  died  in  1873,  aged  twenty-two  years;  Oliver  H., 
a  farmer  of  Wayne  county;  Joseph,  who  died  in  1873,  aged  eighteen  years; 
Sanford,  who  died  the  same  year,  aged  thirteen  years;  Elmer,  a  resident  of 
Cambridge  City;  Ira  J.,  who  died  in  infancy;  May,  wife  of  J.  Coyne;  and 
Minnie,  wife  of  F.  Flora.  The  sons  and  mother,  who  passed  away  April  14, 
1873,  died  within  four  months,  of  spinal  meningitis.  For  his  second  wife 
Mr.  Beeson  married  Miss  Kate  Roadcap,  in  1879.  She  was  born  in  Virginia 
August  5,  1844,  and  came  to  Indiana  with  her  parents,  Henry  and  Lydia 
Roadcap,  now  residents  of  Henry  county.  Our  subject  and  his  wife  have 
an  interesting  family  of  four  children:  Frank  R.,  born  August  23,  1879; 
Elsie,  September  30,  1884;  Harry  B.,  July  31,  1886;  and  Carl  P.,  January 
16,  1890. 

E.    DWIGHT    JOHNSTON. 

It  is  seldom  that  one  attains  prominence  in  more  than  one  line.  It  is 
the  tendency  of  the  age  to  concentrate  one's  energies  upon  a  given  pursuit, 
to  the  exclusion  of  almost  all  other  interests;  yet  this  is  apt  to  produce  aa 
uneven  and  irregular  development  and  not  the  symmetrical  growth  that  is 
indicative  of  the  highest  manhood.  In  Mr.  Johnston,  however,  we  find  a 
gentleman  who  has  attained  an  eminent  position  in  artistic  and  business 
circles,  and  who,  in  the  affairs  of  society  and  church,  is  a  recognized  leader, 
enjoying  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  is  brought  in  contact.  His 
name  is  now  inseparably  connected  with  the  industrial  interests  of  Conners- 
ville,  and  the  extensive  concerns  which  he  controls  form  an  important  part  of 
the  business  life  of  the  city,  furnishing  employment  to  a  very  large  force  of 
workmen. 

A  native  of  Ohio,  he  was  born  in  Cedarville,  October  11,  1861,  his  par- 
ents being  David  S.  and  Eliza  E.  (Bogle)  Johnston,  the  father  of  Scotch 
descent  and  the  mother  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage.  The  paternal  grandfather, 
David  Johnston,  was  an  extensive  land-owner  and  farmer,  who  resided  near 
Ripley,  Ohio,  and  in  that  locality  D.  S.  Johnston  was  born,  in  the  year 
1834.  Reared  on  the  homestead  farm  near  Ripley,  in  early  manhood  he 
engaged  in  the  pork  and  wool  business  in  Cedarville,  Ohio,  for  about  eight 
years.  In  1870  he  removed  to  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  piano  business.  In  1878  he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  where  also  he  was 
engaged  in  the  piano  business.  For  ten  years  he  was  prominently  connected 
with  musical  interests  in  that  city  and  was  well  known  in  artistic  circles.  In 
1888  he  removed  to  Tacoma,  Washington,  where  he  is  an  active  factor  in 
musical  matters  and  church  affairs.  His  wife  also  is  a  native  of  the  Buckeye 
state,  and  to  them  were  born  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  E.  Dwight  being 
the  third.     J.  Stuart,  the  eldest,  for  years  engaged  in  the  piano  business,  died 


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at  Meridian,  Mississippi,  in  1889.  Rev.  Howard  A.  Johnston,  D.  D.,  the 
second  of  the  family,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Cincinnati  University,  took  a  post- 
graduate course  at  Wooster,  Ohio,  and  is  now  pastor  of  the  Madison  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  church  of  New  York  city,  and  an  able  and  prominent  pulpit 
orator.  The  others  of  the  family  are:  Mrs.  James  Simon,  of  Victoria,  Brit- 
ish Columbia;  Mrs.  Retta  J.  Shank,  a  prominent  vocalist  of  Chicago,  and 
Walter,  a  graduate  of  Purdue  University,  now  engaged  in  mechanical  engi- 
neering in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 

E.  Dwight  Johnston  obtained  his  English  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Ohio,  and  at  the  age  of  eight  years  took  up  the  study  of  music.  There  were  then 
three  children  in  the  family  and  the  father  employed  a  governess,  whose  duty 
in  part  was  to  determine  which  one  of  the  children  possessed  musical  talent. 
Our  subject  displayed  excellent  ability  in  his  studies  and  continued  his  work 
under  the  direction  of  the  governess  for  a  time  and  later  in  Portsmouth  and 
Cincinnati,  under  the  best  musical  instructors  of  those  cities.  He  then  entered 
the  Cincinnati  College  of  Music,  in  which  he  was  a  student  and  teacher  for  a 
number  of  years,  continuing  there  until  1885.  He  became  widely  known  in 
musical  circles  in  both  Cincinnati  and  Dayton,  especially  as  a  pianist  and 
vocalist,  possessing  a  superior  bass  voice  and  a  most  delicate  and  apprecia- 
tive touch  on  the  instrument. 

Mr.  Johnston  was  married  in  Connersville  in  1885,  and  immediately  after- 
ward became  associated  with  the  P.  H.  &  F.  M.  Roots  Blower  Company. 
This  was  a  sudden  transition  from  the  close  connection  with  what  has  been 
termed  "  the  most  intangible  and  divine  of  all  the  arts  "  to  the  mechanical 
construction  in  a  large  foundry;  but  with  rapidity  he  mastered  the  business, 
both  in  principle  and  detail,  and  thus  indicated  the  versatility  of  his  powers. 
He  applied  himself  untiringly  to  his  duties,  daily  adding  to  his  knowledge  of 
the  immense  business  carried  forward  in  the  foundry,  and  in  1S87  he  was 
made  treasurer  of  the  company.  On  the  death  of  Francis  M.  Roots,  in  1889, 
he  became  vice-president  and  general  manager,  in  1892  purchased  a  controll- 
ing interest,  and  on  the  ist  of  January,  1899,  was  elected  president  and  gen- 
eral manager,  the  other  officers  being  Lewis  Roots  Johnston,  vice-president; 
Charles  Mount,  treasurer;  and  W.  S.  Calder,  secretary.  Under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Johnston  the  capacity  and  product  of  the  factory  has  been 
trebled,  employment  is  furnished  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  men,  and  the  com- 
pany is  capitalized  for  seven  hundred  thousand  dollars.  They  manufacture 
rotary  blowers,  rotary  gas-exhausters  and  rotary  force-pumps,  and  their  trade 
not  only  extends  to  all  parts  of  this  country  but  also  to  all  other  parts  of  the 
the  civilized  world.  Recent  extensive  improvements  have  been  made  to  the 
plant  which  make  it  by  far  the  largest  and  most  extensive  concern  of  the 
kind  in  the  world.      The  foundry  building  is  fifty  by  one  hundred  and  eighty- 


98  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

five  feet  in  dimensions,  and  perhaps  the  cleanest  and  best  equipped  foundry 
in  the  state.  The  erecting  room  is  ninety  by  one  hundred  and  sixty-five 
feet,  and  modern  in  its  facilities.  The  machine  shop  is  eighty  by  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  feet,  and  three  stories  high.  In  all  about  fifty-five  thou- 
sand square  feet  of  floor  space  are  occupied  and  utilized  in  the  manufacture 
of  the  rotary  force-blowers  and  pumps  and  gas  exhausters  of  various  sizes 
and  weights.  In  the  fall  of  1899  an  additional  machine  shop,  fifty  by  two 
hundred  feet  with  two  wings,  one  thirty  by  sixty  feet,  the  other  twenty  by 
forty  feet,  was  erected,  thus  materially  increasing  their  manufacturing  facili- 
ties and   for   the   special  purpose  of  manufacturing  a  patented   steam   log- 

^loader.       The  output  of  this  shop  has  been  contracted  tor  for  five  years. 

In  addition  to  his  extensive  foundry  interests,  Mr.  Johnston  is  treasurer 
and  president  of  the  Steel  Storage  and  Elevator  Construction  Company,  of 
Buffalo,  New  York,  a  firm  which  does  an  extensive  business  in  the  construc- 
tion of  a  new  system  of  grain-elevators,  and  will  undoubtedly  revolutionize 
methods  of  elevator  building.  They  have  erected  in  Buffalo  an  elevator 
with  a  capacity  of  one  million  bushels,  and  on  the  Canada  &  Pacific  Railroad 
one   having  a   capacity  of   a  million   and  a   half  bushels.      He   holds   letters 

■patent  on  some  very  valuable  inventions  of  his  own,  among  which  is  a  special 
machine  for  furnishing  blower  or  pump  impellers. 

On  the  8th  of  October,  1885,  Mr.  Johnston  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Lewis  Roots,  a  daughter  of  the  late  F.  M.  Roots,  who  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Roots  Blower  Company  and  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
and  honored  citizens  that  Connersville  has  ever  known.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John- 
ston have  a  family  of  three  children, — Francis  Roots,  Esther  Elizabeth  and 
Sylvia  Yale.  They  occupy  a  very  prominent  position  in  social  circles,  and 
their  magnificent  home  in  Connersville  is  justly  celebrated  for  its  charming 
hospitality,  which  is  enjoyed  by  their  extensive  circle  of  friends.  Mr.  John- 
ston belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  takes  an  active  part  in  its  work,  is  a 
member  of  the  board  of  sessions  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school,  and 
for  twelve  years  was  the  organist,  but  resigned  about  a  year  and  a  half  ago. 

'He  is  a  man  of  fine  personal  appearance,  of  genial  manner,  always  ready  to 
accord  to  any  one  the  courtesy  of  an  interview,  a  generous-spirited,  broad- 
minded  man,  who  embodies  the  spirit  of  American  progress  and  advance- 
ment that  has  drawn  to  this  country  in  the  last  few  years  the  admiration  of 
the  world. 

MORDECAI  D.  DODDRIDGE. 

It  is  now  eighty-five  years  since  the  family  to  which  this  well-known 
citizen  belongs  became  identified  with  Wayne  county,  and  its  various  mem- 
bers have  won  for  the  name  an  enviable  distinction  by  their  intelligence  and 
worth.      This  high  reputation  is  in  no  way  diminished  in  this  generation,  and 


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•our  subject,  who  is  counted  among  the  leading  agriculturists  of  Washington 
township,  displays  in  a  marked  degree  the  admirable  characteristics  which 
the  name  suggests. 

The  family  is  of  English  origin  and  was  founded  in  America  during 
colonial  days,  some  of  its  representatives  settling  in  New  England,  others  in 
Pennsylvania.  The  Indiana  branch  springs  from  Joseph  Doddridge,  who  left 
England  early  in  the  eighteenth  century  and  first  settled  in  New  Jersey, 
whence  he  removed  to  Maryland,  where  several  of  his  children  were  born. 
Among  them  was  Philip  Doddridge,  who  when  grown  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  married.  His  son 
John  was  born  in  that  state.  May  2,  1786,  and  there  married  Avis  Manches- 
ter, a  native  of  Rhode  Island.  In  18 14  Philip  Doddridge,  his  son  John,  David 
Jenkins  and  John  Spahr  formed  a  colony  and  came  to  the  territory  of  Indiana. 
Building  a  flatboat,  they  floated  down  the  Ohio,  with  all  their  possessions, 
families  and  stock,  to  Cincinnati,  where  they  sold  the  boat  and  then  started 
across  the  country  for  the  new  Eldorado,  cutting  their  own  road  in  many 
places.  Arriving  at  the  twelve-mile  purchase,  Wayne  county,  Philip  Dodd- 
xidge  entered  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  where  the  family  settled 
and  improved  a  farm,  which  is  now  occupied  by  David  J.  Doddridge.  He 
also  entered  other  large  tracts  and  gave  each  of  his  children  a  farm.  In  Eng- 
land the  family  was  connected  with  the  Episcopal  church,  but  on  coming  to 
free  America  joined  the  Methodist  church,  and  soon  after  locating  in  Indiana 
Philip  Doddridge  and  his  son  John  were  instrumental  in  organizing  one  of 
the  first  churches  in  this  region.  For  a  time  services  were  held  in  the  differ- 
ent cabins,  but  at  length  these  two  gentlemen  gave  the  land  for  a  church  and 
cemetery,  and  the  first  house  of  worship,  which  was  a  log  structure,  was 
erected  in  18 16.  In  honor  of  the  family  it  was  named  Doddridge  Chapel. 
It  was  a  historic  church,  and  its  converts  are  now  scattered  throughout  many 
states.  In  1832  the  congregation  erected  a  brick  edifice,  and  when  it  became 
too  small  it  was  replaced,  in  1876,  by  a  more  commodious  and  modern  struct- 
ure, which  is  still  in  use.  It  is  a  standing  monument  to  Philip  and  John 
Doddridge.  Many  of  the  old  settlers  were  laid  to  rest  in  the  cemetery 
adjoining  the  church.  The  children  of  Philip  Doddridge  were  Mrs.  Hannah 
Jenkins,  Mrs.  Sabra  Spahr,  Mrs.  Walters,  and  John. 

John  Doddridge  carried  forward  the  work  inaugurated  by  his  father,  and 
after  the  latter's  death  inherited  the  home  farm,  on  which  he  erected  a  good 
brick  residence,  which  is  still  in  use.  He  entered  other  lands  in  Tipton  and 
Marshall  counties,  and,  being  quite  successful  in  his  undertakings,  he  left  a 
large  estate.  He  was  a  leader  in  all  church  work,  and  as  an  exhorter  trav- 
eled throughout  the  country,  attending  meetings  within  a  radius  of  twenty 
.miles.      He  was  a  man  honored  and  respected  wherever  known,  and  his  death, 


100  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

which  occurred  in  1851,  was  widely  and  deeply  mourned.  His  faithful  wife, 
who  was  also  an  earnest  church  worker,  survived  him  for  many  years,  dying 
in  1883,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-three.  In  their  family  were  eight 
children,  all  born  in  Indiana  with  the  exception  of  Isaac,  the  father  of  our 
subject.  The  others  were:  Philip,  who  died  in  Washington  township,  Wayne 
county;  John,  who  died  in  Kansas;  Mrs.  Phoebe  Baker;  Mrs.  Eliza  Ream; 
Sarah,  wife  of  Rev.  McMullen;  David  J.,  who  resides  on  the  old  homestead; 
and  Mrs.  Nancy  McMullen. 

Isaac  Doddridge  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 19,  1 809, "but  was  reared  on  the  Indiana  frontier,  and  his  education  was 
necessarily  limited,  as  there  were  few  schools  in  this  section  at  that  time. 
At  the  age  of  twelve  he  commenced  driving  a  four-horse  team  to  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  in  the  freighting  business,  in  which  he  was  interested  for  many  years. 
After  his  marriage,  in  1834,  he  moved  to  Union  county,  Indiana,  where  he 
bought  land  and  improved  a  farm,  remaining  there  eleven  years.  He  then 
purchased  the  Lambert  farm,  in  Wayne  county,  which  was  his  home  for  the 
same  length  of  time,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  on  the  old  Dickson 
Hurst  farm,  where  he  died  January  27,  1896.  He  was  a  very  industrious 
and  energetic  man,  and  became  one  of  the  largest  landowners  of  the  county, 
having  at  one  time  three  thousand  acres,  divided  into  well  improved  farms, 
many  of  which  he  rented.  His  tenants  have  nothing  but  praise  to  say  of 
him,  as  he  was  a  most  kind  and  liberal  landlord.  He  was  quiet,  genial  and 
companionable,  never  allowing  business  or  trivial  things  to  worry  him;  and 
he  was  a  man  of  unquestioned  integrity  and  honor.  He  kept  well-posted  on 
public  questions,  and  was  an  ardent  supporter  of  the  Republican  party.  On 
the  27th  of  March,  1834,  he  married  Miss  Sarah  Weekly,  who  was  born  in 
North  Carolina  in  18 16,  a  daughter  of  Isaiah  and  Agatha  (Fishback)  Weekly, 
who  came  to  Indiana  in  1819  and  located  in  Wayne  county,  where  her  father 
developed  a  farm  in  the  midst  of  the  forest.  Healed  the  quiet,  honest  and 
unassuming  life  of  a  farmer,  and  was  an  earnest  member  of  the  Methodist 
church.  His  children  were:  Fanny,  wife  of  P.  Jenkins;  Sarah,  mother  of 
our  subject;  Betsy,  wife  of  Philip  Doddridge;  and  Mordecai,  all  now  deceased 
with  the  exception  of  Mrs.  Jenkins.  To  Isaac  Doddridge  and  wife  were  born 
eleven  children,  namely:  Mary,  who  first  married  John  Wright,  and  secondly 
William  Wright;  Phoebe,  who  died  March  27,  1884;  Francena,  wife  of  W. 
Kramer;  Eliza,  wife  of  H.  Houseworth;  John  H.,  a  Methodist  minister  of 
Bloomington,  Indiana;  Isaiah,  a  farmer;  Mordecai,  our  subject;  Lurena,  wife 
of  John  Judkins;  Benjamin,  who  died  in  1890;  Wilbur,  a  farmer;  and  James, 
a  resident  of  Milton. 

Mordecai  Doddridge  was  reared  to  the  honest  toil  of  a  farmer  and  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  the  National  Normal  of  Ohio.      After 


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completing  his  education  he  engaged  in  teaching  school,  in  both  Wayne  and 
Union  counties,  until  his  marriage.  After  his  marriage  he  settled  on  a  farm 
owned  by  his  father  west  of  Doddridge  chapel,  and  commenced  life  in  ear- 
nest. In  1896  he  purchased  what  is  known  as  the  Isom  Small  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  to  which  he  has  since  added  forty  acres,  and  there 
he  continues  to  make  his  home,  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising, 
with  good  success.  He  feeds  most  of  the  products  of  his  farm  to  his  stock. 
That  he  stands  high  in  his  community  and  is  very  popular  with  his  fellow 
citizens  is  shown  by  his  election  to  the  office  of  trustee  in  a  strong  Demo- 
cratic township  when  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  leading  member  and 
active  worker  in  the  Methodist  church,  and  has  held  all  of  the  church  offices. 
He  has  been  called  upon  to  settle  many  estates,  which  demonstrates  the  fact 
that  the  people  place  the  utmost  confidence  in  him.  He  was  appointed 
executor  of  his  father's  will  and  this  required  great  care  and  attention,  as  the 
estate  was  large. 

On  the  I2th  of  September,  1883,  Mr.  Doddridge  married  Miss  Mary  J. 
Spahr,  who  was  born,  in  Abington  township,  Wayne  county,  May  11,  1854, 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children:  Joseph  I.,  born  July  23, 
1886;  and  Sarah  E. ,  born  May  29,  1889.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Doddridge  hold 
membership  in  the  Doddridge  Chapel  Methodist  church,  and  occupy  an 
enviable  position  in  social  circles. 

Mrs.  Doddridge's  paternal  grandfather,  John  Spahr,  was  one  of  the 
colony  previously  mentioned  who  came  to  Wayne  county  in  1814  and  settled 
in  Abington  township,  where  Mrs.  Doddridge's  father  now  lives.  There  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  and  was  actively  and  prominently  identified 
with  the  moral  and  material  development  of  the  county.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried and  by  th'e  second  union  had  two  children:  Joseph  B.,  father  of  Mrs. 
Doddridge;  and  Nancy,  wife  of  Isaac  Jenkins,  who  was  also  a  member  of  the 
colony  of  18 14  and  is  still  living  in  Centerville.  Joseph  B.  Spahr  has  spent 
his  entire  life  upon  his  present  farm,  and  as  an  agriculturist  has  met  with 
marked  success.  He  has  made  a  specialty  of  the  raising  of  short-horn  cattle. 
He  is  a  sincere  and  consistent  Christian,  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church, 
and  his  life  is  well  worthy  of  emulation.  Formerly  he  was  a  Democrat  in 
politics  but  for  many  years  has  affiliated  with  the  Prohibition  party  and  is  a 
stanch  adherent  of  its  principles.  He  married  Miss  Matilda  Burgess,  a 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Susan  Burgess,  natives  of  Virginia  and  honored 
pioneers  of  Wayne  county.  By  occupation  her  father  was  a  farmer,  miller 
and  millwright.  His  children  were  Alexander  and  Leander,  both  farmers  of 
Wayne  county;  Matilda,  the  first  wife  of  Joseph  B.  Spahr  and  the  mother  of 
Mrs.  Doddridge;  and  Martha,  the  second  wife  of  Mr.  Spahr. 


102  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


HON.   BRANSON  L.   HARRIS. 

One  of  the  families  which  have  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  Wayne 
county  from  its  early  days  was  founded  here  several  years  prior  to  the  begin- 
ning of  the  war  of  1812  by  Benjamin  Harris,  the  grandfather  of  the  subject 
of  this  memoir.  The  Harris  family  originated  in  Wales,  and  some  time 
during  the  last  century  one  Obediah  Harris,  with  two  of  his  brothers,  made  a 
settlement  in  Virginia.  They  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
sought  the  greater  religious  liberty  which  they  were  permitted  to  enjoy  in 
the  young  American  colony.  Obediah  Harris  lived  in  North  Carolina  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  there  his  son  Benjamin  was  born.  In  1810  Obediah 
Harris  and  his  youngest  son  and  namesake,  both  of  whom  were  ministers  of 
the  Quaker  church,  came  to  Indiana  and  passed  the  remainder  of  their  days 
in  the  northern  part  of  Wayne  and  the  southern  part  of  Randolph  counties. 

It  was  subsequent  to  his  marriage  to  Miss  Margaret  England  that  Ben- 
jamin Harris  determined  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  new  northwest,  and  made 
his  removal  with  his  family  to  Indiana,  and  located  on  land  about  six  miles 
north  of  Richmond,  Wayne  county.  He  and  his  estimable  wife  spent  the 
rest  of  their  lives  here,  and  of  their  large  family,  most  of  whom  grew  to 
maturity,  married,  and  had  homes  of  their  own,  only  one,  Elizabeth,  the 
youngest  daughter,  is  now  living,  her  home  being  in  Fountain  City,  this  state. 
Those  who  have  passed  away  were  Obediah,  Barsheba,  Pleasant,  James, 
John,  Rebecca,  Margaret,  David,  Sarah,  Aaron  and  Nathan. 

James  Harris,  the  father  of  Branson  L.  Harris,  was  born  in  North  Caro- 
lina, and  was  a  lad  of  fourteen  years  when  he  accompanied  his  parents  in 
their  removal  to  Indiana.  During  the  war  of  18 12  he  entered  the  army  and 
served  for  several  months  on  behalf  of  his  country,  for  which  offense  against 
the  teachings  of  the  Quaker  church  he  was  turned  out  of  the  society.  He 
managed  to  survive  that  affliction,  however,  and  later  became  a  faithful  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination.  As  a  young  man,  he  per- 
formed the  hardest  kinds  of  pioneer  labor,  such  as  clearing  away  the  forests, 
splitting  rails,  raising  log  cabins,  and  breaking  the  virgin  soil  with  the  crude 
implements  of  that  period.  Thus  he  earned  the  money  with  which  to  pur- 
chase a  little  tract  of  land  for  himself.  His  first  home  was  on  a  farm  of 
eighty  acres,  in  Green  township,  west  of  Williamsburg,  but  this  property  he 
sold  three  years  later  and  entered  a  quarter-section  of  land  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  the  same  township.  About  1827  he  exchanged  that 
place  for  one  owned  by  his  eldest  brother  Obediah,  it  being  near  the 
center  of  the  same  township.  There  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  busy  and 
prosperous  life,  his   death   occurring  in  July,  1854.      Quiet   and  industrious, 


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upright  and  gentle,  he  was  a  most  worthy  and  respected  citizen,  faithful  in 
the  discharge  of  all  his  duties.  Though  he  was  a  Whig  with  strong  anti- 
slavery  principles,  he  did  not  desire  to  serve  in  public  positions,  preferring  to 
keep  out  of  politics,  but  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  several  years.  In 
the  early  part  of  1816  he  married  Naomi,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Lewis. 
She  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  whence  she  emigrated  to  this  state  with 
her  parents,  and  she  survived  her  husband  a  number  of  years.  To  James 
and  Naomi  Harris  five  sons  and  two  daughters  were  born,  Branson  L.  being 
the  eldest;  Winston  E.  is  a  resident  of  Williamsburg,  Wayne  cour>ty;  Addi- 
son R.  died  at  the  age  of  three  years;  Milton  R.  died  a  number  of  years  ago; 
Allen  M.  lives  in  Richmond,  this  county;  Hannah,  deceased,  was  the  wife  of 
William  Campbell;  and  Sarilda  is  the  wife  of  William  Thornburg. 

The  birth  of  Branson  L.  Harris  took  place  April  21,  18 17,  upon  his 
father's  old  homestead  in  Green  township.  His  entire  life,  eighty-two  years 
has  been  spent  in  Green  and  Clay  townships,  his  attention  chiefly  devoted  to 
agriculture.  In  his  young  manhood  he  worked  for  neighbors  until  he  had 
saved  a  little  capital,  and  his  next  step  was  to  rent  a  farm.  Later  he  bought 
a  small  tract  of  land,  and  added  to  this  as  he  could  afford.  At  last  he  had 
one  hundred  and  seventy  acres  of  finely  improved  land,  lying  in  one  body, 
and  this  he  sold  some  years  ago,  buying  instead  his  present  farm  adjoining 
Green's  Fork. 

An  eventful  day  in  the  history  of  our  subject  was  September  19,  1839, 
when  his  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Young  was  solemnized.  She  was  born 
March  23,  18 17,  in  the  same  locality,  and  they  had  grown  up  together.  Her 
parents  were  Jesse  and  Ruth  (Martindale)  Young,  respected  early  settlers  of 
Green  township.  Two  sons  blessed  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harris, 
namely:  Addison  and  Alonzo  M.  The  latter,  who  was  born  September  13, 
1845,  ^^'^  resides  on  the  farm  near  his  parents,  is  married  and  has  one  daugh- 
ter, Lenora,  who  is  the  only  grandchild  of  our  subject  and  wife.  The  elder 
son,  whose  birth  took  place  October  i,  1840,  was  educated  in  Christian  (now 
Butler)  University,  near  Indianapolis,  and  later  read  law  in  that  city,  with 
Barber  Howland  as  his  preceptor.  He  won  a  splendid  reputation  as  a  mem- 
of  the  legal  profession,  and  became  about  equally  prominent  in  the  ranks  of 
the  Republican  party  in  this  state.  In  the  spring  of  1899,  after  he  had 
adundantly  proved  his  ability  in  the  state  senate,  where  he  had  previously 
served  the  people,  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  to  the  very 
responsible  and  important  post  of  minister  to  Austria  and  is  now  representing 
this  great  government  in  the  court  at  Vienna. 

By  a  rather  remarkable  coincidence  Branson  L.  Harris  and  his  dis- 
tinguished son  were  members  of  the  legislative  body  of  Indiana  at  the  same 
time,  serving  in  the    lower  and   upper  house,  respectively.     The   former  was 


104  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 

elected  to  represent  his  county  in  the  general  assembly  of  the  state  as  early 
as  1852,  and  in  1875  and  1877  was  honored  with  re-elections,  thus  serving, 
altogether,  three  terms.  About  1850  he  was  given  the  office  of  justice  of  the 
peace,  acting  in  that  capacity  for  some  five  years,  and  he  also  served  as  town- 
ship trustee.  Both  he  and  his  sons  have  been  stanch  Republicans,  keeping 
themselves  thoroughly  posted  upon  all  of  the  great  questions  of  the  day.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Harris,  who  are  loved  and  revered  by  all  who  know  them,  were 
largely  influential  in  the  founding  of  the  Christian  church  at  Green's  Fork,  and 
have  contributed  liberally  of  their  time,  means  and  zeal  toward  its  upbuilding. 

JESSE  BOND. 

Jesse  and  Phcebe  Bond,  the  grandparents  of  Henry  T.  and  Abner  D. 
Bond,  of  Clay  township,  and  of  Lewis  Bond,  of  Cambridge  City,  Wayne 
county,  were  among  the  earliest  of  the  pioneers  of  this  county,  as  they 
arrived  here  in  1807.  Their  ancestors  were  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  its  princples  were  believed  in  and  practiced  by  them  throughout 
their  lives.  The  founder  of  the  Bond  family  in  America  was  one  of  the  col- 
onists who  accompanied  William  Penn;  and  a  son,  Joseph  Bond,  was  the 
father  of  Stephen  Bond,  who  settled  in  Virginia,  and  of  Edward  and  Samuel, 
who  located  in  North  Carolina,  while  the  other  sons,  Benjamin,  Silas  and 
John,  remained  in  Pennsylvania.  Edward  Bond,  who, as  mentioned,  removed 
to  the  south,  married  a  Miss  Mills,  and  to  them  were  born  the  following 
named  children:  Benjamin,  Edward,  John,  Joshua,  William,  Jesse,  Joseph, 
Anne  and  Keziah. 

Jesse  Bond  was  born  in  1779,  married  Phcebe  Commons,  a  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Ruth  (Hayes)  Commons,  and  in  1807  they  emigrated  from  Vir- 
ginia to  what  was  then  the  territory  of  Indiana.  For  a  few  years  they  lived 
upon  land  which  now  is  the  site  of  Earlham  College,  near  Richmond.  Then 
removing  to  the  homestead,  which  is  in  the  possession  of  Abner  Bond,  his 
grandson,  Jesse  Bond  spent  more  than  half  a  century  there,  passing  to  his 
reward  upon  the  4th  of  April,  1862.  His  devoted  helpmate  died  many  years 
previously,  when  in  her  sixty-third  year,  June  30,  1845.  By  the  aid  of  his 
sons  he  had  succeeded  in  clearing  and  greatly  improving  the  old  farm,  which 
is  situated  about  a  mile  south  of  the  present  town  of  Green  Fork,  in  Clay 
township.  For  his  day  he  was  con^idareJ  in  quite  affluent  circumstances  in 
his  later  years,  but  the  life  which  he  and  his  household  led  was  simple  and 
devoid  of  expensive  luxuries,  as  this  was  a  matter  of  long  habit  and  religious 
training.  He  was  a  man  of  high  standing  in  the  community  and  influential 
in  the  Quaker  church,  often  preaching  and  assisting  in  the  services.  Need- 
less to  say  his  integrity  and  uprightness  of  word  and  deed  won  for  him  the 
love  and  high  regard  of  every  one  with  whom  he  was  associated. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  105 

To  Jesse  Bond  and  wife  were  born  several  children,  namely:  Nathan, 
-whose  birth  took  place  in  1803,  and  whose  wife  was  formerly  Tamar  Kent- 
worthy;  Robert,  born  in  1804,  and  married  Rachel  Thornburg;  John,  born 
in  1806,  and  married  Mary  Barnett;  William  C. ,  born  in  1808,  and  married 
Hannah  Locke;  Enos,  born  in  1810,  and  wedded  Susanna  Hoover;  Isom, 
born  in  1812,  and  married  Dinah  Kentworthy;  Ruth,  born  in  1814,  and  mar- 
ried William  Nicholson;  Hannah,  born  in  18 16,  wife  of  John  Wilson;  Isaac, 
born  in  18 18,  and  married  leather  Jie  Eirgood;  Jesse,  born  in  1820  and  was 
three  times  married, — first  to  Jane  Cox,  then  to  Harriet  Hank,  and  finally 
to  Belle  King;  and  Lydia,  born  in  1822,  became  the  wife  of  Oliver  Menden- 
hall.  With  the  exception  of  Jesse  and  his  wives,  all  were  residents  of  Wayne 
county  at  the  time  of  their  marriage.  In  1899  the  only  survivors  of  the 
family  of  Jesse  Bond,  the  senior,  are  William,  Jesse,  Hannah  and  Lydia. 

Robert  Bond,  the  father  of  Henry  T. ,  Abner  D.  and  Lewis  Bond,  was 
born  in  Virginia  in  1804,  and  consequently  was  very  young  when  he  was 
brought  to  this  county,  with  whose  welfare  his  own  was  thenceforth  to  be 
connected.  The  lady  of  his  choice  was  Rachel  Thornburg,  a  daughter  of 
Henry  Thornburg,  an  early  settler  of  Jefferson  township,  Wayne  county- 
She  was  a  native  of  Tennessee,  and  came  to  this  section  with  her  parents  in 
childhood.  After  his  marriage,  Robert  Bond  located  upon  land  adjoining  his 
'  father's  homestead,  and  on  this  property  he  and  his  estimable  wife  passed 
the  rest  of  their  days.  Following  the  worthy  example  of  his  father,  he 
adhered  to  the  Society  of  Friends  and  illustrated  the  noble  ideals  which  he 
■cherished  in  his  daily  life.  Loved  and  mourned  by  a  large  circle  of  sincere 
friends,  he  entered  the  silent  land  on  the  28th  of  March,  1864.  Of  the  six 
sons  and  two  daughters  born  to  himself  and  wife,  and  reared  to  maturity, 
only  three,  H.  T. ,  A.  D.  and  Lewis,  survive.  John,  Milton,  Larkin,  Emily 
and  Lydia  E.  have  passed  away. 

Henry  T.  Bond  was  born  upon  the  parental  homestead  in  Clay  town- 
ship, February  10,  1827,  and  on  the  4th  of  September,  i860,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary  A.  Boyd.  Her  father,  Robert  Boyd,  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  Wayne  county  and  later  removed  to  Henry  county,  where  he 
spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  Mr.  Bond  was  bereft  of  his  wife,  who  died  in  Octo- 
ber, 1897,  leaving  three  children:     Robert  B.,  Emma  F.  and  James  Edgar. 

Abner  Bond,  who  resides  upon  the  old  homestead  formerly  owned  by 
his  grandfather,  Jesse  Bond,  was  born  April  19,  1836.  His  marriage  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Scott,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  (Willetts)  Scott,  was  solemnized 
in  i860.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bond  the  following  named  children  were  born: 
Emma  Celeste,  September  24,  1861;  Maud,  March  16,  1865;  Virgia  Blanche, 
April  14,  1877;  and  Edith  A.,  May  20,  1882.  The  eldest  daughter  became 
the  wife  of  A.  R.  Jones,  of  Centerville,  Wayne  county,  and  died  November 


106  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

4,  1889,  leaving  two  children:  Forest  B.,  who  was  born  April  8,  1876,  and 
Mary  Lucile,  born  October  24,  1879.  Maud,  the  second  daughter  of  Mr. 
Bond,  married  William  Woodruff,  and  resides  near  her  father's  home.  Vir- 
gia  Blanche  died  February  4,  1878.  Edith  A.  is  living  with  her  father  on 
the  farm. 

The  Bond  brothers  are  highly  respected  by  those  who  have  known  them 
from  their  boyhood,  and  they  are  indeed  worthy  representatives  of  this  hon- 
ored pioneer  family.  At  all  times  they  have  been  safely  relied  upon  to  use 
their  influence,  and  means  if  need  be,  in  the  advancement  of  whatever  has 
been  for  the  good  of  the  community. 

ISHAM  SMELSER. 

During  the  pioneer  epoch  in  the  history  of  Wayne  county,  the  Smelser 
family  was  founded  within  its  borders  by  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Smel- 
ser, who,  leaving  their  homes  in  Kentucky  in  1822,  took  up  their  residence 
in  Boston  township,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  where  they  spent  their  remain- 
ing days.  The  members  of  the  family  took  an  active  and  prominent  part  in 
the  development  of  this  section  of  the  state,  aided  in  transforming  its  wild 
lands  into  rich  farms,  and  in  other  ways  promoted  the  progress  and  advance- 
ment which  made  a  once  wild  region  the  home  of  a  contented,  prosperous 
people.  Jacob  Smelser  lived  to  witness  much  of  the  development  of  the 
county,  his  death  occurring  December  8,  1875,  when  he  had  reached  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-one  years.  His  wife  passed  away  April  7,  1869,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  They  had  nine  children:  Harriet,  widow  of 
William  Byers,  and  a  resident  of  Richmond;  Solomon,  who  is  mentioned  in 
connection  with  the  sketch  of  Nicholas  Smelser,  of  Harrison  township, 
Union  county;  Catherine,  who  married  Isaac  Esteb,  of  Boston  township, 
Wayne  county;  Margarey,  deceased  wife  of  John  Sedgwick;  James,  who- 
died  leaving  a  widow,  who  now  lives  four  miles  east  of  Richmond;  Isham,  of 
this  review;  Jacob,  a  resident  of  Frankton,  Madison  county,  Indiana;  Minerva, 
wife  of  James  Hart,  of  Harrison  township,  Union  county;  and  Tracy,  widow 
of  Zachariah  Osborn,  of  Boston  township,  Wayne  county. 

Isham  Smelser,  whose  name  heads  this  article,  was  born  on  the  old 
family  homestead  in  Wayne  county,  November  23,  1823,  and  was  therefore 
reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of  frontier  life.  He  aided  in  the  arduous  task  of 
clearing  wild  land  and  converting  it  into  fertile  fields,  continuing  to  assist  his 
father  until  his  marriage,  when  he  began  farming  on  his  own  account.  The 
first  land  he  owned  was  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  eighty-two  acres,  given 
him  by  his  father,  and  with  characteristic  energy  he  began  its  development. 
He  was  very  industrious  and  enterprising,  and  as  his  financial  resources- 
increased  he  added  to  his  landed  possessions  until   he  was  the  owner  of  an 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  107 

extensive  and  valuable  property.  In  connection  with  the  cultivation  of  his 
fields,  he  engaged  in  raising  cattle  in  large  numbers.  He  fed  these  for  the 
town  market,  and  found  that  branch  of  his  business  a  very  profitable  one. 
His  capable  management,  enterprise,  well  directed  efforts  and  honorable 
dealings  were  the  important  factors  in  his  prosperity  and  brought  him  a  very 
handsome  competence. 

In  1850  Mr.  Smelser  and  Miss  Henrietta  Farlow  were  united  in  mar- 
riage. The  lady  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Catherine  Farlow,  of  Harrison 
township.  Union  county,  where  the  family  located  at  a  very  early  day.  It 
was  in  that  locality  that  Mrs.  Smelser  was  born,  and  there  her  marriage 
occurred.  Four  children  were  born  of  this  union:  John  F.  and  Richard  E., 
who  reside  on  the  old  family  homestead,  now  owned  by  the  latter;  Jacob  S., 
a  resident  farmer  of  Boston  township,  Wayne  county;  and  Mary  E.,  wife  of 
Walter  W.  McConahan,  of  Center  township,  Wayne  county.  Both  Richard 
and  John  are  members  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  of  Abington, 
Indiana.  The  former  owns  four  hundred  and  five  acres  of  land, — the  old 
family  homestead, — and  the  latter  is  the  owner  of  a  valuable  farm  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  in  Boston  township.  They  carried  on  business  in 
partnership  for  five  years,  but  have  since  dissolved  their  business  relations. 
They  are  both  men  of  executive  ability  and  enterprise  and  are  numbered 
among  the  leading  citizens  of  the  community.  The  father  of  this  family  was 
a  faithful  member  of  the  Universalist  church,  very  regular  in  his  attendance 
on  its  services,  and  was  fond  of  an  argument  on  religious  topics,  on  which  he 
was  well  informed.  Straightforward  in  all  his  business  dealings,  loyal  to  his 
duties  of  citizenship,  he  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow 
men,  and  by  his  death  the  community  lost  one  of  its  valued  citizens.  He 
passed  away  September  28,  [882,  in  his  fifty-ninth  year,  and  his  wife,  sur- 
viving him  some  time,  died  December  15,  1893,  at  the  age  of  si.xty-seven 
years. 

HON.   WILLIAM  BAXTER. 

In  the  death  of  William  Baxter,  September  6,  1886,  Wayne  county  lost 
one  of  her  most  prominent  and  useful  citizens,  and  though  more  than  a 
decade  has  been  added  to  the  past  since  he  passed  to  his  reward  he  is  remem- 
bered in  many  a  home,  and  his  good  works  in  various  directions  still  speak 
his  praises.  While  he  was  deeply  concerned  in  numerous  philanthropic  enter- 
prises, he  was,  more  especially,  heart  and  soul  identified  with  the  temper- 
ance cause.  Gifted  with  eloquence  and  a  ready  flow  of  language,  he  delivered 
able  addresses  on  the  subject  of  temperance,  in  all  parts  of  this  state  and 
Ohio.  A  Republican,  politically,  he  was  elected  on  that  ticket  to  the  Indiana 
legislature,  and  served  one  term   there  in   the   '70s.      Later   he   was    further 


108  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

honored  by  being  elected  to  the  state  senate,  and  while  a  member  of  that 
honorable  body  he  introduced  and  secured  the  passage  of  the  bill  known  as 
the  Baxter  local-option  bill.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  all  measures  of 
public  importance  and  was  a  thorough  disbeliever  in  the  system  of  capital 
punishment  which  prevails.  Not  only  was  he  prominent  in  the  Woman's 
Reformatory  of  Indianapolis  and  deeply  interested  in  all  state-prison  reforms, 
but  in  every  practical  manner  he  also  sought  to  do  good  to  his  fellow  men. 
In  short,  his  life  was  the  embodiment  of  the  highest  teaching  of  Christianity, 
of  love  and  service  toward  God  and  man. 

A  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  William  Baxter  was  born  February  i  r, 
1824.  His  parents  were  John  and  Mar}'  (Pollard)  Baxter,  likewise  of  York- 
shire birth.  The  father  was  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  doubt- 
less his  beautiful  example  and  wise  teaching  had  much  to  do  in  forming  the 
character  of  his  son  William.  He  was  very  influential  in  his  own  neighbor- 
hood, for  ha  was  not  only  a  good  man  but  one  of  brains  and  liberal  ideas, 
and  a  great  student.  He  was  the  father  of  ten  children,  three  of  whom  died 
in  England.  The  father  having  died,  William  Baxter  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1848  and  made  a  home  in  Philadelphia,  to  which  his  widowed 
mother  came  the  following  year,  and  the  rest  of  the  family  later  crossed  the 
Atlantic. 

Prior  to  leaving  his  native  land  Mr.  Baxter  had  studied  law,  but  he 
concluded  that  he  would  not  follow  that  vocation,  and  instead  he  accepted 
a  position  as  manager  of  a  woolen-goods  factory.  At  the  end  of  a  few  years 
he  became  interested  in  the  tea  trade  at  Liverpool,  and  after  arriving  in 
Philadelphia  he  dealt  in  wool  in  wholesale  quantities,  as  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  David  Scull  &  Company.  When  he  came  to  Richmond  in  1864  he 
continued  buying,  shipping  and  selling  wool  to  his  old  Quaker  City  house  up 
to  1875.  He  became  the  owner  of  a  fine  one-hundred-acre  farm  in  what  is 
now  West  Richmond,  and  from  1875  until  his  death  he  was  a  stockholder  and 
director  in  the  Wayne  Agricultural  Works,  of  Richmond. 

In  England  Mr.  Baxter  married  Mary  Wickett,  who  died  soon  after 
their  removal  to  Philadelphia,  and  their  only  child,  a  son,  died  in  infancy. 
December  3,  1856,  Mr.  Baxter  married  Mary  Barker,  who  survives  him  and 
resides  in  Richmond,  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  know  her.  Her  par- 
ents, Enoch  and  Sophia  (Davis)  Barker,  were  both  natives  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  left  that  state  to  take  up  their  abode  in  the  north  on  account  of 
their  opposition  to  slavery.  They  came  to  this  state  in  1831  and  five  years 
later  the  father  died  at  his  home  near  Thornton,  Boone  county.  The 
mother  survived  him  for  sixty  years,  dying  at  a  very  advanced  age  in  Rich- 
mond, in  1896. 

The    five   living    children  of  William  and  Mary  (Barker)    Baxter    are: 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  10& 

Sarah,  wife  of  Edward  Fletcher,  of  thip  place;  Mary  E.,  wife  of  John  G. 
Sutton,  of  Warsaw,  Indiana;  Maria,  at  home;  Lucy  V.,  who  married  Per- 
cival  B.  Coffin,  of  Chicago;  and  William  H.,  a  citizen  of  Richmond. 

ANDREW  F.   SCOTT. 

It  is  a  well  attested  maxim  that  the  greatness  of  the  state  lies  not  in  the 
machinery  of  government,  or  even  in  its  institutions,  but  in  the  sterling  qual- 
ities of  its  individual  citizens,  in  their  capacity  for  high  and  unselfish  effort 
and  their  devotion  to  the  public  good.  To  this  class  belonged  Andrew  F. 
Scott  of  Richmond,  a  man  prominent  in  the  business,  social  and  church  cir- 
cles of  the  city.  His  influence  for  good  was  widely  felt,  and  his  example  was 
indeed  worthy  of  emulation.  He  was  at  all  times  actuated  by  the  highest 
motives  and  the  most  lofty  principles;  he  lived  for  the  benefit  of  others,  and 
his  memory  remains  as  an  unalloyed  benediction  to  all  who  knew  him.  The 
history  of  Richmond  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record  of  his  life,  so 
intimately  was  he  connected  with  its  commercial  and  benevolent  institu- 
tions. 

Andrew  F.  Scott  was  born  in  Rockbridge  county,  Virginia,  on  the  28th 
of  December,  181 1,  and  made  the  best  of  the  advantages  afforded  him  for 
the  acquirement  of  an  education.  In  1838  he  left  the  Old  Dominion  in  order 
to  try  his  fortune  upon  the  prairies  of  the  far  west  and  took  up  his  residence 
in  the  little  village  of  Richmond,  Indiana.  He  entered  upon  his  vocation 
here  as  a  school-teacher,  and  later  accepted  the  position  of  clerk  for  Daniel 
Reid.  In  1839  Mr.  Reid  was  appointed  registrar  of  the  land  office  at  Fort 
Wayne,  and  appointed  Mr.  Scott  his  chief  deputy.  In  1841  the  latter  was 
appointed  deputy  sheriff  of  Wayne  county  and  returned  from  Fort  W^ayne  to 
Centerville  in  order  to  assume  the  duties  of  his  new  position.  On  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  service  he  went  to  Cincinnati  and  entered  the  employ  of  a 
steamboat  company,  with  which  he  was  connected  until  1847,  when  he  came 
to  Richmond  and  embarked  in  merchandising.  For  four  years  he  successfully 
carried  on  operations  in  that  line,  and  then  assumed  the  duties  of  county 
clerk,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  in  1851  for  a  term  of  four  years.  In 
1855  he  was  again  chosen  for  that  position,  being  elected  almost  without 
opposition.  When  his  second  term  expired  he  turned  his  attention  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits  and  carpentering,  which  he  followed  for  six  years,  when,  in 
1866,  he  became  a  partner  in  the  grocery  firm  of  Forkner,  Scott  &  Elmer, 
which  relation  was  maintained  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1872  he  was  instru- 
mental in  organizing  the  Second  National  Bank,  was  one  of  its  leading  stock- 
holders, and  at  its  formation  was  elected  president,  in  which  position  he  con- 
tinued to  serve  to  the  time  of  his  death.  To  his  enterprise,  sagacity,  keen 
discrimination   and    thorough    reliability,    the    success    of    the    institution   is 


110  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

largely  due,  and  to  his  efforts  may  be  attributed  its  high  standing  in  financial 
circles.  He  was  a  man  of  unquestioned  integrity  in  all  business  transactions, 
was  progressive  in  his  methods  and  very  energetic;  and  the  success  and 
prosperity  he  achieved  was  the  deserved  reward  of  honorable  labor.  He 
aided  in  organizing,  and  was  a  stockholder  in  the  Richmond  Natural  Gas 
Company. 

In  1839  Mr.  Scott  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Martha  McGlathery, 
of  Philadelphia.  She  was  born  in  Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  June  17,  1808. 
Her  father  was  a  wealthy  market  gardener  near  Philadelphia,  who  came  to 
Richmond,  Indiana,  in  1837,  and  lived  here  until  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Scott, 
July  II,  1839.  She  was  a  faithful  helpmate  until  her  death,  January  8,  1888. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church,  but  her  home  among 
the  flowers  and  plants  was  her  delight.  In  regard  to  her  benevolent  character 
we  can  empathically  say  she  never  turned  the  needy  from  her  door  unsupplied. 
Her  kindness  of  heart  often  carried  her  to  the  limit  of  her  resources.  For 
example,  during  the  civil  war  word  was  received  that  the  soldiers  were  suf- 
fering for  blankets  to  keep  them  warm;  and  Mrs.  Scott  contributed  the  last 
comfortable  or  quilt  she  had  in  the  house. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  were  John.  Letitia,  Augustus  and 
Mary;  but  all  are  now  deceased  with  the  exception  of  Augustus.  Letitia  died 
February  22,  1863,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years.  She  was  married  in 
1859  to  Joseph  McNutt,  who  died  in  1877.  They  had  two  children.  The 
elder,  Albert  Scott  McNutt,  is  a  graduate  of  the  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy and  was  stationed  for  some  time  in  the  west,  at  Cheyenne,  Fort  Thomas 
and  other  points,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  The  younger  son,  Frank 
A.,  is  a  man  of  superior  education  and  has  traveled  all  over  the  world,  hav- 
ing circumnavigated  the  globe.  He  served  as  secretary  of  the  legation  at 
Madrid  and  consul  at  Constantinople.  He  recently  married  a  Miss  Van 
Cortland  Ogden,  an  heiress  of  New  York  city,  and  now  lives  in  a  palatial 
home  in  Rome,  Italy.  Mary  E.  was  the  wife  of  John  M.  Tennis,  and  had 
one  daughter,  Martha,  wife  of  Joseph  Gibson,  of  Richmond,  Indiana. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Scott  was  one  of  the  leading  and  zealous  members 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  of  Richmond,  and  served  as  elder  for  a 
long  period.  He  was  always  found  in  his  place  at  the  church  services  and 
lived  that  practical  religion  which  teaches  charity,  kindness,  sympathy  and 
benevolence.  The  poor  and  needy  found  in  him  a  warm  friend,  yet  his  aid 
was  always  unostentatious,  and  was  frequently  bestowed  when  the  recipient 
knew  not  who  was  the  donor.  In  politics  he  was  always  a  stanch  Democrat, 
and  for  eight  years  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council,  taking  an  active 
part  in  the  advocacy  and  adoption  of  all  measures  tending  to  prove  of  public 
benefit.      He  was  an  exemplary  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  HI 

Fellows,  of  the  Masonic  order  and  of  the  local  humane  society.  He  passed 
away  March  i6,  1895,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  The 
banks  of  the  city  were  closed  during  the  hour  of  the  funeral  services,  and 
throughout  this  section  of  Indiana  was  mourned  the  death  of  this  honored 
pioneer,  enterprising  citizen,  faithful  friend,  devoted  husband  and  father  and 
earnest  Christian  gentleman.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Humane  Society,  the 
following  tribute  to  his  memory  was  read   by  Mrs.  F.  M.  Clark: 

"  The  cause  of  humanity  never  had  a  truer  friend  than  this  loved  and 
valued  member  of  our  society  who  has  passed  to  the  higher  life.  The  stereo- 
typed words  customary  on  such  occasions  seem  but  mockery  when  we  remem- 
ber all  the  grand  traits  that  went  to  make  the  character  of  this,  one  of 
nature's  noblemen.  In  all  the  relations  of  life, — family,  church  and  society, 
■ — he  displayed  that  consistent  Christian  spirit,  that  innate  refinement,  that 
endeared  him  alike  to  man,  woman  and  child.  He  early  learned  that  true 
happiness  consisted  in  ministering  to  others,  and  his  integrity  and  fidelity 
were  manifest  in  every  act  of  his  life.  Splendid  monuments  record  the  vir- 
tues of  kings,  history's  pages  chronicle  the  deeds  of  heroes,  but  the  memory 
of  our  brother  will  live  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  knew  and  loved  him.  The 
example  of  such  a  life  is  an  inspiration  to  others,  and  his  influence  will  be 
felt  long  after  the  marble  has  crumbled  and  history's  pages  are  dust.  We 
feel  that  in  the  death  of  Andrew  F.  Scott  our  society  has  sustained  an 
irreparable  loss,  and  we  extend  to  his  family  our  sincere  sympathy  in  this 
their  great  bereavement." 

SAMUEL  TUTTLE. 

Samuel  Tuttle,  postmaster  of  Orange,  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  is  a 
veteran  of  the  civil  war  and  a  man  whose  sterling  integrity  entitles  him  to  the 
high  regard  in  which  he  is  held  by  all  who  know  him. 

Mr.  Tuttle  is  a  native  of  the  Pine  Tree  state.  He  was  born  in  Passa- 
dumkeag,  Penobscot  county,  Maine,  October  12,  1840,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Fanny  (Sibley)  Tuttle,  both  of  whom  were  born  in  Maine.  James  Tuttle, 
the  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  an  Ohio  farmer  who  passed 
his  life  and  died  in  the  Buckeye  state.  His  children,  five  in  number,  were 
Samuel,  James,  Church,  and  Martha,  wife  of  J.  Wolf,  and  another  daughter 
whose  name  cannot  now  be  recalled.  James  Tuttle  was  an  Abolitionist  and 
a  Republican,  and  in  his  religious  views  he  was  known  as  a  materialist. 
General  James  Tuttle,  who  has  figured  prominently  in  Iowa  politics,  is  a 
cousin  of  our  subject. 

The  senior  Samuel  Tuttle  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Maine,  later  in  Ohio,  and  when  a  young  man  returned  to  Maine  and  engaged 
in  the  lumber  business,  rafting  lumber  down  the  Penobscot  river.      He  was 


112  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

married  in  Maine,  and  in  October,  1850,  moved  with  liis  family  to  Indiana, 
locating  in  Fayette  county,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  days  in  the  quiet 
of  farm  life.  He  died  in  Fayetteville  about  1870.  Both  he  and  his  wife 
were  identified  with  the  Christian  church,  and  she  survived  him  until  1893 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Hiram  Sibley,  a  farmer  of  Maine.  To  Samuel  and 
Fanny  (Sibley)  Tuttle  were  born  four  children,  namely  :  Martha,  who  died 
in  early  womanhood;  James,  a  member  of  the  Ninth  Indiana  Cavalry,  died  in 
the  service  during  the  civil  war;  Samuel;  and  Mary,  deceased  wife  of  A.  Pettis. 
Thus  Samuel  is  the  only  one  of  the  family  now  living.  Of  their  mother  we 
further  record  that  she  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  four  children,  the 
others  being  John,  William  A.,  and  Eliza,  wife  of  J.  P.  Roundy,  of  Bangor, 
Maine. 

The  direct  subject  of  this  sketch,  Samuel  Tuttle,  was  ten  years  old  when 
his  father  moved  from  Maine  to  Indiana,  and  on  his  father's  farm  in  Fayette 
county  he  passed  the  years  between  ten  and  eighteen.  He  then  learned  the 
trade  of  harnessmaker,  and  as  a  journeyman  was  employed  in  work  at  that 
trade  when  the  civil  war  was  inaugurated.  August  12,  1861,  he  enlisted  at 
Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  as  a  member  of  the  Nineteenth  United  States  Iiifmtry, 
which  was  mustered  in  at  Indianapolis.  His  command  was  sent  to  Kentucky, 
where  it  became  a  part  of  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  Third  Division,  and 
with  it  he  shared  the  fortunes  of  war,  participating  in  numerous  engagements. 
Among  the  battles  in  which  he  took  part  were  those  of  Shiloh,  Stone  river, 
Chickamauga,  etc.  Sunday  night,  September  20,  1863,  he  was  taken  pris- 
oner by  the  enemy  and  sent  to  Richmond,  Virginia,  where  he  \\as  destined  to 
taste  the  horrors  of  prison  life, — a  life  which  did  not  soon  end  for  him.  He 
remained  at  Richmond  until  February  of  the  following  year,  when  he  was 
transferred  to  Danville;  subsequently  was  sent  back  to  Richmond  and  was 
held  a  captive  until  September,  when  he  was  released.  It  was  only  by  strat- 
agem that  he  avoided  Andersonville  at  the  time  he  was  transferred  to  Dan- 
ville, and  it  was  by  the  use  of  the  same  means  that  he  obtained  his  parole. 
After  this  he  went  to  Annapolis,  Maryland,  and  was  placed  in  St.  John's  hos- 
pital, where  he  remained  a  month,  at  the  end  of  that  time  going  to  Detroit,. 
Michigan,  where  he  was  honorably  discharged,  his  term  of  enlistment  having 
expired. 

At  the  close  of  his  army  service  Mr.  Tuttle  returned  to  Fajette  county, 
a  physical  wreck,  and  it  was  a  year  before  he  recovered  sufficient  health  to 
enable  him  to  resume  work  at  his  trade.  As  soon  as  he  was  able  he  engaged 
in  work  as  a  journeyman  harnessmaker,  and  was  thus  occupied  until  1876, 
traveling  about  from  place  to  place.  In  1876  he  returned  to  Fayetteville,. 
opened  a  shop  and  settled  here.  In  the  meantime  he  had  married,  in  Mar- 
shall county,  Indiana.      He  worked  at   his  trade  here  until    1885,   when  he 


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retired.     In  May,  1898,  he  received  the  appointment  as  postmaster  of  Orange 
postoffice  and  has  acceptably  filled  the  office  ever  since. 

Mr.  Tattle's  first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  David,  was  the 
daughter  of  W.  P.  David,  a  farmer  and  Methodist  minister  of  Marshall 
county,  Indiana.  Mrs.  MaryTuttle  died  in  1871,  leaving  an  only  child,  Rosa, 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  Martin  P.  Carny,  a  farmer  of  Madison  county,  Indi- 
ana. In  1876  Mr.  Tuttle  married  Mrs.  Agnes  Spangle,  a  daughter  of  John 
Flanders,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Flanders  was  for  years  engaged  in 
farming  in  Steuben  county,  Indiana,  and  died  there.  Mrs.  Tuttle  has  one 
child  by  her  first  husband,  William  Spangle.  By  Mr.  Tuttle  she  has  had 
three  children.  The  first-born  died  in  infancy  and  James  A.  and  Mary  are 
both  at  home.  Mr.  Tuttle's  first  wife  was  a  Methodist  and  his  present  wife 
and  the  two  children  are  members  of  the  Christian  church.  Mr.  Tuttle  is 
an  ardent  Republican  and  is  identified  with  the  G.  A.  R.  Post,  No.  126,  at 
Connersville. 

AUGUSTUS  C.   SCOTT. 

Of  an  old  Virginia  family  that  was  founded  in  Indiana  at  an  early  period 
in  the  history  of  the  Hoosier  state,  Augustus  C.  Scott  is  a  worthy  representa- 
tive. He  was  born  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  Richmond,  August  4, 
1843,  and  is  a  son  of  Andrew  F.  and  Martha  Scott.  His  grandfather,  Jesse 
Scott,  was  a  native  of  Rockbridge  county,  Virginia,  where  he  spent  his  entire 
life  in  the  occupation  of  farming.  Andrew  F.  Scott  likewise  was  a  native  of 
Rockbridge  county,  born  December  8,  181 1.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and  in  1838  came  to  Indiana.  For  many 
years  he  was  identified  with  the  growth,  development  and  improvement  of 
Wayne  county,  and  in  his  death,  which  occurred  March  16,  1895,  the  com- 
munity experienced  a  great  loss. 

Under  the  parental  roof  Augustus  C.  Scott  was  reared  to  manhood,  and 
pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Centerville  and  Richmond,  and 
through  this  source  and  by  means  of  reading,  experience  and  observation  he 
has  become  a  well  informed  man.  For  many  years  he  has  successfully 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  two  valuable 
farms.  The  larger,  comprising  two  hundred  and  seventy-eight  acres  of  rich 
land,  is  situated  a  mile  and  a  half  east  of  Richmond,  while  the  other,  of 
sixty-three  acres,  is  three  miles  southeast  of  Richmond,  and  both  are  in 
Wayne  township.  Thus  conveniently  near  the  city,  Mr.  Scott  gives  to  them 
his  personal  supervision  and  derives  from  the  property  a  very  desirable 
income.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  successfully  and  extensively  engaged 
in  the  raising  and  selling  of  stock,  and  being  an  excellent  judge  of  stock  he 
makes  judicious  purchases  and  profitable  sales.  His  business  interests,  how- 
ever, have  not  been  confined  to  one  line  of  endeavor.    He  is  a  man  of  resource- 


114  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ful  ability  and  lias  been  an  active  factor  in  the  successful  control  of  some  of 
Richmond's  leading  enterprises.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Richmond  Nat- 
ural Gas  Company,  and  also  in  the  Second  National  Bank,  and  through 
•these  avenues  adds  materially  to  his  income. 

In  marriage  Mr.  Scott  was  united  with  Miss  Rachel,  a  daughter  of  John 
S.  and  Rachel  (Thorne)  Brown,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  May  3,  188S. 
They  became  the  parents  of  four  children,  namely:  Thomas  H.,  now 
deceased;  Andrew  F.,  Martha  Mabel  and  Ruth  Eloise,  all  at  home.  The 
family  is  one  of  prominence  in  Richmond,  and  their  home  is  the  center  of  a 
•cultured  societ}^  circle. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Scott  is  a  Democrat,  but  aside  from  casting  an 
intelligent  ballot  in  support  of  the  principles  of  his  party  he  takes  little  part 
in  political  affairs.  At  all  times  and  in  all  places  he  commands  the  respect 
of  his  fellow  townsmen  by  his  upright  life,  and  in  the  history  of  the  county 
he  well  deserves  representation. 

His  father-in-law,  John  S.  Brown,  deceased,  was  born  in  New  Jersey  in 
i8i2,  and  in  1819  was  taken  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  by  the  family  in  their 
•emigration  to  that  point.  After  growing  up  he  became  a  successful  farmer, 
^buying  the  old  home  farm  of  six  hundred  acres,  where  Mrs.  Scott  was  brought 
■up.  She  was  the  youngest  of  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living. 
Mr.  Brown  was  especially  successful  in  the  rearing  of  live  stock,  practically 
carrying  out  the  maxim,  "The  best  is  none  too  good."  For  about  eight 
years  he  was  connected  with  a  firm  in  Richmond  engaged  in  packing  pork. 
In  his  religious  views  he  was  liberal,  not  connected  with  any  church,  though 
by  birthright  a  Friend.  In  1836  he  married  Rachel  Thorne,  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  who  was  engaged  in  school-teaching  before  her  marriage.  She  was 
an  active  member  of  the  Hicksite  Friends'  meeting,  and  was  a  clerk  of  the 
-meeting  at  her  death  in  1856.      Mr.  Brown  died  in  1879. 

HEZEKIAH   GRUBB. 

Jackson  township,  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  includes  among  its  repre- 
■seiitative  farmers  and  respected  citizens  Hezekiah  Grubb,  whose  postoffice 
address  is  Everton. 

Mr.  Grubb  is  a  native  of  the  township  in  which  he  now  lives,  and  was 
born  December  15,  1844,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Myers)  Grubb.  Joseph 
'Grubb  was  a  Virginian.  He  was  born  in  1815,  and  when  two  years  old  was 
'brought  by  his  parents  to  Indiana,  their  location  being  in  Union  county, 
where  his  boyhood  days  were  spent,  up  to  the  time  he  was  fifteen,  in  assisting 
•in  the  farm  work.  At  that  age  he  commenced  working  at  the  carpenter's 
itrade  in  Fayette  county,  which  trade  he  followed  until  he  was  thirty.  He 
^was  married  in  Jackson  township,  Fayette  county.      Industrious  and  econo- 


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mical,  he  prospered  in  his  undertakings  and  when  a  young  man  invested  in 
land  in  Decatur  county.  Afterward  he  disposed  of  that  property  and  bought 
farm  land  in  Jackson  township,  Fayette  county,  from  time  to  time  making 
additional  purchases  until  he  was  the  owner  of  eight  hundred  acres,  which  he 
divided  among  his  children.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  retire- 
ment at  his  homestead,  where  he  died  in  the  year  1892.  His  wife  died 
in  1876.  He  was  a  broad-minded,  well-posted  man,  interested  in  the  public 
affairs  of  his  locality  but  never  seeking  office  or  notoriety.  Politically,  he 
was  a  Republican.  In  his  early  life  he  was  a  Universalist  in  his  belief,  but 
later  he  identified  himself  with  the  Methodist  church,  of  which  he  was  a  con- 
sistent member  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Generous,  genial  and  hospitable, — 
possessing  in  a  measure  the  characteristics  of  the  best  pioneer  element, — 
he  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  His  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  Myers,  was  of  German  parentage.  Little  is 
known  of  her  family  history  except  that  her  parents  were  early  settlers  of 
Fayette  county,  were  Christian  people  and  passed  their  lives  on  a  farm.  In 
the  Myers  family  were  six  children:  Abraham,  Mrs.  Catherine  Bloomfield, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Mcllwain,  John,  Henry  and  Mrs.  Mary  Grubb.  John  and  Mary 
Grubb  had  a  family  composed  of  the  following  members:  John,  of  Dearborn 
county,  Indiana;  Hezekiah,  whose  name  introduces  this  sketch;  Theodore,  of 
Jackson  township,  Fayette  county;  Nancy,  wife  of  William  Casto;  Rachael, 
wife  of  G.  McLain;  Indiana, wife  of  G.  Myers;  and  Winfield  and  Marion,  both 
farmers  of  Jackson  township,  Fayette  county. 

Hezekiah  Grubb  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  school  near  his  home,  and  in  time  came  into  possession  of  a  portion  of 
his  father's  estate,  where  he  now  lives.  After  his  marriage,  in  1865,  he  went 
to  Rush  county,  where  he  spent  one  )'ear,  at  the  end  of  that  time  returning 
to  this  place.  Since  1869  he  has  occupied  his  present  home.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  farming  all  his  life,  and  each  season  since  1888  has  owned  and 
run  a  threshing  machine,  doing  a  profitable  business  in  this  line. 

Mr.  Grubb  is  a  Republican  and  takes  an  intelligent  interest  in  all  polit- 
ical matters.  Since  1894  he  has  been  trustee  of  Jackson  township,  giving 
careful  attention  to  the  affairs  of  this  office  and  filling  the  same  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  all  concerned. 

He  was  married,  in  1865,  to  Miss  Sarah  Hood,  who  was  born  in  Colum- 
bia township,  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  May  19,  1849,  daughter  of  George 
and  Susanna  (Jones)  Hood,  who  came  from  Tennessee  to  Indiana  at  an  early 
day.  Mr.  Hood  improved  a  farm  in  Fayette  county  and  here  passed  the  rest 
of  his  life  and  died,  his  death  occurring  in  1886.  He  was  a  son  of  Robert 
Hood,  a  native  of  Virginia,  who  moved  to  Tennessee,  thence  to  Kentucky 
and  later  to  Indiana.      For  many  years  he   ran   a  fiat-boat  to  New  Orleans 


116  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

He  was  in  the  war  of  1812  and  took  part  in  the  battle  at  which  Tecumseh 
was  killed.  His  children  were  George,  father  of  Mrs.  Grubb;  Samuel,  a 
resident  of  Fayette  county;  Mrs.  Martha  Maber;  Jane,  wife  of  W.  Ball;  Jack, 
of  Fayette  county;  and  Robert,  who  died  in  Libby  prison  during  the  civil 
war.  Following  are  the  names  in  order  of  birth  of  the  children  of  George 
and  Susanna  Hood:  Mrs.  Mary  Lyons;  Robert,  deceased;  Sarah,  wife  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Charlotte,  wife  of  T.  Brookbank;  Jane,  wife  of  W. 
Corbin;  Albert,  of  Fayette  county;  Samuel,  who  died,  leaving  one  child; 
Mrs.  Laura  Mason;  Sherman,  of  Tipton  county,  Indiana;  and  John.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Grubb  have  had  two  children:  Adelia,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
eleven  years;  and  Norman,  a  promising  young  man,  who  for  the  past  five 
years  has  been  engaged  in  teaching  school  in  Fayette  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Grubb  and  their  son  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

WILLIAM  F.  DOWNS. 

Perhaps  no  one  agency  in  all  the  world  has  done  so  much  for  public 
progress  as  the  press,  and  an  enterprising,  well  edited  journal  is  a  most 
important  factor  in  promoting  the  welfare  and  prosperity  of  any  community. 
It  adds  to  the  intelligence  of  the  people  through  its  transmission  of  foreign 
and  domestic  news  and  through  its  discussion  of  the  leading  issues  and  ques- 
tions of  the  day,  and  more  than  that,  it  makes  the  town  or  city  which  it  rep- 
resents known  outside  of  the  immediate  locality,  as  it  is  sent  each  day  or 
week  into  other  districts,  carrying  with  it  an  account  of  the  events  transpir- 
ing in  its  home  locality,  the  advancement  and  progress  there  being  made,  and 
the  advantages  which  it  offers  to  its  residents  along  moral,  educational,  social 
and  commercial  lines.  Connersville  is  certainly  indebted  to  its  wide-awake 
journals  in  no  small  degree,  and  the  subject  of  this  review  is  the  editor  of  two 
excellent  newspapers  of  that  city, — The  Connersville  Times  and  the  Daily 
News.  Throughout  his  entire  life  he  has  been  connected  with  journalistic 
work,  and  his  power  as  a  writer  and  editor  is  widely  acknowledged  among 
contemporaneous  journalists. 

One  of  Indiana's  native  sons,  William  F.  Downs  was  born  in  Anderson, 
Madison  county,  December  25,  1854,  his  parents  being  Hezekiah  and  Ruth 
Ann  (Chase)  Downs.  The  family  is  of  Irish  lineage,  and  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  Thomas  Downs,  was  a  native  of  Maryland.  In  1800  he  removed 
to  Fleming  county,  Kentucky,  and  in  that  state  married  Ruth  House.  Sub- 
sequently he  came  to  Indiana,  making  his  home  in  Rush  county.  He  followed 
farming  as  a  life  work.  Hezekiah  Downs,  who  was  one  of  a  family  of  three 
sons  and  two  daughters,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  18 18,  and  was  a  lad  of 
twelve  years  when  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Rush 
county.      He,  too,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  spent  the  greater  part 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  117 

of  his  life  in  Madison  county,  Indiana,  but  in  1862  came  with  his  family  to 
Connersville,  where  his  death  occurred  in  1882,  when  he  had  attained  the 
age  of  sixty-four  years.      His  wife  passed  away  in  1881. 

William  Francis  Downs  was  a  lad  of  eight  summers  when  he  came  with 
his  parents  to  Connersville,  and  with  the  interests  of  the  city  he  has  since 
been  identified.  He  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Anderson 
and  Connersville, supplementing  it  with  a  course  in  the  "poor  man's  college," 
the  printing  office.  He  early  entered  upon  his  journalistic  career,  and  prac- 
tical experience  has  made  him  familiar  with  the  business  in  every  department, 
as  gradually  he  has  worked  his  way  upward  through  successive  stages  to  the 
editorial  sanctum.  He  put  aside  his  text-books  in  the  spring  of  1868,  and  on. 
the  9th  of  November  of  that  year,  when  a  youth  of  thirteen,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  A.  M.  &  G.  M.  Sinks,  publishers  of  the  Connersville  Times,  little 
realizing  then  that  he  would  one  day  be  the  editor  of  the  same  journal.  Seven 
years  passed  during  which  time  he  served  as  compositor  and  afterward  as 
foreman  of  the  mechanical  department,  and  in  July,  1875,  he  purchased  the 
Times  in  conjunction  with  John  A.  James,  continuing  its  publication  for  two 
years,  when  they  sold  out  to  Charles  N.  Sinks.  He  afterward  did  local  work 
on  the  paper,  but  in  1880,  in  connection  with  John  C.  O'Chiltree,  he  again 
purchased  the  journal  and  was  connected  with  it  as  one  of  the  editors  and 
proprietors  untili  882.  He  then  again  sold  his  interest  and  for  two  and  a 
half  years  thereafter  was  city  editor  of  The  Examiner.  On  the  expiration  of 
that  period  he  became  city  editor  of  the  Times,  filling  that  position  until 
June,  1887.  During  all  these  years  his  original  methods  of  execution,  his 
great  facility  of  perception,  his  correct  and  spirited  grasp  of  affairs,  all  com- 
bined to  give  individuality  to  his  style,  bringing  him  instant  recognition  not 
only  at  home  but  also  in  the  field  of  contemporaneous  journalism. 

In  1887  Mr.  Downs  extended  the  field  of  his  labors  through  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Daily  News,  the  first  successful  daily  of  the  city.  It  made  its 
first  appearance  on  the  gth  of  June  of  that  year,  entering  upon  what  has 
proved  to  be  a  most  prosperoqs  existence.  His  long  experience  in  the  field 
of  journalism  enabled  him  to  successfully  launch  the  new  venture,  and  so 
guide  its  course,  that,  passing  the  rocks  of  disaster,  it  reached  the  untroubled 
sea.  In  the  enterprise  he  was  associated  with  Mrs.  Hull,  who  owned  a  half- 
interest  in  the  paper.  The  plant  was  located  in  the  Huston  building,  and 
from  there  removed  to  the  National  Bank  building.  On  the  20th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1892,  the  News  was  consolidated  with  the  Connersville  Times,  the  paper 
being  then  owned  by  J.  W.  Schackelford,  Delia  Smith  (now  Mrs.  Hull),  and 
W.  F.  Downs.  The  last  named  has  remained  as  the  editor  of  both  journals. 
Mr.  Schackelford  disposed  of  his  interest  to  J.  H.  Tatman,  and  the  local  work 
•was  under  the  superintendence  of   Bernal  Tatman  until  August,   1895,  when 


118  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Mr.  Tatman  sold  his  third  interest  to  Mr.  Downs  and  Mrs.  Hull,  but  in  the 
spring  of  1896  he  purchased  the  latter's  half  interest.  Though  changes  have 
occurred  in  ownership,  the  News  has  ever  remained  the  same,  save  for  the 
continued  improvement  that  is  being  made.  As  ils  name  indicates,  it  is  pub- 
lished daily,  and  is  a  bright,  entertaining  journal,  devoted  to  the  promotion 
of  local  interests  and  to  the  support  of  the  Republican  party.  The  Conners- 
ville  Times  is  a  weekly  paper,  a  six-column,  eight-page  journal,  and  both 
have  a  large  circulation  and  a  splendid  advertising  patronage.  The  office  and 
plant  owned  by  the  company  are  most  complete,  being  equipped  with  the 
latest  improved  presses  and  machinery  for  turning  out  the  highest  grade  of 
newspaper  and  job  work.  That  the  enterprising  city  of  Connersville  is  well 
represented  by  these  journals  is  a  fact  beyond  dispute,  and  in  journalistic 
circles  throughout  the  state  the  editor,  W.  F.  Downs,  holds  an  enviable 
position. 

Mr.  Downs  was  married  December  25,  1S94,  to  Miss  Helen  Carpenter, 
of  Sturgis,  Michigan,  and  they  now  have  two  children.  Halo  and  Talcott 
Chase.  In  all  of  the  affairs  of  the  city  which  tend  to  the  promotion  of  its 
welfare  Mr.  Downs  has  ever  manifested  a  zealous  and  active  interest,  his  voice 
and  pen  being  used  in  influence  of  their  support  In  1884  his  fellow  towns- 
men gave  evident  appreciation  of  his  worth  by  electing  him  to  the  office  of 
city  clerk,  and  so  acceptably  did  he  discharge  his  duties  that  he  was  re-elected 
in  1886  and  again  in  1888,  serving  for  six  consecutive  years.  In  1890  he  was 
elected  mayor  and  again  chosen  to  administer  the  affairs  of  the  city  in  1892. 
His  service  was  one  of  much  benefit  to  the  city,  many  needed  reforms  being 
secured  and  many  progressive  measures  being  adopted.  In  politics  he  is  a 
most  ardent  Republican.  He  has  been  secretary  of  the  Fair  Association,  and 
at  all  times  is  the  advocate  of  the  movements  that  are  intended  for  the  public 
good.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  Warren  Lodge,  No.  15,  F.  &  A.  M. 
and  has  taken  the  degrees  of  capitular  and  chivalric  Masonry.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Otonka  Tribe,  No.  94,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  and  of  the  Modern  Wood- 
men of  America.  In  manner  he  is  courteous  and  genial,  and  among  the 
people  with  whom  he  has  been  so  long  connected  he  is  very  popular. 

JAMES  H.  WALKER. 
This  well  known  agriculturist  and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Washing- 
ton township  is  a  worthy  representative  of  one  of  the  honored  pioneer  fami- 
lies of  Wayne  county,  being  a  son  of  John  B.  and  Susan  (Sinks)  Walker, 
natives  of  Tennessee  and  Ohio,  respectively.  The  maternal  grandfather, 
Jacob  Sinks,  came  to  this  county  from  Ohio,  about  1818,  and  located  on 
land  adjoining  the  new  village  of  Milton,  which  his  wife's  father,  Mr.  Yount, 
had  entered  from  the  government.      He  improved  a  part  of  the  land  for  farm- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  119 

ing  purposes,  and  platted  a  portion,  laying  out  about  a  fourth  of  the  town  of 
Milton  into  lots,  which  he  sold.  He  built  the  first  gristmill  at  that  place, 
which  was  burned  a  number  of  years  ago.  Lated  he  added  a  sawmill  to  that 
structure,  the  power  being  obtained  by  damming  the  Whitewater  river.  He 
was  a  very  enterprising  and  public-spirited  man,  whose  services  were  of  ines- 
timable value  to  the  new  country,  and  he  did  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the 
interests  of  Milton,  takmg  a  foremost  place  in  any  movement  for  the  benefit 
of  his  adopted  town  or  county.  He  built  many  of  the  residences  of  Milton, 
and  continued  to  make  that  place  his  home  until  his  death.  He  was  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  was  a  man  of  stern  integrity  and 
honor,  and  was  highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow  citizens.  He  had  four  chil- 
dren: Daniel;  Anna;  Susan,  mother  of  our  subject;  and  Jacob,  all  of  whom 
are  now  deceased. 

John  B.  Walker,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  blacksmith  and  wood- 
worker by  trade,  and  was  an  expert  mechanic.  He  came  to  Milton  in  iSi8, 
and  was  soon  afterward  joined  by  his  brother  and  sister.  Seeing  the  need  of 
agricultural  implements  in  this  new  country,  and  both  being  good  mechanics, 
the  brothers  soon  embarked  in  the  manufacture  of  plows,  for  which  there  was 
a  great  demand,  and  now  many  of  the  old  men,  who  were  then  boys,  say 
that  the  first  plow  they  used  was  made  by  Walker  &  Brother.  They  are  also 
willing  to  testify  to  the  honest  work  done  by  the  firm,  and  the  honorable  way 
in  which  they  conducted  all  their  blacksmithing  and  woodwork  business, 
which,  they  continued  for  many  years.  The  father  of  our  subject  also 
engaged  in  farming,  and  was  a  great  fancier  of  fine  horses.  He  probably  did 
more  than  any  other  individual  in  early  days  to  improve  the  grade  of  horses 
in  this  county,  and  owned  several  fine  stallions.  He  bought  a  small  tract  of 
land  adjoining  the  corporation  of  Milton,  erected  thereon  a  commodious  resi- 
dence, and  there  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days,  dying  November  4,  1852. 
On  coming  to  Milton  he  was  a  Methodist,  but  finally  became  converted  to 
the  Christian  church,  and  was  ever  afterward  one  of  its  devoted  and  leading 
members.  He  was  a  man  of  high  integrity,  was  honorable  in  all  his  deal- 
ings, and  in  all  respects  his  life  was  most  exemplary.  Politically  he  was  a 
Whig.  His  wife  survived  him  for  many  years,  and  died  on  the  old  home- 
stead, at  Milton,  June  26,  1880.  She,  too,  was  a  consistent  member  of  the 
Christian  church,  and  was  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  her.  Their 
children  were  Sarah  C,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years;  Jacob  S.,  who 
died  in  1880,  leaving  a  wife  and  five  children;  Mary  A.,  wife  of  J.  McNamee; 
and  James  H.,  our  subject. 

James  H.  Walker  was  born  in  Milton,  April  13,  1851,  and  was  only  an 
infant  When  his  father  died.  He  was  reared  at  the  old  home  by  a  good 
Christian  mother,  who  tenderly  cared  for  him,  and  he  was  educated  in  the 


120  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

local  schools.  He  was  always  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  and  also  in 
teaming  to  some  extent,  and  he  now  owns  a  good  farm  besides  the  sixteen- 
acre  tract  at  the  old  home.  The  house  built  b}'  his  father  in  1837  is  an 
elegant  structure  and  is  still  well  preserved. 

In  1880  Mr.  Walker  wedded  Miss  Mary  C.  Macy,  who  belongs  to  a 
prominent  early  family  of  Jay  county,  Indiana.  Her  parents,  Obed  and 
Mary  (White)  Macy.  were  natives  of  North  Carolina,  and  with  their  respective 
parents  came  to  Jay  county,  where  their  marriage  was  celebrated.  The 
father,  who  is  a  carpenter  by  trade,  now  resides  in  Adams  county,  Indiana, 
an  honored  and  highly  respected  citizen  of  that  locality.  Politically,  he  is 
a  Democrat,  and  religiously  adheres  to  the  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
His  wife  died  when  Mrs.  Walker  was  very  young.  The  latter  was  born 
April  16,  1856,  and  is  an  only  child.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walker  have  one 
daughter,  Carrie  S.,  born  May  30,  1884.  Mother  and  daughter  are  con- 
sistent members  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  the  family  is  both  widely  and 
favorably  known.  Politically,  Mr.  Walker  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and 
though  I  e  takes  an  active  interest  in  all  public  questions  and  political  affairs 
he  has  never  aspired  to  office. 

JOHN   FREDERICK  HAMAN. 

We  pause  a  moment  in  the  whir  and  flurry  of  this  work-a-day  world  to 
pay  a  j^assing  tribute  to  one  who  rounded  out  nearly  a  half  century  of 
honorable  life  and  then  passed  to  his  reward.  He  was  born  at  Brookville, 
Indiana,  which  was  his  home  also  in  later  years,  on  June  21,  1846,  and  was  a 
son  of  Martin  and  Magdalene  Haman.  He  remained  in  this  vicinity  until  the 
death  of  his  father,  in  his  boyhood,  when  he  went  to  Kentucky,  where  a  bet- 
ter opportunity  was  offered  in  the  unequal  struggle  for  a  livelihood.  His 
work  received  his  close  attention,  little  time  being  given  for  pleasure  or  even 
rest,  and  he  early  developed  a  power  of  endurance  and  a  persistent  energy 
which  was  one  of  the  chief  characteristics  of  his  life  and  enabled  him  to 
accomplish  wonderful  results  in  his  business. 

Having  engaged  in  business  in  his  native  village,  after  arriving  at  man- 
hood, he  was  married  on  January  6,  1870,  to  Mar}'  Higgs,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons,  George  and  John.  His  second  marriage  was  contracted  with  Miss 
Amelia  Mueller,  a  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Lodhtholtz)  Mueller.  The 
former  is  now  in  his  seventieth  year  and  is  a  resident  of  Milton,  Indiana. 
Her  mother  died  in  1873,  at  the  age  of  forty-seven.  The  wedded  life  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Haman  was  a  most  felicitous  one,  extending  over  a  period  of  nearlj' 
seventeen  years. 

Concerning  his  deep  religious  convictions  and  the  purity  of  his  life  we 
insert  the  following  tribute  taken  from   one   of   the   local   papers  and  written 


^ohn  J'.  J^aman. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  121 

by  one  who  knew  him  intimately:  "By  the  influence  of  his  wife,  who,  by 
her  devotion  and  affection  and  by  the  high  standard  of  her  pure  and  noble 
womanhood,  cultivated  and  fostered  the  innate,  sterling  qualities  of  her  hus- 
band, and  through  the  instrumentality  of  a  revival  among  the  German  Meth- 
odists, Mr.  Haman  was  led  to  unite  with  that  church  on  probation.  He 
was  very  much  interested  in  the  work  of  the  church,  and  as  long  as  there 
was  a  prospect  for  success  he  was  the  main  support  and  contributed  all  that 
a  willing  heart  and  hand  can  do.  During  his  illness  he  was  admitted  to  full 
membership  in  the  Methodist  church. 

"His  life  furnishes  us  an  example  worthy  of  emulation.  In  dealing 
with  mankind  his  word  was  his  bond.  Deceit  never  entered  into  any  trans- 
action. One  glance  of  his  frank  and  unflinching  eye;  one  word,  spoken  with 
sincerity,  carried  conviction.  His  plain,  blunt,  rugged  honesty;  his  open- 
hearted  and  reserved  manner;  without  guile,  undisguised  and  unaffected,  is 
to  us  a  sweet  and  lasting  memory.  More  admirable  still  was  the  sympathy 
and  fellow-feeling  which  he  extended  to  all.  How  many  good  turns,  how 
many  kind  offices  he  performed.  With  him  truly  the  '  quality  of  mercy'  was 
not  strained.  It  fell  as  the  '  gentle  dew  from  heaven '  upon  the  place 
beneath.  All  shared  alike  in  his  generosity,  unstinted  if  the  object  was 
worthy,  and  his  keen,  quick,  sharp  intelligence  quickly  detected  the  alloy. 
But  more  beautiful  still  was  his  ideal  of  a  Christian  life,  —  and  how  uncon- 
sciously did  he  exemplify  it !  With  what  childlike  faith  did  he  cling  to  his 
Savior  during  his  illness.  His  lips  often  moved,  and  when  the  patient  attend- 
ant at  his  side  inquired  for  his  wishes,  he  replied:  'Nothing;  I'm  only  talk- 
ing to  the  Lord.'  When  pain  racked  his  fevered  frame,  the  name  of  Jesus 
was  on  his  lips.  The  visitors  to  his  bedside  were  many,  and  as  long  as  speech 
remained  he  exhorted  all  to  surrender  their  hearts  to  Christ,  and  he  was  no 
doubt  the  instrument  in  God's  hands  to  cause  many  a  fellow  being  to  think 
seriously  of  his  soul's  salvation.  He  died  peacefully,  at  12:45,  Friday  morn- 
ing, January  5,  1894,  retaining  consciousness  to  the  last.  Shortly  before  his 
decease,  songs  and  prayers  were  offered,  and,  although  too  exhausted  to 
speak,  he  gave  testimony  by  a  nod  of  his  head  and  by  the  brightening  of  his 
eyes  of  his  faith  in  the  cleansing  power  of  the  blood  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  and  of 
his  desire  to  meet  the  Savior  in  a  better  land." 

JONATHAN  ROBERTS. 
The  specific  history  of  the  west  was  made  by  the  pioneers;  it  was 
emblazoned  on  the  forest  trees  by  the  strength  of  sturdy  arms  and  gleaming 
ax,  and  written  on  the  surface  of  the  earth  by  the  track  of  the  primitive  plow. 
These  were  strong  men  and  true  who  came  to  found  the  empire  of  the  west 
— these  hardy   settlers  who  builded   their  rude  domiciles,  grappled  with  the 


122  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

giants  of  the  forest,  and  from  the  sylvan  wilds  evolved  the  fertile  and  pro- 
ductive fields  which  have  these  many  years  been  furrowed  and  refurrowed  by 
the  plowshare.  The  red  man,  in  his  motly  garb,  stalked  through  the  dim, 
woody  avenues,  and  the  wild  beasts  disputed  his  dominion.  The  trackless 
prairie  was  made  to  yield  its  tribute  under  the  effective  endeavors  of  the 
pioneer,  and  slowly  but  surely  were  laid  the  steadfast  foundations  upon  which 
has  been  builded  the  magnificent  superstructure  of  an  opulent  and  enlightened 
commonwealth.  To  establish  a  home  amid  such  surroundings,  and  to  cope 
with  the  many  privations  and  hardships  which  were  the  inevitable  concomi- 
tants, demanded  an  invincible  courage  and  fortitude.  Strong  hearts  and  willing 
hands.  All  those  were  characteristics  of  the  pioneers,  whose  names  and 
deeds  should  be  held  in  perpetual  reverence  b}'  those  who  enjoy  the  fruits  of 
their  toil. 

The  Roberts  family  was  one  of  the  first  to  locate  in  Wayne  county,  and 
Jonathan  Roberts,  only  three  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  their  arrival,  is 
therefore  numbered  among  the  honored  pioneers  who  have  not  only  witnessed 
the  remarkable  growth  and  transformation  of  the  region,  but  have  been 
important  factors  in  its  progress  and  advancement.  He  was  born  in  Butler 
county,  Ohio,  May  30,  1808,  his  parents  being  Thomas  and  Ann  (Whitson) 
Roberts.  The  father  was  born  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  January  8, 
1759,  and  was  a  son  of  Walter  Roberts,  who  was  a  native  of  the  same  county 
and  was  of  Welsh  descent.  He  removed  with  his  family  to  South  Carolina, 
and  after  attaining  his  majority  Thomas  Roberts  was  married  in  that  state  to 
Ann  Whitson,  who  was  a  native  of  Long  Island.  They  became  the  parents 
of  eight  children,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  South  Carolina,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  our  subject.  In  1806  they  removed  with  their  family  to  Preble 
county,  Ohio,  and  the  same  year  Thomas  Roberts  came  to  Wayne  county, 
where  he  entered  a  quarter-section  of  wild  government  land,  and  in  March, 
18 1 1,  with  his  wife  and  seven  children,  moved  onto  the  place.  One  of  his 
daughters  had  married  previously  to  that  date.  The  father  had  erected  a 
small  log  cabin  in  the  woods  at  what  is  now  the  northeast  corner  of  South 
Thirteenth  and  A  streets  and  began  the  development  of  his  farm,  all  of  which 
is  now  within  the  corporation  limits  of  the  city.  He  first  cleared  a  small 
patch  of  ground,  fenced  it  in  with  brush  and  planted  it  with  turnips.  The  only 
people  then  living  in  Richmond  were  Jeremiah  Cox  and  John  Smith,  who  had 
previously  entered  land  now  included  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city. 
In  1 81 2  Thomas  Roberts  built  a  hewed-log  house  on  his  farm, — one  of  the 
best  residences  in  this  section  of  the  country,  and  for  many  years  it  stood 
as  one  of  the  landmarks  of  the  region,  indicating  the  onward  march  of 
progress. 

For  about  thirty  years  Thomas  Roberts  lived  upon    his    farm,  and    was 


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then  called  to  the  home  beyond,  September  25,  1840,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
three  years.  His  wife  survived  him  only  a  few  days,  passing  away  on  the 
28th  of  October  of  the  same  year.  Both  were  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  Their  children  were  Rebecca,  who  became  the  wife  of  Nathan 
Hawkins,  but  both  are  now  deceased;  Walter,  who  died  in  Dover,  Wayne 
county;  David,  who  died  in  Richmond;  Phoebe,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Henry  Hawkins  and  is  now  deceased,  as  is  her  husband;  Sarah,  wife  of  Will- 
iam Whitacre;  Thomas  and  Solomon  W.,  who  also  have  passed  away;  and 
Jonathan,  who  is  the  only  survivor  of  the  family. 

Jonathan  Roberts  was  reared  under  the  parental  roof  and  in  the  midst 
of  the  wild  scenes  of  pioneer  life,  and  early  began  to  perform  his  share  in  the 
arduous  task  of  clearing  and  developing  a  new  farm.  His  education  was 
acquired  in  the  subscription  schools,  but  his  advantages  in  that  direction 
were  not  very  ample.  After  entering  upon  an  independent  business  career 
he  followed  farming  for  some  years,  and  at  one  time  was  the  owner  of  a  val- 
uable tract  of  land,  eighty  acres,  and  also  seven  residences  in  Richmond. 
He  has  bought  and  sold  real  estate  to  a  considerable  extent,  and  in  his  trans- 
actions has  met  with  a  creditable  and  gratifying  success,  gaining  a  comfort- 
able competence  that  has  enabled  him  to  live  retired  for  the  past  ten  years. 
He  is  now  enjoying  a  rest  which  he  has  truly  earned,  for  his  business  career 
was  one  of  activity,  honesty  and  usefulness.  On  the  28th  of  January,  1831, 
Mr.  Roberts  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of  Jairus 
and  Aves  Smith,  who  had  formerly  hved  in  New  York.  Four  children  were 
born  of  this  union:  Aves,  wife  of  W.  S.  Elliott,  a  farmer  residing  near 
Kokomo,  Howard  county,  Indiana;  Eli,  who  is  living  with  his  father,  and  is 
engaged  in  the  operation  of  a  farm;  Elvira,  deceased  wife  of  Josiah  Philips; 
and  Henry  S.,  an  agriculturist  of  Wayne  township,  Wayne  county.  The 
mother  of  this  family  died  August  i,  1888,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years, 
four  months  and  five  days.  In  his  political  affiliations  in  early  life  Mr.  Rob- 
erts was  a  Whig.  He  has  always  been  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
and  has  served  as  elder  for  twelve  years.  His  father  also  held  the  same 
office  in  the  church  and  the  family  has  long  been  connected  with  the  organi- 
zation. 

Mr.  Roberts  has  spent  almost  his  entire  life  in  this  county;  has  seen  the 
introduction  of  the  railroad,  the  telegraph,  the  telephone;  has  watched  the 
transformation  of  wild  land  into  beautiful  homes  and  farms,  while  towns  and 
villages  have  sprung  up  and  have  become  imbued  with  all  the  progress  and 
advancement  of  the  east.  In  the  work  of  growth  and  upbuilding  he  has  ever 
borne  his  part,  has  been  honorable  in  business,  loyal  in  friendship,  faithful 
in  citizenship,  and  now  in  his  declining  days  can  look  back  over  the  past 
with  little  occasion  for  regret. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


JOHN    M.   WESTCOTT. 

The  pionaers  of  a  country,  the  founders  of  a  business,  the  originators  of 
any  undertaking  that  will  promote  the  material  welfare  or  advance  the  edu- 
cational, social  and  moral  influence  of  a  community,  deserve  the  gratitude  of 
humanity.  One  of  the  most  important  factors  in  the  upbuilding  of  Richmond 
is  the  Hoosier  Drill  Works,  an  extensive  enterprise  that  has  brought  success 
not  alone  to  the  stockholders,  but  has  also  added  to  the  general  prosperity 
by  furnishing  employment  to  many  workmen  and  thus  promoting  commercial 
activity.  The  man  who  stands  at  the  head  of  this  concern,  John  M.  West- 
cott,  is  also  connected  with  other  leading  enterprises  of  Richmond,  and  at 
all  times  is  a  public-spirited,  progressive  citizen  whose  support  is  never  with- 
held from  measures  that  tend  to  advance  the  public  good. 

Mr.  Westcott  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Union 
county  in  1834.  His  parents  were  Henry  and  Sarah  (Dyche)  Westcott,  the 
former  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  of  English  descent,  and  the  latter  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  of  German  descent.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  Warren 
county,  Ohio,  and  in  1832  they  became  residents  of  Union  county,  Indiana. 
Their  family  numbered  four  children,  Ruth  E. ,  George  H.,  John  M.  and 
Jennie  M. 

At  his  parental  home  the  subject  of  this  review  was  reared  to  manhood 
and  in  the  public  schools  near  his  home  he  acquired  his  education.  His  early 
experiences  were  those  common  to  frontier  settlements,  and  with  the  progress 
and  development  of  Indiana  he  has  long  been  actively  identified.  In  the  early 
part  of  his  business  career  he  was  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  trade,  and  on 
abandoning  merchandising  he  dealt  in  grain  and  feed,  his  capable  manage- 
ment and  well  directed  energies  bringing  him  desirable  success.  In  1862  Mr. 
Westcott  removed  to  Richmond,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grain  and  feed 
trade  until  he  became  identified  with  the  industrial  interests  of  the  city  in 
1872.  In  that  year  he  became  a  stockholder  in  the  Hoosier  Drill  Works, 
then  located  in  Milton,  Indiana,  and  for  some  time  thereafter  devoted  his 
entire  attention  to  that  business.  Believing  that  it  could  be  made  a  very 
paying  investment,  he  secured  a  controlling  interest  by  purchasing  the  stock 
of  Isaac  Kinsey,  and  since  that  time,  by  his  business  and  executive  ability, 
his  keen  discrimination  and  unflagging  industry,  he  has  made  the  Hoosier 
Drill  Works  a  most  paying  enterprise.  In  the  spring  of  1878  the  company 
purchased  the  ground  on  which  the  present  works  are  located  and  erected  the 
buildings  the  following  summer.  About  the  time  Mr.  Westcott  became  the 
heaviest  stockholder  of  the  concern,  Omar  Hollingsworth  also  became  a  part- 
ner, and  since  that  time  J.  A.  Carr  and  F.  A.  Wilke,  his  other  sons-in-law, 
have  become  partners,  and  the  entire  business  is  now  in  control  of  the  family, 


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with  John  M.  Westcott  as  its  president;  Omar  Hollingsworth,  treasurer; 
James  A.  Carr,  vice-president,  and  Burton  J.  Westcott,  secretary.  They 
have  the  largest  plant  in  the  world  manufacturing  exclusively  seeding 
machines,  and  the  annual  output  is  worth  one  million  dollars.  The  seeders 
are  sold  all  over  the  world,  and  in  the  works  four  hundred  men  are  employed. 

John  M.  Westcott  is  a  man  of  resourceful  ability,  whose  energies  have 
by  no  means  been  confined  to  one  line.  In  the  spring  of  1883  he  purchased 
forty  feet  of  ground  on  Main  street,  between  Seventh  and  Eighth  streets,  and 
erected  thereon  a  four-story  brick  business  block,  with  a  stone  front.  It  is 
finished  in  modern  style,  heated  with  steam  and  supplied  with  all  accessories 
and  conveniences  that  are  found  in  first-class  business  houses.  He  is  the  chief 
owner  of  the  Westcott  Hotel,  of  Richmond,  which  was  projected  in  1892  by  the 
Commercial  Club,  of  which  J.  M.  Westcott  was  then  president,  and  in  whose 
honor  it  was  named.  To  his  public  spirit,  enterprise  and  liberality  is  due  the 
fact  that  Richmond  now  has  the  finest  hotel  in  the  state.  The  amount 
originally  subscribed  was  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  of  which 
one  hundred  and  ten  thousand  was  subscribed  by  Mr.  Westcott.  He  is  at  all 
times  most  liberal  in  support  of  any  movement  which  will  benefit  the  city,  and 
with  most  generous  hand  gives  of  his  means  for  the  promotion  of  a  worthy 
cause.  He  is  the  owner  of  some  valuable  real  estate,  including  a  fine  stock 
farm  of  five  thousand  acres  in  Dickinson  county,  Kansas,  the  greater  part  of 
the  land  being  under  a  high  method  of  cultivation.  His  farm  of  two  hundred 
and  twenty-five  acres,  located  in  Center  township,  Wayne  county,  is  devoted 
to  the  raising  of  fine-bred  horses  and  imported  Shetland  ponies. 

In  1855  Mr.  Westcott  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Carrie  Mitchell,  a 
native  of  Warren  county,  Ohio,  and  at  that  time  a  resident  of  Wayne  county, 
Indiana.  They  are  now  the  parents  of  seven  children:  Alice  C,  wife  of 
Omar  Hollingsworth;  Lucilla  B.,  wife  of  J.  A.  Carr;  Jennie  M.,  wife  of  F.  A. 
Wilke;  Charles  G.,  Burton  J.,  Harry  M.  and  Maude  Evelyn.  In  1880  Mr. 
Westcott  purchased  an  entire  block,  bounded  by  Main,  South  A,  Fourteenth 
and  Sixteenth  streets,  which  had  already  been  laid  out  with  walks  and  drives, 
and  immediately  began  the  improvement  of  the  property.  The  second  year 
he  erected  a  large  brick  residence,  and  since  then  three  other  residences  have 
been  added,  one  for  each  son-in-law.  The  grounds  are  spacious  and  well 
kept,  adorned  with  shrubs  and  flowering  plants  and  shaded  by  beautiful  trees. 
Hospitality  characterizes  the  Westcott  home,  and  the  household  is  the  center 
of  a  cultured  society  circle. 

Socially,  Mr.  Westcott  is  connected  with  Whitewater  Lodge,  No.  41,  I. 
O.  O.  F.  Since  1849  he  has  held  membership  relations  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  and  to  all  moral,  educational  and  social  interests  he  is  a 
liberal  contributor,  doing  all  in  his   power  to  benefit  and  elevate  humanity. 


126  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

He  feels  a  personal  interest  in  the  men  in  his  employ  and  in  times  of  sickness 
or  trouble  they  find  in  him  a  faithful  friend.  His  business  career  has  been 
crowned  with. a  well  merited  success.  He  has  made  good  use  of  his  oppor- 
tunities and  has  prospered  from  year  to  year,  conducting  all  business  matters 
carefully  and  systematically,  and  in  all  his  acts  displaying  an  aptitude  for  suc- 
cessful management.  He  has  not  permitted  the  accumulation  of  a  fortune  to 
affect  in  any  way  his  actions  toward  those  less  fortunate  than  he,  and  has 
always  a  cheerful  word  and  a  pleasant  smile  for  those  with  whom  he  comes 
in  contact. 

SAMUEL  G.   DUGDALE. 

The  honored  subject  of  this  memoir  was  at  one  time  closely  identified 
with  the  business  interests  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  being  one  of  her  most 
prominent  and  influential  merchants.  He  was  very  successful  in  his  business 
and  had  lived  a  retired  life  several  years  previously  to  his  death.  His  parents 
were  Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Kaighn)  Dugdale,  to  whom  he  was  born  in 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  June  2,  182 1.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  that  state, 
and  his  father  came  to  New  Jersey  from  Mount  Melick,  Ireland,  and  moved 
to  Richmond  in  1837,  with  a  family  of  four  children,  of  whom  Samuel  was 
the  youngest.  The  father  was  a  tanner  by  trade,  but  followed  that  business 
only  a  few  years  and  then  engaged  in  the  drug  business,  first  in  Trenton  and 
later  in  this  city,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  sons,  James,  Thomas  and  Samuel. 
Mrs.  Dugdale  departed  this  life  in  1842,  and  her  husband  followed  her  eight 
years  later.  Thomas  soon  retired  from  the  business,  leaving  James  and  Sam- 
uel to  continue  it  as  Dugdale  &  Company.  Some  time  in  1849  they  dis- 
posed of  the  stock. 

Samuel  G.  Dugdale  then  embarked  in  the  confectionery,  notion  and 
wall-paper  business,  carrying  it  on  until  1871.  In  1879  betook  up  his  resi- 
dence in  the  country  near  this  city,  and  lived  in  retirement  until  1892,  when 
he  was  stricken  with  paralysis  and  he  once  more  moved  to  Richmond,  where 
he  passed  away  December  28,  1897.  He  was  quite  prominent  in  fraternal 
circles.  He  was  made  an  Odd  Fellow  in  White  Water  Lodge,  No.  41,  and 
became  a  member  of  the  Oriental  Encampment  in  1862;  he  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  grand  lodge  of  Indiana.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
being  Miss  Susanna  Downing,  sister  of  the  late  H.  R.  Downing,  a  leading 
undertaker  of  this  city.  Their  nuptials  were  solemnized  in  1848  and  resulted 
in  the  birth  of  two  children,  George  B.  and  Horace  L. ,  both  deceased.  Mr. 
Dugdale  then  led  to  the  altar  Miss  Emma  E.  Salter,  of  Richmond,  in  1859, 
and  their  home  was  blessed  by  the  advent  of  a  daughter,  Emma  L. ,  who 
makes  her  home  with  her  mother  in  Richmond. 

Mrs.  Dugdale  is  a  lady  of  culture  and  refinement,  and  is  the  daughter  of 
a  physician,  Dr.  James  W.  Salter,  whose  name  is  held  in  affectionate  remem- 


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brance  by  the  older  residents  in  this  community.  He  was  born  in  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1808,  and  was  a  son  of  William  and  Han- 
nah (Wilson)  Salter.  William  Salter  was  born  in  England  and  came  to  this 
country  in  1806,  locating  first  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  followed  his  trade 
of  a  printer.  He  was  a  Quaker  in  his  religious  affiliation,  and  founded  and 
published  "The  Friend,"  a  paper  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  He  married  Hannah  Wilson,  of  that  state,  where  he  remained  but 
a  short  time,  then  returning  to  Philadelphia  and  resuming  the  publi- 
cation of  "The  Friend."  His  wife  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1838,  and 
three  years  later  he  cams  to  Richmond  with  his  family,  where  he  died 
on    March  ist  of  the  following  year. 

Dr.  Salter  entered  a  drug  store  in  Philadelphia  when  eleven  years  old, 
and  made  his  own  way  through  life  from  that  time.  He  became  familiar 
with  the  use  of  drugs,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine under  Doctor  Snow,  of  Philadelphia.  In  1830  he  graduated  from  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  and  located  on  what  was  then  known  as  "Fox 
Chase,  "  since  a  part  of  Philadelphia.  He  remained  there  two  years  and 
October  4,  1832,  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Caroline  L.  Pyle,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, and  four  years  later  removed  to  Richmond,  Indiana.  He  was 
the  third  physician  to  locate  here,  the  others  being  Drs.  Warren  and  Plum- 
mer.  He  soon  became  very  popular,  and  built  up  a  large  practice.  In 
1842  he  moved  onto  a  farm  on  the  Elk  Horn,  near  Richmond,  and  gave  up 
a.  large  practice,  but  was  iuduced  to  take  it  up  again  in  1849,  when  the  chol- 
era broke  out,  and  traveled  almost  night  and  day  in  his  endeavors  to  relieve 
the  afflicted.  He  was  untiring  in  his  efforts,  and  many  families  had  reason 
to  bless  his  ministrations.  About  1866  he  purchased  the  Weekly  Telegram, 
Richmond,  which  paper  he  edited  and  conducted  for  a  few  years,  when  he 
sold  the  property  and  finally  retired  once  more  from  active  life,  his  death 
occurring  August  21,  1886,  in  Topeka,  Kansas,  where  he  had  located  two 
years  before  his  death.  His  wife  passed  away  May  21,  1869.  Mrs.  Dug- 
dale  was  one  of  seven  children  left  to  perpetuate  his  memory. 

HORACE  L.   HURST. 

Horace  L.  Hurst,  a  well  known  citizen  residing  five  miles  north  of  Con- 
nersville,  Indiana,  belongs  to  the  third  generation  of  the  Hurst  family  in  this 
state,  a  family  whose  identification  with  Indiana  dates  back  to  territorial 
days,  when  this  country  was  almost  an  unbroken  forest. 

John  Hurst,  the  grandfather  of  Horace  L. ,  was  born  in  Maryland  in 
1 78 1,  of  Irish  descent,  and  in  that  state,  in  1802,  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
Marshall.  Shortly  after  his  marriage,  with  his  wife  and  his  brother  Benedict, 
he  started  for  what  was  then  called  the  Western  Reserve.      His  wife's  father 


128  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

had  given  her  a  horse.  The  young  husband  arranged  a  pack  saddle  into 
which  he  placed  their  worldly  goods,  and  with  his  wife  on  the  horse,  he  and 
his  brother  walking,  they  started  on  their  journey.  In  this  way  they  traveled, 
stopping  wherever  night  overtook  them,  on  the  plains  or  in  the  mountains, 
and  they  continued  westward  until  his  small  amount  of  money  was  exhausted, 
this  occurring  near  Hamilton,  Ohio.  There  John  Hurst  sought  employment. 
About  the  only  kind  of  work  to  be  found  was  clearing  and  rail-splitting. 
Hard  work,  however,  had  no  terrors  for  him.  He  took  contracts  for  both 
himself  and  brother,  and  together  they  worked  early  and  late.  In  1804  his 
wife  gave  birth  to  a  child,  and  two  years  later  another  child  was  born  to 
them.  By  1807  he  had  accumulated  a  little  sum,  besides  having  supplied 
the  meagre  wants  of  his  little  family,  and  that  year  they  pushed  further 
west,  coming  over  into  Indiana  and  making  a  permanent  location  in  what 
afterward  became  Wayne  county.  He  selected  first  an  eighty-acre  tract  of 
land  on  Nolan's  Fork,  built  a  rude  cabin,  and  as  soon  as  possible  got  his 
family  comfortably  located.  When  the  land  was  placed  on  the  market  he 
entered  same  and,  as  after  years  showed,  made  a  wise  selection.  Then  he 
commenced  in  earnest  the  work  of  developing  his  land  and  making  a  home. 
Soon  he  had  a  few  acres  under  cultivation,  and  never  from  thai  time  on  did 
his  family  want  for  the  necessaries  of  life,  and  ere  many  years  had  come  and 
gone  he  was  able  to  provide  them  with  some  of  the  luxuries  alscj.  As  soon 
as  he  got  his  land  opened  up  he  began  raising  corn  and  hogs,  finding  a  market 
at  Cincinnati,  and  later  he  dealt  largely  in  stock,  driving  to  the  Cincinnati 
market.  In  his  earnest  efforts  to  make  a  home  and  accumulate  a  compe- 
tency on  the  frontier,  Mr.  Hurst  was  ably  assisted  by  his  good  wife,  who  was 
a  helpmate  in  the  truest  sense  of  that  word.  She,  too,  worked  early  and 
late  to  clothe  and  feed  her  family.  In  those  days  the  spinning  and  weaving 
for  the  family  were  all  done  in  the  home.  Both  Mr.  Hurst  and  his  wife  were 
noted  for  their  hospitality  and  generosity,  friend  and  stranger  receiving  a 
welcome  at  their  door,  and  the  needy  were  never  turned  away  empty-handed. 
Mr.  Hurst  kept  pace  with  the  progress  of  the  new  settlement,  or,  rather, 
kept  in  advance  of  it,  for  he  was  always  the  first  to  give  his  support  to  any 
improvement  or  new  invention.  The  first  cooking  stove  in  the  community 
was  bought  for  his  house  and  in  his  parlor  was  placed  the  first  ingrain  carpet 
of  the  neighborhood.  These  "luxuries"  came  after  the  old  cabin  had 
vanished  and  a  commodious  frame  house  had  taken  its  place.  As  the  years 
passed  by  and  his  prosperity  increased,  he  invested  in  more  land,  until  his 
estate  comprised  two  thousand  acres  of  the  best  land  in  Wayne  county. 
Hard  work  and  exposure  in  all  kinds  of  weather  shortened  his  days,  how- 
ever, and  he  died  in  May,  1838,  in  the  fifty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  His 
wife  survived  him  until  November  5,  1850.      She  had   been  twice  married. 


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her  first  husband,  a  Mr.  Marshall,  having  died  shortly  after  their  marriage. 
The  record  of  her  children,  all  by  Mr.  Hurst,  is  as  follows,  the  first  two 
having  been  born  in  Ohio,  the  others  in  Indiana:  Cyntha,  December  8,  1804; 
Benedict,  December  11,  1806;  Bennett,  December  8,  1808;  Sanford,  April 
5,  181 1 ;  Belinda,  December  7,  1812;  Marshall,  February  13,  1814;  Isaac, 
February  5,  1817;  Anna,  born  April  11,  1819,  died  young;  Dickson,  Decem- 
ber 7,  1 821;  twins,  Elijah  and  Silva  (wife  of  Robert  Watts),  October  24, 
1824;  and  Mary  E.  (wife  of  John  Orr),  July  12,  1827.  John  Hurst,  though 
never  aspiring  to  political  honors,  was  a  stanch  Democrat,  and  to  this  party 
his  descendants,  with  few  exceptions,  have  given  their  support. 

Dickson  Hurst,  the  father  of  Horace  L.,  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  after  his  marriage  settled  in  the  same  neighborhood.  He  cleared 
a:nd  improved  a  farm  and  devoted  his  life  to  Carrying  forward  the  work  inau- 
gurated by  his  father.  He  was  largely  interested  in  the  stock  business,  his- 
favorite  stock  being  horses,  and,  like  his  father,  he  found  a  market  at  Cin- 
cinnati. He  inherited  the  many  sterling  characteristics  of  his  worthy  sire  and, 
like  him,  had  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  entire  community.  His  act- 
ive and  useful  career  was  cut  off  in  its  very  prime,  death  calling  him  away  in 
1856,  in  the  thirty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Sarah  Lewis,  left  the  farm  after  his  death  and  moved  to  Milton,  where  she 
spent  the  rest  of  her  life,  her  death  occurring  in  October,  1898.  She  was  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Christian  church  for  many  years.  Her  parents 
were  Caleb  and  Mary  (Willis)  Lewis,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia  and  the 
latter  of  Ohio.  Caleb  Lewis  was  a  son  of  George  and  Leah  (Viney)  Lewis,, 
who  passed  their  lives  and  died  in  the  Old  Dominion,  both  being  representa- 
tives of  old  Virginia  families.  Their  children  were  Caleb,  John,  Charles,. 
Leah  and  Attie.  Caleb  Lewis  came  to  Indiana  at  an  early  day  and  located 
at  Centerville,  where  he  clerked  and  taught  school  prior  to  his  marriage  and 
afterward  turned  his  attention  to  farming.  For  a  few  years  he  farmed  on  a 
small  place  south  of  Centerville.  Selling  that  farm,  he  bought  a  large  tract 
of  land  on  Green's  Fork,  some  three  hundred  acres,  on  which  he  lived  for 
over  forty  years,  most  of  his  children  being  born  there,  and  during  that  long 
period  health  and  prosperity  were  theirs  and  there  was  not  a  death  in  his 
family.  In  their  declining  years  he  and  his  wife  retired  to  Milton,  where 
both  died,  her  death  occurring  August  20,  1869,  while  he  passed  away  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1870.  They  were  consistent  members  of  the  Christian  church. 
Caleb  Lewis  was  a  man  above  the  ordinary  in  intelligence  and  education  and 
in  the  community  in  which  he  lived  was  looked  upon  as  a  leader.  An  ardent 
Republican,  he  was  the  choice  of  his  party  for  a  number  of  local  positions  of 
trust,  which  he  filled  most  acceptably,  and  for  two  terms  he  represented  his 
county  in  the  Indiana  state   legislature.      The   children   of   Caleb   and.  Mary 


130  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Lewis  were  as  follows:  Levi,  who  died  in  Illinois;  Vashti,  wife  of  William 
Drury,  of  Illinois;  Lavina,  deceased,  was  the  wife  of  H.  Scott;  Sarah, 
mother  of  Horace  L.  Hurst;  Mary,  wife  of  L.  Ferguson;  William,  who  died 
in  Illinois;  Maria,  wife  of  E.  Hurst;  John  M.,  of  Nebraska;  Melissa,  wife  of 
J.  Petty;  and  Minerva,  wife  of  H.  Jones.  Of  the  above  named,  four  are  yet 
living,  and  none  died  under  the  age  of  twenty-seven  years.  Dickson  Hurst 
and  his  wife  were  blessed  with  three  children,  viz. :  Alice,  the  widow  of 
Henry  M.  Gresh;  Horace  L. ,  whose  name  introduces  this  sketch;  and  Mary, 
who  died  in  infancy. 

Horace  L.  Hurst  was  born  at  the  homestead  where  he  lives,  December 
28,  1852,  and  in  his  youth  had  a  liberal  education.  After  attending  the 
Milton  schools  he  was  sent  to  Earlham  College,  and  he  completed  his 
studies  with  a  commercial  course  at  Indianapolis.  Following  in  the  foot- 
steps of  his  father  and  grandfather,  he  is  devoting  his  energies  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits  and  takes  rank  with  the  leading  and  representative  farmers 
of  the  county.  He  is  now  in  the  prime  of  his  activity  and  usefulness. 
Politically  he  differs  with  the  majority  of  his  family  and  since  he  became  a 
voter  has  given  his  support  to  the  Republican  party.  He  was  recently  elected 
to  the  office  of  county  commissioner,  in  which  responsible  position  he  is  now 
■serving,  giving  general  satisfaction  as  one  of  the  county's  financiers. 

Mr.  Hurst  was  married  January  8,  1878,  to  Miss  Mary  L.  Commons,  a 
native  of  Centerville,  Indiana.  Their  happy  union  has  been  blessed  in  the 
birth  of  two  children:  Fred  C. ,  born  February  23,  1882;  and  Walter  G. , 
January  i,  1884.  Mrs.  Hurst  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.  Her 
family  history,  briefly  outlined,  is  as  follows: 

Isaac  L.  Commons,  her  father,  is  a  son  of  David  Commons,  who  was 
born  in  Virginia,  July  18,  1800,  son  of  RoberfCommons,  who  came  with  his 
-family  to  Indiana  in  1812.  David  Commons  became  one  of  the  leading 
pioneer  farmers  of  Wayne  county  and  had  a  prominent  and  influential  part 
in  public  enterprises.  He  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  National  road  and 
of  the  Panhandle  Railroad.  In  connection  with  his  farming  operations,  he 
was  largely  interested  in  the  stock  business,  being  among  the  first  to  introduce 
shorthorn  cattle  into  this  part  of  the  country.  For  years  he  in  all  probability 
handled  more  stock  than  any  other  man  in  eastern  Indiana.  Politically,  he 
was  first  a  Whig  and  afterward  a  Republican.  His  religious  training  was  in 
the  Quaker  faith,  he  having  a  birthright  in  that  church.  By  his  first  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Rachel  Mote,  he  had  two  sons,  John  and  Phillip  S. 
His  first  wife  dying  in  1827,  David  Commons  was  subsequeritly  married  to 
Bethana  Carter,  who  bore  him  five  sons  and  two  daughters,  namely:  Sarah 
A.,  wife  of  Thomas  Jordan;  William,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years; 
Isaac  L. ;  Robert  D.,  who  served  three  years  in  the   civil  war;  Joseph  A.; 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  131 

Mary  E. ,  wife  of  Ira  Izor;  and  Walter  S.,  who  is  engaged  in  tfie  creamery 
business  at  Centerville.  The  father  of  this  family  filled  such  local  offices  as 
township  trustee  and  county  commissioner,  and  in  1847  and  1848  was  elected 
and  served  as  the  representative  of  his  county  in  the  state  legislature.  He 
•died  at  his  old  homestead  in  1874.  Isaac  L.  Commons  married  Mary  Boyd. 
He  moved  from  Centerville  to  Milton,  Indiana,  and  thence  to  Iowa,  where 
they  lived  for  nine  years  and  where  his  daughter  Mary  L.  was  married  to  Mr. 
Hurst.  He  afterward  lived  in  Anderson,  Indiana,  and  Chicago,  Illinois,  and 
in  1896  moved  to  Evansville,  Tennessee,  where  he  now  resides,  engaged  in 
small-fruit  culture.  The  children  of  Isaac  L.  and  Mary  Commons  were  as 
follows:  Boyd,  deceased,  was  a  railroad  engineer;  Mary  L. ;  Caroline,  who  is 
now  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  Harbeck,  resides  in  Chicago;  Robert  L. ,  a  resident 
of  Chicago;  and  Dora  B.,  at  home.  Mrs.  Commons  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  church.  The  maternal  great-great-grandfather  of  Mrs.  Hurst  was 
James  Boyd.  He  was  a  native  of  Scotland  and  came  to  America  during  the 
colonial  period,  settling  first  in  Virginia.  He  was  the  father  of  six  sons  and 
two  daughters,  and  he  and  one  of  his  sons  died  in  a  Tory  prison  during  the 
Revolutionary  war.  His  son  Samuel,  born  in  South  Carolina,  in  1763, 
entered  the  army  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  came  near  losing  his  life  by  a  Tory 
gun,  escaping,  however,  with  the  loss  of  one  eye.  He  served  to  the  close  of 
the  war.  In  December,  1785,  he  married  Isabell  Higgins,  a  distant  relative 
of  the  poet,  Robert  Burns.  In  1788  they  moved  to  Kentucky,  where  they 
lived  until  181 1,  that  year  coming  to  the  territory  of  Indiana  and  settling  in 
Wayne  county,  where  he  built  a  rude  hut  of  bark  and  limbs  of  trees,  on 
Martindale  creek,  and  at  that  point  entered  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land  and  improved  a  farm.  Here  he  passed  the  rest  of  his  life,  and  died  in 
1835,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  In  1801,  during  the  Kane  revival  in 
Kentucky,  he  was  converted,  and  during  the  rest  of  his  life  was  a  minister  in 
the  New-Light  church.  His  wife  died  October  31,  1852,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children  and  all  except  one  lived 
to  be  married  and  settled  as  farmers  or  farmers'  wives,  in  Wayne  county. 
Their  names  in  order  of  birth  were  James,  John,  William,  Elizabeth,  Samuel, 
Laura,  Robert,  Martha,  Mary,  Isabell.  John  Boyd  married  Susan  Scott, 
and  they  had  thirteen  children,  among  whom  was  Mary  Boyd,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Isaac  L.  Commons  and  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Hurst. 

WILLIAM  M.  THOMPSON. 

William  M.  Thompson,  the  subject  of  this  memoir,  and  at  one  time  the 

county  treasurer  of  Wayne  county,  was  one  of  the  most  popular  and  efficient 

financiers  and  officials   of  this  section  of  the  state.      For  more  than  thirty 

years   he  was  an  honored   citizen   of  Richmond,   actively  interested   in   all 


132  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

measures  advanced  for  the  good  of  the  people,  and  performed  his  full  share 
in  the  development  and  improvement  of  the  city. 

A  son  of  Montgomery  and  Piety  (Home)  Thompson,  William  M.  was  born 
October  6,  1838,  on  a  farm  which  his  father  had  entered  from  the  govern- 
ment, this  homestead  being  situated  east  of  the  town  of  Arba,  in  Randolph 
county,  Indiana.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the  district  schools  of  the 
period,  and  long  ere  he  had  reached  his  majority  he  had  mastered  all  depart- 
ments of  agriculture,  under  the  judicious  instruction  of  his  father,  who  was 
a  practical,  successful  farmer  and  a  leader  in  local  affairs.  When  he  was 
twenty-one  years  old  he  was  married,  and  for  some  five  years  subsequent  to 
that  event  he  carried  on  agricultural  operations  on  a  farm  adjoining  the  old 
homestead  owned  by  his  father.  Later  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  man- 
agement of  a  general  store  at  Bethel,  Wayne  county,  and  in  1861  he  came 
to  Richmond,  which  was  thenceforth  to  be  his  home.  Here  he  went  into  the 
grocery  business  with  George  W.  Barnes,  and  continued  with  him  for  some 
six  or  seven  years.  Then,  buying  an  interest  in  a  grocery,  the  business  was 
conducted  for  five  years  under  the  firm  name  of  Thompson  &  Good,  at  the 
end  of  which  period  the  senior  member  retired  and  embarked  in  the  same 
kind  of  enterprise  on  his  own  account.  He  continued  actively  engaged  in 
business  until  1892,  when  he  sold  out  and  retired  from  the  field  of  commerce. 

One  of  the  most  noticeable  characteristics  of  Mr.  Thompson  from  his 
youth  was  the  readiness  with  which  he  won  friends.  He  possessed  that 
rare  sympathy  and  sincerity,  that  genuine  kindliness  of  heart  and  manly 
courtesy  of  manner  which  never  fail  to  attract.  Doubtless  these  traits 
accounted  largely  for  his  popularity  and  prosperity  in  business  and  as  a  public 
official.  From  his  twenty-first  year  he  was  zealous  in  the  Republican  party, 
and  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  numberless  district,  county  and  state  conven- 
tions. In  1876  he  received  the  nomination  for  the  county  treasurership,  and, 
having  been  duly  elected,  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  office  in  October 
of  that  year.  Accurate  and  methodical  in  his  work,  he  won  the  commenda- 
tion of  all  concerned,  and,  when  he  was  again  placed  in  nomination,  upon  the 
expiration  of  his  first  term,  he  was  elected  with  little  opposition,  and  con- 
tinued to  give  general  satisfaction  while  he  was  in  office. 

On  the  2d  of  February,  1859,  Mr.  Thompson  married  Miss  Lucinda 
Vannuys,  of  Bethel,  Indiana,  and  for  over  thirty-five  years  they  harmoni- 
ously pursued  life's  journey  together.  Two  children  were  born  to  them,  a 
son  and  a  daughter  :  Charles  V.,  now  a  resident  of  Chicago  ;  and  Rosa,  wife 
of  Theodore  H.  Hill,  a  member  of  the  well  known  Richmond  firm  of  Louck 
&  Hill,  proprietors  of  the  Richmond  planing-mill.  The  death  of  Mr.  Thomp- 
son occurred  at  his  pleasant  home  on  North  Thirteenth  street,  Richmond, 
October  17,  1894.      His  loss  has   been  deeply  mourned  in  this  community, 


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and  his  memory  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  scores  of  his  old  friends  and 
associates,  to  whose  interests  he  was  ever  faithful,  sacrificing  his  own  rather 
than  theirs. 

JOHN  F.  KIBBEY. 

The  name  of  Judge  Kibbey  is  enduringly  inscribed  on  the  pages  of 
Indiana's  history  in  connection  with  the  records  of  her  jurisprudence.  After 
many  years  of  activity  in  the  legal  profession,  however,  he  is  now  living 
retired  at  his  pleasant  home  in  Richmond.  His  superior  ability  won  him 
marked  success;  he  was  crowned  with  high  judicial  honors;  and  in  business 
and  private  life  he  won  that  good  name  which  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than 
great  riches.  He  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Wayne  county,  his  birth 
having  occurred  May  4,  1826,  his  parents  being  John  Crane  and  Mary 
(Espy)  Kibbey.  The  Kibbey  family  is  of  Welsh  extraction,  and  was  founded 
in  America  about  1700,  the  original  American  ancestors  locating  midway 
between  Trenton  and  Newark,  New  Jersey.  There  Ephraim  Kibbey,  the 
grandfather  of  the  Judge,  was  born  and  reared.  In  1777  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Captain  Jacob  Martin's  company.  Fourth  Battalion  New  Jersey 
Continental  line,  and  served  during  the  continuance  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 
He  then  returned  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  his  removal  to 
Ohio.  He  was  a  surveyor,  and  in  that  capacity  started  westward  with  a 
party  of  emigrants.  They  located  on  the  Ohio  river,  just  below  the  mouth 
of  the  Little  Miama  river,  on  a  tract  of  land  known  as  the  Symmes  Purchase, 
and  there  founded  the  town  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Kibbey  assisted  in  the  sur- 
vey of  that  tract  of  land.  On  the  ist  of  January,  1790,  General  St.  Clair 
arrived  in  Columbia  and  on  the  following  day  appointed  Ephraim  Kibbey  an 
ensign  in  the  army.  The  latter  also  commanded  a  company  under  General 
Wayne,  known  as  "Mad  Anthony"  by  reason  of  his  great  daring  in  battle. 
He  served  with  the  rank  of  major.  He  died  in  1807.  His  wife  was,  before 
her  marriage,  a  Miss  Crane,  and  to  them  were  born  six  children,  three  sons 
and  three  daughters. 

To  this  family  belonged  John  Crane  Kibbey,  who  was  born  in  New 
Jersey,  March  17,  1783,  and  in  1788  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Columbia, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood.  He  acquired  his  education  under 
the  direction  of  his  father,  who  had  been  a  teacher  in  early  manhood,  and 
pursued  his  studies  at  night  in  books  borrowed  from  Governor  Morrow,  of 
Ohio.  With  his  uncle,  Mr.  Crane,  he  learned  the  tanner's  and  currier's 
trade,  and  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  was  the  owner  of  a  half-section  of 
land  in  Warren  county,  Ohio.  In  1812  he  purchased  seven  hundred  acres  of 
land  near  Salisbury,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  two  miles  west  of  that  place,  and  the  following  year  removed  to  Salis- 
bury, then  the  county-seat.      He  established  a  tan  yard,  and  for  some  years 


134  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

was  prominently  connected  with  the  business  and  public  hfe  of  the  commu- 
nity. In  1814  he  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  and  did  a  large  business 
in  the  justice  court.  In  the  early  '20s  he  came  to  Richmond,  then  a  mere 
hamlet.  Here  he  continued  to  serve  as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  also  built 
and  conducted  a  tavern  in  the  town.  He  soon  relinquished  that  business, 
however,  but  for  some  years  continued  to  hold  the  office  of  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  owned  large  property  interests  in  Richmond,  Salisbury  and 
Wayne  county.  He  was  a  Democrat  of  the  old  school  and  cast  his  first 
presidential  vote  for  Jefferson,  in  1804.  He  continued  to  support  the 
Democracy  until  1854,  when  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill  was  passed,  and  he 
left  the  party.  In  1850  he  removed  to  Illinois,  where  he  died  in  1856,  the 
year  of  the  inception  of  the  Republican  party,  whose  principles  and  faith  he 
endorsed.  He  married  Miss  Mary  Espy  and  to  them  were  born  ten  children, 
nine  daughters  and  a  son. 

The  last  named,  and  the  youngest  of  the  family  is  Judge  John  F.  Kib- 
bey,  the  honored  subject  of  this  review.  He  was  born  May  4,  1826,  in 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  in  which  he  has  always  lived.  He  remained  in 
Richmond  until  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  then  removed  to  Centerville,  at 
that  time  the  county-seat,  and  in  1874  returned  to  Richmond,  where  he  has 
resided  continuously  since.  He  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the 
common  schools,  later  attended  the  Wayne  County  Seminary,  in  Center- 
ville, and  afterward  became  a  student  in  Miami  University,  in  Oxford,  Ohio. 
In  1850  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  law,  his  preceptor  being  Governor  O. 
P.  Morton,  of  Centerville.  His  preparation  was  thorough  and  compre- 
hensive, and  in  1852  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  While  studying  he 
engaged  in  teaching  in  the  country  schools  and  in  Hagerstown.  In  1851  he 
was  appointed  county  surveyor,  and  in  1852,  1854  and  1S56  was  elected  to 
that  office,  which  he  filled  most  acceptably  until  1857,  when  he  resigned. 

In  1853  Judge  Kibbey  formed  a  law  partnership  with  Governor  Morton, 
which  connection  was  continued  until  i860,  when  the  latter  was  elected  chief 
executive  of  the  state.  In  March,  1862,  Judge  Kibbey  was  appointed  attor- 
ney-general of  Indiana,  and  continued  to  fill  that  position  until  November, 
when  the  regular  election  occurred.  During  the  two  years  following  he 
engaged  in  the  private  practice  of  law  to  some  extent,  but  his  time  was 
largely  taken  up  with  military  duties.  In  1863  he  was  appointed  a  com- 
mandant, with  the  rank  of  colonel,  of  the  congressional  district  in  which 
Wayne  county  is  located,  his  duty  being  to  procure  enlistments  for  the  army. 
He  enlisted  sixteen  companies,  of  which  he  was  commander  while  they  were 
in  Richmond.  The  greater  part  of  these  constituted  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-fourth  Indiana  Infantry,  and  a  portion  were  in  the  Ninth  Indiana 
Cavalry. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  135 

In  March,  1865,  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  sixth  common-pleas 
judicial  district,  composed  of  Wayne,  Fayette,  Union  and  Franklin  counties, 
and  in  the  autumn  of  that  year  was  elected  to  that  office,  being  re-elected  in 
1868  and  1872.  In  March,  1873,  the  common-pleas  court  was  abolished, 
and  Wayne  county  was  made  the  seventeenth  judicial  circuit,  of  which  Mr. 
Kibbey  was  elected  judge,  at  a  special  election,  in  October,  1873.  In  1878 
he  was  re-elected,  his  term  expiring  October  21,  1885,  when  he  resumed  the 
practice  of  law,  continuing  therein  until  his  retirement  from  the  profession,  in 
1898.  As  a  lawyer  he  soon  won  rank  among  the  distinguished  members  of 
the  bar  of  Indiana.  The  favorable  judgment  which  the  world  passed  upon 
him  in  his  early  years  was  never  set  aside  or  in  any  degree  modified  during 
his  long  career  at  the  bar  and  on  the  bench.  It  was,  on  the  contrary,  empha- 
sized by  his  careful  conduct  of  important  litigation,  his  candor  and  fairness 
in  the  presentation  of  cases,  and  his  zeal  and  earnestness  as  an  advocate. 
His  contemporaries  unite  in  bearing  testimony  to  his  high  character  and 
superior  mind.  What  higher  testimonial  of  his  able  service  on  the  bench 
could  be  given  than  the  fact  of  his  long  continuance  thereon  ?  A  clear  insight 
into  the  legal  problems  presented,  combined  with  absolute  fairness  and  a 
high  sense  of  justice,  made  his  decisions  particularly  free  from  bias,  and  won 
him  high  encomiums  from  the  public  and  the  bar. 

On  the  5th  of  May,  1852,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Judge  Kibbey 
and  Miss  Caroline  E.  Conningham,  daughter  of  Daniel  C.  Conningham,  of 
Centerville.  They  had  five  children,  as  follows:  Joseph  H.,  an  attorney-at- 
law  of  Phoenix,  Arizona,  who  went  to  that  place  in  18S8  and  was  United 
States  judge  from  1889  until  1893,  under  the  Harrison  administration;  Mary 
E. ,  who  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  William  E.  Jordan,  a  Methodist  Episcopal 
minister,  who  died  in  1890,  while  her  death  occurred  in  1883;  John  C,  who 
is  in  the  employ  of  the  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroad 
at  St.  Louis,  Missouri;  Frank  C,  a  member  of  the  Thirty-second  Michigan 
Regiment,  located  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  who  prior  to  entering  the 
service  was  clerk  of  the  court  in  Florence,  Arizona;  and  Walter  P.,  who 
died  in  1876,  at  the  age  of  ten  years. 

In  his  political  associations  Judge  Kibbey  was  a  Deinocrat  until  1S54, 
when,  on  account  of  the  attitude  of  the  party  on  the  slavery  question,  he 
left  its  ranks.  When  the  Republican  party  was  organized,  in  1856,  he 
became  one  of  its  supporters  and  has  since  been  most  earnest  in  his  advo- 
cacy of  its  principles.  In  1871  he  became  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  Centerville  and  three  years  later  transferred  his  membership  to 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Richmond.  A  prominent  and  exemplary  Mason, 
he  belongs  to  the  blue  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery  of  Richmond.  He 
has   drawn   about   him   a  circle    of  devoted    friends,    and   has   at    all  times 


136  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

commanded  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  fellow  men  by  his  superior  intel- 
lectual attainments  and  his  upright  life.  Professional  eminence  is  an  indica- 
tion of  individual  merit,  for  in  professional  life  advancement  cannot  depend 
upon  outside  influences  or  the  aid  of  wealthy  friends;  it  comes  as  the  reward 
of  earnest,  persistent  labor,  and  the  exercise  of  natural  talents,  and  is  there- 
fore the  fitting  reward  of  labor.  For  years  Judge  Kibbey  was  accorded  a 
prominent  position  at  the  Indiana  bar  and  his  professional  career  was  an 
honor  to  the  district  which  so  honored  him. 

JACOB  R.  WEIST,  A.M.,  M.D. 

One  of  the  most  exacting  of  all  the  the  higher  lines  of  occupation  to 
which  a  man  may  lend  his  energies  is  that  of  the  physician.  A  most  scrupu- 
lous preliminary  training  is  demanded  and  a  nicety  of  judgment  little  under- 
stood by  the  laity.  Then  again  the  profession  brings  one  of  its  devotees  into 
almost  constant  association  with  the  sadder  side  of  life, — that  of  pain  and 
suffering, — so  that  a  mind  capable  of  great  self-control  and  a  heart  respon- 
sive and  sympathetic  are  essential  attributes  of  him  who  would  essay  the 
practice  of  the  healing  art.  Thus  when  professional  success  is  attained  in 
any  instance  it  may  be  taken  as  certain  that  such  measure  of  success  has  been 
thoroughly  merited.  In  the  subject  of  this  review  we  have  one  who  has 
gained  distinction  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  calling,  who  has  been  an  earnest 
and  disci iminating  student,  and  who  holds  a  position  of  due  relative  preced- 
ence among  the  medical  practitioners  of  eastern  Indiana. 

Dr.  Weist  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  November  26,  1834,  and  is 
a  son  of  John  and  Keziah  C.  (Scott)  Weist.  The  family  is  of  German  line- 
age, and  the  grandfather,  Jacob  Weist,  was  a  native  of  central  Pennsylvania. 
He  was  reared  to  manhood  in  Little  York,  in  that  state,  and  thence  removed 
to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  where  he  died  in  1848,  during  a  cholera  epidemic,  at 
the  age  of  seventy  years  He  followed  farming  throughout  his  life  and  was 
a  man  of  intelligence  and  eminent  respectability.  He  married  Catharine  De 
Coursey,  a  lady  of  French  descent,  who  was  born  near  Baltimore,  Maryland. 
They  had  a  family  of  seven  children,  six  sons  and  a  daughter.  John  Weist, 
the  father  of  the  Doctor,  was  born  in  Little  York,  Pennsylvania,  in  1800, 
and  during  his  boyhood  removed  with  his  parents  to  Preble  county,  Ohio, 
where  he  died  in  1857.  He  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  as  a  life 
work,  and  his  capable  management  of  his  business  affairs,  and  his 
energy  and  industry  brought  to  him  a  well  deserved  success.  He  was 
a  very  prominent  and  influential  member  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  his  neighborhood,  took  an  active  interest  in  its  work,  and  lived  an 
exemplary  Christian  life.  His  integrity  was  proverbial  and  his  word  was  as 
good  as  any  bond  that  was  ever  solemnized  by  signature  or  seal.      He  mar- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  187 

Tied  Miss  Keziah  C. ,  daughter  of  George  Scott.  Her  father  belonged  to  a 
family  of  Swiss  extraction  and  in  early  life  was  a  sailor.  He  made  his  home 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  for  many  years,  but  subsequently  removed  to 
Huntington  county,  Indiana,  where  his  last  days  Were  passed.  In  his  family 
were  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 

In  the  common  schools  of  his  native  county  Dr.  Weist  acquired  his  pre- 
liminary education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University,  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  where  he  pursued  a  classical  and  scientific 
course.  In  1S78  the  Jesuit  Collage, — St.  Xavier, — of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  Prepared  by  a  broad  general 
knowledge  for  entrance  into  professional  life,  he  entered  the  office  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Ferris,  of  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  later  attended  a  course  of  lect- 
ures in  the  Western  Reserve  Medical  College,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  then 
for  a  time  practiced  in  his  native  county.  He  then  entered  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  graduated  in    1861. 

The  same  year  Dr.  Weist  opened  an  office  in  Richmond,  and  in  March, 
1863,  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon  to  the  Sixty-fifth  Regiment  of  Ohio 
Infantry,  in  which  capacity  he  acted  until  July  of  the  same  year,  when  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Fourth  Ohio  Cavalry,  with  which  he  remained  four- 
teen months.  In  September,  1863,  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  First 
United  States  Colored  Troops,  and  continued  with  that  command  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  being  discharged  in  November,  1865,  when  he  returned  to 
Richmond,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  private  practice.  His  service 
as  assistant  surgeon  was  with  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  a  part  of  the  time 
in  charge  of  a  hospital  in  Nashville,  and  his  service  as  surgeon  was  in  eastern 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  first  in  the  field  and  then  in  charge  of  hospitals 
in  Newbern  and  Goldsboro,  subsequently  chief  operating  surgeon  in  the 
Eighteenth  Army  Corps  hospital  at  Point  of  Rocks,  Virginia,  and  finally 
becoming  acting  medical  inspector  and  director  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Army 
Corps. 

All  this  was  a  splendid  training  school  for  the  young  physician.  With  a 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  anatomy  and  the  science  of  medicine,  he  care- 
fully applied  his  wisdom  to  the  alleviation  of  the  suffering  of  the  gallant  men 
who  were  fighting  for  their  country,  and  in  so  doing  gained  an  ability  that 
that  has  classed  him  first  among  the  surgeons  of  eastern  Indiana  and  gained 
him  national  reputation.  He  has  always  made  a  specialty  of  surgery,  and  his 
success  has  been  most  marked.  He  succeeded  because  he  desired  to  succeed. 
He  is  great  because  nature  endowed  him  bountifully,  and  he  has  studiously, 
carefully  and  conscientiously  increased  the  talents  that  were  given  him.  A 
perfect  master  of  the  construction  and  functions  of  the  component  parts  of 
the  human  body,  of  the  changes  induced  in  them  by  the  onslaughts  of  disease, 


138  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  the  defects  cast  upon  them  as  a  legacy  by  ancestry,  of  the  vital  capacity 
remaining  in  them  throughout  all  vicissitudes  of  existence,  he  has  gained  an 
eminent  place  among  the  practitioners  of  Indiana  and  is  recognized  authority 
on  many  questions  affecting  not  only  surgery  but  the  general  practice  of  medi- 
cine as  well.  He  has  been  surgeon  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company 
for  twenty  consecutive  years  and  for  twenty  years  served  on  the  United  States 
board  of  pension  examiners.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
American  Surgical  Association,  which  is  limited  to  a  membership  of  one  hun- 
dred, and  served  for  fourteen  years  as  secretary  of  that  distinguished  scientific 
body,  with  which  he  is  still  connected.  This  society  was  organized  in  New 
York  city  in  1880  and  Dr.  Weist  was  chosen  its  first  secretary.  He  is  also  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Southern  Gynecological  Association,  the  American 
Medical  Association,  which  he  represented  at  the  International  Medical  Con- 
gress in  1 88 1,  and  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Association,  serving  as  president 
of  the  last  named  in  1875.  Through  his  connection  with  these  various  organi- 
zations, as  well  as  through  constant  study  and  the  perusal  of  the  most  reliable 
medical  journals,  he  keeps  in  constant  touch  with  his  profession  in  its  advance 
toward  perfection.  He  has  not  always  been  a  follower  but  has  many  times- 
been  a  leader  in  the  investigation  that  has  led  to  valuable  discoveries,  and 
has  contributed  many  important  medical  papers  to  the  journals  of  his  profes- 
sion. Next  to  surgery  perhaps  his  most  important  dissertations  have  been 
on  hygiene  and  sanitary  affairs. 

In  1856  Dr.  Weist  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sarah  I.  Mitchell,  of 
Portsmouth,  Ohio,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children,  but  only  one  is 
now  living,  the  others  having  died  in  infancy.  Their  son.  Dr.  H.  H.  Weist, 
has  followed  in  the  professional  footsteps  of  his  father.  He  was  born  in 
Richmond,  July  10,  1868,  read  medicine  under  the  direction  of  his  father, 
attended  lectures  in  the  Bellevue  Medical  College,  and  was  graduated  in 
1891.  The  following  year  he  was  a  student  in  the  medical  department  of 
the  University  of  Michigan,  and  afterward  at  Johns  Hopkins  University  and 
the  University  of  Vienna,  Austria.  He  then  traveled  extensively  over  the 
continent,  and  is  now  engaged  in  practice  with  his  father  in  Richmond.  He 
is  a  young  man  of  splendid  intellectual  and  professional  attainments  and 
exceptional  ability. 

Dr.  Jacob  R.  Weist  holds  membership  with  various  fraternal  societies,  is 
a  Knight  Templar  Mason,  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  and  a  member  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  and  the  Loyal  Legion.  He  is  deeply  interested  in  the 
affairs  of  the  city  which  has  been  his  home  for  thirty-seven  years,  and  for  a 
long  period  served  as  its  health  officer.  He  has  always  advocated  the  meas- 
ures which  have  advanced  its  welfare,  and  has  labored  for  its  improvement 
and  progress.      In  private  life  he  has  gained  that  warm  personal  regard  which. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  139 

arises  from  true  nobility  of  character,  deference  for  the  opinions  of  others^ 
kindliness  and  geniality.  He  inspires  personal  friendships  of  unusual  strength, 
and  all  who  know  him  have  the  highest  admiration  for  his  good  qualities  of 
heart  and  mind. 

MARTIN  V.   BROWN. 

This  well  known  and  prominent  merchant  of  Milton,  Indiana,  who  is  a 
worthy  representative  of  one  of  the  honored  pioneer  families  of  Wayne 
county,  was  born  in  that  city  December  i,  1838,  and  was  educated  in  its  pub- 
lic and  subscription  schools.  His  parents,  John  and  Ara  Anna  (White)  Brown, 
were  born,  reared  and  married  in  Pennsylvania.  The  father  was  born  August 
II,  1812,  and  was  a  son  of  John  Brown,  Sr.,  who  belonged  to  a  family  of 
Scotch  origin  which  was  founded  in  America  during  colonial  days.  The  lat- 
ter served  through  the  Revolutionary  war  as  a  soldier  of  the  Continental 
army  and  made  his  home  in  Pennsylvania.  He  was  of  long-lived  stock,  and 
he  and  his  wife  lived  to  the  ages  of  eighty-five  and  eighty-six  years,  respect- 
ively. In  religious  faith  they  were  Lutherans,  he  having  been  baptized  by  a 
Lutheran  minister  when  only  a  few  days  old.  Their  children  were  John, 
Adam,  George,  Philip,  Henry,  Samuel,  Regena,  Eliza  and  Catherine. 

John  Brown,  Jr.,  the  father  of  our  subject,  left  the  home  farm  before  he 
attained  his  majority  and  learned  the  tanner's  trade.  After  working  for  a 
time  as  a  journeyman  in  his  native  state  he  purchased  a  tannery  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  Center  county,  Pennsylvania,  which  he  conducted  for  a  number 
of  years.  In  company  with  another  gentleman  he  then  came  west  on  a  pros- 
pecting tour,  going  as  far  as  Iowa  and  Missouri,  but,  deciding  to  locate  in 
Indiana,  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Wayne  county  in  1835.  The  first  year 
was  spent  in  Centerville,  but  at  the  end  of  that  time  he  removed  to  Milton, 
where  he  purchased  an  interest  in  a  tannery,  which  the  firm  remodeled  and 
enlarged  and  conducted  the  same  for  ten  or  twelve  years.  He  then  sold  his 
share  in  the  business  and  purchased  a  tract  of  land.  In  1849  he  went  to 
California,  by  way  of  the  isthmus,  and  remained  for  a  time  on  the  Pacific 
slope  prospecting  and  mining  with  reasonable  success.  He  opened  many 
camps  and  gave  the  name  to  several  rivers  and  towns,  but  he  met  with  no 
hairbreadth  escapes.  Returning  east  by  the  same  route  he  rejoined  his  fam- 
ily in  Milton,  and  devoted  his  attention  to  farming  and  stock-raising  through- 
out the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  cleared  and  improved  a  fine  farm,  erecting 
thereon  commodious  and  substantial  buildings.  In  politics  he  was  a  pro- 
nounced Democrat  and  was  once  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  state  legis- 
lature, but  was  defeated  by  General  Solomon  Meredith,  a  very  strong 
opponent,  who  beat  him  by  only  a  small  majority,  however.  He  tilled  some 
important  township  offices  and  was  a  man  of  prominence  in   his  community. 


140  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


He  died  October  i,  1898,  aged  eighty-six  years,  and  his  estimable  wife 
away  June  29,  1890,  aged  seventy-nine  years.  She  was  born  December  20, 
1810,  and  had  two  brothers,  Jackson  and  Daniel,  both  residents  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  White  family  were  connected  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  Our  subject  is  the  oldest  in  a  family  of  four  children,  the  others 
being  Jackson,  who  spent  ten  years  in  Montana,  but  died  in  Milton,  Indiana; 
Martha  J.,  now  Mrs.  T.  Williamson,  of  Sherman  county,  Kansas;  and  Albert, 
w"ho  died  leaving  a  wife  but  no  children. 

Martin  V.  Brown  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  twenty-two  years  of 
age,  then  worked  in  a  mill  two  years  and  engaged  in  clerking  in  a  dry-goods 
store  for  the  same  length  of  time  at  Lewisville.  On  the  ist  of  March,  1868, 
he  purchased  a  building  and  stock  of  groceries  and  hardware  and  embarked 
in  business  at  Milton,  where  he  has  since  successfully  carried  on  operations. 
He  also  owns  and  conducts  the  old  homestead  farm,  and  irl  business  affairs 
has  met  with  well  merited  success. 

On  the  1st  of  November,  1866,  Mr.  Brown  wedded  Miss  Mary  J.  Mack, 
who  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  September  20,  1844,  a  daughter  of 
Alexander  and  Catherine  (Hoover)  Mack,  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  who  went 
with  their  respective  families  to  Ohio  and  were  married  in  the  latter  state. 
They  were  farming  people,  who  in  1848  removed  to  Carthage,  Illinois,  where 
they  bought  a  farm.  After  their  deaths,  about  eleven  years  later,  the  family 
was  scattered  and  Mrs.  Brown  returned  to  Ohio,  where  she  lived  with  an 
aunt  for  two  years  and  later  with  her  grandfather.  In  1864  she  came  to 
Lewisville,  Henry  county,  Indiana,  where  she  made  her  home  with  an  uncle 
until  her  marriage.  She  is  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  five 
children,  the  others  being  Mrs.  Emerite  Slater,  now  of  Chicago,  Illinois; 
Maria  L. ,  who  first  married  a  Mr.  McClure,  and  afterward  R.  T.  Rogers,  of 
Denver,  Colorado;  Charles,  a  resident  of  Elmo,  Missouri;  and  Catherine,  wife 
of  C.  White.  The  parents  of  these  children  were  faithful  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  have  been  born  five  children: 
Cora  M.,  at  home;  Frank  W. ,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years;  Will- 
iam, who  is  a  clerk  in  his  father's  store  and  the  master  of  the  Masonic  lodge; 
John  A.,  who  married  Nora  St.  Clair,  the  daughter  of  a  prominent  physician 
of  Milton,  and  Mary  J.,  at  home. 

Mr.  Brown  is  one  of  the  prominent  and  influential  representatives  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  his  community,  and  he  takes  an  active  interest  in  polit- 
ical affairs.  He  has  held  about  all  the  town  offices,  and  was  once  the  candi- 
date of  his  pariy  for  county  treasurer.  He  is  one  of  the  leading  members  of 
the  Masonic  lodge  of  Milton  and  has  served  as  its  treasurer  for  nearly  thirty 
years. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY. 


CYRUS  O.   HURST. 

One  of  the  earliest  families  making  permanent  settlement  in  Wayne 
county,  Indiana,  was  that  now  worthily  represented  in  this  section  of  the  state 
by  the  gentleman  whose  name  forms  the  heading  of  this  sketch.  For 
almost  a  century  the  Hursts  have  been  identified  with  the  agricultural 
interests  of  their  community,  aiding  materially  in  the  development  of  the 
resources  of  their  section  and  taking  an  active  part  in  everything  calcu- 
lated to  promote  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  the  majority. 

As  early  as  1802  a  little  party  of  three,  John  and  Benedict  Hurst  and 
Elizabeth,  the  young  wife  of  the  former,  might  have  been  observed  making 
the  tediously  long  and  difficult  journey  through  the  almost  pathless  wilder- 
ness from  Maryland  to  Ohio.  The  two  young  men,  who  were  able-bodied 
and  full  of  the  vigor  and  enthusiasm  of  youth,  walked  the  entire  distance, 
over  the  mountains  and  through  the  forests,  while  Mrs.  Hurst  was  on  horse- 
back, with  all  of  her  own  and  husband's  earthly  possessions  in  the  pack- 
saddle  of  the  trus'ty  animal  she  rode.  Simple  as  was  this  primitive  mode  of 
traveling,  the  slender  means  of  the  three  became  nearly  exhausted  by  the 
time  that  they  reached  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  there  they  concluded  to  remain 
for  a  period.  The  young  husband  worked  at  whatever  he  could  find  to  do, 
clearing  land  and  splitting  rails,  chiefly,  and,  assisted  by  his  industrious  wife, 
managed  to  accumulate  a  little  money.  Two  of  their  children  were  born 
during  their  sojourn  there,  one  in  1804  and  the  other  two  years  later.  In 
1807  the  family  came  to  what  has  since  been  known  as  Wajne  county,  and 
here  Mr.  Hurst  entered  eighty  acres  of  land.  He  not  only  devoted  himself 
to  the  clearing  and  cultivating  of  this  property  but  was  one  of  the  first  to 
embark  in  the  raising,  buying  and  feeding  of  hogs,  which  he  disposed  of  in 
the  Cincinnati  markets.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  extremely  economical  and 
hard-working,  very  little  having  to  be  expended  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
household,  for  she  spun  and  wove  cloth  for  garments,  and  most  of  their 
necessities  were  produced  on  the  farm.  Thus  they  continually  added  to  their 
substantial  wealth,  bought  land  and  made  investments,  and,  after  providing 
each  of  their  twelve  children  with  a  good  start  in  independent  life,  left  over 
two  thousand  acres  of  land  to  be  divided  among  them.  Mr.  Hurst  was  a 
man  of  such  strict  honor  and  absolute  integrity  that  his  mere  word  was  con- 
sidered as  good  as  a  written  contract,  and  to  his  posterity  he  left  an  unblem- 
ished name  and  a  record  of  which  they  should  be  very  proud.  After  years 
had  been  spent  in  the  little  log-cabin  home,  a  better  structure  sheltered  the 
family,  and  from  time  to  time  the  so-called  luxuries  of  an  advancing  civiliza- 
tion found  their  way  into  the  always  happy  home.  Mr.  Hurst  was  the  proud 
possessor  of  the  first  cook-stove  that  was  owned  in  this  locality,  and  one  of 


142  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  first  ingrain  carpets  of  the  period  was  treasured  by  his  wife  in  her  best 
room.  In  her  girlhood  she  had  married  a  Mr.  Marshall,  who  died  a  short 
time  thereafter,  and  thus  she  was  a  widow  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  to  Mr. 
Hurst.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurst  were  natives  of  Maryland,  and  he  was  of 
Irish  descent.  She  died  November  5,  1850,  having  survived  him  a  few  years. 
Death  came  to  him  when  he  was  comparatively  a  young  man,  or  at  least  in 
his  prime,  in  May,  1838,  when  he  was  fifty-six  years  of  age.  Their  children 
were:  Cynthia,  born  December  8,  1804;  Benedict,  December  11,  1806; 
Bennett,  December  8,  1808;  Sanford,  April  5,  1811;  Melinda,  December  7, 
1812;  J.  Marshall,  February  13,  1814;  Isaac,  February  5,  1817;  Anna,  April 
II,  1819  (died  when  young);  Dickson,  December  7,  1821;  Elijah  and  Silva 
(twins),  born  October  29,  1824  (the  latter  married  R.  Watt);  and  Mary  E.,born 
July  12,  1827,  became  the  wife  of  John  Orr. 

J.  Marshall  Hurst,  the  father  of  Cyrus  O.  Hurst,  was  reared  amid  the 
environments  of  pioneer  life,  and  early  learned  to  perform  all  kinds  of  diffi- 
cult work.  Ambitious  and  possessed  of  the  same  spirit  of  enterprise  which 
had  characterized  his  father,  he  energetically  improved  the  forest-covered 
farm  upon  which  he  located  after  his  marriage,  and  in  1859  he  settled  upon 
the  place  now  owned  by  our  subject.  Here  he  and  his  family  spent  about 
a  year  in  a  small  house  which  stood  upon  the  place,  and  in  the  meantime  he 
erected  a  large  two-story  brick  residence  upon  a  better  site.  At  that  time 
this  was  not  only  the  finest  house  in  the  township  but  even  one  of  the  very 
best  in  the  county,  and  even  to-day  but  few  farm  houses  excel  it  in  every 
respect.  Together  with  the  large  barns  and  other  buildings  which  stand  upon 
the  farm,  the  superiority  of  the  soil  and  the  topography  of  the  land,  its  gen- 
eral suitablity  for  the  raising  of  various  kinds  of  crops,  and  other  notable 
features,  it  is  undoubtedly  one  of  the  most  valuable  homesteads  in  the  county. 
Mr.  Hurst  was  extensively  engaged  in  the  stock  business,  raising,  buying  and 
selling  cattle  and  hogs.  Successful  in  most  of  his  financial  enterprises,  he 
gradually  amassed  a  fortune,  and  when  death  put  an  end  to  his  labors  he 
owned  ten  hundred  and  forty-five  acres  of  land,  besides  having  a  large  bank 
account  to  his  credit. 

For  a  companion  and  helpmate  along  the  journey  of  life,  J.  M.  Hurst 
chose  Miss  Sarah  Willetts,  a  daughter  of  Elisha  Willetts,  of  Virginia.  He 
was  a  pioneer  in  this  township,  where  he  entered  and  improved  land  and 
spent  the  rest  of  his  days.  Social  and  cheerful  in  disposition,  he  was  a  general 
favorite  with  his  neighbors,  and  his  more  substantial  qualities  gave  him  a 
high  place  among  his  associates.  Mrs.  Hurst  had  several  brothers  and  sis- 
ters, namely.  Nelson,  Elias,  James,  Eldridge,  Ervin,  Mrs.  Clarissa  Busby, 
Mrs.  Joanna  Rogers  and  Mrs.  Mary  Jones.  Their  mother  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  church,  but  both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurst  were  faithful  workers  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  143 

the  United  Brethren  church.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children,  named 
as  follows;  Fernandez,  now  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  a  hero  of  the  civil 
war;  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Fox,  of  Madison  county,  Indiana;  Cyrus  O. ;  Mrs.  Eliza 
J.  Walker,  who  died  in  January,  1899,  in  this  county,  and  left  five  children; 
AUison,  now  of  Anderson,  Indiana;  Mrs.  Clara  Lamott;  Jesse  V/.,  of  Ander- 
son; Roxy,  wife  of  W.  Wilson;  Clarence,  of  Chicago;  and  Mrs.  Emma  Reed, 
of  Anderson.  The  father  departed  this  life  May  11,  1868,  and  the  mother 
lived  until  March  12,  1887. 

The  birth  of  Cyrus  O.  Hurst  took  place  in  Waterloo  township,  Fayette 
county,  September  18,  1849.  In  his  boyhood  he  received  much  better  edu- 
cational privileges  than  had  fallen  to  the  lot  of  his  forefathers,  and  he  made 
the  best  of  his  opportunities.  Needless  to  say  that  he  gained  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  agriculture,  for  there  were  no  drones  among  the  Hursts,  and 
every  boy  had  his  task  to  perform.  So  well  did  our  subject  succeed  that  he 
took  charge  of  the  homestead  when  he  was  seventeen,  and  continued  to  carry 
on  the  work  which  had  been  inaugurated  by  his  father.  In  1872  he  settled 
upon  a  portion  of  the  old  estate,  bequeathed  to  him  in  his  father's  will,  and 
eight  years  later  he  purchased  the  rest  of  the  homestead  and  removed  to  the 
brick  house  already  mentioned.  At  present  he  owns  six  hundred  and  eighty- 
five  acres  of  excellent  land,  and  has  fine  investments  in  various  concerns, 
besides  carrying  a  ten-thousand-dollar  life  policy,  and  in  other  ways  proving 
that  he  is  a  thorough  business  man  of  the  period,  far-sighted,  methodical  and 
enterprising. 

Prospered  as  he  has  been,  and  abundantly  blessed  "  in  basket  and  in 
store,"  Mr.  Hurst  does  not  neglect  his  duties  toward  those  less  fortunate,  and 
the  needy  and  sorrowing.  It  is  one  of  his  chief  pleasures  to  minister  to  these, 
and  many  a  person  feels  deeply  indebted  to  him  for  timely  assistance.  He 
is  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  work  of  the  Methodist  denomination,  with 
which  he  and  his  wife  are  identified.  Politically  he  is  a  Democrat,  as  were 
his  ancestors,  and  has  officiated  as  township  trustee  and  in  other  local  posi- 
tions of  responsibility. 

The  wedding  of  Mr.  Hurst  and  Miss  Sarah  Waymire  was  solemnized  in 
this  township  in  1872.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Isam  and  Elizabeth  A.  (Taylor) 
Waymire,  of  Wayne  county,  this  state,  and  Virginia,  respectively.  Isam  was 
a  son  of  Rudolph  and  Abigail  (Fuller)  Waymire,  both  of  German  descent  and 
natives  of  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina.  Rudolph  Waymire  served  in 
the  war  of  18 12,  and  about  the  close  of  that  struggle  emigrated  to  Indiana, 
where,  after  leasing  land  for  a  few  years,  he  obtained  a  soldier's  warrant  for 
forty  acres,  and  later  added  thirty  acres  more..  Two  of  his  brothers,  David 
and  Jacob,  also  came  to  this  state  and  owned  and  improved  property. 
Rudolph    Waymire   and  wife  had  eight  children — Sabina,   Sultana,  Neely, 


144  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Tempa,  Betsey,  Fanny,  Isam  and  Mary  A.  Mrs.  Hurst's  maternal  grand- 
parents were  Haskell  and  Permelia  (Eddings)  Taylor,  of  Virginia.  Haskell 
was  a  son  of  Zachariah  Taylor,  a  veteran  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  Eliza- 
beth A.  (Taylor)  Waymire  was  born  in  the  Old  Dominion  February  23,  1S27, 
and  when  ten  years  of  age  accompanied  her  parents  to  Union  county,  Indiana. 
Later  they  removed  to  Putnam  county,  where  they  died.  Their  children, 
seven  in  number,  were  named:  Elizabeth  A.,  Susan  J.,  William,  Thornton, 
Lorana,  Ophelia  and  Hiram.  Mrs.  Hurst  is  the  eldest  of  four  sisters,  of 
whom  Mary  is  unmarried,  Eliza  J.  is  the  wife  of  B.  Miles,  and  Miranda  is 
Mrs.  J.  Wise.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurst  are:  Cora,  born 
January  9,  1873,  and  now  the  wife  of  Daniel  Clevinger;  lea  M.,  born  Febru- 
ary 14,  1874,  and  now  wedded  to  R.  H.  Houseworth;  and  Charles  E.,  born 
September  22,  1878.  He  is  unmarried  and  is  an  energetic,  capable  young 
man,  upon  whom  has  devolved  much  of  the  care  of  the  old  homestead  dur- 
ing the  last  few  years. 

GEORGE  BERRY,  M.  D. 

No  state  in  the  Union  can  boast  of  a  more  heroic  band  of  pioneers  than 
Indiana.  In  their  intelligence,  capability  and  genius  they  were  far  above  the 
pioneers  of  the  east,  and  in  their  daring  and  heroism  they  were  equal  to  the 
Missouri  and  California  argonauts.  Their  privations,  hardships  and  earnest 
labors  have  resulted  in  establishing  one  of  the  foremost  commonwealths  in 
America,  and  one  which  has  still  great  possibilities  before  it.  The  material 
advancement  of  the  central  Mississippi  states  is  the  wonder  of  the  world, 
and  it  has  been  largely  secured  through  the  sturdy  and  intelligent  manhood 
of  descendants  of  the  cavaliers  of  Virginia,  with  their  moral,  intellectual 
and  physical  stamina;  but  their  work  is  nearly  complete,  and  every  year 
sees  more  new  graves  filled  by  those  who  helped  to  build  an  empire,  and 
soon,  too  scon,  will  the  last  of  these  sturdy  pioneers  be  laid  away;  but  their 
memory  will  forever  remain  green  among  those  who  lived  among  them  and 
appreciated  their  efforts. 

The  name  of  the  late  Dr.  George  Berry  was  perhaps  more  closely 
associated  with  the  earlier  history  of  Brookville  and  Franklin  county  than 
any  other,  and  his  valuable  counsel  and  the  activities  of  his  useful  manhood 
were  of  great  moment  to  the  advancement  of  his  city  and  county.  He  was 
a  representative  of  an  old  Virginian  family.  His  father,  Henry  Berry,  was 
a  native  of  Rockingham  county,  in  the  Old  Dominion,  and  emigrating  west- 
ward located  on  section  26,  Brookville  township,  Franklin  county,  Indiana, 
November  7,  18 16.  There  he  spent  his  remaining  days,  his  death  occurring 
in  September,  1864,  in  the  eighty-second  year  of  his  age,  his  remains  being 
interred  on  the  old  homestead.       He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  and  coming 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  145- 

to  Indiana  established  a  smithy  on  his  farm,  doing  business  for  the  settlers 
for  miles  around.  His  shop  was  a  favorite  resort  with  the  frontiersman  of 
that  time,  and  the  proprietor  was  an  artisan  of  the  true  American  type.  He 
could  shoe  a  horse,  repair  a  rifle,  "  jump  an  ox,"  renew  the  springs  of  a  steel 
trap,  discuss  the  political  and  religious  topics  of  the  day,  assist  the  itinerant 
minister  or  do  whatever  else  appeared  to  be  necessary  to  build  up  a  pros- 
perous neighborhood.  He  took  the  papers,  which  but  few  of  his  fellow  pio- 
neers could  afford  to  do,  and  therefore  his  shop  was  headquarters  for  the 
news  of  the  outside  world.  He  was  a  very  popular  man  and  was  chosen 
justice  of  the  peace  and  later  probate  judge  of  Franklin  county,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  for  twenty  consecutive  years. 

Dr.  George  Berry,  his  eldest  child  and  the  immediate  subject  of  this: 
review,  was  born  in  Rockingham  county,  Virginia,  February  17,  181 1,  andi 
died  in  Brookville  March  19,  1892,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years.  In  an 
account  of  his  life  a  friend  said:  "  Before  the  forests  were  cleared  away  or 
the  meadows  appeared  upon  the  uplands,  when  our  valleys  and  hills  were 
timber  clad,  with  no  openings  through  the  woodlands,  save  the  little  clearing 
of  the  early  pioneer,  the  Indian  trail  or  the  emigrant's  trace,  he  appeared 
upon  the  scene  of  his  activities  in  Franklin  county.  Almost  with  the  dawn 
of  civilization  in  southeastern  Indiana  he  came,  and  the  history  of  his  life  is. 
to  a  great  extent  the  history  of  our  valley."  Thus  from  its  earliest  develop- 
ment Dr.  Berry  had  a  part  in  the  public  life  and  progress  of  this  locality.  As^. 
soon  as  old  enough  he  began  to  learn  the  blacksmith's  trade  under  his  father's, 
supervision,  but  ill.  health  caused  him  to  abandon  that  pursuit.  From  the 
newspapers  for  which  his  father  was  a  subscriber,  and  from  a  collection  of 
books,  quite  large  for  a  frontiersman's  cabin,  he  obtained  most  of  his  educa- 
tion. He,  however,  attended  school  to  a  limited  extent,  pursuing  his  studies 
for  a  time  in  the  schools  of  Brookvi  le.  In  1S27  he  engaged  in  teaching  near 
the  site  of  Roseburg,  Union  county,  Indiana,  and  in  1828  was  employed  as 
a  teacher  in  Brookville.  Subsequently  he  went  to  Butler  county,  Ohio,  and 
engaged  in  teaching  near  New  London,  also  taking  up  the  study  of  medicine 
under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Thomas,  who  was  at  that  time  considered  one  of 
the  most  able  surgeons  of  the  state.  When  he  went  to  Ohio  he  called  upon 
School-examiner  Bebb,  afterward  governor  of  that  state,  and  desired  to  be 
examined  as  an  applicant  for  a  license  to  teach  school.  The  examiner 
looked  up  at  the  stripling,  and,  calling  attention  to  some  figures  with  which 
he  had  been  busy,  said:  "  I  can't  get  this  sum;  if  you  can,  I'll  give  you  a 
license  without  examination."  Dr.  Berry  undertook  the  solution  of  the 
problem  and  secured  both  the  correct  result  and  the  license. 

In  the  spring  of  1832  Dr.  Berry  located  in  Brookville  and  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  and  surgery.      From  that  time  until   his  death  he  prac- 


146  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ticed  the  healing  art,  and  he  became  the  loved  family  physician  in  many  a 
household,  his  kindly  and  skillful  ministrations  winning  him  the  heartfelt 
gratitude  of  hundreds.  Probably  no  man  in  the  county  was  more  widely  or 
favorably  known,  his  professional  duties  bringing  him  into  contact  with 
almost  all  of  the  settlers  of  the  county.  On  the  6th  of  May,  1834,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ann  Wright,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Bardsley)  Wright.  They  began  their  domestic  life  in  the  house  which  was 
their  home  until  the  death  of  the  Doctor,  and  there  four  children  were  born 
to  them,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  the  elder  daughter  dying  in  infancy. 
The  younger  daughter,  Elizabeth,  still  resides  in  the  old  home,  on  Main  street, 
one  room  of  which  was  used  as  a  land  office  in  the  early  days.  William  H. 
is  a  practicing  physician  of  Brookville,  and  George  is  now  deceased. 

In  all  the  public  affairs  concerning  the  welfare  of  the  state  Dr.  Berry 
took  a  deep  interest,  and  gave  his  support  to  every  measure  which  he 
believed  would  contribute  to  the  public  good.  In  i  S3 5  he  was  appointed  post- 
master of  Brookville  by  President  Jackson,  and  was  reappointed  by  President 
VanBuren.  In  March,  1839,  he  was  elected  the  first  town  clerk  of  Brook- 
ville, and  for  many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  school  trustees. 
In  1843  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  state  senate,  for  a  term  of  three 
years,  and  in  1846  was  re-elected,  leaving  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon 
the  early  legislation  of  the  state.  He  studied  closely  the  issues  of  the  day  and 
■gave  an  earnest  support  to  all  measures  which  he  believed  would  prove  of 
public  benefit.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Mexican  war  he  was  appointed 
surgeon  of  the  Sixteenth  Regular  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  started  for  the  scene 
■of  hostilities  April  7,  1847.  He  served  under  General  Taylor  in  northern 
Mexico  during  the  campaign  ending  in  the  brilliant  victory  of  Buena  Vista, 
and  receiving  an  honorable  discharge  he  returned  home  August  8,   1848. 

Immediately  thereafter  he  resumed  the  practice  of  medicine,  but  his  fel- 
low townmen  were  not  content  that  he  should  remain  long  in  private  life,  and 
in  1849  he  was  again  elected  to  the  state  senate,  and  in  1850  was  appointed 
a  member  of  the  state  constitutional  convention,  becoming  one  of  its  most 
valued  and  efficient  representatives.  He  left  the  imprint  of  his  strong  intel- 
lectuality upon  the  organic  law  of  the  state,  and  in  connection  with  his  col- 
leagues framed  a  constitution  that  has  stood  the  test  of  almost  half  a  century. 
In  1864  he  was  the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  party  for  congress,  and  in 
1870  was  elected  auditor  of  Franklin  county  and  was  re-elected  in  1874. 

Dr.  Berry  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  His 
petition  for  membership  in  Penn  Lodge,  No.  30,  was  one  among  the  first  pre- 
sented to  that  organization.  On  account  of  absence  from  home  he  was  not 
intitiated  when  the  lodge  was  organized,  February  18,  1846,  but  was  received 
on    the    following  Wednesdav.       He   was   a   charter   member   of    Brookville 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  147 

Encampment,  No.  32,  which  was  organized  December  2,  1852,  and  served 
in  almost  every  official  capacity  in  both  lodge  and  encampment.  He  was  true 
to  his  fraternal  obligations,  was  deeply  interested  in  the  success  of  the  order, 
and  upon  his  death  Penn  Lodge  passed  resolutions  of  respect,  in  which  he 
was  spoken  of  "  as  a  man  endowed  with  many  of  the  choicest  gifts  of  nature. 
In  intellect  he  possessed  talents  of  a  high  order.  He  loved  right  and  justice; 
he  hated  wrong  and  injustice.  He  was  an  honest  man,  a  true  brother  and 
friend,  and  loved  with  all  the  ardor  of  his  warm  heart  the  principles  of  Odd- 
fellowship." 

His  practice  as  a  physician  was  very  extensive.  For  many  years  he  was 
the  principal  surgeon  of  this  region,  and  made  professional  visits  into  a  part 
of  the  territory  now  embraced  within  the  counties  of  Franklin,  Union,  Fayette, 
Decatur,  Dearborn  and  Ripley,  in  Indiana,  and  Butler,  in  Ohio.  His  prac- 
tice began  before  the  epoch  of  public  highways  and  bridges.  The  newly 
cleared  roads,  or  more  frequently  the  bridle  paths,  were  the  only  thorough- 
fares. He  traveled  on  horseback  and  carried  his  supplies  in  his  saddlebags. 
He  practiced  medicine  si.xty  years  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was,  with 
one  exception,  the  oldest  practitioner  in  the  Whitewater  valley. 

Throughout  his  life  he  was  a  very  active  man.  His  memory  was 
phenomenal.  His  acquaintance  with  most  of  the  historic  characters,  and  his 
familiarity  with  the  scenes  of  many  of  the  occurrences  of  historic  interest  in 
the  valley,  together  with  his  love  of  anecdote,  for  which  he  was  noted,  made 
him  an  instructive  and  entertaining  companion.  In  this  connection  a  friend 
wrote  of  him:  "Certainly  no  other  man  in  Franklin  county  was  so  well  or  so 
widely  known  as  he.  He  was  familiar  with  the  history  of  all  the  older  fami- 
lies of  the  county  and  with  the  personal  history  of  a  large  part  of  the  com- 
munity. His  life  has  entered  into  the  home  life  of  us  all.  His  outspoken 
ways,  open-handed  charity,  well  known  regard  for  truth,  his  hatred  of  sham 
and  great  love  for  humanity  were  known  to  all.  He  had  sympathy  for  us  in 
our  sorrows,  rejoiced  with  us  in  our  joys.  Never  did  he  utter  an  angry  word 
in  his  home,  and  his  family  ties  were  to  him  a  most  sacred  trust."  He  had 
passed  the  eighty-first  milestone  on  life's  journey  when  he  fell  asleep.  The 
veil  was  lifted  to  gain  the  new  glory  of  a  true  and  beautiful  life  when  death 
set  the  seal  upon  his  mortal  lips.  Any  monument  erected  to  his  memory  and 
to  commemorate  his  virtues  will  have  become  dim  and  tarnished  by  time  ere 
the  remembrance  of  his  noble  example  shall  cease  to  exercise  an  influence 
upon  the  community  in  which  he  lived  and  labored  to  such  goodly  ends. 

His  wife  survived  him  only  a  short  time,  passing  away  at  the  old  home 
in  Brookville,  May  18,  1894,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  One  who  had  known 
her  long  and  well  wrote  the  following  lines,  which  were  read  at  the  funeral: 
"To-day  our  lines   have  met  at  the  end  of   the  pathway  of  the  life  of  one  of 


148  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

our  friends.  To  bear  testimony  to  the  fidelity  of  this  pilgrim's  life;  to  express 
our  appreciation  of  faithfulness  to  duty;  to  sympathize  with  those  with  whom 
these  life  chords  have  been  so  closely  woven,  is  our  present  sad  privilege.  A 
long  life,  full  of  duties  well  performed,  is  as  the  course  of  the  sun.  Its  happy 
childhood  as  the  brightness  of  its  rising;  its  middle-life  activities  as  the  ener- 
gizing influences  of  its  mid-day  power;  its  close  as  the  beauty  of  the  even- 
ing,— a  quiet,  peaceful  end. 

"Ann,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Bardsley)  Wright,  was  born 
near  Ashton-Under-Lyne,  Lancashire,  England,  October  12,  1813,  came  with 
her  parents  to  the  United  States,  and  settled  in  Montgomery  county,  Ohio, 
June  I,  1820.  On  the  7th  of  April,  1825,  the  family  came  to  Franklin  county 
and  located  on  the  old  home  farm,  three  miles  southeast  of  Brookville.  Mrs. 
Berry  was  the  second  of  eight  children,  five  daughters  and  three  sons.  She 
was  married.  May  6,  1834,  to  Dr.  George  Berry,  and  within  three  weeks  they 
began  housekeeping  in  the  house  where  she  died  and  where  she  had  ever  since 
resided.  Some  who  sit  here  to-day  can  wander  back  in  memory's  valleys  to 
the  wedding  day  of  the  one  about  whose  body  we  are  gathered,  and  from  that 
time  to  this  they  can  trace  the  course  of  her  life.  Together  she  and  her 
husband  began  their  new  life's  journey.  What  bright  prospects,  what  joyful 
hopes  were  theirs.  Along  the  morning  of  their  married  life  toward  its  mid- 
day they  walked  togethe?.  Family  cares  and  family  blessings  alike  came  to 
them.  Joys  and  sorrows,  the  smooth  places  and  the  rough,  were  a  part  of 
their  experience,  but  all  helped  in  the  development  that  made  them  the  man 
and  woman  that  they  were.  He  became  the  friend  of  man,  the  man 
of  mercy  to  the  suffering,  and  his  wife  his  helper  in  all, — in  every- 
thing. They  passed  the  noontide  of  their  married  life,  and  the  sun  started  on 
its  journey  to  the  west.  How  sweet  it  was  to  see  them  come  down  the  hill 
together.  For  nearly  fifty-eight  years,  side  by  side,  they  trod  life's  pathway. 
Then  their  hands  unclasped.  One  dropped  by  the  wayside;  the  other  con- 
tinued on  the  journey.  Tired  and  weak,  she  lay  down  and  fell  asleep.  She 
looked  forward  to  the  coming  of  this  day  when  her  spirit  should  pass  from 
this  short  life  into  the  fuller,  the  perfect  life  beyond.  The  rest  of  the  right- 
eous is  now  hers." 

ZACCHEUS  TEST.  A.  M.,  M.  D. 
According  to  well  authenticated  family  traditions  the  Tests  are  of  Flem- 
ish extraction,  but  were  residents  of  England  fully  two  hundred  and  fifty 
years  ago.  They  espoused  the  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  three  of 
them  are  said  to  have  accompanied  William  Penn  to  America,  settling  in  the 
eastern  part  of  "  Penn's  Woods,"  or  Pennsylvania.  Thence  some  of  them 
drifted  to  Salem,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  and  there  Samuel  Test,  the  gjand- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  149 

father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born,  January  8,  1774.  He  was  a 
hatter  by  trade,  but  made  farming  and  milling  his  chief  business  after  his 
removal  to  Indiana.  On  the  way  west  he  stayed  for  a  short  period  at 
Waynesville  and  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  18 16  arrived  in  Union  county,  this 
state,  where  he  lived  many  years.  Finally  he  came  to  Richmond  and  died 
here,  in  1856.  He  was  a  strong  anti-slavery  man  and  a  Whig,  and  was 
very  active  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  he  was  a  life-long  and  a 
useful  member.  He  married  Sarah  Maxwell,  also  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 
and  to  them  were  born  ten  children. 

The  parents  of  Dr.  Zaccheus  Test  were  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Hannah 
(Jones)  Test.  The  father  was  the  second  child  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Max- 
well) Test,  and  was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  August  6,  1798.  He  accom- 
panied the  family  on  its  removal  to  this  state,  and  in  the  spring  of  1835  he 
came  to  the  vicinity  of  Richmond  and  embarked  in  the  manufacture  of 
woolen  goods,  near  the  well  known  "  Test  Mills."  He  departed  this  life  in 
1849,  respected  and  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him.  He,  too,  was  a  devout 
and  faithful  Friend  and  aided  materially  in  the  work  of  the  church.  Of  his 
seven  sons,  the  Doctor  is  the  second.  The  eldest,  Josiah,  died  in  1864; 
William,  Rufus  and  Oliver,  all  reside  at  present  near  the  Test  Mills;  Erastus 
is  professor  of  mathematics  in  Purdue  University,  at  Lafayette;  and  Lindley 
M.  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  and  real-estate  business  in  Peru,  Indiana. 

Dr.  Zaccheus  Test  was  born  in  the  village  now  called  Quakertown, 
Union  county,  Indiana,  September  13,  1828.  After  irregular  attendance  at 
the  common  schools  he  entered  "Friends'  Boarding  School"  (now  Earl- 
ham  College),  at  its  opening,  in  1847,  and  after  a  two-years  course  went  to 
Haverford  College,  at  Haverford,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1851.  A  year  later  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine,  being  a  student  of 
Dr.  William  B.  Smith,  of  Richmond,  and  graduated  in  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  the  spring  of  1855.  Poor 
health  compelled  him  later  to  give  up  the  profession.  Having  assisted  in 
the  organization  of  the  institution,  he  became,  in  1859,  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  Earlham  College,  where  for  several  years  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
classical  department.  In  1866  he  accepted  a  position  in  Howland  School, 
Union  Springs,  New  York,  where  he  remained  till  1879. 

During  all  these  j'ears  the  Doctor  was  closely  occupied  in  stud}',  espe- 
cially in  the  line  of  the  history  and  systems  of  philosophy.  In  1861  or  1S62, 
Franklin  and  Marshall  College,  Pennsylvania,  conferred  upon  him  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts.  In  1874-5  it  was  his  privilege  to  spend  a  year  abroad, 
mostly  at  the  University  of  Tubingen,  southern  Germany,  occupying  the 
vacations  more  or  less  in  European  travel.  Returning  by  way  of  England, 
he  was  appointed,  in    1879,  supervisor  of  German  in   the  public  schools  of 


150  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Richmond  and  served  in  that  capacity  up  to  the  close  of  1898.  As  an  edu- 
cator he  has  met  with  encouraging  success.  His  heart  and  mind  have  been 
wholly  in  the  great  work,  and  he  seems  especially  gifted  by  nature  and  train- 
ing to  lead  and  develop  the  mental  faculties  of  the  young. 

In  1879  Dr.  Test  became  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church,  and  a  year  later  was  ordained  a  deacon.  In  1883  he  was  admitted 
to  the  priesthood  and  for  three  years  was  the  rector  of  the  Connersville 
church.  For  fourteen  years  he  has  been  the  honorary  assistant  of  St.  Paul's 
parish  in  Richmond.  Into  religious  work,  as  into  everything  else  which  he 
undertakes,  he  puts  his  whole  soul  and  talents,  and  by  the  strength  of  his 
noble  personality  wields  an  influence  for  good  that  cannot  be  estimated. 

In  1857  Dr.  Test  married  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Pray,  of  Dublin,  Wayne 
county,  who  died  in  1870.  Their  two  living  children  are  Alice  T.  and  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Gilford.  Miss  Alice  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  University  and  of  the 
State  Normal  School,  and  for  several  years  has  been  a  successful  teacher  in 
the  schools  of  Richmond.  In  1876  the  Doctor  married  Miss  Sarah  Anthony, 
of  Union  Springs,  New  York,  his  present  wife,  a  cousin  of  Miss  Susan  B. 
Anthony. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  DEAL. 

The  life  of  a  good  man  exerts  a  far-reaching  influence,  not  only  over  his 
immediate  associates,  but,  it  may  be,  over  the  minds  and  lives  of  multitudes 
who  have  not  directly  enjoyed  his  companionship.  It  is  when  recalling  the 
career  of  such  a  man  as  Benjamin  F.  Deal  that  one  is  reminded  of  the  beau- 
tiful words  of  the  poet,  who  speaks  of 

"Those  immortal  dead  who  live  again 

In  minds  made  better  by  their  presence,  live 

In  pulses  stirred  to  generosity. 

In  deeds  of  daring  rectitude,  in  scorn 

For  miserable  aims  that  end  with  self." 

The  parents  of  Benjamin  F.  Deal,  George  and  Mary  (Morgan)  Deal, 
were  natives  of  Bedford  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  spent  their  entire  lives  in 
that  state,  their  attention  being  given  to  agriculture.  The  father  had  one 
brother  who  won  fame  as  a  statesman,  and  at  one  time  was  a  member  of 
congress  from  Pennsylvania.  The  mother's  nephew.  Senator  John  Sessney, 
was  in  the  senate  during  President  Lincoln's  administration. 

Born  on  the  old  homestead  near  Bedford  Springs,  Pennsylvania,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1830,  our  subject  passed  his  youth  in  the  quiet  pursuits  of  a  country 
lad,  and  received  his  preliminary  education  in  the  common  schools.  Subse- 
quently it  was  his  privilege  to  attend  the  university  at  Lewisburg,  where  he 
completed  his  higher  studies,  and  soon  afterward  he  engaged  in  teaching.  In 
1854  he  came  to  Indiana  and,  settling  in  Boston  township,  Wayne  county, 

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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  151 

he  there  conducted  a  general  store  for  two  or  three  years.  Then,  selling 
out,  he  came  to  Richmond,  where  he  found  employment  as  a  clerk,  and 
ultimately  embarked  in  the  grocery  business  on  his  own  account,  carrying  on 
a  store  for  about  five  years.  From  the  time  that  he  disposed  of  that  business 
until  his  death  he  was  actively  and  extensively  engaged  in  the  buying,  pack- 
ing and  shipping  of  produce,  in  wholesale  and  retail  quantities,  his  market 
for  the  same  being  chiefly  in  the  east.  He  was  a  man  of  pronounced  busi- 
ness ability,  and  by  his  energy,  correct  methods  and  absolute  integrity  and 
reliability,  he  won  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  had  financial  deal- 
ings. He  took  an  intelligent  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  was  an  ally  of  the 
Democratic  party,  though  in  no  sense  an  office-seeker  or  politician.  Relig- 
iousl}',  he  was  a  Baptist,  and  for  years  was  an  earnest  worker  in  the  First 
church  of  this  city.  He  held  various  official  positions  in  the  congregation 
and  was  a  zealous  helper  in  the  Sunday-school.  He  was  summoned  to  his 
reward  January  27,  1887,  when  he  was  still  in  his  prime  and  ere  the  powers 
of  his  keen  mind  had  suffered  in  the  slightest  degree  from  the  inroads  of  old 
age.  His  memory  is  tenderly  cherished  in  the  hearts  of  his  innumerable 
friends,  whom  he  endeared  to  himself  by  many  a  deed  of  kindness  and  sym- 
pathy. 

On  the  30th  of  November,  1856,  Mr.  Deal  married  Miss  Lucinda  Will- 
iams, a  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Bennett)  Williams,  of  ^^'ayne 
county,  Indiana.  The  father  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  and  in  the 
early  history  of  Indiana  he  accompanied  John  Williams,  his  father,  to  this 
state,  settling  near  Albington,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He  was  suc- 
cessful and  enterprising,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1846,  though  he 
was  then  but  forty-four  years  of  age,  he  was  the  owner  of  two  large  and  val- 
uable farms.  Six  weeks,  perhaps,  covered  the  whole  time  of  his  school  days, 
yet  by  study  and  persistent  practice  he  became  an  exceptionally  fine  mathe- 
matician and  penman  and  was  well  posted  in  the  sciences  and  in  general 
matters.  He  was  an  old-line  Whig,  and  in  religion  was  a  consistent  Meth- 
odist. His  wife  was  an  aunt  of  General  Thomas  Bennett, a  well  known  mil- 
itary personage  in  the  annals  of  this  section.  Eleven  children  were  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams,  three  sons  and  eight  daughters.  His  maternal 
grandfather  Philips  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

The  eldest  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Deal,  John  T. ,  was  born  August  6, 
1857.  He  was  graduated  in  the  Richmond  high  school,  and  attended  the 
business  college  of  this  city.  His  higher  education  was  obtained  in  Earlham 
College,  and  subsequent  to  his  leaving  that  institution  he  took  up  the  study 
of  law  with  Judge  James  Perry  and  the  Hon.  Henry  U.  Johnson.  Having 
been  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  established  an  office  and  was  very  successfully 
engaged  in  practice  for  eight  or  ten  years.      In  1893  he  retired  from  his  pro- 


152  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

fessional  work,  and  has  since  given  his  time  and  attention  to  the  manage- 
mement  of  a  farm  situated  near  the  village  of  Boston,  Wayne  county,  which 
includes  farming  lands  to  the  amount  of  more  than  six  hundred  acres.  He 
also  attends  to  the  management  of  his  mother's  interests.  He  is  a  young 
man  possessing  talent  and  energy,  and  is  making  a  success  of  his  agricultural 
labors.  Robert  W.,  the  second  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Deal,  was  born  June 
15,  1859,  and  died  when  but  nine  months  old.  The  youngest  son,  Otis  F., 
whose  history  is  given  in  following  paragraphs,  is  likewise  deceased. 

OTIS  F.   DEAL. 

There  is  something  especially  sad  in  the  death  of  a  j'oung  man  who  is 
in  the  full  vigor  of  life  and  promise;  and  when  the  crushing  news  came  to  the 
friends  of  Otis  F.  Deal  that  he  who  had  left  them  but  a  few  hours  before, 
the  impersonation  of  manly  strength  and  enthusiasm,  had  fallen  at  the  touch 
of  the  fell  dislroyer,  the  blow  was  almost  unbearable.  Few  young  men  in 
Richmond  or  in  the  employ  of  the  Panhandle  Railroad  were  more  popular  or 
respected,  for  he  had  a  kind  word  for  everybody  and  was  always  ready  to 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  a  comrade  or  fellow  traveler  along  life's  journey. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  Otis  F.  Deal  it  is  learned  that  his  birth  occurred 
April  28,  1868,  and  that  he  was  thus  less  than  twenty-three  years  of  age 
when  his  happy  useful  career  came  to  a  close  on  that  disastrous  25th  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1 89 1,  in  the  railroad  accident  at  Hagerstown,  Indiana.  Yet  he  had 
accomplished  infinitely  more  than  most  men  of  thirty  or  thirty-five,  and  had 
developed  business  qualities  which  would  have  done  credit  to  one  of  twice 
his  age  and  experience.  As  a  student  he  was  naturally  gifted,  and  v.'on  the 
highest  encomiums  of  his  teachers.  After  completing  his  high-school  work 
in  Richmond  he  entered  Earlham  College,  where,  in  addition  to  pursuing 
two  distinct  courses  of  study,  he  made  up  some  preparatory  work,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  graduation,  in  June,  1887,  carried  off  the  honors  of  the  class  of 
twenty-five  members  (the  largest  class  ever  graduated  from  the  college) 
though  he  was  the  youngest  person  in  the  class. 

Two  weeks  prior  to  his  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Pan- 
handle Railroad  as  a  rod-man,  and  was  rapidly  promoted  to  more  responsible 
positions.  About  two  years  before  his  death  he  was  made  engineer,  having 
charge  of  a  division  from  Indianapolis  to  Cincinnati  and  Logansport,  and  was 
in  line  for  the  superintendency,  as  his  services  were  thoroughly  appreciated 
by  his  superiors,  who  rightly  judged  him  capable  of  occupying  positions  to 
which  they  would  not  have  dreamed  of  calling  any  other  man  of  his  age  and 
limited  experience.  As  an  instance  of  the  remarkable  confidence  which  they 
reposed  in  him,  it  may  be  cited  that  on  one  occasion  he  was  sent  to  Indian- 
apolis as  a  lobbyist,  to  prevent  the   passage  of  a   measure  detrimental  to  the 


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interests  of  the  corporation,  and  that  he  succeeded  in  his  intervention.  Nor 
were  his  abiHties  confined  to  railroading  affairs.  He  was  the  originator  and 
prime  mover  in  the  American  Tin  Plate  Company,  of  Elwood;  in  the  Plate 
Glass  Factory  of  the  same  town,  and  was  associated  with  the  Elwood  Land 
Company.  In  the  Plate  Glass  company  and  the  Elwood  Land  Company  he 
was  a  stockholder,  and  had  been  tendered  the  management  of  the  first  named 
plant,  the  matter  not  having  been  determined  upon  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
When  Gas  City,  Indiana,  was  a  town  of  the  future,  Mr.  Deal  went  there,  as 
a  civil  engineer,  and  succeeded  in  laying  out  the  place  and  in  giving  it  a  start 
toward  prosperity.  His  exceptional  ability  made  him  in  great  demand,  and 
his  time  was  more  than  occupied  by  the  innumerable  enterprises  which  were 
constantly  being  urged  upon  his  attention. 

In  the  home  and  among  his  friends  the  lovable  traits  of  character  and 
disposition  of  Otis  F.  Deal  shone  forth  undimmed.  He  was  a  loyal  and  duti- 
ful son,  an  affectionate  brother,  a  consistent  Christian,  and  a  more  sincere 
friend  is  rarely  met.  From  his  youth  he  was  an  earnest,  graceful,  e.xtempo- 
raneous  speaker,  and  he  wielded  the  pen  with  a  master  hand,  his  thoughts 
being  expressed  in  a  clear-cut,  happy  manner.  The  best  and  noblest  ele- 
ments of  manhood  were  exemplified  in  him,  and  thus,  though  he  h^s  passed 
from  our  vision,  the  memory  of  his  upright,  beautiful  life  remains. 

HIRAM   C.  ELWELL. 

This  well  known  citizen  is  a  leading  and  representative  agriculturist  of 
Washington  township,  Wayne  county,  where  he  was  born  October  ii,  1843, 
and  was  reared  in  about  the  usual  manner  of  farmer  boys  of  his  day,  his  edu- 
cation being  obtained  in  the  common  schools.  His  parents,  Eli  and  Eliza- 
beth (De  Camp)  Elwell,  were  both  natives  of  New  York,  the  former  born  in 
Dutchess  county,  September  i,  1789,  the  latter  born  in  Onondaga  county,  May 
3,  1804.  She  came  with  her  parents  to  Indiana  and  located  near  Brookville. 
Later  her  father,  Richard  De  Camp,  moved  from  Franklin  county  to  Wayne 
county,  where  he  remained  a  number  of  years  but  spent  his  last  days  in  St. 
Joseph  county.  He  was  a  representative  of  a  prominent  New  England  family, 
was  broadminded  and  liberal  in  his  views,  and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
His  children  were  Charles,  Israel,  Harry,  Elizabeth,  Mrs.  Harriet  Jeffries, 
Mrs.  Christiana  Kidd  and  Mrs.  Olive  Redfield. 

Eli  Elwell,  father  of  our  subject,  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received  a 
good  collegiate  education,  which  he  put  to  practical  use  as  a  teacher.  Leav- 
ing his  native  state  he  went  to  Virginia  in  a  carry-all,  and  after  teaching 
school  therai  for  a  time  he  proceeded  to  Ohio,  where  he  had  an  uncle  living. 
From  there  he  came  in  his  carry-all  to  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  pur- 
chased eighty  acres  of  land,  on  which  a  two-story  log  house  had  been  built, 


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an  orchard  set  out  and  a  few  other  improvements  made.  He  taught  one  term 
of  school  here,  but  gave  the  greater  part  of  his  time  and  attention  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits,  in  which  he  met  with  excellent  success,  becoming  the  owner 
of  two  hundred  and  fifty-six  acres  in  the  home  farm,  besides  lands  in  Rush, 
Boone  and  Madison  counties.  He  loaned  money  for  many  years  and  specu- 
lated extensively  in  notes  and  securities.  After  giving  each  of  his  children  a 
home  and  helping  them  in  other  ways,  he  left  at  his  death  an  estate  valued 
at  forty-five  thousand  dollars.  Retiring  from  active  labor  in  1866,  he  removed 
to  Milton,  where  he  purchased  a  pleasant  home  and  there  spent  the  remain- 
der of  his  days,  dying  March  4,  1875.  His  estimable  wife  survived  him  for 
some  time  and  passed  away  in  1887.  Politically  he  was  a  stanch  Whig  and 
later  a  Republican,  but  he  never  aspired  to  office,  preferring  to  give  his  undi- 
vided attention  to  his  business  interests.  However,  he  served  as  one  of  the 
three  trustees  of  his  township  in  early  days  and  filled  other  local  offices.  In 
business  affairs  he  was  systematic  and  methodical,  and  as  a  civil  engineer  in 
laying  out  land  for  any  purpose  he  always  made  a  plat  of  it.  He  was  a  Uni- 
versalist  in  religious  faith,  and  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential 
men  of  his  community.  His  children  were  as  follows:  Mrs.  Olive  Williams; 
Mrs.  Emma  E.  Marvin,  who  died  June  18,  1899;  Mrs.  Hulda  Murphy;  Laura, 
who  married  F.  Ferguson,  now  of  Kansas,  and  died  leaving  two  children; 
Horace,  a  prominent  farmer  of  Rush  county,  Indiana;  Mrs.  Savanna  Miller; 
and  Hiram  C,  our  subject. 

Hiram  C.  Elwell  assisted  his  father  in  the  operation  of  the  home  farm 
during  his  boyhood  and  youth  and  remained  at  his  parental  home  until  his 
marriage  in  1866.  Two  years  of  his  married  life  was  spent  upon  that  farm, 
and  at  the  end  of  that  time  he  erected  a  house  upon  a  tract  of  ninety-six 
acres  given  him  by  his  father.  To  it  he  has  since  added  until  he  now  has  a 
fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  ;  the  log  cabin  has  been  replaced 
by  a  large  and  substantial  two-story  frame  residence  ;  good  barns  and  out- 
buildings have  also  been  erected,  and  he  has  successfully  engaged  in  both 
farming  and  stock-raising.  His  pleasant  home  is  situated  four  miles  south  of 
Milton  and  is  one  of  the  most  desirable  farms  of  the  locality.  Upon  an 
adjoining  tract  which  he  purchased  has  been  built  a  complete  set  of  farm 
buildings,  and  this  place  is  now  occupied  by  his  son.  In  political  sentiment 
he  is  a  stalwart  Democrat. 

In  1866  Mr.  Elwell  married  Miss  Julia  Patterson,  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Delilah  (Beeson)  Patterson.  When  young  her  father  came  to  Indiana, 
where  he  grew  to  manhood,  and  for  some  years  he  was  engaged  in  farming 
in  Fayette  county,  where  all  his  children  by  his  first  wife  were  born.  Later 
he  bought  a  fine  farm  in  Shelby  county,  and,  on  disposing  of  that  place,  he 
removed   to  Tipton  county,  where  he  owned  six   or  eight  hundred  acres  of 


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land.  At  one  time  he  was  prosperous,  but  by  endorsing  the  note  of  a  pork- 
packer  he  lost  heavily  and  this  greatly  reduced  his  estate.  He  was  a  strong 
Democrat  in  politics  and  a  very  prominent  man  in  his  community.  He  died 
in  October,  1870,  and  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Elwell  passed  away  in  Fayette 
county  in  1850.  To  them  were  born  six  children,  named  as  follows:  Mrs. 
Elmira  Lowery,  deceased  ;  Benjamin,  deceased  ;  Julia,  wife  of  our  subject  ; 
Jefferson  C,  now  a  resident  of  Greenfield,  Indiana  ;  Mrs.  Jane  Brattain,  and 
Mrs.  Letitia  Cass,  a  widow,  now  a  resident  of  Memphis,  Tennessee.  For 
his  second  wife  Mr.  Patterson  wedded  Miss  Mary  J.  Legg,  a.  daughter  of 
Thomas  Legg,  of  Fayette  county,  and  to  them  were  born  four  children  : 
John  M. ,  H.  Woodford,  William  and  Mrs.  Laura  Brantal,  of  Tipton  county. 
The  second  wife  died  eight  months  after  his  death.  He  was  a  genial,  pleas- 
ant gentleman  and  an  entertaining  companion,  was  public-spirited  and  enter- 
prising, and  believed  in  always  keeping  abreast  of  the  times. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elwell  were  born  two  children,  but  the  elder,  Frank 
v.,  died  young.  Wilbur,  born  April  27,  1868,  is  now  engaged  in  farming  on 
a  portion  of  the  homestead.  He  married  Miss  Catherine  Thompson,  a 
daughter  of  Miles  Thompson,  a  farmer  of  Fayette  county,  and  to  them  have 
been  born  two  children  :  Marie,  who  is  now  attending  school,  and  Glenn,  at 
home. 

JOHN  L.    RUPE. 

A  practitioner  at  the  Richmond  bar,  John  L.  Rupe  was  born  in  Econ- 
omy, Wayne  county,  Indiana,  October  27,  1847,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  B. 
and  Jane  M.  (Hervey)  Rupe.  The  family  originated  in  Germany  and  was  first 
planted  on  American  soil  in  Virginia.  George  Rupe,  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  was  born  and  reared  in  the  Old  Dominion,  and  in  1821  came  to 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  where  for  a  short  time  he  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  hats.  He  then  removed  to  Economy,  where  he  continued  in  the 
same  line  of  business  for  many  years;  he  died  in  the  early  '60s,  when  he  had 
reached  the  age  of  sixty- five  years.  He  married  Margaret  Baldwin  and  they 
had  four  children,  namely:  Catharine  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Henry  Carver; 
and  both  are  now  deceased;  Henry  B.;  John  L.,  a  medical  student,  who 
died  in  early  manhood;  and  Hamilton  N.,  a  pump  manufacturer  of  Indian- 
apolis. 

Rev.  Henry  Baldwin  Rupe,  father  of  our  subject,  was  for  many  years 
one  of  the  most  distinguished,  influential  and  honored  citizens  of  Wayne 
county.  He  was  born  in  Blount  county,  Tennessee,  June  23,  1821,  and  died 
in  Richmond,  June  28,  1897.  When  only  six  months  old  he  was  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Wayne  county,  and  he  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and 
youth  in  Economy.  He  became  a  leader  in  public  thought  and  action  there 
and  left   the  impress    of   his   individuality  upon  the    moral,    intellectual    and 


156  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

material  development  of  the  town.  In  his  youth  he  learned  the  hatter's 
trade  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  and  he  followed  the  business  for 
sometime,  but  abandoned  it  in  1858  in  order  to  devote  his  energies  to  other 
duties.  He  was  endowed  by  nature  with  excellent  oratorical  gifts,  and 
before  attaining  his  majority  gave  much  time  to  public  speaking,  devoting 
his  attention  to  the  discussion  of  slavery  and  temperance  questions.  Youth- 
ful enthusiasm,  combined  with  strong  mentality  and  a  clear  insight  into 
the  problems  under  discussion,  made  him  a  very  forceful  as  well  as  enter- 
taining speaker,  and  for  years  he  delivered  many  public  addresses  through- 
out the  country  on  liberty,  temperance  and  popular  education.  He  was  a 
lover  of  freedom  and  an  inflexible  opponent  of  oppression.  Injustice 
always  stirred  his  indignation.  He  "loved  righteousness  and  hated 
iniquity,"  was  a  man  of  broad  humanitarian  principles  and  gave  his  influ- 
ence to  all  that  would  elevate  his  fellow  men.  In  politics  he  acted  with 
the  Free-soil  party  until  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party,  when  the 
latter,  which  gave  promise  of  larger  service  to  the  cause  of  freedom, 
received  his  support.  The  distinct  character  of  his  moral  convictions  made 
him  a  radical  in  politics  and  religion,  but  his  radicalism  was  associated  with 
a  soundness  of  judgment  and  breadth  of  sympathy  that  kept  him  from 
fanatical  extremes.  During  the  civil  war  he  was  an  ardent  patriot  and  an 
enthusiastic  supporter  of  the  administration,  while  to  the  Union  cause  he 
contributed  generously  of  his  means  and  personal  influence. 

In  the  local  interests  of  Economy,  where  he  resided  for  almost  forty 
years,  he  also  took  a  deep  and  commendable  interest,  giving  his  co-operation 
and  assistance  to  all  measures  for  the  general  good.  For  many  years  he 
served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  and  the  cause  of  education  in  Econ- 
omy found  in  him  a  warm  friend.  He  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  some 
time,  and  in  1862  was  elected  county  treasurer,  which  position  he  filled  for 
four  years.  In  early  life  he  united  with  the  Wesleyan  church,  led  to  this  step 
by  the  strong  anti-slavery  sentiment  of  that  denomination.  Not  long  after- 
ward, however,  further  study  and  reflection  led  him  to  adopt  the  views  of  the 
Baptist  church,  with  which  he  united,  becoming  a  most  active  worker  in  the 
Sunday-school  and  along  many  lines  of  Christian  labor.  After  several  years 
devoted  to  public  speaking  on  political  and  moral  questions,  many  of  his 
friends  urged  him  to  enter  the  ministry,  and  after  considerable  hesitation  on 
his  part  he  resolved  to  do  so,  and  was  ordained.  He  seldom  accepted  a  reg- 
ular pastorate,  depending  upon  other  means  for  a  livelihood,  but  through  the 
intervening  years,  until  failing  health  caused  his  retirement,  he  seldom  failed 
to  fill  some  pulpit  on  the  Sabbath  and  deliver  the  "  glad  tidings  of  great  joy" 
to  the  people.  A  local  paper  said  of  him:  "  Besides  the  regular  supply  of 
several  churches  of  his  own  faith,  he  was  continually  being  called  on  to  preach 


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at  school-houses  and  churches  in  all  parts  of  the  county,  to  people  of  various 
denominations.  It  is  doubtful  if  any  other  man  in  the  county  has  been  called 
on  to  speak  in  so  many  parts  of  it,  or  to  so  many  congregations  with  beliefs 
differing  from  his  own,  as  he  was.  As  a  speaker  he  was  animated,  sympa- 
thetic, impressive  and  magnetic.  In  Christian  doctrine  he  was  thoroughly 
evangelical;  in  denominational  beliefs  he  was  positive  and  unyielding;  yet  his 
Christian  sympathies  were  so  broad  and  his  Christian  character  was  so  gen- 
uine that  his  denominational  opinions  were  never  a  bar  to  the  most  cordial 
fellowship  with  all  who  possessed  the  spirit  of  Christ." 

His  home  life  was  most  ideal  in  nature  and  pleasant  in  character.  He 
entertained  exalted  opinions  of  what  the  home  should  be  and  was  most 
devoted  to  wife  and  children.  On  the  5th  of  October,  1843,  Henry  B.  Rupe 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Jane  M.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
Hervey,  and  to  them  were  born  three  sons  and  two  daughters:  Clarence  M., 
a  resident  of  Lima,  Ohio;  John  L. ;  Mrs.  J.  W.  Moore;  Judson  R. ;  and 
Mrs.  S.  S.  Ford, — all  of  Richmond  with  the  exception  of  the  first  named. 
In  November,  1889,  Rev.  Henry  B.  Rupe  was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss 
of  her  who  for  forty-five  years  had  been  his  faithful  companion  and  helpmeet 
on  the  journey  of  life.  Later  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mrs.  Rebecca 
Harriman,  with  whom  his  last  years  were  peacefully  and  happily  spent. 
Perhaps  his  dominant  and  most  notable  characteristic  was  his  fidelity  to 
truth  and  honor.  He  invariably  sought  the  things  that  were  "honest  and 
of  good  repute."  In  the  training  of  his  children  no  precepts  were  so  con- 
stantly or  so  urgently  insisted  on  as  those  which  concern  sound  and  worthy 
character.  He  taught  that  honor  and  truthfulness  were  of  such  commanding 
worth  that  self-interest  should  never  under  any  circumstances  set  them  aside. 
A  falsehood  or  a  dishonorable  deed  with  him  was  not  only  a  sin;  it  was  a 
disgrace.  These  principles  were  a  standard  by  which  he  constantly  estimated 
men,  and  to  which  he  religiously  held  himself.  Whatever  else  he  might  do 
or  fail  to  do,  he  meant  to  be,  in  all  his  actions,  right  before  God  and  man. 
His  life  was  an  inspiration  to  all  who  knew  him  and  his  memory  remains  to 
his  friends  and  children  as  a  blessed  benediction  of  a  noble  and  upright  char- 
acter. One  who  knew  him  long  and  intimately  said  he  exemplified  most 
completely  the  lines  of  Goldsmith: 

"  On  he  moves  to  meet  his  latter  end, 

Angels  around  befriending  virtue's  friend; 

Sinks  to  the  grave  with  unperceived  decay, 

While  resignation  gently  cloves  the  way, 

And  all  his  prospects  brightening  to  the  last, 

His  heaven  commences  ere  the  world  be  past." 

The  family  of  this  honored  man  is  well  represented   by  John   L.   Rupe, 
a  successful  and  distinguished  lawyer  of  Richmond,  whose   marked   abilities 


158  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

have  gained  him  prestige  among  those  who  are  devoting  their  energies  to  the 
legal  profession.  He  spent  the  first  fifteen  years  of  his  life  in  his  native 
town  of  Economy,  and  then  went  with  his  parents  to  Centervilie,  where  he 
remained  for  ten  years.  He  acquired  a  good  English  education  in  the  public 
schools,  and  was  engaged  in  business  with  his  father  in  the  county  treasurer's 
office  from  1862  until  1867.  In  the  latter  year  he  began  the  study  of  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  November,  1868.  In  1868  he  was  deputy 
auditor  of  the  county,  and  in  1870  was  elected  district  attorney,  filling  the 
position  most  acceptably  for  two  years,  when,  in  1872,  he  was  re-elected. 
He  served  in  that  capacity  until  1873,  when  the  office  was  abolished  by  act 
of  the  legislature,  doing  away  with  the  common-pleas  system. 

In  March,  1872,  Mr.  Rupe  removed  to  Richmond,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  In  1875  he  was  elected  city  attorney,  holding  the  office  for 
eight  years.  With  the  exception  of  a  single  year  he  has  served  as  county 
attorney  a  period  of  twelve  consecutive  years,  and  his  long  continuance  in 
office  is  unmistakable  evidence  of  his  ability  as  a  practitioner  and  of  his 
unwavering  fidelity  to  duty.  In  1883  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Richmond  for 
a  two-years  term,  and  his  administration  was  most  progressive,  the  affairs  of 
the  city  being  ably  and  systematically  managed.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  has  been  connected  with  most  of  the  important  litigation  tried  in  the 
Wayne  circuit,  and  his  clientage  has  been  very  extensive.  During  that  time 
he  has  been  in  several  partnership  relations.  In  1878  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Hon.  Henry  C.  Fox,  under  the  firm  name  of  Fox  &  Rupe,  which 
connection  was  continued  until  the  former  was  elected  to  the  bench.  In 
1879  he  became  a  partner  with  William  Dudley  Foulke,  and  the  firm  of 
Foulke  &  Rupe  continued  in  active  practice  until  1887,  when  the  senior 
partner  retired  to  private  life.  Subsequently  Mr.  Rupe  became  associated  in 
practice  with  Charles  H.  Burchenal  under  the  firm  name  of  Burchenal  & 
Rupe,  which  relation  was  continued  until  1894.  Through  the  last  five 
years  Mr.  Rupe  has  been  alone  in  practice,  and  has  met  with  gratifying 
success  in  his  professional  labors.  Since  1890  he  has  been  solicitor  for  the 
Pittsburg,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Company.  His  knowl- 
edge of  law  is  comprehensive,  embracing  an  understanding  of  nearly  every 
department  of  jurisprudence.  He  has  won  for  himself  very  favorable  criti- 
cism for  the  careful  and  systematic  methods  which  he  has  followed.  He 
has  remarkable  powers  of  concentration  and  application,  and  his  retentive 
mind  has  often  excited  the  surprise  of  his  professional  colleagues.  As  an 
orator  he  stands  high,  especially  in  the  discussion  of  legal  matters  before 
the  court,  where  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  law  is  manifest  and  his 
application  of  legal  principles  demonstrates  the  wide  range  of  his  professional 
acquirements.     The  utmost  care  and  precision  characterizes  his  preparation 


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■of    a    case   and   have   made   him   one  of  the  most    successful  attorneys    in 
Richmond. 

Mr.  Rupe  has  been  twice  married.  On  the  1st  of  August,  1867,  he 
wedded  Lucy  Schlagle,  of  Centerville,  who  died  in  November,  1871.  In 
January,  1875,  he  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Miss 
Emma  Strattan,  of  Richmond.  He  has  always  been  a  public-spirited  citizen, 
loyal  to  the  best  interests  of  the  city,  state  and  nation,  and  during  the  civil 
war  patriotically  responded  to  the  country's  call  for  troops.  Although  only 
fifteen  years  of  age,  he  served  from  May  until  November,  1864,  as  a  member 
of  Company  C,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-second  Indiana  Infantry,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  Sol.  Meredith  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Richmond.  He  is  a  very 
prominent  Mason,  belonging  to  the  blue  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery, 
and  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  in  Indianap- 
olis Consistory.  He  belongs  to  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  contributes 
liberally  to  its  support  and  does  all  in  his  power  to  promote  its  growth  and 
work.  His  political  support  is  given  the  men  and  measures  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  his  firm  belief  in  its  principles  prompts  him  to  advocate  its 
cause  on  many  occasions.  He  is  a  man  of  well  rounded  character,  his  varied 
interests  having  produced  a  symmetrical  development;  and  while  his  energies 
are  chiefly  given  to  his  business  he  is  a  valued  factor  in  the  church,  fraternal 
and  social  circles,  where  his  upright  life  and  genial  temperament  make  him  a 
general  favorite. 

JACOB  RIDGE. 

Fayette  county's  well-known  and  popular  county  recorder,  Jacob  Ridge, 
is  a  veteran  of  the  civil  war  and  bears  an  honorable  record  for  brave  service 
in  the  cause  of  freedom  and  union,  and  in  the  paths  of  peace  he  has  also  won 
an  enviable  reputation  through  the  sterling  qualities  which  go  to  the  making 
of  a  good  citizen  and  trustworthy  official. 

Mr.  Ridge  was  born  February  27,  1838,  near  London,  in  county  Kent, 
England,  and  is  a  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Clark)  Ridge,  also  natives  of  the 
same  place,  who  emigrated  with  their  family  of  three  children  to  the  United 
States  in  1839  and  first  located  in  Ripley  county,  Indiana.  In  1852  they 
came  to  Fayette  county  and  settled  on  a  farm  southeast  of  Connersville, 
where  they  remained  two  years.  During  the  following  five  years  the  father 
followed  his  chosen  occupation  of  farming  on  a  place  two  miles  south  of  the 
city,  and  for  the  same  length  of  time  cultivated  another  farm  five  miles  south- 
west of  Connersville.  He  then  purchased  a  farm  in  Union  county,  upon 
which  he  made  his  home  until  called  from  this  life  in  1886,  at  the  age  of 
■eighty-five  years.  He  came  to  this  country  in  limited  circumstances,  and  at 
first  engaged  in  farming  upon  rented  land,  but,  being  an  industrious,  enter- 
(prising  and  economical  manager,  he  at  length  became  the  possessor  of  a  good 


160  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

place  of  his  own.  He  was  well  posted  on  the  leading  questions  and  issues  of 
the  day,  took  an  active  interest  in  political  affairs,  and  voted  first  with  the 
Whig  and  later  with  the  Republican  party.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Bap- 
tist, having  united  with  the  church  of  that  denomination  in  England,  as  did 
also  the  mother  of  our  subject.      She  died  m  Ripley  county,  Indiana,  in  1846. 

Being  brought  to  this  country  during  his  infancy  Jacob  Ridge  spent  the 
first  fifteen  years  of  his  life  in  Ripley  county,  and  then  came  with  the  family 
to  Fayette  county.  In  1862,  in  response  to  the  president's  call  for  more 
troops,  he  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Eighty-fourth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry, 
for  three  years  or  until  the  close  of  the  war.  His  regiment  was  assigned  to 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  with  his  command  he  participated  in 
twenty-three  battles.  He  was  all  through  the  Atlanta  campaign,  during 
which  time  he  was  under  fire  for  one  hundred  days.  From  his  first  engage- 
ment at  Chickamauga,  June  i,  1863,  until  hostilities  ceased,  he  was  always 
found  at  his  post  of  duty,  never  losing  a  day,  as  he  fortunately  escaped 
wounds  and  sickness.  He  was  a  brave  and  fearless  soldier,  and  when  the 
war  ended  and  his  services  were  no  longer  needed  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged June  14,   1865. 

After  spending  one  year  upon  his  father's  farm  in  Union  county,  Mr. 
Ridge  came  to  Fayette  county,  and  during  the  following  year  was  engaged  in 
farming  in  Jennings  township.  In  1873  he  removed  to  a  farm  in  the  eastern 
part  of  the  county,  on  which  he  continued  to  reside  until  taking  charge  of  the 
poor  asylum  March  10,  1875.  For  four  years  he  held  that  position  and  then 
removed  to  Connersville,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home,  doing  various 
things  for  a  living.  He  was  a  member  of  the  police  force  of  the  city  for  four 
years,  and  in  1894  was  elected  county  recorder  of  Fayette  county,  the  duties 
of  which  office  he  assumed  in  October  of  1896.  So  creditably  did  he  fill  the 
position  that  he  was  re-elected  in  1898  for  another  four-years  term  and  is 
the  present  incumbent.  He  is  a  stanch  Republican  in  politics  and  when  first 
nominated  there  were  seven  candidates  in  the  field,  but  he  was  renominated 
without  opposition,  a  fact  which  plainly  testifies  to  his  popularity  and  efficient 
service. 

In  1873  Mr.  Ridge  wedded  Miss  Mary  A.  Hensley,  of  Connersville,  and 
to  them  has  been  born  one  son,  Albert  C. ,  who  is  now  connected  with  the 
Connersville  Furniture  Company.  Mr.  Ridge  is  an  earnest  and  consistent 
Christian  gentleman,  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  prior  to  the  civil  war, 
but  is  now  a  Methodist.  Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  Connersville  Post,  No. 
126,  G.  A.  R.  Although  he  received  but  eighteen  months'  schooling,  he  is  a 
remarkably  well-informed  man,  being  a  great  reader  and  close  observer  of 
men  and  events.  He  also  possessed  a  wonderfully  retentive  memory  and  has 
given  special  attention  to  the  study  of  history,  not  only  of   this  country  but 


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also  of  foreign  lands.  His  parents,  too,  had  good  memories.  Wherever 
known  Mr.  Ridge  is  held  in  high  regard,  and  those  who  know  him  best  are 
numbered  among  his  warmest  friends. 

FRANCIS  T.   ROOTS. 

The  true  measure  of  individual  success  is  determined  by  what  one  has 
accomplished,  and,  as  taken  in  contradistinction  to  the  old  adage  that  a 
prophet  is  not  without  honor  save  in  his  own  country,  there  is  a  particular 
interest  attaching  to  the  career  of  the  subject  of  this  review,  since  he  is  a 
native  son  of  this  place  where  his  entire  life  has  been  passed  and  has  so 
directed  his  ability  and  efforts  as  to  gain  recognition  as  one  of  the  represent- 
ative citizens  of  Fayette  county.  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  a  prominent  reference  to  the  one  whose 
name  initiates  this  paragraph.  He  is  connected  with  the  financial  interests 
of  Connersville,  with  its  manufacturing  and  mercantile  affairs,  and  at  the 
same  time  is  representing  his  district  in  the  law-making  body  of  the  state, 
where  he  has  acquitted  himself  most  ably,  reflecting  credit  upon  his  district. 
He  also  belongs  to  a  family  whose  name  is  indelibly  inscribed  on  the  pages  of 
his  country's  history. 

Francis  T.  Roots  was  born  in  Connersville,  July  17,  1857,  his  father 
being  Philander  H.  Roots,  who  fqr  many  years  was  one  of  the  most  active 
and  enterprising  business  men  of  the  Whitewater  valley.  The  family  is  of 
English  origin  and  was  founded  in  America  at  an  early  day  by  ancestors  who 
sought  in  the  New  World  the  freedom  from  persecution  which  they  experi- 
enced in  the  Old  World.  About  1846  Philander  H.  Roots  removed  from  hi& 
old  home  in  Oxford,  Ohio,  to  Connersville,  and  here  established  and  operated 
the  woolen  mills  which  for  a  long  time  flourished  in  this  locality.  In  addition 
to  excellent  business  qualifications  he  possessed  considerable  mechanical 
ingenuity,  and  when  the  water-wheel  in  the  mill  wore  out  he  endeavored  to 
replace  it  by  one  of  his  own  invention  which  in  its  operation  suggested  and 
led  to  the  invention  of  the  Roots'  rotary  blower,  which  is  now  in  use  through- 
out the  world  and  won  him  international  fame.  In  this  work,  as,  in  fact, 
throughout  his  business  career,  he  was  actively  associated  with  his  brother, 
Francis  M.,  and  they  at  length  produced  the  rotary  blower  now  universally 
used  in  foundries,  and  established  a  manufactory  for  placing  it  upon  the 
market.  Many  valuable  inventions  and  improvements  were  added  to  the 
force  blower  from  time  to  time,  and  the  business  grew  to  enormous  propor- 
tions, returning  to  the  owners  a  princely  fortune.  The  foundry  is  still 
conducted  under  the  name  of  The  P.  H.  &  F.  M.  Roots  Company  and  is  the 


162  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

largest  concern  of  the  kind  in  the  world.  A  number  of  first  premiums  have 
been  awarded  the  rotary  blower  at  international  expositions, — at  Paris  in 
1867,  at  Vienna  in  1873,  at  the  Centennial  Exposition  in  Philadelphia  in 
1S76,  and  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  1893.  In  addition  to  his 
connection  with  the  extensive  foundry,  P.  H.  Roots  was  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  Connersville  Hydraulic  Company  and  served  as  its  president 
from  1865  until  his  death  in  1879.  He  was  also  a  charter  member  of  the 
First  National  Bank  and  its  president  from  1S72  until  1879.  One  of  the 
founders  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church,  he  took  a  very  active  part  in  its 
work,  and  was  trustee  and  elder  up  to  the  time  of  his  demise. 

Francis  T.  Roots,  his  son,  and  one  of  the  most  capable  business  men  of 
Connersville,  attended  the  public  schools  of  the  city  and  later  entered  Chick- 
ering  Institute,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  was  graduated  with  honor, 
winning  two  gold  medals  for  proficiency  in  scholarship,  one  for  mathematics 
and  the  other  for  sciences.  His  literary  education  completed,  he  began  read- 
ing law  under  the  direction  of  the  law  firm  of  Snow  &  Kumler,  of  Cincinnati, 
and  completed  his  legal  and  business  training  just  prior  to  the  death  of  his 
father,  in  1879.  He  has  never  practiced  law,  but  his  legal  knowledge  has 
proved  of  great  benefit  to  him  in  the  management  of  his  extensive  business 
interests.  He  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  trade  when 
elected  vice-president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Connersville,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two  years,  continuing  in  that  position  until  1S92,  when  he  was 
•chosen  for  the  presidency.  His  able  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  bank 
■was  manifested  in  its  prosperous  career.  The  safe  and  commendable  policy 
which  has  followed  insured  it  a  liberal  patronage,  and  throughout  this  section 
of  the  state  it  has  long  been  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  reliable  and  sub- 
stantial banking  institutions  in  Indiana.  Mr.  Roots  is  a  man  of  resourceful 
business  ability  and  carries  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he 
undertakes,  so  that  his  connection  with  any  enterprise  is  an  assurance  that 
the  desired  outcome  will  be  attained.  He  has  been  the  treasurer  of  The  P. 
H.  &  F.  M.  Roots  Company,  and  is  now  president  of  the  Connersville 
Hydraulic  Company,  and  has  an  interest  in  the  Natural  Gas  Company,  in 
the  Mount,  Roots  &  Burrows  Company  and  other  manufactories.  He  also 
possesses  considerable  inventive  genius  and  owns  valuable  letters  patent,  chief 
among  which  is  his  triple-sign  patent,  in  which  he  retains  an  interest. 

The  history  of  the  triple-sign  patent  is  one  of  intense  interest.  The 
inventor,  Theo.  Heinemann,  an  old  friend  and  school-mate  of  Mr.  Roots, 
had  made  several  attempts  to  interest  others  in  his  invention;  but,  they  fail- 
ing, he  came  to  his  old  friend,  Mr.  Roots,  and  presented  the  matter  to  him, 
and  promptly  Mr.  Roots  formed  a  co-partnership  with  Mr.  Heinemann  for 
the  manufacture  of  the  signs.      Their  success  has  been  marvelous,  they  hav- 


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ing  made  over  one  hundred  thousand  dollars'  worth  on  an  investment  of  less 
than  ten  thousand  dollars.  The  signs  are  used  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  hav- 
ing one  order  from  one  firm  in  Liverpool  of  nearly  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  future  prospects  are  very  bright.  The  triple  sign  is  a  sign  which 
can  be  read  from  three  points  of  view,  and  changes  reading  as  the  position 
of  the  reader  changes. 

Mr.  Roots  takes  a  deep  interest  in  political  affairs,  and  is  a  recognized 
leader  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party.  There  is  an  obligation  of  citi- 
zenship resting  upon  every  individual  which  too  many  of  our  business  men 
disregard,  but  Mr.  Roots,  with  a  full  appreciation  of  his  duty  and  a  patriotic 
love  for  his  country,  keeps  well  informed  on  the  issues  affecting  the  weal  or 
woe  of  the  nation,  and  gives  an  earnest  support  to  all  measures  which  he 
believes  for  the  public  good.  In  sympathy  with  the  principles  of  the  "grand 
old  party,"  he  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  sixth  district  of  the  Lincoln 
League  of  the  state  of  Indiana,  and  was  also  elected  to  the  convention  held 
in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  in  1892.  He  served  twice  as  vice-president  of 
the  Indiana  State  Board  of  Commerce;  was  chairman  of  the  convention  that 
framed  the  call  for  the  first  monetary  convention  held  at  Indianapolis  in  1 896, 
and  has  been  a  delegate  to  each  of  the  conventions  since  that  time.  In  1896 
he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature  to  represent  the  counties  of  Fayette 
and  Henry,  receiving  a  larger  majority  of  votes  than  any  other  candidate 
on  the  ticket.  In  1898  he  was  again  elected  by  a  large  majority  to  represent 
the  counties  of  Fayette  and  Wayne,  and  was  appointed  by  the  governor 
chairman  of  the  state  appropriations  committee  for  the  legislature  of  1899, 
which  had  much  to  do  with  the  recommendation  of  the  expenditure  of  nearly 
three  milhons  of  dollars  for  the  penal,  benevolent  and  educational  institu- 
tions of  the  state.  He  was  also  the  author  of  the  bill  which  provided  for  the 
appointment  of  the  commission  on  state  appropriations  of  1897,  of  which  he 
was  chairman,  as  herein  above  referred  to,  and  he  has  had  the  honor  of 
nominating  two  United  States  senators,  Fairbanks  and  Beveridge,  an  honor 
seldom  accorded  a  state  legislator.  His  name  is  now  mentioned  in  connec- 
tion with  the  office  of  lieutenant-governor  of  the  state. 

In  1880  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Francis  T.  Roots  and  Miss  Sallie 
M.  Heilman,  daughter  of  Hon.  William  Heilman,  ex-congressman,  of  Evans- 
ville,  Indiana.  They  now  have  one  son,  Clarence  S.  Their  beautiful  home 
is  one  of  the  finest  residences  in  Connersville,  and  its  furnishings  are  ail  that 
wealth  can  procure  and  a  refined  taste  suggest.  Quaint  literature,  choice 
statuary  and  valuable  paintings  and  pictures  add  to  the  attractiveness  of  the 
home,  which  is  at  all  times  pervaded  with  an  air  of  hospitality  that  makes  it 
the  center  of  a  cultured  society  circle.  Mr.  Roots  and  his  wife  hold  member- 
.ship  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  elder  and  trustee, 


164  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  every  measure  or  movement  intended  to  promote  the  welfare  of  Conners- 
ville  receives  his  hearty  indorsement  and  co-operation.  He  is  regarded  as 
one  of  the  ablest  financiers  of  the  state,  as  a  patriotic  citizen,  and  is  public- 
spirited  in  an  eminent  degree.  In  all  the  relations  of  life  he  has  always  been 
faithful  and  true,  and  in  his  life-work,  eventful  and  varied  as  it  has  been,  no 
shadow  of  wrong  or  suspicion  of  evil-doing  darkens  his  honored  pathway. 

JOSEPH  C.  RATLIFF. 

The  life  history  of  him  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  is  closely  identified 
with  the  history  of  Wayne  county,  which  has  been  his  home  for  more  than 
three-score  years  and  ten.  He  began  his  remarkable  career  in  the  early  pio- 
neer epoch  of  the  county,  and  throughout  the  years  which  have  since  come 
and  gone  has  been  closely  allied  with  its  interests  and  upbuilding.  His  life 
has  been  one  of  untiring  activity  and  has  been  crowned  with  a  degree  of  suc- 
cess attained  by  comparatively  few  men.  He  is  of  the  highest  type  of  busi- 
ness man,  and  none  more  than  he  deserves  a  fitting  recognition  among  those 
whose  enterprise  and  abilities  have  achieved  results  that  awaken  the  wonder 
and  admiration  of  those  who  know  them. 

Joseph  C.  Ratliff  was  born  in  Wayne  township,  near  the  city  of  Rich- 
mond, on  the  6th  of  July,  1827,  being  a  son  of  Cornelius  and  Mary  (Kindley) 
Ratliff.  On  the  maternal  side  he  is  of  German  lineage,  and  on  the  paternal 
side  is  of  English  descent.  Tradition  says  that  his  remote  ancestors  lived  in 
the  north  of  England  near  what  is  known,  even  to-day,  as  the  Red  Cliffs. 
One  of  the  family  became  a  member  of  parliament  and  was  known  as  Red- 
cliff,  which  name,  in  the  course  of  time,  was  changed  to  Radcliffe,  the  pres- 
ent English  spelling.  The  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject  was  James 
RatlifT,  a  native  of  England,  who,  according  to  tradition,  came  to  America 
with  William  Penn  and  was  present  at  the  signing  of  the  treaty  made  with 
the  Indians  under  the  famous  old  elm  tree  that  stood  on  the  site  of  the  pres- 
ent city  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  with  which  organization  his  family  had  been  identified  from  the 
beginning. 

Joseph  Ratliff,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  North 
Carolina,  and  married  Mary  Fletcher,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons, — one  of 
whom  removed  to  Pennsylvania,  another  remained  in  North  Carolina,  a  third 
came  west,  and  the  grandfather  of  our  subject  became  a  resident  of  Indiana 
in  1 8 10.  He  made  the  journey  westward  with  his  family  and  spent  his 
remaining  days  in  Wayne  county,  where  he  died  in  1828  at  the  age  of  seven- 
ty-four years.  He  was  a  very  prominent  and  influential  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  was  one  of  the  committee  that  opened  the  New  Gar- 


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den  quarterly  meeting  of  Friends  in  iSii.  He  married  Elizabeth  Charles, 
and  had  a  family  of  six  daughters  and  two  sons. 

Cornelius  Ratliff,  the  younger  son,  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  North 
Carolina,  December  25,  1798,  and  in  18 10  came  with  his  father  to  the  terri- 
tory of  Indiana,  locating  on  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  a  half 
mile  northwest  of  Richmond.  His  father  secured  that  land  by  obtaining  a 
patent  from  the  government  and  paying  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  per  acre.  It 
had  been  entered  by  another  man,  but  had  not  been  improved  to  any  extent. 
Indians  were  far  more  numerous  in  the  neighborhood  than  white  settlers,  and 
the  district  was  an  unbroken  wilderness  of  heavy  timber.  This  was  six  years 
before  the  city  of  Richmond  was  laid  out  and  six  years  before  Indiana  was 
admitted  to  the  Union.  In  all  the  hardships  and  trials  of  frontier  life  which 
fell  to  the  lot  of  the  family  Cornelius  Ratliff  shared,  and  in  the  arduous  task 
of  developing  a  new  farm  he  bore  his  part.  He  was  only  twelve  years  of  age 
at  the  time  of  the  arrival  of  the  family  in  Wayne  county,  and  on  the  old 
homestead  he  was  reared,  and  there  also  spent  his  mature  years,  inheriting 
the  property  upon  his  father's  death.  Owing  to  the  new  condition  of  the 
country  his  educational  privileges  were  necessarily  limited,  but  he  became  an 
extensive  reader  and  thus  gained  a  broad  fund  of  knowledge.  His  favorite 
volumes  were  Paradise  Lost,  Young's  Night  Thoughts  and  Cowper's  Task. 
Of  the  writings  of  the  prophet  Isaiah,  he  was  also  very  fond,  because  of 
their  sublime  and  poetic  nature.  Later  in  life  much  of  his  leisure  was  spent 
in  reading  religious  books  and  papers,  and  he  alse  kept  well  informed  on  the 
issues  and  questions  of  the  day. 

He  made  farming  his  life  occupation  and  as  early  as  1822  established  a 
nursery,  the  first  one  in  this  part  of  the  country.  His  catalogue  embraced 
nearly  all  the  known  varieties  of  fruit  of  his  day,  and  it  was  with  great  joy 
that  he  secured  a  new  variety  to  add  to  his  stock.  He  continued  in  the  nur- 
sery business,  in  connection  with  his  farming  operations,  for  thirty-two  years, 
and  no  man  in  the  county  was  more  entitled  to  honor  and  respect  for  his 
honesty  and  integrity  in  business.  He  was  married  June  12,  1822,  to  Mary 
Kindley,  of  Waynesville,  Ohio,  and  they  became  parents  of  ten  children,  five 
of  whom  are  living.  His  home  was  always  noted  for  its  hospitality,  and  no 
needy  one  was  ever  turned  from  his  door  empty-handed.  It  was  in  his 
church  work,  however,  that  the  true  life  of  Cornelius  Ratliff  shone  forth  with 
greatest  brilliancy.  He  attended  all  the  meetings  of  the  Friends,  and  in 
forty  years  was  never  absent  from  his  place  in  the  house  of  worship  except 
on  three  occasions,  unless  away  from  home.  His  was  a  noble  Christian  life, 
illumined  by  all  the  Christian  virtues.  During  the  last  six  years  of  his  earthly 
pilgrimage  he  suffered  fron^  blindness,  but  bore  the  affliction  uncomplain- 
ingly.     He  died  June  18,  1S90,  in  his  ninety-second  year,  dropping  asleep  in 


166  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  old  home  where  he  had  resided  for  four-score  years,  but  his  memory 
remains  as  a  blessed  benediction  to  those  who  knew  him,  and  his  influence  is 
still  potent  for  good. 

On  the  old  family  homestead,  settled  by  his  grandfather  and  subse- 
quently owned  by  his  father,  Joseph  C.  Ratliff  was  reared,  remaining  there 
until  twenty-five  years  of  age.  In  his  youth  he  attended  the  district  schools 
of  the  neighborhood  through  the  winter  season,  while  in  the  summer  months 
he  aided  in  the  labors  of  the  farm.  Later  he  was  a  student  in  the  Richmond 
Academy,  but  in  1848  he  put  aside  his  text-books  and  began  teaching,  which 
profession  he  followed  through  the  winter,  and  again  gave  his  attention  to 
plowing,  planting  and  harvesting  from  spring  until  fall.  Desiring,  however, 
to  enter  another  walk  of  life,  he  pursued  the  study  of  dentistry  with  Dr. 
Webster,  of  Richmond,  for  a  year,  after  which  he  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine under  Dr.  Plummer,  of  Richmond.  In  the  years  185 1  and  1852  he  was 
a  student  in  the  Western  Reserve  Medical  College,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  dentistry  and  surgery  in  Richmond  for 
two  years.  In  1854  he  became  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  paper,  in 
company  with  Miles  J.  Shinn  and  Timothy  Thistlethwaite,  under  the  firm 
name  of  the  Hoosier  Paper  Manufacturing  Company,  but  the  following  year 
traded  his  interest  in  the  business  for  a  farm  three  miles  west  of  the  city. 
He  next  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  for  one  year,  and  for  a  similar 
period  followed  the  millwright's  trade,  after  which  he  removed  to  his  farm, 
comprising  eighty-two  acres.  He  transformed  this  into  a  very  valuable  and 
richly  productive  tract  and  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  for  seventeen 
years,  or  until  1872. 

During  this  period  he  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  held  other  local 
offices  in  Center  township,  Wayne  county,  and  was  also  an  enrolling  officer 
during  the  war.  In  1872  he  removed  to  a  farm  west  of  the  old  family  home- 
stead in  Wayne  township,  and  there  erected  a  residence  and  barn  and  made 
other  substantial  improvements,  his  property  eventually  becoming  one  of  the 
best  farms  of  the  locality.  It  continued  to  be  his  place  of  abode  until  May, 
1888,  and  he  managed  his  business  interests  so  capably  that  they  yielded 
him  a  substantial  financial  income.  He  was  also  called  upon  to  settle  many 
estates  and  act  as  guardian  for  many  minors.  At  the  time  of  this  writing  he 
is  guardian  for  three  insane  people  and  has  had  several  others  under  his 
charge. 

In  1888  Mr.  Ratliff  removed  to  Richmond,  and  since  that  time  has  been 
actively  associated  with  many  of  the  leading  business  enterprises  of  the  city. 
He  is  now  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Wayne  Farmers'  Insurance  Com- 
pany, of  Richmond,  was  formerly  vice-president  of  the  Union  National  Bank, 
which  he  aided  in  organizing,  and  was  also   a  director  in  the   First  National 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY.  167 

Bank.  For  twenty-four  years  he  was  president,  superintendent  and  treas- 
urer of  Wayne  County  Turnpike  Company,  which  was  capitalized  for  thirty- 
nine  thousand  dollars,  and  which  owned  the  national  road  until  1S94,  when 
it  was  sold.  Mr.  Ratliff  is  a  man  of  splendid  business  and  executive  ability 
and  carries  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes.  His 
wise  counsel  and  sound  judgment  have  also  been  active  factors  in  the  suc- 
cessful management  of  other  interests  aside  from  business,  and  as  trustee  of 
Purdue  University,  of  Lafayette,  Indiana,  he  contributed  not  a  little  to  its  suc- 
cess. For  seven  years  he  was  the  efficient  and  honored  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  that  institution  of  learning  and  for  three  years  was  president  of 
the  State  Horticultural  Society.  Through  these  channels,  as  well  as  in  other 
ways,  he  has  promoted  the  interests  of  the  farmer  and  fruit-raiser,  and  at  all 
times  he  is  alert  in  his  efforts  to  improve  the  conditions  of  all  lines  of  busi- 
ness, that  the  country  may  thereby  become  more  prosperous  and  that  all 
people  may  enjoy  more  of  the  comforts  of  life. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Ratliff  is  a  Republican  and  is  a  zealous 
advocate  of  the  policy  and  principles  of  his  party.  In  1875  he  was  chosen 
to  represent  Wayne  county  in  the  state  legislature,  and  while  acting  in  that 
capacity  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  education  and  sinking  fund. 
The  cause  of  education  has  ever  found  in  him  a  warm  friend  and  he  does  all 
in  his  power  for  its  advancement.  He  is  a  prominent  Mason,  is  past  master 
of  Hiram  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  belongs  to  King  Solomon  Chapter,  No.  4, 
R.  A.  M.,  and  to  Richmond  Commandery,  No.  8,  K.  T.  He  is  past  grand 
of  White  Water  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  represented  the  local  lodge  in  the 
grand  lodge  of  the  state  in  1854.  He  is  a  member  and  treasurer  of  the 
Indiana  Yearly  Meeting  and  one  of  its  active  representatives. 

The  last  event  to  be  mentioned,  but  by  no  means  the  least  important,  in 
the  hfe  of  Mr.  Ratliff,  occurred  October  9,  1852,  when  was  celebrated  his 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary  F.  Crawford,  of  Richmond,  a  daughter  of  Daniel  B. 
Crawford.  They  had  six  children,  four  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Horace 
C. ,  a  farmer  of  Center  township,  Wayne  county;  Walter  S.,  who  resides  on 
a  farm  adjoining  his  brother's;  Benjamin  S.,  a  confectioner  of  Piqua,  Ohio; 
and  Laura  C. ,  at  home.  A  man  of  domestic  tastes,  Mr.  Ratliff  has  ever 
found  his  chief  interest  centering  in  his  home  and  family,  and  has  done  all 
in  his  power  to  promote  the  happiness  of  wife  and  children.  In  every  posi- 
tion which  in  his  eventful  life  he  has  been  called  upon  to  fill,  he  has  been 
highly  successful.  As  a  business  man  he  is  upright,  reliable  and  honorable. 
In  all  places  and  under  all  circumstances  he  is  loyal  to  truth,  honor  and 
right,  justly  regarding  his  self-respect  and  the  deserved  esteem  of  his  fellow 
men  as  infinitely  more  valuable  than  wealth,  fame  or  position.  In  those  finer 
traits  of  character,  which  attract  and  endear  man  to  man  in  ties  of  friendship, 


168  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

he  is  royally  endowed.  Few  men  have  more  devoted  friends  than  he,  and 
none  excels  him  in  unselfish  devotion  and  unswerving  fidelity  to  the  worthy 
recipients  of  his  confidence  and  friendship. 

JOHN  S.   MARTIN. 

Hon.  John  S.  Martin  was  born  November  24,  1835,  on  the  farm  upon 
which  he  now  resides.  His  parents  were  Stephen  and  Sarah  (Wilson)  Mar- 
tin, natives  of  South  Carolina,  in  the  vicinity  of  Charleston.  Stephen  Mar- 
tin came  to  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  in  18 10,  and  entered  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  land  where  Brookville  is  now  situated  and  upon  which  our  sub- 
ject now  lives.  Two  brothers,  George  and  William,  accompanied  him,  and 
after  about  three  years  spent  in  Franklin  county  they  moved  to  Fayette 
county,  where  they  passed  the  remainder  of  their  lives.  Stephen  Martin  was 
born  March  7,  1783,  and  was  of  hardy  constitution,  well  fitted  to  withstand 
the  hardships  of  pioneer  life.  He  began  with  the  determination  to  make  for 
himself  and  famil}'  a  home  and  comfortable  living  in  the  wilderness  of 
Indiana,  and  right  well  did  he  succeed.  At  the  outset  he  cut  poles  and 
erected  a  comfortable  cabin,  which  sheltered  his  family  many  years.  There 
he  instilled  habits  of  thrift  and  industry  into  the  young  minds  of  his  chil- 
dren, not  forgetting  that  example  is  better  than  precept,  with  the  result  that 
he  prospered  above  his  expectations  and  acquired  a  neat  propert}'  which 
placed  him  in  most  comfortable  circumstances.  He  was  a  man  of  intelligence 
and  was  well  posted  upon  all  general  topics  of  his  time,  upon  many  of  which 
he  was  considered  authority.  He  was  actuated  by  generous  impulses  and 
was  inclined  to  let  those  around  him  feel  the  warmth  of  his  hospitality,  deal- 
ing in  deeds  not  words.  In  religion  he  was  a  Universalist,  and  he  lived  the 
liberal  faith  he  professed  and  believed.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
being  Anise  Corner,  to  whom  he  was  united  March  12,  1801.  Their  children 
were:  Elizabeth,  born  in  October,  1803,  married  William  Stoops;  Edy, 
born  November  15,  1805,  married  John  Stoops;  Amos  D.,  born  October  15, 
18 10,  is  deceased,  having  been  county  commissioner  and  a  merchant;  Will- 
iam, born  January  24,  1812;  Daniel  C,  born  September  14,  181 5;  Stephen, 
born  September  18,  1816;  Eliza  Jane,  born  July  5,  1822,  was  the  wife  of  John 
Warren.  All  of  these  children  are  dead.  The  second  marriage  was  with 
Sarah  Wilson  and  was  solemnized  in  January,  1833.  She  was  born  June  6, 
1802,  and  died  February  11,  1888.  Her  children  were:  John  S. ,  born 
November  24,  1835;  Patty  Annie,  born  June  10,  1838,  now  deceased;  and 
Charles  B.,  born  May  28,  1841.  Her  father  came  to  this  county  in  1810 
and  settled  near  the  farm  of  Stephen  Martin.  Stephen  Martin  died  on  his 
farm.  May  5,   1846. 

John  S.  Martin  received  his  education  in    the   common  schools,  and  at 


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the  death  of  his  father  took  entire  charge  of  the  farm,  although  he  was  but 
sixteen  years  old.  His  father  was  possessed  of  five  hundred  acres  of  land  at 
his  death,  and  of  this  our  subject  inherited  but  one-ninth.  He  had  a  warm 
feeling  for  the  old  homestead,  however,  and  purchased  the  interest  of  the 
other  heirs,  thus  coming  into  possession  of  the  entire  place.  By  persistent 
energy  and  the  display  of  considerable  foresight  he  was  enabled  to  succeed 
in  this  venture,  and  in  1876  he  put  up  a  fine  brick  building  to  replace  the 
old  one  of  logs.  He  also  rebuilt  the  outbuildings  and  placed  the  farm  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation,  making  it  one  of  the  best  in  Brookville  township 
and  a  model  in  all  respects. 

Mr.  Martin  was  married  October  21,  1863,  to  Sallie,  daughter  of  James 
and  Emeline  Jones,  natives  of  Maryland.  Mrs.  Martin  was  one  of  eight 
children,  namely:  William  T.,  of  Chicago;  Samuel  J.,  of  this  city;  Anna 
D.,  wife  of  Dr.  John  B.  Davis;  Sallie;  Rhoda  J.,  wife  of  Harman  Calpha,  of 
Elyood,  Indiana;  Josie,  wife  of  Alonzo  Hays,  of  Blooming  Grove;  Amanda, 
wife  of  John  Webb,  of  Metamora;  and  Mary,  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Martin  have  no  children  of  their  own,  but  have  given  their  love  and  care  to 
three  orphans, — Willie  Beutel,  Josie  Martin  and  Victor  Hugo  Tettenborn. 
These  children  have  received  all  the  benefit  of  a  liberal  education  and  well 
appointed  home,  and  it  has  been  the  constant  aim  of  the  foster  parents  to 
bring  them  up  to  lives  of  honor  and  usefulness.  On  March  15,  1899,  Victor 
Hugo  enlisted  in  the  regular  army  and  is  now  stationed  at  the  barracks  at 
Columbus,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  man  of  splendid  endowments  and  keeps  in  close  touch 
with  all  matters  of  public  importance.  He  is  one  of  the  prime  movers  and 
contributors  in  the  building  and  support  of  the  West  Fork  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church,  which  was  erected  in  1889,  and  of  which  he  is  a  member.  He 
has  voted  the  Democratic  ticket  since  1856,  and  was  elected  to  the  Indiana 
legislature,  by  a  handsome  majority,  in  1875,  serving  until  1876.  In  1890  he 
was  elected  by  the  legislature  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Indiana  Hospital  for  the  Insane.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  Matthews, 
in  1896,  as  trustee  of  Purdue  University,  a  position  he  still  fills.  He  was 
made  an  Odd  Fellow  when  twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  is  still  an  honored 
member  of  the  fraternity. 

DANFORD  LA  FUZE. 
The  La  Fuze  family,  of  which  the  subject  of.  this  sketch  is  a  representa- 
tive, is  one  of  the  oldest  and  largest  families  in  Union  county,  Indiana. 
Danford  La  Fuze  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Immel)  La  Fuze.  Sam- 
uel La  Fuze  was  born  in  Uniontown,  Fayette  county,  Pennsylvania,  January 
5,  1805,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  (Harper)  La  Fuze,  the  former  of  English 


170  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  the  latter  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  both  born  in  Pennsylvania.  The 
fathers  of  both  Samuel  La  Fuze,  Sr. ,  and  Eleanor  Harper  came  with  their 
families  from  Pennsylvania  to  Indiana  in  the  year  1814,  before  Indiana  had 
attained  the  dignity  of  statehood,  and  settled  in  Center  township,  Union 
county,  a  mile  and  a  half  northeast  of  Liberty.  The  senior  Samuel  La  Fuze 
was  a  weaver  by  trade,  but  after  coming  to  Indiana  devoted  his  energies  to 
agricultural  pursuits.  Samuel,  Jr.,  was  a  carpenter  and  spent  some  years  at 
that  work  in  Union  county.  At  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  bought  a  farm 
and  settled  on  it,  and  carried  on  farming  the  rest  of  his  life.  March  26, 
1840,  he  married  Elizabeth  Immel,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Smith) 
Immel,  the  Immel  family  having  come  to  Union  county,  Indiana,  from  Fay- 
ette county,  Pennsylvania,  about  the  year  1 830,  and  settled  in  Brownsville 
township.  Mr.  Immel  had  passed  the  seventieth  mile-post  at  the  time  of 
death,  and  his  wife  was  over  ninety  when  she  died.  The  Immel  homestead 
has  since  passed  into  other  hands,  and  now  only  one  of  their  children,  Cath- 
erine, wife  of  B.  F.  Coddington,  lives  in  Brownsville  township. 

When  he  started  out  in  life  for  himself  Samuel  La  Fuze,  the  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  had  only  a  small  amount  of  means,  but  he  was  a 
man  of  pluck  and  energy,  and  he  soon  showed  that  he  could  both  make  and 
save  money.  He  acquired  a  fine  farm,  four  hundred  acres  in  extent,  which 
was  the  homestead,  and  besides  it  he  owned  other  property,  frequently  buy- 
ing and  selling.  His  political  views  were  those  advocated  by  the  Republican 
party,  and  he  was  always  active  in  promoting  the  best  interests  of  his  part}-, 
though  never  seeking  official  honors  for  himself.  His  death  occurred  Decem- 
ber 13,  1887,  and  up  to  within  six  years  of  that  time  he  had  a  strong  and 
vigorous  constitution.  He  managed  his  own  affairs  to  the  last,  at  different 
times  assisting  his  children,  and  he  arranged  his  affairs  in  such  a  manner  that 
all  was  settled  quietly  and  without  any  litigation.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Christian  church,  and  throughout  his  life  was  a  Christian  in  deed  as  well  as 
name.  His  widow  still  survives  him  and  is  now  seventy-eight  years  of  age, 
clear  in  mind  and  vigorous  in  strength  for  one  of  her  age.  Their  children, 
in  order  of  birth,  are  as  follows:  Mary,  wife  of  S.  A.  Martin,  of  Liberty, 
Indiana;  Ellen,  wife  of  Alexander  Creek,  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years; 
Samuel  Monroe,  a  farmer  of  Harrison  township,  Union  county;  William 
Henry,  a  farmer  of  the  same  township;  Leonidas  Homer,  also  of  that  town- 
ship; Lucy,  wife  of  T.  J.  Bennett,  Harrison  township;  Danford,  whose  name 
forms  the  heading  of  this  sketch;  Oliver  P.,  Liberty,  Indiana;  and  George 
E.,  on  the  old  home  farm. 

Danford  La  Fuze  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  in  Brownsville  town- 
ship. Union  county,  Indiana,  December  19,  i860,  and  remained  a  member 
of  the  home  circle  until  the  time  of  his  marriage,  which  event  occurred  June 


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13,  1888,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being  Miss  Myrtle  Kitchel,  daughter  of  John 
and  Susannah  (Patterson)  Kitchel,  of  Harrison  township,  Union  county, 
where  she  was  born  February  11,  1869. 

Since  his  marriage  Mr.  La  Fuze  has  occupied  his  present  farm.  He 
received  eighty  acres  as  his  part  of  his  father's  estate  and  he  has  since  added 
to  it  by  the  purchase  of  another  eighty-acre  tract,  paying  therefor  ninety- 
three  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents  per  acre.  He  has  carried  forward  the  work 
of  improvement  and  has  developed  his  land  into  a  first-class  farm  in  every 
respect.  He  utilizes  each  year  about  fifty  acres  in  the  cultivation  of  corn 
and  fall  wheat  and  keeps  a  high  grade  of  stock,  his  herd  of  fine  cattle  num- 
bering about  twenty-five  head.  He  has  also  for  several  years  taken  a  pride 
in  his  poultry,  keeping  thoroughbred  Plymouth  Rock  chickens,  which  he  finds 
a  profitable  breed.  An  important  feature  of  his  place  is  its  water  system,  a 
windmill  furnishing  the  power  by  which  the  water  is  taken  to  places  where 
used.      In  short,  everything  about  the  farm  shows  thrift  and  prosperity. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  La  Fuze  have  four  children,  namely:  Hattie  Belle,  Her- 
bert Earl,  Frank  Ernest  and  Goldie  Mabel. 

Like  his  honored  father,  Mr.  La  Fuze  harmonizes  with  the  Republican 
party  and  the  principles  advocated  by  it.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  church. 

THOMAS  D.   EVANS. 

Thomas  Davis  Evans,  a  prominent  attorney  of  Liberty,  Indiana,  and 
well  known  throughout  the  state,  was  ushered  into  life  in  Decatur,  Newton 
county,  Mississippi,  August  17,  1840,  and  there  spent  the  early  years  of  his 
childhood.  When  he  was  seven  years  old  his  mother  died,  leaving  three 
little  children.  His  father,  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Evans,  was  born  and  reared  in 
Bath,  England  ;  was  educated  at  Oxford  ;  came  to  America  when  a  young 
man  and  at  Philadelphia  won  great  honors  as  a  physician.  From  there  he 
went  south,  where  he  met  and  married  Miss  Sarah  Yerby,  a  native  of  Ala- 
bama and  a  representative  of  a  historic  family  of  that  state.  After  her  death 
he  married  again  and  moved  to  Vicksburg,  and  in  1853  went  to  New  Orleans. 
On  account  of  the  great  cholera  epidemic  that  year  he  sent  his  family  north, 
himself  remaining  in  New  Orleans  and  caring  for  the  sick  in  the  hospitals. 
After  several  months  spent  in  hospital  work  he  started  to  join  his  family,  who 
were  at  Gallatin,  Tennessee,  but  at  Vicksburg  was  stricken  with  the  dread 
disease  and  died  there  July  31,  1853.  He  was  buried  with  the  honors  of 
Freemasonry.  While  he  had  a  large  practice  and  was  untiring  in  his  efforts 
to  relieve  the  sick  and  afflicted,  he  was  liberal  and  generous  to  a  fault  and  he 
died  a  poor  man,  the  heritage  of  a  good  name  being  all  the  fortune  he  left  to 
his  family. 

Thomas  Davis  Evans,  when  a  youth,   secured  a  position   as  clerk  in  a 


172  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

store  and  in  that  way  provided  for  his  own  support  and  that  of  the  two 
younger  children,  his  stepmother  meantime  having  married.  After  clerking 
in  several  stores,  he  learned  the  printer's  trade  in  the  office  of  the  Gallatin 
Examiner.  In  the  meantime,  June  7,  i860,  he  married,  at  Gallatin,  Miss 
Mollie  Johnson,  daughter  of  James  S.  Johnson,  mayor  of  that  place. 

Mr.  Evans  had  for  a  neighbor  in  Gallatin  Joseph  S.  Fowler,  later  United 
States  senator,  then  president  of  Howard  Female  Institute,  in  which  Mrs. 
Evans  was  educated.  It  was  largely  due  to  the  influence  of  this  gentleman 
that  Mr.  Evans  when  he  became  a  voter  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Repub- 
lican party.  The  majority  of  his  friends  and  neighbors,  however,  were 
rebels,  and  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  he  took  sides  with  the  Union. 
At  the  beginning  of  hostilities  he  took  his  family  and  went  into  the  mount- 
ains of  east  Tennessee,  where  he  remained  until  Gallatin  became  a  military 
post,  commanded  by  Brigadier-General  E.  A. 'Payne,  when  he  returned  and 
subsequently  secured  a  position  in  the  United  States  quartermaster  depart- 
ment as  military  storekeeper,  an  important  position,  which  he  held  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  sometimes  having  in  his  charge  millions  of  dollars'  worth 
of  stores.      This  position  gave  him  a  wide  acquaintance  among  military  men. 

While  acting  as  storekeeper  Mr.  Evans  took  up  the  study  of  law,  and 
at  the  close  of  the  war  was  examined  and  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Lebanon, 
Tennessee,  and  immediately  afterward  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  Alexandria,  same  state.  He  soon  built  up  a  large  practice  which 
extended,  during  the  years  immediately  following  the  war,  throughout  Sum- 
ner, Wilson,  Davidson  and  Smith  counties,  and  in  connection  with  his  legal 
work  he  was  active  in  political  campaigns,  stumping  for  the  Republican 
party. 

In  1870  Mr.  Evans  came  north,  locating  first  at  Mansfield,  Ohio,  and 
shortly  afterward  came  over  into  Indiana,  settling  in  Albion,  Noble  county. 
In  1879  he  removed  from  the  latter  place  to  Liberty,  Indiana,  all  the  while 
continuing  the  practice  of  his  profession.  At  Liberty  he  soon  became 
prominent  at  the  bar,  and  has  been  connected  with  many  important  litiga- 
tions, his  practice  reaching  into  the  higher  courts  of  the  state.  For  ten 
years  he  was  county  attorney  of  Union  county,  and  it  was  during  his  incum- 
bency of  that  office  that  the  court-house  and  poor-house  were  built.  His 
activity  in  political  lines  has  taken  him  into  every  county  in  the  state,  where 
he  has  addressed  Republican  gatherings.  He  is  still  conducting  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice. 

August  31,  1863,  Mr.  Evans'  first  wife  died,  and  a  few  years  later  he 
married  again.  His  second  wife  died  previous  to  his  removal  to  Liberty, 
and  he  wedded  his  present  companion.  Miss  Lucretia  Julien,  at  Tiffin,  Ohio. 
His  first  wife  left  one  child,  Mollie,  now  the  wife  of  James  A.  Murphy,  of 


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Richmond,  Indiana;  and  the  children  of  his  second  wife,  three  in  number, 
are:  Thomas  D.,  a  hotel-keeper  of  Berlin,  Wisconsin;  Carrie,  widow  of 
James  F.  Copeland,  who  died  in  1898;  and  Carl  R. ,  an  attorney  with  Craw- 
ford &  Crawford,  Dallas,  Texas.      He  has  no  children  by  his  present  wife. 

ELIAS  P.   SCOTT. 

Elias  P.  Scott  was  born  February  19,  1841,  on  the  homestead  farm 
where  he  now  resides,  in  Harrison  township,  Wayne  county,  his  parents 
being  James  C.  and  Sarah  (Willets)  Scott.  The  former  was  born  in  Bour- 
bon county,  Kentucky,  in  1797;  the  latter  was  born  in  1806,  and  their  mar- 
riage was  celebrated  in  1826.  In  the  spring  of  18 13  James  C.  Scott  came  to 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  with  his  father,  John  Scott,  and  William  Scott,  a 
younger  brother,  cleared  a  few  acres  of  ground  and  built  a  log  cabin.  In  the 
fall  they  returned  to  Kentucky  for  the  rest  of  the  family.  John  and  Mary 
Scott,  in  the  fall  of  1813,  took  up  their  residence  on  section  5,  Harrison 
township.  They  encountered  many  difficulties  and  hardships  during  the  first 
few  months.  They  had  to  leave  their  cabin  and  go  to  a  block-house  that  was 
about  two  miles  distant,  on  account  of  depredations  of  Indians,  a  number  of 
times.  So  dense  was  the  forest  at  that  time  that  the  only  way  of  finding  the 
various  settlements  was  by  the  aid  of  blazed  trees.  Wild  grape-vines  grew 
luxuriantly  in  the  rich  soil  of  the  locality  and  added  to  the  difficulty  of  travel 
by  sending  their  twining  branches  across  the  paths. 

James  C.  Scott  built  a  log  house  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  our  subject, 
and  this  was  later  replaced  by  a  frame  building,  while  the  present  residence 
on  the  homestead  is  the  finest  in  Harrison  township.  The  grandfather  lived 
only  long  enough  to  see  a  portion  of  the  beautiful  landscape  freed  from  tim- 
ber and  the  cleared  ground  transformed  into  rich  fields,  the  remainder  of  that 
labor  falling  to  the  lot  of  James  C.  Scott,  who  cleared  the  west  half  of  the 
farm,  embracing  two  hundred  acres  of  land.  His  son,  whose  name  intro- 
duces this  sketch,  now  has  in  his  possession  the  two  parchment  register  cer- 
tificates given  to  his  father  and  grandfather,  and  signed  by  James  Madison, 
thus  transferring  the  property  to  them.  James  C.  Scott  died  upon  the  farm 
in  1854,  but  his  widow  survived  him  until  1880,  and  passed  away  at  the  ripe 
old  age  of  seventy-four  years.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  who,  on 
emigrating  to  Indiana,  took  up  his  residence  on  Green's  Fork,  Wayne  county. 
Ten  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  C.  Scott,  namely:  John  M., 
Amanda  E.,  Melissa  A.,  Lewis,  Levi  W.,  Mary  R.,  Elias  P.,  Sarah  J.,  Alice 
P.  and  Vashti.  Only  two  of  this  large  family  now  survive,  Elias  P.  and 
AHce,  who  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Albert  Southworth,  of  Los  Angeles,  California. 

In  the  common  schools  of  Wayne  county  Mr.  Scott  of  this  review 
obtained  his  education,  and  when  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  began  operat- 


174  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 

ing  the  home  farm  for  an  interest  in  the  crops.  He  has  always  carried  on 
agricultural  pursuits,  and  is  accounted  one  of  the  most  progressive,  enterpris- 
ing and  practical  farmers  of  the  community.  All  the  conveniences  and  acces- 
sories of  the  model  farm  are  found  upon  his  place,  and  its  neat  and  thrifty 
appearance  indicates  his  careful  supervision. 

He  was  married  September  30,  1862,  to  Miss  Mary  L.  Goodwin,  who 
was  born  in  New  Castle,  Indiana,  November  21,  1844,  a  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Catharine  (Kinsey)  Goodwin.  Eight  children  have  been  born  of 
their  union:  Attie,  wife  of  Charles  Savage,  of  Centerville;  James,  of  Jack- 
sonburg,  Indiana;  Richard,  who  is  living  on  the  adjoining  farm;  Katherine, 
wife  of  Joseph  Burroughs,  living  on  a  farm  one  mile  south  of  Jacksonburg; 
William,  of  Jacksonburg;  Fred  E.,  John  and  Frank,  at  home.  Mrs.  Scott's 
father,  Richard  Goodwin,  was  at  an  early  day  engaged  in  the  pork-packing 
business,  and  later  conducted  a  dry-goods  store.  He  was  a  prominent  man, 
influential  find  progressive,  and  enjoyed  the  respect  of  all  who  knew  him. 
Reared  in  New  Castle,  Indiana,  he  died  in  that  place  December  23,  1848, 
and  some  years  later  his  widow,  who  was  a  native  of  Wayne  county,  married 
J.  G.  Welch,  of  New  Castle.  They  had  si.\  children,  Tidia,  deceased,  Will- 
iam, Nicholas,  Jennie,  Catherine  and  John.      Mrs.  Welch  died  in  1873. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Scott  has  been  a  life-long  Republican, 
and  in  1882  was  elected  township  trustee,  in  which  position  he  served  for 
two  terms.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Disciples'  church,  and 
Mr.  Scott  has  been  active  in  its  support  and  filled  a  number  of  its  official  posi- 
tions. Since  the  organization  of  Harrison  township  representatives  of  the 
Scott  family  have  been  among  its  substantial  leading  citizens,  and  he  of  whom 
we  write  shows  the  same  generous  spirit  of  hospitality  and  progressiveness 
which  has  characterized  the  ancestral  line  from  the  early  days. 

CHARLES  S.   LEWIS. 

Honored  and  respected  by  all,  Charles  Sumner  Lewis  has  been  for  sev- 
eral years  prominently  identified  with  public  affairs  of  Fayette  county,  and  is 
now  serving  as  deputy  sheriff.  He  was  born  in  Andersonville,  Franklin 
■  county,  Indiana,  April  13,  1856,  but  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  was  brought 
by  his  parents,  Moses  and  Eliza  J.  (Carter)  Lewis,  to  Fayette  count}',  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home  with  the  exception  of  four  years. 

His  father,  Moses  Lewis,  was  born  near  Andersonville,  Franklin  county, 
February  5,  1830,  a  son  of  John  and  Susannah  (Barber)  Lewis,  and  grand- 
son of  David  Lewis,  a  life-long  resident  of  east  Tennessee  and  a  soldier  of 
the  Revolutionary  war,  who  contributed  a  large  amount  of  money  to  the 
cause,  for  which  he  received  nothing.  He  owned  and  operated  a  gristmill, 
\which  was  considered  very   large   for  those   times,  the  products  of  which  he 


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gave  to  the  army.  Like  the  other  representatives  of  the  family,  he  was  a 
Whig  in  poHtics.  John  Lewis,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  SulU- 
van  county,  Tennessee,  and  in  1812  came  with  a  large  colony  from  that  sec- 
tion to  Indiana,  settling  first  on  Salt  creek,  where  he  assisted  in  putting  down 
the  first  salt  well  in  Franklin  county.  Later  he  removed  to  Andersonville, 
the  same  county,  where  he  died  in  1864,  at  the  age  of  si.xty-six  years.  He 
owned  a  good  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  successfully  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics  and  a  Quaker  in  relig- 
ious belief,  but  as  there  was  no  church  of  that  denomination  in  his  locality  he 
united  with  the  Methodist  church.  His  wife  died  in  Andersonville  in  1867, 
when  nearly  seventy  years  of  age.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Eliphalet  Barber, 
a  native  of  Rockbridge  county,  Virginia,  who  came  to  this  state  in  181 5  and 
setted  at  Andersonville,  where  he  died  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years. 
He  was  a  prominent  farmer  and  became  quite  well-to-do.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Whig. 

Moses  Lewis,  who  is  one  of  a  family  of  nine  children,  seven  sons  and 
two  daughters,  was  reared  in  Andersonville  and  received  a  very  limited  edu- 
cation as  he  had  to  walk  three  or  four  miles  to  attend  the  public  schools. 
Leaving  the  home  farm  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  learned  the  blacksmith's 
trade  at  Andersonville  and  after  an  apprenticeship  of  only  a  year  and  a  half 
commenced  working  for  wages,  as  he  was  very  handy  with  tools  and  soon 
mastered  the  business.  From  1850  until  1852  he  worked  at  Glen  wood,  and 
for  about  three  years  in  Decatur  county,  after  which  he  returned  to  Anderson- 
ville. In  i860  he  came  to  Fayette  county  and  for  fifteen  years  followed  his 
chosen  occupation  in  Orange  township.  The  following  two  years  were  spent 
in  Columbia  township,  and  for  four  years  he  again  carried  on  operations  at 
Glenwood,  since  which  time  he  has  made  his  home  in  Connersville,  being 
-engaged  in  blacksmithing  all  the  time.  Politically  he  is  a  strong  Republican, 
and  religiously  an  earnest  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  In 
1855  he  married  Miss  Eliza  J.  Carter,  of  Fayette  county,  and  the  following 
children  were  born  to  them:  Charles  Sumner,  our  subject;  William  D.,  a 
clerk  of  Connersville;  Frank  F. ,  who  is  employed  in  a  buggy  factory  in 
Indianapolis;  Edward  E.,  who  is  engaged  in  milling  and  also  conducts  a  feed 
store  in  Connersville;  Anna  M.,  wife  of  Walter  Nelson,  of  Indianapolis;  and 
Ernest,  a  clerk  in  Connersville. 

The  boyhood  and  youth  of  Charles  S.  Lewis  was  passed  upon  a  farm 
near  Alpine,  and  his  early  life  was  devoted  to  agricultural  pursuits  until  com- 
ing to  Connersville.  In  1877  he  removed  to  Glenwood  and  in  1882  took  up 
his  residence  in  Connersville,  where  he  was  first  employed  by  the  Conners- 
ville Hominy  Company,  and  later  was  manager  for  the  Connersville  Milling 
^Company  for  eight  years.     In  1890  he  was  elected  city  marshal  and  served  in 


176  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

that  position  for  two  terms  of  two  years  each.  Before  the  end  of  the  latter 
term  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Fayette  county,  and  the  duties  of  that  office  he 
discharged  with  a  promptness  and  fidelity  worthy  of  all  commendation  for  four 
years,  from  1 894  until  1 898.  Since  then  he  has  been  serving  as  deputy  sheriff, 
and  has  also  been  engaged  in  the  fire,  life  and  accident  insurance  business. 
He  still  owns  a  valuable  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  one  mile  east  of 
Connersville,  which  is  cultivated  under  his  careful  supervision  and  conse- 
quently proves  quite  profitable. 

On  the  I2th  of  August,  1891,  Mr.  Lewis  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Aurelia  Cortleyow,  of  Fayette  county,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three 
daughters.  Socially  he  is  a*  prominent  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men  and  the  Benevolent  Patriotic  Order  of  Elks, 
and  politically  he  is  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of  the  local  Republican 
organization.  He  has  ever  taken  an  active  interest  in  county  politics;  has 
been  a  member  of  the  county  Republican  central  committee  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  was  treasurer  of  the  same  in  1898.  He  is  emphatically  a  man  of 
enterprise,  positive  character,  indomitable  energy  and  liberal  views,  and  is 
thoroughly  identified  in  feeling  with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  county 
which  has  so  long  been  his  home. 

TIMOTHY  HARRISON. 

Timothy  Harrison,  deceased,  for  many  years  a  leading  promoter  of 
commercial  and  industrial  interests  in  Wayne  county,  was  born  May  10, 
1832,  in  Yorkshire,  England,  a  son  of  Timothy  and  Mary  (Smith)  Harrison. 
The  family  is  one  of  the  old  and  eminently  respectable  families  of  Yorkshire, 
and  historians  have  no  difficulty  in  tracing  the  genealogy  back  to  the  time 
when  Charles  I.  was  on  the  throne  of  England.  Strong  intellectuality  has 
ever  been  one  of  the  marked  characteristics  of  the  Harrisons,  and  many 
prominent  representatives  of  the  name  have  left  the  impress  of  their 
individuality  upon  the  public  life  of  both  America  and  England.  Among 
these  are  William  Henry  Harrison,  Benjamin  Harrison  and  Carter  H.  Har- 
rison. In  England  the  family  largely  followed  mechanical  pursuits  and  were 
extensively  engaged  in  the  construction  of  locomotives. 

The  life  record  of  Timothy  Harrison  is  one  which  added  new  luster  to  a 
name  already  bright,  for  he  manifested  not  only  excellent  business  ability  but 
also  the  higher  traits  of  character  which  everywhere  command  respect  and 
admiration.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  only  ten  years  of  age,  his  father 
when  he  was  eighteen.  He  was  largely  reared  by  his  sister  Rebecca,  and 
when  seventeen  years  of  age  completed  his  literary  education  at  Rugby,  one  of 
the  most  famous  preparatory  schools  of  the  world.  He  was  fortunate  in  pur- 
suing  his   studies  under  the  superintendence  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Thomas 


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Arnold,  and  his  marked  intellectuality  and  literary  culture  well  fitted  him  for 
responsible  duties  in  life.  He  dould  speak  seven  different  languages,  and 
his  scholarly  tastes  and  habits  remained  with  him  throughout  life,  enriching 
his  thought  and  broadening  his  mental  vision.  In  accordance  with  the  laws 
of  his  native  land  requiring  that  all  boys  should  learn  a  trade,  he  served  a 
seven-years  apprenticeship  at  mechanical  engineering,  completing  his  term  in 
the  Leeds  Locomotive  Works.  A  natural  predilection  for  mechanics  led  him 
into  the  field  of  endeavor  and  he  became  an  expert  workman. 

In  1856,  in  company  with  his  aunt,  Rachel  Smith,  he  emigrated  to  the 
United  States,  and  making  his  way  westward  finally  located  in  Newcastle, 
Henry  county,  Indiana,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  trade  for  a 
short  time.  Subsequently  he  purchased  a  woolen  mill  at  Raysville,  Henry 
county,  operating  the  same  on  an  extensive  scale  and  meeting  with  e.xcellent 
success.  He  continued  in  that  line  of  business  until  i860,  and  at  the  same 
time  was  associated  with  Charles  Hubbard  in  the  ownership  of  a  large  general 
store  at  Knightstown,  Mr.  Hubbard  acting  as  its  manager.  Mr.  Harrison, 
however,  continued  a  partner  in  that  enterprise  until  his  death,  when  his  son, 
Thomas  H.,  closed  out  the  business.  In  1859  Timothy  Harrison  removed  to 
Richmond  and  became  one  of  the  principal  stockholders  in  the  Quaker 
Machine  Works,  in  wliich  he  served  as  bookkeeper  for  four  years.  In  1873 
he  became  one  of  the  organizers  and  directors  of  the  Ezra  Smith  Manufact- 
uring Association,  now  doing  business  under  the  name  of  the  Richmond  Cas- 
ket Works.  It  was  capitalized  for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  with  a 
paid-up  capital  of  ninety-six  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Harrison  continued  to 
serve  as  bookkeeper  in  that  industry  until  his  death,  which  occurred  March 
22,  1 88 1,  and  his  wise  management  and  business  ability  contributed  not  a 
little  to  the  success  of  the  undertaking. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  likewise  prominent  in  church  work  and  was  a  recog- 
nized leader  in  the  Friends'  meeting,  serving  for  many  years  as  clerk  of  the 
Whitewater  meeting  and  as  elder  of  the  Indiana  yearly  meeting.  He  was  an 
earnest,  zealous  and  untiring  worker  in  the  cause  of  the  Master,  and  in  con- 
nection with  William  Tate  organized  a  Sunday-school  for  the  colored 
children  of  Richmond.  They  began  with  only  a  few  scholars,  but  developed 
the  school  until  it  became  the  largest  ever  held  in  Richmond.  He  gave  his 
support  to  all  measures  which  he  believed  to  be  of  public  benefit,  and  exer- 
cised his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  Republican  party,  in  whose  prin- 
ciples he  firmly  believed,  although  he  took  no  active  part  in  politics.  He  was 
a  man  of  good  judgment  and  sound  financial  ability;  and  that  he  had  the 
unlimited  confidence  of  his  fellow  men  was  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  was  fre- 
quently chosen  to  settle  up  estates. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  united  in  marriage,  in  1858,  to  Miss  Naomi  W.  Mor- 


178  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY. 

gan,  and  to  them  were  born  the  following:  children:  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Tits- 
worth,  who  was  educated  in  the  high  schSol  of  Richmond  and  Westtown, 
and  is  now  a  resident  of  Chicago;  Thomas  H.,  whose  sketch  appears  follow- 
ing this;  Mrs.  Susan  R.  Johnson,  a  graduate  of  Earlham  College,  now  of 
Whittier,  California;  Elizabeth,  who  died  in  infancy;  Anna  R. ,  who  received 
a  high-school  education  and  became  a  trained  nurse  in  the  Ann  Arbor  Med- 
ical hospital,  where  she  became  head  nurse,  and  when  she  handed  in  her 
resignation  in  the  spring  of  1896  received  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  medical 
faculty  to  the  place  again;  Timothy,  who  was  educated  in  Earlham,  married 
Pearl,  daughter  of  Senator  Landers,  a  prominent  Democratic  politician  of 
Indianapolis,  and  is  now  buyer  for  the  Stubbs  Construction  Company,  Chi- 
cago, having  previously,  in  1893,  served  as  manager  for  the  Chicago  Wreck- 
ing Company,  which  was  engaged  in  wrecking  buildings  after  great  confla- 
grations; Miriam  Alice,  a  graduate  of  Earlham,  who  pursued  a  post-graduate 
course  of  education  in  Bryn  Mawr. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  most  devoted  to  his  family  and  counted  no  effort 
or  sacrifice  too  great  that  would  enhance  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  his 
wife  and  children.  He  crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean  thirteen  times,  the  first 
time  after  his  arrival  in  America  in  1858,  when  with  his  bride  he  went  on  a 

■wedding  tour  to  the  land  of  his  birth.      In  1867  also  he  went  abroad,  accom- 

:panied  by  his  wife  and  three  of    their  children,  visiting  his  brother,  Thomas 

-H.  Harrison,  who  still  resided  in  the  mother  country. 

Mr.  Harrison  of  this  review  long  ranked  among  the  foremost  representa- 
tives of  business  and  religious  interests  in  Richmond,  and  his  death  was  a  sad 
loss  to  the  community.  His  widow  still  resides  in  West  Richmond,  in  a  res- 
dence  erected  by  Mr.  Harrison  soon  after  his  arrival  in  this  city,  but 
which  was  remodeled,  enlarged  and  improved  in  1870.  Like  her  husband 
she  shares  in  the  warm  regard  of  his  many  friends,  and  is  an  earnest  Chris- 

-  tian  lady. 

THOMAS  H.  HARRISON. 
In  connection  with  industrial  interests,  the  reputation  of  Thomas  Henry 

'Harrison  is  not  limited  by  the  confines  of  Richmond,  his  name  being  well 
known  in  this  connection  in  Chicago  and  many  of  the  leading  cities  through- 
out the  central  section  of  our  country.  In  studying  the  lives  and  characters 
of  prominent  men  we  are  naturally  led  to  inquire  into  the  secret  of  their  suc- 

V  cess  and  the  motives  that  prompted  their  action.  Success  is  oftener  a  matter 
of  experience  and  sound  judgment  and  thorough  preparation  for  a  life-work 
than  it  is  of  genius,  however  bright.  When  we  trace  the  career  of  those  whom 
the  world  acknowledges  as  successful,  and  of  those  who  stand  highest  in 
public  esteem,  we  find  that  in  almost  every  case  they  are  those  who  have 
risen  gradually  by  their  own  efforts,  their  diligence  and  perseverance.     These 


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qualities  are  undoubtedly  possessed  in  a  large  measure  by  the  gentleman 
whose  name  introduces  this  sketch,  and  who,  by  reason  of  his  marked  busi- 
ness ability,  has  recently  been  appointed  manager  for  the  Hazel  Pure  Food 
Company. 

Mr.  Harrison,  a  son  of  Timothy  Harrison,  was  born  on  Cedar  Hill,  at 
the  corner  of  Main  and  West  Seventh  streets,  Richmond,  November  i6,  i860. 
He  pursued  his  education  in  the  old  Whitewater  Friends'  school,  in  a  district 
school  taught  by  Mary  Harris,  an  eminent  educator  and  graduate  of  Vassar 
College,  and  later  entered  Earlham  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1880.  He  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  an  architect  and 
builder,  and  has  since  continued  in  that  line  of  business.  He  erected  the 
Richmond  city  hall  in  1S86,  and  also  built  a  number  of  the  dwellings  in 
Richmond  and  Earlham  Place.  In  1885  he  took  the  contract  for  the  erec- 
tion of  the  laboratory  for  Morrison,  Plummer  &  Company,  of  Chicago;  in 
1887  superintended  the  construction  of  the  water-works  at  Fort  Smith, 
Arkansas,  for  A.  L.  Pogue;  in  1888  he  built  Lindley  Hall,  of  Earlham  Col- 
lege; and  in  1889  sent  in  an  estimate  for  the  building  of  the  court-house  at 
Richmond,  but  was  not  awarded  the  contract.  He  then  went  to  Chicago, 
where  he  erected  the  Lakeside  hospital;  was  the  architect  and  superintendent 
of  construction  of  the  plant  of  the  Chicago  Wire  &  Spring  Company,  near 
Blue  Island,  and  of  Farquhar's  furnace  plant.  He  also  superintended  the 
construction  of  the  Epworth  and  Columbia  hotels, — World's  Fair  enter- 
prises,— and  remodeled  a  hotel  in  Buffalo  and  one  on  the  Bowery  in  New 
York  city.  In  connection  with  Mr.  Campfield  he  erected  the  State  Soldiers' 
Home  at  Lafayette,  Indiana,  in  1896,  and  has  figured  on  contracts  from 
Pittsburg  to  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  and  from  the  north  to  the  south.  In 
September,  1898,  he  accepted  the  position  of  manager  for  the  Hazel  Pure 
Food  Company,  having  charge  of  their  extensive  plant,  which  is  being  erected 
and  is  owned  by  the  well-known  firm  of  Siegel,  Cooper  &  Company,  of  Chicago. 
He  will  have  charge  of  the  manufacturing  department,  a  most  responsible 
position,  the  duties  of  which,  however,  he  is  ably  qualified  to  discharge. 

In  1885  Mr.  Harrison  wedded  Miss  Claribel  Barrett,  of  Spring  Valley, 
Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  M.  Barrett,  an  extensive  miller  and  pork-packer, 
who  has  also  served  as  state  senator  of  Ohio.  Unto  our  subject  and  his  wife 
have  been  born  seven  children,  six  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Isaac  Mer- 
ritt,  Raymond  T.,  Russell  Earl,  Carlos  E.,  William  Henry  and  Thomas. 
The  third  son,  Julian  Paul,  has  passed  away. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Harrison  is  a  stalwart  Republican  and  takes  a 
deep  interest  in  the  issues  and  questions  of  the  day,  at  the  same  time  labor- 
ing earnestly  to  promote  the  growth  and  insure  the  success  of  the  party.  His 
family  have  long  been  connected  with  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  he  is  like- 


180  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

wise  connected  therewith.  For  a  time  after  his  father's  death  he  served  as 
clerk  of  the  Whitewater  meeting.  He  is  a  man  of  commanding  influence  in 
the  community  and  the  county,  and  widely  known  and  honored  throughout 
the  state  as  one  who  is  always  on  the  right  side  of  all  questions  affecting 
moral  and  educational  interests.  He  has  attained  prominence  in  business 
circles,  while  in  private  life  no  man  in  Richmond  has  more  friends  than  he, 
and  they  have  been  won  and  are  being  retained  by  his  attractive  personality, 
his  outspoken  devotion  to  the  best  interests  of  the  community  and  his  mental 
ability,  which  is  of  a  high  order. 

SAMUEL  H.  MORRIS. 

Samuel  Heffley  Morris,  of  Harrison  township,  Wayne  county,  is  num- 
bered among  the  veterans  of  the  civil  war  and  is  a  worthy  representative  of 
one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  this  region.  He  is  a  grandson  of  Jonathan 
Morris,  whose  birth  occurred  in  1789,  in  Pasquotank,  North  Carolina.  He 
married  Abigail  Charles,  and  in  18 16  they  came  to  Wayne  county.  Settling 
in  this  township,  they  passed  the  rest  of  their  lives  here,  esteemed  and  honored 
by  all  who  knew  them.  He  died  in  1844,  and  two  years  later  his  widow 
passed  to  her  reward,  when  fifty  years  of  age. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Elias  Morris,  was  the  eldest  son  born  to  his 
parents,  his  birth  taking  place  in  this  township,  November  6,  18 17.  Here, 
amid  the  wild  scenes  of  frontier  life,  he  grew  to  manhood,  reared  in  the  noble 
ethics  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  to  which  his  parents  belonged.  He  was 
independent  enough,  however,  to  marry  the  woman  he  loved,  notwithstand- 
ing that  she  was  not  a  member  of  the  sect,  and  for  this  reason  he  was 
excluded  from  the  church,  as  was  the  rule  at  that  time.  Mrs.  Morris,  who  is 
still  living,  was  formerly  Miss  Margaret  Heffley,  and  fifty-five  years  have  rolled 
away  since  she  became  the  wife  of  the  sturdy  pioneer.  Her  parents,  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Myers)  Heffley,  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  resided  in  this  county  for 
a  number  of  years,  dying  here,  the  father  in  1840,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
seven  years,  and  the  mother  in  1857,  when  in  her  fifty-seventh  year. 
Quiet  and  somewhat  retiring  in  disposition,  fond  of  his  home  and  family, 
Elias  Morris  spent  his  life  in  a  manner  beyond  reproach.  Friends  he  had 
by  the  score,  and  as  far  as  known  he  had  no  enemies.  Ever  glad  to  aid 
those  who  were  unfortunate,  he  followed  the  teachings  of  the  golden  rule, 
and  all  loved  him.  For  some  time  previous  to  his  death,  which  event 
occurred  December  23,  1889,  he  was  an  invalid,  but  he  was  remarkably 
patient  and  uncomplaining.  His  widow,  who  was  born  in  1824,  is  living  on 
the  old  homestead  where  she  has  dwelt  for  so  many  years. 

Samuel  H.  Morris,  the  eldest  child  of  Elias  Morris  and  wife,  was  born 
October  11,  1845,  on  this  homestead,  which  property  was  purchased  by  his 


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grandfather  in  the  early  days  of  this  county.  The  other  children  of  Elias 
Morris  are  Henry  F.,  Jonathan  P.,  Mrs.  Sarah  Miller,  Mrs.  Melinda  J.  Mills 
and  Martha,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  and  Mary  E.,  who  died  at 
twenty-six  years  of  age. 

On  the  1 8th  of  December,  1863,  S.  H.  Morris  enlisted  in  the  defense 
of  his  country,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  K,  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-fourth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  From  Camp 
Wayne  he  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  the  regiment  was  attached 
to  the  Twenty-third  Army  Corps,  and  proceeded  to  take  part  in  the  memor- 
able Atlanta  campaign  under  the  leadership  of  General  Sherman.  From 
the  important  battle  of  Buzzards'  Roost  to  the  evacuation  of  Atlanta  by  the 
Confederate  forces  under  General  Hood,  the  gallant  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-fourth  was  actively  engaged  in  the  numerous  battles  with  the  rebels, 
suffering  severe  loss.  When  Sherman'  started  on  his  march  to  the  sea,  it 
was  transferred  to  the  command  of  General  Thomas  and  aided  in  the  Nash- 
ville campaign,  which  resulted  in  marked  victory  for  the  Union  forces.  Sub- 
sequently our  subject's  regiment  was  sent  to  the  Atlantic  coast,  by  way  of 
Washington,  and  in  North  Carolina  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Kingston,  after 
which  it  proceeded  to  Goldsboro,  North  Carolina,  where  it  joined  General 
Sherman's  army.  From  that  time  until  the  31st  of  August,  1865,  when 
they  were  mustered  out  of  the  service  at  Greensboro,  North  Carolina,  the 
regiment  was  on  garrison  duty,  and  finally  the  boys  who  had  made  such 
a  splendid  record  were  honorably  discharged  at  Indianapolis,  in  September. 
Mr.  Morris  was  always  thoroughly  trustworthy  and  true  to  his  duty.  Though 
only  eighteen  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  enlistment,  he  performed  his 
arduous  tasks  with  the  steadiness  and- discretion  of  a  man  of  twice  his  age, 
and  it  was  a  matter  of  pride  to  him  that  he  was  never  forced  to  go  to  the 
hospital.  On  the  21st  of  July,  1864,  under  the  blazing  southern  sun,  during 
the  siege  of  Atlanta,  a  day  made  memorable  by  the  death  of  the  gallant 
General  McPherson,  Mr.  Morris  received  a  sunstroke,  which  rendered  him 
unconscious  for  several  hours.  In  consequence  he  was  granted  a  permit  to 
"march  at  will,"  and  thus  managed  to  stay  with  his  regiment.  Many  a 
summer  since,  he  has  suffered  more  or  less  severely  from  the  effects  of  that 
stroke,  and  his  health  has  been  less  robust  since  the  hardships  and  privations 
of  the  war  were  endured  by  him.  He  is  an  honored  member  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  belonging  to  M.  D.  Leeson  Post,  No.  453,  of  Jack- 
sonburg,  Indiana.  Since  his  return  home  he  has  devoted  himself  to  the 
cultivation  of  the  old  homestead,  where  his  entire  life,  with  the  exception 
of  the  years  given  to  his  country,  has  been  passed.  Strictly  upright  and 
above  reproach  in  all  his  dealings  with  others,  he  merits  the  high  esteem  in 
which  he  is  held  by  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  his  acquaintance. 


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MILES  K.   MOFFETT. 

The  present  efficient  and  popular  clerk  of  Fayette  county,  Miles  K.  Mof- 
fett,  holds  and  merits  a  place  among  its  representative  citizens,  and  the  story 
of  his  life,  while  not  particularly  dramatic,  is  such  as  to  offer  a  typical 
example  of  that  alert  American  spirit  which  has  enabled  many  an  individual 
to  rise  from  obscurity  to  a  position  of  influence  and  renown  solely  through 
native  talent,  indomitable  perseverance  and  singleness  of  purpose. 

A  native  of  Fayette  county,  Mr.  Moffett  was  born  in  Fairview  township, 
September  21,  i860,  and  is  a  son  of  John  and  Fanny  J.  (Hamilton)  Moffett, 
the  former  of  Scotch  and  the  latter  of  Irish  descent.  The  paternal  grand- 
parents, Joseph  and  Salome  (Heller)  Moffett,  were  born,  reared  and  married 
near  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  they  continued  to  make  their  home 
until  the  removal  of  the  family  to  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  in  1826,  when 
they  settled  on  Williams  creek,  six  miles  west  of  Connersville.  The  grand- 
father, who  was  a  life-long  agriculturist,  owned  and  operated  a  large  farm 
here  and  in  his  undertakings  met  with  excellent  success.  He  also  built  the 
first  gristmill  on  Williams  creek  and  carried  on  milling  for  a  number  of 
years.  Politically  he  was  first  a  Whig  and  later  a  Republican,  and  in  1840 
served  as  county  commissioner  of  Fayette  county.  He  died  on  his  farm  in 
1872,  when  between  seventy-five  and  eighty  years  of  age.  He  filled  the  office 
of  justice  of  the  peace  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  long  a  consistent  and 
faithful  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  In  his  family  were 
seven  children,  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  followed  farming. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  who  was  the  oldest  son  in  this  family,  was 
born  near  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  about  two  years  old  when 
brought  by  his  parents  to  Indiana,  almost  his  entire  life  being  passed  on 
Williams  creek,  where  he  engaged  in  carpentering  and  farming  as  an  exten- 
sive agriculturist  and  large  contractor  and  builder.  He  was  quite  a  prom- 
inent man  and  served  as  county  real-estate  appraiser  for  five  years.  He  was 
a  stanch  supporter  of  the  Republican  party  and  its  principles,  and  was  a  lead- 
ing member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Connersville.  He  died  on 
his  farm  in  1874,  aged  fifty-two  years,  his  wife  in  1890,  aged  sixty-eight.  She 
was  a  native  of  Fayette  county  and  a  daughter  of  George  Hamilton,  who  was 
for  many  years  a  prominent  and  successful  farmer  of  the  county,  where  at 
one  time  he  owned  a  large  amount  of  land.  Our  subject  is  one  of  a  family 
of  eight  children,  five  sons  and  three  daughters,  and  with  the  exception  of 
himself  the  sons  all  follow  agricultural  pursuits. 

Reared  upon  the  home  farm  in  Fairview  township.  Miles  K.  Moffett 
attended  first  the  common  schools  of  the  neighborhood,  and  subsequently  the 
Fairview  Academy  for   one   year  and  the   Danville  Normal  School  for  two 


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years,  graduating  in  the  scientific  course  at  the  latter  institution  in  1884.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  commenced  teaching  school,  and  had  taught  three 
terms  in  Fayette  county  before  his  graduation.  He  continued  successfully  to 
follow  that  profession  until  1894,  and  was  principal  of  the  Maplewood  school 
of  Connersville  for  the  last  five  years  of  the  time.  He  was  then  elected 
clerk  of  the  county,  and  so  acceptably  did  he  fill  the  office  that  he  was 
re-elected  in  1898,  his  present  term  expiring  in  1902. 

As  a  Republican,  Mr.  Moffett  has  always  taken  an  active  and  prominent 
part  in  political  affairs,  was  chairman  of  the  county  committee  in  1896,  and 
is  now  a  member  of  the  Republican  state  committee.  He  read  law  with 
Reuben  Connor,  an  able  attorney  of  Connersville,  and  was  admitted  to 
practice  in  1893;  but,  having  since  been  engaged  in  teaching  and  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  official  duties,  he  has  not  yet  engaged  in  practice.  On  the 
expiration  of  his  present  term,  however,  he  expects  to  turn  his  attention  to 
his  profession.  He  is  quite  prominent  in  social  as  well  as  political  circles, 
and  is  a  member  of  Fayette  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  Whitewater  Encampment, 
I.  O.  O.  F.;  Connersville  Lodge,  No.  11,  Iv.  P. ;  Connersville  Lodge,  No. 
379,  B.  P.  O.  E.;  Otonka  Tribe,  No.  94,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  of  which  he  is  past 
sachem;  and  is  past  state  president  of  the  Haymakers'  Association,  a  branch 
of  the  Red  Men.  Religiously  he  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  Connersville.  He  is  held  in  high  regard  by  all  who  know  him,  his 
public  service  has  been  most  exemplary,  and  his  private  life  has  been  marked 
by  the  utmost  fidelity  to  duty.  On  the  4th  of  May,  1886,  Mr.  Moffett  mar- 
ried Miss  Anna  Hoak,  of  Hendricks  county,  Lidiana,  and  to  them  have  been 
born  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

DAVID    HOOVER. 

This  gentleman  was  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  who  aided  in  laying 
the  foundation  on  which  to  erect  the  superstructure  of  Wayne  county's  pres- 
ent prosperity  and  progress.  Through  the  period  of  early  development  he 
was  an  important  factor  in  the  improvement  and  advancement  of  this  section 
of  the  state,  and  was  also  concerned  with  the  broader  interests  which  had  to 
do  with  the  welfare  of  the  commonwealth. 

David  Hoover  was  born  in  Randolph  county.  North  Carolina,  on  the 
14th  of  April,  1 78 1,  and  was  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Waymire) 
Hoover.  He  removed  with  his  father's  family  to  Ohio  in  1S02,  and  in  1807 
came  to  Whitewater,  Indiana.  He  was  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  this  section 
of  the  state.  The  land  was  still  in  its  primitive  condition,  the  forests  were 
uncut  and  the  work  of  progress  and  civilization  had  scarcely  been  begun. 
Mr.  Hoover  was  married  March  31,  1807,  to  Catharine  Yount,  near  the  Great 
Miami,  and  removed  to  the  land  selected  and  entered  in  1806,  and  on  which, 


184  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

before  his  removal,  he  had  erected  a  log  cabin.  There  he  made  his  home 
until  his  death  in  1866.  Although  his  educational  privileges  were  exceed- 
ingly limited,  having,  as  he  wrote,  "never  had  an  opportunity  of  reading  a 
newspaper  nor  seen  a  bank  note  until  after  he  was  a  man  grown,"  he  accu- 
mulated a  fund  of  practical  knowledge  which  fitted  him  for  the  various  public 
trusts  confided  to  him  by  his  fellow  citizens.  In  18 10  he  was  appointed  a 
justice  of  the  peace  of  Wayne  county  and  filled  that  office  for  many  years, 
discharging  his  duties  with  marked  fairness  and  ability.  In  1815  he  was 
appointed  an  associate  judge  of  the  Wayne  county  circuit  court  and  his  serv- 
ice in  that  position  covered  an  extended  period.  In  February,  1817,  he  was 
elected  clerk  of  that  court,  and  held  the  office  by  re-election  nearly  fourteen 
years.  He  would  undoubtedly  have  been  continued  in  that  position  for  a 
longer  period  had  it  not  been  incumbent  upon  him  as  an  office-holder  to 
remove  to  the  county  seat.  He  preferred  the  farm,  however,  and  in  conse- 
quence retired  from  office.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Indiana  senate 
for  six  years  and  left  the  impress  of  his  strong  individuality,  clear  insight  and 
sound  judgment  upon  the  statutes  of  the  state.  A  man  of  strong  intellect- 
uality, of  honorable  purpose  and  keen  discernment,  he  was  well  fitted  for 
leadership  in  matters  of  public  moment,  and  in  the  first  half  of  the  century 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  Indiana.  He  delighted  in  reading 
and  collected  a  large  and  valuable  library,  embracing  a  wide  range  of  litera- 
ture, science  and  general  knowledge.  This  more  than  supplied  the  deficiency 
in  his  school  education,  and  his  example  strongly  commends  itself  to  the 
thousands  of  young  men  who,  like  him,  have  been  deprived  of  early  advan- 
tages, but  who,  following  in  his  footsteps,  may  attain  success,  and  perhaps 
fame.  He  stated  his  political  position  thus:  "  In  politics  I  profess  to  belong 
to  the  Jeffersonian  school,"  and  he  took  his  motto  from  Jefferson's  first  inau- 
gural, "Equal  and  exact  justice  to  all  men."  He  declared  himself  a  firm 
believer  in  the  Christian  religion  and  was  opposed  to  all  wars  and  to  slavery. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hoover  were  born  ten  children.  Elizabeth,  the  eld- 
est, married  Jacob  Thornburg,  of  Newcastle,  and  after  his  death  became  the 
wife  of  Simon  T.  Powell,  of  that  place;  Hiram  married  Elizabeth  Marmon, 
and  after  her  death  removed  to  Kansas,  where  he  married  Mary  Price  and 
spent  his  remaining  days;  Mary  died  in  childhood;  Susan  was  the  wife  of 
William  L.  Brady,  of  Richmond;  Sarah  was  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Hill,  of 
Wayne  township,  Wayne  county;  Isabel  married  James  M.  Brown,  of  Rich- 
mond; Esther  became  the  wife  of  Henry  Shroyer,  of  Newcastle;  William  and 
Rebecca  died  in  early  childhood;  and  David  married  Phoebe  Macy,  and  resided 
on  the  old  family  homestead  until  his  death.  His  children  are  Andrew  M., 
Henry  Irvin  and  David  Simon. 

Judge  Hoover  died  in  1866,  in  his  eighty-sixth  year,  and  his  wife  passed 


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away  in  1865,  in  tier  seventy-sixth  year.  His  was  a  long,  active,  useful  and 
honorable  life,  and  his  name  is  indelibly  inscribed  on  the  pages  of  Wayne 
county's  history. 

His  grandfather  on  his  mother's  side,  Rudolph  Waymire,  was  a  native  of 
Hanover,  Germany,  who  used  to  boast  that  he  had  been  a  soldier  under  his 
Britannic  majesty,  and  that  he  was  in  the  battle  of  Dettingen  in  1743.  For 
some  time  previous  to  his  emigration  to  America  he  also  served  under  Fred- 
erick the  Great,  of  Prussia,  as  one  of  his  body  guard,  a  company  into  which 
no  man  was  admitted  who  was  not  seven  feet  or  more  in  height,  he  being 
seven  feet  eight  inches! 

ARETUS  FRANKLIN    BURT. 

This  name  is  one  known  throughout  Union  county,  for  here  Mr.  Burt 
has  passed  his  whole  life,  and  here  his  parents  lived  for  many  decades. 
He  is  now  serving  his  fifth  year  in  the  responsible  office  of  county  commis- 
sioner, having  been  twice  elected  to  this  position  by  his  Republican  friends. 
He  has  been  active  in  the  councils  of  the  party  and  generally  attends  the 
meetings  of  the  county  central  committee.  At  various  times  he  has  occu- 
pied more  or  less  important  township  offices  and  has  always  acquitted  him- 
self with  credit.  There  are  sixty-seven  miles  of  graded  roads  in  the  county 
to  be  looked  after,  and  many  other  quite  as  important  public  matters  that 
require  his  supervision  as  commissioner. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Zenas  Burt,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Fayette  county*  Pennsylvania,  July  i,  1794.  He  was  a  son  of  Zephaniah 
Burt,  two  of  whose  brothers  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  For  his 
wife  Zenas  Burt  chose  Miss  Phcebe  Ratcliff,  who  was  born  May  12,  1799,  and 
soon  after  their  marriage,  March  6,  18 17,  the  young  people  started  for  their 
new  home  on  the  frontier,  proceeding  down  the  Ohio  river  in  company  with 
Mrs.  Burt's  brother,  Samuel  Ratcliff,  and  his  family.  Some  years  later  this 
brother  went  to  New  Orleans  on  a  fiat-boat  and  was  never  heard  from  again. 
Zephaniah  Burt  had  made  the  trip  to  Union  county  about  18 14  and  took  up 
some  land  here.  A  few  years  later  he  located  in  Henry  county,  where  he 
died.  Zenas  Burt  settled  on  seventy-one  acres  of  the  Union  county  property 
selected  by  his  father,  and  this  land  has  never  left  the  family  and  is  now 
owned  by  James  Morris,  a  son  of  our  subject.  In  time  Zenas  Burt  became 
well-to-do,  owned  four  farms,  and  for  years  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He 
was  an  old-line  Whig  and  very  active  in  his  party.  Religiously  he  was  a 
strict  Presbyterian,  concerned  about  the  observance  of  family  prayers  and 
other  forms  of  the  church.  He  was  one  of  the  zealous  members  of  the  Sil- 
ver Creek  church,  which  he  assisted  in  founding  and  later  was  influential  in 
the  organization  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Liberty.      In  1850  he  bought 


186  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  present  farm  of  A.  F.  Burt,  and  dwelt  here  until  his  death  in  1866.  His 
widow  survived  him  several  years.  He  had  a  brother  Daniel,  who  lived  in 
Union  and  Henry  counties,  and  they  had  three  sisters,  one  of  whom,  Eunice, 
married  John  Bradway,  of  Henry  county.  In  the  days  of  his  early  settle- 
ment here  Zenas  Burt  was  obliged  to  haul  his  grain  to  Cincinnati,  a  four-days 
trip,  and  would  return  with  provisions  and  supplies  for  his  household,  enough 
to  last  for  man}'  months. 

Of  the  children  born  to  Zenas  and  Phcebe  Burt,  Laban  R.  was  the 
eldest.  He  was  born  December  28,  1817,  and  was  a  farmer  of  Kosciusko 
county,  Indiana,  for  several  years  prior  to  his  death,  which  event  took  place 
when  he  was  in  his  sixty-sixth  year.  John  Milton,  the  second  son,  was  born 
March  5,  1820,  and  died  in  Franklin  county,  this  state,  where  he  had  been 
engaged  in  merchandising.  Amzi  Elmer,  born  March  9,  1822,  died  at  the 
old  homestead  in  this  county  when  a  5'oung  man,  in  1853.  Isaiah  Gra- 
ble,  born  May  23,  1824,  died  in  Coles  county,  Illinois,  where  he  owned 
a  farm.  Hannah  Main  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years.  Rebecca  Ritten- 
house,  born  August  15,  1829,  never  married  and  died  when  about  thirty-five 
years  of  age.  Phoebe  Caroline,  born  September  15.  183 1,  never  married, 
and  died  when  about  sixty-five  years  of  age.  Joseph  Hayward,  born  Sep- 
tember 17,  1833,  served  under  General  Lew  Wallace  in  the  Eleventh  Indi- 
ana Regiment  during  the  civil  war,  and  died  while  at  home  on  a  furlough. 
Silas  Everts,  born  December  15,  1835,  was  a  farmer  of  Union  county  until 
four  years  ago,  when  he  removed  to  Taylor  county,  Wisconsin. 

Aretus  F.  Burt,  born  October  15,  1840,  is  the  youngest  of  his  parents' 
large  family,  and  the  labors  of  the  farm  devolved  upon  him  and  his  brother 
Silas  when  they  were  quite  young,  as  their  father  was  getting  well  along  in 
years.  Our  subject  remained  on  the  homestead  after  his  father's  death,  and 
when  his  mother  died  he  became  the  owner  of  the  place,  which  comprises 
eighty  acres.  He  has  since  added  another  tract  of  similar  extent,  adjoin- 
ing the  old  farm  on  the  north;  and  besides  this  he  cultivates  sixty-three 
acres  of  the  Whitzel  farm  (next  to  his  own),  thirty  acres  at  the  school-house 
and  fifty  acres  in  another  tract  not  far  from  his  home.  He  is  very  enter- 
prising and  progressive  in  his  methods,  raises  from  fifty  to  one  hundred 
acres  of  wheat  and  seventy-five  acres  of  corn  each  year.  He  keeps  a  good 
grade  of  live  stock,  feeding  from  sixty  to  eighty  hogs  a  year,  thirty  head  of 
cattle  and  about  forty  sheep.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  County  Agri- 
cultural and  Historical  Society  and  for  fifteen  years  has  been  connected  with 
the  Odd  Fellows  order.  He  and  the  members  of  his  household  are  identified 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Burt  and  Miss  Juliana  Waddell,  of  this  county, 
was  celebrated   November   29,  1866.     Their   eldest    child,  Josie   A.,   is   the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  1ST 

wife  of  Henry  Martin,  of  Center  township;  James  Morris  is  a  farmer;  Carrie 
Alma  is  the  wife  of  Lewis  Harold,  of  Liberty;  Mary  Pearl  is  the  wife  of 
Oscar  Martin,  a  hardware  merchant  of  Liberty;  and  Emma  Lucinda,  Roy- 
den  Hays,  Frank  and  Grace  are  still  living  with  their  parents. 

JAMES  C.   McINTOSH. 

When  the  history  of  Indiana  and  her  honored  sons  shall  have  been  writ- 
ten its  pages  will  bear  no  more  illustrious  name,  and  record  no  more  distin- 
guished career,  than  that  of  James  Cottingham  Mcintosh.  If  "biography  is 
the  home  aspect  of  history,"  as  Wilmott  has  expressed  it,  it  is  entirely  within 
the  province  of  true  history  to  commemorate  and  perpetuate  the  lives  and 
characters,  the  achievements  and  honor  of  the  illustrious  sons  of  the  nation. 
The  name  of  Mr.  Mcintosh  is  inseparably  associated  with  the  history  of  juris- 
prudence in  Indiana.  He  did  not  look  to  public  or  official  life  for  advancement, 
but  found  it  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  profession  wherein  he  manifested  ability 
of  a  superior  order,  and  in  the  faithful  performance  of  each  day's  duty,  in 
accordance  with  the  principles  of  the  loftiest  and  most  noble  manhood.  Such 
was  Connersville's  honored  citizen,  whom  to  know  was  to  respect  and 
esteem. 

He  was  born  in  the  city  where  he  spent  his  entire  life,  January  13,  1S27, 
a  son  of  Joshua  and  Nancy  Mcintosh.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Virginia, 
and  his  mother  of  Maryland.  In  the  spring  of  1824  the  family  settled  in 
Connersville,  and  representatives  of  the  name  have  since  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  growth,  prosperity  and  progress  of  the  city.  The  mother 
■was  a  devout  Christian  woman  and  the  father  was  for  many  years  a  local 
minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  His  earnest  labors  in  behalf  of 
the  cause  were  most  far-reaching  in  their  influence  and  he  left  the  impress  of 
his  individuality  upon  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  He  also  served  as 
one  of  the  associate  judges  of  the  county  from  1847  until  185  i,  and  "even- 
handed  justice  "  was  manifest  in  his  decisions. 

James  C.  Mcintosh  was  peculiarly  fortunate  in  his  home  surroundings. 
Reared  in  a  Christian  atmosphere  and  early  instructed  in  the  divine  truths, 
his  strong  religious  nature  was  awakened,  and  in  January,  1844,  under  the 
ministry  of  the  Rev.  W.  W.  Hibben,  he  united  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  His  belief,  thus  manifested,  colored  his  entire  career  and  was  the 
dominant  element  in  a  character  that  all  who  knew  him  learned  to  respect 
and  admire.  He  also  possessed  studious  habits  aud  his  love  of  learning  was 
supplemented  by  a  belief  that  it  was  his  duty  to  acquire  the  best  education 
possible  and  thus  be  better  fitted  to  cope  with  the  problems  and  responsibil- 
ities of  life.  His  early  mental  training  was  received  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  village,  and  in  the  spring  of    1846  he   entered  Asbury  University,  at 


188  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Greencastle,  Indiana,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1849,  after 
completing  the  regular  three-years  course,  with  the  honors  of  his  class. 

Mr.  Mcintosh  then  accepted  the  position  of  teacher  in  a  school  in 
Lagrange,  Indiana,  and  in  1850  entered  upon  preparation  for  the  bar  by 
becoming  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  W.  Parker,  of  Connersville.  He 
applied  himself  untiringly  to  the  mastery  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence, 
and  in  185 1  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  Judge  Elliott  presiding,  while  his  own 
father  occupied  a  seat  on  the  bench  as  associate  judge.  At  a  later  date  he 
was  licensed  to  practice  in  the  supreme  court  of  the  state.  Promotion  in 
the  legal  profession  is  proverbially  slow.  Each  one  who  takes  his  place  at 
the  bar  must  commence  at  the  very  beginning,  must  plead  and  win  his  first 
case  and  gradually  work  his  way  upward  through  merit  and  ability,  that  finds 
recognition  as  he  demonstrates  his  power  to  successfully  handle  the  intricate 
problems  of  litigation.  Like  all  others  who  have  attained  eminence,  Mr. 
Mcintosh  steadily  advanced  until  he  became  known  as  one  of  the  most  able 
lawyers  in  his  section  of  the  state,  the  important  character  of  his  business 
indicating  his  marked  ability.  It  is  the  theory  of  the  law  that  the  counsel 
are  to  aid  the  court  in  the  administration  of  justice,  and  no  member  of 
the  profession  in  Indiana  was  more  careful  to  conform  his  practice  to  a 
high  standard  of  professional  ethics  than  Mr.  Mcintosh.  He  never  sought 
to  lead  the  court  estray  in  a  matter  of  fact  or  law.  He  would  not  endeavor 
to  withhold  from  it  a  knowledge  of  any  fact  appearing  in  the  record.  He 
treated  the  court  with  the  studied  courtesy  which  is  its  due,  and  indulged  in 
no  malicious  criticism  because  it  arrived  at  a  conclusion,  in  the  decision  of  a 
case,  different  from  that  which  he  hoped  to  hear.  Calm,  dignified,  self-con- 
trolled, free  from  passion  or  prejudice  and  overflowing  with  kindness,  he 
gave  to  his  client  the  service  of  great  talent,  unwearied  industry  and  a  rare 
learning,  but  he  never  forgot  there  were  certain  things  due  to  the  court,  to  his 
own  self-respect,  and  above  all  to  justice  and  a  righteous  administration  of 
the  law,  which  neither  the  zeal  of  an  advocate  nor  the  pleasure  of  success 
would  permit  him  to  disregard.  He  was  an  able,  faithful  and  conscientious 
minister  in  the  temple  of  justice,  as  he  was  endeared  in  private  life  to  all 
who  knew  him  by  the  simple  nobility  of  his  character. 

On  the  28th  of  April,  1851,  Mr.  Mcintosh  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Martindale,  and  to  them  were  born  five  children;  Horace 
P.,  a  lieutenant  in  the  United  States  Navy,  who  was  graduated  at  Annap- 
olis, Maryland,  and  during  the  Spanish- American  war  had  charge  of  a  detail 
office  in  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Ida  L.,  wife  of  William  Newkirk,  president  of 
the  Indiana  Furniture  Company  and  of  the  Fayette  Banking  Company,  who 
was  one  of  the  pioneer  manufacturers  of  his  county  and  has  been  identified 
with  its  business  interests  for  more  than   half  a   century;  James  M.,  whose 


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sketch  follows  this;  William  W.,  who  died  in  Portland,  Oregon,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1898;  and  Charles  K.,  who  is  now  paying  teller  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  San  Francisco,  California. 

Mr.  Mcintosh  was  ever  deeply  interested  in  any  movement  or  measure 
tending  to  elevate  or  advance  the  interests  of  the  race.  For  many  years  he 
served  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  university  of  which  he  was  an  honored 
alumnus.  Although  his  life  was  a  busy  one  and  his  extensive  law  practice 
made  heavy  demands  upon  his  time,  he  never  allowed  it  to  interfere  with  his 
Christian  obligations  or  the  faithful  performance  of  his  church  duties. 
Always  calm  and  dignified,  never  demonstrative,  his  entire  Christian  life  was 
a  steady,  persistent  plea  for  the  worth  of  Christian  doctrine,  the  purity  and 
grandeur  of  Christian  principles  and  the  beauty  and  elevation  of  Christian 
character.  He  had  the  greatest  sympathy  for  his  fellow  men,  was  always 
willing  to  aid  and  encourage  those  who  were  struggling  to  aid  themselves; 
yet  in  this,  as  in  everything  else,  he  was  entirely  unostentatious.  Nothing 
could  swerve  him  from  a  path  which  he  believed  to  be  the  right  one;  friend- 
ship was  to  him  inviolable  and  the  obligations  of  home  life  a  sacred  trust. 
His  upright  life  commanded  universal  respect,  and  his  memory  is  like  the 
fragrance  of  the  flower  that  remains  after  the  petals  have  fallen. 

JAMES  M.   McINTOSH. 

From  an  early  period  in  the  history  of  the  development  of  Fayette 
county  the  name  of  Mcintosh  has  appeared  frequently  upon  its  records  in 
connection  with  important  public  service,  and  in  the  subject  of  this  review 
we  find  one  who  has  labored  most  effectively  in  public  office  for  the  public 
good  and  is  accorded  that  recognition  which  is  justly  due  the  public-spirited 
and  progressive  citizen  whose  unselfish  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  general  wel- 
fare have  been  attended  by  splendid  results.  He  is  one  of  Connersville's 
native  citizens,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  on  the  14th  of  November,  1858. 
He  completed  the  regular  public-school  course  and  then  entered  the  DePauw 
University — the  old  Asbury  University — at  Greencastle,  being  graduated  in 
that  institution  with  the  class  of  1880.  Soon  afterward  he  began  reading  law 
under  the  direction  of  Charles  Roehl,  his  father's  old  law  partner,  and  was 
admittted  to  the  bar  in  1882.  His  practice  has  covered  a  wide  range  in  juris- 
prudence, demanding  a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  law,  as 
well  as  strength  of  argument  and  logical  arrangement  of  evidence  in  present- 
ing his  cause  before  the  court  or  jury. 

Mr.  Mcintosh  has  been  honored  with  a  number  of  public  positions.  His 
fellow  townsmen,  recognizing  his  worth  and  ability,  elected  him  to  the 
position  of  mayor  in  i886,  and  so  ably  did  he  administer  the  affairs  of  the 
city  that  he  was  re-elected  in  1888,  serving  for  four  consecutive  years.      In 


190  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

1890  he  was  elected  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  a  term  of  four  years,  and  in 
1895-6  he  represented  Wayne  and  Fayette  in  the  legislature  of  Indiana.  He 
was  an  active  member  on  the  floor  of  the  house  and  was  the  author  of  the 
"  direct  tax  "  bill  for  educational  purposes,  and  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  ways  and  means  committee.  In  politics  he  is  a  stalwart  Republican, 
unswerving  in  support  of  the  party  principles,  and  for  ten  years  he  has  served 
as  chairman  of  the  county  central  committee.  At  one  time  he  served  as 
cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and  was  formerly  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  "Whitewater  Valley  Silver  Plating  Company,  occupying  that  position 
for  a  number  of  years.  In  September,  1899,  he  received  the  appointment  of 
national-bank  examiner  for  Indiana  upon  the  endorsements  of  Senators 
Beveridge  and  Fairbanks,  and  without  solicitation  on  his  part. 

On  the  i2th  of  February,  1890,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  James 
Mcintosh  and  Miss  Anna  L.  Pepper,  of  Connersville.  Unto  them  have  been 
born  four  children,  namely:  Mary  E.,  Jessie  C,  Dorothy  J.  and  James  P. 
Mcintosh.  Mr.  Mcintosh  belongs  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  is 
a  valued  representative  of  various  fraternal  organizations,  his  name  being  on 
the  membership  roll  of  Warren  Lodge,  No.  15,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Connersville 
Lodge,  No.  II,  K.  of  P.;  Otonka  Tribe,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men;  and  the 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  broad  in  his  views  and  liberal  in 
his  judgments,  strong  in  his  convictions  and  earnest  in  his  opinions.  He  is  of 
a  social  disposition,  courteous  and  genial  manner,  and  throughout  the  county 
in  which  his  entire  life  has  been  passed  has  a  host  of  warm  friends. 

JOSEPH  MOORE,  M.  A. 

A  life  devoted  to  science  and  education — thus  may  be  summed  up,  within 
the  compass  of  half  a  dozen  words,  the  history  of  Professor  Moore,  who  has 
been  connected  with  Earlham  College  well-nigh  continuously  for  forty-six 
years.  Perhaps  to  his  efforts  as  much  as  to  those  of  any  other  man  does 
this  now  justly  celebrated  institution  of  learning  owe  the  high  standing  which 
it  occupies  in  the  educational  circles  of  the  northern  central  states  of  the 
Union.  Few  have  felt  a  more  loyal  and  sustained  interest  in  the  college  than 
he,  and  few  have  labored  and  planned,  night  and  day  for  decades,  for  its 
welfare  and  advancement  as  he  has  done.  Throughout  the  state  he  is  known 
as  a  geologist  and  scientist,  his  opinions  in  these  lines  being  considered 
authoritative. 

The  Moores,  faithful  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  resided  for 
some  time  in  North  Carolina,  and  about  1820  Joseph  Moore,  the  grandfather 
of  the  Professor,  removed  from  Perquimans  county  to  this  state  with  his 
wife,  Penina  (Parker)  Moore,  and  their  several  children.  They  located  in 
Washington   county,  where   they  carried   on  a  farm  successfully  for  years. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  191 

Mr.  Moore  died  on  the  old  homestead  there  and  was  survived  about  forty 
years  by  his  widow,  whose  age  at  death  was  nearly  four-score  and  ten.  They 
were  Friends  in  their  religious  adherency,  and  in  his  political  opinions  Mr. 
Moore  was  a  Whig.  Their  lives  were  spent  in  strict  accord  with  the  peace- 
ful principles  in  which  they  believed.  The  children  included  Samuel,  Lemuel, 
Alfred,  William,  John  Parker,  Nancy,  Mary,  Eliza  and  Jane. 

The  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  John  Parker  Moore,  who 
was  born  in  North  Carolina  in  iSio,  and  was  about  ten  years  of  age  when 
he  came  to  the  state  of  Indiana.  From  that  time  until  his  death,  in  1882, 
he  was  a  resident  of  Washington  county,  where  he  was  known  as  a  prosper- 
ous and  enterprising  agriculturist  and  an  extensive  dealer  in  live  stock  and 
produce.  Exceedingly  limited  as  were  his  early  advantages,  he  was  well 
posted  on  general  affairs  and  manifested  a  decided  interest  in  education  and 
whatever  else  he  thought  promotive  of  the  public  good.  For  his  companion 
and  helpmate  in  the  journey  of  life  he  chose  Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Cadwallader,  of  Indiana.  The  latter  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was 
a  relative  of  the  Revolutionary  war  general  of  the  same  name.  The  mar- 
riage of  John  P.  and  Martha  Moore  was  blessed  with  the  following  named 
children:  Sarah,  Joseph,  Calvin,  Walter,  Samuel,  Franklin,  John,  Martha, 
Barclay,  Ellen  and  Emory.  Those  who  are  still  living  are:  Sarah,  Joseph, 
Calvin,  Walter,  Samuel,  John  and  Ellen. 

Professor  Moore  was  born  February  29,  1832,  near  Salem,  Washington 
county,  Indiana,  and  until  he  reached  his  majority  he  lived  at  home  on  the 
farm,  save  when  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  school.  He  was  educated  in 
the  Blue  River  Seminary,  a  Friends'  school,  near  his  home,  and  subsequently 
was  employed  as  a  teacher  there  for  one  term.  His  first  labors  as  a  peda- 
gogue were  conducted  in  Jackson  county,  and  his  third  term  as  a  teacher  was 
at  a  school  near  Azalia,  Bartholomew  county.  Then  he  came  to  the  Friends' 
Boarding  School  (now  Earlham  College)  for  special  study,  and  at  the  end  of 
the  first  term  was  engaged  to  act  as  assistant  to  the  principal.  From  1853 
to  1859  he  gave  his  whole  mind  to  scientific  studies,  teaching,  meanwhile,  in 
the  college,  and  at  length  he  entered  Lawrence  Scientific  School,  Harvard 
College,  where  he  enjoyed  the  companionship  and  instruction  of  such  men  as 
Agassiz,  Gray,  Wyman  and  Horsford,  then  the  most  distinguished  educators 
in  their  special  lines  in  this  country.  At  the  end  of  two  years'  work,  in  1861, 
Professor  Moore  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  Returning  to 
Richmond  he  accepted  a  professorship  in  Earlham  College,  which  had  been 
chartered  in  that  name  in  the  meantime.  This  position  he  held  for  four 
years,  when,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  resigned  and  entered  upon  edu- 
cational work  among  the  Friends  in  North  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  in  which 
he  continued  for  three  years.      Representing  the   Baltimore  Association  of 


192  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENErALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Friends,  he  looked  after  the  education  of  the  children  of  Friends  in  different 
parts  of  the  state,  and  introduced  the  first  normal  school  in  North  Carolina. 

In  1869  he  was  honored  by  being  called  to  the  presidency  of  Earlham 
College,  where,  for  fourteen  consecutive  years,  he  earnestly  strove  to  pro- 
mote the  efficiency  and  high  standing  of  the  institution.  Beyond  all  ques- 
tion he  was  successful  in  this  noble  endeavor,  and  for  years  it  has  been  the 
proud  boast  of  many  of  the  citizens  of  this  section  that  Earlham  College  is 
their  a/ma  jnatcr.  While  President  Moore  was  at  the  head  of  the  college  it 
received  its  first  endowment  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  In  1883  he  once  more 
withdrew  from  the  college,  on  account  of  his  health,  and  went  to  North  Car- 
olina, where  a  year  later  he  became  the  principal  of  the  Friends'  school  at 
New  Garden,  Guilford  county.  He  occupied  that  position  for  four  years  and 
materially  aided  in  the  organization  of  what  is  now  known  as  Guilford  Col- 
lege. Since  1888  he  has  held  the  chair  of  geology  and  botany  in  Earlham 
College  and  has  been  the  curator  of  the  justly  celebrated  museum.  In  1853 
he  began  the  collection  of  specimens  used  in  his  studies,  and  those  specimens 
were  really  the  nucleus  of  the  present  fine  museum,  considered  one  of  the 
most  comprehensive  and  useful  of  any  in  the  state.  In  his  trips  to  the  south 
and  to  New  England,  wherever  he  went,  to  the  mountains  or  sea-shore,  on 
the  plains  or  in  the  valleys,  he  found  most  interesting  treasures,  which  he 
has  donated  to  the  museum.  Lindley  Hall,  built  in  1888,  was  constructed 
with  due  regard  for  the.  storing  and  classification  of  the  material  he  had 
gathered  and  of  which,  from  the  first,  he  has  been  in  charge.  In  1 874  he 
went  to  the  Hawaiian  islands  and  returned  with  an  extensive  collection  of 
corals,  shells  and  plants,  together  with  implements  and  various  things  used 
by  the  natives.  He  delivered  about  forty  lectures  here  and  there,  on  his 
travels  and  collections. 

In  1862  Professor  Moore  was  married  to  Deborah  A.  Stanton,  who  died 
two  years  later,  leaving  a  son,  Joseph  Edward.  In  1872  the  marriage  of  the 
Professor  and  Mary  Thorne,  of  Selma,  Ohio,  was  celebrated,  and  their  four 
children  are  Anna  M.,  Grace  E.,  Lucy  H.  and  Willard  E. 

HON.   SAMUEL  S.   HARRELL. 

The  profession  of  the  law,  when  clothed  with  its  true  dignity  and  purity 
and  strength,  must  rank  first  among  the  callings  of  men,  for  law  rules  the 
universe.  The  work  of  the  legal  profession  is  to  formulate,  to  harmonize,  to 
regulate,  to  adjust,  to  administer  those  rules  and  principles  that  underlie  and 
permeate  all  government  and  society  and  control  the  varied  relations  of  man. 
As  thus  viewed,  there  attaches  to  the  legal  profession  a  nobleness  that  can- 
not but  be  reflected  in  the  life  of  the  true  lawyer,  who,  conscious  of  the  great- 
ness of  his  profession  and  honest  in  the  pursuit  of  his  purpose,  embraces  the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  lOST 

richness  of  learning,  the  profoundness  of  wisdom,  the  firmness  of  integrity  and 
the  purity  of  morals,  together  with  the  graces  of  modesty,  courtesy  and  the 
general  amenities  of  life.  A  prominent  representative  of  the  bar  of  eastern 
Indiana  is  Samuel  S.  Harrell,  of  Brookville,  who  is  also  accounted  one  of  the: 
political  leaders  of  this  section  of  the  state. 

He  was  born  in  Fairfield  township,  Franklin  county,  January  iS,  1838",. 
and  is  a  son  of  Stephen  S.  and  Ruth  (Schooley)  Harrell.  His  grandfather,. 
Chester  Harrell,  was  a  pioneer  farmer  of  Franklin  county,  and  Stephen  S.- 
Harrell,  born  in  the  county,  was  a  successful  teacher,  farmer  and  lawyer:. 
Samuel  S.  Harrell  remained  upon  his  father's  farm,  in  Fairfield  township, 
until  eighteen  years  of  age,  acquiring  through  the  medium  of  the  district 
schools  the  foundation  of  an  education  to  which  he  has  since  continually- 
added  by  study,  reading  and  observation.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1855-6 
as  a  student  in  the  Brookville  College  and  in  i860  began  teaching  school. 
Desiring,  however,  to  make  the  practice  of  law  his  life  work,  he  began  prep- 
aration for  the  bar  in  the  office  and  under  the  direction  of  Dan  D.  Jones, 
then  an  attorney  of  Brookville,  and  a  year  later  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In 
1862  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  seventh  judicial  circuit,  on 
the  Democratic  ticket,  and  served  two  years.  He  then  resumed  the  private 
practice  of  law  and  thus  continued  until  1867,  when  he  was  elected  clerk  of 
the  circuit  court  of  Franklin  county.  By  re-election  he  was  continued  im 
that  office  for  two  terms,  or  eight  years,  after  which  he  again  began  practice, 
his  ability  soon  winning  him  a  distinctively  representative  clientage.  FronD 
the  beginning  of  his  career  as  a  legal  practitioner  his  efforts  have  beem 
attended  with  success.  He  has  largely  mastered  the  science  of  jurisprudence, 
and  his  deep  research  and  thorough  preparation  of  every  case  committed  to 
his  care  enable  him  to  meet  at  once  any  contingency  that  may  arise.  His 
cause  is  fenced  about  with  unanswerable  logic,  and  his  arguments  are  strong, 
clear,  decided  and  follow  each  other  in  natural  sequence,  forming  a  chain  of 
reasoning  that  his  opponent  finds  very  difficult  to  overthrow. 

His  ability  has  led  to  his  selection  for  public  honors,  and  in  1SS5  he  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature,  where  he  served  for  eight  consecutive  j'ears. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  assembly  and  was  instrumental  irt 
securing  the  adoption  of  many  measures  which  have  proved  of  great  benefit 
to  the  public.  Largely  through  his  instrumentality  the  free- turnpike  law, 
the  Australian  ballot  law,  the  school-book  law  and  the  tax  law  were  passed. 
He  has  always  been  an  ardent  and  active  Democrat,  has  served  as  a  member 
of  the  state  central  committee  of  his  party,  and  for  the  past  four  years  has- 
been  chairman  of  the  county  central  committee,  filling  that  position  at  the 
present  writing. 

On  the  7th  of  December,  1873,  Mr.  Harrell  was   united   in  marriage  to- 


194  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Miss  Sarah  F.  Carmichael,  and  they  have  two  children,  HalHe,  a  graduate 
of  DePauw  University,  and  Edna,  now  in  school.  Mrs.  Harreli,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  ladies  of  the  state,  is  mentioned  in  the  following  article.  Mr. 
Harreli  ranks  high  at  the  bar  and  in  political  circles,  and  Brookville  numbers 
him  among  her  leading  and  influential  citizens. 

MRS.   SARAH  C.   HARRELL. 

To  those  at  all  familiar  with  the  educational  interests  of  Indiana,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Carmichael  Harreli  needs  no  introduction,  for  her  efforts  in  behalf  of 
the  public  schools  have  gained  her  a  reputation  not  confined  to  the  limits  of 
Indiana,  and  her  labors  in  connection  with  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
won  her  national  fame.  In  all  that  tends  to  the  intellectual  and  moral 
advancement  of  the  race  she  takes  a  deep  interest,  and  her  zeal  has  been  of 
that  practical  kind  that  secured  results  immediate  and  beneficial.  Brookville 
may  well  be  proud  to  claim  her  as  a  daughter,  for  her  career  has  been  one 
which  reflects  honor  upon  her  native  town. 

Mrs.  Harreli  was  born  January  8,  1844,  a  daughter  of  Noah  and  Edith 
(Stoops)  Carmichael.  Her  father,  a  native  of  Tennessee,  came  to  Franklin 
county  at  an  early  day  and  was  a  pioneer  merchant  and  stock  dealer  here. 
His  wife  was  born  in  Brookville,  but  her  father,  William  Stoops,  was  born 
in  Kentucky,  and  became  identified  with  the  agricultural  interests  of  this 
community  at  an  early  period  in  the  development  of  the  state.  Mrs.  Har- 
reli was  reared  in  Brookville  and  received  but  limited  educational  privileges. 
Having  attended  the  common  schools,  she  pursued  her  studies  for  a  short 
time  in  the  Brookville  College,  but  at  the  age  of  fifteen  she  began  teaching 
and  followed  that  profession  for  twelve  years,  in  Brookville  and  in  Ottumwa, 
Iowa.  She  was  employed  mostly  in  the  grammar  grades  and  was  very  suc- 
cessful in  her  work,  having  the  faculty  of  imparting  clearly  and  readily  to 
others  the  knowledge  she  had  acquired.  She  has  always  been  an  earnest 
student,  her  reading  embracing  all  classes  of  historical  and  scientific  research, 
.together  with  the  classics  of  ancient  and  modern  literature. 

In  1873  she  became  the  wife  of  Samuel  S.  Harreli,  then  clerk  of  the 
■court,  and  while  her  interest  has  centered  in  her  home  and  in  the  education 
of  their  cultured  daughters,  Hallie  and  Edna,  the  former  a  graduate  of 
DePauw  University,  she  has  nevertheless  given  the  benefit  of  her  services  to 
the  promotion  of  intellectual  and  reform  interests.  She  attended  the  State 
Teachers'  Association  in  order  to  help  forward  every  good  movement,  such 
as  teachers'  and  children's  reading  circles,  and  of  the  results  of  her  labors  in 
this  direction  she  has  every  reason  to  be  proud.  The  work  accomplished 
through  these  circles  has  been  marvelous,  bringing  a  knowledge  of  good  and 
suitable  literature  into   many  homes  where   otherwise   it   would  have   been 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  195 

unknown.  She  herself  has  taken  a  course  in  the  Chautauqua  Reading  Circle 
and  received  about  twenty-five  seals  for  post-graduate  work.  She  has  contin- 
ued her  own  studies  without  interruption  and  most  systematically,  and  her 
superior  scholarly  attainments  rank  her  among  Indiana's  most  cultured  daugh- 
ters. During  her  husband's  eight-years  service  in  the  general  assembly  she 
formed  an  extended  acquaintance  among  the  most  prominent  people  of  the 
state  and  was  called  to  fill  many  positions  requiring  marked  ability  and 
foresight. 

In  1 891  Mrs.  Harrell  was  appointed,  by  Governor  Hovey,  a  member  of 
the  Indiana  Columbian  Exposition  Board  and  was  chosen  a  member  of  the 
committee  on  education  and  on  woman's  work,  but  gave  most  of  her  time 
and  energy  to  the  first  named,  in  the  department  of  literature  and  school 
work.  As  secretary  of  the  educational  committee  she  worked  almost  day 
and  night  for  many  months,  until  every  plan  was  before  the  teachers  of  the 
state  and  a  free  and  full  correspondence  was  opened  up  from  every  quarter. 
The  scheme  for  raising  money,  known  as  the  penny  fund,  was  entirely  her 
own,  and  resulted  in  securing  the  funds  necessary  to  carry  on  a  work  which 
at  first  seemed  almost  impossible  to  accomplish,  on  account  of  the  lack  of 
money.  In  the  report  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
appeared  the  following:  "Under  the  determined,  public-spirited  and  skillful 
managment  of  Mrs.  S.  S.  Harrell,  secretary  of  the  committee  on  education, 
the  literary  exhibit  of  the  state  of  Indiana  proved  to  be  one  of  the  most 
popular  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  instructive  and  creditable  exhibits  made 
by  the  state.  At  one  time  it  was  feared  that  this  important  feature  of  the 
■work  of  the  committee  would  have  to  be  abandoned,  but  Mrs.  Harrell,  with 
rare  disinterestedness,  indefatigable  energy  and  clear-sighted  tact,  overcame 
all  obstacles,  stimulated  active  co-operation  out  of  apparent  indifference,  and 
secured  an  exhibit  which,  though  not  complete  in  all  details,  proved  clearly 
that  in  literary  activity,  as  well  as  in  literary  achievement,  the  state  of 
Indiana  takes  among  the  sisterhood  of  states  a  rank  of  which  her  citizens 
may  well  be  proud.  Mrs.  Harrell  arranged,  in  a  case  convenient  of  access, 
hundreds  of  volumes  from  the  pen  of  Indiana's  gifted  sons  and  daughters. 
In  suitable  portfolios  the  numerous  periodical  publications  of  the  state  were 
displayed,  and  convenient  tables  and  racks  were  filled  with  the  current  daily 
and  weekly  publications.  The  reading  room  of  the  Indiana  State  Building, 
in  which  these  displays  were  made,  was  one  of  the  chief  points  of  interest  for 
visitors  from  Indiana  and  other  states. "  The  realding  room  was  under  the 
direct  supervision  of  Mrs.  Harrell,  and  her  genial  and  social  qualities  there 
displayed  greatly  endeared  her  to  the  people  of  her  state. 

In  the  state  superintendent's  report  there  also  appeared  an  account  of 
the  "penny  fund,"  which  was  so  popular  and  practical  that  it  was  adopted 


196  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

by  many  other  states:  "  Unfortunately,  as  it  seemed  at  first, — fortunately 
as  it  ultimately  proved, — the  financial  means  for  an  educational  exhibit  were 
lacking.  This  of  itself,  unless  remedied,  must  always  prove  fatal  to  such  an 
undertaking.  A  practical,  popular  and  sufficient  plan  must  be  devised  at 
the  outset  for  meeting  the  necessary  expenditures  in  procuring  and  manag- 
ing an  exhibit  such  as  would  prove  really  representative  of  and  creditable  to 
the  state.  Happily,  such  a  plan  was  quickly  conceived  and  promptly  exe- 
cuted. For  this  we  were  indebted  to  a  cultured  and  efficient  lady,  a  former 
teacher,  who  was  appointed  one  of  the  lady  commissioners  of  the  exposition, 
for  Mrs.  S.  S.  Harrell,  of  Brookville,  whose  name  is  associated  with  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and  with  educational  and  literary 
work  in  various  forms,  submitted  a  comprehensive  plan."  This  was  carried 
into  effect  and  proved  most  successful.  The  plan  was  that  the  fourth  Friday 
in  November,  1891,  and  the  nth  of  February,  1892,  should  be  set  apart  as 
Exposition  days,  on  which  a  programme  of  patriotic,  historical  and  social 
exercises  was  to  be  rendered  in  every  school  throughout  the  state.  On  each 
of  those  days  a  collection  was  taken,  as  follows:  From  the  pupils,  one  cent 
each;  from  the  teachers,  ten  cents;  from  the  principals  of  high  schools, 
twenty-five  cents;  from  county  superintendents,  city  superintendents,  town- 
ship trustees  and  members  of  school  boards  of  towns  and  cities,  and  college 
professors  and  presidents,  fifty  cents.  "The  result  of  Mrs.  Harrell's  plan," 
continues  the  report  from  which  we  have  quoted,  "has  become  a  proverb 
throughout  the  nation.  'Penny  funds'  were  collected  in  other  states,  and 
secured,  in  one  notable  instance,  the  exhibition  of  a  remarkable  statue,  the 
Hiawatha  and  Minnehaha,  in  the  Minnesota  building.  The  exposition  days 
were  generally  followed  as  proposed  in  the  circular,  and  in  many  schools 
unique  and  original  entertainments  were  devised.  The  year  was  one  of  happy 
memories  in  every  school  in  Indiana.  To  Mrs.  Harrell,  whose  patriotic  fore- 
sight provided  the  plan,  and  whose  labors  and  wide-reaching  influence  carried 
it  through  to  its  consummation,  the  schools  of  the  state  owe  a  debt  of  grati- 
tude which  is  not  likely  to  be  underestimated  or  forgotten.  The  total  amount 
of  the  penny  fund  turned  over  by  the  treasurer  of  the  educational  committee 
was  four  thousand  seven  hundred  and  thirty-one  dollars  and  fifty-two  cents, 
and  the  total  amount  expended  in  preparation  for  the  Indiana  educational 
exhibit  was  four  thousand  two  hundred  and  sixty-eight  dollars  and  fifteen 
cents.  The  surplus  amount  has  been  turned  over  by  the  committee  to  the 
battle-ship  Indiana  fund  to  be  used  toward  the  purchase  of  a  library. " 

As  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  Mrs.  Har- 
rell served  for  two  years  as  superintendent  of  the  department  of  scientific 
temperance  in  the  public  schools,  and  pressed  the  subject  so  closely,  by  per- 
sonal solicitations  and  the  distribution  of  many  hundreds  of  petitions,  that  in 


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the  general  assembly  of  1895  a  bill  was  passed  making  it  obligitory  to  teach 
the  injurious  effects  of  alcohol  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system.  She 
has  never  felt  any  interest  in  the  suffrage  movement,  having  views  peculiar 
to  herself  in  regard  to  woman's  position  and  usefulness, — the  chief  of  which 
is:  "  If  she  does  the  very  best  she  can  with  the  responsibilities  lying  near- 
est her,  honors  will  come,  opportunities  will  open  up  for  her  to  exercise  a 
more  powerful  and  perhaps  better  influence  than  with  the  ballot  in  hand." 
However,  she  has  no  word  of  condemnation  for  the  woman  who  "  womanly  " 
thinks  or  moves  otherwise. 

Mrs.  Harrell  is  a  writer  of  superior  ability,  clearness,  force  and  beauty,  and 
has  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  floral  and  household  magazines  and 
educational  journals;  yet  has  no  ambition  as  an  author.  A  contempora- 
neous biographer  said  of  her:  "  Over  the  signature  of  Citizen,  at  the  age  of 
sixteen,  she  furnished  a  series  of  letters  to  the  local  press,  so  showing  up  the 
management  of  the  liquor  traffic,  the  boldness  of  so-called  moral  and  relig- 
ious men  in  its  patronage,  etc.,  that  such  an  awakening  to  its  evil  influences 
was  created  as  had  not  been  stirred  up  for  years.  Her  circular  letters  in  the 
preparation  and  management  of  her  Columbian  Exposition  duties  and  the 
preliminary  work  leading  up  to  the  enactment  of  a  scientific  temperance-edu- 
cation law  were  models  of  clear  and  comprehensive  composition,  possible  to 
none  but  those  of  a  ready  pen  and  clear  thought.  Her  letters  of  travel  and 
those  pertaining  to  the  progress,  completion  and  final  work  of  the  Columbian 
Exposition  appeared  in  many  of  the  newspapers  of  southeastern  Indiana. 
Her  essays  and  papers  on  various  topics  have  been  voluminous,  covering  a 
period  from  her  sixteenth  year  to  the  present  time." 

Mrs.  Harrell's  ancestry  were  Scotch  Presbyterians,  and  from  her  youth 
she  has  been  an  active  worker  in  the  church.  Her  last  public  labor,  and  to 
her  a  very  dear  one,  was  the  opening  of  a  reading  room  for  boys.  In  this  she 
was  associated  with  a  few  other  ladies  of  her  native  town.  She  watches  over 
this  enterprise  with  great  interest,  delighted  with  the  good  already  accom- 
plished. Who  can  measure  the  influence  of  her  labors  in  this  and  other 
directions.'  The  center  of  a  happy  home  circle,  she  has  also  extended  the 
field  of  her  endeavors,  and  many  people  have  been  benefited  and  blessed 
thereby.  Her  strong  mentality  and  intellectual  attainments,  her  broad  sym- 
pathy and  charity  and  her  pleasing  social  qualities  'have  rendered  her  very 
popular  and  won  her  the  love  of  many  with  whom  she  has  been  associated  in 
the  active  pursuits  of  life. 

JOHN  MILTON  HIGGS. 
For  forty  years  this  gentleman  has  been  a  resident  of  Connersville  and 
for  a  third  of  a  century  has  been   connected  with  its  journalistic  interests  as 


198  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Examiner,  one  of  the  leading  Democratic  papers 
in  Indiana.  He  was  born  in  Frankhn  county,  four  miles  west  of  Brookville, 
April  5,  1842,  a  son  of  George  and  Melinda  (Irwin)  Higgs.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  William  Higgs,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  came  to  Indiana 
at  an  early  day,  and  spent  his  last  years  in  Franklin  county.  By  occupation 
he  was  a  farmer.  The  father  of  our  subject,  a  native  of  Franklin  county, 
also  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  as  a  life  work.  For  five  years  previous 
to  his  death  he  resided  in  Connersville,  where  he  died  July  29,   1895. 

Under  the  parental  roof  John  M.  Higgs  was  reared  to  manhood,  acquir- 
ing his  education  in  the  common  schools  and  in  the  Brookville  high  school. 
He  put  aside  his  text-books  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  in  order  to  learn  the 
more  difficult  lessons  in  the  school  of  experience  and  obtained  his  first  busi- 
ness training  in  the  office  of  the  Brookville  Democrat,  where  he  remained 
for  seven  years,  thoroughly  mastering  the  business  in  all  its  details.  Forty 
years  ago  he  came  to  Connersville,  and  established  a  paper  called  the  Con- 
nersville Telegraph,  which  he  published  for  two  and  a  half  years.  The 
country  then  became  engaged  in  the  civil  war,  and  on  the  i8th  of  September, 
1 86 1,  he  responded  to  the  call  for  troops,  enlisting  as  a  member  of  the 
Forty-first  Regiment,  Second  Indiana  Cavalry,  under  command  of  Colonel 
John  A.  Bridgeland.  He  was  made  quartermaster-sergeant  of  Company 
L,  and  served  for  three  years  and  nine  days,  during  which  time  he  partici- 
pated, with  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Perryville, 
Chickamauga  and  Stone  river,  together  with  many  skirmishes.  The  com- 
mand was  surrendered  by  General  Johnson,  at  Gallatin,  Tennessee,  but  his 
company  managed  to  get  away. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Higgs  went  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  was 
employed  on  the  Indianapolis  Sentinel  and  Gazette.  The  Democrats  of 
Fayette  county,  however,  wanted  a  paper,  and  he  returned  to  Connersville, 
where  he  issued  the  first  copy  of  the  Examiner,  December  24,  1867.  A 
contemporary  publication  spoke  of  the  paper  as  follows:  "The  Examiner 
was  established  in  1867.  It  was  at  a  time  when  the  country  was  still 
involved  in  the  results  of  the  civil  war,  when  the  great  questions  agitating 
the  public  were  those  of  reconstruction,  a  settlement  of  the  public  debt  and 
providing  a  safe  currency.  The  Examiner  took  the  extreme  Democratic  view 
on  all  these  questions,  and  soon  became  a  noted  Democratic  organ.  It  had 
its  times  of  trial  and  its  seasons  of  prosperity,  like  all  the  other  papers  of 
that  time,  but  in  the  main  its  life  has  been  prosperous,  and  to-day  it  ranks 
among  the  ablest  Democratic  papers  of  the  state.  It  has  always  been  a 
friend  of  Connersville,  and  much  of  the  prosperity  of  the  little  city  is  due  to 
the  progressive  spirit  of  this  journal.  In  1887  a  daily  was  also  pub- 
lished, and  Mr.  Higgs  now  issues  both  the  daily  and  weekly  edition,  having  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  199 

large  circulation  extending  to  every  state  in  the  Union 'and  also  to  Europe. 
Its  advertising  patronage  is  extensive  and  its  success  is  well  merited." 

Mr.  Higgs  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Kate  T.  Davis,  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  A.  M.  Davis,  who  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  October  31, 
1 86 1.  Mr.  Higgs  is  a  member  of  Connersville  Post,  No.  126,  G.  A.  R. ,  and 
in  Democratic  circles  he  has  been  a  very  prominent  factor,  doing  all  in  his 
power  to  promote  the  growth  and  insure  the  success  of  his  party.  He  was 
appointed  postmaster  by  President  Cleveland  in  both  of  his  administrations, 
filling  the  office  altogether  for  seven  years.  He  has  served  three  times  as  a 
member  of  the  city  council  and  for  two  terms  as  secretary  of  the  scliool 
board.  In  1872  he  received  the  nomination  for  county  treasurer,  and 
obtained  the  largest  vote  ever  cast  for  a  Democratic  candidate  in  the  county 
up  to  that  time,  but  was  defeated  by  ninety-nine  votes.  His  public  duties 
have  ever  been  discharged  with  marked  promptness  and  fidelity,  and  during 
his  long  residence  in  Connersville  he  has  been  very  closely  connected  with  its 
progress  and  advancement,  supporting  all  measures  for  the  public  good. 

BENJAMIN  MOORMAN. 

As  one  reviews  the  history  of  the  county  and  looks  into  the  past  to  see 
who  were  prominent  in  its  early  development,  he  will  find  that  almost 
throughout  the  entire  century  the  name  of  Moorman  has  been  closely  con- 
nected with  the  progress  and  advancement  of  this  section  of  the  state.  For 
eighty-two  years  Benjamin  Moorman  of  this  review  has  been  a  resident  of 
Wayne  county.  Wild  was  the  region  into  which  he  came  when  a  boy  of 
eight  years.  Its  forests  stood  in  their  primeval  strength,  the  prairie  land  was 
still  unbroken,  and  the  Indians  still  roamed  through  the  dense  woods,  seek- 
ing the  deer  and  lesser  game  which  could  be  had  in  abundance.  From  that 
early  period  Benjamin  Moorman  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
history  of  eastern  Indiana,  and  now  in  his  declining  years  he  is  living  retired 
in  Richmond,  crowned  with  the  veneration  and  respect  which  should  ever  be 
accorded  an  honorable  old  age. 

He  was  born  in  Richmond  county,  North  Carolina,  August  21,  1809. 
His  parents  were  also  natives  of  the  same  county,  where  four  of  their  sons 
were  born,  while  three  were  born  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana.  Of  this  num- 
ber only  two  are  living,  Benjamin  and  Jesse,  the  latter  a  resident  of  Miami 
county,  this  state.  In  1 816  the  parents  removed  with  their  children  to  High- 
land county,  Ohio,  and  a  year  later  came  to  the  Hoosier  state,  locating 
twelve  miles  north  of  Richmond,  in  what  is  now  Franklin  township,  Wayne 
county.  Their  farm  comprises  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  which 
had  been  entered  from  the  government  by  Archibald  Moorman,  tha  grand- 
father of  our  subject,  who  paid  for  it  the  usual  price  of  a  dollar  and  a  quarter 


200  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

per  acre.  He  lived  upon  the  place  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1830. 
He  was  a  Quaker  in  religious  belief  and  a  leading  member  of  the  church. 
His  life  was  most  honorable  and  upright,  and  commanded  the  respect  of  all 
who  knew  him.  John  Moorman,  the  father  of  our  subject,  after  a  few  years' 
residence  in  Wayne  county,  removed  to  Amboy,  Miami  county,  Indiana, 
where  his  death  occurred  about  1887. 

Upon  the  old  family  homestead  in  Franklin  township,  however,  Benja- 
min Moorman  spent  his  boyhood  days.  He  was  reared  by  his  grandfather, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  the  latter's  death,  after  which  he  made  his 
home  with  his  uncle,  Benjamin,  upon  the  same  farm  until  the  latter  also 
passed  away.  When  he  came  to  Indiana  this  entire  region  was  an  almost 
unbroken  wilderness  and  the  first  home  of  the  family  was  a  little  log  cabin. 
Neighbors  were  miles  apart  and  it  seemed  improbable  that  cizilization  would 
soon  transform  the  district  into  beautiful  homes  and  fine  farms,  while  towns 
and  villages  would  bring  into  the  region  all  the  industrial  and  commercial 
interests  common  in  the  east.  As  time  passed  and  the  land  was  cleared  and 
developed,  improvements  were  added  to  the  farm,  the  little  cabin  home  was 
replaced  by  a  commodious  one  of  more  modern  construction,  and  all  the 
accessories  and  conveniences  of  the  model  farm  of  the  nineteenth  century 
were  added.  Indians  were  frequently  seen,  and  some  years  passed  before 
they  retreated  into  the  west  before  the  oncoming  tide  of  civilization.  Turkeys, 
squirrels  and  all  kinds  of  wild  game  were  plentiful,  and  Mr.  Moorman  has 
shot  as  many  as  a  hundred  deer  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home.  As  a  boy 
he  frequently  rode  to  the  then  little  town  of  Richmond,  carrying  with  him  a 
grist.  He  was  very  much  afraid  of  the  wolves,  which  were  quite  common, 
often  carrying  off  the  farmyard  animals  and  making  the  night  hideous  with 
their  howls.  He  also  performed  his  part  in  the  arduous  task  of  clearing  the 
land,  plowing,  and  planting  the  crops,  and  for  eighty-one  long  years  was 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  on  the  old  family  homestead  in  Franklin 
township. 

In  1835  Mr.  Moorman  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Anna  Turner.  He 
brought  his  bride  to  the  old  homestead,  and,  in  addition  to  managing  the 
farm,  he  began  dealing  in  live  stock,  handling  cattle,  horses,  sheep  and  hogs. 
For  fifty  years  he  carried  on  business  along  that  line  and  was  one  of  the  most 
extensive  and  best  known  stock  dealers  in  Wayne  county.  An  excellent 
judge  of  stock,  he  found  this  a  profitable  source  of  income,  and  gained 
thereby  a  handsome  capital.  As  he  approached  the  western  slope  of  life,  he 
laid  down  his  cares,  and  in  1885  retired  from  all  business  duties,  but  con- 
tinued to  live  upon  the  farm  until  1897,  when  he  removed  to  Richmond, 
where  he  is  now  making  his  home.  His  own  industry  and  enterprise  in 
former  years  now  enable  him  to  secure  all  the  comforts  of  life. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  201 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moorman  had  no  children  of  their  own,  but  their  kindness 
prompted  them  to  furnish  homes  to  four  little  ones.  They  reared  Ruth 
Frazer,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  David  Pyle,  of  Franklin  township,  Wayne 
county  ;  John  W.  Turner,  who  is  now  the  present  county  treasurer  of  Wayne 
county  and  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen  ;  Emma  Turner,  a  sister  of 
John,  who  became  the  wife  of  Reuben  Rich,  of  Richmond,  and  died,  leaving 
a  son,  Morrison  D.,  whom  they  also  reared. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Moorman  was  a  stanch  Democrat  of  the  Jacksonian 
school  and  a  leader  of  his  party  in  the  neighborhood,  but  his  opposition  to 
slavery  led  him  to  espouse  the  cause  of  the  new  Republican  party  in  1856, 
and  he  has  since  been  one  of  its  stalwart  advocates.  He  has  long  been  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Friends'  meeting,  and  for  the  past  thirty  years  has 
been  a  deacon  of  the  New  Garden  quarterly  meeting.  He  is  an  earnest 
Christian  man,  and  the  teachings  of  the  lowly  Nazarene  have  actuated  his 
life  and  formed  the  principles  upon  which  his  conduct  has  been  based.  He 
has  almost  reached  the  ninetieth  milestone  on  life's  journey.  His  path  has 
been  marked  by  good  deeds,  by  honest  purpose,  by  commendable  industry 
and  worthy  motives,  and  when  the  final  summons  comes  he  will  leave  a 
record  that  is  well  worthy  of  emulation. 

RALPH  A.   PAIGE. 

Ralph  A.  Paige  was  born  in  Ware,  Massachusetts,  August  26,  1825,  and 
died  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  September  23,  1887.  The  ancestry  of  the  family 
can  be  traced  back  to  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when  settle- 
ment was  made  in  Massachusetts  by  ancestors  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
The  grandfather.  Major  James  Paige,  was  a  minute  man  on  the  immortal 
19th  of  April,  1775,  when  American  history  first  began  to  be  made.  His 
immediate  ancestors  were  Benjamin  Paige  and  Mary  Ann  (Magoon)  Paige. 
Benjamin  Paige  saw  service  in  the  Massachusetts  militia,  holding  a  com- 
mission as  lieutenant,  signed  by  Elbridge  Gerry  in  181 1,  and  one  as  lieu- 
tenant colonel  by  Governor  Brooks,  of  Massachusetts,  in  1822. 

Ralph  A.  Paige  was  the  youngest  of  a  large  family  of  children.  In 
1 83 1,  when  he  was  six  years  of  age,  his  parents  decided  to  try  their  fortunes 
in  the  great  and  then  almost  unknown  west.  They  came  out  to  Zanesville, 
Ohio,  where  after  a  short  stay  they  moved  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where 
Benjamin  Paige  for  some  time  kept  hotel,  or  "  tavern,"  as  was  then  the 
usual  method  of  denominating  hotel  business,  at  what  is  now  known  as  the 
northeast  corner  of  Sixth  and  Main  streets.  The  son  Ralph  A.  for  a  brief 
period  during  his  boyhood  days  attended  such  private  schools  as  the  times 
and  country  afforded, — crude  and  imperfect  affairs,  compared  with  the 
system  of  modern  times;  but  the  greater  part  of  his  education   was    obtained 


202  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

through  his  own  industry  and  efforts,  after  his  daily  work  was  finished,  and 
the  midnight  hours  often  found  him  endeavoring  to  overcome  the  want  of 
early  educational  training. 

He  began  his  business  career  at  an  early  age,  first  clerking  for  James 
Morrisson,  Sr.,  a  relative  of  the  well  known  Robert  Morrisson,  donor  of 
Morrisson  Library.  After  some  time  spent  vyith  Morrisson  he  was  employed 
in  the  dry-goods  business  with  James  E.  Reeves,  with  whom  he  was 
associated  later  on  as  partner.  •  In  1846  he  started  a  store  at  Williamsburg, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  but  after  a  short  time  there  returned  to  Richmond, 
where  he  continued  business  with  William  Wilson.  Upon  the  dissolution  of 
this  partnership  he  was  associated  with  his  cousin,  Edwin  C.  Paige,  in  the 
dry-goods  business,  with  whom  he  continued  in  business  until  1853,  when  he 
bought  out  his  partner.  From  this  period  until  the  time  of  his  retirement 
from  active  business  in  1873  he  was  entirely  alone  in  his  business  ventures, 
which  he  carried  on  with  excellent  judgment  and  success. 

In  1853  he  was  married,  at  Centerville,  Indiana,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  McCul- 
lough,  only  child  of  Isaac  W.  McCullough  and  granddaughter  of  Samuel 
McCullough,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Oxford,  Ohio.  Two  children  were 
born  to  them,  Ralmaro  and  Lillian  E.  Fraternally  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  was  an  early  noble  grand  in  the  first  lodge  at 
Richmond, — Whitewater  Lodge.  He  was  also  a  charter  member  of  Oriental 
Encampment,  of  which  he  was  chief  patriarch.  He  also  obtained  the  charter 
and  selected  the  name,  it  being  suggested  to  him  on  account  of  the  situation 
of  Richmond,  in  the  extreme  eastern  part  of  the  state.  Politically  his  first 
vote  was  cast  for  Zachary  Taylor.  Upon  the  formation  of  the  Republican 
party  he  became  one  of  the  original  members  of  that  organization,  with  which 
party  he  continued  to  affiliate.  While  in  no  sense  an  office  seeker  or  poli- 
tician, he  took  great  interest  in  the  political  welfare  of  his  country;  and  his 
extensive  reading  of  political  history  and  his  wonderful  memory  of  events 
and  dates  were  such  that  few  men  were  better  acquainted  with  the  historic 
affairs  of  his  country  than  he. 

Coming  from  New  England  Congregational  religious  training,  his  later 
years  were,  through  family  associations,  more  or  less  Presbyterian.    Though  not 
a  member  of  any  church,  his  religious  beliefs  were  well  grounded,  and  his 
knowledge  and  practice  of   fundamental  religious  principles  were  more  thor- 
ough than  those  of    many    of    more    pretensions.      His    belief  can    best   be 
expressed  by  an  extract  from  a  poem  written  by  himself,  which  we  quote: 
"  When  our  work  on  earth  is  done, 
And  time  shall  veil  our  setting  sun; 
When  the  spirit  shall  leave  its  mortal  mold, 
And  all  the  glories  of  Heaven  behold, — 
Then  the  goal  of  life  is  won." 


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In  his  business  relations  he  was  thoroughly  upright  and  conscientious, 
gentlemanly,  considerate  and  courteous  in  his  personal  and  social  contact, 
and  with  all  mankind  an  honest  man. 

JOHN  W.   BARNES. 

Conspicuous  in  the  roll  of  names  of  men  that  have  conferred  honor  upon 
the  profession  of  journalism  in  Indiana  is  that  of  John  W.  Barnes,  one  of  the 
proprietors  and  editors  of  the  Evening  Item,  of  Richmond.  He  has  a  great 
versatility  of  talents,  and  exactness  and  thoroughness  characterize  all  his 
attainments  and  work.  He  is  a  writer  of  superior  force  and  ability,  while  he 
has  been  an  earnest  worker;  and  in  all  the  relations  of  life  he  is  an  honorable, 
upright  gentleman  who  has  won  the  sincere  respect  of  ail  with  whom  he  has 
come  in  contact. 

A  native  of  Ohio  and  a  son  of  William  W.  and  Eliza  J.  (Littler)  Barnes, 
he  was  born  in  Centerfield,  Highland  county,  on  the  loth  of  January,  1847. 
On  the  paternal  side  the  family  is  of  English  lineage  and  was  founded  in 
Connecticut  as  early  as  1645,  by  ancestors  who  came  from  England,  where 
many  representatives  of  the  family  still  reside. 

William  W.  Barnes,  the  father  of  the  subject  proper  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  near  Danbury,  Connecticut,  in  18 19,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Indiana, 
spending  his  summer  months  on  his  valuable  farm  in  Howard  county  and  the 
winter  seasons  in  the  salubrious  climate  of  Florida.  He  married  Eliza  J. 
Littler,  and  of  their  si.\  children  three  are  living,  of  whom  John  W.  is  the 
eldest.      The  mother  of  these  children  died  in  1890. 

John  W.  Barnes  spent  the  first  ten  years  of  his  life  in  the  county  of  his 
nativity,  and  was  with  the  family  in  their  removal  to  Martinsburg,  Fayette 
county,  Ohio,  where  his  father  was  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  business  for 
two  years.  The  next  removal  of  the  family  was  to  New  Vienna,  that  state. 
When  our  subject  was  seventeen  years  of  age  he  responded  to  his  country's 
call  for  troops,  enlisting  in  Company  G,  One  Hundred  and  Forty-ninth  Ohio 
Infantry,  and  serving  until  the  close  of  the  war.  After  his  mustering  into 
the  service  his  company  was  ordered  direct  to  the  Shenandoah  valley,  attached 
to  Sheridan's  army  and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Monocacy  Junction, 
against  the  troops  of  General  Early,  who  was  advancing  north  on  Washing- 
ton. Although  but  a  boy,  he  was  a  brave  and  loyal  defender  of  the  starry 
banner,  that  is,  the  cause  it  represented;  and  of  his  military  record  he  has 
every  reason  to  be  proud. 

After  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  accompanied  his  father  on  his 
removal  to  Howard  county,  Indiana,  where  he  assisted  in  the  labor  of  clear- 
ing and  developing  a  farm.  He  also  was  employed  in  his  father's  sawmill 
for  two  years,  and  then   turned  his  attention   to   educational   pursuits.      He 


204  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

taught  his  first  term  in  a  log  school-house  in  Howard  township,  in  the  winter 
of  1867-8,  and,  soon  demonstrating  his  ability,  was  entrusted  with  a  more 
important  position,  that  of  first  assistant  in  the  high  school  at  Kokomo.  He 
was  then  offered  a  principalship,  but  declined,  desiring  to  advance  his  own 
education,  which  had  been  abruptly  terminated  by  his  enlistment  in  the  army. 

In  the  fall  of  1869  he  entered  Asbury  University,  now  De  Pauw,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1874.  Then  he  engaged  in  teaching,  in  the  high  schools 
of  Greentown  and  Kokomo,  until  1878,  when  he  was  elected  county  superin- 
tendent of  schools  for  Howard  county,  and  by  re-election  he  served  in  that 
office  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  never  defeated  for  office,  and  his  long 
service  indicates  his  popularity  and  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  the 
people  of  Howard  county. 

In  1878  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  Republican  central  committee 
of  Howard  county  and  served  for  two  years,  at  the  expiration  of  which  period 
he  retired,  as  his  duties  in  that  position  interfered  with  his  labors  as  county 
superintendent.  While  the  incumbent  of  the  latter  office  he  was  selected  by 
Congressmen  Steele  and  Waugh  to  assist  in  conducting  an  examination  for 
cadets  for  West  Point.  In  1883  he  wrote  the  war  history  of  Howard  county. 
In  1S90  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  of  Indiana.  He  discontinued  his  school  work  in  that  year  and 
until  1894,  in  connection  with  his  brother,  George  D.  Barnes,  was  engaged 
in  the  saw  and  planing  mill  business  in  Saline  county,  Illinois,  where  they 
owned  twelve  hundred  acres  of  fine  timber  land. 

In  February,  1894,  Mr.  Barnes  came  to  Richmond  and  assumed  the 
business  management  of  the  Evening  Item.  He  purchased  a  half  interest  in 
the  paper  April  i,  1896,  and  on  the  ist  of  July,  1898,  J.  B.  Gordon  was 
admitted  to  a  partnership,  under  the  firm  name  of  Barnes  &  Gordon. 
These  gentlemen  are  the  present  proprietors  and  publishers  of  the  Item, 
which  is  now  the  leading  paper  of  Richmond.  Since  Mr.  Barnes  became 
connected  with  the  journal  its  circulation  has  greatly  increased,  and  it  now 
has  the  largest  patronage  of  all  papers  published  in  cities  of  the  size  of  Rich- 
mond or  less  in  the  state,  its  subscribers  numbering  two  thousand  and  nine 
hundred.  The  leading  merchants  of  Richmond  all  regard  it  as  the  best 
advertising  medium  in  this  part  of  the  state,  and  it  is  thus  enabled  to  com- 
mand the  highest  rates  for  advertisements.  The  office  is  equipped  with  the 
best  style  of  presses,  the  latest  improved  machinery,  including  linotypes,  and 
accessories  for  turning  out  first-class  work,  while  the  literary  tone  of  the 
paper  equals  that  of  any  journal  in  Indiana.  The  proprietors  are  both  gen- 
tlemen of  high  intellectual  culture. 

In  his  social  connections  Mr.  Barnes  is  a  Mason  and  Knight  of  Pythias. 
He  maintains  pleasant   relations  with  his  old  comrades   through  his  member- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  205 

ship  in  Sol.  Meredith  Post,  No.  55,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  is 
highly  esteemed  by  his  brethren  of  these  fraternities.  His  home  life  also  is 
very  pleasant.  He  was  married  January  9,  1879,  to  Wyoma  A.  Brandon,  of 
Kokomo,  and  they  now  have  two  sons.  Earl  B.  and  Creston  W.  The  former 
was  born  March  17,    1881,  was   graduated   in   the  Richmond   high  school  in 

1898,  the  youngest  boy  in  the  class,  and  is  now  in  his  sophomore  year  in 
Earlham  College.  He  was  a  delegate  at  large  representing  the  Indiana  col- 
leges at  the  Republican  Lincoln  League  state   convention  at  Fort  Wayne  in 

1899,  the  youngest  representative  sent  to  that  convention,  and  was  one  of 
the  three  debaters  selected  by  Earlham  College  to  meet  three  representatives 
from  Indiana  University  in  joint  debate  in  Richmond,  April  21,  1899.  In 
this  debate  the  unanimous  decision  of  the  judges  was  given  to  Earlham 
College. 

J.   BENNETT  GORDON. 

Mr.  Gordon  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Barnes  &  Gordon,  publishers  of 
the  Item,  of  Richmond,  and  is  the  able  and  efficient  editor  of  that  bright  and 
newsy  journal.  He  is  undoubtedly  the  youngest  editor  in  the  state,  and  has 
been  familiar  with  newspaper  work  for  many  years. 

He  is  the  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Nancy  (Bennett)  Gordon,  and  was  born 
in  Dixon  township,  Preble  county,  Ohio,  April  29,  1876.  The  family  from 
which  he  springs  is  of  Scotch-Irish  extraction  and  was  founded  in  this  coun- 
try before  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  locating  in  Guilford  county.  North  Car- 
olina. Charles  Gordon,  our  subject's  grandfather,  was  born  and  reared  to 
manhood  in  that  county,  and  moved  with  the  tide  of  emigration  westward, 
settling  in  Union  county,  Indiana.  He  married  and  brought  up  a  large  num- 
ber of  children,  was  a  prominent  farmer,  owning  a  considerable  extent  of 
land  in  this  state,  and  was  known  as  a  thrifty,  prosperous  man. 

Among  his  children  was  Charles  E.  Gordon,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
who  was  born  in  Union  county,  Indiana,  in  1849.  After  reaching  the  state 
of  manhood  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  in  his  native  county,  and  was 
quite  prosperous.  Later  he  moved  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  where  he  con- 
tinued as  a  farmer  until  1883,  when  he  moved  to  Richmond,  in  order  that 
his  son  might  receive  the  benefit  of  more  thorough  educational  training.  In 
1864  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  Indiana  Cavalry,  Company  D,  and  served 
through  the  war.  In  marriage  he  was  united  with  Miss  Nancy  Bennett,  April 
26,  1873,  who  still  survives  him  and  resides  in  Richmond,  at  which  place  he 
died  April  26,  1885.  His  widow  remarried,  wedding  Arthur  Hazelton  in 
1889. 

J.  Bennett  Gordon  was  an  only  child.  He  entered  the  district  schools  at 
the  age  of  five  years  and  was  instructed  in  them  until  he  was  eight  years  old, 
when  his  parents  removed  to  this  city  and  he  became  a  student  in  the  public 


206  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

schools  here.  He  graduated  in  the  high  school  in  the  class  of  1894,  when 
but  eighteen  years  of  age,  being  one  of  the  four  chosen,  on  account  of  thought 
and  delivery,  to  represent  his  class  on  graduation  day.  He  gave  great  prom- 
ise of  literary  talent  at  an  early  age,  and  when  a  student  in  the  high  school 
he  was  always  prominent  in  every  literary  task  of  his  class.  He  was  active 
in  the  organization  of  the  first  debating  club  in  the  Richmond  high  school. 

After  his  graduation  he  was  given  the  position  of  city  editor  in  the  office 
of  the  Richmond  Telegram,  where  he  showed  that  he  was  a  thorough  mas- 
ter of  the  situation,  and  afforded  the  publishers  of  that  paper  great  satisfac- 
tion by  his  able  management  of  that  department.  In  the  autumn  of  1895  he 
entered  Earlham  College  and  completed  the  regular  literary  course  in  three 
years,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Literature.  While  attend- 
ing to  his  class  work  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  literary  work  of  the 
college,  debates,  etc.,  and  was  regarded  as  the  best  speaker  in  the  class,  of 
which  he  was  president.  He  twice  represented  his  college  in  the  debate 
with  De  Pauw  University,  being  a  member  and  the  leader  of  the  team  which 
captured  the  state  championship  in  forensics.  He  was  also  a  regular  corre- 
spondent of  the  Item. 

Immediately  after  graduating  at  Earlham  he  purchased  an  undivided 
half  interest  in  the  Item,  of  B.  B.  Johnson,  and  took  editorial  charge  July 
I  of  that  year.  The  business  of  the  journal  is  conducted  on  strictly  business 
methods,  and  Mr.  Gordon,  as  editor,  so  well  understands  the  wants  of  the 
reading  public  that  he  publishes  the  news  in  the  most  intelligible  and  attract- 
ive form,  and  has  met  with  ready  appreciation  and  extended  patronage. 
The  Item  is  to-day  the  leading  paper  in  this  part  of  the  state.  It  is  a  power 
in  the  Republican  ranks,  is  bold  and  fearless  in  its  utterances  of  the  truth, 
and  its  influence  can  hardly  be  overestimated. 

Mr.  Gordon  is  one  of  the  most  active  and  intelligent  workers  of  the 
Republican  party  in  this  state,  and  is  destined  to  become  a  leader.  He  is 
the  president  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club  of  Richmond,  and  has 
been  a  speaker  in  the  cause  for  several  years.  In  1896  he  "  stumped  "  the 
sixth  congressional  district  of  Indiana,  delivering  fifty-six  speeches  in  six 
weeks  during  the  campaign.  Two  years  later  he  was  under  the  direction  of 
the  state  committee  and  was  sent  to  "stump"  the  sixth  congressional  dis- 
trict and  southern  Indiana.  As  a  speaker  he  is  argumentative  and  convinc- 
ing, being  known  as  a  "vote-maker."  He  is  in  frequent  demand  as  the 
orator  of  various  public  gatherings;  and  if  his  career  as  a  public  speaker  is 
unchecked  he  will  be  widely  known  in  the  future  as  an  orator  who  adorned 
the  rostrum,  and  a  scholar  whose  literary  productions  are  models  that  are 
studied  and  appreciated.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  state  convention  of  1898 
and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  credentials   for  his  district.      He  is  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  207 

prominent  member  of  the  Lincoln  League  in  Indiana,  being  a  member  of  the 
state  committee,  representing  the  sixth   congressional   district. 

Mr.  Gordon  is  a  young  gentleman  of  exemplary  habits  and  a  member  of 
the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Richmond.  At  present  he  is 
engaged  with  Professor  Hodgin,  of  Earlham  College,  in  compiling  a  political 
history  of  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  together  with  biographical  sketches  of 
the  county's  most  prominent   politicians. 

JOHN  UHL. 

There  is  no  element  which  has  entered  into  our  composite  national  fab- 
ric which  has  been  of  more  practical  strength,  value  and  utility  than  that  fur- 
nished by  the  sturdy,  persevering  and  honorable  sons  of  Germany,  and  in  the 
progress  of  our  Union  this  element  has  played  an  important  part.  Intensely 
practical,  and  ever  having  a  clear  comprehension  of  the  ethics  of  life,  the 
German  contingent  has  wielded  a  powerful  influence,  and  this  service  can- 
not be  held  in  light  estimation  by  those  who  appreciate  true  civilization  and 
true  advancement. 

Among  the  most  prominent  German-American  citizens  of  this  section  of 
Indiana  is  John  Uhl,  of  Connersville,  who  was  born  near  Heidelberg,  Ger- 
many, June  i6,  1828,  a  son  of  George  and  Catharine  (Miller)  Uhl,  who  spent 
their  entire  lives  in  that  country.  Being  drafted,  the  father  entered 
Napoleon's  army  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  after  the  overthrow  of  that 
great  commander  he  served  seven  years  longer  under  the  Grand  Duke  of 
Hesse-Darmstadt.  He  was  delicate  as  a  youth  and  most  of  his  service  under 
Napoleon  was  in  the  hospital,  where  he  studied  and  practiced  surgery.  After 
the  close  of  his  military  service  he  was  engaged  in  the  grocery  trade,  kept  a 
hotel  and  also  engaged  in  surgical  work,  such  as  cupping,  bleeding  and  setting 
limbs. 

Our  subject  remained  with  his  parents  until  twenty-two  years  of  age 
and  acquired  a  good  education,  attending  first  the  excellent  public  schools  of 
Germany  and  subsequently  a  gymnasium  and  seminary.  Under  his  father  he 
also  learned  something  of  surgery  and  the  grocery  and  hotel  business.  Emi- 
grating to  America  he  landed  in  New  York  city,  June  i,  1850,  and  the  same 
day  started  for  Cincinnati,  which  he  reached  one  week  later.  Being  nearly 
out  of  money,  he  took  up  the  barber's  trade,  which  then  included  cupping, 
bleeding,  etc.,  of  which  he  had  an  excellent  knowledge. 

In  1857  Mr.  Uhl  came  to  Connersville,  Indiana,  and  purchased  an  inter- 
est in  a  brewery,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  two  years.  During  that 
time  he  learned  something  of  coopering  and  started  a  cooper  shop  of  his 
own.  He  soon  established  a  good  business  and  gave  employment  regularly 
to  fourteen  men  for  six  years,  the  product  of  his  plant  finding  a  ready  sale  in 


208  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  home  market,  as  Abraham  B.  Conwell  and  others  were  at  that  time- 
extensively  engaged  in  the  pork-packing  business  and  needed  barrels.  The 
work  was  then  all  done  by  hand.  Mr.  Uhl  is  still  interested  in  the  business, 
which  is  now  conducted  on  a  small  scale.  In  1865  he  embarked  in  the  mill- 
ing business,  operating  with  different  partners  the  Valley  Mills  on  Whitewater 
river,  in  Connersville.  He  has  been  from  that  date  the  leading  spirit  in  the 
business,  which  is  a  large  one,  and  is  now  conducted  under  the  firm  name  of 
Uhl  &  Snyder,  his  son-in-law,  Frederick  Snyder,  being  a  member  of  the 
company.  Mr.  Uhl  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Connersville  Furniture  Com- 
pany and  was  formerly  a  director  in  the  First  National  Bank,  one  of  the 
strong  financial  institutions  of  the  county.  He  is  a  business  man  of  much, 
more  than  ordinary  ability  and  carries  forward  to  successful  completion 
whatever  he  undertakes.  Religiously,  he  is  a  member  of  the  German  Pres- 
byterian church,  and  socially  of  Guttenburg  Lodge,  No.  319,  I.  O.  O.  F. 

In  1850  Mr.  Uhl  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Maria  Elizabeth  Kart- 
sher,  a  native  of  the  same  place  as  her  husband,  and  to  them  were  born  two 
children:  Minnie,  who  married  Frederick  Snyder  and  died  in  1880,  leaving 
two  children;  and  George  W.,  who  died  in  1883,  at  the  age  of  thirty  years. 
He  was  a  bright  young  man  with  seemingly  a  brilliant  future  before  him, 
having  obtained  a  good  English  and  commercial  education.  For  seventeen 
years  he  was  connected  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Connersville,  where 
he  was  serving  as  assistant  cashier  at  the  time  of  his  last  illness.  He  spoke 
and  wrote  both  English  and  German  fluently,  had  a  good  knowledge  of 
French,  and  had  traveled  extensively  over  this  country  and  also  Germany, 
France  and  Italy. 

LELAND  H.   STANFORD. 

Everywhere  in  our  land  are  found  men  who  have  worked  their  own  way 
from  humble  and  lowly  beginnings  to  places  of  leadership,  renown  and  high 
esteem,  and  it  is  still  one  of  the  proudest  boasts  of  our  fair  country  that  such- 
victors  are  accounted  of  thousandfold  more  worth  and  value  to  the  common- 
wealth than  the  aristocrat,  with  his  inherited  wealth,  position  and  distin- 
guished name.  "Through  struggles  to  triumph  "  appears  to  be  the  maxim 
which  holds  sway  over  the  majority  of  our  citizens,  and  though  it  is  undeni- 
ably true  that  many  an  one  falls  exhausted  by  the  conflict,  a  few,  by  their 
inherent  force  of  character  and  strong  mentality,  rise  paramount  to  environ- 
ment and  all  which  sought  to  hinder  them.  Thus  it  has  been  with  the  emi- 
nent member  of  the  bar  of  Liberty,  Indiana,  whose  name  opens  this  biog- 
raphy, and  in  whose  life  history  many  useful  lessons  may  be  gleaned. 

Born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  13,  1848,  he  was  bound  out  at  an  early 
age,  and  when  fifteen  he  ran    away  from  his  employer   and   enlisted  in  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  209 

Sixty-ninth  Otiio  Regiment,  After  serving  in  Sherman's  army  for  two  years 
in  the  defense  of  the  Union,  the  war  was  brought  to  a  close  and  he  was  given 
an  honorable  discharge  at  Camp  Dennison,  July  26,  1865.  The  young  man 
then  went  to  California,  and  on  the  Pacific  coast  he  was  employed  at  various 
callings, — spent  some  time  in  running  sawmills,  and  had  charge  of  a  gang  of 
Chinamen  when  the  Virginia  City  &  Truckee  Railway  was  in  process  of  con- 
struction, and  also  superintended  some  of  the  work  on  the  Central  Pacific 
Railroad.  On  his  trip  to  the  west  he  went  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama, 
but  on  his  return  he  was  enabled  to  come  by  the  recently  completed  railroad 
across  the  country.  He  arrived  in  Indiana  at  the  beginning  of  winter, 
almost  stranded,  without  home,  friends  or  money.  He  wandered  from 
Richmond  to  Liberty,  vainly  seeking  employment  of  any  kind,  and  when 
almost  despairing  he  met  kind-hearted  Frank  Coddington,  who  sent  him  to 
Abner  C.  Beck,  a  farmer  who  had  been  anxious  to  hire  some  one  to  assist  in 
the  management  of  his  homestead.  After  some  argument  and  discussion  Mr. 
Stanford  was  engaged  at  a  salary  of  sixteen  dollars  a  month  and  board,  and 
he  continued  to  reside  on  the  farm  until  November,  1870. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  greatly  surprised  Mr.  Beck  by  marrying  that 
gentleman's  daughter,  Elizabeth  J.  Late  in  the  autumn  of  1870  the  young 
couple  took  up  their  residence  in  Liberty,  where  their  home  has  since  been 
made,  almost  uninterruptedly.  It  had  always  been  a  dream  of  Mr.  Stan- 
ford's that  he  might  some  day  enter  the  legal  profession,  and,  while  he  was 
on  the  farm  he  had  spent  many  an  evening  in  serious  study  and  preparation. 
Admitted  to  the  bar  on  the  2d  of  January,  1871,  he  opened  an  office,  and  in 
earnest  began  the  battle  for  name  and  position,  which  for  some  years  appeared 
to  be  a  hopeless  endeavor.  By  himself  he  had  picked  up  stenography  and  in 
1873  he  took  a  special  course  in  reportorial  work  of  J.  E.  Munson,  who  was 
the  official  stenographer  of  the  surrogate  court  of  New  York.  He  found  that 
this  was  a  great  benefit  to  him,  while  he  was  getting  started  in  the  practice 
of  law.  His  first  legal  encounter  was  in  Brownsville,  where  he  tried  a  case 
before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  this  being  prior  to  the  time  that  he  left  the 
farm.  Practice  came  slowly,  he  was  unknown  and  handicapped  in  many 
material  ways,  but  he  persevered  with  wonderful  determination.  His  father- 
in-law  tried  to  discourage  him  from  continuing  in  the  law  and  gave  Mrs. 
Stanford  ten  acres  of  land,  on  which  was  built  a  small  house.  Our  subject 
carried  on  this  homestead,  working  in  the  early  morning  and  after  his  return 
from  town  studying  hard  every  evening  to  post  himself  further  in  the  law. 
Such  pluck  and  perseverance  deserve  reward  and  success  at  length  came  to 
him,  though  not  until  after  he  had  been  obliged  to  sell  all  but  two  acres  of 
the  little  farm,  and  on  that  remnant  there  was  a  mortgage  of  four  hundred 
dollars. 


210  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  1875  he  removed  to  Lebanon,  Indiana,  where  he  spent  a  3'ear,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  court  reporting  for  a  similar  period  at  Indianapohs,  and 
after  living  in  Connersville  for  another  year  he  returned  to  Liberty.  Having 
won  in  several  cases  of  considerable  note,  Mr.  Stanford  now  found  the  tide 
of  public  favor  turning  in  his  direction,  and  from  that  time  forward  he  pros- 
pered. At  the  present  time  he  is  on  the  top  wave  of  success  and  is  steadily 
pressing  forward  to  yet  greater  achievements. 

In  1880  Mr.  Stanford  was  elected,  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  to  the 
responsible  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  of  this  county  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  two  terms,  having  been  re-elected  at  the  expiration  of  his  first 
term.  He  gave  general  satisfaction  to  all  concerned  and  met  the  require- 
ments of  the  office  with  fidelity  and  ability.  He  has  always  been  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  principles  and  nominees  of  the  Democratic  party,  though  he 
is  not  a  politician.  Among  his  property  interests  are  included  some  seven 
hundred  acres  of  the  best  land  in  Union  county. 

To  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanford,  a  son,  Roscoe  L.,  and  a 
daughter,  Lillian,  were  born.  The  latter  is  the  wife  of  Robert  E.  Barnhart, 
a  graduate  of  the  law  department  of  DePauw  University,  and  now  in  partner- 
ship with  L.  H.  Stanford.  The  domestic  life  of  our  subject  has  been  remark- 
ably happy,  and  in  all  his  reverses  and  discouragements  he  has  had  the  loving 
sympathy  and  advice  of  his  wife,  a  lady  of  true  and  tested  worth. 

J.   D.   KERR,   M.   D. 

A  native  of  Henry  county,  Indiana,  born  December  31,  1863,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  comes  of  a  family  of  physicians,  several  of  whom  have 
attained  distinction  in  the  profession,  and  he  seems  to  have  inherited  in  a 
marked  degree  love  for  the  noble  task  of  succoring  those  laid  low  by  disease 
or  accident. 

Dr.  Kerr,  now  engaged  in  practice  in  Green's  Fork,  Wayne  county,  was 
but  two  years  old  when  his  father,  Daniel  Webster  Kerr,  a  young  man  of  but 
twenty- four  years  of  age, -was  summoned  to  the  silent  land,  in  January,  1866. 
The  child  was  reared  in  the  home  of  his  paternal  grandfather,  Dr.  William 
M.  Kerr,  one  of  the  prominent  and  renowned  physicians  of  Henry  county, 
and  from  his  early  years  was  made  thoroughly  familiar  with  all  departments 
•of  medical  science.  For  two-score  years  or  more  the  grandfather  was 
actively  engaged  in  practice,  and  in  pioneer  days  was  obliged  to  ride  far  and 
wide  to  answer  the  calls  of  distant  patients,  his  own  home  being  in  Stony 
Creek  township. 

After  having  made  excellent  progress  in  his  efforts  to  gain  an  education, 
and  in  1882  having  been  graduated  in  the  high  school  at  New  Castle,  Indiana, 
our  subject  went  to  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  where   he   engaged  in  the  drug  busi- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  211 

ness  with  a  relative,  Dr.  William  H.  Kerr.  At  the  end  of  two  years  he 
returned  to  this  state  end  embarked  in  the  same  line  of  business  in  partner- 
ship with  N.  P.  Carter,  his  paternal  uncle.  After  they  had  been  pleasantly 
and  profitably  associated  together  for  several  years,  Mr.  Carter  withdrew 
from  the  firm  and  Dr.  Kerr  carried  on  the  business  alone.  Many  years  before 
he  had  contemplated  entering  the  medical  profession,  and  had  studied  with 
his  grandfather  and  others,  and  in  the  fall  of  1895  he  matriculated  in  the 
Indiana  Medical  College  at  Indianapolis.  There  he  took  one  course  of  lec- 
tures and  the  following  winter  attended  the  medical  department  of  the  uni- 
versity at  Louisville,  Kentucky.  In  the  spring  of  1898  he  was  graduated  in 
the  Indiana  Medical  College,  with  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine.  Hav- 
ing pursued  a  systematic  course  of  study  and  instruction  under  the  guidance 
of  Dr.  John  A.  Larrabee,  a  celebrated  specialist  in  the  diseases  of  infants 
and  children,  Dr.  Kerr  passed  an  examination  and  was  presented  with  a 
diploma  January  31,  1897.  Thus  thoroughly  prepared,  theoretically  and 
practically,  for  his  professional  work,  the  Doctor  commenced  the  labors  to 
which  he  expected  to  devote  his  best  talents  and  energy.  He  has  won  the 
good  will  of  his  brethren  in  the  profession  and  enjoys  a  large  and  growing 
patronage.  In  1886  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Eva  Reinheimer, 
a  daughter  of  Adam  Reinheimer,  and  to  this  estimable  couple  one  child, 
Blanch  M.,  has  been  born. 

ANDREW  BURGESS. 
Andrew  Burgess,  of  Wayne  township,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  was  born 
in  the  house  in  which  he  now  resides,  April  10,  1833.  His  parents  were 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Burgess.  His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  William 
Bulla.  Samuel  Burgess  was  born  in  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina,  Jan- 
uary 10,  179s,  and  came  to  Indiana  about  the  year  1815  with  his  father, 
John  Burgess,  who  entered  the  tract  of  land  now  owned  by  the  family,  but 
lived  on  an  adjoining  tract  across  the  river.  John  Burgess  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-two  years,  before  the  birth  of  our  subject.  He  had  four  sons — Samuel, 
Jonathan,  Daniel  and  Abner,  and  five  daughters,  all  dead  except  Rebecca 
Griffin,  youngest  daughter;  and  she  is  quite  aged.  Daniel  left  two  children: 
Jennie,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years,  unmarried,  and  Emma, 
the  wife  of  Jesse  Burgess,  her  cousin.  Jonathan  died  at  Green's  Fork  at  the 
age  of  seventy  years,  unmarried.  Samuel  had  made  great  improvements  on 
the  farm  before  his  marriage,  hewing  poplar  logs  with  which  he  constructed 
the  house  some  seventy-five  years  ago.  He  died  in  1S36,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
one  years.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Bulla,  was  born  on  February  27,  1800,  and 
died  in  1858,  twenty  years  after  her  husband.  Their  marriage  was  con- 
tracted in  this  state   and  a  family  of  nine  children  were  born  to  them,  viz.: 


212  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Melinda,  the  wife  of  Oliver  Barber,  living  in  Kansas;  Anna,  who  became  the 
wife  of  John  Park  Voss  and  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-four  years;  John,  who 
spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  on  the  old  homestead  and  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-eight  years;  Mary  Jane,  who  married  Ephraim  Overman  and  died  in 
Kansas,  at  the  age  of  fifty  years;  Eliza,  who  is  the  widow  of  William  Sinex 
and  resides  in  Richmond;  William  Bulla,  who  is  a  farmer  at  Hagerstown; 
Daniel  Milton,  who  also  is  a  farmer  at  the  same  place;  Jesse,  who  resides  on 
part  of  the  old  homestead;  and  Andrew,  our  subject,  who  is  the  youngest  of 
the  family.  After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Burgess  continued  on 
the  farm,  reared  her  family  and  saw  them  all  settled  in  homes  of  their  own. 
John,  her  eldest  son,  was  but  sixteen  years  old  when  his  father  died,  but 
with  his  help  she  ran  the  farm  in  a  highly  creditable  manner.  This  property 
was  not  divided  until  after  her  death.  She  was  an  earnest  Christian  woman 
and  active  worker  in  the  Methodist  church. 

Andrew  Burgess  was  but  three  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 
He  attained  the  years  of  manhood  on  the  farm,  and  as  the  older  sons  grew 
up  and  settled  in  homes  of  their  own,  upon  him  and  his  brother  Jesse  devolved 
the  management  of  the  place  for  some  years  prior  to  the  death  of  their 
mother.  The  farm  then  was  divided  among  the  children,  our  subject  receiv- 
ing as  his  portion  the  house  with  thirty-three  acres  of  ground.  He  joined 
hand  and  heart  with  Miss  Margaret  Sulser  on  April  21,  1858.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Harrison  and  Mary  (Sanderson)  Sulser,  of  Wayne  township.  In 
addition  to  his  farm  labors  he  also  did  considerable  carpenter  work.  He  grew 
large  quantities  of  sorghum  cane  and  was  one  of  the  first  in  this  section  to 
manufacture  it  into  syrup.  He  has  been  engaged  in  this  work  for  the  past 
thirty-five  years  and  has  made  as  much  as  four  thousand  gallons  in  a  single 
season.  In  later  years  he  has  turned  his  attention  to  raising  strawberries, 
which  he  finds  to  be  a  profitable  crop.  In  1880,  after  almost  twenty-two 
years  of  life  together,  his  wife  passed  to  that  better  land,  leaving  him  the 
following  family:  Mattie,  wife  of  Frank  Lough,  of  Richmond;  Ida,  a  teacher 
in  Logansport,  for  six  years  in  the  schools  at  Richmond;  and  Oliver  A.,  who 
lives  at  home  and  helps  with  the  farm.  September  i,  1882,  he  was  married 
to  Mrs.  Essie  Belsham,  widow  of  Arthur  Belsham,  a  bookkeeper.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  William  and  Catherine  (Reynolds)  Pagan,  and  was  born  in  1850, 
in  Williamsburg,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  to  which  place  her  parents  had 
moved  from  New  Jersey  a  few  years  before.  While  she  was  an  infant  they 
located  in  Richmond  and  her  father  kept  the  national  toll  gate  on  the  road 
west  of  the  city.  He  was  in  charge  of  this  until  his  death,  nearly  thirty 
years  afterward,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burgess  have 
one  child,  Howard,  who  is  a  student  in  the  high  school.  Mrs.  Burgess  had 
two  children  by  her  first  marriage:     Alden,  who  was  a  machinist  and  made 


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his  home  with  our  subject  until  his  death  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years;  and 
Bertha,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Burgess  is  a  RepubHcan  in  his  pohtical 
affiliations  and  is  a  man  who  is  highly  esteemed  in  the  community  for  his 
honorable,  upright  life. 

SWAIN  MARSHALL. 

Wayne  county  was  exceptionally  fortunate  in  the  character  of  her  pio- 
neers, who,  save  in  rare  instances,  possessed  the  pluck,  fortitude  and  genius 
of  the  true  Anglo-Saxon, — that  race  which  appears  to  delight  in  difficulties, 
because  thereby  an  opportunity  is  afforded  to  conquer  them.  The  founders 
of  this  county  were  God-fearing,  law-abiding  citizens,  patriotic  and  true  to 
their  native  land,  and  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty  toward 
their  fellow  men. 

Of  such  a  stamp  were  the  ancestors  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  His 
grandparents,  Miles  and  Martha  (Jones)  Marshall,  were  natives  of  North 
Carolina,  the  former  born  in  1789  and  the  latter  in  1792.  They  removed 
from  Tennessee  to  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  in  18 12,  at  first  locating  on 
Green's  Fork,  near  the  present  town  of  the  same  name,  but  after  a  few 
months  had  passed  the  family  returned  to  the  state  whence  they  had  come. 
In  the  fall  of  18 14  they  came  back  and  made  a  settlement  on  Elkhorn  creek, 
in  what  now  is  Boston  township,  and  about  two  years  later  they  came  to  the 
present  township  of  Green.  In  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  Mr.  Marshall 
bought  eighty  acres  of  land  in  Perry  township,  here  making  a  permanent 
home.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  consistent  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  their  lives  being  governed  by  the  noble  principles  of  that  sect.  Mr. 
Marshall  was  recognized  as  a  man  of  superior  ability,  and  frequently  was 
called  upon  to  serve  in  local  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility.  For  fifteen 
consecutive  years  he  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  for  two  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Indiana  legislature.  His  beloved  wife  died  in  1854, 
and  the  following  year  he  went  to  Dallas  county,  Iowa,  where  he  died  in  1868. 
Only  three  of  their  ten  children  survive.  They  were  named  as  follows: 
Thomas;  Mitchell,  who  died  in  1846,  aged  thirty-three  years;  Myra,  who  has 
been  dead  many  years;  Maben,  who  was  born  in  1S17,  died  in  1898;  Minerva, 
born  in  1820,  died  in  1898;  Margaret,  who  died  in  infancy;  Calvin,  born  in 
August,  1824,  and  now  living  in  Dallas  county,  Iowa;  Collins,  born  in  1826, 
was  killed  by  the  bushwhackers  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion;  Miles,  born 
in  1830,  died  in  the  fall  of  1898;- and  Martha,  born  in  1832,  is  a  resident 
dent  of  Dallas,  Iowa. 

Thomas  Marshall,  the  eldest  child  of  his  parents,  was  born  in  Knox 
county,  Tennessee,  December  8,  181 1.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  Perry 
township  for  eighty-three  years,  and  for  sixty-eight  years  has  lived  upon  his 


214  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

homestead,  which  was  entered  from  the  government  by  his  father.  For  one- 
so  well  along  in  years,  he  enjoys  remarkably  good  health,  and  is  sound  in 
mind  and  body.  No  one  in  his  part  of  the  county  is  more  thoroughly 
esteemed,  and  his  life  record  is  without  stain  or  blemish.  For  twenty-two 
years  he  was  a  trustee  of  his  township,  but  he  has  never  sought  public  office, 
preferring  to  lead  a  retired  life.  By  marrying  the  lady  of  his  choice,  one  out- 
side the  Quaker  church,  he  was  promptly  excluded  from  membership;  but, 
firm  in  his  conviction  that  he  was  in  the  right,  he  pursued  the  pathway  he  had 
marked  out  for  himself,  and  has  prospered  in  every  way.  It  was  on  the  3d 
of  November,  1833,  that  his  marriage  to  Miss  Cynthia,  daughter  of  Sylvanus 
and  Rhoda  (Worth)  Swain,  was  celebrated.  She  came  from  North  Carolina 
to  this  county  with  her  parents  in  1824,  and  her  death  occurred  December 
31,  185 1.  The  second  marriage  of  Mr.  Marshall  took  place  on  the  19th  of 
March,  1854,  when  Miss  Elvira  Macy  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Eleanor  (Thornburg)  Macy.  By  the  first  union  there  were  born 
five  children,  namely:  Clayton,  Rhoda,  Swain,  Alonzo  and  Orlando;  and 
of  the  second  marriage,  two  children  were  born, — Cynthia  Ellen  and  Elmer 
Ellsworth.  Three  of  the  sons,  Clayton  (now  a  resident  of  Nebraska),  Swain, 
and  Alonzo  (the  present  auditor  of  Wayne  county),  were  Union  soldiers  in 
the  great  civil  war. 

Swain  Marshall,  whose  birth  occurred  at  the  old  homestead  so  long 
owned  by  his  father,  October  18,  1839,  has  been  numbered  among  the 
worthy  citizens  of  Perry  township  during  his  entire  life, — three-score  years. 
He  early  learned  the  various  details  of  agriculture,  and  as  he  approached 
manhood  he  earnestly  followed  the  stormy  tide  of  events  which  were  lead- 
ine  up  to  the  civil  war.  During  the  summer  which  followed  the  firing  upon 
Fort  Sumter  he  was  plowing  in  the  field  with  oxen,  when  a  neighbor  came 
to  him  and  they  entered  into  discussion  upon  the  subject  of  enlisting  to  fight 
for  the  Union.  History  repeats  itself,  as  the  old  saying  goes,  and  young  Marshall 
immediately  left  his  plow  in  the  field  and  went  to  town,  where  he  enlisted, 
August  20,  1 86 1,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  G,  Eighth  Regiment  of 
Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  Owing  to  the  circumstance  related  above,  he 
received  the  sobriquet  of  Putnam,  and  was  so  called  by  his  comrades  in  the 
ranks.  He  was  mustered  into  the  service  in  the  following  month,  and  was 
sent  to  Springfield,  Missouri,  to  serve  under  command  of  General  Fremont, 
in  the  spring  of  1862.  After  taking  part  in  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  in 
March,  he  and  his  regiment  went  with  General  Curtis  on  an  expedition 
through  Arkansas.  This  march  was  a  long  and  hard  one,  and  Mr.  Marshall 
proceeded  much  of  the  distance  with  bare  feet,  as  many  of  his  comrades  like- 
wise were  compelled  to  do.  In  October,  of  the  same  year,  the  regiment  was 
sent  from  Helena  up  the  Mississippi  river,  and  thence  upon  another  tour  o£ 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  215 

Arkansas,  being  recalled  to  participate  in  the  famous  siege  of  Vicksburg. 
May  1st  it  was  actively  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Grand  Gulf;  May  14th  in  that 
of  Jackson;  Champion  Hills  on  the  i6th,  and  the  fight  at  Black  River  Bridge. 
The  regiment  joined  Grant's  forces  at  Millikin's  Bend,  and  were  among  the 
first  to  invest  the  Confederate  stronghold.  Mr.  MarshalF  was  a  participant 
in  the  famous  charge  on  the  enemy's  works  on  the  22d  of  May,  his  regiment 
suffering  the  loss  of  one  hundred  and  sixteen  men.  Soon  after  the  surrender 
of  Vicksburg,  the  gallant  Eighth  was  sent  to  New  Orleans,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing October  proceeded  to  Texas.  In  January,  1864,  when  their  term  of 
enlistment  expired,  Mr.  Marshall  and  those  of  his  comrades  who  desired  to 
continue  in  the  service  of  their  country  as  long  as  they  were  needed,  re-en- 
listed at  Indianola,  Texas,  and  were  permitted  to  return  home  for  a  short 
time  on  a  furlough.  This  prevented  their  taking  part  in  the  unfortunate 
Louisiana  campaign  under  the  leadership  of  General  Banks.  Returning  to 
New  Orleans,  the  Eighth  regiment  veterans  were  sent  to  Washington  in 
August,  1864,  and  thence  to  the  front,  where  they  were  actively  engaged  in 
General  Sheridan's  Shenandoah  valley  campaign.  They  were  in  the  battle 
of  Winchester,  September  19th;  Fisher's  Hill  on  the  22d,  and  in  the  famous 
Cedar  Creek  engagement,  where  Sheridan,  though  "twenty  miles  away," 
arrived  in  time  to  turn  the  tide  of  defeat  into  victory  for  the  Union  army. 
At  the  close  of  the  campaign  in  that  region,  the  Eighth  was  placed  on  trans- 
ports and  sent  to  Savannah,  Georgia,  to  await  the  arrival  of  Sherman  and 
th€  brave  men  who  were  on  the  march  to  the  sea,  and  in  that  vicinity  con- 
tinued to  do  garrison  duty  until  the  end  of  the  war.  Soon  after  his  first 
enlistment,  Mr.  Marshall  was  made  a  corporal,  and  later  served  as  a  sergeant. 
He  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  by  Governor  Morton,  July  19,  1865, 
and  was  mustered  out  as  such  August  28  following,  his  honorable  discharge 
being  dated  September  24,  at  Indianapolis.  The  young  man's  army  record 
was  of  the  best,  and  during  the  long  four  years  of  his  service  for  his  country 
he  was  never  absent  from  his  post  of  duty,  and  though  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  every  encounter  which  his  regiment  had  with  the  Confederates, 
and  went  on  hundreds  of  miles  of  weary  marches,  he  escaped  going  to  the 
hospital.  When  on  his  last  long  march,  from  Augusta,  Georgia, to  Darien,  on  the 
sea-coast,  he  received  a  sunstroke,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  has  suffered 
more  or  less  ever  since.  . 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1871,  Mr.  Marshall  married  Miss  Cynthia  Swain, 
who  was  born  in  this  township,  March  11,  1847.  Soon  after  their  wedding 
was  solemnized  the  young  couple  went  to  Dallas  county,  lowk,  where  rela- 
tives of  Mr.  Marshall  were  living,  and  there  the  wife  died,  on  the  8th  of 
March,  1874.  Their  two  children  are  still  living,  Thomas  Worth,  the  elder, 
being  a   successful  civil   engineer,  and   Harry  Swain,  the  younger,  being  an 


216  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

able  assistant  to  his  father  in  the  care  of  the  homestead.  Returning  to 
Wayne  county,  Mr.  Marshall  resumed  farming  in  Perry  township,  and  has 
since  devoted  himself  to  agriculture,  with  good  financial  results.  His  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Lucinda  Swain,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  was  celebrated  on  the 
23d  of  October,  1875.  She  was  born  April  25,  1832,  her  parents  being 
Elijah  and  Mary  Swain,  honored  early  settlers  of  this  township. 

In  his  political  relations  Mr.  Marshall  is  a  zealous  Republican.  Frater- 
nally he  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  being  associated 
with  Sol.  Meredith  Post,  No.  51.  Public-spirited  and  progressive  in  all  his 
ideas,  he  lends  his  influence  to  all  measures  which  he  believes  useful  to  the 
majority,  and  always  plays  the  part  of  an  earnest,  patriotic  citizen. 

NATHAN  MORGAN. 

Three-fourths  of  a  century  ago  Nathan  Morgan  was  born  in  an  unpre- 
tentious house  situated  on  Fifth  street,  on  the  Market  House  Square,  Rich- 
mond, the  date  of  the  event  being  November  15,  1823.  He  came  from 
good  old  Quaker  stock,  and  his  grandfather,  John  Morgan,  was  a  native  and 
life-long  resident  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  Our  subject's  father,  Nathan 
Morgan,  Sr. ,  was  born  and  reared  in  Blackwaytown,  New  Jersey,  and  on  the 
1 2th  of  May,  18 13,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Beulah  Beetle.  Of  the 
eight  children  born  to  this  worthy  couple  the  four  eldest  died  in  infancy,  and 
the  others  were  William  A.,  Beulah  Ann,  Mary  and  Nathan. 

In  the  early  part  of  1823  the  family  set  out  for  the  west,  intending  to 
join  the  new  Quaker  settlement  in  Indiana.  Their  few  necessary  household 
effects  were  placed  in  a  one-horse  wagon,  and  while  the  mother  and  two 
children  rode  in  the  vehicle  the  father  walked  nearly  all  of  the  way,  most  of 
the  time  carrying  an  eighteen-months-old  child.  He  was  a  cabinet-maker 
by  trade,  and,  having  reached  Richmond,  he  embarked  in  the  business, 
which  he  carried  on  until  1850,  then  being  succeeded  by  his  son.  His  last 
years  were  spent  upon  a  farm  located  about  one  mile  and  one-half  north  of 
this  city.  His  death  occurred  March  7,  18S5,  when  he  was  five  months  and 
twenty  days  over  ninety-two  years  of  age.  Had  it  not  been  that  he  fell  and 
crushed  his  hip,  the  accident  proving  fatal  on  account  of  his  advanced  age, 
he  might  have  reached  the  century  mark,  for  he  was  a  man  of  remarkable 
vitality  and  had  always  adhered  to  a  simple,  healthful  mode  of  life.  In  all 
his  transactions  his  career  was  signally  upright,  just  and  exemplary,  and  he 
possessed  the  respect  of  all  who  knew  him.  His  first  wife,  Beulah,  died  in 
1824,  and  three  years  later  he  married  Margaret  Holloway,  by  whom  he  had 
six  children,  namely:  Hannah,  Charles  D.,  Elizabeth,  David,  Abbie  and 
John  E. 

With  the  exception  of  the  two  years,   1S47  and  1848,  when  he  was  in 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  217 

Baltimore,  working  as  a  cabinet-maker,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  has  always 
made  his  home  in  Richmond,  and  since  his  return  from  the  east  he  has 
lived  at  24  North  Fifth  street  (the  name  having  been  changed  from  Pearl 
street).  From  1850  to  1856  he  carried  on  the  cabinet-making  business  which 
had  formerly  belonged  to  his  father,  after  which  he  traveled  for  some  time, 
selling  patent  rights.  His  next  venture  was  to  open  a  meat  market  and  pro- 
vision store,  which  enterprise  engaged  his  attention  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war. 

The  patriotic  spirit  which  has  always  animated  Nathan  Morgan  since  his 
youth  prompted  him  to  enlist  in  the  defense  of  the  Union,  September  13, 
1 86 1,  for  a  period  of  three  years.  He  was  placed  in  Company  C,  Forty-first 
Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer  Cavalry,  and  after  serving  in  the  ranks  for 
six  months  he  was  promoted  to  be  a  hospital  steward.  He  participated  in 
the  various  campaigns,  in  which  his  regiment  did  gallant  service,  and  at  last 
was  wounded  in  a  charge  at  Triune,  Tennessee,  his  horse  falling  upon  him 
and  fracturing  one  of  the  bones  of  his  leg  below  the  knee.  In  consequence 
of  this  injury  he  suffered  dreadfully  for  the  remaining  six  months  of  his 
service,  then  being  mustered  out,  October  4,  1864,  at  Indianapolis,  and  for 
many  years  he  was  forced,  at  intervals,  to  resort  to  crutches. 

Thus  disabled,  Mr.  Morgan  found  it  very  difficult  to  resume  the  ordinary 
vocations  of  life,  and  for  two  or  three  years  was  chiefly  engaged  in  selling 
patent  rights.  When  Ezra  Smith  &  Company  organized  the  Church  &  School 
Furniture  Company  in  this  city,  in  1868,  Mr.  Morgan  was  employed  by  the 
concern  a§  a  patternmaker,  and  subsequently  he  traveled  and  sold  goods  for 
them.  In  1878  he  opened  a  meat  market  on  Fort  Wayne  avenue,  and  con- 
tinued to  carry  on  the  business  for  ten  years.  He  still  owns  the  property, 
and  rents  the  store,  being  practically  retired.  He  has  taken  a  loyal  part  in 
local  affairs,  and  has  served  as  clerk,  inspector  and  judge  of  elections  for 
thirty  years.  Until  the  St.  Louis  convention  of  1896  he  was  an  ardent 
Republican  from  the  formation  of  the  party,  but,  having  devoted  much  time 
to  the  study  of  the  financial  question,  he  espoused  the  views  of  H.  M.  Teller, 
and  is  strongly  in  favor  of  the  free  and  unlimited  coinage  of  both  gold  and 
silver,  while  at  the  same  time  he  believes  in  a  moderate  protective  tariff,  and 
is  opposed  to  the  forcible  expansion  of  our  country's  territory.  He  is  a 
•member  of  the  Sol.  Meredith  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  in  which  he 
has  held  the  position  of  surgeon.  It  appears  that  when  he  was  a  youth  he 
studied  medicine  for  a  short  time  with  an  uncle,  and  also  clerked  in  a  drug 
store,  and  during  his  army  experience  he  acted  as  a  physician's  assistant. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Morgan  and  Miss  Frances  I.  League  was  solem- 
nized in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  June  29,  1847.  Of  the  five  children  who  blessed 
their  union,  three  are  deceased:   Lewis  G.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years; 


218  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

George  W. ,  who  died  when  in  his  thirty-third  year;  and  Emma  R. ,  who  was 
the  wife  of  Albert  G.  Ogborn,  of  Richmond.  Ida  M.,  the  eldest  child,  is  the 
wife  of  O.  V.  Lemon,  who  is  employed  as  a  shipping  clerk  by  the  Richmond 
City  Mill  Works.  William  L.  Morgan  is  engaged  in  the  meat-market  busi- 
ness in  this  city.  Our  subject  and  wife  are  among  the  best  known  citizens 
of  Richmond,  where  their  friends  are  legion. 

SAMUEL  J.   SHIPLEY. 

No  death  in  many  years  has  caused  such  profound  sorrow  throughout 
the  county  as  did  the  passing  away  of  this  venerable  citizen  of  Connersville, 
Indiana,  Lieutenant  Samuel  J.  Shipley,  who,  by  long  years  of  honorable, 
upright  life  and  kindly  nature,  had  grown  into  the  affections  of  his  fellow 
citizens  to  a  marked  degree.  He  was  born  at  Wilmington,  Delaware, 
December  24,  1813,  and  came  to  this  county  at  the  age  of  six  years,  making 
his  home  here  from  that  time  until  his  death,  on  July  1 1,  1897.  His  parents 
were  Joseph  B.  and  Mary  H.  (Test)  Shipley,  the  former  born  near  Brandy- 
wine,  Delaware,  November  14,  1 780,  and  the  latter  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
The  family  were  of  English  stock  and  came  to  America  soon  after  William 
Penn  established  his  colony  in  Pennsylvania.  They  were  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  Samuel  Shipley,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was 
born  December  5,  1775,  and  married  Jane  Bennett,  a  sister  of  Caleb  Bennett, 
who  commanded  a  company  of  American  soldiery  at  the  famous  battle  of 
Brandywine.  Four  children  were  born  to  Joseph  and  Mary  Shipley,  viz. : 
Mary  A.,  born  February  29,  1805;  Charles,  born  August  17,  1807;  Ella  J., 
born  October  15,  181 1;  and  Samuel  J.  The  father  died  while  the  children 
were  small,  and  in  18 19  the  mother  brought  her  little  family  to  Fayette 
county  and  here  reared  them. 

Samuel  Shipley  was  a  bright,  energetic  lad,  and  it  became  the  ambition 
of  his  life  to  become  a  sailor.  In  1833  he  made  application  for  appointment 
as  midshipman,  his  case  being  urged  by  General  Jonathan  McCarty,  then 
member  of  congress  from  Connersville  district,  who  took  an  interest  in  the 
young  man  and  desired  his  success.  His  application  receiving  favorable 
notice,  he  entered  upon  his  duties  and  remained  in  active  service  until  his 
retirement,  by  reason  of  ill  health,  many  years  later.  A  naval  academy  was 
established  in  Philadelphia  in  1839,  which  later  was  transferred  to  Annapohs, 
Maryland,  and  their  first  class  for  examination  was  called  before  the  board  in 
1840,  at  which  time  Mr.  Shipley  was  one  of  the  successful  competitors.  He 
was  raised  to  the  lieutenancy  in  1847,  and  had  a  long  and  successful  career 
at  sea,  visiting  nearlyall  the  important  ports  in  the  world  and  meeting  many 
exciting  and  interesting  experiences.  When  the  cloud  of  secession  spread 
over  our  fair  land  and  threatened  the  destruction  of  our  beloved  government. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  219^ 

Lieutenant  Shipley  hastened  to  offer  his  services,  and  was  stationed  at  Fort- 
ress Monroe  as  executive  officer  of  the  "  Brandy  wine. "  Some  two  years 
later,  in  1863,  ill  health  caused  him  to  retire  from  the  sea  and  return  to  his 
home  in  this  county,  where  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

In  1837  Lieutenant  Shipley  purchased  a  farm  in  Harrison  township, 
Fayette  county,  which  became  his  home.  On  November  14,  1841,  while 
home  on  leave  of  absence,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Martha  Hol- 
ton,  daughter  of  Rev.  Jesse  and  Jane  Holton.  The  young  wife  lived  but  a 
short  time,  dying  in  her  twenty-fourth  year,  in  1846,  leaving  an  only  daugh- 
ter, Jennie,  as  the  comfort  and  companion  of  the  bereaved  husband.  Father 
and  daughter  spent  many  happy  years  together  in  their  beautiful  country 
home,  a  close  bond  of  love  and  sympathy  binding  them  the  more  firmly  to 
each  other  as  the  years  passed,  and  his  death  has  been  a  blow  that  has  been 
well  nigh  unsupportable  to  the  beloved  daughter.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
energy  and  rare  judgment,  which  he  carried  into  all  affairs  in  which  h*e  was 
interested.  He  was  a  man  of  intelligence,  and  few  men  had  acquired  a 
greater  or  more  varied  knowledge,  which,  coupled  with  his  amiable  disposi- 
tion and  companionable  manner,  made  him  one  of  the  most  remarkable  men 
of  his  day.  He  was  a  manly  man,  and  the  honor  and  esteem  in  which  he 
was  held  by  all  who  came  in  contact  with  him  was  but  the  just  tribute  to  his 
worth. 

THOMAS  C.   BURNSIDE. 

Among  the  best  citizens  of  Union  county,  esteemed  alike  for  his  sterling 
worth  of  character  and  his  activity  in  the  business  world,  is  Thomas  C.  Burn- 
side,  a  worthy  representative  of  one  of  the  pioneer  families.  He  was  born 
in  the  town  of  Liberty,  November  24,  1844,  and  is  a  son  of  Judge  Edghill 
and  Jane  (Dill)  Burnside.  His  father  died  when  the  son  was  only  fifteen 
years  of  age,  but  the  mother  resided  in  Liberty  until  1874.  His  boyhood 
days  passed  quietly,  the  usual  duties  of  the  home  and  the  school-room  occu- 
pying his  attention  throughout  his  youth.  At  the  age  of  twenty,  however,  he 
entered  railroad  work,  securing  a  position  as  brakeman  on  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  with  which  system  he  was  connected  for  fifteen  years.  He  served 
as  conductor,  first  on  freight  and  afterward  on  passenger  trains,  and  for  ten 
years  was  a  passenger  conductor  on  the  Indianapolis  &  Vincennes,  and 
Indianapolis  &  Louisville,  divisions  of  this  road,  between  Indianapolis  and 
Louisville.  No  railroad  man  in  this  section  of  the  country  was  more  gener- 
ally known  or  had  more  warm  personal  friends,  for  his  uniform  courtesy,  his 
kindhness  and  genuine  worth  won  him  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  His  relations  with  the  railroad  company  were  also  of  the 
most  pleasant  character  and  he  won  high  encomiums  from  both  the  officials 
and  patrons  of  the  road. 


220  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  1884  Mr.  Burnside  retired  from  that  life  and  located  on  his  present 
farm,  two  miles  south  of  Liberty.  There  he  has  since  made  his  home,  devot- 
ing his  energies  to'agricultural  pursuits,  and  his  well  tilled  fields,  substantial 
buildings  and  modern  improvements  indicate  the  supervision  of  a  painstaking, 
practical  and  progressive  owner. 

In  1874  Mr.  Burnside  married  Miss  Jennie  Kelly,  a  daughter  of  Seth 
Kelly  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  of  the  county,  estab- 
lished here  in  1805.  At  a  little  later  date  Willis  Kelly  came  to  Indiana  from 
Boston,  Massachusetts.  He  lived  in  Laurens  county,  South  Carolina,  where 
he  formed  the  acquaintance  of  Charity  Hollingsworth,  whom  he  married  in 
Union  county,  theirs  being  the  first  wedding  ceremony  performed  here.  Mrs. 
Kelly's  parents  had  died  in  South  Carolina,  and  she  had  come  to  Union 
county  with  her  sisters  and  her  two  brothers,  David  and  Jonathan,  whose 
descendants  are  still  living  in  this  locality.  The  name  of  Charity  Hollings- 
worth was  well  known  at  an  early  day,  and  many  leading  citizens  of  Union 
county  at  the  present  time  are  numbered  among  her  relatives.  Willis  Kelly, 
whom  she  married,  was  a  teacher  and  farmer,  -but  died  in  early  life.  His 
son,  Seth  Kelly,  father  of  Mrs.  Burnside,  married  Elizabeth  Ann  Holliday 
and  resided  on  his  father's  farm  for  a  long  period,  but  his  last  years  were 
spent  in  Liberty,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  enterprising  agriculturists  of  the  community  and  his  well  kept  farm 
was  widely  celebrated.  He  took  an  active  part  in  politics  as  a  supporter  of 
the  Republican  party,  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
a  great  temperance  worker.  One  of  his  sons,  Kosciusko  Kelly,  resides  at 
Liberty,  and  is  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  town.  The  farm  now  belonging 
to  Mr.  Burnside  was  formerly  the  property  of  a  sister  of  Seth  Kelly,  Mrs. 
Cynthia  Haworth,  wife  of  Richard  G.  Haworth,  who  was  one  of  the  most 
extensive  breeders  of  fine  stock  in  Union  county.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burn- 
side have  been  born  three  children:  Clara,  who  has  engaged  in  teaching; 
Margaret,  who  was  a  teacher  in  the  graded  school  at  Salem;  and  Jennie.  All 
are  at  home. 

Mr.  Burnside  now  devotes  his  energies  to  general  farming.  He  has  two 
hundred  and  ten  acres  in  corn  and  wheat,  and  also  raises  hogs  and  Jersey 
cattle.  He  is  engaged  in  the  dairy  business,  and  in  company  with  a  few 
others  established  a  successful  co-operative  creamery.  He  has  long  been 
interested  in  the  Farmers'  Institute,  has  for  six  or  seven  years  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  institute  board,  and  does  all  in  his  power  to  secure  the  adoption 
of  improved  methods  of  farming.  He  is  a  very  active  worker  in  the  ranks 
of  the  Republican  party,  attends  its  conventions  and  was  chairman  of  the 
Republican  county  central  committee,  for  two  years  and  during  the  Harrison 
campaign  of  1888,  but  has  never  been  a  candidate  for  office.      Belief  in  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  221 

superiority  of  the  principles  prompts  his  advocacy  of  the  party,  and  not 
hope  of  reward  in  office-holding.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  his  wife  and  daughters  take  an  active  interest  in 
church  work.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  order;  was  the 
master  of  Liberty  Lodge,  No.  59,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  for  six  years;  has  been  the 
high  priest  of  Liberty  Chapter,  and  is  probably  the  only  Knight  Templar  in 
Liberty,  his  membership  being  in  Roper  Commandery,  at  Indianapolis.  He 
has  also  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  rite  in  the  Consistory 
of  the  Valley  of  Indianapolis,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fra- 
ternity. He  has  given  his  aid  in  many  generous  ways  to  the  perpetuation  of 
those  forces  which  conserve  the  best  interests  of  the  community,  and  the 
course  that  he  has  followed  in  political,  business,  social  and  home  circles 
commends  him  to  the  high  esteem  of  all. 

EDGHILL  BURNSIDE. 

The  name  of  Judge  Edghill  Burnside  has  been  inscribed  high  on  the  roll 
of  Union  county's  honored  pioneers  and  eminent  men,  and  the  part  which  he 
took  in  the  founding  and  development  of  the  county  well  entitles  him  to- 
prominent  mention  in  this  volume.  He  established  the  town  of  Liberty,  in 
which  he  long  made  his  home,  laboring  for  its  promotion  and  its  welfare. 
His  memory  is  revered  by  all  the  old  settlers  who  knew  him,  and  the  influence 
of  his  life  upon  the  community  was  most  beneficial. 

Born  in  Laurens  county.  South  Carolina,  in  1790,  he  was  a  son  of  Cap- 
tain James  Burnside,  whose  loyalty  to  the  cause  of  the  crown  was  manifest 
by  his  service  as  an  officer  in  the  British  army  during  the  war  of  the  Revolu- 
iton.  The  family  were  all  Royalists,  and  their  estates  were  confiscated  by 
the  colonies,  but  in  return  they  were  given  grants  of  land  on  the  island  of 
Jamaica.  Thither  they  went  with  Colonel  Edgehill,  of  South  Carolina,  hav- 
ing small  indigo  plantations  there.  In  1786,  however.  Captain  Burnside 
returned  with  his  family,  consisting  of  three  daughters  and  four  sons.  In 
1808  Mrs.  Captain  Burnside,  then  a  widow,  came  with  her  family  of  four  sons 
and  two  daughters  to  Indiana,  locating  in  what  was  then  Franklin  county  but 
is  now  a  part  of  Union  county,  their  home  being  in  the  little  town  of  Wash- 
ington. Andrew,  James  and  Thomas  Burnside,  the  brothers  of  our  subject, 
afterward  removed  from  the  county,  Thomas  and  James  with  their  mother 
and  sisters  returning  to  South  Carolina,  while  Andrew  went  to  Free  port, 
Illinois. 

Judge  Burnside  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  in  the  state  of 
his  nativity,  and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  came  with  the  family  to  Union 
county,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed.  In  this  then  wild  and  unset- 
tled region  he  labored  to  establish  a  home,  and  as  the  years  passed  exerted  a 


222  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

wide  influence  on  tiie  public  life,  thought  and  action  of  this  locality.  He  was 
the  founder  of  the  town  of  Liberty,  which  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  enter- 
prising spirit.  Reserved  as  associate  judge  of  the  circuit  court  and  filled  the 
office  of  county  clerk  for  the  long  period  of  twenty-eight  years,  retiring  in 
1858.  No  confidence  reposed  in  him  was  ever  betrayed  and  his  fidelity  to 
to  the  public  trust  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  was  most  marked.  He 
gave  his  political  support  to  the  Whig  party  until  its  dissolution,  when  he 
joined  the  ranks  of  the  new  Republican  party,  being  one  of  its  zealous  advo- 
cates until  his  death.  He  exerted  a  wide  influence  in  all  county  affairs,  was 
very  popular  and  highly  respected.  No  man  identified  with  this  section  of 
the  state  during  the  early  period  of  its  development  was  held  in  higher  esti- 
mation. 

Judge  Burnside  was  twice  married.  He  first  wedded  Pamelia  Brown, 
and  in  December,  1843,  he  married  Jane  Dill,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Dill,  a 
native  of  Warren  county,  Ohio.  The  children  of  the  first  marriage  were 
Henry  M.,  who  followed  farming  at  Laurel,  Franklin  county,  and  afterward 
resided  in  Indianapolis,  but  died  in  Shelby  county,  Indiana,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-eight  years;  Benjamin  F. ,  a  mechanic,  who  under  contract  furnished 
horses  and  mules  to  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  during  the  civil  war,  and 
died  in  Indianapolis,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five;  and  General  Burnside,  the  fam- 
ous general  in  command  of  the  northern  forces  during  the  great  struggle 
between  the  north  and  the  south.  The  second  son  was  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics, but  the  others  were  all  stalwart  advocates  of  Republican  principles. 
The  only  son  of  the  second  marriage  of  Judge  Burnside  is  Thomas  C.  Burn- 
side, a  well  known  resident  of  Union  county,  whose  sketch  appears  next. 
The  father  died  March  28,  1859,  and  his  second  wife,  long  surviving  him, 
passed  away  April  13,  1891,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years.  For  a  half  cen- 
tury Judge  Burnside  lived  and  labored  to  goodly  ends  among  the  people  of 
Union  county,  and  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  public  life, 
the  substantial  growth  and  material  development  of  the  region.  He  was  a 
man  of  true  nobility  of  character,  and  his  death  was  most  deeply  deplored  by 
those  to  whom  had  come  the  fullest  appreciation  of  his  nature. 

WALTER  S.  RATLIFF. 
Walter  Stevens  Ratliff  was  born  on  April  24,  i860,  on  a  farm  three  miles 
west  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  being  the  third  son  of  Joseph  C.  and  Mary  F. 
Ratliff.  Showing  an  early  inclination  for  learning,  he  was  sent  to  school, 
which  was  held  in  an  old  school-house  on  the  old  National  Road,  where  he 
passed  through  the  first  reader  before  he  was  four  years  old.  At  the  age  of 
twelve,  at  the  last  day  of  school,  he  gave  on  the  black-board  a  public  exhi- 
bition of  free-hand  drawing,  from  memory,  of  the  continent  of  Europe.      He 


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■  continued  there  until  February,  1873,  when  his  father  moved  to  a  farm  just 
northwest  of  Richmond,  where  he  resided  until  he  was  married.  There 
being  no  girl  in  the  family  he  "  wore  the  apron  "  around  the  house,  and  fre- 
quently lost  a  half  day  of  school  helping  his  mother  to  do  the  washing. 
Being  a  great  reader,  he  spent  three  years  in  reading  the  Holy  Bible,  com- 
pleting the  same  at  the  age  of  thirteen.  The  graded  school  at  Sevastopol 
near  by  furnished  a  good  opportunity  for  study,  which  was  attended  until  the 
spring  of  1878.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  secured  the  prize  offered  for  the 
best  penman  at  a  public  writing-school,  among  many  competitors.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1879,  he  resolved  to  enter  a  larger  institution  and  secure  a  more 
thorough,  practical  education,  such  as  was  given  at  Purdue  University,  at 
Lafayette,  Indiana.  He  entered  the  college  on  the  lOth  of  that  month  and 
spent  four  years  of  hard  study,  graduating,  with  two  diplomas  and  with  the 
honors  of  his  class,  on  June  7,  1883.  While  there  he  had  the  distinguished 
honor  of  being  the  second  student,  the  other  being  a  young  lady,  who  had 
ever  in  the  history  of  the  university  completed  two  distinct  courses  01  study 
in  four  consecutive  years  and  graduated  in  the  same.  During  the  junior  and 
senior  years  he  assisted  the  professors  by  teaching  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  the  university.  Considerable  manual  labor  was  done  on  the  campus 
of  the  college  grounds  and  on  the  farm  while  a  student,  and  many  of  the 
arbor-vitae  hedges,  fruit  and  ornamental  trees  now  standing  bear  evidence  of 
his  work,  and  over  one-half  of  the  necessary  expenses  incurred  in  securing  his 
education  were  made  in  this  way. 

After  graduation  he  resided  with  his  father,  following  farming  and  the 
breeding  of  Jersey  cattle.  On  November  12,  1885,  he  married  Metta  E., 
daughter  of  Stephen  and  Louisa  Comer,  and  removed  to  a  farm  two  miles 
west  of  Richmond,  where  he  still  resides.  One  child  has  blessed  their  union, 
Verlin  Comer  Ratliff,  who  was  born  March  14,  1895.  At  present  he  is 
engaged  in  breeding  Jersey  cattle  and  in  dairying.  He  performed  a  series  of 
experiments  on  his  farm  in  connection  with  the  university,  as,  sowing  wheat 
with  and  without  the  use  of  commercial  fertilizers;  determining  the  merits  of 
different  brands  of  the  same,  on  one  particular  variety  of  wheat;  and  noting 
the  ravages  of  the  Hessian  fly  on  wheat  with  different  times  of  sowing.  A 
member  of  the  State  Farmers'  Institute  workers,  he  has  given  a  number  of 
papers  at  various  institutes  throughout  the  state,  and  he  has  furnished  con- 
tributions to  many  of  our  local  papers  and  magazines.  He  was  vice-president 
one  year  of  the  Indiana  Horticultural  Society;  a  delegate  two  years  to  the 
Indiana  State  Board  of  Agriculture;  has  been  secretary  of  the  Wayne  County 
Agricultural  and  Horticultural  Society  for  ten  consecutive  years;  is  and  has 
been  for  five  years  the  Recorder  of  the  Indiana  yearly  meeting  of  the  Relig- 
ious Society  of  Friends,  being  an  active  member  of  this  church;  was  super- 


224  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

intendent  of  the  Purdue  University  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  dur- 
ing his  senior  year;  is  an  administrator  of  estates  and  guardian  of  minor  chil- 
dren; a  director  of  the  Wayne  Farmers'  Insurance  Company  for  1897;  fur- 
nishes statistics  to  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  semi- 
annual reports  to  the  Division  of  Ornithology  of  the  Biological  Survey  of 
Indiana;  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  volunteer  in  the  service  of  the  state 
weather  bureau  for  this  district,  and  the  official  observer  at  Lafayette, 
Indiana,  at  the  volunteer  weather  station,  from  1880  to  1883. 

He  is  a  stockholder,  director  and  assistant  superintendent  of  the  old 
National  Road,  and  with  his  father  was  selected  by  the  company  to  make  the 
final  sale  of  the  same  to  the  county  commissioners,  which  occurred  on  June 
20,  1895. 

Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America;  of  the 
Tribe  of  Ben  Hur  of  Indiana;  of  J.  N.  S.  Council  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  of 
Massachusetts;  the  worthy  patron  for  two  years  of  Loyal  Chapter,  No.  49, 
Order  of  the  Eastern  Star;  is  a  past  master  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  Lodge 
No.  196,  F.  &  A.  M. ,  having  spent  six  years  in  the  chairs  of  the  lodge;  a 
member  of  King  Solomon's  Chapter,  No.  4,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  of  Richmond 
(Indiana)  Commander}-,  No.  8,  Knights  Templar;  and  of  the  Indiana  Con- 
sistory of  Scottish-rite  Masons,  having  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  on 
March  30,  1899.  Mr.  Ratliff  is  a  total  abstainer  from  the  use  of  intoxicants, 
drugs,  tobacco  and  other  narcotics. 

SAMUEL  H.  BALLINGER. 

In  1898  one  of  the  oldest  merchants  of  Liberty  in  years  of  active  busi- 
ness transactions,  Samuel  H.  Ballinger,  retired  to  private  life  and  to  the 
enjoyment  of  the  rest  which  he  has  certainly  earned  during  his  thirty-one 
years  of  commercial  enterprise.  To  his  public-spirit  and  desire  for  local 
advancement  can  be  attributed  much  of  the  prosperity  which  this  town  to-day 
enjoys.  For  thirty  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity 
and  for  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  pillars  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  serving  in  various  official  capacities,  such  as  steward,  trustee,  etc. 

A  son  of  Isaac  and  Orinda  C.  Ballinger,  Samuel  H.  was  born  on  the  old 
homestead  belonging  to  his  parents,  April  16,  1845.  He  passed  his  youthful 
days  on  the  farm,  supplementing  his  elementary  work  in  the  local  schools  by 
a  year's  attendance  at  Antioch  College,  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio.  He  continued 
to  dwell  on  the  farm  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  of  age,  and  now,  after  a 
long  interval  of  business  life,  he  has  returned  with  renewed  interest  to  the 
peaceful  occupations  of  the  agriculturist,  and  takes  great  pride  in  the  finely 
improved  homestead  which  he  owns  and  which  became  his  property  in  1879. 
It  comprises  four  hundred  acres,  all   in  one  body,  and,  in  addition  to  raising 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  225 

the  usual  line  of  crops  common  to  this  region,  he  feeds  cattle  and  live  stock, 
and  is  making  a  financial  success  of  the  whole. 

Qn  the  27th  of  January,  1876,  Mr.  Ballinger  married  Miss  Lucy  Sullivan, 
daughter  of  W.  W.  Sullivan.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  the 
eldest  of  whom,  Ora  W.,  died  at  the  age  of  two  years  and  ten  months;  Robert 
Lincoln,  lately  engaged  in  the  clothing  business  in  San  Antonio,  Texas;  and 
Mettie,  a  musician  and  artist  of  marked  ability,  now  living  at  home,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  the  millinery  business  for  some  years  and  is  considered  an 
expert  trimmer.  Mrs.  Ballinger  and  daughter  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church. 

Mr.  Ballinger  has  never  been  an  aspirant  to  office,  but  in  a  spirit  of 
banter  a  Republican  friend  one  day  said  to  him  that  he  intended  to  run  as  a 
candidate  for  the  position  of  trustee  of  the  township.  Mr.  Ballinger  jokingly 
replied,  "Why,  you  cannot  be  elected;  I  can  beat  you;"  and  when  the  other 
answerd,  "I'll  bet  a  dollar  you  can't,"  both'  took  up  the  matter  in  semi- 
seriousness  and  announced  themselves  as  candidates.  The  result  of  the 
primary  election  was  that  Mr.  Ballinger  was  victorious  and  was  elected  by 
the  people.  He  is  now  serving  his  fifth  year  in  the  office.  He  has  nine 
schools  under  his  supervision,  hires  teachers  and  buys  the  fuel  and  supplies 
for  the  schools,  and  also  must  look  after  the  poor,  the  roads  and  general 
matters  effecting  the  public  more  or  less  directly.  While  he  is  allowed  wide 
latitude  in  these  matters  and  has  the  handling  of  large  sums  of  money  every 
year,  it  is  but  justice  to  him  to  state  that  no  complaint  has  ever  been  made 
against  his  management  and  that  not  the  slightest  doubt  as  to  his  fidelity  and 
integrity  has  ever  been  expressed.  By  his  long  and  honorable  business  career 
he  is  known  to  be  above  suspicion,  and  the  good  of  his  fellows  has  ever  been, 
his  sincerest  interest.  Perhaps  no  better  illustration  of  Mr.  Ballinger's  busi- 
ness ability  can  be  given  than  his  record  in  office  as  township  trustee.  When 
he  first  assumed  this  office  the  township  was  four  thousand  dollars  in  debt. 
During  his  incumbency  the  township  has  been  placed  out  of  debt  and  has 
money  in  its  treasury,  while  the  tax  levy  of  the  present  year  is  a  lower  one 
than  it  has  had  for  forty  years.  Besides  this,  Mr.  Ballinger  has  built  four 
new  brick  school-houses  in  the  township.  One  of  them,  a  double  (graded) 
school-house,  is  a  model  structure,  pronounced  one  of  the  finest  buildings  of 
its  kind  in  the  state.  He  has  also  superintended  the  building  of  more  bridges 
and  culverts  and  done  more  work  on  the  roads  of  the  township  than  was 
done  in  years  before  his  accession  to  office. 

Mr.  Ballinger  has  done  much  earnest  and  efficient  service  in  church 
work.  He  has  been  both  steward  and  trustee  of  the  Liberty  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  for  the  past  fifteen  years.  He  was  the  treasurer  of  the 
board  of  trustees  during  the  erection  of  the  beautiful  new  Methodist  church,. 


226  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

collected  all  the  moneys  as  well  as  paid  them  out,  and  as  one  of  the  board 
had  much  to  do  with  planning  the  structure;  and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say 
that  the  success  of  its  erection  in  a  prominent  degree  is  due  to  him.  Mrs. 
Ballinger  is  an  earnest  Christian  and  a  hearty  partaker  in  the  activities  of  the 
church,  and  has  been  for  years  a  valued  teacher  in  its  Sunday-school. 

Mr.  Ballinger  has  had  a  long  career  as  a  merchant  and  leading  business 
man  of  Liberty.  In  1867  he  became  a  partner  with  his  father-in-law,  W. 
W.  Sullivan,  in  the  grocery  trade.  This  firm  had  a  large  patronage  and  was 
the  leading  house  in  this  line  in  all  this  region.  In  1869  Thomas  C.  Ballin- 
ger was  admitted  to  the  firm  upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Sullivan.  The 
brothers  continued  together  in  trade  for  five  years,  when  T.  C.  Ballinger 
purchased  his  brother's  interest.  During  our  subject's  connection  with  this 
house  the  firm  handled  seventy-five  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  goods  annu- 
ally. After  closing  his  grocery  business,  Mr.  Ballinger  and  J.  P.  Kennedy 
engaged  in  the  dry-goods  trade  in  Liberty,  and  this  partnership  was  termi- 
nated at  the  end  of  six  months  by  Mr.  Ballinger  becoming  sole  proprietor. 
Conducting  a  prospering  business  in  this  line  for  five  years,  his  health  failed, 
and  he  sold  out  to  S.  W.  Creed.  Purchasing  the  homestead  farm  of  his 
parents,  he  made  his  home  thereon  with  the  expectation  that  the  outdoor 
life  incident  to  conducting  a  farm  would  restore  his  health.  This  expectation 
was  realized,  and  for  five  years  he  was  busily  engaged  in  agriculture.  With 
rrestored  health  the  desire  for  mercantile  activity  returned,  and  he  now  pur- 
chased from  Mr.  Creed  the  dry-goods  business  he  had  formerly  conducted. 
Thenceforth  until  his  retirement  from  trade  in  1898  he  was  prominent  among 
the  merchants  of  the  county.  With  the  exception  of  three  years,  when  his 
brother  Bennett  was  connected  with  him,  and  two  3'ears  when  his  son  was  a 
partner,  he  was  the  sole  proprietor  of  the  business. 

PROFESSOR  JOHN  ELWOOD  BUNDY. 

This  gentleman,  known  as  the  "artist  of  Earlham  Place,"  in  Rich- 
mond, possesses  talent  which  has  placed  his  name  high  among  the  portrait 
and  landscape  painters  of  this  state.  Nor  is  his  fame  confined  to  this  sec- 
tion, as  in  the  east  his  works  have  received  special  honor  and  favorable  crit- 
icism, and  many  of  the  most  celebrated  of  his  paintings  are  owned  by  pri- 
vate individuals  and  public  institutions  in  New  England.  That  genius  is 
inborn  and  not  acquired  is  an  axiom  which  finds  fresh  exemplification  in  his 
case,  as  almost  in  his  babyhood  he  sought  to  express  his  artistic  ideas  with 
pencil  and  chalk,  and  perseveringly  he  pursued  his  way  with  one  fixed  ambi- 
tion and  goal  ever  before  him,  undaunted  by  the  obstacles  which  he  encoun- 
tered. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Bundy  were  John   and   Mary  (Moore)  Bundy,  both 


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natives  of  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina.  Some  years  after  their  mar- 
riage, in  1858,  they  removed  to  a  farm  in  Morgan  county,  Indiana,  and  there 
they  spent  the  remainder  of  their  lives,  the  father  dying  in  1891  and  the 
mother  in  1893. 

The  birth  of  John  Elwood  Bundy  took  place  in  Guilford  county.  North 
Carolina,  May  i,  1853,  and  until  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  with  his  parents,  assisting  in  the  labors  of  the  old  homestead. 
His  education  was  such  as  the  district  schools  afforded,  supplemented  by 
private  study  and  reading.  When  he  was  but  eight  years  of  age  his  draw- 
ings of  familiar  scenes,  animals  and  persons  possessed  such  merit  as  to 
receive  the  favorable  comment  of  his  neighbors,  and  he  determined  that  art 
should  be  his  life  work.  As  the  years  rolled  swiftly  by  he  continued  to  sit  at 
the  feet  of  mother  nature,  studying  her  in  all  her  varied  moods,  and  thus  lay- 
ing the  best  possible  foundations  for  his  future  career.  At  length  he  went  to 
Indianapolis,  where  he  received  instruction  from  B.  S.  Hayes,  then  consid- 
ered the  most  successful  portrait  painter  in  the  state,  and,  subsequently,  the 
young  man  studied  in  New  York  city  and  was  allowed  the  privilege  of  copy- 
ing at  the  Metropolitan  Museum. 

In  1877  Professor  Bundy  commenced  teaching  art  at  Martinsville,  Mor- 
gan county,  and  for  the  next  ten  years  devoted  himself  to  his  chosen  voca- 
tion, doing  some  fine  work  in  the  meantime.  Then,  coming  to  Earlham 
College,  he  took  charge  of  the  art  department,  with  which  he  was  connected 
for  eight  years.  In  1895  he  resigned,  in  order  to  devote  himself  more  thor- 
oughly to  painting,  and  because  the  demands  upon  his  time  had  become 
too  exacting.  Since  then  he  has  not  been  able  to  fill  the  orders  which  he 
has  received  for  landscape  and  portrait  paintings.  One  of  his  best-known 
efforts,  entitled  "  Early  Spring,"  a  canvas  forty  by  sixty  inches  in  dimensions, 
now  hangs  on  the  walls  in  Earlham  College,  as  does  also  a  fine  portrait  of 
Professor  Morgan,  painted  from  life.  That  gentleman  was  connected  with 
the  college  for  many  years  and  was  thoroughly  interested  in  the  success  of 
the  institution.  In  the  library  at  West  Falmouth,  Massachusetts,  the  visitor 
will  observe  two  beautiful  and  lifelike  paintings,  one  "An  Autumn  Scene  on 
the  Whitewater,"  the  other  "A  June  Morning,"  the  latter  showing  a  flock  of 
sheep  in  the  foreground.  The  critics  have  specially  favored  these  produc- 
tions from  the  brush  of  Mr.  Bundy,  though  many  others  of  his  works  seem 
deserving  of  equal  praise. 

In  1875  he  married  Miss  Mary  A.  Maslett,  of  Morgan  county,  Indiana. 
Their  elder  son,  Arthur  L.,  has  apparently  inherited  somewhat  of  his  father's 
genius,  and  is  an  art  photographer,  taking  views  of  landscapes,  buildings  and 
interiors  of  houses,  as  well  as  domg  a  general  photographic  business.  Walter 
E.,  the  younger  son,  is  a  student  in  the  local  high  school. 


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JESSE  J.  KENWORTHY. 

Jesse  J,  Kenworthy,  deceased,  was  for  many  years  a  leading  business 
man  and  prominent  citizen,  whom  to  know  was  to  esteem  him.  He  was 
born  near  West  Elkton,  Ohio,  on  the  loth  of  February,  1827,  and  was  ason 
of  William  and  Alice  (Ballard)  Kenworthy.  The  parents  were  natives  of 
North  Carolina,  whence  they  removed  to  Ohio  at  an  early  day,  locating  near 
West  Elkton.  They  were  earnest  Christian  people  of  the  highest  respecta- 
bility and  the  father  was  for  many  years  an  elder  in  the  Friends'  church. 
The  mother  died  in  her  Ohio  home  during  the  early  boyhood  of  our  subject, 
and  he  was  reared  to  early  manhood  on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  became 
familiar  with  all  the  duties  and  labors  that  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  agriculturist. 

Soon  after  attaining  his  majority  he  came  to  Richmond  and  was  identi- 
fied with  the  interests  of  the  city  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  first 
embarked  in  the  tanning  business  in  connection  with  his  father,  and  carried 
on  operations  in  that  line  with  good  success  for  a  number  of  years.  Subse- 
quently, in  partnership  with  his  father,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
fiour  under  the  firm  name  of  Kenworthy  &  Company,  and  was  thus  associa- 
ted with  the  industrial  affairs  of  Richmond  until  almost  the  close  of  his  life. 
A  few  years,  however,  before  his  demise  he  sold  his  milling  interests,  and  was 
making  arrangements  to  carry  on  the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil  in  connection 
with  his  brothers-in-law,  Isaac  P.,  William  R.  and  Joseph  R.  Evans,  when 
he  was  taken  ill.  Prosperity  attended  his  efforts  in  the  world  of  trade;  he 
never  indulged  in  speculation  but  followed  the  legitimate  channels  of  business, 
and  by  the  exercise  of  industry,  sound  judgment,  energy  and  perseverance 
he  won  a  handsome  competency,  of  which  he  was  well  deserving.  His  repu- 
tation was  unassailable  in  all  trade  transactions,  and  his  word  was  as  good  as 
his  bond.  He  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  all  with  whom  his  business  dealings 
brought  him  in  contact  and  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  representative 
business  men  of  Richmond. 

In  185 1  Mr.  Kenworthy  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  P.  Evans, 
a  sister  of  Isaac  P.  Evans,  now  deceased,  and  they  became  the  parents  of 
four  children,  namely:  Thomas  Evans,  who  is  a  clerk  in  the  freight  office  of 
the  Panhandle  Railroad  at  Logansport,  Indiana;  Alice,  who  is  living  in 
Richmond  with  her  mother;  Lydia,  wife  of  George  Nichols,  of  Clyde,  Ohio; 
and  Margaret  J.,  wife  of  Clayburn  S.  Jones,  of  Logansport,  Indiana,  where 
he  occupies  a  clerical  position  in  the  office  of  the  general  superintendent  of 
the  Panhandle  Railroad  Company. 

Mr.  Kenworthy  died  August  29,  1864,  and  the  community  thereby  lost 
one  of  its  valued  citizens,  the  church  a  consistent  member,  his  neighbors  a 
faithful  friend  and  his  family  a  devoted  husband  and  father;  but  he  left  to  his 


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children  not  only  a  comfortable  property,  but  also  the  priceless  heritage  of  a 
good  name.  In  his  political  associations  he  was  a  Whig,  but  never  sought 
or  desired  public  office.  He  was  long  an  earnest  and  zealous  member  of  the 
Friends'  church,  was  prompt  in  attendance  on  all  its  services,  was  liberal  in 
his  contributions  to  its  support,  and  above  all  exemplified  its  teachings  in  his 
daily  life.  He  served  as  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday-school,  and  was  a  very 
able  instructor.  In  all  life's  relations  he  was  true  and  faithful  to  duty  and 
the  trust  reposed  in  him,  and  thereby  won  the  unqualified  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  fellow  men.  His  widow  still  survives  him,  and  now 
resides  in  her  pleasant  home  in  Spring  Grove,  a  pretty  little  suburb  of  Rich- 
mond. She,  too,  is  a  faithful  member  of  the  church  and  a  most  estimable 
lady  who  enjoys  the  warm  regard  of  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances. 

HENRY  MOORMAN. 

In  the  best  development  of  Wayne  county,  Henry  Moorman  bore  an 
important  part.  He  was  identified  with  the  agricultural  interests  of  this 
section  of  the  state  from  pioneer  days,  and  while  promoting  the  material 
welfare  of  the  community  also  gave  an  active  and  liberal  support  to  those 
measures  with  tended  to  advance  its  intellectual  and  moral  status.  His  life 
was  filled  with  good  deeds  and  kindly  thoughts,  and  all  who  knew  him 
entertained  for  him  the  highest  regard,  by  reason  of  his  upright,  honorable 
life.  Over  the  record  of  his  career  there  falls  no  shadow  of  wrong  or 
suspicion  of  evil.  To  his  daughter,  his  only  descendant,  he  left  not  only  a 
handsome  property  but  that  good  name  which  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than 
great  riches,  and  his  example  i§  one  well  worthy  of  emulation  by  his  many 
friends. 

Mr.  Moorman  was  born  in  Richmond  county,  North  Carolina,  July  7, 
1813,  a  son  of  Tarlton  and  Hannah  (Way)  Moorman,  the  former  a  native  of 
North  Carolina  and  the  latter  of  South  Carolina.  In  18 16  Tarlton  Moorman 
came  on  a  prospecting  tour  to  the  west  and  purchased  land  in  Randolph 
county,  Indiana,  then  an  almost  unbroken  wilderness,  and  in  1822  he 
removed  with  his  family  to  the  new  possession.  Thus  it  was  that  Henry 
Moorman  became  identified  with  the  pioneer  development  of  the  state.  He 
was  then  only  nine  years  of  age.  His  mother  had  died  in  the  south  and  his 
father  had  married  again.  The  second  wife  died  July  12,  1865,  and  the 
father  then  lived  with  the  children  until  his  death,  which  occurred  December 
30,  1875,  when  he  was  almost  ninety-three  years  of  age.  On  the  death  of 
his  father  Tarlton  Moorman  had  received  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and 
at  his  death  was  worth  forty  thousand  dollars,  which  figures  give  some 
indication  of  the  active,  useful  life  he  lived. 

He  had  three  brothers:  Thomas,  born  in  1790,  died  in  1841;  and  James 


230  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  Jesse,  twins,  born  in  Richmond  county,  North  Carolina,  June  26,  1895. 
Their  father  died  when  they  were  six  years  old.  In  1822  James  Moorman 
came  to  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  was  prominently  identified  with  the  agri- 
cultural interests  of  this  locality  for  many  years.  In  i860  he  established  the 
Winchester  Bank,  and  was  also  the  owijer  of  considerable  city  property  in 
Winchester  and  Union  City.  He  also  accumulated  much  farming  property 
and  at  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1888,  he  left  to  his  nephew,  Henry  Moor- 
man, seventeen  hundred  and  eighteen  acres  of  valuable  land,  besides  realty  in 
Winchester  and  Union  City,  the  entire  amount  valued  at  about  thirty-three 
thousand  dollars. 

Although  surrounded  by  all  the  comforts  of  life  in  his  last  years,  in  early 
life  Henry  Moorman  experienced  many  of  the  hardships  and  difficulties  inci- 
dent to  the  establishment  of  a  home  on  the  frontier.  He  aided  in  the  devel- 
opment of  his  father's  farm  until  seventeen  years  of  age,  when  he  left  home 
and  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  followed  for  a  number  of  years. 
After  securing  a  farm  of  his  own,  he  conducted  a  carpenter's  shop  there,  and 
made  cradles,  window  sash,  doors,  coffins  and  grain  cradles.  Through  great 
industry  and  economy  he  was  enabled  to  gain  a  good  start  in  life,  and  worked 
his  way  upward  to  a  position  of  affluence. 

On  the  17th  of  March,  1836,  at  Dunkirk,  Randolph  county,  Indiana, 
Mr.  Moorman  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ann  Diggs,  daughter  of  William 
and  Fanny  (Crews)  Diggs,  who  came  from  Anson  county,  North  Carolina,  to 
Indiana  in  1822,  settling  in  Randolph  county.  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Moor- 
man took  up  his  residence  on  a  tract  of  land  which  he  entered  from  the  gov- 
ernment, near  where  the  Poplar  Run  meeting-house  now  stands.  This  was 
covered  with  timber,  but  he  at  once  began  to  clear  away  the  trees  and  in 
course  of  time  transformed  the  raw  tract  into  richly  cultivated  fields,  the 
waving  grain  giving  evidence  of  abundant  harvests.  There  he  made  his 
home  until  1869,  when  he  purchased  one  hundred  and  eighteen  acres  of  ara- 
ble land  in  New  Garden  township,  Wayne  county.  This  tract  was  improved 
with  a  substantial  residence  and  other  good  farm  buildings,  and  to  the  further 
development  of  his  land  Mr.  Moorman  devoted  his  energies  until  after  his 
wife's  death,  which  occurred  February  18,  1872.  He  continued  to  reside 
upon  that  farm  until  March  31,  1884,  when  he  purchased  property  in  Foun- 
tain City,  where  he  made  his  home  until  his  death.  There  were  four  chil- 
dren in  the  family,  but  the  eldest  died  in  infancy;  Susanna  died  at  the  age  of 
two  and  a  half  years,  and  Caroline  died  about  two  years  prior  to  her  father's 
death;  so  that  Rebecca,  wife  of  Joseph  Brown,  is  the  only  one  now  living. 

Mr.  Moorman  was  a  very  prominent  and  influential  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  in  his  younger  days  took  a  very  active  part  in  the 
work  of  the  church.      He  was  first  connected  with  the  Beech  Grove  meeting. 


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and  later  with  that  at  Fountain  City.  Before  his  death  he  and  his  daughter 
Rebecca  donated  two  farms,  comprising  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  acres,  to 
Earlham  College,  the  income  from  which  is  to  be  devoted  to  the  extension  of  the 
work  of  the  Biblical  department.  His  home  was  the  place  of  entertainment  for 
all  the  Friends,  particularly  the  ministers  who  visited  the  neighborhood,  and  with 
his  team  and  carriage  he  would  drive  the  ministers  from  house  to  house,  that 
they  might  visit  the  people  of  the  denomination  and  promote  the  cause  for 
which  they  were  laboring.  He  made  many  sacrifices  in  the  interests  of  his 
chlirch,and  throughout  his  life  was  deeply  interested  in  its  welfare.  He  was  well 
read  in  the  literature  of  the  church  as  well  as  in  Bible  and  other  sacred  history. 
At  all  times  he  was  a  warm  friend  of  education  and  did  all  in  his  power  to 
promote  intellectual  activity  among  his  neighbors.  Before  the  war  he  was  a 
Strong  opponent  of  slavery  and  was  connected  with  the  "  underground  rail- 
road." He  joined  the  Republican  party  when  it  was  formed  to  prevent  the 
further  extension  of  slavery,  and  remained  one  of  its  stalwart  advocates 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of  firm  convictions,  honest  purpose,  kindly 
nature  and  upright  life,  and  the  world  is  better  for  his  having  lived.  He 
departed  from  the  scene  of  earth's  activities  November  14,  1889,  but  his 
memory  is  still  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  his  many  friends. 

Mrs.  Rebecca  Brown  is  now  his  only  surviving  child.  She  was  married 
June  25,  1890,  to  Joseph  Brown,  a  native  of  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  since 
their  marriage  they  have  occupied  the  Moorman  home  in  Fountain  City. 
They  carry  on  their  farms,  six  in  number,  comprising  about  six  hundred  acres 
of  land.  Mr.  Brown  gives  careful  supervision  to  the  property,  and  the 
improvements  placed  upon  it  have  increased  its  value.  Mrs.  Brown  greatly 
resembles  her  honored  father  in  personal  appearance  and  traits  of  character, 
is  a  faithful  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  her  many  admirable 
qualities  and  social  nature  render  her  very  popular  among  a  large  circle  of 
friends  in  Fountain  City  and  Wayne  county. 

KITTRIDGE  HILL. 

Though  now  in  his  eighty-sixth  year,  Kittridge  Hill,  an  honored  citizen 
of  Centerville,  Wayne  county,  is  strong  and  sound  in  mind  and  body,  pos- 
sessing the  energy  and  vigor  of  many  a  man  in  the  prime  of  life.  He  has 
been  practically  retired  from  business  cares  since  1863,  though  he  has  exten- 
sive property  interests  in  the  east,  the  supervision  of  which  he  has  never 
relegated  to  others.  In  former  years  he  occupied  a  distinctive  position  in  the 
commercial  and  political  circles  of  his  community,  and  was  recognized  as  an 
authority  in  public  affairs.  He  has  been  faithful  to  his  conceptions  of  the 
duties  of  citizenship,  ever  striving  to  advance  the  interests  of  his  fellow  men. 

John  Hill,  the  founder  of  the  Hill  family  in  North  Brookfield,  Massa- 


232  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

chusetts,  and  ancestor  of  our  subject,  came  to  America  from  London, 
England,  in  1725  or  1727.  He  became  a  permanent  resident  of  North 
Brookiield  in  1740,  and  died  at  his  home  in  that  place  in  1775,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  one  hundred  and  two  years  and  two  months.  The  next  in 
line  of  descent  were  his  son  Peter  and  grandson  Peter,  Jr.  The  latter  was 
a  farmer,  and  possessed  considerable  talent  as  a  musician.  His  son  Kittridge 
was  born  in  North  Brookfield  in  1777,  and  the  latter  was  the  father  of  our 
subject. 

Kittridge  Hill,  of  whom  this  sketch  is  penned,  was  born  in  the  northern 
part  of  North  Brookfield  September  29,  1813.  In  his  early  manhood  he 
devoted  himself  to  agriculture  and  found  plenty  of  employment  at  his  trade 
of  stone-mason.  He  prospered  in  his  various  enterprises  and  still  owns  val- 
uable property  in  his  native  state,  including  the  old  homestead,  which  he 
formerly  cultivated.  He  was  actively  interested  in  the  promotion  of  the 
interests  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  was  frequently  honored  with  local 
offices  of  responsibility  and  trust.  For  four  years  he  served  as  constable  of 
North  Brookfield  township,  and  for  similar  periods  he  was  collector  and 
treasurer  there,  being  also  United  States  assignee  in  bankruptcy  so  long  as 
the  law  creating  that  office  was  in  force.  During  President  Pierce's  admin- 
istration he  served  as  postmaster,  was  continued  by  Buchanan,  and  retained 
the  office  for  some  time  after  President  Lincoln  entered  upon  his  term.  Mr. 
Hill  was  so  popular  and  so  thoroughly  efficient  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as 
postmaster  that,  though  the  Republicans  had  come  into  power  in  the  opening 
days  of  the  war,  and  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  Democratic  sentiment  was 
in  a  minority  in  New  England  at  that  time,  when  a  ballot  was  taken  among 
the  citizens  of  North  Brookfield  he  received  a  three-fourths  vote.  He 
resigned  the  same  year,  however,  and  was  succeeded  by  a  brother  of  the 
Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher.  He  then  removed  to  New  York  state,  where  he 
resided  for  a  year  or  two,  and  in  March,  1863,  he  came  to  Centerville,  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home. 

In  his  early  manhood  Mr.  Hill  wedded  Miss  Susan  H.  Brimhall,  the 
ceremony  which  united  their  fortunes  being  performed  April  11,  1837.  The 
following  year  Mrs.  Hill  died,  and  subsequently  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  R. 
Tyler,  from  whom  he  was  divorced  in  i860.  The  third  wife  of  Mr.  Hill  was 
Miss  Fanny  B.  Sheldon,  of  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  and  together  they  pur- 
sued the  journey  of  life  until  the  death  of  Mrs.  Hill,  at  her  home  in  this  place, 
in  1891.  Four  sons  were  born  to  our  subject,  but  only  one,  Lloj'd  Kittridge, 
of  Centerville,  survives.  Albert  Tyler  died  when  three  years  old,  and  War- 
ren Tyler  and  Walter  Copeland  when  young  lads.  The  friends  of  Kittridge 
Hill  are  legion,  both  in  Centerville  and  in  North  Brookfield,  his  former 
home,  his  many  noble  qualities  having  won  the  praise  and  admiration  of  his 


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associates  and  acquaintances  wherever  he  has  gone.  His  life,  which  has 
nearly  spanned  the  century,  has  been  filled  with  useful,  loving  deeds,  which 
will  be  remembered  when  he  has  been  called  to  his  reward.  To  his 
<3escendants  he  will  leave  the  record  of  a  blameless  life, — a  more  priceless 
heritage  than  wealth. 

LLOYD  K.   HILL. 

Lloyd  Kittridge  Hill,  who  is  well  known  throughout  Wayne  county 
because  of  his  effective,  earnest  labors  on  behalf  of  the  Democratic  party,  is 
of  the  sixth  generation  of  Hills  who  have  lived  in  New  England,  the  founder 
of  his  family  having  settled  in  that  section  of  the  United  States  in  the  early 
part  of  the  last  century.  He  possesses  the  business  ability,  good  judgment 
and  acumen  for  which  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  is  noted,  and  unites  with  these 
characteristics  strong  patriotism  and  an  optimistic  faith  in  the  great  future  in 
store  for  his  loved  country. 

Born  at  North  Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  January  8,  1844,  a  son  of 
Kittridge  Hill,  whose  history  precedes  this  sketch,  our  subject's  boyhood 
memories  are  of  the  locality  where  his  forefathers  had  dwelt  for  more  than  a 
century.  His  common-school  education  was  supplemented  by  a  course  at 
the  academy  of  his  native  town,  and  instruction  in  the  higher  branches  of 
learning  at  Fall  River  College.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Indiana,  and  for  several  years  he  was  employed  in  clerking  in 
various  places, — in  Centerville,  Liberty,  Cambridge  and  Terre  Haute,  among 
others.  Then  for  two  seasons  he  managed  and  conducted  a  dramatic  com- 
pany, comprised  of  eighteen  persons,  touring  through  Indiana,  Ohio,  Michi- 
gan and  many  of  the  southern  and  western  states,  and  was  quite  successful 
in  this  difficult  enterprise. 

Subsequently  to  his  marriage,  in  1870,  Mr.  Hill  located  at  Centerville, 
■where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He  has  owned  and  carried  on  a  valuable 
farm  adjoining  the  town,  and  has  not  confined  his  energies  to  agriculture,  for 
he  has  been  engaged  in  cutting  and  supplying  hard-wood  timber  to  various 
factories,  has  hauled  material  for  buildings  and  county  bridges  and  contracted 
for  grading  county  roads.  Thus  he  has  always  been  kept  very  busy  at  some 
outside  enterprise.  He  furnished  the  hard  wood  to  the  Henley  manufactory 
ior  his  roller  skates,  on  which  a  fortune  was  made  by  that  concern,  and  has 
supplied  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  Robinson  &  Company  and  the  Quaker  City 
Chair  Company  with  timber  at  times. 

The  cause  of  education  has  always  found  a  strong  friend  in  Mr.  Hill, 
who  served  for  six  years  here  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  a  portion  of 
this  period  being  the  president  and  treasurer.  The  Democratic  party  has 
few  stancher  supporters   in  this  county,    which  is  strongly  Republican,  as 


234  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Centerville  was  the  home  of  Governor  Morton  and  Senator  Julian.  For 
years  he  has  served  almost  every  election  as  one  of  the  election  judges,  and 
frequently  he  has  been  sent  as  a  delegate  to  local  conventions  of  the  party. 
He  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  town  trustees  several  times, 
and  at  present  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  president  of  the  board.  He 
is  a  firm  believer  in  free  silver  and  the  principles  ably  advocated  by  Bryan 
in  the  last  campaign,  and  is  well  posted  upon  all  of  the  great  questions  of  the 
day.  Personally  he  is  esteemed  by  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  his  acquaint- 
ance, for  he  is  loyal  and  true  to  his  friends,  courteous  and  kindly  in  dispo- 
sition, and  has  due  regard  for  the  the  rights  and  welfare  of  his  fellow  men. 

On  the  28th  of  May,  1870,  L.  K.  Hill  and  Miss  Louisa  Pierce,  of  Knights- 
town,  Indiana,  were  united  in  marriage.  They  have  been  blessed  with  six 
children,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Ida  May,  is  the  wife  of  Jacob  Smelser,  of  Bos- 
ton township,  Wayne  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smelser  have  one  child,  How- 
ard, who  figures  as  one  of  a  photographic  group  of  the  four  living  genera- 
tions of  the  Hill  family.  Grace  C.,  the  second  daughter  of  our  subject  and 
wife,  married  John  Hoerner,  of  Richmond.  Adah,  a  young  lady,  is  at  home; 
Laura  B.,  is  a  student  in  the  Centerville  high  school,  and  the  younger  chil- 
dren are  Lloyd  Kittridge  and  Addie.  They  are  receiving  excellent  educa- 
tions, the  elder  children  being  graduates  of  the  high  school  here.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hill  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  their  family,  and  in  looking  back  over 
their  past  they  have  little  to  regret,  as  they  have  faithfully  performed  the 
duties  devolving  upon  them,  in  all  their  relations  with  their  fellow  men. 

JOHN  S.  LACKEY. 

John  S.  Lackey,  who  is  well  known  throughout  Wayne  county  and  this 
section  of  the  state,  comes  of  a  family  early  identified  with  its  history.  He 
is  a  grandson  of  John  Lackey,  who  was  born  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsj'l- 
vania,  about  1798,  and  reared  eleven  children,  four  of  whom  were  associated 
with  Cambridge  City  annals  in  later  years,  namely:  Ira,  Sanford,  Mrs. 
Maria  Richey  and  Mrs.  Susan  Kendall.  The  wife  of  Ira  Lackey,  Mrs. 
Catherine  (Merritt)  Lackey,  departed  this  life,  January  6,  1899,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-three  years. 

Sanford  Lackey,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  mer- 
chants of  this  vicinity.  Coming  here  from  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  he  established 
the  first  large  and  well  equipped  dry-goods  store  in  Cambridge  City,  his 
original  outlay  of  money  in  this  enterprise  amounting  to  ten  thousand  dollars. 
He  was  also  much  interested  in  horses,  dealing  in  fine  animals  and  transact- 
ing much  business  in  this  line  in  the  course  of  a  year. 

John  S.  Lackey  is  a  native  of  Cambridge  City,  born  in  1850,  and  has 
passed  his  whole  life  in  this  immediate  vicinity.      He  is  the  second  in  order  of 


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birth  of  the  five  children  of  Sanford  and  Jane  Lackey,  the  others  being: 
Charles,  Parke,  Frank  and  Alice,  the  last  named  being  the  wife  of  B.  F. 
Mosbaugh,  editor  of  the  Cambridge  City  Tribune.  John  S.  Lackey  remained 
unmarried  until  he  was  forty-two  years  of  age,  when  he  wedded  Miss  Cath- 
erine Driggs,  of  this  city. 

From  his  youth  John  S.  Lackey  was  extremely  fond  of  good  horses, 
early  becoming  a  reliable  judge  of  their  merits.  fn  1868  he  opened  a  livery 
stable  in  Cambridge  City,  his  native  town,  which  enterprise  he  carried  on 
successfully.  In  1886  he  instituted  a  combination  sale,  which  has  taken 
place  each  year  since,  and  often  from  three  to  six  hundred  horses  are  sold, 
at  one  of  these  annual  events  the  amount  of  money  changing  hands  reach- 
ing one  hundred  and  thirty-five  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Lackey  is  the  owner 
and  manager  of  the  Cambridge  City  race  track  and  stables,  and  makes  a 
specialty  of  training  trotters  and  pacers,  buying  and  matching  teams,  and 
executing  various  commissions  of  that  nature.  He  is  recognized  as  an 
authority  on  all  questions  relating  to  horses  or  the  turf,  and  unquestionably 
takes  the  lead  in  these  matters  in  this  part  of  Indiana. 

WALTER  T.  CARPENTER. 

In  a  brief  sketch  of  any  living  citizen  it  is  difficult  to  do  him  exact  and 
impartial  justice, — not  so  much,  however,  from  lack  of  space  or  words  to  set 
forth  the  familiar  and  passing  events  of  his  personal  history,  as  for  want  of 
the  perfect  and  rounded  conception  of  his  whole  life,  which  grows,  develops 
and  ripens,  like  fruit,  to  disclose  its  true  and  best  flavor  only  when  it  is  mel- 
lowed by  time.  Daily  contact  with  the  man  so  familiarizes  us  with  his  many 
virtues  that  we  ordinarily  overlook  them  and  commonly  underestimate  their 
possessor.  Nevertheless,  while  the  man  passes  away,  his  deeds  of  virtue  live 
on,  and  will  in  due  time  bear  fruit  and  do  him  the  justice  which  our  pen 
fails  to  record.  There  are,  however,  some  elements  in  the  life  record  of  Mr. 
Carpenter  that  even  now  serve  as  examples  well  worthy  of  emulation,  and 
his  fellow  townsmen  are  not  unappreciative  of  these.  He  is  one  of  the  most 
highly  esteemed  citizens  of  Richmond,  and  his  name  will  ever  be  associated 
with  Earlham  College  during  the  period  of  its  greatest  prosperity. 

Born  on  the  ist  of  January,  181 1,  at  Duanesburg,  near  Albany,  New 
York,  he  is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Mercy  (Frost)  Carpenter.  The  family  is  of 
Welsh  lineage  and  the  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  in  direct  line  to  Ezra 
Carpenter,  who  was  born  in  Wilkshire,  Wales,  in  1570,  and  had  two  sons, 
Richard  and  William.  The  latter  never  married,  and  died  in  1701,  leaving 
an  estate  estimated  at  three  million  pounds  sterling.  Richard  Carpenter  had 
two  sons,  Ephraim  and  Timothy,  who  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in 
1678,  and  located  in  Hempstead,  Long  Island.     The  latter  was  born  Decem- 


236  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ber  19,  1665,  and  had  three  sons,  John,  Runyan  and  Timothy.  The  first 
named,  John  Carpenter,  of  Oyster  Bay,  was  born  June  13,  1690,  and  had 
two  sons,  John  and  Abel.  The  former  was  born  January  7,  1714,  was  a 
hatter  by  trade,  and  in  1736  removed  to  New  Castle,  Westchester  county, 
New  York. 

Of  his  three  sons,  Abraham  became  the  grandfather  of  our  subject.  He 
was  born  in  Westchester  county,  December  27,  1728,  and  spent  his  entire 
life  there,  carrying  on  agricultural  pursuits.  He  married  Lydia  Potter  and 
had  a  family  of  ten  children,  including  Isaac  Carpenter,  father  of  Richmond's 
well  known  citizen.  He  was  born  in  Westchester  county.  New  York,  in 
1779,  and  after  his  marriage  to  Mercy  Frost  removed  to  Duanesburg,  that 
state,  where  he  lived  for  ten  years.  In  181 5  he  became  a  resident  of  Clinton 
county,  Ohio,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days,  his  death  occurring  in 
1836.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  followed  that  pursuit  through- 
out his  entire  life. 

Walter  T.  Carpenter  was  the  youngest  son  in  a  family  of  six  children, 
three  sons  and  three  daughters,  and  with  his  parents  removed  to  Clinton 
county,  Ohio,  when  four  years  of  age.  He  attended  the  common  schools  for 
a  time,  then  spent  one  year  as  a  student  in  a  boarding  school  in  Mount 
Pleasant,  and  one  year  in  John  Griscom's  private  school,  in  New  York 
city.  Returning  then  to  his  father's  farm  in  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  he  there 
remained  until  his  marriage,  when,  in  1834,  he  removed  to  Cincinnati  and 
engaged  in  the  milk  business  for  two  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period 
he  again  went  to  Clinton  county,  and  embarked  in  the  dry-goods  business, 
which  he  carried  on  for  ten  years,  when  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  joined 
his  brother  Calvin  in  the  pork  and  commission  business,  under  the  firm  name 
of  C.  Carpenter  &  Brother.  This  connection  was  continued  two  years,  when 
the  brother  died,  and  our  subject  then  removed  to  Warren  county,  Ohio, 
where  he  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  for  ten  years.  At  the  end  of  that 
time  he  came  to  Richmond,  in  1858,  and  located  on  a  farm,  but  in  a  few 
months  he  went  to  the  Friends'  Boarding  School,  now  Earlham  College,  as 
superintendent,  a  position  which  he  filled  most  acceptably  for  fifteen  years. 
After  two  years'  connection  therewith  the  name  was  changed  to  Earlham 
College.  He  made  the  institution  one  of  the  leading  educational  features  in 
this  section  of  the  state,  and  under  his  management  its  enrollment  was 
increased  from  seventy  pupils  to  more  than  two  hundred.  In  the  upbuilding 
and  success  of  the  school  he  was  largely  instrumental,  having  charge  of  the 
farm,  the  finances  and  the  government  of  the  students,  in  fact,  virtually  filling 
the  office  of  president  in  connection  with  that  of  superintendent.  His  con- 
nection therewith  covered  the  most  prosperous  era  in  its  history,  for  it  became 
a  strong  educational  representative  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  was  entirely 


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self-supporting,  which  it  had  not  been  before,  nor  has  it  been  since.  On  his 
retirement  from  the  school,  in  1875,  Mr.  Carpenter  engaged  in  farming  for 
three  years,  on  a  farm  three  miles  north  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  but  his 
health  failed  and  he  removed  to  West  Richmond,  near  the  college,  and  has 
since  made  his  home  there,  resting  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  well  earned  retire- 
ment from  labor. 

In  1834  Mr.  Carpenter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Susan  Mabie,  of 
Westchester  county.  New  York,  and  they  now  have  three  living  children  and  have 
lost  one.  Charles  G.,  the  eldest,  is  superintendent  of  the  Richmond  Roller 
Mills;  Albert  F.  died  in  infancy;  Caroline  is  the  wife  of  Henry  C.  Wright,  of 
Argus,  Indiana;  and  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Daniel  W.  Mormon, 
of  Indianapolis,  a  member  of  the  ^rm  of  the  Nordyke  &  Mormon  Company 
and  of  the  Light,  Heat  &  Power  Company. 

Mr.  Carpenter  was  reared  in  the  political  faith  of  the  Whig  party,  and 
first  gave  his  support  to  its  men  and  measures,  but  on  its  dissolution  he  joined 
the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party  and  has  since  been  one  of  its  stalwart 
advocates.  He  is  interested  in  all  that  will  promote  good  government  and  is 
a  progressive,  public-spirited  citizen.  Like  his  family  for  generations,  he  is 
connected  with  the  Society  of  Friends  and  has  lived  a  conscientious  Christian 
life,  characterized  by  many  good  deeds.  Devotion  to  his  family  and  friends, 
fidelity  to  every  trust  reposed  in  him,  and  advocacy  of  all  that  tends  to 
benefit  mankind, — these  are  the  salient  characteristics  of  Walter  T.  Car- 
penter. 

PERRY  J.    FREEMAN. 

Mr.  Freeman,  who  is  the  present  postmaster  of  Richmond,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Johnson  &  Freeman,  was  born  near  Albion,  Noble 
county,  Indiana,  on  the  5th  of  August,  1857,  his  parents  being  Rev.  Everson 
S.  and  Elizabeth  J.  (Proutyj  Freeman.  On  the  paternal  side  he  is  of  Scotch- 
Irish  extraction  and  on  the  maternal  side  is  of  German  lineage.  His  grand- 
father. Rev.  Noah  Freeman,  a  minister  of  the  New-Light  church,  was  a 
native  of  Ohio  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  the  vicinity  of  Dayton,  where  he 
died  in  1836.  He  married  Margaret  Morris,  a  niece  of  Robert  Morris,  the 
millionaire  patriot  whose  liberality  made  possible  the  conduct  of  the  financial 
affairs  of  the  new  republic.  After  the  death  of  Rev.  Noah  Freeman  she  mar- 
ried Captain  Frink  and  they  removed  to  Noble  county,  Indiana,  where  they 
spent  their  remaining  days.  Captain  Frink  was  a  well  known  surveyor  of 
pioneer  times,  served  as  county  surveyor  of  Noble  county  and  superintended 
the  construction  of  the  dam  that  forms  the  lake  at  Rome  City,  Indiana. 

The  father  of  our  subject.  Rev.  Everson  S.  Freeman,  was  born  near 
Dayton,  Ohio,  in  1832.  He  lost  his  father  when  four  years  of  age,  and 
when  still  a  child  came  with  his  mother  and  stepfather  to  Indiana.      He  was 


-288  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

reared  to  manhood  in  Noble  county  and,  preparing  himself  for  the  work  of  the 
ministry,  spent  his  entire  Hfe  as  a  preacher  of  the  gospel.  He  belonged  to 
the  North  Indiana  conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  labored 
among  the  people  of  that  district  for  many  years,  but  a  short  time  before  his 
death  he  removed  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  where  his  last  days  were  passed.  In 
October,  1893,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years,  he  was  called  to  the  home 
beyond.  By  his  marriage  to  Elizabeth  J.  Prouty  he  became  the  father  of 
two  children:     Mrs.  Ella  E.  Owen,  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  Perry  J. 

In  various  counties  of  the  state  Perry  J.  Freeman  spent  the  days  of  his 
boyhood  and  youth.  He  completed  the  high-school  course  in  Noblesville, 
Indiana,  and  also  the  work  of  the  freshman  year,  in  Asbury  University,  at 
Greencastle,  Indiana.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  began  teaching  in  Wayne 
county,  where  he  followed  that  profession  for  five  consecutive  years.  In 
April,  1883,  he  came  to  Richmond  and  registered  as  a  student  of  law  in  the 
office  of  Hon.  Henry  U.  Johnson,  representative  in  the  sixth  congressional 
district,  and  his  present  law  partner.  His  studies  were  carefully  directed, 
and,  applying  himself  with  great  diligence  to  the  mastery  of  the  science  of 
jurisprudence,  he  gained  a  wide  and  accurate  knowledge  of  the  law.  In 
March,  1885,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  entered  into  partnership  with 
his  former  preceptor,  a  connection  that  was  maintained  for  two  and  a  half 
years.  He  was  then  alone  in  business  for  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  the  old  partnership  relations  were  resumed,  and  the  firm  of  Johnson  & 
Freeman  takes  rank  among  the  leading  ones  in  this  part  of  the  state.  Mr. 
Freeman  is  engaged  in  general  practice,  and  has  met  with  fair  success.  He 
is  very  painstaking  and  careful  in  the  preparation  of  his  cases,  and,  quick  to 
note  the  strong  points  of  a  suit,  he  never  fails  to  use  them  to  the  best  advan- 
tage. Law  rather  than  theory,  common  sense  rather  than  pleasing  rhetor- 
ical phrases,  are  the  characteristically  strong  points  of  his  argument,  and  his 
clients  know  him  as  one  who  is  always  true  and  loyal  to  the  interests  intrusted 
to  his  keeping.  In  1890  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for  prose- 
cuting attorney,  but  was  defeated  before  the  convention  by  H.  C.  Starr,  of 
Richmond. 

On  the  5th  of  June,  1883,  Mr.  Freeman  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Martha  J.  Howard,  of  Anderson,  Indiana,  and  they  have  three  children: 
Howard,  Gath  and  Hazel.  They  have  a  pleasant  home  and  many  warm 
friends  in  Richmond. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  anyone  who  takes  a  more  genuine  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  this  city  than  Mr.  Freeman,  who  at  all  times  is  ready  to 
co-operate  in  any  movement  for  the  public  good.  In  May,  1891,  he  was 
elected  mayor  of  the  city,  and  served  three  and  a  half  years,  a  period  of 
marked  progress  and  improvement  in  the  municipality.      Under  his  adminis- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  239 

tration  an  electric-light  system  was  introduced,  the  sewerage  system  was 
improved,  streets  were  paved  with  vitrified  brick,  and  other  changes  were 
made,  until  Richmond  became  one  of  the  best  improved  and  most  progressive 
cities  of  its  size  in  the  United  States.  This  is  due  in  no  small  measure  to 
Mr.  Freeman,  who  used  his  official  power  for  the  benefit  of  the  town  and  its 
residents.  In  1S98  he  was  appointed  postmaster,  entering  upon  the  duties  of 
the  office  on  the  ist  of  February.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  also  a  valued  representative  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
fraternity.  In  all  his  social  and  business  relations  he  is  popular  and  influen- 
tial, and  his  future  may  be  forecast  at  least  to  this  extent:  It  will  be  charac- 
terized by  great  activity  in  the  important  things  that  concern  the  interests  of 
society  and  good  government. 

HON.   SAMUEL  W.  PARKER. 

Hon.  Samuel  W.  Parker,  deceased,  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Parker,  a 
native  of  Vermont,  and  of  Elizabeth,  nee  Miller,  of  Massachusetts,  the  former 
of  English  and  the  latter  of  German  extraction.  They  removed  with  their 
parents  to  Jefferson  county,  New  York,  and  were  married  October  20,  1803, 
in  a  town  then  known  as  Champion.  They  lived  in  Watertown,  where  the 
father  died,  leaving  an  only  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Samuel  W.  was  born  one  month  and  seven  days  after  his  father's  demise. 
At  the  age  of  one  and  a  half  years  he  was  adopted  by  a  kind  and  affectionate 
stepfather,  Joseph  Wadley,  who  owned  a  farm  and  flouring-mill  near  Sackett's 
Harbor.  Here  at  the  age  of  four  years  young  Samuel  began  attending 
school.  In  18 1 5  the  family  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  18 18  to 
Oxford,  same  state.  Having  made  a  thorough  preparation,  Samuel  W. 
entered  Miami  University  in  January,  1825,  and  graduated  there  in  1829, 
with  high  honors,  his  course  being  a  succession  of  brilliant  intellectual  tri- 
umphs and  evincing  every  omen  of  a  bright  future.  He  took  high  rank  as  a 
speaker. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  came  to  Connersville  and  in  November  opened 
a  private  school,  which  he  taught  several  terms,  and  then  became  principal 
of  the  county  seminary,  the  building  being  then  completed.  Early  in  1829 
he  began  writing  for  the  Fayette  Observer.  In  1830  he  issued  the  Political 
Clarion,  wherein  he  supported  Henry  Clay.  He  wielded  a  trenchant  pen, 
showing  no  mercy  to  political  heresy.  During  all  this  time,  however,  he 
entertained  a  determination  to  become  eventually  a  lawyer,  and  during  the 
intervals  of  other  duties  he  devoted  his  moments  to  the  study  of  law,  and  in 
1 83 1  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  almost  immediately  took  high  rank  as 
a  jury  lawyer,  and  in  a  few  years  stood  high  before  the  courts. 

He  served  a  term  or  two  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature.      In  1849 


240  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

he  was  elected  to  congress,  and  re-elected  in  1851,  his  second  term  closing 
March  4,  1855.  He  declined  a  re-election.  In  congress  he  was  one  of  the 
strongest  opponents  of  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri  compromise,  and  made  one 
of  the  most  effective  speeches  against  the  repeal  delivered  on  the  floor  of 
congress  during  those  exciting  years.  His  eloquence  was  of  that  thrilling 
character  which  laid  fast  hold  on  the  minds  of  his  hearers  and  carried  them 
along  with  him  like  a  resistless  torrent.  He  never  spoke  at  a  political  gath- 
ering where  he  did  not  leave  his  political  friends  in  the  wildest  state  of 
enthusiasm  and  his  enemies  seared  and  blasted  by  his  sarcastic  argument. 
He  could  arouse  their  indignation  or  melt  them  to  tears  with  equal  ease.  He 
was  scholarly,  and  all  through  his  life  was  a  student.  Originally  gifted  with 
a  mind  of  high  order,  he  had  added  to  it  by  a  store  of  learning. 

He  resided  the  last  years  of  his  life  on  the  old  Elm  farm  near  Conners- 
ville,  and  spent  his  time  in  practicing  law  in  this  and  adjoining  counties.  He 
was  president  of  the  Junction  Railroad  Company  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  was  formerly  the  president  of  the  Whitewater  Coal  Company,  and  he 
took  a  leading  part  in  all  public  improvements.  His  death  occurred  Febru- 
ary I,  1859,  and  by  that  event  the  people  of  Indiana  suffered  a  great  loss. 

DAVID  J.  HOERNER. 

One  of  the  most  straightforward,  energetic  and  successful  business  men 
who  ever  lived  in  Richmond  was  the  late  David  J.  Hoerner.  Few  men  have 
been  more  prominent  or  widely  known  in  this  enterprising  city  than  was  he. 
In  business  circles  he  was  an  important  factor  and  his  popularity  was  well 
deserved,  for  in  him  were  embraced  the  characteristics  of  an  unbending  integ- 
rity, unabating  energy  and  industry  that  never  flagged.  He  was  public- 
spirited  and  thoroughly  interested  in  whatever  tends  to  promote  the  moral, 
intellectual  and  material  welfare  of  Richmond,  and  for  many  years  he  was- 
numbered  among  its  most  valued  and  honored  citizens. 

A  native  of  Germany,  Mr.  Hoerner  was  born  in  Waldenburg,  February 
12,  1830.  His  parents  spent  their  entire  lives  there,  the  father  dying  during 
the  early  childhood  of  our  subject  and  thus  leaving  to  his  wife  the  care  of 
their  little  son  and  daughter.  The  latter,  grown  to  womanhood,  became 
Mrs.  Christina  Rist,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Dayton,  Ohio.  At  an  early  age 
David  J.  Hoerner  began  preparation  for  the  ministry,  pursuing  his  studies  in- 
Stuttgart  until  after  he  had  attained  his  majority,  but  his  financial  circum- 
stances were  limited,  and  finding  it  very  difficult  to  meet  his  expenses  he 
followed  his  uncles's  advice  to  abandon  his  studies  and  take  up  some  trade. 
Accordingly  he  began  learning  the  baker's  trade,  beginning  his  apprentice- 
ship in  the  Fatherland.  In  1854,  however,  he  determined  to  try  his  fortune 
in  America,  and  crossing  the  Atlantic  took  up  his  residence  in  Dayton,  Ohio,. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  241 

where  he  completed  his  apprenticeship  in  the  bakery  estabhshment  of  the 
firm  of  Bosler  &  Bowman. 

In  1855  Mr.  Hoerner  removed  to  Richmond,  where  he  began  business 
on  his  own  account,  establishing  the  second  enterprise  of  the  kind  in  the  city, 
his  predecessor  being  William  Mason.  He  began  operations  on  a  small 
scale  at  No.  .13  South  Fifth  street,  but  his  trade  constantly  increased  in  vol- 
ume and  importance  until  it  had  assumed  extensive  proportions.  The  quality 
of  his  goods,  his  evident  desire  to  please  his  patrons,  and  his  straightforward 
dealings  won  him  a  very  marked  success,  and  for  many  years  he  maintained 
the  leadership  in  his  line  in  this  section  of  the  state.  During  the  war,  in 
1862  and  1863,  he  furnished  bread  and  other  bakery  goods  for  over  one  thou- 
sand soldiers.  He  was  one  of  the  first  cracker  manufacturers  of  Richmond. 
These  goods  were  at  first  made  by  hand,  but  after  a  time,  owing  to  the  great 
demand,  he  increased  his  facilities  by  putting  in  the  most  improved  machin- 
ery used  in  the  manufacture  of  crackers,  and  his  trade  was  then  extended 
over  many  of  the  adjoining  states.  He  carried  on  a  general  bakery  business, 
and  prosperity  attended  his  well  directed  efforts.  He  was  solicited  to  join 
the  United  States  Baking  Company  when  the  great  combine  was  formed,  but 
refused,  and  carried  on  an  independent  business  until  1893,  when  he  retired, 
being  succeeded  in  the  enterprise  by  his  son,  John  J.,  who  is  still  carrying  on 
the  business  at  the  old  headquarters. 

Mr.  Hoerner  was  a  man  of  excellent  business  and  executive  ability,  of 
keen  discrimination,  sound  judgment  and  capable  management.  He  did  not 
limit  his  efforts  to  one  line  of  business,  but  encouraged  many  enterprises  that 
promoted  the  commercial  activity  of  the  city  and  promoted  some  by  his  finan- 
cial assistance  and  his  advice.  He  was  at  one  time  a  large  stockholder  and 
a  director  in  the  Richmond  National  Bank,  which  for  a  considerable  period 
was  one  of  the  substantial  institutions  of  the  city,  but  which  afterward  failed, 
Mr.  Hoerner  losing  considerable  money  thereby.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  German  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company,  was  chosen  its 
first  president,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  his  death.  His  reputation 
in  all  trade  transactions  was  above  question,  and  to  an  unusual  degree  he 
enjoyed  the  confidence  and  regard  of  those  with  whom  he  was  brought  in 
contact  through  business  dealings. 

In  1855  Mr.  Hoerner  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Margaret  Mark  wart, 
a  native  of  Germany,  but  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  a  resident  of  Dayton, 
Ohio.  They  had  two  sons,  Charles,  who  is  now  living  in  Richmond;  and 
David,  who  died  in  early  manhood  in  the  west.  After  the  death  of  his  first 
wife,  Mr.  Hoerner  was  again  married,  in  i860,  his  second  union  being  with 
Miss  Catherine  Leab,  a  native  of  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  born  in 
1839.      Her  parents,  John  and  Christina  Leab,  were  both  natives  of  Ger- 

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242  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

many,  the  father  born  in  the  city  of  Nurttengen  and  the  mother  in  Phulinga. 
Coming  to  the  United  States  in  1830,  they  located  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  whence  they  removed  to  Centerville,  Indiana,  in  1853,  and 
finally  came  to  Richmond,  where  the  father  died  in  1877,  and  the  mother  in 
18S1.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hoerner  were  born  eight  children,  of  whom  two 
died  in  infancy.  The  others  are  Mrs.  R.  D.  Sherman,  of  Chicago;  Mrs. 
Robert  Jenkins,  deceased;  Mrs.  Cassius  C.  Beall;  John  J.,  Mrs.  Charles 
Bradway;  and  Mary  C,  who  is  living  with  her  mother.  With  the  exception 
of  Mrs.  Sherman  the  surviving  children  are  residents  of  Richmond,  and  the 
family  is  one  of  prominence  in  the  community,  the  members  holding  enviable 
positions  in  social  circles. 

In  his  political  connections  Mr.  Hoerner  was  always  an  ardent  Repub- 
lican, and  took  a  deep  interest  in  local  political  affairs,  but  was  never  an 
aspirant  for  office.  He  held  membership  in  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Lutheran 
church,  and  socially  was  connected  with  Harmony  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.; 
Webb  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  the  German  Benevolent  Society.  He  was 
always  loyal  to  his  duties  of  citizenship,  and  in  many  ways  aided  in  advanc- 
ing the  measures  and  movements  which  promoted  the  city's  welfare.  He 
was  a  man  of  deep  sympathies  and  broad  humanitarian  principles,  faithful  to 
"his  friends  and  devoted  to  his  family.  In  1892,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  he 
•went  abroad,  visiting  the  principal  cities  of  France,  England  and  Germany, 
also  the  places  of  historic  interest,  and  the  beautiful  scenes  for  which  those 
countries  are  famed.  He  passed  away  November  9,  1895,  but  those  who 
knew  him  still  cherish  as  a  sacred  treasure  the  memory  of  his  friendship. 
Mrs.  Hoerner  and  her  youngest  daughter  reside  in  the  pleasant  family  home 
in  Richmond,  left  to  her  by  her  husband.  She  is  a  lady  of  culture  and  social 
grace,  and  the  hospitality  of  her  home  is  enjoyed  by  many  friends. 

O.   B.  FULGHUM. 

"Earn  thy  reward;  the  gods  give  naught  to  sloth,"  said  the  sage 
Epicharmus,  and  the  truth  of  the  admonition  has  been  verified  in  human 
affairs  in  all  the  ages  which  have  rolled  their  course  since  his  day.  The  sub- 
ject to  whose  life  history  we  now  direct  attention  has,  by  ceaseless  toil  and 
endeavor,  attained  a  marked  success  in  business  affairs,  has  gained  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  men,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  distinctively  represent- 
ative citizens  of  Richmond.  He  is  a  leading  insurance  agent  and  real-estate 
dealer,  and  has  that  keen  discrimination  and  sagacity  in  business  affairs 
which  when  combined  with  energy  and  industry  lead  to  success. 

Mr.  Fulghum  is  one  of  Richmond's  native  sons,  his  birth  having  occurred 
February  28,  1859.  His  parents  were  Jesse  P.  and  Susan  (Benton)  Fulghum. 
The  former  was  born  September  8,   1S29,  in  Randolph  county,  Indiana,  a  son 


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of  Frederick  and  Piety  (Parker)  Fulghum.  The  great-grandfatherof  our  sub- 
ject, Michael  Fulghum,  was  a  native  of  Wayne  county,  North  Carolina,  and 
there  spent  his  entire  life,  his  death  occurring  in  1804,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five 
years.  He  owned  a  large  plantation  of  several  hundred  acres  and  was  one 
of  the  leading  planters  of  his  district.  He  married  Molly  Bunn,  a  lady  of 
French-Huguenot  extraction.  Tradition  says  that  their  ancestors  fled  from 
France  at  the  time  of  the  persecution  of  the  Huguenots  and  took  refuge  in 
England.  Later  they  came  from  that  country  to  America,  settling  in  North 
Carolina.  To  Michael  and  Molly  Fulghum  were  born  eleven  children,  five 
sons  and  six  daughters,  several  of  whom  emigrated  to  Indiana.  Among  these 
was  Anthony  Fulghum,  who  located  in  Richmond,  Indiana.  He  was  the 
father  of  Benjamin  Fulghum,  a  minister  of  the  Friends'  society.  He  preached 
for  thirty  years  and  was  well  known  in  church  circles. 

Frederick  Fulghum,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject  and  the  youngest  of 
this  family,  also  came  to  Indiana.  He.  was  born  in  Wayne  county,  North 
Carolina,  in  1799,  and  emigrated  westward  in  1820,  being  one  of  the  first  to 
seek  a  home  in  this  state.  He  took  up  his  residence  in  Randolph  county, 
where  he  remained  until  called  to  the  home  beyond  in  1879.  He  made  farm- 
ing his  life  work,  and  was  the  owner  of  a  valuable  tract  of  land  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres,  upon  which  stood  a  good  residence  and  other  substan- 
tial improvements.  An  active  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  was  an 
elder  in  the  church,  and  for  fifty  years  was  the  leading  representative  of  the 
Arba  meeting.  In  politics  he  was  first  a  Whig  and  afterward  a  Republican, 
but  was  never  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  married  Piety  Parker,  a  lady  of 
English  descent,  born  in  Guilford  county.  North  Carolina,  in  1818,  a  daughter 
of  Jesse  Parker,  who  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  that  county,  engaged 
in  merchandising.  About  1830,  however,  he  came  to  Indiana  and  spent  his 
last  days  in  the  home  of  Frederick  Fulghum,  in  Randolph  county.  He  was 
also  a  Friend,  and  the  members  of  the  family  were  prominent  in  the  work  of 
the  society.  To  Frederick  and  Piety  Fulghum  were  born  four  sons  and  five 
daughters:  Edah,  who  became  the  wife  of  William  Hunt,  and  both  are  now 
deceased;  Michael,  who  also  has  passed  away;  Anna,  who  became  the  wife 
of  Nathan  Overman  and  has  also  passed  away;  Sally  also  married  George 
Overman  and  is  now  deceased;  Jesse  P.  is  the  next  of  the  family;  Martha  is 
the  wife  of  Alpheus  Test,  of  Richmond;  Mary  is  the  deceased  wife  of  Joshua 
Thomas;  Francis  A.  died  in  infancy;  and  Frederick  C.  is  the  secretary  of  the 
Richmond  Business  College. 

Jesse  Parker  Fulghum,  the  father  of  O.  B.  Fulghum,  was  reared  in  Ran- 
dolph county,  where  he  remained  until  twenty  years  of  age;  and  then  he  came 
to  Richmond,  where  he  began  working  at  the  carpenter's  trade, which  he  had 
learned  with  his  father.      A  year  later  he  entered  the  employ  of  Gaar,  Scott 


244  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

&  Company,  in  their  machine  shops,  where  he  remained  for  eight  years, 
when  he  went  to  Milton,  Wayne  county,  to  accept  the  position  of  superintend- 
ent of  the  Joseph  Ingels  drill  works.  After  acting  in  that  capacity  for  a  year 
he  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  enterprise,  and  the  following  year,  1866, 
in  connection  with  Joseph  Ingels,  organized  the  Hoosier  Drill  Company, 
of  which  he  became  secretary.  The  following  year,  however,  he  sold 
out,  and  in  1869  went  to  Dublin,  Indiana,  as  a  superintendent  of  the 
Wayne  Agricultural  Works,  with  which  he  was  connected  until  1873,  when 
he  returned  to  the  Hoosier  Drill  Company  as  mechanical  expert  in  charge 
of  the  machinery.  For  four  years  he  occupied  that  position  and  in  1S77 
removed  to  Richmond  to  accept  a  similiar  position  in  the  Wayne  Agri- 
cultural Works,  which  in  the  meantime  had  been  removed  from  Dublin  to 
Richmond.  When  that  enterprise  went  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in  1886, 
he  became  mechanical  expert  for  M.  C.  Henley,  in  which  capacity  he  is  still 
serving.  He  is  a  man  of  remarkable  mechanical  genius  and  has  taken  out 
about  forty  patents,  having  secured  more  patents  on  agricultural  implements 
than  any  other  man  in  the  west.  To  his  enterprise,  energy  and  ability  is  due 
not  a  little  of  the  commercial  activity  of  this  section  of  the  state,  and  the 
welfare  and  progress  of  any  section  depends  upon  its  commercial  activity. 

Jesse  P.  Fulghum  married  Miss  Susan  Benton,  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Benton,  who  was  born  near  Elizabeth  City,  North  Carolina,  and  came  to 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  in  1838,  locating  in  Boston  township,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  few  years.  He  then  sold  his  land  and  removed  to 
Richmond,  where  he  engaged  in  freighting  by  team  from  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
A  few  years  later  he  abandoned  that  enterprise  and  established  a  hardware 
and  grocery  store  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Fletcher  &  Benton,  his  partner 
being  S.  F.  Fletcher.  He  became  the  leading  hardware  merchant  of  the 
city  and  continued  to  carry  on  operations  in  that  line  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1871,  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  sixty- five  years.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  stalwart  Democrat.  He  belonged  to  the  Elkhorn  Baptist 
church,  was  one  of  its  active  workers  and  for  many  years  served  as  deacon  in 
the  church.  He  married  Miss  Susan  Rhodes,  and  to  them  were  born  two 
sons  and  four  daughters.  The  elder  son,  Thomas  H.,  was  killed  at  the 
second  battle  of  Bull  Run. 

O.  B.  Fulghum,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  reared  in  Rich- 
mond, Milton  and  Dublin,  Indiana,  his  parents  living  at  the  three  places 
during  his  youth.  His  literary  education,  acquired  in  the  common  schools, 
was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  the  Richmond  Business  College,  and  he  was 
thus  well  fitted  for  the  practical  duties  of  life.  When  fourteen  years  of  age 
he  began  earning  his  own  livelihood  as  an  employe  in  the  Wayne  Agricultural 
Works  in  Dublin.      When   sixteen  years  of  age  he  accompanied  his  parents 


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on  their  removal  to  Milton,  where  he  attended  school  and  also  worked  in  a 
shop.  In  Richmond  he  was  employed  by  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  and  on 
leaving  that  service  he  spent  three  years  with  the  Singer  Sewing  Machine 
Company  as  bookkeeper.  Later  he  went  to  Cambridge  City,  from  which 
point  he  superintended  the  sale  of  the  Singer  sewing  machines  through  a  con- 
siderable territory.  Upon  his  return  to  Richmond,  in  1883,  he  assumed  the 
management  of  the  White  Sewing  Machine  Company,  acting  in  that  capacity 
until  1887.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  extensively  engaged  in  the  fire- 
insurance  business,  representing  a  number  of  well  known  and  reliable  com- 
panies, including  the  Springfield  Fire  and  Marine,  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts; the  Firemen's  Fund,  of  San  Francisco;  Hamburg-Bremen,  of  Germany; 
the  American  Central,  of  St.  Louis;  the  American,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey; 
the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  the  jEtna  Indemnity  Com- 
pany, of  Hartford, Connecticut.  In  1889  he  also  began  dealing  in  real  estate 
and  now  has  control  of  considerable  valuable  property.  He  is  a  man  of  keen 
foresight  and  sagacity,  and  therefore  is  enabled  to  make  judicious  invest- 
ments, which  yield  him  a  good  profit.  He  is  energetic,  enterprising  and 
reliable,  and  has  the  confidence  as  well  as  a  liberal  share  of  the  patronage  of 
the  public. 

In  1882  Mr.  Fulghum  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  L.  Tracy, 
of  Richmond,  and  they  have  one  child,  Myra  G.  He  belongs  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  church,  in  which  he  holds  the  office  of  deacon.  To  church, 
charitable  and  benevolent  work  he  contributes  liberally  and  is  always  found 
on  the  side  of  progress  and  advancement.  Most  of  his  life  having  been  spent 
in  Wayne  county,  he  is  widely  known  among  her  citizens  and  is  held  in 
uniform  regard. 

HON.    OLIVER  H.    SMITH. 

The  subject  of  this  memoir,  now  deceased,  was  a  son  of  Thomas  and 
Lffititia  Smith,  and  was  born  twelve  miles  above  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  on 
Smith's  island,  in  the  Delaware  River,  October  23,  I794-  His  ancestors, 
both  paternal  and  maternal,  were  friends  and  associates  of  William  Penn, 
and  emigrated  with  him  from  England  in  1683.  They  were  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  and  prominent  in  the  early  colonial  history. 

Mr.  Smith  attended  school  at  Lurgan,  but  was  educated  mostly  by  self- 
tuition.  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  18 13  he  left  home  with  but  a  few 
dollars.  In  18 17  he  settled  at  Rising  Sun,  Indiana,  and  the  next  year 
moved  to  Lawrenceburg,  where  he  read  law  under  the  instructions  of  Gen- 
eral Dill,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  Dearborn  county  court  in 
March  of  that  year.  He  immediately  located  in  Versailles,  Ripley  county, 
and  in  1820  came  to  Connersville.  He  had  been  here  but  eighteen  months 
when   he  was   induced  to   become  a  candidate   for   the   legislature,  and  in 


246  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

August,  1822,  was  elected.  Accordingly  he  served  during  the  sessions  of 
1822-3,  and  was  the  member  who  named  Johnson  county,  in  honor  of  Judge 
Johnson,  of  Indiana.  He  was  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee,  etc. 
In  1824  he  was  appointed  prosecuting  attorney  of  the  third  judicial  circuit 
of  Indiana  by  Governor  Hendricks,  in  which  office  he  served  two  years,  dis- 
tinguishing himself  by  prosecuting  some  of  the  most  noted  criminal  cases  in 
the  history  of  Indiana.  In  1826  he  was  elected  to  congress  by  a  large 
majority  over  Hon.  John  Test,  of  Brookville,  one  of  the  oldest  and  best 
known  men  of  the  state.  He  served  during  the  sessions  of  1827-8,  con- 
temporaneously with  such  men  as  Tristram  Burgess,  John  Randolph,  Samuel 
C.  Southard,  etc.  Although  he  made  no  conspicuous  mark  he  gained  the 
reputation  of  a  hard-working,  honest,  sensible  member.  He  practiced  law 
until  1836  when  he  was  elected  to  the  United  States  senate  over  Governor 
Noble  and  Governor  Hendricks,  his  predecessors,  and  served  in  that  august 
body  with  distinguished  ability  for  the  full  term  of  six  years. 

In  1838  he  moved  from  Connersville  to  Indianapolis,  where,  after  the 
close  of  his  senatorial  term,  he  practiced  law  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
March  9,  1859.  He  died  as  he  lived,  a  sincere  Christian.  He  was  the 
author  of  a  book  entitled  Early  Indiana  Trials,  and  Sketches,  published  in 
1858.  He  was  a  man  of  untarnished  reputation,  of  marked  abilit}',  public- 
spirited  and  favored  all  internal  improvements.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  remark- 
abh'  successful  and  wielded  a  great  influence  over  his  juniors;  and  withal  he 
was  a  good  speaker  on  political  and  other  questions,  taking  an  influential 
part  in  the  campaigns. 

JOHN  K.  JEMISON. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  initiates  this  sketch,  John  K.  Jemison,  of 
Connersville  township,  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  is  a  representative  of  one 
of  the  pioneer  families  of  this  county.  John  Jemison,  the  father  of  John  K., 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  in  1793.  When  quite  young  he  was  orphaned  by  the 
death  of  his  father,  and  at  an  early  age  was  "  bound  out"  to  learn  the  trade 
of  tanner.  When  his  time  as  an  apprentice  had  expired  he  went  to  Cum- 
minsville,  Ohio,  and  there  he  worked  at  his  trade  for  one  year.  From  Cum- 
minsville  he  came  to  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  and  located  in  Jackson  town- 
ship, where  he  erected  a  tannery,  which  was  one  of  the  first  in  the  county. 
His  death  occurred  in  1851.  He  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  before 
coijiing  to  Fayette  county,  to  Miss  Cynthia  Coe,  a  native  of  Virginia,  who, 
like  himself,  was  left  an  orphan  in  early  life.  She  survived  her  husband 
many  years.  It  might  be  said  with  regard  to  that  most  estimable  woman, 
that  previously  to  her  marriage,'  and  while  a  resident  of  Cincinnati,  she  was 
employed  as  a  tailoress,  a  common  occupation  for  women  at  that  time.    She 


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also  at  the  same  time  cared  for  a  younger  sister,  the  two  living  together,  and 
while  the  elder  worked  at  her  trade  the  younger  did  the  housework.  Several 
quite  remarkable  coincidences  were  connected  with  the  lives  of  these  two 
women.  Both  were  married  on  the  same  day  and  each  became  the  mother 
of  seven  children,  the  older  having  six  sons  and  one  daughter;  the  younger, 
six  daughters  and  one  son.  Both  of  the  husbands  were  named  John,  and 
both  were  natives  of  the  state  of  Kentucky.  They  were  tanners  by  trade 
and  the  two  had  been  associated  in  business  for  about  a  year  at  Cummins- 
villa.  The  younger  returned  to'  Kentucky,  but  later  came  to  Indiana  and 
settled  on  a  farm,  which  was  his  home  till  death. 

John  Jemison  was  an  industrious,  upright  citizen,  and  his  descendants 
are  numbered  among  the  best  people  of  Fayette  county.  Of  his  seven  chil- 
dren, the  daughter  and  one  son  have  passed  away.  The  surviving  members 
are  as  follows:  Jefferson  H.  and  William,  of  Jackson  township,  Fayette 
county;  John  K.,  of  this  sketch;  Oliver,  of  Nebraska;  and  Samuel,  also  a 
resident  of  Jackson  township,  Fayette  county.  The  daughter,  Jane,  was  the 
eldest  of  the  family.  She  became  the  wife  of  Abram  Myers,  and  was  the 
mother  of  ten  children,  several  of  whom  have  passed  away.  Her  death 
occurred  in  February,  1899.  The  deceased  brother,  Elijah  Jemison,  left  a 
daughter,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  C.  Blacklidge. 

John  K.  Jemison  was  born  at  the  old  homestead  in  Jackson  township, 
Fayette  county,  Indiana,  June  29,  1823,  and  he,  like  his  brothers,  was  reared 
to  the  occupation  of  farming.  In  October,  1850,  he  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Sarah  Ward,  daughter  of  James  and  Osee  (Bell)  Ward.  Mrs.  Jemi- 
son was  born  on  the  Wabash,  in  Parke  county,  Indiana,  August  7,  1834. 
Her  parents  were  natives  of  Kentucky,  came  to  Connersville  in  their  youth 
and  were  married  here.  After  their  marriage  they  settled  in  Parke  county, 
later  returned  to  Connersville  township,  Fayette  county,  and  still  later 
removed  to  Illinois.  The  mother's  death  occurred  some  years  previously  to 
the  father's.  He  afterward  married  again,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
eighty-seven  years  of  age.  Mrs.  Jemison  is  one  of  a  family  of  eight  mem- 
bers, six  of  whom  are  living,  viz. :  Boswell  and  Marion,  wholesale  druggists, 
of  Indianapolis;  Mrs.  Jemison;  Mrs.  Emily  Jemison,  of  Connersville;  Mrs. 
Ada  Guffin,  widow  of  Dr.  John  Guffin;  and  Osee,  wife  of  Greenbury  Hansan, 
of  Jennings  township,  Fayette  county,  Indiana.  Those  deceased  were  Belle, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years;  and  Thompson,  at  the  age  of  seventeen. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  K.  Jemison  lived  in  Jackson  township  for  fifteen 
years  after  their  marriage,  and  then  purchased  the  old  homestead  of  his  par- 
ents, in  the  same  township,  where  they  lived  for  fifteen  years  longer,  and 
since  then  they  have  occupied  their  present  home  near  the  city  of  Conners- 
ville.    They  have   two  sons:  Marion  K.,  at  home;  and  Ward,  a  druggist  of 


248  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Connersville.  For  nearly  half  a  century  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jemison  have  jour- 
neyed through  life  together.  Their  influence  has  ever  been  directed  toward 
advancing  the  interests  of  the  moral  and  religious  conditions  of  the  com- 
munity, and  such  have  been  their  lives  that  they  have  won  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  they  have  been  associated.  They  have  long 
been  worthy  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  to  which  their 
younger  son  also  belongs.  The  elder  son  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church. 

LEWIS  P.   SMITH. 

In  all  ages  the  desire  to  be  remembered  after  one's  brief  span  of  life  is 
finished  has  been  one  of  the  most  important  factors  of  human  existence,  and 
with  many  individuals  has  been  the  motive  of  all  endeavor  and  enterprise. 
To  the  majority,  however,  this  ambition,  laudable  in  itself,  is  not  the  main- 
spring of  conduct,  but  is  more  often  found  in  the  heart  of  a  devoted  friend, 
who  wishes  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  one  who  has  departed  into  the 
silent  land.  Monuments  and  shrines  of  various  kinds  are  erected  and  serve 
their  place,  but  time  crumbles  even  the  hardest  granite  and  marble,  and  the 
printed  page,  on  which  is  recounted  the  life  and  deeds  of  loved  ones,  is 
the  most  enduring  tribute,  especially  as  this  is  so  easily  copied  from  age  to 
age.  We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  place  before  the  readers  of  this  work,  which 
records  the  histories  of  many  of  the  representative  citizens  and  families  of 
Union  county,  a  few  facts  which  have  been  gleaned  m  regard  to  the  life 
of  the  subject  of  this  memoir. 

Lewis  P.  Smith  was  a  well  known  resident  of  Center  township.  Union 
county,  and  was  excelled  by  only  a  few  in  this  section  of  the  state  as  a 
scientist.  The  chief  delight  and  aim  of  his  life  was  to  explore  yet  deeper 
into  the  mysteries  and  secrets  of  nature,  and  for  years  he  gave  thought  to 
little  else.  Born  April  15,  1858,  in  Smithfield,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  he 
attended  the  common  schools  until  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  when,  on 
account  of  his  delicate  health,  he  was  forced  to  abandon  his  studies  for  some 
time.  He  was,  alas!  the  victim  of  that  dread  disease,  consumption,  but  it 
was. many  a  year  ere  his  iron  will  succumbed  to  its  power,  and  few  ever 
made  a  braver  or  more  determined  fight  against  the  foe.  In  his  youth  he 
went  to  Tennessee  and  for  three  years  spent  each  winter  in  sawmills,  in 
order  to  escape  the  hard  northern  season  of  ice  and  snow.  A  great  part  of 
his  future  life  he  passed  in  this  n)anner, — that  is,  in  the  south,  employed  at 
one  thing  or  another. 

October  15,  18S5,  Mr.  Smith  married  Miss  Mary  Olive  Haworth,  daugh- 
ter of  Willis  C.  and  Mary  (Rose)  Haworth,  a  lady  of  fine  attainments. 
Having  graduated  at  the  high  school  in  Liberty,  she  spent  the  next  two  years 
in  Oxford  College,  at   Oxford,   Ohio,  and   in   Glendale  College,  at  Glendale, 


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Ohio.  Subsequently  she  taught  in  the  public  schools  for  some  time,  and, 
also  being  accomplished  as  a  musician,  she  had  pupils  in  the  musical  art  as 
well.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  was  blessed  with  four  children, 
two  of  whom,  Willis  Stanton  and  Ethel,  died  at  the  ages  of  three  and  a  half 
years  and  fourteen  months  respectively.  Harold  Haworth  is  a  fine  lad  of 
ten  years  and  Lloyd  Esteb  Haworth  is  four  years  old. 

For  about  five  years  after  their  marriage  the  young  couple  lived  on  the 
old  homestead  belonging  to  Mr.  Smith's  father,  after  which  they  came  to  the 
old  Haworth  farm  near  Roseburg,  the  property  now  the  home  of  Mrs.  Smith. 
On  account  of  his  poor  health,  which  became  worse  year  by  year,  Mr.  Smith 
was  obliged  to  depend  upon  others  to  do  the  work  of  the  farm,  though  he 
tried  to  exercise  judicious  supervision  over  all  affairs  connected  therewith. 
During  the  winter  seasons  he  continued  to  travel  in  the  south,  passing  most 
of  his  time  in  Tennessee  or  Florida.  His  ever  active  mind  required  food, 
and  he  early  took  up  the  study  of  geology,  natural  history  and  the  allied 
sciences,  becoming  thoroughly  informed  on  these  subjects.  He  took  great 
interest  in  the  collection  of  Indian  and  war  relics,  fossils,  shells,  etc.,  and 
his  large,  fine  cabinets  are  filled  with  valuable  specimens,  carefully  labeled 
and  classified.  Hundreds  of  relics  of  the  civil  war  were  picked  up  on  the 
battlefields  by  himself,  and  in  his  geological  cabinet  he  placed  thousands  of 
specimens.  Besides,  he  secured  a  good  collection  of  old  family  relics  and 
heirlooms,  spinning  wheels,  spinning  jennies,  etc.  In  his  political  views  he 
was  in  accord  with  the  Republican  platform.  His  final  illness  was  of  short 
duration  and  death  came  to  him  October  25,  1896.  His  study  of  geology 
and  science  confirmed  his  belief  in  God,  the  Creator,  and  he  acknowledged 
His  wisdom  and  omnipotence  in  all  things,  but  he  could  not  conform  to  the 
established  church  creeds.  He  was  tall  and  slender  in  physique,  and  his 
face  would  light  up  with  animation  and  earnestness  when  he  conversed  upon 
things  in  which  he  was  deeply  interested.  Of  a  social  nature,  he  loved  to 
have  his  friends  with  him,  and  contributed  much  to  their  enjoyment  by  his 
thoroughly  entertaining  conversation  upon  books  he  had  read,  places  he  had 
visited  and  affairs  of  general  interest.  He  had  no  enemies,  for  his  honest, 
kindly  nature  drew  everj'  one  to  him  and  made  them  his  friends. 

Mrs.  Mary  Olive  Smith  is  still  managing  the  old  Haworth  farm  in  Liberty 
and  Center  townships,  two  and  one-half  miles  south  of  the  county-seat,  for- 
merly owned  by  her  grandparents,  Thomas  and  Olive  (Kelly)  Haworth,  and 
later  by  her  father,  Willis  Capron  Haworth.  The  grandfather  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  possession  of  the  family  estate.  He  died  there  at  the  age  of 
fify-six  years,  and  his  wife,  Olive,  died  a  few  years  previously.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Willis  C. ;  James  Addison,  formerly  a  teacher  and  the  author  of  an 
arithmetic,    and   now   a   resident   of   Liberty;    Marietta,  who   married   T.  J. 


250  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

McAvoy,  and  died  when  about  forty  years  of  age:  she  was  a  teacher  and  a 
fine  writer,  and  was  the  author  of  a  copy-book  which  was  once  used  in  the 
schools;  and  Angehne,  who  died  at  twenty-three,  unmarried.  Thomas 
Haworth  lived  and  died  on  the  old  homestead  mentioned  above,  and  his  next- 
door  neighbor  was  his  brother,  Richard  G. ,  who  owned  the  adjoining  tract  of 
land.  About  1855  Thomas  Haworth  erected  the  substantially  constructed 
frame  house,  with  its  heavy  timbers  and  beams,  which  still  stands,  in  almost 
perfect  preservation  as  a  monument  to  his  handiwork.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Friends'  church  at  Salem,  and  was  a  strong  Abolitionist  and  one  of  the 
conductors  of  the  "underground  railway."  After  his  first  wife's  death  he 
married  Eunice  Johnson,  a  widow,  who  survived  him,  and  later  became  the 
wife  of  William  Shanklin.  Willis  C.  Haworth  was  born  at  Roseburg,  July 
30,  1835,  and  departed  this  life  January  25,  1877.  In  1856  he  married  Mary 
Teresa,  daughter  of  Dr.  Erasmus  Rose,  and  in  1868  they  removed  to  the  farm 
which  had  belonged  to  Thomas  Haworth,  his  father.  Dr.  Erasmus  Rose  was 
born  in  Fayette  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1793,  in  1S24  came  to  Liberty, 
Indiana,  and  up  to  1845  practiced  medicine.  His  death  took  place  at  Van 
Wert,  Ohio.  Mrs.  Mary  T.  Haworth,  born  October  6,  1838,  died  July  8, 
1 88 1.  To  herself  and  husband  five  children  were  born,  namely:  Kit  Carson, 
now  of  Liberty;  Alpheus,  who  died  in  infancy;  Mary  Olive  (Mrs.  Lewis  P. 
Smith);  Angeline,  who  died  at  twenty-one  years;  and  Thomas  Erasmus,  who 
died  in  childhood. 

CHARLES  W.   STIVERS. 

Charles  W.  Stivers,  editor  of  the  Liberty  Herald,  Liberty,  Indiana,  was 
born  in  the  village  of  Decatur,  Adams  county,  Ohio,  August  21,  1848,  sec- 
ond son  in  the  family  of  five  children  of  James  M.  and  Louisa  J.  (Higgins) 
Stivers.  Through  his  veins  flows  a  mixture  of  German  and  Scotch-Irish 
^blood.  His  father  was  of  German  descent  and  his  mother  of  Scotch-Irish, 
both  being  natives  of  Clermont  county,  Ohio,  whence  they  removed  in  early 
life  to  Brown  county,  that  state,  where  for  the  most  part  their  lives  were 
passed.  James  M.  was  a  teacher  for  a  period  of  twenty-five  years,  teaching 
in  Adams,  Brown  and  Clermont  counties.  Also  he  was  a  civil  engineer  and 
was  elected  surveyor  of  Brown  county,  a  position  he  filled  eight  years.  From 
his  ninth  year  he  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  He  died  September  20,  1882,  having  survived  his  first  wife  some 
twenty  years,  leaving  two  sons  by  his  second  wife. 

Charles  W.  Stivers  spent  the  first  fourteen  years  of  his  life  on  a  farm. 
Then  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Southern  Ohio  Argus  at  Georgetown,  Ohio, 
where  he  learned  the  printer's  trade.  This  paper  afterward  became  the 
Brown  County    News.      After   leaving  the  Argus   he  was  for    a  time  on  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  251 

Courier  force  at  Batavia,  Ohio,  and  from  there  he  came  to  Indiana,  stopping 
first  at  Connersviile,  where  he  secured  employment  on  the  Times,  under  W. 
H.  Green.  Later  he  received  further  education  in  job  printing  in  Cincinnati. 
He  was  yet  a  boy  in  his  'teens  and  his  only  opportunity  for  obtaining  an  edu- 
cation had  been  in  the  district  school  and  the  printing  office.  In  July,  iS66, 
he  came  to  Liberty,  Indiana,  and  entered  the  employ  of  J.  H.  McClung, 
then  proprietor  of  the  Liberty  Herald.  Something  over  a  year  later,  when 
but  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  purchased  the  paper,  and  with  the  exception 
of  a  little  more  than  one  year  he  has  been  its  editor  ever  since,  at  times  hav- 
ing associated  with  him  his  brothers,  Scott  and  Jackson  Stivers.  F'rom  1873 
to  1877  he  owned  and  published  the  Brookville  American,  and  during  the 
campaign  of  •1876  he  owned  and  edited  the  Rushville  Republican. 

In  connection  with  this  sketch  of  Mr.  Stivers  and  mention  of  the  Liberty 
Herald  it  may  be  well  to  refer  to  William  Appleton,  who  established  the  first 
printing  office  in  Union  county.  That  was  at  Liberty,  in  1850,  his  office 
being  on  the  corner  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Howe's  grocery.  He  was  a  highly 
educated  man,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  College,  as  also  was  his  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Mary  Anna  Croft;  both  were  natives  of  Burlington,  New 
Jersey.  Mr.  Appleton  resided  here  five  years,  three  years  of  that  time  being 
spent  on  the  Joseph  La  Fuze  farm. 

The  Herald  has  maintained  throughout  the  years  of  Mr.  Stivers'  identity 
with  it  the  reputation  of  being  a  well  edited,  spicy  newspaper;  has  a  large 
circulation,  and  is  widely  read  throughout  the  state.  He  wields  a  facile, 
able  and  at  times  a  vigorous  pen.  He  is  an  ardent  Republican,  and  during, 
the  heat  of  campaigns  he,  figuratively  speaking,  cuts  close  to  the  line  regard- 
less of  the  falling  chips.  Always  a  student,  both  of  books  and  human  nature, 
and  ever  wide  awake  to  what  is  going  on  around  him,  he  has  gained  a  wide 
range  of  information.  His  increasing  years  have  tended  to  broaden  his 
views  and  his  political  articles  are  now  less  tinged  with  partisan  point,  but 
possess  the  true  ring  of  enlightened  citizenship.  Personally,  he  is  affable  at 
all  times  and  has  the  bearing  of  a  gentleman.  In  1882  he  was  made  post- 
master of  Liberty,  being  recommended  by  Senator — later  President — Harri- 
son, his  appointment  being  made  by  President  Arthur,  and  he  served  in  that 
position  four  years. 

Mr.  Stivers  was  married  October  3,  1867,  to  Laura  E.,  daughter  of 
Israel  Freeman,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Union  county.  She  died  in 
March,  1897,  leaving  a  family  of  three  children,  namely:  Frank  A.,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  law  and  literary  departments  of  the  State  University  of  Michigan, 
and  an  attorney  of  Ann  Arbor;  Orion  L. ,  a  graduate  of  Miami  University 
and  associated  with  his  father  in  the  publication  of  the  Herald;  and  Florence 
E.,  now  a  student  in  the  State  University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY, 


JOHN  F.  ROBBINS. 

For  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century  John  F.  Robbins  has  practiced  at  the 
bar  of  Wayne  county  and  during  that  time  his  rise  has  been  gradual,  but  he 
to-day  occupies  a  leading  position  among  the  representatives  of  the  legal 
profession  in  Richmond.  His  reputation  has  been  won  through  earnest, 
honest  labor,  and  his  high  standing  is  a  merited  tribute  to  his  ability. 

Born  in  Economy,  on  the  nth  of  June,  1853,  he  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Rob- 
bins,  a  well-known  citizen  of  Richmond.  Liberal  educational  privileges  were 
afforded  him  and  fitted  him  well  for  the  practical  and  responsible  duties  of 
life.  He  attended  Earlham  College,  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University  and  the 
University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  his  aptitude  gaining  him  a  broad 
classical  and  literary  knowledge.  Prior  to  reading  law  he  engaged  in  teach- 
ing schools  for  a  few  years  in  Economy,  and  then  entered  upon  preparation 
for  his  chosen  profession  as  a  student  in  the  office  of  Charles  H.  Burchenal, 
an  able  attorney  of  Richmond.  Close  application  characterized  this  period 
of  his  career,  and  having  acquired  a  broad  general  knowledge  of  jurisprudence 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Wayne  county,  in  June,  1876.  He  has  always 
been  a  student,  and  prepares  his  cases  with  the  greatest  care,  as  though  a 
similar  question  had  never  before  come  within  his  notice. 

The  first  years  of  his  practice  were  such  as  fall  to  the  lot  of  most  young 
lawyers, — a  novitiate  in  which  he  struggled  to  build  up  a  business,  having  to 
compete  against  old  and  experienced  law\'ers,  whose  tested  powers  enabled 
them  to  secure  the  major  share  of  the  public  patronage.  Gradually,  how- 
ever, his  practice  increased,  as  he  demonstrated  his  ability  to  successfully 
handle  the  intricate  problems  of  jurisprudence,  and  to-day  he  has  a  large 
clientage  which  connects  him  with  the  leading  litigated  interests  of  the  cir- 
cuit. For  a  few  years  he  struggled  on  alone  and  gradually  worked  his  way 
upward;  in  1881  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  Peelle,  with  whom  he 
was  associated  for  three  years,  when  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney,  in 
1884.  For  two  years  he  filled  that  position  and  then  declined  a  re-election. 
During  that  time  he  prosecuted  and  convicted  the  second  man  that  was  ever 
convicted  of  murder  in  Wayne  county.  The  other  trial  had  occurred  seventy 
years  before,  at  Salisbur}',  the  county-seat.  On  his  retirement  from  office 
Mr.  Robbins  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  H.  C.  Fo.\,  which  was  con- 
tinued until  the  latter's  elevation  to  the  appellate  bench.  Since  that  time  he 
has  been  alone  in  practice.  He  served  as  city  attorney  from  1889  until  1891, 
but  his  attention  has  been  given  mostly  to  the  private  practice  of  law,  which 
has  now  assumed  e.xtensive  proportions.  He  is  well  informed  on  the  subject 
of  jurisprudence  in  its  various  departments,  and  can  handle  both  civil  and 
criminal  cases  with  equal  power  and  success.      His  arguments  are  forcible, 


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his  reasoning  sound,  his  deductions  logical  and  the  aim  of  his  eloquence  is  to 
convince.  He  never  fails  to  make  a  strong  impression  upon  judge  and  jury, 
and  has  won  many  notable  forensic  triumphs. 

Within  a  few  weeks  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  Mr.  Robbins  was  married, 
Miss  Rena  Gunther  becoming  his  wife  on  the  2d  of  July,  1876.  Their  union 
has  been  blessed  with  three  sons,  Byram,  Philip  and  Malcolm,  aged  respect- 
ively seventeen,  twelve  and  eight  years.  In  his  political  connection  Mr. 
Robbins  is  a  Republican  and  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  political  questions 
which  affect  the  welfare  of  state  and  nation  and  mold  the  public  policy.  He 
is  a  broad-minded,  progressive  man  and  public-spirited  citizen,  and  in  all 
life's  relations  is  found  true  to  all  the  duties  of  professional  and  social  life 
which  the  day  may  bring  forth. 

MILO  CRANOR. 

One  of  the  pioneers  and  founders  of  Wayne  county  was  the  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Joshua  Cranor,  for  such  was  the  name  he  bore, 
was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  his  birth  having  occurred  September  10, 
1794.  He  was  but  two  years  of  age  when  his  father,  Thomas  Cranor,  died, 
and,  though  it  is  not  certainly  known,  it  is  believed  that  the  Cranor  family 
lived  in  North  Carolina  for  several  generations.  The  three  brothers  of  Joshua 
— Thomas,  Joseph  and  Moses — have  all  passed  to  their  reward. 

In  his  early  manhood  Joshua  Cranor  came  to  Wayne  county,  and  in  181 1 
made  a  settlement  in  what  is  now  known  as  Green  township.  He  improved 
a  farm  situated  about  a  mile  southeast  of  Williamsburg,  and  continued  to 
live  there  until  his  death,  June  3,  1S66.  His  reputation  as  a  business  man, 
citizen  and  neighbor  was  irreproachable,  and  every  one  held  him  in  high 
regard.  When  about  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  married  Susannah,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Johnson,  a  pioneer  of  Wayne  county.  She  was  born  January 
27,  1797,  and  died  at  the  home  of  her  son  Milo,  in  Williamsburg,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1887. 

Five  sons  and  six  daughters  blessed  the  union  of  Joshua  and  Susannah 
Cranor,  and  at  this  time  six  of  the  number  survive.  Martha,  the  eldest 
born,  married  Ephraim  Gates,  and  died  May  20,  1842,  when  in  her  twenty- 
seventh  year  ;  Sarah,  born  March  8,  1S17,  is  the  widow  of  Daniel  Gates,  and 
is  now  a  resident  of  Iowa  ;  Thomas,  born  January  31,  18 19,  died  many  years 
ago  ;  Stephen,  born  in  March,  1821,  is  living  in  Missouri  ;  Ann,  born  August 
29,  1823,  married  David  Pitts,  and  died  many  years  ago;  William,  born 
March  29,  1826,  resides  in  Randolph  county,  Indiana  ;  Hannah  became  the 
wife  of  Edward  Neal  and  lives  in  Richmond,  this  state  ;  Moses,  born  January 
13,  1832,  is  a  citizen  of  Howard  county,  Indiana  ;  Jane,  born  April  23,  1834, 
died  September  7,   1839;  Amanda,  born   ^fay  31,  1837,  became  the  wife  of 


254  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

William  Coggshall,  and  died  September  23,  1886;  and  Milo,  born  September 
I5>  i839>  completes  the  family. 

Milo  Cranor,  the  youngest  child  of  his  parents,  was  born  and  reared  on 
the  old  homestead.  He  remained  with  them,  tenderly  caring  for  them  in 
their  declining  years,  and  justly  received  the  old  home  as  his  inheritance. 
He  has  never  parted  with  the  farm,  to  which  he  is  attached  by  a  thousand 
associations  and  the  traditions  of  his  forefathers,  but  for  the  past  fourteen 
years  he  has  made  his  home  in  Williamsburg,  where  he  has  owned  and  oper- 
ated what  has  long  been  known  as  the  Williamsburg  Mill.  In  his  business 
methods  he  is  systematic,  upright  and  just,  winning  the  approval  of  those 
with  whom  he  has  dealings. 

On  the  9th  of  October,  1862,  Mr.  Cranor  married  Miss  Frances  J.  Irvin, 
a  daughter  of  George  Irvin,  of  Randolph  county,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Cranor  was 
born  in  Ohio  August  16,  1842,  and  died  September  19,  1896.  The  only 
child  of  this  worthy  couple  is  Leonidas  I.,  whose  birth  occurred  March  5, 
1866.  On  March  5,  1892,  he  married  Lizzie  Meredith,  daughter  of  John 
and  Melissa  Meredith,  residents  of  Williamsburg. 

JOHN  W.   TURNER. 

On  the  roster  of  Wayne  county's  officers  appears  the  name  of  John  W. 
Turner  in  connection  with  the  position  of  treasurer.  This  is  an  indication  of 
his  popularity  and  prominence,  and  all  who  know  him  willingly  accord  him 
a  leading  place  among  the  esteemed  citizens  of  the  community.  His  entire 
life  has  been  passed  in  the  county,  and  has  been  one  of  uniform  honor  in 
business  and  fidelity  in  places  of  public  trust.  He  is  therefore  deserving  of 
mention  among  the  representative  men  of  this  section  of  the  state,  and  it  is 
with  pleasure  that  we  present  his  history  to  our  readers. 

A  son  of  Robert  and  Maria  (Thompson)  Turner,  he  was  born  in  New 
Garden  township,  Wayne  county,  on  the  i6th  of  March,  1855.  His  father 
was  born  in  the  same  township  in  the  year  181 5,  and  spent  his  entire  life 
there,  his  death  occurring  in  1870.  He  was  a  successful  farmer,  owning  two 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  highly  improved  and  richly  cultivated  land.  He 
also  engaged  in  raising,  buying  and  selling  stock,  which  he  found  to  be  a 
profitable  source  of  income.  His  political  support  was  given  the  Democracy, 
but  he  took  no  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  party.  He  married  Miss  Maria 
Thompson  and  to  them  have  been  born  two  daughters  and  a  son,  but  the 
daughters  are  now  deceased. 

John  W.  Turner  was  only  six  weeks  old  when  his  mother  died,  at  which 
time  he  was  taken  to  the  home  of  his  uncle,  Benjamin  Moorman,  and  by 
him  was  reared  to  manhood.  He  resided  in  Franklin  township,  near  Bethel, 
and    acquired   his  preliminary   education   in  the   district  schools.      Later  he 


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attended  Amboy  College,  and  on  leaving  school,  when  about  twenty  years  of 
age,  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  a  farmer  and  stock  dealer  of  Frank- 
lin township,  Wayne  county,  to  which  industry  he  devoted  his  energies  until 
called  to  public  office.  He  owned  and  operated  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  arable  land,  and  his  well  tilled  fields  yielded  to  him  abundant 
harvests  for  the  care  and  labor  he  bestowed  upon  them.  He  was  also  very 
successful  in  his  stock  dealing,  shipping  extensively  to  Buffalo,  East  Liberty, 
Cincinnati  and  Indianapolis,  but  mostly  to  the  first  named  city.  His  system- 
atic business  methods,  his  soufid  judgment,  his  enterprise  and  his  laudable 
ambition  all  contributed  to  make  his  business  career  a  prosperous  one. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Turner  has  always  been  a  zealous  Repub- 
lican, active  in  campaign  work  and  laboring  earnestly  for  the  adoption  of  the 
principles  which  he  believed  would  best  advance  good  government.  He  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  county  treasurer  in  the  autumn  of  1896  and  entered 
upon  his  duties  on  the  i6th  of  November  of  that  year,  so  that  he  is  the  pres- 
ent incumbent.  He  has  been  very  efficient  and  faithful,  making  a  most 
competent  officer.  He  was  also  treasurer  of  the  Wayne  Count}'  Fair 
Association  in  1898,  and  has  ever  been  interested  in  this  enterprise  and  in 
all  movements  or  measures  for  the  welfare  of  the  agriculturists  and  stock 
dealers  of  the  county. 

On  the  23d  of  September,  1876,  Mr.  Turner  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Josephine,  daughter  of  Nathan  Harlan,  of  Bethel.  Socially  he  is  con- 
nected with  Bethlehem  Lodge,  No.  250,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Hollandsburg  Lodge, 
No.  476,  K.  P.,  and  Hokendauqua,  No.  94,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  while  his  life  has  not  been 
characterized  by  thrilling  incidents,  his  record  is  that  of  a  man  who  has  ever 
been  true  to  himself,  his  neighbors  and  his  country.  He  enjoys  the  regard 
of  his  fellow  men,  and  is  very  widely  and  favorably  known  in  Richmond  and 
Wayne  county. 

CHARLES  G.  SWAIN. 

Charles  G.  Swain,  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  of  Wayne  county  and  an 
esteemed  resident  of  Richmond,  is  numbered  among  the  native  sons  of  the 
Buckeye  state,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  the  city  of  Dayton,  September 
29,  1849.  The  family  is  of  English  descent,  and  was  founded  at  an  early 
day,  on  Nantucket  island,  off  the  coast  of  Massachusetts,  representatives  of 
the  name  being  among  the  original  purchasers  of  land  there  in  colonial  days. 
The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Charles  G.  Swain,  Sr.,  was  a  native  of  Nan- 
tucket island,  whence  he  removed  to  Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  and  thence  to 
Dayton,  where  he  settled  in  the  early  '20s.  There  he  made  his  home  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1867,  when  he  had  attained  the  age  of  seventy- 
five  years.      For  a  number  of  years  he  served  as  judge  of  the  probate  court  of 


256  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Montgomery  county,  Ohio,  and  was  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen, 
taking  an  active  part  in  molding  the  public  policy.  He  served  for  two 
terms  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  from  Montgomery  county,  and  in 
his  political  associations  was  first  a  Whig  and  afterward  a  Republican. 
While  in  the  east  he  had  served  as  captain  of  a  whaling  vessel.  Very  active 
in  church  work,  he  served  as  a  local  Methodist  minister  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  and 
at  Wesley  chapel,  and  built  the  Davison  chapel  in  Miami  City.  His  wife  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Alice  Paddock,  and  of  their  marriage  were  born  seven 
children,  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 

One  of  the  number,  Thomas  H.  Swain,  was  the  father  of  our  subject. 
He  was  born  in  Dayton,  and  there  spent  his  entire  life.  In  his  youth  he 
learned  the  cabinetmaker's  trade,  and  afterward  carried  on  business  along 
that  line  in  Dayton  and  in  Chicago  and  Cincinnati.  He  married  Miss  Lydia 
B.  Broderick,  of  Dayton,  and  to  them  were  born  two  daughters  and  a  son. 
The  father  died  in  1892,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years. 

Charles  G.  Swain  spent  the  first  nineteen  years  of  his  life  in  Dayton, 
Ohio,  and  during  that  period  acquired  a  good  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  the  city.  He  then  came  to  Richmond,  in  1869,  and  has  since  made  his 
home  in  Wayne  county,  with  the  exception  of  about  three  years.  In  the 
city  of  his  nativity  he  devoted  two  j'ears  to  mastering  the  molder's  trade, 
with  the  firm  of  Brownell  &  Company,  and  completed  his  apprenticeship  with 
Robinson  &  Company,  of  Richmond.  He  obtained  employment  with  the 
Hoosier  Drill  Company  in  1880  and  continued  with  that  company  until  1887, 
being  one  of  their  most  trusted  and  efficient  employes.  In  the  year  men- 
tioned he  was  chosen  for  public  service,  being  elected  to  the  office  of  city 
clerk,  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  filled  that  position  for  three  terms,  or 
seven  years,  and  in  1894  was  elected  clerk  of  the  circuit  court,  assuming  the 
duties  of  the  office  October  30,  1896,  his  term  to  cover  a  period  of  four  years. 
He  is  very  prompt  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  and  his  service 
has  received  high  commendation  from  the  bench  and  bar  of  the.  Wayne 
circuit. 

Mr.  Swain  is  quite  an  active  factor  in  political  circles  and  was  secretary 
of  the  Republican  county  central  committee,  which  position  he  filled  for  a 
number  of  years.  In  January,  1898,  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee for  a  two-years  term,  and  his  able  management  and  sound  judgment 
have  already  proven  important  factors  in  the  political  interests  of  the  count}'. 
He  studies  closelj'  the  questions  of  the  day  and  gives  to  Republican  princi- 
ples an  intelligent  support.  He  belongs  to  the  United  Presbyterian  church, 
and  is  a  very  prominent  Mason,  having  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of 
the  Scottish  rite  in  Indianapolis  Consistory,  S.  P.  R.  S.  He  also  belongs  to 
lola   Lodge,    No.    53,  Knights  of   Pythias;  to  Whitewater   Lodge,    No.    41, 


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Independent  Order   of  Odd    Fellows,  of    which    he    was  secretary   for   eight 
years;  and  Osceola  Tribe,  No.   15,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

Mr.  Swain  has  been  twice  married.  On  the  14th  of  September,  1871, 
he  wedded  Miss  Clara  E.  Samuels,  of  Richmond,  and  they  had  four  children, 
of  whom  three  are  living:  William  G. ,  Louie  E.  and  George  C.  The 
mother  died  February  17,  1891,  and  on  the  nth  of  April,  1S92,  Mr.  Swain 
married  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Prescott,  of  Richmond.  Both  are  widely  and  favor- 
ably known  in  this  city,  and  enjoy  the  friendship  of  many  of  Richmond's- 
best  people.  Mr.  Swain  is  an  intelligent  and  popular  official,  systematic  andi 
careful  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  courteous  to  all,  and  no  man  connected! 
with  the  courts  of  Wayne  county  has  a  greater  number  of  warm  friends  than 
has  he. 

DANIEL  T.    HARVEY. 

The  Harvey  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  Union  county  and  has  been 
noted  from  the  beginning  of  this  century  for  the  sterling  traits  that  are  so 
characteristic  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  constituting  him  a  fitting  repre- 
sentative of  the  name.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  adjoining  the  one  which  he 
owns  and  cultivates  to-day,  the  date  of  the  event  being  June  19,  1846.  His 
whole  life  has  been  spent  in  Brownsville  township,  and  everything  tending  to 
advance  the  best  interests  of  this  region  has  received  his  earnest  support  and 
attention.  In  all  his  views  he  is  liberal  and  broad-minded,  striving  to  settle 
all  difficult  questions  in  an  unbiased,  logical  manner,  and  weighing  in  an 
impartial  way  for  himself  all  evidence  presented.  Both  he  and  his  estimable 
wife  are  members  of  the  Universalist  church  at  Pleasant  Hill,  and  are  gener- 
ous in  their  contributions  to  the  poor  and  needy. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  Francis  Harvey,  who  came 
in  early  days  to  dwell  in  this  township,  thus  being  one  of  the  first  to  perma- 
nently locate  in  this  vicinity.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth 
Snyder,  and  their  son  Michael,  father  of  Daniel  T.  Harvey,  was  born  in  this 
township  in  18 19,  and  died  in  1881.  He  chose  for  his  wife  Mary  Miller, 
daughter  of  Henry  Miller,  one  of  the  earl}'  pioneers  of  this  township,  and 
formerly  a  Pennsylvanian.  Mary  Miller  had  but  one  sister,  Rosanna,  and  she 
became  the  wife  of  Moses,  a  brother  of  Michael  Harvey.  This  couple  had 
no  children  and  both  are  deceased,  but  for  many  years  Michael  and  Moses 
Harvey  lived  on  adjoining  farms,  portions  of  the  original  Harvey  estate. 
Henry  Miller  lived  to  be  over  eighty  years  old,  and  was  survived  several  years 
by  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Anna  Spitzn'agle.  The  first  home  of 
Michael  Harvey  and  wife  after  their  marriage  was  situated  west  of  Browns- 
ville, and  later  they  purchased  a  tract  of  two  hundred  acres  near  Liberty. 
Their  last  homestead  was  a  beautiful  farm  of  three  hundred  acres,  finely 
improved,  and  about  one  and  a  half  miles  west  of  Liberty  on  the  Brownsville 


258  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

road.  Mr.  Harve)"  did  a  large  business  for  ^ears  in  cattle  and  live  stock,  and 
was  a  very  successful  financier.  His  widow  sun'ived  his  death  about  a  dozen 
^ears.  He  was  a  Democrat  and  was  not  desirous  of  obtaining  public  office, 
preferring  to  attend  strictly  to  his  own  affairs.  All  of  his  children  attaining 
majority  are  living  (1899)  and  are  named  respectively'  James  Monroe,  Daniel 
T..  George  H.,  Lavina  A.  and  Ida  May. 

Daniel  T.  Hai^e\-  has  always  been  an  agriculturist  from  his  youth  up 
and  has  made  a  success  of  his  enterprises  in  this  line.  He  remained  on  the 
old  homestead  until  he  arrived  at  his  majorit}%  %vhen  he  concluded  that  he 
would  start  in  independent  life.  In  time  he  was  enabled  to  purchase  his 
grandfathers  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  acres,  and  later  he  also 
bought  the  eightj'-acre  place  where  he  now  makes  his  home.  About  seven 
years  ago  he  built  his  present  commodious,  modern  house,  near  the  Chfton 
pike,  and  has  otherwise  greatl\-  improved  his  place.  A  few  years  ago  he  sold 
the  old  farm  which  his  grandfather  had  owned  and  invested  the  proceeds  in 
various  enterprises,  chiefl}',  however,  in  making  changes  upon  his  home  place. 
In  his  political  creed  he  adheres  to  the  tenets  of  his  father,  voting  for  Demo- 
cratic nominees. 

November  4,  1869,  Mr.  Harvey  married  Miss  Lovis  Adney,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Susan  Adne5%  of  English  origin.  Her  father  has  passed  to  his 
reward,  but  her  mother  is  still  living,  now  in  her  eighty-seventh  year,  her 
home  being  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Harvey.  The  Adney  family  was  one  of 
the  first  to  make  a  permanent  settlement  near  the  town  of  Liberty.  Though 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Har\"e}"  have  not  been  blessed  with  children  of  their  own,  the}' 
have  reared  a  boy  from  his  early  childhood  and  now  have  living  with  them  a 
niece,  Emma  Simms,  fifteen  years  old.  she  having  been  a  member  of  the 
famil}-  for  the  past  three  years.  Both  he  and  his  wife  have  hosts  of  sincere 
friends  and  well-wishere  in  this  neighborhood,  and  with  one  accord  they  speak 
in  the  highest  terms  of  the  Harvey  household. 

JOSEPH  FINNEY. 
Joseph  Finne\%  who  was  one  of  the  extensive  and  wealthy  agriculturists 
ol  Wayne  county,  was  born  in  West  Milton,  Miami  county,  Ohio,  December 
ji,  1815.  and  died  in  Fountain  City,  Jul}'  16,  1898.  His  parents,  Robert  and 
Hannah  (Hickman)  Finney,  were  natives  of  Grayson  county,  North  Carolina, 
the  former  of  English,  and  the  latter  of  English  and  Irish  descent.  The  father 
served  in  the  war  of  18 12,  on  the  frontier  of  Indiana  territory,  being  then  a 
resident  of  Kentucky.  In  18 14  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Miami  county, 
Ohio,  and  there  reared  a  family  of  four  daughters  and  two  sons,  Joseph  being 
the  fifth  in  order  of  birth.  The  parents  spent  their  remaining  days  in  Miami 
countv. 


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Joseph  Finney  was  reared  in  his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  day  entered 
upon  his  business  career,  his  wages  going  for  the  support  of  the  family. 
His  school  privileges  were  quite  limited,  but  he  was  ambitious  to  learn, 
and  made  the  most  of  his  opportunities  in  leisure  hours.  Thus  he  qualified 
himself  for  teaching,  which  profession  he  followed  for  fifteen  years,  meeting 
with  good  success  in  the  undertaking.  He  also  engaged  in  keeping  books 
and  making  collections  for  the  merchants  of  Milton,  and  later  followed  mer- 
chandising in  Gettysburg,  Ohio,  for  a  time.  Subsequently,  however,  he 
engaged  in  farming  in  Miami  county,  about  four  miles  south  of  Peru,  and 
engaged  in  its  cultivation  for  twelve  years,  when  he  came  to  Wayne  county, 
making  his  home  in  Wayne  township  for  eight  years,  when  he  removed  to 
New  Garden  township.  In  1884  he  retired  from  agricultural  pursuits  and 
took  up  his  residence  in  Fountain  City,  but  still  continued  to  manage  his 
farming  property,  which  had  become  quite  extensive.  From  time  to  time, 
as  his  financial  resources  had  increased,  he  had  added  to  his  land.  His 
home  farm  was  located  south  of  Fountain  City,  and  he  owned  what  is  known 
as  the  Tommy  Brown  farm  a  mile  and  a  quarter  northeast  of  town.  These 
ho  rented,  deriving  therefrom  a  good  income.  He  also  had  a  farm  of 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  Jay  county,  Indiana,  and  in  1893 
he  purchased  his  father's  old  farm  in  Miami  county,  Ohio,  of  which 
he  had  inherited  eighty  acres, — the  old  homestead  on  which  his  boyhood 
days  had  been  spent  and  which  is  now  in  possession  of  his  family.  He  also 
had  considerable  money  out  at  interest,  and  in  all  his  business  transactions 
manifested  keen  discrimination,  great  energy  and  strict  integrity.  These 
qualities  insured  him  prosperity,  and  although  he  started  out  in  life  for  him- 
self empty-handed  when  a  youth,  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  accounted 
of  the  wealthy  men  of  Wayne  county. 

Mr.  Finney  was  twice  married.  On  the  ist  of  November,  1855,  he  wed- 
ded Margaret  Ann,  daughter  of  James  and  Margaret  Reed,  of  Miami  county, 
Indiana.  She  died  April  18,  1863,  after  which  Mr.  Finney  came  to  Wayne 
county,  his  sister  acting  as  his  housekeeper  until  his  second  marriage.  It 
was  on  the  26th  of  August,  1869,  that  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Isaiah  and  Elizabeth  (EUeman)  Pemberton,  of  Miami  county,  Ohio,  by  whom 
he  had  one  child,  Margaret.  The  children  of  the  first  marriage  are  Ginevra, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Charles  Clark,  and  died  in  her  twenty-third  year, 
leaving  a  son,  George  R. ;  Eldridge,  who  is  now  an  inmate  of  an  insane  asy- 
lum; Mrs.  Almeda  Trueblood,  of  Richmond,  who  has  three  children, — Virgil, 
Laura  B.  and  Herschel  J.  Trueblood.  Margaret,  the  daughter  of  the  second 
marriage,  is  with  her  mother. 

Mr.  Finney  was  in  poor  health  during  the  last  five  years  of  his  life,  but 
•continued  in  the  active  management  of  his  property  and  business  interests  until 


260  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

two  years  prior  to  his  death,  when  Benjamin  B.  Myrick  was  appointed  guardian. 
His  daughter  Margaret  had  been  his  able  assistant  in  business  during  the  five  years 
prior  to  his  death,  having  attended  to  the  farms  and  detail  of  business.  She 
familiarized  herself  with  everything  in  this  connection  and  was  in  close  touch 
with  her  father's  financial  affairs,  he  placing  the  utmost  confidence  in  her 
ability  and  judgment. 

Mr.  Finney  cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison, 
and  when  the  Republican  party  was  formed  he  joined  its  ranks  and  cast  his 
last  ballot  for  William  Mcl\inley.  He  had  been  a  stanch  opponent  of  slavery 
in  ante-bclhi})i  days,  and  when  many  abolitionists  were  threatened  with 
death  by  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle  he  challenged  them  to  come  on, 
asserting  that  he  was  prepared  for  them.  At  all  times  he  stood  fearlessly  in 
defence  of  what  he  believed  to  be  right,  and  neither  fear  nor  favor  could 
swerve  him  from  such  a  course.  He  was  thoroughly  versed  in  the  Bible,  and 
attended  the  services  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  but  was  not  a  mem- 
ber. He  also  kept  well  informed  on  the  issues  of  the  day  and  did  not  regard 
lightly  his  duties  of  citizenship  and  his  obligations  to  his  fellow  men.  He 
was  honorable  in  his  dealings,  straightforward  in  all  life's  relations,  and  com- 
manded uniform  respect  throughout  his  adopted  county. 

DANIEL  EIKENBERRY. 
This  successful  farmer  and  respected  citizen,  Daniel  Eikenberry,  of 
Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  Cottage  Grove  his  postoffice 
address,  was  born  on  a  farm  adjoining  the  one  on  which  he  now  lives,  April  8, 
1840,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Kingery)  Eikenberry.  His  par- 
ents were  both  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion,  who  came  west  in  early  life, 
settling  with  their  parents  in  Preble  county,  Ohio.  The  paternal  grand- 
father of  our  subject  was  Peter  Eikenberry.  Mrs.  Eikenberry  was  a  girl  of 
eight  years  when  her  family,  the  Kingerys,  moved  to  Ohio.  In  Preble  county 
the  parents  of  Daniel  passed  from  childhood  to  manhood  and  womanhood, 
respectively,  and  there  they  were  married.  Later  they  came  over  to  Indiana 
and  settled  on  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  seventy  acres  in  Union  county. 
The  father  was  born  August  i,  1792,  and  died  December  27,  1870.  The 
mother,  born  May  12,  1795,  died  January  6,  1885,  and  the  date  of  their 
marriage  was  September  30,  1814.  In  their  family  were  thirteen  children, 
of  whom  four  died  when  young,  and  of  the  others  all  except  one  reared 
families.  Abraham  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga  while  serving 
as  a  private  m  an  Iowa  regiment.  John  and  Daniel  are  the  only  ones  now 
living.  The  former  is  a  stock  dealer  residing  at  Russiaville,  Howard  county, 
Indiana.  Martin  and  Peter  spent  their  lives  and  died  near  the  old  home. 
Henry  owned  and  occupied  what  is  now  known  as  the  Henry  Witter  farm. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  261 

Of  the  daughters,  Lydia  married  Martin  Witter  and  was  the  mother  of 
Joseph  Witter.      Mary  married  George  Keeler,  of  Cottage  Grove. 

Daniel  Eikenberry  remained  at  the  parental  home  until  he  was  twenty- 
three  years  of  age,  when  he  married  and  settled  on  a  rented  farm.  Some 
time  later  he  moved  to  the  farm  he  has  since  owned  and  occupied,  eighty 
acres  of  fine  land,  which  by  his  industry  and  good  management  has  been 
brought  under  a  high  state  of-cultivation.  The  buildings,  all  substantial  and 
convenient,  have  been  erected  by  him.  He  has  devoted  his  energies  to  gen- 
eral farming  and  stock-raising  and  makes  a  practice  of  feeding  his  own  grain. 

Mr.  Eikenberry  was  married  February  25,  1864,  to  Miss  Isabel  Toler, 
daughter  of  Bird  and  Elizabeth  Toler,  who  was  born  on  the  farm  where  her 
brother,  Elijah  Toler,  now  lives,  in  Union  county.  After  almost  thirty  years  of 
married  life  their  happy  union  was  severed  by  her  death,  which  occurred  Jan- 
uary 15,  1894.  To  them  were  born  eleven  children,  namely:  William,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  five  years;  Henry,  residing  on  the  home  farm;  Lizzie,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years;  Mary,  who  died  in  infancy;  Emma,  wife  of 
George  Ball;  May,  wife  of  Robert  Hass;  Riley,  on  the  home  farm;  Addie, 
at  home;   and  Anna,  Laura  and  Orie,  also  at  hoflne. 

Mr.  Eikenberry  and  his  family  are  identified  with  the  German  Baptist 
church,  being  a  member  of  the  Four-Mile  congregation. 

TLMOTHY  THISTLETHWAITE. 

Since  he  came  to  Richmond  about  seventy  years  ago,  the  gentleman  of 
whom  this  sketch  is  penned  has  been  a  witness  of  very  important  changes  in 
this  vicinity,  and  his  reminiscences  of  the  early  days  here  are  most  interest- 
ing and  entertaining  to  a  listener.  Generous  and  big-hearted,  jovial  and 
kindly  in  disposition,  he  has  never  lacked  for  friends,  and  many  of  them  will 
peruse  his  life  record,  as  written  here,  with  deep  interest. 

He  is  of  I£nglish  descent,  his  father,  William  Thistlethwaite,  having  been 
born  near  the  city  of  Leeds,  April  3,  1792,  and  until  1819  he  worked  at 
whatever  he  could  find  to  do,  whereby  he  might  earn  an  honest  livelihood. 
In  the  year  mentioned,  he  determined  to  come  to  America,  where  he 
believed  he  might  succeed.  Landing  in  Philadelphia,  he  proceeded  to 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  and,  as  he  had  but  twenty-five  cents  left,  he  was 
glad  to  take  a  position  in  the  Brandywine  flouring-mills,  where,  however,  he 
remained  but  a  short  time.  His  next  step  was  to  rent  a  farm,  near  Wilming- 
ton, where  he  lived  for  eight  years,  then  removing  to  a  farm  in  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania,  on  which  place  the  battle  of  Chadd's  Ford  had  been 
fought.  In  1828  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the 
butcher's  business  for  a  few  months,  and  the  following  year  he  came  to  Rich- 
mond.     Here  he  purchased  the  Baxter  farm  (at  one  time  owned  by  Senator 


262  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

William  Baxter),  now  partly  included  within  the  western  portion  of  Rich- 
mond, but  at  the  end  of  five  years  he  sold  that  place,  and  bought  the  one 
now  owned  by  the  state  of  Indiana,  and  occupied  by  the  East  Haven  Insane 
Asylum.  This  place,  comprising  two  hundred  and  forty  acres,  is  one  of  the  most 
fertile  and  beautiful  farms  in  the  county.  In  1855  Mr.  Thistlethwaite  retired, 
having  amassed  a  goodly  fortune  by  his  energy,  perseverance  and  industry. 
Considering  the  many  disadvantages  under  which  he  had  commenced  life  in 
a  strange  country,  without  a  dollar,  and  with  little  education  to  aid  him,  the 
success  which  he  wrought  for  himself  was  remarkable.  He  was  a  faithful 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  belonging  to  the  North  A  street  meeting. 
The  active  principles  of  the  Friends — harmony  and  loving  helpfulness  toward 
mankind — were  daily  exemplified  in  his  life,  and  all  who  knew  him  loved 
and  revered  him.  He  married  Elizabeth  Wetherald,  and  of  their  eight  chil- 
dren, Eleanor,  of  Richmond,  never  married;  John,  deceased,  was  a  success- 
ful farmer  of  Hamilton  county,  Indiana;  George  is  a  retired  farmer  of  Boone 
county,  Indiana;  Mary  (deceased)  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Birdsall,  and 
their  son,  William,  is  the  president  of  Swarthmore  College,  near  Pniladelphia; 
Thomas  and  William  have  passed  to  the  silent  land;  and  Henry  is  a  farmer 
of  Hamilton  county,  Indiana.  The  father  of  these  children  departed  this 
life  August  12,  1 87 1,  mourned  by  all  who  had  known  him. 

Timothy  Thistlethwaite  was  born  near  Wilmington,  Delaware,  September 
16,  1 82 1,  and  was  consequently  about  eight  3'ears  old  when  his  father 
located  in  the  neighborhood  of  Ricfimond.  The  lad  attended  the  Richmond 
public  schools  for  some  years  and  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  father  until 
he  was  twenty-five  years  of  age.  He  then  engaged  in  the  task  of  building  a 
sawmill  on  the  west  fork  of  White  Water  river  (not  far  from  this  city),  at  a 
point  known  as  Thistlethwaite's  Pond.  This  mill  he  operated  for  some  five 
years.  In  1854,  in  company  with  J.  C.  Ratliff  and  Miles  J.  Shinn,  he  built 
a  paper  mill  in  Richmond,  and  for  a  period  of  about  five  years  was  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  paper,  under  the  style  of  the  Hoosier  Paper  Manu- 
facturing Company.  His  next  enterprise  was  the  running  of  a  flouring-mill 
in  this  city  in  partnership  with  Thomas  Birdsall,  which  occupied  his  time  for 
four  years.  Next  he  purchased  a  farcn  in  the  western  part  of  Richmond,  and 
in  addition  to  cultivating  the  place  manufactured  brick  until  1S90,  since 
which  time  he  has  given  his  sole  attention  to  the  management  of  his  home- 
stead. As  a  business  man  he  has  been  noted  for  bringing  to  bear  an  energy 
and  perseverance  in  an  undertaking  until  it  had  been  carried  to  a  point  of 
assured  success,  and  strict  integrity  and  justice  have  characterized  all  his 
actions.  In  his  political  opinions  he  places  principle  above  party.  Relig- 
iously, he  follows  in  the  footsteps  of  his  ancestors,  and  is  a  valued  member 
of  the  Friends'  ineetin". 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  :?63 

On  the  3d  of  January,  1849,  Mr.  Thistlethwaite  married  Sarah  Rathff.  a 
daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Mary  Rathff,  and  their  three  children  are  William 
C,  Edward  H.  and  Mary  E.  The  elder  son  is  engaged  in  the  brick  manu- 
facturing business  in  this  city,  and  the  younger  son  also  makes  his  home 
here.  The  first  mentioned  married  Mis3  Clarinda  Hoggatt,  and  the  latter 
wedded  Miss  Bertha  L.  Hoffman.  Mary  E.  is  the  wife  of  Charles  S.  Ows- 
ley, an  attorney-at-law  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Her  higher  education  was 
obtained  in  Wilmington  College,  Ohio,  and,  possessing  unusual  artistic  abil- 
ity, she  has  executed  a  number  of  very  fine  paintings  of  both  portrait  and 
landscape  subjects.  January  3,  1899,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thistlethwaite  celebrated 
their  golden  wedding,  having  been  married   fifty  years. 

EDWIN  HADLEY. 

Dr.  Edwin  Hadley,  son  of  Jonathan  Hadley  and  Olive  /ur  Mendenhall, 
his  wife,  was  born  May  16,  1826,  and  died  October  12,  1891.  He  was  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Simon,  the  scribe  who  came  over  from  England  in  1680, 
and  settled  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  On  his  mother's  side  of  the 
house  he  was  connected  with  the  great  Mendenhall  and  Harlan  families.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  Hiram  Mendenhall,  the  pioneer  abolitionist  who  presented 
the  petition  to  Henry  Clay,  asking  him  to  free  his  slaves,  in  spite  of  the 
threats  of  the  mob.  Clay's  bitter  speech  in  reply  lost  him  the  presidency, 
upon  which  his  heart  was  set. 

Dr.  Edwin  Hadley  was  married  in  1854,  to  Jemima  Doan,  by  whom  he 
had  ten  children,  six  of  whom  survive  him:  Eliza  D.  married  William  Men- 
denhall; Edwin  Clarence  married  Emma  Hill;  Turner  W.,  Horace  G.  and 
Jessie  C,  all  of  whom  reside  at  Richmond,  Indiana;  also  Anna  M.,  who 
married  Willard  Read,  and  settled  at  Seattle,  Washington. 

Dr.  Edwin  Hadley  died  in  1886,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  Asa 
physician  he  graduated,  in  1856,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  bearing  the  honors  of 
his  class.  He  took  a  second  course  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  then  entered 
regularly  upon  his  professional  duties,  which  he  followed  for  thirty  years, 
loved  and  honored  by  all  who  knew  him.  He  received  an  honorary  appoint- 
ment as  surgeon  during  the  civil  war;  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  Ohio 
State  Medical  Society;  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society,  where 
he  served  as  president  and  was  appointed  a  delegate  to  the  national  conven- 
tion held  at  Philadelphia  in  June,  1876.  He  was  depended  upon  in-  his 
papers  and  his  discussions  for  the  clear,  analytic  powers  of  his  mind;  but  his 
chiefest  post  of  duty  was  the  bedside  of  his  patients,  whom  he  served  with 
unswerving  devotion.  After  a  lingering  sickness,  borne  with  Christian  resig- 
nation, he  died  at  his  home  surrounded  by  his  loved  ones  and  ministered 
unto  by  his  many  friends,  who  repaid  their  debts  to  him  in  the  same  spirit  of 


264  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

loving  sacrifice  that  he  had  exhibited  toward  them.  President  Joseph  Moor, 
President  J.  J.  Mills  and  Dr.  Dougan  Clark  offered  loving  tributes  to  the 
deceased  at  the  funeral  services.  The  burden  of  the  discourse  was  "  Mark 
the  perfect  man  and  behold  the  upright,  for  the  end   of   that  man  is  peace." 

HERBERT  S.   VOORHEES. 

Professor  Herbert  S.  Voorhees,  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of 
Brookville,  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  is  prominently  before  the  people  as  an 
instructor  whose  ability  is  rapidly  forcing  him  to  the  front  in  educational  cir- 
cles. He  was  born  August  31,  1859,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  is  a  son  of 
Richard  and  Nancy  (Pitman)  Voorhees.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Reading, 
Ohio,  and  spent  his  entire  lile  within  sight  of  the  place  on  which  he  was  born. 
He  was  an  unassuming  man,  temperate  in  his  habits,  of  upright,  honorable, 
character  and  generous  to  a  fault.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  combining  both  vocations  when  occasion  demanded. 
Mrs.  Voorhees  is  still  living.  Three  children  were  born  to  Richard  Voorhees 
and  wife,  and  to  these  children  it  has  been  the  laudable  aim  of  both  parents 
to  give  the  best  possible  education.  Our  subject  was  the  eldest  of  the  trio; 
next  came  Louise,  who  passed  through  the  Wj'oming  high  school,  attended 
the  Cincinnati  Conservatory  of  Music,  and  is  now  engaged  in  teaching  in  the 
schools  here.  Mayme,  the  younger  daughter,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Hartwell 
(Ohio)  high  school,-  studied  stenography  in  Cincinnati,  and  now  has  a  good 
position  in  that  city. 

Professor  Voorhees'  boyhood  was  spent  on  a  farm,  the  years  from  five 
to  fourteen,  in  Rush  county,  Indiana,  where  he  was  an  attendant  of  the  pub- 
-lic  schools.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  had  finished  the  high-school  course  at 
Cincinnati.  In  1881  he  matriculated  at  the  Belmont  College,  graduating 
three  years  later,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  The  two  years 
immediately  succeeding  this  were  spent  in  teaching  physics  and  chemistry  in 
that  institution,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Science,  and 
later  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon  him.  He  now  accepted 
a  position  as  bookkeeper  with  the  Walnut  Hills  Coal  Company,  of  Cincinnati, 
where  he  remained  one  year,  and  then  accepted  a  more  lucrative  position 
with  the  Lockwood  Lumber  Company.  He  was  here  as  bookkeeper  for  sev- 
eral months  and  connected  with  the  Stearns  &  Foster  Company  for  two  years. 
In  January,  1892,  he  came  to  Brookville,  Indiana,  and  has  since  been  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  at  this  place.  The  methods  employed  by  him  in 
teaching  have  placed  the  Brookville  high  school  on  a  much  higher  plane  than 
it  formerly  occupied,  and  the  efficiency  of  his  work  being  seen  and  appre- 
ciated by  the  board  of  education  he  has  been  elected  to  the  office  of  superin- 
tendent for  the  coming  year,  to  succeed  Noble  Harter. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  265 

A  man  of  deep  learning  and  strong  force  of  character,  he  has  not  been 
slow  to  improve  himself  through  the  advantages  afforded  by  a  close  personal 
contact  with  such  men  as  Professor  A.  G.  Weatherby  and  Professor  P.  V.  N. 
Meyer,  the  former  professor  in  geology  and  the  latter  in  history  in  the  Cin- 
cinnati University.  He  has  developed  an  unusual  degree  of  proficiency  in 
geological  research,  a  study  in  which  he  has  taken  great  pleasure.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Anthropological  Club  and  has  been  secretary  of  the  organiza- 
tion for  several  years.  May  31,  1899,  was  solemnized  the  marriage  of  Pro- 
fessor Voorhees  and  Miss  Sarah  Bracken,  of  Brookville,  Indiana. 

WILLIAM   H.    BRADBURY. 

A  native  of  Wayne  county,  and  for  thirty-six  years  a  resident  of  Rich- 
mond, William  Hervey  Bradburj'  enjoys  an  enviable  position,  having  by 
honorable  and  correct  business  methods  gained  the  confidence  of  his  fellow 
townspeople. 

He  was  born  in  Jacksonburg  on  October  23,  1825.  He  belongs  to  a 
pioneer  family,  his  ancestors  having  come  to  Wayne  county  in  the  early  part 
of  the  present  century.  His  grandfather,  David  Bradbury,  was  born  near 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey.  After  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  in  which  he 
he  took  part  in  some  capacity,  while  yet  a  youth,  he  married  Susanna  Craig, 
of  his  native  town.  This  occurred  in  17S2.  He  engaged  in  farming  a  few 
years  in  each  of  the  states  of  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and  Kentucky,  locat- 
ing in  Warren  county,  Ohio,  in  1797,  and  removing  to  Butler  county,  Ohio, 
in  1804,  where  he  lived  a  number  of  years,  finally  coming  to  Wayne  county, 
Indiana,  where  he  died  on  his  farm  near  Green's  Fork,  in  1824. 

Abner  Marshal  Bradbury,  the  fourth  son  of  David  and  Susanna,  was 
born  in  1798  on  his  father's  Warren  county  farm,  on  which  the  Shaker  town, 
Union  Village,  was  afterward  located.  His  youth  was  spent  on  the  Butler 
county  farm.  He  attended  school  in  a  log  school-house,  one  and  a  half  miles 
distant,  where  a  three-months  term  was  held  each  winter.  In  181 5  his 
father  bought  a  quarter-section  of  land  on  Morgan's  creek  in  this  county,  on 
which  he  constructed  a  fulling  mill,  with  the  purpose  of  establishing  some  of 
his  sons.  Here  for  three  years  Abner  worked  with  two  of  his  brothers  dur- 
ing the  fulling  season,  returning  to  his  home  each  spring  for  the  summer's 
work. 

This  land  and  mill,  together  with  the  other  possessions  of  the  father  in 
Ohio,  were  sold  in  1818,  and  an  effort  was  made  to  settle  the  family  on  a 
large  tract  of  land  near  Terre  Haute.  This  proved  a  most  unfortunate  vent- 
ure. After  enduring  many  hardships  and  the  loss  of  mother,  two  sisters  and 
one  sister-in-law,  the  family  abandoned  the  enterprise  and  returned,  much 
impoverished,  to  Butler  county,  Ohio,  and  Wayne  county,  Indiana. 


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shal  until  the  end  of  the  war.  For  a  time  he  conducted  a  baker}-,  which  he 
eventually  sold  to  D.  K.  Zeller.  In  1867  he  purchased  from  John  L.  Thomp- 
son his  interest  in  the  insurance  and  real-estate  agency  of  Thompson  & 
McMeans.  The  business  was  conducted  under  the  firm  name  of  Bradbury 
&  McMeans  until  his  partner  retired  to  remove  to  Nebraska.  On  January-  i, 
1 87 1,  he  associated  with  him  his  son,  Wilbern  K.  Bradbury,  under  the  nrm 
name  of  William  H.  Bradbury  &  Son.  Excepting  a  short  inter\-al  this  firm 
has  continued  in  the  business  from  that  time  until  the  present,  and  is  now 
the  oldest  firm  in  this  line  in  Richmond.  These  gentlemen  handle  for  the 
owners  much  of  the  best  real  estate  in  Richmond,  and  have  a  large  insurance 
business.  For  many  years  William  H.  Bradbury  has  given  most  of  his  time 
to  the  management  of  various  trusts,  having  been  administrator,  executor, 
guardian,  trustee  and  receiver  in  a  large  number  of  cases.  All  of  these  he 
has  handled  with  fidelity  and  skill.  He  is  superintendent  of  the  beautiful 
Earlham  cemetery,  which  position  he  has  held  continuouslj-  for  more  than 
nineteen  years.  Under  his  skillful  management  the  "silent  city"  has  grown 
into  a  most  attractive  place  of  rest.  In  politics  Mr.  Bradbur}'  has  been  a 
Republican  since  the  organization  of  that  party,  though  not  an  active  par- 
tisan, and  in  no  sense  a  politician.  He  has  never  asked  the  suffrage  of  the 
people  for  anj-  office,  although  he  was  several  times  elected  by  the  city  council 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education.  Here  he  rendered  good  service, 
taking  deep  interest  in  the  improvement  of  the  schools.  Five  of  the  build- 
ings now  in  use  were  erected  while  he  was  a  member  of  the  board. 

He  was  married  on  August  30.  1846,  to  Miss  Jane  Kinley,  who  was  bom 
on  her  father's  farm  between  Centerville  and  Jacksonburg.  November  15, 
1826,  and  died  in  Richmond,  April  6,  1880.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Ann  (Reece)  Kinley.  also  pioneers,  who  belonged  to  the  religious  societj' 
of  Friends,  and  had  a  large  circle  of  relatives  in  eastern  Indiana,  including 
the  Hoover,  Julian,  Ratliff  and  others  of  the  old  families. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bradbury  were  born  three  children,  all  in  the  old 
house  at  Jacksonburg,  in  which  their  father  was  born.  The  youngest.  Abner 
Marshal,  died  in  childhood.  The  others  are  Clarence  Edward  and  Wilbern 
Kinley.  The  former  was  born  October  24.  1847.  was  married  in  1867  ta 
Nancy  J.  McWhinney,  and  now  resides  in  Indianapolis,  where  he  and  his  only 
son,  Frederick  W..  are  conducting  a  hotel.  Wilbern  K.  was  born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1849.  He  attended  the  public  schools  in  his  native  county,  closing, 
his  school  career  at  Hadleys  Academy,  at  that  time  a  flourishing  private 
school,  conducted  by  Hiram  Hadley.  After  quitting  school,  he  held  a  clerical 
position  in  the  Richmond  postoffice.  This  he  resigned  in  1S70  to  join  his 
father  in  the  insurance  and  real-estate  business.  In  the  spring  of  1873  he 
went  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  was  in  the  real-estate   business   for  nearly 


268  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

three  years.  Returning  to  Richmond  at  the  end  of  1875,  he  rejoined  his 
father  in  the  firm  of  William  H.  Bradbury  &  Son.  On  June  27,  1877,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Lizzie  A.  Lupton,  daughter  of  Joseph  Abijah  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hampton)  Lupton.  They  have  three  children, — Anna,  Clifford  C.  and 
Robert  L. 

TOBIAS  M.  RIDENOUR. 

One  of  the  old  and  honored  citizens  of  College  Corner,  Union  county,  is 
the  gentleman  whose  name  stands  at  the  beginning  of  this  brief  tribute  to  his 
sterling  worth  and  ability.  Born  in  the  house  which  he  now  occupies  as  the 
proprietor,  July  21,  1833,  he  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Barbara  (Miller)  Ride- 
nonr.  The  old  home  is  situated  about  half  a  mile  from  the  village,  in  Union 
township,  not  far  from  the  state  line,  and  the  fine,  substantial  brick  house  is 
considered  a  veritable  landmark,  as  it  was  erected  over  three-score  and  ten 
years  ago.  The  Ridenour  family  has  long  been  one  of  the  most  prominent 
in  this  region,  the  ancestors  of  the  present  generation  having  been  among  the 
founders  of  this  commonwealth,  and  active  and  influential  in  all  of  its  early 
affairs  and  enterprises.  From  the  pioneer  days  down  to  the  present  time, 
those  bearing  the  name  have  been  noted  for  traits  of  character  which  call 
forth  the  admiratioa  and  esteem  of   their  associates  and  neighbors. 

The  paternal  grandparents  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  were  Peter  and 
Margaret  Dorcas  Ridenour,  who  lived  in  Maryland  prior  to  the  year  that  they 
set  out  to  found  a  new  home  in  the  wilds  of  the  then  far  west.  They  settled 
in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  there  the  father  of  Tobias  M.  married  Barbara, 
daughter  of  Tobias  and  Sarah  Miller  and  sister  of  William  Miller,  of  South 
Bend,  Indiana,  whose  son,  Hon.  John  F.  Miller,  was  United  States  senator 
from  California  a  few  years  ago.  A  year  or  so  after  their  marriage  the  young 
couple  removed  to  the  farm  now  owned  by  their  son,  Tobias  M.,  the  date  of 
their  settlement  here  probably  before  1825.  Mr.  Ridenour  built  the  large 
brick  house  mentioned  above,  and  became  very  well-to-do.  He  died,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-six  years,  in  1850.  His  widow  survived  until  1882,  dying  in  her 
eighty-third  year.  She  was  a  woman  of  remarkably  ability  and  force  of 
character,  and  reared  her  children  to  lives  of  usefulness.  At  the  death  of  the 
father  she  was  left  with  thirteen  children,  eight  of  whom  were  under  age. 
Two  of  the  number  died  in  infancy,  and  in  1898  five  of  the  brothers  were 
still  living,  namely:  Peter  and  Samuel,  who  are  members  of  the  wholesale 
grocery  house  of  the  Ridenour-Baker  Company  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  T. 
M.  Irving  Monroe,  of  Richmond,  Indiana;  and  Elisha,  of  Liberal,  Missouri. 
The  mother  outlived  all  of  her  five  daughters,  and  when  she  died  there  were 
but  seven  of  her  children  living.  The  eldest,  Jonathan  M.,  died  in  Indian- 
apolis. He  was  president  of  the  Cincinnati  &  Indianapolis  Junction  Rail- 
road  for  years,  and  was  a  wealthy  and   influential    man  in  the  world  of  busi- 


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ness.  His  father  was  connected  with  the  first  survey  for  this  raih"oad,  but 
the  son,  J.  M.,  was  the  one  to  whom  the  line  owes  its  completion.  He  was 
a  wide-awake,  energetic  business  man,  and  carried  to  a  successful  finish 
almost  everything  which  he  ever  undertook.  Charles  Perry,  another  son, 
a  banker  and  prosperous  business  man  of  Kingston,  New  York,  died  in  that 
city,  and  his  family  still  make  their  home  there.  The  Ridenours  owned  sev- 
eral farms  in  this  vicinity  at  various  periods.  They  had  one  whole  section, 
divided  into  four  farms,  and  cultivated  by  them,  and  besides  owned  two 
farms  in  Butler  county,  Ohio,  and  one  in  Preble  county,  that  state.  When 
he  located  here,  in  the  almost  unbroken  forest,  Samuel  Ridenour  was  obliged 
to  borrow  the  money  to  make  the  first  payment  upon  his  land,  but  his  energy 
and  well-directed  business  talent  soon  overcame  all  obstacles  and  placed  him 
on  the  road  to  wealth. 

Tobias  M.  Ridenour  remained  on  the  old  homestead,  and,  as  he  was  the 
eldest  son  at  home  then,  the  responsibilities  of  managing  the  place  fell 
largely  to  his  share  after  the  death  of  his  father.  On  the  loth  of  May, 
1 8/ I,  he  married  Miss  Maria  J.  Beard,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Eliza  Beard, 
the  former  deceased,  but  the  latter  still  living  in  Liberty.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ridenour  one  son  and  one  daughter  were  born,  namely:  Louie,  who  is  at 
home,  and  Charles  M.,  who  graduated  in  June.  1899,  in  the  high  school  at 
College  Corner. 

For  about  six  years  Mr.  Ridenour  owned  and  carried  on  a  general  store, 
and  dealt  also  in  grain.  This  store,  situated  at  College  Corner,  was  pur- 
chased by  him  of  the  former  owner,  his  brother,  Jonathan  M.  Of  late  years 
he  has  devoted  himself  exclusively  to  agriculture,  and  has  met  with  success, 
as  he  deserves.  He  has  been  a  lifelong  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  of  which  denomination  his  parents  were  also  worthy  members.  The 
Ridenour  family  were  active  assistants  in  the  building  of  three  churches  in 
College  Corner,  and  have  been  very  liberal  in  their  donations  to  the  cause  of 
Christianity.  Mr.  Tobias  M.  Ridenour  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  church  for 
many  years,  has  served  on  the  building  committee,  and  has  occupied  other 
official  positions  in  the  congregation.  His  parents  were  members  of  the 
original  "class"  organized  in  early  days  here.  Politically  he  is  affiliated 
with  the  Republican  party. 

JAMES  O.  JOHNSON. 
Seventy-two  years  ago  this  much  respected  citizen  of  Liberty  township. 
Union  coupty,  was  born  on  the  identical  homestead  where  he  is  to  be  found 
to-day,  the  date  being  October  4,  1826.  With  the  exception  of  a  few 
months,  perhaps,  he  has  passed  his  entire  life  here,  engaged  in  agriculture, 
and  prosperity  has  blessed  him  in  the  majority  of  his  undertakings.      During 


270  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

a  period  of  over  forty  years  he  has  been  an  active  and  valued  worker  in  the 
First  Christian  church  of  Silver  Creek,  and  has  occupied  various  offices  of 
trust  in  the  same.  He  has  attended  conventions  of  his  church  organization, 
has  been  liberal  in  his  contributions  to  the  spread  of  primitive  Christianity, — 
the  simple  faith  of  love  toward  God  and  man,  and  in  all  the  manifold  rela- 
tions of  life  he  has  earnestly  striven  to  do  his  whole  duty. 

James  Owen  Johnson  comes  of  an  old  Virginia  family:  in  fact,  his 
ancestors  on  both  sides  of  the  house  were  residents  of  Bedford  county,  that 
state.  In  1819  the  parents  of  our  subject.  Garland  and  Elizabeth  (Hensley) 
Johnson,  came  to  Indiana  with  their  three  children  and  settled  on  land  east 
of  the  town  of  Liberty,  but  scarcely  two  years  later  they  removed  to  the 
homestead  which  is  now  owned  and  cultivated  by  James  Owen  Johnson.  This 
property  was  given,  in  part,  to  Garland  Johnson,  and  partly  sold  to  him,  by 
his  father,  Nicholas,  who  had  come  to  this  township  in  1820  and  had  pur- 
chased a  whole  section  of  land  here.  He  also  gave  farms  to  his  sons,  Jesse, 
Pleasant,  Miner  and  Griffin,  all  of  whom  lived  near  and  reared  their  children 
in  this  community.  Later,  Miner  went  to  Illinois  and  Pleasant  to  Dublin, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana.  Jesse  died  at  the  age  of  thirty  years,  and  both  of 
his  children  are  deceased.  Griffin  died,  leaving  two  sons:  John,  now  of 
Center  township,  and  Madison,  of  Marion,  Indiana.  Of  the  daughters, 
Nancy  married  James  Cuney  and  resided  in  Dublin,  this  state;  Sarah  H. 
(Mrs.  William  Horton)  lived  here  until  well  along  in  years  and  died  at 
Knightstown,  Indiana;  Mary  married  Reuben  Chapell  and  both  are  deceased; 
Betsy  died  unmarried;  Josanna  was  another  daughter;  and  Matilda  died 
when  about  ten  years  old.  Two  daughters  died  in  infancy,  in  Virginia. 
Of  the  large  family  of  Nicholas  Johnson  it  is  a  singular  fact  that  but  two  of 
his  descendants,  John  and  James  Owen  Johnson,  are  now  residents  of  this 
county,  where  he  originally  took  up  such  an  extensive  tract  of  land  and 
believed  that  this  would  be  the  permanent  home  of  many  of  those  bearing 
his  name.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years,  and  was  survived  by 
his  second  wife,  whose  maiden  name  had  been  Catherine  Dobbins  and  whom 
he  married  in  Virginia. 

The  commodious  old  house  in  which  James  O.  Johnson,  of  this  sketch, 
resides  was  erected  by  his  father  in  1843,  and  he  assisted  in  its  construction. 
The  father's  death  took  place  under  its  hospitable  roof  some  years  later,  in 
1853,  when  he  was  in  his  sixty-fourth  year.  His  original  farm  had  com- 
prised eighty  acres,  and  he  added  another  tract,  thus  making  his  place  one 
one  hundred  and  thirty-three  acres.  His  wife  and  mother,  Elizabeth  John- 
son, survived  her  husband  many  years,  her  death  occurring  February  4, 
1869,  when  she  attained  her  seventy-third  year.  Several  of  their  children 
died  in  their  early  prime.      They  were  named  as  follows:  Samuel  H.,  a  phy- 


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sician,  died  in  1842,  when  twenty-nine  years  of  age;  Jordan,  a  minister  of 
the  first  Christian  church  in  this  community,  died  in  1861,  aged  forty-five 
years;  Martha  died  in  infancy;  Margaret  deid  in  1845,  in  her  twenty-seventh 
year;  Abner  died  in  1844,  when  in  his  twenty-third  year;  Ephraim  died  in 
1854,  aged  thirty  years;  James  Owen  is  the  next  in  order  of  birth;  Elizabeth 
died  in  her  eighteenth  year,  in  1846;  William  G.  died  in  his  sixtieth  year, 
December  16,  1893;  and  Eunice  died  in  1871,  in  her  thirty-fifth  year.  Will- 
iam G.  was  educated  for  the  medical  profession,  but  on  account  of  failing 
health  he  abandoned  it  and  for  several  years  was  the  proprietor'of  Johnson's 
Commercial  College,  of  Cincinnati.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  living 
in  Covington,  Iventiick}-. 

Of  the  once  large  and  happy  family  circle  which  used  to  gather  around 
the  fire-place  of  Garland  Johnson,  only  one,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
remains  He  was  next  to  the  youngest  son,  and  when  his  father's  health 
declined  the  young  man  shouldered  the  burdens  of  the  farm  management. 
After  the  death  of  the  elder  Mr.  Johnson,  James  O.  purchased  mainly  all  the 
interests  of  the  other  heirs  in  the  old  homestead  and  has  since  given  his 
whole  time  to  supervising  its  cultivation.  Years  ago  he  used  his  ballot  in 
favor  of  the  Democratic  party  platform  and  nominees,  but  for  a  long  period 
he  has  faithfully  rendered  allegiance  to  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party. 

May  5,  1874,  Mr.  Johnson  married  Miss  Lydia  A.  Van  Meter,  since  he 
had  evidently  become  tired  of  keeping  bachelor's  hall,  as  he  had  done  for 
the  five  years  succeeding  his  mother's  death.  Mrs.  Johnson  is  a  native  of 
Franklin  county,  her  birth  having  occurred  in  the  vicinity  of  Colter's 
Corners.  Her  parents  are  William  and  Rachel  Van  Meter,  who  were  worthy 
citizens  of  Franklin  county. 

SOLOMON  MEREDITH. 
Solomon  Meredith  was  born  in  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina,  May 
29,  1 8 10,  and  was  the  youngest  of  twelve  children.  When  nineteen  years  of 
age  he  came  to  Indiana,  making  the  entire  journey  on  foot,  and  the  deter- 
mination and  energy  which  he  displayed  in  the  accomplishment  of  that 
undertaking  characterized  his  entire  career.  Arriving  in  Wayne  county  in 
May,  1829,  he  at  once  sought  employment  in  the  most  important  industry  of 
that  period, — the  felling  of  trees, — and  at  what  would  now  be  considered  a 
very  meager  compensation, — six  dollars  per  month.  His  personal  force  of 
character  and  also  the  opportunities  of  the  time  are  well  marked  by  the  fact 
that  in  1834,  when  but  twenty-four  years  of  age,  he  was  elected  sheriff  of 
Wayne  county.  Mr.  Meredith  possessed  in  a  remarkable  degree  some  of  the 
qualifications  that  fit  a  man  for  public,  or  political   life, — first,  his  ability  to 


272  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

remember  names  and  faces  and  upon  sight  begin  a  conversation  by  referring 
to  incidents  of  the  last  occasion  upon  which  he  had  met  the  person  with 
whom  he  was  speaking;  and,  second,  a  real  sympathy  with  young  men, — a 
feature  of  his  character  that  became  very  pronounced  in  his  later  life.  In 
1836  he  was  re-elected  to  the  office  of  sheriff,  and  during  that  term  occurred 
his  marriage  to  Miss  Anna  Hannah,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Hannah,  a  dis- 
tinguished citizen  of  Wayne  county  and  later  treasurer  of  the  state. 

The  marriage  proved  to  be  a  very  happy  one,  and  to  the  strong  char- 
acter of  his  wife  Mr.  Meredith  always  attributed  whatever  of  success  he 
attained.  She  was  a  wise  counselor  and  deserved  the  deep  and  lifelong 
devotion  bestowed  upon  her  by  her  husband.  To  this  marriage  were  born 
four  children:  Samuel  H.  died  in  1862,  at  which  time  he  held  the  rank  of 
first  lieutenant  in  the  Nineteenth  Indiana  Regiment.  He  was  severely 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Gainesville,  in  1862,  and  again  at  Gettysburg,  but 
from  the  first  injury  he  never  recovered,  and  his  death  occurred  while  he  was 
on  a  furlough  at  his  father's  home.  The  second  son,  David  M.,  was  a  cap- 
tain in  the  Fifteenth  United  States  Infantry,  served  through  the  civil  war 
and  was  severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  where  he  was 
brevetted  major  for  gallantry  on  the  iield  of  battle.  He  died  at  Mobile, 
Alabama,  in  1867.  The  third  son,  Henry  Clay,  who  died  in  1SS2,  achieved 
prominence  in  agriculture  and  in  public  affairs.  The  fourth  child,  Mary, 
died  in  infancy.   • 

Mr.  Meredith  was  of  an  extremely  hospitable  nature  and  in  his  hos- 
pitality he  was  seconded  and  encouraged  by  his  wife,  no  home  of  early  times 
receiving  more  distinguished  guests  or  welcoming  more  friends.  On  one 
occasion  he  entertained  socially  the  legislature  of  the  state  at  his  Oakland 
Farm  home.  It  was  his  custom  in  the  first  years  of  the  agricultural  fairs  to 
provide  a  house  or  tent  on  the  grounds  where  he  would  invite  his  friends  by 
the  score  to  dinner.  In  his  later  years,  after  the  close  of  the  war,  his  house 
was  an  asylum  for  the  soldiers  of  his  old  Nineteenth  Regiment;  there  they 
could  find  a  welcome  and  a  shelter  when  fate  proved  unkind  In  1840  Mr. 
Meredith  was  a  delegate  to  the  Whig  national  convention.  In  1846-7-8  he 
was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature  and  again  in  1854.  During  this  service 
he  was  especially  active  in  promoting  the  educational  interests  of  Indiana. 
From  1849  until  1853  he  held  the  office  of  United  States  marshal  for  the 
district  of  Indiana,  by  appointment  from  President  Taylor. 

During  these  years  he  was  closely  identified  with  the  public  improve- 
ments of  eastern  Indiana, — notably  the  Whitewater  canal,  one  of  the  most 
ambitious  schemes  of  that  period,  and  later,  with  his  brother-in-law,  John  S. 
Newman,  he  acted  as  financial  agent  for  the  completion  of  the  Indiana  Gen- 


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tral  Railroad,  now  an  important  part  of  the  Pennsylvania  railway  system. 
Later  he  was  president  of  the  Cincinnati  &  Chicago  Railroad  Company. 

Upon  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  Mr.  Meredith  became  a 
strong  adherent  of  its  measures  and  a  vehement  advocate  of  its  policy.  The 
strong  majority  of  the  party  in  eastern  Indiana  soon  led  to  divisions  within 
its  own  lines,  and  the  intense  party  spirit  developed  by  the  friends  of  Mr. 
Meredith  in  his  contests  with  other  candidates  for  party  favors  gave  to  this 
congressional  district  the  name  of  the  "Old  Burnt  District,"  and  certainly 
the  fires  of  party  devotion  never  burned  more  fiercely  anywhere  than  in  ^^'ayne 
and  the  adjoining  counties  in  the  '60s. 

Upon  the  first  call  for  soldiers  after  the  tiring  on  of  Fort  Sumter,  in 
1 861,  Mr.  Meredith  raised  a  regmient  of  volunteers  in  his  own  and  adjacent 
counties,  which  became  the  Nineteenth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers.  He 
was  appointed  its  colonel,  and  while  he  had  no  military  knowledge  whatever, 
yet  he  had  the  essential  qualities  of  a  soldier,  and  his  subsequent  brilliant 
career  justified  Governor  Morton's  confidence  in  bestowing  the  appointment 
upon  him.  The  regiment  was  in  the  army  of  the  Potomac  and  first  saw 
service  in  Virginia.  It  belonged  to  the  famous  "  Iron  Brigade,"  so  named 
because  of  its  splendid  courage  under  fire.  In  August,  1862,  at  the  severe 
battle  of  Gainesville,  the  Nineteenth  Regiment  lost  fifty  per  cent,  of  its  force, 
in  killed  and  wounded.  In  September  of  the  same  year  it  did  splendid  serv- 
ice at  Antietam.  In  October,  Colonel  Meredith  was  promoted  to  be  a 
brigadier  general,  and  commanded  the  Iron  Brigade  in  all  its  battles  and 
marches  until  severely  wounded,  at  Gettysburg.  Because  the  brigade  could 
stand  like  iron  before  the  fire  of  the  enemy,  it  was  selected  to  force  the 
crossing  of  the  Rappahannock,  in  April,  1863.  This  duty  it  performed  so 
gallantly  that  General  Meredith  and  the  brigade  were  thanked  in  general 
orders.  In  July  the  Iron  Brigade  carried  the  honors  of  Gettysburg,  being 
again  selected  to  receive  the  tire  of  the  enemy  while  important  movements 
were  being  made  on  another  part  of  the  field.  Here  General  Meredith  was 
so  severely  wounded  that  he  was  never  again  fit  for  active  duty.  In  1S64  he 
was  ordered  to  the  command  of  the  miJitaiy  post  at  Cairo,  Illinois,  and  later 
was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  post  at  Paducah,  Kentucky.  In  Feb. 
ruary,  1865,  he  was  relieved  of  the  command  and  Major  General  Thomas 
was  directed  to  fill  the  place  by  an  officer  from  his  department,  whereupon 
General  Thomas  telegraphed  to  the  war  department,  at  Washington:  •' I 
have  no  general  officer  in  my  department  who  can  take  the  place  of  General 
Meredith.  He  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place.  I  desire  that  he  be 
retained."  The  wishes  of  General  Thomas  were  respected,  and  General 
Meredith  remained  in  com.mand  of  the  post  until  the  armies  of  Lee  and 
Johnston  surrendered. 


^74  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

General  Meredith's  health  had  been  greatly  impaired  during  his  years 
of  military  service,  and  he  lived  in  quiet  retirement  on  his  farm  near  Cam- 
bridge City  after  the  close  of  the  war,  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  from 
1867  until  1869,'  when  he  was  surveyor-general  of  Montana.  During  his  last 
years  he  gave  renewed  attention  to  the  breeding  of  improved  live  stock,  his 
herd  of  shorthorn  cattle  and  flock  of  Southdown  sheep  being  improved  and 
augmented  by  imported  animals  from  England.  Once  more  he  became  an 
exhibitor  at  the  leading  agricultural  fairs.  He  had,  in  the  '50s,  promoted 
the  establishment  of  agricultural  fairs,  and  had  shown  an  energy  and  enthu- 
siasm in  the  improvement  and  exhibition  of  cattle  and  sheep  and  horses  that 
>had  a  most  substantial  effect  upon  the  agricultural  and  live-stock  interests  of 
•the  state. 

General  Meredith  died  October  11,  1875,  and  lies  buried  upon  his  home 
farm,  with  all  of  his  family  about  him,  none  of  the  name  now  surviving.  He 
has  now  been  dead  twenty-five  years,  and  yet  those  who  knew  him  at  all 
doubtless  remember  him  distinctly,  for  his  personality  was  so  pronounced 
that  he  could  not  easily  be  forgotten.  He  was  six  feet,  seven  inches  in 
•height,  and  on  account  of  his  unusual  size  his  presence  in  any  assembly  was 
always  noticed  and  secured  for  him  instant  recognition  ever  after.  His  size  and 
-muscular  strength  were  inherited.  He  often  recounted  the  vivid  impression 
•  made  upon  his  youthful  mind  by  the  sight  of  his  grandfather  riding  with 
■peculiar  erectness  on  horseback  when  past  ninety  years  of  age;  while  he 
repeated  with  pride  the  story  of  a  stone  set  to  commemorate  the  fact  that  in 
■Guilford  county.  North  Carolina,  a  Meredith  had  jumped  a  longer  distance 
than  any  other  man  could  jump!  General  Meredith's  three  sons  inherited  his 
stature,  the  older  being  six  feet,  four,  and  the  two  younger  six  feet  and  two 
inches,  each,  in  height. 

To  those  who  knew  General  Meredith  well  he  had  many  other  charac- 
teristics as  pronounced  as  his  stature, — his  love  for  his  friends,  and  his  disin- 
terested efforts  to  serve  them  will  be  first  recalled.  Closely  allied  -to  his 
genius  for  friendship  was  his  hospitality;  he  delighted  to  share  his  home  with 
his  friends.  He  seems  to  have  possessed  in  a  high  degree  the  quality  of  call- 
ing out  friendship  in  others  and  inspiring  a  regard  that  seems  enduring,  for 
■even  after  this  long  lapse  of  years  there  are  many  visitors  in  the  old  horne- 
:  stead  who  come  purely  because  they  have  loved  General  Meredith  and  want 
'to  visit  his  grave.  His  trait  of  eliciting  true  and  deep  friendship  deserves  to 
Ibe  emphasized  in  these  days  when  selfishness  is  a  bar  sinister  on  many  an 
■escutcheon  when  rightly  read. 

Histories  have  been  written  reciting  the  stirring  events  of  war, — the  pomp 
and  glory  of  war  have  been  adequately  celebrated, — but  the  soldiers'  letters 
■.to  the  home  folk  give  a  truer  picture  of  soldier  life.    It  may  be  interesting  to 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  275 

quote  from  some  of  General  Meredith's  letters  to  his  wife.  Under  date  of 
March  19,  1862,  he  writes  from  '' Headquarters  Nineteenth  Indiana,  near 
Fairfax  Seminary:"  "  On  Saturday  last  we  were  notified  that  we  must  be 
ready  to  march  in  twenty  minutes  for  Alexandria,  to  embark  for  Richmond. 
The  whole  army  sttirted  in  a  few  minutes.  It  had  just  commenced  raining 
hard  when  we  started,  and  it  continued  all  day.  We  marched  sixteen  miles, 
then  camped  for  the  night,  all  as  wet  as  water  could  make  us;  had  to  lie 
■down  in  our  wet  clothes.  Next  day  (Sunday)  we  were  informed  that  the 
boat  was  not  ready  and  would  not  be  for  a  few  days,  and  that  we  could 
return  to  our  old  camp  and  get  some  things  we  had  left  in  the  hurry.  We 
returned  there  on  Sunday  evening.  On  Monday  we  invoiced  all  our  camp 
property  that  we  could  not  take  with  us.  Yesterday  we  were  ordered  here 
to  take  our  place  with  the  grand  Army  of  the  Potomac,  when  it  moves, 
which  we  think  will  be  to-morrow,  as  the  transports  are  arriving  rapidly.  So 
if  I  live  ten  days  longer,  I  expect  to  beat  the  taking  of  Richmond,  the  capital 
of  the  southern  Confederacy!  " 

An  appreciation  of  the  dark  side  of  war  grew  with  the  process  .of  time, 
and  almost  two  years  later,  in  a  letter  dated  from  Fairfax  Court-house, 
November  2,  1863,  he  writes:  "This  evening  I  rode  out  to  where  the  Old 
Brigade  (referring  to  the  Iron  Brigade,  to  which  the  Nineteenth  belonged)  was 
in  camp,  when  we  first  moved  on  Centerville  and  Manassas,  in  March,  1862, 
under  McClellan.  We  went  in  camp  a  mile  and  a  half  west  from  here  and 
remained  two  days.  There  stand  the  same  poles  that  poor  Bachman  and 
May  assisted  me  to  put  up  one  night  when  it  was  raining  as  hard  as  it  could 
pour  down.  The  visit  was  a  melancholy  one;  it  brought  to  my  mind  old 
associations  with  the  gallant  dead  who  now  sleep  the  sleep  that  knows  no 
waking.  The  Nineteenth  then  numbered  for  duty  about  eight  hundred  and 
forty  men;  and  to  think  of  what  has  become  of  all  that  body  of  splendid  men, 
and  the  rebels  not  whipped  yet,  makes  me  feel  sad  indeed.  God  only  knows 
how  many  brave  men  are  to  be  sacrificed!" 

One  must  admire  not  only  the  courage  in  battle,  but  far  more  the  stead- 
fast courage  that  through  weeks  and  months  and  years  impelled  men  to 
remain  in  camp,  renouncing  home  and  comfort,  family  ties  and  business 
emoluments.  General  Meredith  was  devoted  to  his  wife;  his  letters  are  filled 
with  expressions  denoting  his  confidence  in  her  ability  to  conduct  their  home 
affairs,  and  his  regret  in  being  separated  from  her.  In  a  letter  written  from 
"Camp,  near  Fitz  Hugh  Crossing,"  dated  May  23,  1863,  he  writes: 
"  Enclosed  you  will  find  a  sweet-scented  fiower  from  the  garden  of  Mr.  Fitz 
Hugh,  near  where  I  made  the  crossing  on  the  morning  of  April  29.  It  is  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  places  I  ever  saw,  overlooking  the  Rappahannock.  I 
send  it  to  you  to  put  away  until  I  return  home."     It  was  at  Fitz  Hugh  Cross- 


276  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ing  that  the  Iron  Brigade  had  been  given  the  difficult  and  dangerous  duty  of 
forcing  the  crossing,  and  right  gallantly  it  did  its  duty  that  historic  April 
morning. 

The  eminence  of  General  Meredith  in  agriculture;  his  marked  career  as 
a  soldier,  reaching  by  promotion  the  honorable  rank  of  brigadier  general  of 
volunteers  and  major  general  by  brevet;  his  success  in  public  life,  accent- 
uated by  repeated  elections  and  appointments  to  office,  illustrate  very  forci- 
bly how  a  resolute  will,  joined  to  native  ability,  may  serve  the  ambition  and 
crown  a  useful  life. 

NICHOLAS  SMELSER, 

For  three-fourths  of  this  century  the  Smelser  family  has  occupied  a  dis- 
tinctive place  in  the  affairs  of  Wayne  and  Union  counties.  From  a  wilder- 
ness this  section  has  been  gradually  transformed  to  a  fertile  farming  country, 
dotted  with  happy  homes,  and  in  this  glorious  labor  the  Smelsers  have  been 
active  and  zealous,  leaving  to  their  children  and  to  posterity  the  records  of 
useful,  well  spent  lives. 

Jacob  Smelser,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Maryland, 
in  which  state  and  in  Kentucky  he  naturally  imbibed  the  old  southern  ideas 
in  regard  to  slavery, — at  least  to  a  large  e.xtent.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Smith  in  the  Blue  Grass  state,  and  about  1824  they  removed  to  Boston  town- 
ship, Wayne  county,  Indiana,  where  they  settled  upon  a  farm  and  there  con- 
tinued to  dwell  until  death  summoned  them  to  their  reward,  he  dying  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-two  and  she  at  seventy-five  years.  The  old  home- 
stead is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  family,  being  now  owned  by  James 
Hart,  a  nephew  by  marriage. 

In  the  early  days  Jacob  Smelser  owned  a  distillery,  the  products  of 
which  he  would  occasionally  load  upon  a  flatboat  and  convey  to  New  Orleans 
by  the  river  route,  then  walking  back  the  entire  distance.  He  freed  his 
slaves  when  he  came  to  Indiana,  but  several  of  them  accompanied  him, 
nevertheless,  and  one  of  the  number,  "  Old  Ben,"  to  whom  he  had  not  given 
his  freedom,  but  had  hired  out  for  eleven  years,  afterward  joined  the  family 
in  this  state. 

The  parents  of  our  subject,  Solomon  and  Lucinda  (Stevens)  Smelser, 
were  married  in  Union  county.  Mrs.  Smelser  was  a  daughter  of  William 
and  sister  of  Steven  C.  Stevens,  and  was  born  and  reared  in  Harrison  town- 
ship, this  county.  Her  last  years  were  passed  at  her  birthplace,  both  she 
and  her  husband  attaining  their  seventy-sixth  year.  He  was  a  very  success- 
ful farmer  and  business  man  and  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  raised 
mules  which  he  sold  to  the  government.  In  his  various  financial  enterprises 
he  usually  prospered,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  owned  about  nine  hun- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  277 

dred  acres  of  land.      In  his  political  views  he  was   a   Republican,  and   in   his 
religious  opinions  he  was  a  strong  Universalist. 

Ten'  children  were  born  to  Solomon  Smelser  and  wife,  and  all  but  two 
survive.  Their  names  are  as  follows:  Harriet,  wife  of  Bennett  Depenbrock, 
of  Salem,  Illinois;  Jacob,  a  traveling  salesman,  whose  home  is  in  Liberty; 
William,  a  life-insurance  agent  in  Emporia,  Kansas;  Sarah,  who  married  L. 
H.  Price,  and  died  when  about  thirty  years  of  age,  leaving  three  children; 
Emeline,  who  died  at  ten  years  of  age;  Nicholas;  Kate,  who  became  the  sec- 
ond wife  of  L.  H.  Price  and  now  lives  in  New  Decatur,  Alabama;  Elizabeth, 
Mrs.  Charles  Coughlin,  of  Harrison  township;  Martha,  wife  of  William  Bill- 
ings, of  New  Decatur,  Alabama;  and  Alice,  wife  of  Joseph  H.  Bradbury,  of 
Abington,  Wayne  county,  Indiana. 

Nicholas  Smelser  was  born  December  14,  1849,  on  the  old  Stevens 
homestead,  where  he  now  resides  and  where  his  father  lived  for  forty  years. 
When  he  reached  his  majority  he  went  to  Salem,  Illinois,  near  which  place 
his  father  had  purchased  land,  and  there  he  remained  for  seven  years,  engaged 
in  farming.  In  the  meantime,  November  14,  1872,  he  had  married  Miss 
Sarah  Slane,  of  Alma,  Illinois,  of  which  town  her  father  was  a  merchant. 
They  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  of  whom  the  only  daughter.  Mat- 
tie,  is  the  wife  of  James  Driffill  and  has  two  children, — Clyde,  six  years  old, 
and  Mildred,  one  year  old.  The  two  sons  of  our  subject  and  wife,  John 
Lyman  and  Solomon  Garfield,  are  still  at  home. 

In  1875  Mr.  Smelser  returned  to  Indiana,  and  his  venerable  father  was 
so  desirous  for  him  to  remain  here  permanently  that  the  younger  man  decided 
to  do  so,  and  purchased  from  his  parents  the  farm  he  now  owns,  one  adjoin- 
ing the  old  Stevens'  place,  which  latter,  also,  later  came  into  his  possession, 
thus  making  his  homestead  one  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  In  addition 
to  this,  he  owns  a  farm  near  Centerville,  which  property  his  sons  cultivate. 

In  June,  1897,  soon  after  the  death  of  Albert  Mitchell,  Mr.  Smelser  was 
appointed  to  succeed  the  deceased  in  the  office  of  county  commissioner,  and 
as  such  he  is  still  acting.  He  is  very  popular  with  all  who  know  him,  is  a 
man  of  wide  influence  in  this,  his  native  township,  and  he  is  now,  by  election, 
serving  a  term  in  the  office  he  has  so  abundantly  proved  himself  capable  of 
filling. — that  of  county  commissioner,  in  which  his  term  expires  in  Decem- 
ber.  1900. 

ROBERT  A.  CUNNINGHAM. 

Occup3'ing  a  charming  country  home  in  Liberty  township.  Union  county, 
Indiana,  his  post-office  address  being  Dunlapsville,  we  find  this  well  known 
and  highly  respected  citizen,  Robert  Armstrong  Cunningham.  The  history 
of  his  life  is  of  importance  in  a  work  of  this  character,  and  is  as  follows: 

Robert    A.    Cunningham    was   born  !  in    Brownsville    township.    Union 


278  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

county,  Indiana,  April  7,  1819,  son  of  James  and  Susannah  (Clark)  Cunning- 
ham, the  former  a  native  of  Washington  county,  Virginia,  born  October  12, 
1779;  the  latter,  born  in  Tennessee,  in  1787,  their  marriage  occurring  in 
Virginia.  In  the  year  181 5,  the  year  before  Indiana  was  admitted  into  the 
union  of  states,  James  Cunningham  and  wife  came  west  and  took  up  their 
abode  in  Eastern  Indiana,  on  what  was  known  as  the  Henston  J.  Robinson 
farm,  in  Union  county.  Three  years  later,  in  18 18,  he  entered  a  tract  of 
land  lying  just  north  of  Clifton,  where  he  improved  a  farm  and  where  he 
spent  the  rest  of  his  life,  his  death  occurring  there  in  1853.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him  a  few  years,  and  passed  away  in  1864.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  both  were  people  whose  sterling  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart  endeared  them  to  a  large  circle  of  friends,  for  they  were 
well  known  by  the  early  pioneers  of  this  locality.  The  children  born  to 
them  were,  in  order  of  birth,  as  follows:  John,  Rebecca,  William,  James, 
Samuel,  Robert,  Mary,  Sarah,  George  W.  and  Enoch.  At  this  writing 
(1899)  only  two  of  this  number  are  living, — Sarah,  widow  of  Archibald  Dunn, 
of  Fayette  county,  Indiana;  and  Robert  A.,  whose  name  introduces  this 
sketch. 

Robert  A.  Cunningham  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm,  above  referred 
to,  and  April  24,  1841,  married  Miss  Mary,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Elizabeth 
(Snyder)  Harvey.  She  was  born  October  18,  1822,  near  Clifton,  Indiana. 
After  his  marriage  our  subject  lived  for  five  years  on  the  old  homestead,  in 
the  same  house  in  which  he  was  born,  and  in  that  house  three  of  their  chil- 
dren were  born.  He  then  moved  to  the  Moses  Harvey  farm,  southwest  of 
Clifton,  where  he  lived  until  1852,  when  he  came  to  his  present  farm,  five 
miles  southwest  of  Liberty,  in  Liberty  township.  Here  he  owns  three  hun- 
dred and  seventy  acres  of  land,  all  lying  in  a  compact  body,  along  the 
Whitewater  river,  about  half  of  it  being  bottom  land,  the  rest  extending 
into  the  uplands,  where  his  handsome  residence  is  situated.  His  home, 
occupying  as  it  does  the  highest  point  along  the  river  in  this  vicinity,  com- 
mands a  magnificent  view  of  his  broad  acres,  and  indeed  of  the  surrounding 
country  for  miles  in  every  direction. 

While  Mr.  Cunningham  has  carried  on  general  farming  all  these  years, 
he  has  made  a  specialty  of  stock-raising,  his  land  being  specially  adapted  for 
stock  purposes,  and  he  has  given  special  attention  to  the  raising  of  hogs. 
For  the  past  twenty  years  or  thereabouts  he  has  rented  the  greater  part  of 
his  land,  chiefly  to  his  son-in-law,  Samuel  B.  Bond. 

Mr.  Cunningham  has  always  affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party  and 
taken  an  active  interest  in  political  affairs.  For  ten  years  he  has  served  as 
township  trustee.  Twice  he  has  been  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the 
office  of  county  commissioner,  but   with   his   ticket  was   defeated    each  time, 


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polling,  however,  on  one  occasion  one  hundred  votes  more  than  his  party 
ticket.  Since  the  division  in  the  Democratic  ranks  he  is  on  the  silver  side. 
He  is  a  great  convention  worker,  always  active  in  promoting  what  he  believes 
to  be  for  the  good  of  the  party. 

Religiously,  Mr.  Cunningham  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.  For 
fifty  years  he  has  been  identified  with  the  church  at  Liberty,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  served  as  one  of  its  trustees. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cunningham  have  had  six  children,  namely:  Michael  J., 
of  Dunlapsville,  Indiana;  Eva  A.,  wife  of  William  R.  Beck,  of  Liberty, 
Indiana;  Sarah  J.,  wife  of  Samuel  B.  Bond,  who,  as  above  stated,  has 
charge  of  Mr.  Cunningham's  farm;  Elizabeth  S.,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years;  Franklin  P.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years;  and 
Albert  R.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 

In  speaking  of  his  career  as  a  farmer,  Mr.  Cunningham  states  that  his 
most  prosperous  years  were  between  1853  and  1S60.  While,  as  already 
stated,  he  has  carried  on  diversified  farming,  he  has  made  a  specialty  of  the 
stock  business  and  has  depended  chiefly  on  hogs.  Besides  his  fine  home 
farm  he  owns  real  estate  in  other  localities.  He  has  assisted  each  of  his 
children  to  get  a  good  farm,  and  he  has  been  more  than  generous  to  his 
friends.  Indeed,  he  has  often  had  too  great  confidence  in  human  nature, 
and  his  loyalty  to  his  friends  has  frequently  caused  him  to  trust  them  too  far 
and  has  been  the  means  of  his  having  security  money  to  pay.  He  is  generous 
to  a  fault.  His  genial,  jovial  nature,  and  his  honorable  and  upright  life  and 
Christian  character  have  endeared  him  to  a  host  of  friends. 

JAMES  W.  MARTINDALE. 
James  W.  Martindaie  is  of  the  fifth  generation  removed  from  his  paternal 
ancestor  who  founded  the  Martindaie  family  on  the  shores  of  America.  Little 
is  known  of  the  founder  of  the  family  in  America,  save  that  he  came  from 
Wales,  and  possessed  the  sterling  qualities  which  have  characterized  all  of 
his  descendants.  His  son  William,  the  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of 
this  biography,  was  born  in  South  Carolina,  and  the  next  in  the  line  of 
descent  was  James,  who  was  born  in  North  Carolina  and  located  in  Wayne 
county,  Indiana,  in  1809.  He  made  a  home  on  a  tract  of  land,  the  southeast 
quarter  of  section  26,  in  what  is  now  Clay  township.  This  place,  adjoining  the 
present  village  of  Green's  Fork,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  namesake,  our 
subject.  The  first  wife  of  James  Martindaie  died  before  he  became  a  resi- 
dent of  this  state,  and  their  two  daughters  were  Mrs.  Martha  Benson  and 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Martindaie.  For  his  second  wife  he  chose  Elizabeth  Adding- 
ton,  a  Quaker,  whose  sweet,  gentle  face  and  winning  and  lovable  disposition 
won  the  high  esteem  of  all  who  knew  her, — not  the  least  among  her  admirers 


280  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

being  her  grandson,  James  \\'. ,  who  cherishes  her  memory.  The  grand- 
father, who  survived  her  several  years,  likewise  possessed  numerous  noble 
traits,  and  to  his  enterprise  and  hardihood  the  little  colony  of  pioneers  in 
Clay  township  were  indebted  in  many  material  ways.  He  was  identified  with 
the  Baptist  church  and  was  ever  ready  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  his  fellow- 
men.  The  two  sons  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Martindale  were  John  and 
William.  The  latter,  a  man  of  ability  and  zeal,  was  carried  away  by  the 
Mormon  doctrines  in  his  early  manhood,  and  accompanied  that  peculiar 
people  in  their  wanderings  until  they  settled  in  Utah.  Subsequently  he 
removed  to  Southern  California,  where  he  died.  That  he  was  trul}'  sincere 
in  his  religious  views  no  one  that  knew  him  could  doubt,  but  his  attitude  on 
the  subject  was  a  great  grief  to  his  friends. 

John  and  William  Martindale  were  born  in  a  humble  log  cabin  which 
stood  but  a  few  rods  from  the  present  residence  of  our  subject.  John,  father 
of  the  latter,  was  born  in  i8ro,  and  though  he  had  no  educational  privileges 
such  as  is  afforded  the  youth  of  this  generation,  he  read  everything  he  could 
find,  and  was  a  great  student.  So  well  did  he  succeed  in  the  task  of  self- 
edncation  that  he  taught  school  for  some  time,  and  met  with  gratifying 
returns  for  his  efforts.  All  great  moral  and  public  questions  were  studied 
deeply  by  him,  and  he  joined  the  Washingtonian  Temperance  Society  soon 
after  its  organization.  Though  he  was  a  Democrat  of  the  old  school,  he  was 
strongly  anti-slavery  in  his  views  and  was  favorable  to  the  free-soil  move- 
ment. He  died  while  in  the  prime  of  young  manhood,  March  30,  1849. 
Religiously  he  was  not  associated  with  any  church,  though  his  life  was  not  at 
variance  with  the  precepts  of  Christianity,  and,  without  question,  the  influ- 
ence and  teachings  of  his  sainted  mother  were  all-powerful  with  him,  causing 
him  to  leave  an  honored  name  and  blameless  record.  For  a  wife  he  chose 
Lydia  Hatfield,  and  three  children  were  born  of  their  marriage.  The  daugh- 
ters are  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Dean  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Davis,  both  of  whom  are 
residents  of  this  township. 

James  W.  Martindale,  an  only  son,  was  born  near  Green's  Fork  Decem- 
ber 5,  1829,  and  when  he  was  about  seven  years  old  he  accompanied  the 
family  to  Cass  county.  His  father  was  in  very  poor  health  and  it  was  hoped 
the  change  would  prove  of  benefit  to  him,  but,  after  remaining  there  for  two 
or  three  years,  they  returned  and  thenceforth  dwelt  upon  the  old  homestead. 
In  his  childhood,  when  the  country  was  very  wild  and  the  red  men  were 
more  numerous  here  than  the  white  settlers,  James  W.  played  with  the 
Indian  lads,  and  in  this  immediate  section  of  the  state  all  of  the  relations  of 
the  two  races  were  peaceful  and  harmonious.  Within  his  recollection  most 
remarkable  changes  have  been  brought  to  pass,  as  the  forests  were  felled  and 
prosperous  farms  and  villages  took  the  place  of   the  trackless  wilderness.      In 


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this  mighty  work  he  has  done  his  full  share,  aiding  also  in  the  establishment 
of  law  and  good  government,  and  upholding  whatever  has  been  calculated  to 
advance  the  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  his  lot  was  cast.  He  expects 
to  pass  the  sunset  days  of  his  life  on  the  old  homestead,  which  has  now  been 
in  the  possession  of  his  family  for  ninety  years. 

On  the  20th  of  November,  1S4S,  Mr.  Martindale  married  Miss  Lydia 
King,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Ann  (Davisj  King.  Mr.  King  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  Dublin,  Wayne  county,  where  he  built  the  first  house,  and  there 
Mrs.  Martindale  was  born,  August  13,  1830.  Her  father  died  in  Hancock 
county,  Indiana,  where  he  had  lived  for  a  few  years,  and  the  wife  and  mother 
departed  this  life  at  Richmond  so  ne  years  ago.  Two  sons  and  a  daughter 
were  born  to  our  subject  and  wife,  namely:  John  and  Eden,  and  Emma,  who 
is  the  wife  of  Alpheus  Baldwin,  of  Richmond,  this  county. 

The  first  vote  of  Mr.  Martindale  was  cast  for  John  P.  Hale,  but  since 
the  organization  of  the  Republican  party  he  has  been  loyal  to  its  principles. 
For  seven  years  he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  trustee  of  Clay  township,  and 
for  the  same  length  of  time  he  was  a  commissioner  of  Wayne  county.  The 
influence  and  teaching  of  his  beloved  grandmother  and  the  advice  of  his 
father,  who  late  in  his  life  counseled  him  to  follow  the  precepts  of  the  Quaker 
church,  have  largely  molded  his  religious  ideas,  and  recently  he  allied  him- 
self with  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  his  faithful  wife  has  been  a  mem- 
ber since  her  early  years.  They  are  sincerely  admired  and  loved  by  those 
who  have  known  them  a  lifetime,  and  in  peace  and  content  are  passing  their 
days,  surrounded  with  the  comforts  and  lu.xuries  which  are  the  fruits  of  their 
former  years  of  industry  and  good  management. 

NATHAN  F.  GARWOOD. 

Nathan  Folwell  Garwood  is  the  owner  of  the  Forest  Home,  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  country-seats  of  Wayne  county.  It  is  pleasantly  located  only 
a  mile  and  a  half  from  the  city.  The  residence,  built  fifty-three  years  ago,  is 
a  very  commodious  structure,  and  its  light,  airy  rooms,  tastefully  furnished, 
are  most  restful  and  attractive.  Ease  and  comfort  have  supplemented  rich- 
ness in  the  adornment  of  Forest  Home,  and  the  house  is  one  of  the  old-time 
mansions  which,  in  this  day  of  cramped  city  quarters,  prove  most  inviting. 
The  house  is  surrounded  with  a  well  kept  lawn  adorned  by  fine  old  shade 
trees;  commodious  barns  and  outbuildings  in  the  rear  afford  ample  shelter  for 
grain  and  stock;  well  tilled  fields  indicate  coming  harvests, and  fine  orchards, 
embracing  five  acres,  are  not  the  least  attractive  features  of  this  ideal  coun- 
try-seat.     The  farm  contains  sixty-seven  acres  in  all. 

The  owner,  Nathan  Folwell  Garwood,  is  one  of  the  most  highly  respected 
citizens  of  the   community   and  a   leading   representative   of  the  agricultural 


282  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  horticultural  interests  of  this  section  of  the  state.  He  was  born  October 
1 8,  1831,  at  Mullica  Hill,  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  and  is  the  eldest 
child  and  only  son  of  Amasa  and  Esther  (Iredell)  Garwood.  The  father  was 
twice  married,  the  mother  of  our  subject  being  his  second  wife.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade  and  conducted  a  smithy  in  the  village,  while  Nathan  Gar- 
wood assisted  in  operating  the  farm.  The  former  died  in  1853,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  our  subject,  in  connection  with  Ephraim  Tomlinson,  proprietor  of  saw 
and  grist  mills,  known  as  the  Laurel  Mills,  extensively  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  flour  and  lumber  at  White  Horse,  Camden  county,  New  Jersey, 
Mr.  Garwood  having  charge  of  the  mercantile  department  for  one  year. 
Throughout  the  following  year  he  carried  on  general  merchandising  at  Bridge- 
port, New  Jersey,  in  partnership  with  a  Mr.  Jordan,  and  the  summer  of  1856 
he  spent  in  eastern  Iowa.  He  afterward  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and 
during  the  financial  panic  of  1857  he  lost,  through  the  failure  of  one  of  the 
banks  there,  a  thousand  dollars.  This  was  a  great  blow  to  a  young  man  just 
starting  out  upon  a  business  career;  but  with  great  energy  and  determination 
he  set  to  work  to  retrieve  his  lost  possessions.  Afterward  going  to  Gentry 
county,  Missouri,  he  there  remained  until  1859,  when  he  went  to  Hannibal, 
that  state.  Having  no  money,  he  was  obliged  to  accept  any  work  that  he 
could  secure,  and  while  in  Gentry  county,  in  connection  with  a  young  man 
by  the  name  of  Chambers,  a  cabinet-maker,  he  took  a  contract  for  making 
one  hundred  bedsteads.  •  When  the  contract  was  completed,  in  the  spring  of 
1859,  he  had  twenty  dollars  above  and  beyond  his  expenses.  He  then 
accepted  a  clerkship  in  the  freight  office  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Rail- 
road, at  Hannibal,  where  he  remained  two  years. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Garwood  came  to  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and 
was  married,  near  Richmond,  to  Anna  E.  Iredell.  He  then  returned  with 
his  bride  to  Hannibal  and  continued  to  till  his  position  in  the  freight  office 
until  after  the  inauguration  of  the  civil  war,  when,  railroad  business  being 
largely  suspended,  he  returned  to  Richmond.  In  the  spring  of  1863  he  went 
to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  entered  the  quartermaster's  department  in  the 
United  States  service,  under  Colonel  Crane,  having  charge  of  the  railroad 
transportation  south  of  that  city,  for  at  that  time  the  government  was  in  con- 
trol of  all  lines  south  of  Nashville.  Mr.  Garwood  was  engaged  in  office  work 
there  until  all  the  government  business  was  closed  up,  in  1866,  when  he 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroad,  in  the  former 
city.  He  had  his  trunks  all  packed  ready  to  return  to  Indiana,  but  the  agent 
persuaded  him  to  join  the  company,  and  he  remained  with  the  road  at  Nash- 
ville and  at  Chattanooga  until  1876,  attending    to  the  transfer  of   all   freight. 

At  length  his  health  failed  him,  and  Mr.  Garwood  determined  to  make 
a  change.      He  visited   the   Centennial   Exposition,  at  Philadelphia,  and  then 


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came  to  Wayne  county,  where,  in  the  spring  of  1877,  he  purchased  his  pres- 
ent property,  Forest  Home.  The  farm  formerly  belonged  to  Benjamin 
Stratton,  who  built  the  house  from  brick  manufactured  on  the  place  and 
from  timber  there  cut,  all  the  work  being  done  by  hand.  The  Friends'  cem- 
etery, located  one  hundred  years  ago,  occupies  a  corner  at  the  southern  end 
of  the  farm.  For  some  years  Mr.  Garwood  has  made  a  specialty  of  the  rais- 
ing of  small  fruits,  including  raspberries,  blackberries,  etc.,  and  now  has- 
some  five  acres  planted  to  fruit.  He  has  given  much  study  to  the  best 
methods  of  cultivation  and  to  the  requirement  of  the  plants  and  has  been  an 
active  worker  in  the  Wayne  County  Horticultural  Society,  where  his  opinion 
is  received  as  authority  on  many  subjects.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Wayne 
County  Agricultural  &  Horticultural  Society  and  has  been  an  exhibitor  at 
many  of  its  fairs. 

It  was  on  the  5th  of  March,  i86r,  that  Mr.  Garwood  wedded  Miss  Anna 
E.  Iredell,  daughter  of  Samuel  E.  Iredell,  who  was  born  in  Gloucester 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1835  came  to  Richmond,  where  he  worked  at  the 
tailor's  trade  until  1850.  He  then  retired  to  a  farm  near  Middleboro,  Wayne 
county,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days,  his  death  occurring  in  1866. 
Even  after  his  removal  to  the  country  many  of  his  former  patrons  went  to 
his  farm  in  order  to  get  him  to  make  their  clothes.  He  married  Marinette 
L.  Suffrain,  a  daughter  of  John  Suffrain,  a  native  of  France,  and  her  death 
occurred  in  1896,  she  having  survived  her  husband  thirty  years.  Their  chil- 
dren were  Anna  E. ,  who  was  born  in  Richmond  in  1837;  John  S.,  in  the 
insurance  business  at  Richmond;  Hannah  Josephine,  who  married  Benjamin 
Starr,  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-five;  Virginia  E.,  wife  of  John  I\osgle, 
of  Richmond;  Samuel  Ellis,  a  farmer  of  Wayne  township,  Wayne  county;. 
Horace  Greeley,  a  resident  of  Richmond;  and  Lizzie  M.,  wife  of  Henry  Shu- 
man  Jones,  a  piano  salesman  of  Richmond.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garwood 
have  been  born  four  children:  Nettie  M.,  the  eldest,  is  the  wife  of  Albert 
Kirby,  a  farmer  and  dairyman  of  Hebron,  Nebraska,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Cora  Marie;  Esther  C.  is  the  wife  of  Henry  C.  Hill,  a  real-estate  and  insur- 
ance agent  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  and  they  have  a  son,  Eugene  G. ; 
Josephine  S.  is  the  wife  of  Frederick  R.  Charles,  assistant  city  engineer  of 
Richmond;  Eugene  C. ,  the  youngest,  is  with  his  brother-in-law,  in  the  firm 
of  Hill  &  Garwood,  at  Minneapolis. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Garwood  is  a  Republican,  and  he  served  on 
the  election  board  for  some  years.  He  cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for 
Fremont,  in  1856,  and  has  since  supported  each  presidential  candidate  for 
the  "  Grand  Old  Party,"  yet  is  not  aggressively  partisan  either  in  politics  or 
religion.  His  ancestors  were  Friends,  who  when  the  church  separated 
became  Hicksites.      His  wife  is  a  member  of  that  organization,  and  both  Mr. 


284  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  Mrs.  Garwood  attend  services  in  that  church.  Throughout  the  com- 
munity they  are  held  in  the  highest  regard,  for  their  sterhng  characteristics 
commend  them  to  the  confidence  and  good  will  of  all.  Success  has  crowned 
the  well-directed  and  enterprising  efforts  of  our  subject,  and  it  is  the  wish  of 
his  many  friends  that  the  master  of  Forest  Home  may  be  numbered  among 
the  valued  citizens  of  Wayne  county  for  many  years  yet  to  come. 

NOAH  H.    HUTTON. 

Noah  H.  Hutton,  the  manager  of  the  Central  Union  Telephone  Com- 
pany, ranks  to-day  among  the  most  successful  and  leading  business  men  o^ 
Richmond.  He  is  a  native  of  this  city,  almost  his  entire  life  has  here  been 
passed,  and  his  advancment  has  been  along  the  lines  of  the  city's  growth, 
due  to  progressive,  resolute  purpose  and  laudable  ambition. 

He  was  born  August  29,  1844,  and  is  a  son  of  John  H.  and  Anna  (Evans) 
Hutton.  He  acquired  his  education  in  private  schools,  and  putting  aside  his 
text-books  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  entered  upon  his  business  career  as 
an  employe  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  learning  the  machinist's  trade.  He 
remained  there  for  a  year,  but  in  the  meantime  the  country  had  become 
involved  in  civil  war  and  he  could  not  content  himself  at  the  foundry  while 
the  nation  needed  the  support  of  all  her  loyal  sons.  Accordingly  he  put  aside 
all  business  and  personal  considerations,  and  joined  the  boys  in  blue  of  Com- 
pany C,  Eighth  Indiana  Infantry,  in  1862. 

In  1864  Mr.  Hutton  returned  to  the  north  and  accepted  a  clerkship  in 
the  postoffice  department  at  Washington,  D.  C. ,  continuing  in  that  service 
until  the  early  part  of  1866,  when,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he  was  forced  to 
resign.  He  was  then  for  a  time  engaged  in  no  business,  and,  when  his  health 
was  partially  restored,  turned  his  attention  to  cotton-growing  in  the  south, 
where  he  remained  for  a  year.  In  1867  he  became  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  manufacture  of  woolen  hosiery,  which  business  they  successfully  car- 
ried on  until  the  father's  death,  when  the  concern  was  closed  out.  Mr.  Hut- 
ton was  ne.xt  employed  as  postal  clerk  in  the  United  States  mail  service  for 
nine  years,  or  until  President  Cleveland's  administration,  when  he  resigned 
to  accept  the  management  of  the  Central  Union  Telephone  Company,  which 
position  he  has  since  acceptably  filled.  He  is  also  representative  of  a  num- 
ber of  fire-insurance  companies,  having  been  in  this  line  of  business  for  eight 
years  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hutton  &  Dougan,  by  whom  a  large  and 
profitable  patronage  is  enjoyed.  He  has  eighteen  towns,  besides  Richmond, 
under  his  supervision  as  manager  of  the  Central  Union  Telephone  Company, 
and  is  justly  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  enterprising  business 
men  of  this  city. 

In  1879  was  celebrated    the    marriage   of  Mr.    Hutton   and    Miss   Anna 


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Wilcox,  a  daughter  of  Emmett  W.  and  Martha  Wilcox,  of  Richmond.  They 
had  two  children,  but  lost  one,  Emmett  being  still  at  home.  Mr.  Hutton  is 
a  valued  member  of  Sol.  Meredith  Post,  No.  55,  G.  A.  R.,  and  formerly 
served  as  its  commander.  In  politics  he  is  a  stalwart  Republican  and  takes 
an  active  part  in  the  party  work,  although  not  an  office-seeker.  He  keeps 
well  informed  on  the  issues  of  the  day,  both  political  and  otherwise,  and  at 
all  times  has  manifested  a  commendable  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to 
the  welfare  and  advancement  of  the  city  of  his  nativity.  He  is  a  man  of 
genial  temperament  and  genuine  worth,-  and  is  popular  and  respected  in  all 
circles. 

AMOS  M.  SHEAFER. 

Mr.  Sheafer  is  a  native  of  the  neighboring  state  of  Ohio  and  was  born 
near  the  town  of  Eaton,  in  Preble  county,  March  3,  1S31.  The  Sheafer 
family  is  of  German  origin  and  became  identified  with  this  country  several 
generations  ago,  the  first  location  being  in  Pennsylvania.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  was  a  Douglas,  of  Scotch  descent.  In  his  early  manhood,  in  Preble 
county,  Mr.  Sheafer  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  trade  of  millwright,  and 
has  worked  at  that  and  the  carpenter's  trade  all  his  life.  When  the  civil 
war  came  on  he  enlisted  as  a  member  of  the  Fifty-fourth  Ohio  Volunteer 
Infantry  and  was  in  the  service  three  years,  participating  in  many  of  the 
prominent  engagements  of  the  war.  This  regiment  entered  the  service  thir- 
teen hundred  strong  and  came  out  at  the  close  of  the  conflict  with  less  than 
three  hundred;  was  with  Sherman's  brigade  at  Shiloh,  where  it  was  conspic- 
uous for  gallant  service  rendered.  Throughout  the  whole  of  his  arm}-  life 
Mr.  Sheafer  was  never  sick  a  day  and  was  never  absent  from  his  command. 
His  record  before  and  since  the  war  has,  indeed,  been  remarkable,  as  he  has 
never  been  sick  in  bed  a  week  in  his  life.  Mr.  Sheafer  is  a  member  of  Devall 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  and  has  been  a  life-long  Republican. 

In  1875  Mr.  Sheafer  came  to  Liberty,  Indiana,  to  install  the  machinery 
for  the  Rude  Manufacturing  Company,  and  was  for  two  years  in  the  employ 
of  that  firm.  He  conducted  a  planing-mill  business,  turning  out  interior 
finishing  work,  sash,  doors,  etc.,  the  enterprise  being  one  of  importance  in 
connection  with  the  industrial  activities  of  the  locality.  He  conducted  this 
business  from  1887  to  1897,  disposing  of  the  same  in  1896  to  Wilson  Poten- 
ger,  who  continued  operations  for  two  years,  when  he  was  compelled  to 
return  the  property  to  the  control  of  Mr.  Sheafer,  who  later  sold  out  to  Hull 
&  Jones. 

He  was  married  April  15,  1852,  to  Miss  Eliza  Robenson,  who  was  born 
and  reared  in  the  same  neighborhood,  in  Preble  county,  in  which  he  was, 
and  who  was  one  of  his  early  schoolmates.  They  have  had  a  family  of  six 
daughters   and    one    son,  namely:      Maggie,  wife   of   J.  B.    Xickum,    superin- 


286  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY, 

tendent  of  the  gas  works  at  Liberty;  Mary  Frances,  who  married  George  W. 
Rude,  of  whom  further  mention  is  made  on  another  page  of  this  work; 
Naomi,  wife  of  Henry  Culiey,  died  in  Ivansas  one  year  after  her  marriage; 
Belle,  wife  of  George  W.  Wray,  agent  for  the  Chicago,  Hamilton  &  Dayton 
Railroad,  at  Oxford,  Ohio;  Ida,  who  married  Daniel  Pooder,  a  machinist  at 
Rude's  mill;  Anna,  at  home;  and  William,  a  resident  of  Liberty.  Mr. 
Sheafer  has  three  grandchildren.  Bertha  and  Mary  Rude  and  Lida  Sheafer, 
who  reside  with  their  grandfather. 

CLEOPHAS    STRAUB. 

A  native  of  Germany,  born  seventy  years  ago,  Cleophas  Straub,  of  Cam- 
bridge City,  has  nevertheless  been  an  American  to  all  intents  and  purposes, 
during  his  life,  as  he  was  but  three  weeks  old  when  he  was  brought  to  the 
United  States  by  his  parents.  That  worthy  couple,  Thaddeus  and  Priscilla 
(Rechster)  Straub,  who  have  both  passed  to  their  reward,  made  their  first 
home  in  this  country  in  Columbiana  county,  Ohio,  and  in  1835  located  in 
Hamilton,  same  state,  there  spending  the  remainder  of  their  lives. 

When  he  arrived  at  his  majority  Cleophas  Straub,  of  this  sketch, 
embarked  in  business  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  the  spring  of  1852  hecrossed 
the  plains  to  California,  where  he  was  occupied  in  mining  and  in  other  enter- 
prises for  several  years,  with  more  or  less  success.  In  November,  1866,  he 
left  the  Pacific  slope,  and  returned  to  Hamilton,  Ohio,  where  he  carried  on 
a  grocery  and  hotel  for  a  short  time.  About  this  time  he  purchased  a  part 
interest  in  the  Cambridge  City  Brewery,  with  Peter  Strieker,  and  at  the  end 
of  a  year  he  bought  out  the  other's  share  in  the  plant,  thus  becoming  sole  pro- 
prietor. He  conducted  the  business  profitably  until  1887,  when  the  brewery 
was  transformed  into  bottling  works,  and  has  been  operated  as  such  ever 
since. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Straub  is  a  member  of  Wayne  Lodge,  No.  17,  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  belongs  to  Hormah  Encampment,  No.  11. 
In  1858  Mr.  Straub  was  united  in  marriage  to  Barbara  Siegwolf,  of  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio.  They  have  two  daughters, — Laura  and  Cora.  The  latter  is  the 
wife  of  Joseph  Starr,  of  Indianapolis. 

CAPTAIN  SILAS  DOUGLAS  BYRAM. 
This  honored  veteran  of  the  civil  war,  now  three-score  and  ten  years 
old,  is  the  postmaster  of  Liberty,  county  seat  of  Union  county.  He  ■  was 
first  appointed  to  this  position  when  President  Harrison  was  in  power  and 
served  acceptably  to  the  people,  and  in  May,  1898,  he  was  again  honored 
with  this  office  by  President  McKinley.  Always  faithful  to  the  welfare  and 
best  interests  of  the  Republican  party,  a  true  patriot  and  devoted  citizen  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  287 

times  both  of  peace  and  war,  he  merits  the  high  regard  which  is  universally 
bestowed  upon  him. 

The  Captain  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Liberty,  his  birth  having 
occurred  here  September  20,  182S.  His  father,  William  Byram,  came  to 
this  locality  from  New  Jersey  as  early  as  18 17,  and  in  company  with  his 
brother  Joseph  engaged  in  the  business  of  manufacturing  brick,  following 
this  trade  until  1834,  when  he  settled  ort  a  farm  adjoining  the  village  on  the 
south.  His  brother  removed  to  Illinois  about  1836.  William  Byram  con- 
tinued to  dwell  upon  his  farm  here  until  his  death  in  the  Centennial  year, 
when  he  was  seventy-six  years  of  age.  For  eight  years  he  served  in  the  capac- 
ity of  county  treasurer  of  Union  county,  during  the '40s,  and  was  zealous  as 
an  old-line  Whig  and  Republican.  A  strong  temperance  man  from  principle, 
he  always  refused  to  have  anything  to  do  with  liquor,  and  that  at  a  time 
when  its  use  was  common.  He  was  one  of  the  most  valued  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Libert)',  being  one  of  the  founders  of  the  same  in 
1827,  and  was  influential  in  the  building  of  the  house  of  worship  in  1852. 
For  forty  years,  or  until  his  death,  he  was  one  of  the  elders  of  the  con- 
gregation and  set  an  example  of  Christian  piety  well  worthy  of  being  followed 
by  all.  His  wife  was  a  Miss  Abbie  D.  Miller  at  the  time  of  their  marriage 
and  her  death  occurred  some  years  prior  to  his  own.  Of  their  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  John  Christopher,  who  served  in  the  Thirty-sixth  Indiana 
Regiment  in  the  civil  war,  died  in  California;  and  Ellis  is  at  present  a  resi- 
dent of  Glendale,  California.  The  founder  of  the  Byram  family  in  America  was 
Nicholas  Byram,  of  county  Kent,  Ireland,  who  was  forced  to  be  sold  or  bound 
out  for  seven  years'  service  upon  his  arrival  here,  to  pay  for  his  passage.  He 
subsequently  married,  and  his  grandson  wedded  a  granddaughter  of  Priscilla 
Alden,  who,  in  turn,  was  a  child  of  the  famed  John  Alden,  the  New  England 
Puritan. 

The  most  important  event  in  the  early  manhood  of  Captain  Silas  D. 
Byram  was  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixteenth  Illinois  Infantry  as  a  private  in 
Company  F,  his  own  state  quota  being  filled  at  the  time.  After  the  battle 
of  Bull  Run  he  was  assigned  to  the  signal  corps,  on  detached  duty,  and 
served  in  that  department  from  August,  1861,  to  May,  1862.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  as  a  second  lieutenant  and  afterward  raised  a  company,  known  as 
the  Burnside  Guards,  for  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fourth  Regiment,  of 
Indiana,  called  the  State  Legion.  He  was  actively  engaged  during  the  battle 
of  Laurenceburg,  where  nine  of  his  men  were  killed,  chased  Kirby  Smith,  and 
Morgan  in  his  raid  into  this  state,  and  was  otherwise  effectively  employed 
against  the  encroachments  of  the  enemy.  His  army  record  is  one  of  which 
he  may  be  justly  proud,  for  it  is  the  record  of  a  brave  soldier,  faithful  to  the 
least  as  well  as  to  the  greatest  of  his  duties,  prompt,  reliable  and  self-sacri- 


288  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ficing.  When  peace  had  been  restored  he  quietly  took  up  the  ordinary  duties 
of  life  and  for  ten  years  was  engaged  in  running  a  grocery.  He  then  embarked 
in  another  line  of  business  and  was  for  eighteen  years  proprietor  of  the  well 
known  Central  Hotel  of  this  city,  now  Corrington  House.  He  made  a  popu- 
lar "  mine  host  "  and  numbers  many  warm  friends  among  the  traveling  pub- 
lic. Since  he  was  made  postmaster  he  has  dropped  his  former  business  and 
attends  strictly  to  the  affairs  of  the  ofBce.  Forty  years  ago  he  became  affil- 
iated with  the  Masonic  order  and  is  still  an  active  member  of  Liberty  Lodge, 
No.  58,  F.  &A.  M. 

Captain  Byram  was  first  married,  in  1851,  to  Elizabeth  Goodwin,  who 
died  in  1854,  leaving  two  children.  Flora  (who  married  John  B.  Russell, 
resides  in  Marysville,  Kansas,  and  has  two  children,  Charley  and  Lloyd)  and 
Charlie  (deceased).  In  1863  Mr.  Byram  married  Miss  Lancetta  Harris, 
whom  he  had  met  and  admired  while  he  was  a  soldier  in  Maryland,  of  which 
state  she  was  a  resident.  Their  eldest  daughter,  Addie  J.,  has  received 
excellent  advantages  in  art  and  music  in  European  schools  and  is  now  the 
wife  of  Henry  Sharp,  superintendent  of  the  Cincinnati  Ohio  Art  School;  Liz- 
zie died  at  the  age  of  eleven  years;  Mary  Harris  is  a  clerk  in  the  postoffice 
here  at  Liberty;  Margaret  is  deputy  postmaster;  Louise  is  a  musician  of  abil- 
ity and  has  enjoyed  five  years  of  training  in  vocal  music  in  Europe;  and 
Morris,  the  only  son,  is  a  telegraph  operator. 

JAMES    L   DEHAVEN. 

James  Isaac  Dehaven,  of  Connersville  township,  Fayette  county,  Indi- 
ana, represents  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  this  county.  He  was  born  in 
Harrison  township,  Fayette  county,  February  17,  1821;  hence  his  whole  life 
of  nearly  four-score  years  has  been  passed  in  this  county. 

His  father,  Isaac  Dehaven,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  September  11, 
17S9,  and  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Dehaven.  The  latter  emigrated  with  his 
family  to  Kentucky  from  Pennsylvania  when  his  son  Isaac  was  a  lad.  From 
Kentucky  the  entire  family,  consisting  of  Samuel  Dehaven,  the  grandfather 
of  the  immediate  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  his  sons  and  daughters,  came  to 
Fayette  county  in  18 16  and  settled  in  Harrison  township.  Samuel  Dehaven 
had  lost  his  first  wife  in  Kentucky  and  was  the  second  time  married  when 
the  family  came  to  Indiana.  Samuel  Dehaven  was  the  father  of  quite  a  numer- 
ous family,  which  included  the  sons  Jacob,  Samuel,  Jr.,  Isaac  and  Christo- 
pher. There  were  also  two  other  sons,  by  his  first  marriage,  who  joined  the 
Mormons  and  went  west  with  those  people  and  were  afterward  reported  to 
have  lost  their  lives  by  drowning.  There  were  two  daughters,  named  Polly 
and  Sally.  There  were  also  two  sons  and  two  daughters  born  to  Samuel 
Dehaven,  Sr.,  by  his  second   marriage.      The  grandfather  of  the   subject  of 


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this  biography  entered  land  in  Harrison  township  and  li\ed  there  the  rest  of 
his  Hfe.  Isaac  Dehaven,  father  of  James  I.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1812,  as  was  his  brother  Jacob.  James  Isaac  has  often  heard  his  father  tell 
of  his  experiences  in  that  war,  in  which  he  had  some  narrow  escapes  and 
thrilling  experiences. 

Isaac  Dehaven  was  married  in  Kentucky,  before  the  emigration,  to 
Nancy  Stucker,  daughter  of  Jacob  Stucker.  The  latter  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky August  II,  1764,  and  his  wife'  March  26,  1773.  They  became  the 
parents  of  eleven  children,  and  Nancy  was  born  January  11,  1792.  Isaac 
Dehaven  and  wife  spent  all  their  lives  after  coming  to  Indiana  in  Harrison 
township.  He  died  March  25,  1875,  and  his  wife  December  21,  1865.  They 
became  the  parents  of  the  following  named  children:  Elizabeth,  William, 
Sally  Ann,  Jacob,  James,  Isaac  and  John  H.  The  last  two  are  the  only  sur- 
viving members  of  the  family.     John  H.  resides  in  Harrison  township. 

James  Isaac  Dehaven  grew  up,  as  he  says,  "  in  the  brush."  He  had  no 
.opportunities  for  getting  even  the  common  rudiments  of  an  education.  He 
lived  at  home  till  he  was  married.  The  writer  was  highly  amused  to  hear 
him  relate  some  of  his  experiences  when  a  boy.  When  too  young  to  take 
part  in  the  clearing  up  of  the  land  and  other  heavier  work,  other  duties  were 
required  of  him  such  as  a  boy  could  attend  to.  The  brush  in  the  early  days 
was  exceedingly  thick,  and  the  cattle  in  browsing  through  it  in  "  flj-  time  " 
would  often  get  their  tails  so  wound  around  the  brush  that  they  would  be 
held  fast  and  totally  unable  to  extricate  themselves,  and  were  liable  to  perish 
unless  relief  was  afforded  them.  One  of  the  duties  of  our  subject  as  a  boy 
was  to  follow  the  cattle  and  when  one  became  entangled  cut  it  loose.  It  was 
a  proud  day  for  him  when  his  father  purchased  a  knife  for  which  he  paid  two 
dollars  and  presented  the  same  to  the  boy,  to  use  in  freeing  the  cattle  that 
might  become  entangled  by  their  tails  in  the  thick  brush.  His  boyhood  and 
youth  were  spent  at  the   homestead  of  his  father  in  Harrison  township. 

May  II,  1844,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Eliza  Ann  Hamilton,  a 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  Hamilton.  He  remained  at  home  for  a  short  time 
after  his  marriage  and  then  removed  to  a  piece  of  land  at  Yankeetown;  but  in 
1846  he  settled  where  he  now  lives,  on  section  22,  Ctnnersville  township,  and 
this  has  been  his  home  for  fifty-four  years.  He  and  his  wife  started  in 
life  with  nothing  but  good  health  and  a  willingness  to  work  tn  build  for  them- 
selves a  home.  Only  very  little  improvement  had  been  made  on  the  place. 
Their  first  residence  was  a  round-log  house,  made- of  poles  and  daubed  with 
mud.  Their  cooking  outfit  was  a  skillet  and  an  old-fashioned  iron  oven  for 
baking  "  corn  pone."  Mr.  Dehaven  has  still  in  his  possession  this  little  iron 
oven,  a  memento  of  the  early  days  when  he  and  his  good  wife  started  in  life 
together.   The  first  lard-can  that  the  young  couple  possessed  Mr.  Dehaven  dug 


■290  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

out  of  a  poplar  log.  This  the  good  wife  would  also  use  for  other  purposes.  Fin- 
ally, after  a  few  years,  his  father-in-law,  who  lived  near  him,  substituted  for  his 
log  house  one  made  of  brick,  and  Mr.  Dehaven  was  permitted  to  remove  the 
logs  of  the  old  house  to  his  place  and  reconstruct  a  house  for  himself,  and 
this  was  the  second  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dehaven.  His  present  resi- 
dence was  built  many  years  ago.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dehaven,  by  hard  work  and 
careful  management,  made  good  progress  in  material  affairs,  and  children  to 
the  number  of  nine  were  given  to  them.  Six  of  these  are  living,  in  1S99, 
namely:  Lucinda,  Flora,  Minnie,  Mary  Myrtle,  Elbert  and  John.  The 
other  three  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Dehaven  lost  his  wife  February  3,  1S93, 
after  a  long  illness. 

In  the  accumulation  of  his  property — a  fine  farm  of  two  hundred  acres 
— and  all  the  success  he  has  attained  in  life,  Mr.  Dehaven  admits  that  much 
of  it  is  due  to  his  wife's  judgment  and  advice.  He  always  consulted  her  in 
matters  of  business  and  generally  followed  her  advice.  He  is  now  passing 
his  declining   years  in  comfort,  respected  as  an  honest,  upright  citizen. 

LARKIN  HOOVER. 

One  of  the  historic  old  families  of  Wayne  county  is  that  which  is  repre- 
sented in  Clay  township  by  the  third  and  fourth  generations,  descendants  of 
Henry  Hoover,  who,  in  the  year  1S12,  located  on  a  tract  of  land  which  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  the  subject  of  this  article.  This  old  homestead, 
which  was  given  under  patent  by  the  government,  has  thus  been  owned  and 
cultivated  by  the  Hoovers  since  the  early  part  of  this  century.  The  original 
parchment  deed  to  the  property,  bearing  date  of  February  15,  1812,  and 
having  the  signature  of  James  Madison,  president  of  the  United  States,  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  Larkin  Hoover.  Here  his  grandparents  lived  and 
died,  and  here  his  father,  John  Hoover,  was  born,  October  28,  18 16,  and 
died  August  26,  i88r,  when  nearly  si.\ty-five  years  of  age.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Catherine  Wise,  was  likewise  a  native  of  Wayne  county, 
and  her  death  took  place  in  1864.  Of  their  eleven  children,  three  sons  and 
three  daughters  are  living.  Milton,  the  eldest,  now  owns  and  carries  on  a 
portion  of  the  old  paternal  homestead,  which  he  received  as  his  inheritance. 
He  was  born  November  26,  1841,  and  served  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  as 
a  member  of  Company  C,  Ninth  Indiana  Cavalry.  His  first  wife,  whom  he 
married  in  1867,  died  in  1883,  leaving  a  son,  Sidney.  His  present  wife  was 
formerly  Sarah  Goddard,  a  native  of  Charlottesville,  Indiana,  and  they  have 
one  son,  Guy. 

Larkin  Hoover,  the  youngest  child  of  John  and  Catherine  Hoover,  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead,  in  1S60,  and  has  always  devoted  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  its  cultivation.      He  is  considered  one  of  the  substantial  and 


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progressive  agriculturists  of  this  community,  and  enjoys  the  esteem  of  all 
who  know  him.  He  strives  to  act  the  part  of  a  good  citizen,  and  casts  his 
influence  on  the  side  of  the  truth  and  right. 

In  November,  1892,  Mr.  Hoover  married  Miss  Clara  Poland,  a  daughter 
of  Jacob  Stanley  and  Mary  Louisa  (Brown)  Poland,  and  granddaughter  of 
Elisha  Brown,  one  of  the  oldest  citizens  of  Wayne  county.  Mrs.  Hoover's 
parents  are  now  residents  of  Kansas,  whither  they  removed  several  years  ago. 
By  the  marriage  of  our  subject  and  wife  a  beautiful  little  daughter,  Ruth 
Marie,  was  born  in  August,   1893. 

*  MICAJAH   B.    BALLARD. 

It  is  not  infrequently  the  case  that  the  narrative  of  a  good  man's  life  can 
be  summed  up  in  a  few  lines,  for  the  story  is  so  simple,  plain  and  devoid  of 
great  events.  The  same  life,  however,  as  it  has  been  lived,  day  by  day,  that 
has  been  an  example  and  shining  light  in  a  community,  has  been  an  incentive 
to  many  a  lesser  soul,  doubtless;  and  only  those  who  have  the  wisdom  to 
read  between  the  lines  of  such  a  man's  history  judge  him  aright. 

The  subject  of  this  memoir,  a  quiet,  unassuming  citizen  of  Richmond, 
and  for  thirty-three  years  one  of  her  leading  business  men,  is  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  here,  as  he  richly  deserves.  Now  in  his  seventy-third  year, 
he  was  born  in  the  neighborhood  of  Lebanon,  Warren  county,  Ohio,  August 
7,  1S26,  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Lewis)  Ballard,  and  grandson  of  Byram 
Ballard.  The  latter  was  a  native  and  life-long  resident  of  Lynchburg,  Vir- 
ginia, in  which  city  our  subject's  father  likewise  was  born.  Thomas  Ballard 
married  Miss  Lewis,  of  Prederick,  Virginia,  and  in  1819,  they  located  in  the 
wilderness  of  Highland  county,  Ohio,  at  some  distance  from  the  town  of 
Leesburg.  Later  they  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Lebanon,  Ohio,  where 
they  resided  until  1847,  subsequent  to  which  they  dwelt  in  Richmond.  Indi- 
ana. The  father  died  the  year  after  his  arrival  here,  but  the  mother  lived 
until  1862.  The  former  had  learned  the  trade  of  a  stone  mason,  but  devoted 
much  of  his  later  years  exclusively  to  farming.  In  religion  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  as  had  been  his  forefathers  for  generations. 

Until  he  was  about  fifteen  years  of  age,  Micajah  B.  Ballard  attended 
the  district  schools  in  his  home  township,  and  in  1841  he  came  to  Richmond, 
where  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  store  owned  by  his  elder  brother,  Achilles. 
Having  determined  to  enter  the  medical  profession,  he  took  up  the  study 
under  the  guidance  of  the  late  John  T.  Plummer,  M.  D.,  of  Richmond,  and 
from  1849  to  1850  he  attended  lectures  in  a  medical  college  at  Cincinnati. 
In  1854  he  entered  the  employ  of  Plummer  &  Kelly,  druggists,  and  continued 
with  that  firm  until  the  summer  of  1864.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany H,  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers,  in  July, 


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1864,  and  in  the  following  October,  was  made  assistant  surgeon  of  that  regi- 
ment. He  remained  in  active  service  as  a  surgeon  until  the  close  of  the  war, 
when  he  returned  to  Richmond.  In  1866  he  embarked  in  the  drug  business 
on  his  own  account,  and  for  twenty-seven  years  his  store  was  on  Fort  Wayne 
avenue.  In  1893  he  removed  his  place  of  business  to  his  present  tine  quar- 
ters at  No.   1 03 1  East  Main  street. 

In  his  political  standing  Mr.  Ballard  is  a  stalwart  Republican.  Socially 
he  is  identified  with  Webb  Lodge,  No.  24,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  King 
Solomon's  Chapter,  No.  4,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  and  Richmond  Commandery, 
No.  8,  Knights  Templar.  In  October,  1866,  Mr.  Ballard  wedded  tl^e  lady 
of  his  choice,  then  Miss  Nannie  Snyder,  of  Eaton,  Ohio.  Their  only  child, 
Fannie,  a  beautiful. and  attractive  girl,  died  in  188S,  at  the  age  of  twenty 
years.  Mrs.  Ballard  devotes  much  of  her  time  to  benevolent  work,  and  is  a 
great  favorite  in  social  and  literary  circles  of  Richmond. 

PROFESSOR  B.    B.   CUSTER. 

Few  men  have  a  wider  acquaintanceship  and  few  have  provided  more 
happy  hours  to  their  fellow  men  than  has  Professor  Custer,  now  a  resident 
of  Centerville,  Indiana.  His  almost  innumerable  friends  and  pupils,  now 
living  in  every  state  in  the  union  and  in  distant  lands,  remember  him  most 
kindly,  and  will  trace  his  life  history  with  deep  interest. 

John  T.  Custer,  the  father  of  this  worthy  gentleman,  was  a  cousin  of  the 
renowned  General  Custer,  whose  intrepid  daring  and  impetuosity  of  action 
led  to  his  untimely  and  greatly  lamented  death  at  the  hands  of  the  Indians 
in  the  west  many  years  ago.  The  present  spelling  of  the  family  name  has 
been  in  use  only  since  1821,  at  which  time  it  was  changed  from  its  original 
form  of  Kooster  by  a  Kentucky  relative  of  our  subject.  As  the  name  implies, 
the  Ousters  are  of  German  extraction,  though  they  have  been  established  in 
this  country  for  a  long  period.  John  T.  Custer  was  born  in  Paris,  Kentucky, 
and  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Eliza  A.  Berry,  was  a  native  of  Con- 
nersville,  Indiana.  The  father,  who  was  a  tailor  by  trade,  died  in  1873, 
when  in  his  seventy-fourth  year,  and  the  mother  departed  this  life  in  1856, 
at  the  age  of  forty-three  years.  Of  their  ten  children  but  three  are  now 
living — our  subject,  Elizabeth  Ann.  wife  of  John  McKendall,  and  Mahala 
Ann,  wife  of  John  W.  Bell. 

The  birth  of  Professor  Custer  took  place  in  Connersville,  May  7,  1S25, 
and  thus  he  may  justly  lay  claim  to  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  oldest, 
if  not  the  oldest,  surviving  member  of  his  especial  profession  in  the  country. 
From  his  boyhood  he  was  noted  for  his  ambition  to  rise  above  his  humble 
station,  and  for  the  talents  which  he  displayed  at  an  early  age.  He  was 
passionately  fond  of  music,  and  frequently  was  found,  a  rapt  and  enthusiastic 


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listener,  outside  some  building  in  which  musical  entertainments  were  being 
given.  At  one  time,  when  thus  occupied,  J.  C.  Moon,  a  teacher  of  music, 
noticing  the  lad,  asked  him  why  he  remained  outside,  and  upon  being 
informed  of  the  fact  that  the  limited  means  of  the  child  alone  prevented  him 
from  having  instructions  in  his  favorite  art,  the  elder  made  arrangements  to 
give  him  lessons,  in  return  for  the  building  of  fires  and  other  small  duties. 
The  natural  timidity  of  the  boy,  however,  hindered  him  at  that  period  from 
obtaining  much  benefit.  By  sawing  wood,  and  in  various  ways,  he  earned 
money  at  odd  times,  when  not  needed  by  his  father,  and  having  purchased  a 
banjo,  he  learned  to  play  it  by  ear  so  well  that  he  thereafter  was  in  great 
demand  at  social  gatherings  and  entertainments.  Finding  the  need  of  sys- 
tematic knowledge  of  music,  the  youth  took  a  few  lessons  of  Professor  Jerry 
Gill,  of  Eaton,  Ohio,  and  continued  to  devote  the  greater  share  of  his  time 
to  the  mastery  of  the  violin  and  other  stringed  instruments.  The  justly 
celebrated  violin  which  has  been  in  his  possession  for  many  years  fell  into 
his  hands  in  a  peculiar  manner.  When  he  had  acquired  proficiency  on  the 
banjo,  as  stated  above,  he  determined  to  learn  to  play  the  violin,  and  one 
day,  seeing  such  an  instrument  in  a  pawn-shop,  he  rested  not  until  he  was 
the  proud  owner  of  it.  The  fifteen  dollars  necessary  to  procure  it  were 
earned  by  the  sawing  of  wood,  and  it  was  no  small  sum  to  the  ambitious  boy 
whose  surprise  and  delight  may  be  imagined  when  he  found  that  he  had  won 
a  treasure  indeed.  This  rare  old  violin,  which  came  from  the  hand  of  a 
master  in  the  craft,  is  two  hundred  and  thirty-five  years  old  and  cost  the 
original  owner  six  hundred  dollars.  Even  more  sweet  and  pure  in  tone  than 
when  first  made,  it  bears  the  inscription  "  A  Cremone  Dominique.  Didelot." 
The  Professor  and  his  treasured  violin  have  furnished  music  for  mapy  notable 
gatherings,  among  others,  at  a  club  reception  giving  at  Bloomington,  Illinois, 
in  1S59,  to  Abraham  Lincoln.  From  1865  to  1875  he  was  engaged  in  giving 
dancing  and  violin  lessons  at  Cambridge  City,  Anderson  and  Muncie,  Indi- 
ana, and  from  the  year  las  tmentioned  until  1898  he  was  similarly  occupied 
at  Richmond,  this  state.  He  has  instructed  sixty-five  thousand,  four  hundred 
and  forty-three  pupils  in  Indiana  alone,  and  has  won  renown  as  a  composer 
of  music  besides.  In  iSSg  he  compiled  what  is  entitled  "  Fifty  Years  in  the 
Ball-room," — a  large  selection  of  his  own  dance  music,  as  taught  and  used 
by  him  with  the  more  than  seventy-five  thousand  pupils  he  has  instructed 
in  the  past.  Genial  ^nd  cheerful  in  manner  and  disposition,  he  has  always 
been  a  general  favorite,  and  wherever  he  has  gone  care  and  trouble  have 
been  dissipated.  For  almost  half  a  centurj'  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  order,  as  he  joined  the  Cambridge  City  Lodge,  No.  5,  F.  &  A.  M., 
in  1859. 

The  first  marriage  of  the    Professor   was  celebrated   in    1851,  his  bride 


294  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

being  Miss  Sallie  Sampson,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Sampson,  of  Cincinnati. 
Five  children  were  born  to  this  estimable  couple,  namely:  Emma,  who  is 
deceased;  Clara,  wife  of  F.  C.  Baker,  of  California;  Dora,  wife  of  John  St. 
Clair,  of  Portland,  Oregon;  Frank,  who  died  February  7,  1S99,  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri;  and  Flenner,  of  Chicago.  The  wife  and  mother  departed  this 
life  in  1868,  and  in  1S74  Mr.  Custer  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Lucius 
Tuttle,  of  Centerville. 

RICHMOND  MOORMAN. 

This  honored  citizen  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  is  one  of  the  sturd}-  pioneers 
of  this  county  and  state,  where  in  his  early  manhood  he  cleared  and 
improved  several  farms,  thus  aiding  materially  in  the  development  and  prog- 
ress of  this  commonwealth.  He  has  ever  been  found  loyal  to  the  cause  of 
right  and  truth,  his  influence  being  used  for  the  good  and  well-being  of 
those  associated  with  him  in  any  way. 

Richmond  Moorman  is  a  son  of  Tarlton  and  Hannah  (Way)  Moorman, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  North  Carolina.  He  was  born  in  Randolph 
county,  that  state,  on  the  12th  day  of  the  9th  month,  of  18 17,  and  was  but 
three  days  old  when  his  mother  died.  In  March,  1S22,  the  family  removed 
to  Randolph  county,  Indiana,  locating  on  land  about  four  miles  west  of  Win- 
chester. Our  subject  lived  with  his  paternal  grandmother  for  a  period, 
attending  a  subscription  school  in  the  meantime.  Then,  returning  to  the 
paternal  roof,  he  worked  on  the  farm  and  went  to  subscription  schools  dur- 
ing three  months  of  the  year,  for  a  number  of  years.  He  also  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade  under  the  instruction  of  his  uncle,  Jesse  Moorman,  and 
worked  at  that  line  of  business  at  intervals.  Soon  after  his  marriage,  in  1839, 
he  purchased  a  tract  of  land  in  Randolph  county,  and,  having  made  a  small 
clearing  in  the  dense  forest  with  which  it  was  encumbered,  he  erected  a  log 
cabin  and  barn.  During  the  following  twenty  years  he  worked  industriously, 
from  morning  until  night,  clearing  and  cultivating  the  farm,  which  at  the  end 
of  the  period  was  a  valuable  country  home.  In  1859  he  located  upon  a  farm 
about  three  miles  northeast  of  Fountain  City,  in  this  county,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  three  years'  time  he  bought  a  homestead  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty-three  acres  in  the  same  locality.  Tliis  property  he  improved  and 
cultivated  for  a  score  of  years,  then  retiring  from  active  labor,  with  the  feel- 
ing that  he  had  earned  a  rest,  as  indeed  he  had,  after  nearly  half  a  century  of 
the  hardest  kind  of  toil.  Taking  up  his  residence  in  Fountain  City,  he  con- 
tinued to  dwell  there  until  after  the  death  of  his  loved  wife.  Since  1894  he 
has  lived  in  Richmond,  where  several  of  his  children  reside.  He  still  owns  a 
number  of  valuable  farms,  one  in  Franklin  township,  comprising  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres;  one  situated  northeast  of  Fountain  City,  containing  one 


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hundred  and  thirt}'  acres;  another,  north  of  the  same  town,  having  one 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  within  its  boundaries,  and  besides  these,  he  is  the 
possessor  of  a  homestead  in  Jay  county,  Indiana,  and  owns  property  in  Foun- 
tain City.  This  land  represents,  in  part,  the  resuUs  of  Mr.  Moorman's  active, 
economical,  thrifty  business  Hfe.  For  years  he  was  a  stockraiser,  dealing 
e.xtensively  in  cattle  and  hogs,  and  in  this  manner  he  made  considerable 
mone}-. 

A  birthright  member  of  the  Friends'  church,  Mr.  Moorman  continued  an 
active  and  zealous  member  until  the  division  on  the  slavery  question,  when, 
possessing  the  courage  of  his  convictions,  and  believing  that  he  was  in  the 
right,  he  openly  avowed  his  opinions,  and,  with  many  others  prominent  in 
the  society,  he  was  proscribed.  When  the  issue  was  past  and  the  matter  had 
been  forever  settled  on  the  battlefields  of  the  south,  Mr.  Moorman  was  taken 
back  into  the  fold,  and  has  continued  a  loyal  worker  in  the  church,  contribu- 
ting liberally  and  supporting  various  religious  and  benevolent  movements, 
having  as  objects  the  amelioration  of  human  suffering  and  the  elevation  of 
the  race.  Prior  to  the  civil  war  he  was  a  Democrat,  then  an  Abolitionist 
and  Republican,  and  of  late  years  he  has  been  independent,  voting  for  the 
man  that  he  deemed  best  qualified  for  a  given  position. 

In  the  third  month  of  1S39  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Moorman  and  Mary 
Morris  was  solemnized.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Jehosophat  and  Sarah  (Hill) 
Morris,  of  Dublin,  'Wayne  county.  Of  the  eight  children  born  to  our  subject 
and  wife  the  following  named  are  residents  of  Richmond:  Harriet,  Sarah, 
Peninnah,  Nancy  and  Mary  Alice,  while  Levi  is  a  farmer  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  town.  James,  the  eldest  son,  is  superintendent  of  an  orphans'  home  near 
Winchester,  Indiana,  and  Joel,  the  youngest  son,  is  a  successful  contractor 
and  builder  of  Irvington,  this  state.  Sarah,  the  second  daughter,  has  been  a 
clerk  in  the  Richmond  postoffice  for  many  years,  and  is  very  popular  with 
the  public.  The  devoted  wife  and  mother  was  summoned  to  her  reward 
November  22,  1893,  when  she  was  in  her  seventy-sixth  year.  To  their  chil- 
dren Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moorman  leave  a  priceless  heritage — the  record  of  well 
spent,  useful  lives. 

ALLEN  W.  LEWIS. 

A  year  before  the  celebrated  battle  of  Tippecanoe,  and  two  years  or  so 
prior  to  the  outbreak  of  the  second  war  between  the  people  of  this  country 
and  England,  a  little  party  might  have  been  seen  crossing  the  Ohio  river,  on 
their  way  to  found  a  new  home  on  the  western  frontier.  The  date  of  this 
event  in  their  long  and  e.xtremely  difficult  journey  was  remembered,  as  it  was 
the  first  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  the  youngest  member  of  the  travelers, 
Allen  W.  Lewis,  who  had  been  born  in  Randolph  county.  North  Carolina, 
June  14,   1 8c©.      The  summer  of  18 10  was  spent  by  his  family  in  Cincinnati, 


290  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Ohio,  and  in  tiie  autumn  of  that  year  the)'  proceeded  to  Wayne  county, 
Indiana,  and  became  the  first  settlers  of  what  is  now  known  as  Green  town- 
ship. 

The  Lewis  family  is  of  Welsh-English  extraction,  and  as  the  old  tradi- 
tions have  it,  was  founded  in  the  United  States  during  the  colonial  days  by 
several  brothers,  one  of  whom  settled  in  North  Carolina,  and  from  him  the 
subject  of  this  narrative  descended.  He  was  the  youngest  of  twelve  chil- 
dren born  to  John  and  Sarah  (Roukman)  Lewis.  One  of  the  elder  sons, 
Richard,  who  was  married  and  had  several  children,  accompanied  the  parents 
when  they  came  to  this  township,  the  two  families  locating  near  each  other. 
An  unbroken  forest  covered  this  section,  and  Indians  and  wild  beasts  were 
numerous.  During  the  fearful  wars  waged  between  the  red  men  and  the  white 
settlers  about  the  time  of  the  war  of  1812,  when  Tecumseh  and  his  brother, 
called  the  Prophet,  tried  in  vain  to  turn  the  tide  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  civiliza- 
tion which  threatened  their  rights,  the  Lewis  family  seemed  peculiarly 
exempt  from  molestation.  They  had  always  treated  the  Indians  kindly  and 
received  similar  treatment  in  return.  Indeed,  some  of  the  red  men  who 
lived  in  the  neighborhood  of  John  Lewis  went  to  him  and  requested  him  to 
wear  a  broad-brimmed  hat,  which,  they  said,  would  insure  him  protection 
from  their  race,  and  it  is  needless  to  say  that  he  lost  no  time  in  agreeing  to 
do  as  they  advised. 

The  land  upon  which  he  located,  and  where  he  ultimately  developed  an 
excellent  farm,  is  still  in  possession  of  his  descendants,  as  is  the  original 
deed  thereto,  as  issued  by  the  government  and  signed  by  President  James 
Madison,  under  date  of  May  27,  1S16.  The  land  is  thus  described:  "The 
northeast  quarter  of  section  7,  township  17,  range  14  east  of  the  second 
principal  meridian."  Another  government  deed  to  land  owned  by  John 
Lewis  is  thus  described:  "The  southwest  quarter  of  section  8,  township  17, 
range  14  east  of  the  second  principal  meridian."  This  deed  is  dated  February 
21,  1 8 17,  and  bears  the  signature  of  Madison,  who  was  still  president  at  that 
time.  After  he  had  accomplished  more  than  the  ordinary  man,  twice  told, 
Jolin  Lewis  was  summoned  to  his  reward,  at  the  old  homestead  which  had 
been  his  abiding  place  for  many  long  years.  His  death  occurred  on  the  4th 
of  May,  1S48,  and  that  of  his  wife  had  taken  place  but  a  few  months  before, 
September  20,   1847. 

The  old  homestead  which  he  had  ably  assisted  in  clearing  and  improving 
was  inherited  by  Allen  W.  Lewis,  who  remembered  no  other  home.  He 
tenderly  cared  for  his  parents  during  their  declining  years,  performing  his 
entire  duty  toward  them,  as  he  al^vays  did  to  every  one  who,  in  any  wise, 
looked  to  him  for  help  or  protection.  He  was  domestic  in  his  tastes,  and  he 
had  no  greater  pleasure  than  to   make   his  home   beautiful  or  to   improve  his 


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property  in  some  manner.  Generous  and  hospitable  to  a  fault,  he  loved  to 
entertain  friends  and  neighbors,  and  the  poor  and  needy  found  him  kind  and 
sympathetic.  In  all  of  his  business  dealings,  his  course  in  life  was  remark- 
ably upright  and  just,  and  no  one  had  reason  to  complain  of  him  in  this 
respect.  Blessed  with  a  liberal  vein  of  humor,  he  looked  upon  the  bright 
and  happy  side  of  things,  and  brought  cheer  wherever  he  went.  Loved  and 
sincerely  mourned  by  the  entire  community,  he  entered  the  silent  land  Feb- 
ruary   13,   1895. 

The  marriage  of  Allen  W.  Lewis  and  Miss  Lucy  T.  Hollingswortli  was 
solemnized  May  23,  1839.  She  was  born  in  Union  district,  South  Carolina, 
January  31,  18 17,  a  daughter  of  Aquilla  and  Tamer  (Kenworthy)  Hol- 
lingsworth.  The  father  died  when  she  was  about  eleven  j'ears  old,  and  in 
1S29  she  came  to  Wayne  county  with  her  mother.  Two  sons  and  six  daugh- 
ters were  born  to  Allen  W.  Lewis  and  his  estimable  wife:  John  died  in 
infancy  and  Frances  H.  when  about  five  years  of  age;  Nancy  married  Larkin 
T.  Bond;  Naomi  is  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Beverlin;  Rebecca  is  Mrs.  John 
Milton  Harris;  Sarah  is  the  next  in  order  of  birth;  William  A.  married  Ella 
C.  Edwards;  and  Luzena  Medora  is  the  wife  of  William  H.  Jones.  The 
aged  mother  is  passing  her  declining  days  on  the  old  homestead,  which  was 
bequeathed  to  herself  and  daughter  Sarah  by  Mr.  Lewis,  and  everything  that 
affection  can  suggest  is  done  for  her  by  her  children,  and  especially  by  Miss 
Sarah,  who  is  devoting  herself,  with  filial  tenderness,  to  the  duty,  which  she 
esteems  a  pleasure,  of  caring  for  her  beloved  companion. 

JOHN  W.   TINGLE. 

A  most  exemplary  citizen  and  honored  hero  of  the  late  war  of  the  Rebel- 
lion is  John  W.  Tingle,  of  Richmond,  Wayne  county,  Indiana.  During  his 
army  career  he  was  wounded  and  imprisoned,  and  suffered  much  from  priva- 
tions and  exposure,  yet  was  always  found  faithful  to  the  duties  imposed  upon 
him,  and  won  the  confidence  and  high  regard  of  his  comrades  and  superior 
officers.  In  his  business  life  and  social  relations  he  has  ever  manifested  the 
same  justice,  integrity  and  reliability,  and  none  know  him  save  to  wish  him  well. 

His  grandfather,  James  Tingle,  was  a  native  of  Delaware,  and  in  that 
state  he  married  Leah  Lockwood.  With  his  family,  including  the  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  article,  he  came  as  far  west  as  Preble  county,  Ohio,  in 
1S28,  and  settled  on  a  farm  near  Eaton.  In  addition  to  managing  his  home- 
stead, he  worked  at  the  trade  of  shoemaking  for  his  neighbors.  He  died  in 
that  county  in  1848,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years.     , 

The  parents  of  John  W.  were  Samuel  L.  and  Clarissa  (Williams)  Tingle. 
The  father  was  born  in  Delaware  and  accompanied  the  family  to  Ohio.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder  by  trade,   and  worked  at  that  calling  in   Eaton 


298  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  vicinity  from  the  time  he  was  twenty-one  years  old  until  his  death  in 
1869,  when  he  was  in  his  sixty-second  year.  Considering  the  place  and 
period  he  was  quite  successful,  and  many  buildings  yet  stand  in  evidence  of 
his  skill.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  four  children,  John  W. ,  Anna  M.,  of 
Richmond,  and  William  E.  and  Fannie,  deceased.  In  1851  Mr.  Tingle 
married  Rachel  M.  Dopp,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  she  is  still  living  at 
her  old  home  in  Eaton.  To  this  union  two  children  were  born,  Charles  S., 
of  Colorado,  and  Mary  S.,  of  Eaton. 

The  birth  of  John  W.  Tingle  occurred  in  Eaton,  Ohio,  October  31,  1S3S, 
and  in  1855  he  was  graduated  from  the  high  school  of  that  town.  With  his 
father  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  completed  his  knowledge  in 
Dayton,  Ohio.  On  the  i6th  of  June,  1S62,  he  enlisted  in  Company  G, 
Ninety-third  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  at  Eaton,  and  served  until  October 
29,  1864,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged,  at  Cincinnati,  Onio,  on 
account  of  a  gunshot  wound  in  the  left  knee,  said  injury  having  been  received 
at  the  famous  battle  of  Chickamauga.  He  was  sergeant  of  his  company,  and 
on  January  i,  1863,  at  the  battle  of  Stone  river,  he  was  taken  captive  by  the 
Confederates,  who  incarcerated  him  in  Libby  prison.  Very  fortunately  for 
him  he  remained  in  that  dreaded  place  but  sixteen  days,  then  being  exchanged. 
On  account  of  his  wound  he  was  sent  to  General  Willett's  headquarters,  and 
later  was  given  his  discharge. 

Returning  to  his  birthplace,  Mr.  Tingle  was  superintendent  of  the 
county  infirmary  for  two  years,  and  in  1868  came  to  Richmond,  where  he 
has  since  dwelt.  For  a  few  years  he  was  occupied  in  contracting  and  build- 
ing and  succeeded  in  his  undertakings.  Subsequently  he  served  on  the  police 
force  several  years,  and  in  April,  1888,  he  was  elected  trustee  of  \\"ayne 
township.  In  that  capacity  he  acted  for  seven  years  and  four  months, 
retiring  in  1895,  to  be  succeeded  by  George  Bishop,  the  present  incumbent. 
He  has  always  maintained  great  interest  in  the  success  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  during  the  past  ten  years  or  more  has  frequently  been  delegated 
to  attend  district,  county  and  state  conventions  of  the  party. 

Twice  he  has  been  commander  of  Solomon  Meredith  Pest,  No.  55,  G. 
A.  R.,  and  has  been  junior  and  senior  vice-commander  of  the  state  of 
Indiana,  and  for  years  has  attended  all  the  state  and  national  conventions. 
Besides,  he  belongs  to  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America.  In  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  he  stands  very  high,  having  belonged  to  Rich- 
mond Lodge,  No.  254,  for  twenty-seven  years,  to  the  grand  lodge  of  the 
state  for  seventeen  years,  and  to  the  grand  encampment  nine  years.  Many 
times  he  has  represented  his  lodge  in  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  at  Indian- 
apolis, and  he  is  a  member  of  Oriental  Encampment,  No.  28. 

In  1898,  Mr.  Tingle  and   Perry  T.  Williams  became  associated  in  busi- 


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ness,  designing  and  dealing  in  artistic  monuments.  Their  office  is  at  the 
corner  of  Fifth  and  Main  streets,  and  while  Mr.  Tingle  has  charge  there  and 
attends  to  the  accounts,  Mr.  Williams  attends  to  outside  sales  and  does  the 
designing.  They  are  building  up  a  good  business  and  deserve  to  succeed  in 
their  new  enterprise. 

The  marriage  of  John  W.  Tingle  and  Miss  Mary  Early  was  celebrated 
in  West  Alexandria,  Ohio,  in  i860.  They  have  four  children,  namely: 
Charles  R.,  who  is  assistant  trustee  of  this  township;  Frank  E.,  a  machinist 
of  Connersville;  Samuel  L. ,  of  Richmond;  and  Mrs.  Estella  Ault,  also  of 
this  place.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tingle  are  members  of  the  Fifth  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  the  former  being  a  trustee  in  the  congregation. 

ANDREW  D.   HAWLEY,  M.  D. 

Half  a  century  of  self-denying  labor  in  the  service  of  suffering  humanity, 
— this,  in  brief,  is  the  summing-up  of  the  life  of  this  beloved  and  venerable 
physician  of  College  Corner,  Union  county.  But  who  can  fully  comprehend 
what  it  means,  and  how  many  of  the  present  generation,  especially,  realize 
what  it  meant  to  be  a  pioneer  physician,  riding,  here  and  there,  far  and  near, 
in  ail  kinds  of  weather,  without  regard  to  self, — to  his  own  health  or  wishes, 
— his  sole  thought  being  for  others  ?  In  these  days  of  splendid  pikes  and 
well  kept  roads,  who  recalls  the  dreadful,  muddy  pitfalls  and  pathways  that 
served  the  pioneers  as  highways.'  Yet,  surely,  no  one  has  more  occasion  to 
remember  them  than  the  "doctor  of  the  old  school,"  who,  on  his  patient,  plod- 
ding horse,  traversed  them  on  many  a  dark,  starless,  stormy  night,  courage- 
ously bearing  comfort  and  cheer  to  the  distant  patient. 

Dr.  HawJey  was  born  in  Warren  county,  Ohio,  July  23,  1823,  a  son  of 
Joel  and  Mary  (Dill)  Hawley.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and 
was  an  early  settler  in  Ohio,  where  he  was  married,  his  wife  having  removed 
to  that  state  from  New  York,  her  birthplace.  In  1837  the  family  removed  to 
Clermont  county,  Ohio,  and  our  subject  continued  to  live  at  home  until  he 
arrived  at  his  majority.  In  1844  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  with  his 
brother,  Dr.  Albert  Hawley,  of  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  in  1847  pursued  a 
course  of  lectures  in  the  Ohio  Medical  College,  at  Cincinnati,  being  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1848.  When  he  had  completed  his  college  course,  he  had  but 
twelve  dollars,  and  little  knew  how  he  could  make  a  start  in  his  chosen  work. 
He  bravely  set  out  on  the  search  for  a  good  point  at  which  to  locate,  and, 
having  traveled  on  horseback  as  far  as  Braffetsville,  he  stopped  for  the  njght, 
and  it  so  happened  that  he  found  his  first  patient  there.  He  concluded  to 
stay  for  a  short  time,  and  it  was  fully  two  years  ere  he  finally  withdrew  from 
the  large  patronage  which  had  grown  up  in  that  vicinity. 

In  185 1  became  to   College   Corner,  having  purchased  the  practice  of 


300  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  late  Dr.  Huston,  a  lifelong  and  highly  esteemed  practitioner  here,  who 
was  about  to  retire.  At  that  time  there  were  three  other  doctors  here,  and 
sometimes  there  have  been  six  or  seven  here  since,  but  none  of  them  have 
stayed  more  than  ten  years,  and  Dr.  Hawley  has  been  the  one  permanent, 
reliable,  ever  ready  family  physician.  The  cholera  epidemic  of  1849  severely 
taxed  the  young  man,  for  he  had  more  than  double  duty.  He  was  then  eight 
miles  from  Eaton,  where  his  brother  and  uncle  "were  practicing,  and  when 
both  of  them  were  laid  low  with  the  dread  disease  he  not  only  attended. them, 
but  took  care  of  their  patients.  For  one  whole  week  he  had  no  sleep  what- 
ever, and  was  in  the  saddle  much  of  the  time,  riding  from  one  patient  to  the 
next  one,  and  keeping  three  horses,  for  less  would  have  been  unequal  to  the 
tasks  imposed  upon  them.  Within  half  an  hour  after  being  smitten  with  the 
cholera  the  patients  would  be  in  almost  deathly  collapse,  and  often,  when  the 
Doctor  had  succeeded  in  placing  them  on  the  road  to  recovery,  the  news  of 
the  death  of  a  relative  or  dear  one  would  undo  his  work  and  so  unnerve  them 
that  death  would  finally  triumph.  The  village  of  New  Boston,  a  place  of 
about  one  hundred  persons,  was  completely  wiped  out  by  the  pestilence. 
During  the  civil  war  the  Doctor  not  only  aided  materially  in  the  raising  of 
funds  for  keeping  the  quota  of  this  county  filled,  but  gave  his  services  free  to 
many  of  the  families  of  soldiers  who  were  away  fighting  for  the  country. 

Nearly  thirty  years  ago  Drs.  Hawley,  Trmiley  (of  Brownsville),  Morris 
(of  Liberty),  Porter,  Sanders  and  Hill  (of  Oxford)  met  in  the  little  office  of 
our  subject  and  organized  the  Ohio  District  Medical  Association,  which  has 
since  grown  to  wonderful  proportions,  and  now  numbers  over  one  hundred 
members,  of  whom  no  one  is  more  honored  than  Dr.  Hawley,  who  has 
retained  his  connection  with  it  all  these  years.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  was 
an  old-line  Whig,  but  has  never  cared  to  take  a  very  active  part  in  politics. 
Though  reared  under  Methodist  influences,  he  joined  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  about  1851,  and  has  since  been  a  valued  member. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Hawley  and  Miss  Phcebe  A.  Webster  was  solem- 
nized in  1 85 1,  in  Richmond,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Hawley,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Pennsylvania,  is  still  living,  and  has  been  a  most  faithful  helpmate  to  her 
husband.  Two  of  their  four  manly,  noble  sons  have  entered  the  silent  land. 
Marcellus  M.,  the  eldest  born,  a  farmer  of  this  county,  died  when  in  his 
twenty-ninth  year.  Laurence,  a  traveling  salesman,  died  of  tuberculosis,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-five  years.  Charles  Franklin  is  engaged  in  farming  in 
Preble  county,  Ohio;  and  William  H.,  a  graduate  of  the  Indiana  University, 
at  Bloomington,  and  of  the  Miami  Medical  College,  in  Cincinnati,  has  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  practice,  and  is  making  a  great  success  of  his  chosen  pro- 
fession. With  regard  to  his  sons  our  subject  displayed  great  wisdom,  for 
when   they  were  growing  to   maturity  he  bought  some  farm  land  and  had 


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them  become  familiar  with  the  various  departments  of  agriculture.  He  then 
allowed  each  one  to  choose  whether  he  would  be  a  farmer  and  settle  on  the 
homestead,  which  he  would  give  him,  or,  instead,  pursue  a  college  course  and 
enter  a  profession.  The  record  of  a  noble  life  is  a  man's  best  monument, 
and  no  words  of  eulogj-  can  add   luster  to  the  name  of  Andrew  D.  Hawlej'. 

ALLYN  S.    DEETER. 

The  record  of  an  honorable,  upright  life  is  ahvaj's  read  with  interest, 
and  it  better  perpetuates  the  name  and  fame  of  the  subject  than  does  a  mon- 
ument, seen  by  few  and  soon  crumbling  into  dust  beneath  the  relentless  hand 
of  time.  Those  who  have  fought  and  suffered  for  the  state  and  country  in 
which  their  lot  is  cast  are  especially  deserving  of  an  honored  place  in  all  its 
annals,  and  their  posterity  will  turn  with  just  pride  to  these  records  of  the 
founders  and  preservers  of  a  prosperous,  united  nation. 

Born  in  Miami  county,  Ohio,  September  ii,  1843,  Allyn  S.  Deeter,  of 
Jefferson  township,  Wayne  county,  is  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  Deeter.  The 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  accompanied  his  parents  to  Ohio 
when  he  was  about  five  years  of  age,  and  there  grew  to  manhood.  He  died 
on  Christmas  day,  1893,  in  Delaware  county,  Indiana,  having  survived  our 
subject's  mother  some  forty-five  years. 

The  most  important  event  in  the  life  of  our  subject  prior  to  the  nine- 
teenth anniversary  of  his  birth  occurred  when,  on  the  4th  of  August,  1S62, 
he  enlisted,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  the  United  States  Navy.  He  was  assigned 
to  the  gunboat  Tyler,  under  Commodore  Porter,  and  in  the  following  Novem- 
ber took  part  in  the  siege-  of  Haines'  Bluff,  on  the  Yazoo  river.  The  gun- 
boat, which  did  effective  service  at  many  important  points  along  the  Missis- 
sippi river  and  tributaries,  was  one  of  the  Union  fleet  to  whose  timely  appear- 
ance our  army  was  indebted  on  many  an  occasion  to  preservation  from  almost 
certain  destruction  by  the  superior  forces  of  the  enemy.  In  the  great  siege 
of  Vicksburg  the  Tyler  took  an  active  part  and  shares  in  the  honor  of  victory, 
and  at  the  siege  of  Helena,  Arkansas,  she  was  called  upon  and  nobly  did  her 
part  in  securing  the  important  triumph  there  of  the  federal  forces,  who  might 
have  been  worsted  without  the  aid  of  the  gunboats,  as  the  Confederate  army, 
under  General  Price,  largely  outnumbered  them.  In  honor  of  the  victory 
which  they  had  been  so  largely  instrumental  in  gaining,  all  on  board  the 
Tyler  were  allowed  to  land  and  spend  a  few  hours  on  shore,  this  being 
regarded  as  a  great  event,  as  only  once  before,  in  the  almost  twelve  months 
of  their  service  on  the  gunboat,  had  the  men  been  permitted  to  leave  its  nar- 
row limits.  Their  term  of  service  having  nearly  expired,  the  Tyler  was  then 
ordered  to  Cairo,  where  Mr.  Deeter  and  his  comrades  were  received  on  the 
ship    Clara    Dolsen  and   mustered   out  August  9,    1863.      The  fleet   which 


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maneuvered  on  the  Mississippi  encountered  many  dangers  peculiarlj'  local, 
for  it  is  a  well  known  fact  that  the  channel  of  the  might}'  "  father  of  waters  " 
is  continually  changing,  and  the  most  experienced  pilots  are  liable,  at  the 
most  inopportune  moment,  perhaps  at  a  time  when  a  gunboat  is  in  hot  pur- 
suit, to  run  his  craft  upon  a  recently  formed  sand-bar,  or  ground  her  upon 
sunken  logs  and  driftwood,  which  were  not  there  a  week  before.  In  the 
midst  of  the  enemies'  country,  with  hostile  gunboats  and  forts  at  near  range, 
and  sharpshooters  ready  to  pick  off  any  men  on  the  decks,  it  may  be  clearly 
seen  that  our  inland  fleet  had  an  unusually  difficult  place  to  fill,  but  its 
importance  cannot  be  overestimated. 

Prior  to  his  enlistment  in  the  service  of  the  Union  Mr.  Deeter  had  com- 
menced learning  the  trade  of  a  miller,  and  after  his  return  home  he  continued 
along  this  line.  June  6,  1864,  he  came  to  Jefferson  township,  Wayne  county, 
and  for  thirty  years  was  mterested  in  the  operation  of  what  was  formerly 
known  as  the  Protection  mill,  which  was  built  and  owned  by  Daniel  Teeter. 
For  years  Mr.  Teeter  was  employed  to  manage  the  mill,  but  finally  became 
a  partner  in  the  enterprise,  and  now  resides  upon  the  old  homestead  which 
was  the  property  of  his  wife's  father.  In  his  political  views  he  is  a  stanch 
Republican. 

On  the  29th  of  July,  1864,  Allyn  S.  Deeter  married  Christina,  eldest 
daughter  of  Daniel  Teeter.  They  have  four  living  children,  namely:  Cora 
Lee,  Clara  May,  Sarah  Catherine  and  Raymond  Allyn.  Laura  Ellen  died 
when  in  her  twelfth  year;  Addison  Tennel  died  aged  five  months;  Daniel 
Clinton,  when  seven  months  old;  and  another  infant  son  and  daughter  died 
before  receiving  names.  The  family  are  identified  with  the  .German  Baptist 
church,  and  are  held  in  high  regard  by  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  neighbors. 

ISAAC  P.  EVANS. 

When  a  good  man  dies  we  pause  to  reflect  upon  his  career  and  to  con- 
sider the  qualities  which  made  him  honored  and  respected  by  all.  No  man 
in  all  Richmond  was  more  esteemed  and  loved  than  Isaac  P.  Evans,  whose 
memory  is  still  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  all  who  knew  him;  the  influence  of 
his  noble  example  is  still  felt  and  like  "  our  echoes  "  will  "  roll  from  soul  to 
soul,"  will  live  forever  and  forever.  His  name  was  prominent!}'  associated 
with  the  business  interests  of  his  city  and  state,  and  in  educational  and 
moral  interests  his  labors  were  indefatigable,  his  service  ever  being  put  forth 
for  the  betterment  of  mankind. 

A  native  of  Warren  county,  Ohio,  Isaac  P.  Evans  was  born  March  i, 
1 82 1,  and  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Evans.  He  spent  the  first  thirty  years  of 
his  life  near  Waynesville,  and  in  the  spring  of  1853  took  up  his  residence  in 
Richmond,   Indiana,    at  once  becoming  an  active  factor  in  its   commercial 


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growth.  He  assisted  in  establishing  a  linseed-oil  factory,  \\4iich  was  operated 
for  several  years  under  his  personal  management,  and  his  enterprise,  sound 
judgment,  sagacity  and  unflagging  energy  made  this  a  very  profitable  under- 
taking, the  business  constantly  increasing.  After  disposing  of  his  interest 
in  the  business  at  Richmond  he  established  a  similar  enterprise  in  Indianapo- 
lis, Indiana,  wiih  his  brothers  as  partners,  and  continued  his  connection  with 
the  business  until  his  death.  He  was  also  one  of  the  firm  of  Evans,  Fer- 
guson &  Reeve,  of  Richmond,  which  firm  purchased  and  reopened  the  Spring 
Grove  oil  mill,  in  1877,  Mr.  Evans  continuing  to  serve  as  its  superintendent 
until  failing  health  caused  his  retirement.  He  carried  forward  to  successful 
completion  whatever  he  undertook  and  displayed  in  his  undertakings  the  best 
business  methods.  For  some  years  he  was  a  director  in  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Richmond,  and  his  opinions  concerning  business  matters  always 
carried  weight  with  all  who  heard  them.  His  reputation  in  trade  circles  was 
unassailable,  for  he  exemplified  in  his  dealings  the  old  adage  that  honesty  is 
the  best  policy. 

In  politics  he  was  a  firm  and  earnest  Republican  and  kept  well  informed 
on  all  the  issues  of  the  day,  but  never  sought  or  desired  office  for  himself. 
He  took  a  commendable  interest  in  all  public  improvements  or  measures 
whicli  he  believed  would  promote  the  public  good  and  never  withheld  from 
them  his  support  or  co-operation.  His  was  a  well  rounded  character,  never 
dwarfed  by  eccentricity  or  the  concentration  of  all  of  his  powers  along  one 
line.  Not  only  was  he  successful  in  business,  but  educational,  social  and 
moral  interests  found  in  him  a  friend,  and  he  was  a  most  companionable  and 
genial  gentleman.  Twice  was  he  married,  his  first  union  being  with  Anna 
S.  Boon,  of  Philadelphia.  In  less  than  two  years  after  their  marriage,  how- 
ever, she  departed  this  life,  and  later  he  wedded  Mary  Ann  Buffum,  a  native 
of  North  Brunswick,  Maine,  born  in  1824.  She  was  educated  in  the  Friends' 
boarding  school,  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  subsequently  engaged  in 
teaching  for  five  years  in  Earlham  boarding  school,  in  Richmond.  During 
that  time  she  became  acquainted  with  Mr.  Evans  and  their  marriage  was  the 
consummation  of  their  friendship.  Four  daughters  and  one  son  were  born 
to  them:  Anna  B.,  wife  of  Leander  J.  Woodard,  of  Richmond;  Mary  M. 
and  Sarah  C. ,  who  are  with  their  mother.  One  son  and  one  daughter,  who 
died  in  infancy. 

In  his  youth  Mr.  Evans  was  known  as  a  young  man  of  great  mental 
power  and  physical  strength  and  endurance,  and  of  strict  moral  character. 
He  was  also  of  a  social  disposition,  which  made  him  popular  throughout  his 
neighborhood.  As  he  advanced  in  life  his  high  religious  principles  became 
more  and  more  marked.  For  many  years  he  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  active  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  contributed  most  gener- 


304  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ously  of  his  means  to  church  and  educational  work.  His  charitable  dona- 
tions were  also  very  large,  yet  were  always  unostentatiously  made.  The 
poor  and  needy  found  in  him  a  friend  indeed,  one  who  not  only  gave  gener- 
ously but  had  the  broadest  sympathy  for  their  circumstances  and  for  any 
sensitive  feelings  which  they  might  have  about  their  embarrassed  conditions. 
He  was  always  cheerful  and  happy,  taking  great  interest  in  the  young,  enjo}-- 
ing  their  innocent  amusements,  and  in  all  ways  possible  striving  to  add  to 
their  happiness,  always  bearing  in  mind  that  he  is  most  happy  whose  heart 
is  right  toward  God.  He  was  hospitable,  and  his  home  was  open  to  man)-, 
and  not  a  few  cherish  a  grateful  remembrance  of  his  uniform  courtesy  and 
kindness  as  a  host.  To  his  family  he  was  all  that  a  loving  and  devoted  hus- 
band and  father  could  be,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  happiness  of 
his  wife  and  children,  and  counting  no  personal  sacrifice  too  great  that  would 
enhance  their  welfare.  His  faith  in  the  Christian  religion  was  illimitable. 
At  his  funeral  J.  H.  Douglas,  who  had  known  him  long  and  intimately,  said:' 
"  He  was  truly  a  man  of  God,  always  loyal  to  Christ  and  His  gospel.  He 
was  among  the  first  to  urge  the  holding  of  open-air  meetings  at  the  time  of 
the  Indiana  yearly  meeting,  and  never  seemed  satisfied  until  he  was  privi- 
leged to  hear  the  gospel  proclaimed  to  the  thousands  who  assembled  in  those 
days,  and  who  were  wont  to  go  away  without  hearing  the  word  of  life.  For 
more  than  twenty  years  he  stood  by  me  and  encouraged  me  in  this  open-air 
preaching;  and  when  I  would  try  to  excuse  mj'self  by  telling  him  how  great 
an  effort  it  was,  and  that  perhaps  I  had  done  my  part,  he  would  reply,  'Just 
this  once;  thy  voice  can  reach  so  far,  and  these  people  must  hear  the  gospel; 
some  among  them  may  be  converted;'  and  then  that  peculiar  embrace  of  his 
so  well  remembered  by  so  many  of  the  Lord's  servants.  I  could  e.xcuse 
myself  no  further,  and  thus  year  after  year  our  dear  brother  encouraged  the 
preaching  of  the  gospel."  He  passed  to  the  rest  prepared  for  the  righteous 
October  2,  1S82.  For  two  years  he  had  been  in  poor  health,  but  he  bore 
his  sufferings  patiently,  upborne  by  a  faith  in  Him  who  hath  given  promise 
of  a  land  where  there  is  neither  suffering  nor  sighing.  His  widow  and 
daughters  reside  in  a  pleasant  home  in  Spring  Grove,  a  beautiful  little  suburb 
of  Richmond,  and  the  family  is  one  of  prominence  in  the  community,  its 
members  having  the  warm  regard  of  all  who  know  them. 

BENJAMIN  F.  WISSLER. 
The  influence  of  the  press  upon  political  opinion  cannot  be  estimated, 
but  that  it  is  very  great  is  acknowledged  by  all.  The  bright,  enterprising 
journal  will  often  do  more  to  arouse  thought  and  feeling  than  the  most  care- 
fully prepared  addresses  or  argument,  catching  by  a  single  witty  or  well 
worded  sentence  the  attention  of  a  reader,  and  awakening  a  train  of  reason- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  305 

ing  which  will  often  produce  results  that  lengthy  discussions  could  not  do. 
Among  the  leading  Democratic  papers  in  eastern  Indiana  is  the  Sun-Telegram, 
of  Richmond,  published  by  the  B.  F.  Wissler  Publishing  Company,  of  which 
our  subject  is  president  and  editor.  His  keenly  analytical  mind,  his  readi- 
ness in  noting  the  most  important  points,  and  his  strong  logical  powers  have 
combined  to  make  the  journal  with  which  he  is  connected  a  leading  news- 
paper of  this  locality. 

Mr.  Wissler  was  born  in  Henry  county,  Indiana,  just  across  the  line 
from  Cambridge  City,  Wayne  county,  July  30,  1848,  his  parents  being  John 
M.  and  Elizabeth  (Herr)  Wissler.  The  family  is  of-  German  Swiss  lineage, 
the  ancestors  coming  from  Switzerland  to  the  United  States  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  They  located  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania, 
where  Peter  Wissler,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  1786.  In 
the  early  part  of  the  present  century  he  came  to  Wayne  county,  locating 
near  Cambridge  City  in  1822.  There  he  spent  his  remaining  da}s,  his  death 
occurring  in  1876,  when  he  had  reached  the  advanced  age  of  ninety  years. 
Throughout  his  life  he  followed  the  occupation  of  farming.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mennonite  church  and  lived  a  quiet,  unassuming  life,  in  harmony 
with  the  doctrines  in  which  he  believed.  He  married  Fannie  Martin,  of 
Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  to  them  were  born  fourteen  children,  of 
whom  John  M.  Wissler  was  the  tenth  in  order  of  birth. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  near  Cambridge  City,  in  1S23,  :ii:d 
resided  there  until  after  his  marriage,  when  he  removed  to  Henry  county, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  When  a  young  man  he  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade,  afterward  began  contracting  and  building  on  his  own  account 
and  for  many  years  carried  on  an  e.xtensive  and  profitable  business.  In  1S83 
he  retired  to  private  life  and  is  now  enjoying  a  well  ean;ed  rest  at  his  pleas- 
ant home,  which  is  situated  on  a  farm  near  New  Lisbon.  He  is  a  consistent 
member  of  the  Brethren  in  Christ,  and  his  upright  life  commands  the  regard 
of  all.  In  1S47  he  married  Elizabeth  Herr,  who  is  also  living.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Christian  Herr,  whose  direct  ancestors  came  to  America  from 
Switzerland  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  locating  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania.  The  founder  of  the  family  in  America  bore  the  name  of 
Christian  Herr.  and  in  Lancaster  county  he  purchased  one  thousand  acres  of 
land,  on  which,  with  others,  he  erected  an  iron  furnace;  but  his  partners 
swindled  him  out  of  all  of  his  property.  Five  generations  in  direct  line  of 
descent  to  our  subject  bore  the  name  of  Christian.  The  grandfather  came 
to  the  west  in  1839,  locating  northwest  of  Cambridge  Citj',  where  he  spent 
the  remainder  of  his  life,  engaged  in  farming.  He  and  his  family  were  also 
connected  with  the  Brethren  in  Christ.    Unto  John  M.  and  Elizabeth  Wifsler 


:306  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY, 

were  born  five  children,  but  only  two  are  living:    Benjamin,  of  this  re\ie\v; 
and  Christian  P.,  who  resides  on  the  .old  homestead,  near  New  Lisbon. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Wissler  was  reared  near  Cambridge  City,  and  was 
educated  in  the  high  school  and  in  the  Spiceland  Academy.  Successfully 
passing  the  state  examination  in  1884,  he  received  a  life  certificate,  and 
began  teaching  when  eighteen  years  of  age.  He  followed  that  profession  for 
twenty-six  consecutive  years  in  ^^^ayne  and  Henry  counties,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  four  years  spent  as  county  superintendent.  He  was  principal  of  the 
schools  of  Hagerstown  for  three  years,  from  1SS4  until  1S87,  and  from 
1887  until  1891  was  County  superintendent  of  Wayne  county,  filling  the 
•position  for'  two  terms.  During  these  four  years  he  introduced  many 
reforms  in  school  management,  some  of  which  have  since  become  distinctive 
features  of  the  state  school  system.  Among  these  are  the  provisions  for 
free  high-school  instruction  to  all  the  pupils  of  the  country  districts  who  are 
ready  for  such  instruction,  the  concentration  of  the  small  district  schools  into 
graded  township  or  village  schools,  and  the  bi-monthly  examination  of  pupils 
on  questions  prepared  by  the  state  board  of  education.  Wayne  county  was 
thus  the  first  to  put  these  reforms  into  effect.  For  four  years,  from  1894 
until  1898,  he  served  as  assistant  postmaster  of  Richmond,  and  in  both 
offices  was  a  competent  and  faithful  official. 

In  1890  Mr.  Wissler  purchased  The  Sun,  a  weekly  paper,  of  which  he 
was  editor  and  proprietor  until  1897,  when  it  was  combined  with  the  Rich- 
mond Telegram,  under  the  ownership  and  .management  of  the  B.  F.  Wissler 
Publishing  Company,  which  was  incorporated,  with  our  subject  as  president 
of  the  company  and  editor  of  the  paper.  They  publish  the  Richmond  Sun- 
Telegram,  a  weekly  journal,  and  since  September,  1896,  have  issued  the 
Daily  Sun-Telegram.  The  former  is  a  six-column,  twelve-page  paper  and 
has  a  larger  circulation  than  any  other  weekly  in  Wayne  county.  The  Tele- 
gram was  established  in  1862  and  is  therefore  the  second  oldest  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  county.  It  is  also  the  only  one  in  the  county  devoted  to  the 
advocacy  of  Democratic  principles,  and  the  cause  of  the  party  finds  in  it  an 
earnest,  zealous  and  able  champion.  The  Daily  Sun-Telegram  is  a  six-col- 
umn, eight-page  paper,  and  both  give  evidence  of  the  high  editorial  ability 
of  Mr.  Wissler,  whose  clear  presentation  of  every  question  which  he  treats 
ihas  borne  marked  influence  upon  his  constituency. 

On  the  5th  of  August,  1869,  Mr.  Wissler  married  Miss  Sylvania  Need- 
ier, a  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  Needier,  of  Henry  county,  Indiana. 
They  have  seven  children:"  Clarkson  D.,  who  was  graduated  in  the  Indiana 
University  at  Bloomington  in  1895,  and  afterward  was  assistant  in  that  insti- 
.tntion  for  a  year,  but  is   now  professor  of  experimental  psychology  in  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  807 

Ohio  State  University  at  Columbus;  Alice  Gary,  deceased;  Cora  E.,  who  is 
register  clerk  in  the  Richmond  postoffice;  John  E.,  foreman  of  the  Sun- 
Telegram  office;  Lizzie  O.,  a  student  in  the  high  school;  and  Frank  E.  and 
Arthur,  both  at  home. 

Mr.  Wissler  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  and  as  a 
citizen  he  is  public-spirited  and  progressive,  lending  his  active  suppport  to  all 
measures  which  he  believes  will  advance  the  general  welfare  along  edu- 
cational, moral,  social  and  material  lines.  Since  1892  he  has  been  chair- 
man of  the  Democratic  county  central  committee,  and  is  a  recognized  leader 
in  the  ranks  of  his  party.  His  genial  temperament,  courteous  manners 
and  broad-minded  principles  render  him  a  favorite  with  all,  and  the  circle  of 
his  friends  is  almost  co-extensive  with   the  circle  of  his  acquaintances. 

JESSE  M.   HUTTON. 

For  just  half  a  century  Jesse  M.  Hutton  was  numbered  among  the  rep- 
resentative citizens  and  business  men  of  Richmond,  and  in  his  death  the 
entire  community  felt  that  an  irreparable  loss  had  been  sustained  by  the 
public.  He  had  been  intimately  associated  with  several  of  the  leading 
industries  of  this  locality,  his  genius  and  indubitable  talent  as  a  financier 
and  business  manager  resulting  in  the  prosperity  of  these  enterprises  and  in 
the  employment  of  large  numbers  of  workmen.  His  whole  career  was 
marked  by  signal  integrity,  justice  and  honor,  and  no  word  of  detraction 
was  ever  heard  from  those  who  knew  him  well. 

He  was  a  native  of  the  town  of  New  Market,  Frederick  county,  Mary- 
land, his  birth  occurring  January  30,  1809.  His  father,  Enos  Hutton,  hav- 
ing died,  the  young  man  persuaded  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Rebecca  Morsel,  to  accompany  him  to  the  west,  where  he  believed  that 
wider  opportunities  awaited  him.  This  was  in  1836,  when  he  was  a  little 
over  twenty-six  years  of  age,  and  though  he  had  been  ambitious  and  hard- 
working he  had  managed  to  accomplish  but  little  more  than  the  meeting  of 
the  expenses  of  living.  After  giving  due  attention  to  the  important  question 
where  he  should  make  a  settlement,  he  decided  to  try  his  fortune  in  Rich- 
mond, where  he  arrived  in  the  spring  of  1836.  For  a  few  years  he  was 
obliged  to  do  service  as  wage-worker,  low  prices  then  prevailing  in  every- 
thing, but  by  the  strictest  economy  and  persistent  attention  to  business  he  at 
length  had  saved  a  little  capital,  which  he  invested  in  the  old  Starr  cotton 
factory,  in  company  with  his  brother,  John  H.,  and  Isaac  E.  Jones.  Under 
their  able  management  the  new  concern  which  they  instituted — the  Spring 
Foundry — became  one  of  the  successful  enterprises  of  the  place,  and  from  it 
was  developed  the  now  famous  and  extensive  establishment  of  Gaar,  Scott 
&   Company.      In    186S    Mr.  Hutton,  in  company  with  George   Hasecaster, 


308  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Samuel  S.  Ganse,  George  Sherman,  William  P.  Hutton,  and  M.  H.  Dill, 
organized  and  incorporated  the  J.  M.  Hutton  Coffin  Factory,  which  was  a 
prosperous  enterprise  from  the  start  and  has  furnished  the  means  of  sub- 
sistence to  an  average  of  fully  one  hundred  families  of  this  city.  It  is  still 
in  successful  operation,  though  more  than  three  decades  have  rolled  away 
since  its  inception. 

In  1842  the  marriage  of  Jesse  M.  Hutton  and  Rebecca  L.  Shaw  was 
solemnized  and  four  children  blessed  their  union.  Emily  H.  became  the 
wife  of  M.  H.  Dill;  Mary  A.  married  John  Shroyer;  and  Camilla  R.  married 
Rev.  James  D.  Stanley,  of  Cincinnati,  while  the  only  son  was  William  P., 
to  whom  reference  is  made  in  succeeding  paragraphs.  The  wife  and  mother, 
born  in  September,  1821,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Wright)  Shaw, 
died  February  23,  1885.  The  death  of  Jesse  M.  Hutton  occurred  but  little 
more  than  a  year  later,  Thursday,  March  25,  1886.  For  more  than  forty 
years  they  had  pursued  the  journey  of  life  together,  loyally  sharing  each 
other's  trials,  sorrows  and  pleasures,  and  all  who  knew  them  loved,  admired 
and  highly  esteemed  them. 

WILLIAM   P.    HUTTON. 

Since  the  early  days  of  Richmond's  history  the  Hutton  family  have 
occupied  a  distinctive  place,  and  whenever  any  public  improvement  or 
notable  enterprise  has  been  meditated  they  were  always  among  the  first  per- 
sons consulted,  and,  if  the  matter  seemed  to  have  merit,  they  could  be 
counted  upon  for  material  support  and  encouragement.  Patriotism,  with 
them,  has  ever  been  manifested  in  a  practical  form,  and  by  their  indefati- 
gable exertions  many  a  movement  which  has  greatly  benefited  the  community 
has  been  inaugurated  and  successfully  launched. 

William  P.  Hutton,  who  was  born  in  Richmond,  February  10,  1S45,  a 
son  of  Jesse  M.  and  Rebecca  L.  (Shaw)  Hutton,  was  a  lifelong  resident  of 
this  place  and  was  closely  associated  with  its  activities.  His  education  was* 
such  as  was  afforded  by  the  public  schools,  supplemented  by  a  course  in 
Earlham  College  and  extended  reading  and  study  in  later  years.  Upon  com- 
pleting his  school  work  he  entered  the  factory  of  J.  M.  Hutton  &  Company, 
the  original  officers  of  which  well  known  concern  were:  Jesse  M.  Hutton, 
president;  William  P.  Hutton,  treasurer;  and  M.  H.  Dill,  secretary.  Within 
a  remarkably  short  time  he  developed  fine  business  talents  and  was  always 
equal  to  every  emergency  or  difficulty.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  December 
21,  1894,  he  occupied  the  position  of  treasurer  of  the  company,  and  much  of 
the  success  which  it  enjoys  is  directly  traceable  to  his  excellent  man- 
agement. 

In    every   relation   in   life    Mr.    Hutton   was    popular, — whether   as   an 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  809 

employer,  a  business  man,  a  church  member,  or  in  the  domestic  circle, — 
and  all  classes  mourned  his  death.  He  was  a  sincere  friend  to  the  poor,  but 
he  was  unostentatious  in  his  manifestations  of  sympathy  and  aid,  rarely 
allowing  any  one  save  the  recipient  of  his  kindness  to  know  of  the  circum- 
stance. When  the  Commercial  Club  was  organized  he  was  one  of  the  prime 
movers  in  the  enterprise,  which  he  foresaw  would  prove  of  benefit  to  the 
city,  and  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  advocate  the  building  of  the  new  hotel, 
now  known  as  the  Westcott.  He  held  membership  in  the  club  and  was 
elected  to  the  position  of  treasurer.  He  held  a  similar  responsible  office  in 
the  Richmond  City  Water  Works  Company,  in  the  securing  of  whose  plant 
he  was  one  of  the  most  influential  of  our  citizens.  In  his  political  affiliations 
he  was  a  strong  Republican  partisan.  For  many  years  a  leading  member  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  church  of  this  city,  and  for  some  time  one  of  its 
elders,  his  life  was  a  faithful  exemplification  of  the  Christianity  in  which  he 
believed,  and  to  religious  interests  he  was  especially  liberal  in  his  con- 
tributions. 

On  the  28th  of  June,  1865,  William  P.  Hutton  and  Miss  Emily  Strattan 
were  united  in  marriage.  Mrs.  Hutton,  who  is  still  living,  is  a  daughter  of 
J.  P.  and  Martha  (Jefferis)  Strattan.  A  son  and  two  daughters  were  born  to 
our  subject  and  wife,  namely:  Walter  J.;  Laura  M.,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Frank  N.  Watt,  of  Richmond,  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  firm  of  J.  M. 
Hutton  &  Company;   and  Mary  E.,  who  is  at  home  with  her  mother. 

CHARLES  W.  JORDAN. 

The  popular  and  successful  principal  of  the  Whitewater  high  school, 
Professor  C.  W.  Jordan,  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  this  flourishing  town,  in 
the  welfare  of  which  he  takes  a  sincere  interest.  As  an  educator  he  stands 
in  the  front  ranks,  and  his  eminently  practical  methods  are  deserving  of  the 
high  praise  which  is  universally  accorded  by  those  in  a  position  to  judge 
wisely. 

Born  March  4,  186S,  C.  W.  Jordan  is  a  son  of  William  G.  and  Margaret 
(Addleman)  Jordan,  and  grandson  of  William  Jordan,  who  removed  from 
North  Carolina  to  Ohio  in  the  '20s.  The  Professor's  father  was  born  near 
Hamilton,  Butler  county,  Ohio,  in  1838,  and  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Darke  county,  Ohio,  in  1S46.  They  settled  near  the  Indiana  state  line,  and 
there  passed  the  remainder  of  their  days,  dying  at  an  advanced  age.  Will- 
iam G.  Jordan  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  followed  to  a  greater 
or  less  extent  as  long  as  he  lived.  His  home  after  his  marriage  was  in  Frank- 
lin township,  with  the  exception  of  three  years,  when  he  resided  in  Center 
township,  and  his  last  days  were  spent  on  a  farm  near  Whitewater.  During 
the  civil  war  he  served   for  three  years   and   three   months  as  a  member  of 


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Company  C,  Sixty-ninth  Ohio,  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  went 
with  Sherman  on  the  famous  march  to  the  sea.  His  record  as  a  patriot  and 
soldier  is  one  of  which  his  friends  may  well  be  proud,  for  he  was  always 
at  his  post  of  duty,  trustworthy,  honorable  and  faithful  to  the  least, as  well  as 
to  the  greatest,  of  the  duties  placed  upon  his  shoulders.  Though  he  partic- 
ipated in  many  of  the  hardest  campaigns  of  the  war  and  had  numerous  nar- 
row escapes,  he  was  never  wounded  or  forced  to  enter  the  hospital.  Death 
put  an  end  to  his  busy  and  useful  career  in  1891,  when  he  was  in  his  fifty- 
third  year.  His  first  wife,  Margaret,  who  was  a  daughter  of  John  C.  Addle- 
man,  of  Whitewater,  died  when  their  son,  Charles  W.,  was  an  infant  of 
seven  months,  and  he  chose  Miss  Susan  Woolverton  for  his  second  wife. 
They  became  the  parents  of  one  child,  Edgar  E. ,  who  is  now  living  in  White- 
water. Mrs.  Jordan,  who  survived  her  husband,  also  makes  her  home  in  this 
place. 

The  boyhood  of  Professor  Jordan  passed  uneventfully,  and  when  he  was 
about  twenty  years  of  age  he  began  his  career  as  a  teacher.  Desiring  to 
further  qualify  himself  for  his  chosen  work  he  took  a  teacher's  course  in  the 
Ridgeville  Normal  College,  and  was  graduated  there  in  the  class  of  '92.  In 
the  meantime  he  had  continued  to  teach,  and  had  used  the  summer  season 
for  the  perfecting  of  his  methods  and  in  special  study  at  the  normal.  In 
1 891  he  accepted  the  position  of  principal  of  the  Whitewater  school,  and 
two  years  later  he  inaugurated  the  high-school  course,  which  at  first  was 
limited  to  one  year's  work,  and  has  since  been  increased  to  three  years. 
Two  years  are  devoted  to  algebra  and  one  year  to  geometry  work  in  the  math- 
ematical department,  while  the  course  in  Latin  extends  throughout  two  years. 
There  are  now  about  one  hundred  pupils  enrolled  and  three  teachers  are 
provided.  About  seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  scholars  come  from  outside 
the  town,  and  though  many  leave  school  to  engage  in  teaching  or  in  business 
there  are  always  some  who  complete  the  course.  Fifteen  of  the  graduates  of 
this  school  have  chosen  teaching  as  a  profession  since  Mr.  Jordan  has  had 
charge  of  the  school.  Several  have  continued  their  studies  in  college,  and  the 
outlook  for  the  future  is  most  encouraging.  Professor  Jordan  spares  himself 
no  work  or  anxiety  to  make  the  school  of  the  highest  possible  standard,  and 
his  zeal  is  appreciated  by  the  citizens. 

In  connection  with  his  work,  the  Professor  is  a  member  of  the  Teachers' 
Association  Reading  Circle.  He  is  the  worshipful  master  of  Whitewater 
Lodge,  No.  I  59,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  is  a  member  of  the  lodge 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Fountain  City,  and  belongs  to  the  Sonsof  Veterans. 
An  ardent  Republican,  he  has  frequently  attended  district  and  county  con- 
ventions, and  in  1896  made  a  number  of  forcible  and  effective  campaign 
speeches.       He  was   married,  September  29,   1894,  to  Miss  Bertha  P.  Cheno- 


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weth,  a  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Viola  (Jefferies)  Chenoweth,  of  Frank- 
lin township.  The  happy  home  of  our  subject  and  wife  is  blessed  with  the 
presence  of  three  children,  Reba  E.,  William  F.  and  Robert  G.  The 
parents  are  highly  esteemed  in  the  social  circles  of  the  town,  where  their 
friends  are  legion. 

•JOSHUA  MICHAEL  SNYDER. 

One  of  the  prominent  old  pioneer  families  of  Union  county  is  that  of  the 
Snyders,well  represented  in  Brownsville  township  ever  since  the  opening  decade 
of  this  century.  They  have  ever  borne  their  part  in  the  upbuilding  and 
development  of  this  region,  and  have  invariably  been  exponents  of  progress 
and  liberal  ideas  upon  all  subjects. 

Michael  Snyder,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  this  portion  of  Indiana, 
died  when  well  along  in  years,  and  it  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  all  of  his  seven 
children  lived  to  pass  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  their  birth.  \\'hen  he 
came  to  this  township  he  entered  a  quarter-section  of  land,  and  as  he  pros- 
pered he  kept  investing  in  more  land  until  he  was  the  possessor  of  a  large 
and  valuable  estate.  He  assisted  each  of  his  children  to  make  a  good  start 
in  life  by  giving  them  farms  and  other  aid,  and  his  own  old  homestead  is  still 
retained  by  his  descendants,  belonging  to  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  now 
managed  by  the  latter's  eldest  son,  Walter  Michael.  The  eldest  son  o£ 
Michael  Snyder  was  Michael,  Jr.  (father  of  U.  F.  Snyder,  of  Liberty),  who- 
was  a  resident  of  this  township  until  his  death;  the  next  son,  David,  lived  for 
years  in  Dakota  and  died  there;  Moses  went  to  Minnesota  when  past  seventy- 
years  and  died  there  about  ten  years  later;  Isaac  always  lived  on  the  farm 
which  his  father  purchased  for  him;  Esther  married  George  Witt,  a  cousin, 
and  died  at  her  home  in  Richland,  Indiana;  and  Betsy  became  the  wife  of 
Mr.  Harvey  and  is  deceased. 

Simon,  one  of  the  sons  of  Michael  Snyder  and  the  father  of  the  subject 
of  this  notice,  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  came  to  this  state  in  1S12,  and, 
having  received  a  share  of  his  father's  property,  built  a  substantial  brick 
house  in  1835,  the  bricks  therefor  being  manufactured  and  burned  on  the 
farm.  There  he  continued  to  dwell  as  long  as  he  lived,  and,  following  his 
father's  example,  he  provided  liberally  for  each  one  of  his  children,  helping 
them  to  buy  farms.  When  he  was  about  twenty-five  years  old  he  married 
Sally  Witt,  whose  death  occurred  several  years  prior  to  his  own.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Richland  Christian  church,  and  when  it  declined 
materially  he  transferred  his  membership  to  the  church  at  Liberty,  and  was 
a  trustee  and  officer  of  the  same  for  many  years.  All  local  enterprises  were 
supported  by  him,  and  he  it  was  who  donated  the  money  for  the  erection  of 
the   pretty   chapel   at   Richland  cemetery.      Moreover,  he  personally  looked 


812  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 

after  the  fences  and  repairs  of  the  same  surrounding  the  cemetery,  and  thus, 
in  varied  ways,  he  manifested  his  active  interest  in  whatever  was  calculated 
to  benefit  the  community.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat  of  the  old  Jackson 
school. 

Joshua  Michael  Snyder,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  was  born  in  the 
old  brick  house  above  mentioned,  March  27,  1841,  and  with  his  seven 
brothers  and  sisters  passed  many  happy  years  under  its  sheltering  roof.  The 
four  older  ones  are  deceased,  namely:  John,  who  removed  to  Illinois  and 
died  at  the  age  of  sixty  years;  Jemima,  whose  death  occurred  when  she  was 
about  eighteen;  Mary,  who  is  survived  by  her  late  husband,  Spencer  Stevens, 
of  Liberty;  and  Martha,  who  was  the  wife  of  S.  C.  Stevens.  Isaac  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Clifton,  Benjamin  of  BrownviUe  township,  and  Andrew  is  now  in 
Liberty. 

When  he  reached  his  majority  J.  M.  Snyder  married  Miss  Rachel  Patter- 
son and  set' led  upon  the  farm  which  he  has  since  owned  and  operated  in 
Brownsville  township.  The  place  comprises  one  hundred  acres,  devoted  to 
the  raising  of  a  general  line  of  crops  commonly  grown  in  this  section.  The 
place  is  fertile  and  productive  and  is  considered  one  of  the  most  valuable 
farms  in  the  county,  the  owner  taking  just  pride  in  keeping  everything  in  fine 
order  and  good  repair  about  the  premises.  Like  his  father,  he  votes  the 
Democratic  ti'ket,  but,  in  the  main,  keeps  out  of  politics.  He  has  four 
manly,  enierprising  sons,  namely:  Walter  Michael,  previously  alluded  to; 
Simon,  of  Clifton;  Paul,  whose  home  is  in  the  old  brick  house  which  is  such 
a  landmark  in  the  township;  and  Clifford  is  at  home  and  gives  valuable  assist- 
ance to  his  father  in  the  management  of  the  farm. 

R.  R.  HOPKINS,  M.  D. 

For  the  past  twelve  years  this  representative  member  of  the  medical 
profession  of  Wayne  county  has  made  his  home  in  Richmond,  where  he 
enjoys  an  extensive  and  lucrative  practice.  He  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  the 
renowned  Stephen  Hopkins,  who  was  one  of  the  most  ardent  patriots  at  the 
time  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  one  of  the  brave  and  honored  men  who 
affixed  their  signatures  to  that  momentous  document,  the  Declaration  of 
Independence.  From  that  time  to  the  present  the  family  have  been  noted 
for  distinguished  patriotism  and  for  representatives  who  have  taken  important 
places  in  the  annals  of  their  state  and  communit}'. 

The  Hopkins  family  originated  in  England,  but  from  early  colonial  days 
has  been  well  represented  in  this  country.  The  paternal  grandfather  of  the 
Doctor  was  Captain  Elihu  Hopkins,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  a  pioneer  of 
Miami  county,  Ohio.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  man  of  much  more  than  average 
intelligence  and  learning.      Becoming  a  local  minister  in  the  Methodist  Epis- 


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copal  church,  he  did  effective  service  in  the  spreading  of  Christianity,  and 
few  men  of  the  neighborhood  wielded  a  wider  or  more  beneficent  influence. 
During  some  of  the  Indian  outbreaks  on  the  then  western  frontier  he  fought 
in  the  militia  and  there  won  his  title  of  captain.  In  politics  an  ardent 
Whig,  he  did  much  for  the  party,  and  in  every  department  of  human  activity 
at  that  time  he  made  his  influence  felt. 

Rev.  E.  H.  Hopkins,  the  lather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Preble 
county.  Ohio,  in  1807,  and  received  his  education  in  the  primitive  log  school- 
house  of  the  period.  Not  content  with  such  meager  opportunities,  however, 
he  studied  by  himself,  and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  great  reader 
and  profound  student.  In  his  young  manhood  he  had  read  law  with  the 
distinguished  lawyer  and  statesman,  Henry  Clay,  then  of  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  under  his  patronage.  Then,  for  four- 
teen years,  he  practiced  law  in  Shelby  and  Miami  counties,  and  was  very 
successful.  In  the  meantime  he  began  theological  studies  and  started  upon 
his  long  and  successful  ministry  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  continu- 
ing to  be  thus  occupied  until  his  career  was  terminated  by  death,  August  2, 
1S80.  During  all  this  time  he  was  a  member  of  the  Central  Ohio  confer- 
ence, and  was  placed  on  the  superannuated  list  just  a  few  years  prior  to  his 
demise.  In  personal  appearance  he  was  a  man  of  impressive  bearing,  tall, 
being  fully  six  feet  seven  inches  in  height  and  well  proportioned.  A  fluent, 
logical  speaker  and  an  alert  thinker,  he  won  from  the  start  the  attention  of 
those  whom  he  addressed,  and  carried  them  along  to  his  point  of  view  by 
the  earnestness  and  strength  of  his  arguments.  He  was  very  well  known 
throughout  Ohio  and  was  president  of  a  local  ministerial  union  for  some 
time.  A  strong  Whig,  abolitionist  and  Republican,  he  voted  for  Henry  Clay, 
John  C.  Fremont  and  Abraham  Lincoln,  stumping  the  state  in  the  interest 
of  our  martyr  president.  From  principle  he  was  bitterly  opposed  to  slavery 
and  was  very  active  in  the  "underground-railroad"  system.  In  short,  he 
was  a  man  of  broad  mind  and  of  active  sympathy  wherever  humanity  was 
concerned,  and  he  was  surely  found  in  the  van  of  progress,  whatever  the 
cause. 

His  first  marriage  was  to  Sarah  Brower,  mother  of  Dr.  R.  R.,  of  this 
article;  Dr.  D.  O.  Hopkins,  of  Burlington  City,  Kansas;  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Kemp, 
Fletcher,  Ohio;  and  W.  H.  and  Andrew,  both  deceased.  After  the  death  of 
his  first  wife,  Mr.  Hopkins  married  Emily  Myres,  the  date  of  the  ceremony 
being  September  29,  1S47.  The  three  children  born  to  them  have  all  passed 
away,  as  well  as  the  mother.  December  28,  1876,  occurred  the  third  mar- 
riage of  our  subject's  father,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being  Margaret  L.  Rausch. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  R.  R.  Hopkins  took  place  near  Troy,  Miami  countj', 
Ohio,  March  24,   1844.      He  received  a  liberal   education,  and  in    1S62   was 


314  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

graduated  in  the  classical  department  of  the  Ohio  Wes'leyan  University,  at 
Delaware.  Soon  afterward  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine  under  the 
direction  of  his  elder  brother,  and  subsequently  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Medicine,  and 
Surgery,  being  a  member  of  the  class  of  1868.  Later  he  took  a  special 
course  of  lectures  on  chronic  diseases,  his  instructor  being  Professor  Telle- 
ferro,  a  noted  French  specialist;  and  at  another  time  he  pursued  a  course  of 
study  on  diseases  of  the  mind,  the  lectures  on  the  subject  being  delivered  by 
Dr.  J.  A.  Thacker,  both  of  the  college  in  which  our  subject  had  graduated. 
In  1870  Dr.  Hopkins  located  in  the  town  of  Addison,  Ohio,  and  remained 
there  for  seven  years,  after  which  he  went  to  Sidney,  Ohio,  and  practiced 
there  for  five  years.  While  there  he  was  appointed  division  surgeon  of  the 
Cleveland,  Columbus,  Cincinnati  &  Indianapolis  Railroad  (now  the  Big  Four), 
which  position  he  held  for  nearly  five  years,  when  he  resigned  on  account  of 
poor  health.  At  the  end  of  that  period  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  and  five  years 
later  he  opened  an  office  in  Richmond  and  settled  permanently  here.  A  man 
of  deep  research  and  study,  he  has  given  much  time  to  his  special  branches 
and  for  four  years  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Cincinnati  Medical  News,  contribu- 
ting many  valuable  articles  on  subjects  of  hygiene,  sanitation,  etc.  In  all 
matters,  political  and  otherwise,  he  is  liberal  and  broad-minded,  reserving 
his  right  to  vote  as  he  deems  best,  regardless  of  party  lines,  but,  in  the  main, 
he  favors  the  Republican  party.  He  has  belonged  to  several  county  and 
local  medical  societies  and  is  a  member  of  the  blue  lodge  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity. 

September  15,  1870,  Dr.  Hopkins  was  married  to  Miss  Dacie  Leapley, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Louise  Leapley,  of  Sidney,  Ohio.  Their  only  daugh- 
ter, Grace  H.,  married  Philip  Ramp,  of  Richmond,  and  they  have  a  little 
son,  Leland  Hopkins  Ramp.  Robert  Galen,  the  only  son  of  the  Doctor,  is  a 
youth  of  fifteen  years,  a  student  in  the  Richmond  schools.  Philip  Ramp  is 
a  passenger  conductor  in  the  employ  of  the  Panhandle  Railroad,  and  his 
home  is  at  No.  200  South  B  street. 

JOHN   OSBORN. 

One  of  the  wealthy  and  influential  citizens  of  Liberty  township.  Union 
county,  is  John  Osborn,  whose  birth  occurred  in  this  county  sixty-odd  years 
ago.  He  has  always  been  actively  connected  with  everything  which  has 
tended  to  promote  the  development  of  this  region,  and  has  been  confidently 
counted  upon  at  all  times  to  endorse  progressive  measures  and  to  uphold  the 
law  and  right  and  justice. 

The  Osborns  are  old  and  honored  residents  of  this  county,  coming  here 
as  early  as  1812.     The  father  of  our  subject  was  Levi  Osborn,  who  accom- 


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panied  his  mother,  Rachel  Osborn,  to  this  section  of  Indiana,  from  their  for- 
mer home  near  Georgetown,  Kentucky.  The  father  of  Levi  Osborn  had 
died  prior  to  the  birth  of  Levi,  leaving  a  large  family.  The  Osborns  settled 
in  Quakertown,  Harmony  township,  and  there  the  mother  dwelt  until  her 
death  at  the  advanced  age  of  over  ninety  years.  Of  her  sons,  Larkin,  Ben- 
nett, Aaron  and  Levi  all  married  and  reared  families  in  this  county,  and  lived 
to  reach  three-score  and  ten  years.  Bennett  died  in  Harmony  township,  and 
one  of  his  sons,  Bennett,  is  a  citizen  of  Dunlapsville.  I^arkin  removed  to 
Rush  county  and  died  there,  and  none  of  his  children  remain  in  this  locality. 
Aaron  lived  and  died  in  Franklin  county.  Levi  married  Rebecca  West,  who 
came  to  this  state  from  New  Jersey,  and  whose  father,  Thomas  West,  was  a 
prominent  farmer  of  Liberty  township.  When  the  subject  of  this  narrative 
was  a  lad  of  ten  or  twelve  years  the  family  removed  to  Franklin  county  and 
located  in  the  vicinity  of  Blooming  Grove.  There  the  father  died  when 
eighty-two  years  of  age,  and  his  son  George  is  his  successor  on  the  home- 
stead. Mrs.  Rebecca  Osborn  departed  this  life  when  she  was  seventy-eight 
years  of  age.  Both  were  members  of  the  Methodist  church  and  were  loved 
and  respected  for  their  many  noble  qualities.  In  his  political  opinions  Mr. 
Osborn  was  a  Jacksonian  Democrat.  The  eight  children  born  to  this  worthy 
couple  were  named  as  follows:  Adeline,  Elizabeth,  Mary  Jane,  Almira, 
Louisa,  Serilda,  George  and  John.  All  married  and  with  the  exception  of 
Almira  and  Mary  Jane  they  are  all  living. 

John  Osborn  was  born  in  Harmony  township.  Union  county,  January  27, 
1 83 1,  and  passed  his  early  boyhood  here.  Then,  until  he  arrived  at  his 
majority,  he  made  his  home  under  the  parental  roof  in  Franklin  county.  The 
most  important  step  taken  by  him  in  his  young  manhood  was  his  marriage  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  Neptune,  of  Franklin  county,  September  28,  1854.  She,  too, 
was  a  native  of  this  county.  She  proved  a  most  faithful  helpmate,  aiding 
her  husband  in  all  his  enterprises  and  giving  her  womanly  support  and  sym- 
pathy to  him  in  times  of  depression  and  discouragement.  At  last,  after  forty- 
three  years  of  happy  companionship,  the  devoted  wife  received  the  summons 
to  the  better  land,  dying  March  20,  1897.  Their  three  children  are  living. — • 
Albert  and  George,  residents  of  this  neighborhood,  and  Laura  at  home,  her 
father's  main  comfort  and  his  cheerful,  helpful  housekeeper. 

In  his  various  undertakings  Mr.  Osborn  has  been  very  fortunate  for  the 
most  part.  He  owns  good  farms  in  Franklin  and  Fayette  counties,  in  1S63 
bought  a  fine  homestead  in  this  township  qf  Albert  Collins,  and  in  1871  pur- 
chased the  old  Abney  place,  which  is  situated  in  the  rich  bottotn  land  of  the 
Whitewater  river.  The  last-mentioned  farm,  a  place  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty-five  acres,  is  used  for  the  raising  of  corn  and  wheat  and  other  crops 
suitable  to  this  section,  and,  in   addition,  the  proprietor  keeps  a  good  grade 


316  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  cattle  and  hogs.  He  rents  some  of  his  land  and  derives  a  good  income 
from  this  source.  By  sturdy,  industrious  toil  he  has  won  a  comfortable  for- 
tune and  needs  have  no  fear  for  his  future  competence.  While  he  has 
attended  strictly  to  business  and  to  the  discharge  of  all  of  his  duties  as  a  hus- 
band and  father,  he  has  not  neglected  the  remoter  obligations  resting  upon 
him  as  a  citizen.  He  has  voted  the  Democratic  ticket  for  years,  but  has  not 
taken  an  active  part  in  politics.  Reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  he  has  followed  the  broad  principles  of  Christianity,  and,  though 
not  a  member  of  the  local  church,  he  attends  its  services  and  contributes  of 
his  means  to  the  support  of  the  congregation. 

JOHN  C.  WHITRIDGE. 

Rising  above  the  heads  of  the  mass  are  many  men  of  sterling  worth  and 
value,  who  by  sheer  perseverance  and  determination,  accompanied  by  unflag- 
ging effort,  have  risen  from  the  ranks  of  the  commonplace  to  eminence,  and 
to  occupy  positions  of  respect  and  trust;  but  the  brilliant  qualities  of  mind 
and  brain  which  mark  the  great  lawyer  are  to  a  certain  extent  God-given. 
It  was  to  his  close  application  and  indomitable  energy  that  John  C.  Whit- 
ridge  owed  his  success  in  life,  as  well  as  to  his  keen  and  brilliant  mind. 
Endowed  by  nature  with  strong  mentality,  he  made  it  his  aim  to  thoroughly 
master  all  the  principles  and  intricate  problems  that  are  involved  in  juris- 
prudence, and  in  the  realm  of  civil  law  attained  distinctive  precedence  at 
the  bar  of  Wayne  county.  But  he  was  honored  not  alone  for  his  achieve- 
ments in  professional  life;  his  sterling  characteristics  and  his  genuine  worth 
as  a  citizen,  friend,  husband  and  father  also  won  for  him  the  highest  esteem, 
and  in  this  section  of  Indiana  he  was  both  widely  and  favorably  known. 

A  native  of  Ohio,  he  was  born  in  New  Paris,  Preble  county,  on  the  ist 
of  November,  1837,  and  was  a  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Rachel  (Evans)  Whit- 
ridge.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  and  the  mother  was  born  near 
Lebanon,  Ohio,  but  soon  after  their  marriage  they  located  in  New  Paris, 
where  their  remaining  days  were  passed.  The  father  was  a  graduate  of  a 
medical  college,  and  for  some  years  successfully  practiced  his  profession  in 
Preble  county. 

When  only  nine  years  of  age  the  subject  of  this  sketch  suffered  an 
almost  unparalleled  bereavement — his  father,  mother,  one  brother  and  two 
uncles  all  dying  within  a  week,  and  three  children  were  thus  orphaned.  For 
a  short  time  John  C.  Whitridge  remained  in  Lebanon,  and  then  with  his 
brother  and  sister  went  to  live  in  the  home  of  his  guardian,  James  Sampson. 
Shortly  afterward  Mr.  Sampson  was  elected  to  the  office  of  sheriff  of  Preble 
county  and  removed  to  Eaton,  Ohio,  where  our  subject  spent  much  of  his  youth. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  there,  and   when  about  eighteen  years  of  age 


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entered  Farmers'  College,  at  College  Hill,  where  he  remained  for  nearlj'  two 
years.  At  the  same  time  Benjamin  Harrison,  afterward  president  of  the 
United  States,  was  a  student  in  that  institution.  Subsequently  Mr.  Whit- 
ridge  matriculated  in  Brown  University,  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where 
he  continued  for  a  year. 

In  January,  1858,  he  came  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  pursued  the 
study  of  law  in  the  of^ce  and  under  the  direction  of  General  William  Ben- 
ton, and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  Wayne  circuit  court,  in  December 
of  the  same  year.  He  then  began  practice,  forming  a  partnership  with 
Gideon  McNutt,  but  the  connection  continued  for  otdy  a  short  time,  Mr. 
Whitridge  being  elected  prosecuting  attorney  in  i860,  for  a  term  of  two 
years.  In  1862  he  was  re-elected,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  the  position 
in  a  most  prompt  and  able  manner.  He  then  resumed  the  private  prac- 
tice of  law,  making  a  specialty  of  civil  jurisprudence.  To  an  understanding 
of  uncommon  acuteness  and  vigor  he  added  a  thorough  and  conscientious 
preparatory  training,  while  in  his  practice  he  e.xemplified  all  the  higher  ele- 
ments of  the  truly  great  lawyer.  He  was  constantly  inspired  by  an  innate, 
inflexible  love  of  justice  and  a  delicate  sense  of  personal  honor,  which  con- 
trolled him  in  all  his  personal  relations.  His  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  his 
clients  was  proverbial,  yet  he  never  forgot  that  he  owed  a  still  higher  alle- 
giance to  the  majesty  of  the  law. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Whitri  'ge  was  a  Republican,  and  was  deeply 
interested  in  the  questions  cf  the  day,  yet  never  sought  or  desired  the  honors 
or  emoluments  of  public  office.  However,  he  did  all  in  his  power  to  promote 
the  growth  and  success  of  his  party,  and  occasionally  addressed  audiences  on 
the  campaign  issues.  Of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  he  was  a  prominent 
and  consistent  member  for  twenty-five  years,  and  was  a  teacher  in  the  Sun- 
day-school for  twenty  years.  One  who  knew  him  well  said:  "  He  honestly- 
believed  the  truth  of  the  Bible  and  embraced  with  his  whole  soul  the  doc- 
trine of  the  atonement.  He  was  punctual  in  his  attendance  at  church  and 
Sunday-school,  and  did  all  that  could  be  expected  of  him  to  promote  the 
interests  of  religion. "  He  held  various  church  offices  and  was  a  member  of 
the  official  board. 

His  domestic  relations  were  exceptionally  pleasant,  and  his  interest 
centered  in  his  home.  He  was  married  October  22,  1861,  to  Miss  Mary 
Skinner,  a  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Hannah  (Foster)  Skinner,  of  Lebanon, 
Ohio.  They  became  the  parents  of  five  children:  iMary,  now  deceased; 
Lucy,  wife  of  John  Howard,  of  Richmond;  Esther  F.,  at  home;  John  Clifford, 
who  is  connected  with  the  Railroad  Gazette;  and  Bertha,  who  completes 
the  family. 

Mr.  Whitridge  died  March  10,  1888,  and  not  only  to  the  family  but  to 


518  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

many  friends  throughout  the  community  did  the  loss  come  with  telling  force. 
The  bar  of  Wayne  county  held  a  meeting  in  which  to  take  action  on  iiie  sad 
event,  and  the  report  of  its  committee  spoke  in  the  highest  terms  -f  Mr. 
Whitridge,  while  various  members  of  the  profession  endorsed  the  re^wrt  and 
added  their  tributes  of  praise  to  the  member  whom  they  mourned.  At  this 
meeting  the  following  words  were  spoken:  "In  the  profession  he  was 
thorough  in  his  knowledge  of  law,  and  while  he  always  modestly  shunned 
notoriety,  he  was  an  able  practitioner,  careful  of  the  interests  of  his  clients, 
which  he  justly  strove  to  protect.  He  had  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  and 
enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  business  community.  The  bar  has  lost  an 
honorable,  conscientious  and  able  member.  In  all  the  relations  of  life  he  has 
been  a  conscientious  and  exemplary  man,  unostentatious  and  even  modest 
and  retiring  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  but  never  shirking  any  responsi- 
bility. He  is  justly  entitled  to  be  ever  remembered  as  a  real  Christian 
gentleman."  He  commanded  the  regard  of  all  by  his  upright  life,  and  to  his 
family  he  left  the  priceless  heritage  of  an  untarnished  name. 

JAMES  P.   DOUGHERTY. 

One  of  the  practical,  progressive  and  enterprising  farmers  of  Wayne 
county  is  James  Purnell  Dougherty,  who  resides  in  Harrison  township.  On 
the  farm  which  is  now  his  home,  in  a  house  still  standing  near  his  present 
residence,  he  was  born,  August  3.  1837,  his  parents  being  Zadok  and  Mary 
(Williards)  Dougherty.  The  father  was  born  in  Delaware  in  1790,  and  was 
of  Irish  and  English  descent.  He  served  for  one  year  in  the  war  of  1812, 
and  in  181 8  removed  to  Indiana,  working  as  a  wheelwright  in  Jacksonburg, 
Harrison  township,  until  1826,  when  he  purchased  a  farm  west  of  the  village 
— the  land  now  owned  by  our  subject.  Here  he  carried  on  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  his  death,  which  occurred  November  20,  1853.  His  wife,  who 
was  born  December  24,  1804,  died  March  11,  1894.  They  were  the  parents 
of  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are  still  living  :  Zerelda,  widow  of  Levi 
Hood  ;  John  S.,  James  P.  and  William  H.  Those  deceased  are  Anna  Maria, 
Elizabeth  and  Eliza. 

Under  the  parental  roof  Mr.  Dougherty  was  reared  to  manhood,  and  to 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  village  he  is  indebted  for  the  educational  priv- 
ileges which  were  afforded  him.  When  the  country  became  involved  in 
civil  war,  he  offered  his  services  to  the  government,  August  6,  1862,  becom- 
ing a  member  of  Company  B,  Fifth  Indiana  Cavalry,  in  which  he  enlisted 
for  three  years.  He  served  on  detached  duty  through  Kentucky  and  Tennes- 
see, also  belonged  to  the  advance  guard  of  the  first  federal  troops  that  entered 
the  city  of  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and  in  1S64  joined  Stoneman  at  Tunnel 
Hill,    Georgia,    continuing  with    that    command    to    Atlanta.      While    on  a 


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scouting  expedition  under  General  Stoneman,  he  was  captured  with  a  majority 
of  his  regiment  and  confined  in  Andersonville '  prison  for  six  weeks.  His 
brother,  John  Shaffer  Dougherty,  was  with  him  in  the  same  company,  but 
they  were  separated  at  this  point  and  sent  to  different  places.  John  was 
exchanged  March  30,  1865,  then  sent  to  Jefferson  Barracks  Hospital,  Mis- 
souri, and  on  to  Camp  Chase,  Ohio,  where  he  was  discharged  June  10,  1865. 
James  F.  Dougherty  was  exchanged  February  28,  1865,  reported  to  his 
command  at  Pulaski,  Tennessee,  and  was  there  discharged  June  16,  1865. 
He  suffered  severely  from  his  prison  life,  and  has  never  entirely  recovered  his 
old-time  strength.  Since  his  return  home  he  has  engaged  continuously  in 
agricultural  pursuits,  and  until  recently  has  been  associated  in  business  with 
his  brother  John,  they  being  the  most  extensive  tobacco-growers  in  Harrison 
township. 

On  the  ist  of  December,  1875,  Mr.  Dougherty  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Lizzie,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Christina  (Fike)  Miller,  of  Jackson- 
burg,  Indiana.  Her  father,  a  wagonmaker  by  trade,  is  a  native  of  Germany, 
and  her  mother  of  Trenton,  Ohio.  They  have  four  children:  Mrs.  Dough- 
erty, Henry,  Charles,  and  Katie,  wife  of  William  Wilson.  Our  subject  is 
socially  connected  with  Jackson  Lodge,  No.  552,  L  O.  O.  P.,  and  M.  D. 
Leason  Post,  No.  453,  G.  A.  R.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Disciples' 
church,  and  gives  his  support  to  all  moral,  enducational.  social  or  material 
interests  which  he  believes  will  benefit  the  community.  He  is  a  man  of 
sterling  worth  and  justly  merits  the  high  regard  in  which  he  is  held. 

CALEB  B.   SMITH. 

Caleb  B.  Smith,  who  in  his  day  was  the  most  distinguished  citizen  of 
Connersville,  as  well  as  among  the  most  celebrated  of  his  state  and  nation, 
ranking  second  only  to  Governor  Morton  in  Indiana,  was  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  April  16,  1808,  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Cincinnati 
when  six  years  of  age.  There  he  spent  his  boyhood  days  and  received  his 
early  education.  Later  he  entered  Miami  University,  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  in 
1825.  After  his  college  course  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  began  reading 
law.  In  the  autumn  of  1827  he  came  to  Connersville  and  continued  the  study 
of  law,  under  Oliver  H.  Smith,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1828.  At  the 
bar  he  rose  rapidly,  being  a  most  fluent  speaker.  He  was  the  Tom  Corwin 
of  Indiana,  and  ever  had  a  fund  of  anecdotes  to  illuminate  his  speeches, 
whether  they  were  before  a  jury  or  a  political  audience.  In  1832  he,  with 
M.  R.  Hall,  established  the  Indiana  Sentinel,  a  weekly  paper  devoted  to  the 
advocacy  of  Whig  doctrines.  As  an  editor  Mr.  Smith  was  witty,  pungent 
and  brilliant.  The  next  year  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature,  and  he  served 
in  that  body  for  several  terms,  being  speaker  of  the  house  three  sessions.    He 


820  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

was  one  of  the  foremost  advocates  of  tfie  great  internal-improvement  system 
of  the  state. 

In  1S43  he  was  elected  to  congress  and  served  three  terms,  becoming 
easily  the  foremost  man  in  the  Indiana  delegation,  and  one  of  the  foremost  in 
the  nation.  He  was  peculiarly  eloquent,  with  a  pleasing  voice  and  captivat- 
ing manner.  He  was  recognized  as  a  powerful  debater  in  all  the  great  ques- 
tions then  before  the  public,  and  but  few,  if  any,  could  equal  hiin  before  an 
audience  of  the  people.  In  185 1  he  moved  to  Cincinnati,  and  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Cincinnati  &  Chicago  Railroad, — in  which  connection  he  became 
deeply  involved  financially,  as  the  project  proved  a  failure.  In  1859  he 
removed  again,  this  time  making  Indianapolis  his  home,  and  there  he  entered 
again  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  It  was  in  the  stirring  times  when 
slavery  was  making  its  greatest  efforts  to  spread  over  the  western  territories. 
Mr.  Smith  became  an  ardent  Republican,  and  in  the  great  political  campaign 
of  i860  canvassed  almost  every  part  of  Indiana  in  the  interest  of  Mr.  Lin- 
coln, in  securing  whose  nomination  he  had  been  largely  instrumental,  as 
chairman  of  the  Indiana  delegation,  which  voted  solidly  for  Liiico'n.  When 
Mr.  Lincoln  was  making  up  his  cabinet  he  selected  Mr.  Smith  as  his  secre- 
tary of  the  interior.  This  position  he  resigned  in  the  latter  part  of  1S62,  to 
accept  the  position  of  United  States  judge  for  the  district  of  Indiana.  He 
died  suddenly,  on  the  17th  of  January,  1864.  He  left  his  home  in  the 
morning  in  his  usual  health,  and  went  to  the  court-room.  He  entered  his 
private  room  in  the  government  building  and  was  seized  by  a  fit  of  coughing, 
which  ruptured  a  blood  vessel,  producing  a  violent  hemorrhage.  Physicians 
were  called,  but  it  was  some  time  before  the  flow  of  blood  could  be  checked. 
In  the  afternoon  another  fit  of  coughing  renewed  the  hemorrhage,  and  he 
graduallj'  sunk  until  he  died.  From  the  time  he  entered  congress  until  he 
was  placed  on  the  bench  but  few  men  in  the  country  wielded  as  wide  a  polit- 
ical power  as  did  Mr.  Smith.  It  was  chiefly  as  a  stump  orator  that  he 
became  so  wonderfully  popular.  His  language  was  copious  and  always 
appropriate,  —  often  striking,  always  clear. 

Upon  the  sudden  death  of  this  citizen,  orator,  statesman  and  judge  of 
distinction,  it  was  ordered  by  the  president  of  the  United  States  that  the 
executive  buildings  at  Washington  be  draped  in  mourning  for  fourteen  days, 
in  honor  of  a  prudent  and  royal  counselor  of  the  administration  in  an  hour 
of  peril.  July  8,  1831,  Mr.  Smith  was  united  in  marriage  to  Elizabeth  B. 
Watton,  of  Connersville,  Indiana. 

DANIEL  G.   REID. 
Daniel  G.  Reid  is  now  a  resident   of   Chicago,  but    has    been    so   closely 
identified  with  the  interests  of   Richmond  that  the  city  feels   a  just  pride  in 


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claiming  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  stands  to-day  at  the  head  of  one 
of  the  leading  industrial  concerns  of  the  county,  being  president  of  the  Amer- 
ican Tin  Plate  Company,  and  his  prestige  has  been  won  through  marked 
executi\e  force,  keen  discrimination,  sound  judgment  and  unfaltering  energy. 
To  manage  mammoth  business  interests  it  requires  as  great  and  skillful  gen- 
eralship as  is  manifest  on  the  field  of  battle  by  him  who  leads  armed  hosts  to 
victory.  His  campaign  is  no  less  carefully  planned,  and  the  tactics  which 
he  must  follow  to  avoid  competitors  demand  a  nicety  of  decision  unsurpassed 
by  the  army  commander;  at  the  same  time  if  he  would  gain  an  extensive 
public  patronage,  his  business  methods  must  be  so  honorable  as  to  be  above 
reproach,  for  the  public  is  a  discriminating  factor  and  quickly  sets  its  stamp 
of  disapproval  upon  any  underhand  methods.  Daniel  G.  Reid  has  met  every 
requirement  of  the  business  world  in  these  regards,  and  has  attained  an 
almost  phenomenal  success,  which  illustrates  the  wonderful  possibilities. 
which  America  affords  her  young  men  of  energy,  enterprise  and  ambition. 

Born  in  Richmond,  in  August,  1858,  Daniel  G.  Reid  is  a  son  of  Daniel 
and  Anna  (Dougan)  Reid.  The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  and  the 
grandfather  of  our  subject,  who  also  bore  the  name  of  Daniel  Reid,  was  a 
native  of  Virginia,  in  which  state  he  spent  his  entire  life.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Patterson,  of  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  who  died  in  Richmond 
at  an  advanced  age.  Daniel  Reid,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Rock- 
bridge county,  Virginia,  February  5,  1799,  and  in  1821  took  up  his  residence 
near  New  Paris,  Preble  county,  Ohio,  whence  he  removed  to  Richmond  in 
the  fall  of  1823.  Here  he  engaged  in  clerking  for  some  5'ears,  and  in  1828 
began  merchandising  on  his  own  account,  as  a  partner  of  Joseph  P.  Strattan, 
carrying  on  the  business  ten  years.  In  1829  he  was  appointed  postmaster 
of  Richmond,  serving  in  that  capacity  until  1838,  when  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Van  Buren  as  register  at  the  land  office  in  Fort  Wayne,  where  he 
remained  for  about  five  years.  He  then  removed  to  a  farm  in  Allen  county, 
Indiana,  and  in  1855  returned  to  Richmond,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  with  his  son,  William  S.,  and  N.  S.  Leeds  until  the  firm  changed  to 
Reid  &  Vanneman.  He  remained  in  the  store,  but  made  his  home  upon  a 
farm  a  mile  and  a  half  west  of  Richmond,  where  he  was  living  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  March  3,  1873.  He  was  for  many  years  a  mem- 
ber and  ruling  elder  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  in  Richmond,  and  his 
honorable,  upright  life  commanded  the  respect  of  all  wiih  whom  he  came  in 
contact.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  by  maiden  name  Letitia 
Scott,  who  died  in  Allen  county,  in  1854.  They  had  seven  children.  In 
October  of  that  year,  Mr.  Reid  married  Mrs.  Ann  Dougan,  then  a  resident 
of  Niles,  Michigan,  and  they  had  two  children:  Daniel  Gray,  of  this  sketch, 
and  Emma  Virginia,  wife  of  Oliver  Bogue. 


S22  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Daniel  G.  Reid  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Richmond.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  in  his  fifteenth  year,  and  he  was  reared  b}'  his 
mother.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the  Second  National  Bank  as 
messenger  boy,  obtained  his  business  training  there  and  gradually  won  pro- 
motion until  he  was  made  teller,  which  position  he  resigned  in  1895.  He  is 
still  a  director  and  vice-president  of  the  bank,  but  though  his  opinions  influence 
its  management  he  takes  no  active  part  in  controlling  the  daily  routine  of 
business.  In  1892  he  became  interested  in  the  American  Tin  Plate  Company, 
owners  of  an  extensive  plant  at  Elwood,  Indiana.  In  1898,  when  the  great 
■tin  plate  trust  was  formed,  he  became  a  large  stockholder  and  the  president 
-of  the  corporation,  and  now  occupies  that  important  position.  He  has 
always  been  of  a  speculative  turn  of  mind,  but  where  many  would  make 
injudicious  investments  and  so  lose  their  money,  his  tendency  toward  specu- 
lation is  guided  by  a  judgment  rarely  at  fault  and  by  a  keenly  discriminat- 
ing mind. 

On  the  13th  of  October,  1880,  Mr.  Reid  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Ella  C.  Dunn,  of  Richmond,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Reid  died  on  the  25th  of  June, 
1899.  In  matters  of  public  moment  Mr.  Reid  is  deeply  interested,  although 
he  has  never  sought  the  preferment  which  he  might  easily  attain  in  that  line, 
•content  to  gain  leadership  in  business  circles  alone.  The  day  of  little  under- 
Jtakings  in  our  western  cities  has  long  since  passed,  and  an  enterprise  or 
dndustry  is  nothing  if  not  gigantic.  It  is  a  master  mind  than  can  plan, 
excute  and  control  a  mammoth  institution  of  the  nature  of  the  American  Tin 
Plate  Works,  and  the  gentleman  who  stands  at  its  head  well  deserves  to  be 
ranked  among  the  most  prominent  business  men  of  his  adopted  city,  where 
-only  ability  of  a  very  superior  order  is  now  recognized. 

REV.    REUBEN    TOBEY. 

For  twenty-six  years  one  of  the  most  efficient  laborers  in  the  cause  of 
•Christianity  in  northern  Indiana  was  Rev.  Reuben  Tobey,  who  for  that  period 
was  a  member  of  the  conference  of  this  section  of  the  state,  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  A  strong  and  forcible  speaker,  earnest  and  eloquent  in 
the  presentation  of  the  truth,  his  efforts  were  abundantly  blessed,  and  over 
■two  thousand  persons  identified  themselves  with  the  church  under  his  teach- 
ling, — four  hundred  while  he  was  pastor  of  the  Pearl  street  church  in  Rich- 
imond,  some  three  years.  (This  is  now  known  as  the  Fifth  Street  church.) 
'.Since  1883  he  has  been  on  the  superannuated  list,  but  has  been  active  in  the 
continuance  of  the  work  to  which  he  dedicated  his  life  when  in  the  prime  of 
his  early  manhood. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Rev.  Reuben  Tobey  was  named  Michael. 
He  was  born  near   Hagerstown,    Maryland,  on  Pleasant  \'alley  farm,  where 


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he  spent  his  entire  Hfe.  He  was  a  very  prosperous  farmer  and  his  homestead 
was  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  a  section  where  lovely  homes  abounded.  A 
fine  spring,  and  great  orchards  which  bore  an  abundance  of  excellent  fruit 
of  various  kinds,  were  among  the  attractions  of  the  farm.  There  the  father 
of  our  subject,  Michael  Tobey,  Jr.,  was  born,  May  15,  1789,  and  upon  the 
death  of  his  father  the  young  man  inherited  the  old  homestead.  He  con- 
tinued to  cultivate  the  place  until  1836,  when  he  removed  to  Montgomery 
county,  Ohio,  and  became  extensively  engaged  in  farming,  at  a  point  to  the 
westward  of  Dayton.  While  a  resident  of  Maryland  he  had  also  attended  to 
contracting  and  building,  employing  a  manager  whose  duty  it  was  to  look 
after  the  farm.  In  Ohio  he  followed  much  the  same  plan,  giving  his  own 
attention  chiefly  to  contracting,  and  giving  employment  to  many  men.  His 
death  took  place  in  Dayton,  September,  1872.  Actively  concerned  in  the 
spread  of  the  Christian  faith,  he  built  a  church  on  his  own  land  in  Ohio,  it 
being  popularly  known  as  "  Tobey's  meeting-house."  A  large  congregation 
grew  up  there  and  flourished,  the  doctrines  of  the  United  Brethren  being  taught 
in  the  little  chapel.  During  the  fifteen  or  twenty  years  of  his  residence  in  Day- 
ton he  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He  had 
more  than  a  local  reputation  as  a  man  thoroughly  posted  on  all  public  affairs 
and  policies,  and  was  strongly  in  favor  of  protective  tariff  for  this  country. 
First  a  Whig,  he  later  identified  himself  with  the  Republican  party.  For  his 
wife  he  chose  Margaret  Miller,  of  Maryland,  and  to  them  six  sons  and  four 
daughters  were  born.  Before  his  life  closed  he  saw  his  sons  all  married  and 
well  settled,  and  four  of  them  ofificiating  as  ministers — three  of  them  of  the 
United  Brethren  church,  namely:  Jonathan,  Michael  T.  and  Henry.  Reuben 
was  a  clergyman  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Another  son.  Dr.  Rob- 
ert Tobey,  was  a  physician,  and  died  in  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  Nathaniel  was 
a  rich  capitalist  and  business  man  of  Troy,  Ohio. 

The  birth  of  Rev.  Reuben  Tobey  occurred  March  22,  1830,  in  his 
paternal  home  near  Hagerstown,  Maryland.  His  education  was  obtained  in 
Ohio,  and  as  early  as  1855  he  made  a  trip  into  this  state,  selling  merchandise 
in  Goshen  and  other  towns.  In  1857  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  in  the  church 
and  two  years  later  was  made  an  elder  by  Bishop  Janes.  For  ten  years  he 
was  connected  with  the  Bethel  work,  having  the  state  of  Indiana  under  his 
supervision,  as  regards  this  department  of  usefulness,  but  recently  he  retired 
from  this  responsible  position  on  account  of  failing  health.  He  has  always 
been  a  stalwart  Republican  in  his  political  views. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Tobey  was  solemnized  in  West  Alexandria, 
Ohio,  in  1849.  To  himself  and  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Adelina 
Houghman,  three  children  were  born:  Maria  E.  Hazard,  of  Tacoma, 
Washington;  Winfield  Scott,  freight  agent  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa;  and  Mrs. 


324  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Mary  E.  Peabody,  of  Columbia  City,  Indiana.  His  first  wife  having  died  in 
1870,  Mr.  Tobey  married  Nettie  Mann,  of  McConnelisville,  Ohio,  in  1871. 
Their  two  sons  are  Edwin  R.,  who  is  connected  with  the  street-railroad  lines 
in  Seattle,  Washington;  and  Charles  P.,  who  for  the  past  five  years  has  been 
employed  in  the  Columbia  City  (Indiana)  Bank. 

WILLIAM  MENDENHALL. 

The  Mendenhall  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  honored  in  the 
United  States,  their  ancestors  having  accompanied  William  Penn  to  these 
shores  and  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia.  The  family  have  authentic 
documents  from  which  the  name  is  traced  in  England  back  to  1275.  From 
the  American  branch  are  descended  the  numerous  persons  of  the  name  now 
to  be  found  in  every  state  in  the  Union.  Like  their  distinguished  leader, 
they  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  living  peaceful,  just  lives,  and 
ever  striving  to  aid  and  uplift  humanity. 

The  more  immediate  ancestors  of  William  Mendenhall  became  pioneers 
in  western  Pennsylvania  and  eastern  Ohio,  his  grandfather,  Aaron  Menden- 
hall, a  surveyor,  going  to  Beaver  Falls  in  1800  and  to  Columbiana  county, 
Ohio,  in  1828.  In  1804  he  was  married  to  Lydia  Richardson,  by  whom  he 
had  four  sons, —  John,  Moses,  Cyrus  and  George.  George  became  a  physi- 
cian of  distinction  and  president  of  a  medical  college  in  Cincinnati.  Cyrus 
and  Moses  were  members  of  the  Ohio  legislature  from  1856  to  1S58.  Cyrus, 
while  a  member  of  that  body,  originated  and  secured  the  passage  of  the  bill 
making  it  unlawful  to  inflict  corporal  punishment  upon  inmates  of  the  peni- 
tentiary, and  also  the  law  enabling  a  convict,  by  his  good  behavior,  to  lessen 
the  time  of  his  term  of  imprisonment.  Following  this  humane  movement 
similar  laws  have  from  time  to  time  been  enacted  by  other  states.  John, 
the  oldest  son,  born  in  1806,  was  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  narrative. 
In  1835  he  married  Hannah  Milhous,  of  Belmont  county,  Ohio,  who  is  now 
living  at  Richmond  (June,  1899),  m  her  eighty-si.xth  year,  genial  and  ener- 
getic. In  his  early  married  life  John  Mendenhall  lived  in  Columbiana  and 
Morgan  counties,  Ohio,  while  from  i860  until  his  death,  in  1868,  he  was  a 
resident  of  Richmond.  His  chief  occupation  was  that  of  a  leather  mer- 
chant, which  business  he  followed  until  shortly  before  his  demise.  He  was 
exact,  punctual  and  above  reproach  in  all  his  financial  transactions,  and 
enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  who  knew  him. 

Born  in  Columbiana  county,  Ohio,  October  12,  1836,  William  Menden- 
hall was  a  mere  boy  when  the  family  removed  to  Morgan  county.  There  he 
received  his  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools  of  McConnelsville, 
though  when  yet  a  small  boy  he  attended  also  the  Friends'  boarding  school 
(now  Earlham  College)  at  Richmond.      He  was  graduated   at  the  University 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  325 

of  Michigan  in  1863,  but  previous  to  that  time  had  been  successfully  engaged 
in  teaching  in  Belmont  county,  Ohio;  two  years  at  Fountain  City,  Indiana, 
and  at  Earlham  College.  After  his  graduation  in  1863  he  was  appointed  and 
served  in  the  astronomical  corps  of  the  United  States  coast  survey  along  the 
shores  of  the  great  lakes.  Being  elected  principal  of  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Earlham  College,  he  entered  on  his  new  duties,  continuing  for  two 
years.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  was  chosen  as  principal  of  the  Richmond 
high  schqpl,  in  which  capacity  he  acted  tor  some  time  to  the  entire  satisfac- 
tion of  all  interested  in  the  excellence  of  our  schools.  Later  he  became  one 
of  the  owners  and  principals  of  the  City  Academy  of  Indianapolis,  with 
which  well-known  institution  he  was  connected  for  two  years.  Having  given 
considerable  thought  and  attention  to  the  subject  of  suitable  text-books  for 
use  in  schools,  he  had  some  correspondence  with  Charles  Scribner  &  Com- 
pany, of  New  York,  which  firm  published  a  number  of  the  finest  school-books, 
and  the  result  of  the  matter  was  that  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm,  and 
during  the  following  two  years  introduced  their  publications  as  general  agent 
for  the  state  of  Indiana. 

In  1 87 1  he  went  to  Colorado,  where  he  was  for  many  years  extensively 
engaged  in  mining  operations  and  civil  engineering.  He  met  with  success  in 
his  various  ventures  and  undertakings,  but  the  associations  and  old  friends  of 
former  days  recalled  him  at  last  to  Richmond,  where  he  has  dwelt  since  1884. 
Of  late  years  he  is  occupied  in  civil  engineering  and  deals  in  real  estate. 
Politically,  he  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  in  religion  he  adheres  to  the  faith 
of  his  forefathers,  being  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

Mr.  Mendenhall  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  whom  he 
wedded  in  this  city,  bore  the  name  of  Hannah  N.  Lancaster.  After  her 
death  Mr.  Mendenhall  was  married,  in  1886,  to  Miss  Eliza  D.  Hadley,  by 
whom  he  has  three  children,  namely.  Olive  J.,  William  Edwin  and  Jessie  C. 
The  family  have  a  pleasant,  cozy  home  in  West  Richmond,  where  their  hos- 
pitality is  enjoyed  by  their  numerous  friends  and  well-wishers. 

RICHARD  E.  HAUGHTON,  M.  D. 
Dr.  Richard  E.  Haughton,  who  for  forty-five  years  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  medical  practice  in  Indiana,  is  one  of  the  most  talented  members 
of  his  profession  in  the  state,  and  has,  perhaps,  done  as  much  to  elevate  the 
standard  of  medical  excellence  therein  as  any  other  man.  Being  of  broad 
and  liberal  mind,  and  having  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a  superior  education, 
he  has  had  the  interests  of  the  people  deeply  at  heart,  and  has  keenly  felt 
how  completely  they  are  at  the  mercy  of  the  medical  practitioner,  who,  but  a 
few  years  ago,  before  the  present  rigid  regulations  were  put  into  operation, 
was  often  the  most  veritable  charlatan,   plying  his  arts  to  the  jeopardy  of  his 


326  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

misguided  patients.  By  pen  and  speech  Dr.  Haugiiton  has  used  his  influence 
for  many  decades  in  the  advocacy  of  higher  education  and  training  for  phy- 
sicians, and  the  Hmitation  of  their  once  almost  absolute  power  over  the  lives 
of  their  patients.  He  has  always  stood  boldly  forth  as  the  champion  of 
progress,  and  his  wonderful  influence  has  been  exerted  at  all  times  on  the 
side  of  right  and  truth. 

A  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Johnson)  Haughton,  the  Doctor  traces  his 
ancestry,  along  both  lines,  to  old  Enghsh  nobility.  On  the  paternal  side  he 
is  descended  from  Sir  Wilfred  Haughton,  a  baronet  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury, and  many  of  his  ancestors  achieved  distinction  in  the  business  and  pro- 
fessional world  and  as  statesmen  and  authors.  One  of  the  eminent  representa- 
tives of  the  family  at  the  present  day  is  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Haughton,  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Ireland.  The  maternal  ancestor  of  our  subject  was 
a  nobleman  at  the  court  of  James  I.  of  England,  and  his  descendants  were 
among  the  first  colonists  of  Virginia.  They  were  wealthy  landholders  and 
slave-owners  for  some  time,  but,  being  associated  with  the  Friends,  they 
came  to  abhor  the  principle  of  human  slavery  and  eventually  manumitted 
their  slaves. 

William  Haughton  was  born  in  Carlow,  county  of  Carlovv,  Ireland, 
about  forty  miles  from  Dublin,  in  1S04.  He  was  partially  educated  in  Ack- 
worth  boarding  school,  in  England,  and  in  1822  he  set  out  to  make  his  for- 
tune in  the  United  States.  At  first  he  located  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana, 
and  subsequently  removed  to  Union  county,  same  state.  Here  for  forty-five 
years  he  was  known  as  an  educator,  one  of  the  ablest  in  the  state,  and 
though  he  taught  for  several  years  in  the  old-time  log  school-house,  he  later 
was  connected  with  some  of  the  leading  educational  institutions  of  Indiana  at 
that  day.  For  over  a  score  of  years  he  was  a  preceptor  in  Beech  Grove 
Seminary,  having  under  his  charge  young  men  from  all  parts  of  the  country, 
some  twenty  states  being  thus  represented.  He  was  principal  in  the  Union 
County  Seminary  and  thereafter  he  became  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Earl- 
ham  College,  where  he  continued  actively  engaged  in  his  beloved  work  of 
instructing  the  young,  until,  by  reason  of  failing  health,  he  was  compelled  to 
resign  his  position.  When  he  had  rested  from  his  labors  for  a  period  at 
Knightstown,  Indiana,  he  could  not  resist  a  resumption  of  his  former  work, 
when  he  was  tendered  a  position  as  principal  in  the  high  school  there,  and 
death  found  him  at  his  post.  He  died  in  July,  1878,  of  paralysis,  aged  sev- 
enty-six years.  A  birth-right  member  of  the  Friends'  church,  he  was  a 
preacher  in  that  sect  for  a  number  of  years,  his  life  being  a  consistent  and 
beautiful  example  of  the  doctrines  to  which  he  was  reared.  His  devoted 
wife  survived  him,  dying  in  1S82,  when  four-score  years  of  age.  He  had  but 
two  children,  Richard  E.,  and  Mrs.  Lucy  White,  of  Texas. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  327 

The  birth  of  Dr.  R.  E.  Haughton  occurred  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana, 
December  8,  1827.  He  found  an  able  friend,  companion  and  instructor  in 
his  father,  and  at  an  early  age  was  remarkably  proficient  in  mathematics, 
science  and  literature.  When  a  youth  of  fifteen  he  rendered  his  father  excel- 
lent service  as  assistant  teacher,  and  from  1845  to  1849  he  devoted  a  por- 
tion of  each  year  to  the  cultivation  and  management  of  his  father's  farm, 
helping  to  pay  for  the  property.  In  the  fall  of  the  year  last  named,  he  com- 
menced medical  studies  with  their  family  physician,  but,  his  father  having 
been  called  to  Richmond,  the  young  man  took  his  place  in  the  Union  County 
Seminary.  In  1853,  however,  he  was  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class, 
with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  the  Cleveland  Medical  College, 
where  he  had  pursued  the  prescribed  course  of  study.  For  a  short  time 
prior  to  his  graduation  he  had  practiced  at  Knightstown,  with  a  partner,  and 
he  now  returned,  and  until  October,  1855,  he  remained  in  that  place. 
Thereafter  he  practiced  in  Richmond  for  a  score  of  years,  meeting  with 
exceptional  and  merited  success. 

In  the  autumn  of  1873,  Dr.  Haughton  was  urged 'to  accept  the  chair  of 
descriptive  and  surgical  anatomy  in  the  Indiana  Medical  College,  at  Indiana- 
polis, after  which  he  was  professor  of  physiology  and  physiological  anatomy 
in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.,  in  the  same  city,  for  a  period  of 
four  years.  In  the  summer  of  1879  he  witnessed  the  fulfillment  of  a  long 
cherished  desire, — the  establishment  of  a  new  college  which  should  occupy  a 
much  higher  plane  than  any  of  its  predecessors.  Thus,  largely  owing  to  his 
influence  and  zeal,  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  was 
founded  in  the  capital  city  of  the  state.  This  institution  was  the  first  one 
of  the  kind  in  the  west  to  require  students  to  pass  a  general  examination  ere 
they  were  admitted,  and  the  numerous  restrictions  and  regulations  which 
were  put  in  force  have  proved  a  safeguard  and  benefit  to  the  college,  whose 
graduates  are  proud  of  their  a/ina  mater,  in  consequence. 

A  ready,  clear  and  comprehensive  writer.  Dr.  Haughton  has  wielded 
his  pen  for  years  on  a  variety  of  subjects.  A  valued  contributor  to  the  lead- 
ing medical  journals  of  the  day,  his  articles  on  the  diseases  of  the  nerv- 
ous system  and  on  surgery  (in  which  department  he  is  especially  expert) 
have  been  widely  copied.  Desiring  to  further  qualify  himself  in  special 
lines,  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  Jefferson  Medical  College  a  few 
years  ago.  Since  1859  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  and  is  identified  with  the  Indiana  State  Medical  and  the 
Tri-state  Medical  Association  (of  Indiana,  Illinois  and  Kentucky).  He  is 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Ohio  State  Medical  Association,  and  belongs  to 
the  societies  of  Wayne,  Marion  and  Union  counties.  He  assisted  to  organ- 
ize the  Wayne  County  Medical   Society  and  that  of  Union  District.     Since 


328  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

1895  the  Doctor  has  again  been  engaged  in  practice  in  Richmond,  many  of 
his  old  patients  returning  to  him,  and  others,  who  have  known  him  by  repu- 
tation, have  been  glad  to  retain  him  as  their  family  physician.  He  takes 
great  interest  in  local  affairs,  and  was  one  of  the  projectors  and  original 
stockholders  in  the  Richmond  Street  Railroad  Company. 

In  his  religious  views  the  Doctor  is  liberal  and  independent,  as  might  be 
expected  of  one  who  has  been  a  deep  student  and  has  had  wide  experience. 
Though  he  was  reared  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  has  the  most  genuine 
esteem  for  that  body,  he  prefers  no  other  guide  or  rule  of  conduct  than  what 
he  tinds  in  the  Scriptures,  and  is  opposed  to  ritualism  and  formality  in  wor- 
ship. After  four  years'  special  study  of  religion,  he  was  ordained  a  minister 
in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  1898,  though  for  two-score  years  he 
has  preached  the  gospal  of  Christ,  and  from  his  boyhood  he  has  endeavored 
to  lead  the  life  of  a  Christian. 

In  the  First  Presbyterian  church  of  East  Cleveland,  Ohio,  on  the  13th 
of  February,  1853,  a  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  which  united  the 
destinies  of  Dr.  Haughton  and  Miss  Catherine  Meeker.  She  died  December 
20,  1S67,  and  left  two  children:  Edward  Everett,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
real-estate  and  insurance  business  in  Chicago;  and  Louanna.  The  present 
wife  of  the  Doctor  was  Miss  Elizabeth  Mather,  a  pupil  of  Earlham  College, 
and  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  famous  preacher,  Rev.  Dr.  Cotton  Mather. 
She  is  an  earnest  Christian  worker  and  has  been  for  years  connected  with  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  as  a  national  evangelist. 

BENJAMIN   STEWART. 

No  citizen  in  College  Corner,  Union  county,  enjoys  the  confidence  and 
high  esteem  of  his  associates  and  neighbors  in  a  greater  degree  than  does 
Benjamin  Stewart,  who  came  to  this  place  in  1853;  and  from  that  time  to  the 
present  he  has  taken  an  active  share  in  the  development  of  the  resources  of 
this  immediate  locality.  Since  he  became  a  permanent  resident  of  this 
thriving  little  village,  he  has  materially  aided  in  church  and  charitable  enter- 
prises and  has  ever  used  his  influence  on  behalf  of  everything  making  for  good 
citizenship. 

Born  in  Juniata  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  10,  1830,  Benjamin 
Stewart  is  a  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Harris)  Stewart,  likewise  natives  of  that 
state.  In  1838  they  removed  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  in  1844  to  Hamil- 
ton county,  that  state.  For  several  years  the  father  worked  at  the  tanner's 
trade,  and  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  chiefly  devoted  to  farming.  A  life- 
long member  of  the  American  Bible  Association,  he  was  very  active  in  dis- 
tributing and  selling  Bibles,  giving  considerable  time  to  this  occupation.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years,  having  survived  his  good  wife  some  years. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  329 

Of  their  children,  three  sons  are  now  living,  namely:  Joseph  M.,  who  went 
to  Nebraska  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  and  is  a  resident  of  Pawnee  City, 
that  state;  John  R. ,  of  Osceola,  Nebraska,  and  for  thirty-five  years  a  citizen 
of  that  state;  and  Benjamin,  of  this  sketch.  Joseph  M.  was  formerly  an 
extensive  land-owner  in  Union  county,  Indiana.  A  daughter,  Mary  Jane, 
married  George  Black,  whose  fine  farm  was  situated  two  miles  west  of  College 
Corner.  Mrs.  Black  is  deceased,  but  some  of  her  family  still  dwell  in  this 
vicinity. 

Benjamin  Stewart  spent  his  boyhood  on  his  father's  farm,  and  when 
about  seventeen  years  old  he  commenced  learning  the  business  of  manufactur- 
ing coffins.  He  was  in  that  business  in  the  town  of  Twenty  Mile  Stand, 
Ohio,  and  in  1853  he  came  to  College  Corner.  Here  he  established  himself 
in  the  same  line  of  business,  being  the  first  undertaker  of  Union  township. 
At  the  end  of  ten  years  or  more  Benjamin  Stewart  settled  on  a  farm  in  Posey 
township,  Fayette  count}-,  eight  miles  west  of  Connersville,  and  for  twelve 
years  he  operated  the  homestead,  making  extensive  and  valuable  improve- 
ments in  the  meantime.  At  last,  having  sold  the  place  to  a  good  advantage, 
he  returned  to  College  Corner  and  invested  in  village  property.  One  of  his 
most  prosperous  ventures  was  the  purchase  of  the  J.  M.  Ridenour  block, 
which  he  has  leased  to  business  houses,  and  for  twenty  years  it  has  never 
been  vacant,  nor  has  the  owner  had  the  keys  in  his  possession  during  that 
long  period.  Besides  this  he  has  built  not  less  than  half  a  dozen  excellent 
stores  and  houses  for  himself,  and  has  taken  contracts  and  erected  numerous 
buildings  in  and  around  the  village.  More  than  forty  years  ago  he  put  up  the 
old  school  building,  and  therefore  it  was  fitting  that  the  contract  for  the  new 
union  school  district  building  should  fall  to  him,  and  it  was  erected  at  a  cost  of 
about  ten  thousand  dollars.  He  still  owns  several  residences  in  addition  to 
his  own.  When  the  railroad  was  being  constructed,  he  and  his  brother  built 
and  operated  a  saw  and  grist  mill  and  supplied  much  material  to  the  rail- 
road. Later  the  brother  added  a  planing  mill,  and  thus  it  may  be  easily 
seen  that  they  were  really  founders  of  this  town,  for  in  its  infancy  they  met 
many  of  its  most  urgent  needs  by  their  enterprise  and  well  invested  money. 
The  first  regular  meat  market  in  this  place  was  carried  on  by  our  subject,  and 
for  thirty  years  he  has  been  more  or  less  engaged  in  the  business,  even  now 
supplying  the  local  market  in  his  own  block. 

While  the  affairs  of  this  life  have  justly  claimed  a  large  share  of  the 
time  and  attention  of  Mr.  Stewart,  he  has  not  neglected  his  duties  and  priv- 
ileges in  the  wider  sense  of  the  life  to  come,  and  from  boyhood  has  been  a 
devoted  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  For  forty  years  he  served  as 
one  of  the  elders  of  the  congregation,  being  ordained  the  same  day  as  was 
'George  Wilson,  and  by  mutual  consent  they  both  resigned  on  the  same  day, 


330  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  five  other  members  of  the  board  of  elders  following  their  example.  The 
others  were  Dennis,.Ward,  James  Shultz,  Thomas  Gaston,  Scott  Hurd  and 
John  Witter;  and  the  reason  whjch  impelled  them  to  this  move  was  their 
long  service  and  advanced  years.  When  the  church  was  being  built  Mr. 
Stewart  was  chairman  of  the  committee  of  the  same,  and  for  fifteen  years  he 
was  the  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school.  Throughout  his  life  he  has 
been  strictly  temperate  and  has  kept  the  highest  ideals  ever  before  him, 
striving  to  become  what  he  surely  is  to-day,  a  noble,  well  developed  Christian 
character. 

In  1855  Mr.  Stewart  married  Miss  Eliza  Ann  Pearson,  of  Dublin,  Indi- 
ana, and  her  death  took  place  in  1876.  In  September,  1877,  he  married 
Mrs.  Maggie  R.  Robb,  /u'e  Stewart  (but  not  a  relative  of  our  subject),  of 
Lebanon,  Warren  county,  Ohio.  By  this  union  there  are  three  children  : 
Pearl,  Lee  and  Ray,  all  at  home.  By  the  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Stewart  there 
were  five  sons,  namely  :  Elmer,  now  engaged  in  the  practice  of  dentistry  in 
Richmond,  Indiana  ;  Oliver  Morton,  who  has  been  engaged  in  the  meat- 
market  business  in  Muncie,  Indiana  ;  Homer  M.,  a  painter  by  trade,  and  now 
a  resident  of  Mount  Carmel,  Indiana  ;  David  Clinton,  who  was  in  the  meat 
business  and  died  in  May,  1898,  aged  twenty-eight  years  ;  and  William  R. , 
who  is  employed  as  a  dealer  in  meat  in  Muncie,  Indiana.  Oliver  M.  was 
recently  a  United  States  regular  in  the  war  with  Cuba,  being  a  member  of 
Company  M,  Twenty-third  Infantry,  stationed  at  San  Francisco,  California. 
He  was  discharged  in  September,  1898,  and  is  now  at  home,  visiting  his  rel- 
atives. In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Stewart  inclines  to  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party. 

THOMAS    CAMPBELL. 

The  deserved  reward  of  a  well  spent  life  is  an  honored  retirement  from 
business  in  which  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  former  toil.  To-day,  after  a  useful 
and  beneficent  career,  Mr.  Campbell  is  quietly  living  at  his  beautiful  home 
in  Richmond,  surrounded  by  the  comforts  that  earnest  labor  has  brought  ta 
him.  He  is  a  prominent  citizen  of  this  section  of  Indiana,  and  the  splendid 
accomplishments  of  his  life  should  serve  to  encourage  others  who  must  look 
to  themselves  for  the  prosperity  which  they  may  enjoy.  The  story  of  the 
founders  of  this  nation  and  that  of  the  Revolutionary  forefathers  are  interest- 
ing, not  only  from  a  historical  standpoint,  but  also  as  a  source  of  inspiration 
and  encouragement.  Yet  we  need  not  look  to  the  past:  the  present  fur- 
nishes man^  examples  worthy  of  emulation  in  the  men  who  have  risen 
through  their  own  efforts  to  positions  of  prominence  and  importance  in  pro- 
fessional, political,  mercantile  and  industrial  circles.  To  this  class  belongs 
Thomas  Campbell. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  331 

He  was  born  in  Center  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  13th  of  January, 
1817,  and  is  a  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Parsons)  Campbell.  His 
father  was  accidentally  killed  in  February,  1820,  leaving  the  responsibility  of 
rearing  a  large  family  of  children  to  the  mother,  who  with  great  fortitude 
assumed  the  task  and  bent  every  energy  to  the  faithful  discharge  of  her 
duties.  As  soon  as  the  children  were  old  enough  they  began  to  earn  their 
own  living  and  thus  relieved  the  burden  that  rested  upon  the  mother.  When 
a  lad  of  fourteen  summers  Thomas  Campbell  started  out  in  life  for  himself, 
and  served  a  seven-years  apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's  trade.  Daring 
that  time  he  attended  school  for  six  months  only.  After  attaining  his 
majority  he  continued  to  follow  carpentering  for  seven  years  more  in  Center 
county,  and  then,  in  1845,  left  Pennsylvania  for  Indiana.  Locating  in 
Richmond,  he  soon  afterward  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  of  J.  M. 
Hutton  &  Company,  with  whom  he  remained  until  1849,  when  the  firm  was 
changed  to  A.  Gaar  &  Company.  He  worked  as  a  pattern-maker  and  con- 
tinued his  connection  with  the  latter  firm  until  1876,  first  as  employe  and 
afterward  as  partner.  He  discharged  the  duties  assigned  to  him  in  a  most 
prompt,  faithful  and  efficient  manner,  and  accordingly  won  promotion  from 
time  to  time.  His  salary  being  accordingly  increased,  he  invested  his  earn- 
ings in  the  business  until  he  became  one  of  the  heaviest  stockholders  in  the 
mammoth  concern.  He  continued  his  connection  therewith  until  1876, 
when,  having  acquired  an  ample  fortune,  he  laid  aside  business  cares  and 
retired  to  private  life.  The  policy  of  the  company  was,  and  is,  a  commend- 
able one.  All  transactions  have  ever  been  conducted  on  strict  business 
principles,  and  the  trust  of  those  with  whom  they  have  had  dealings  has  been 
unequivocally  given.  In  the  establishment  there  has  been  retained  a  large 
number  of  employes,  who  have  been  the  more  faithfully  devoted  to  their 
work  because  they  have  known  that  fidelity  to  duty  would  at  the  proper  time 
v/m  recognition. 

On  the  27th  of  March,  1851,  Mr.  Campbell  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  Gaar,  daughter  of  Jonas  Gaar,  deceased.  They  have  three 
children:  Howard,  a  director,  treasurer  and  general  manager  of  Gaar,  Scott 
&  Company;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  George  R.  Williams,  ex-clerk  of  the  circuit 
court  of  Wayne  county;  and  William  Herschel,  who  is  acting  as  assistant  to 
his  brother. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  always  courteous,  kind  and  affable,  and  those  who  know 
him  personally  have  for  him  high  regard.  A  man  of  great  natural  ability, 
his  success  in  business  from  the  beginning  of  his  residence  in  Richmond  has 
been  uniform  and  rapid.  As  has  been  truly  remarked,  after  all  that  may  be' 
done  for  a  man  m  the  way  of  giving  him  early  opportunities  for  obtaining  the 
requirements  which  are  sought  in  the  schools  and  in  books,  he  must  essen- 


?32  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

tially  formulate,  determine  and  give  shape  to  liis  own  character;  and  this  is 
what  Mr.  Campbell  has  done.  He  has  persevered  in  the  pursuit  of  a  definite 
purpose  and  has  gained  a  most  satisfactory  reward.  His  life  is  exemplary  in 
all  respects  and  he  has  ever  supported  those  interests  which  are  calculated 
to  benefit  and  uplift  humanity,  while  his  own  high  moral  worth  is  deserving 
of  the  highest  commendation. 

JOHN  H.    HUTTON. 

In  the  death  of  John  H.  Hutton,  in  1S78,  Richmond  and  Indiana  lost 
one  of  their  most  prominent  and  highly  respected  citizens.  As  the  day,  with 
its  morning  of  hope  and  promise,  its  noontide  of  activity,  its  evening  of  com- 
pleted and  successful  efforts,  ending  in  the  grateful  rest  and  quiet  of  the 
night,  so  was  the  life  of  this  honored  man.  His  career  was  a  long,  busy  and 
useful  one.  He  was  the  founder  and  promoter  of  many  enterprises  which 
advanced  the  material  welfare  of  the  state  and  added  as  well  to  his  individual 
prosperity,  but  although  an  earnest  business  man,  devoting  his  whole  daily 
time  and  attention  to  the  further  development  of  his  industrial  interests,  he 
never  allowed  the  pursuit  of  wealth  to  warp  his  kindly  nature,  but  preserved 
his  faculties  and  the  warmth  of  his  heart  for  the  broadening  and  helpful 
influences  of  human  life,  being  to  the  end  a  kindly,  genial  friend  and  gentle- 
man with  whom  it  was  a  pleasure  to  meet  and  converse. 

A  native  of  Marj'land,  he  left  his  home  near  New  Market,  that  state,  and 
came  to  Richmond  at  an  early  period  in  the  history  of  this  city.  He  was 
among  the  early  settlers  of  the  town,  and  at  once  became  a  potent  factor  in 
its  substantial  development  and  improvement.  In  1836  Isaac  Jones  began 
the  manufacture  of  stoves  here,  and  three  years  later,  in  1839,  sold  his 
foundry  to  John  H.  and  Jesse  M.  Hutton,  brothers,  who  enlarged  and 
renovated  the;  establishment,  and  called  it  the  Spring  Foundry.  In  1841 
they  constructed  the  first  threshing  machine  ever  made  in  Indiana,  it  being 
of  the  style  known  as  the  "chaff  piler. "  They  carried  on  a  constantly 
increasing  business  until  1849,  when  they  sold  out  to  what  is  now  Gaar, 
Scott  &  Company  All  the  members  of  the  Gaar  family  of  the  older  genera- 
tion worked  for  the  Hutton  Brothers,  and  eventually  purchased  the  foundry, 
which  has  grown  into  one  of  the  most  extensive  concerns  in  the  world.  For 
a  number  of  years  thereafter  our  subject  and  his  brother  engaged  in  conduct- 
ing a  general  iron  store,  under  the  firm  name  of  J.  M.  &  J.  H.  Hutton. 

Our  subject  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Eaton  &  Hamilton 
Railroad  Company,  and  was  made  its  president.  This  company  built  the 
first  railroad  into  Richmond,  the  line  extending  from  Cincinnati  to  Eaton, 
and  thence  to  Richmond.  Its  importance  to  the  city  cannot  be  overesti- 
mated, and   Mr.  Hutton  deserved  honorable  recognition  for  what  he  did  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  nm 

that  and  in  other  directions  tosvard  promoting  the  welfare  and  progress  of 
Wayne  county.  He  was  a  man  of  resourceful  business  ability,  of  sound  judg- 
ment and  keen  discrimination,  and  carried  forward  to  successful  completion 
whatever  he  undertook,  brooking  no  obstacles  that  could  be  overcome  by 
honorable  effort.  He  was  engaged  in  the  nursery  business,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Railsbach  &  Hutton,  for  a  number  of  years,  but  retired  therefrom  in 
1865.  Later  he  was  associated  with  his  son  in  the  manufacture  of  woolen 
hosiery,  carrying  on  that  enterprise  until  his  death.  His  excellent  business 
and  executive  ability  won  him  marked  success,  and,  though  the  architect  of 
his  own  fortunes,  he  builded  wisely  and  well. 

Mr.  Hutton  was  thrice  married.  He  wedded  Margaret  Malsby,  and  to 
them  was  born  one  child,  Rebecca,  now  the  wife  of  Walter  Cole,  of  Hartford 
county,  Maryland.  The  mother  died,  and  Mr.  Hutton  afterward  wedded 
Anna  Evans,  who  died  in  1S53,  and  his  third  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Sarah  Evans.  By  the  second  marriage  there  were  two  children  who  grew  to 
mature  years:  Albert  R.,  who  resides  in  Richmond,  and  is  special  agent  for 
the  Central  Union  Telephone  Company;  and  Noah  H.,  who  is  also  a  promi- 
nent business  man  of  Richmond,  and  manager  of  the  Centra!  Union  Telephone 
Company. 

In  his  political  adherency  in  early  life  Mr.  Hutton  was  a  Whig,  and  on 
the  dissolution  of  that  party  he  joined  the  ranks  of  the  new  Republican  party, 
with  which  he  affiliated  until  his  death.  He  was  very  zealous  in  its  support, 
believing  earnestly  in  its  principles,  and  on  its  ticket  was  again  and  again 
elected  county  commissioner,  continuing  in  that  office  to  the  entire  satisfac- 
tion and  approbation  of  the  public  until  he  declined  to  serve  longer.  Through 
the  long  years  of  his  residence  in  Richmond  he  was  ever  true  to  the  trust 
reposed  in  him,  whether  of  a  public  or  private  nature,  and  his  reputation  in 
business  circles  was  unassailable.  He  commanded  the  respect  of  all  by  his 
upright  life,  and  engraved  his  name  indelibly  on  the  pages  of  Wayne  county's 
historv. 

GEORGE  W.   WARD. 

This  well  known  farmer  of  Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana, 
was  born  on  a  farm  adjoining  the  one  he  now  owns  and  occupies,  October 
II,  1830,  his  parents  being  David  G.  and  Eleanor  (La  Fuze)  Ward.  Mrs. 
Ward  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  La  Fuze.  David  G.  Ward  was  born  at 
Madisonville,  Ohio,  a  son  of  New  Jersey  parents,  Stephen  and  Mary 
(Gunung)  Ward,  who  came  from  their  eastern  home  to  the  Western  Reserve 
in  early  life  and  in  1815  moved  over  into  Indiana,  settling  on  the  farm  on 
which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born.  Here  they  spent  the  closing 
years  of  their  lives  and  died,  each  reaching  a  ripe  old  age,  he  being  ninetj-- 
two  at  the  time  of  death  and  she  eighty-eight.     They  had  two  sons  and  one 


^34  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

•daughter,  namely:  Silas,  who  spent  the  whole  of  his  life  on  the  home  farm, 
and  who  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-two  years;  David  F. ,  the  lather 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  Laomi,  who  was  the  wife  of  John  G.  I,eon- 
ard,  of  Union  county. 

David  G.  Ward  lived  in  Union  county  until  1852,  when  here  moved  to 
Madison  county.  Later  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Montgomery  county  and 
still  later  he  moved  to  Thorntown,  this  state,  where  he  still  lives,  at  this 
writing  being  in  his  ninety-second  year.  In  his  active  life  he  was  a  farmer, 
merchant  and  miller.  He  was  in  the  dry-goods  business  in  Liberty,  Indiana, 
in  1837,  afterward  erected  a  mill  on  Hanna's  creek,  which  he  operated  for  a 
time,  and  from  milling  returned  to  farming.  He  had  twelve  children,  of 
-whom  si.\  are  still  living,  George  Washington,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
being  the  only  one  now  living  in  Union  county. 

George  Washington  Ward  in  his  youth  learned  the  blacksmith  trade, 
but  never  followed  it  as  a  business.  In  1855  he  went  to  Montgomery  county, 
Indiana,  where  he  lived  two  years,  after  which  he  came  to  his  present  farm 
in  Center  township,  Union  county.  He  purchased  the  greater  part  of  this 
farm,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  acres,  in  1872,  and  three  years  later,  in 
1S75,  built  his  present  residence.  He  has  carried  on  generall  farming,  rais- 
ing grain  and  stock  and  giving  special  attention  to  fine  hogs,  e.xhibiting  his 
thoroughbred  stock  at  the  local  fairs. 

Mr.  Ward  is  a  public-spirited  man  and  has  always  been  active  in  promoting 
the  general  welfare  of  the  people  of  his  county.  He  served  six  years  as  county 
commissioner,  having  been  first  elected  in  1876.  His  political  faith  is  that 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  frequently  he  has  served  his  party  as  delegate 
to  conventions.  For  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
•copal  church  at  Liberty  and  is  a  trustee  of  the  same. 

Mr.  Ward  was  married  February  14,  1852,  to  Miss  Eleanora  Heaven- 
ridge,  of  Union  county,  who  died  in  1868.  October  7,  1869,  he  married 
Miss  Martha  J.  McCreary,  of  Union  county,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Williams)  McCreary,  both  now  deceased.  The  children  of  his  first  wife  are 
Samuel,  of  Liberty,  Indiana;  George,  of  Union  county;  Lucy  and  Laura, 
twins,  the  latter  the  wife  of  David  Girt,  of  Mount  Comfort,  Indiana;  the 
former,  wife  of  Frank  Hamilton,  died  in  Missouri;  Addie,  unmarried,  lives 
with  an  uncle  in  Boone  county,  Indiana;  Mollie,  wife  of  Samuel  Flanningan, 
resides  in  Montgomery  county,  Indiana.  The  children  of  his  second  marriage 
are  Retta,  wife  of  Bert  Shriner,  of  Liberty,  Indiana;  and  Bessie,  Grace  and 
David,  at  home. 

Mr.  Ward  is  a  member  in  good  standing  of  the  Masonic  order,  with 
which  he  has  been  identified  for  a  period  of  thirty  years. 

Of  Mrs.  Ward's   father,  John    McCreary,  we  record  that  he  was  born. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  335 

reared  and  married  in  Warren  county,  Ohio.  In  1833  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  Indiana,  settling  in  Union  county  on  a  farm  that  is  now  owned  by 
Mr.  Ward.  On  this  farm  they  both  hved  until  old  age,  and  both  died  in 
Center  township,  he  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years  and  she  at  eighty.  In 
their  family  were  five  children,  viz.:  Almira,  widow  of  Samuel  Borden,  of 
■Campbell  county,  Kentucky;  Mary,  wife  of  Charles  Paddock,  died  in  1895; 
Cynthia  Ann,  wife  of  Samuel  Duvall,  is  a  resident  of  Liberty,  Indiana; 
Martha,  wife  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  Sarah,  wife  of  Alexander 
Beard,  Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana. 

ISAAC  C.   DOAN. 

One  of  the  pioneer  families  of  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  was  that  which  now 
finds  a  worthy  representative  in  Richmond,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  in  the 
person  of  Isaac  C.  Doan.  Both  he  and  his  ancestors  have  belonged  to  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  have  exemplified  in  their  daily  lives  the  noble  prin- 
•ciples  of  kindness,  peace,  justice  and  benevolence.  Whatever  has  been  con- 
ducive to  the  peace  and  permanent  welfare  of  this,  their  native  land,  they 
have  earnestly  supported,  and  for  the  most  part  they  have  led  quiet,  pastoral 
•lives,  in  direct  communion  with  nature. 

Born  near  Wilmington,  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  November  26,  1837,  Isaac 
■C.  Doan  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Eliza  (Carpenter)  Doan,  who  were  of 
English  and  Welsh  descent  respectively.  The  father  was  a  son  of  Josiah 
and  grandson  of  John  Doan,  both  of  whom  were  residents  of  North  Carolina, 
the  former  born  in  Guilford  county,  that  state,  in  1759.  There  he  married 
Jemima  Vestal,  and  some  years  afterward  he  removed  with  his  family  to 
Clinton  county,  Ohio,  where  he  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers.  He  took  up 
a  tract  of  land  in  the  forest,  and  often  hunted  panthers,  bears,  deer  and  other 
game  on  the  present  site  of  Wilmington.  He  died  May  28,  1838,  and  all  of 
his  nine  children  also  are  deceased.  They  are  named  as  follows:  William, 
Thomas,  Jesse,  Jacob,  Jonathan,  Elisha,  Joseph,  Rachel  and  Elizabeth. 

Joseph  Doan,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Guilford  county, 
North  Carolina,  in  1794,  and  was  a  lad  of  ten  years  when  he  came  to  the 
north.  Arrived  at  maturity,  he  bought  a  farm  situated  three  miles  to  the 
,-northwest  of  Wilmington,  and  there  he  reared  his  children.  For  his  day,  he 
was  a  man  of  good  education,  and  for  a  number  of  years  he  taught  success- 
>fully  in  the  local  schools.  He  was  a  natural  mathematician,  and  having 
learned  the  principles  of  surveying  he  was  employed  to  some  extent  in  that 
■  calling.  At  times  he  worked  as  a  stone  and  brick  mason,  and  as  a  carpenter 
he  was  likewise  an  adept,  building  many  of  the  houses  and  barns  in  his  sec- 
tion of  the  county.  With  these  diverse  interests  he  did  not  neglect  his  farm, 
-which  he  cleared  and  greatly  improved.      His  homestead  comprised  one  hun- 


336  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

dred  and  thirty  acres.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  he  commenced  life  a  poor 
bo}-,  his  success  was  truly  remarkable,  and  his  influence  in  his  community 
was  always  exerted  for  the  good  of  his  neighbors.  He  was  a  strong  Whig, 
and  when  the  Republican  party  was  organized  he  enrolled  his  name  under  its 
banner.  Loved,  admired  and  looked  up  to  by  all  who  knew  him,  he  at 
length  received  the  summons  to  the  better  land,  his  death  occurring  March 
I,  1 86 1.  In  the  Friends  church  he  was  a  zealous  member  from  boyhood, 
and  in  later  life  was  an  elder  and  preacher.  Of  the  ten  children  born  to 
himself  and  wife,  Eliza,  all  grew  to  maturity  save  Edward,  the  eldest  son, 
who  was  killed  by  a  falling  tree  when  he  was  ten  years  of  age.  The  other 
children  are  as  follows:  Mrs.  Phcebe  Timberlake,  who  lives  near  Wilming- 
ton, Ohio;  Nathan  and  Thomas,  deceased;  Jacob,  of  Santa  Clara  county, 
California;  M.  Jemima,  wife  of  Dr.  Edwin  Hadley,  of  Richmond;  Mary  and 
Joseph,  deceased;  and  Isaac  C.  and  Elizabeth,  of  Richmond.  Thomas  offered 
up  his  life  to  his  country,  dying  after  four  years  of  hard  and  active  service  in 
the  defense  of  the  union.  For  one  year  he  was  captain  of  a  company  in  the 
Twelfth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  later  he  was  a  lieuten- 
ant-colonel and  brevet  colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  First  Indiana. 

Reared  in  the  parental  home  and  educated  in  the  elemental y  branches 
of  learning  in  the  vicinity,  Isaac  C.  Doan  then  pursued  the  higher  branches 
of  the  sciences  and  languages  in  Earlham  College,  at  Richmond,  and  was  in 
his  junior  year  when  the  civil  war  broke  out.  He  enlisted  in  Conipanj-  B, 
Fortieth  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  September  17,  1861,  as  a  private  and 
served  for  three  years  and  twenty-two  days,  being  discharged,  near  Atlanta, 
October  7,  1864.  During  the  last  year  of  his  army  life  he  was  sergeant  and 
clerk  to  the  adjutant-general  at  brigade  headquarters.  Among  the  numerous 
battles  in  which  he  participated  were  Middle  Creek  (Kentucky),  Franklin, 
Tullahoma,  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge,  Buzzards" 
Roost,  Snake  Creek  Gap,  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Dalton,  Resaca,  Kingston, 
Altoona,  Pinetop  Mountain,  Kenesaw,  New  Hope  Church,  Chattahoochie, 
Peach  Tree  Creek,  storming  of  Atlanta  and  the  engagements  at  Jonesboro  and 
Lovejoy  Station.  During  the  engagement  at  Chickamauga,  on  Sunday  after- 
noon his  regiment  lost  forty-five  per  cent,  of  their  men  in  killed  and  wounded, 
and  Mr.  Doan  received  a  slight  injury  to  his  ankle.  He  was  very  activelj' 
engaged  in  the  famous  storming  of  Lookout  Mountain  and  Mission  Ridge,  and 
participated  in  the  whole  Atlanta  campaign,  which  included  many  decisive 
battles.  For  seventeen  days  he  was  on  continuous  duty  in  front  of  Kenesaw, 
and  often  for  weeks  at  a  time  he  was  under  almost  constant  fire  of  the  enemy. 

Returning  home,  Mr.  Doan  came  to  Richmond  early  in  1866,  and  has 
since  been  a  citizen  of  this  place.  For  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  con- 
tracting and  building,  but  for  thirty  years  he  has  been   in  the  tire  and  life 


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insurance  business,  and  now  represents  twelve  of  the  leading  companies  in  the 
United  States.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has  acted  in  the  capacit}'  of 
a  notary  public,  and  has  transacted  a  large  amount  of  business  for  the  public. 
In  politics  he  has  been  a  stanch  Republican  since  he  became  a  voter,  and  in 
1 894  and  in  1 898  he  was  his  party's  candidate  for  the  county  clerkship  of  this 
county,  to  which  he  was  elected  November  8,  1898.  Fraternally  he  belongs 
to  Sol  Meredith  Post.  No.  55,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of  which  he  is 
past  commander;  Richmond  Lodge,  No.  196,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
King  Solomon's  Chapter,  No.  4,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Woodward  Lodge,  No. 
.212,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  Encampment  No.  28  of  the- 
same  order.  Religiously  he  adheres  to  the  Friends'  faith,  as  has  previously 
been  stated. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Doan  was  solemnized  in  1865,  when  Miss 
Matilda  Macy  became  his  bride.  Their  only  surviving  child  is  Mary  Yeo,  of 
St.  Louis.  Mr.  Doan's  present  wife,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  1886,  was 
formerly  Miss  Miriam  Allen,  of  this  cit)'.  Two  children  were  born  to  them, 
of  whom  Marguerite  C.  survives. 

DAVID  RIEGEL. 

The  most  enduring  monument  which  can  be  erected  to  the  memor\"  of 
loved  ones  is  not  made  of  marble  or  granite,  for  time,  alas!  crumbles  these 
away;  and,  precious  as  are  the  cherished  memories  in  the  hearts  of  friends, 
within  a  few  years  these  associates  will  be  sleeping  in  the  silent  churchyard. 
Naught  endures  save  the  written  record,  the  page  glowing  with  the  records 
of  the  noble  life  and  kindly  deeds, — these  alone  hand  down  to  generations  of 
the  future  the  history  of  the  past,  of  the  hardy  pioneers  whose  brave  patriot- 
ism and  undaunted  hearts  paved  the  way  to  prosperity  and  civilization. 

One  of  the  manly,  respected  citizens  of  Union  county  was  David  Riegel, 
whose  birth  occurred  in  Brownsville  township,  December  31,  1838,  and  who, 
after  a  life  filled  with  kindly  acts  and  laborious  enterprises,  passed  to  his 
reward,  April  25,  1896.  He  was  one  of  the  eight  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Gushwa)  Riegel,  who  were  early  settlers  in  Brownsville  township,  and  came 
to  this  section  from  Pennsylvania  about  18 18.  They  resided  at  their  home- 
stead in  Philomath  thenceforward  until  death,  the  father  dying  when  about 
sixty  and  the  mother  at  eighty-four  years  of  age.  The  latter  was  a 
member  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  for  the  e.xtrernely  long  period 
of  sixty-seven  years.  Their  son  John  lives  upon  a  farm  in  Christian  county, 
Illinois,  and  Jacob  is  a  farmer  of  Barton  county,  Kansas.  A  daughter,  Mar- 
garet, married  John  Plankenhorn,  of  Wayne  county,  this  state,  and  both  are 
deceased.  Susan  and  her  husband,  Moses  ICidwell,  are  also  both  deceased. 
Sarah,   widow  of  Jacob   Plessinger,  resides  on   the   old   Riegel   homestead. 


338  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Mar}',  who  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Young,  died  in  Missouri;  and  Lydia, 
widow  of  Henry  McCasliland,  Hves  in  Wayne  county,  this  state. 

On  the  5th  of  June,  1861,  David  Riegel  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Cleven- 
ger,  who  was  born  near  Centerville,  Wayne  county,  July  16,  1842,  and  sur- 
vives her  husband.  Four  years  after  their  marriage  they  removed  from  the 
farm  near  Philomath,  where  they  had  thus  far  dwelt,  to  the  George  Idefarm, 
one  and  a  fourth  miles  up  the  river  from  Brownsville.  This  place  they  had 
purchased,  and  here  their  happy  home  was  made  for  many  years.  The 
house,  standing  on  a  fine,  high  bluff  rising  from  the  Whitewater  river,  com- 
mands an  extensive  view  of  the  valley  which  the  river  traverses,  and  is  situ- 
ated on  one  of  the  most  picturesque  sites  in  that  locality.  The  farm,  a  place 
of  one  hundred  and  seventy-two  acres,  is  one  of  the  most  fertile  and  pro- 
ductive ones  in  the  alluvial  valley,  and  here  Mr.  Riegel  raised  all  kinds  of 
grain  and  various  other  crops,  and  became  noted  for  the  large  numbers  of 
cattle  and  hogs  which  he  raised  and  fed.  One  year  he  sold  one  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  sixty  dollars'  worth  of  hogs  alone.  In  addition  to  this  place 
he  owned  what  is  known  as  the  John  Black  farm,  opposite  Yankeetown,  a 
place  of  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  acres;  and  this  he  rented.  He  made 
numerous  valuable  improvements  on  his  farms  and  kept  everything  in  fine 
'Condition. 

He  was  an  excellent  financier,  and  it  was  one  of  his  firmest  principles  to 
keep  out  of  debt;  and  after  his  death  it  was  found  that  only  one  bill,  of  five 
'dollars,  was  outstanding, — a  truly  remarkable  and  commendable  thing.  After 
■he  had  spent  many  years  in  hard,  unremitting  labor,  he  concluded  that  he 
was  entitled  to  take  life  a  triife  easier,  and  he  bought  a  neat  home  in  Browns- 
ville. It  was  on  the  19th  of  March,  1896,  that  he  moved  from  the  farm,  and 
about  a  month  later,  April  25,  the  summons  of  death  came  to  him.  He  had 
always  enjoyed  remarkably  good  health,  was  a  fine-appearing  man,  with 
scarcely  a  gray  hair,  and  until  his  last  illness  had  never  required  the  services 
of  a  physician.  In  religious  views  he  was  in  harmony  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  and  for  several  years  was  connected  with  the  denomina- 
tion. Politically  he  was  a  stanch  Democrat.  In  1873  he  joined  the  Masonic 
order,  and  was  widely  and  favorably  known  in  the  fraternity,  as  he  frequently 
visited  lodges  in  various  places  and  for  twelve  years  was  senior  warden  of  his 
home  lodge.  He  was  buried  under  the  auspices  of  the  Masons  in  Doddridge 
•  cemetery,  in  Wayne  county.  A  handsome  monument,  the  most  beautiful  in 
'design  and  workmanship  of  any  in  the  cemetery,  was  erected  to  his  memory 
iby  his  widow,  who  for  thirty-five  years  had  shared  his  joys  and  sorrows,  and 
had  proved  herself  a  true  helpmate. 

Mrs.  David  Riegel  is  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Spahr)  Cleven- 
ger.      The  father,  who  was  born  in  1810,  in  Ohio,  came  to  this  state  when  a 


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lad  of  eleven  years  and  from  that  time  until  his  death,  in  1881,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-one,  he  lived  in  Wayne  county.  His  widow  survived  until  Sep- 
tember, 1895,  when  she,  too,  passed  to  the  better  land,  aged  eighty-two  years. 
She  has  made  her  home  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Riegel,  for  about  eight 
years.  She  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  had  been  brought  to  Wayne 
county,  Indiana,  as  early  as  1814,  and  had  witnessed  all  the  development  of 
that  region.  Her  father,  John  Spahr,  gave  to  each  of  his  six  children  two 
hundred  acres,  and  she  had  lived  on  her  property  all  of  her  long  life,  save 
the  last  eight  years.  Her  family  were  noted  for  longevity,  three  of  her 
brothers  and  sisters  reaching  more  advanced  age  than  she. 

Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Riegel  his  widow  has  managed  the  estate  with 
marked  ability  and  enterprise.  Not  only  has  she  made  many  substantial  and 
valuable  improvements  on  her  property,  but  she  has  also  bought  another  farm, 
of  sixty  acres,  and  has  judiciously  beautified  her  village  home.  Years  ago 
she  was  .so  unfortunate  as  to  lose  over  two  thousand  dollars  of  the  money 
left  her  by  her  father,  it  being  bank  stock  which  was  involved  in  the  Coffin 
bank  failure  in  Richmond,  Indiana.  Since  she  was  thirteen  years  old  she 
has  been  a  faithful  and  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  and  takes  great  interest  in  its  welfare.  Recently  she  gave  four  hun- 
dred dollars  to  the  Brownsville  church, — the  funds  invested  in  real  estate, 
and  the  interest  on  the  same  to  go  toward  the  pastor's  salary;  and  in  addi- 
tion to  this  she  donated  a  new  organ  to  the  church.  As  she  had  no  chil- 
dren of  her  own,  she  opened  her  heart  and  home  to  two  children,  caring  for 
them  until  they  were  grown.  The  son,  John  Gear,  whom  she  adopted  when 
he  was  six  years  old,  was  killed  by  the  cars,  at  Liberty,  four  years  ago.  The 
little  girl,  who  became  a  member  of  the  household  at  thirteen  years  of  age, 
was  Hattie  Foster,  now  the  wife  of  Jacob  Riegel,  nephew  of  David  Riegel. 

GEORGE  W.   STEVENSON. 

Among  the  citizens  of  Richmond  to  whom  is  vouchsafed  an  honored 
retirement  from  labor,  as  the  reward  of  a  long,  active  and  useful  business 
career,  is  George  W.  Stevenson,  who,  through  an  extended  period,  was 
prominently  connected  with  the  agricultural  interests  of  Wayne  county.  He 
was  born  in  Boston  township,  this  county,  November  29,  1821,  his  parents 
being  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Martin)  Stevenson.  The  family  is  of  English 
descent  on  the  paternal  side.  The  grandfather,  George  Stevenson,  was  born 
near  Baltimore,  Maryland,  August  18,  1757,  and  was  a  son  of  Joseph  and 
Rachel  Stevenson,  who  also  were  natives  of  that  state.  He  and  five  of  his 
brothers  served  in  one  company  in  the  colonial  army,  under  General  Wash- 
ington, and  were  loyal  patriots  who  valiantly  aided  in  the  war  for  independ- 
ence.     George  Stevenson  was  reared  in  Maryland,  and  there  wedded  Sarah 


340  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Cropper,  January  6.  1782.  The  lady  was  born  in  the  same  state,  November 
24,  1763,  was  of  Scotch  descent,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Vincent  and  Hannah 
Cropper.  In  1807  George  and  Sarah  Stevenson  came  to  Indiana,  locating 
in  what  is  now  Boston  township,  Wayne  county.  The  former  died  August 
31,  1828,  and  the  latter  passed  away  February  20,  1830.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  namely:  Vincent,  Rachel,  Joseph,  George,  Sarah, 
James,  Levi  and  Thomas.  All  were  born  in  Maryland  and  came  to  Indiana 
with  their  parents,  the  journey  being  made  by  stage. 

Joseph  Stevenson,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  the  third  in  order  of 
birth,  and  was  born  June  2,  1786.  He  was  married  in  Wayne  county,  Sep- 
tember 12,  181 1,  to  Sarah  Martin,  a  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Mary  Martin, 
who  came  to  Wayne  county  in  1806.  In  18 12  the  father  entered  from  the 
government  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  comprising  the  northeast 
quarter  of  section  30,  Boston  township.  He  was  an  associate  judge  and 
held  other  positions  of  responsibility  and  trust.  He  was  also  a  mmister  of 
the  regular  Baptist  cfjurch,  and  one  of  the  organizers  of  that  denomination 
in  Wayne  county.  His  death  occurred  August  13,  1826,  and  he  lies  buried 
near  the  old  Elkhorn  church,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders.  He  was 
a  strong  abolitionist,  and  it  was  his  hatred  of  slavery  that  prompted  his 
removal  from  Maryland.  He  afterward  wrote  a  book  against  it,  and  at  all 
times  used  his  influence  to  further  the  principles  of  freedom.  He  continued 
his  ministerial  labors  in  connection  with  the  work  of  the  farm,  and  his  influ- 
ence for  good  was  most  potent  among  the  early  pioneers  of  Wayne  county. 
In  public  affairs  he  was  also  a  leading  factor,  aided  in  the  organization  of  the 
county,  and  was  one  of  its  first  officers.  He  had  four  children:  James,  a 
minister  of  the  Baptist  church;  Sarah,  Samuel  and  Elizabeth. 

In  the  development  and  improvement  of  the  wild  lands  of  this  locality 
Joseph  Stevenson,  father  of  our  subject,  bore  his  part,  carrying  on  agri- 
cultural pursuits  in  Boston  township  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1837,  at  the  age  of  fifty-one  years.  In  those  early  days  he  also 
hauled  produce  to  Cincinnati  and  brought  back  merchandise  for  Richmond 
business  men.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig,  as  was  his  father  and  his  father- 
in-law,  and  in  religious  belief  was  a  Baptist,  taking  an  active  part  in  the 
work  of  the  church  to  which  he  belonged.  He  reared  a  large  family,  of 
whom  two  sons  and  three  daughters  are  now  living. 

Of  this  number  George  W.  Stevenson  is  a  representative.  He  was 
reared  on  the  old  farmstead,  and  on  entering  upon  his  business  career  chose 
the  occupation  to  which  he  devoted  his  energies  in  his  youth.  He  became 
the  owner  of  some  valuable  land,  in  Boston  township,  which  he  placed  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation,  transforming  it  into  rich  and  fertile  fields.  He 
also  engaged  quite  extensively  in  stock-raising,  making  a  specialty  of  cattle. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  341 

but  also  raising  some  horses.  He  is  an  excellent  judge  of  stock,  and  in  both 
branches  of  his  business  he  met  with  good  success.  He  is  still  the  owner  of 
a  valuable  farm  of  two  hundred  acres,  in  Boston  township,  from  which  he 
derives  a  good  income.  At  one  time  he  engaged  in  merchandising  in  Ran- 
dolph county  for  two  jears  and  for  a  similar  period  in  Boston  township,  but 
never  left  the  old  homestead  until  November,  1883,  when  he  removed  to  No. 
1 3 14  East  Main  street,  Richmond,  where  he  has  since  resided.  His  energy 
and  enterprise,  capable  management  and  honorable  dealings  had  brought  to 
him  a  comfortable  competence,  and  therefore  he  put  aside  all  business  cares 
to  rest  in  the  enjoyment  of  the   fruits  of  his  former  toil. 

On  the  14th  of  March,  1844,  Mr.  Stevenson  wedded  Mary  A.  Burk,  of 
Boston  township,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  Burk,  and  he  now  has  a 
family  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters  living.  One  son,  Joseph,  owns  and 
conducts  a  livery  and  sale  stable  at  Nos.  14-17  South  Seventh  street,  where 
he  has  been  located  since  1889.  He  is  the  sole  owner  and  is  enjoying  a  very 
liberal  patronage.  He  also  conducts  a  transfer  business,  and  his  enterprise 
and  industry  are  bringing  to  him  a  most  desirable  success.  Another  son, 
James  W.,  of  Roseville,  Warren  county,  Illinois,  is  superintendent  of  the 
city  water  works,  is  an  expert  electrician,  and  owns  a  half  interest  in  the 
electric-light  plant  there. 

In  his  early  life  Mr.  Stevenson  gave  his  political  support  to  the  Whig 
party,  and  on  its  dissolution  became  a  stanch  Republican.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  unwavering  in  his  support  of  Republican  principles  and  does  all 
in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  insure  the  success  of  his  party.  He 
has  filled  most  of  the  township  offices, — was  township  trustee  of  Boston  town- 
ship for  six  or  seven  years,  and  was  justice  of  the  peace  for  one  term  of  four 
years.  He  has  ever  discharged  his  duties  in  a  prompt  and  faithful  manner, 
thus  winning  the  commendation  of  all  concerned.  He  is  now  a  trustee  of 
the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Richmond,  and  for  nearly  half  a 
century  has  been  connected  with  that  denomination.  He  labors  earnestly  for 
its  advancement  and  exemplifies  in  his  life  its  teachings.  His  reputation  in 
business  has  ever  been  unassailable  and  in  all  the  walks  of  life  he  is  found 
true  to  duty  and  to  the  trust  reposed  in  him. 

BENJAMIN  HILL. 
Benjamin  Hill,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Dearborn,  now 
Wayne,  county,  Indiana,  September  23,  1809.  His  parents  were  natives  of 
Randolph  county,  North  Carolina.  His  father,  Benjamin  Hill,  Sr. ,  was 
born  June  22,  1770,  and  was  of  English  descent.  In  early  manhood  he 
married  Mary  Jessup.  Their  children  were  John,  who  died  in  Rush  county, 
Indiana;  Sarah,    wife   of    Jehosaphat    Morris;    Jacob,    who    died    in    Henry 


342  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

county,  Indiana;  William,  who  died  in  Rush  county;  Joseph,  who  died  in 
Boone  county,  Indiana,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years;  and  Mary,  who  was  the 
wife  of  Richard  Haworth,  and  died  in  Kansas. 

In  1802  Benjamin  Hill,  Sr.,  removed  with  his  family  to  Carroll  county, 
Virginia,  and  in  the  autumn  of  1S06  became  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  of 
Indiana,  locating  in  the  midst  of  the  unbroken  forest,  about  three  miles  east 
of  the  present  city  of  Richmond.  There  the  family  suffered  all  the  hard- 
ships and  privations  incident  to  frontier  life,  and  also  bore  a  prominent  and 
active  part  in  the  work  of  development  and  progress.  Not  long  after  their 
arrival  in  Wayne  county  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Hill  died,  and  he  afterward 
married  Martha  Cox,  who  was  born  November  28,  1779,  and  came  to 
Indiana  in  1807  with  her  mother  and  two  sisters.  One  sister,  Jane  Cox, 
married  John  Harvey  and  lived  near  Centerville.  The  other  sister,  Mary 
Cox,  became  the  wife  of  John  Small.  The  mother  resided  with  her  daughter 
Martha  until  her  death.  The  children  of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Hill  were 
Benjamin,  our  subject;  Harmon,  who  lived  near  Richmond,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  sixty-seven  years;  Rebecca,  who  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Newby, 
and  died  in  early  womanhood;  Ezra,  who  lived  in  Wayne  township,  Wayne 
county,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years;  and  Enos,  who  is  the  only 
surviving  member  of  the  family,  his  home  being  near  Richmond.  For  many 
years  in  the  pioneer  epoch  in  the  history  of  Wayne  county  Benjamin  Hill, 
Sr.,  was  extensively  engaged  in  farming,  and  also  built  the  flour  and  saw  mill 
east  of  Richmond,  long  known  as  Hill's  Mills.  He  was  a  life-long  orthodox 
Quaker,  and  died  February  9,  1829,  in  his  fifty-ninth  year;  while' his  wife, 
Martha  Hill,  passed  away  January  25,  1867,  in  the  eighty-eighth  year  of 
her  age. 

Benjamin  Hill,  our  subject,  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life  carried  on 
agricultural  pursuits.  He  married  Sarah  Hoover,  daughter  of  David 
Hoover,  and  soon  afterward  removed  to  a  fine  farm,  three  miles  east  of 
Richmond,  where  he  resided  for  almost  half  a  century,  conducting  his  busi- 
ness affairs  with  such  energy  and  judgment  that  he  won  a  handsome  com- 
petence. In  connection  with  his  brothers  he  carried  on  the  mill  built  by 
their  father  until  in  1839  he  located  on  the  homestead  farm,  the  greater 
part  of  which  he  cleared  of  the  native  forest  trees.  He  first  owned  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  but  added  to  his  possessions  until  within  the 
boundaries  of  his  farm  were  comprised  two  hundred  and  thirty  acres.  He 
also  acquired  other  valuable  real  estate.  He  was  for  a  time  connected  with 
his  brother  Ezra  in  the  ownership  and  operation  of  a  large  fiouring-mill 
north  of  Richmond.  A  very  energetic,  enterprising  and  honorable  business 
man,  he  carried  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertook, 
and  his  labors  were  crowned  with  prosperity.      He  gave   his  political  support 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  848 

to  the  Republican  party  from  its  organization  until  1872,  when  he  cast  his 
ballot  for  Horace  Greeley,  and  later  advocated  Democratic  principles.  He 
always  kept  well  informed  on  the  issues  of  the  day,  and  could  give  a  good 
reason  for  his  political  faith.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  from 
early  manhood,  was  a  Knight  Templar,  a  member  of  Richmond  Commandery, 
No.  8,  and  several  years  previous  to  his  death  he  became  a  Scottish-rite 
Mason.  He  continued  to  live  on  the  homestead  until  in  August,  1888,  he 
went  to  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  on  a  visit  to  a  son  and  daughter  residing 
there,  and  after  a  few  days'  sickness  died,  September  12,  1888.  His  remains 
were  brought  home  and  buried  in  the  Hoover  cemetery  by  the  side  of  his 
wife,  who  had  died  August  i,   1885. 

Their  children  were:  First,  David  H.,  who  married  Gertrude  Tullidge, 
in  early  manhood  taught  school  and  later  was  bookkeeper  for  his  father  and 
uncle  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1873  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Rich- 
mond, and  afterward  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace,  which  office  he  accept- 
ably filled  for  ten  years.  He  was  a  man  of  great  information  and  sound 
judgment,  .and  consequently  was  qualified  for  almost  any  position  in  life. 
In  1887  he  removed  to  a  farm  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  where  he  died  Sep- 
tember 2,  1896,  in  the  fifty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  had  been  a  Mason 
for  many  years  and  was  a  Knight  Templar,  a  member  of  Richmond  Com- 
mandery, No.  8,  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  widow  and  four  children — 
Marguerite,  Benjamin  T. ,  Rudolph  and  Alice — reside  in  Richmond.  The 
second  child  of  our  subject,  Martha  E.,  is  the  widow  of  Mordecai  Perry  and 
lives  in  Richmond.  Albert  G.,  the  third,  married  Lydia  Moore,  of  Wayne 
township,  and  resides  on  a  fine  farm  three  miles  east  of  Richmond;  they 
have  two  children — Fred  R.,  of  New  York  city,  and  Sarah  D.,  a  student  at 
Earlham  College.  Henry  L.,  the  fourth,  married  Cora  Garwood,  of  Wayne 
township,  and  is  a  real-estate  and  insurance  agent  of  Minneapolis,  Minne 
sota;  they  have  one  son,  Eugene  G.  Anna  C. ,  the  fifth,  is  a  widow,  resid- 
ing in  Richmond;  she  has  two  sons — George  W.  and  Paul  E.  Fisher. 
George  W.,  the  sixth,  married  Mary  Scheid,  of  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and 
lives  on  the  old  homestead;  they  have  two  children  —  ^^yron  W.  and  Cath- 
erine Esther. 

ALBERT  DAVIS, 

This  well  known  attorney-at-law  of  Liberty,  Union  count}',  is  a  worthy 
representative  of  two  old  and  honored  families  of  Franklin  county,  Indiana. 
The  Davis  family  were  originally  natives  of  Scotland,  and  prior  to  1720  some 
of  the  name,  ancestors  of  our  subject,  settled  in  the  United  States.  His 
paternal  grandfather,  Samuel  Davis,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  from 
that  state  removed  to  Butler  county,  Ohio,  about  1814,  making  the  trip  as 
far  as  Cincinnati  on  a  flat-boat.      One   of  his  children,  born   in    180Q,  is  still 


844  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

living.  About  1835  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Franklin  county,  Indiana, 
and  there  made  his  abode  during  the  remainder  of  his  life,  his  death  occur- 
ring when  he  was  nearly  four-score  years  old.  He  was  a  well-to-do  farmer 
and  owned  considerable  property. 

Lewis  Davis,  father  of  Albert  Davis,  was  born  in  Butler  county,  Ohio, 
in  1S19,  and  grew  up  in  the  wilds  of  Franklin  county,  this  state.  Here  he 
married  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Hannah  Craft,  whose  settlement 
in  the  town  of  Bath,  Franklin  county,  dated  back  to  1827  or  1828.  They 
were  Quakers,  thrifty  and  prosperous,  as  the  people  of  that  sect  usually  are. 
Mr.  Craft,  a  man  of  wide  information  for  his  day,  died  when  he  was  past 
eighty  years  of  age.  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Davis  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  came 
to  this  state  when  she  was  a  child.  Soon  after  their  marriage  she  and  her 
husband  came  to  Union  county  and  lived  upon  a  farm  near  Biilingsville  up  to 
1872,  when  they  removed  to  Liberty.  Here  Mr.  Davis  embarked  in  a  new 
enterprise.  He  purchased  a  ten-acre  tract  of  beautiful,  rolling  prairie  and 
laid  out  the  ground  as  a  cemetery.  He  beautified  the  spot  with  plants  and 
trees,  winding  drives  and  walks,  and  expended  over  ten  thousand  dollars  in 
carrying  out  his  plans.  This  burial  ground,  known  as  the  West  Point  cem- 
etery, has  been  favored  by  the  citizens  of  this  locality,  and  for  the  past 
twenty-three  years  has  been  chosen  by  the  majority  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
town  as  a  place  in  which  to  lay  away  their  dead.  Mr.  Davis  was  thoroughly 
interested  in  his  enterprise  and  for  years  was  his  own  superintendent,  attend- 
ing to  everything  about  the  grounds.  It  has  passed  into  the  possession  of 
his  son  Albert  since  his  death.  In  addition  to  the  cemetery  he  owned  con- 
siderable real  estate  in  the  town  and  neighborhood.  Active  as  a  Republican, 
he  attended  conventions  of  the  party  and  was  especially  interested  in  politics 
during  the  troublous  war  times.  For  three  years  he  served  in  the  capacity 
of  county  commissioner.  He  died  October  12,  1885,  honored  and  respected 
by  all  who  knew  him,  and  is  survived  by  his  widow,  now  a  well  preserved 
lady  of  seventy-six  years.  She  is,  as  was  her  husband,  a  Universalist  in 
religious  views,  and  were  identified  with  the  liberal  church. 

Albert  Davis,  born  in  Bath,  Franklin  county,  February  13,  1849, 
remained  on  a  farm  until  he  attained  his  majority.  Always  fond  of  his 
books,  he  resolved  that  come  what  might  he  would  have  an  excellent  educa- 
tion. After  leaving  the  common  schools  he  took  a  two-year  course  in 
Brookville  College  and  subsequently  pursued  a  scientific  course  in  the  Indiana 
State  University  at  Bloomington,  graduating  there  with  the  degree  of  Bache- 
lor of  Science  in  the  class  of  1875.  He  then  entered  upon  the  study  of  law 
and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  the  Centennial  year  in  the  State  Univer- 
sity. While  in  college  he  was  identified  with  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  Society  and 
has  since  been   a   member  of   the   Alumni   Association.      After   he  had   been 


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admitted  to  the  bar  Mr.  Davis  practiced  in  Wabash  county  for  two  years 
and  then  married  and  went  to  Red  Cloud,  Nebraska,  where  he  owned  an 
interest  in  a  sheep  ranch.  Returning  to  this  state,  he  settled  in  Liberty 
and  has  here  built  up  a  large  and  paying  practice.  From  1887  to  1891  he 
was  clerk  of  the  courts  and  made  a  good  record  for  efficiency  and  zeal 
in  the  discharge  of  his  varied  duties.  He  has  often  attended  conven- 
tions of  his  party,  the  Republican,  sometimes  as  a  delegate  from  his  own 
community,  and  for  si.x  years  he  was  associated  with  the  Lincoln  League. 
He  has  passed  all  the  chairs  in  the  Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of  Pythias 
societies,  and  in  the  order  first  named  has  been  district  deputy  and  a  member 
of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state.  Following  the  teachings  of  his  parents,  he 
is  a  Universalist  in  religion. 

September  25,  1879,  Mr.  Davis  married  Miss  Alice  M.  Hasson,  of 
Dayton,  Campbell  couuty,  Kentucky,  and  a  native  of  Harrison,  Ohio.  A 
son  and  two  daughters  bless  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis.  Alice 
Hasson  is  now  pursuing  her  studies  in  the  Liberty  high  school;  Albert,  Jr., 
and  Mary  H.  are  also  attending  the  local  schools;  and  all  of  the  number  are 
bright,  promising  young  people,  of  whom  their  parents  may  be  justly  proud. 

J.    M.   VAN   METER. 

This  well  known  resident  of  Cambridge  City  is  one  of  Indiana's  native 
sons,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Blooming  Grove,  Franklin  county,  March 
2.  1847.  His  parents,  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Skinner)  Van  Meter,  natives  of 
Virginia,  were  among  the  very  early  settlers  of  Indiana,  the  former  becoming 
a  pioneer  of  Fayette  county  in  18 14,  and  the  latter  locating  in  Fayette  county 
in  1S18.  After  their  marriage  they  settled  in  Franklin  county,  where  they 
were  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  for  many  years.  The  father  died  in 
1893,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-five  years. 

J.  M.  Van  Meter  was  reared  on  the  old  homestead  near  Blooming  Grove, 
Franklin  county,  and  early  in  life  he  developed  a  talent  for  mechanics  and 
everything  connected  with  machinery.  For  several  years  he  was  employed 
as  a  pattern-maker  with  the  Terre  Haute  (Indiana)  Car  Works.  In  1872  he 
came  to  this  city,  where  he  has  since  remained,  and  for  twenty-three  years  he 
worked  at  the  machinist's  trade,  his  accustomed  vocation.  In  1895,  when 
the  Cambridge  City  water-works  were  established,  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  plant,  in  the  capacity  of  engineer,  and  as  such  has  served  acceptably 
until  the  present  time.  He  thoroughly  understands  his  business  and  is 
unquestionably  the  right  man  for  the  place. 

In  November,  1874,  Mr.  Van  Meter  married  Lizzie,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander and  Jane  (Harvey)  Ray,  both  of  whom  are  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Van  Meter  have  five  children,   namely:     Lillian  I.,    Myrtle  M.,    Bessie  R., 


346  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Shiloh  and  Jeannette.  Socially  Mr.  Van  Meter  belongs  to  Cambridge  City 
Lodge,  No.  5,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  to  Cambridge  Lodge,  No.  9, 
Knights  of  Pythias.  Years  ago  he  was  a  charter  tnember  of  Terre  Haute 
Lodge,  No.   18,  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Terre  Haute,  Indiana. 

RICHARD  JACKSON. 

For  many  years  Richard  Jackson  occupied  a  very  conspicuous  place 
among  the  leading  business  men  of  Richmond.  He  was  prominently  con- 
nected with  the  commercial  and  industrial  interests  of  the  city,  and  through 
the  channels  of  trade  contributed  not  alone  to  his  individual  prosperity,  but 
to  the  welfare  of  Wayne  county  as  well.  His  career  was  that  of  an  honor- 
able, enterprising  and  progressive  business  man,  whose  well-rounded  character 
also  enabled  him  to  take  an  active  interest  in  educational,  social  and  moral 
affairs,  and  to  keep  well  informed  concerning  the  momentous  questions 
affecting  the  welfare  of  the  nation.  In  all  life's  relations  he  commanded  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  and  the 
memory  of  his  upright  life  is  an  inspiration  to  the  many  friends  who  knew  him 
well  and  were  familiar  with  his  virtues. 

Mr.  Jackson  was  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  ancestors  emigrating  from  Scot- 
land to  the  north  of  Ireland,  whence  our  subject  came  to  America.  Andrew 
Jackson,  president  of  the  United  States,  and  Judge  Jackson,  of  the  supreme 
court  of  West  Virginia,  were  of  the  same  family.  Richard  Jackson,  the 
father  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle  and  spent  his  entire 
life  in  the  vicinity  of  Belfast.  He  was  a  gentleman  farmer  and  had  a  large 
landed  estate,  known  as  "The  Parke,"  located  in  close  pro.ximity  to  the 
city.  He  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  prominence,  and  was  also  widely  known 
throughout  the  country  side  as  a  magistrate. 

Richard  Jackson,  who  is  the  subject  of  this  memoir,  was  born  on  his 
father's  estate,  April  11,  1827,  and  in  1841,  being  of  an  adventurous  and 
enterprising  spirit,  left  his  native  land  at  the  early  age  of  fourteen  years 
and  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  America,  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  New  World, 
of  whose  privileges  and  advantages  he  had  heard  much.  He  spent  several 
years  in  New  York,  where  he  was  first  employed  as  messenger  and  errand 
bo}'  and  afterward  as  salesman  in  a  dry-goods  establishment  in  New  York 
and  Brooklyn.  Thus  he  obtained  a  thorough  and  practical  knowledge  of  the 
business  which  he  afterward  prosecuted  so  successfully  on  his  own  behalf. 
This  period  of  his  life  was  one  of  hardship  and  privation,  but  he  met  his  lot 
with  courage  and  fortitude,  and  in  his  more  prosperous  days  he  referred  to  it 
as  having  been  a  useful  discipline  in  forming  the  habits  of  industry,  self- 
reliance  and  self-denial  so  essential  to  success  in  life. 

In  1844  his  family  came   from    Ireland   and   took    up   their    residence  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  347 

Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  soon  afterward  joined  them.  Before  attaining 
his  majority  he  was  soon  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  business  on  his  own 
account  in  that  city,  and  prosecuted  his  labors  with  great  energy  and  suc- 
cess. Subsequently  he  removed  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  carried  on  busi- 
ness for  a  time  and  thence  came  to  Richmond  in  1855.  Here  he  founded  the 
extensive  dry-goods  establishment  known  as  the  New  York  Cash  Store,  which 
was  the  first  house  conducted  upon  a  strictly  cash  system  in  the  city.  It 
proved  satisfactory,  however,  and  by  his  unremitting  attention  to  business, 
his  frank  and  genial  manner  and  honorable  dealing,  he  commanded  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  entire  community,  which  he  continued  to  enjoy 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  His  efforts,  however,  were  not  confined  to  one 
line  of  trade,  and  he  carried  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he 
undertook.  In  1876,  in  connection  with  others,  he  organized  the  piano  com- 
pany, now  known  as  the  Starr  Piano  Company,  of  Richmond,  and  was  its 
secretary  and  treasurer  at  the  time  of  his  death.  By  his  able  management 
of  finances  he  succeeded  in  placing  it  upon  a  substantial  and  paying  basis, 
and  making  it  one  of  the  leading  manufacturing  interests  of  the  city.  He 
further  improved  the  city  by  the  erection  of  several  large  and  important  build- 
ings, and  at  all  times  took  an  active  interest  in  and  gave  encouragement  to 
any  movement  or  enterprise  that  contributed  to  the  welfare  of  Richmond  or 
Wayne  county. 

In  September,  1851,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Mr.  Jackson  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Anna  M.  Knott,  with  whom  he  lived  in  the  closest  bonds  of 
affection  and  sympathy  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  They  had  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  survive  him.  He  was  devotedly  attached  to 
his  family,  finding  his  greatest  pleasure  in  their  society,  and  the  chief  object 
of  all  his  care  and  labor  was  to  contribute  to  their  comfort  and  happiness  and 
to  provide  his  children  with  good  educational  privileges,  thus  fitting  them  for 
lives  and  of  usefulness.  The  children  are:  L.  B.,  who  is  engaged  in  oil 
speculation  in  Pittsburg,  where  he  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  L.  B.  Jackson 
&  Company;  Mrs.  Joseph  Ruffner,  of  Charleston,  West  Virginia;  R.  A.,  a 
prominent  attorney  of  Richmond;  Malcolm,  an  able  and  leading  lawyer  of 
Charleston,  West  Virginia;  and  Mrs.  Abigail  Needham,  of  Richmond. 

In  social  circles  Mr.  Jackson  was  always  most  genial  and  companion- 
able. With  him  friendship  was  inviolable,  and  his  attachment  to  his  friends 
was  very  strong.  He  delighted  to  extend  to  them  the  hospitality  of  his  own 
fireside,  and  his  home  became  the  center  of  a  cultured  society  circle.  No 
one  ever  came  in  contact  with  him  without  catching  somewhat  of  the  inspira- 
tion of  his- kindly  nature.  His  kindness  of  heart  was  shown  not  only  by 
words  of  sympathy  but  by  acts  of  unostentatious  benevolence.  In  business 
circles  he  was  noted  and  respected  for  his  great  industry,  energy,  punctuality 


848  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

and  his  honorable  and  systematic  methods, — all  of  which  contributed  to  a 
large  success,  which  he  richly  deserved.  Few  men  were  more  familiar  with 
questions  of  national  importance,  and  he  manifested  an  intelligent  and  dis- 
criminating interest  in  public  affairs.  During  his  residence  in  Indianapolis 
he  joined  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  continued  to  be  a 
member  until  his  death.  He  had  a  firm  belief  in  the  truths  of  revealed 
religion,  and  in  consequence  death  had  no  terror  for  him.  His  reverence  for 
age  was  a  part  of  his  religion.  He  never  passed  an  aged  acquaintance  with- 
out lifting  his  hat  in  respectful  recognition,  and  rejoiced  at  every  opportunity 
thus  afforded  him  of  paying  this  deference.  He  was  a  man  of  splendid  phys- 
ique and  vigorous  constitution,  and  he  enjoyed  excellent  health  until  near 
his  death.  His  last  days  were  spent  in  his  beautiful  home  on  Linden  Hill, 
Richmond,  and  there  he  closed  his  eyes  in  death  February  i6,  1881.  The 
entire  community  mourned  his  loss,  for  he  was  a  man  of  incalculable  worth 
to  Richmond.  A  prominent  representative  of  commercial  interests,  a  popu- 
lar factor  in  social  life,  a  faithful  friend,  a  kind  husband  and  father  and  a 
consistent  Christian,  he  left  behind  him  an  untarnished  record.  His  widow 
still  survives  him,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two,  and  occupies  the  old  home  on 
Linden  Hill. 

WILLIAM  S.   DEMPSEY,   M.   D. 

At  an  early  da}-  the  ancestors  of  the  subject  of  this  narrative  came  to 
the  United  States  from  Ireland.  His  father,  James  A.  Dempsey,  was  born 
in  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  in  1810,  and  grew  to  manhood  there.  He  then 
went  to  Hocking  county,  Ohio,  where  he  made  his  home  until  1852,  then 
going  to  Indianapolis,  and  a  year  afterward  he  became  a  permanent  resident 
of  Richmond.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and  gunsmith  by  trade,  which  occupa- 
tions he  followed  much  of  his  life,  and  at  one  time  he  was  considered  quite 
well-to-do.  From  his  youth  he  was  a  great  student  of  the  classics  and  stand- 
ard authors,  and  he  possessed  an  unusually  extensive  and  well  selected 
library.  Fraternally,  he  was  a  Mason.  His  long  and  happy  life  was  brought 
to  a  close  on  the  31st  of  December,  1890,  when  he  was  in  his  eighty-first 
year.  His  widow,  whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Smith,  was  likewise  a 
native  of  the  Keystone  state,  and  she  is  still  living  in  Richmond,  now  in  her 
seventy-eighth  year. 

Dr.  William  S.  Dempsey  is  one  of  six  children,  five  of  whom  were  sons. 
He  was  born  November  9,  1839,  and,  following  in  his  father's  footsteps,  he 
was  extremely  fond  of  books  even  as  a  boy.  By  the  time  he  was  fifteen  he 
had  read  and  studied  most  of  the  classics,  and  ancient  and  modern  history. 
This  was  chiefiy  accomplished  by  the  light  of  tallow  candles,  and  many  a 
night  the  young  student  read  until  two  o'clock   in   the  morning,  then   to  rise 


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at  an  early  hour  and  work  all  day!  He  has  always  retained  his  literary  taste, 
and  has  frequently  written  articles  for  the  papers,  upon  various  topics.  His 
style  is  incisive  and  sarcastic  at  times,  and  always  entertaining,  straight  to 
the  point  and  not  too  diffuse. 

In  August,  1862,  at  Richmond,  Dr.  Dempsey  enlisted  in  the  Union  army, 
as  a  private  in  Company  I,  Eighty-fourth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  He 
served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  and  was  with  the  Fourth  Army  Corps,  in 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  the  numerous  engagements  in  which  it  par- 
ticipated, but  was  never  wounded  nor  taken  prisoner.  When  his  country  no 
longer  had  need  of  his  services  he  was  honorably  discharged.  His  brother, 
Joseph  P.,  was  a  sacrifice  on  the  altar  of  patriotism,  as  he  was  killed  June 
22,  1863,  while  making  a  gallant  charge  on  the  works  at  Vicksburg. 

Dr.  Dempsey  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  M.  W.  Hobbs,  of  Richmond; 
Indiana,  and  later  was  graduated  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Cincinnati,  in  1873.  Then,  establishing  an  office  in  Indianapolis,  he 
remained  in  that  city  until  1879,  in  the  meantime  acting  as  physician  of  the 
county  jail,  and  under  the  appointment  of  the  State  Medical  Association  he 
was  placed  in  charge  of  the  hospital  ward  of  the  State  Orphan  Asylum,  and 
served  there  for  several  years.  Since  1879  he  has  lived  chiefly  in  Richmond, 
but  has  spent  short  periods  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  Watertown,  Minne- 
sota. Formerly  he  was  actively  associated  with  the  county  and  state  med- 
ical societies,  and  for  many  years  he  has  been  especially  successful  in  surgical 
cases.  He  has  always  taken  deep  interest  in  all  humanitarian  societies  and 
movements,  and  has  frequently  delivered  lectures  on  professional  subjects, 
and  on  intemperance,  considered  from  the  physician's  point  of  view.  He 
belongs  to  the  Humane  Society,  of  Richmond,  being  a  trustee  in  that  organi- 
zation, and  in  connection  with  this  he  holds  the  position  of  county  truant 
officer. 

The  pleasant  and  attractive  home  of  Dr.  Dempsey  is  gracefully  presided 
over  by  his  wife,  Mary  E. ,  the  only  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Israel  Tennis, 
of  Richmond,  whose  history  will  be  found  following  this  article.  The  mar- 
riage of  Dr.  Dempsey  and  wife  was  solemnized  in  this  city,  September  14, 
1891.  Here,  where  they  have  so  long  been  citizens,  they  are  held  in  the 
highest  regard  by  their  innumerable  friends. 

ISRAEL  TENNIS,  M.  D. 
One  of  the  widely  known  and  loved  pioneer  physicians  of  Wayne  county 
was  Dr.  Israel  Tennis,  whose  life  was  filled  with  good  deeds  and  labors  of 
love  toward  his  fellows.  In  the  early  days  of  his  professional  career  he  was 
obliged  to  spend  much  of  his  time,  day  and  night,  in  riding  through  the  coun- 
try to  visit  his  patients,  many  of  whom  lived  on  remote  farms,  and  faithfully 


350  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

did  he  respond  to  all  demands  from  sick  and  suffering  humanity,  regardless  of 
storm  and  flood  and  his  own  health  and  comfort. 

Dr.  Tennis  was  born  July  19,  1805,  in  Lebanon  county,  Pennsylvania, 
and  early  life  he  removed  to  Ohio.  There  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine 
with  Dr.  Williams,  of  Milford,  and  in  1833  he  was  graduated  in  the  Ohio 
Medical  College  at  Cincinnati.  The  same  yearhe  established  himself  in  prac- 
tice at  Elizabethtown,  Ohio,  remaining  there  until  1842,  when  he  removed  to 
Centerville,  then  the  county-seat  of  Wayne  county.  Later  he  located  in 
Keokuk,  Iowa,  but  returned  to  this  state  in  the  autumn  of  1857,  and  from 
that  time  until  he  retired  he  was  actively  engaged  in  professional  work  in 
Richmond.  In  1883,  just  half  a  century  subsequent  to  his  entrance  upon  his 
arduous  life  labors,  he  retired,  and  three  years  afterward,  February  2,  1886, 
he  received  the  summons  to  the  silent  land.  The  Wayne  County  Medical 
Association  long  numbered  him  among  its  most  valued  members,  and  he  was 
considered  an  authority  in  many  departments  of  medical  research  and  prac- 
tice. A  most  zealous  and  beloved  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  he  held  the  office  of  trustee  for  a  long  period,  and  was  ever  faithful 
to  the  cause  of  Christianity,  exemplifying  its  precepts  in  his  daily  life. 

For  fifty-one  years  Dr.  Tennis  and  his  devoted  wife  were  sharers  of 
each  other's  joys  and  sorrows,  and  five  children,  four  sons  and  a  daughter 
{Mrs.  Dempsey),  were  born  to  them.  The  mother,  whose  maiden  name  had 
been  Mary  E.  Pyle,  was  a  resident  of  Elizabethtown,  Ohio,  at  the  time  of  her 
marriage,  which  event  took  place  April  14,  1835.  She  survived  her  husband 
a  few  years,  and  was  called  to  her  reward  March  24,  1891. 

ALEXANDER  WOOD. 

Though  a  native  of  Ireland,  born  January  8,  1827,  Alexander  Wood 
resided  in  Indiana  from  the  time  that  he  was  three  months  old  until  hisdeath, 
and  a  more  patriotic  American  citizen  it  would  be  difficult  to  find.  His 
parents,  William  and  Sarah  Wood,  upon  coming  to  this  state  settled  on  a 
farm  near  Philomath,  Union  county,  and  there  he  spent  his  boyhood. 

When  he  attained  his  majority  our  subject  rented  land  for  two  years 
near  the  John  Burke  farm  in  Harrison  township.  In  1865  he  bought  the  old 
homestead  now  in  possession  of  his  son,  William  L.,  a  fine  place  of  two 
hundred  and  ninety-five  acres,  then  known  as  the  Wyatt  farm,  and  to  this  he 
afterward  added  the  Baldwin  property,  comprising  one  hundred  acres,  and 
the  Bradbury  farm,  which  joined  his  own  and  contained  one  hundred  and 
forty-five  acres.  Finally  he  became  the  owner  of  two  farms,  aggregating 
three  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres,  one  of  which  farms  wassthe  original 
estate  of  his  father,  William  Wood,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  daughter  of  our 
subject,  Mrs.  Richard  McMullen.      Prior   to  his  death   he  gave  his  son  one 


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hundred  and  fortj--five  acres,  and  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Daniel  Cully,  he  pre- 
sented the  Ed.  Hughes  store  in  Liberty.  About  thirty  years  ago  he  erected 
the  handsome  brick  residence  which  stands  on  his  homestead,  at  a  cost  of 
about  fourteen  thousand  dollars.  In  all  his  business  transactions  he  was 
enterprising,  alert,  and  generally  successful,  ar-.d  in  the  early  years  of  his 
active  career  he  was  extensively  engaged  in  th  t  raising  and  shipping  of  live 
stock. 

In  1856  occurred  the  marriage  of  Alexander  Wood  and  Miss  Melinda 
Laur,  of  Fayette  county.  She  survives  him  and  is  now  living  in  Liberty. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  had  three  children,  namely  :  Gertrude,  now  the  wife  of 
Richard  McMuUen,  who  lives  in  Fayette  county  ;  Harriet  Cully,  who  resides 
with  her  mother  ;  and  William  Leven. 

In  1 891  Mr.  Wood  removed  to  the  town  of  Liberty,  where  he  made  his 
home  for  a  year  and  a  half.  Death  came  to  him  July  5,  1893,  as  the  result 
of  injuries  received  by  him  in  falling  from  a  cherry-tree.  From  his  youth 
he  had  been  a  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  for 
years  was  an  active  worker  in  Wood's  chapel.  Subsequently  to  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Republican  party  he  was  zealous  in  the  support  of  its  principles 
and  on  two  occasions  he  was  honored  by  election  to  the  office  of  county 
commissioner,  and  as  such  served  acceptably  for  two  terms.  In  all  of  the 
varied  relations  of  life  he  was  honorable,  sincere  and  trustworthy,  winning 
the  praise  and  admiration  of  all  who  were  associated  with  him  in  any 
manner. 

WILLIAM   L.   WOOD. 

William  L.  Wood  is  the  owner  and  manager  of  the  Woodland  Heights 
Stock  Farm,  a  beautiful  and  attractive  homestead,  situated  in  Brownsville 
township.  Union  county.  It  is  the  birthplace  of  the  young  man,  who  was 
'born  here  March  28,  1866,  and  who  has  spent  nearly  his  entire  life  in  this 
immediate  locality. 

From  his  early  years  Mr.  Wood  has  been  very  fond  of  fine  horses,  and 
for  several  years  he  has  given  his  chief  attention  to  the  breeding  and  training 
of  high-class  animals.  He  has  owned  as  many  as  forty-five  at  one  time,  the 
number,  of  course,  varying  with  the  number  sold  at  his  sales,  which  show  a 
demand  for  his  stock  at  high  prices.  Woodland  Boy  is  at  the  head  of  the 
stud.  This  justly  celebrated  horse  has  a  record  of  2:09|,  made  at  Danville, 
Illinois,  when  a  five-year-old,  and  as  a  three-year-old  his  record  was  2:i9|. 
In  the  "free-for-all"  races  at  Danville  he  won  a  purse  of  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. The  sire  of  Woodland  Boy,  Gusto,  made  the  same  record,  2:19^,  on 
the  same  track,  at  three  years  of  age,  and  the  dam,  Daisy  Mack,  a  pacer,  has 
a  record  of  2:25.      She  is  still  owned  by  Mr.  Wood,  who  possesses  a  number 


352  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  other  fine  mares.      Mulatto,  a  beautiful  horse  belonging  to  the  stud,  has  a 
record  of  2:21;    and  Gale,  a  pacer,  has  a  record  of  2:24^. 

On  the  7th  of  October,  1891,  William  L.  Wood  married  Miss  Ida 
McKay,  and  they  have  two  daughters:  Mildred  and  Margaret.  The  father 
of  Mrs.  Wood,  William  McKay,  was  the  contractor  for  the  new  court-house 
at  Liberty.  Mrs.  Wood  is  a  lady  of  excellent  educational  and  social  attain- 
ments, and  both  she  and  her  husband  have  many  sincere  friends  in  this  part 
of  the  county. 

JOHN  C.   SHIRK. 

In  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century  a  young  man  of  Switzerland 
started  for  the  New  World.  His  birth  had  occurred  in  the  land  of  the  Alps, 
and  the  child  had  been  given  the  name  of  Caspar  Shirk.  Having  attained  to 
man's  estate  he  married,  and  with  his  wife  and  young  son  took  passage  on  a 
westward-bound  sailing  vessel  for  America.  Ocean  voyages  in  those  days 
were  fraught  with  great  danger.  Adverse  winds  impeded  the  progress  of  the 
little  boat  on  which  they  were  passengers,  and  they  \Vere  so  long  delayed 
that  the  ship's  food-supply  gave  out  and  they  were  reduced  almost  to  starva- 
tion. The  hardships  of  the  voyage  proved  too  great  for  the  wife,  and  she 
died  on  shipboard,  being  buried  in  the  "  mad  Atlantic."  The  young  husband 
then  took  his  little  son  Andrew  and  in  sadness  made  his  way  to  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  established  a  home.  Some  time  afterward  he  remarried,  and  had 
a  large  family. 

The  boy,  Andrew  Shirk,  grew  to  manhood  and  was  the  great  grandfather 
of  our  subject.  He  was  born  in  Switzerland,  September  7,  1753,  and  died 
at  the  home  of  his  son  Samuel,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  four  months 
and  seven  days.  In  his  early  manhood  he  was  fired  with  a  patriotic  zeal  to 
aid  his  adopted  country  in  her  struggle  for  independence,  and  enlisted,  in 
Pennsylvania,  as  a  member  of  the  Colonial  army.  He  participated  in  the 
Carolina  campaign  under  the  distinguished  General  Greene,  and  there 
received  the  wound  which  cost  him  years  of  suffering  and  eventually  termi- 
nated his  life.  After  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  and  the  cessation  of  hostil- 
ities, he  took  up  his  residence  near  Augusta,  Georgia,  where  he  married 
Martha  Hamilton,  by  whom  he  had  eight  children,  namely:  John,  David, 
Andrew,  Joseph,  Samuel,  Isaac,  Nancy  and  Martha.  There  being  no  mail 
across  the  mountains  in  those  days,  he  was  unable  to  communicate  with  his 
parents  and  soon  lost  all  trace  of  them.  After  some  years  he  emigrated  with 
his  family  to  Kentucky,  traveling  with  a  caravan,  the  members  of  which  were 
mostly  mounted  on  horses.  Two  of  the  children,  David  and  Samuel  Shirk, 
the  latter  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  being  quite  small,  were  carried  in 
baskets  hanging  over  a  pack-saddle  on  the  same  horse,  and  Samuel  Shirk 
said  that  he  never  forgot  the  terror  with  which  his  childish  heart  was  filled 


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as  he  gazed  from  his  position  on  his  horse  down  into  the  gulches,  hundreds 
of  feet  below.  On  account  of  his  strong  opposition  to  slavery,  Andrew  Shirk 
remained  but  a  short  time  in  Kentucky.  On  horseback  he  made  his  way  to 
Cincinnati,  then  a  small  trading  post  of  not  more  than  twenty  inhabitants, 
and,  refusing  an  offer  of  ten  acres  of  land,  in  what  is  now  the  heart  of  the 
Queen  City,  for  his  horse,  he  journeyed  north  to  the  big  Miami  river,  where 
he  remained  for  a  time  near  the  old  Colerain  fort.  Later  he  removed  from 
Ohio  to  Indiana,  which  was  then  an  almost  unbroken  wilderness  and  yet  a 
territory.  About  the  year  1810  he  entered  land,  afterward  known  as  the  old 
Ries  farm,  and  his  initials  are  still  to  be  seen  carved  in  an  old  tree  which 
still  stands  near  the  home  of  Rev.  Thurston.  His  wife  died  November  15, 
1820,  and  his  death  occurred  several  years  later.  He  was  a  zealous  Chris_ 
tian  man,  at  all  times  true  and  upright. 

His  son,  Samuel  Shirk,  the  grandfather  of  John  C.  Shirk,  of  this  review, 
was  born  near  Augusta,  Georgia,  August  25,  1792,  and  died  September  5, 
1859.  He  was  married  August  28,  18 15,  to  Elizabeth  Stout,  whose  father. 
Job  Stout,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  served  as  an  aide-de- 
camp on  the  staff  of  General  Washington,  and  was  present  at  the  surrender 
of  Lord  Cornwallis,  at  Yorktown.  Prior  to  his  marriage  Samuel  Shirk  had 
entered  eighty  acres  of  land  and  had  built  a  log  cabin,  to  which  he  took  his 
bride.  The  little  home  was  filled  with  happiness,  although  toil  and  priva- 
tions fell  to  their  lot.  Mr.  Shirk,  with  the  aid  of  his  brother,  had  to  saw 
enough  lumber  with  the  old-fashioned  whipsaw  to  pay  for  his  land,  besides 
the  labor  of  getting  it  in  a  condition  to  cultivate;  but  in  the  course  of  time 
the  wild  tract  was  made  to  bloom  and  blossom  as  the  rose,  and  the  raw  land 
became  a  richly  cultivated  farm.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Big 
Cedar  Baptist  church  and  made  and  donated  the  brick  from  which  the  church 
building  was  constructed,  and  he  was  also  a  deacon  and  "singing  clerk"  in 
the  church  until  his  death.  Samuel  Shirk  served  as  county  commissioner  for 
nine  consecutive  years,  and  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  entire  people.  In 
business  affairs  his  counsel  was  often  sought  and  freely  given,  and  his  reputa- 
tion for  reliability  was  unassailable.  He  loved  study  and  sought  after 
wisdom,  often  spending  the  hours  of  the  night  in  poring  over  the  books  then 
obtainable.  His  children  took  great  delight  in  gathering  about  him  on  long 
winter  evenings  while  he  explained  to  them  subjects  otherwise  too  deep  and 
intricate  for  the  intellect  of  youth.  He  commanded  the  respect  of  all  who 
knew  him  and  was  one  of  the  most  honored  pioneers  of  Franklin  county. 

Andrew  Shirk,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was'  born  on  the  farm  entered 
by  his  father  in  Springfield  township,  Franklin  county,  September  22,  1S16, 
and  was  a  farmer  and  merchant.  He  conducted  a  store  at  Whitcomb  from 
1838  until  1843,  and  was  proprietor  of   a  store  in  Springfield  from  1856  until 


354  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

i860.  He  started  out  in  life  for  himself  empty-handed,  but  by  industry  and 
frugality  acquired  an  ample  fortune  and  became  a  large  land-owner,  having 
nine  hundred  acres  in  Springfield  and  Brookville  townships.  In  matters  of 
business  he  was  very  diligent  and  reliable,  and  was  also  a  public-spirited  and 
progressive  citizen  who  favored  good  roads  and  general  improvements  that 
would  benefit  the  community.  He  was  president  of  the  Brookville  &  Oxford 
Turnpike  Company,  was  largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  building  of  the 
railroad  to  Brookville,  and  aided  largely  in  promoting  the  general  welfare  and 
advancement  of  the  community.  Of  the  Baptist  church  he  was  long  a  faith- 
ful member,  contributing  very  liberally  to  its  support.  He  died  on  his  farm 
September  23,  1882,  and  the  county  thereby  lost  one  of  its  most  valued  and 
honored  citizens.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Wright, 
was  a  daughter  of  William  Wright,  who  was  born  in  England  and  married 
Ann  Bardsley,  in  the  parish  church  of  Manchester,  England.  In  1S17  they 
crossed  the  Atlantic  in  a  sailing  vessel,  and  at  the  end  of  a  six-weeks  voyage 
landed  on  the  shores  of  the  New  World.  They  then  made  their  way  to  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  and  in  that  locality  Mr.  Wright  purchased  a  farm,  upon  which  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Shirk,  was  born,  November  9,  1823.  In  1824  the  family 
came  to  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  locating  three  miles  east  of  Brookville, 
-where  Mr.  Wright  accumulated  considerable  property,  owning  over  five  hun- 
dred acres  of  valuable  land  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Of  the  children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Wright,  two — James  and  Ann — were  born  in  Ashton-Under-Lyne, 
a  suburb  of  Manchester,  England.  The  latter  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Dr. 
George  Berry.  Those  born  in  this  country  are  John,  Hannah,  Elizabeth, 
Sarah,  Mary  and  William.  The  father  of  this  family  had  been  a  hatter  in 
England.  Not  being  the  eldest  of  his  father's  family  he  could  not  inherit  the 
property,  and  therefore,  hoping  to  better  his  financial  condition  in  America, 
•he  came  to  the  New  World  and  here  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits.  He 
died  on  the  old  home  farm  in  Brookville  township,  Franklin  county,  in  1855, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years. 

Of  his  children,  James,  the  eldest,  became  a  prominent  farmer  and  stock- 
raiser  and  took  nearly  all  the  prizes  on  the  thoroughbred  stock  at  the  county 
fairs  in  his  locality;  Ann  was  the  wife  of  Dr.  George  Berry;  John  was  a  suc- 
cessful farmer  and  large  land-owner;  Elizabeth  was  the  wife  of  W.  W.  Butler, 
and  after  her  death  he  married  Hannah,  the  next  of  the  family,  who  became 
the  mother  of  A.  W.  Butler,  of  Indianapolis,  secretary  of  the  board  of  state 
charities;  Mary  became  the  wife  of  E.  H.  Shirk,  an  uncle  of  our  subject, 
who,  in  1844,  went  to  Peru,  Miami  county,  Indiana,  where  he  engaged  in 
merchandising,  and,  in  1863,  established  the  First  National  Bank  there,  car- 
rying on  banking  till  his  death.  They  had  four  children,  three  of  whom  are 
living,  Milton,  one  of  the  number,  being  president  of  the  bank,  while  E.  W. 


BROOKVILLE  BANK. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  a55 

is  vice-president,  and  the  sister,  Alice,  is  the  wife  of  R.  A.  Edwards,  cashier 
of  the  bank.  William,  the  youngest  member  of  the  Wright  family,  was  an 
extensive  farmer  and  stock-raiser  in  Bartholomew  county,  Indiana.  He  had 
three  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  one  of  his  sons,  Joseph  Wright,  is  a  grad- 
uate of  DePauw  University,  Columbia  University  and  the  University  of  Ber- 
lin, and  is  now  a  corporation  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Shirk  came  with  her  parents  to  Indiana  in  her  infancy  and 
was  here  reared.  By  her  marriage  to  Andrew  Shirk  she  became  the  mother 
of  nine  children:  Elizabeth,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two  years;  Elbert  H.,  a 
banker  of  Tipton,  Indiana;  Mrs.  Mary  Williams,  of  Delhi,  Ohio;  William 
W.,  a  hardware  merchant  and  vice-president  of  the  Union  National  Bank,  of 
Muncie,  Indiana;  Samuel,  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen;  Mrs.  Martha 
Goodwin,  of  Brookville;  James  A.,  cashier  of  the  Citizens' National  Bank, 
of  Delphi,  Indiana;  John  C. ,  of  this  review,  and  George  M.,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  refrigerators  in  Chicago. 

John  C.  Shirk  was  born  in  Springfield,  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  March 
14,  1858,  and  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the  public  schools.  He 
was  graduated  in  the  Indiana  University,  at  Bloomington,  this  state,  in  188 1, 
and  then  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  clerk  in  the  Brookville  Bank. 
In  1884  he  became  a  partner  in  that  institution,  his  associate  being  Charles 
F.  Goodwin,  his  brother-in-law.  The  firm  of  Goodwin  &  Shirk  continued  to 
carry  on  business  very  successfully  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Goodwin,  January 
12,  1896.  Since  that  time  Mrs.  Goodwin,  a  sister  of  our  subject,  has  owned 
the  interest  formerly  belonging  to  her  husband,  and  the  enterprise  is  con- 
ducted under  the  old  name.  It  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  reliable  finan- 
cial concerns  in  this  part  of  the  state,  and  its  constantly  growing  business 
attests  its  popularity.  Mr.  Shirk  is  also  interested  in  other  enterprises,  and 
it  is  his  custom  to  carry  forward  to  successful  completion  everything  that  he 
undertakes.  He  is  now  treasurer  of  the  A.  M.  Tucker  Furniture  Company, 
of  Brookville,  which  was  organized  in  1897;  has  been  president  of  the  Brook- 
ville Telephone  Company  since  its  organization  and  president  of  the  Brook- 
ville Business  Men's  Association. 

Mr.  Shirk  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lura  Chafee,  daughter  of 
Rev.  John  G.  Chafee,  D.D.,  now  of  Green  Castle,  Indiana,  and  the  former 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Brookville.  Eight  children 
have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shirk,  namely:  Howard  (deceased),  Charles 
A.,  Grosvenor,  Samuel,  Ellen,  Cornelia,  Chafee  W.  and  Horace  Hamilton. 
John  C.  Shirk  is  a  trustee  and  deacon  in  the  Baptist  church,  to  which  his 
father  and  grandfather  belonged,  and  is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Methodist 
church,  to  which  his  wife  belongs.  He  holds  membership  in  Penn  Lodge, 
No.  30,  I.   O.   O.    F. ;    Brookville    Camp,    No.    32,    I.   O.  O.  F. ;    Harmony 


356  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 

Lodge,  No.  II,  F.  &  A.  M.,  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  in  Indianapolis  Consistory. 
His  life  has  been  well  spent  and  his  activity  in  business  affairs  has  been 
rewarded  by  a  well  merited  competence.  He  forms  his  plans  readily,  is 
determined  in  their  execution,  is  progressive  and  resolute,  and  as  the  result 
of  his  capable  management  he  has  gained  a  place  among  the  substantial  citi- 
zens and  most  highly  esteemed  business  men  of  his  county. 

MARCUS  D.  L.  REYNOLDS. 

One  of  the  able,  representative  agriculturists  of  Webster  township, 
Wayne  county,  is  the  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch.  He  is  one 
of  the  native  sons  of  this  county,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Harrison 
township,  in  1857.  His  parents  were  Abram  and  Melissa  (Jones)  Reynolds, 
the  former  of  whom  is  still  living,  his  home  being  in  Center  township,  this 
county.  He  was  born  in  1824,  in  New  Jersey,  a  son  of  Thomas  Reynolds,  a 
ship-builder,  and  since  he  was  a  lad  of  twelve  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of 
this  state.  Mrs.  Reynolds,  who  was  born  in  1835,  a  daughter  of  Lewis 
Jones,  departed  this  life  November  12,  1891.  The  only  brother  of  our  sub- 
ject, Wallace  C,  is  a  school-teacher  and  farmer  of  Wayne  township. 

In  his  boyhood  Marcus  D.  h.  Reynolds  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  township,  and  subsequently  he  pursued  a  course  of  study  at  the 
National  Normal  School,  in  Lebanon,  Ohio.  Later  he  engaged  in  teaching 
for  about  two  years  in  Harrison  township,  taking  charge  of  his  first  school 
when  nineteen  years  of  age.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  agriculture, 
and  managed  a  farm  for  a  couple  of  years.  He  next  assumed  the  care  of 
the  old  homestead  in  Center  township,  and  in  1882  settled  at  his  present 
location,  in  the  southwest  corner  of  Webster  township.  Here  he  has  a 
finely  improved  farm  of  eighty  acres,  well  adapted  for  the  raising  of  a  gen- 
eral line  of  crops.  Good  buildings  stand  upon  the  place,  and  everything 
bears  evidence  of  the  care  and  watchful  attention  bestowed  upon  it  by  the 
owner.  He  enjoys  an  enviable  reputation  for  business  sagacity  and  upright- 
ness in  all  his  dealings,  and  one  and  all  unite  in  praise  of  his  manly,  straight- 
forward course  in  life.  He  is  a  member  of  Hoosier  Lodge,  No.  23,  Center- 
ville,  and  politically  is  associated  with  the  Prohibition  and  Democratic 
parties. 

The  marriage  of  M.  D.  L.  Reynolds  and  Miss  Annetta  Hornel  was  sol- 
emnized in  1879,  in  Wayne  county.  Mrs.  Reynolds,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
Jarvis  Hornel,  of  Jackson  township,  departed  this  life  March  27,  1892,  when 
in  her  thirty-fifth  year,  leaving  one  son,  Ralph  Thomas,  whose  birth  had 
occurred  July  29,  1884.  The  present  wife  of  our  subject  was  former!}-  Miss 
Nena  E.  Bean,  and    their  destinies  were  united    upon    the  14th  of   February, 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  357 

1894.  She  is  the  j'oungest  of  the  six  children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Evans) 
Bean,  well  known  citizens  of  Green  township,  the  father  being  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania  and  the  mother  of  Clay  township.  The  only  brother  of  Mrs. 
Reynolds,  Oliver,  is  deceased;  and  her  sisters  are  Rosalia,  wife  of  G.  W. 
Stiggleman;  Delia, wife  of  Robert  Estep;  Georgiana,  wife  of  Frank  Moorman; 
and  Mary  E.,  wife  of  Cyrus  B.  Quigg. 

ELLIS  THOMAS. 

One  of  the  leading  citizens  and  influential  business  men  of  Richmond  for 
the  past  thirty-two  years,  Ellis  Thomas,  is  now  in  his  seventy-eighth  year, 
yet  is  extremely  active  in  mind  and  body,  retaining  the  keenest  interest  in 
whatever  tends  to  promote  the  good  of  this  community,  where  he  has  lived 
so  many  years  and  is  so  thoroughly  esteemed.  A  review  of  the  chief  events 
in  his  life  and  in  the  history  of  his  family  will  prove  of  interest  to  his  hosts  of 
friends. 

He  is  the  namesake  of  his  paternal  grandfather,  Ellis  Thomas,  a  most 
worthy  man,  of  Welsh  extraction,  and  a  native  of  Greene  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  greater  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  West  Virginia,  not  far  from 
Marietta,  on  the  Ohio  river,  but  later  he  settled  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana, 
where  he  purchased  what  was  known  as  the  Stafford  farm,  about  1836  or 
1838.  He  had  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  in  his  younger  days,  but  his 
chief  attention  was  always  given  to  agricultnre.  Politically  he  was  a  stanch 
Whig,  and  religiously  he  was  an  earnest  believer  in  the  doctrines  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He  married  Phoebe  Van  Meter,  and  several 
children  blessed  their  union. 

Saul  Thomas,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Greene  county, 
Pennsylvania,  September  5,  1789,  and  was  a  small  boy  when  the  family 
removed  to  their  home  on  the  Ohio  river.  There  he  grew  to  maturity,  and 
upon  embarking  on  his  independent  career,  he  took  up  his  abode  near  New 
Madison  (then  known  as  Fort  Black),  Darke  county,  Ohio.  Subsequently  he 
dwelt  in  New  Paris,  where  his  death  occurred  in  1881,  when  he  had  attained 
the  extreme  age  of  ninety-two  years.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Darke 
county,  where  at  an  early  day  he  had  entered  land  and  cleared  a  farm,  and 
at  one  time  he  owned  three  hundred  acres  of  valuable  land  there.  For  eight 
or  ten  years  he  operated  woolen  mills  at  New  Paris,  and  in  his  various  busi- 
ness ventures  he  met  with  success.  Politically  he  was  originally  a  Whig  and 
later  a  Republican,  and  in  religion  he  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father. 
In  local  public  affairs  he  took  the  interest  of  a  patriotic  citizen,  and  socially 
he  was  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity.  The  wife  of  his  youth  was 
Isabella  Love,  whose  birth  occurred  April  9,  1795,  and  who  was  summoned 
to  the  better  land  at  her  home  in  New   Paris,  Ohio,  April  30,   1851.     They 


358  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  two  sons  and  six  daughters.  Subsequent 
to  the  death  of- his  first  wife  Mr.  Thomas  wedded   Mrs.  EHzabeth  Whitridge. 

Ellis  Thomas,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  near  New  Madison,  Darke  county, 
Ohio,  January  26,  1822,  and  was  five  years  old  when  the  family  removed  to 
Preble  county.  There  he  passed  the  rest  of  his  youthful  days,  continuing  to 
devote  his  energies  to  agricultural  labors  until  he  was  nearly  thirty  years  old. 
He  then  conceived  the  idea  of  furnishing  the  railroads  with  wood  for  fuel, 
and  employed  from  fifty  to  three  hundred  men  to  carry  out  the  contracts 
which  he  managed  to  obtain  from  the  various  corporations.  For  a  number 
of  years  he  supplied  all  the  wood  used  for  fuel  on  the  railroad  between 
Columbus  and  Indianapolis,  on  the  one  between  that  city  and  St.  Louis,  and 
Indianapolis  and  Chicago,  and  on  fifteen  hundred  miles  of  railroad  in  Indiana, 
Illinois  and  Ohio.  His  prosperous  business  transactions  were  terminated  in 
this  direction  by  the  adoption  of  coal  as  fuel  for  locomotives,  and  he  was, 
perforce,  obliged  to  turn  his  attention  to  some  other  enterprise.  For  nine 
years  he  made  his  home  in  Cambridge  City,  and  in  1S67  he  became  a  per- 
manent citizen  of  Richmond.  He  still  owns  a  fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
thirty  acres  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  is  connected  with  numerous  local 
business  concerns.  He  has  been  since  its  organization  a  stockholder  in  the 
Gaar,  Scott  &  Company's  works,  is  a  stockholder  and  a  director  in  the  Sec- 
ond National  Bank,  a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  city  water  works,  and 
is  president  of  the  Richmond  Reclining  Chair  Company.  In  his  political 
affiliations  he  is  a  Republican. 

Forty-six  years  ago  Mr.  Thomas  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Emily 
W.  Northrop,  the  ceremony  being  celebrated  on  May  i,  1853.  They  happily 
pursued  the  journey  of  life  together,  sharing  each  other's  joys,  perplexities 
and  sorrows,  until  June  28,  1895,  when  Mrs.  Thomas  was  summoned  into 
eternal  rest.  Their  only  child,  Mary  E.,  is  the  wife  of  Charles  W.  Elmer, 
who  is  the  ticket  agent  for  the  Panhandle  Railroad  Company  at  Richmond, 
Indiana. 

THE  RUDE  FAMILY  AND    RUDE  BROTHERS  MANUFACT- 
URING COMPANY. 

It  is  but  placing  truth  upon  the  pages  of  history  when  we  record  that 
among  the  families  whose  lives,  business  activities  and  sterling  characters 
have  placed  Union  county  in  its  present  high  position  among  the  counties  of 
the  state,  none  occupies  a  more  conspicuous  place  than  the  Rude  family. 
The  Rude  brothers  stand  as  the  representatives  of  this  family,  and  their  lives 
have  been  so  intermingled  and  intertwined  that  the  sketch  of  either  is  to  a 
degree  the  sketch  of  the  others.  They  have  been  creators  of  large  business 
enterprises  which  have  given  and  now  give  emplo3'ment  to  many  people,  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  359 

have  increased  not  onl}'  the  population  but  the  wealth  and  importance  of 
the  community.  This  has  been  done  3'ear  after  year  for  a  long  time,  and 
through  their  important  industrial  enterprise  they  have  done  much  more  in 
this  and  other  important  fields  than  any  or  all  other  factories  of  the  county 
in  the  present  or  the  past.  They  were  all  natural  mechanics,  and  had 
worked  from  childhood  in  their  odd  days  and  hours  at  invention  and  devel- 
opment of  different  mechanical  ideas  and  devices.  Even  as  boys  they  had 
their  workshop,  where  they  are  said  to  have  produced  mechanical  contriv- 
ances which  would  have  attracted  attention  anywhere.  There  they  spent 
their  spare  hours,  devising  and  making  various  articles  of  use  on  the  farm 
and  in  the  household,  and  there  they  learned  the  fundamental  principles  of 
mechanics  and  the  proper  handling  of  tools. 

From  the  humble  shop  on  the  farm  to  the  fine  modern  building  of 
the  present  Rude  Brothers  Manufacturing  Company  is  a  long  step,  but  the  gap 
was  filled  in  with  gradual  improvement  and  advancement  along  all  the  lines 
of  the  business,  and  to  this  development  the  brothers,  each  with  his  special 
gifts  of  mind,  devoted  his  life.  Quite  early  they  built  grain-drills  which  com- 
mended themselves  to  farmers  round  about  as  in  many  respects  superior  to 
all  others.  At  Liberty  they  re-established  their  factory  in  a  two-story  build- 
ing, with  dimensions  forty  by  sixty  feet,  which  with  the  machinery  and  appli- 
ances it  contained  cost  about  twelve  hundred  dollars.  They  employed  four 
or  five  men  and  were  themselves  employed  either  at  the  forge  or  at  the  bench 
whenever  they  were  not  required  elsewhere.  John  was  the  inventor  and  had 
charge  of  the  manufacturing  department,  George  W.  attended  to  the  affairs 
of  the  office,  the  accounts  and  the  correspondence,  and  Squire  B.  gave  much 
of  his  time  to  the  interests  of  the  concern  outside  the  factory.  Their  other 
brothers.  La  Fayette,  Franklin  and  Clem,  were  later  connected  with  the 
business  for  different  periods.  At  one  time  the  six  were  all  identified  with 
the  enterprise.  Each  was  an  expert  mechanic  and  could  have  superintended 
any  part  of  the  mechanical  work.  All  are  now  dead  except  Squire  B.  and 
La  Fayette.  George  W.,  Franklin  and  John  all  died  in  1886  or  1887,  of 
tuberculosis.  One  sister  died  earlier  than  either  of  them,  of  scarlet  fever, 
and  three  other  sisters  had  passed  away  before  the  last  of  the  brothers  men- 
tioned, all  dying  of  consumption. 

The  business  of  the  Rude  Brothers  Manufacturing  Company  has  had  a 
continuous  growth,  but  it  has  not  been  without  reverses.  It  has  twice  passed 
through  fire,  once  with  a  loss  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  About  eighty  to  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  inen  are  now  employed.  The  company  is  incorpor- 
ated and  has  a  paid  up  capital  of  eighty  thousand  dollars.  From  fourteen  to 
twenty  per  cent,  per  annum  has  been  paid  in  dividends  since  1870,  and  this 
only  partially  represents  the  growth  of  the  business.      The  annual  output  of 


360  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  factory  is  from  one  hundred  thousand  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  The  company  has  extensive  warehouses  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana; 
Columbus,  Ohio;  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  Springfield,  Missouri;  and  has  facilities 
for  distribution  in  every  market.  It  owns  eighty  different  patents  on  parts 
of  drills  and  makes  drills  of  a  dozen  different  patterns.  At  different  times  it 
has  been  involved  in  expensive  and  protracted  litigation  in  the  federal  courts. 
The  suits  it  has  prosecuted  and  defended  number  twelve  to  date,  and  every 
one  of  them  has  been  decided  finally  in  favor  of  the  Rude  Brothers  Company. 
To  these  suits  and  the  questions  upon  which  they  were  brought  Squire  B. 
Rude  gave  constant  and  steady  attention.  In  every  one  of  them  he  has 
planned  the  attack  or  defence  and  clearly  outlined  the  lawyer's  mode  of  pro- 
cedure. 

The  relations  of  the  Rude  brothers  among  themselves  were  most 
harmonious,  and  with  their  associates  and  employes  have  been  almost  uni- 
formly pl>iasant.  There  has  been  but  one  strike  in  the  factory  in  all  its 
history  and  that  Mr.  Rude  met  so  promptly  and  decisively  as  to  prevent 
others.  It  was  not  long  after  establishing  the  molding  department  that  the 
molders  sought  an  advance,  by  going  out  on  a  strike.  They  presented  their 
grievances  and  their  claim  to  Mr.  Rude  and  he  paid  them  off  and  showed 
them  out  and  filled  their  places  at  once.  The  policy  of  the  concern  toward 
their  employes  has  been  a  liberal  one,  and  some  of  them  have  been  constantly 
employed  in  the  factory  since  1S70,  and  many  from  fifteen  to  eighteen  years. 
It  has  been  a  rule  of  the  company  to  pay  the  wages  of  any  employe  incapaci- 
tated b}'  accident. 

HON.   SQUIRE  B.   RUDE. 

Hon.  Squire  B.  Rude,  the  present  president  of  the  Rude  Brothers 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  Liberty,  Indiana,  was  born  five  miles  from  Cin- 
cinnati, in  Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  December  28,  1833.  His  parents  were 
David  J.  and  Maria  M.  (Preston)  Rude.  His  father  was  born  there  also,  a 
son  of  Squire  Rude,  who  came  from  New  Jersey  about  18 15  and  removed  to 
Indiana  April  11,  1842,  and  located  on  a  farm  in  Brownsville  township,  three 
miles  north  of  Liberty.  He  died  in  Liberty,  in  1873,  and  there  his  widow 
died  a  few  years  later.  Squire  B.  Rude  passed  his  childhood,  youth  and 
early  manhood  on  the  farm,  and  came  to  Liberty  with  his  brothers,  George 
W.  and  John  R.,  in  i860. 

Mr.  Rude's  ability  as  a  man  of  affairs  has  been  widely  recognized  and 
he  has  been  solicited  repeatedly  to  accept  important  public  offices.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Indiana  assembly  of 
1891  that  elected  Dan  W.  Voorhees  United  States  senator  from  Indiana. 

Mr.  Rude  was  married   on   November  25,   1875,  to  Anna   C.  Perkins,  of 


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Union  county,  daughter  of  John  and  Anna  (Keilt})  Perkins,  who  has  borne 
him  two  children,  named  \\'alter  S.  and  John  Frankhn.  Walter  S.  died  in 
infancy.  John  Franklin  Rude  was  born  December  3.  1878,  passed  through 
the  high  school  of  Indianapolis  and  was  matriculated  in  the  law  department 
of  U.  S.  Grant  University,  of  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  graduating  there  with 
the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  June,  1899.  He  was  at  the  same  time  admitted  to 
the  practice  of  law  in  the  courts  of  Tennessee.  In  1891  he  was  state  mes- 
senger of  the  legislature  of  Indiana.  He  is  now  a  student  in  the  law  depart- 
ment of  Michigan  State  University,  at  Ann  Arbor,  entering  with  an  advanced 
standing. 

In  1 86 1  Mr.  Rude  was  "  made  a  Mason  "  in  Brownsville  Lodge,  and  is 
now  affiliated  with  Liberty  Lodge,  No.  58,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has  taken  much 
interest  in  Masonry.  With  forty-two  others  he  was  admitted  to  partake  of 
the  mysteries  of  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish 
Rite,  at  Indianapolis,  in  December,  1886.  He  is  now  connected  with 
Liberty  Chapter,  No.  41,  R.  A.  M.,  Liberty  Council  and  Connersville  Com- 
mandery  and  Indiana  Consistory,  S.  P.  R.  S.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rude 
were  charter  members  of  Violet  Chapter  of  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star, 
and  are  valued  members  of  the  same.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  local 
lodge  of  the  Knights  of  the  Mystic  Chain  and  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
in  his  fraternal  relations  has  ever  been  a  worthy  brother. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON   RUDE. 

For  a  number  of  years  the  subject  of  this  memoir  was  classed  among 
the  prominent  and  influential  citizens  of  Liberty,  Union  county.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Rude  Brothers  Manufacturing  Company,  which 
has  been  an  important  commercial  element  in  this  community,  affording 
employment  to  many  of  our  citizens  and  aiding  materially  in  the  prosperity 
of  the  town.  His  genius  as  a  financier  and  his  ability  to  cope  with  the  great 
business  world  led  to  his  being  chosen  to  act  as  president  of  the  company, 
which  responsible  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  August  31,  1883. 
Success  almost  invariably  is  the  result  of  long  years  of  persevering  effort,  of 
well  applied  business  methods,  of  talent  amounting  nearly  to  genius,  of 
courage  undaunted  by  repeated  failures.  In  tracing  the  life  of  G.  W.  Rude 
all  of  these  qualities  are  to  be  found,  and  to  him  is  due,  in  a  large  measure, 
the  flourishing  condition  of  the  company  with  which  he  was  identified.  He 
took  particular  pains  to  have  the  plant  well  represented  at  fairs,  to  advertise 
systematically  and  judiciously,  and  to  keep  the  merits  of  their  goods  con- 
stantly before  the  public.  He  strove  for  superiority  of  workmanship  and 
improvements  along  all  lines,  and  thoroughness  and  skill  were  qualities 
which  he  always   strongly  commended    in   his  workmen.      When  he  was  a 


362  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

mere  boy,  on  the  old  home  farm  in  this  county,  he  and  his  brothers,  as 
before  mentioned,  spent  much  of  their  time  in  a  little  shop  where  they  kept 
their  tools  and  constructed  wonderful  pieces  of  machinery,  and  that  small 
shop  was  the  parent  of  the  large  ipanufactory  at  Liberty. 

A  son  of  David  J.  and  Maria  M.  (Preston)  Rude,  George  W.  Rude  was 
born  on  his  father's  farm  in  Brownsville  township,  this  county,  on  December 
2,  1842,  and  such  education  as  he  gained  was  obtained  in*  the  district  schools 
of  the  neighborhood.  He  married  Miss  Mary  Frances  Shafer,  daughter  of 
Amos  and  Eliza  M.  .(Robeson)  Shafer,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  Novem- 
ber 30,  1873.  Mrs.  Rude  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  was  a  lady 
of  amiable  character,  beloved  by  a  large  circle  of  friends.  She  was  devoted 
to  her  home  and.  family  and  possessed  rare  qualities  of  mind  and  heart. 
During  the  last  years  of  her  life  she  traveled  considerably  with  her  husband, 
who  hoped  that  change  of  air  and  climate  would  prove  of  lasting  benefit  to 
to  her.  That  dread  disease,  consumption,  had  fastened  upon  her,  and  after 
two  years  of  illness  she  passed  to  the  better  land,  her  death  occurring 
December  10,  1881.  Two  daughters  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rude, 
namely:  Bertha  and  Mary,  and  after  the  death  of  their  parents  they  went  to 
live  with  their  maternal  grandparents.  They  are  now  young  ladies,  attractive 
and  cultured,  educated  at  Oxford  Female  College,  of  Oxford,  Ohio,  where 
the  youngest  is  pursuing  the  last  year  of  the  college  course. 

JOHN  FRANKLIN  RUDE. 
The  death  of  John  Franklin  Rude  occurred  when  he  was  yet  in 
the  prime  of  life,  October  6,  1884.  He  was  born  about  forty- three  years 
before,  on  his  father's  farm  in  this  county,  the  date  of  his  birth  being  Febru- 
ary 5,  1840.  He  had  but  limited  advantages  in  the  way  of  an  education,  but 
was  of  a  studious  and  thoughtful  disposition,  and  was  very  well  informed  on 
general  subjects.  From  his  youth  he  seemed  to  have  but  one  aim  in  life, — 
that  of  invention  and  the  perfecting  of  machinery  already  in  use  by  the  pub- 
lic. Planning  and  studying,  thinking  and  working,  by  day  and  at  night, 
haunted  by  an  idea  which  struggles  to  be  embodied  in  practical  form  and 
will  give  the  possessor  no  peace  until  it  has  found  a  satisfactory  expression, — 
such  is  the  life  of  the  man  of  genius,  an  inventor.  After  a  partnership  of 
some  years,  the  Rude  Brothers'  Manufacturing  Company  was  incorporated, 
and  ere  long  the  business  had  assumed  large  proportions  and  was  ranked 
among  the  leading  industries  of  this  section  of  the  state.  Mr.  Rude  made 
his  own  patterns  and  personally  supervised  their  working  out,  attending  to 
the  practical  details  of  the  concern,  while  his  brothers  attended  to  the  finan- 
cial and  business  departments.  There  was  one  especial  feature  of  the  part- 
nership of  these  brothers.     Usually  when   plans  are   made  or  schemes  pro- 


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jected  a  majority  vote  carries  the  day.  Not  so  here.  No  plan  was  adopted, 
no  suggestion  considered  that  did  not  meet  the  approval  of  all  three  brothers. 

Like  most  inventors,  Mr.  Rude  was  not  much  concerned  about  his  per- 
sonal appearance,  and  seemed  to  live  in  the  mental  world  almost  entirely. 
He  was  not  fond  of  society  and  lived  quietly  at  home.  He  had  no  thought 
of  marrying  until  he  met  the  lady  who  was  destined  to  become  his  wife.  Miss 
Ellen  Falls,  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Their  marriage  was  solemnized 
November  29,  1882,  and  their  only  child,  George  F. ,  was  born  August  31, 
1883.  Though  he  was  almost  solely  self-educated  and  had  wrought  out  his 
own  success  by  the  hardest  labors,  Mr.  Rude  desired  to  have  his  boy  receive 
better  advantages  than  had  fallen  to  his  share,  and  he  enjoyed  looking  for- 
ward to  the  time  when  the  lad  should  be  old  enough  to  become  a  member  of 
the  firm  and  work  by  his  side  for  its  prosperity.  This  dream  was  destined 
never  to  be  fulfilled,  for  the  child  was  but  little  over  a  year  old  when  the 
career  of  the  father  was  brought  to  a  close.  The  son,  however,  is  receiving 
the  best  educational  advantages  and  is  now  in  attendance  at  Kenyon  Military 
Academy  at  Gambier,  Ohio.  John  F.  Rude  was  a  man  of  uprightness  of 
word  and  deed,  and  all  who  knew  him  or  had  business  dealings  with  him 
spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of  his  justice  and  honor. 

Mrs.  Ellen  F.  Rude  was  united  in  marriage  with  Frank  Zuttermeister, 
May  22,  1889.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Rude  Brothers'  Manufacturing 
Company  and  has  been  a  faithful  and  trusted  employe  of  the  company  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  At  first  he  was  engaged  to  work  for  them  as  a  painter 
and  subsequently  he  became  foreman  of  that  department,  and  is  now  super- 
intendent of  the  works.  Fraternally  he  is  associated  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias.  Mrs.  Zuttermeister  is  a  member  of  St.  Bridget's  Catholic  church, 
of  Liberty,  and  is  noted  for  her  kindness  and  generosity  to  the  poor. 

W.  F.  McCRAY,  M.  D. 
Dr.  McCray  may  justly  be  termed  a  self-made  man.  for  to  his  own 
energy  and  preseverance  he  owes  the  success  which  he  has  achieved  thus  far 
in  life.  A  native  of  Warren  county,  Ohio,  born  in  1853,  he  was  left  father- 
less when  but  a  few  months  old,  and  though  his  devoted  mother  sought  to 
shield  him  from  the  stern  realities  of  life,  he  was  obliged  to  enter  the  struggle 
for  a  livelihood  at  an  early  age.  His  father,  John  McCray,  was  a  native  of 
Virginia,  whence  he  came  to  the  north,  and  settled  in  Warren  county,  Ohio, 
where  the  grandfather,  likewise,  was  one  of  the  pioneers.  There  John  Mc- 
Cray's  death  occurred  when  he  was  in  his  prime,  he  being  but  thirty-four 
years  of  age  when  the  summons  came  to  him  to  cease  from  his  labors.  His 
widow,  whose  maiden  name  was  Leanna  Britton,  is  still  living,  her  home 
being  in  Clarksville,   Ohio. 


364  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

A  common-school  education  was  all  that  fell  to  the  share  of  Dr.  McCray 
in  his  boyhood,  but  he  was  an  apt  student  and  ambitious  to  attain  greater 
knowledge.  In  1882,  after  many  years  spent  in  arduous  work  on  farms  and 
elsewhere,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine,  and  after  he  had  devoted  much 
time  and  preparation  to  his  future  life-work  he  began  practicing  in  Somerset, 
Kentucky.  In  1885  he  started  upon  a  course  of  lectures  at  the  Cincinnati 
Eclectic  Medical  College,  then  resumed  his  professional  labors,  returned  to 
the  college  in  1890,  and  was  finally  graduated  in  1892.  Soon  afterward  he 
opened  an  office  in  Bethel,  Indiana,  later  practiced  at  Clark's  Hill,  Indiana, 
and  in  November,  1898,  came  to  Dublin,  Wayne  county,  where  he  has  suc- 
ceeded in  building  up  an  enviable  reputation  for  skill  in  his  chosen  line  of 
endeavor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Association  of  Physicians  &  Sur- 
geons and  the  Indiana  Eclectic  Medical  and  the  Western  Ohio  Medical 
Associations.  He  was  the  fifth  in  order  passing  the  medical  examination 
and  registration  by  the  state  board,  who  now  require  all  physicians  in  Indiana  to 
thus  prove  themselves  worthy  of  the  patronage  and  confidence  of  the  public. 
Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Cambridge  City 
Lodge,  No.  5,  F.  &  A.  M. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  in  June,  1879,  in  Xenia,  Ohio, to  Miss  Lettie, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Nancy  (Stanfieldj  Styles.  The  Doctor  and  his  esti- 
mable wife  are  highly  esteemed  in  this  community,  and  their  well-wishers  are 
legion. 

W.   B.   GRAHAM,     M.   D. 

During  the  quarter  of  a  century  which  marks  the  period  of  Dr.  Graham's 
professional  career  he  has  met  with  gratifying  success,  and  though  his  resi- 
dence in  Richmond  dates  back  scarcely  five  years  he  has  won  the  good  will 
and  patronage  of  many  of  the  leading  citizens  and  families  of  the  place.  He 
is  a  great  student  and  endeavors  to  keep  abreast  of  the  times  in  everything 
relating  to  discoveries  in  medical  science,  taking  the  leading  journals  devoted 
to  the  discussion  of  the  ' '  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to  "  and  the  treatment  thereof. 
Progressive  in  his  ideas  and  favoring  modern  methods  as  a  whole,  he  does 
not  dispense  with  many  of  the  true  and  tried  S3'stems  which  have  stood  the 
test  of  years. 

The  eldest  son  of  Addison  S.  and  Mary  E.  (Penland)  Graham,  the  Doc- 
tor was  born  in  Darke  county,  Ohio,  June  26,  1843.  His  grandfather, 
William  Graham,  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  emigrated  to  the  United 
States  when  he  was  a  young  man.  Settling  in  Virginia,  he  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  there,  occupied  in  agricultural  pursuits.  In  his  old  age  he 
went  to  Darke  county,  Ohio,  where  he  died  and  was  buried.  Addison  S. 
Graham  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  whence  he  went  to  Darke   county,   in  his 


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early  manhood,  and  subsequently  he  dwelt  in  Preble  county,  in  the  same 
state  for  several  years.  A  cooper  by  trade,  he  was  employed  at  that  calling 
during  his  residence  in  Ohio.  Leaving  Ohio  in  the  spring  of  1855,  he  located 
in  DeKalb  county,  Indiana,  where  he  engaged  in  farming,  giving  his  whole 
attention  to  his  homestead  during  the  last  decade  of  his  life.  He  was  but 
fifty-six  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  186S.  His  wife  had  pre- 
ceded him  to  the  silent  land,  her  death  taking  place  in  September,  1863. 
They  were  Presbyterians  in  religious  faith,  and  were  active  workers  in  the 
church  and  wherever  they  could  do  good  to  their  fellow  men.  Of  their  four 
children  the  Doctor  was  the  eldest;  Peter  D.  resides  in  Corunna,  DeKalb 
county,  Indiana,  and  is  engaged  in  the  furniture  business;  James  S.  is  a 
farmer  in  the  same  county;  and  Rudolph  O.  makes  his  home  there  also. 

Dr.  Graham  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Preble  and  De  Kalb  coun- 
ties. Being  the  eldest  child,  he  was  obliged  to  lend  his  assistance  to  his 
father  as  early  as  possible,  and  loyally  did  he  perform  the  tasks  assigned  him. 
When  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  came  on,  he  was  very  anxious  to  go  to  the 
front  at  once,  but  was  forced  to  curb  his  youthful  patriotism.  In  August, 
1862,  however,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A,  One  Hundredth  Indi- 
ana Volunteer  Infantry,  at  Auburn,  Indiana,  and  served  until  the  close  of 
the  war,  being  in  the  same  company  throughout  the  conflict.  Among  the 
numerous  engagements  in  which  he  participated  were  the  following:  Mis- 
sionary Ridge,  Jackson,  Vicksburg,  Knoxville,  Dalton,  Snake  Creek  Gap, 
Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Resaca,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Dallas,  New  Hope  Church, 
Big  Shanty,  Chattahoochie  River,  Decatur,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro,  Cedar  Bluff, 
Lovejoy  Station,  Griswoldville,  Savannah,  Branchville,  Columbia  and  Ben- 
tonville.  His  regiment  was  a  part  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  which  did 
heroic  service,  and  though  the  Doctor  was  never  wounded  nor  taken  prisoner 
he  passed  through  many  a  battle  in  which  he  had  wonderfully  narrow  escapes, 
and  for  one  period,  at  least,  of  his  army  life  he  was  either  in  the  thick  of  the 
fight  or  within  sound  of  the  furious  fray,  for  one  hundred  days. 

Returning  home,  he  resumed  his  former  occupation  of  farming,  and  was 
thus  employed  until  he  found  that  his  health  was  breaking  down.  He  then 
commenced  studying,  with  a  view  to  'leading  a  professional  life,  and  spent 
two  years  in  the  academy  at  Whitewater,  where  he  had  as  an  instructor 
Professor  Charles  Atkinson.  Then  for  two  years  he  engaged  in  teaching 
school,  and  during  a  period  of  three  years,  when  he  taught  classes  in  music, 
he  pursued  medical  studies.  After  attending  a  course  of  lectures  in  the 
Eclectic  College  at  Cincinnati,  he  was  graduated  January  7,  1874.  Later  he 
qualified  himself  as  a  Homoeopathic  physician,  and  for  a  score  of  years  has 
devoted  himself  to  this  line  of  practice.  For  about  two  years  after  finishing 
his  medical  studies,  his  health  was  such  as  to  require  a  change   of  environ- 


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ment,  and  he  spent  much  of  that  time  on  a  farm.  He  then  opened  an  office 
at  Cox's  Mills,  a  village  northeast  of  Richmond,  and  remained  there  for  some 
five  years.  He  succeeded  in  establishing  a  good  practice,  and  then  went  to 
Chester,  this  county,  and  a  year  later  became  a  practitioner  of  Whitewater, 
where  he  resided  for  five  or  six  years.  His  ne.xt  place  of  business  was  in 
Fountain  City,  and  in  1894  he  came  to  Richmond.  He  is  a  member  of  Sol. 
Meredith  Post,  No.  55,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  being  post  surgeon. 
The  boys  who  wore  the  blue  have  a  warm  place  in  his  heart,  and  he,  in  turn, 
is  always  popular  with  them,  wherever  he  goes. 

In  1870,  Dr.  Graham  married  Miss  Emma  Price,  of  New  Paris,  Ohio, 
and  four  months  afterward  she  entered  the  silent  land.  In  1874  the  Doctor 
married  Miss  Elmina  Cox,  of  Cox's  Mills,  and  seven  years  later  she  passed 
away.  In  Chester,  Indiana,  Dr.  Graham  was  united  in  marriage  in  1883,  to 
Miss  Sue  Wesler,  whose  death  occurred  in  1887.  The  present  wife  of  the 
Doctor,  to  whom  he  was  joined  in  wedlock  eight  years  ago,  was  formerly 
Miss  Sallie  Woodmanzee,  of  Clinton  county,  Ohio.  They  have  a  pleasant 
home  and  are  surrounded  by  many  of  the  luxuries  and  comforts  of  life. 

WILLIAM  S.  FARLOW. 

In  perusing  the  history  of  William  S.  Farlow  it  will  be  seen  that  he  is  a 
man  of  strong  convictions  of  right  and  duty,  and  that  once  having  made  up 
his  mind  as  to  his  proper  attitude  on  any  subject  of  great  importance,  he 
acts  accordingly,  and  is  undeterred  by  opposition  and  difBculties. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Enoch  and  Mary  Farlow,  natives  of 
North  Carolina,  in  which  state  they  spent  their  entire  lives.  William  S., 
one  of  their  seven  children  who  attained  maturity,  was  born  August  27,  1832, 
and  grew  to  man's  estate  in  North  Carolina.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he 
married  Louisa  Beckerdite,  who  has  been  a  loyal  companion  and  helpmate, 
aiding  him  in  all  his  labors  and  sympathizing  and  sharing  in  his  trials. 

Although  born  and  reared  in  a  state  that  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
in  the  southern  confederacy,  Mr.  Farlow  was  opposed  to  secession  and  deter- 
mined that  he  would  not  take  up  arms  against  his  country.  It  became 
necessary,  therefore,  early  in  1861,  that  he  should  leave  what  has  been  termed 
the  "hot-bed  of  the  Confederacy,"  and,  though  it  cost  him  a  severe  struggle 
ere  he  could  make  up  his  mind  to  leave  the  loved  friends  and  associations  of 
his  youth,  he  made  the  sacrifice,  and  with  his  wife  and  their  four  children 
started  for  the  north,  in  a  wagon  which  contained  only  a  few  of  their  choicest 
treasures,  the  rest  having  to  be  left  behind.  Four  other  families,  of  like 
sympathies,  from  the  same  state  accompanied  the  Farlows,  but  the  war  had 
already  begun,  and  the  little  cavalcade  was  confronted  with  dangers  and  diffi- 
culties on  every  hand,  as  they  proceeded  on  their  journey.      So  disheartened 


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did  some  of  them  become,  that  one  famil)'  returned  to  their  former  home. 
Such  was  not  the  metal  of  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farlow  are  made,  and  at  last 
they  had  the  great  satisfaction  of  crossing  the  Ohio  river,  and  feeling  them- 
selves safe  from  persecution  and  interruption.  They  reached  Dalton  town- 
ship, Wayne  county,  Indiana,  June  23,  1861,  and  in  this  immediate  vicinity 
they  have  since  dwelt,  esteemed  and  respected  by  all  who  know  them. 

It  was  the  great  desire  of  Mr.  Farlow  to  enlist  in  the  defense  of  the 
Union  early  in  the  w^ar,  but  as  he  and  his  family  had  escaped  from  the  south 
with  but  little  save  their  lives,  his  first  duty  was  to  p'rovide  for  their  necessi- 
ties. As  the  conflict  became  more  and  more  serious  and  deadly,  he  watched 
and  waited  at  home  until  he  could  no  longer  endure  it,  and  in  September, 
1S64,  this  true  patriot  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Seventeenth  Indiana  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  going  to  the  front  served  faithfully  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  when  he  received  an  honorable  discharge.  He  took  part  in  the  various 
encounters  with  the  Confederates  in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  went 
on  the  famous  Wilson's  raid,  and  was  at  Macon,  Georgia,  when  news  of  the 
cessation  of  the  war  came  to  him.  Though  he  suffered  no  wounds,  his 
health  was  somewhat  impaired,  and  that  more  or  less  permanently.  He  has 
given  his  chief  energies  to  agriculture  since  his  return  home,  and  has  met 
with  deserved  success. 

Of  the  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farlow  seven  are  living,  namely: 
Lorenzo  D.,  John  F.,  David  L.,  Schuyler  Colfax,  William  E.,  Roxanna  (wife 
of  Dr.  Covald;,  and  Myrtle  L.,  who  is  at  home.  Elwood  was  killed  by  a 
horse  when  six  years  of  age;  Enoch  L.  died  when  in  his  sixth  year,  and  two 
others  died  in  infancy.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church. 

Fraternally,  Mr.  Farlow  belongs  to  Cassius  M.  Leonard  Post,  No.  505, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic;  Dalton  Lodge,  No.  529;  and  Wayne  Encamp- 
ment, No.  186,  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  uses  his  franchise  in  favor  of  the  Republican 
party,  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace  and  in  that  capacity  served  to  the 
satisfaction  of  all  until  1884,  in  which  year  he  was  honored  by  being  made 
trustee  of  Dalton  township.  As  such  he  served  for  two  terms,  or  four  years, 
and  in  1895   he   was  re-elected  and  is  still  acting  in  this  responsible  office. 

JESSE  S.  HENRY. 
The  Henry  family  is  one  that  has  long  been  identified  with  the  develop- 
ment of  the  farming  interests  of  Fayette  county,  and  the  subject  of  this 
review  is  now  a  worthy  representative  of  the  time-honored  occupation  of 
agriculture.  He  was  born  in  Waterloo  township,  Fayette  county,  on  Christ- 
mas day  of  1836,  his  parents  being  William  and  Sarah  M.  (Shaw)  Henry,  the 
former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  latter  of  North  Carolina.    They  both 


368  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

came  to  Indiana  in  childhood,  and  were  here  reared  and  married.  The  paternal 
grandparents  of  our  subject  were  Henry  and  Margaret  (Little)  Henry.  The 
grandfather  was  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  and  in  Pennsylvania  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Little,  who  was  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage.  Leaving  the  Keystone 
state  the}' came  to  Indiana  in  1822,  locating  in  Fayette  county,  where  the 
grandfather  purchased  the  land  upon  which  Jesse  S.  Henry  now  resides.  In 
his  native  land  he  had  learned  and  followed  the  weaver's  trade,  and  engaged 
in  that  pursuit  to  some  extent  in  America,  but  devoted  his  energies  more 
largely  to  the  improvement  and  cultivation  of  his  farm.  In  his  religious 
belief  he  was  a  Presbyterian,  and  in  political  faith  a  Democrat.  He  died 
December  31,  1859,  and  his  wife  passed  away  on  the  2d  of  August,  1867. 
Their  children  were  as  follows:  William;  Mrs.  Ann  Stoddard:  James,  John 
and  Ale.xander,  all  deceased;  Jane,  who  also  has  passed  away;  Henry  L. ,  a 
resident  of  Illinois;  and  Mrs.  Cynthia  Wilson. 

\\'illiam  Henry  was  a  boy  in  his  'teens  when  brought  by  his  parents  to 
Indiana.  He  was  reared  to  manhood  on  his  father's  farm  in  Indiana,  and 
on  March  10,  183G,  he  was  married,  and  then  took  up  his  abode  on  a  part  of 
the  old  homestead,  which  came  into  his  possession,  and  to  which  he  added 
by  the  purchase  of  a  tract  of  heavy  timber  land  adjoining  it.  He  developed 
there  a  valuable  farming  property,  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  fields  and  the  improvement  of  the  home.  Enterprising,  broad-minded, 
generous  and  hospitable,  he  was  among  the  most  highly-respected  citizens  of 
his  community.  His  political  support  was  given  the  Democracy,  and  he 
served  for  several  terms  as  trustee  of  Waterloo  township.  In  religious  con- 
nection, like  his  honored  father,  he  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church.  He  died  July  12,  1873,  and  his  wife  survived  him  until 
August    12,   i88r. 

Mrs.  Henry  was  a  daughter  of  Jesse  Shaw,  who  with  his  family  removed 
from  North  Carolina  to  Indiana  some  time  in  the  '30s.  Before  locating  per- 
manently in  this  state  he  spent  two  years  in  Ohio,  and  came  thence  to  Fayette 
county,  where  for  many  years  he  operated  the  Goodlander  mill,  one  of  the 
pioneer  mills  of  the  county,  his  patrons  bringing  their  grists  for  many  miles. 
Later  in  life  he  turned  his  attention  to  farming.  Few  of  the  early  settlers 
of  the  county  were  better  known  or  more  highly  respected  than  he.  His 
children  were:  Sarah  Malinda,  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Samuel 
and  Alford,  both  deceased;  Jane  and  Susan,  residents  of  Wabash  county, 
Indiana;  Mrs.  Mary  Langston;  Emily,  who  died  in  early  life;  and  .•\lexander, 
a  resident  of  Huntington  county,  Indiana. 

The  children  composing  the  family  of  William  and  Sarah  Malinda 
Henry  numbered  six,  namely:  Jesse  S.,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch; 
John,  a  farmer  of  Fajette  county;  James,  who  lives  on  the  old  homestead; 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  W9 

Samuel,  a  farmer  of  Fayette  county;  Mrs.  Jane  Lambert;  and  Nancy, 
deceased,  who  was  twice  married,  her  first  husband  having  been  H.  Stell  and; 
her  second  husband  Q.  Tate. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  Jesse  S.  Kenry,  who  spent  his 
boyhood  days  on  the  farm  which  is  still  his  home,  and  which  is  not  only 
endeared  to  him  as  his  birthplace,  but  also  as  the  scene  of  his  manhood's 
labors  and  successes.  He  acquired  his  education  in  the  common  schools  and 
was  married  August  9,  1859,  to  Elizabeth  Cross,  and  settled  on  a  small 
tract  of  land,  which  he  afterward  purchased  and  which  forms  a  part  of  his 
present  farm.  After  residing  thereon  for  a  year  he  removed  to  Rush  county, 
where  he  made  his  home  for  two  years,  at  the  end  of  that  time  returning  tO' 
Fayette  county.  For  nineteen  years  he  operated  rented  land,  but  in  the: 
meantime  purchased  a  portion  of  his  present  farm,  which  had  originally 
belonged  to  his  grandfather,  and  about  1878  removed  to  the  old  home.  H& 
has  since  acquired  the  remainder  of  the  old  family  homestead  and  has 
extended  its  boundaries  by  purchasing  additional  land,  until  his  place  now 
comprises  one  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  all  of  which  is  under  a  high  state 
of  cultivation.  The  place  is  well  improved,  the  residence  has  been  remod- 
eled, a  large  barn  has  been  erected  and  other  accessories  added  until  Mr. 
Henry  is  now  the  owner  of  one  of  the  most  attractive  farms  in  the  county. 

He  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Elizabeth  Cross,  a 
native  of  Ohio,  who  in  her  girlhood  came  to  Fayette  county  with  her 
parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Levi  Cross,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Maryland! 
and  are  now  deceased.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Henry  died  July  14,  1883,  leavmg  a 
family  of  seven  children,  namely:  William  L.,  a  railroad  agent  in  Nebraska; 
Levi  N.,  who  died  leaving  a  wife  and  three  children;  Jesse  O.,  Robert  W., 
Alford  N.,  all  resident  farmers  of  Fayette  county;  Effa  M.,  now  Mrs.  Jones; 
and  Iva,  wife  of  Lewis  Small.  On  the  17th  of  March,  1885,  Mr.  Henry 
married  Mrs.  Huldah  J.  Montgomery,  /nr  Monger.  By  her  former  marriage 
she  had  two  children,  James  and  Frank  P.  Her  father,  Lewis  Monger,  was 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  was  of  German  descent  and  became  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  the  Hoosier  state.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  now  deceased. 
They  were  members  of  the  Christian  church,  and  in  that  faith  reared  their 
children,  who  were  as  follows:  Reader,  George,  Lewis  K.,  Thomas,  Augustus, 
Huldah  J.,  Paulina,  Narsiss,  Elizabeth  and  Sidney. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Henry  has  been  an  active  factor  in  the  Democratic 
circles  of  Indiana,  attending  state  and  county  conventions  of  his  party  and 
frequently  serving  as  committeeman.  He  was  at  one  time  the  candidate  of 
his  party  for  the  office  of  county  commissioner  and  ran  far  ahead  of  his  ticket, 
greatly  reducing  the  usual  Republican  majority  of  five  hundred.  At  the 
present  writing  he   is   serving  as  trustee  of    his  township,   rendering   most 


.^70  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

-acceptable  service  in  that  office.  He  was  first  elected  to  that  position  in 
1884  for  a  twoyears  term  and  was  again  chosen  in  1894.  For  years  he  has 
been  deeply  and  actively  interested  in  the  matter  of  securing  good  roads  and 
bridges  in  this  locality,  and  it  is  largely  due  to  his  influence  and  management 
as  road  supervisor  that  the  highways  are  in  their  present  good  condition.  He 
was  executor  of  his  father's  estate,  and  has  also  served  as  administrator  and 
trustee  for  other  parties,  his  reputation  for  executive  abihty  frequently  call- 
ing him  into  this  line  of  work.  His  sound  judgment  and  uniform  fairness 
have  also  occasioned  his  being  called  upon  to  arbitrate  in  disputes  among  the 
■people  of  the  community,  and  the  utmost  confidence  is  placed  in  his  judg- 
ment. His  sterling  worth  commands  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all,  and 
.he  is  one  of  the  valued  citizens  of  his  native  county. 

JOHN   RIGSBY. 

One  of  the  prominent  and  honored  early  settlers  of  Union  county  is  the 
gentleman  of  whom  this  sketch  is  penned.  For  over  forty  years  he  has  owned 
and  managed  the  fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and  ten  acres  in  Center  township, 
where  he  is  still  living.  In  his  youth  he  mastered  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  sixteen  years  exclusively,  and  to  a  certain  extent  for 
tmany  years  thereafter,  but  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  has  devoted 
Ihimself  to  agriculture  with  splendid  results.  He  is  a  practical,  thorough- 
going farmer,  understanding  every  department  of  work  connected  with  the 
proper  supervision  of  a  country  home  of  this  extent,  and  success  has  abun- 
dantly rewarded  his  persevering,  well-directed  labors.  Now,  in  his  declining 
years,  he  may  look  backward  over  the  pathway  he  has  come  and  truly  feel 
that  his  efforts  have  been  blessed,  and  have  few  regrets  for  idle  days  and 
wasted  moments. 

To  his  loving  and  devoted  mother  Mr.  Rigsby  owes  more  than  to  any- 
one else  in  life.  He  was  born  after  the  death  of  his  father,  in  Guilford 
county.  North  Carolina,  February  28,  1826.  The  bereaved  widow  with  her 
eight  little  children,  came  to  this  state  in  1827,  as  her  kind  brother,  William 
Clark,  had  advised  and  counseled  her  to  do.  Three  of  her  sisters  were 
then  living  in  this  locality,  also.  Arriving  here,  Mrs.  Rigsby  lived  upon  a 
farm  belonging  to  her  brother  and  reared  her  children  to  be  useful  citizens 
of  the  several  communities  in  which  they  took  up  their  abode.  She  died  at 
the  age  of  fifty-six  years,  having  bravely  struggled  to  do  a  mother's  part  by 
her  loved  ones,  who  have  great  reason  to  cherish  her  memory  and  who  are 
glad  to  have  her  name  enrolled  among  the  heroic  pioneer  women  of  this 
county.  Only  two  of  her  children  survive,  the  eldest  one,  Mary,  wife  of 
James  Ward,  of  Preble  county,  and  John,  of  this  sketch.  George,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years,  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter  of  Union  town- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  371 

ship,  and  his  widow  and  children  still  live  in  the  old  home  there.  Edmund 
was  a  farmer  of  Liberty  township,  and  died  when  fifty-seven  years  old. 
Several  of  the  daughters  married  and  went  to  Iowa. 

About  1856,  having  acquired  a  comfortable  sum  of  money  by  his  long- 
contmued  employment  at  the  carpenter's  trade,  Mr.  Rigsby,  of  this  article, 
purchased  the  farm  which  he  now  carries  on,  of  his  uncle,  William  Clark. 
He  has  raised  a  general  line  of  crops  and  has  made  the  feeding  of  hogs  and 
cattle  a  profitable  source  of  revenue.  His  youngest  son,  Franklin  Ale.x- 
ander,  has  taken  the  more  arduous  work  of  the  farm  from  his  father's 
shoulders  of  late  years  and  is  a  straightforward  young  farmer,  well  liked  by 
every  one.  He  chose  for  his  wife  Miss  Fanny  A.  MofTett.  In  the  year  1848 
John  Rigsby  was  united  in  marriage  with  Lovisa  Pritchard,  who  died  two 
years  later  and  left  a  son,  William  M.,  now  living  near  Richmond.  Six 
years  subsequent  to  the  death  of  his  first  wife  Mr.  Rigsby  married  Isabel, 
daughter  of  William  and  Phoebe  Rutherford,  of  Liberty  township.  Union 
county.  Mrs.  Rigsby  was  born  in  that  district  and  is  now  the  only  member 
of  her  family  residing  in  this  county.  They  were  early  settlers  here,  coming 
to  Indiana  from  Pennsylvania.  To  John  and  Isabel  Rigsby  a  son  and 
daughter  were  born,  the  former  being  Franklin  A.,  mentioned  above.  The 
daughter  is  Mary,  wife  of  John  Keeler,  a  farmer  of  this  neighborhood.  For 
ten  years  or  more  our  subject  and  wife  have  been  faithful  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  at  College  Corner.  In  his  political  affiliations 
Mr.  Rigsby  is  a  Republican. 

STEPHEN  GARDNER. 

For  almost  his  whole  life,  over  seventy  years,  Stephen  Gardner  has  been 
numbered  among  the  citizens  of  Center  township,  Union  county.  His  birth 
occurred  in  his  parental  home,  nearly  opposite  from  his  present  residence, 
just  across  the  turnpike,  in  fact,  the  date  of  the  event  being  February  13, 
1828.  Until  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age  he  remained  on  the  old  home- 
stead, learning  in  a  practical  manner  the  various  duties  pertaining  to  agri- 
culture, and  laying  the  foundations  of  a  future  which  was  to  be  patterned 
after  the  admirable  doctrines  and  policy  of  the  Quakers,  for  his  ancestors 
were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  has  always  been  an  earnest 
believer  in  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  has  sought  on  all  occasions  to  put 
into  practice  the  noble  principles  of  peace,  kindness,  justice  and  love  toward 
others,  which  his  parents  inculcated   in  his  youthful  mind. 

The  education  of  Mr.  Gardner  was  such  as  the  country  schools  of  his 
day  afforded,  supplemented  by  a  course  m  an  academy  at  Newport  (now 
Fountain  City),  Indiana.  In  1851  he  went  west  as  far  as  the  state  of  Iowa 
and  continued  to  reside  there  for  a  period  of  nine  years.     At  the  expiration 


372  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  four  years  there,  however,  he  returned  to  Ohio  and  married,  on  the  i  5th 
of  September,  1855,  Miss  Johanna  Vaughan,  then  of  Morrow  count}',  but  a 
native  of  Columbiana  county,  Ohio.  The  young  couple  lived  in  Cedar  county, 
Iowa,  for  some  five  years,  our  subject  being  occupied  in  farming  and  carpen- 
tering. The  latter  trade  he  had  "  picked  up  "  by  himself  while  on  the  farm. 
Before  leaving  the  neighborhood  of  his  birthplace  he  had  taught  school  suc- 
cessfully, and,  while  in  Iowa,  he  was  similarly  occupied   for  several  winters. 

In  June,  i860,  he  returned  to  this  county  in  order  to  take  charge  of  his 
father's  farm,  as  the  senior  man  desired  to  transfer  the  burden  to  the  sturdy 
shoulders  of  the  son.  Twenty-seven  years  rolled  by,  however,  ere  the  ven- 
erable man  was  called  to  his  final  rest,  he  being  over  ninety-six  years  old  at 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1887.  He  enjoyed  excellent  health  almost  to  the 
last,  and  loved  to  work  in  his  little  tinsmith's  shop,  which  he  had  built  on 
the  farm.  The  homestead  comprises  sixty-seven  acres,  well  tiled  and 
improved,  and  kept  in  fine  condition.  Fifteen  years  ago  the  owner  erected 
his  comfortable  dwelling,  and  from  time  to  time  he  has  remodeled  and  recon- 
structed the  barns  and  other  farm  buildings  on  the  place.  In  addition  to  this 
property  he  owns  another  farm  of  forty  acres,  situated  near  the  railroad.  He 
has  raised  a  general  line  of  crops,  and  for  some  time  was  extensively  engaged 
in  raising  hogs. 

A  peculiar  fact  in  reference  to  Mr.  Gardner  and  two  of  his  sons  is  that 
they  represent  among  them  the  three  leading  political  parties.  Formerly  our 
subject  was  an  ardent  Republican  and  voted  last  for  Blaine,  in  the  presiden- 
tial election  of  1888,  but  since  then  he  has  sided  with  the  Prohibitionists,  and 
has  often  attended  the  conventions  of  the  party,  frequently  as  a  delegate. 
Besides  being  present  at  state  assemblages,  he  went  to  Indianapolis  and  Cin- 
cinnati, to  the  national  conventions,  and  has  been  very  active  and  interested 
in  the  success  of  his  party.  His  eldest  son,  Allison,  who  operates  the  saw- 
mill at  Cottage  Grove,  in  this  township,  is  a  strong  Republican;  and  Aaron, 
the  next  son,  is  as  influential  in  the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party  as  is  his 
father  in  the  Prohibition  party.  Allison  married  Alberta  Albert,  daughter  of 
John  Albert,  and  they  have  three  children.  Aaron,  a  farmer,  is  also 
engaged  in  the  grain  business  at  Cottage  Grove.  His  wife  is  Minnie,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  Sanford,  Jr.,  and  their  union  is  blessed  with  two  children. 
Lina  S.  and  Herbert,  the  younger  children  of  our  subject,  are  still  living  at 
home. 

THOMAS  W.  ROBERTS. 

Richmond's  well  known  and  popular  contractor  and  builder  has  a 
remarkable  record,  and  from  the  study  of  his  lifa  history  one  may  learn  valu- 
able lessons.  The  spirit  of  self-help  is  the  source  of  all  genuine  worth  in  the 
individual    and  is  the  means   of  bringing    to    man    success    when    he    has 


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no  advantages  of  Wealth  or  influence  to  aid  him.  It  illustrates  in  no  uncer- 
tain manner  what  it  is  possible  to  accomplish  when  perseverance  and  deter- 
mination form  the  keynote  to  a  man's  life.  Depending  on  his  own  resources, 
looking  for  no  outside  aid  or  support,  he  rises  from  comparative  obscurity  to 
a  place  of  prominence  both  in  the  commercial  and  industrial  world. 

Mr.  Roberts  is  numbered  among  Wayne  county's  native  sons,  his  birth 
having  occurred  on  a  farm  a  mile  west  of  Richmond,  December  i6,  1822. 
The  family  is  of  Welsh  descent  and  was  founded  in  America  by  the  great- 
grandfather of  our  subject,  Walter  Roberts,  who  when  a  young  man  left  his 
home  in  Wales  and  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the  New  World.  He  settled  in 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  afterward  became  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
Butler  county,  Ohio,  his  home  being  near  Hamilton.  By  occupation  he  was 
a  farmer.  Thomas  Roberts,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  in  1838,  at  the 
age  of  eighty  years.  He  had  come  to  this  city  about  1808  and  was  also  an 
agriculturist,  owning  a  considerable  tract  of  the  land  upon  which  the 
city  is  now  builded.  In  his  religious  connections  he  was  a  Friend.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Ann  Whitson,  a  native  of  Long  Island,  and  to  them  were  born 
eight  children,  five  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  parents  of  our  subject 
were  Solomon  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Bond)  Roberts.  The  father  was  born  in 
South  Carolina  and  with  the  family  came  to  Wayne  county  at  an  early  epoch 
in  its  pioneer  history.  He  spent  the  great  part  of  his  life  in  Richmond,  but 
died  in  Madison  county,  Indiana,  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years. 
His  made  farming  his  life  work  and  in  that  pursuit  gained  a  comfortable 
property.  Like  the  others  of  this  family,  he  adhered  to  the  religious  faith  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  his  life  was  cast  in  harmony  therewith.  In  his 
family  were  thirteen  children  and  four  are  yet  living,  but  the  greater  number 
died  in  childhood. 

Thomas  W.  Roberts  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm, west  of  Richmond, 
and  early  became  familiar  with  all  the  duties  and  labors  that  fall  to  the  lot 
of  the  agriculturist.  He  aided  in  the  labors  of  field  and  meadow,  and  while 
not  thus  engaged  attended  the  schools  of  the  neighborhood.  When  about 
seventeen. years  of  age  he  began  learning  the  carpenter's  trade,  completing 
his  apprenticeship  before  attaining  his  majority.  He  became  an  expert 
workman,  which  made  his  services  always  in  demand.  In  March,  1847,  he 
came  to  Richmond,  and  soon  afterward  began  contracting  and  building  on  his 
own  account.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  prominently  connected  with  the 
building  interests  of  the  city.  He  soon  won  the  public  confidence,  by  reason 
of  his  excellent  workmanship  and  his  fidelity  to  the  terms  of  a  contract,  and 
his  patronage  steadily  and  rapidly  increased.  He  employed  a  large  force  of 
workmen,  and  many  of  the  finest  buildings  of  the  city  stand   as  monuments 


374  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

to  his  thrift  and  enterprise,  among  the  number  being  the  Reeves  Library. 
His  business  integrity  and  reliability  were  above  question,  and  his  well 
directed  efforts,  sound  judgment  and  capable  management  have  brought  to 
him  most  gratifying  success,  so  that  he  is  now  numbered  among  Richmond's 
wealthy  citizens. 

Mr.  Roberts  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lucinda  Lough,  a  native  of 
Wayne  township,  and  they  have  one  son,  Charles  A.,  who  is  now  engaged 
in  the  painting  business  in  Richmond.  Since  1852  Mr.  Roberts  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  also  belongs  to  the 
encampment.  His  wife  holds  membership  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church. 
He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  and  as  park  commissioner, 
and  is  actively  interested  in  all  measures  tending  toward  the  social,  moral, 
intellectual  and  material  advancement  of  the  city.  He  withholds  his  support 
from  no  movement  for  the  public  good  and  has  largely  promoted  the  general 
welfare.  He  is  a  social  and  affable  gentleman,  whose  friends  are  legion,  and 
all  honor  and  esteem  him  for  his  many  virtues  and  genuine  worth. 

HON.  JOSEPH  W.  CONNAWAY. 

More  than  thirty  years  ago,  Joseph  White  Connaway,  the  subject  of  this 
article,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  during  this  long  intervening  period  he 
has  been  actively  engaged  in  practice  in  Liberty,  Union  county.  For  four 
years  he  was  justice  of  the  peace,  and  in  1879  he  was  elected  to  the  Indiana 
state  legislature,  from  Union  and  Fayette  counties.  He  received  a  majority 
of  about  four  hundred  votes  over  the  candidate  of  the  combined  forces  of  the 
Democrats  and  Greenbackers.  For  many  years  he  has  been  looked  upon  as 
a  "  wheel-horse"  in  the  Republican  ranks  in  this  state,  and  he  has  done  all 
within  his  power  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  party  in  whose  hands  he 
believes  lies  the  welfare  of  the  public.  Attending  all  of  the  important  local 
and  state  conventions,  acting  as  chairman  of  the  central  committee  of  the 
county  for  two  years,  making  speeches  and  aiding  in  various  ways  during 
presidential  campaigns,  as  he  has  done,  no  one  can  doubt  his  zeal  or  efficiency. 
Not  only  in  Indiana  has  he  given  his  efforts  for  the  benefit  of  presidential 
nominees,  for  his  labors  have  extended  into  Ohio,  and  have  been  attended 
with  success.  When  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  state  senate  he  was  defeated 
by  one  vote. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Charles  and  Maria  (White)  Connaway, 
natives  of  South  Carolina  and  Fayette  county,  Indiana,  respectively.  The 
mother's  parents  were  Joseph  and  Mary  (Heaton)  White,  early  settlers  of 
Fayette  county,  and  originally  of  Maryland.  Joseph  White  was  a  cooper  by 
trade,  but  after  coming  to  this  state  he  gave  his  chief  attention  to  the  culti- 
vation of  his  farm,  four  miles  frorii   Connersville.      He   died  there  at  eighty 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  ;575 

years  of  age  and  was  survived  but  three  weeks  by  his  wife.  Charles  Conna- 
way  was  eight  or  ten  years  old  when  he  came  west  with  his  father,  James 
Connaway,  and  the  family  resided  upon  a  homestead  situated  about  two  miles 
southwest  of  Brownsville.  James  Connaway  lived  to  attain  his  sevent}-- fifth 
year.  When  eighteen  years  old  Charles  Connaway  returned  to  his  native 
state,  making  the  journey  on  horseback,  but  he  merely  went  on  business  and 
within  a  few  years  he  had  married  a  Fayette  county  lady  and  had  settled  in 
Liberty  township,  on  a  farm  some  five  miles  west  of  Liberty.  He  had  ten 
sisters,  and  his  only  brother,  Zachariah,  is  still  living,  at  Springville,  Indiana. 
Charles  Connaway  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years.  His  first  wife,  Maria, 
departed  this  life  when  forty-eight  years  old,  and  Mr.  Connaway  afterward 
married  Margaret  Brookbank,  since  deceased.  Of  his  six  sons  and  four 
daughters  all  survive  but  two,  and  all  were  born  in  Union  county.  John 
served  in  the  army  for  three  years  during  the  civil  war  and  James  McKeen 
was  a  soldier  for  one  year. 

Joseph  White  Connaway  was  born  September  8,  1836,  in  this  county, 
and  during  his  minority  he  assisted  in  the  care  and  cultivation  of  the  old 
homestead.  From  1859  to  1861  he  was  a  student  in  an  academy,  after  which 
he  entered  Miami  University.  One  of  his  fellow  students  was  Staff  Officer 
Scott,  now  of  the  United  States  Navy,  who  participated  in  the  glorious  vic- 
tory at  Manila,  May  i,  1898,  under  Dewey.  Another  friend  and  classmate 
was  Miles  Johnson,  a  prominent  member  of  the  bar  in  Cincinnati.  Still 
another  classmate  was  Rev.  David  Stanton  Tappan,  the  present  president  of 
Miami  University.  Professor  Swing,  late  of  Chicago,  was  instructor  in  Latin 
and  Greek.  Mr.  Connaway  came  to  Liberty  in  the  winter  of  1864-5  and 
took  charge  of  the  high  school  here.  Having  studied  law  with  Jonathan 
Gardner  and  T.  W.  Bennett,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1866,  and  at 
once  entered  upon  a  practice  which  has  grown  constantly  with  the  passing 
years.  One  of  his  firmest  principles  has  ever  been  that  he  would  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  liquor  traffic,  and  he  has  never  accepted  a  case  that 
in  the  remotest  manner  favored  intemperance.  He  can  truthfully  say,  what 
very  few  men  can,  that  he  has  never  been  inside  of  a  saloon.  Thirty  years 
ago  he  joined  the  Masonic  order,  in  which  he  stands  very  high.  He  is  a 
member  of  Liberty  Lodge,  No.  58,  and  has  been  master  of  the  same  several 
times,  and  is  the  present  high  priest  of  Liberty  Chapter,  No.  42,  R.  A.  M. 
The  last-mentioned  position  he  had  occupied  previously,  and  he  has  been  a 
delegate  to  the  grand  lodge  and  chapter. 

On  the  8th  of  April,  1868,  Mr.  Connaway  married  Miss  Isaleen  Crist, 
daughter  of  Judge  William  Crist,  who  was  associate  judge  of  this  county, 
and  who  died  in  1858.  In  his  early  life  'he  was  a  successful  carpenter  and 
builder,  owning   several   houses  and  erecting  many  of   the  first    buildings  put 


376  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

up  in  the  county.  Cass,  the  eldest  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Connaway,  is  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Griffiths  &  Potts,  of  Indianapolis;  Harry  Burton, 
the  next  son,  is  postmaster  at  Morristown,  Indiana;  Lura,  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter, is  the  wife  of  Joseph  L.  Elliott,  of  Middletou,  Ohio;  Verla,  who  is  at 
home,  is  quite  a  musician,  and  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Presbyterian 
church;  Garfield  Arthur  was  born  on  the  day  that  our  loved  martyr  presi- 
dent was  nominated;  and  Leah,  Carol  and  Cora,  and  two  who  died  in 
infancy, — Stella  and  Earl, — complete  the  family.  Mrs.  Connaway  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

REV.   ARTHUR  A.   CURME. 

It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  present  to  our  readers  a  sketch  of 
the  life  of  one  of  whom  the  state  of  Indiana  may  well  be  proud;  one  who  has 
filled  his  daily  life  with  brotherly  love  and  Christian  charity,  that  has  been  a 
light  guiding  many  to  the  better  way,  while  at  the  same  time  he  has  proved 
himself  a  financier  of  no  small  ability  and  now  stands  at  the  head  of  the  suc- 
cessful business  men  of  to-day.  Such  a  man  is  the  Rev.  Arthur  A.  Curme, 
of  Richmond,  Indiana.  Widely  known  both  in  business  and  social  circles, 
his  life  is  well  worthy  of  emulation  by  the  young  men  of  his  age  who  are 
desirous  of  winning  success  and  at  the  same  time  leaving  a  name  that  will  be 
loved  and  honored. 

Mr.  Curme  is  a  son  of  Job  and  Jane  S.  (Foote)  Curme,  and  was  born 
September  8,  1835,  ^t  Cerne-Abbas,  Dorset  county,  England,  came  to  this 
country  when  a  lad  of  eleven  years,  and  even  at  that  tender  age  took  up  the 
problems  of  life  to  solve.  Firmly  impressed  with  religious  convictions,  he 
early  became  a  member  of  the  church  and  has  made  the  teachings  of  Christ 
his  guide  in  all  the  affairs  of  life.  He  was  industrious  by  nature,  and  his 
steady  adherence  to  the  duty  in  hand  soon  placed  him  in  an  advantageous 
position,  and  his  rise  has  been  steady  and  constant  until  he  represents,  as  the 
head  of  the  large  drug  house  of  Curme  &  Company,  the  tj'pical  business  man. 

Job  Curme  was  born  in  England,  in  181 1,  and  grew  to  manhood  there. 
In  1S34  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Jane  S.  Foote,  also  a  native  of 
that  country.  In  1846  they  sailed  for  America  with  their  family,  consisting 
of  Arthur  (our  subject),  Eliza  and  Amelia.  The  mother  died  in  Richmond, 
and  the  father  took  a  second  wife,  namely.  Miss  Mary  Horner,  now  deceased. 
The  father  was  engaged  in  the  tanning  business,  both  in  his  native  country 
and  that  of  his  adoption,  until  about  1879,  when  he  purchased  a  farm  near 
Chester,  Wayne  county,  where  he  resided  until  1895,  when  became  to  Rich- 
mond, and  he  now  lives  with  our  subject,  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety 
years. 

An  incident  which  occurred  at  the  time  of  their  arrival  in  this  country  is 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  377 

Avorthy  of  mention:  The  family  landed  at  New  Orleans  in  April,  1846,  and 
were  to  take  a  boat  to  Cincinnati,  where  they  had  decided  to  make  their 
future  home.  On  setting  out  for  the  boat  the  father  led  the  way,  first  giving 
a  large  bundle  into  the  care  of  Arthur,  then  about  eleven  years  of  age,  and 
expecting  him  to  follow.  On  arriving  at  the  boat  the  parents  found  the 
steam  up  and  everything  in  readiness  to  pull  out  from  the  wharf  for  the  voy- 
age; but  what  was  their  consternation  to  find  Arthur  missing!  The  captain 
kindly  consented  to  hold  the  boat  for  a  time  until  a  search  was  made  for  the 
missing  boy, — in  fact  held  it  for  several  hours,  while  the  frantic  father 
searched  the  city.  In  the  meantime,  young  Arthur,  after  receiving  his  bun- 
dle, started  after  his  father,  but  was  so  intent  in  watching  the  many  strange 
sights  to  be  seen  in  the  city  that  he  was  soon  left  far  behind.  Not  at  all  con- 
cerned at  being  alone  in  the  large,  unknown  metropolis,  he  sauntered  along 
feasting  his  eyes  on  all  he  saw,  in  no  hurry  to  reach  the  boat  and  quite 
unconscious  of  the  distress  his  absence  was  causing.  He  was  walking  leis- 
urel}',  taking  in  the  sights,  when  discovered  by  his  father,  who  had  abandoned 
all  hope  of  ever  seeing  his  son  again.  The  boat  had  started  when  the 
father  caught  Arthur  in  his  arms,  ran  on  a  boat  near  and  called  to  the 
captain,  who  swung  his  boat  around  so  they  were  able  to  climb  upon  the 
rear  end. 

Arthur  A.  Curme  was  early  trained  to  habits  of  industry,  working  dur- 
ing the  summer  and  autumn,  and  attending  school  in  winter,  thus  obtaining 
his  education.  As  he  was  studious,  as  well  as  observant,  he  acquired  a  fund 
of  information  that  was  the  foundation  of  a  broader  education,  which  has 
been  secured  through  reading  and  contact  with  the  world.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the  trade  of  tanner  and  currier  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  remaining  there  four  years  and  a  half  and  becoming  thoroughly 
conversant  with  all  the  details  of  the  trade.  He  then  became  a  salesman  in 
a  wholesale  leather,  saddlery,  hardware  and  carriage-trimming  establishment. 
In  1857  he  moved  to  Richmond,  where  he  began  business  in  a  small  way  by 
opening  a  leather  store  on  Pearl  street,  in  partnership  with  his  father,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Curme  &  Son.  His  only  capital  at  this  time  was  two  hun- 
dred dollars  in  money  and  a  reputation  for  honesty  and  Christian  character 
which  enabled  him  to  obtain  credit  readily  for  such  goods  as  he  needed  in 
starting  him  in  business.  He  prospered  to  such  an  extent  in  this  store  that 
he  soon  purchased  a  lot  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Whitewater  river  and  resumed 
his  trade  of  tanning,  beginning  with  one  vat  and  increasing  the  number  one 
at  a  time  as  he  saw  it  was  needed  by  his  steadily  increasing  business,  until  it 
resulted  in  the  large  incorporated  tannery  of  Curme,  Dunn  &  Company,  with 
a  capital  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

This  large  plant,  of  which  he  was  president,  gave  employment  to  fifty 


378  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

hands;  and  they  added  a  factory  for  the  manufacture  of  horse  collars,  in 
which  forty  hands  were  employed.  They  found  a  ready  market  for  their 
goods  all  over  the  United  States.  In  1885  he  went  to  Pittsburg  to  accept  a 
position  in  the  employ  of  J.  C.  Lapp  &  Son,  large  harness-leather  tanners  of 
that  city,  with  whom  he  remained  two  and  a  half  years  as  traveling  sales- 
man. He  resigned  there  and  went  to  Cincinnati  to  take  the  management  of 
the  tannery  of  W.  C.  Kennett,  and  this  he  successfully  conducted  for  ten 
years,  when  he  once  more  came  to  Richmond,  and,  having  tired  of  the  tan- 
ning business,  became  connected  with  the  firm  of  Curme  &  Company  in  the 
drug  store,  as  the  head  of  the  firm.  Their  store  is  in  a  commodious, 
pleasant  location  on  North  Eighth  street,  and  the  drugs,  etc.,  carried  by 
them  are  first-class  in  every  respect  and  merit  the  large  patronage  they 
enjoy. 

Arthur  A.  Curme,  as  has  been  previously  stated,  was  of  a  deeply  religious 
nature,  and  his  youthful  mind  was  much  given  to  dwelling  on  serious  thoughts, 
and  he  was  a  careful  Bible  student.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  the  Salem  church,  now  the  Raper 
chapel,  situated  on  the  corner  of  Elm  and  Findlay  streets  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  he  was  closely  identified  with  the  history  of  these  organizations 
until  he  moved  to  Richmond,  in  1857,  and  joined  the  Pearl  Street  Methodist 
church,  of  Richmond,  where  he  served  the  Sunday-school  first  as  librarian 
and  later  as  teacher.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Union  chapel  on 
Main  street  and  class-leader  in  the  same  for  a  period  of  five  years.  Later  he 
was  class-leader  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  at  Central  church 
as  long  as  that  organization  was  in  existence.  After  it  was  discontinued  he 
united  with  Grace  church,  corner  of  Tenth  and  North  A  streets.  He  has  also 
been  actively  engaged  in  organizing  new  societies  throughout  the  surrounding 
country,  and  his  efforts  have  been  blessed  with  a  religious  awakening  that 
must  have  been  highly  gratifying.  He  was  connected  with  Finley  chapel,  on 
Clinton  street,  and  when  scarcely  seventeen  was  appointed  a  teacher  in  the 
Sunday-school.  He  had  become  a  speaker  of  pleasing  address,  and  his 
remarks  met  with  such  favor  that  the  Christian  entertainment  or  picnic  was 
considered  incomplete  without  his  name  on  the  program  for  a  speech.  This 
public  speaking  was  an  invaluable  aid  to  him  in  later  years,  and  was  the 
stepping-stone  which  led  to  his  being  licensed  to  exhort  when  but  eighteen 
years  old.  This  license  was  granted  by  the  Rev.  Moses  Smith  and  the  board 
of  Finley  chapel;  and  about  the  same  time  he  was  made  leader  of  the  young 
men's  prayer-meeting.  He  frequently  assisted  the  ministers  in  conducting 
religious  services  in  different  parts  of  the  city  and  acquired  a  iiuency  and 
smoothness  of  delivery  that  would  have  insured  his  success  had  he  determined 
upon  this  as  his  life's  work. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  370' 

In  1863  he  went  to  the  village  of  Chester,  near  Richmond,  and  organ- 
ized a  Sabbath-school,  which  soon  led  to  the  formation  of  a  church,  and  in 
one  year  a  small  but  neat  frame  church  edifice  was  erected,  which  still  exists. 
The  village  of  Dover,  in  the  same  county  (Wayne),  can  tell  of  similar  minis- 
trations by  him;  and  he  has  also  labored  at  Beech  Grove,  Middleboro  and 
Sevastopol,  now  in  the  seventh  ward  of  Richmond,  sowing  seed  which  has 
multiplied  a  thousand-fold.  The  last  mentioned  is  now  called  the  Third 
church  of  Richmond,  one  of  the  flourishing  churches  of  the  city. 

After  this  he  transferred  his  labors  to  New  Madison,  Darke  county,  Ohio, 
near  Richmond,  Indiana.  Here  he  found  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
building  abandoned  and  advertised  for  sale,  on  account  of  the  heavy  debt, 
being  at  this  time  in  the  hands  of  the  sheriff.  At  once  he  reorganized  the 
church  and  Sunday-school  and  placed  them  on  a  working  basis.  He  can- 
vassed among  the  citizens  of  New  Madison  for  means  to  liquidate  the  debt; 
but  the  greater  part  of  the  citizens  failed  to  contribute,  owing  to  former  mis- 
managements. He  then  considered  the  novel  plan  of  holding  a  camp-meet- 
ing, which  he  conducted  for  several  days  in  the  week  and  on  Sunday,  charg- 
ing an  admission  fee,  from  which  he  realized  more  than  enough  to  pay  the 
entire  debt.  The  church  was  re-dedicated  and  the  society  still  remains  in  a 
flourishing  condition. 

Rev.  Arthur  A.  Curme  has  led  a  life  of  great  activity  in  the  social  realm, 
as  in  business  and  religion.  It  seems  well  nigh  impossible  for  one  person  to 
achieve  so  much.  In  Woodward  Lodge,  No.  212,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  where 
he  ranks  as  past  grand,  he  has  been  one  of  the  most  energetic  members, 
being  one  of  the  founders  of  that  body  and  representing  it  at  the  grand  lodge 
of  Indiana  for  several  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  building  committee 
during  the  erection  of  the  fine  Odd  Fellows  temple,  at  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Eighth  streets,  dedicated  to  the  use  of  that  order,  in  Richmond.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  board  of  control  of  the  lodge,  and  since  its  organization, 
thirty-seven  years  ago,  has  held  the  office  either  of  secretary  or  president. 
He  was  made  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  order  on  the  evening  of 
August  26,  1870,  at  a  special  meeting  called  for  that  purpose  by  Coeur  de 
Lion  Lodge,  No.  8,  of  Richmond.  At  that  meeting  seven  members  were 
present  where  now  the  membership  numbers  two  hundred.  From  July  i, 
1872,  to  December,  1S82,  he  served  as  trustee,  and  was  elected  as  trustee, 
and  was  elected  chancellor  commander  in  December,  1870.  He  entered  the 
grand  lodge  in  1874  and  at  once  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  proceedings  of 
that  august  assemblage,  attending  every  session  since  that  time.  At  the  first 
session  he  was  appointed  grand  inner  guard,  and  elected  to  the  office  of  grand 
prelate,  the  first  man  to  receive  that  office,  and  he  held  it  two  terms.  At  the 
semi-annual  session  in  1875  ^^r-  Curme  made  a  motion  to  hold  the  next  regu- 


SSO  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

lar  session  of  the  grand  lodge  in  Richmond,  and  after  a  warm  opposition  his 
motion  was  carried,  by  a  small  majority,  much  to  the  pleasure  of  the  home 
lodge.  This  was  the  only  time  a  session  of  this  grand  body  was  ever  held 
outside  of  Indianapolis.  The  delegates  were  entertained  in  a  royal  manner 
and  received  a  lasting  impression  of  the  hospitality  of  their  hosts  at  Rich- 
mond. They  elected  Mr.  Curme  grand  master  of  the  exchequer,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  was  re-elected,  while  a  year  later  he  became  grand  vice 
chancellor.  At  the  annual  session  held  in  1879  he  became  the  executive 
head  of  the  order  in  Indiana,  and  his  administration  was  attended  with  awak- 
ened interest  among  the  lodges,  many  new  members  being  added  and  new 
lodges  organized.  In  1883  he  was  still  further  honored  by  being  elected 
supreme  representative  to  the  supreme  lodge  of  the  world.  Knights  of  Pythias, 
for  four  years,  an  office  he  filled  with  credit  to  himself  and  the  entire  satisfac- 
tion of  the  grand  lodge  of  Indiana.  His  success  has  been  almost  phenomenal, 
and  is  due  to  his  habits  of  application  and  perseverance  which  have  character- 
ized all  his  operations  in  life.  He  still  takes  an  active  interest  in  all  the 
workings  of  the  lodge  and  finds  many  ways  to  advance  its  interests. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  the  five  Richmond  building  asso- 
ciations, and  president  of  each  of  them.  For  seventeen  consecutive  years 
he  represented  the  fifth  ward  in  the  city  council.  He  also  served  on  the 
board  of  public  improvements  and  on  other  important  committees.  He  has 
been  closely  identified  with  all  the  public  improvements  that  have  been  made 
in  Richmond,  and  was  a  most  acceptable  secretary  to  the  board  of  trade  for 
the  term  of  one  year. 

On  October  26,  1856,  Mr.  Curme  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Elizabeth  ].  Nicholas,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  the  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
William  Nicholas.  They  have  eight  exceptionally  bright  children,  who  have 
received  their  watchful  and  loving  care.  They  are:  Professor  George  O.,  a 
graduate  of  the  Richmond  high  school,  of  De  Pauw  University  at  Green- 
castle,  and  of  Michigan  University  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  a  post-graduate  of  a 
course  at  Berlin,  Germany.  He  taught  two  years  in  Jennings  Seminary  at 
Aurora,  Illinois;  two  years  at  the  State  University  of  Washington  at  Seattle, 
where  he  was  professor  of  Latin,  Greek  and  German;  eleven  years  in  Cor- 
nell College  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa,  teaching  German  and  French;  and  in 
1895  he  accepted  a  chair  in  the  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston, 
Illinois,  where  he  is  professor  of  German.  He  is  an  educator  of  ability  and  a 
successful  writer,  being  the  author  of  a  number  of  well  known  books.  He 
was  selected  to  read  an  inscription  on  the  Runic  stone  discovered  in  Minne- 
sota in  1898,  after  all  others  had  failed.  "He  is  also  a  speaker  of  some  pre- 
tension, having  delivered  several  well  received  lectures  upon  educational  and 
scientific  subjects. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  A^D   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  381 

The  second  child,  Nellie,  married  Rev.  Frank  H.  Parris,  a  clergyman  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  She  was  a  graduate  of  Jennings  Seminary, 
a  lady  of  many  excellent  attainments  and  an  earnest  church  and  Sunday- 
school  worker,  especially  interested  in  the  Epworth  League.  Her  husband 
died  in  1893,  and  she  departed  this  life  in  1895,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven 
years.  Jennie,  a  child  of  much  promise,  died  in  her  eleventh  year.  Rosa  M. 
is  the  wife  of  David  A.  Thomas,  of  this  city.  Arthur  A.,  Jr.,  received  his 
education  in  the  Richmond  high  school  and  his  professional  education  in  the 
Cincinnati  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana, 
and  at  Dighton,  Kansas.  He  is  the  official  stenographer  of  the  Wayne  county, 
Indiana,  circuit  court,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  stenographers  in 
the  United  States.  Lula  is  a  graduate  of  the  Wesleyan  Female  College  at 
Cincinnati,  and  of  Cornell  College,  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa.  She  taught  in 
Jennings  Seminary,  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  and  in  Taylor  University,  at  Upland, 
Indiana,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Rev.  B.  H.  Brentnall,  pastor  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  at  Preston,  Iowa.  Maggie  is  a  graduate  of  Jennings  Seminary 
and  the  wife  of  Professor  W.  A.  Wirtz,  professor  of  German  and  French  at 
Parson  College,  at  Fairfield,  Iowa.  Bessie,  after  attending  Jennings  Semi- 
nary and  Taylor  University,  has  been  a  student  at  the  Cincinnati  Conserva- 
tory of  Music,  where  she  will  graduate  this  year,  1899.  On  the  22d  of  Feb- 
ruary, this  year,  she  was  married  to  Percy  H.  Gray,  of  that  city. 

SAMUEL  MOORE. 

Born  July  22,  1816,  on  the  farm  which  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
him  in  Boston  township,  Wayne  county,  Samuel  Moore  is  therefore  one  of 
the  oldest  living  pioneers  of  this  section.  He  is  a  really  remarkable  man  in 
many  ways,  and  now,  though  in  his  eighty-third  year,  he  possesses  more 
energy  and  general  ability  than  many  men  of  half  his  years.  Though  he 
hires  assistants  in  the  management  of  his  homestead,  he  still  e.xercises  a 
thorough  supervision  of  the  whole  and  does  a  surprising  amount  of  hard 
work  himself.  He  belongs  to  that  active  class  of  agriculturists  who  are 
never  ready  to  retire  and  settle  down  to  "  take  life  easy,"  which  seems  to  be 
the  goal  ever  in  view  to  multitudes  of  farmers;  he  is  not  afraid  of  work  and 
would  not  be  contented  to  live  in  quiet  idleness  and  luxury,  for  he  realizes 
that  work  is  the  salvation  of  mankind  and  idleness  is  a  curse  to  one's  self  and 
the  community.  No  one  can  justly  accuse  him  of  not  having  done  his  share 
in  the  development  of  this  township,  and  at  all  times  he  has  discharged  his 
full  duty  as  a  citizen. 

Joel  Moore,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Surry  county. 
North  Carolina,  and  was  married  in  that  state  to  Mary  Tucker,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania.    They  removed  to  Indiana  as  early  as    1810,  and  entered  the  land,  a 


382  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

part  of  which  came  into  the  possession  of  Samuel  Moore  later.  Here  Joel 
Moore  passed  the  rest  of  his  life,  his  death  taking  place  in  1853.  He  was  a 
cooper  by  trade  and  worked  at  that  calling  to  some  extent  and,  more- 
over, he  built  a  small  distillery  and  made  whisky,  as  many  of  his  neighbors 
did  at  that  time,  for  it  was  the  one  product  that  could  be  turned  into  ready 
cash  in  those  primitive  days.  In  the  home  neighborhood  it  commanded 
from  fifteen  to  eighteen  cents  a  gallon,  and  even  in  Cincinnati  not  much 
higher  prices  could  be  obtained  for  the  liquor.  As  a  boy,  Samuel  Moore 
himself  worked  in  the  distillery,  helping  his  father.  It  was  then  considered 
nothing  out  of  the  common  for  a  good  church  member  to  be  employed  in  such 
manufacture  and  sale,  and  it  needs  cause  no  surprise,  this  being  the  case, 
when  the  fact  is  stated  that  Joel  Moore  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of 
the  first  Baptist  church  in  this  vicinity  and  that  he  was  a  zealous  worker  in 
the  cause. 

Samuel  Moore  is  the  only  survivor  of  his  father's  large  family,  though 
they  all  lived  to  marry  and  have  families,  and,  with  the  exception  of  Eliza- 
beth and  James  (the  latter  of  whom  died  in  Cass  county,  Michigan,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-two  years)  all  of  them  remained  in  Wayne  county.  John  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty-six;  Alfred  when  about  thirty-five;  William,  at  thirty- 
five;  Mary  and  Ruth  when  about  thirty,  and  Tempe  at  thirty-five. 

Upon  starting  out  upon  his  independent  career  Samuel  Moore  was  given 
eighty  acres  of  the  old  farm  by  his  father,  who  paid  oft  the  other  heirs. 
Later  Samuel  Moore  bought  his  brother  William's  eighty-acre  farm,  and  in 
the  autumn  of  1858  he  moved  into  the  substantial  house  which  he  had  built 
himself,  and  which  for  forty  years  has  sheltered  his  family.  As  time 
went  on,  and  as  he  prospered,  he  added  to  his  original  farm  another  tract  of 
eighty  acres,  on  the  west,  and  he  now  owns  still  another  place, — a  quarter- 
section  of  good  farm  land  in  Harrison  township.  Union  county.  He  has 
dealt  extensively  in  live  stock  and  even  to  this  day  feeds  and  raises  a  large 
number  of  cattle.  He  follows  in  his  father's  footsteps  in  the  matter  of 
politics,  and  is  a  Democrat  of  the  old  Jacksonian  stripe. 

September  9,  1838,  Samuel  Moore  married  Miss  Margaret  Matilda 
Jones,  daughter  of  Smith  Jones.  She  was  reared  to  womanhood  in  Union 
county,  and  her  death  occurred  May  21,  1851.  The  eldest  son,  James  Will- 
iam, who  had  continued  to  live  with  his  parents  on  the  farm,  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-six  years;  David  Thomas  died  at  thirteen  years;  Mary  Elizabeth 
is  Mrs.  Arbuckle,  of  Indianapolis;  Nancy  Jane  is  Mrs.  Nickson,  of  Alexan- 
dria, Indiana;  Margaret  Lorena  is  Mrs.  Saulsbury,  of  Anderson,  Indiana;  and 
Sarah  Kathrine,  widow  of  William  M.  Starr,  is  now  keeping  house  for  her 
aged  father.  She  became  the  mother  of  one  son,  Leonidas  Clay  Starr,  who 
was  a  fine  business  man  and  electrician,  and  who  was  accidentally  killed  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  383 

San  Francisco,  California,  in  March,  1899,  his  untimely  death  ending  a  life 
of  much  promise  and  bringing  unmitigated  grief  to  his  devoted  mother  and 
to  a  large  circle  of  friends.  The  second  marriage  of  Samuel  Moore  was 
celebrated  October  31,  1852,  his  wife  being  Mary  Butt,  of  Union  county. 
She  departed  this  life  June  8,  1896,  and  left  four  children,  namely:  Ann 
Eliza,  wife  of  Jonas  Goar,  of  East  Richmond;  Lydia  Alice,  Mrs.  Isaac 
Hunt,  of  Richmond;  Jacob  S.,  of  Dunkirk,  Indiana;  and  Minnie  Agnes, 
wife  of  Harry  Highley,  of  West  Richmond. 

GEORGE  M.   SINKS. 

George  M.  Sinks,  a  prominent  representative  of  the  business  interests  of 
■Connersville,  was  born  in  Bethel,  Clermont  county,  Ohio,  February  20, 
1846,  his  parents  being  Randolph  M.  and  Eleanor  H.  (Clarke)  Sinks.  His 
ancestral  history  may  be  traced  in  the  sketch  of  his  brother  A.  M.  Sinks, 
elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

Mr.  Sinks  of  this  review  was  reared  to  manhood  under  the  parental 
roof,  and  during  his  youth  he  entered  his  father's  store,  where  he  worked 
•during  the  periods  of  vacation,  attending  the  local  schools  during  the  scholas- 
tic year.  His  time  was  thus  passed  until  he  had  attained  the  age  of  thirteen, 
and  then  through  the  two  succeeding  years  he  gave  his  entire  time  to  the  task 
of  assisting  his  father  in  the  mercantile  establishment  which  was  so  long  a  factor 
in  thebusinesslifeof  the  town.  When  a  youth  of  only  fifteen,  however,  he  put 
.aside  all  personal  considerations  in  order  to  devote  himself  to  his  country's 
service,  enlisting  in  August,  1861,  as  a  member  of  Company  H,  Fifty-ninth 
■Ohio  Infantry.  He  continued  at  the  front  until  November,  1864,  when,  his 
.term  having  expired,  he  was  honorably  discharged.  The  principal  engage- 
ments in  which  he  participated  were  at  Pittsburg  Landing  and  Stone  river, 
and  after  the  latter  he  served  in  the  quartermaster's  department.  He 
(returned  home  at  the  expiration  of  his  term,  but  after  a  few  days  entered  the 
-quartermaster's  department  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  where  he  remained 
until  December,  1865.  He  was  then  employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  United 
•treasury  for  two  years. 

Since  1868  Mr.  Sinks  has  been  a  resident  of  Connersville.  Here  he 
joined  his  brother,  A.  M.  Sinks,  in  the  publication  of  The  Connersville 
Times,  which  paper  his  brother  had  purchased  a  short  time  previously,  and 
•continued  his  connection  with  that  journal,  either  as  part  or  sole  owner,  until 
.1875,  when  he  sold  out  and  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Connersville,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  for  eight  years,  being  appointed  by  President  Grant 
and  later  by  President  Hayes.  His  term  expired  in  1883,  and  retiring  from 
the  office  he  directed  his  energies  into  manufacturing  channels,  having  pre- 
viously become  a  stockholder  and  director  in  the   Indiana   Church  Furni- 


384  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ture  Company.  He  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer  in  1883,  and  contin- 
ued his  active  connection  with  the  business  until  the  fall  of  1898,  when  he 
resigned  the  office,  although  he  still  retains  his  stock  in  the  company  and  is 
a  member  of  its  board  of  directors.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Fayette  County  Banking  Company,  and  since  that  time  has  been  a  director 
and  vice-president. 

In  November,  1867,  Mr.  Sinks  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Elizabeth 
Holter,  of  Batavia,  Ohio,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three  daughters.  He 
has  been  accounted  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  Connersville  throughout  his 
residence  here,  and  has  given  his  aid  and  influence  to  many  measures  which 
have  promoted  the  public  good.  In  business  circles  he  sustains  a  most  envi- 
able reputation.  His  energetic  nature,  strong  determination,  sagacity  and 
capable  management  have  brought  to  him  a  handsome  competence.  He  car- 
ries forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes,  and  his  busi- 
ness methods  have  ever  been  in  strict  conformity  with  the  ethics  of  commer- 
cial life.  He  has  now  largely  laid  aside  business  care,  having  acquired  a 
handsome  competence  that  enables  him  to  retire  from  arduous  iabor. 

JESSE  CATES. 

The  name  of  Jesse  Cates  is  deeply  engraved  on  the  paf;es  of  Wayne 
county's  history,  for  through  many  years  he  has  been  a  most  important 
factor  in  the  agricultural  and  financial  interests  of  this  section  of  the  state. 
Absolute  capability  often  exists  in  specific  instances,  but  is  never  brought  into 
the  clear  light  of  the  utilitarian  and  practical  life.  Hope  is  of  the  valle\\ 
while  effort  stands  upon  the  mountain  top;  so  that  personal  advancement 
comes  not  to  the  one  who  hopes  alone,  but  to  the  one  whose  hope  and  faith 
are  those  of  action.  Thus  is  determined  the  full  measure  of  success  to  one 
who  has  struggled  under  disadvantageous  circumstances,  and  the  prostrate 
mediocrity  to  another  whose  ability  has  been  as  great  and  opportunities, 
wider.  Then  we  may  well  hold  in  high  regard  the  results  of  individual  effort 
and  personal  accomplishment,  for  cause  and  effect  here  maintain  their  func- 
tions in  full  force.  The  splendid  success  which  has  come  to  Mr.  Cates  is 
directly  traceable  to  the  salient  points  of  his  character.  With  a  mind  capable 
of  planning,  he  combined  a  will  strong  enough  to  execute  his  well-formulated 
purposes,  and  his  great  energy,  keen  discrimination  and  perseverance  have 
resulted  in  the  accumulation  of  a  handsome  property,  which  places  him 
among  the  substantial  citizens  of  northern  Indiana. 

Mr.  Cates  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Tennessee,  near  Knoxville, 
March  21,  1815,  and  is  the  ninth  in  a  family  of  fourteen  children,  whose 
parents  were  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Tharp)  Cates,  who  were  of  English  and 
German   ancestry,  respectively.      In  the  subscription  schools   of    his  native- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  385 

state  Jesse  Gates  acquired  his  education,  whicii  has  been  supplemented  by  a 
broad  and  practical  knowledge  gained  b}'  reading,  observation  and  business 
experience.  In  September,  1S36,  he  came  to  Wayne  count}-,  Indiana,  where 
he  worked  for  one  year  at  eight  dollars  per  month,  after  which  he  carried  on 
tanning  and  the  boot  and  shoe  business  in  Williamsburg.  In  the  former 
enterprise  he  was  associated  with  his  brother  Ephraim.  He  carried  on  the 
latter  enterprise  until  1843,  when  he  sold  his  manufacturing  interests  and 
purchased  his  present  farm,  then  comprising  two  hundred  and  t\venty-si.\ 
acres.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits,  which  he  fol- 
lowed with  marked  success  until  1882,  during  which  time  he  also  engaged  in 
the  pork-packing  business  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  for  three  years.  From  time 
to  time  he  has  made  judicious  investments  in  farming  lands,  and  now  has  two 
thousand  acres  near  Williamsburg,  being  one  of  the  most  extensive  land- 
owners in  Indiana.  He  also  has  a  rich  farm  of  three  hundred  and  ninety-one 
acres  in  Randolph  county,  this  state. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Gates  has  been  prominently  connected  with  the 
banking  interests  of  Wayne  county,  and  his  ability  as  a  financier  has  made 
him  a  leader  in  financial  circles.  In  1862  he  invested  capital  in  the  First 
National  Bank,  at  Centerville,  Wayne  county,  and  was  vice-president  of 
that  institution  until  1881,  when  he  was  made  president,  serving  in  that 
capacity  until  1885.  He  was  also  one  of  the  original  stockholders  and 
incorporators  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Richmond,  and  in  1885,  in 
connection  with  his  sons,  he  organized  the  Union  National  Bank  of  Rich- 
mond, with  a  capital  stock  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  the  follow- 
ing officers:  Jesse  Gates,  president;  George  L.  Gates,  cashier;  and  Edwin 
H.  Gates,  assistant  cashier.  The  subject  of  this  review  was  also  a  director 
of  the  Gitizens  Bank  of  Hagerstown,  Indiana,  and  was  also  an  extensive 
stockholder  in  the  Randolph  Gounty  Bank,  at  Winchester.  In  his  banking 
business  he  follows  a  safe  yet  progressive  policy,  and  has  made  the  institution 
of  which  he  is  president  one  of  the  leading  financial  concerns  in  this  part  of 
the  state. 

On  the  14th  of  December.  1843,  Mr.  Gates  married  Rebecca  Goggshal, 
and  of  their  children  we  give  the  following  brief  record:  Harvey,  who  was 
born  October  29,  1844,  died  in  infancy;  Mary  G. ,  born  April  3,  1847,  ^^^^  '" 
1869;  Gharles  O.,  born  October  9,  1849,  died  in  i860;  Sarah  J.,  born 
January  8,  1852,  is  the  wife  of  Gharles  Stutson;  .'\rthur  L.,  born  January  13, 
1856,  died  in  infancy;  George  L.,  born  October  18,  1857,  is  associated  in 
business  with  his  father;  Lucy  E.,  born  February  26,  1859,  is  the  wife  of 
William  D.  Glark.  of  Winchester,  Indiana;  Edwin  H.,  born  December  S, 
1866,  is  also  associated  in  business  with  his  father. 

Jesse   Gates,  whose   name   heads   this    review,   takes   a   deep   interest   in 


"386  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  his  town  and  county,  and  contributes 
liberally  to  the  support  of  all  measures  for  the  public  good.  His  career  has 
been  one  of  almost  phenomenal  success.  Entering  upon  his  business  career 
in  Wayne  county  at  a  salary  of  eight  dollars  per  month,  he  has  steadily 
worked  his  way  upward  to  a  position  of  wealth  and  affluence,  overcoming 
many  difficulties  and  obstacles  in  his  path,  and  advancing  step  by  step  along 
■the  tried  paths  of  honorable  effort  until  he  has  reached  the  goal  of  prosperity. 

WARNER  GARDNER. 
Warner  Gardner  was  born  on  the  old  original  Isaac  Gardner  homestead, 
'in  Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  May  ii,  1847,  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Ruth  (Maxwell)  (Gordon)  Gardner.  (For  ancestral  history  see  sketch  of 
Edwin  Gardner  elsewhere  in  this  book.)  Thomas  Gardner  was  born  October 
23,  1787,  and  died  July  17,  1867.  He  first  married  Eunice  Gardner,  his 
cousin,  and  a  daughter  of  Brazillaer  Gardner,  of  North  Carolina.  They  had 
the  following  children:  Nathan,  the  first  born,  died  at  nineteen;  Brazillaer 
lived  sixty  years;  Isaac,  suffering  from  brain  disease,  is  an  inmate  of  the  asy- 
lum for  the  insane  at  Richmond,  Indiana;  Thomas  is  living  in  White  county, 
Indiana;  Annie  died  in  Tippecanoe  county,  aged  fifty-five;  Walter  died  at 
'twenty-five;  Cyrus  married  Elizabeth  Gordon,  his  step-sister,  and  lived  near 
'the  old  homestead  until  his  death,  about  1885;  John  died,  aged  about  thirty- 
five,  in  1870;  Elihu,  in  1873,  aged  forty-five;  and  the  three  daughters,  Eliza, 
Rhoda  and  Isarella,  inherited  the  old  homestead.  Rhoda  died  first,  then 
Isarella.  Eliza,  who  was  long  the  head  of  the  family,  and  a  mother  to  her 
younger  brothers  and  sisters,  married  Wilson  Cline  in  her  old  age  and  lived 
in  Iowa  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Cline,  in  December,  1898,  and  now  resides  in 
Center  township.  The  widow  Gordon,  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Thomas  Gardner,  had  six  children  by  her  former  husband,  James  Gordon, 
who  died  in  1839,  aged  thirty-nine.  Her  eldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married 
her  stepbrother,  Cyrus  Gardner,  and  survived  him  some  years,  dying  at  sixty- 
five.  Ann  married  Isaac  Carmack  and  died  at  twenty-seven.  Charles  went 
to  Minnesota  in  1856  and  died  there,  aged  sixty-one.  Isom  makes  his  home 
with  T.  C.  Burnside,  of  Center  township.  Jemima  has  not  married  and  lives 
with  Warner  Gardner,  her  half-brother.  Esther  died  unmarried,  aged  twenty- 
mine.  Thomas  Gardner  and  his  second  wife  had  three  children:  Isarella,  who 
'died  unmarried,  aged  forty-nine;  Hugh,  who  lives  in  Henry  county,  Indiana; 
;and  Warner.  Ruth  (Maxwell)  (Gordon)  Gardner  died  at  the  age  of  forty-nine. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  (Elliott)  Maxwell  and  came  with 
her  parents  to  Indiana  from  Tennessee  at  the  age  of  ten,  in  1 8 1 6.  The  family 
located  in  the  northern  part  of  Center  township,   Union  county,  where  they 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  387 

both  died  at  about  the  a^e  of  seventy.  Her  father  was  a  thrifty  Quaker 
farmer. 

Thomas  Gardner  inherited  a  goodly  portion  of  the  Isaac  Gardner  prop- 
erty and  cared  for  his  parents  during  their  declining  years.  He  settled  early 
on  the  farm  on  which  his  son  Warner  now  lives  and  there  he  lived  fully  forty 
years  and  died  in  1867.  He  had  other  tracts  of  land,  but  loved  the  old 
homestead  and  it  was  there  that  his  relatives  and  friends  loved  to  visit  him. 
He  was  a  born  entertainer  and  the  happiest  hours  of  his  life  were  those  in 
which  his  house  was  full  of  company.  After  the  death  of  his  second  wife, 
his  daughter  Eliza  did  the  honors  of  the  house  and  took  real  delight  in  enter- 
taining and  visiting  with  her  guests.  Thomas  Gardner  was  a  friend  of  strict 
principles  and  a  man  of  sterling  worth.  He  had  good  business  ability  and 
acquired  about  two  hundred  acres  of  lan-d.  He  was  a  constant  reader  of 
newspapers  and  good  literature,  and  was  as  well  posted  as  any  man  for  miles 
round  about  and  could  hold  his  own  in  an  argument  with  any.  He  divided 
his  estate  by  will. 

Warner  Gardner  is  the  only  male  member  of  his  father's  family  living  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  old  family  home.  He  was  brought  up  to  farm 
life  and  his  labor  was  of  much  assistance  to  his  father.  He  served  the  Union 
cause  about  four  months  near  the  end  of  the  civil  war  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Sixty-seventh  Ohio  Infantry.  After  his  father's  death,  in  1867,  Warner 
and  his  brother  Hugh  lived  on  the  home  farm  for  a  little  over  a  year,  then 
both  married  and  settled  on  the  present  home  place  of  Warner  Gardner. 
After  five  or  six  years  Hugh  changed  his  abode  and  from  that  time  Warner 
has  resided  on  the  farm,  which  he  has  brought  to  a  highly  productive  state 
and  increased  in  size.  September  22,  1868,  he  married  Miss  Lucina  Talbert, 
daughter  of  Jabez  and  Mary  (Cook)  Talbert.  Mrs.  Gardner's  parents  were 
married  in  1837,  and  settled  on  the  farm  on  which  their  eldest  daughter, 
\'erlinda,  and  Calvin  Huddleston,  her  husband,  now  live. 

About  1870  they  removed  to  Henry  county,  Indiana,  where  Mr.  Talbert 
died  some  years  later.  Still  later  Mrs.  Talbert  returned  to  Union  county, 
where  she  is  passing  her  closing  years  as  a  member  of  Mrs.  Huddleston's 
household,  on  the  old  farm  where  much  of  her  married  life  was  passed,  and 
near  to  her  other  daughter,  Mrs.  Gardner.  Although  a  birthright  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  reared  under  the  strict  discipline  of  that  church, 
she  freely  accords  to  all  of  her  many  friends  the  fullest  right  to  individual 
views  and  opinions.  She  is  a  fine,  matronly  old  lady,  of  the  soundest  sense 
and  extremely  lovable;  and  there  are  hundreds  who  rejoice  with  her  that  the 
last  years  of  her  good  and  happy  life  are  being  passed  amid  such  pleasant 
surroundings  and  under  loving  ministrations  of  those  who  are  indebted  to  her 
for  a  mother's  protecting   care   and   fondness.      Mr.  and   Mrs.   Gardner  have 


388  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

had  three  children, —  Claribel,  Everett  and  Frank.  Claribel  died  November 
II,  1897,  aged  twenty-seven.  This  lady,  who  was  active  and  prominent  in 
church  and  Christian  Endeavor  work,  was  graduated  at  Earlham  College  in 
the  class  of  1893,  and  received  the  class  scholarship  entitling  her  to  the  edu- 
cational course  at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  Philadelphia.  She  was  a  student 
there  one  year,  then  taught  mathematics  in  Spiceland  Academy,  in  Henry 
county,  Indiana,  for  three  years.  Subsequently  she  entered  the  University 
of  Chicago,  but  after  a  brief  attendance  there  was  obliged  to  return  home  by 
a  fatal  illness  to  which  she  succumbed  a  few  days  later.  Everett  Gardner 
taught  three  years  in  his  home  school  district,  and  then,  December  16,  189S, 
he  married  Isarella  La  Fuze,  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Mary  (Stevenson)  La 
Fuze,  and  has  purchased  a  farm  in  Center  township,  about  five  miles  north 
of  his  parental  home,  where  he  will  be  an  agriculturist.  The  younger  son, 
Frank,  is  in  school. 

Warner  Gardner  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
though  not  an  active  partisan  is  deeply  interested  in  the  success  of  its  dis- 
tinguishing principles.  At  the  solicitation  of  friends  in  all  parts  of  the  county 
he  consented  to  become  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  county  commissioner,  to 
which  office  he  was  elected  and  in  which  office  he  served  from  1890  to  1893. 
He  has  been  sent  frequently  as  a  delegate  to  important  conventions  of  his 
party.  Mr.  Gardner  was  a  birthright  Friend  and  was  reared  in  the  Quaker 
church,  of  which  he  and  his  wife  are  active  members.  The  Silver  Creek 
monthly  meeting  was  authorized  by  the  White  Water  quarterly  meeting,  on 
the  "fifth  day  of  the  fourth  month,  18 17,"  and  "was  opened  and  held  on 
the  tenth  of  the  fifth  month,  1817."  The  first  declaration  of  marriage 
bears  date  "  twelfth  of  seventh  month,  1817."  Boyd  Williams  and  Eliza- 
beth Stanton  were  the  contracting  parties.  Silver  Creek  church  stood  near 
the  site  of  the  present  home  of  Thomas  C.  Burnside.  In  April,  181 8,  this 
meeting  granted  a  request  of  Friends  on  the  east  side  of  Hanna's  creek  ta 
hold  meetings  among  themselves.  That  was  the  first  event  in  the  history  of 
Salem  church.  The  minutes  of  the  old  Silver  Creek  church  are  preserved, 
and  are  valuable  and  interesting  for  their  reference  to  men  and  women  who 
have  passed  away  and  to  quaint  old  customs  which  have  changed  or  been 
abolished. 

JABEZ  TALBERT. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  February  18,  1816,  on  Calvin  Hud- 
dleston's  place,  which  was  his  home  for  years.  He  was  a  son  of  \Mlliam 
and  Miriam  (Gardner)  Talbert,  who  came  to  Indiana  from  North  Carolina 
about  the  first  of  the  present  century.  Their  oldest  child,  Anna,  was  born 
in  North  Carolina,  the  rest  being  natives  of  Indiana.  William  Talbert  never 
had  but  three  months'  schooling,  but  became  a  fine  scholar  by  his  own  study 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  389 

at  home,  learned  surveying  and  applied  this  to  practical  service  in  the  com- 
munity for  many  years.  He  was  long  a  man  of  standing  in  the  community 
and  very  prominent  in  the  Friends  church.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Talbert  had  these 
children:  Anna  (Mrs.  Hugh  Maxwell),  Sarah  (Mrs.  John  Davis),  Elihu, 
Cyrus,  Jabez,  Mary  (Mrs.  Benjamin  Paddock),  Sylvanus,  Aaron,  Milo,  Alvin 
and  Emily.  All  are  now  dead  but  Milo,  who  lives,  aged  seventy -seven,  at  Spice- 
land,  Henry  count}',  Indiana.  William  Talbert  and  his  good  wife  lived  to 
an  old  age  and  both  are  buried  in  the  Friends'  burj'ing-ground  at  Salem 
church. 

Jabez  Talbert  was  a  farmer  all  his  life,  connecting  it  for  many  years 
with  the  butchering  business.  He  was  a  hard  worker  and  very  industrious, 
married  in  March,  1837,  to  Mary  C.  •  Cook,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Macy)  Cook,  who  was  born  in  Wayne  county,  August  6,  1815,  of 'good 
Quaker  stock,  which  was  formerly  domiciled  in  Nantucket,  Rhode  Island, 
and  later  in  North  Carolina,  previous  to  the  settlement  in  Indiana. 

Jabez  Talbert  and  wife  made  their  home  on  the  Huddleston  farm  imme- 
diately after  their  marriage  and  this  was  practicall}'  their  home  during  his 
life,  and  here  they  experienced  life's  joys  and  sorrows,  saw  their  children,  all 
beautiful  daughters,  grow  to  maturity  and  leave  the  old  home,  and  it  became 
a  holy  place  to  all  of  them.  Their  home  was  blessed  by  these  children: 
Verlinda  (Mrs.  Calvin  Huddleston),  Emeline  (Mrs.  Elwood  Ellis,  deceased), 
Jane  (Mrs.  Joseph  Macy),  Josephine  (Mrs.  Verling  K.  Stanley),  Lucina  (Mrs. 
Warner  Gardner),  Sarah  D.  (Mrs.  Sylvanus  Wright,  deceased),  Anna  (Mrs. 
James  Kissel)  and  Florence  Nightingale  (who  married  Henry  Compton). 
•Mr.  Talbert  lived  a  quiet  business  life,  preferring  home  to  public  life;  and 
when  he  died,  on  August  14,  1885,  at  Spiceland,  Indiana,  a  good  citizen 
passed  away,  a  loving  companion  and  father  was  called  from  earth  and  a 
large  circle  mourned  his  loss.      We  have  already  spoken  of  Mrs.  Talbert. 

M.  M.  LACEY. 

One  of  the  most  honored  residents  of  Fountain  City,  M.  M.  Lacey  is  a 
native  of  Wayne  county,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  New  Garden  township, 
about  two  miles  north  of  this  place.  May  2r,  1835,  and  in  this  portion  of 
Indiana  the  major  part  of  his  life  has  been  passed. 

The  history  of  the  Lacey  family  has  much  of  interest,  extending,  as  it 
doss,  over  a  nunber  of  centuries,  and  being  interwoven  with  the  annals  of 
several  countries.  A  brief  outline,  only,  can  be  given  here,  but  sufficient  to 
show  that  the  ancestors  of  our  subject  have  borne  an  important  part  in  their 
time  and  country.  The  family  is  of  French  origin,  the  name  being  spelled 
DeLacey,  meaning  "  house  of  Lacey."  The  first  authentic  history  of  those 
bearing  the  name    relates    to    three    brothers,   William,  John    and    James 


390  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

DeLace}',  who  fought  under  the  leadership  of  WilHam  the  Conqueror,  and 
figured  extensively  in  the  wars  and  political  strategies  of  their  day.  One  of 
the  brothers  went  to  Austria,  where  he  won  fame  as  a  general  in  the  army  of 
the  celebrated  empress,  Maria  Theresa,  but  suffered  defeat  at  the  hands  of 
Frederick  William,  of  Prussia.  One  of  the  brothers  went  to  Spain,  and 
served  with  distinction  in  the  Spanish  army.  His  surname  was  spelled 
"  Lassey  "  by  the  people  of  that  country. 

Though  it  is  not  definitely  known  from  which  of  these  three  brothers 
the  family  in  the  United  States  is  descended,  it  is  recorded  that,  at  an  early 
day,  Robert  Lacey  and  two  of  his  brothers  came  to  America  to  cast  in  their 
fortunes  with  the  young  British  colony  since  known  as  the  United  States.  The 
Robart  Lacey  mentioned  settled  in  Virginia,  on  the  banks  of  the  James  river, 
and  one  of  the  other  brothers  located  in  New  York.  Robert  Lacey  became 
the  father  of  several  children,  among  whom  was  John,  who,  in  turn,  had  five 
sons  and  four  daughters.  The  sons  were:  Benjamin,  who  removed  to  New 
Jersey;  Ephraim,  who  settled  in  Maryland;  Jamas,  who  went  to  the 
vicinity  of  Blue  Licks,  Iventucky;  Robert,  who  went  to  the  then  far 
west,  Arkansas;  and  William,  who  took  up  his  abode  in  Georgia  in  1793. 
The  last  mentioned,  who  was  the  father  of  John  and  William  Lacey,  of 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  was  a  distinguished  officer  in  the  Revolutionary,  war, 
serving  throughout  that  struggle  under  the  leadership  of  Marion,  the  "swamp 
fox, "  and  holding  the  rank  of  a  colonel  of  Virginia  cavalry.  The  old  records, 
moreover,  state  that  Colonel  William  Lacey  and  John  Lacey  were  among  the 
wedding  guests  at  the  marriage  of  General  Washington.  Three  of  the  sisters 
of  the  Colonel  were:  Susanna,  who  married  Joseph  Scofield,  and  settled 
in  Maryland;  Elizabeth,  who  became  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  Horniday.  and  lived 
near  Elk,  Noble  county,  Ohio,  and  Mary,  who  married  a  Georgia  gentleman, 
whose  name  is  not  remembered. 

Colonel  Lacey  married  Mary,  daughter  of  James  Moore,  of  Pennsylvania. 
She  had  several  sisters  and  three  brothers,  Benjamin,  Hiram  and  James,  all 
of  whom  served  in  the  war  for  independence.  James  was  shot  and  killed  by 
a  Tory,  while  he  was  quietly  returning  from  church  one  Sunday.  The  last 
will  and  testament  of  Colonel  Lacey  is  dated  February  9,  1804,  and  his 
death  occurred  the  same  year,  in  Columbia  county,  Georgia-.  His  widow 
later  removed  to  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  with  her  four  children,  John,  Mary, 
William  and  Jane.  Afterward  she  became  the  wife  of  George  McKenzy,  and 
lived  and  died  near  Spring  Valley,  Ohio.  Her  daughter  Mary  died  unmar- 
ried, and  Jane  wedded  a  Mr.  Mills  and  after  his  death  a  Mr.  Hawkins,  and 
she  spent  her  last  years  in  Hendricks  county,  Indiana.  During  the  war  of 
1812  both  William  and  John  Lacey  gave  their  services  to  their  country,  the 
former  serving   one   year   in    a   volunteer   company  commanded   by   Captain 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  891 

Titus,  and  the  latter  being  in  the  army  for  two  years.  John  Lacey  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  and  Naomi  (Hollingsworth)  Spray,  of  South 
Carolina. 

The  early  years  of  M.  M.  Lacey,  sixth  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Lacey, 
were  passed  on  the  old  homestead  in  New  Garden  township.  He  became  a 
thorough  and  practical  farmer,  under  the  guidance  of  his  father,  and  worked 
for  neighbors  from  time  to  time  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  thus 
earning  money  to  pay  for  his  clothing  and  to  meet  other  expenses.  He  had 
but  very  limited  educational  advantages,  and  did  not  realize  the  importance 
of  the  matter  until  he  was  in  his  nineteenth  year,  when  he  pursued  a  course 
of  study  in  the  graded  schools  of  Fountain  City.  In  1857  he  began  learning 
the  milling  business  in  the  Richmond  flouring  mill,  and  at  the  end  of  two 
years  he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  clothing  store  of  J.  S.  Starr,  of 
the  same  city. 

A  notable  period  in  the  history  of  our  subject  was  the  years  which  he 
spent  in  serving  his  country,  as  his  patriotic  ancestors  had  done.  One  of  the 
first  to  respond  to  the  president's  call  for  brave  men  and  true  to  put  down  the 
rebellion,  he  enlisted  in  April,  1861,  soon  after  Fort  Sumter  had  been  fired 
upon.  Becoming  a  member  of  Company  I,  Eighth  Regiment  of  Indiana 
Infantry,  he  was  commissioned  captain  of  the  company  and  acted  in  that 
capacity  until  August  6,  1861,  when  his  term  of  service  expired.  Soon 
afterward  he  re-enlisted  with  the  Sixty-ninth  Indiana,  and  continued  with 
that  regiment  until  he  was  mustered  out  and  honorably  discharged  at  the 
close  of  the  war,  in  July,   1865,  at  Mobile,  Alabama. 

Returning  to  Indiana,  when  his  country  no  longer  needed  him,  Mr. 
Lacey  engaged  in  buying  wheat  for  the  firm  of  Henley,  Stratton  &  Starr,  for 
about  one  year,  after  which  he  was  bookkeeper  for  the  Richmond  Plow 
Works  for  two  years.  Elected  chief  of  police  of  Richmond,  in  1869,  he 
served,  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned,  until  1873,  when  he  resigned  the 
duties  of  the  office.  During  the  following  year  he  kept  the  books  of  William 
King  &  Son,  lumber  dealers.  In  1875  he  went  to  Prince  George  county, 
Maryland,  and  for  the  next  decade  was  industriously  occupied  in  the  culti- 
vation of  a  farm.  Then,  going  to  Washington,  D.  C. ,  he  opened  an  office 
as  an  attorney,  and  practiced  until  ill  health  compelled  him  to  leave  that 
section  of  the  country.  Returning  to  Fountain  City,  he  established  an  office 
here  and  has  continued  in  business.  As  long  ago  as  1888  he  was  elected  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  is  still  serving  in  that  office,  and  since  1889  he  has  been 
the  president  of  the  city  board  of  trustees.  In  his  political  convictions  he  is 
an  unwavering  Republican,  firmly  trusting  to  the  party  which  has  safely 
steered  the  ship  of  state  through  two  wars,  through  the  stormy  period  of 
reconstruction,    through     two    financial    crises,    and     passed    other    perilous 


392  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

breakers.  Frateinall}-  he  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  which 
order  he  joined  in  185S;  has  been  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
since  1891,  and  assisted  in  the  organization  of  Fountain  City  Post,  No.  420, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

On  the  2d  of  February,  1857,  a  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  which 
united  the  destinies  of  Mr.  Lacey  and  Miss  Eliza  A.  Osborn,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Eli  and  Edith  (Reynolds)  Osborn,  of  Wayne  county.  W.  L., 
the  eldest  son  of  our  subject,  is  assistant  engineer  of  the  public  parks  of 
Indianapolis;  Walter  D.  was  killed  in  June,  1888,  on  the  railway  bridge  at 
Dayton,  Ohio;  Maud,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  the  widow  of  J.  E.  Rogerson; 
Edith  is  the  wife  of  J.  Clyde  Powers,  superintendent  of  public  parks,  in 
Indianapolis;  Mabel  J.  is  the  wife  of  J.  L.  Scarce,  of  Fountain  City;  and 
Laura  Pauline,  also  a  resident  of  this  place,  is  the  wife  of  G.  A.  Dwig- 
gins.  On  April  5,  1899.  Mrs.  Eliza  Lacey  passed  into  the  silent  land,  leaving 
a  large  circle  of  friends  to  mourn  her  loss.  The  Lacey  family  is  held  in  high 
esteem,  and  the  kindly  social  qualities  with  which  they  are  endowed  by  nature 
win  for  them  the  friendship  and  good  will  of  every  one. 

THOMAS  W.    BENNETT. 

Nothing  could  have  so  forcibly  demonstrated  the  unity  of  this  nation  as 
the  recent  war  with  Spain,  when  men  from  north  and  south,  and  east  and 
west,  flocked  to  the  standard  of  the  country  and  marched  shoulder  to 
shoulder  to  the  scene  of  battle,  there  to  gain  a  glorious  victory  for  the  cause 
of  liberty  and  humanity.  Just  thirty-seven  years  before,  the  nation  was 
involved  in  throes  of  a  civil  war.  Aroused  by  what  they  believed  to  be  a 
suppression  of  their  rights,  brave  men  from  the  south  attempted  to  throw  off 
all  aUegiance  to  tlie  national  power,  but  the  guns  of  Fort  Sumter  awakened 
the  loyalty  and  patriotism  of  the  north,  and  thousands  of  men  marched  forth 
to  defend  the  Union  and  to  maintain  the  supremacy  of  the  stars  and  stripes. 
Wayne  county  furnished  her  full  quota  of  "  boys  in  blue,"  but  none  gained 
greater  prominence  or  more  deserved  the  honors  that  came  to  them  than 
General  Thomas  W.  Bennett,  of  Richmond. 

He  was  one  of  Indiana's  native  sons,  and  well  might  she  be  proud  to 
claim  him.  He  was  born  in  Union  count}',  February  16,  1831,  and  was  the 
second  of  the  ten  children  of  John  F.  and  Nancy  (Burroughs)  Bennett.  His 
father  was  an  extensive  farmer,  stock-raiser  and  merchant,  and  was  promi- 
nent both  in  political  and  religious  circles.  Thomas  was  busily  engaged  in 
the  lighter  labors  of  the  farm  and  in  attending  the  common  schools  until  the 
age  of  fourteen,  when  he  entered  his  father's  store  as  clerk.  He  remained 
there  three  years  and  then  became  "  wagon  boy,"  driving  a  six-horse  team 
between  Richmond  and  Cincinnati.      After  continuing   in  that  business  for 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  893 

nearly  two  years,  he  served  as  teacher  of  a  district  school  for  one  term,  and 
then  continued  his  own  education  in  the  county  seminary  until  the  fall  of 
1S51,  when,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  he  entered  Asbur\'  University.  In  1854 
he  was  graduated  in  the  law  department  of  that  .institution,  and  was  elected 
professor  of  mathematics  and  natural  sciences  in  Whitewater  College  at  Cen- 
terville.  He  acceptably  filled  that  position  until  1S55,  when  he  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  partnership  with  Judge  John  Yaryan,  at  Liberty.  He  soon 
won  a  prominent  position  at  the  bar,  and  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of 
the  science  of  jurisprudence  and  his  ability  to  handle  the  intricacies  of  the 
law  enabled  hitn  to  secure  a  liberal  clientage.  He  also  became  a  recognized 
leader  in  political  circles,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  of  1856 
as  a  supporter  of  the  new  Republican  party.  In  1S58  he  was  elected  state 
senator  from  the  counties  of  Fayette  and  Union,  and  although  the  youngest 
member  ot  that  body  he  took  an  active  part  in  senatorial  proceedings  and 
exerted  a  strong  influence  on  the  legislation  of  that  period.  In  thei  campaign 
of  1S60  he  canvassed  most  of  the  counties  of  the  state  in  support  of  Lincoln, 
and  the  following  spring  resigned  his  seat  in  the  senate  in  order  to  join 
the  army. 

General  Bennett  had  watched  with  keen  interest  the  progress  of  events 
in  the  south  and  the  trend  of  public  sentiment,  and  had  resolved  that  if  an 
attempt  was  made  to  overthrow  the  Union  he  would  strike  a  blow  in  defense 
of  the  national  supremacy.  The  very  day  on  which  the  president  called  for 
troops  he  began  recruiting  and  raising  a  company  of  one  hundred  men  in  his 
own  town,  who  with  Mr.  Bennett  as  their  captain  joined  the  Fifteenth 
Indiana  Regiment  under  Colonel  G.  D.  Wagner.  The  command  joined 
General  McClellan's  army  in  West  Virginia,  and  there  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Rich  mountain,  Beverly,  Greenbrier  and  Elkwater  river.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1 86 1,  Captain  Bennett  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Morton  major 
of  the  Thirty-sixth  Indiana  Volunteers,  then  in  camp  at  Richmond. 

With  this  regiment  and  in  General  Nelson's  division,  he  participated  in 
the  Buell  campaign  and  the  military  movement  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee, 
including  the  capture  of  Nashville,  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  the  occupation  of 
■east  Tennsssee,  the  retreat  to  Louisville  and  the  pursuit  of  Bragg  out  of 
Kentucky.  In  October,  1862,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Morton  to  the 
colonelcy  of  the  Sixty-ninth  Indiana  Volunteers.  In  this  command  he  fought 
under  General  Grant  in  all  his  campaigns  from  Memphis  to  the  surrender  of 
Vicksburg,  embracing  the  celebrated  river  expedition  under  General  Sherman, 
the  disastrous  defeat  of  Chickasaw  Bayou  and  Haynes  Bluff,  the  capture  of 
Arkansas  Post  and  the  battles  of  Port  Gibson,  Raymond,  Jackson,  Cham- 
pion Hills,  Black  river  bridge  and  finally  the  capture  of  Vicksburg.  During 
the  campaign  he  received  many  personal  marks  of  favor  from  General  Grant. 


394  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

He  was  selected  for  the  difficult  and  perilous  duty  of  exploring  and  opening 
a  route  from  Morganza  Bend  on  the  Mississippi  above  Vicksburg  to  New 
Carthage,  situated  some  distance  below  the  city,  and  he  accomplished  the 
work  with  such  swiftness  that  General  Grant  had  a  special  order  of  con- 
gratulation sent  him.  In  the  winter  of  1863,  while  the  army  lay  at  Young's 
Point,  opposite  Vicksburg,  Colonel  Bennett  was  by  General  Grant  appointed 
president  of  a  commission  to  examine  and  report  for  dismissal  all  incompe- 
tent officers.  After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg  he  was  ordered  with  his  regiment 
to  New  Orleans  to  reinforce  General  Banks,  and  under  that  officer  partici- 
pated in  the  Texas  and  the  famous  Red  river  campaign  as  a  brigadier-general, 
and  in  1865  was  appointed  to  that  rank. 

Faithful  and  meritorious  service  won  him  continued  promotion,  and  on 
the  field  of  duty  he  manifested  the  most  soldierly  qualities,  inspiring  his  men 
with  his  own  courage  and  dauntless  spirit,  yet  never  needlessly  exposing  them 
to  any  danger.  After  the  surrender  of  Lee  he  received  an  honorable  dis- 
charge and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service,  having  for  four  years  defended 
the  starry  banner  upon  southern  battle-fields. 

Returning  to  Liberty,  Indiana,  General  Bennett  resumed  the  practice  of 
law,  which  he  continued  until  1867,  when  he  went  abroad,  making  a  tour  of 
Ireland,  England,  France,  Germany,  Switzerland  and  Italy.  In  1868  he 
took  up  his  residence  in  Richmond,  and  was  an  active  supporter  of  Grant 
during  the  campaign  of  that  year.  In  1869  his  fellow  townsmen  honored  him 
by  an  election  to  the  office  of  mayor,  and  for  two  years  he  acceptably  admin- 
istered the  affairs  of  the  city,  after  which  he  resumed  his  law  practice.  At 
the  bar  he  won  distinction  by  reason  of  his  careful  preparation  of  cases,  his 
clear  reasoning,  his  incontrovertible  logic  and  his  forceful  oratory.  In  1S71 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Grant  as  governor  of  Idaho,  and  with  his  wife 
removed  to  that  territory,  serving  as  its  chief  executive  for  eighteen  months. 
He  made  an  active  canvass  in  the  Grant  campaign  of  1872,  speaking  through 
Oregon  and  California.  Returning,  he  once  more  took  his  place  in  the  rank 
of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Richmond,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading 
representatives  of  the  bar  until  1877,  when  he  was  again  chosen  mayor  of  the 
city,  serving  until  1881.  His  long  continuance  in  the  office  stands  in  unmis- 
takable evidence  of  his  ability  and  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his 
fellow  townsmen, — a  confidence  that  was  never  betrayed  in  the  slightest 
degree.  He  labored  for  the  best  interests  of  the  city,  for  progress  and 
reform,  and  did   all  in   his  power  to  promote  the  public  good. 

In  1858,  in  Liberty,  General  Bennett  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Anna  Casterline,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ziba  Casterline,  of  that  town.  Socially  he 
was  connected  with  the  Masonic  and  Odd  Fellows  fraternities,  and  was. a 
member  of  the  college  society,  the  BetaTheta  Pi.     He  was  kind  and  benevo- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  395. 

lent,  charitable  in  his  opinions  of  others,  yet  iirm  and  positive  in  his  convic- 
tions. He  possessed  strongly  that  characteristic  which,  for  want  of  a  better 
term,  we  call  personal  magnetism,  and  inspired  very  strong  friendships.  The 
prominence  which  he  attained  in  military  circles,  and  the  fame  in  political 
life,  was  equaled  by  the  respect  accorded  him  by  those  with  whom  he  was 
brought  in  contact  through  social  amenities.  He  died  February  2,  1893,  and 
Richmond  mourned  the  loss  of  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens.  His  widow 
still  resides  in  this  city.  Her  home  is  the  center  of  culture  and  always  an 
attractive  resort  for  people  of  education  and  refinement. 

JOHN  A.   BURBANK. 

The  name  of  this  gentleman  is  one  which  stands  conspicuously  forth 
on  the  pages  of  Indiana's  political  history.  He  has  been  an  active  factor  in 
administering  the  affairs  of  the  government,  especially  in  the  west,  and  is 
widely  recognized  as  a  Republican  leader  who  has  labored  earnestly  for  the 
success  of  the  party  and  yet  has  never  placed  partisanship  before  citizenship 
or  self-aggrandizement  before  the  national  good.  Close  study  has  given  him 
keen  insight  into  the  important  political  problems,  and,  though  now  living, 
retired  at  his  Richmond  home,  his  interest  in  the  issues  of  the  day  that  affect 
the  national  weal  or  woe  has  never  been  abated. 

A  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  E.  (Troxell)  Burbank,  he  was  born  in  Center- 
ville,  then  the  county  seat  of  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  July  23,  1827,  and  on; 
the  paternal  side  is  of  English  descent,  while  on  the  maternal  side  he  is  of 
German  lineage.  His  grandfather,  Eleazer  Burbank,  was  a  native  of  New 
Hampshire,  whence  he  removed  to  a  farm  near  Bethel,  Windsor  county, 
Vermont.  There  he  made  his  home  until  his  death.  He  was  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier  who  fought  for  the  independence  of  the  nation,  and  was  pres- 
ent at  the  surrender  of  General  Burgoyne.  He  married  Rachel  Payne  arid- 
reared  a  number  of  children. 

Isaac  Burbank,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  on  the  farmstead 
near  Bethel  and  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  the  Green  Mountain- 
state.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  began  teacfiing,  and  later  removed 
to  Emmettsburg,  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  where  he  engaged  in  school- 
teaching  for  several  years.  About  1825  he  removed  to  Centerviile,  Indiana, 
becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  residents  of  the  place  and  aiding  materially  in- 
its  development  and  advancement.  He  engaged  in  general  merchandising 
for  forty  years,  and  in  1870  removed  to  Richmond,  where  he  lived  retired' 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  seventy-eight 
years.  By  his  marriage  to  Mary  E.  Troxell  he  had  seven  children, — three 
sons  and  four  daughters:  Rachel  E. ,  widow  of  Captain  James  W.  Scott, 
and  a  resident   of  West   Richmond;  J.  E. ,  who   formerly  served   as   major  in 


396  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

the  United  States  Army,  but  is  now  retired  from  the  service  and  makes  his 
home  in  Maiden,  Massachusetts;  Maria  L.,  widow  of  Governor  O.  P.  Mor- 
ton, and  a  resident  of  Indianapolis;  John  A.,  who  is  the  next  of  the  family; 
Joseph  H.,  a  resident  of  Burt  county,  Nebraska;  Eliza,  who  became  the  wife 
of  \\'.  R.  Haloway,  the  present  consul  general  to  St.  Petersburg,  Russia, 
and  died  fifteen  years  ago;  and  Sarah  C,  widow  of  Captain  Caleb  Gill  and  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis. 

John  A.  Burbank  was  reared  in  Centerville  and  acquired  his  education 
under  the  instruction  of  Professor  Samuel  K.  Hoshour,  one  of  the  most  cele- 
brated teachers  of  that  time.  Among  his  schoolmates  were  Governor  Mor- 
ton, General  Lew  Wallace,  Judges  Peelle  and  Frazer  and  George  W.  Julian. 
Leaving  school  when  about  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  of  age  he  began  mer- 
chandising, in  .connection  with  his  father,  and  was  thus  engaged  for  about 
five  years.  In  1858  he  began  business  for  himself,  in  Falls  City,  Nebraska, 
to  which  place  he  shipped  a  stock  of  goods,  carrying  on  merchandising  there 
for  four  years. 

Since  1861  Mr.  Burbank  has  been  an  important  factor  in  politics  in  the 
west.  He  became  the  first  mayor  and  the  first  postmaster  of  Falls  City, 
Nebraska,  and  by  President  Lincoln  was  appointed  agent  for  the  Iowa,  Sac 
and  Troy  Indian  tribes,  of  Missouri.  He  resigned  that  office  to  return  to  Center- 
ville in  1866,  and  soon  afterward  he  went  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  wholesale  crockery  business  for  two  or  three  years.  In  1869  he  was 
appointed  governor  of  the  territory  of  Dakota  and  ex  officio  superintendent  of 
Indian  affairs,  filling  that  position  for  six  years,  with  most  marked  ability 
and  fidelity.  It  was  a  position  requiring  great  tact  and  discretion  on  the  part 
of  the  executive,  owing  to  very  peculiar  political  conditions  that  had  arisen. 
In  1870  there  occurred  a  disruption  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party, 
resulting  in  great  bitterness  between  the  two  factions.  It  originated  in  Yank- 
ton, eventually  taking  in  all  the  residents  of  that  city  and  extending  to  other 
sections  of  the  state.  The  Democrats,  taking  advantage  of  the  trouble,  twice 
elected  their  candidate  to  congress.  Later  an  effort  was  made  to  keep  the 
Democratic  candidate  from  office  by  declaring  certain  election  returns  illegal 
or  irregular.  Governor  Burbank  and  his  two  associates  on  the  board  of  elec- 
tion opposed  this,  on  account  of  its  fraudulent  nature,  and  stood  for  right, 
regardless  of  party  affiliations  or  party  disturbances.  The  position  of  the 
governor,  however,  was  an  exceedingly  difficult  one, — to  act  with  fairness 
toward  all  and  at  the  same  time  rouse  not  the  opposition  of  either  section, 
thus  causing  greater  disruption  in  the  party.  He  was  at  all  times  true  to  duty 
and  right,  and  eventually  the  party  was  reunited  and  carried  the  state  to  victory 
•on  its  ticket 

While  in  the  west  Governor  Burbank  was  also  active  in  organizing  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  397 

territory  of  Wyoming  and  was  a  candidate  for  governor  of  that  common- 
wealth when  appointed  by  General  Grant  governor  of  Dakota.  On  his 
removal  to  Yankton  he  at  once  became  prominently  identified  with  the 
development  of  the  young  territory.  He  acquired  large  real-estate  interests 
in  Yankton  and  Springfield,  and  is  still  interested  in  property  in  the  latter 
place,  which  owes  much  of  its  growth  and  advancement  to  his  efforts  in  its 
behalf.  When  in  Yankton  he  was  associated  with  Major  Hanson,  judge 
Brookings  and  Chief  Justice  French  in  the  firm  of  J.  R.  Hanson  &  Company, 
owners  of  a  large  interest  in  the  well-known  Picotte  plant. 

In  1875  Governor  Burbank  left  the  northwest  and  came  to  Richmond, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He  held  the  position  of  postoffice 
inspector,  having  exclusive  charge  of  all  postoffice  buildings  in  the  United 
States  rented  by  the  government.  He  is  the  only  person  who  ever  held  that 
position,  for  the  office  was  discontinued  at  the  time  of  his  retirement  there- 
from. He  has  since  lived  retired  in  Richmond,  but  his  interest  in  the  polit- 
ical issues  of  the  day  has  never  flagged,  and  the  Republican  party  yet 
claims  him  among  its  stalwart  supporters. 

Mr.  Burbank  has  been  twice  married.  In  1856  he  wedded  Miss  Annie 
E.  Yates,  who  died  in  i860,  leaving  two  children:  NoraB.,  wife  of  Judge 
Joseph  H.  Kibbey,  of  Phoenix,  Arizona;  and  Mary  B.,  wife  of  Harry  I.  Miller, 
superintendent  of  the  Vandalia  line.  In  18S4  Mr.  Burbank  married  Miss 
Sarah  Parry,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  William  Parry,  who  is  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Governor  Burbank  is  a  man  of  strong  mental- 
ity, keen  discernment,  great  tact  and  resolute  purpose,  and  was  therefore 
well-fitted  for  the  political  honors  conferred  upon  him.  His  business  inter- 
ests have  also  been  capably  managed  and  have  brought  to  him  the  handsome 
competence  which  to-day  enables  him  to  live  retired.  He  commands  the 
respect  of  his  fellow  men  by  his  sterling  worth,  and  Indiana  numbers  him 
among  her  honored  sons. 

ZACHARIAH  J.  STANLEY. 
Zachariah  J.  Stanley  was  born  in  Harrison  township,  Union  count)-, 
Indiana,  on  July  3,  18 19,  a  son  of  Zachariah  and  Mary  (Bedwell)  Stanley, 
who  were  natives  of  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina,  where  they  were  mar- 
ried. In  1 8 12  they  made  their  home  as  pioneer  settlers  of  Harrison  town- 
ship, and  passed  long  and  useful  lives  there  as  successful  farmers  and  rearing 
to  maturity  thirteen  children.  They  were  birthright  Friends,  Joseph  Stanley 
(father  of  Zachariah  and  son  of  Thomas  Stanley,  the  emigrant  to  North 
Carolina  in  1700)  being  a  minister  of  that  sect.  The  children  were  named 
respectively:  Pleasant,  James,  Jonathan,  Sarah,  Tempy,  Jehu,  Synthia. 
Eliza,  Mary,  Zachariah  J.,  Elizabeth,  Joseph  and  Esther. 


39S  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Z.  J.  Stanley  is  one  of  the  leading  men  of  this  county,  and  his  landed 
estate  includes  hundreds  of  broad  acres.  He  has  ever  been  an  agriculturist, 
progressive  and  thoughtful,  and  success  has  come  to  him  in  a  large  degree  as 
the  result  of  his  well-directed  efforts.  His  home  has  always  been  in  the 
near  vicinity  of  his  birthplace  and  he  is  now  hale  and  hearty  at  more  than 
eighty  years.  In  1847  he  married  Martha  Williams,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Margaret  Williams,  a  native  of  Wayne  county.  Their  children  were 
William  H.  and  Mary  M.  (Mrs.  Isham  Esteb).  The  character  of  Mr.  Stan- 
ley has  been  well  summed  up  by  an  able  writer  in  these  words:  "  Though 
a  Democrat  in  politics  he  has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  political  cam- 
paigns and  has  never  aspired  to  any  office  or  political  honor,  but  on  the  con- 
trary has  avoided  public  notice  or  notoriety,  this  being  characteristic  of  the 
Stanley  family.  He  is  public-spirited  and  all  improvements  find  in  him  a 
strong  advocate  and  liberal  supporter.  It  has  long  been  known  to  his  inti- 
mate friends  that  he  is  ever  ready  to  give  of  his  bountiful  wealth  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  any  public  institution  in  this  vicinity  when  the  security  of  such  is 
guaranteed.  He  is  a  man  of  warm,  friendly  feeling,  and  when  once  a  friend 
to  any  person  he  is  ready,  even  at  personal  sacrifice,  to  confer  a  favor  or  a 
continuation  of  favors.  He  possesses  excellent  judgment  and  his  opinions 
carry  great  weight.  Through  good  management  and  skillful  financiering  and 
economy,  he  has  become  one  of  the  wealthiest  individuals  of  Union  county. 
He  is  a  strong  friend,  a  kind  neighbor  and  an  upright  citizen.  He  has  long 
been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  stands  high  in  the  regards  of 
his  brethren." 

MRS.  Z.  H.  STANLEY. 

The  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  of  Union  county,  Indiana, 
is  in  a  very  healthy  condition,  and  to  no  one  is  its  progressive  activitj'  more 
due  than  to  the  Christian  lady  whose  name  heads  this  reading.  She  has 
been  its  president  since,  its  organization  in  1891,  and  it  is  eminently  proper 
that  a  brief  sketch  of  her  active  and  useful  life  should  accompany  this 
notice. 

She  is  of  English  and  German  ancestry.  Her  paternal  great-grandfa- 
ther was  William  Tipton,  who  was  one  of  Lord  Culpeper's  British  company 
of  soldiers  who  settled  in  Virginia  at  the  close  of  the  Revolution.  He  and 
his  descendants  have  been  historic  characters  in  Virginia,  Tennessee  and 
Indiana.  A  brother  of  William,  John  Tipton,  settled  in  this  state  and  Tip- 
ton county  bears  his  name.  Jacob,  another  brother,  made  his  home  in  the 
fertile  Shenandoah  valley.  John  Tipton,  son  of  William,  settled  early  near 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  where  he  had  large  estates.  His  son,  Colonel  J.  W. 
H.  Tipton,  was  born  on  the  east  Tennessee  homestead  and  was  educated 
for  military  life.      He  was  a  colonel   in    the  Mexican  war,  fought  at  Cerro 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  399 

Gordo,  Vera  Cruz,  and  was  among  the  American  forces  that  captured  Santa 
Ana's  carriage,  treasury  and  wooden  leg.  On  his  return  to  civil  life  he  mar- 
ried KatrinaFreschour,  and  was  an  extensive  stock  raiser  and  dealer  until  his 
■death.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  George  Freschour,  a  son  of  Hans  Fresch- 
our,  the  emigrant,  who  was  born  near  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  and  came  to 
this  country  about  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  He  located  in 
east  Tennessee,  where  his  descendants  are  numerous  and  valuable  citizens. 
Mrs.  Stanley  was  the  fifth  of  the  eleven  children  of  her  parents,  and  only 
two  of  this  number  have  died. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Tipton)  Stanley's  early  life  was  passed  among  the  mount- 
ains of  east  Tennessee,  and  she  received  the  benefits  of  a  classical  education 
at  that  noted  Presbyterian  institution,  Maryville  College,  at  Maryville,  Blount 
county,  Tennessee.  After  her  college  days  were  over  she  taught  for  some 
time  near  Asheville,  North  Carolina.  She  had  a  great  desire  to  enter  foreign 
missionary  work  and  had  been  accepted  by  the  Holston  conference  of  the 
Southern  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  commissioned  for  that  field,  but 
her  parents  were  so  grieved  at  the  thought  of  her  crossing  the  seas  for  so  long 
an  absence  that  she  relinquished  the  plan.  About  this  time,  in  1881,  while  on 
a  visit  to  her  parents  at  the  old  home, she  met  a  young,  brilliant  business  man 
of  the  north  who  was  engaged  in  lumbering  operations  near  their  residence. 
The  result  of  this  meeting  was  her  marriage  on  November  15,  1883,  her 
twenty-fourth  birthday,  to  this  gentleman,  who  was  Zac  H.  Stanley,  of  Lib- 
erty, Indiana,  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (Moon)  Stanley,  and  grandson  of 
Zachariah  Stanley,  the   early  emigrant  to  Indiana. 

Mr.  Stanley  was  born  in  Harrison  township,  November  23,  1855,  edu- 
cated at  Liberty  high  school,  and  for  eight  years  was  a  popular  teacher  of 
Union  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanley  first  made  their  home  in  Boston, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  both  taught  school  for  several  years,  after  which 
Mr.  Stanley  became  a  dry-goods  merchant  at  Liberty,  which  became  the 
family  home.  In  1894  they  purchased  the  Keeley  Institute,  that  had  been 
conducted  at  Liberty,  removed  it  to  Richmond,  where  they  accomplished 
much  good  work  until  1896,  when  they  disposed  of  it  to  allow  Mrs.  Stanley 
time  to  devote  herself  to  the  education  and  care  of  their  interesting  family  of 
children.  Removing  to  Liberty,  Mr.  Stanley  engaged  in  the  sale  of  agricult- 
ural implements,  in  which  he  is  conducting  a  large  trade. 

From  childhood  Mrs.  Stanley  has  been  an  active  worker  in  Sabbath- 
school  and  church  circles.  After  making  her  home  in  the  north  she  became 
convinced  that  the  saloon  stood  as  the  great  opposition  to  the  progress  of  all 
that  is  good,  but  the  law  stood  back  of  the  saloon,  and  therefore  woman's 
ballot  was  necessary  to  give  strength  to  make  new  laws.  For  about  ten 
years  she    has   been  engaged    in   this  suffrage   movement   and  in  temperance 


400  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

reform  activities.  She  has  organized  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  unions 
in  the  northern  and  southern  parts  of  the  state,  and  not  a  union  she  organ- 
ized has  ever  gone  down.  She  has  an  energetic  and  magnetic  personality 
and  is  a  power  for  good.  She  organized  the  Willard  Memorial  Union  of 
Franklin  countj'  in  1898.  This  has  already  nearly  quadrupled  its  member- 
ship. On  June  8,  1898,  the  temperance  people  of  Franklin  organized  a 
Loyal  Temperance  Legion,  naming  it  Ross  Stanley  Legion,  in  honor  of  a 
bright  little  child  of  Mrs.  Stanley,  who,  by  a  mysterious  dispensation  of 
Providence,  was  called  from  earth  to  be  a  perpetual  inspiration  to  his  loving 
mother  in  her  work  of  alleviating  the  sorrows  of  earth.  This  legion  has 
already  quadrupled  its  membership.  Mrs.  Stanley  always  represents  her 
county  union  at  state  conventions,  and  represented  this  district  at  the 
national  convention  at  Atlanta  in  1891  and  at  the  one  held  at  Seattle  in 
1899.  Her  family  consists  of  three  children, — Grace  Tipton,  Earle  Morris 
and  Zac  J.  Stanley,  besides  the  babe  Ross,  whose  beautiful  features  and  pre- 
cocious intellect  made  so  many  friends  in  its  brief  residence  here  before  it 
was  called  in  so  strange  a  manner  to  join  the  gala.xy  of  cherubs  in  the  upper 
world. 

EDWIN  GARDNER. 
Gardner's  Island,  belonging  to  the  township  of  Easthampton,  Suffolk 
county.  New  York,  and  separated  from  the  east  of  Long  Island  by  Gardner's 
Bay,  and  having  an  undulating  area  of  thirty-three  hundred  acres,  was 
granted  by  the  British  crown  to  John  Gardner,  who  was  knighted  by  the 
king,  and  whose  bones  lie  buried  at  Southampton,  Long  Island.  This  his- 
toric character  was  the  progenitor  of  a  large  family  of  "  Gardiners  "  and 
"  Gardners  "  (note  the  differing  orthography)  who  settled  at  Salisbury,  later 
at  Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  and  one  branch  of  which  found  its  way  early  to 
North  Carolina.  Edwin  Gardner,  of  Center  township.  Union  county,  Indi- 
ana, is  a  great-grandson  of  Stephen  and  Jemima  (Worth)  Gardner,  and  a 
grandson  of  Isaac  and  Eunice  (Macy)  Gardner,  and  a  son  of  Aan  n  and 
Elizabeth  (Gardner)  Gardner.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Aaron  Gardner,  was  a 
daughter  of  Elihab  and  Sarah  (Stanton)  Gardner,  Sarah  Stanton  having 
been  a  daughter  of  William  and  Phoebe  (Macy)  Stanton.  Elihab  Gardner 
was  a  son  of  Richar<i  and  Sarah  (Macy)  Gardner  and  Richard 
was  a  brotiier  01  Stephen,  Isaac's  father.  Thus  it  appears  that 
Aaron  and  Elizabeth  Gardner  were  second  cousins.  Isaac  Gardner,  grand- 
father of  Edwin  Gardner,  came  to  Indiana  from  Guilford  county.  North 
Carolina,  bringing  with  him  eleven  children.  The  family  were  Quakers  and 
were  active  in  founding  the  Salem  and  Silver  Creek  churches.  His  home 
was  near  the  Salem  meeting-house,  and  his  farm  is  still  in  possession  of  his 
descendants,  but  the  old  house  has  disappeared.    He  settled  his  children  about 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  401 

him  and  passed  the  decHning  j'ears  of  his  Hf e  here.  He  was  born  in  1760  and 
died  in  1843.  His  wife  died  in  1840.  Their  children  were  born  in  the 
following  order:  Paul,  born  November  24,  1781,  died  May  3,  1S62;  Thomas, 
born  October  24,  1783,  died  July  19,  1S67;  Matiida(Mrs.  Williams  Barnard) 
was  born  September  10,  17S5,  and  died  July  14,  1845;  Isaac,  born  August 
23,  1787,  died  May  29,  1871;  David,  born  November  19,  17S9,  died 
October  31,  1871;  Aaron,  born  February  7,  1792,  died  October  4,  1SS7; 
Rebecca,  born  April  6,  1794,  died  in  childhood;  Lydia  (Mrs.  Tristram 
Barnard),  born  March  28,  1796,  died  March  12,  1880;  Sallie  (Mrs.  Jethro 
Barnard),  born  October  12,  1798,  died  in  October,  1876;  Eunice  (Mrs.  Jona- 
than Swayne),  born  November  21,  1801,  died  August  18,  1870;  Rhoda  (Mrs. 
Nathaniel  Swayne),  born  November  22,  1806,  died  August  8,  1887.  Tristram 
and  William  Barnard  were  brothers,  and  Jonathan  and  Nathaniel  Swayne 
were  brothers.  All  the  sons  lived  to  be  more  than  eighty  years  old,  and 
Aaron  ninety-five  years,  seven  months  and  twenty-seven  days.  All  of  the 
sons  married  and  reared  famiHes;  all  were  members  of  the  Salern  church 
until  the  end  of  their  days;  and  all  were  farmers  and  lived  on  lands  given 
them  by  their  father.  One  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  one  that  of  a 
tinner.  Isaac,  referred  ro  last,  had  a  tin  shop  in  a  corner  of  his  house  and 
worked  in  it  on  rainy  days,  when  farming  was  out  of  the  question.  Five  of 
the  brothers,  advanced  in  years,  were  photographed  together.  The  daugh- 
ters all  lived  to  be  old  women.  The  one  who  died  youngest  died  at  si.xty. 
Sallie  Hved  more  than  ninety  years. 

Aaron  Gardner  married  his  second  cousin,  Elizabeth  Gardner,  in  1S19, 
and  she  died  in  1833,  at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years.  His  second  svife,  was 
Sarah  (Davis)  Stanton,  widow  of  Samuel  Stanton  and  mother  of  Thomas 
Franklin  Stanton,  father  of  Mrs.  Alexander  P.  Cook.  She  bore  him  no  chil- 
dren and  died  in  1872.  His  children  b\-  his  first  marriage  are  referred  to 
below. 

Edwin  Gardner  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  south  of  Lotus,  Center 
township.  Union  county,  Indiana,  August  13,  1S21.  He  learned  the  carpen- 
ter's trade  and  was  employed  at  it  and  in  farming  until  after  the  outbreak  of 
the  civil  war.  He  was  three  years  in  the  United  States  service  as  a  member 
of  the  Eighty-fourth  Indiana  Infantrj-,  but  on  account  of  his  mechanical  skill 
he  was  detailed  to  the  engineer  corps,  in  which  he  was  employed  in  bridge- 
building,  the  construction  of  fortifications  and  in  similar  work,  and  for  th  s 
reason  he  never  had  opportunity  to  participate  in  a  battle.  He  has  prac- 
tically passed  his  life  in  his  native  town  e.xcept  for  this  experience  of  war. 
Once  he  went  to  New  Jersey  and  once  to  Florida,  looking  around  for  induce- 
ment to  move,  but  none  presented  were  strong  enough  to  hold  him  and  he 
returned  to  Union  county. 


402  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  his  tastes  he  is  very  democratic,  in  his  politics  and  religious  views 
independent  and  liberal  in  the  extreme.  A  born  reformer,  he  has  been  by 
turns  an  Abolitionist,  a  Greenbacker  and  a  Prohibitionist.  He  had  a  birth- 
right in  the  Society  of  Friends  and  was  a  member  of  the  Salem  church  until 
he  had  attained  to  manhood.  He  states  that  he  was  turned  out  of  the 
church  because  he  tried  to  learn  to  sing!  He  was  married,  April  3,  1847,  to 
Miss  Jemima  A.  Wickersham,  and  he  adds  that  his  wife  was  turned  out  of 
the  church  because  she  had  married  a  man  who  had  tried  to  learn  to  sing! 
He  has  an  experience  of  Spiritualism  which  is  comforting  to  him.  Those 
who  know  him  best  say  that  in  religion  and  in  politics  and  upon  all  important 
questions  he  has  always  been  somewhat  in  advance  of  his  party  and  his  more 
orthodox  acquaintances.  He  is  well  read  and  has  reasoned  deeply,  clearly 
and  conclusively  for  himself.  He  has  no  sympathy  with  intolerance  or  nar- 
rowness, and  accords  to  every  man  and  woman  the  right  of  independent 
opinion.  He  is  attractively  venerable,  pleasant,  generous,  and  is  endowed 
with  the  finest  qualities  of  head  and  heart. 

Mrs.  Gardner  was  born  in  Henry  county,  Indiana,  of  Quaker  stock,  and 
has  been  to  her  husband  a  most  helpful  wife.  Their  eldest  child,  Amanda 
M.,  died  when  she  was  eighteen  years  old.  Frederick  D.  Gardner,  their 
son,  was  born  September  4,  1867,  and  married  Alexine  M.  Jones,  a  native 
■of  Ohio,  and  has  a  daughter,  Helen  N.,  aged  four  years.  He  is  a  railroad 
man  and  lives  at  Hannibal,  Missouri. 

CHARLES  C.  CROCKETT. 

For  about  thirty  years  Charles  C.  Crockett  was  a  faithful  employe  of  the 
Panhandle  Railway  Company,  and  since  1862  he  has  been  one  of  the  esteemed 
citizens  of  Richmond,  Wayne  county.  His  record  in  the  service  of  this  com- 
pany is  one  of  which  he  has  just  reason  to  be  proud,  for  he  was  prompt,  vig- 
ilant and  efficient,  one  who  could  be  trusted  and  who  was  relied  upon  by  his 
superiors. 

Born  in  the  town  of  Norway,  Maine,  June  12,  1837,  Charles  C.  Crockett 
is  a  son  of  Ephraim  S.  and  Sarah  B.  (Wentworth)  Crockett,  both  natives  of 
Ohio.  The  father,  who  was  a  seaman  for  forty-two  years,  part  of  the  time 
being  an  officer  on  shipboard,  sailed  around  the  world  three  times  and  had  a 
very  interesting  career.  His  death  occurred  in  1856,  while  his  wife  survived 
him  several  years,  dying  in  1869.  Their  children  were  fourteen  in  number, 
Charles  C.  being  next  to  the  youngest,  and  he  and  his  brothers  Frank  and 
Samuel,  and  his  sister  Hannah  are  the  only  survivors. 

Reared  and  educated  in  the  town  where  he  was  born,  Charles  C.  Crock- 
ett learned  the  trade  of  steam  and  gas  fitting  when  he  was  young,  and  he 
worked  at  the  business  for  four  or  five  years.    In  i  862  he  came  to  Richmond, 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  403 

and  within  the  first  year  of  his  residence  here  he  obtained  a  position  on  the 
Panhandle  Railroad.  At  first  he  was  a  brakeman,  soon  was  promoted  to  the 
charge  of  a  freight  construction  train,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  until, 
in  August,  1868,  he  was  very  seriously  injured  in  an  accident  (striking  a  water 
tank),  and  it  was  necessary  for  him  to  be  laid  off  from  employment  for  nearly 
two  years.  In  1871  he  again  began  running  a  freight  train  as  conductor  and, 
once  more,  in  1872,  he  was  severely  hurt,  in  a  collision  with  a  cattle-car. 
Back  at  his  post  of  duty  within  a  few  weeks,  he  was  promoted  to  be  con- 
ductor of  the  accommodation  train,  running  between  Richmond  and  Indian- 
apolis, and  served  as  such  from  1873  to  1891, — eighteen  consecutive  years. 
Since  the  date  last  mentioned  he  has  lived  in  quiet  retirement,  as  his  physical 
disabilities,  resulting  from  his  accidents,  render  him  unfit  for  severe  exertion. 
His  home,  a  very  pleasant  and  comfortable  one,  is  located  in  Spring  Grove, 
a  small  borough  adjoining  Richmond.  Here  he  owns  a  four-acre  tract  of 
fertile  and  well  improved  land,  and  a  convenient  house.  In  former  years  he 
was  actively  identified  with  the  Odd  Fellows'  society,  as  a  member  of  the 
lodge  and  encampment,  and  in  politics  he  has  supported  the  Republican 
party. 

December  28,  1865,  Mr.  Crockett  married  Sarah  League,  of  this  place, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  John  O.,  the 
eldest,  is  train  dispatcher  for  the  Vandalia  Railroad,  at  Terre  Haute;  and 
Oscar  L.  is  an  engineer  on  the  Panhandle  Railroad,  his  home  being  in  Indian- 
apolis.    Jeanette  and  David  are  still  at  home. 

HON.   RICHARD  M.   HAWORTH. 

For  more  than  half  a  century  has  this  well  known  citizen  of  Liberty, 
Union  county,  been  prominent  in  local  and  state  affairs,  giving  his  best  tal- 
ents and  powers  of  heart  and  mind  to  his  country  and  fellow  men.  A  native 
of  this  county,  his  birth-place  was  the  farm  now  owned  by  D.  B.  Haworth, 
five  miles  east  of  Liberty.  The  date  of  the  event  is  October  14,  1821,  and 
thus,  for  nearly  four-score  years,  he  has  been  associated  with  the  history  of 
this  immediate  region. 

The  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject  was  George  Haworth,  a  native 
of  York,  England,  who  came  to  this  continent  in  1699  and  settled  in  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  whence  the  family  later  emigrated  into  Virginia.  The 
Haworths  have  long  been  prominent  in  English  history,  and  an  extended 
account  of  the  family  is  contained  in  the  "  History  of  Indiana,"  written  by 
Hon.  William  H.  English,  and  now  soon  to  be  published.  In  the  line  of 
descent,  James  was  a  son  of  the  George  Haworth  before  mentioned,  and 
Richard  was  a  grandson.      The  latter,  Richard  Haworth,  grandfather  of  our 


404  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

subject,  was  born  in  Virginia  and  there  married  Ann  Dillon,  after  which  event 
he  removed  to  Tennessee  and  settled  on  the  banks  of  the  Holston  river.  He 
reared  thirteen  children,  one  of  whom  was  Joel,  father  of  R.  M.  Haworth. 
Joel  Haworth  was  born  on  the  original  location  of  his  father  on  the  banks  of 
the  Holston  river,  twenty-five  miles  above  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and  for  a 
period  after  he  had  reached  maturity  and  married  he  carried  on  a  farm  sit- 
uated on  an  island  in  the  Holston  river.  About  1814  he  came  to  the  north 
and  bought  some  land  in  Illinois,  though  he  eventually  settled  in  Indiana. 
His  permanent  home  was  the  farm  where  our  subject  passed  his  childhood, 
his  residence  there  dating  from  18 18.  James,  a  brother  of  Joel  Haworth, 
settled  near  Roseburg,  this  county,  and  lived  to  advanced  years.  He  was  a 
successful  farmer  and  was  widely  known  as  a  raiser  of  live  stock.  His  son, 
Richard  G. ,  the  only  one  of  his  family  to  perpetuate  the  name,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Liberty  for  ten  years  prior  to  his  death  in  November,  1897,  when  he 
was  eighty-four  years  old.  Joel  Haworth  departed  this  life  December  4, 
1854,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight.  At  that  time  he  was  the  owner  of  about 
fifteen  hundred  acres  of  fine  farm  land,  a  thousand  acres  of  it  being  inside 
the  limits  of  this  county,  where  he  had  always  resided  from  the  time  of  his 
first  settlement  here.  A  valued  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  with 
which  sect  the  Haworths  were  identified  in  England,  thereafter  he  was  quite 
active  in  church  work  and  put  into  his  daily  life  the  teachings  of  justice, 
peace  and  brotherly  love,  which  had  been  inculcated  in  him  from  childhood. 
For  his  wife  he  chose  Elizabeth  Maxwell,  who  died  when  in  her  seventy-sixth 
year.  Their  eldest  child,  Mary,  is  the  widow  of  Mark  Elliott,  of  Wayne 
county,  Indiana,  and  is  now  living  with  a  son  in  Sterling,  Kansas.  Hannah 
married  Alfred  Underbill  and  lived  near  Washington,  Wayne  county.  Both 
she  and  her  husband  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  on  the  farm  where 
theyhad  located  as  a  young  couple.  Rev.  Laban  Haworth,  born  in  Tennessee, 
formerly  resided  in  this  county,  for  many  years  was  connected  with  the  mis- 
sionary work  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  the  west.  He  died  in  Dayton, 
Tennessee,  in  1 896,  at  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  Ann  married  Elihu  Hollings- 
worth,  an  honored  citizen  of  Tippecanoe  county,  this  state,  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Farmers'  Institute  there.  She  died  at  Farmers'  Institute  in  1 86 1 
and  Mr.  Hollingsworth  went  to  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  became  connected  with  a 
bank  there  and  was  active  in  many  different  enterprises.  He  died  in  Des 
Moines  and  left  five  hundred  dollars  toward  the  building  of  a  Friends'  church 
in  that  city.  Elizabeth  married  M.  C.  White,  of  Westfield,  Indiana,  and 
died  in  young  womanhood.  Jonathan  died  at  twenty-six  years  and  David 
lives  on  the  old  homestead. 

Hon.  R.  M.  Haworth   received   a  good   education  for   his  day,  as,  after 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  405 

leaving  the  district  schools  he  attended  Beech  Grove  Academj-  and  obtained 
a  certificate  to  teach,  which  occupation  he  pursued  for  several  winters.  He 
continued  to  dwell  on  the  old  home  farm  for  over  ten  3'ears  past  his  majority 
and  then  made  his  home  on  land  in  the  near  vicinity,  which  he  owned  and 
cultivated  for  a  long  time  and  which  was  then  his  home.  He  made  of  this 
section  of  land  a  most  valuable  homestead.  At  one  time  he  owned  a  section 
of  government  land  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  in  Champaign  county, 
Illinois,  but  sold  that  property  after  the  civil  war. 

His  father  had  been  a  Jackson  Democrat,  but  was  strongly  opposed  to 
slavery,  and  when  R.  M.  Haworth  became  convinced  that  the  teachings  of 
the  party  fostered  the  hateful  practice  he  left  its  ranks.  This  was  in  1854, 
and  two  years  later  he  identified  himself  with  the  new  Republican  party.  In 
i860  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature  of  Indiana,  and  served  on  the  com- 
mittee on  education  and  loyally  supported  all  the  measures  calling  for  sup- 
plies to  the  Union  soldiers.  In  1862  he  was  made  first  draft  commissioner 
for  Union  county,  under  the  old  state  law,  and  was  very  active  in  maintain- 
ing the  full  quota  of  this  section.  Union  county  was  presented  with  a  prize 
by  the  state  sanitary  commission  for  donating  the  largest  amount  of  money, 
in  proportion  to  population,  to  the  alleviation  of  the  needs  of  our  "  boys  in 
blue  "  in  the  south,  and  no  one  had  been  more  earnest  in  arousing  our  people 
to  this  test  of  patriotism  than  had  Mr.  Haworth.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
state  senator,  representing  Union  and  Fayette  counties  for  four  years.  In 
1876  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Cincinnati  national  convention  of  his  party  and 
made  a  good  fight  for  Morton.  While  in  the  senate  he  was  made  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  reformatories.  The  question  of  making  a  penal  institu- 
tion of  the  woman's  reformatory  at  Indianapolis  came  up  during  his  first  3'ear 
in  the  senate.  He  was  opposed  to  it,  and  the  scheme  was  "  nipped  in  the 
bud  "  and  the  project  abandoned.  In  1884  he  was  elected  to  the  house  and 
served  two  sessions, — that  winter  and  the  following  one.  He  has  remained 
an  active  member  of  the  Republican  party,  but  is  now  in  favor  of  free  silver. 
His  influence  in  public  affairs,  both  local  and  general,  has  been  marked  for 
two-score  years,  and  his  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  public  has  won  him 
the  love  and  admiration  of  his  acquaintances  and  associates.  For  twenty 
years  he  was  a  director  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Union  County,  which 
institution  he  assisted  in  organizing.  On  affairs  relating  to  the  early  settle- 
ment and  history  of  this  county  he  is  a  recognized  authority,  and  has  written 
and  had  published  some  very  interesting  articles  on  the  subject.  Since  his 
marriage  he  has  been  an  earnest  member  of  the  "Christian  Conne.xion,"  and 
he  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  control  of  Antioch  College. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Haworth  and  Miss  Caroline  A.  Brown  was  solem- 
nized December  31,   1S57.     The  parents  of  Mrs.  Haworth  were  Walter  and 


406  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Kezia  Brown,  of  Union  county.  The  three  children  born  to  our  subject  and 
wife  are  EHzabeth,  Mrs.  Will  C.  Hart,  of  Indianapolis,  who  died  in  March, 
1899;  Edith,  Mrs.  Frank  Johnson,  a  resident  of  Indianapolis;  and  Lena,  who 
married  Orion  L.  Stivers  and  lives  with  her  parents. 

DAVID  B.  HAWORTH. 

The  family  of  which  the  subject  of  this  memoir  is  a  most  honored  rep- 
resentative is  a  pioneer  one  in  Center  township,  Union  county.  He  has 
taken  a  patriotic  interest  in  everything  bearing  upon  the  upbuilding  and 
progress  of  the  community,  and  has  aided  in  many  enterprises  which  have 
greatly  benefited  his  county  and  state. 

David  B.  Haworth,  twin  brother  of  Jonathan,  was  born  August  6,  1827, 
on  the  site  of  his  present  home,  and  here  he  spent  his  boyhood.  On  the  day 
that  the  brothers  attained  their  majority  they  had  an  opportunity  to  vote, 
and  naturally  availed  themselves  of  the  privilege.  They  so  strongly  resem- 
bled each  other  that  when  Jonathan  attempted  to  cast  his  ballot  he  was 
stopped,  and  the  matter  was  not  satisfactorily  settled  until  the  father  had 
brought  the  other  son,  David  (who  had  previously  voted),  on  the  scene. 
That  day  the  young  men  voted  against  Judge  Burnside,  a  candidate  for 
county  clerk,  and  father  of  the  afterward  famous  General  Ambrose  E.  Burn- 
side.  The  judge  was  elected  to  the  bench  on  the  birthday  of  our  subject 
and  served  continuously  in  that  position  for  twenty-eight  years  thereafter. 
David  and  Jonathan  Haworth  helped  their  father  in  the  management  of  the 
old  homestead,  which  comprised  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  and  both 
were  active  stockholders  in  the  Liberty  and  College  Corner  pike  road,  which 
was  built  in  1847.  Jonathan  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  four  years,  and  both 
of  their  parents  departed  this  life  on  the  old  homestead.  The  father  owned 
about  one  thousand  acres  of  land,  and  was  a  rich  and  influential  man  for  his 
time. 

After  he  had  arrived  at  maturity  David  B.  Haworth  supplemented  the 
training  which  he  had  received  at  home  by  a  course  in  the  Farmers'  Institute 
near  La  Fayette.  He  now  owns  all  but  eighty  acres  of  the  original  home- 
stead, and  has  been  prospered  in  the  cultivation  of  the  place  and  in  the  rais- 
ing and  feeding  of  live  stock,  in  which  he  has  been  extensively  occupied, 
at  various  times.  For  a  score  of  years  in  his  early  manhood  he  and  his 
father  carried  on  a  gristmill,  operated  by  horse-power,  and  people  then  used 
about  ten  bushels  of  corn  to  four  of  wheat.  The  frame  barn  standing  on  the 
farm  and  still  in  constant  use  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  county,  having  been 
built  in  1825.  It  was  made  of  substantial  timbers  and  was  erected  at  a  cost 
of  but  sixty  dollars.  The  house  in  which  our  subject  and  his  family  have 
been  sheltered  since  the  year  it  was  built,  1845,  is  likewise  well  constructed, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY.  407 

with  heavy  joists  and  solid  oak  timbers,  and  though  the  actual  cost  of  the 
building  was  little  more  than  three  hundred  dollars  it  has  proved  a  very 
comfortable  home  and  is  in  a  good  state  of  preservation.  The  greatest  pros- 
perity which  Mr.  Haworth  has  enjoyed  was  in  the  year  1867-68,  when  he 
sold  wheat  for  two  dollars  and  seventy  cents  a  bushel  and  received  ten  dol- 
lars and  a  half  per  hundredweight  for  hogs.  That  year  he  sold  farm  produce 
to  the  value  of  thirty-two  hundred  dollars. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  civil  war  Mr.  Haworth  purchased  two  farms 
in  Illinois,  and  after  running  them  for  a  few  years  he  sold  them.  He  also 
owned  a  half  interest  in  some  property  in  Florida.  For  seven  years  he  was 
a  stockholder  and  a  director  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Liberty.  In  order 
to  insure  the  building  of  the  new  railroad  through  this  part  of  the  county  Mr. 
Haworth  took  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars'  worth  of  stock,  and  he  and  his 
brother,  Hon.  R.  M.  Hayworth,  took  a  one-thousand-dollar  bond,  to  be  paid 
when  the  road  reached  Cottage  Grove,  and  this  amount  they  paid,  never  receiv- 
ing a  dollar  in  return.  Until  1896,  Mr.  Haworth  was  a  loyal  Republican,  but 
after  making  a  thorough  investigation  into  the  question  of  our  monetary 
system  he  concluded  that  bi-metalism  would  be  the  best  plan  for  the  country 
to  adopt,  and  he  has  since  strongly  advocated  free  silver.  Being  a  birth- 
right member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  was  actively  associated  with  the 
denomination  for  many  years. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Haworth  and  Miss  Martha  Haskell,  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  was  solemnized  October  11,  1855.  Mrs.  Haworth,  who  died  in  1897,  was 
a  sister  of  the  late  General  Joseph  Haskell,  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  The  children 
born  to  our  subject  and  wife  are  namsd:  Henry,  Eliza,  Annie,  Alice,  Jose- 
phine, William,  Charles  and  Daisy.  Henry  is  a  resident  of  Watertown, 
South  Dakota;  Eliza,  wife  of  Charles  Atkin.son,  lives  in  Upland,  Indiana; 
Annie  is  Mrs.  Franklin  Hoyt,  of  Osceola,  Missouri;  Alice,  Mrs.  Lee  Ardrey, 
makes  her  home  in  Butler  county,  Ohio;  Josephine,  of  this  county,  is  the 
wife  of  Ernest  Barnard;  William  is  living  at  home;  Charles  is  in  Kan- 
sas; and  Daisy's  husband,  Arthur  Watson,  is  assisting  in  the  management  of 
the  old  homestead  of  our  subject.  Without  exception,  the  children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Haworth  are  worthy,  respected  citizens,  a  credit  to  their  parents, 
whose  honorable,  upright  example  they  are  daily  emulating. 

ERASTUS  H.  HOWELL. 
Erastus  H.  Howell  of  Union  township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  was 
born  in  Bath  township,  Franklin  county,  this  state,  December  24,  1841.  His 
parents  were  Elias  and  Ruth  (Heward)  Howell.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
New  Jersey  and  moved  to  Lebanon,  Ohio,  in  1804,  in  company  with  his 
father,  James,  and  his  grandfather,  Chatfield   Howell.     They  selected  land 


408  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

in  Bath  township  the  same  year  and  in  1806  settled  on  it,  being  one  of  the 
very  first  settlers  in  the  township.  Elias  Howell  was  born  in  1804  and  was 
six  years  old  when  the  family  settled  in  this  state.  When  he  was  sixteen  or 
seventeen  years  old  he  began  to  work  by  the  month  and  early  learned  the 
lesson  of  independence.  He  then  returned  to  Ohio,  but  came  back  to  Indi- 
ana and  was  married  in  Bath  township.  The  lady  he  chose  as  his  bride 
was  Miss  Ruth  Heward,  who  was  left  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  five  years 
when  her  mother  died,  and  was  taken  into  the  family  of  Chatfield  Howell, 
the  grandfather  of  Elias.  They  liked  the  child  so  much  and  she  was  so  con- 
tented with  them  that  she  remained  with  them  until  her  marriage  to  the 
grandson.  After  the  death  of  his  grandfather,  Elias  purchased  the  farm 
from  an  aunt,  Betsey  Howell,  moved  upon  it  and  died  there  March  i,  18S0. 
His  widow  still  makes  it  her  home.  She  is  now  in  her  eighty-third  year  and 
nearly  eighty  years  of  her  life  has  been  passed  on  this  farm.  The  Howells 
lived  to  advanced  ages,  Elias  dying  in  his  seventy-seventh  year,  his  father, 
James,  being  about  seventy-five  years  old,  and  the  grandfather,  Chatfield, 
the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  eightj'-five  years  old,  at  the  time  of 
death.  Elias  had  six  children,  viz.:  Maria,  who  made  her  home  with  her 
mother  and  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years;  James,  who  lived  three  miles 
east  of  the  old  home  and  died  when  forty-three  years  old;  Isaac  lives  on  a 
farm  adjoining  the  homestead;  Joseph  died  at  the  age  of  twenty- three,  in  a 
Padiicah  hospital;  he  was  under  Lew  Wallace  in  the  Eleventh  Indiana  Regi- 
ment; Erastus  has  charge  of  the  homestead;  and  Susan  married  Smith  Krom 
and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven  years. 

Erastus  Howell  grew  to  young  manhood  on  the  farm,  remaining  there 
until  he  was  twenty-one.  He  attended  the  Brookville  College,  four  years, 
from  1865  till  1869.  He  then  took  up  the  life  of  an  agriculturist  as  the  one 
most  congenial  to  his  tastes,  and  has  been  very  successful  in  it.  He  farmed 
the  home  place  until  18S0,  when  he  purchased  the  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  upon  which  he  now  lives,  one  mile  south  of  Biliingsville.  For  this 
land  he  paid  forty-eight  dollars  per  acre,  and  has  since  improved  it,  making 
the  actual  cost  to  him  of  seventy-five  dollars  per  acre.  He  now  has  a  farm 
of  which  he  may  well  feel  proud.  He  has  laid  some  fifteen  hundred  rods  of 
tile,  putting  the  land  in  first-class  condition.  He  feeds  a  great  many  hogs, 
keeping  from  forty  to  one  hundred  and  thirty  head  in  his  stock  pens. 

Mr.  Howell  was  married  December  14,  1880,  to  Miss  Ella  Sims,  a 
daughter  of  John  Sims,  of  Harvey  township,  Union  county.  A  stepson, 
John  Driscol,  makes  his  home  with  them.  Both  Mr.  Howell  and  his  wife 
are  connected  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  has  acted  as 
trustee  for  many  years.  He  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  as  trustee  of  Bath 
township  for  two  terms. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY. 


ALBERT  G.   OGBORN. 

The  narrative  of  a  life  whicfi  has  been  filled  with  useful  deeds,  with 
duties  well  performed;  a  life  which  has  exemplified  the  Golden  Rule  and 
recognized  the  principle  of  loving  service  to  mankind  as  the  supreme  object 
of  living,  cannot  lack  interest,  even  to  the  casual  reader  or  the  stranger. 
Such  a  career  has  been  that  of  Albert  G.  Ogborn,  who,  since  the  close  of 
the  civil  war,  has  been  one  of  the  most  respected  citizens  of  Richmond. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  John  H.  Ogborn,  was  a  native  of  the  city  of 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  where  he  passed  his  early  manhood.  He  married 
Mary  Pusey  Elliott  and  had  nine  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
By  trade  he  was  a  shoemaker,  and  that  calling  he  followed,  more  or  less 
exclusively,  throughout  his  active  life.  By  the  time  that  some  of  his  older 
children  were  meditating  how  they  should  begin  the  independent  battle  of 
life  he  decided  to  remove,  with  his  family,  to  the  new  west,  where  they 
might  have  better  opportunities.  Accordingly  they  started  for  Indiana  in  a 
wagon,  crossing  the  mountains  in  that  manner,  and  having  a  memorable 
journey,  not  unfraught  with  dangers.  They  settled  in  Richmond,  then  a 
small  village,  where  they  made  their  home  for  many  years.  The  last  days 
of  the  aged  couple  were  passed  in  Waynesville,  Ohio,  he  dying  in  the  '70s, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-one,  and  his  wife  entering  the  silent  land  two  years 
before,  when  in  her  seventieth  year.  They  were  members  of  the  sect  known 
as  Hicksite  Quakers,  and  were  very  strict  and  severe  in  their  ideas  of  life. 

Thomas  E.  Ogborn,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Frederick, 
Maryland,  in  November,  1820,  and  was  a  boy  when  the  family  came  to  this 
state.  He  worked  with  his  father  at  the  shoemaker's  trade,  becoming  very 
skillful  at  the  business.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Second  Ohio 
Infantry,  which  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fourteenth 
Army  Corps.  He  was  promoted  from  the  ranks  to  orderly  sergeant,  and 
soon  afterward,  on  account  of  his  ill  health,  was  given  the  position  of  clerk 
to  his  captain.  During  his  three  years  and  one  month  of  army  life  he  par- 
ticipated in  numerous  important  battles,  among  which  were  those  of  Perry- 
ville,  Kentucky;  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge,  Ring- 
gold, Tunnel  Hill  and  the  engagements  of  the  Sherman  campaign,  including 
the  siege  of  Atlanta.  In  the  latter  part  of  1864  Mr.  Ogborn  was  granted 
an  honorable  discharge,  owing  to  his  continued  ill  health,  which  he  bravely 
ignored  as  long  as  possible.  Going  to  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio,  his  former  home, 
he  recuperated  during  the  ensuing  winter,  and  in  the  spring  following  was 
elected  mayor  of  the  town  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  occupied  that 
office  for  fourteen  consecutive  years,  then  refusing  re-election,  as  he  was 
physically    unable    to    longer  discharge   the  duties  of  the  position.      He  has 


410  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

always  been  one  of  the  most  honored  and  popular  citizens  of  the  place  since 
he  took  up  his  residence  there,  and  for  the  past  six  j-ears  he  has  been  retired. 
For  some  ten  or  twelve  years  he  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  for 
several  decades  he  has  been  actively  concerned  in  the  prosperity  of  the 
Republican  party  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

The  first  wife  of  Thomas  E.  Ogborn  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Julia  A. 
Shepherd.  She  died  in  1857,  leaving  four  children,  her  first-born,  Mary, 
having  died  in  infancy.  Elizabeth,  the  second  child;  lived  to  be  sixteen  \-ears 
of  age.  Argus  C,  now  a  machinist  in  the  employ  of  Gaar,  Scott  &  Com- 
pany, of  Richmond,  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  in 
which  he  served  for  four  years  and  four  months,  enlisting  when  he  was  but 
sixteen  years  of  age.  He  was  a  private  of  Company  B,  Eleventh  Ohio  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  and  took  part  in  all  the  battles  in  which  his  father  fought, 
and  in  many  others,  among  which  were  Franklin  and  the  second  battle  of 
Bull  Run.  For  marked  bravery  he  was  promoted  to  be  one  of  General  Sher- 
man's body  guard,  and  he  continued  at  his  post  of  duty,  valiant  and  faithful, 
as  long  as  his  country  had  need  of  him.  The  two  younger  children  were 
Emma,  now  the  wife  of  William  H.  Horr,  of  Richmond;  and  Eleanora,  who 
married  Abram  Thompson  and  is  deceased.  The  second  wife  of  Thomas  E. 
Ogborn  was  Mrs.  Caroline  Miller  prior  to  their  marriage. 

Albert  G.  Ogborn  was  born  in  Mechanicsburg,  Champaign  county,  Ohio. 
February  9,  1848,  and  was  consequently  but  nine  years  of  age  when  his 
mother  died.  He  went  to  live  with  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Ruth  E.  Butterworth 
(whose  husband  was  a  cousin  of  Hon.  Ben  Butterworth),  at  Waynesville, 
Ohio,  and  was  employed  on  a  farm  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Then,  coming 
to  Richmond,  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  machinist  with  Baylies,  Vaughan  & 
Company  (now  the  Richmond  Machine  Works),  and  for  twenty-two  years 
was  employed  by  local  firms,  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company,  Robinson  Machine 
Works  and  Richmond  City  Mill  Works,  among  others. 

In  1889  Mr.  Ogborn  was  elected  city  marshal  of  Richmond,  was 
re-elected,  and  continued  in  the  ofifice  until  1891,  when  he  received  the  nomi- 
nation for  sheriff.  Elected  to  that  position  the  following  year,  he  served' 
for  the  four-years  term,  and  since  November,  1896,  he  has  been  associated 
with  Mr.  Doan  in  the  undertaking  business.  In  1897  he  was  appointed  by- 
Governor  Mount  as  a  commissioner  of  police,  as  in  1892  Richmond  inaugu- 
rated a  metropolitan  police  system.  For  a  short  time  Mr.  Ogborn  officiated 
as  president  of  the  board,  but  he  resigned  that  position.  He  has  always  been 
an  efficient  and  valued  worker  in  the  Republican  party,  and  has  been  sent  as 
a  delegate  to  many  county  and  local  conventions.  In  the  fraternities  he  is 
influential  and  honored,  being  past  master  of  Webb  Lodge,  No.  24,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons;  a  member  of  King  Solomon's  Chapter,  No.  4,  Royal  Arch 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  41 1 

Masons,  and  of  Richmond  Commandery,  No.  8,  Knights  Templar.  In  the 
last  mentioned  he  is  past  eminent  commander,  and  though  he  was  elected  to 
the  Scottish  Rite  degree,  he  was  unable  to  take  it,  on  account  of  illness.  In 
the  Odd  Fellows'  society  he  is  past  grand  of  White  Water  Lodge,  No.  41,  and 
in  Osceola  Tribe,  No.  15,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  he  is  past  sachem. 
In  the  First  Presbyterian  church  he  has  long  been  an  active  member,  having 
served  as  a  deacon  and  elder. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Ogborn,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  1876,  was  Miss 
Emma  R.  Morgan,  of  Richmond.  Their  only  child,  Nellie  I.,  died  at  the  age 
of  ten  years,  and  Mrs.  Ogborn  passed  to  the  home  beyond  in  1894,  in  Petos- 
key,  Michigan,  where  she  and  her  husband  were  staying  for  a  period  in  the 
hope  of  benefiting  her  health.  On  Thanksgiving  day,  November  30,  1896, 
Mr.  Ogborn  wedded  Mrs.  Alice  T.  Laws,  of  this  city. 

HEZEKIAH  CLARK. 

Few  residents  of  Center  township.  Union  county,  are  better  known  or 
more  genuinely  esteemed  than  Hezekiah  Clark,  who  was  born  on  the  farm 
where  he  lives  to-day,  and  has  spent  his  whole  life  here.  When  he  was  two 
and  a  half  years  old  his  father  erected  the  commodious  and  substantial  farm- 
house which  has  since  sheltered  him  and  his,  and  has  been  the  scene  of 
many  a  joyous  gathering  and  social  event. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  William  S.  Clark,  a  native  of  North  Carolina, 
was  a  typical  pioneer,  hardy,  industrious,  fearless  and  equal  to  all  of  the 
emergencies  of  frontier  existence.  Coming  to  Indiana  in  18 18,  from  Guil- 
ford county.  North  Carolina,  where  he  had  been  born  and  had  grown  to 
man's  estate,  he  secured  a  tract  of  land  from  the  government,  during  Mon- 
roe's administration.  His  father,  Hezekiah  Clark,  made  the  trip  hither,  in 
1820,  and  spent  his  declining  years  in  this  county.  William  S.  had  one 
sister,  Polly,  who  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Rigsby,  and  lived  on  a  farm 
adjoining  that  of  our  subject.  In  his  youth  William  S.  Clark  had  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade,  and  he  found  it  very  useful  in  this  new  country,  where 
buildings  were  constantly  being  erected  for  the  pioneers.  Wages,  however^ 
were  decidedly  nominal,  for  money  was  scarce,  and  often  he  received  but 
twenty-five  cents  per  day,  as  when  he  was  employed  in  the  building  of  the 
Salem  Quaker  church.  Clearing  his  farm  in  the  intervals  of  work  at  his 
trade,  buying  more  property  from  time  to  time,  and  taking  land  in  payment 
for  labor  performed,  he  gradually  accumulated  a  fine  estate.  One  tract  of 
eighty  acres  was  turned  over  to  him  for  the  building  of  a  large  barn,  and  at 
one  time  he  was  a  large  landholder.  Reverses  came,  however,  for  he  con- 
tracted to  grade  a  mile  and  a  half  of  the  railroad  through  his  locality,  and, 
after  completing  his  share  according  to  agreement,  he  was  forced  to  take 


412  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

some  western  lands  in  recompense,  said  propert}'  proving  to  be  valueless. 
Other  disasters  befel  him  and  he  lost  heavily.  As  a  farmer  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful, and  for  some  years  he  bought  and  sold  hogs  extensively.  About  1844 
he  opened  a  store  at  Cottage  Grove,  and  was  concerned  in  the  business  for 
many  years.  A  man  of  public  spirit,  he  was  one  of  the  original  stockholders 
in  the  Liberty  and  College  Corner  pike,  which  for  j'ears  was  a  paying  invest- 
ment, and  was  the  only  road  in  that  locality  which  could  be  traveled  with 
comfort.  Politically  he  was  a  Whig  and  a  Republican.  During  the  last 
years  of  his  life  he  lived  near  Cottage  Grove,  iii  a  pleasant  home,  surrounded 
with  the  comforts  which  were  the  fruits  of  his  bus}',  successful  past.  At  the 
time  of   his  death,  June  27,   1885,  he  was  in  his  eighty-eighth  year. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Union  county,  William  S.  Clark  married  Elizabeth 
Huston,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Huston,  of  \'irginia,  who  lived  on  the  farm 
adjoining.  He  was  a  veteran  of  the  war  of  18 12,  and  both  he  and  his  wife, 
Tabitha,  were  honored  residents  of  this  township  for  many  .years.  Thirteen 
children  were  born  to  William  S.  and  Elizabeth  Clark,  and  all,  with  the 
exception  of  one  who  died  at  the  age  of  four  years,  lived  to  maturity. 
Seven  of  the  number  are  still  surviving,  but  the  subject  of  this  biography  is 
the  only  one  of  the  family  left  in  the  county.  The  wife  and  mother,  a  noble 
woman,  loved  and  admired  by  all,  died  June  7,   1890,  aged  eighty-six  years. 

Hezekiah  Clark  was  born  April  20,  1831,  and  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
farm,  his  youth  being  occupied  in  the  labors  incident  to  the  clearing  and  cul- 
tivating of  the  homestead.  When  he  arrived  at  maturity  he  received  eighty 
acres  of  his  father's  property,  and  continued  to  live  under  the  parental  roof 
until  his  marriage  in  1857.  He  has  been  engaged  in  general  farming  and 
stock-raising  and  has  prospered  in  his  various  financial  undertakings.  As  a 
citizen  his  course  has  been  worthy  of  commendation,  for  he  has  given  his 
means  and  influence  to  the  maintenance  of  law,  order  and  good  government. 
Firm  in  his  conviction  that  the  Republican  party  principles  have  brought 
this  country  to  its  present  wonderful  prosperity,  he  is  never  absent  from  the 
polls  and  manfully  strives  to  promote  its  welfare,  often  attending  local  con- 
ventions. 

When  he  was  twenty-six  years  old  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss  Sarah  C. 
Lyons,  daughter  of  Oren  and  Mary  (Beach)  Lyons.  Mrs.  Clark  was  born  in 
Butler  county,  Ohio,  and  was  brought  to  this  county  when  a  child.  Her 
father  died  several  years  ago,  but  her  mother  is  still  living  on  the  old  home 
place  in  Center  township.  All  of  the  thirteen  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Clark  lived  to  arrive  at  maturity.  They  are  named  as  follows:  Charley,  Jen- 
nie, William,  Mary,  Susie,  Sarah  T.,  Bert,  Rose,  Pearl,  George,  Joseph, 
Henry  and  Roxie,  the  five  last-mentioned  being  still  at  home.  The  eldest  son 
is  a  painter  by  trade  and  resides  in  Connersville,  and  William  is  a  carpenter  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  41S 

a  resident  of  Liberty.  Jennie  has  never  married;  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Joseph 
Witter;  Susie  married  Henry  Eikenberry  and  died  May  12,  1896;  Sarah  is 
Mrs.  Douglas  McKillop;  and  Rose  is  the  wife  of  WilHam  Toler.  Bert,  like 
a  true  patriot,  volunteered  his  services  to  his  country  in  her  late  war  with 
Spain,  enlisting  in  Company  B,  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-ninth  Indiana  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  was  stationed  chiefly  at  Camp  Alger,  in  Virginia.  Mr.  and' 
Mrs.  Clark  may  well  be  proud  of  their  fine  family,  as,  without  e.xception, 
their  children  are  a  credit  to  them  and  are  taking  honorable  places  in  "the 
world's  broad  field  of  battle." 

DANIEL  HILL. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  workers  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  Daniel 
Hill  has  devoted  many  years  of  his  life  to  the  advancement  of  the  cause  of 
Christianity  among  men.  His  influence  is  ever  found  on  the  side  of  prog- 
ress, of  liberty  and  of  right,  and  the  effect  of  his  labors  has  been  far-reach- 
ing. He  is  now  an  honored  resident  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  which  is  the 
place  of  his  nativity,  his  birth  having  occurred  on  the  i8th  of  November, 
1817.  Only  a  short  time  previously  his  parents  had  left  their  home  in  Ran- 
dolph county,  North  Carolina,  and  located  in  Richmond,  where  they  remained 
until  the  autumn  of  1S18,  when  they  removed  to  Randolph  county,  Indiana, 
their  home  being  a  log  cabin  in  the  midst  of  the  forest,  five  miles  east  of 
Winchester. 

There  Daniel  Hill  spent  his  boyhood  days  and  resided  for  more  than 
forty  years.  His  educational  privileges  were  those  afforded  in  what  were 
called  the  monthly-meeting  schools,  held  for  about  three  months  during  the 
winter  season.  There  he  pursued  his  studies  between  the  ages  of  seven  and 
twenty  years,  making  the  most  of  his  opportunities,  which  were,  however, 
quite  limited.  The  te.xt-books  then  used  were  the  Lindley  Murray  series, 
the  Introduction,  the  English  Reader  and  the  Sequel  to  the  English 
Reader.  He  was  very  fond  of  reading,  but  that  was  before  the  era  of 
cheap  literature,  and  he  does  not  remember  to  have  seen  a  newspaper  or  a 
magazine  until  he  was  in  his  'teens.  The  books  to  which  he  had  access  were 
the  Bible  and  a  small  monthly-meeting  library.  In  his  early  manhood  he 
taught  school  for  three  or  four  terms,  giving  instruction  only  in  the  element- 
tary  branches  of  learning.  He  began  public  speaking  as  an  advocate  of  the 
emancipation  of  the  slaves  in  the  south,  and  was  an  ardent  abolitionist  all 
through  the  struggle  which  finally  resulted  in  the  liberation  of  the  negroes. 
One  of  the  schools  he  taught  was  for  colored  children.  For  several  months 
during  the  war  he  was  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  as  agent  of  the  Friends 
Freemen's  Aid  Society. 

Mr.  Hill  is  a  birth-right   member   of   the   Society   of    Friends   and  has 


41i  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GESEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

always  loved  the  church  and  labored  for  its  growth  and  npbailding.  For 
several  yeais  he  was  an  elder,  and  in  1863  was  recorded  a  minister  of  the 
gospel,  in  which  capacity  he  has  attended  all  the  yearly  meetings  with  the 
'esceptiaa  of  those  held  in  California  and  Oregon.  From  1864  antil  1867  he 
was  soperintendent  of  the  Children's  Home,  in  Cincinnati,  and  on  leaving 
that  city  removed  to  New  Vienna,  Ohio.  On  the  organization  of  the  Peace 
Association  of  Friends  in  America,  in  186S.  he  was  appointed  president,  and 
John  Henry  Donglass  secretary,  headquarters  being  established  at  New 
Vienna,  where  both  gentlemen  hved.  At  the  close  of  the  first  year  Mr. 
Dooglass  re^ne- L'j  r:;!:;:-  r  r'i:  '.3  enter  the  evangelistic  field,  and 
Daniel  Hill  was  L;r  :  -:ri  sr   :t  le  Robert  Lindley  Murray  was  made 

president,  in  wh:-  7:;:  2  .r  ^v.  :  rrnnnaed  to  serve  until  bis  death. 
several  years  la:t:  T.r  :;::;:  ;;  5:  !!  i::er:ably  and  capably  filling  the 
position  of  secre:^:  I'-  ;  ' :  zr  ;  tji::  :-t  z  iblication  of  the  Messenger  of 
Peace,  a  month!;,  r  ^t  e:  t  :t  ;  : ;  -he  cause  of  peace,  and  of  this  journal  he 
is  still  editor  aci  7  _ :  ?  t:  1 7  .-t  same  year,  in  connection  with  John  M. 
Hossey.  Mr.  H:l!  ^^  i.^  ::.-.  7:iblication  of  the  Christian  Worker,  the 
name  being  soger  f.T  ;  "    T  7 :  72 as.  of  Union  Springs,  New  York.   It  was 

with  some  dific -  7:     7  -     :    -77'   "^5  placed  on  a  firm  financial  basis. 

The  Herald  of  r  7  ^ :  r  77777:7777  7  rlished  for  a  short  time  in  Chicago, 
had  collapsed.  .77  7  777:  :;  z-  z_e  who  had  paid  for  the  paper  in 
advance,  and  w 7  tt         :    757:    77:7    7^:77:   backward  about  subscribing 

for  a  new  paper  7:^7:7:  7  : :  7::  ■  z.zz-.  However,  in  time  this  diffi- 
culty was  overc :  ~  7  777  -.77  7777:  75  77777  7 Qc  of  the  leading  religious 
Joomals  in  this  777:  .77    ::77:r         ]'.:    'lizssej  was   publisher  and  Mr. 

Hin  editor,  and  7  7:7.7  :  7  ;  7  :::  7  ;  :  tf  the  latter  prepared  the 
Kbie  schorf  les5:7:  ^7:7  7t7  -:  :t:  :7r  .-:r  77^:  :f  Peace  and  attended 
to  a  volnminocs  :  ;:r7;7  :  7777:^  T77  ::■-.  :t  ^7777  :^fre?n  hours  of  labor 
«ach  day.  and  irtr::  :_:  i:zz\  77:7-:7:  ::7:7t7;7:  7  During  t' e  first 
twelve  years  c:  ::  75:^7:7  :7"  l7r  ;:^7  '  :::t:  7;  published  at  New 
^lerma,  Ohio.  =7     :'77  ::    7:  ^77:  :;    17:77: 

It  was  Dazir    H  :zz  I7  7.777  :  77:!:  77t7::ne.  advanced  a  prop- 

osition to  hold  7  7  :  t  ::  7  r    7:7    77  :77:    :r777     7:  :7  777r:i!  777t:;7;5  in 

different  parts  z:    77  f:   :t    77         :  -.zz  :    7-7:        :7   —  :         ::  7::7nd 

the  yearly  iiiee::7  7-  Z z-:  77  7:  t  :  ;  : :  :  7  :  e  ^^7  77:^:77:  =  :^ 
by  nearly  all  th  7  -.zz:  zzzz  rzzzzz.zi  !:  H  :::  :  ;  7  :77  : :  7  7:;::rt 
until  the  time  c^rzz  -..   .zzzzz     \  \zz  -izz^:      :    ,  :        77  ;:     7;  ;7e  :: 

his  propositioii  77  7:  :  :      ::t  appointed  in  the 

Indiana  yearly.  7.7  T ;:  7  7  ^  :  :  .rred  for  a  num- 

ber of  years  on::.  Lz-zW  7t-:  77  7  r:  :-:re;~6-i.  This  plan  of  evan- 
gelistic woiik  hai      ;     \zzz      r-T  _      7   ::r:         :  :her  yearly  meetings. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   A\D   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  415 

In  1840  Daniel  Hill  married  Arcadia  Thomas,  who  died  in  1863,  and  in 
1865  he  wedded  Martha  Ann  Hussey.  who  survived  their  marriage  eight 
years.  He  afterward  married  Tamar  Thorne.  who  died  in  1894.  The 
maiden  name  of  his  present  wife  was  Rachel  S.  Bailey.  By  his  second  mar- 
riage he  had  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  of  whom  two  are 
now  living:      Mrs.  Emma  Hadley,  of  Richmond;  and  Murray  Hill. 

In  1856  Daniel  HUl  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  to  represent  the 
counties  of  Randolph  and  Jay.  and  served  through  two  regular  and  one  extra 
session  of  the  legislature.  There  he  was  associated  with  such  eminent  states- 
men as  General  Lew  Wallace,  General  Thomas  Bennett  and  John  Yarjan. 
In  his  political  views  he  is  a  pronounced  Prohibitionist,  and  by  his  vote, 
voice,  pen  and  prayers  has  sought  to  annihilate  the  liquor  traffic.  As  a  min- 
ister, he  endeavors  to  arouse  the  church  on  this  subject,  and  from  the  plat- 
form appeals  earnestly  to  his  fellow  citizens  on  behalf  of  "God  and  home 
and  native  land." 

ISAAC  X.  DRURY. 

A  plain  and  unassuming  and  highly-respected  citizen  is  Isaac  N.  Drurj', 
the  well-known  contractor  and  bridge-builder  of  Richmond,  Indiana.  He 
was  born  in  Canton,  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York,  April  17.  1S32.  a  son 
of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Van  Allen)  Drury,  who  were  well-to-do  and  prosper- 
ous farming  people  of  St.  Lawrence  county. 

Isaac  N.  Drury  was  reared  a  farmer  and  received  a  common-school  edu- 
cation. At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he 
followed  as  a  journeyman  till  twenty-five  5ears  of  age.  In  1853  he  came 
west  as  far  as  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  remained  for  two  years,  during 
which  time  he  was  engaged  in  building  bridges  over  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi 
rivers,  and  in  1855  assisted  in  the  construction  of  the  Indiana  Central  and 
Dayton  &  Western  roads,  now  a  part  of  the  Pennsylvania  system.  He  also 
had  charge,  as  foreman,  of  the  bridge-building  between  Indianapolis  and 
Dayton.  In  i860  he  was  employed  in  contracting  for  and  building  railroad 
and  highway  bridges,  going  from  that  into  general  contracting,  which  he  has 
since  followed.  In  1873  he  located  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  still 
resides,  doing  business  as  a  contractor,  and  employing  from  twenty-five  to 
fifty  men. 

In  1S59  Mr.  Drury  was  married  to  Frances  L.  Northrop,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Roxyana  (Lincoln)  Northrop,  of  Rutland  county,  Vermont. 
They  have  one  child.  Ahce,  who  married  F.  J.  Correll.  a  prominent  tobacco 
and  cigar  merchant  of  Richmond. 

The  Drury  family  is  possessed  of  quite  a  bit  of  interesting  history.  The 
father,  who  was  born  in  Pittsford,  Rutland  county,  Vermont,  of  Irish  extrac- 
tion, was  a  lineal   descendant  of   Hugh  Drurj',  who  came  from  England  to 


416  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

this  country  some  two  hundred  years  ago,  and  whose  ashes  now  He  in  King 
Chapel  cemetery.  It  is  also  claimed  that  all  people  bearing  the  name  of 
Drury  are  descendants  of  this  HughTDrury. 

Isaac  Drury,  the  father  of  our  subject,  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
county  and  there  learned  the  tailor's  trade,  which  he  abandoned  later  to 
become  a  tiller  of  the  soil  in  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York.  He  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Van  Allen,  who  was  of  old  Holland-Dutch  stock,  and  daugh- 
ter of  John  Van  Allen,  whose  wife  was  born  in  1801  and  died  in  1871.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Drury  had  a  family  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of  whom, 
excepting  Isaac  N.,  are  living  in  St.  Lawrence  county,  New  York.  The 
children  are  as  follows:  Juliett  Holt;  Charles  H.,  a  farmer;  Mary  S.  Smith; 
Isaac  N. ;  Benjamin  F. ,  for  thirty-five  years  a  well  known  and  successful 
practitioner  of  medicine  in  St.  Lawrence  county;  Sarah  Stac}';  and  Albert 
F.,  also  a  farmer.  Isaac  Drury  was  an  active,  earnest  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church,  in  politics  was  a  Whig,  and  was  a  man  of  sterling  integ- 
rity and  high  principles.  His  death  occurred  in  his  native  county  in  1865,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-five. 

While  speaking  of  the  history  of  this  family  we  must  not  forget  Calvin 
Drury,  the  grandfather  of  Isaac  N.  He  was  a  Vermonter  by  birth  and  an 
extensive  farmer  by  occupation,  having  spent  his  entire  life  in  that  state,  and 
having  been  twice  married.  He  was  an  active  and  influential  member  of  the 
Congregational  church,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time  secretary.  He  was  also 
called  upon  to  fill  the  office  of  township  trustee,  and  in  politics  gave  his  sup- 
port to  the  Whig  party. 

Isaac  N.  Drury  is  known  in  politics  as  a  quiet  and  unobtrusive  Repub- 
lican, and  socially  is  connected  with  Richmond  Lodge,  No.  196,  F.  &  A.  M. ; 
Richmond  Chapter,  No.  4,  R.  A.  M.;  King  Solomon's  Commandery.  No.  8, 
K.  T.  He  is  a  very  successful  business  man,  and  one  to  be  thoroughly  relied 
upon. 

HARLAN  R.   QUINN. 

Since  the  days  when  Brownsville  township,  Union  county,  was  a  wilder- 
ness the  Quinn  family  has  been  influential  in  its  development  and  gradually 
increasing  prosperity,  contributing  to  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of 
schools  and  churches,  upholding  the  law  and  the  best  interests  of  the  public 
in  general. 

Though  he  has  now  attained  almost  the  measure  of  the  years  of  man, 
as  given  by  the  psalmist,  Harlan  R.  Quinn,  whose  birth  occurred  May  i, 
1830,  is  still  strong  and  sound  in  mind  and  body,  and  apparently  takes  as  ear- 
est  an  interest  in  his  various  pursuits  and  enterprises  as  he  did  in  his  early 
prime.  His  parents,  John  and  Sarah  Quinn,  natives  of  Kentucky,  are  both 
deceased,  and  the  old  homestead  where  their  later  years  were  spent  is  now 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  417 

in  the  possession  of  their  son,  J.  B. ,  who  is  a  thrifty  farmer  of  this  vicinity. 
This  worth}'  couple  reared  a  family  of  thirteen  children, — seven  girls  and  six 
boys, — who  attained  maturity  (see  sketch  of  J.  B.  Quinn). 

Such  education  as  fell  to  the  share  of  our  subject  was  obtained  in  the 
district  schools  of  this  neighborhood,  and  when  he  was  a  mere  lad  he  had 
mastered  farming,  in  its  general  details.  He  continued  to  reside  at  his  birth- 
place year  after  year  until  he  was  fifty-four  years  old,  as  he  never  married, 
and  his  mother  could  not  consent  to  his  removal  elsewhere.  Long  after  her 
death,  which  occurred  in  1866,  he  followed  the  routine  to  which  he  was 
accustomed,  being  associated  in  the  management  of  the  old  farm  with  his 
brothers,  J.  B.  and  William  Wesley,  for  several  years.  In  18S0  he  sold  his 
interest  in  the  place  to  the  present  owner,  J.  B.  Quinn,  and  took  up  his 
residence  in  Decatur  count}',  Indiana.  During  the  eight  years  which  he 
spent  there  he  was  not  engaged  in  business,  and  the  longing  to  return  to  the 
home  and  friends  of  his  youth  grew  stronger  and  stronger  with  him.  In  1888 
he  returned,  and,  buying  the  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  acres 
which  adjoins  his  parental  homestead,  he  has  since  devoted  himself  assidu- 
ously to  its  cultivation.  He  has  erected  a  commodious  modern  farm-house, 
and  has  remodeled  the  other  building  and  made  numerous  alterations  and 
improvements,  thus  greatly  increasing  the  value  and  desirability  of  the  place. 

The  life  of  Mr.  Quinn  has  been  peaceful,  busy  and  devoid  of  so-called 
great  events.  He  has  endeavored  to  live  in  peace  and  harmony  with  all 
mankind,  and  has  quietly  and  unassumingly  pursued  the  even  tenor  of  liis 
way.  Though  taking  sufficient  interest  in  public  affairs  to  do  his  duty  as  a 
voter  and  citizen,  his  preference  being  for  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party,  he  has  never  aspired  to  official  distinction,  and  is  not  a  politician  in 
any  sense.  In  his  thirteenth  year  he  became  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  idtntifying  himself  with  the  congregation  of  Wood's  chapel. 
He  has  been  a  liberal  contributor  to  religious  and  charitable  enterprises,  and 
has  aided  and  befriended  many  a  person  in  need.  No  one  in  the  community 
enjoys  a  better  reputation  tor  integrit\-  of  word  and  deed,  and  when  a  man 
stands  high  in  the  estimation  of  the  people  who  have  known  him  during  his 
entire  life   no  greater   testimonial  to   his  worth  can  be  given. 

GEORGE  W.  P.ARSONS. 
Captain  George  W.  Parsons,  e.x-assessor  of  Jefferson  township,  \\'a\ne 
county,  is  one  of  the  natl\e  sons  of  this  township,  his  birth  having  occurred 
September  18,  1843.  He  is  a  grandson  of  Benjamin  F.  Parsons,  who  was 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  this  locality,  and  is  a  son  of  Amos  and  Jane 
(Machetti  Parsons.  Amos  Parsons  had  one  brother,  Elijah,  and  eleven  sis- 
ters.     He  was  likewise  a  native  of  this  township,  and,  following  the  example 


418  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  his  ancestors,  he  was  devoted  to  agriculture.  Of  the  three  sons  and  three 
daughters  born  to  himself  and  estimable  wife,  four  survive:  George  W. ,  the 
subject  of  this  article;  Benjamin,  a  resident  of  Richmond,  Indiana;  and  two 
■daughters. 

The  youth  of  George  W.  Parsons  was  spent,  uneventfully  enough,  upon 
the  old  homestead,  a  portion  of  his  time  being  given  to  attending  the  schools 
•of  the  neighborhood.  Lessons  of  patriotism,  industry  and  devotion  to  duty 
were  constantly  instilled  into  his  nature  by  his  wise  parents'  precepts  and 
example,  and  these  bore  fruit  in  due  season.  He  was  less  than  eighteen 
years  of  age  when  the  dreadful  conflict  between  the  north  and  south  began, 
and  soon  after  reaching  his  anniversary  he  offered  his  services  to  his  country. 
Enlisting  in  Company  I,  Fifty-seventh  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer  Infant- 
ry, as  a  private,  he  was  regularly  promoted  to  corporal,  sergeant,  orderly 
sergeant,  first  lieutenant  and  finally  to  the  captaincy  of  his  company.  Of 
the  numerous  decisive  battles  of  the  war  in  which  he  took  an  active  and  dis- 
tinguished part  may  be  mentioned:  Shiloh,  Perryville,  Stone  river  (where 
he  was  wounded  in  the  right  shoulder)  and  Missionary  Ridge.  After  the  last 
named  battle  he  accompanied  his  regiment  to  the  relief  of  General  Burnside, 
whose  forces  at  Knoxville  were  being  besieged  by  the  Confederates,  under 
'General  Longstreet.  That  great  rebel  leader  having  been  forced  to  retreat, 
the  Fifty-seventh  then  joined  the  command  of  General  Sherman  in  the 
Atlanta  campaign,  and  did  effective  service  in  all  the  important  engagements 
■down  to  Peach  Tree  creek  (including  Resaca  and  Rocky  Face  Ridge)  where, 
after  a  desperate  resistance,  a  portion  of  the  regiment  was  captured  by  the 
Confederates.  Captain  Parsons  was,  unfortunately,  one  of  the  number,  and 
•for  the  next  two  months  he  experienced  the  horrors  of  Andersonville  prison. 
More  fortunate,  however,  than  many  of  the  poor,  starved  and  abused  federal 
soldiers  who  were  his  comrades  while  he  was  there,  he  was  released  at  the 
end  of  the  time  specified,  under  special  exchange  orders.  Resuming  his 
•command,  he  served  under  General  Thomas  at  the  battles  of  Spring  Hill, 
Franklin  and  Nashville,  and  after  peace  had  been  declared  his  regiment  was 
sent  to  Texas,  in  order  to  keep  vigilant  watch  of  the  operations  of  the  French, 
under  Maximilian,  in  Mexico.  Remaining  in  the  Lone  Star  state  for  a  few 
months,  the  Fifty-seventh  was  finally  mustered  out  at  Port  Lavaca,  Texas, 
December  14,  1865.  It  had  so  happened  that  our  subject  received  his  com- 
mission as  first  lieutenant.  May  31,  1865,  and  the  following  day  was  raised 
'.to  the  captaincy  of  his  company. 

Upon  returning  home  the  gallant  young  captain,  then  but  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  though  he  had  fought  and  suffered  and  had  had  many  experi- 
ences— on  the  battle-field,  in  camp  and  in  prison — that  had  aged  him  greatly, 
commenced  making  preparations  for  his  marriage.     On  the  ist  of  April,  1866, 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  419 

he  wedded  Miss  Priscilla,  daughter  of  Hannibal  and  Fanny  (Perry)  Mathews, 
who  were  natives  of  New  York  state  and  Vermont,  respectively.  They  were 
married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  removed  to  Hagerstown,  Wayne  county, 
in  1852.  The  father  married,  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Fanny,  her 
half-sister,  and  a  son  and  three  daughters  were  born  of  this  union.  Mrs. 
Parsons,  who  is  one  of  the  eight  children  of  the  first  marriage,  was  .born  in 
Cincinnati,  May  5,  1849,  and  has  resided  in  Jefferson  township  since  child- 
hood. The  Captain  and  his  wife  lost  three  children,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  their  surviving  sons  and  daughters  are  named  as  follows:  Amos  W. ,  Emma 
J.,  Harry  C,  Gertrude  F.,  EdnaE.,  Benjamin  F.,  George  W.  and  Mary 
Irene. 

Since  the  close  of  the  war  Captain  Parsons  has  given  his  attention  to 
various  business  enterprises,  and  for  many  years  has  bought  live  stock  and 
has  supplied  the  local  markets  with  meat.  As  a  citizen  he  is  held  in  high 
esteem  in  his  community,  as  may  be  seen  by  the  fact  that  he  was  made 
assessor  of  his  township  and  was  retained  in  that  office  for  eight  years. 
Politically  he  is  an  uncompromising  Republican. 

ROWLAND  COLEMAN. 

Rowland  Coleman,  deceased,  was  born  in  Nantucket  island,  Massachu- 
setts, August  15,  1787,  and  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century  came  out 
to  the  Western  Reserve,  reaching  Indiana  before  she  attained  the  dignity  of 
statehood.  As  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  Hoosier  state,  his  history  is  of  more 
than  passing  interest  in  this  work. 

Referring  to  the  early  history  of  the  Coleman  family  in  this  country,  we 
find  that  Edward  was  the  original  Coleman  in  America  and  his  settle- 
ment was  on  Nantucket  island.  Along  the  agnatic  line  he  traces  his  descent 
back  through  Barnabas,  Jr.,  Barnabas,  Sr. ,  John,  Jr.,  and  John,  Sr. ,  to 
Thomas  Coleman.  Many  members  of  the  family  have  been  seafaring  men. 
Several  of  Rowland's  brothers  were  sea  captains,  and  other  of  the  Colemans 
have  been  found  in  the  mechanical  ranks..  Rowland,  who  was  a  carpenter, 
previous  to  the  war  of  18 12  came  west,  and  he  would  have  been  a  soldier  in 
that  war  had  he  not  been  rejected  on  account  of  a  defect  in  his  hearing.  He 
worked  at  his  trade  in  Cincinnati  until  181 8.  In  the  meantime,  however, 
in  181  5,  he  came  over  into  Indiana  and  entered  land  in  Union  county,  where 
his  son  now  lives.  In  18 18  he  located  here  permanently,  that  year  erecting 
one  of  the  first  two  frame  houses  in  the  vicinity.  He  built  an  addition  to  it  in 
1834  and  Frederick  in  r859  remodeled  and  added  to  it,  the  present  farm 
residence  being  the  result.  Here  he  lived  and  prospered  the  rest  of  his  days, 
working  at  his  trade  and  farming,  and  many  of  the  old  buildings  throughout 
the  locality  bear  the  marks  of  his  handiwork.      He  died  December  16,  1863. 


420  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  1830  he  married  Mrs.  Hannah  Coffin,  nee  Stanton,  who  was  born  in 
Lynchburg,  Virginia,  daughter  of  James  Stanton,  the  Stanton  family  having 
originally  come  from  Nantucket  island.  She  died  December  14,  1886,  near 
the  age  of  ninety-two  years,  passing  away  on  the  farm  which  had  been  her 
home  for  sixty  years.  Rowland  Coleman  was  born  and  reared  a  Quaker,  but 
was  not  a  member  of  the  church.  Old  Salem  church  stands  on  land  once 
owned  by  him.  Of  his  family  we  record  that  Frederic  was  the  eldest,  and 
of  him  we  make  further  mention;  Susan,  wife  of  Gilbert  Tressler,  an  attorney 
of  Connersville,  Indiana,  died  in  early  womanhood,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  years;  and  John,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years. 

Frederic  A.  Coleman  was  born  August  4,  1832,  in  the  original  house  his 
father  built  on  the  farm,  and  on  this  farm  he  has  since  lived,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  years.  With  a  taste  for  mechanics  like  other  members  of  the 
family  referred  to,  he  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  in  his  youth,  and  worked 
at  that  trade  a  short  time.  His  education  began  in  the  common  schools;- 
was  carried  forward  in  Miami  University  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  where  he  spent 
two  years,  but  did  not  graduate  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  returned  home  to 
take  charge  of  the  farming  operations.  During  his  student  life  at  Oxford, 
the  celebrated  Professor  David  Swing  had  charge  of  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  the  university,  and  Whitelaw  Reid  was  a  classmate  of  Mr.  Coleman's. 
The  farm  above  alluded  to  comprises  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  is 
devoted  to  a  variety  of  crops.  The  residence,  standing  somewhat  back  from 
the  highway,  is  approached  by  an  avenue  shaded  by  pine  trees,  the  planting 
of  Frederic  Coleman  in  1864.  Other  improvements  have  been  made  by  him, 
including  one  thousand  rods  of  tile  for  drainage. 

Politically  Mr.  Coleman  is  a  Republican  and  takes  an  intelligent  interest 
in  public  affairs,  but  is  not  a  politician.  In  his  religious  views  he  is  broad 
and  liberal. 

Mr.  Coleman  was  married  in  1858  to  Miss  Louise  McGonigle,  who  died 
six  years  later.  His  second  marriage,  to  Miss  Marie  L.  Quigby,  of  Fairfield, 
Indiana,  was  consummated  in  1875.  They  have  one  child,  Ethel  May,  a 
member  of  the  class  of  '99  at  Earlham  College,  Richmond,  Indiana. 

JONATHAN  BRIGHT  QUINN. 

Three-fourths  of  a  century  has  the  Quinn  family  been  closely  associated 
with  the  progress  and  development  of  Union  county,  and  none  of  her  citizens 
have  manifested  greater  public  spirit  or  more  earnest  interest  in  the  reduction 
of  the  country  from  a  wilderness  to  a  fertile  land  of  tine  farms,  with  flourish- 
ing towns  dotted  here  and  there. 

John  Quinn,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
in  his  boyhood  he   went  to  Kentucky,  where  he   married  Sarah   Bright,  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  421 

together  they  came  to  the  wilds  of  Indiana  in  1821.  For  two  years  they 
made  their  home  in  Harrison  township,  Union  county,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  they  permanently  located  on  a  quarter-section  of  land,  the  present  home 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The  young  couple  lived  in  a  very  humble  way 
at  first,  but  were  quite  happy  and  content  in  their  simple  cabin,  built  of  rough 
round  logs.  Later  they  rose  to  the  dignity  of  a  hewed-log  house,  and  finally 
they  removed  to  a  substantial  house,  in  1845.  Their  landed  posessions  were 
added  to  until  they  owned  three  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  These  successive 
changes  marked  their  gradual  advancement  toward  a  competence,  but  it  was 
accomplished  only  b)'  the  utmost  diligence,  industry  and  economy.  At  the 
same  time  this  worth}'  pair  were  rearing  their  six  sons  and  seven  daughters, 
all  of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  With  the  exception  of  Harlan  Robbins 
Quinn,  they  were  all  married,  but  he  and  our  subject  were  the  only  ones  who 
continued  to  dwell  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  old  home.  In  addition  to  his 
farming  operations,  the  senior  Mr.  Quinn  carried  on  a  tan-yard,  which  after 
his  death  was  managed  by  his  widow  and  son.  A  man  of  liberality  and  wis- 
dom, he  used  his  means  and  influence  in  the  support  of  worthy  public  enter- 
prises, and  during  his  life-time  donated  land  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  and  to  the  cemetery.  One  of  the  original  members  of  Woods  Chapel, 
he  often  had  the  little  body  of  friends  and  neighbors  meet  in  his  home  before 
the  church  was  built,  and  in  innumerable  ways  showed  his  zeal  and  strong  desire 
to  witness  the  triumph  of  religion.  His  active  and  useful  life  came  to  a  close 
in  1852,  and  fourteen  years  later  his  devoted  wife  followed  him  to  the  grave, 
she  being  then  about  seventy  years  of  age.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Quinn 
had  first  been  a  Democrat  of  the  Jackson  school,  but  when  the  slavery  ques- 
tion became  the  paramount  issue  he  transferred  his  allegiance  and  thence- 
forth voted  with  the  Whig  party.  His  sons  followed  his  example,  and  our 
subject  later  joined  the  ranks  of  the  Republicans. 

The  children  of  John  and  Sarah  (Bright)  Quinn  were:  Daniel  A.,  who 
lived  for  many  years  in  Putnam  county,  Indiana,  and  died  there;  Mary  Ann, 
who  married  Levi  W.  Moore,  and  lived  and  died  in  Decatur  county,  Indiana; 
Sophia  B.,  wife  of  Davis  W.  John;  James  Edward,  of  Putnam  county; 
Margaret  Jane,  deceased,  wife  of  Noah  Naylor,  of  Putnam  county;  Jonathan 
B. ;  John  P.,  of  Bartholomew  county,  Indiana;  Rebecca  W. ,  widow  of 
Robert  O.  Powell,  of  Shelby  county;  Belinda,  deceased,  wife  of  James 
Powell,  of  Bartholomew  county;  Harlan  R. ,  of  Union  county;  Sarah  Har- 
rison, widow  of  L.  W.  Moore,  of  Decatur  county;  Louisa  Grover,  deceased, 
wife  of  John  Coddington,  of  Madison  county,  Indiana;  and  William  Wesley, 
of  Hendricks  county,  this  state. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  took  place  on  the  13th  of  April,  1823,  on  the 
old  homestead   in  Harrison  township.  Union   county,  and   as  long  as  he  can 


422  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

remember  he  has  lived  on  the  farm  which  he  now  owns  and  cultivates.  In 
his  youth  he  assisted  his  father  in  the  tannery,  and  later  he  operated  the 
plant  in  partnership  with  his  brothers,  William  Wesley  and  Harlan.  Then, 
buying  their  interests,  he  continued  in  business  alone  until  he  decided  to 
close  it,  in  i860.  He  has  been  very  successful,  industrious  and  energetic, 
and  thoroughly  deserves  the  genuine  praise  which  is  freely  accorded  him  by 
those  who  have  known  him  a  lifetime.  In  connection  with  his  tannery,  Mr. 
Quinn  carried  a  stock  of  boots  and  shoes  and  harness  for  some  years  and 
enjoyed  a  good  trade  m  those  lines.  He  has  given  his  children  assistance  as 
they  started  out  in  independent  careers,  and  still  retains  a  goodly  fortune  and 
four  hundred  acres  ifi  the  homestead. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Quinn  celebrated  a  half  century  of  happy  wedded  life  on 
the  anniversary  of  their  marriage,  January  2,  1899.  F'fty  years  ago  they 
pledged  themselves,  each  to  the  other,  and  through  joys  and  sorrows  innu- 
merable they  have  passed,  until  now  they  stand  on  the  sunset  side  of  life. 
Mrs.  Quinn  was  formerly  Miss  Mary  A.  Manning,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Manning,  and  her  birthplace  was  in  Abington  township,  Wayne 
county.  The  only  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Quinn  died  in  infancy.  Their 
daughters  are  as  follows:  Sophia  Ellen,  wife  of  Henry  Winters,  of  Browns- 
ville township;  Alwilda  Porter,  wife  of  John  Meek,  of  Nebraska;  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Samuel  Flack,  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-six 
years,  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin;  Eugenia  Florence,  wife  of  Wendall  Haw- 
kins, a  farmer,  now  on  the  Quinn  homestead;  Mary  Bright,  wife  of  William 
Taylor,  of  Center  township.  Union  county;  Rebecca  May,  who  is  at  home; 
and  Emma  Louisa,  widow  of  John  Gear,  of  Brownsville.  Our  subject  and 
wife  have  nineteen  grandchildren,  of  whom  none  are  married.  The  whole 
family,  parents  and  children,  have  been  connected  with  the  Methodist  church 
from  early  years,  and  when  residents  of  this  locality  have  been  regular 
attendants  at  Wood's  chapel.  Mr.  Quinn  has  served  in  the  various  offices  of 
the  church,  such  as  class-leader  and  steward,  for  over  two-score  years. 
Faithful  and  true  in  all  the  relations  of  life,  he  and  his  loved  wife  need  have 
few  regrets  in  looking  back  along  the  pathway  by  which  they  have  come, 
and  to  their  children  they  will  leave  the  priceless  heritage  of  a  stainless 
name  and  history. 

TIMOTHY  NICHOLSON. 

Timothy  Nicholson,  of  Richmond,  is  too  well  known  to  the  people  of 
Indiana  to  need  any  introduction  to  the  readers  of  this  volume.  He  is  a 
prominent  factor  in  the  industrial  and  mercantile  life  of  Richmond,  but  is 
better  known  in  connection  with  his  labors  in  the  interests  of  his  fellow  men. 
He  has  a  mind  above  all  personal  considerations,  concerned  with  those  large, 
loving  interests  belonging  to  humanity.     There  are  many  men  in  Indiana — 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  423 

leaders  in  professional  and  commercial  circles — who  have  acquired  wide  repu- 
tation in  business  circles,  but  in  the  homes  of  the  land,  as  well  as  in  the 
establishments  devoted  to  trade,  the  name  of  Timothy  Nicholson  is  familiar. 
Amid  life's  busy  cares  he  has  found  time  to  devote  to  humanity,  and  recog- 
nizing the  brotherhood  of  mankind  he  has  labored  for  the  advancement  of 
the  human  race,  aided  in  raising  the  fallen  and  extended  a  helping  hand  to 
the  down-trodden  and  the  needy.  It  is  this  that  has  made  him  one  of  the 
highly  esteemed  and  loved  citizens  of  Richmond  and  inseparably  interwoven 
his  history  with  the  record  of  its  best  development. 

He  was  born  in  Perquimans  county,  North  Carolina,  on  the  2d  of  Novem- 
ber, 1828,  and  is  a  son  of  Josiah  and  Ann  (White)  Nicholson,  both  of  whom 
were  elders  in  the  Society  of  Friends  and  prominent  and  influential  citizens 
of  the  community  in  which  they  made  their  home.  His  ancestors  were  of  a 
sterling,  stalwart  people  who  suffered  persecution  for  the  sake  of  their  relig- 
ion. In  order  to  secure  freedom  of  conscience  they  came  to  America  at  an 
early  period  in  the  settlement  of  the  New  World.  The  first  of  whom  we 
have  record,  Edmond  and  Elizabeth  Nicholson,  were  natives  of  England, 
whence  they  emigrated  to  New  England,  where  the  remainder  of  their  days 
were  spent.  Their  son,  Christopher  Nicholson,  also  crossed  the  Atlantic 
about  1660  and  for  a  time  resided  in  New  England,  but  he  and  his  brother 
were  beaten  on  account  of  their  religious  views,  and  in  consequence  he 
sought  a  home  in  North  Carolina,  where  his  marriage  was  recorded  in  1680. 
He  had  two  sons,  one  of  whom  was  Christopher  Nicholson,  who  became  the 
father  of  Thomas  Nicholson,  the  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
review.  This  Thomas  Nicholson  was  an  able  minister  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  a  leading  man  of  the  community  in  which  he  resided.  He 
owned  a  number  of  slaves,  and  in  common  with  the  people  of  that  time  and 
place  believed  that  such  proprietorship  was  scriptural  and  right,  but  later 
study  of  the  question  taught  him  that  the  practice  of  holding  human  beings 
in  bondage  was  contrary  to  the  law  of  God.  Accordingly,  despite  the  diffi- 
culty and  unpopularity  of  the  act,  he  liberated  his  negroes  and  his  example 
was  followed  by  other  Friends  until  there  was  not  a  slave-owner  among  the 
Friends  in  that  section  of  North  Carolina.  He  afterward  declared  that  he 
would  not  again  become  entangled  in  slave-holding  for  the  weight  of  the 
slaves  in  gold.  The  grandfather  of  Timothy  Nicholson  was  also  named 
Thomas,  and  like  other  of  the  family  devoted  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
and  held  to  the  religious  faith  of  the  sect  with  which  his  people  had  so  long 
been  identified. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  has  said  that  "the  way  to  reform  a  man  is  to 
begin  with  his  grandfather,"  and,  indeed,  fortunate  is  he  who  has  back  of  him 
an  honorable  ancestry.      In  this  particular  Timothy  Nicholson  was  particu- 


424  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

larly  blessed,  as  well  as  having  in  his  youth  the  surroundings  of  a  cultured 
Christian  home;  yet  with  all  these  a  man's  character  must  depend  upon  him- 
self, and  his  accomplishments  or  failures  in  life  are  attributable  to  his  own 
desires  and  efforts.  While  trained  to  habits  of  industry,  sobriety  and  probity, 
it  remained  to  Timothy  Nicholson  to  put  them  to  practical  use  in  every-day 
life  and  to  test  his  principles  in  the  fire  of  actual  experience.  He  was  reared 
upon  a  farm  and  was  afforded  excellent  educational  privileges  that  his  mental 
culture  might  be  in  accord  with  his  physical  and  moral  development.  He 
was  for  some  time  a  student  in  Belvidere  Academy,  an  institution  established 
and  maintained  by  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  he 
became  a  student  in  the  Friends'  school  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where 
he  remained  for  a  year  and  a  half.  He  then  returned  to  his  home  and  was 
appointed  principal  of  the  Belvidere  Academy,  a  position  which  he  ably  filled 
for  six  years.  He  then  accepted  an  invitation  to  take  charge  of  the  prepara- 
tory department  of  Haverford  College,  near  Philadelphia,  one  of  the  oldest 
and  best  known  Friends'  schools  in  the  country.  There  he  performed  his 
duties  with  such  signal  ability  and  skill  that  at  the  close  of  his  fourth  year  in 
that  school  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  general  superintendent  of  the 
college,  in  which  capacity  he  acceptably  served  two  years. 

On  the  expiration  of  that  period  Mr.  Nicholson  resigned,  and  in  1861 
removed  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  joined  his  brother,  John  Nichol- 
son, in  the  book  and  stationery  business,  a  connection  which  was  continued 
until  1873,  when  he  purchased  his  brother's  interest  and  has  since  been  alone 
in  business.  He  also  has  a  large  book  bindery,  and  carries  on  operations  under 
the  name  of  the  Nicholson  Printing  Company.  He  has  built  up  an  extensive 
trade  in  both  departments  of  his  business.  He  is  a  very  systematic  and 
methodical,  possesses  keen  discrimination  and  excellent  executive  ability, 
and  carries  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes.  He 
is  always  just  to  and  considerate  of  his  employes,  who  know  that  faithfulness 
on  their  part  means  advancement  as  opportunity  offers. 

Broad-minded  and  progressive  and  imbued  with  strong  humanitarian 
principles,  Timothy  Nicholson  takes  a  deep  interest  in  all  that  pertains  to 
the  development  and  improvement  of  the  city  with  which  he  is  connected, 
and  with  its  educational  and  moral  progress.  As  a  leading  member  of  the 
Friends  church,  he  is  well  known  throughout  all  the  branches  of  that  denom- 
ination, being  active  in  all  the  church  conferences.  He  has  been  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  arrangements  of  the  three  quinquennial  conferences  that 
have  been  held  by  the  Friends  in  America,  and  at  the  last  conference  was 
again  appointed  to  that  position.  He  has  been  very  active  in  the  state  and 
national  Sunday-school  work,  was  president  of  the  Indiana  Sunday  school 
Union  for  one  year,  and  for  three  years  a  member  of  the  executive  committee 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  425 

■of  the  International  Sunday-school  Association.  For  twenty  years  he  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  home  Sunday  school,  for  many  years  has  been  an 
elder  in  the  church  and  for  twenty-two  years  was  clerk  of  the  yearly  meeting 
of  ministers  and  elders,  while  for  twelve  years  he  was  clerk  of  the  White- 
water monthly  meeting,  comprising  four  congregations. 

For  thirty-four  years  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  Earlham  College,  in  which 
he  takes  a  very  deep  and  active  interest,  and  because  of  his  special  fitness  for 
that  office  and  his  residence  in  Richmond,  much  of  the  labor  of  the  board  of 
trustees  has  devolved  upon  him,  and  to  his  labors  the  high  standing  of  the 
institution  is  attributable  in  no  small  degree.  During  the  years  1865-6  he 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Richmond  city  schools,  and 
from  1868  until  1873  was  a  trustee  of  the  Indiana  State  Normal  School  at 
Terre  Haute.  Two  years  afterward,  in  1877,  when  a  vacancy  occurred  on 
that  board,  the  remaining  trustees  united  in  requesting  Governor  Williams  to 
appoint  Mr.  Nicholson  to  the  vacancy,  which  he  did  although  the  latter's 
political  views  were  at  variance  with  those  of  the  governor  and  of  every  other 
trustee.  From  1872  until  1877  he  was  trustee  of  the  Home  of  the  Friend- 
less, of  Richmond,  and  from  early  life  he  has  been  an  earnest  temperance 
worker.  For  nearly  thirty-three  years,  as  a  member  of  the  committee  of  the 
Friends  society  on  prison  reform,  he  has  taken  a  very  active  and  earnest 
interest  in  that  work.  This  committee  was  appointed  and  continued  from 
year  to  year  for  the  purpose  of  arousing  the  people  and  the  law-makers  to 
the  evils  of  the  prison  system  of  the  state.  Every  year  the  committee  made 
a  written  report  of  their  work,  which  demanded  great  patience,  perseverance 
and  indomitable  effort. 

The  progress  that  Indiana  has  made  along  the  line  of  prison  reforms  in 
the  last  few  years  is  due  more  to  the  efforts  of  Timothy  Nicholson  than  to 
any  other  one  man,  though  he  does  not  take  the  credit  for  it.  Other  men 
wrote  the  statutes  and  voted  them  into  legal  existence,  but  the  demand  for 
their  passage  came  from  the  thirty  years'  campaign  of  education  carried  on 
by  him  and  his  associates  in  the  work.  In  1887  when  a  law  was  enacted 
creating  a  board  of  state  charities,  the  governor  appointed  him  a  member, 
and  he  is  still  one  of  its  most  prominent  representatives.  His  interest  and 
efficiency  in  this  line  of  work  have  made  him  well  known  among  prison 
reformers  throughout  the  United  States,  and  he  is  an  active  member  of  the 
National  Prison  Congress  and  of  the  National  Conference  of  Charities  and 
Corrections.  In  1896  he  was  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Conference  of 
Charities  and  Corrections.  The  establishment  of  the  woman's  prison  and 
reform  school  for  girls  was  one  of  the  first  victories  of  the  "standing  com- 
mittee "  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  This  advanced  step  in  prison  legislation 
was  directed  and  hastened  by  recommendations  of  the  committee   and   by 


426  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

reports  disclosing  the  abuses  arising  from  the  keeping  of  prisoners  of  both 
sexes  in  the  same  institution.  As  a  member  of  the  board  of  state  charities 
since  its  creation,  he  has  made  two  or  more  visits  to  the  institution  every 
year  and  often  addresses  the  men  individually,  speaking  words  of  hope  and 
encouragement  to  them. 

In  politics  Timothy  Nicholson  has  always  been  a  stanch  Republican, 
and  in  1872  was  president  of  the  Richmond  Grant  Club,  but  has  never  sought 
or  desired  the  honors  or  emoluments  of  public  office.  With  a  deep  realiza- 
tion of  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of  citizenship,  however,  he  has  kept 
well  informed  on  the  momentous  issues  of  the  day  and  is  therefore  capable 
of  giving  an  intelligent  support  to  the  measures  which  he  believes  are  for  the 
public  good. 

On  the  iith  of  August,  1853,  Timothy  Nicholson  married  Miss  Sarah 
N.  White,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  White,  both  of  whom  were  elders 
in  the  Society  of  Friends  in  Perquimans  county.  North  Carolina.  Three 
sons  of  this  marriage  are  now  living.  The  mother  died  September  26,  1865, 
and  the  father  was  married  April  30,  1868,  to  Miss  Mary  A.  White,  a  sister 
of  his  first  wife.    Two  daughters  were  born  to  them,  both  of  whom  are  living. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  history  of  one  of  Richmond's  most  prominent  and 
honored  citizens,  and  Indiana  may  well  be  proud  to  number  him  among  her 
sons.  He  conducts,  with  two  of  his  sons,  the  oldest  book  house  in  the  east- 
ern part  of  the  state,  and  his  efforts  in  business  life  have  crowned  him  with 
financial  success.  At  all  times  a  reputation  for  honesty,  his  own  self-respect 
and  the  well-merited  esteem  of  his  fellow  men  have  been  more  to  him  than 
money,  which  has  been  but  the  means  which  has  enabled  him  to  provide  for 
his  family  and  aid  his  fellow  men.  He  has  unusual  executive  talent,  and  as 
an  organizer  and  manager  of  educational  and  benevolent  institutions  has  few 
superiors  in  the  state.  A  local  paper  has  said:  "  To  know  Timothy  Nichol- 
son is  to  respect  and  esteem  him.  With  a  soul  overflowing  with  warm  human 
sympathy,  with  a  quick  appreciation  of  any  combination  of  circumstances 
and  a  tact  which  enables  him  instantly  to  do  or  say  the  right  thing  upon 
every  occasion,  he  is  yet  adamantine  in  his  convictions  of  right  and  wrong. 
He  can  say  'No!'  in  a  manner  which  then  and  there  closes  the  question. 
He  has  an  old-fashioned  idea  that  simple,  plain  speaking  between  man  and 
man  in  the  long  run  makes  better  friends  and  leaves  a  clearer  conscience. 
He  has  not  departed  from  the  manner  of  speech  of  the  Friends,  and  his 
'  thee '  and  '  thou  '  seem  peculiarly  in  keeping  with  his  simple,  direct  and 
kindly  manner  of  speech.  He  is  sparing  in  the  use  of  titles  and  prefers  not 
to  be  called  Mr.  Nicholson.  It  is  taken  as  entirely  proper  and  quite  the 
usual  custom  in  Richmond  for  his  acquaintances,  young  and  old,  to  address 
him  by  his  first  name,  and  the  custom  is  followed  by  children,  all  without  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  42T 

slightest  color  or  thought  of  disrespect. "  Modest  in  manner,  free  from  all 
ostentation,  his  true  worth  and  kindly  life  have  endeared  him  to  all  who 
know  him,  and  his  example  is  indeed  one  which  may  profitably  be  followed 
by  the  younger  generation. 

SAMUEL  C.  WHITESELL. 

For  nearly  thirty  years  Samuel  C.  Whitesell  has  been  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law  in  Wayne  county.  He  is  able  and  well  posted  in  his  profes- 
sion, clear  and  convincing  as  a  speaker  before  judge  and  jury,  painstaking 
and  accurate  in  the  preparation  of  his  cases,  and  conscientiously  adheres  to 
the  spirit  as  well  as  to  the  letter  of  the  law,  scorning  to  lower  the  high 
standard  of  right  and  justice. 

The  paternal  ancestors  of  our  subject  were  of  German  origin,  the  name 
having  been  spelled  Weitzel  in  the  mother  tongue.  The  grandfather  of  S. 
C.  Whitesell,  George  Whitesell,  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  and  was  a  soldier 
in  the  war  of  1812.  After  hostilites  had  ceased  between  this  nation  and 
England,  he  removed  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  took  up  his  abode  on  a 
farm  twelve  miles  east  of  Richmond.  There  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  his  death  occurring  when  he  was  in  his  seventy-fifth  year.  In  his  early 
manhood  he  learned  and  followed  the  cooper's  trade,  but  his  chief  attention 
was  given  to  agriculture.  His  wife,  also  of  German  extraction,  was  a  Miss 
Fouts  in  her  girlhood  and  to  their  marriage  four  sons  and  four  daughters 
were  born. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  George  F.  and  Esther  (McCollough) 
Whitesell.  The  father  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  passed  his 
entire  life  in  that  county,  his  death  taking  place  when  he  was  seventy-four 
years  of  age,  in  1898.  Following  the  example  of  his  father,  he  was  engaged 
in  farming  and  in  the  cooperage  business.  The  wife  and  mother  was  sum- 
moned to  her  reward  in  1893,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  Her  father, 
Samuel  McCollough,  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  who,  coming  to  the  United 
States,  settled  first  in  Pennsylvania,  and  later,  in  1817,  in  the  vicinity  of 
Hagerstown,  Wayne  county.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Baptist,  an  earnest 
and  conscientious  member  of  the  church.  He  was  influential  in  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Salem  church,  which  was  one  of  the  first  of  the  denomination 
in  the  state.  In  1845,  during  the  cholera  epidemic,  he  was  stricken  with 
the  dread  disease,  and  though  he  recovered  he  was  thenceforth  blind.  He 
died  in  1864,  at  the  ripe  age  of  seventy  years. 

Samuel  C.  Whitesell,  who  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio,  February 
25,  1847,  is  the  eldest  of  six  children,  the  others  being  as  follows:  John,  a 
farmer  of  Greenville,  Ohio;  David,  who  for  many  years  was  a  teacher,  and 
is  now  carrying  on   a   lumber   business    in   New  Madison,  Ohio;   Mrs.  Nancy 


428  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Shaver  and  R.  B.,  both  residing  in  Eaton,  Ohio,  the  later  having  been  a 
successful  teacher  for  some  eighteen  years;  and  Frank  M.,  a  carpenter  and 
builder  of  Richmond. 

In  his  boyhood  Samuel  C.  Whitesell  received  a  good  common-school  edu- 
cation in  Preble  and  Wayne  counties.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  com- 
menced teaching  school  in  Preble  county,  and  while  thus  occupied  he  borrowed 
law  books  from  the  late  Judge  Banta,  of  Eaton,  Ohio,  and  spent  his  leisure 
time  in  study.  Later  he  was  under  the  tutorship  of  Judge  Fox,  of  Center- 
ville,  then  the  county-seat  of  this  county,  and  in  1870  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
He  began  practice  in  Centerville,  remaining  there  until  Richmond  became 
the  county-seat,  when  he  removed  to  Cambridge  City,  Indiana.  There  he 
built  up  a  large  and  profitable  business,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  state,  and  to  practice  in  the  United  States  and  circuit 
courts.  In  18S6  he  established  an  office  in  Richmond,  and  has  since 
enjoyed  a  substantial  and  growing  practice  here. 

On  the  nth  of  August,  1868,  Mr.  Whitesell  married  Miss  Elmira  J. 
Strickler,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth  Strickler,  then  living  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Hagerstown,  Wayne  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitesell  having  but 
one  child  living,  Frank  M.,  a  talented  young  man,  who  is  now  studying  law 
in  his  father's  office. 

GEORGE  BISHOP. 

An  honored  citizen  of  Richmond  for  the  past  thirty-eight  years,  George 
Bishop  is  entitled  to  a  prominent  place  in  the  annals  of  Wayne  county.  As 
a  Republican  he  has  been  actively  interested  in  the  success  of  the  party  in 
this  locality,  and  in  November,  1894,  he  was  elected  to  fill  the  office  of  town- 
ship trustee.  He  entered  upon  his  duties  in  the  beginning  of  the  following 
year  and  is  still  serving,  his  record  being  one  of  which  he  has  reason  to  be 
proud.  For  a  score  of  years  he  has  been  identified 'with  Osceola  Tribe,  No. 
15,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  and  he  also  belongs  to  White  Water 
Lodge,  No.  41,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  to  Oriental  Encamp- 
ment, No.  28.  In  the  last  named  organization  he  has  been  a  trustee  for  the 
past  twenty  years. 

Hart  Bishop,  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland. 
He  married  Mary  Clayton,  a  lady  of  English  birth,  and  a  number  of  years 
afterward  they  came  to  America  with  their  children.  They  settled  in  Mount 
Carmel,  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  the  same  year,  1848,  and  there  the  father 
followed  his  trade  of  reed-making,  as  long  as  he  was  able.  He  lived  to  an 
extreme  age,  his  death  occurring  in  October,  1880,  when  he  was  in  his 
eighty-ninth  year.  The  wife  and  mother  did  not  long  survive  the  immigra- 
tion to  this  country,  as  she  died  the  succeeding  year. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  429 

George  Bishop,  born  March  4,  1836,  in  Lancashire,  England,  is  the 
only  survivor  of  the  parental  family,  as  his  three  brothers  and  four  sisters 
have  all  been  called  to  the  better  land.  When  the  momentous  step  of 
removing  to  the  United  States  was  taken,  he  was  a  lad  of  twelve  years.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  blacksmithing  and  carriage-making  at  Mount  Carmel,  and 
has  followed  this  occupation  regularly  since  he  mastered  it  in  all  its  details. 
At  the  end  of  four  years'  work  in  Mount  Carmel  he  went  to  Newcastle,  Indi- 
ana, where  he  remained  from  1857  to  1862,  engaged  in  the  management  of 
a  carriage  manufactory  of  his  own.  The  civil  war  interfering  seriously  with 
his  trade,  he  came  to  Richmond  and  for  the  next  fifteen  years  was  employed 
by  Gaar,  Scott  &  Companj',  and  other  firms.  Industrious,  prompt,  and  faith- 
ful to  the  best  interests  of  his  employers,  he  won  their  confidence  and 
esteem,  at  the  same  time  gained  an  enviable  reputation  among  all  of  his 
acquaintances.  His  friends  and  well-wishers  in  Richmond  and  vicinity  are 
legion. 

Over  two-score  years  have  rolled  away  since  the  day,  in  1857,  when 
Miss  Mary  J.  Bartlow,  of  Mount  Carmel,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Bishop. 
Seven  children  have  blessed  their  union,  and  three  of  the  number  have  entered 
the  silent  land.  May  is  the  wife  of  George  M.  Ayler,  of  Richmond;  Altha 
wedded  Charles  A.  Wilson,  of  this  city;  Liz2ie  is  Mrs.  John  Bartel,  of  Rich- 
mond, and  Blanche  is  the  wife  of  William  J.  Oldaker,  of  Chicago.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bishop  are  members  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church,  and  have 
always  been  interested  in  the  promotion  of  education  and  religion,  and  the 
welfare  of  the  community  at  large. 

CARVER  J.   MENDENHALL,  D.  D.  S. 

This  popular  and  efficient  dentist  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  is  a  son  of  James 
and  Millicent  (Coffin)  Mendenhall,  and  was  born  in  Thorntown,  this  state,  in 
the  county  of  Boone,  on  the  28th  of  August,  1852.  He  has  shown  a  remark- 
able adaptation  for  his  profession  and  enjoys  a  practice  commensurate  with  his 
skill,  while  his  ever-increasing  popularity  is  the  natural  outcome  of  a  genial 
and  benevolent  disposition. 

The  family  is  descended  from  Quaker  ancestors  of  the  sturdy  English 
type,  and  the  present  generation  shows  the  happy  effects  resulting  from  the 
teachings  of  such  pure  and  strengthening  doctrines.  Three  of  the  Menden- 
hall brothers  emigrated  to  this  country  with  that  grand  colonist,  William 
Penn,  and  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Pennsylvania.  One  of  these  brothers  in 
time  returned  to  his  native  country,  while  the  two  remaining  here  married 
and  reared  families,  whose  members  moved  south  and  were  among  the  first 
settlers  of  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina,  a  settlement  which  became  one 
of  the  strongest  Quaker  strongholds  in  that  county.      Here  the  grandfather  of 


430  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

our  subject  was  born,  married  and  spent  his  entire  life,  becoming  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Friends  church  and  holding  an  enviable  place  in  the  esteem 
of  the  entire  community.  He  was  the  father  of  a  large  family,  to  whose 
training  he  gave  earnest  thought,  and  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  them 
develop  into  citizens  of  ability  who  filled  important  places  in  the  communi- 
ties in  which  they  resided.  With  the  exception  of  James,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  who  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  the  other  members  of  this 
family  became  college  professors  or  devoted  their  lives  to  the  practice  of 
medicine,  in  which  lines  they  became  well  known  for  their  abilitj'  and 
success. 

James  Mendenhall,  the  father,  was  ushered  into  existence  in  Guilford 
county,  and  there  grew  to  manhood  and  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Milli- 
cent  Coffin.  With  five  hundred  dollars  in  his  pocket  he  started  westward  on 
his  wedding  journey,  it  being  the  aim  of  the  travelers  to  seek  a  suitable  home 
in  the  far  west.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  fine  horse  and  wagon,  and  in  this 
conveyance  was  the  journey  made.  He  was  the  envy  of  many  of  his  neigh- 
bors, as  his  capital,  for  those  times,  was  almost  equal  to  the  sum  of  twenty 
thousand  dollars  at  the  present  time.  His  first  stopping-place  was  Green's 
Fork,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  where  he  remained  a  short  time  and  whence 
he  removed  to  Thorntown,  Indiana,  where  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  February,  1853,  when  he  moved  to  Richmond.  Here  he  was 
interested  in  agriculture  and  dairying,  his  being  the  first  dairy  operated  in 
Richmond.  He  was  remarkably  successful  in  his  business  ventures.  He  died 
at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-eight  years,  after  an  honorable  and  useful 
career,  and  had  retired  from  active  business  some  thirteen  years  previous  to 
his  death.  His  union  with  Miss  Millicent  Coffin  resulted  in  the  birth  of  three 
sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  he  was  justly  proud  and  whose  education 
and  training  was  given  his  most  earnest  thought.  One  of  the  sons,  S.  C. 
Mendenhall,  was  sent  to  Earlham  College,  and  his  was  the  first  trunk  carried 
into  the  building.  Stephen  Mendenhall,  besides  being  a  man  of  more  than 
average  business  ability,  was  also  an  inventor  whose  genius  in  this  line  brought 
him  considerable  sums  of  money.  On  one  of  his  patents  alone,  which  he  sold 
to  Greenwood  &  Company,  he  realized  seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  He 
dealt  largely  in  real  estate  and  within  the  corporation  of  Richmond  owned 
considerable  land,  which  was  laid  out  in  town  lots  and  disposed  of.  In  recog- 
nition of  his  executive  ability  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  first  street  rail- 
way company  of  the  city. 

Mrs.  James  Mendenhall  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Coffin,  a  native  of 
Nantucket,  whence  he  went  to  North  Carolina.  He  was  a  pork-packer  and 
gained  considerable  prominence  in  that  industr}'  as  well  as  for  being  one  of 
the  most  successful  agriculturists  in  that  part  of  the  state.      He  was  a  man 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  431 

•of  sterling  Christian  character  and  was  held  in  high  esteem  in  the  Friends 
church,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  He  was  appointed  by  that  body  to 
travel  as  a  companion  to  Elizabeth  P.  Gurney,  whose  husband  was  a  London 
banker  and  who  was  herself  an  authoress  of  some  pretensions.  His  wife, 
Hannah  Coffin,  was  also  prominent  in  the  Friends  church.  One  of  his 
cousins,  Levi  Coffin,  did  much  to  impress  the  name  indelibly  on  the  public 
mind  through  his  connection  as  president  of  the  underground  railway  during 
the  time  of  slavery.  The  good  accomplished  by  this  band  of  quiet  workers  for 
the  cause  of  humanity  can  not  be  estimated,  and  their  names  will  go  down 
in  history  as  brave,  self-sacrificing  heroes  of  those  troublous  times. 

Dr.  Carver  J.  Mendenhall  was  accorded  a  thorough  education.  He 
attended  Hiram  Hadley's  private  school  or  academy,  Earlham  College,  and 
the  Friends'  school  at  Union  Springs,  on  Cayuga  lake,  New  York.  Return- 
ing from  school,  he  decided  to  devote  his  time  to  dentistry  and  took  up  the 
study  of  that  profession  with  Dr.  Newton,  the  leading  dentist  of  Richmond. 
Subsequently  two  years  was  spent  in  the  study  of  medicine,  after  which  he 
practiced  in  various  places  on  the  Mississippi  river  for  two  years  more,  when 
he  contracted  the  ague,  so  prevalent  in  those  places,  and  was  obliged  to 
return  home.  It  was  a  year  or  more  before  his  system  was  cleared  of  the 
chills  and  fever  and  he  was  able  to  return  to  his  work.  He  then  took  a 
special  course  in  dentistry  under  Heard  Brothers,  of  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
and  in  1875  he  went  to  S^n  Francisco,  California.  There  he  engaged  in  his 
profession,  while  at  the  same  time  he  interested  himself  in  other  enterprises, 
dealing  in  stocks,  serving  as  inspector  of  United  States  customs  of  the  port, 
and  as  deputy  United  States  marshal,  having  been  sworn  in  by  Judge  Field. 
After  ten  years  spent  on  the  coast  Dr.  Mendenhall  returned  east  and  took  a 
special  course  under  Dr.  Lewis,  an  expert  dentist  of  Chicago,  where  he 
remained  as  assistant  for  some  time.  In  1885  he  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
intending  to  locate,  but  was  unable  to  find  a  suitable  location  and  returned  to 
Richmond.  Here  he  opened  an  office  and  has  established  an  enviable  repu- 
tation as  a  dentist  of  great  skill.  His  office  is  equipped  with  all  modern 
appliances  for  the  successful  practice  of  his  profession,  and  he  soon  became 
recognized  as  an  expert  in  his  line.  In  addition  to  the  special  courses  taken 
by  him  under  expert  dentists,  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  School  of 
Dentistry,  under  Professor  Haskell,  who  has  a  national  reputation,  and  in  a 
■class  of  two  hundred  and  eight  applicants  examined  by  the  Indiana  state 
dental  board  he  was  one  of  the  eight  successful  ones,  and  is  fast  forging  his 
way  to  the  front  as  one  of  the  leading  practitioners  in  this  part  of  the  state. 
He  figures  quite  as  prominently  in  social  as  in  professional  circles, — is  a  mem- 
ber of  Richmond  Lodge,  No.  196,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  King  Solomon's  Chapter, 
No.  4,  R.  A.  M.;  and  Richmond  Commandery,  No.  8,  K.  T. 


432  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

October  7,  1885,  the  Doctor  was  united  in  matrimony  to  Miss  Margar- 
ette  Scott,  daughter  of  Captain  James  W.  and  Rachel  E.  (Burbank)  Scott. 
Captain  James  W.  Scott  served  in  the  civil  war  as  quartermaster  and  was 
captured  by  General  Morgan  during  his  celebrated  raid.  As  official  papers 
were  found  upon  his  person  and  as  it  was  also  learned  that  he  was  a  brother- 
in-law  of  Governor  Morton, — more  than  ordinarily  severe  punishment  was 
inflicted  upon  him,  and  Morgan  ordered  a  double  guard  placed  around  him. 
Mrs.  Mendenhall  is  a  niece  of  the  great  war  Governor  O.  P.  Morton  and  also 
a  relative  of  Lord  Nelson,  being  a  lady  of  unusual  refinement  and  intelligence 
and  one  whose  personality  is  strongly  felt  in  the  society  in  which  she  moves. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Mendenhall  have  one  son,  James  Robert,  twelve  years  of  age. 

THE  PIGMAN  FAMILY. 

Adam  Pigman,  the  founder  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  honored  fam- 
ilies of  central-eastern  Indiana,  was  born  in  1779,  in  Greene  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  was  about  a  3'ear  old  when  he  was  taken  to  Breckinridge 
county,  Kentucky,  and  when  four  3'ears  of  age  went  to  Jessamine  count}', 
same  state.  In  the  summer  of  18 12  he  assisted  in  the  building  of  Fort 
Meigs,  for  he  had  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  in  December  of  the  next 
year  he  took  up  a  quarter-section  of  land  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana.  In 
September,  18 14,  he  erected  the  first  frame  house  ever  put  up  in  Union 
county,  which  dwelling  is  now  occupied  by  R.  F.  Maze.  In  1817  Mr.  Pig- 
man  married  Mary  Eli,  a  daughter  of  Adam  Eli,  and  in  1824  they  removed 
to  Harmony  township.  He  became  a  prosperous  farmer,  taking  an  inter- 
ested part  in  the  development  of  the  county  and  loyally  aiding  in  the  estab- 
hshment  of  the  structure  of  the  commonwealth.  He  was  a  Jackson  Demo- 
crat, and  for  several  terms,  or  until  he  resigned,  he  was  elected  and  served 
as  county  conmiissioner.  For  his  time  and  advantages  he  was  much  more 
than  an  average  man,  and  owing  to  his  robust  constitution,  outdoor  life  and 
temperate  habits  (for  he  never  used  tea,  coffee  or  tobacco),  he  attained  an 
extreme  age,  dying  September  19,  1876.  His  wife  followed  him  to  the  better 
land  a  week  later,  her  death  occurring  on  the  27th  of  September.  They 
were  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  of  whom  only  one,  Lorena,  is  living  in 
1898,  and,  with  the  exception  of  herself  and  her  brother  Eli,  all  of  the  num- 
ber died  in  the  years  between  1856  and  1861. 

Eli  Pigman  was  born,  lived  and  died  in  Harmony  township.  He  owned 
the  old  Adam  Eli  farm,  which  the  latter  settled  upon  as  earlj-  as  1807,  build- 
ing a  blacksmith  shop  the  same  year.  Part  of  this  homestead  is  still  owned 
by  Mrs.  Pigman,  who  was  Miss  Rebecca  Wilson  prior  to  her  marriage  to  Eli 
Pigman,  and  who  is  now  a  resident  of  Liberty.  Her  father,  Garrett  Wilson, 
was  a  successful  farmer,  owning  a  place  about  two  miles  west  of   Liberty, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  433 

and  at  one  time  he  was  a  county  commissioner  here.  His  son,  John  T.  Wil- 
son, of  Dunlapsville,  is  the  sole  representative  of  the  family  name  to-day. 
Garrett  Wilson  departed  this  life  in  the  winter  of  1866-7,  t)ut  his  widow 
(formerly  Harriet  Thompson)  died  recently,  when  nearly  ninety  years  of  age. 
Eli  Pigman  died  when  fifty-six  years  of  age,  and  two  years  later  Mrs.  Pigman 
removed  from  the  farm  to  her  present  home,  in  Liberty.  The  first  wife  of 
Eli  Pigman  was  a  Miss  Mary  Buckley,  and  their  three  children  were  Charles, 
now  of  Connersville,  Indiana;  Adam;  and  Mary,  who  died  in  infancy.  .\n 
excellent  financier  and  business  man,  Eli  Pigman  amassed  quite  a  fortune, 
and  at  one  time  owned  eighteen  hundred  acres  of  valuable  farm  land.  He 
was  too  generous  and  accommodating,  sometimes,  for  his  own  best  interests, 
as  he  became  security  for  many  friends  and  was  obliged  to  pay  twenty-six 
thousand  dollars  of  the  indebtedness  of  others.  He  was  a  man  of  intense 
patriotism  and  public  spirit,  active  in  the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party  and 
frequently  present  at  conventions.  Educational  affairs  and  the  work  of 
churches  found  a  warm  response  in  his  large  heart,  and  many  a  dollar  did  he 
contribute  toward  these  worthy  causes.  His  family  was  one  of  the  first  and 
most  prominent  in  local  Presbyterianism,  and  were  material  factors  in  the 
early  days  of  the  history  of  that  denomination  in  this  county. 

Mr.  Pigman  had  six  children,  who  were  reared  on  the  old  farm  in  Har- 
mony township  and  attended  the  district  school  of  the  neighborhood.  The 
two  elder  sons,  John  W.  and  Jesse  B.,  are  residents  of  Fayette  county, 
Indiana;  Garrett  is  a  practicing  physician  of  Liberty;  George  W.  is  an  attor- 
ney, with  his  residence  and  offices  at  Liberty;  Lurena  is  the  wife  of  W.  K. 
Kerr,  of  this  town;  and  Annie  is  the  wife  of  George  Garrett,  of  Indianapolis. 

MELYNE  M.   JOHNSON. 

Of  the  pioneer  families  which  have  materially  contributed  to  the  pros- 
perity of  Union  county,  and  particularly  to  that  of  Center  township,  the  one 
represented  by  M.  M.  Johnson  occupies  an  important  place.  Members  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  they  were  peaceful,  law-abiding  citizens,  industrious, 
iust  and  conscientious  in  all  their  transactions,  and  their  name  and  record  is 
still  untarnished. 

Anselm  D.  Johnson,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Lynchburg, 
Virginia,  in  181 1,  and  was  but  a  few  weeks  old  when  his  father  died.  In 
consequence  of  this  he  was  reared  by  his  grandfather,  Benjamin  Johnson, 
and  came  with  him  to  this  locality  in  1827.  They  settled  upon  a  tract  of 
land  situated  to  the  east  of  Liberty,  the  farm  now  owned  by  A.  F.  Burt. 
Benjamin  Johnson,  who  lived  to  attain  an  advanced  age,  was  highly  respected 
by  all  who  knew  him.  In  1833  Anselm  D.  Johnson  married  Lockey  Marsh 
Miller,  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  and   for  about  a  year  they  resided  on  a  farm 


434  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

south  of  Liberty.  Then,  coming  to  the  homestead  now  in  possession  of  our 
subject,  he  continued  to  dwell  here  until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  sixtj'-three 
years,  June  26,  1874.  His  wife  preceded  him  to  the  better  land,  her  death 
occurring  October  5,  1871.  They  were  very  active  members  of  the  Method- 
ist Episcopal  church.  On  account  of  his  marrying  outside  the  society,  Mr. 
Johnson  had  been  expelled  from  the  Friends'  church.  Politically  he  was  a 
Whig  and  Republican,  and  for  some  time  he  served  as  justice  of  the  peace. 
Of  the  eleven  children  born  to  Anselm  D.  Johnson  and  wife  four  are  deceased, 
namely:  Deborah  Jane,  Matilda  Ann,  Emma  R.  and  Martha,  the  last-men- 
^tioned  having  died  in  infancy.  Sarah  Amanda,  now  living  in  Vermont,  is 
the  widow  of  Rev.  S.  H.  Lockwood,  wTio  was  a  minister  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  John  D.  and  David  Melvin  are  merchants  in  Des  Moines, 
Iowa;  Arthur  W.  is  in  business  in  Davenport,  Iowa;  and  Elwood  T.  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Liberty. 

M.  M.  Johnson  was  born  July  20,  1836,  on  the  farm  where  he  may  be 
found  living  to-day.  For  about  ten  years  he  taught  in  the  schools  of  Indiana 
and  Ohio,  and  for  two  years,  1858  and  1859,  he  attended  Miami  University, 
at  Oxford,  Ohio,  where  his  teacher  in  Latin  was  the  since  celebrated  Professor 
David  Swing,  long  one  of  the  foremost  ministers  in  Chicago.  At  the  out- 
(break  of  the  civil  war  our  subject  enlisted  for  twelve  months  and  continued 
at  his  post  of  duty  until  he  was  granted  an  honorable  discharge  at  Washing- 
ton. He  has  given  his  chief  attention  to  agriculture  since  the  war,  raising  a 
general  line  of  farm  produce  and  feeding  his  live  stock  with  grain,  which  he 
raises  on  the  homestead.  The  farm,  which  he  purchased  after  his  father's 
death,  comprises  one  hundred  and  fifty-six  acres.  The  dwelling-house  was 
built  about  1854,  and  is  well  preserved. 

There  are  few  more  active,  wide-awake  Republicans  in  this  county  than 
Mr.  Johnson,  who  makes  a  point  of  attending  the  conventions  of  the  party 
whenever  he  can  and  in  many  ways  seeks  to  use  his  influence  for  the  good  of 
this  organization,  which  he  believes  is  sound  in  principles  and  methods.  At 
the  time  of  the  national  convention  in  which  Harrison  was  nominated  he  was 
instrumental  in  securing  the  support  of  the  Maine  delegation  for  Harrison. 
He  has  acted  as  justice  of  the  peace  but  has  never  been  an  aspirant  to  public 
office.  A  devoted  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  he  belongs 
to  Duvall  Post,  No.  108,  and  has  had  the  pleasure  of  being  present  at  five  of 
the  National  Encampments  Personally  he  is  ver}'  genial,  cheerful  and  pleas- 
.ant  in  his  disposition,  readily  making  friends. 

While  the  civil  war  was  being  waged  Mr.  Johnson  was  married,  on  June 
■26,  1862,  to  Miss  Anna  N.  Smith,  daughter  of  William  Smith.  She  was  born 
near  College  Corner  and  has  passed  her  whole  life  in  this  locality.  William 
Franklin,,  the  eldest  son  of  our  subject  and  wife,  is  a  grocer  in  Indianapolis. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  435 

Mary,  wife  of  Rev.  G.  W.  Isham,  now  of  Hastings,  Nebraska,  was  with  her 
husband  in  the  missionary  work  in  India  for  two  years.  Charles  D. ,  the 
second  son,  is  a  farmer  of  this  county;  Emma  died  in  early  childhood;  John 
M.  and  Albert  D.  are  at  home;  and  Edgar  O.  is  a  student  in  the  business  col- 
lege in  Indianapolis.  The  parents  attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
Mrs.  Johnson  being  a  metnber  of  the  society.  Parents  and  children  are  held 
in  the  highest  regard  by  all  who  enjoy  their  acquaintance. 

CHRISTIAN  H.   GRAVER. 

Christian  H.  Graver  is  one  of  the  enterprising  young  agriculturists  of 
Wayne  county,  possessing  the  energy  and  determination  and  the  sound  com- 
mon sense  of  his  German  ancestors.  He  is  a  native  of  Jackson  township, 
Wayne  county,  born  November  23,  1872,  but  his  father,  John  Graver,  was 
born  in  Germany,  September  17,  1828.  The  latter  was  reared  by  an  aunt, 
as  death  deprived  him  of  a  father's  fostering  care  when  he  was  but  three 
years  old,  and  this  relative  brought  him  to  the  United  States.  Settling  in 
Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  youth  there, 
and  ultimately  decided  to  take  up  his  permanent  abode  in  Indiana.  He  was 
married,  in  Lancaster  county,  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Illges,  in  June,  1858,  and 
brought  his  bride  to  their  new  home  in  Wayne  county.  She  died  the  same 
year, and  on  the  29th  of  January,  i860,  he  married  Anna, daughter  of  Christian 
and  Elizabeth  (Shank)  Herr,  early  settlers  of  this  county.  Mr.  Herr  died 
March  12,  1875,  and  three  years  later  was  followed  to  the  better  land  by  his 
devoted  wife.  They  were  the  parents  of  twelve  children.  Five  children 
were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Graver,  namely:  '  Elizabeth  H.,  wife  of  Andrew 
K.  Zeigler;  Mary  E.,  wife  of  Moses  E.  Myers;  Amanda  G.,  deceased;  Anna 
G.,  wife  of  Rev.  C.  M.  Peirce,  a  member  of  the  Indiana  conference  of  the 
Evangelical  Association;  and  Christian  H. ,  of  this  sketch.  John  Graver 
located  on  an  eighty-acre  farm  in  Jackson  township,  when  he  became  a  citi- 
zen of  Wayne  county,  and  in  the  years  that  followed  he  became  noted  for  the 
success  which  he  achieved  as  a  general  agriculturist  and  raiser  of  live  stock, 
chiefly  cattle  and  hogs.  On  the  first  of  August,  1881,  he  was  thrown  from 
his  wagon  and  received  injuries  which  resulted  in  his  death  three  days  later. 
September  10,  1885,  his  widow  became  the  wife  of  John  Zimmerman,  of  the 
same  neighborhood.  He  had  been  married  previously,  and  had  six  children, 
namely:  Sarah  Henrietta,  deceased;  Georgiana,  Mrs.  John  R.  Rummel; 
William  V.;  Thomas;  Walter  J.;  and  Maude,  deceased. 

Christian  H.  Graver  remained  on  the  old  homestead  where  he  was  born, 
aiding  in  the  management  of  the  place,  and  mastering  the  details  of  farming 
when  he  was  a  mere  youth.  In  1894  he  became  sole  owner  of  one  hundred 
and  eighteen  acres,  on  which  stand  the  house  and  farm  buildings  owned  by 


436  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

his  father.  This  is  a  portion  of  the  old  homestead  allotted  to  him,  the  only 
son,  by  the  provisions  of  his  father's  will,  the  remainder  of  the  four  hundred 
acres  being  divided  among  the  daughters.  For  the  past  five  years,  therefore, 
Mr.  Graver  has  been  in  entire  control  of  his  farm,  and  has  been  prospered  in 
his  undertakings.  Everything  about  the  place  shows  that  constant  care  and 
effort  is  made  on  his  part  to  keep  the  buildings  and  fences  in  good  repair  and 
the  land  under  effective  cultivation.  On  the  23d  of  July,  1897,  a  train  on 
the  Lake  Erie  Railway  crossing  near  his  home  struck  the  vehicle  in  which  he 
was  riding,  killed  the  horse,  and  badly  injured  him,  incapacitating  him  for 
active  work  for  several  months,  and  from  the  effects  of  this  injury  he  has  not 
yet  fully  recovered. 

February  22,  1S94,  Mr.  Graver  married  Edna  F.,  daughter  of  Adam  and 
Rachel  Shaffer,  of  Henry  county,  Indiana.  Her  brothers  and  sisters  are  as 
follows:  Mary  Ellen,  wife  of  Rudolph  Hoover,  of  Wayne  county;  Rachel 
Rebecca,  wife  of  Daniel  Wantz;  Susan  Jane,  Mrs.  Horace  Hoover:  John 
Adam,  who  married  Amanda  Doerstler;  Emma  Alice,  wife  of  Charles  Hutchins; 
Melinda,  who  married  Edmund  Bertsch;  Lydia,  wife  of  Daniel  Hoover; 
Charles,  who  wedded  Emma  Straub;  Ary  Etta;  and  Dora  Elizabeth.  To 
the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Graver  three  children  have  been  born,  namely: 
Elva  Gertrude,  Orie  Otto,  and  Howard  S.  Mr.  Graver  and  wife  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Evangelical  Association,  and  he  is  liberal  in  his  donations  to 
worthy  charitable  and  religious  enterprises.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  excellent 
education,  is  broad-minded  and  patriotic,  and  merits  the  genuine  regard 
which  every  one  accords  him. 

ELWOOD  O.  ELLIS. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  representatives  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in 
Indiana  is  Rev.  Elwood  O.  Ellis.  A  man  of  ripe  scholarship  and  marked 
excutive  ability,  one  whose  life  has  been  consecrated  to  the  cause  of  the 
Master  and  to  the  uplifting  of  man,  there  is  particular  propriety  in  here 
directing  attention  to  the  life  history  of  the  pastor  of  the  South  Eighth  Street 
Friends  church,  of  Richmond.  He  has  devoted  himself  without  ceasing  to 
the  interests  of  humanity  and  to  the  furtherance  of  all  good  works.  His 
reputation  is  not  of  restricted  order,  and  his  power  and  influence  in  his  holy 
office  have  been  exerted  in  a  spirit  of  deepest  human  sympathy  and  tender 
solicitude. 

Rev.  Elwood  O.  Ellis  was  born  in  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  on  the  19th  of 
April,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of  James  and  Louisa  (Moon)  Ellis.  The  family  is 
of  Welch  descent,  and  was  founded  in  America  by  Mordecai  Ellis,  who  was 
born  in  Wales  and  came  to  the  United  States,  in  1682,  as  a  member  of  a 
colony  organized  by  William  Penn.      He  was  married    in   his  native  land   to 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY.  437 

Jane  Hughes,  who  also  was  born  in  Wales,  and  with  his  family  he  crossed 
the  Atlantic,  as  stated  above.  Locating  in  Philadelphia,  he  there  reared  his 
three  sons,  Mordecai,  Enos  and  Thomas,  from  whom  are  descended  all  the 
representatives  of  the  name  in  this  country.  Mordecai  Ellis,  Jr.,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  and  when  twelve  years  of  age  began  learning  the  shoemaker's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  many  years.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  set  of 
volumes  known  as  William  Penn's  Complete  Works,  which  are  now  in  the 
possession  of  our  subject.  From  Pennsylvania  he  removed  to  Tennessee, 
where  his  son,  Robert  Ellis,  the  grandfather  of  Rev.  Elwood  O.  Ellis,  was 
born  and  reared.  Robert  Ellis  removed  to  Clinton  county,  Ohio,  and  thence 
to  Grant  county,  Indiana,  where  he  made  his  home  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1873,  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  eighty  years.  By  occupa- 
tion he  was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  and  took  many  contracts  for  the  erection 
of  houses  and  other  buildings.  Like  his  ancestors,  he  was  a  faithful  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  married  Anna  Hockett  and  to  them  were 
born  nine  children,  of  whom  James  M.  Ellis  was  the  eldest  son  and  third 
child.  He  was  born  in  Clinton-icounty,  Ohio,  on  the  26th  of  November, 
1823,  and  died  at  Fairmount,  Indiana,  December  25,  1896.  He  removed 
from  the  place  of  his  nativity  to  Fairmount  on  the  20th  of  March,  1871,  and 
there  continued  his  residence  until  called  to  the  home  beyond.  He  carried 
on  agricultural  pursuits  in  Ohio,  but  after  coming  to  Indiana  operated  a 
sawmill  and  conducted  a  lumber  business,  enjoying  a  very  liberal  patronage 
and  winning  a  handsome  profit.  During  the  last  seven  years  of  his  life, 
however,  he  was  incapacited  from  -active  business  by  paralysis.  Of  the 
Friends  church  he  was  a  zealous  and  faithful  member,  and  to  his  family  he 
left  an  untarnished  name.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in  1825,  passed  away  in 
1891.  They  were  parents  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters,  namely:  Edwin 
C,  who  was  a  teacher  and  a  minister  of  the  Friends  meeting,  but  is  now 
deceased;  Daniel,  who  died  in  infancy;  Mrs.  Rachel  A.  Nolber,  of  Fairmount, 
Indiana;  Elwood  O. ;  Sarah  L. ,  wife  of  William  A.  Jones,  of  West  Milton, 
Ohio;  Robert  and  Walter  J.,  who  are  residents  of  Jonesboro,  Indiana;  and 
Mrs.  Myrtle  Winslow,  of  Fairmount,  Indiana. 

Rev.  Elwood  O.  Ellis  acquired  a  high-school  and  academic  education, 
pursuing  his  studies  in  Martinsville  and  West  Elkton,  Ohio.  He  began 
teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Grant  county,  Indiana,  in  1875,  and  fol- 
lowed that  profession  with  marked  success  for  twenty-three  consecutive  years, 
during  which  time  he  served  for  four  years,  from  18S7  until  1891,  as  super- 
intendent of  the  county  schools.  For  two  years  prior  to  his  service  in  that 
office,  and  for  seven  years  subsequent  thereto,  he  was  principal  of  the  Fair- 
mount  Academy.  .His  ability.made  his  work  most  satisfactory,  and  for  many 
years  he  sustained  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  most  successful  educators 


438  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

in  this  part  of  the  state.  While  serving  as  county  superintendent  he  introduced 
the  plan  of  holding  graduating  exercises  in  various  townships,  with  the  inci- 
dental provision  that  the  pupil  who  won  first  honors  in  one  township 
should  compete  with  others  who  had  won  first  honors  in  other  townships  of 
the  county,  a  prize  being  given  to  the  most  successful  coetestant.  This  stim- 
ulated the  pupils  to  do  the  best  possible  work,  and  the  plan  has  since  been 
followed  with  decided  success.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  founding 
Fairniount  Academy  and  placing  it  on  a  substantial  basis.  He  dedicated 
three  new  and  handsome  school  buildings,  and  in  many  other  ways  has  been 
prominently  connected  with  the  educational  interests  of  this  section  of  the 
state.  He  served  for  six  years  as  trustee  of  White's  Indiana  Manual  Labor 
Institute,  severing  his  connection  therewith  in  1895. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Ellis  was  recorded  a  minister  of  the  Friends  church,  and 
since  that  time  has  been  engaged  in  pastoral  work,  being  connected  with 
churches  in  Marion  and  Fairmount,  Indiana,  up  to  the  time  of  his  removal 
to  Richmond,  in  July,  1898,  when  he  was  made  pastor  of  the  South  Eighth 
Street  Friends  church.  Soon  after  his  arrival  here  he  was  appointed  a 
trustee  of  Earlham  College,  and  in  1891  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
Indiana  yearly  meeting,  the  largest  in  the  world.  He  is  now  its  presiding 
officer,  and  as  such  has  been  largely  instrumental  in  promoting  its  work  and 
growth.  For  five  years  he  has  been  vice-president  of  the  State  Christian 
Endeavor  Union,  but  recently,  at  his  own  request,  has  been  released  from 
this  office.  For  five  years  he  was  president  of  the  Indiana  Yearly  Meeting 
Union  of  the  Christian  Endeavor;  in  1897  was  a  member  of  the  Friends 
National  Conference  and  was  one  of  those  chosen  to  address  the  assembled 
multitude  on  that  occasion.  His  address  was  one  of  the  most  forcible, 
earnest  and  eloquent  delivered  at  that  meeting,  which  was  held  at  Indianap- 
olis, in  October,  1897,  and  added  to  his  fame,  which  extends  throughout  the 
entire  country  among  the  people  of  his  denomination.  He  has  also  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  State  Teachers'  Association,  was  once  its 
vice-president,  and  has  done  considerable  work  as  instructor  in  teachers' 
institutes.  He  has  served  for  the  past  five  years  and  is  now  vice-president  of 
the  Friends'  Quinquennial  Educational  Conference,  and  in  the  years  1897  and 
1898  occupied  a  place  on  the  programme  at  the  Biblical  institutes  held  at 
Earlham  College.  In  his  political  views  he  was  formerly  a  Republican,  but 
now  votes  independently  of  party  ties. 

In  1878  Mr.  Ellis  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ida  Hussey,  a  daughter 
of  Rev.  Rameth  and  Elizabeth  Hussey,  of  Jonesboro,  Indiana,  and  they 
have  three  children:  Arthur  W.  and  Dora  M.,  who  are  now  students  in  the 
high  school  of  Richmond;  and  Cressie,  who  also  is  in  the  public  schools. 
Their    home    life    is   ideal,    and    the    family    are    held    in    the  highest  regard 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  439 

throughout  the  community.  Mr.  Ellis  has  devoted  his  entire  life  to  the 
advancement  of  educational  and  moral  interests  among  his  fellow  men,  and 
there  has  not  been  denied  the  full  harvest  nor  the  aftermath  whose  garnering 
shall  bring  the  sure  reward  in  the  words  of  commendation,  "Well  done, 
good  and  faithful  servant." 

ZADOCK  A.  NYE. 

One  of  the  oldest  inhabitants  of  Wayne  county  is  Zadock  Allen  Nye,  of 
Richmond,  born  October  28,  1805;  he  is  therefore  now  in  his  ninety-fourth 
year,  and  for  forty-three  years  he  has  dwelt  in  this  town,  where  he  is  very 
well  known  and  most  highly  esteemed.  He  has  seen  this  state  developed  from  a 
wilderness  and  has  himself  aided  in  its  progress  and  civilization.  He  well 
remembers  how  the  Hoosier  state  appeared  in  the  last  days  of  the  war  of 
1S12,  and  year  by  year  since  then  has  watched  with  deep  interest  the  results 
of  man's  labor  and  enterprise,  as  he  gradually  transformed  the  dense  forests 
and  uninhabited  swamps  into  thrifty,  fertile  homesteads  and  flourishing  set- 
tlements and  cities. 

The  first  nine  years  in  the  eventful  life  of  Mr.  Nye  were  spent  in  his 
native  town,  Barnstable,  Cape  Cod  peninsula,  Massachusetts.  He  is  of  Eng- 
lish descent  along  both  lines,  and  his  maternal  great-grandfather  was  one 
Hercules  Hudges,  born  in  the  British  isles.  In  his  boyhood  he  left  England 
and  never  returned,  but  settling  in  Boston  he  married  there  the  Widow 
Hinkley  and  reared  a  large  family.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  One  of  his  children  was  Lemuel  Hudges,  who  becarrie  a  resident  of 
Cape  Cod,  and  in  that  locality  the  mother  of  our  subject  was  born.  She 
became  the  wife  of  Joshua  Nye,  whose  birth  had  occurred  at  the  town  of 
Sandwich,  Cape  Cod,  and  four  children  were  born  to  them  in  Massachusetts. 
August  26,  1 8 14,  the  family  set  out  on  a  journey  westward,  and  were  two 
months  on  the  way  ere  they  arrived  at  Cincinnati.  They  went  overland  as 
far  as  Raubstown,  Pennsylvania  (near  Pittsburg),  and  there  embarked  on  a 
boat  which  proceeded  down  the  Monongahela  and  Ohio  rivers.  The  journey 
was  saddened  by  the  death  of  little  Ezra,  an  infant  of  four  years,  who  died 
before  they  reached  Cincinnati.  The  other  children  were  Zadock,  Mary  Ann, 
and  Joshua, — the  latter  now  of  Chicago  and  ninety-one  years  of  age.  In 
November  the  little  family  landed  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  but  in  the  fol- 
lowing March  they  removed  to  Dearborn  county,  and  somewhat  later  they 
settled  in  Franklin  county.  There  the  father  died  April  7,  1840,  aged  sixty- 
three  years.  The  wife  and  mother  survived  until  1865,  when  she,  too,  passed 
to  the  silent  land,  being  then  eighty  years  of  age.  The  father  was  a  carpen- 
ter by  trade,  but  in  the  main  followed  farming.  Religiously,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Universalist  church,  and  in  politics  was  a  Whig. 


440  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  his  youth  Zadock  Allen  N\-e  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  for 
twenty  years  he  was  proprietor  of  a  store  at  New  Trenton,  Franklin  county, 
Indiana.  In  1855  he  came  to  this  county,  and  for  thirteen  years  resided  in 
Richmond  proper.  During  this  period  he  was  not  engaged  in  business,  as  he 
had  had  both  legs  broken  in  a  railroad  accident,  and  was  unfitted  for  active 
work  for  a  number  of  years.  In  the  autumn  of  1867  he  came  to  his  present 
home  in  West  Richmond,  near  Earlham  College,  and  for  the  succeeding 
fifteen  years  was  superintendent  of  the  Richmond  and  Boston  turnpike, 
resigning  his  position  in  1S82.  He  was  a  stockholder  and  director  in  that 
concern  for  many  years  and  was  of  material  assistance  in  making  a  success 
of  the  enterprise.  He  owns  a  pleasant  home  and  three  and  a  half  acres  of 
land,  besides  other  real-estate  in  Richmond  and  in  Randolph  county,  Indiana. 
Among  his  possessions  here  is  the  building  occupied  by  the  blackboard 
manufacturing  company  and  the  one  used  as  a  tobacco  factory,  both  being 
situated  on  North  East  street.  Originally  a  Whig,  he  became  affiliated  with 
the  Republican  party  in  1856,  and  has  since  been  an  ardent  defender  of  its 
principles. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Nye  was  solemnized  seventy  years  ago,  his 
bride  being  Kitty  Hinkson,  by  whom  he  had  two  children:  Mrs.  Julia  Case, 
who  died  in  January,  1895;  and  Eliza,  whose  death  occurred  in  childhood. 
February  14,  1836,  Mr.  Nye  married  Rebecca  Wildridge,  of  Franklin  county, 
and  of  the  eight  children  born  to  them  but  two  survive,  namely:  Ezra,  a 
farmer  of  Randolph  county,  Indiana;  and  Ralph  W.,  of  Richmond.  The 
latter  was  engaged  in  the  queensware  trade  here  for  several  years. 

WILLIAM  NEWBY  TRUEBLOOD,  A.  B. 

Two  hundred  years  ago  the  Trueblood  family  was  founded  in  the  United 
States  by  two  brothers,  John  and  Amos  Trueblood,  whose  father,  John, 
spent  his  entire  life  in  England.  The  brothers  settled  in  what  is  now  known 
as  Guilford  county.  North  Carolina,  and  their  descendants  have  located  in 
every  part  of  the  Union.  They  are  of  sturdy  and  highly  respectable  stock; 
for  the  most  part  are  tillers  of  the  soil,  and,  as  far  as  known,  are  adherents 
of  the  Republican  party,  formerly  being  Abolitionists  and  Whigs.  In  their 
religious  faith  they  have  been  loyal  exponents  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  exemplifying  its  grand  precepts  in  their  daily  lives. 

Amos  Trueblood  was  the  great-great-grandfather  of  Professor  Trueblood. 
He  died  in  North  Carolina,  as  did  likewise  his  son  Caleb,  the  next  in  the  line 
of  descent.  William,  son  of  Caleb,  and  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born 
near  New  Garden,  Guilford  county.  North  Carolina,  and  came  to  Washing- 
ton county,  Indiana,  in  18 10.  Remaining  there  for  forty  years,  he  then 
took  up  his  residence  in  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  where  his  death  took  place  in  1868, 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  441 

when  he  was  about  ninety  years  pi  age.  Following  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
ancestors,  he  was  a  farmer,  and  a  devoted  member  of  the  Friends  society. 

The  parents  of  W.  N.  Trueblood  were  Elias  and  Elizabeth  (Keliey) 
Trueblood.  The  father  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Indiana,  in  1816, 
and  died  in  1861,  in  Parke  county,  thus  having  spent  his  whole  life  in  the  two 
■counties,  his  attention  given  to  farming.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Joshua 
Keliey,  who  was  born  near  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and  at  an  early  date 
located  in  Washington  county,  Indiana,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In 
his  religious  belief  he  was  a  Presbyterian.  Of  the  five  children  born  to  Elias 
Trueblood  and  wife,  only  the  eldest,  Levi,  is  deceased.  Joshua,  now  a 
retired  citizen  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  was  formerly  engaged  in  the  flour  and  feed 
business.  Mrs.  Martha  Overman,  the  only  daughter,  lives  in  the  western 
part  of  Kansas.  Jesse  D.,  a  graduate  of  the  Hterary  and  law  departments  of 
the  Indiana  State  University,  successfully  practiced  his  profession  of  law  till 
appointed  government  agent  of  pensions  for  the  district  of  Tennessee,  which 
position  he  held  for  about  four  years.  His  present  home  is  in  Danville, 
Illinois. 

The  birth  of  Professor  William  N.  Trueblood  occurred  at  the  home  of 
his  parents,  near  Rockville,  Parke  county,  Indiana,  March  22,  1846.  He 
received  his  literary  training  in  Bloomingdale  Academy,  in  his  native  county, 
and  in  Earlham  College.  Prior  to  entering  the  last  named  institution  he  had 
taught  in  the  public  schools  and  had  been  first  assistant  to  the  principal  of 
Bloomingdale  Academy,  two  years  having  been  thus  occupied.  In  1873  he 
was  graduated  in  Earlham,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  during 
the  winter  following  he  pursued  a  special  course  in  rhetoric  and  elocution, 
under  Professor  G.  W.  Hoss,  of  the  Indiana  State  University.  In  1875  he 
accepted  the  chair  of  English  literature  in  Earlham  College,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  the  four  years,  from  1879  to  1882,  inclusive,  he  has  occupied  this 
position.  During  the  period  specified,  he  was  the  principal  of  the  Montezuma 
schools  for  one  year,  filled  a  similar  position  in  Coloma,  and  in  1882  was  the 
teacher  of  mathematics  and  the  sciences  in  the  high  school  of  Richmond, 
Indiana.  In  connection  with  his  profession  he  has  been  for  a  number  of 
years  a  lecturer  before  institutes  and  other  bodies,  chiefly  on  subjects  con- 
nected with  literature,  in  which  he  stands  among  the  foremost  educators  of 
the  state.  He  has  been  a  life-long  student  of  political  economy  and  is 
•considered  particularly  well  informed  on  the  subject.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  national  affairs,  while  in  local  matters  he  is  independent.  He  belongs  to 
the  Society  of  Friends,  taking  deep  interest  in  its  more  liberal  tendencies. 

On  the  8th  of  August,  1878,  Professor  Trueblood  married  Miss  Ruth 
Emma  Stubbs,  of  Richmond.  They  have  five  children, — Wilford,  Inez, 
Howard,  Ralph  and  Charles,  all  of  whom  except  Charles  are  now  in  college. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


JOHN  W.    BECK. 

For  over  half  a  century  John  W.  Beck,  Sr.,  was  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  annals  of  Union  county  and  aided  materially  in  its  development.  By  a 
life  of  uprightness,  industry  and  square  dealing, — a  life  devoted  to  the  sup- 
port of  whatever  was  good  and  true, — he  won  the  admiration  and  genuine 
regard  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances,  who  sincerely  mourned  his  loss 
when,  upon  the  ist  of  August,  1887,  he  was  called  upon  to  lay  aside  the  bur- 
dens, joys  and  sorrows  which  had  fallen  to  his  share,  as  to  all,  in  the  journey 
of  life.  The  birth  of  John  W.  Beck,  Sr. ,  occurred  December  19,  1809,  in 
Stokes  county,  North  Carolina,  and  when  he  was  about  three  years  old  his 
parents  removed  to  Hamilton  county,  Ohio.  Soon  afterward  they  came  to 
this  state,  settling  in  Liberty  township.  Union  county.  Here  the  mother 
died,  and  subsequently  the  father  went  to  Boone  county,  this  state,  where 
his  death  occurred. 

When  he  had  arrived  at  man's  estate  the  subject  of  this  sketch  chose  for 
his  wife  Miss  Lavina  La  Fuze,  whose  birth  had  taken  place  February  28, 
1813.  Their  marriage  was  solemnized  August  23,  1832.  Mrs.  Beck,  who 
was  a  sister  of  Samuel  La  Fuze,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  was  but  four 
years  old  when  she  came  to  Indiana.  About  1835  or  '836  Mr.  Beck  settled 
on  the  homestead,  in  Brownsville  township,  which  is  now  owned  and  man- 
aged by  his  son  and  namesake.  The  rest  of  his  life  was  passed  here  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  hard-earned  fruits  of  his  toil,  and  year  by  year  he  added  to  his 
possessions,  by  frugality  and  thrift,  until  he  was  numbered  among  the  well- 
to-do  farmers  of  this  section  of  the  county.  In  addition  to  owning  his  home 
place  he  had  two  other  farms,  aggregating  about  three  hundred  acres.  The 
substantial  residence  on  the  old  homestead  was  erected  by  him  in  1855  or 
1856,  and  is  finely  preserved,  as  the  owners  have  taken  good  care  of  it  and 
have  made  such  repairs  as  were  deemed  necessary  from   time  to  time. 

In  politics  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Beck  was  never  absent  from  the  polls  at 
election  time  unless  positively  prevented  by  illness,  and  to  the  best  of  his 
ability  he  discharged  the  duties  which  devolved  upon  him  as  a  citizen. 
Though  he  was  not  a  member  of  any  church  he  was  constant  in  his  attend- 
ance upon  religious  services  and  gave  liberally  of  his  means  to  the  support 
of  the  same.  He  was  never  involved  in  a  lawsuit,  never  had  an  enemy  as  far 
as  is  known,  and  sought  to  live  in  peace  and  harmony  with  his  neighbors. 
His  wife,  who  died  December  25,  1895,  was  a  member  of  the  church  at  Sil- 
ver Creek.  Both  were  kind  and  loving  parents,  sympathetic  and  responsive 
to  the  needs  of  the  poor,  just  and  noble  in  all  the  relations  of  life.  Thirteen 
of  their  fifteen  children  lived  to  maturity,  and  eleven  of  the  number  still  sur- 
vive.    At  the  time  of  Mr.  Beck's  death  he  had  thirty-eight  grandchildren  and. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  443 

eight  great-grandchildren  living.  His  five  sons  surviving  in  1899  are  Samuel 
Johnson  and  Ezra  L.,  of  Cass  county;  Joseph,  a  resident  of  Liberty  township, 
this  county;  Rufus  W.,  of  Howard  county;  and  John  Wesley,  who  occupies 
the  old  homestead. 

The  last  named  son.  one  of  the  younger  members  of  this  large  family, 
was  born  October  9,  1858,  and  has  always  resided  upon  the  farm  formerly 
owned  by  his  father.  He  early  manifested  ability  as  a  business  man  and 
farmer  and  took  upon  his  own  shoulders  the  cares  and  anxieties  which  were 
then  beginning  to  weigh  rather  heavily  upon  his  aging  father.  Since  the 
senior  man's  death  John  Wesley  Beck  has  been  the  sole  owner  of  the  farm, 
as  he  bought  the  interests  of  the  other  heirs,  and  thus  succeeded  to  the  entire 
estate.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  his  political  affiliations  and  is  identified  with 
the  Masonic  fraternity. 

In  1880  the  marriage  of  John  W.  Beck  and  Miss  Mary  K.  Bryant  was 
celebrated.  They  have  three  children,  namely:  Minta,  Blanche  and  Lester. 
Mrs.  Beck  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Union  church,  of  Brownsville. 

ARTHUR  C.    LINDEMUTH. 

For  twenty-three  years  a  distinguished  member  of  the  legal  profession, 
honored  and  respected  in  every  class  of  society,  Mr.  Lindemuth  has  long  been 
a  leader  in  thought  and  action  in  the  public  life  of  the  state.  His  name  is  a 
familiar  one  in  political  and  professional  circles  throughout  Indiana,  and  by 
reason  of  his  marked  intellectual  activity  and  superior  ability  he  is  well  fitted 
to  aid  in  molding  the  policy  of  the  state,  to  control  general  interests  and  form 
public  opinion. 

Long  years  ago  the  Lindemuth  family  was  founded  in  America  by  Lud- 
wig  Lindemuth,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  who,  as  his  name 
indicates,  was  of  German  birth.  He  resided  near  Wurtemberg  in  the  Father- 
land, and  thence  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  America  in  early  colonial  days.  He 
eventually  settled  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  the  remainder  of 
his  life  was  passed.  The  great-grandfather,  John  Peter  Lindemuth,  lived 
and  died  in  the  same  county,  having  been  a  farmer  by  occupation.  George 
Lindemuth,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  on  the  old  homestead  near 
Mount  Joy,  Lancaster  county,  and  there  spent  his  entire  life.  His  residence, 
a  large  stone  house,  built  in  1765,  by  Ludwig,  the  pioneer  of  the  family,  was 
one  of  the  finest  in  all  that  country-side  at  that  day.  Its  walls  were  frescoed 
and  its  furnishings  were  in  keeping  with  the  exterior.  It  still  stands  as  one 
of  the  landmarks  of  the  early  time.  It  was  situated  jn  the  midst  of  a  large 
farm,  belonging  to  George  Lindemuth,  who  was  a  most  practical,  progressive 
and  enterprising  agriculturist,  following  advanced  methods  and  conducting 
his  business  after  the   most  approved  custom  of  the  time.      He  was  the   first 


444  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

to  introduce  irrigation  and  other  improved  systems  of  farming  into  his  neigh- 
borhood, and  was  accounted  a  leading  and  influential  farmer.  He  died  in 
1873,  when  about  eighty  years  of  age. 

John  Lindemuth,  father  of  Richmond's  well  known  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Mount  Joy,  Lancaster  county,  on  April  26,  1821,  and  at  different  times  made 
his  home  in  Gettysburg,  Dayton  and  Greenville,  Ohio,  and  Richmond, 
Indiana.  For  twenty-two  years  he  resided  in  Greenville,  and  then  came 
to  Richmond,  where  his  death  occurred  in  1895.  For  ^  considerable  period 
he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  sash  and  doors,  but  after  his  arrival  in  this 
city  manufactured  picture  frames  for  the  well-known  firm  of  W.  S.  Dunn  & 
Company,  of  New  York  city.  He  possessed  excellent  business  ability,  and 
his  wise  management  and  enterprise  won  him  a  most  desirable  success.  In 
manner  he  was  very  quiet  and  of  domestic  tastes,  preferring  the  pleasures 
of  the  home  circle  to  the  excitement  of  the  political  arena  or  the  interests  of 
social  life.  He  married  Eleanor  Huffman,  who  died  in  1884,  at  the  age  of 
sixty  years.  They  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  One  son,  Preston, 
and  one  daughter,  Hellen,  are  now  deceased;  Albert  H.,  of  Los  Angeles, 
California,  has  charge  of  the  carpentering  department  of  the  Los  Angeles  & 
Pasadena  Elecric  Railroad  Company;  EmmaE.,  of  Richmond;  Arthur  C. ; 
and  Victoria  E. ,  who  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Danville  Acad- 
emy, and  has  now  successfully  engaged  in  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of 
Richmond  for  twenty  years. 

Hon.  Arthur  C.  Lindemuth  was  born  in  "Little"  York,  York  county, 
Pennsylvania,  January  3,  1854,  and  with  his  parents  came  to  Indiana.  He 
was  graduated  in  the  high  school  of  Greenville,  in  the  class  of  1873,  and 
then  entered  Cornell  University,  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1877,  having  completed  the  scientific  course.  In  1877  he  accepted 
the  appointment  to  a  position  on  the  Ohio  geological  survey,  for  one  year, 
under  Professor  Edwin  Orton,  state  geologist  and  president  of  the  Ohio  Uni- 
versity. He  discovered  seven  new  specimens  of  mollusca,  and  his  report  was 
published  in  the  Ohio  Geological  Reports.  He  declined  a  professorship  in 
his  alma  mater,  in  order  to  enter  upon  the  study  of  law,  having  determined 
to  make  the  practice  of  that  profession  his  life  work.  His  preceptors  were 
the  Hon.  C.  M.  Anderson,  of  Greenville,  Ohio,  later  a  member  of  congress 
from  that  district,  and  Judge  Jobes.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  b}'  the 
•district  court  of  Ohio,  in  1876. 

For  a  year  Mr.  Lindemuth  practiced  in  Greenville,  and  during  that  time 
received  the  Republican  nomination  for  prosecuting  attorney,  but  the  Demo- 
cratic majority  in  that  district  was  too  large  to  overcome.  On  September 
10,  1877,  he  arrived  in  Richmond,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law,  securing  a  large  and  distinctively  representative  clientele.     From 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  445 

1888  to  1898  he  served  as  city  attorney  and  ably  represented  Richmond's 
interests  in  the  courts.  He  is  an  indefatigable  and  earnest  worker.  His 
practice  has  been  general  and  he  is  proficient  in  every  department  of  the 
law.  The  litigation  with  which  he  has  been  connected  has  embraced  many 
of  the  most  important  cases  tried  in  the  courts  of  this  circuit,  and  again  and 
again  he  has  won  the  victor's  laurels  over  competitors  of  marked  ability. — a 
fact  which  indicates  his  own  power  as  counselor  and  advocate.  With  a 
keenly  analytical  mind,  his  broad  knowledge  of  law  enables  him  to  apply  to 
the  point  in  litigation  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  which  bear  most  closely 
upon  it,  citing  authority  and  precedent  until  the  strength  of  his  case  is  clearly 
seen  by  court  or  jury.  His  deductions  are  logical  and  the  force  of  his  argu- 
ments is  shown  in  the  many  verdicts,  favorable  to  his  clients,  which  he 
has  won. 

For  some  years  Mr.  f^indemuth  has  been  a  recognized  leader  in  the 
ranks  of  the  Republican  party  in  Indiana.  He  served  for  two  terms  in  the 
state  legislature,  being  elected  in  1891  and  again  in  1893  to  represent  Wayne 
and  Fayette  counties.  During  the  first  session  he  was  the  recognized  leader 
of  the  minority,  in  1893  was  the  Republican  nominee  for  speaker,  and  during 
that  assembly  was  the  real  leader  in  the  house.  He  studied  closely  every 
question  which  came  up  for  settlement,  and  his  wise  judgment  and  patriotic 
service  won  him  a  large  following.  He  introduced  and  secured  the  passage 
of  the  Lindemuth  or  corporation  franchise  act,  also  the  park  law,  controlling 
and  governing  the  park  commissioners,  and  many  other  bills  of  lesser 
importance.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  local  and  state  campaign  work, 
and  his  able,  logical  and  entertaining  addresses  have  been  most  effective  in 
securing  Republican  victories.  He  has  been  prominently  mentioned  for 
governor  and  secretary  of  state  in  Indiana,  and  his  ability  would  enable  him 
to  grace  any  position  which  he  might  be  called  upon  to  fill.  He  possesses 
those  qualities  which  constitute  the  true  statesman, — keen  analytical  power, 
close  comprehension,  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  needs  of  the  people 
and  a  loyalty  to  republican  principles  and  institutions;  and  whether  in 
political  or  professional  life,  he  will  serve  his  fellow   men  well. 

ALBERT  C.   FOSDICK.  M.   D. 

One  of  the  oldest  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Union  county,  and,  indeed, 
of  the  state  of  Indiana,  in  years  of  practice,  is  the  gentleman  whose  name 
heads  this  sketch.  Though  he  is  a  resident  of  Liberty,  his  practice  is  not 
confined  to  this  immediate  locality,  but  his  services  are  constantly  in  great 
demand  at  more  or  less  distant  points.  His  valuable  experience  in  surgical 
cases  during  the  civil  war,  and  his  almost  invariable  success  in  all  operations, 
however  difficult,  won  him  fame  and  prominence  many  years  ago. 


446  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

A  native  of  Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  born  in  a  log 
cabin  three  miles  east  of  Liberty,  March  5,  1S22,  and  rocked  in  a  cradle 
made  of  a  sugar-trough,  the  Doctor  is  certainly  a  child  of  the  frontier, 
and  here  he  has  spent  nearly  all  of  his  busy  and  useful  life.  His  parents 
were  William  and  Julia  Elma  (Stanton)  Fosdick.  The  father  was  born  near 
Lynchburg,  Virginia,  and  was  a  son  of  Captain  William  Fosdick,  a  native  of 
Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  and  a  whaling  captain  for  a  period  of  twenty-two 
years.  During  the  Revolutionary  war  the  Captain  was  captured  with  his 
ship,  and  with  seven  of  his  crew  who  had  escaped  with  their  lives  managed 
to  swim  to  shore.  He  settled  in  Virginia,  and  in  1824  purchased  a  section 
of  land  in  Union  county,  Indiana,  which  he  divided  among  his  sons,  George, 
William,  John  and  Benjamin,  who  later  settled  on  these  lots  in  Union 
county,  his  son  Timothy  becoming  a  resident  of  LaPorte  county,  Indiana. 
William  Fosdick,  the  Doctor's  father,  came  here  as  early  as  1817  or  18 18, 
and  about  a  year  later  married  Julia  E.,  daughter  of  Latham  Stanton,  of 
North  Carolina.  The  latter  settled  permanently  upon  a  farm  three  miles 
east  of  Liberty.  When  she  was  about  thirty  years  of  age  Mrs.  Fosdick  died, 
leaving  four  children,  namely:  Albert  C,  Anselm  Butler,  Stephen  Adolphus 
(who  died  aged  twenty)  and  Benajah  Stanton.  For  his  second  wife  Mr. 
Fosdick  chose  Miriam  Wickersham,  a  daughter  of  Caleb  Wickersham.  The 
five  children  born  of  this  union  were:  Mary  Jane,  who  married  James  Hasson 
and  died  in  1897  in  Indianapolis;  Lydia,  who  married  Moses  Wright,  of 
Kansas;  Homer,  who  died  in  Savannah,  Missouri,  when  thirty-three  years  of 
age;  Amanda,  Mrs.  John  L.  Grove,  of  Liberty;  and  Emma,  wife  of  Harry 
Faut,  of  San  Francisco.  Besides  carrying  on  his  farm  the  father  ran  a  saw- 
mill for  a  time,  and  was  very  prosperous  for  his  day.  Generous  and  kindly 
in  disposition,  he  was  sometimes  imposed  upon,  but  never  lost  his  sincere 
faith  in  humanity.  Once  he  was  obliged  to  raise  three  thousand  dollars  in 
gold  to  pay  the  county,  he  having  unfortunately  gone  as  security  on  the  bond 
of  the  county  treasurer,  who  defaulted.  He  was  a  Whig  and  was  opposed 
to  slavery,  but  he  was  not  fanatical  or  rabid  on  any  subject,  being  a  man  of 
gentle  disposition  and  not  fond  of  controversy.  In  later  years  he  joined  the 
ranks  of  the  Republican  party.  Both  of  his  wi\es  were  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  and  the  children  were  reared  according  to  its  doctrines. 
He  passed  to  his  reward  when  he  was  in  his  sixty-eighth  year. 

Albert  C.  Fosdick  was  a  small  boy  when  his  mother  died,  and  when 
quite  young  he  commenced  earning  his  own  livelihood.  He  read  medicine 
with  Dr.  G.  R.  Chitwood,  and  attended  lectures  in  the  old  Willoughby  Med- 
ical College,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  the  winter  of  1846-7.  When  he  started 
into  practice  he  had  but  one  shilling  in  the  world,  but  he  was  brave  and  per- 
severing, and  success  came  to  him  early,  as  he  deserved.      For  seven  years 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  447 

he  resided  in  Mount  Carmel,  Franklin  count}',  Indiana;  for  two  and  a  half 
years — in  1864,  1865  and  1866 — was  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri;  and  for  the 
remainder  of  the  fifty-three  years  that  he  has  been  actively  occupied  in  his 
professional  duties  he  has  been  in  Liberty.  For  six  years  he  was  in  partner- 
ship with  Dr.  L.  D.  Sheets,  now  of  Brooklyn,  one  of  the  ablest  surgeons  in 
this  state,  and  once  connected  in  a  professional  capacity  with  Grant's  heavy 
artillery.  When  the  civil  war  was  in  progress  Dr.  Fosdick  served  as  a  sur- 
f;eon  in  the  Fifth  Indiana  Cavalry,  of  the  First  Brigade,  Fourth  Division, 
Twenty- third  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  under  Hartsuff,  Burnside  and 
Scofield.  The  Doctor  and  General  Burnside  had  been  playmates  together, 
■and  both  prepared  and  were  applicants  for  entrance  examination  to  West 
Point,  Burnside  being  chosen.  They  met  on  the  crest  of  the  Cumberland 
mountains  in  Tennessee,  after  this  interval  of  eventful  years,  and  the  Doctor 
was  received  at  the  headquarters  of  the  great  general  about  the  time  that  the 
latter  took  charge  of  the  brigade,  and  was  placed  in  the  brigade  hospital  for 
duty.  He  did  heroic  service  in  the  treatment  of  the  poor  victims  of  the  bat- 
tle-field, and  remained  with  the  brigade  until  the  failing  health  of  his  wife 
required  his  return  home,  when  he  resigned,  in  October,  1864.  At  the  battle 
of  Shiloh  he  was  sent  as  special  assistant  surgeon,  by  authority  of  the  war 
department  and  Governor  Morton,  and  an  operation  which  he  performed 
drew  a  card  of  thanks  and  commendation  from  the  chief  surgeon,  Jackson. 
For  twelve  years  Dr.  Fosdick  has  been  United  States  examining  surgeon, 
and,  though  an  active  Republican  partisan,  has  been  retained  in  office.  In 
obstetrical  cases  he  is  particularly  successful  and  in  great  demand,  entire  con- 
fidence being  reposed  in  his  judgment  and  skill.  For  forty  years  he  has  been 
active  in  the  Masonic  order,  and  has  been  worshipful  master  of  the  lodge  to 
which  he  belongs.  He  has  been  connected  with  various  medical  societies 
and  in  every  way  has  kept  abreast  of  the  march  of  progress. 

The  first  wife  of  Dr.  Fosdick  was  a  Miss  Eliza  J.  Beauman,  of  Union 
county.  About  twenty  years  ago  the  Doctor  married  Frances  E.  Cockefair. 
By  her  previous  marriage  to  one  Bolton  she  had  one  son,  Elisha.  The  father 
of  Mrs.  Fosdick,  Elisha  Cockefair,  was  a  native  of  Nantucket.  In  the  war 
of  18 12  he  was  on  board  a  privateer,  and  at  New  Orleans  an  attack  was  made 
upon  a  Spanish  vessel  by  his  own  ship,  the  foreigner  gaining  the  victory. 
Subsequently  Mr.  Cockefair  settled  in  Union  county,  Indiana,  and  became 
very  wealthy  for  his  generation.  He  owned  the  largest  woolen  mill  in  that 
section  of  the  state,  and  numbered  thirteen  farms  among  his  possessions,  his 
estate  amounting  to  about  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  at  his  death,  which 
event  occurred  in  his  sixty-fourth  year.  By  his  first  marriage  Dr.  Fosdick 
has  two  sons:  William  Andrew  Fosdick,  who  is  engaged  in  merchandising  in 
this  place;  and  Horace  Greeley  Fosdick,  now  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


BENJAMIN  JOHNSON. 

History  and  biography  for  the  most  part  record  the  lives  of  only  those 
who  have  attained  military,  political  or  literary  distinction,  or  who  in  any 
other  career  have  passed  through  extraordinary  vicissitudes  of  fortune.  The 
unostentatious  routine  of  private  life,  although  in  the  aggregate  more  impor- 
tant to  the  welfare  of  the  community,  cannot,  from  its  very  nature,  figure  in 
the  public  annals.  But  the  names  of  men  who  have  distinguished  themselves 
in  their  day  and  generation  for  the  possession, |in  an  eminent  degree,  of  those 
qualities  of  character  which  mainly  contribute  to  the  success  of  private  life 
and  to  public  stability, — of  men  who  withoutcdazzling  talents  have  been 
exemplary  in  all  their  personal  and  social  relations,  and  enjoyed  the  esteem, 
respect  and  confidence  of  those  around  them, — ought  not  to  be  allowed  to 
perish.  Few  can  draw  rules  for  their  own  guidance  from  the  pages  of  Plu- 
tarch, but  all  are  benefited  by  the  delineation  of  those  traits  of  character 
which  find  scope  and  exercise  in  the  common   walks  of  life. 

Among  the  individuals  of  this  class  in  Richmond  is  Benjamin  Johnson. 
His  record  is  the  accunt  of  a  life  which  is  uneventful,  indeed,  as  far  as  stirring 
incident  or  startling  adventure  is  concerned,  yet  is  distinguished  by  the  most 
substantial  qualities  of  character.  His  life  history  exhibits  a  long  and  virtuous 
career  of  private  industry,  performed  with  moderation  and  crowned  with 
success.  It  is  the  record  of  a  well  balanced  mental  and  moral  constitution, 
strongly  marked  by  those  traits  of  character  which  are  of  especial  value  in 
such  a  state  of  society  as  exists  in  this  country.  A  community  depends  upon 
commercial  activity,  its  welfare  is  due  to  this,  and  its  promoters  of  legitimate 
and  extensive  business  enterprises  may  well  be  termed  its  benefactors. 

Prominent  in  the  business  circles  of  Richmond  stands  Benjamin  Johnson. 
He  was  born  in  Columbiana  county,  Ohio,  in  1833,  his  parents  being  Benja- 
min and  Martha  (Grissell)  Johnson.  The  Johnson  family  is  of  English 
descent,  and  during  the  early  colonial  history  of  the  country  representatives 
of  the  name  came  from  England,  settling  on  the  James  river,  in  Virginia. 
James  Johnson,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  and  life- 
long resident  of  the  Old  Dominion,  where  he  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits. John  Johnson,  the  grandfather,  was  born  in  1771,  in  Bedford  county, 
Virginia,  and  there  was  reared  to  manhood.  He  married  Dorothy  Crew, 
and  in  181 1  went  with  his  family  to  Columbiana  county,  Ohio,  where  he  died 
in  1857.  He  was  a  prosperous  and  successful  farmer.  Like  his  ancestors, 
he  was  identified  with  the  Society  of  Friends  and  took  a  very  active  part  in 
its  work.  His  wife,  ;u'e  Dorothy  Crew,  was  the  daughter  of  Jonas  and  Judith 
Crew,  of  Hanover  county,  Virginia. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  449 

review,  was  born  in  Hanover  county,  Virginia,  in  1797,  and  in  181 1  accom- 
panied his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Columbiana  county,  Ohio,  where  he 
spent  his  remaining  days,  devoting  his  energies  to  the  quiet  pursuits  of  the 
farm,  whereby  he  acquired  a  good  property.  He  died  on  the  old  homestead 
there  in  1888,  in  his  ninety-first  year.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Friend, 
and  in  political  belief  was  first  a  Whig  and  afterward  a  Republican,  being 
firm  in  his  convictions  and  zealous  in  support  of  the  principles  in  which  he 
believed.  He  married  Martha  Grissell,  who  died  in  1864,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
seven  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children,  of  whom  four  sons  and 
four  daughters  are  3'et  living. 

Upon  his  father's  farm,  in  Ohio,  Benjamin  Johnson,  the  well  known 
lumber  merchant  of  Richmond,  was  reared,  and  in  Salem,  Ohio,  he  pursued 
his  studies  in  a  private  school  conducted  by  Professor  Moore,  a  prominent 
educator  from  the  east.  Putting  aside  his  text-books  in  1854,  Mr.  Johnson, 
came  to  Richmond  in  September  of  that  year,  for  the  first  time  visiting  the 
city  in  which  he  was  to  become  so  prominent  a  factor  in  connection  with  its 
business  interests.  He  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  little  town  and  its  future 
prospects  that  he  resolved  to  make  it  his  permanent  home.  He  had  little 
capital,  but  soon  arranged  to  go  into  the  lumber  business  on  a  small  scale 
and  has  since  developed  the  enterprise  to  large  proportions.  In  1858,  in  con- 
nection with  B.  P.  Perry,  he  established  a  lumber  yard  and  built  a  saw-mill  at 
the  northwest  corner  of  North  Twelfth  and  E  streets.  After  a  few  years  Mr. 
Johnson  purchased  his  partner's  interest,  continuing  in  the  general  retail  lum- 
ber trade,  in  connection  with  furnishing  lumber  and  ties  to  the  railroad  com- 
pany. In  1874,  however,  he  disposed  of  his  entire  retail  interest  and  contin- 
ued to  furnish  material  to  the  railroad,  for  this  branch  of  his  business  had  in 
the  meantime  become  very  large  and  made  heavy  demands  upon  his  time.  In 
1893  he  admitted  his  son,  John  H.  Johnson,  to  a  partnership  in  the  business. 
Since  then  they  have  increased  their  trade  until  now  they  handle  from  fmty 
to  fifty  million  feet  of  material  annually.  While  their  main  office  is  in  Ricli- 
mond,  they  handle  material  ovtr  a  large  part  of  seven  states,  and  derive  from 
their  extensive  trade  transactions  a  good  income.  In  addition  to  his  lumber 
business  Mr.  Johnson  is  also  the  owner  of  a  fine  stock  farm  of  five  hundred 
and  forty  acres,  in  Blackford  county,  Indiana,  where  he  breeds  draft  horses, 
cattle  and  hogs. 

In  November,  1857,  was  celebrated  the  n)arriage  of  Benjamin  Johnson 
and  Miss  Elizabeth  Barker.  Her  parents,  Mathew  and  Ruth  Barker,  were 
born  and  reared  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  she  was  born  on  the  island 
of  Nantucket.  She  died  in  1887.  Mathew  and  Ruth  Iiarker's  ancestors 
came  from  England.  Mathew  Barker  was  a  son  of  Peter  Barker,  and  his 
grandfather,  James    Barker,  who    was    born    in    1623,  came    from    Harwick. 


450  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Essex  county,  England.  He  started  for  America  with  iiis  parents,  James- 
and  Barbara  (Dungan)  Barker,  when  a  child,  and  his  father  died  on  the  voy- 
age over.      The  family  settled  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 

Mathew  Barker's  maternal  grandparents  were  Richard  and  Mary 
(Wood)  Mitchell,  and  were  born  in  1686  and  lived  in  Rhode  Island.  Ruth 
Barker  was  a  descendant  of  John  and  Susan  Anthony,  the  former  of  whom 
was  born  in  1607,  at  Hempstead,  England,  and  died  July  28,  1675,  at  Ports- 
imouth,  Rhode  Island.  They  came  to  America  in  the  ship  "  Hercules,"  April 
16,  1634.  Ruth  Barker's  maternal  ancestors  were  Phillip  and  Sarah  (Odd- 
ing)  Sherman,  born  February  5,  1610,  at  Dedham,  Essex  county,  England, 
;and  came  to  America  in  1633  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Massachusetts.  Ben- 
jamin and  Elizabeth  (Barker)  Johnson's  children  are:  John  H.,  who  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  banking  interests  of  Richmond,  but  is  now  the 
junior  member  of  the  firm  of  B.  Johnson  &  Son;  and  Mary  M.,  wife  of  Dr. 
Charles  Marvel,  of  Richmond. 

Although  Mr.  Johnson  has  led  a  busy  life,  he  has  yet  found  time  to 
devote  to  those  interests  which  develop  the  intellectual  and  moral  nature  of 
man,  living  not  to  himself  alone,  but  laboring  to  aid  his  fellow  men.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Earlham 
'College.  He  is  a  prominent  and  leading  member  of  the  South  Eighth  street 
'Friends'  meeting,  an  elder  and  overseer,  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  foreign  missionary  work,  in  which  he  takes  a  very  zealous  and 
active  interest.  He  is  charitable  and  benevolent  and  the  poor  and  needy 
seek  not  his  aid  in  vain. 

It  is  no  very  rare  thing  for  a  poor  boy  in  our  country  to  become  a  pros- 
perous man  and  occupy  a  commanding  position  in  the  business  world,  but 
many  who  have  fought  their  way  from  poverty  to  wealth,  from  obscurity  to 
.prominence,  retain  some  marks  and  scars  of  the  conflict.  They  are  apt  to  be 
narrow  and  grasping,  even  if  not  sordid  and  unscrupulous.  Mr.  Johnson, 
however,  is  an  instance  of  a  man  who  has  achieved  success  without  paying 
the  price  at  which  it  is  so  often  bought;  for  his  prosperity  has  not  removed 
him  farther  from  his  fellow  men,  but  has  brought  him  into  nearer  and  more 
intimate  relations  with  them.  The  more  means  he  has  had,  the  more  he 
.has  done  for  those  around  him,  and  numbered  among  Richmond's  most  prom- 
linent  citizens  is  this  honored  lumber  merchant. 

JOHN   W.  MAZE. 

John  Wesley  Maze,  one  of  the  well  known  and  highly  respected  farmers 

lof  Eiberty  township.  Union  county,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Harmony  township, 

this  county,   near  Quakertown,  March   21,    1833,   son   of  David  and  Sarah 

(Pigman)  Maze.      Sarah  Pigman  was  a  sister  of  Adam   Pigman,  the  original 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  451 

settler  of  that  name  in  Union  count}'.  David  Maze  was  born  near  Cynthi- 
ana,  Kentucky,  where  he  spent  the  first  twenty-one  years  of  his  hfe.  His 
parents,  John  Maze  and  wife,  were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
were  people  of  sterling  worth.  John  Maze  died  in  Kentucky,  and  after  his 
death  his  widow  came  with  her  family  of  ten  or  twelve  children  to  Indiana, 
David  being  then  about  twenty-one.  They  built  a  house  in  Union  county, 
and  lived  here  for  several  years,  all  the  children,  however,  except  David, 
finally  settling  in  other  parts  of  the  state. 

David  Maze  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  mother  until  his  marriage, 
September  4,  1817,  to  Sarah  Pigman  and  then  settled  on  the  farm,  in  Har- 
mony township,  where  his  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born.  About 
the  last  work  he  did  on  this  farm  was  to  erect  a  brick  house,  and  the  family 
moved  into  it  the  week  after  his  death.  He  died  in  August,  1850,  in  the 
fifty-eighth  year  of  his  age.  His  widow  remained  on  the  home  place,  reared 
her  family  there,  and  had  charge  of  the  farm  during  the  rest  of  her  life.  She 
died  June  23,  1874,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  The  farm  is  'now 
owned  by  their  grandson,  Richard  Maze.  David  Maze  was  a  Presbyterian, 
while  his  wife  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Of  their 
family  of  eleven  children  that  reached  maturity,  only  three  are  now  living 
(1899),  all  in  Union  county:  John  >  Wesle}',  whose  name  introduces  this 
sketch;  Hiram  H.,  a  resident  of  Harmony;  and  Mahala,  widow  of  Andrew 
Crawford,  a  resident  of  Harmony  township. 

John  W.  Maze  was  seventeen  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death  as  above  recorded.  June  7,  1855,  he  married  Susannah  Hollingsworth, 
daughter  of  Enoch  and  Margaret  (Mills)  Hollingsworth.  After  his  marriage 
he  continued  on  the  home  farm  for  eleven  years,  having  charge  of  its  opera- 
tions during  that  time,  and  then  the  estate  was  divided,  he  receiving  a  por- 
tion of  the  farm.  In  1870  he  bought  a  part  of  his  present  farm,  in  Liberty 
township,  ninety  acres  of  which  were  originally  entered  by  Joshua  Harlan. 
Shortly  afterward  Mr.  Maze  bought  forty  acres  adjoining  this  tract,  to  which 
he  kept  adding  until  he  owned  over  three  hundred  acres.  His  farm  now  com- 
prises two  hundred  and  ninety  acres,  and  he  also  owns  half  of  another  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  in  Fayette  county.  His  home  farm  is  a  fine 
stretch  of  fertile  land,  lying  along  the  west  shore  of  Whitewater  river  and 
extending  back  on  the  uplands.  His  residence  stands  at  the  base  of  a  beau- 
tiful hill,  from  which  comes  forth  a  crsytal  spring,  water  from  it  being  piped 
to  the  house,  an  abundant  supply  being  always  furnished.  Mr.  Maze  carries 
on  general  farming,  raising  a  diversity  of  crops  and  keeping  his  farm  well 
stocked  with  a  high  grade  of  horses,  cattle  and  hogs.  His  lowland  fields  are 
rendered  more  productive  by  being  well  drained,  he  having  laid  over  five 
hundred  rods  of  tile.      An   important  industry  which  was  maintained  on  his 


452  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

farm  for  twenty  years,  and  which  has  recently  been  disposed  of,  was  a  sor- 
ghum factory.  Some  years  he  manufactured  no  less  than  five  thousand  gal- 
lons of  molasses,  for  which  he  received  over  five  hundred  dollars  in  one 
year. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maze  have  a  large  family  of  children,  most  of  whom  are 
married  and  settled  in  life,  occupying  honored  and  useful  places  in  society. 
Their  names  in  order  of  birth  areas  follows:  Margaret,  wife  of  Joseph  Beck, 
Liberty  township.  Union  county,  Indiana;  Enoch,  who  was  for  twelve  years 
a  traveling  salesman  for  the  Deering  Harvester  Company,  is  now  engaged  in 
farming;  David  and  Charley,  both  farmers;  George,  who  has  charge  of  the 
home  farm,  married  Miss  Alice  Keller  and  they  have  one  child,  Louis,  at 
home;  Joseph,  of  Brownsville  township;  William,  on  the  farm  owned  by  his 
father  and  himself,  in  Fayette  county;  Mary,  wife  of  George  Scholl,  of  Glen- 
wood,  Indiana,  who  owns  a  farm  nearly  adjoining  the  home  farm;  and  Rich- 
ard, on  the  home  farm,  married  Miss  Annie  Smalley,  and  they  have  one  child. 
All  the  sons  are  in   Union  county,  with  the  exception  of  the  one  in  Fayette. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maze  are  identified  with  the  Christian  church  at  Browns- 
ville, of  which  he  is  an  official  member.  Politically  he  gives  his  allegiance 
to  the  Democratic  party. 

VIRGINIA  C.  MEREDITH. 

No  name  figures  more  conspicuously  or  is  mentioned  with  greater  honor 
on  the  pages  of  the  history  concerning  the  connection  of  women  with  the 
great  World's  Columbian  E.xposition,  held  in  Chicago  in  1893,  than  that  of 
Mrs.  Virginia  Claypool  Meredith,  yet  her  wide  and  brilliant  reputation  comes 
not  alone  from  her  association  with  that  triumph  of  American  skill  and 
ingenuity.  She  is  always  found  taking  an  advanced  stand  in  favor  of  higher 
and  broader  education  and  of  great  business  possibilities  for  women,  and  is 
to-day  one  of  the  most  competent  authorities  on  agricultural,  and  especially 
stock-raising,  interests  in  the  entire  country.  Thus  leading  an  advance  move- 
ment that  cannot  fail  to  prove  of  permanent  benefit  to  the  race,  she  may  well 
be  termed  a  public  benefactor,  for  her  broad  missionary  spirit  and  her  splen- 
did intellectual  attainments  have  combined  to  engrave  her  name  enduringly 
on  the  history  of  the  world's  progress. 

Mrs.  Meredith  was  born  November  5,  1848,  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana, 
a  daughter  of  Austin  B.  and  Hannah  A.  (Petty)  Claypool,  who  are  still  resi- 
dents of  that  place.  She  completed  her  school  course  by  her  graduation  in 
Glendale  College,  but  to  such  a  woman  as  Mrs.  Meredith  education  is  never 
completed  this  side  of  the  grave.  She  is  a  student  and  reader,  and  experi- 
ence, observation  and  thought  have  continually  broadened  her  knowledge. 
She  was  married  April  28,   1870,  to  Henry  Clay  Meredith,  and  they  spent  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  453 

greater  part  of  their  married  life  on  Oakland  Farm,  adjoining  Cambridge 
City,  Indiana.  Upon  her  husband's  death,  in  1882,  she  assumed  the  man- 
agement of  the  farm,  for  which  work  she  was  well  fitted,  for  during  his 
active  business  career  she  was  closely  associated  with  him  and  had  become 
an  expert  in  the  history  and  pedigrees  of  shorthorn  cattle.  She  continues 
the  breeding  of  blooded  stock  and  has  sold  into  every  part  of  the  United 
States  representatives  from  her  fine  herd  of  shorthorns  and  from  her  South- 
down flock  of  sheep. 

When  the  state  authorized  the  holding  of  farmers'  institutes  and  placed 
the  management  of  the  same  with  Purdue  University,  Mrs.  Meredith  was 
invited  to  address  these  meetings,  and  within  the  course  of  four  years,  from 
1889  until  1892,  inclusive,  visited  almost  every  county  in  the  state,  return- 
ing by  special  invitation  again  and  again  to  various  counties.  She  has  been 
invited  to  speak  on  farm  and  stock  topics  in  Indiana,  Ohio,  Illinois,  Wiscon- 
sin, Minnesota,  Mississippi,  New  York,  and  also  in  England,  and  at  the  spe- 
cial request  of  the  state  commissioners,  in  1893,  she  prepared  for  the  Colum- 
bian Exposition  a  monograph  upon  the  live  stock  of  Indiana.  In  the  winter 
of  1896-7  she  delivered  a  special  course  of  lectures  upon  cattle  at  Purdue 
University.  She  has  been  a  paid  contributor  to  the  leading  agricultural  and 
stock  papers  in  the  United  States,  and  some  of  her  articles  have  been  copied 
in  every  English  speaking  country.  In  1897,  at  the  request  of  the  regents 
of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  she  inaugurated  and  organized  the  depart- 
ment for  young  women  in  the  school  of  agriculture.  This  work  had  no  prec- 
edent, and  has  been  laid  out  on  new  and  independent  lines.  In  the  second 
year  sixty-three  young  women  were  enrolled,  with  most  pronounced  expres- 
sions of  confidence  in  this  new  practical  department  of  education. 

In  1891  Mrs.  Meredith  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  national  board  of 
lady  managers,  charged  with  the  care  of  all  the  interests  of  women  in  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition.  In  Chicago,  in  November  of  that  year,  at 
the  first  meeting  of  this  board  of  more  than  one  hundred  members,  represent- 
ing each  state  in  the  Union,  Mrs.  Meredith  demonstrated  her  grasp  of  the 
possibilities  and  formulated  what  afterward  proved  to  be  the  policy  of  the 
board.  She  was  elected  vice-chairman  of  the  executive  committee, — with 
Mrs.  Potter  Palmer,  president  of  the  board,  chairman  ex  officio, — and  in 
that  position  had  a  large  share  in  formulating  the  plans  and  methods  which 
at  last  embraced  the  extensive  interests  of  women  all  over  the  world.  Later 
she  was  appointed  chairman  of  the  committee  on  awards,  and  in  that  capac- 
ity had  charge  of  the  selection  of  the  women  judges— one  hundred  or  more — 
from  all  the  several  countries  participating  as  exhibitors.  Women  had  never 
before  had  representation  in  an  international  board  of  judges,  although  their 


454  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

industrial  importance  was  well  known  and  widely  acknowledged.  Mrs. 
Palmer  and  Mrs.  Meredith  were  invited  to  meet  the  senate  and  house  com- 
mittees on  appropriations  of  congress,  and  were  able  to  make  such  a  presen- 
tation of  the  merits  of  this  new  feature  of  the  e.xposition  as  to  secure  an 
appropriation  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  be  expended  by  the  com- 
mittee, of  which  Mrs.  Meredith  was  chairman,  in  payment  of  judges  and  for 
other  expenses  which  must  be  incurred  in  that  connection.  The  difficulty  of 
finding  in  the  various  countries  women  expert  in  particular  lines  and  possess- 
ing also  the  other  qualifications  entitling  them  to  membership  in  such  an 
important  international  body,  was  very  great;  and  that  the  one  hundred  lady 
judges  served  with  ability,  even  distinction,  is  highly  creditable  to  the  admin- 
istration of  Mrs.  Meredith,  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  awards. 

In  addition  to  the  above  original  feature  of  the  Columbian  Exposition 
there  was  another,  also  originated  by  the  board  of  lady  managers, — that  was 
the  bestowal  of  diplomas  of  honorable  mention  upon  artisans  who  had 
assisted  in  the  production  of  an  article  that  received  an  award.  Indeed  this 
feature  is  by  some  thought  to  be  the  finest  thing  originated  by  the  Colum- 
bion  Exposition.  Congress  especially  authorized  these  diplomas  by  a  reso- 
lution, which,  by  the  way,  was  drafted  by  Mrs.  Meredith  and  passed  as  she 
phrased  it.  The  work  of  discovering  to  whom  these  diplomas — recognition 
of  the  man  or  woman  who  labors — should  go,  their  proper  engrossing,  signa- 
tures, etc.,  was  placed  in  charge  of  Mrs.  Meredith,  and  eighteen  thousand  of 
these  "  Honorable  Mentions"  were  sent  out  to  inventors  and  artisans  in 
Europe,  Asia,  and  North  and  South  America.  It  is  certainly  a  great  honor 
that  the  only  two  really  new,  original,  unprecedented  features  of  the  exposi- 
tion should  have  fallen  to  the  administration  of  one  woman, — Mrs.  Meredith. 

In  another  way  Mrs.  Meredith  was  also  honored  in  connection  with  the 
important  international  events  of  1893.  Governor  Hovey  had  construed 
the  Indiana  law  authorizing  him  to  appoint  a  certain  number  of  "  citizens  " 
to  constitute  the  state  commission,  to  include  women,  and  he  therefore  made 
Mrs.  Meredith  a  member  of  the  commission.  On  the  occasion  of  the  dedica- 
tion of  the  Indiana  building,  in  Jackson  Park,  she  made  an  address,  follow- 
ing Governor  Matthews  and  ex-President  Harrison. 

She  has  always  been  interested  in  progressive  work  for  women,  and  was 
the  first,  and  for  nine  years  continued,  president  of  the  Helen  Hunt  Club,  of 
Cambridge  City,  a  literary  organization  of  high  standing.  In  1895  she  was 
elected  president  of  the  Indiana  Union  of  Literary  Clubs,  a  strong  state 
federation  of  about  two  hundred  clubs,  which  is  doing  much  to  advance  the 
literary  taste  in  this  commonwealth.  She  is  also  one  of  the  stockholders  of 
the  Propylaeum,  at  Indianapolis,  a  notable  building,  unique  among  the  under- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  455 

takings  of  women;  and  on  the  occasion  of  its  dedication  she  made  the  con- 
gratulatory address.  In  rehgious  belief  she  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  has  long 
been  a  member  of  the  church  and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday-school. 

Having  no  children  of  her  own,  she  has  adopted  into  her  home  two  chil- 
dren left  orphans  by  the  death  of  one  of  her  friends,  securing  thereby  the  love 
and  home  ties  that  brighten  a  busy  life.  She  has  a  mind  above  all  personal  con- 
siderations, concerned  with  those  large,  loving  interests  that  belong  to  human^ 
ity,  and  her  true  womanly  qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  her  sympathy  and 
kindly  purpose  indicate  that  she  has  the  spirit  of  Him  who  came  to  [min- 
ister unto  others. 

SAMUEL  S.  CLEVENGER. 

Representing  as  he  does  two  of  the  oldest  families  of  Wayne  county, 
the  Sparrs  and  the  Clevengers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  well  entitled  to 
an  honored  place  in  the  records  of  this  section  of  Indiana.  He  and  his 
relatives  have  borne  a  very  important  part  in  the  development  of  this  county, 
which  was  a  wilderness  at  the  time  of  their  first  settlement  here,  in  the  early 
part  of  this  century.  In  tracing  the  history  of  this  locality  it  is  found  that 
the  three  famihes  who  first  permanently  located  in  Washington  township, 
Wayne  county,  as  early  as  1814,  were  the  Jenkins,  Sparrs  and  Doddridges, 
whose  homes  were  near  what  was  known  as  the  Doddridge  church.  Our 
subject's  maternal  grandfather,  Mr.  Sparr,  was  the  first,  as  it  is  believed,  to 
take  up  his  abode  in  the  section  which  later  was  organized  and  named 
Abington  township.  The  paternal  grandfather,  Daniel  Clevenger,  of  \'er- 
mont,  came  west,  and  for  a  brief  period  resided  in  Preble  county,  Ohio.  In 
1819  he  settled  in  the  forest  at  a  point  about  a  mile  and  a  half  west  of  the 
present  village  of  Abington,  and  the  property  which  then  came  into  his  pos- 
session by  purchase  has  remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Clevenger  family  ever 
since, — four-score  years.  On  the  place,  which  now  belongs  to  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  is  an  old  pear-tree,  in  a  good  state  of  preservation,  which  was 
planted  by  the  grandfather  some  seventy-two  years  ago. 

A  son  of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Sparr)  Clevenger,  Samuel  S.,  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  a  humble  log  cabin  in  the  midst  of  the  forest,  in  1844.  The 
father,  whose  birth  had  occurred  in  1810,  died  in  1881,  after  a  career  of 
honest  industry  and  integrity.  The  wife  and  mother,  a  most  estimable 
woman,  who  had  bravely  shared  the  vicissitudes  of  pioneer  life,  was  called 
to  her  reward  in  1894,  when  in  her  eighty-second  year.  Of  the  ten  children 
born  to  this  worthy  couple  two  are  deceased,  namely:  Susan  and  Daniel. 
Those  who  survive  are  as  follows:  Rebecca  J.,  Sabrah  L. ,  Mary  E.,  Samuel 
S.,  Joseph,  Nancy,  Thomas  J.  and  Francis  M. 

As  was  necessary,  Samuel  S.  Clevenger  aided  in  the.clearing  and  culti- 
vation of  his  father's  frontier  farm,  and   had  very  limited  educational  advan- 


456  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

tages.  When  he  became  old  enough  to  earn  something  independently  he 
commenced  working  for  neighboring  farmers,  and  in  this  manner  managed 
to  obtain  a  start  toward  success.  While  still  quite  young,  he  rented  a  tract 
of  land  and  raised  some  crops  upon  this  property,  and  in  the  autumn  of 
1867  he  settled  upon  the  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  where 
he  has  remained  ever  since.  The  place,  which  is  now  well  improved  and 
accordingly  valuable,  is  situated  in  the  western  part  of  Abington  township. 
On  the  2d  of  December,  1869,  his  house  was  burned;  but  this  disaster  was 
not  so  great  as  it  might  have  been,  for,  with  the  genuine  kindliness  of  heart 
which  prevailed  among  the  sturdy  pioneers  of  this  section,  they  assembled 
and  cut  logs,  hewed  them,  and  erected  a  new  dwelling  for  the  Clevenger  fam- 
ily within  a  short  time,  so  that  they  moved  into  it  and  commenced  the  new 
year  of  1870  under  its  friendly  shelter. 

During  the  years  which  have  since  rapidly  rolled  away,  our  subject  has 
prospered  and  has  occupied  an  enviable  position  in  the  community.  As  a 
business  man  his  judgment  is  excellent,  and  all  of  his  dealings  with  others 
are  marked  with  the  utmost  fairness  and  justice.  Thus  he  has  steadilj'  risen 
in  the  esteetn  of  those  who  are  associated  with  him  in  any  manner,  and  it 
was  deemed  most  suitable  and  fitting  that  he  should  be  called  upon  to  serve 
in  the  capacity  of  supervisor  of  his  township,  and  later,  that  his  name  should 
be  presented  for  the  higher  office  of  county  treasurer.  He  was  duly  nomi- 
nated to  this  responsible  position,  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  and,  though  his 
party  was  defeated,  he  polled  a  good  vote  at  the  ensuing  election.  Upon  the 
27th  of  April,  1S90,  Mr.  Clevenger  joined  Cornelius  Lodge,  No.  232,  F.  & 
A.  M.,  in  which  he  has  held  several  offices,  besides  being  past  master. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Clevenger  and  Miss  Nancy  V.  Simmons  was  solem- 
nized October  15,  1867.  Their  eldest  child,  Florence  E.,  is  the  wife  of 
William  Plankenhorns;  and  the  next  daughter,  Margaret  Alice,  now  deceased, 
was  the  wife  of  Edward  Garthwait.  The  other  children  are:  David  M., 
Thomas  F.,  John  S.,  Mary  Edna,  Leota  Rebecca  and  Eva, — all  living 
save  the  last  mentioned.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Clevenger,  Thomas  Simmons, 
formerly  of  Union  county,  Indiana,  died  in  1873,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years. 
His  widow,  Margaret,  for  the  past  two  years  a  resident  of  Missouri,  has 
attained  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-one  years. 

IRVEN  REED. 
The  subject  of  this  memoir  was  a  son  of  Arthur  and  Martha  Reed  and 
was  born  in  Zanesville,  Muskingum  county,  Ohio,  January  8,  1809,  and  later 
removed  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  resided  for  many  years  and  gained 
many  warm  friends  who  appreciated  his  sterling  worth  and  true  nobility  of 
character.      He  was  educated  and  grew   to   manhood  in  his  native  town.      In 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  457 

1S31  he  moved  to  this  city,  where  in  1833  he  started  the  first  drug  store  in 
the  village.  At  that  time  the  population  was  small,  and  he  went  on  horse- 
back to  Fort  Wayne,  Indianapolis  and  other  towns  throughout  the  state, 
soliciting  orders,  which  he  returned  to  his  store  and  filled.  This  store  was 
continued  until  1850,  when  he  went  to  Cincinnati  and  embarked  in  the  whole- 
sale drug  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Irven  Reed  &  Company,  doing 
business  at  Nos.  16  and  18  Main  street,  in  that  city.  This  enterprise  was 
conducted  until  1854,  when  he  returned  to  Richmond  and  permanently  retired 
from  the  drug  business,  as  it  did  not  agree  with  his  health.  Three  years 
later  he  engaged  in  the  hardware  business,  opening  a  store  on  Main  street, 
between  Fifth  and  Sixth  streets,  under  the  name  of  Reed  &  Swayne.  He 
afterward  purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Swayne,  and  in  1872  moved  to  the 
corner  of  Seventh  and  Main  streets,  where  the  business  was  conducted  under 
the  name  of  Irven  Reed  &  Son.  He  continued  in  this  business  until  his 
death,  April  25,  1 891,  one  son  succeeding  the  other  until  the  present  pro- 
prietor, Frank  Irven  Reed,  became  a  member  of  the  firm.  For  two  years 
Mr.  Reed  was  out  of  the  hardware  business  and  dealt  in  saddlery  hardware. 
The  first  son  to  enter  the  firm  was  Albert  W.  Reed,  now  of  Washington,  D. 
C,  who  retired  in  1875  and  was  succeeded  by  Charles  H.,  who  remained  a 
number  of  years  and  then  withdrew  to  start  a  similar  store  for  himself  in  the 
west.  His  place  was  taken  by  Frank  Irven,  who  still  conducts  the  business, 
under  the  name  of  Irven  Reed  &  Son. 

Mr.  Reed  was  a  councilman  for  many  years  and  was  a  prominent  Repub- 
lican, entertaining  many  eminent  personages  at  his  home  in  Richmond.  Henry 
Clay  visited  this  city  when  running  for  the  presidency,  and  was  the  guest  of 
Mr.  Reed.  He  also  entertained  O.  P.  Morton,  the  war  governor  of  Indiana, 
Governor  Burbank  and  President  Hayes.  During  the  reunion  of  the 
Ohio  and  Indiana  National  Guards,  he  entertained  Governor  Foster  of 
Ohio.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  election  of  William  Henry  Harrison 
and  assisted  the  local  clubs  by  painting  their  flags,  banners,  etc.  He  was 
one  of  the  originators  and  officers  of  the  Fort  Wayne  Railroad,  now  the 
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad.  He  was  reared  in  the  Methodist  faith, 
but  united  with  the  First  Presbyterian  church.  A  brother.  Colonel  Hugh  B. 
Reed,  of  the  Forty-fourth  Indiana,  commanded  that  regiment  through  the 
entire  war  and  was  mustered  out  at  Fort  Wayne.  He  was  a  brave  com- 
mander and  had  four  horses  shot  from  under  him,  while  he  was  spared,  and 
died  in  New  Jersey.  One  of  his  sons,  Charles  A.  Reed,  an  able  attorney  of 
Somerville,  New  Jersey,  has  been  elected  president  of  the  senate  in  that 
state. 

In  1834  Mr.  Reed  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  M.  Evans,  of 
Baltimore,  the    ceremony  being   celebrated  in  Richmond.      Six  sons  survive 


458  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

them,  viz.:  Colonel  Arthur  F.,  who  was  colonel  of  the  Twelfth  Indiana  and 
served  through  the  war,  being  mustered  out  at  Fort  Wayne;  he  now  con- 
ducts a  bookstore  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  Albert  W.  is  a  retired  commission 
merchant  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Charles  H.  is  a  hardware  merchant  of  San 
Luis  Obispo,  California.  Lieutenant  Hugh  T. ,  a  retired  United  States  Army 
officer  of  the  First  Infantry,  is  now  residing  in  Chicago;  he  was  appointed  to 
West  Point  through  George  Julian,  representative  of  the  sixth  congressional 
district  of  Indiana,  and  graduated  from  West  Point  in  1873,  and  retired,  in 
1893,  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  is  the  author  of  "Military  Science  and 
Tactics,"  also  "Cadet  Life  at  West  Point," — both  well-known  works.  He 
had  raised  a  company  of  fourteen  hundred  men  in  Chicago,  of  which  he  was 
made  colonel;  but  before  they  were  mustered  into  service  the  war  closed. 
Horace  B.,  the  fifth  son,  is  the  manufacturer  of  a  patent  fence,  in  McMinn- 
ville,  Oregon.  Frank  I.,  who  has  always  been  engaged  in  the  hardware  busi- 
ness, is  the  successor  to  the  business  of  Irven  Reed  &  Son.  He  attended 
school  in  Richmond,  and  graduated  from  the  Richmond  Business  College, 
after  which  he  took  a  trip  through  the  west.  He  was  appointed  postmaster 
of  Fort  Sully,  Dakota,  in  1875,  and  served  seven  months.  This  place  was 
about  twenty-five  miles  from  Pierce  City,  North  Dakota,  and  was  an  impor- 
tant post,  being  the  distributing  point  for  the  mail  along  the  Missouri  river. 
In  1876  he  entered  his  father's  store  and  became  a  partner  of  the  firm.  He 
has  conducted  the  business  most  successfully,  and  is  a  wide-awake  business 
man,  whose  friends  are  legion.  He  is  a  prominent  Mason,  belonging  to  the 
commandery  of  Knights  Templar. 

DAVID  J.    DODDRIDGE. 

David  Jenkins  Doddridge,  the  only  survivor  of  the  once  large  and  happy 
family  which  gathered  around  the  table  of  the  pioneer  settler,  John  Dodd- 
ridge, of  Washington  township,  Wayne  county,  is  living  upon  the  old  home- 
stead which  was  entered  by  his  grandfather,  Philip  Doddridge,  and  which  has 
descended  from  father  to  son.  Probably  no  family  has  been  more  influential 
for  good  in  this  section  of  the  state,  and  the  name  is  favorably  known  far 
and  near  on  account  of  the  active  part  which  the  owners  have  borne  in  the 
history  of  local  Methodism. 

Joseph  Doddridge  sailed  from  England  to  the  United  States  in  the  early 
part  of  the  last  century,  and,  after  spending  some  time  in  New  Jersey,  located 
in  Maryland,  where  several  of  his  children  were  born.  One  of  the  number, 
Philip,  the  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  lived  in  Maryland  until  he 
was  grown,  and  then  went  to  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania.  There  he 
was  married,  and  all  of  his  children  were  born  ere  he  removed  to  the  west. 
One  of  the  greatest  sorrows   of  his  life   befel  him  there  also:    three  of  his 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  459" 

daughters  were  carried  off  by  Indians  and  for  years  nothing  could  be  learned 
of  their  fate.  Long  afterward,  when  the  brother  had  returned  upon  a  visit 
to  his  old  home  in  the  Keystone  state,  he  followed  up  a  clue  which  came 
into  his  possession,  and  upon  an  Indian  reservation  in  eastern  Ohio  he  found 
two  of  his  sisters.  They  had  grown  up  with  Indian  children  and  had  become 
the  wives  of  chiefs  of  the  tribe,  and  later  they  were  sent  to  a  western 
reservation.  The  third  daughter  had  died  soon  after  being  taken  captive. 
In  1814  a  party  of  pioneers,  including  Philip  Doddridge  and  David  Jenkins 
(his  son-in-law),  John  Spahr  and  John,  the  father  of  our  subject,  came  to 
Indiana  and  entered  land.  Philip  Doddridge,  who  had  some  capital,  not 
only  entered  the  quarter-section  of  land  in  what  was  called  "  the  twelve-mile 
purchase,"  but  farms  for  all  of  his  children,  thus  keeping  them  near  him,  and 
in  this  manner  the  numerous  representatives  of  the  family  became  fi.xtures  in 
this  region  and  founders  of  its  prosperity.  The  long  and  useful  career  of 
Philip  Doddridge  was  brought  to  a  close  by  his  sudden  death,  when  he  had 
arrived  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-five  years.  His  widow,  who  survived 
him  about  two  years,  was  about  the  same  age  at  the  time  of  her  demise. 
They  had  but  the  one  son,  John,  and  their  three  daughters  were  Mrs.  Han- 
nah Jenkins,  Mrs.  Sabra  Spahr  and  Mrs.  Walters. 

John  Doddridge  was  married  before  he  left  Pennsylvania,  and  there  his 
first  child  was  born.  After  coming  here  he  diligently  began  the  improve- 
ment of  the  land  which  was  entered  in  his  name,  and  subsequently  to  his 
father's  death  he  took  possession  of  the  old  homestead  now  owned  by  our 
subject.  About  1830  he  built  a  kiln,  in  which  he  burned  brick  and  lime 
sufficient  for  the  construction  of  a  commodious  dwelling,  the  one  which  still 
shelters  his  son  David.  Successful  in  all  his  undertakings,  for  he  possessed 
excellent  judgment  and  the  necessary  qualities  insuring  prosperity,  he  was 
considered  well-off  in  this  world's  goods  at  the  time  of  his  death,  his  estate 
comprising  about  a  section  of  finely  improved  farm  land  in  this  township,  and 
a  similar  amount  in  Tipton  county,  besides  which  he  had  entered  some 
property  in  Marshall  county. 

In  all  his  joys  and  sorrows,  John  Doddridge  found  a  true  helpmate  in 
his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Avis  Manchester.  She  was  a  native  of 
Rhode  Island,  but  their  marriage  took  place  in  Pennsylvania.  Eleven  chil- 
dren were  born  to  their  union,  namely:  Isaac,  who  was  the  largest  land- 
holder of  Wayne  county  at  one  time;  Mary,  Benjamin  and  Joseph,  who  died 
in  infancy;  Philip;  John,  who  died  in  Kansas;  Mrs.  Phoebe  Baker;  Mrs.  Eliza 
Ream;  Sarah,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  McMuUen;  David  J.;  and  Mrs.  Nancy 
McMullen.  One  by  one  they  passed  to  their  reward,  until,  as  previously 
mentioned,  only  our  subject  survives.     The  father  died  when  comparatively 


460  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

young,  in  1841,  when  he  w;s  fifty-five  years  of  age.      His  wife,  who  survived 
him  many  years,  died  in  September,  1883,  when  ninety-three  years  of  age. 

The  history  of  this  worthy  couple  could  not  be  written  correctly  without 
reference  to  the  religious  element  which  formed  so  large  a  part  of  their 
natures.  In  England  the  Doddridges  were  stanch  supporters  of  the  estab- 
lished church,  but  in  America  they  have  been  equall}'  strong  Methodists. 
Philip  and  John  Doddridge  were  active  in  the  church  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
after  coming  to  this  county  they  virtually  founded  the  church  in  this  locality. 
Two  acres  of  his  land  were  at  once  set  apart  for  a  church  and  cemetery,  by 
the  elder  man,  and,  in  fact,  he  performed  the  major  portion  of  the  work  on 
the  old  log  cabin  which  served  as  the  first  house  of  worship.  It  was  com- 
pleted in  1816  and  was  called  Doddridge  chapel.  In  1832  a  brick  church 
■was  erected  on  the  site,  and  in  1876  the  present  structure  took  the  place  of 
the  older  one.  John  Doddridge  was  active  in  the  work  of  building  two  of 
these  churches,  and  his  estimable  wife  was  no  less  interested  and  zealous. 
During  the  quarterly  meetings  they  entertained  as  many  as  fifty  guests,  and 
their  home  was  always  ready  to  receive  ministers  and  visiting  brethren.  The 
pioneer  circuit-rider  had  no  easy  life,  as  he  rode  from  one  point  to  another, 
holding  meetings,  preaching  every  day,  often  in  some  cabin  home,  praying 
and  exhorting  his  hearers  to  lead  better  lives  and  prepare  for  the  life  to  come. 
In  these  labors  John  Doddridge  was  earnestly  engaged  at  intervals  for  years, 
and  after  his  death  his  widow  was  frequently  called  upon  to  conduct  services, 
which  she  did  with  ability.  She  thoroughly  loved  the  church,  and  took  pride 
in  the  pretty  chapel  which  stands  as  the  most  fitting  and  useful  monument 
which  could  be  erected  to  the  Doddridge  family. 

David  J.  Doddridge  was  born  on  the  old  homestead  which  is  still  his 
dwelling  place,  April  4,  1831.  Needless  to  say,  the  example  and  training  of 
his  worthy  Christian  parents  had  great  influence  over  him,  and  from  the  time 
that  he  was  seven  years  of  age  he  has  been  an  interested  and  effective  worker 
in  the  Methodist  church,  his  religion  being  paramount  to  all  other  considera- 
tions with  him.  Since  he  arrived  at  his  majority  he  has  officiated  in  the 
various  church  positions,  and  now  is  a  class-leader,  trustee  and  exhorter. 
The  work  inaugurated  by  his  father  on  the  farm  has  been  carried  forward  by 
him,  and  he  is  mindful  of  the  injunction  to  "be  diligent  in  business."  The 
elder  members  of  his  family  were  affiliated  with  the  ^^'hig  party,  and  he 
votes  for  the  nominees  of  the  Republican  party.  All  enterprises  which  he 
believes  to  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  he  encourages,  and  the  causes  of 
education,  temperance  and  others  leading  toward  righteousness  are  stanchly 
advocated  by  him. 

In  1852  a  marriage  ceremony  united  the  destinies  of  Mr.  Doddridge  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  461 

Miss  Mary  C.  Stephens,  whose  birth  took  place  in  this  count}',  May  27,  1833. 
She  is  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Fell)  Stephens.  The  former, 
a  blacksmith  by  trade,  came  here  from  Pennsylvania  in  1829  and  established 
a  shop,  after  which  he  worked  at  his  trade  and  engaged  in  farming.  A  lead- 
ing member  in  the  Methodist  church,  he  was  greatly  missed  when  the  sum- 
mons came  to  him  to  enter  the  better  land.  He  was  in  his  seventieth  year 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1874.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  John  Fell,  a 
hero  of  the  Revolution  and  the  war  of  18 12.  He  came  to  this  state  at  an 
early  day  from  Pennsylvania  and  lived  to  a  ripe  age.  He  was  a  shoemaker 
by  trade,  and  in  his  younger  days  was  a  local  preacher  in  the  Methodist 
church  and  filled  a  circuit  for  a  period.  He  was  twice  married,  the  children 
of  his  second  union  being  Mrs.  Eliza  Fleming;  Mrs.  Hannah  Stephens; 
Polly,  who  married  John  Connolly,  a  minister  of  some  note;  George  and 
Isaac.  Mrs.  Mary  Doddridge  is  the  fifth  child  of  the  eight  children  who 
blessed  the  union  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  Stephens,  the  others  being 
WilHam,  John,  Thomas  B.,  a  blacksmith;  Isaac,  of  St.  Louis;  Mrs.  Ehza- 
beth  Nethercutt,  Mrs.  Catherine  Jones  and  Mrs.  Phoebe  L.  Highley. 

Five  sons  and  four  daughters  were  born  to  our  subject  and  wife,  of 
whom  the  eldest,  Benjamin  F.,  married  Elizabeth  Markly,  of  Kansas,  and 
is  now  living  with  his  family  in  the  state  of  Washington;  John  W.  married 
Theodora  Wharton,  of  this  county;  Isaac  E.  married  Anna  Maupin,  of 
Washington,  D.  C;  and  James  E.  married  Norvella  Jones,  of  this  county; 
all  are  farmers  of  Wayne  county;  Phoebe  H.,  who  died  in  1887,  was  the 
wife  of  William  Hardin;  Luella  A.  and  Charles  M.  are  at  home;  Catherine 
Gertrude  is  the  wife  of  F.  Morris,  of  Milton,  Indiana.  The  other  daughter 
died  in  infancy. 

ISAAC  S.   HAROLD,   M.   D. 

Both  as  an  educator  and  as  a  medical  practitioner  has  Dr.  Isaac  S.  Har- 
old won  distinction,  and  though  but  a  few  years  have  passed  since  he  became 
a  permanent  resident  of  Richmond,  he  enjoys  an  e.xtensive  and  remunerative 
practice.  Doubtless  he  inherited  his  talent  as  a  physician,  as  his  father  was 
noted  as  a  nurse  and  local  doctor  in  the  pioneer  days,  and  two  of  his  brothers 
are  also  successfully  engaged  in  the  profession.  He  is  progressive  in  all  his 
methods,  constantly  reading  and  studying,  and  keeping  in  close  touch  with 
the  spirit  of  the  times. 

On  his  father's  side  of  the  family  the  Doctor  is  of  Scotch-English  e.xtrac- 
tion,  while  on  the  maternal  side  he  is  of  English  stock.  Three  brothers  bear- 
ing the  surname  of  Harold  came  from  the  British  isles  to  America  many  years 
ago,  one  settling  in  Virginia.  Another,  from  whom  the  Doctor  is  directly 
descended,  located  in  North  Carolina,  in  that  portion  now  known  as  Guilford 
county,  and  there  the  grandfather,  Jonathan  Harold,  was  boni.      In  1S35  he 


462  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

removed  to  Hamilton  county,  Indiana,  where  he  became  a  prosperous  and 
influential  agriculturist,  remaining  in  that  locality  until  his  death. 

Our  subject's  father.  Dr.  Nathan  Harold,  was  born  in  Guilford  county. 
North  Carolina,  whence  he  emigrated  to  Hamilton  county  in  1833.  In  those 
days  there  was  a  great  need  for  physicians  among  the  scattered  hamlets  and 
country  people,  and  Dr.  Harold,  being  a  natural  nurse  and  having  some 
knowledge  of  medicine,  found  his  services  in  such  demand  that,  of  necessity, 
he  bought  books  and  posted  himself  in  the  care  and  treatment  of  the  §ick. 
He  prospered  in  the  work,  to  which  he  gradually  devoted  himself  more  and 
more,  and  his  practice  included  a  territory  of  twelve  or  fifteen  miles  in  each 
direction  from  his  home.  This  old  homestead,  which  is  still  in  possession  of 
the  family,  was  purchased  by  him  from  the  government  at  one  dollar  and  a 
quarter  per  acre,  and  comprises  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Whig  and  later  a  Republican,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  main- 
tenance of  good  government.  An  elder  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  assisted 
in  the  founding  of  Richland  church,  in  which  he  was  an  earnest  and  con- 
sistent member.  His  death  occurred  in  1884,  when  he  was  in  his  seventy- 
fifth  year.  His  wife,  Betsy,  who  died  December  31,  1897,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five  years,  was  a  daughter  of  Nathan  Hawkins,  and  was  born  in  Rich- 
mond, whither  her  father  had  removed  at  an  early  day.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  wagon-maker,  his  early  prime  being  devoted  to  the  last  mentioned  busi- 
ness, while  his  last  years  were  spent  upon  a  farm  in  Hamilton  county, 
Indiana.  To  the  union  of  Dr.  Nathan  Harold  and  wife  seven  sons  and  one 
daughter  were  born,  all  of  whom  survive.  John  is  engaged  in  gardening  at 
Noblesville,  Indiana;  Henry  is  carrying  on  the  old  family  homestead;  Lemuel, 
formerly  a  merchant,  is  now  farming  in  the  vicinity  of  Pendleton,  Indiana; 
Herman  is  a  farmer  in  Hancock  county,  this  state;  Dr.  David  is  practicing 
at  High  Point,  North  Carolina;  Mrs.  Rebecca  Greene  is  a  resident  of  Hamil- 
ton county;  Dr.  Cyrus  N.  is  a  practitioner  in  Indianapolis;  and  our  subject 
completes  the  number. 

The  birth  of  Dr.  Isaac  S.  Harold  took  place  in  the  neigborhood  of  Car- 
mel,  Hamilton  county,  Indiana,  January  i,  1852.  He  received  an  excellent 
education,  as,  after  leaving  the  common  schools,  he  pursued  a  course  in  the 
Carmel  Academy  and  the  normal  institute  in  Hancock,  Indiana.  Having 
thus  thoroughly  prepared  himself  for  pedagogic  work,  he  obtained  a  school 
and  continued  as  a  teacher  in  Hamilton  and  Hancock  counties  from  1873  to 
1880,  also  having  charge  of  a  school  in  Mississippi  for  some  time.  In  the 
meantime  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  his  brother,  Cyrus  N.,  as  his 
instructor,  and  for  a  period  was  directed  in  his  work  by  Dr.  J.  J.  Baker,  of 
Westfield,  Indiana.  Then  for  several  years  he  was  engaged  in  merchan- 
dising in  the  towns  of  Carmel  and  Westfield,  but  in  1S87  he  laid  aside  all  his 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  463 

general  business  affairs  and  matriculated  in  the  Physio-Medical  College,  in 
Indianapolis.  Two  years  later  he  graduated,  and  opened  an  office  in  West- 
field,  where  he  practiced  until  1891,  then  coming  to  Richmond.  He  engaged 
in  general  family  practice,  but  has  made  a  specialty  of  chronic  diseases,  and  has 
been  particularly  fortunate  in  the  field  of  dermatology.  Since  1892  he  has 
been  a  teacher  of  this  branch  of  medical  science  at  his  a/z/ia  mater,  and  is 
looked  upon  as  an  authority  in  this  special  line.  At  one  time  he  was 
president  of  the  State  Physio-Medical  Association,  to  which  organization  he 
still  belongs,  and  is  likewise  connected  with  the  District  and  United  States 
Associations. 

In  his  political  views  the  Doctor  adheres  to  the  principles  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  is  quite  independent  in  local  affairs.  Religiously  he  follows 
the  training  of  his  youth,  and  is  actively  interested  in  the  Society  of  Friends. 
He  belongs  to  the  Friends  church  on  South  Eighth  street,  and  contributes 
to  the  support  of  the  same. 

In  1874  Dr.  Harold  married  Miss  Cordelia  B.  Hodgin,  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Jane  (Millican)  Hodgin,  originally  of  North  Carolina,  and  later 
residents  of  Richmond.  Two  promising  sons  and  one  daughter  bless  the 
Doctor  and  wife.  Earl  J.,  now  twenty-two  years  of  age,  is  a  graduate  at 
Earlham  College,  while  Frank,  two  years  younger,  is  a  junior  in  the  same 
institution.  Haley  G.,  a  maid  of  sixteen,  is  a  student  in  the  Richmond 
high  school. 

FRANK  C.  ROBERTS. 

The  man  who  wins  prominence  at  the  bar  of  America's  thriving  cities — 
of  which  Richmond  is  one — must  have  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  law, 
a  keen  perception,  logical  reasoning,  forcible  argument  and,  above  all,  hab- 
its of  painstaking,  patient  industry.  Not  by  inheritance,  by  purchase  or  by 
gift  can  he  win  reputation  in  his  chosen  calling.  It  must  come  as  the  reward 
of  true  merit.  All  must  begin  on  a  common  plane  and  rise  to  eminence  by 
perseverance,  industry  and  ability,  or  fall  back  into  the  ranks  of  mediocrity. 
In  like  manner  with  all  others  Frank  C.  Roberts  started  out  to  win  a  name 
and  place  for  himself,  and  his  success  has  made  him  one  of  the  leaders  of 
the  Richmond  bar. 

A  son  of  Henry  S.  and  Martha  (Charles)  Roberts,  he  was  born  in  the 
city  which  is  now  his  home,  December  21,  1868.  No  family  has  been  more 
intimately,  honorably  and  for  a  longer  period  connected  with  the  history  of 
Richmond  than  the  Roberts  family.  The  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  to 
Wales,  and  Thomas  Roberts,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a 
native  of  South  Carolina,  whence  he  removed  to  Butler  county,  Ohio,  in  1806. 
In  181 1  he  came  to  Richmond  and  located  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  sec- 
tion 4,  Wayne  township,  which  land  he  entered  from  the  government.      It 


464  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

was  then  covered  with  native  forest  trees,  but  is  now  included  within  the 
city  limits  and  is  covered  by  substantial  residences.  Mr.  Roberts,  in  con- 
nection with  Jeremiah  Cox  and  John  Smith,  was  appointed  to  name  the  town 
of  Richmond.  He  had  a  family  of  six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters. His  time  and  energies  were  devoted  to  agriculturial  pursuits,  which 
he  successfully  conducted.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Friends' 
meeting,  taking  an  active  part  in  founding  the  Indiana  meeting  in  Richmond, 
and  was  always  active  and  influential  in  promoting  its  work. 

Jonathan  Roberts,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Butler 
county,  Ohio,  in  iSoS,  and  in  1811  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Wayne 
county,  a  settlement  being  made  on  a  tract  of  land  which  had  been  entered 
by  his  father  in  1806.  The  grandfather  has  since  lived  at  this  place,  at  the 
corner  of  Thirteenth  and  South  A  streets.  His  home  was  originally  a  little 
log  cabin,  but  it  has  long  since  been  superseded  by  a  brick  sructure,  which 
is  still  standing  and  which  he  now  occupies.  He  has  made  farming  his  life 
work,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  numbered  among  the  extensive  agri- 
culturists of  the  community,  owning  two  or  three  valuable  farms.  In  1875 
he  put  aside  business  cares  and  has  since  lived  a  retired  life.  In  the  Friends' 
meeting  he  has  been  quite  active,  filling  various  official  positions  in  the  Indi- 
ana yearly  meeting.  He  wedded  Miss  Mary  Smith,  who  came  to  this  state 
from  eastern  Ohio,  and  they  had  four  children:  Aves  J.,  wife  of  William  S. 
Elliott,  of  Greentown,  Indiana;  Eli,  of  Richmond;  Elvira,  deceased;  and 
Henry  S.  The  last  named  is  the  father  of  our  subject.  He  was  born  in 
Richmond  in  1848  and  has  spent  his  entire  life  here,  engaging  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  He  is  an  enterprising  and  prosperous  farmer  and  is  also  engaged 
in  the  creamery  business,  managing  both  enterprises  with  marked  ability. 
He  has  adhered  to  the  religious  faith  of  his  family,  and  of  the  Friends'  yearly 
meeting  is  an  active  and  consistent  member.  He  married  Martha  Charles, 
and  in  1878  was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife,  who  died  leaving 
three  children:  Frank  C;  Evelina,  now  deceased;  and  Mary  Belle,  of  Rich- 
mond. Mr.  Roberts  afterward  married  Anna  M.  Jones,  of  Richmond,  and  is 
still  living  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  respected  by  all  who  know  him. 

Frank  C.  Roberts  completed  his  literary  education  by  a  two-years  course 
in  Earlham  College.  He  then  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  home,  continuing 
his  reading  from  1890  until  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  February,  1S95.  He 
then  practiced  until  the  fall  of  1895,  when  he  entered  the  senior  law  class  of 
the  law  department  of  the  university  at  Indianapolis,  in  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  May,  1896,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  He  then 
returned  to  Richmond  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  active  practice.  He 
enjoys  a  large  clientage,  which  has  connected  him  with  much  of  the  impor- 
tant litigation  heard  in  the  courts  of  the  district  in. the  past  few  years. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  465 

On  the  4th  of  June,  1891,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Roberts 
and  Miss  Mary  E.  Hockett,  a  daughter  of  Warner  M.  and  Caroline  (Dennis) 
Hockett,  of  Economy,  Wayne  county.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Friends'  church,  and 
its  interests  have  been  greatly  promoted  through  his  zealous  and  earnest  work. 
His  political  support  is  given  the  Republican  party,  but  his  time  and  energies 
are  chiefly  devoted  to  his  profession,  in  which  he  is  meeting  with  good  suc- 
cess. His  many  admirable  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  have  gained  a  large 
circle  of  friends,  and  he  is  very  widely  and  favorabh'  known  in  ^^'ayne 
county. 

FRANKLIN  STANTON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  identified  with  the  agricultural  interests  of 
Center  township.  Union  county,  Indiana'  of  which  place  he  is  a  native,  hav- 
ing been  born  near  Salem  church,  June  14,  1830,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Davis)  Stanton,  and  grandson  of  William  Stanton.  Samuel  Stanton  died  in 
Union  county,  in  1830,  three  weeks  after  the  birth  of  his  son  Franklin,  the 
only  child  by  his  second  marriage.  By  a  former  marriage,  to  a  Miss  Coffin, 
he  had  two  sons,  Edwin  and  Leander,  and  one  daughter,  Mulica,  who 
became  Mrs.  William  Huddleston. 

Franklin  Stanton  was  reared  by  his  mother  and  stepfather,  Aaron  Gard- 
ner, and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  began  working  at  the  trade  of  blacksmith, 
serving  an  apprenticeship  which  occupied  his  time  until  his  majority,  and  he 
followed  his  trade  for  three  or  four  years  afterward.  Since  then  he  has  been 
engaged  in  farming.  He  spent  several  years  in  the  W^est,  having  claims  in 
Nebraska,  Kansas  and  Oklahoma,  and  since  his  return  to  Indiana  he  has  been 
engaged  in  farming  on  an  eighty-acre  farm  in  Center  township,  Union  county. 
Politically  he  has  been  a  Republican  all  his  life. 

Mr.  Stanton  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Semira  Swain,  died  seven  years  after  their  marriage,  leaving  three 
children:  Clara,  wife  of  A.  P.  Cook;  Clinton,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
nine  years;  and  Albert,  who  died  at  about  the  same  age  as  his  brother.  For 
his  second  wife  Mr.  Stanton  wedded  Miss  Almira  Barnard,  who  shared  the 
joys  and  sorrows  of  his  life  for  nearly  thirty  years.  She  died,  leaving  four 
children:  Flora,  wife  of  Walter  Graham,  a  resident  of  Oklahoma;  Annie 
Laurie,  wife  of  Frank  Bowers,  of  Oklahoma;  Louie,  wife  of  William  Aylor, 
also  of  Oklahoma;  and  Cliff  C,  of  Johnson  county.  Indiana.  In  February, 
1897,  Mr.  Stanton  married  Mrs.  Keturah  Jane  Quick,  widow  of  Lewis  Quick. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Templeton,  she  being  a  daughter  of  James  and 
Keturah  (Barrackman)  Templeton.  Mrs.  Stanton's  mother,  now  ninetv-six 
years  of  age,  resides  with  her.  She  was  born  January  15,  1S03,  has  spent 
ninety-two  years  in  Indiana,  and  for  one  of  her  extreme  old  age  enjo\s  good 


466  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

health.  Lewis  Quick  was  a  native  of  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  and  was  a 
resident  of  that  county  until  coming  to  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Stanton,  where  he  died. 

JOHN    WOOD. 

John  Wood,  a  retired  farmer  and  a  man  well  known  in  Brownsville 
township,  Union  connty,  Indiana,  dates  his  birth  in  this  township,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Little)  Wood,  who  came 
■from  county  Longford,  Ireland,  to  this  country  in  1828.  Upon  his  arrival 
'in  this  country  William  Wood  came  west  to  Indiana  and  settled  near  Philo- 
■math,  Brownsville  township.  Union  county,  where  he  lived  until  1845,  and 
!he  lived  in  the  township  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  July,  1864,  in  his 
sixty-fifth  year.  His  wife  survived  him  until  1876.  He  was  at  one  time  the 
owner  of  a  large  landed  estate.  At  his  death  he  had  about  four  hun- 
dred acres  in  this  county  and  twice  that  amount  in  Pulaski  county,  and 
besides  this  land  he  had  a  snug  sum  of  money.  His  father,  Alexander 
Wood,  came  to  Indiana  some  five  years  before  he  did  and  died  not  many 
years  afterward.  William  Wood  was  the  father  of  eight  children,  four  sons 
and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom  lived  to  maturity,  and  of  this  number  one 
son  and  two  daughters  are  still  living.  Of  the  sons  we  record  that  William, 
ithe  eldest,  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years;  Alexander,  born  January  2, 
'1 828,  died  in  July,  1893;  John,  the  next  in  order  of  birth,  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  and  James  C,  born  August  i,  1838,  was  for  thirty-five  years  a 
resident  of  Madison  county,  Indiana,  and  died  in  July,  1898.  The  eldest 
daughter,  Jane,  was  the  wife  of  J.  R.  Holsten,  of  Madison  county,  Indiana, 
and  is  now  deceased;  Margaret,  widow  of  Jacob  Rice,  is  a  resident  of  Mad- 
ison county;  Ann,  widow  of  William  Brown,  died  in  Brownsville  township. 
Union  county,  in  1897;  and  Mary,  wife  of  McFarland  Black,  lives  in  Madi- 
son connty. 

John  Wood  remained  at  home  with  his  father  until  shortly  before  he 
■reached  his  majority,  when,  August  25,  1853,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to 
"Miss  Louisa  J.  Whitinger,  who  died  on  July  i,  1899,  in  her  sixty-sixth  year. 
Receiving  one  thousand  dollars  as  a  gift  from  his  father,  he  went  to  Wayne 
•  county  and  there  began  his  married  life.  For  about  five  years  he  made  his 
ihome  in  Wayne  county.  Then  he  bought  sixty  acres  of  land  in  Union 
iGounty,  settling  on  it  in  1857.  Later  he  bought  one  hundred  and  seventy 
:acres  in  Wayne  county,  and  in  1870  purchased  the  old  homestead  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  which  he  has  since  owned,  from  time  to  time 
adding  thereto,  until  now  his  home  farm  comprises  five  hundred  and  fifty- 
three  acres.  This  has  been  operated  both  as  a  grain  and  stock  farm,  a  large 
iorce  of   men   being   employed.      Mr.  Wood   has   produced  as  high  as  eight 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  467 

thousand  bushels  of  corn  and  twenty-five  hundred  bushels  of  wheat  per  year, 
and  each  year  has  fed  a  large  number  of  hogs,  sometimes  as  many  as  four 
hundred.  For  several  years  he  and  his  brother  Alexander  shipped  their  hogs 
to  Cincinnati,  marketing  three  hundred  head  at  a  time.  Our  subject  also 
speculated  in  pork  margins,  and  packed  pork  in  the  city  for  several  years, 
but  these  ventures  were  not  successful.  In  1889  Mr.  Wood  retired  from  the 
active  duties  of  the  farm  and  turned  it  over  to  his  sons.  He  now  lives  quietly 
and  comfortably  in  a  small  cottage  on  his  farm.  Mr.  Wood  cast  his  vote  for 
Fremont,  in  1856,  and  has  been  a  Republican  ever  since,  enthusiastic  in  the 
success  of  his  party,  but  has  never  sought  official  honors  for  himself. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  had  four  children,  namely:  William  H.,  who  has 
charge  of  the  home  farm;  Oras  F. ,  who  was  a  stock-shipper  at  Richmond, 
Indiana,  died  in  May,  1897,  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine  years;  Frances  Alice, 
wife  of  Milburn  Fender,  lives  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana;  and  Nellie,  wife  of 
Horace  W.  Colvin,  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  Mrs.  Wood  was  a  member  of 
Locust  Grove  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  was  a  valued  and  earnest 
worker  in  all  Christian  and  benevolent  activities.  A  model  wife  and  mother, 
her  memory  will  long  be  cherished. 

JOSEPH  WITTER. 

Joseph  Witter  is  the  proprietor  of  Pleasant  View  Stock  Farms  in  Center 
township,  Union  county,  and  has  some  of  the  finest  shorthorn  cattle  to  be 
found  in  this  state.  He  was  born  October  9,  i860,  on  the  old  homestead,  a 
part  of  which  is  still  his  home.  He  was  a  son  of  Martin  and  Lydia  (Eiken- 
berry)  Witter  and  a  grandson  of  George  and  Fanny  (Kingery)  Witter. 
Christopher  Witter,  the  father  of  George,  was  born  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1760.  June  25,  1806,  he  made  the  second  land  entry  in 
what  is  now  Center  township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  and  in  September  of 
that  year  settled  on  Four  Mile  creek. 

George  Witter  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania,  September 
4,  1796,  and  January  25,  18 19,  he  was  joined  in  marriage  to  Miss  Fanny 
Kingery,  a  daughter  of  Martin  and  Polly  (Webb)  Kingery.  His  parents  came 
from  Virginia,  in  1804,  to  Greene  county,  Ohio,  and  some  sixteen  years  later 
to  Union  county,  Indiana,  settling  along  Four  Mile  creek,  where  the  Witter 
family  had  previously  taken  up  their  abode.  George  Witter  owned  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  here  and  also  owned  land  in  Carroll  county, 
this  state.  He  was  an  extensive  farmer,  and  he  died  of  consumption  in  1849, 
at  the  age  of  fifty  years.  He  was  aifiicted  with  this  disease  for  ten  years 
before  his  death.  His  wife  survived  him  until  1886,  living  to  the  age  of 
eighty  years.  He  was  a  good  man  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  German 
Baptist  church.      Their  family  consisted  of  Martin,  the  father  of  our  subject; 


468  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Sarah,  who  resides  in  Labette  county,  Kansas;  John;  Lucy;  Daniel,  of 
Carroll  county,  Indiana;  Baltzer,  who  died  in  the  army  during  the  civil  war; 
Samuel,  in  Miami  county,  Indiana;  Henry,  who  lives  in  Center  township; 
Mary;  Abraham,  who  died  on  the  old  homestead;  and  Maria. 

John  Witter  was  less  than  five  years  old  when'  his  grandfather,  Christ- 
opher Witter,  died.  He  remained  at  home  until  after  the  death  of  his 
father.  He  was  married  March  5,  1857,  to  Mrs.  Amy  Stewart  («(V  French). 
She  was  a  native  of  Huntingdon  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  when  seven  years 
of  age  she  came  with  her  mother  to  this  state  and  lived  on  the  place  from 
which  she  was  married.  Later  her  mother  moved  to  Cass  county,  where 
she  died.  After  his  marriage  John  Witter  lived  on  his  farm  in  Center  town- 
ship until  about  four  years  ago,  when  he  bought  his  present  farm.  His  son 
now  resides  on  and  operates  the  old  farm,  which  comprises  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres.  The  house  on  this  farm  was  burned,  and  the  same  year  he 
rebuilt,  erecting  the  handsome  residence  now  standing  there.  The  farm  now 
occupied  by  our  subject  contains  eighty  acres,  which  he  devotes  to  general 
farming.  He  is  a  Republican,  but  has  not  aspired  to  office.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  College  Corner,  in  which 
he  holds  the  office  of  trustee.  The  family  consists  of  Elizabeth,  who  died  in 
infancy;  Ida,  wife  of  James  Munns,  of  College  Corner;  George,  who  con- 
ducts the  homestead  farm;  Lydia  M.,  wife  of  Everett  Doner,  of  Billingsville; 
and  Alfred  Martin,  at  home,  who  married  Miss  Maud  Brown  and  had  four 
children:  Marie,  Carl,  Hobart,  and  Florence, — the  last  named  dying  in 
infancy. 

Martin  Witter  was  married  to  Miss  Lydia  Eikenberry  and  passed  from 
this  life  March  20,  18S2.  His  wife  was  spared  until  September,  1895, 
when  she  joined  her  husband  in  that  better  land.  Their  family  comprised 
the  following  children:  Lizzie,  wife  of  Henry  Eaton,  of  Flora,  Carroll 
county;  George,  also  of  that  place;  Abraham,  of  Delphi,  Indiana;  Henr}-,  of 
Connersville;  Francis,  wife  of  Charles  Quick,  who  resides  on  the  old  home- 
stead; Joseph,  our  subject;  Emma,  who  is  unmarried  and  lives  at  College 
Corner;  Rosa,  who  died  in  young  womanhood;  Johnnie,  who  died  in  early 
childhood;  Annie,  wife  of  George  ^^'llliams,  of  College  Corner;  and  four 
others  who  died  in  infancy.  Martin  W' itter  owned  some  two  hundred  and 
seventy  acres  of  land  and  carried  on  general  farming,  attending  to  all  the 
details  in  person.  He  was  a  Republican  and  served  as  trustee  of  the  county. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Four  Mile  German  Baptist,  or  Dunkard,  church,  at 
Beechy  Mire,  and  was  an  active  worker  in  that  organization. 

Joseph  Witter  passed  his  boyhood  on  the  farm  and  remained  at  home 
until  after  he  was  twenty-one.  He  carried  on  the  farm  after  his  father's 
death  until    the    death   of    his    mother,  when    the  place  was  sold.      His  farm 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  469 

consists  of  one  hundred  and  ten  acres  and  was  a  part  of  the  old  home.  Some 
seven  years  ago  he  began  raising  shorthorn  cattle,  and  he  now  has  a  fine  herd 
of  registered  animals  of  that  class.  He  has  sixteen  head  registered,  with  "Cham- 
pion," No.  1 14667  in  the  American  Herd  Book,  a  light  roan  five-year-old  ani- 
mal, weighing  twenty-four  hundred  pounds.  He  exhibited  nine  head  at  fairs 
at  Carthage,  Ohio,  and  Hagerstown,  Lawrenceburg,  and  Rushville,  Indiana, 
•and  took  premiums  at  each  of  these  places,  over  strong  competition.  He  has 
one  of  the  famous  World's  Fair  cows.  Verbena  Lady,  which  was  bred  in  Can- 
ada and  belongs  to  one  of  the  champion  beef  breeds,  the  prize  being  one  thou- 
sand dollars.  This  cow  has  a  white  bull  calf,  eleven  months  old,  that  has 
never  missed  a  ribbon  in  his  class  whenever  exhibited.  Mr.  Witter  has  well 
arranged  stock  barns,  and  the  county  is  fortunate  in  numbering  among  its 
citizens  a  gentleman  of  such  laudable  enterprise. 

He  was  joined  in  marriage  October  20,  1887,  to  Miss  Mary  Clark,  a 
daughter  of  Hezekiah  Clark,  of  Cottage  Grove,  where  she  was  born.  They 
have  three  children, — Ross,  Elbert  and  Lulu  Sarah.  Mr.  Witter  is  a 
Republican,  but  in  no  manner  a  politician.  He  built  a  large,  commodious 
house  and  barn  about  two  years  ago,  and  has  one  of  the  most  attractive 
places  in  this  part  of  the  state. 

DANIEL  SURFACE. 

Perhaps  no  enterprise  to  which  man  directs  his  energies  brings  one  into 
closer  touch  with  the  people  and  the  vital  interests  of  the  time  than  the  labor 
of  the  newspaper  correspondent.  Through  many  years  Mr.  Surface  has  been 
connected  with  journalism,  and  the  positions  which  he  has  filled  have 
demanded  peculiar  skill  and  tact,  in  addition  to  literary  ability  and  a  calm, 
unbiased  judgment.  Through  the  civil  war  his  d-uties  led  him  to  the  battle 
fields  of  the  south,  that  the  news  of  the  movements  of  the  armies  might  be 
transmitted  throughout  the  land  to  the  anxious  ones  who  awaited  such  mes- 
sages from  the  front.  Now  he  is  at  the  head  of  a  leading  paper  of  eastern 
Indiana,  the  Palladium,  of  Richmond,  his  labors  advancing  it  to  a  foremost 
position  in  journalistic  circles. 

Mr.  Surface  is  a  native  of  Preble  county,  Ohio,  born  May  19,  1836,  and 
is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Redman)  Surface.  He  was  graduated  in 
Otterbein  University,  in  the  class  of  1862,  and  immediately  afterward 
accepted  the  position  of  principal  of  the  Michigan  Collegiate  Institute,  at 
Leoni.  At  the  close  of  the  school  year  he  entered  a  wider  and  far  different 
field  of  labor,  becoming  war  correspondent  for  the  Cincinnati  Gazette.  He 
was  first  sent  to  West  Virginia,  and  three  months  afterward  to  Chattanooga, 
joining  General  Hooker  when  he  took  command  of  the  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland.     His  duties  were  of  an  e.xceedingly  difficult  nature,  for  he   was  not 


470  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY. 

only  obliged  to  encounter  hardships  and  dangers,  but  also  the  jealousies  and 
opposition  of  officers,  on  account  of  the  greater  liberties  granted  him.  The 
fact  that  some  correspondents  had  unwittingly  given  information  to  the 
enemy  also  made  his  place  much  harder,  but  he  succeeded  in  winning  the 
confidence  of  the  authorities,  especially  of  General  Grant,  who  accorded  him 
a  privilege  allowed  only  two  other  correspondents  in  the  west.  The  order 
was  as  follows: 

Headquarters  of  j 

THE  Military  Division  of  the  Mississippi,  \ 

Nashville,  December  26,  1863.  ) 

Guards,  pickets  and  military  authorities  will  pass  the  bearer,  Mr.  D. 
Surface,  correspondent  Cincinnati  Gazette,  throughout  the  entire  command, 
without  hindrance;  and  the  government  steamers  and  military  railroads  will 
furnish  him  free  transportation  to  and  from  any  point  within  the  military 
division  until  further  orders. 

By  Order  of  Major-General  Grant. 

George  K.  Led,  Assistant  Adjutant-General. 

Mr.  Surface  was  a  witness  of  the  entire  series  of  battles  from  Mission 
Ridge  until  the  capture  of  Atlanta,  and  the  Cincinnati  Gazette  of  that  period 
contains  many  interesting  letters  from  his  pen.  One  which  attracted  partic- 
ular attention  was  a  clear  and  comprehensive  account  of  Sherman's  "great 
field  movement  "  which  compelled  Hood  to  evacuate  Atlanta  and  demoral- 
ized the  Confederate  army.  The  letter  also  contains  a  description  of  the 
captured  city.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta  Mr.  Surface  remained  for  a  few 
months  in  Washington  with  Whitelaw  Reid,  then  of  the  Gazette's  bureau  of 
correspondence,  and  also  acted  as  correspondent  for  the  Chicago  Tribune. 
He  accompanied  General  Grant  through  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and 
then  went  by  ship  to  Savannah  to  meet  Sherman,  at  the  close  of  the  famous 
"march  to  the  sea."  Mr.  Surface  remained  at  that  place  as  correspondent 
for  the  Cincinnati  Gazette  and  the  Philadelphia  Enquirer  until  the  termina- 
tion of  the  war. 

On  his  return  from  the  south  he  purchased  an  interest  in  the  Toledo 
Commercial  and  became  its  editor,  but  on  the  expiration  of  a  year  sold  his 
interests  and  resumed  his  connection  with  the  Gazette.  From  July  until 
October,  1866,  he  traveled  through  the  south,  attending  the  state  conven- 
tions held  there  for  the  purpose  of  reconstruction.  His  communications  dur- 
ing that  period  are  replete  with  information,  not  only  concerning  the  pro- 
ceedings of  those  conventions,  but  of  the  spirit  of  the  southern  people  and 
the  conditions  that  prevailed  in  that  section  of  the  country.  In  1870  Mr. 
Surface  purchased  an  interest  in  the  Richmond  Telegram,  which  he  edited 
for  some  time  and  then  sold  his  interest  and  became  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Richmond  Chair  Company,  thus  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of  chairs 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  471 

for  eight  years.  In  1896,  in  connection  with  Samuel  J.  Flickinger,  of  Cin- 
cinnati, he  purchased  the  Palladium,  which  is  now  being  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  Surface  &  Flickinger,  with  the  senior  partner  as  manager 
and  editor.  This  is  one  of  the  oldest  journals  in  the  state,  having  been 
founded  in  1831.  It  has  always  been  Republican  in  politics  since  the  organ- 
ization of  the  party,  and  wields  a  strong  influence  in  support  of  the  princi- 
ples advocated  by  that  political  organization.  Mr.  Surface  is  a  man  of 
scholarly  attainments  and  is  a  most  able  writer,  his  style  being  fluent,  )et 
not  verbose,  his  diction  correct,  and  his  utterances  clear.  In  addition  to  his 
prose  compositions  he  has  also  produced  a  number  of  poems  of  considerable 
merit,  among  which  maybe  mentioned  an  address  to  the  alumni  of  Otterbein 
University,  and  "  Symposaic,"  which  won  an  encomium  from  Charles  G. 
Leland,  the  editor  of  the  Knickerbocker  Magazine. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1867,  Mr.  Surface  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Kate  Kumler,  of  Butler  county,  Ohio,  who  died  December  20,  1894. 
They  had  one  daughter,  who  is  riow  Mrs.  T.  S.  AUee,  of  Chicago.  For 
twelve  years  Mr.  Surface  has  been  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Rich- 
mond and  has  done  effective  service  in  the  interests  of  the  schools.  He  is  a 
public-spirited  citizen  and  advocates  all  measures  of  progress  and  reform, 
doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  general  welfare.  He  is  especially  act^ 
ive  in  support  of  the  Republican  party,  and  his  influence  in  political  circles  is 
most  marked.  He  possesses  a  cordial,  genial  manner,  is  uniformly  courteous 
and  inspires  personal  friendships  of  unusual  strength. 

HENRY  CUTTER. 

For  almost  a  third  of  a  century  Henry  Cutter  has  been  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  in  Richmond,  and  is  accounted  one  of  the  leading  and  sub- 
stantial merchants  of  the  city.  He  represents  that  class  of  worthy  German 
citizens  who,  allying  their  interests  with  those  of  the  New  World,  have 
adapted  themselves  to  its  different  methods  and  customs  with  great  readi- 
ness, and  by  consecutive  effort  and  honorable  dealing  have  gained  a  place 
among  the  successful  and  prominent  men  in  the  communities  in  which  their 
lots  have  been  cast. 

Mr.  Cutter  was  born  in  flanover,  Germany,  in  1840,  and  is  a  son  of 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Menke)  Cutter,  also  natives  of  the  same  country.  The 
father  died  in  1854,  and  in  1857  the  mother  came  with  her  family  to  the 
United  States,  locating  in  Richmond,  Indiana.  She  died  December  13, 
1878.  In  her  family  were  four  children, — Louise,  Henry,  Anna  and  Cathe- 
rine, the  last  named  the  wife  of  Adam  Boess,  of  Richmond. 

In  the  land  of  his  nativity  Henry  Cutter  acquired  his  education  and 
spent  the  first  seventeen  years  of  his  life.      After  his  emigration  to  America 


472  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

he  secured  work  as  a  farm  hand  in  Wayne  county,  and  afterward  learned  the 
tanner's  trade  in  Wiggins'  tan-yard,  where  he  was  employed  for  ten  years. 
Acquiring  some  capital  as  the  result  of  his  industry  and  economy,  he  then 
began  business  for  himself,  opening  a  grocer}'  store  in  Richmond  on  the  [7th 
of  September,  1867.  He  has  carried  on  business  at  the  same  place  continu- 
ously since,  and  has  been  very  successful,  owing  to  his  straightforward  busi- 
ness methods,  his  close  application,  energy  and  the  good  quality  of  groceries 
which  he  carries.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  German  Fire  Insurance 
Association  since  1869,  and  for  five  years  served  as  its  president. 

On  the  5th  of  March,  1863,  Mr.  Cutter  married  Miss  Minnie,  daughter 
of  Henry  H.  and  Mary  (Erk)  Drifmeyer,  natives  of  Hanover,  Germany.  The 
daughter  was  also  born  in  that  province,  but  since  her  seventh  year,  in  1848, 
has  been  a  resident  of  Richmond.  Her  father  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
seven  years,  her  mother  in  the  sixty-fourth  year  of  her  age.  They  were  the 
parents  of  seven  children:  Minnie,  wife  of  our  subject;  Henry,  Adam  and 
William, — all  three  deceased;  John;  Charles;  and  Mary,  wife  of  David  Folk- 
ner.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cutter  were  born  three  sons:  John  A.  L.,  who 
married  Elida  Snyder,  daughter  of  Garrett  Snyder,  of  Richmond;  E.  W.  F., 
who  married  Riecka  Roser,  of  Richmond;  and  G.  H.,  who  wedded  Ida, 
daughter  of  Garrett  Mashmeyer. 

Mr.  Cutter  has  long  been  numbered  among  the  wide-awake  and  enter- 
prising citizens  of  Wayne  county,  and  has  been  honored  with  public  office  by 
his  fellow  townsmen,  who  have  thus  given  evidence  of  their  recognition  of 
his  worth  and  ability.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Rich- 
mond from  1885  until  1891,  and  from  1894  until  1897  was  city  commissioner. 
He  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  and  has  filled 
nearly  all  of  its  offices.  He  is  also  treasurer  and  trustee  of  the  Wernle 
Orphans'  Home,  an  institution  with  which  he  has  been  connected  since  its 
inception.  He  possesses  a  benevolent  nature,  is  liberal  and  charitable,  in 
manner  is  kindly  and  genial,  and  well  merits  the  high  regard  in  which  he  is 
uniformly  held. 

JOHN  McKEOWN. 

John  McKeown  is  one  of  the  most  widely  known  farmers  of  Brookville 
township,  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  where  he  has  resided  for  more  than  half 
a  century.  He  was  born  in  Ireland,  almost  seventy-nine  years  ago,  and 
remained  in  that  beautiful  but  down-trodden  island  until  the  '40s,  when  he 
accompanied  his  parents  to  America.  He  is  a  son  of  Francis  and  Mary 
McKeown,  who  lived  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  whence,  with  their  fourteen 
children,  they  came  to  the  new  country, — America.  An  ocean  voyage  in 
those  days  was  attended  with  peril,  and  their  vessel,  after  leaving  Liverpool, 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  473 

was  driven  back  a  distance  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles.  Eight  weeks 
were  consumed  by  the  trip,  and  when  port  was  reached,  in  Philadelphia,  it 
was  found  the  vessel  had  a  broken  mast.  The  family  first  settled  on  Indian 
creek,  and  one  year  later  moved  to  the  banks  of  the  Whitewater,  in  the 
southern  part  of  Brookville  township,  where  they  lived  the  remainder  of 
their  days.  The  father  died  in  1851  at  the  age  of  seventy  years,  and  the 
mother  two  years  later,  when  in  her  sixty-ninth  year.  But  three  of  this  fam- 
ily are  living  at  this  time, — John,  our  subject;  Hester,  wife  of  Dr.  Johnson; 
and  Eliza,  wife  of  Jacob  Hoffman.  One  of  the  daughters,  Mary  Ann,  mar- 
ried Andrew  Fleming,  in  Ireland,  and  moved  to  Canada,  where  she  died; 
Ella  married  Charles  White  and  resided  in  Ripley  county,  this  state;  while 
another  son,  Robert,  was  drowned  in  the  Whitewater  river,  when  in  his 
twentieth  year. 

Mr.  McKeown  has  lived  on  his  present  farm  continuously  since  it  first 
came  into  the  family,  in  1841,  at  which  time  it  contained  but  fifty  acres. 
He  has  added  to  this  since,  mostly  wooded  land,  until  he  now  has  one  hun- 
■dred  and  thirty-seven  acres,  and  has  cleared  ofi  all  but  about  thirty  acres. 
His  sole  possession  when  he  started  in  life  was  a  blind  horse  and  eighty-five 
■dollars  in  money.  He  was  married  May  8,  1850,  to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth 
Cole,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza  (Case)  Cole.  Mrs.  McKeown  was 
born  in  New  Jersey  in  1826.  They  became  the  parents  of  the  following 
named  children:  Robert  Andrew,  of  Ellenwood,  Kansas;  Francis  Alexander, 
of  this  township;  John,  of  Fort  Smith,  Arkansas;  Eliza,  wife  of  John  Reister; 
Stephen,  of  this  township;  Mary,  wife  of  George  McCarthy;  Maggie,  deceased; 
Belle,  who  became  the  wife  of  George  Smith,  of  Brookville,  on  the  3d  of 
August,  1889;  and  Hester,  wife  of  William  Wright,  also  of  this  township. 
Mrs.  McKeown  was  a  child  of  three  years  when  her  parents  crossed  the 
Alleghany  mountains  to  make  their  home  in  Harrison,  Ohio,  where  they 
resided  one  j'ear  before  coming  on  to  this  county.  So  vivid  an  impression  did 
the  journey  make  on  her  young  mind  that  she  plainly  recalls  many  of  the 
incidents.  The  journey  was  made  by  wagon,  and  much  of  the  route  was 
through  an  unbroken  country,  requiring  frequent  stops  in  order  to  clear  the 
obstructions  from  the  path.  The  country  was  thinly  populated,  neighbors 
being  two  or  three  miles  apart,  and  when  the  family  reached  their  destina- 
tion they  proceeded  to  make  themselves  as  comfortable  as  circumstances 
would  permit,  and  set  about  the  improvement  of  their  new  home. 

Mr.  McKeown  left  his  native  country  with  the  determination  of  making 
a  success  of  his  life  in  this  country,  and  his  energy  and  frugality  have  placed 
in  his  hands  a  competency  which  will  enable  him  to  pass  his  remaining  days 
in  comfort  and  ease,  attended  with  the  satisfaction  that  it  is  the  result  of 
honest  toil  and  well  directed  energy. 


474  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 


REV.   ISAAC  M.   HUGHES,   D.   D. 

Rev.  Isaac  M.  Hughes,  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church,  of 
Richmond,  Indiana,  is  a  son  of  Rev.  William  and  Martha  B.  (Wells)  Hughes, 
and  was  born  at  Loudenville,  Ashland  county,  Ohio,  December  23,  1834. 

Dr.  Hughes'  lineal  ancestors  emigrated  from  Wales  during  the  early 
colonial  history  of  this  country,  and  settled  in  eastern  Pennsylvania.  Some 
of  their  descendants  migrated  to  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  where 
Rev.  Thomas  Edgar  Hughes,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  April 
7,  1769.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  faith,  and  spent  his  entire 
life  in  his  native  county,  laboring  earnestly  and  faithfully  in  disseminating  the 
word  of  God.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  educational  matters,  and  was  the 
founder  of  Greersburg  Academy,  one  of  the  early  and  substantial  educational 
institutions  of  Washington  county.  He  died  May  2,  1838,  at  the  ripe  old 
age  of  seventy-eight  years.  He  married  Mary  Donahey,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  ten  children,  four  of  whom,- — ^John  D.,  James  R.,  Watson  and 
William, — were  Presbyterian  clergyman. 

Rev.  William  Hughes  (father)  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  20,  1802.  He  was  educated  at  Washington  and  Jefferson 
College,  in  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  Princeton  Seminary,  at 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  graduating  from  both  institutions.  Immediately  after 
his  ordination  to  the  ministry  he  removed  to  Ashland  county,  Ohio,  where  he 
spent  his  entire  life  as  pastor  of  various  churches  in  that  county,  passing 
away  on  August  25,  1883.  As  a  minister  he  was  zealous  in  the  interests  of 
his  church;  as  a  citizen  he  was  active  in  every  movement  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  public,  and  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  organization  of  Ver- 
million Institute,  being  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  for  many  years. 
His  marriage  with  Martha  B.  Wells,  on  April  13,  1830,  resulted  in  the  birth 
of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter. 

Dr.  Hughes  was  educated  at  Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  graduat- 
ing in  185s,  with  the  honor  of  standing  second  in  a  class  of  twenty-five. 
After  his  graduation,  he  became  professor  of  languages  in  Westminster  Col- 
lege, Fulton,  Missouri,  where  he  remained  four  years.  He  subsequently 
became  principal  of  the  Seven  Mile  Academy,  at  Seven  Mile,  Ohio,  which 
position  he  filled  two  years. 

In  1 861  he  was  ordained  and  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  at  Venice,  Butler  county,  Ohio,  where  he  labored  successfully  nine 
years.  In  1870  he  was  called  to  the  First  Presbyterian  church,  of  Richmond, 
in  which  he  has  since  earnestly  and  zealously  ministered  to  the  spiritual  welfare 
of  his  congregation.  When  he  accepted  this  charge,  the  congregation  was 
small  and  in  debt.     The  debt  was  soon  liquidated  and  the  building  materially 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  475- 

improved.  In  1885  the  church  edifice  was  destroyed  by  lightning,  but  the 
congregation  now  being  a  large  and  wealthy  one,  soon  rebuilt  at  the  corner 
of  Tenth  and  North  A  street.  This  is  a  commodius  structure  of  modern 
architecture,  and  altogether  a  fit  shrine  for  the  worship  of  the  penitent  heart 
and  contrite  spirit. 

Dr.  Hughes  is  a  man  of  fine  literary  taste  and  scholarly  attainments,  and 
is  thoroughly  schooled  in  Biblical  lore,  in  recognition  of  which  Hanover  Col- 
lege conferred  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him  in  1885.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Wooster  University  before  coming  to 
this  state  and  has  been  a  trustee  of  Hanover  College,  and  is  now  a  trustee  of 
Westminster  Seminary,  of  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana. 

Dr.  Hughes  has  been  twice  married.  On  November  18,  1856,  he  mar- 
ried Anna  M.,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Claybough,  a  distinguished  theologian 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  church.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  children, 
all  of  whom  are  deceased.  Mrs.  Hughes  died  May  14,  1864,  and  on  August 
14,  1866,  Dr.  Hughes  wedded  Jane  P.  Carnahan,  of  Venice,  Ohio.  Their 
children  are  Rev.  Stanley  C.  Hughes,  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
church  of  Richmond,  and  James  Rowland,  a  graduate  of  the  civil-engineering 
department  of  Princeton  University,  who  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Spanish- 
American  war. 

BENJAMIN    F.   CODDINGTON. 

Of  the  stanch  and  hardy,  pioneers  who  settled  in  the  wilds  of  Union 
county  in  the  '20s  none  were  more  worthy  than  the  ancestors  of  the  subject 
of  this  memoir,  and  the  same  sterling  traits  of  character  which  they  possessed 
have  been  noticeable  in  him. 

Born  on  a  farm  about  half  a  mile  north  of  his  present  farm.  May  3,  1829, 
Benjamin  Franklin  Coddington  is  a  son  of  Enoch  and  Martha  (Yaryan)  Cod- 
dington.  The  father  came  to  this  state  with  his  parents,  Moses  and  Amy 
Coddington,  who  settled  upon  the  farm  where  our  subject  was  born,  and 
there  they  lived  until  their  death,  at  an  advanced  age.  They  had  two  sons, 
the  other,  David,  later  removing  to  Boone  county,  Indiana,  where  his  son 
still  represents  the  family.  Enoch  remained  on  the  old  homestead  above 
mentioned,  and  cared  for  his  venerable  parents  while  they  lived.  Some 
years  after  their  death  he  sold  the  farm  and  took  up  his  abode  in  Macomb, 
Illinois,  dying  there  within  a  year.  His  widow  came  back  to  Wayne  county, 
this  state,  and  died  when  about  three-score  and  ten  years  of  age,  at  the  home 
of  a  daughter  in  Centerville,  where  she  is  buried.  She  was  a  child  of  Fred- 
erick and  Mary  Yaryan,  who  came  to  this  locality  as  early  as  1818,  and  in 
1 82 1  built  the  brick  house  on  the  homestead  now  owned  by  our  subject, 
which  farm  they  owned  and  operated  for  many  years. 


47(3  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

The  seven  sons  and  two  daughters  born  to  Enoch  and  Martha  Codding- 
ton  were:  Benjamin  F. ;  WiUiam,  who  resides  at  Oxford,  Ohio;  Charles,  of 
Goshen,  Ringgold  county,  Iowa;  Esther  Ann,  who  married  Y.  M.  Powell, 
and  died  at  Connersville;  John,  of  Centerville,  Wayne  county;  Asbury,  who 
died  at  home,  when  but  twenty  years  of  age,  suffering  from  the  effects  of  the 
hardships  which  he  had  endured  in  the  army  during  the  civil  war;  Ella,  who 
first  married  Thaddeus  Green,  and  after  his  death  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  A. 
W.  Fisher,  of  Indianapolis;  James,  a  resident  of  Harrison  township;  and 
Melville,  who  died  in  infancy. 

As  previously  stated,  Benjamin  F.  Coddington  was  born  seventy  years 
ago,  and  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  this  immediate  locality,  thoroughly  iden- 
tified with  the  best  interests  of  the  county  and  township  in  which  he  has 
dwelt.  For  twenty-two  years  he,  lived  on  the  old  homestead,  assisting  in  the 
cultivation  of  the  place,  and  there  forming  correct  habits  and  laying  the 
foundations  of  his  future  career.  After  his  marriage  he  commenced  improv- 
ing and  caring  for  a  farm  of  seventy  acres,  which  he  purchased  of  his  father- 
in-law,  and  this  place  is  the  fine  homestead  which  he  operates  at  the  present 
time.  He  has  added  to  the  original  Immel  farm  a  portion  of  his  maternal 
grandfather's  land,  and  now  has  two  hundred  and  twenty  acres  in  one  body, 
besides  having  sold  sixty  acres  to  his  sons.  He  has  raised  a  general  line  of 
grain,  hay  and  other  crops  commonly  grown  in  this  latitude,  and  has  made  a 
business  of  feeding  cattle  and  hogs  for  the  market. 

On  the  3d  of  April,  1851,  Mr.  Coddington  married  Miss  Catherine 
Immel,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Immel.  The  parents 
were  both  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  as  was  likewise  Mrs.  Coddington,  whose 
birth  occurred  July  6,  1829.  They  removed  to  Indiana,  about  1831,  and 
were  accompanied  by  John  and  Jacob  Immel,  brothers  of  Joseph  Immel. 
The  three  settled  upon  farms  in  Brownsville  township,  their  homes  being 
within  sight  of  one  another.  John  Immel  left  four  sons, — Andrew  Jackson 
(now  deceased),  Thomas  J.,  George  W.  and  James  Benton.  Jacob  has  one 
son,  James  Benton,  now  residing  near  the  line  of  Boone  and  Montgomery 
counties,  Indiana.  Jacob  Immel's  daughters  were  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  H. 
Stoughton,  deceased),  and  Ella,  who  is  the  wife  of  W.  W.  Leviston,  of  Lib- 
erty, Indiana.  Mrs.  Coddington  is  one  of  eight  children,  four  of  whom  have 
passed  to  the  better  land.  Their  father,  a  man  loved  and  honored  by  all  who 
had  the  pleasure  of  knowing  him,  died  on  his  old  farm  when  in  his  sixty- 
ninth  year.     The  wife  and  mother  survived  him  some  twelve  years. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  and  wife  was  blessed  with  five  sons  and  one 
daughter,  of  whom  Homer,  the  eldest,  is  at  home;  Emmett  is  living  on  the 
old  Yaryan  place;  Lucy  is  the  wife  of  John  C.  LaFuze  Turner,  of  Greene 
county,  Missouri;  Clinton  is  at  home;  Benjamin  F.,  living  a  mile  and  a  half 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  477 

from  the  old  home,  is  a  farmer  of  Harrison  township;  and  Joseph  Enoch  is 
employed  with  Emmett  on  the  old  Yaryan  place. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Coddington  is  a  Republican,  and  he  has  been 
quite  active  in  support  of  his  party.  Though  he  was  reared  in  the  creed  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  he  has  been  connected  with  the  Christian 
church  at  Silver  Creek  for  many  years,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  official 
board  and  a  deacon  for  thirty-five  years.  His  daily  life  has  been  a  sincere 
and  noble  exemplification  of  the  lofty  truths  in  which  he  believes  and  ••  none 
name  him  but  to  praise." 

JOSEPH  La  fuze. 

The  history  of  Union  county  would  be  sadly  lacking  if,  by  any  inadvert- 
ence on  the  part  of  the  compilers  of  said  history,  the  name  of  the  La  Fuze 
family  should  be  omitted,  for  they  have  borne  a  very  active  part  in  the 
development  of  the  resources  of  this  region  and  have  always  been  found  in 
the  front  ranks  of  whatever  has  made  for  progress  and  the  advancement  of 
civilization.  The  paternal  grandparents  of  the  subject  of  this  article  were 
Samuel  and  Eleanor  (Harper)  La  Fuze,  who  came  to  this  state  from  their 
former  home,  in  Fayette  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1814,  and  settled  upon  a 
tract  of  land  adjoining  the  property  of  Joseph  La  Fuze;  and  since  that  date 
the  land  in  question  has  never  left  the  family.  It  comprises  some  seventy- 
seven  acres  and  is  now  owned  by  Ezra  W.,  grandson  of  the  original  proprie- 
tor. Samuel  LaFuze  was  a  successful  farmer  and  was  active  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Silver  Creek  Christian  church  and  assisted  in  founding  schools 
and  other  useful  public  works  during  the  infancy  of  this  county.  In  politics 
he  had  ever  been  identified  with  the  Republican  party.  When  he  was  well 
along  in  years  death  deprived  him  of  his  faithful  helpmate,  and  he  thence- 
forth made  his  home  with  his  children.  His  death  occurred  when  he  had 
passed  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  his  birth.  Of  his  children  William  L.,  a 
resident  of  Harrison  township,  died,  leaving  one  son.  Usual  P.;  Samuel, 
whose  home  was  in  Brownsville,  had  six  sons — Samuel  M.,  Homer  L. ,  Oliver 
P.,  Danford,  George  and  Henry;  John,  father  of  Miles  La  Fuze,  was  a  citi- 
zen of  Center  township;  Daniel  was  the  next;  Ezra  died  in  early  manhood, 
and  Johnson,  who  died  in  Liberty,  left  one  daughter. 

The  parents  of  the  subject  of  this  narrative  were  Daniel  W.  and  Barbara 
(Immel)  LaFuze.  The  father  was  born  on  the  old  homestead  in  Center 
township,  Union  county,  the  first  white  male  child  bnrn  in  this  county.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Immel,  who  came  to  this  state 
from  Union  county,  Pennsylvania.  Mrs.  La  Fuze,  who  was  reared  in  Browns- 
ville township,  this  county,  died  in  1870,  and  Mr.  La  P"uze  later  married  Mrs. 
Mary  Williams,  whom  he  survived  two  years,  his  death  taking  place  Ma_\-  17, 


478  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

1887.  After  his  first  marriage  he  had  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by 
James  E.  Shendler,  and  there  passed  his  active  life.  The  property  owned 
by  him  comprised  two  hundred  and  twenty-seven  acres,  and,  altogether,  he 
■was  blessed  with  material  success  in  his  business  investments.  A  Whig  and 
Republican  until  the  civil  war,  he  then  became  a  Democratic  partisan  of  the 
strongest  type.  He  was  a  man  of  deep  convictions  and  pronounced  ideas  on 
all  important  subjects.  At  first  a  Lutheran  in  religion,  he  became  converted 
to  the  faith  of  the  Christian  church,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  he 
was  one  of  the  stanch  members  of  that  denomination.  Few  men  are  better 
versed  in  the  Scriptures  than  was  he,  and  the  New  Testament  was  at  his 
tongue's  end,  for  he  could  quote  all  the  most  important  parts  of  it  from 
beginning  to  end.  His  children  included  Emeline,  who  died,  unmarried,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William  Taylor,  of  Jay 
county,  Indiana;  Ezra,  who,  as  before  mentioned,  lives  on  the  original  old 
La  Fuze  homestead;  Mary,  who  become  the  wife  of  I.  N.  Snyder  and  died 
at  the  age  of  twenty-six  years;  Joseph;  Irene,  who  was  a  lifelong  invalid  and 
died  aged  twenty-one;  Huldah,  wife  of  Henry  Hermeier,  of  Darke  county, 
Ohio;  Florence,  wife  of  James  E.  Shendler;  and  Samuel  Daniel,  an  attorney- 
at-law  in  Indianapolis. 

Joseph  La  Fuze  was  born  June  i,  1851,  in  Center  township,  on  the  old 
homestead  adjoining  his  present  home,  one  mile  and  three-quarters  northeast 
of  Liberty.  He  received  a  thorough  training  in  agriculture  while  he  was  a 
youth  and  remained  at  home  until  he  was  twenty-seven  years  old.  Februarj' 
24,  1878,  he  married  Miss  Mary  Annetta  Kitchel,  daughter  of  John  Kitchel, 
a  respected  farmer  of  Harrison  township.  The  young  couple  commenced 
housekeeping  on  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  two  acres,  and,  as  the  years 
rolled  by,  their  industry  and  economy  brought  well  earned  reward.  In  all 
his  undertakings  Mr.  La  Fuze  was  aided  and  encouraged  by  his  wife,  who  has 
been  a  true  helpmate  to  him.  Six  children  grace  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  La  Fuze,  the  two  eldest,  Luella  and  Irving  S.,  being  students  in  the 
Liberty  high  school,  while  the  younger  ones  are  Carrie,  Stella,  Amy  and 
Daisy.  At  present  Mr.  La  Fuze  devotes  about  twenty  acres  to  wheat  and 
twenty  acres  to  corn,  and  during  the  winter  feeds  about  fifty  head  of  hogs 
and  other  live  stock,  of  which  he  keeps  a  good  grade. 

Mr.  La  Fuze  belongs  to  the  Agricultural  and  Horticultural  Society,  and 
is  a  director  in  the  Guarantee  Building  and  Loan  Association,  of  Indianap- 
olis. For  the  past  ten  years  he  has  been  a  deacon  in  the  Christian  church 
and  has  officiated  also  as  church  clerk.  He  has  always  been  a  stalwart 
Democrat,  and  in  1889  was  honored  by  being  elected  county  treasurer,  the 
first  of  his  party  to  occupy  that  office  for  a  period  of  thirty  years,  and  at  the 
same  election  the  Democrats  also  elected  a  coroner  and  county  clerk.   While 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  479 

he  was  in  office  the  county  commissioners  came  to  him  and  urged  him  to  use 
his  influence  in  raising  a  deficiency  of  about  ten  thousand  dollars,  which  was 
needed  to  complete  the  building  of  the  county  court-house.  He  acquiesced 
in  this  request  and  was  successful  in  getting  the  necessary  funds,  which  were 
placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  proper  authorities.  Twice  afterward  he  was 
the  choice  of  his  party  for  the  same  position,  but  each  time  was  defeated  by 
a  small  majority.  He  maintains  his  earnest  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his 
party,  and  frequently  attends  conventions,  etc. 

JAMES   H.  JOHNSON. 

James  H.  Johnson  was  born  in  Warren  county,  Ohio,  May  25,  1829,  a 
■son  of  Hon.  Michael  H.  Johnson.  That  prominent  pioneer  was  born  in 
Virginia,  March  10,  1769,  and  during  his  young  manhood  taught  school  in 
Kentucky.  Certain  of  the  Indian  tribes  of  the  northwest,  instigated  by  the 
British,  refused  to  cease  hostilities  after  the  peace  of  1783,  and  had  not  been 
subjected,  though  attempts  had  been  made  to  accomplish  this.  General 
Wayne  marched  into  the  northwest  in  1793,  built  Fort  Recovery,  near 
■Greenville,  Ohio,  and  inaugurated  a  campaign  which  succeeded  and  was  the 
means  of  opening  a  large  territory  to  white  settlement.  During  General 
Wayne's  operations  along  the  Ohio,  Judge  Johnson  was  a  quartermaster 
sergeant  in  his  command  and  his  duties  lay  north  of  the  river.  General 
William  Henry  Harrison,  later  president  of  the  United  States,  was  then  an 
ensign  in  the  same  service  and  he  and  Judge  Johnson  were  thrown  much 
together  and  became  personal  friends.  They  last  met  at  Lebanon,  Warren 
county,  Ohio,  while  General  Harrison  was  a  candidate  for  the  presidency. 
Judge  Johnson  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Deerfield,  Ohio,  in  1797,  and 
and  was  the  first  storekeeper  in  Warren  county.  He  removed  to  Hopkins- 
ville  in  1801  and  lived  there  until  his  death.  He  was  assessor  of  Deerfield, 
northwest  territory.  At  the  organization  of  Warren  county,  in  1803,  he  was 
•elected  one  of  its  first  justices  of  the  peace  and  filled  the  office  twelve  years. 
He  represented  the  district  of  which  Warren  county  was  a  part  in  the  Ohio 
senate  1809-1819.  In  1820  he  was  elected  the  first  recorder  of  Warren 
■county.  In  1825  he  went  on  the  bench  as  associate  judge  and  served  in 
that  capacity  ten  years.  He  died  in  his  seventy-seventh  year.  His  son  and 
wife  were  named  James  H.    and  Martha  Richey  Johnson. 

James  H.  Johnson,  custodian  of  the  county  building  at  Liberty,  Indiana, 
was  reared  on  the  home  farm  in  Warren  county,  and  began  life  as  a  shoe- 
maker at  Cuba,  Clinton  county,  Ohio.  At  the  time  of  the  civil  war,  Mr. 
Johnson  was  connected  with  the  provost  marshal's  office  for  the  sixth  Ohio 
district,  at  Hillsboro,  and  he  acted  for  a  time  also  as  an  enrolling  officer.  He 
came  to  Liberty,  Indiana,  in   September,    1865,  and  for  two  or  three  years 


480  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

after  his  arrival  was  a  merchant  there.  In  1868  he  was  elected  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  he  has  been  elected  at  each  succeeding  election  since, — during  a 
period  of  more  than  thirty  years.  His  present  commission  will  not  expire 
until  1900.  He  has  administered  this  important  office  with  signal  ability,  and 
no  assurance  as  to  his  tact,  honesty  and  good  judgment  will  be  required  by 
any  one  who  reflects  that  Justice  Johnson  has  for  nearly  a  third  of  a  century 
adjudicated  the  disputes  of  his  neighbors  and  has  been  all  the  time  and  is  now 
exceedingly  popular  among  them.  His  decisions  have  seldom  been  reversed 
by  a  higher  court  and  have  many  times  been  affirmed  and  complimented  by 
learned  judges.  He  has  performed  the  marriage  ceremony  one  hundred  and 
ten  times. 

The  county  building  at  Liberty  was  erected  in  1 890-1 891,  and  since 
then,  except  during  one  year,  Justice  Johnson  has  been  its  custodian.  It  is 
a  fine  structure,  and  with  its  furniture,  clock  and  other  appointments  cost 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

James  H.  and  Mary  (Reed)  Johnson  have  had  one  son  and  three  daugh- 
ters. The  son,  A.  E.  Johnson,  was  born  at  Cuba,  Ohio,  February  6,  1854. 
He  has  been  a  teacher,  deputy  county  auditor,  county  auditor  and  clerk  of 
the  house  of  representatives  at  Indianapolis,  and  is  now  an  expert  accountant 
and  a  resident  of  that  city.  Martha,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  James  A. 
Driggs,  of  Liberty.  Louisa  is  Mrs.  William  Humbert,  of  Springboro,  Ohio. 
Dora  E.  married  L.  A.  Druley,  who  is  a  member  of  the  town  council  of 
Liberty,  Indiana. 

Justice  Johnson  was  made  an  Odd  Fellow  at  Wilmington,  Ohio,  and  has 
passed  the  chairs  of  Morton  Lodge,  of  Liberty.  He  has  also  risen  to  the 
highest  chair  in  the  local  encampment  and  has  represented  his  lodge  and 
encampment  in  the  grand  lodge  and  grand  encampment,  and  as  district 
deputy,  in  which  office  he  has  served  twenty  years,  he  has  organized  many 
lodges  and  installed  officers  in  the  several  lodges  within  the  county  limits. 
For  eight  years,  in  the  '70s,  he  was  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  village  of 
Liberty.  He  has  in  every  way  proven  himself  a  public-spirited  citizen  and 
he  possesses  the  public  confidence  to  a  remarkable  extent. 

FRANKLIN  WILLIAMSON. 

Classed  among  the  substantial  and  highly  respected  people  of  Liberty 
township,  Union  county,  Indiana,  are  found  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and 
his  family.  Franklin  Williamson  dates  his  birth  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana, 
near  Lyon's  Station,  November  18,  1834,  and  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Connoway)  Williamson.  Mrs.  Williamson  was  a  sister  of  Charles 
Connoway,  father  of  Joseph  W.  Connoway,  the  attorney  at  Liberty,  Indiana. 
Samuel  Williamson  was  of  Buckeye    birth   and     came     from  Ohio  to  Indiana 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  481 

with  his  parents,  Moses  and  Jane  (Riggs)  Williamson,  their  settlement  being 
near  Lyon's  Station,  in  Fayette  county,  not  far  from  the  county  line,  where 
the  parents  spent  the  rest  of  their  lives  and  died,  her  death  occurring  at  about 
the  age  of  eighty  years;  his  when  past  eighty.  Samuel,  their  only  child, 
became  the  owner  of  a  farm  adjoining  his  father's,  and  at  his  father's  death 
inherited  the  home  place,  all  of  which  land  is  still  in  the  family.  Samuel 
Williamson  died  when  a  little  past  the  age  of  sixty  years,  he  being  an  invalid 
the  last  eleven  years  of  his  life,  the  result  of  an  injury  he  sustained.  His  wife 
was  sixty-five  when  she  died.  She  was  married  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and 
became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  and  notwithstanding  the  care  and 
responsibility  incident  to  the  rearing  of  so  large  a  number  she  remained  young- 
looking,  and  her  black  hair  was  not  mixed  with  silver  threads  until  a  short 
time  before  her  death.  Of  her  children  four  sons  and  four  daughters  survived 
her  and  are  living  at  this  writing,  1898. 

Franklin  Williamson  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  twenty- 
five  years  of  age.  At  twenty-one  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Coffman,  of  Liberty,  Indiana,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Catharine  (Withe) 
Coffman  and  niece  of  John  Withe.  She  was  born  on  the  Coffman  farm  in 
Liberty  township,  which  farm  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Williamson.  About  six 
years  after  his  marriage  he  bought  the  farm  on  which  he  now  lives,  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-one  acres  in  extent,  and  built  a  part  of  what  constitutes  his 
present  residence.  This  farm  corners  with  the  Coffman  farm,  the  latter  con- 
taining two  hundred  and  fifteen  acres,  and  for  twenty  years  he  has  cultivated 
both.  At  this  writing  his  son  lives  on  the  Coffman  place.  Mr.  Williamson 
carries  on  general  farming  and  stock-raising.  For  ten  years  he  has  been  a 
breeder  of  short-horn  cattle,  in  which  line  he  has  been  very  successful,  his 
herd  now  numbering  fifteen  head.  Also  he  raises  hogs  and  sheep,  making  a 
specialty  of  Southdown  sheep  and  now  having  a  flock  of  twenty-five  head. 
Besides  the  land  above  alluded  to,  he  has  the  supervision  of  two  other  farms,. 
which  belong  to  his  present  wife. 

After  twenty  years  of  happy  married  life,  his  first  wife.  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
(Coffman)  Williamson,  died,  leaving  three  children,  namely:  John,  who  has. 
charge  of  one  of  the  farms  referred  to;  Perry  F.,  managing  the  Coffman 
farm;  and  Elizabeth  C,  wife  of  Newton  Shull,  of  Fayette  county.  Decem- 
ber 27,  1877,  Mr.  Williamson  married  Miss  Mary  Martin,  daughter  of  Israel 
and  Lucy  (Munson)  Martin,  the  former  a  native  of  Middletown,  Ohio,  and 
the  latter  of  New  Jersey.  Her  parents  were  married  in  Oxford,  Ohio,  in 
1832,  and  the  same  year  settled  in  Harmony  township,  Union  county,  Indi- 
ana, where  they  lived  and  died,  her  death  occurring  July  11,  1868,  at -the 
age  of  fifty-five  years;  his,  June  18,  1880,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven.  Israel 
Martin  was  a  farmer  and  stock-dealer.    He  started  in  life  without  any  capital 


482  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

whatever,  and  by  honest  industry  and  careful  management  amassed  a  snug 
fortune,  at  his  death  leaving  to  his  children  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of 
land  and  twelve  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  other  property.  Of  his  six  chil- 
dren Mary,  the  eldest  daughter,  became  a  teacher  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
and  taught  school  for  seventeen  years  continuously,  all  in  Union  county, 
four  years  being  in  the  public  schools  of  Liberty  and  Dunlapsville,  and  her 
■career  as  teacher  ending  with  her  marriage.  She  invested  in  land  and 
together  she  and  her  husband  own  five  hundred  and  nineteen  acres.  Their 
imion  has  been  blessed  in  the  birth  of  one  son,  Karl,  now  a  school-boy  six- 
teen years  of  age,  and  another  son,  Israel,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years. 
Mr.  Williamson  is  a  Democrat  and  has  always  taken  an  intelligent 
interest  in  political  matters,  but  is  not  a  party  worker.  Mrs.  Williamson  is 
identified  with  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Liberty,  is  active  and  enthusiastic 
in  church  work,  and  naturally  is  still  interested  in  educational  matters. 

JOSEPH  D.  SPAHR. 

No  citizen  of  Abington  township,  Wayne  county,  is  more  widely  known 
or  more  generally  beloved  and  highly  regarded  than  is  he  of  whom  this  sketch 
is  penned.  Of  a  sterling  pioneer  family,  of  sturdy  German  ancestry,  he  and 
his  relatives  have  been  very  prominent  in  the  development,  organization  and 
■maintenance  of  this  county,  always  being  safely  counted  upon  to  indorse  and 
support  to  the  extent  of  their  ability  every  good  work,  movement  and  enter- 
prise. In  this  connection  the  following  may  be  quoted  from  the  autobi- 
ography of  the  Rev.  Jacob  Young:  "At  this  time  (1808)  the  Spahr  family 
were  very  numerous  and  very  respectable.  They  were  blessed  with  plenty  of 
this  world's  goods,  and  it  appeared  to  be  their  joy  to  support  the  church." 

Philip  Spahr,  the  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  lived  for  many 
years,  and  finally  died,  near  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  at  the  extreme  age  of 
one  hundred  and  five  years.  His  son  John,  the  father  of  Joseph  D.  Spahr, 
was  born,  about  1774,  at  Short  Creek,  near  Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  When 
he  was  about  thirty-five  years  of  age  he  removed  to  Abington  township, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  in  1812  entered  a  tract  of  land,  as  also  did  his 
i:wo  companions  on  this  momentous  trip,  David  Jenkins  and  John  Doddridge. 
He  commenced  the  arduous  task  of  improving  his  property  in  the  wilderness, 
and  continued  to  live  thereon  until  his  death,  in  1833,  he  having  contracted 
ithe  low  fever  which  was  then  so  prevalent  in  this  section.  He  had  married 
Margaret  Spievy  Russell,  who  survived  him  and  reared  their  two  children. 
The  daughter,  Nancy,  is  yet  living,  her  home  being  in  Centerville.  She  is 
the  wife  of  Isaac  Jenkins,  who,  born  in  18 14,  is  the  oldest  surviving  repre- 
sentative of  his  native  township. 

The  birth  of  Joseph  D.  Spahr  occurred  in  Abington  township,  Wayne 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  483 

-county,  May  26,  1831.  He  had  bnt  limited  educational  advantages,  and 
grew  to  manhood  under  the  judicious  training  of  his  mother.  When  he 
reached  his  majority  he  assumed  the  management  of  the  homestead,  which 
he  still  owns  and  carries  on,  now  one  of  the  finest  and  most  valuable  places 
in  this  locality.  Numerous  substantial  improvements  have  been  instituted 
by  the  progressive  owner,  and  the  house  and  farm  buildings  are  especially 
worthy  of  mention,  as  not  often  does  the  traveler  behold  more  convenient, 
handsome,  well-kept  structures  in  the  country.  A  generous  hospitality  has 
ever  been  extended  to  every  one  by  Mr.  Spahr  and  his  family,  and  many  a 
stranger  and  friend  looks  back  with  great  pleasure  to  happy  hours  spent  in 
this  charming  home.  Mr.  Spahr  is  truly  one  of  "  nature's  noblemen,"  as  he 
was  fittingly  characterized  by  one  of  his  old  friends  and  neighbors  recently, 
and  few  lives  have  been  more  exemplary  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  than 
his  has  been.  One  of  the  first  things  which  the  early  settlers  of  this  region 
concerned  themselves  with,  after  providing  a  rude  log-cabin  shelter  for  their 
families,  was  the  erection  of  a  house  of  worship.  Of  this  number  were  the 
Spahrs,  who  aided  in  building  the  Doddridge  chapel,  in  which  the  Methodist 
denomination  has  held  sway  for  three  generations.  From  his  youth  a  devoted 
member  of  the  congregation  which  assembles  there,  Mr.  Spahr  is  justly  con- 
sidered one  of  its  most  efficient  workers. 

In  1853  the  marriage  of  our  subject  and  Miss  Matilda  Burgess  took  place 
near  Centerville,  Wayne  county.  Her  parents,  Richard  and  Susan  Burgess, 
were  originally  of  Madison  county,  Virginia.  Her  father  departed  this  life 
about  forty  years  ago,  but  her  mother  survived  until  the  12th  of  November, 
1898,  when  she  died  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Spahr,  having  reached  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety-four  years.  The  eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spahr,  Mary, 
is  the  wife  of  Mordecai  Doddridge,  of  Centerville.  The  other  children  are 
named  as  follows:  Isaac  J.,  John  R.,  Gertrude,  Alice,  Joseph  H.  and  Flor- 
ence. They  have  received  excellent  advantages,  and  are  children  of  whom 
their  parents  have  just  reason  to  be  proud.  Mrs.  Matilda  Spahr  departed 
this  life  in  March,  1881,  and  in  May,  1883,  Mr.  Spahr  married  Miss  Mattie 
Burgess,  a  sister  of  his  former  wife,  and  she  died  in  May,  1892. 

EDWIN  W.   HIGH. 

The  law  has  ever  attracted  to  its  ranks  a  certain  class  of  men  gifted 
with  keen  perceptions  and  logical  minds,  men  who,  by  nature  or  training  or 
both,  are  peculiarly  fitted  to  deal  with  the  problems  which  arise  among  their 
fellows.  In  reviewing  the  prominent  members  of  the  Franklin  county  bar, 
the  name  of  Edwin  W.  High  takes  precedence  of  many  of  his  professional 
brethren,  and  we  are  pleased  to  present  to  his  numerous  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances this  sketch  of  his  useful  life. 


484  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

In  tracing  his  family  ancestry,  it  is  found  that  for  several  generations  the 
Highs  were  residents  of  Pennsylvania  and  originally  came  from  Germany. 
His  parents  were  John  and  Emeline  (Banes)  High,  the  latter  also  of  an  old 
Pennsylvania  family.  In  1852  they  with  their  three  children  came  to  Frank- 
lin county,  and  since  that  time  the  Highs  have  been  associated  with  the 
welfare  of  this  locality.  The  father,  who  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  was 
born  in  18 16,  and  departed  this  life  in  1893.  The  mother,  whose  birth  took 
place  in  March,  181 1,  is  yet  living,  a  resident  of  Metamora,  and  is  one  of 
the  oldest  citizens  of  this  county.  Of  her  three  sons  two  have  entered  the 
silent  land,  Albert,  having  died  many  years  ago,  and  Jenks  in  May,  1898, 
when  in  his  fifty-si.xth  year.  The  latter  enlisted  during  the  war  of  the  Rebel- 
lion in  Company  C,  Sixty-eighth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry, 
and  at  the  expiration  of  the  regiment's  term  of  service  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Forty-fourth  Indiana,  in  whose  ranks  he  continued  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  At  one  time  he  received  a  sunstroke  while  in  the  army,  and  never  fully 
recovered  from  the  effects  of  the  attack. 

The  birth  of  Edwin  W.  High  occurred  at  Doylestown,  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1841,  and  thus  he  was  about  eleven  years  of  age  when  he 
came  to  Indiana.  His  boyhood  was  passed  on  his  father's  farm,  and  his 
early  education  was  such  as  the  district  schools  afforded.  Having  just 
attained  his  majority  in  the  second  year  of  the  civil  war,  he  determined  to 
devote  his  young  manhood  to  the  service  of  his  country,  and  in  August,  1862, 
he  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Sixty-eighth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteer 
Infantry.  Soon  afterward  he  was  made  first  sergeant  of  his  company,  and 
on  January  i,  1864,  was  commissioned  an  adjutant  of  his  regiment.  As  its 
quota  was  not  filled,  however,  he  was  detailed  to  serve  as  a  clerk,  and 
assigned  as  chief  clerk  at  the  post  at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee.  Later  the 
war  department  made  him  general  order  clerk  under  Major  General  Stedman, 
and  in  that  capacity  he  continued  to  act  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Return- 
ing home,  he  soon  afterward  entered  the  internal  revenue  service  as  a  ganger 
and  deputy  assessor,  and  in  1867  he  went  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  he 
was  employed  in  the  quartermaster's  department  and  in  the  disbursing  office 
of  the  Freednien's  bureau.  Subsequently  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  registry 
department  of  the  Louisville  postoffice.  While  a  resident  of  Louisville,  Mr. 
High  pursued  the  study  of  law  under  the  preceptorship  of  the  Hon.  James 
Speed,  an  eminent  member  of  the  local  bar,  and  attorney  general  of  the 
United  States  in  1864.  Upon  leaving  Louisville,  Mr.  High  resided  in  White- 
side county,  Illinois,  for  a  brief  period,  and  in  1877  returned  to  Metamora, 
Franklin  county,  Indiana,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  meeting  with 
the  success  which  he  has  justly  deserved.  He  is  recognized  as  a  man  of 
exceptional  attainments  and  mental  culture,  and  much  of  his  leisure  is  spent 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND    GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  485 

in  his  fine  library,  which  comprises  not  only  a  great  variety  of  books  relating 
to  his  profession,  but  also  works  covering  all  of  the  leading  subjects  of  human 
interest  and  activity. 

On  the  8th  of  November,  1871,  Mr.  High  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Mary  Banes,  a  daughter  of  Jonathan  Banes,  of  Metamora.  After  nearly 
a  score  of  years  had  been  spent  in  happy  companionship,  Mr.  High  was 
bereft  of  his  wife,  who  passed  away  September  7,   1890. 

Fraternally,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  belonging  to  the 
blue  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and 
advocates  the  principles  cf  that  party.  He  has  never  sought  political  office 
for  himself,  but  is  always  ready  to  assist  his  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  is  a  contributor  to  all  worthy  local  enter- 
prises. 

JAMES  W.  HENRY,  M.  D. 

This  honored  veteran  of  the  civil  war,  now  a  practicing  physician  of 
Richmond,  may  be  justly  termed  a  self-made  man,  for  from  his  early  years 
he  has  been  obliged  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world,  and  bravely  and  vic- 
toriously has  he  met  adversity.  Born  in  Beaver  county,  Pennsylvania,  April 
6,  1840,  he  was  orphaned  ere  he  learned  a  parent's  love.  He  managed  to 
gain  an  excellent  education,  as,  after  completing  the  common-school  curric- 
ulum, he  entered  Ewington  Academy,  at  Ewington,  Gallia  county,  Ohio, 
and  subsequently  was  a  student  at  the  Westerman  Academy,  in  the  same 
county,  for  a  period. 

Having  finished  his  English  education  Dr.  Henry  was  occupied  in  teach- 
ing school  for  about  a  year,  and  then,  for  a  similar  length  of  time,  he  was  in 
the  dry-goods  business.  When  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  broke  out  he  was 
too  young  to  be  received  in  the  army,  but  on  the  31st  of  August,  1862,  he 
enlisted  at  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  in  Company  L,  Seventh  Ohio  Volunteer  Cav- 
alry, and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  or  just  three  years,  his  honorable 
discharge  being  dated  August  31,  1865.  The  greater  part  of  his  service  was 
in  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  his  regiment  being  in  the  Twenty-third  Army 
Corps.  Besides  participating  in  numerous  skirmishes  of  more  or  less  impor- 
tance, he  was  actively  engaged  in  the  decisive  battles  of  Crab  Orchard, 
Frankfort,  Somerset  and  Danville,  all  of  which  were  fought  in  Kentucky. 
He  won  the  praise  of  his  superior  officers  for  his  promptness,  bravery  and 
strict  fidelity  to  duty,  and  was   respected  and    well  liked  by   his  comrades. 

In  1869  the  Doctor  opened  a  drug  store  in  Berlin,  Jackson  county,  Ohio, 
and  conducted  the  business  profitably  for  some  ten  years.  In  the  meantime 
he  had  given  much  time  and  study  to  medicine  and  disease,  and  had  prac- 
ticed to  a  limited  extent  in  his  immediate  community.  In  1881  he  entered 
the  Miami  Medical  College,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  taking  a  three-years  course, 


486  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

on  the  completion  of  which,  in  the  spring  of  1884,  he  was  granted  a  diploma 
and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  Returning  to  Berlin,  he  resumed  his 
practice,  and  continued  to  reside  in  that  town  until  1895,  when  he  became  a 
citizen  of  Richmond.  Like  many  of  the  physicians  of  the  present  day,  he 
carries  on  a  general  practice  in  families,  but  has  made  a  special  study  of  one 
department  of  medicine,  being  particularly  skilled  in  the  treatment  of  kidney 
diseases. 

In  1868  Dr.  Henry  married  Miss  Jennie  Ratliff,  of  Berlin,  Ohio,  and 
they  have  two  children,  namely:  Lucius  Norton,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Miami 
Medical  College,  and  for  the  past  seven  years  has  been  successfully  engaged 
in  practice  in  Ripley,  Illinois;  and  Clyde  W.,  who  is  a  telegraph  operator  in 
the  employ  of  the  Western  Union  Company,  at  Richmond.  The  Doctor  is 
prominently  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has  taken  the 
Knight  Templar  degrees  in  the  York  rite,  and  in  the  Scottish  rite  has 
attained  the  thirty-second  degree,  S.  P.  R.  S.  He  formerly  held  member- 
ship in  Trowel  Lodge,  No.  132,  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Jackson,  Ohio.  He  is  also 
connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

JOHN  E.  WOLFE. 

One  of  the  native  sons  of  Boston  township,  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  is 
John  E.  Wolfe,  a  partner  in  the  firm  which  owns  and  operates  the  Elkhorn 
Roller  Mill,  of  this  township.  He  was  born  May  30,  1843,  his  parents  being 
William  and  Mary  (Burton)  Wolfe,  who  were  natives  of  Rockingham  county, 
Virginia.  They  came  to  this  state  in  1830  and  settled  in  Boston  township, 
upon  a  farm  one  mile  to  the  east  of  Elkhorn  Mill.  The  father  was  a  cooper 
by  trade,  and  made  a  good  living  for  himself  and  family  by  working  in  that 
line  and  by  cultivating  his  farm.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Friends'  church 
at  Orange,  and  was  a  quiet,  peace-loving  man,  esteemed  by  all  who  enjoyed 
his  acquaintance.  He  lived  to  the  ripe  age  of  seventy-seven  years,  his  death 
occurring  in  1884.  His  wife,  Mary,  passed  to  the  better  land  some  years 
before,  in  1871,  when  in  her  sixty-sixth  year.  Of  their  eleven  children  the 
following-named  are  living  in  1898:  Mary,  Mrs.  A.  F.  Godwin,  of  Knox, 
Indiana;  David,  who  owns  part  of  the  old  homestead;  Sarah,  widow  of  L. 
H.  Stigleman,  of  Richmond;  Caroline,  Mrs.  Edgar  Scarce,  of  Richmond; 
John  E. ;  Ann,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Feasel,  of  this  township;  and  Elijah,  of  South 
Whitley,  Indiana.  Jane,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  married  William  Watson^ 
in  1858,  removed  to  Whitley  county,  Indiana,  and  died  in  October,  1898, 
aged  sixty-eight  years.  Linnie,  who  died  in  1865,  at  twenty-seven  years  of 
age,  was  the  wife  of  L.  D.  Burton.  Willie  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years; 
and  Susanna  at  the  age  of  two  years. 

John  E.  Wolfe  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  487 

age,  when  he  commenced  serving  an  apprenticeship  to  the  miller's  trade,  with 
Clayton,  Brown  and  Bishop  Addington,  who  owned  the  Elkhorn  Mill  at  that 
time.  This  mill  site  has  been  occupied  continuously  since  iSio,  and  the 
present  building,  the  fourth,  was  erected  in  i860.  Since  it  came  into  the 
possession  of  Mr.  Wolfe  he  has  had  it  reconstructed  thoroughly  three  times, 
as  he  is  determined  to  keep  it  modern  and  as  well  equipped  for  work  as  any 
of  its  size  and  style  in  the  state.  The  complete  roller  process  is  used  and 
the  best  modern  machinery  to  be  obtained  is  a  part  of  the  equipment.  The 
mill  has  a  capacity  of  fifty  barrels  of  iiour  per  day,  and  Richmond  and  the 
neighboring  small  towns  consume  the  entire  output,  and  have  done  so  for 
many  years.  Mr.  Wolfe  purchased  a  one-third  interest  in  the  mill  in  1871, 
and  for  two  years  ran  it  in  partnership  with  Messrs.  Brown  and  Elmore. 
Then  the  present  partnership  was  formed  between  Mr.  Wolfe  and  Clement 
W.  Ferguson,  and  the  business  relationship  has  continued  harmoniously  and 
uninterruptedly  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Ferguson  being  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  necessarily 
engaged  m  general  banking  business,  it  falls  to  the  share  of  Mr.  Wolfe  to 
look  after  the  actual  operation  of  the  mill.  He  thoroughly  understands  the 
least  as  well  as  the  greatest  points  in  the  milling  business  and  has  made  a 
grand  success  of  the  enterprise,  keeping  the  products  of  the  mill  up  to  the 
highest  possible  standard.  He  received  but  fifty  dollars  a  year  for  the  three 
years  of  his  apprenticeship,  but  he  soon  proved  his  worth  and  ability  and  has 
prospered. 

In  1863  Mr.  Wolfe  enlisted  in  the  Union  army  and  served  for  six  months 
in  the  quartermaster's  department,  under  General  Hooker,  in  Alabama. 
Returning  home  he  re-enlisted,  becoming  a  member  of  Company  A,  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-third  Infantry,  serving  in  Tennessee  and  Alabama  until 
the  fall  of  1864,  when  he  was  granted  an  honorable  discharge,  and  resumed 
the  ordinary  routine  of  life  in  the  old  mill,  where  he  completed  his  apprentice- 
ship. In  1866  he  went  to  Greencastle,  Indiana,  and  for  one  year  had  charge 
of  a  mill  owned  by  W.  D.  Allen.  During  the  years  1868  and  1869  he  was 
employed  by  Barnet  &  Whiteside,  millers,  in  Camden,  Preble  county,  Ohio, 
and  then  went  to  Osage  City,  Missouri,  in  the  milling  and  grain  business, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.  Then,  returning  home,  he  entered  upon 
his  successful  connection  with  the  Elkhorn  Mill.  He  also  owns  a  farm  of 
forty  acres  in  this  township,  and  is  well-to-do.  He  is  fond  of  hunting,  is  a 
member  of  the  Richmond  Gun  Club,  and  has  numerous  fine  trophies  of  the 
chas£.  An  active  Republican,  he  has  been  of  service  to  his  party  and  has 
attended  various  conventions  of  the  same.  In  the  Society  of  Friends  he  is  a 
valued  worker,  attends  the  Orange  preparatory  meeting  and  the  Whitewater 
monthly  meeting,  the  annual  meeting  of  the  church,  etc.      For  twenty  years 


488  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

he  has  been  the  teacher  of  one  class  in  the   Sunday-school  and  for  a  quarter 
of  a  centur}'  he  has  been  specially  interested  in  the  work  of  the  school. 

In  1870  Mr.  Wolfe  married  Miss  Mary  A.  Patterson,  of  Camden,  Ohio, 
but  she  died  ten  years  later,  leaving  one  daughter,  Maud,  wife  of  Herbert 
Rosencrans,  of  Greensburg,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Rosencrans  is  quite  an  artist, 
and  is  a  lady  of  social  and  literary  attainments.  January  22,  1880,  Mr. 
Wolfe  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Jenkinson,  of  Richmond.  They  are  the  parents 
of  two  children,  Clement  W.,  a  student  in  the  Richmond  high  school,  and 
Grace,  also  attending  the  Richmond  schools. 

ISHAM  SEDGWICK. 

For  a  score  of  years  Isham  Sedgwick  has  been  an  honored  citizen  of 
Richmond,  Indiana.  He  has  won  a  reputation  in  business  circles  and  in 
various  fraternal  and  benevolent  lines  of  work  which  is  more  than  local,  and 
in  politics  and  all  progressive  movements  he  takes  deep  and  commendable 
interest.  In  short,  whatever  tends  to  elevate  and  improve  the  condition  of 
his  fellow  men,  physically,  mentally  or  morally,  is  certain  to  receive  his  ear- 
nest support  and  influence. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  sketch,  Richard  Sedgwick,  was  born  in 
Yorkshire,  England,  in  1774,  and  in  1806  he  emigrated  to  the  United  States. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Wayne  county,  his  home  being  on  Elkhorn 
creek,  in  what  is  now  Boston  township,  until  1808,  when  he  was  married,  and 
immediately  thereafter  he  removed  to  a  farm  of  three  hundred  acres,  three 
miles  south  of  Boston,  in  what  is  now  known  as  Harrison  township.  Union 
county.  In  his  native  land  he  was  a  shepherd  and  farmer,  but  after  he  came 
to  America  he  followed  agriculture  e.xclusively.  For  the  day  in  which  he 
flourished  he  was  very  successful  and  enterprising.  He  made  a  specialty  of 
raising  fine  stock  and  imported  the  first  short-horn  bull  ever  brought  into  this 
p?rt  of  the  country.  A  fine  mechanic,  he  built  the  first  fanning-mill  that 
was  ever  constructed,  the  fore-runner  of  the  threshing-machine,  and  his 
inventive  genius  found  other  outlets,  as  well.  The  fanning-mill  mentioned 
was  almost  entirely  of  wood,  cogs  and  wheels  being  wooden,  and  the 
"riddles"  were  made  of  raw-hide  or  tow-string.  In  1808,  as  before  men- 
tioned, he  was  married,  the  second  white  man  married  within  the  present 
limits  of  Wayne  county.  His  bride  was  Sarah,  a  daughter  of  Charles  Hunt. 
She  was  born  in  North  Carolina  and  in  1805  accompanied  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  parental  family  to  John's  creek,  Abington  township,  Wayne 
county.  Her  father  was  a  farmer  and  gunsmith,  and  so  was  her  brother, 
John  Hunt.  The  latter  was  an  expert  in  his  line,  and  could  do  wonderful 
feats  as  a  blacksmith.  One  thing  which  he  sometimes  did,  to  the  amazement 
of  beholders,  was  to  weld  a  piece  of  broken  steel,  cold,  so  no  trace  of  the  break 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  489 

was  apparent.  This  secret  was  a  discovery  of  his  own,  and  he  never 
revealed  his  method  to  any  one.  A  number  of  people  are  living  to-day  who 
testify  to  the  veracity  of  the  story  above  given,  as  they  saw  the  work  done, 
and  among  these  are  James  and  George  Smith,  John  Sedgwick,  David  Hale 
and  Jacob  Fender.  The  Indians,  with  whom  the  Hunts  were  always  on  the 
best  of  terms,  would  travel  for  many  miles  to  have  their  tools  made  and 
repaired  by  these  pioneer  blacksmiths. 

To  Richard  Sedgwick  and  wife  two  sons  and  four  daughters  were  born, 
named  as  follows:  Charles;  Frances,  Mrs.  Allen,  and  afterward  Beard;  Mrs. 
Agnes  Druley,  of  Boston  township;  Mrs.  Mary  Smith;  John;  and  Martha, 
wife  of  William  Davenport.  Charles,  who  was  an  operator  of  saw  and  grist 
mills  during  his  active  life,  died  at  the  age  of  four-score  years,  in  Oregon,  in 
1888.  Frances  and  Mrs.  Mary  Smith  have  also  passed  away,  and  Martha, 
the  youngest,  is  now  in  her  seventy-eighth  year. 

Jonn  Sedgwick,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  on 
the  old  homestead  three  miles  south  of  Boston  (now  in  Union  county). 
August  18,  181^.  He  dwelt  at  home  until  1843,  when  he  was  married  and 
removed  to  a  far.Ti  on  the  Elkhorn,  this  place  having  been  originally  entered 
and  settled  upon  in  1804  by  Lazarus  Whitehead.  After  living  on  this  home- 
stead for  thirty-eight  years  Mr.  Sedgwick  took  up  his  residence  in  Richmond, 
and  is  still  living  here,  respected  by  all  who  know  him.  He  rents  out  a  good 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres,  in  Randolph  county,  and  owns 
that  property,  but  some  years  ago  disposed  of  his  old  homestead.  Four 
years  he  served  as  a  township  trustee,  and  politically  he  has  been  a  Whig 
and  Republican.  A  strong  believer  in  Universalism,  he  was  one  of  the  char- 
ter members  of  that  church  in  Wayne  county.  His  wife  Margaret,  who  was 
a  daughter  of  Jacob  Smelser,  died  in  1889.  Her  father  was  a  native  of 
Maryland  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Kentucky  and  in  1824  came  to  this 
county,  settling  upon  a  farm  in  Boston  township.  Of  the  four  children  born 
to  John  and  Margaret  Sedgwick,  Isham  is  the  eldest,  and  the  others  are 
Richard;  Anna,  wife  of  James  Beeson,  a  dealer  in  wire  fence  and  a  resident 
■of  Richmond;  and  India,  who  died  in  childhood. 

Isham  Sedgwick  was  born  on  a  farm  situated  on  the  bank  of  Elkhorn 
•creek,  about  five  and  a  half  miles  south  of  Richmond,  March  12,  1846.  As 
a  little  lad  he  was  very  ambitious  and  made  remarkable  progress  in  his 
studies,  while  at  the  same  time  he  was  not  neglectful  toward  any  of  the 
duties  which  were  assigned  to  him  on  the  farm.  When  he  was  eighteen 
years  old,  in  the  winter  of  1864-65,  he  taught  school  in  this,  his  home, 
county,  and  in  1868  he  was  graduated  in  Earlham  College,  which  institution 
conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Science  in  1879.  For  two  years 
•after  his  graduation  he  taught  school,  and  in  1870  he  settled  upon  a  farm  in 


490  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Randolph  county,  and  carried  on  the  place  for  eight  years.  He  was  very 
successful  as  a  farmer  and  made  a  specialty  of  breeding  short-horn  cattle. 
Though  he  came  to  Richmond  in  1878  and  has  since  made  his  home  here,  he 
did  not  dispose  of  his  farm  and  live  stock  interests  until  1897. 

In  1878  Mr.  Sedgwick  invented  a  machine  for  manufacturing  woven- 
wire  fencing,  being  granted  a  patent  the  same  year,  and  then  erecting  a 
factory  in  Richmond.  For  eighteen  years  he  continued  to  manufacture  the 
fencing,  doing  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Sedgwick  Brothers,  and  at 
the  end  of  that  period  he  sold  the  patent  and  plant.  In  1893  he  became 
interested  in  operating  coffee  plantations  in  Nicaragua,  Central  America,  and 
during  the  three  succeeding  years  he  organized  four  companies.  The  Indiana 
Coffee  Company,  of  which  he  is  president,  has  a  capital  stock  of  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  and  was  organized  in  1894.  The  Jumaiqui  Coffee  Company, 
founded  the  same  year  and  capitalized  at  a  similar  amount,  has  Mr.  Sedg- 
wick as  president,  and  now  its  property  comprises  two  hundred  thousand 
trees  and  all  the  essentials  necessary  to  the  culture  and  care  of  the  plant. 
In  1895  the  Esmeralda  Coffee  Company,  with  a  capital  stock  of  forty 
thousand  dollars,  was  founded,  with  our  subject  as  secretary;  and  this  com- 
pany controls  the  output  from  eighty  thousand  trees.  Lastly,  in  1895,  the 
Jilgueros  Coffee  Company,  having  eighty  thousand  trees  and  capitalized  at 
thirty  thousand  dollars,  he  being  secretary  of  the  same,  was  organized.  All 
of  these  concerns  are  in  successful  operation,  with  a  most  flattering  outlook 
for  the  future.  In  1897  Mr.  Sedgwick  turned  his  attention  to  the  invention 
of  a  horseless  motor  wagon,  peculiar  in  the  fact  that  the  motive  power  is 
applied  to  all  of  the  wheels,  and  different  in  general  construction  from  all 
other  vehicles  of  the  type.  The  patent  for  his  device  was  allowed  at  Wash- 
ington, September  21,  1898.  Last  year  he  also  invented  a  multiple  wind 
engine,  a  very  ingenious  piece  of  machinery,  with  great  possibilities  in  many 
directions.  He  was  one  of  the  original  stockholders  in  the  American  Tin- 
Plate  Company,  at  Elwood,  and  in  the  Richmond  Natural  Gas  Company, 
aiding  materially  in  starting  both  enterprises.  Thus  briefly  have  been  out- 
lined some  of  the  numerous  enterprises  in  which  he  has  taken  a  more  or  less 
important  part,  and  no  special  commentary  is  required  as  to  his  ability  and 
versatile  talents,  as  they  are  well  known  and  acknowledged. 

Active  in  the  Republican  party,  he  accomplished  much  for  its  success  in 
the  campaign  of  1896,  as  he  made  twenty-six  effective  speeches.  The 
monetary  question  was  profoundly  discussed  by  him,  and  he  spoke  from  his 
own  personal  experience,  owing  to  the  fact  that  his  business  relations  had 
brought  him  into  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  disastrous  state  of  affairs  in 
a  "free-silver"  country,  Nicaragua.  A  member  of  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons 
of  America,   he  was  the  national  vice-president  of  the  organization  for  one 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  491 

year.  In  1896  he  was  president  of  the  Indiana  division  of  the  Travelers' 
Protective  Association.  For  seven  years,  beginning  in  1884,  he  was  the 
leader  in  the  Richmond  temperance  movement  and  held  a  meeting  every 
Sunday  during  that  period. 

On  the  22d  of  September,  1870,  Mr.  Sedgwick  married  Miss  Viola  J. 
Beeson,  of  this  town.  Their  two  daughters  are  Anna  Alice,  who  is  at  home, 
and  Bertha  L. ,  now  one  of  the  head  nurses  in  the  Maryland  General  Hos- 
pital in  Baltimore.  Anna  A.  is  an  artist,  and  in  addition  to  having  executed 
some  very  fine  paintings  has  been  especially  successful  at  wood-carving,  in 
which  she  is  an  acknowledged  master. 

BERNARD  A.    KENNEPOHL. 

Bernard  A.  Kennepohl,  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Richmond,  was 
born  March  17,  1848,  at  Muennigbueren,  a  village  in  the  kingdom  of  Hanover, 
Germany.  His  parents  were  Herman  J.  and  Helena  M.  A.  (Lulman)  Ken- 
nepohl, the  former  a  farmer  by  occupation.  Between  the  ages  of  si.\  and 
fourteen  years  the  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the  parochial  school.  At  the 
latter  age  he  was  confirmed  in  the  Catholic  church,  to  which  he  has  since 
adhered.  He  then  went  to  Holland  and  worked  on  a  dairy  farm  near  Delft, 
his  salary  being  twenty-five  dollars  for  si.x  months,  or  twenty-six  dollars  if  he 
gave  good  satisfaction.  At  the  end  of  the  half  year  he  received  the  twenty- 
six  dollars,  which  was  indeed  well  earned.  He  then  obtained  employment 
with  another  dairy  farmer  near  Leihen,  at  the  same  wages,  and  at  the  end 
of  a  year  had  saved  more  money  than  many  a  young  man  who  made  a  dollar 
per  day.  His  parents  had  given  him  clothing  sufficient  to  last  him  for  a  year 
or  two  when  he  left  home,  and  none  of  his  money  had  been  squandered  on 
useless  things.  The  following  spring  he  returned  to  his  first  employer,  work- 
ing for  a  year  for  eighty-five  dollars,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period 
entered  the  service  of  another  farmer  in  the  same  neighborhood,  receiving 
eighty-six  dollars  for  a  summer's  work.  In  the  fall  of  1865  he  returned  home, 
spending  the  winter  with  his  parents.  There  were  four  children  in  the  fam- 
ily, each  having  his  special  work  to  perform  at  nights;  and  when  Mr.  Kenne- 
pohl's  father  asked  him  what  he  intended  doing  through  the  winter  he  replied 
that  he  would  like  to  attend  night  school.  Accordingly  his  father  made  the 
necessary  arrangements,  and  through  the  winter  of  1865-6  he  spent  the  eve- 
nings in  study. 

In  the  spring  of  1866  Mr.  Kennepohl  started  for  America,  sailing  fron> 
Bremen  and  landing  at  Castle  Garden,  May  18,  1866,  after  six  weeks  and  five 
days  spent  upon  the  water.  He  went  direct  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  had  a 
brother  and  sister  living,  G.  B.  Kennepohl  being  proprietor  of  the  Brookville 
House,  at  the  corner  of  Front  and  Central  avenues.     The  brother  employed 


492  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

our  subject  as  bar-tender,  at  a  salary  of  twent3--five  dollars  per  month,  which 
then  seemed  to  him  a  munificent  salary.  In  1869  he  was  stricken  with 
typhoid  fever  and  was  ill  for  seventeen  weeks.  He  began  to  work  when  able 
to  labor  for  only  half  a  day.  Not  regaining  his  strength  his  physician 
advised  him  to  secure  out-door  work,  and  after  driving  a  milk-wagon  for  a 
time  he  drove  a  carriage  for  J.  L.  Haven  and  later  for  Joseph  Selow  Aven- 
dale.  Eventually  he  began  working  in  the  grocery  and  saloon  of  J.  H. 
Walking,  and  on  the  i8th  of  October,  1872,  arrived  in  Richmond  to  accept 
a  position  in  the  grocery  of  Anton  Averbeck,  a  brother-in-law  of  Mr.  Walking. 
On  the  4th  of  May,  1873,  he  became  driver  of  a  milk-wagon  for  J.  H.  Ber- 
heide,  and  in  December,  1876,  he  established  a  saloon  on  South  Sixth  street. 
The  following  year  he  bought  out  Jim  Shaw,  who  was  carrying  on  business  in 
an  old  shanty  that  was  supplanted  b}'  the  handsome  block  now  owned  by 
Kelly  &  Hudgeson.  In  1891  he  erected  a  one-story  building  on  West  First 
street  and  Richmond  avenue.  This  district  was  then  out  in  a  cornfield,  but 
within  five  years  there  was  a  population  of  over  twenty-five  hundred  on  the 
west  side.  In  1896  the  people  of  that  district  made  opposition  to  the  saloon, 
and  under  the  Moore  law  it  was  declared  that  the  seventh  ward  was  a  resi- 
dence district  and  therefore  the  saloon  must  be  moved.  Mr.  Kennepohl 
then  established  his  place  of  business  at  No.  307  North  D  street.  He  hs^s 
owned  altogether  nine  saloons  in  Richmond,  having  on  two  different  occa- 
sions two  at  a  time.  He  has  been  very  successful  in  his  business  ventures 
and  has  accumulated  a  handsome  capital. 

On  the  1st  of  July,  1873,  Mr.  Kennepohl  married  Miss  Emilie  J.  A.  Ber- 
heide,  eldest  daughter  of  J.  H.  Berheide,  and  to  them  have  been  born  twelve 
children,  nine  of  whom  are  yet  living.  Three  of  the  sons  served  in  the 
Spanish- American  war;  John  A.,  who  enlisted  in  Company  K,  First  Missouri 
Infantry,  April  28,  1898,  and  was  mustered  in  May  13,  1898;  and  George  W. 
and  Harry  B.,  who  were  in  Company  K,  Third  Tennessee  Infantry,  enlisting 
May  13,  1898.  All  joined  the  service  as  privates,  but  when  discharged  John 
and  Harry  were  corporals  and  George  was  an  artificer. 

In  politics  Mr.  Kennepohl  has  always  been  a  Democrat  and  believes  in 
a  government  of  the  people,  for  the  people  and  by  the  people.  In  1890  he 
was  elected  to  represent  the  first  ward  in  the  city  council  of  Richmond,  and 
by  re-election  filled  that  office  until  1896.  He  afterward  removed  to  the 
seventh  ward,  was  again  elected  councilman  in  1898,  and  if  he  finishes  his 
present  term  will  have  held  the  office  altogether  for  ten  years.  He  belongs 
to  the  order  of  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  the  Mannerchor,  and  has  belonged  to  a  number  of  political  societies. 
He  has  always  taken  a  very  active  part  in  political  affairs  here,  and  is  one  of 
the  recognized  leaders  of  the  Democracy.      He  has  traveled  extensively  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  493 

the  United  States,  visiting  the  various  leading  cities  of  the  Union,  and  in 
1 88 1  he  returned  to  the  Fatherland,  renewing  his  acquaintance  with  the 
scenes  and  friends  of  his  youth.  He  also  visited  the  more  prominent  cities 
there  and  the  principal  places  of  interest,  went  to  the  exposition  in  Hanover 
and  there  saw  the  first  ice  machine  ever  constructed,  it  being  there  used  in 
the  manufacture  of  ice.  He  spent  about  three  months  abroad,  leaving  Rich- 
mond on  the  9th  of  June  and  returning  on  the  ist  of  September,  1881.  The 
trip  across  the  water  consumed  twelve  days,  and  from  the  time  he  sailed  from 
Bremen  on  the  return  trip  until  reaching  Baltimore  it  was  fourteen  days. 
Such  in  brief  is  the  life  history  of  one  who,  coming  to  America  empty-handed, 
has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward  to  a  position  of  affluence. 

GEORGE  M.  HEIM. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  an  honored  veteran  of  the  civil  war  and  a 
man  who  has  for  a  number  of  years  held  a  representative  place  among  the 
contractors  in  stone  work  in  Union  county,  Brownsville  being  his  place  of 
residence. 

Mr.  Heim  is  of  German  birth  and  his  early  training  was  secured  in  the 
Fatherland,  He  was  born  in  W'urtemberg,  Germany,  June  13,  1829,  and 
made  his  home  in  his  native  land  until  his  emigration  to  America,  in  1853. 
He  had  served  an  apprenticeship  of  four  years  at  the  trade  of  stone-cutter, 
and  after  landing  in  the  United  States  came  to  Indiana,  in  the  fall  of  1853, 
and  began  work  at  his  trade.  Soon  he  began  taking  contracts,  and  ere  long 
built  up  an  extensive  business.  He  has  contracted  for  and  built  no  less  than 
fourteen  stone  bridges  in  Union  county,  and  his  work  has  also  extended  into 
Fayette  county.  At  times  he  has  had  in  his  employ  from  thirty  to  forty  men. 
In  addition  to  his  stone  work,  he  was  also  for  a  time  extensively  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  brick,  having  his  kilns  in  Brownsville.  Recently,  how- 
ever, he  has  done  but  little  in  this  line. 

Mr.  Heim  served  three  years  in  the  army  of  Germany,  and  during  the 
civil  war  he  entered  the  Union  army  as  chief  bugler  in  the  Fifteenth  Indiana 
Battery.  When  only  eight  years  old  he  had  shown  a  marked  talent  for  music, 
became  proficient  on  several  instruments, — flute,  clarinet,  etc., — and  his  mu- 
sical ability  was  well  known  to  Colonel  Fritz  Arneke,  whom  Governor  Morton 
secured  to  organize  the  battery.  It  was  through  the  influence  of  Colonel 
Arneke  that  Mr.  Heim,  when  he  enlisted,  was  made  chief  bugler.  He  shared 
the  fortunes  of  his  command,  often  being  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  by  his 
music  cheering  and  inspiring  the  boys  in  blue.  On  one  occasion,  at  the 
siege  of  Knoxville,  he  had  a  horse  killed  under  him.  At  another  time  his 
horse  was  wounded.  Politically  Mr.  Heim  is  an  ardent  Republican.  He  is 
a  member  of  Duvall  Post,  G.  A.  R. 


494  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Mr.  Heim  is  married  and  has  a  large  family.  Mrs.  Heim's  maiden  name  was 
Appolona  Bockmeyer,  she,  too,  being  a  native  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany. 
They  have  thirteen  children  living  and  lost  one  at  the  age  of  three  years. 

JAMES  C.   ROSE. 

This  popular  county  official  of  Union  county  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of 
this  section  of  the  state,  his  birth  having  taken  place  in  Union  township, 
October  27,  1857.  From  the  date  of  his  earliest  recollections  he  has  been 
identified  with  the  upbuilding  and  prosperity  of  this  locality,  in  genuine 
interest  and  in  more  substantial  ways.  He  stands  high  in  the  councils  of 
the  Republican  party  of  this  district  and  has  been  an  energetic,  efficient  worker 
in  its  behalf.  For  five  years  he  officiated  as  clerk  in  his  own  township  and 
in  1896  he  was  elected  county  treasurer.  In  this  responsible  position  he 
made  a  fine  record  for  general  efficiency,  fidelity  and  promptness  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  manifold  duties  and  was  the  choice  of  his  party  again  upon  the 
expiration  of  his  term  in  1898. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  John  B.  Rose,  was  a  native  of 
New  Jersey,  who,  coming  to  this  state,  passed  his  last  years  in  Harmony 
township,  this  county.  He  lived  to  attain  a  ripe  old  age,  as  he  was  almost 
ninety  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  i8go.  He  owned  a  valuable  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Harmony  township  and  enjoy  the  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  all  his  neighbors  and  acquaintances.  Of  his  three  sons  and  four 
daughters  two  sons  and  two  daughters  are  now  living.  His  son  Abraham, 
father  of  our  subject,  settled  in  Union  township  soon  after  his  marriage  to 
Miss  Martha  Sutton  and  for  over  a  score  of  years  was  a  general  merchant  in 
Billingsville,  this  county,  continuing  engaged  in  business  there  from  1856  or 
1857  until  his  death,  in  March,  1878.  For  several  years  he  was  one  of  the 
trustees  of  Union  township,  and  was  still  serving  as  such  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  a  stalwart  Republican  and  used  his  influence  in  the  support  of 
his  party  principles  and  nominees.  His  widow  is  still  living,  her  home  being 
in  Liberty,  and  one  of  the  members  of  her  household  is  her  aged  father,  Ander- 
son Sutton,  formerly  of  Ohio  and  for  years  a  prosperous  farmer.  She  was 
the  mother  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters,  James  C.  being  the  eldest. 
Hattie  died  in  girlhood;  Annie  is  the  wife  of  Albert  Bias,  of  Center  township; 
Abraham,  Clyde  and  John  are  mechanics;  Laura  is  the  wife  of  Charles  La- 
throp  and  Sallie  is  at  home. 

James  C.  Rose  received  a  practical  business  education  in  his  father's 
store  and  continued  to  give  his  attention  to  the  management  until  it  was 
closed  after  the  death  of  his  father.  In  1880  he  came  to  Liberty  and  for 
several  years  was  employed  by  leading  merchants  of  this  place  as  a  clerk. 
He   worked  for   Sam   Ballinger  for  three  years;  for  Snyder  &  Gerald  nearly 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  495 

■eight  years  and  for  C.  E.  Hughes  three  years.  He  belong^  to  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  for  the  past  seven  years  has  been  holding  the  office  of  master 
of  finances  in  the  local  lodge  of  the  order.  He  is  fond  of  boating  and  fishing 
and  spends  many  a  happy  hour  of  his  leisure  in  the  midst  of  the 
beauties  of  nature. 

April  9,  1878,  Mr.  Rose  married  Miss  Viola  Belle  Dubois,  daughter  of 
H.  N.  Dubois,  of  Union  township,  in  which  section  of  the  county  she  was 
•born  and  grew  to  womanhood.  Her  father,  formerly  a  farmer  and  dealer  in 
live  stock,  is  now  a  resident  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  A  son  and  two  daughters 
bless  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rose,  namely:  William,  Stella  and 
Pearl.  The  parents  of  Mr.  Rose  were  members  of  the  Christian  church, 
while  Mrs.  Rose's  people  were  identified  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
denomination. 

JAMES  K.  DUGDALE. 

It  is  our  privilege  to  pay  a  brief  tribute  to  the  memory  of  James  Kaighn 
Dugdale.  An  honorable,  broad-minded  Christian  gentleman  in  the  best 
sense  of  the  term,  he  was  unusually  free  from  vice  and  was  patient  and  per- 
severing. He  was  born  in  Haddonfield,  Camden  county.  New  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 17,  1 81 5,  his  parents  being  Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Kaighn)  Dugdale. 
The  father,  Benjamin  Dugdale,  was  born  near  Mount  Melick,  Ireland,  and 
removed  to  America  with  his  parents  about  the  year  1802.  In  181 1  he  was 
married  to  Hannah  Kaighn,  whose  ancestors  came  to  America  about  1684 
from  the  Isle  of  Man. 

James  Kaighn  Dugdale  was  educated  in  his  native  state  and  entered  his 
father's  store  at  Trenton,  New  Jersej',  where  he  learned  the  drug  business, 
remaining  there  until  1834,  when  he  came  to  Richmond,  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen. He  was  joined  three  years  later  by  his  father  and  family,  the  father 
-once  more  engaging  in  the  drug  business,  with  his  three  sons,  James  K., 
Thomas  and  Samuel,  as  assistants.  Upon  the  death  of  the  father,  in  1852, 
the  sons  continued  together  in  the  business,  Thomas  retiring  soon  afterward. 
James  and  Samuel  sold  the  stock  in  1859  and  turned  their  attention  to  other 
jiiatters.  James  K.  Dugdale  sold  his  share  of  the  homestead  to  Robert  Mor- 
rison, and  it  is  now  occupied  by  the  Morrison  Reeves  Library.  In  1865  the 
subject  of  our  sketch  removed  to  a  farm  near  Whitewater,  some  nine  miles 
north  of  Richmond,  where  he  devoted  his  time  to  agricultural  pursuits  and  to 
perfecting  his  numerous  mechanical  inventions.  He  also  dealt  in  real  estate, 
'handling  both  city  and  farm  property,  and  in  1877  moved  back  to  Rich- 
mond, where  his  time  was  exclusively  given  to  that  business  and  to  manu- 
facturing his  inventions,  and  he  was  thus  engaged  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
July  25,  1892.  He  was  united  in  marriage  November  14,  1842,  to  Miss 
.Eleanor  F.  Downing,  of  this  city,  a  sister  of  Henry  R.  Downing,  a  leading 


496  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

citizen  of  Richmond  for  a  number  of  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Mary  K.,  wife  of  C.  Edwin  Mastin,  of  this  city,  and  Benjamin  H. 
Dugdale,  of  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dugdale  were  both  birth- 
right members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  for  their  quiet,  gentle  ways 
were  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  them. 

MATTHIAS  M.   MOORE. 

Numbered  among  the  early  settlers  of  Franklin  county  are  the  Moores, 
who  for  more  than  seventy  years  have  been  actively  associated  with  the 
development  of  this  portion  of  the  state,  always  noted  for  patriotism  and  public 
spirit,  industry  and  integrity.  They  are  worthily  represented  in  the  present 
generation  by  Theodore  A.  and  William  D.  Moore,  sons  of  Matthias  M. ,  and 
grandsons  of  William  Moore,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  this  county,  and 
below  is  given  a  review  of  their  li\'es. 

The  Moores  were  early  colonists  of  the  state  of  New  Jerse\',  and  there 
occurred  the  birth  of  Moses  Moore,  March  4,  1773.  He  was  the  father  of 
five  children,  namely:  Lavina,  born  in  1794;  William,  September  21,  1795; 
Dorcas,  in  1796;  Rachel,  in  1801,  and  George,  in  1802.  William,  George 
and  Dorcas  became  residents  of  this  county,  William  being  the  first  to  locate 
here,  as  he  settled  in  Fairfield  township  in  1827,  with  his  wife  and  four  chil- 
dren, Elizabeth,  Moses,  Matthias  M.  and  Eleanor.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  the  mother  of  the  children  named,  he  married  Eleanor  Logan,  whose 
birth  had  taken  place  on  Christmas  day,  1805,  and  two  daughters  were  born 
to  them:  Lavina,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years,  and  Mrs.  Mary  Dicker- 
son,  of  Fairfield,  this  county.  His  second  wife  having  died,  William  Moore 
wedded  Sarah  Hudson,  who  was  born  September  30,  1797.  He  was  a 
typical  pioneer,  strong,  fearless,  undaunted  by  obstacles,  and  possessing  all 
of  the  attributes  of  a  noble  Christian  man.  He  served  in  the  war  of  1S12, 
and,  being  somewhat  of  a  musician,  he  was  detailed  to  play  the  fife,  and  this 
honored  old  instrument,  to  the  music  of  which  the  heroes  of  1S12  marched 
to  do  battle  for  their  country  and  homes,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his 
grandson,  William  D.  Moore.  He  passed  to  his  reward  February  i,  1S53, 
and  is  still  held  in  kindly  remembrance  by  the  few  of  his  old  friends  who  still 
survive. 

Matthias  M.  Moore,  who  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  September  10.  1S23, 
was  a  child  of  but  four  years  when  he  come  to  this  locality,  and  here,  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Fairfield  township,  he  grew  to  manhood.  On  the  6th  of 
Jamaary,  1848,  he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Alexander  Sims.  She  ^\•as  born 
in  Jackson  township,  Fayette  county,  but  her  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland, 
and  was  reared  in  South  Carolina.  He  became  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Fayette 
county.      Mrs.  Jane  Moore  died  July  22,   1849,  and  left  a  son,  Theodore  A.. 


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whose  sketch  is  given  below.  For  his  second  wife,  the  father  chose  Hannah 
M.  Irwin,  their  marriage  being  celebrated  June  17,  185  i.  She  was  born  in 
Darke  county,  Ohio,  December  5,  1824,  and  became  the  mother  of  three 
children:  John  Irwin,  born  May  20,  1852;  William  D. ;  and  Mary  J.,  born 
September  29,  i860,  and  now  the  wife  of  Beecher  Wilson,  of  this  township. 
John  I.  died  in  Illinois,  from  the  effects  of  an  accident,  December  11,  1872. 
Matthias  M.  Moore  was  a  successful  business  man,  but  did  not  consider 
wealth  the  greatest  object  to  have  in  view,  and  was  ever  ready  to  perform 
any  act  of  kindness  and  sympathetic  aid  that  came  to  his  hand.  His  cheer- 
ful disposition  and  love  for  the  companionship  of  his  fellow  men  led  to  his 
joining  several  fraternal  organizations,  in  all  of  which  he  was  held  in  high 
regard.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  Masons,  the  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  in  politics  he  favored  the  Democratic  party.  His  useful, 
happy  life  was  brought  to  a  close  on  May  27,  1896,  and  his  place  in  the  com- 
munity where  he  had  so  long  dwelt  can  not  be  easily  filled. 

Theodore  A.  Moore,  the  elder  of  his  two  surviving  sons,  was  born  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Fairfield,  October  10,  1848,  and  as  he  was  but  in  'infant 
when  his  mother  died  he  was  reared  in  the  home  of  his  maternal  grandfather, 
in  Fayette  county.  He  married  Wilhelmina  Norris,  who  was  born  in  Mary- 
land, and  four  children  blessed  their  union.  Harry  died  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years,  and  Frank,  Ethel  and  John  survive.  Following  in  the  footsteps  of 
his  father  and  grandfather,  Theodore  A.  Moore  is  a  systematic  farmer  and 
progressive  business  man,  enjoying  and  deserving  the  respect  of  all  who  know 
him.  He  owns  a  fine  farm  in  Blooming  Grove  township  and  is  looked  up  to 
as  one  of  the  substantial  citizens  of  the  community.  He  is  connected  with 
the  Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Red  Men's  fraternities,  and 
uses  his  franchise  on  behalf  of  the  Democratic  party. 

William  D.  Moore,  the  younger  son  of  Matthias  M.  Moore,  was  born  at 
the  old  homestead,  north  of  Blooming  Grove,  September  5,  1854.  He  grew 
to  manhood  here  and  attended  the  common  schools  of  the  district.  His 
marriage  to  Kate  I.  Minson  was  celebrated  January  16,  1880,  and  of  the  four 
children  born  to  them  two,  Clarence  K.  and  Walter  M.,  survive.  Edith  J. 
died  at  the  age  of  seven  3  ears,  and  Paul  C.  when  but  four.  Mrs.  Moore  was 
born  November  10,  1855,  a  daughter  of  William  and  liarbara  (Patri)  Min- 
son. The  father,  who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1802,  was  a  ship  car- 
penter by  trade,  and  for  some  years  ran  on  a  boat  plying  between  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  and  Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  Later  he  came  to  Franklin 
county  and  cleared  a  farm,  and  was  long  an  honored  resident  of  Blooming 
Grove  township.  He  died  in  1870,  and  was  survived  by  his  wife,  Barbara, 
who  died  May  18,  1886.  He  had  been  married  twice  before,  his  first  union 
being  with  Catherine  Castner  and   his  second   with  Irene  Price.      For  about 


498  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

•five  years  subsequent  to  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moore  lived  in  Fay- 
ette county,  and  since  then  they  have  made  their  home  in  Blooming  Grove 
township.  Lilce  his  brother  and  father,  he  is  a  thorough  farmer  and  excel- 
lent financier,  progressive  in  his  methods  and  earnest  in  his  desire  to  promote 
the  well-being  of  his  neighbors  and  the  community  in  general.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  same  fraternal  orders  as  is  his  brother,  and  possesses  the 
friendship  of  every  one  who  knows  him.  In  politics  he  is  a  true  Democrat, 
-and  for  five  years  was  trustee  of  Blooming  Grove  township. 

GEORGE  R.   DILKS. 

A  representative  business  man  of  Spring  Grove,  a  suburb  of  Richmond, 
AVayne  county,  is  the  subject  of  this  biographical  sketch,  George  R.  Dilks. 
'Born  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  October  20,  1854,  he  passed  the  first  seven 
years  of  his  life  there,  but.  from  the  opening  year  of  the  civil  war  until  the 
present  he  has  looked  upon  Richmond  as  his  home,  though  he  has  been 
absent,  as  his  business  interests  required,  for  perhaps  several  years  at  a  time. 

George  Dilks,  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  very  successful  business  man 
and  able  financier.  Nearly  all  of  his  active  life  was  spent  in  the  Quaker  city, 
where  he  carried  on  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  lumber  trade,  also  doing 
contracting  and  building  to  quite  an  extent.      Among  the  business  men  of  his 

•  city  he  was  very  highly  esteemed,  and  bore  a  truly  enviable  reputation  for 
'uprightness,  reliability  and  fairness  in  all  his  transactions.      In  the  Society  of 

Friends  he  was  a  prominent  and  valued  member,  filling  many  official  posi- 
tions in  his  own  church.  He  was  a  native  of  Gloucester,  New  Jersey,  born 
in  1804,  and  died  in  his  prime,  at  his  pleasant  home  in  Philadelphia,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1855.  He  had  married  Hannah  H.  Richie,  May  30,  1837,  and  she 
survived  him  about  a  quarter  of  a  century,  her  demise  occurring  July  5,  1880, 
in  Richmond,  when  she  was  in  her  sixty-fifth  year. 

It  has  always  been  a  matter  of  regret  to  George  R.  Dilks  that  he  lost 
his  noble  father  ere  he  was  old  enough  to  have  his  parent's  memory  impressed 
upon  his  mind.      The  loving  mother  strove  to  fill  the  lack  of  a  father's  judi- 

•  clous  care  and  guidance  in  her  son's  life,  and  to  her  watchfulness,  wisdom 
■  and  example  he  attributes  much  of  his  success  in  later  years.     In  1861  the 

family  came  to  the  neighborhood  of  Richmond,  and  in  the  public  schools  of 
(this  place  George  R.  received  his  elementary  education.  Subsequently  he 
;attended  the  excellent  old  boarding  school  of  the  Friends  at'Westtown,  Ches- 
ter county,  Pennsylvania.  At  eighteen  or  twenty  years  of  age  he  left  his 
studies  and  launched  his  bark  on  the  uncertain  sea  of  commercial  life.  For 
a  short  time  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Richmond  Church  &  School  Furni- 
ture Company,  and  then  for  four  years  he  worked  for  George  H.  Grant  & 
Comjia.ny.      His  next  employment  was  with  T.  H.  Hill  in  the  grain  business, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  499 

and  in  the  autumn  of  1880  he  engaged  as  superintendent  of  the  Chicago  Lin- 
seed Oil  Company.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  resigned  his  position  with  that 
firm,  and,  going  to  Indianapolis,  became  superintendent  of  the  linseed-oil 
works  of  J.  P.  Evans  &  Company,  a  large  and  wealthy  concern,  with  which 
he  was  connected  for  some  five  years,  or  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Evans.  In 
1886  Mr.  Dilks  became  superintendent  of  the  plant  of  Haynes,  Spencer  & 
Company,  manufacturers  of  church  furniture,  in  Richmond,  and,  at  the  end 
of  two  years'  service  with  that  house  he  associated  himself  with  the  firm  of 
W.  J.  Banners  &  Sons,  of  Philadelphia,  wholesale  dealers  in  hardwood  lum- 
ber, and  ran  a  branch  office  in  Richmond,  also  representing  them  on  the 
road,  up  tp  1891.  The  five  years  that  followed  he  traveled  in  the  interests 
of  M.  B.  Farrin,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  since  1896  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  lumber  business  on  his  own  account  in  Richmond,  and  has  suc- 
ceeded in  establishing  a  large  and  constantly  increasing  patronage.  Strictly 
upright,  prompt  and  thoroughly  reliable  in  his  business  methods,  he  merits 
the  custom  which  he  enjoys  and  the  confidence  which  is  freely  reposed  in 
him  by  those  who  are  acquainted  with  him.  As  he  was  reared  in  the  faith 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  his  whole  life  has  been  strongly  influenced  by  the 
example  and  precepts  of  the  same.  In  political  matters  he  is  to  be  found 
on  the  side  of  the  Republican  party.  Socially  he  belongs  to  the  Central 
Traveling  Men's  Association,  whose  headquarters  are  in  Indianapolis,  and  he 
was  actively  identified  with  the  organization  of  Post  C  of  the  Travelers'  Pro- 
tective Association,  in  Richmond,  and  he  is  now  president  of  the  same.  Per- 
sonally, he  is  very  popular  with  all  who  know  him,  for  he  readily  wins  friends 
by  his  genial  courtesy  and  kindliness  of  heart. 

The  pleasant  home  of  George  R.  Dilks  is  at  Spring  Grove,  a  pretty 
suburb  of  Richmond.  He  was  married  October  31,  1876,  to  Miss  Alice  J. 
Hill,  a  sketch  of  whose  parents,  George  and  Tacy  (Hibberd)  Hill,  is  pre- 
sented elsewhere  in  this  work.  The  six  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dilks  are 
Grace  R.,  George  H.,  Benjamin  H.  (deceased),  Harrie  R.,  Annie  G.  and 
Dorothy  E. 

THOMAS  A.   MOTT,  A.  M. 

The  present  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of  Richmond,  Professor 
Thomas  Abbott  Mott,  is  the  son  of  Z.  W.  and  Harriett  (Gilbert)  Mott,  and  was 
born  in  Gansvoort,  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  January  22,  1857.  On 
both  the  paternal  and  maternal  sides  he  is  of  English  lineage.  His  grand- 
father, William  Mott,  was  a  native  and  life-long  resident  of  Saratoga  county, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  Like  all  of  his  ancestors,  he  was  connected 
with  the  Society  of  Friends,  or  Quakers.  He  married  a  Miss  Merritt  and  to 
them  were  born  four  children.  His  death  occurred  in  1894,  when  he  had 
reached  the  age  of  ninety-four  years.      Z.  W.  Mott,  the  father  of  the  subject 


500  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  in  1818,  and  for 
many  years  engaged  in  farming  and  in  the  grocery  business,  devoting  his 
energies  to  those  two  pursuits  throughout  his  entire  activity  in  connection 
with  industrial  and  commercial  interests.  He  is  now  living  a  retired  life  in 
Glens  Falls,  New  York,  enjoying  a  rest  which  he  richly  merits.  He  had 
been  twice  married,  his  first  union  being  with  Mary  Leggett,  by  whom  he 
had  two  children.  After  her  death  he  wedded  Harriett  Gilbert,  and  they  had 
two  daughters  and  a  son. 

The  only  son,  Thomas  A.  Mott,  attended  the  public  schools  of  the  city 
which  is  now  his  home  and  was  graduated  in  the  high  school  with  the  class  of 
1876.  During  the  years  he  was  in  the  high  school  his  father  rented  a  farm  near 
Richmond,  and  he  walked  into  the  city  and  attended  school.  His  mother 
had  been  a  teacher  in  her  early  life,  and  to  her  efforts  in  giving  him  instruc- 
tion in  the  house  while  at  work  on  the  farm  he  owes  much  of  his  success  in 
getting  through  school.  Later  he  attended  Oberlin  College  and  subsequently 
was  a  student  in  Earlham  College,  which  institution  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  in  June,  1 898.  Throughout  his  professional  career  he  has  been 
connected  with  educational  interests  and  has  gained  marked  prestige  as  a  teach- 
er of  superior  mental  force  and  ability.  He  began  teaching  in  1 878  and  has  since 
devoted  his  energies  to  that  calling  with  the  exception  of  one  year,  which  he 
passed  as  a  student  in  college.  He  has  always  kept  in  touch  with  educational 
advancement,  and  has  given  special  attention  to  the  improvement  that  is 
continually  being  made  in  methods  of  teaching.  His  own  original  ideas  on 
the  subject  have  also  proved  very  valuable  and  have  had  the  test  of  practical 
experience  in  schools  of  which  he  and  of  which  others  have  had  charge.  For 
twenty  years  he  has  taught  in  the  schools  of  Wayne  county,  and  for  one 
year  was  employed  as  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Madison,  Indiana, 
occupying  that  position  in  the  scholastic  year  of  1895-6.  For  four  years 
he  had  charge  of  country  schools,  for  four  years  of  the  graded  schools  of 
Wayne  township,  for  four  years  was  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Dublin, 
for  two  terms  of  two  years  each  has  been  county  superintendent,  and  in 
August,  1896,  he  came  to  Richmond  as  superintendent  of  the  city  schools. 
At  all  places  his  labors  have  greatly  advanced  the  standard  of  the  schools, 
his  new  and  progressive  methods  working  many  needed  reforms.  He  has  a 
keenly  analytical  mind,  is  quick  in  comprehension,  and  is  a  good  judge  of 
human  nature, — qualities  which  are  very  essential  to  the  successful  instructor. 
Under  his  superintendency  the  schools  of  Wayne  county  made  marked  prog- 
ress and  showed  the  efifect  of  his  careful  guidance.  The  educational  system  of 
Richmond  is  one  of  which  the  city  may  well  be  proud  and  most  satisfactory 
results  are  being  obtained  under  his  practical  and  superior  methods.  At  one 
time  Professor  Mott  engaged  in  the  study  of  law  for  two  years  under  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  501 

direction  of  Judge  Henry  C.  Fox,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1882,  but 
his  success  in  his  chosen  calling  is  such  as  to  cause  one  to  believe  that  he  has 
remained  in  that  sphere  of  life  for  which  nature  intended  him;  it  is  certain 
that  the  educational  circles  of  Wayne  county  could  ill  spare  him,  and  all 
acquainted  with  his  work  acknowledge  his  prestige  in  the  profession. 

In  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a  Republican  and  takes  an  intelligent 
interest  in  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  as  every  true  American  citizen 
should  do.  He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  its  growth.  Socially  he  is  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  and  also  belongs  to  Coeur  de  Lion  Lodge,  No.  8,  K.  P.,  and  Olive 
Branch  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.  On  December  23,  1885,  Professor  Mott  married 
Lida  J.  Iliff,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  George  W.  Iliff,  of  Richmond,  and,  like  her 
husband,  she  enjoys  the  high  regard  of  many  friends.  Professor  Mott  and 
his  wife  occupy  a  prominent  position  in  social  circles,  and  along  educational 
lines  he  has  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  history  of  the 
state.  For  five  years  he  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the  State  Reading  Circle 
Board.  His  labors  have  done  much  to  quicken  literary  interest  and  to  pro- 
mote intellectual  activity,  and  the  measure  of  his  influence  upon  the  best 
development  of  Wayne  county  is  incalculable. 

W.  B.  BAREFOOT. 

W.  B.  Barefoot,  one  of  the  progressive,  wide-awake  young  business 
men  of  Cambridge  City,  is  a  native  of  Wayne  county,  his  birth  having 
occurred  on  the  8th  of  January,  1862.  His  parents,  S.  R.  and  Barbara 
(Armstrong)  Barefoot,  were  both  born  and  reared  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania.  In  i860  they  became  residents  of  Indiana,  which  state  was 
thenceforth  their  place  of  abode.  For  some  time  Mr.  Barefoot,  Sr.,  was 
engaged  in  business  at  Dublin,  Milton,  Germantown  and  Jacksonburg,  but 
from  1 87 1  until  his  death,  in  1890,  he  lived  in  Cambridge  City.  For  a  period 
of  fifteen  years  he  was  extensively  interested  in  the  poultry  trade,  and  suc- 
ceeded in  building  up  a  large  and  remunerative  business  in  this  line. 

When  our  subject  was  a  small  child  the  family  removed  to  Cambridge 
City,  and  hence  the  association  and  memories  of  almost  his  whole  life  cling 
around  this  vicinity.  His  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of 
this  place,  and  in  his  boyhood  he  assisted  his  father  in  business,  and  learned 
the  various  features  of  the  trade.  Thus  familiar  with  the  enterprise,  he  was 
enabled  to  assume  the  management  of  the  business  at  the  death  of  his  father, 
and  has  since  continued  it  with  marked  success.  His  trade  is  exclusively 
wholesale,  and  the  points  to  which  he  chiefly  ships  are  Boston,  New  York 
and  Philadelphia,  from  four  to  five  thousand  chickens  and  turkeys  being 
crated  and  sent  to  the  eastern  markets  each  week.      Mr.  Barefoot  is  method- 


502  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ical,  prompt  and  far-sighted  in  his  business  transactions,  meeting  his  obHga- 
tions  faithfully  and  inspiring  confidence  in  all  with  whom  he  has  dealings. 
He  is  a  member  of  Cambridge  City  Lodge,  No.  5,  Free  &  Accepted  Masons, 
and  is  connected  with  Cambridge  City  Lodge,  No.  9,  Knights  of  Pythias. 

GUY  B.  HOWREN. 

One  of  the  rising  young  men  of  Union  county  is  Guy  B.  Howren,  who 
is  now  serving  in  the  capacity  of  county  recorder,  and  has  practically  had 
the  work  of  this  important  office  upon  his  shoulders  for  over  five  years.  He 
is  conscientious,  prompt  and  thoroughly  reliable  and  has  won  the  praise  and 
regard  of  all  who  have  had  dealings  with  him. 

Newton  Howren,  the  father  of  the  above  named  gentleman,  died 
March  23,  1896,  when  in  his  seventy-third  year.  His  parents  were  natives 
of  North  Carolina  and  his  birthplace  was  in  Union  county,  Indiana.  Before 
the  days  of  railroads  Newton  Howren  drove  a  stage  from  Cincinnati  to  Lib- 
erty, and  from  Liberty  to  Richmond  for  several  years.  For  two  terms,  from 
1872  to  1876,  he  was  sheriff  in  this  county,  and  in  1891  he  was  elected  to 
the  office  of  county  recorder.  He  served  as  such  for  one  term  of  four  years, 
after  which  he  was  re-elected  and  started  on  his  second  term,  but  was 
stricken  with  paralysis.  He  lived  two  and  a  half  years  after  that  sad  blow, 
but  was  unable  to  meet  the  requirements  of  his  public  position,  and  his  son 
Guy  took  charge  as  his  father's  deputy,  in  October,  1893.  At  the  end  of  the 
term  the  young  man  was  honored  by  being  elected  to  the  place,  and  no  one 
more  eligible  or  more  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  manilold  duties  of  the 
office  could  have  been  chosen.      His  term  closed  in  November,  1899. 

In  the  Republican  party  Newton  Howren  was  very  active  and  interested. 
In  the  Odd  Fellows  society  he  was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  local 
lodge,  and  in  DuVall  Post,  No.  188,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  he  was 
likewise  an  honored  member.  His  funeral  services  were  held  under  the 
auspices  of  both  organizations.  Religiously  he  was  connected  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  was  an  ardent  worker  in  the  same.  During 
the  civil  war  he  enlisted  in  Company  D,  Ninth  Indiana  Cavalry,  and  was 
detached  from  the  regular  service  and  assigned  to  the  commissary  depart- 
ment, after  a  short  interval.  He  had  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever  in  the 
hospital  at  Nashville,  and  was  subsequently  discharged  from  the  army  on 
that  account.  His  widow,  the  mother  of  our  subject,  and  in  her  girlhood 
Martha  A.  Miller  by  name,  is  still  living,  her  present  home  being  in  Liberty. 

Guy  B.  Howren  was  born  in  this  town  on  the  26th  of  April,  1872,  and 
here  he  has  spent  his  whole  life.  His  education  was  gained  in  our  public  schools 
and  in  1889  he  was  graduated  from  the  high  school.  Following  in  the  foot- 
steps of  his  honored  father,  he  gives  his  allegiance  to  the  Republican  party. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  503 

In  1895  he  joined  Orinoco  Tribe,  No.  184,  of  Red  Men,  and  has  been  chief 
of  records  ever  since  he  identified  himself  with  this  growing  and  popular 
order.  A  great  lover  of  athletics,  and  particularly  of  base  ball,  he  formerly 
belonged  to  a  town  club  and  played  frequently.  He  is  succeeding  in  a  busi- 
ness way  and  is  making  abstracts,  in  addition  to  attending  to  his  official 
duties. 

JAMES  N.   ARDERY. 

Born  in  Springfield  township,  Franklin  county,  April  23,  1825,  James 
N.  Ardery  was  a  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Watson)  Ardery,  both  of  Harrison 
county,  Kentucky.  The  grandfather,  James  Ardery,  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land and  was  married  in  Ireland,  after  which  event  he  came  to  the  United 
States  and  located  in  Kentucky.  The  parents  of  the  subject  of  this  memoir 
came  to  Indiana  in  1817,  and,  settling  on  the  farm  which  was  the  birthplace 
of  their  children,  spent  the  rest  of  their  useful  and  happy  lives  there.  The 
father,  who  was  born  in  1791,  died  at  the  age  of  sixty  eight  years,  and  the 
mother  survived  him  some  seven  years.  Of  their  children,  Martha  Ann,  wife 
of  Thomas  Appleton,  resides  on  the  old  homestead;  William,  a  retired 
farmer,  of  Columbus,  Indiana,  died  in  April,  1899;  Caroline,  whose  second 
husband  was  John  Doty,  died  at  the  age  of  forty  years;  Augusta,  who  died 
at  sixty-eight,  married  Jesse  Burton  as  her  second  husband. 

James  N.  Ardery  was  reared  on  the  old  homestead,  where  he  remained 
until  he  was  twenty-five  years  of  age,  he  and  his  brother  aiding  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  place.  In  1854  he  removed  to  a  farm,  in  Bath  township, 
which  he  rented  for  nine  years,  during  which  period,  by  industry  and  econ- 
omy, he  accumulated  a  snug  sum  of  money,  and  this  amount  he  later  invested 
in  the  homestead  which  continued  to  be  his  place  of  abode  from  1864  until 
his  death.  To  the  original  tract  of  seventy  acres  he  afterward  added  until 
he  had  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  acres  in  his  home  place,  besides 
which  he  owned  a  farm  of  fifty  acres  which  he  rented,  this  property  being 
situated  near  College  Corner,  but  across  the  state  line,  in  Ohio.  He  was 
very  successful  in  the  raising  of  corn  and  hogs  and  bought  and  sold  and 
shipped  stock  to  the  city  markets.  He  had  sold  wheat  at  two  dollars  and  a 
half  a  bushel  and  hogs  at  nine  dollars  a  hundred-weight.  Many  substantial 
improvements  were  made  upon  his  farm,  including  ditching  and  tiling,  and  in 
1879  he  erected  a  comfortable  and  commodious  house  and  also  barns. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Ardery  had  achieved  was  gained  by  well  applied, 
persistent  energy  and  hard  work  through  a  long  period.  He  had  lived  in 
peace  and  harmony  with  his  neighbors,  whose  respect  and  good  wishes  were 
consequently  freelj'  accorded  him.  The  Republican  party  found  in  him  a 
stanch  advocate,  and  for  years  it  was  his  pride  that  he  has  not  failed  in  his 
duty  as  a  voter.      All  of  his  sons   and   his   sons-in-law,  as  well,  are  adherents 


504  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

of  the  same  party.  Mr.  Ardery  was  not  affiliated  with  any  religious  body  or 
secret  society,  but  did  not  withhold  contributions  to  the  maintenance  of 
churches  and  schools,  as  he  realized  that  any  community  is  elevated  and 
made  better  by  them. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Ardery  was  solemnized  October  3,  1850,  when 
Miss  Margaret  Goff,  of  Bath  township,  became  his  wife.  For  forty-three 
years  they  pursued  the  journey  of  life  together,  but  the  angel  of  death  called 
away  the  wife  and  mother,  December  12,  1893.  Their  eldest  son,  John, 
was  injured  by  the  falling  of  a  tree  when  he  was  a  lad  of  eleven  years,  and 
from  that  time  until  his  death,  seventeen  years  later,  he  was  a  cripple.  Lean- 
der,  the  second  son,  is  engaged  in,  farming  in  Butler  county,  Ohio,  half  a 
mile  south  of  College  Corner.  James  and  Albert  each  have  eighty-acre  farms 
in  this  township,  that  of  the  latter  being  one  which  adjoins  the  paternal 
homestead.  Emma  D.,the  eldest  daughter,  who  died  in  April,  1899,  was  the 
wife  of  William  E.  Baker,  a  farmer  of  this  vicinity.  Ellsworth,  who  owned 
a  small  farm  at  Billingsville,  and  bought  one  adjoining,  of  one  hundred  and 
twenty-seven  acres,  operates  his  father's  place  at  present.  Mary  Alice  married 
James  Orr,  who  died  three  years  ago,  aged  thirty  years.  Laura,  who  is 
unmarried,  resides  with  her  sister.  William  Franklin  owns  a  one-hundred- 
and-twenty-acre  farm,  and  Omar  Monroe  sold  his  forty-acre  place  and 
bought  the  old  home  place  of  one  hundred  and  ten  acres.  In  November, 
1S94,  James  N.  Ardery  married  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Smith,  widow  of  James  F. 
Smith,  late  of  Springfield  township,  Franklin  county,  and  sister  of  the  first 
wife  of  our  subject.  Mr.  Smith  and  ten  of  their  twelve  children  died  of  con- 
sumption. Mrs.  Ardery  is  a  lady  who  is  greatly  loved  and  esteemed  by  all 
who  know  her.  James  A.  Ardery  died  January  19,  1899,  aged  seventy-three 
years,  eight  months  and  six  days,  and  was  mourned  by  a  large  circle  of  rela- 
tives and  friends. 

CALEB   S.   DuHADWAY. 

The  subject  of  this  review  was  born  in  Milton,  Wayne  county,  Indiana, 
December  11,  1826,  and  is  a  son  of  Peter  W.  and  Martha  R.  (Reeves)  Du 
Hadwaj',  and  a  grandson  of  Thomas  DuHadway.  The  grandfather  was  a 
native  of  Maryland  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  that  state,  where  he  was 
prominent  in  educational  circles,  being  a  teacher  of  more  than  average  abil- 
ity. He'  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  a  Miss  Wright,  who  bore  him  a  large 
family  of  children,  among  whom  was  Peter,  the  father  of  our  subject.  Peter 
W.  DuHadway  was  born  in  Maryland  and  in  1823  came  to  this  county,  set- 
tling in  Richmond,  and  later  removing  to  Milton,  where  he  remained  a  few 
years  and  finally  moved  to  Jacksonburg,  Indiana,  where  he  died.  He  was  a 
tailor  by  trade  and  was  known  as  an  exceptionally  good  and  reliable  one, 
receiving  a  large  patronage,  even  in  those   pioneer  times  when  the  housewife 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  505 

spun  and  wove  most  of  the  clothing  worn  by  herself  and  family.  His  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Martha  Reeves,  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  and  a 
daughter  of  Mark  Reeves.  One  son  was  born  to  them,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Caleb  S.  Du  Hadway,  the  only  son  of  his  parents,  grew  to  adult  years  in 
Hagerstown  and  Richmond,  receiving  his  education  in  the  latter  place.  His 
first  business  venture  was  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  when  he  embarked  in  a 
general  merchandise  business  in  Hagerstown,  where  he  continued  until  1855, 
when  he  engaged  in  the  insurance  business.  In  i860  he  came  to  Richmond, 
where  he  followed  auctioneering  for  two  years,  after  which  he  became  a 
traveling  salesman  for  a  tobacco  house.  The  following  year  he  was  with 
an  insurance  company  as  bookkeeper,  and  was  then  made  deputy  treasurer  of 
Wayne  county,  under  William  M.  Thompson,  remaining  in  that  office  three 
years,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  county  auditor,  in  which  he 
served  four  years.  He  has  been  active  in  the  Republican  cause,  and  is  also 
prominent  in  fraternal  circles,  being  a  member  of  both  the  Masonic  and  Odd 
Fellows  lodges.  He  was  married  in  1852,  to  Miss  Priscilla  Buchanan,  of 
Hagerstown,  to  whom  have  been  born  four  children,  only  one  of  whom  sur- 
vives,— Charles  R.,  assistant  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank. 

Charles  R.  Du  Hadway  was  born  March  26,  1856.  His  parents  moved 
to  Richmond  when  he  was  about  four  years  old,  and  here  he  received  his 
education.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age  he  left  school  and 
entered  the  First  National  Bank,  where  he  worked  his  way  up  from  messen- 
ger to  his  present  position,  serving  as  collection  clerk,  individual  bookkeeper, 
general  bookkeeper,  and  in  September,  1897,  being  promoted  to  the  office 
of  assistant  cashier,  which  he  still  holds.  He  receives  the  hearty  commenda- 
tion of  his  superiors  for  his  prompt  and  amiable  manner  of  discharging  his 
duties,  and  is  widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  community.  He 
affiliates  with  the  Republican  party,  and  while  he  is  intelligently  active  in 
the  work  he  is  not  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  was  married  in  1883,  to  Miss 
Alice  Castleman,  of  Burlington,  Iowa,  a  lady  of  many  personal  charms. 

EDWARD  SHAW. 
This  venerable  and  honored  citizen  of  Richmond  was  born  at  the  close 
of  the  second  war  of  the  United  States  with  Great  Britain,  April  29,  181  5. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Samuel  Shaw,  was  a  native  of  Bucks  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, whence  he  removed  to  Red  Stone,  five  miles  east  of  Brownsville, 
Washington  county,  same  state,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  His 
death  occurred  while  he  was  attending  the  annual  meeting  of  Friends,  at 
Mount  Pleasant,  Ohio.  To  himself  and  wife,  Susannah,  two  sons  were  born, 
— John  and  Thomas. 


506  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY. 

The  former,  Dr.  John  Shaw,  born  near  Quakertown,  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  on  the  24th  day  of  the  i  ith  month  of  1786,  removed  to  Wash- 
ington county,  that  state,  with  his  parents,  and  in  1805  went  on  a  flat-boat 
down  the  Monongahela  and  Ohio  rivers  as  far  as  Cincinnati,  which  was  then 
a  village,  with  perhaps  half  a  dozen  houses,  having  shingled  roofs.  Until 
this  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  farming  in  company  with  his  father,  but  he 
now  turned  his  attention  to  the  study  and  practice  of  medicine,  being  thus 
occupied  when  the  war  of  18 12  broke  out.  He  gave  his  services  to  his 
country  as  an  assistant  surgeon  at  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  and  Greenville, 
Ohio,  became  personally  acquainted  with  General  William  H.  Harrison,  and 
was  greatly  relied  upon  by  his  superior  officers.  In  18 14  he  marrie^  Eliza- 
beth Wright,  and  to  the  worthy  couple  is  accorded  the  distinction  of  having 
been  the  first  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  ever  wedded  in  Cincinnati. 
He  continued  to  practice  as  a  physician,  and,  in  company  with  David  Holo- 
way  and  Jonathan  Wright,  was  interested  in  merchandising  for  some  years, 
the  partners  having  one  store  in  Cincinnati  and  one  in  Waynesville,  Ohio. 
In  1820  Dr.  Shaw  was  appointed  Indian  agent  for  the  Wyandottes  at  Upper 
Sandusky,  Ohio,  and  also  served  as  postmaster  during  part  of  his  five  years' 
residence  there,  his  home  being  within  the  fort.  Returning  then  to  Cincin- 
nati, he  resumed  his  medical  career,  and  also  was  agent  for  Judge  Jacob 
Burnett  in  the  sale  of  city  lots.  In  1826  he  removed  to  Reading,  a  village 
nine  miles  north  of  Cincinnati,  and  there  he  not  only  practiced  medicine  but 
also  carried  on  a  tannery.  In  1835  he  exchanged  the  tannery  for  a  farm  in 
Greene  county,  Ohio,  where  he  later  purchased  land  adjoining  and  cultivated 
both,  practicing  in  the  meantime.  Politically  he  was  a  Whig,  Free-soiler 
and  abolitionist.  He  died  in  Spring  Valley,  Ohio,  on  the  4th  day  of  the  9th 
month  of  185 1,  and  was  followed  to  the  grave  by  his  wife,  who  died  on  the 
4th  day  of  the  4th  month  of  1857.  They  were  faithful  members  of  the 
Friends'  society,  and  were  buried  at  Waynesville,  Ohio,  in  the  Friends' 
cemetery.  They  had  but  three  children, — Edward,  Thomas  W.  and  Rebecca 
L.  The  latter  married  Jesse  M.  Hutton,  president  of  J.  M.  Hutton  &  Com- 
pany, proprietors  of  coffin  works,  and  both  are  deceased. 

Edward  Shaw,  the  only  survivor  of  his  father's  family,  was  well 
educated  in  his  boyhood,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  lived  on  the 
frontier.  His  mother  was  a  woman  of  exceptional  attainments,  for  that  day 
and  place,  she  having  completed  her  education  at  the  Friends'  Westtown 
boarding-school  near  Philadelphia,  and  under  her  wise  direction  her  children 
acquired  knowledge  far  in  advance  of  their  playmates.  He  and  his  brother 
learned  the  tanner's  trade  with  their  father  and  for  six  years  managed  a  tan- 
nery for  him,  and  after  they  removed  to  Spring  Valley,  Ohio,  they  built  a 
large  stone  building  in  the  tan-yard,  which  they  subsequently  exchanged  for 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  50T 

six  hundred  acres  of  western  land.  Then,  for  a  period  the  brothers  managed 
a  farm  near  Waynesville,  and  for  about  a  year  were  in  partnership  with  H.  T. 
Butterworth,  in  the  dairy  business  on  a  four-hundred-acre  farm  twenty-six 
miles  north  of  Cincinnati  and  on  the  Little  Miami  river.  In  1859  they  came 
to  Richmond  and  engaged  in  farming  in  the  vicinity  until  the  death  of  Thomas 
W. ,  a  year  or  two  after  their  arrival  here.  In  1863  our  subject  took  up  his 
residence  in  Richmond,  and  during  the  years  which  have  since  elapsed  he 
has  manufactured  and  sold,  in  large  quantities,  what  is  known  as  Shaw's 
Railroad  Liniment.  The  leading  drug-stores  of  towns  in  this  and  surround- 
ing counties  keep  this  favorite  household  remedy,  and  in  spite  of  his  advanced 
age  Mr.  Shaw  delivers  supplies  of  the  article  to  the  various  places  which  keep 
it  for  sale,  most  of  his  trips  being  made  with  a  horse  and  wagon.  He  has 
been  a  good  business  man  and  financier,  careful,  industrious  and  economical 
In  the  eighth  month  of  1840,  Mr.  Shaw  married  Penninah  Hill,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  Robert  Hill,  one  of  the  Wayne  county  pioneers,  and 
his  wife,  Susannah.  He  came  here  from  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina, 
in  1802,  and  at  one  time  he  represented  this  county  in  the  Indiana  state  leg- 
islature. To  the  union  of  our  subject  and  wife  four  sons  and  four  daughters 
were  born,  of  whom  Elizabeth  died  in  infancy;  Robert  H.  is  employed  in  the 
the  carpenter  department  of  the  Hutton  coffin  works;  Rebecca  L.  is  deceased; 
John  W.  is  in  the  employ  of  the  Bowman  Dairy  Company,  of  Chicago; 
Mary  E.  is  the  wife  of  Lewis  K.  Harris,  president  of  a  plow-manufacturing 
company  in  Richmond;  Henry  C.  is  engaged  in  the  undertaking  business  in 
Richmond,  with  H.  C.  Downing;  William  T.  died  when  ten  years  of  age; 
and  Susan  B.  is  at  home,  and  is  tenderly  caring  for  her  father  in  his  declin- 
ing years,  her  mother  having  passed  away  the  7th  day  of  the  3d  month  of 
1893.  Out  subject  has  the  honor  of  being  the  oldest  member  of  the  Xorth 
A  Street  Hicksite  church,  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  was  overseer  for 
years,  was  influential  in  securing  the  first-day  school  in  connection  with  the 
church,  and  was  its  superintendent  for  a  number  of  years.  In  his  political 
preference  he  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  is  always  loyal  in  his  support  of 
all  measures  calculated  to  benefit  the  community  or  the  general  public. 

ICHABOD  STOUT. 

Residing  near  the  town  of  College  Corner,  Indiana,  and  ranking  with  the 
representative  farmers  of  the  vicinity,  is  found  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
Ichabod  Stout.  He  was  born  in  Oxford  township,  Butler  county,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1840,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Freeman)  Stout,  early  settlers  of  But- 
ler county.  John  Stout  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1814,  and  in  1817  was 
brought  west  by  his  parents,  their  settlement  being  in  Butler  county,  Ohio. 
His  wife  came  to  Ohio,  a  young  widow,  with  her  mother.     At   the  age  of 


508  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

seventeen  he  began  working  in  a  stillhouse  for  his  uncle,  Wilson  Stout,  at 
Darrtown,  and  was  thus  employed  for  seven  years,  becoming  familiar  with 
every  detail  of  the  business.  Farming,  however,  was  his  life  work.  When 
he  had  accumulated  $i,ooo  he  bought  fifty  acres  of  land,  located  one  mile 
east  of  College  Corner,  Union  county,  Indiana, — -Union  county  adjoining 
Butler  on  the  west, — and  it  was  on  this  farm  that  Ichabod  Stout  was  reared. 
It  is  now  occupied  by  Oscar  Stout,  the  father  having  died  in  1866. 

Ichabod  Stout  resided  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  twenty-nine  years 
of  age,  when,  in  1869,  he  purchased  his  present  farm,  on  the  south  side  of 
the  village  of  College  Corner.  Here  he  has  qfie  hundred  and  eight  acres  of 
excellent  farming  land,  and  he  also  owns  one  hundred  and  si.xty  acres  a  mile 
and  a  half  west  of  the  home  farm.  He  carries  on  general  farming,  making  a 
specialty  of  the  dairy  business,  keeping  the  best  grade  of  Jersey  cows.  He 
has  a  milk  route,  making  daily  deliveries  of  his  product,  also  using  a  part  of 
the  milk  in  the  home  dairy,  where  an  excellent  quality  of  butter  is  made. 
Mr.  Stout  erected  his  commodious  and  attractive  brick  residence  in  1893. 

Politically  Mr.  Stout  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  two  years  as  a 
member  of  the  town  board  of  College  Corner.  He  was  reared  in  the  Chris- 
tian church,  but  is  now  identified  with  the  Methodist  church. 

Mr.  Stout  was  married  September  8,  1869,  to  Miss  Virginia  Campbell,  a 
native  of  the  same  county  and  township  in  which  he  was  born,  and  a  daughter 
of  John  Campbell,  of  that  place.  They  have  a  family  of  eight  living  children, 
namely:  John,  George  E.,  Bertha,  Arthur  H.,  Harry  W.,  Ruth  E.,  Fred  L. 
and  Ralph  C. , — all  at  home. 

ISAAC  H.   PAXSON. 

Isaac  H.  Paxson,  one  of  the  pioneer  business  men  of  Richmond,  has  long 
been  recognized  as  one  of  her  best  and  most  patriotic  citizens.  From  his 
early  years  he  has  been  industrious  and  persevering  in  whatever  enterprises 
he  has  undertaken,  and  by  diligence  and  economy  has  accumulated  a  compe- 
tence for  his  declining  years.  His  straightforward,  manly  course  in  life  may 
well  be  held  up  as  an  example  to  the  young,  and  has  proved  an  inspiration  to 
many. 

At  an  early  day  in  the  history  of  this  country  the  paternal  ancestors  of 
our  subject  were  numbered  among  the  inhabitants  of  Pennsylvania.  His  par- 
ents, Isaac  and  Sarah  (Harlan)  Paxson,  were  natives  of  Berks  county,  same 
state,  and  in  their  early  married  life  they  made  their  home  in  Lancaster 
county.  In  1835  they  determined  to  try  their  fortunes  in  the  west,  and 
accordingly  they  set  out  for  Wayne  county,  Indiana.  Settling  on  a  tract  of 
land  two  miles  south  of  Richmond,  they  lived  in  a  log  cabin  and  were  obliged 
to  endure  the  many  hardships  of  frontier  life.      The   mother  died   not  long 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  509 

after  her  arrival  here,  and  the  father  survived  until  1S50,  when  he,  too, 
entered  the  silent  land.  He  had  learned  the  butcher's  business  in  his  early 
manhood  and  followed  it,  in  connection  with  farming,  as  long  as  he  lived. 
In  his  political  views  he  was  a  Whig,  and  in  religious  faith  he  was  an  adherent 
to  the  creed  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

The  birth  of  Isaac  H.  Paxson  took  place  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, October  15,  1834.  He  was  the  youngest  of  seven  children,  and  was 
less  than  a  year  old  when  his  mother  died.  He  learned  his  father's  trade  in 
youth  and  has  followed  it  until  the  present  time.  From  1863  to  1868,  and 
again  from  1870  to  1872  he  lived  in  Iowa,  but  with  these  exceptions  he  has 
been  engaged  in  the  market  business  in  Richmond  since  1850.  He  is  the 
proprietor  of  one  of  the  neatest  and  best  kept  markets  in  the  city,  and  has 
been  longer  engaged  in  this  line  of  business  than  any  other  man  here.  He 
received  the  patronage  of  the  leading  families,  hotels  and  restaurants,  as  he 
keeps  the  choicest  cuts  of  meat  and  pays  particular  attention  to  the  wants  of 
his  customers. 

Since  he  became  a  voter  Mr.  Pa.xson  has  used  his  right  of  franchise  in 
favor  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  been  a  politician,  in  any  meas- 
ure. He  was  married  in  1857  to  Miss  Ella  C.  Thomas,  of  Richmond,  and 
two  sons  and  two  daughters  have  been  born  to  them:  William  T.,  the  elder 
son,  is  his  father's  assistant  in  the  market,  and  is  a  young  man  of  consider- 
able business  ability;  George  L. ,  the  younger  son,  is  now  occupying  a  posi- 
tion as  stenographer  to  the  superintendent  ot  the  Logansport  (Indiana)  asy- 
lum; lona  M.,  the  elder  daughter,  is  living  in  Richmond;  and  the  youngest  of 
the  family  is  Mrs.  Susan  S.  Polglose,  of  Chicago. 

MORDECAI   PARRY. 

Deeds  are  thoughts  crystallized,  and  according  to  their  brilliancy  do  we 
judge  the  worth  of  a  man  to  the  country  which  produced  him,  and  in  his  works 
we  expect  to  find  the  true  index  to  his  character.  The  study  of  the  life  of 
the  representative  American  never  fails  to  offer  much  of  pleasing  interest  and 
valuable  instruction,  developing  a  mastering  of  expedients  which  has  brought 
about  most  wonderful  results.  The  subject  of  this  review  was  a  worthy 
representative  of  that  type  of  American  character  and  of  that  progressive 
spirit  which  promote  public  good  in  advancing  individual  prosperity  and  con- 
serving popular  interests.  He  has  long  prominently  identified  with  the  busi- 
ness interests  of  Richmond  and  Wayne  county,  and  while  his  varied  affairs 
brought  him  success  they  also  advanced  the  general  welfare  by  accelerating 
commercial  activity. 

Mr.  Parry  was  of  Welsh   ancestry  and   possessed  many  of  the  strong- 


510  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

est  and  best  characteristics  of  the  people  of  that  little  rock-ribbed  coun- 
try. About  1690  Thomas  Parry  and  his  wife,  Eleanor,  came  with  their 
family  to  America,  locating  at  Radnor,  Pennsylvania,  where  the  wife 
and  mother  was  buried,  in  1701.  The  father  afterward  removed  to 
Philadelphia,  and  later  to  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  his 
last  days  were  spent.  His  children  were  Edward,  Thomas  and  Mary. 
The  second  Thomas  Parry,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Cardiganshire,  Wales,  in  1680,  and  came  with  his  family  to  Amer- 
ica, at  the  age  of  ten  years.  During  the  greater  part  of  his  life  he 
resided  at  or  near  Willow  Grove,  then  known  as  Parry's  Mills,  now  Morgan's 
Mills.  Throughout  his  business  career  he  carried  on  the  milling  business 
and  was  the  owner  and  operator  of  Parry's  mill.  His  death  occurred  there 
May  18,  1749.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  His  wife 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Jane  Philips,  and  to  them  were  born  ten  children, 
nine  of  whom  married  and  had  families. 

Of  these  Isaac  Parry,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1738,  and  died  October  18,  1802,  on  his  farm  in  Montgomery 
county.  In  early  life  he  followed  the  stone-mason's  trade,  and  later  carried 
on  agricultural  pursuits.  He  married  Grace  Comly,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Jane  (Cadwallader)  Comly,  in  1764,  and  they  became  parents  of  nine  chil- 
dren, six  of  whom  grew  to  mature  years,  while  three  died  in  infancy.  The 
youngest  of  the  family  was  Joseph  Parry,  father  of  our  subject.  He  was 
born  in  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  i,  1788,  and  died 
September  i,  1870.  On  leaving  his  native  county  he  located  in  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania,  whence  in  the  spring  of  1828  he  came  to  Richmond 
Indiana,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed.  He  was  a  plasterer  by 
trade  and  followed  that  vocation  throughout  his  entire  life.  In  1809  he 
married  Sarah  Webster,  daughter  of  Nay  lor  and  Martha  (Fisher)  Webster, 
and  they  had  a  family  of  eight  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy,  and 
five  of  whom  lived  beyond  the  age  of  seventy  years,  the  youngest  being 
sixty-nine  at  the  time  of  his  death.  They  were:  William;  Robert,  a  plas- 
terer; Isaac,  who  was  also  a  plasterer,  and  removed  to  California;  he  returned 
to  his  home  in  Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died;  Grace;  Mor- 
decai;  and  George,  who  went  to  California  in   1849,  and  died  there  in  1889. 

Mordecai  Parry,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  born  in  Mont- 
gomery county,  Pennsylvania,  July  4,  1818,  and  when  ten  years  of  age  was 
brought  by  his  parents  to  Richmond,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood.  He 
learned  the  blacksmith's  trade,  which  he  followed  for  thirty  years,  but  his 
energies  were  by  no  means  confined  to  one  line  of  endeavor.  He  was  a  man 
of  resourceful  ability  and  extended  his  field  of  operations  from  time  to  time. 


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To  his  blacksrnithing  he  added  the  manufacture  of  carriages,  and  subse- 
quently he  established  a  coal,  wood  and  lumber  yard,  building  up  an  exten- 
sive trade  in  those  commodities.  He  also  erected  many  houses  and  engaged 
largely  in  the  real-estate  business,  handling  his  own  property,  which  was 
acquired  through  judicious  investment  of  his  savings.  He  also  owned  a  dry- 
goods  store  in  Plainfield,  Indiana,  and  a  carriage  repository  there;  but  in 
1867  he  disposed  of  all  his  interests  save  the  real  estate.  He  continued 
his  residence  in  Richmond  until  1872,  when  on  account  of  impaired  health 
he  moved  to  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where  he  died  July  31,  1892.  He 
was  the  owner  of  extensive  and  very  valuable  real  estate,  both  in  Minne- 
apolis and  Richmond,  and  acquired  a  handsome  fortune. 

Mr.  Parry  was  married  three  times.  He  first  wedded  Gulielma  Henley, 
of  Richmond,  a  daughter  of  Micajah  and  Gulielma  (Charles)  Henley,  January 
4,  1845,  and  they  had  two  children:  Martha,  the  wife  of  Lindley  A.  Haw- 
kins, of  Wayne  township,  Wayne  county;  and  Webster,  a  real-estate  dealer 
of  Richmond,  who  is  also  vice-president  of  the  Richmond  Home  Telephone 
Company.  He  managed  his  father's  real-estate  business  in  Richmond  from 
the  age  of  twenty  years,  and  upon  the  death  of  the  latter  succeeded  to  the 
business.  He  married  Miss  Lou  M.  Lefferts,  of  Oakland,  California.  Mrs. 
Gulielma  Parry  died  August  5,  1849,  and  Mr.  Parry,  May  23,  1855,  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Sarah  Bell,  of  Henry  county,  Indiana,  and  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Jerusha  (Strattan)  Bell.  By  this  marriage  there  were  six 
children,  of  whom  two  are  living, — Joseph  E.,  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
who  married  Elma  Mulford,  of  Richmond,  Indiana;  and  Sarah  B  ,  also  of 
Minneapolis:  she  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  George  D.  Head.  The  other  children, 
excepting  Gulielma,  died  without  issue.  Gulielma  became  the  wife  of  Mil- 
ton D.  Brown,  and  had  two  children, — Alice  L.  and  Sarah  B., — and  died 
November  3,  1884.  One  of  the  sons,  Charles  M.  Parry,  who  died  in  Minne- 
apolis, March  17,  1894,  was  one  of  the  most  promising  young  men  in  the 
Plour  City.  The  mother  of  the  above  named  children  died  January  22, 
1880,  and  on  the  9th  of  March,  1882,  Mr.  Parry  married  Martha  E.  Hill,  of 
Richmond,  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Hoover)  Hill.  She  still  sur- 
vives her  husband,  and  resides  in  Richmond,  of  which  place  Mr.  Parry  was  so 
Jong  an  honored  and  influential  citizen.  Not  only  in  business  affairs  was  he 
well  known:  he  was  active  and  earnest  in  his  advocacy  of  all  measures  for 
ithe  public  good,  was  a  very  zealous  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  con- 
tributed liberally  to  its  support,  and  also  built  Parry  Hall,  of  Earlham  Col- 
lege. In  early  life  he  exercised  his  right  of  franchise  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  afterward  was  a  Prohibitionist.  A  friend  of  temper- 
ance, he  did  all  in  his  power  to  promote  sobriety,  morality  and  Godliness 
.among  men,  and  his  own  upright,  honorable  life  formed  an  example  well  wor- 


512  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

thy  of  emulation.  Mrs.  Parry,  like  her  husband,  shares  in  the  high  regard  of 
a  large  circle  of  friends.  She  is  a  representative  of  two  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  honored  pioneer  families  of  Wayne  county, — the  Hoovers  and  the 
Hills, — and  as  such  is  well  deserving  of  mention  in  this  history. 

JACOB  GETZ. 

In  the  history  of  the  business  interests  of  Richmond  the  name  of  Jacob 
Getz  cannot  be  omitted,  for  through  many  years  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
merchants  of  the  city,  progressive,  enterprising  and  persevering.  Such 
qualities  always  win  success,  sooner  or  later,  and  to  Mr.  Getz  they  brought  a 
handsome  competence  as  the  reward  of  his  well  directed  efforts. 

A  native  of  the  Fatherland,  he  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  May 
I,  1832,  his  parents  being  John  and  Mary  Getz,  who  spent  their  entire  lives 
in  that  kingdom.  Their  family  numbered  five  children.  At  an  early  age 
Jacob  Getz  was  left  an  orphan  and  received  no  patrimony,  for  his  father  was 
in  limited  circumstances.  His  educational  privileges  were  therefore  meager, 
as  in  early  life  he  was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  He  worked  at  vari- 
ous kinds  of  employment  that  would  yield  him  an  honest  liviug,  until  at 
length  he  resolved  to  try  his  fortune  in  America,  and  in  1854  crossed  the 
Atlantic  to  the  United  States.  He  first  located  in  New  Jersej',  where  he 
made  his  home  for  three  years,  going  thence  to  Ohio  in  1857.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  came  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
He  was  employed  in  the  oil  mill  until  the  spring  of  1861,  but  at  that  time  he 
put  aside  all  personal  considerations  in  order  to  respond  to  the  call  of  his 
adopted  country  for  aid.  The  trouble  between  the  north  and  south  had  at 
length  resulted  in  hostilities  and  he  resolved  to  strike  a  blow  in  defense  of 
the  Union.  On  the  20th  of  April,  he  joined  the  command  of  Captain  M.  M. 
Lacey,  which  became  Company  D,  Eighth  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers. 
He  served  for  three  months,  and  was  then  honorably  discharged  August  5, 
1 86 1,  but  on  the  28th  of  the  same  month  he  re-enlisted  in  Company  C,  Sec- 
ond Indiana  Cavalry,  for  three  years  under  Captain  Joseph  \V.  Starr,  hold- 
ing the  rank  of  corporal.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Pittsburg  Land- 
ing, Vinegar  Hill,  and  others,  and  was  honorably  discharged  October  4,  1S64. 
He  was  a  brave  and  loyal  soldier,  ever  found  at  his  post  of  duty  in  the  faith- 
ful discharge  of  the  task  assigned  to  him.  In  the  thickest  of  the  fight  he 
never  faltered,  and  with  an  honorable  military  record  he  returned  to  his 
home. 

In  the  fall  of  1864  Mr.  Getz  again  began  work  in  the  oil  mill,  and  the 
fact  that  he  was  given  his  old  position  is  an  unmistakable  evidence  of  his 
ability  and  trustworthiness.  He  continued  there  for  seven  years,  or  until 
1 87 1,  when  he  opened  a  grocery  store  at  No.  829  North  Tenth  street,  where 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  513 

he  remained  until  1892,  when  he  retired  to  private  life,  turning  over  the 
business  to  his  son  John,  who  still  conducts  the  store.  He  was  a  successful 
merchant  and  built  up  a  large  trade  by  reason  of  his  honorable  methods,  his 
earnest  desire  to  please  his  patrons  and  the  good  line  of  stable  and  fancy 
groceries  which  he  carried.  He  was  industrious,  economical  and  discrim- 
inating, and  his  prosperity  was  well  merited. 

On  the  Sth  of  November,  1866,  Mr.  Getz  was  united  in  marriage  to  Set- 
tie  Scheibler,  a  native  of  Switzerland  and  a  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
Scheibler,  who  spent  their  entire  lives  in  that  country.  She  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1855  with  her  brother  John,  and  resided  in  Hagerstown,  Wayne 
county,  until  1861,  since  which  time  she  has  made  her  home  in  Richmond.* 
By  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Getz  were  born  four  children,  two  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  The  living  are  John  J.  and  Clara  E.  The  former  conducts 
the  grocery  store  and  the  latter  is  at  home  with  her  mother. 

In  politics  Mr.  Getz  was  a  Democrat  but  took  no  active  part  in  the  work 
of  the  party,  preferring  to  devote  his  energies  to  his  business  interests.  He 
was  a  consistent  and  devout  Christian,  and  saw  in  his  deliverance  from  death 
in  battle  and  triumph  over  many  obstacles  the  protection  of  the  Divine  Hand. 
He  was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  served  as 
elder  for  many  years,  contributed  liberally  to  its  support,  and  was  a  most 
active  worker  in  its  behalf.  He  was  also  an  esteemed  member  of  Harmony 
Lodge,  L  O.  O.  F. ,  and  of  the  German  Benevolent  Society.  He  died 
November  17,  1895,  and  the  community  mourned  the  loss  of  one  of  its  pro- 
gressive men  and  patriotic  citizens,  his  associates  a  faithful  friend,  and  his 
family  a  loving  husband  and  father.  His  hopes  of  gaining  a  comfortable  liv- 
ing in  America  was  not  only  realized  but  to  his  family  he  left  a  very  desirable 
competence.  Mrs.  Getz  still  occupies  the  old  home  at  No.  829  North  Tenth 
street.  In  1891  she  visited  Europe,  went  to  England  and  France  and  thence 
to  Switzerland,  where  she  visited  her  three  sisters  and  a  brother.  She  then 
traveled  through  the  principal  cities  and  places  of  interest  in  Germany,  after 
which  she  returned  home.  She  crossed  the  Atlantic  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
David  Horner,  but  made  the  return  trip  alone.  She  and  her  family  are 
members  of  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  and  are  most  highly 
esteemed  in  Richmond. 

WILLIAM  TEST. 

William  Test,  the  founder  of  the  Richmond  ^^'oolen  Mills,  now  con- 
ducted by  James  W.  Test  &  Company,  woolen  manufacturers  of  Richmond, 
Indiana,  was  born  near  Dunlapsville,  Union  county,  Indiana,  April  21,  1830. 
His  parents  were  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Jones)  Test.  The  mother  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  grandfather,  Samuel  Test,  Sr.,  was  born  in 
New  Jersey,  from  which  state  he  came  to  Cincinnati.      He  operated  a  woolen. 


514  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

mill  at  Covington,  Kentucky,  for  several  years  and  later  located  on  a  farm  at 
QuaUertovvn.  He  then  moved  to  Richmond,  where  he  died  in  his  eighty- 
fifth  year.  While  on  the  farm  at  Quakertown,  his  son,  Samuel  Test,  Jr., 
father  of  our  subject,  erected  a  woolen  mill  at  that  place,  the  building  at 
present  being  used  by  J.  Milton  Stanton,  as  his  store.  Mr.  Test  conducted 
this  mill  until  1835,  when  he  sold  it  and  came  to  Richmond,  where  he  built 
a  carding  mill  on  the  site  of  the  present  woolen  mill.  lie  also  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  cotton  yarns.  After  his  death,  which  occurred  August 
10,  1849,  during  the  cholera  epidemic,  when  he  was  about  fifty  years  old, 
his  plant  was  discontinued.  The  old  farm  is  now  the  home  of  his  son  Oliver. 
His  family  consisted  of  seven  sons,  namely:  Josiah;  Zaccheus,  a  literary 
scholar,  educated  in  German,  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew,  and  a  teacher  of 
Greek  and  Latin  in  the  Richmond  high  school;  William,  the  subject  of  this 
biography;  Rufus,  who  was  associated  in  business  with  his  brothers  William 
and  Josiah;  Oliver,  who  now  resides  on  a  farm  and  is  in  the  ice  business; 
Erastus,  a  professor  in  Purdue  University,  at  Lafayette,  Indiana;  and  Linley 
M.,  in  the  insurance  business  in  Peru,  this  state. 

The  three  brothers,  William,  Josiah  and  Oliver,  bought  a  woolen  factory 
at  Hagerstown,  April  11,  1854.  This  they  enlarged  and  improved,  and 
operated  it  for  many  years.  Josiah  died  in  1864,  and  Rufus  (who  had  taken 
the  place  of  Oliver  in  the  firm)  and  William  purchased  his  interest  in  the 
business.  The  firm  was  now  known  as  William  Test  &  Brother,  manufact- 
urers. The  original  capital  was  six  thousand  dollars,  but  this  was  largely 
increased  by  their  extensive  trade.  It  had  in  later  years  become  a 
manufactory  of  woolen  goods  and  yarns  and  did  a  flourishing  business,  giving 
employment  to  from  twenty-five  to  thirty  hands.  The  present  plant  at  Rich- 
mond was  purchased  soon  after  the  war,  by  William,  Rufus  and  Oliver. 
Alpheus  Test,  the  youngest  brother  of  their  father,  had  put  it  in  operation 
in  i'857  and  had  operated  it  for  nearly  ten  years  when  the  brothers  bought  it, 
pa\ing  therefor  the  sum  of  sixteen  thousand  dollars.  It  was  then  manufact- 
uring all  kinds  of  woolen  goods  and  yarns.  This  plant  was  soon  afterward 
destroyed  by  fire, -and  the  brothers  suffered  an  almost  total  loss,  except  for 
a  small  amount  of  insurance.  They  rebuilt  on  a  much  larger  scale,  adding  a 
separate  mill  about  an  eighth  of  a  mile  below,  almost  on  the  site  of  their 
father's  old  mill,  which  employs  some  twenty  hands  and  is  devoted  to  the 
manufacture  of  yarns.  They  put  in  all  the  latest  improvements,  self-operat- 
ing mules,  etc.,  and  made  up  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  pounds  of  wool 
annually.  Rufus  retained  the  management  at  Hagerstown,  while  Oliver  and 
William  were  in  charge  of  the  plant  here.  Then  the  hard  times  came  and 
many  of  their  debtors  failed,  causing  them  a  loss  of  about  thirty-five  thou- 
sand dollars.      The  Hagerstown  property  was  disposed  of  and  the   company 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  515 

here  was  reorganized  under  the  name  of  James  W.  Test  &  Company,  Rufus 
and  WilHam  both  retiring  from  the  firm. 

William  Test  was  married  in  October,  1859,  to  Miss  Emily  Woodard,  a 
daughter  of  Josiah  and  Millie  Woodard,  whose  home  was  near  Fountain  City, 
Indiana.  She  died  March  9,  1893.  Their  family  consisted  of  Hannah  M., 
who  was  a  teacher  in  the  country  and  city  schools  until  her  mother's  death, 
since  which  time  she  is  staying  at  home;  Wilhelmina,  a  stenographer  and 
typewriter  in  Peru,  Indiana;  James  W. ;  W'illiam  H.,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Purdue  University,  and  has  occupied  the  chair  as  assistant  professor  of  chem- 
try  in  that  institution  for  the  past  six  years;  and  Emily  Janet,  a  student  in 
the  Richmond  high  school. 

James  W.  Test  is  the  manager  of  the  present  company,  and  has  proven 
himself  to  be  a  man  of  remarkable  business  ability.  He  was  married  October 
9,  1895,  to  Miss  Grace  Emswiler,  of  Peru,  Indiana,  and  two  bright  children 
have  blessed  their  home, — Sarah  Emily  and  Philip  Emswiler.  William 
Test  has  two  daughters  belonging  to  the  Friends  church  at  Richmond.  The 
family  are  well  and  favorably  known,  and  stand  high  in  the  community. 

HENRY  H.  MOORE,  M.  D. 

An  honored  old  citizen  of  Liberty,  Union  county,  is  the  gentleman  whose 
name  stands  at  the  beginning  of  this  sketch.  For  more  than  half  a  century 
he  labored  unceasingl}'  in  his  profession,  striving  to  do  all  in  his  power 
toward  the  amelioration  of  the  "ills  to  which  llesh  is  heir,"  and  succeeding 
to  a  gratifying  degree  in  his  noble  endeavors. 

A  native  of  Frankford,  Franklin  county,  Kentucky,  born  October  16, 
1816,  the  Doctor  is  a  son  of  Timothy  and  Mary  (Burt)  Moore,  the  former  of 
Kentucky  and  of  Virginia  ancestry  and  the  latter  likewise  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky. In  1 83 1  the  famil}-  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Marion,  Hendricks 
county,  Indiana,  and  there  the  father  died  when  eighty-seven  years  of  age, 
having  survived  his  wife,  who  had  died  when  in  her  sixty-ninth  3'ear. 

The  early  days  of  our  subject,  Henry  Harrison  Moore, were  spent  in  farm- 
ing and  in  the  acquisition  of  an  education,  after  which  he  engaged  in  teaching 
for  a  few  terms.  He  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  Brownsburg,  Hen- 
dricks county,  with  Dr.  Thomas  Griffith,  who  died  in  1848.  Dr.  Moore  then 
assumed  the  responsibility  of  his  former  preceptor's  practice,  and  at  the  end 
of  about  four  years  went  to  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  pursued  a  course  in 
the  Central  Medical  College.  After  he  had  "been  successfully  occupied  in 
practice  in  Brownsville  for  nineteen  years  the  Doctor  sought  a  wider  field  of 
enterprise,  and  for  the  next  fifteen  years  was  located  in  Indianapolis,  where 
he  built  up  a  very  extensive  patronage.  In  1874  he  came  to  Liberty,  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home  and  carried  on  a  general  practice.      After  leav- 


516  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

ing  Brownsville,  he  was  frequently  called  back  in  special  cases,  from  the 
capital,  for  his  old  patients  were  very  loth  to  give  him  up.  During  the  civil 
war  Governor  Morton  sent  him  to  the  front  to  look  after  our  sick  and  suffer- 
ing soldier  boys,  and  for  several  weeks  he  worked  night  and  day  in  the  hos- 
pital at  Whitehouse  Landing,  Tennessee.  He  has  been  city  physician  in 
Liberty  and  has  been  identified  with  various  medical  societies.  Though  a 
"doctor  of  the  old  school,"  he  favors  mild  treatment  in  most  cases  and  is 
averse  to  the  use  of  strong  drugs,  believing,  most  of  all,  in  the  efficacy  of 
good  nursing  and  the  use  of  nature's  simple  remedies.  In  his  political  views 
he  has  been  a  stanch  Republican  since  the  party  was  organized,  and  it  would 
be  hard  to  find  a  truer  patriot  or  more  public-spirited  citizen.  Temperate 
throughout  his  life,  upright,  just  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings,  a  worthy 
member  and  now  an  elder  in  the  Christian  church,  his  career  is  one  of  which 
his  children  have  reason  to  be  proud,  and  when  the  summons  comes  to  him, 
he  will  surely  hear  the  verdict  on  his  life:  "Well  done,  good  and  faithful 
servant;  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

In  1859  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Moore  and  Emeline  Swaim  was  solemnized 
in  Brownsburg.  She  was  a  loving  helpmate,  a  loyal  companion  and  friend, 
and  was  admired  and  respected  by  every  one.  Six  years  ago  she  passed 
into  the  silent  land,  dying  in  her  home  at  Liberty,  of  typhoid  pneumonia, 
which  dread  disease  she  had  conquered  twice  before.  Three  children  born 
to  the  Doctor  and  wife  survive:  Henry  Clay,  after  serving  one  enlistment  in 
the  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry  in  the  Spanish-American  war,  has  enlisted  in 
the  United  States  regular  army  for  service  in  the  Philippines;  Monterey  is 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Clay  McConnell,  of  Oxford,  Indiana;  and  Sarah  J.  is  the  wife 
of  C.  E.  Hughes,  a  merchant  of  Liberty  (see  his  sketch),  with  whom  Dr. 
Moore  is  now  making  his  home. 

EVERETT  R.  BEARD,  M.  D. 
In  the  early  settlement  and  subsequent  history  of  Union  county  the 
ancestors  and  relatives  of  Dr.  Everett  Riley  Beard  were  prominent.  His 
great-grandfather,  William  Beard,  was  born  in  Guilford  county.  North  Caro- 
lina, December  6,  1787,  and  married  there  Rachel  Pearson.  In  18 16  he 
came  to  what  is  now  Union  county,  and  entered  land  in  Center  township, 
there  passing  the  rest  of  his  useful  life.  His  death  took  place  October  6, 
1873.  In  his  youth  he  had  learned  the  potter's  trade,  and  this  calling  he 
followed  to  some  extent,  in  connection  with  agriculture.  For  his  day  he 
was  considered  a  man  of  much  knowledge,  and  he  not  only  practiced  medicine 
for  a  period,  but  preached  to  congregations  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  with 
which  organization  he  was  connected,  and  for  more  than  half  a  century  he 
did  not  fail  to  keep  his  appointments  as  a  minister  of  the  gospel.      His  great 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL    HISTORY.  517 

heart  was  filled  with  love  and  sympathy  for  the  poor  and  oppressed,  and  at  an 
early  day  he  enlisted  in  the  earnest  fight  against  slavery  which  at  last  resulted 
in  the  breaking  of  the  shackles  which  bound  millions  of  the  colored  race  in 
the  south.  The  fugitive  slave  found  in  him  one  ready  to  aid  with  food, 
shelter  and  clothing, — one  who  was  ready  to  put  aside  all  other  business  in 
order  to  help  him  on  his  way  toward  freedom,  and  besides  this  he  gave  much 
time  and  money  to  the  great  cause.  Twice  he  was  chosen  as  solicitor  for  aid 
for  runaway  slaves,  and  traveled  in  the  eastern  states  on  this  errand,  and 
twice  he  was  selected  by  his  religious  brethren  to  distribute  money  and  sup- 
plies to  those  who  had  been  fortunate  enough  to  cross  the  Canadian  border. 
He  made  the  long  trip  on  horseback  and  met  many  whom  he  had  personally 
assisted  years  before.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig  and  Republican.  His  wife, 
Rebecca,  died  April  6,  1856.  Their  children  were  named  as  follows:  Mary, 
Elizabeth,  John,  Abigail,  Sarah,  Thomas,  Phoebe,  Lida,  Elihu,  William, 
Hannah  and  George. 

The  Doctor's  grandparents  were  John  and  Catherine  (DuBois)  Beard. 
The  former  was  born  in  North  Carolina,  and  was  a  pioneer  of  Indiana.  The 
old  house,  which  he  built  of  brick  made  on  the  premises,  is  still  standing  on 
the  old  home  place,  two  miles  east  of  Liberty,  and  has  but  recently  passed 
out  of  the  possession  of  the  family.  He  helped  put  up  the  first  log  cabin  in 
the  woods  on  the  present  site  of  Richmond,  and  during  the  several  years  in 
which  he  was  a  county  commissioner  he  assisted  in  the  construction  of  the  largest 
bridge  in  the  county,  an  old-style  covered  bridge,  but  two  specimens  of 
which  order  are  now  standing  in  the  county.  The  original  parchment  deed 
to  the  tract  of  land  which  he  owned  here,  signed  by  James  Monroe  and  dated 
in  18 1 8,  is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Doctor,  his  grandson.  He  was  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Cincinnati,  Hamilton  &  Dayton  Railroad  and  aided  in  getting 
the  road  through  this  county.  He  was  one  of  the  most  extensive  buyers  of 
live  stock  in  the  county  at  one  time,  and  drove  cattle  to  Cincinnati,  where  he 
found  a  ready  market.  One  of  the  founders  of  the  Quaker  church  in  this 
state,  he  preached  its  doctrines  for  years  in  the  pulpit  and  was  an  earnest 
supporter  of  the  work.  He  died  in  1893,  aged  nearly  eighty  years.  His 
widow,  who  came  from  an  old  Quaker  family,  still  represented  in  this  county, 
was  two  years  his  junior,  and  survived  him  but  two  weeks.  They  owned 
over  one  thousand  acres  of  land  here  at  one  time,  and  to  each  of  their  chil- 
dren they  gave  a  farm,  reserving  but  a  quarter-section  of  land  for  themselves. 
Alexander  lives  on  a  farm  adjoining  the  old  homestead;  Oscar  is  a  resident  of 
Harrison  township;  Wellington  owns  a  home  in  C-nter  township;  Allen  lives 
on  the  old  home  place;  Alonzo  and  Elihu  are  citizens  of  Liberty;  John  died 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  years;  and  Delphina  married  Daniel  Maxwell,  of 
Liberty. 


518  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

Oscar  Beard,  father  of  our  subject,  is  still  living  on  his  farm  in  Harrison 
township,  but  the  wife  and  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  Nutter, 
died  about  two  years  ago.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  Nutter,  an  early 
settler  in  these  parts,  formerly  of  Virginia.  The  old  Nutter  homestead  is  the 
one  adjoining  that  of  Oscar  Beard.  The  latter  started  out  in  his  independent 
career  as  the  owner  of  eighty  acres  of  wild  land,  and  later  added  a  tract  of 
of  similar  size  to  his  original  farm.  He  has  improved  the  whole,  and  long 
since  was  ranked  as  one  of  the  practical,  thrifty  farmers  of  his  locality.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know 
him. 

Dr.  Everett  R.  Beard  is  an  only  son,  born  April  ii,  1871,  on  the 
parental  homestead.  He  received  superior  educational  advantages,  being 
graduated  in  1893  in  Miami  University,  at  O.xford,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  in  i  S97  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  was  bestowed 
upon  him  at  the  time  of  his  completion  of  the  medical  course  of  the  Ohio 
Medical  College,  in  Cincinnati.  At  college  he  gained  unusual  honors,  and  in 
the  final  oracorical  contests  he  came  off  victor.  For  some  time  he  was  editor 
of  the  college  societies  paper,  was  prominent  in  the  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity, 
and  in  1893  was  its  delegate  to  the  national  convention  of  the  order  in 
Chattanooga,  Tennessee.  Dr.  Beard  has  built  up  a  good  practice  in  Liberty 
and  is  rapidly  winning  the  commendation  of  the  public  and  his  professional 
brethren.  He  is  now  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Union  County 
Medical  Society  and  is  a  member  of  the  local  medical  society.  Socially  he 
is  connected  with  the  Order  of  Red  Men. 

On  the  1st  of  September,  1897,  Dr.  Beard  married  Miss  Jennie  Agnes 
McElroy,  who  had  been  a  student  at  Western  College,  in  O.xford,  when  he 
was  attending  college  there,  and  graduated  in  June,  1897.  Mrs.  Beard,  who 
was  born  and  grew  to  womanhood  in  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  is  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
J.  M.  McElroy,  an  early  settler  of  that  place,  and  the  founder  of  the  first 
Presbyterian  church  there.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Washington  and  Jefferson 
University,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and  for 
years  was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Salem  Academy,  at  Salem,  Ohio.  Mrs. 
Beard  is  an  active  me  nbdp  of  the  church  in  whose  doctrines  she  was 
reared. 

CHARLES   E.    HUGHES. 

One  of  the  enterprising  merchants  of  Liberty  is  Charles  E.  Hughes,  who 
has  been  the  proprietor  of  a  general  store  here  for  several  years,  and  who  is 
ranked  with  the  representative  citizens  of  this  place.  He  is  an  Odd  Fellow 
of  twenty-five  years  standing,  has  passed  all  the  chairs  in  the  local  lodge  and 
is  a  member  of  the  grand  o.ige  and  encampment.  He  is  a  very  active  and 
zealous  Republican  and  -ti  ves  to  do  his  whole  duty  as  a  citizen  and  voter.    In 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  519 

the  Presbyterian  church  he  has  been  an  elder  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  and 
both  he  and  his  estimable  wife  are  valued  members  of  the  congregation  and 
workers  in  the  Sunday-school. 

Dr.  Francis  Hughes,  the  father  of  the  above  named  gentleman,  was  one 
of  the  early  practitioners  of  Liberty.  He  was  a  member  of  one  of  the 
pioneer  families  in  Franklin  county,  Indiana,  his  father,  John  Hughes,  hav- 
ing emigrated  here  from  Virginia.  His  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Ogden,  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey.  Dr.  Francis  Hughes  married  Miss  Mary 
Adams,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  the  same  neighborhood  as  himself, 
Fairfield,  Franklin  county,  and  two  children  were  born  to  them,  name!)': 
Charles  E.  and  Prudence,  the  latter  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  Landis,  of  Chi- 
cago. For  two  or  more  years  Dr.  Hughes  practiced  in  Kingston,  Decatur 
county,  Indiana,  after  which  he  settled  in  Liberty,  and  had  been  here  abont 
as  long  when  death  put  an  abrupt  end  to  his  labors.  His  death  was  par- 
ticularly sad,  owing  to  the  causes  which  led  up  to  it.  A  dreadful  epidemic 
of  typhoid  fever  was  prevalent  in  this  vicinity  at  that  time, — the  winter  and 
spring  of  1852, — and  medical  services  were  at  a  premium.  The  young  doc- 
tor rode  night  and  day  from  the  bedside  of  one  patient  to  another,  sparing 
himself  not  in  the  least,  and  even  attempting  to  nurse  some  of  his  friends. 
There  were  five  deaths  in  one  family  alone,  and  terror  seemed  to  reign 
supreme,  especially  in  Harrison  township.  At  last  the  Doctor  was  stricken, 
and  died  in  April,  aged  but  twenty-seven  years,  and  four  weeks  afterward  the 
death  summons  came  to  his  sorrowing  wife,  who  was  likewise  a  victim  of  the 
disease.  The  two  orphans  were  reared  in  the  home  of  their  maternal  grand- 
parents, in  Fairfield. 

Charles  E.  Hughes  was  born  October  30,  1851,  in  Liberty,  and  returned 
here  with  his  grandparents  when  he  was  fifteen  years  old,  and  has  since  been 
identified  with  this  town,  the  place  of  his  birth.  His  grandfather,  William 
Adams,  who  took  the  place  of  his  father  toward  the  boy,  was  born  in  North 
Carolina,  in  1799,  and  came  to  this  state  with  his  parents,  settling  in  Frank- 
lin county.  He  married  Prudence  Powers,  and  was  engaged  in  farming 
until  two  years  prior  to  his  death,  in  1868.  His  widow  survived  him  about 
ten  years,  dying  at  the  age  of  seventy-four. 

When  seventeen  years  old  Charles  E.  Hughes  entered  the  commercial 
world  by  becoming  a  clerk  for  David  Gibson,  a  dry-goods  merchant  of 
Liberty.  He  remained  with  that  firm  until  1879,  which  year  he  opened  a 
grocery  on  his  own  account.  He  has  since  been  actively  and  successfully 
engaged  in  business  here,  and  in  February,  1893,  extended  his  trade  mate- 
rially by  adding  a  stock  of  dry-goods,  boots  and  shoes,  clothing,  etc.  For  two 
years  he  was  associated  with  Benjamin  F.  Adams,  his  mother's  brother,  an 
old  merchant  and  for  thirty-three  j'ears  a  citizen  of  Liberty. 


520  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

On  the  1st  of  December,  1880,  Charles  E.  Hughes  married  Miss  Sadie 
Moore,  daughter  of  Dr.  Moore,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
Four  children  have  blessed  the  hearts  and  home  of  our  subject  and  wife. 
The  three  elder  ones,  Herbert,  Hazel  and  Hallie,  are  attending  school, 
and  baby  Harold,  now  two  and  a  half  3'ears  old,  is  the  sunshine  of  the 
household. 

BENJAMIN  L.   MARTIN. 

For  sixty  years  Benjamin  Lloyd  Martin  has  been  a  resident  of  Wayne 
county,  and  has  been  identified  with  many  of  the  interests  that  have  con- 
tributed to  its  substantial  development  and  improvement.  His  probity,  fidel- 
ity and  sterling  worth  have  won  him  the  unqualified  confidence  of  his  fellow 
townsmen,  and  now,  in  the  evening  of  life,  his  pathway  is  brightened  by  the 
veneration  and  respect  which  ever  follow  an   upright  career. 

Mr.  Martin  was  born  December  27,  1806,  in  Coventry,  Chester  county, 
Pennsylvania,  at  the  village  where  iron  was  first  manufactured  in  the  Key- 
stone state.  The  family  is  of  English  and  Welsh  lineage,  and  his  early 
ancestors  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware. 
George  Martin,  one  of  the  uncles  of  our  subject,  was  a  minister  of  the  Society 
of  Fri(  nds.  John  and  Ruth  (Stephens)  Martin,  the  parents  of  our  subject, 
spent  their  early  life  in  the  east,  and  in  1837  took  up  their  abode  in  Wayne 
county,  Indiana,  where  they  remained  until  1851,  when  they  joined  their 
son,  Nathan  W.,  who  had  settled  in  Linn  county,  Iowa.  There  they  spent 
the  remainder  of  their  days,  the  father  dying  in  his  ninety-first  year,  the 
mother  in  her  ninety-third  year.  Many  times  their  son  Benjamin  visited 
them  in  their  Iowa  home,  and  he  was  present  at  the  burial  of  both  the 
father  and  mother.  The  former,  while  in  Wayne  county,  was  the  owner  of 
a  sawmill  at  Goshen  and  also  had  a  small  farm  at  the  middle  fork  of  White- 
water river. 

Reared  in  the  county  of  his  nativity,  Benjamin  L.  Martin  there  remained 
until  1839,  and  when  a  young  man  engaged  in  hauling  freight  across  the 
mountains  to  Pittsburg,  Wheeling,  and  even  to  Columbus,  Ohio,  using  six- 
horse  teams  and  great,  high  wagons.  He  is  probably  the  only  surviving  wag- 
oner of  that  period.  He  was  married  January  12,  183 1,  to  Sarah  Chrisman, 
and  in  1839  came  with  his  family  to  Wayne  county.  Through  that  and  the 
succeeding  year  he  lived  in  the  log  cabin  a  half  mile  west  of  Chester.  He 
had  come  to  the  west  with  the  intention  of  engaging  in  surveying  and  convey- 
ancing, but  there  was  no  favorable  opening  in  that  vocation  and  he  was  per- 
suaded to  accept  a  school.  He  had  previously  taught  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
now  engaged  in  following  that  profession  in  Wayne  county  until  1849,  when 
through  the  influence  of  friends  he  was  appointed,  by  Thomas  Adams,  to 
the  position  of  deputy   county   auditor,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  five 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  521 

years,  when,  in  1855,  he  was  elected  county  auditor.  He  was  the  first 
candidate  of  the  Repubhcan  party  for  that  office,  which  he  filled  for  two 
terms  of  four  years  each.  He  had  previously  been  a  Henry  Clay  Whig,  but 
aided  in  the  organization  of  the  new  Republican  party  and  has  since  been 
one  of  its  stalwart  advocates. 

In  the  meantime,  with  a  number  of  others,  he  had  organized  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Centerville,  of  which  he  was  chosen  cashier,  but  in  1863  he 
received  an  appointment  to  public  service  and  resigned  the  cashiership.  He 
was  an  old  friend  of  Governor  Morton,  who  selected  him  to  visit  the  Indiana 
troops  and  hospitals  and  see  that  they  were  properly  cared  for.  While  thus 
engaged  he  one  day  received  a  letter  directed  to  "  Major  B.  L.  Martin,"  and 
containing  an  appointment  to  the  position  of  additional  paymaster  in  the  federal 
army.  This  came  entirely  without  his  solicitation.  His  wife  counseling  him 
to  accept,  he  reported  to  Major  Febagar,  at  St.  Louis,  and  continued  in  that 
position  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  served  for  a  time  in  the  Mississippi 
department,  later  was  transferred  to  the  Cumberland  department  and  sub- 
sequently ordered  to  North  Carolina,  but  soon  returned  to  Louisville,  where 
he  remained  some  time.  He  was  then  sent  to  the  Northwestern  department 
with  headquarters  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  paid  out  to  those  who  were  being 
discharged  about  two  million  dollars.  This  position  was  one  of  great  trust 
and  responsibility  and  required  a  heavy  bond;  but  every  dollar  was  faithfully 
accounted  for  by  Major  Martin,  and  his  prompt  business  methods  and  hon- 
esty won  high  commendation.  He  was  a  most  loyal  supporter  of  the  Union, 
had  been  active  in  raising  troops  for  the  front  and  had  sent  three  of  his  sons 
to  the  army.  When  Governor  Morton  did  not  receive  the  support  of  the 
Democrats  of  the  state  to  carry  on  his  work  as  chief  executive,  Mr.  Martin 
visited  all  parts  of  Wayne  county  and  secured  a  note  for  twenty  thousand 
dollars,  signed  by  over  one  hundred  of  the  best  men  of  the  county.  This 
he  had  cashed  at  the  bank  in  Richmond  and  handed  the  sum  to  the  Governor, 
who  thus  saw  that  he  had  the  support  of  the  people  of  his  own  county  and 
was  encouraged  to  carry  on  the  splendid  work  which  he  was  doing  in  support 
of  the  Union  and  the  men  in  the  field. 

Major  Martin  was  mustered  out  November  30,  1865,  and  then  returned 
to  Wayne  county.  While  in  the  paymaster's  department  he  had  purchased 
a  Wayne  county  farm  for  a  friend,  but  on  his  return  to  Louisville  he  found 
that  his  friend  had  gone  down  the  river  and  was  lost  in  a  steamboat  disaster. 
He  therefore  retained  possession  of  the  land  and  it  has  since  been  in  posses- 
sion of  the  family.  It  comprised  one  hundred  and  fourteen  acres,  which  he 
deeded  to  his  wife,  who  afterward  sold  it  to  their  son,  Isaac  Newton  Martin, 
but  after  the  latter's  death,  April  7,  1897,  the  father  again  purchased  it 
and  it  is  now  in  his  possession.      He   has  occupied   it  since  1865.      He  now 


522  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

has  in  his  farm  one  hundred  and  fourteen  acres,  while  the  adjoining  two  hun- 
dred and  forty  acres  is  owned  by  his  son,  who  also  operates  the  father's  land. 
For  some  years  after  the  war  Major  Martin  engaged  in  slaughtering  hogs, 
and  for  a  time  met  with  quite  heavy  losses;  but  in  the  last  year  of  his  con- 
nection with  that  business,  1874,  somewhat  retrieved  his  lost  possessions,  and 
eventually  he  paid  ofT  every  dollar  of  his  indebtedness. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  were  born  seven  children:  Rebecca  Ann  S. 
is  the  wife  of  William  L.  Boyd,  of  Richmond;  Nathan  Walker  is  a  farmer  of 
Franklin  township,  Wayne  county;  John  Wesley,  who  for  many  years 
engaged  in  merchandising  at  Raleigh,  Indiana,  died  three  years  ago,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-eight  years;  Benjamin  Franklin,  who  followed  merchandising  in 
Chester  for  some  years,  died  in  1886,  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years;  William 
C,  who  engaged  in  merchandising  along  the  line  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  in 
New  Mexico  and  made  considerable  money,  is  now  living  retired  in  Rich- 
mond; Isaac  Newton,  who  was  in  the  treasury  department  at  Washington 
for  twenty  years,  died  April  7,  1897,  at  the  age  of  fifty  years;  Theodore 
Smith  is  a  farmer  of  Chester  and  also  operates  his  father's  farm.  The 
mother  died  July  24,  1889,  after  a  married  life  of  nearly  si.xty  years,  and  the 
loss  was  indeed  a  sad  one  to  Mr.  Martin,  for  their  mutual  love  and  confidence 
had  increased  as  the  years  went  by,  and  she  had  ever  been  to  him  a  faithful 
and  cherished  companion. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Martin  took  quite  an  active  part  in  local  and  state 
politics  and  was  often  a  delegate  to  the  state  conventions  of  the  Republican 
part}'.  In  1869  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature;  in  1874  he  was  defeated 
for  the  same  office,  but  in  1876  was  again  elected  to  the  lower  house.  In 
early  life  he  was  a  strong  anti-Mason,  almost  bitter  in  his  opposition  to  the 
order,  but  at  length  he  decided  to  investigate  the  matter  more  fully  and  the 
result  was  that  he  applied  for  membership  and  was  raised  in  Webb  Lodge,  at 
Richmond,  nearly  sixty  yeajrs  ago.  He  at  once  began  taking  an  active  part 
in  the  work  of  the  organization,  became  a  member  of  the  chapter,  council 
and  commandery,  and  is  probably  to-day  the  oldest  member  of  Richmond 
Commandery,  No.  8,  Knights  Templar,  which  was  instituted  March  20, 
1865.  He  was  made  an  Odd  Fellow  at  Centerville,  and  belongs  to  the 
Richmond  Lodge  at  the  present  time.  In  religious  faith  the  Martins 
were  originally  Friends,  but  the  parents  of  our  subject  became  members 
of  the  Methodist  church,  and  for  seventy  }'ears  Benjamin  L.  Martin 
has  been  a  devoted  and  faithful  member  of  the  same  church.  He  was 
ordained  as  a  local  preacher  and  has  always  been  ready  to  speak  for  the 
Master.  He  was  active  in  Sunday-school  work  in  early  life,  has  always 
been  a  close  Bible  student  and  has  great  faith  in  the  promises  of  the 
Word.      For  nearly    sixty    years  he  has   been    a   reader    of    the    Palladium 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  525 

and  for  many  years  of  the  Advocate, — leading  religious  papers.  He  has 
married  many  couples,  and  at  all  times  has  been  active  in  promoting  the 
work  of  the  church  and  all  that  pertains  to  the  advancement  of  the  kingdom 
of  Christ  upon  earth.  His  career  has  been  an  active,  useful  and  honorable 
one,  and  the  world  is  better  for  his  having  lived. 

AMOS  STUART. 

One  of  the  aged  and  venerable  citizens  of  Richmond  is  Amos  Stuart, 
who,  though  now  approaching  the  ninety-first  anniversary  of  his  birth,  pos- 
sesses the  clearness  of  mind  and  physical  strength  of  one  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury his  junior.  He  is  remarkably  well  preserved,  having  an  erect  carriage, 
a  firm  step,  and  much  of  his  old-time  energy.  His  has  been  a  busy  and  use- 
ful life, — a  life  filled  with  arduous  and  honorable  toil,  for  the  good  of  his 
family  and  others,  and  all  who  know  him  respect  and  reverence  him. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Amos  Stuart  was  a  resident  of  the  vicinity 
of  Philadelphia  in  the  early  part  of  last  century.  He,  Robert  Stuart,  mar- 
ried Martha  Richardson,  and  their  son,  John,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead  on  Todd's  creek,  near  the  Quaker  City,  in  1740. 
Having  grown  to  manhood  there,  he  went  to  Wilmington,  Delaware,  where 
he  learned  the  trade  of  wagon-maker.  Later  he  went  to  Virginia,  where  he 
met  and  married  Martha  Stanley.  To  them  were  born  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.  His  wife  died  and  he  married  Sarah  Guyer,  who  was  the  mother 
of  our  subject,  and  subsequently  he  settled  in  Guilford  county.  North  Caro- 
lina. The  farm  upon  which  he  settled  was  an  almost  unbroken  forest,  only 
a  small  patch  of  ground  having  been  cleared,  and  thereon  a  tiny  log  cabin 
erected.  Beneath  his  sturdy  ax  the  forest  was  razed,  and  eventually  fertile 
fields  rewarded  his  efforts.  The  cabin  gave  way  to  a  comfortable  frame 
house,  and  other  substantial  improvements  were  added  until  Mr.  Stuart  was 
acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  thriftiest  farmers  and  business  men  of  his 
community.  A  faithful  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  attended  the 
meetings  regularly  and  lived  a  consistent  Christian  life.  His  death  occurred 
at  his  old  home,  June  6,   1827. 

Amos  Stuart  was  born  on  the  parental  homestead  in  Guilford  county. 
North  Carolina,  June  30,  1S08,  and  with  his  several  brothers  and  '■isters  he 
was  reared  to  the  duties  of  an  agricultural  life.  He  continued  to  dwell  in  his 
native  county  until  the  outbreak  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  when  he 
removed  to  the  north.  Settling  upon  a  farm  near  Knightstown,  Henry 
county,  Indiana,  he  remained  there  for  a  few  months,  while  st-eking  for  a 
permanent  home,  and  finally  he  became  a  resident  of  Spiceland,  same  county, 
where  his  younger  children  attended  the  local  academy,  the  older  ones  hav- 
ing been  educated  at  Haverford   Academy,  at    Haverford,  Penns\lvaiiia.      In 


524  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

1876  he  removed  to  Chester,  Waj'ne  county,  where  for  the  following  decade 
he  gave  his  attention  to  gardening.  Since  1886  he  has  lived  a  retired  life  in 
Richmond,  enjoying  the  rest  and  comforts  to  which  his  busy  years  of  active 
toil  Justly  entitle  him.  While  he  remained  in  his  native  county  he  was  one 
of  the  most  influential  citizens  in  all  public  affairs  of  the  locality,  was  deeply 
interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  being  trustee  of  the  Newgarden  board- 
ing-school; and  was  prominent  in  the  Friends'  Society,  serving  as  elder, 
clerk  of  the  monthly  meetings  and  in  various  other  capacities.  To  his  chil- 
dren he  will  leave  the  priceless  heritage  of  an  unblemished  record  and  noble 
career. 

The  first  marriage  of  Amos  Stuart  was  solemnized  in  1830,  the  lady  of 
his  choice  being  Matilda  Hadley,  of  Guilford  county,  North  Carolina.  They 
became  the  parents  of  thirteen  children  that  lived  to  attain  mature  years, 
and,  without  exception,  they  received  the  benefits  of  an  excellent  education, 
and  went  forth  to  battle  with  the  world  well  equipped  as  to  mental  and 
moral  training.  Harper,  the  eldest,  now  deceased,  was  a  teacher  in  the 
Friends'  boarding  school;  Mrs.  Martisia  Bundy,  resides  in  Henry  county, 
this  state.  Dr.  Jehu  is  a  leading  physician  in  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota; Mrs.  Sarah  Tease  lives  in  this  county;  Jonathan  is  deceased; 
Mary  and  Eliza  are  in  Richmond,  the  latter  being  the  wife  of  G.  E.  Hill, 
who  is  known  throughout  this  state  as  a  progressive  florist;  Mrs.  Delfina 
Wood  resides  in  Knightstown,  Henry  county;  Sydney  is  a  resident  of  Ander- 
son, Indiana;  David  is  deceased;  Adam  and  Elbridge  are  in  California;  and 
Francis  is  in  New  Mexico.  The  devoted  mother  of  these  children  was  sum- 
moned to  her  eternal  rest  June  13,  1871.  In  1875,  Mr.  Stuart  married 
Melissa  E.  Miles,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Anna  (Kelly)  Miles,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  South  Carolina.  They  were  early  settlers  of  Miami,  Ohio, 
and  in  1861  located  on  a  farm  near  Chester,  Wayne  county,  this  state, 
where  Mr.  Miles  died  March  29,  1873.  He  was  a  Friend,  and  was  loved 
and  highly   esteemed  by  all  who   knew  him.     The   mother  passed   away   in 

1831. 

ABIJAH  MOFFITT. 

In  almost  all  American  communities  there  may  be  found  quiet,  retiring 
men,  who  never  ask  public  office  or  appear  prominent  in  public  affairs,  yet 
who,  nevertheless,  exert  a  widely  felt  influence  in  the  community  in  which 
they  live  and  help  to  construct  the  proper  foundation  upon  which  the  social 
and  political  world  is  built.  Such  a  man  was  Abijah  Moffitt,  who  for  many 
years  was  a  most  honored  and  respected  citizen  of  Richmond.  He  was  long 
and  prominently  identified  with  its  industrial  and  commercial  interests,  and 
belonged  to  that  class  of  representative  Americans  who  advance  the  general 
prosperity  while  promoting  individual  success.      He  bore  a  reputation  unas- 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  525 

sailable,  and  when  his  word  was  once  given  it  was  as  sacred  as  any  bond 
that  was  ever  solemnized  by  signature  and  seal.  He  commanded  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  his  fellow  men  by  his  upright  life,  and  to  his  family  he  left  not 
only  a  comfortable  competence  acquired  through  years  of  honest  toil,  but 
also  the  priceless  heritage  of  a  good  name. 

Abijah  Moffitt  was  born  in  Richmond,  on  the  24th  day  of  January,  1824, 
his  parents  being  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Moffitt.  He  was  of  Scotch-English 
descent.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Robert  Moffitt, was  a  native  of  Scotland, 
and  married  Margaret  Stuart,  of  England.  They  became  the  parents  of  a 
large  family  of  children,  most  of  whom  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in 
1791,  locating  in  the  south.  One  of  the  number  was  lost  at  sea.  Charles 
Moffitt,  the  father  of  our  subject,  came  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  when  a  young 
man  and  there  spent  his  remaining  days.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of' the 
locality,  and  aided  largely  in  the  development  and  advancement  of  the  region. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  miller,  and  improved  a  large  farm,  including  the  site  of 
the  Waynfe  Agricultural  Works.  Abijah  Moffitt  afterward  inherited  that 
tract  of  land  and  platted  it,  thus  transforming  the  entire  district  between 
Fourteenth  and  Seventeenth  streets,  and  Whitewater  river  and  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad,  from  farming  land  into  town  lots.  He  afterward  platted  two 
other  tracts,  which  still  bear  the  name  of  Abijah  Moffitt's  addition  to  the 
city.  Charles  Moffitt  was  a  consistent  and  active  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  his  inflexible  integrity  and  sterlmg  worth  won  him  the  respect 
of  all  who  knew  him.  He  married  Elizabeth  Cox  and  to  them  were  born  a 
large  number  of  children,  but  only  one  is  now  living,  Mrs.  Eli  Stubbs. 

Abijah  Moffitt  was  the  youngest  son,  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  Rich- 
mond, with  the  exception  of  a  short  period  passed  on  a  farm  of  four  hundred 
acres  near  Indianapolis.  He  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools, 
and  entered  upon  his  business  career  at  an  early  age.  When  a  youth  of  only 
ten  summers  he  began  buying  and  selling  eggs.  He  made  money  in  the  ven- 
ture, and  from  that  time  until  his  death  he  usually  carried  forward  to  success- 
ful completion  whatever  he  undertook.  Like  all  men  he  encountered  difficul- 
ties and  obstacles  in  the  path  to  prosperity,  but  by  perseverance  and  deter- 
mination he  ultimately  reached  the  goal  which  he  sought.  Between  the 
years  1853  and  i860  he  was  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  business  in  a  small 
frame  building  between  Seventh  and  Eighth  streets,  near  the  site  of  tlie 
Vaughan  building.  Subsequently  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business,  in 
the  lumber  business  and  in  agricultural  pursuits.  From  time  to  time  he 
extended  the  field  of  his  labors  until  his  business  connections  were  varied  and 
extensive,  but  his  resourceful  capability  well  fitted  him  for  the  wise  direction 
of  these  various  concerns  and  his  careful  management  and  reliable  counsel 
proved  potent  factors  in  the  success  which  attended  the  different  enterprises. 


S26  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

He  was  superintendent  of  the  Boston  Turnpike  Company  for  five  years  and 
was  a  stockholder  in  the  Robinson  Machi  e  Works,  the  Benjamin  Edge  Tool 
Works,  and  in  the  business  of  Cadwallader  &  Co  npany.  To  him  is  largely 
due  the  introduction  of  the  street-car  system  of  Richmond,  and  of  the  Rich- 
mond City  Street  Car  Company  he  became  the  first  president.  The  cars 
were  originally  drawn  by  horses,  but  after  a  time  the  more  modern  motive 
.power  was  introduced.  Mr.  Moffitt  also  aided  in  surveying  a  railroad  from 
Union  City  to  Richmond,  but  it  was  never  completed. 

Mr.  Mofiiitt  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lydia  Townsend,  of  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Townsend,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  Wayne  county,  Indiana.  Mrs.  MofBtt  was  born  in 
Richmond,  and  her  beauty  of  face  was  equaled  by  her  amiable  disposition 
and  beautiful  character, — qualities  which  made  her  agreat  favorite.  In  1873 
they  removed  to  Earlham  Place  in  order  to  educate  their  four  children. 
There  Mr.  Moffitt  died  March  30,  1891,  while  his  wife  passed  away  January 
2,  1894.  He  was  at  all  times  a  public-spirited  and  progressive  ci'tizen,  who 
took  a  deep  interest  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  commu- 
nity. He  possessed  a  benevolent  and  philanthropic  spirit,  which  was  often 
manifest  in  a  generous  assistance  to  the  needy.  He  was  honest,  conscien- 
tious and  reliable  in  business,  and  every  look  and  lineament  of  his  face 
showed  positive  character  and  determination  of  purpose.  By  reason  of  his 
well  spent  life  he  enjoyed  the  high  regard  of  his  fellow  men,  and  in  his  death 
Richmond  lost  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens. 

CHARLES  T.  PRICE,  Sr. 

Back  to  New  Jersey  must  we  turn  in  tracing  the  lineage  of  the  subject 
of  this  review.  That  section  of  the  country  which  was  the  cradle  of  so  much 
of  our  national  history  became  the  home  of  his  ancestors  in  early  colonial 
days,  and  the  records  e.xtant  tell  of  representatives  of  the  family  having  been 
loyal  to  the  nation  in  the  crucial  periods  when  grim-visaged  war  reared  its 
horrid  front,  and  bespeak  the  activity  of  honest  and  industrious  men  who 
have  also  honored  their  country  in  the  "piping  times  of  peace." 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Thomas  Price,  was  a  native  of  Eliza- 
bethtown.  New  Jersey,  where  he  spent  his  entire  life.  -He  had  ten  brothers 
who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  all  were  imprisoned  by  the  British 
in  the  old  "Sugar  House"  in  New  York.  Thomas  Price  married  Rachel 
Badgley,  a  granddaughter  of  Lord  Townley,  whose  property  in  England  was 
confiscated  because  he  favored  the  cause  of  the  colonists  ia  the  \.  .or 
American  independence.  Two  of  his  sons  and  one  daughter  came  to  this 
country.  The  daughter  became  the  wife  of  William  Badgley,  whose  daugh- 
ter Rachel  married  Thomas  Price.      The  grandparents  of  our  subject  had  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY.  527 

fam:'  ()'  fourteen  children,  all  of  whom  are  now  deceased.  One  of  the  sons, 
Jerern  I  Pri'-e,  came  to  the  west  and  laid  out  the  city  of  Chicago,  where  he 
mac'  ■  1  rue  until  his  death,  in  1852.  He  left  real  and  personal  property 
to  tlir  val'ie  of  six  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  as  he  died  intestate  it  was 
divid  (1  Hinong  his  relatives.  The  members  of  the  Price  family  were  all 
Pre^bytrians  in  religious  faith  and  were  buried  in  the  Presbyterian  church- 
yard in  Elizabethtown.  The  male  representatives  of  the  family  gave  their 
political  support  to  the  Democracy,  and  were  honest,  upright  people  and 
enterprising  business  men,  who  commanded  the  respect  of  all  with  whom 
they  came  in  contact. 

Caleb  Price,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  now  called  Elizabeth,  and  there  spent  his  entire  life.  He  was  a  tin- 
smith by  trade,  and  followed  that  pursuit  throughout  his  entire  business 
career.  His  death  occurred  in  1858.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Anna  Tucker,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children, — Benjamin,  Caleb  and 
Charles  T. 

The  last  named  was  born  in  Elizabeth,  April  8,  18 17,  and  spent  the 
first  fifteen  years  of  his  life  in  his  native  town,  attending  school  during  that 
period.  He  then  entered  a  shoe  store  belonging  to  his  brother  Benjamin, 
and  after  two  years  passed  there  went  to  Philadelphia,  where,  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  he  began  business  on  his  own  account,  as  a  dealer  in  shoes. 
For  three  years  he  conducted  his  store  and  then  moved  to  Mobile,  Ala- 
bama, where  he  conducted  a  tin  store,  in  connection  with  his  brother  Caleb, 
for  two  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period,  however,  he  returned  to 
Philadelphia  and  was  again  connected  with  the  retail  shoe  trade  in  that  city 
lUntil  1847,  when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  contmued  in  the 
same  line  of  merchandising  for  five  years. 

In  1852  Mr.  Price  arrived  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  has  now 
made  his  home  for  forty-seven  years,  and  through  all  the  long  period  has 
taken  a  most  active  part  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  the  city.  He 
iirst  established  a  shoe  store,  which  he  conducted  for  five  years;  was  then 
connected  with  the  hardware  trade  for  a  year,  and  in  1858  became  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  real-estate  and  building  interests,  which  have  con- 
tributed so  largely  to  the  improvement  of  the  city.  He  has  erected  and  sold 
more  than  one  hundred  homes  in  Richmond,  and  thus  added  to  the  beauty 
and  substantial  advancement  of  the  county  seat.  He  has  also  handled  farm 
property  on  an  extensive  scale,  having  bought  and  sold  over  fifty  farms  and 
^iven  aoe  to  each  of  his  sons.  He  has  also  purchased  land  and  laid  out  four 
additions  to  the  city  of  Richmond,  and  has  sold  many  building  lots.  For  the 
past  ten  years  he  has  lived  retired,  having  through  activity  in  former  years 
acquired  a  capital  that  now  enables  him  to  rest  from  labor. 


528  BIOGRAPHICAL   AND   GENEALOGICAL   HISTORY. 

An  incident  in  his  life  is  worthy  of  mention  here.  One  morning  in  1864, 
Martha  Balantine,  a  lady  of  the  Friends'  church,  called  on  him  and  asked, 
"  How  much  will  you  contribute  toward  paying  the  rent  on  the  Home  of  the 
Friendless?"  He  answered,  "  Not  one  cent. "  She  was  much  surprised,  as 
she  had  expected  a  good  donation.  He  told  her  to  call  that  evening  and 
he  would  tell  her  what  he  would  do.  He  then  had  a  paper  drawn  up  to  con- 
tain names  of  those  promising  to  pay  amounts  opposite  their  names.  Mr. 
Price  headed  the  list  with  one  building  lot,  of  the  value  of  five  hundred 
dollars.  They  took  it  to  Charles  F.  Coffin,  who  put  down  five  hundred 
dollars  cash.  They  next  went  to  Abram  Gaar,  who  gave  the  same.  Then 
Mr.  Price,  besides  what  he  had  already  pledged,  gave  one  whole  summer's 
work  in  the  building  of  the  home. 

Mr.  Price  has  been  twice  married.  On  the  i6th  of  April,  1S3S,  he 
wedded  Caroline  Williams,  of  Philadelphia,  and  to  them  were  born  four 
children:  Charles  T.,  a  confectioner  in  Richmond;  Mrs.  Jane  M.  Adison, 
who  lived  in  Nordyke,  but  is  now  deceased;  and  two  who  died  in  infancy. 
The  mother  died  in  1848,  at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years.  On  the  i6th  of 
July,  1850,  Mr.  Price  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Lydia 
Manifold,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  They  had  five  children, — four  sons  and  a 
daughter:  Caleb,  a  broker  and  real-estate  dealer,  of  Richmond;  Benjamin 
G. ,  a  money-broker  of  the  same  city;  Frank  N.,  a  money-broker  and  farmer 
of  Webster,  Wayne  county;  Mrs.  Anna  Medsher,  of  Richmond,  who  is  also 
money-broker;  and  Harry,  a  farmer  of  Preble  county,  Ohio. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Price  is  conservative.  He  favors  prohibition 
principles,  and  usually  votes  regardless  of  party  affiliations,  giving  his  support 
to  the  men  whom  he  thinks  best  qualified  for  office.  He  has  frequently 
been  requested  to  permit  his  name  to  be  used  in  connection  with  some 
elective  position  of  honor  and  trust,  but  has  invariably  declined,  preferring 
to  devote  his  attention  to  his  business  and  private  affairs  rather  than  engage 
in  a  contest  for  any  position  before  the  people.  He,  however,  served  on  the 
committee  that  secured  the  removal  of  the  court-house  from  Centerville  to 
Richmond.  He  is  a  leading  member  of  Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
of  Richmond,  which  he  founded  twenty-eight  years  ago.  He  contributed 
ten  thousand  dollars  thereto,  and  has  filled  all  the  church  offices,  doing  all 
in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  secure  the  success  of  the  organization. 
As  a  business  man  he  has  been  conspicuous  among  his  associates  not  only 
for  his  success  but  for  his  probity,  fairness  and  honorable  methods.  In 
everything  he  has  been  eminently  practical,  and  this  has  been  not  only  man- 
ifest in  his  business  undertakings  but  also  in  private  and  social  life.  His 
services  in  behalf  of  Richmond  have  been  of  inestimable  value,  and  warm- 
hearted and  genial  he  has  drawn  about  him  a  circle  of  devoted  friends. 


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