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BiograplAical and Genealogical

HISTORY

OF

Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton Counties,
Indiana.

VOL. II.

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CHICAGO :
The Lewis Publishing Company.
1898.

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.

HON. MILTON GARRIGUS.— In all the relations of life the gentleman
concerning whom we indite the following paragraphs has made a record
of which any man might be proud; and he has had more experience in public
affairs than almost any other citizen in this section of the state of Indiana.
We have studied his career as a son, husband and father, as a citizen of

Capt. Milton Gakrigu.'^, in April, 1865.
his town, county and state, as an attorney at law and as a public official,
and in all these capacities he has been a model.
As the name implies, the family of which our subject is a member is of
French origin. Like many of our best citizens in this country, his first
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American ancestors were Huguenots from France, some of them corning to
America during the colonial period. A grandfather of Mr. Garrigus was a
soldier in our Revolutionary war, and his father, Timothy Lindley Garrigus,
was a participant in the war of 1812, under General Harrison. The latter
was a minister of the church of the United Brethren in Christ and an early
settler in Wayne county, this state. He was a man of great energy and self-
discipline, of positive principles and moral heroism, an abolitionist with
regard to African slavery in the United States, and actually went to Kansas
in order to use the rifle in defence of free territory. By exposure in that
section of the country he finally brought on an attack of pneumonia, which
proved fatal. Mr. Garrigus' mother, whose name before marriage was
Elizabeth Alison, was a Virginian by birth, a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church for sixty years, a zealous Christian and a noble woman, and
died at his residence, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Captain Garrigus is a native of Wayne county, Indiana, born Septem
ber 27, 1 83 1, and obtained a liberal education despite the meagerness of the
opportunities of the period. His thirst for useful knowledge increased
with years, and, like most great men, he utilized every advantage possible
within his reach that could add to his stock of knowledge. He studied at
night by the light of a wood fire at his parental home; and the books that
he could obtain chanced to be in the line of history, biography, travel and
science. Qualifying himself for the profession of teacher, he taught school
for seventeen successive winter seasons, though the terms of school were com
paratively short; and during all his pedagogical experience he himself was the
principal pupil. Not having his intellectual energies scattered in many
directions, as we in modern cities of the present day, he became thorough in
the most useful branches.
Meanwhile, at the early age of sixteen years, he came to Howard county
and opened out in the improvement of a quarter section of rich land, which
his father had obtained under the pre-emption act, and there he lived alone
for nine months in a small log cabin. This was really an act of heroism
which but few men would be willing to exhibit under any circumstances- but
he succeeded in starting a good development of a fertile tract of land. He
also assisted in the clearing of two or three other farms, the last of which
was his own.
In 1858 he was appointed postmaster at Greentown, Howard countv

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and he consequently removed from the farm and fixed his residence at the
place of his ofSce. Having by this time determined to adopt the law as his
profession for life, and not having all his time occupied by the duties of the
post-office, he began the study of law and zealously pursued it, and in 1859
was admitted to practice at the bar of the Indiana courts.
It was in 1870 that he moved from Greentown to Kokomo; and on his
arrival here he formed a partnership with Col. Charles D. Murray in the
practice of law, which relation continued until the Colonel's death. After-
v/ard, for a short time, he had for a partner a lawyer named Ingels, and for
five years he was associated with Judge O'Brien, whose sketch appears else
where in this work. Since 1880 Mr. Garrigus has had no partner in his
profession. Among his legal brethren he stands high, as indicated by his
election, in 1891, to the presidency of the Bar Association of Howard county,
and he was kept in that position for many years.
Ever since 1847, when he first became a resident of Howard county,
his life has been an open one before the people. In 1887, on account of
sickness of some members of his family, he spent a short time in North
Dakota, and while there secured a half section of land.
Patriotism and loyalty still run in the family, which has been so highly
honored by ancestors. As soon as the first rebel gun was fired upon Fort
Sumter, in 1861, Mr. Garrigus resigned his position as postmaster of Green
town and joined Company D, Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, or Eighth
Cavalry, and on account of his scholarly attainments was appointed clerk of
his company. At the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, he was captured and
paroled, and long afterward was exchanged. He assisted in recruiting the
One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment of Indiana \'olunteers, for the
hundred-day service, in which he was commissioned second lieutenant of
Company A; he was soon promoted as first lieutenant and appointed adju
tant. At Tullahoma, Tennessee, he was appointed post adjutant, and was
acting assistant adjutant general of his brigade until his regiment was mus
tered out. Next he assisted in recruiting the One Hundred and Fortieth
Regiment, and still later a company in the One Hundred and Forty-second
Regiment, of which he was commissioned captain. After the battle of
Nashville he was appointed inspector of the second brigade, on the staff of
Gen. E. C. Mason, Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps, Army of the Cum
berland. Concerning his abilities and fidelity in this responsible position.

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General Mason stated with considerable emphasis that there was not an
officer on his staff held in higher esteem, or one in his service upon whom
he could more confidently rely, or even one in all his acquaintance that was
his equal. While on parole Captain Garrigus organized the Union League in How
ard county and delivered a number of speeches in this county in defense of
the Union cause and exposing the Knights of the Golden Circle. After the
war, naturally, he was active in organizing the Grand Army of the Republic.
In this organization he was chosen commander of the T. J. Harrison Post
in 1881-2. In his political principles the Captain is well known as being one of the
"wheel-horses" of the Republican party from the beginning, having been
in early life a Whig and an abolitionist. He has been one of the principal
speakers on the rostrum in defense of the principles of his party, both in his
own county and, indeed, in various other sections of the state, to some
extent, under the auspices of the state central committee. As an orator he
is earnest and powerful. In 1883 he was nominated by President Arthur
for the oflice of collector of internal revenue; but while his confirmation by
the senate was postponed he withdrew and urged the nomination of his
friend. Captain Kirkpatrick, and the president accepted the suggestion. From
1859 to 1862 he was a school examiner, under the old system, and under the
new law he was county superintendent of schools from 1875 until he resigned
in 1878 to accept the nomination for state senator. Being elected, he
served the full term of four years. As a senator in 1879 he was a member
of the committee on congressional apportionment and of that on ditches
and swamp lands. In 1881 he served on the committee on corporations and
railroads. Also for four years he was a member of the Kokomo city council.
In 1890 he was nominated for county auditor by an almost unanimous vote
in the primary election, and in November following was elected, and he
served the full term of four years, from March r, 1892, with acceptability
and unabated popularity, for in 1S94 he was renominated for the office and
again elected, this time by a greater majority than ever — two thousand and
seventeen: he is therefore now serving in that office, as his present term will
not close until March, 1900. When first elected to this ofiice he sold out his
interest in the Kokomo Journal, a weekly political newspaper noted for fresh
ness and intellectual ability, of which he was editor and proprietor. In the

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campaigns of 1874, '76, '80, '82, '84, '88 and '96, he excelled in organi
zation and campaign work as chairman of the county central committee.
Under his management in three of these campaigns especially, probably there
was no county in the state that had a more thorough and effective political
organization than Howard county in the cause of Republicanism. In 1888
he secured a majority of one thousand, four hundred and two for his party,
which exceeded that of any previous year. During the last campaign he
was the leader of the Republican Glee Club, which proved to be a great
attraction. At the state convention in 1892, held in Fort Wayne, he was
a member of the committee on resolutions.
In 1895, by appointment from Governor Matthews, he was a member of
the Indiana commission to direct the permanent marking of the location of
each military organization from this state on the battle-field of Chickamauga;
also the position of Indiana troops on the fields of Lookout mountain and
Missionary Ridge. This commission was composed of ten officers from Indi
ana who served in one or more of those battles, and he still remains on said
commission. Captain Garrigus is a member of the Indiana Commandery of the Loyal
Legion. In 1892, by appointment, he served on the staff of Colonel A. G.
Wishard, of Wisconsin, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, as assistant inspector-general for the department of Indiana.
The Captain is tlie most active man in the state for his years, owing in
a great measure to his good habits and pleasant disposition. He has always
been accustomed to rise early and work industriously. Both by precept and
example he has promoted temperance, and he has aided much in the organi
zation of temperance movements. Nearly forty years ago he was chief templar
of the Independent Order of Good Templars. Also he has long been a mem
ber of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities.
February 24, 1853, is the date of Captain Garrigus' marriage to Miss
Susan M, Whiteneck, of Greentown. They have two sons and three daugh
ters, all of whom are married and keeping house elsewhere, so that the Cap
tain and his wife are living alone. However, they have frequent family
reunions. The sons, Allen C, now in the railway mail service, and Victor
L., a clerk in the war department, had, until recently, been assistants in
their father's office. Edwin J., another son, was killed by a railroad acci
dent at Windfall, Indiana, in 1891. The Captain and his wife and daugh-

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ters are sincere and consistent members of the Christian church, to which he
is a liberal contributor. Indeed he is a heavy contributor to all movements
intended for the public welfare.

HENRY W. SMITH. — This gentleman is widely known as one of the
early settlers and honored citizens of Howard county, and for many
long years has been prominently identified with the agricultural interests of
Clay township. His well directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his
capable management of his business interests and his sound judgment have
brought to him a handsome property, and his life demonstrates what may be
accomplished by the man of energy and ambition, who is not afraid to work
and has the perseverance to continue his labors even in the face of seemingly
discouraging circumstances. In all the relations of life he has commanded
the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been brought in con
tact, and the history of Howard county would be incomplete without the
record of his career.
Henry W. Smith is one of the worthy citizens that the Old Dominion
has furnished to the Hoosier state. He was born in Madison county, \'ir-
ginia, October 19, 181 7, a son of Fielding and Rhoda (Carpenter) Smith,
natives of Virginia, where they spent their entire lives. The grandfather,
William D. Smith, was a son of Downing Smith, of English descent, and
the family was founded in A'irginia at a very early day and became promi
nently identified with the agricultural interests of the state, owning large
plantations, which they operated with sla\e labor.
Fielding Smith, the father of our subject, married the daughter of
Samuel Carpenter, whose wife was a Miss Blankenbacker, both families
being of German descent and farmers and slave-owners of Virginia. Field
ing Smith was a soldier in the war of 18 12, always took an active interest in
public affairs and supported the Democratic party. He died in 1S29, at the
age of thirty-six years, and his wife passed away in 1888, at the age of
ninety-one years. She was a member of the Lutheran church. In their
family were five children: Henry W. ; Mrs. Harriet Uttz, who died in A'ir
ginia; Mrs. Susan Aylor, who also died in that state; and William and Field
ing, who are residents of Virginia.

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Henry W. Smith acquired his education in the subscription schools
near his home, for at that early daj' the public school was not an institution
of the country as it is to-day. He lost his father when he was twelve years
old, but continued to live with his mother until twenty years of age. In
1837 he removed to Kentucky, where he secured employment on the farm of
his uncle, Abel Carpenter. In 1840 he was married and then began farming
on his own account, renting land for three years, after which he purchased
the farm on which he had resided. There he continued to make his home
until 1853, when he sold his property and came to Howard county, Indiana,
purchasing from Joel Grantham the farm upon which he now resides. He
entered one hundred and sixty acres, of which thirty acres were cleared,
while upon the place was a small orchard and a log cabin. To this he has
added from time to time until his landed possessions aggregated over six hun
dred acres, but he has given three hundred and thirty acres to his children, and
retains two hundred and seventy acres. His life has been a very industrious
one, and with untiring energy he has performed the arduous task of develop
ing new land and transforming it into richly cultivated fields. He' has on
the homestead about two hundred acres cleared, ditched and tiled, and the
well cultivated fields yield to him excellent harvests. He has upon the place
a commodious brick residence, a large barn and other substantial outbuild
ings, and a good orchard yields its fruit in season. At one time he had
overiten miles of rail fencing upon his place, and at all times its neat and
thrifty "appearance has given indications of the supervision of a progress
ive and practical owner.
Mr. Smith was married in 1840, in Kentucky, to Miss Parmelia Garr,
daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Smith) Garr, the latter a distant relative
of his father. Benjamin Garr was a farmer and slave-owner of Kentucky,
became a prosperous man and spent his entire life in that state. His chil
dren were: W. W., a leading citizen of Howard county; John W., who died
in Howard county; Mrs. Smith; Mrs. Mary E. Shrader; Susan, wife of W.
Kellar; Winston B., who died in Johnson county; Robert L., of Missouri; L.
C. , a physician; Benjamin F. , of Kentucky, and Priscilla, who became Mrs.
Fenton, and is now deceased. The parents were consistent members of the
Primitive Baptist church and the mother died in 1884, at the age of sixty-
iour years. To Mrs. and Mrs. Smith were born eight children: William W., a

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farmer of Miami county, Indiana; Edwin, who died in 1893, leaving a wife
and four children; Nannie E. ; Newton B., an attorney of Kokomo; James P.,
a farmer of Clay township, Howard county; George W., who is operating
the homestead farm; Emma D., and Fielding H., of Anderson, Indiana.
Mr. Smith is a consistent member of the Christian church. In politics
he has always been a stanch Democrat since casting his second presidential
vote. His first ballot, however, supported "William Henry Harrison for the
presidency. He has filled various township offices, including those of trustee
and pike commissioner, and in all such positions has discharged his duties
with marked promptness and fidelity. Great changes have occurred since
Mr. Smith came to Howard county, for this was still regarded as a frontier
region at the time. Wild turkeys and other game could often be secured by
the hunter, but the Indians had left for their western reservations. Much of
the land, however, was in its primitive condition, and in the work of its
development Mr. Smith has borne an important part. He has always been
interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, its
progress and upbuilding, and is known as a public-spirited and loyal citizen.
He has now passed the eightieth milestone of life's journey, and his is an
honorable old age, in which he receives the veneration and respect which
should ever accompany advanced years. This is accorded him by reason of
his well spent life, which furnishes many examples of industry, fidelity and
integrity that may well be followed by those of younger generations.

IN^ATHAN SPAULDING.— Among the names of the early settlers and
enterprising and prominent citizens of Tipton county, Indiana, should
be recorded that of Nathan Spaulding, who owns and occupies a fine farm
one mile south of Sharpsville, and who has for many years been identified with
this locality, both as a farmer and merchant.
Nathan Spaulding was born in Jennings county, Indiana, October 9,
1827, and on a farm passed his boyhood days, receiving his education in one
of the typical log school-houses for which Indiana is noted. His parents,
Joseph and Sally (Needham) Spaulding, were natives respectively of Ken
tucky and Virginia, and were married in Indiana. James Spaulding, the
father of Joseph, was a Kentuckian who removed from that ^tate to Indiana

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at a very early period in the history of this commonwealth and entered land
in Jennings county, for a number of years thereafter having for his neighbor
the red man. Here he developed a fine farm and here he passed the rest of
his life and died. He was a devoted Christian and a leading Methodist, and
his cabin was the home of the pioneer preacher who made his rounds regu
larly once a month. On this frontier farm in Jennings county Joseph Spauld
ing passed from youth to manhood, and on attaining to his majority he
entered land and devoted his energies to the improvement of the same. He
continued to reside in Jennings county until 1854, when he came to Tipton
county. Here he improved another farm. About 1867 he sold out and
moved to Iowa, purchasing a farm in that state. There he passed the clos
ing years of his life and died. Politically, he was first a Whig and later a
Republican. Religiously, he clung to the faith in which he was reared;
and his wife was also a Methodist. He was a man of even temperament and
was a great peace-maker, frequently assisting in arbitrating differences among
his neighbors and fellow citizens. In all the affairs of life he was honorable
and upright, and no one in the county stood higher than he. Of his four
children, Nathan was the first born. Eliza J., the next in order of birth, is
the wife of William Hawthorn. Dudley isa resident of Iowa, and Nancy E.,
the youngest, is the wife of Madison Hawthorn.
Nathan Spaulding grew up in his native county, and in 1847, at the age
of twenty years, he was married in Ripley county and there settled on a farm,
which he improved, erecting a house, etc., and where he lived until 1853.
That year he sold out and moved to Tipton county, locating in Liberty town
ship. At Sharpsville he purchased a mill and corn-cracker. The following
spring he sold the mill and turned his attention to merchandising at Sharps
ville, having his goods freighted from Cicero and Noblesville at the rate
of one dollar per hundred pounds. He did a general merchandise busi
ness and in exchange for his goods took any kind of produce the people had
to sell, including pelts and ginseng. For two years he was in partnership
with James A. Franklin, the pioneer merchant of Sharpsville. At the end
of this time the subject of our sketch sold out and, in company with a small
colony, went to Kansas, where, however, he remained only a short time
During this western trip he could have purchased the land on which Kansas
City now stands, at thirty dollars per acre. It was then known as the McGee
land. On his return to Tipton county, in 1856, he bought one hundred and

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sixty acres of land, where he now lives. The timber on eighty acres of this tract
had been deadened, and with this exception no improvements had been made
on it. Soon he made trade for a small tract of adjoining land, which had a
cabin, and three acres cleared. Here his wife died in 1859. After this he
again embarked in merchandising at Sharpsville, in which he was interested
until 1876, seven years of that time being alone in business. During his
business experience he had four different partners. His career on the whole
was a successful one, but misfortune overtook him, as it does most men at
some time in life, and the payment of a large security debt left him in some
what reduced circumstances. Nothing daunted, however, he leased a tract
of land which he farmed in connection with the little land he had left, and
later he sold out and moved to the western part of the county, where he
bought a farm and remained twelve years, working hard and improving his
land. This he sold in 1893 and that same year came back to his former
location and repurchased his old farm, one hundred and ten acres. This
land is all cleared, ditched and tiled, and since his return Mr. Spaulding
has erected his present commodious house and barn. In short, he has a
model farm.
During his prime Mr. Spaulding took an active interest in politics, for
years being active and influential in Republican ranks. At one time he made
the race for county sherift', and while he received a most flattering vote, he
with his party was defeated, the county alwa}-s being strongly Democratic.
He helped to organize the postoffice at Sharpsville and he and his partner
were the first postmasters.
)ilr. Spaulding was first married, in Riple}- county, to Miss Hilary A.
Hawthorn, daughter of Madison and Sally Hawthorn, natives of Kentucky
and prominent pioneers of Ripley county, Indiana. Mr. Hawthorn died in
Ripley county and his widow died some years later, in Tipton county, at the
age of eighty years. Their children included Mary .A.., William, Milla J. and
Madison. By his marriage to }.fiss Hawthorn Mr. Spaulding had five chil
dren, two of whom died when young, the others being George X., Seth H.
and Eli F. , the first and last named now being engaged in farming in the
vicinity of Sharpsville. Seth H. is in the west. The mother of this family
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was a woman whose
life was adorned by many acts of kindness. She died in 1863. In 1865
Mr. Spaulding married Aliss Mary M. Franklin, who was born in Hancock

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county, Indiana, daughter of James Franklin, a Virginian by birth, who
died on his farm in Hancock county. The fruits of this union are a large
family of children, as follows: William C, Joseph C, Frank B., Lora A.,
Allen F., Charles C, Nathan E., Andrew M., Ward B. , Walter G., Ella
Ma} and Jerry. All are living, with one exception, Ella May, who died when
young; and all are yet at home, except William C, who is in the west;
Walter G., who is a member of Company B, Fourth Indiana Regiment, and
who participated in the entire Santiago campaign; and Jerry, a soldier in the
One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer service. This wife and mother
died February 3, 1895, after a lingering illness. She, too, was a Methodist,
as also is Mr. Spaulding.

/'^HARLES F. BEAM, a passenger engineer on the Pan Handle Railroad,
^-^ with headquarters at Logansport, Indiana, has for nearly a quarter of a
century occupied his present position and has a railroad career that covers
more than three decades. His histor}' is of interest in the present connection,
and a sketch of his life is herewith presented.
Charles F. Beam was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, October 22, 1846,
and is of German and French descent. Philip Beam, his father, was born in
Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1808, and when a young man of twenty-two
came to this country and settled in Michigan. He was by trade a mechanic
and his was the first cabinet shop that was ever opened in Marshall, Michi
gan. Philip Beam married Miss Madaline Nettlener, a native of France,
born in 1812, daughter of Henry Nettlener, a Frenchman who died in his
native land. Her mother was a German. J\Ir. and Mrs. Beam were mar
ried in New York city, and their children are as follows: Mrs. Kate Hutch-
ings, of Marshall, Michigan; Henry Beam, foreman of the round-house for
the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Chicago; Joseph, a stock farmer, of
Bloomington, Illinois; Charles F., the immediate subject of this review;
Lewis P., an engineer who was killed in the Monticelio bridge disaster in
1878; and Frank, an employee of the Big Four Company, at Danville,
Illinois. The subject of our sketch was reared in Marshall, Michigan, and was
educated in the Brothers' School of that place, and later in Bryant & Strat-
ton's Business College at Chicago. At the age of seventeen he entered the

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shops of the Michigan Central Railway Company, and learned the trade of
boiler-maker, and after completing his trade went out on the road as fireman.
At the age of twenty-two he was promoted to the position of engineer. A
year later he severed his connection with the Michigan Central Company,
the next year entered the service of the Chicago & Northwestern, and shortly
afterward made another change, entering the service of the Chicago, Alton &
St. Louis Railroad Company, remaining in their employ three years. Next
he was with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Company until
1874, when, on the 13th of August, he took his first freight train out of Lo
gansport for the Pan Handle Company.
During his long career as an engineer Mr. Beam has met with only two
serious accidents. One of these was a wreck which occurred on the west end
of the Chicago division, and out of which he came with his right ear in his
hand, carrying it to Chicago, where he had it successfully grafted on! The
other was the wreck at Thirty-ninth street, Chicago, with a yard engine, in
which nothing beyond the loss of property was sustained.
Mr. Beam is a man of family. He was married in Marshall, Michigan,
in November, 1871, to Aurelia, daughter of John J. Freemyer. Mr. Free-
myer was at one time a prominent hotel man at Union City, Indiana, and'
was a native of Syracuse, New York. Mrs. Beam's mother was before mar
riage a Miss Phcebe Wing. Mr. and Mrs. Beam have children as follows:
Charles J., an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, married
Miss Adelaide Miller; and Mary E., Maud R. , Earl and Phoebe M., at home.

T~\AVID GRAFT. — Miami county is characterized by her full share of the
*—^ honored pioneer element who have done so much for the development
of the country and of the state and the establishment of all the institutions
of civilization in this fertile and well favored country. The biographical
sketches in this volume are mainly of this class of useful citizens; and it is
not in the least too early to jot down in print the principal items in the lives
of these hard-working and honest people, giving honor to whom honor is due,
for they will all soon be gone, and posterity can have no better history, no
better memento of the past, than the accounts we compile and publish.
The Grafts are of sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch stock. David, the grand-

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father of the subject of this record, was a native of the Keystone state, who
emigrated to Montgomery county, Ohio, and whose children were Abraham,
David, Daniel, Henry, Eliza, Nancy and Mary A. He was a farmer in good
circumstances and a good business man. After the death of his wife he came
to Miami county, Indiana, where he died at the age of sixty-five years.
Politically he was a Democrat.
Abraham Graft, the father of Da^•id, was also born in Pennsylvania,
about the year 1813, and after emigrating to Ohio married Miss Annie Morn-
ingstar, a native of that state, and a daughter of George Morningstar, peo
ple of substantial German ancestry and members of the German Baptist
church. Her father was a prosperous farmer of Greene county, Ohio, where
he died. His children were Susanna, Katie, Lydia, Mary A., Annie and
George. After marriage Mr. Graft located in Randolph county, Indiana,
where he developed a good farm, although a carpenter by trade. He moved
to Miami county, this state, about 1852, settling in Jefferson township, on a
quarter section of land which was but partly cleared and which he bought
at fifteen dollars an acre, and to this original amount he added by further
purchases until he had a total of three hundred and sixty acres. Thus
he became one of the most prominent farmers in his township. He is yet
living, having reached the venerable age of eighty-five years, is an excellent
citizen and a member of the German Baptist church. His wife left the
scenes of this world at the age of sixty-four years, in Miami county. Their
children are David, George (deceased), John, Annie E., Lydia and Mary A.
David Graft, the subject of this sketch, was born in Randolph county,
Indiana, April 7, 1842, received a common-school education and when ten
years old was brought by his parents to Miami county, this state, the journey
being made with horses and wagon. At the age of twenty-two years he mar
ried for his first wife, in Jefferson township, Miami county. Miss Annie L.
Swihart, a daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Karn) Swihart, and the children
by this marriage were: William O., Charles N. and Eva J. Mr. Graft
settled on one of his father's farms in Jefferson township and lived there four
years; next resided eight years on eighty acres which he had purchased in
Perry township and then purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres
in that township, lived upon that place seven years and then, in 1886, he
bought one hundred and twenty-five acres of partly cleared land in Pipe
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comfortable home, erecting his present nice residence in 1894. He now
owns two hundred and twelve acres.
Mrs. Annie L. Graft left the scenes of this life February 6, 1878, and in
July, 1879, in Rochester, Fulton county, this state, Mr. Graft was united in
marriage with Mary A. Dickey, who was born March 20, 1850, in Seneca
county, Ohio, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Smith) Dickey. Her
hne of ancestry has been long established in this country, known as Pennsyl
vania-Dutch, whose sturdy and reliable characteristics are well known
throughout the world. Jonathan Dickey was born in Stark county, Ohio,
of Pennsylvania parents, who were pioneers in that county, and he was a
farmer, who, in Seneca county, Ohio, in December, 1857, married ^fiss
Hannah Smith, who was born June 21, 1816, in Frederick county, Maryland,
now Carroll county, a daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Friese) Smith.
The Smiths and Frieses also were of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry. Solomon
Smith was a farmer of Carroll county, Maryland, and died on his homestead
there, aged about fifty years, a Lutheran in his religion. His children were
Lydia, Rachel, John, Catharine, Mary, Hannah, Barbara, Elizabeth and
Susanna. His widow moved with her children to Seneca county, Ohio,
about 1833, and finally died in Allen county, that state, at the age of eighty-
two years. Soon after marriage Jonathan Dickey moved to Hancock county,
Ohio, settling on eighty acres of land, partially cleared, and after a residence
of six years there he changed his dwelling place several times and then
located in Wabash county, Indiana, in 1863, on an eighty-acre tract, and
finally moved to Marshall county, this state, where he died at the age of
seventy-eight years, a faithful member of the German Baptist church, in
which he had been deacon for many years. He was a substantial farmer, a
highly respected citizen, and a man always frank and straightforward in his
deahngs. By his first wife his children were Catharine, Eliza and Lydia;
and by his second marriage his children were Emma, Mary A., James, John,
William and Rosella.
David Graft, our subject, and his wife have the following named chil
dren: Howard I., Jesse Q., Galen O., Nellie W. and Glenna. Mr. and
Mrs. Graft are exemplary members of the German Baptist church. In poli
tics he is a Democrat and bimetalist. He is a citizen well known for his
many excellencies of character, his children are well educated and trained,
and the whole family are highly esteemed by all who know them.

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A LEXANDER C. ROGERS.— One of the substantial farmers of Liberty
-'* township, Howard county, and a respected citizen, Mr. Rogers is
well deserving of mention in the history of northern Indiana. He was born
in Warren county, Ohio, on the 8th of October, 1826, his parents being Will
iam and Hannah (Welch) Rogers. His father was a native of Kentucky
and of English descent. He was twice married and the children of his first
union were Isabelle, born August 16, 1797; John, born in December, 1799;
Sarah, born January 13, 1802; William; born February 24, 1804; Susannah,
born July 31, 1806; Sophia, born January 10, 1809; Thomas, born July 3,
18 ri; Eliza, born November 13, 181 3; Harriet, born in 18 16, and Elizabeth
J., born July 17, 1822. The children of William and Hannah Rogers were
Alexander C, born October 8, 1826; Emeline P., born May 28, 1829;
Martha H., born May 29, 1832; Nancy L., born April 29, 1834, and Tabitha
D., born January 6, 1837. The mother of this family had previously been
married to Samuel Woods, and by that union had three children, Mary J.,
Susannah and Sarah.
William Rogers located on a pioneer farm in Warren county, Ohio, and
about the year 1825 removed to Clinton county, where he spent his remain
ing days, dying at the age of three-score years and ten. He was a shoemaker
and farmer and a typical pioneer, resolute and courageous in facing the hard
ships and dangers of frontier life, and by his industry and enterprise con
quering the obstacles which beset life in the wilderness. His wife, who was
a native of Ohio, lived to be eighty-two years of age, and died at the home
of our subject, in Liberty township, Howard county. She was a member of
the Campbellite or Christian church and her many virtues and true womanly
qualities endeared her greatly to her family and friends.
It was during his early childhood that Alexander C. Rogers removed
with his parents to Clinton county, Ohio, where he was reared, acquiring his
education in the common schools of that day. His childhood was spent on
his father's farm and at the age of fourteen he began clerking in the store of
Amos T. Crosdale, a merchant of Antioch, Ohio. When twenty-four years
of age he became a partner of his former employer, in whose service he had
continuously remained, a fact which well indicated his fidelity, ability and
trustworthiness. The elemental strength of his character was thus shadowed
forth, and the same qualities have marked his entire career, bringing him
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While residing in Clinton county Mr. Rogers married Miss Sarah J.
Fleming, a native of that county and a daughter of John and Hannah (Smith)
Fleming. To them were born the following named: Benjamin F., who
was born December 14, 1850; Eli C, born October 14, 1853; John C, born
August 16, 1856; Mary H., born December 18, 1858; Andrew J., born Decem
ber 4, 1861; William H. , born October 11, 1864; Lucretia, born May 24,
1867; James A., born September 22, 1870; and Joseph M., born September
28, 1873. All were natives of Highland county, Ohio, with the exception of
the youngest, who was born in Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana.
Mr. Rogers continued his partnership with Mr. Crosdale until about six
years after his marriage, when he removed to Samantha, Ohio, where he car
ried on merc'nandising for nine years. He then purchased a farm of two
hundred and thirty-one acres in that countyj making his home thereon until
October, 1871, when he removed to his present farm in Howard county
having purchased eighty acres of the tract in 1868. In 1873 he extended its
boundaries by the additional purchase of forty acres, and has since pur
chased another forty acres, so that he now owns one hundred and twenty
acres of the fine farming land of Indiana. This is now a valuable property,
the fields being well tilled, while substantial buildings, the latest improved
machinery and other modern accessories combine to make it one of the best
country homes in the locality.
In 1876 Mr. Rogers was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who
died on the 28th of July of that year, at the age of forty-three. She was a
member of the Campbellite church at New Antioch, Ohio. Mr. Rogers was
again married Januapy 24, 1878, in Liberty township, Howard county, Mar-
titia Worth Davidson becoming his wife. She was born in North Carolina,
October 18, 1843, a daughter of George and Lydia (Mendenhall) Davidson.
Her father was a native of Randolph county, North Carolina, and a son of
James and Lorane (Brown) Davidson, the former born December 23, 1774,
the latter January 2, 1781. Their children were George, born February 13,
1803; William, born December 26, 1804; Mary, born January 20, 1806;
Isaiah, born November 6, 1808; James, born February 24, 1811; Rachel,
born November 5, 181 3; and Joseph, born May 28, 18 17. James Davidson,
the grandfather of Mrs. Rogers, was a member of the Society of Friends, in
the faith of which he reared his children. He belonged to one of the old
families of Randolph county, North Carolina, and was a farmer and brick

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mason. He died in that state April 27, 185 1, and his wife passed away
March 17, 1840.
George Davidson, father of Mrs. Rogers, was born in Randolph county,
North Carolina, February 13, 1803, and became a brick mason by trade.
He was married, in the Friends' church in Guilford county. North Carolina,
to Lydia Mendenhall, a native of that county and a daughter of Mordecai and
Margera (Beard) Mendenhall, of one of the old Friend families of that local
ity. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson began their domestic life on a farm in Randolph
county, where they lived until they reached the end of life's journey. They
were devout members of the Friends' church, and by their marriage they had
seven children: Belinda, born October 5, 1828; Mordecai, born June 8,
1830; Margera, born October i, 1832; Jane, born November 25, 1836;
Nathan and Achsah, twins, born March 28, 1840; and Rachel, May 29, 1845.
At the time of their marriage, Mr. Rogers and his second wife located
on their farm in Howard county, and two children came to bless their union:
Samuel A., born December 16, 1878, now a student in Fairmount College,
Indiana; and Isabel, born March 24, 1882, at home. Many of the children
of the first marriage are now married and in homes of their own. Benjamin
F. wedded Sarah Nuner, by whom he has four children, and is a farmer of
Howard township, Howard county; Eli C, a carpenter of Greentown,
Indiana, married Phoebe Graff, and has five children; Mary, now deceased,
became the wife of Michael Graff, a farmer of Jackson township, Howard
county, and they had two children; Andrew, also a resident of Jackson town
ship, married Levina Mast, and has five children; William, who died at the
age of thirty-two years, married Alice Murphy, who resides in Piano, Indiana;
John, a farmer of Liberty township, Howard county, married Emily Turner
and has six children; Lucretia is the wife of Mildred Bell, a minister residing
in North Manchester, Indiana, by whom she has one child; James A., a
farmer of Hamilton county, Indiana, wedded Mary Teague, and has one child;
Joseph, an agriculturist of Liberty township, Howard county, married Clara
Zerbe, and has one child.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are members of the Friends' church in Amboy and
rank among the best citizens of Howard county. So upright have been their
lives that they enjoy the confidence and esteem of a very large circle of friends
and share in the hospitality of the best homes of the neighborhood. In poli
tics Mr. Rogers is a Democrat, favoring bimetalism, and to a number of posi-
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tions of honor and trust he has been called by the vote of the people. He
served as township trustee, was justice of the peace for eight years, is now
notary public, and for sixteen years has been a member of the election board.
He is a public-spirited and progressive citizen, deeply interested in the wel
fare of the community and all that contributes to its education and moral
advancement. His business efforts have been crowned with a degree of suc
cess richly merited, and now in his commodious, two-story, brick residence
he is spending his declining days, surrounded by all the comforts and many
of the luxuries of life.

PETER W. MOORE, a retired citizen of Logansport, Indiana, was for
many years prominently identified with the mercantile interests of
this place. Mr. Moore dates his birth in Sandusky, Ohio, February 13, 1858. In
August of that year his father, James H. Moore, moved to Indiana and
located in LaFayette, where he for some years filled the position of master
mechanic in the shops of the Wabash Railroad Company. Later he engaged
in the grocery business, finally sold out and retired, and spent his last days
free from active business cares. He died in LaFayette in 1895. John
Moore, the grandfather of our subject, was an Irishman by birth and by
occupation was a machinist and engineer. He died and is buried in San
dusky, Ohio. James H. Moore married Elizabeth Glora, with whom he
lived happily until her death in 1893. Of their children three are now liv
ing: Peter W. and Frank, the latter a farmer residing near Waverly, Indiana;
and George H. , of LaFayette, Indiana.
Peter W. Moore received his early training in the public schools of
LaFayette, supplementing the same with a course in Kenney's Commercial
College. When quite young he had his first business experience as a news
boy on the streets of his home town. Next we find him filling the position
of bill clerk in the confectionery establishment of W. & E. Bemis, of LaFay
ette, and where in due time his faithful and earnest efforts were rewarded with
promotion, he being given the place of bookkeeper. In the fall of 1878 he
came to Logansport and engaged in the retail liquor business, w|iich he con
ducted two years, after that being for some time a wholesale dealer in liquor.
In 1890 he sold out to Ross McClure and soon thereafter engaged in the dry-

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goods business at No. 307 Fourth street, which he conducted successfully for
a period of five years. Since 1895 he has been retired.
In 1896 he began the improvement of his present home, one of the
most attractive and commodious in the city, in Maple Grove on North
street; and to this he has retired, even before the prime of life, to enjoy the
fruits of his successful business career.
Mr. Moore is a man of family. He was married first to Miss Mary
Dolan, of this city, who died leaving him with one son, William Harry. In
October, 1896, Mr. Moore wedded Miss Margaret Moran, daughter of Michael
Moran, of Montgomery, Indiana.
Fraternally Mr. Moore is identified with the Order of Elks, of Logans
port, of which he is a charter member.

SE. CLARK. — Among the energetic and enterprising business men of
Kokomo is the well known superintendent of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Works, S. E. Clark. He was born in Summit county, Ohio, August 17,
1856, and is a son of Samuel Clark, a native of Massachusetts, whose father
also was born in the Bay state and bore the same name. He was a farmer
by occupation, had a family of seven children and died in Ohio at the
advanced age of eighty-four years. Samuel Clark, father of our subject, was
for some years a druggist in West Richfield, Ohio, and later engaged in
farming in that locality. When a young man he removed with his parents to
Ohio, where he has since resided and is now living retired. He and his wife
are Congregationalists in religious belief. The latter bore the maiden name
of Caroline Prickett and is a native of Massachusetts. Her father, Samuel
Prickett, was born in the same state, was of English descent and a farmer
by occupation. He also removed to Ohio, locating in Summit county, where
his death occurred at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark
became the parents of four children, of whom two are living, Mary and S. E.
The father and the grandfathers of our subject never used tobacco or intoxi
cants in any form.
S. E. Clark was reared in the county of his nativity and supplemented
his early educational privileges by study in Oberlin College, Oberhn, Ohio,
in which institution he remained until his health began to fail. Later he

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pursued a business course in Kline & Howard's College at Oberlin and was
graduated in that school. On account of his health he went west to Colorado,
where he remained for a year and a half, after which he returned to Ohio.
For a time he engaged in the stock and milk business in Akron, Ohio, but a
fire destroyed his property and he lost all that he had. In 1889 he came to
Kokomo and secured the position of time-keeper in the Plate Glass Works.
Later he served in the capacity of assistant superintendent for two years and
in 1898 was appointed superintendent, which position he is now most satis
factorily and commendably filling. Employment is furnished to four hundred
and fifty men and the goods of the firm are handled in all parts of the United
States. The man who can successfully control extensive business interests
and manage a large force of men is a valuable addition to any community,
for it is the wide-awake, alert business man that brings commercial activity,
and upon that the prosperity and material welfare of town, state and nation
rest. Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Viall, daughter of Bur
rell and Jane Viall, the wedding being celebrated in Ohio. Mr. Clark gives
his political support to the Republican party and is well informed on the
issues of the day, but has never sought public office. He belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, and his wife holds membership in the Episcopal church. They are
people of sterling worth, whose circle of friends and acquaintances in Kokomo
is very extensive.

A NDERSON WILLITS, ex-county commissioner of Howard county, Indi-
-'*¦ ana, was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, May 24, 1838, son of Charles
and Hannah (Kirlin) Willits, and a descendant of Welsh ancestors who set
tled in America many generations ago.
William Willits, the grandfather of our subject, came from Ohio at an
early day and settled in Wayne county, Indiana, when that now wealthy and
thickly settled county was practically a wilderness. He cleared away the
forest and improved a fine farm there, and there reared his family and passed
the rest of his life. He died on his farm at the age of seventy years. He
had two sons and two daughters, viz. : Joshua and Charles, and Mrs. Hugh
Hanna and Mrs. John Fraley.

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Charles Willits, the father of Anderson, was a boy when he came with
his parents to Indiana in 1820, and on Green Fork, in Wayne county, he
was reared and there married, the lady of his choice being Hannah Kirlin,
a native of Virginia and a daughter of William Kirlin. Immediately after
his marriage he took his bride to Iowa and they settled in Muscatine county,
where he engaged in farming. Subsequently they removed to Cedar county,
that state; some time later they returned to Wayne county, Indiana, and in
1848 they came to Liberty township, Howard county, where he entered one
hundred and twenty acres of land, northwest of Greentown. Afterward he
purchased sixty acres adjoining his land, making one hundred and eighty acres,
and this he cleared and placed under a good state of cultivation. He lived
on his farm until 1857, when he moved to Greentown and engaged in mer
cantile business. Four years later he sold out, went to Illinois and engaged
in merchandising there, remaining, however, only one year, and then com
ing back to Greentown. Again he engaged in mercantile business here, and
here he spent the closing years of his life and died, in the year 1872,
at the age of sixty-two years. He was identified with the Christian church,
and, politically, gave his support to the Republican party. Following are
the names of the children composing his family: Anderson, Hugh, Cyrus,
Eliza Jane, Sarah, Mary, and William. Hugh was a lieutenant in the
Union army during the Civil war, was wounded in the battle of Nashville,
and died in hospital shortly afterward.
Anderson Willits was eight years old at the time his parents came back
to Indiana after their sojourn in Iowa. Here he was educated in the sub
scription schools of his 'day, which were held in log cabins, and when he
grew up he became a farmer. March 11, 1859, at the age of twenty-one,
he was married, in Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana, to Miss Har
riet J. Hazard, who was born in Henry county, this state, February 27, 1840.
Three children came to bless their union, Dora, Lester and Charles. Mrs.
Willits died in March, 1886. She was a member of the Methodist church
and was a woman much beloved by all who knew her. For his second wife
Mr. Willits marrjed, in Greentown, Mrs. Mary Ellen Lindly, 7zc'e Brunk, who
was born February 29, 1855, in Jackson township, Howard county. To
them have been born one child, Elsie. By her first husband, Henry C.
Lindly, Mrs. Willits had two children, Fred J. and Neta F. Mr. Lindly
was a stock dealer and merchant and during the Civil war was a Union sol-

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dier. He was on the steamer Sultan when it blew up in the Mississippi river,
and he narrowly escaped with his life, being rescued eight miles down the
river, by a woman in a skiff. He was a pioneer of Howard county, and died
September 17, 1884. He had been twice married, his first wife having
been Mariah Scott, who bore him three children, — Laura, Rhoda E. and
Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. Willits are leading members of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Greentown, he having been a trustee of the same for several years.
His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He served as county
commissioner of Howard county in 1894, '95 and '96, which position he
filled with fidelity and to the best interests of the count}'. Fraternally, he
is a Mason, a member of Greentown Lodge, No. 341, F. & A. M. Mr.
Willits may be termed a self-made man, for he started out in life with no
means whatever, and by his honest industry and careful management he has
secured a nice farm of fifty-four acres, where he lives, and he is classed with
the most respected citizens of his locality. Mrs. Willits is a member of the
lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star, at Greentown, and has been treas
urer since it was organized, three years ago. She was one of the charter
members.

ISAAC S. BOZARTH.— The ex-chief of the Peru fire department, "Ike"
Bozarth, as he is familiarly termed, was born in Greene county, Ohio,
February 4, 1848. His father was Presley M. Bozarth, who, in 1853, re
moved with his family to Fulton county, Indiana, where Mrs. Bozarth died.
Subsequently Mr. Bozarth came to Peru and resided with his children till his
death, which occurred February 25, 1895.
The subject of this sketch is one of ten children, only three of whom
are living. His advantages for education were limited to those of the com
mon district school. His residence in Peru dates from 1872, when he en
tered the service of the Howe Sewing Machine Company, of which the Indi
ana Manufacturing Company is the successor, and there he remained until
1883, when he became city marshal of Peru, a position he filled in an accept
able manner. Later he was for about a year in the employ of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad Company; next he resumed work for the Indiana Man
ufacturing Company, where he remained till he was made chief of the fire

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department in September,. 1894, succeeding Alexander Appel. In this offi
cial position Mr. Bozarth made an excellent record. The fire department of
Peru compares favorably, in its appointments and efficiency, with that of any
other city of its size in the state of Indiana. Besides the main building on
Miami street there are two reel and hose houses, — one at the Wabash hos
pital and the other at the factory of the Indiana Manufacturing Company.
The power in use is supplied by the pumps at the water-works. The
efficiency of the department is largely due to the perfect system with which
it is conducted and to the skill and watchfulness of its late chief. June i,
1898, he left that department of the city's service and since then has been
employed as night watchman of the Indiana Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Bozarth was married in Peru to Miss Elizabeth Lovatt, a native of
Ohio and a daughter of William H. Lovatt. Mr. Bozarth was bereft of his
wife by death January 22, 1892. Her father resides at the home of Mr. Bo
zarth, her mother being deceased. Mr. Bozarth has three daughters, — •
Edna, Jessie and Lulu, — all born in Peru and educated in the public schools
of the city. The last two mentioned are graduates of the high school and arfe
successful teachers. Mr. Bozarth is a charter member of the order of the
Royal Arcanum in Peru. In his political views he is a Republican, and he
is esteemed as a worthy and upright citizen.

JOHN F. TROUTMAN.— A leading contractor and builder, JohnF. Trout
man has been prominently connected with the industrial interests of
Logansport for the past ten years, and his standing in business circles is
indeed enviable. Numbered among the native sons of Cass county, he was
born on a farm in Harrison township, on the 29th of September, 1851, and
is a son of the venerable Charles Troutman, of Logansport, who is well
known throughout the northern section of Cass county by reason of his early
and protracted connection with the building interests of that district. He
was born in Germany and was brought to the United States by his father,
John Frederick Troutman, who located in Ross county, Ohio, and became
one of the pioneer wagon-makers of Chillicothe., His death occurred in
1872, at the very advanced age of ninety-seven years. In the year 1849
Charles Troutman carne to Cass county and located on what is now the

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John Walker farm, in Harrison township, where our subject was born. Dur
ing the time he was extensively engaged in contracting and building he also
carried on agricultural pursuits, and did not leave his country home until
fifteen years ago. He is now a resident of Noble township, and is accounted
one of the representative and honored pioneers of the county. He has
never been very active in politics, but was serving as trustee of Harrison
township when the People's Bank of Logansport failed. In its liquidation a
considerable sum of the public funds there on deposit was lost, and at great
personal sacrifice to himself Mr. Troutman made good the sum to his town
ship, a fact which indicates in an unmistakable manner his high sense of
honor. Charles Troutman was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Petit, and
to them were born the following children: Addie, wife of Nathaniel Bell, of
Harrison township; Kate, wife of Harvey Larimore, of Cass county; John
F., our subject; Emma, deceased, wife of R. A. Graffis; Tillie, who has also
passed away; James, a prominent contractor who died in Claridon, Texas;
Charles E., a contractor of Ardmore, Indian Territory; Flora, wife of George
Cheeney, of Indianapolis, ex-county surveyor of Cass county; and Harry,
who is now county surveyor of Cass county.
John F. Troutman is one whom the world calls a self-made man, for his
success has all been acquired through his own efforts, and he has not only
builded many of the leading residences of Logansport, but has also been the
architect of his own fortunes as well. He is indebted to the common-school
system for the educational privileges he received, and with his father he
learned the carpenter's trade, which he has made his life occupation. He
also assisted in the labors of field and meadow until 1886, when he disposed
of his interests in Cass county and removed to Kansas, locating in Kingman.
After an absence of eighteen months, however, he returned to the county of
his nativity and has since made his home in Logansport. He has succeeded
in building up a good business and his liberal patronage brings to him a com
fortable income. His honorable business methods, his excellent workman
ship and his fidelity to the terms of a contract have brought him a well-
merited success and many of the substantial buildings of Logansport stand as
monuments to his thrift and enterprise, including the residences of Messrs.
John Gray, Bringhurst, J. F. Johnson and Auditors Powell and Helvie and
the business blocks of Baldwin, Thornton, Elliott and Hagenbuck. He is

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just commencing a contract to build a public school-house in the city of
Logansport for about twenty-three thousand dollars.
Mr. Troutman was married in Boone township, April 4, 1878, to Miss
Lizzie A., only daughter of Moses Williamson. The children of this marriage
are Stanley W. , who is occupying a clerical position in the office of the
superintendent of the Pan Handle Railroad Company, at Logansport; and
Rodney W., a student in the Logansport high school. Mr. Troutman is a
valued member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Knights of Macca
bees, and in the Masonic order has attained the Knight Templar degree. In
manner he is free from all ostentation and display, but his intrinsic worth is
recognized and his friendship is most prized by those who know him best,
showing that his character will bear the scrutiny of close acquaintance.

SAMUEL H. SLAUGHTER. — Butler township, Miami county, is honored
by the substantial farmer whose name appears above. He was born in
Jefferson county, this state, January 14, 1844, a son of William Logan
Slaughter. His paternal grandfather was Logan Slaughter, a soldier in the
war of the American Revolution, who was born in New York state, of an
old American family, and when a young man came to Indiana, settling in
Jefferson county, where he married, and among his children were Mary, Isa
bella, William and John. He cleared a farm of eighty acres in the sylvan
wilderness and passed the remainder of his life there, reaching the venerable
age of eighty-four years. He was an industrious and respected citizen. Will
iam L. Slaughter was born in that county, received a common-school edu
cation, became a farmer, and married, in that county, Isabella McClain, a
native of the same county and a daughter of Jeremiah H. McClain. Remain
ing in his native county, he learned and worked at the saddler's trade. In
1849 he came to Miami county, locating in Harrison township, on a tract of
wooded land consisting of eighty acres, where he built a log cabin, with the
usual mud-and-stick chimney, etc., and cleared the land, making a good
farm and a comfortable home. His children were Caroline, Diana, Logan,
Samuel H., Mary, Alexander, Jeremiah H., Milton and Idelia. In 1865 Mr.
Slaughter moved to Illinois, locating in Iroquois county, where he improved
a prairie farm of four hundred acres, prospered and became well fixed in

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life. He finally died in Minnesota, while on a visit to his son, Jeremiah H.
In his religion he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and in his politics
a Democrat. He ever maintained a character that challenged the admira
tion of all good people.
His son, Samuel H. Slaughter, was about five years old when brought
by his parents to Miami county, and he grew up here among the pioneer
element, attending school to a limited extent, in a log school-house, and
from his youth to the present time he has always devoted his energies to the
pursuits of agriculture. Patriotic, he enlisted for one year in the war for the
Union, enlisting, January 20, 1865, at Santa Fe, in Com.pany C, One Hun
dred and Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but for four months he was
confined tothe hospital at Tullahoma, Tennessee, with the measles, and was
thus disabled for service; and he was honorably discharged in June, 1865.
When twenty-three years of age, in Harrison township, he was united
in matrimony with Miss Alice Lee, who was born July 9, 1846, in Ohio, a
daughter of Jesse and Nancy (Bond) Lee. He continued his residence on
the Lee farm for eight years and then located upon his present farm, con
sisting then of one hundred and twenty-seven acres and with but few acres
cleared. This he has improved and made of it a nice farm, and besides he
has added to his landed possessions by further purchases until he has now
an aggregate ^of two hundred and forty-seven acres, and real estate in
Santa Fe, this county.
Mr. Slaughter is a Republican in his views of national policies, and is a
man of strict mental discipline and high honor, self-made educationally and
financially, and an exemplary citizen. His children are Mary F., Ernest L.,
Lillie G., Dennis V. and Helen A.

O ANFORD B. WISNER.— In the respect that is accorded to men who
^ have fought their own way to success through unfavorable environ
ments we find an unconscious recognition of the intrinsic worth of a char
acter which can not only endure so rough a test, but gain new strength
through the discipline. The following history sets forth briefly the steps by
which our subject, now one of the substantial agriculturists of Liberty town
ship, Tipton county, overcame the disadvantages of his early life.

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A native of Indiana, he was born in Bartholomew county, June 14, 1829,
and is a son of Abner and Ruth (Gibbs) Wisner, natives of Pennsylvania and
New York, respectively. The father's brothers and sisters to come to Indi
ana were: Moses, who died in Switzerland county; Jonathan, Sarah and
Mrs. Coburn. The mother was one of a faniily of six children, the others
being: Amos, Daniel, Mrs. Sally Chambers, Mrs. Polly Phelps and Mrs.
Betsey Smith. On settling in Bartholomew county Abner Wisner entered
forty acres of land, immediately commenced its improvement and had
placed most of it under cultivation before he was called to his final rest in
1833. He left a widow and two children: Sanford B. and Van Rensselaer
C. , a shoemaker of Sharpsville. The mother afterward married Lemuel
Chetam, who took charge of the farm.
During his boyhood and youth Sanford B. Wisner attended the common
schools and remained with his mother and stepfather until he attained the
age of sixteen years, when he was apprenticed to the tanner's trade, at
which he worked until twenty-one. He then bought the establishment in
which he had been employed and continued it on his own account for four or
five years. After his marriage, in 185 1, he sold the plant and operated
rented farms until 1864, when he came to Tipton county and bought a par
tially improved farm of eighty acres, to which he added until he had two
hundred acres. Later selling it he bought a place near Tipton, and on dis
posing of that property, in 1884, purchased his present farm of one hundred
and ninety-one acres, most of which had been cleared, ditched and improved,
while the buildings consisted of two barns and a dilapidated dwelling. In
1895 he erected a commodious two-story frame residence, with all modern
conveniences, and has made many other excellent improvements upon the
place, so that it is now one of the best farms of the locality. It is pleasantly
located two and one-quarter miles southwest of Sharpsville. The only assist
ance which our subject received was one hundred dollars from his father's
estate, but he has steadily worked his own way upward until he is now one
of the prosperous farmers of the community.
In 1851 Mr. Wisner was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Thomas, of
Decatur county, Indiana, a daughter of Reuben and Mary (Carper) Thomas,
farming people, who died in that county in the faith of the Methodist church,
to which they belonged. Their children were Frances, William, John, Sarah,
Elihu, Frank, Lot D., Martha, Minerva J. and Elizabeth. To Mr. and

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Mrs. Wisner were born five children: Reuben, a resident of Sharpsville;
Mary F., Sarah J. and Emma, who all died when young; and Celesta A. ,
who married Daniel Hones, and died in July, 1896, leaving three children,
Ina E., Verna G. and Iva M., who now find a good home with our subject.
Mrs. Wisner, who was a faithful member of the Methodist church, departed
this life October 17, 1883. Mr. Wisner was again married February 28, 1885,
his second union being with Mrs. Christina Snider, widow of George D. Snider,
by whom she had one son, Ira B., who is now married and engaged in farming.
Her parents, Philip and Betsy (Thurston) Sheplar, removed from Kentucky to
Indiana at an early day and improved a farm in Fayette county, where both died
when Mrs. Wisner was quite young. The mother was a member of the Christian
church. Mrs. Wisner was reared by an aunt near Connersville, Indiana.
She and her husband are sincere and faithful members of the Methodist
church, while in politics he is a stanch Republican, but has never aspired to
official honors, though he has most capably served his fellow citizens as asses
sor and supervisor of his township. Wherever known they are held in high
regard and their friends are many throughout Tipton county.

/^^ HARLES W. FISK. — Logansport has been the home and scene of
^"^ labor of many men who have not only led lives that should serve as an
example to those who come after them, but have also been of important
service to their city and state through various avenues of usefulness. Among
them must be named Charles W. Fisk, who passed away on the 14th of
December, 1896, after a life of industry and one rich in those rare possessions
which only a high character can give. For many years he labored with all
the strength of a great nature and all the earnestness of a true heart for the
bettering of the world about him, and when he was called to the rest and
reward of the higher world his best monument was found in the love and
respect of the community in which he lived for so many years. He became
identified with the interests of Logansport in 1869, and for more than a
quarter of a century was a prominent factor in the progress and development
which marked the city's growth.
Born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on the 5th of October, 1842, Mr.
Fisk spent his youth in his native state. His father, Thomas J. Fisk, died

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when our subject was only four years old, and the mother, Charlotte
(Danforth) Fisk, passed away when he was a youth of eleven. They were
both natives of New Hampshire, and of their family there is now but one sur
vivor, a son, who is living in "Gorham, New Hampshire. Charles W. Fisk
was reared in the state of his nativity and was early thrown upon his own
resources, owing to his parents' death. He, however, possessed an ambitious
nature, commendable zeal, integrity and an unconquerable determination to
succeed, and with these qualities any one may hope to attain the goal for
which he is striving. Realizing the importance of a good education as a
preparation for his life work, he bent his energies toward acquiring a knowl
edge of those branches of learning which would fit him for the responsible
duties of life, and was graduated in the high school. He displayed special
aptitude in his studies and made the most of his opportunities. He had
determined to pursue a collegiate course, but in 1861 the country became
engaged in civil war, and, feeling that his duty was to the Union, with patriotic
ardor he offered his services to the government, enlisting in the navy on the
receiving ship " Ohio," at Portsmouth. He was an active, efficient and faith
ful seaman, and endeared himself to all his comrades. After a service of
about two years he was honorably discharged and returned to his native
state, making his home with his brother.
It was not long after this, however, that Mr. Fisk determined to try his
fortune in the west, and making his way to Chicago he entered the employ
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in a clerical position, in the office.
An excellent accountant, quick, methodical, correct, honest and faithful, he
soon won the confidence of his superiors and was sent by the company to
Logansport, in 1869. Some years thereafter he continued in the service of
the railroad company, and at the same time was winning many friends in his
new home, by reason of his cordiality and sterling worth. In 1875 he engaged
in business on his own account, forming a partnership with Captain Frank
Swigart, in the abstract and insurance business. After a short time the part
nership was dissolved, but Mr. Fisk continued to devote his energies to that
line of action, and met with gratifying success. He also added a real-estate
agency to his other interests, and his well managed affairs brought him hand
some returns. His reputation for reliability was above question and his fidel
ity to his client's interest, as well as his ovvn, secured him a very liberal
patronage.

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In 1862 he was candidate for county auditor, but was defeated. The
successful candidate, however, needing assistance, appointed him to the
position of deputy, and his peculiar ability was soon manifested in the
improved systems and forms used in the office. In 1884 he was elected
county clerk, and, by re-election, continued to fill that office for eight years,
a most capable incumbent, whose services were of great value to the county
and are still manifest in the excellent records which are now used, the sys
tem he inaugurated being the one that is now practiced. He studied
carefully the situation at the time he assumed the duties of the
position, and as the result of his splendid businesss and executive ability
evolved a plan which proved most beneficial.
In 1892 Mr. Fisk resumed his old business interests, which, however, he
had never entirely abandoned, and directing all his energy into the channel
he soon was at the head of extensive insurance and real-estate interests,
which he managed until his death. He held high rank in commercial cir
cles, by reason of his strict conformity to the ethics of business life, and his
name is enrolled among those who have won the honor and respect of their
fellow men.
On the 24th of December, 1889, Mr. Fisk was united in marriage to
Helen S. Bellows, widow of John Bellows, of Boston, Massachusetts, and a
daughter of Valentine and Betsey (Adams) Stiles. Her ancestry can be
traced back to the Adams family that has furnished two presidents to the
nation, and many others who have left a marked impress on our national life.
Mrs. Fisk is a cultured and intelligent lady, who occupies a leading position
in social circles, and her pleasant home, at No. 928 North street, is cele
brated for its charming hospitality.
Socially Mr. Fisk was a prominent Mason, a Knight Templar of St. John
Commandery. He was also a valued member of the Pottawatomie Club.
His political support was unswervingly given to the Democratic party, and
his ability as an organizer made him one of the leaders of this party in Cass
county. For eight years he served as chairman of the central committee and
his able direction of the affairs and movements of his party was an important
factor in the success which attended the Democracy. He was also well in
formed on the issues of the day, and could clearly and cogently state his
reasons for the views he held. He studied the question of political economy
to a considerable extent and was a man of scholarly tastes and habits, his

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reading being broad and varied, covering a wide range and making him an
exceedingly well informed man on all general interests. He collected one
of the best libraries in the entire county, spending, during the last ten years
of his life, more than twenty-five hundred dollars in books, the high character
of which attests his habits of thought and his discriminating, cultured taste.
A man of generous impulses and kindly disposition, he gave liberally to those
in need, and his sympathy was always extended to the unfortunate ones of
earth. At his death, which occurred December 14, 1896, the resolutions of
respect passed by the clubs and orders to which he belonged showed how
highly he stood in the regard of his fellow men. The Cass county bar
attended the funeral in a body and the circuit court was adjourned out of
respect to his memory. Honorable in business, loyal in citizenship, prompt
and efficient in the discharge of public duty, faithful in friendship, generous
in sympathy and kind and loving ill his home, his memory is enshrined in the
hearts of all who knew him, as one of the most prominent, honored and
beloved residents that Logansport has ever known.

TON AS KISTLER. — The pioneer history of Cass county has upon its rolls
^ the name of this gentleman, who for sixty-three years has resided within
its borders and is therefore one of its oldest residents. Wonderful changes
have occurred since his arrival in 1835, a transformation of which the most
far-sighted would hardly have dreamed fifty years ago. Of the work of prog
ress and advancement Mr. Listler has ever been an advocate and by his
active participation as well as friendly encouragement has assisted in the
development and substantial promotion of the county until it takes rank
with the older counties of the east in all the elements of civilization.
Ohio is the state of Mr. Kistler's nativity, his birth having occurred in
Fairfield county, on the 9th of September, 1825. His parents were Jacob
and Catharine (Mishamoore) Kistler, natives of Pennsylvania, as was the
grandfather, Jacob Kistler, a miller by trade. The father of our subject also
followed the milling business, and with his family he emigrated westward in
1835, locating on a farm in Boone township, Cass county, Indiana. It was a
tract of wild land, but his energetic efforts and the assistance of his children
soon transformed it into richly producing fields. He took a prominent place in
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served as justice of the peace. His death occurred when he was about sev
enty years of age. His family numbered ten children, but only four are now
living, namely: Jonas, Matilda, Eliza and Lewis.
Jonas Kistler spent the first ten years of his life in the state of his nativ
ity and then accompanied his parents on their westward removal. Through
his minority he continued on the home farm in Boone township, Cass county,
and no other pursuits have ever engaged his attention. It is the man of
tenacious purpose who persists in the pursuit of a given industry that ulti
mately wins success; and so is it in the case of our subject. By persever
ance, industry, economy and good management he has attained a position
among the substantial farmers of the community, and his worth is widely
acknowledged by those who are familiar with his honorable business
methods. Mr. Kistler has been married four tim'es. First, on the i6th of January,
1848, he was united in marriage with Miss Lydia Kistler, a native of Boone
township, Cass county, and a daughter of George and Lydia (Fultz) Kistler,
who were born in Fairfield county, Ohio. Her death occurred on the ist of
April, 1857, and many friends mourned her loss, for she was an estimable
lady. By this marriage there were four children, — George N., Lewis, Sarah
M. and one who died in infancy. Secondly, August 10, 1857, Mr. Kistler
married Amy Simmons, and they had seven children, — Andrew J., Jacob,
Thomas J., Elizabeth, William H., Cordelia A. and James. The mother of
these children departed this life April 27, 1873; and the third marriage of
Mr. Kistler was to Ann E. Simmons, October i, 1873, "who died March 9,
1877. September 20, following, Mr. Kistler was united with Mary Kistler,
who left the shores of time January 9, 1898.
In his political views Mr. Kistler is a Democrat, manifesting an intelli
gent interest in the party of his choice and keeping well informed on the
issues of the day; but he has never sought or desired the honors or emolu
ments of public office, perferring to devote his time and attention to his busi
ness interests.

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LIHU S. RICE. — This name is familiar to thousands of music-loving
people in all parts of the United States, as that of the composer of some
beautiful hymns and anthems which have been sung in churches, Sunday-

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schools and homes for years. He has been an honored and respected citizen
of Logansport for sixty years, much of this time having been actively engaged
in business enterprises here.
Though he has passed the usual life period of man, three-score years
and ten, Mr. Rice is still hale and hearty, giving promise of many years of
usefulness and activity, as he is sound in mind and body. Born in Genesee
county, New York, February 28, 1827, he is a son of Erastus and Lucretia
M. (Howe) Rice. The father, who was a native of Massachusetts, died in
1833, and five years later our subject, with his widowed mother and brothers
and sisters, came to Logansport. Though his school days ended when he
was sixteen years old, he was by that time master of the more practical
branches of learning, and ready for beginning his business career. He
obtained a position with the firm of Henry Martin & Company as clerk in
1843, and one of his associates here was the late J. C. Merriam, with whom
he afterward was financially connected in one way or another as long as Mr.
Merriam lived. During this long period, from 1843 to 1890, their relations
were thoroughly harmonious, and were attended with marked success.
In 1845 the firm of Henry Martin & Company ceased to exist and for
the following eight years Mr. Rice was in the employ of the dry-goods house
of Pollard & Wilson. The senior member of the company withdrawing from
the concern in 1852, a new firm was organized under the style of Wilson,
Merriam & Company, Mr. Rice and Mr. M. H. Thomas being the silent
partners. Four years later another change was made and up to the close of
the war the company did business under the name of Merriam, Rice & Howes.
Mr. Rice purchased the interest of Mr. Howes in 1865 and for the next seven
years the house was known as Merriam & Rice. In 1872 E. L. Metzger was
taken into the business as a silent partner, but his share was purchased by
the others at the expiration of six years. From 1865 a general stock of
merchandise was carried, Mr. Rice having special charge of the hardware
department. In 1879 the firm sold out their dry-goods stock and devoted
themselves to the sale of hardware exclusively.
Desiring to take his son Frank into business with him, Mr. Rice bought
his partner's interest in 1884 and since that time the style has been E. S.
Rice & Son. In 1881 our subject built a substantial business block on
Market street, and this has been the location of his store ever since. He
has met with success in his various financial ventures and enjoys the respect
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of all with whom he has had business dealings. In 1862 the Logansport
Gas Light & Coke Company was organized, and four years afterward
Merriam & Rice became financially interested in the same. The affairs of
the company being in a " run-down" condition in 1870, Mr. Rice purchased
a controlling interest, assumed the management, reconstructed the plant,
and made it a success. For a quarter of a century he remained at the head
of the enterprise, which, in 1895, was sold to a New York syndicate. Since
1885 Mr. Rice has been a stockholder in the King Drill Company, and for
the past six years has been its president. For several years he has been a
stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Logansport.
In 1854 the marriage of Elihu S. Rice and Miss Jeannette Mabon was
solemnized. For forty-one years they pursued the journey of life together,
and in 1895 the summons to the better land came to the devoted wife and
mother. Of their two children Frank M. has been previously mentioned in
this sketch; and the daughter, Annie E., is the wife of George C. Taber, of
Logansport. From his boyhood Mr. Rice has taken great pleasure in music, and at an
early age was able to read notes readily. By close study he acquired a con
siderable knowledge of the art and in 1848 was chosen leader of the social
glee club df mixed voices, for which he composed his first musical piece.
The same year he organized a male quartet comprising, besides himself, D.
E. Bryer (whose campaign songs, in later years, were published by the Home
Music Company), James Bryer (deceased) and Allen Richardson. In 1856
this quartet, as "The Rocky Mountain Glee Club," assisted in the presiden
tial campaign of that year and became celebrated. Four }-ears later Mr.
Rice became director of the Logansport choral union, which numbered about
fifty persons. For over thirty years he has been the faithful leader of the
Baptist church choir, he having been connected with that church as an act
ive member for years and for over a quarter of a century having officiated as
one of its trustees. In 1866, while secretary and chorister of the Sunday
school, he wrote the popular music to H. L. Hastings' hymn, "Shall we
meet beyond the river .? " More than twenty-five years ago he composed the
music for that beautiful anthem, " Come, let ns sing unto the Lord," and
during a recent trip to Salt Lake Cit\' and the west he was pleasantly sur
prised, upon the occasion of his attending the scr\ices in the great Mormon
tabernacle, tu hear the choir of (>\'cr two hundred well-trained voices, accom-

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panied by the wonderful great organ, render the anthem mentioned in an
excellent manner. Music has been a recreation and a pastime with him, for
his soul delights in it. His life has been that of a noble Christian man, of
love and service toward God and man, and he may well look back upon the
past with few regrets and with the assurance that to him will come the ver
dict, "Well done, good and faithful servant. "

r INDSE\ B. PAYTON. — Among the retired farmers and respected citi-
*—' zens of Greentown, Indiana, we find the gentleman whose name heaiis
this sketch. He was born in Kentucky December 20, 1824, son of John and
Margaret (Farmer) Payton. John Payton, also a native of Kentucky, came
from that state to Indiana in 1825 and settled on the frontier in Union
county, and moved to Carroll county in 1835, and in 1843 settled in Cass
county, which county was at that time almost a wilderness. He entered a
tract of government land and in the midst of the dense forest made a clear
ing and established his home. His children were: Martha, Hannah, Marv,
Susan, Margaret, Abraham, Lindsey B. and John. Mrs. Payton died on
their farm in March, 1859, and Mr. Payton afterward lived with his children
in Cass county. His religious belief was that of the New-Light church.
Samuel Payton, the grandfather of Lindsey B., was a native of Penn
sylvania, and went from there to \'irginia, where he married Isabel Titus,
and after their marriage they became pioneers of Kentucky. To them
were born the following children: Stephen, Elizabeth, William, John, Han
nah, Samuel, James, Abraham and Isabel. Some time after Mrs. Payton s
death, Mr. Payton married for his second wife Miss Grace Sloop, and by her
had children named Milton, Arthur, Cyntha Ann, Margaret and George.
In his old age the father moved to Carroll county, Indiana, where he died at
the age of seventy-four years and fourteen days. He lived in Kentuck}- at
the same time Daniel Boone was there, and he knew and frequently saw that
famous pioneer and Indian fighter. By trade Mr. Payton was a wagon-
maker, at which he worked all his life. Religiously, he was a Presbyterian.
His remote ancestors were Welsh people.
John Payton, the father of Lindsey B., married Margaret Farmer in
Kentucky. She was a daughter of Xathaniel C. Farmer, who was a Re\<.i-

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lutionary soldier and served all through that war. In his old age he came to
Carroll county, Indiana, and died at Mr. Payton's home, in February, 1863.
Turning now to the life of our immediate subject, Lindsey B. Payton,
we record that he was eleven years old at the time he accompanied his par
ents to Carroll county, Indiana. Their arrival here was on the i8th of
October and he well remembers that their first work was to make a little
clearing in the woods and to build a log cabin. The forest was so dense that
it was almost impossible to see the sky. Their first home was built of the
logs just as they were cut down and the next }"ear they erected a house of
hewed logs. Lindsey B., being the oldest son, assisted in every way that he
could in making their new home, and when he grew older did his part in
helping to clear and cultivate the land. He attended school part of three
winters and learned to read and write and gained a fair knowledge of arith
metic. He was first married in Januar}-, 185 i, in Carroll county, Indiana,
to Isabel Daily, a native of Fairfield count}-, Ohio, and of Irish descent.
The fruits of their union were four children: Amanda A., \\'illiam B.,
Hannah I. and Oliver P. Mrs. Payton died in 1863 and Mr. Payton was
subsequently married to Miss Sophia Sence, a native of Pennsylvania. She
died without issue. October 17, 1S67, Mr. Payton married, in Cass county,
Mrs. Lydia Ann Diller, lu'i- Wilson, who was born in Union countv, Indiana,
daughter of Daniel Wilson. By this wife Mr. Payton had tvvo children —
Schuyler C. and Daisy.
After his first marriage, Afr. Payton settled on a tract of new land within
sight of his father's homestead, and set about the work of clearing and
developing a farm. As he prospered he added to his original tract until he
had one hundred and sixty acres, a part of which he brought under cultiva
tion and on which he made good improvements, including a brick residence.
He moved to Cass county, Indiana, in 1871, there bought a farm of eighty
acres, and lived on the same for five years, at the end of which time he
returned to Carroll county, where he spent the next five years on a farm of
one hundred and thirty-one acres. After this he removed to his original
place, above referred to, which he still owns. In Xo\'ember, 1886, he
bought his present residence in Greentown, moved here, and has since lived
retired. Mr. Payton has an honorable war record. He enlisted at La Fayette,
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Infantry, under Captain T. C. Forgey, for a term of one year or during the
war, and was honorably discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, in September,
1865. During the most of his army life he was stationed at Lexington and
Louisville, Kentucky. He had two brothers who were in the war, Abraham
and John, each serving three years, the former a member of the Seventy-
fifth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and the latter in the Seventy-third
Regiment. Mr. Payton has always been a hard-working man and a good manager,
and as the result of years of his toil he has accumulated a handsome property.
Besides his farm in Carroll county, he has ten acres of land and three resi
dences in Greentown. He was formerly a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, but is now identified with the Christian church. For
many years he has been an Odd Fellow, having received the degrees of this
order in Young America Lodge, in Cass county, in 1865. Politically he is a
Republican.

JOSHUA C. HADLEY. — Honored and respected by all, there is no man in
Logansport who occupies a more enviable position in industrial and
manufacturing circles than Joshua Hadley, not alone on account of the bril
liant success he has achieved, but also on account of the honorable, straight
forward business policy he has ever followed. He possesses untiring energy,
is quick of perception, forms his plans readily and is determined in
their execution; and his close application to business and his excellent
management have brought to him the high degree of prosperity which is
to-day his. He has demonstrated the truth of the saying that success is not
the result of genius, but the outcome of clear judgment and experience.
Mr. Hadley was born in Danville, Hendricks county, Indiana, February
25, 1842, and is a son of Simon T. and Mary (Hadley) Hadley, both of
whom were natives of North Carolina and of Irish descent. Although of the
same name their kinship was very distant. They were married in the state
of their nativity and in 1829 came to Indiana, taking up their residence in
Hendricks county. The father was an intelligent and cultured man, and in
his western home first engaged in teaching school. Later he was elected
county recorder, and he filled that position with marked fidelity and ability
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following that profession until his death, which occurred in 1873, when he
'nad reached the age of se\'enty-two years. His wife passed away in 1866,
at the age of fifty-nine years. They belonged to the Society of Friends, or
(.Hiakers, and were numbered among the honored pioneers and most highly
respected citizens of Hendricks county.
Joshua Hadley, subject of this re\'iew, was one of a family of seven sons
and one daughter. He was reared in his native town of Danville and attended
its public schools until sixteen years of age, when he became a student in
Wabash College, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, but before completing the course
he laid aside his text-books and, donning the blue, went forth in defence of the
Union. Itwas on the 12th of August, 1862, that he became a private of
Company K, Seventieth Indiana Infantry, the regiment being commanded by
General Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Hadley \'\'as afterward promoted to the
rank of sergeant and in 1864 became captain of his company. \\'ith his
command he participated in the Atlanta campaign, went with Sherman on
the celebrated march to the sea, and then on to \^'ashington, where he was
honorably discharged in June, 1865.
When the countr}- no longer needed his services Captain Hadley
returned to his home in Danville, but soon afterward secured a position in
Cincinnati with the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company, in whose
employ he remained for five years, first as bill clerk and then as city freight-
solicitor. In 1870 he returned to Indiana and was paymaster for the con
struction of what is now part of the Vandalia Railroad, between Logansport
and Terre Haute. He then became a division superintendent for the road,
serving in that capacity until 1875, in which }ear he was made joint station
agent for that road and the Eel River Railroad, the latter now a part of the
Wabash system. In that service he remained urtil 1881, and from 1879
until 1 88 I was also trainmaster of the Eel R\\er division. fn the latter year
he went to Chariton, Iowa, as trainmaster of the Chariton division of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, but the following year returned to
Logansport and formed a partnership with George Ash, in the furniture busi
ness, under the firm name of Ash >.\: Hadley. In 1889, on the death of L. A.
Smith, proprietor of a large furniture factory in Logansport, the firm of Ash
.V Hadley purchased that establishment and have since engaged in the manu
facture of furniture under the name of the Logansport Furniture Company.
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now have a very extensive factor}' and emplo}' therein a large force of skilled
workmen. Their trade has steadily increased and they are now doing both
a large wholesale and retail business. Theirs is one of the leading industries
of the city, and it is to such enterprises that Logansport owes her prosperity
and substantial progress.
In 1869 Mr. Hadley was united in marriage to Miss Margaret B. Ches
ter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and to them have been born three children,
namely: J. Chester, George and Mar}-. Mr. Hadley is a prominent mem
ber in the First Presbyterian church, in which he is now serving as elder.
He is also a valued member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in
Logansport. In politics he is unswerving in support of the principles of the Repub
lican party, and is recognized as one of the leaders in its ranks. For seven
years he served as a member of the city council, and in 1888 was nominated
for state senator for Cass county, but as his party is largely in the minority
in this district he failed of election. His career has ever been such as to
warrant the trust and confidence of the business world, for he has ever con
ducted all transactions on the strictest principles of honor and integrity.
His devotion to the public good is unquestioned and arises from a sincere
interest in the welfare of his fellow men.

r~)EV SAMUEL C. MILLER, who resides on the northwest quarter of
¦*¦ *¦ section 21, Richland township, Miami county, is a well known repre
sentative of one of the pioneer families of this county. He is a son of Rob
ert Miller, who in 1836 came to Indiana and purchased tracts of land lying in
Wabash and Miami counties. He did not make a settlement till the summer
of the following year, when he returned accompanied by his son, H. C. Mil
ler, and by E. J. and James L. Kidd, father and son. The men, with the
assistance of their boys, erected cabins in Richland township, Miami county,
for the reception of their families, the latter arriving at the new settlement
October 2, of the same year, 1837.
Robert Miller was born in Scott county, Kentucky, September 16, 1806.
His father, John Miller, was a native of South Carolina, and his mother a
native of Ireland. John Miller removed from South Carolina, by way of

632 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
North Carolina, to Scott county, Kentucky, in 1804 or 1805. In 1818 he
removed with his family to Fayette county, Indiana, where he and his wife
passed the remainder of their lives. Robert Miller was one of a family of
thirteen members, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. He
was married in Fayette county, Indiana, on the 27th of July, 1828, to
Miss Rebecca Cox, a native of Lewis county, Kentucky. He became one
of the best known and most influential citizens of Miami county. Settling
here, as he did, at that early day, he became possessed of a large
acreage of land, which he purchased at government prices and which he
sold to only those who desired to become actual settlers. He improved
a large farm, which he managed until he became too enfeebled by age
for the active duties of life, when he divided his land among his chil
dren. He passed away in August, 1884, at the age of seventy-eight years.
The wife and mother, whose birth occurred March 11, 1804, died February
23, 1891, having attained to the age of eighty-seven years, lacking a few days.
Robert Miller was a pubhc-spirited citizen, and was always the leader of all
enterprises that had for their object the best interests of the community in
which he lived. He was ever active in religious work, and he and his wife
were two of the six persons who organized the first Methodist class in their
vicinity; the others were J. D. Cox, E. J. Kidd and wife, and Christiana Kidd,
their daughter. He was prominently connected with the growth and prog
ress of the church and his home was ever the home of the preacher. The
organization of the class above mentioned occurred at the house of Mr. Kidd,
in January, 1838, the minister on the occasion being the Rev. Jarard B.
Mershon. Religious services were held alternately at the homes of Mr. Mil
ler and Mr. Kidd. Mr. Miller was the prime mover in the erection of one of
the first school-houses, if not the first, outside of Peru, this county. He also
secured the first teacher and was always prominent in educational matters.
In fact, probably no early resident of the county did more than he to promote
its educational and religious interests. In his political affiliations he was a
Whig in early hfe and later a Republican. He served the people in a most
acceptable manner in the legislature of Indiana, representing Miami and
Wabash counties in the lower house, and the following year the same coun
ties in the senate. Robert Miller and wife brought with them to Miami
county, in 1837, four children, and five others were subsequently born to
them. It is a remarkable fact that the four children who came with them

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to Miami county are all living, and it is also worthy of note that for a period
of forty years no death occurred in the family. The first born is H. C. Mil
ler, a resident of Peru; Samuel C. is the second in order of birth; Eliza
is the widow of Reuben Merrill and resides in Erie township, Miami county;
Sarah E. is the widow of Dr. James H. Emswiler and resides in Peru; Rich
ard K. , the next in order of birth, was born in Miami county, July 2, 1838,
and died in Des Moines several years ago. He was a soldier in the war of
the Rebellion. He enlisted in Des Moines and served in an Iowa regiment,
from which he was discharged for disability. Later he was given a captain's
commission, by Governor Morton, and served on the staff of Governor
Hoover. His final discharge was in 1866. John C. Miller was the next in
order of birth. He is a resident of Peru. James C. died at the age of two
years. Mary F. is the wife of A. E. King, of Peru. Thomas Corwin Miller
died in 1894, at the age of about forty-eight years. He served in the Twelfth
Indiana Cavalry, in the war of the Rebellion.
Rev. Samuel C. Miller was born in Fayette -county December 28, 1830,
having attained to his seventh year when he came with his father's family to
Miami county. He drove an ox-team that helped haul the logs of which the
school-house above referred to was built and attended the first school held
therein. He assisted in clearing up the farm, and in 1849. at the age of about
nineteen years, he became a student of Asbury, now De Pauw University, at
Greencastle, Indiana. Until 1855 he attended only during the winter ses
sions, working on the farm in the summer season. In the year before men
tioned he attended through the college year. In 1858 he entered Genesee
College, at Lima, New York, now Syracuse University, where he pursued the
classical course, graduating in 1859 in the class of the now eminent Bishop
Fowler. In i860 he was associated with the Marion (Indiana) Academy as
instructor. In 1861 he went to Polk county, Iowa, where he was engaged
in farming until 1864. In 1865 he assumed the principalship of New Carl
isle Collegiate Institute, where he continued one year, after which he
became superintendent of Wabash city schools. In 1867 he joined the North
Indiana Conference, with which he has since been connected, though now
retired from the ministry, and on the superannuated list of preachers. He
resides on his farm.
Rev. Samuel C. Miller was married May 29, 1859, to Miss Susan E. Bes-
wick, daughter of Rev. George M. Beswick, a prominent M. E. clergyman of

084 BIOGRAPHICAL .J, YD GE.YE.-ILOGICAL HISTORY' OF
northwestern Indiana, whose death occurred in 1854. Mr. and Mrs, Miller
have four children: Georgia L. , -wife of A. E. Long, of Richland township,
Miami county; Edmond B., at home; Sarah E., wife of J. H. Elliott, of
^^'abash count}-, and Laura E., wife of C. J. Ward, of Richland township.

O TEPHEN B. BOYER. — There are no rules for building characters; there
^^ is no rule for achieving success. The raan who can rise from the
ranks to a position of eminence is he who can see and utilize the opportuni
ties that surround his path. The essential conditions of human life are ever
the same; the surroundings of individuals differ but slightly, and when on
the highway leading to the goal of prosperity one man passes others who
perhaps started out before him, it is because he has power to use advantages
which probably encompass the w-hole human race. Among the most prom
inent business men of Cass county to-day stands Stephen B. Boyer, who has
attained a leading position in industrial circles and is now a partner in the
Logan }ililling Compan}', controlling one of the principal enterprises in
Logansport. ]\lr. Boyer was born in New Bloomfield, Perry county, Pennsylvania,
December 7, 1842, and is a son of William and Maria (Fritz) Boyer, who
were natives of York county, Pennsylvania, and were of German descent,
their respective ancestors having come to America prior to the war of the
Revolution. The paternal grandfather. Rev. Stephen Boyer, was for many
years a minister of the Presbyterian church, and through a long period was
pastor of the church in Little York, Pennsylvania, where he died and was
buried. The subject of this review was the eldest of nine children, and at the
early age of twelve years was thrown upon his own resources, by reason of
his father's death. His educational privileges were in consequence quite
limited, but he was industrious and energetic, and such qualities count for
much in the race of life. He was first employed as a farm hand, and after
three years spent in that way he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Canal Company, with which he continued for three years. His next service
was as a salesman in a grocery store in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, and to
the duties of that position he devoted his energies until after the inaugura
tion of the war of the Rebellion.

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Feeling that his countr}' needed his services Mr. Boyer offered himself
to the government on the ioth of Xovember, 1861, and was assigned to
Company A, Xinth Pennsylvania Cavalrv-, as a bugler. The first battle in
which he participated was at Perrxville, Kentucky, after which his regiment
did scouting duty through Kentucky and participated in the Carter raid in
eastern Tennessee. Mr. Boyer also took part in the battles of Thompson's
Station, Brentwood and Triune, Tennessee, and in the last named received
a severe wound in the left hand. Later he was transferred to the Veteran
Reserve Corps, and on the 20th of December, 1864, was honorably dis
charged, after a service of thfee vears and several days. In 1863 he was
promoted to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in that capacity.
Returning to Penns}lvania, Mr. Boyer fitted himself for the duties of
civil life by pursuing a thorough course of stud}- in a commercial college of
Philadelphia, and in June, 1865, he came to Logansport, Indiana, where he
secured the position of bookkeeper for C. B. Knowlton, proprietor of a
machine shop, which was afterward the property of Knowlton & Dolan.
Mr. Boyer remained with that firm until 1885, a period of twenty years, and
enjoyed their unlimited confidence and regard. In 1881 he became one of
the incorporators of the Logan INIilling Company, which rebuilt the Logan
Mills, of Logansport, in the winter of 188 1-2. He served as president of
the company until 1885, when he and John T. Obenchain became sole pro
prietors, since which time he has been secretary and treasurer of the com
pany. In connection with his partner, under the firm name of Obenchain &
Boyer, he is engaged in the manufacture of an automatic boiler- cleaner and
a chemical fire engine. In both departments of the business a large trade is
enjoyed and the enterprises contribute not onh- to the prosperity of the own
ers, but also add to the material welfare of Logansport by promoting its
commercial activity.
In September, 1872, Mr. Boyer married !Miss Josephine Goodwin, of
Logansport, and they have three children, Alexander, Mary J, and Helen P.
The family attend the First Presbyterian church, in which Mr. Boyer is a
member and trustee. He is connected with several civic societies, including
the Ancient Order of United \\'orkmen, Knights of the Afaccabees and the
Royal Arcanum. He also belongs to Logansport Post, No. 14, G. A. R.,
and for many years has been recognized as a leading Republican of Logans
port. In 1890 he was elected a member of the city council, by subsequent

636 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GE.XEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
election has been retained in that office, his present term continuing until
1900. He is a very able member of the council, progressive and business
like in his administration of the city's interests, and his fidelity to the public
trust is manifest by his long continuance in that office by the vote of the
people.

RICHARD C. CRANE. — The subject of this sketch has been identified
with Harrison township, Miami county, Indiana, since his early boy
hood, being the son of one of the original pioneers of the township. His
history and that of the Crane family are therefore of particular interest in
this connection. George Crane, the grandfather of Richard C. , was born in Pennsylvania,.
a son of sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch parents, whose forefathers had landed
on American soil during the colonial period. In that state he was reared
and was there married to Miss Betsy Ley tie. Their children were: Robert,
William, George, Betsy, Polly and Nancy. In 18 10 the family removed to
Butler county, Ohio, where the father began the improvement of a farm.
Not long afterward, however, he sold out and moved to Preble county, that
state, and three miles southwest of Eaton bought a half section of land and
developed a fine farm, on which he passed the residue of his life and died,
being eighty-eight years old at the time of his death. He was a man whose
character was above reproach. Religiously he was a Presbyterian, strict in
the observance of the Sabbath, and his political affiliations were with the
Jacksonian Democrats.
George Crane, Jr., the father of our subject, was also of Pennsylvania
birth. He was born April 28, 1797, and was thirteen years old when he
accompanied his parents to Ohio. He received only a limited education in
the rural schools, and when he grew up became a farmer and stock dealer,.
operating extensively in the stock business and being quite prosperous. He
was married February 20, 181 8, to Elizabeth Beatty, who was born in
August, 1799, daughter of Robert Beatty. Immediately after their marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Crane settled on the old Crane homestead in Preble county,
and after the death of his parents he sold out and moved to Indiana, — this
being in 1848. The journey to this state was made with four four-horse
wagons, and nine days were consumed on the way, and they brought with

CASS. .MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUYTIES. 637
them twenty head of cattle, mostly cows and calves, and sevent}'-five sheep.
It was in the latter part of April when they started, the roads were bad and
the mud deep, and they experienced no little difficulty before they reached
their destination. The most of their household goods they shipped by canal.
Arrived here, Mr. Crane bought six hundred acres of land. He had entered
a quarter-section in 1846 in Grant county, Indiana, and on it his son Abra
ham was living, and he bought one hundred and thirty-four acres where our
subject now lives. This land was all covered with timber, and the usual
work of felling the trees, clearing the land and making the new home was at
once begun. The father, however, did not live to see the task accomplished.
His death occurred October 4, 1852; but he had acquired a large amount of
property and he gave all his children a fair start in life. He was a man of
many sterling characteristics, straightforward and upright in all his dealings,
and belonged to the best early-pioneer element that found its way to Ohio
and Indiana. Politically he was a Democrat. His children were William,
Abraham, Mary, Eliza J., Elizabeth, Robert, George, Richard, Sarah, Nancy
and Jackson. At the time the family came to Indiana, Richard C. Crane was large
enough to walk and tb drive the cattle, and he well remembers the trip and
their arrival here in Harrison township, Miami county, May 3, 1848. Here
he grew to manhood amid frontier surroundings, receiving his education in a
log-cabin school-house. February 17, 1852, at the age of nineteen years, he
was married in Grant county, Indiana, to Miss Martha Fisher, a native of
Union county, Indiana, and a daughter of Jacob Fisher. Mr. Fisher was
one of the early settlers of Union county. He was a member of the German
Baptist church and a man who stood high in the esteem of the community.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crane began life on the farm on
which he still lives. She bore him one child, David, who died in infancy,
and she passed away shortly after giving birth to him. For his second wife
Mr. Crane married Sarah Ann Hall, daughter of Tillman Hall. The fruits
of their union were the following children: Maria J., Catherine, Viola, Laura
B., and William. After twenty-three years of happy wedded life this wife
and mother died. December 8, 1878, in Butler township, Miami count}',
was consummated Mr. Crane's third marriage, to Mary E. Miller, who was
born here February 17, 1855, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Fegley) Miller.
Henry Miller was a German. He came to this country and to Butler town-

638 BIOGRAPHICAL ..iXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
ship with his sister when fourteen years old, and was here married to Sarah
Fegley, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, her parents being
Henry and Susannah (Sheppard) Fegley. Mr. Miller was a prosperous
farmer, reared an excellent family, and lived to be seventy-five years of age.
By his present wife Mr. Crane has seven children, — Fannie, Lydia, George
W., Thurman, Orpha, Callie E. and Chnton.
Mr. Crane has always been an industrious man and a good manager,
and the result of his long years of careful toil is a fine farm, well improved
and well kept. He has contributed his share toward the building of roads
and making other public improvements in the county, and he stands to-day
as one of the representative men of his locality. His wife owns twenty acres
of land she inherited from her father s estate.

JOHN T. OBENCHAIN. — This is a utilitarian age, oue in which progress
and advancement come not by might and the sword as in the ages of the
past, but by activity in the industrial and commercial interests of life. There
is nothing to which America owes her pre-eminence among the nations of
the globe so much as to her inventions. \\'hile she cannot yet claim equality
with the Old World in the fine arts, she leads the world in industrial arts.
Her inventions have far surpassed those of other lands and her labors have
revolutionized the trade of all civilized nations. The steamboat, the sewing
machine, the cotton gin and various agricultural implements have completely
transformed methods of travel, of manufacture and of farming, and with
what else are we concerned in the affairs of life.' Each year also sees new-
additions to the list of her useful inventions, labor-saving devices that bear
marked impress on the world of trade. From the fertile brain and ready
hand of John T. Obenchain have come many useful inventions, which have
won him distinction in the business world, and which are now in general use,
lightening the labors of the race. Mr. Obenchain is certainl}- deserving of
great credit for what he has accomplished, and his life has been one of signal
usefulness and helpfulness to his fellow n-ien.
Born in West Liberty, Lot;an count}-, Ohio, June 2, 183S, he isa son of
Mathew W. and Mary J. (Temple) Obenchain. The paternal grandfather
was Holt Obenchain, a son of (reori^e Obenchain, who founded the familv in

CdSS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. G39'
America. Tradition says that the latter was of Scotch birth and that his
ancestors were original!}' German, emigrating from the Fatherland to Scot
land. George Obenchain located in Penns}-lvania and married a Miss \\'ilson,
by whom he had twenty-one children, all of whom were present at his funeral
in 1790! Four of his sons, George, Samuel, Holt and Philip, emigrated to
Virginia. The name has undergone several changes in orthography, — from
Ovenshine to Obenshine, then to Obenshane and finally to the present mode
of spelling. Mathew W. Obenchain was born in \'irginia in 18 14, and in 1836
removed to Ohio, where he married Miss Mary J. Temple, who was born in
Newport, Kentucky, in 18 18, and was a daughter of Jesse Temple, a native
of Pennsylvania and of German descent. In December, 1853, Mathew W.
Obenchain removed with his family to Cass county, Indiana, where he and
his wife spent their remaining days, the father dying in Logansport in 18S1,
while the mother passed away in the same city in 1884.
John T. Obenchain, whose name introduces this review, is the eldest of
their twelve children. He was a youth of fifteen years when his parents
took up their residence in Cass county, and since that time he has made his
home in Logansport. He is indebted to the public-school system for the
education he acquired, and after la}-ing aside his text-books, he worked at
the machinist's trade with his father, who was a skilled mechanic. The son
seemed to inherit the father's abilit}- in that direction and early manifested
special aptitude in the use of tools. Xor were their labors confined to the
operation of machinery made by others; together they invented and patented
the famous ' ' Little Giant Water Wheel, " which has never had a superior and
which was manufactured by the firm of Knowlton & Dykeman, of Logans
port. For twelve years John T. Obenchain traveled through the country,
selling this water wheel. In the meantime he invented and patented the
Obenchain automatic grinding mill, and in 1881 was one of the three part
ners to incorporate the Logan Milling Company, which in the winter of
1 88 1- 2 rebuilt the Logan Mills. In 1885 he and S. B. Boyer became sole
proprietors of the enterprise and have since conducted the milling business
with marked success. Their large and well equipped mill is almost entirely
supplied with machinery of Mr. Obenchain's invention. He invented and
patented what is known as the Obenchain roller mill, and the patent was
fully sustained by a recent decision of the United States district court in the

640 BIOGRAPHICAL A.YD GE.KEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
case of the Consolidated Roller Mill Company versus R. R. Walker, the
decision being in favor of the plaintiff and resulting in the breaking up of a
combination which the defendant sought to effect and which would have dam
aged the business of millers throughout the country. One of themost valu-
ble inventions that owes its origin to the genius and skill of our subject was
a power diamond-dressing machine, for facing and dressing French buhr
stones, but buhr milling went out of use, and thereby the invention was no
longer in demand. In 1888 he invented tbe Obenchain automatic boiler-
cleaner, which has become extensively used; and in 1897 he invented a sta
tionary chemical fire engine, which is the best engine of the kind ever placed
upon the market. The firm of Obenchain & Boyer is now rapidly preparing
for the manufacture on a large scale of the automatic boiler-cleaner and the
fire engine, and the utility of these inventions insures them a large sale.
The salient features in the" business career of Mr. Obenchain are close
application, thorough investigation and mastery of every subject that comes
within his range, unflagging perseverance and resolute purpose, — and to
these he owes his steady advancement from a humble beginning to a prom
inent place among the successful and honored inventors, whose useful pro
ductions make them deserving of classification among the benefactors of the
race. While he has always devoted much time to his business interests, he
has by no means allowed them to shut him off from the other duties and
relations of life. He is well-informed on political issues, votes with the
Democracy, and served for one term as trustee of the water works of
Logansport. Socially he is a valued and esteemed member of the Knights
of Honor and the Knights of the Maccabees. He has been twice married.
In 1 86 1 he wedded Miss Mary A. Dalzell, who died eighteen months later.
In 1868 he was again married, his second union being with Miss Orilla F.
Smith, and they have one son, Mathew W. Their home is a favorite resort
with a large circle of warm friends, who esteem them highly for their many
excellencies of character and their genuine worth.

/^ EORGE W. CONKLE.— From colonial days the Conkle family has
^^ sent its representatives into various walks of life to become active and
influential residents of the communities with which they have been con
nected. They were sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch people, and the grandfather

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of him whose name begins this review was one of the heroes of the Revo
lution who valiantly fought for the independence of the nation. His name
was Henry Conkle and he followed farming in Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
He was twice married and the children by his first wife were named John,
George, Jacob, Samuel, Mary, Betsy, Polly, Sallie and Ann, while the chil
dren of the second union were Henry, William and Martha. The grand
father lived to an advanced age and died in Beaver county.
Samuel Conkle, the father of our subject, was born in that county in
1815, and having arrived at years of maturity married Nancy Woods, a
lady of English descent and a daughter of Joseph Woods. Mr. Conkle fol
lowed steamboating for many years and eventually became mate on a vessel,
but in later life he removed to a farm in Howard county, Indiana, and
subsequently returned to the Keystone state, where he died at the age of
seventy-five years. His children were Benjamin, Joseph, John, Thomas,
George W., James and Sarah, and the last named died at the age of two
years. The father was a straightforward business man, a respected citizen
and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
In the county which had long been the home of his ancestors, — Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, — George W. Conkle was born, April 24, 1842. His
educational privileges were rather limited, for at the early age of thirteen
years he began steamboating on the Ohio river as cabin boy. By his faith
ful performance of duty and close application he steadily worked his way
upward to the position of steward, but the Civil war was inaugurated, and,
feslingthit the country needed the support of all her loyal sons, he enlisted,
July 21, 1 86 1, as a member of Company H, Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Reserve Corps, under Captain John Cuthbertson, for three years. On the
1 2th of May, 1864, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he received an honorable
discharge. He participated in the battle of Drainsville, Virginia, the seven
days' engagement before Richmond, the second battle of Bull Run and the
memorable battle of Gettysburg. At the battle of Bull Run he was taken
prisoner, but was paroled on the battle-field, marched to Point Rock and
sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, where he was, exchanged six months
later. He took part in all the engagements, skirmishes and marches with
his regiment save the battle of Fredericksburg, which occurred while he was
in Camp Chase. He was a brave and fearless soldier, loyal to his duty, and
for nearly three years faithfully defended the old flag.

642 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
After the war Mr. Conkle returned to Pennsylvania and for a time was again
engaged in steamboating, and next went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania.
He was married in his native county, July 28, 1864, to Jennie Murray, who
was born in West Virginia, October 27, 1844, a daughter of Hiram and
Nancy (Pugh) Murray, of Scotch and Welsh descent. Her father was born
in the Keystone state in 181 1, and was a son of Thomas and Annie (McCal-
vert) Murray, of Scotch ancestry. By trade he was a brick and stone mason
and carried on that business much of his life. He married Nancy Pugh, who
was born in Hancock county, Virginia, in 18 12, a daughter of Peter and
Annie (Dunkin) Pugh, of Welsh and Scotch lineage. These famihes men
tioned were all established in America in colonial days. After the Civil war
Hiram Murray removed to Bullitt county, Kentucky, locating on a farm
on which he spent his remaining days, dying in the year 1880, at an
advanced age. His children were Hugh, Peter, Harriet, Mary, Jennie,
Thomas, Joseph and William. The mother of this family died and the father
afterward married, in Pennsylvania, Martha Poe, daughter of Thomas and
Rebecca Poe, who belonged to the same family as Andrew Poe, the cele
brated Indian fighter. The children of Mr. Murray's second marriage
were George, Emma, Lucy, Nancy, Katie and Alice.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Conkle began their domestic life in Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, and in 1869 removed to Howard county, Indiana,
locating near the farm which is now their home. Our subject first purchased
sixty acres of his present farm in 1883, and in 1888 bought another tract of
sixty acres. He has a pleasant home, substantial outbuildings, well culti
vated fields, and all the accessories and conveniences of the model farm of
the nineteenth century. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Conkle has been blessed
with six children: James B.; Mary V., who died at the age of six years;
Clara V.; Walter; Edna and Bertha. The eldest son, who is a resident
farmer of Howard county, married Katie Markland and has four children.
Clara is the wife of J. L. Cavolt and has two children. Walter, who follows
agricultural pursuits in Howard township, married Maude Warwick, and has
one child. Edna is the wife of J. F. Johnson. The parents are members of
the Methodist church, and in his political views Mr. Conkle is a Republican,
but has never been an office-seeker, preferring to devote his time and ener
gies to his business interests, in which he has met with good success. Recog
nizing the fact that industry is the key which unlocks the portals of success.

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he has found the reward of earnest labor and his prosperity is well merited.
He is also recognized as a progressive, public-spirited citizen, true to every
duty devolving upon him, his record therein vying with his history as a sol
dier of the Civil war, when he fought for the preservation of the Union and
the triumphs of the stars and stripes.

T~\ANIEL KILLIAN, undertaker, 303 Market street. — America is pre-
¦*— ^ eminently a land of self-made men; for here oportunities for achieving
success abound as in no other clime or country. The young man of energy,
brains and industry may readily make a place of respect and influence in the
business world, provided that he is well grounded in principles of uprightness
and integrity. As a people we are never tired of giving honor and praise to
those who have climbed by sheer force of character and persistent determina
tion from a humble position to one of prominence in a community. In this
connection many of the citizens of Logansport will take pleasure in perusing
the history of the sterling business man whose name prefaces this article.
Though he is now one of the loyal sons of the United States, Daniel
Killian is proud of the fact that he is a product of the Emerald Isle. He
was born May 28, 1862, and spent the first eighteen years of his life in the
beautiful isle of Erin. Feeling that, however dear to him the scenes and
friends of his youth might be, his own country could not afford to him the
same advantages of making a livelihood that fair America proffered, he con
cluded to seek his fortune abroad. Landing on these hospitable shores in
1880, he at once continued his journey to Logansport. Finding that it was
almost impossible for him to obtain a position here, as he was a stranger,
and, more especially, owing to the fact that he had no trade or craft, he had
the good sense to go into the country near and hire out to farmers for a time.
He was thus employed during the following five years, in the meanwhile
spending much of his leisure time in study and reading and otherwise im
proving his mind.
It was in 1885 that Mr. Killian returned to Logansport and accepted a
place with the firm of Kroeger & Strain, undertakers. His duties were taking
care of the horses and carriages and general work connected with the busi
ness, and here he gained his initial experience in this line. He continued

644 BIOGRAPHICAL .dXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
with the firm for seven and a half years, after which he became an employee
of Well & Parker, of whom he learned the science of embalming. His con
nection with the last mentioned firm lasted for five and a half years. In the
early part of 1897 he went to the town of Monticello, Indiana, and embarked
in the undertaking business upon his own account. Seven months later he
saw that it would be to his financial advantage to return to Logansport.
where certain persons were desirous of having him locate permanently. The
firm of Daniel Killian & Company was organized, Mr. I. N. Cash being the
silent partner, and they have met with gratifying success, though such recent
additions to the list of Logansport's business firms.
In 1884 Mr. Killian married Miss Clara Leffert, of this county. Frater
nally he is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the
Improved Order of Red Men. He is also a valued member of the Indiana
St ate Undertakers' Association. In his political faith he is a Republican.

T IS HLLIAM FRIERMOOD, of Converse, Indiana, dates his identity with
V ^ this state from 185 1, Grant county being the place where he first
established his home. From there he subsequently came to Jackson town
ship, Miami county, where he resides at the present time.
Reuben Friermood, the father of William, was a son of Afatthias and
Martha (Hill) Friermood, and Matthias was a son of Afatthias. The younger
Matthias Friermood was a Virginian by birth and by occupation was a black
smith and farmer. He married in his native state Miss Martha Hill, and he
and his wife became pioneers of Clark county, Ohio, their settlement in Ger
man township of that county being as early as 1805 or 1806, while the
Indians were still there. The red men were friendly to the Friermoods and
would frequently go to Grandmother Friermood and say, " Good woman,
give me milk; " and she would give them mush and milk, of which they were
very fond. These worthy pioneers of Clark county acquired and improved
a fine farm of six hundred acres. Their children were George, Eva, Bar
bara, Martha, Catherine, Christiana, Reuben and John. John died in a
blockhouse during the war of 1812, and Martha died when young. The
father died at the age of seventy years and his wife was seventy-two when
she passed away. They were members of the Lutheran church.

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Their son, Reuben Friermood, our subject's father, was born in Vir
ginia, September 13, 1779, and, like hisfather, he was both a blacksmith
and farmer. As a blacksmith, however, he did only his own work. At the
time his parents moved to Ohio, as above recorded, he was a boy of eight
years, and on his father's frontier farm in Clark county he was reared, his
educational advantages being limited to a short training in the "three R's. "
He married, in that county. Miss Sarah Kizer, who was born in Virginia,
June 20, 1795, a daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Kite) Kizer. Philip
Kizer was one of the frontier settlers of Clark county. He built the first
corn mill,, or " corn-cracker," as it was called, in his part of the country, on
Mad river, and subsequently he erected a flouring mill at the same location.
He was regarded as one of the wealthiest men of his locality, and left to -each
of his children a tract of land on which they settled. His children were
William, Michael, John, George, Sarah, Betsy, Katie, Annie, Mary and
Peggie. He was a middle-aged man when he died, and his wife lived to a
ripe old age. Reuben- Friermood after marriage settled at the old Frier
mood homestead, a farm of two hundred and ninety-three acres, and there
took care of his aged mother during the latter part of her life. To him and
his wife were given the following named children: Jacob, John, Reuben,
George, William, Elizabeth, Mary, Jane, Catherine and Martha. Reuben
Friermood, the father, died of typhoid fever, at the age of fifty-one years.
He was a member of the Lutheran church and a liberal supporter of the
same, and politically he was first a Democrat and later an old-line Whig.
William Friermood, whose name initiates this review, dates his birth on
Mad river, in German township, Clark county, Ohio, February 3, 1826, and
his youthful days were passed not unlike those of other frontier farmer boys.
Industry was among the first lessons he learned and the farm work he had to
do left him with little time to attend school. Farming has been his life
occupation. After his marriage, which event occurred early in the year 1850,
he settled on the home farm in Clark county, Ohio, but the following year
he came over into Indiana and located in Grant county, entering eighty acres
of land. His only start in life was one hundred dollars, given him by his
father, and with this for a foundation, and with the assistance of his faithful
wife, he accumulated a competency and made an comfortable and attractive
home, at one time owning five hundred acres of land. He is a typical pioneer
and substantial farmer, who gave each of his four children eighty acres of

G4G BIOGR.IPHICAL AXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
land, retaining one hundred and eighty for his own use, all of which is valu
able farming land; and besides, he owns choice property in the town of
Converse. February 14, 1850, in his native county, he was married to Miss Cath
erine Baker, who was born September 10, 1824, a daughter of Martin and
Elizabeth (King) Baker. Hpr father, a weaver by trade, was born in Rock
ingham county, Virginia, June 16, 1770, of sturdy German stock, his father
having come to this country from Germany.
His wife was born September 22, 1788. He was married in his native
county to Mrs. Elizabeth Sailor, ncc King, and their children were: Mary,
born August 13, 18 13; Elizabeth, November 27, 18 14; Anna, August 25,
1816; Margaret, February 19, 1818; William, August 13, 1819; Salhe, July
2, 1823; Catherine, September 10, 1824; Maria and Lucy, twins, November
II, 1826; Alexander, September 18, 1828, and Samuel M. , December 10,
1830. All lived to good old ages, and five of them are still living, namely:
Sallie, Catherine, Alexander, Samuel and Lucy. By her former husband,
Mr. Sailor, Mrs. Baker had two children — Susan and Peter. Mr. Baker was
a soldier in the war of 18 12, moved to Ohio and settled in Clark county in
1823, cleared land and made a farm; and there passed the remainder of his
days, being in his eighty-fourth }-ear at the time of his death in 1855. He
was a Presbyterian.
The children of William Friermood are: Reuben, born December 30,
1850, and died when about ten years of age; Martin B., born February 26,
1853; Mary C, September 12, 1856; Charlie O. , January 28, i860; Squire
S., August 23, 1862, and William A. , January 13, 1866. Martin B. married
Mary E. Hardaker, and is a farmer of Sims township. Grant county. His
children are: Thomas W. , born July 23, 1877; William E., August 9, 1879,
and Hettie M., August 22, 1881. Mary C. became the wife of George Par
sons, a farmer of Grant county and has the following named children: Nella,
born June 26, 1880; Ida, February 18, i882;Abner, January 28, 1884; Jesse,
April 8, 1886; Katie, April 3, 1888; Sarah, April 26, 1890; Noah, May 26,
1893, and Minnie, November6, 1896. Charlie O. married Mary E. Myers
and has two children, Vaughn V., born July 19, 1889, and Martha C, No
vember 15, 1891. He is engaged in farming in Sims township. Grant county,
as is also his youngest brother, William A. The latter chose for his wife
Ruanna Pence and their two children are Bertha F., born October 7, 1888,

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and Georgianna, born July 25, 1891. Squire S. died at the age of fifteen
years. Mr. and Mrs. Friermood are active and influential members of the Chris
tian church, he being a deacon and the treasurer of the local society. Polit
ically he isa Republican, and fraternally he is a Mason, being identified with
Converse Lodge, No. 601, F. & A. M.

JOSIAH K. BAXTER, M. D.— 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 beneficial career. Dr. Baxter is
quietly living at his beautiful home in Sharpsville, surrounded by the comfort
that earnest labor has brought him. He is a prominent citizen of the com
munity and has borne his part in the upbuilding and development of Tipton
county. The Doctor was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, September 19, 1831,
and is a son of William and Jane (Kerr) Baxter, natives of Pennsylvania and
Virginia, respectively. The paternal grandfather, James Baxter, was a
native of Ireland, and on coming to this country first settled at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, then near Daytc5n, Ohio, but in 18 14 removed to Jefferson
county, Indiana, where he and his sons entered large tracts of land and
improved excellent farms. He died there some time in the '20s, honored
and respected by all who knew him. Religiously he was a strong Protestant.
In his family were four children, namely: Daniel, James, Nancy and Will
iam. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Josiah Kerr, was a native of
Ohio, and was also an honored pioneer of Jefferson county, Indiana, where
he entered land and developed a farm. He had six children: Margaret,
Sarah, Betty, Jane, Polly and Alexander.
William Baxter, the Doctor's father, was born in 1801, or near this time,
and during his youth accompanied his parents on their emigration to Indi
ana, locating in Jefferson county. There he grew to manhood, was married
and reared his family. He was a hard worker, clearing land and rolling logs
in company with his neighbors in early life, and always following agricultural
pursuits. He became quite an extensive farmer, owning and operating about
four hundred acres of land, was widely and favorably known, and in politics

648 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
was first a Whig and later a Republican, but never aspired to office. His
death occurred in 1861. The children born to him were James, an attorney,
now deceased; Josiah K. , of this sketch; Daniel and William, both deceased;
Perry, a resident of Colorado; Hiram, of Ilhnois; George, of Indianapolis;
Edward, sheriff at Springfield, Illinois; Alonzo, who lives near the old home;
and Havana, wife of R. Williams. Seven sons were in the Union army dur
ing the Civil war and all returned home and are still living. All were good
soldiers, and our subject ssrved as hospital steward in regiment and hospitals,
Hiram as lieutenant and captain of his companies, and George as lieutenant.
Dr. Baxter was reared to agricultural pursuits, and obtained his early
education in the common schools, but at the age of sixteen was sent to
Greencastle College. Later he taught school and read medicine, at Madi
son, with Dr. J. D. Rogers, after which he attended lectures at the old
medical college of Louisville. He then (1855) opened an office in Sharps
ville, where he successfully engaged in practice for twenty years. When he
located here the entire country was practically a vast wilderness and swamp;
the few settlers built upon the higher ground; game and other wild animals
roamed through the forests. In 1864 the Doctor enlisted as a private in the
One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Soon
after reaching the front he was detached from his regiment and detailed in
the field hospital, where he rendered valuable service until the close of the
war, being mustered out and honorably discharged, at Indianapolis, in
August, 1865. Returning home he resumed practice and also dealt in farm
ing lands. In 1878 he retired from his profession and located upon his farm
of two hundred and forty acres, which is now under a high state of cultiva
tion, ditched, tiled and improved with a good residence and one of the finest
barns in the township. To farming and stock-raising he devoted his atten
tion with marked success until 1891, when he retired from the farm and is
now spending his time in ease and quiet, his home being in Sharpsville,
where he owns a pleasant residence.
In 1857 Dr. Baxter was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Walker,
a lady of intelhgence and refinement, who wa5 born in Jennings county,
Indiana, in 1842, a daughter of William and Penelope (McGannin) Walker.
The father also was born in Indiana, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was prominent
and public-spirited and filled many offices of honor and trust, being clerk of
the court in Jennings county for some time. He died in 1847 and his widow

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 649'
afterward married Edward Sharp, who came to Tipton county in 1852 and
located at the present site of Sharpsville, where he engaged in merchandising
and milling. Here his wife died, but his death occurred in Illinois. By her
first marriage she had three children: John, deceased; Thomas, a re ident
of Oklahoma; and Eleanor, wife of our subject. There were four children
born of the second union: Bell, wife of Dr. Pitzer; Alvira, wife of Dr. Cur-
ren; and Scott and Edward, both railroad men.
To Dr. and Mrs. Baxter were born seven children, namely: Ida, now
Mrs. Lindsey; Marble L. and William, who are in southwestern Kansas;
Elva, wife of L. S. Ulrich; Fannie, wife of M. Chase; Cleo, wife of B.
Kenada; and Joseph K., who died at the age of thirteen years. The parents
are both earnest and faithful members of the Methodist church, and socially
the Doctor belongs to the Masonic fraternity and Put. Evans Post, No. 363,
G. A. R. , of Sharpsville. An ardent Republican in politics he takes a com
mendable interest in public affairs, but has never aspired to office, though he
has served as township trustee.

A LPHEUS PORTER. — Among the pioneer families of Cass county was
-'^ the one of which our subject is a representative. His grandfather, Joshua
Porter, spent his last days in Indiana, dying in Vienna. He had twelve chil
dren, namely: Adam; Samuel; John; France; Tivus; Reason; Allen; Benja
min; Peggy; Rebecca, wife of Leonard Young; Mrs. Alexander Moody and
Mrs. Samuel McDaniel. Benjamin Porter, the father of our subject, was
born in 181 1, and came from Ohio to Indiana in 1832, purchasing land of
the government. His descendants still hold the title to the homestead, no
transfer of it ever having been made. He removed to his new home in 1836,
at which time the place was so heavily covered with timber that there was
scarcely 'room for the erection of a single building until the ax had made a
clearing for that purpose. It was no easy task, therefore, to develop from
this forest land a good farm, but with great energy and determination Ben
jamin Porter carried on the work, and at his death was possessed of a valua
ble estate. His political support was given the Republican party, and he
once served as trustee of Clinton township. He was recognized as a leading
and influential citizen of the community and died in 1883, full of years and

650 BIOGR.APHICAL A.YD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
honors. His wife bore the maiden name of Clarissa Justice and was a daugh
ter of John Justice. Their children were: Nancy, wife of John Dickerson,
of Clymer; Rosann, wife of Elias Plank, of Rockfield; Alpheus; Celesta, who
married James W Lesh, of Michigan City; Clementine, deceased wife of
John McLaughlin; Washington, a resident of Clinton township; Frank, who
is also living in the same township; and Allie, wife of Thomas Moore.
Alpheus Porter, whose name begins this sketch, was born in Clinton
township, Cass county, on the old homestead farm, June 7, 1842, and is
indebted to the public schools of the neighborhood for the educational privi
leges which he received. When a young man of nineteen years he mani
fested his patriotism by enlisting in the service of his country as a member
of Company K, Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain WilHam
Laselle and Colonel Milroy. This was in 1861. The regiment was ordered
to West Virginia, where the battles of Greenbriar and Buffalo Mountain were
fought among the first engagements of the war. The Ninth was then sent to
Xashville and on to Shiloh, where it participated in the second day's fight.
The march was then continued to Corinth, Athens, Florence, Alabama, and
participated in the important engagements at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, followed by the Atlanta campaign,
and upon the evacuation of that stronghold by the Confederates and the expi
ration of his three-years term of service, Mr. Porter was honorably discharged
and returned home.
He at once resumed farming, which he has continued with slight inter
ruptions up to the present time. In 1875 he purchased the farm upon
which he now resides. It is a good property, pleasantly and conveniently
located only three miles west of Logansport, thus affording easy access to
the facilities of the city. There are many excellent improv. ments upon the
place, and its neat and thrifty appearance well indicates the careful super
vision of the owner, who is most progressive and practical in his methods.
In February, 1871, Mr. Porter was united in marriage to Miss Amanda
Sager, daughter of William Sager, of Lockport, Carroll county, Indiana.
She died October 20, 1896, leaving four children, namely: Sadie, wife of
Leonard Means, of Danville Junction, Illinois, by whom she has three chil
dren, Edith, Robert and Ruth; John F. , a resident of North Dakota; Ben
jamin, who makes his home in Logansport; and Albert who assists in the
operation of the home farm.

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Mr. Porter is one of the leading Republicans of Cass county, and fre
quently serves as delegate to the county and other conventions. He belongs
to the Grand Army Post, of Logansport, and is to-day as true and loyal to
his duties of citizenship as he was in the days when he followed the stars
and stripes on southern battle-fields. He is a worthy representative of one
of the honored pioneer families of the county, and through a period of fifty-
six years he has been interested in the growth and development of this
region, doing all in his power for its progress and advancement.

WILLIAM HEPPE. — Among the wgrthy German-American citizens of
Logansport, Cass county, has long been numbered the subject of this
narative. He is a native of Prussia, Germany, his birth having occurred
Septembers, 1836, but for the past forty-four years he has been a faithful son
ofthe land of his adoption, the United States, and when her union and peace
were threatened in the beginning of the late Civil war, he hastened to offer
his services in her defense. Since he cast in his lot with the favored people
of this fair land he has been loyal to her institutions, laws and policy, and is
entitled to credit for his patriotism.
The parents of our subject, Henry and Catherine (Pfeil) Heppe, passed
their whole lives in their native land, Germany, the father dying when Will
iam was scarcely six years of age. The boy received a fair education in the
public schools and in 1854 came to America in company vvith an uncle and
aunt. They first thought of making their home in Buffalo, but soon changed
their plans and removed to Columbus, Ohio. In that city our subject se
cured employment in a broom factory, but at the end of eight months spent
in this occupation the family of his uncle, Henry Kraut, came to Logansport,
and the young man accompanied them. In the spring of 1855 he found a
position in a sawmill near ^^''alton, this county, and worked steadily and
hard for the succeeding ten months. Ill health at last vanquished him, chills
and fever being then prevalent in this region, and he returned to Columbus;
but six months later he determined to try the venture again, and having mas
tered the cooper's trade he here followed the calling for seven years. About
this time the war of the Rebellion broke out, and though he was anxious to
go to the front he was rejected by the army surgeons who deemed him not
strong enough for the inevitable hardships of the soldier's life.

652 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
In 1 86 1 Mr. Heppe married Amelia Boltz, of Indianapolis, and the chil
dren who blessed their union are named as follows: William H., Andrew F.
(both members of their father's firm) Gustav C, Ferdinand, Lulu (Mrs.
Elmer Uhl), Ida and Amelia.
At the time that Mr. Heppe found that he would not be allowed to enter
the army he entered the employ of his brother-in-law in Indianapolis. Mr. Berg-
mann was the proprietor of a soap manufactory, and during the next year our
subject thoroughly mastered the details of the business. Returning then to
Logansport he engaged in the same line of enterprise, and in spite of obstacles
has persevered and has made a success of the undertaking. Commencing in a
small way, he gradually enlarged his factory and in 1871 moved his business
to the southern side of the Wabash river. Now a large brick building stands
on the site, while the offices and sales-rooms of the firm are at the corner of
Erie and Elm streets. About eight different brands of soap are manufactured
by the firm, but the Royal is specially favored by the trade, and particular
pains is taken in its making. In 1895 the two elder sons of Mr. Heppe were
taken into the business, since which time the style has been as at present,
William Heppe & Sons. In addition to the soap production, the firm
handles hides and tallow in immense quantities, and from eight to fifteen
hands are regularly employed.

T

HOMAS BATEY, one of the most interesting and influential citizens of
Harrison township, Howard county, is a native of the celebrated state
of Kentucky, born at Mount Sterling, March 8, 1824. His father, Joseph
Batey, was a native of the Old Dominion; and his grandfather, Thomas
Batey also by name, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, a participant in the
Revolutionary war and afterward moved from \'irginia to Kentucky. The
family have been prominent in various relations of life and in public posi
tion. Joseph Batey, whose occupation was that of a farmer, married his
second cousin, Miss Mary Batey, a daughter of Thomas Batey, of Virginia,
who died in 1878, at the age of eighty-seven years. He died in 1824. They
had six children, of whom only the subject of this sketch is living.
The latter in his infancy, after the death of his father, was brought by
his mother to this state, in her emigration hither to establish a new home,.

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settling near Columbus, where he was brought up and received a little
schooling. As he grew up he learned the trade of shoemaker, and was the
first of that trade to settle in Howard county. He also built the first house
in Russiaville. In 1849 he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, which yet con
stitutes the homestead where he resides. The deed of this tract is signed by
President Zachary Taylor. Mr. Batey and John Dillman are the only two
men in the county who now own the land they entered from the government.
In 1858 Mr. Batey went to St. Louis and studied medicine under the direc
tion of a cousin there, and he practiced as a physician for five years, two
years of this time in La Fayette, Indiana. In 1863 he returned to the farm,
and the same year gathered ninety men for service in the Union army, but
his company was not accepted. He conducted the farm and practiced medi
cine until 1890, when he retired from active life. On the homestead he
carried on general farming, and besides he raised some very fine horses. He
has been a member of the order of the Patrons of Husbandry for many
years; in politics he has been a lifelong Democrat; and in religion he has
been a member of the Baptist church for forty-five years, of which religious
body he has been a deacon, trustee, etc.
For his first wife Mr. Batey married, February 20, 1845, Miss Emily
Davis, a daughter of William Davis, of Pennsylvania. This lady died in
1 86 1, after having become the mother of thirteen children; only five of these
children are now living, namely: Elizabeth, wife of Harvey Curl, of Clay
township; Sarah Jane, who is the wife of Charles Morrow, of Fairfield,
Indiana; Mary, who is now Mrs. William Wells, of Ervin township; Duncina,
wife of Isaac Wilson, of Harrison township; and William T. , of Clay town
ship. For his second wife Mr. Batey was united in marriage, February 4,
1863, with Miss Mary Ann Tobey, a daughter of Silas Tobey. By this mar
riage there were six children, of whom three are living, viz. : Harriet, now
Mrs. Harmon Baughman, of Kokomo; Charline M., who married Milton
Berry, of Clinton county, Indiana; and Loran T., who is still at his parental
home. All the children are members of the Baptist church.
Mr. Batey is an intelligent and affable gentleman, successful in business
and in his profession. His memory of the early times is remarkably good,
and he is remarkably interesting in the relation of early events and experi
ences. One of the stories we may relate here. In 1847 he and a number

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of other men were standing and talking together on the square where the
courthouse is now situated, the locality being at the time characterized prin
cipally by a pond of water, when one of the company suggested that they
collect a large quantity of wood and form what was called a "Jackson log-
heap," for a bonfire, and such a bonfire that it would be talked about for fifty
years afterward. One log was so large and heavy that only he and " Jim "
Cresson together could carry it. Sure enough, they made the occasion so
jolly and unique that it has been well remembered to this day by all the par
ticipants; but the only members of the jolly company now living are Mr.
Batey, James Cresson and James Hatton.
Physically, although attacked about six years ago by that singularly
malignant disease, la grippe, ^h. Batey is novv in good health, active and as
merry as of yore.

HUGH I. GARD. — Forty-four years have passed since Hugh I. Gard
located on the farm which is now his home. It is a valuable property,
located on section 31, Washington township, in the vicinity of Deacon, Indi
ana, and the well-tilled fields, excellent improvements and many modern
accessories indicate the progressiveness and enterprise of him who now man
ages the farm.
Mr. Gard was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 29th of December,
1850, and is a son of Canada and JNIary (Rinehart) Gard, also natives of the
same county. In his early life the father worked in a pork-packing estab
lishment, also followed various other pursuits that would }'ield him an honest
living, but for the greater part of his life he carried on farming and was a
most industrious agriculturist. On commg to Cass county, in 1854, he
purchased eighty acres of the farm upon which our subject novv resides, and
to this he afterward added a tract of sixteen acres. The land was all wild
and unimproved, and with characteristic energy he began to clear awav the
timber, build fences, plow fields and plant crops. Later he garnered rich
harvests as the reward of his labor, and the once raw tract became a pro
ductive and desirable farm. ^fr. Gard was united in marriage in 1849 to
Miss Mary Rinehart, and they became the parents of eight children, namely:
Hugh 1,, our subject; Jacob F and David L. , now deceased; Obed C. , who
is living in Deer Creek township; L}'dia M., John W. and Sarah R., all

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deceased; and Mary E., who is living \vith our subject. The mother of this
family was called to the home beyond in 187S, and the father died in 1870.
Hugh I. Gard spent the first four years of his life in his native county
and then accompanied his parents on their removal to Cass county, where he
has since made his home. Reared on the frontier, he early became familiar
with the arduous labors of those who develop pioneer farms, and through his
boyhood was actively engaged in clearing away the timber, plowing the fields,
caring for the stock, and attending to other duties which fall to the lot of
the frontier farmer. He acquired a fair education in the country schools,
and on laying aside his text-books gave his entire attention to farm work.
Upon his father's death he assumed the management of the property and has
since engaged in the cultivation of the fields, in which the growing grain ever
gives evidence of abundant harvests. He is progressive in his methods,
industrious and persevering and has so managed his interests as to secure a
comfortable income from his farm. Socially he is connected with the
Masonic lodge in Young America, and by his brethren of the fraternity, as
well as his acquaintances in other relations of life, he is held in warm regard.

OLIVER M. HAND. — Among the representatives of the newspaper inter
ests of Cass county is Oliver M. Hand, editor and proprietor of the
Royal Center Record, published weeekl}' in Royal Center, Indiana. He is
one of the native sons of this state, his birth having occurred in New Albany,
Floyd county, on the ist of October, 1864. His parents were Lebbeus F.
and Elizabeth Hand, also natives of Xew Albany.
The subject of this review attended school in Logansport until fifteen
years of age, and then, in the autumn of 1S79, entered "the poor man's
college," — the printing office, — as an apprentice in the establishment of the
Logansport Journal. In 1891 he removed to Chicago, where he remained
for four years, during which time he was connected with the Chicago Eve
ning Post. In August, 1895, however, he returned to Logansport, and in
1896 came to Royal Center, where on the 1st of September he purchased of
the firm of Rea & Thomas the Royal Center Record, which he has since
published. This is a weekly paper, independent in politics and has a large
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the dissemination of national and foreign news, and is a bright, entertaining
journal, well worthy of the liberal patronage it receives. Long experience
in the journalistic field has made Mr. Hand very capable in this line of
endeavor, and he not only possesses the literary ability necessary to the suc
cessful conduct of such an enterprise, but also the business and executive
force necessary to the financial management.
On the 24th of February, 1886, Mr. Hand was united in marriage to
Miss Jennie L. Woodward, a native of Logansport, Indiana, and to them
have been born two children; Jesse B., born June 18, 1887; and Frank L. ,
born April 12, 1889. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and have a large circle of friends in the community. Mr. Hand is
well known in business circles throughout the county, and his reliability has
gained him uniform confidence and regard.

THOMAS G. PRATT, one of the most progressive and successful agricult
uralists of Tipton county, is the owner of a beautiful farm in Liberty
township. His methods of farm management show deep scientific knowledge
combined with sound practical judgment, and the results show that high-class
farming as an occupation can be made profitable as well as pleasant. Besides
his agricultural interests he is also an extensive stockholder in a canning fac
tory and is a business man of more than ordinary ability.
Mr. Pratt was born in Queen Anne county, Maryland, December 24,
1832, a son of Bennett and Araminta (Hukill) Pratt, also natives of Mary
land, where the father engaged in farming throughout life, his death occur
ring there in 1834. He was well known and prominent, served as justice of
the peace, and was a Methodist in religious belief. His wife, who survived
him, came to Indiana and made her home with her sons and here she died
in 1873. The children of the family were Mary R., who wedded B. Uhl
and died in Maryland, leaving four children; Mrs. Susan Bennett, whose
husband died in Illinois, leaving nine children, and who now makes her home
with our subject; Araminta, wife of G. Hukill; John E., a prominent farmer
of Liberty township; Thomas G., of this sketch; and Mrs. Sarah B. McDuffee.
Reared on the home farm, Thomas G. Pratt received hi^ education in
the common schools of the neighborhood, and remained a resident of his

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native state until 1846, when he accompanied a sister and her husband on
their removal to Rush county, Indiana, being at that time thirteen years of
age. There he grew -to manhood and was married, in 1854, to Miss Sarah
Nash, who was born in Fayette county, Indiana, July 22, 1837. Her par
ents, Richard and Margaret (Moffett) Nash, were natives of Delaware and
Pennsylvania, respectively, and were married in Indiana. Her father was
principally reared, however, in Ohio, where he learned the cooper's trade,
but later ran flat-boats down the river to New Orleans, where he would sell
his produce and boat and then return on foot to his home. He was first
married in Ohio, and in 1823 removed to Fayette county, Indiana, where he
entered land and improved a farm, dying there in 1888 at the advanced age
of ninety years. He was one of the leading and influential men of his com
munity and served as justice of the peace for a number of years. By his
first marriage he had two children, one who died in childhood and Robert, a
prominent citizen and retired farmer of Sharpsville, Indiana.
In Fayette county Richard Nash married Margaret Moffett, whose father
was a farmer by occupation and was killed at an early day in an Indian war
near Dayton, Ohio. He was what may be termed an Indian fighter, having
taken part in several battles with the red men. Ten years after his death
his widow with her children removed to Fayette county, Indiana. Richard
Nash was one of a family of seven children, the others being Isaac, Thomas,
Jesse, James, Samuel and Mary, who married and remained in Ohio. To
Richard and Margaret (Moffett) Nash were also born seven children: Eleanor
J., wife of Joseph Turner, a farmer of Liberty township, Tipton county;
William G. , a farmer of Cicero township; Sarah M., wife of our subject;
Isaac T., a farmer of Tipton county; Eliza A., wife of C. Elliott; John S., of
Chicago; and Oliver L., who resides on the old homestead in Fayette county.
All of the sons of this marriage were soldiers of the Civil war, and although
none were wounded the health of three was greatly impaired, but all are still
living and are prominent citizens of their respective communities. The
mother lived on the home farm for sixty years and there was not a death in
the family until she was called away. She was a consistent and earnest
member of the Methodist church, and both she and her husband died in
Fayette county. To Mr. and Mrs. Pratt were born six children: Bennett R.,
a farmer of Liberty township, Tipton county; Edgar, who died at .the age of
nine years; Margaret, who died at the age of thirteen; William, a farmer of
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Liberty township; John, who died at the age of six years; and Charles, who
died at the age of three.
In 1858 Mr. Pratt came to Tipton county, where his father-in-law
had entered eighty acres of land, and here bought forty acres of land, three
acres of which had been cleared and a cabin erected thereon. To the
improvement and cultivation of his land he devoted his energies, and as his
financial resources increased he added to the original purchase until he had
four hundred acres, but has since divided the property with his two sons,
retaining, however, the old homestead. He has cleared and placed under a
high state of cultivation three hundred acres, has also ditched and tiled the
same and erected good and commodious buildings thereon. He erected a
tile factory, which he conducted for twelve years, but has always given the
greater part of his attention to farming and stock-raising, in which he has
met with marked success. However, he and his sons are now largely inter
ested in a canning factory at Sharpsville, the stockholders being J. P. Lind
say, superintendent, Bennett Pratt, William Pratt, John E. Pratt, T. G.
Pratt, Thomas Gross, Harvey Gross, Isaac Davenport and William Read, all
farmers. They have sixty acres devoted to the raising of tomatoes; the
capacity of the factory is twenty-five hundred bushels per day, and the gross
output for 1897 was twenty-seven thousand cases or fifty-four car-loads of
goods. It is proving a very useful and profitable enterprise.
As a public-spirited, progressive citizen, Mr. Pratt has helped to build
the turnpikes in his locality, and has given his support to every enterprise
for the public good. He was originally a Republican in politics, but is now
independent, favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

T W. CRISMOND, M. D. — The true western spirit of progress and enter-
*J prise is exemplified in the lives of such men as Dr. Crismond,— men
whose energetic natures and laudable ambition have enabled them to con
quer many adverse circumstances and advance steadily to a leading position
in business life. The Doctor is a worthy representative of this class and is
now a prominent figure in commercial and professional circles in Logansport,
where he is successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and in the con
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during that time his genuine worth has gained him the high regard of many
of his fellow citizens.
The Doctor is a native of Fredricksburg, Virginia, born February i,
1847. His father, Horace Crismond, was a lawyer by profession and was a
son of an eminent advocate of the Old Dominion, who was born and reared
in Straspury, Germany, whence he emigrated to America, taking up his res
idence in Virginia. There he won prestige as a member of the legal profes
sion, and in connection with his professional duties he conducted a large-
plantation and owned a large number of slaves. His son, Horace Crismond,
married Ellen Mitchell, a native of Virginia and a daughter of John W.
Mitchell, who was born and reared in Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated in
the University of Glasgow. Crossing the Atlantic to the New World, he
took up his residence in Virginia, where he was extensively engaged in the
practice of law and in the hianagement of his large plantation. Just before
the war of the Rebellion, he liberated his slaves and removed to New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, continuing to make his home in the old Bay state until
his death. In 1856, when nine years of age. Dr. Crismond accompanied his par
ents on their removal to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he pursued his education in
the public schools and in Herron's Academy, but in 1862 he left the school
room for the field of action, joining the boys in blue of Company I, One Hun
dred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He served with that regiment until
June, 1863, when he was discharged, by order of Major-General Rosecrans.
On the 26th of June, 1863, he re-enlisted, as a member of the Fourth Battal
ion, called Tod's Scouts, under the command of Colonel Joe Wheeler, and
served for six months, the full time for which the battalion was enlisted.
After the expiration of the half year. Dr. Crismond enlisted for three years'
service and was made sergeant of Company H, Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry,
serving in General Gregg's division of Sheridan's cavalry corps. He partic
ipated in all the important battles fought in Virginia from the Potomac to
Appomattox Court House, during the campaign of 1864-65, and at the last
named place was in command of his regiment. He was a faithful, loyal
soldier, always found at his post of duty, and was mustered out of the service
at Amelia Court House, Virginia, July 4, 1865, being honorably discharged in
August, following, at Tod's Barracks, Columbus, Ohio.
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in Herron's Academy, where he was graduated in 1868, and thus, with a com
prehensive general knowledge, he entered upon the study of medicine in the
office of Dr. Jesse Needham, at Milton, Indiana, under whose direction he
continued his reading for two years, when he entered the Physio-lNfedical Col
lege of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained through the full college term of
six months. Returning home in the spring of 1870, he entered the office of
Dr. Louis Hottendorf, of Dublin, Indiana, and in the following autumn
returned to college in Cincinnati, continuing his studies there until his grad
uation, in the spring of 1873. With a well disciplined mind and ambitious
for success, he applied himself diligently to his studies and was therefore well
equipped for his professional career.
He first opened an office in Fort Recovery, Ohio, but not being pleased
with that location he removed to Chesterfield, Indiana, where he remained
for two years. He was married in Cincinnati; Ohio, March 10, 1875, to
Mrs. Mary E. Leonard, ncc Teeguarden, and then removed to Middletown,
Indiana, where for four years he engaged in his professional duties. On the
expiration of that period, desiring to enlarge his field of usefulness, he went
to Tipton, Indiana, but becoming dissatisfied on account of the inundations
of the country, he located in Richmond, Indiana, where he practiced medi
cine in 1884. In that year he removed to Valparaiso, Nebraska, where he
formed a partnership with Dr. I. N. Stephens, an honored practitioner at
that place. He soon demonstrated his superior skill and ability and won a
large and lucrative practice, but being of a romantic disposition and fond of
new experiences and scenes he was induced to go in his professional capacity
with a colony of emigrants to the wild and unsettled district of eastern Colo
rado, known as the Great American Desert. There he remained for nearly
two years, and upon returning to Nebraska located in Hamilton county,
where he engaged in the drug business and the practice of medicine. A few
months later he received a commission as agency physician to the Ponca
Indians, but soon tiring of the humdrum life which usually characterizes
those agencies, he resigned the position and joined the emigrants to Okla
homa territory, journeying with a great caravan of home-hunters to that
beautiful and picturesque country. They arrived April 22, 1S89, and Dr.
Crismond practiced medicine in Guthrie for over three years, but the new
ness ofthe country and the paucity of money somewhat discouraged him, and
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practiced medicine until 1894, when he came to Logansport. Here he has
a well equipped drug store and is not only enjoying a liberal patronage in
that line, but has also a large and constantly increasing practice in medicine.
His business ability and his profound knowledge have brought to him a mer
ited success, and he has now a comfortable competence. His life has been
an eventful one. Born in Virginia, reared in the Buckeye state, he saw
active service on the bloody battle-fields of the south, has undergone the
experience of the pioneer of the wild west and is now connected with the
business interests of one of the thriving cities of the Mississippi valley. He
relates many interesting incidents of his travels and is an entertaining com
panion, very popular in professional and social circles.
The Doctor's political predilecitons are indicated in the following state
ment as to his earnest, but somewhat premature, exercising of the right of
franchise: When but sixteen years of age he cast his vote for John Brough
as governor of Ohio, and when seventeen years old, in 1864, being then in
front of Petersburg, Virginia, he deposited his ballot in support of Abraham
Lincoln for the presidency.

JONATHAN WOLVERTON.— This substantial old settler on section 31,
Cicero township, Tipton county, was born in Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, November 13, 1828. His father, Isaac Wolverton, was also
a native of the Keystone state, where he was reared and married. In 1837
he emigrated to Butler county, Ohio, where, on a farm, he passed the
remainder of his life, dying at the age of eighty-two years, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics a Democrat. He married Chris-
tena Moore, also a native of Pennsylvania, who died in 1844. She was of
German ancestry. They had nine children, all of whom grew up excepting
one. Five are now living.
Jonathan, the second child and oldest son in the above family, was nine
years of age when brought by his parents in their emigration to Butler county,
Ohio, where he remained until 1853, working nights and mornings to earn
his schooling. At the early age of thirteen years he commenced working by
the month, on a farm. When he came to Indiana in 1853, he rode a good
horse, carrying his clothes in a meal-sack, and he had ninety dollars, which
he had saved up. Locating in Decatur county, he at first rented a farm.

6()2 BIOGRAPHICAL A.YD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
November 22, 1855, he was united in marriage with Miss Clarinda A..
Barr, and they had one son, Joseph W. , who now lives on section 6, Cicero
township, and is a farmer. Mrs. Wolverton died in November, 1856, and
June 24, 1857, the surviving husband married Miss Martha W. Barr,
who was born in Decatur county, Indiana, April 24, 1831, and was reared
there. Her father, Henry Barr, was a native of Tennessee who settled in
Indiana in early day. He was of German ancestry. Her mother, who
before marriage was Martha Lamaster, was a native of South Carolina, who
was taken to Kentucky by her parents when one year old and was married
there after growing up. Mr. Barr had fifteen children, ten of whom grew
up and of whom Mrs. Wolverton is the ninth in order of age.
Mr. Wolverton with his family resided on a rented farm in Decatur
county until 1862, when they moved to Tipton county, locating on eighty
acres of land on section 31, Cicero township. In 1880 he bought the place
where he now resides, on the same section just east of the eighty acres he
had, and here he has ever since been a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser,
his live stock comprising cattle, hogs and sheep.
By his present marriage there have been seven children, as folloW'S:
Henry F. and Levi S., deceased; Achsah, deceased, leaving two children,
daughters; Wilber W. , now in Company I, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indi
ana Volunteer Infantry, in the field against Spain; John N., deceased; Mattie
L. , at home; and Anna May, deceased. Joseph W. , by the first wife, mar
ried M. J. Stewart and now has eight children.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolverton are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in which he has been steward for thirty years and trustee almost as
long, and he has contributed liberally to the church, assisting in the building
of the house of worship and the parsonage and being one of the committee
for the raising of the funds, He is also a member of the l\fasonic order,
belonging to Austin Lodge, No. 128, at Tipton, in which he has filled many
chairs; he was made a Mason in 1852. Politically he is a Republican, and
he has held a number of local offices in his township.
Mr. Wolverton is a self-made man, commencing for himself at the early
age of thirteen years and working for three dollars per month; and the high
est wages he ever received was one hundred and twenty dollars a year, after
he was of age; and he now has a fine farm of one hundred and seventy-six
acres under cultivation, and is prepared to enjoy the evening of life.

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"X 11 riLLIAM W. ROSS. — It is always a pleasant task to trace the history
' ^ of a man who has won a high place in the respect and esteem of his
fellow men by his own intrinsic worth and merit. Such a man is the ster
ling citizen above mentioned — one who has worked his way upward from an
humble position by unflagging attention to business, by fidelity to the inter
ests of his superiors and due regard for the rights of others. He has been a
resident of Logansport ever since he entered the commercial world, has
made her advancement and prosperit}- one of his ruling principles, and glor
ies in the progress she has made in the past quarter of a century.
Levi Ross, father of our subject, was a native of Indiana, and a hero of
both the Mexican and Civil wars. In the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in
Company F, One Hundred and Forty-first Indiana Infantry, or Second
Cavalry, being commissioned captain of the same. He was one of the first
to enlist in 1861 and died while in the service of his loved country when
stationed at Louisville, Kentucky. He had married, in early manhood, Miss
Susan Goodlander. She is still living, her home being in Wabash, Indiana.
William ^^'. Ross is the eldest in a family comprising three sons and
tvvo daughters. He was born in Wabash county, this state, September 8,
1850, and as soon as he had arrived at a suitable age he began attending the
public schools. He obtained a good general education and when he was
about twenty years of age he started out to earn his own livelihood. Coming
to Logansport, where he believed that wider opportunities were open to an
industrious, ambitious young man, he soon secured a position as a clerk in
an insurance office. He satisfied his employer by the efficient, painstaking
manner in which he met all of his duties, and the habits of punctuality and
method then formed have since been among his marked characteristics.
After two years in the employ of the insurance firm mentioned, our subject
was offered a position as a clerk in the office of the division superintendent of
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company, and he continued
with that corporation for ten years. In June, 1883, Mr. Ross vvas elected to
the responsible position which he has since occupied, the cashiership of the
First National Bank of Logansport. During the fifteen years of his connec
tion with this well-known institution the affairs of the same have been most
creditably managed, and its standing is now rated with that of the foremost
banks of the state, ^^'^hen the National Union Branch, of Logansport, was
organized in 1887, Mr. Ross was actively interested in the enterprise, and

664 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
has since served as its treasurer. In his political views he is a Republican.
He holds it to be his duty, as a good citizen and patriot, to keep well posted
upon all of the great national issues and questions of the day, but he has
never been ambitious of political honors, his preference being the quiet
walks of commercial activity.
The marriage of Mr. Ross and Miss Lizzie Stalnaker was celebrated in
1874. They are the parents of two daughters, Alice and Emma, now young
ladies of good education and attainments. The whole family, parents and
daughters, are identified with the First Presbyterian church as members, and
contribute liberally of their influence and means to the furtherance of relig
ious and benevolent enterprises. They have a very attractive home, where,
surrounded by his loved ones and numerous friends, Mr. Ross finds his chief
enjoyment in life.

/y /I ILTON DOUGLASS. — This gentleman is one of the substantial farm-
^ ' A ers and respected citizens of Jackson township, Miami county, Indiana.
He springs from sterling Scotch ancestry.
The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, William Douglass,
was born in the north of Ireland, and he came to America a young man,
many years before the Revolutionary war. He settled in York county, Penn
sylvania, and was there married, in 1735, to Elizabeth Mathews. William
Douglass was a farmer. His children were: David, born October 7, 1754,
who died 1839, in Peru, Indiana, where he was a pioneer; Mary, born
August 5, 1756, died 1761; Richard, born June 10, 1758; Martha, born Feb
ruary II, 1760, died 1837; Elizabeth, born January 15, 1762, died 1840;
William, born December 4, 1764, died 1850; John, born June i, 1767, died
1857; James, born October 8, 1769, died August 21, 1835; Mary, born April
29, 1772; Rebecca, born May 2, 1774. He was a man of marked home-lov-
mg traits of character, just and very industrious. He was a fine violinist,
but used this accomplishment only for the pleasure of his friends and him
self. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. He was a strong
Democrat in politics. He passed all his days, after marriage, on his
home farm. This farm was for many years in the hands of his descendants,
and probably is yet.

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James Douglass, the grandfather of Milton Douglass, was born in York
county, Pennsylvania, on their farm, October 8, 1769. He had a limited
common-school education, and became a farmer. He was married October
27. 1795. at Elliott Mills, twenty miles north of the city of Baltimore, Mary
land, to Miss Polly Taylor, who was born at the same place, November 28,
1773. The Taylors were of Scotch-Irish ancestry, andan old colonial family
of Maryland. James Douglass went on a trading expedition to Baltimore,
with a load of produce, and at her father's tavern on the road first met the
lady who afterwards became his wife. The children were: Levi, born April
4, 1797, died October, 1812; Elizabeth, born July 29, 1 801, died 186 1 ; Abra
ham, born October 22, 1804, died 1861; Jeptha, born September 11, 1806;
Thompson, born April 2, 1808; Steel, born March 10, 18 10; Milo, born
August 12, 1812; Seymour A., born July i, 1815, died September 3, 1861;
and Mary, born May 13, 1818. James Douglass moved to Virginia, near the
York county line, and settled on farm land. He lived there but two years,
then moved to the eastern part of Ohio and engaged in the hotel business
for a few years. He then went down the Ohio river to Cincinnati, and set
tled in Clinton county, Ohio, as a pioneer. He cleared up a goodly farm of
two hundred and twenty acres in the woods. He paid for his land twice, it
being mihtary land, and he bought ic the first time of the wrong party. He
was a member of no church, but vvas inclined to the Presbyterian, and his
wife was a member of that church. He was an upright, straightforward
man of quiet habits, holding no office, and much respected by all. His wife
was noted for her thrift and good management. Politically, he was a Whig.
He inherited his father's musical talents. He died at about the age of sixty-
six years. Seymour A. Douglass, the father of the subject of this sketch, and the
youngest son of the family, was born July i, 181 5, in Warren county, while
his parents were on the way to Clinton, Ohio. He received a common edu
cation, became a farmer, and married, January 14, 1841, in Clinton county,
Ohio, Elizabeth Madden, who was born in Wayne county, Indiana. She
was the daughter of Solomon and Ruth (Robbins) Madden.
Solomon Madden was born September 24, 1793, in North Carolina, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, and died October 16, 1849. He was the son of
George and Elizabeth (Carter) Madden, and George was the son of Barna-
bus, who emigrated to America about 1740, a young man. He married a

666 BIOGR.IPHICAL A.YD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
German woman in Pennsylvania, and settled in North Carolina. He became
a member of the Society of Friends, and was a devout follower of that faith.
He served in the war of the Revolution, however, as a blacksmith, and
assisted in forging a big chain, which was used to obstruct the British ves
sels from ascending the James river. His children were EHzabeth R. ,
Cyrus, Alice, Solomon, Mary, Moses, William and Rachel. Solomon Mad
den, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this article, was likewise a
blacksmith, and lived on Deep river, in North Carolina. He was a member
of the Friends' church. In 1814 he moved to Clinton county, Ohio, with
his parents, when he was a young man, and married in that county. He
was a pioneer of Clinton county, Ohio, and cleared up a farm, but also
worked at his trade. He was a stanch abolitionist, and a conductor on the
" underground railroad." He partly reared a colored boy who was bound to
him and who assisted him in the care of the runaway slaves.
Seymour Douglass, father of Milton Douglass, after marriage lived on
his father's farm in Clinton county, and here passed his remaining days.
His children were: Milton, born March 12, 1842; Mary R. , born November
2,6, 1843; James, born August 19, 1847; Solomon, born February 26, 1851,
died August 19, 1871; Martha E., born July 6, 1853; Alice R. , born Xovem
ber 14, 1856; Rose, born 1859; and Seymour, born June 10. 1861, died
December 7. 1897. All were born on the Douglass homestead in Clinton
¦county. Mr. Douglass was not a member of any church. He was a Repub
lican and a stanch abolitionist, and took an active part in the cause. He
•was well known in the county, and served as justice of the peace, township
¦olerk, etc. He died at about the age of forty-six, a much respected citizen.
Milton Douglass, the subject of this sketch, received but a common edu
cation. He became a farmer, and married January i, 1868, Mary Ballard,
a native of Iowa, born December 2, 1845, daughter of David and Priscilla
•(Lewis) Ballard. David Ballard \\-as born in Greene county, Ohio, February
2, 1819, son of William and Phcebe (Faulkner) Ballard. The Ballards were
North Carolinians of Scotch-Irish ancestry. David Ballard was a farmer,
as was his father before him. David moved about a great deal, but finally
settled in Howard county, Indiana, on a farm. His children were: Asa,
who served four years and eight months in the Civil war, was promoted to
be sergeant, lieutenant and eaptain; Louisa, Mary, Aseneth and William.
He was a member of the Friends' church. In politics, he was a Republican

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and served as church trustee. He was a straightforward man of severe
moral character, and strongly in favor of temperance.
After marriage Mr. and Afrs. Douglass settled on their present farm,
which then consisted of sixty acres, of which but little was cleared. He
cleared the remainder by hard labor, and improved it with good buildings.
The fruits of this union are: Clinton S., Lizzie, Milo A., Elbert and Mary
E. Mrs. Douglass died in March, 1888. She was a member of the Friends'
¦church, and a woman of many virtues, a loving wife and an affectionate
mother to her children. Mr. Douglass married a second time, August 30,
1889, in Howard county, Indiana, Mary E. Symons, who was born July i,
1858, in Wabash county, Indiana. She was the daughter of Daniel and
Louisa (Macey) Symons. The Macey family was an old colonial family of
North Carolina, and, for generations, members of the Friends' church,
and Mrs. Douglass was by birthright a member of the same body. Mr.
Douglass has been a lifelong farmer. In politics, he is a Prohibitionist. He
is a member of the Friends' church, a prosperous and substantial farmer and
:a good citizen. He has always been industrious and is well known for his
-Sterling traits of character and his integrity. He owns a goodly farm of one
hundred and. sixty-five acres, and has an excellent family.

IT ENRY TUCKER. — Nearly one hundred years ago, in 1802, the pater-
*¦ ^ rial grandfather of this enterprising citizen of Logansport established a
harness and saddlery business in the old town of Norway, Maine, and after
carrying it on successfully many years was succeeded by his son, and now,
¦at the close of the century, the trade is still represented in the person of a
brother of the subject of this sketch. For these three generations there has
not been a break in the business succession, even for a short period, and
¦each one in turn has been a practical and thorough man of business.
On both sides of the famih" Henry Tucker is of English descent. His
parents, Benjamin and Sarah (Millett) Tucker, were both natives of Norway,
Maine, passed their entire lives there and were buried in the old cemetery
•of the town. The birth of our subject occurred March 27, 1843, in the
rsame little village, and when he had reached a suitable age he served an
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the public schools and academy and had but just completed his studies-
when the dark clouds of the Civil war gathered and threatened to plunge-
our nation into dreaded sectional strife.
The patriotic spirit of the youth brooked no refusal of his enlistment in
defense of the stars and stripes, and November 9, 1861, he was made a cor
poral of Company G, Fourteenth Maine Infantry. The following year he
was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and with his regiment accompanied
General B. F Butler on his expedition to Ship island, Mississippi, and thence
to New Orleans. He entered that city upon the day that General Butler
hung Mumford for pulling down the Union flag from the city hall. By reason
of disability Mr. Tucker was honorably discharged July 5, 1862, and returned
home. After recuperating for some time he once more determined to offer
his services to his country, and on May i, 1864, became first sergeant of
Company H, Maine State Guards, then stationed at Fort McClary, Ports
mouth harbor. When his company was relieved, upon the expiration of
their term of enlistment, by a Bangor company of Maine State Guards, they
saw, as they marched forth, Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United
States, walking his beat on detailed guard duty. Though next in office to
the chief executive of the United States, he was, nevertheless, but a private
in the military ranks and as a private had to perform whatever duty was
assigned him. Sergeant Tucker received his final honorable discharge from
the army July 9, 1864.
The succeeding winter our subject took a commercial course in Bryant
& Stratton's Business College, in Portland, Maine, and in the fall of 1865
started towards the setting sun. After spending one winter in Elgin, Illinois,
he came to Logansport, arriving here in April, and upon the i ith of the next
August he bought of J. W. Fuller a harness shop which be has since con
ducted. He carries a full line of carriages, harness and horse goods, and also
deals in farm implements. Though his success has not been phenomenal,
his sales have been steady and remunerative, and he has made an enviable
place among the solid business m n of this city. For a short lime he was
absent, and a resident of Minneapolis, and at another time was located for a
brief period in Orange, New Jersey, but during these vacations his business
was continued and his interests here were not abandoned.
Politically, Mr. Tucker has always been firm in his allegiance to the
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a Master Mason in 1864 in his native state, and is now connected with Orient
Lodge, No. 272, Free and Accepted Masons, of Logansport, of which he was
worshipful master one year; belongs to Logan Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch
Masons, of which he is the treasurer at present; and is a member of St. John's
Commandery, No. 24, Knights Templar. Of the last mentioned he was emi
nent commander in 1881-82. He is also a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, being a charter member of Logansport Post, No. 14.
In 1 87 1 Mr. Tucker married Miss Emma Stalnaker, who died about a
year afterward. He was married again in 1876, Miss Julia Merriam becoming
his wife. They are the parents of two children, namely, Minnie and
Florence.

¦p^EV. PHILIP ERBOUGH was born in Rockingham county, Virginia,
A*- October 23, 1825, son of Jacob and Sarah (Gibler) Erbough. The
founder of the Erbough family in America was a German, who came to this
country at an early period in its history and settled in Pennsylvania. He
was a Baptist and he and his family came to this country on account of
religious persecutions in their old home. Some of his descendants went to
Virginia, and in the Old Dominion Jacob Erbough, the grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was a well-to-do farmer, his landed estate being
in Rockingham county. He and his wife were the parents of five children:
Jacob, Abraham, Nancy, Esther, and Hettie. In his old age, the father of
this family came west to Montgomery county, Ohio, and made his home
with his sons near Dayton, they having settled there about the year 1834.
He was between seventy and eighty years of age at the time of his death.
Jacob Erbough, the father of our subject, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, and in that county was married to Sarah Gibler. The
fruits of their union were five children: Isaac, Jacob, Philip, Susannah and
Polly. As already stated, the younger Jacob Erbough emigrated to Ohio
and settled in Montgomery county in 1834. This westward journey was
made by wagon in the usual manner of the early pioneers, and upon his
arrival in Montgomery county he selected a location nine miles west of Day
ton, where he purchased a partially improved farm. On that farm he
passed the residue of his life and died, his age at death being forty-five years.
He was a man of great industry and frugality. About fifteen years before

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his death, he was stricken with blindness and never recovered his sight. He
was a Christian in every sense of the word.
Phihp Erbough, the immediate subject of this review, first attended
school in his native county and after coming west to Ohio continued attend
ance at the common schools until he was eighteen. He was twelve years
old when his father died. At eighteen, he began work at the carpenter s
trade. After his marriage he settled on the home farm, where he lived until
185 I, when he came over into Indiana and located in Cass county. He pur
chased land in Cass county and made his home there for five years, at
the end of that time selling out and removing to Miami county, where he
purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, the same being covered
with native forest. After clearing and improving this land he sold it and
with the proceeds bought one hundred ninety-six acres. This land he also
improved and sold, and then he bought, improved and sold eighty acres.
He now owns fifty-one acres in Pipe Creek township, Miami county, but has
for some time past been retired from the active duties of the farm and has
his home in the town of Bunker Hill.
Mr. Erbough vvas married in Montgomery county, Ohio, to Elizabeth
Marken, who was born in June, 1831, daughter of Jacob Marken. Their
union was blessed by the birth of four children: Xathaniel, Oliver P.,
Rebecca and Jennie. This wife and mother died in Miami county, Indiana,
February 22, 1871, at the age of forty v'ears. October 6, 1871, Mr.
Erbough wedded for his second wife, Mrs. Susannah E. Tucker, ncc Jukes.
She was born in London, England, March 8, 1834, daughter of Thomas and
Eliza (Cox) Jukes. Thomas Jukes vvas a merchant tailor, lived and died in
London and was buried in the oldest churchyard in old London, Bunnel Hill
Fields. Mrs. Erbough lived in London until her seventeenth }-ear, and the
scenes of her native city are vividly impressed on her memory. Her broth
ers and sisters are: Henry, Samson, Eliza and Jane. After the family
came to America, Eliza and Jane being settled here, having located in New
York in 185 1, Mrs. Erbough lived in Brooklyn for two years; she went to
Memphis, Tennessee, where she married, October 31, 1859, Benjamin
Tucker, a tinner. They resided in Memphis during the Civil war, or until
after the fall of Memphis. They then returned north but subsequently went
back to Memphis. Their children all died in infancy except one son, James
B. Mr. Tucker died in Memphis, and after his death Mrs. Tucker came

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north and located in Logansport, Indiana, where she married Mr. Erbough.
Mr. Erbough has assisted all his children to secure homes and has also
reared James B. Tucker, his wife's son by her former marriage, and given
him a start in hfe.
Mr. Erbough has preached in the German Baptist church for the past
thirty-five years. He vvas always a wide reader of valuable books and
always preached progression and enlightenment, and for a number of years
the more conservative members of his church objected to his views, as they
were opposed to Sunday-schools and modern dress. In 1884 this feeling
became so pronounced in the Pipe Creek church that a division occurred
and the older and more conservative members withdrew, calling themselves
the Old Order of German Baptists, and built a new church. A more lib
eral division called themselves the Conservative German Baptists, while the
branch to which Mr. Erbough's influence extended assumed the name of
Progressive German Baptist church. The schism was first established at
Arnold's Grove, at the general conference of the German Baptists. Mr.
Erbough has preached throughout Indiana and is well known in his church,
his strength and influence always being far-reaching and on the side of right
and truth.

GRAHAM NEWELL BERRY.— For many years the subject of this
sketch has been engaged in teaching in the public schools of Logans
port, and is well entitled to representation in the history of Cass county.
His ancestors were numbered among the earliest settlers of this county, and
bore an active part in the development of its resources. He comes from
good old Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather, Peter Berry, having
been a hero of the colonial struggle for independence. Enlisting at the
commencement of the war, as a second lieutenant, he was subsequently pro
moted to the rank of captain, and served with distinction in what was known
as " Greenawalt's battalion," until the surrender at Yorktown. Many of
his descendants reside in various parts of the Keystone state and in western
and southern states.
Originally the Berry family were from Germany. Peter Berry, the cap
tain referred to above, died in Heidelberg township, Lebanon county, Penn
sylvania, prior to 1796. He left a wife, Margaret, and the following named

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¦ children: Jacob, Peter, Jr., Nicholas, Henry, Conrad, John, Barbara, Mar
garet, Catherine and Christina. Peter Berry, Jr., the grandfather of our
subject, was born in Lebanon county, in 1787, and there married, about the
year 1806, Elizabeth Lutz, whose father, a native of Germany, was one of
the pioneers of Lebanon county. Some time between the years 1816 and
1 8 19 Peter and Elizabeth Berry went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and a few years
later removed to Butler county, in the same state. There they continued to
reside until 1829, when the family came to Cass county, Indiana. For
about a year thereafter the father carried on his trade of blacksmithing in
the town of Logansport, but in the following year, 1830, he located in what
is now Miami township, of which he was the first permanent settler. Upon
the farm which he improved he erected the first dwelling east of Logansport
in Cass county. His homestead, which was a short distance west of the
present village of New Waverly, was about half way between Logansport
and Peru, and in the early days was popularly termed the " half-way " house.
Some time in the '40s he disposed of his original purchase and bought another
tract of land two miles to the west. Here his death occurred October 8, 1855.
His wife, Elizabeth, whose birth had taken place in the borough of Annville,
Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, died in Cass county about 1872. Of
her children, Henry P. married Mary Schafer; Catherine became the wife of
David Miller; John H., the father of our subject; Peter C. married Christina
Thomas; Samuel married Isabelle Dale; and Elizabeth, who completed the
family, was the wife of Joseph C. Moore, and with her brother, Peter C,
now of Iowa, is the only survivor of the once large circle that gathered
around the pioneer hearthstone of the Berry homestead.
John H. Berry, born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1812,
accompanied his parents to Cass county. April 9, 1838, he married Harriet,
daughter of Abraham and Nancy (Cox) Reed, who, with the exception of
Peter Berry, were the oldest settlers of Miami township, they having located
near'the present site of Adamsboro, in 183 i. Thirteen children were born
to John Berry and wife, namely: Israel J., June 4, 1839, married Emeline
Spencer; Peter A., June 4, 1842, married Sarah Jane Crockett, and died
October 31, 1895; Edwin R. , born January 23, 1844, died January 3, 1865;
James P., born January 29, 1846, married Sarah Spencer and died April 2,
1882; Maria, born October 20, 1847, died when a few weeks old; Graham N.,
the subject of this article; Wilson R., born April 22, 1851, married Emma

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Conner; EHza, born October ii, 1853, died February 19, 1895; Elizabeth,
born June 6, 1856, is the wife of William Obenchain; John M. , born March
31, 1858, is still living; Harvey H., born March 18, 1861, died September
27, 1873; Harriet, born March 12, 1863, died March 21, 1880; and Martha,
wife of Joseph Stewart, was born December 16, 1868. The mother of these
children was born in Miami township, Cass county. May 27, 1823, and
departed this hfe January 23, 1872. Subsequently Mr. Berry married Mrs.
Ellen (Sackett) Conner. His death occurred April 17, 1879.
Graham Newell Berry, the sixth in order of birth in his parents' large
family, was reared upon the old homestead. He was born November 16,
1848, and as soon as he reached suitable years was sent to the district school
in the neighborhood of his early home. By earnest, studious habits he man
aged to acquire a liberal education, and for a period of about twenty-four
years he has been engaged in teaching. He has met with gratifying success
in his chosen vocation and has made his home in Logansport for a number
of years, being thoroughly interested in everything relating to the prosperity
of this locality.
June 20, 1876, Mr. Berry was united in marriage with Miss Ella Winters.
She is a daughter of Rev. John and Prudence (Harris) Winters, and was born
in Wabash, Indiana, January 7, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Berry have had four
children, namely: Edna May, born July 10, 1878, died July 8, 1979; Albert
Graham, born September 14, 1880, was drowned July 3, 1895; Nellie Ger
trude, born August 15, 1882, died January 22, 1888; and Owen Reed, whose
birth occurred September 14, 1885. Pohtically Mr. Berry is a Democrat,
and in religion a member of the Christian church.

OLIVER P. GOODWIN. — As long as history endures will the Americans
acknowledge their indebtedness to the heroes who, between 1861 and
1865, fought for the preservation of the Union and the honor of the starry
banner which has never been trailed in the dust of defeat in a single war in
which the country has been engaged. Among those who wore the blue was
the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, now a reliable business
man of Converse, then a soldier boy of sixteen years. His age, however,
was no bar to his loyalty and with unwavering patriotism and devotion he
followed the stars and stripes on many a hotly contested battle-field.
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Mr. Goodwin comes from an old Ohio family, formerly of Pennsylvania,
and of Welsh and Irish ancestry. His father, George Goodwin, was born in
the Buckeye state and was a plasterer by trade. He was married in Stark
county and located in Marlboro, where he spent several years. His death
occurred in 1855, at the age of forty-eight years, at which time he was living
in Van Wert county, Ohio, whither he had removed in 1852. He was an
industrious and highly respected man and his death was mourned by many
friends. His widow afterward removed with her children to Wabash county,
Indiana. She had four sons and one daughter, namely; William, Benja
min F. , Oliver P., Mary E. and Sydney A.
Oliver P. Goodwin, of this review, was born September 26, 1847, in
Stark county, Ohio, was educated in the common schools and at an early age
began to earn his own living, having been thrown upon his own resources
by the death of his father. Therefore, whatever success he has achieved and
whatever property he has acquired stands as the result of his own well
directed and earnest efforts. He put aside all the duties of business life,
however, in 1863, in order to enlist in his country's service, enrolling his
name, on the 2d of November, as a member of Company E, One Hundred
and Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Captain George Crowe being in
command of the company, and Charles Parish being colonel of the regiment.
He enlisted for three years, or. the remainder of the war, and was honorably
discharged in Charlotte, North Carolina, in December, 1865. He partici
pated in the Atlanta campaign, when the Union troops were under fire almost
continuously for four months, taking part in the engagements at Dalton,
Resaca, Peach Tree creek, Kenesaw mountain, Burnt Hickory, Alton, and
the battle on the 22d of July, 1864, when General McPherson was killed.
He was also in the battle of Jonesboro and the two-days battle of Nashville,
his regiment charging the rebel lines both days and losing heavily. He was
also in the Carolina campaign and after the battle of Kingston marched to
Goldsboro, and was stationed at Charlotte, North Carolina, in charge of the
government stores, until the close of the war. He was in all the battles,
skirmishes and engagements in which his regiment took part, received no fur
lough, and was ever at his post of duty, faithfully and cheerfully performing
the tasks assigned to him.
When the war was over and the country no longer needed his services
he returned to his home in Wabash county, Indiana, where he engaged in

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operating a sawmill and a stationary engine at North Manchester. He was
married October 29, 1873, to Mary G. West, who was born in Wabash
county, October 12, 1853, a daughter of De Witt and Sarah (Helvey) West.
Her father belonged to one of the old families of Kentucky and was a son of
Nathaniel West, who removed from Kentucky to Ohio, and later to Wabash
county, Indiana. In the midst of the forest he cleared a farm and became
one of the substantial agriculturists of the community. His children were
William, John, Amos, Josiah, De Witt C, Perry, Henry, Margaret, Nancy
and Harriet. De Witt C. West was reared in Wabash county and there
married Miss Sarah Helvey, a daughter of one of the first white settlers iri
that locality. Her father was an Indian trader, and his daughter, Mrs.
Nancy Abbott, was the first white child born in Chester township. After the
Indians left the state he carried on wagon-making in North Manchester for
many years. His death there occurred at the age of fifty-five. He was an
energetic and industrious man, upright and honorable, and a highly respected
citizen. The other members of his family were Clementine, Lydia, Serepta
and Mary. After his marriage Mr. Goodwin located in Xorth Manchester, where he
made his home for three years, and then removed to Chili, Miami county.
He afterward lived in Wabash, this state, for six years, and in 1884 came to
Converse, where he has since made his home. Here he is engaged in the
draying business and has a liberal patronage, for all know him to be thoroughly
reliable and honorable. He is also the owner of a good residence property.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin has been blessed with two children,
Albertis and Gertrude. The parents are faithful members of the Christian
church, and Mr. Goodwin is a member of the Odd Fellows society of Con
verse. He has filled all the chairs, including that of noble grand, has repre
sented the lodge in the grand lodge, and is a member of the encampment.
He also belongs to Somers Post, No. 59, G. A. R., in which he has held the
office of commander. In politics he is a stalwart Republican, never failing
to give his support to the men and measures of that party.

JEHU T. ELLIOTT. — Everywhere in our land are found men who have
worked their own way from humble beginnings to leadership in the com
merce, the great productive industries, the management of financial affairs,

676 BIOGR.iPHICAL .IXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and in the controlling of the veins and arteries of the traffic and exchanges
of the country. It is one of the glories of our nation that it is so. It should
be the strongest incentive and encouragement to the youth of the country that
it is so. Prominent among the self-made men of Indiana is the subject of this
sketch, — a man honored, respected and esteemed wherever known, and most of
all where he is best known. He is now one of the leading representatives of
the commercial interests of the state, and belongs to that class who while
promoting individual prosperity also advance the general welfare.
Jehu T. Elliott was born in Cambridge City, Indiana, on the 24th of
March, 1844, and is a son of William and Eliza (Branson) Elliott. In the
schools of his native city he acquired his education, but his privileges in that
direction were meager, owing to the fact that at the early age of twelve
years he started out to make his own way in the world. He has since been
dependent upon his own exertions and the success he has achieved has re
sulted from his enterprise, energy and ability in the affairs of trade. His
first experience was as salesman in the mercantile establishment of his
brother, Dewitt C. Elliott, in whose employ he remained until he had at
tained his majority, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business in every
detail. In 1865 he embarked in the dry-goods business on his own account,
in partnership vvith A. R. Shroyer, and later purchased the grocery store
owned by his brother in Newcastle, Indiana, at which place he continued in
the operation of that enterprise until 1870. He then went to Chicago and
accepted the position of a bookkeeper in a pork-packing house, where he
remained for a year, when he came to Logansport.
Mr. Elliott's first connection here was with the wholesale grocery house
of Elliott, Pogue & Shroyer, in which he subsequently became interested as a
partner. Changes in ownership which afterwards occurred led to the adoption
of the firm style of Elliott, Shroyer & Company. The brother of our sub
ject, who was a member of the firm, died in 1889, and the following year
Mr. Shroyer withdrew, the firm becoming Elliott & Company. In 1896 Mr.
Elliott sold his interest to William M. and S. J. Elliott, and soon thereafter
again engaged in the wholesale grocery business under the firm title of J. T.
Elliott & Son. In May, 1897, this firm consolidated with Elliott & Company
under the name of The J. T. Elliott Company, and the business was incor
porated. This house sustains an unassailable reputation in commercial cir
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They have a large and well arranged store and enjoy an extensive patronage,
which is constantly increasing. The relations between employers and
employes is most pleasant and the fair and just policy which is followed has
secured for the members of the firm the respect and confidence of all who
are connected with the establishment
J. T. Elliott has long been a member of the Wholesale Grocers' Associa
tion of Indiana and of the Traveling Men's Protective Association. A few
years ago the latter issued a publication entitled "Indiana of To-day," the
proceeds from which were intended for the building of a home for worn-out
and disabled traveling men. Mr. Elliott was made treasurer and handled all
the proceeds, aggregating some thirty-five thousand dollars. This instance
clearly indicates the confidence reposed in him by his business associates.
Socially, Mr. Elliott became a Master Mason, in Newcastle, Indiana, about
1866, and was chosen a member of the board of directors for the Masonic
Association for the construction of the Masonic Temple, of Logansport, a
magnificent building which is a credit to the city and an honor to the benevo
lent order which it represents. Upon the organization of that board Mr.
Elliott was chosen president and the splendid edifice largely stands as a
monument to his enterprise, philanthropic spirit and business ability. Pie is
also connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Afodern Woodmen of the
World. Deeply interested in the welfare and advancement of his adopted
city, he is a liberal contributor to all measures calculated for the public good,
and sine ¦ June, 1892, he has served as a member of the school board of
Logansport, being re-elected for the third term June i, 1898. He took a
very active and prominent part in the inception and erection of the splendid
new high-school building, which has no superior in the state.
On the i6th of May, 1865, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Elliott
and Miss Caroline Shroyer, of Newcastle, Indiana. They now have three
children, Harry S., Hattie and Thusie, and the son is associated with his
father in business. The character and position of Mr. Elliott illustrate most
happily for the purposes of this work the fact that if a young man be
possessed of the proper attributes of mind and heart he can unaided attain to
a position of unmistakable precedence and gain for himself a place among
those men who are the foremost factors in shaping the destinies of the nation.
His career proves that the only true success in life is that whic'n is accom
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to success is open to all young men who have the courage to tread its path
way, and the life record of such a man will serve as an inspiration to the
young of this and future generations, and teach by incontrovertible facts that
success is ambition's answer.

ERNEST B. THOMAS. — A representative of one of the old families of
Cass county which since pioneer days has been prominently connected
with the development and substantial progress of this section of the state,
Mr. Thomas of this review is now worthily sustaining the high reputation of
the family by his honorable connection with the banking interests of Royal
Center. He was born in Boone township, Cass county, on the 3d of April,
1869, and is a son of Dr. James and Elizabeth (Lytle) Thomas, the former
a native of Baltimore, Maryland, the latter of Royal Center. The paternal
grandparents of our subject were John and Mary E. (Burloutine) Thomas,
the former born in Maryland, the latter in France. The grandfather engaged
in the banking business in Baltimore and subsequently removed to Cass
county, Indiana. Thus it was that in early life Dr. Thomas became a resi
dent of this locality. He remained on the home farm until sixteen years of
age and attended the district schools of the neighborhood, after which he
continued his education in the high school of Connersville. In 1847 he
began reading medicine in Laurel, Franklin county, Indiana, under the
direction of Dr. William Kitchen, and for forty years was actively engaged
in the practice of medicine in Royal Center. He secured a very large pat
ronage, and being a good financier accumulated an extensive estate, which
left his family in very comfortable circumstances. He was the father of
seven children, of whom two died in infancy, and Mary is also deceased.
Those living are William C, cashier of the Logansport State Bank at
Logansport; Laura E., wife of W. G. Sweet, general merchant and stock
dealer at Royal Center; Ernest B.,-and James L., a druggist of Royal Center.
Ernest B. Thomas spent his childhood days in his parents' home, and
the pursuits and pleasures of boyhood occupied his time. He entered the
public schools of Royal Center on attaining a sufficient age, and in the
spring of 1889 was graduated in the high school. He entered upon his busi
ness career in the capacity of clerk, and for one year was employed in the

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general mercantile establishment of N. Tousley. He then traveled for the
Acme Copying Company of Chicago for six months, after which he accepted
a clerical position in the banking house of Baldwin & Thomas, of Royal
Center. He served in that capacity until 1891, and then in connection with
his brother, W C. Thomas, purchased the bank, reorganizing the same
under the name of the Royal Center Bank, with W. C. Thomas as presi
dent and E. B. Thomas as cashier. Both are young men of well known
business ability and integrity and the house sustains a most enviable reputa
tion. They do a general banking business and are enjoying a prosperity
which is well merited.
On the 15th of June, 1892, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Thomas
and Miss Emma Smith, a native of Denver, Miami county, Indiana, and one
child graces their union, Helen, now a little maiden of five summers. Mrs.
Thomas is a daughter of the Rev. John M. and Mary E. Smith, both natives
of Indiana. Socially Mr. Thomas is connected with Myrtle Lodge, No. 567,
I. O. O. F. , and with the Knights of Pythias. He has capably served as
town treasurer for four terms, and his interest in the welfare and progress of
Royal Center is sincere and commendable, and is manifest bythe hearty sup
port he gives to all measures for the public good.

ISAAC RUST. — Among the substantial farmers of Jackson township, Hbw-
^ ard county, none is more respected than Isaac Rust. The family is of
sturdy German ancestry, the founders settling as pioneers in Virginia.
Mathias Rust, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married in
Virginia and settled as a pioneer in Clark county, Ohio. He cleared up one
hundred and sixty acres from the woods and became a prosperous farmer.
His children were: Abraham, John, Mathias, Jacob, George, David, Bar
bara and Catharin . He died in Clark county, Ohio.
Jacob Rust, the father of Isaac Rust, was born February 28, 1804, in
Rockbridge county, Virginia. When he was six years old he moved with
his parents to Clark county, Ohio. He married in that county. Miss Eliza
beth Baker, born in August, 1803, in Rockbridge county, Virginia, of strong
German ancestry. After marriage, Mr. Rust cleared up eighty acres of land
in Clark county, Ohio, and by thrift and industry added to it until he owned

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two hundred and seventy acres. His children were: Henry, Simon, Mag-
dalena, David, Aaron, Isaac, Mary and William. Mr. Rust was a member
of the Reformed church. He took an active interest in church affairs and
was for thirty years an elder. In politics he was a Republican. He was a
strong Union man, and his sons Isaac and Aaron served in the Civil war.
Aaron was in the marine service on a gunboat in the Mississippi and served
one year. Jacob Rust reached the venerable age of nearly ninety-two years,
and died on his farm. He was a good citizen, an industrious and highly
respected man, benevolent and pious. He gave all his children a start in
hfe. Isaac Rust, the subject of this sketch, was born in Clark county, Ohio,
February 2, 1841. He received a common-school education, and enlisted
February 15, 1865, at Springfield, Ohio, as a private in Company K, Eighty-
first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year or during the war. He
served until the close of the war and was honorably discharged and mustered
out of the United States service, July 13, 1865. Mr. Rust was an active
soldier, and always did his full duty promptly and cheerfully, and was never
in a hospital. After the war he returned to Clark county, Ohio, and mar
ried, September 27, 1874, Mary F. Friermood, daughter of George and
Catharine (Michael) Friermood, who was born October 18, 1852, in Dela
ware county, Indiana.
George Friermood was born in Clark county, Ohio. His father, Reuben,
was a pioneer, and married Sallie Kizer. Their children were Jacob,
Reuben, William, George, Mary, Catharine, Elizabeth and Martha. Reuben
vvas an early settler in Clark county and died there. George Friermood
married Catharine Michael, daughter of Adam Michael. The Michaels were
of English descent. Mr. Friermood, after the birth of his first two children,
moved to Delaware county, Indiana, and settled in the woods. About 1853
he moved to Grant county, Indiana, and again cleared up a farm in the for
est. His children were: Adam, Mary F. , Simon and William. He enlisted
in the Civil war, as a private, for three years, in the Ninety-ninth Regiment,
Company I. He was killed in the first Atlanta campaign. Politically he
was a Republican. His first wife died in 1861, and he married a second
time, about 1862, just before enlisting, Christina Landis, and they had one
child, Lavina, born after Mr. Friermood went to war.
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years, and then moved to Howard county, Indiana, October 15, i!
making the journey with teams and being six days on the way.
Ten years before this he had bought an eighty-acre tract, and he cleared
up more land until he now owns one hundred and twenty acres. The chil
dren are Ida F., born November 15, 1875; Anna E., January 10, 1879;
Warren K , April 14, 1880; Lilian B., March 22, 1889; and Hobart, July
4, 1893. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rust are members of the Methodist Protestant
church. Mr. Rust is a Republican in politics. He has been justice of the
peace for twelve years. He is a highly respected citizen and well known for
his integrity. Aided by his faithful wife, he has reared an excellent family.
Ida F., Warren K. and Anna E. are graduates of the public schools of Jack
son township, and the two daughters are members of the church.

T~\ANIEL M. WATTS. — A representative of one of the oldest and most
•*— ^ favorably known families of Cass county, Daniel M. AA'atts is a grand
son of the honored pioneer, John Watts, Sr. , who in October, 1830, came to
the county and made a settlement in Noble township. He was born in Eng
land and on coming to America took up his residence in Virginia. He
served his adopted country in the war of 1812, and later resolved to cast his
lot with the pioneers, who were reclaiming the wild regions of the west and
transforming them into comfortable homes and farms. John Watts had
made no improvements on his land before moving to the same and a more
uninviting prospect than the future home could hardly be imagined, for on
the day ofthe arrival of the family they found a wild tract of land and near
by over five hundred Indians were encamped. As soon as the family had
constructed a rude hut many of the red men visited them; however, they
showed only a lively interest in the new-comers, and the spirit which they
manifested was simply one of friendly curiosity. The first home of the fam
ily was of very pirmitive character, being hastily built by the side of a large
black-walnut log; but the shelter thus improvised was used only until a more
substantial dwelling could be erected. John Watts died in Cass county,
October 4, 1844, at the age of sixty-nine years, seven months and
twenty-six days. He was twice married. His first wife, ncc Martha \\'atts.

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died in Cass county, July i8, 1836, at the age of forty-six years. Their chil
dren were John, Israel, Richard, Ailsie, William and Rhoda. By his second
marriage there were two sons, — Eli and James.
William Watts, the father of our subject, was born in Wayne county,
Indiana, May 4, 18 19, and died in Cass county, August 16, 1897. In 1830
he came with his parents to Cass county, where he continued to reside
for sixty-seven years, when he was called to the home beyond. He was a
loyal and representative citizen and a successful agriculturist, and his well
spent life commended him to the confidence and regard of all. He first mar
ried Elizabeth Daily, a native of Tennessee, and their children were as fol
lows: John, a farmer of Cass county; James D., deceased; Elizabeth, wife
of Samuel Ross; Harrison, who follows farming on the old Watts homestead;
Alice, deceased; Hannah, wife of P. K. Dill; Joseph, a farmer of Harrison
township; Daniel M., the subject of this sketch; and Mary F., deceased. After
the death of the mother of this family the father married Abigail Hilton, and
his third wife was Martha McKaig, who still survives him. They had one
child, that died at the age of about three months.
Daniel M. Watts was born in Noble township, Cass county, January 2,
1856, and on the home farm was trained to habits of industry and economy,
which well fitted him for the practical duties of life, and have been the means
of bringing to him a gratifying success. He acquired a fair English educa
tion in the country schools, and remained on the home farm until twenty-six
years of age, when he entered upon his business career independent of his
father's direction. Forming a partnership he engaged in the milling business
in Royal Center, Indiana, where he carried on operations for about three years,
when he disposed of his interest. For a short time thereafter he was engaged
in the grocery business in Lake Cicott, Indiana, but in that venture met with
only indifferent success and sold out. He then accepted a position as travel
ing salesman with the Springfield Engine & Thresher Company, of Spring
field, Ohio, with whom he remained for five years. Through the following
year he accepted a similar position in the employ of the M. Rumely Com
pany, of LaPorte, Indiana, and on leaving that firm he began business on his
ovvn account in Logansport, where he has resided since he first went upon
the road as a traveling salesman. Located at No. 126 Sixth street, he deals
in agricultural implements, engines, threshers, harness, wagons and all
grades of carriages, and has secured a very liberal patronage. His pleasaut,

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courteous manner makes him a favorite with his customers, and his honora
ble dealing and straightforward business methods have secured him their con
fidence and good will. He is very enterprising and energetic, and these qual
ities have brought him an excellent financial return for his labors and gained
him prestige among the leading business men ofthe city.
In 1874 Mr. Watts was united in marriage to Miss Emma C. Schrock,
of Cass county, and to them have been born four children — Alace, William,
Ernest, and Harry. They enjoy the hospitality of many of Logansport's
best homes, and their social qualities have gained them many friends. Mr.
Watts gives his political support to the Republican party, and is an esteemed
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the
World.

/^^ASSIUS C. HITE. — Among the representative farmers of Jackson
^^ township, Howard county, Indiana, none is more highly respected and
honored than the subject of this sketch, Cassius C. Hite. He descends from
an old American family of colonial Virginia stock. He is the son of Noah
and Elizabeth (Boice) Hite, and was born June 18, 1844, in Brown county,
Ohio. He received a good common-school education, and afterward
attended the National Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. He was a success
ful teacher in the Brown county schools for fourteen years. He was married
September 17, 1874, in Brown county, Ohio, to Miss Ida Flaugher, daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Daniels) Flaugher, who was born December 28, 1852,
in Brown county. Mr. and Mrs. Hite resided in that county until 1880,
when he bought the eighty acres of land in Jackson township, Howard
county, where he now lives. He cleared up this farm from the woods and
added to it by thrift and industry. He now has a fine farm of one hundred
and forty acres and has erected substantial farm buildings. The children are
Lizzie F and Edgar. Politically Mr. Hite is a stanch Republican. He was
trustee of his township from 1890 to 1895. He also served as trustee and
township clerk in his former home in Washington township. Brown county,
Ohio. In the latter place he was a member of the I. O. O. F. Mr. Hite is
an honored citizen of his county, standing high for his ab lity and integrity of
character. He is well read, and from his education and experience well

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qualified to hold any office in his section of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Hite
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Hite has been
superintendent of the Sunday-school for eleven years.
Joseph Hite, the grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, and set
tled in A'irginia. He died in W'ashington, District of Columbia, on his way
home from the war of 1812, in which he had served.
Noah Hite, the father of Cassius C. Hite, son of Joseph and 
(Rosenberger) Hite, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, Afay 4, 181 1.
Both parents were of sturdy German stock, the great-grandfather Hite having
come from Germany. Noah Hite was a farmer, and when a young man
settled in Brown county, Ohio, where he married, April 8, 1833, Elizabeth
Boice, daughter of George and Eleanor Boice, born April 7, 18 16. Mr. Hite
settled on the Boice farm, and there passed his remaining days. He died
January 18, 1882, at the age of seventy-one years. He was a member of
the Methodist church, and politically he was a Republican. By his thrift and
industry he added to his property until he owned a fine farm of over three
hundred and fifty acres. He served as township trustee eight years, and was
honored as a man of sterling worth. His children were: William H., Mary
J., Arminda A., John L., Cassius C, Ada E. , Minerva, Lewis K. , Ida A.,
Samuel B., Julius and Rebecca.
Jacob Flaugher, the father of Mrs. Hite, was born in Brown county,
Ohio. He was the son of Adan-i and Allie (Riggs) Flaugher. Adam Flaugher
vvas of Pennsylvania German stock, born in Pennsylvania, and came to
Brown county as a pioneer. Here he cleared up a farm from the forest. In
politics he was a Democrat. His children were, Zechariah, Martin, Henry,
William, Catherine, Maria, Jacob, Susan. Mr. Flaugher lived to be an old
man. and died on his farm in Brown county.
Jacob Flaugher married Elizabeth Daniels, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Rusk) Daniels, of Brown county. They settled on land in that county,
and partly cleared a fine farm from the woods. Politically, Mr. Flaugher
was a Democrat. He died April 10, 1895, in Brown county, at the age of
eighty- one years, four months and twenty-seven days. His children were:
James K. P., Thomas H. B., \A'illiam J. W., Franklin P. and Ida. Mrs.
Flaugher was a member of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Flaugher of
the Christian church. He was a highly respected citizen, and among the
pioneers was well known for his sterling worth.

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A DAM RAMER. — One of the substantial citizens of Amboy, and a pioneer
-'^ of Butler township, Miami county, Adam Ramer was born on the ist of
April, 1829, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. His parents werejames and Cath
erine (Moore) Ramer, and he springs from sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch stock
on the paternal side, while on the maternal .side he is of Irish lineage. His
grandfather, Adam Ramer, Sr. , was probably a native of the Keystone state
and wedded Mary Lenhart, a representative of one of the old Pennsylvania-
Dutch families. He became one of the pioneer settlers of Coshocton county,
Ohio, where in the midst of the forest he cleared and developed a farm. He
served his country in the war of 18 12, as did his son John, and participated
in a number of important engagements in that struggle. Both he and his
wife were members of the United Brethren church. The former died on the
old homestead in Coshocton county, Ohio, at the age of seventy years, and
one of his sons, Henry Ramer, reached the advanced age of ninety-six years.
The members of the family were John, Christopher, Henry, James, Mrs.
Mary Nelson and Polly.
James Ramer, father of our subject, was born April 8, 1805 or 1806,
and throughout his entire life carried on agricultural pursuits. He was mar
ried in Tuscarawas couuty, Ohio, to Miss Catherine Moore, a daughter of
Patrick Moore, a native of Ireland, probably of the northern part. In his
religious associations he was a Protestant. Mr. and Mrs. James Ramer began
their domestic life in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where they resided until
1833, when they removed to Coshocton county, locating on the farm which
belonged to the grandfather of our subject. In October, 1845, they took up
their residence in Williams county, Ohio, but in the spring of the following
year came to Miami county, Indiana, making the journey by team. Mr.
Ramer secured eighty acres of timber land in Butler township, which he
entered from the government. He erected thereon a good home, cleared
away the trees, planted his crops and developed a good farm. In the early
days when he came to the county the majority of the people of the vicinity
were ill with fever and ague, and it was very difficult for him to obtain help
to raise his log cabin, several days being consumed in the accomplishment of
this work, which under ordinary circumstances would have been completed
in a few hours; but at length the family were installed in their pioneer home,
and Mr. Ramer untiringly devoted his time to the cultivation of his land,
which was ultimately transformed into rich fields. In politics he was a

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Democrat, and in religious belief his wife was a Methodist. All knew him
as an indastrious, energetic man, upright and honorable, and he is now num
bered among the -worthy pioneers who opened up the county to civilization.
Adam Ramer, whose name introduces this review, was reared on the
homestead farm, and largely assisted in its development. He attended the
district schools of the neighborhood, but his educational privileges were
limited, and experience, reading and observation in later years have brought
him the knowledge that makes him a well informed man. When about nine
teen years of age he came with his father to Miami county, and was here
married to Mrs. Hannah Shortridge, widow of John Shortridge, and daughter
of Nathaniel and Betsy (Bishop) York. By her first marriage she had a
daughter, Laura, who was reared by Mr. Ramer and married David Lemons,
of Amboy, but she is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ramer began their
domestic life in Butler township, Miami county, upon a farm of eighty-eight
acres. This was wild and unimproved, but with characteristic energy he
began its development, and bounteous harvests at length rewarded his labors.
In his farming operations he has been very successful, and all that he has is
the outcome of his own labors. He was at one time interested in the milling
business in Amboy, becoming a member of a firm which erected a mill in 1 888,
but in that enterprise Mr. Ramer lost five thousand dollars. His capable
management of his other business interests, however, have brought to him a
a comfortable competence which supplies him with all the necessities and
many of the luxuries of life.
On the 22d of March, 1895, Mr. Ramer was called upon to mourn the
loss of his wife. He afterward married Mrs. Sadie Miller, widow of Isaac
Miller, who was a carpenter and lived in Henry county, Indiana, whence he
afterward removed to Wells county. He was a member of the Christian
church, and a man ot sterling worth. Mrs. Ramer was born in Wells county,
January 8, 1843, and is a daughter of Leven and Phoebe (Hanna) Hender
son. Her father was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, January 13, 1805,
his parents being Henry and Sarah (Trusler) Henderson. The former
removed to Kentucky from Maryland and was a representative of an old
colonial family of English descent. He died in Kentucky, and his children
were Jesse, Sarah, Nellie, Leven, Martha and William. The Hendersons
were farming people and slave-holders in Kentucky, and were a prosperous
family. The grandmother of Mrs. Ramer removed to Henderson county,

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Kentucky, vvith her son Leven and on leaving that state she freed a slave
woman whom she had reared from childhood.
When a young man Leven Henderson removed to Franklin county,
Indiana, becoming one of the pioneers of that locality. He purchased land
and was married in that county to Phoebe Hanna, who vvas born in Chemung
county. New York, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Bennett) Hanna. Prior
to the war of 1812 her father, sailing down the Ohio river, took up his resi
dence in Franklin county, Indiana, where he spent his remaining days. He
was a minister of the Baptist church. After his marriage Leven Henderson
located in Wells county, Indiana, on a farm of one hundred and sixty-nine
acres, which he cleared, developing one of the pioneer farms of that locality.
His children were Leven, Elijah, Mary, William, John, Sarah, Ezra and
Melissa. The first four were born in Franklin county, after which he removed
with his family to Wells county, where he spent his remaining days upon a
farm, passing away at the age of sixty-six years. He was a substantial
agriculturist, and straightforward man, respected by all who knew him. His
wife was a member of the Baptist church.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramer now reside in a pleasant home in Amboy, and he
still retains the ownership of eighty acres of his old homestead farm. They
are prominent and faithful members of the Christian church, in which Mr.
Ramer held the office of elder for a number of years. In politics he is a
Prohibitionist, and he is a strong advocate of temperance principles and of
all movements and measures that are calculated to advance morality. His
life has always been a busy and useful one, characterized by generosity and
kindness, by honor and integrity.

JOHN W. WATTS. — The gentleman to a review of whose life we now turn
is one of the representative farmers and well known citizens of Har
rison township, Cass county, Indiana, whose postoffice address is Lucerne.
Mr. Watts is a native of the Hoosier state and of the county in which he
lives. He was born in Jefferson township, September 29, 1837, his parents
being William P. and Elizabeth (Daily) Watts, the former a native of Wayne
county, Indiana, and the latter of North Carolinia. In their family were nine
children, three of whom are deceased, the surviving members being as fol
lows: John W. , William H. , Libbie, Joseph A., Hannah C. and Daniel M.

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Born and reared on his father's farm and early inured to all kinds of
work connected with agricultural pursuits, John W. Watts on reaching adult
years engaged in farming on his own account, and has followed this occupa
tion through life, meeting with a fair degree of success in his operations.
He settled on his present farm, eighty acres, near Lucerne, in 1865.
December 20, i860, he vvas united in marriage to Miss Ruth J. Corbet,
a native of Jasper county, Indiana, and a daughter of James N. and Ellen
(Mahaffey) Corbet, she being one of a family of nine children, five of whom
are still living, her brothers and sisters being as follows: Andrew, Joseph,
Jane J. and Annetta.
Mr. Watts has always given his support politically to the Repubhcan
party and has taken a commendable interest in public affairs. From 1888 to
1890 he was trustee of his township. Both he and his wife are members of
the Baptist church. They have no children.

TOSEPH MARSH DARBY, one of the venerable pioneers of Jackson
'-' township, Miami county, was born in the neighboring state of Ohio, in
Butler county, eight miles north of Hamilton, February 27, 1819, son of
Owen and Margaret (Fritts) Darby, and traces his ancestr}' back to England.
The Darby family, however, have been residents of America since the colo
nial days and their first settlement here was in New Jersey.
Samuel Darby, the grandfather of Joseph M., was a New Jersey farmer.
He married in that state Miss Hannah Owen and their children were Polly,
Jedediah, Joel, Owen, Sarah and Samuel. At an early day the senior
Samuel Darby moved from New Jersey to what is now West Virginia and
settled in Monongalia county, on the frontier, and there spent the rest of
his life, living to be over one hundred years old, to which age proximately
his wife also lived. They were Presbyterians in religion, were well-to-do in
this world's goods, and left a good property to their children.
Owen Darby, the father of our subject, was born in New Jersey, July
13, 1782, and was almost grown when he accompanied his parents to Vir
ginia. He married in Monongalia county, in 1799, Miss Margaret Fritts,
who was born in Virginia March 3, 1783, daughter of John Michael and
Nancy Fritts, who were of German parentage, Mr. Fritts being a native of

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Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Fritts were married in America and their children
were Michael, Nancy and Margaret. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Darby settled on a portion of his father's farm, where they lived until 1805,
when they moved to Butler county, Ohio. After the death of his first wife,
about 1824, Mr. Darby came over into Indiana and settled in Fayette county,
about eleven miles south of Connersville, and subsequently lived six miles
southwest of that place. In 1831 he moved to Tippecanoe county, two
years later went to Johnson county and in 1839 located in Marion county.
Hedied near Indianapolis March 26, 1844, an honorable and upright man
with a character above reproach. He was the father of a large number of
children, who grew up highly respected. The record of his children by his
first wife is as follows: Sarah, born in Monongalia county, Virginia, March
10, 1801, died in Ohio July 13, 1876; Hannah, born in Virginia February
15, 1803, died in Indiana April 12, 1877; John, born in Virginia December
2, 1804, died in Indiana January 11, i860; Daniel, born in Ohio June 10,
1806, died in Indiana September 26, 1875; Samuel, born in Indiana July 25,
1808, died in Indiana September 8, 1870; Ezra, born in Ohio June 10, 1810,
died in Kansas March 11, 1871; Squire, born in Ohio December i, 181 1,
died in Indiana in 1854; Rowlen, born October 5, 1813, died in infancy;
Thomas, born in Ohio July 30, 18 14, died in Converse, Indiana, January 14,
1888; Hester A., born in Ohio, May 4, 18 17, died in Brazil, Indiana, June
3, 1892; and Joseph Marsh, born in Ohio, in Butler county, February 27,
1819. The mother of these children died January 2, 1822, and Mr. Darby
wedded for his second wife, in Butler county, Ohio, in 1823, Miss Hannah
Bills, who bore him six children: Margaret, Jane, Owen, Perry, Jedediah
and Charlotte. Jedediah died in infancy.
Joseph Marsh Darby, as above recorded, was born in Butler county,
Ohio. He first saw the light of day in a frontier log cabin and he was cradled
in a sugar-trough. At the time his father moved to Indiana and located in
Tippecanoe county Joseph was about twelve years old. His boyhood days
being spent in pioneer localities, his early advantages for an education were
meager. The subscription schools held in typical log school-houses were
the only ones his boyhood knew. When he was sixteen years old his father
gave him his " time;" they were then living in Johnson county, Indiana.
His first work after starting out on his own account was in the clearing on a
neighbor's farm. Later he was employed on the Central canal, south of
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690 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Indianapolis. Whatever he undertook he did with his might, always putting
forth his best efforts, and not long after securing this position on the canal
he was appointed superintendent of the wood-work of the locks and dams,
and had under his supervision about a hundred "wild Irishmen." In the
fall of 1838 he had a siege of malarial fever and after recovering and resum
ing work he met with an accident which partially disabled him for the rest
of his life. A horse he was riding in the woods ran away and threw him
against a tree and broke his left arm.
About this time he began to feel the need of a better education. In the
spring of 1839 he attended school, and so diligently did he apply himself to
his studies that in the fall of that year, after an examination by Judge Ste
vens, of Indianapolis, he received a certificate to teach in the public schools.
The next nine months he spent as a school-teacher at a point west of Indian
apolis, and in 1840 he went to Ohio and in Butler county engaged in the
same occupation, teaching three terms of school there. In 1842 we find
him a student in Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio. In 1843 he attended
a German school at Hickory Flat, Butler county, Ohio, for three months,
learning to read and write the German language. At the Miami University
one of his professors was the famous Dr. Scott, the father of Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, who was an eminent educator and continued to be the friend of Mr.
Darby and corresponding with him as long as he lived, dying at the vener
able age of ninety-three years. Mr. Darby continued teaching country
school in Butler county until 1848. He was married in 1847. In the win
ter of 1847-8 he was engaged as teacher at Jacksonboro, that county, and
in the spring of 1848 returned to Indiana and settled on a farm in Johnson
county. This farm, comprising eighty acres, he had bought before his mar
riage, at seven dollars and fifty cents per acre, it being then in its primitive
state, except sixteen acres partially cleared. On this farm he lived and lab
ored for twelve years, after which he sold out for four thousand dollars.
March i, i860, he moved to his present farm, which he purchased, consist
ing of eighty acres, and he bought one hundred acres two miles southeast of
his home place, which he sold fifteen years later, at a profit of two thousand
six hundred dollars. To his home farm he has added until now it comprises
one hundred and twenty-six acres, and as the result of his well-directed
efforts It presents the appearance of a first-class farm, with modern improve
ments, and is under a high state of cultivation.

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Mr. Darby was married July 22, 1847, in Ohio county, Indiana, near
Rising Sun, to Miss Catherine S. Little, who was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 22, 1827, daughter of David and Mary (Mor
gan) Little. To them were born seven children, namely: Virginia F. , born
in Indiana, June 25, 1848; Chalmers Irving, born February 16, 1851, and
died in infancy; Alice C, born February 13, 1852; Frances L., January 30,
1855; Harriet A., January 29, 1858; Clara B., June 20, 1865; and Estella
M., born October 22, 1868, and died September 5, 1885.
Mr. Darby is broad and liberal in his views on religion, all his life has
been a reader of historical and religious works, and has collected one of the
largest and most valuable libraries in Miami county, including the standard
scientific works. Also he has long maintained a deep interest in geology and
takes a just pride in his cabinet of rare specimens.
Public-spirited and well posted, Mr. Darby believes that "new times
demand new duties," and accordingly he has always cast his vote where he
believed duty called. His first presidential vote was given to Martin Van
Buren. When the Republican party was organized he gave it his support and
helped to elect Abraham Lincoln. He remained loyal to the Republican
party until recently, when he identified himself with the bimetalists, and in
the last campaign voted for William J. Bryan. He has never sought or
filled public office.
In concluding this sketch, we refer briefly to Mrs. Darby's father, David
Little. He was born in Georgia, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his father having
come to this country from Ireland. David Little was married in New Jersey
to Mary Morgan, and they lived first in Philadelphia and later in Cincinnati
and Xenia, Ohio, where he was engaged in teaching school. He died in
Xenia in middle life, and his widow survived him a number of years and died
at the age of seventy, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Little. They were
Scotch Presbyterians. Their children were Ebenezer, David, Ann, Cather
ine and Mary.

WE. LYBROOK, M. D.— For almost twenty years Dr. Lybrook has
practiced medicine in Young America, and by his devotion to duty, his
close study and his pronounced skill has won a liberal and lucrative practice.
His high standing as a citizen also entitles him to distinctive recognition in

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this volume, and with pleasure we present the record of his life to our
readers. The Doctor was born in Union county, Indiana, on the i6th of Febru
ary, 1850, his parents being Daniel and Magdalene Lybrook, who were
natives of Ohio and were of German lineage. In 1854 they removed to
Cass county, locating on a farm, where Dr. Lybrook spent his boyhood days,
frequently assisting in the cultivation of the fields and in other labor con
nected with the planting and harvesting of crops. His early education,
acquired in the common schools, was supplemented by a course in the
National Xormal School, of Lebanon, Ohio, which he attended two years.
He then began teaching in the schools of Cass and adjoining counties and
followed that profession with good success for some time; but, determining
to devote his life to the practice of the healing art, he took up the study of
medicine in 1874, in the office and under the direction of Dr. J. W Powell,
of Rockfield, who directed his reading for two years. On the expiration of
that period he matriculated in the Kentucky School of Medicine, in Louis
ville, in which institution he was graduated in 1879, vvith the salutatory hon
ors of the class, and his oration vvas such a masterly effort that the class ren
dered him a vote of thanks therefor.
Returning to Young America, Dr. Lybrook began the practice of his
profession in the vicinity of his old home, and in course of time succeeded in
Working up a good business, as he demonstrated his ability by the successful
results that followed his efforts. His knowledge of the science of medicine
is comprehensive and accurate, and by the constant perusal of medical liter
ature he keeps thoroughly abreast vvith the times.
On the 19th of March, 1878, was celebrated the marriage of Dr.
Lybrook and Miss Addie F. Hewitt, who was born in Carroll county, Indiana,
September 15, 1861, a daughter of Elias and Elizabeth A. Hewitt, old and
respected residents of Carroll county. Their children are Ross E., Mary E.,
Bessie M., Rolland V., Daniel E., Bird and John C.
Dr. Lybrook has been an important factor in public affairs in his town
ship. In August, 1883, he was appointed township trustee by the county
commissioners to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Henry,
and at the close of that term was elected to the office, the duties of which
he discharged with signal ability and promptness. He took particular inter
est m the improvement of the public highways in his township, and was

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instrumental in extending the length of the school term from four and a half
to eight months. He was elected to the trustee's office again in 1886, serv
ing a four years term. He has always been a Democrat in his political asso
ciations. He belongs to the Masonic blue lodge of Young America, No. 534,
and the chapter of Logansport, and is an exemplary representative of this
ancient and benevolent fraternity. His fidelity to every duty of public and
private life has gained him high esteem, and his ability in the line of his pro
fession has won him a gratifying financial success.

N TOAH FLORA, who resides on section 27, Jefferson township, Miami
'^ ^ county, is one of the well-known pioneers of this township, he having
come here with his father, Jacob Flora, and settled in Jefferson township
in 1839. Jacob Flora, the father of our subject, was born in Maryland and whpn
a child removed with his father, also named Jacob, to Virginia. Later the
family home was changed to Ohio. There, about 1840, Grandfather Flora
died. In his family were five children, all of whom have passed away. The
second Jacob Flora was married in Virginia, before his removal to Ohio, to
Miss Elizabeth Peters. In 1834 he and his wife and children left Ohio and
came over into Indiana, settling first in Cass county and in 1839 removing to
a farm on section 27, Jefferson township, Miami county, adjoining on the
east the land now owned and occupied by his son Noah. Here, with the
assistance of his two sons, Eli and Noah, he cleared the land which he had
secured from the government, and at this place he passed the rest of his life,
his death occurring in 1864, when he was sixty-nine years of age. He was
an industrious, honorable man, and a worthy member of the German Bap
tist church, to which also his good wife belonged. She died in i860. They
were the parents of four children who reached mature years. Eli, the eldest
of the family, died in 1864, leaving a widow and son, who reside on the
homestead in Richland township.
Noah Flora was born in Virginia, February 13, 18 19, and was about
twenty years of age when he came with his parents to Miami county, — just
the age to appreciate the novelty of pioneer life. He helped build the log
cabin, into which the family moved before the floor was put down, and the

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floor was afterward laid, being made of puncheons or split logs. He did his
part in helping to clear off the heavy timber and bring the land under culti
vation. He has lived on his present farm since 1850.
Mr. Flora was married February 27, 1842, to Miss Anna Fonts, daugh
ter of Michael Fonts, an early settler of this' county. She died January 5,
1873, leaving her husband and nine children, all of whom are still living,
except one, the eldest son, Joel, who died several years ago. The eight sur
viving children are as follows : Rosanna, Levi, David, Elizabeth, Merrit,
Ares, Jacob and Sarah E. January 11, 1874, Mr. Flora wedded Mrs. Eliza
beth Flora, widow of Daniel Flora, a cousin of our subject. Her maiden
name was Swisher and she is a native of Preble county, Ohio. She came
to Miami county, Indiana, with her first husband. By him she had seven
children, five of whom are living, — Amos, Isabelle, Cindarella, John W. and
Howard. The deceased were Cordelia A. and Alice E.
Like his parents, Mr. Flora and his wife are members of the German
Baptist church.

T~\ ANIEL J. REMLEY — Among the prosperous and up-to-date farmers of
^-^ Harrison township, Cass county, Indiana, none, perhaps, are more
deserving of personal mention in this series of biographical sketches than
Daniel J. Remley, who was born and reared here and is thoroughly identified
with the interests of this locality, his postoffice address being Lucerne.
Mr. Remley dates his birth June 18, 1852. He is a son of Jacob H.
and Malinda (Dickson) Remley, the former a native of Warren county,
Ohio, and the latter of Cass county, Indiana. He is the eldest of their five
children, the others, in order of birth, being as follows: Sarah J., Ella,
John L. and William O. Both the daughters are deceased.
The Remleys are of German origin, the great-grandfather of our sub
ject having been born in Germany. Early in life he made the voyage to
America and settled in Pennsylvania, where his son, Daniel Remley, the
grandfather of our subject, was born and where for many years he was
engaged in farming operations. Jacob H. Remley came from Ohio to Indi
ana about the year 1835 and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty
acres in Harrison township, Cass county, where he passed the rest of his life.

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dying here in 1883, at the age of fifty-six years. Itwas on this farm that
Daniel J., the immediate subject of this review, was born and reared.
Mr. Remley received his education in the district schools near his home,
and on reaching manhood continued in the same occupation to which he was
brought up. He is now comfortably situated, being the owner of one hun
dred acres of fine land, well improved.
November 19, 1877, Mr. Remley married Miss Alice Backus, a native
of Jersey City, New Jersey, and a daughter of Richard Backus. Their union
has been blessed in the birth of five children, namely: RoseE. , Pearle,
William T. , John and Edgar. Mrs. Remley is a member of the Roman
Catholic church.
Mr. Remley affiliates with the Democratic party, of which he has been a
warm supporter ever since he became a voter, and while he has never been
an office-seeker he has filled the office of justice of the peace, having
received the same by appointment.

A 7'IRGIL H. PINKERTON, of Lucerne, Indiana, is a man well known in
" Cass county, where he has spent the most of his life, and whence he
went out a soldier in the Union ranks in the Civil war, coming back with an
irreparable loss — that of eyesight. All honor to the brave soldiers who
risked their lives in defense of country and for freedom's sake!
Virgil H. Pinkerton was ushered into life in Fayette county, Ohio, Jan
uary 7, 1836, and is a son of David and Maria (Morrison) Pinkerton, both
natives of the Buckeye state. Of their family of seven children, Virgil H, is
the only one now living. He was only nine months old at the time he was
brought by his parents to Indiana, their emigration to this state being in the
latter part of 1836, when they settled in Cass county, on one hundred and
sixty acres of government land. On this land the father of our subject was
engaged in farming the rest of his life. He ranked as one of the leading
men of the locality, serving ten years as a justice of the peace, and here he
died in 1850, at the age of fifty years.
On the farm just referred to Virgil H. Pinkerton passed his boyhood
days and grew to manhood, receiving his education in one of the primitive
log school-houses of the county. When Civil war was inaugurated he was

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among the first to offer his service to his country. He enlisted in Company
D, Fortieth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, for three years or during the
war. It was in 1861, at LaFayette, Indiana, that he enlisted, and he was
honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, in 1865. At the battle of Kene
saw Mountain he was wounded in the right arm. He is the recipient of a
pension of seventy-two dollars per month.
At the close of the war Mr. Pinkerton returned to his old home in Har
rison township, Cass county, Indiana, and again engaged in farming, remain
ing here until 1871, when he went to Livingston county, Illinois, where he
followed farming two years. At the end of that time he came back to Indi
ana. In 1 88 1 he removed to Kentucky, but after a residence of three years
in that state we again find him returning to Indiana, fully appreciating that
" there's no place like home," and he has since continued to reside in Cass
county. He owns five acres of land in- Harrison township, this county,
and eighty acres of well improved land in Wayne township, Fulton county,
Indiana. Mr. Pinkerton was married October 4, 1866, to Miss Anna Eliza Horn,
a native of Fulton county, Indiana, and a daughter of Joseph J. Horn, a
farmer of this county. They have had four children, namely: Nancy L.,
deceased; Martha M.; William N., deceased; and John E.
Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton are devoted Christians and members of the
Presbyterian church. Politically he is an ardent supporter of the Repub
lican party.

A A/'ILSON S. WOODMANSEE.— Located not far distant from the town
" '' of Sycamore, Howard county, Indiana, is found the fine farm and
pleasant home of the subject of this sketch, Wilson S. Woodmansee, who is
one of the representative farmers of his locality and who belongs to that class
of men whose ranks each year are being thinned — the "boys who wore the
blue " in the '60s.
Wilson S. Woodmansee was born in Clinton county, Ohio, October 26,
1839, son of Reuben and Melissa (Noble) Woodmansee. Reuben Wood
mansee was a native of New Jersey, born January 5, 1816, son of Isaac and
Abigail (Woodmansee) Woodmansee. The Woodmansees trace their origin

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to Scotland. Several generations of the family, however, have lived
in this country, the date of their arrival here being prior to the Revolution
ary period. Isaac Woodmansee emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio as early
as 1816 and settled in Highland county, where he improved a farm and took
rank with the leading agriculturists of that day and place. He lived to the
venerable age of eighty-six years, and died at his home in Highland county.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His children vvere
Daniel, Mary, Melissa, Reuben, James, Amos and Sallie. Amos was a sol
dier in the Civil war and died in January, 1865, while confined in Libby
Prison. Reuben Woodmansee was an infant when he was taken by his par
ents to Ohio, and on their frontier farm in that state he was reared. He was
first married, in Clinton county, Ohio, to Melissa Noble, daughter of Joshua
and Susan Noble, Joshua Noble being of English origin and one of the sub
stantial farmers of that county. Reuben Woodmansee was a successful
farmer of Clinton county. By his energy and good management he made a
nice farm, two hundred acres in extent, with excellent improvements thereon,
including brick residence, and on this farm he died, while in the prime of
life, his age at death, July 25, 1864, being forty^eight years. The children
by his first wife were John M., Wilson S., Susannah and Joseph. For his
second wife Mr. Woodmansee wedded, in Clinton county, Mrs. Mary Mason,
ne'e Noble, who bore him the following named children: Charles, Mary M.,
Alicfe, Frank, Caroline and Clark.
Wilson S. Woodmansee passed his boyhood days in his native place,
working on the farm and attending the district school, and on reaching matu
rity he engaged in farming on his own account, and has since devoted his
energies to this occupation. May 2, 1864, at the age of twenty-five years, he
enlisted as a private in Company B, One Hundred Forty-ninth Ohio Volun
teer Infantry, under Captain John Talbot, for the one hundred days' service,
and atthe end of that time, September 2, 1864, was honorably discharged at
Camp Dennison. Previous to this he was for one year a member of the Ohio
National Guards, and was called out by Governor Brough and mustered into
the United States service. He was in the battle of Monocacy Junction,
Maryland, July 9, 1864, and in a skirmish at Berryville, West Virginia. At
the latter place he and all his company, except four, were taken prisoners.
He and three of his comrades immediately succeeded in making their escape,
notwithstanding they were pursued by the enemy for about a quarter of a

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mile, and were under fire all the time. The other members of the company
were shortly afterward exchanged.
The war over Mr. Woodmansee resumed farming in Clinton county,
Ohio, and remained there until the spring of 1882. March ist' of that year
he settled at his present location in Jackson township, Howard county, his
first purchase of land here being one hundred and sixty acres, to which he
subsequently added a forty-acre tract, now having a farm of two hundred
acres. As the result of his well directed efforts this farm has been brought
under a high state of cultivation and its buildings and other improvements are
first-class. Mr. Woodmansee was married at the age of twenty-two years, in Clin
ton county, Ohio, October 31, 1861, to Miss Annie Noble, a native of Ohio,
and a daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth M. (Carnes) Noble. Mr. and
Mrs. Woodmansee's children are Grant, Melissa, Eli M., Ida, Maggie,
Robert, John, Marvin, Alice, Rose and Sylvia, the last two born in Indiana,
the others in Ohio. Mrs. Woodmansee was formerly a Methodist, but is
now identified with the United Brethren church. Fraternally Mr. Wood
mansee is connected with the Ohio Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association,
being one of the charter members of the lodge to which he belongs. Politic
ally he is a Democrat.
In conclusion we make reference to Mrs. Woodmansee's family. Her
father, Leonard Noble, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, near Cincin
nati, July IS, 1 8 16, son of John and Hulda (Morris) Noble. John Noble
was a son of Jonathan Noble, who was a native of Snow Hill, Maryland.
Jonathan Noble came west to Cincinnati, Ohio, as early as 1808. His chil
dren were: Henry, James, Elijah, Josiah, John and Henry, some of whom
became prominent citizens of Cincinnati, Henry holding the office of coroner
and mayor of that city. Jonathan Noble subsequently came over into Indi
ana and settled in Rush county, where he opened up a farm and spent the
rest of his life and here died. His sons Elijah and James also became resi
dents of Rush county. At the time of death Jonathan Noble was one hun
dred and one years old. He was a Methodist, a man of deep piety, and was
held in high esteem by the community in which he lived. John Noble,
the grandfather of Mrs. Woodmansee, was born on the eastern shore of
Maryland and accompanied his parents on their removal to Ohio. He
lived to be over eighty years old and died on his farm in Highland county,

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Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He and his wife were the
parents of the following named children: Charles, Nancy, John, Leonard,
William, Mary A., Henry, Susan and Jemima. Leonard Noble married
Miss Elizabeth M. Carnes, a native of Clermont county, Ohio, and a daugh
ter of William Carnes. She died about four years after their marriage, leav
ing twins, Annie N. and William L. By a second marriage, to Lucinda
Armitage, Mr. Noble had five children: Caroline, Elias, Emeline, Saman
tha and Cary. He is still living, now eighty-two years of age, and is a resi
dent of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

A 11 SALTER McCREA. — A man's reputation is the property of the world.
' ' The laws of nature have forbidden isolation. Every human being
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 busi
ness 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
ma}' follow. We are led to this line of reasoning in considering the life
record of Walter McCrea, one of Cass county's native sons, and a man whose
fidelity to duty, adherence to principle, honor in business and industry in the
active affairs of life have made his example one worthy of emulation.
Mr. McCrea was born in Miami township, Cass county, October 11,
1849, and is of Scotch descent. His grandfather, John McCrea, was a native
of the land of hills and heather, and emigrating to America at an early day
took up his residence in Philadelphia. He was extensively interested in
marine ventures, and at one time had the misfortune to lose twenty-two out
of twenty-four ships in a cyclone off the coast of China. He was engaged in
the importation of tea, and notwithstanding this disaster mentioned, he
was very successful in his business career. He also had large real-estate
interests in Philadelphia, and his judicious investments therein added materi
ally to his income.
The father of our subject. Dr. Thomas P. McCrea, was born and reared
in Philadelphia, and having acquired his literary education in the public
schools, entered the Jefferson Medical College of that city, where he was

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graduated about 1835. He then entered the United States naval service as
a surgeon, and after his retirement therefrom came to Logansport, where
through the remainder of his life he successfully engaged in the practice of
medicine. He became known as one of the most capable and eminent physi
cians of northern Indiana and enjoyed a very extensive patronage. He was
also the owner of six hundred and forty acres of land, which he inherited
from his father. Of Orient Lodge, A. F. & A. M. , he was a charter mem
ber, and his political support was given the Republican party. A man of
strong mentality, of firm purpose, invincible courage and force of character,
he became a leader of thought and action in his western home, and his
influence did much to mould public opinion and shape the destiny of his com
munity. He was married in early manhood to Miss Adaline Berry, a native
of Albany, New York, and they became the parents of nine children: Han
nah, John, Walter, Henry, Caroline, Adaline, William, Edward and Charley.
Of these only John, Walter, Henry and Caroline are now living. Dr. McCrea
departed this life April 13, 1883, at the age of sixty- five years, and all who
knew him mourned his loss. He left the impress of his individuality upon
the city in which he made his home, and the influence of his well spent life
is acknowledged by his extensive circle of friends.
Born on his father's farm in Cass county, Walter McCrea spent his
childhood in Logansport and completed his literary education in the high
school of that city. He was afterward graduated from Hall's Business Col
lege, in 1 86 1, and thus well fitted by mental discipline for the responsible
duties of life he entered upon his business career as a civil engineer. He has
since followed that vocation and has attained distinction by his ability in
that direction. For several years he was employed in the county surveyor's
office, and was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as civil
engineer until 1875, when he went to California, and was with the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company in Texas until 1877, when he returned to Logans
port. In 1880 he purchased his present farm, comprising one hundred and
twenty acres of arable land, which he has placed under a high state of culti
vation, making it one of the valuable properties of the community.
It was on the 28th of January of that year that Mr. McCrea was mar
ried, the lady of his choice being Miss Mary Yeider, a native of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Emanuel Yeider. Four children grace this
union, namely: Edward F. , Adaline B. , Walter P. and Charles H. Mr.

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McCrea and his family occupy a very pleasant home, which is noted for its
hospitality, and the members of the household occupy high rank in social cir
cles. The parents hold membership in the Presbyterian church, and Mr.
McCrea is a Republican in his political faith, but the honors and emoluments
of public office have no attraction for him, as he prefers to devote his time
and energies to his business interests, in which he is meeting with gratifying
success.

¦p^ICHARD WINN, of Lucerne, Indiana, figures as one of the prominent and
•*^ *¦ influential farmers of Cass county. He is an Englishman by birth, but
has been a resident of this county since his early childhood and is thoroughly
an American at heart. Of his life we take pleasure in making record as
follows: Richard Winn was born in Yorkshire, England, August 3, 1836, his
parents being Richard and Alice (Batty) Winn, both natives of that place.
Their family was composed of eight children, their names in order of birth
being as follows: William, Richard, Edmund, Thomas, Agnes, Isabella M.,
Thomas B. and Leonard W. The grandfather of Richard Winn, our subject
was named William Winn. He was a native of England and by occupation
a farmer. In 1847 the parents of our subject emigrated with their family to
America, coming directly west to Indiana and settling in Harrison township,
Cass county, on a farm which they purchased from Noah Castle. Here the
father settled down to farming and stock-raising and carried on extensive
operations, devoting the whole of his time and attention to his own affairs
and never seeking or filling public offices. He died in August, 1875, at the
age of sixty-nine years, honored and esteemed by all who knew him.
At the age of twenty-four years Richard Winn married and settled down
on the home farm, and here he has since lived and prospered. His fine,
large farm, comprising five hundred acres, is well improved, having good
buildings, fences, etc., and is under a high state of cultivation. In con
nection with farming he is interested in the grain business, being half owner
of the grain elevator at Lucerne.
August 23, i860, Mr. Winn married Miss Isabelle Herd, daughter of
John and Agnes (Stainton) Herd, the Herds, like the Winns, being natives, of
Yorkshire, England. Their union has been blessed in the birth of ten chil-

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dren, two of whom are deceased, those living being Agnes, John W. , Mary
E., Charles E., Henry C, James M., Florence E. and Edna M.
Mr. Winn is Democratic in his political views and is an active worker for
the interests of his party in this locahty. He has frequently been called upon
to fill public office, in which he has rendered valued service. In 1884 he
was elected township trustee of Harrison township, for a term of two years;
at the expiration of that time was re-elected, and filled the office four years.
He has also served two terms in the office of county commissioner of Cass
county, being first elected in 1890, and again in 1892.
Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Winn are Methodists, and are members of Zion
Methodist Episcopal church.

JOHN SIESS, deceased, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, May 7,
1843, and emigrated to America in i860. He resided in Decatur county,
Indiana, until 1872, when he removed to Tipton county; and here, December
26, 1873, he was united in marriage with Emma C. Stewart. In this county,
he first located on rented land and occupied it two years, that is, until some
time in the year 1876, and then removed to the farm on section 33, Cicero
township, where he resided until his death, which occurred October i, 1894.
He was a sincere member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Republican,
and was well and favorably known in the community as an upright citizen.
Mrs. Siess was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, June 6, 1853.
Her father, Stephen Stewart, was a native of Kentucky who emigrated to
this state in an early day and came to Tipton in 1855, settling in Cicero
township, on a farm. He was of Irish descent, and died in his sixty-seventh
year. Mrs. Siess's mother, whose name before marriage was Amy Ruddick,
was also a native of Bartholomew county, and died at the age of seventy-
two years. Of the ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart eight are living.
Mrs. Siess, the third born of these, was in her second year when the family
moved here. She was educated at the schools, and she taught one summer
school. She became the mother of four sons, — Oscar S. and Lewis S., at
home; and Walter C. and Charles E., who died when young.
She has a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where she lives, and
forty acres a mile south, both of which farms she herself manages, with

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success, and she also has property in the city of Tipton. In religion she is
a member of the Christian church. She is an exemplary and highly respected
lady.

'T^HOMAS BLACK, of Richland township, Miami county, Indiana, was
-^ born in Preble county, Ohio, November 21, 181 2. His father was Daniel
Black and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Deem. The former
was a native of Pennsylvania, born September 2, 1776; the latter was born
November 6, 1783. They were married in Kentucky April 25, 1802, and
subsequently moved to Butler county, Ohio, and thence to Preble county,
where they died, his death occurring March 16, 1863, and hers June 4, 1867.
The Black family comes of German ancestry, and for many years were
identified vvith Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of the subject of this
sketch was born on the ocean while the family was en route to America.
Daniel Black served as a soldier at the time of the Whisky rebellion, and
later was a participant in the war of 18 12. Having lost his mother in his
native state, he left the homestead and drifted into Kentucky, where, as
stated, he married, and whence he removed to Ohio. The Deems also are
of German origin. -Daniel Black and wife became the parents of four sons.
The oldest, John Black, died in infancy. David, the second, was born in
1804. He made settlement near Crawfordsville, Indiana, at an early day,
spent the rest of his life there, and died at that place in 1863. Uriah settled
in Clinton county, Indiana, where he died a number of years ago. Thomas
is the youngest of the family.
The elder brothers were bound out, as was the custom, to learn trades,
while Thomas, being the youngest, remained at home to assist in the farm
work. As soon as he was old enough he took charge of the farm and culti
vated the same for one-fourth the proceeds. In 1834, at the age of twenty-
two, with two hundred dollars in money and a horse and equipments, — ac
cumulated by his own toil, — he started out to look for land where he might
locate and establish a home for himself. On this trip he was accompanied
by his brother Uriah. The latter's money consisted of United States paper,
while the money of our subject was silver. Uriah entered land in Mont
gomery county, and in the land-office at Crawfordsville where Uriah entered
his land Thomas exchanged his silver for the paper money of his brother.

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which was more easily carried. Thomas came around by LaFayette, Delphi
and Logansport, and thence here, and here he entered two hundred and
forty acres of land. The quarter section west of where he lives he entered
with the money he had, and, selling his horse, he took the price of the same
and entered his home eighty. He continued, however, to reside in Ohio
until 1843, meantime coming each year to his newly acquired possessions in
Indiana. In 1843 he settled here with his family and here he has since
lived. Mr. Black was married in Preble county, Ohio, August 31, 1838, to
Miss Barbara Craft, daughter of John and Catherine (Silver) Craft. Eight
children were born to them and of this number only three are now living,
viz.: Wilham H., born November 14, 1841; John, March 10, 1844, and
Thomas F., March 22, 1855. After a long and happy married life, Mrs.
Black, the devoted wife and loving mother, was called to her last home
April 17, 1892.
Mr. Black is the oldest citizen in the township. In his early life he was
a Whig. He voted for General William H. Harrison in 1836 and 1840.
Since the Republican party was formed he has been identified with it.
Throughout his long and useful life he has been guided by principles of right
and justice, and he has ever had the respect and esteem of all who know
him.

WILLIAM H. BERKSHIRE.— There may be found in almost all Amer
ican communities quiet, retiring men, who never ask public office
or appear prominent in public affairs, yet nevertheless exert a widely felt
influence in the community in which they live, helping to construct the
proper foundation upon which the social and political world is built. Such
a man is Mr. Berkshire, whose life history contains no startling chapters,
yet is not without the interest that attaches to every man who faithfully per
forms his duty to his neighbor, his country and himself. He has spent his
entire life in Boone township, Cass county, where he was born on the 19th
of February, 1842, a son of Solomon and Sarah (McCombs) Berkshire.
The father was born in North Carolina, and the mother in Ohio. The
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his country in the war of 1812. Solomon Berkshire gave his attention to
the dual occupation of farming and blacksmithing, and in pioneer days
became identified with the development of Cass county, where for many
long years he was known as a reliable and useful citizen. His family num
bered nine children, of whom John, the second, is now deceased. The
others are: Charles, Martin V. , William, Alice, Jane, Rebecca, Lucinda
and Sarah.
The youngest son of the family, William Berkshire, was reared on the
old homestead, his boyhood days being quietly passed in pursuance of the
duties of the farm and school-room. When he had arrived at years of
maturity he was married, the lady of his choice being Miss Sarah E. Steele,
a native of White county, Indiana, and a daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Holycross) Steele, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Fairfield county,
Ohio. Her parents had seven children: Ann M., Margaret I., Sarah E.
and Mary M. , twins, William M., Joseph and Thomas, — all now married
with the exception of the youngest. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Berkshire
numbered eleven children, of whom four died in infancy. Those still living
are Alice J., John M., Charles B., Willard M., Oscar, Effie M. and Robert C.
In 1865 Mr. Berkshire took up his residence upon his present farm, which
is situated on section 28, Boone township, Cass county, and comprises two
hundred and forty acres of good and arable land, the greater part of which
is under a high state of cultivation. His time has been largely devoted to
his business cares, and his successful management of his property has
brought to him a comfortable competence. He has, however, found oppor
tunity to respond to the call of his fellow townsmen to serve them in public
office. In 1 891 he was elected assessor of Boone township for a four-years
term, but filled the office for five years under the new law of the state regu
lating such service. He is a Prohibitionist in his political faith, and his wife
belongs to the Church of God, a branch of the Dunkard church. They are
people of the highest respectability. In his character there is something he
obtained in the primitive schools where he was educated and in his early
farming experiences, — something which might be termed solidity of purpose,
and which is a characteristic worthy of emulation. His school privileges
were meager, yet in the school of experience he has learned lessons that
have made him a well-informed man, broad-minded and liberal in his views,
and with a charity that reaches out to all humanity.
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706 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
THOMAS BECKLEY is a representative of two of the first three families
who located in Boone township, Cass county. He traces his ancestry
back to Germany, where his great-grandfather, Uriah Beckley, was born.
Coming to America at an early day, he located in Pennsylvania, where he
followed his trade of blacksmithing. When the country entered upon a
struggle for liberty he joined the colonial army and valiantly aided in the
cause of independence. The grandfather of our subject, John Beckley, was
born in Pennsylvania, and came to Boone township, Cass county, Indiana,
in 1834, locating on a farm. As before intimated, there were only two other
families in the township at that time.
Our subject was born on a farm in this township, January 16, 1840, the
family home being situated about one mile from Royal Center. Through the
summer months he assisted in the plowing, planting and harvesting, and in
the winter, when the farm work was practically ended for the year, he
attended the district schools of the neighborhood, acquiring there a good English
education. On starting out in life for himself he chose as his vocation the
pursuit to which he had been reared, and has since been known as a practi
cal and industrious farmer of Boone township. As a companion and help
meet on life's journey he chose Miss Rachel J. Bernethy, their wedding being
celebrated on the 15th of February, 1861. The lady is a daughter of Robert
and Phebe (Washburn) Bernethy, the former a native of Ireland and the lat
ter of Kentucky. They came from Ohio to this county in 1835 and made the
first settlement in Boone township, their farm being the one upon which our
subject now resides. Mrs. Beckley was born here April 19, 1840, and by
her marriage she became the mother of four children, but two died in infancy.
Those still living are Charles E. , and Mattie G., wife of Charles W. Bess.
Mrs. Beckley's grandmother, Rachael Calvin, was the first white woman in
Logansport. She lived to the venerable age of ninety -seven years.
On the ioth of March, 1865, Mr. Beckley bade adieu to his little fam
ily, and enlisted in the service of his country, as a member of Company C,
One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana Infantry, for one year, or during the
war. He continued at the front until the ioth of August, 1865, and was
then honorably discharged at Dover, Delaware. Since his return to the
north he has been continuously engaged in agricultural pursuits, and his well
cultivated farm indicates his careful supervision.
Mr. Beckley is an esteemed comrade of Royal Center Post, No. 501,

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G. A. R. , and also belongs to the Baptist church of Royal Center. His
political support is given the Democracy, but, aside from giving an intelligent
support to the party of his choice at the polls, he takes no part in political
affairs, preferring to devote his energies to his business interests, in connec
tion with which he is meeting with excellent success. Industry is the key
note of his prosperity. Success comes not to the man who idly waits, but
to the faithful toiler whose work is characterized by sleepless vigilance and
cheerful alacrity, and it is through such means that Mr. Beckley has won his
position among the substantial citizens of the community.

TOSEPH MARSH LOOP. — No record of the representative men and early
^ settlers of Howard county, Indiana, would be complete without more
than a passing mention of the gentleman whose name we are pleased to
place at the head of this sketch, — Joseph Marsh Loop.
Mr. Loop was born October 26, 18 18, near Batavia, Clermont county,
Ohio, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Marsh) Loop. The Loops are of English
origin and tradition says that the progenitor of the American branch of the
family came over to this country in the Mayflower. Peter Loop, the grand
father of our subject, was a New Yorker by birth. He was a soldier in the
war of 1 81 2, and his remains are buried at Fort Meigs; his age at death
was eighty-two years. His children were William, Jacob, Henry, Peter and
Rebecca. Henry Loop, the father of Joseph M., was born in New York state and
when a young man came west to Ohio. At Cincinnati he married Miss Eliz
abeth Marsh. He settled first in Clermont county, Ohio, and afterward in
Darke county, where he cleared and improved a farm of eighty acres and
made a comfortable home, and there he lived for many years. About 1853
he moved to Indiana and settled three miles east of Kokomo, where again
he performed the task of clearing and building incident to frontier life. The
farm he improved here comprised one hundred and sixty acres. In the
meantime he was a victim of the California gold fever, and made the trip to
the Pacific coast. He, however, remained in the far west only one year.
He was a mere boy when his father, as already stated, was in the war of
1812, and, young as he was, he, too, enlisted, but owing to his youth he saw

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but little service. He witnessed the burning of Buffalo by the British.
His children were James, Michael, Mahala, Stephen, Joseph M. and Carrie
Maria. Joseph Marsh Loop in his boyhood days received a limited education in
the subscription schools of the frontier district in which he lived, and his
earliest recollections are of working in the clearing and helping to cultivate
the crops. As he grew older he became expert in the use of the ax. There
was no one in the whole settlement who could split more rails in a day than
he could. He also learned to make half-bushel measures of wood, and at
this he worked more or less for forty years.
He was married at the age of twenty-two years, in Preble county, Ohio,
March 3, 1840, to Miss Margaret Link, who was born March 19, 1819, daugh
ter of John N. and Barbara (Winters) Link. John N. Link vvas a Virginian
by birth, descended from sturdy Dutch forefathers, and he was a pioneer of
Preble county, Ohio, settling on one hundred and sixty acres of land near
Eaton. Two years after his settlement there he died, leaving his widow
with seven small children, all daughters, namely: Betsy, Mary, Kate, Mar
garet, Eva, Barbara and Anna. Mrs. Link remained on the farm and had it
cleared, she and her daughters assisting in the work of both clearing and culti
vating, even putting their hands to the plow. Subsequently she married a •
Mr. Pease, and by him had two children, — Elizabeth and Lydia. She lived
to the advanced age of eighty-four years, and died on her farm. She was a
member of the Presbyterian church and her virtues and her friends were
many. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Loop settled on a tract of seventeen acres
of land in Preble county, purchased with money she received as her portion
of her father's estate, and there they lived for thirteen years. Their next
move was to Howard county, Indiana, when this county was for the most
part covered with primitive forest. Selecting a location a mile and a half
north of Greentown, INfr. Loop entered eighty acres of government land, from
which he cleared the timber and to which he has from time to time added
until he now has a fine farm of four hundred acres, under a high state of cul
tivation and with first-class buildings and other improvements thereon.
To Mr. and Mrs. Loop were born the following named children: Henry,
James, Nicholas, Margaret, Elijah, Noah, Anna, Frank (died at the age of
twenty-five years) and Mahala. They also had one child who died in infancy.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 709
For more than half a century this worthy couple have been identified with
the United Brethren church. Mr. Loop assisted largely in building the United
Brethren house of worship at Greentown and is liberal in his support of the
organization. Politically he is a Republican.
Mr. Loop has many pleasant reminiscences of his pioneer life, and has
both an instructive and entertaining way of relating them.

T~\AVID G. JACOBS. — For nearly half a century the Jacobs family have
-*— ^ been identified with Miami county, Indiana. They come from Scotch-
Irish stock that was transplanted in Pennsylvania many years ago, several
generations of the family having been born in the Keystone state.
Thomas Jacobs, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and was there married to Sarah Armstrong,
a Scotch-Irish woman, born in county Londonderry, Ireland, in 1764.
When twelve years old she came to this country, unaccompanied by any of
her family, being sent here to some relatives. Her parents never left the old
country. Thomas Jacobs and wife settled on a farm in Mifflin county after
their marriage, and there they reared their family and passed their lives and
died. Their children in order of birth were William, Alexander, Elizabeth,
Thomas, John, James, Mary, Armstrong, William (2d), Sarah and David.
David Jacobs, youngest son and child in the above named family and
father of David G., was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, November 28,
181 1, and was there married, February 21, 1837, to Jane R. McKinstry, who
was born September 26, 1817, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Bratton)
McKinstry. Mrs. McKinistry was the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier.
Thomas McKinstry, like the Jacobses, traced his origin to the Scotch-Irish.
He left Mifflin county some years ago and came to Indiana, settling as a
pioneer in Miami county, his location being in Butler township, five miles
south of Peru, where he cleared up a good farm. Here he died at about the
age of sixty-five years. In his religious faith he was a Presbyterian and his
whole life was in accord with the religion he professed. David Jacobs and
wife lived in Mifflin county until 1849, when they came west to Indiana,
making a part of the journey by canal, Miami county being their objective
point. They lived in Peru until October, 185 1, when they settled on the

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farm on which he still lives, the same then comprising one hundred and six
acres. One acre had been cleared and there was a log cabin on the place.
By persistent industry he cleared his land and in time erected in place ofthe
cabin a comfortable home, and bought other land, increasing his holdings to
one hundred and eighty-four acres. Mr. Jacobs is now nearing his eighty-
seventh milestone, and is believed to be the oldest man living in Pipe Creek
township at this writing. During his earlier life he was in many ways prom
inently identified with the interests of the township. For eight consecutive
years he served as township trustee. He has been a life-long Democrat and
Presbyterian, his parents before him being deeply pious and of Presbyterian
faith. The children born to him and his wife were three in number, one of
whom, Sarah E., is deceased, the others being Martha J. and David G.
David G. Jacobs, the direct subject of this review, dates his birth, in
Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1846, and was three years old
when he came with his parents to Indiana. The education he received in
the common schools near his home was supplemented by a course in the
Commercial College of Fort Wayne. He has been engaged in farming all his
life at the homestead, and is what may be termed a practical and successful
farmer. He is now serving his ninth term as township assessor. His polit
ical views, like those of his father, are Democratic.
Mr. Jacobs was married November 12, 1868, in Pipe Creek township,
Miami county, to Elizabeth E. Garber, a native of Montgomery county, this
state, born October 5, 1848, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Beghley)
Garber. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have five children, namely: Sarah E., Carrie
B., Maggie M., William J. and Edna A.

A MOS KISTLER. — Through almost half a century Amos Kistler has been
'^ numbered among the citizens of Cass county and for many years has
been accounted one of her leading, influential and progressive business men.
One of the great forces that bring Success in life is unyielding tenacity of pur
pose. Dash and audacity and superficial cleverness may create a stir for a
time, but they achieve no lasting success. The prosperous men are they who
have gained their position by diligence and thoroughness, and of this class
our subject is an illustrious example.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD .-LN'D TIPTOX COUXTIES. 711
Born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on the 4th of October, 1835, he is a son
of George and Lydia (Fultz) Kistler, both natives of Lancaster county, Penn
sylvania. They had a family of eight children, as follows: Elizabeth;
Lydia, deceased; Amos; Mary J., who has also departed this life; Elias;
David M., deceased; Eva; and Margaret. The grandfather, Henry Kistler,
was likewise born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and removing west
ward located in Fairfield county, Ohio, where he passed the residue of his
days. The great-grandfather was a native of Germany and crossed the
Atlantic to the New World at the time of the war of the Revolution.
In the county of his nativity Amos Kistler spent the first thirteen years
of his life and then accompanied his parents to Cass county, Indiana, where
he has since made his home. His identification with its agricultural interests
continued for a number of years, and now he is a prominent representative of
the mercantile interests of Royal Center. On the arrival of the family in
Indiana, in 1849, his father entered land from the government, extensively
engaged in farming and at one time was the owner of six hundred and forty
acres. He held m.embership in the Lutheran church, and in his political
faith was a Republican. Success crowned his well directed efforts, and at
the age of sixty-seven years he died, leaving to his family a comfortable
property. Under his father's direction Amos Kistler learned how to plow, plant
and harvest, and when he had arrived at years of maturity he began farming
on his own account, continuing that pursuit until 1892, when, on the 3d of
December, he removed to Royal Center and turned his attention to com
mercial interests. He has since conducted a hardware, farm-implement and
harness business, and has a well appointed establishment. His carefully
selected line of goods, his courteous treatment of his customers and his
honorable dealing have secured to him a very liberal patronage and he is
now enjoying a prosperous business.
On the 5th of November, 1857, Mr. Kistler was united in marriage to
Miss Ann E. Schlegelmilch, a native of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Penn
sylvania, and a daughter of George L. and Catharine J. (Mark) Schlegel
milch, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Cumberland county,
Pennsylvania. Crossing the Atlantic Mr. Schlegelmilch located in Cumber
land county, where he engaged in the cultivation of grapes and the manufact
ure of wine. At length he brought his family to the west, locating on a farm

712 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
in Jefferson township, Cass county, at which time Mrs. Kistler was only two
years of age. She was reared on that farm until nine years old; then the
family moved to Boone township, where she has since hved. She was trained
in all the ways of the household that have rendered her such an able help
mate to her husband. Ten children were born to our subject and his
estimable wife, of whom Jennie E. and Effie M. died in infancy. Those
still living are Martha A., George L., John W., Lena C. , Carrie D., Laura
L. , Augusta C. and Mable B. Mr. and Mrs. Kistler hold membership in the
Baptist church, and in his political views he is a Republican, but has little
time for political work, his attention being fully taken up with his business
interests, in which he has met with excellent success. In addition to his
commercial interests, he was at one time the owner of three hundred and
sixty acres of land, and now has a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres,
all under a high state of cultivation. It is pleasantly located a mile and a
half west of Royal Center, and adds materially to his income. In business
affairs Mr. Kistler is a man of keen discrimination and sound judgment, of
energy and perseverance, and the prosperity which has attended his efforts is
the merited reward of his own labor.

JAMES H. McMILLEN. — The task of writing the biographies of the liv
ing representative men of any community is an exceedingly difficult one,
because of the prevailing modesty of the successful business man, who
almost invariably manifests a certain repugnance to anything that seems to
partake of the nature of personal notoriety or prominence, and thus discour
ages even friendly attempts to uncover the secret of his success. Genuine
success is not likely to be the result of mere chance or fortune, but is some
thing to be labored for and sought out with consecutive effort. Ours is a
utilitarian age, and the life of every successful man bears a lesson which, as
told in contemporary narration, perhaps is productive of the greatest good.
Thus there is a due measure of satisfaction in presenting even the briefest
resume of the life and accomplishments of such a man, and in preparing the
history of James H. McMillen we know that it cannot fail to prove of inter
est to many of our readers, not alone on account of the success he has
achieved, but also because he is a native son of Cass county, and is very
widely and favorably known.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 713
Mr. McMillen was born in Noble township, June i6, 1835, and is a son
of Robert and Rosanna (Harper) MclNfillen, both natives of Ross county,
Ohio. The grandfather, Thomas McMillen, was a native of Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, and married Jane Irwin, also born in that county. In
1807 he removed to Highland county, Ohio, where he died in October, 18 19.
The father of our subject was a millwright by trade, and followed that pur
suit in Cass county, where he took up his residence in 1830, among its first
settlers. His family numbered eleven children, as follows: James H.,
Thomas J., Quincy A., Franklin, Wilham H., Robert M., George, Margaret
J., Angeline, Cornelia and Emily. Seven of the number are yet living.
Amid the wild scenes of frontier life James H. McMillen was reared to
manhood, and experienced many of the hardships and trials which come to
those who in pioneer regions seek to establish homes. He assisted in the
labors of developing his father's farm in Noble township, Cass county, and
also attended the district school of the neighborhood, where he acquired his
preliminary education. Later he vvas a student in Hanover College for two
years, after which he successfully engaged in teaching in the country schools
for a period of seven years. Since that time he has devoted his energies to
agricultural pursuits and is now the owner of a fine farm of sixty-seven acres,
adjoining the city limits of Logansport. There he is extensively engaged in
the cultivation of vegetables for the city market, and the excellent products
of the pla.ce insure him a liberal patronage.
On the 8th of August, 1862, Mr. McMillen, prompted by a spirit of
patriotism, offered his service to the government and was assigned to duty
with the boys in blue of Company K, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, at Logansport.
He was made second lieutenant of his company, with which he served until
June, 1863, when he was honorably discharged at Glasgow, Kentucky. In
the meantime, on the 27th of November, 1862, he was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth McMillen, a daughter of John McMillen, whose sketch will be
found in this work; and when his military service was ended he returned to
his bride and to the duties of civil life. The home of this worthy couple was
blessed with four children; but the third son, Franklin, is now deceased.
The others are Professor John E. , Charles S. and Bessie M.
Mr. McMillen continues the pleasant associations of war times through
his connection with John A. Logan Post, No. 14, G. A. R. , of Logansport,
of which he is chaplain, and was formerly affiliated with the Independent

714 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGLCAL HLSTORY OF
Order o! Odd Fellows. In his political faith he is a Republican, believing
most firmly in the principles embodied in the platform of that party. He
has served as road supervisor, but otherwise has held no political office. He
is present treasurer and secretary of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry Association.
He and his wife are prominent members and active workers in the Presby
terian church, and for thirty years he has served as deacon of the Logans
port church. His life has been spent in unswerving devotion to duty, in
the conduct of an honorable business, in fidelity to family and friends, and
no one is more deserving and more enjoys the confidence and esteem of those
with whom he has been brought in contact than James H. McMillen.

OSCAR WILSON, now a farmer of Tipton township, Cass county, has
spent his entire life in this section of the state, his birth having occurred
near Peru, Miami county, on the 7th of April, 1856. Upon a farm in the
Richardville reserve he spent his youth, working in the fields and meadows
through the summer months, and when the snow fell entered the district
schools of the neighborhood, where he pursued his lessons until the return
of spring necessitated his return to farm duties. He continued on the old
homestead with his parents until twenty-five years of age, at which time he
was united in marriage to Miss Julia C. Scovel, of Allen county, Indiana, and
went to a farm of his own.
It was at the time of his marriage that Mr. Wilson purchased a farm of
one hundred and sixty acres in Pulaski county, Indiana, on Big Indian creek.
It was entirely destitute of improvement, being still in its primitive condition,
but with resolute purpose he began to clear and cultivate it. For thirteen
years he lived upon that place, during which time his labors wrought great
transformation in the appearance of the property, for where once stood tall
trees, rich fields of grain were afterward seen and gave evidence of ample
harvests. Mr. Wilson resided there until 1895, when he purchased the farm
in Tipton township upon which he now resides. It is situated on the banks
of the Wabash river, near Lewisburg, and comprises one hundred acres.
This IS divided into fields of convenient size, and general farming and stock-
raising are carried on with good success, so that the owner has won a place
among the substantial agriculturists of the community.

CASS, MIAMI,- HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 715
To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson vyere born five children: Zelma C. and Elma,
twins, the latter now deceased; Nola L. ; Carrie, who has also passed away;
and Harmon L. The household is a hospitable one and the members of the
family hold an enviable position in the regard of many friends. In his
political views our subject is a Democrat. He belongs to the Christian
church and since attaining his majority has been a member of the Odd Fel
lows society, being connected with Miami Lodge, No. 52, of Peru, of which
he is past noble grand. He is true to the principles of the society and to the
obligations it imposes, and is regarded as an exemplary member of both lodge
and church.

/^^ EORGE N. KISTLER. — A resident of Boone township, George N.
^-^ Kistler has for many years been prominently identified with the agricult
ural and educational interests of Cass county, and has contributed materially
to the advancement and progress of the county through those channels. He
is a well-informed man, possessed of broad general information, and in his
nature there is nothing narrow or contracted. He has a spirit that, while
devoted to his community, is liberal enough to recognize and appreciate ad
vancement and progress in any other part of the world. All who know him
esteem him highly for his genuine worth, and it is with pleasure that we
present the record of his life to our readers.
Born in Boone township, on the farm where he now lives, June 5, 1850,
he is the son of Jonas and Lydia (Kistler) Kistler, both natives of Ohio.
They had four children, one of whom died in infancy. Sarah M. died at
the age of about nineteen years, and those still living are George N. and
Lewis. Upon the homestead property our subject spent the days of his boy
hood and youth, and his labors in the fields were alternated by study in the
district schools of the neighborhood. Of a studious nature and desirous of
acquiring an advanced education, he entered the high school of Logansport,
and after leaving that institution turned his attention to educational work.
For fifteen years he engaged in teaching and was very successful in that call
ing, being an excellent disciplinarian and having the ability of imparting
readily and accurately to others the knowledge he had acquired. He also
engaged in farming through most of that period and now devotes his energies

716 BIOGRAPHICAL A./\D GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
entirely to agricultural pursuits. He owns one hundred and twenty acres of
good land, the same being under a high state of cultivation and improved
with all the modern accessories and conveniences of a model farm of the
nineteenth century. He is practical and progressive in his meth'ods of farm
ing, and in the management of his business affairs displays a sound judgment
that has brought to him a merited success.
On the 7th of April, 1881, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kistler
and Miss Sarah M. Vernon, who was born October 2, 1863, in Boone town
ship. They now have three children: Lydia M., who was born on the ist of
May, 1883; Elbridge G., who was born December 7, 1887; and Chester D.,
who was born January 15, 1892. The parents are members of the Church
of God, and in his political faith Mr. Kistler is an ardent Populist. They
enjoy the hospitality of many of the best homes of Cass county, and their
circle of friends is almost co-extensive with their circle of acquaintances.

DEV. JOSEPH SHEPLER.— The Sheplers are of German origin. Sev-
^ *¦ eral generations of the family, however, have been residents of America
and from their early identification with this country have been prominently
connected with the German Baptist church, of which the subject of this
sketch, Rev. Joseph Shepler, is an active and efficient minister.
Samuel Shepler, the great-grandfather of Joseph, was a native of Ger
many. On landing in this country, he settled on Linville creek, near Har
risburg, Rockingham county, Virginia, where he cleared the forest off a tract
of land and improved a farm. He was a potent factor in the pioneer settle
ment and was especially noted for his religious zeal, he being one of the
founders of the German Baptist church in this country. He died, in middle
life, at his home in Virginia. To him and his wife were given three sons,
George, William and Jacob.
George Shepler was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, on the Shep
ler homestead, and passed his boyhood days in farm work. In his early
manhood he learned the trade of carriage-maker, and in his native county
was married to Sarah Shull, a Virginian by birth and a daughter of Nathan
Shull. Nathan Shull was a prosperous farmer, of German descent, and his
religious creed was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 717
Virginia at a venerable age. George Shepler carried on farming in a small
way for several years after his marriage and then, accompanied by his wife
and children, journeyed westward in pioneer style, with horses and wagons, to
the Western Reserve, — Montgomery county, Ohio, being their objective
point. They selected a location on Wolf creek, three miles and a half west
of Dayton, where he lived and farmed for a number of years. There his wife
died, and subsequently, in 1850, he came with his children to Miami county,
Indiana, where he died at about the age of sixty years. Like his ancestry
and his posterity, his religious faith harmonized with the teachings of the
German Baptist church. His children were Jonathan, WiUiam, Amos,
Abraham and Peggie A.
His son, Jonathan, the father of the subject of this review, was born
in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 181 1, and came with his parents to the
west in early life. In Montgomery county, Ohio, he married Elizabeth
Toman, who was born in Montgomery county December 8, 1817, daughter
of William and Ruth (Marple) Toman. William Toman was a Pennsyl-
vanian, of English descent, and was one of the pioneers of Ohio, his set
tlement being on a farm near BrookviUe, Montgomery county. He was
twice married and was the father of a large family, Mrs. Elizabeth Shepler
being a daughter by his first wife. He was an honest, industrious man, took
the Bible for his guide and so lived that he won the high regard of all who
knew him. Jonathan Shepler, after marriage, settled a short distance south
west of BrookviUe, Ohio, where he lived several years. From there he
moved to a farm three miles west of Dayton, and in March, 1850, he
moved with his family to Miami county, Indiana, making the trip by wagon
and being six days on the road. His children were then all unmarried.
Their settlement was three miles and a half south of Peru, and here he
cleared a tract of land and placed the same under cultivation, and to his
original farm of eighty acres he added until his holdings comprised two hun
dred acres. At this place he passed the residue of his life, being in his
fifty-ninth year at the time of death. He died from the effects of an acci
dental injury. During the last ten years of his life he was a deacon in the
German Baptist church.
Having given this outline of his ancestry, we come now to the life history
of Rev. Joseph Shepler. He was born June 12, 1838, in Montgomery county,
Ohio, three miles from BrookviUe, on the farm above referred to, and was

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twelve years old when he came with his parents to Indiana. The education
he received in the common schools he supplemented by home study and by
the time he was old enough he had acquired sufficient knowledge to enable
him to teach. For some time he taught school in Washington and Pipe
Creek townships, Miami county, and from teaching he turned to farming,
the occupation in which he had been reared. After his marriage, which
occurred in the fall of 1861, he settled on eighty acres of land in Washington
township, Miami county, the title to which he had obtained some time before,
and here he went to work to clear away the forest and cultivate his acres.
Prosperity attended his efforts and ere long he purchased an adjoining forty
acres, thus increasing his farm to one hundred and twenty acres. He occu
pied this place until 1872. On the 28th of January of that year he moved to
his present farm of two hundred and twenty-three acres, then partly
improved. That same year he built a commodious and substantial barn,
continued making improvements each year, and in 1890 he erected his brick
residence, both interior and exterior surroundings of which bespeak taste
and refinement as well as prosperity. This farm, which is in truth one of the
most desirable in the locality, shows what honest, persistent effort can
accomplish, for it is to his own industry and good management that Mr.
Shepler's success is due.
Joseph Shepler was married in Pipe Creek township, Miami county,
Indiana, October 20, 1861, to Miss Mary Gripe, who was born in Montgom
ery county, Ohio, July 2, 1861, daughter of John E. and Catherine (Shively)
Gripe. John E. Gripe was a Pennsylvanian who had settled in Ohio and
who came in Indiana, locating in Miami county in the same year (1851)
the Shepler family came here. He was one of the most prosperous
farmers of Pipe Creek township, where he owned two hundred acres of land,
and where he spent the latter part of his life and died. His wife Catherine
was a daughter of John Shively. Their children were Eli, David, Esther,
Mary and Stephen. John E. Gripe was one of the founders of the German
Baptist church in Pipe Creek township, in which for more than thirty years
he served as deacon. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shepler are the parents of one
son, John J., who has charge of the home farm. He married Miss Annie
Wissinger, a native of Pipe Creek township, and a daughter of Isaac and
Margaret (Weaver) Wissinger. Their children are Rosa, Charles, Clifford,
Russell and Floyd.

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Mr. and Mrs. Shepler have both long been earnest and devoted Chris
tians, identified from an early age with the church of their fathers. Mr.
Shepler in 1868 was chosen deacon, which official position he filled in the
church until four years later, 1872, when he was ordained a minister. For
a period of more than twenty-five years he has been actively engaged in the
work of the ministry, preaching first in the Santa Fe church, in Washington
township, and for some years past in the Pipe Creek church. He has been
earnest and untiring in his ministerial work and his efforts have been attended
with much success.

T WARREN GATES. — In Harrison township Cass county, on the farm
'-' which is now his home, J. Warren Gates was born, his natal day being
September 29, 1856. His grandfather, Jacob Gates, was a native of Ten
nessee, and in the period of early development in Ohio removed to the Buck
eye state. James Gates, the father of our subject, was born in Darke county,
Ohio, September 27, 1820, and in 1834 cast his lot with the pioneers of
Cass county, since which time he has been an important factor in the sub
stantial development and progress of this section of the state. He first
entered eighty acres of land from the government, the deed to the same
being signed by Martin Van Buren, then president of the United States, and
began the arduous task of opening up a new farm. The land was still in
its primitive condition, not a furrow having been turned or an improvement
made thereon. As the years passed, however, he added to this property, and
he is now one of the extensive land-owners of Harrison township. He also
engages largely in the raising of fine stock, keeps only good grades of horses,
cattle and hogs, and in addition he owns a fine deer park. He has been very
successful in his business dealings, rising by his own efforts to a position of
wealth and affluence. He married Miss Eunice Conn, a native of Pennsyl
vania, and to them were born four children, but the subject of this review
is the only one now living.
J. Warren Gates was reared amid the scenes of rural life, and received
through his careful home training those steadfast qualities so essential for an
honorable and successful business career. His early educational privileges were
supplemented by six years' attendance at the schools of Logansport, includ
ing the high-school course, and later he engaged in teaching for two years.

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He then returned to the farm and has since devoted his energies to agricult
ural pursuits. In connection with his father he is interested in the owner
ship of over five hundred acres of valuable land, well improved, the richly
cultivated fields yielding a golden tribute in return for the care and labor
bestowed upon them. They are equally successful as stock-raisers, and their
farm is one of the most modern and complete in its appointments and acces
sories of all in northern Indiana.
On the 25th of September, 1884, Mr. Gates was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth Barr, who was born in Harrison township, Cass county,
August 22, 1862. They have eight children: Mary E., born July 2, 1885;
Essie B., born July 9, 1886; Birdie J., born May 11, 1890; Fara L., born
April "17, 1892; Jay W., born May 2, 1894; Elsie J., born September 17,
1895; Dennis, born March 22, 1897; an infant born August 11, 1898.
In his pohtical views, Mr. Gates is an ardent Democrat, unwavering in
support of the principles of his party, and on that ticket he has been
elected and re-elected to the office of assessor of Harrison township until his
term of service covered a period of eleven years, its long continuation well
indicating the fidelity with which he discharged his duties. He is a public-
spirited and progressive citizen, manifesting a commendable interest in every
thing pertaining to the public welfare, and his honorable record in business
circles has won him the confidence and respect of the entire community.

T W. LEAVELL. — On section 19, Cicero township, Tipton county, resides
^ one of the best and most favorably known citizens of the county, engaged
in the most ancient and honorable of all callings, that of agriculture. He is
still living in his native county, having been born in what is now Madison
township, February 11, 1842.
His father, Benjamin Leavell, was a native of the historical state of
Kentucky, born in Fayette county in 1806, and was brought to Wayne county,
Indiana, in 181 1 by his parents in their emigration to a better land. His
father, Robert Leavell, was born in Virginia in the celebrated year of 1776,
and emigrated to the Blue Grass state about the year 1794 with his parents.
His father was John Leavell, who was a native of the Old Dominion, Vir
ginia, and served as a soldier during the Revolutionary war. In the paternal

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hne the Leavells can be traced back a hundred years before the Revolution,
and are supposed to be of French origin.
The mother of our subject, whose name before marriage was Fanny
Thornburgh, was a native of Wayne county, Indiana, and a daughter of
William and Martha (Bradshaw) Thornburgh, both natives of Tennessee,
who settled in Wayne county in 1820. They were of English descent, and
in religion Quakers. Mrs. Fanny (Thornburgh) Leavell was born in 1821
and died in December, 1893. She had seven children, all daughters, except
ing the subject of this sketch.
Mr. J. W. Leavell, the oldest child in the above. family, was reared in
his native township, attending school at the typical log school-house of the
time, where he "graduated." He remained with his father until after his
marriage in 1862, and the next year located at New Lancaster and worked
at his trade as a tanner, following this most of the time until 1877, four years
of which time were spent at Tipton. Owning several different tracts of land
in Tipton county, he then began farming. In 1881 he was appointed county
ditch commissioner, and he aided in the survey and location of fifty-five
drains in the county. In 1882, on the Republican ticket, he was elected
sheriff of Tipton county, when the normal Democratic majority was about
four hundred, he receiving a majority of ninety-six; and he received a major
ity of thirty in the precinct in which he was born, which otherwise gave a
Democratic majority of sixty-eight. He was the second man ever elected by
the Republicans to the office of sheriff of this county.
At the close of his term as sheriff he was living two miles east of Tipton,
and he continued to reside there till 1891, when he exchanged his farm there
for his present place, which then had two hundred and eighty acres; but he
has given his son eighty acres, — a fine start as a farmer, — so that Mr. Lea
vell now has, strictly speaking, one hundred and ninety-two and a quarter
acres. Mr. Leavell has been a member of the Masonic order ever since 1865,
belonging now to Austin Lodge, No. 128, at Tipton, in which he has filled
all the chairs excepting that of master.
March 23, 1862, Mr. Leavell was united in marriage with Molcy Beeson,
a native of Madison county, Indiana, born in Pipe Creek township, May 8,
1842. Her parents, James and Sarah (Little) Beeson, were natives of North
Carolina, born near Dobson's Cross Roads, and both came to Wayne county.

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Indiana, with their parents in 1808, in which county they were married and
remained residents until 1831, when they removed to land which Mr. Beeson
had entered and which is now the site of the town of Frankton, in Madison
county. After a residence of four years there Mr. Beeson sold out and
moved a little further west, entering land on Duck creek, eighty acres of
which were in Tipton county, — it being one of the first entries made in this
county. In 1848 Mr. Beeson sold out again and ran a general store at Per
kinsville, Madison county, for two years, and the remainder of his life was
spent in New Lancaster, in the management of a general store. Mrs. Leavell
is the youngest of twelve children, — eight daughters and four sons. Her
father died in 1861, and her mother in her ninetieth year. Mr. and Mrs.
Leavell have had five children, namely: Madorah, the wife of Z. E. Darrow,
of Madison township, Tipton county; William T. , a prominent farmer of
Cicero township, this county; and Benjamin F., a farmer and dairyman
near Tipton; Cora M., who died at the age of eight years; and Leonidas, a
farmer and dairyman near Tipton. All the children were born in this county.
Benjamin Leavell, the father of our subject, previous to 1840 came to
Tipton county and purchased the southeast quarter of section 19, township
21 north and range 6 east. Returning to Wayne county he was married
there, in 1840, and located upon his land here with his bride, occupying a
small cabin in the wild woods; and in ten years he had a good farm here,
well, brick house, good barns, etc.
He never belonged to any church or other organization, his standard of
morality and refinement being the universally recognized "golden rule." He
was well known for his uniform uprightness of character, liberality to the
poor and judicial management of all his affairs. In early years he was a
Democrat, voting for Andrew Jackson in 1828 and 1832; in 1836 he was a
Whig, and after the repeal of the Missouri compromise in 1854 he was with
the great anti-slavery party, the Republican, the remainder of his life.

TOHN F. McCREARY. — Although genius always commands admiration,
^ character most secures respect. The former is more the product of a
peculiar brain, the latter of normal heart power; and in the long run it is the
heart that rules in life. Brave men do not boast or bluster. Deeds, not

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words, speak for such. These sentiments are the 'studied and deliberate
expressions of eminent philosophers, and they are appropriate in this con
nection, as they are illustrated by the character and career of the subject of
this sketch. Mr. McCreary, the present sheriff of Tipton county, was born in Prairie
township, this county, October 21, 1852, a son of Alexander and Nancy
(Steward) McCreary, natives of Kentucky. They had five sons and one
daughter, of whom five are still living, — Lewis, Alfred, John F., Oliver and
Mary, wife of James Sumner, of Elwood, this state. The father was a
farmer by occupation, came to Indiana in 1848 and located in Prairie town
ship, where he bought eighty acres of land, and added to that until his pos
sessions at one time were two hundred and twenty-eight acres. He brought
up his children there and died in 1891, at the age of sixty-four years; and his
wife died in April, 1890, aged sixty-three years. They were members of the
Baptist church. Mr. McCreary had been a soldier in the Mexican war, and
vvas captain of Company C, One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, in the late Civil war, serving about eighteen months. From 1870
to 1874 he was sheriff of Tipton county, and afterward county commissioner
for several terms. In his political views he was a Democrat.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was an early settler of Kentucky,
also in Switzerland county, Indiana, where he died, upward of eighty years
of age. He was of Irish descent, was a farmer by occupation and brought
up a goodly number of children. The maternal grandfather of our subject
was William Steward, who emigrated from Kentucky to Switzerland county,
this state, where he resided many years and where his wife died; and he
afterward came to Tipton county and lived at the residence of Alexander
McCreary, where he died about 1884, aged about eighty-six years. He was
a stone mason by trade.
Mr. McCreary, our subject proper, was reared in Tipton county upon
his father's farm, and remained at home until grown, attending the district
schools in the winter. He then became deputy sheriff under his father.
After his termination of services in that relation he ran a sawmill in Prairie
township about four years; but nearly all his life thus far he has been a buyer
and shipper of live stock. In 1896 he was elected sheriff to Tipton county,
which office he now fills in an acceptable manner. Prior to his election to
this office his home was in Sharpsville for fifteen years. He has been a resi-

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dent of Tipton county now for forty-six years, is a jolly and sociable man
and an efficient officer. "Be thou like the bird perched upon some frail
thing," says a French authoress, "although he feels the twig bending
beneath him he loudly sings, knowing full well that he has wings."
In his politics Mr. McCreary is a Democrat. Among the fraternities he
isa Mason, belonging to Reserve Lodge, No. 363, at Sharpsville; also to
Tipton Chapter, R. A. M., of Tipton; and J. H. Franks Commandery, K. T. ;
and he and Mrs. McCreary also belong to the Order of the Eastern Star.
Besides, he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and of the Modern
Woodmen of America.
March 4, 1877, he was united in marriage with Miss Amanda Peters,
daughter of James M. and Sarah (Robey) Peters, and they have one child,
Willie, now a soldier in the American army against the Spaniards, in Com
pany I, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. In the
home of our subject Rollie Ramseyer, the son of Mrs. McCreary 's sister, is
also being reared and cared for as a son. Mrs. McCreary died on the 6th of
Septeraber, 1898, and her loss is deeply deplored by the large circle of
friends whom she had gained through her kindly and gentle character.

TEETER E. \\'EISE, for more than thirty years a railroad man aud for
¦* the past fifteen years the incumbent of his present responsible position,
that of passenger conductor on the Chicago division of the Pan Handle Rail
road, is a resident of Logansport.
Mr. Weise is a native of the Keystone state. He was born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1843, and is a descendant both pater
nally and maternally from German stock. His father was a native of Brat
tleboro, Vermont, and by trade a blacksmith. He died in Philadelphia in
1844. Mr. Weise's maternal grandfather, Adam Brigel, was a native of
Baden, Germany, and by trade a carpenter.
Peter E. Weise, the only child of his parents, was reared and received
his schooling in his native city. After leaving school he became an appren
tice to his uncle, Isaac Brigel, as a nail-cutter in the employ of the firm of
F. G. Brooks & Company at Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. Mr. Brigel was fore
man of the plant. Here young Weise remained four years, until the open-

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ing of the Civil war. April 14, 1861, he enlisted as a member of Company I,
Fourth United States regulars, and was sent at once to Washington, D. C,
where he aided in throwing up a part of the works in defense of the city,
known as Fort Stevens. In the latter part of 1861 he went with his regi
ment into Virginia and was with McClellan's army in the campaigns before
Richmond. He participated in the seven days' battle, Antietam, Freder
icksburg, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, being wounded in
both of the last two named battles. As soon as he was able to re-enter the
service he joined his regiment at Farmville, Virginia, and saw the last action
of the war and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. After this
Mr. Weise was with his regiment sent to the northwest to protect the settle
ments against the incursions of the Sioux Indians, and was stationed at
Jamestown, Dakota, when his five years' term of enlistment expired and he
was dischagred there.
Mr. Weise began his railroad career in 1867, as a switchman on the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. From that he was promoted as brakeman
and later as fireman, and was acting in the latter capacity at the time he
severed his connection with that road. In 1878 he entered the employ of the
Pan Handle Company, and in May of that year he came to Logansport,
which has since been his headquarters. He served as brakeman on the Pan
Handle until December of the next year, when he was promoted to the posi
tion of conductor in the freight service, and since 1883 he has been a passen
ger conductor on the Chicago division. His whole service has been charac
terized by promptness, courtesy and fidelity to the trusts reposed in him, and
naturally he has come into favor with both his employers and the traveling
public. Mr. Weise was married in Logansport in 1883, to Miss Minnie Dean,
a native of Canada, and the fruit of their union is one son, Edwin E.
Fraternally, our subject is identified with the Knights of Pythias and
Woodmen of the World.

ALFRED U. McAllister. ^For nearly two-score years the roll of the
leading businessmen of Logansport, Cass county, included the name just
mentioned, and few, if any, were more highly esteemed. Certainly none of

726 BIOGRAPHICAL A.KD GE.KE.ALOGICAL HISTORY OF
our citizens were more deeply interested in all things pertaining to the
advancement and prosperity of the city, and his influence was always to be
found upon the side of progress and improvement. During a period of thir
teen years he was one of the trustees of the Logansport water-works, and he
was one of the promoters and advocates of the plan when it was in its incip-
iency. Mr. McAllister, whose death occurred May 26, 1897, at the home of his
son in this city, was of Scotch-Irish descent on the paternal side of his family,
and upon the maternal side of the house vvas of German ancestry. Thus
there vvas united in him characteristics of strength and force, perseverance in
whatever he undertook, sturdy independence, love of country and faithfulness
in all of the relations of life. His parents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Bouch-
man) McAllister, were natives of Pennsylvania, and after their marriage their
home was in Perry county for many years.
In his early youth Alfred U. McAllister learned the machinist's trade in
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and came to Logansport in 1859, when he was
about twenty-four years of age. His birthplace was in Perry county, Penn
sylvania, and the date of the event March 17, 1835. Upon arriving in this
city the young man found employment as a foreman in the machine shop of
Knowlton & Dykeman, with which firm he continued some time, giving entire
satisfaction by the manner in which he met the responsibilities resting upon
his shoulders. In 1864 he embarked in business upon his own account, at
the corner of Elm street and Erie avenue, manufacturing all kinds of boilers,
tanks, smoke-stacks, and iron work of various descriptions. From an humble
beginning he built up a large and lucrative business, and by careful attention
to the wants of his customers, won their trade and good will. In 1895 he
established a branch shop in the town of Montpelier, Indiana, and had
managed affairs there in a manner that promised large returns at no very dis
tant day, but increasing disability and ill-health interfered with his ambi
tious plans, and in May, 1897, as previously stated, his labors ceased.
When the Civil war came on, Mr. McAllister vvas one of the first to offer
his services in defense of the country which he loved so well. He enlisted
upon the three-months call in April, 1861, and was assigned to be the fifer
of the Ninth Indiana Volunteers. When the time came for re-enlistment
he responded with a will, and became a member of Company I, Forty-sixth
Indiana Infantry. Here he was a fife major, and at the close of twenty-two

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months of active service he vvas mustered out. Subsequently he was con
nected with Logan Post, No. 14, G. A. R., for several years. Politically he
was affiliated with the Democratic party.
In 1863, just after his return from the army, Mr. McAllister married
Miss Esther Merritt, daughter of Timothy C. Merritt, one of the pioneers
and most highly respected citizens of Logansport. Mrs. McAllister was born
in this city August 29, 1844, and by her marriage became the mother of
two sons, Elmer, born September i, 1864, and Leon M., born December 21,
1867. The younger son is still living with his mother, but the elder, Elmer,
who married Mamie Esterbrook, has a pretty home of his own. The young
men learned the trade of the elder McAllister, and in 1895 were taken into
the business, the firm name being changed to A. U. McAllister & Sons. Since
the father's death the style has been, as at present, McAllister Brothers &
Company. The young men possess many of the excellent business qualifica
tions which were so noticeable in the career of their senior, and are conduct
ing the extensive boiler-works in a manner that promises well for their future.
Leon McAllister, after completing his course in the public schools of Logans
port, went to Hall's Business College, and later, in 1894, graduated, as a
mechanical engineer, at Purdue University.

¦n\ ANIEL L. OVERHOLSER, M. D.— Professional success results from
-*-^ merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of
a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as
" the higher walks of life" advancement is gained only through individual
efforts, and prestige in the dental profession is gained only as the outcome of
strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of the principles of the
science and a delicacy and accuracy of mechanical skill that are necessary in
hardly any other calling to which man devotes his energies. The possession
and utilization of these essential attributes have made Dr. Overholser one of
the leading dental surgeons of northern Indiana, and it is with pleasure that
we present the record of his life to our readers.
A native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, he vvas born on the 9th of
December, 1835, and is a son of Isaac and Mary (Landes) Overholser, both
of whom were also born in Pennsylvania and vvere representatives of pioneer

728 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
families of that state. The paternal grandfather was Martin Overholser, but
no authentic record of the ancestral history of the family can be obtained.
The descent, however, is undoubtedly from German ancestors, while the
Landes family was of Swiss origin. The Doctor's parents spent their entire
lives in Lancaster county, and there reared their family of seven children,
namely: Matilda, deceased; Levi; Daniel L. ; Anna, deceased; William;
Elizabeth and Emma. The mother died, and the father afterward wedded
Mary Spats, by whom he had four children, namely: Martin H., deceased;
John S. ; and Caroline and Sarah, who are both deceased.
In the schools of his native county Dr. Overholser acquired a fair Eng
lish education, and he had taught school for a few terms before attaining
the age of nineteen years. In May, 1855, he came to Logansport, where he
took up the study of medicine under the instruction of his uncle. Dr. Daniel
W. Landes, with whom he continued his studies for a period of two years.
In the meantime he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, in
which institution he was graduated in May, 1857, and he also pursued a
partial course in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. For the first three
years after his graduation he practiced medicine, first in Logansport, and
then in Naperville, Illinois. In i860 he resumed the study of dentistry in a
dental office in Aurora, Illinois, and in 1862 he opened an office of his own
in Lockport, Illinois, where he practiced dentistry for about two years and
then removed to Morris, same state. He remained in the latter town until
1869, in which year he returned to Logansport, where he has constantly
practiced dentistry up to the present time, with the most encouraging suc
cess. He is a member of the Indiana State Dental Association, and his
high standing in the profession is shown by the fact that he was acting presi
dent in 1898.
In 1859 Mr. Overholser was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Redd,
of Logansport, and to them were born three children, as follows: Ella,
deceased; William Frank, who graduated in the dental department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and successfully practiced his profes
sion in connection with his father for about five years, when he opened an
office on his own account, and continued successfully until his death in 1891,
at the age of twenty-nine years; and Edwin L. , who died at the age of nine
teen. The mother of this family passed away on the 5th of May, 1874. In
July, 1875, i^r^ Overholser was again married, his second union being with

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Mrs. Kate Hetherington, nee Teter, of Hamilton county. Indiana. The chil
dren of the second marriage are: Wiley L. and Bertha M., a graduate of
1898. The former was born in November, 1876, was graduated in the
Logansport high school in the class of 1895, is a graduate of the Northwest
ern University Dental school, of the class of 1898, and is now in practice in
Winamac, Indiana.
For many years Dr. Overholser has been an active member of the
Broadway Methodist Episcopal church, is serving as a member and treasurer
of the board of trustees, and has long been an active worker in the Sunday-
school, of which he is now superintendent. Recently he completed five
years' service as president of the Cass County Sunday-school Association.
His life is noble and largely devoted to the uplifting of his fellow men. He
supports all measures for the public good and exemplifies his firm belief in
the principles of temperance by the active support which he gives to the
Prohibition party. He has served as a member of both the district and
county central committees and is now chairman of the latter. A man of
broad humanitarian principles, he does all in his power to advance those
causes which are for the good of the race and so honorable has been his life
that he has the high esteem of his friends and the confidence of those with
whom business relations have brouo;ht him in contact.

T~\AVID H. ARMANTROUT is a well known citizen of Peru, Indiana,
-*-^ and belongs to one of the first families that settled in Miami county.
His parents were Reuben and Margaret (Hoover) Armantrout, the former a
native of Virginia, born July 25,- 1809, the latter born in Pennsylvania,
March 28, 181 1. Their marriage occurred in Montgomery co nty, Ohio,
August 3, 1829. In 1831 they removed to Delaware county, Indiana, thence
to Cass county, and September 15, 1836, landed in Peru. Here Reuben
Armantrout engaged in blacksmithing, and here he lived till his death, which
occurred November 3, 1843, at the early age of thirty-four years, three
months and eight days. At the time of his settlement here there was only
one white man living between this place and Marion. Mr. Armantrout was
one of the earliest blacksmiths in this locality; his shop was the place where
the pioneers gathered and discussed the events of the day, and though it has

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been more than half a century since he passed away he is still remembered
by the old settlers as a worthy, upright citizen. His widow afterward
became the wife of Andrew Williams, with whom she settled in Jefferson
township, Miami county. Her death occurred in January, 1897, in her
eighty-sixth year. The surviving members of the family are David H., whose
name introduces this sketch; Peter, a resident of Cass county; and John S.
and Oliver, both of Miami county. Oliver was born April 26, 1844, several
months after the death of his father. The deceased children were Margaret
J., Lewis, Elizabeth, William F. and Mary, the last named being by the
second marriage.
David H. Armantrout was born in Dayton, Ohio, May 3, 1830, and was
about six years of age when the family came to Peru. In his boyhood there
was but little opportunity for acquiring an education in Peru, and he could
scarcely improve the little opportunity that existed, as he was only about
thirteen years of age when his father died, and, being the oldest of the fam
ily, its support depended chiefly upon him. This duty he faithfully per
formed. He labored indefatigably, early and late, to support his widowed
mother and the younger children. In 1845 he began to learn the trade of
blacksmith, and this occupation has been his life work, he having followed
it for fifty-four years.
Mr. Armantrout married Miss Maria Higgins, a native of Ohio. Her
father, Cyrus Higgins, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at the home of his
daughter in Peru, his wife having passed away some years before, in the
state of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Armantrout were blessed with two sons:
Walter, who died at the age of one year, and Harry, who lost his life in an
accident, while railroading, at the age of twenty-three years.
Fraternally Mr. Armantrout is identified with Miami Lodge, No. 67, F.
& A. M. He is esteemed as a most worthy citizen.

A LMON P. JENKS. — The thriving city of Logansport occupies its high
'* position among the leading towns and cities of the state of Indiana by
reason of its public-spirited, progressive business men, who are always
anxious to do all in their power to further its advancement and material
prosperity. One of the foremost of these patriotic citizens is the gentleman

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of whom this sketch is written. For a quarter of a century he has been
especially interested and concerned in the development of the industries and
resources of the city, and has contributed no slight amount of material assist
ance and influence in this direction.
A native of the good old Buckeye state, Mr. Jenks was born in the vil
lage of Milan, Erie county, Ohio, on the 4th of February, 1853. He is a
son of Virgil B. and Martha C. (Calkins) Jenks, natives respectively of
Orange county. New York, and Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, both being of
Puritan extraction. After he had completed his preliminary studies Almon P.
attended the high school of Kent, Ohio, for four years, and atthe age of six
teen accompanied his parents upon their removal to eastern Tennessee,
where he resided until June, 1872.
In the year mentioned, our subject, having nearly attained his majority,
started out to fight the battle of life upon his own responsibility, going to La
Crosse, Indiana, where, within two months' time, he learned the art of
telegraphy and secured the position as night operator at that point. On the
1st of April, 1873, he was transferred to Logansport, and, though the town
then bore little resemblance to the thriving city of to-day, he was impressed
with its possibilities and pleased with the prospect of becoming a permanent
resident. For two years he was employed as a telegrapher in the shops of
the Pan Handle Railroad at Logansport, and during this period he manifested
his ambition and good judgment by attending the evening sessions at Hall's
Business College, where he completed a commercial course, thus more fully
•qualifying himself for the future. His next position, retained from Septem
ber, 1875, until October, 1879, was that of motive-power clerk and operator
with the Eel River and Crawfordsville Railroads, at Logansport, but in 1879
he again resumed his connection with the Pan Handle Railroad, on this occa
sion accepting a position as timekeeper. In 1885 he was promoted tothe
chief clerkship of motive-power accounts for the Logansport, Richmond and
Chicago divisions of the Pan Handle Railway.
In May, 1889, Mr. Jenks was tendered a position as secretary of the
Logansport Natural Gas Company, and as the corporation with which he
had been so long connected had kindly given him a six-months leave of
absence, in order that he might thoroughly test the advantages of his new
place and return to the old post if desired, he accepted the offer. The new
position proving satisfactory, he continued as its incumbent up to May, 1895,

732 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
when the interests of the old company were purchased by eastern capitalists
and consolidated with those of the Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Com
pany. The holdings of this company comprise the plants at Logansport,
Peru, Wabash and Decatur, Indiana, and the office for Indiana is main
tained in Logansport. Recognizing Mr. Jenks' peculiar ability and experience,
the corporation made him secretary of the company and local manager of
the Logansport plant. He has since acted in this capacity, and has justified
the wisdom which thus prompted his appointment. For some time also he
has been a partner in the firm of Ferguson & Jenks, clothiers of this city, and
vvas largely instrumental in the reorganization of the State National Bank of
Logansport, whose doors were closed May 20, 1897. The reorganization
resulted in the establishing of the City National Bank of Logansport, of
of whose directorate Mr. Jenks has been an active member from the
start. In his political views Mr. Jenks is a "true blue " Republican. Fraternally
he is a Mason of the Knights Templar degree. He is well known and enjoys
a distinctive popularity in the city which has so long been his home and field
of labor, and has unbounded faith in Logansport and in its consecutive
growth audits advancement to a position of still greater relative importance
as one of the industrial and commercial centers of the state.
The marriage of Mr. Jenks was solemnized in 1877, when he was united
to Miss Lizzie A. McCaughey, and of this union were born three daughters,
one of whom is deceased, while the other two, Frances and Ada, still remain
merabers of the family circle.

O AMUEL H. SMITH, residing on a farm in Tipton township, Cass coun-
^ ty, devotes his energies to agricultural pursuits and the community
numbers him among its representative citizens. He claims Ohio as the
state of his nativity, his birth having occurred near Harrison, Butler county,
on the 17th of September, 1853. His father, Samuel Smith, was also a
native of Ohio, and there married Elizabeth Shafer, by whom he had six
sons and five daughters, all of whom are living, with one exception. These
are William, a resident of Washington township, Cass county; David, who
IS living in Carroll county, Indiana; John, whose home is in Le Sueur coun-

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ty, Minnesota; Elizabeth, wife of John Shaff; Sarah, wife of Abraham
Helvie, of Logansport; Samuel H. ; George, who resides near Logans
port; Mary C, wife of Horatio Fields, of Tipton township, Cass
county; Daniel F., of Kokomo, Indiana; Allie M., wife of John W.
Snell, of Tipton township; and Martha, now deceased. Throughout his
entire life the father of these children carried on agricultural pursuits. He
removed to Indiana in October, 1854, making the journey across the country
by team, and located on the farm now occupied by Horatio Fields. It was
a tract of timber land, the trees standing in their native strength, as yet un
disturbed by the white man, but soon the ringing blows of his ax laid low
these sturdy monarchs of the forest and the cleared fields soon brought forth
abundant harvests as a reward for the care and labor bestowed upon them.
The first home of the family was a log cabin. Samuel Smith continued his
residence upon the farm until about 1886, when he removed to Logansport,
where he made his home until his death.
The subject of this review was only a year old when his parents came
to the Hoosier state. He acquired his education in the country schools and
in the public schools of Logansport, becoming master of all the common
English branches of learning, which together with observation and experience
in later years has made him a well-informed man. He early became familiar
with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist and
gave his father the benefit of his assistance in the operation of the home
farm until his marriage, which occurred in 1881, Miss Martha Kesling becom
ing his wife. He then removed to his father-in-law's farm, which he oper
ated for two years, when he removed to the farm upon which he has since
made his home. Here he owns eighty-six acres of arable land and carries
on general farming, raising a good grade of stock and the various cereals
best adapted to this climate. Indolence forms no part of his nature and his
labors are energetically prosecuted, bringing him a substantial return.
To Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born eight children, namely: Forest,
Pearl, Leroy, Claude, Ethel, Vera, Ruth and Samuel Raymond. The
parents are widely and favorably known and their circle of friends is exten
sive. Mr. Smith takes an active part in public affairs, and his fellow towns
men, recognizing his worth and ability, have called him to public office. In
1890 he was elected a trustee of Tipton township, in which office he served
for five consecutive years. For two terms he previously served as super-

734 BIOGRAPHICAL .IXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
visor, and in both positions he discharged his duties with marked prompt
ness and fidelity. In politics he is a Democrat and keeps well informed on
the issues of the day. He belongs to the Order of Foresters and to the
Methodist Episcopal church, and his fidelity to every public and private
trust has made him a most valued citizen of the county.

ALFRED B. FOREMAN. — This well known pioneer of Liberty town
ship, Howard county, Indiana, and veteran of the Civil war, is well
worthy of more than a passing mention in this work, devoted, as it is, to a
portrayal of the lives of the representative men and women of this part of
Indiana. Alfred B. Foreman was born in Henry county, Indiana, August 25,
1828, son of Harrison and Mary (Sanders) Foreman. His educational
advantages in youth were limited to the common schools of the district in
which he lived. At an early age he was inured to work on the farm, and
has all his life been engaged in agricultural pursuits. After his marriage,
which event occurred in the fall of 1848, he settled on his father's farm in
Henry county, where he remained until 1852. That year he removed to
Liberty township, Howard county. At the same time he bought forty acres
of land, two miles south of where he now lives. He did not, however,
settle on it, but located on his present farm, eighty acres, in the midst of
the forest, and from its virgin state has developed it into the fine farm it
now is. Industry and good management have characterized his efforts
throughout all these years.
Mr. Foreman married, in Henry county, Indiana, September 20, 1848,
Miss Elizabeth Woolen, who was born March 3, 1831, daughter of William
and Annetta (Law) Woolen. Mr. Woolen came from Maryland, his native
state, to Henry county, Indiana, where he figured as a pioneer and cleared
one hundred and twenty acres of land. In 1852 he moved to Liberty town
ship, Howard county, and bought one hundred and fifteen acres of partially
improved land, a short distance east of Greentown. This land he further
improved and on it made his home the rest of his life. He died at about
the age of sixty years. His children in order of birth were named as follows:
Isaac, James, John, Edward, Joseph, William, Mary, Susan, Ann, Rebecca,

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Elizabeth and Jane. Joseph made a good record as a soldier in the Union
army during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Foreman have had four children:
William, Martha J., Mary E., deceased, and Louisa. The family attend
worship at the Methodist church.
Politically Mr. Foreman is a Republican. He has always taken a com
mendable interest in public affairs, especially those of a local nature, and
has filled the offices of supervisor and township trustee. As stated at the
beginning of this sketch, he is a veteran of the Civil war. His service had
its beginning in October, 1864, when he enlisted, at Indianapolis, as a pri
vate in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment of Indiana
Volunteers, for three years, or during the war. He was honorably dis
charged at Indianapolis in July, 1865, the war being over. His regiment
was held in reserve during the battle of Nashville.
For the early history of the Foreman family the reader is referred to
the sketch of Henry W. Foreman, in this work, for which Mr. Alfred B.
Foreman furnished much data, and to whose excellent memory the writer is
indebted.

ANDREW J. YOUNG. — In the military service of his country, as well as
in the quiet pursuits of farm life, Andrew J. Young has manifested his
loyalty to his country, and to-day he is a worthy representative of that class
of public-spirited citizens who ever have the welfare of their fellow men at
heart and do all in their power for the advancement of the general good.
He is faithful in the discharge of public and private duties, is honorable in
trade transactions, and energetic in business affairs, and thus his life, well
spent, has gained him the respect and good will of many friends and
acquaintances. Mr. Young was born in Washington township, Cass county, on the 5th
of July, 1843, and is a son of Samuel and Lavina (Neff) Young. His father
was born in Virginia about 1815, and died in Cass county about 1845, in
which year he had removed from Washington to Clinton township. His
wife was a daughter of Daniel Neff, one of the first settlers of Clinton town
ship, who, in 1830, came from Ohio to Cass county. Before his removal to
the Buckeye state, he had resided in Pennsylvania. His father was Jacob
Neff, a farmer, who died in Cass county. Daniel Neff, the grandfather of

736 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
our subject, wedded a Miss Mary Swisher, who died in 1873, and his death
occurred in 1861, on the old family homestead, which is now the property
of Daniel D. Neff.
To Mr. and. Mrs. Samuel Young were born two children: Amanda J.,
deceased wife of Milton McMellon; and Andrew J., subject of this review.
The son, Andrew J. Young, was reared in the township which is still his
home, and acquired a good English education in the schools of the neighbor
hood. This was supplemented by one term's attendance at the high school
of Logansport, and on laying aside his text-books he donned the blue and
shouldered the rifle in defense of his country, then engaged in civil war. He
enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth
Indiana Infantry, under Captain Ewing and Colonel DeHart, and was mus
tered in at Michigan City, Indiana. He went with his company to Nashville,
Tennessee, and with his command was assigned to the Army of the Ohio,
operating toward Atlanta. Mr. Young participated in the movements and
battles around that city, saw its surrender and then returned north with Gen
eral Schofield's command. He was also in the battles leading up to the ulti
mate destruction of General Hood's army, at Nashville, after which the One
Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana was ordered to Washington, D. C, and
there put on transports, which were sent south. They disembarked at
Moorehead City, North Carolina, participated in the battles of Kingston, and
also the engagement at Goldsboro, which was the last important engagement
of the war. Company B, of which Mr. Young was a member, was detailed
to remain with the property of the government in the south, and was thus
engaged until the property was sold and the business of the war department
concluded, which required one year's time. On the 13th of April, 1866, just
five years after the Confederates fired upon Fort Sumter, he was mustered
out at Raleigh, and was discharged at Indianapolis a few days thereafter.
He was a brave and loyal soldier, always true to the trust reposed in him
and to the old flag, and with an honorable war record he returned to his
home. Since that time Mr. Young has engaged almost uninterruptedly in farm
ing. He was married October i, 1867, to Miss Edith Houston, daughter of
Harvey Houston, who came to Cass county at an early day. He was a native
of Kentucky and married Orelia Julian. Mr. and Mrs. Young began their
domestic life on a part of the old Neff homestead and two daughters came

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to bless their union, Carrie, now the wife of A. L. Whallon, an attorney-at-
law, and Euona, who died at the age of twenty-two years.
Our subject continued his farming operations until 1886, when he
removed to Logansport, where he remained until 1888. He then returned
to the farm and devoted his energies to its further cultivation and improve
ment. The place contains one hundred and thirteen acres of rich land, and
is a part of the old Simmons farm, one of the first settled in Cass county.
It is one of the most attractive places along the river road southwest of
Logansport, and is supplied with all modern accessories and conveniences,
which give it an air of thrift, comfort and prosperity. It is a hospitable
home, a favorite resort with many friends, and the best homes of the com
munity are also open for the reception of Mr. and Mrs. Young. The former
continues his old army associations through his membership in the Grand
Army post at Logansport, and gives his political support to the Republican
party. He is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed
the starry banner on southern battle-fields, and his worth as a man is ques
tioned by none.

VALENTINE C. HANAWALT. — Prominent among the enterprising citi
zens of Logansport, Cass county, stands the subject of this notice.
Until very recently the postmaster of this city, his term of office closing in
March, 1898, he has made a record for efficiency aind fidelity to duty, of
which he may justly be proud. For some years he has been a recognized
power in local Democratic politics, and for a period of six years was con
nected with the city board of education.
John Hanawalt, father of the above, was born in Mifflin county, Penn
sylvania, in 1813 and departed this life in Monticello, Indiana, in 1861. He
was one of the pioneers of this state, his first settlement being in White
county, in 1835. Later he removed to Carroll county, but in a few years
returned to the region of his first choice. By trade he was a ship carpenter,
and the occasion of his residence in Carroll county was that he might carry
out a contract for building canal-boats for the Wabash & Erie Canal. His
wife, who was of German extraction, was a Miss Catherine Rothrock in her
girlhood. She lived to attain the age of seventy-two years, dying in 1884.
Both parents became identified with the Methodist denomination about i 840
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738 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and were faithful exponents of their profession. Grandfather Joseph Hana
walt, of German descent, was a Dunkard in religion.
Valentine C. Hanawalt was born in the village of Pittsburg, Carroll
county, January 28, 1849. He was an only son, but had five sisters. His
early recollections cluster chiefly around the town of Monticello, and there
he laid, in the public schools, the foundations of his knowledge. At the age
of fourteen he took a position as a clerk in a drug store in Attica, Indiana,
and remained there for five years, thoroughly mastering the business. In
1868 he came to Logansport, where, for the succeeding four years he was in
the employ of Dr. H. Z. Leonard, in his drug store. In 1872 Mr. Hana
walt embarked in business for himself, opening a well-equipped drug store on
Sixth street. He has been successful in this enterprise, as in most of his
undertakings. The cause of education has been one very near to the heart of Mr.
Hanawalt, as it should be with every patriotic American citizen. In 1888 he
was elected to the board of education of this city and for the first four years
of his service with that honorable body he acted in the capacity of secretary,
the next two years being president. His resignation was regretfully accepted
in June, 1894, whert, on account of his outside official duties, he was obliged
to retire from his former position. In February, 1894, he was com
missioned by President Cleveland as postmaster, a well earned favor to one
who had been active in the promotion of the interests of the Democracy for
years. Mr. Hanawalt has been a member of the city and county central
committees of the party for a number of years, and was chairman of the
first named organization six years and chairman of the county committee in
1890 and again in 1892. Socially he is a Master Mason and a member
of the Order of Elks.
The marriage of Mr. Hanawalt and Miss Emma Bunnell, of Milford,
Illinois, was solemnized January 30, 1873. They have one daughter, Ethel,
now the wife of George Lynas. Mrs. Hanawalt and daughter hold mem
bership with the Methodist Episcopal church.

OTEWART T. McCONNELL.-For thirty-seven years a member of the
^ bar of Cass county, Stewart T. McConnell ranks among the distinguished
legists of northern Indiana. In no profession is there a career more open to

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 739
talent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded
a more careful preparation or a more thorough appreciation of the absolute
ethics of life and of the underlying principles which form the basis of all
human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom
and a determination to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants
which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which
stands as the stern conservator of justice; and it is one into which none
should enter without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the
battles to be won, for success comes only as the diametrical result of capac
ity and unmistakable abihty. Such elements have entered into the successful
career of Mr. McConnell, who through many years has been accounted one
of the most able legal practitioners in Logansport.
A native of Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, he was born on the i6th
of October, 1836, and is the third in a family of eleven children whose par
ents were Dr. James B. and Sarah D. (Stewart) McConnell. In his early
youth he attended the public schools, but later in life, believing that a more
liberal education was essential to success in professional life, he entered
upon a scientific and classical course of study, and therein attained a fair
degree of proficiency. In youth he became imbued with a strong desire to
make the practice of law his life work, and he eagerly embraced every
facility that would prove of benefit to him in such a career. It was n9t
until after he came to Logansport, however, that he found the opportunity
to pursue his legal studies. He engaged in teaching school for a number of
years, and then entered upon a course of law reading under the advice of
Messrs. Pratt and Baldwin, who directed his studies until his admission to
the bar, in 1862. Immediately thereafter he opened an office in Logansport,
where he has since remained. His practice steadily grew as he demon
strated his ability to handle vvith masterful skill the intricate problems of
jurisprudence, and he now has a distinctively representative clientage, which
connects him with the most important litigation that is heard in the courts
of his district. He prepares his cases with the utmost skill and precision,
and his dignified presence and earnestness of manner indicate his thorough
familiarity with the contested points. He is logical in argument, clear in his
reasoning, forceful in his delivery, and his opinions always carry weight and
seldom fail to convince.
About the time Mr. McConnell entered upon his professional career the

740 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
war of the RebeUion was inaugurated, and although he was unable to enter
the service, on account of an injury which rendered him a cripple, he gave a
most loyal support to the Union and did allin his power to advance the
cause of the north. He has ever been interested in the movement tending
to advance the general welfare, and withholds his support from no move
ment for the good of city, state or nation.
Mr. McConnell has been twice married. In i860 he wedded Miss
Louisa Gibson, who died in 1884, leaving one child. In 1886 he wed
ded Mrs. Eloise (Landis) Stuart, and their pleasant home in Logansport
is the center of a cultured society circle.

BENJAMIN F. LEGG has been identified with the interests of Tipton
county for more than a third of a century and has contributed to its
material progress and prosperity to an extent equaled by but few of his con
temporaries. One of the most extensive land owners of the county, he has
also been an important factor in its commercial and industrial interests and
thus has advanced the general welfare. Few lives furnish so striking an
example of the wise application of sound principles and safe conservatism as
does his. The story of his success is short and simple, containing no exciting
chapters, but in it lies one of the valuable secrets of the great prosperity
which it records, and his private and business life are pregnant with interest
and incentive, no matter how lacking in dramatic action, — the record of an
honorable life, consistent with itself and its possibilities in every particular.
Mr. Legg was born in Fayette county, Indiana, near Bentonville, Jan
uary 2, 1830; his great-great-grandfather, John Legg, came from Scotland,
and settled in Maryland before the Revolutionary war. His eldest son vvas
Thomas Legg, the great-grandfather of our subject, and he lived in Maryland
and raised a family of six sons and two daughters. He married Susannah
Loder, a daughter of Edward Loder, whose ancestry can be traced to Scot
land. His grandfather, William Legg, was a native of Michigan, and moved
to Ohio. He made farming his life work, and died at an early age, leaving a
large family, among whom was Thomas Legg, the father of our subject, and
a native of Indiana, born October 18, 1800. He, too, was a farmer by occu
pation and spent the great part of his life in Fayette county, but for about

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 741
fifteen or twenty years resided in Tipton county. He married, in 1821, Eliz
abeth Shrader, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1800, and a daughter of
Aaron Shrader, whose birth occurred in Germany. On emigrating to
America he located in Pennsylvania and some years later went to Butler county,
Ohio, making his home near Hamilton. There he followed farming until his
death and reared a large family. Throughout his active business career
Thomas Legg carried on farming and stock-raising. He died in Windfall in
1890, in his ninetieth year, and was supposed to be the oldest native-born
citizen in Indiana at that time. His wife passed away in 1874, at the age
of seventy-four years. They were members of the Christian church, and
were the parents of eleven children, six of whom are now living: William,
of Wild Cat township; Benjamin F. ; Amanda; Elizabeth, wife of Alvah Cast-
line, who resides near Hartford City, Indiana; Melinda, wife of Lloyd Carver,
of Winamac, Indiana; and Emma, wife of Joseph Van Winkle, of Windfall.
Upon the home farm in Fayette county Benjamin F Legg passed his
childhood days, enjoying the privileges afforded by the district schools of the
neighborhood. He engaged in teaching for several years before his mar
riage, having charge of the school. in his home district for three terms. On
the 2d of February, 1854, he married Miss Sarah Jane Sprong, daughter of
Stephen and Nancy (Liggitt) Sprong, and then began farming on his own
account. Eleven children came to bless their home, namely: Charles E.,
who married Lydia A. Roe, of Wild Cat township, Tipton county, by whom
he has two children, Paul and Charity Fern; Florence E. , who died in
infancy; Elbert F. , of Wild Cat township, who married Josie Shockney, and
has four children, Ray, Eva, Drexel and Baby; Wilbur C. , a farmer and
stock-raiser of Wild Cat township, who married Allie J. Sommers, and has
one son, Byron; Dora M., who married Amos White, and has one child,
Frank P.; Rausa B., who died in infancy; Clarence and Clinton, twins, who
died in infancy; Aubrey W., who married Miss Dessie Perry, and is cashier
of the People's Bank of Windfall, Indiana; Eva P., and Earl, who died in
infancy. The mother of this family died October 9, 1897, when almost
sixty-three years of age. She was a faithful member of the Christian church
and had many warm friends throughout the county.
For many years after his marriage Mr. Legg carried on farming almost
continuously, being interrupted only by his service in the Union army. He
enlisted as a member of Company G, Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry, but in

742 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
little less than a year returned home. He then resumed farming and stock-
raising in Wild Cat township, Tipton county, where he had located soon after
his marriage, making that place his home for about thirty-five years. He
originally owned but eighty acres, to which he added from time to time until
within the boundaries of the place were comprised almost eight hundred acres
of rich and arable land. At one time he was for a year engaged in raising
cattle in Missouri, near the Arkansas line. Various other interests have
claimed his attention, and his wise management has been an important fac
tor in the successful conduct of some of the leading concerns of Windfall.
He has been vice-president of the People's Bank for six years and is also
financially interested in the Windfall Natural Gas, Oil & Mining Company,
of which he was president five or six years. In 1889 he left his homestead
farm and removed to the northern corporation line of the town, purchasing
one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he has since resided. Here
he erected a fine brick residence and built a commodious barn and other
buildings, the place being supplied with all modern improvements and
accessories. Socially Mr. Legg is connected with George Miller Post, G. A. R. In
politics he is a Democrat, and has filled a number of local offices. He was
one of the clerks of Wild Cat township, was township assessor and land
appraiser and for fifteen years served as justice of the peace. He also repre
sented his district in the state legislature and was county commissioner one
term. He finds in travel a pleasant source of recreation and has visited
almost every section of the Union. And thus the years of his life have passed,
the arduous cares of business being lightened by recreation and pleasant
social interests, his many friends finding him a genial, courteous gentleman
who commands uniform regard and admiration by his honorable and success
ful career.

JpvANlEL D. MORRISON.— History concerns itself mostly with the men
who have had to do with the political and military interests of the
country, but biography treats of those busy toilers in the affairs of life who
form the true strength of the nation. It is the men who are successful and
enterprising in agriculture and commerce that bring prosperity and advance
ment to a community, and of this class Mr. Morrison is a worthy representa-

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tive. He was born in Cass county, December 28, 1842, and is now one of
its practical, energetic and leading farmers. His parents were Daniel and
Nancy (Pinkerton) Morrison, the former a native of Orange county. New
York, and the latter of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather, William
Morrison, w"as a native of Scotland, and, coming to America in colonial days
and witnessing the oppression of the colonies by the mother country, he
joined the American army in the war of the Revolution and valiantly fought
for independence. He made his home upon a farm in Orange county. New
York, and lived to the ripe old age of four-score years.
When twelve years of age Daniel Morrison accompanied his parents to
Fayette county, Ohio, the family locating upon a farm there in 181 3. He
was reared in that locality, acquired his education in the public schools, and
was connected with the agricultural interests of the Buckeye state until 1838,
when he removed to Cass county. Here he secured a farm of one hundred
and sixty acres in Harrison township, carrying on agricultural pursuits
throughout the remainder of his days. His ability and excellencies of char
acter caused him to be selected for positions of public trust, and for two
years he served as trustee of Harrison township. His political support was
given the Republican party, and his religious views were in harmony with the
doctrines ofthe Presbyterian church. His death occurred in 1877, '^t the age
of seventy-six years. In his family were seven children, as follows: Will
iam, Eleanor, Ann E. , Theodore, who died vvhile serving his country in the
Civil war, Jane, Martha M. and Daniel D.
The last named, having acquired his elementary education in the dis
trict schools of Harrison township, Cass county, entered the Logansport
high school, where he remained for two years. Reading and observation
have made him a very well informed man, and he keeps thoroughly abreast
of the times. When not engaged with his school duties, he devoted his
attention to the work of the farm until, feeling that his country needed his
services, he was prompted to enlist, on the 9th of August, 1862, as a mem
ber of Company K, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, for three years. He joined that
command at Logansport, and was honorably discharged at Pulaski, Tennes
see, on the 28th of June, 1865, having for almost three years defended the
cause which the old flag represented. He was with Sherman in the Atlanta
campaign; was in the Morgan raid, the campaign in east Tennessee and did
scouting duty in Kentucky. A brave and loyal soldier, he remained at the

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front until the starry banner was planted in the capital of the Confederacy,
and then when the country no longer needed his aid he returned to his
northern home and resumed the quiet pursuits of civil life.
On the ioth of December, 1868, Mr. Morrison was united in marriage
to Miss Hattie McCoy, a native of Cass county, and to them was born a
daughter, Eva, wife of Wilson Howe, a resident of Poinsett county, Arkan
sas. The mother died on the 20th of September, 1871, at the age of
twenty-one years, and on the 14th of October, 1874, Mr. Morrison was again
married, his second union being with Amanda A. Matthews, a native of Ful
ton county, Indiana, and a daughter of John and Amanda (Wilson) Mat
thews, both of whom were natives of Ohio, whence they came to Cass
county, in 1838. Afterward they removed to Fulton county, Indiana,
where the father successfully engaged in farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Morri-
rison have been born three children, — Walter M., Arthur D. and Ernest L. ,
the last two twins.
Mr. Morrison exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and
measures of the Republican party, and socially he is connected with John A.
Logan Post, No. 14, G. A. R., of Logansport. His entire life has been
passed in this county, he has witnessed much of its growth, has aided in its
development and is active in co-operation with all movements designed to
prove of public benefit. He is a man of integrity, of firm conviction and
marked fidelity to the duties of life, and Cass county numbers him among
her worthy sons.

OEV. HARRY NYCE, the present pastor of the First Presbyterian church
¦^ *- of Peru, assumed pastoral charge of this congregation in January, 1894,
succeeding the Rev. Solomon C. Dickey. This is one of the oldest church
organizations in Miami county, having been organized in the home of Will
iam N. Hood, November 26, 1835, with a membership of thirteen. Rev.
Samuel Newbury, the first minister of the church, presiding. For a time
religious services were held in the house where the organization was effected
and subsequently meetings were held in a double log-cabin in West Fifth
street. Subsequently the place of worship was what was known as the
Smith school-house, in ^'\'est Second street, the first school-house erected in
Miami county. During the year 1836 a church edifice was erected on the

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present lot, being the first Protestant house of worship in the county. About
this time a Sabbath-school was organized and this for some years was the
only one in the county. From the erection of the church to 1850 it also
served the purpose of a town hall, the court-house having been destroyed by
fire in 1843, after which the sessions of court were held for two years in this
building. In October, 1837, Rev. Asa Johnson took charge of the congregation
and was pastor until July 15, 1849, when he was succeeded by Rev. Milton
Starr, who continued in charge for two years. The next pastor was Rev.
S. F. McCabe, and under his ministry, which began July 10, 1852,. and con
tinued fifteen years, the church made great progress. In the fall of 1854
the present house of worship was begun and it was dedicated July 4, 1858.
During his ministry in Peru Rev. McCabe preached twelve hundred and sev
enty-seven sermons in his own pulpit, baptized one hundred and seventy-seven
persons, officiated at two hundred and eighty-two funerals, and received into the
church two hundred and ten persons. He resigned May 20, 1 867, and was suc
ceeded by Rev. Everett B. Thompson, who continued one year. In April, 1 869,
the Second Presbyterian church of Peru, which had been organized in 1847,
formed a union with the First, Under the name of the First Presbyterian
church of the city of Peru. On the 5th of September, 1869, Rev. Henry
L. Brown becamiC pastor, continuing one year, and in turn came Rev. Samuel
Wycoff, from November 4, 1870, to July 18, 1874; Rev. James B. Parme
lee, from October i, 1874, to May, 1876; Rev. M. M. Whitford, from May
I, 1877, to December 31, 1882; Rev. Leon P. Marshall, from July i, 1883,
to May I, 1889; Rev. Solomon C. Dickey, who took pastoral charge June i,
1889, and was succeeded in January, 1894, by the present pastor. Rev.
Harry Nyce.
The last named was born in Kingston, Decatur county, Indiana, August
13, 1862, his parents being Rev. Benjamin Markley and Melissa (Hamilton)
Nyce, the former born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1809.
The original American ancestor, Hans Nyce or Neus, as the name was orig
inally spelled, came to America in 1683, and our subject is of the seventh
generation of his descendants. The father. Rev, B. M. Nyce, was graduated
in Di kinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and took his theolog
ical course in Princeton. He came to Indiana in 1838 and was pastor of the
church in Greensburg, this state, afterward at Hanging Rock, Ohio. In

746 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
1843 he returned to Greensburg, and later organized churches in Columbus,
Edinburg and Franklin, Indiana. He was married in Greensburg, March
13, 1847, and in 1850 removed to Kingston, Indiana, where he filled the
positions both of pastor and teacher. While his life was devoted to the
work of the ministry, he possessed considerable inventive genius, and to him
belongs the credit and honor of discovering the cold-storage or refrigerator
principle so extensively utilized at the present time. In 1858 he took out a
patent known as the "Nyce Fruit Preserving House." In 1862 he removed
to Cleveland, Ohio, where his honorable and useful career was ended in
death, October i, 1873. His wife passed away June 17, 1880. The surviving
members of their family are Harry, the immediate subject of this review, and
Rev. Benjamin Markley Nyce, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of
Lockport, New York. Another brother, William Nyce, was born in 1852
and died in April, 1895.
Rev. Harry Nyce acquired his early education in the public schools of
Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1880 entered Oberlin College, where he was gradu
ated in the class of 1885. Determining to devote his life to the work of
the ministry he prepared for his chosen calling and was graduated in the
Union Theological Seminary, of New York city, in 1888. He studied in
the University of Berlin, Germany, and traveled in Europe from 1889 until
1 89 1, gaining that broad and comprehensive knowledge and culture which
only travel can bring. On the 26th of March, 1892, he was married in Ber
lin to Miss Rosa Von Hoist, a native of that city, and their union has been
blessed with four chUdren: Ruth, Harriet, Hoist and Esther.
Rev. Nyce was ordained at the Whitewater presbytery, at Kingston,
Indiana, where he remained as pastor until coming to Peru, in January,
1894. He is a man of scholarly attainments and broad general infor
mation, and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the ministry
of his church in northern Indiana, — an earnest, dUigent worker whose labors
are not without good results.

pZRA T. PARKER. — The Green Mountain state has furnished many men
*— ' of prominence and worth to the west, in which number is included Ezra
T. Parker, of Logansport. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, June
19, 1837, and is a son of Quincy B. and Electa (McGaffey) Parker. His

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 747
parents were natives of the town of Lyndon, Vermont, and were of Scotch
and Irish lineage respectively. Their family numbered five children, and
after the mother's death the father married again and had several children
by the second union.
Upon the home farm, among the picturesque hills of his native county,
Ezra T. Parker was reared to manhood, and in the schools near by he
acquired a fair English education, his privileges, however, being limited to
three months' attendance during the winter season after the time he was old
enough to assist materially in the development and cultivation of the old
homestead. He was early trained to habits of industry and energy and
these qualities have been salient points in his success. At the age of twenty
years he left his father's home to start in life independently, and secured a
position with the Fairbanks Scale Company, of St. Johnsbury. After a short
time he entered the employ of Lamson & Goodnow, manufacturers of the
famous Springfield rifle, with whom he continued until 1863, when he
responded to the call for volunteers to uphold the Union. Enlisting as a
member of Company A, Twelfth Vermont Infantry, he remained in the serv
ice for nine months, when, his time having expired, he was mustered out and
returned to the employ of Lamson & Goodnow, with whom he remained
until they had fulfilled their contract of furnishing rifles to the government.
He then returned to the Fairbanks Scale Company, with which he continued
until 1868.
It was in that year that Mr. Parker resolved to try his fortune in the
west, and coming to Indiana he cast in his lot with the citizens of Logans
port, determined to win an honorable place in the business circles of the city
if it could be done by perseverance, enterprise and willingness to work. Such
qualities are always in demand, and the following year after his arrival
Mr. Parker had opportunity to engage in the lumber business as a partner
of WilHam Hagenbuck. They also manufactured bent carriage work, mold
ings, etc., and continued in this line until the manufacturing firm of Hagen
buck, Parker & Company was formed. For ten years operations were carried
on under that title, and then the senior partner withdrew, leaving the two
other partners to carry on the business under the name of Parker & Johnston,
lumber dealers and manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds, etc. They control
their share of the business in their line in Logansport, and the firm enjoys a
most enviable reputation in commercial circles.

748 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Mr. Parker has also attained to pre-eminent distinction in Masonic circles.
He became a Master Mason, in W^indsor, Vermont, in 1865, and soon after
ward took the Royal Arch and Knight Templar degrees in St. Johnsbury.
In 1875 he was dimitted from St. Johnsbury Commandery, of Vermont, to
St. John Commandery, No. 24, K. T., of Logansport, wherein he served as
eminent commander in 1885, 1886 and 1887. In 1886 he took the thirty-
two degrees of the Scottish Rite, in Indiana Consistory, thus becoming a
Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret. He is very prominent in Masonic cir
cles and is a worthy exemplar of this honored fraternity, which teaches the
brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. He was named as a mem
ber of the board of directors by the Masonic Temple Association, organized
for the purpose of building the magnificent Masonic Temple in Logansport,
served as chairman of the building committee, and took a very active part in
the work, this structure now standing, as a monument to the devoted zeal
and loyalty of Mr. Parker and some of his associates in the work. He secured
the charter for Logansport Fidelity Chapter, No. 58, Order of Eastern Star,
and is called the " father of the chapter." In 1889 and 1890 he served as
worthy patron, and his wife also holds membership therein.
Mrs. Parker bore the maiden name of Laura M. Wade, and their mar
riage was solemnized in 1871. They now have three children, Frank, Lillie
M. and Bertha L. The parents are members of the Broadway Presbyterian
church, and in his political belief Mr. Parker is an ardent Republican but
has never been an aspirant for office, his time being taken up wholly with his
business, fraternity and social interests. His name is a synonym for honora
ble business dealing, and his career shows the utmost conformity to the
ethics of commercial life. It is often the case, however, that a man of large
business interests often neglects the holier duties of life, but Mr. Parker has
not only contributed liberally to church and benevolent work, but has given
of his time and energies for its promotion, being especially active in that
splendidly organized and systematic charity which numbers its followers
throughout the world — the Masonic fraternity.

TOHN McMILLEN.— The biographical record of this part of Indiana
^ would scarcely be completed without a mention of John McMUlen, who
vvas one of the prominent men of Cass county. He was born in Perry county.

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Pennsylvania, July 19, 1803. At the age of four years he emigrated with
his parents to Highland county, Ohio. His father's family consisted of fifteen
children, fourteen of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, all married;
one died in infancy. At the age of sixteen years John became the main sup
port of his father's family. An accident happened to his father by which he
was permanently crippled, and, being thus incapacitated for active duty, the
management of the farm devolved upon his son John, and manfully did he
perform the duty thus placed upon him until twenty-four years of age.
At that age he determined to seek his fortune in the great west and in
the year 1827 left his parents' roof with all his possessions bound in a pocket
handkerchief. He traveled on foot to Delphi, Carroll county, Indiana,
where he engaged in building log cabins. He was quite expert in hewing
puncheon for floors and making clapboards for roofing. Husbanding care
fully the profits accruing from his labor, he acquired a small capital. On
the 1 3th day of May, 1830, he married Elizabeth Mauary, who came to Indiana
with her parents in 1825. Her father was the proprietor of the greater por
tion of the land upon which the city of Delphi is now located. There were
only three white famUies there when they arrived, the place being a dense
forest filled with wild Indians. There was not a mill, store or any trading
post within fifty miles of that point. They suffered all the privations of
pioneer life. Her father was a stanch Presbyterian and an elder in the same
church for many years. He was a Whig in his political views.
In 1832 Mr. McMillen came with his wife to Cass county, Indiana, and
entered a tract of land in Noble township, which he occupied about two
years. He then sold his farm to James Harper and purchased another tract
situated in Jefferson township. Out of a dense forest he cleared and
improved over tvvo hundred acres, and through all the privations and hard
ships of pioneer life toiled cheerfully day after day to gain a competence for
his loved ones. His family consisted of six children, three sons and three
daughters, and of this number the only survivors are: Elizabeth, wife of J.
H. McMillen, whose sketch will be found on another page of this work, and
Maria, wife of Mr. G. W. Burrow, of Pensacola, Florida. As a farmer Mr.
McMillen was very successful, and by prudent management accumulated a
large estate.
In 1863 he moved to Logansport and invested largely in real estate and
in this transaction was very successful. He was a Whig before the organi-

750 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
zation of the Republican party and afterward he became very prominent in
the new party, taking an active part in local politics. He died on the 2d
day of February, 1876, after an Ulness of only four days' duration. He
possessed a remarkably vigorous constitution, and up to the time of his last
illness scarcely knew what it was to be ill. He was a gentleman of strictly
temperate habits, was liberal and kind, and his sudden decease was lamented
by a large circle of friends. His wife died April 11, 1878.
Mr. McMillen was one who never said to hungry poverty, " Go." Kind
ness was one of the prominent characteristics of his nature, and his heart and
purse were ever open to the poor and needy. He frequently talked with his
family and friends about death, and expressed the wish that he might be
called hence without the pain of a lingering Ulness. He was a kind husband
and an indulgent father, and his memory is revered by many who have
cause to bless his charity.

WILLIAM H. WATTS, Logansport, was born and reared in Noble town
ship, Cass county, and after an absence of a number of years has
recently returned and resumed his residence at the old Watts homestead,
where he was born. He dates his nativity April 28, 1842. He is a son of
William P. Watts and a grandson of John Watts, who was a soldier in the
war of 18 12. The former was a native of Preble county, Ohio, and his wife,
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Dailey, was born in Virginia. They
were the parents of nine children, namely: John W. , James D., William
H., Joseph A., Daniel M., Elizabeth, Alice, Hannah and Mary. Of this
large family all are living except three.
As above stated, William H. Watts was born and reared on his father's
farm in Noble township, Cass county. He had no other educational advan
tages than those of the public schools, and was just leaving his 'teens at the
time the Civil war cloud gathered and burst upon the country. August 19,
1862, at the age of twenty, he enlisted as a member of Company G, Seventy-
third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, for a term of three years. He was
mustered into the service at Logansport, and at Indianapolis was honorably
discharged April 26, 1865. Among the engagements in which he partici
pated were those of Richmond, Kentucky, and Stone River, Georgia. He
went to the army as a private and returned with the rank of corporal, having

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received this promotion for meritorious service. On one occasion, in Georgia,
his whole regiment were captured by the enemy and for a time held as pris
oners of war.
At the close of the war, after a varied and exciting experience, Mr.
Watts returned to Logansport, and not long afterward engaged in farming
in Pulaski county, this state, where he lived and prospered for a period of
twenty-nine years. During this time he was for nine years interested in an
agricultural-implement business in Pulaski. February 24, 1898, he returned
to Cass county and purchased the old Watts homestead, — one hundred and
eighty acres of fine, well-improved land, — and here he expects to spend the
remainder of his life amid the scenes of his childhood. He still owns his
farm in Pulaski county, — two hundred and sixty acres of good land.
Mr. Watts has a wife and two children. He was married January 19,
1865, to Elizabeth J. Cotner, a native of the township in which he was
born, and a daughter of Peter and Clarissie (Hood) Cotner, both natives of
Ohio, he of Mercer and she of Darke county. Their two children are Eli
M. and Ida E. Mrs. Watts is a consistent member of the Presbyterian
church. Mr. Watts harmonizes with that political party which was on the side
of the Union during the Civil war and which he has ever since supported.
After his return from the army, from 1865 to 1868, he served as assessor of
Noble township. Other than this, however, he has never been an office
holder, his own private business demanding the whole of his time and
attention. Thus briefly have we reviewed the life history of one of the most worthy
and respected citizens of Noble township.

PATRICK H. GRANEY, of Logansport, is one of the younger men in
the service of the Pan Handle Company, and may be said to belong
to a railroad family. He is one of a family of four sons, all of whom, with
one exception, are railroad men, and their father has been in railroad employ
for nearly three decades.
Patrick H. Graney is a native of the Emerald Isle. He was born in
county Galway, Ireland, February 16, 1863, son of Michael and Penelope

752 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
(Ward) Graney, both of Irish birth. Michael Graney brought his family to
the United States in 1870, came direct to Indiana, and located in Logansport,
where they have since lived. On settling here, he secured a position in the
shops of the Pan Handle company, where he worked for a period of twenty-
seven years. He is now with the Vandalia company at this point. His
sons are Patrick H., John, Dennis and Michael, and all except John are in
railroad employ.
Patrick H. was a boy of seven years when he came to live in Logans
port. He was educated in the Sisters' school of this place, and at fourteen
left school to enter upon a railroad career. He began railroading as a fire
man on a yard engine. After two years of yard experience, he was given a
place on the road, firing on the Chicago division first and later on the Rich
mond division. In 1883, at the age of twenty, he was promoted to the
position of engineer of a gravel and work train, and upon its temporary
abandonment he was restored to his old place as passenger fireman. In
1885 he entered the regular freight service as engineer, the following year
was transferred to the passenger service, and for the past twelve years has
had charge of a passenger engine, having a most desirable run from Logans
port to Louisville.

SAMUEL S. GRAIL. — Prairie township, Tipton county, has no more hon
ored or highly respected citizen than this gentleman, who has been promi
nently identified with its agricultural interests for over a third of a century
and has been an important factor in its development and prosperity. He was
born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1818, and is a son of
Samuel and Sarah (Boyd) Crail, the former born in Maryland, of English
ancestry; the latter in Pennsylvania, of Irish extraction. Their marriage
was celebrated in the Keystone state, and in 1822 they removed to Decatur
county, Indiana, where thg father improved a farm and died at the ripe old
age of eighty-two years. He was a shoemaker by trade, having served a
seven-years apprenticeship in Baltimore, but after coming to this state he
gave his entire attention to agricultural pursuits, in which he was quite suc
cessful. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife survived him for some
time, dying in December, 1874, at the age of ninety-four years, a consistent
member of the Presbyterian church. Their children were William W. , who

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SAMUEL S. CRAIL.

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died in LouisviUe, Kentucky, in 1883; Samuel S., of this review; Amanda,
who is unmarried; Louisa, who died, unmarried, December 26, 1874; and
Morgan J., who is stUl a resident of Decatur county.
Samuel S. Crail grew to manhood and attended school in Decatur county,
completing his literary education in the Greensburg seminary. In early life
he successfully engaged in teaching school, but owing to a snake-bite was an
invalid for many years. In 1838 he was married, in Switzerland county, to
Miss Catherine Weaver, of New York, a daughter of Jacob Weaver, of Ger
man descent. The father engaged in farming and also ran a carding-machine.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crail, namely: Augustus F. , now
clerk of Gallatin county, Montana; John, a farmer of Prairie township, Tip
ton county, Indiana; Albert, a carpenter; and Mrs. Fanny Holly, a resident
of Kansas. The wife and mother, who was an earnest member of the Pres
byterian church, died October 25, 1857. On the 3d of December, 1858, in
Howard county, Indiana, Mr. Crail wedded Miss Elizabeth J. Conwell, of
Ohio. Her father. Reason Conwell, of Irish descent, was a contractor on
public works and was a strong Democrat in politics. He became a resident
of Howard county at an early day. By his second marriage our subject had
seven children: Amanda, wife of Alva Mclntire; Georgianna; Adolphus, who
died, leaving a wife and three children; Samuel, a farmer; and Asa, Ella and
Cora, all at home. The mother of these children died October 25, 1882.
After his first marriage Mr. Crail removed to Switzerland county, where
he taught school for eight years, and in 1849 became a resident of Howard
¦county, entering land in Clay township, upon which he made a few improve
ments before exchanging it for another tract of raw land in the same town
ship. To the development and cultivation of this farm he devoted his time
and attention until 1864, when he came to Tipton county and bought two
hundred acres of land, on which he now resides. A few acres had been
•cleared, other trees deadened and a cabin erected, but by his untiring indus
try and good management he now has one hundred acres cleared, ditched,
tiled and under a high state of cultivation. The first frame house he
erected was destroyed by fire in i 894, but it has since been replaced by a
commodious and comfortable residence, and good barns have also been built.
Politically Mr. Crail is a Jackson Democrat, takes a deep and com
mendable interest in public affairs, and always attends the conventions of
his party, where he does all in his power to place good men on the ticket.
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754 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
If a man is nominated whom he considers dishonest he votes for the candi
date of another party. For three terms he served as justice of the peace in
Howard county and two terms in Tipton county, making in aU twenty years,
and he refused a renomination at the end of that time. He solemnized
many marriages in Howard county. He has always been avery popular and
influential citizen of his community, and his course in life has ever been such
as to commend him to the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has
come in contact, either in business or social life.

SCHUYLER POWELL. — The gentleman to whose biography we at this
point call attention, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of
Logansport, Indiana, and the successor to a marble business that was estab
lished in this city prior to the late Civil war.
Captain John Thomas Powell, the father of Schuyler Powell, was born
in Darke county, Ohio, some time in the 'thirties, son of Lycurgus and Han
nah (Foster) Powell. Lycurgus Powell, also a native of Darke county, Ohio,
was born in 1816, and when comparatively a young man came with his fam
ily to Indiana, locating at Logansport, where he passed the rest of his life
and where he died in 1862. His parents were Benjamin and Sarah (Carroll)
Powell, the former a teacher and civil engineer and a man of local promi
nence as a mathematician. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsyl
vania, in 1789 and died in 1873. Lycurgus, like his father, had a bent for
figures and became an expert mathematician. He was also for a number of
years occupied as a marble dealer. He and his wife were the parents of six
sons, four of whom were participants in the Civil war, namely : JohnT. ,
William L., Beecher B. and R. Jay.
At the outbreak of civil war John T. Powell was among the first to offer
his services for the Union cause and he remained in the ranks until the con
flict was over. His first enlistment was in 1861, for three months' service,
and during that time he was corporal of Company K, Ninth Indiana Volun
teer Infantry. At his second enlistment he was commissioned second lieu
tenant of Company B, Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was dis
charged at the end of his term ot enlistment. He took part in the Morgan
raid as first lieutenant in a company of state militia and in October, 1864, he

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was commissioned, upon his third enlistment, captain of Company H, One
Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. During his last
term of service he was in the Atlanta campaign and was a participant in the
battles of Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, besides minor engagements inci
dent to that campaign. His brilliant war record and his real worth as a cit
izen conserved his prominence in civil life and he was drawn into politics.
He filled with ability several public offices, receiving these favors at the hands
of the Republican party. He was street commissioner of Logansport and
captain of her police force, was United States ganger under President Grant
and was district census-taker in 1870. He held at different times every office
in the Methodist church, was an exhorter for many years and at the time of
his death was a licensed preacher. For thirty years he was a marble dealer.
He married Miss Sarah A. Pontious and the children of their union are as fol
lows : Schuyler; Rev. Sherman, a graduate of Drew Seminary, Madison,
New Jersey ; and Estella, wife of Milo Harley, of Logansport.
Having thus briefly referred to his forefathers, we turn now to a sketch
of the life of our immediate subject, Schuyler Powell.
Schuyler Powell was born in Logansport, Indiana, April 5, 1858, and
was educated in the schools of his native city. At sixteen he left school to
learn the trade of stone-cutter, which he acquired under the instructions of
his uncle, B. B. Powell, and upon the completion of his trade he went to
the quarries at Alton, Illinois, spending a year there and a portion of that
time having charge of the stone quarried. Upon his return to Logansport
he engaged in business at the corner of Sixth street and Broadway. As his
business grew he was forced to enlarge his plant, and made several moves,
being located successively at Fifth street, near Market, and on Pearl street.
In 1891 he moved to his present location. His plant, the Logansport Steam
Granite Works, is the largest establishment of the kind in the city and is the
only plant in the state where granite is worked. Mr. Powell has executed
much costly work, the chief of which is the construction of the soldiers' mon
ument in Mount Hope cemetery, Logansport, the second largest in the state,
and the K. of P. monument in Logansport, a shaft supporting a kneeling,
uniformed knight. He has also put up a handsome monument for J. H.
Mergentime, at Peru; one for J. W. Cochran, at Crawfordsville; one for John
Weber, at Fort Wayne; one for Dr. Wilt, at Montpelier; one for John H.
Gibson, in Oakwood cemetery, at Chicago, and many others through the

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state. Mr. Powell has traveled much and has been among all of the pro
ducers of every kind of stone in the United States, gaining much knowledge
in the line of his profession.
Mr. Powell has a wife and three interesting children. He was married
in July, 1880, to Miss Viola E. Cline, daughter of Jacob and Julia A. Cline,
and their children are Mabel, Hazel, deceased, and J. Harold.
Mr. Powell is identified with the Knights of Pythias and is a lieutenant
in the uniform rank of that order. He is a member of the Universalist
church.

WILLIAM S. ELLIOTT.— The Elliott family of which WUliam S.
Elliott, of Liberty township, Howard county, is a representative, is
of Scotch origin, and the ancestry can be traced back to early colonial days.
James Elliott was born in Pasquotank county, North Carolina, in 1730, and
was a farmer by occupation. He also held a number of slaves, but becom
ing convinced that 'his practice was wrong he yielded to the dictates of his
conscience and set them free. He was a member of the Society of
Friends and an upright man of high moral character. He wedded
Mary Nixon, and among their children vvas Nixon Elliott, the grandfather of
our subject. He was born in North Carolina, March 12, 1764, and spent
his entire life in the state of his nativity, his death occurring there in April,
1 82 1. He was a farmer and also owned a fishery. He married Rhoda
Scott, daughter of Joseph and Peniah (Parker) Scott and a native of North
Carolina, born November 10, 1773. Her father was born in 1725, and was
identified with the Friends' church. His children were Joseph, Sarah,
Mary and Rhoda, the last named the wife of Nixon Elliott. The grand-
tather of our subject was also an agriculturist and slaveholder, but gave
to his negroes their freedom. His life was in harmony with the teaching of
the Friends' church, to which he belonged, and he was greatly respected by
all who knew him. His children were John S., born October 7, 1798; James;
Elias, born January 12, 1803; Mary, born August 11, 1805; and Nixon, who
was born January 20, 1809, and died October 7, 1836.
Elias Elliott, the father of our subject, was born on Albemarle Sound,
in N )rth Carolina, January 12, 1803, received his literary education in the

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common schools and in his home received the training of the Society of
Friends, of which he became a member. When a young man he went to
GuUford county. North Carolina, and in that locality purchased and man
aged a farm. He was married there to Martha Sanders, a native of that
county and a daughter of David and Sarah (Brazelton) Sanders. Her
father was the son of Hezekiah and Martha (Elmore) Sanders, the latter of
Cherokee descent. Her father was John Elmore, who married An-nah-wah-
kah, an Indian maiden of the Cherokee nation, whose English name was
Sarah-on-the-Holston-River. John Elmore and his Indian wife became the
parents of the following named: Sarah, who married Jesse Henly and died
in Randolph county. North Carolina, in 1813; Martha, who became the wife
of Hezekiah Sanders and died in Guilford county, same state, in 18 18;
Thomas, who married Nancy Sanders and died in Jefferson county, Ten
nessee, in 1822; Cescella, who became the wife of Robert Johnson and died in
GuUford county, in 1829; Mary, who became the wife of Joel Sanders, and died
in Stokes county. North Carolina, in 1828; and John, who died in Stokes
county, unmarried. These children were reared in the faith of the Society
of Friends. Martha (Elmore) Sanders was a pioneer physician in North
Carolina and practiced the healing art among her neighbors and the people
of the community, being renowned for her skill. She probably gained a
knowledge of Indian remedies and medicinal herbs from her mother, who had
lived among the Indians.
After their marriage Elias Elliott and his wife located on a farm in Guil
ford county, and made that place their home for twenty years, after which
they removed to Indiana, in the spring bf 1849. They traveled across the
country with teams and wagons, and a carriage for the wife and young chil
dren. They located near Raysville, Henry county, and in the following
autumn Mr. Elliott purchased eighty acres of partially cleared land near
Dunreith, same county, upon which he lived for some years. He also kept
a tavern on the National road, and was well known among the pioneer set
tlers. About 1865 he removed to Wayne county, settling on a farm of sixty
acres, and in 1871 he took up his residence in Dublin, Indiana, where he
died in 1878, at the age of seventy-seven years. By his marriage to Martha
Sanders he had five children, William S., Patrick H., David S., James N.
and Mary J. The mother died in Henry county, Indiana, and the father
afterward married Jane Cain, of that county, by whom he had three chil-

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dren, John B., Martha and Emma. Like the others of his family, Elias
Elliott was a member of the Society of Friends and was a straightforward,
honest man and industrious farmer, respected by all.
Born on the iith of November, 1828, in Guilford county. North Caro
lina, William S. Elliott, whose name heads this sketch, acquired his educa
tion in the common schools of his native state and was reared to the occu
pation of farming. When about twenty years of age he came with his
parents to the west, and during his early residence in Henry county taught
school through one winter. In the summer he engaged in clerking in Rays
ville and Spiceland. He was married in Henry country, August 29, 1852, to
Sarah Heavenridge, who was born in that county June 26, 183 i, a daughter
of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bradway) Heavenridge. The family is of German
descent and the old German name of Himmelreich was Anglicized to its
present form. Her father was born in Tennessee, September 22, 1796, and
was a son of John and Margaret Heavenridge. He devoted his life to farm
ing and in early days also operated a flatboat on the Ohio river. He located
on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Henry county, Indiana, cleared
away the heavy timber, and developed rich and fertile fields. In 1854 he
sold that property and removed to Grant county, Indiana, where he pur
chased a small farm, upon which he spent his remaining days. He, too,
was a member of the Friends' church, and was a man of sterling worth and
probity of character. In politics he was a Republican. His children were
Margaret, John B., Lidema, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Emeline, Sarah R. and
Thomas. Two of the sons, John B. and Thomas, were in the Civil war.
The former served for three years in a regiment of Indiana cavalry and died
in a St. Louis military hospital. Thomas, who enlisted in a regiment of
Indiana Infantry for three years' service, was killed at the battle of Chicka
mauga. In 1853, the year following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott removed
to Liberty township, Howard county, locating on their present farm on the
28th of February. Mr. Elliott had previously purchased forty acres three
miles northwest, but sold that property and bought one hundred and twenty
acres where he now lives, only a small portion having been cleared. He
performed the arduous task of preparing this for cultivation and has made it
a very productive and valuable farm. Within its boundaries are now com
prised one hundred and twenty-seven acres, and many substantial improve-

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ments and all the modern accessories and conveniences of the model farm
add to its value and attractive appearance.
Mr. Elliott has always carried on farming, his labors being interrupted
only during his service in the Civil war. February 14, 1865, he enlisted for
one year or during the war, at Richmond, Indiana, as a private in Company
H, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, commanded by Cap
tain William Shelly, and served in the Shenandoah Valley and at Cumber
land, Maryland, until honorably discharged July 20, 1865, and mustered out
at Wheeling, West Virginia. About the close of the war he was ill in the
hospital at Berryville, in the Shenandoah valley for three weeks, and for a
time was stationed in Charleston, West Virginia, the town in which John
Brown, the abolition martyr, once lived. At the close of his service Mr.
EUiot returned to his home and family and resumed farming. In Novem
ber, 1869, he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who was a
member of the Friends' church and a lady of many virtues. Their children
were Franklin H., who was born the ioth month, i ith day, 1854, and married
Luella Howe, and is a miner at Butte City, Montana; Martha E., born the
9th month, 7th day, 1857, died at the age of eighteen years; Mary Z., born
the 6th month, 7th day, 1861, became the wife of Leander Golding, a
farmer of Elgin, Oregon, and has three children; and Charles H., born the
1 2th month, 22d day, 1868, married Maggie Galloway, and is a farmer and
carpenter at the same place.
On the 29th of December, 1870, Mr. Elliott was again married, in
Richmond, Indiana, his second union being with Avis Jane Irish, who was
born in Wayne county, Indiana, April 30, 1832, a daughter of Jonathan and
Mary (Smith) Roberts. Her father was born in Trumbull county, Ohio,
May 20, 1808, and in 181 1 was taken to Wayne county by his parents,
Thomas and Ann (Whitson) Roberts. He attended the first school ever held
in Richmond, in the first log school-house buUt there, the building having
been erected in 18 17 on his fathe.'s land. It is still standing, in a good state
of preservation — one of the few landmarks of pioneer days that yet remain.
Mr. Roberts is still living, a venerable man of more than ninety years. He
was married in Monow county, Ohio, in 1830, to Mary Smith, daughter of
John and Avis (Covill) Smith, and they settled in Wayne county, Indiana, on
the farm which his father had located in 1811 and where Mr. Roberts yet
resides. When he located there it was an unbroken tract of one hundred and

760 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
sixty acres, but is now a valuable property, lying entirely within the corpor
ation limits of Richmond. He followed farming throughout his business
career, and was widely known for his straightforward dealing and unswerving
integrity. He has been a life-long member of the Friends' church, and
justly merits the high esteem in which he is held. His children are Avis,
Eli, Elvira, now deceased, and Henry S. The first named. Avis, became
the wife of Samuel Irish, of Richmond, Indiana, and to them were born two
children: Esther J., wife of Harvey Mendenhall, of Howard county, by
whom she has one child; and Viana, wife of Henry Armfield, of Howard
county, by whom she has five children. Mrs. Irish, by her second marriage,
was wedded to Mr. Elliott.
Since her early girlhood she has been a consistent and faithful member
of the Friends' church, and her many excellencies of character have won her
the warm friendship of many. Mr. Elliott has always taken a deep interest
in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, and is a progress
ive and public-spirited citizen who gives a loyal support to all measures for
the public good. His life has been well spent and his fidelity to every duty
has won him the confidence and good will of all with whom he has been
brought in contact. He is a worthy representative of an honored pioneer
family of the state, and his life record well deserves a place in this volume.

P DWARD N. TALBOTT.— The name of Talbott has long been promi-
A— ' nently connected with the development and progress of Indiana, and the
record of the family is one which reflects credit upon the state. It is a well
attested maxim that the greatness of a state lies not in the machinery of
government, nor even in its institutions, but in the sterling qualities of its
individual citizens, in their capacity for high and unselfish effort and their
devotion to the public good. In these particulars those who have borne the
name of Talbott have conferred honor and dignity upon the Hoosier state,
and as an elemental part of its history we are pleased to record a sketch of
their connection with the, advancement of the commonwealth.
The grandfather of our subject was a resident of Virginia and had a fam
ily of three children: Dr. Hiram E. Talbott, Dr. William Talbott, and Mrs.
Nathaniel Hawkins, who resided in Kentucky. At an early day the family

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removed from the Old Dominion to Kentucky, in- which state Hiram E. Tal
bott, the father of our subject, was reared. His birth occurred in Virginia,
but his literary education was acquired in Shelbyville, Kentucky, while in the
Louisville Medical College he prepared for the practice of medicine, which
he followed, with remarkable success, for many years. When a young man,
between the years 1810 and 181 5, he removed to Greencastle, Indiana, andl
entered upon the prosecution of his chosen calling. He was associated with
his brother and for forty years they were the leading physicians in that entire
section of the state, their practice extending over a wide territory. In 1864.
Dr. Hiram E. Talbott became actively interested in politics. He had pre
viously been connected with the Democracy, but in the movement which
ended in the formation of the Republican party he cast in his lot with the
new organization, and hy it was nominated and elected to the position of
state auditor, becoming one of the first standard-bearers of the party. He
faithfully and creditably filled the position until the close of his term and
then crossed the plains to California. It was not his original intention tO'
seek his fortune in that El Dorado, but merely to attend a party of gold-
seekers from Putnam county on their way to Omaha and thence return tO'
Indiana, but that far on the way he was persuaded to complete the journey.
He rendered medical assistance to those of the party who needed his aid
while en route, and on reaching the Golden state located for a short time in
Marysville, whence he removed to San Francisco, becoming one of the lead
ing representatives of the profession in that city. He also attracted wide
attention as a writer and speaker in advocacy of the cause of tem^perance,
and for a year he devoted his time and energies to the lecture field, wherein
he opposed intemperance, which was one of the worst evils of the new col
ony founded on the far-away Pacific slope.
Dr. Talbott remained in California for ten years and then made arrange
ments to return to Indiana, but on arriving at Boise City, Idaho, he was taken
ill, and died, his remains being interred at that place. He was a man of
marked intellectuality and great strength of character and those qualities emi
nently fitted him for leadership. He became recognized as one of the most
prominent citizens almost immediately after his locating in any community,
and his influence and support were ever given to those measures that tended
toward the public good. During his residence in Greencastle he became-
acquainted with Bishop Simpson and a warm attachment sprang up between

762 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
them. The Doctor was almost regarded as a member of the faculty of
Asbury University, so frequently did he lecture in its halls, while the
encouragement which he held out to many of its students won him their
gratitude and sincere regard. His home relations were very pleasant. He
married Miss America Talbott, daughter of James Talbott. She was a
native of Virginia and died in 1850. Of her nine children, five sons are yet
living, namely: James W., of Logansport; Alexander C, of Des Moines,
Iowa; Edward N. ; Albert G., of Kansas City, Missouri; and Dr. John H., of
Indianapolis. Edward N. Talbott, whose name heads this review, was born in Green-
•castle, Indiana, March 4, 1837, and pursued his education in Asbury Univer
sity and in Berea College, of Berea, Ohio. When his father was elected
auditor of the state, he served as deputy in the office, and on leaving the
capitol entered a dry-goods house of Indianapolis, where he remained untU
engaging in business on his own account. Forming a partnership with
Trumbull G. Palmer, this connection was continued until 1861, when he
bought out Mr. Palmer's interest and removed his stock of goods to Des
Moines, Iowa. There he carried on merchandising until the winter of 1864,
when he was appointed by President Lincoln trader to the Creek Indians, but
after a few months he was forced to resign his position in the Indian Terri
tory on account of failing health, and in the spring of 1866 he returned to
Logansport, where he has since made his home. After a limited retirement
from business cares he purchased a large tract of land adjoining the city and
thereon engaged in the manufacture and sale of lime on an extensive scale.
That proved a profitable source of income and was continued in connection
with agricultural pursuits until December, 1879, when he was appointed to
the position of postmaster of Logansport. He capably administered the
affairs of that office until June, 1885. when he resigned and resumed agricult
ural pursuits. At the same time he became closely identified with the real-
estate business and has operated not only in Indiana lands, but for some time
had an office in Chicago and has conducted some important deals in that city
and in this part of Indiana. Another important enterprise with which he has
been connected in recent years is the Indianapolis, Logansport & Chicago
Railroad. He is president of the company, and is active in the promotion
of the movement, for the building of the road will not only bring this city
into close communication with Chicago and Indianapolis, but to the south of

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the city will also open up a rich region of country that is not now tributary
to it. Mr. Talbott was married December 13, 1859, to Miss Emma M. Dunn,
daughter of Major James W. Dunn. She died in 1873, and in 1875 Mr.
Talbott wedded Fannie M. Sammis, of Brooklyn, New York. He is the
father of thirteen chUdren, namely: May Ewing, who died in 1887; William
P.; Aurelia D., widow of Edward Cox; Edna J.; Emma A., wife of Dr.
Tucker; Carrie W. ; James S. ; McKee Dunn; Helen W. ; Fannie M. ; Edward
N. ; Ruth, and Jennie W. Mr. and Mrs. Talbott are members of the Presby
terian church, and enjoy the hospitality of the best homes in Logansport,
while their circle of friends is very extensive. Mr. Talbott is a Republican in
his political preferences, and in 1878 was elected chairman of the central com
mittee of his party, making an enviable record as an executive officer by his
able planning and management of the campaign. He is a man of superior
business capacity and resourceful ability, his resolute purpose and keen dis
crimination enabling him to carry forward to successful completion whatever
he undertakes. He has made for himself a.n enviable reputation, and is
popular in social, business and political circles.

MOSES OPPENHEIMER. — -The sturdy German element in our national
commonwealth has been one of the most important in furthering the
isubstantial and normal advancement of the country, for this is an element
signally appreciative of practical values and also of the higher intellectuality
which transcends all provincial confines. Well may any person take pride
in tracing, his lineage to such a source. Moses Oppenheimer was one who
claimed the Fatherland as the place of his nativity, and in his life he dis
played the strongest and best traits of character of the German nation. He
was born in Berlichingen, in the province of Wurtemberg, Germany, March
28, 1825, and for many years was a prominent factor in the business life of
Peru. He lost his parents in early life and was reared in the home of
his grandparents until he crossed the Atlantic to America, in his early
youth. A brother had preceded him to the United States, and was
engaged in business as a gunsmith in Illinois, where our subject joined
him. This brother had an eventful history. After a time he discontinued

764 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
his business in lUinois, hoping to engage in some more profitable enter
prise elsewhere. Accordingly he went to the south and was engaged in-
making hoop-poles in the woods. His fellow workman, who proved to be a
villain, discovered that Mr. Oppenheimer had some money, and determined.
to gain possession of this treasure by murdering him. This plan he carried
out, but it was not altogether successful as the murderer did not take into-
consideration the love that Mr. Oppenheimer's dog had for his master. This.
faithful creature, with almost human intelligence, kept running back and.
forth between the scene of the crime and the hotel where his master had
been staying, untU he attracted the attention of some men who followed him
and the body of Mr. Oppenheimer was discovered under a slight layer of
earth and brush, the dog having partially disinterred it by scratching the
dirt from above the breast bf his master. It was found that the victim had
been rendered unconscious by a blow on the back of the head and was
apparently dead, but it was discovered that life was not extinct and restora
tives were quickly applied. He regained consciousness and was brought to
Peru, where he was tenderly cared for in the home of our subject and his
wife, with whom he remained a long time. He possessed an inventive tum
of mind and finally went to New York city, where he produced several inven
tions of minor importance, making his home in that city until his death.
On his emigration to America Moses Oppenheimer was accompanied by
a sister, Henrietta, whom he also brought with him to Peru. She lived for
some time with her uncle, Mr. Falk, and later found a welcome home with
her brother. On arriving in Illinois, after crossing the Atlantic to the New World,
Moses Oppenheimer, as before stated, joined his brother, for whorn he-
worked at the gunsmith's trade for a time. He had, however, been in
structed in his native land in the business of merchandising, and the gun
smith's trade was distasteful to him. Accordingly he wrote to his uncle,
Moses Falk, of Peru, Indiana, for advice and assistance in the matter of
changing his business, and the result was an invitation from the uncle to visit
Peru and enter his service as clerk. The offer was at once accepted, and he
lm mediately entered the store of Mr. Falk, receiving for his services twelve
dollars per month. His integrity, industry and business ability were soon
recognized by his employer and it was not long before he became a partner
in the store.

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In one of his visits to New York city for the purchase of goods, Mr.
Oppenheimer formed the acquaintance of Miss Anna Thalheimer, whom he
afterward made his wife, the marriage being celebrated in New York city
May 15, 1856, about three years after Mr. Oppenheimer became a partner
in his uncle's business. The lady was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Jan
uary 5, 1837, and was one of a famUy of ten children, nine daughters and a
son. She came to America with some friends at the age of fourteen years
and in New York city learned the milliner's trade, afterward engaging in
that line of business until her marriage. A year after her marriage she en
tered her husband's store, and until his retirement, in 1865, she was his able
assistant and constant helpmeet.
In 1865, however, Mr. Oppenheimer sold his store and for the purpose
of recuperating his health made a trip to Europe, accompanied by his wife.
They visited their old home in Germany and Mr. Oppenheimer was much
benefited by the change. He then entered another field of activity, one that
not only brought to him success, but also promoted the general prosperity of
the community. The Peru Woolen MUl, which had been buUt by the Sterne
Brothers, in 1865, was operated by them untU destroyed by fire in 1868.
The loss sustained was about one hundred thousand dollars, with only thirty
thousand dollars insurance. Mr. Oppenheimer was then induced to become
a member of the firm, and proceedings were at once begun to build on a
larger and more modern plan. The new factory was supplied with the latest
improved machinery, which our subject was delegated to purchase. In fact
the success of the reorganized enterprise was largely due to his skill and
judgment as a business manager, and from his earliest connection with the
industry it was placed on a paying basis, its profits constantly increasing.
In 1874 L. Mergentheim became a member of the firm and in 1877 Harry
W. Strouse succeeded to the interests of Henry Sterne. Other changes
caused by the death of members of the firm followed from time to time.
Herman E. Sterne died in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 23, 1879, and Charles
E. Sterne, the last of the brothers who were connected with the business,
passed away August 28, 1880. The death of Mr. Oppenheimer occurred
August 7, 1885, and the firm was reorganized in 1886, but at the present
time the factory is not in operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheimer were the parents of two chUdren, but Net
tie, who was born May 16, 1878, died December 20, 1879. The other

766 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
daughter is Bertha, wife of Samuel Heller, of New York city. The father
was a man of superior business qualifications and at his death left a comfort
able competence. His ambition was to acquit himself of life's duties hon
orably before all men, to improve his capabUities and opportunities and to
become of use in the world; and it is this spirit mainly that made the little
German emigrant one of the leading business men of Miami county. His
widow, a most estimable and inteUigent lady, resides at her pleasant home
at No. ii6 West Third street, Peru, and her circle of friends in the commu
nity is very extensive.

ISAIAH A. ADAMS. — For a great many years this gentleman, now a
respected citizen of Logansport, Cass county, has been prominent in the
ranks of the Republican party, and in November, 1894, he was elected tothe
responsible position of sheriff, the duties of which office he discharged with
fidelity. Upon the expiration of his term, in August, 1897, he was succeeded
by Charles Homberg, who had been his predecessor in the office. In 1888
he was honored with the appointment to the office of postmaster of the town
in which he was then living, Galveston, Cass county, and there, as here, he
was very highly commended by all citizens, by reason of his efficiency and
his regard for the welfare and comfort of the public. For years he has
attended the various conventions and caucuses of his party, and in an unos
tentatious manner has endeavored to promote its success. During the
troublous days of the Civil war he was loyal to the stars and stripes and
offered his services and life, if need be, that the Union might be preserved.
In times of peace and prosperity, as well, he has not flinched from doing his
part as a patriot, and has always stood firmly by the government.
Rev. Samuel R. Adams, the father of our subject, was born in New Jer
sey in 1800 and died in Cass county, Indiana, in 1884. For twenty years he
had been prominent in the civil, military and political life of this county, and
no one was more generally loved and respected. Leaving his native state
in early manhood, he located in Preble county, Ohio, and there married Miss
Emily Cook, a New Jersey lady. She died in 1875, leaving eight children.
Of these, aside from the immediate subject of this sketch, we offer the fol
lowing brief record: Ma.rtin C. died in Galveston, Indiana, in 1890; Lewis
is engaged in the hotel business in Hudsonville, Illinois; Jane is the wife of

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Captain David Culver, of Howard county, Indiana; Marjorie is Mrs. WUliam
MUls, of Howard county; John I. is a real-estate man of Elwood, Indiana;.
Zerilda is the widow of M. V. Randall, of Howard county; and Samuel R.
is a resident of Hudsonville, Illinois.
Like his father before him (Isaiah Adams) Rev. Samuel R. Adams was
a farmer by occupation, and was, moreover, engaged in merchandising in the
town of Eldorado, Ohio, for some years. He was converted to Christianity
early in life, was ordained a minister in the denomination of the United
Brethren and continued as a laborer in the Master's vineyard "without
money and without price " for years. Though he had not been afforded the
privileges of a college education, and, inconsequence, had to overcome numer
ous difficulties that are not encountered by the modern preacher, he pos
sessed much native ability, sound judgment and tact, and these qualities,
combined with an intuitive understanding of human nature, enabled him to
deal effectively and successfully with those who came within his sphere of
influence. During the Civil war he took great interest in the success of the
Union, and made speeches and lent encouragement in every legitimate man
ner to the young men of Ohio and Indiana who went forth to the defense of
the old flag. During the first quarter of a century of its history he was one
of the effective campaigners of the Republican party, which he had helped to-
organize. Isaiah A. Adams, of this sketch, was born in Preble county, Ohio,
December 28, 1842. He attended the schools of his native state and vvas a
student in T. J. Bryant's Commercial College at Indianapolis at the time
that Fort Sumter was fired upon. He at once returned home and enlisted
for three months' service, being a private of Company D, Twenty-first Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to guard duty on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of enlist
ment, at Eaton, Ohio, August 28, 1861. The same day this plucky young
soldier re-enlisted for three years and was sent to Benton Barracks, St.
Louis, Missouri, where General Fremont was organizing the western army
He was placed in Company E, Thirteenth Missouri Infantry, as a sergeant,
and participated in the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. In the
engagement at Shiloh he was twice hit by the enemy's bullets, one glancing
off from his sabre belt and the other taking away the upper portion of his
right ear. He was not on duty for thirty days, but was back in the ranks.

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in time to take part in the siege of Corinth and its capture. He was with
the Thirteenth Missouri when they held the works against the charge of the
rebels in the second battle of Corinth and in the engagement of luka, after
which the regiment was transferred to the Vicksburg forces and attached to
Sherman's command. After the siege and surrender of that city the regi
ment was sent to Helena, Arkansas, and across to Little Rock to aid in the
capture and assault of that stronghold. During this movement the regiment
was officially renamed, becoming the Twenty-second Ohio, and Sergeant
Adams was sent to report to the governor of Ohio, under instruction of Gen
eral Grant. The governor sent the young man into his native county to
recruit a company, and as the result of his efforts the " Squirrel Hunters"
were organized and equipped and he was made the captain of the company.
After he had escorted them to Cincinnati, Ohio, he was ordered back to his
regiment, then at Little Rock, Arkansas, and remained in that locality,
engaged in conflicts vvith the bushwhackers and guerrillas during the term of
his enlistment. At Camp Dennison, Ohio, he received an honorable discharge,
November 28, 1864. For several years he has been a member of Dan Pratt
Post, No. 50, G. A. R. , of Galveston, and is past commander of the same.
His parents having removed to Cass county in 1863, Mr. Adams also
determined to locate here, and for some time operated a sawmill. Later he
turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and a few years ago embarked in
the flour and feed business in Galveston, this county.
June II, 1865, Mr. Adams was united in marriage with Miss Susanna
Shewman. They have had no children, but took into their hearts and home
a little girl, Frances Redeer, whom they adopted when she was three years
of age, and a little boy, Roy Brocker, is also one of their family circle at
present.

"\ X HLLIAM C. RAYMOND — One of the leading representatives of com-
' ' mercial life in Peru since 1872, WUliam C. Raymond is now engaged
in the real-estate and loan business. He was born in Canada, June 5, 1845,
and is a son of George Raymond, who was born in the state of New York
about 1 8 10. The ancestry of the family can be traced back to an early
period in the colonial history of New England. It is recorded that Richard
Raymond removed from Salem, Massachusetts, to Norfolk, Connecticut, in

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1655, only thirty-five years after the landing of the PUgrims at Plymouth
Rock. It is also a matter of record that the great-grandfather of George
Raymond became a resident of the northeastern part of Putnam county.
New York, in 1745, thirty years before the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, and thus it will be seen that the representatives of
the famUy were active in opening up the country to civilization. Jona
than Raymond, the father of George, was born in 1773 and for some
time was engaged in business in New York city, but about the year
1817 removed to Canada. George Raymond, the father of our subject,
married Susanna H. Brown, a native of New York, and about 1865 they
removed from their Canadian home to Peru, Indiana, where the father
¦engaged in the lumber business for many years. Subsequently he went to
LaSalle, lUinois, where he resided for about ten years, after which he removed
to Beatrice, Nebraska. His death occurred in Wellington, Kansas, in May,
1896, and his wife passed away in Attica, Indiana, in January, 1898. They
were the parents of five sons and four daughters, of whom four sons and three
daughters are yet living.
William C. Raymond spent the days of his childhood in the place of his
nativity, and when in his seventeenth year accompanied his father on a trip
to British Columbia, in February, 1862. Two years later the father
returned to Canada, and soon afterward removed to Peru, Indiana, but the
subject of this review remained on the Pacific coast about seven years. Not
long after his return to his parents' home he started for the south, and near
the city of Huntsville, Alabama, purchased a farm, upon which he engaged
in the cultivation of cotton for three years. On the expiration of that period
he returned to the north and located in Peru, where his father's family had
takenup their abodesome years before. While living in the northwest he had
pursued the study of medicine and pharmacy on Vancouver's island, and the
knowledge he had thus obtained induced him to enter the drug business in
Peru, where he successfully conducted a store in that line for ten years. On
-disposing of his interest in that branch of merchandising he embarked in
•the lumber trade, and in January, 1898, selling his lumberyard, he began
bnsiness in his present line as a loan agent and real-estate dealer.
The lady who now bears the name of Mrs. Raymond was in her maiden
hood Miss Emma J. Farris. She was born near Niagara Falls, NewYork,
and being left an orphan in early childhood she lived for many years in the
Ik;

770 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
home of Mr and Mrs. Charles A. Parsons, of Peru, Mrs. Parsons being her
elder sister. Three sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond,
namely: Louis, Charles and George. The parents hold membership in
the Presbyterian church of Peru. In his political affiliations Mr. Raymond
is a Republican, and vvhile well informed on the issues of the day he has
never been an office-seeker, preferring to devote his time and energies to his
business interests which have been crowned with a merited success. During
his long residence of more than a quarter of a century in Peru he has ever
possessed the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, and in this vol
ume he well deserves honorable mention.

JAMES P. MARTIN. — In the anxious and laborious struggle for an honor
able competence and a solid career on the part of the business or profes
sional man, fighting the every-day battle of life, there is but little to attract
the idle reader in search of a sensational chapter; but for a mind thoroughly
awake to the reality and meaning of human existence, there are noble and
immortal lessons in the life of the man, who, without other means than a
clear head, a strong arm and a true heart, conquers adversity, and, toiling on
through the work-a-day years of a long career, finds that he has won not
only a comfortable competence but also something far greater and higher, —
the deserved respect and esteem of those with whom his years of active life
placed him in contact.
Such a man, and one of the leading citizens of Logansport, is James P.
Martin. He was born just east of the town of Camden, Carroll county,
Indiana, on the 2d of August, 1837, and is a son of Charles and Jemima
(Patchell) Martin. They were natives of Butler county, Ohio, and after
their marriage they removed thence to Indiana, locating in Carroll county,
where the father carried on agricultural pursuits. They were industrious
people, worthy representatives of that substantial and progressive class who
have advanced the state to her present proud position in the Union. They
took an active part in the work of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, in
which they held membership, and were highly esteemed for their sterling
worth. Their chUdren were William, who resides on the old family home
stead; James P., of this review; Margaret, wife of Martin Mebbitt, also a

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 771
resident of Carroll county; and Newton J., a prosperous farmer of Cass
county. James P. Martin was reared on the old homestead and assisted in the
cultivation of the farm until twenty-three years of age, when he left his
father's house to enter mercantile life and embarked in the drug business in
Galveston, Cass county, where he carried on operations for a year. In 1870
he came to Logansport and engaged in the grocery business, which he carried
on with gratifying success for ten years, when he turned his attention to his
present line of business, — dealing in stone-ware and sewer-pipe. This has
proved to him a profitable investment and he is now conducting an extensive
business, which has come to him by reason of his fair dealing, reliability and
integrity of character.
The home relations of Mr. Martin are very pleasant. He was married
in Noble township, Cass county, on the 6th of January, 1876, to Miss Zeru-
sha A. Booth, daughter of De Hart Booth, and their children are: Bessie,
Stella, Fred, Helen and Richard. They lost their first-born, George, who
died at the age of sixteen years, and Grace died at the age of five years.
Socially Mr. Martin is connected with both the subordinate lodge and the
encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is past grand of the
order, and has been representative to the grand lodge. His family have
always adhered to the principles of the Democracy, and he also is a zealous sup
porter of that party. He was elected a member of the city council from the
fifth ward, serving during the term of Mayor Jacobs, and on his retirement
from that office was made the nominee of his party for a position on the
board of education, to which he was elected in the spring of 1887. For nine
years he served in that capacity, acting as treasurer of the board for two
years and as president during the last five years of his incumbency. The
cause of education is one in which he takes deep interest, believing it to be
one of the bulwarks of the nation, and his labors on the school board were
most effective and beneficial to the school system of Logansport. He gave his
support to every progressive interest, and during his incumbency the fifth-ward
building, the eighth-street building, the west-side building and the new high-
school buUding were erected, and the south-side building was reconstructed. Mr.
Martin gives his aid and co-operation to every movement for the public good,
and is a progressive, enterprising and valued citizen who well deserves men
tion among the prominent residents of Cass county.

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2 BIOGRAPHICAL .IXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF

JOHN H. HELM, M. D. — A retired physician and surgeon of Peru, Dr
Helm was for many years recognized as one of the leading members of
his profession in Indiana, having attained high distinction in the line of his
chosen calling. With strong intellectual endowments, a laudable ambition and
resolute purpose, he achieved enviable success and won the favorable criti
cism of his professional brethren as well as of the public.
The Doctor was born in Elizabethtown, Carter county, Tennessee, April
23, 1826. His paternal grandfather was a native of Germany and emigrated
to America before the war of the Revolution, in which struggle he fought in
the ranks of the American army for the cause of independence. The father
of our subject, Dr. John C. Helm, was born in Charleston, Virginia, now
West Virginia, November 7, 1800, and two years later was taken by his
parents to Washington county, Tennessee, where the days of his childhood
and youth were passed. He was educated in Washington College and
studied medicine, preparatory to making its practice his life work. In 1821
he married Amy Hampton, a daughter of Major John Hampton, of South
Carolina, who served under General Jackson in the war of 181 2 and was a
second cousin of General \\'ade Hampton, the famous Confederate general
in the Civil war. In 1835 Dr. John C. Helm removed to Preble county,
Ohio, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1844, when
he came to Miami county, Indiana. Here he became largely interested in
the milling business and erected a flouring mill at Peru, and later one in
Peoria, Miami county. He finally made a permanent location at the latter
place, devoting his energies to his extensive business affairs. He had an
extensive practice in the line of his profession, and the capital which accrued
therefrom was invested so judiciously that he amassed a fortune. He was a
man of remarkable energy and business ability and, though he often met with
reverses, these seemed but to spur him on to renewed effort, his losses were
soon retrieved and he died the possessor of large wealth. In 1865 he was
bereft by death of his wife, and soon after this affliction he divided the
greater part of his large real-estate holdings among his three sons. He after
ward married again, but his second wife lived only a short time. His chil
dren are John H. ; Henry T. , a prominent attorney of Chicago ; and David
B., a farmer.
Dr. Helm, whose name introduces this sketch, acquired his education
chiefly through private instruction. He studied medicine under the direction

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of Dr. Pliny M. Grume, of Eaton, Ohio, and later Charles L. Avery was his
preceptor. On the completion of a three-years course of study in the Ohio
Medical College, of Cincinnati, he was graduated in that institution in 1847,
and soon afterward entered into partnership with Dr. Grume for the practice
of his profession in Eaton. He served one year in the Mexican war, under
General Wool, and in 1848 started upon a three-years' trip, visiting Cali
fornia, Oregon, Mexico, the West Indies and Central and South America.
In 185 I Dr. Helm was united in marriage to Miss Mary Henkle, a daugh
ter of Rev. Andrew Henkle, of Gerraantown, Ohio, but she lived only about
a year after their marriage. Having resumed the practice of his profession
in connection with Dr. Grume, he remained in Eaton until i860, when he
removed to Peru, where he soon established himself in the confidence and
esteem of the people and gained a large and lucrative practice. In 1854 he
was again married, his second union being with Miss Margaret Ridenour, of
Preble county, Ohio.
His best energies have ever been devoted to his profession and his pro
nounced ability gained him a position in the front rank among the leading
practitioners of Indiana. Many honors in connection with his profession have
been conferred upon him, including his election to the presidency of the Indiana
State Medical Society in 1876. He has also served as president of the Miami
County Medical Society, and was long president of the Peru board of health,
which he was instrumental in organizing. He has contributed many able
articles to the various medical societies with which he is connected and also
to many medical journals. In 1871 he went with a company of one hundred
and seventy-three physicians who crossed the continent to California to attend
the meeting of the American Medical Association, and at that time was made
an honorary member of the California Medical Society. His knowledge of
the science of medicine is comprehensive and accurate, for he has always been
a close student of the profession and has kept in touch with the progress and
improvement which mark its advancement at the present. He has extensive
farming interests in Miami county, Indiana, and in Champaign county, Illi
nois, and to the management of the same he has devoted considerable time,
displaying superior executive ability in connection therewith.
In his religious convictions Dr. Helm is a Catholic and has ever been
generous and liberal in his contributions to church and charitable work. Of
late years he has more and more put aside the arduous duties of his profes-

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sion and is now living retired, enjoying a well-merited rest from labor. He
spends his summers at his home in Peru, but usually passes the winter months
in the more congenial climate of the south. In the practice of his profession
he made many friends by his devotion to his patients, whether rich or poor.
His kindly, sympathetic nature proved an able supplement to his medical
skill, and his cheery presence was like a ray of sunshine in the sick-room.
His life has been marked by devotion to every duty and commands the respect
and confidence of all.

CHARLES J. HELM, M. D. — This well-known and honored physician
of Perm, has practically taken the place of his father, Dr. John H.
Helm, since the latter retired from the professional field. He is a native of
the city which is now his home, his birth having occurred January i8, 1863.
As he was in delicate health in his youth his early education was acquired
under the guidance of a governess, and later he pursued a preparatory course
of study in St. Laurence, Montreal, Canada, where he remained for a year.
In 1883 he was graduated in Georgetown College, in Georgetown, District
of Columbia, where he took a classical course, winning the degree of A. B.
Determining to enter the profession to which his father and grandfather had
devoted their energies, he entered the medical department of Harvard
University, where he was graduated in 1887. He then engaged in the prac
tice of medicine in Peru until 1890, when he crossed the Atlantic and entered
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he remained one year. Return
ing to New York he took a course in the New York Polyclinic and then
resumed the practice of his profession in Peru, but wishing to further perfect
himself in the science of medicine and surgery in European schools, as well
as gain recreation and pleasure by the trip abroad, he again went to the Old
World in August, 1897, accompanied by his wife. They visited the places
of modern and historic interest in England, Belgium, HoUand, France, Ger
many, Switzerland and Italy, and the Doctor pursued his medical and
scientific researches in the best colleges of these different countries. He also
took a second course in St. Bartholomew's, London, and on his return pur
sued a second course of lectures in New York, arriving at his home in Peru,
in March, 1898. He has spared neither labor nor expense in gaining a
knowledge that will best fit him for his chosen profession, and his superior

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 775
abihty is manifest in the excellent results which attend his efforts. He is
a member of various medical societies, is consulting surgeon of the Wabash
Hospital, of Peru, and enjoys a very large private practice, his patrons
including many of the best families of this locality. The Doctor married
Miss Frances A. Carter, and they lost their only child, who died at the age
of five months. They have a very wide acquaintance in Peru and occupy a
very enviable position in social circles, while their own pleasant and hos
pitable home is a favorite resort with many friends.

ISAAC N. COOL. — The manufacturing industry of Cass county, Indiana,
* has an able representative in the gentleman whose name introduces this
review, Isaac N. Cool, the leading carriage manufacturer of the county.
Mr. Cool is a native of Indiana. He was born in De Kalb county,
October 12, 1850, son of the late Isaac Cool and Catherine Cool «<?> Snyder,
New Yorkers by birth. Isaac Cool came to Indiana in 1843, accompanied
by his young wife, whom he had married only a few days before his departure
for the west. This young couple settled in the woods and earnestly set about
the work of clearing up a farm, which they accomplished in due time and
which they owned and resided upon until the death of Mr. Cool in the fall of
1882. He was a thrifty and industrious man and achieved not only a positiori
of financial independence but a good name as well. He enjoyed the con
fidence and high esteem of all who knew him. The children which came to
bless their home numbered four, namely: Franklin, deceased ; Mary, wife of
Martin Goetschius, who resides near Helena, Montana; Isaac N. ; and
Charles, deceased.
Isaac N. Cool was born and reared on his father's farm and had no
other educational advantages than those of the country schools. At the age
of twenty-three years he left the farm and began clerking in the general store
of W. H. McQuiston, and after acquiring a fair knowledge of the business he
opened a grocery of , his own, which he conducted for two years. His next
venture was in the livery business, and while thus occupied he became
acquainted with the buggy and carriage business, finally dropping the former
for the latter, at first buying and selling and in 1882 beginning the manu
facture of buggies and carriages. His manufacturing industry was com-

776 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
menced on a small scale at Auburn and was continued there until 1890,.
when he was induced to remove his plant to Logansport, his present location.
In the meantime his business increased from year to year. In Auburn his
output was about one hundred and twenty-five vehicles per year, and at
present he turns out between three and four thousand in that time, his estab
lishment employing the services of half a hundred men. Mr. Cool is the
patentee of a canopy-top road-wagon which he is manufacturing and which
has been on the market for five years, reaching the trade through its merits
and holding its own in compe ition with other vehicles of the same class.
Mr. Cool has a wife and three children. He was married in Auburn,
Indiana, in July, 1876, to Alice A. Fair, daughter of Abraham and Catherine
Fair, and their children are Vina, Sidney and Frank.
It should be further stated in connection with Mr. Cool's history that
his paternal grandfather, Phihp Cool, was a descendant of the German
family of Cools that settled in the Mohawk valley. New York, previous to
the war of the Revolution. By occupation he was a farmer He died in
Sandusky, Ohio, about the year 1835.

AF. SWOVELAND. — Civilization and cities are built up by the enter
prise of men who " lay up treasures on earth," so that they can have
the means wherewith to operate. These ' ' treasures " are not the end of
life, but the means of accomplishing the object of life, happiness; and no
man's happiness is complete unless he is administering to the happiness of
the greatest number practicable around him. This is accomplished by the
modern methods of business in Christendom. Mr. Swoveland is a great
" drive- wheel " in the machinery of the business of the country, and the few
items which we have been able to glean concerning the principal facts of his
life wUl be of interest to all who know anything of him.
Mr. Swoveland was born in Van Wert county, Ohio, July 20, 1857, a
son of Jacob and Sarah (Swoveland) Swoveland, natives of Pennsylvania
and Ohio respectively. Of the ten children born in that family only three are
now living, — Peter, John and Aaron F. Jacob Swoveland, a farmer, came
from Van Wert county, Ohio, in 1870, to Tipton county, Indiana, and loca
ted at Nevada, where for a year he was engaged in merchandising; then, in

CASS, .MIAMI, HOWARD .A.YD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 777
1872, he purchased a farm, which he worked until 1875, when he sold out
and came to Windfall to make his residence; but after a time he rented a
farm a mile and a quarter north of town, and passed there the remainder of
his life, leaving this world for the next in 1878, at the age of sixty-four years
and eleven months. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in Ohio,
in the year 1865, a sincere member of the Lutheran church, of which he
also was a member at the time, but later joined the Methodist denomination.
For his second wife he was united in marriage with Abiah Stern, who departed
this life in 1895, childless. She was a devoted member of the Methodist
church. John Swoveland, the paternal grandfather of Aaron F., was a native of
the Keystone state and of German descent, and was a distiller by occupa
tion, his residence being in the midst of the Alleghany mountains, where he
died, at an advanced age, having had three sons and three daughters. Peter
Swoveland, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was also a native of
Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, a farmer and cabinet-maker by trade and
occupation, and finally died at the advanced age of ninety-six years, in Van
Wert county, Ohio. His children comprised seven daughters and no sons.
Mr. A. F. Swoveland was thirteen years of age when the family emigrated
from Yan Wert county, Ohio, to Tipton county, Indiana. He was reared to agri
cultural pursuits principally until he was sixteen years of age. Besides a common-
school education obtained in Ohio and at Windfall, he also attended the nor
mal school at Tipton. His first employment was in 1875 as a clerk in the
general store of J. H. Zehner, for whom he worked at intervals for fifteen
years, in the meantime attending school and teaching four terms of school.
He is a Republican, has served as town clerk several terms, and at one
time was a candidate for the office of county clerk and county recorder, when
the county was strongly Democratic, and he with his party was defeated. In
1895 he was appointed receiver of the Windfall Glass Works, and soon after
ward became trustee for the creditors. The debtors finally defaulting, he
sold the property in 1896, and later became half owner, and manager in 1897,
becoming sole proprietor on the ist of March, that year. In this establish
ment are manufactured fruit jars and bottles, and sixty to eighty-five hands
are employed. Mr. Swoveland was cashier of the People's Bank during
the first year of its existence. His residence he built in 1893.
Mr. Swoveland has now been a resident of the county for twenty-eight

778 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
years, and of Windfall ever since 1875; and he has never been idle a single
day ever since he started out in the world for himself. When about twenty
years of age he assumed several hundred dollars of his father's indebtedness
and in good time paid it and provided a home for his step-mother and pre
sented it to her, which she wUled back to him at her death. He has made
his own way in the world, starting from nothing, and is therefore a self-made
man, having accumulated all his property by his own industry and good
management. His marriage occurred on the 2d day of September, 1883, when he was
united with Miss Nancy Jane Gray, a daughter of Frank and Ann (Leavell)
Gray. Their three children are Glenna O., Anna L. and Aleen, — all of them
specially talented in music, playing the piano and violin. The parents are
exemplary members of the Christian church, and he also belongs to the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Swoveland is from one of the old
families of the county, whose history appears in another place in this work.

pELIX SEBASTIAN MORGAN, of the popular firm of Cummings &
*¦ Morgan, furniture dealers of Logansport, Indiana, is a native af this
city and dates his birth April i, 1870.
John Morgan, the father of Felix S., was born in Ireland, came to
Logansport some forty-five years ago, and was well known here as an hon
est, industrious and respected man. He was here married to Bridget Kear
ney, and they became the parents of a large family of chUdren, Felix S. being
the fourth in order of birth and one of the five who are now living, the
others being James, Andrew, Mollie and Annie. The death of the father,
in 1874, threw the children at an early age upon their own resources, and
when a mere boy Felix S. began to support himself. His schooling was all
obtained before he was fifteen. At that age he entered the establishment of
Ash & Hadley to learn the furniture business and spent three years with
them. He then went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he finished his
trade with Hasserman & Company. Frora Chattanooga he came north to
Peoria, Illinois, where, in the absence of proper inducement for work at his
trade, he accepted a position on the street railway and for one year was a
street-car conductor. Returning thence to Logansport, he entered the

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employ of Ash & Hadley and remained with them one year. Young and
ambitious and with a desire to see something of the world, he was not yet
content to tarry longer than a year in one place, and at this time we find
him starting out on a tour westward, working his way from place to place,
sojourning wherever fortune favored him. At Grand Junction, Colorado, he
spent one month in the employ of Charles Kern. From there he went to
Salt Lake City and thence to California, first to San Francisco and then to
Palo Alto and Salinas, stopping at each of these points and accepting employ
ment wherever he could find it. Much of his work on this trip was "fixing
' over " or repairing furniture. On his return trip eastward he visited Mexico,
New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Indian Territory, and arrived in Logans
port after an absence of thirteen months. Again he entered the employ of
Ash & Hadley, with whom he remained a short period. January i, 1897,
he engaged in business for himself and not long afterward associated himself
with Mr. Cummings under the firm name of Cummings & Morgan, and from
the start the new firm has been a popular one. The partners, both being
Logansport boys, born and reared here, naturally have a strong attachment
for the city and an abiding faith in her future prosperity.

DR. EZRA K. FRIERMOOD. — This gentleman is one of the leading
physicians of Greentown, Indiana. He springs from sturdy German
stock and traces his ancestry along the agnatic line back to Germany, his
great-grandfather, Matthias Friermood, having been born in Hamburg.
Matthias Friermood, when a boy of fourteen years, ran away from home and
came to America, working his passage on a ship, and upon landing in this
country made his way to Ohio, which was then a territory. There he lived
and labored the rest of his life. His son was in the war of 18 12 and expe
rienced many of the hardships incident to life in the Western Reserve at that
early day. He died at a fort on lake Erie. In Clark county he accumulated
a large tract of land, to the amount of eleven hundred acres, and when he
died, at a venerable age, he left to his children a valuable estate. His wife,
whose maiden name was Nancy, or Patsy, Hill, survived him a number of
years, her age at death being about ninety.
Reuben Friermood, the grandfather of Dr. E. K. Friermood, was born
in Clark county, Ohio, and was there married to Miss Sarah Kizer, a

780 BIOGR.iPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
descendant of German ancestry and a representative of one of the well-to-do
famihes of that county. Her brothers, John and George Kizer, vvere two of
Clark county's wealthiest men. One of them built the first brick house in
the county, which is still standing. Reuben Friermood and wife were the
parents of the following named children : Jacob, John, Reuben, George,
William, Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Catherine and Martha. Three sons, Jacob,
Reuben and George, were Union soldiers in the Civil war, and George was
killed while in the service. The father of this family died of typhoid fever at
the age of fifty years. He was a substantial and much esteemed farmer of
Clark county ; religiously, a Lutheran , politically, an old-line Whig.
Jacob Friermood, son of Reuben and father of the subject of this sketch,
was born in Clark county, Ohio, on the "old homestead. May 12, 1820.
There he grew up and married, the lady of his choice being Elizabeth Baker,
who was born in Clark county, in April, 1822, daughter of John and Susan
(Norman) Baker, both the Normans and Bakers being of German descent
and having come to Ohio from Virginia. Jacob Friermood settled on the
home farm after his marriage and resided there until 185 i, when he moved to
Grant county, Indiana, and located in Sims township, buying eighty acres of
land and subsequently adding another eighty thereto. His first work here
was to build a log cabin. Other improvements followed, and in the course
of time his farm was one of the best in the vicinity. He continued his res
idence upon it until 1891, when he returned to the scenes of his childhood in
Clark county, Ohio, and there lived retired until his death, at about seventy-
eight years of age. He was a member ofthe German Reformed church. His
children are Samuel, Dr. EzraK. , Sarah, deceased, Zachariah T. , Susannah,
William E., deceased, John T., Letitia and Jacob L. Jacob Friermood and
two of his brothers were in the army. He enlisted August 15, 1862, for
three years or during the war, as a private in Company I, Ninety-ninth Indi
ana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain M. V. Powell, and served until he
was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He was mustered out at
Washington, D. C, June 5, 1865, and honorably discharged at Indianapolis
on the 15th of the same month. In the early part of his service he was
crippled from inarching and was detailed for hospital and commissary service,
in which capacity he was active until he was honorably discharged.
Dr. Ezra K. Friermood, whose name initiates this review, was born
December 29, 1844, on the old Friermood homestead in Clark county, Ohio,

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the ownership of which had descended from his great-grandfather. When
about seven years old he was brought by his parents to Grant county, Indi
ana, where he was reared and received a common-school education. When
he was seventeen he enlisted with hisfather, August 15, 1862, as a member
of Company I, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered
out and received his honorable discharge on the same dates his father did, as
above recorded. He was in the second line of defense at the siege of Vicks
burg; was in the second battle of Jackson, M ssissippi, where he was six days
under fire, and was in the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25 and 26,
1863. Also he was in the Atlanta campaign and on the memorable "march
to the sea" with Sherman, thence went with his command up through the
Carolinas and at the close of the war was one of the victorious soldiers who
took part in the Grand Review at Washington. Throughout his long and
active service he was never wounded nor captured by the enemy, and was
always on duty, with the exception of six weeks when he was confined in
hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, on account of lung trouble.
After the war young Friermood — for he was yet young, although a vet
eran — returned to Grant county, Indiana, and later attended a select
school at Springfield, Ohio. He then took up the study of medicine under
the personal directions of Dr. A. D. Kimball, now of the Soldiers' Home at
Marion, Indiana, and subsequently entered Rush Medical College, Chicago,
Illinois, where he graduated February 3, 1869. Immediately after his grad
uation he entered upon the practice of his profession at North Grove, Miami
county, but did not remain there long. His next location was at Wabash,
where he practiced seven months, following which he spent thirteen years at
Amboy and three years at Peru, engaged in professional duties all the while,
¦and March 30, 1893, he came to Greentown, where he has met with excel
lent success and has built up a large practice. Dr. Friermood has a valu
able medical library, to which he is constantly adding by the purchase of
the latest works pertaining to his profession, and he takes a pride in keeping
himself well posted. He is a member of the Howard County Medical Soci
ety and the State and National Medical Societies, and at this writing he is
serving his second terrn as United States examining surgeon. He is identi
fled with the Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic, and, polit
ically, is a Republican, taking a commendable interest in public affairs.
He served as trustee of Jackson township, Miami county, in 1882.

782 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Dr. Friermood was married November 20, 1870, to Catherine B.
Thomas, who was born in January, 1846, in Clark county, Ohio, daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stanley) Thomas: and they have five chUdren, WiU
iam R., Elizabeth, Georgiana, Florence and Cliffie.

GEORGE RETTIG. — There are few, indeed, of the citizens of Peru
whose arrival here antedates that of Mr. Rettig, one of its honored resi
dents, who for sixty-two years has watched its development and aided in the
advancement of its best interests. He is a son of George Rettig, Sr., who
came to this city in August, 1838. The latter was a native of Alsace, then
a province of France but now a part of the German empire. He learned
the mason's trade and was married in his native land to Miss Mary Snyder,
and in 1830 he crossed the Atlantic to America with his wife and only child,
the subject of this review, who was born in Alsace in 1828, and was then
about two years of age. After a short stay in PhUadelphia the family
removed to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and subsequently went to Columbus,
Ohio, where Mr. Rettig was engaged on the construction of the new capitol.
He remained in that city about two years, and then removed to Marion
county, Ohio, where he purchased a tract of wild land, clearing the same of
the heavy growth of timber which covered it. In 1838 he came with his
family to Peru, where he engaged in work at his trade. When a boy in his
native land he had worked some time at the baker's trade, and believing that
this would prove a good field for an enterprise of that character, owing to the
fact that many men were employed on the construction of the Erie & Wabash
canal, he established a bakery, which he conducted until 1852. In the mean
time he invested the profits of his business in land and thus became possessed
of two valuable farms. He now removed to one of these, where he passed
the remainder of his active business life. His wife died in i860, and he
spent his last years in the homes of his children, dying at the home of his
daughter in Peru, in 1866. He is well remembered by many of the old resi
dents of the county as an honest, upright citizen, worthy of all confidence.
His cash capital at the time of his arrival in America consisted of only five
French coins of the denomination of five francs, which amounted to less than
five dollars. By industry and economy, however, he secured a comfortable

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competence and by his honorable business methods won the public confidence.
He spoke both German and French fluently. In religious faith he and his
wife were Lutherans. In their family were six children, and with the excep
tion of our subject, who is the eldest, all were born in America. They are
Mary, wife of George Wilson; Caroline, who died in childhood; Elizabeth,
who became the wife of John Kratzer, and died a number of years ago; John,
who passed away many years ago; and Catherine, who resides in Peru and
is the widow of Carlton Stevens.
George Rettig, of this review, was born November i, 1827, and vvas about
ten years of age when he came with the family to Peru in 1838. He received
such literary instruction as the subscription school of the place afforded in the
early days, and in 1850 he went to California where he vvas associated in
business in the mining regions with J. O. Cole, of Peru, spending about two
years on the Pacific slope. In the spring of 1853 he was united in marriage
to Miss Harriet Van Camp, and immediately thereafter took charge of his
father's bakery business. On selling that enterprise he erected a brewery
and in 1866 was joined in the conduct of the same by his former partner, Mr.
Cole. In 1868 he sold his interest to Mr. Cole, who became sole proprietor.
Mr. Rettig is the pioneer ice dealer of the town, being the first to engage in
that business in Peru. It was in 1852 that he began the sale and delivery of
ice to citizens, and in a short time he built up a good business. About 1880
he went to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber.
Later he erected an ice plant at Anderson, Indiana, and for about two years
was engaged in the manufacture of ice in that place. On the expiration of
that period he sold his plant, but established a similar enterprise in Norfolk,
Virginia, in connection with the Columbus Iron Works. His son Frank was
associated with him in that undertaking, but later they disposed of th at
interest and established an ice factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, of which
the son still has charge, while the father has retired from the more active
duties of business life.
In 1856 Mr. Rettig was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife,
who died leaving one chUd, Lorena, now the wife of Frank M. Talbot, of
Indianapolis. In 1858 Mr Rettig married Georgianna Pefferman, a native of
Ohio, and two sons and two daughters have been born of this marriage,
namely: Frank O., Otto P., Belle and Georgie, all of whonr are married.
Mr. Rettig has ever been recognized as an estimable citizen. Peru has been

784 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
his home for sixty years and he has witnessed its growth from a mere hamlet
to a city of wealth and importance. His support has ever been given to
measures for the public benefit, and at the sarae tirae, by judicious manage
ment and enterprise, he has won a handsome competence, which enables
him to put aside the more arduous duties of life and rest in the enjoyment of
the fruits of his former toil.

HENRY GOAR. — On section 28, Cicero township, Tipton county, Indi
ana, resides one of the oldest and most highly-respected citizens of the
-county, whose narae should stand among those at the head of any list of hon
ored pioneers who have done their duty, and more, in the development of
the institutions of civilization in the state of Indiana.
He was born in Monroe county, Virginia, November 16, 1821. His
father, James Goar, was born December- 25, 1787, near Wheeling, that
¦state, where he lived until about fifty years of age, then moving to Tipton
county, where he died in 1855. In his politics he was a Democrat, and in
his rehgion a tnember of the Christian church, joining this body when about
fifty-five years of age and taking an active part in t'ne work of that zealous
organization. His father, Henry Goar, was a native of Scotland, lived in
Ireland and England, and emigrated to America when a young man, locat
ing in Virginia, near M^heeling, where he died in 1791, while still compara
tively a young man. By occupation he was a trader.
The mother of our subject, whose name before marriage was Sally
Farley, was also a native of Monroe county, Virginia, born January 19, 1788,
-emigrated to Indiana, and finally died in 1862, in Tipton county. Her
father, Captain Matthew Farley, of English descent, was born in Culpeper
county, Virginia, was a farmer by occupation, and on one occasion was the
captain of a scouting party guarding the white settlers against the Indians,
having raany narrow escapes with his life.
The children of Jaraes Goar were eight in number, consisting of five
sons and three daughters, all of whom grew up to years of maturity, one
daughter dying at the age of eighteen years, and a son at twenty-four, and
all the rest of the children passing the age of sixty-five years; the eldest died
in his eighty-seventh year; but only two of the family are now living —
Henry (our subject) and Matthew, who resides with hira.

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C.ISS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 785
Henry Goar, the fifth child and fourth son in the above family, passed
his early life in his native county on a farm. At the age of seventeen, or
about the year 1838, he emigrated to Henry county, Indiana, and in Febru
ary, 1840, came on to Tipton county with his father, settling in Jefferson
township, where. May 27, 1844, he raarried Miss Martha E. Smith, a native
of Kentucky, born June 21, 1828, and reared in Henry county, this state,
from the age of four years.
In 1849 Mr. Goar located on the farm where he now resides. At first
it was heavily covered with timber, but by his industry and perseverance he
cleared there a large and nice farm, doing most of the work by his own
hands— grubbing, logging, fencing, ditching, etc. He has now one hundred
and fifty-nine acres reduced to a fine state of cultivation, giving one acre for
a public cemetery, known as the Goar cemetery all over the county; the area
is now almost filled.
Of Mr. Gear's fourteen children only seven are now living. Four died
in infancy and ten grew up. Isaac N. lives in Nebraska; Matthew A. resides
in Kitson county, Minnesota; Dr. Charles S. in Jefferson township, this
county; Mary E. is the wife of Martin Ward, of Custer county, Nebraska;
Sarah E. is the wife of Caleb Smith, of Prairie township, this county; Katie
is the wife of Rev. M. T. Maze, living at Kearney, Nebraska; Emma is the
wife of John Kleyla, of Cicero township, Tipton county; and the deceased
are: John J., who died at the age of twenty-three years; James, who died
when thirty-nine years old; Joseph, who died when twenty-seven years of
age; and four who died in infancy. All these children excepting two were
born on the farm where the father now lives.
Politically Mr. Goar has found the great parties so changeable and time
serving that in order to carry out his own views at the polls he has been
obliged to vote sometimes one ticket and sometimes another. For the first
fourteen years of his voting age he generally voted the Democratic ticket,
then the Republican for sixteen years, and since then independently, while he
is a prohibitionist in principle. In 1876 he organized the Grange movement
in Tipton and adjoining counties of Boone, Howard and Hamilton. While
yet still able to travel he became one of the first promoters of the prohibi
tion movement, taking a very efficient part. For the Prohibition party he
was the first candidate for representative to the state legislature. His
three living sons represent all the main parties, — Isaac the Populist, Mat-
is

786 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
thew the Democratic and C. S. the Republican, — each of these three sons
being once honored with an election to the state legislature.
Mr. Goar started out in life with nothing but a good body and a strong
wiU, and he has not only made a comfortable home for himself but has also
given to each of his children seven hundred dollars as they started out in
the world.

LD. SUMMERS. — Tvvo of the old families of Tipton county are honora-
ably represented in the present generation by the genial and scholarly
principal of the Windfall public schools, Mr. L. D. Summers, who was born
in WUd Cat township, this county, January 7, 1865, a son of John M. and
Martha (Pumphrey) Summers. His parents also were natives of this state
and had three children, — L. Denton, John C. and Allijane, the last men
tioned being now the wife of W. C. Legg.
John M. Summers, the father, was a child when his parents moved from
Henry county, this state, to Jerome, Howard county, in 1849, and a few
years later to Nevada, in Tipton county, where he grew to manhood during the
period when the Indians still infested this section of the country. In Nevada
his father was a physician and a merchant; and at the age of sixteen he (John
M.) was employed as a farm hand, continuing during the winter seasons to
attend the public school. His father gave him eighty acres of land, which
he cleared and afterward sold, in 1872, and purchased one hundred and
twenty acres where he now lives, to which he has since added one hundred
and eighty acres, having now an aggregate of three hundred acres. This old
homestead is three miles north and half a mile east of Windfall, and here he
brought up his children in the habits of an agricultural life. " If we estimate
dignity by immediate usefulness agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest
science," said the great Dr. Johnson, an Englishman of the last century; and
says a French writer, " Agriculture engenders good sense and good sense of
an excellent kind." Many other maxims, of philosophers of all ages, con
cerning the superiority of an agricultural life in the development of good minds
and bodies could be cited in this connection with a great degree of appropri
ateness. Mr. Summers, the father of our subject, served a few months in
the war of the great rebellion, having to be discharged on account of measles;
he was afterward drafted, but rejected.

ass, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 787
Dr. John Summers, grandfather of L. D., a native of Ohio, was a pio
neer of both Howard and Tipton counties. He was of Irish and German
ancestry, a physician and merchant for many years and at length a farmer;
was seventy years old at his death. By his first marriage he had five chil
dren, and four by his second. John A. Pumphrey, the maternal grandfather
of our subject, was a native of North Carolina, of Scotch-Irish descent, a
farmer by occupation, a pioneer of Decatur county, this state, had a large
number of children, and died in 1872, aged sixty-one years.
The subject of this sketch, Mr. L. D. Summers, was reared in Wild
Cat township, and after teaching two terms he attended the Northern Indi
ana Normal School at Valparaiso, graduating in the classical department in
1 89 1. Then he accepted the position of principal of the Oaklandon schools
in Marion county, which he successfully filled for three years, and then he
came to Windfall, where since 1894 he has had charge of the public schools
and is giving marked satisfaction. For three summer seasons he was deputy
county surveyor; is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, and in his polit
ical principles is a Democrat.
It was on the 5th of September, 1894, that he was united in matrimony
with Miss Clara O. Johnston, the daughter of WUliam T. and Ann (Herrin)
Johnston, and they have one son, named Bruce M. Mrs. Summers is a sin
cere and consistent member of the Christian church.

/^ EORGE H. PRESCOTT, Jr. — Born on the ioth of December, 1863,
^— *- George H. Prescott is a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, and a son of
Andrew J. Prescott. In his tenth year he became a resident of Logansport,
and in the public schools of this city he pursued his education until thirteen
years of age. Later he was a student in Hall's Business College, where he
acquired a knowledge of business forms and methods that has proven of
much use to him in later life. His first service in connection with the rail
road was as a clerk in the shops of the Pan Handle Railroad Company, in
the office of the master mechanic. He continued with that corporation until
September, 1881, when he secured a situation with the Vandalia Company
as clerk for the superintendent of motive power, the office being located in
Terre Haute, where he remained until July 27, 1883, when he was made

788 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GE.XEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
fireman on the road. For six years he acted in that capacity and was then
made engineer, July 29, 1889, since continuing as one of the regular and
reliable men of the company.
On the 25th of June, 1887, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Prescott
and Miss Cornelia Barger, daughter of John T. Barger, who formerly lived
in the state of Maryland. They now have two chUdren, Paran and Paul.
Mr. Prescott is a member of the Brotherhood of Firemen and also belongs
to the Masonic fraternity. Frora an early age he has been dependent upon
his own resources, and that he has attained an ac ive and honorable position
in business life is due to his unfaltering fidelity to duty and his promptness
in railroad service. He has many admirable qualities which commend him
to the regard of all, and Logansport has many citizens who claim him as a
friend.

OTTO PAYNE WEBB. — For sixty yeSirs a representative of the mercan
tile interests of Peru, Otto Payne Webb is one of the oldest and most
honored residents of the city and his life record forms an important chapter
in the history of the county. The conditions and experiences of the wild
frontier district were to be met when he came here, and vvith the work of
development and progress he has been prominently connected. He was
born on Long Island, New York, October i, 18 16, and was a son of Otto
Webb, a seafaring man, and followed the life of a sailor for many years. He
married Nancy Payne, and when their son Otto was about six years of age
they started with their family of four children for the far west, hoping to
gain a comfortable horae by a removal to the new country. This was before
the days of railroad travel and even the Erie canal was not yet built across
the state of New York, so that the fan-iily traveled westward vvith a one-horse
team, crossing the Alleghany mountains to Pittsburg. There, in company
with two other famil es, they took passage on a small boat and floated down
the Ohio river to Cincinnati, whence the Webb family continued their jour
ney to Union county, Indiana. They settled on a tract of wild land, and
there the wife and mother died. The father afterward removed to Whitley
county, Indiana, where he passed the residue of his days.
On this latter trip our subject, then a youth of fourteen years, drove the
team that conveyed the family and their household effects to Whitley county.

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 789
He passed a number of years of his early life in Louisville, Kentucky, and
from that city came to Peru, in the fall of 1835. Then all was new; the
land was covered with brush and timber and Indians were still quite numer
ous in the locality, while turkeys and other wild game could be had in abun
dance. Mr. Webb established a grocery store and for sixty years has been
engaged in that line of business in Peru, occupying the building in which his
store is now located since 1846. His trade is large and he has made it his
constant study to note the wishes of the public and meet them in as far as he
is able. His honorable dealing and straightforward business methods have
won the public confidence and he therefore has a liberal patronage. While
Peru has been his home for this long period of time he has twice been absent
on business enterprises of an important character. In 1848 he crossed the
plains to California and was absent about two years. In 1866, during the
mining excitement in the northwest, he purchased thirty-five ox teams and a
corresponding number of wagons, which he loaded with supplies that he
bought in Chicago. He then conducted this train across the wild districts of
the northwest to the mining districts of Montana and Idaho, where he dis
posed of his supplies at a large profit. The expedition consumed many
months and was attended with many dangerous adventures. The Indians
were hostile and the train was frequently attacked by them, and it was only
by constant watchfulness and determined bravery that the train escaped
destruction, — a fate which befell raany other trains passing over the same
route. The enterprise was a succcess, however, and Mr. Webb returned
after two years with a neat little sum as the result of his trip.
At about the time he started on that expedition he was elected treasurer
of Miami county and a deputy was appointed to serve during his absence.
On his return he assumed the duties of the office, which he satisfactorily dis
charged to the end of the term. He also served as a member of the city
council of Peru in a most acceptable manner.
On the 4th of March, 1849, Mr. Webb vvas united in marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Harriet Shobert, the wedding being celebrated in a house which
occupied the site of their present home. The lady is a daughter of Richard
and Mary Minerva (Oldham) Shobert. Her father was a native of Detroit
and was of French descent. He came to Peru when a young man, and was
married here, and was employed at Godfrey's Indian trading-post, where he
died suddenly, about 1836. His remains were interred in Logansport, to

790 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGLCAL HISTORY OF
which place they were conveyed in a pirogue or small boat. Mrs. Webb's
mother afterward became the wife of Captain Louis IDrouUlard, and they
lived together for many years. Mrs. Drouillard survived her second husband for
some tirae and died in Peru, Deceraber 25, 1856, atthe home of Mr. and
Mrs. Webb. By her first marriage she had two children, Elizabeth and
Richard, but the latter died in infancy. There is now living only a half-
sister, Mary L., wife of Silas Warder, of Peru. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have
two sons. Grover M. is a commercial traveler and a resident of St. Louis,
and Frank H. is a confectioner in Peru. He married Grace Davis and they
have one son, June. Our subject and his wife lost tvvo children. Otto P.
and James T. , twins. The former died in his tenth year and Jaraes died at
the age of nine days. The mother of this family is a member of the Cath
olic church. In his political views Mr. Webb is a Republican but not an office-seeker
During the many years that he has resided in Peru he has formed an exten
sive acquaintance and had ever been held in high esteem. He has been a
most successful and industrious business man, and is passing his declining
years in the enjoyment of a competence. He and his wife occupy their
comraodious brick residence at the corner of Main and Miami streets.
This home was built by Mr. Webb in 1854 and is in the style of archi
tecture common on the plantations of the south in the earlier days,
being of very large size and of superior excellence of construction.

JOHN HIGLEY, Logansport, Indiana. — The gentleman, to a review of
whose life we at this point direct attention, is in point of service the old
est engineer on the Vandalia Railroad, running out of Logansport. He is a
native of Germany, born in the city of Baden, November 8, 1843, son of
John and Mary (Zimmerman) Higley. In 1852 the Higley family left Ger
many and carae to America, settling first in Monroe, Michigan, and subse
quently removing to Hudson, that state. The father died at the latter place
and the mother passed away in Adrian, Michigan. Their family was com
posed of five children, of whom three are now living, namely: Mrs. Mary
Fisher, of Lebanon, Missouri; Peter, of Montpelier, Indiana; and John, the
subject of this sketch, the oldest of the family.
John Higley was nearing manhood at the time civil war broke out in the

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 791
country of his adoption. His father, as above stated, had settled in the
north, and naturally they were in sympathy with the northern cause. In
November, 1862, at the age of nineteen, John enlisted as a member of the
Sixth Michigan Light Artillery. He was attached to the Second Brigade,
Twenty-third Corps, and saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee and further
south, being in the Atlanta campaign. At the battle of Atlanta, July 22,
he was wounded, and as a result of his wound was confined in hospital till
the following November. He joined his command at NashvUle in time to
take part in the great battle that resulted in the annihilation of General
Hood's army and the destruction of all serious opposition to federal suprem
acy in that section. After the battle of NashvUle Mr. Higley's command
was sent to Washington, District of Columbia, and soon thereafter put
aboard of transports and sent to Fort Fisher, thence back to Moorehead
City, where it was disembarked and sent to Beaufort, North Carolina, and
while in that vicinity took part in the battles of Kingston and Wise's Forks.
A junction was made with General Sherman at Goldsboro, North Carolina,
and the Sixth Michigan Light ArtUlery saw the closing events of the war.
Mr. Higley was honorably discharged in Jackson, Michigan, July i, 1865.
After his return from the army, the subject of our sketch learned the
trade of candy-maker in Adrian, Michigan, and for two years followed this
business at that place. Finding the occupation did not agree with his health,
he relinquished it and sought employment elsewhere. From Adrian he came
to Logansport and secured a position as fireman on the Chicago & Great
Eastern, now a part of the Pan Handle system. That was in 1868. In 1870
he was promoted to engineer, in which capacity he served with that company
until 1873, when he severed his connection with it and entered the employ of
the Logansport, Crawfordsville & Southwestern Railway, now the Vandalia,
and for the past twenty-three years has been in the passenger service of
this road. Mr. Higley has a beautiful horae on Sycamore street, Logansport,
where he and his wife reside. He was first married. May 4, 1869, to Miss
Catherine Leffert, who died in February, 1881. November 14, 1883, he
wedded Miss Sarah J. Seybold, daughter of John G. Seybold. They had
two chUdren, but both are deceased, — Charles and John.
Progressive and public-spirited, Mr. Higley ranks with the representative
men of his city and enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him.

792 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
[Since the data for above sketch was given by Mr. Higley he has passed
away, being kUled in a railroad collision August 5, 1898, at Waveland Junc
tion, Indiana.]

HON. CHARLES B. LONGWELL is a member of the printing firm of
Longwell & Cummings, of Logansport. This is his native city and his
natal day is March 28, 1861. His parents were Joseph and Louise (Myers)
Longwell, and his father was one of the first photographers who ever estab
lished a studio in Logansport. He was born in Pennsylvania, and in the
early '40s came to this city, which he made his home until his death, in 1877,
at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife also was a native of the Keystone
state, and with her father, John Myers, came to Logansport, in 1835. She is
one of the honored pioneer residents ofthe city who have watched its growth
from the early days to its present proud development and advancement, and
throughout the coraraunity in which she has so long resided she is held in
the highest regard.
Mr. Longwell, whose name introduces this sketch, acquired his education
in the public schools and at the age of fourteen entered the Journal office to
learn the printer's trade. By close application and faithfulness in the dis
charge of every duty assigned him he soon mastered the business and became
an expert printer. In 1881 he began business on his own account, forming
a partnership with Arthur Williams for the publication of the Daily Adver
tiser, which was conducted with fair success until 1885. For a short time
thereafter Mr. Longwell was employed in a job office in Cincinnati, Ohio,
but soon returned, and in connection with H. F. Wolf opened a job-printing
office in Logansport. The enterprise met with immediate success, and in a
short tirae a large business was built up, so that after three years our subject
vvas enabled to purchase his partner's interest, and for two years thereafter
was alone in business. In September, 1 891, he sold a half interest to Will
iam G. Cummings, and the firm has since been known as Longwell & Cum
mings, printers, binders and stationers. Their business is large and con
stantly increasing, and they now have an extensive and splendidly equipped
plant, occupying the larger portion of the basement of the Masonic Temple.
They also publish the Logansport Directory, and by their enterprise, good

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management and perseverance they have secured a very gratifying and profit
able patronage.
The business career of Mr. Longwell is indeed creditable. By reason of
the death of his father, he was thrown upon his own resources at the age of
twelve years, and the success he has achieved is due entirely to his own
efforts. Strong determination, persistence in the pursuit of an honorable
purpose, unflagging energy and careful management, — these are the salient
features in his career, and his life stands in unmistakable evidence that suc
cess is not a matter of genius, as held by some, but is the outcome of earnest
and well directed effort.
In his political views Mr. Longwell is an unswerving Republican, and
has done all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his
party. In 1894 he was made its candidate for the office of representative to
the general assembly, and although the county is strongly Democratic his
personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him by ali who know him
enabled him to win, and for two years he was recognized as one of the able
members of the house, giving his liberal and earnest support to all measures
which he believed would prove of public benefit. Fraternally he is connected
with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Foresters.
Mr. Longwell was married in 1892, the lady of his choice being Miss
Stella Grant, of Columbus City, Indiana. They have one daughter, Louise,
who is the light and life of their pleasant home. The Longwell household is
noted for its charming hospitality, and its inmates have the warm regard of
a large circle of friends.

WILLIAM S. MERCER. — The life history of him whose name heads
this sketch is closely identified with the history of Peru, which has
been his home for thirty-seven years. His life has been one ot untiring
activity, and has been crowned with a degree of success attained by compara-
tivelv few men. He is of the highest type of a business man, and none more
than he deserves a fitting recognition among the men whose genius and abil
ities have achieved results that are most enviable and commendable.
William Schuyler Mercer was born in Peru, February 3, 1861, and is a
son of Moses Mercer, who became a resident of this city in 1843. The latter
is a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born December 5, 1827. His par-

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ents were Aaron and Mahala Mercer, natives of Virginia and of English
descent. Aaron Mercer was born in 1802, came to Peru in 1845 and removed
thence to Newton county, Indiana, where he spent the residue of his days.
His son, Moses Mercer, as before stated, had taken up his residence in Peru
in 1843, and he was for some time in the employ of the Indianapolis, Peru &
Chicago Railroad Company, and later was connected with the Wabash Com
pany. He was married in Peru to Miss Ann J. Long, who died in March, 1 886.
The children born to this worthy couple are: Ada J., May, William S.,
Georgie and Robert E., and the last named died in early life.
In the public schools of his native city WUliam Schuyler Mercer acquired
his education, and between the ages of fourteen and twenty-six years he was
in the service of the well known mercantUe firm of Shirk & Miller. In 1887
he organized the present firm of Mercer & Neal. He and his partner are
numbered among the chief grain operators in the state of Indiana. They are
also proprietors of the Peru Canal Roller Mill, which has large productive
capacity and is equipped with the most improved and modern machinery.
In addition to the Wabash and D. L. Shearer elevators at Peru, the firm
also control the grain market over a large section of the surrounding country,
having elevators at Bennett, Miami, Bunker Hill, Denver, Chili, Pettyville,
Tiosa, Walnut and other points. Messrs. Mercer and Neal began business
on a small scale, but by the exercise of sound judgment, excellent executive
ability and great industry they have worked up an extensive business and
take rank among the most prominent representatives of commercial interests
in Miami county. Mr. Mercer is also connected, in the capacity of director,
with the Miami County Loan & Savings Association, of Peru, one of the
important financial institutions of the county.
Mr. Mercer was married to Miss Sarah E. Fisher, daughter of Joseph
Fisher, a well known early settler, now deceased. Her mother is a repre
sentative of the well known Brower family, and is a resident of Mexico,
Miami county. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer have a daughter, Vernace E. Theirs
is a hospitable home, and in social circles they hold an enviable position.
Mr. Mercer takes a commendable interest in the progress and prosperity
of the city and county, does all in his power to promote their best interests,
and is officially connected with the educational affairs of Peru, being a mem
ber and treasurer of the school board. In his political relations he is a
Republican, and is well informed on the issues of the day, but not an office-

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seeker. His business career has been a very creditable one and his reputa
tion in commercial circles is above question. As the architect of his own
fortunes he has builded wisely and well and the success that crowns his efforts
is justly merited.

"Xli AX JENNINGS. — Practical industry wisely and vigorously applied never
•^ " ^ fails of success; it carries a man onward and upward, brings out his indi
vidual character, and acts as a powerful stimulus to the efforts of others. The
greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exer
cise of the ordinary qualities of common sense and perseverance. The every
day life, with its cares, necessities and duties, affords ample opportunities for
acquiring experience of the best kind, and its most beaten paths provide a
true worker with abundant scope for effort and self improvement. In
the field of daily activity Mr. Jennings has won success, an unassailable
reputation and a place among the representative business men of Logans
port, where he is carrying on a prosperous business in the manufacture and
sale of galvanized iron and copper cornices, also tin, iron, slate, tile and
gravel roofing, and being also agents for Kinnear & Gager's steel ceilings.
Mr. Jennings was born in Chicago, Illinois, March lo, 1868, and is a
son of Edward Jennings, who was born in Ireland and is now a resident of
Cincinnati, Ohio, in which city he located in the early '70s. His wife bore
the maiden name of Mary Filben, and died in 1876, leaving three chUdren,
namely: Max;. Harry, who is associated in business with his brother; and
Mary, a resident of Chicago.
The subject of this review accompanied his parents on their removal to
Cincinnati and acquired his education in its public schools, but his privileges
were very meager, experience being his teacher from the age of twelve years.
It was at that time that he entered upon his business career, serving an appren
ticeship at the trade of cornice-making under the instruction of James Hun
ter, of Cincinnati. He continued to follow that pursuit in Ohio until 1888,
when he came to Logansport and accepted a position with Mr. Meinhausen,
in whose employ he remained for three years, when, having acquired a
thorough knowledge of the business in every department, and accumulated
sufficient capital to form a financial base sufficient to support a small business,
he established an enterprise of his own. His success was marked and inime-

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diate. He soon secured a liberal patronage, which has constantly grown and
has prominently connected him with the buUding interests of the state, for
his reputation and trade extend far beyond the limits of Cass county. He
has taken contracts for the cornice work and roofing on the high-school bu Id-
ings in Rochester, Huntington, Winamac, North Judson, Cartersburg, Dan-
vUle, Lowell, Akron and Arabia; and the high-school and ward-school build
ings of Logansport, the Masonic Temple in this city, and has done impor
tant work in his line in Oldenburg, Terre Haute, La Fayette, Delphi, Rush-
ville, Marion, Urbana and Wabash. He has the best equ pped shop in the
state and a working force unsurpassed for efficiency and dispatch. For the
past five years Mr. Jennings has devoted his energies to soliciting business,
supervising the work and managing the affairs in the field as well as in the
office. Keen discrimination, sound judgment, indefatigable industry, a genius
for devising and executing the right thing at the right time, joined to every
day common sense, — these are the chief characteristics of the man, and to
thera is attributable his success.
Mr. Jennings was married in Logansport, December 5, 1889, to Miss
Mollie Horstman, and their union is blessed with three children, Helen, Rus
sell and Nellie. Our subject is a valued representative of several civic soci
eties, belongs to the Knights of Pythias, to the Travelers' Protective Associa
tion and is a Knight Templar Mason. He is also a member of the board of
directors of the Masonic Temple Association. To him belongs much of the
credit for the success of the Knight Templar conclave, which was held in
Logansport in 1898. He was secretary of the finance committee, whose duty
it was to collect and expend the funds necessary to the proper entertainment
of the guests. This committee managed its affairs as it would the private
business of its merabership, collected seven hundred and sixty dollars, paid
all expenses and turned a balance of one hundred and sixty dollars into the
treasury. It is this fidelity to duty as well as his reliability in business affairs
and his kindness and geniality in private life that has won Mr. Jennings the
high regard of his fellow-citizens.

TJON. DANIEL PRATT BALDWIN.— Araong the most distinguished
*¦ •*¦ citizens of Logansport is the gentleman whose name stands at the be
ginning of this article. Though long considered one of the leading lights of

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the legal profession in Indiana, a man of scholarly ability and learning, a po
litical economist and speaker of no slight power and influence, he is, withal,
one signally free from ostentation, and is loved and highly esteemed by all
who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
In political affairs Mr. Baldwin has taken an active and interested part,
though he has ever exalted principle above partisanship. During the Civil
war, he exerted his whole influence for the support of the Union, and it was
a matter of constant regret to him that, on account of partial deafness, he
vvas incapacitated from seeing actual service in the army. In June, 1878,
he was nominated by acclamation to the important office of attorney-general
of Indiana, by the Republican state convention, and was duly elected in the
following autumn. He ably discharged the responsible duties devolving upon
him and made a fine record, both for himself and his constituents.
In tracing the history of Daniel Pratt Baldwin we find that the Empire
state claims him as her son, as he is a native of Madison county, born March
22, 1837. His parents were Hiram and Harriet (Pratt) Baldwin, who were
descendants of early settlers of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Our subject
was reared upon a farm and after attending the district school for a few
winter terms his progress was so marked that his parents decided that he
should have the best advantages they could give him. Having completed an
academic course in Cazenovia Seminary, in his own county, he entered
Madison University, graduating there in 1856. He then turned his attention
to the mastery of law, and in i860 was graduated in the Columbia Law
School. It was in the summer of i860 that Mr. Baldwin became a resident of
Logansport. In June of that year he entered into partnership with the late
Hon. D. D. Pratt, under the style of Pratt & Baldwin, and in the ten years
that followed they enjoyed a widely-extended patronage, many of their ch-
ents coming from distant parts of the state. In 1870 Mr. Baldwin was ap
pointed to fill a vacancy in the office of judge of the court of common pleas,
and the succeeding year was elected to the same office. Here as elsewhere
he entirely justified the high opinion of his colleagues, and his course met wUh
approval by those who were in a position to judge. In 1872 Madison Uni
versity, his alma mater, conferred upon Mr. Baldwin the degree of Doctor
of Laws, and Wabash CoUege did hkewise. For a number of years he was
proprietor of the Logansport Journal, a daUy and weekly publication, and

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during his connection with the paper he found tirae, amid his multifarious
duties, to contribute much towards its editorial columns. Having made a
special study of the science of government, he is an able exponent of the sub
ject, and has delivered numerous popular lectures along this line of thought.
Of late years Judge Baldwin has wielded the pen in masterly style, thus
placing upon record the results of his ripe scholarship, experience and study.
Araong the best-known productions of his active brain are the following
works: " A Lawyer's Reading in Evidence of Christianity " (published in
1875), " The Defects in our Political System," and " The Cause and Cure
of Hard Times." He is the owner of a large and very valuable library, com
prising the choicest works of the best authors, and here some of his happiest
hours are spent. He has a beautiful home, which was presided over by his
wife, formerly Miss India Smith, to whom he was married in 1863, but on
May I, 1898, she was sumraoned into eternal rest, deeply lamented by a
wide circle of appreciative friends.

THOMAS LITTLE. — One of the extensive land-owners of Cass county,
now residing in Tipton township, Thomas Little was born in Miami
county, Indiana, on the 1 8th of April, 1851, and was there reared to man
hood. He was the second of three children, having an older brother, Lewis,
and a younger sister, Harriet. His father died when he was only six years
of age, and when he was old enough to earn anything he began work, in
order to provide for his own support and also assist in the maintenance of
his widowed mother. He remained with her until twenty-three years of age
and then came to Tipton township, Cass county, where he resided and car
ried on agricultural pursuits until i860. In that year he took up his resi
dence in the village of Onward, where he conducted a mercantile establish
ment for three years, after which he disposed of his store. In the meantime
he had become owner of a sawmill in Onward, which he successfully operated
for fifteen years, and at the same time carried on his farm.
Mr. Little started out in life empty-handed, but by resolute purpose
and unfaltering industry he has steadily advanced to a leading position among
the substantial citizens of his adopted county. As his financial resources
have increased he has made judicious investments in property and his landed

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possessions now aggregate four hundred and eighty-three acres. His home
farm comprises eighty acres, in addition to which he has a farm of one hun
dred and seventy-five acres, another of one hundred and sixty acres near
Peru, and sixty acres in Tipton township. He carries on general farming and
stock-raising, and his possessions are a monument to his thrift and enterprise.
His success is largely attributable to his common sense, — an element indis
pensable in a prosperous career and to the lack of which failure is generally
due. A Swiss philosopher has said: " Common sense is the measure of the
possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied
to life; " and the forethought, sound judgment and enterprise which form the
elemental strength of Mr. Little's character have brought to him a well mer
ited prosperity. Mr. Little was married, December 14, 1876, to Miss Ellen Stropp, and
they have two children, William and Frosty. Our subject exercises his
right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy, but
takes no active part in political affairs, preferring to devote his time and
attention to his home and business interests.

ALBERT C. TOUBY, a successful farmer near Kokomo, is a native of
Fayette county, this state, born November 21, 1851, and brought up in
Howard county, in the responsibUities of farm work and educated at the
common school. His father, Peter Touby, was a native of Germany and a
son of Martin Touby, a native of Nassau, Germany. Some of the members
of this family participated in the Napoleonic wars. Peter, born in 1824,
emigrated to this country with his father in 1844, locating in Richland
county, Ohio, where his father subsequently died. He came to Indiana, in
1850, locating in Fayette county and followed his trade, that of wagonmak-
ing, at Bentonville. At that place he married Miss Jane ColvUle, a native
of Kentucky, and remained there, continuing at his trade, until 1853, when
he came to Howard county and purchased a tract of land, which he after
ward sold and bought another piece, upon which was a small log house.
Being thus settled he commenced improvements, erected substantial build
ings, etc. Quitting his trade he devoted his entire attention to agriculture
and kindred pursuits. His death took place in 1888. He was a very pious
Christian, a member of the Congregational church, and in politics a Demo-

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erat, but never cared to hold any public office. His wife, born in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, in January, 1826, was an intelligent lady, being a daugh
ter of Samuel and Kitty (Dinwiddle) Colville; her father, a native of Pennsyl
vania and reared in Kentucky, was a wool-carder by trade, and died in that
state about 1852, and her mother was a native of the Blue-grass state. Both
these people in their religion were Presbyterians. Their children were:
Jane, the mother of our subject; Mrs. Susan Pattison; Eliza, deceased; and
John and James, residents of Kokomo. To Peter Touby were born: Albert
C. , our subject; Leora, now Mrs. L. M. Yager; and Mary, now Mrs. Will
Smith. Both the parents are members of the Congregational church, reflect
ing only honor upon their profession.
Albert C. Touby was brought up in this county upon his father's farm,
remaining with his parents until he was married, in 1879, and then settled
upon a portion of the farm which he yet occupies, six miles northeast of
Kokomo, on the first eighty acres: he now has two hundred and forty acres.
On this place he has done some clearing, ditching and tiling, remodeling, etc.
Two hundred and ten acres thus improved are in a fine state of cultivation.
He has erected a good and convenient two-story frame house, two large
barns, started an orchard, etc. In both farming and stock-raising he has
been signally successful.
Mr. Touby was first married to Miss Belle Yager, a daughter of Jesse C.
Yager, of Kentucky, who came to this county in 1854 and was a prominent
farmer. Mrs. Touby died in February, 1880, and in 1883 Mr Touby chose
for his wife Miss Kate WUlits, daughter of C. C. and Mary (Warman) Willits,
and by this marriage there have been the following named children: Alice,
born June 21, 1884; Grace, who died at the age of three years; Emmett P.,
born August 16, 1888; Jennie, born January 10, 1891; Mary, August 10,
1894; and Bessie, September 27, 1896.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Touby are respected members of the Christian
church. He is an uncompromising Democrat, a leader in his township,
taking an active interest in nominating conventions, etc., but aspires to no
pubhc position. The patriot is not only he who goes to the field of battle
to kill the enemy, for most people never have such an opportunity, if oppor
tunity we may caU it; but is also he who does his duty at the polls and
works all the year through, whenever opportunity is presented, for the
advancement of the principles he believes to be right.

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¦fJON. G. P. McKEE. — It is not an easy task to describe adequately a man
A -l who has led an eminently active and busy life and who has attained to
a position of high relative distinction in the community with which his inter
ests are allied. But biography finds its most perfect justification, never
theless, in the tracing and recording of such a life history. It is, then, with
a full appreciation of all that is demanded, and of the painstaking scrutiny
that must be accorded each statement, and yet with a feeling of significant
satisfaction that the writer essays the task of touching briefly upon the
details of such a record as has been the voice of the character of the honored
subject whose life now comes under review. His reputation in business is
unassaUable; throughout the Civil war he demonstrated his loyalty to the
government by faithful service on the battle-fields of the south; and now he
is capably administering the affairs of the city of Logansport in the respon
sible office of mayor.
George P. McKee was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on
the 2d of February, 1846, and is a son of Robert F. (deceased) and Adaline
(Orwin) McKee, residents of Bethlehem township, Cass county. They
are both representatives of old Pennsylvania families, and the father was
born in Chester county, that state, while the mother's birth occurred in Alle
gheny county. In their family were fourteen sons and one daughter, our
subject being the seventh son. He spent his boyhood days on a large stock-
farm in Pennsylvania, known as the Beal farm, and in April, 1861, he came
with his parents to Cass county, Indiana, where he has since made his home.
On the ioth of October, of that year, when only fifteen years of age, he
offered his services to the government and joined the army. He was sent
to Fort Hamilton in New York harbor and assigned to Company C, Twelfth
United States Infantry, under Captain H. R. Rathbone, and remained at
that point during the winter. In the spring of 1862 the regiment was
ordered to the front and was attached to the First Brigade, Second Division,
Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and participated in all the general
engagements and campaigns in the Army of Virginia. Mr. McKee was a
very loyal soldier, who aided in many a hard-fought battle, and was never
absent from duty save when he re-enlisted and was granted a veteran's fur
lough. At the close of the war his regiment was ordered east, in September,
1865, and stationed at Richmond, Virginia, to do police duty, for the city
was in a terribly demoralized condition after its evacuation by the Confeder-
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ate army. In January, 1866, the regiment was ordered to Fortress Monroe
to guard Jeff. Davis, who was held as a prisoner of war at that point, and it
was not until 1867 that Mr, McKee was finally discharged, at Washington,
D. C. He had four brothers in the army and the total service of the five
was seventeen and one-half years.
In 1872 George P. McKee returned to Indiana and was united in mar
riage to Miss Clara J. Jameson. He then spent a portion of his time in
farming for several years and met with excellent success in his stock dealing,
being a superior judge of stock. His business career has ever been charac
terized by industry, energy and resolute purpose, and these qualities have
brought to him a deserved success. In the year 1888 he took up his residence in
Logansport, where for four years and a half he was connected with the post-
office department. He has also been president of the local civil-service board
of examiners of the Logansport post-office, and in the spring of 1894 he was
elected mayor of Logansport, having been nominated on the Republican
ticket. For many years the city had been Democratic, but he was elected
by a large majority, — a fact which is unmistakable evidence of his personal
popularity and of the confidence and regard entertained for him by his fellow
townsmen. He entered upon the duties of his office on the 3d of September,
the same year, and his administration of the affairs of the city has been pro
gressive and beneficial. He was re-elected in 1898. He favors all needed
reforms and necessary improvements and in his official capacity and as a
private citizen does all in his power for the welfare and advancement of the
city of his choice.
Mr. McKee was a charter member of Logansport Post, No. 14, G. A. R.,
is now commander of the post and is very zealous and enthusiastic in the
work of the Grand Army. He is a consistent member of the Broadway
Methodist church, and is a gentleman of fine appearance, ready address and
genial manners, who wins friends wherever he goes. As a citizen he mani
fests the same loyalty that he displayed when on southern battle-fields he fol
lowed the stars and stripes, and in all the relations of life he is true and faith
ful to the trust reposed in him, — a man whom to know is to honor.
Mr. and Mrs. McKee are the parents of six children, — three sons and
three daughters, — namely, William H., a fireman on the Vandalia Railroad;
Maud S. ; Lina; James G. ; Vincent F. ; Georgie CarroU, who is the youngest
and was born December 25, 1896.

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i^HARLES BERKSHIRE.— Through a period of six decades the name of
^^-^ Berkshire has been prominently connected with the history of Cass
county. It is an untarnished name and one that is familiar to the people of
northern Indiana by reason of the honorable and useful lives of those who
have borne it. Charles Berkshire, subject of this review, is a gentleman
whose history forms a connecting link between the pioneer past and the mod
ern present. — He saw the county in the days when it seemed almost on the
borders of civiUzation, its land wild and uncultivated, its forests standing in
theirprimeval strength, its log-cabin homes widely scattered and its evidences
of development few. In the work of progress and development that has
since wrought marvelous changes he has borne his part and to-day ranks
among those substantial and valued citizens of the community who laid broad
and deep the foundation of the present prosperity of the county.
Mr. Berkshire isa native of Carroll county, Indiana, born November i8,
1833, and is descended from Scotch ancestry. His great-grandfather, Joseph
Berkshire, was a native of Scotland and emigrating to America in colonial
days took up his residence on a farm near Charleston, South Carolina-
When the colonies attempted to gain independence from the thraldom of
the mother country, he went to their assistance and was one of the heroes
who established this republic. He was also in the war of 1812. Charles
Berkshire, the grandfather of our subject, was born on the farm near Charles
ton, and when the country again became engaged in war with England he
too joined the American army, and was wounded in the arm, by an Indian,
at Tippecanoe. In 1828 he emigrated to Carroll county, Indiana, where he
spent his remaining days on a farm, his death occurring at the age of sixty-
five years. He had a brother who lived to the extreme old age of one hun
dred and nine years.
Solomon Berkshire, father ot our subject, was a native of Floyd county,
Indiana, and married Sarah McC.mbs, who was born in Fairfield county,
Ohio. In 1837 they removed from Carroll to Cass county, taking up their
residence on a farm in Boone township. The father entered one hundred
and sixty acres of land from the government, and afterward sold that prop
erty, purchasing three hundred and twenty acres elsewhere. To his new
farm he devoted his energies until his death and placed it under a very high
state of cultivation. He was an energetic and successful agriculturist; his
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all with whom he carae in contact. He died at the advanced age of seventy-
eight years. In his family were nine children, of whom one died in infancy.
Those still living are Charles, Martin V., William H., Elizabeth J., Alice,
Rebecca, Lucinda and Sarah.
At the early age of four years Charles Berkshire, of this sketch, was
brought by his parents to Cass county, where he has since made his home.
His youth was passed on the homestead in Boone township, where he was
early trained to habits of industry and enterprise. His mental training was
received in the district schools of the neighborhood. He shared with the
family in the usual experiences and hardships of pioneer life and performed
his share of the farm work, so that practical familiarity with agricultural duties
fitted him for his own subsequent efforts in that direction.
As a companion and helpmeet on life's journey he chose Miss Afartha J.
McPherson, a native of Boone township, Cass county. They were married
in June, 1854, but their union vvas short, the wife dying September 14, 1855,
at the age of twenty-two years. Their only child died in infancy. On the
22d of Deceraber, 1856, Mr. Beikshire raarried Elizabeth Hall, a native of
Trumbull county, Kentucky, and a daughter of Mathew S. and Sarah A.
(Townsend) Hall, both natives of Virginia. They had three children, — Mrs.
Berkshire, Sarah and Edward. Her maternal grandfather, William Town-
send, was a native of the Old Dominion and at an early day removed to
Kentucky, where he owned over six hundred acres of land in one plantation
and extensively engaged in tobacco-growing. He was a very successful busi
ness man and in the war of the Revolution he was a faithful American soldier.
To Mr. and Mrs. Berkshire were born five children, namely: Sarah E.,
Mary A., Solomon M. , George and Edward H., all of whom are now married.
Mr. Berkshire and his wife are now living in a very pleasant home in Royal
Center. For many years he continued his farming operations with marked
success, and is still the owner of one hundred and twenty-eight acres of well-
improved land, but, having acquired a handsome competence, he has laid
aside the arduous cares of business life and is now resting in the quiet enjoy
ment of the fruits of his former toil. He has occupied his present home since
1896, and in Royal Center he and his most estimable wife have many warm
friends. For forty years they have been consistent and faithful members of
the Church of God, in which he has served as a minister of the gospel for
about thirty years. In politics he is a Populist. He is active in support of all

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measures which he believes will uplift humanity and advance the general good,
and his own honorable record is one which adds new luster to the history of
the county which claims him as a citizen. Mr. Berkshire is the oldest resident
of the township of Boone, having lived longer in the township than any other
now residing here.

"TNR. BERT VIVIAN CHANCE. — This rising young physician and surgeon
¦L-' of Windfall, was born in Westfield, Hamilton county, Indiana, Decem
ber 26, 1873, a son of Isaac and Rosa (Davenport) Chance, natives of this
state, who had six children. The three now living are Dr. Bert V., Birney
D. and Fred G. Their father is an insurance agent and a follower also of
agricultural pursuits, and had made his residence in this county all his life,
still occupying the old homestead at Westfield. In religion they are Meth
odists, and are active and efficient church workers. He was a soldier in
Company H, Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving four years
and three months as sergeant. He was shghtly wounded at the battle of
Stone river.
Tillman Chance, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of Ohio and a
pioneer in Hamilton county, Indiana. Being a farmer by occupation, he
took a claim from the govermnent and was improving it when he died, well
advanced in years, a Quaker in his religious faith. He had one daughter
and four sons. Isaac Davenport, grandfather of our subject on his mother's
side, was also a native of the Buckeye state, of English ancestry and an
early settler of Hamilton county. He was in the war of 1812, had two
daughters and four sons, and died at Noblesville, when well advanced in
years. Two of his sons were soldiers in the great war of the Rebellion, one
of whom was starved to death at Chickamauga.
Dr. Chance was brought up on a farm in Hamilton county, attending the
district schools, the Westfield high school and the Indiana Medical College,
where he graduated April i, 1897, and the very next day he opened an office
for practice in the village of Windfall; and his practice so far has been flat
tering in its results. He is not a member of any church, but in respect to the
fraternal orders we may state that he is a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America. In politics he is a very thorough Republican.
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ter of Jesse and Ellen (Vestal) Cox, and a sincere and consistent member of
the Society of Friends.
Dr. Chance is a representative of an old, well established and highly
respected family of Hamilton county, and his life has ever been araong those
where he has passed his entire childhood and youth. Striking out thus in life
for hiraself araong the people who best know him, he has every advantage in
his favor for a successful practice and an honorable career as a physician and
citizen.

HON. DUDLEY H. CHASE, now judge of the eleventh judicial circuit
of Indiana, has won distinguished honors both in civil life and military
circles. He holds distinctive precedence as an eminent lawyer and a valiant
and patriotic soldier, and as a man of affairs has wielded a wide influence.
A strong raentality, an invincible courage and a most determined individual
ity have so entered into his composition as to render him a natural leader of
men and a director of opinion. His judicial history is one which confers
honor and dignity upon the history of the bench and bar of the state, and his
is the record of a noble life, consistent with itself and its possibilities in every
particular. Logansport is proud to number him among her native sons. He was
born in the city which is now his home, in 1837, his parents being Henry and
Elizabeth (DoUason) Chase. His father was born in Greenfield Center, Sar
atoga county, New York, in 1800, and is descended from a family that, with
a company of colonists from Bristol. England, settled in Massachusetts at a
very early period in Araerican history. He was a farmer's son, and in early
youth became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the
agriculturist. In his youth he acquired an excellent education, and on leav
ing the Empire state he removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, where he engaged
in teaching in an academy. While there he studied law, and subsequently,
with letters of introduction and recommendation for such celebrated men as
Jennings. Noble, Hendricks and others, he came to this state. He visited
Delphi in 1827, with some intention of locating there, and was admitted to
the Indiana bar, but changing his plans he removed to Adams county, Mis
sissippi, in 1828, spending four years in law practice at that place. In 1832
he returned to Delphi, Indiana, and in 1834 came to Logansport. In 1839

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he was commissioned to fill an unexpired term as judge of what was then the
eighth judicial district of Indiana, embracing nearly the entire northern sec
tion of the state. He remained in Logansport until 1844, after which he
spent the five succeeding years in New York city and then removed to She
boygan, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the practice of law until his death,
in 1854. He was a stanch Whig, and was one of the three abolitionists of
Cass county who, in 1840, issued resolutions setting forth their opposition to
slavery, and were met with great antagonism, which they boldly and courage
ously confronted.
Judge Chase, whose name introduces this review, was a mere child when
his mother died, at which time he went to make his home with his uncle,
William Chase, spending the greater part of his youth in Logansport, where
his uncle figured prominently in business affairs for raany years. He attended
the schools of his native city, and in 1856 was appointed by Hon. Schuyler
Colfax as a cadet in the United States Military Acaderay at West Point, but
about that time he listened to an impassioned address against the policy of
extending slavery, and as a result went west to aid in making Kansas a free
state. The organized body of men of which he was a member bore conspic
uous part in the Kansas difficulty of 1856 and had much to do in making
Kansas free.
Returning to Logansport, Judge Chase took up the study of law in the
office of the Hon. D. D. Pratt and was graduated in the Cincinnati Law
School in 1858. The same year he entered upon the practice of law
and during the year that followed was a partner of his former preceptor,
Mr. Pratt. He afterward practiced alone until the war of the Rebellion was
inaugurated, when with earnest loyalty he offered his services to the govern
ment and entered upon a mUitary career both brilliant and honorable. From
1854 he had been captain of an independent military company of Logansport,
and in April, 1861, this organization became Company K of the Ninth Indi
ana Infantry, with Mr. Chase as its captain. The company participated in
the West Virginia campaign of that year, and on the 4th of August Mr. Chase
was made a captain in the Seventeenth Regiment of United States Infantry
and was detaUed for recruiting service. He took fifty-two Indiana volunteers
to Maine and they were organized as part of Company A, Second Battalion,
Seventeenth United States Infantry, which joined Sykes' regimental division.
Fifth Army Corps, in front of Fredericksburg, Virginia, immediately after

808 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
the battle at that point. The regiment participated in the battles of Chan
cellorsville and Gettysburg, and at the latter, on the 2d of July, 1863, Cap
tain Chase was' wounded in the side by a shell, which disabled him for further
duty until August. He then rejoined his regiment and participa ed in quiet
ing the draft riots. Returning again to the field, the regiraent participated
in the engagement at Rappahannock Station, Bristow Station and the Mine
Run campaign. On the 14th of February, 1864, Captain Chase, then in
command of the Seventeenth Regiment, resigned on account of wounds and ill
health, having achieved brUliant success in military affairs. His interest in
such affairs has never abated. He has long been an active member of
the Grand Array of the Republic, his local connection being with Logansport
Post, No. 14. He is also a charter raeraber of the Indiana Commandery of
the Loyal Legion.
Upon his return from the army Captain Chase resumed the practice of
law and in the same year, 1864, was elected prosecuting attorney of the elev
enth judicial circuit, then comprising six counties. In 1866 and 1868 he was
re-elected, discharging his duties vvith marked abUity and fidelity, unbiased by
fear or favor. In 1872 he was elected to the bench of the circuit court for a
term of six years, was re-elected in 1878, and in 1884 declined to become a
candidate for re-election. In 1896, however, he was again the choice of the
people for judge of the Cass, or twenty-ninth judicial circuit, and is now upon
the bench. While in active practice he was regarded as one of the most
prominent representatives of the profession in northern Indiana. Thoroughly
versed in the science of jurisprudence, with a profound knowledge of every
branch of the law, his defences were able, logical and convincing. His argu
ments showed thorough preparation, and he lost sight of no fact that might
advance his client's interest, and passed by no available point of attack in an
opponent's argument. His long service as judge is an unmistakable evidence
of his ability. His rulings are ever just, incisive and incapable of misinter
pretation. With a full appreciation of the majesty of the law, he exempli
fies that justice which is the inherent right of every individual, and fearlessly
discharges his duty with a loyalty to principle that knows no wavering. He
has the sincere respect of the entire Indiana bar, and has long occupied a
place in the foremost ranks among its distinguished members.
In i860 he became identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, and is a member ofthe encampment and canton. In 1872 he became

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a member of the Masonic fraternity, Orient Lodge, and since then has been a
Knight Templar Mason, serving in 1873-74 as captain-general, and in 1875
as eminent commander. In 1896 he was again elected captain-general and
is now filling that position. His courteous manner, his genial disposition and
his genuine worth have won him the high regard of all with whom he has
been brought in contact.

T OUTHAIN & BARNES. — These well known citizens of Logansport, as
-l— ' editors and proprietors of the Pharos, a daily and weekly newspaper,
have taken a most influential part in the upbuilding and development of the
city, and in many other directions have had a far-reaching power for good.
They are in the prime of life and activity, thoroughly imbued with the spirit
of this progressive age, and are, first and foremost, champions of the people.
The welfare of their fellow men is the one thing dear to their hearts, and in
every possible manner they seek to encourage advancement, iraproveraent
and enterprise. The senior member of the firm, Benjamin F. Louthain, is a product of
Cass county, his birth having taken place upon a farm a few miles east of
Logansport, in the latter part of 1847. His parents, most worthy, honest
and energetic farmers, were pioneers of the Wabash valley, and as such suf
fered the hardships known only to those who have lived under similar condi
tions. The boyhood of our subject was spent in a frontier "log-cabin, with
puncheon floor and clapboard roof, but he looks back to those days as among
the happiest of his life. From an early age his literary tastes predominated
and the first money ever earned by hira was used to purchase a history of the
United States. By earnest study he had qualified himself to enter the
Logansport high school by the time he was seventeen, and with unusual dili
gence for a youth of that age he soon fitted himself for a position as
a teacher. After he had successfully taught in the public schools of Logansport for
one term, Mr. Louthain was tendered a situation in Walton, Indiana, as
principal of the local school. About 1875 he came prominently before the
public as a factor in the councils of the Democratic party. That year he
was appointed deputy sheriff of Cass county, and he conducted the affairs
of his office with credit. In the campaigns of 1882, 1884, 1892, 1894 and

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1896 he was especially active in the interests of his party, serving as chair
man of the Democratic county central committees which were in session
those years, and at present he officiates in the same capacity. In 1890 he
was further honored by being elected a member of the Democratic state
central committee, which did effective work in that exciting campaign.
It was over twenty years ago that Mr. Louthain became connected with
the Logansport Pharos, and since 1877 he has been the chief editorial writer
on its staff. In the year mentioned he purchased an interest in the journal,
and has since been directly interested in its management. It is recognized
as one of the leaders of thought in this section of the state, and as an expo
nent of the principles of the Democratic party it has few superiors. Our
subject, as might be expected, has always been a sincere friend to the cause
of education, and strongly favors giving the youth of our land the best possi
ble privileges in this direction. He has served as a member of the school
board of this city and was postmaster here from July, 1885, to September,
1889. The marriage of Mr. Louthain and Mrs. MatUda M. Emshe was
solemnized in 1881.
John W. Barnes, of the firm of Louthain & Barnes, is, like his senior
partner, a native of the Hoosier state. He was born in the pretty little town
of Muncie, some forty-three years ago, in 1855, and was reared to maturity
in that locality. His education was that afforded by the public schools of
his native place, and after completing the curriculum of studies he entered
the office of the Muncie Democrat, where he mastered the details of the
printer's craft. Just before reaching his majority he removed to Anderson
and was connected with the Anderson Democrat during the memorable cam
paign of 1876. His first presidential vote was cast in the ensuing election
for Samuel J. Tilden.
In November, 1877, the employer of Mr. Barnes bought an interest in
the Logansport Pharos, and the young man accompanied him to this city.
He has ever since been associated with the publication of the Pharos, in one
capacity or another, and in 1881 became a half-owner in the same. Under
the control and judicious guidance of the partners the paper is rapidly extend
ing its circulation and power and has a brilliant outlook. Though he has
constantly written for the paper, the special work of Mr. Barnes is in the
business department, where he excels. He married, in 1885, Miss Emma
Grable.

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WILLIAM H. SMITH.— That branch of the Smith famUy in America
from which the subject of this sketch is descended is traced back to
the Old Dominion. David Smith, the grandfather of William H., was born
in Virginia, and from there went to Tennessee. It was at Knoxville, Ten
nessee, in the year 1816, that Flemmon Smith, father of William H., was
ushered into life. He was reared in his native state and when a young man
came to Indiana and located in Monroe county, where he met and married
Miss Eliza Corr, a native of that county and of Irish parentage. They made
their home on a farm in Monroe county until 1837, when they came to Miami
county and located a quarter section of land in Perry township, the same
now owned by our subject. Here he died September 10, 1845. His chil
dren, three in number, are as follows: David F., a resident of this town
ship; William H., whose name graces this sketch; and Flemmon, who was
born after the death of his father, is also a resident of this township. Their
mother in 1856 became the wife of Thoma's J. Bates, and they now live in
Monroe county.
Wilham H. Smith vvas born at the homestead farm above referred to.
May 23, 1843, and as he was only a little over two years old when his father
died he has no recollection of him. Soon after the father's death the mother
and her little ones returned to Monroe county, where they remained until
1852. From 1852 to 1856 they lived on the farm in this county, and the
latter year the mother married and went back to Monroe county, her children
accompanying her.
William H. was in Monroe county at the time the Civil war came on,
and there he enlisted, July 24, 1862, in Company B, Sixty-seventh Indiana
Volunteer Infantry. He served until the close of the war. September 17,
1862, he was captured in Kentucky by General Bragg; was paroled and sent
to Indianapolis and was exchanged about December 20th. Among the
numerous engagements in which he participated were those of Munfordville,
Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion HUls, Black River
Bridge, siege of Vicksburg, Salem Cross Roads, Cane River, Fort Gaines
and Fort Blakely.
The war over, he received an honorable discharge and returned home,
somewhat broken in health. Shortly afterward he entered the State Uni
versity, at Bloomington, where he remained two years. Following this he
was for fourteen consecutive winters engaged in teaching, while his summers

812 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
were spent in farm work. With the exception of two years, one in Morgan
county, Indiana, and one in Clark county, Iowa, his experience as teacher
was obtained in his home township. After leaving the school-room, he
devoted the whole of his time and attention to agricultural pursuits on his
farm, and continued his residence thereon until 1894. Since that date he
has had his horae in the vUlage of Gilead.
Mr. Smith was raarried March 31, 1887, to Mrs. Margaret E. Ernsper-
ger, a daughter of John J. McKee. By her first marriage she has one child,
Lucile. Fraternally Mr. Smith is a worthy member of the Masonic order. He
was made a Mason in 1874, the degrees being conferred upon him by Gilead
Lodge, No. 354, in which he still maintains membership, and in which he
served officially for about ten years, filling the chairs of secretary, junior and
senior warden and worshipful master. He has also represented his lodge in
the grand lodge of the state. His political views are those advocated by the
Democratic party.

GEORGE A. CROWELL. — Among the pioneer business men and weU
known citizens of Peru was George A. Crowell, who for forty-five years
was a potent factor in the development and upbuilding of IMiami county.
He dated his residence here from 1845 and continued to make his home in
Peru until his death, which occurred November 15, 1890. He was born in
Jefferson county, Virginia, June 25, 1820, his parents being Samuel and Mary
(Link) Crowell. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, his mother of
Virginia. When he was about seven years of age they removed with their
family to Ohio, locating in Sandusky county, where our subject acquired
such education as was afforded by the public schools. He was reared to
agricultural pursuits and remained on the home farm with his parents until
he had arrived at years of maturity, when he began life for himself as a
clerk in a store in Fremont, Ohio. There he remained for a number of
years, and in 1845 came to Peru to take charge of a stock of goods for San
ford E. Main, in whose employ he remained for a year and a half. From
the time he severed his connection with Mr. Main until 1850 he was
employed as salesman in different stores, and then entered into partnership
with William Smith, conducting a general mercantile establishment. He

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purchased his partner's interest in 1855 and carried on the business alone, with
excellent success, until 1876, when he retired to private life, having by dili
gence and judicious management accumulated a comfortable competence.
In his store he always carried a large and well assorted stock of goods, and
his uniform courtesy to the public, his earnest desire to please, and his hon
orable dealing won him a liberal patronage.
In addition to his extensive business interests, which made heavy
demands upon his time, Mr. Crowell always took an active part in forward
ing those measures which tended to benefit the city. He was quite largely
instrumental in inaugurating street improvements in Peru and in building up
the present excellent turnpike system of Miami county. During their construc
tion he was superintendent of the Peru and Mexico, Peru and Santa Fe, and
Peru and Mississinewa turnpikes, and their superiority over other turnpikes
constructed was largely due to his watchfulness and careful management. In
1869 he was appointed special Indian agent for the Miamis of Indiana, also
for the Eel river bands of Miamis, and discharged the duties of his position
until 1876.
In May, 185 1, Mr. Crowell was united in marriage to Miss Mary A.
Steele, who was born in Midway, Clark county, Ohio, April 2, 1826, a
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Denny) Steele, the former a native of
Lebanon, Ohio, and the latter of Clark county, Ohio. She was born in a
block-house near the site of the present city of Springfield, when that
locality was on the very border of civilization. The parents of Mrs. Crowell
were among the pioneers of Logansport, Indiana, and after residing there for
a time removed to Miami county. The father died in Mexico, Indiana, May
31, 1864, and the mother, surviving him for many years, passed away at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Crowell, October 6, 1894, at the advanced age of
ninety-four years and three days. Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Crowell, only one is now living, Alice Olive, who was born in Peru in 1858
and is now the wife of George Forgy, of Logansport, Indiana. The other
three were Mary Cordelia, George Glenn and Byron Fields, all of whom
passed away in childhood.
As before stated, Mr CroweU died in 1890, after a residence of forty-five
years in Peru. He was an excellent business man and of the strictest
integrity. In his long business career he never allowed himself to become
indebted to any one, strictly following that rule throughout his life, and one

814 BIOGRAPHICAL .iXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of the last remarks he made relative to business was, "I owe no man a
penny." When the estate was settled after his death this statement was
found to be literally true. He was upright, reliable and honorable, and in all
places and under all circumstances he was loyal to truth and right, justly
regarding his own self respect and the deserved esteem of his fellow men as
infinitely more valuable than wealth, fame or position. Mrs. Crowell stUl
resides in her pleasant home at No. 54 East Second street, where she and
her husband had lived for many years.

SAMUEL W ULLERY. — Almost thirty years have passed since Samuel
W. Ullery became identified with the varied interests of Logansport, and
during all that period he has been known as one of its most reliable and
enterprising merchants. Time has but brightened his reputation in business
circles and araong the representative men of the city has given him a prestige
that is indeed enviable. His interest in all matters pertaining to the public
welfare has made him a most valued citizen, and not to know Mr. Ullery is
to argue oneself unknown in Logansport. The history of the city, therefore,
would be incomplete without the record of his life, for his name is
engraved high on the roll of those whose efforts, energy and directing power
have advanced the intellectual and material interests of the coraraunity.
Five years have come and gone since he passed the eightieth milestone on
life's journey, yet he is vigorous and active, having neither abused the laws
of nature nor neglected the principles of true manhood.
Mr. Ullery was born in Covington, Ohio, on the 17th of January, 181 3, and
is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Eager) Ullery, who were of German lineage.
The father was born in Maryland, and removed to Ohio, locating in Coving
ton, where he spent the residue of his days. He was a farmer and trained
his son to agricultural pursuits. Thus in the duties of field and meadow
Samuel Ullery spent his boyhood and youth, and his first independent busi
ness venture was made in Covington, Ohio, where he was engaged in dealing
in hardware until 1848. In that year he removed to Greenville, Ohio,
where he conducted a similar enterprise until 1867, when, on account of
failing health, he sold out and went to the west, spending a few months
in that section of the country, the change of climate and interests bringing
him strength. He then returned to Greenville, where he owned an interest

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in the milling business, but disposing of his interests in 1869, he came to
Logansport, where he has since made his home.
Forming a partnership with William M. Wilson, he purchased a hard
ware store and began business under the firm name of S. M. Ullery & Com
pany, the firm enjoying a large and profitable trade until 1886. In that year
Mr. Wilson withdrew and was succeeded by G. L. Ullery, under the firm
style of S. M. Ullery & Son. For several years they have carried on a whole
sale as well as retail business and are numbered among the best known and
most successful hardware firms in northern Indiana. They carry a large line
of shelf and heavy hardware, well assorted, and embracing everything that is
in demand by the public.
The subject of this review entered upon his business career with a capi
tal of only two hundred and fifty dollars, but possessing indefatigable energy,
sound judgment and extraordinary executive ability his efforts have been
crowned with more than ordinary success. His attentions have not been
confined to one line of endeavor and whatever he has undertaken has been
carried steadily and prosperously forward. He was one of the organizers of
and a director of the State National Bank of Logansport and also served as
vice-president. In 1897, by reason of some discrepancies on the part of the
president, the bank suffered heavy losses, and during the time the institu
tion was in liquidation Mr. Ullery discharged the very onerous duties of pres
ident. On its reorganization, under the name of the City National Bank of
Logansport, Mr. Ullery became one of its stockholders and is now finan
cially interested in the institution. His business methods have ever been
above question, conforming to the strictest ethics of commercial life. He is
entirely trustworthy and his long connection with the business interests of
Logansport has given him a standing in her commercial circles that is indeed
enviable. In politics Mr. Ullery has been a stanch Republican since the organiza
tion of theparty, but hasnever sought or desired political preferment. In local
affairs that tend to the best development of the county he is deeply interested
and withholds his support from no movement which he believes to be for the
public good. He has watched the progress of the city for almost a third of
a century and has been an active factor in the promotion of the enterprises
that have been the means of buUding up the city and advancing its general
prosperity.

816 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
In 1839 Mr. Ullery was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Kessler, and
together they traveled life's journey for forty-six years. In 1885 they were
separated by death, the faithful wife and mother being called to her home
beyond, at the age of sixty-two years. Two children still survive: Julia,
wife of George P. Bliss, who is bookkeeper for the firm of S. W. Ullery &
Son; and G. Lincoln. The latter is the junior member of the hardware
firm, and was born in Greenville, Ohio, April 21, 1858. At the age of four
teen he became a clerk in his father's store, received his business training
under his direction and has since been associated with him in mercantile
efforts. Since 1874 he has represented the house as traveling salesman and
since 1886 he has been a partner in the firm. His experience and progress
iveness have contributed not a little to the success of the house, and, like his
honored father, he has a standing in business circles that is very commenda
ble. On the road he is popular with the many patrons and has gained many
friends among those whom he has met in a business way. Socially he is con
nected with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
and the Traveling Men's Protective Association, and in politics he is a
Republican.

WJ J' T^YNER, an honored and highly respected citizen of Prairie town-
' * ship, has for over forty years been prominently identified with the
development and progress of Tipton county. He is a native of Indiana, born
in Franklin county, January 12, 1822. and amid pioneer scenes he was reared
to manhood. Although his early education was neglected, he has, by read
ing and observation in later years, become a well informed man.
His father. Elder William Tyner, was born AprU 9, 1771, and aU his
moves through life were made in April. The grandfather, Harris Tyner,
was a miller and farmer of South Carolina. During the Revolutionary war
he entered the colonial service as a commissioned officer and his fate is un
known. His family later removed to Kentucky. Before leaving South Car
olina, however, William Tyner married a Miss Hackleman, by whom he had
eight chUdren: Harris, Elijah, Richard, Mary A., Soloman, Ezekiel, Malinda
and Silas. In 1805 he came to the territory of Indiana and located in
what is now Franklin county, when it was a vast wilderness, his only neigh
bors for three years being the Indians. When the land came into market he

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•entered a large tract and improved a farm, but during the construction of the
Whitewater canal he removed to Decatur county, in 1837, and improved an
other farm, on which he died, September 18, 1854, at the ripe old age of
eighty-five years. He was a very honest and conscientious man and for
many years was a preacher of the Primitive Baptist church. He was three
times married. In Kentucky he wedded Miss Martha Hamilton, a native of
Virginia, and by this union he had five children: Jane, Nancy, Ma,rth[a.
Elizabeth and W. J., the subject of this sketch. The mother, who ^Igo was
a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist church, died June i, 1840, and
she and her husband sleep side by side in a cemetery of Decatur county.
For his third wife the father married Mrs. Nancy Jane (Callahan) Back.
W. J. Tyner, of this review, early became familiar with all of the duties
which fall to the lot of the pioneer, and after his marriage he remained on
the home farm for some time, though for two years he was unable to perform
much work, on account of rheumatism. Being a natural mechanic he took
up shoemaking, at which he employed his time when his health would per
mit. On his recovery he worked at the carpenter's trade for many years
¦and in this way earned the money with which to bu}' a farm, having only
received about five hundred dollars from his father's estate. His first ,p]^r-
chase consisted of one hundred and twenty acres in Tipton county, though
he continued to rent the old homestead in Decatur county until 1857, when
he located upon his own land, having paid for it in the meantime, erected a
cabin thereon and partially cleared ten acres. To the further development
and cultivation of his farm he then gave his entire attention, and as his finan
cial resources increased he purchased more land, until he had four hundred
acres, but has since sold about half of it to his children, retaining two htin
dred acres, of which one hundred and eighty are cleared, while forty acres
have been grubbed of the underbrush and converted into a good pasture. A
-commodious two-story frame house and a large barn and outbuildings have
been erected, an orchard set out, and the place ditched and tiled, making it
one of the most desirable farms of the locality.
In 1843 Mr. Tyner married Miss Margaret B. Hamilton, a native of
Kentucky, and a daughter of James Hamilton, a prominent farmer, who
removed from that state to Decatur county, Indiana, about 1830, and later
came to Tipton county, where he partially improved a farm, but afterward
¦returned to Decatur county, where his death occurred. He held member-
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818 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ship in the Baptist church. In his family were ten children, namely:
Rebecca J., Minerva, Margaret V., John H., Gabriella, Malinda, William,
James, George and Nancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Tyner were born nine chil
dren: Mrs. Susanna Smyser; Charles, a farmer; Mrs. Minerva Harlow;
John, who died leaving a wife and three children; Mrs. Judah Rose; Mrs.
Nancy Newlan; Mrs. Era E. Romack; Wilson, a farmer; and Mrs. Malinda
Smyser. The parents and five children hold membership in the Primitive
Baptist church.
Originally Mr. Tyner was a Whig in politics, and on the dissolution of
that party joined the Democracy, with which he still affiliates. For two
terms he has most acceptably filled the office of justice of the peace and dur
ing that time he solemnized many marriages. While in Decatur county he
was elected to that position without his knowledge, and when notified took
steps to refuse the honor thus conferred upon him, but many of his neigh
bors prevailed upon him to accept, and he was filling the office when he
came to Tipton county. After a short residence here he was aga n elected
justice of the peace against his strong protest, and he discharged the duties
of the position with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the
general public. He has always been found true and faithful to every trust
reposed in him, and no man in the community is held in higher regard than
W. J. Tyner.

T O. AND J. O. MALSBURY, of Peru, physicians and surgeons associ-
•*-' ated in the practice of their profession, are natives of Grant county,
Indiana, and sons of Jacob and Helen (Dunn) Malsbury. The father was
born in New Jersey and became a pioneer of Grant county, where he located
on wild land, which he developed and improved, making his home there
until his death, which occurred in 1875. There were six chUdren by this
union and all are living.
Dr Laughlin O. Malsbury was born August 27, 1867. His public-
school instruction was supplemented by a literary course of study in the
Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and in 1887 he began the
study of medicine with Dr. L. P. Hess, of Marion, Indiana. Subsequently
he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, was graduated in
that institution in 1891, and later did post-graduate work in New York city.

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He is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, of the American Med
ical Association and is a member and secretary of the Liberal Medical Society
of Miami county. He holds the position of medical examiner to the Metro
politan, Equitable and Manhattan Life Insurance Companies of New York;
the Bankers' Alliance, of California; the Washington Life, Bankers' Life, of
New York; and the Provident Life & Trust Company. He is also ex-resident
surgeon for the Wabash Railway Hospital at Peru. Connected with various
fraternal societies, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Knights of
Pythias, Elks and Maccabees. He occupies an honorable position in the
medical fraternity of Miami county and is esteemed for his social qualities
and progressive spirit. He takes a commendable interest in educational
affairs, and in 1896 was elected a member of the school board of Peru, a
position he now occupies.
Dr. Jacob O. Malsbury was born in Grant county, Indiana, in 1859, and,
like his brother, was educated in the common schools and at the Northern
Indiana Normal. He was a successful teacher for a number of terms and in
the meantime pursued the study of medicine. In 1890 he was graduated in
the Kentucky School of Medicine and later received post-graduate instruction
in New York and Philadelphia. In 1894 he went to Europe to continue his
studies, receiving instruction in the medical schools of several cities of Ger
many and France. He is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society,
of the Mississippi VaUey Medical Association, the American Medical Associa
tion and of the Miami County Liberal Medical Society. His wife was for
merly Miss Anna Rogers, of Wabash county, Indiana. The Doctor belongs
to the Masonic and to the Knights of Pythias fraternities.

THOMAS H. WILSON. — For years one of the honored citizens and rep
resentative business men of Logansport, Thomas H. Wilson belonged
to that class of public-spirited men who, while advancing individual prosper
ity, promote the public good, and in the affairs of the city he took an active
part, giving his support to all measures for the benefit and progress of the
community. His life was upright, and the nobUity of his character won him
many friends, in whose hearts his memory is enshrined.
Mr. Wilson was a native of Maryland, born near the village of Denton,
Caroline county, on the 31st of May, 1818. His parents, John and Sarah

820 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
(Hopkins) Wilson, were of English descent and were members of the Society
of Friends. The father was a farmer by occupation. Thomas H. WUson
was the sixth in their family of ten chUdren, and when a youth of ten years
was left an orphan. He then went to live with his uncle, Thomas Hopkins,
who was his guardian, and in the common schools he acquired his education,
while in his uncle's mill and store he gained his elementary business experience.
Later he secured a clerkship in the store of Miffin & Atwell, of Camden, Del
aware, remaining with that firm from 1834 until 1837, when they closed out
their business, and Mr. Wilson, then in his nineteenth year, came with
Daniel Atwell to Logansport, where he continued to reside until his death.
He was first employed by Anderson & Atwell and afterward by Daniel Atwell
until the latter's death in 1840. He then entered into partnership with
Philip Pollard in the mercantile trade, and the firm became one of the most
important factors in the commercial activity of the city. In 1843 they built
a grain warehouse on the Wabash & Erie Canal, and carried on a forward
ing and commission business in the farm products of the Wabash valley. Ten
years later Mr. Pollard retired and the firm became Wilson, Merriam &
Company. In 1856 Mr. Pollard died and Mr. Wilson became his executor.
The duties connected with that position, together with failing health, prompted
him to withdraw from the firm of Wilson, Merriam & Company, although
for raany years thereafter he was interested in the produce trade. In May,
1865, he was chosen president of the Logansport National Bank and filled
that position until his death, his able administration of its affairs making it
one of the most reliable financial institutions in the state.
Mr. Wilson was a man of keen sagacity and business foresight, and his
watchful care over his business interests, his perseverance and his close
attention to details won him a handsome competence. His reputation in
commercial circles was unassailable, for it would be difficult to find one
whose business methods where in more perfect conformity to the ethics of
commercial life. He was prudent and conservative, yet was quick to discern
favorable business opportunities and ready in giving his support to all worthy
enterprises. He bore an active part in the promotion of many such, and
this added materially to the prosperity of the city with which his interests
were allied. Many of the younger business men of Logansport have reason
to feel grateful to him for kindly assistance rendered in the hour when aid
was necessary to give them a start in life.

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In 1842 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss America Weirick,
of Logansport, who died in 1845, and four years later he married Miss Mary
I. A. Dexter, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, whose death occurred in 1854.
In 1856 he wedded Elizabeth E. Hopkins, of Burlington, New Jersey, who
survived him until February 27, 1898. He had four sons, namely: Will
iam T., Ellwood G., Thomas H. and John Charles. In the home circle he
was considerate and loving, and in his relation with his fellow men he ever
manifested that kindly spirit so in harmony with the teachings of the Society
of Friends. He always retained his membership with this religious sect,
although there was no church organization in Logansport. The poor and
needy found in him a true friend, — ^one whose sympathy was supplemented
by substantial assistance. In politics he was originally a Whig, and on the
organization of the Republican party joined its ranks. Mr. Wilson passed
away December 27, 1877. He was a man of temperate habits, charitable
in thought, word and deed, thoroughly honest, and his public and private
life was above reproach. He had a wide acquaintance in Logansport and
Cass county, and all who knew him held him in the highest regard. He left
to his family the priceless heritage of an untarnished name, and the influence
of his noble life is felt by his many friends.

WILLIAM T. WILSON.— A son of Thomas H. Wilson, the gentleman
whose name forms the caption of this record, is a native citizen of
Logansport, his birth occurring in 1854. He was prepared for college in the
public schools and in 1874 was graduated in Princeton College, of New Jer
sey. Thus with a broad general knowledge to serve as a foundation on
which to rear the superstructure of professional life, he entered upon the
study of law in the office and under the direction of the Hon. D. D. Pratt,
of Logansport, and after thorough and active preparation was admitted to
the bar. For twenty years he has been continuously engaged in law practice
with profit to a considerable and growing clientage of the best and most con
servative people of his native city. He has a comprehensive knowledge of
the science of jurisprudence, prepares his cases with the greatest care and
precision, and is a logical, forcible speaker, whose arguments never fail to
carry weight and seldom fail to convince.

822 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Mr. WUson has also held a number of positions of trust, in which he has
manifested marked ability and business acumen. Since 1877, the year in
which his lather died, he has been officially connected with the First National
Bank of Logansport, of which he has been vice-president for more than ten
years. In J 880 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wilson and Miss Martha L.
McCarty, of Logansport, and their pleasant home is noted for its hospitality,
while in social circles they occupy a very enviable position. They hold mem
bership in the Presbyterian church, and in his political connections Mr. Wil
son is a Republican. Honored in business circles, and popular in social life,
he well deserves representation in the history of his native county.

TOHN M- LONG. — A representative of one of the prominent pioneer fam-
^ ilies of -Cass county, John M. Long has spent his entire life within its
borders,, sq that his history is known to many of its citizens. His large circle
of friends is an unmistakable evidence of a well-spent life, and it is, therefore,
with pleasure that we present his record to our readers as that of one of the
leading and representative agriculturists of the community.
His parents were Curtis and Catharine (Etnier) Long, and upon their
farm in Boone township he first opened his eyes to the light of day on the
4th of, March, 1855. His childhood days were devoted to the labors and
pleasures that usually form the lot of most farmers' sons, and to the district
schools of the neighborhood he is indebted for the educational privileges
which he received. He was early trained to habits of industry and economy
and those qualities have been essential factors in his success in later life. He
soon became faniiliar with the various departments of farm work, the best
time to plant crops, the most approved methods of cultivation; and thus it
was that practical experience well fitted him for the care of a farm of his
own, when, after attaining his majority, he entered upon his business career
He has never wandered from the path of labor in which his early footsteps
trod, having always been a farmer. He, now owns a quarter section of ara
ble land, on which are a comfortable residence and substantial barns and
outbuildings, which are surrounded by waving fields of grain. He raises a
high grade of stock and is quite extensively engaged in that enterprise. His

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 823
methods are in keeping with the progressive spirit of this end of the nine
teenth century, and his well-improved property is a monument to his thrift
and well-directed efforts.
On the 27th of December, 1877, Mr. Long was united in marriage to
Miss Emma Van Meter, a native of Fulton county, Indiana, and a daughter
of James Van Meter, a farmer. Five children graced this marriage, but they
lost one in infancy. Those still living are Verdie May, Curtis Edgar, Elsie
Catharine and Sarah Celia. The parents hold membership in the Methodist
Episcopal church at West Union and are very active workers in its interest.
Mr. Long is now serving as a class-leader and deacon in the church and has
been superintendent of the Sunday-school for a number of years. In politics
he is a Prohibitionist, his advocacy of temperance prompting his support of
that party. He is a man of broad humanitarian principles, of earnest pur
pose and upright life, and does all in his power for the uplifting of his fellow-
men and the promotion of the moral welfare of his community. He is widely
known, many of his friends having been his associates from boyhood, and all
esteem him for his genuine worth.

CHARLES L. WOLL has for the past two years been a member of the
Logansport city council. In 1888 he was elected to the responsible
position of treasurer of Cass county, served, to the satisfaction of all con
cerned, for a term of two years, at the end of which time he was re-elected
for another term. During the four years of his administration of the county's
finances he manifested the utmost fidelity to even the least of his duties and
won the approval of his political opponents, as well as the praise of his con
stituents. He was next appointed by Governor Matthews as a member of
the metropolitan pohce commission for Logansport, serving as such for the
years of 1893 and 1894, then declining to act for another term.
The father of our subject was Lewis WoU, a native of Germany. H'e
spent his youth and early manhood in the Fatherland, coming to America
when he was in his twenty-eighth year. Pie was a cabinet-maker by trade,
and after he took up his abode in Logansport, which he did soon after his
arrival in the United States, he opened an undertaking establishment. In
1858 he removed to Carroll county, Indiana, and continued to make his hope

824 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
in that section of the state up to 1875. Then he returned to this city, and,
as formerly, engaged in carrying on a furniture and undertaking business.
Death put an end to his plans, however, for he died the same year, aged but
fifty years. About two years subsequent to his first settlement in Logansport
he married Miss Mary Barrett, who was a native of Michigan.
Charles L. Woll was born in this city April 12, 1855, and when he was
a yOuth learned the details of his father's business. Naturally energetic and
quick to grasp the difficulties of every situation, his father more and more
catrie to depend upon him, and at the time of the senior Woll's death the
young man was fully capable of running the business. He at once took the
reiri's, and during the following twenty-three years made a reputation for
square dealing, absolute uprightness and strict attention to the wishes of his
cri'stomers. For seventeen years the late James E. Parker was in partner
ship with him, the firm being styled Woll & Parker. In 1897 Mr Woll con
cluded to retire from the business, and, an opportunity presenting itself, he
sold out.
In the fraternities Mr. Woll ranks very high in the esteem of his fellows.
He is a member of Tipton Lodge, No. 33, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons,
and also belongs to Logan Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons and Logans
port CouncU, No. II, Royal and Select Masters. Moreover, he is a valued
member of the local lodges of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the
Knights of Honor and the Elks societies.
The marriage of Mr Woll and Mrs. Mary A. Mulholland, of Logansport,
was solemnized in July, 1892. They have a very pleasant home in this city
and delight to extend an open-hearted hospitably to their numerous friends
and acquaintances in this section of the county.

/"^ EORGE W. SEYBOLD. — Clearly defined purpose and consecutive
^-* effort in the affairs of life wiU eventuate in the attaining of a due
measure of success, but in following out the career of one who has attained
success by his own efforts there comes into view the intrinsic individuality
which made such accomplishment possible, and thus is granted an objective
incentive and inspiration, whUe there is enkindled a feeling of respect and
admiration. The qualities which have made George Seybold one of the

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 825.
most prominent and successful business men of Logansport have also
brought him the esteem of his fellow townsmen, for his career has been one
of well directed energy, strong determination and honorable methods. He
stands to-day at the head of one of the leading mercantUe establishments of
northern Indiana, and as a valued and representative citizen of Logansport
well deserves mention in this compilation.
Mr. Seybold was born in Dayton, Ohio, April 30, 1850, and when a
year old was taken by his parents to Darke county, Ohio, whence he came
to Cass county, a youth of fourteen. He was reared on his father's farm
and his common-school education was supplemented by a thorough course
in Hall's Business College, at Logansport. He continued to assist in the
cultivation and improvement of the fields until twenty-two years of age,
when he left the home farm and spent five years as a clerk in the dry-goods
establishment of Joseph WUer, of Logansport. He was then manager for
almost a year of the branch dry-goods store of WUer & Wise, at LaFayette,
Indiana, after which he returned to Logansport and began business on his
own account, opening a dry-goods store on the ist of November, 1877. For
seven years he conducted a successful business alone and then admitted to
partnership his brother, J. A. Seybold. In 1895 another brother, Oscar M.,
was taken into the firm, and under the name of George W. Seybold &
Brothers they are doing an extensive and profitable business. Their store is
commodious, neat and well arranged, they carry a large and complete stock
of everything in the line of dry goods, and the " Trade Palace " — for by that
name it is known — is one of the most popular mercantile establishments in
northern Indiana. A well deserved success crowns the efforts of the partners,
who are all men of well known business ability, — reliable and straightforward.
Mr. Seybold is a man of resourceful capacity for the successful manage
ment of commercial interests, and his efforts have been by no means con
fined to one endeavor. He was one of the organizers of the Logansport
State Bank, and on its establishment. May, 1893, he was chosen president
and has since served in that capacity. His able administration of its affairs
has made this one of the leading financial institutions of the county, and
prosperity has attended it throughout its existence. He is also the national
treasurer of the National Council, Order of American Plowmen, a benevo
lent fraternity, which was organized in January, 1898, and of which he was
one of the founders. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity.

•826 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
In 1882 Mr. Seybold married Miss Alice R. Whitmore, an estimable
lady who shares with him the high regard in which he is uniformly held. Mr.
Seybold has that courteous manner and cheery disposition so necessary to the
successful merchant, who must meet all classes of people; his business meth
ods are characterized by an integrity above question, and his career is a
most commendable one. He is quick to note and utilize an opportunity, and
this is one of the chief elements of success in America; added to this is an
indefatigable energy which has enabled him to work his way steadily
upward until to-day he stands among the foremost representatives of mer
cantile interests in his section of the Hoosier state.

SAMUEL ROSS. — A native of Stark county, Ohio, Samuel Ross was
born on the 25th of June, 1844, and is the eldest of the twelve chil
dren of Philip and Catharine (Miller) Ross. The paternal grandfather, Sam
uel Ross, was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, a farmer by
occupation, and a soldier in the American army in the war of 1812. Philip
Ross also vvas born in Cumberland county, and when eighteen years of age
accompanied his parents on their removal to Stark county, Ohio,, where he
met and married Miss Miller, a native of that county. In 1844 he deter
mined to try his fortune in one of the frontier counties of Indiana, and located
in Logansport, where he followed the cooper's trade.
Samuel Ross was only four years of age at the time of the arrival of the
lamily in Cass county. Within its borders, therefore, he was reared and
educated, and when eighteen years of age he offered his services to the gov
ernment as a defender of the Union. This was in August, 1862, and he was
assigned to duty with Company K, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, to serve for three
years. He participated in seventeen important engagements, including thpse
of the Morgan raid, the battle of Knoxville and all the encounters with the
Confederate forces from Buzzards' Roost to Atlanta. While with Sherman
on the celebrated march to the sea, he was captured and taken to Anderson
ville prison. On many a southern battle-field he displayed a bravery and
valor equal to that of many men double his years, and when the war was over
he received an honorable discharge, in June, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio.
Returning to his home in Cass county, Mr. Ross has since followed

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farming. He was married on the 7th of December, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth
A. Watts, a native of Noble township, and a daughter of William P. Watts.
Seven children grace this union, namely: Minnie B., Lizzie, William E.,
Charles, Katie, Ollie and Earl. The Ross household is noted for its hospi
tality and the members of the family hold high positions in the social circles
in which they move. They are members of the Christian church, and Mr.
Ross was formerly a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, but is not
affiliated therewith at the present time. In politics he is a stanch Democrat
and keeps well informed on the issues of the day, but has never sought or
desired political office. His time is almost entirely given to his farming inter
ests, and the excellent condition of his fields and farm buildings indicates his care
and supervision. He is both practical and progressive in his methods and to his
energy and perseverance is attributable the gratifying success" which has
attended his efforts. Fidelity is one of his chief characteristics, — such fidelity
as he displayed when on the battle-fields of the RebeUion he defended the
starry banner. It is manife.st in his devotion to family and friends and in his
faithful discharge of all the duties of public and private life, and has won him
warm regard wherever he is knowm.

I OHN McCANDLASS JOHNSTON.— If the man who makes two blades of
'^ grain grow where but one sprouted before is to be held as a benefactor
of his race, what shall be said of him under whose wise management a large
business, giving employment to many, is built up.'' Such a man not only
enables his employes to earn a living for themselves, but also furnishes them
the means whereby they can gain homes and educate their children, thus
founding an inteUigent center of population. Mr. Johnston, of this review,
stands at the head of one of the leading industrial interests of Logansport,
and, while advancing his individual success, also promotes the general pros
perity. His entire life has been one of unusual activity and industry, and he
is a self-made man in the fullest sense of that so frequently misused term.
His connection with the lumber interests of Logansport indicates his busi
ness and executive ability. His methods have always been in keeping with
the highest principles of honorable and fair dealing and with conscientious
regard for the rights of others.

828 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Mr. Johnston is one of Indiana's native sons, born in Wells county, June
4, 1842. His parents were John and Elizabeth (McDowell) Johnston, natives
of Ohio, in which state they were married, Removing to Indiana they
became early settlers of Wells county, where the mother died when our sub
ject was about fourteen years of age. The father afterward removed to
Kansas, where his death occurred in 1867. John M. Johnston was one of a
family of eleven children and spent his youth on the home farm, attending
the public schools of the neighborhood during the intervals of farm work.
At the age of nineteen, prompted by a spirit of patriotism, he enlisted
in defense of the Union, responding to the first three-years call, September
21, 1 861. He became a private of Company A, Thirty-fourth Indiana
Infantry, re-enlisted in 1864 and the same year was made corporal. He
served throughout the war in the company with which he went to the front,
and was honorably discharged in February, 1866. He participated in the
battles of Fort Madrid, Port Gibson, Champion Hills and Black River, was
in the siege of Vicksburg for forty-seven days, then took part in the battle
of Jackson and afterward returned to Vicksburg. Later he went with his
command, which was stationed at New Orleans for seven months, Mr. Johns
ton there doing patrol duty. He made two trips across the Gulf of Mexico-
and went to Brownsville, Texas, where he remained until ordered north for
discharge. While at Brownsville he served on detached duty with his com
pany and participated in the engagement at Palmetto Ranch, the last battle
of the war. May 13, 1865. After serving for almost four years without
injury, he was wounded in that encounter.
On his return to the north Mr. Johnston first located at Warsaw, Indi
ana, but after a short time came to Logansport, where he has since resided.
During the summer of 1866 he attended a business college, and in February,
1867, he entered into partnership with Thomas Deckard, in the grocery
business, continuing therein for seven years, when their store was destroyed
by fire. Throughout the following year Mr. Johnston was ill, unable to
engage in active business pursuits. On the expiration of that period, in
1877, he formed a partnership with George C. Horn for the manufacture of
sash and doors, a connection that was maintained for three and a half years,.
when Mr. Johnston sold out to Mr. Horn and for six months lived retired.
He then became the silent partner in the firm of Hagenbuck, Parker & Com
pany, which firm bought out Mr. Horn and continued the business until

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1889, when the senior member sold his interest to his partners. The firm of
Parker & Johnston now do a very extensive business in the manufacture of
sash, doors, blinds, veneer doors, store fronts, etc., and take contracts for
interior finishings, and deal in all kinds of lumber. They have the largest
lumber trade in the city and are prepared to furnish a complete house bill.
Their factory is thoroughly equipped with the latest improved machinery,
and as they employ skilled workmen the products which they turn out are of
the best quality and therefore command a ready sale on the market. For
twenty-one years Mr. Johnson has been connected with this line of manu
facturing, and his long experience has given him a proficiency that has
gained for the output of the house a most enviable reputation.
In 1868 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Johnson and Miss Emma
Campbell, of Logansport, and to them were born four children, of whom
three are yet living: Harry, Martha and Robert R. They lost their second
child, John, who died in early youth. Mr. Johnston is a member of the
First Presbyterian church, in which he served as trustee for a number of
years. He has been a very liberal contributor to the church and charitable
work and has that generous, benevolent spirit which prompts him to encour
age and aid those who are willing to help themselves. Politically he is a
Republican, firmly believing in the principles of the party, but has never
sought or desired office. He continues his relations with his old army com
rades through his connection with Logansport Post, No. 14, G. A. R., and
in the discharge of all duties of citizenship he manifests the same loyalty
that characterized his service when on southern battle-fields he followed the
stars and stripes to victory.

ASA COLEMAN, M. D. — One of the oldest and best known physicians of
Cass county is Dr. Asa Coleman, of Logansport, a man prominently
connected with the profession who has by his skill and ability won and main
tained marked prestige in the medical fraternity. He was born in Troy,
Ohio, on the 26th of March, 1833, and is a son of Asa and Mary Coleman,
the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Maryland. The pater
nal grandfather, Asa Coleman, was a surgeon in the colonial army during the
war of the Revolution, and the Doctor's father also manifested his loyalty to

830 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
his country during the second war with Great Britain, in which he joined the
American army as a surgeon, for he, too, was a member of the medical pro
fession. Dr. Asa Coleman, whose name introduces this review, acquired his pre
liminary education in the public schools and later pursued a collegiate course
in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was graduated. He then returned home and
entered upon the study of medicine under the direction of his father. Later
he came to Logansport'and temporarily engaged in the drug business in con
nection with Charles Bruce, giving his leisure time to reading medicine in
the office of Dr. Graham N. Fitch, a prominent physician. He had previously
attended a course of lectures in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and in 1854 again entered that institution, where he remained
until the completion of his course enabled him to graduate.
Returning then to Logansport, Dr. Coleman soon afterward became
associated in the practice of medicine with Dr. Fitch, his former preceptor,
and the partnership was continued until the death of Dr. Fitch, vvith the
exception of a period of four years, which Dr. Coleman passed in the west.
In 1857 he received the appointment of physician and surgeon in the Indian
department of the territory of Minnesota, and continued to serve in that
capacity, with occasional interruptions, for a period of four years. He
returned from the west just on the eve of the Rebellion, and when the call
came for volunteers to defend the Union he at once began raising recruits
for the service. In the spring of 1862 he was made surgeon of the Forty-
sixth Regiment, which had previously been organized and mustered in at
Logansport, but the following year, on account of failing health, he was
obliged to resign and return home.
Resuming the practice of his profession, for many years he has enjoyed
a well merited reputation for success in his chosen calling. He has always
read and studied extensively along that line and has kept fully abreast with
the times. His knowledge of the science of medicine is therefore comprehen
sive and accurate, and he displays great skill in applying its principles to the
needs of suffering humanity. In 1866 he was appointed pension examiner
and long served in that capacity. In politics he is a Democrat, but though
a close student of political movements he has never been a politician in the
sense of office-seeking, his attention being fully taken up by his extensive
patronage in the line of his chosen profession.

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In December, 1864, Dr. Coleman was united in marriage to Miss Emma
Fitch, daughter of Dr. Graham N. Fitch, his former preceptor. She became
the mother of three chUdren, Harry Fitch, Hattie M. and Charles Denby.
She is now deceased.

/GRAHAM N. FITCH, M. D.— Rising above the heads of the mass there
^-'- has always been a series of individuals distinguished beyond others, who
by reason of their pronounced abUity and forceful personality have always
commanded the homage of their fellowmen, and who have revealed to the
world those two resplendent virtues of a lordly race, — perseverance in pur
pose and a directing spirit which never fails. Throughout all the great west
have been found men who have marked with deeds the vanishing traces of
swift-rolling time, and whose names are kept green in the memory of those
who have cognizance of their lives and accomplishments. Of this class Dr_
Fitch was a representative. He ranked among the most distinguished citizens
and physicians Cass county has ever claimed, and left the impress of his
individuality not alone upon the local community, for in the council chambers
of state and nation he figured prominently.
Dr. Fitch was born in Leroy, Genesee county. New York, on the 5th of
December, 18 10, a son of Frederick and Mary (Capen) Fitch. His inherit
ance was a vigorous and well-developed physique and a strong intellect. He
obtained a fair literary education for his day and in early life began the study
of medicine with his father and with Dr. Freeman, subsequently completing
his course of reading with Dr. Townsend, of Geneva, New York. Soon after
entering upon his professional career he came to the west and selected Logans
port, Indiana, as the scene of his future labors, taking up his residence here
on the 4th of July, 1834. From that time until his death he was a contin
uous resident of the city.
Dr. Fitch's professional career was one of remarkable success, and his
high reputation was the public acknowledgment of his superior merit. He
was known far and wide as a most skillful practitioner and surgeon and his
pronounced ability led to his selection, in 1844, for a professorship in the
Rush Medical College, of Chicago, where, during the years from 1844 to
1847, inclusive, he occupied the chair of theory and practice. In the last
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port. His comprehensive reading on medical subjects and his practical
experience in his profession made 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, of the defects cast upon them
-as the legacy of progenitors, of the vital capacity remaining in them through
out all vicissitudes of existence; and to this he added an accurate knowledge
of the methods best calculated to abate the ravages of disease and restore
that most cherished human possession, — health. He succeeded in his pro
fession because he desired to succeed. He was great because nature had
endowed him bountifully, and he had studiously and carefully and conscien
tiously improved the talents that had been given him.
But not alone in the line of his profession did Dr. Fitch become eminent.
He was a statesman, and his commanding ability and energy naturally made
him a leader of the people. In 1836 and again in 1839 he was chosen to
represent Cass county in the state legislature, and in 1847 he was elected to
represent his district in the lower house of congress, where he continued to
serve until 1852. In 1856 he was elected to the United States senate, and
served during the momentous years of i860 and 1861. He made a close
study of the political issues of the day as affecting the national welfare, gave
his support to the measures which he believed for the good of the majority,
and left behind him an unsullied reputation in connection with his political
service. Although a Democrat, he held principle above partisanship and was
not slow to disapprove a party measure if he believed it antagonistic to the
general good. In the presidential contest of i860 he supported Mr. Breck
inridge, believing that his election to the presidency would prevent the
threatened civil war. Again, when his party rallied to the support of Horace
Greeley, he manifested his dissent by supporting Mr O'Coner. He opposed
alike the ultra anti-slavery men of the north and the pro-slavery men of the
south, holding that the former gave pretext for dissatisfaction in the south,
whUe the latter exaggerated the pretext to unreasonably increase the dissat
isfaction. He believed that both, though antipodal in their professions, were
seeking the same end, — civil war. He appears to have predicted the Civil
war several years before it occurred, and warned the southern members of
congress of its consequence to their section of the country, foretelling events
much as they afterward happened. However, when the war came on he
became active in defense of the Union by raising a regiment, — the Forty-

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sixth Indiana \'olunteers, — and at its head he entered the federal service.
He was soon placed in command of a brigade, with which he participated in
the siege and capture of Fort Thompson, at New Madrid. His command
composed a part of General Palmer's division, which later blockaded the
Mississippi river, at Ruddle's Point, to prevent reinforcement and supplies
from reaching Island No. lo frora below. Afterward, with his brigade, he
was detached from Pope's command to co-operate with Foote and Davis in
the siege of Fort Pillow, which he conducted so vigorously as to materially
aid in the forced abandonment of that stronghold by the Confederate troops.
The day after the capture of the fort he descended the river and captured
Memphis, holding it for some days, until the arrival of General Slack, of the
Forty-seventh Indiana. With his own regiment he then embarked for White
river, Arkansas, where he captured St. Charles and rendered other valuable
service. After the close of the war. Dr. Fitch returned to his home and took no
further part in public affairs, but continued in the practice of his profession
until his death, which occurred November 29, 1892. He was a man of
strong conviction, fearless in defense of what he believed to be right, and his
integrity was ever above question. He commanded the high regard of all
who knew him, won the respect of some of the most brilliant men of the
nation in both civil and military life, and endeared his friends to him by the
simplicity and kindliness of his nature.

TC. COCHRAN, M. D. , who is engaged in the practice of medicine and
surgery in SharpsviUe, was born in Tipton, Indiana, March 27, 1863.
The family is of Scotch origin, the grandfather of the Doctor, Alexander
Cochran, having been born in Scotland, whence, at the age of fifteen, he
emigrated to America, taking up his residence in Indiana. He followed
farming and stock-raising as a life work, and died in Jefferson county, Indi
ana, in 1883, at the age of ninety-two years. In religious behef he was a
Presbyterian. His family numbered five children: John, James, Thomas,
WUham and Eliza, the daughter being the wife of WUliam Crosby.
Thomas Cochran, the Doctor's father, was born and reared in Jefferson
county, Indiana, and yet makes his home in the Hoosier state. His energies
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through life have been devoted to farming and stock-raising, which he has
found to be a profitable source of income. In 1848 he came to Tipton county,
among its pioneers settlers, and entered a large tract of land from the govern
ment. He afterward sold that, and near Tipton entered another tract,
which he transformed into the fine farm upon which he now resides, at the
age of seventy-three years. Sorae years ago he retired from active business
life and purchased a nice home in Tipton, but preferring the life of the farm
he returned to the old homestead, where he is now located. In politics he
is a Republican, but has never aspired to office. He raarried Leah Newkirk,
a daughter of John W. Newkirk, of Pennsylavnia, who becarae identified with
the farming interests of this state at an early period in its history. He located
in Rush county, and in 1848 removed to Tipton county, where he improved
a farm and made his home until his death. He was a member of the
Afethodist church. In his family were eight children: Ross, Christopher,
Jonathan, John W., Holiday, Elizabeth, Margarey and Leah. To Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Cochran were born eight children: John and William, who
follow farraing; Mrs. Sarah Boyer; T. C. , of this review; James, an agricult
urist; Edward, who died at the age of twenty-two years; George, also a
farmer, and Mrs. Eliza Devault. The parents are members of the Christian
church and are people of the highest respectability.
Dr. Cochran passed his youth on his father's farm, and having acquired
his preliminary education in the common schools he then became a student
in the Union Christian College, in Sullivan county, Indiana, and stUl
further supplemented his educational disciphne by taking a course in book
keeping in a coramercial or business college at Logansport. Later he
engaged in teaching school and then took up the study of medicine with the
purpose of adopting the healing art as a life work. His reading was directed
by Dr. M. V. B. Newcomer, of Tipton, Indiana, under whose preceptorage he
remained for two years, and in 1889 he began the attendance on three
courses of lectures in the medical department of the University of Louisville.
He was graduated in 1891 and the same year located in Sharpsville, where he
has since engaged in the active practice of his profession. In 1892 he also
became a partner in a drug store, which he conducted for over a year. He
now has a large and lucrative practice and his reputation may well be envied
by older members of the profession.
In 1895 Dr. Cochran raarried Miss Viola Holman, a cultured lady who

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vvas born in Ripley county, Indiana, a daughter of Benjamin H. Holman, who
for many years resided in Indiana. He then removed to Colorado, but in
1889 returned to Tipton county. Farming was his life work, but he is now
living in Sharpsville. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist
church. They have nine children: Mrs. Cochran, Mrs. Cora Fish, Mrs.
NeUa Rubush, Juna, Ethel, Grace, Jessie, Mamie and Roma. To Dr. and
Mrs. Cochran has been born a son, Buell, whose birth occurred January 24,
1897. Mrs. Cochran is a member of the Methodist church. The Doctor
belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Maccabees and Modern Woodmen of
the World, and also to the county and state medical societies, being an ex-
president of the Tipton County Medical Society.

TOHN ROWE, one of the well-known and much respected citizens of
*-' Logansport, Indiana, is a veteran in the railroad service. A resume of
his life is of interest in this connection, and we are pleased to present here
the following facts which have been gleaned for publication.
John Rowe was born in Monroe county, Michigan, June- 11, 1839, a son
of Frederick and Julia (Myers) Rowe. Frederick Rowe was a German by
birth, the date of his nativity being 1806. At fifteen he left his native soil
to avoid military service, and embarked for America, landing here in due
time and coming west to Detroit, Michigan. The young wanderer drifted
from place to place in the vicinity of Detroit, doing whatever seemed best
suited to his immediate wants, and finally settled down to work at the trade
of brick mason. He built Adrian's first brick chimney, and for many
years was identified with brick work and the building interests of Monroe
county and other localities in that part of the state.
An incident is related of him wherein he encountered a danger, very com
mon then, which came near costing him his life. In the early days the for
ests of Michigan were filled with savage black wolves, which at certain
seasons of the year became very ravenous and frequently attacked human
beings as theypassed to and fro at night unprotected. On one night as he was
going from his work to his home on horseback he lost his way and was soon
surrounded by a large pack of wolves, whose hunger gave them the courage

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to venture near enough to nip at the horse's heels and to threaten attack at
any moment. He decided it would be better to abandon his hope of escape
from the woods for the night and seek shelter from what seemed certain death.
Accordingly he rode up to a tree, climbed into one of its low forks, hitched
his horse to the same and waited, expecting to see his pony made a meal of
at once. After exhausting all other means without much effective resistance
he conceived the idea of striking his trowel on his hammer in the hope that
the flash would frighten the enemy away, which it did. He kept up this
occasional " flint-and-steel " performance all night long and thus saved both
himself and his horse!
Frederick Rowe acquired a good farm in Monroe county and for years
carried on farming as well as mechanical work. He died on his farm in
1855.' His wife, nee Julia Myers, survived him anumber of years, her death
occurring in 1882. Tbeir surviving children are as follows: Charles, a resi
dent of Monroe county, Michigan; John, whose name heads this sketch;
Julia, wife of Henry Niedermier, also of Monroe county, Afichigan; and
William, an engineer on the Pan Handle RaUroad.
John Rowe passed his boyhood days on his father's farm. .A-t the age of
seventeen he decided to learn the blacksmith's trade and worked at the same
for nine months in Adrian. Before completing it, however, he became dis
satisfied and took a job of wood-sawing for the Michigan Southern Railroad
Company. This finished, he secured a position with the company as fire
man. That was in 1859, and he remained with them five years. At the end
of this time the first "strike" of the century occurred, and, being one of the
boys, he lost his job. Shortly afterward he secured employment in the serv
ice of the Wabash Company, in their shops, and while so employed he made
two trips with engines for the Uniqn Pacific Railway Company to Leaven
worth, Kansas, ferrying the Mississippi river at <_)uincy, Illinois. He severed
his connection with the Wabash Company shortly after this and removed
frora Toledo, Ohio, to Goshen, Indiana, where he was variously employed
for the two succeeding years. In April, 1869, he entered the eraploy of the
Pan Handle Corapany and on the second da}' of that month he made his first
trip on engine No. 114. He remained in the freight and kindred service till
1873, when he was made a passenger engineer, and has now completed his
quarter of a century in that capacit}'. He ran old No. 108, the first wood
engine to be rebuilt for coal. During the whole of his forty years of rail-

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roading he has never had but one accident, that being only an insignificant
one, and has escaped injury of all kinds.
Mr. Rowe has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name
was Sarah Lynes, he married in Toledo, Ohio. She died in 1862, leaving
one child, Sadie, who is now the wife of Ira G. Wilson, of Logansport, and
has three children, — Archie, Merwin and Charles. Mr. Rowe's second mar
riage occurred in December, 1864, when he wedded Miss Helen Miles, daugh
ter of Mulber Lone and Mary (Mosier) Miles. She was born September 29,
1843, and her immediate ancestors were residents of Union Springs, Cayuga
county. New York. The only child of this union is Genevieve F., wife of
Charles H. Young, secretary of the Reserve Fund Building & Loan Associa
tion of Indianapolis, whose children are Irma Genevieve and Charles Rowe
Young.

TT ARVEY GOODYKOONTZ.— One of the old and highly respected set-
^ •* tiers of Tipton county was the gentleman whose name appears above
and who is now deceased. He was born in Floyd county, Virginia, January
25, 1813, and reared at his native place until thirteen years old, when he
came to Wayne county, Indiana, in company with his oldest brother, Jacob,
and was employed there in a mill by Julius Wood. In 1835 he married Mr.
Wood's daughter, Eliza E., and located upon a farm in the vicinity.
In 1839 he came to Tipton county, locating in the wild woods, on a
p ece of land entered from the government, where his son Newton and
daughter Lucina now reside. He was one ofthe first settlers of the county.
Strawtown, fifteen miles distant, was the nearest market, and there was no
town at all where Tipton now is. Erecting a small log house about sixteen
by twenty feet in dimensions, with one window and one door with a
stringlatch, the subject of this sketch proceeded to improve the place by
clearing, etc. Within a few years he built another, with two rooms and better
accommodations generally. He cleared many acres of land and reduced
them to a fine state of cultivation.
He was justice of the peace here for sixteen years and notary public for
several years. In his politics he was a Democrat to the time of Lincoln's
second term as president, when he voted for him, and from that time onward
he has been a stalwart Republican. He was one of the first organizers of

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the county. He died May 23, 1882, and his remains peacefully lie in the
Sumner cemetery in Cicero township.
He was united in marriage with Eliza E. Wood, as already mentioned,
who was born March 19, 1835, in Wayne county, Indiana, near Richmond,
where she was reared. Her father, Julius Wood, mentioned in the same
connection, was a native of Virginia, who settled in that county during its
earliest period. Mr. Goodykoontz had sixteen children, as follows: Joseph T.,
born April 18, 1836, lives in Tipton; Columbus, born July 19, 1837, and
died May 31, 1838; David W. , born October 29, 1838, died September 26,
1839, and Daniel, born November 29, 1839, is now a resident of
Atlanta, Indiana; Jacob, born July 10. 1841, died May 4, 1862; Rebecca,
born September 2 I, 1842, died March 9, 1843; Lucina, born November 22,
1843; John W. , born March 8, 1845, was a soldier in the war of the Rebel
lion, and died February 14, 1876; Harvey W. , born October 6, 1846, is
living at Haughville, Indiana; Israel and Jaraes, twins, born August 14,
1848, died in infancy; Rev. Marion P., born January 15, 1851, is a minister
ofthe Christian church, in Henry county, Indiana; Newton J. , born May i,
1853, is the manager ofthe home farm; Jasper, born June 25, 1855, is a res
ident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Franklin B. , born January 26, 1857,
resides at Atlanta, this state; and Warren, born Deceraber 19, 1859, is also a
resident of Atlanta.
Newton J. and his sister Lucina are living on the old homestead, where
Newton has charge of one hundred and sixty acres, besides forty acres join
ing on the north. They both have been reared here, she attending in her
young days the school kept in the old-time log school-house. Mr. Newton J.
Goodykoontz is a stanch Republican, and both he and his sister are intelli
gent and consistent merabers of the Christian church at Atlanta.

T TENRY S. MYERS. — Among the loyal sons of Cass county who went
^ •* forth to battle for the Union in the war of the Rebellion was Henry S.
Myers, and throughout his life he has manifested in the discharge of his
duties of citizenship the same zeal that he displayed when on southern battle
fields he followed the stars and stripes to victory. He well deserves mention
in this volume among the representative men of northern Indiana, and it is
with pleasure that we present his life record to our readers.

ass. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 839
Mr. Myers was born in Salem county. New Jersey, on the i6th of Octo
ber, 1 83 1, and is a son of Elmer and Ruth (Fisher) Myers, also natives of
New Jersey. The paternal grandfather was a native of England, and at an
early day came to the United States, locating in Salem county. Elmer
Myers was an extensive farmer of that locality and a man of considerable
prominence in the community. His family numbered nine children, as fol
lows: Mary, John, Elmer, Thomas, Henry S., Abigail, Rebecca, Joseph
and Sarah. Of this number five are yet living.
In the county of his nativity Henry S. Myers spent the days of his boyhood
and youth, reared under the parental roof and upon a farm, where he soon
became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agri
culturist. At the age of twenty he left home, and in 1851 went to Cincin
nati, Ohio, near which city he secured employment on a farm. In 1852 he
went to Iowa, and made various trips to and from that state until finally
he located in Cass county, Indiana, in 1867. Here he has since made his
home. In 1876 he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, a tract
of one hundred and twenty acres, which in its improvements and cultivated
condition vies with the best farms of the county. His has been an industri
ous and useful life, but his labors were interrupted in 1862, when he offered
his services to his country.
Putting aside all personal considerations, Mr. Myers joined the boys in
blue of the Fourteenth Indiana Battery, at Wabash, Indiana, on the 4th of
January, and after two years was honorably discharged at Canton, Missis
sippi, February 27, 1864. Anxious, however, to continue at the front until
the object of the war was accomplished, he re-enlisted the following day, and
remained with his command until finally discharged at Indianapolis, Indi
ana, in September, 1865, at which time the starry banner floated over the
capital of the southern Cpnfederacy and the preservation of the Union was
an established fact. He participated in a number of important engagements,
including the hard-fought battles of Guntown, Nashville and Mobile, and
through almost four years of army life was always found at his post of duty
as a faithful defender of the Union cause.
On the 1 8th of April, 1867, Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Miss
Mary E. Tilton, a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and to them have been
born two children, Frank T. and Norman E. Mrs. Myers is a daughter of
Simeon and Sarah (Rigdon) Tilton, also natives of Wayne county, Ohio.

840 BIOGR.iPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Their family numbered eight children, of whom four died in infancy, while
those StUl living are Samuel, Mary E., John W. and Martha J. The grand
father was Ira Tilton, a farmer, and the great-grandfather was John Tilton,
a native of Scotland, who came to this country in Revolutionary war times
and fought in the American army in the war of 1812. Mrs. Myers is a raera
ber of the Presbyterian church and a most estimable lady of culture and
refinement, presiding with gracious hospitality over her pleasant home. In
his political views Mr. Myers is a Republican, standing firmly on the plat
form of his party, whose banner he has loyally upheld since attaining his
majority. He well merits the friendship which is so freely accorded him,
and his name is found on the roll of Cass county's representative citizens.

ISAAC T. BACON, Logansport, Indiana, has for more than a quarter of
a century been a trusted employe of the Pan Handle Railway Company,
and as such is deserving of raore than a passing mention in the present
work. Mr. Bacon is a native of the Pine Tree state. He was born in Oxford
county, Maine, June 13, 1845, and is a representative of one of the oldest
New England families, being a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims. It is
claimed that his lineage can be traced back to the family of the great privy
counselor. Lord Francis Bacon. The Bacons on coming to America first
settled in Massachusetts. It was in that state that our subject's paternal
grandfather, Benjamin Bacon, vvas born, in the year 1779. Shortly after
the close of the war of the Revolution he went to hve in Maine. By trade
he was a shoemaker. He married Miss Rebecca Holms, who taught the
first French ever taught in Boston, and of the nine children born to them
five are still living, namely: Benjamin, a resident of Paris, Maine; Abel,
Woodstock, Maine; Nathaniel G., Paris, Maine; Olive, wife of Hiram
Young, Bethel, Maine; and Alanson Bacon, the father of Isaac T.
Alanson Bacon was born in Maine, July 31, 1812. He married Almira
Buck, daughter of Daniel Buck, of Greenwood, Maine, and to them were
given four children, of whom two survive. Orison H. and Isaac T. Orison H.
is a passenger conductor on the Texas Pacific Railroad and resides at El Paso,
Texas.

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 841
The direct subject of this review, Isaac T. Bacon, was educated in the
public schools of Greenwood, Maine, and early in life became an expert
violinist. For four years after he left school he led the Quadrille Band, an
organization of stringed instruments that was most popular throughout that
section of the state and in the adjoining state of New Hampshire. In 1872
Mr. Bacon came west and, being persuaded by his brother Orison, who was
thenin the service of the Pan Handle Company, decided to locate in Logans
port, Indiana, and seek employment from the same company. September
27th of that year he went out of Logansport on his first run as a passenger
brakeman. He remained in that position one year, at the end of which time
he received a promotion, and the next nine years he served in the capacity
of baggageman. He then entered the freight service as conductor, the posi
tion he has since occupied. The whole of his service has been characterized
by carefulness and efficiency, and merit has each time been the cause of his
promotion. Mr. Bacon has been twice married. He was first married, in Maine,
October 29, 1870, to Miss Eliza Whitman, daughter of Elon G. Whitman.
After a brief but happy married life she died, leaving him with a little
daughter, Mabel, now the wife of Harry Green, of Logansport. November 17,
1875, Mr. Bacon wedded Miss Pauline Siegmund, who was born near Berlin,
Germany. Their union has been blessed in the birth of three children:
Lillian, wife of N. B. Stough, of Logansport, a conductor on the Pan Handle
road; and WiUiard H. and Irvin Alanson, both at home.

EDWARD H. GRISWOLD, M. D.— Among the prominent physicians of
Miami county is Dr. Griswold, of Peru, physician and surgeon of the
Wabash Hospital. He is a native of Lexington, Missouri, his birth having
occurred on the ist of October, 1854. The Griswold family traces its American
ancestry back to the earliest colonial history of New England. Edward Wins
low Griswold, a native of England, crossed the ocean to the New World in
1639 and located in Windsor, Connecticut. The grandfather of the Doctor
was Harvey Griswold, who removed from his New England home to Missouri
when a youth of nineteen years and there spent the remainder of his days. His
son. Dr. Sylvanus Griswold, the father of our subject, was born in Marthas-

842 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ville, Missouri, August lO, 1825, and acquired his literary education in Masonic
College, of Lexington. He pursued his professional course in the Missouri
Medical College, of St. Louis, and is still pursuing the practice of medicine.
He married Lockie Ann Arnold, who was a native of Missouri, but is novv
deceased. The Arnold family is of Scotch origin and the ancestral line can
be traced back to the famous Douglas family of that land of hills and heather.
The father of Mrs. Griswold was born in the Old Dominion, and at an early
day removed to Missouri, where he also engaged in the practice of medicine.
It has been urged by sorae that inherited tendencies determine one's
career in life, by others that environment and individual tastes are responsi
ble for what man becomes. It is probably true that all of these have their
influence, and such is probably the case with Edward Harvey Griswold, of
Peru. Frora his father and maternal grandfather he may have inherited
tendencies that led him to adopt the practice of medicine as a life work, but
in the medical, as in all the learned professions, success and advancement
must depend upon individual effort. It requires earnest study and close
application to master the principles of the science of medicine and prepare
for the practical work connected with the science, and inheritance and wealth
are of no avail in this particular. One must depend upon his own exertions,
and the desirable or undesirable results which follow can be attributed only
to the individual. Dr. Griswold acquired his literary education in the Mis
souri State University, at Columbia, and at the age of nineteen began the
study of medicine under the preceptorship of his father. He vvas graduated
in the University Medical College, in Kansas City, March 14, 1891, and very
soon afterward was solicited to take charge of the Wabash Employes' Hos
pital. Accepting the invitation extended to him, he became a resident of
Peru June i, 1891, and has since had the management of this institution,
which is located on a pleasant site only a short distance north of the Union
depot. It is a brick edifice of modern construction, erected at a cost of
thirty thousand dollars, and is furnished with all the conx-eniences and acces
sories demanded by an institution of this character. The Doctor has an
assistant physician and excellent nurses in constant attendance and most
satisfactory results have'foUowed his labors. The full capacity of the hospital
is about one hundred patients, and the patronage of the institution indicates
the superior skill and ability of its chief physician and surgeon.
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George and Georgia Rettig, of this city, and their circle of friends is very exten
sive, the hospitality of the best homes of Peru being extended to them. The
Doctor is a member of the county, state, national and international medical
societies and also of the Order of Railway Surgeons, and his association
with these organizations keeps him in touch with the progress and improve
ment which is being made in medical science. In addition to his hospital
work he enjoys a large general practice and holds prestige among the most
eminent members of the profession in this part of the state. Both as a phy
sician and as a citizen he is held in high esteem.

IVAICHAEL A. JORDAN, M. D.— The physician who would succeed
^ ' * must possess many qualities of heart and head not included in the cur-
riculum of the schools and colleges he may have attended. In analyzing the
career of the successful practitioner of the healing art, it is invariably found
that a broad-minded sympathy with the sick and suffering and an earnest
desire to aid his affiicted fellow man has gone hand in hand with skill and
able judgment. The gentleman to whom this brief tribute is given fortu
nately embodies these necessary characteristics, and by energy and applica
tion to his professional duties has built an enviable reputation.
A son of James and Susan Jordan, the Doctor claims New York city as
his birth place. He was born November 14, 1853, and passed the first seven
years of his life in the great metropolis of the western world. With his par
ents he then removed to a farm in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and there laid
the foundations of vigorous health which has since been his portion. He
worked on the farm as did the other farmer lads of the vicinity, taking part in
every department of agriculture to which his strength was equal, up to the
time that he was nineteen years of age. He was a pupil in the district
schools, making rapid progress in his studies, and was still a slender stripling
when he secured a license to teach. Five years followed, in which he devoted
himself assiduously to his new duties, in the meantime pursuing higher
branches of learning for self-improvement. The first two years he was in
charge of country schools, after which he was promoted and served as prin
cipal of the graded schools of Montmorenci, Indiana.
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844 BIOGR.IPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
upon his preparatory work in that direction and in the Centennial year, 1876,
was graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Going
then to Brookston, Indiana, the young doctor entered upon his initial work,
but after a year's experience he concluded that it would be best for him to
qualify himself in another school of medicine, as well. Therefore he atten
tively gave his energies to mastering the regular or " Allopathic" system in
the medical department of the University of Ohio, in Cincinnati. Being
duly graduated in that well known institution, in 1879, he was now pre
pared thoroughly for his future life-work. The same year he settled in Logans
port, and for nearly a score of years has been classed with the best physi
cians of this thriving place. He has achieved success, both in the line of his
profession and as a business raan and financier. In all public affairs, affect
ing either this community or the country at large, he has always been inter
ested, doing his share towards progress and advancement. He gives his
allegiance to the Democratic party, with which he has been identified since
becoming a voter.

IV/IARTIN MILLHOUSE. — Germany has sent many of her worthy sons
^ '' ^ to the New World, and they have become important factors in advanc
ing the interests of the various communities with which they are connected.
A representative of this class is Mr. Millhouse, a native of Prussia, Germany,
who was born on the 12th of September, 1852, and is a son of Fred and
Elizabeth (Railing) Millhouse, also natives of Germany. Their family num
bered three children, namely: Henry, Andrew and Martin. The youngest
remained in the Fatherland until nineteen years of age, spending his boyhood
days in his parents' home, while in the public schools of the neighborhood
he acquired his education. His father was a farmer but he learned the
blacksmith's trade and for a number of years followed that pursuit.
At length Mr. Millhouse determined to try his fortune in America,
believing better opportunities were afforded young men in the New World
than in the more thickly settled countries of Europe. Accordingly he crossed
the Atlantic in the year 1871, and took up his residence in Cleveland, Ohio,
where he remained for two years, working at his trade. In 1873 he arrived
in Logansport, where he followed blacksmithing for four years, when, as a
result of his industry and economy, he was enabled to purchase a farm, and

CASS, MIAMI, HO M 'ARD .IXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 845
took up his residence in Boone township, where he now resides. Here he
owns and operates one hundred and sixty acres of the rich farming land of
Cass county, and has taken his place among the representative and influen
tial agriculturists of the community.
In June, 1875, Mr. MiUhouse was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda
House, a native of Ashland county, Ohio, and their union has been blessed
with three children, Jennie B.-, Andrew C. and Charley M. The mother of
this family died on the 21st of April, 1885, at the age of thirty-seven years,
and on the 31st of December, 1885, our subject was again married, his sec
ond union being with Miss Margaret E. Long, a native of Logansport, and a
daughter of Curtis Long, deceased, one of the honored pioneers of Cass
county. They have one daughter, Katie Mabel, born in 1891. The parents
are consistent and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church in
West Union, Indiana, and he is now serving as one of its trustees. His
hopes of winning success in America have been realized and he has never had
occasion to regret the step which he took as a young man, on leaving the
Fatherland for "the land of the free." Here he has not only prospered in
his business, but has also established a good home and won many warm
friends, who esteem him highly for those manly and honorable qualities
which command respect throughout all lands and climes.

/^^ EORGE W. CAMPBELL. — For almost a quarter of a century George
^— *- W. Campbell has been in the service ofthe Vandalia Railroad Company
and is one of its most trusted and efficient employes. Great corporations
such as the railroad companies demand the closest application and faithful
ness as well as ability on the part of those in their employ; and the fact that
Mr. Campbell has been with one road for twenty-four years indicates that he
has met these requirements in every particular, and is fully deserving of the
confidence that is reposed in him.
He was born in Crawford county, Ohio, on the 5th of March, 1851, and
is a son of Daniel J. Campbell, who is also a native of the Buckeye state and
is now residing in Milton Center, Ohio, at the advanced age of seventy-eight
years. He married Susan Spiker, who died July 8, 1887, and their children
were Ben F., of San Francisco, California; Mary R., wife of James Gillen,
of Humboldt, Tennessee; George W. ; and Mrs. Mullally, of Weston, Ohio.

846 BIOGRAPHICAL ..IXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
^fr. Campbell, of this review, spent his boyhood days in the country town
of Milton Center, and at the age of seventeen years came to Logansport,
where he had a sister living. He soon secured a position as brakeman on a
gravel train on the Pan Handle Railroad, and in July, 1868, was made fire-
raan on the same road, serving on the engine with John McGinnis. He con
tinued in that position untU the winter of 187 1-2, when he was promoted
to engineer, although not yet twenty years of age. He remained
with the Pan Handle Railroad Company untU the beginning of 1874,
and for a year thereafter was disassociated with railroad interests, but in
February, 1875, accepted a position as freight engineer on the Vandalia Rail
road, and in August of the sarae year was proraoted to the passenger service,
in which he has since remained. His record is a most commendable one and
his fidelity to duty had not only gained him the confidence of the corapany
but has also earned hira the respect of those who are associated vvith him in
railroading. With the exception of eight years spent in Terre Haute, Indiana — frora
1878 until 1886 — he has resided in Logansport since the spring of 1868 and
is one of its valued and representative citizens. He was raarried in
January, 1874, in this city, to Miss Jennie Sellers, daughter of Joseph Sellers,
who is a prominent grocer on Twelfth street, Logansport. Mr. Campbell is
a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and is an active
and influential raeraber of the Christian church, taking a leading part in its
work, and doing all in his power for its advanceraent. His has been a well
spent life, true to all public and private duties, and his scrupulous regard for
the right has gained hira the esteem of a large circle of friends.

T~\ B. VICE. — We come now to give a few more of the prominent points
¦*— ^ in the life of a live business man of Windfall, Mr. D. B. \'ice, who is
the secretary and treasurer of the Windfall Gas, Mining cS: Oil Company.
Holding the offices which he does, upon him devolves much of the responsi
bility and about all the office work of this business association. " Grit is the
grain of character," says Whipple; " it may generally be described as hero
ism materialized, spirit and will thrust into heart, brain and backbone, so as
form part of the physical substance of the man."

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES 847
Mr. Vice is a native of the far-faraed "Blue Grass" state, Kentucky,
born in Bath county, July 19, 1841. His parents, William M. and Jahazy
(Barber) Vice, were also natives of that state, and had seven chUdren, four
of whom are living, namely: Drjry B., who is the subject proper of this
sketch; James M. ; Benjamin F. ; and Catharine, the wife of Samuel Gilson,
of Elwood, Indiana. Mr. William M. Vice was a farmer and stockman who
came to this state in 1883 and located in Windfall, where he passed the re
mainder of his life, dying in 1894 at the age of seventy-two years; his wife
had left for the spirit world a long time previously, in 1858, when a young
woman. They were both intelligent and consistent members ot the Christian
church. For his second wife he was united with Miss Frances Roberts, and
by this union there were six children, of whom four are now living, — John,
Nathaniel, Ida and Maud. Mr. William M. Vice was a soldier for two years
in the war of the great Rebellion, as a member of the Ninth Kentucky Cav
alry. At one time his horse vvas shot under him and broke his leg in the
battle of Perryville.
Nathaniel Vice, father of William M., was also a native of Kentucky, a
farmer by occupation, and died in middle life; he had six children. The
maternal grandfather of our subject, Edward Barber, was a native of Vir
ginia and lived many years in Kentucky, where he died, aged about eighty
years. He, too, was a farmer by vocation, and was a soldier in the war
of 1812. Until fifteen years of age Mr. D. B. Vice was at the parental home in
Bath county, Kentucky, devoted to the work of the farm and to the district
school. When he had arrived at the age mentioned the family changed their
residence to the vicinity of Frankfort, the capital of the state. At the age of
seventeen years he began work in the business of lumbering and in a sawmill,
of which he had charge for four years, that is, until 1 86 1 , the beginning of the
war, when he emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained three weeks.
Engaging in the service of a lumberman named Elliott, he was sent by that
man to Windfall, where he was employed in running a sawmill till 1863, when
he enlisted in the Twelfth Battery of Indiana Heavy Artillery and served to
the close of the war, faithfully doing his duty as a patriot.
After the close of that great sanguinary struggle, namely, in July, 1865,
Mr Vice returned to his Indiana home, and early the next year bought out a
general store in Windfall, which he conducted until the spring of 1898, —

848 BIOGR.IPHICAL AXD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
thirty-two years; and during this long period he succeeded well, owing to his
high character for integrity and industry. For the past ten years he has also
been a member of the gas company mentioned, being one of the original
movers and organizers of the company, and has been its secretary and treas
urer for three years. He also is one of the three proprietors of the Windfall
Canning Company, which employs about three hundred persons in the busy
season. Also his wife has been conducting a millinery store in Windfall for
the past sixteen years.
In his political principles Mr. Vice is a Republican; was treasurer of
Tipton county two years, — in 1883-4, — and is now a member of the vUlage
board of trustees, being elected in the spring of 1898. He has been a mem
ber of the Masonic order since 1862, also belongs to the Odd Fellows order
and to George Miller Post, G. A. R. , No. 359. He and his wife are members
of the Order of the Eastern Star, of the Order of the Rebekah degree and of
the Christian church, of which he has been trustee, elder and deacon.
On the 24th day of July, 1862, Mr. Vice was united in matrimony with
Miss Annie Wall, a daughter of Eli Wall, and they had two chUdren, --
Eugene and Stella. Mrs. Vice died in 1867, a Baptist; and in 1868 Mr. Vice
married Miss Elizabeth Jane Nutter, daughter of John Nutter, one of the
most honored and brilliant citizens of Windfall and whose sketch appears
elsewhere in this volume. By this marriage there has been one daughter,
Nella May, who married Harry Springer, now a soldier in the war against
Spain, as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry; they have two sons, — Ralph and Lawrence. Of the children by
the former marriage, Eugene married Cora Howard, and a year later died at
the age of thirty-one years; and Stella became the wife of Frank Clawson, of
Windfall, and has three children, — Eva, Arley and Will.

TXnLLIAM E. OSBORN. — It is seldom that one of such venerable age
" ' as WUliam E. Osborn — now in his eightieth year — is an active factor
in business circles, but this honored gentleman is still actively connected
with commercial interests in Converse, and is regarded as one of the leading
and influential citizens of the town. His career is that of an industrious, ener
getic and straightforward man, and in his record there are no blotted pages,
for his book of life wUl bear the closest scrutiny.

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CASS, .MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 849
Tradition says that the Osborn family is of English origin and that those
who were its founders on American soil sprang from the same parent stem as
did the Osborn family to which Queen Victoria belongs. It is believed that
three brothers of the name came from England to the New World in the
earliest epoch of its settlement, and that one located near the present site of
Jersey City, New Jersey, and the other two lived in New York just across the
river. One of these brothers, it is said, planted the first one hundred bushels
of wheat in the Empire state. The family furnished its representatives to
the American army in the war of the Revolution, and Major Osborn won his
title in that struggle. He was a second cousin of the subject of this review.
The grandfather of our subject, whose name was either Jacob or David
Osborn, was born in Jersey City and was a farmer by occupation. He spent
his entire life in his native state.
His son, Isaac Osborn, the father of our subject, was born near Jersey
City and there learned the shoemaker's trade. He married Sarah Pardee, a
native of Guilford, Connecticut, and a daughter of James Pardee, who fol
lowed farming near Guilford, not far from Long Island sound. He was of
English lineage and lived to be an old raan. His children were Stephen,
James, Chloe, Clarissa, Sarah and one who married a soldier, but whose
name has been forgotten. After wedding Sarah Pardee, which was his
second marriage, Isaac Osborn removed with his family to -Ohio, making
the journey in a sleigh to Olean Point, New York, and thence on a raft down
the Allegheny river to Pittsburg, then a frontier post. They then floated
down the Ohio river on a flat-boat to Portsmouth, at the mouth of the Scioto
river, where Angeline, the first child ol Isaac and Sarah Osborn, was born.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, they made a location, but after a year and a half went
to Madison, Indiana, where the father made his home until his death. He
died at Natchez, on the Mississippi river, while on a trading expedition to
New Orleans, at the age of forty-six years. His widow lived to the venerable
age of eighty-three and died in the home of our subject in Converse. After
the death of Mr. Osborn she married Amos Davis and they removed to a farm
in Clinton county, Ohio, where Mr. Davis died at the age of seventy-six years.
William E. Osborn was the second of five children, the others being
Angeline, Margaret and James, twins, and George A. William E. Osborn was
born in Madison, Indiana, October 13, 18 19, and received but limited school
privUeges in his youth, yet, being fond of books, he has always read exten-
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850 BIOGR.iPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
sively, and having a retentive memory and an observant eye he has gained a
wide general information that has made him a well informed raan. He was
only three years old when his father died and when he was twelve his mother
married again and he accompanied her on her removal to Clinton county,
Ohio. A few months later, however, he returned to Indiana, making his way
to Richmond, where he learned the wagon-maker's trade, under the direction
of Jesse Templeton, a friend of the family. He remained with him for four
years and two months, after which he returned to his family in Clinton
county, Ohio.
Mr. Osborn was there raarried September 5, 1842, to Hannah Newcomb,
who was born in Maryland, near the Delaware line. During her girlhood he
removed to Greene county, Ohio, where he became a prosperous farmer. Mr.
Osborn remained in Ohio until 1850, when he removed to the Hoosier state,
arriving in Wabash county on the 31st of August. There he cleared and de
veloped a good farm, upon which he resided until 1865, when he located in
the town of Wabash, making his horae there until April, 1867, when he carae
to Converse, then known as Xenia. He has since been engaged in the lura-
ber business here and has handled large quantities of black walnut luraber
and other native timber. He has long been regarded as one of the best
judges of uncut timber that has ever lived in this part of the state. He cut
and prepared large quantities of lumber for shipment to the eastern markets
and built up a good business. He has also been engaged in the hardware
business for the past fourteen years and has always been a practical, progress
ive man, whose straightforward dealing and honorable business methods
have not only brought to him success but have also won him the confidence,
good will and high regard of all with whom he has been brought in contact.
Thirteen months after his first marriage Mr. Osborn was called upon to
mourn the loss of his wife, who died leaving one child, James, who died in
infancy. He was married a second time, in Clermont county, Ohio, Rachel
Murphy becoming his wife in 1845. She was born in Wilmington, Dela
ware, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Murphy. Her father also was
born in Delaware and belonged to one of the old families of that state. He
was a farmer and also a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and, in connection with public affairs, served as constable and justice of the
peace. His children were as follows: Thomas, John, William, Joseph,
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these children weighed over two hundred pounds, and the mother also
weighed as much. The father was numbered among the pioneer settlers of
Clermont county, Ohio, and lived to be an old man. Mrs. Osborn died in
Converse, Indiana, July 29, 1877, at the age of fifty-nine years. She was
a devout member of the Methodist church and a lady of many virtues. Her
children were Arthur, Sarah C. and George A. The elder son vvas a mem
ber of the Forty-seventh Indiana Regiment during the Civil war, and served
eighteen months. He enlisted when only sixteen years of age, but displayed
marked bravery on a number of battle-fields.
The third marriage of Mr. Osborn occurred in Sharpsville, Indiana,
where he wedded Mrs. Frances Plummer, ne'e Fish. She, too, was a mem
ber of the Methodist church, and died in Converse. The present wife of
our subject was formerly Mrs. Cyrena (Beckford) Starbuck, a native of
Fountain City, Indiana. Her father removed from North Carolina and
located in Wayne county in pioneer days. He had eighteen children, all of
whom lived to be over sixty years of age. He passed the ninetieth milestone
on life's journey and died on the farm, in Wayne county, Indiana, on which
he located at the time of his arrival in this state. Mrs. Osborn holds mem
bership in the Methodist church and takes a very active part in its work.
Long prior to the Civil war Mr. Osborn advocated the abolition of
slavery, and his home in Port Williams, Clinton county, Ohio, was a station
on the "underground railroad." He assisted many a negro on his way to
freedom. At one time he sheltered thirteen runaway slaves and conveyed
them to the next station, seventeen miles distant, and on another occasion he
aided a mother and her four children to escape. During the war between
the north and the south he was a stanch advocate of the Union cause. In
politics he is a stalwart Republican and socially is an Odd Fellow and a
Mason. Numbered among the pioneers of the state he has witnessed much
of the growth and development of Indiana, and is one of the oldest citizens
now living within her borders who can claim the state as the place of his
nativity. His life has been a busy and useful one and the opinion which his
fellow men entertain for him is shown by the high regard and friendship which
they extend to him.
The following genealogical data touching the Osborn family are taken
from records found in the Lenox library in New York: "Osborn, John,
Albany, son of Nehemiah; born 18 17, died 1871; married, 1854, to Harriet

852 BIOGRAPHIC.IL .IXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Pardee. Son of Nehemiah Osborn, born 1770, in New Haven, Connecticut;
died in 1853 in Albany, New York; married Mary Frazier. Son of David
Osborn, born 1746; died 1786; married Mary Talmadge. Son of Jeremiah
Osborn, born 1699; died 1789. Son of Joseph Osborn, born 1667; died
1735. Son of Jeremiah Osborn, born 1620; died 1676. Son of Thomas
Osborn, who was one of the original settlers of New Haven, Connecticut."
In Hatfield's history of Elizabeth, New Jersey, reference is made to one
Isaac Osborn, who signed sorae official documents; but no further mention
is made of him. Undoubtedly William E. Osborn, the immediate subject of
this sketch, is a lineal descendant from Thomas Osborn, the original New
Haven settler, as the marriage into the Pardee family indicates.

WILLIAM SMALL. — " Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy," says
Chatfield, " for it turns earth and even refuse into gold, conferring
upon its cultivator the additional reward of health. " This oldest of human
vocations and noblest of them all has been honored by the successful career
of the subject of this sketch.
Jesse Small, the father of William, was born Deceraber 25, 1809, in
Highland county, Ohio; and his father, Joseph Small, was born April 5, 1767,
in Pasquotank county. North Carolina, married Miss Clarkey Perisho, of
Pasquotank county. North Carolina, in February, 1793, and had the follow
ing named children: Rachel, Joshua, Annie, Joseph and Clarkey (twins),
Elizabeth and Rebecca (twins), Jesse and Reuben. The family moved to
Ohio in pioneer days, settling in Highland county, where the father finally
died, about 18 12. He was a Quaker, as had been his ancestors for genera
tions. Jesse Small received a good education for his time and taught school
in Randolph county, this state, carae to Grant county at the age of twenty-
five years, married there, in 1836, Miss Millicent Ratliff, who was born in
Wayne county, Indiana, February 7, 18 18, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah
(Shugart) Ratliff. Joseph Ratliff was born in North Carolina, a son of Cor
nelius and Elizabeth (Saint) Ratliff, the latter of whom was a daughter of
Thomas Saint, of North Carolina. Thomas Saint married Margaret True-
blood, daughter of Joseph Trueblood, son of Abel Trueblood, of England.
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with William Penn and was present at the conclusion of the famous treaty he
made with the Indians. Joseph Ratliff was a farmer from North Carolina,
who married Sarah Shugart, and their children were Millicent, John, Cor
nelius and Mary. Mr. Ratliff settled upon land in Wayne county, this state,
on what is now the site of Fountain City, where he cleared a tract of land
and developed a farm.
Jesse Small entered one hundred and forty acres of land near Marion in
Grant county, Indiana, which he cleared and improved and placed a number
of good buildings upon it. His children were Joseph, William, Mary, Annie.
Cornelius, Sarah J. and Silas, — all born in Grant county. Mr. Small was a
well known pioneer. In his religion he was a birthright member of the
Society of Friends and an elder in the church nearly forty years. In his pol
itics he was a Republican and an uncompromising abolitionist, his horae
being a station on the famous " underground railroad." Mr. William Small,
our subject, well remembers the occasion when four runaway slaves were
taken by his father to the next station. These fugitives would remain closely
concealed in barns or other hiding places during the daytime, but ate and
slept in the house and traveled only at night and then generally under cover.
Mr. Jesse Small was a high-minded man, of strict moral habits and religious
principles, greatly respected by all who knew him, was always industrious
and trustworthy and his word was as good as his bond. In his old age he
became very deaf and was killed on the railroad at Marion, Indiana, June
2 1, 1884, at the age of seventy-four years. The railroad attorney told the
conductor that he had killed the best man in Grant county.
Joseph Small was a pioneer in Highland county, Ohio, emigrating from
Pasquotank county. North Carolina. His parents were Obadiah and Lydia
(Bundy) Small, and Obadiah was the son of John Small. The family are of
Scotch and Welsh origin, the first emigrants to this country settling in Penn
sylvania, some of whom were soldiers in our Revolutionary war. Obadiah,
one of these soldiers, carried his powder in a gourd, which is still preserved
and is in the possession of Zachariah Small, in Rush county, this state.
William Small, the subject of this sketch, was born June 6, 1841, in
Grant county, Indiana, received a common-school education and attended
for a time the Bloomingdale Academy in Parke county, this state, and also
the Marion high school. Afterward he taught school in Grant and Miami
counties for five years. After marriage he continued a resident of Grant

854 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
county for a year and a half, and then, in 1867, came to Miami county,
locating upon a farm which he had purchased near Converse, in Jackson
township. Nine years afterward, however, he moved to Wabash, Indiana,
and was engaged in a flouring-miU for five years. Next he moved upon a
farra of eighty acres north of Amboy, and finally, in 1896, to his present resi
dence, a half-mile south of Amboy, where he has ninety-eight acres.
It was in Miami county, this state, that he was married, October 12,
1865, to Miss Huldah Canaday, who was born November 7, 1840, in Grant
county, Indiana, a daughter of Joshua and Betsey A. (Mills) Canaday. Her
father was a native of Wayne county, this state, a son of Robert Canaday, a
relative of Hon. Charles Summer, and an early emigrant from Tennessee to
Wayne county. Joshua Canaday and wife had six children: Oliver H.,
Thomas E., Maria J., Huldah, Martha, Cyrus and Barclay. Mr. Canaday
was a tanner and farmer, and a pioneer in 1848 in Miami county, Indiana,
settling in Jackson township, a mile north of the present residence of our
subject. Here he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, cleared it
and made of it a good farm. He, too, was a birthright Quaker, strict in his
principles and conduct, prosperous in his undertakings and successful in life.
WiUiam Small's children are Weston, Webster, Jesse, Gertrude, Oliver H.
and Telford. Both Mr. and Mrs. Small are members of the Friends' church, in which
body he has been clerk of Wabash quarterly meeting for twenty-two years,
attending every session for twenty-four years; and he has been an elder in
the church for twelve years. In his political principles he vvas formerly a
Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist. He is a raan who says what he
means, of clear-cut principles and uncompromising with all sorts of crime and
misdemeanor, no matter how fashionable such a vice may be.
His son, Weston, is a graduate of the Michigan State University, at Ann
Arbor, and is a civil engineer, now operating on the Illinois Central RaUroad;
Webster is a traveling salesman; Jesse is a soldier in the regular United
States army, a member of Battery D, Fourth Artillery, at present being sta
tioned at Fort McHenr}', Baltimore; Gertrude, a graduate of the Northern
Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, Indiana, and an amanuensis and book
keeper at Rensselaer, Indiana, since September, 1894; Oliver H. graduated
at an institution of learning at Fairmount, Indiana, in June, 1898; and Tel
ford graduated at the Amboy Academy in June of the sarae year. This excel-

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lent academy was founded by our subject, in company vvith Robert Ridgway
and others. The academy prepares students for the freshmen class in the
colleges and universities of the state, and is a commissioned high school.

jpv AVID LARRISON.— The soldier who risks his life on the field of battle
^— ^ for a cause in which he believes, has always received the highest praise
of men; next to him stands the pioneer, who braves the dangers and hard
ships of the frontier, opening up new and uninhabited districts to civilization.
Deprived of the comforts and conveniences to which he has been accustomed
in older settled districts, in quiet endurance of difficulties and almost insur
mountable obstacles, he works on day after day at the arduous task of mak
ing the wild land, hitherto uncultivated, bring forth the harvests that shall
provide him and his family with a living. In the work of early development
and improvement in northern Indiana David Larrison has borne no incon
siderable part, and well deserves mention among the honored pioneers.
He springs from sterling German ancestry, the family having been estab
lished near Trenton, New Jersey, in colonial days, by emigrants from the
Fatherland. His father, Charles Larrison, was born in New Jersey and mar-
-ried Lena Eich, also a native of that state and of German lineage. About
1808 he removed to Ohio, locating in Hamilton county, about twelve miles
northwest of Cincinnati. There he developed a fine farm in the midst of the
forest. His brother, Jonathan Larrison, had located in that district a few
years previously and in later life was the owner of one of the most valuable
farms in Hamilton county. He built a substantial brick house and set out
the first orchard in that part of the country, bringing the grafts from New
Jersey and establishing the first nursery in southern Ohio. Charles Larrison
was a shoemaker by trade, and in his later life left the farm and followed
that pursuit in the village of Burlington, where he died at the age of fifty-
six years. His wife, who was a sincere member of the Christian church,
died at the age of eighty years in the home of our subject, in Harrison town
ship, Miami county, where she spent the last ten years of her life. In politics
Mr. Larrison was a Democrat, and was a loyal and progressive citizen and
upright man. Their children vvere Margaret, George, Mary, David, Uriah,
Henry, Amanda, WUliam, Sarah and John.

856 BIOGRAPHIC.IL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
David Larrison, of this review, was born in Colerain township, Hamil
ton county, Ohio, April lo, 1822, and spent his youth on his father's farm,
his education being obtained in the old-time subscription school. Having
attained his majority he was raarried in Hamilton county, when about twen
ty-eight years of age, to Jane Howry, who was born in RossvUle, Butler
county, Ohio, a daughter of John Howry. Ten children were born of this
union: Andrew, Mary, John, Theodore, Laura, Alice, Ellen, Albert, Henry
and Ira. In August, 1851, Mr. Larrison removed with his family to Miami county,
Indiana, and purchased eighty acres of wooded land in Harrison township,
which he cleared, converting it into richly cultivated fields. He afterward
removed to Howard county, where he lived for about three years on a farm
of eighty acres and then returned to Harrison township and to the farm
which had previously been his home. In 1863 he removed to the farm which
he still owns, buying first an eighty-acre tract, which he has enlarged by
additional purchase until he now has a quarter-section. When he located
thereon about thirty-five acres had been cleared and a hewed-log house had
been built. He continued the work of development, erected good buildings
and now has one of the best improved farms in the county, all the con
veniences and accessories of the model country home being there found. So
careful has he been in the direction of his business affairs, so earnest and
untiring in his labors and so honorable in his dealings, that he has won a
handsome competence, which supplies hira with all the comforts and many
of the luxuries of life.
Upon this farm Mrs. Larrison died in November, 1867, and many friends
mourned her loss, for her excellencies of character had endeared her to all
vvith whom she had been brought in contact. On the 4th of March, 1872,
in Howard county, Indiana, Mr. Larrison was again married, his second
union being with Mrs. Mary J. Woods, nee Snow, who was born in Iredell
county. North Carolina, a daughter of George and Thirzah (McConel) Snow.
Her father was a native of the same county, was a farmer by occupation and
about 1844 removed to Henry county, Indiana, where he remained four
years. In 1848 he went to Howard county, locating on a wild tract of forty
acres in Liberty township, which he cleared and transformed into a farm.
Later he sold that and improved another farm. His death occurred near
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sterling integrity and true Christian worth. Plis children were John, Eveline,
Thomas, Mary J., Alfred, William, Adolphus and Julius.
Mary J. Snow, now the honored wife of our subject, was first married
to John Woods, of Greentown, Howard county, Indiana, and a carpenter by
trade. Their children vvere Oliver, Preston, Cornelia, Laura B., WUliam
E., Ida and Matilda. Mr. Woods died in Greentown, Indiana, in 1855, at
the age of thirty-six years. He was a son of Benjarain and Mecca (Boone)
Woods; and both the Woods and Boone families were Kentucky pioneers,
removing from that state to Howard county, Indiana, at an early day. The
Boones were related to the famous Daniel Boone, the explorer and Indian
fighter. Mr. Woods was a man of sterling character, industrious and ener
getic, and a faithful Christian gentleman. He long held membership in the
Methodist church and was a leader in church and Sunday-school work, serv
ing both as class-leader and Sunday-school superintendent.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Larrison located on the old farm and
he continued its active operation until 1898, when he put aside business cares
and retired to private life. For some years he has spent the winter seasons in
the south, in company with his wife, usually sojourning in Georgia and Ten
nessee. This worthy couple are consistent members of the United Brethren
church, and in politics Mr. Larrison is an independent bimetalist. He is a
typical American pioneer, with the strength and courage to meet hardships
when they come, — self-reliant, industrious, honest and upright. His life has
been a busy and useful one and to-day he is enjoying the merited reward of
his labors in an honorable retirement frotn further business cares.

/"^ EORGE COTTON. — The narae of this gentleman is found on the list
^--*- made up of the trusted employes of the Pan Handle Railroad Corapany
who have their horaes in Logansport. His history, in brief, is as follows:
George Cotton was born in Suffolk, England, November 27, 1855, and
is a son of George and Deborah (Baker) Cotton, he being the sixth in order
of birth in their family of eight children. The senior George Cotton was for
many years a dairyman. The subject of our sketch was reared at his native
place and remained in England until 1879, when he made the voyage to
America and identified himself with this country. He and his brother Fred-

858 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
erick, a horse-clipper in Chicago, are the only members of the family who
carae to the United States. On his arrival here, George Cotton secured
eraployment in the establishment of J. V. Farwell, of Chicago, with whom
he remained until August, 1882. At that time he resumed railroading, he
having been engaged in this business in the old country. He was with the
Midland Railway Company of England as early as 1873, filling the place of
guard, a position which corresponds to that of conductor on America roads.
His first railroad position here was that of brakeman on the Pan Handle,
between Logansport and Chicago, and in this capacity he served until June,
1886, wheu he was given a promotion, and made his first run as freight con
ductor on No. 87, with engineer Dan. Moore. In April, 1890, he passed the
examination for the passenger service and is, in consequence, in line for pro
motion to that department as vacancies occur.
Mr. Cotton has a wife and interesting family of children. He was mar
ried in Logansport, in September, 1884, to Miss Alice E. Reneau. Her
father, Charles Reneau, was for a quarter of a century employed in the
Logansport shops of the Pan Handle Company. Her mother was before
marriage a Miss Tremp. Mr. and Mrs. Cotton have six children, — George
C. , Reneau L. , Vincent, Fred, Alice E. and Shirley H.

/""^URTIS LONG. — The traveler of to-day, as he notes the thriving and
^-^ iraportant manufacturing and commercial center of Logansport, and the
enterprising towns and villages elsewhere in the county, the churches,
schools and other institutions, scarcely realizes that hardly more than halfa
century has passed since this region was an almost unbroken wilderness, the
prairies uncultivated, the forests uncut. The whistle of the locomotive did
not awaken the echoes of the woodlands, and the wild fowls were much more
numerous than the domesticated ones of the farm-yard. It was in that pio
neer epoch, when development and progress were still in the future, that
Curtis Long came to Cass county and entered upon the work of reclaiming a
part of the wild land for the uses of civilization.
He was born in Sussex county, Delaware, on the 6th of January, 1825,
and was a son of John and Sarah (Tingle) Long, also natives of the same
county. In 1827 they removed with their family to Preble county, Ohio,

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where the death of the mother occurred, and in 1833 the father came to
Cass county, where he afterward wedded Mary E. Sizor. He had eight
children, seven by the first marriage and one by the last. These are Peter,
William, Mary, Edward, Curtis, Ann, Eliza and John.
Curtis Long was a youth of only eight summers, when, with his family,
he came to this state. His early youth was spent on the home farm, and at the
age of seventeen he went to Logansport, where he learned the carpenter's
trade, which he followed for twelve years. He became an expert workman
and was prominently identified with the building interests of the community
in pioneer times. Later he carried on farming. After his marriage he
located in Clay township, Cass county, where he made his home until 1849,
at which time he removed to Logansport, continuing his residence in that
city until 1855. In the latter years of his life he resumed farming on section
I, Boone township, and devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until
his death. He was a persevering, resolute business man and conducted all
. trade transactions with the strictest regard to the ethics of business life. His
name was synonymous with honorable dealing and he had the unlimited con
fidence of all with whom he came in contact. In matters pertaining to the
public welfare he was deeply interested and gave his support to every meas
ure designed for the public good.
The last mentioned, but by no means the least important event in the
life of Mr. Long, occurred on the 2d of September, 1847, when he was
united in marriage to Miss Catharine Etnier, a daughter of John and Eliza
beth (Copenheaver) Etnier. The lady was a native of Huntingdon county,
Pennsylvania, and by their marriage they became the parents of five children,
as follows: WUliam, born July 8, 1848; Clarissa, born February 15, 1850;
Margaret, born October 6, 1852; John M. , who was born March 4, 1855; and
Arabella, born March 20, 1858.

JOHN W. MINOR. — On the roll of Amboy's respected and leading citizens
is found the name of John W. Minor, who for many years has been
actively connected with the agricultural interests of Jackson township,
Miami county. He comes of one of the old colonial families of Virginia, of
English ancestry, and his near relatives were Kentuckians, who came to

860 BIOGR.iPHICAL .i.YD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
the latter state in its pioneer days and aided in reclaiming its virgin soil for
the uses of civilization. John Minor, the father of our subject, was born on
the Roanoke river, in the Old Dominion, July 4, 1790, and when a young man
went to the " dark and bloody ground " first known to history through Dan
iel Boone, Simon Kenton and other celebrated explorers and pioneers. Mr.
Minor was married February 5, 18 18, to Polly Owens, who was born near
DanvUle, Boyle county, Kentucky. April 18, 1799, a daughter of Jeremiah
Owens, a farmer and slave-holder of that state who gave to his daughter
Polly a negro man and woman. He also had two other children by his first
wife, William and Mason, and by his second marriage he had a, daughter
Nancy and other children. He was one of the early settlers of the state and
was a relative of Simon Kenton.
John Minor, Sr. , the father of our subject, having married, located on
a farm near Danville, where he remained several years, and in 1854 removed
to Westfield, Hamilton county, Indiana. Later he went with his family to
Missouri, where he remained for two years, and about 1858 took up his resi
dence in Miami county, Indiana. His last days were spent in the home of
his son, John W. He was a member of the Christian church, and was first
an old-line Whig and afterward a Republican in politics. He had two sons in
the Union army in the Civil war, — Logan and John W., members of the sarae
company and regiment. The latter served for six months and was then
honorably discharged.
John W Minor was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, August 14, 1840,
and when about fourteen years of age came with his parents to Indiana. He
acquired a common-school education and eventually came with the family to
Miami county, where he has since remained. When about twenty-three
years of age he enlisted, in Wabash county, in February, 1S65, as a member
of Company G, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, to serve
for three years or during the war, and in the following August was honorably
discharged, by reason ofthe close of hostilities. He was stationed at Charles
ton, Berryville, Stevenson Station, and Summit Point, and did guard duty
at Harper's Ferry.
On the 1 2th of October, after his return home, Mr. Minor was united
in marriage to Miss Amelia Haskett, who was born June 17, 1844, in Mad
ison county, Indiana, a daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Ridgeway) Haskett.
Her father removed frora North Carolina to Madison county, where he car-

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ried on agricultural pursuits. His children are Valentine, Amelia, Colum
bus, Amos, Lorenzo, Mary, and Albert and Albion, twins. Mr. Haskett
lived to be about seventy years of age and died in Nebraska, where he was
living with his children. Mr. and Mrs. Minor began their domestic life in
Harrison township, Miami county, on a farm of forty acres, which was but
partially cleared. With characteristic energy he began its further develop
ment and continued to make his home thereon until about 1874, when he
removed to his present home in Jackson township, of the same county. Here
he has one hundred acres of richly cultivated land, divided by well-kept
fences into fields of convenient size, and the waving grain gives evidences of
abundant harvests. There are a tasteful residence, good barns and outbuild
ings and other modern accessories which indicate the thrift and enterprise of
the owner. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Minor was blessed with three children: Mary
E., Ulysses K. , and Fannie J. The mother died on the 26th of January,
1874, and on the 2d of September, 1875, Mr. Minor was united in marriage
to Miss Sarah Lindley, who was born on the 14th day of June, 1840, in
Orange county, Indiana, a daughter of Thomas and Peggy (Hollowell) Lind
ley, both of whom were of old American colonial descent. Her grandfather,
Owen Lindley, was a farmer of North Carolina and belonged to one of the
old families planted within the borders of that state in colonial days. He
was a member of the Friends' church and spent his entire life in the state of
his nativity. His children were Owen, William, Martha, Thomas and Aaron.
Thomas Lindley, the father of Mrs. Minor, was born February 2, 1793, in
GuUford county. North Carolina, and by birth came into the Friends' church.
He was married April 10, 1818, in Orange county, Indiana, to Peggy Hollo-
well, also a lifelong member of the same church. He removed to Orange
county when a young man and cast in his lot with its pioneer settlers, among
whom he spent his remaining days. He was for many years an elder in the
Friends' church and a very highly respected citizen, industrious, upright and
widely known for his sterling rectitude of character. He died September 6,
1863, at the age of sixty-nine years, and his wife passed away January 14,
1852. She also was a member of the Friends' church, and her kindliness
and gentleness were marked traits of her character. Their children were Eli,
Elizabeth, Ann, Robert, Charles, Enoch, Abigail and Sarah.
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has always allied her interest. By her marriage she has one daughter, Cora
Ethel. Since 1867 they have resided in Amboy, Mr. Minor having pur
chased a pleasant home there, and in the locality the family are highly
esteemed. In politics he has always been a Republican since the organiza
tion of that party, and at all times is true to his duties of citizenship.

M

RS. ELIZABETH SCHLAY.— For forty-three years Mrs. Schlay has
been a resident of Cass county. She was born in Whittlesey, Cam
bridgeshire, England, July 1 1, 1833, and is a daughter of Matthew and Mary
(Bellmey) Giddings, both of whom were natives of England. Her parents
had a family of eight chUdren, of whom she was the youngest. She was born,
reared and educated in England, and at the age of seventeen accompanied
her brother, William Giddings, to America, landing at New York, in 1852.
On the nth of Juneof the following year she becarae the wife of Joseph
Hollis, a native of England, and to them were born thirteen chUdren, three
of whom are now deceased. Those still living are Mary, Robert G., Joseph,
John, William, James, Thomas, Francis, Elizabeth and Jane.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis were married in Akron, Ohio, and remained in that
state for two years, after which they came to Cass county, Indiana, locating
in Boone township. In 1858 they removed to the farm upon which Mrs.
Schlay is now living. In 1880 she was divorced frora Mr. Hollis, who died
October 20, 1890, at the age of sixty-six years. On the 19th of January,
1885, she becarae the wife of Corporal John M. Schlay, a native of Ger
many, who carne with his parents to America in 1846, when only a year old.
The family located in Coshocton, Ohio, and Mr. Schlay was educated in that
town. In 1856 his parents came to Indiana, locating in Logansport, when
at the age of fourteen he began to learn the printer's trade, following that
pursuit until 1861. At that time he was prompted by a spirit of patriotism
to offer his services to the government in defense of the Union, and enlisted
as a member of Company K, Ninth Indiana Infantry, joining the boys in
blue on the 19th of August. He was discharged at Whiteside, Tennessee,
on the I Ith of December, 1863, and on the 12th of December — the foUow
ing day — re-enlisted for three years' service or until the close of the war.
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1865, after four years of faithful and valiant service, during which time he
participated in the engagements at Greenbriar, Shiloh, Stone River, Chicka
mauga, the two-days battle of Nashville, Franklin, and the campaign under
Sherman. After the war Mr. Schlay returned to Logansport, and for two years
years engaged in the printing bustiness, after which he spent five years in
railroading. He gives his political support to the Democracy and is very
zealous in advocacy of its principles. Socially he is connected with the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The farm upon which Mr. and Mrs. Schlay reside comprises one hun
dred and sixty acres of rich and valuable land. Mrs. Schlay has been very
successful in her business enterprises, and this desirable property is a monu
ment to her capable management. She possesses exceptional executive abil
ity and her energy and enterprise are most marked. During her long resi
dence in the county she has made many warm friends, who esteem her
highly for her sterling worth, and in the history of this section of the state
she well deserves representation.

¦¦ I "'IMOTHY SULLIVAN. — Among Logansport's representative citizens are
•*¦ a number of railroad men, who in the service of the corporation with
which they are connected have won high encomiums by their fidelity to duty,
while in social circles they have gained the high regard of those who esteem
worth and character above all else. One of this number is Timothy Sullivan,
who is now night yard-master of the Pan Handle Railroad Company.
A native of county Kerry, Ireland, Timothy Sullivan was born on the
28th of October, 1863. In 1865 his father, Michael Sullivan, carae to the
United States, locating in Orange county. New York, and two years later
brought his family to Indiana, establishing his home in Logansport. Accord
ingly the subject of our sketch was reared in this city. His education was
obtained in the parochial schools, and at an early age he entered upon his
business career, so that he is what the world knows as a self-made man. He
was first employed by Harry Torr, and later his name was added to the pay
roll of the Logansport Manufacturing Company. At the age of eighteen he
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he was assigned to the position of "caller," in which capacity he served for
nine months, when he becarae a switchraan. Subsequently he was made a
road brakeman, and finally returned to the yards as clerk for the yard-master.
His next promotion made him night yard-master, and in that capacity he has
acceptably served since 1892.
Mr. Sullivan was married in La Fayette, Indiana, January 30, 1894, to
:\fiss Kate, daughter of Patrick Flanagan, of that city. He is a member of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and is secretary of the Yard-Masters'
Association, recently organized. He is a practical and progressive aid to his
chief, and is an enthusiastic member of raUroad organizations, having the
warm regard aud confidence of the brethren.

CHARLES E. HOLBRUNER, of the firm of Holbruner & Uhl, carriage
and buggy manufacturers, Logansport, Indiana, is one of the enterpris
ing and thoroughgoing young business men of Cass county. A record of his
life and business connection with Logansport will be of interest in this work.
Charles E. Holbruner was born at Georgetown, Frederick county, Mary
land, January 11, 1856, son of John H. and Matilda (Hesser) Holbruner,
and one of a family of four children, two of whom are deceased. His sister,
Delia, wife of Byron Neher, is a resident of Logansport.
John H. Holbruner was born in 183 1, in the same state and county in
which our subject was born. He left Maryland in 1868 and came west to
Ohio, locating in Champaign county, where he conducted a carriage and har
ness business for two years, at the end of that time coming to Logansport.
Here he secured employment in the leading carriage establishment of the
city, that of John Jackson, on Sixth street, and it was in this concern that
bisson, Charles E., learned the trade. The senior Mr. Holbruner is con
nected with the firm of Holbruner & Uhl.
After learning his trade, Charles E. Holbruner remained for seven years
as a journeyman in the service of Mr. Jackson. At the end of this time, in
deference to a desire to see and learn more of his country, he made a trip
into the west, visiting Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and the mining regions
of Colorado, being absent from home some months. In 1883 he engaged in
the manufacture of carriages and buggies, in company with his present part-

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ner, Mr. Uhl, in a new building on Market street, at the Eel river bridge.
From the very beginning their business prospered, and soon it became nec
essary to enlarge their facilities for operation. A portion of their present
building they erected in 1887, two years later they enlarged it, and in 1897
the whole building was raised to three stories, making one of the nicest and
most attractive business places in the city.
Fraternally Mr. Holbruner is identified with the Continental Fraternal
Union, an organization having for its object the mutual protection of its
members and their families by the beneficiary plan, and in this order he holds
the office of supreme treasurer.
He was married June 5, 1894, to Miss Sarah C. Uhl, daughter of the
late Joseph Uhl.
The Holbruners are Democratic in their political affihations and relig
iously are Presbyterians.

JESSE CONN, of section 12, Royal Center township, Cass county, Indiana,
has lived in this county from his early boyhood and has a wide acquaint
ance here. Without more than a passing mention of him in connection with
the representative men of this locality, the present work would be incomplete.
His life history is as follows:
Jesse Conn dates his nativity in Pennsylvania, August 11, 1827, being
the son of Henry and Elizabeth (St. Clare) Conn. They had a family of
nine children, one of which died in infancy, and those who reached adult
years were Elizabeth, Henry, George, Francis, John, Jesse, Eunice and
Andrew. Only four of this number are now living.
The Conns are of English origin, Henry Conn, the grandfather of our
subject, is supposed to have been born in England. The St. Clares are of
Revolutionary stock. George St. Clare, the maternal grandfather 6i our sub
ject, was a native of Pennsylvania and a soldier in the Revolution. Henry
Conn, father of our subject, served in the war of 1812. About the time his
son Jesse was six years old he left Pennsylvania, accompanied by his family,
and made settlement in Butler county, Ohio, and eighteen months later con
tinued his way westward to Indiana. In 1833 they pitched their tent in
Harrison township, Cass county, where he secured eighty acres of govern
ment land, to which he subsequently added by purchase forty acres more,
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866 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and here he reared his family and spent the rest of his life, dying at the
advanced age of eighty years. He was a man of sterling integrity, a pros
perous farmer and a man who in every way stood high in the esteem of his
fellow citizens. He served efficiently in some of the township offices.
Jesse Conn, the immediate subject of this review, was, as above stated,
reared on his father's farm in Harrison township, and farming has been his
chief occupation. At one time he owned two hundred and eighty acres of
well improved land. He has, however, disposed of a portion of it, and now
has a diversity of interests, dividing his time between them and farming.
He is engaged in sawmilling and in dealing in stock, buying and selling cattle,
hogs and sheep. Industry and good management are among his chief char
acteristics and whatever he undertakes he is sure to carry forward to success.
September 25, 1852, Mr. Conn wedded Miss Jane Mehaffy, a native of
New York city, and they are parents of nine children, three of which died in
infancy, those living being as follows: George, Mary J., Ellen, Robert, Eunice
and Anna.
In his political views Mr. Conn is Democratic. For four years he filled
the office of assessor of Boone township.

¦p)EV. DANIEL H, LONG. — Pipe Creek township, Miami county, Indiana,
*¦ »¦ includes among its citizens no worthier man than he whose name heads
this sketch, — Rev. Daniel H. Long.
He was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, August 28, 1844, and is a
son of Jacob and Barbara (Shively) Long, to whom further reference is made
later on in this article. He came with his parents to Miami county when he
was between four and five years old and here he was reared and educated,
receiving his early education in one of the typical log school-houses which
have been so often described in works of this character. The Indians were
here at that time. Their dusky faces, the log school-house and many of the
frontier scenes form pictures that hang on memory's walls.
At the age of twenty he chose his life companion, Abbie A. Smith, and
their marriage was consummated on the 8th of September, 1864. Mrs. Long
was born in Tipton township, Cass county, Indiana. For the history of her
family the reader is referred to the sketch of Mortimer Smith on another

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page of this work. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Long settled in Pipe
Creek township, Miami county, and not long afterward went to Cass county,
this state, where they lived nine years. Returning to Miami county at the
end of that time he bought sixty acres of his present farm in Pipe Creek
township, at that time only slightly improved. By honest, patient toil he
carried forward the work of clearing and cultivating, purchased other land
as he was able and to-day we find him the owner of one hundred and fifteen
acres of choice farming land, fifty-five acres of which are in Cass county and
bottom land. With the passing years sons and daughters came to bless his
home, as follows: Mary A., Martha, Charles E. , Jacob D., Allen A. and
Myrtle F.
Both he and his wife have for years been members of the "Conserva
tive " branch of the German Baptist church, and for the past eleven years he
has been a minister of the church, earnestly and efficiently working for the
cause of Christ. Politically Mr. Long is a stanch Democrat. In all matters
pertaining to the general welfare of the locality he takes an active interest,
and both as a minister and as a citizen he stands deservedly high.
Jacob Long, the father of Rev. Daniel H., is one of the venerable pio
neers of Pipe Creek township, Miami county, Indiana. He was born in
Jefferson township, Montgomery county, Ohio, October 31, 18 18, son of
Lewis and Catherine (Heaston) Long. Lewis Long was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, son of Matthias Long, who was of German lineage and who
had seven sons fighting for independence in the Revolutionary war. Previous
to the war of 181 2 Lewis Long left the Old Dominion and came out to the
Western Reserve, settling in Jefferson township, Montgomery county, Ohio.
There he acquired title to two hundred and twenty acres of land, ninety of
which he cleared and placed under cultivation. On this farm he passed the
rest of his life and died, his age at death being about eighty-seven years. He
was a Democrat and a Presbyterian and a man whose integrity was beyond
question. Jacob Long, his son, was reared on the frontier farm above
referred to, and was married in Madison township, Montgomery county, Jan
uary II, 1843, to Barbara Shively, who was born in that township January
5, 1822, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Bowman) Shively. Daniel Shively
was one of the old German Baptist pioneers of that place, when quite young
having accompanied his father there from the " Glades" in Pennsylvania.
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nah, David and Daniel. The father was a prosperous farmer. About 1850
he removed to Miami county, Indiana, and settled in Pipe Creek township,
where he improved a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres and where
he died at about the age of sixty-five years, respected by all who knew him.
Returning to Jacob Long, we further record that after his marriage he settled
in his native county and remained there until 1848, when he came over into
Indiana and took up his abode in Pipe Creek township, Miami county, on
eighty acres of timber land. About ten years later he exchanged this farm
for the one owned by his father-in-law, Daniel Shively, to which he moved
and where he lived some nine years. Since 1879 he has resided on his pres
ent farm. He enjoys membership in the same church in which his son is a
minister, as also did his good wife; she passed away AprU 20, 1897. The
children of this worthy couple were Daniel, David and Jacob and Mary, twins.
David was married June 26, 1897, to Myrtle M. Snyder, a native of Cass
county, Indiana, born May 2, 1881, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Easton)
Snyder.

THOMAS C. RATCLIFF, one of the venerable citizens of Howard county,
Indiana, resides on his farm near Russiaville, where he has maintained
his horae since the spring of 1859. Throughout the years which have inter
vened between the date of his settlement here and the present time, his
influence has ever been directed on the side of truth and right, and he has
been a potent factor in bringing about much of the development that has
been wrought in this locality.
Thomas C. Ratcliff was born in Clinton county, Ohio, May 29, 18 14,
son of Abner and Sarah (Cushart) Ratcliff. Abner Ratcliff was a native of
Chatham county. North Carolina, and a son of John Ratcliff, a sea captain and
a native of England. John Ratcliff came to America previous to the Revolu
tion and the family was represented in that war. From North Carolina
Abner Ratcliff moved to Ohio, where he made his home for fifty years, and
whence he came to Indiana about 1850. He was a prosperous farmer, a
member of the Society of Friends, and was a man who had the confidence
and respect of all who knew him. He died at the home of his son Thomas
C, near Russiaville. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of John Cushart, a
native of Ireland. She, too, has long since passed to her last home. Of

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their eleven children only two are now living, viz. : Isaac, a resident of Henry
county, Indiana, and Thomas C.
Thomas C. Ratcliff passed his boyhood days on his father's farm in Ohio,
working in the field in summer and attending the district schools in winter.
He remained on the farm with his father until he was twenty-five years old,
when he married, and after his marriage he continued farming in Ohio for six
years. Then he moved to Henry county, Indiana, where he made his home
for twelve years, until the spring of 1859, when he moved to his present
farm of one hundred and twenty acres, in Howard county.
Mr. Ratcliff has been a Republican ever since the party was organized,
and when he was in his prime he took a lively interest in public affairs.
While a resident of Henry county he served as sheriff of that county from
1857 to 1858, and previous to that time he was for seven years constable.
Besides these he filled a number of minor offices. In school matters he has
always shown a deep interest, advocating improved methods and doing all in
his power to bring about advancement in educational lines. He was jilso
influential in bringing railroad facilities to Howard county. Religiously he
has followed in the footsteps of his honored father and is a consistent member
of the Friends' church.
Twice Mr. Ratcliff has been married. His first wife, whose maiden
name was Rebecca Terrell, died December 30, 1892. She was the mother
of five children, of whom only two are now living: John T. , one of Howard
county's progressive farmers and highly respected citizens; and Emma K.,
wife of James Cook, a resident of Russiaville, Indiana. July 25, 1895, Mr.
Ratcliff married Mrs. Lucinda Wilson, a daughter of Wilson Lee, of
Kentucky.

DENNIS UHL. — For a great many years the list of the thoroughly pub
lic-spirited, enterprising business men of Logansport has included the
Uhls, father and sons. They come of the sturdy, energetic, industrious
German stock to which America is greatly indebted for much of the pros
perity which she enjoys as a nation. At all times, in peace or war, they can
be depended upon, almost to a man, to stand loyally by the United States,
upholding her honor with their lives, if need be.
The paternal grandfather of our subject, Daniel Uhl, was a native of

870 BIOGRAPHICAL A.YD GEXEALOGIC.iL HISTORY OF
Pennsylvania, but his parents were from Germany. The father of our sub
ject was Joseph Uhl, who.se birth occurred in Somerset county, Pennsyl
vania, in 1 8 17, and who departed this life in this city in 1897. He came
with his family to Cass county, in 1852, built a flour-mill at a point about
two miles east of Logansport, and continued to operate the same until 1858.
The following year, he, in company with James Cheney, completed the
Logansport flouring-mill, in which he was interested financially up to the
time of his death. He was a practical millwright and in all respects a com
petent man of business. In addition to running his mill, he was a con
tractor, executing many public works, — ditching, constructing bridges, etc.
He raarried, in his eariy manhood, a Miss Naomi Lenhart, who died in 1846,
leaving two boys, Dennis and Charles H. (see sketch of C. H. Uhl, printed
upon another page of this work). For his second wife Joseph Uhl chose
Caroline Miller.
Dennis Uhl, whose name appears at the beginning of this article, is a
native of Maryland, his birth having occurred March 26, 1840, in Cumber
land, Allegany county. He was a child of but six years when his loving
mother died, and was about twelve years of age at the time of the family's
removal to this section. From his early years he was closely identified with
his father's interests, and learned the millwright's trade of the senior Uhl.
In 1863 our subject becarae a raeraber of the firm of Uhl, Cheney & Com
pany. Sorae years afterwards, Mr. Cheney withdrawing his interest,
Charles H. was admitted to the firm, which then was styled J. & D. Uhl &
Company, and as such continued to do business from 1866 to 1878. In the
year last mentioned the father concluded to become a silent partner, and
the name was accordingly altered to D. & C. Uhl & Company. When the
father died, in 1897, Charles H. retired from the business and our subject
took in his stead, his son, C. Harr}'. The firm, as reconstructed, and as
now doing business, is known as Dennis Uhl & Company, their miUs being
styled the Empire Mills. As previously mentioned, our subject was con
nected with his father in all of his business operations and has engaged in
taking contracts for public works from time to time.
In political matters, Mr. Uhl is a stalwart advocate of the Democratic
platform and policy. During a period of several years he was one of the
commissioners of Cass county. Many public improvements were carried out
while he was in office, among these being the Third street bridge and the

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Sixth street bridge in Logansport, over the Eel river. The fine county
asylum was also erected at that time, and Mr. Uhl was entrusted with the
important office of seeing to its proper construction. In 1875 he was chosen
to serve as a member of the committee of citizens appointed to look after
the completion of the Logansport water-works. From 1889 to 1897 he
served as a member of the board of trustees of the Northern Indiana Insane
Asylum, and was treasurer for a portion of this period. For many years he
has been a director in the First National Bank of Logansport. Fraternally,
he is connected with the Masonic order.
In 1864 Mr. Uhl was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Jane Croll,
who was reared to womanhood in this city.

TOSEPH REYBURN, one of the first born chUdren of Miami county, is
^-' still living, on the paternal estate, just west of the city of Peru, where
his birth occurred May 5, 1833. He is a son of Rev. William M. and Sarah
(Black) Reyburn. William M. Reyburn was born in Virginia, October 21,
1792, and when very young emigrated to Ohio, settling near the city of
Lewisburg, where he grew to man's estate. He vvas raised a farmer, but
early entered the ministry of the Methodist church, receiving his license to
preach about 1830. In October, 1831, he came to Miami county and set
tled on land adjoining the present city of Peru, where he opened a farm and
spent the remainder of his life. He was one of the first preachers in Miami
county, and in addition to the duties of his sacred calling took an active
interest in the political affairs of the county, and was elected state represent
ative in 1841 and senator in 1843. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and
while a resident of Ohio held the office of major in the militia of that state.
He married Sarah Black, of Ohio, June 13, 18 16, and to this union were
born the following children: Eliza J., James M., Caroline, Sobieski, John
C, Margaret, Sarah, William B., Joseph and Sarah, — all of whom have long
since passed away but Joseph, who alone survives.
Mrs. Reyburn died January 28, 1849, and Mr. Reyburn's second mar
riage occurred September 26, 1850, when he wedded Anna S. Woodward.
Rev. WUliam M. Reyburn's death occurred June i, 1854.
Joseph Reyburn received such education as the schools of Peru afforded,

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which he attended at intervals tUl he attained his majority. He has led a
quiet, uneventful life, and has always possessed the confidence and esteem of
his feUow citizens. He affiliates with the Republican party, and in his relig
ious connections is a Methodist. He was married March 25, 1856, to Rachel
L. , daughter of George and Hannah Deacon, and the following children have
been born to this marriage: William A., Edwin C, Joseph S. and Mary.

M

ARTIN V. BERKSHIRE.— Worthy pioneer people, Solomon and
Sarah (McCombs) Berkshire were the parents of him whose name forms
the caption of this article. He was their third son and was born in Rock
Creek township, Carroll county, Indiana, on the 25th of August, 1839. He
was brought by his parents to this county during his infancy, and the family
lived upon a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which the father entered
from the government; and in addition to his agricultural pursuits he carried
on blacksmithing. His industry and unflagging energy enabled him to over
come all difficulties and obstacles and he acquired a valuable farm of two
hundred and twenty acres. The sons assisted in the development and culti
vation of the land, and experienced many of the difficulties which attend
the establishment of a pioneer home.
In all such work Martin V. Berkshire was an active participant. Almost
as soon as he was old enough to reach the plow-handles he began work in the
fields and turned the furrows in many an acre, for the spring planting. He
also learned the blacksmith's trade under the direction of his father, and has
always followed that vocation in connection with agricultural pursuits. A
good English education, acquired in the common schools, also better fitted
him to cope with life's duties, and through the years of his manhood he has
kept well informed on the interests concerning his state and country, being a
representative of the intelligent and progressive American farmer, who is one
of the most reliable citizens of the nation. His farm comprises one hundred
and forty acres of rich land, pleasantly and conveniently located three miles
southwest of Royal Center, and to its cultivation and improvement he
devotes his time and attention so that its fields are weU tilled, its buildings
in good repair, and everything about the place partaking of the air of thrift
and enterprise which is so characteristic of the owner.

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In October, 1862, Mr. Berkshire was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret J., Steele, a native, of White county, Indiana, and their union was
blessed with eight children, namely: William H., Mary A., Laura J., Jasper
N., Bertha A., James F. , Ira A. and Nellie L. William and Laura are now
married and James is deceased. The family are widely and favorably known
in this locality and their circle of friends is extensive. In his political views Mr.
Berkshire is a zealous Democrat, and has served as road supervisor. He
is honorable in his business dealings, loyal in citizenship, faithful in friend
ship, and his fidelity to duty in all the relations of life has gained him the
respect and good will of all who know him.

THOMAS W. MILLIKAN. — The gentleman whose name introduces this
sketch is a North Carolinian by birth and early association and a Hoosier
by adoption. He has been in railroad service about twenty years and now
occupies a position as passenger conductor on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chi
cago & St. Louis Railroad, his residence being at Logansport, Indiana.
Mr. Millikan was born near Guilford- Court House, Randolph county.
North Carolina, December 25, 1850, son of Mahlon and Nancy (Davis) Mil
likan, natives of that same county. The father is now a resident of Grant
county, Indiana, where he has lived since 1866. The mother died at her
home in Grant county. May 2, 1892. The fruits of their union were ten
children, nine of whom still survive, viz. : Isaac, Joseph and Rebecca (wife
of Jacob Hardwick), all residents of Fairmount, Indiana; Mary and Martha,
twins, the former the wife of William McCauley, of Swayzee, Indiana, and
the latter the wife of Isaac Wooten, of Fairmount, Indiana; Susanna, wife
of Henry Howell, Grant county; Benjamin F. , Marion, Indiana; Lydia,
Fairmount; and Thomas W.
Thomas W. Millikan attended the public schools of his native state and
for a short time went to school in Indiana after their removal to this state in
1866. His first realization of the responsibUities and duties of life was
experienced during the CivU war, when he vvas called upon to attend to farm
work, not only at home but also for neighboring families where the head of
the household was in the Confederate service. He was engaged in farm
work from his eleventh to his twentieth year. After that he was variously

874 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
employed. He worked one year at the carpenter's trade, two years in a
sawmill in Grant county, for some time was with the Standard Oil Company,
engaged in making staves, and also worked for a while in a tinner's establish
ment. His first raUroad work was done in 1878, when he joined a bridge
force on the Pan Handle Railroad. He came to the Pan Handle Company
in [879 and on the 20th of March, of that year, he made his first trip, as a
brakeman, with George Hurd, who will be remembered by the older men of
the road. October 19, 1882, he was promoted to the position of conductor
and continued in the freight service until July i, 1897, when his name was
added to the list of passenger conductors as " extra man."
Mr. Millikan has been twice married. He was first married, in Grant
county, Indiana, in April, 1873, to Penina Winslow, with whom he lived hap
pily for ten years. She died in 1883, and September 4, 1 884, he married Irena
Baumgardner, daughter of Jacob Baumgardner, of Bradford, Ohio. Mr. and
Mrs. Millikan's children are as follows: Charles W., Inez, Hazel, Homer,
Flora and Valentine Glen.

POREMAN & BOGUE. — One of the best-equipped livery establishments to
-•¦ be found in Howard county is the one owned and managed by the firm
whose name heads this sketch. Recently they bought out the business for
merly carried on in Greentown by Messrs. Wood and Potter. It is the aim of
the new firm to maintain the high standard of excellence to which their pred
ecessors attained, and to meet th ; demand of their patrons in every respect.
Their business is very large and is constantly increasing, and their prompt
ness, reliability and courtesy, as well as their reasonable rates, insure for
them the patronage of the citizens of this locality, as weU as that of the
general traveling public. A fine line of vehicles of various kinds and good
horses, some to be used as saddle animals, are always to be found here.
The senior member of the firm, William H. Foreman, is a native of
Henry county, Indiana. He was born July 26, 1850, and when he was
about two years of age he was brought by his parents to Howard county.
Here, with the exception of some ten years spent in Nebraska, where he was
engaged in farming, he has passed aU his life. His chief occupation has been
that of tilling the soil, in which line of enterprise he has met with deserved
success. In all his transactions with his fellow-men he has been straightfor-

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ward, upright and honorable, thus winning their respect and genuine esteem.
In early manhood Mr. Foreman married Miss Cynthia Allen, whose death
occurred a few years later. Their only child was named Delsey. For his
second wife Mr. Foreman chose Frances Olberson. Since September, 1898,
they have dwelt in Greentown, where they number many warm friends.
Charles H. Bogue, the junior member of the firm, was born in Henry
county, Indiana, in 1868, his father being John Bogue. He received a com
mon-school education and early devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits.
In 1880 he accompanied his parents to Howard county, and later he went to
Nebraska, where he was engaged in farming with more or less success for
three years. September 5, 1898, he purchased an interest in the livery
business with Mr. Foreman, and together they are meeting with well deserved
prosperity, for they are progressive and enterprising and stand well in the
estimation of all. In his political affiliations Mr. Bogue is a Republican.

JOSEPH M. CONN. — The subject of this sketch was born in Columbiana
county, Ohio, August 6, 1847, and is a son of Joseph and Ella A. (Pierce)
Conn, whose family numbered eight children, namely: Thomas, Esther, Ann,
John S., Martha V., Edward, Joseph M. and EUazana A. When a chUd of
four summers Joseph Conn accompanied his parents on their removal to
Wabash county, Indiana, where he remained until twenty-six years of age.
To the public school system he is indebted for his educational privileges, and
to his parents for the inculcation of those habits of industry and energy which
have been the essential factors in his success in business life.
In 1873 Mr. Conn came to Cass county and located upon a rented farm
in Tipton township. Itwas on the 15th of May of that year that he was
united in marriage to Miss Amanda Puterbaugh, who has been to him a faith
ful companion and helpmeet on life's journey. She is a native of Cass
county and their home has been blessed with three sons and two daughters,
namely: Otto D., Rudolphus H., Martha W., Joseph H. and Ina U.
Mr. Conn has always followed farming. On the ist of March, 1898, he was
appointed to take charge of the county poor farm by the Cass county commis
sioners, — Joseph Crane, Washington Neff and Daniel Woodhouse. In politics
he is a stalwart Democrat, and, keeping well informed on the issues of the

876 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
day, he gives to his party an intelligent and effective support. During the
Civil war he manifested his loyalty to the Union cause by enlisting in Com
pany F, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry. He joined the
command at Wabash, Indiana, for one hundred days' service, and was one of
the "boy heroes " of that struggle, being at the time only seventeen years of
age. On the expiration of his term of service he received an honorable dis
charge at Indianapolis and returned to his home to resume the duties of farm
life. Socially, he is connected with Anoka Lodge, No. 630, I. O. O. F.,
and has many friends among the brethren of the order. He is interested in
whatever is designed for the public welfare and is a public-spirited, progress
ive citizen, who merits the high regard in v/hich he is uniformly held.

TAMES B. FULWILER was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, on the
^ 6th day of September, 18 12, and was educated at Hopewell Academy
and Gettysburg Gymnasium, now Pennsylvania College. His father, Abra
ham Fulwiler, was one of the early graduates of Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, where he was born and reared, and died in 1830, leaving a
large estate. His paternal ancestry is traceable through centuries into
Switzerland, where the inevitable mUlions are said to be awaiting identifica
tion of the descendants. His mother was a cousin of the late Jeremiah S.
Black, a cabinet officer of President Buchanan, and a daughter of the Rev.
James Black, of Pennsylvania, a Scottish divine of extensive erud.tion. In
the year 1834 the subject of this notice came to Peru, Indiana, with a stock
of merchandise under the management of one Samuel Pike, his emplo}er,
who subsequently became famous as a cam] aign editor of countless news
papers in many of the states, beginnin,2; with the Peru Forester, the first news
paper printed and published in Miami county, Indiana. On the 7th day of
March, 1837, he was raarried to Pauline Avaline, daughter of Francis Ava-
line, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and sister of Francis S. Avaline, late proprie
tor of the Avaline House, of Fort Wayne, a beautiful and accomplished lady.
She died a number of years ago.
In the year 1838 Mr. Fulwiler's name was anno need by his friends as
a candidate to represent the counties of Miami and Fulton in the state legisr
lature, which he at first stoutly resisted for the reason that his views in re-

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gard to the simultaneous prosecution of all the public works which had been
projected by former legislatures of the state were so unpopular that there
could be no hope of his election, but finally yielded to the importunities of
his friends, and was defeated, as he expected to be. He was one of the few
men of Indiana who at that time favored the classification of the public
works, and the prosecution to completion of the most important first. The
people of the severa! counties had been led to believe that a road or canal
would pass by their very doors and that "an additional hen and chickens
would pay the additional tax." Hence a "classifier" was more odious to
the people, if possible, than an "abolitionist." As they became more en
lightened on the subject, however, they changed their views, and in the
brief period of two years, there was not to be found within the borders of the
state a public man who would acknowledge himself in favor of an indiscrim
inate prosecution of the thirteen projected works known as the "cow bill;"
and classification became a popular word.
In 1843 Mr, FulwUer was caUed to the state of Pennsylvania to attend
to the disposal of. a large body of unproductive land in Schuylkill county,
being a part of his father's estate lying in a mountainous region and trav
ersed by rich veins of anthracite coal, where, with the aid of miners from
Pottsville, in the spring of 1844, he located, opened up and leased thirteen
veins of coal. Among the number was the celebrated "mammoth vein,"
twenty-two feet in thickness. At the same time Mr. Fulwiler laid off the
town of Fremont upon the premises. This town, situated in the midst of an
extensive coal region, is now a prosperous little city. In 1847 Mr. Fulwiler
was elected clerk of the Miami circuit court, which office he held until the
6th day of June, 1855, when he was succeeded by Alexander Blake. In the
year i860 he was selected as a delegate at large for the state of Indiana to
the Democratic national convention which nominated Stephen A. Douglas,
at Baltimore, for president of the United States, and was one of the com
mittee of two from Indiana who escorted Mr. Douglas when on his presi
dential tour from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Indianapolis, Indiana; and had Mr.
Douglas been successful in his race, Mr. Fulwiler had reason to believe that
a prominent position would have been reserved at Washington for his accept
ance. In 1 86 1 Mr. Fulwiler purchased of Messrs. Todd & Zerne, wholesale and
retail grocers, their stock in trade; and in 1865 bought the undivided half of

878 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
•
a furniture manufacturing establishment of Messrs. West & Jamison, which
burned to the ground within ten days after his purchase and before he had
the same insured against fire. In 1868 he embarked, with considerable cap
ital, in extensive purchases and sales of Kansas and Iowa lands, which for a
time yielded hira an immense profit, but which eventually proved disastrous.
In his present court of judicature in the city of Peru, his duties are greatly
facilitated by a course of legal studies pursued at an early period of his life.
The children of Mr. Fulwiler are: Julia, of Springfield, Illinois, wife of
Harry F. Clark, a well-knowm railroad superintendent; Louis B. , of Peru;
Fannie, widow of James R. Hamlin; and Frank, of New York city. The
deceased were William, Clarence and Ada.

PETER J. FOGLESONG, one of the prosperous and well-to-do farmers
of Harrison township, Cass county, Indiana, was born and reared here
and is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the state, his grand
father having entered a large tract of land here at an early period in the his
tory of Indiana.
Mr. Foglesong dates his birth August 29, 1853, and is a son of John and
Elizabeth (De Moss) Foglesong, both natives of the Hoosier state. In their
family were ten children, two of which died in infancy, the others being as
follows: Levina, Peter J., WUliam, Laura, Rhoda, Daniel, Frank and
Minnie. The grandparents of Peter J. were George and Mary (Overlese)
Foglesong, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland. As
above stated, they came to Indiana at an early day and entered eight hun
dred acres of land in the northeast part of Harrison township, Cass county,
and here they reared their family and passed their lives. Our subject's father
inherited one hundred and sixty acres of this estate, and on it reared his
family. In 1879 he disposed of his land and moved to Kewanna, Indiana,
where he engaged in the hotel business, which has since occupied his time
and attention. His forefathers for several generations having been farmers, and he hav
ing been born and reared on a farm, Peter J. Foglesong naturally devoted
his energies to agricultural pursuits on reaching manhood. In 1896 he pur
chased the farm of ninety-five acres, near Lucerne, where he has since lived,
and which is one of the best improved in this locality.

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October 14, 1877, he was married to Mrs. Mary A. (Long) Winn, a
native of Harrison township, and to them have been born four children,
namely: Harry, Claude E. , John E. and Laurence W. All are living
except the first named.
In his political views Mr. Foglesong is strongly Democratic. He takes
an active and commendable interest in public affairs, and especially those of
a local nature. For four years he has been a justice of the peace in Harri
son township. He is a charter member of Lucerne Lodge, No. 680, I. O.
O. F., and both he and his wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal
church at Lucerne.

T^HOMAS B. HELM. — For about a quarter of a century this sterling old cit-
-*¦ izen of Logansport was a familiar figure about the court-house, where he
occupied various important and trustworthy public positions, and for more
than half a century he was numbered among the honored and respected resi
dents of Cass county. Though he was of a modest, retiring disposition, not
prone to put himself forward, it is but just to call him one of the founders of
our present prosperity as a city and county, for the result of his labors in
many directions is now the portion of this generation. From his early years
until his death he was intensely interested in educational matters and by his
influence numerous improvements in our public-school system were inau
gurated. His record in all the varied relations of his busy and energetic life
is such as reflects naught but credit upon him and all connected with him by
ties of relationship or friendship.
The Helms originated in Germany, as the name implies, but raany gen
erations ago. From the Fatherland the family is traced to England and
Ireland and finally to the United States. For a period they were represented in
the annals of Virginia and from that state, in 1781, one William Helm emi
grated to the vicinity of Blue Lick, Kentucky. His wife, Elizabeth Drum
mond, was of Scottish lineage. Their son, Samuel D., was the father of our
subject, and the mother of the latter was a Miss Patience Wherrett in her
girlhood. She was a native of Maryland and was of French extraction.
Samuel Helm and wife removed to Indiana in 18 10 and were the first per
manent white settlers of Fayette county.
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BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
1822, and his boyhood was passed amid the scenes of an almost unbroken
forest. It was his privilege to be given a thorough scientific and literary
education, uncommon among his associates of that period and environment,
and as a linguist he possessed rare ability. September 13, 1836, he arrived
in Cass county, and from that time until his death his name was closely con
nected with her history. In 1844 he began his career as a teacher and for
nearly three decades he gave the greater share of his time and attention to
work in this direction, for which he was eminently gifted by nature and
acquirements. In 1856 he was elected to the office of civil engineer of the
county — a position which he ably filled for fifteen years, in the meantime
occupying other positions of about equal importance. Then, during a period
of twelve years, he was school-examiner for Cass county. In 1853 he was
made deputy-clerk of the court of common pleas and the circuit court, and
was thus connected with the county clerk's office for many years. From
1 87 1 to 1882 he acted in the capacity of probate commissioner. A deep
thinker and student, he kept well posted upon all affairs touching upon the
great issues of the day and was an authority as a local historian. He wrote
numerous articles along this line and, as his memory was excellent, his recol
lections of pioneer days were of great interest to the public.
It would have been an extremely difficult matter, during the lifetime of
Mr. Helm, to have found a man more thoroughly respected and admired
among the citizens of Logansport. Scrupulously honorable and just in all
his dealings with others, his promise was sufficient and his word as valuable
as " coin of the realm." As early as 1852 he became identified with the
Masonic order and bore a prominent part in the local lodge. His first mar
riage was solemnized in 1849, Miss Mary E. House being the lady of his
choice. She departed this life in 1854, and five years later he wedded Mrs.
Catherine P. Davis. His death was deeply deplored by a large circle of
friends.

A BRAHAM I. BEALL,— The Beall family has long resided in America,
*»• having come to this country in a colonial period and settled in Mary
land. James Beall, the grandfather of subject of this sketch, was a farmer
and was one of the pioneers of Clark county, Ohio. He married in Mary
land, previous to his removal west, and his children, in order of birth, were

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as follows: Ruth, Octavius, Mary, Sarah, Henrietta, Ann, Margaret, Jona
than and James. James Beall developed a fine farm of one hundred and
sixty acres in the wilds of Ohio, and there lived and prospered for many
years. He died and was buried on his farm. His people were slave-holders,
and the three slaves he inherited he brought with him to Ohio and there set
them free, as he did not believe in slavery.
Jonathan BeaU, his son and the father of the subject of this sketch, was
born in Maryland and accompanied his parents on their removal to Ohio,
where he rendered his father valued assistance in clearing the farm above
referred to. He married, in Clark county, Ohio, Miss Martha Inlow, a
native of that county and a daughter of Abraham Inlow, her mother's maiden
name being Rock. Abraham Inlow was a Virginian by birth and was one of
the pioneers of Clark county, Ohio, where he lived during the war of 1812.
One of his teams was pressed into the United States service during that war.
He had a secret passage-way from his cellar to a hillside by which he could
escape with his family in case of an attack by the Indians. The children by
his first wife were Martha, Henry, James and Mary. For his second wife
he married Miss Margaret Foley. Their children were Elliot, Jemima,
Catherine, Ann and Margaret. Mr. Inlow died on his farm, an aged man.
He was a member of the Christian church and a much respected citizen.
He was prosperous, owning over three hundred and twenty acres of land,
which he had cleared from the woods. He was a well known pioneer.
In 1831, Jonathan Beall, the father of subject of our sketch, with his
wife and two chUdren, moved to Michigan and settled on a frontier farm,
about half a day's drive from the city of Detroit. There he entered one
hundred and sixty acres of government land and began to make improve
ments on same. Two years later, however, in accordance with the wishes
of his father, he returned to Clark county, Ohio. Not long afterward the
family were stricken with typhus fever, and James Beall and four of his
children — Jonathan, James, Octavius and Margaret — died. This left Mrs.
Jonathan Beall with three children, Margaret Ann and Abraham, natives of
Clark county, Ohio, and Henrietta S., who was born in Michigan. In 1850
Mrs. Beall moved with her children to Jackson township, Miami county,
Indiana, and bought a hundred and sixty acres of land, all of which was
covered with native forest except eight acres, which had been cleared. Her
only son, Abraham I., was then about twenty years old, and the work of
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improving their new farm fell to him. Mrs. Beall died in Converse, Indiana,
in 1855. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a
woman of many virtues and was loved by all who knew her.
Abraham I. Beall was born in Clark county, Ohio, December 27, 1830,
and was four years old when his father died. He received a common-school
education and, as already stated, came with his mother to Indiana in 1850.
He was married June 7, 1855, to Pauline Jump, who was born in the state
of Delaware, August 7, i83S,,daughter of Charles and Mary (Hopkins) Jump.
The Jump family is of Enghsh origin. Christopher Jump, the great
grandfather of Mrs. Beall, came to this country from England. He was a
patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution and served all through that war,
under General Washington. He was married in England, and on coming to
this country settled in Milford, Delaware, which was his home the rest
of his life. There he died. His son, Isaac, the grandfather of Mrs. Beall,
was born at Milford, and on reaching manhood became a minister of
the Methodist church. He married Elizabeth GuUett, a native of Dela
ware and a representative of a Scotch family, who had settled in that state
in an early day. Rev. Isaac and Elizabeth Jump were the parents of the
following named children: Charles, Nersey, Sarah, Samuel and Elizabeth.
Rev. Isaac Jump died in Delaware at the age of fifty years. It is recorded
that he preached the first abolitionist sermon ever delivered from a pulpit
n the state of Delaware. It required in those days a man of much force of
character and the courage of his conviction to advocate anti-slavery views
from the pulpit in the state of Delaware, where slavery was a popular
institution. Charles Jump, the father of Mrs. Beall,' was born in Delaware, April 11,
1812. About 1834 he married, in that state. Miss Mary Hopkins, who was
born in Delaware, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Hopkins) Hopkins. The
Hopkins family traces its origin to Scotland, but was identified with Dela
ware at an early date. For the most part the family have been identified
with the Methodist Episcopal church. Henry Hopkins was a wealthy planter
and owned a large number of slaves. His wife was before her marriage a
Miss Hopkins, but she was not a relative of his. The fruits of their union
were two children, Mary and Margaret. Mr. Hopkins died when Mary was
only eighteen months old. In 1836 Charles Jump came west from Delaware
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eighty acres of land, to the clearing and cultivation of which he devoted his
energies for some time. Subsequently he moved to Cass county, Indiana, and
settled on Deer Creek, where he cleared and improved a farm of eighty-seven
acres. He died there in February, 1857, at the age of forty-three years.
His children were named Pauline, Rebecca, Isabel, Samuel, Sarah, Charles,
Mary, Ellen and Clayantha. Mr. Jump was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and was a trustee of the same.
After their marriage Abraham I. Beall and wife settled on his mother's
farm and for three years continued to reside there. At the end of this time
they traded the farm for one hundred and sixty acres of land in the same
section, and he has cleared the most of this land, only thirty-five acres hav
ing been cleared at the time he located on it. He erected good farm build
ings and, with the assistance of his faithful wife, has made a comfortable
home and is well situated. The children of this union are Maryette, Charles
J., Henry H., who died at the age of twenty years; Rebecca, William, Mill
ard, Frank M., who died in early manhood; Pearl, who died at the age of
twenty-one years, and Nora.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Beall are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in which for some time he has been a trustee. Politically he is a
Republican. In 1893 Mr. Beall retired from the farm and moved his family to Con
verse, where they have since resided.

¦px ANIEL R. BEARSS, deceased, was born August 23, 1809, in Geneseo,
'-^ Livingston county. New York. His parents were Truman and Sabrina
(Roberts) Bearss. His grandfather was a major in the Revolutionary army,
under General Washington, and his father served in the war of 18 12. About
the year 1 8 1 1 the family removed to Painesville, Ohio, and in 1 8 1 5 to Detroit,
Michigan. Mr. Bearss' boyhood was spent on a farm and his education was
acquired in a log school-house. In 1828 he went to Fort Wayne, where he
became clerk for W. G. & G. W. Ewing. His employers soon opened a
branch store in Logansport, in which Mr. Bearss was engaged until 1832.
He then spent two years in mercantile business on hisown account in Goshen.
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the rest of his life. During his first year's residence here he carried on a gen
eral mercantile business in partnership with his father-in law. Judge Albert
Cole, whose biography appears elsewhere. This connection being dissolved
Mr. Bearss continued the business until 1844, when he formed a copartner
ship with Charles Spencer under the firm name of Bearss & Spencer. Mr.
Bearss being occupied with outside matters, Mr. Spencer took charge of
the business. In 1849 Mr Bearss sold his interest in the store and finally
retired from mercantile hfe, after a prosperous business career of about
twenty-one years, With perhaps one exception Mr. Bearss was the largest
tax-payer in Peru. He owned considerable city property, among which were
the Broadway Hotel and a number of business blocks. He also owned sev
eral valuable farms, one of which, just north of Peru, he made his home.
Mr. Bearss was one of the leading politicians of his county, but was
never known to resort to political trickery in order that his party might
triumph. No one in his locality labored more earnestly for the promotion
of Henry Clay for the presidency. From the organization of the Republican
party he was one of its warmest friends, and through his great popularity
succeeded in carrying many elections when said party was in the minority.
Through his influence Hon. Schuyler Colfax was first placed before the
people as a candidate for congress. Mr. Bearss served his county in various
minor public offices. He was in the state legislature twenty years, eight years
as representative and twelve as senator. During the memorable and excit
ing period of the late Civil war, when many legislators seemingly in sympathy
with the south sought to tie the hands of Governor Morton and prevent the
state from furnishing support to the Union, no member of the senate was
more faithful to his country than Mr. Bearss. His age prevented him from
entering the army, but he did his duty in the halls of legislation.
He took an active part in the railroad enterprises of the county and for
a while served as director of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago and Wabash
roads. With his family he attended the Congregational church and gave
liberally towards its support. Mr. Bearss was a man of commanding stature
and in his prime possessed great physical strength and endurance. Few
men were more favorably or better known not only in the county but
throughout the state. He died April 18, 1884, at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
where he had gone for the benefit of his health.
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daughter of the late Judge Albert Cole. The surviving members of the
family of Daniel R. Bearss are five sons, viz.: George R. , a resident of Ful
ton county, Indiana; Albert C, the present postmaster at Peru; Oliver J.,
of Peru township; Homer D. and Frank W. A son, Frank W. , died a num
ber of years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Emma Kurnler, is deceased, also another
daughter, Ella, died in childhood.

OAMUEL J. CARNEY, who resides at the old Carney homestead, a well
^ improved farm of sixty acres near Logansport, Indiana, is one of the
substantial and highly respected citizens of Cass county. As such he is
deserving of more than a passing notice in this work, devoted as it is to a
portrayal of the lives of representative citizens.
Samuel J. Carney was born in Marion county, Indiana, October 30,
1847, son of Martin V. and Sarah (Clovis) Carney, and in 1857 came with
his parents to Cass county, where he was reared to farm life, early becoming
familiar with all the details of farm work. In his youthful days he has
good educational advantages, which he improved, and throughout his life he
has made it a point to keep himself well informed on the topics of the day.
He has never turned aside from agricultural pursuits, but has kept to the
occupation in which he was reared, conducting his farming operations with
intelligenc ; and with a fair degree of success.
Mr. Carney has a wife and daughter. He was married August 23, 1874,
to Miss Rosa Hughes, a native of White county, Indiana, and a daughter of
John Hughes, a carpenter and farmer; and their union has been blessed in
the birth of one child, Catherine A., an attractive and accomplished young
lady, who at this writing is employed as a stenographer and bookkeeper in
Logansport. Politically, Mr. Carney is a Republican, interested and active in local
affairs. He has several times been chosen to fill township office, and to
whatever place he has been called he has responded with faithful and con
scientious service. For six } ears he served as a justice of the peace. In
1887 he was elected township trustee, has been re-elected from time to time,
and has served over seven years in this office. Both he and his wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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GRANVILLE KESLING,— A well-developed farm of two hundred and
forty acres in Tipton township, Cass county, is the property of Gran
vUle Kesling, who was born on section 26 of that township, March 13, 1857.
His parents were George and Sarah (Fudge) Kesling, the former a native of
Warren county, Ohio. Their children were as follows: Oliver, a resident
farmer of Tipton township; Perry, who is living in Logansport; Martin, who
carries on agricultural pursuits in Tipton township; David, deceased; America,
widow of Perry Kesling, of Tipton township; Elizabeth, widow of James
Craghead, and now matron of the Orphans' Asylum, of Logansport; Silas, a
gardener of Miami county; Joseph; Granville; Martha, wife of Samuel Smith;
Luther, of Miami county; and Aaron, who died at the age of six years. The
father of this family came to Indiana about 1854 and located on the farm in
Tipton township which was the birthplace of our subject. There he pur
chased one hundred and seventy-one acres of raw land and moved into a log
cabin. Energetically he prosecuted his farm labors until his death, which
occurred in 1882, when he had reached the psalmist's span of three-score
years and ten. His wife passed away about 1868.
Born and reared on a farm in Tipton township, Granville Kesling acquired
his education in the common schools of the neighborhood and remained with
his father on the homestead until he had attained the age of twenty-three
years, when he began farming on his own account on the property which has
since been in his possession. He owns one hundred and sixty acres in his
home place, and his landed possessions aggregate two hundred and forty acres.
He carries on general farming and stock-raising and has a finely improved
property. His land is well tiled and ditched and his methods are of the most
modern and progressive order. He uses the latest improved machinery,
practices rotation of crops and keeps fully abreast with the times in all that
relates to his chosen vocation. The stock which he raises is of good grade
and his farm constitutes one of the desirable country homes of Cass county.
Mr. Keshng was married in 1880 to Miss Mary J. Loser, and to them
were born eight children, two of whom are now deceased. Those living are
Elmer G., Elsie E., Otho G., Effie B., Freddie C. and Floyd. The deceased
are Otto and one who died in infancy. The family is one of prominence in
the community and the Kesling household is noted for its hospitality and good
cheer. Our subject and his wife, having long resided in the county, are
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CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 887
friends. Mr. Kesling gives his political support to the men and measures of
the Democracy, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to devote
his energies to his business, in which he is meeting with gratifying success.

/'^HAUNCEY CARTER. — The history of the representative citizens and
^^ founders of Cass county would be sadly incomplete should the name
that begins this review be omitted. He it was who laid out the original plat
of Logansport, which, upon the organization of this county, in 1828, became
the county-seat; and even had his services to this section ended here, he
would be deserving of a place in her annals. But such is not the fact, for,
during a long and useful life in this region, he worked diligently to promote
the interests of the people, laboring indefatigably and with little regard for
his personal advancement and ease. His whole life is fittingly summed up in
the words of one who knew him well and was intimately associated with him
for years: "Mr. Carter was devoted to the public weal, and in whatever
high position of trust or honor he happened to be, his first and only thought
was how he might benefit his fellow men."
The birth of Chauncey Carter occurred in Fairfield, Connecticut, March
23. 1796. He was the eldest son of Ebenezer and Rhoda Carter, who were
of English descent. His paternal grandfather, John Carter, was actively
concerned in the Revolutionary war, and for his gallant service was commis
sioned a captain. When he was in his twenty-second year Chauncey Carter
left the home of his childhood, and, going to Orange county. New York, took
charge of a district school, as a teacher Subsequently he was similarly
occupied in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, whence he proceeded still farther
westward. Indiana was in her infancy when Chauncey Carter cast in his lot with her
fortunes, at first as a resident of Corydon, then the capital of the common
wealth. There he was engaged in merchandising for a short period, and next
we find him in the town of Fort Wayne, in the same business. Receiving an
appointment about this time to survey certain Indian lands along the Wabash
river, he disposed of his other interests and devoted his exclusive attention to
his new vocation. It was while he was acting in this capacity that he made
his first trip into Cass county, and he was so much pleased with the natural

888 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
beauties and advantages of the district that he then and there decided that
he would make his permanent home here. With this end in view he man
aged to secure the chief interest in the section of land granted to George
Cicott, at the falls of Eel river. Subsequently he surveyed and platted the
town of Logansport here, as previously mentioned in this sketch. From that
time forward he was one of the most influential factors in the rapidly advanc
ing progress of the city.
Among the various offices which Mr. Carter filled with marked ability
and excellent judgment in the young county were that of judge of the pro
bate court, treasurer of Cass county, one of the board of county commis
sioners, postmaster of Logansport and superintendent of a division of the
Wabash & Erie Canal. At the time of his death, which was deeply regretted
by all who knew him, and took place December 4, 1864, he was still acting
' in the capacity of county treasurer. He was prominent as a member of the
Masonic order, and his private life, as well as his public career, was above
reproach. In 1828 he married Miss Mary Holman, who survived him sev
eral years, her death occurring in this city in 1880.

pROFESSOR GEORGE W. MICHAEL.— 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 faUure to make prominent reference
to the one whose name initiates this paragraph. He is a man of high intel
lectuality, broad human sympathies and tolerance, and imbued with fine
sensibilities and clearly defined principles. For many years he has sustained
a very enviable reputation in educational circles, and to-day he is giving
intelligent direction to the management of one of the finest farms in Cass
county. Professor George W. Michael is one of the native sons of this county,
his birth having occurred in Harrison township, on the 14th of March, 1845.
His parents are Peter and Christina (Freshour) Michael. On the family
homestead he remained until eighteen years of age, and during his youth
attended the public schools of the neighborhood, where he displayed special
aptitude in his studies. Later he was for three years a student in the schools

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 889
of Logansport and attended Wittenberg College, of Springfield, Ohio, for
three years. Turning his attention to educational work, he was for three
terms engaged in teaching in the district schools, after which he traveled and
taught in nearly every- state in the Union and in Canada.
At nineteen years of age Professor Michael responded to the president's
call for aid, and joined the boys in blue of Company I, Eleventh Minnesota
Infantry, at Chatfield, Minnesota. He took part in no engagements, how
ever, and was honorably discharged at St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1865. In
1867, thinking to enter the legal profession, he began the study of law in the
office of Senator Pratt, of Logansport, and was admitted to the bar in 1877,
but in the meantime he had resumed his labors as an educator, opening a
school in Lebanon, Ohio, where he remained for three years. Pie was then
in Valparaiso, Indiana, for two years, and in Delaware, Ohio, for fifteen years.
In September, 1895, he came to Logansport and took charge ofthe Smithson
College, which he conducted for a year when the college building was burned.
He was most successful in his work along school lines, and won prestige
among the ablest educators of Indiana. An excellent disciplinarian, he has
also the power of imparting, readily, clearly and accurately to others, the
knowledge he has acquired, — which is the real secret of success in teaching.
After the destruction of the college building in Logansport, he turned,, his
attention to agricultural pursuits, and on the 14th of March, 1898, removed
to the old Michael homestead, which he now owns and operates. Within
its borders are two hundred and forty acres of rich land; well kept fences
divide it into fields of convenient size and enclose excellent crops, which indi
cate the careful supervision of the owner, who understands both the prac
tical and scientific side of farming and is therefore particularly successful.
On the 2d of May, 1878, Professor Michael married Miss Ada Stern-
berger, a native of Jackson, Ohio, and to them have been born three chil
dren: Herbert S., George E. and Morris S. It is the father's intention to
provide his sons with the best educational privileges and he intends that all
shall go to college. Herbert is now a college student in the Michigan Mili
tary school, while the younger sons are yet pursuing their studies in Logans
port. Professor Michael is the author of "Practical Bookkeeping," and also
has a copyright on a set of copybooks, published by the American Book Com
pany, of Cincinnati, from which he receives a good royalty that adds mater-

890 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ially to his income. Socially he is a prominent Mason, having attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He also belongs to the Independ
ent Order of Odd FeUows and the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and
his wife and sons hold membership in the Presbyterian church. Politically
he advocates the free-silver platform, and though well informed on the issues
of the day he has never sought office. Honor and integrity are synonymous
with his name, and he enjoys the respect, confidence and high regard of the
comiraunity.

JEHU Z. POWELL, M. D. — For over a score of years the gentleman of
whom we write has been engaged in the practice of his profession in
Logansport, and has been actively interested in everything pertaining to her
advancement and progress. In the ranks of the Republican party he has
been an influential factor for several years, and his services in the past presi
dential campaign were fittingly acknowledged when he was appointed to the
position of postmaster of this city in March, 1898. It is safe to predict that
he will bring to bear, in discharging the duties devolving upon him, the same
executive skill, fidelity and courtesy towards his fellow citizens and those
associated with him that he has always hitherto manifested.
Doctor Powell was born upon the parental homestead in Cass county,
Indiana, August 13, 1848, and passed his boyhood in the pursuits common
to country lads. His father, Jacob Powell, was a native of Washington
county, Pennsylvania, was of Quaker parentage and of Welsh descent. He
came to this county at -an early day and was an industrious, upright citizen,
respected by all who knew him. He married a Miss Martha A. Troutman,
a native of Illinois and of German extraction. Both of the grandfathers of
the Doctor were pioneers of Bethlehem township, Cass county, his maternal
grandfather being the proprietor of a tavern here in 1835 and thereabouts.
Jacob Powell lived to reach a good age, his death occurring in 1895 at the
home of our subject. He had attained the venerable age of eighty years and
eighty days.
Having acquired a liberal education in the public school and Logansport
Academy, Doctor Powell took a literary course in the Michigan State Uni
versity, graduating from that department in 1871. Then, taking up the
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the same well known institution of learning, being duly graduated with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1874. In the spring of the same year, in
order to more thoroughly equip himself for his future career, he took a post
graduate course in the Long Island Medical College, of Brooklyn, New York.
In the autumn of 1874 he returned to his native state, opened an office in
Logansport, and thereafter devoted himself assiduously to his patients. He
has always been a great student, keeping posted upon all modern discoveries
and methods of treating disease, and in 1890 he went to Chicago, where he
pursued a post-graduate course in the Post-graduate Medical College. He
has long been an honored member of the Cass County, the Indiana State and
the American Medical Associations.
For several years the Doctor has been specially interested in the tem
perance movement and is now the grand treasurer of the grand lodge of the
Independent Order of Good Templars of Indiana. For four years he was
the able chairman of the Republican central committee of Cass county, —
from 1893 to 1897. Beginning with 1892 he was a member of the Logans
port city council for four years, and in 1896 was a presidential elector from
the eleventh congressional district.
In 1874, soon after embarking upon his professional career, -Doctor
Powell married Miss Mary J. Leffel, who died in 1876, leaving one son,
Dwight Powell, now a student in Bellevue Medical College, New York city.
In 1 88 1 our subject married Mrs. Louisa F. Ewing, nee Harris, whose first
husband died while serving as postmaster of this city. She succeeded him
as postmistress and abundantly proved her ability and executive skill.

IJON. JOHN A. GRAHAM was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 8,
*¦ ^ 181 7. His parents, natives of Ireland, emigrated to this country in
181 5, landing in Baltimore, after undergoing great hardships during a pro
longed voyage in which they narrowly escaped being shipwrecked. In 1826
the family removed to Pittsburg, in 1827 to Wheeling, and in 1828 returned
to Baltimore. In 1830 they went to Harper's Ferry, and finally, in 1832,
settled in Indiana.
John A. Graham was employed at Harper's Ferry as clerk until 1835.
In May of that year, being then eighteen, he started for Indiana. At Wheel
ing he took passage on a steamboat and was landed at midnight, a solitary

892 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
passenger, at the mouth of the Wabash. He there expected to find a town
filled with enterprising people, but he saw only a dreary waste of turbid
waters. No sound greeted his ear but the hoot of the owl and the crash and
crunch of the running drift. After sitting on his baggage at the waters edge
until near daylight, he discerned from the top of the bank something like a
building in the obscurity of the morning fog, and detected a faint sound of
human voices coming from a point further up the river. About a half mile
from where he landed he found a steamboat bound for the upper Wabash,
and after various adventures and detentions, he succeeded in reaching Peru.
There he made arrangements for taking charge of a store in Logansport for
Alexander Wilson. He remained in the latter place untU the business was
closed up in June, 1835, when he returned to Peru. He acted as clerk for
Mr. Wilsori until 1839, when he became a partner. The firm of Wilson &
Company packed pork in 1839. It was the first undertaking of the kind in
the place and proved a financial failure, owing to the low water in the Mau
mee, which prevented the quick transportation to New York. They built
flatboats and in 1840 commenced sending pork to New Orleans. This also
proved a failure, on account of hard times and low prices.
In- 1841 and 1843 Mr. Graham was elected sheriff of Miami county. In
1846 he was appointed clerk in the Wabash & Erie Canal land office, and
he held this place until 1487, when the office was moved to Logansport,
under an act of the legislature adjusting the state debt, known as the Butler
bill. He then bought the printing office at Peru and June 28, 1848, issued
the first number of the Miami County Sentinel. This paper was successfully
managed by him as editor and proprietor until 1861, when he sold out and
retired from the editoral chair. In 1850 Mr. Graham was a delegate to the
state convention to form a new state constitution. In 1870 he was elected
clerk of the Miami circuit court and at different times served as a member of
the town and city councU. He was special agent of theUnited States to pay
the Miamis in the years 1857 and 1859, and held many other positions of
trust. In 1 88 1 he was elected mayor of the city of Peru. He was a life-long
Democrat and in religion was a Roman Catholic.
He was married to Caroline A. Avaline in Peru, June 28, 1842, and
three sons and six daughters were born to them. Mr. Graham was below
the average height but was heavily and compactly built. His opportunities
for an education were limited but he was a constant reader and had a won-

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derful memory. He was recognized as the "Historian of Miami." Asa
writer he was fluent, precise as to dates and figures, and full of humor. Few
men possessed the confidence of the community in a more eminent degree.
His death occurred May 27, 1894.

T OSEPH KENNEY, the representative of the fifth ward in the Logansport
'^ city council, and passenger conductor on the Chicago division of the
Pan Handle Railroad, has long been a resident of Logansport and is one of
her leading and most highly respected citizens. The history of his life in
brief, is as follows:
Joseph Kenney was born at Bowmanville, near Toronto, Canada, Sep
tember 7, 1852, son of John and Harriet Kenney. John Kenney was an
Englishman, a native of Norwich, England, born in 1820. He left his
native land in 1849 and came to America, locating first in Canada, where he
made his home until 1866, successfully engaged in farming. In 1866 he
came down into the United States and took up his abode at Crown Point,
Indiana, where he passed the residue of his life and where he died in 1892.
He and hiswife were the parents of thirteen children. Their son Joseph
remained on the home, farm until he was seventeen. Then deciding to
engage in railroading, he came to Logansport, and in the month of April,
1869, made his first trip as a brakeman. He set brakes till the spring of
1873, when he was promoted to be foreman of the Logansport yard. In
1876 he was made yard-master and in 1880 was transferred to the road as
a freight conductor, remaining as such till 1883, when he received his pro
motion to the passenger service.
Mr. Kenney has been prominent in municipal politics for some years.
He was nominated by the Republicans in the spring of 1894 to lead what
seemed to be a rather forlorn hope in the race for the city councU, for the
normal Democratic majority of the fifth ward was one hundred and fift}'. So
great, however, is his popularity that when the returns came in they showed
that he was not only elected but that he had a majority of two hundred and
twenty-six votes. His work in the council has been that of a conservative,
conscientious public official. He occupies positions on some of the most
important committees, and whatever action he has taken has been for what

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he believed to be the best interests of the city and to maintain his self-respect
and independence. October 25, 1877, Mr. Kenney was married in Logansport to Miss
Emma A. Lytle, daughter of Hugh Lytle. Mr. Lytle came to Logansport
from Lima, Ohio, and was for years in the service of the Pan Handle.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenney's children are Frank R., Gertie, Jesse, Ina A., Grace
and Raymond. Mr. Kenney is a member of Tipton Lodge, F. & A. M., Logan Chap
ter and St. John Commandery.

OOBERT M. McMILLEN.— A son of Robert and Rosanna (Harper)
¦^ *- McMillen, the subject of this review, was born on the family homestead
in Noble township, Cass county, on the 29th of August, 1853, and the pleas
ures and duties of school-room and farm occupied his time and attention
through his minority. After attending the district schools of his neighbor
hood, he continued his studies in the high school of Logansport, where he
remained for two years. He then spent two years as a student in Smithson
College, of Logansport, and, with a comprehensive and accurate general
knowledge to fit him for life's responsible duties, he laid aside his text-books
to enter upon his business career. The occupation to which he was reared
he has always made his life work, and he now owns and operates one hun
dred and twenty acres of the old Harper homestead, pleasantly and con
veniently located about three mUes from Logansport. Its situation thus
affords easy access to the city's facilities, and at the same time makes possible
the enjoyment of the many advantages of rural life. Mr. McMillen is a pro
gressive farmer, keeping fully abreast with the times in all particulars con
nected with his chosen occupation. A comfortable residence is supplemented
by good barns and outbuildings, providing ample shelter for grain and stock,
and these stand in the midst of well tilled fields. The latest improved
machinery facilitates the cultivation of his land, and all the accessories and
conveniences of the model farra are to be found thereon.
Mr. McMillen has found an able and faithful companion and helpmeet
for the journey of life in Miss Jennie Tilton, whom he wedded on the 20th
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and is a daughter of Simeon Tilton, who was born in Stark county, Ohio.
They now have one child, Robert T. , eight years of age.
Mr. and Mrs. McMillen are consistent members of the First Presbyterian
church, of Logansport. In po'itics he is a Repubhcan, his support having
been given to the Grand Old Party since he attained his majority. He has
served as a member of the township committee for two terms, discharging
his duties with marked promptness and ability. Socially he is a valued
member of the Odd Fellows society, of Logansport. His entire life having
been passed in Cass county, he is widely known, and his friends are num
bered among its best citizens, — a fac: which indicates that his career has been
an honorable and upright one. He has many pleasant qualities, and is a
genial companion, enjoying the regard of all with whom he has brought in
contact.

WILLIAM N. HOOD, one of the original proprietors of the site of Peru,
was a native of Ohio, born about the year 1791 or '92. His father,
Andrew Hood, emigrated from Kentucky in an early day and was one of the
first residents in the vicinity of Dayton, near which city the subject of this
biography passed his youth and early manhood. In 18 19 William Hood
came to Indiana and located in Fort Wayne, where for a number of years
he carried on a successful mercantile business, dealing extensively with the
Indians during the period of his residence there. He moved to Miami county
in 1 83 1 and purchased of Mr. Holman a large tract of land on the Wabash
river, including that upon which the city of Peru now stands. In 1834, in
partnership with Richard L. Britton and Hon. Jesse L. Williams, he laid out
the original plat of the city for the ostensible purpose of securing the county
seat. After locating the town Mr. Hood engaged in speculating in lands and
real estate, which he followed until his death, and in which he was very suc
cessful, accumulating a valuable property and becoming wealthy.
While a resident of Fort Wayne he became acquainted with and mar
ried Sophia C. Ewing, daughter of Alexander and Charlotte E. Ewing, who
were among the early prominent residents of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Hood
raised five chUdren, viz.: Andrew A., Richard B., William E., David B.
and Susan W. , wife of Howard Huggins, of New York city.
Mr. Hood was a man of fine abilities, and in 1836 was elected to repre-

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sent Miami county in the state legislature. He served one term, and in 1838
was re-elected to the same position, but did not live to enter the second time
upon the discharge of his official duties, dying on the 9th day of July of the
latter year. Mrs. Hood survived her husband about thirty-one years, dying
in 1869.

ELMER MARTIN HATCH, M. D.— Dr E. M. Hatch, who for seven years
has successfully practiced medicine in Logansport, was born in Ashta
bula county, Ohio, January 22, 1862, and is a son of John R. Hatch, a
if
mechanic. He was reared in Kingsville, Ohio, and completed his literary
education by his graduation in the high school of that place. He then learned
telegraphy and for eight years was in the employ of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company. For a time he was telegraph operator at Oil City, Penn
sylvania, and in 1881 went to New York city, where he secured a position as
night operator. He spent his days in the study of medicine, and was thus
engaged until April, 1888, when he was graduated in the New York Homeo
pathic Medical College. The energy, determination and courage which he
displayed in thus making his way through college indicated the chief charac
teristics of the man and stand in unmistakable evidence of his future success.
Upon his graduation Dr. Hatch was appointed to the position of resident
physician of the college dispensary, serving in that capacity until December,
1888, when he was made house surgeon of Grace Hospital, at Detroit, Mich
igan, a position which he held for two years, when he came to Logansport.
He has since practiced with creditable success in this city, and as a sur
geon he displays particular skill. His success in this direction is due to
his minute and accurate acquaintance with anatomy, combined with exquisite
power of diagnosis, a cool head, steady muscles and mechanical genius.
The Doctor was married in 1893 to Miss Annie Littlehales. Socially he
belongs the Masonic fraternity, the Order of Ben Hur andthe Ancient Order
of United Workmen. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished
in life, for with no particular advantages to aid him he started out upon his
business career, made his own way through college and by his resolute pur
pose, unflagging perseverance and ability has attained to a leading place in
the profession of which he is now an honored representative.

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TAMES M. STUTESMAN, a retired business man and prominent citizen
^ of Peru, is a native of Montgomery county, Ohio, born August 3, 18 19.
His paternal grandfather, David Stutesman, was a native of Germany, but
early came to the United States and settled at Hagerstown, Maryland. He
subsequently moved to Pennsylvania, from which state, in the year 1808, he
emigrated to Montgomery county, Ohio, where he followed his trade, that of
weaver, until his death in 1820. His son, Nathaniel Stutesman, father of
James M., was born at Hagerstown, Maryland. He left that city about the
year 1795, and with his father moved to BrownsvUle, Pennsylvania, where he
subsequently married Miss Sarah Flynn, and in 1808 located in Montgomery
county, Ohio, which was his home until he removed to Miami county, Indi
ana, in 1866. He followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and died in Peru
about 1880, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Mrs. Stutesman was
born in Hagerstown, Maryland, of Scotch parentage, and departed this life
in Montgomery county, Ohio, in the ypar 1839. Nathaniel and Sarah Stutes
man were the parents of the children whose names are as follows, to-wit:
Catharine, wife of Henry Stauffer; Amy A., deceased; Jonathan; David,
deceased; James M. ; Ellis, deceased; Nathaniel; Daniel, deceased; Perry,
deceased; Robert; and Marietta, wife of Lyman Baldwin, of Chicago.
James M. Stutesman spent the first sixteen years of his life as a farmer,
and enjoyed during that time such educational advantages as the country
afforded. In 1835 he commenced learning the trade of saddlery and harness-
making in the city of Dayton, and after serving a five-years apprenticeship
and acquiring great proficiency, began working at the same at Lewisburg,
.Preble county, Ohio, where he continued until 1842. In that year, in
company with his brother, Jonathan Stutesman, he came to Miami county,
Indiana, and opened a saddlery and harness shop in Peru, which he carried
on with success and financial profit until 1858, dealing extensively
with the Indians a portion of the time, and also supplying many of the
trading houses along the Wabash river from Fort Wayne to Peru. He
abandoned the trade the above year, and in partnership with W. W. KU-
gore, under the firm name of Stutesman & Kilgore, engaged in the general
hardware and agriculture implement business, which was continued until he
sold out to his partner in 1864. He then purchased the hardware stock of
Palmer & Deniston and ran a very successful business until 1871, when the
Puterbaugh Brothers bought an interest, and the well-known firm of Stutes-
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man & Puterbaugh continued, until Mr. Stutesman sold out to his partners
and retired from active life in 1881. In his various business enterprises Mr.
Stutesman was eminently successful, and as a public-spirited and popular
citizen few men in Peru stand higher in the estimation of the people than he.
On the 31st of March, 1831, Miss Elizabeth Shields, daughter of John and
Mary Shields, of Vincennes, Indiana, became his wife, and to this union have
been born the following children, to-wit.: Mary A., deceased; Harriet, wife
of John S. Hale; Edwin H., deceased; Frank M., Clara E., wife of 'W. V.
Spinning, and James F. Mr Stutesman is a member of the Presbyterian
church, with which he has been identified since 1845, and with his wife
and family belongs to the Peru congregation. In politics he was originaUy
a Whig, and in 1840 cast his first vote for General Wilham Henry Harrison.
On the dissolution of that party he joined the Republican party, and has
since been an earnest supporter of its principles and measures.

JAMES FORLOW traces his ancestry back to good old Revolutionary
stock. His great-grandfather, John Forlow, was a native of Scotland,
and in colonial days crossed the ocean to the New World. On the maternal
side the great-grandfather was Jacob Zinn, a native of Germany, who, com
ing to this country when it was still a province of Great Britain, entered the
American army and fought for the independence of the nation. The paternal
grandfather, John Forlow, was a native of Philadelphia, and learned the trades
of blacksmith and gunsmith, following the dual occupation for many years.
Samuel Forlow, the father of our subject, was a native of Berks county, Penn
sylvania, and when seventeen years of age accompanied his parents on their
removal to Ohio, the family locating in Butler county, in 1831. He learned
the cooper's trade, which he followed for some time, but later in life he
carried on agricultural pursuits. In 1865 he came to Cass county, and pur
chased a farm of three hundred and twenty-seven acres, in Noble township.
He was a very successful business man, managing his affairs with keen fore
sight and sound judgment, and as the result of his enterprise and industry
he accumulated a handsome competence. He served as township trustee of
Noble township for two years and was regarded as one of the leading and
influential citizens of the community. He held membership in the Presby-

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terian church, and contributed generously to the support of many worthy inter
ests designed for the public good. After a long and useful life of more than
four-score years he was called to his final rest on the 14th of December, 1895,
and to his family he left the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. His
wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Zinn, is still living. She was
born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and now makes her home with our
subject, receiving from him a filial care and affection which repays her for her
care of him in the days of his boyhood. On the 28th of February, 1898,
the eighty-fifth anniversary of her birth, she entertained more than a hun
dred of her neighbors and friends, who gathered to show their esteem and
love for this venerable lad}', who has won her way to many hearts in Cass
county. James Forlow, her only child, was a lad of eleven summers when the
family came to Indiana. He was born in Butler county, Ohio, on the 14th
of May, 1841, and arrived in Cass county in 1852. He has always followed
farming and now owns and operates the old family homestead, which com
prises two hundred and twenty-five acres of the rich farming land of Indiana.
Indolence and idleness are utterly foreign to his nature, and the splendidly
cultivated fields tell the story of his busy life.
On the nth of November, 1869, Mr. Forlow was united in marriage to
Mrs. Katharine (Carney) Renberger, a native of Wetzel county. West Vir
ginia. She had one child by her former marriage, Clem V. Renberger. Mr.
Forlow, his wife and his mother are all faithful members of the Presbyterian
church, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the subordinate
lodge and the encampment of the Odd Fellows' society. He votes with the
Democracy, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to devote his
time to his business affairs, in which he is meeting with signal success. His
life record is one which will bear the closest investigation, and he commands
the respect of all. He is a gentleman of upright purpose, of fidelity to prin
ciple, of pleasant manner and social disposition, and these qualities have
gained him many friends.

BENJAMIN F. KEESLING.— That the plenitude of satiety is seldom
attained in the affairs of life is to be considered a most grateful and
beneficial deprivation, for, where ambition is satisfied and every ultimate aim

900 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL, HISTORY OF
realized, if such be possible, individual apathy must follow. Effort would
cease, accomplishment be prostrate and creative talent waste its ener
gies in supine inactivity. The men who have pushed forward the wheels
of progress have been those to whom satiety lies ever in the future, who
have labored continuously and not failed to find, in each transition stage, an
incentive for further effort. Mr. Keesling is one whose well directed efforts
have gained for him a position of desirable prominence in the commercial
circles of Logansport and his energy and enterprise have been crowned by
rich financial reward.
Mr. Keesling, a son of Peter and Margaret (Loy) Keesling, was born in
Henry county, Indiana, February i8, 1850. Peter Keesling was of German
descent. He was born in Virginia and while young moved with his parents
from the soil of the Old Dominion to Ohio, thence to Indiana. The family
located in Henry county in 1834. Mr. Keesling's mother, also of German
descent, was born in Pennsylvania.
The subject of this sketch was reared in the county of his nativity, edu
cated in the public schools, and at the age of nineteen was graduated from
the high school of New Castle, Indiana. He immediately entered upon a
commercial life, beginning as a clerk in a general store at New Castle. Dur
ing three years' service there he acquired a knowledge of business methods
and the ethics governing commercial life that was invaluable as a foundation
for the latter successes of his business career.
For about a quarter of a century Mr. Keesling has been identified with
the drug trade of Logansport. He came to this city in AprU, 1874, and
has since made his home here. He first accepted a clerkship with J.
Needham & Company, druggists, and a year afterward purchased an inter
est in the business. That was the start. In 1880 he became sole proprietor.
Since then a policy of wise expansion of business interests has led to his
recognition as a leader in his line. His store, on Fourth street, is large and
well appointed. His patronage is of the best class, and by straightforward
business methods he has won an enviable reputation, his efforts to please
each customer before the latter leaves the store being a keynote to his
success. In addition to the drug business he owns considerable real estate,
and isa stockholder and director in the Logansport State Bank. Superior
business qualifications on his part are indicated by these varied interests,—
evidences of his prosperity.

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 901
Mr. Keesling was united in marriage February i8, 1875, with Miss Anna
Belle McCune, of Middletown, Indiana. Their son, Arthur R. , is a graduate
of Howe Mihtary Institute and is the present city editor of the Logansport
Daily Journal, being a young man of exceptional ability and energy. Mr.
Keesling is a stanch Republican, and has been an active and zealous worker
in the ranks of his party. In 1894 he became the candidate for county treas
urer on the Republican ticket, and, having made an excellent canv.iss, was
elected, being the first Republican elected to that office in a period of over
twenty years. The duties of the office during his period of incumbency were
administered with fidelity and skill, winning the commendation of all with
whom he came in contact. In the beginning of 1898 he was appointed by
Governor Mount a member of the board of trustees for the Northern Hospital
for the Insane, at Long Cliff, Indiana.
His life has been well spent. Whether in the discharge of public duty
or of private obligation, his strict integrity and faithfulness command the
respect and confidence of all. His character is marked by great sincerity
and firmness; his manner is ever courteous and genial. Careful and painstaking,
exact and conscientious, he has, from year to year, prospered deservingly.

JOHN NUTTER. — The great English writer. Dr. Johnson, one wrote con-
^ cerning biography in general: "The accounts of the parallel circum
stances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds, are
above all other writings to be found in the lives of particular persons; and
therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biog
raphy." Especially is this a pleasure when we come to chronicle the events
and characteristics of a useful and cheerful life such as has been led by the
subject of this sketch, who is familiarly known as "Uncle Johnnie Nutter,"
of Windfall, Tipton county, Indiana.
Mr. Nutter was born in Wood county. West Virginia, August 15, 1817,
a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Webb) Nutter, both of whom were born and
raised in Harrison county, Virginia. Of their eight children four are still
living, namely: Magdalene, widow of Jesse Cain, of Rush, Ritchie county.
West Virginia; John, who is the subject of this biographical outline; Eliza
beth, widow of Alexander Bickstaff, of Ritchie county, West Virginia; and

902 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Nancy, widow of Isaac Clark, of Irvington, California. Isaac Nutter emi
grated many years ago to Indiana, locating at Windfall, where his wife died,
in 1856, at the age of fifty-nine years, soon after which event Mr. Nutter
returned to Virginia, where he passed the remainder of his days, dying
in 1865, at the age of about seventy years. He was born at Nutter Fort,
Harrison county, that state, was a private in the war of 1812, under Captain
Bozier and Colonel Webb, and was a faithful soldier in the defense of Amer
ican liberty. His father, Matthew Nutter, was also a native of the Old
Dominion, of Irish descent, and a farmer by occupation. He lost his life by
being drowned, in middle life. He had a large number of children.
John Webb, the maternal grandfather of our subject,' was a son of Colo
nel Webb, also of Irish ancestry. The Nutters and Webbs came to Vir
ginia together as a colony and erected the " Nutter Fort " during the prog
ress of the Revolutionary war. John Webb was a farmer by vocation, and
died in middle life, frora the accident of being thrown from a horse, which
broke his neck.
Mr. John Nutter lived in West Virginia till his nineteenth year, on the
farm, receiving only a few months' schooling. The country in which he
passed his younger days was a wilderness. His father, after settling there,
for a long time had no neighbor nearer than sixteen miles distant, and the
nearest gristmill was sixty miles away I At the age mentioned, in the spring
of 1836, young Nutter left home, stopped in Pennsylvania for a time, and in
October of that year went to New Orleans; in 1837 he returned to the north
and lived three years in Lawrence county, Ohio. November 8, 1840, he
arrived in Boone county, Indiana, and September 24, 1841, arrived at the
present site of Tipton county, three years before the county was organized, and
here he was variously employed. Locating first in Prairie township, he lived
there till August 8, 1848, when he moved to Wildcat township, settling upon
eighty acres of land which he had entered from the government. Here he
lived, labored and prospered until he had at one time about six hundred
acres of good land, which he has since divided among his children or sold,
having now only about one hundred and seventy-two acres. His present
commodious brick residence he built in 1877. He has erected a number of
residences in Windfall and Wildcat townships, and also a business block.
" Uncle Johnnie " has lived in Wildcat township just half a century and in
Tipton county fifty-seven years.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 903
In his political principles he has always been a Democrat and he has
been honored by his fellow citizens with several official stations, as trustee
of the township three terms, being one of the first trustees, and county com
missioner two terms of three years each.
In the year 1845 he was united in matrimony with Miss Martha
Pritchard, a daughter of Curtis and Elizabeth (Spears) Pritchard, and they
had four children, — Isabel, James, Elizabeth and EUen. The eldest daugh
ter became the wife of David Doggett and is now deceased; she had two
children, one of whom, Arthur, is stUl living. James married Miss Amanda
Hardie and had four children, only one of whom is now living, Edward by
name. Elizabeth was married to Drury B. Vice, of Windfall, and has one
chUd, Nellie; now the wife of Harry Springer. Ellen is deceased. She mar
ried Samuel Mitchell and had three children, two of whom are living, John
and Mary. The first wife of our subject departed this life in February,
1856, and during the month of December following Mr. Nutter was united
in marriage with Amanda McKay, and by this union there were three chil
dren, only one of whom is now living, Martha, now the wife of Benjamin
Vice, and they have three children, — Gertrude, Fred and Edward. Mr.
Nutter's second wife died in 1863, and on the ist day of January, 1866, Mr.
Nutter married Mrs. Nancy Freeman, widow of Oliver Freeman, who died
in the Civil war. Her parents were Silas and Sarah (Johnson) Mitchell. By
the last marriage Mr. Nutter had one daughter, who was named Ida and who
died at the age of eighteen months. By a former marriage Mrs. Nutter had
three children, of whom Silas is the only one living now. He married Miss
Cordelia Hardie, and they have had five children, — Zola, Lula, Leo, Oberlin
and Vesta. Mr. and Mrs. Nutter are zealous and sincere members of the
Baptist church.
Mr. Nutter is a genial, jolly old gentleman whose presence is welcome
to all. He* looks on the bright side of life, is well preserved for one of his
years and is one ofthe substantial citizens of the county in which he has so
long made life's journey; has seen the county grow up from a vast wilderness
to become a community in the front line of civilization, and has done his
part toward its wonderful development. He and his excellent wife are a
most estimable couple and have a host of warm friends; and the history of
Tipton county's prominent citizens would not be complete vvithout a notice of
" Uncle Johnnie " Nutter and his wife.

904 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
HEZEKIAH BURTON.— The fitting reward of a useful and well spent
life is an honorable retirement in which to enjoy the fruits of former
toil. The subject of this review is one of the retired farmers of Royal Cen
ter, having put aside all business cares, for his labors in past years brought
to him a competence that now supplies him with all the comforts and many
of the luxuries of life.
A native of Fairfield county, Ohio, Mr. Burton was born November 20,
1826, and is a son of John and Catharine (Stewart) Burton, the former a
native of Maryland and the latter of Fairfield county, Ohio. He is descended
from both English and Irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Bur
ton, was a native of England and at an early day crossed the briny deep to
the New World, taking up his residence in Maryland, whence he afterward
removed to Ohio, locating on a farm in Fairfield, county. The maternal
grandfather, Joseph Stewart, was born on the Emerald Isle and when he had
emigrated to the United States became one of the pioneer settlers of Fair
field county, Ohio, where the two families were united through the marriage
of John Burton and Catharine Stewart. This worthy couple became the
parents of ten children, but only three are now living, namely : Jemima,
Hezekiah and Catharine. In the autumn of 1837 the father brought his
family to Cass county, Indiana, and purchased from the government three
hundred and twenty acres of land in Boone township. The following year
he located thereon and with characteristic energy carried forward the work
of improving and developing his farm, for the tract was in its primitive con
dition at the time of his arrival. He made it a valuable property and was
known as one of the leading agriculturists ofthe community.
Hezekiah Burton spent his early youth in Ohio, where he remained
until sixteen years of age, when he came with his parents to Cass county.
On attaining his majority he began farming on his own account and made it
his chief vocation in hfe. His farm comprised one hundred ^nd twenty
acres, and well tilled fields, substantial buildings, improved machinery and
other modern accessories gave evidence of his enterprising and progressive
spirit. He continued the cultivation of his land until September, 1895,
when he removed to Royal Center and laid aside the more arduous duries
of a business career.
Before that tirae his labors were seldora interrupted. During the CivU
war, however, he put aside all personal considerations and offered his serv-

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ices to his country as a defender of the Union, enlisting at Logansport, on
the I Sth of July, 1862, as a member of Company G, Seventy-third Indiana
Infantry, to serve for three years. He was made corporal of his company
and proved his loyalty on many a southern battlefield. He participated in
the engagements at Perryville and Stone River, together with others of
importance, and at the close of the war was honorably discharged at Nash
ville, Tennessee, July 4, 1865.
Mr. Burton was married October 4, 1849, the lady of his choice being
Elizabeth Kistler, a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, and to them were born
ten children, eight of whom are yet living, as follows: Amos W., John H.,
Elias F. , Elizabeth, Julia, Reuben, Anna L. and George M. Socially Mr.
Burton is connected with Royal Center Post, No. 501, G. A. R. , and in pol
itics he is an ardent advocate of the free-silver principle. He and his wife
hold membership in the Evangelical church, and their well-spent lives com
mend them to the confidence and regard of all. Mr. Burton gives his sup
port not only to the church, but to all measures for the public good, and his
name is synonymous with honorable dealing in all life's relations.

ALBERT H. DOUGLASS, superintendent of the schools of Logansport,
is a native of Cass county, Indiana, born in the year 1858.
The subject of this biographical mention was reared on the farm, and
educated in the schools of Logansport, graduating at the high school of this
city in 1875. Immediately after graduating Mr. Douglass began teaching in
the country schools of Cass county, and taught at various places in the county
for eight years. He was then made principal of the village school in Walton,
.Cass county, and for two years held that position. Meeting vvith success
there, he was enabled to secure the principalship of the North Side school of
Logansport, which incumbency he retained two years, after which he went
to the West Side school, and was then made principal of the high school of
Logansport. The last named position he held for three years, and then, in
1 89 1, was elected superintendent of all the schools of the city of Logansport.
The fact that he has been continued in the superintendency of the city
schools is abundant evidence of his abUity as an educator. He has unusual
executive ability, and with his many teachers and pupils he is a popular

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superintendent. His rise to the superintendency of the schools of Logans
port was a deserved promotion, and his success in the position gives evidence
of the wisdom of the board of education, which deemed him worthy of the
promotion. Mr. Douglass is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Logans
port, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1 88 1 he married Miss Elizabeth Barnett, and the marriage has given
issue to three children.

JAMES H. WOODLING. — Success has been worthily attained by James
H. Woodling, who is to-day accounted one of the prosperous farmers of
Cass county. To his energy, enterprise, careful management and keen dis
crimination this is attributable. He started out in hfe as a farm hand, and
is now the owner of one of the most desirable farming properties of the local
ity. Born in Illinois on the 14th of November, 1841, he is one of a, family of
twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, whose parents were David
and Margaret (Durrand) Woodling. In 1844 they came to Cass county,
locating in Washington township, where the father entered a claim, paying
for the same the usual government price of one dollar and a quarter per acre.
This is the farm now owned by Michael Bauman.
Upon the homestead the subject of this review was reared, and in the
work of developing and improving the land he bore his part, early becoming
familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agricultur
ist. He assisted in clearing the and and in plowing the fields through the
summer months, and after crops were harvested in the fall he entered the
district school, which was held in a log building two miles from his home.
There he learned his lessons through the winter months until his labors were
again needed in the plowing and planting which always come with the open
ing of spring. When eighteen years of age his father gave him one hundred
dollars for the year's work, and he was paid at that rate until he had attained
his majority, when he began clearing a piece of land of his own in Washing
ton township, Cass county. He had eighty acres in that farm, which he
drained by a good system of ditching, while his fields were made to yield
bounteous harvests by the care and attention which he bestowed upon them.
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land; when he left that farm in 1884 it was all under a high state of cultiva
tion, waving fields of grain replacing the once unbroken forests and bringing
to the owner a comfortable competence.
In 1884 Mr. Woodling removed to Logansport, where he engaged in con
tracting and building for about eight years. Since 1893 he has resided upon
the farm which is now his home, and since that time has cleared about one
hundred and seventy-five acres of land. He has here four hundred acres, of
which three hundred acres have been cleared. Energy is one of his most
marked characteristics, and he prosecutes his labors with a zeal that has
brought to him rich returns. Substantial buildings, the latest improved
machinery, well kept fences and good grades of stock, — these are among the
accessories of the Woodling farm.
In 1865 vvas celebrated the marriage of our subject and Miss Virginia
Cecil, and to them have been born two children: E. Florence, wife of David
Bowman, who was a member of the Logansport fire department. No. 3, for
fifteen years; and Frank E., who is day operator in the Pan Handle Railroad
yard at Logansport. In his political views Mr. Woodling is a Republican,
and while he keeps well informed on the issues of the day he has never sought
or desired office, preferring to devote his energies to his business affairs, in
which he has met with a most desirable success. Almost his entire life has
been passed in Cass county, and he has a wide acquaintance among her best
citizens, many of whom are included within the circle of his friends.

WILLIAM H. BRENTON, M. D., of Peru, with his associate in prac
tice. Dr. J. O. Ward, is one of the oldest medical practitioners in
the city, his arrival being in 1868, and his residence in Miami county dates
from 1857. Dr. Brenton was born in Clark county, Indiana, May 22, 1828.
His father was Francis, the son of William Brenton. The latter was a pio
neer of Indiana and one of the eariiest settlers of Clark county. He was a
native of Virginia, removing therefrom to Kentucky, and emigrating thence
to Indiana. He vvas a soldier of the war of 181 2. Francis Brenton, in his
early manhood, was married to Mary Giltner, who came from an early Penn
sylvania family of German ancestry. Francis Brenton was one of a family ¦
of ten members, and his wUe one of three. . From Indiana he removed to

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Massac county, Illinois, where he died in 1856. The wife and mother passed
away at the home of her son. Dr. William H. Brenton, in 1892, at the age
of eighty-two years.
Dr. Brenton is the eldest of a family of eight members, which comprised
four sons and four daughters; all of the latter have passed away. A brother.
Dr. John Brenton, died at Osgood, Indiana, a number of years ago. He
was a well known physician, and volunteered his services as a surgeon after
the battle of Shiloh, which were accepted by the government. He left a
wife and three children. Another of the brothers, Melville A. Brenton,
resides at Jeffersonville, Clark county, this state. The fourth brother,
George W., served in the army in the war of the Rebellion, and was severely
injured in the service, from the effects of which he has never recovered.
Dr. Brenton spent his boyhood on a farm, making the most of such
educational advantages as he possessed. He early formed a determination
to pursue a professional career, and began the study of medicine at the age
of sixteen years, under the instructions of Dr. Frank Taylor, of Westport,
Kentucky. He attended his first course of lectures in 1848-9 at Memphis,
Tennessee, and later, in 1852, attended the Indiana Central Medical school
at Indianapolis, where he graduated in 1852. In 1853-4 he attended the St.
Louis Medical School, and in 1866 the Doctor graduated at the famous
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in New York. The above represents the
various medical schools at which Dr. Brenton received the most thorough
instruction in both the theory and practice of medicine and surgery. He
had, however, at this time (1866) had much experience in general practice.
He began his professional career at Taylorville, Indiana, in 1852, going thence
to Brooklyn, Illinois, and thence to Metropolis, in the sarae state, in 1857
located at Perrysburg, Indiana, and came to Peru, as already stated, in 1868.
In 1862 Dr. Brenton entered the army as first assistant surgeon of the
Seventy-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and continued in the
army, acting as surgeon, much of the time tUl March, 1863, when he left the
service, owing to the fact that the labor and exposure incident to his caUing
there told seriously on his health. He, in fact, has never recovered the
strength of body sacrificed in the army. He saw service in the important
and bloody battles of Perryville and Stone River and other less important
events of the war.
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surgeon and occupies the front rank in his profession. He is a member of
the County, State and National Medical Associations. In his political rela
tions he is a Democrat, but not a partisan, and never an aspirant for polit
ical honors. He has been three times married. His present wife, whom he
married in 1879, was formerly Loantha J. Search, a daughter of John
Search, who was a member of the Fifth Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, in the
war of the Rebellion, and died in the prison pen at Andersonville. Four
children have been born to this marriage, viz.: Emma E., Mary M., John
H. and Ruth. Dr. Brenton and wife are consistent members of the Baptist
church of Peru.

JOHN T. HARRISON, a well known farmer of Tipton township, Cass
^ county, Indiana, and a veteran of the Civil war, dates his birth to Chilli
cothe, Ohio, February 8, 1846. He remembers nothing, however, of his
Ohio home, since when he was two years old his parents moved to Indiana
and took up their abode in White county, where he passed his early boyhood
days and received his elementary education. At the age of ten years he went
to Delphi to learn the printer's trade, but at the end of one year he left that
place and went to Brookston, where he was living at the time the war of the
Rebellion was inaugurated.
February 3. 1863, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted as a private in
the Union army, for a term of three years, and as a member of Company G,
Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers, was mustered into the service at Indianapo
lis. From Indianapolis his company was ordered to Camp Nelson, Ken
tucky, where it was stationed a few weeks, and thence was sent down
into Tennessee. Ms. Harrison, with his command, was at Knoxville and
Bull's Gap, and assisted in destroying the railroad to Jonesboro, following
which he was in General Sherman's campaign, and among the engagements
he participated were those of Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, Kenesaw mountain,
Jonesboro, Atlanta. He also took part in the pursuit of Hood and in the
action at Franklin and also at Nashville. After the last named engagement
he was for a time in a hospital at Nashville. Before the close of his army
service he was transferred to the Twenty-second Veteran Reserve Corps, and
as a member of the same was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio,
November 17* 1866.

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Returning to White county, Indiana, after leaving the army, he engaged
in farming. He farmed one year in White county and one year in Clinton
county, and in 1868 came to Cass county. The first year of his residence
here he farmed in Tipton township. From 186910 1889 he was a resident
of Logansport, in railroad employ, h s first posirion being in the roundhouse.
In 1876 he began firing an engine on the Pan Handle, and four years later
was promoted to the position of engineer on the same road. Tired of rail
roading he purchased a farm in Washington township, this county, on which
he located and where he made his home until 1891, when he moved to his
present location in Tipton township, where he is now successfully engaged in
farming. Mr. Harrison married Miss Mary E. Helvie, and they have had three chil
dren, namely: Esta J., a brakeman on the Pan Handle Railroad; Malissa,
deceased; and Benjamin.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Lodge No. 630, of Logansport, and religiously is a member of the United
Brethren church. '

SAMUEL LOGAN. — The gentleman whose name initiates this review is
one of the representative farmers of Tipton township, Cass county,
Indiana. He is a native Hoosier, having been born in Fayette county,
Indiana, September 7, 1824, a son of Thomas and Annie (Smith) Logan,
and one of a family of twelve children, only four of whom are now living,
namely: Samuel, David P., Jemima and Mariah.
When Samuel was a boy of eight years his parents moved vvith their
family to Clinton county, this state, where they lived until 1843, when the
home was again changed, this time to Cass county. Thus it was in Fayette
and Clinton counties that the subject of our sketch passed his boyhood days.
His education was obtained in the typical log school-houses of early Indiana.
In his young manhood he was for a time employed in work at the carpenter's
trade and at the age of twenty-one he entered a tract of government land in
Jackson township, Cass county, one hundred and twenty acres in extent and
heavily covered with timber, the purchase price of the same being two dol
lars per acre. After the usual manner of the frontiersman, he at once set-

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tied on his land and built a cabin, a rude structure, containing one room,
sixteen by eighteen feet in dimensions. Subsequently he went to Iowa,
where he lived for a time, but, hking Indiana better than that state, he
returned and again took up his abode on his land in Jackson township, where
he lived until 1883. That year he purchased his present farm of eighty
acres, in Tipton township. He has cleared and improved this land, now
having most of it under cultivation, and is comfortably situated.
Mr. Logan has been twice married. He first wedded Miss Elizabeth
Ramsey, who died some years later, leaving him with one chUd, Thomas A.
For his second wife Mr. Logan married Miss Margaret J. Meeke.
Mr. Logan has always taken a commendable interest in public affairs,
affiliates with the Democratic party, and is regarded as a citizen of sterhng
worth, a good neighbor and a kind friend.

J SAAC NEWTON CASH, of Logansport, is an honored citizen in whom
¦*^ the people have manifested their confidence by electing him to the posi
tion of county treasurer of Cass county. He is now discharging the duties
of that office with marked promptness and fidelity, and with such men at the
head of public affairs a community may feel assured that its interests will be
admiijistered with the strictest honesty and after the most approved business
methods. Mr. Cash is not only well known in his official relations to the
people but is also numbered among the leading representatives of commercial
interests in Logansport, and for sixteen years has been a prominent factor in
business circles here.
A native of Putnam county, Indiana, he was born on the ist of Novem
ber, 1854, and is a son of Warren and Catherine (DuVaul) Cash. The pater
nal great-great-grandfather of our subject was a native of Ireland; the great
grandfather was born in Virginia; the grandfather, Clayborn Cash, in Ken
tucky, and Warren Cash first opened his eyes to the light of the day in
Hardin county, Kentucky, in 18 12. A half-century ago he removed to Put
nam county, Indiana, where he lived through a long period, but a few years
since he removed to Montgomery county, only a few miles from his former
home. There he stUl resides, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He
has made farming his life occupation and his hfe has been a useful though

912 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
quiet and unassuming one. His wife also was a native of Kentucky and was
an only child, losing her father when very young. The DuVaul family, as
the name indicates, is of French origin.
Isaac N. Cash, of this review, was one of a family of nine children and
was reared on the home farm, acquiring a good common-school education in
the neighborhood. He was early trained to the duties of the farm and con
tinued to carry on agricultural pursuits until twenty-six years of age, when
he came to Logansport, where he has since made his home. Here he entered
the dairy and the livery business and has continuously carried on the latter
to the present time. He operated his dairy for ten years and then sold out,
but now has another business connection, having formed, in August, 1897, a
partnership with Daniel Killian in the undertaking business, under the firm
name of Killian & Corapany. His livery is one of the best appointed estab
lishments of the kind in the county. He has on hand a fine line of carriages
and horses, and his courtesy to his patrons, his earnest desire to please and
his honorable dealing have secured to him a large, growing and profitable
business. His reliabiUty in all trade transactions and his loyalty to all duties
of citizenship led to his selection for public office, and in 1896 he was elected'
county treasurer, entering upon the duties of the office, for a two-years term,
in December, 1896.
Mr. Cash is a stalwart Democrat and is well informed on the issues of
the day, therefore giving an intelligent support to the party of his ohoice.
He belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Knights of the Macca
bees, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of
vRed Men.
In 1885 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Kyle, of Ladoga,
Indiana, and their home is blessed with one son, Bynum Kyle. A large
circle of friends adds to the pleasure of their life, and their attractive home
is noted for its gracious hospitality.

JTON. JAMES M. FIPPEN. — Some persons may have much experience
¦•• with but little natural insight, and consequently learn but few lessons.
Others, having a superior innate sagacity, wUl learn many lessons even from
comparatively little experience, and even perceive many things without hav-

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ing to learn them; and some there are, indeed, who have both natural sa
gacity and experience in a great degree. Scanning the life and character
of the subject of this sketch, we are led to place him in the last mentioned
class, since he has been engaged in the successful practice of law for about
a score of years.
He is a native of this state, born in Hamilton county, near Atlanta, ten
miles from Tipton, March 19, 1852, a son of Samuel and Mahala (Foutch)
Fippen, who were natives of Maryland. In the family of his parents were
four sons and one daughter, namely: George W., Ardilla, now the wife of
Oliver Jayne, of Tipton county; James M., whose name heads this sketch;
Ebenezer, of Michigan City, this state; and John W. N., deceased.
Mr. Samel Fippen, the father, was a farmer by occupation, and settled
in Jackson township, Hamilton county, Indiana, in 1847, upon forty acres of
land which he had purchased. By additional purchase subsequently he at
length had a good farm, which he developed and put in good condition. He
brought up his children on this place, and died March 6, 1872, at the age of
forty-nine years. His widow afterward moved to Tipton, where she died
March 19, 1884, aged fifty-six years. She was an intelligent and faithful
member of the Presbyterian church.
Ebenezer and Jane (Dill) Fippen, grandparents, were natives of Mary
land and of English and French descent. Mr. Fippen was a sailor in early
life, and after moving to Indiana, in 1847, was a follower of agricultural
pursuits and, with one of his sons, a breeder of live stock, in both of which
capacities he was successful. He was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and died
March 8, 1874, at the age of eighty-four years. He had six children. His
father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war for seven years, under General
Washington, John and Margaret (Armstrong) Foutch, the maternal grandparents of
our subject, were natives of Maryland, of German parentage, and came to
Indiana in an early day, settling in Tipton county, near New Lancaster, and
engaged in farming. They had a large number of children, and died in the
early '60s, aged about seventy years.
Mr. Fippen, whose name introduces this sketch, was brought up on his
father's farm ten miles southwest of Tipton, attending the district and
graded schools. He continued on the old homestead after the death of his
father and after he was of age, taking care of the place for his mother until
ai

914 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
1874. Then he and his brother, George W. , came to Tipton county and
erected a tile factory, which they operated for four years during the summer
seasons, while during the winters the subject of this record devoted his time
to the study of law. March i, 1879, he entered the law office of Hon.
Daniel Waugh and continued his legal studies there, and the same year he
passed an examination and was admitted to the bar; and ever since that date
he has followed his profession here in Tipton, with the success that attends
inteUigent industry and unswerving integrity. He remained with Judge
Waugh until January i, 1881, at which time he and John P. Kemp formed
a partnership, under the firm name of Fippen & Kemp, which continued
untU November following, after which time Mr. Fippen practiced alone until
1885, when he associated himself with Judge John Green, and the firm was
Green & Fippen until May, 1887, when, on account of Judge Green's sick
ness, the partnership was dissolved. Next, in company with George H.
Gifford, under the firm name of Gifford & Fippen, he practiced until 1893,
when that also was dissolved and Mr. Fippen entered into partnership with
James M. Purvis, under the firm style of Fippen & Purvis, which is the
present relation. Mr. Fippen is a successful attorney, a popular citizen and
is well known for his fidelity to his clients.
In his political principles he is a Democrat. For three or four years he
was a member of the city council, and for one term was city clerk. In 1884
he was elected prosecuting attorney for the thirty-sixth judicial district, the
only Democrat ever honored with that position, and he faithfully served his
tarm of two years. He was then re-elected councilman and as such he
served until 1890, when he resigned and was elected a representative of
Tipton county to the state legislature, in which position he served from 1891
to 1895, when he declined the third nomination. In 1896-98 the Tipton
county Democracy unanimously endorsed him for the office of representative
to congress, and at this writing he is a candidate for that position.
In matrimony, April ii, 1882, Mr. Fippen was united with Miss Olive
E. Bunch, daughter of Luther T. and Margaret A. (Overman) Bunch, and
they have five children, — three sons and two daughters: Frank B., Kittie,
Mark L. , Stella and Hugh J. Mrs. Fippen is an intelligent and highly
respected lady; and Mr. Fippen is a member of the order of Knights of
Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men. Their home is at 321 North
West street, Tipton, where the residence was buUt in 1895.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 915
QILAS NEEDHAM. — More than forty-five years have passed since this
^ gentleman arrived in Tipton county, and he is justly numbered among
her honored pioneers and leading citizens. He has been prominently identi
fied with her business interests as a merchant and farmer. His is an hon
orable record of a conscientious man, who by his upright life has won the
confidence of all with whom he has come in contact.
Mr Needham was born in Clark county, Indiana, May 22, 18 16, and is
a son of John and Nancy (Bland) Needham, who were born, reared and mar
ried in North Carolina, the former being of German and the latter of Eng
lish descent. The father, who was a slave-holder and prominent planter of
his native state, made two or three trips to Indiana, but each time was
obliged to return to North Carolina on account of the hostile Indians.
Finally he made a settlement in Jennings county, where he died in 1850,
when nearly one hundred years of age. His wife survived him and came to
Tipton county with our subject, dying here in 1855, at about the same age.
Both were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist church. By
occupation the father was a farmer and stock dealer, and in his native state
bought and sold negroes. Upright and honorable in all his dealings, he
became widely and favorably known, and at one time was elected sheriff of
his county in North Carolina. He aided the colonies in their struggle for
independence during the Revolutionary war, and again took up arms against
the mother country as a private in the war of 18 12, under General Jackson.
Among his most cherished possessions, our subject has a gourd which vvas
grown on the eastern shore of Maryland and was used by his father as a
powder horn in the Revolutionary war.
In the family of John and Nancy (Bland) Needham were thirteen chil
dren, but our subject, who is the youngest, is the only one now living.
Moses died in the south; William in Indiana; Lewis and Enoch, both in the
south; Nathan in Indiana; Jonathan in Oregon; Wesley in Iowa; and the
daughters, Mrs. Catherine Duty, Mary, Mrs. Martha Bland, Mrs. SaUy
Spaulding, are also deceased.
Reared amid pioneer scenes on the home farm in Jennings county, Silas
Needham early became familiar vvith the arduous task of clearing and devel
oping a new farm, and as his school privileges were limited in early life, he
studied grammar and obtained a fair education through his own exertions
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and after his death bought the old homestead and cared for his mother until
she, too, "was called to her final rest. By trade he is a carpenter, and in
early life, in connection with contracting and building, conducted the farm
and dealt in stock. Selling his interests in Jennings county, he came to
Tipton county in 1853 and purchased a large tract of wild land, upon which
he at first located, but the following spring removed to Sharpsville, where
he erected a store building and engaged in merchandising for ten years.
During this tirae, however, he cleared tvvo hundred acres of his land, and
since retiring from mercantile business, in 1865, has given his attention to
his farming interests, owning at the present time tvvo or three valuable
farms. As game of all kinds was plentiful when he came to the county, he
bought deer and turkeys which he shipped to Cincinnati, and did a large and
profitable business as a dealer in furs and skins. He was also a shipper of
hogs and other stock, and in all his undertakings met with marked success.
Mr. Needham has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Emerine
J. Holman, a niece of Hon. William Holman. She was born in Kentucky,
and when young came to Indiana with her parents, William and Mary (Fos
ter) Holman, the former of German, the latter of Irish descent. The father,
who was by occupation a farmer and real-estate dealer, and a Whig in poli
tics, died in Ripley county, this state. By his first marriage our subject
had six children, of whom three are still living: Sarah E., now the wife of
J. Dark; Margaret, wife of William J. Franklin; and Frank, who as a rail
road-car tracer has traveled all over the world. The wife and mother died
AprU 17, 1877. In 1887 Mr. Needham wedded Miss Nancy A. Kelly, a
native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Scott and Julia A. Kelly. The father
died in that state during the early childhood of Mrs. Needham, after which
the mother brought her children to Indiana. After three moves in this state
she finally located in Tipton county, where her death occurred. Her chil
dren were Perssilla P. Kelly, Henry M. Kelly, Cynthia A. Kelly, Jaraes S.
Kelly and Nancy A. Needham.
Socially Mr. Needham is a Royal Arch Mason, and religiouslv is a
Methodist, while his estimable wife holds membership in the Presbyterian
church. Originally he was a Whig in political sentiment, and helped to
organize the Republican party in Tipton count}'. He has always been one
of the most popular, prominent and influential citizens of the coramunit}',
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before the convention for the legislature.. During the early days, when the
county' was strongly Democratic, he took an acti\'e part in promoting the
interests of his party. It is safe to say that no man in the* community has
more or warmer friends than Silas Needham.

WILLIAM W MOSS, trustee of Noble township, Cass county, Indiana,
is one of the leading farmers of the county and resides on his fine farm
of one hundred and eight acres, located two miles from the city of Logans
port. Mr. Moss is a native of Indiana. He was born in Carroll county, March
31, 1859, son of Elias H. and Maria D. (Conover) Moss, bo.th natives of
Pennsylvania, who came to Indiana in 1849 and located in Carroll county.
There they resided on a farm until 1864, when they removed to Cass county
and purchased a tract of land in Noble township, upon which they still reside,
Mr. Moss now being seventy'-eight years of age. He has not only been a
prosperous and prominent farmer, but has also figured in local affairs of
public nature, having filled the offices of township trustee and assessor of
Noble township, serving four years in each. Although now nearing his
eightieth milepost, he is well , preserved both physically and mentally. To
him and his wife were given seven children, namely: Mary, Charles, Dennis,
Phoebe, John, Samuel A. and William W. , the subject of this sketch.
At the time the Moss family removed from Carroll county to Cass county
and settled in Noble township William W. was a child of five years, and
here he was reared to farm life and received his education in the Logansport
schools. Like his father before him, he has devoted his energies to agri
cultural pursuits. His broad acres are well cultivated, and the general
appearance of his farm, including his nice large residence and barn, shows
that intelligence as well as labor have been exercised in conducting operations
here. Mr. Moss gives considerable attention to stock-raising.
October 6, 1886, Mr. Moss married Miss Ella Fletcher, a native of
Jefferson township, Cass county, and a daughter of Hicklin Fletcher, a
farmer of this county. They have two children, Mervin H. and Hazel M.
Both Mr. Moss and his father are strong Republicans, and the younger
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he was elected' to the office of trustee of Noble township, for a term of four
years, and is now nearing the close of his term, having rendered faithful and
acceptable service. He is a member of the Order of P31ks, at Logansport-

R OBERT P. EFFINGER, of Peru, attorney and counselor at law, is
probably the oldest member of the Miami county bar, in point of con
tinuous practice. His coming to Peru dates from 1852.
Robert Patterson, Effinger was born at Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio,
March 26, 1826. His father, Samuel Effinger, was a native of Harrisonburg,
Virginia, where he was born about 1790. The paternal grandfather of the
subject of tlys sketch was John Ignatius Effinger (or Von Effinger, as the
name was formerly called), who came to America from Germany with the
Hessian troops, during the Revolutionary war; but he did not long remain a
Plessian soldier. His sympathies were soon enlisted on the side of the
Americans, who he soon discovered were fighting for liberty. He accordingly
deserted the British service and joined the Americans, was made a sergeant
in the army and served under Washington for three years, or till the close of
the war and independence was secured. He soon after settled at Harrison
burg, where he passed the rest of his life. The father of the subject of this
sketch died at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1832. Mr. Effinger's mother was Mary
(Noble) Effinger, a native of Emmettsburg, Maryland, born in 1796, and
died in 1859, at Lancaster, which had been her home since chUdhood. Of
the six children, five sons and a daughter, born to the parents of the subject
of this sketch, only he and a brother, John Effinger, are now living. The
latter is a resident of the old home town in Ohio.
R. P. Effinger was reared in his native state, received a good English
education, and began the study of law in the office of the famous Ohio
statesman, Thoma,s Ewing, where he pursued his reading for two years. He
was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, in 1848. He was married at Medina,
Ohio, in 1855, to Frances Barber, who was born in Chautauqua county,
New York, a daughter of Azariah Barber. Their children are five in num
ber: John, a bookkeeper for a mercantile firm at Honolulu; Frances, wife of
Erwin S. Raymond, of Chicago; Plelen E. , wife of Edwin C. Bearss, of
Peru; Robert Patterson, of Baker City, Oregon. They lost four children.

Cei.S'^S', MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 919
all having passed away in childhood but one, Michael S., who died at the
age of twenty-two years.
Mr. Effinger long occupied a prominent place at the bar of Miami county,
and, though still in practice, is much enfeebled by a recent accident and
by advancing years.

JM. BOWYER, one of the respected farmers of Tipton township, Cass
county, Indiana, is a native of this county, born in Miami township,
April 24, 1 841, son of Lewis and Malinda (Wilson) Bowyer. He is one of
a family of fourteen children, eight of whom, — six sons and two daughters,
— reached maturity. His father being a farmer, he was brought up on a
farm and educated in a rural school. On reaching his majority, he engaged
in agricultural pursuits on his own account, renting land and cultivating the
same for a few years. In 1866 he purchased the farm on which he has
since Ijved, in Tipton township. This farm comprises eighty-eight acres,
and he owns another farm of eighty acres, on both of which are cultivated a
diversity of crops.
Mr. Bowyer was married November 30, 1865, to Miss Mary S. De-
Lawter. Their union has been blessed in the birth of eleven children,
seven of whom are living, namely: Charles L., Horace A., Alvin W. , Carrie
S. , John Marshall, lona F. and William O.
PoliticaUy, Mr. Bowyer affiliates with the Republican party.

HON. D. D. PRATT. — Among the many illustrious men of Indiana Hon.
D. D. Pratt was conspicuous. He was born at Palermo, Maine,
October 24, 181 3, and died at Logansport, Indiana, June 17, 1877. His
father was a physician, and the son of David Pratt, a Revolutionary soldier,
of Berkshire county, Massachusetts. His mother, Sallie Rodgers (HUl) Pratt,
was a remarkable woman, a Baptist of deepest piety, and eariy taught her
son the principles of Christianity, — principles which marked and governed his
after life.
While Mr. Pratt was an infant his parents removed from Maine to
Madison county. New York, and there he grevv to manhood; attended first

920 BIOGR.iPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
the public schools, then the seminary at Cazenovia, New York, and later
Hamilton College, where he graduated in 1831. Directly after graduating
he accepted a professorship in Madison University. He soon thereafter
began the study of law, and in 1836 he became a citizen of Logansport,
Indiana, after he had been for some time in the law office of Calvin Fletcher,
an eminent lawyer, at Indianapolis. He soon gained prominence as a lawyer
and rose to first rank in the profession. His eminent merits vvere soon recog
nized by the public, and in 1847, then a young man of thirty-three, he was
nominated for congress, but was defeated. In 1848 he vvas one of the
presidential electors. In 1851-3 he was a member of the legislature, and
the leader in the house. In i860 he was secretary of the national conven
tion, at Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
During the war Mr. Pratt was a zealous and patriotic advocate of the Union
cause. He was elected to congress in 1868, and to the United States senate
in 1869. Upon the expiration of his term as senator, in 1875, he, at the solic
itation of General Grant, took charge of the internal revenue department.
He vvas twice married, first in 1839 to Miss Sophia J. James, who
bore his four children, and who was the sharer of life's pleasures and toils
with him until her death. His second marriage was in 1865, to Mrs. Jane
D. Warren.

J3HILIP G. YOARS. — Since his young manhood the subject of this review
¦* has been a resident of Miami county, and he is now accounted one of
the substantial and enterprising citizens of Amboy. He was born in Butler
county, Ohio, November 25, 1843, his parents being George and Margaret
(Cook) Yoars. His father was born in Bremen, Germany, in AprU, 18 18,
was reared on a farm and when twenty-two years of age resolved to seek his
fortune in America. Accordingly he made his way to Havre de Grace, France,
where he took passage on a sailing vessel bound for the port of New York.
After sixty days spent on the bosom of the deep, anchor was dropped off the
coast of the American metropolis, and from that city ^fr. Yoars made his
way to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he arrived on the 4th of July, 1840. On his
arrival in New York he was raarried to Margaret Cook, who had been a pas
senger on the same ship in which he made the voyage. She was born in
Gern-iany, on the river Rhine, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Cook, who

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spent their entire lives in the Fatherland, and who were the parents of the
following: Philip, Catharine, Margaret and Louisa. George Yoars and his
wife first located in Hamilton county, Ohio, and in the fall of 1855 they
removed to Miami county, Indiana, making their home in Jackson township,
on a farm of one hundred acres, which Mr. Yoars purchased and of which
sixty acres had been cleared. He made many excellent iraproveraents upon
that place and the rich fields yielded to him a good income in return for his
labor. Although reared in the faith of the Lutheran church, he became a
member of the Friends' church after his emigration to America. In politics
he was a Republican. His death occurred in 1882 at the age of sixt}-four
years and the community thereby lost one of its valued citizens. His chil
dren were Margaret, Philip G., John, Ann and Julia. In 1865, when only
sixteen years of age, John Yoars, brother of the subject of this sketch, enlisted
in his country's service at Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana, and served
until the close of hostilities.
Philip G. Yoars accompanied his parents on their removal to Indiana
and has since been identified vvith the agricultural and commercial interests
of Miami county. He acquired a limited education in the common schools,
and was trained to farm work, so that when he began the operation of land
on his own account experience well fitted him for his duties. As a com
panion and helpmeet on the journey of life he chose Miss Nancy A. Arnold
and they were married in Jackson township, Miami county, March 10, 1868.
The lady was born in that township July 5, 1849, a daughter of Nathan and
Sarah (Overman) Arnold. Her father was born in Wayne county. North
Carolina, in 1814, his parents being Nathan and Elizabeth (Horn) Arnold.
Nathan Arnold, Sr. , was a member of the Friends' society, and about 18 17
removed to Indiana, locating in the midst of the forest at Richmond, A\'ayne
county. His death occurred in Wayne county, where his last days were
passed. His children that reached mature years were Jeremiah, Benjamin,
Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Nathan and Piety. Nathan Arnold, father of
Mrs. Yoars, was born in Wayne county. North Carolina, and was only three
years old when brought by his parents to Indiana. Reared amid the wild
scenes of the frontier, he experienced many of the hardships and trials
incident to pioneer life, and his education was such as the primitive schools
of the period afforded. He was married August 21, 1839, in Randolph
county, Indiana, to Sarah Overman, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca

922 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
(Ford) Overman, and then located on a farm in Deer Creek township. Grant
county, Indiana, establishing a typical pioneer home in the midst of the
forest. They led quiet, kindly, God-fearing lives, in harmony with their
professions as members of the Friends' church, in which both Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold held the office of elder. They assisted in founding the Deer Creek
church and were very active and earnest in the advancement of its cause.
About 1847 they removed to a farm of two hundred acres in the wild woods of
Jackson township, Miami county, and there, devoting his time and energies
to the cultivation and improvement of his land, Nathan Arnold spent his
remaining days. He was an industrious, straightforward man, true to the
principles in which he believed, and was respected by all who knew him.
His political support was given the Republican party. In 1868 he was
called to the home beyond, at the age of sixty-four years. His children
were Joseph, who died at the age of thirteen years; Cornelius, Rebecca,
Jacob, Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary and Nathan; and they have Uved to do honor
to their worthy parents by their own upright lives.
Mr. and Mrs. Yoars began their domestic life on a farm in Jackson
township, Miami county, and later he purchased a farm of one hundred and
sixty acres a mile east of Amboy, where he lived until the spring of 1898.
He has since made his home in the town and is regarded as one of its sub
stantial and progressive citizens. He is a man of resourceful business abil
ity, whose energies have not been confined alone to one industry. In addi
tion to his farming operations, he was engaged in grain dealing in 1873, and
through the three succeeding years carried on general merchandising in Amboy.
He also engaged in the manufacture of tile, and through these various ave
nues of trade added materially to his income. He now carries on a cream
ery in connection with his farming operations and the product thereof, owing
to its excellent quality, finds a ready sale on the market and commands the
highest market price. His business interests have ever been managed with
such discretion, sagacity and sound judgment, have ever been prosecuted
with such energy and diligence and characterized by such honesty that he
has acquired a handsome competence and gained the respect and confidence
of all with whom he has been brought in contact.
Mr. and Mrs. Yoars are faithful members of the Society of Friends, and
in politics he is a stalwart Republican. Their home has been blessed with
the presence of nine children, namely: George, WUliam, Lizzie, Amanda,

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Thomas, May, Annie, Maggie and Florence. The second died at the age of
twenty-four years, but the others are still living and are being provided with
excellent educational privileges, to fit them for the practical and responsible
duties of life. The Yoars household is the abode of hospitality, and the
members of the family hold a high position in those circles where true worth
and intelligence are received as the passports into good society.

J_JENRY SNYDER. — Born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the nth
*¦ ¦* of December, 1830, Henry Snyder, formerly sheriff of Cass county and
a well known farmer of Tipton township, is a son of Henry and Mary
(Mayze) Snyder, who had ten children, six sons and four daughters. In 1836
the parents removed to Clinton county, Indiana, locating near Dayton,
where the father purchased a tract of heavily timbered land. He built a log
cabin and in that little home remained until 1848, when he removed with
his family to Tipton township, Cass county, locating on the farm now occu
pied by Taylor Wilson. He purchased eighty acres of wild land, on which
not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made. So dense was the
growth of timber that he had to clear away some trees in order to have
sufficient space on which to erect his log house, sixteen by eighteen feet.
It was on this farm that Henry Snyder spent much of his minority. He
assisted in the arduous labor of clearing the place and improving the land,
his energies being devoted tothe further development of the farm until 1858,
when he married and began farming on his own account. He wedded Miss
Harriet Smith and they became the parents of five children, three of whom
are living: Elbert G. ; Daniel K. ; and Mary E., wife of Frank Packard.
Those deceased are Wilham and Charlie.
On the 1st of May, 1858, soon after his marriage, Mr. Snyder removed
to the farm on which he now resides and purchased one hundred and fourteen
acres of land. This was covered with timber and cultivation was impossible
until the growth was cleared away. His first work was to erect a log house,
sixteen by eighteen feet. This was followed by earnest labor in the direction
of preparing fields for the plow. Trees were cut down, stumps removed and
the crops were planted. The rich soil of Indiana has yielded abundant har
vests and Mr. Snyder now has seventy-six acres of his land under a high state

924 BIOGR.iPHICAL .i.YD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of cultivation, waving fields of grain indicating to the passer by his unremit
ting care and labcfr. He carries on general farming, and in addition to the
home place he has another farm of sixty acres, which adds materially to his
income. His profits have been judicioftsly invested in the improvement of
his land and buildings and he now has one of the most desirable farm prop
erties in his locality.
Mr. Snyder was elected sheriff of Cass county in the fall of 1880, for a
two-years term, and on the expiration of that period was re-elected, serving
in all four years, during which time he resided in Logansport. He proved a
very capable and efficient officer, a fact which is indicated by his re-election.
Upon his retirement frora office he returned to the farm, and in connection
with the raising of cereals is now quite extensively engaged in the cultivation
of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc., which fruit, being of superior
size and flavor, finds a ready sale on the market.
Socially Mr. Snyder is connected with the Masonic order, his member
ship being in Walton Lodge, No. 423, A. F. & A. M. He is a very promi
nent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is serving as trustee and
steward, and also belongs to the Onward Society. He takes a very active
part in church work, and his Christianity is of that practical kind which
extends a helping hand to the needy and renders assistance to the distressed.

WILLIAM H. SNYDER.— The Snyder family was among the first fam
ilies to locate in Jackson township, Miami county, Indiana, and as a
representative of this family the subject of this sketch, William H. Snyder,
is deserving of more than a passing mention on the pages of the present
work. He was born in this township, October 11, 1853, a son of Cornelius
and Belinda (Smith) Snyder.
Cornelius Snyder was a native of Carbon county, Pennsylvania, born
August 12, 1826, son of John and Salome (Solt) Snyder, both of whom
sprang from sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. Cornelius Snyder received a
limited education in the common schools, and in 1846, at the age of twenty,
came west with his parents. He was married in July, 1849, in Wabash
¦ county, near the Miami county line, to Miss Belinda Smith, a native of Pick
away county, Ohio, and a daughter of John and Matilda (Morris) Smith.
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of the Old Dominion, and a pioneer settler of Pickaway county, Ohio. His
wife was of Georgia birth. The younger John Smith moved from Ohio to
Indiana. By occupation he was a farmer. He was twice married, Mrs.
Snyder being the daughter of the first wife. The other chUdren of this mar
riage were Martha, Millie, Matilda and Celia A. By his second wife, whose
maiden name was Katie Holt, his children were George, John, Thomas,
Amanda, Nancy, Hannah, Charles and Della. The father of this family died
in Harrison township, Miami county, Indiana, at about the age of seventy-
five or eighty years. He was a man of deep piety, and was a member of the
church in which he was reared, for a number of years being a class-leader in
the same. His political support was given to the Republican party.
Returning to Cornelius Snyder, we record that after his marriage, above
mentioned, he received some financial assistance from his father and secured
one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township, Miami county,
where he settled and at once began the work of clearing and developing a
farm, his land at that time being covered with heavy timber. By earnest
and persistent effort he succeeded in clearing away the forest, placing the
land under cultivation and making a comfortable home. With the passing
years and continued prosperity his earnings were invested in more land, and
in time he became the owner of four hundred and ninety acres. As the land
around him was settled and cleared, his property increased in value, and he
took rank with the leading and well-to-do farmers 'of the locality. At this
writing he is retired from active business life. Pie has given a portion of his
land to his children, retaining, however, a sufficiency for his own mainte
nance. His children are grown and occupy honored and useful positions in
life, and his grandchildren now number eighteen. The children by his first
wife were Matilda, Jerome W. and William H., the first named having died
in infancy. Sorae time after the death of his first wife he wedded Nancy
Whitmire, who was born February 4, 1829, daughter of George and Annie
(Stoll) Whitmire. The fruit of this union were the following named children:
Emanuel, Levi D., Monroe M., John W. (who died in infancy), Salome, Mary
Ann and Cora A. The first Mrs. Snyder was a member of the United Breth
ren church and Mr. Snyder and his second wife were Methodists, he being
one of the most liberal supporters of his church and for several years an
exhorter in the same.
Having thus briefly referred to the family history of the Snyders, we turn

926 BIOGRAPHICAL A.XD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
now to the direct subject of this sketch, William H. Snyder. He was reared
on his father's frontier farm in Miami county, receiving his education in the
common schools of the district, and has up to the present time devoted his
energies to agricultural pursuits.
WUliam H. Snyder was married March 2, 1876, in Jackson township,
Miami county, to Luzetta L. Draper, who was born in this township, July
3, 1858, daughter of Wesley and Rhoda (Harbour) Draper. Wesley Draper
was born March 7, 1821, son of John and Mary Draper, pioneers of Ohio;
was married in Jackson township, Miami county, Indiana, at about the age
of twenty-six years, and after his marriage settled on one hundred and sixty
acres of timber land, which he cleared and improved and to which he added
until he was the owner of a fine farm of four hundred and fifty acres. His
wife, who was before marriage Miss Rhoda Harbour, bore him six children:
Jane, Rhoda A., Jeanette, John W. , Luzetta and Emma R. Mr. Draper
was a man of sterling integrity, advocated the principles of Democracy, and
was an exhorter and class-leader in the Methodist Episcopal church. He
died in Amboy, Indiana, August 22, 1897, at the age of seventy-six years,
five months and fifteen days. (See sketch of Mrs. Rhoda Draper.)
The two years immediately following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Sny
der lived on a farm in Harrison township, Miami county. He then bought
sixty acres of land in Jackson township, where he moved and to which he
subsequently added until he had seventy acres. This farm he partly cleared
and on it made his home until 1882, when he settled on the present farm.
Later he moved to a farm half a mUe away, but returned to his present
place and has since resided here. He owns a good farm half a mile north
of the farm where he now hves, and Mrs. Snyder has a farm of eighty acres
in the northwestern part of Jackson township.
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have an interesting family of ten children, named
as follows: Lewis A., Harvey E., Mazzie L., Clara N., Effie B., Gracie F.,
Jerome, W. C. , Nannie M. and Thomas B. Their first born, EmmaO., died
at the age of three years.
In church circles Mr. Snyder and his wife are prominent and active,
being among the leading and most influential members of the M. E. church
of Richland Chapel, Grant county, Indiana, in which he is an exhorter, and
for twelve years has been Sunday-school superintendent. He harmonizes
politically with the Republican party.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 927
'\ 11 /"ILLIAM J. T. SAUCER, a prominent and successful farmer of Jack-
^ ' son township, Miami county, and a highly respected citizen, is a
native of North Carolina, born in Wayne county, February 21, 1833, a son
of Roderick and Nancy A. (Wiggs) Saucer, and is a descendant of old
colonial settlers of the Old North state. Mr. Roderick Saucer was a farmer
by occupation and died when William J. T. was nearly four years of age, his
only living child by his second wife. The particulars of his first marriage
are not now readily obtainable. He moved to Bartholomew county, Indiana,
about 1835, and died two years later.
Our subject received a little schooling, but his energies were mainly
directed to the duties of the farm, which were heavy and continuous. In
1854 he was married and immediately, settled upon a farm in Bartholomew
count}', and was busily engaged in his noble vocation and prospering when
the echoing thunders of rebel guns awoke him to the rare duty of fighting.
Accordingly, September 13, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company K,
commanded by Captain Joseph B. Hunter, in the Thirteenth Indiana Volun
teer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Robert S. Foster, to serve
three years or during the war, and fought faithfully until he had served out
his time of enlistment and was honorably discharged, September 19, 1865,
at Indianapolis, having been previously mustered out of the United States
service at Goldsboro, North Carolina. His regiment was first assigned to
General McClellan's army, operating in West Virginia, and in January, 1863,
was transferred to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Tenth Array Corps,
the Army of the James. Mr. Saucer was promoted to the position of cor
poral for meritorious services, June I, 1865. Among the many engagements
in which he participated may be mentioned the following: Reconnoiter to
Blackwater in December, 1862; defeat of General Longstreet in his attempt
to take Suffolk, Virginia, April lo to May 31, 1863; sailed from Portsmouth,
Virginia, July 28, 1863, and reached Folly island. South Carolina, August 3,
and took part in the siege of Forts Wagner and Griggs, and his regiment was
the first to enter Fort Wagner, September 7, 1863; joined General Seymour
at Jacksonville, Florida, February 27, 1864; in April joined the army in Vir
ginia and was engaged at Whitehall Junction, May 7, 1864; at Chester Sta
tion, May 10; Foster's farm. May 20 (missed the battle of Cold Harbor, June
3, 1864, being sick in camp); battle in front of Petersburg, June 15; charge
on rebel works, July 30; Strawberry Plains, Virginia, September 15; Chap-

928 BIOGRAPHICAL .i.YD GE.YEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
man's Bluff, Virginia, September 19; Fort Fisher, December 25, 1864, and
January 15, 1865, and was among the first to enter the fort on a charge,
being in the front line.
Mr. Saucer was always an active soldier, not being sick in hospital or
wounded or taken prisoner; was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and
marches of his regiment excepting for the short periods when sick in camp
or field. He endured all the hardships of a soldier's life, and never flinched
from either duty or opportunity to strengthen the cause of the government or
weaken the cause of the rebellion.
After the cessation of hostilities he was honorably discharged and
returned to his home in Miami county to take a life's rest in the peaceful
pursuits of a domestic career. When he left for the seat of war he left
three small children with his wife. Deceraber 23, 1865, he settled upon his
present place, consisting of one hundred and forty-five acres, which was
given him by his father-in-law, but had upon it no clearing whatever. He
was under the necessity of even clearing a spot upon which to build his
house. By faithful perseverance and a steady aim, however, he succeeded
at length in making here a nice home, surrounded with all the necessities of
a substantial income. The great oaks and elms, and ash and hickory, and
poplar had to be felled and cleared away, and the wetter portions of the
land tiled, etc.; and all this heavy work has been accomplished with the
beautiful and grand results now witnessed on the premises. Mr. Saucer is
therefore one of the most substantial farmers of Jackson township, owning
at the present time two hundred and twenty-two acres of good land. On the
place are a little over ten miles of drain tile. He is an honored citizen, well
known for his sterling traits of character, and, aided by his faithful wife, has
brought up an excellent family.
December 3, 1854, is the date of his marriage to Miss Mary A. Peele,
of Bartholomew county, this state, a daughter of Fletcher and Asenath
(Nicholson) Peele. Mr. Peele was of English descent and his wife of German
ancestry. He was born in Wayne county. North Carolina, February 1 1, 1805,
was a farmer by occupation, and moved to Bartholomew county when about
twenty years of age, in 1826 or 1827, when the country was new, and in
1827 was married. His wife was a daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Perry)
Nicholson, her father a hardy pioneer who entered two hundred acres of
land in the dense forest, cleared it and made a good home and reared his

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children, named Pharoby, David, Samuel, John, Mary, Elizabeth, William
and Sarah. Mr. Peele was a man of great worth, strong character and unim
peachable integrity, from the real old Quaker stock. In 1864 he sold his
farm, for seventy-five dollars an acre, and continued to reside in the vicinity
until 1873, when he came to Miami county and resided with his son-in-law,
D. F. Howe. He gave property to all his children, so that they had good
homes in which to start out in life. His first wife died in 1849, in Bartholo
mew county, and in 185 1 he was united in marriage with Jane Grant. He
died at his residence in 1880, aged about seventy-eight years.
Mr. Saucer's children are Elva A. , who married Robert B. Johnson, a
farmer of Howard county, and has three chUdren; Emma J., who became
the wife of Samuel Myers, also a farmer, and has one child; Sarah E. ;
Asenath, who died at the age of fifteen months; Abbie F. ; Mary B., who
became the wife of E. HuUinger, a farmer of Howard county; Dorinda died
in infancy; and Edna P., who married Jacob Maple, also a farmer of How
ard county, and has one chUd. Mr. and Mrs. Saucer are members of the
"Church of Christ," of which he is the clerk. He aided in the erection of
the house of worship, being a member of the building committee and a
trustee. Politically he is a Prohibitionist.

JAMES HARPER, a well known resident of Liberty township, Tipton
'-' county, owns and operates there a valuable farm of one hundred and
sixty acres, whose neat and thrifty appearance well indicates his careful
supervision. Substantial improvements are surrounded by well tilled fields,
and all the accessories and conveniences of a model farm are there found.
Born in Adams county, Ohio, April 8, 1840, James Harper is a son of
Henry and Matilda (Swirengen) Harper, both natives of Pennsylvania,
where they continued to make their home until after the birth of some of their
children. From that state they removed to Ohio, and in 1841 came to
Ripley county, Indiana, where the father improved a farm and spent his last
days, dying there in 1844, honored and respected by all who knew him. His
wife, who long survived him, departed this life in 1890. Both held member
ship in the Presbyterian church. Their children were Thomas, a resident of
Ripley county; Samuel, deceased; Mrs. Rebecca J. Huckstep; Mrs. Hannah
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Conoway; Mrs. Louisa Nettleton; Mrs. Sarah A. Shook; George, who was a
soldier of the Civil war; Allen; James; John, who was also a soldier of the
Civil war and is now postmaster of Versailles, Indiana, and chairman of the
Republican central committee of Ripley county; and Henry, a resident of
Tipton county.
The common schools of this state afforded James Harper his educational
privileges, and his business training was obtained upon the home farm, where.
he remained until after the outbreak of the Rebellion. Prompted by a spirit
of patriotism, he enlisted in July, 1861, for three years, in the Thirty-
seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in at Lawreneeburg, and
assigned to the Army of the Cumberland under General Thomas. He
participated in many skirmishes and some hotly contested battles, but
fortunately was never wounded, and when captured by John Morgan escaped
soon afterward. He never received a furlough, was always found at his
post of duty, and remained in the service four months after his time expired,
being mustered out and honorably discharged at Indianapolis, in October,
1864. Mr. Harper returned to the home of his mother in Ripley county, but
in the spring of 1865 came to Tipton county, and purchased a tract of one
hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land in Liberty township, on
which he still lives. After erecting a cabin he began the improvement and
cultivation of his land, and soon transformed the place into one of the best
farms of the locality, having erected thereon a good frame residence, sub
stantial barns and outbuildings and set out an orchard. He endured all the
hardships and trials incident to pioneer life, and at one time the entire family
were ill with chills and fever, — a disease very common in frontier settle
ments. As a farmer and stock-raiser he has met vvith excellent success, and
is now quite well-to-do.
In November, 1864, Mr. Harper was united in marriage with Miss Julia
A. Fall, who was born in Ripley county, April 23, 1844, a daughter of
Michael and Sarah (Holman) Fall, the latter a cousin of Hon, William S.
Holman, of Dearborn. Mrs. Harper's paternal grandfather was a native of
Germany. Her father was born in North Carolina, and, during boyhood,
came to Indiana at a very early day. By occupation he was a farmer and
miller and he improved one of the best farms in Ripley county. At an
early day he was a drill-master and captain in the state militia, was a Whig

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 931
in politics, but never cared for official honors. He was a prominent Free
Mason and had the respect and confidence of all who knew him. He died
in Ripley county, in 1856, and his wife, who was a consistent member of the
Methodist church, passed away in 1890. The children born to them were
Julia A., wife of our subject, and Silas, who died at the age of four years.
By a former marriage the father had five children: Kate, Lavina, Cresman,
Zerelda and John, and the mother also had five children by her first union:
Mary A., William, Milla J., James M. and Frances. The chUdren born to
Mr and Mrs. Harper are Ella, who married Mr. Maze, of Nebraska, but as
she is now an invalid, she is at home being cared for by her parents; Rolla
L., who died young; Mrs. Anna Bennett; Thomas, a resident of Sharpsville;
Emma, William C. , Eda and Howard, all at home; and Katie, who died
when young.
Mr. and Mrs. Harper and most of their children hold membership in the
Methodist church, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity and Put. Evans
Post, No. 146, G. A. R. , of Sharpsville. His political support has always
been given to the Republican party, and although the county is strongly
Democratic, for the sake of the party organization he accepted the nomina
tion of his party for county commissioner and came within a few votes of
being elected, — a fact which shows his great popularity and the confidence
and trust reposed in him by his fellow citizens. At this election he had both
the Democratic and Populist candidates to contend against. In all the
relations of life he has been found true to every trust reposed in him, and his
friends are many throughout his adopted country.

ROBERT H. ROSS, M. D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Cass
ville, Howard county, skillful and successful, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, February 16, 1858, passed his boyhood days upon the
farm and in attendance at the common school, and during his youth attended
Westfield College in Illinois. At the age of seventeen years he commenced
the study of medicine, under the guidance of Dr. J. H. Ross, his brother at
Kokomo, and while pursuing the regular course of *study he also rode with
the Doctor for clinical instruction and initial practice. In 1877 he matricu
lated at the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, which the next year

932 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
was made the medical department of Butler University. In 1879 he gradu
ated and located at Bennett Switch for the purpose of opening out in inde
pendent practice. He was there six years, during which time he was also
connected with a drug store and was also notary public, and then he moved to
Clinton county, where he remained two years, and then, in 1889, he came to
Cassville, where he has since made his residence excepting two and a half
years when he was in partnership with his brother in Kokomo. Giving
strict attention to his profession and possessing shrewd judgment as to the
laws of vitality, he has enjoyed a success that merits and receives the appro
bation of the public. He now owns a farm, upon which he is directing oper
ations according to his own raethods. He is a member of both the Howard
County and the State Medical Societies, and socially he is a member of the
order of the Knights of the Maccabees; is a zealous and well posted Repub
lican, and in religion both himself and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
In the autumn of 1879 he was united in marriage with Miss Josie I.
Shafer, who is a member of an honored pioneer family of Clinton county,
this state. She is a daughter of John M. Shafer, a native of Tennessee,
who emigrated frora that state to Indiana and is now a merchant at Cass
ville, postmaster, etc., and who has filled raany offices of trust. His chil
dren are America, Eldo, Josie (Mrs. Ross), Fanny and Edward; and the
children of Dr. Ross are Dottie L. and Lulu G., besides one that died in
infancy. The Doctor's parents were Rev. David and Eliza Ann (Whitesell) Ross,
natives of Virginia, married there and emigrated to Indiana in 1861, settling
in Vigo county; three years afterward they moved into Edgar county, Illi
nois. Rev. David Ross was a prominent minister of the United Brethren
church, in which he was presiding elder, and also trustee of Westfield Col
lege, in Ilhnois. He passed his declining days at Westfield, departing this
life July 3, 1879. His wife had previously died in Edgar county, that state.
Their children are Rev. Samuel H., a minister of the United Brethren
church, who is now deceased ; Dr John H., a prominent physician at
Kokomo, already mentioned ; William H., who also became a physician and
is now deceased ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. 'William Devore ; David H., graduate
of a college, teacher and now commercial traveler for a drug house ; George
H., foreman of the Jonesboro Rubber Works ; Sally, who became the wife

CASS, .MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COU.YTIES. 933
of John Woods, of Westfield, and is now deceased ; Dr. Robert H., the sub
ject of this sketch ; and Peter H., a farmer. After the death of the mother
of the foregoing chUdren Rev. Mr. Ross raarried again, and by this marriage
there were Ella, now Mrs. Philpot ; and Ida B., now Mrs. Fields.

JAMES C. MILLIKAN. — For the past thirteen years this enterprising
^ farmer of Tipton county has made his home in Madison township. He
is one of the native sons of Indiana, his birth having taken place in Henry
county. May 6, 1849. He is third in a family numbering eight children, the
parents of whom were Nathan and PrisciUa (Christa) Millikan. The latter
were both natives of Clinton county, Ohio, and after their marriage, in that
locality, they settled upon alarm in Henry county, Indiana. Late in life the
father retired from the active life he had formerly lived and thenceforth
dwelt in Newcastle. He died there in 1891, and is survived by his wife, who
still keeps house in Newcastle. The Millikan family originated in Scotland,
and the American ancestors of the name settled in North Carolina in colonial
days. The Millikan family is of Scotch-Irish extraction, and for generations
was identified with the Society of Friends. Nathan Millikan was a member
of the same sect, but his wife is a member of the Methodist church.
The brothers and sisters of our subject are as follows: Mrs. Anna
Maria Pierce; Isaac W. , who owned mills and mines in Honduras, and died
while attending to his interests in that country; Eli A., a resident of New
castle; Thomas W., in the insurance business; Mrs. Mary R. Gause; Mar
tha A., unmarried; and Jabez H., a physician in Elwood, Indiana. With the
others of the family, James C. Millikan, of whom we write, was a pupil in the
public schools of his day, supplementing the education there acquired by a
course in an academy, after which he began teaching school and met with suc
cess in that direction. When he was married he rented a farm and one year
managed a mill. Gradually he accumulated a little fortune, by industry and
good business methods, and owned a small farm which he traded in 1883 for
the one he now cultivates. In 1884 he located in Elwood and about a year
later removed to his homestead, a place of one hundred and sixty acres. A
little clearing had been done and now all but twenty acres is suitable for
cultivation. Mr. Millikan has put in tiles and ditches and has built a com-

934 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGLCAL HISTORY OF
fortable two-story house and large barn and other necessary farm buildings,
and set out an orchard. He has given a lease to the local gas company and
has had his house piped for gas. In 1893 he bought stock in the Elwood
planing mill, and for three years he served as secretary of the same. He
also purchased stock in the land company and has been interested in the
laying out of West Elwood. He is a stockholder in the Curtisville Tile
Factory. To all local industries he gives his influence and material assist
ance, and thus he is a patron of enterprise and progress along all lines.
Fraternally he is associated with the order of Foresters, and politically he
is a Republican. October 19, 1876, Mr. Millikan married Christiana, daughter of William
and Susan (Medskar) Bromback. They were natives of Pennsylvania and
of German descent. The father was a miller by trade, and upon coming to
thi^ state he built one of the first mills erected in Wayne county. He pur
chased land and improved it, living thereon until his death in 1879. His
widow came to visit her daughter, Mrs. Millikan, and died while there,
August 6, 1897. She was a faithful member of the Dunkard church. Mrs.
Millikan, who was born August 17, 1852, is next to the youngest of ten
children, the others being: John; Elizabeth, Mrs. F. Shafer; Sarah, Mrs.
J. Stonebraker; Jacob, a farmer; Isaac, a dealer in grain; Henry, a farmer;
Margaret, Mrs. A. L. Leakey; Levi and Anna M., deceased. The only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Millikan is Raymond T., born July 30, 1882.

J_JENRY MURDEN. — A good constitution, physical and mental, is a
^ ¦* great fortune; and when we speak of good or great acquirements weare
in reality speaking of a result of a good physical inheritance, for no one will
have the capacity, disposition and energy to acquire without having inherited
those qualities. The remarkable family with which Mr. Murden is con
nected is sketched elsewhere in this work, where an account is given of his
father, Charles Murden; and the reader is requested to study that account
well in order to prepare himself for a full appreciation of the characteristics
and career of the subject of this sketch.
This venerable man is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, born March 28,
1824, a son of Charles and Martha Murden, who were natives of old England

CASS. MIAMI, HOW^ARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 935
and had thirteen children, an account of whom is already referred to. He was
ten years old when his parents, with their nine chUdren, came to Indiana, set
tling in Miami county; and he grew to manhood there. During the winters he
attended school, such as it was, a part of the time at the first school-house,
a pioneer log structure, that was erected in his neighborhood, and where the
first teacher was a Judge Holman. This school-house was not erected until
the family had lived there for eight years. After he arrived at the age of
twenty-one years he attended school in Wabash county and paid his own
way. During the winter of 1849-50 he taught school.
On the cessation of his school days he learned the trade of cabinet-mak
ing and undertaking, which he followed for about eight years in Chili, Miami
county. Then he opened a general store in Chili and prosecuted business
there for a few years, when he moved to Galveston, Indiana, where he fol
lowed general merchandising for several years. In 1866 he engaged in the
real-estate and insurance business in Logansport and continued there until
1878, when he moved to Kokomo, continuing in the same business. While
. in Logansport he also sold the Howe sewing-machine and was manager of
an office there for its sale; and he also traveled for several years, handling
various lines of goods; he also conducted business at Kokomo, Marion and
Greentown. In 1890 he left Kokomo and was at Greentown, Marion and
Warsaw until February, 1898, when he returned to Kokomo, where he is
now engaged in the real-estate business, with his characteristic success.
Thus he is emphatically a builder up of the interests of the city. His shrewd
knowledge of values, insight into the commercial future, and integrity and
uniform reliability, have not only assured success for himself but have also
maintained a uniform respect for him by the public. He is not only a typ
ical American but also a representative Indianian, so to speak; he is
thoroughly acquainted with the character of the people and of the country,
and has that enterprising spirit which distinguishes young America.
On the I Sth day of July, 1850, he was united in matrimony with Miss
Elizabeth McCammon, a daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth (Smith)
McCammon. The following is a brief record of their four children: Emma
C. , who married James Ball, lives in Greentown and has three children, —
Florence, Elizabeth and-Nelhe; Theron F., who married Miss Mary Kuntz,
and resides in Springfield, Missouri; Orpah J., now Mrs. J. F. Russ, of War
saw, this state, who has four children, — Freddie, Marie, Glenn and  ,

936 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
besides one who died in chUdhood; Dora Alma, who married Dan Patterson
and has three children, and they reside in Springfield, Missouri.
Mrs. Elizabeth, the first wife of Henry Murden, was called from this
world on the 23d of February, 1874, a pious and consistent member of the
Methodist church. On the 28th day of March, 1877, Mr. Murden was united
in marriage with Miss Ruth Stalker, and by this marriage there was one
child, named Nora Fay. Mrs. Ruth Murden departed this life January 28,
1897, a sincere member of the Methodist church, though she was brought up
a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Murden also, ever since he was
eighteen years of age, has been a member of the Methodist church, in which
he has been an active and efficient worker. In respect to the national issues
Mr. Murden is a Republican. Out of sixty-six voters among his immediate
relatives in the presidential campaign, 1896, sixty-two voted for McKinley
and four for Bryan. He has held a number of township offices, in which he
rendered satisfaction to his fellow-citizens, but he has never aspired for pub
lic office. He was made a Freemason July 16, 1864, and is a faithful mem
ber of that body, as well as of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. As •
a striking example of temperance (what more properly might be called total
abstinence from the " small" vices), Mr. Murden can say that he has never
spent a nickel in his hfe for either tobacco or whisky. Self-control char
acterizes all the family.

¦pvAVID T. HUTCHERSON.— This substantial farmer and well known
¦*-^ citizen has been a resident of Tipton county, Indiana, for a period of
twenty-five years. The salient points in his life history are herewith pre
sented and are not without interest, showing, as they do, what can be
accomplished by a poor boy who starts out in life with only pluck and energy
for capital. David T. Hutcherson was born in Mecklenburg, Virginia, April 22, 1842,
son of Elijah and Mary A. (Nethery) Hutcherson, both natives of the Old
Dominion, he of Scotch descent and she of Irish lineage. Eight chUdren
composed their family, six of whom are now living, namely: Sarah, widow
of John Giles, is a resident of Graves county, Kentucky; David T., whose
name introduces this sketch; WUliam E., of Walnut Grove Farm, near
Wichita, Kansas; Octavia, widow of Peter Ricks, of Wild Cat township. Tip-

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 987
ton county, Indiana; Daniel N., of St. Louis, Missouri; and George G. , of
Greenfield, Tennessee. Elijah Hutcherson, the father, was a tailor and
worked at his trade in Chatham, Virginia, near which place he was reared.
There he reared his family and lived for many years. Late in life he removed
to Rocky Mount, Virginia, where he died at the age of fifty-six years, in 1867.
During the war between the north and the south he was a member of Com
pany C, Forty-sixth Virginia Confederate Infantry, and served twelve months
as a private. He was then honorably discharged on account of his age. His
widow is still living, now a resident of Greenfield, Tennessee, and is about
eighty years of age. They were both members of the Baptist church, but
since her husband's death she has united with the Christian church, of which
she is still a consistent member.
Of the grandparents of our subject, we record that his grandfather, Jere
miah Hutcherson, was one of the first settlers of Pittsylvania county, Virginia.
As above indicated, the Hutchersons are of Scotch origin. Jeremiah Hutch
erson was by occupation a farmer, served in the war of 18 12 and lived to a
venerable age. He was twice married. By his first wife he had one daugh
ter; by his second wife five sons. The maternal grandfather of our subject
was James Nethery. He was a prosperous farmer, owning a large planta
tion in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, where nearly all his life was spent and
where he died at an advanced age. His forefathers were Irish. He had tvvo
daughters. Both the grandmothers of our subject lived to extreme old age.
David T. Hutcherson left home at the age of twelve years and started
out to make his own way in the world. His educational advantages were
meager. While at home he attended school during the winter in a log-cabin
school-house, which was fitted up in the primitive style, with slab benches
and with greased paper for windows. At an early age young Hutcherson
developed a great fancy for stock, and on leaving home he went to what is
now West Virginia and worked for stock-men for a few years. In 1859 he
boated on the Kanawha river for six months, and his next employment was
in an oil factory, where he continued until April, 1861, when the factory shut
down. He then enlisted in Company C, Forty-sixth Virginia Confederate
Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was captured
nine days before General 'Lee's surrender, at the battle of Hatcher's Run, and
was imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, until June 11, 1865. In all his
service he was never wounded, but was shot through his clothes several

938 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
times. He entered the army as a private, was subsequently made corporal
and StillTater promoted to the rank of sergeant. Among the battles in which
he participated were those of Cotton HUl, Fort Donelson, and several skir
mishes in front of Richmond. He helped to guard Fort Sumter in the winter
1863-4. In AprU of the latter year he was with his command, under Whit
ing, going north, when they met Beauregard, between Richmond and Peters
burg, where they had an engagement with the Union forces, lasting three
days, the Confederates being victorious. Following this he was at the siege
of Petersburg, and, as above recorded, was captured and imprisoned.
Mr. Hutcherson returned home to Chatham, Virginia, in June, 1865,
and in the fall of that year came west to Indiana, locating first in Henry
county, where he was employed by the day or month at farm work for a
time. From this he turned his attention to ditching, taking contracts, and
being thus occupied three years. Renting a farm in Henry county, he then
settled down to farming, and farmed and traded in that county until the fall
of 1873, when he came to Tipton county. His first location in this county
was near Curtisville, in Madison township, where he bought a nine-years
lease of a farm. At the end of eight years he rented that farm and bought
three small farms in the same township, which, however, he soon afterward
sold. In 1 88 1 he came to Wild Cat township and purchased his present
farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in section -(7, on which he has made
valuable improvements and which has since been his home, its location being
five miles and a half southeast of Windfall. He also owns another tract of
one hundred and sixty acres not far distant. Thus, by honest, earnest toil
and good management, he has acquired a valuable property.
December 15, 1868, Mr. Hutcherson married Miss Phebe Ricks, daugh
ter of Levi and Elizabeth (Dill) Ricks, the former a native of North Carolina
and the latter of Ohio. Nine children were born to them, six sons and three
daughters, viz.: Benjamin Franklin, Charles W., Eva, Thomas J., Cora E.,
Sidora, John R., Grover Cleveland and Guy L. Benjamin F. and Eva each
died at about the age of one year. Charles W. married Florence Basbinder,
lives on a farm in Wild Cat township, and has three children — Arthur, Cecil
Bryan, and Emma C. Thomas J. was in the regular army for about nine
teen months, but is now at home, engaged in fariijing. Cora E. married
Edward Gill, of Wild Cat township, and they have one child, Leo. Sidora
is the wife of Omer Leisure and lives in Grant county, Indiana. The three

ass, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 939
youngest children are at home. Mrs. Hutcherson is a member of the Society
of Friends. Fraternally Mr. Hutcherson is identified with Windfall Lodge, No. 334,
F. & A. M. , and politically he is a Democrat. He served for eleven years as
a justice of the peace.

WILLIAM RUSSELL. — For a period of thirty-four years the subject of
this sketch has been identified with the agricultural interests of Tipton
county, Indiana, and since 1870 he has occupied his present farm on section
19, Wild Cat township. As one of the representative men in his locality his
biography is of more than passing interest,
Wilham Russell was born in the neighboring state of Ohio, in Hamilton
county, twelve miles from Cincinnati and near the Miami river, July 18, 1829,
son of Joseph and Rhoda (Walker) Russell, natives of Maryland. He is one
of a family of four chUdren, two sons and two daughters, the daughters both
dying in infancy. His brother was named Job. By a subsequent marriage
his father had two other children. The mother of our subject also had
children by other marriages. By her second husband, John Meyers, a native
of New Jersey, she had two children. After his death she became the wife of
E. Mullen, and to them were given two sons and two daughters, one of whom,
John Mullen, is now living.
Of the early history of the Russell family but little is known, save that
Grandfather Russell was a native of Maryland, in which state he passed his
life as a farmer and there died. The maternal grandfather of our subject
was John Walker. He, too, was a native of Maryland and was a farmer.
He was also a veteran of the Revolutionary war. He died in Hamilton
county, Ohio, near the Miami river, when in the prime of life. He had
settled in Hamilton county among its earliest pioneers, his location being on
what was afterward known as the old Riddle farm. At that time Cincinnati
consisted of only two log houses. John Walker was the father of six or seven
children, among them three daughters.
William Russell passed his boyhood days in his native county. His
early education was obtained in one of the primitive log school-houses on the
Miami river at Blue Rock. In this educational institution the seats were
made of blue-ash slabs; the door, of crossed slabs of blue ash, was hung on

940 BIOGRAPHICAL .IXD GEXEALOGICAL HLSTORY OF
wooden hinges, and greased paper served for a window. At the early age of
ten or twelve years he began learning the cooper's trade, which he followed,
off and on, for twenty-five years in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In 1858 he
came back to Indiana and settled in Marion county, where he worked at his
trade until 1 864. That year he became a resident of Tipton county. Novem
ber 4, 1864, he purchased eighty acres of land in Madison township, on'which
he lived for five years, devoting his energies to its improvement and cultiva
tion and selling it in 1869. The following year he came to Wild Cat town
ship and bought eighty acres, a part of his present farra, and to this he has
added by subsequent purchase until now his farm comprises three hundred
and twenty acres. In connection with the cultivation and improvement of
this farm he has carried on stock-raising extensively and has been successful
in his operations, to-day ranking with the leading farmers and stock men of
his locality. Mr. Russell was married, September 24, 1852, to Miss Eliza R. Griswold,
daughter of James and Melinda (Steward) Griswold, New York people. Their
happy union has been blessed in the birth ©f ten children, namely: Richard
J., born May 5, 1^53; James W., October 30, 1855; AUen and Alice, twins,
March 9, 1857; Joseph C, June 3, i860; Robert H., February 9, 1863; Laura,
November 27, 1869; Sibbilla H., November 13, 1871; Job, April 13, 1874;
and Ida, February 9, 1877. Of this number four are deceased. Richard J.
died at the age of twenty years, James W. at four, and Allen at seventeen,
while Ida, the youngest, died in infancy. Alice has been twice married. Her
first husband, Daniel Eberhart, was killed while hauling logs. He left her
with one child, Mary Elizabeth. By her present husband, Jacob D. Kemper,
she has four children, — Arthur A., Maud E., William N. and Cecil B. Joseph
C. married Miss Luella Gifford, whose untimely death occurred November
30, 1897. She bore him six children, of whom four are living, — Ollie, Wal
ter, Estol and William. Laura and Lora are deceased. Robert H. married
Maggie Finan, and they have three children, — Inez, Sarah and Frederick.
Laura raarried Martin Auit, and they became the parents of five children, —
Dessie; George, deceased; Eddie and Edna, twins; and Lawrence. Sibbilla
H. is the wife of Charles Mitchell, and they have one child, — Alda E. Job
married Nora Stack, and to them have been born three chUdren, the first
two, twin sons, dying in infancy. Their living child is Blanch.
Until recently WUliam Russell was a Democrat. He is now, however.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 941
independent and Populistic in his views. During his thirty-four years' resi
dence in Tipton county he has witnessed its development from a swamp to its
present prosperous condition and has been a potent factor in advancing its
agricultural interests.

QIMON M. FRIERMOOD, M. D.— Numbered among the leading physi-
^ cians of Miami county, and a worthy representative of the old and
respected family of Friermoods who were pioneers of Clark county, Ohio, is
the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He stands high in his profes
sion and has made a great success of his chosen life work. His integrity and
uprightness are beyond question and every public measure having for its
object the betterment of mankind in general and this state and vicinity in
particular is certain to receive his earnest support. He is a member of the
Odd Fellows' Society, being identified with the lodge in Amboy, Indiana.
The Doctor's father, George Friermood, was born about 1824 on the
old family homestead in Clark county, Ohio. (For ancestral history see
sketch of Dr. Ezra Friermood, printed elsewhere in this work.) In his native
county George Friermood married Catherine, daughter of Adam Michael, an
Englishman, and afterward the young couple settled in Albany, Delaware
county, Indiana, where Mr. Friermood 'carried on a grocery. Later he
removed to a farm in Grant county and became one of the pioneers of Sims
township. There he improved a homestead, partially clearing one hundred
acres. He was a respected citizen, looking well to the interests of his own
community and rearing his children to be useful members of society. Dur
ing the Civil war he offered his services to his beloved country and before
the conflict was ended his life was sacrificed. He was a private of Company
I, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his term of enlistment being for
three years or until the war was terminated. While a participant in the
Atlanta campaign he was wounded, and was on his way to the hospital when
he was shot by a sharp-shooter and died the following day in the field hos
pital. His first wife, Catherine, had died some years before, and he had
married Christina Landis, who continued to reside on the home farm and to
give her attention to its management. She was the mother of one child,
Lavina. Dr. Simon M. Friermood is one of the four chUdren of George and

942 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Catherine Friermood, the others being Wesley, Frances and William. The
last named died at the age of twenty-one years. Our subject was born in
Grant county, Indiana, March 28, 1855, and was given the advantages of a
common-school education. About 1873 he was a student in the National
Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio, then under the principalship of Dr. Hol
brook. Subsequently Dr. Friermood taught school very successfully for some
four or five years, in the meantime taking up medical studies under the tutor
ship of Dr. A. A. Baker, of Northampton, Ohio, and Dr. E. K. Friermood,
then of Amboy, but now of "Greentown, Indiana. In the faU of 1880 the
young man attended medical lectures in the Ohio Medical College in Cin
cinnati, and graduated on March i, 1881. In starting upon his professional
career he located in Santa Fe, Indiana, where he remained five years, and
sinc.e March, 1887, has been a resident of North Grove. Here he has built
up an extensive practice and has won an enviable reputation among his pro
fessional brethren. He is a subscriber to the leading medical journals and
owns a fine and comprehensive medical library. It is his constant endeavor
to keep posted on the new methods and discoveries in medical science, and
his leisure time is always spent in study. He is a member of the Miami
County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
May 27, 1897, Dr. Friermood married, in this town. Miss Jennie Hand,
who was born in 1865, in this county, her parents being John and Elizabeth
(Sigfoose) Hand. The Doctor and his estimable and accomplished wife have
One little daughter, Beatrice by name. Their home is an attractive one and
their numerous friends are always made welcome.

J~\ ANIEL GRISWOLD. — Since the spring of 1844 Daniel Griswold has
-*— ^ been a resident of Miami county and is accounted one of the valued
citizens of Mexico. He was born in Lamoille county, Vermont, on the 24th
of August, 1830, and is a son of John Griswold, a native of Franklin county,
Vermont, whose parents were Daniel and Sarah Griswold, also natives of the
Green Mountain state. The grandfather was a captain in the war of 18 12
and participated in the memorable battle of Plattsburg. His first wife died
while they were yet residents of the state of their nativity and he afterward
married a Miss Berry. In 1845 he emigrated westward, locating in Miami

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 943
county, Indiana, where he resided until his death. He was the father of six
children. John Griswold, the father of our subject, was born in 1805, and
in 1826 married Miss Mary Weeks, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1801.
From Franklin, Vermont, they removed to Lamoille county, in the same
state, and thence to Massachusetts. On leaving New England they went to
Miami county, Ohio, later to Darke county, same state, and in 1844 came to
Miami county, Indiana, establishing a home in Mexico. Here the death of
the wife and mother occurred in 1873, and that of the father in 1886, at the
age of eighty-one years. The grandfather, Daniel Griswold, having also
come to Miami county in 1845, the family was actively identified with its
early development and progress. He was for many years a leading member
of the Masonic fraternity and his was the second funeral in the county con
ducted under the auspices of that organization. John Griswold also became
a member of the Masonic order and was highly esteemed by his brethren.
He was a carpenter and builder by occupation and also engaged in mer
chandising. He and his wife were the parents of two children, of whom
Daniel is the elder. The sister, Delia, is the wife of Dr. J. T. Speck, of
Denver, Miami county.
Daniel Griswold was about fourteen years of age when he accompanied
his parents on their removal to Miami county. He grew to manhood in the
village in which he still lives, and when he had arrived at a proper age
became his father's assistant in the mercantile establishment owned by John
Griswold. He was thus engaged until 1852, when he made the overland
trip to California, where he was engaged in mining until 1854. He then
returned to Mexico, where he resumed merchandising in connection with his
father. In i860 he purchased a fine farm of nearly two hundred acres of
land on section 7, Jefferson township, and in 1863 he disposed of his mer
cantile interests. Through the succeeding nine years he devoted his energies
untiringly to his agricultural interests, and in 1872 he engaged in the grain
trade, which he has since carried on with excellent success. He is a man of
sound judgment in commercial affairs, of excellent executive ability, sagacity
and enterprise, and as the result of his well directed efforts he has acquired
a handsome property. For two years, in connection with his other inter
ests, he was a director of the construction of the Eel River Railroad, a
branch of the Wabash system.
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944 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Griswold was married in the village of Mexico to Miss Louisa, daughter of
Henry and Mary (Howard) Bliss. Her father located on Eel river in 1833
and hence is numbered arnong the honored pioneers of the locality. To Mr.
and Mrs. Griswold have been born six children yet living: John, Cassius N.,
George, Edward, Emma and May. They also lost two, Alton and Nellie.
Mr. Griswold is one of the leading and influential citizens of Miami
county. In his early life he was a Democrat and cast his first presidential
vote for Franklin Pierce while in California. Since the administration of
James Buchanan he has been a Republican and warmly advocates the prin
ciples of the party. He has served as trustee of his township, but has never
been an aspirant for office, preferring to devote his time ^nd energies to his
business affairs, in which he is meeting with excellent success. Socially he
is connected with the Masonic fraternity.

J EVIN G. MURPHY. — The enterprising town of Converse, Indiana, has
-*-^ its quota of industrious, successful business men, and prominent among
them is the gentleman who is named above as the subject proper of this
biographical history. He dates his birth in Shelby county, Ohio, October i,
1 841, and was the son of George G. and Margaret (Arbuckle) Murphy.
springing from sturdy Scotch-Irish ancestry.
The founder ofthe American family of Murphys, of which our subject is
a representative, came to this country long previous to the Revolutionary
war and settled in Delaware. Two of the Murphy brothers were com
manders of vessels during that war. As the name indicates, the Murphys
are of Irish origin, while the Arbuckles, as one would likewise infer, are of
Scotch ancestry. WUliam Murphy, the great-great-grandfather of our sub
ject, was an " Irishman," but it is not known certainly whether he was born
in Ireland. His wife, a native of Delaware, moved to Warren county, Ohio,
in 181 1, and died there in 18 18, at the great age of one hundred and three
years. Their son. Levin Murphy, married a Miss Hines, a Quakeress, and
their son, Reuben Murphy, was one of the early pioneers of Warren county,
Ohio, setthng in the town of Lebanon, in that county, in 1811. He married,
in Delaware, Miss Nancy Graham, who was of Scotch extraction. In Warren
county they passed the remainder of their lives, he working at his trade,
that of carpenter. He died of cholera about 1848, at the age of sixty-two

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years. This branch of the Murphy family, as far back as can be traced, have
been Protestants, and Reuben Murphy was a Universalist. He was a man
of many sterling characteristics and was highly esteemed as a citizen, a neigh
bor and friend. His children were George G., Lettie, Anna, Levin, Mary A.,
Arthur, Martha and RUey.
George G. Murphy, the father of Levin G., was born in the state of
Delaware, February 29, 1808, and came to Ohio with his parents when
about eight years old, in 1816. He learned the trade of wagon-maker in
Hamilton county, Ohio, and followed it throughout life, working for some
time at Millersburg. In that county, about fourteen miles north of Cin
cinnati, he married Margaret Arbuckle, who was born in Preble county, that
state, in the year 1 8 14. She was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Berry)
Arbuckle, who were respectively of Scotch and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mr.
Arbuckle first settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and some years later
emigrated to Ohio, being a pioneer of Hamilton county. On emigrating to
their new western home, Mrs. Arbuckle rode a horse ahead of the party,
carrying on the horn of her saddle a stew kettle, in which she prepared tea
for them whenever they stopped for a rest.
In his day, Samuel Arbuckle was considered a man of means. He was
a freighter and his business frequently took him as far west as Illinois, his
route being through Logansport. With the money he made by freighting he
purchased several good farms in Hamilton county. He lived to be about
eighty years old, dying on his farm in 1872. In his politics he was a stanch
Democrat and in religion a Presbyterian, being a man of excellent traits of
character and respected by all who knew him. His children were John,
Margaret, Elizabeth, Ruth, Samuel, William and Minerva.
After his marriage George G. Murphy settled at Mason, Warren county,
Ohio, and remained there several years, going thence to Hamilton county
and settling on a farm. Later he went to Shelby county, same state, where
he lived until 1847, when he moved to Miami county, Indiana, and took up
his abode near Peru. In 1849 he bought land here and subsequently built a
sawmUl, which he ran for seventeen years. He lived to the venerable age
of eighty-six years, meeting his death by an accident while trying to warn a
lady who was in danger in crossing railroad tracks. Politically he was a
Republican, and, like his father before him, in religious belief he was a Uni
versalist. He had served as township trustee and for three terms was jus-
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946 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
tice of the peace. His children in order of birth were Nancy, Reuben, Sam
uel A., Levin G. and Ruth.
Coming now to the direct subject of this biography. Levin Graham Mur
phy, we record that he came with his parents to Indiana in 1847, then a
child of six years, and here received a common-school education. He began
to assist his father in the sawmill when very young, his intervals of recrea
tion being spent principally in hunting and fishing, the woods abounding in
game and the streams in fish.
September 11, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fortieth
Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain David A. Ewing, his
enlistment being at Peru and for three years or during the war He not
only served for the three years but even three months longer, and was hon
orably discharged December 6, 1864. He was with his command in all the
engagements in which it participated until his discharge, the leading battles
being those at Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Missionary Ridge,
Resaca, Kingston, Dallas, Rocky Face Ridge, Kenesaw mountain and the
famous Atlanta campaign, and he was under fire for about three months.
At the battle of Kenesaw mountain he was struck in the eye and blinded.
Previous to this he had been promoted to the position of sergeant, in which
capacity he was serving at the time of the injury. He entirely lost the
sight of his left eye and it was removed in November, 1866. Prompt
ness and cheerfulness characterized his conduct as a soldier, and the same
principles which governed his soldier life have won his success as a business
man. After the war Mr. Murphy returned to Miami county, Indiana, and
engaged in the sawmill business, which occupied his time until 1866. That
year he began the manufacture of wagons in Peoria, Indiana, in which he did
a large business, and in connection vvith which for three years he bought and
sold black-walnut timber. In 1873 he turned his attention to the manufacture
of furniture in Xenia, now Converse, Indiana, and a few years later he
engaged in the manufacture of I'umber, to which he has since devoted his
energies, now also handling all kinds of lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors,
blinds, etc.
Mr. Murphy takes a laudable interest in all public affairs, casting his
vote for the men and measures of the Republican party, and represented the
Fifth ward, in Converse, for about twelve years.

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 947
January i, 1872, in Wabash county, he married Mary Cordelia Slocum,
who was born February 7, 1846, at Bellevue, Huron county, Ohio, the
daughter of George and Eliza (Pierce) Slocum. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have
one daughter, named Ethel, who was born February 19, 1875, at Peoria,
Indiana, and is now the wife of Joseph Kenny.
George Slocum, Mrs. Murphy's father, was of sterling English descent,
his first American ancestors coming from England about 1635, three brothe s
of the name settling in Rhode Island.
Joseph Slocum, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Murphy, was a
member of the Society of Friends, the family having been members of this
society for generations. Mr. Joseph Slocum visited the beautiful Wyoming
valley in Pennsylvania as early as 1768-9, in company with Isaac Tripp, also
from Rhode Island and of English descent: the Tripps were early settlers of
that state, then a colony. They also were members of the Friends' society.
In 1774 Isaac Tripp purchased a large tract of land which embraced Capoose
Meadow, now included within the limits of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was
a prominent man and took an active part in the political troubles of Wyoming
between the Connecticut settlers and the Pennamites. In 1774 a grandson,
also named Isaac Tripp, located on a part of the Capoose farm, at the age
of eighteen, and soon after the Wyoming massacre he was captured by the
Indians and with others marched to Canada. On the way he experienced
great suffering from hunger and cruel treatment. At Niagara he met his
cousin, Frances Slocum, who was a captive. They planned their escape but
were discovered, separated and never again met on earth. He was sold to
the English and compelled to enter their military service, in which he
reluctantly continued to the close of the Revolutionary war. He was then
released, returned home and assumed the peaceful pursuits of the farm. He
died April 15, 1820, aged sixty years.
Jonathan Slocum, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Murphy, was born in
Kent county, Rhode Island, May i, 1735, married, in his native state, Ruth
Tripp, February 23, 1757, and for several years resided in Rhode Island.
Some time during the year 1777 Mr. Slocum, with his wife and nine children,
emigrated^ from Rhode Island and located on a tract of land near Wilkes-
barre Fort, Pennsylvania. Previous to his location here, however, he had
visited the place, as early as 1771. He acquired land and made preparations
for the removal of his family. At that time Connecticut settlers were pour-

948 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ing into the Wyoming valley, also emigrants from Rhode Island, attracted
by the reports of the fertUity of the soU and the beauty of the scenery. The
Slocum family removed to their new home in a covered wagon, and on the
road many bridgeless and miry streams had to be crossed; the journey was a
long and tiresome one. Among these immigrants was Isaac Tripp, the father
of Mrs. Slocum. Of the ten children comprising this remarkable and his
toric family, all were born in Rhode Island but one. The following epitome
is made up from Dr. Charles E. Slocum's History of the Slocums in America:
I. Giles, born January 5, 1759, married Sarah Rodd, and died Novem
ber 14, 1826, in Columbia county. New York. He took part in the battle of
Wyoming and was one of the few who escaped the cruel slaughter by swim
ming to an island in the river, rolling in the sand and hiding under a fallen
tree covered by bushes. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a
farmer earlier in life and later an innkeeper and merchant. At his death he
left two sons and one daughter.
2. Judith, born October, 1760, married Hugh Forsman, a farmer, who
died March 11, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a subaltern in Captain
Hewitt's company during the Wyoming massacre, and was one of the fifteen
members of that corps who escaped the slaughter. He was the only one who
brought in his gun. At his death he left several children.
3. William, born January 6, 1762, married Sarah Sawyer, and died
October 20, 18 10, near Pittston. He was wounded in the heel by a musket
ball December 16, 1778, at the time his father and grandfather Tripp were
killed by the Indians on the site of WUkesbarre. In 1795 he was elected
sheriff of Luzerne county, when it included Wyoming, Susquehanna, Lacka
wanna and a part of Bradford. He held the office until 1799, when he
returned to his farm,. and in 1806 was elected a justice of the peace. He was
classed among the prominent and influential men of his county. He left four
sons and five daughters.
4. Ebenezer, born January 10, 1766, married Sarah Davis, who sud-
'denly died July 5, 1810, of apoplexy, in the street while on a visit in WUkes
barre. In 1798 he purchased an interest in a gristmUl in Deep Hollow,
now included within the limits of Scranton. He also built a sawmUl and
distillery. Afterward his brother Benjamin became associated with him,
and together they constructed an iron forge in the early part of 1800, and
another distillery in 181 1, and with these establishments they carried on an

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 949
extensive business. In 1826 the firm was dissolved. In 1821 Mr. Slocum
was the justice of the peace of his district, which included what are now
Pittston, Providence and Exeter townships. He was successful in business,
accumulating, in addition to other property, eighteen hundred acres of land,
all within the present limits of Scranton, and nearly all of it was under
laid with coal. At his death he left thirteen children, — nine sons and four
daughters. 5. Mary, born December 22, 1768, married Joseph Towne, a farmei:,
resided in Ohio, near Circleville, and died in April, 1844. At her death she
left several children.
6. Benjamin, born December 7, 1770, married Phebe L. France and
resided with his brother, Ebenezer Slocum, in Deep Hollow. In 181 1 he
was appointed postmaster of Providence, which was the first post-office in
Lackawanna valley. In 1826 he settled on a farm which included the land
now occupied by the borough of Tunkhannock, and he died there July 5,
1832, leaving four children, — one son and three daughters. The son,
Thomas Truxton, who succeeded to the farm, gave two acres of land on
which to build the; court-house when Tunkhannock became the seat of justice
of Wyoming county.
7. Frances, born in March, 1773, died March 9, 1847, the Indian cap
tive and the subject of a thrilling narrative given elsewhere in this work.
She married an Indian war chief of the Miamis, whose name was She-pan-
can-ah (deaf man), and at her death left two daughters, — Ke-ke-so-quo and
O-zah-wah-shing-qua. 8. Isaac, born March 4, 1775, married first Elizabeth. Patrick and
secondly Mrs. Lydia Norton. He first settled on a farm which included the
site of Tunkhannock, where he lived until 1823 and then removed to San
dusky, Ohio, where he died, near Bellevue, August 26, 1858. He was an
active and prominent citizen, held several military commissions and for a
time served as postmaster. He took a deep interest in his captive sister and
frequently visited her, after her discovery. Major Slocum outlived all his
brothers and sisters and at his death left eight sons and four daughters.
9. Joseph, born April 9, 1776, married Sarah Fell and died September
27, 1855. He was a blacksmith and farmer, was chosen the first captain of
the " Wyoming Blues," a military company, in 1805, and was commissioned
associate judge of Luzerne county in 1840, which office he fiUed for three or

950 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
four years with satisfaction to the people. The township of Slocum, in
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, as well as Slocum post-office, was named in
his honor. Judge Slocum was an excellent citizen and greatly respected.
By his death he left two so.ns and five daughters.
10. Jonathan, born Septeraber 12, 1778, married Martha Underwood
and died September, 1842 ; was a farmer and late in life resided near Havana,
Schuyler county. New York. He left eight sons and two daughters.
Resuming now the genealogy and history of the SlocUm family, we may
state first that Major Isaac Slocum, the grandfather of Mrs, Murphy, was the
eighth child of Jonathan Slocum. For a long time he was hotel-keeper in
WUkesbarre, owning a large establishment and becoming well known and
prominent. All his children were born there. Afterward he moved to
northern Ohio, settling in Pluron county, in 1829, where he cleared a large
farm and became wealthy. He was also a large contractor on public works.
In the war of 18 12 he was major of the Pennsylvania state militia. For his
first wife he raarried Elizabeth Patrick and their children vvere : Mary, who
becarae Mrs. Craig and lived in WUkesbarre ; Charles, also a resident of
WUkesbarre; John, who married and moved to Texas and afterward settled
in Wisconsin ; Abel, who located at Green Bay, Wisconsin, and became an
extensive farmer ; Isaac, a farmer and pioneer of Minnesota, who was cap
tain of the state militia, built a fort on his land and served in the war with
the Sioux as captain ; Ruth, who married Dr. Stevens, of Ohio ; Elizabeth ;
Patsey, who raarried and resided in Pennsylvania; Hannah; Giles; George
and two others not reraembered.
Isaac Slocum was a man of the kindest heart and took a great interest
in his captive sister, being one of the brothers who took an active part in the
long search for her ; he was the first one to see her on the first visit to her
home, assisted her in her petition to congress to grant her desire to remain
on her farm, and he advised his son George, at her request, to settle near
her and aid her in caring for her property. Mr. Slocum was a man of high
character and sterling worth.
George Remington Slocum, the father of Mrs. Murphy, was born in
WUkesbarre, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1822, was reared a farmer and became
a traveling salesman for his brother-in-law, Chauncey Duryee, a manufacturer
of scales and a large dealer in scales.
January i, 1843, Mr. Slocum married, at Sandusky, Ohio, Eliza O.

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 951
Pierce, a native of Luzei;ne county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Dyer
and Diana (Barton) Pierce. The Pierces were from New England and of the
old colonial families of Puritan stock, and the Bartons were from Rhode
Island, early settlers on Narragansett bay. Mount Hope, the ancient seat of
King Philip at Seconnet, was on the homestead. The Bartons were seafaring
men, owning several vessels and taking an active part in the Revolutionary
war. They captured an English war vessel, having their own vessel dis
guised by having garden products all over the deck. On being hailed by the
British captain the Bartons replied: "We are farmers from Narragansett
bay bound for New York city with sass on deck and meat in the hold." The
hold was full of armed men and they successfully grappled with the British
vessel. Dyer Pierce was born in Vermont, was a farmer and carpenter and mar
ried Diana Barton while she was on a visit to her niarried sister in that state.
Mr. Pierce after his marriage settled as a pioneer in Luzerne county, Penn
sylvania, where he cleared a large farm. Subsequently he moved to western
New York, locating near Rochester, where he resided until his children were
grown up. Then he moved to Iowa, locating upon a farm in Jackson county,
near Dubuque, where he passed his remaining days. Mr. Pierce was a man
well-to-do and highly respected. To his children he left a goodly amount of
property. His children were: Paulina, who married a Mr. Duryee, William,
Daniel, Eliza O., James and Mary. In his religion he was a Baptist, was a
soldier in the war of 1812, and lived to be seventy-five years of age. He
was a sturdy pioneer and early settler in Iowa, locating there about 1849,
and was there during the Indian troubles.
After marriage George R. Slocum settled in Rochester, New York, where
he engaged in the scale business, and in that business he came to Indiana by
way of the Wabash & Erie canal. In 1843 he visited his aunt, Frances
Slocum, at Peoria. She had taken a great fancy to him and desired him to
come and settle in the village and take care of her property. She wrote her
brother, Isaac Slocum, and it was finally arranged that George should com
ply with her request. Accordingly, in November, 1846, he moved here with
his family, settling upon land which he had entered; and he kindly looked
after the interests of his aunt so that he received her annuities from the gov
ernment property and faithfully gave it all to her and in every way took kind
care of her in her last days.

952 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
George R. Slocum became a prosperous farmer of Wabash county, own
ing a farm of two hundred acres, which he entered two miles from Peoria.
He cleared it of a heavy forest and made a fine farm. In religion both him
self and wife were members of the Baptist church, and in politics he was an
old-line Whig and a Republican. He was a well informed man and asso
ciated only with the best men of Peru and Wabash. He died at the early
age of thirty-seven years. His children were Marion. Mary C. , Isabel, George
F. , Franklin, Emma and Charles.
George Slocum was a very religious man, being called a "reverend " by
some writers, although he was never a minister nor even a regular missionary.
He and his wife joined the Baptist church a short time before coming to
Indiana. On his first. visit to his aunt in 1843 he became interested in the
spiritual welfare of the Indians, and on his permanent removal to this point
he undertook to teach them the principles of religion and temperance, and he
labored with great zeal for their conversion, with signal success, for in time
many of the savages were converted and many reformed themselves in respect
to intemperance. Mr. Slocum managed to retain the kind regard of all of
them, becoming known as "the Indians' friend." He also taught them the
principles of agriculture and the economics of the white race; and all that he
did for them was not for the sake of reward or for any share of his aunt's
estate, — for the latter he never received, — but he did all in an honest
endeavor to ameliorate the condition of the Indians. He was a true friend
of the red man. He learned the Miami language, and found that it contained
no vulgar or profane words. The worst word was the epithet " dog." The
Miamis learned profanity and contracted habits of intemperance by following
the example of the whites.
The Slocum family is an illustrious one. They have become numerous,
spreading all over the land, and everywhere they have constituted the best
element of the community, many of them filling prominent positions, both
civil and military. Some have bought good homes in this county (Miami)
and transmitted them to their posterity. The ancestry of the family can be
traced back two hundred and fifty years, and its members to-day will reach
more than two thousand in number; and among all these it is believed
that there is not one, notwithstanding his opportunity for education and
culture, who has shown a higher degree of intellectuality, executive abUity
and generous nature than the "lost sister. " When she was lost, by a strange

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 953
decree of fate, and cast among barbarians, she was denied every opportunity
for improvement in her condition. On her death-bed she advised her daugh
ters to marry their daughters to good Indians, who would love them and
treat them well, and not to marry white men, who would marry them for
their lands only.
Levin G. Murphy is entirely a self-made man, beginning with nothing
but his own abilities, and he has succeeded and prospered in business. In
Converse he has established a large lumber trade, owning and running a large
planing-mill and sash, door and blind factory, and a large warehouse for
seasoned lumber, which he keeps well filled with good material; he has indeed
one of the most complete establishments of the kind in Indiana. He is well
known for his integrity of character and high standing.
Mrs. Murphy is a lady of refinement and culture, and of a high order of
literary taste. She has accumulated a fine library of valuable works in all
lines of literature and takes a real pleasure in her books. She has always
taken a deep interest in the history of her Aunt Frances, who, when she was
a little child, took a great " fancy" to her and insisted on her bearing her
name. According to the superstition of the Indians, she believed she would
live again in little Mary; and her daughter and grandchildren believed the
same and they call her grandmother to this day. Mrs. Murphy is probably
as well informed in the history of her aunt as any one now living, as she had
not only the advantage of her family traditions, but also lived for years at
Peoria, Indiana, where she was brough't up and knew and talked with many
of her Indian relatives in relation to her aunt's history, as it was always a
familiar and interesting subject for conversation. Mrs. Murphy furnished
many of the facts concerning her aunt which here appear in print for the
first time. There is a peculiarity about her hair, in which it resembles that of her
Great-aunt Frances Slocum; and it is of the same shade of color. Like her
also, Mrs. Murphy has a brown spot on the back of her head. This was one
of the peculiar marks by which her brothers and sisters identified Frances.
In her letter to John F. Meginness, the author of The Lost Sister, Mrs.
Murphy says: " She thought I resembled her very much; and just before
she died she gave me her name, Mah-co-nes-guch; and after death her chil
dren and grandchildren, sons-in-law and all the other relatives looked on me
the same as if I were she. Indians never allow their relatives to die. They

954 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
will have some one to take the place of the deceased whom they think resem
bles them. I was only nine months old when her daughter, Mrs. Bondy,
commenced calling me mother, that is, Ninjiah, which is Miami for mother,
and No-co-mah, grandraother. As long ago as I can remember, gray-haired
sons-in-law of Mrs. Bondy called me No-co-mah." The superstitious cus
tom of having the deceased represented by some living person who should
happen to bear the strongest resemblance to the same within their acquaint
ance, is one of the strange beliefs of these people.
The information given by Mrs. Mur, hy is of great importance, and adds
materially to the interest of the narrative, as it describes a strange custom
still so religiously adhered to by the red men.

ALFRED C. ANTRIM, a worthy representative of a sterling American
family, is one of the highly respected farmers and citizens of Jackson
township, Howard county. The Antrims are of Scotch origin, and the many
notable traits comraon to that people are to be observed in the character of
our subject. He was born in Grant county, Indiana, September 20, 1853,
and received the benefits of the public schools of that day. He has always
devoted himself to agriculture and has met with gratifying success in his
chosen field of endeavor. When arriving at mature years he purchased
sixty-nine acres of cleared land in his" native county, and was occupied in its
cultivation up to the time that he removed to his present homestead. Here
he bought one hundred and twenty-five acres, only thirty acres of which had
been cleared. With characteristic energy he set about the task of improving
and developing this property and now has just cause for being satisfied with
the result of his years of industrious labor and well directed efforts, for his
farm is considered one of the best in the neighborhood. Good buildings,
fences, orchards and other valuable accessories make the homestead a very
desirable place of residence, and the general air of thrift and neatness that
pervades everything about the premises gives evidence of the constant and
watchful supervision of the owner.
The parents of our subject were Josiah and Elizabeth (Parker) Antrim,
honored pioneers of Grant county. The father was born AprU 26, 1820, in
Clinton county, Ohio, and was a son of William and Sarah (Sharp) Antrim,

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the mother being a daughter of Solomon Sharp. It is supposed that the
family of Antrim lived for several generations in county Antrim, Ireland, and
at any rate, the grandfather of Josiah Antrim, Godfrey Antrim, was a native
of the Emerald Isle and passed his entire life in that fair land. Among his
children were Thomas, Robert, WiUiam, Aden, Hannah, Grace and Nancy.
William Antrim settled in New Jersey upon his emigration to the United
States and thence removed to Clinton county, Ohio, at an early day. Later
he went to Delaware county, Ohio, his son, Josiah, being then about twelve
years of age. There the family located upon a farm in the- forest and pro
ceeded to improve and clear a homestead. The father died in that locality
some years afterward, at the age of sixty-eight years. By his first marriage
he had five chUdren, namely: John, Robert, Aden, Josiah and David, and
by his marriage with Ellen McCoy he had four sons: Clare, Reed, Beard-
ley and Chnton.
The father of A. C. Antrim was, above everything, a patriot, faithful to
the interests of his country in peace and war alike. October 14, 1861, when
forty-one years of age, he enlisted at Marion, Indiana, as a private of Com
pany C, Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served faithfully in the
ranks. In May, 1864, he was sent to the hospital at Nashville, suffering
with rheumatism and scurvy, as a result of poor food and exposure to the
elements in all kinds of weather. He was honorably discharged from the
service when he was convalescent. May 17th, and returned home. Septem
ber 20, 1864, however, he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company D,
Fortieth Indiana Infantry. He took part in a number of important cam
paigns and was active in the battles of Franklin, Spring Hill and others,
more or less noted. May 24, 1865, he was honorably discharged at
Nashville, and returned to the peaceful vocations of life. His half-brother,
Clinton, was also one of the defenders of the Union. In his early manhood
Josiah Antrim married in Clinton county, in 1842, Mary Reynolds, whose
birth had occurred in Tennessee in 1824. After the death of his first wife,
Mr. Antrim married Elizabeth Parker, who died, leaving four children:
Martha A., Keziah J., Alfred C. and Nancy C. His third wife was a Mrs.
Nancy Sharp.
Alfred C^ Antrim, whose name heads this article, was married in his
native county, December 25, 1873, to Miss Laura Summers, who was born
in Howard county, a daughter of John S. and Sarah (Morris) Summers.

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After their marriage the young couple settled in Grant county, Indiana, and
there the wUe died in August, 1878. She was a faithful member of the
Christian church and was beloved by all who knew her. She was the
mother of two children: George O. and Harry E. November 3, 1879, A.
C. Antrim married Elizabeth E. Haynes, a native of Grant county, born
February i, 1858, her parents being Azariah and Elizabeth (Pierce) Haynes.
The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Antrim has been blessed by the pres
ence of their four children, Aden, John E., Zora and Elizabeth C. The
parents are members of the Protestant Methodist church, Mr. Antrim being
a steward at present.
In politics he is a Republican, and though he has not been an office-
seeker he has occupied various local positions of trust and honor, such as that
of township trustee for three years, an office he is still holding to the satisfac
tion of all. He was a justice of the peace while a resident of Grant county,
acting in that capacity for a period of five years, and has been one of the
assessors of Jackson township. No citizen of his section of the county is
held in higher respect or enjoys more fully the confidence of the public.

AS. THOMPSON, justice of the peace at New London, Howard county,
Indiana, is a gentleman who has attained to local prominence on account
of the deep interest he has taken in everything tending to advance the welfare
of his town. Especially has he been interested in the educational affairs of
New London.
Mr. Thompson is of Scotch-English descent. His grandfather, Samuel
Thompson, was born in Ireland, but was of Scotch ancestry. On coming to
this country he settled in Ohio, and a little later moved over into Indiana,
locating in Clinton county. His son, Benjamin, the father of A. S, Thomp
son, was born in Ohio, became a resident of New London, Indiana, about
1848, and was for many years a successful merchant and miller of this place,
operating the largest mill in this part of the country. A worthy member of
Lodge No. 218, F. & A. M., he served for ten years as its treasurer. He
was born March 17, 1823, and died in 1880, His widow survives him and
at this writing is seventy-seven years of age. Her maiden name was Susan
Ellis, and she is a daughter of Nelson R. Ellis, for many years a resident of

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Kentucky, and a pioneer preacher of Indiana. She has just reason to take
pride in the fact that her ancestry can be traced back to good old Revolu
tionary stock. Of her five children, two are living — Harriet, wife of J.
Frank Brandon, of Daviess county, Indiana; and A. S., the subject of this
review. A. S. Thompson was born in the town in which he now lives. May 2i,
1859, and received his early education here. After completing his studies in
the high school of this place he entered De Pauw University, where he spent
the school year of 1879-80. The next year he was a student in Wabash
College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Since leaving school he has been inter
ested in farming and stock-raising, operating one hundred acres of land which
he rents. Politically Mr. Thompson is a Democrat. In 1892 he was appointed
justice of the peace by Governor Chase, and still holds the position. He has
served as president of the school board, and as such shares the honor with
others in bringing the schools of this place up to their present high standard.
The school of New London now ranks with schools of towns six times its
size. To it belongs the distinction of having the first high-school Rugby
foot-ball team of the state. He wrote the constitution of the Township
Educational Association. He was also one of the principal movers in the
building of the town hall of his village.
Fraternally he is a Mason, having several terms served as worshipful
master of his lodge, and he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, being
identified with Lodge No. 29 at Kokomo.

T^HOMAS C. WHELCHEL, M. D.— The world has little use for the mis-
•*^ anthrope. The universal brotherhood is widely recognized, and the
truth also that he serves God best who serves his fellow men. There is no
profession or line of business that calls for greater self-sacrifice or more
devoted attention than the medical profession, and the successful physician
is he who through love of his fellow men gives his tirne and attention to the
relief of human suffering. Dr. Whelchel is one of the ablest representatives
of this noble calling, and is now successfully engaged in practice at Gold
smith, Tipton county, Indiana.

958 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
The Doctor was born in Hamilton county, Indiana, July 26, 1833, and
his love for his profession is partly hereditary, as his parents, Dr. Samuel
and Jane (Bland) Whelchel, were both successful physicians, as was also his
paternal grandfather, Dr, Samuel Whelchel. The last named was born,
reared, educated and raarried in Germany, and his wedding journey consisted
of his removal to the New World. He settled in Tennessee; during the
Revolutionary war he served as captain under General Washington, and he
died in Kentucky at a good old age. Dr. Samuel Whelchel was probably
born in Tennessee, and he was reared in that state and Kentucky, preparing
for his profession in a Tennessee medical school. When a young man he
came to Indiana and was married in Jefferson county, twelve miles from
Madison, to Miss Jane Bland, who was born at what was then called Clark's
Grant, in that county, and was but fourteen years old at the time of her
marriage. Her father was a native of France, while her mother was of Irish
descent. Dr. Samuel Whelchel and wife began their domestic life twelve
miles from Madison, at what is now called Dupont, where he engaged in
practice and also helped to clear a farm. In 1832 they removed to Hamilton
county and located near Olio, where both died at an advanced age, the
father's age being ninety-two years, six months and nine days, the mother's
ninety-six years, six months and seven days. Both were earnest Christian
people, he being a Methodist in religious belief, and she a Baptist. This
worthy couple had a family of nine children, of whom three died when
small, and three are now living, namely: Ezra, Thomas C. and Belinda.
Dr. Whelchel, of this review, is the eighth in order of birth in this fam
ily, and was reared in his native county, his education being acquired in four
different schools. He commenced the study of medicine with his parents, and
next read under the direction of Dr. Beatley, of Hamilton county, complet
ing his preparation for his profession, however, with Dr. P. P. \\'hitsel, of
Clarksville, Indiana. He then engaged in practice with his parents for sorae
years, and in 1878 and 1879 attended lectures at the State Medical School,
at Indianapolis, completing the course there in 1880. In 1871 he had
located at Petersburg, where he engaged in practice for ten years, but since
1 88 1 he has' made his home at Goldsmith and enjoys a large and lucrative
practice, being one of the best read and most skillful physicians and sur
geons of the locality. He has the respect and esteem of his professional
brethren, and is an honored member of the Tipton County ?\fedical Society.

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Wherever he goes he wins friends, and has the happy faculty of retaining them.
His influence is always found' on the side of reform, and in politics he is a
strong Prohibitionist.
On the 8th of November, 1855, Dr. Whelchel was united in marriage
with Miss Isabel J. Alexander, a native of Hamilton county, Indiana, and a
daughter of Jacob and Isabel (Kingery) Alexander, early settlers of that
county. To the Doctor and his wife have been born eight children, as fol
lows: Rachel L. , now the wife of George W. Arbuckel, of Arkansas; Cora
A., wife of William Farrar, of Cicero township, Tipton county; John F. ,
who has not been heard from for eight years; Alta A., wife of Albert
Wynn, of Cicero township; Jessie M. , who was drowned in 1896; Arila
M., deceased; Stella A., wife of Jefferson Paul, of Cicero township; and
Owen E. , the only one now at home.

J_JON. WILLIAM M. GORDON.— The history of a county or state, as
*¦ *¦ well as that of a nation, is chiefly a chronicle of the lives and deeds of
those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society. The world
judges the character of a community by those of its representative citizens,
and yields its tributes of admiration and respect to those whose works and
actions constitute the record of a state's prosperity and pride. Among the
prominent citizens of northern Indiana who are known throughout the state
by reason of the prominent part which they have taken in public affairs is
William M. Gordon, a leading representative of the agricultural interests of
Cass county, and an influential member of the Democratic party.
He was born in Jefferson township, on the farm where he now lives,
January 2, 1839, and is a son of James and Cyndisa (McMillen) Gordon,
both of whom were natives of Ohio. The grandfather, William Gordon, vvas
born in Pennsylvania, and in 1800 removed to Butler county, Ohio, where
he engaged in the milling business and reared his family. It was there that
Dr. James Gordon first opened his eyes to the light of day. After acquiring
a fair literary education he began reading medicine, and when he had
attained a high degree of proficiency therein he entered upon the practice of
the science, meeting with excellent success in his undertakings. In 1833 he
removed to Illinois, where he was united in marriage to Miss McMillen, and

960 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
in 1834 he brought his bride to Cass county, Indiana, locating at George
town, where he practiced his profession. He also took a contract for work
on the Wabash canal, and in 1836 he opened a general store. Throughout
the reraainder of his life he engaged in general merchandising, milling and
farraing, and was a very successful business raan, his well directed efforts
bringing to hira a handsome competence. He was a leading and influential
citizen of the community, and for more than forty years served as postmaster
of Georgetown. His death occurred October 11, 1889, at the age of eighty
years. His family numbered four chUdren, namely: Elizabeth, who died
in infancy; Margaret, William M. and Cyndisa. Mrs. Gordon died in 1842.
Doctor Gordon married, in 1845, Ann Neff, a daughter of Daniel Neff, who
came to Cass county in 183d. Five chUdren were born of this union:
Daniel N. , Ellen, Everett and EsteUa, who are living, and John P., third in
order of birth, now deceased. Mrs. Ann Gordon died in 1863.
The third in order of birth, Hon. William M. Gordon, was born and
reared on the old family homestead in Cass county, and in the academy at
DanvUle, lUinois, supplemented the knowledge he had acquired in the dis
trict schools of his home neighborhood. He was for three years a student
in that institution. In i860 he began work on his father's farm and, was
associated with him in business until 1870, when he began farming on his
own account. He now owns two hundred and eight acres, — a part of the
Gordon estate.
On the 26th of May, 1862, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage to Eliz
abeth Hoffman, a native of New Jersey and a daughter of William Hoffman,
who located in Cass county in 1849. Five children were born of this union,
but three died in infancy, and those still living are Disa and Norman P. Mrs.
Gordon is a member of the Presbyterian church and a most estimable lady
who presides with gracious hospitality over their pleasant home.
In politics Mr. Gordon is a stalwart Democrat, unwavering in support
of the party and its principles. He is a recognized leader in its ranks, prom
inent in the conventions and in 1870 he was elected to represent his district
in the state legislature. In 1872 he was candidate for treasurer, but met
defeat, and in 1891 he was appointed county assessor, which position he filled
for fifteen months. He has ever been most prompt and faithful in the dis
charge of his official duties and has the welfare of the community deeply at
heart. He is a public-spirited and progressive citizen who lends an active

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support and co-operation to every movement for the general good. He has
always worthily upheld the honored family name which he bears, and the
community knows him as a man of sterling worth, honorable in business,
faithful in office, loyal in friendship and devoted to his family.

/^HARLES MURDEN.— This is the name of the head of one of the most
^-^ remarkable families in the state of Indiana, — remarkable in respect to
longevity, temperance and honorable behavior. As a single family it has
perhaps furnished to Indiana more of such citizens as properly go to make
up a prosperous state than any other within the limits of this great and glori
ous commonwealth. Charles Murden was born in England, the mistress of the world. May
13, 1792, in a family which, in respect to wealth, may be said to belong to
the middle classes, but with no fortune. As he was growing up into man
hood he learned the blacksmith's trade and began to fight life's battles single-
handed, inspired only by an ambition for usefulness. September 19, 18 14,
he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Williams, who was born in the
same section of the old country, February 19, 1793. Before leaving their.
native country they had two children, by name Mathew and Naomi.
In order to find greater opportunity and scope of effort, Mr. Murden, in
181 7, set saU for America, where there was a thousand times more land and
resources than were being utUized. Finding what he hoped to find, he sent
for his family, and the next year, in July, upon a vessel named The Balloon,
and after a tedious voyage of six weeks, they landed at Baltimore, Maryland,
where his wife and little family were met by her delighted husband. What
a mixture of happiness, hope, zeal and energy must have animated his
breast during that epoch of his life !
After a short sojourn in the oyster city, Mr. Murden moved out into the
country a little way, to a point known as Warren Factory, and there fixed
his new home, set up shop and continued to live and to labor until the year
1834. On the 28th of May, this year, with his faithful wife and nine chil
dren, he hitched up a four-horse team to an old-fashioned Pennsylvania
wagon and set off over the mountains for the far west and not ceasing their
exodus, through forest and plain, ravines and valleys, brush, weeds and
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962 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
grass, until they reached La Fayette, Indiana. This was even a greater
venture than the trip across the ocean, and they found themselves, in a
manner, farther removed from civilization and the comforts of life than
ever; but the Indiana of the future was ahead of them, of which the keen-
sighted Mr. Murden must have had some presentiment. After remaining at
La Fayette about a month, a still further plunge into the wilderness must be
taken! and they started eastward and finally stuck stake on an old Indian
trail in Miami county, — right among the Indians in fact ! And this they
did after leaving a comparatively good home in Maryland, where they had
churches, schools and many friends !
By this time a heavy snow had fallen, and the father, with the help of
the boys, hurried up a log cabin, with a half-puncheon floor, mud-and-stick
chimney and a greased-paper window. In these times, mainly on account of
drinking surface water, it was customary to have bilious fever, known as the
ague or "shakes," and accordingly all the family joined the "shakers," and
their skin was yellow, their ambition gone and all hopes " everlastingly "
deferred, " making the heart sick. " They all stuck to this point, however,
for here the father purchased a tract of land and began to improve it with a
view of making it his permanent home, which indeed he did, with as great
success as any persistent westerner in " digging a farm out of the resisting
wilderness." This was in Jefferson township, two miles east of Mexico.
Here the enterprising and heroic Charles Murden at length died. May 13,
1870, at the age of seventy-eight years. This was the first death in the
family after they left Maryland, in which state two of the children died in
infancy, — Mary in 1828, and Timothy in 1830. At the date of his death
there were two hundred and twenty acres of the homestead, as to the original
tract more had been added by purchase, and all the old forest had disap
peared, leaving here and there only a stump, or isolated tree or a small
ornamental clump of trees. Two of the youngest children of the family
were born on this homestead, which had cost so many years of wearisome
toil, amid wild surroundings and covering a long, monotorious period. But
only the pleasures of this long period are principally remembered, proving
that the life was worth living. At this place, also, so sacred in the memory
of so large a family, Mrs. Martha Murden passed the remainder of her valu
able life, passing away at the advanced age of ninety-four years, June 3,
1887. The whole family, parents and children, were zealous and intelligent

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members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which religious organization
Mr. Murden was a licensed "exhorter." The family lived at the point above
described eight years before the first school-house was erected, where the
first school was taught by Judge Holman. Of the thirteen children in the
family of Charles and Martha Murden eight are still living, namely: Mathew,
Imri, Martha A., wife of Abel Howes; Henry, whose sketch appears else
where in this volume; Orpah, who is the wife of John Q. A. Howes; Timothy,
Sarah Jane, who married Edward Stowman, and Cynthia A., the widow of
William Smith. Thomas W. died August 13, 1896, he being the first of his
parents' children to be called to the eternal life within the long period of
sixty- four years. Elizabeth A. died August 31, 1896, and Naomi, widow of
Andrew Woolfert, died November 28, 1897.
Mr. Murden's father and brother (he had no sister and but the one
brother) never came to America. Thomas W. Williams, Mrs. Murden's
father, also passed all his life in the old country. He was a shoemaker by
trade and had a large number of children.
The above sketch is but a meager outline, in which ought to be filled
thousands of interesting items which happened in the life of Charles Mur
den. One circumstance is particularly worthy of note in this connection. In
1896 the male contingent (including sons, sons-in-law, grandsons and grand-
sons-in-law) of the family of Charles Murden was sufficiently strong in a
numerical way to poll sixty-six votes at the presidential election. Of this
number sixty-two ballots were cast in support of McKinley and four for
Bryan.

ANDREW PHILLIPS. — There are few who can more justly claim the
proud American title of self-made man than Andrew Phillips, who at the
early age of fourteen years started out in life for himself. His educational
privileges were limited and no special advantages fitted him for the cares and
responsibUities of life. He was industrious, determined, ambitious and reso
lute, however, and those qualities stood him instead of fortune, enabling him
to overcome the difficulties and obstacles in his path and work his way stead
ily upward to the plane where success places the laurel upon the victor's brow.
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964 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and his creditable life-work has won him the respect and commendation of
all who are familiar with his history.
Mr. Phillips was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the 4th of July, 1845,
and is a son of WiUiam PhUhps, who was born in county Limerick, Ireland,
in 1 8 12. He learned the carpenter's trade on the Emerald isle and in 1832
he crossed the Atlantic to the New World, having determined to try his
fortune in America. He was educated for the priesthood, but on arriving at
the age of individual responsibility he chose a different course in hfe. For a
few years after his arrival in America he made his home in Troy, New York,
and was there united in marriage to Miss Mary Day. Having a sister hving
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was induced to locate there and made that city
his home untU his death in 1852. His widow afterward married Morris Lon-
drigan and died in 1890. Her children were: Mary, deceased wife of Captain
Doyle, a veteran of the Seventy-third Indiana Infantry; Tinnie, wife of John
Sullivan, of La Fayette, Indiana; Susan, deceased wife of B. B. Daily, of
Delphi, Indiana; EUen, wife of John T. Mug, of La Fayette; Andrew; and
Joseph, of Chicago.
Andrew Phillips attended the district schools to a limited extent, but,
as before stated, started out to make his own way in the world when only
fourteen years of age, and in consequence text-books were laid aside. He
worked as a farm hand and followed that pursuit for many years, until his
industry and economy enabled him to purchase land for himself. He was
married August 31, 1868, and located on the farm where he now resides,
renting the property for four years and then purchasing the farm of the heirs
of the Porter estate. The raany iraproveraents on the place and the highly
cultivated fields indicate great thrift and industry on the part of the owner.
His success is indeed creditable, for in the legitimate channels of trade he
has acquired a handsome competence, his prosperity being due entirely to
his own efforts.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips began their domestic life on the farm which is
still their home. The lady bore the maiden name of Helen Porter and was
a daughter of William Porter, who was born in Westmoreland, Virginia, in
1 8 ID. His parents removed to Indiana when he was but two years old. He
was married in 1830 to Nancy Justice, the daughter of William Justice, and
their marriage was blessed with two children, who are both deceased. In
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was born in Kentucky, the daughter of WUliam Gallon, and they became the
parents of three children : Merridith, Clark and Helen. The last named is
the wife of Andrew Phillips, and they now reside on the old homestead in
Clinton township, Cass county. Their marriage was blessed with several
children and the record of the family is as follows : Ellen is the wife of
David Clymer, of Logansport ; Helen Marjorie is at home ; and John mar
ried Bertha Reed. Annie Phillips, a niece ot our subject, has been a mem
ber of the family since her third year.
In his political views Mr. PhUlips is a Democrat and has been active in
the campaign work of his party. When candidate for township trustee and
assessor he won a larger vote than his party — a fact which indicates his per
sonal popularity and the confldence reposed in him by his friends and fellow
townsmen.

A HIJAH GROSE. — One of the representative and substantial farmers of
¦** Jackson township, Howard county, is the gentleman whose name appears
above, and who vvas born November 15, 1835, in Fayette county, Indiana,
a son of Joseph and Mary (Skinner) Grose. His ancestry in the paternal
line are German.
William Grose, the grandfather of our subject, was a pioneer farmer of
Indiana, settling early in Henry county and spending his life there, as the
owner and cultivator of eighty acres of land. He was a soldier in the war
of 1812, and he and his wife lived to a good old age, members of the New-
Light church. He married Sarah Hubble, and their children were -Joseph,
Daniel, William, Isaac, Mary and Sarah.
Joseph Grose, the father of Ahijah, was born about 1810, on a farm,
and was married in -Fayette county, this state, to Mary Skinner, a native of
that county and a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Ricket) Skinner; Mr. Skin
ner's ancestry were Virginians. Joseph Grose located in Fayette county, on
the Skinner homestead, and moved to Johnson county, also in this state, and
a few years later to Brown county, where he bought a farm and spent the
remainder of his life, an industrious and enterprising citizen and a member
of the Methodist church. His first wife died in Johnson county, when Ahijah,
our subject, was sixteen years of age, and the second time Mr. Grose was
united in marriage with Nancy Wheaton. His children by his first wife were

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Daniel, William, Ahijah, Emeline, Nancy and Isaac; and by his second wife,
Mary C. and Joseph.
Ahijah's schooling was Umited, he having to devote all his energies to
agricultural work from an early age. March 27, 1859, atthe age of twenty-
three years, he was united in matrimony with Miss Lucinda Nation, a native
of Henry county, Indiana, born November 16, 1839, adaughter of William and
Rebecca (Harvey) Nation, and immediately after his marriage he settled on
the Nation horaestead.
Sampson Nation, the grandfather of Mrs. Grose, was born in a rural dis
trict, and became a farmer by occupation. He was a soldier in the war of
1812, taken prisoner by the Indians, confined in a wigwam, and blindfolded
with the other prisoners in order to be scalped; but when the Indians came
to hira and found hira bald-headed they passed him by, as a piece of his scalp
" would do no good! " He married Susan Johnson, and their chUdren were
William, Seth, Enoch, Abel, Celia, Mahala and Nancy. Mr. Nation resided
in Montgomery county, Ohio, near Dayton, until his death, after which event
his widow married William Conutt. .
Abel Nation, the brother of William, and uncle of Mrs. Grose, was a
wealthy stock dealer, residing in Henry county, Indiana, of which section he
was a pioneer settler, owning a tract of seven hundred acres of valuable land.
He was at one time attacked by robbers, who waylaid him early in the morn
ing, before daylight. They had attracted his attention by making a noise at
the barn, and when he went forth to investigate they attacked him as he was
about to enter the barn. They struck at him with an ax, but the blow was
broken by reason of the ax-handle striking the jamb of the door, so that he
was but partially stunned and was able to escape to the house, the robbers
following .him nearly to the door. It was a very narrow escape.
William Nation, in Henry county, Indiana, married Rebecca Harvey, a
daughter of William and Nancy (Paul) Harvey, and he continued to reside in
that county, on forty acres of land, for which he paid one thousand dollars,
the money being furnished by his stepfather. He afterward sold this and pur
chased a quarter section, which he cleared from heavy timber and reduced to
a good state of cultivation and which he still owns. Prospering, he bought
more land, so that finally he was in possession of three hundred acres, most
of which he has given to his children, besides three thousand dollars to each.
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Susan and Lizzie. William W. served in the Civil war, in the Indiana Vol
unteer Infantry, enlisting in the spring for three years, and died the next fall,
of typhoid fever, at Atlanta, Georgia, when but seventeen years of age. His
remains were brought home for interment. Mr. Nation, the father of the
forementioned children, is yet living at the venerable age of eighty-two years;
he is a man of remarkable character, an upright citizen and a representative
pioneer of sterling worth. He is a member of the Christian church and a
Republican. In February, 1867, the subject of this sketch emigrated to Howard
county, locating upon his present place March 12, where he had bought eighty
acres of wooded land. Assisted by his faithful wife, he succeeded in clearing
this tract and in making a good farm and a pleasant home. His first habita
tion here was a round-log house, which had been erected by the former occu
pant, Seth Nation; but the land had been entered by a man named Clark.
Mr. Grose is a member of the Christian church, and in politics is a Repub
lican, but he has never been an office-seeker, though he has served as county
supervisor for several years. He has demonstrated his unflinching patriotism
by enlisting in the war for the Union, in Henry county, as a private for three
months; but his company, which was to be assigned to the Thirty-sixth Indi
ana Volunteer Infantry, of which his uncle, William Grose, was colonel, was
not accepted. The children of Mr. Grose are Thomas J., James F. , William W. , Ida
M., Altha, Mary O., Theodosia E. and Edward L.

J~\ AVID R. SHIVELY, one of the most venerable citizens of Bunker Hill,
*-^ Indiana, and a respected pioneer of Miami county and of Pipe Creek
township, is of the sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch stock. His first American
ancestors were from Switzerland, being two brothers. The name was then
spelled Shiveley. They were among German Baptists who emigrated to the
Keystone state between 1708 and 1729, on the establishment of the Penn
sylvania government, to escape religious persecution.
John Shively, the grandfather of David R. , was a native of Pennsylvania,
in which state he married Miss Susanna Gripe, and their children were
David, Christian, John, Jacob, Susanna and Elizabeth. John Shively was a
pioneer farmer of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and was a resident

968 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
there during the Indian troubles, when he was obliged to leave his home for
three years and take shelter in a safe place. In religion he was a German
Baptist. Later he emigrated to Montgomery county, Ohio, where it is
believed he settled as early as 1806, entered land and cleared and cultivated
a portion of it, making a good tillable farm. He was one of the earliest
pioneers of that county and a highly respected citizen. He was an elder in
the German Baptist church. He could have bought the land where the
court-house in Dayton now stands for ten pounds of butter. His son, David
Shively, the father of our subject, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsyl
vania, in 1787, and was taken to Montgomery county, Ohio, by his parents
when a boy. They came down the Ohio on a flat-boat from Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. After he grew up he was married, in Montgomery county, to
Hannah Cripe, also a native of the Keystone state and a daughter of Jacob
Gripe. His children were Jacob, Daniel, Barbara, Hannah, Esther and
Elizabeth. Elder Cripe was a pioneer of Montgomery county, Ohio, where
he cleared a tract of land and reduced it to cultivation and was a prosperous
farmer. David Shively settled on land which his father had entered six
miles west of Dayton, between Liberty and Wolf creek, and about two and
a half raUes from the present Soldiers' Horae. Here he cleared land and
developed a farm of about one hundred and ten acres, to which he added by
later purchase until he had one hundred and sixty acres, all of which was
fine farm land. He gave eighty acres to each of his children — Elizabeth,
Samuel and David R. He emigrated to Pipe Creek township, Miami county,
Indiana, in 1853, buying eighty acres of land and clearing it, and here he
died, about the age of eighty years, a sincere member of the German Baptist
church. David R. Shively, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Mont
gomery county, Ohio, December 13, 1820, received a limited common-school
education and was married in his native county in October, 1843, to Annie
Haines, who was born in 1826, in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jesse and
Elizabeth (Myers) Haines. Her father was of sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch
stock, and also German Baptist, a man of strict principles and consistent con
duct. By his first wife his chUdren were: Isaac, George and Samuel. The
mother of these children died and subsequently Mr. Haines was united in
marriage with Elizabeth Myers, and the children by this union were: Annie,
Michael, Catharine, Samuel, Stephen, Rudy and Jesse.

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 969
After marriage Mr. Shively located first in Montgoinery county, Ohio,
on a tract of eighty acres of land which his father had given him and lived
there four year^ when he moved to Gerraantown Pike and was a resident
there also for four years. Here he had a fine farra of one hundred and
twenty-eight acres a half mUe from the Soldiers' Home, which he ultimately
sold in 1854, for five thousand five hundred dollars. Moving to Pipe Creek
township, Miami county, Indiana, he purchased two hundred and twenty
acres of land, mostly in timber, and cleared it, bringing out a good farm.
For ten years he also owned and ran a gristmill on Big Pipe creek. By his
never failing industry and concentration of energies and active judgment,
he at length had for himself a splendid home, was prosperous in all his busi
ness and an influential citizen. By his first wife his children were John and
Elizabeth. Mrs. Shively died October 9, 1864, having always enjoyed a reputation
for industry and the accomplishments of a good house-wife, and she was a
devoted member of the Gefman Baptist church. By his second marriage,
February 3, 1867, at Arcadia, Hamilton county, Indiana, Mr. Shively was
united with Mrs. Fanny S. Murray,, whose maiden name was Correll and who
was born January 14, 1828, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Stouffer) Correll. Her father was of French and
German ancestry and a son of David and Susan (Hess) Correll. John
Correll also was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was a distiller
by trade and a farmer. His children was Christopher, Fannie, Elizabeth,
John, Susanna, Annie, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Barbara, Joseph, Jacob and
Andrew. Mr. John Correll moved to Indiana in 1838, locating in Wayne
county, and after a residence there of five years removed to Hamilton county,
also in this state, settling upon one hundred and forty acres of land, where
he made a farm in the forest and established a good home for his children.
His days were ended in Hamilton county, where he died, December 4, 1885,
at the venerable age of eighty-five years, having been born June 29, 1800.
He was a member of the Mennonite church and was much respected. He
brought up his children in good habits and was himself a very exemplary
citizen. Mrs. Shively was about ten years of age when she came in 1838
and joined her parents in Hamilton county, and at the age of seventeen was
married to John Murray, who was born November 13, 181 8, in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer by occupation. Their children were

970 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary, Christopher, Catharine, Annie, Daniel and John.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray located in Hamilton county, this state, where he finally
died, at the age of forty-one years. He was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock
and an industrious, straightforward man.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shively settled upon the Shively homestead
in Pips Creek township, and in 1876 removed to Bunker HUl, where they
have a pleasant residence, with about twenty acres in a high state of cultiva
tion. On this plat they have planted all kinds of fine fruit trees that can be
successfully cultivated in this latitude, besides many ornamental trees; this
very comfortable home they richly deserve in return for their many long years
of ardous labor.
They are members of the German Baptist church, and politically Mr.
Shively votes with the Democratic party. Concerning all the subjects of
the foregoing sketch in general we can quote with hearty indorsement the
language of Daniel Webster: " Real goodness does not attach itself merely
to this life: it points to another world. Political and professional reputation
cannot last forever; but a conscience void of offence before God and man is
an inheritance for eternity."

J~^AVID H. CAIN, for several years past a resident of Miami, Indiana,
¦*— ' belongs to one of the pioneer families of this state, he having come here
with his parents when a boy and settled on a frontier farm.
He was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, April 21, 1 824, son of Cor
nelius and Ann (Kiblinger) Cain. Cornelius Cain along the agnatic line traced
his ancestry to the Emerald isle, while from his mother's people he inherited
English blood. His father, also named Cornelius, was an officer in the Rev
olutionary war. After the war he received a grant of government land, about
one thousand acres in extent, at the place where Marietta, Ohio, is now
located. It is believed, however, that he never obtained possession of the
same. He settled in Rockingham county, Virginia, where he passed his life
and where he died at a venerable age. His children were John, James, Wash
ington, David, Hyett, Williarn, Ruth, Mary and Cornelius. Cornelius Cain
was born in Rockingham county in 1798, was there reared and in that county
was married to Ann Kiblinger, who was born there, daughter of Peter Kib-

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 971
linger, a member of a Pennsylvania-Dutch family. Cornelius and Ann Cain
became the parents of David H., John F. , James M., Edwin, Sarah and
Eliza. In 1837 they left their native home in the Old Dominion and came
to Indiana, settling first in Hendricks county, where they lived until 1844,
when they removed to Miami county and made settlement in Pipe Creek
township. Here Cornelius Cain entered land, one hundred and sixty acres,
all covered with unbroken forest, not a stick having been cut off it, and here
he built his cabin and established his home in true pioneer style. In due
time he cleared his land and made excellent improvements thereon. He died
in 1872, leaving to his children the heritage of a good name and a fair
share of property. He was a man of some local prominence in his day. In
1852 he served as county commissioner of Miami county. Politically he was
an old-line Whig and later a Republican. He was a man of deep piety, a
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and one of the earliest
Methodists of his township.
David H. Cain, whose name introduces this sketch, was thirteen years
old when he came with his parents to Hendricks county, Indiana. The
journey was made by wagon and they were four weeks on the way, David
driving the carriage team most of the distance. As a boy he did his part in
helping, to clear and cultivate the farm on which his father settled, and at
the time of their removal to Miami county he was twenty years of age. Here
he helped to clear their second farm and he remained on the home farm until
his marriage, which event occurred when he vvas twenty-nine. May 13,
1852, he married, in Pipe Creek township, Miami county. Miss Eliza Jones,
a native of this county, born in 1831, daughter of Samuel and Annie (Har
mer) Jones. Her father was a pioneer of this township, where he died at
the age of seventy-two years. Her brothers were William, Newton, Samuel,
Allen, Joseph and Rease.
After his marriage Mr. Cain settled on one hundred and thirty-seven
acres of land in the woods in Pipe Creek township, Miami county, and at
once set about the work of clearing and improving the same, which he
.accomplished in time, erecting a fine brick house and making other substan
tial improvements. In the meantime he added to his original tract of land
until his farm comprised two hundred and thirteen acres. In 1886 he went
west and took up his abode in Sumner county, Kansas, where he bought a
farm of two hundred and forty acres of land. After eight years' residence

972 BIOGRAPHICAL .IXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
there, however, he was ready to return to Indiana, and again located in
Miami county, in the town of lyiiami. Here he has since resided.
Mr. Cain's first wife died in Pipe Creek township, in 1880, leaving the
following named children: Dr. John Cain, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Allen,
married and living on a farm in Illinois; Alice, widow of B. L. Myers, is a
resident of Peru, Indiana; Ersie C. , wife of John F. Sipe, of the firm of Sipe
& Sigler, jewelers of Cleveland, Ohio; Laura, wife of J. H. Shinebarger, of
Baltimore, Maryland, where he is engaged in the jewelry business; and Olive,
wife of John L. Murray, of Cleveland, Ohio. For his second wife the sub
ject of our sketch married Mrs. Exelina Cain, 72/1? Saint, a native of Henry
county, Indiana, born March 6, 1843, daughter of Jonathan and Emily C.
(Johnson) Saint. The Saints are of Welsh origin and both the Saints and
Johnsons were residents of North Carolina, coming thence at an early day
to Indiana, where they became pioneer settlers and highly respected citizens.
Both families have long been identified with the Society of Friends. By his
present wife Mr. Cain has one child, Bertha Ruth, born September 18, 1885.
By her former marriage to Dr. E. Cain, a brother of our subject, Mrs. Cain
had four children, — Everett G., Orvill E., Claud E. and Mary E. Dr. Cain
was a veteran of the Civil war and died March 7, 1872.
Politically the subject of our sketch is a Republican. He served one
term, in 1880, as county commissioner, filling the office most acceptably.
Both he and his wife are merabers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
for sorae years he has served as steward in the church. He contributed
generously toward the erection of the M. E. church at Bunker Hill, this
county.

/CHRISTOPHER C. HANKS, a substantial farmer and representative
^^ citizen of Washington township, Miami county, and a veteran of the
Civil war, is a native of Germany, born in Lorsh, Hesse-Darmstadt, AprU
20, 1842, a son of Christopher and Margaret (Hanks) Hanks. The father
was born either December 31, 1800, or January i, 1801, and it is therefore
undetermined what century he belongs to by his birth! He was left an orphan
when young and was bound out to learn the carpenter's trade as he grew
up. He served as a soldier in the German army and suffered many hard
ships. At the age of eighteen years he was married to a lady of the same

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 973
surname but not a near relative. Then he followed teaming and at the same
time owned and cultivated a small farm of about ten acres altogether,
though it was in several pieces. Steadily persevering, patiently waiting,
practicing economy and having the aid of a faithful wife, he at length
attained a comfortable living. His children were John, Philip, Nicholas,
Peter, Frank, Stephen, Christopher C, Mary, Paulina, Ellen, Celia and
Margaret, — all born in Germany.
Mr, Hanks came with his family to America, setting sail in September,
1846, and arriving at New York in October, being fifty-six days on the voy
age. He came by way of the Erie canal, etc., to Peru, Indiana, and entered
one hundred and sixty acres of land two miles east of where the subject of
this sketch now resides. Only one acre of this tract was cleared, the
remainder being covered with a dense growth of tall timber. A log house
was there, which had been erected for school purposes. In the cabin Mr.
Hanks lived for a year and then built a good hewed-log house, which was
his residence for years. Assisted by his family, he cleared the land and in
course of time had a nice home, yielding the comforts for which he and his
noble family had so long entertained their hopes. Says Bronson Alcott,
"Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through mani
fold struggles and defeats! "
On the approach of the evening of life, when he both deserved and
desired a rest, he purchased a residence in Peru and retired fron-i the heavy
work of agricultural life, and here he passed his remaining days. He had
been a hard-working farmer and the founder of a family in America. His
first wife died in Peru, the very next day after their arrival from Germany,
and his eldest daughter died the next day after that! "Ye that e'er lost an
angel, pity me," despairingly exclaimed the poet Young all his life after he had
lost a little daughter. Under these circumstances did Mr. Hanks, after com
ing as it were from the center of the world's civUization, start out in life in
the wild woods of the lonely west, to establish a home, with nine children on
his hands and the eldest only twelve years of age, and he with only fifty
cents in money! The abundance of wild game in the forest was a great help,
and the kind neighbors a still greater help. What steady concentration of
mind, and how long continued, must be required for success under such cir
cumstances! Mr. Hanks was a sincere member of the Christian church, and
in politics was a Democrat.

974 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Mr. Hanks, whose name heads this sketch, was but three years of age
when brought to this country, and here in the wilds of pioneer Indiana grew
up to hard work and with but little schooling. August 6, 1862, at Peru, he
enlisted as a private in Company C, Eighty-seventh Regiment of Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Henry Calkins, to serve three years or dur
ing the war, and was honorably discharged at Washington city, in June,
1865, on account of the close of the war. He bravely did his part, engaging
in the battles of PerryvUle, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Buzzards' Roost
and in the famous Atlanta campaign, — -when the Union troops were under
fire nearly four months, — Resaca, Kenesaw mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro,
Sherman's grand march to the sea, Savannah, Fort McAllister, Goldsboro,
Raleigh and so on to Washington and the grand review, the most magnificent
triumphal demonstration in the history of the world. The march to Wash
ington vvas made in quick time and many soldiers were exhausted on the way.
Mr. Hanks during service was in the hospitals at Louisville and Chattanooga,
afflicted with measles, and was sent to a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee,
where h^ had a serious attack of chronic diarrhea, and his confinement at the
hospitals altogether amounted to six weeks. With this exception he was
always an active soldier and never missed his duty. He was never wounded
in battle, but saw much hard service, especially in the Atlanta campaign and
on the march to the sea. On the first march no rations were served, and
Mr. Hanks became a famous forager and was frequently detailed on such
service. He always brought in something, frequently sweet potatoes, hogs,
chickens and many farm products. He thinks his hardest-fought battle was
¦ that of Chattanooga, — two days and two nights.
After the close of the great bloody conflict of the government with
rebels, Mr. Hanks returned to his home in Washington township and
resumed agricultural pursuits, which he has ever since followed, with the
success that attends perseverance and good judgment, accumulating a com
petence. After his marriage he settled upon a farm of fifty-three acres of
the old Jamison place, and by economy he was at length able to increase his
acreage to two hundred. In his political views he is a Democrat. Both
himself and wife are Universalists in their religious belief, and are liberal
contributors to religious institutions; he aided materially in the building of
the new church edifice. He is a highly esteemed and a valuable citizen.
For his first wife Mr Hanks was united with Miss Rhoda Jamison, a

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 975
daughter of Samuel Jamison and Martha, nee Wildman, and by that mar
riage there were four children who lived to reach years of maturity, namely:
Charles N., Martha, Frank A. and Eleanor E. The mother of these chil
dren departed this life February 4, 1880, and June 2, 1881, Mr. Hanks was
united in matrimony with Miss Sarah E. Bell, who was born in Jefferson
county, Indiana, October 29, 1855, a daughter of William and Nancy
(Custer) Bell. Her father was of an old Kentucky family, a son of Thomas
Bell, and moved to Fulton county, Indiana, and thence to Cass county,
finally settling in Logansport. He was a stock dealer and farmer, and is
now engaged in conducting a feed store in Logansport. His children are
Mary C. , Sarah E, , Charles T., Prudence N., Isom M., Dora (who died at
the age of fifteen years), Gurdon, James, Hettie J., Jethro, Emma E. and
George, besides two who died in infancy. This is a strong and robust fam
ily, noted for their longevity. Mr. Bell is a Democrat and has been deputy
sheriff and assessor in Cass county.

jVyiELVIN J. McCARTER. — Among the prominent business concerns of
¦^ ' * Macy, Indiana, stands the popular Model Drug Store. The name
" Model" is no misnomer, the place being truly a model of neatness and con
venience. The proprietor of this establishment and subject of our sketch is
a young man who stands high in the social affairs of Macy. Like many
others, he began life at the foot of the financial ladder and is self-educated.
His life affords an Ulustration of the truth of the statement made by the late
Colonel Parker, at the head of the Boston schools, that ' ' we learn to do by
doing." His professional education was acquired largely by practical experi
ence and private study. Six years were spent as a man-of-all-work about a
drug store, but in his earlier years he was employed as a carriage painter, a
trade he had learned in his native town of Green Oak, Fulton county,
Indiana. Mr. McCarter was born on the i8th of July, 1861, eldest of the four
children of Samuel L. and Francanna (Day) McCarter, both natives of the
Hoosier state. The father is descended from Irish ancestors and the mother's
family was established in New England, probably by English ancestors.
They are residents of Macy, where the father is employed in the sawmill
business. The brothers of our subject are Charles W. and MUo E., the

976 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
former a liveryman in Rochester, Indiana, and the latter a machinist in Chi
cago; both are married and heads of families. The only sister is Mrs. Ida
F. Heigins, of Rochester, Indiana. Melvin J. received a common-school
education in his native village. This has been supplemented by years of
careful study along the line of his professional work. Though he never
entered a professional institution, he has acquired by careful study and obser
vation a good knowledge of the drug business. Six years he was employed
as a raan-of-all work in the drug store of Dr. M. M. Boggs, his present com
petitor in business, but while thus occupied he was not a student under the
Doctor's tuition, as the interests of the business did not demand that he spend
his time in making himself more useful to his employer, but rather that he
remain in ignorance of the details of the drug business. At the close of this
six years' service, in December, 1895, he started in business on his own
account, across the street from his competitor's store. In due time, how
ever, real estate in Macy took a boom and the interests of his former
employer demanded that he purchase the building in which his former clerk
was establishing a profitable drug business. At the time it was thought
that no other building could be had, but fortunately the present location was
found, it being an improvement over the former one in that it is more com
modious and better adapted to a growing business.
Mr. McCarter was united in marriage with Miss Ora M. Miller on the
3d of January, 1883. She ¦ is a daughter of Jacob and Louisa (Alspach)
MUler, residents of Macy. Mr. MUler is a well-to-do, retired farmer who
maintains a .silent partnership with Mr. McCarter. Mr. and Mrs. McCarter
have one child. Miss Bessie Gertrude, who was, born September 22, 1885.
The family are raembers of the M. E. church in Macy, and are also useful
and active in the Sunday-school. Fraternally Mr. McCarter is identified
with the K. O. T. M. and the I. O. O. F., and politically he is a Democrat,
though not aggressive in politics.

r^RANCES SLOCUM.— The Story of the Famous Indian Caprive.— One
*¦ of the most romantic and thrilling stories of our Indian wars and illus
trating the dangers of our brave pioneers and their hardy families is that of
little Frances Slocum, held a prisoner by the Miami Indians from the time
she was five years and seven months old until her discovery, almost sixty

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 977
years later, at Peru, Miami county, Indiana, by Colonel George W. Ewing,
the famous Indian trader of Logansport, Indiana. The facts, as here given,
have been gleaned from many sources, but the editor is chiefly indebted to
the grandniece of the famous captive, Mrs. L. G. Murphy, of Converse,
Indiana, "and to the excellent work on the subject, entitled "The Lost Sis
ter," by John F. Meginness.
Jonathan Slocum, the father of the celebrated heroine of the story, was
a member of the well known family of Slocums, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl
vania. In 1 77 1 he purchased- of his father-in-law, Isaac Tripp, a tract of
land in Capoose Meadows, now included within the limits of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, and in 1775 he bought a lot in the second division of the
town plat of Wilkesbarre and settled in a house which was situated but a
few hundred feet east of the fort. The country around, with the exception
of the few settlements scattered through the Wyoming valley, was a howl
ing wilderness, and the valley of the Susquehanna river was frequently the
warpath of savage tribes of red men.
Being members of the Society of Friends, both Mr. Slocum and Mr.
Tripp were very friendly in their treatment of the Indians, often giving them
food and shelter, allowing them to sleep before the old-fashioned fire-places
of their pioneer homes, and carrying into practice the high principles of
brotherly love and non-combativeness which actuated them in their dealings
with their white brothers. One of the Indians took a great fancy to little
Frances Slocum, then about five years of age. She was a beautiM, child,
with long, wavy tresses of 'silken light-brown hair, and her bright, happy
face and pretty ways charmed even the savage heart. The parent? were
brave and fearless, believing themselves secure from harm, because g)f their
uniform kindness toward the Indians. Their confidence was misplaced, as
the sequel shows, for on the 3d of July, 1778, the savages, smarting under
their real and fancied wrongs, and goaded on to deeds of violence by the
British and Tories, suddenly swooped down upon the settlements of the
beautiful Wyoming valley in full force, under the infamous Colonel Butler,
a Tory, and in the massacres which followed upwards of two hundred set
tlers perished, stockades, forts and homes were reduced to ashes, crops
destroyed and stock driven off. The unfortunate people, men, women and
children, were ruthlessly butchered and scalped. In this raid the savages
did not cross the Susquehanna river, but confined their atrocities to the ter_
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978 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ritory lying along the western bank. Fearing pursuit they hastily gathered
their trophies and retreated. As WUkesbarre fort and Mr. Slocum's home
stead were located on the eastern side of the river, his property escaped
destruction, and though most of the few remaining settlers fled immediately
he continued to follow his accustomed vocations, still trusting in the red
men to spare him and his.
The summer wore away and autumn advanced, and as yet no further
trouble had come to the sturdy, brave-hearted Slocum family. Novem
ber 2, 1778, three Delaware Indians stealthUy crept into the neigh
borhood of the peaceful home while Mr Slocum and Mr. Tripp were absent.
Mrs. Slocum and several of her children were in the house, as well as two
boys by the name of Kingsley. Their father, Nathan Kingsley, had been
taken prisoner by the Indians some time previously and their mother and
the two sons had been given hospitable entertainment by Mr. Slocum and
wife. The humble cabin stood just in the edge of the woods, and, as the
Indians approached through the underbrush they observed the two Kingsley
youths near the door, engaged in grinding a knife. Nathan, the elder, wore
a soldier's coat, and one of the savages, quickly singling out the youthful
patriot as his special prey, took careful aim and shot the young man. Mrs.
Slocum, coming to the door, was horrified to behold the Indian already
scalping his victim, with the same knife which the unfortunate lad had been
sharpening. She fled into the woods with several of the chUdren, Mary, one
of her daughters, snatching up her two-year old brother Joseph. Little
Frances, then five years and seven months old, secreted herself under the
stairway leading to the loft of the cabin. The Indians ransacked the place
and were about to depart when they saw the frightened face of the little girl,
as she peered at thera from under the stairs. Seizing her, the surviving
Kingsley boy and Ebenezer Slocum, aged about twelve years, the red
men hastened away, fearing that an alarm would be given at the fort,
only a short distance away. The frantic mother watched them from the
thicket, expecting to see the tomahawk burifed in the heads of her children;
but when she saw them being carried away, her motherly instinct over
powered all else, and, with streaming eyes, she rushed forward and implored
the foe to release her little ones. They scoffed at her supplications and
scorned her tears, and she realized that her prayers would haye no, effect on
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ass, MIAMI, HOWARD .IXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 979
lame, and she suddenly thought that if he failed to keep up with the Indians,
in their rapid retreat they would undoubtedly kill him. In anguished tones
she exclaimed," " The child is lame; he can do thee no good, " and pointed to
the lad's crippled feet. The Indian understood her apparently, and the sense
of her remark appealed to him so forcibly that he released the boy. However,
he placed little Frances on his shoulder and rushed after his companions.
Mrs. Slocum begae.d piteously for her child, but in vain. With hands
stretched imploringly toward her mother and tears streaming down her
cheeks she was born away into the glpom of the forest. The memory of
that piteous, childish face was indelibly imprinted in the mother's heart, and
with sorrow and lamentations she pursued the rest of her life-journey, for
they never beheld each other again.
The alarm was immediately given at the fort near by and a party of pio
neers started in hot pursuit, but owing to the dangers of the forests and the
hostile Indians lurking in ambush on every hand the quest was soon aban
doned as a hopeless and hazardous one. Many years afterward Fra,nces
Slocum related her subsequent history, in the following words, to Mrs. Eliza
Slocum, the mother of Mrs. Murphy: "The Indians carried me down a
deep ravine, a long way, when we came to a cave and went in. I saw my
father hunting for me and was going to scream, when an Indian held a big
knife over me, and, looking cross, said: 'Me kill, me kill.' That was the last
time I sajyray father. At night the Indians waded in the water down the
creek a long distance, when they carae to their horses. We rode all night
and came to an Indian cajrtp. A little boy and I were given to two Indians
and were started one way, the rest of the Indians went another way. They
had nine captives with them. We went north and crossed under the Big
Water. The Big Water went boom! boom! (It was the Niagara Falls.)
After a time we came to an Indian camp. I don't know anything about the
boy: don't know what became of him. They. took me to an old man and
his wife and they always took care of me. One day when I was twenty-two
years old there was a big stir in camp; the old raan and his wife took me
and got in a' boat in a great hurry and we went a long way, when we came to
another camp. The old man then gave me to the chief and then I took
care of his wigwam." " When Francis gave this account of her capture,"
said Mrs. Slocum, " her daughter was present and interpreted for her."
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had befallen his family. The bloody corpse of the murdered boy lay by the
door and his wife was prostrated with grief at the loss of her little daughter.
His own sorrow he was obliged to control in his efforts to console his stricken
wife. She could not banish from her mind the thought of the child, and ever
in her ears the plaintive cry of the little one, "Mamma! Mamma!" resounded.
What would become of the child.? Would she be murdered in the forest and
her body become food for wolves.' One circumstance particularly distressed
the mother. Frances had been the proud possessor of a pair of new shoes,
and, as a matter of economy, they had been laid aside for cold weather. She
was bare-footed when she went away, and the thought of the tender little
feet traveling rough pathways and stony trails, perhaps through frost and
snow, was an intolerable one to the mother's heart. ' ' Oh, if the poor little
creature only had her shoes ! " was her constant cry.
Tirae dragged heavily in the stricken household. No tidings of the lost
child could be obtained. A little more than a month had elapsed and the
heart-broken family had not recovered from the blow, when another, more
crushing than the first, fell upon them. The distinguished historian of
Wyoraing, Hon. Charles Miner, says, in writing on this subject: "The cup
of vengeance was not yet full. December i6, 1778, Mr. Slocum and Isaac
Tripp, his father-in-law, an aged man, with William Slocum, a youth of
nineteen years, was feeding cattle from a stack in the meadow, in sight ofthe
fort, when they were fired upon by Indians. Mr. Slocum was shot dead,
Mr. Tripp was wounded, speared and tomahawked, and both were scalped.
William, wounded in the heel by a spent ball, escaped and gave the alarm,
but the alert and wily foe had retreated to his hiding-place in the mount
ains. This deed, bold as it was cruel, was perpetrated within the town
plat, in the center of which the fort was located, now in the heart of Wilkes
barre. Thus, in a little raore than a month, Mrs. Slocum had lost a beloved
child, carried into captivity; the doorway had been drenched in blood by the
murder of an inmate of the family; two others of the household had been
taken prisoners, and now her husband and her father had both been stricken
down to the grave, murdered and mangled by the merciless Indians. The
annals of Indian atrocities, written in blood, record few incidents of desola
tion and woe equal to this."
Much speculation has been devoted to the reason why the Indians vis
ited upon the Slocum family such vengeance, when they had ahvays treated

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the red men with kindness and consideration, and when they were well known
as belonging to the same peaceful sect, the Society of Friends, as was Will
iam Penn, whose treaty with the Indians had been respected by the latter.
There is a tradition in the Slocum family, not before given in print, we
believe, to the effect that Mr. Slocum incurred the deep displeasure of the
Tories, who offered the Indians a price for his scalp. He was a man who
took deep interest in all public affairs, and at one time, when he was a mem
ber of the Pennsylvania assembly, he vigorously advocated the cause of the
colonies against Great Britain, fearlessly championing liberty. The tradition
has it that a captive among the Indians saw a'nd recognized the scalp of Mr.
Slocum, as a British officer paid for the ghastly trophy sixty "English guineas
in gold. As the home of Mr. Slocum was located so near the fort and an
attack upon it was consequently dangerous, he must have been specially sought
for, or the second visit would not have been made by the savages.
Another tradition in regard to the capture of the little Frances is to the
effect that the Indians who visited the Slocum household prior to the massacre
and spent a night in the pioneer cabin, noticed the beautiful child, were
much pleased with her, and carried her away to take the place of the
deceased daughter of a chief, she being about the same age. The Indians
had a superstition that the spirit of a child who died passed into an adopted
child, and thus became the identical one who was lost. As little Frances
was of such tender years that the task of carrying her on a long march was
difficult, the Indians must have had some powerful motive in her capture.
True it is that she was carefully hidden and removed from one place to
another; that she was not brought forth when other captives were surren
dered after the peace; nor were her whereabouts revealed though large
rewards were offered for her safe return. The reason usually given for the
repeated attacks upon the Slocum family is that Giles, the eldest son, took
an active part against the Indians in the battle of Wyoming, and that they
believed that the family was in league against their race.
Frances Slocum was adopted by an Indian chief and squaw who had
lost their daughter, and they became greatly attached to her. One of her
marked characteristics was her fine head of beautiful auburn hair, golden in
the sunlight, and with tinges of red in it. On the back of her head there
was a peculiarly bright spot, and this peculiarity is yet to be noticed in some
of the descendants of the Slocum family.

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After peace had been made with Great Britain, our government made an
effort to conciliate the Indian tribes of the north. Mr. Slocum's sons had
grown to manhood and were becoming prosperous. Then began a search
for their lost sister which extended over years. They were undoubtedly
inspired in this arduous task by their mother, who still mourned her lost
child and firmly believed that she would be found some day. The brothers
traveled far and wide through the trackless wilderness, visiting the villages
of the different tribes and trading-posts. They spent thousands of dollars in
the unavailing search, and advertised continuously in the frontier newspapers,
offering a reward of five hundred guineas for information of the lost child.
In 1789, Mrs. Slocum, then a woman fifty-three years of age, visited Tioga
Point, now Athens, Pennsylvania, where the Indians of numerous tribes
assembled at the request of the government to give the parents and relatives
of captives an opportunity of reclaiming them. There were no roads, and
the journey for Mrs. Slocum was long and difficult. In sorrow she was
obliged to return home without having accomplished her mission, but she
never gave up the idea that her little girl was still living. She died, bowed
down with grief and the weight of seventy-one years. May 6, 1807.
Nearly sixty years rolled away and the Slocum family had given up all
hope of every learning of the whereabouts of the missing one; Giles, Judith
and William, brothers and sister to Frances, had followed their parents to
the grave. In August, 1837, a letter came to Joseph Slocum, another brother
of the captive. This communication had been sent the Lancaster (Penn
sylvania) Intelligencer, from Logansport, Indiana, two years previously, and,
being mislaid by the editor, had not been printed until 1837. A friend of
the family seeing the article, promptly sent it to Joseph Slocum at Wilkes
barre. It ran as follows; LoG.-VNSPORT, Ind., January 20, 1835.
Dear Sir: — In the hope that some good may result from it, I have
taken this means of giving to your fellow citizens, say the descendants of the
early pioneers of the Susquehanna, the following information, and, if there
be any now living whose name is Slocum, to them I hope the following may
be communicated through the public print of your place. There is now liv
ing near this place an aged white woman, who a few days ago told me, while
I lodged in the camp one night, that she was taken from her father's house
on or near the Susquehanna river when she was very young, — say from five
to eight years old, as she thinks, — by the Delaware Indians, She says her

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father's name was Slocum; that he was a Quaker, rather small in stature and
wore a large-brimmed hat; was of sandy hair and light complexion and much
freckled; lived about half a mile from a town where there was a fort; that they
lived in a wooden house two stories high, and had a spring near the house. She
says that three Delaware Indians came to the house in the daytime, when all
were absent but herself and perhaps two other children. Her father and
brothers were absent, working in the fields. The Indians carried her off and
she was adopted into a family of Delawares, who raised her and treated her
as their own child. They died about forty years ago, somewhere in Ohio.
She then married a Miami, by whom she had four children; two of them are
now living. They are both daughters and she lives with them. Her hus
band is dead. She is old and feeble, — thinks she cannot live long. These
considerations induced her to give the present history of her life, which she
would never do before, fearing that her kindred would come and force her
away. She had lived long and happy as an Indian and but for her color
.would not be suspected of being anything else but such. She is very respect
able and wealthy, sober and honest; her name is without reproach. She
says her father had a large family, — say eight children in all, six older than
herself, one younger, as well as she can recollect, — and she doubts not there
are yet living many of their descendants, but seems to think all her brothers
and sisters must be dead, as she is very old herself, not far from eighty. She
thinks she was taken prisoner before the last two wars, which must mean the
Revolution, as M-^ayne's war and the late war have been since that one. She
has entirely lost her mother tongue and speaks only in Indian, which I also
understand, and she gave me a full history of herself. Her own Christian
narae she has forgotten, but says her father's name was Slocum and he was
a Quaker. She does recollect it was upon the Susquehanna river they lived,
but don't recollect the name of the town near which they lived.
I have thought that from this letter you might cause something to be
inserted in the newspapers of your county that might possibly catch the eye
of some descendant of the Slocum family who has knowledge of a girl being
carried off by the Indians some seventy years ago. They might know from
family tradition; if so, and they will come here, I will carry them where
they may see the object of my letter alone. I can form no idea whereabout
upon the Susquehanna river this family could have lived at that early period,
namely, about the time of the Revolutionary war, but perhaps you can
ascertain more about it. If so, I hope you will interest yourself, and. if
possible, let her brothers and sisters, if alive, if not, their children, know
where they may once more see a relation whose fate has been wrapped in
mystery for seventy years, and for whom her bereaved and afflicted parents
doubtless shed many a bitter tear. They have long since found their graves.

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though their lost child they never found. I have been much affected with
the disclosure and hope the surviving friends may obtain, through your good
ness, the information I desire for them. If I can be of any service to them,
they may command me. In the meantime I hope you will excuse the free
dom I have taken with you, a total stranger, and believe me to be, sir, with
much respect. Your obedient servant,
GEORGE W. EWING.
The relatives at once took steps to collect all possible information for
the purpose of verifying the story, and a letter was immediately written to
Colonel Ewing. From his reply we quote the following: ' ' She has now recov
ered from the illness she was afflicted with about the time I spent the night
with her in January, 1835, and which, no doubt, was the cause that induced her
to speak so freely of her early captivity. Although she is now, by long habit,
an Indian, and her manners and customs precisely theirs, yet she will be,
doubtless, happy to see you. * * * There you can find your long lost
sister, living on the Mississinewa river, about ten miles from the mouth; and,
as I have before stated, you will not have cause to blush on her account.
She is highly respected and her name as an Indian is above reproach. Her
daughter, too, and her son-in-law, Brouillette, who is also a half-breed, being
part French, are both respectable and interesting people, — none in the nation
more so. As Indians they live well and will be pleased to see you."
As speedily as possibfe it was arranged that Joseph Slocum, then resid- .
ing at Wilkesbarre, should proceed to Ohio and join his sister, Mrs. Mary
Towne, who lived in the central part of the state, the rest of the journey to
be made by private conveyance. Isaac Slocum, another brother who had
settled in the vicinity of Bellevue, in Huron county, Ohio, as early as 1823,
was to meet the others near the home of the supposed sister in Indiana.
This trip was taken in September, 1837. Isaac, who lived but two hundred
miles from the village of the tribe of the Miamis whom they were to visit,
was extremely anxious to meet his long-lost sister and could not restrain his
impatience when he reached the meeting point and he found that his brother
and sister had not yet arrived. He hunted up James T. Miller, an interpre
ter, and went at once to the cabin of the venerable woman. He had fixed
in his mind an infallible mark of identification for his guidance. Little
Frances, while playing in the blacksmith shop with her brothers, prior to her

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captivity, had the fore finger of her left hand crushed with a hammer, the
bone being so injured that the nail was permanently destroyed and the finger
otherwise disfigured. No surprise was manifested by the old lady when the
brother entered her home, she receiving him with the stoical indifference of
the Indian. After some general conversation Mr. Slocum took her by the
hand, and, leading her to the light, observed that her left fore finger was,
indeed, disfigured in the manner above stated. With his heart swelling with
emotion he exclaimed, "How came that finger injured .'" and her answer
was: "My brother struck it with a hammer in the shop a long time ago,
before I was carried away." This was conclusive evidence to the brother as
to her identity and he was satisfied beyond a doubt that the long-lost sister
for whom he and his brother had so faithfully searched for years was at last
found. The other brother and sister arrived within a few days and they vis
ited together. The village of the Miami Indians in which she was living had
been first settled in by her deceased husband and named in his honor, " Deaf
Man's " village. Her home was a double log cabin with a porch. At first
she appeared coldly formal and suspicious, as though she feared that her rel
atives had come to take her away; but later her reserve relaxed to some
extent and she conversed more freely. She could not remember her given
name, but when asked if it was Frances, she smiled and answered, "Yes,
Franca, Franca! "
Having gained the consent of Frances to make them a visit at their
hotel in Peru, the brothers and sisters bade her farewell and returned to
town. True to her promise she appeared at the appointed time, accompa
nied by her son-in-law and two daughters. Single-file the little party rode
into Peru on their Indian ponies, gayly attired in their barbaric splendor with
which members of their tribe were wont to array themselves upon important
occasions. The Slocum brothers met them at the door of the hotel and
made arrangements for the comfort of the Indians, who, on their part, as a
mark of esteem and confidence in their hosts brought a gift, consisting of the
hind-quarters of a deer, carefully rolled in a clean white cloth. Their speech
of presentation, having been interpreted, was answered by the civilized sister
and the gift accepted. Fear and suspicion were banished from the manner
of the savages from that time and the simple and impressive ceremony which
had brought about this result was recognized by all as a touching and signifi
cant one. In the ensuing interview Frances told her story, and in turn

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learned of what had befallen the household of which she had once been a
cherished and beloved member. She insisted that she had always been well
treated and well provided for in the matter of comforts of life. A few
extracts from her story may prove of interest, couched in her own simple
words :
" I can well remember when the Delaware Indians came suddenly to our
house. I remember they killed and scalped a man near the door, taking his
scalp with them. They pushed the boy through the door ; he came to me
and we both went and hid under the stair-case. They went up stairs and •
rifled the house, though I cannot remember what they took, except some
loaf-sugar and some bundles. I remember they took me and the boy on their
backs through the bushes. I believe the rest of the family had fled, except
my mother. They carried us a long way, as it seemed to me, to a cave,
where they had left their blankets and traveling things. It was over the
mountains and a long way down on the other side. Here we stopped while
it was yet light and there we stayed all night. I can remember nothing
about that night except that I was very tired and lay down on the ground
and cried until I went to sleep. The next day we set out and traveled many
days in the woods before we came to a village of Indians. When we stopped
at night the Indians would cut down a few boughs of hemlock on which to
sleep and then make up a great fire of logs which lasted all night. When they
cooked anything they stuck a stick in it and held it to the fire as long as they
chose. They drank at the brooks and springs and for me they made a little
cup of white birch bark, out of which I drank. I can only remember that
they stayed several days at the first village, but where it was I have no
recollection. After we had been there some days, very early one morning
two of same Indians took a horse and placed me and the boy upon it and
again set out on a journey. One went on before on foot and the other Indian
followed the horse. In this way we went a long way till we came to a village
where those Indians belonged. I then found that one of my captors was a
Delaware chief, of the name of Tuck Horse. This was a great name among
the Delawares, but I do not know its meaning. We were kept here some
days, when they came and took away the boy (Kingsley) and I never saw
him again and do not know what became of him. Early one morning Tuck
Horse came and took me and dressed my hair in the Indian way and then
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and made me look, as I thought, very fine. I was much pleased with
the beautiful wampum. We then lived on a hill and I remember he
took me by the hand and led me down to the riverside to a house
where lived an old man and woman. They had once had children, but
now they were all gone, either killed in battle or having died when very
young. When Indians lose all their children they often adopt some new
child as their own. This is the reason why they so often carry away the
children of the white people. I was brought to those people to' have them
adopt me if they woiild. They seemed unwilling at first, but after Tuck
Horse had talked with thera awhile they agreed to it, and this was my home.
They gave me the name of We-let-a-wash, which was the name of their
youngest child, whom they had lately buried. It had now got to be fall
(1779), for the chestnuts were ripe. The Indians were very numerous here
and here we remained all winter. The Indians were in the service of the
British and were furnished by them with provisions. They seemed to be the
gathered remnants of several nations of Indians. I remember that this was
a fort town. In the spring I went with the parents who had adopted rae to
Sandusky, where we spent the next summer, but in the fall we returned
again to the. fort, the place where I was made an Indian child, and there we
spent the winter of 1780. In the spring we went down to a large river,
which is Detroit river, where we stopped and built a great number of bark
canoes. I might have said before that there was a war between the British
and Americans, and that the American army had driven the Indians away
from the fort where I was adopted. In these fights I remember the Indians
used to take and bring back scalps, but I do not know how many. When
our canoes were all done we went up the Detroit river, where we remained
about three years. I think peace had been made between the British and
Americans, and so we lived by hunting and fishing and raising corn. The
reason why we stayed so long was that we heard that the Americans had
destroyed all our villages and corn-fields. After these years my family and
-another Delaware family removed to Ke-ki-ong-a (now Fort Wayne); I don't
know where the other Indians went. This was now our home and I suppose
we lived here as many as twenty-six or thirty years. It was then long after
I was grown and I was there at the time of Harmar's defeat. At the time
this battle was fought the women and children were all made to run north.
I cannot remember whether the Indians took any prisoners or brought home

988 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
any scalps at this time. After the battle they all scattered to their various
homes, as was their custom, till gathered again for some particular object.
I then returned to Ke-ki-ong-a. The Indians who returned frora this battle
were Delawares, Pottawattomies, Shawnees and Miamis. I was always
treated well and kindly, and while I vvas living with them I was married to a
.Delaware. He afterward left me and the country and went west of the Mis
sissippi. The Delawares and Miamis were then living together. I was afterward
married to a Miami, a chief and a deaf man. His name was She-pan-can-ah.
After being married to him I had four children, two boys and two girls. My
boys died when young. The girls are living and are here in the room at the
present time. I cannot recollect much about the Indian wars with the whites,
though they were so common and so bloody. I well remember a battle and
a defeat of the Americans at Fort Washington, which is now Cincinnati. I
remember how Wayne, or "mad Anthony," drove the Indians away and
built the fort. The Indians then scattered all over the country and lived
upon game, which was very abundant. After this they encamped all along
the Eel river, and after peace was made we all returned to Fort Wayne and
received provisions Irom the Americans, and I lived there a long time. I had
removed with my family to the Mississinewa river some tirae before the battle
of Tippecanoe. The Indians who fought in that battle were the Kickapoos,
Pottawattomies and Shawnees. The Miamis were not there. I heard of the
battle on the Mississinewa, but my husband was a deaf man (at that time)
and never went to the wars, and I do not know much about them."
When Frances paused in her long narration her brother said: "We
live where our father and mother used to live, on the banks of the beautiful
Susquehanna, and we want you to return with us. We will give you of our
property and you shall share all we have and be one of us. You shall have
a good home and have everything you desire. Oh, do go back with us! "
" No, I cannot," was the sad yet firm reply. " I have always lived with the
Indians; they have always used me very kindly; I am used to them. The
Great Spirit has allowed me to live with them and I want to live and die
with them. Your lookmg-glass may be larger than mine, but this is my
home. I do not want to live any better or anywhere else. I think the
Great Spirit has permitted me to live so long because I have always lived
with the Indians. I should have died sooner if I had left them. My hus
band and my boys are buried here and I cannot leave them. On his dying

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day my husband charged me never to leave the Indians. I have a house and
large lands, two daughters, a son-in-law, three grandchildren and everything
to make me comfortable; why should I go and be like a fish out of water.' *
* * I do not work. I sit in the house with these, my two daughters, who
do the work." "But won't you go and make a visit to your early home, and
when you have seen us, return again to your children.'" asked one of the
brothers. " I cannot, I cannot! I am an old tree. I cannot move about.
I was a sapling when they took me away. It is all gone past. I am afraid
I should die and never again come back. I am happy here. I shall die
here and lie in that graveyard and they will raise a pole at my grave with the
white flag on it, and the Great Spirit will know where to find me. I should
not be happy with my white relatives. I am glad enough to see them, but
I cannot go, I cannot go! I have done!"
" When the whites take a squaw," said Brouillette, the son-in-law, with
much animation, as if delighted with the decision of the old lady, " they
make her work like a slave. It was never so with this woman. If I had
been a worthless, drunken fellow, this woman could not have lived to this
age. But I have always treated her well. The village is ' Deaf Man's '
village, after her husband. I have done! " The elder daughter, who was
called Ke-ke-se-qua ('Cut-finger," probably in reference to her mother's
injured finger), r^ow added: "The deer cannot live out of the forest." The
younger daughter, Ozah-wah-shing-qua ( "Yellow Leaf ") confirmed all that
had been said, and thought that her mother could not even go on a visit,
" because," she said, "the fish dies quickly out of the water." Thus the
remarkable and pathetic interview came to an end. Bidding her relatives a
warm adieu, Frances mounted her pony, and, followed by her daughters and
son-in-law, galloped away, and was soon lost in the depths of the forest.
With saddened hearts the Slocum brothers and sisters now prepared to
depart, also. They had found their long-lost sister, but had been unable to
win her back; they had found her an Indian with almost every trace of Chris
tian civilization obliterated from her soul, and yet there was wisdom in her
words and in her decision. "She looked like an Indian, " remarked Dr.
Peck, "talked like an Indian, lived like an Indian, seated herself like an
Indian, ate like an Indian, lay down to sleep like an Indian, thought, felt and
reasoned like an Indian. She had no longings for her original home or the
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breathe freely only in the great unfenced out-doors which God gave to the
red man!" And yet, after her long captivity, what other condition could
have been expected than that in which she was found .' Association, influence
and daily teaching and example mold the judgment and if bad destroy the
moral sentiment and shape the destiny for evil. There was, however, much
comfort to the Slocums in the fact that their sister was not degraded in her
habits or character, and though she had been so long under Indian influences
her Anglo-Saxon blood had not been tainted, and there was a moral dignity
in her manner entirely superior to that of the ordinary savage. She was the
widow of a chief. She was rich, and unusually respected, for a woman in
her tribe. To her they gave the title of Ma-con-a-qua, the queen of the
Miamis. This name signifies " young bear," and it was doubtless bestowed
upon her in recognition of her strength and bravery, which were inherited
traits, her family being of the sturdy, stanch stock of the true American pio
neer. It is believed that the remarkable taciturnity, stoicism, suspicion and
secretiveness which are common to the red men were acquired by her during
her long residence with the race and masked great yearning for her native
home and relatives, and that while she was unmarried she always cherished
the idea that she might return to her eariy home some time. Further thought
of escape seemed to be banished from her mind when she became the wife of
one of the Indians, and the birth of her children and the long lapse of time
since her capture gradually overmastered her former wishes to return to the
old, dimly remembered life. Her relation of her story to Colonel Ewing
plainly showed that her natura'l yearning for her family was not dead, however.
For nearly sixty years she had retained the main facts of her capture and
subsequent history in her mind, and, when she saw that her days were num
bered she felt that she must disclose the story to some reliable person of her
own race. When she partially recovered from the sick spell which had led
her to relate the annals of her life, she at once relapsed into the reserve
which characterized her, as those with whom she had always been associated.
Once having become acquainted with ber brothers and sister, she gave them
her trust and confidence, and when trouble threatened, and when the Indians
were about to be removed to a reservation west of the Mississippi river, she
freely called upon them for assistance and advice and it was cheerfully given
to her. Through good management, frugality and hard work she accumu
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Peter Bondy, said that at one time she owned three hundred Indian ponies,
and cattle, hogs, and poultry in great numbers. This Anglo-Saxon trait of
acquiring property was one not common to the red men, as is well known.
"In her younger days," said Mr. Bondy, "Frances handled the lariat with
great dexterity, and, on account of her unusual strength she had no difficulty
in bringing a pony to her terms. She was also fleet of toot, and to use her
own words, ' could run as swiftly as a man.' " Her physical powers of endur
ance were great, probably owing to her active, out-door life, and it was only
the weight of years that bore her down at last.
Soon after the visit of her friends Frances caused to be built a new log
house on the hill a few hundred yards to the rear ei her former home, which
stood on the brink of the river. The old cabin was low, had a clap
board roof, a door in the center of the front of the house and a window at
either side. In the half-story loft food, etc., were stored. Near by vvas
a spring of pure water and another log cabin, and these, with a few scattered
houses on the opposite bank of the river, constituted " Deaf Man's " village.
The new home of Frances was a two-story, double log house, with porches.
A flne view of the river was afforded from the site of the home and many of
the comforts of civilized life were to be found here.
Speaking of the personal appearance of Frances, her niece, Hannah
Bennett, daughter of Joseph Slocum, said, " She is small in stature; is very
much bent; had her hair tied with worsted ferret; her hair is somewhat gray;
her eyes bright chestnut, clear and sprightly for one of her age; her face is
very much wrinkled and weather-beaten; she has a scar on her left cheek,
received in an Indian dance; her skin is not as dark as you would expect
from her age and constant exposure; and her teeth are remarkably good.
Her dress was a blue calico short gown, a white ftiackinaw blanket, some-
wliat soiled by constant wear; a fold of blue broadcloth was wrapped around
her; red cloth leggings and buckskin moccasins.
" The interior of the hut was well supplied with all the necessaries, if
not luxuries. They had six beds, principally composed of blankets and other
goods folded together. One room contained the cooking utensils, the other
the table and dishes. They spread a cloth on the table and gave us a very
comfortable meal of fried venison, tea and short-cake. The elder daughter,
near thirty-four years of age, is large and fleshy, — I should think would
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ing. The younger is smaller, is quiet and very retiring, and is twenty-four
years of age. The grandchildren's names are Kep-pe-no-qua (Corn Tassel),
Wap-po-no-se-a (Blue Corn), Kim-on-tak-qua (Young Panther). They have
a looking-glass and several splint-bottomed chairs. A great many trinkets
hang about the house, beads and charms of silver and polished steel. Some
of their dresses are richly erabroidered with silver brooches, seven and eight
rows of them, as closely as they can be put together. They have many sil
ver ear-rings. My aunt had seven pairs in her ears; her daughters perhaps
a dozen apiece. They have saddles and bridles of the most costly kind, six
men's saddles and one side saddle. They have between fifty and sixty
horses, one hundred hogs^ seventeen head of cattle, also geese and chickens.
The house is enclosed with a common worm fence; there are some outhouses,
principally built of logs. A never-failing spring of excellent water is near
the door, with a house over it. They have a section of land, given to her
two daughters. The treaty was ratified with the government this spring.
The land, which is now owned by the government, is now settling, which is
not pleasant for thera, as intruders frequently help themselves to horses, hogs
and cattle. Captain Brouillette, her son-in-law, is now with her, providing
for the family and kUhng game, as he is a noted hunter. He provides the
wood, which is somewhat unusual for an Indian, and lays up corn and hay
for winter. " As to my aunt's religion, she is well apprised of a heaven and a hell;
the necessity of hving a just and peaceable life; if she is .such she will be
happy when she dies; this was taught her by her adopted parents. She says
she is able to have a better house but fears to do it on account of the jealousy
of the Indians. She has money: some that has been saved since the treaty of
St. Mary's, eighteen years ago; she has lent three hundred dollars at a time.
Her adopted father could talk good English and she could speak it with him
while he lived. He was very careful to publish that she was dead, and
the Indians generally promised to do the same. "
Concerning this memorable visit, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, of Madison, New
York, added her recollections, as follows: "On reaching the house we
found our aunt seated on a chair looking very much as represented in the
water-color portrait now in possession of Judge Bennett, with her two daugh
ters standing by her. After salutations had been exchanged, Joseph Slocum
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The coldness and reserve of the former visit were entirely gone and Frances
expressed great joy at seeing her brother again, and especially that he had
brought his chUdren so far to see her. The mother and daughters immediately
began commenting, in an animated way, upon the subject of family resem
blances. The old lady, looking attentively at her nieces, passed her hand
down her cheeks; stopping the motion atthe posterior point of the lower jaw.
There is an unusual fullness and prominence at that spot in the faces of the
Slocums." Continuing, in the language of Mrs. Lewis: "The preparations for din
ner were soon commenced. They spread the table with a white cotton
cloth, and wiped the dishes as they took them from the cupboard, with a
clean cloth. They prepared an excellent dinner of fried venison, potatoes,
short cake and coffee. Their cups and saucers were small and they put
three or four tablespoons of maple sugar in each cup. They were told our
way was not to use so much sugar. They seemed anxious to please and
would often ask, ' Is that right.' ' The eldest daughter waited on the table
while her mother sat at the table and ate with her white relations. After
dinner they washed the dishes and replaced them on the shelves and then
swept the floor. We were surprised at these marks of civilization, and on
asking our aunt why she did these things she made answer that her mother
used to do so, and she had always done so and had taught her daughters.
It was therefore a uniform rule in her house to wipe the dust from the dishes
when they were put upon the table, and when the meal was concluded to
sweep the room. We strolled over the premises, which showed great skill
and industry for savage life and no little order and attention to comfort in
arrangement. A neighboring squaw came in to help do the work and the
Indian daughters kept close to their white cousins and talked with them
incessantly. " For supper they had the breast of a wild turkey stewed with onions,
quite a delicate dish. They had six beds, principally composed of blankets.
We slept sweetly and after taking a comfortable breakfast commenced mak
ing preparations to return to Peru. After breakfast a white man came to
purchase a steer and brought with him a colored man to act as an interpre
ter. No business transaction takes place in the family without the consent
of Frances, and she usually makes the bargain herself. The colored man
served so well in the capacity of interpreter that my father retained him for
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that purpose. My aunt was more free in her communications through him
than she had been with Mr. Miller, and gave many circumstances in her
history which she had not previously given. They seemed anxious to tell
their white relations as much as possible of their industry and said they had
made eleven barrels of sugar in the spring. Before the white people left,
Frances made an effort to have her brother come and live near her, and told
Mr. Slocum that U he would come and live with them, she would give him
half her land," — no mean present.
As it had been stipulated in the treaty of i8,^o that the Indians should
abandon their homes on the banks of the Wabash, there was much dissatis
faction and uneasiness among them, especially those who were aged and had
passed all their days in that locality. No one mourned the coming depart
ure more than Frances Slocum. She could not endure the thought of the
long westward journey, nor the idea of having her children and grandchildren
torn from her. She was now seventy-two years old and felt that her days
were nearly spent. She had been a wanderer much of her life and had
endured great hardships and privations in the wilderness. She longed to be
permitted to rest beside her chieftain husband when she died, at the beauti
ful spot she had chosen as their burial place. She appealed to her brothers,
Isaac and Joseph, in her distress, and they decided to have her ask of congress
to be exempted from the treaty agreement, and, with her descendants, be
allowed to remain on the section of land which had been her home for so
many years, and on which she had made material improvements. A petition
was drawn up and signed by all the members of her family, and this inter
esting and historic document is still in existence. It was ably and eloquently
supported in congress and was promptly acted upon. Thus the land in ques
tion was granted in perpetuity to her daughters and their heirs forever, and
later, by joint resolution, their annuities were made payable at Fort Wayne
or Peru. Frances was greatly pleased, but the departure of her old friends
among the Indians depressed her spirits, and the rush of speculators and
settlers to the newly opened lands in Indiana did not add to her happiness,
for her stock and property were frequently enroached upon and her rights
disregarded. Many of her ponies were stolen and she again became sus
picious of the white people, some of whom were very unscrupulous. She
feared that the governraent would eventually take her land from her, as the
patent to it had not yet been placed in her possession. She therefore com-

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municated once more with her brothers and begged Joseph to come and pro
tect her interests. Owing to his advanced age he could not accede to her
request, but Isaac, of Bellevue, Ohio, responded promptly, and the result of
their interview was that his son George, who had previously visited her, went
to live with her and faithfully looked after her and her property until her
death. He did this without compensation, feeling himself repaid by the
good he was able to do his venerable relative and the remnant of the Indian
tribe, to whom he was indeed a benefactor.
With the advance of civilization, its vices, greed for gain and prom
inence, as contrasted with the freedom and romance of the so-called savage
life, Frances Slocum felt that she had indeed fallen upon evil times, and
thus she was not sad at the approach of death. In her declining years she
was blessed by the presence of her two daughters, their husbands, and her
grandchildren, as well as her devoted nephew, George R. Slocum, all of
whom kindly administered to her wishes and needs. She refused all medical
assistance in the brief week's illness which preceded her death, declaring
that, as her people were gone, she no longer desired to live. She died
March 9, 1847, aged about seventy-four years.
The tenacity with which she clung to the spot where she had lived so
many years and finally died, refusing to leave it for the associations of civi
lized life, is one of the marked features of her story. Her ancestors for a
hundred years or more had been loyal to the faith of the Society of Friends,
but through long years of captivity all traces of her people's religion were
obliterated from her mind. However, through the devoted zeal of her
nephew, George R. Slocum, much of the darkness was dispelled from her
soul, and she realized and experienced some of the beneficial influences of
Christianity. She was a woman of strong individuality, and the firmness
and decision of her nature are shown in the lineaments of her face and in the
pictured representation thereof. She commanded the respect and admira
tion of the rude people among whom she lived, to a noticeable degree.
They looked up to her as being one of superior intelligence, asking her for
advice in business and general affairs. They treated her kindly and gained
her affection. Mrs. E. O. Slocum, mother of Mrs, L. G. Murphy, gave this account
of the marriage of Frances Slocum: "Atone time I was at their house,
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996 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
asked her to tell me of her mother's marriages, as I had heard she was twice
married. She said the first time she was married she was not happy. I
asked her how they got married. She replied: ' Frances' father said to
him (first husband) "You love him, squaw .'" He said " Yes. " The father
replied, " Well, take him and no 'buse him." ' Mrs. Bondy continued: 'After
a vvhile he 'buse him, and he (she) came home; but her husband came and
made good promises to treat her well. She tried her again, but he was
abusive. She left him again, came back and they drove him away and she
never saw hira again. The second marriage ' said Mrs. Bondy, ' came about
as follows: Frances, her father and mother started down the river. Before
they reached Fort Wayne they passed an Indian battle-ground. The dead
Vv'ere lying on every side. They heard moans and stopped, for on the bank
vvas a wounded Miami chief. They took him in their boat to Fort Wayne.
It was late in the fall. They nursed him until he recovered from his wound;
but he was lame. At one time they were out of food and the young chief
volunteered to go to the fort and obtain something. He was gone for four
days, when, seeing him approaching wearily, travel-worn and sick, Frances
went out to meet hira. Through gratitude for his act of kindness and fortitude,
the Indian father of Frances gave her to the Miami chief as his wife, the
next spring. They then went down the Wabash river and joined the tribe of
the Osages, and afterward to their village named She-pan-can-ah, or " Deaf
Man's " village.'
Mr. George Slocum said of Frances: "She kept her home much
better than did the native Indians, and her lessons of cleanliness to her girls
vvere something to wonder at. Both she and her daughters were very expert
with the needle. In neatness and order she and her family were far ahead
of the native Indians. She used few English words. Once when Mr.
George Slocum was late and she was worried, the old aunt said, 'Pretty
soon George corae; moon shine.' * * * She had her interpreter write the
letters to her brothers. Isaac came, when she said her business with him
was to ask him to give his son George to her to care for her property and be
her son. She said she would make him an equal heir with her two girls.
Isaac said, ' George is my youngest son — the one I have picked out to live
with me and care for ray interests in my old age.' Frances replied, ' You
know I was taken away when I was little and had no care from my people,
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have other sons to care for you, and I have no sons and I will make him an
equal heir with my two girls. ' Isaac said, ' George is married and has a
family and I don't know whether he will be willing to come; but if he is will
ing I will give my consent.' When Isaac started for home she gave him a
nice pony, saddle and bridle, a pair of new moccasins, nicely beaded, and
a lot of dried venison. That was in June. When he reached home he did
not tell George, but advised him to go in the fall and attend the land sales.
Frances then told him of the adoption and had him stay until after the
annuities were paid, when she divided the money equally with her girls and
George. When he started for home she gave hira the same kind of presents
as she had given his father, which made the adoption legal, according to the
tribal laws. She knew no other law. George's family decided to come out
and look after her affairs. He bought eight acres of land in January and
moved his family out in November following. He gathered her ponies
together, about one hundred head, and disposed of them for her and
attended to the payment of her annuity. After the death of Frances,
George stayed on his farm, two miles away, but cared for her interests until
his death, in January, i860, without any recompense. Frances used to love
to hold the baby (now Mrs. L. G. Murphy, of Xenia, Indiana) and wished to
give her her own Indian and Christian names. But she was already named
Mary Cordelia. Frances' daughter, O-zah-wah-shing-qua, always called her
(Mrs. Murphy) mother, and the grandchUdren call her grandmother to
this- day." She-pan-can-ah, the Deaf Man, second husband of Frances Slocum,
and founder of Deaf Man's village, was a war chief of the Miamis, of whora
many interesting stories have been told. After he lost his hearing he aban
doned the war-path and settled down to a more quiet and useful life. Re
nowned as a hunter in his early years, he enjoyed the chase, even when he
was aged, and it is said of him that he would sometimes set out through the
forest upon the back of a pony, to look for game, and forgetting to remove
the bell from the neck of the pony he would wonder why the wild animals
were affrighted so suddenly and why his skill had departed from him. When
he was too old to perform the duties of chief he transferred his authority to
Francis Godfrey and removed to a point four miles further up the river,
there building a log house, and the settlement that grew up around him was
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or 1832. His age, according to Peter Bondy, was in the neighborhood of
one hundred years. When she became his wife the narae of Frances was
changed to that of Ma-con-a-qua.
The great Miami tribe was the most powerful and oldest in the territory
novv occupied by the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

JOHN GUTHRIE, late of Butler township, Miami county, Indiana,
belonged to a class of sturdy pioneers who cast in their lots with this
section of the country and to whose pluck and energy is due its present
development. He was born in Pike county, Ohio, August 20, 1821, son of
John and Margaret (Sanders) Guthrie, John Guthrie being a pioneer of Pike
county. He died and his widow subsequently became the wife of James
AUison. She died at about the age of eighty years, in Warsaw, Indiana.
By her first husband the children were John, Moses and WUliam, and her
children by Mr. Allison were Alfred and James. John Guthrie, the subject
of this sketch, was four years old when his father died, and in his youth he
had only limited advantages for obtaining an education. The home, how
ever, was not broken up after the father's death. The mother kept her little
chUdren together, and, as stated, married again. John remained on the
home farm until he was nineteen, and the next five years worked out by the
month, doing farm work in the neighborhood. At the age of twenty-four he
married Miss Delilah Thompson, their marriage being consummated May i,
1845. She was born August 22, 1825, in the same neighborhood and they
grew up playmates together. A few months later, in the fall of 1845, they
said good-bye to home and kindred and came over into Indiana to seek a
home in the green woods of the "Miami Reserve," now Butler township,
Miami county. Arrived here, Mr. Guthrie took claim to a quarter section of
land, upon which he resided up to the time of his death. He purchased
this land at two dollars per acre and it did not come into market until about
two years after the pre-emption was made. Here he commenced the battle
of life and manfully and successfully was it fought. When the time of pay-
raent for his land drew nigh he was about eighty dollars short of the amount
required. This amount was furnished hira by his stepfather, and thus he
secured title to his land. With renewed energy he carried forward the
improvement and clearing of his land, year by year increasing its value, and

CASS, .MIIMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 999
at the time of his death he was the owner of a fine property. He died May
9, 1 88 1, at about the age of sixty years. In all his dealings he was honor
able and upright, taking the Bible for his code, and was identified with the
Christian church.
Mr. and Airs. Guthrie reared a large family, most of whom are living,
occupying honored and useful positions in life. Their family record is as fol
lows: Nancy A., born May 31, 1846, died December 4, 1872; James W.,
born November 9, 1847, died February 10, 1865; Rebecca, born September
10, 1849; Margaret, October 17, 1851; John M., August 15, 1853; Moses,
August 27, 1855; Perry, January 10, 1857; Susannah, April 8, i860; Harvey,
May 17, 1862; Marriette, March 27, 1864; Cyrus S., October 9, 1867; and
Hiram, November 6, 1870. Rebecca is the wife of Eli Blevins, whom she
married January 15, 1870, and they reside in Johnson county, Iowa. Mar
garet was married September 15, 1 871, to John B. Lemon. Other members
of the family are in the home neighborhood, except Harvey, who is in the
west. Mrs. Delilah Guthrie is a daughter of Wheeler and Frances (Hibbs)
Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a Virginian, who at an early day established
his home on the frontier in Pike county, Ohio. There Mr. Thompson cleared
eighty acres of land and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits at
the time of his death. He was struck by lightning and killed in May, 1834.
He was the father of fifteen children, all by one wife, of whom ten reached
maturity, namely: Samuel, Joseph, William, Wheeler, John, Mary, Sarah,
Rebecca, Nancy and Frances. Mr. Thompson was in the war of 1812. Mrs.
Guthrie is one of the few remaining of the brave pioneer women of Indiana.
She saw this part of the country in all its wildness, and by her faithfulness,
self-denial and labor helped to make their pleasant home in this now prosper
ous locality. She is now of venerable age, and the ioth day of October,
1898, represented the fifty-third anniversary of her taking up her residence
on the old homestead where she now lives, — -the place being hallowed by the
association of more than half a century. She has been a faithful member of
the Christian church for forty-two years. She has done her full quota of
work as a pioneer of the county, and when young she worked with her hus
band in the clearing, aiding in reclaiming the farm from the wilderness, assist
ing in the cultivation of the fields and doing her share in making the home
stead the valuable and attractive farm which it now is.

1000 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
SAMUEL M. SHARP, one of the well-to-do and highly respected farmers
of Clay township, Miami county, whose post-office address is Bennett's
Switch, was born in Columbus, Ohio, November ii, 1837, and comes of
sterling Scotch-Irish ancestry, his grandfather, Abraham Sharp, having been
born on the Emerald Isle.
The latter was a carpenter and millwright by trade. After coming to
this country he first lived in Maryland, where he made a tool chest, which is
still preserved, being now in the possession of J. S. P. Marshall, a resident
of Missouri, who furnishes some of the biographical facts in this connection.
He became one of the pioneers of Franklin county, Ohio, and at a point
three miles and a half southeast of Columbus cleared a tract of land and made
a comfortable frontier home. He married a Miss Howard, in that county,
who lived to the extreme old age of one hundred and two years, eleven
months and seven days, departing this life in Illinois, where Mr. Sharp had
entered a quarter section of land, now covered by the city of Peoria. The
family moved frora Ohio to Illinois. The children were: William, the
father of Samuel M., our subject; Elizabeth, who married John Readerin
Ohio; George, who married Susan Cramer; Nancy, the next in order of
birth; Rachel, who became the wife of Andrew Shanklin; and Nathaniel,
who married Mary Gregg.
WiUiam Sharp was born May 12, 1806, and married Miss Mary Tee-
gardin, who was born July 17, 1812, in Pickaway county, Ohio, a daughter
of John and Mary (Brobst) Teegardin. Mary Sharp departed this life March
21, 1880. The first two persons of the name of Teegardin to come to this country
were George, the father of John, Barbara, Anna (Graul), Aaron and Mary,
the mother of Samuel M. Sharp, and WiUiam, the father of Peter, Abraham,
etc. George and WiUiam Teegardin came to Ohio in 181 1, settling near
Ashville, on land which their father Aaron, from Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, had entered; the latter, two years later, located there with his
sons. His children were George, William, Jacob, Daniel, a daughter who
married a Mr. Lauffer, Solomon, and Ann, who first married a man named
Kanouse and afterward a man named Fippen. George married a Miss Brobst,
daughter of Jacob Brobst. The Teegardins generally have been members of
the Lutheran church. John Teegardin became a pioneer farmer in Pick
away county, Ohio, and a participant in the war of 18 12.

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William Sharp, after his marriage, settled on a farm in his native county
and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits there until his death,
which occurred in the prime of his life, at the age of thirty-seven years, June
30, 1845. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was a
man whose many excellent traits of character won the confidence and respect
of all with whom he was in any way associated. His children were Nancy,
Peter, Samuel, Samuel M., Aaron T. and Margaret.
Samuel M. Sharp, our subject, had but meager advantages for obtain
ing a school education. Before he was eight years old his father died and
he was reared by his mother and his uncle, Aaron Teegardin, a farmer of
Pickaway county, who was his guardian, with whom he remained until he
was twenty years old. He was married in Pickaway county to Miss Isabel
Bailey, a native of Madison township, that county, and a daughter of Rea
son W. and Annie (Hoymen) Bailey. Her father was a native of Maryland,
a son of William and Phoebe (Wells) Bailey, and was by trade a carpenter,
but spent the most of his life in agricultural pursuits. He moved frora Mary
land to Ohio and subsequently to Indiana, locating in Clay township, Miami
county, where he died in 1873, at the age of sixty-two years. He was an
industrious man, honest and upright in every way and was a worthy member
of the Lutheran church. His children were Eliza A., Mary, Mahala, Isabel,
Tame, Solomon L. , Joseph L., Lewis B., Phoebe and Ellis.
After his marriage Samuel M. Sharp settled on a farm in Pickaway
county and made that place his home until 1873, when he came to his pres
ent location in Miami county, Indiana, arriving here on the 4th of March.
He began life without any capital whatever, but by industry and good judg
ment and with the assistance of his good wife he has accumulated a com
petency. On coming to this county he purchased one hundred acres of land,
to the value of which he has added greatly by honest, well directed toil. His
land is now under cultivation, his buildings are first-class and his premises
present an attractive appearance.
Both himself and wife are actively identified with the church of the
United Brethren in Christ, have aided materially in the erection of their first
house of worship in their neighborhood and have always been prominent and
efficient in church work ; he is the class-leader of the local church at his
place. Fraternally he is a Freemason and politically he acts with the Dem
ocratic party.

1002 BIOGRAPHICAL .i.YD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
The children of this worthy couple are Mary M., WiUiam H., Eliza M.,
Jennie D., Annie M., Maggie M., George L. , Myrtle A., Leon C. , Edmund
G. , Ruby N. and two who died in infancy.

ULYSSES S. WILSON, representative at Kokomo for the Standard OU
Company, is a business man who is not only a useful citizen to the com
munity, but does honor to the social and moral movements of the place. In
his family relations he represents one of the very oldest famUies of Cass
county, in which he was born, near Logansport, October 2, 1865, a son of
William Harvey and Lois j. (Forbes) Wilson. His father also was a native
of that county, while his mother was from Clyde, Sandusky county, Ohio.
They are well educated, — Mrs. Wilson in particular being well advanced in
scientific subjects and general literature. They had two sons and two daugh
ters, of whora Ulysses S. and Frank N. , a telegraph operator at La Paz,
Indiana, are the only ones living. Mr. WUUam H. W'ilson, the father, was
brought up in Cass county, was a farmer by occupation and for a number of
years past has been a resident of Logansport. Both himself and wife are
merabers of the Methodist church. He was a soldier of the late Civil war,
serving in Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Andrew Wilson, grandfather, was a native of Virginia and emigrated
from the Old Dominion to Indiana in 1833, coming with his family by wagon
and settling in Cass county, near Logansport, where he purchased two hun
dred and forty acres of land and brought up his children in the most honored
pursuits of industry. He had twelve children and died at a very advanced
age; his widow is still living, making her home at the old place.
Frederick L. Forbes, Mr. Wilson's materal grandfather, was a native of
NewYork state and a descendant of General Forbes, of Revolutionary fame.
He emigrated to Ohio in early days, was a Methodist "circuit-rider" and
preached in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and other states. He
also served as a soldier in the Mexican war. For a number of years past he
has made his home in Sacramento, California. Mr. Forbes is a thirty-third-
degree Mason. His children consisted of four sons and one daughter. One
son is deceased, two are Presbyterian ministers and one is chief engineer of
the fire department at Sacramento, California.

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Mr. Ulysses S. Wilson was reared to agricultural pursuits upon his father's
farm near Logansport. His education was obtained at the district schools
and at the American Normal College; the training at the latter he obtained
by his own energies. Next he was employed for a number of years as a sta
tionary engineer, and in 1 89 1 he entered the service of the Standard Oil Com
pany, locating at Kokomo, where he now has been engaged for seven years.
Being prompt and efficient he was promoted as agent and he is prosperous
in his business.
On the 4th day of July, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Carrie
E. Matthews, a daughter of Martin W. and Jane (Christie) Matthews, and
they have one son, born August 13, 18 — , whom they have named Paul.
Their home is at No. 1 1 1 North Union street. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are
exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he also belongs
to the order of Knights of Pythias and the National Association of Stationary
Engineers. Politically, he is a Republican. In the spring of 1898 he was
nominated for the office of mayor of Kokomo, but was defeated by a small
majority. The above items are merely pointers to many others in the life of Mr.
Wilson, which has been of such character that he may well feel satisfied.

JOHN BENJAMIN PETERS, M. D., a regular practicing physician and
surgeon, of Macy, Indiana, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the
28th of July, 185 1, the son of Dr R. J. D. and Mary (Kettle) Peters, both
natives of the Old Dominion, His father was born in 1829, educated at
Winchester, that state, and at Charleston University. In medicine he
graduated at Winchester Medical College and comraenced practice in Vir
ginia, and subsequently removed to GreenvUle, Tennessee; but soon the
Civil war came on like a tornado and he changed his residence to Stouts-
ville, Ohio, where he practiced his profession from 1861 to 1871, when he
came to Indiana and located at New Waverly. In 1883 he came to Macy,
continuing in his profession until his death. He was a physician of great
ability and had corresponding success. His wife died at Star City, Indiana,
in 1882. The Peters family are of English origin, established in Virginia in colo-

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nial days. The Kettle family is of German origin. Though this branch of
Peters family is of English ancestry, the same branch of the family in
America originated from German ancestors. The immediate family of our
subject consisted of thirteen children, of whom ten are living. The eldest
of these is William, a carpenter and contractor in Chicago; George, who was
educated for the medical profession, graduating at a Chicago medical col
lege, but retired frora practice on account of ill health and is now a resident
of Wichita, Kansas, where he holds a position under the state; Alice, wife of
Samuel Washington and resides in Macy township; Lorena, now Mrs. James
Kane and resides in Chicago; Mrs. Sophronia Vickers, who resides at Royal
Center, Cass county, Indiana; Charles, who is an attorney at Knox, this
state, and is a partner of Judge Gould; Elizabeth, who died in Macy in 1884,
unmarried; Robert, a resident of Chicago, where he is the general agent and
state manager of Iowa for the Kimball Piano & Organ Company; Jackson, a
resident of Rochester, this state, who also is employed by the Kimball Com
pany; Wilson, also employed by that company and residing at Chicago;
Lewis, who died at the age of five years in Stoutsville, Ohio; and an
unnamed infant completes the list of thirteen children.
Dr. Peters received his elementary education in Stoutsville, Ohio, and
professionally was educated at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and
under the tutorship of his father, with whom he began practice, and also
with his uncle. Dr. Charles H. Peters, who was a member of the board of
physicians appointed by Governor Wise at the execution of John Brown.
Our subject continued with his father untU his death, and then assumed the
vacancy left by him. Like hisfather, also, he is a successful and popular
physician. He is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society and of
the Miami County Medical Society. He is also prominently associated with
the fraternal orders, beinga member of Macy Lodge, No. 523, F. & A. M.,
Deedsville Lodge, No. 640, I. O. O. F., and of the Knights of the Macca
bees. Both himself and wife are highly esteemed members of the Christian
church, and Mrs. Peters is a member of the Ladies of the Maccabees and
of the Order of the Eastern Star and of the Daughters of Rebekah.
Politically, the Doctor has been a Republican, but lately an advocate of the
free coinage of silver, though this does not seriously interfere with his
Republicanism. He is the health officer of the town of Macy.
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Hanson, of Fulton, Indiana, and a daughter of John and Amanda (Louder-
bach) Hanson. Her father was a native of Maine and her mother of Indiana.
They now reside at Fulton, where he, Mr. Hanson, is a mechanic by
occupation. Mrs. Peters is the eldest of four children living, in which family
two are deceased. She was reared and educated at Fulton. Dr. and Mrs.
Peters have but one child living, named Robert Wesley, who was born in
Macy, August 27, 1888. He is the "picture " of perfect physical health, a
bright and promising boy who enjoys athletic sports, especially bicycling.
Mary, the first-born child of the Doctor, died in infancy.
Dr. Peters is a gentleman of affable and pleasing manners, is a favorite
because of his social nature, and it is needless to add that he has a fine
practice among the best familes for a radius of many miles around Macy.
His estimable wife also is a woman of good works and generous deeds, taking
an active interest in the various societies with which she is connected and in
church and Sunday-school work.

GEORGE W. HERRON. — This prominent and representative farmer of
Liberty township, Tipton county, was born on the farm where he
yet lives, March 29, 1868. His father, David J. Herron, was a native of
Kentucky, and married, in Tipton county, Mrs. Mary Brown, a native of
Pennsylvania, a daughter of John J. Downhour, also a native of that state
and of German ancestry. Mrs. Downhour owned land in this county, and
after residing here for a time moved to Blackford county, this state, where
the family now resides, both the parents being deceased. David J. Herron,
on his emigration from Kentucky to this state, located in Decatur county, in
pioneer days, where he married his first wife. He afterward moved to Tip
ton county, during the primitive era of its settlement, entered eighty acres
and also bought forty of the railroad company, and forty more acres of
James Barrett, and cleared and improved his land until he had during his
hfe a good farm of eighty acres; fihere are now, since his death, one hundred
and twenty acres cleared. He was a skillful hunter, and he had abundant
opporiunity for the exercise of his talent in this respect, as wild game was
plentiful. As there were no mills in his section of the country, he gave forty
large poplar trees and as many large walnut trees to secure a sawmUl in his

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township. Although privations were long and severe and hardships many
and discouraging, he lived to realize that he settled in a good country which
in time was filled with good neighbors.
Previous to the Civil war he was in politics a Democrat, and afterward
a Republican, voting " as he shot." The best hearts are the bravest, says
a writer, and Mr. Herron enlisted for the Mexican war and had proceeded as
far as St. Louis, when that struggle closed, and during the great Civil war
he enlisted again, this time in the Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry of Volun
teers, and served to the close of the war, being so fortunate as to receive no
wound and not to be captured, but through exposure and hard service he
contracted a disease which clung to him through life. He died January 30,
1873, after having lived a life of industry and integrity. His wife survives,
making her home among her children. She is a consistent member of that
branch of the Baptist church called "Separatists." After the death of her
husband she remained at the homestead and kept the children together until
they were all of age, when she gave up the farm to them. Their names, etc.,
are: John J., who is a merchant and ex-postmaster in Tennessee; George
W. , of this sketch; and David J., engaged- in the farraing implement trade in
Tipton. By the father's first marriage there were Sarah, Daniel, Malvina
and Lou, and the mother's children by a former marriage were Annie J. and
Ahce. Mr. G. W. Herron, the subject of this sketch, has resided all his life
here in his native township, engaged in agricultural pursuits, excepting three
years, before marriage, when he was employed on public works and as a
farm hand elsewhere. He was married in 1892 and continued to make his
home on the old place, at length buying out the interest of the other heirs.
He has remodeled the farm and improved it in many ways, — by ditching,
tiling, building a large barn, etc.
Mrs. Herron, whose name before marriage was Sarah T. Lee, was born
in May, 1875, in Tennessee. The original immigrants of her family in this
country were four brothers from Ireland, settling in Virginia, one of whom
was an ancestor of the noted General Robert E. Lee. Mrs. Herron's parents
were Owen and Ladoska (Swing) Lee; the father was born in Tennessee and
the mother in North Carolina. After his marriage Mr. Owen Lee emi
grated to Tipton county, where he continued as a farmer; he subsequently
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he passed the remainder of his days. His surviving widow afterward became
the wife of W. E. Grayson, who is now deceased, and she yet resides at the
homestead. In her religion she is a member of the Baptist church. Her
children are Ida, Ella, John E. and Sarah T.
Mr. and Mrs. Herron's chUdren are: Ines P., who died when three
years old; Ralph H. and Edna. Mrs. Herron is a sincere and consistent
member of the Methodist church. Mr. Herron is a member of the Masonic
order and of the Modern Woodmen, a solid Republican, and has been justice
of the peace, but does not care for office. He is interested, however, in
public affairs, attending all the caucuses and conventions of his party.

JAMES B. CAMPBELL, a well known general merchant of Normanda,
Indiana, has been an important factor in business circles and his popu
larity is well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an
unbending integrity, unabated energy and an industry that never flags. He
is public-spirited and is thoroughly interested in whatever tends to promote
the moral, intellectual and material welfare of the community.
Mr. Campbell was born in Henry county, Kentucky, July 3, 1822, and
is a son of James Campbell, a native of Greenbrier county. West Virginia,
who when only seven years old removed with his parents to Kentucky, where
in early life he worked at the saddler's trade, but later followed the occupa
tion of farming. He served as a private in the war of 1812. In 1832 he
emigrated to Johnson county, Indiana, where he followed agricultural pur
suits for twenty years, coming to Tipton county in 1852 and locating in Jef
ferson township, where he departed this life at the ripe old age of eighty-four
years. He was of Irish descent. His wife, who bore the maiden name of
Sarah Carter, was born and reared in Maryland and died at the age of sev
enty-five. James B. Campbell is the eighth in order of birth in a family of nine
children, and was ten years old when he accompanied his parents on their
removal to Johnson county, Indiana, where he remained until the family
came to Tipton county in 1852. He was educated in the primitive log
school-houses so common during his boyhood, and early became familiar with
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the operation of the home farm until thirty years of age. He then embarked
in merchandising at Normanda, with I. C. Vandenwarden, who established
the first store at that place. The following fall they dissolved partnership,
and our subject has since been alone in business. He carries a well selected
stock of general merchandise, and by fair and honest dealing has always
comraanded a liberal share of the public patronage.
In i860 Mr. Campbell married Miss Adaline Jested, a native of Knox
county, Ohio. She is an earnest member of the Christian church. Since
the organization of the Republican party Mr. Campbell has been one of its
most earnest advocates and stanch supporters, and from 1856 untU 1890 was
identified with the post-office at Normanda, serving as deputy the first four
years and then as postmaster. He has also filled the office of supervisor of
roads, and the duties of both positions were discharged in the most commend
able and satisfactory manner. In connection with his mercantile interests he
also owns and operates a small farm. He is widely and favorably known
and has the respect and confidence of all with whom he comes in contact,
either in business or social life.

J^BAL TETER. — If one desires to gain a vivid realization ol the rapid
^— ' advance in the civilization which the last few decades have brought
about, he can listen to the stories that men who are still living among us,
and by no means overburdened with years, can tell of their early life. The
subject of this sketch, a venerable and highly respected citizen, now living
retired in Goldsmith, Tipton county, has many interesting reminiscences of
pioneer days in this locality.
Mr. Teter was born in Pendleton county. West Virginia, April 23, 1823,
and is a son of George Teter, also a native of that state. The paternal
grandfather, George Teter, Sr., came from Germany with two brothers and
first located in North Carolina, but later removed to West Virginia, spend
ing his last days on a farm in Pendleton county. He died at the age of sixty-
n ne years.
In his native state George Teter, Jr. , married Sarah Harper, also a native
of Pendleton county, and a daughter of Jacob Harper, who was also one of
three brothers to emigrate from Germany to America, one settling in Penn-

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sylvania, and another in North Carolina, while he took up his residence in
West Virginia. He was a farmer by occupation and died when about the
age of eighty years. In his family were twin daughters: Sarah, the mother
of our subject, and Mary, who lived to the extreme old age of one hundred
years. In 1840 the parents of our subject removed to Hamilton county,
Indiana, but the following year came to Tipton county, where the father
took up land from the government as soon as it came into market, making
his home thereon until called to his final rest, at the age of seventy-one
years. His wife died at the age of sixty-nine.
Ebal Teter is the eighth in order of birth in their family of ten chil
dren, and was seventeen years old when the family removed from his native
county to Hamilton county, Indiana, coming to what is now Tipton county
a year later, it being then called the Miami Reserve. On section 12, Jeffer
son township, he secured a claim of one hundred and sixty acres. On the
28th of December, 1843, he married Miss Hannah Baldwin, who was born
in GuUford county. North Carolina, July 13, 1824. Her parents, Josiah and
Lydia (White) Baldwin, were likewise natives of that state, and there the
mother died when Mrs. Teter was only five years old. With her father she
came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1830, and six years later they removed
to Hamilton county, where she was principally reared. She is the sixth
child and second daughter in a family of eight children.
Mr. and Mrs. Teter began their domestic life in a little log cabin, ten
by twelve feet, erected in the midst of the woods, and their furniture con
sisted of one home-made bedstead, two old chairs, a table and two cup
boards put upon pins driven into the wall. Light was admitted through
one greased-paper window, and the door was of clapboards with the latch-
string always hanging out. Mrs. Teter made all the clothes for her family,
spinning and weaving the cloth and also her table linen and bed-clothes.
Five dollars would have purchased all of the dishes, cooking utensils and
other things which they bought for their httle home, and one dollar a year
was not expended on clothes outside of what Mrs. Teter manufactured. The
first butter-paddle she ever owned she constructed herself out of a large pop
lar chip", this being over half a century ago. Wild game of all kinds, including
deer, furnished the household with meat, and one night in his own dooryard
Mr Teter kUled two immense wUd turkeys, one weighing twenty-three
pounds and the other twenty-two, after they were dressed. He was one of
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the best shots in the county and could hit a turkey in the eye at almost any
distance! In those early days their nearest market of any importance was
LaFayette, forty-five mUes away, and they experienced all the hardships and
privations of pioneer life; but as time advanced the comforts of civilization
were added to their home, and they became quite prosperous, owing to their
industry, perseverance, good management and economy. For forty-five
years they lived on the one farm, in the meantime converting the wild tract
into one of the most desirable places of the locality. Mr. Teter stUl owns
the place, having added to the original quarter-section eighty acres on the
east and twenty on the west, and the little home long since gave place to a
more commodious and modern residence. The family have left the farm,
however, and now live in Goldsmith.
To Mr. and Mrs. Teter were born nine chUdren, as follows: Mahlon L. ;
Josiah A. ; Melvina J.; Enos H., who died at the age of thirteen months;
Elizabeth A. ; Asa E. ; Eber W. and Ebal H., twins; and Abraham A. In
1864 Mr. Teter enlisted in Company F, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infan
try, and served until the close of the war. His son, Mahlon S., was in the
same struggle, serving for two years in Company A, One Hundred and Thir
tieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participating in many hard-fought
battles, but fortunately he escaped uninjured.
Mr. and Mrs. Teter are both earnest and consistent members of the
New-Light Christian church, with which they have been connected for half
a century, and in which he has served as elder and trustee for many years.
In politics he is now a Republican. He would have voted for James K. Polk
had he been able to go to the polls. That president signed the deed to his
farm, but it was not recorded until November 30, 1897! Mr. Teter was a
member of the first jury ever called in the county, court being held in the old
court-house located on the site where the new one now stands. We thus see
that he has been prominently identified with the interests of the county from
the very beginning, and he stands to-day one of its most honored and highly
esteemed pioneers.

/~>ORRINGTON L. ALFORD, M, D., Ph. D., a cigar manufacturer and
^^-^ one of the prominent citizens of Logansport, is the only son of Dr.
Loyal A. and Elizabeth P. (Butler) Alford. His father was born in Ferris-

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burg, Addison county, Vermont, May 29, 18 14, and was the youngest child
of Rev. OUver and Lovina (Porter) Alford. The grandfather of our subject
was a distinguished pioneer minister of the Baptist church, and his wife was
a sister of one of the seven patriots who were killed at the battle of Lexing
ton, in the opening of the Revolutionary war.
Dr. Loyal A. Alford was a man of high scientific and literary attain
ments, a minister of the gospel and an eminent physician. The degrees of
D. D. and LL. D. were conferred upon him — an honor worthily merited.
He carried his researches and investigations far and wide into the realms of
science and led the way into many new and hitherto unexplored regions, his
discoveries attracting the attention of the thinking world. He was also a
writer of merit and published many excellent works which won favorable
comment riiroughout Christendom. These include The Great Atonement
Illustrated, a poem of rare beauty and deep thought; the Masonic Gem, a
poem concerning the temple erected by King Solomon, and embellished with
twenty esoteric designs, showing the craft at work, the temple completed
and the glory given to the great Grand Master; and The Mystic Number of
the Word, a work which evinces deep and original thought, concerning the
use and meaning of the numbers seven, twelve and forty, which occur with
great frequency in the Bible. Among the productions of Dr. Alford was
also the Biblical Chart of Man, a lithographic chart, representing two forms,
the human and the spirit form, side by side, also indicating the seven senses
of man as the mind of man and the seven attributes of the soul as the spirit
of man, together with an explanation of what perishes in death, and what in
man is immortal. Another work, A Trip to the Skies, is a unique and orig
inal religious volume, treating of astronomy in a manner different from any
other volume extant. The reader, in imagination, goes with the author to
view all the most interesting wonders of the "firmament on high," and feels
a profound sensation of pleasure in beholding the awful majesty of the skies.
All these works indicate wide research, original thought and keen corapre-
hension on the part of the author.
In the medical profession Dr. Alford also attained considerable distinc
tion and for a time was president of a medical college in St. Louis, and at
another time of a medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also
established the American Anthropological University, of«St. Louis, of which
institution he was dean. His efforts in behalf of the Baptist church were

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far-reaching and efficient, and at the same time were of a very practical
character, as befits this utilitarian age. He made a specialty of running
Sunday-school excursion trains and was elected by raUroad officials as first
railroad excursion superintendent for the raising of funds by reduced fare.
He aided largely in erecting houses of worship, in strengthening weak soci
eties, assisted in other departments of church work, and for some tirae he
published the Sunday-school Visitor, a semi-monthly paper for Sunday-
schools. He was also the editor of the Elkhart Herald.
Dr. Alford married Miss Elizabeth P. Butler, a cousin of General Ben
jamin F. Butler, and a native of Utica, New York. She was a lady of
strong raentality, refinement and sympathy, and left the impress of her beau
tiful character upon all with whom she carae in contact. She was especially
efficient in works of benevolence and in various church activities, During
her early girlhood General LaFayette revisited America, and the people wel
comed him with every demonstration that honor and gratitude could prompt.
As he passed in procession down one of the city streets a little girl
approached his carriage and presented him with a bouquet of flowers. This
maiden afterward became the wife of Dr. Alford. By their marriage were
born five chUdren: Corrington L. , of this review; Annettee, a resident of
Charlotte, Michigan; Cecelia; Mind well and Lovisa. Dr. Alford died in
Logansport, December 20, 1883, at the age of seventy years; and his wife
passed away in the same city, at the age of sixty-five.
Corrington L. Alford, who, since 1863, has resided in Logansport, was
born in Ashtabula city, Ohio, April 29, 1836, and the foUowing spring was
taken by his parents to Erie county, Pennsylvania, where they remained
until 1844. In that year the family emigrated westward to Adrian, Michigan,
finding in that section of the state an almost unbroken wilderness. The jour
ney was made by team and wagon, for it was before the day of raUroad travel.
Subsequently they removed to Hillsdale, Michigan, and in that classic town,
the subject of this sketch was reared. He obtained his education, not so
much from schools as from study under his father's guidance, and through
extensive reading and observation in later years. Under the direction of his
father he studied both medicine and theology, and his learning has ever been
broad and comprehensive, covering a wide range of subjects. He has watched
much of the early developraent of this section of the country, and was a pas
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to do with the construction of the track, the equipment of the line, and made
the first railroad baggage check, now universally used. Subsequently he
engaged in the dry-goods trade and built up an extensive and profitable busi
ness, but in 1863 he sold out and removed to Logansport, where he began
the manufacture of tobacco, and was also associated with his father in the
building of Baptist churches and running large excursion trains to raise funds
for church extensions. After a time he gave his entire attention to the
tobacco business, manufacturing for both the wholesale and retail trade. He
is now exclusively engaged in the manufacture of cigars, though he does not
carry on operations on as extensive a scale as formerly.
Mr. Alford has been twice married. He wedded Miss Charlotte Rowe,
a native of NewYork, who departed this life in 1865, and later he married
Miss Ellen A. Harrison, of Logansport. By his first wife he had two chil
dren: Ida, wife of George Rickets, a farmer of Cass county, by whom she
has a daughter, Mildred; and Corlotte, deceased. By the second marriage
there are four children: Lelonia, who became the wife of Clarence Weaver, of
Logansport, and has one son. Loyal; Cora Etta, at home; Bessie, deceased;
and Tillie, who is also with her parents.
In early life Mr. Alford gave his political support to the Whig party and
cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor. Since the organization of
the Republican party he has been numbered among its stanch advocates and
to some extent has been active in its work He was intimately acquainted
with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, and was a delegate to the
Chicago wigwam which nominated Lincoln for the presidency. In his church
relationship he is a Baptist, liberal in support of the church and faithful in
his exemplifications of its teachings. His life has been a busy and useful one.
He is a man of high intellectuality, broad human sympathies and tolerance;
honor and integrity are synonymous with his narae, and he enjoys the respect,
confidence and high regard of the community.

OAMUEL T. KIRK, D. D. S., Kokomo.— The best tUle one can establish
^ to the high esteem of an intelligent community is a long and honorable
residence therein. Dr. Kirk has been a resident of Kokomo for thirty-one
years, and by his genealogy represents two of the earliest families to settle

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in the state of Ifldiana. Not only has the Doctor maintained a high position
socially, but also in his profession he has attained a superior rank.
He began the study of dentistry about 1863, in Hendricks county,
whither he had gone with his mother and resided upon a farm for a few
years. Commencing under a competent dentist in his community, he con
tinued the study of his chosen profession under the guidance of Dr. Stone
man, at St. Anthony, now Minneapolis, Minnesota. Returning to Indiana
he continued under Dr. Mendenhall, of Thorntown, and in AprU, 1867, came
to Kokomo, vvith Dr. G. W Cast as a partner in the practice of his profes
sion. A few months later this partnership was dissolved, since which time
Dr. Kirk has had no partner. He has now been prosecuting his profession
twenty-two years in his present office. He is recognized as a leader in
dentistry in this state. In 1870 he joined the State Dental Association, of
which he is still a raeraber and of which he was at one time president. In
1872 he wrote an article on the use of non-cohesive gold foil with clinical
demonstration, which at once gave him high standing in the esteem of the
association and in the profession generally. Soon after the law came in
force regulating the practice of dentistry in Indiana he was made a member
of the examining board, which position he held for eighteen years, having as
such the specialty of operative dentistry. For a portion of the period men
tioned he was president of the board. The state law which made gradua
tion at a dental college a prerequisite for license to practice in Indiana made
it necessary to open a dental college within the bounds of this common
wealth. Dr Kirk took an active part in the organization of such a college,
was elected a member of the board of trustees and was an occasional lec
turer in the institution for sixteen years. Several times has he been sent by
the state board of dental examiners to represent it at the conventions of the
national board of dental examiners. Really, we can add no words that
can give additional emphasis to the qualifications of Dr Kirk.
He was born in Union county, Indiana, March 5, 1838, a son of Israel
and Sarah (Test) Kirk. His father was brought by his parents from Ohio to
Greensboro, Henry" county, Indiana, when he was a child. He grew to
manhood there, married in Union county, became a miller by trade and car
ried on his vocarion as such at Middleboro until his death, in 1841, after he
had arrived at the age of thirty-four years. His widow still survives. She
is a member of the Society of Friends, as was Mr Kirk. She married WUl-

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iam Beard, of Lynn, Randolph county, this state, who died a year later.
Of the three children of Mr. Israel Kirk two are living, — Dr. Samuel T., of
this sketch, and Israel, of Metropolis, Illinois.
Thomas Kirk, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania
and was of Scotch ancestry. He was a farmer by vocation, and moved to
Ohio during the period of the early settlement of that state, and at length
moved to Henry county, Indiana, where he continued in his old occupation of
agriculture. He died at the latter place, aged eighty-seven years. He had
ten children. Samuel Test, Dr. Kirk's mother's father, was a native of New
Jersey and of French descent. He was a hatter by occupation, emigrating
first to Ohio, making the trip in a wagon, over the mountains, and after
ward removing to Kentucky, and finally, in 1816, to Indiana. Here he
located in Union county, where he followed the trade of a miller for a time,
but for many years before his death, at the age of eighty-three, he was at
leisure and a great student, reading especially church history and the Bible.
He was noted as a strong temperance man.
At the age of ten years the subject of this sketch went to Clinton county,
Ohio, where he lived with an uncle for four years; next he went to Rich
mond, this state, and learned and worked at the carpenter's trade till he
reached the age of twenty years; and his schooling also was principally
obtained at Richmond. Then he began the study of dentistry as already
mentioned. He has been financially successful in his undertakings and
especially in his profession, that of dentistry, and is enjoying the comforts
of a home at 225 South Main street.
He was united in marriage with Miss Loretta Macy, a daughter of
Francis and Huldah (Hunt) Macy. There were no children by this marriage.
Mrs. Kirk departed this life November 4, 1874, a consistent member of the
Society of Friends. On the ist of August, 1876, the Doctor was again mar
ried, to Mrs. Sarah F. Sullivan. By this matrimonial union two chUdren
have been born, namely: Wilfred D. , and Maude Annette. The son is
attending dental college at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the daughter is at home,
attending the high school. Dr. and Mrs. Kirk are members of the Society
of Friends, liberally contributing not only to the support of that society, but
also to all movements of a philanthropic nature. He is superintendent of two
Sunday-schools, having served as superintendent about thirteen years and
for four years as superintendent of a mission school in South Kokomo. He

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is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and politically he is a Republican,
having voted for Lincoln and for every Republican candidate for president of
the United States since that memorable campaign of i860.

DANIEL KING. — One of the capable officials of Miami county is Daniel
King, who is now acceptably serving in the position of county comrais-
sioner. He is also regarded as one of the leading, practical and progressive
agriculturists, and owns and operates a fine farm on section 24, Richland
township. He was born in the town of Diersheim, Baden, Germany, on the
river Rhine, December 10, 1830. His parents were Daniel and Mary
(Schreiner) King, and the forraer, who was born in Germany in 1802, died
in that land in 1881, at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife, who was
born in 1808, is stiU living, at the time of this writing, in 1898, and has
reached the advanced age of ninety years. In the family were three sons and
a daughter, of whom Daniel King, of this review, is the eldest. The only
sister, Mary, and a brother, Frederick, are still residents of the Fatherland,
while Daniel and George allied their interests with the New World.
On the 25th of October, 1853, Daniel King bade adieu to home and
native land, taking passage on a westward-bound sailing vessel, which arrived
at New York on the 19th of December. On Christmas day he reached Cin
cinnati, Ohio, and on the 22d of May, 1854, he arrived in Miami county.
His brother George crossed the Atlantic in 1857. He had learned the trade
of wagon-making in Germany and after his arrival in Miami county he fol
lowed that pursuit in Chili for a time. Later he married Ellen Keim and
located at Paw Paw, Miami county, where he died in January, 1873, leaving
a widow and two children. He served as a Union soldier in the war
of the Rebellion, being a raeraber of Company C, Eighty-seventh Indiana
Infantry. He enlisted for three years, and for fourteen months of that time
he was incarcerated in the famous Libby prison. Although his death did not
occur until many years after the war, it was due to the privations and hard
ships which he suffered while in the army and as a prisoner of war. He par
ticipated in many famous battles, including the engagement at Chickamauga,
where he was captured, being exchanged after fourteen-months' experience
in Libby. When he had sufficiently recovered his health, which had been

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weakened through close confinement and bad food, he rejoined his regiment
and served until the close of the war.
Daniel King was reared, in his native country, to the occupation of farm
ing. In the rebellion of 1848 he was called into the mUitary service of his
country and was a member of the army for three months. While crossing
the Atlantic to America occurred the twenty-third anniversary of his birth,
and thus a young man, full of ambition and determination, he started out to
make his own way in the New World. He had an uncle, Martin King, living
in Miami county, Indiana, and after spending the winter in Cincinnati he
came to this state, which has since been his home. Having no capital he
worked at any honest employment which would yield him a living, and with
his first savings he purchased eighty acres of land in Wabash county, but
soon sold that farm and bought eighty acres in Perry township, Miami county.
This he cleared and improved, making his horae thereon until 1876. In
1873 he purchased another eighty-acre tract, on which he erected a residence,
making it his place of abode until 1880, when he became the owner of his
present farm of one hundred and nineteen acres in Richland township. It
is a valuable property, with rich and productive fields, good buildings and all
modern accessories, and the owner follows the most improved and progress
ive methods in his farming operations. In 1893 he purchased a farm of one
hundred and twenty-one acres in Perry township.
On the 1st of December, 1861, Mr. King married Miss Mary King, a
distant relative, who was born at Diersheim, Baden, Germany, and came to
Miami county with her father, Martin King, in April, 1847. They have nine
children, two sons and seven daughters: George W. and Charles, who still
operate the homestead farm, Freda, Minnie, Adlena, Lizzie, Della, Emma
and Margaret N.
In 1893 Mr. King was elected county commissioner for a three-years
term and on the expiration of that period was again chosen for the sarae
office, so that he is the present incumbent. His re-election stands in unmis
takable evidence of his faithful and meritorious service. In politics he is a
Democrat. He was reared in the faith of the Lutheran church, and during his
forty-five years' residence in Miami county he has ever enjoyed the respect
and esteem of his fellow citizens, by reason of his well spent life. In 1891 he
made a visit to Germany and had the pleasure of seeing his aged mother and
other friends, after an absence of thirty-eight years. Many changes had

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taken place during that long period, but it was nevertheless a source of great
enjoyment to him to revisit again the scenes among which his youth was
passed. He contemplates revisiting Germany in 1900 also, but though he
cherishes fond recollections of his boyhood's home and the land of his birth,
his love and loyalty are for the land of his adoption and he is a true Ameri
can citizen.

J EWIS BOND. — One of the finest farms and most beautiful country
-*— ' homes in the Eel river valley belong to Lewis Bond, a leading agricult
urist of Jefferson township. His father, Isaac Bond, was born in Wayne
county, Indiana, February 28, 1820, his parents being Jesse and Phoebe
(Comraons) Bond. He was reared to manhood in the county of his nativity,
pear the city of Richmond, and was one of a family of eleven children, —
eight sons and three daughters. On arriving at years of maturity he married
Catherine Eargood, and in January, 1845, came to Miami county, locating
on land which his father had entered and given to him and his brother
Jesse. These two brothers were the only representatives of the family who
becarae residents of Miami county. In 1848 Isaac Bond was called upon to
mourn the death of his wife. They were the parents of three children, two
of whom are living: Lewis, of this review; and Arthur, a resident of Omaha,
Nebraska. William died at the age of about twenty-four years. On the
ioth of November, 1853, Isaac Bond was again married, his second union
being with Millicent Mendenhall, who was born in Richmond, Indiana,
March i, 1833, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Coffin) Mendenhall,
natives of Guilford, North Carolina. Isaac Bond died at his home in Jeffer
son township, Miami county, July 19, 1890, when nearly seventy years of
age. His widow is a resident of Peru. The children of the second mar
riage are Clara, wife of John Dukes, of Jefferson township, Miami county;
and Lydia, wife of Jaraes M. Farris, of Terre Haute, Indiana. Isaac Bond
possessed in a large degree the honesty and uprightness of character which
distinguished his Quaker ancestry. He was industrious and successful, and
before his death he gave homes to all of his children, thus affording them a
good start in life.
' Lewis Bond, the eldest son, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, Octo
ber 15, 1844, and was therefore only a few months old when the family

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came to Miami county. He was reared on his father's farm and acquired
his education in the pubhc schools, supplementing their discipline by a
term of instruction in Earlham College, of Richmond, Indiana. He engaged
in teaching for a time, having charge of the school near his home for six
terms, his long service there well indicating the ability with which he dis
charged his duties and the confidence reposed in him by the people of the
community. On the 23d of October, 1872, Mr. Bond was united in marriage to Miss
Ionia Scott, daughter of John and Martha J. Scott. Her father was a native
of Wayne county, and spent his entire life on the farm on which he was
born. He was a representative of a worthy Kentucky family who became
residents of Indiana in pioneer days. His widow is still living on the old
homestead in Wayne county. Mrs. Bond also was born on that farm, and
by her marriage has become the mother of a son and two daughters: Walter,
Nellie and Blanche.
In his political views Mr. Bond is a Republican and stanchly supports
the principles of that party. In 1895 he was elected county commissioner
of Miami county, serving three years, and a more faithful and efficient officer
the county never had. His public spirit and his progressiveness prompted
his support of every measure calculated to prove of benefit to the community,
and his service won the commendation of all concerned. He is ever true to
his duties of citizenship, and, keeping well informed on the issues of the
day, is able to cast an intelligent ballot for the principles in which he
believes. He is widely known as a successful farmer and stock-raiser, and
as the result of his well directed efforts he has been enabled to extend the
boundaries of his original eighty- acre farm until it now comprises three hun
dred acres of rich, productive and valuable land. His is one of the finest
farming properties in the Eel river valley, supplied with all modern con
veniences and accessories, and in its neat and thrifty appearance indicating
the care and supervision of the owner.

JOHN T. HOOD. — This well known citizen of Miami county resides on
*-* his fine farm iri Jefferson township, in the Eel river valley, where he
owns tvvo hundred and forty acres of valuable land to the cultivation of which

1020 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
he devotes his energies with excellent success. He was born in Lunenburg
county, Virginia, about seventy-five mUes west of the city of Richmond, Jan
uary 24, 1842. His father, Robert Hood, was a native of North Carolina,
and when a youth went to Virginia, where he was married and made his
home until his death. There were four children born of this union, — two
sons and two daughters. The widow afterward became the wife of Mr.
Goodring, who also is now deceased. She passed her last years in the home
of her son John, who is the younger of her two sons by the first marriage,
the elder son being James Hood, now a resident of Howard county, Indiana.
The two daughters, Amanda and Lucy, are now deceased. By the second
marriage was born one son, who is now deceased.
When a youth of fifteen years John T. Hood left the Old Dominion and
emigrated to Indiana, locating in Miami county in 1857. On the 22d of
August, 1862, when twenty years of age, he responded to the country's call
for aid in suppressing the rebellion in the south, and joined Company H,
Seventy-third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, which was organized at South
Bend, this state. Going thence to Kentucky, Mr. Hood, in company with
his regiment, took part in the campaign against Bragg, participating in the
battle of Perryville, and following Bragg to Nashville, Tennessee, where the
regiment went into camp. He also participated in the memorable battle of
Murfreesboro, in December, 1862, and was severely wounded in the right
thigh, from the effects of which he has never fully recovered. On sufficiently
regaining his health, however, he returned to the seat of war but served on
detached duty until the close of hostilities, when he received an honorable
discharge and returned to Miami county.
In 1866 Mr. Hood purchased and located on a farm of seventy acres on
Eel river. In the fall of the same year he was married to Miss Martha A.
Fisher, who was born November 30, 1848, a daughter of Joseph Fisher, who
formerly owned the farra upon which Mr. and Mrs. Hood now reside. Her
father was born in Virginia November 10, 1823, and was a son of Peter
Fisher, a native of Pennsylvania, who removed to Virginia and later to
Preble county, Ohio, whence he came to Miami county in 1836. Here he
located about a mile and a half north of the village of Mexico, where his
death occurred May 27, 1878, at the age of eighty-six years and twenty-five
days. His wife died January 20, 1867. They were the parents of ten chil
dren, who grew to mature years, and when the father died all were present.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1021
with the exception of one daughter. Only two are still living : Noah and
Aaron. Joseph Fisher was married January 12, 1848, to Elizabeth Brower,
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Brower, who came to Miami county from
Preble county, Ohio, in 1837, being among the pioneers of Jefferson town
ship. They have long since passed away. Their family numbered ten chil
dren, but Mrs. Fisher is the only survivor. She was born in Preble county,
Ohio, September 28, 1827, and now lives at her pleasant home in the village
of ]\fexico. In 1863 Joseph Fisher had located on the farra which is now the
horae of our subject and there he resided until 1884, when he removed with
his wife to Mexico, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring
in 1895. He had four children, three of whom are living : Mrs. Hood ;
Sarah, wife of Schuyler Mercer, of Peru ; and Mrs. Rosa J. Emswiler. One
daughter, Emily Dulciena, who became the wife of William Crane, was born
November 29, 1851, and died March 9, 1892.
Mr. and Mrs. Hood are the parents of two sons and a daughter : Deo
S., who was born October 9, 1868, and was married March 7, 1889, to Miss
Ruth Bond, daughter of Jesse Bond, by whom he had three children,
Joseph L. , Lyraan J. and Clinton B. ; GUbert J., who was born September
18, 1876 ; and Bessie, born July 23, 1879. Their home is a very pleasant
and commodious residence, situated in the midst of the fine farm of two
hundred and forty acres, which yield their tribute of golden grain for the
care and cultivation bestowed by the owner. Hospitality there reigns
supreme and the members of the family occupy high position in social circles.
Mr. Hood is a popular and valued member of WUliam Reyburn Post, G. A.
R., of Peru, and is numbered among the esteemed citizens of Jefferson town
ship, Miami county.

I\yi ILTON M. BOGGS, M. D.— A varied and interesting career, both as
^ ' * a patriot and as a civilian, attaches to the life history of Dr. Boggs.
He was born at New Castle, Henry county, Indiana, on the ioth of January,
1830. His early life was spent amid the environments of agricultural pur
suits, and he became inured to the hardy pioneer life of the great and wonder
ful west. Opportunities for acquiring an education in the common schools
were very meager; it was only "the rich" who went to college in those
days. The pioneer log school-house, with its wide and inviting fire-place,

1022 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
puncheon floor, puncheon or slab benches and greased-paper vvindows, was
the alma mater of many a great man in America. In such a school, asso
ciated with the boys and girls of his neighborhood. Dr. Boggs laid the foun
dation of an elementary education. But in 1842 his school life was cut
short by the death of his father, our subject being then but twelve years old.
This was in La Porte county, to which place the family had removed when
Milton M. was a child and settled upon a farm; for during the year 1834 they
were driven from their home by hostile Indians and they had to take refuge
in the more thickly settled portion of the country. In 1839 t'he family home
was changed to a farra in Kosciusko county, where the father died, and Mil
ton returned to La Porte county, where he was employed as a farm hand
working by the month.
April 17, 1847, though but little past seventeen years of age, J'oung
Milton entered the service of the United States as a soldier in the Mexican
war. No doubt the change of environment caused by the death of his father
and his return to La Porte county not only wrought a change in his circum
stances and disposition but also in his future purposes in life. During his
military service he participated in a number of skirmishes, but was not for
tunate enough to take part in a general engagement. He was honorably
discharged from the army in November, 1848.
Returning to Leesburg, Kosciusko county, he began the study of medi
cine. For three years he applied himself assiduously to the study of his
chosen profession and entered upon practice in Palestine in 1851. In 1854
he removed to Fulton county, continuing there in practice until 1859, when
he removed to a farm which he had purchased in Cass county, and continued
to practice in that county untU August, 1861, when he again responded to
his country's call in the great CivU war, and organized Company E, of the
Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, was commissioned captain of the company
and proudly led it to the front.- But his health had been effected, probably
by exposure to malaria in the Mexican swamps or too close application to
study or practice in later years, or to all these, and he vvas obliged to resign
his commission and return home.
Resuraing professional work in Cass county, he continued untU 1866,
when he loca:ted at North Manchester, Wabash county, where he continued
till May 19, 1870, when he came to Miami county and located in the pros
perous little town of Macy. Twenty-eight years have passed since that day,

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during which time he has been devotedly attached to his profession. Until
compeUed to retire from country practice, no night was too dark or distance
too great for him to promptly respond to the call of sickness and distress;
and probably no physician in the county has a better record as a wise and
capable practitioner than Dr. Boggs.
In 1875 he engaged in the drug business, partly in order to be safe in
the filling of his prescriptions, with fresh and pure drugs, and partly with a
view to paving the way to his retirement from country practice. He con
tinues his office work and secures a fair proportion of the business from the
surrounding country, and at the same time conducts a first-class drug store
and a store of fancy articles, wall paper, bicycles, etc. In the mercantile
line, as well as in his profession, he has met with marked success.
The Doctor has kept well abreast of the onward march of the science
of medicine and surgery. He is a genial, companionable gentleman, a kind-
hearted neighbor and exemplary citizen. He is prominently identified with
the Masonic fraternity and Grand Array of the Republic, has always taken
an active interest in political affairs and in his principles concerning themhe
is a Democrat, influential in the councils of his party. In 1885 he was
appointed to the office of postmaster of Macy, serving through the first term
of President Cleveland; but he has never been a "place-seeker," preferring
to devote his time and talents to his chosen profession. Accordingly he is
recognized by the leading citizens as a capable, painstaking and conscientious
physician, and stands high in the profession as well as with the people whom he
has served so long and so faithfully. Like all raen of positive convictions on
political, religious or social affairs, "he has his enemies;" yet even these
readily recognize his professional worth as well as his patriotic spirit and
high social standing.
The genealogy of the Boggs family is as follows: Dr. Milton M. is the
second son of James and Martha A. (Stinson) Boggs. His father was a
native of Virginia, born in 1806, and his ancestry is traceable to Ireland, his
grandfather being a native of ' ' Erin's green isle. " The Stinson family, as
represented by the Doctor's mother, is of Scotch extraction; she was born in
Tennessee, in 1807. John Stinson, her grandfather, a Virginian, served
seven years in the Revolutionary war.
The parents of our subject were married in New Castle, Indiana, in
1825, and their children numbered five sons and one daughter, besides two

1024 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
deceased. The living are: Milton M. ; Lewis B. , a physician in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, formerly of Beatrice, Nebraska; Anthony Wayne, who resides
at Argus, Indiana, and is a farmer; Joel, a merchant and farmer, also at Argus;
William A., a resident of Saline county, Kansas, and a farmer; Mary A. , widow
of Dr. Horace Winton, and resides at North Manchester, this state. Mrs.
Boggs, the mother, died in 1853, and is buried beside her husband in Lees
burg, Kosciusko county, Indiana.
Dr. Boggs has been married three times. First he was united with Miss
Emeline MUler, in October, 1852, who died in February, 1856. April 8,
1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Penrose, who survived less
than ten years, dying in January, 1867, and leaving four children — Emma
A., Joseph E., Alice V. and Minnie W. Emma A. is the widow of Albert
J. Woodring and resides in Denver, Indiana; Alice V. is the wife of John F.
Lawrence, an attorney at Peru, this state. Minnie W. was married August
16, 1898, to Harry B. Waterman, a commercial man, of Mishawaka, Elkhart
county, Indiana; and Joseph E. died in infancy. Dr. Boggs chose his
present companion May 26, 1870. Her maiden name was Mary Ann Steva,
and she was the widow of Mr. Hanna. By the last marriage there have
been two children — Milton and Mertie; the former died in infancy and the
latter at the age of two and a half years.
Dr. Boggs has been a member of the Baptist church ever since 1845,
his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the daughters
are all Baptists excepting Minnie, who is a member of the Christian or
Disciple church.
We add a few miscellaneous items. Dr. Boggs was president of the
board of United States pension examiners for a few years, meeting every
Wednesday at Peru; was associated with Drs. H. V. Passage and C. J.
Helm. His brother William served about two years in an Illinois regiment
during the Civil war. All the wars of America have been honored by the
services of some members of the family. A great-grandfather ofthe Doctor,
named Boggs, and six brothers were driven out of Ireland because of their
sympathy with the Irish patriots. They escaped capital punishment and
came to America, settling in Virginia. They were Protestant Seceders.
This was the circumstance leading to the founding of the family on American
soil, which is now very numerous, filhng many honorable stations and cover
ing the life work of six generations.

M

CASS, MIAMI, HOW^ARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 1025
ARTIN L. ENYART, editor and proprietor of the Macy Monitor, is a
native of Cass county, this state, and was born June 22, 1840. He
was the youngest son in a family of six children born to Benjamin and Mary
(McCoUa) Enyart, the former a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, of French
descent, and the latter a native of Clark county. West Virginia. At the
tender age of three years young Martin was left without a mother, and as he
grew up his physical disability prevented him from helping his father on the
farm and he was in consequence kept in school. At the age of seventeen he
was apprenticed to Thomas Bringhurst, of Logansport, with the view of
learning the printer's trade. During the winter of 1856-7 he taught school
in Fulton county, and the next spring he went to Waterloo, Iowa, where he
entered the office of the Cedar Valley Register, and there he remained about
six months. During the autumn succeeding he returned to Fulton county
and taught another term of school and in the spring of 1858 he went again
to Waterloo and began the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge L.
D. Rannalls. In the spring of 1861 he again returned to the home of his
father in Fulton county.
Feeling a desire to enter the army, he made three unsuccessful attempts
to enter military service, but each time was refused on account of the defi
ciency in his leg. He then went to Logansport and read law under the
guidance of Judge Chamberlain one year. August 2, 1862, he made a fourth
attempt to enter the army and this time was successful. Joining Company
K, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, Ninetieth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers,- he
remained with it only until December following, when, on account of the
weakness mentioned, he was honorably discharged.
Next, after teaching awhUe, he resumed the study of law and in 1867
was admitted to the bar in Rochester. At that place he formed a partner
ship with Colonel K. G. Shryock, with whora he practiced law for two years.
In 1869 he coramenced practice in North Manchester, Wabash county, and a
year later came to Miami county, locating at Lincoln, now Macy. In 1875
he moved to Twelve Mile, Cass county, next to Wolcott, White county, in
the spring of 1876, and in the ensuing autumn returned to Logansport and
engaged in the real-estate business; in 1879 he continued in the same business
in Peru. To promote his interests in this enterprise he published for a time
The Real Estate Review; and it is worthy of note that Mr. Enyart became
the most successful agent of that kind that has ever done business in the
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1026 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
county. In March, 1885, he returned to Macy, and on the i6th of May fol
lowing the first issue of the Macy Monitor went forth with the name of M.
Lew Enyart as editor and proprietor; and this has since been run steadily as a
periodical, a fearless exponent of Republicanism and independent in local
interests. Its editor is a writer of raore than ordinary abihty, who calls things
by their right names and is unrelenting in his exposure of "fraud in high
places," a terse, spicy writer, embodying in his editorials a vein of humor,
though often coupled with bitter sarcasm. Mr. David O. Huffman has been
the compositor and job printer on the paper from its beginning, with the
exception of two years. Mr. Enyart is a member of the F. & A. M., O. E.
S. , G. A. R. , I. O. O. F. , and an honorary member of the Sons of Veterans.
He was married June 14, 1868, to Miss Sophia M. Knight, a native of
Sandusky county, Ohio, born August 6, 1840. She was the daughter of
George and Elizabeth (Jones) Knight, the forraer a native of New York and
the latter of Piqua county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Enyart have had four chU
dren. Thefirstwas aninfant son who died unnamed. Ora N. has been telegraph
operator in the house of representatives at W^ashington, D. C. , for the past
four years. He graduated at the Indianapolis Business College, was with the
Lake Erie & Western Railroad for four years, and went from their offices in
Indianapolis to Washington. January 3, 1898, he was marriedto Miss LiUian
Grace Johnson, of Rochester, Indiana, who is a graduate of the high school of
her native city ; they reside in Washington. Miss Orpha E. is a graduate of the
Macy high school, of the class of 1893, and is still at her parental home.
Edwin K. is a student at Hall's Business College, of Logansport, — in the
Peru branch.
The brothers and sisters of Mr. Enyart were: Caroline, now the widow
of Louden Carl and resides in Macy; Milton, who has been a merchant at
Fulton, Indiana, for the past fifteen years and is enjoying a high degree of
prosperity. Joseph B. was wounded in the battle of Shiloh in the Civil war,
and has ever since been an invalid. He resides upon a farm in Allen town
ship, this county. Mr Martin L. Enyart, who is the subject proper of this
sketch, is the next in order of age. Mary S., the next, is the wife of John
A. Nixon and resides at North Manchester. The mother of the above
named children died in August, 1843. By his second marriage Mr. Benja
min Enyart was united with Mrs. Catharine Marshall, who died in 1849;
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CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1027
He was one of the first members of the Methodist church in Logansport,
and the first class-leader of the same; was an active Christian all his life, con
sistent, honorable and exemplary. Catharine A. , the only child by her
father's second marriage, is the wife of Adam Halderman and resides in
Cass county, this state.
Mrs. Enyart, the wife of our subject, is a devout Christian, zealous in aU
good works; has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her
girlhood. During the canvass for funds to erect a new church in Macy, she
was one of the most active of the many energetic ladies in securing the
needed financial aid. Indeed, it seems to be the purpose of her life to do
good, thus exemplifying the doctrine of her chosen creed. Though in
feeble health, she is the possessor of indomitable energy, which is always
directed to the interests of humanity.

JAMES EMANUEL SNEPP. — The gentleman whose name introduces
^ this sketch is a member of the firm of Snepp Brothers, merchants of
Macy, Indiana. The Snepp family traces its origin to Germany and the
name was formerly spelled Schnepp.
James Emanuel Snepp was born in Johnson county, Indiana, near the
town of Edinburg, July 31, 1854. He isa son of Martin and Martha (Sawin)
Snepp, natives respectively of Ohio and Indiana, who were married in the
latter state in 1847. For a number of years Martin Snepp was a business
man of Edinburg, where he erected numerous business houses and operated
a mercantile concern. He is now living retired upon his farm near Kewanna
in Fulton county, Indiana. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in
Edinburg in 1868. His present wife's maiden name was Fannie Guile. She,
however, was a widow at the tirae he married her. Of his eight sons and
two daughters six are now living, namely: James E. , Cornelius Flavins,
Charles Martin, Daniel H., Addie May, Walter P. The deceased are William,
Rachel, Calvin G. and Edward P., all of whom died in infancy. Cornelius
F. , employed in the wholesale produce business at Rochester, Indiana, is
married and has three children. Charles M. is in partnership with his
brother, James E. Daniel H. is a merchant at Kewanna, Indiana. Addie
M. is now Mrs. Smart and resides at Southport, five miles south of Indian
apolis. Walter P. is a farmer and stock dealer at Edinburg.

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The boyhood days of James E. were passed in attending school and
assisting his father in the store mornings and evenings. In this way he
early acquired a practical knowledge of mercantile business. At the age of
nineteen he went west and turned his attention to railroading, in Nebraska
and Wyoming. On reaching his majority he enlisted, January 29, 1876, as
a private in Corapany A, Third United States Cavalry, and the next five
years spent as a soldier in the regular army. He was honorably discharged
January 28, 1881. During this service he saw a great deal of the world, as
weU as meeting some severe trials which tested both his physical endurance
and personal courage. The following list of battles and skirmishes appear
to his credit over the signature of the commanding officer of his company, at
date of his discharge: Sioux skirmish on Powder river, March 17, 1876;
skirmish on Tongue river, June 9, 1876; battle of Rose Bud, June 17, 1876;
battle of Slim Buttes, September 9, 1876; against hostile Cheyenne Indians'
outbreak at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, January 9, 1879; skirmishes near
Fort Robinson, January 10, 12, 13 and 14, 1879, and battle of Hat Creek
road, January 22, 1879. He vvas discharged at Fort McKinney, Wyoming,
five hundred miles from the nearest railroad point, started for the railroad
station by stage, and was lost in a snow storm the first night out. After a
tedious journey of seven days, he boarded the Union Pacific train at Rock
Creek station, Wyoming, and reached home February 10, 1881. During
his five years' service he was almost constantly on the move from point to
point on the western frontier. Many thousands of miles were thus traveled
in escorting surveying parties, guarding government trains, and watching the
frontier. The two years immediately following his return home he was engaged
in agricultural pursuits on his father's farm. May 24, 1883, he married Miss
Annie B. Nocks, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, January 17, 1864.
She is a daughter of William and Elizabeth Nocks. The father is deceased
and the mother is hving with her children. For two years after his mar
riage Mr. Snepp continued farming. At the end of that time he went to
Indianapolis and entered the employ of the Big Four Railway Company, with
which he reraained nearly five years. Severing his connection with the raU
road he went to Kewanna, where his father and brother D. H. were in busi
ness, and the next eighteen months he spent as clerk in their establishment.
Following this we find him employed as bookkeeper for a mill and elevator

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firm at that place, a position he held over three years. While thus occupied
he bought the interest of his brother's (Charles M.) partner, F. T. Coates, at
Macy, and, resigning his place with the elevator people, he came to Macy,
where he has since been engaged in his present business, the date of his
location here being May, 1896. The firm of Snepp Brothers has decidedly
the largest mercantile business in Macy, their stock invoicing about ten
thousand dollars. They also conduct an extensive collection and banking
business in connection with their other interests, and receive deposits, make
loans, write exchange, etc.
Mr. and Mrs. Snepp have had four chUdren, namely: Garland C, aged
thirteen years; Belva M., who died in infancy; Emma Marie, seven years
old; and Paul, four years of age.
The family attend worship at the Christian church, of which Mr. and
Mrs. Snepp are consistent raembers. Mrs. Snepp is a member of the Ladies
of the Maccabees. Politically Mr. Snepp is identified with the Democratic
party. During his army services he received injuries which entitle him to
a pension and since March 10, 1888, he has been a pensioner. He is now
filling his second term as president of the Macy school board.

WILLIAM B. YORK. — The pioneer element of this section of the state
of Indiana, with their descendants, constitute the backbone of civil
ization and the mainstay of the commonwealth. Mr. York is one of those
substantial citizens of long standing in the community in which he resides,
and is a son of a pioneer of Grant county, this state. He was born, how
ever, in Wayne county, Indiana, November i, 1845, a son of Alfred T.
York, who was born in North Carolina in 18 10, was a farmer by occupation,
and when twenty years old emigrated to Indiana and here married Miss
Saran A. Brown, a native of New Jersey.
The Browns were early settlers of that state. After marriage Mr. and
Mrs. York located in Wayne county, Indiana, and soon afterward moved to
Grant county, settling north of Marion, where they resided one year, arid
and then moved to a point four miles north of Sweetsers in Grant county,
where Mr. York cleared a farm in the woods, and had altogether, of cleared
land and timber, two hundred and seventy-five acres. Being a persevering

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and energetic man, he was successful in making there a good home. His
chUdren were Rebecca J., Julia, WUliam B., our subject, EUen L. , Fletcher,
John, Emily and Wesley. Mr. York was formerly a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, in which he was a class-leader, and in politics he is
a Republican. He is a highly respected citizen and a self-made m'an who
has done his share toward the establishment of good conditiojis for the wel
fare of the people. He is yet living, at the venerable age of eighty-eight
years. His wife died at the age of seventy-two years, a woman of many
excellences of character.
Mr. York, whose name heads this brief biographical record, was four
years old when taken by his parents from Wayne to Grant county, this state,
in 1849, and was reared in a pioneer coraraunity, receiving the coramon-
school education of the time. From his youth to the present time his Ifie
has been devoted to agricultural pursuits.
Septeraber 18, 1873, in Converse, Miarai county, he was united in mar
riage with Fannie Ray, who was born in Clark county, Ohio, August i, 1844,
a daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Goddard) Ray. Her father was a farmer
and one of the very first pioneers of that county. He owned one hundred
and fourteen acres of good land, which he cleared of ,the primeval forest.
His children were Jesse, Samuel, Mary, Joseph and Elmer. He lived to be
about seventy-five years of age, was a sincere member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and in politics a Republican. Industrious in his habits,
faithful to his words and honorable in all his dealings he was an exemplary
member ofthe coraraunity.
After raarriage Mr. York settled upon his present farm, which then con
sisted of seventy acres, partly cleared, and he has completed the clearing,
ditched and tiled the place, etc., and reduced the vvhole to a fine state of cul-
'tivation, also placing on the premises good buildings, and he now has a fine
farm of one hundred and twenty acres. He is a man of industry and thrift.
Politically he is a Republican.
Mrs. York died September 30, 1894, a zealous, working Methodist and
an excellent lady every way. Her death is a severe blow to her surviving
husband, the children and even the whole community. Their children are
Olive A. , who became the wife of Raymond Detamore, a clerk in Converse,
and has one child, Lizzie P. ; William Burr and Florence. The children are
all an honor to their parents, of whom the community is proud. Mr. York

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was married a second tirae, October 4, 1898, in Marion, Indiana, to Mrs.
Idel F. Van Dyke, who was born April i, 1869, a daughter of Jacob and
Indiana (CoUins) Pitsenberger.

NER BLACK. — Owning and occupying a pleasant country home on sec
tion 29, Peru township, Miami county, Indiana, is found the subject of
this sketch, Ner Black, who is a native of this county and a representative of
one of its well known pioneer families.
Samuel L. Black, the father of Ner, was born in Rockbridge county,
Virginia, in 1800. His father died when Samuel L. was about eighteen
years of age. Not long subsequent to this event the mother, whose maiden
name was Susanna Sawyer, removed with her six children, of whom Sarauel
was the second in order of birth, to Harailton county, Ohio. She came to
Miami county in 1834 with her two sons, Samuel L. and Thomas. Her
death occurred in 1840. The sons were married and brought with them
their famUies. Samuel L. was married in Ohio about 1832 to Mary Haynes,
who was twenty years old when she removed from the state of New York to
Ohio with her mother and one younger sister. In 1834, as stated above,
Samuel L. Black came to Miarai county, Indiana. He located on land
about five miles west of the city of Peru, and here he and his wife passed
the rest of their lives. He died February 9, 1881, and she departed this life
in 1890, at the age of eighty years. Both were consistent and active raem
bers of the Baptist church for many years. Politically he was first a Whig
and a Republican from the organization of that party. An industrious, hon
est and enterprising man, he was looked upon with high regard by the peo
ple of his locality. He cleared the heavy timber from his land and devel
oped a fine farm, and this place is stiU in possession of the family, a son,
Francis M. Black, occupying a portion of it. Samuel L. Black and his wife
were the parents of eight children, seven of whom are living, four sons and
three daughters, viz. : Sarah, the first born ; Ner, the subject of this review ;
Mrs. Emma Holman; Luman B., of Wabash county; Samuel L., Cass
county; Mrs. Ester M. Geves, of Peru ; and Francis M.
Ner Black was born at the homestead in Peru township. May 3, 1837.
Here he grew to manhood and in Miami county he has passed the whole of

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his life, thirty years being spent at the paternal home. Since 1873 he has
resided at his present location. He still owns a part of the homestead and
also has a farm in Clay township, this county. Industry and good manage
ment have contributed to his success as a farmer, and he is ranked with the
representative agriculturists of his locality. Following in the political faith
of his father, he gave his support to the Republican ticket when he became
a voter, casting his first ballot for Lincoln, in i860.
Mrs. Black was formerly Miss Sarah Margaret Holman. Her father,
Solomon Holman, was a pioneer of Miami county. Four children have
blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Black, and three of the number are living,
namely: Nellie Alice, wife of David E. Charters; Milton W. and Fred.
Charles E. is deceased.

JI^RNEST H. JULOW — Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana,
-»— ' includes among its leading farmers and respected citizens Ernest H.
Julow, a native of Holstein, Denmark, now Germany, the date of his birth
being August 12, 1831. He is a son of Frederick and Catherine (Langhorst)
Julow, both natives of Holstein, where they passed their lives and died.
Frederick Julow was a soldier in the Prussian army. He was a Christian, a
member of the Lutheran church, and lived to the ripe age of seventy years.
The chUdren composing -his family were Frederick, Lewis, Minnie, Sophia,
Henry and Ernest H.
Ernest H. Julow received a common-school education in his native land.
When he was only eight years old he spent part of his time in herding cattle,
and was thus employed for several years, and at sixteen he began to learn
the trade of shoemaker. At the age of twenty-two he was drafted into the
Danish army, and in order to escape service he embarked for New York,
May 15, 1853, on a sailing vessel. After a two -months voyage he landed at
his destination, July 14, 1853. He worked at his trade in New York city one
year and then, believing he would find better opportunities farther west, he
came to Indiana, stopping first in Indianapolis, where he spent one year in
work at his trade. His next move was to Greentown, Howard county. For
a time he worked at his trade here and in 1856 he bought forty acres of land,
a portion of his present farm, all covered with timber, and then he turned
his attention to farm work. After his marriage he built a log cabin on his

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land, and here he has since lived and prospered. The log house has long
since given way to a comfortable residence. The heavy timber has been
cut off, the land ditched and fenced, and to the original forty acres other
land has been added until the farm now comprises one hundred and twenty
acres. Mr. Julow was first married, in Liberty township, Howard county,
October 4, 1857, to Miss Annie Gordon, a native of North Carolina, born
July I, 1830, daughter of James Gordon. Their union resulted in the birth
of three children — Albert, born October 3, 1858; Catherine E., December
25, 1859; and Frederick J., January 16, 1861, This wife and mother died
November i, 1864, and for his second wife Mr. Julow wedded a Miss Odom.
There were no children by this marriage. Subsequent to the death of this
wife Mr. Julow married Mrs. Amelia Julow, widow of his brother Henry, by
whom she had two children, George W., born April 3,1864, and Henry W.,
born June 2, 1868. Henry Julow, Sr. , who was a shoemaker by trade, died
in Indianapolis, at the age of forty-one years. Mrs. Amelia Julow is a native
of Bavaria, Germany, born April 8, 1844, a daughter of John and Catherine
Snyder. The father was a stonemason by trade, and in 1844 he came to
the United States, where he pursued his calling until his death. Mrs. Julow
has two sisters and a brother, John, Margaret and Flora. The marriage of
our subject and his present wife took place April 25, 1869, in Indianapolis.
They became the parents of three children, namely: John, born February
7, 1870; Edward, born December 22, 1871, and Annie, born October 28,
1873- Mr. Julow is a worthy member of the United Brethren church and his
political affiliations are with the Republican party. When his adopted
country was in the throes of rebellion in the early '60s, he showed his patri
otism by enlisting for the preservation of the Union. It was at Kokomo,
Indiana, August 26, 1861, that he enrolled his name as a private in Com
pany D, Thirty-ninth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. Thoraas
Herring, and went out for a term of three years or during the war. Soon
after the organization of the regiment he was detailed to be nurse, and for
ten months he was in the regimental hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. He
was in the battles of Stone river, Chickamauga and Killpatrick's Ranch,
and also was in a number of skirmishes. At Stone river he was sick and
while in the hospital contracted blood-poisoning, which resulted in bone ery-

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sipelas and caused him no little suffering. He was honorably discharged
September 24, 1864.
Thus briefly is outlined the life history of this honest, industrious, self-
made man, brave soldier and worthy citizen, Ernest H. Julow.

J SAAC N. MILLER. — Among the earnest men whose depth of character
•'¦ and strict adherence to principle excite the admiration of his contem
poraries Mr. Miller is numbered. He is prominently interested in the man
agement of some of the most important industrial concerns of northern Indi
ana, and stands among the representative business men of America who have
overcome the difficulties and obstacles that bar the path to success, and have
steadily advanced until, having long since left the ranks of the many, they
now stand among the prosperous few, yet he ever has a hand down-reaching
that he may assist others in the struggle that he has himself fought and won.
Such a man is a credit to any community and a valued factor in the public
life. Mr. Miller was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1859, and is a
son of Dr. A. G. and Susan B. (Kiramell) Miller, the former a native of
Maryland, the latter of the Keystone state. The MUler family is of English
and Scotch descent, and the grandfather was a native of Maryland and a
cabinet-maker by trade. He died in middle life. He had but two children,
one of whora. Dr. MUler, is now a physician of South Bend, Indiana, where
he has made his home since 1879. His wife died in 1886, and like her hus
band she was a member of the Reformed church. She was a daughter of
John W. Kiramell, who was born in Pennsylvania and was of German descent.
The Doctor and his wife had fourteen children, flve of whom are now living:
Harry M., of Marion, Indiana; Isaac N. ; Franklin D., of Kokomo; MaryM.,
wife of W. H. Wausbrough, of South Bend, Indiana; and Carrie E.
Isaac N. Miller, whose name introduces this review, was reared in Somer
set county, Pennsylvania, and to the public-school system of that town is
indebted for the educational privileges which he enjoyed. He entered upon
his business career in the capacity of clerk in a drug store, and after one
year's experience in that line came to Indiana in 1878. For a time he was
employed on a farm in St. Joseph county, and then went to South Bend,

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where he was employed as salesman first in a clothing store and then in a dry-
goods store. He afterward embarked in the wholesale dry-goods business as
a member of the firm of Newman & Miller, at Niles, Michigan, and in 1884
he removed to Chicago, being connected with the business interests of that
city for several years. He then withdrew from the partnership and organized
a stock company for the manufacture of paper under the name of the Newman
Paper Company, of which he became secretary and treasurer. After two
years Mr. Newman withdrew from the company and George P. Wood, of
Kokomo, and C. L.Wood, of Piqua, Ohio, became associated with Mr. Miller
in the ownership of the plant, which is now operated under the name
of the Kokomo Wood Pulp and Kokomo Paper Corapany, of which Mr.
Miller is president; George P. Wood, secretary; arid C. L. Wood treasurer.
Also t'he Miller & Wood Paper Corapany, of which G. H. Wood is a member.
The business is a very important and extensive one, furnishing employment
to from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty operatives in the
mills. They manufacture wood pulp and all kinds of pulp boards and fold
ing box boards, also cloth binders and trunk boards. The plant is equipped
with the latest improved machinery, and the excellence of the products makes
necessary a large output in order to meet the constantly increasing demand
of the public. The house sustains a reputation for reliability that is most
enviable and this has undoubtedly been an iraportant factor in its success.
The relations between eraployers and employes is most harmonious, for the
latter know that faithful service brings promotion as opportunity offers and
that advancement depends upon fidelity to duty.
On the 13th of August, 1885, Mr MUler married Miss Gertrude B.
Buckman, daughter of Gregg and Isabel (Beacon) Buckman, and by this
marriage have been born a son and daughter, Charles Earl and Marguerite.
Mrs. MUler is a member of the Episcopal church, and Mr Miller belongs to
Howard Lodge, No. 96, F. & A. M. ; Kokomo Chapter, No. 104, R. A. M.;
to the councU of R. & S. M., and to Kokomo Commandery, K. T. He is
also a member of the Royal Arcanum, and he and his wife belong to the
Order of the Eastern Star. In his political views he is a Republican, warmly
advocating the principles of the party. He and his wife have a pleasant
home at No. 100 East Sycamore street, where hospitality reigns supreme,
and where the many friends of the family are always sure of a hearty wel
come. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Miller was celebrated in Mammoth

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Cave, Kentucky, and the ceremony — • the eighth performed in that wonder
ful cavern — was performed by the Rev. J. L. Caldwell.
The business career of Mr. Miller is one that should encourage others
to press on; for when he came to Indiana he had but three doUars in money,
and without influential or wealthy friends to aid him he set to work to over
come aU difficulties that might lay in the path to success. Earnest labor,
unabating perseverance, good management and a laudable ambition, — these
are the elements which brought him prosperity and have made him one of
the well-to-do men of northern Indiana. His career has ever been such as
to warrant the trust and confidence of the business world, for he has ever
conducted all transactions on the strictest principles of honor and integrity.
His devotion to the public good is unquestioned and arises from a sincere
interest in his fellow raen. What the world needs is such men, — men capa
ble of managing extensive industrial and mercantile concerns, and conducting
business on terms that are fair alike to employer and employe, — m.en of
genuine worth, of unquestioned integrity and honor.

"IV TOAH B. HOOVER, whose death, by accident, occurred at his home
^ ^ in Jefferson township, Miami counly, Indiana, Monday, March 15, 1897,
was born near what is now Hoover Station, Cass county, this state, August
21, 1839. He was a son of John and Rachael Hoover, pioneers of Cass county,
and was one of a large family of chUdren. In April, i860, he was married to
Miss Frances Obenchain, of Cass county. She was a native of Springfield,
Ohio, and in 1855 came with her parents to Cass county, where the latter
spent the rest of their lives. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hoover
removed to White county, Indiana, where they resided for a period of ten
years; at the end of that tirae settled near Belden Station, Wabash county,
and twelve years later removed to the farm in Jefferson township, where Mr.
Hoover passed the remainder of his life and where his esteemed widow still
resides. Mr. Hoover was a man of culture and a most estimable citizen.
He did a large amount of literary work, especially as a newspaper con
tributor. He was a conscientious, Christian gentleman and possessed the
respect and esteem of all who knew him. From an article on his life and the
circurastances of his death, written by the editor of the Peru Republican, for

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whose columns he was for many years a contributor, the following tribute
is taken: " Mr. Hoover was beloved by all who knew him and he was known by
thousands of people, by his correspondence, whom he had never personally
met. He was a weekly contributor to the paper for thirteen and a half
years. In addition to his letters he was called upon to write obituaries for
nearly all the people who died within a radius of miles from his home. His
newspaper writing was all a labor of love, as he never received or expected
compensation for his work. He was so conscientious that he never wrote
on Sunday, but would arise before day on Monday to do his writing. He was
on the moral side of every great question and was actively an enemy of vice
in every conceivable form. His contributions to the Republican during the
period above mentioned would make a volume of two thousand octavo pages,
or four volumes of five hundred pages each. He was ever careful to give
no offence in his writings and never indulged in bitter criticisms on the con
duct of his nieghbors. In the death of Noah B. Hoover the community has
lost a good neighbor, the church a faithful member, the wife a devoted hus
band, and the state a loyal citizen."
The death of Mr. Hoover was a tragic one. He had climbed to the top
of his windraill for the purpose of oiling the machinery, when he was struck in
some way by the revolving mill and thrown to the ground, and his death
occurred an hour later. There were no witnesses of the accident. His wife
was in Peru at the tirae and did not reach home till her faithful and beloved
companion had "passed frora death unto life."
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were not blessed with children of their own, but
reared an adopted daughter, Lora, who was born in Wabash county, Indiana,
in 1877. She vvas reared from very early infancy by Mr. and Mrs. Hoover.
She is now the wife of Lemuel F. Cox and, with her husband, still lives at
the home of Mrs. Hoover. Mrs. Hoover has a pleasant home, which she
and her husband beautified and where they lived for many years.

J3OBERT P. BRIGGS is one of the representative farmers and stock-raisers
•^ *- of Miami county, Indiana, owning and occupying a fine farm on section
13, Allen township. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio, May 25, 1835, son of
Robert and Mary (Pickett) Briggs, both natives of England, where they were

1038 BIOGRAPHICAL A.N'D GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY' OF
married. Ten years after their raarriage, in 1834, they emigrated to this
country, settling at Mansfield, Ohio, which was then a smaU place, and in
various ways they were connected with its growth and development. Rob
ert Briggs' life in America was principally devoted to gardening and farming,
though his later years were spent on a farm in Hardin county, Ohio. His
first wife died in Mansfield, at about thirty years of age, leaving five children,
Robert, our subject, being then in his infancy. Of the other four, we record
that John is now a retired farmer of Forest, Ohio; has a wife and six chil
dren, all the latter being married and hving elsewhere; Elizabeth, our sub
ject's sister, is the widow of James Stroble and is a resident of Hancock
county, Ohio; she has three chUdren, all married and engaged in life's
struggles on their own account; Mary, who married Valentine Hine, moved
with her brother, Robert P., to Iowa, and thence to Missouri, where Mr.
Hine was kUled in battle in the winter of 1861-2, and she died in 1890; and
Sarah married James Howey, and is enjoying her old age still in Ohio, on the
old farm in Hardin county. Robert Briggs, the father, remarried while in
Mansfield, a widow, whose name was Mary Aldrich, and who bore him five
children. She receded him to the other world, and his later years were
spent with his children in Hardin county, where he died at the age of eighty
eighty-two years.
Robert Pickett Briggs was reared to manhood in Hardin county, Ohio,
and was married there, November 20, 1855, the lady of his choice being Miss
Mary J. Elder, a native of Hancock county, Ohio, which was her home until
after her marriage. She was born June 14, 1837. Following his marriage,
Mr. Briggs started for the west, and stopped first in Iowa, where he remained
eight months. From there he went down into Missouri, and located on a
farm in Adair county, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres of
land, and moved upon the same in April, 1857.
Prosperity attended his efforts until the Civil war Came on, when, being
an outspoken Union man, his existence there was rendered miserable and his
life placed in jeopardy. As an evidence of the rabid sectional feeling which
existed there at that time, Mr. Briggs relates this instance: A controversy
had arisen between himself and a neighbor over the title to a piece of land.
Mr. Briggs entered suit, and when it was called to trial the sheriff and five
other men took him out of the court-house, where he could see a large Rebel
flag floating from a tall staff. He was asked if he recognized that as the flag

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of his country. He replied, "No! I will never recognize that rag as the
emblem of freedom and union." Said the sheriff: " That settles it. You
have no case in court." Mr. Briggs paid his lawyer and left the town, and
of course abandoned his suit. The controversy grew out of a fraud perpe
trated by this neighbor in fixing the boundary line of a piece of land, ten
acres in extent, in such a way as to include prairie instead of timber land.
Subsequent to this, the animosities growing stronger as the war advanced,
Mr Briggs lost his farm, and left the country for a more congenial clime.
Before leaving, however, a Rebel army encamped within two mUes of his
home and purloined everything he had which was movable, taking chiefly hogs
and grain, some hundreds of doUars' worth, and left him destitute. Accord
ingly he came north in September, 1861, and located in the southern part of
Miami county, Indiana. He taught a term of school in the fall and winter
of 1 86 1-2, thus securing the means of providing temporarily for his family.
August 5, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Ninety-ninth
Indiana Volunteers, and was assigned to the army of the west, under General
Sherman. He was a member of the Fifteenth Army Corps, under the
lamented Logan, and participated in many of the hard-fought battles of the
war, among which may be mentioned the battle of Black River Bridge,
Jackson, Missionary Ridge, second battle of Jackson, Kenesaw mountain,
Ringgold, Big Shanty, Buzzards' Roost, Marietta, and siege of Atlanta,
where he was for several weeks under fire. He was on the famous march to
the sea, and was in the charge on Fort McAllister at Savannah. Here he
lost his last "bunk mate." He went on the famous march through the
Carolinas and "on to Richmond," and participated in the grand review of
the victorious armies at Washington, D. C., at the close of hostilities. Mr.
Briggs was wounded during the siege of Atlanta, but recovered sufficiently to
participate in the final achievements of Sherman's army. He was mustered
out in June, 1865, and immediately returned to his family in Miami county.
October, i, 1865, he moved to his present farm. His first purchase
was forty acres, for which he went in debt. He worked here in the summer
seasons and taught school winters, and by frugality and good management
upon the part of himself and wife, he in time paid all his indebtedness, and
bought another "forty" at three different times, each time going in debt
more or less. Happily he has been prospered and to-day he owns one
hundred and sixty acres of excellent land, with good buUdings and other ira-

1040 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HLSTORY OF
provements thereon. In connection with general farming, he also operates
an extensive stock business — buying, selhng, breeding and raising. Among
his cattle are fine thoroughbred shorthorns.
Mr. and Mrs. Briggs have had nine chUdren, namely: Adelia Catherine,
wife of J. M. Knight, resides on a farm in Kansas; Ruth Alice, wife of Milton
Quick, lives in DeedsvUle, Union township, Miami county, Indiana; UaUa
Melvina, wife of Edward Hattery, resides in Fulton county; James MitcheU,
a minister of the Church of Christ, is married and a resident of Marion,
Indiana; Susanna, who died at the age of eight years; Albert Marion, who
married Ida Lovett and has two sons, lives on the home farm; Avis Idona,
wife of WUliam Duboise, lives in AUen township, this county; Janna Leona
and Elizabeth Lucretia, at home.
Mr. Briggs and his family are members of the Church of Christ. He
has been a life-long Republican, active and earnest in the advocacy of its
principles.

ALONZO W DAUM, M. D. — Each calling or business, if honorable, has
its place in the scheme of human existence, constituting a part of the
plan whereby life's methods are pursued and man reaches his ultimate des
tiny. " All are needed by each one," wrote Emerson. The importance of a
business, however, is largely determined by its usefulness. So dependent is
man upon his fellow men that the worth of the individual is largely reckoned
by what he has done for humanity. There is no class to whom greater
gratitude is due than to those self-sacrificing, UDble-minded men whose life
work has been the alleviation of the burden of suffering that rests upon the
world, thus lengthening the span of human existence. Their influence can
not be measured by any known standard, their helpfulness is as broad as the
universe and their power goes hand in hand with the beneficent laws of
nature that come from the source of life itself. Some one has said, "He
serves God best who serves humanity most." The skillful physician then,
by the exercise of his native talents and acquired ability, is not only perform
ing a service for humanity, but is following in the footsteps of the teacher
who said, " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my
brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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profession of central Indiana is that of Dr. A. W. Daum. One of the
younger members of the medical fraternity. Dr. Daum has already attained
a reputation that ranks him with the foremost physicians of this part of the
state, and it is safe to predict that stUl farther honors and successes awaits
him. As physician in charge of The Daum Sanitorium, pleasantly located
three miles from Tipton, he is widely known, and a large practice in the cap
ital city has likewise gained him a wide acquaintance. He is one of Tipton
county's native citizens, born December 13, 1869. His parents were Andrew
and Jane Daum, esteemed residents of this county, where they have made their
home for many years. The father was born in Germany, December 20,
1835, and crossing the Atlantic to the New World, in 1856, took up his resi-
idence in Tipton county upon a small farm of forty acres of land in Cicero
township. 'V^'^ith characteristic energy he began the development of the
tract and there carried on agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he located
on the farm on which The Daum Sanitorium now stands. Here he owns one
hundred and twenty acres. of valuable land, which he continued to cultivate
untU the last five years, during which time it has been rented to his sons.
In 1 89 1 he established the sanitorium, with Dr. J. T. Tresidder in charge,
although operations were begun, on a much smaller scale than at present.
Under his management the place became popular among the citizens of Tip
ton and the surrounding country, its local fame as a haven of rest and
renewer of strength and energy being inno sense an unimportant one. From
the beginning success has attended the enterprise, and Dr. Tresidder con
tinued to conduct the sanitorium until October, 1897, when Dr. Daum took
charge. In 1 86 1 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Andrew Daum and Miss
Jane Birkhart. They now have five children: Sarah, wife of Dr. J. T.
Tresidder, of Tipton; WUliam, who is electrician at the Sanitorium; Katie,
wife of Harry P. Presler, a farmer of Cicero township, Tipton county; Alonzo
W. , whose name introduces this review; and Lucile at home. The parents
are faithful members of the Christian church, and in his political views the
father is a stanch Prohibitionist. He does all in his power to promote a
temperance sentiment among the people, and to advance educational, social
and moral interests that will benefit humanity.
Dr. Alonzo W. Daum was reared on his father's farm, attended the high
school in Tipton and spent one year in a literary institution in Danville,
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Indiana, after which he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he entered the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. For a year he remained in that insti
tution, and then continued his professional education in the Medical College
of Indiana, at Indianapolis, where he was graduated in the class of 1894.
He entered upon the practice of medicine in Callao, Missouri, where he
remained for eighteen months, during which time he returned to Indianapolis
where he was married, in August, 1894, to Miss Sara E. Schuler, a native of
that city and a daughter of George and Elizabeth Schuler. She is a graduate
of the Indianapolis high school and a lady of culture and refinement. By
their marriage the Doctor and his wife have a little daughter, Esther Louise.
In 1895 Dr. Daum disposed of his interests in Missouri and returned to
Indianapolis, where he opened an office. Although he engaged in general
practice he made a specialty of nervous diseases, and his marked ability in
that line caused that branch of his practice to claim more and more of his
time and attention. He soon secured a liberal and remunerative patronage
and won recognition as one of the leading physicians of the capital city. He
continued his residence there until October, 1897, when he returned to
Tipton county, but during the past year he has continued to visit the city on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, and has a large prac
tice among the best families. He still retains his office there and his
patrons engross his entire time on those days.
Dr. Daum's reputation is not confined even by the bounds of his native
land, for on two different occasions he has been called abroad to minister to
the needs of prominent people of Ireland and England, — the nobility. His
first trip was in September, 1896, and the foUowing year, his fame having
spread through the United Kingdom, he was again called to London, where
he successfully treated a number of prominent people. While abroad Dr.
Daum spent several months in traveling through the most famous sections of
Europe, visiting the world-renowned health resorts and inspecting critically
their most noted sanitoriums. He made a special study of such institutions
in Germany, and upon his second return from Europe he began his great
work in connection with The Daum Sanitorium, near Tipton.
The beautiful building near Tipton is planned after a similar building in
West Baden, Germany, but in addition embraces raany improvements and
commendable features found elsewhere or else originated by Dr. Daum. The
site of the sanitorium is an ideal one. It is only forty miles from Indian-

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apolis, and three miles from Tipton, and "stands on a beautiful farm of one
hundred and twenty acres. The building is situated on a commanding emi
nence overlooking fertile fields and picturesque woodlands, and frora the
observatory which ccowns the structure Tipton is plainly visible. The sub
stantial brick building is three stories in height, with a basement, and affords
accommodation for fifty guests. There are forty rooms, frescoed and well
furnished, with a view to neatness, bealthfulness and beauty. Each room is
well lighted by two or three windows, so that there is an abundance of fresh
air and sunlight, — two very important factors in the cure of the sick. The
house is heated by steam, lighted by electricity, equipped with electric bells,
a passenger elevator, hot and cold water on every floor, and local and long
distance telephones, — in fact every convenience known to the modern city
hotel. The methods of treatment include hydrotherapy, electrotherapy and
mechanotherapy. As the name indicates, electric massage forms an impor
tant part of the treatment, while Russian, Turkish, electric, sulphur, vapor
and water baths are given. Elegant porcelain bath-tubs are another feature
of this modern establishment, while the best sanitary plumbing obtains
throughout the houses. The sanitorium has its own water-works, also its
electric plant, which feeds two hundred incandescent lights, as well as gen
erating the electricity used in the baths, massage and general treatment.
The table is supplied with fresh fruits frora garden and orchard. A beau
tiful natural forest of ten acres provides a delightful retreat frora the hot
summer sun, while to the east of the building are large orchards of peach,
apple and pear trees. A garden provides fresh vegetables in season, and Jer
sey cows supply the dairy. Another important feature of the sanitorium is
the recently establis'hed food factory, for the manufacture of various kinds of
health foods, which are made from the choicest grains and nuts, and are very
palatable as well as healthful. Special foods are manufactured when needed
for special cases, and the product of the factory not only supplies the sanito
rium, but may. also be found upon the markets. About ten barrels of flour
are used daily in baked foods, and one hundred pounds of nut foods are used
daily. Each department is under a capable manager: J. W. Daum is electrician
and there are two consulting physicians. Dr. James T. Tresidder, M. D., and
Sarah Daum Tresidder, M. D. , who formerly conducted the sanitorium and are
now doing an office practice in Tipton. While each one has contributed not

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a little to the success of the institution, the name that is most inseparably
associated with it is that of Dr. A. W. Daum. It is he who has made the Daum
Sanitorium one of the leading institutions of the kind in the entire west, and
extended its reputation until its patients have been received from all parts of
the country. A local paper said of him: " Heas a gentleman in full posses
sion of the youth and vigor which act as a stimulus to greater and far-reach
ing accomplishraents in his much loved profession, while his skill and expe
rience far out -reach his years. Possessed of an energy which is second only
to native ability, he devoted his early years to study and research, penetrat
ing the hidden mysteries of science and medical lore, and evolving therefrom
ideas and theories which have since made him famous and carried his repu
tation as a specialist far across the seas."
Dr. Daum is a very genial gentleman, always courteous and considerate,
of broad humanity, sympathies and tolerance, and possessed of that sincere
love for his feUow raen without which there can never be the highest success
in the medical profession. He holds membership in the Christian church
and has occupied its various offices. His friends are legion, and the history
of Tipton county would be incomplete without the record of his life
and work.

EDWIN DUCKWALL, one of the respected citizens and substantial
farmers of Deer Creek township, Miami county, was born in Butler
county, Ohio, February 23, 1835, his parents being William and Ellinor
Duckwall. His father was a native of Virginia, born August 15, 1808, and
was a carpenter by trade. When he was an infant he was taken to Ohio by
his parents, and passed his boyhood in Highland, Clinton, Butler and Mont
gomery counties. His wife was a native of Butler county, a daughter of
Jacob Baker, of New Jersey, and of German descent. Mr. Baker was twice
married and by his first union had the following-named children: Loretta,
Hannah, Eliza, Emily, Sarah, Rachel, Emeline and Jacob; and by his sec
ond marriage Jacob, Ellinor, and possibly others. One of the wealthy and
influential farmers of Butler county, Mr. Baker was held in high esteem and
attained a good old age.
After their marriage William Duckwall and wife took up their abode in
Butler county, living on the old Baker homestead until the death of the

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wife, about a year later By this marriage there was one son, the sub
ject of this sketch. WiUiam Duckwall re-married, his second wife being
a Miss Caroline Bruner, a native of Montgomery county and a daughter of
Daniel and Ellen Bruner. To the union of William and Caroline Duckwall
seven children were born: Charles, Francis, Clayton, Ellinor, John W. ,
Laura and Jane. During the Civil war John W. was an officer in an Indiana
regiment of infantry, and, after serving for four years, re-enlisted as a vet
eran. After years spent on a farra in German township, Montgomery county,
Ohio, during which period he cleared and developed a fine homestead. Will
iam Duckwall retired to the town of BrookviUe, that state, where he is still
living, aged about ninety years. He owns two hundred acres of valuable
land and is well off in this world's goods, as a result of his years of ener
getic attention to business. He was formerly an old-line Whig and has long
been a stanch Republican.
On account of his mother's death, when he was an infant, Edwin Duck
wall, of this sketch, lived with his maternal grandmother Baker, in Butler
county, for a few years. His boyhood was chiefly passed in Montgomery
county, however, and there he was a student in the old-fashioned subscrip
tion schools of the period. When he was twenty-two years of age he mar
ried, at the Phoenix House, in Dayton, Ohio, Septeraber 30, 1856, Louisa,
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Zech) Emrick. She was a year and a
half younger than himself, her birth having taken place November 20, i 836.
Her father, a son of Michael Emerick, was, as the name indicates, of Dutch
origin, his ancestors having been among the sturdy old pioneers of Pennsyl
vania in colonial times. He was a son of John Michael Emrick, one of the
heirs to twenty million dollars' worth of property. Michael Emrick emi
grated to Ohio with his family in 1804 or 1806 and settled near German-
town, German township, Montgomery county. After clearing a farm there
and rearing his children in the way they should go, he departed to his re
ward, when well along in years. His family comprised Henry, Abraham,
William, John, Catherine, Elizabeth, Susan and Teenie.
Henry Emrick grew up in the wilds of Montgomery county and always
dwelt upon the old farm which his father had developed from the forest.
This place, a quarter-section in extent, has always been productive and well
worthy of the toil of its owners. Henry Emrick married, in Montgomery
county, Ehzabeth Zech, who was one of five chUdren, the others being

1046 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Henry, Daniel, Eva and Katie. Their father was one of the respected old
pioneers of Twin Valley. The union of Henry Emrick and wife was blessed
with ten children, namely: Teenie, Catharine, Elizabeth, Marjorie, Michael,
Salome, Henry, Sophia, Ann Maria and Louisa. The father, who was a
Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religion, died when about fifty-six
years of age. He was beloved and respected by all who knew hira.
After his marriage, Edwin Duckwall settled upon a farm in the north
eastern part of Deer Creek township, Miami county. This place, a tract of
seventy-seven acres (the present homestead of Jacob Duckwall), then had but
twenty acres cleared, and with characteristic energy our subject set to work
to develop and improve the property. After he had finished clearing it he
lived there but three years, when he sold it to the present owner and removed
to the eighty-acre farm where he resides to-day. The place was then cov
ered with a heavy forest, and bore litttle resemblance to the fine farm it is
at this time. Building a plank house, Mr. Duckwall began housekeeping in
the humble home and with well-applied industry and energy commenced the
difficult task of developing the farm. He has succeeded beyond his expec
tations and has put in six hundred rods of tiling among other iraproveraents.
He is a self-made man, and owes to no one save hiraself the prosperity which
now crowns his years of persevering toil. He has not neglected the duties of
citizenship, and has always used his frarichise in behalf of the norainees of
the Democratic party. Religiously, he is a Lutheran.
He is the father of two daughters, of whom he may well be proud. The
elder, Cleanna A., born September 17, 1857, married Oliver P. Edward,
September 27, 1877. The younger daughter, Clara V., born August 18,
1858, became the wife of Elbert E. Gorten, February 21, 1893.

J3EV. JAMES A. ELLIS, the subject of this sketch, was born in Greene
^ »• county, east Tennessee, May 16, 1825, the first born of a family of
eleven children. His parents, Jesse and Rachel (Brown) Ellis, both long
since deceased, were natives of the same state and county as stated above.
His ancestry on his father's side were of Welsh extraction, and on his mother's
side English.
The youthful days of James A. Ellis were characterized by much man
ual toU. As he was the eldest of the children, and his parents in limited

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circumstances, he became a necessary factor in earning bread and butter for
those younger than himself. His father being a mechanic, the agricultural
pursuits devolved mainly on James after he attained sufficient age and
strength to manage a team and implements. His school education was of
course limited, on account of the pressing demand upon him in helping to pro
vide for weaker hands, also on account of the meager facilities offered at that
time and place, yet in after life he taught one term of public school.
In the year 1843 he chose for himself a consort for life, being still youth
ful in years and also in appearance. Mary Johnson was the one above all
others upon whom his youthful affections centered, and who became his wife
as stated above; and this history would be incomplete, indeed, were we to
fail to mention some of the many traits of character that have adorned the
life of this noble woman, — self-sacrificing almost to a fault, always pre
ferring others to herself, and carrying gladness and sunshine to the homes of
affliction and bereavement; and in the remembrance of these traits of noble
womanhood the writer pauses, brushes away a tear and muses to himself,
"Oh that there were more thus inclined to lessen the burdens of afflicted and
suffering humanity. She still lives, a pious, loyal and devoted old lady,
only waiting for the suramons. Come up higher."
In 1845, becoraing tired of the withering influences of huraan slavery
with which they were surrounded, James A. Ellis and wife emigrated to
Indiana, with the hope of bettering their financial footing. Mr. EUis first
pitched his tent in Wayne county, giving his attention wholly to agricultural
pursuits for five years. In some measure he succeeded, at least he was able
to obtain from the government an eighty-acre tract of land, wholly in its
virgin state, not a tree amiss, in Tipton county. Then the process of clear
ing away the timber comraenced, and at the same time raaking a living.
Having no means ahead, he boldly started in, and being blessed with
strength, courage and a firm determination, the monarchs of the forest melted
away like wax before the fire. He lived on this tract some seven or eight
years, then moved to his present home on the placid waters of the " WUd-
cat," in Howard county, where he still lives.
It was while he was engaged in clearing the above mentioned eighty-
acre farm that he began the study and practice of medicine. As the writer
looks back to that time, being but a boy, and remembers the meager advan
tages that were his, reading until late at night by a light radiating from flam-

1048 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ing hickory bark in the huge fire-place, stopping at short intervals to
replenish the light-giving fuel, he is ready to claim, after a lapse of forty-five
years. Surely but one in many would have succeeded, against such fearful
odds! As an early practitioner he had an enviable patronage, managing the
ills of that day with a skill second perhaps to none. He continued the prac
tice over a period of more than twenty years; then, failing in health, it seemed
necessary for him to abandon the profession, which he did, yielding his prac
tice to a foster son. Dr. Levi Conner, deceased.
The early life of James A. Ellis, even up to mature years, was not
noted for piety. However, at all times he was a believer in Christianity and
orthodox in his opinions of the economy of grace; but while yet on the
" sunny side " of fifty, he became more than ordinarily aroused on the sub
ject of religion, and, with the same indomitable energy that had characterized
his life in things of less importance, he sought the forgiveness of his trans
gressions, which being granted, and which brought such measures of peace
to hira, he resolved at oncethat the residue of his years should be devoted
to the cause of his Master. At once he becarae a mouth-piece and in a shorter
time than usual to bring such an event about he was ordained in the Friends'
church a public herald of the cross, which he has defended with a commend
able zeal for near a quarter of a century. He has traveled in "Truth's"
service over many of the states of the Union, both north and south, mainly at
his own expense. But few ministers have consumed as much of their sub
stance for the spread of the Master's kingdom as has Rev. James A. Ellis. His
converts are many and are scattered in all directions, especially in the west
and northwest. As an evangelist he has been eminently successful. How
ever, at the present time he has in a measure lost this usefulness as an evan
gelist by reason of deafness and failing age, being in his seventy-fourth year.
In much of his journeyings in the spread of the gospel, his wife, Mary, men
tioned before, was his companion and helpmeet.
Politically he was a Whig, but became identified with the Republican
party from its birth, voting with a hearty good wUl in its ranks, and receiving
preferment from its hands; but at present he is a stanch and uncompromising
Prohibitionist, and with the same honest, hearty good will that he voted in
the Republican party he now votes in the Prohibition party, thinking by so
doing that he can best demonstrate his eternal opposition to the American
saloon and its baleful effects.

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Some twenty-five years ago he met with a serious accident which ren
dered the amputation of his left foot above the ankle necessary. He uses an
artificial foot, however, so skUlfully that a stranger would scarcely suspect
him to be the cripple that he is.
James A. and Mary Ellis were not blessed with children of then own
but have been the foster parents of a large number, — eleven in all, — nine of
whom lived to be men and women, married and settled in life.
Thus we have attempted to pen some of the most prominent events in
the life of the subject, or rather subjects, of this sketch; but the writer feels
that his pen has been too frail to portray in fitting colors the lives of this now
elderly couple for many years past. They have grown old together, and the
bond that united them more than a half century ago has only grown the
stronger as the years have come and gone. It is not often we see a minister
of the age of Dr. Ellis so well preserved, physically and mentally, as is he.
The last sermon which the writer of this sketch heard him preach, only a
short time since, surely was the crowning effort of his life; yet he is nearing
the sunset, and we can see the glearaings of gold as they radiate from his
declining and departing days, warning us that the eventide has come.

OLIVER H. SANDIFUR.— One of the pioneers of Deer Creek town
ship, Miami county, and one of the few remaining of those who settled
here during the middle of this century, is the gentleman whose name appears
above and who located in this vicinity in 1846.
He was born in Fayette county, this state, July 17, 1824, a son of Noah
Sandifur, and is therefore a typical Indianian, highly appreciated by his fel
low citizens. Noah Sandifur was the son of Robert and Winifred (Bailey)
Sandifur, who were of old North Carolina stock; and the Sandifurs are of
French ancestry, while the Baileys were of English. Robert Sandifur was
a mechanic who lived in Pasquotank county. North Carolina, and when a
young man was a Revolutionary soldier, in the cavalry service, participating
in several battles. He was married in the Old North state and moved to
South Carolina, and thence to Georgia, and finally to the Indiana territory in
1807, settling in what is now Franklin county. His death was accidentally
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Noah and Peniah. He was born and brought up in the Friends' church, but
in Indiana he united with the Baptist church. Noah Sandifur was born
ISfarch 3, 1798, in South Carolina, and was seven or eight years of age when
brought by his parents to this state. He attended the common school for
nine months, but he educated himselfto a considerable extent; he was also
a good singer. By occupation he was a farmer. When twenty-three years
of age, in September, 1821. in Fayette county, Indiana, he was united in
marriage with Miss Mary Williams, a native of Virginia and a daughter of
George and Nancy (Newhouse) Williams. Mr. Williams also was a farmer
of Fayette county, this state, probably as early as 1820, and cleared a tract
in the wild forest and established a comfortable home. His children, so far
as their names can now be remembered, were John, Isaac, Mary, Sarah and
James, besides a daughter who married a man named Wilson, and another
daughter who became the wife of a Mr. Walker. George Williams died in
Fayette county, in middle life, a highly esteemed citizen. Noah Sandifur
died November 13, 1884.
After his marriage Noah Sandifur continued his residence in Fayette
county, Indiana, but sold the forty-acre tract which his father had entered;
in 1830 he raoved to Tippecanoe county, this state, and resided there a year;
and in the spring of 1832 he purchased a quarter section of land in Carroll
county, which he cleared and reduced to cultivation, making a good farm.
Still later he added forty acres more to his possessions there, making an
aggregate of tvvo hundred acres. His children were Oliver H., Nelson W.,
a merchant and school-teacher, who died aged about thirty-one years;
Albert S., Christina, Benjamin F. and Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Sandifur were
members of the Methodist church, in which he was a class-leader and trus
tee. He passed his remaining days in Carroll county, dying at the age of
eighty-six years. PoliticaUy he was a Whig, voting for Henry Clay for presi
dent of the United States, and was one of the early Republicans. He was a
sturdy pioneer, honest and open-hearted. Taking an active part in the
church, he assisted in building Methodist churches for miles around.
Oliver H. Sandifur, whose name heads this sketch as its subject proper,
in his youth received a common pioneer education; was twenty-one years of
age when he came, in 1846, to Miami county, arriving January i. He bought
a claim of one hundred and sixty acres, from a man who had indicated it only
by cutting down a few trees, for which he paid the man five dollars. Here

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he built a log cabin, and when the land came into market, about 1847, he
entered it. He proceeded to clear the land and make a farm, and by per
severance in much heavy work he at length had a good home, and in this
achievement he was greatly assisted by his industrious and faithful wife. By
subsequent purchases he added to this land until he owned two hundred and
thirty-three acres, and he now has a pleasant homestead.
August II, 1853, in Miamitown, he was united in marriage with Sarah
Beaver, who was born October 6, 1830, in Rockingham county, Virginia, a
daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Miley) Beaver. Both the Beaver family
and the Mileys vvere of good German ancestry. His chUdren were Michael,
John, Matthias, Jacob and a daughter whose narae is not now remembered.
Matthias Beaver died in Virginia. Jacob was married in Rockingham county,
that state, and moved to Wayne county, this state, in 1831, settling in the
wilderness on Martindale's creek three miles south of Hagerstown, and there
he cleared eighty acres of land. In the autumn of 1846 he moved to Miami
county, this state, locating in Clay township, on eighty acres in the forest,
where he cleared the land and opened a farm. His children were Elizabeth,
Henry, Belinda, Adams, Lewis, Catharine, Sarah, Jacob and Peter. In
1854 Mr. Beaver moved to Page county, Iowa, where he purchased a horae
stead, but he died in Kansas, at the venerable age of eighty-seven or eighty-
eight years. He was a raember of the United Brethren church, and his con
duct through life was a criterion. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
When Oliver Sandifur first came to his present place it was a wild forest,
and here he erected two log cabins and cleared forty acres. His present
residence stands where a log shanty stood, which was his "pre-emption"
house and in which he lived about seven months. Perseverance in due time
succeeded in making here a good homestead. In 1850 Mr. Sandifur and his
brother Nelson erected a sawmill on the south bank of Deer Creek, which
he ran for a year and then rented it to a party who operated it three years
longer. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sandifur are exemplary members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which religious organization he joined in 1855, and in that
church he has been a class-leader and a local preacher; and he has liberaUy
assisted in building all the Methodist churches in this vicinity. He also
assisted in building the first log school-house in his district, and was one of
the directors of the school. His children are:

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I. Jacob A., who was born December 5, 1854, and March 29, 1876,
married Melvina F. Williamson, a daughter of John and Sarah A. (Forlow)
Williamson. She was born September 15, 1856, died June 27, 1885. Their
children were Claude W., Fida Bell (who died at the age of twelve years)
and Sadie Dell.
2. Mary E., who was born August 23, 1857, on the old homestead,
married Morton E. Haynes (who was born January 12, 1854), and they
reside in Kokomo. Their children are Frank Sandifur, born September 10,
1877; Willie Morton, September 25, 1879; Ersie English, July 17, 1881;
Emma R., January i, 1885; and Maud M., June 12, 1887.
3. Emma R., born November 18, i860, and September 20, 1882, mar
ried Rev. Leander E. Knox, a Methodist minister, and they reside at Ashley,
Indiana. Their children are: Oliver W., who was born September, 1883,
at Greentown, Indiana, and died July 27, 1884; Ethel B., born also at
Greentown, March 10, 1885; Inis M., born at Russiaville, this state, Novem
ber 18, 1887; Carl C, born also at Russiaville, May 27, 1890; and Dean F.,
born at Wawaka, Indiana, January 10, 1894. Mr. Knox was born near
Providence, Johnson county, Indiana, October 4, 1858.
4. Noah A., born February 18, 1864, married Ida Brown, who was
born October 29, 1869. TheirchUdren are Bertha, born December 19, 1887,
and Earl, February 17, 1890.
5. Oliver U., who was born AprU 28, 1868, and resides at his parental
home. 6. William H., who was born August 5, 1869, and is a resident of
Marion, Indiana.
Mr. Sandifur is a stanch Republican in his political views and sympa
thies, and has been a justice of the peace four years, — 1855-9. He is well
known and highly respected, is a man of honesty and fidelity, industrious and
persevering, a good manager and successful.

J~\R. H. G. READ, one of the most progressive and representative physi-
¦*-^ cians and surgeons of northern Indiana, who enjoys a lucrative practice
at Tipton, where he resides, was born in Randolph county, this state, Decem
ber 5, 1857, a member of one of the oldest and most favorably known fami
lies of that section. His parents, Cyrus A. and Sarah H. C. (Lawrence)

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Read, were natives of Greene county, Ohio (born near Xenia), and were
blessed with seven children, six of whom are living, namely: Armelia, wife
of Joseph C. DeVoss, the present treasurer of Randolph county, Indiana;
Alice, wife of William D. Campbell, a prosperous farmer of said county; Dr.
Horace Greeley Read, the subject proper of this sketch; Emma, wife of
Thomas Leavell, of said county of Randolph; Anna, wife of Carson Mann,
of Delaware county, this state, and William L. , of Albany, Indiana, a com
mercial traveler. The first born who came to bless the home of Cyrus A.
and Sarah H. C. Read was Mary, who died at the early age of twelve years.
The father was a farmer and stockman, who emigrated to Indiana about
1849 and located in Randolph county, where he died in 1878, aged about
fifty-five years. His widow still survives, making her home among her chil
dren and on the old homestead. She is a highly eseemed member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, as was her husband. Mr. Read was always
interested in public afiairs, voting intelligently but neither seeking nor holding
office. Abner Read, father of the last mentioned, was a native of Massachu
setts and of English extraction. The first in the paternal line to emigrate to
the New World was John Read, who came from Lincolnshire, England, in
1630, and located in Massachusetts. Abner Read owned a large farm in the
Miami valley north of Xenia, Ohio, also a woolen manufactory near that
city, selling his goods throughout a large section of country. He died in
Ohio, at the age of seventy-five years. His children numbered seven.
John Lawrence, the maternal grandfather of the Doctor, was a native
of New York state, but came west in an early day and settled in Greene
county, Ohio, following the occupation of a stockman; he died at the
advanced age of eighty-four years. His ancestors were wealthy English
people, and he himself had a large number of children.
Dr. Read was reared on the farm in Randolph county, and inured to
toil. He attended the district school during the winter and labored upon the
farm during the remainder of the year. Desiring to fit himself the better for
his life work he embraced the advantages offered by the high school at Win
chester and then entered the National Normal at Lebanon, Ohio. There
after he followed the profession of teaching for some years, and engaged
somewhat in civil engineering. In 1879 he entered upon the study of
medicine in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, and graduated with

1054 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
honors in 1883. He located at HoUandsburg, Ohio, in the practice of his
chosen profession, where he remained three years. In March, 1887, he
located in Tipton, Indiana, where he has since remained in the enjoyment of
a lucrative practice. He is a member of the Tipton County Medical Society
and of the Indiana State Medical Society, engages in general practice, but
after a thorough post-graduate course has given especial attention also to
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he is eminently successful.
His office is in the Moore block.
In 1 88 1 the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Eliza J., eldest
daughter of Rev. Hosea and Mrs. Seges C. Woolpert. Rev. H. Woolpert
has been an honored minister of the North Indiana Conference, Methodist
Episcopal church, for more than forty years; he is now superannuated and
lives at Green Springs, Ohio. The maiden name of Mrs. Read's mother was
Orum. Her ancestors were of sturdy Scotch-Irish nativity and came to
America at an early day. Mrs. Read embraced the many opportunities
offered for acquiring an education that she might fit herself for the important
work of a teacher, which profession she entered early in hfe, and taught a
number of years. Doctor and Mrs. Read have an interesting family, con
sisting of two lovely daughters, the Misses Nellie and Carrie Read. Mrs.
Read has been identified with the Methodist church from early childhood,
and always prominently associated with connectional church enterprises,
Sunday-school work and the Epworth League movement, as well as various
charitable and benevolent movements. She has for years been a leading
spirit in all literary work, having been secretary for successive terms of the
literary and suffrage clubs of which she is a member, also serving in the
capacity of president. She is gifted by nature, as well as education and ex
perience, for leadership.
In politics the Doctor is a Republican. For one term he was a member
of the city council, and for six years he was one of the city health officers.

"\ X /"ILLIAM O. PIPER, postmaster and a prominent citizen of Denver,
^ * Miami county, is a representative of one of the pioneer famUies of
this county, being a son of John Piper, the time of whose settlement was
1844.

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John Piper was a native of Pennsylvania. He was a son of Edward
Piper, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Seneca county, Ohio, when the
father of the subject of this sketch was a boy. There John Piper grew to
manhood. He learned the trade of cooper near Dayton, Ohio, and there
married Miss Elmira Bassett, a native of the state of Vermont. William O.
was the fifth born in their family, his birth occurring October 26, 1837, and
he was about seven years old when his parents came to Miami county,
Indiana. The family at that time comprised the parents and six sons, and a
daughter was added to the number after they came here. David, the eldest,
now resides with his children. Lewis, the second of the surviving members
of the family, occupies the old homestead in Union township, where the
family settled in 1844. John is a resident of Wabash. The youngest son is
Francis. He is now at the Soldiers' Home. The second of the family in
order of birth was Edward. He was married in Terre Haute, Indiana, and
died there a number of years ago, leaving a widow and children; his widow
has since died. The daughter, Miranda, is the wife of W. Zimmerman, of
Richland township, Miami county. John Piper, the father, passed away in
October, 1884, in Union township, and the wife and mother died in Decem
ber, 1894.
William O. Piper, the immediate subject of this sketch, though but a
young lad at the time, remembers incidents of the trip, with an ox team,
from the Buckeye state to Miami county, several years more than half a
century ago, when the country which now blossoms as the rose was com
paratively a wilderness. His youth was spent at the homestead, where he
assisted his father and brothers in clearing up the farm. At the age of twenty
he left home and for a year was engaged in working on a farm in Ogle county,
Illinois. Returning to Miami county, he was for three years variously
engaged, — teaching during the winter season, working on the farm in summer,
and in the threshing season engaging in that occupation. The war of the
Rebellion was now at hand, and Mr. Piper, like thousands of other young
men, resolved to respond to the call of President Lincoln to defend and main
tain the integrity oi the government. Accordingly, on October 8, 1861, he
enlisted in Company G, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served over
three years, or until December 16, 1864, when he was mustered out of the
United States service, in the field, at Nashville. He participated in some
of the most important events of the war, including the famous battle

1056 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of Stone River and the historic raid by Colonel Streight. He was taken
prisoner at Rome, Georgia, and confined at Belle Isle in Virginia, but was
liberated after a few days, by exchange.
After the war he resumed farming, locating in Newton county, Indiana.
Four years later he returned to Miami county, and the following year went to
Topeka, Kansas, where, in the spring of 1870, he engaged in the real-estate
business. In October of the sarae year he returned and engaged in the mer
cantile business in Denver, Indiana, which he continued till March, 1889.
January i, 1861, he married Miss Ann E. Charles, a native of Wayne
county, Indiana, and daughter of Reuben K. and Margaret (Cunningham)
Charles, natives of Ohio and Virginia respectively. The chUdren born to
Mr. and Mrs. Piper comprise six sons and a daughter, viz.: Charles E.,
WiUiam T., Walter E., Harry M., George W., Omer S. and Clara P. Mr.
Piper was bereft of his wife by death, December 23, 1886. His present wife
was formerly Mary A. Haine. A son, Carl, has been born to this marriage.
In his first voting days Mr. Piper was a Democrat, but the war changed
his political views, and he has ever since been identified with the Republican
party, and is an earnest and able advocate of the principles of that great
political organization. Mr. Piper is a courteous and estimable gentleman.
He was a faithful and gallant soldier in the war for the preservation of the
Union, and it is the consensus of opinion on the part of those who know him
that his private life has been equally upright and honorable.

"\ XT" ILLIAM H. POTTER, an honored citizen of Greentown, Indiana, and
" ' an old soldier of the Civil war, has a record, both civil and military,
that deserves a place in standard history, such as this volume is designed
to be. Mr. Potter is a native of Indiana, born in Floyd county, near New
Albany, March 11, 1837, of American ancestry. His father, Abraham Pot
ter, a native of one of the eastern states and a hatter by trade, emigrated
west, first settling in Missouri. He was married, however, in Knox county,
Tennessee, to Thurza Overbay, a daughter of Richard Overbay, of southern
stock, and settled in Floyd county, Indiana, and afterward in Knox county,
this state, where he finally died, at the age of sixty-seven years. (The mar
riage referred to here was Mr. Potter's second; the particulars of his first

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1057
marriage are not readily obtainable.) By the marriage to Miss Overbay
there were the following children: Abraham J., deceased; William H. ; John
D. ; Richard, deceased; Francis M. and Nancy. It was in 1840, when
W. H. Potter was a small child, that his parents removed to Floyd county,
this state; afterwards they changed their residence to Knox county, also in this
state, and in 185 1 to Fountain county.
Like all the farmers' boys of the early west, Mr. Potter was inured to
the heavy labor of clearing and cultivating a farm from his chUdhood, with
but limited school advantages. He was first married in Montgomery county,
in 1862, to Miss Sarah E. Hartness, who was born in Ohio, a daughter of
Conrad and Mary (Voris) Hartness, but within nine months after his mar
riage was compelled to mourn the loss of his bride by death. February 2,
1864, in Montgomery county, this state, he was united in matrimony with
Miss Sarah M. Koon, who was born May 4, 1846, in that county, a daughter
of John and Sarah Ann (Clifton) Koon. Mr. Koon was a native of Butler
county, Ohio, born in the year 18 17. His father was a pioneer of "that
county, and his children were Christian, George, Betsey, Katie, Mary A.,
Nancy, Rachel and Matilda. Mrs. Koon departed this life in Butler county,
Ohio. John Koon, the father of Mrs. Potter, was born and reared on a farm
in that county, and when a young man came to Montgomery county, Indi
ana. He was married in Fountain county, this state, to Sarah Ann Clifton,
a native of that county and a daughter of William and Elizabeth Clifton.
Mr. Chfton, a farmer by occupation, had been a soldier in the battle of Tip
pecanoe under General Harrison. He was a substantial and prosperous citi
zen. His children were Howson, Thomas, Robert, Malinda, Nancy, Eliza
beth and Martha. John Koon and wife settled in Cole Creek township,
Montgomery county, on land that he had entered before marriage, and he added
to it until he was in possession of about eleven hundred acres, by which he
was enabled to give all his children a good start in independent life. He
died on that farm, at the age of seventy-six years, a zealous Baptist in his
religion, a Republican in his politics and an honorable citizen in all the relations
of life. He effectively sustained the war for the Union through all the dark
hours of that terrible period. By his first wife his children were Elizabeth,
John, Rachel and Sarah M. Mrs. Koon died about 1848, and he subse
quently was united in mairriage with Miss Mary Temple, in Butler county,
Ohio, and by this marriage had two children — Mary C. and George W.
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1058 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
After marriage W. H. Potter located upon one hundred and sixty acres
of land in Fountain county, which was a part of the old Koon homestead.
But little of the land had been cleared, and there, by well directed energy he
succeeded in making a fine homestead, clearing a large area. At length he
sold that place and moved to Greentown, in February, 1894, but shortly
afterward he purchased a farm two miles north of town. He has one
son, John E., who married Dora Grenard and has three children. He is a
liveryman in Greentown.
Mr. Potter, the subject of this sketch, is a patriot, and was a soldier in
the late Civil war. He first enlisted for a year, in Company E, Fifteenth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Crawfordsville, this state, in April, 1861,
under Captain Hardin Claypool, and after serving about four months he was
honorably discharged. In October, 1863, he re-enlisted, at Crawfordsville,
in Company B, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, to serve three years or during the war; and after he was two years
in the army he was honorably discharged, on account of disability. He was
engaged in several battles and skirmishes in Georgia, as Dalton, Resaca, etc. ,
and was in the Brownlow hospital at Knoxville, Tennessee, for a time, con
fined there by chronic diarrhoea and pneumonia, which exhausted his consti
tutional energies and not only unfitted him for further service in military life
but has made their effects felt to the present day.
In his political views Mr. Potter is a Republican. In fraternal relations
he is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Greentown;
an unaffiliated member of the Odd Fellows society and a member of Lodge
No. 360, of the Masonic order. He is well known for his uprightness and
reliabUity in the practical affairs of life and both he and his wife are highly
respected merabers of their coraraunity.

J_TENRY NIMAN. — Incomplete would be the history of Miami county
*- ^ without the record of this venerable gentleman, who has passed the
ninety-first milestone on the journey of life. His career has ever been one in
which business activity has been blended with unbending honor and unflinch
ing integrity. Success has come to hira as the result not only of indefat
igable energy, but also of straightforward dealing, and his career is one well

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worthy of emulation by hira who would justly command the respect of his
fellow men.
Mr. Niman, who now resides on section 15, Erie township, and is one
of the old settlers of Miami county, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
November 24, 1807. His grandfather, Peter Niman, was a native of Hol
land, was there reared, and after his marriage came to the United States.
He fought in the American army in the war of the Revolution, and after the
close of hostilities located in Pittsburg, where he spent his remaining days.
The father of our subject was also named Peter Niman, and was born in
¦ Pittsburg, which continued his place of residence until his earthly pilgrimage
was ended. He married Sarah Potts, daughter of George Potts, who was
likewise a native of Holland and a soldier in the colonial army which brought
independence to the American colonies. To the parents of our subject were
born twelve children, five of whom reached years of maturity, but Henry is
the only one now living.
In the city ot his nativity Henry Niman was reared and learned the trade
of a machinist. His father was wealthy, but in view of the fact that Henry
was the eldest and had learned a good trade, he decided to let him shift for
himself -and gave his property to the younger children, in his will, bequeath
ing to Henry only ten dollars. But the latter refused to accept this paltry
sum, and with resolute purpose determined to gain a competence for himself.
When he had completed his term of apprenticeship his employer offered to
make him superintendent of his shops, but thinking that the other employes,
with all of whom he was acquainted, would not like to serve under him, he
refused the position and accepted the superintendency of a shop in Cincin
nati, Ohio, at a salary of one hundred dollars per month. After a year he
was recommended by his former employer, Mr. Leitner, to Edward Parker,
of New Orleans, who engaged him to take charge of his plant in the Cres
cent city, at a salary of seventeen hundred dollars per year. He remained
for a year in that position and then left New Orleans on account of yellow
fever, going to Dover, Tennessee, where he established a blast furnace for
the manufacture of iron ore, sugar mills and the engines necessary to operate
them. They were used on the sugar plantations of Louisiana, and Mr.
Niman continued to fill that position at a salary of seventeen hundred dollars
per annum for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he
accepted an offer of a position in Louisville, Kentucky, where he established

1060 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
a foundry and machine shop, operating the same for a year, after which he
went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was also employed to establish a
foundry and machine shop. Later he went to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on
the Monongahela river, not far from Pittsburg, where he continued for a
year, in partnership with a Mr. Snowdon, but his health faUed and he sold
his interest in the business.
While at that place Mr. Niman married Miss Sarah West, a Quaker
lady, and purchased a farm near Brownsville, but he was not an agriculturist
and both he and his wife became dissatisfied and resolved to go west.
Accordingly, in October, 1845, they became residents of Miami county,.
Indiana, locating on the farm where Mr. Niman still resides. His health
was poor, however, and he was unacquainted with practical farming, so that
he experienced considerable difficulty in his work for a few years. On one
occasion he employed a man to kill a pig, but the man did not finish his
work, leaving Mr. Niman to hang the pig and complete the job. Our sub
ject therefore attempted to hang the pig by the forelegs, but his wife, who
had been reared on a farm, came to his rescue, explained the proper methods
and at length the work was satisfactorily accomplished.
After Mr. Niraan had been in Miami county for a year he accepted an
offer to erect a foundry in Peru. There the force for raising wind to blow
the fire was supplied by horse power. He also engaged in making the wick
ets for the locks on the Wabash .and Erie canal. After a few years, how
ever, he returned to his farra and continued its cultivation untill 1883, when
he went to Jasper county, Indiana, where he purchased a cattle ranch, oper
ating the same until a recent date, when he returned to his farm in Miami
county, having since made it his home.
In 1880 Mr. Niman was caUed upon to mourn the death of his first wife,
and in 1882 he was again married. He had one son and five daugliters by
the first union. The only son, Jacob, enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Infan
try during the Civil war, in August, 1861, served for three years, and re-en
listed at New Orleans. Near Richmond, he contracted an iUness and died
in Arlington Hospital. Three daughters of the family are now living: Sarah,
a resident of Missouri and widow of Edwin Breese, who vvas a native of Ver
mont; Lear, widow of Henry Marshall, and a resident of Denver, Colorado;
and Mrs. Martha Thorapson, who lives in Colorado, where she owns and
manages- a large ranch. She also has valuable property in Denver. The

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present Mrs. Niman bore the maiden name of Vandevender, and was born
on White river near Anderson, Indiana. Her father, Lewis Vandevender,
came to Miami county with his family when this daughter was a child of
seven summers.
Mr. Niman is remarkably well preserved, and although he has reached
his ninety-second year his memory is undimmed and his faculties unimpaired.
He has been a voter for seven decades, and cast his first presidential ballot
for Andrew Jackson. Afterward, however, he became a Whig, and since
the organization of the Republican party has been numbered among its stanch
advocates. In his religious convictions he is a Methodist and has always
been a liberal contributor to the support of the gospel, while in his home
daily worship is always observed. Highly esteemed by all who know him,
the uniform regard in which he is held is a tribute to an upright life, — one
well worthy of emulation.

/CORNELIUS LOW. — From good old Revolutionary ancestry, Cornelius
^^ Low is descended, and the family is one in which devotion to every
duty of citizenship has ever been a marked characteristic. Our subject is
regarded as one of the valued residents of Perry township, Miami county,
where he is now successfully engaged in farming. He was born in Hunter
don county. New Jersey, on the 21st of August, 1818, a son of Cornelius and
Elizabeth (Baker) Low, who were also natives of the same state. The father
was born September 25, 1783, andthe mother's birth occurred October 8,
1 78 1. The family is of Holland origin and was founded in America in early
colonial days. The paternal grandfather, Benjamin Low, was one of the
heroes of the Revolution, and the maternal grandfather, Timothy Baker,
also aided the colonists in their struggle to cast off the yoke of British
tyranny. In 1836, Cornelius Low, Sr., emigrated with his family to Ohio,
locating in Wayne county, where he spent his remaining days, his death
occurring April 21, 1870. His wife passed away March 8, 1869.
At the time of the removal of the famUy to Ohio, Cornelius Low, of
this review, was in his eighteenth year. He remained with his parents until
twenty-seven years of age, assisting his father in the care and cultivation of
the home farm. On the 24th of April, 1845, he was united in marriage to
Miss Sophronia Beard, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, -April 30,

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1827, a daughter of Cyrus and Maria (Blatchley) Beard, the former a native
of New York, and the latter of New Jersey. In early life they removed with
their respective parents to the Buckeye state, where both the parents and
the grandparents of Mrs. Low spent their remaining days.
In 1853, Cornelius Low came with his family to Miami county, Indiana,
and purchased of Nathaniel Myers the fine farm upon which he has since
resided. It is pleasantly located in Perry township, near the village of Gilead,
and is under a very high state of cultivation; nor is it lacking in any of the
improvements and conveniences which are found upon the model farm of
the present age. Mr. Low has also successfully engaged in real-estate deal
ing. He has made judicious investments in farming property, and at one
time was the owner of raore than nine hundred acres of rich land, part of
which he has sold at a good profit.
Mr. and Mrs. Low have a family of three sons and three daughters.
The eldest, Quiraby, vvas born February 20, 1849, married Emma Stroop,
and is a resident of Perry township, Miami county; Delpha O. is the wife of
Francis G. Lukens, of Wabash county, Indiana; Maria B. became the wife
of Charles Landis, and died April 23, 1884, her husband having also passed
away; John, who resides on a farm adjoining his father's home, was born
January 24, 1857, and married Saloma Longnecker; Alonzo, who was born
November 3, 1859, married Angle Goss, and resides in Fulton county, Indi
ana; Bettie was born November 7, 1861, and is the wife of Joseph Martin
dale, of Richland township, Miami county.
For forty-five years a resident of Miami county, Cornelius Low has a
wide acquaintance in this part of the state, and has always been highly
esteeraed in the community as a man of upright character and strict integrity.
He is an earnest Republican and has been identified with the Grand Old
Party since its organization, his sons being also of the same polirical faith.
He and his wife are faithful members of the Baptist church, and those excel
lencies of character which everywhere command respect are possessed by
these worthy pioneers of Miami county.

JASPER BAUGHN. — A substantial representative of the agricultural
interests of Clay township, Miami county, is Jasper Baughn, who is
descended from one of the old and honored families of North Carolina and o

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Scotch lineage. His paternal grandfather, Henry Baughn, was a farraer in
North Carolina and emigrated to Culpeper county, Virginia. In the former
state he married Elizabeth Wall, and they became the parents of seven chil
dren: Benjamin F., WUliam H., Zachariah, Richard, Susan, Lucy and Amy.
After some years' residence in the Old Dominion, Henry Baughn removed to
Fayette county, Ohio, then a frontier district where the wildness of nature
was giving way before the advancements of civilization. There he opened up
a farm in the midst of the forest, where the trees were still standing in their
native strength. His political support was given the Democracy; his relig
ious faith was that of the Baptist church. His sterling rectitude of character
and his fidelity to the higher principles of life won him the regard of neigh
bors and friends, and at the age of eighty years he laid down the burdens of
life, respected by all who knew him.
Benjamin F. Baughn, the father of him whose name begins this sketch,
was born in North Carolina, in 1808, and in Fayette county, Ohio, married
Miss Malinda MiUer, a native of Virginia, and a daughter of George and Mary
(Negley) MUler, who were of Pennsylvania-Dutch families. In pioneer days
her father removed from the Old Dominion to Fayette county, Ohio, and
developed a good farm, upon which he spent his remaining days. Mrs.
Baughn was his only child by his first marriage. After the death of his wife,
he was again married, in Virginia, and the chUdren of that union were Henry,
George, Jacob, Thomas, Mary and John. For his third wife he chose Mrs
Burnett, a widow lady, and their children were Robert and Susan. George
Miller was one of the first settlers of Fayette county, Ohio, and after the
death of his first wife he took his little daughter, Mahnda, then six years old,
before him on a saddle and on horseback made the journey, several hundred
miles, through the wilderness to Virginia, returning, however, to his Ohio
claim after his second marriage. After their marriage, the parents of our sub
ject located on an unimproved farm of one hundred and fifty acres, but the
father, with characteristic energy, at once began to clear and cultivate it and
prosecuted his labors with great diligence. He afterward extended its bound
aries until it comprised one hundred and seventy acres. In 1857 he sold out
and removed to Miami county, Indiana, where he again experienced the
difficulties and hardships of the frontier, and transformed a tract of raw land
into rich fields and verdant meadows.
Here he owned three hundred and twenty acres, which he sold on his

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removal to Kansas in 1876, at which time he located in Atchison and
embarked in the grocery business. Two years later he removed to Netwalk,
where he carried on the hotel business until his death. In early life he held
membership in the Baptist church and later became a member of the
Christian church. He was honest and worthy of all regard, and he left to
his famUy the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. He exercised his
right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy.
The eight chUdren of the family were George, Henry, Jasper, Elizabeth,
Minerva, Martha, Ella and ArvUla.
Jasper Baughn is one of Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in
Fayette county, on the i8th of May, 1842. He is indebted to the common
schools for the educational privileges which he received, and on the home
farm he gained ample training in the labors incident to the life of the agri
culturist. When a youth of fifteen he accompanied his parents on their
removal to Indiana and has since been identified with the farming interests
of Miarai county, with the exception of a short period spent in Kansas.
After his raarriage he lived in Clay township, Miami county, for a year, and
then spent three years in Jackson county, Kansas, returning to this county
in 1870. In 1872 he again located in Clay township, where he remained
nine years, when he removed to Washington township, settling on a farm of
one hundred and twenty-five acres. He took up his residence in his present
home in the autumn of 1893, and is now devoting his time and energies to
the cultivation of his farm of one hundred and fifty-two acres, where sub
stantial buildings in good repair and well tUled fields give evidence of the
thrift and enterprise of the owner.
On the 22d of February, 1866, in Miami county, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Baughn and Miss Eliza McCammon, who was born in Put
nam county, Indiana, September 3, 1844, a daughter of Archibald and Eliza
beth (Smith) McCammon. Her father was of Scotch-Irish descent and was
born in Kentucky, where he became a farmer. Having arrived at years of
maturity he married Elizabeth Smith, of Marrin county, Kentucky, and
subsequently removed to Putnam county, Indiana, and later to Miami
county. Here he settled on the Indian reserve in Clay township and
purchased two hundred and forty acres of land. This was in 1848, when
few white settlers had yet taken up their abode in the locality. The forest
stretched away on every side and gradually he extended his clearing until he

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had an excellent farm in the midst of the woods. In his old age he sold his
property and made his home with his chUdren. He was an important factor
in the development of his locality, was one of the organizers of Clay town
ship and was instrumental in advancing many movements for the pubhc
good. He gave his political support to the Democracy and with the Baptist
church he held membership, whUe his wife belonged to the Methodist church.
His life labors were ended at the advanced age of eighty years. His children
were John, Elizabeth, Thomas, Margaret, Eliza, Albert and Melvina.
Mr. and Mrs. Baughn became the parents of four children, Thoraas,
Charles, Rosie and Ella. The faraily is one of prominence in the community,
enjoying the hospitality of the best homes in this locality. Mr Baughn
votes with the Democracy, keeps well informed on the issues of the day and
for three years served his township as assessor. He has been the architect
of his own fortunes and has buUded wisely and well. Through the careful
direction of his business interests and by indefatigable industry he has
acquired a handsome property and at the same time has so conformed to the
ethics of business life that he has the unqualified confidence of all with whom
he has had trade transactions.

JOHN P. HUTTO, a leading, representative farmer of Liberty town-
^ ship, Tipton county, is a native of Indiana, born in Clark county, June
21, 1824. He was reared to the honest toil of a farmer and received a limited
education in a little log school-house, so common in this state at an early
day. His parents, William and Amelia (Merchy) Hutto, were born, reared
and married. in South Carolina, while the former was of German and the
latter of Scotch-Irish descent. The Hutto family was quite numerous in
South Carolina, and among its members were many prominent ministers,
planters and slave-owners. After the birth of their first chUd, the parents
of our subject removed to Kentucky, where two other children were added
to the family, and as early as 1803 they came to Indiana, but were several
times driven back to Kentucky by the hostile Indians. They finally located
in Clark county, and twelve years later became residents of Johnson county,
where, as they were unable to buy land, the father worked at his trade as a
hatter. Later on he and a son returned to South Carolina to get his share

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of his father's estate, and he then returned to Johnson county with money
and the first carriage ever brought into the county, having received it in his
share of the property. Only two weeks after his arrival home he died, the
date of his demise being January i, 1830. He had taken part in the battle
of Tippecanoe: was of a genial disposition, and his integrity was unimpeach
able. After his death Mrs. Hutto broke up housekeeping and gave her atten
tion to the practice of medicine and nursing, in which she met with excellent
success. She was always a friend to the poor and needy, was a faithful
raeraber of the Methodist church, to which her husband also belonged. In
early days services were often held at their horae, and there the ministers
were always sure of a hearty welcome. Mrs. Hutto resided with our subject
the last twelve years of her life, dying there March 8, 1865. The previous
year she enumerated her descendants, having at that time sixty-seven grand
children and seventy-seven great-grandchildren. Her children were as fol
lows: Rebecca, wife of John Prime, of New England; William died in 1869,
and of the nineteen children born to him three are yet living; David F. , who
took part in the Indian raids in northern Indiana; Margaret, who married
Eli Hall and is now eighty-seven years of age; Thomas, who died in Howard
county, Indiana, in 1852; Mrs. Mary Woodruff, who died in 1852; John P.,
of this sketch; and Rachel and Samuel, who both died young. Our sub
ject and his sister Margaret are the only ones now living.
After the death of his father, John P. Hutto lived with a brother for
some time, then spent three years with Judge Garver at Franklin, and later
was with another brother at WUliamsburg, where he worked at the tailor's
trade. Subsequently he made his home with his brother-in-law, Mr. HaU,
by whom he was employed as a farm hand. After his marriage, which was
celebrated in 1844, he rented a farm and operated the same untU coming to
Tipton county, in 1850. Here he entered land in Prairie township on
the day General Taylor was elected president. He stopped wUh his brother
until a cabin could be erected, but this rude home had only quilts hung up at
the door and window as a protection from the wolves and other wUd beasts
then plentiful in this region. The early pioneers are fast passing away, and
now only one raan remains who was a voter in that township at the time of
his arrival in the county, while in Liberty township, where he now lives,
there are two— Granville Wilson and Martin Kendall. Mr Hutto cleared
and improved his first farm of eighty acres and added to it twenty acres, but

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in 1875 sold the place and removed to Howard county, where he bought a
farm near Kokomo, remaining there seven years. Returning to Tipton county
in 1883, he purchased two hundred acres of land in Liberty township, mostly
cleared. The log buildings upon the farm he has replaced by a commodious
frame residence and large barn, has renewed the orchard, has ditched
and tiled the place and made many other improvements which add to its valu
able and attractive appearance. This fine farm is pleasantly located seven
miles north of Tipton and a mile and a half southeast of Sharpsville.
On the 15th of August, 1844, Mr. Hutto was united in marriage with
Miss Melville A. Morgan, a native of Kentucky, in which state her father,
James I. Morgan, spent his entire life. After his death her mother removed
to Johnson county, Indiana, and located upon a farm which her son. Van
Rensselaer Morgan, had purchased. For thirty years this son was an offi
cer in the United States navy, but on the outbreak of the Civil war he left
his vessel at New Orleans and joined the Confederate forces, becoming one
of the most prominent officials in the southern navy. For some time he
commanded the Merrimac, but was not on board during the fight with the
Monitor. He was a large slave-owner and very prominent in the south. He
was quite wealthy and owned much land in the north, but it was confiscated
during the war. Miles H., the oldest of the Morgan family, resides in Wa
bash, Indiana, at the age of eighty-four years; Mrs. Laura A. Hunter is the
next of the family; Leraont and Jerome B. are both deceased; Melville A.
is the wife of our subject; and Mrs. Louisa A. Fant is still living, as is also
Mrs. Missouri A. Lindsay, while Eliza died unmarried. Eight children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Hutto: Marcia E., wife of B. F. Hall; Avery B., who
died at the age of nine years; James, who died at the age of sixteen; Mrs.
Missouri A. Wilburn; Thomas M., who married a daughter of Robert Pike,
a prominent citizen of Tipton township, and he is now one of the leading and
influential men in state affairs in Kansas, and is also a trustee of Winfield
College; Miles M. , a hardware merchant of Sharpsville; Mrs. Emeline E.
Samuels, who died in 1892, leaving two children; and Charles E. , a resident
of Tipton. The wife and mother, who was an earnest member of the Meth
odist church, died June 9, 1864.
The same year Mr. Hutto was again married, his second union being
with Mrs. Marcella Hutto, a distant relative and a daughter of WUliam and
Mahala (Neal) McKay, natives of Jefferson county, Indiana, where the

1068 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
mother died in 1850. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, removed
to Tipton county in 1863, and here his death occurred in June, 1889. Both
were faithful members of the Missionary Baptist church. In their family
were four children: MarceUa, wife of our subject; Mrs. America S. Wor-
don; Norvin G. M., a farmer, who served through the Civil war; and Eliza
beth, wife of D. Duncan, a farmer. By her first marriage Mrs. Hutto had
one son, Milton W. Hutto, a tailor by trade, who is now located in Penn
sylvania. Eight children blessed the second union: Norvin L. , a resident
of SharpsvUle; Melville M., wife of J. Frits; Lora P., a brick mason; Robert
L., a taUor, of Sharpsville; John P., a farmer; and Harry, Omer and Arvilla,
all at home.
During the Civil war Mr. Hutto was drafted, but as he would have to
leave his mother, then eighty-four years of age, and two afflicted children, he
reported at Indianapolis and secured a substitute, James Burns, to whom he
paid one thousand doUars, and who was twice honorably discharged. Polit
ically he was originally a Whig and now supports the Republican party,
taking a deep and commendable interest .in all public affairs, but never as
piring to office. Both he and his wife are active and prominent members of
the Methodist church, and he has served as superintendent of the Sabbath
school for forty years. In Prairie township he and his brother erected the
first church in the county outside of Tipton, it being built of hewed logs, and
in later years it was replaced by a more modern frame structure.

TJON. CHARLES S. GOAR, M. D.— This well and favorably known
A ^ physician of Goldsmith, Tipton county, has long been very popular in
the ranks of the Republican party of central Indiana. From his early man
hood he has taken an active and interested part in political campaigns and
has been an acknowledged factor in the success of his party in this section.
In 1896 he was nominated and elected to the senate of Indiana, representing
Tipton and Hamilton cousties. He served in the sessions of 1897 and con
ducted some effective work on behalf of the people, acting as a member of vari
ous important committees and being chairman of the committee on public
health and vital statistics. His term implies his continued service in the ses
sions of 1899. A young man of marked ability and genius, he lends his hearty

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1069
co-operation and influence to all public measures having for their object the
welfare of the community in which he dwells, and of the country at large.
Doctor Goar is one of the native sons of Tipton county, and within its
limits the main part of his life thus far has been spent. His birth-place is
upon the farm owned by his father in Cicero township, and the date of the
event is August 17, 1865. The record of the family to which he belongs
may be found in the sketch of Henry Goar, printed elsewhere in this volume.
In his youth the Doctor first attended the district schools, but being desirous
to qualify himself for a wider career, he afterward took special sciences and
a teacher's course in the Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana. After
his graduation, in 1884, he began the study of medicine under the guidance
of Doctors Newcomer and Dickey, of this county, and in the autumn of 1885
matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis. After
pursuing a thorough course of study in that institution he was graduated in
1888. In entering upon his chosen life work the Doctor concluded to try his
fortunes in Minnesota, and accordingly opened an office in the town of Ken
nedy. There he continued in practice up to November, 1890, when he
returned to his native county and established himself in business in Gold
smith. Here he has prospered and has built up a reputation for professional
skUl that is gratifying. His ability is recognized by the other members of
the profession and he is often called into consultation, near and far. He is
a raeraber of the Tipton County Medical Society, of which he vvas formerly
president and is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society. He also
holds membership with the American Medical Association. Socially he stands
high among the Odd Fellows, and is a past noble grand of Goldsmith Lodge,
No. 324. March 8, 1891, Doctor Goar married Miss Jennie Hinkle, daughter of L.
D. and Mary Hinkle, of Goldsmith. The young couple have one son, ChurchUI
by narae. Their pleasant home is the frequent scene of social gatherings,
and their friends are legion in this vicinity.

JONATHAN DARK. — Among the early settlers and representative farmers
of Tipton county, and a veteran of the great CivU war, is the subject
of this sketch, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1831, reared
to honest toil as a farmer and educated at the common schools.

1070 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
His parents, Jonathan and Susan (Faddick) Dark, were likewise
natives of the Keystone state. The father was a farmer by occupation.
The Dark faraily originally came from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Dark was a soldier in the war of 1812, was a consumptive for
many years preceding his death, suffering a great deal, and finally passed to
the unseen world about 1839; and his wife survived untU 1885, dying in
Pennsylvania. In their family were these chUdren: Rebecca, Susan, John,
George, Elizabeth, Jonathan (our subject), Henry and Jacob. The parents
were members of the Lutheran church. After the death of the father the
mother tried to keep the chUdren together; but as soon as they were old
enough to begin steady work they were obliged to get out into the world and
labor for those who were not their parents.
The subject of this sketch was but seven years of age when his father
died, and had to go early out among comparative strangers to live and work
his way, and he was employed at whatever he could do. As soon as old
enough he learned the blacksmith's trade. In i860 he carae to Tipton
county and worked at his trade at Sharpsville, and also at Indianapolis.
In 1 86 1 he enlisted in the army for the Union, for three years, in Com
pany C, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was assigned to the west
ern department, and saw hard service in camp, on the picket line and in
hotly contested battles. For a year and a half he was detailed as black
smith. He finally left the array at New Orleans, was raustered out, and
received an honorable discharge at Indianapolis, September 21, 1864.
Returning to Sharpsville, he resumed blacksmithing. In 1866 he mar
ried and commenced housekeeping in the village. Two years afterward he
moved to Indianapolis, where he followed his trade for two years, and then
returned to Sharpsville, in 1870. Pie settled two and a half miles east of
Sharpsville, upon a farm of eighty acres, whereon was a log cabin, some of
the trees deadened and a small portion cleared. He now has seventy acres
cleared, ditched and tiled and in a good state ot cultivation; also a good two-
story frame residence, a large barn and outbuildings, orchard, etc.
He raarried Miss Sarah Needhara, a lady of intelligence, a daughter of
Silas and Jane (Holman) Needham. Her father came from Jennings county,
Indiana, in 1853, and settled on a farm and later engaged in merchandising
at Sharpsville, where he now lives, retired frora active business. His first
wife, the raother of Mrs. Dark, died in AprU, 1877, after having four chil-

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dren: Mrs. Dark; William, who died at the age of five years; Mrs. Margaret
Franklin; and Frank, who resides in the west. Mr. and Mrs. Dark's children
are: Nellie, Mrs. G. Singer; and Jane, now Mrs. Hodson, — both on farms
in this .(Liberty) township.
Mr. Dark is a member of Patrick Evans Post, No. 146, Grand Army of
the Republic, at Sharpsville, and is a strong Republican, but has never
aspired to office.

T EROY S. WALLACE, M. D.— Frora the far-off Pine Tree state comes
•*— ' Dr. Leroy S. Wallace, now a successful and able medical practitioner of
Bunker Hill. He was born in Portland, Maine, on the 26th of December,
1854, and is a son of Joseph and Clara (Loring) Wallace. He is of Scotch
descent, the family having been founded in America by the Doctor's grand
father, a native of Scotland, who on emigrating to America took up his resi
dence in Pennsylvania. In the early '60s the parents of our subject removed
from New England to Columbus, Ohio, where he acquired his literary educa
tion in the excellent public schools of that city. He also attended the
university in Delaware, Ohio, and, having resolved to make the practice of
medicine his life work, he entered the old and well known Starling Medical
College, of Columbus, in which institution he was graduated with the class
of 1875. The same year he entered upon the practice of his profession in
connection with Dr. Halderman, a prominent physician of Columbus, and
the partnership was continued until 1879, when Dr. Wallace removed to
Bangor, Huntington county, Indiana, where he remained until April, 1896,
since which time he has been a resident of Bunker Hill. Here he has built
up a large and lucrative practice, which extends throughout the surrounding
counties. The Doctor is a member of the Liberal Medical Society, of Peru, Indiana,
and is a physician of scientific attainments and comprehensive knowledge of
medicine. He is a patron and student of the leading medical journals of
the country and thus keeps in touch with the advancement that is continuaUy
being made in the profession, profiting by the experiences of others and con
stantly adding to his already extensive medical lore. He has a valuable and
well selected medical library and is justly regarded as one of the leading rep
resentatives of the profession in Miami county. He is also connected with

1072 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
other business interests of Bunker HUl, being part owner of a livery stable
here. On the 30th of May, 1883, in Marion, Indiana, was celebrated the mar
riage of Dr. Wallace and Miss Nellie Charles, a native of Buffalo, New York,
and a daughter of PhUip Charles. They have three sons, Charles, Fred and
Frank, who are the life and light of the household. The Doctor believes
most firmly in the principles of the Republican party and is well informed on
the issues of the day. He is firm in support of his honest convictions, and,
though not aggressive, does not hesitate to express his views when called upon
to do so. He stands high in his profession, not alone by reason of his
knowledge, but also because he possesses those indispensable attributes of the
successful physician, — a broad charity, an abiding sympathy and great kind
ness.

JOHN W. EWARD. — "Every man rises," says Payne, "in a profession
or trade along a path more or less bedewed by the tears of those he
passes on his way." The subject of this sketch, who is now one of the few
pioneers of Converse now living, has had a varied career but a successful
one, both in a profession and in some of the industries, and in all these he
has exhibited a high degree of executive talent and enjoyed corresponding
success. He is of sterling Scotch-Irish ancestry, who have ever constituted
one of the best elements of society.
His great-great-grandfather was a native of the north of Ireland, who
emigrated to America, settling first in Pennsylvania and taking a hand in the
Revolution. John Eward, the great-grandfather of John W., was a pioneer
of Kentucky and was with Daniel Boone in some of his noted contests with
the red savages. He was one of the first settlers of Nicholas county of that
state, married Elizabeth Mitchell, and they became the parents of James,
Nancy, Ellen, Samuel M., Jane, Phidella, John B. and Polly. When
well advanced in life Mr. Eward moved to Decatur county, Indiana, where
the most of his children had settled; some had located in Shelby and
other counties. All his chUdren, excepting Polly, located in this state. He
lived to be eighty-four years of age, dying in Shelby county, at the residence
of his son, John B. H^ was a prosperous farmer and a substantial citizen.

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a member of the Masonic order, and at his death was one of the oldest
Masons of the state. Both in Nicholas county, Kentucky, and in Shelby
county, Indiana, he made a farm out of the dense wilderness. In politics
he was an old-line Whig, was justice of the peace and sheriff in Kentucky,
and was always known as " Squire " Eward. He was a soldier in the war
of 1 812 and a stanch patriot. He brought up his children in the strict habits
of industry and all the other virtues.
James Eward, the father of our subject, was born in Nicholas county,
Kentucky, in 1803, was a farmer, and married, in his native county. Miss
Dorcas Ardry, of the same county, born August 22, 1806, a daughter of James
Ardry, of Scotch-Irish ancestry and a pioneer of the Blue-grass state. A few
years after his marriage James Eward emigrated to Indiana, settling first
near Clarksburg, Decatur county. After clearing a farm there he sold it and
removed to a point near Greensburg, same county. Purchasing a farm there
he engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the manufacture of linseed oil; but
in 1838 his manufactory was burned down. In 1844 he sold out his interests
there and the next spring removed to Marion, Grant county, arriving there
March 4, 1845, and at that place died, of typhoid fever, in 1846, at the age
of forty-three years. He was a pious member of the Christian church, an
old-line Whig and an upright, respectable citizen. His wife reached the
advanced age of eighty-four years, remaining a widow ever after the death
of Mr. Eward. Their children were Mary, Jane, Ellen, Sally, John W. ,
James D. and Lydia.
John W. Eward, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Decatur
county, Indiana, September 6, 1836, a son of the last mentioned in the line
of ancestry, and was about nine years of age when his parents removed to
Marion, this state, where he attended the public elementary and high schools
and a seminary. He learned the art of printing in Marion and at length pur
chased the Marion Journal and the Grant county Union, consolidating them,
in 1862, under the name of Marion Journal. Being a strong Republican, he
cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in i860, and conducted
his paper as an advocate of Republicanism from the spring of 1862 to 1866.
When a young man he studied law, under the guidance of Judge J. M. Wal
lace, of Marion, and in 1866 came to Xenia, now Converse, and engaged in
the practice of law, and also purchased a dry-goods establishment, consoli
dating the business with that of J. W. Flinn & Son, under the firm name of
31

1074 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Flinn, Eward & Company, giving his personal attention, however, more
especially to the practice of law.
At this time the town of Xenia was a village of about a hundred inhab
itants only, with no railroad or other means of transportation excepting
wagons, sleighs and mud-boats. In the village were one or two stores,
where supplies were kept for those employed in the timber and stave busi
ness; a sawmill and stave factory were all the manufacturing establishments
in the place, but they did a considerable amount of work and the people
regarded themselves as enterprising. Of course there were the usual com
plement of the rougher class of people and a saloon or two, which latter fur
nished the material for occasional brawls, — the principal episodes of excite
ment in pioneer times. Still there were two well supported churches, and
the community in general was as good as any at that period.
The country around was a dense forest, excepting that here and there was
a small opening made by an early settler. The chief industry of the coun
try was " lurabering," which consisted in cutting down the best trees, sawing
them into logs of convenient length and hauling them to the mills.
In the early part of 1868 the first train of cars over the Marion & Logans
port (now the Pan Handle) Railroad, reached this village, to the great delight
of the people, and from this time forward the town grew more rapidly, —
additions to the town were platted, residences and business houses went up,
and the "district school-house," a small frame structure across the creek,
was erected; this was supplanted in 1872 by the brick school-house, in
which is now conducted the graded school of the place. Thus one improve
ment has followed after another until the present time. The discovery of
natural gas here in 1888 has since then been agreat impetus to business and
the substantial growth of the town. Had it not been for the panic of 1893
the town might have become a " city" ere this. Converse has now a pop
ulation of about twenty-five hundred, electric lights, splendid water-works,
abundant natural gas, well paved streets and two miles of cement and brick
sidewalk. There are also fine churches and mansions, and the place gener
ally indicates the presence of an enterprising, intelligent people, second to
no other " city " of its size in the gas belt.
Mr. Eward continued in the practice of law until 1897, when he was
appointed postmaster by President McKinley, and in this position he is popu
lar. In 1872 he was elected a member of the state legislature and he faith-

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fully served during the two sessions of 1872 and 1873; and for four years,
commencing in 1877, he was a justice of the peace. Mr. Eward has ever
been successful in business and in his official positions has been faithful, giv
ing general satisfaction.
He is a member of the Christian church; fraternally he is a member of
the Masonic order and of the order of Odd Fellows, in the latter holding his
membership in Beacon Lodge, No. 320, of which he is a charter member,
and in which he has passed all the chairs, including that of noble grand. He
and "Squire" Reeves are the only ones living of the charter members of
this lodge. He is also a member of Converse Encampment, and he has rep
resented the subordinate body in the state grand lodge.
April 8, 1865, in Grant county, Indiana, Mr. Eward was united in mar
riage with Miss Rebecca J. York, who was born August 8, 1843, a daughter
of Alfred and Sarah (Brown) York. Mr. York is a native of North Carolina,
born in 18 10, and was a pioneer of Wayne county, this state, settling there
in 1846-7. In 1852 he came to Grant county and cleared up a farm and is
now well-to-do and a venerable citizen eighty-eight years of age and a highly
esteemed member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His children were
Rebecca J., just mentioned, Julia, William B., Ellen, Fletcher, John, Emma
and Wesley. Mr. and Mrs. Eward's chUdren are Jessie L. , Edgar D., Fred
O. and Elbert F.

WILLIAM N. HARVEY, a highly respected citizen of Converse, Howard
county, springs from sterling Irish and English ancestry, and is one of
the oldest settlers of Jackson township. Almost the only means by which
one can establish the highest credit for integrity and a good character
generally is to maintain a long residence in one locality, where all his neigh
bors know him under a great variety of circum.stances, test his reliabUity and
still continue to sustain him as a valuable citizen. By this test has Mr.
Harvey been placed high in the esteem of an intelligent and moral com
munity. He therefore deserves special notice in a work like this.
Samuel Harvey, his father, a native of Tennessee, was brought to Union
county, Indiana, by his parents in their emigration to this state in very early
day. It is believed that the grandfather of William N. was Henderson

1076 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Harvey, who settled in Union county at a stUl earlier period. About 1827
Mr. Samuel Harvey was married, in Union county, to Sophronia Hazelton,
who was born in that county April 12, a daughter of Royal and Mehitable
Hazelton. After marriage Mr. Harvey settled upon a tract of forest land,
eighty acres of which he cleared and reduced to cultivation. His children
were WUUam N., Isabel, Mehitable, Levi, who was a soldier in the Civil war
and died young, Mary, Annie, Martha, Sarah and Royal M. In his political
principles Mr. Harvey was a Republican, and both himself and wife were
consistent members of the Christian or New-Light church. He died about
1875, at the age of seventy-three years, nine months and nineteen days, in
Preble county, Ohio, to which place he had moved late in life. He was an
honorable, industrious man, respected by all.
Mr. WUham N. Harvey, whose name heads this sketch, was born Decem
ber 3, 1829, and was brought up on his father's farm in Union county, Indi
ana, receiving a limited comraon-school education during the winter seasons
in the old-time log school-house until he was ten years old, — limited to this
because of the scantiness of educational privileges and the fact that from early
boyhood he was compelled to inure himself to the laborious and tedious work
of clearing land and doing all kinds of farm work. He was about sixteen
years of age when his parents removed with him to Preble county, Ohio.
After his raarriage in 1854 he settled upon his father-in-law's farm, and five
years afterward he purchased the homestead of his father, then comprising
eighty acres. About five years after that, in 1863, he moved to Jackson
township, Howard county, and purchased one hundred and twenty acres,
south of where he now resides and on which very little was cleared at the
time he came here. This place he proceeded to improve and cultivate for
about ten years, when he sold it to his son William. In 1871 he settled upon
his present place, consisting of one hundred acres, then partly cleared. By
hard work and perseverance, inspired and sustained by hope, he has made
here an excellent farm, which by addition now comprises two hundred acres.
It is well improved and well furnished with good buildings, etc. Mr. Harvey
has cleared and reduced to good cultivation nearly four farms. The substantial
development of the great state of Indiana consists almost exclusively of labor
such as this, prosecuted by industrious and honest citizens. In the matter of
farm-making and successful agriculture Mr. Harvey excels.
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the last war was evidenced by the fact that he volunteered his services for
the army, though he was not accepted.
February 9, 1854, in Preble county, Ohio, Mr. Harvey was united in
marriage with Miss Christena Brower, who was born in Dixon township,
that county, August 15, 1836, the daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Shively)
Brower. Her father was of sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, and the son
of Joseph Brower, also a native of the Keystone state, who moved early in
life to Virginia. In rehgion he was a German Baptist.
Joseph Brower married Miss Annie Rudy, and their children were
Daniel, John, Sophia, Joe, Henry, Jacob, Annie, Sallie, Susan, Betsey and
Enoch. All lived to good old age and all married and raised families. He
moved first to Virginia and then to Preble county, Ohio, where he settled on
wild land, upon a tract of one hundred and twenty acres, cleared much of it
and made a nice farm. His days were ended here, and he was an esteeraed
citizen, highly valued by all who knew him. Daniel Brower was born July
10, 1803, in Franklin county, Virginia, and was four years old when his
parents removed to Preble county, Ohio. August 20, 1831, he married Miss
Sarah Shively, and they had nine children, of whom the following attained
years of maturity: Christina, John, Susan, Elizabeth and Henry. Mr.
Brower and all the members of his family were zealous and consistent mem
bers of the German Baptist church, in which he has been a preacher for
about forty-eight years and of which he has been a member for more than
fifty years. He was a sincere Christian, and a guide and counselor to his
family and many friends, — indeed a venerable patriarch. His death occurred
February 3, 1891, when he had attained the age of eighty -seven years, five
months and twenty-four days. He was a substantial pioneer farmer, a
laborious worker, developing a good farm from the dense wUderness, and by
his steady thrift and industry had at one time three hundred acres, all of
which he gave to his children.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have a large and excellent family of children.
Sarah was married first to Harvey Witherow, a farmer, and had one child.
After the death of Mr. Witherow she was united in marriage with Mr George
Porman, also a farmer, of Miami county, Indiana, and by this marriage
there were no children. William married Angelina Wimraer, and is a
farmer in Miami county. He has two children. Jacob married Miss Ida
Grose and has one child. He is a farmer and carpenter of Converse. Levi

1078 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
was united in matrimony with Miss Addie Olinger and they have two children.
He is a farmer of Jackson township, Howard county. Mary became the wife
of John Marine, also a farmer, of Converse, and they also had two chUdren.
Mr. Marine died and his widow afterward was united in marriage wUh
Michael Graff. Daniel was married to Ette Cole and is a carpenter by trade,
and in their famUy are three chUdren." Rebecca became the wife of Mr
Tence Howell, a farmer of Liberty township, Howard county, and they have
two children.

DANIEL T. ALBRIGHT. — We now come to a consideration of the pecu
liarities and principal points in the life of one of Howard county's
most illustrious citizens, — one prominent on account of his fine family con
nections, his success in business and his honorable principles in all of life's
activities. Being a native of this county, born in Taylor township, he has
passed all his life here, and is therefore as well known to his neighbors as
any man can be, and all this whUe he has steadily maintained his high char
acter. His father, John Albright, an early settler of this county, was the son
of Rev. William Albright, who was a prominent Methodist minister for many
years, well known in this county in its pioneer days as " Old Flint Lock." A
native of Tennessee, he first emigrated to Preble county, Ohio, in 1827, and
in 1846 to Howard county, Indiana, where he was a mechanic and vvas
employed at various things, commencing his active ministry as the assistant
pastor of a church. He died in this county and was buried in the Albright
cemetery. Plis wife, Elizabeth, was likewise a native of Tennessee.
John Albright, also a native of Tennessee, was a child when his parents
removed to Ohio, where he grew to manhood. In 1844 he emigrated to Indi
ana, locating here in Howard county, upon a tract of land in Taylor town
ship, eighty acres in extent, which he entered from the government. Later
he bought other land until he at length had four hundred acres, and by indus
try, good judgment and perseverance he soon had a fine farm. By trade,
however, he was a brick and stone mason, being a contractor and manu
facturer of brick. ,He was the leading contractor at Kokomo for twenty-
five years, where many monuments of his skill are yet in evidence of
his handiwork. He made the brick and built the first brick house in Koko-

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mo; built the first court-house in Kokomo, a log structure, for which he
aided in clearing the ground. He also contracted for and superintended the
building of the present court-house. He is now living a retired life, being
seventy-seven years of age. Throughout life he has been a leading and
prominent Methodist, as have been the Albrights generally. He married
Miss Jemima Thacher, a native of Indiana and a daughter of Alexander and
Nancy (Hadlock) Thacher. The Thachers are from the state of Maine,
emigrating to Indiana in 1840 and settling first in Porter county and later in
Howard county. Mr. Thacher was a farmer and blacksmith, improving a
farm in this county. Toward the evening of his life he went to Morgan
county, this state, where he died, a consistent member of the Christian
church, uniformly respected for his intelligence and integrity of character.
His first wife died in 1871, a sincere raeraber of the Methodist .church. The
chUdren by this marriage were: Alexander, a brick and stone mason; Nancy
J., who became the wife of J. Lock; Daniel, the subject of this sketch;
Charity, now Mrs. C. Orme; Ephraim, who died young; Henry, a merchant
at Kokomo; James, a farmer; Maggie O., now Mrs. C. J. Hamil; Dolla,
now Mrs. J. F. Chase; Elmer E., a machinist; and Perry, who has been on
exhibition in city museums as a remarkable illustration of a living skeleton.
After the death of his first wife Mr. Albright was united in marriage with
Mrs. Nancy Elston, a widow, and by this marital union there was one chUd,
Richard F., who is a farmer. This second wife died, and Mr. Albright was
subsequently married to Mrs. Anna Hammel, who is living.
Daniel Thacher Albrig'ht was born October 9, 1852, brought up to agri
cultural pursuits and educated at the common school. At the early age of
sixteen years he took charge of the farm and continued in its management
until twenty-five years of age. In 1879 he married and settled on the farm
where his wife was born, two miles south of Kokomo, on a tract of land
where he yet lives, the same consisting of one hundred acres, on which at
the time there were few improvements. He has cleared thirty acres more and
ditched and tiled the place, remodeled the farm buildings and erected others,
so that he has a finely equipped farm. As an agriculturist he is successful.
In politics he is a Democrat, and fraternally he is an Odd FeUow.
In matrimony, he was united with Miss Julia B. Blanche, a lady of intel
ligence and culture, being a daughter of Colonel WUlis and Anna (Shaw)
Blanche, natives of Ohio. Mr and Mrs. Albright are exemplary members

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of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have had three chUdren: Jemima,
who died at the age of four years; Josie and Anna B.
Colonel Blanche was a son of John Blanche, of French descent, who
was a native of the island of Guernsey, in the English channel, the name
having originally been spelled De la Blanche. John Blanche, at the age of
thirty-one years, emigrated from his native island to America, about 1815,
and he immediately entered the United States army in the war with Great
Britain, under General Anthony B. Wayne, and served under the command
of that celebrated general throughout the campaign in the wild west. Unit
ing in marriage with Miss Mary Osborne, he located in Ross county, Ohio,
where all his children were born, and was a farmer by occupation. In 1840
he emigrated to Indiana, locating first in Hamilton county, and afterward in
Clinton county, where he died. His four children were Willis, the father of
Mrs. Albright; Deida, the second born; the third was Mrs. Harriet Linder;
and the fourth was John T. , who is now a resident of Sheridan, Indiana.
Colonel Willis Blanche, father of Mrs. Albright, came to Indiana in 1840,
when he was seventeen years of age, locating in Howard county, where he
was first employed by Joseph Skein as a farm hand, at seven dollars a month.
Saving his earnings, he was at length able to enter eighty acres of land be
fore he was of age, on which account he was obliged to have it deeded to
another party in trust. In 1847 he married and settled on his land, on which
was a small log house; this point is now South Kokomo. In 1850 he went
overland to California, where he remained two years, did some trading at
Grass Valley and afterward followed mining, in which he enjoyed some
success. Returning home by way of the isthmus of Panama, he purchased more
land in Center township, made a fine farm and passed the remainder of his
life there, dying September 13, 1892. His widow resides on the old home
stead, being now seventy years of age. He was a leading citizen of Howard
county, was a Republican in politics, and fiUed offices of honor and trust. In
1868 he was appointed a director of the Northern State Prison, at Michigan
City; in 1861 he was elected captain, at Richmond, this state, receiving his
commission in October; in February, 1863, he was commissioned major,
in July, 1863, lieutenant-colonel, and in 1864, colonel. At different times
he commanded a brigade, having been the leading commander at Mis
sionary Ridge, where he was wounded in the elbow and lost one finger The

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same ball which inflicted these wounds also entered his horse's neck and
killed it. At the famous battle of Resaca he received another wound, when
a cannon ball passed through his thigh and made the largest flesh wound
ever received by an Indiana soldier. He was never " captured " till the year
1878, about one o'clock in the morning, when he was aroused to find his
house surrounded by a force of about two hundred and fifty of his old com
rades, equipped with three cannon, the firing of which took him by surprise.
He surrendered, and a jubilant occasion was enjoyed.
Colonel Blanche assisted to build in Kokomo the first log house that was'
occupied by a white man; there were some Indian cabins here at the time.
Afterward he aided in laying out the town of Kokomo, and carried to the
grave the first white child buried in the old cemetery in Kokomo. On the
15th day of September, 1897, a granite monument was unveiled to the mem
ory of Colonel Blanche.
Mrs. Blanche, wife of the Colonel, was a daughter of Aaron and Anna
Shaul, natives of Ohio and of French descent, who came to Madison county,
Indiana, about 1829, settling upon land that is now within the city of Ander
son, and there Mr Shaul died, a sincere and intelligent member of the Meth
odist church. Their chUdren are: Margaret, now Mrs. A. Ireland; Jemima,
now Mrs. J. McClintock; Rachel, the wife of Judge N. R. Linsey, an early
settler of Kokomo, where he yet resides; George; Benjamin; Anna M., the
mother of Mrs. Albright; and Mortaman, of Madison county.
A sketch of the hfe of Mrs. Daniel Albright and of her father. Colonel
Blanche, would be incomplete were there a failure to mention their foster
brother and son, William H. Linder, who was adopted by Colonel Blanche
when ten years of age. Upon the first call for volunteers he enlisted to go
to the front with a nephew of Mrs. Blanche, Colonel T. J. Harrison, of the
Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, and he was kUled at the battle of ShUoh.

JOHN R. WAYMIRE, trustee of Union township, Miami county, and a
prosperous farmer and old resident, was born in Clinton county, Indiana,
October 27, 1843, the son of Rev. Enoch Waymire, a minister of the Method
ist Episcopal church, and his wife, whose name before marriage was Henri
etta Cline. Rev. Enoch Waymire was a native of Preble county, Ohio, was

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married in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and engaged in farming and milling.
In 1852 he removed to the farm upon which the subject of this sketch now
lives, where he had purchased two hundred and six acres. To this he sub
sequently added by further purchase until at his death he owned four hundred
and forty acres. He died February 23, 1868, at the age of forty-eight years;
and his wife, who was a native of PhUadelphia, Pennsylvania, departed this
life at the age of sixty-two years and three months. Their three sons and
two daughters we enumerate here as follows: Maria, who was burned to
death at the age of five years; William, who died in 1870, in his twenty-
eighth year; Nelson, who is a resident of Fulton county, this state, and is
a farmer; Mary Agnes, wife of John H. Loshier and a resident of Union
township, Miami county; and John R.
In September, 1861, the last mentioned enlisted in the war in defense of
his country, as a raeraber of Company B, Fortieth Indiana Infantry, and
served over three years in the Array of the Cumberland, under Generals
Buell and Rosecrans, participating in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Stone
River, where he received a wound in the left shoulder, Perryville, Missionary
Ridge, where he received two wounds, one a severe one, and Kenesaw
Mountain, another serious wound, in the face, the ball entering his left cheek
and passing out through his neck; and this disqualified him for further serv
ice, though he remained in the army until the expiration of his term.
Returning to the parental home, he re-engaged in farming. After the
death of his father, he was appointed administrator of the estate. Mr. Way
mire has not only proved himself a competent farmer and business manager,
but has also evinced his capacity and integrity by a uniform conduct of all
trusts committed to his care. He is now serving his third year as trustee of
his township, and he has been prominent in local politics, as a Repubhcan.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being past
grand of DeedsvUle Lodge, No. 650, and has represented the local organiza
tion in the grand lodge of Indiana; and he is also a member of the Grand
Army post at Denver. Both himself and wife have been members of the
Methodist Episcopal church frora early life.
October 9, 1866, Mr. Waymire was married to Miss Catherine Leedy,
a daughter of William and Nancy (Kesler) Leedy. She has always been a
resident of this (her native) township, her parents having been among the first
settlers in Miami county. Mr. and Mrs. Waymire are the parents of five

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children: William E., the eldest, married Miss Louisa Gehring and
resided in Peru, a teacher by profession; he died August i8, 1898; John Sher
man is yet at his parental home, unmarried; Mary BeUe is the wife of A. R.
Snyder and lives in Fulton county, on a farm; Charles M. was united in mar
riage with Zena Marburger and resides on a farm in the vicinity of his father's
place; and Elbert S. is a lad of twelve years, at his parental home.
Mr. Leedy had two sons and four daughters, of whom Rebecca, born
February 15, 1832, In Ohio, was the eldest. She married Samuel Leedy, a
second cou,sin, and both are now deceased. Henry Leedy, second child of
WiUiam Leedy, was born November 12, 1833, and died in raiddle life. David
D., born June 13, 1836, died in May, 1861; Mary Ann, born November 14,
1838; Anna, September 30, 1841; and Catherine (Mrs. Waymire), October
22, 1846, — all in Ohio excepting the two last named. Mary Ann, Anna and
Catherine are the only ones living.

J EVI BAKER. — The village of Wagoner, Miami county, Indiana, has in
-'— ' the subject of this sketch, Levi Baker, an all-around, up-to-date busi
ness man. A resume of his life is as follows:
Levi Baker was born in Fulton county, Indiana, in the township of
Rochester, October 13, 1866. He is a son of Philip and Anna Marie (Shane)
Baker, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, who crossed the ocean
together, and were married in New York city in 1853. The father was for
many years a farmer in Fulton county, Indiana, where he died January 30,
1892, at the age of sixty-four years, eight months and eleven days. The
mother is still living and is a resident of Fulton county. Their family con
sisted of twelve children, who in order of birth are as follows: Jacob,
an unnamed infant, Wilham, PhUip, Mary, John, Henry, Levi, David,
Charles, George and Lavina. The infant above referred to and Henry,
David and John are deceased.
Levi received his education in the public schools of his native county,
and his early years were spent in farming. After his marriage, which event
occurred in Fulton, in the latter part of 1891, he came with his bride to
Wagoner. Here he engaged in the sawmill business, purchasing a mill, and
this milling he has since continued successfully, through it affording employ

1084 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ment to an average of ten men. Mr. Baker buys standing timber, cuts and
hauls it to the mUl, and saws it into any kind of lumber his trade demands.
In connection with his milling business he takes contracts for building houses,
and thus gives employment to a number of men during the building season. He
owns a small farm, forty acres in extent, upon which his mill is located. He
also deals in stock, buying, selling and trading, and since 1894 he has con
ducted a general marchandise business. At the present writing he is deputy
postmaster. Thus it is seen that Mr. Baker's business enterprises embrace a
number of lines. He is active and energetic in whatever he undertakes, and
though a young man in years has had practical and successful business
experience. Mr. Baker was married December 22, 1891, to Miss Mattie Warrick, a
daughter of Henry and Catherine (Kochendeffer) Warrick, natives of Indiana,
and of Irish and German descent respectively. Her parents were married in
Fulton county, Indiana, went to Kansas soon after their marriage and settled
at Independence, where her father died when she was only four years old.
It was at Independence, January 25, 1873, that Mrs. Baker was born. After
the father's death the mother brought her family back to her old home and
friends in Fulton county, Indiana, and it was here that Mrs. Baker was reared
and educated. She is one of a family of five chUdren, namely: John Wes
ley, who is a stock man in Indian Territory, married Mary Lane, a half-
Indian, and has three chUdren; William H., a "cow boy" in the same terri
tory; Eleanora, wife of James Gleason, of Logansport, Indiana; Mattie, now
Mrs. Baker; and Bertie, who died at the age of five years. The mother in
1878 went back west again and is now a resident of Tulsa, Indian Territory,
her son, William H., unmarried, living with her. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have
a faraily of three children, viz.: Virgil Glenn, born September 7, 1892;
Reginald Joe, March 31, 1895; and Ethel Gertrude, October 18, 1897.
In his political views Mr. Baker is Democratic. While he is not con
nected with any church organization, he believes it his duty to live up to the
' ' Golden Rule " and strives to do so.
In conclusion, we wish to make further mention of his brothers and
sisters, all of whom are highly respected cirizens of Fulton county,
Indiana. Jacob has a farm of forty acres in Liberty township. He
married Miss Matilda Corbin. William, also the owner of forty acres of
land in that township, married Miss Retta Quick, and they have had two

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children, one of which is deceased. PhUip has twenty-five acres of land.
He married Miss Daisy Wagner, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Wag
ner, residents of Allen township, Miami county, and they have two
sons. Mary is the wife of Charles Zartman, a farmer of Liberty town
ship, Fulton county, and they have four children. Levi was next in order
of birth. Charles owns twenty acres of land in Rochester township, Fulton
county, cultivating this and additional land. He married Hattie MUler, and
they have two chUdren living and one deceased. George has an eighty-acre
farm in Liberty township. He and his wife, nee Nellie Bacon, have one son.
Lavina resides with her widowed mother, at the homestead, which comprises
seventy-seven and a half acres. The mother is identified with the Lutheran
church, as also was her husband, and two of the children, Jacob and Mary,
are Methodists. All the brothers are Democrats, and Philip is the only one
that belongs to any secret society, he being an Odd Fellow.

JESSE R. COLEMAN. — Though one of the younger members of the Tip-
^ ton county bar, Jesse R. Coleman has nevertheless won an enviable
place among his professional brethren and as a practitioner has secured a
liberal clientage during his three years' connection with the courts of the
county. Having spent his entire life in Tipton county, he is widely and
favorably known, and, as taken in contradistinction to the old adage that a
prophet is not without honor save in his own country, there is particular
interest attaching to his career, since he is a native son of the county in
which he has passed his entire life and so directed his ability as to gain recog
nition as one of the representative citizens of Tipton.
Mr. Coleman was born near Normanda, September 7, 1866, and is a son
of George W. and Mary A. (Hays) Coleman. His grandfather, David Cole
man was of Scotch-Irish extraction and was born in Virginia, but at an early
day removed to Kentucky, where he died in middle life. His profession was
school-teaching, "which he successfully followed for many years. George W.
Coleman was born in Kentucky, and in early manhood learned and followed
the carpenter's trade, but subsequently engaged in farming. He came to
Indiana about 1859 and located in Prairie township, Tipton county, where he
later putchased twenty acres of land. Subsequently he sold that tract and

1086 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
bought forty acres, to which he has added until eighty acres are now com
prised within the boundaries of the farm that has been his horae for thirty-
nine years, with the exception of two years spent in Iowa and one in Shelby
county, Indiana. He was in the Hawkeye state at the tirae of the inaugura
tion of the Civil war, and enlisting in the Union army he loyally served his
country for three years and nine months. He married Miss Mary A. Hays, a
native of Iowa, as was her father, who spent his entire life there, devoting
his energies to farming. He had eleven children, and his death occurred at
the age of sixty years. In his political views George W. Coleman is a Pro
hibitionist, and his wife is a member of the Separate Baptist church. They
becarae the parents of five children, four of whora are now living: Jesse R. ;
Adelia J., wife of John D. Wright, of Howard county; Lewis A., of Indian
apolis; and Viola M., of Tipton county.
Jesse R. Coleraan remained on the home farm until twenty-two years
of age, and, having acquired his preliminary education in the district schools
of the neighborhood, continued his studies in the Central Normal School, of
Danville, Indiana. He then engaged in teaching school for three years, after
which he took up the study qf law in the office of Waugh & Kemp, of Tipton,
with whom he remained three months, when he entered the law office of R.
B. Beauchamp, under whose direction he continued his reading until admitted
to the bar, on the 7th of September, 1890. He did not begin practicing,
however, until 1895, having accepted the office of court reporter, to which
he was appointed by Judge Kirkpatrick. For five years he served in that
capacity, during which time he gained an excellent knowledge of the prac
tical workings of the court-room and the methods of the best lawyers. Thus,
with a comprehensive knowledge of law, he resigned his position in March,
1895, and opened an office of his own. In 1896 he entered into partnership
with Hon. G. H. Gifford, and the firm of Gifford & Coleraan now ranks
among the most able of Tipton county, and enjoys a large share of the public
patronage. On the 2d of February, 1890, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Cole
raan and Miss Ida B. Cox, daughter of Perry and Sarah (Skinner) Cox, and
their horae is blessed with a little daughter, Ethel. They also lost one child,
Ray, who died at the age of eleven months. Their home is at No. 127 North
Conde street, and in the community they have many warm friends. In his
political views Mr. Coleman is a Democrat, and for four years he served as

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councilman of Tipton. He is an earnest and untiring worker in the interests
of his profession, and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial.
Great care and precision marks his preparation of cases, and before court or
jury he is a logical, convincing advocate, comraanding the respect of bench
and bar by his fairness and unfailing courtesy.

JOHN D. SMITH, Jr., a successful and enterprising agriculturist who
owns and operates a valuable farm on section 23, Jefferson township,
Tipton county, was born on section 24 of the same township, September 29,
1857, and is a son of John D. and Phebe H. (Bingman) Smith. The father
was born in Belmont county, Ohio, February 20, 1810, and as early as 1830
he came to Tipton county, Indiana, where his worth and ability were soon
recognized and he was often called into public life. He assisted in laying
out the town of Tipton, was one of the first commissioners ofthe county arid
also served as county trustee. He was twice married, his first wife being
Miss Eda Adams, by whom he had six children. After her death he wedded
the mother of our subject, who at that time was the widow of Lewis
McFarlin, by whom she had three children, one son and two daughters, but
the only one now living is William E., of Tipton. The children born of the
second union are Mary Elizabeth, widow of H. B. Cole; John D., of this
sketch; Jessie, wife of B. F. Nash, of Peru, Indiana; Laura, wife of Clayton
Martz, of Arcada;and two who died in infancy.
Mr. Smith, whose name introduces this article, was reared much in the
usual manner of farmer boys, acquiring his education in the common schools
and obtaining an excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits upon the home
farm. On attaining his majority he took charge of the old homestead,
having full control of the five hundred and ten acres, and in its management
met with excellent success. He continued its operation for two years after
his marriage and then removed to his present farm, where he has two
hundred and ninety-nine acres under a high state of cultivation and well
improved with good and substantial buildings. In connection with general
farming he is engaged in stock-raising and shipping. He is regarded as one
of the prominent and leading farmers of Jefferson township and in business
circles stands equally high. Politically he is a stanch Republican.

1088 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
On the 29th of September, 1884, Mr. Smith was united in marriage
with Miss Sarah M. Bunch, a daughter of Harden H. Bunch, and to them
have been born four children, two sons and two daughters, namely: Neva
May, Roy B., John D. and Nina B.

LEWIS E. ENDICOTT. — No family has been more prominently connected
with the development of Tipton county from the time when it was noth
ing but a wilderness until the present, when it abounds with prosperous farms
and thriving villages, the abodes of a happy, contented population, than the
Endicotts, one of whose representative younger members is now living on the
old homestead and is the subject of this sketch. Coming into these forests
when he was a young raan, full of energy and ambition, Jonathan Endicott,
the father of Lewis E. , settled on the farm now owned by his widow and
children, and industriously
began the arduous work of
clearing it for cultivation.
He succeeded in his en
deavors, became well-to-
do and respected by all
who were associated with
him in any manner. It
was not granted him to
live to see his family

grown to useful manhood and womanhood, for while he was in the prime
of useful manhood the summons came to him to lay aside his labors
and enter into the "rest which remained for him" as a faithful servant
of the Lord. He was fifty-two years old at the time of his demise, in
1 87 1, and was buried in Union cemetery, with the rites of the Masonic
order, to which he belonged. For years he had been identified with the
Christian church and gave Uberally of his means to the support of religious
and charitable enterprises. At the time of his death his eight children were
yet of minor age, the youngest being but six years old. Upon the devoted
mother was thus imposed the arduous task of rearing her children and keep
ing the family together. That she proved equal to the burden and nobly

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played the part assigned to her is evident from the filial devotion and venera
tion accorded her by her chUdren and her children's children, who, indeed,
"rise up and call her blessed."
The marriage of Jonathan and Elizabeth Endicott took place June i,
1843, near Strawtown, Indiana. Mrs. Endicott is a daughter of Daniel and
Frances (Fierce) Herrold, natives of Ohio and Virginia, respectively. The
father, who was a farmer by occupation, came to Indiana and entered a
homestead here. Later he removed to Illinois, where he continued to reside
during the rest of his life, his death occurring when he was eighty-two years
of age. His father, Christopher Herrold, was of Dutch descent, was a native
of Virginia and was an early settler of Athens county,^ Ohio. Frances F.
Herrold was a daughter of Conrad Fierce, a farmer of the Old Dominion, and
Mrs. Endicott is the eldest of her ten children. Born in Athens county,
Ohio, February 16, 1824, she was but nine years old when she came to this
state. After, her marriage she came to live at her present home, the farm
then being almost entirely unimproved. With a will she settled down to a
hard and laborious life, always seeking to ease her husband of his heaviest
burdens and sometimes even helping him to roll logs and clear the farm and
cultivate the fields. Her time, however, was chiefly occupied in attending
to the needs of her little family, whom she reared to become good and useful
citizens. She has dwelt for over half a century on this old homestead and is
respected and loved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. She is a
valued member of the Christian church and in her daily life has put into con
stant practice the lofty principles of Christianity which she professes.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Endicott were as follows: George W. ,
who enlisted in defence of the stars and stripes in the Civil war and died dur
ing the conflict; Samuel W., deceased; Hannah C, Mrs. John Small; Oliver
H., of this county; Charles O. and Eliza, deceased; Florence C. , Mrs. Tobias
Watson; Lewis E. and Cassius Lincoln. Mrs. Endicott is the proud grand
mother of thirty-two grandchildren.
Lewis E, Endicott, who is next to the youngest child of Jonathan and
Elizabeth Endicott, was born in the house which he still makes his home,
November 27, 1862. From boyhood he was accustomed to the various
duties pertaining to the management of a farm, and to-day he is one of the
most energetic and practical young farmers of this locality. Public-spirited and
progressive, he gives his earnest support to new industries and enterprises
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and was one of the prime movers in the etablishment of the cheese factory of
this township. At present he has twenty-five milch cows, and disposes of the
mUk to the factory mentioned. He keeps a fine Hne of high-bred stock and
takes just pride in his short-horn cattle, coach horses and Oxford sheep. The
respect and regard of his neighbors is his in a marked degree, and, without
exception, they are all his well-wishers. Everything about the farm is kept
up by him in a neat and thrifty manner, speaking well for his care and
watchfulness. February i, 1894, Mr. Endicott married Sarah B. Innis, daughter of
James and IsabeUa Innis, who were among the early settlers of this county.
Two children, a son and daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Endicott,
James I. and Elizabeth A. ; but the little girl did not long live to brighten
their home.

REV. NICHOLAS C. MYERS. — Prominent among the early German set
tlers of northern Indiana was found the subject of this sketch. Rev.
Nicholas C. Myers, and prominent among the leading farmers of Miami
county to-day are found the sons of this worthy pioneer.
Nicholas C. Myers was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1804. He grew
to manhood in his native land and there married Catherine Russen, and in
1833, accompanied by his faraily, made the voyage to America, coming direct
to Indiana and locating in Miami county. Mr. Myers also was accompanied
by an unmarried brother, Henry Myers. At first the brother rented a piece
of land, lying about a mile west of the present city of Peru, and cultivated
the same in a primitive way. They raised a crop of potatoes for the use of
the family without plowing the ground, their farm implements consisting of
a shovel and hoe. The virgin soil, however, produced an abundant crop,
and the faraUy were well provided for. The construction of the Wabash &
Erie canal was at this time in progress, and the brothers secured contracts
thereon and gave employment to quite a force of German laborers. After
the canal was finished the brothers purchased, jointly, a quarter section of
land in Peru township. A typical log cabin was erected thereon. Henry
continued to live with the family of his brother till he married, and the rest
of their lives were spent on adjoining farms. Henry was a shoemaker by
trade, and for a long time made and mended the boots and shoes of the old

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settlers and their famUies. Nicholas was skUled in the making of wooden
shoes, and made considerable use of his skill in that direction. Later Nich
olas Myers purchased an adjoining tract of land from Joseph EUis, and here
he continued to live untU his death, which occurred December 29, 1866.
His wife survived him- a number of years. Nicholas Myers was a quiet,
industrious, worthy citizen. He was a man of deep piety, and for several
. years officiated as minister of the Christian church. He and his wife were
the parents of a large family of children, three of whom are living: John F.,
a resident of Jefferson township, Miami county; Mrs. Elizabeth Sarver, of
Cass county; and Isaac N. , also of Miami county. Catherine E. became
the wife of John P. Bowman, and died September 26, 1897. Several died
in childhood, and one, who died while the family yvere on their way to Amer
ica, was buried in the ocean.
John F. Myers was the second in order of birth and is the oldest surviv
ing member of the family of Rev. Nicholas Myers. He was born in Germany,
December 25, 1828, and was about five years of age when his father's family
emigrated to America. In his boyhood he assisted his father in making their
new home, driving the ox team and making himself useful in various ways as
he grew older. In the winter season he attended for a few months the dis
trict school, in the log school-house; but, as may well be supposed, his oppor
tunities for education were limited.
In January, 1852, he married Emeline Bowman, daughter of John and
Mary Bowman. For a number of years following his marriage he resided on
the homestead farm, and in 1861 settled where he now lives, on section 14,
Jefferson township. Mr. Myers was bereft of his wife by death November 3,
1883, and January 22, 1885, he married Levina, daughter of Enoch and Mary
Bowman. Of the eleven children born to Mr. Myers by his first marriage,
six grew to mature years and five are living, viz.: John F., George W. ,
Amanda J., Frank S., and Milton H. The deceased members of the farnily
died in chUdhood, except Ira D. , who died July 19, 1888, at the, age of
twenty-two years. He was a most estimable young man and gave promise of
a bright future. He was for some time a student of Union Christian College,
and later of the State University at Lafayette. His sudden death, by typhoid
fever, was a great affliction to his immediate family and was lamented by all
who knew him. Mr. Myers has two children by his present marriage, Edna
and Elgie, and also lost an infant son.

1092 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Mr. Myers is one of the best known citizens of Miami county. He served
his county three years as commissioner, having been elected to the office in
1882. Though not identified with any religious body, he is a liberal sup
porter of the church, and he takes a deep interest in whatever tends to pro
mote the welfare of the community in which he lives. He is a success
ful business man and is numbered with the wealthy and influential farmers
of the county.
Isaac Newton Myers, the younger of the two surviving sons of Rev.
Nicholas C, Myers, owns and occupies the old homestead of his father, on
section 13, Peru township, Miami county. He was born only a short distance
from the site of his present home, June 25, 1845, and here he has always
resided, his education being obtained in the district school. At the time his
father died, in 1866, he had just passed his majority. He was married,
December 20, 1869, to Miss Sarah DUlinger, the youngest child of Jacob and
Julia DUhnger, early settlers of Washington township, Miami county, where
Mrs. Myers was born January 20, 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have four
chUdren: Nellie J., wife of Schuyler Gallahan; Jennie B., wife of Jerome
Justice; and Omer F. and Clara E., at home.
Mr. Myers is numbered among the esteemed citizens of his locality and,
like his brother above mentioned, is a progressive and successful farmer.
Both adhere to the principles of the Democratic party.

WILLIAM CONNER. — Among the leading and most highly respected
citizens of Miami county, Indiana, is found the subject of this sketch,
William Conner, who owns and occupies a pleasant home and fine farm on
section 17, Richland township. He is a representative of one of the pioneer
famUies of Miami county.
James Conner, the father of WilHam, was born near Sauisbury, Tennessee,
in 1802, the son of an Englishman also named James. The senior Jaines
Conner came to America in early life and established his home in Tennessee,
where he died when well advanced in years. Four of his sons came together
from that state to Indiana, when young men, stopping first in Jefferson
county, where one of them, Lewis, continued the rest of his life. The other
three went to Wayne county, where they all married. Two of them, James

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and WUliam, became residents of Miami county and the third, John, settled
in Cass county, where he remained the rest of his life. John reared a large
family and accumulated considerable wealth. He was somewhat eccentric,
but withal was a most worthy and esteemed citizen. About the same time
John settled in Cass county, in 1830, WilHam located near him, in Miami
county. The latter lived only three years after coming here. He was the
father of a large family, all of whom are deceased except four, now separated
and living outside of Indiana. James Conner was married, in Wayne county,
to Miss Mary McCoy, daughter of Thomas McCoy, and a descendant of Irish
ancestors. In the fall of 1834 James Conner, accompanied by his family,
came to Miami county and settled in Richland township, on the south bank
of Eel river, on a farm now owned by Benjamin Wilson. He improved that
farm and there lived tUl his death, which occurred April 12, 185 1. The
wife and mother survived her husband four years. James Conner was a man
well known and highly esteemed. He was a man of quiet habits and deep
piety. Both he and his wife became members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Delaware county, Indiana, before coming to Miami county. He
was always active in church work, and assisted in organizing the church in
his locality and in 'building their house of worship. Politically he was a Whig
in early life, but became a Republican when that party was organized, and
gave it his support the rest of his life. Strictly honorable and upright in all
his dealings, his absolute integrity was never questioned, and it may be
added that his children have ever been governed by these principles inherited
from their worthy father. He and his wife were the parents of ten children,
all of whom have passed away except two sons and a daughter. William is
the eldest of the surviving members, the second is Havens, who is a resident
of Marshall county, Indiana, and the youngest is Mrs. Amanda Lambert, of
Mentone, Kosciusko county, Indiana. Those deceased were Mrs. Edith Tay
lor, Mrs. Jane Ward, Lewis, Thomas, Morgan (twin of WUliam), Harvey
and Washington. WUliam Conner, whose name heads this sketch and froni whom the facts
of this record were obtained, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, August
17, 1827, and was about seven years old when he came to Miami county with
his parents. He well remembers the condition of the country here nearly
sixty-fiive years ago. A fact regarding the pioneers and the ease with which
they secured homes is worthy of record. The government had erected com-

1094 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
fortable houses for its wards, the red men, but the Indians failed to appre
ciate this civilized way of Hving, and no sooner took possession of their
houses than they abandoned them for the wigwam which they erected near
by. This was a fine chance for the pioneer who came in to secure a home,
and he well knew how to appreciate one. Amid these surroundings, and with
the chUdren of the red men for his playmates, the subject of our sketch
passed his boyhood days. He pays a high tribute to the Indians. In the
incidents which he relates he shows that the Indian character, when well
understood, is of a much higher standard than is generally supposed. As
may be inferred, Mr. Conner's educational advantages were limited. His
early training was received in a typical log-cabin school-house, and subse
quently he was for eleven months a student in a seminary at Logansport.
The first land that he owned was in Peru township. The land he has since
owned at various times would aggregate fourteen hundred acres. After his
marriage, which event occurred in 1854, he settled at the parental home
stead, where he remained two years, after which he removed to the place
where he now lives. In the meantime, however, his residence has been at
various locations. At the end of the first two years on this farm, his atten
tion was called to the milling business. He assisted his father-in-law in
building a grist-mill on Eel river, and for two years he operated this mill.
Then he bought a farm near Paw Paw, spent the next two years on it, and
after that sold out and went to Kosciusko county, where he purchased a farm
and resided a short time. It was his plan to purchase and improve a farm
and as soon as possible sell out at an advance, and this he has done a num
ber of times. He is now permanently located at his pleasant farm referred
to at the beginning of this sketch.
Mr Conner was married September 26, 1854, to Miss Magdelina King,
daughter of Martin King, a well-known German settler of Miami county.
They have one son, Elmer E., of Richland township. They have also
reared several other chUdren which they have taken into their home and
brought up with the same kind care that their own child received.

T GUIS B. FULWILER. — Among the leading citizens and ex-county offi-
*—' cials of Miami county, Indiana, is found Louis Fulwiler, a resident of
Peru. He comes from stanch Pennsylvania ancestors. The founder of the

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1095^
family in America came from Switzerland to this country in colonial times
and estahlished his home in the Keystone state, where his descendants lived
and prospered for several generations. Several of them were . patriot sol
diers in the Revolutionary war. John Fulwiler, the great-grandfather of our
subject, was in that war, and there were two other representatives of the
family — brothers — who fought for independence, one of them being a member
of General Washington's staff. Abraham Fulwiler, the grandfather of Louis,
was a wealthy farmer, owning a large tract of land in Perry county, Penn
sylvania, He died in middle life, about forty years old at the time of death.
He was a Presbyterian. James Black FulwUer, the father of our subject,
was ushered into life in Perry county, Pennsylvania, September 5,, 1818, and
received a college education at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was a merchant.
In 1834 he came to Indiana and settled in Peru, being among the first settlers
of the town. He bought some of the lots at the first sale of lots in
Peru, Here he established a mercantile business, which he conducted
for many years. Politically he was first an old-line Whig and then a Demo^
erat, and he still affiliates with the latter party. He has in many ways been
prominently identified with the interests of the county. For seven years he
was clerk of Miami county; and at an early day he was appointed justice of
the peace, an office he still holds, notwithstanding, his . venerable age. In
March, 1837, he married Miss Pauline Aveline, who was born in Vincennes,;
Indiana, in 1818, daughter of Francis and Genevieve (Cardenelle) Aveline..
The Avelines are of French origin. Following are the names of the children
of James B. and Pauline Fulwiler: Julia; WiUiam, deceased; Louis; Mary.
F.; Clarence, deceased;. Ada, deceased; and Prank. The honored father of
this family is now eighty-six years of age, is stUl a resident of Peru, and in
his declining years is surrounded by a large circle of warm friends, having
the esteem alike of both young and old.
Turning now to the.immedia-te-su-bjeGt of this sketch, Louis FulwUer,
we find he was born in Peru, Indiana, July 13, 1842, and in the local schools
received his education. Early in 1861 he secured a position as, clerk ina
raUroad office at Peoria, Illinois, which, however, he resigned shortly after
ward in order to join the United States Army and fight for the preservation
of the Union. Returning to Peru, he enlisted in May, 1861, as a member of
Company A, Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Captain John Van Vol-
kenburgh, for a period of three years or during the war, and, on account of

1096 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
being disabled for further service, was honorably discharged, at Philadelphia,^
Pennsylvania, in August, 1862. At the time of the battle between the Mon
itor and the Merrimac his regiment was stationed on the land near by and
directed its fire on the enemy's vessel. He was in the battle before Rich
mond, and on the first of the seven-days fighting was shot through the
left leg. After this he was taken to the hospital at Philadelphia, and after being
in the hospital only one day he was removed to his uncle's home in that city,
where his leg was amputated, and where he remained three months. This,
of course, ended his war service, and he returned home. He was in the
army about fifteen months. Previous to being wounded he suffered an attack of
typhoid fever and for seven weeks was sick at Fortress Monroe. With this
exception he was on active duty all the time, prompt and cheerful in the dis
charge of his duty, and during his service was never taken prisoner.
After his recovery and his return from Philadelphia, Mr. Fulwiler
accepted a position as deputy in the county clerk's office, which position he
filled from 1863 to 1870, and the next eight years he was county auditor.
He has since been identified with numerous public enterprises in Peru. For
ten years he was editor and manager of the Miami County Sentinel.
Throughout his whole career he has maintained a character that is above
reproach, and as a practical and public-spirited citizen he has the esteem of
all who know him.
Politically Mr. Fulwiler is a Democrat. Fraternally he is identified with
both the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic, in both of
which he has been honored with high official position. He has passed all the
chairs in the Knights of Pythias lodge at Peru and he was the first com
mander of his G. A. R. post, being one of the charter members of the same.

T EVI MILLER. — Man's usefulness in the world is judged by the good
*-^ that he has done, and determined by this standard of measurement
Levi Miller occupies a position among the most prominent citizens of Miami
county. His life has been noble and upright, one over which falls no
shadow of wrong; and long after he shall have passed away his memory will
remain as a blessed benediction to those who knew him.

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Mr. Miller resides at his comfortable home, near Mexico, where for
more than half a centurj' he has carried on agricultural pursuits. He was
born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the 23d of February, 18 17, and his parents
and grandparents also were natives of the same county. On the paternal
side he is of German descent and on the maternal of German and EngHsh
lineage. In his seventeenth year he removed with his parents to Preble
county, Ohio, where he remained for nine years, within which time he was
married, in the fall of 1840, to Miss Ursula Albaugh. They became the
parents of ten chUdren, seven of whom are yet living. For thirty-six years
Mrs. Miller proved to her husband a faithful companion and helpmeet on
the journey of life, and was then called to her final rest, in 1876, leaving
many friends to mourn her death.
Itwas in February, 1842, that Mr. Miller brought his wife and their eldest
child to Miami county, Indiana, and located on the farm which is now his
home. For more than half a century he has watched the growth and advance
ment of the county, has seen its wild lands transformed into rich farms and
beautiful homes, has seen the growth of towns and villages, and witnessed the
introduction of the railroad, the telegraph, industrial and commercial interests
and all those things which mark the progress of civilization. The county
was almost an unbroken forest when he arrived within its borders, with only
here and there a little patch of cleared ground, where some sturdy pioneer
had begun the task of opening up the wild region. The Miller home was a
typical pioneer cabin, of one room, supplied with furniture of primitive con-
. struction, heated by the old-time fireplace and lighted by little windows
placed in an aperture made in a single log. From early morn till dewy eve
Mr. Miller worked to clear and develop his land and in course of time his
labors were rewarded with bounteous harvests. He wore home-spun clothes
and experienced all the trials and hardships of life, but at length success
crowned his efforts and there came to him a handsome prosperity as the
reward of his labors.
Not long after coming to Miami county Mr. Miller joined the German
Baptist church and has since been one of its most faithful and consistent
members, doing all in his power to advance its cause and exemplifying his
Christian belief in his daily life. In 1889 he founded the Old Folks' and
Orphan Children's Home, has since been a director of the institution and
greatly interested in its welfare. It is located just nprth of Mexico, where

1098 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
he purchased fifteen acres of land, erecting thereon an elegant two-story
frame residence cbntaining seventeen rooms. The German Baptist church;
has long felt the need of a benevolent institution, but was not able to build
one. Among its wealthy members, however, a volunteer was soon found in
Mr. MiUer, who furnished the grounds and erected the buildings entirely at
his own expense, on condition that the German Baptist church of the middle
district of Indiana support it. At first the children and the old people were
kept in the same rooms, but it was found that this was not the best plan, so
other buildings were erected, and the young and old now have separate dormi
tories. In addition to these there are the necessary outbuildings, of substan
tial construction and all surrounded by a beautiful lawn. Superannuated
ministers of the church and orphans of any or no denomination may be
admitted, the latter being cared for until suitable homes can be found for
them. This splendid institution, whose far-reaching influences are immeas
urable, stands as a monument to the benevolent spirit of its founder, whose
life has certainly been of great benefit to his fellow men.
The home is managed by aboard of five directors, selected by the church,
and Frank Fisher has been superintendent since the home was opened. He
is very popular and efficient as the head of the institution and is certainly
well fitted for the position. He was born in Virginia in 1856, a son of Ben
jamin Fisher and a grandson of David Fisher. The family became early
settlers of White county, Indiana, where the father died in 1866. Frank
Fisher acquired a good education and for many years was successfully engaged
in the profession of teaching, but on the completion of the Old Folks' and
Orphan Children's Home, he was made superinterident and manager and has
since acceptably served in that capacity. The buildings and grounds are
valued at ten thousand dollars. Mr. Fisher is ably assisted by his wife, a
most estimable lady, from whom the homeless Httle ones receive a motherly
care.

A LVIN L. WECKLER. — For the past decade and longer the town of
''*¦ Bunker HiU, Indiana, has had in Alvin L. Weckler a man of energy and
push — one whose influence is felt in business, political and social circles.
The Wecklers are of German origin. WiUiam Weckler, the father of
Alvin L., was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, December 10, 181 3. His

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1099
father came with his family to this country in 1831, making the voyage in a
sailing vessel and landing, after seven weeks, at New York city. From there
he came west to Ohio and settled on a farm where he passed the rest of his
days. He was a member of the Lutheran church and was a man whose life
was in accord with the religion he professed. His children v/ere Peter, Jacob,
William and Louisa. At the time he cam.e to America William Weckler
was eighteen years old. In Germany he had received a fair education and
learned the trade of silversmith. After coming to this country he located with
his parents in Ohio and remained there until 1838, when he came to Indiana
and secured employment on the canal at Fort Wayne, working as a common
laborer until 1841. That year he took a contract on the canal, and during
the next seven years was engaged in contracting. At the end of this time he
bought a farm in Washington township, Miami county, — one hundred and
sixty acres, all covered with heavy timber, — where he settled and to the
clearing and cultivation of which he directed his energies. Later he bought
other land, until at one time he had two hundred and eighty acres. His
children, in order of birth, are as follows: Emma,. Jennie, Alvin L. and
Mary. All are living except Jennie, who died at the age of twenty-three
years. His wife, yvhom he married in Pipe Creek township, Miami county,
was Hannah Welter, a native of Germany. She came with her parents to this
country in 1835, and they soon afterward settled in Pipe Creek township,
where her father improved a farm of eighty acres. He died in middle life.
In the Welter family were the foUowing named children: Lewis, Hannah,
Henry, Levina, Rine, Christopher, Malinda and Jacob. William Weckler
died in 1896, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. He was a man of
kind disposition and generous impulses. He gave freely to all who came to
him in need. Many of the early pioneers of this locality who came here
poor young men owe their success in life to the start he gave them. Politic
ally he was a Republican. In his religious views he was broad and liberal.
He was a great reader of the Bible, took it for his guide, and to the best of
his knowledge Hved up to its teachings. He always took and read a German
newspaper as well as a liberal supply of American periodicals, and, possess
ing an excellent memory, he was well informed on all subjects. Such was
his standing in the community that it may truthfully be said of him that his
word was as good as his bond.
Alvin L. Weckler was born January 30, 1858, in Washington township.

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Miami county, Indiana, where his boyhood days were spent in farm work and
in attending the common schools of the district. After his marriage he
settled on a farm in WasJiington township, where he Hved until 1885. Since
that date he has been a resident of Bunker Hill. On locating at Bunker
Hill, in the spring of the above natned year, Mr. Weckler entered into part
nership with John Duckwall, and engaged in the milling business, which they
continued until 1891. That year he opened a hardware and implement
establishment, which he has since conducted and to which he afterward added
a stock of buggies. He also runs harness and tin shops in connection with
his other business.
Mr. Weckler was married first to Miss Ida B. Duckwall, a native of
Pipe Creek township and a daughter of John and Lydia (Myers) Duckwall.
Her death occurred in 1891. She was a member of the Baptist church and
was a woman of many estimable qualities, loved by all who knew her Her
chUdren are Jennie O., Jay W. and Edward E. The present Mrs. Weckler
was formerly Elida Mowery. She is a native of Washington township,
Miami county, and a daughter of Henry Mowery.
Politically Mr. Weckler affiliates with the Republican pairty, takes a
lively interest in local affairs, and for the past six years has been a member
of the board of education.

TOSEPH W. HAMILTON. — Classed among the prominent and enter-
*^ prising farmers of Clay township, Howard county, Indiana, is found the
subject of this sketch, Joseph W. HamUton, who is a native of the "Hoosier"
state, his birth having occurred in Decatur county, June 24, 1844.
Mr. Hamilton is a son of Charles W. and Mary J. (Lockhart) Hamilton,
both natives of Kentucky. Joseph Hamilton, the grandfather of our subject,
was a Kentucky farmer who came to Indiana at an early day and in Decatur
county developed a fine farm, building a brick house thereon. Here he
passed the rest of his life and died. His son, Charles W., was sixteen years
old at the time the family removed to Indiana, and on their frontier farm he
was reared. He spent his Hfe in agricultural pursuits in -Decatur county,
where he was well known as a prominent and successful farmer. He died
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official honors, his own private business affairs requiring the whole of his
time and attention. His religious creed was that of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which fbr many years he was an active and consistent member.
His first wife, the mother of our subject, who also was a devoted Christian
and member of the Methodist church, died in 1856. By her he had four
children, namely: Joseph W., whose name initiates this review; Susan C. ,
wife of D. M. WoodfiU; Elizabeth, wife of WiHiam Bennett; Lurinda, wife
of T. J. Powell. For his second wife Mr. HamUton wedded Miss Sarah
Lynch, and his children by her are: Leonidas W., a resident of Nebraska;
Ellsworth D., Colorado; Charles C. , Decatur county, Indiana; John R.,
Julesburg, Colorado, and Roy N., a traveling salesman. The mother of
these children also is deceased.
Joseph W. Hamilton remained on the home farm until he was twenty-
two years of age. In 1868 he was married in Ilhnois. Bringing his bride
back with him to Indiana, he made his home in Decatur county two years
longer, until 1870, when he came to Clay township, Howard county, and
settled on land then owned by his father. Here he has since maintained his
home. He has cleared and developed this land and now has ninety acres
under a high state of cultivation. Since 1880 he has been engaged in saw-
milling, in connection with his farming operations. The mill he erected in
1880 burned some years later, and in 1888 he built his present mill, a much
better and more modern one. He also runs a thresher, in season, and,
being a natural machinist, is successful in these lines.
Mr. Hamilton's marriage has already been referred to. Mrs. Hamilton
was formerly Miss Cassandra Darnell. She was born in Decatur county,
Indiana, November 7, 1847, daughter of Newton and Eliza (Hays) Darnell,
natives of New Jersey and early settlers of Indiana. Mr. Darnell was a
farmer, merchant and miller, at one time owning a large mill at Metamora,
Indiana. He died about 1878. His widow is yet living. Their chUdren,
in order of birth, are Cassandra, now Mrs. HamUton; Alonzo; Elmer;
Sarah F. , wife of }. E. Burk; Adison; Alice, wife of Samuel Fry; Kate,
wUe of J. Tharsh; and Isaiah. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have six children,
viz.: Luna, a dressmaker of Kokomo; Mark L., at home; MUton E., at home,
and Oma G. and Amy D. and Arja E., at home, the last two being twins,
sixteen years of age. Mrs. HamUton is a Methodist. Politically, Hke his
father before him, Mr. Hamilton co-operates with the Democratic party.

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COURTNEY McKEE. — The McKee family is one that has long been
idendfied with Miami county, Indiana. Johri Jackson McKee, the
father of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, was born in
Juniata county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1829. Hisfather, William McKee,
was born and reared in Scotland, and in his young manhood emigrated to
this country and settled in Pennsylvania, where he subsequently married
Miss Elizabeth Laird. In the Keystone state they passed the rest of their
lives and died, his death occurring April 17, 1847; hers October 7, 1833.
John J. McKee was their only son and they had three daughters. All of that
generation have passed away except one daughter, Mrs. Martha Forsythe, of
Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
John J. McKee was reared in his native county, learned the trade of
blacksmith in his youth, and followed that trade all through life. When a
young man he came west to Wayne county, Ohio, and there, March 22,
1854, married Miss Elizabeth Houser, who was born in Lebanon county,
Pennsylvania, September 16, 1830, daughter of John and Margaret (Brown)
Houser, natives of Pennsylvania and descendants of German ancestry. Mr.
and Mrs. Houser passed the closing years of their lives and died in Wayne
county, Ohio. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom have
passed away except three, namely: Mrs. Mary Hagerman, a resident of
Wayne county, Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth McKee; and Addison, also of Wayne
county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. McKee came to Gilead, Miami county, Indi
ana, in the fall of 1863, and here Mr. McKee worked at his trade and carried
on agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, December 31,. 1895.
He left a widow and five chUdren, all of whom are still living. We incor
porate the foUowing brief record concerning the children:
Margaret E., who was born in Wayne county, Ohio; February 3, 1855,
was married to H. B. Ernsperger, September 30, 1874, and to this union
were born two chUdren. — John, who died in childhood, and LucUe D., who
is stUl living. After her first husband's death Mrs. Ernsperger married WUl
iam H. Smith, who resides at Gilead, Miami county, Indiana.
Mary E., who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, September 30, 1856,
becarae the wife of James H. Smith, September 30, 1874, and of this union were
born six children, — Frank; Charles, who died in childhood; and Cora B.,
Rosco, Ruth E. and Mable, who are still living. Mrs, Smith and her family
reside near Gilead, Miami county, Indiana.

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John E. was born in Wayne county, Ohio, March i6, 1863, and was
married to Anna A. Dukes October 20, 1889. He came with his parents to
Miami county, Indiana, in 1863, and was reared at GUead, this county,
receiving his education in the public schools. He was employed for a time
on his father's farm, after which he bought a hardware aud grocery store in
Gilead and after two years of business at this place sold out and moved to
Kokomo, Indiana, where he is now engaged in the grocery business. He
belongs to the F. & A. M. and in politics is a Democrat.
Ida B., who was born in Miami county, Indiana, August 16, 1867, was
married to Tony C. King December 29, 1887, and they are the parents of
one chUd, Hugh. They own and control a large farm near Gilead, Indiana.
John J. McKee at the time of his death was the owner of considerable
property, the result of his years of honest toU and good management. As
above recorded,, he learned the trade of blacksmith in his youth. After he
went to Ohio he entered-fhe employ of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne RaUway
Company, his duty being to sharpen the picks used by the laborers, and con
tinued with the company until that part of the road was finished, when he
located at Wooster, Ohio. On coming to Miami county in 1863, as above
stated, he first purchased eighty acres of land near Gilead, to which he soon
after added eighty acres more. He also bought, and for four years conducted,
a hotel in Gilead. Disposing of his hotel, he removed to his farm, where he
spent the rest of his life. Besides this farm he owned land elsewhere in the
county. Throughout his Hfe he so conducted himself that he won and
retained the high esteem of all who knew him. For twenty years he was
a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. McKee and her son
Courtney and. his family occupy the homestead near Gilead.
Courtney McKee, the third child in the family, was born in Wayne
county, Ohio, January 23, 1859, and was four years old when brought by his
parents to Miami county. He was reared at the place where he novv lives
and received his education in the public schools. For a time he was employed
as clerk in a store at Sevastopol, Kosciusco county, Indiana, after which he
bought a hardware and drug store there, conducting the same a few years and
then selling out. Returning to GUead, he was here for five years engaged
in mercantile business. Since then he has had charge of the home farm.
Mr. McKee was married October i, 1885, to Miss Mary Jane Bates, a
native of Monroe county, Indiana, and they have two daughters: Nellie,

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born July ii, 1886, and Marie H., January 7, 1894. One child is deceased,
— Laura, who was born January 6, 1890, and who died August 31, 1890.
Since 1884 Mr. McKee has been a justice of the peace. He belongs to
the F. & A. M., and in politics is a Democrat.

HON. WILLIAM ZEHRING, a well known pioneer of Deer Creek town
ship, Miami county, and president of the Miami County Old Settlers'
Society, is a typical representative of the sterling Pennsylvania-Dutch, noted
for their temperance, their steady, industrious habits and consequent thrift.
Christian Zehring, the grandfather of WiUiam, was a native of Lebanon
county, Pennsylvania, where his father was a pioneer and by occupation a
farmer and blacksmith. In that county he married Mary Ranch, a native of
the same county, and after his marriage he continued in the pursuit of his
calling, that of blacksmith, in Lebanon county, at the. same time owning and
managing a farm, and there his children were reared. Their names are
Henry, John, Catharine, Christian, Philip, William, Barnard, David, Peter,
Susan, Mary and Martha. Besides these children, who grew up to years of
maturity, there were three others who died young. Christian Zehring moved
to Ohio in 18 18, settling in Warren county, where he had about one hundred
and sixty acres of land, and there passed the remainder of his life. He was
one of the members of the church of the United Brethren in Christ in Ohio,
was a Jacksonian Democrat, a typical pioneer, a man of unswerving integrity
and indefatigable industry, and lived to be about seventy years of age.
WilHam Zehring, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native
of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, an agriculturist by vocation in Dauphin
county, that state, who married Elizabeth Garst, a native of that county and
a daughter of John N. and Elizabeth (Francis) Garst. Her father, a native
also of that county, passed all his life there, as a pioneer, but finally went to
Montgomery county, Ohio, where he died, at the residence of William Zehr
ing, the father of our subject. He was a member of the German Baptist
church and a very industrious, upright man. His children were Jacob, John
N., Henry, Mattie, Elizabeth, Annie and Barbara.
After his marriage Mr WilHam Zehring, in the spring of 1818, located
on fifty acres of land in Butler county, Ohio, near Middleton. In 1828 he

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sold that place and purchased one hundred and sixty-nine acres in Mont-
' gomery county, same state, and resided there tUl 1850; then he moved to
Preble county, that state, where he bought a quarter section of land, lived
there six years, and sold that also, buying a small homestead near Farmers-
vUle, Montgomery county. In 1865 he moved to the residence of Mr.
Zehring, our subject, in Deer Creek township, Miami county, and made his
home there tUl his death, at the age of seventy-seven years and six months,
in September, 1872. He was a consistent member of the German Baptist
church and a sincere Christian, a man of sterling character, bringing up his
children according to all the maxims of virtue. His children were John,
WUliam, Christian, Lydia and Barbara. In politics he was a Democrat of
the Jacksonian school. His wife died in 1885.
WiUiam Zehring, the subject of this sketch, was born in Butler county,
Ohio, May 3, 1821, received the training usually given at the common
schools of that day, and learned the arts of agriculture, which he has ever
since followed. He was married in Montgomery county, Ohio, August 20,
1844, to Miss Susan Feagler, who was born July 9, 1824, near FarmersviUe,
same county, a daughter of John and Susanna (Cullers) Feagler. Her father
was born in Maryland, of good Dutch ancestry, and by occupation was both
a farmer and a shoemaker. After his marriage, in Maryland, he became a
pioneer of Montgomery county, Ohio, settling at FarmersviUe, among the
first to locate there. He cleared a farm there in the forest, but in 1865-6
he moved to De Kalb county, Indiana, settling on one hundred and twenty
acres of land, which he improved, making of it a fine farm, and here he died
at the age of about seventy-five years. His children were Joshua, Henry,
John, Maria, Elizabeth, Susanna and Margaret. Mr. Feagler was a member
of the Lutheran church, and in politics was a Democrat. In his general
character he was a substantial farmer and an exemplary citizen.
After marriage Mr. Zehring (our subject) settled on his father's farm in
Montgomery county, Ohio, and subsequently moved with him to Preble
county, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1857, when he emi
grated to Indiana, locating in Deer Creek township, Miami county, on
a quarter section of land which he then purchased. Only fifty acres were
cle'ared, all the rest still being under heavy timber. This place he improved,
and he added to it until he had an aggregate of two hundred and eighty acres
here, besides one hundred in Cass county. In 1864 he erected a tasteful two-
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story brick house, and this, together with the fine barn and outbuUdings,
orchard, etc. , and a vast area cleared, now constitutes a homestead of which "
any one would be proud. His children by his first marriage were Josiah,
WilHam I., Benjamin F., John, Edgar A., and Elizabeth. Mrs. Zehring
died February i8, 1865, a devoted member ot the Lutheran church from the
days of her girihood and an exe mplary Christian.
Mr. Zehring, our subject, when young took special pains to educate
himself, became a school-teacher in Montgomery county, Ohio, having the
school in his own neighborhood eleven terms, and by carefully saving his
earnings, both as a school-teacher and as a farmer, he in time accumulated a
fund of two thousand dollars, with which he purchased a farm in Montgom
ery county. After occupying that place a year he came, in the spring of
1857, to his present farm.
Politically he has always been a Democrat. He has been elected town
ship trustee eight times and county commissioner six years, commencing in
1867. In 1856-7 he was by election a member of the state legislature; two
terms he has been ditch commissioner, and he has also been assessor of his
township, etc., and in all these public positions he acquitted himself with
credit and rendered satisfaction to his constituents as honestly as any old-fash
ioned Quaker. His business ability has been signally recognized by his
choice as administrator of fifteen different estates and as guardian for the
children of two different families. He was one of the original members of
the Deer Creek Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in his township.
In matrimony he was united, March 16, 1869, with Mrs. Lucinda Wil
son, a widow, whose name before her first marriage was Burtner. She was
born near Dayton, in Montgomery county, Ohio,|March 25, 1836, a daugh
ter of Jacob and Catharine (Kemp) Burtner. Her father was born in August,
1808, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, was a farmer, and in 1828
moved with his parents to Montgomery county, Ohio, where they located on
a farm and continued to follow agriculture. In 1832 he married and settled
on a farm of one hundred acres five miles north of Dayton, on the Dayton &
Covington pike, and that tract he cleared and reduced to cultivation. In
1847 he moved to Preble county, Ohio, where also he cleared a large por
tion of a quarter-section of land and made a good farm, besides purchasing
one hundred acres more. Finally he retired from the active and heavy
labors of the field and moved to Gerraantown, where he bought a residence

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and spent his remaining days, leaving for the other worid May 7, 1886, at
the age of seventy-seven years, nine months and twenty-four days, a promi
nent member of the church of the United Brethren in Christ. Politically he
was a Republican. Of his general character he left only favorable impres
sions upon the minds of all who were acquainted with him. His children
were Abraham,. Joseph P., Jacob J., Joshua F., Francis M., Julia, Lucinda
and Sallie A. Mr. and Mrs. Burtner lived together as husband and wife for
fifty-four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Zehring are Hving at their pleasant homestead, enjoying
hfe and maintaining a high reputation. " Character," says an author, "is
the diamond that scratches every other stone," whUe it cannot be scratched
by any of them. Mrs. Zehring was formerly married, in Preble county, Ohio,
to Jacob Wesley Wilson, a dry-goods merchant, who died March 5, 1865, at
the age of thirty-five years, three months and three days.

T^REDERICK WELLINGER is one of the enterprising citizens and reli-
-^ able farmers of Tipton county that Germany has furnished to the New
World, his home being on section 14, Jefferson township. He was born in
Baden, Germany, May 10, 1833, and was reared on a farm in his native land
until seventeen years of age. His father, Anthony Wellinger, was a soldier
in the standing army of Germany, and was kUled in the war with Russia,
when our subject was about six years of age. After his mother's second
marriage Frederick went to live with his uncle, remaining with him, from the
age of fourteen, for two years. He then started out to earn his own liveli
hood, working for twenty-four dollars per year.
With the hope of benefiting his financial condition, Mr. Wellinger came
to America, at the age of seventeen years, and for a year and a half he
worked in a foundry in New York city. His next employment was upon a
farm near Saratoga, and following this he spent two years in New Jersey.
While in that state he was married. May 10, 1856, to Miss Mar^^aret Paint-
ingrass, a native of England. After his marriage he continued to work in
the east for a time as a farm hand, and then came to Indiana, spending the
first year in Ripley county, and thence removing to Decatur county. In
1875 T^e came to Tipton county and located upon the farm where he still

1108 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL' HISTORY OF
makes his home. Here he owns forty acres of land, which is under a high
state of cultivation and well improved. In his political affiliations he is a
stanch Republican.
Hisfirst wife died in Tipton county December i, 1892, leaving three
children: Annie, the eldest, is the wUe of OHver Gothic, a farmer of De
catur county, and they have six children, five sons and one daughter: Henry,
Robert, Fred, Oliver, Ben and Maggie. Mary, the second chUdof our sub
ject, is the wife of John Bowers, of Jefferson township, Tipton county, and
they have three sons: George, Fred and Frank. Lewis, also a resident of
Jefferson township, married Lennie Teter, and they have two sons, Fred and
Waher. Mr. Wellinger was again married, August 16, 1892, his second union
being with Amelia Burkhart, widow of Richard Loman. She was born. in
Germany, and when a child of five years started for the United States with
her parents, who died en route and were buried in the sea, as well as four of
their children. Thus four children were left alone, Mrs. Wellinger being
next to the youngest, and she and her brother Conrad were placed in an
orphan asylum in New Orleans, where she remained until she reached her
thirteenth year. She was then taken by a family to Ohio, and remained
with them until she was married, in 1866, to John Cottonbrook. They made
their home in Zanesville, Ohio, for about three years, when she left him, as
he failed to provide for her support. Coming to Tipton county, she lived
with her uncle, John Burkhart, for one year, and then with Andrew Damm,
.hei- cousin, for four years. At the end of that time she married Mr. Loman,
who died August 23, 1889. By her first marriage she became the mother of
three children, but all are now deceased. She had four daughters by the
second union: Maggie, now the wife of James Campbell, of Jefferson town
ship; Halley, who is with her mother; and two deceased.

A BRAHAM PLOUGHE. — Nearly sixty years ago this old citizen of Jeffer-
¦'» son township came to the wilds of Tipton county, and he may literally
be said to have grown up with the country. In the spring of 1865 he came
to his present homestead, where he owns one hundred and fifty-three acres,
and has since been engaged in general farming and stock-raising. In all

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1109
local works of progress and improvement he has borne his part and has
always been found on the side of good government. Vast changes have
taken place in this portion of the state since he was a boy, and he has not
only been a witness, but an interested participant in the development of the
county. As the name might indicate to the student of nomenclature, Abraham
Ploughe is of Dutch ancestry. His father, who bore the same Christian
name, was a native of Kentucky and married there PoUy Rayborn, also of
the Blue Grass state. They became the parents of nine children, eight of
whom grew to maturity. In the early part of this century they removed to
Decatur county, Indiana, and in 1839 they came to Tipton county. Locat
ing in what is now Jefferson township, they built a little log cabin in the for
est, and proceeded to clear a farm. For years the father was one of the
respected farmers of this, vicinity and held numerous offices of public trust,
such as commissioner of the county, justice of the peace, etc. Politically he
was a Whig and Republican, and very ardent in the advocacy of the princi
ples of his party. His death occurred in i860. He taught school in his
kitchen in the pioneer days.
Abraham Ploughe was born in Decatur county, Indiana, November 2,
1832, and in his youth attended the primitive country schools of the period,
— about three months each year. He remained at home with his parents
until his marriage, in December, 1853, when he located on a farm in Jeffer
son township, Tipton county, and a year afterward took up his abode in
Clinton county, Indiana. There he gave his energies to farming for several
years, and in 1862 he volunteered his services in defense of the Union. He
was assigned to Company B, Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry, and served in
the ranks about two years. He was then granted an honorable discharge,
on account of physical disability. Returning home, he soon decided to set
tle in Tipton county, and in the spring of 1865 located on the farm which
he has cultivated ever since. It is situated in section 19. Politically Mr.
Ploughe is a Republican, and cast his first ballot in a presidential campaign
for Fremont. Religiously he is a Baptist and is a valued member of the
local church.
To the marriage of our subject and his first wife, Allavana, two children
were born, John W., of CHnton county, and Rosina M., wife of Andrew J.
Goodnight, of Jefferson township. Mrs. Ploughe, whose death took place

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in 1868, was a daughter of George and Melissa Wimborough, early settlers
of this state. The next marriage of Mr. Ploughe was with Angeline A. Cole
man, and their four surviving chUdren are: Albertus, Margaret P., Oliver
M. and Nellie V. After the death of the wife and mother Mr. Ploughe
wedded Mrs. Sarah E. (Woods) Kirby, widow of Robert Kirby. She was
born in Tennessee, June 14, 1837, the daughter of John and MUdred Woods,
also natives of that state and early settlers in Boone county, Indiana, where
they settled in 1845.

MARION F. PLOUGHE, a weU known farmer residing on section 20,
Jefferson township, is one of Tipton county's native sons, born on sec
tion 30, Jefferson township, October 8, 1854, and is a representative of one
of her most prominent and honored families, whose identification with her
history dates from an early period in the development of the county. His
father, Isaac Newton Ploughe, familiarly known as Newton, was born in
Decatur county, Indiana, but when a lad of fourteen years he was brought to
Tipton county by his parents. The grandfather, Abram Ploughe, was a
native of Kentucky and was one of the early settlers of this county, making
his home in Jefferson township w'nen it was almost an unbroken wilderness.
Here in the midst of the forest Newton Ploughe grevv to manhood, and
assisted his father in clearing and improving a farm. He enjoyed the respect
and esteem of all who knew him, was a faithful member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and was an ardent Republican in politics. He died in
1891, and was buried in the HiUs cemetery by the Odd FeUows' society, of
which he was an honored member for many years. His wife, who bore the
maiden name of Sarah Lett, and was a native of Rush county, Indiana,
passed away in 1895. They were the parents of nine children, four sons and
five daughters, all of whom are now living, with the exception of one, and in
order of birth our subject is the third child and second son.
Reared in his native township, Marion F. Ploughe received his primary
education in the district schools near his home, later attended the Frankfort
schools, and in 1875 was a student in the common schools of Valparaiso.
On the 1 2th of October, 1876, he led to the marriage altar Miss Mary M.
Reed, and to them was born a daughter, Ota A., now the wife of Albert R.
McKinney, of CHnton county, Indiana. Mr. Ploughe was again married

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1111
August 17, 1879, his second union being with Miss OHve Robbins, who was
born near Rochester, Fulton county, Indiana, and when young removed- to
Clinton county. The children born of this marriage are Stella B., Flossie
C. and Zeiner L.
Mr. Plonghe lives upon a part of the old homestead, where he is success
fully engaged in general farming and stock-raising, having a fine farm of
ninety-four and a half acres under a high state of cultivation and well
.improved. Since 1888 he has made a specialty of the raising of Poland
China hogs and now has a herd of about one hundred upon his place. The
Republican party always find in him a stalwart supporter of its principles,
and his aid has never been withheld "from any enterprises which he believed
calculated to advance the moral, intellectual or material welfare of this town
ship or county. Socially he belongs to Kempton Lodge, No. 482, I. O. O.
F. , and the Modern Woodmen of America, whUe religiously he has main
tained membership in the Missionary Baptist church. Wherever known he
is held in high regard, and in Tipton county, where his entire life has been
passed, he has a host of warm friends.

lyyiRS. MARY J. DAVENPORT, widow of Austin Davenport, was born
•* " *^ in Johnson county, Indiana, September 28, 1834, and is a daughter of
William and Rebecca (Crane) Coons, who were born, reared and married in
Virginia and emigrated to Johnson county, Indiana, about 1825. There the
father purchased land and transformed it into a good farm, making his home
thereon until 1852, when he came to Tipton county and again turned his
attention to the development of a farm from raw land. Here his death
occurred in 1877, and his wife passed away in 1879. In their famUy were
three .daughters: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, now deceased; Mrs. Sarah E. New-
Ion; and Mary J., the subject of this sketch.
Mrs. Davenport was single on coming to Tipton county with her parents,
but in 1853 she gave her hand in marriage to Aust.in Davenport, also a
native of Johnson county, born January 2, 1828. His parents, William and
Delila (Hencely) Davenport, were natives of Kentucky and were farming
people, who reared a family of ten children, namely: Elizabeth; Ambrose;
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Susie; Eliza and Caroline. By her marriage Mrs. Davenport became the
mother of six chUdren, as follows: WilHam E., now a resident of Oregon;
Isaac N., a farmer of Tipton county; James A.; Rebecca, wife of James
Romack; George H., at home, and Charles G., a farmer
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Davenport located upon a tract of
eighty acres which had been given them by her father, but it was covered
with a heavy growth of timber and was little better than a swamp, being
mostly under water. To its improvement and cultivation Mr Davenport at
once devoted his energies and soon transformed the wild land into rich and
productive fields. He added eighty acres to the homestead at one time, and
at another one hundred and sixty acres. Since his death, however, it has-
been divided among the children, Mrs. Davenport only retaining sixty acres,
though she has added to it by purchase twenty acres. She is a woman of
more than ordinary business ability and therefore is meeting with excellent
success in her farming operations. The greater part of her land is under a
high state of cultivation, a small amount being timber and the remainder
pasture land. She has erected a more Commodious two-story frame residence,
upon a better site than their old home, and all the buUdings upon the place
are in perfect harmony with its neat and thrifty appearance.
Mr. Davenport died March 17, 1879, honored and respected by all who
knew him. Though he never aspired to office, he was an ardent Democrat
in politics and took an active interest in public matters, giving his support to
aU measures which he beheved calculated to prove of public benefit. He
was upright and honorable in all his dealings, and easily succeeded in
winning the friendship and high regard of all with whom he came in contact,
either in business or social life. Mrs. Davenport also has a large circle of
friends and acquaintances, who esteem her highly for her sterling worth and
many excellencies of character.

/^> EORGE W. PHARES. — For over a quarter of a century the subject of
^-^ this memoir was one of the most respected citizens and enterprising and
successful agriculturists of Tipton county. His well-improved homestead,
in section 26, Jefferson township, was cultivated and managed by him for
much of this period and is one of the most valuable country homes in this

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locality. About ten years ago he erected a pleasant and comfortable dwell
ing, at a cost of about three thousand dollars, and this, with the neat and
well stored barns- and other farm buildings about the place, make it a model
farm, — one of the best in the county. The owner took commendable pride
in his valuable and attractive home place, doing all in his power to increase
its beauty and utUity. At the same time, though he was devoted to his home
and family, he never neglected his public duties as a citizen and voter, and
enjoyed the high esteem of all his associates, by reason of his just and con
scientious dealings with one and all. The good of the community was dear
to his heart, and his influence was always cast on the side of improvement
and progress. George W. Phares, whose death occurred May 14, 1897, was then in
the prime of manhood, his birth having taken place about forty-six years
before, in Pendleton county, Virginia, August 8, 1850. He was the third in
a family of five chUdren and was about a year old when the household
removed from the Old Dominion to Indiana. His father, Solomon V. Phares,
was likewise a native of Virginia, and is still Hving, vvell-along in years, an
honored old citizen of Jefferson township. George W. Phares received as
good educational advantages as could be expected in a county which, in his
boyhood, was little better than a wilderness, and with the other members of
his family he shared the hardships incident to frontier life in the forests.
Until he had reached an age when he desired to be independent, he rendered
his father dutiful assistance in the arduous work of clearing and improving a
farm. December 3, 1871, George W. Phares married Elizabeth Campbell, who
proved a faithful and loving helpmeet in the joys and sorrows that came to
him, as to all, in the journey of life. The young couple settled upon a farm
in section 3, Jefferson township, and made such good progress in finances
that at the end of four years they were enabled to buy a farm of their own.
As the years rolled away they labored together with brave hearts and wUling
hands, looking toward the interests of the little ones who came to brighten
their home. At one time they owned four hundred and fifteen acres, but
Mrs. Phares has disposed of all but one hundred and two acres of this prop
erty, this being ample for her needs and as much as she cares to look after
now. Mr. Phares was not a politician and was satisfied to cast his ballot at
elections for Democratic nominees and principles. He held membership in

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the Methodist Episcopal church, contributing liberally to its work, and was a
trustee in the congregation. The poor and needy found in him a friend, and
many a deed of kindness was done by him in a quiet way, few being the
wiser, for he did not believe in ostentatious charity.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Phares was born in Prairie township, Tipton county,
February 22, 1853, being a daughter of David and Mary (Jenkins) CampbeU,
natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively. The father came to this
county about 1845, settled in the forests of Prairie township and, having
built a Httle cabin, proceeded diligently to clear a farm. He was one of the
sterling old pioneers who did so much in the development of this section of
the state. He remained here up to the time of his death, at the age of three
score and ten years. His father, James Campbell, also died in this county.
Mrs. Mary Jenkins Campbell came to the Hoosier state with her parents
when she was a young girl and died here at the age of seventy-eight years.
Her father, Nehemiah Jenkins, was well known among the early settlers of
this county. Mrs. Phares, the sixth of a family of ten children, was reared
in Prairie township. To herself and husband eight children were born, but
three died in infancy. David S. is now a student in Danville, Indiana.
William A. is assisting his mother in the care of the home farm; Della and
Omer are still at home; and Arthur F., a farmer of Jefferson township, mar
ried Lizzie Bunch.

JOHN G. MITCHELL. — Thirty-five years and more have passed since the
^ respected citizen of Jefferson township whose name appears at the head
of this article cast in his fortunes with the inhabitants of Tipton county, and
during all these years his name has been a synonym for upright manhood
and good citizenship. He has given his influence and means to the better
ment of society, to schools and church, to the support of good government
and order, to industries which he believed calculated to promote the interests
of this section of Indiana.
Such in brief, is the summing up of the career of J. G. Mitchell, who
was born in Edinburg, Johnson county, Indiana, May 8, 1826, being a son
of Gavin Mitchell, a native of Pennsylvania. The latter removed from the
Keystone state to Ohio and from that state to Johnson county, Indiana,
where he pursued his trade of blacksmith. He erected the third house put

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up in the village of Edinburg, and was the postmaster of that place for a
number of years. First a Whig, then a Repubhcan, he was quite a worker
in the parties and yet was never accused of office-seeking. Well known in
all parts of the county, he had no enemies and merited the high praise and
regard which were freely accorded hirn. He was a member of the Christian
church and died strong in the faith, when he had reached the ripe age of
eighty-two years. He was one of the veterans of the war of 1812 and above
all things was a patriot. His first wife, the mother of our subject, bore the
maiden name of Rebecca Colyer. She was born and reared in Ohio, and
died in 1836, when her son John was a little lad of ten years. Subsequently
the father married the widow Allen.
John G. Mitchell was the sixth in a family of nine children, and with
his brothers and sisters he attended the old-fashioned subscription schools
of his boyhood. The nearest one was two and a half miles away, and he
had to take his turn with the other pupils in cutting wood for the heating of
the rude log building with its greased-paper windows. His father had
received a good education for that period and taught school for several terms
in his early manhood here; At the age of fourteen years our subject left
home to make his own way in the world thenceforth. At first he worked for
five dollars a month, for farmers, of the vicinity, and later he was paid seven
dollars. He continued to work in this manner until he attained his majority,
saving his earnings and making the best of his opportunities.
October 6, 1847, Mr. Mitchell married Miss Margaret I. Rutherford,
a native of Johnson county, Indiana, and a daughter of William Rutherford,
'who was one of the first settlers of that locality, whither he had come from
his old Kentucky home. For perhaps ten years after his marriage Mr.
MitcheU rented farms, and in 1862 he removed to Tipton county and bought
a farm of forty acres, half a mile north of Normanda in Prairie township.
This place he improved, and later added twenty acres to the original tract.
When a good opportunity presented itself he traded this farm for one of one
hundred and twenty acres in Jefferson township. This place, his present
home, is now one of the best in the county and is well adapted for general
farming and stock-raising. The owner has gradually added adjacent prop
erty until the place now comprises three hundred and twenty acres.
The first vote of Mr Mitchell was cast for John C. Fremont, and from
the organization of the Republican party he has been active in its support.

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Though he has been offered local offices time and again, he has never been
prevailed upon' to accept such honors. He holds membership with the Meth
odist Episcopal church and has been very active in its behalf. He has
served as a class-leader, steward and trustee of the congregation, and for
years has rarely been out of office. His first wife, also a devoted church
member, died in 1887. They lost a son and daughter, Jasper, who died at
the age of three months, -and Elizabeth, who died when in her twenty-seventh
year. Two sons survive: William G. and James H., the latter a resident
of this township. He married Marietta Campbell and has a little son, David.
In 1889 our subject married Mrs. Anna R. Sherer.

WILLIAM WEIMER. — For forty-five years this honored citizen and
early settler of Jefferson township, Tipton county, was active and
zealous in all local affairs, and his place in this community is one which can
not be filled for years to come. No one could have done more than he to
place the county upon a sure foundation of law and order, developing its
resources and bringing to the public notice its numerous inducements in the
way of comfortable homesteads and pleasant features as a place of residence.
In all the walks of life and in all his relations with others his career was
marked by that strict integrity and uprightness of word and deed, which com
mand the respect, love and admiration of all.
. The father of William Weimer was Philip Weimer, born and reared in
Virginia and a Hfe-long resident of that state. He was a son of Philip'
Weimer, who came from Germany, his native land, to Virginia, settling in
Pendleton county (now West Virginia). The mother of the subject of this
sketch bore the maiden name of Mary Hoover. She was born in Germany,
and with her parents started for America, here to establish a new home, but
she was left an orphan before reaching these hospitable shores, as both of her
parents died on shipboard.
William Weimer was born in Pendleton county, Virginia, March 24,
1 8 19, and was a young man of twenty-six when he came to Indiana, in 1845.
He took up a tract of land from the government, the patent for which his
widow still holds, and here he continued to reside as long as he lived. He
improved his farm until it is now one of the best in this section of the county,

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and thenceforward his time was fully occupied in the cultivation and care of
the place. At the time of his death, which took place February 22, 1890, he
owned one hundred and seventy-one acres. When he was in his prime he
owned and operated for many years a threshing-machine, one of the first
introduced in this neighborhood. Until a few years prior to his demise he
was affiliated with the Democratic party, when he became an ally of the
Populists. For years he was a faithful member of the Christian church and
a trustee in the same.
September 10, 1846, WUliam Weimer married Miss JuHa Wolford, who
is a native of Pendleton county, Virginia, born January 18, 1829. Her
father, Martin, and mother, Sally (Harmon) Wolford, were both natives of
Pendleton county, and, after their marriage, they removed to Ohio, in 1830.
Six years later they settled in Vermilion county, lUinois, and in 1846 they
came to the forests of Tipton county. The father Hved to be sixty-seven
years of age, but the mother died when about fifty-eight years old. They
were of German descent and grandfather John Wolford was born on the
European continent. Mrs. Weimer is one of ten chUdren, six of whom grew
to maturity, and is the only daughter. In her girlhood the schools which
she attended were built of logs, had greased paper for windows and rude
board benches and desks, the last mentioned article of furniture consisting
of a board placed against the wall. At the time that her people located in
this township there was no school-house of any description within its limits.
Only seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage, Mrs. Weimer
bravely settled down to a Hfe which contained much more of hardship than
often falls to the lot of the more favored young people of this generation.
For years she lived in the midst of the forest, alone from morning till night,
while her husband was busy upbn some distant corner bf the farm, clearing
away the trees or cultivating the land, and rarely did she see a neighbor or
friend. Her little ones took up much of her time and attention, however,
and the years rolled by rapidly. She now has ten living chUdren, twenty-
three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Her sons and daughters
are as follows: Sarah E., Mrs. James McNeal; PhUHp M., who married
Anna Price; Mary A., Mrs. George Swarm; James A., who wife was Emma
Graham; John E., who married Cynthia Thompson; WiUiam A., at home;
Emma, Mrs. Ed SmaU; Eva, wife of Charles Hinkle; Cora, wife of WiUiam
Cole; and Lora W. , Mrs. D. Thompson. Mrs. Weimer is a devout Chris-

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tian and a member of the Disciples' church. She enjoys the love and sin
cere regard of all who know her, and many a heart has been cheered by her
kindness and strengthened for the trials of life by her loving counsel and
wisdom.

JOHN Q. A. HOWES. — The Howes family in America is supposed to
have descended from three brothers who emigrated to this country from
England and settled in New England early in the colonial period. Joseph
Howes, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, J. Q. A. Howes, was a
New Englander and a Revolutionary soldier. He helped throw up intrench
ments on the night of June i6, 1775, and took part in the famous battle of
the following day. His family comprised twelve children, all of whom have
passed away. The fifth in order of birth was Henry, the father of John Q.
A. Henry Howes was born in the state of Connecticut, April 12, 1784, and
in early life went to Montpelier, Vermont, where he engaged in work at his
trade, and where he subsequently married Miss Ruth Blaisdell, a native of
New Hampshire. Her father, Perret Blaisdell, also fought in the Revolu
tionary war. Several years after their marriage Henry Howes and wife
removed with their family, then consisting of three little chUdren, to Cin
cinnati, Ohio. From Cincinnati they moved to Warren county, Ohio, and
in September, 1836, came over into Indiana and located in Miami county,
on eighty acres of land near the village of Mexico. Here he carried on farm
ing for a number of years. Previous to this he worked at his trade, that of
blacksmith. When well advanced in years he sold the farm and he and his
wife made their home with their son, John Q. A., where they died, his death
occurring in AprU, 1866; hers in December, 1864. Henry Howes was an
industrious man, honorable and upright in aU the walks of life. None knew
him but to respect him for his many sterling quahties. Both he and his
good wife were worthy members of the Methodist church. They were the
parents of nine chUdren, seven of whom reached maturity, and of that
number three are living at this writing, 1898. Louisa, the eldest who grew
up, became the wife of John Clymer, and died many years ago. Sereno
died, unmarried, forty years ago. Henry is now blind and lives with his
son-in-law, WilHam Grimes, in Jefferson township, Miami county, Indiana.
Abel has been dead several years. Cornelia is the wife of Washington

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Osbon, of Sturgis, Michigan. Sophia, deceased, was the wife of William
Coulter. John Quincy Adams Howes, whose name stands at the head of this
review, is the youngest of the family. He was born in Warren county,
March 28, 1828, and was about eight years old when he came to Miami
county with his parents. He was married AprU 19, 1849, to Miss Orpah
Murden, daughter of Charles and Martha Murden, who was born in Balti
more county, Maryland, March 22, 1828. Her parents were English people
who came to this country after their marriage and first settled in Mary
land, whence, in 1834, they came west to Indiana and located in Miami
county, Jefferson township, where they passed the closing years of their lives
and died, Mrs. Murden surviving her husband several years, her age at death
being ninety-fiv.e. She died at the home of her son in Denver, Indiana.
Of her twelve children, eight are now living, four sons and four daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Howes have lived in Jefferson township, Miami county, for
sixty-two and sixty-four years respectively, and their married life covers a
period of nearly half a century. They have had three sons, only one of
whom, William Henry, is now living. He is a resident of Richland town
ship, this county. The deceased were Timothy and Sheridan. The former
was married and left a son, WiUiard Emerson Howes, who is the only grand
child and who lives with his grandparents.
Politically Mr. Howes is a Republican. He and his wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church.

'^ACHARIAH CRAGUN. — No state in the Union can boast of a more
^-^ heroic band of pioneers than can Indiana. Their privations, hardships
and earnest labors have resulted in establishing one of the foremost common
wealths of America, with almost unlimited possibilities for still further prog
ress and advancement; they laid the foundation for the present prosperity
and greatness of the country, and their indefatigable efforts formed the build
ing stones. Mr. Cragun is one who not only represents an honored pioneer
family of Indiana, but also his own history connects that early epoch with
this latter-day civilization. In his youth he became identified with the
development of Cass county, when the greater part of the district was an

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unbroken wilderness, and aided in transforming its wild lands into beautiful
homes and farms, gave his support to all measures for the public good, and
is to-day ranked among the substantial farmers and worthy citizens of Clinton
township, in which locality he is most favorably known. His residence in
Cass county covers a period of almost sixty years.
He was born near BrookvUle, Indiana, November 23, 1824, and is a son
of Joshua Cragun, who was born in Virginia and came to Indiana at a very
early day. He resided in various sections of the state, but spent the greater
part of his hfe in Cass county, where he located in 1839. His death occurred
near Kokomo, Indiana, at the age of about eighty-two years. , In his early
manhood he married Miss Sarah Reader, a lady of German parentage, and to
them were born the following children: Zachariah; Elisha, who died at
Chattanooga while serving his country in the Civil war; Joshua, a resident of
Kokomo, Indiana; WUliam, deceased; Jonathan, of Howard county, Indiana;
Tabitha, wife of John Russell, of Kansas; and John, of Kokomo.
Zachariah Cragun received but limited educational privileges. He
attended the primitive schools of Clinton county, but after coming to Cass
county with his father, in 1839, at the age of fifteen years, his services were
needed on the home farm, and his school days were consequently at an end.
The lot ofthe pioneer farmer in Indiana was not an easy one. In addition to the
arduous task of clearing and improving the wild land he had to contend
against the miasmatic tendencies of the country, to which so many courageous
frontiersmen were forced to succumb, their tombs marking the resting places
of the martyrs to the state's development. The labors of these sturdy men,
however, have made this one of the most healthful, prosperous and progressive
states of the Mississippi valley, and in this work in Cass county Zachariah
Cragun bore his part. He worked in the fields from early morning until
dewy eve, and assisted his father in the cultivation of the home farm until
after he had attained his majority, when he began farming on hisown account.
Mr. Cragun was married in CHnton township, Cass county, October 13,
1850, to Miss Elizabeth Shideler, a daughter of George Shideler, and on their
present farm they began their domestic, life. There home was in the midst
of the forest, but with characteristic energy the young husband began to clear
the place and plant his crops, and in due time he garnered abundant harvests
as the reward of his laborious efforts. In all this he was ably assisted and
seconded by his estimable wife. With the passing years their farm became

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one of the best improved properties in Cass county, and its neat and thrifty
appearance to-day well indicates the careful supervision of the owner. . Their
home was blessed with the presence of three children, namely: Sylvester
S., of Logansport, who married Kansas Marshall; Dora E., wife of Andrew
Shanklin, of Carroll county, Indiana; and Ellen, at home.
Mr. Cragun is a stanch Republican, but aside from giving an intelligent
support to the men and measures of his party he takes no active part in
politics. His time has been wholly given to his farming interests, and he
ranks among those leading agriculturists of the community who have made
Cass county bloom and blossom as the rose.

JOHN O. BEHYMER— The Tiptpn Times, which was established in 1855,
is the oldest living newspaper of Tipton county, and is the official Demo
cratic organ, conducted ever since 1883 by J. O. Behymer, the present edi
tor and publisher.
Mr. Behymer was born in Rush county, Indiana, April 9, 1855, a son of
William Behymer and Martha (Littleton) Behymer, the former a native of
Lincoln county, Kentucky, and the latter a native of the Buckeye state. In
his father's family were eleven children, of whom six sons and four daughters
are now living, namely: Mary J., wife of Jacob Hiatt, residing near Rigdon,
Indiana; Perry; Andrew J.; Rebecca A., wife of J. L. Newkirk, near Rush-
ville, this state; John O. ; Franklin P., of Eaton, Ohio; William H.; Christo
pher R., living at Rigdon; Sarah E., wife of A. T. Corbin, near Sharpsville,
Indiana; Martha M., who married Leander Jones and lives in Rigdon; and
one who died in infancy. William Behymer, our subject's father, was a
cooper by trade, in Ohio, and after emigrating to Rush county; this state, in
the year 1851, foUowing farming. In 1861 he removed to Grant county,
where the next year he enlisted in Company H, but was transferred to
Company E, of the One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
served untU the close of the war'. He had some very narrow escapes, but was
never wounded. One of his narrow escapes occurred when the neck of his
canteen was shot off, the buUet lodging in the canteen! Toward the close
of the war he held the office of sergeant.
After the cessation of hostilities he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
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was justice of the peace several terms, in Green township. Grant county,
and also notary public: also he practiced law for a short time. In Rush
county he was constable for several years. In politics he was a Democrat.
He died at Rigdon, in Grant county, August 25, 1890, aged sixty-eight years.
His widow survives, residing at Rigdon. Both these estimable people were
respected members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Solomon Behymer,
the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Penn
sylvania and of German descent, and after attaining his majority moved to
Lincoln county, Kentucky, where his son WilHam was born. John Little
ton, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of
Ohio, who moved to Kentucky, where he died at a very old age.
John O. Behymer, whose name is at the head of this brief notice, was
about six years of age when his parents left Rush county and settled in Grant
county, where he grew to manhood near Rigdon, was reared in agricultural
hfe and obtained his elementary education at the common district school.
In 1875, when grown, he came to Tipton county, and taught his first term
of school and later two terms in Madison county. In 1878 he purchased a
half interest in the Windfall News office at Windfall, which he assisted in
conducting, in connection with school-teaching, until the spring of 1880. On
the nth of March, 1880, he married and at the same time came to Tipton,
where he had recently bought a half interest in the Times office. This inter
est, however, he sold out during the following winter and started the Satur
day Express, which he owned and managed until the spring of 1883, when he
sold the plant and went to Winamac and purchased the Democrat office,
which he conducted about six months. Selhng that the same year, he
returned to Tipton and purchased the entire plant of the Times, which he has
owned and conducted ever since, with the success that attends hard work,
patience and the exercise of talent and shrewd judgment. The paper is a
daily and weekly periodical, and in politics is "solidly" Democratic. When
Mr. Behymer first came here he began in a very humble way, but he has
enlarged his operations and so managed his affairs that he now has a com
petence, earned only by his steady management as a printer, publisher and
editor. His brothers also are all self-made and well educated men, all but
two have taught school, and two of them,^Perry and Andrew J. — are law
yers at Elwood, this state.
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daughter of William M. and Martha O'Banion, and to this union two sons
have been born, — Lawrence O. and Lester. Mr. O'Banion and his wife
were early settlers in Rush county, Indiana, and later in Grant county. Mrs.
O'Banion died at Windfall, and Mr. O'Banion now resides at Tipton. He
was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion. Mrs. Behymer is a highly esteemed
member of the Presbyterian church, and also of the Order of the Eastern
Star, of which she has twice been worthy matron, her husband being a mem
ber of, the same and also of the Masonic order, having his membership in
Austin Lodge, No. 128. He is also a member of the Democratic Editoral
Association of Indiana, now serving as treasurer, and he is also a member of the
Indiana Northern Association. He has never been a candidate for office,
but was chairman of the Democratic central committee of Tipton county in
1888. His residence, which he built in 1889, is at the corner of Main and
Adams streets.

J~\R. GEORGE C. WOOD. — The prominent and influential citizen whose
*~^ name heads this sketch is a grain dealer and manufacturer of Windfall,
Indiana. The facts relating to his career and his ancestry are as follows:
George C. Wood was born in Decatur county, Indiana, near the town
of Adams, January 3, 1852, one of the eight children of Caleb and Letitia
M. (Carr) Wood, natives of Kentucky. Of this large family only the Doctor
and two of his sisters are now living, — Sophia Ann, wife of A. J. Rodgers,
of Clay county, lUinois; and Lucinda E. , widow of Jacob Needham, of Tip
ton county, Indiana. Caleb Wood, a farmer, came to Indiana at an early
day and settled in Decatur county, where he followed his vocation till 1856,
that year removing to Tipton county and locating west of Sharpsville, where
he died in 1882, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife passed away in
1886, at the age of sixty-seven, a member of the Christian church.
Of the grandparents of our subject, we record that his grandfather
Wood was a native of Virginia, moved west to Kentucky in the early history
of that state, and there passed the rest of his life, owning slaves and carry
ing on farming operations. He died when well advanced in years. George
Carr, Dr. Wood's maternal grandfather, a native of Kentucky, lived there
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1124 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
white settlers to seek protection against the Indians by living in block houses.
He, too, was a farmer and lived to a good old age. He had ten chUdren.
Dr. George C. Wood was four years old when his parents moved to
Tipton county, and he was reared on his father's farm near Sharpsville. His
education, begun in the district school, was carried forward in the Kokomo
College, and later in the National Normal University, of Lebanon, Ohio.
He taught district school for a while, after which he was offered and
accepted the position of principal of the SharpsvUle schools, which he filled
acceptably. In 1879 he took up the study of medicine, entered the Medical
College of Indiana, and in 1881 received his diploma from that institution.
In 1883 he began the practice of his profession in Windfall, and continued
the same here untU November, 1890, giving up practice at that time in order
to enter upon his official duties, he having been elected to the office of
county auditor. He has not since returned to his profession.
Dr. Wood is politically a "gold" Democrat. He has always taken a
deep interest in public matters and has served most efficiently as the incum
bent of public office. In 1879 he was elected county superintendent of
schools of Tipton county, was re-elected in 1881 and served a second term,
and in 1890 was elected county auditor, for a term of four years. On sever
ing his connection vvith the office of auditor, he turned his attention to the
grain business, which he still follows, owning elevators at Windfall and Cur
tisville. He also has various other interests. He owns a farm of one hun
dred and thirty-two acres near Windfall and eighty acres of the old home
stead at Sharpsville. He is a stockholder and director in the Windfall Manu
facturing Company, manufacturers of brick and tile; is a director in the Tip
ton County Fair Association; is a stockholder and director in the Natural
Gas, Mining and Oil Company, and has a half interest in the Opera House
block at Windfall, a part of which was erected in [893, the rest in 1897.
Noveraber 20, 1879, the subject of our sketch married Miss Elnora
Lindsay, daughter of Dr. James P. and Amanda (Pierce) Lindsay, and they
have had five children, two sons and three daughters: James Gordon,
deceased; Madge; Jason Byron, deceased; Nora May, and one that died in
infancy. Mrs. Wood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Dr. Wood is a Mason of high degree, a member of Reserve Lodge, No.
363, of SharpsvUle; Kokomo Chapter, No. 104; Kokomo Council, No. 60;
Kokomo Commandery, No. 36, K. T.; and the Scottish Rite, at Indianapolis.

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JESSE L. GRISHAW. — The gentleman to a brief sketch of whose life
*>¦' we now direct attention is one of the representative farmers of Liberty
township, Tipton county, Indiana, Sharpsville being his post-office address.
Jesse L. Grishaw was born in Ripley county, Indiana, July 5, 1846, son
of Washington and Martha (Holman) Grishaw. Mrs. Grishaw was a relative
of the Hon. William Holman, of Wayne county. Isaac Grishaw, the grand
father of Jesse L. , was a Virginian by birth. When a young man he left his
native state and came west to Kentucky, whence he subsequently came up
into Indiana, settling in Ripley county at a very early period in the history
of this state. There he entered a tract of government land and improved a
farm, and on this farm he passed the rest of his life and there died. He was
a man of strict integrity and deep piety and for many years was a devoted
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His house was a place for relig
ious services for many years. His children were: Lettie A., Sally E., Wash
ington, Perry, Madison Monroe, Isaac, John W. , Mary Ann and Martha A.
Washington Grishaw was born in Kentucky and was seven years old at
the tinie his parents removed to Indiana. He was reared in Ripley county,
this state, and was there married. In 1850 he came to what was known as
the Indian Reserve and settled at Sharpsville. Here he cleared a tract of
land, and built the first frame house in Sharpsville. He was the pioneer
merchant of the place and carried on merchandising successfully until 1856,
when his store and stock of goods went up in flames. He had purchased a
tract of raw land, the same upon which the subject of this sketch now lives,
and after the fire he buUt a frame house on it and raoved his family into the
same. He was not a rugged man, but he was full of energy and pluck and
in a few years he succeeded in opening up a good farm. He died in 1865.
Washington Grishaw was a typical pioneer. He suited himself to circum
stances and made the best of his opportunities. During his experience as a
merchant he exchanged his goods for all kinds of produce, including pelts,
and he also dealt in stock — buying and driving hogs to market. His business
brought him in contact with the people all over the surrounding country, and
by all who knew him he was highly respected. He took an interest in all
the public affairs of his locality, affiliated with the Republican party, and at
one time served as township trustee. Both he and his wife were members
of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died in 1852. Of their children,
six in number, three died when young, the others being William M., who

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was a soldier in the Civil war, and who died in 1894, leaving a widow and
four children; Mary, wife of E. J. Naylor, a farmer of Liberty township,
Tipton county, Indiana; and Jesse L., whose name initiates this review. In
1857 the father of our subject married for his second wife Miss Rachel Bolby,
who died about 1893, leaving no issue.
Jesse L. Grishaw vvas reared on the farm where he now lives and was
early inured to hard work as then found in the frontier districts. His only
educational advantages were those of the common schools. At the time the
Civil war was inaugurated his youth prevented him from joining the Union
ranks and going out to fight for the old flag. Before hostilities ceased, how
ever, he, in 1864, at the age of sixteen, tendered his services and was accepted.
He enlisted in answer to the one-hundred-days call, was placed in the One
Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and assigned to theArmy
of the Tennessee. He saw some hard service through Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, and late in the fall of that year was mustered out with his com
pany at Indianapolis, receiving an honorable discharge, and he was also the
recipient of a parchment in recognition of good and efficient service, this
testimonial having been given by President Lincoln.
Returning home at the close of his army service, young Grishaw settled
down to work on the farra, and has been engaged in farming ever since.
Some time after the death of his father he purchased the interest of the other
heirs, thus coming into possession of the entire home farm, which is one
hundred sixty acres in extent, one hundred forty-five acres being under cul
tivation, well ditched and tiled. He built the present farm residence, re
modeled the barn and made other improvements, and now has a model farm
and is making a success in his operations.
In 1869 he married Miss Frances D. Franklin, a native of Hancock
county, Indiana, who, after the death of her parents, came to Tipton county,
where she was reared by friends. Her parents were Jasper M. Franklin and
Sarah (Caldwell) Franklin, of French descent, and born in Greenbrier
county. West Virginia. Of her brothers and sisters we record that James A.,
a merchant of Sharpsville for a number of years, is deceased; Edmund K.,
a war veteran of the One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteers, is a black
smith; William J., who was a soldier in the Seventy-ninth Indiana Volun
teers, and for a tirae confined in Libby prison, where he lost his health, died
in 1876; Thomas, a Hancock county farmer; Lea is now Mrs. James Fer-

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rell; Nancy J. is the wife of M. Ferrell; Elizabeth is the wife of Noah Bland;
Mary married Nat Spaulding; Mrs. Grishaw is the youngest. Mr. and Mrs.
Grishaw are the parents of nine children, viz. : Mary, a professional nurse
in the hospital at Richmond, Indiana; George, at this writing a member of
the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Regiment, stationed at Chickamauga
Park, for service in the war with Spain; Anna, wife of G. Berry, a farmer
and commission merchant, resides near Springfield, Illinois; Edward W., in
the same regiment with his brother George; and Jennie, Ida, Hazel, Betty
and Rhoda, all at home. Mrs. Grishaw and some of the children are mem
bers of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Like most veterans of the Civil war, Mr. Grishaw is identified with that
popular organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic, his mem
bership being in Evans Post, No. 146, at SharpsviUe.

J_JON. GEORGE H. GIFFORD, the subject of this sketch, was born
' *¦ January 10, 1850, in Fayette county, Indiana, near the vUlage of Fal
mouth. His father, Solomon W. Gifford, was a native of New Jersey, emi
grating with his parents first to Ithaca, New York, thence to Ohio, near the
site where Cincinnati now stands, and thence, in the year 1817, to Indiana,
locating on the extreme east line of what is now known as Rush county. This
date suggests the fact that Mr. Solomon W. Gifford was one of the pio
neers of Indiana. He helped erect one of the first log cabins, if not the first,
in Rush county, and he and his brother probably constructed the first coffin
ever made in the county. They were constitutionally robust men, well fitted
for pioneer life and to clear away the impenetrable wilderness. He spent
his life as a farmer, and although in the back woods, without any advantages
of school, he educated himself and became a great reader of the newspapers,
keeping himself posted in current events untU the end of his life. He was
always active in politics, a Democrat, but never asked . for an office. After
he reached manhood he married Miss Malinda GUlam, a native of North
Carolina. They moved across the county line into the edge of Fayette
county, where they made their home until they died. Mrs. Gifford, like her
husband, never attended school, but through her own industry became one
of the most learned women in church literature in her immediate vicinity.

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They were both members of the Methodist church until 1862, at which time
Mr. Gifford withdrew and united with the Baptist church. Mrs. Gifford,
however, remained in the Methodist church until her death. The latter,
while a native of North CaroHna, had come to Indiana while an infant,
arriving here in 181 5, and was one of those who went to the block-house at
ConnersvUle for safety during the Indian war. The grandfather of our sub
ject, Ananias Gifford, was a native of New Jersey and was of English and
Scottish ancestry. He removed with his family, as before remarked, to
Rush county in 18 17 and soon built a frame house, which is still standing, in
a fair state of preservation. He died in Rush county, at the advanced age
of eighty-five or eighty-six years. Mrs. Solomon W. Gifford died at Shel
byville, Indiana, at the age of seventy-seven, and Mr. Solomon W. Gifford
also died in Shelbyville, in said state, on the ist day of Noveraber, 1895,
being nearly eighty-nine years of age. The children of Solomon and Malinda
Gifford were twelve in number, as follows: Sophrona, who married William
Kolb and now resides in Boone county; William M., of Zionsville; Alfred,
who died in 1895, at Shelbyville; Absalom, a resident of Windfall; Mahala
J., who raarried John Bragg, of Zionsville; James J., now of Rigdon; Phceba
Grove, widow of the late Donovan Grove, is living with her brothers and
sisters; Amanda, who died in infancy; Laura, wife of Frank Schofield,
of Kokomo; Vashti, wife of Hanson Dawson, also of Kokomo; Freelove,
who married Alfred Peters, at Glenwood; and George H, Gifford, the sub
ject of this sketch, all being residents of Indiana.
The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm, attended the district
school, then the high school at Milroy, Rush county, for two years, and the
year following being a student in the Fairview Academy. The ensuing three
years were spent at the state university and the next year at the Northwest
ern Christian University, now Butler University, at Indianapolis, at which
institute he took his degree in 1872. He began the study of law with the
firm of Green & Waugh, at Tipton, Indiana, which firm consisted of the
Hon. John Green and Hon. Dan Waugh. He was admitted to the bar in
March, 1873, a short rime after which he entered into partnership with R. B.
Beauchamp. This partnership continued until 1875, when the firm of
Beauchamp & Gifford united with the Hon, N. R. Overman, the firm becom
ing Overman, Beauchamp & Gifford. This conrinued unril 1880, at which
time Overman retired to go upon the bench, leaving the firm Beauchamp &

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Gifford as before. This relation continued until 1883, from which time Mr.
Gifford was alone in the practice for a number of years. Afterward he was
associated with Charles Swain, who died in 1887. After this he and the
Hon. J. M. Fippen and a nephew, Carl H. Gifford, were together for some
time. September 23, 1896, he associated himself in the practice with J. R.
Coleman, which partnership still continues, under the firm name of Gifford
& Coleman. Fraternally Mr. Gifford is a member of the Masonic order, affiliating
with Austin Lodge, No. 220, of Tipton, Indiana. He is also a member of
the Greek society known as the Phi Delta Theta, of which society three of
his sons also are members.
On June 20, 1872, Mr. Gifford was united in marriage with Miss Anna
Rachel Smiley. Mrs. Gifford was a daughter of Robinson and Rachel Maze
Smiley. After their marriage, in Fayette county, they at once removed to
this city, where they have continuously resided. Mrs. Gifford never enjoyed
the advantage of a college education, but she has found time, during the
cares of her home to make herself one of the best informed and most cultured
ladies of the city. She has always been prominent in all public philanthropic
and educational movements. She has served as vice-president of the equal-
suffrage organization of the ninth congressional district of Indiana. She
assisted in organizing the literary society known as the Equal Suffrage and
Literary Society of Tipton, having been vice-president of the society several
times, and is now president, the society being in its eleventh year of work.
She is just closing the year as president of the Modern Priscilla Art Club, an
organization for the advancement of art and sociability. She is also entitled
to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, both her
great-grandfathers and two great-uncles having been soldiers in the Revolu
tionary war.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Gifford consisted of five children: Allen
W., Frank H., Glenn Jeff, Robert Manley and Hanson S. Allen W. grad
uated from the Indiana State University, taking the degree of A. B., in 1895.
He has taken two years of his medical work, but is now a member of Company
I, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteers, having enlisted to take part
in the Spanish war. Frank H., at home teaching. He is a graduate of the
Tipton high school and spent one year at the state university. Glenn is a
senior at the state university, preparing for the practice of law. He was

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admitted to the bar in 1897. Robert Manley has charge of a boot and shoe,
store in Tipton. Hanson S. is attending high school.
Politically Mr. Gifford is a Democrat. He has always been an active
worker for his party, but has never asked for office but once. He was elected
state senator in 1893, from the counties of Tipton and Clinton. The district
was changed in 1895, placing Tipton county with Hamilton, hence he was
not a candidate for re-election. As a lawyer Mr. Gifford is rated as above
the average, having more than a local reputation. As an advocate he is
clear and earnest.

JOSEPH OVERMAN. — For a half century Joseph Overman, of Harrison
township, Miami county, has resided upon the farm which is now his
home. No other resident of the community has so long been identified with
its interests, and as one of the honored pioneers he well deserves mention in
this volume. He is descended from sturdy German ancestry, the family hav
ing been founded in the New World by three brothers who came from the
fatherland in an early period of our country's history. Isaac Overman, the
great-grandfather of our subject, was one of the first settlers of North Caro
lina. Ephraim Overman, the grandfather of our subject, was born in that
state on the 21st of January, 1754, and carried on agricultural pursuits as a
means of livelihood. He married Rachel Small, who was born October 3,
1759, in North Carolina, where they began their domestic life on a farm.
About 1798 they removed to Virginia and subsequently became pioneers of
Wayne county, Indiana, locating near Richmond when the district was an
almost unbroken wUderness. After a short time, however, Ephraim Over
man went to Randolph county, Indiana, where in the midst of the forest he
established a typical pioneer horae and cleared up a good farm. There he
spent the residue of his Hfe, passing away on the 27th of September, 1824.
He was a hard-working man, whose energy resulted in a comfortable com
petence, and whose upright life won the confidence and esteem of many
friends. His children were Jesse, born October 17, 1782; Eli, born Febru
ary 16, 1784; Keziah, born August 6, 1787; Ephraim, born June 11, 1790;
Lydia, born June 13, 1792; Clarkie, born January 11, 1794; Phcenias, born
May ID, 1796; Silas A., born May 27, 1798; Rachel, born September 19,
1800; and Reuben, born August 12, 1802, The parents of this family were

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members of the Friends' church, with which religious faith the Overmans
have been connected for many generations.
Jesse Overman, the father of our subject, accompanied his parents to
Virginia when sixteen years of age, and later came with them to Indiana.
He was married in Preble county, Ohio, June 14, 18 10, to Keziah Stubbs,
whose birth occurred in Georgia, July 19, 1790. Her parents, Nathan and
EHzabeth Stubbs, and their family, were also connected with the Friends'
church, and at an early day emigrated from Georgia to Preble county, Ohio,
where the father became one of the substantial farmers of the locality.
Nathan Stubbs, of a German family, was born the ioth month, nth day,
1758, and died the 4th month, 26th day, 1835, respected by all who knew
him. His wife, Elizabeth, was born the 3d month, 19th day, 1767, and died
the 6th month, 7th day, 1828.
Their children were William, Joseph, Henry, Nathan, Elijah, Hannah,
Rebecca and Rachel. After his marriage Jesse Overman established his
home near Elkton in Preble county, Ohio, where he secured a tract of land,
which he cleared and transformed into a good farm. About 1821 he removed
to Wayne county, Indiana, and there secured a tract of land in the midst of
the forest, to which he turned his attention until the trees were replaced by
waving fields of grain and his half section was made to bloom and blossom
as the rose. About 1853 he came to Miami county and made his home with
his children during the last twenty years of his life. He reached the vener
able age of eighty-seven years, and died September 21, 1869, at the home of
his son Elijah, in Miami county. His wife passed away in Wayne county,
September 21, 1835.
The children who came to bless the union of Jesse and Keziah Overman
were as follows: Henry, born the 5th month, 3d day, 181 1; Eli, born the
7th month, 8th day, 18 12, and died the 2d month, 17th day, 1893, aged
eighty years, seven months and nine days; EHzabeth, born the ist month, 2d
day, 1814, and died when about ten years old; William, born the 2d month,
7th day, 1816; Rachel, born the 12th month, 5th day, 1817, married Josiah
Haisley, and is now deceased; Rebecca, born the 5th month, ioth day, 1819,
married Ira Haisley, and died the 2d month, 19th day, 1897; Ephraim, born
the 9th month, 23d day, 1820; Nathan, 7th month, 14th day, 1822; Enoch
and Elijah, twins, 2d month, ist day, 1824; Joseph, 9th month, 6th day,
1826; Hannah, born 12th month, 14th day, 1828, married Calvin Edgerton,

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and died the 4th month, 14th day, 1889; and Mary, born the 9th month, 17th
day, 1830, and died the ist month, 17th day, 1865.
We now turn to the personal history of him whose name introduces this
review. He is one of Indiana's native sons, his birth having occurred on his
father's farm, twelve mUes north of Richmond, on the 6th of September,
1826. He was reared to the occupation of farming, and is indebted to the
comraon-school systera for the educational privileges he received. He was
also trained in the teaching and beUef of the Society of Friends. When a
young raan he came to Miami county, in 1848, and for a half century has
made his home within its- borders, aiding in its development, giving his
support to all matters of progress and advancement and allying himself with
its best interests. On the 24th of January, 1849, he chose as a companion
and helpmeet on life's journey Miss Anna Jones, their marriage being cele
brated near Marion, in Grant county, Indiana. She was born in Wayne
county July 5, 1828, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Small) Jones.
Her father was a son of Daniel and Jemimah (Barnard) Jones, the latter a
daughter of Francis Barnard. They removed from Montgomery county,
Ohio, to Wayne county, Indiana, in pioneer times, and their children were
Stephen, Anna, Elizabeth, Richard, Moses, Daniel, Jemiraah, Catherine,
Francis and Daniel. The father died in Wabash, Indiana, at an advanced
age, his last days being spent in the home of his son Stephen.
Daniel Joces, the father of Mrs. Overman, was born about 1810 and in
1827 married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Clarkie Small. Her father,
Joseph Small, was a farmer near Dayton, Ohio, and his children were
Joshua, Anna, Rachel, Joseph, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Jesse and Reuben.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones first located on his father's farm in Wayne county,
Indiana, and in 1833 removed to Grant county, where in the midst of the
forest the former cleared a farm. He was very industrious and enterprising.
He died at the age of thirty-three years. He, too, was a life-long member
of the Friends' church. His chUdren were Anna, Catharine, Reuben,
Francis, Jemimah, Mary, Eunice and Reuben. After the death of her first
husband, Mrs. Jones became the wife of Bailey Pearson, and they removed
to Wisconsin, where Mr. Pearson died, h.is widow spending the last twenty
years of her life in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Overman, She died
November 7, 1895, at the age of eighty-six years, five months and eleven
days.

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The children of Joseph Overman and wife are as follows: Daniel J., born
the 9th month, 24th day, of 1850, and died the 4th month, uth day, 1881;
Jesse, born the 2d month, ioth day, 1852; Benajah, ioth month, 21st day,
1853; Enoch F., 9th month, ist day, 1855; AUen H., 8th month, 25th day,
1857; Reuben, 6th month, i8th day, 1859; WiUiam, 7th month, 31st day,
1861; Hannah, born the 6th month, 3d day, 1863, and died the ist month,
Sth day, of 1893; Addison, born the Sth month, 12th day, 1865; Mary, Sth
month, 26th day, 186S; and Arthur T. , born the nth month, nth day, of
1870, and died the 12th month, i ith day, of 1874. Daniel J. was married the
Sth month, iSth day 1880, Jesse the 4th month, ist day, 1880, and Benajah
the 7th month, 25th day, 1878.
The first home of the parents in Miami county was a wooded farm of
eighty acres in Harrison township, and to-day it is still their place of resi
dence, endeared to them through all the associations of their married life.
The land was entered from tne government by Mr. Overman's brother, and
when our subject took possession of it was almost entirely destitute of
improvement. In a typical pioneer log cabin they lived for three years, and
then built a hewed-log house, while in 1873 their present substantial two-
story brick residence was erected. The boundaries of the farm were extended
until it comprised one hundred and ninety-four acres of valuable land, which
the owner transformed into rich fields, but he has since sold portions of it to
his sons, retaining possession of a homestead of forty acres. He and his wife
are birthright members of the Friends' church and he has served as elder
therein for twenty years, rearing his children in that faith. In politics he
is a Prohibitionist, and, he is a man of sterling rectitude of character who
gives his support to all moral and educational interests. His own life record
is unclouded by wrong or suspicion of evil. He has always clung to
whatever is of "good repute," and his name is a synonym for all that is
honorable and straightforward.

JOSEPH W. HAYNES.— This gentleman is a worthy representarive of
one of the sturdy old pioneer famUies of Clay township, Miami county,
His father, Wesley Haynes, well and favorably known throughout this sec
tion, was born on a farm in Clinton county, Ohio, in June, 1834, a son of

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James and Martha (Harlan) Haynes. The Haynes family is of EngHsh origin.
The paternal great-grandparents of our subject were Enoch and Elizabeth
Haynes, natives of New York state, the former having been born in Dutchess
county. He was numbered among the pioneers of Clinton county, Ohio, and
there he reared his children to maturity. They were named as follows:
Samuel, Wright, Charles, Deborah, Stephen, James, EHzabeth, Asa, Content
and Sarah. James Haynes was born in the old home in Dutchess county and
accompanied the other members of the farnily to Ohio. He married there a
Miss Martha Harlan, a native of North Carolina, daughter of Nathan and
Sarah (Hunt) Harlan. Nathan Harlan was a weU-known preacher, in the
Quaker church in North CaroHna. The children born to James Haynes and^
wife were Milton, Lydia, Malinda, Eliza, Martha, Wesley, John, Franklin
and Andrew J. In the fall of 1854 James Haynes removed with his family
to Indiana, settling in the forests of Deer Creek township, Miami county.
He cleared a good farm and was one of the leading citizens of that section.
He died at the age of fifty-six years. In politics he was an old-line Whig and
a " Free-soiler, " being a man of independenttviews. He was a substantial
farmer, owning a goodly body of land.
Wesley Haynes, father of our subject, was reared on a farm and after
his marriage he located on a homestead in Deer Creek township. Subse
quently to August, 1S69, his home was in Clay township, where he owned
a farm of two hundred and two acres of valuable land. His death took
place April 11, 1896. He received a common-school education and in his
early years he successfully taught school for two terms in Deer Creek town
ship. Both he and his wife were members of the Baptist church, he being
a trustee and deacon and one of the prominent workers. His energy and
excellent business ability were matters of public comment, and every enter
prise worthy of support found encouragement at his hands. Pohtically, he
was a Republican and took great interest in the welfare of his party. Socially
he belonged to WiUiam B. Rayborn Post, No. 56, G. A. R. In March,
1863, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Thirty-ninth Regiment of Indi
ana Volunteer Infantry. He afterward became a member of the Eighth
Indiana Cavalry, having enlisted for three years or during the war. He was
promoted to be sergeant, for meritorious conduct, and served until the close
of the war, being honorably discharged in IndianapoHs in August, 1865. He
took part in numerous engagements, among others the battles of Stone River,

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Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign, in which connection
he went with Sherman on the famed march to the sea. He was taken sick and
was sent to the hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, but was nearly always found
at his post of 'duty, even when physically far from strong. He was a good
soldier, prompt and cheerful in the discharge of all his duties. His two broth
ers, Franklin and Andrew J., were also in the Union service. The former, a
member of the Eighth Indiana Cavalry, was killed while on a foraging expe
dition by an ambushed enemy during the Atlanta campaign. His entire
detaU, after a fierce resistance, met with a similar fate. Andrew J., a mem
ber of Company A, same regiment, later became a lieutenant in another
Indiana regiment and saw hard service. The family has always been notable
for patriotism. November 24, 1858, Wesley Haynes married, in Deer Creek township,
Rebecca Stevenson, whose birth had taken place in Warren county, Ohio,
January 15, 1843. Her father, Joseph G. Stevenson, was born in New Jer
sey, near Mount Holly, April 13, 18 12, a son of Samuel Stevenson, who, at
an early day, emigrated to Warren county, Ohio, with his family. He lived
to a venerable age, being eighty-three years and nine months of age at the
time of his demise, March i, 1844. His portrait, painted by Nathan B.
Stipp, is still in a good state of preservation and is a family heirloom. His
children were Samuel, Joseph G. , Mary, Charles, James and Clayton. In
his youth Joseph G. Stevenson was apprenticed to the wagon-maker's trade,
but, for the main part of his life, he worked as a carpenter. April 26, 1838,
he married, in Waynesville, Ohio, Esther A., daughter of Samuel Rogers.
They settled in Harveysburg, Ohio, aind in 1853 came to Indiana, settling in
the woods in Deer Creek township, Miami county, where he cleared a farm.
Later, he located in Peru, Indiana, and there conducted a furniture and
undertaking business for twelve years, when he retired and settled in Rich
mond, Indiana, where he died March 17, 1894. He and his wife had cele
brated their golden wedding anniversary in 1888. Politically, he was origin
ally an old-line Whig, but was one of the first to support the Republican
party upon its organization. He served as justice of the peace in Deer
Creek township, and was an honored pioneer of the state, being held in high
esteem by all who knew him. His children were Samuel, Rebecca (Mrs.
Haynes), Elizabeth, Sarah C. and a daughter who died young. Joseph G.
and Rebecca Haynes became the parents of the following named children:

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Charles N., born October ii, 1859, is now deceased; Warren, deceased;
Frank E., born June 23, 1865; and Joseph W., born June i, 1876. The
mother died June 13, 1877.
Joseph W. Haynes, whose name appears at the head of this article, was
born and reared on a farm in Clay township, and received the benefits of a
good education. He attended the high schools in Richmond and Kokomo
and later entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He is now in
the law department of that university, where he expects to graduate in 1900.
He is a young man of marked ability, ambitious and painstaking in his studies,
and being of upright character and conscientious disposition is certain to
make a success in life. Politically, he is a Republican.
December 17, 1897, Joseph W. Haynes married Miss Lillian Heward,
of this county, a daughter of Oliver P. and Celina A. (Duckwall) Heward.
The father is a son of Benjamin and Mary (McGrew) Heward, and a grand
son of Joseph and Rebecca (Whittaker) Heward. Joseph. Heward was a
native of New Jersey and was of Dutch descent, as was his wife, also. He
was a farmer who came to Cass county, Indiana, about 1851, and cleared a
farm of eighty acres. Those of his children who Hved to maturity were Ben
jamin, Oliver, Elizabeth, Thomas, Phoebe, Matilda and Henry. Joseph
Heward and wife were Methodists in their religious belief. He lived to be
seventy-nine years of age, his death occurring in Cass county. Benjamin
Heward was born about 1824, in Salem, New Jersey, and was about twenty
years old when he came to this state. November 25, 1847, he married Mary
McGrew in Wayne county, Indiana. She was born in that section of the
state October 2, 1827, a daughter of Archibald and Mary (Thompson)
McGrew. Her grandfather, John McGrew, was a native of Ireland, being
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He married and came to America and was num
bered among the first settlers of Wayne county, this state. He improved a
farm there and lived to the ripe age of four-score years. He first married a
Miss Thompson and their children were Archibald, MUton, Elizabeth,
Rebecca, Margaret, William and John. By a second union there was one
son, James. Archibald McGrew was born in the Emerald Isle and became
one of the foremost farmers of Wayne county, Indiana. He married in Day
ton, Indiana, Mary Thompson, a daughter of James and Nancy Thompson,
and in 1829 settled in Cass county, where he passed his remaining years, his
death taking place at the age of sixty-two years. His family comprised the

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foUowing: James, John, Moses, WUliam, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah and Arch
ibald. Benjamin Heward settled among the Indians on an eighty-acre farm
on the banks of the Wabash river, in this county, about 1848, but at the
end of three years he went to Cass county, and for ten years operated the
old McGrew homestead. Afterward he settled on the old Joseph Heward
farm in Tipton township, Cass county, which property is still in the posses
sion of the family. The death of Benjamin Heward occurred when he was
sixty-nine years of age. He was active as a Democrat, and served for three
terms as township trustee. Religiously he was a Universalist. His wife is
StiU living and is now weU along in years. Their chUdren were four in num
ber, namely: Arthur, Oliver, Wilson and Idelia J. Oliver P. Heward, the
father of Mrs. Haynes, was born AprU 20, 1855, in Cass county and was a
lifelong farmer. He was married September 27, 1S77, to Miss Celina E.
Duckwall, whose birth had occurred Septeniber 17, 1857. They settled on
a farm near Bunker HiU, and removed to their present homestead in 1892.
Their only child is Mrs. Haynes. The parents are members of the Union
Mission church and Mr. Heward is a Democrat in politics.

J C. HOLMAN, one of the most substantial farmers of Liberty town-
^ ship, Tipton county, is a native of Ripley county, Indiana, born AprU
19, 1854, on a farm. He was reared upon a farm, attaining a full knowl
edge of agriculture in all its phases, and at an early age was competent to
manage a homestead. He received the benefits of an excellent education in
the common and graded schools, and upon completing his studies was placed
in charge of a school as a teacher, in which occupation he met with marked
success. The parents of our subject were among the pioneers of Ripley county.
The father, George W. Holman, was born in that county, whither his father
William Holman, a native-of Virginia, had removed from his former home
in Kentucky in the early history of this state. The wife of William Holman
was in her girlhood Mary Foster, of Maryland. They became honored citi
zens of Ripley county and assisted materially in the development of that sec
tion. George W. Holman has been prominently identified with the farming
interests of his native county and for over half a century has dwelt upon the
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homestead where he may be found to-day. Time and -again he has been
called upon to assume the responsibilities and honors of local public offices,
such as township trustee, etc. , and was once a candidate for treasurer of
Ripley county, though he was defeated. In his early Hfe he was a Whig,
and later became a Republican.
The first wUe of George W. Holman was a Miss Mahomey, and their
three children are America A., Oliver C., of Oklahoma, and Benjamin F.
The present wife of Mr. Holman was, before their marriage. Martha A.
Grishaw. She is a daughter of Isaac Grishaw, of Kentucky, and Hves within
two miles of her birth-place in Ripley county. In 1850 she accompanied
her brother, George W. Grishaw, to Tipton county, when it was a wilderness.
but she returned to her old home a few years later, was married, and has
always resided there since. She has been a devoted wife and mother and is
a faithful member of the Methodist church. J. C. Holman is her eldest
born, and the other chUdren are: WilHam L. and M. F., farmers; Mary
F., a resident of Illinois; Nancy J.; George, of this county; and Ella M. and
DeUa M., twins.
Until he was of age, J. C. Holman remained under the parental roof,
but in August, 1874, he came to Tipton county and obtained employment in
a store in Sharpsville. That winter he taught school in the neighborhood,
and for several years he continued to give his attention to these occupations,
investing in land in the meantime. He was married in the fall of 1878 and
settled on a rented farm. Soon he bought a portion of the land on which
there was a cabin and began its improvement. He now owns one hundred
and eighty-four acres, all but fourteen acres of which he has cleared. He
has put in tiling and ditches; has built a comfortable two-story frame dwelling
and a fine barn, and has everything about the place in splendid condition.
For two and a half years he was engaged in merchandising in SharpsvUle,
but, for the most part, he has given his exclusive attention to general farm
ing and stock-raising. He is a loyal Republican, taking the interest that
every good citizen should in the welfare of the country at large. In the fall
of 1898, as this work goes to press, he is a candidate for the office of county
treasurer. Twenty years ago, in 1878, Mr. Holman married Miss Lucy A. Barr,
daughter of R. P. and Mary Barr, who settled in this county as early as
1858, coming here from Decatur county. They are honored citizens of this

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community, respected and loved by all who know them. The brothers and
sisters of Mrs. Holman are Mrs. Martha Foster, Mrs. Ellen Foster, Samuel,
Mrs. Mary Watson, Newton, Ransom, WiUiam and E. E. (see sketch of E.
E. Barr elsewhere in this work). This whole family is identified with the
Methodist denomination. The three children who have graced the marriage
of our subject and wife are George P., who is at home and aids in the man
agement of the farm; GaU, who died at the age of seven years; and Blanche,
born October lo, 1893.

JSAIAH WESLEY EURIT, merchant, postmaster, etc., at Macy, Indiana,
^ is a gentleman whose prominence as a highly educated and influential
citizen entitles him to extended mention in this volume. He was born in
Cass county, August 19, 1845. His parents, John and Mary A. (Martin)
Eurit, were natives of Virginia, in which state they were married, came to
Indiana about 1831, and to Cass county in 1833. The father, a farmer,
entered government land, which he improved, and there he died in 1870.
His wife had died many years previously, in 1853, in the vicinity. They had
eleven children, namely: Stephen; William, who died at the age of twenty-
one years; Joel, who enlisted in the war for the Union, serving in the One
Hundred and Eighteenth Indiana Regiment of Volunteer Infantry and died
during the service, at Cumberland Gap; Decatur, who also served in the
war, as a member of the Seventy-third Indiana Infantry, and afterward died
from the effects of disease contracted in the army; Isaiah Wesley, our sub
ject; Samuel, deceased; Susan, Nancy and Catharine, deceased; Maria and
Rachel. WhUe referring to the military record of the family, we raay state
that the father of the above-named children was a soldier in the war of 1812,
enlisting from Virginia.
Mr. Eurit, whose name heads this sketch, vvas educated in the public
schools of this county and at the Logansport high school. He passed his life
in agricultural pursuits, for many years in Adams township, this county, until
1 888, teaching school also during the winter for sixteen years, and then he
came to Macy, where he has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits, deal
ing in general merchandise, groceries and notions.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Eurit is a member of AUen Lodge, No. 540,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which lodge he has represented in the

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grand lodge of Indiana; also he is past grand of this lodge, and he is a mem
ber of the order of Knights of Maccabees, an insurance association, of which
he was a charter member of Tent No. 26, at Macy. In his church relations
he and his daughter are highly esteemed members of the Methodist Episco-'
pal church. Mr. Eurit has been a life-long Republican, active and influen
tial in the councils of his party. July 6, 1897, he assumed the management
of the Macy postoffice, a fourth-class presidential office, his commission as
postmaster dating June 19, 1897.
June 13, 1878, is the date of Mr, Eurits union in matrimony with Miss
Ollie J. BaUey, daughter of Stewart and Sallie (Berry) BaUey, natives of the
state. of New York, who were among the early settlers of Allen township,
Miami county, where they passed their li-ves. Mrs. Eurit was born in that
township, March 28, 1854, was a highly esteemed lady for her many excel
lent characteristics and well-rounded mental development; was a teacher in
her girlhood, and contracting at length a chronic disease departed this life
May 5, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Bwrit had one daughter, named Eulalie D.,
now a young lady assisting her father m the store and postoffice. Since the
death of Mrs. Eurit, the bereaved husband is devoting his life to the rearing
and education of his daughter, and, with a daughter of a deceased brother,
they are making their home together.

T^ L. FLOYD. — This sterling representative of one of the pioneer families
*— ' of Indiana has been engaged in the cultivation and management of his
present homestead for the past fifteen years. A native of Howard county,
Indiana, he was born March 14, 1852, and reared to maturity upon a farm,
becoming familiar with the manifold duties essential to the proper manage
ment of a farm when he was still a youth.
He^is a son of John and Eliza (Morris) Floyd, who were natives of
Shelby county, Indiana, and Kentucky, respectively. The father, whose
birth occurred June 28, 1819, died June 22, 1S62, respected and loved by all
who had-known him. He was a son of Mathias Floyd, of English descent,
and born in Kentucky. In the early days of Indiana he removed to this
state with his family and settled in Shelby county, with whose fortunes he
was thenceforth identified. John Floyd, his son, continued to dweU in that

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portion of the state until his marriage, when, in 1846, he took up his resi
dence in Howard county, then newly opened and with very few inhabitants
or improvements. "He bought eighty acres of land on which he erected a
humble cabin, and with great zeal and industry began the clearing and devel
opment of his property. During the first year he was obliged to haul all of
his supplies from Shelby county. In time his homestead was extended so as
to comprise one hundred acres, about sixty acres of which he cleared and
cultivated. Substantial house, barns and fences replaced the old ones and
everything about the place gave evidence of the thrift and care of the owner.
He gave special attention to the raising of high-grade stock and owned some
of the best animals in that section at that time.
Religiously, John Floyd was a Methodist, and took a leading part in the
building of the church at Russiaville, and also in the support of the society.
He was actively identified with the Republican party and was connected with
the Odd Fellows society. His widow, who is still living and makes her home
with the subject of this sketch, was born April 17, 1822, and is a daughter
of William and Martha (Young) Morris. The Morrises were of English
descent and were settlers in Virginia during the colonial period. The mater
nal grandfather of Mrs. Floyd, James Young, of Kentucky, served in the
Indian wars, and, like others of his name and family, was prominent in the
early history of this country. William Morris bought wild land in Shelby
county and remained there until 1852, when he located in Howard county
and improved a farm there. He died four years subsequently to his arrival
in that section. He was allied with the Whig party and filled numerous
local offices of trust and honor. Religiously he was a primitive Baptist. To
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd the following named children were
born: Jemima E.; WUliam M., who died while serving his country in the
CivU war; Martha M. ; Arminta E. ; Morgan, a farmer of Howard county;
Halleck T. ; John, a farmer of Clinton county, Indiana; and E. L. , thesub
ject ot this review. With the exception of himself, Morgan and John, all of
the number are deceased. The parents were for years faithful and consist
ent members of the Methodist church.
E. L. Floyd continued to live with his widowed mother and brothers
and sisters on the old homestead for some years after the death of hisfather.
At length he purchased the place and cultivated it up to 1884, when he
exchanged it for the farm he now occupies. It is a tract of one hundred and

1142 BIOGRAPHICAL- AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
sixty acres, now considered one of the model farms of Madison township. Being
only two miles from the town of New Lancaster, it is convenient to stores,
churches, etc. The neat farra buildings, orchards and fences, weU-tilled
fields, dUches and tiling give evidence of the time, labor and expense devoted
by the owner in order to bring his property into the condition he has desired.
He follows general farraing and- raises a good Hne of stock. Fraternally
he is a Knight of Pythias and in his political conviction is a Republican.
In 1885 Mr. Floyd married Mary J. Kanable, whose birth had taken
place in Clinton county, December 20, 1858. Her parents, Davidand Eliza
beth (Baldwin) Kanable, were natives of Pennsylvania, in which state they
grew to maturity and were married. They were both of German extraction
and belonged to the thrifty agricultural class, Lutherans in religion. In
1853 they settled in Clinton county, Indiana, and there Mrs. Kanable died
six years afterward. The father married again, however. By his first mar
riage he had eight children, four of whom lived to mature years. George
died whUe serving in the Union army during the Civil war; Martin is a pros
perous farmer of Howard county, and Matilda is the wife of Jacob Carpen
ter. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd is a son, Carl, born December
I, 1886.

GEORGE A. HARLOW, one of the most thorough and skillful farmers
carrying on operations in Prairie township, Tipton county, is a native
of the Hoosier state, his birth having occurred in Shelby county, June 22,
1849, and is a son of Orlando and Nancy G. (Coleman) Harlow, who were
natives of Ohio and Kentucky, respectively, but were married in Shelby
county, Indiana. The paternal grandfather, John Harlow, was born in Man
chester, England, where he was married. About 1820 he emigrated to Amer
ica and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked at his trade as a cotton
spinner, and then came to Shelby county, this state. Here he purchased
land and improved a farm, but in 1852 removed to Iowa, where he spent his
remaining years, dying there in 1858 at the age of seventy-two years. In
that state he lived retired, making his home at Bellefontaine. His wife died
in Tipton county, Indiana, in 1884, at the extreme old age of ninety-four
years. Both were members of the church of England. They had two sons,
the younger being Orlando, the father of our subject. Hiram, the older, was

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born in England, and reared a famUy of seven children, three daughters and
four sons. All of the sons entered the Union army during the Civil war and
three died in the service. He went to Memphis to care for one of them, who
died there.
Or'ando Harlow grew to manhood on the home farm in Shelby county,
and in early life learned the wagon-maker's trade, which he followed in con
nection with carpentering and farming. In 1854 he, too, removed to Iowa,
where he worked at his trade and at farming, but in 1864 he returned to this
state and located near the present home of our subject in Prairie township,
Tipton county, buying a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, of which fifty
had been cleared and log buildings erected thereon. With the assistance of
his sons he soon had a well-cultivated farm improved with good buildings,
and he also worked at his trade to some extent. In politics he was first a
Whig, but is now a Democrat. Both he and his wife are still living and are
sincere and faithful members of the Primitive Baptist church. Their children
are John, who has been county commissioner; George, of this review; David,
a farmer; William, who died in 1887, leaving a wife and three children; and
James, a farmer.
George Al'Dert Harlow received a good education, attending both the
common and high schools, and for twelve years successfully engaged in teach
ing. He accompanied his parents on their removal to Iowa, and after their
return to Indiana worked on the home farm untU his marriage in 1871. He
then removed to his present farm, his first purchase consisting of eighty acres
of unimproved land, to which he added forty acres of the home farm, bought
of his brothers, twenty acres of this being cleared. His first home was a lit
tle cabin, but as time has advanced he has placed his land under a high state
of cultivation, has ditched and tiled it and erected thereon a commodious
residence, a fine large barn and good outbuildings. He has also extended the
boundaries of his farm until he now has one hundred and seventy acres, all
of which has been acquired through his own efforts, as he received but little
assistance from his father. Besides teaching school, he has also taught sing
ing, and at the same time did all the work upon his place. He has made a
specialty of stock-raising, commencing by purchasing a thoroughbred short
horn bull in 1 874, and now his cattle are of the finest in the county. In 1 884
he also became interested in raising thoroughbred Poland-China hogs, and
upon his farm has an imported registered Belgian stallion. He finds a ready

1144 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
sale for all his male aniraals at a high price, and has done much to raise the
standard of stock in his community. His farm is pleasantly located about a
mile and a half east of Groomsville. He takes an active and commendable
interest in all political questions, always casting his ballot in support of the
men and measures of the Democracy, but has never cared for official honors.
Both he and his wife hold membership in the Primitive Baptist church, in
which he is serving as deacon, and in the best society of the community they
occupy an enviable position.
In 1 87 1 Mr. Harlow married Miss Minerva J. Tyner, a most estimable
lady, and to them have been born seven interesting children, — Laurence A.,
John B., Zenas L. , Cora A., Ulla A., Clyde G. and Erasmus V., — who have
been provided with good school privUeges and are all at home. Mrs.
Harlow's niece, who has been left an orphan, also finds a pleasant home
with them.
Mrs. Harlow traces her ancestry back to Harris Tyner, a farmer and
miller of South Carolina, who was a commissioned officer of the Revolutionary
war and disappeared while in the service, after which his family removed to
Kentucky. His son William was born in South Carolina, April 9, 1771, and.
in that state married a Miss Hackleman, by whom he had eight children:
Harris, Elijah, Richard, Mary A., Solomon, Ezekiel, Malinda and Silas.
After her death he married Martha Hamilton, and to them were born five
chUdren, — Jane, Nancy, Martha, Elizabeth and W. J., the father of Mrs.
Harlow. The mother of these chUdren, who was born in Virginia and mar
ried in Kentucky, died June 4, 1840, and for his third wife WiUiam Tyner
married Mrs. Back, whose maiden name was Callahan. He 'came to the
territory of Indiana in 1805, entered a large tract of land and improved a
farm. For many years he was a minister of the Primitive Baptist church.
His death occurred September 18, 1854.
W. J. Tyner, Mrs. Harlow's father, was born in Franklin county, Indi
ana, January 12, 1822, and at the age of twenty married Margaret V. Hamil
ton, of Kentucky, a daughter of James Hamilton, a farmer, who removed to
Decatur county, Indiana, in 1830. He was also a member of the Primitive
Baptist church. His chUdren were Rebecca J., Minerva, Margaret, John,
Gabriella, Malinda, WiUiam, James, George and Nancy. The chUdren born
to Mr. and Mrs, Tyner are Mrs. Louisiana Smyzer; Charles, a farmer of
Prairie township, Tipton county; Minerva, wife of our subject; John, deceased;

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1145
Mrs. Judah Rose, deceased; Mrs. Nancy Newlan; -Mrs. Era E. Romac,
deceased; Wilson, a farmer; and Mrs. Malinda Smyzer. The father removed
to Tipton county in 1857, and located on land which he had purchased four
years previously. He developed a good farm and at one time had over four
hundred acres, but has sold his children all but two hundred acres, which he
stiU successfully operates. He affiliated with the Whig party until 1856,
when he joined the Democracy, and has since been one of its stanch
adherents. Both he and his wife are earnest and faithful members of the
Baptist church.

JAMES CREVISTON. — One of the most progressive and substantial
farmers of Miami county, James Creviston, is still living on the old
homestead which was entered from the government by his father and has
been in possession of the family for more than fifty-six years. He is a repre
sentative of one of the honored pioneer families of the county that have been
identified with the progress and development of this section of the state since
an early epoch in Indiana's history. His ancestors were of the sturdy
Pennsylvania Dutch people, who in colonial days took up their residence in
the Keystone state. William Creviston, the grandfather of our subject, was
born in Pennsylvania and married Katie. Brown, by whom he had seven
children, — WUliam, Joseph, Thomas, Henry, Lydia, Polly and James.
William Creviston was a farmer who about 1846 emigrated westward to
Indiana, in which state his son Thomas had previously located. He took up
his re'sidence upon a part of what is now known as the Creviston homestead,
and there carried on agricultural pursuits. He served as a soldier in the war
of 18 1 2. In religious belief he was a Lutheran, and he was an industrious
and highly respected man, living to the venerable age of eighty-four years.
Thomas Creviston, the father of our subject, was born on the Monon
gahela river, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1813, acquired a common-
school education and was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads of that
period. When a young man he came to the Hoosier state and was married
in .Grant county to Miss Rebecca Slagal, the wedding taking place January
26, 1837. The lady was born in Darke county, Ohio, January 18, 1820, a
daughter of Conrad and Polly (Homsley) Slagal. Her father also belonged
to one of the early Pennsylvania-Dutch families, and was one of the pioneers

1146 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of Ohio, where his marriage took place. He afterward emigrated to Indiana
and entered the land upon which the town of Newcastle now stands. He
was a substantial farmer, a sturdy pioneer, and a highly respected man.
His death occurred on the Creviston homestead, when he was about seventy-
five or eighty years of age. His children were Joseph, Conrad, Frederick,
Lydia, Polly and Rebecca.
After their marriage Thomas Creviston and his wife resided for a time
in Grant county, Indiana, and there three children were born to them. In
January, 1842, they removed to the homestead farm in Miami county, Mr.
Creviston pre-empting one hundred and sixty acres of forest land. He built
the first log cabin in Jackson township, and began the development of a
farm. Not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made, and not even
a tree had been cut save those cut down by the Indians in order to make
mortars in which to grind their corn. With the aid of his wife and chUdren,
and by the most untiring industry and effort on his part, Mr. Creviston cleared
up a farm, becoming the owner of a valuable property on the banks of Pipe
creek. From the clear waters of that stream he often secured fish which
furnished a meal for the family. Wild game often supplied the meat for the
pioneer table, as many kinds of game could be obtained in abundance. In
the winter time the father engaged in trapping and hunting, and during a
season would secure furs to the value of forty dollars. This was a valuable
addition to the purse of the famil}', for money in pioneer settlements was
very scarce and furs were about the only thing that was paid for in coin.
The country to the south of Converse was all swampy land, covered with
water most of the year. The hunter could not penetrate that section except
during the dry season in the fall, but it proved a good district for the hunter,
as black bear, deer, wild hogs and wild turkeys would go there to rear their
young. These hogs had strayed away from the earliest settlers and had rap
idly taken on the nature of the other wild animals of the forest. The boars
were often found with long tusks with which they would gore the dogs, and
sometimes they treed the hunters. The pioneers, raising a little corn, pota
toes and other vegetables, could live well with the various kinds of meat
which the forests would yield to the skillful hunter.
As the years passed Thomas Creviston cleared and developed his land,
which he ultimately transformed into a very fine farm. Success attended his
efforts, and to his family he left a goodly inheritance. He was ever energetic.

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persevering and industrious, and these quahties enabled him to triumph over
all the difficulties and hardships of pioneer life. His landed possessions aggre
gated two hundred acres, and his property was as a monument to his thrift
and business ability. In public affairs he was also prominent. He was one
of the organizers of Jackson township and attended the first town meeting.
He gave his pohtical support to the Democracy, and in religious belief his
wife was connected with the Christian church. He died on the old home
stead. May 12, 1S69, at the age of sixty-four years. His family numbered
nine children, namely; Louisa, born in Grant county, November 26, 1S37;
Ellen, born in Grant county. May 26, 1839; Lorinda, born in Grant county,
January 14, 1841; David, born July 18, 1843; Elmira, born March i, 1847;
Thomas J., born April 13, 1849; Mary A., born July i, 1851; James, born
March 14, 1854; and Sarah, born September 3, 1858. The six younger
children of the family were born on the homestead farm in Miami county.
The subject of this review, James Creviston, first opened his eyes
to the light of day in a hewed-log house, which is still standing on the
bank of the creek and was built by his father in 1856, being at the time the best
home in Jackson township. He attended school in a frame building a mile north
of his present home, and acquired a good practical education. He was early
trained to habits of industry and thrift, and after his father's death, which
occurred when. our subject was fourteen years of age, he became his mother's
chief aid and dependence. He inherited forty-six acres of the home farm,
and in 1S84 he purchased his mother's share for thirty-five hundred dollars.
To this he has added until he now has one hundred and thirteen and one-
third acres of rich land, all under a high state of cultivation and yielding to
him a golden tribute in return for the care and labor he bestows upon it. In
1879 he erected a substantial brick residence, two stories in height, with a
slate roof, one of the most attractive homes in Jackson township. He also
built a large barn in 1895, with basement. It is thirty-six by sixty feet, with
twenty-eight-foot posts, an L fourteen by sixteen feet, and is covered with a
slate roof. All of the machinery and buildings upon the place are most
modern in construction, and indicate the owner to be a most progressive and
enterprising farmer; and such is the reputation he bears throughout the com
munity. In addition to general farming he also successfully carries on stock-
raising, and his business is so carefully and systematically managed that he
has won a high degree of prosperity.

1148 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
On the 1st of January, 1891, in Grant county, Indiana, Mr. Creviston
was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Elizabeth Johnson, who was born in
that county, April 14, 1 861, a daughter of Theodrick and Elizabeth (Hub
bard) Johnson. The father was a native of North Carolina, and during his
boyhood went with his uncle to Clinton county, Ohio, removing to Grant
county, Indiana, in pioneer days. There in the midst of the forest he made
a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres and added to it until he owned
two hundred and forty acres of rich land, becoming one of the well-to-do and
highly respected agriculturists of the community. His children are John,
Sarah J., James, WiUiam, Emanuel, Lemuel, Nancy E., Thomas and Mar
garet. The parents are members of the Methodist Protestant church, and
in politics Mr. Johnson vvas a Democrat. He died at the age of sixty-five
years, respected by all who knew him.
Mr. and Mrs. Creviston are the parents of two interesting children:
Edwin, born October 26, 1891, and Raymond, born January 24, 1893.
Their home is very pleasantly situated and is noted for its hospitality, which
is enjoyed by Jackson township's best people. Our subject gives his political
support to the Democracy, and is a firm advocate of its principles. His life
has been well spent, and his integrity in business and his fidelity in all the
relations of life have won him the confidence and esteem of many friends.

J~\R. JOHN W. WAREHAM has been located at GUead, Miami county,
*-^ Indiana, engaged in the practice of the medical profession since 1S81,
and during his residence here he has been closely identified with the best
interests of the place, holding high rank both as a physician and citizen.
Dr. Wareham isa native of Newcomerstown, Ohio, and was born AprU
10, 1848. His father. Rev. Philip Wareham, a native of the state of Pennsyl
vania, came west to Ohio in early Hfe and was subsequently married there to
Miss Harriet Eliza Clark, a native of Ohio. Some rime after their marriage
they removed to Fulton county, Indiana, and there passed the rest of their
hves. Rev. Philip Wareham was a well known Methodist clergyman and
passed many years of his life in doing faithful service for his Master
Dr. Wareham early in life chose the medical profession, and his studies
while in school were such as to lay the foundation of a medical course of

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study. But the war of the Rebellion came on, and, while too young at the
beginning of the great confiict to be accepted as a soldier, yet long before its
close, though yet young for a soldier, he had the privilege of serving in the
defense of the Union. February n, 1864, he enlisted as a member of Com
pany A, Forty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in
many important events of the later period of the war. He was with his
regiment in the famous Atlanta campaign under General Sherman, and later
under General Thomas, taking part in the battles of Spring HUl, Frankhn and
NashviUe; thence to Texas under General PhiHp Sheridan. The Forty-ninth
Ohio was one of the fighting regiments, losing two hundred and two men in
battle and one hundred and sixty-one by disease. While Dr. Wareham was
a member of the Fourth Army Corps in Texas it was commanded by General
Stanley. December 25, 1866, is the date of his return from the army.
At the close of the war young Wareham resumed his studies in the
direction of his profession, and taught three terms of school, thus making
his own way in the world while he fitted himself for his life-work. Close
application to his profession and an inherent adaptation to its practice, with
out which even the most learned physician never becomes a skUlful and suc
cessful one, has largely compensated for lack of college training. The Doc
tor is a member of the United States board of pension examiners. Also
he is a member of both the Indiana State Medical Association andthe Miami
County Medical Society, and he enjoys a good general practice in the town
and surrounding country.
The Doctor has a wife and three sons. Mrs. Wareham was formerly
Miss MatUda Dice, of St, Joseph county, Indiana. Their chUdren are John
B., Charies P. and Ralph V., the eldest at this writing being successfully
engaged in teaching school.

RICHARD BRITTON RUNYAN.— The owner and occupant of a fine
farm just northwest of Peru, Richard B. Runyan has long been accounted
one of the prominent citizens of Miami county, and his Hfe record is, there
fore, deserving of a place in this volume. He is a native of Trenton, New
Jersey, his birth having occurred there October 16, 1824. The family is of
English descent and was founded in New Jersey at an early epoch in Amer
ican history. His father, Lewis Runyan, died when Richard was a small

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boy. Hi? mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Britton, was a sister
of R. L. Britton, one of the original proprietors of Peru, as it was first plat
ted. He was prorainently identified with the early development of the city
and with others laid the foundation for its present prosperity. He died May
26, 1850, at the age of sixty years. His father was a soldier in the war of
the Revolution and valiantly aided their colonies in the struggle for independ
ence. It was through the influence of his uncle, Mr. Britton, that Mr. Runyan,
of this sketch, carae to Peru. In the spring of 1846, accompanied by his
mother, his brother Nathaniel and his sister Mary, he carae to Miami county.
Of these. he is now the only survivor. His sister became the wife of WiUiam
Smith and died a number of years ago. Another brother, Henry Runyan,
resides in Sonoma county, California.
For some time after his arrival in Peru Mr. Runyan was employed as a
clerk in a mercantile establishment, and later he traveled through Texas, but
returned to Peru, where he soon began preparations for crossing the plains to
Cahfornia. This was in the days of the gold excitement on the Pacific coast,
and Mr. Runyan reraained in the Golden state for about a year, returning by
way of the water route. He was married, November n, 1853, to Miss
Maria McGregor, the only child of John McGregor, who was prorainently
associated with the early progress and advancement of Miami county. He
was born in Buckley county, Virginia, January 11, 1798, and died August 26,
1835. Mrs. Runyan was born May i, 1834, being the first white child born
in Miamisport, now a part of the city of Peru. She proved to her husband a
faithful companion and helpmeet for many years, but at length was separated
from him by death, March 28, 1891. Their only surviving child is a son,
Britton L. ; another son died in infancy. The only daughter who grew to
mature years was named India W. and became the wife of Henry Funk, but
died a number of years ago.
Mr. Runyan has devoted his energies largely to agricultural pursuits since
his marriage and is one of the most progressive farmers of the county. He
is also a man of broad scholarly attainments, a wide reader and a gentleman
of high culture, possessing considerable literary ability. His fellow towns
men have evinced their confidence in bis ability and fidelity by electing him
to office, and in October, 1878, he was chosen by popular ballot for the
position of auditor of Miami county, and re-elected to the same office in 1882,

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serving a period of eight consecutive years. He was recognized by those of
both political parties as a most capable and efficient officer. In his political
views he is a Democrat. He has long been a member of the Episcopal
church of Peru, as was his estimable wife, has served as warden of the church
for many years and is one of its most generous supporters.

Z ALMON DISBROW, a leading and influential citizen o* Prairie township,
Tipton county, was born in Seneca county. New York, December i8,
1812, and is a son of Isaac C. and Elizabeth (Burritt) Disbrow. Plis mater
nal grandfather, Zalmon Burritt, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war
under Washington, and died near Hanover, Indiana, when past the age of
ninety years. On coming west the father of our subject located on the Will
iam Henry Harrison farm near North Bend, Ohio, and during his stay of eight
years there he engaged in the manufacture of whisky barrels for the Harrison
distillery, being a cooper by trade. Later he devoted his energies entirely to
agricultural pursuits, and on leaving that place removed to Johnson county,
this state, where he improved a farm, cultivating the same until his death.
In his family were eight children, namely: Amanda, Zalmon, Isaac, Fannie,
Ozias, George, Martha and Mary, only three of whom are now living.
On the home farm Zalmon Disbrow grew to manhood and acquired an
excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits; but his literary training was
rather neglected, so that when twenty-eight years of age he could with diffi
culty read by spelling the words out slowly. During the following six years,
however, he read the Bible through six times, and has since been a constant
student, especiaUy along the lines of ancient and modern history, being
to-day one of the ablest historians of the county. He is well informed on
the leading questions and issues of the day, especially in relation to religion
and politics, and is a fine Bible student. He is logical and convincing in his
arguments, and always comes out ahead in any discussion.
Leaving home at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Disbrow was employed for
five years at such labor as he could find to do. In 1835 he was married and
located on a farm of his own in Johnson county, where his wife died after a
short married life of less than two years. In 1838 he married Miss Rachel
Massay, of Kentucky, who was a true helpmeet to him. Her father, Abra-

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ham Massay, was a native of North Carolina, whence he removed to Ken
tucky, and at an early day became a resident of Johnson county, Indiana,
where he improved a farm and spent his last days. In religious belief he
was a Baptist. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Disbrow,
namely: Charles, who has been an elder in the Methodist church, and is
now pastor of the church at SharpsvUle; Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Brown;
Nancy, wife of T. A. Smith; Ellen, wife of R. Bartholomew; Mahala, wife of
A. Gallamore; Thomas, a farmer; Matilda, wife of W. H. Honeas; Indiana,
wife of I. N. Hoback; Louisa, deceased wife of C. Mullen; Elihu B., a
farmer; and Amanda, who married John Cardwell and died in 1886. The
mother of these chUdren was called to her final rest August 30, 1892.
Some time after his second marriage, Mr. Disbrow sold his farm and
located near Frankhn, Indiana, but in 185 1 came to Tipton county, where
he bought two hundred acres of heavily timbered land, of which a few acres
had been cleared and a small cabin erected thereon. To the further improve
ment and cultivation of his land he at once directed his energies, but meet
ing with misfortunes and having large doctors' bills to pay he has since sold
all but forty acres, on which he has a comfortable home. On coming to
Prairie township there were only forty voters within its limits, but as time
has advanced it has become quite thickly populated and is now one of the
best improved townships of the county. In his political affiliations, Mr. Dis
brow is a Democrat, but has never cared for political preferment, though he
is a recognized leader in his community. In religious faith he is a Univer
salist, as was also his worthy wife.

O F. WILSON — In civilization the greatest prosperity is attained by
^ adaptation to the environments necessitated by the increasing density
of popularion; and he who the soonest recognizes this fact in his methods of
practice wUl, other things being equal, the soonest attain a competence and
be prepared to enjoy old age far better than he did his youth. By some
writers a "green old age" has been termed the "golden age" of one's life;
but this remark of course appHes only to those who have been wise enough
to take hold of life's activities by a firm hand, including the practice of those
laws of physical and intellectual health which every one has to learn and

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practice if he desires the highest possible degree of happiness in this life.
The mainstay of a state is the agricultural community, where reign the
highest virtue and the most sturdy manliness, supplying indeed the city with
most of its talent and power. City life is effeminating and degrading.
An honored representative of the agricultural community is Mr WUson,
a native of Ervin township, Howard county, born September 27, 1850, and
reared to the hard and honest toU of the farm and educated in the common
school, paying his own way to a great extent by his special endeavors and
attaining a higher degree of education than the average by much close study
at home. His father, James B. Wilson, was born in Genesee county. New York,
in 1818; and his mother, whose name before marriage was Eunice Rich
mond, is a native of Switzeriand county, Indiana, born in 1822; in 1841
they were married. Leonard Wilson, father of James B., was a native of
Massachusetts, who married Abigail Babcock, a native of Vermont, and in
1 82 1 moved to Clark county, Indiana, where he was a farmer by occupa
tion and also did some business in the line of freighting, before the era of
railroads. He died in that county, in 1826. Mr James B. WUson was
three years old when brought by his parents to Indiana, and after he had
attained to years of manhood located in Switzerland county, where he was
married; in 1846 he moved to Howard county, settling in Ervin township,
where he entered land from the government. President James K. Polk
signing the patent; and there he made a farm and passed the remainder of
his life; and the old homestead is yet in the possession of the Wilson family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were tireless and efficient workers in the Methodist
Episcopal church, in which he filled all the lay offices. He left the scenes of
this Hfe on November xx, x866, and his wife in February, 1889. She was the
daughter of Sylvester Richmond, a farmer from Vermont who died in Switzer
land county, this state. His wife, Sarah, nee Smith, also departed this life
in that county. The children of Leonard WUson are: Daniel, Emily, Henry,
Sarah, James (father of S. F.) and Lucinda, now Mrs. Strangher, far
advanced in life. In the family of Mrs. Wilson's parents there was besides
herself only one child, Anna, who married James Nolan and is now
deceased. Mr. S. F. Wilson, the subject proper of this sketch, was the third child
in the family of his parents, and, his father being an invalid for six years

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prior to his death, upon his young shoulders devolved the serious responsi
bilities of the farm, which he continued to carry successfully as long as he was an
inmate of his parental home — until he had reached the age of thirty-one years.
Meanwhile he taught school seven years and music ten years. Then, in
X884, he was married and located upon the farm which he yet occupies and
where he carries on diversified farming, raising also the live stock necessary
for the liberal support of the farm. While he has ever been an industrious
worker and a judicious manager in agricultural pursuits, and a competent
teacher, he has also taken considerable interest in public affairs, being a lead
ing Repubhcan in his township, of which he is now the popular trustee. He
is a very responsible man, upon whom the pubhc would gladly throw greater
official duties had he the time or disposition to accept of them. For many
years he has been the president of the Sunday-school Union of Clay town
ship, and is a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which
for twelve years he has been an instructive local preacher and in which he has
filled all the local offices, both in the church and in the Sunday-school.
In matrimony Mr. Wilson was united with Miss Electa A. Tarkington, a
lady of intelligence and culture and of an honored pioneer family, her par
ents being John E. and Araelia A. (Honey) Tarkington. The children of
Mr. Wilson are: Little Earl, who died in infancy, and Eva A., an interesting
daughter born March 13, 1895. The faithful wife and mother was at length
taken with pneumonia and heart disease, and after nine days of suffering her
spirit took flight to her heavenly home, leaving a husband, chUd and a large
community of friends to mourn an irreparable loss.
" There is no flock, however watched and tended.
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended.
But has one vacant chair! "

'I 11 HLLIAM MUSSELMAN.— Among the prominent farmers of Miami
' ' county, we find none more woithy of representation in a work of this
character than the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Musselman is a native of the Keystone state, born in- Lancaster
county, on the 22d of May, 1S44. He became a " Hoosier " by adoption

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when a lad of ten years, and his life thus far has been identified with the
interests of Miami county. The old parental home was located in Richland
township, where his boyhood and youth were spent on his father's farm.'
At the age of eighteen years he entered the army as a member of Com
pany I, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, enlisting in August, 1862,
and from that date until the final muster-out of the victorious armies he
remained at the front. Few of the remnant of that grand old army have a
more brUliant military career than Mr. Musselman. He entered the service
after the desultory work of organization was pracrically completed, the
troops driUed and equipped and the questions of jealousy and bickerings
among would-be leaders settled. In the siege of Atlanta was his first active
service, aside from the skirmishing and maneuvering that led up to that bril
liant achievement. He also participated in many of the hard-fought battles
of the western army, among which may be mentioned those involved in the
siege of Jackson, the relief of Rosecrans at Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Sher
man's march to the sea. Lookout mountain. Missionary Ridge, " above the
clouds," Perryville, Buzzards' Roost, Peach Tree creek and others of less
importance but equal danger on the Atlantic coast. Then came the march
through the Carolinas and "on to Richmond" and to Washington, and
participation in the grand review of the victorious armies at the nation's
capital. This was an experience for which some of the ' ' loyal-stay-at-
homes " would gladly exchange their hoarded treasures were it possible.
But fortunately the sacred old G. A. R. button is jealously guarded by the
records of the nation; and no traitor or convicted coward can pass the por
tals of the order. The sons of veterans of "blue" and "gray" are
encamped upon the sacred field of Chickamauga, where doubtless some of their
fathers fell. It is a better lesson in patriotism and object-teaching than
generations of theories and explanations. It shows the results achieved by
the sufferings of their ancestors, and that to-day we are " as one man united
against a foreign enemy. "
At the close of the war Mr. Musselman returned to the parental home
in Richland township, where he engaged in farming upon the old home place
until 1872, when he located where he now resides, in Allen township. It is
said that he is one of the model farmers of the county, and this view is fully
justified by an examination of the place. An elegant country mansion adorns
an elevated plat of ground, apparently designed by nature for a buUding spot.

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Beautiful native and exotic ornamental trees and shrubs intermingled with
showy flowers adorn this ideal home site. Commodious barns and other
necessary farm buildings occupy their proper places in the background.
Everywhere there is an air of thrift and prosperity, reflecting credit upon the
careful and frugal owner. This farm embraces four hundred and fifty acres
of highly improved and fertile land. It is stocked with the various kinds of
domestic animals, and is managed for both grain-raising and stock-raising.
The proprietor is making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred Red-Polled
cattle, for which he has a good demand, at the present time having forty
head of thoroughbreds.
Mr. Musselman has been twice married, his first marriage being solem
nized on the I Sth of March, 1869, when he wedded Miss Susan E. Kiem, a
daughter of Sarauel and Mary (Derk) Kiem, natives of Pennsylvania; and
less than three years after their raarriage he was compelled to mourn by
following her to the grave, namely, in March, 1S72; and on the 5th of
December, 1873, he was united in marriage with Miss Priscilla C. Foor, a
native of Miami county, Indiana, born July 7, 1S55, a daughter of Stephen
and Hannah (Runkle) Foor, formerly residents of Allen township, where the
father died. Two children were born to bless the first union, and also two
to the second; these are Samuel H. and Mary E., and Franklin D. and WUl
iam Harvy. The fourth child is twenty-one years younger than his brother
Franklin. Mr. Musselman is one of the prominent and influential Republicans of
Allen township, wielding in a quiet way a potent influence, in local politics,
and no reasonable sacrifice is too great for him to make if the party is to be
benefited thereby. At the present time he is filling the place of township
trustee of Allen township, a position of great importance and responsibility.
By virtus of this office he has absolute control of the public affairs of the-
township, including its schools, the hiring of teachers, the making and repair
ing of roads, the care of the poor, the conduct of elections, etc. He is a
public-spirited, enterprising citizen, possessing the unbounded confidence of
all who know him. His success in life is not the result of self-denial but
rather the outgrowth of inteUigent financiering, joined with industry and good
judgment. He is liberal toward public enterprises, generous to the poor and
afflicted, — in short, a gentleraan whom every community delights to honor.
He is liberal also in his religious feelings, never having connected himself

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with any church organization. Mrs. Musselman is a member of the "Church
of God," and he is a member of the Odd Fellows order.
The Musselman family is of German origin, the first representatives in
America coming to this country several generations ago. Our subject has
but one brother living, John byname, who is a farmer in Richland township,
Miami county. These are the only survivors of eight children.

CRANK FREMONT MORRIS, one of the representative cirizens of Pipe
-l-- Creek township, Miami county, comes from one of the historic old fam
ihes of New Jersey. They lived in that state long prior to the war of the
Revolution, and were from England originally, and possibly of Welsh extrac
tion. Many of them were active in the notable struggle of the American
colonies for independence. One of these illustrious patriots was Major Alan
son Morris, an officer in the "Jersey Blues " regiment. He was mortally
wounded at the battle of Gerraantown and died in Reading, Pennsylvania.,
His brother. Captain Gouvnir Morris, was also one of the heroes of that en
gagement and laid down his life at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey.
He was a captain in the Jersey Blues, and served under the leadership of
General Anthony Wayne. Lieutenant Ezra Morris, of the Jersey Blues,
served throughout the Revolutionary war, seven years. The colonel of the
regiment was Lewis Morris by name and he was, moreover, one of those who
signed the Declaration of Independence. Whether he was a relation of our
subject's ancestors is not known, though it is quite likely. David Hamilton
Morris, a private soldier in the Jersey Blues, was wounded at the battle of
Wyoming. He had been sent by General Wayne to warn the people to take
up arms, and upon their refusal to comply he made his escape, but was
wounded by an Indian. He was one of the early explorers of the state of
Ohio and acted as a spy in the service of the dauntless Wayne.
Charles Morris, another brother in this family of patriots, was the great
grandfather of our subject. His father was one of the early settlers of Mor
ristown, Morris county. New Jersey, which town was named for its founder
about 1600. The Earl of Essex was a Morris, and Essex county. New Jer
sey, was named in his honor, while Morristown was so styled as a mark of
respect toward the famUy. He owned the original grant and it was probably

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his younger brother who settled there. Robert Morris, the famous financier
of the Revolutionary period, was of the same stock, but of another branch
of the family. The children of our subject's great-grandfather were eight in
number, namely: Alanson, Gouvnir, Ezra, David H., Charles, Polly, Betsy
and Susan. The four elder sons served in the Revolutionary war, as men
tioned at the beginning of this article. David was but sixteen years of age
when he entered the service. The father of these gallant sons died prior to
the war in which they took so prominent a part. He was a farmer by occu
pation and in religion was a Baptist.
The grandfather of our subject was Charles Morris, who was a lad of
but eleven years at the breaking out of the war with England, as his birth
occurred in 1765, in Morristown. He learned the carpenter's trade, serving
a regular apprenticeship. He married Abigail, daughter of George and
Deborah Brown, of Orange county. New Jersey. The father was a member
of a New York cavalry regiment during the Revolution, served under Wash
ington, and took part in numerous important battles. When peace had been
concluded he moved to a farm in the vicinity of Canterbury, New Jersey.
He was of Welsh descent, a descendant of an old colonial famUy of the
Empire state. His age at the time of his death was about one hundred
years. Mrs. Abigail Morris was one of eight children, the others being Ben
jamin, Nathaniel, George, Deborah, Michel, Polly and Susan. Charles
Morris became one of the leading pioneers of Ohio, whither he went in XS13.
He cleared a quarter section of land in the forests of Miami county, also
worked for a time at his trade in Cincinnati, and bmlt the first court
house in Dayton. Though he never relinquished his title to his old home
stead, he passed his last years in Troy, Ohio, his death occurring when he
had reached the age of eighty-one years. His wife taught the first school in
Miami county. He used to preach and advocate a return to the primitive
gospel of Christ, — a casting aside of the forms and ceremonies which have
nearly obliterated the simple doctrines and principles of brotherly love set
forth by the founder of the Christian church. Mr. Morris was one of the
warm friends of Alexander Campbell, who preached this simple faith, form
erly called the Disciples' creed. The children of Mr Morris were Alanson,
Melinda, Charies, George W., Eslie J., Marilda, Mahlon T., Ira L., Maria,
Michel and Jane.
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article, was born in Miami county, Ohio, October 26, 18 14. His parents
and all of their children were well educated for their day and were great read
ers. Many of the sons entered professional life and made names for them
selves, far above the ordinary. When he was sixteen years old George W.
left home and became a clerk in a store in Dayton, Ohio. He was married
there September 30, 1838, to Jane M. Simpson, a native of the town and
daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Baker) Simpson, who were of English
descent and of old colonial families. Moses Simpson was born in Essex
county. New Jersey. His father was a private soldier in the war of the Rev
olution. Moses was a mason by trade and was employed at his vocation in
Dayton as early as 1809, being one of the pioneers there. His wife was like
wise a native of Essex county, and her parents were Aaron and Betsy Baker.
Moses Simpson was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity in Ohio,
and aided in founding the order in the state. He lived for many years in
Dayton, dying there when he was eighty-three years of age. To himself and
wife the following children were born: Electa, Elizabeth, Silas, Caroline
aud Jane M.
For several years our subject's father was employed as a clerk in the
stores helonging to his brothers, Mahlon and Ira Morris. In 1S52 he went
to California and spent seventy-seven days in crossing the plains. Though
he saw many Indians his party were not molested. Upon arriving in the Sun
set state he engaged in placer mining on the Feather river, and succeeded
fairly well, as he brought home with him about twelve hundred dollars. His
return journey was made by way of the Nicaragua canal and New York.
Like his father before him, he is a man of strong convictions and was an
Abolitionist. Politically he was originally a Whig and later a Republican.
His wife died September 23, 1862, in Troy, Ohio, and since 1880 he has
Hved at the home of his son, our subject. A man of good education and
varied experiences, a student and thinker, he is an interesting conversation
alist, and his many fine qualities of character make him the object of unusual
respect and esteem.
His brothers and sisters were: Amelia H., Charles C. , IraB. , George
E. , Mahlon T. , Jane M. , and Harry H. Our subject was born in Troy, Ohio.
His birth occurred in that town, October 4, 1S56. His mother died when
he was five years old. He has supported himself since he was fourteen years
of age and is certainly a self-made man. When he was but eight years old

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he came to this county to Hve with his aunt, Maria L. Sullivan, on a farm.
After his marriage he settled on the Cripe fartn and two years later removed
to the Metzger homestead. When another two years had passed he went to-
Reno county, Kansas, and for eight years cultivated a quarter-section of land
there. Returning then to Pipe Creek township he purchased his present
homestead of eighty acres. He has materially improved the property and
now is regarded as one of the most progressive farraers in this section.
Aided by his faithful wife he has accumulated a goodly fortune and enjoys
the fruits of years of toU. His life and character are above reproach and his
friends are legion. He is noted for his kindly manners and uniform courtesy
to all and in the family circle his noblest qualities shine forth. Mr. and Mrs..
Morris are members of the German Baptist church, the former having been
reared in the doctrines of the sect.
February 22, 18S0, Mr. Morris was married in Pipe Creek township to
Miss Mary Metzger, daughter of Stephen and Esther (Cripe) Metzger. The
father was a native of Montgomery county, Ohio, and came from one of the
old Pennsylvania-Dutch families. His people were adherents of the German
Baptist faith and were early settlers of the Buckeye state. His wife, Esther,
was a daughter of John and Kate (Shively) Cripe. In 1854 Stephen Metz--
ger moved to Pipe Creek township and began managing a farm of one hun
dred and sixty acres, cleared and improved the place and made a valuable
homestead there. He died, loved and respected by the whole community,-
when he was fifty-one years of age.. His children were named: John,
Susan, Kate, Allen, Mary, EH, Annie and Ella. To the union of our sub
ject and wife four children have been born: George A., Harry H., Esther
J. and Charles S.

^rKJ H. SPURLIN.— Few, if any, of the old residents of. Tipton
' ' county have done more for its improvement in every direction than
has the subject of this narrative. When he came here the country was wild,
the roads were few and very poor, and the people, who lived on smaU clear
ings, at great distances apart, had limited advantages of a social nature and
were usually unlettered and poor. He has seen all these conditions changed
and has reason to feel that he has been an important factor in the same.

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His influence has always been given to improvement and progress, and
causes of law, order and morality receive his earnest support.
The parents of our subject were Joshua and Hester (Lemon) Spurlin,
of Irish and German descent, respectively. The Spurlins lived in Pennsyl
vania, and thence removed to Ohio, where Joshua Spurhn was born. The
other children in his father's family were Jonathan, Jesse, Henry and Tunis.
In 1834 he became one of the pioneers of Shelby county, Indiana, and
improved a farm where he died some years later. Both he and his wife
were devoted members of the " Separate " Baptist church. Their children
were nine in number, namely: Henderson, deceased; Eliza J., Mrs. J. Hig
gins; W. H. ; Martha A. Fenn; Phamar, of Shelbyville; Joshua F., a farmer;
Emma, married; George W. , a farmer; and Amanda, Mrs. H. Sullivan.
W. H. Spurlin was born in Butler county, Ohio, June 16, 1833, and
obtained a district-school education. He assisted his father on theold farm,
untU he was married in 1854, when he started upon an independent career.
In 1872 he came to this county and bought the land on which he still dwells.
The place then had a cabin and a few acres cleared, and Mr. Spurlin had a
task before him to bring about such features of a homestead as he determined
upon. He has himself cleared one hundred and twenty acres, and, in addi
tion to owning his home farm of one hundred and ninety acres, he possesses
another tract of forty acres, located elsewhere. He has spent considerable
money in tiling and ditches, and now has his land in a high state of cultiva
tion. He erected a commodious frame dwelling and a large barn and other
farm buildings, planted an orchard, put up fences, and in short has now a
model homestead. He has invested in real estate from tirae to time and
has also handled Hve stock to a greater or less extent.
During a period of thirty-eight years Mr. Spurlin has been a member of
the "Separate" Baptist church. About 1864 he commenced preaching and
the following year was regularly ordained. For many years he ministered to
congregations, and after removing to this locality he preached for three or
four charges untU his health compelled him to relinquish such arduous serv
ice. He has solemnized numerous marriages and has married the children
of some of the original couples at whose nuptials he had presided. Politically
he has been affiliated with the Democratic party for years. At one time his
name was prominently mentioned for the legislature, and during the war he
ran for the office of assessor, but, as his township was strongly Republican

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he was not elected. However, he made such a good race that the result of
the election was a tie, and only the influence of the opposite party gave the
office to his opponent. He has made a point of attending the county and
state conventions of his party, usually in the capacity of a delegate, and has
frequently served on the board of elections.
In 1854 Mr. Spurhn married Miss Sarina Lamar, daughter of Robert
Lamar, a native of Virginia and an early settler of Shelby county, Indiana.
He was a much respected citizen there and was a consistent member of the
Baptist church. Mrs. Spurlin's brothers and sisters are Joseph, James, Mary
J., Hannah and Elizabeth. The children born to our subject and wife are as
follows: James F., a farmer; Salina; Mrs. W. Woodard; Rosianna; Mrs. J.
Mills; Hester, who died at the age of twenty-two years; Charles, who died
at twenty; and Mary A., who died at eighteen years of age.

JAMES BLAIR. — Among the agriculturists who became identified with
the .interests of Miami county in pioneer days, and with the passing years
aided in the development and improvement of this section of the state, was
James Blair, now deceased. He was a worthy, intelligent and enterprising
citizen, one of those whom the Buckeye state furnished to Indiana. He was
born in New Athens, Ohio, January 9, 1831, and was a son of John Blair,
who was born in Scotland, June 13, 1795, and came to America when a young
man. In Ohio he married Jane Brokaw, and in the year 1837 removed with
his family to Miami county, Indiana, locating on a farm near the Cass county
line. The father, with the assistance of his two sons, James and WiUiam,
cleared the land and transformed it into rich and fertile fields. He died at
the home of his son James, April 5, 1878, and his wife passed away on the
1st of July of the same year.
James Blair was a lad of sixteen summers when he came with his parents
to Miami county, and here in the midst of the frontier, sharing in all the
hardships and experiences of pioneer life, he grew to manhood. He aided in
the development of the home farm and throughout his entire hfe carried on
agricultural pursuits, meeting with good success in his undertaking.
On the 25th of March, 185S, Mr. Blair married Miss Lydia Marquis, a
daughter of Isaac and Martha (Holman) Marquis. The former was born in

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1163
Ohio March 27, 1805, and on the 21st of February, 1830, married Martha
Holman, whose birth occurred November 20, 18 14. He became one of the
very first settlers of Miami county, and was one of the proprietors of the old
town of Miamisport. He, with his father-in-law, ran the tan-yard. Later
he located on section 19, Peru township, which became the homestead of the
family, and by his earnest and energetic efforts transformed the wild land
into a productive and valuable farm. He planted here one of the first nur
series of the county, and for a number of years successfully carried on the
nursery business. He was a well-known and representative citizen, who by
his upright life commanded the respect of all with whom he was brought in
contact. His death occurred December 3, 1862, and his wife pas.sed away
AprU 4, 1 86 1. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Marquis became the parents of fourteen
children, of whom three sons and three daughters are yet living at this writ
ing, in 1898, namely: Wilham and Earl, who are residents of Nebraska;
Solomon, of Bunker Hill, Indiana; Mrs. Blair; Margaret and Jane Law, who
reside in Washington county, Iowa. Two of the sons of that family, Joseph
and Newton, were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion. The former was
killed in the service and the latter died of disease contracted in the army.
Another son, Robert Marquis, died in Iowa several years ago; and George
was killed by the railroad cars at the age of twenty-one years. A young
daughter, Ida Marquis, died in Iowa when about thirteen years of age.
James Blair continued to reside on his father's homestead for about
eighteen years after his marriage, and then took possession of the farm of
his father-in-law, Isaac Marquis. He was an industrious man and the
capable management of his farm enabled him to derive therefrom a good in
come. He neglected no duty of citizenship and was always foremost in
support of any movement calculated to prove of public benefit. His death
occurred in July, 1886, and many friends mourned the loss of one whom
they had learned to respect and admire.
Mrs. Blair is stiU Hving on the old homestead of the Blair family. She
is a native of Miami county, her birth having occurred in Miamisport, August
10, 1839. By her marriage she became the mother of nine chUdren: Dr.
John, a resident of Houston, Texas; Ada, wife of Dr. W. A. Huff, of Peru;
Mrs. Carrie Whistler, of Cass county; Mary, wife of Edward Gallahan;
Colorado, wife of Luman Ferguson; and Commodore L. , Jason, Bethel and
Guy, who are stUl with their mother. Mrs. Blair was left by the death of

1164 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
her husband with a large family of chUdren, several of whom were yet in
early childhood. She discharged her duties with unwavering- faithfulness
and is deserving of all the filial love and gratitude that they can bestow upon
her. She and her family are numbered with the most highly esteemed
people of Miarai county, and share in the hospitality of many of its best
horaes.

WILLIAM STEVENS, a prominent representative farmer of Liberty
township, Tipton county, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, Janu
ary I, 1845, and reared as a farmer's boy, attending the common school dur
ing the winter seasons. His parents, John C. and Catharine (White) Ste
vens, natives of Germany, were married in Ohio and soon afterward emi
grated to Shelby county, this state, locating upon a tract of two hundred
acres, which Mr. Stevens proceeded to clear and develop into a good farm;
and he remained there during life. He and his brother Martin came together
from the old country. Their father, John Stevens, who with his father was
engaged in the live-stock business in Germany, mostly in sheep, found their
business growing unprofitable. John's family scattered and soon died, and he
was left alone, without means of support; and the two sons mentioned, after
they had become well settled here in America. and had accumulated a little
money, sent for hira, and he came over and spent the remainder of his days
with them and in their care. He Hved with John C. until the death of the
latter, and then Martin had the care of him; but, being somewhat penurious,
he persuaded his father to join with hira in a suit against John C.'s estate
for the raaintenance of the father, and this was a raatter of litigation for a
number of years, resulting in the loss of the entire estate, which left the fam
ily with no means whereby to make a start in life. A few years later the
widow of John C. married again, this time Charles Shuffler, a German. They
were both merribers of the German Presbyterian church. Their children
were: John, a farmer of Shelby county; Catharine, wife of Jesse Fenn;
Sally, now Mrs. Parrish; Jacob, a farmer; WUham, the subject of this
sketch; Philip, a prominent farmer of Howard county, and Mary, now Mrs.
W. Hawkins. When our subject was nine years of age, and after his mother's second
marriage, he left home and has ever since made his own way in the world,

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1165
and has been successful. He first found a good home with a sister, and
earned all he possessed by honest manual labor. When twenty years of age
he commenced taking contracts for aU kinds of labor, — grubbing, clearing,
ditching, etc., and by doing almost two men's work every day he got ahead
and saved some money. Nothing was too hard for him to do, if it only paid
weU. He and his brother invested in a small tract of land, which they im
proved and made tUlable, and on this he settled in 1868, after his marriage.
Here he set out a large orchard and continued farming, later renting a larger
farm and correspondingly increasing his operations and his net income.
In 1873 he sold out his possessions there and moved to Tipton county,
soon afterward purchasing a part of the farm (sixty acres) where he now
lives, two and a half miles east of Sharpsville, and here is enjoying the com
forts of a home which he has earned by so much hard and honest toil.
It was swamp, thicket and timber land, and he was the second owner of the
same. He has since added a hundred and ninety-five acres and altogether
he now has one hundred and seventy-five acres cleared, ditched and tiled and
in a good state of cultivation, and has a commodious two-story frame house,
a large barn, outbuildings, orchard, etc. Besides the work mentioned, Mr.
Stevens has run a threshing-machine for thirty-six years of his life, com
mencing in Shelby county and wearing out several machines, all of which
he bought new at the factory. In 1882, in corapany with another man, he
built a tile factory on his farm and ran it steadily and successfully until
1893, when it was burned down and he lost all excepting portions of the
¦machinery. Soon, however, he rebuilt and has since been doing a good
business, but of late years his agricultural interests demand his principal
attention. In matrimony, December 6, 1S68, he was united with Miss Polly Swin-
ford, an intelligent lady born in February 3, 1847, in Shelby county and
reared there, a daughter of MUton and Debbie (Leach) Swinford, natives of
Kentucky and now deceased. He was a farmer, and died in Madison county,
and she died in Shelby county. They were members of the Christian church.
Their children were: Elizabeth, deceased; Matthew, residing in Shelby
county; Jemima, now Mrs. W. Andrews; Richard, deceased; Cassandra, now
Mrs. Cole; Joseph, who died when young; Miriam, now Mrs. Osborn; WUl
iam, who served through the Civil war and soon afterward died; Joshua, a
farmer; Nancy, who became the wife of E. K. Parrish, and is now deceased;

1166 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and Polly, the wife of William Stevens, our subject. The children of the
last mentioned are: Ida, who was born August 20, 1869, and died July 19,
1870; Anna, born December 21, 1870, and is now Mrs. Davis; Attie, born
October 21, 1872, and is now Mrs. D. Hodson; Tillie, born December 20,
1874, is now Mrs. Sutton; Nora, born January 4, 1877, is now Mrs. Ingals,
and Nelhe, born July 29, 1879, and Eva, August 23, 1882, are unmarried.
Besides rearing these children of their own, they have also brought up two
orphans, — Frank Braddick and Mary E. Swinford, — doing a good part by
them both, and they are now married and settled in life. Mr. and Mrs.
Stevens are members of the " Separatist " Baptist church. Mr. Stevens has
always been a strong Democrat from his youth, but has always refused to
allow his name to be presented at nominating conventions. He and all his
brothers and sisters are well settled in life and are prominent and respected
citizens of Indiana. By hard labor and honorable dealing they have been
successful in establishing and equipping comfortable homes, — indeed, far
above the position of the greedy uncle who wronged them.

J OSEPH A. KENNY. — One of the younger business men of the thriving
^ town of Converse is Joseph A. Kenny, whose energy, sagacity and indus
try enables him to fill a very important position, while his integrity of char
acter commands the respect of all. Mr. Kenny was born April 23, 1868, in
Rutland, Vermont, his parents being Michael and Margaret (McGrah) Kenny,
both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle. In the early '60s, when
eighteen years of age, the father crossed the Atlantic to America, and in Rut
land, Vermont, wedded Miss McGrah. In 1875 he removed to MaysvUle,
Kentucky, where he is now engaged in the railroad service of the Chesapeake
& Ohio Company. He is a leading citizen of that community, and has been
elected to represent the sixth ward in the city council. In his poHrical views
he is a stanch Democrat. He and his faithful wife are devoted members of
the Catholic church, and Mr. Kenny is a man of broad general information,
having supplemented his school training by knowledge gained in traveling
through Scotland and England. Five children were born to Michael and
Margaret Kenny, namely: Joseph A., Edward J., Mary A., John J. and
Agnes C.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1167
When seven years of age Joseph Kenny accompanied his parents on their
removal to Maysville, Kentucky, and acquired a good education in St.
Patrick's school of that place. At the age of sixteen he became a clerk in a
mercantUe establishment and afterward .learned the taUor's trade, becoming
an expert workman. When he had mastered the business he opened a mer
chant tailoring establishment in Augusta, Kentucky, and later engaged in the
same line of business in Flemingsburg and Paris, Kentucky. In 1895 he
came to Converse, where he opened a shop. In July, 1896, he became man
ager of the general lumber business of Mr. Murphy, and his capability and
enterprise have largely added to the success of the undertaking.
On the 25th of June, 1896, Mr Kenny married Miss Ethel Murphy,
daughter of Levin G. and Mary C. Murphy. She was born in Peoria, Miami
county, February 19, 1875, and was educated in the high school of Converse,
graduating with honors in the class of 1894. She is a lady of culture and
refinement, and like her husband has many friends in this locality. They
now have one child, Levin Graham, born September 25, 1898.
Mr. Kenny exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and
measures of the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for office.
He is a capable and efficient business man, of excellent habits and high moral
character, genial and polite in manner and a favorite with a large circle of
friends.

, J SAAC N. CRAIG has occupied his present position, that of engineer in
^ the passenger service of the Pan Handle Railway Company, since i!

and since 1889 has been a resident of Logansport.
Mr. Craig dates his nativity in Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana,
February 5, 1853, and is a son of Daniel Craig, one of the early pioneers of
eastern Indiana. Daniel Craig was a native of West Virginia and by trade
a cooper. Early in life he came to this state and settled in Wayne county,
where he passed the rest of his years in honest toil, and where he reared a
large family. He died in Richmond, Wayne county, in 1874. He was
twice married. By his first wife, who was a Miss Thompson, he had four
chUdren, of which family two daughters are now living. His last wife, nee
Ellen MitcheU, the mother of our subject, bore him three children: Isaac N. ;
Frank, deceased; and India, wife of Umri Hendricks.

1168 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Isaac N. Craig passed his boyhood days in Richmond. At the age of
sixteen he began work for the Chicago & Great Eastern Railway Company,
now a part of the gigantic Pennsylvania system, in the capacity of brakeman,
between Richraond and Chicago, and Bradford and Chicago. During a
portion of his service as a brakeraan he also ran a baggage service over these
same' divisions. On attaining his majority he was placed on an engine as
fireman on the Indianapolis division, and was promoted to be an engineer
after four years and three months of that service. He was in the freight
service ten years, and the past ten years he has been in the passenger service,
having been promoted to the latter in 1888, and, as above stated, he has
maintained his home in Logansport since 1889.
Mr. Craig was married in Indianapolis, November x8, 1874, to Miss
Kate Staley, a daughter of Joshua Staley, and their happy union has been
blessed in the birth of three children, viz. : John F. , Harry G. and Lorena.
John F. is a railroad fireman on the Richmond (Indiana) division of the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, famUiarly known as
the Pan Handle.

TOSEPH S. RICKETTS, deceased.— The ancestors ofthe Ricketts famUy
^ were Scotch, and for several generations its representatives have been
connected with the growing interests of this country. The paternal grand
father of our subject, John Ricketts, was taken by his parents to Kentucky
from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, when only nine months old.
That district was then wild, the prairies unbroken and the forests unmutilated,
and the Indians, often hostUe, still continued to inhabit the state. John
Ricketts helped to expel them from Kentucky and participated in the famous
battle of Blue Licks. He engaged in hunting deer and in speculating, and
died at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He had seven sons and three
or four daughters.
Edward Ricketts, one of this family and the father of our subject, was
born in Kentucky and was a farmer by occupation. In 1831 he removed to
Rush county, Indiana, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. He was
identified with the early development of that county and assisted in trans
forming its wild land into rich farms. He married Sarah Storey, a narive
of Bryant Station, Kentucky, and a daughter of James Storey, who was born

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CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1169
in Stanton, Virginia, July 9, 1755, and was of Irish lineage. He was a
farmer by occupation and died in Kentucky, when about seventy-one years
of age. His wife died at the age of sixty-eight years, and, like Mr. Ricketts,
was a devout member of the Methodist church. They were the parents of
nine sons and three daughters, but only one is now living, namely, Jane, who
is the wife of Be;thel Harrison, of Richland, Rush county, this state.
Joseph S. Ricketts was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, May 25,
X831, and was reared in Rush county, Indiana, remaining at home until his
mother's death. He attended the district schools and was early trained to
habits of industry, which clung to him through Hfe and made him one of the
successful farmers of his community. When, during the Civil war, Morgan
made his raid into this state Mr. Ricketts participated in the attacks against
that rebel commander. He followed farming and dealt in live stock, and his
well directed efforts yielded him good financial returns. First he purchased
a quarter section of land, which he afterward gave to his son John F. In
1852 he came to Howard county, where, upon his home-like farm south of
Kokomo, he spent almost the entire period of his remaining days. At the
time of his decease he owned two hundred and sixty-six acres of land, on
section 12, Center township, two miles from town, and the many improve
ments on the place are evidence of his enterprise and good judgment, show
ing that he was a progressive and practical agriculturist.
On the 4th of March, 1855, Mr. Ricketts was united in marriage to Miss
America GUes, daughter of Samuel GUes, a soldier of the war of 18 12.
They had one son, named John, who is now living in Forest City, Arkansas.
He married Addie Pavey and has two children, — Earl and Florence. Mrs.
America Ricketts, who was a faithful member of the Christian church,
departed this life September 14, 1868. On the 29th of December, 1875, Mr.
Ricketts married Mary Emma Murray, daughter of Colonel Charles D. Mur
ray, who commanded the Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry throughout the CivU
war. Her mother was Margaret (McBain) Murray, whose father was the
proprietor of the first hotel in Logansport. He was also a member of the
state legislature and had the oversight of the government mills at Fort
Wayne, Logansport and Wabash about the time the state was admitted into
.the Union. By. the second marriage three sons were born, — Murray,
Edward and Thomas, Mrs. Ricketts is a member of the Congregational
church and is a most estimable lady. In his political views Mr. Ricketts was
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1170 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
always a Republican and was well informed on the issues of the day, but
had no desire to hold public office, as he preferred to devote his time and
energies to his business interests, in which he met with signal success.
Mr. Ricketts died August 5, 1898, and in his death the county lost one
of its best men. He was called the poor man's friend, and knowingly he
never wronged any man. " Joe" Ricketts, as he was familiarly termed, was
a firm believer in the law of love and the principle of the golden rule, and
his conduct was ever consistent witb this belief. Never did a kindlier heart
throb beneath a rugged exterior. His robust figure, good-natured face and
quaint manner of speech made him one of the great characters of the county
from the start. As a friend no man could be truer, as a neighbor there
never was a better, and as a citizen he deserved to be denominated an honest
gentleman. In the course of his busy life he actually gave away more than
most men make. He was also strong-minded, and his wit original and refresh
ing. His kindly impress upon the minds of all who ever made his acquaintance
holds with remarkable tenacity, and therefore his genial presence will be
missed by the community to a degree seldom experienced.

l^LIJAH C. FELLOW, a representative citizen and prominent farmer of
*— ' Union township, Howard county, whose post-office is Phlox, is a gen
tleman whose life career well illustrates the value of certain maxims of mor
ality, industry, citizenship, family duty, and self-discipline. Many of these
maxims refer to opportunity. Putting all these maxims together, in con
nection with Mr. Fellow's life, we are reminded of the strong words of the
poet Edward Young: " No man e'er found a happy life by ctiance,
Or yawned it into being with a wish,
Or with the snout of -grovehng appetite
E'er smelt it out or grubbed it from the dirt.
An art it is; and must be learned,
And learned with unremitting effort
Or be lost."
Mr, Fellow was born in Wayne county, Indiana, July 15, 1833, reared
in agricultural life and at the common school. His parents, John and

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1171
Abigail (Coleman) Fellow, were both natives of North Carolina. John was
a son of Robert and Sally (Littleboy) Fellow, also natives of the Old North
state; and Robert's father was a native of England, in which country th^
name was spelled Follow; and his uncle, John FoUow, was once a member
of parliament in that country. John FeUow, in this country, was reared and
married in North CaroHna and came to Indiana about 1832, settling first in
• Wayne county. He entered large tracts of land in Howard county, also in
Tipton. Hendricks, Hancock and Bartholomew counties, and improved
them. At length he sold his place in Wayne and purchased land in Ran
dolph county, where also he improved a farm. In 1849 he came to Howard
county, where he again entered more land from the government and obtained
possession of a total amount of twelve hundred and forty acres of land of a
very fine order, all covered with heavy, valuable timber. Here he cut two
good farms out of the wilderness. Subsequently he moved to Miami county,
this state, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1863, aged
nearly seventy-two years, a consistent member of the Society of Friends.
He was a very successful man in all his undertakings, one of the most prom
inent men of the county, and identified with the settlement and growth of
the community. His wife survived until the year 1871. Her father, Elijah
Coleman, a native also of North Carolina and of Scotch-Irish descent, served
through the war of x8i2, was a farmer and blacksmith, and died in his native
state. In the »Fellow family were the following named children: Price,
John, the father of Elijah C., Mary, Rachel and Sally — aU of whom came to
Indiana. To John Fellow were born Robert, Mary, Rachel, Ehjah C. (who
is our subject), Elisha, John, AbigaU, Jane and Bennett — all by birthright
members of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Elijah C. Fellow, of whom we write, remained at his parental
home until twenty-three years of age. In 1S55 he married, in Henry county,
and about a year subsequently built a dweUing, which he sold soon afterward.
Purchasing a place in HamUton county, he improved a farm there and occu
pied it as a home for five years. In 1862 he moved to Miami county and
stayed there twenty years, cleared a farm, built good substantial buUding.s,
then sold and came to the place where he now resides, near Phlox, where
he has a desirable home. In his Hfe he has done a great amount of clear
ing, as he aided in the clearing of two farms for his father, and since his
youth he has cleared and improved three farms for himself, — amounting in

1172 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
all to about two hundred acres. He has owned at one time three hundred
acres of land and given some to each of his children.
By his first marriage he was united with Miss Susannah White, a mem
ber of a pioneer family of a highly respectable record, being the daughter
of Jesse and Mary (Pennington) White, and a granddaughter of Josiah and
Deborah A. (Talbert) Pennington, of Maryland. Jesse White came to Indiana
in early day, settling in Henry county and subsequently moving to Hamilton
county, where he died. His children were Susannah, wife of Mr. FeUow,
Addison, Alfred, Josiah and Gamaliel. By his first marriage Mr. Fellow
had three chUdren: Henry C. , now at Stella, Oklahoma, booming an acad
emy;- he has also been principal of two academies in Kansas and secretary
of public instruction of that state, is a graduate of Earlham College, a min
ister and very highly educated; Mrs. Melissa Elleman, who died leaving four
children; and John J., a farmer of Union township, Howard county. Mrs.
Fellow died May 2, iSSo, a consistent member of the church of the Friends.
In 1 88 1 Mr. Fellow was united with Mrs. Arcadia Osborn, a daughter of
John and Mary Phillips, of North Carolina, who were early pioneers in this
state, residing at several places in succession; he died in Grant county, and
his wife here in Howard county, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Fellow. By the last marriage there are no children, but Mr. and Mrs. Fel
low are bringing up an orphan girl.

JOHN A. SWOVELAND, of the firm of Swoveland & Pyke, of Tipton,
^-' Indiana, is ranked with the leading lawyers of the county. John Alex
ander Swoveland was born in Richland county, Ohio, July 22, 1843, son. of
Jacob and Sarah (Swoveland) Swoveland, natives of Pennsylvania. In his
father's famUy were ten children, five sons and five daughters, of whom only
three are now living, namely: Peter, of WUshire, Ohio; John A. ; and Aaron
F., proprietor of the glass factory at Windfall, Indiana. Jacob Swoveland
passed his life as a farmer in Ohio and Indiana, removing to this state and
settling near Nevada about 1878. He was twice married. His first wife,
the mother of our subject, died in 1865, aged about forty-nine years. She
was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, to which he, too,
belonged, and in which faith they reared their children. For his second

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1173
wife he married Abiah Farnam. By her he had no chUdren. He died in
October, 1878, aged nearly sixty-four years. His early political support was
given to the Whigs; but from 1856 to the tirae of his death he voted the Re
publican ticket.
John Swoveland, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a
native of Pehnsylvania. He lived and died in Bedford county, that state,
being eighty years old at the time of his death. His ancestors came from
Germany to this country in the early settlement of Pennsylvania and figured
prominently among the pioneer settlers, being engaged chiefly in agricult
ural pursuits. John Swoveland carried on farming and was also interested
in the Shellenbarger furnaces of Pennsylvania. He had three daughters and
six sons. The maternal grandfather of John A. Swoveland was Peter
Swoveland, the families bearing the same name and being very distantly
related. Peter Swoveland was a farmer and carpenter, but worked at his
trade only during early manhood. His people were from Germany and set
tled in Adair county, Pennsylvania, on their emigration to this country, and
he moved from there to Richland county. It was said of him that he had
the finest farm and the finest barn in that county. He died in Van Wert,
Ohio, at the ripe old age of ninety-seven years.
When Jacob Swoveland located at Van Wert, there was but one house
there, and that a log structure. His nearest neighbor was four miles dis
tant. Hiswife oflen cooked meals for the Wyandot Indians. Almost every
morning deer could be seen in the wheat-fields.
John A. Swoveland was reared on a farm near Van Wert, in Van Wert
county, remaining at horae until he was eighteen. At that age he enlisted
in Company H, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, and served four years lacking a month
and eight days. He was wounded in the foot at the battle of Tullahoma, in
X862, which has affected his walking ever since. He was a participant in all
the battles of the Army of the Cumberland from Louisville, Kentucky, to
Macon, Georgia, among them NashvUle, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Chicka
mauga, Tullahoma, Kenesaw mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Lovejoy, Selma,
Rome and many others. At Chickamauga every man of Company A was
either kUled or wounded, except six or eight who were taken prisoners! Mr.
Swoveland was at first a bugler and later a corporal, serving in the latter
capacity during the most of his army life. His older brother was in the
same company and regiment during the entire time, and, what is indeed

1174 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
remarkable, neither of them was sick a day while in the army. Both were
taken prisoners, but were shortly afterward paroled. At the end of three
years he and his brother re-enlisted, at Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1864, and
were mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of the war John A.
belonged to the brigade that captured Jefferson Davis, and Company F of
his brigade participated in the capture.
After the war he returned to Van Wert, Ohio, and went to school one
year. Following that he taught school one winter, and then he went into
the mercantile business at Windfall, Indiana, but did not then meet with the
success he had hoped for. He drifted into the practice of law in 1873, his
first case being to defend a man who had been accused of stealing a pocket-
book, whom he cleared of the charge. Mr. Swoveland was not a lawyer
then, but was frequently called upon afterward to plead causes. He was
admitted to the bar in the latter part of 1873, and practiced at Windfall
until 1878, when he moved to Tipton, having been elected prosecuting
attorney of the Thirty-sixth judicial district. He served one term, but rep
resented Tipton county on the side of the state as deputy for eight success
ive years. He has practiced law in Tipton ever since, and has occupied his
present office since the building was erected. He had for a partner four or
five years James I. Parker, who is now one of the assistant attorneys in the
interior department at Washington. After he and Mr. Parker dissolved
partnership Mr. Swoveland practiced alone until February, 1891, when he
and J. F. Pyke became associated together in business, the association hav
ing continued up to the present time under the firm name of Swoveland &
Pyke. Both gentlemen are honorable and upright in every respect, are well
qualified for legal practice both by natural adaptation and experience, and have
a well established business. Mr. Pyke is a nephew of Howell Pyke, the
well-known missionary to China, sent out by the Methodist Episcopal
church. December 26, 1867, Mr. Swoveland married Miss Isabella M. Van
Winkle, daughter of Joseph W. and Amelia (Scott) Van Winkle. With the
passing years six children have been sent to bless their home, — one son and
five daughters, viz.: Joseph W., Jessie A., Cora, Grace, Gertrude and Alice
M. The son and two of the daughters were soon called to the other world,
the former dying at the age of eleven months. Cora and Alice M. were each
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resides four mUes and a half southeast of Tipton, on her father's farm, Mr
Legg farming in summer and teaching school in winter. They have one
chUd, John A. Grace and Gertrude are teachers, and besides being a suc
cessful teacher Miss Grace has a local reputation as an artist.
Mr. Swoveland and all his family are members of and active workers in
the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally Mr. Swoveland is an Odd
FeUow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of James Price Post, No. 203,
G. A. R. Politically he is a Republican and has always taken an active
interest in his party's welfare. He was chairman of the ninth congressional
district committee in 1888, when Harrison was elected president of the
United States, and before the election he was appointed by United States
Judge W"oods to the office of United States commissioner, and served six
years. He lives at No. 224 North West street, which has been his home since
1878, except one year spent on his farm. He owns a farm of seventy-five
acres in Cicero township, four and a half miles southeast of Tipton. Since
the spring of 1867 Mr. Swoveland has been a resident of Tipton county and
has not only heen an eye witness to its development but has done his part in
bringing about the changes which have contributed to its present prosperous
condition. As one of its public-spirited and leading citizens he is held in
high esteem.

WILLIAM D. DETAMORE.— "The talent of success is nothing more
than what you can do well and doing well whatever you do, without any
thought of fame," says Longfellow. IUustrative of this sentiment is the hfe of
Mr. Detamore, who is one of the veterans of the late CivU war and a respected
and substantial citizen of Howard county. Springing from sturdy German
ancestry, it has been his fortune to inherit the best elements of that indus
trious and intelligent people, with the results in life that one would naturally
expect from such a combination of mental qualities.
His great-grandfather, Jacob Detamore, was a Hessian soldier in the
British army during our Revolutionary war, and deserted in order to join the
Continental army. After the close of that struggle he married and settled
in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, where he died. His son Jacob, grand
father of William D., lived in the same valley for a time and then moved to

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Ohio, settling in Butler county, where he died, about 1848, of Asiatic cholera-.
His children were Eli, David, Christopher, George, Polly A. and Nancy.
According to the old Bible record in possession of the family the name was
then spelled Detteraoren. Jacob Detamore reached old age, dying at the
age of about seventy-five years, in Butler county. He was a soldier in, the
war of 1 8 12.
WiUiam Detamore, the father of WilUam D., was born near Stanton,
in the Shenandoah valley, Augusta county, Virginia, in 1807, learned the
wagon-maker's trade and married Margaret Lotz, of the substanrial Pennsyl
vania-Dutch stock. The first progenitor of the Lotz famUy in America was
also a Hessian soldier who deserted the British in sympathy for the American
principles of liberty and justice. He was a comrade of Jacob Detamore
and fought with valor in the Colonial army of the Revolution. The Lotz
family settled in the Shenandoah vaUey, where they were prosperous farmers
and exemplary citizens. After his marriage Mr. Detamore emigrated to But
ler county, Ohio, where he was employed at the trade of carriage-maker.
In Septeraber, 1850, he removed to Howard county, Indiana, locating in
Jackson township, on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch.
He had entered the land in 1849, which then consisted of eighty acres and
was in the deep woods where not a tree had been cut. Here by persever
ance he developed a farm from the resisting wilderness, erecting the log
dwelling typical of the times, clearing the land, reducing it to cultivation,
etc. Wild garae was plentiful, deer often coming into the clearing near the
house. Being a good "shot," Mr. Detamore, like most of the early set
tlers, kept his household well supplied with meat. Wild turkey were so
abundant that a man could slip out almost at any time and shoot one.
By well-directed and persevering industry Mr. Detamore was at length
enabled to erect a fine hewed-log house and extend the faciHties of the farm
buildings generally, and become a leading farmer and an influential man in
local affairs.
By his first wife his children were Sarah, John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Sam
uel, Lydia, one that died in infancy, Ann, Sophia J., William D. (our sub
ject) and Eli. Mrs. Detamore departed this life in September, 1863, a sin
cere and earnest member of the Methodist church and well known for her
many virtues. She was industrious, capable, providing almost everything
for the family, doing the cooking at the famous old-fashioned fire-place, using

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the iron pot and crane, etc. It was not until 1856 or '57 that she had the
use of a cook-stove. She even made the clothing for the family, breaking,
scutching and hatchehng the flax, spinning and weaving it into cloth and
making the garments. She was an industrious and efficient housewife and
mother, bringing up her children in the noblest principles.
In 1S64 Mr. Detamore was united in matrimony with Mrs. Zelia LiUy,
whose maiden name was Polston, and by this marriage there was one son,
Milton by name.
Mr. Detamore was a pious and intelligent member of the United Breth
ren church, in which body he held the office of trustee for raany years. He
assisted in the erection of the first United Brethren church edifice in Con
verse, and the first school-house in Jackson township, Howard county. He
was a leading farmer and a substantial citizen, and a well-known pioneer,
respected by all who knew him. He voted with the Democratic party until
the issue of Freemasonry became predominant, when he voted the anti-
Masonic ticket. Being also an abolitionist, he was probably a conductor on
the " underground railroad ; " and he was among the first to join the Repub
lican party and aid in the formation of Republican clubs. For a tirae he held
the office of township supervisor. Having a remarkably good memory of
facts, he had on perpetual " tap " an inexhaustible fund of anecdote. Dur
ing the war he was a strong Union man, and two of his sons served in that
great struggle, namely, William D. and Samuel P., in the Forty-sixth Illi
nois Volunteer Infantry, participating in many fierce engagements.
WilHam D. Detamore, the subject of this sketch, was born August 13,
1846, in Butler county, Ohio, and was four years of age when brought by
his parents to Jackson township, Howard county, in their emigration to this
state. He received a common-school education of the pioneer kind and
grew up in the hard school of agriculture in a frontier forest section. Be
fore he was sixteen years of age he enlisted in defense of his country, enroll
ing at Converse, August 6, 1862, as a private in Company C, Eighty-seventh
Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and faithfully served for three
years, being honorably discharged after the close of hostilities, June 10, 1865,
at Indianapolis. Among the many engagements in which he took part, we
may mention the battles of PerryvUle, Kentucky, Chickamauga, Georgia,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, four days (September 19 and 20, 1863, and No
vember 22 and 23), Resaca, the Atlanta campaign (when he was under fire

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for forty days), Kenesaw mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Sherman's grand
march to the sea, the storming of Columbia, the engagements at Averysboro,
Goldsboro, Raleigh, and on to Richmond, engaging in many skirmishes
throughout his military career, besides the principal battles mentioned. He
participated in the grand review at Washington, when a vast imitation of
the deep blue sea rolled formidably on before the admiring eyes of thousands
of citizens. Mr. Detamore's record as a brave and unflinching soldier is per
fectly clean and even glorious, since he was in all the marches, campaigns,
battles, etc., in which his regiment took part, and doing his fuU duty
promptly and cheerfully. He was in the hospital but four weeks, which was
at Chattanooga and NashvUle, Tennessee, and was wounded at the battle of
Chickamauga, when he received a flesh wound in his left side that confined
him to the hospital ten days. At that battle his regiment lost a fraction of
over fifty per cent, of its men. Mr. Detamore was never captured by the
enemy during his term of service. After the close of hostilities he returned
to the peaceful art of agriculture upon his farm.
On the 27th of September, 1866, in Howard county, Mr. Detamore was
married to Miss Celia Hollingsworth, who was born April 5, 1S46, in Ran
dolph county, Indiana, a daughter of Eli and Celia (Thomas) Hollingsworth.
Her father, a native of Belmont county, Ohio, settled upon a farm near Con
verse, where, in addition to agriculture, he also did some work as a cabinet
maker. About 1858 he located upon an exceUent farm of eighty acres in
Jackson township. He died about 1888, atthe age of seventy-six years, at
the residence of our subject, a faithful raember of the Society of Friends and
a straightforward, honorable man. His children are Mary, Isaac, Jonathan,
Elias, Achsah, Levi, Jane and Celia.
After marriage Mr. Detamore settled upon a farm east of his present
place, which he afterward sold, and he purchased ten acres in Miami county,
which also in turn he sold, when he bought the place he now occupies, com
prising eighty acres of good land, which he has greatly improved, tUing it
and thoroughly equipping it with the necessary farm buildings and appliances.
By his industry and well directed efforts he forced himself ahead untU he be
came able to add more to his tillable acres and become the happy possessor
of a hundred-and-sixty-acre farm, all in good agricultural condition. He has
recently retired from farm life, however, purchasing in the fall of 1898 a
pleasant home in the town of Converse, His children are: Edmond L. ,

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born July 27, 1867; Marfreda May, March 7, 1869; Addie E., November i,
1870; Lydia M., November 28, 1872; Raymond A., May 5, 1874; Homer C,
September 14, 1876, and Nina E,, February 27, 1885, aU born in Jackson
township, Howard county.
In respect to national issues Mr. Detamore is a Republican, and as to
public position he has been a justice of the peace. In religion he is a mem
ber of the church of the United Brethren in Christ, in which body he is a
trustee. He also is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being
now the commander of Summers Post, No. 59, and he is connected with the
Masonic order and with Beacon Lodge, No. 320, I. O. O. F. — all at Con
verse. In the last inentioned he has passed all the chairs, including that of
noble grand, and has represented the local organization at the grand lodge.
Mrs. Detamore left the scenes of this Hfe January 13, 1897, at the age of
fifty-one years, a sincere member of the United Brethren church and one
who had the respect of a wide circle of admiring friends.
We are pleased to make mention of Mr. Detamore and his extensive
family relations in this volume, as they are so weU known for their integrity,
inteUigence, cordiality and general usefulness to the community.

JAMES W. HURST. — Among the business men of the beautiful viUage of
^ Macy, none are more prominent than James W. Hurst, who for many
years has been identified with the progressive business men of Miami county,
and is regarded as one of the most successful and prosperous citizens. It
was Mr. Hurst who erected the first business house in the town of Macy,
which was in the autumn of 1867. In this building he placed a stock of
general merchandise, and for the succeeding ten years he devoted his time
to merchandising, buying and selling grain, etc., and to farming. From that
early day in his history has he been pre-eminently a busy man. "Time
wasted is existence," says Dr. Young; " used is life: its use was doomed a
pleasure; waste, a pain." Again says he, " Heaven sells all pleasure; effort
is tbe price." Since 1877 Mr. Hurst has divided his time between the grain
business and general agricultural pursuits. He runs the only elevator in
Macy, and during the season of business connected therewith he gives employ
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StiU, with his devotion to business, he feels the patriotic necessity of
studying public questions and of voting intelligently upon them; and when it
comes to the issues between the two great parties he votes decidedly the
Republican ticket. In this line he wields a strong influence in the local
affairs of his township and county. The evidence of his special fitness for
the position led in 1878 to his nomination for the office of county commis
sioner; he was elected and served one term, three years. This is perhaps
one of the most thankless positions within the gift of the people of a county;
its duties are arduous and the criticisms abundant! To the credit of Mr.
Hurst be it said that he faithfully discharged the duties of his office without
" fear, fraud or favor," and retired at the end of his term leaving an unchal
lenged record for capability and integrity and possessing the unbounded con
fidence of his constituency. In 1884 he was made the standard-bearer of
the Republicans of his district for the office of state representative. This
was a "forlorn hope" in Miami county, which was considered to be hope
lessly Democratic; yet he materially reduced the popular majority of that
party and satisfied the universal demand of the Republicans.
Mr. Hurst was one of the charter members of Macy Lodge, No. 533,
F & A. M., and served as its first master. He takes an active interest in
social, political and religions affairs in the community, and is regarded as a
pubhc-spirited and useful citizen.
His genealogy is as follows: He is a native of Piqua county, Ohio,
born on the 28th of September, 1839, a son of William and Sarah (Alkire)
Hurst, his father a native of Maryland and of English ancestry, and his
mother a native of Kentucky and of German antecedents. He moved to
Ohio about 1800. Theywere married in Ohio, about 18 18. The mother died
in Macy, Indiana , at the home of our subject, in 1875; she had been in his family,
or at least they were together, for thirty-four years, after her husband's death.
TheirchUdren were: John Wesley, Alexander W., George W. , Levi W.,
Michael W. , — all now deceased and died in mature life; the three last named
served in the late war. George W. was a captain and served three years.
James W. is the only survivor of the six brothers. As to the frequent use of
the letter W (initial of no name) in the naming of the children, noticed above,
it has been a custom to give the son, for a raiddle name, the inUial of the
father's name.
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brought her family to Miami county, Indiana, and located for a short time
at Peru. In the spring of 1846 they removed to a farm in Richland town
ship, but the year later the mother pre-empted an eighty-acre tract of land
in Allen township, and upon this place James W. spent his early life in farm
ing and attending school. During the winter of 1859-60 he taught school,
this being about his first independent effort in life. At the age of twenty-
three he engaged in mercantile business at Chih, in this county, but soon
afterward returned to a farm of his own in Allen township, where he remained
untU 1S67.
Mr Hurst was married April 12, 1876, the lady of his choice being Miss
Romania C. Hoover, a daughter of William H. and Mary (Russell) Hoover;
she is a native of Fulton county, this state. This marital union has been
blessed with nine children, — five sons and four daughters, namely: Earl J.,
Eva M,, Scott J., Hurd J., Josie M., WUHam Blaine J., Orin J., Esther M.
and Ruth M. Earl J. is a young man of twenty-one years, employed in his
father's business, he is a graduate of the Macy high school, also took a business
course at Rochester College in this state. He is a member of the F. & A. M.
Eva May, also is a graduate of the Macy high school and of Rochester College,
completing the high-school course at the early age of fourteen years. She
is a very devoted student, and if favored with health will eventually make
a mark in the literary world. The other members of the family are still in
the Macy schools, Scott belonging to the graduating class of 1898.
The family of our subject were among the pioneers of Miami county.
The land entered by Mrs. Hurst was heavily timbered, and the three youngest
sons cleared the land and reduced it to cultivation, built a hewn-log house
and log barn. Their early lives were of the true pioneer type, and Mr.
Hurst greatly regrets that these sacred old landmarks have passed out of
existence without having been pictured in some other manner than merely
in the memory. He still owns the original eighty acres entered by his
mother, to which he has since added three hundred and twenty acres, having
now a farm of four hundred acres of good land. The Hurst farm is one of
the best in Miami county, being in a high state of cultivation, with excellent
buildings and surroundings. The farm is largely devoted to stock-raising and
is especially valuable for that purpose, being mostly low, wet land, now
thoroughly drained. Mr. Hurst is especially interested in stock-raising, hav
ing a small herd of thoroughbred short-horns and from seventy-five to two

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hundred head of excellent grade cattle. He usually keeps about the same
number of sheep, that is, from seventy-five to two hundred, and says he has
realized much larger profits from the stock on the farm than from his grain
business and all other sources, and thinks that raising cattle and sheep is the
most profitable and safe business for this section of the state. The farm
is southeast of Macy a short distance.

FRANCIS M. JACKSON, a representative citizen of Madison township,
Tipton county, is a worthy scion of one of the truly honored pioneer fam
ilies of this county. He is a son of Carter and Melinda (Leavel) Jackson,
and was born in this county December 20, 1841. His education was such as
fell to the lot of the farmer boys of his day and he was early initiated into
the mysteries of agriculture in its mcst practical form. When he had grown
to man's estate the lessons of patriotism which had been instilled into his
youthful mind found expression in his determination to place his services at
the command of his country. He therefore enlisted, in 1S62, in Company
C, One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was first assigned
to the command of General Rosecrans and afterward to that of General Sher
man. He participated in many hard campaigns and hotly contested engage
ments with the enemy, and at Chattanooga was laid low with fever. From
March until June he was in the hospital in Nashville, and then sent to the
convalescents' camp at Murfreesboro. Later he joined his command at
Atlanta, Georgia, and went with them on the famous march to the sea and to
Washington, District of Columbia, where he was one of the brave soldier boys
who took part in the grand review. Returning home, he was honorably dis
charged and mustered out in Indianapolis.
Carter Jackson, father of our subject, was born in Bourbon county, Ken
tucky, in 1807, and was but five years old when he removed with his parents
to the territory of Indiana. The family located on the twelve-mile purchase
in Wayne county, and, with the httle Indian boys and girls for his playmates,
the youth of Carter Jackson was passed. His parents,- James and Martha
(Chambers) Jackson, natives of North CaroHna and early settlers of Ken
tucky, were opposed to slavery and for that reason took up their abode in a
northern state. Locating upon a claim, the father purchased the land, — a

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tract of two hundred and forty acres, — when it came into the market and
there reared his family. Subsequently he removed to a farm eight miles
west of Indianapolis and died in that vicinity. Both he and his wife, who
survived him a few years, were members of the PrimUive Baptist church. Of
his children only two, Mrs. Linda Minor and Mrs. Sarah Whistler, survive.
The others were Isaiah, Mrs. Rebecca Harding, Mrs. Rachel Swofford, Car
ter, Newton and Mrs. Nancy Shaw.
In 183S Carter Jackson came to this locality and entered land, which he
improved, making a fine farm. He was acrive in the organization of the
county and was chosen as judge of the first election. Eighteen votes were
cast on that memorable occasion. When the county-seat was settled upon
he was present and he may rightfully be termed the founder of New Lancas
ter, for he laid out the town in lots and for years it flourished. He was
active in getting the postoffice established there and was prominently con
nected with all kinds of public enterprises. When he had cleared his land
he started a nursery and this was the first enterprise of the kind in the county.
In 1845 and 1846 he represented Tipton and HamUton counties in the state
legislature and succeeded in obtaining important measures favoring his con
stituency. He was always a leader in the Democratic party, but was never
an office-seeker. His wife, Melinda, was a daughter of Robert and Sarah
Leavel, of Virginia, and pioneers of Indiana. They vvere members of the
New-Light church. Their other children were James, Caroline, Betsey,
Benjamin, Ezekiel, Nancy and Sarah.
The union of Carter Jackson and wife was blessed with the following-
named children: Monroe, a farmer of Madison county; Louisa, deceased
wife of WUliam Gates; LaFayette, a farmer; Francis M. ; Thomas, a farmer;
Mrs. Lavina Myerly; Torrance, managing the old homestead; Mrs. Tempa
Warner; and Andrew, an engineer. The mother, a devoted member of the
United Brethren church, died in 1874. The father departed this life August
17, 1898, and was followed to the grave in Pleasant Hill cemetery by a large
concourse of friends and old neighbors, to whom he had endeared himself in
a thousand ways during many long years of association.
Upon returning from the battle-fields of the south, Francis M. Jackson
resumed farming on the old family homestead. In November, 1866, he was
married and soon afterward settled upon a farm near Elwood. There he
made various kinds of improvements in the way of buildings, clearing the land

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and putting in ditches and tiles, fences, etc. In 1890 he sold out and bought
the homestead of one hundred and sixty acres where he now resides, it hav
ing originally been part of the Darrow property. It is situated two mUes
south of New Lancaster, and is now kept in a high state of cultivation, the
owner having made many material changes for the better in the premises
since he came here. Though he is a devoted ally of the Democratic party
he is not an aspirant to public office.
The wife of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary J. DUhnger
She was born in Wayne county, Indiana, March 22, 1847, her parents
being Levi and Catherine (Hoover) DiUinger, natives of the "Old Domin
ion, " the state of Virginia. The Hoovers were among the very early
pioneers of this township, and the Dilhngers came to this locahty when it
was all swamp or forest. Mrs. Jackson's father is stUl living at his old home,
now in his eighty-fifth year, but the mother died in 1S91. The other chil
dren of their family were William, Melinda, Christopher C, Absalom,
Leeson S., Lusetta, and Sarah C. , who died in chUdhood. To the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson the following sons and daughters were born:.
Melinda, wife of William Myerly; Flora E., who married Ben Nuding and
died April 9, 1887, leaving one child; Daisy N., Mrs. B. Call; Artemisia,
Mrs. Shaw, who died August 2, 1898, and left one daughter; Dessa M., at
home; Homer D., who died when young; and Torrance L. , at home. Mrs.
Jackson, a most estimable lady, and her youngest daughter, are members of
the Christian church.

J J ENRY G. LEE. — A veteran of the Civil war and a highly respected
*¦ * citizen of McGrawsville is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch.
He was born in Athens county, Ohio, January 8, 1846, a son of Charles and
Sarah (Wilson) Lee. His ancestry is traceable to the noted Lee family of
colonial times, which was of English origin and of sterling character.
WUlis Lee, grandfather of Henry G., was a native of Virginia, a farmer
by occupation, who emigrated to Athens county, Ohio, among the pioneers
there. He had been a soldier in the war of 181 2. His children were
Thomas, Thornton, John, Charles, Caroline and Susan. The father of
these children died in Athens county, at the age of eighty years.
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was also a follower of agriculture, moved to Athens county, Ohio, when a
boy, grew up among the pioneers there and married Sarah Wilson, also a
native of the Old Dominion and a daughter of Travis and Elizabeth (Wood-
yard) Wilson. He settled in Allen county, Ohio, where he cleared land and
made a good farm, and devoted his life to farming pursuits. He died in
January, 1897, at the age of eighty-four years. Politically he was a Repub
lican, and he was a man well known for his uprightness of character. His
wife died at about the age of seventy-five years. Their children were
Catharine, Travis W., Mary, Henry G., Emily, John, Alpheus, Sarah and
Charles. Mr. Henry G. Lee was brought up to the hard and monotonous labors
of the farm, receiving meanwhile during the winter months a common-school
education. February 23, 1864, when eighteen years of age, he enlisted in
the army for the Union, as a private in Company B, Captain T. W. Lynch,
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the remainder of
the war, being honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, and mustered out
in August, 1865. He participated in the battles of NashviUe, Tennessee,
and in many skirmishes in Alabama, and notably in one at Pulaski, Ten
nessee. December 15, 1864, at the battle of Nashville, he was wounded by
a gunshot in the left thigh, which laid him up in the hospital — four days at
Nashville and other periods at Louisville, Kentucky, JeffersonvUle, Indiana,
and Camp Dennison, at Cincinnati, Ohio, being confined to the hospital for
a period of six months altogether, and excepting this time in the hospital he
was constantly on duty as a soldier, participating in all the battles, skir
mishes, marches, etc., in which his regiment was engaged. He was a faith
ful soldier at all tiraes.
After the close of hostiUties between the rebels and the government he
returned to Athens county. In January, 1867, he emigrated to Indiana,
where he engaged in farm work and in a sawmill.
November 28, 1878, in Harrison township, Miami county, he was united
in marriage with Miss Martha J. Graham, who was born January 13, 185 1,
on the present farm— the old Graham homestead — a daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Dickson) Graham. James Graham was born in Athens county,
Ohio, March 21, 1S18, a son of William and Nancy (Castle) Graham, whose
ancestors came from Scoriand and settled in Pennsylvania in early day.
The children of William and Nancy (Castle) Graham were Henry, Eliza-
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beth, Sophia, Ivy, William, James, Martha, Samuel, Nancy and Wilson.
William Graham settled in Athens county, Ohio, as a pioneer from Pennsylva
nia, where he had learned to speak Pennsylvania-Dutch, and became familiar
with the character and customs of that noble people. He had been a soldier
in the war of 1 8 12. In Athens county he cleared a farm and passed his remain
ing days, reaching an advanced age. In his religion he was a Baptist and he
was highly respected for his upright character. James Graham, father of
Mrs. Lee, was born and brought up among the pioneers of Athens county,
and married Elizabeth Dickson. After marriage he continued his residence in
Athens county a few years, and then, in the autumn of 1847, emigrated to
Indiana, making the journey with horses and wagons and being about four
weeks on the way. He located in Harrison township, Miami county. He
had been out here in 1845 and selected his land, but after arriving here with
his wife in 1847 he found that it did not suit him, and he exchanged it for
the present homestead, which then consisted of one hundred and sixty acres,
all forest. Here he built his log cabin, cleared the land and evolved a home,
where all his children were born and reared. The names of all are: Gardi
ner, who died at the age of sixteen months; Arminta, Martha J., Harlan,
Ira, Horace V. and Laura E. By his industry and good management Mr.
Graham prospered. At one time he owned three hundred and seventy-five
acres, which he ultimately gave to his children. He was a member of the
Methodist church, contributing liberally to its support. In his politics he
was a Democrat originally, but was a Republican ever after the organization
of that party. He was a well-known pioneer, who lived to the age of
seventy-six years, dying October 20, 1894.
On his location here in Miami county, Mr. Lee settled and made a com
fortable home. In 1894 he moved to the old Graham homestead. His
children are Elmer G., Charles and Grace M. He is a Republican, and
both himself and wife are exemplary members of the Christian church.

Jj^ZEKIEL V. ROBINS. — This prosperous farmer of Union township,
*— ' and ex-commissioner of the county of Miami, was born on the farm
where he now lives, February 14, 1842, and he has always resided here, on
the old parental homestead, and has always been engaged in agricultural

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pursuits. His lather, Samuel C. Robins, settled upon this place in 184I,
coming from the vicinity of Burhngton, New Jersey, where he was born,
March 3, 1S07. He married Catherine T. Ryan, also a native of New Jer
sey, whose parents were natives of Ireland. She was born March 25, 181 5,
and they were married in New Jersey about 1832. She died at the age of
thirty-five years, and he in 1863, at the age of fifty-six years and twelve
days, from paralysis. When he first settled here his land, which he entered
from the government, was entirely unimproved, and he proceeded to make
of it a good farm. He also aided in establishing the schools, churches,
roads, etc, of the country around him, enduring raeanwhile the usual priva
tions and hardships of that pioneer period. His children, eight in number,
were: Richard Clayton, who died at the age of twenty years; Caleb Mauris,
who died at the age of about sixteen years; Charles Edward, who resides in
Oregon, a farmer and stock-dealer in Union, where he is an extensive oper
ator and a wealthy business raan; Thoraas Ryan, who died in 1864, about
twenty-three years of age; Ezekiel V. was the next in order of birth; James,
who was killed by a loaded wagon breaking down and falling upon him when
he was about thirteen years old; Margaret N., the widow of Albert Deeds,
resides in Deedsville, Miami county, and has two children, and financially
is in comfortable circumstances; and Samuel C. , namesake of hisfather,
resides in Waterville, Douglas county, Washington, a farmer and stock-
raiser. Mr. Robins, our subject, attended the public school in his youth and
worked on the farm until he was twenty-one, when he started out on his
own account in farming, threshing, coopering, etc. At length purchasing
the interest of the other heirs, after the death of the parents, he has lived
upon and managed the old farmstead, adding thereto until he has a nice
large farm of over two hundred acres. The original homestead comprised
but seventy-six acres, in which he inherited a one-sixth interest.
Mr. Robins is a representative Democrat, and as the candidate of the
party was elected county commissioner in 1890, serving three years. In re
ligion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, the house of wor
ship which he attends being located upon a portion of his farra. He was one
of the leading men in the township in securing the erection of this church
building, in 1893. Regular services are held every Sunday, as well as the
Sunday school, Epworth League, etc. His wife and children are also mem-

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bers of churches, not all being Methodists. Mr. Robins' paternal grand
father also was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal church.
February 24, 1862, Mr. Robins was united in matriraony with Miss Hes
ter Ann Edwards, a native of Greene county, Ohio, and a daughter of Elias
and Maria Edwards, natives also of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Robins have
had seven chUdren, five sons and two daughters, named as follows: Richard
A., Ida May, Charles C, Maria Elizabeth, Samuel F., Marritt and Ray M.
The four first named are raarried, Ida May being Mrs. Brinson Dowd and
living on a farm near Chih; Maria is the wife of G. Steiner, a German re
siding at Waterville, Washington, where he is a merchant; and Samuel F. is
a teacher in the public schools of Miami county.

FRANK JUSTICE — Through his life-span of forty years Frank Justice,
has been a resident of Cass county, his birth having occurred in Clinton
township, on the nth of June, 1858. His ancestry is traceable back to
1610, when his forefathers were driven out of Ireland and went to Holland,
and came from there, in 1743, to America. When the Revolutionary war
broke out there were only six brothers, all of whom entered that war, and
only three returned alive, the other three having fallen in battle. One of
our subject's great-grandfathers was with Washington during that memorable
winter at Valley Forge. He lived to the age of one hundred and four years.
The grandfather of our subject, John Justice, was a native of Pennsylvania
and a school-teacher. He married Rosa Hood, a native of Ireland, and his
children were Joseph, who was a paymaster in the Army of the Cumberland
during the Civil war; John, who was an auctioneer and peddler in Cass
county before the advent of railroads here; Frank, a clerk and trader;
William, who spent his life in Winchester, Kentucky; Clarissa, wife of
Benjamin Porter; and Rosie, who became the wife of William Porter, a
pioneer of Cass county of 1S32.
The father of our subject, James M. Justice, was a native of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, born in 1S09, and npon coming west in early manhood
located in Fayette county, Indiana, where he married Malinda, daughter of
William Porter. Soon after their marriage they removed to Cass county,
and on the Sth of October, 1837, became residents of Clinton township.

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their home being located three miles west of Clymer Station. Mr. Justice
entered a quarter section of land from the government, developed a fine farm
and made his home thereon for fifty-six years. He was a very successful
farmer, managing his interests with that ability, foresight and energy that
seldom fail to bring the desired financial returns. In addition to his agri
cultural pursuits he also practiced veterinary surgery. In his political views
he was a stalwart Republican, and on that ticket was several tiraes elected
to the office of township trustee. He belonged to the Christian church, was
a man of exemplary habits, and his many excellencies of character won him
the high regard of all with whom he came in contact. His death occurred
July 17, 1S94. His first wife died, and a few years later he wedded Mary
Shortridge. The children of the first union were: Elizabeth, wife of Warren
Millard, of Carroll county; Rosann, deceased wife of Isaac N. Myers;
William; Joseph, who has also passed away; James, who belonged to the
One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry during the Civil war and was
brigade quartermaster; Clara, wife of A. C. Chapman, of Sacramento, Cali
fornia; and Caroline, wife of Robert Houston. The children of the second
marriage were Jerome: Frank; Larinda, wife of William Shafer; Parker, a
veterinary surgeon of Delphi, Indiana; and Melroy, a merchant at Burrows
Station. Upon the pioneer farm which his father located in an early day, Frank
Justice was reared and the field and forest constituted his. principal training
school in youth. It is true that he attended the district schools of the neigh
borhood through the winter months, and for twenty weeks was a student in
the Valparaiso Normal, but through the greater part of the year he followed
the plow, gathered the crops, or in other ways assisted in the development
and cultivation of the old homestead. Thus, early in life he developed
habits of industry and perseverance that have proven iraportant factors in
his success in later life. On attaining his majority he began farming on his
own account on what vvas known as the old Edward Hall farm, and has since
continued itscultivarion, the well tUled fields indicating his careful supervision.
Good buildings, well kept fences, modern machinery and all the other acces
sories and conveniences of the model farm of the nineteenth century are
there to be found, and the dominant qualities of a successful business man
are numbered among his chief characteristics.
Not alone as a leading agriculturist is Mr. Justice known, for in the

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ranks of the Republican party in Cass county he has long been a conspicuous
figure. He served for twelve years as a raeraber of the county coramittee,
and his judgment and discretion added not a little to the successful manage
ment of the campaign during that period. He was township assessor for a
period of five years, ending in 1888-9, and was deputy assessor under C. W.
Myers, his successor. He very regularly attends the county and district con
ventions and has frequently been urged to become his party's candidade for
public honors, but has usually refused, content to labor for the principles iu-
which he so firmly believes without official reward. He was' nominated for
county treasurer on the 25th day of June, 1898, after declining.
On the 13th of October, 1887, Mr. Justice was united in marriage to
Miss Ida Clymer, a daughter of David Clymer. The Clymer family was
founded in Cass county at an early day, and it was in honor of this family
that the station of Clymer was so named. To Mr. and Mrs. Justice have
been born three children: Robert O., Mary M. and James C. Mrs. Justice
is a lady of culture and refinement and high literary attainments. She was
educated in the Valparaiso Normal College, and the State Normal at Terre
Haute, and for several years was successfully engaged in teaching in Cass
county. Socially Mr Justice is connected with the Odd Fellows Lodge, at
Burrows Station, and has passed aU the chairs in the same. His influence
on the agricultural and political life of the county has been marked, and he
is accounted one of the representative citizens of his community.

J2)UFUS T. JONES. — Of the original pioneers who entered government
^ *¦ land in Indiana, but few remain to tell the story how they left an east
ern home, perhaps, and made their way to Indiana, seeking a favored spot
and here beginning and carrying forward the work necessary to the estah-
lishraent of a home on the frontier. Time, however, has dealt gently with
some of them, and here and there is found a farm whose owner can say he
was its original settler and stUl maintains his horae upon it. Among this
number we are pleased to cite the subject of this sketch, Rufus T. Jones, of
Pipe Creek township, Miami county.
He was born in Oneida county, New York, about six miles from Rome,
December 2, 18 17, and is the son of John and Hannah (Thurston) Jones,

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD .i.YD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 1191
the former of Welsh descent and the latter of Irish. John Jones was the
son of Rufus Jones, and Rufus Jones was one of the three brothers who emi
grated from Whales, their native land, to America, his settlement being in
Dutchess county. New York. The children of Rufus Jones were Frederick,
Charles, John and Ann. He lived to a venerable age and died in New York
state. John Jones was born in Dutchess county about 1792, was just enter
ing young manhood when the war of 181 2 came on, and was a participant in
that war, serving on the lake at Oswego. He weighed about one hundred
and eighty pounds, was a man of unusual strength, and it is said of him that
one time he ended up a cask of grape shot weighing about one thousand
pounds. By trade he was a blacksmith. He lived to the advanced age of
ninety years and throughout his life had the respect of all who knew him.
In Oneida county he married Hannah Thurston, daughter of Daniel Thur
ston, and their children were Rufus T. and Mary A. Mrs. Jones died, and
he married, the second time, Betsey Way, and their children were Selah,
Charles, Chauncy, Kendriek, Lucy, Adelaide and George.
Rufus T. Jones received a common-school education at Pulaski, New
York, and at an early age learned the trade of blacksmith in his father's shop.
Also in his early life he taught school, one term in New York state and one
in Miami county, Indiana. He married, in Mayville, New York, Miss
Lucy Dibble, daughter of Peter Dibble, the Dibbles being descended from
sterhng New England stock, and natives of Connecticut. Peter Dibble was
a Presbyterian deacon, the father of a large and highly respected family, and
died at an old age in Mayville, New York. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Jones settled down to housekeeping in Pulaski. Their raarried life, however,
was of short duration, as Mr. Jones' untimely death occurred November 9,
1846. She left one child, Ralph H.
The same year, 1846, Mr. Jones left New York and came out to Indiana,
stopping first at North Manchester, Wabash county, where he worked at his
trade about two years. While there he married again. In 1848 he came to
his present location in Deer Creek township, Miami county. Here, in May
of that year, he pre-empted eighty acres of land covered vvith a heavy growth
of timber. He made a little clearing and put up a typical pioneer cabin, and
each succeeding year he made a larger clearing and placed more of his land
under cultivation. As soon as he was able he secured an adjoining eighty acres,
thus increasing his holdings to one hundred aud sixty acres, all of which he

1192 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
has brought up to an excellent state of cultivation and improvement. His
brick residence was built in 1877.
April 29, 1 847, Mr. Jones was married in Pipe Creek township, Miami county,
Indiana, to Mary A. Burr, a native of Danbury, Connecticut, born Novem
ber 26, 1825, daughter of Moses and Betsey (Judd) Burr. Moses Burr, also
a native of Connecticut, was descended from Puritan ancestors who settled
in New England long before the Revolution, three Burr brothers having set
tled in this country at the same time. Jehu Burr, the founder of the branch
of the family to which Mrs. Jones belongs, came to this country in 1630
with Governor Winthrop's famous fleet. He first settled in Roxbury, Massa
chusetts, but later went to Fairfield, Connecticut, where several generations
of the family resided. The other branches of the Burr family, who live in
various parts of the United States, also came from England originally.
Jehu Burr, junior son of the Jehu Burr above mentioned, was born in Eng
land, and was twice raarried, his first wife being Mary Ward and his second
wife Esther Boosy. Tracing the line of descent to Mrs. Jones, we find that
Daniel, son of Jehu Burr, Jr , was the narae of her great-great-great-grand
father; Peter Burr was her great-great-grandfather; Peter, Jr., was her great
grandfather and Philip was her grandfather.
Moses Burr was the son of PhUip and Rachel (Knapp) Burr. Philip
Burr was a millwright by trade and lived and died in Fairfield, Connecticut.
He was a second cousin of the famous Aaron Burr, and he had a son, Aaron,
who when a young man was kUled in the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana.
PhUip Burr himself was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was one of
the last soldiers to leave New York when the British took possession.
Moses Burr, a hatter by trade, married, in Danbury, Connecticut, Bet
sey Judd, a native of that place and a daughter of Jacob and Abigail (Knapp)
Judd. Mr. Burr removed to Chautauqua county. New York, where he lived
on a farra for twenty years and whence he came to Indiana, in 1848, settling
on a farm adjoining that of Mr Jones, on the east. He entered and cleared
a quarter section of land, which he sold a few years later, then entering and
clearing another quarter a little distance west of his first location. During
the latter part of his life he was disabled and for twenty years he made his
home with the subject of this sketch. Pie died at the age of seventy-two
years. He was an industrious, upright man, in politics a Jacksonian Demo
crat, and had the respect of all who knew him. His children are Rachel,

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1193
Joseph A. and Mary A. By his present wife Mr. Jones has four chUdren:
Maurice L. , Eulalie V., Estella V. and Frank B.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Jones have for years been members of the Baptist
church, which they liberally support. Also they have contributed gener
ously toward the building ofother churches in the neighborhood. Politically,
Mr. Jones is a Republican, having assisted in the organization of the party
in his township and having been loyal to its principles ever since. During
the Cahfornia gold excitement in the early '50s he was among those who
journeyed to the west coast in quest of gold. He was in California from
1852 to 1854, mining and working at the trade of blacksmith. Not long
after his return to Miami county he was made a justice of the peace, which
office he was filling at the time the war of the Rebellion broke out. He and
two of his sons, Ralph and Maurice L., were in the Union army, he serving
six months in the capacity of blacksmith. Ralph was sergeant in Company
A, Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, mounted, three years, his service,
however, extending over a period of four years. He was first wounded at
the battle of Stone river. At Averyboro he was wounded, shot through both
thighs. Maurice L. was only fourteen years old when he entered the service.
He was orderly to General Kilpatrick and was in a number of prominent
engagements. " Squire " Jones and his faithful wife celebrated their golden
wedding April 29, 1897, and many friends were present.

J_JENRY W. FOREMAN. — Occupying a prominent place among the rep-
* ¦* resentative farmers of Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana, and
ranking with the veterans of the Civil war, is found the gentleman whose
naime initiates this sketch. /
He was born in Fayette county, Indiana, September 8, 1833, a son of
Harrison and Mary (Sanders) Foreman. Harrison Foreman was a native of
Virginia and a son of Peter Foreman, whose parents came to this country
from Germany. When a young man Harrison Foreman became a pioneer
of Fayette county, Indiana, about 1828 he moved to Henry county, this state,
and in 1852 he came to Liberty township, Howard county, settling on one
hundred and sixty acres of land where his son, the subject of this sketch, now
Hves. " With the aid of his two sons he cleared and improved this land and

1194 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
made a nice farm and comfortable home. His first wife, who before mar
riage was Miss Mary Sanders, was a daughter of Joseph Sanders, and his
children by her were born in Fayette and Henry counties, their names being
Amelia, Alfred B., Henry W., Martha S. and Mary E. Amelia died when
quite young in Henry county, and the mother also died there. Before leav
ing Henry county Mr. Foreman was married to Miss Ann Woolen, who was
born in Dorchester county, Maryland, January 20, 1823, a daughter of Will
iam Woolen. There were no children by this marriage. Harrison Foreman
died September 23, 1868, near Greentown, Howard county. He was a mem
ber of the Methodist church, in pohtics was a Republican, and throughout
his life so governed his ways that he won the respect and esteem of all with
whom he came in contact.
Henry W. Foreman, the imraediate subject of this review, was quite
small when his mother died. He was reared in Henry county, receiving a
comraon-school education there, and vvas about twenty at the time his father
came to Howard county, as above recorded. At that time this part of the
country still had much of its primitive appearance. The land was mostly
covered with forest and plenty of game abounded therein. Ten acres of the
Foreman farm had been cleared and to the work of clearing and cultivating
the rest of it Henry W. lent a willing and helpful hand. He continued to
work on the home farm until the war came on, and in August, 1862, he
enlisted as a private in Company F, Eighty-ninth Regiment of Indiana Vol
unteers, for a period of three years or during the war. He served until he
was honorably discharged in the fall of 1862, on account of wounds received
in battle at Munfordville, Kentucky. He was shot under the left arm, the
ball passing around to the left breast, and frora there it was extracted while
he was in the field hospital. Iramediately afterward he was carried to the
rear by his comrades and was placed in the hospital at Munfordville, where
he remained about one week, at the end of that time receiving his discharge
and returning home. He remained at home until the fall of 1864, when he
re-enlisted, at Indianapolis, as a pri\ate in Company K, One Hundred and
Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for one year or during the war,
and he was on active duty, participating in all the engagements in which his
command took part, until he was again honorably discharged, July, 1865, by
reason of the war being over. His regiment was stationed at Nashville,
Tennessee, and was held in reserve during the memorable battle of that

CASS, .MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1195
place. Throughout his whole army life he was cheerful, prompt and faith
ful, winning alike the confidence of his officers and comrades.
At the close of the war Mr. Foreman returned to the old homestead
in Liberty towmship, and here he has since remained, having bought the- farm
after his father's death. With the passing years he was prospered in his
undertaking and made additional land purchases, and now his farm com
prises two hundred and sixty acres, well improved and nicely cultivated.
His present attractive and modern residence was erected in 1896.
Mr. Foreman was married February 9, 1893, in Miami county, Indiana,
to Miss Lucinda Ray, who was born in Howard county, Indiana, September 28,
1846, daughter of Jacob and Leah (Benefield) Ray. Jacob Ray also was a
native of this state, born in Rush county, June 10, 1S17, a son of Hugh and
Catherine (Rader) Ray. The Rays, like the Foremans, are of German
descent. Hugh Ray and his wife came to this country from Germany and
settled first in Rush county, Indiana, removing thence to Madison county,
where he became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land and where
he ranked with the leading farmers of his locality. His chUdren were Ruth,
Mary. Jacob, John, Lucinda, Stephen and William. He die'd rin Madison
county, atthe age of sixty-three years, and in his death the coraraunity lost
one of its most substantial pioneer citizens. He was a member of the
Christian church. Jacob Ray was married in Madison county, near_ Frank
lin, to Miss Leah -Benefield, daughter of John and Rebecca (Sommers) Ben
efield. After his marriage he settled in Madison county, Indiana, and lived
there about five years,, and then settled in Howard county, buying one hun
dred and sixty acres of land in Liberty township, which he cleared and
where he made a comfortable home. His children were Malinda, Harrison,
¦' Lucinda, Milton, Barbara, Isaac and Mary. In 1882 Mr. Ray moved to
Miami county, where he has since lived, having reached the venerable age
of eighty-one years. He is a member of the conservative branch of the Ger
man Baptist church. Mrs. Foreman is a Methodist. Mr. Foreman is a
member of Hugh Willitts Post, G. A. R., of Greentown.

HERMAN ENGEL. — One of the substantial farmers and old settlers of
Tipton township, Cass county, is the gentleman whose name appears
above. He was born in the village of Vestal Cappell, Tecklenberg, kingdom

1196 BIOGRAPHICAL .IXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of Prussia, a son of Herman and Agnes (Walbrink) Engel. His father was
a stone mason by trade, was raarried three tiraes and had altogether nineteen
chUdren. By his first wife there were Stephen and Catharine, and by the
last, the mother of our subject, there were Frederick, WUliam, Herman,
Bernhard and Christina. The father died in Germany, at the age of seventy-
four years, an honest and industrious citizen, a member of the Evangelical
Reformed church, and respected by all who knew hira.
Mr. Herman Engel, our subject, attended school from the age of five to
fourteen years, according to the custom of his native land, meanwhUe learning
aU the arts of agriculture, and after his school days he was two years in the
Prussian army. Deceraber 9, 1849, he was married, in the village of Vestal
Cappell, to Miss Margaret Sparenburg, a daughter of Herman and Margaret
(Long) Sparenburg, who was born April 7, 1828, in the same village of which
her father also was a native and a farmer by occupation. Of his sixteen chil
dren, those who grew up to years of maturity were Herman, Catharine, Fred
erick, Mary, George, Henry, Elbert, Bernhard, Margaret and Charlotte.
He was a hard-working, honest man, a member of the Evangelical Reformed
church, participated in the French wars and died in his native land, at the
age of seventy-four years.
Mr. Herman Engel and wife, after their marriage, remained in the vil
lage of Vestal Cappell, engaged in agricultural pursuits for seven years, his
wages being one shilling per day. Even at this small remuneration he man
aged to accumulate a small sum of money, his wife's parents living with him
meanwhile untU their death, when they left him a little household property,
which he sold for three hundred dollars in money. With the funds thus
accumulated Mr. Engel started with his family for this land of "greater
opportunity," America, saUing from Bremen in the latter part of 'July, 1857,
in the " good" ship " Jubeliam," and in forty-three days reached New York
city, September 18. Coming immediately to Peru, Indiana, where he had
two brothers living, for the first ten years he was employed by WilHam
Weckler on a farm in Miami county; and although he commenced fifty dol
lars in debt he managed, by economy and steady application, with the aid of
his faithful wife, to accumulate a fund which enabled him, with the advice of
Mr. Weckler, to purchase forty acres of land in Pipe Creek township, this
county. After partly clearing up this tract he sold it and bought eighty
acres in the same township, where his son William now resides. This tract

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he cleared and developed into a good farm, with substantial buildings, etc.
This property also he at length sold to his son William and he moved to
Bunker Hill and engaged in the manufacture of tile, in company with his
sons, and in this enterprise also he was successful, making sorae raoney; and
he at length purchased a tract of ninety-one acres, which also he has greatly
improved and where he now lives, enjoying the evening of life in a cozy
retreat. He and his wife are exemplary members of the Evangelical Re
formed church, to which they are liberal contributors. In his views of the
national policies of this country he is a Republican.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Engel are:
I. Charlotte, who was born May 26, 1851, in Prussia, and AprU 16,
1874, was niarried to Henry L. Shively. Their children are: Dora M. , born
December 7, 1875, and is a teacher in the public school at Bunker HUl;
Charley E., February 17, 1878; Rosa B., May 17, 1879; and Frederick A.,
November 6, 1883.
2. William F. , born October 3, 1852, also in Prussia, and January 30,
1887, married Catharine Zeitezogel, who died January 23, 1891; and Feb
ruary 14, 1892, he married Frances, a sister of his first wife. By his first
marriage there was one child, Reuben M., born March 5, 1888, and by his
second none.
3. Henry J., born March 14, 1854, in the old country, married Decem
ber 24, 1878, Elizabeth Lesch, who died Septeraber 2, 1888; and they had
the following chUdren: Maud A., born December 28, 1879; Grace M.,
October 20, 1881; lola J., July 14, 1883; and Walter E., January, 188S.
By his second marriage Henry J. Engel was united with Paulina Lese.
4. Frederick, born August 20, 1856, in the "fatherland," raarried Edith
Kline April 8, 1883, and had the foUowing children: Toney E., born Janu
ary 13, 18S4; Cliffie I., February 17, 1887.
5. John H., born October 7, 1858, married Ella N. Bulick, February
24, 1S84, and they have the following named chUdren: Harry A., born
December i, 1884; Carrie A., born the same date; Charley P., July i, 1886;
and William H., August 8, 1S91.
6. Andrew G., born May 4, 1S60, married Rosa E. Davis, November
27, 1884, and they have had the following named children: Dora M., born
April 13, 1892; and RusseU T., September 28, 1896.
7. Mary, born February 7, 1862, became the wife of Charies H.

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Preiser, November 25, 1S83, and their children are: Henry A., born August
30, 1884; Lotty A., born March 24, 1886, and died February 5, 1895; Oro
E., born March 10, 1888, and died AprU 2, iSSS; Pliny B., born July 9, 18S9;
and died February 11, 1895; and Laura M., born October 19, 1892.
8. George W. born May 9, 1872, married Maud Kreisher, May 22,
ir '

WILLIAM HELMS. — The seventy-eighth milestone on life's journey has
been passed by William Helms, and throughout this long period he has
resided in Indiana, being one of her oldest native sons. Born on the fron
tier, in Jefferson county, Indiana, on the 9th of July, 1 820, he has witnessed
almost the entire growth and development of the state since the time when
its prairies were uncultivated, its forests uncut, its bridges unbuUt and its
progress unforeshadowed by the work that had scarcely been begun by the
hardy frontiersmen vvho were destined to lay the foundation of the future
greatness and prosperity of the state. He has seen its wild lands transforrried
into beautiful homes and farras, its hamlets grow into villages and all the
varied interests of industrial and commercial activity introduced, and all
through the years he has advocated the measures and movements tending to
result to the advantage and upbuilding of the commonwealth.
His grandfather, John Helms, was one of the heroes of the Revolution
ary war, and after the close of that struggle he made his way to the frontier,
locating in Tennessee among its first settlers. From that state he came to
Indiana, keeping in the vanguard of civilization, and after some years resi
dence in Jefferson county removed to Hamilton county, where he died about
1847. He was a native of Germany, and throughout his entire life made
farming his means of earning a livelihood. The father of our subject, John
Helms, Jr., was born in Tennessee, where he grew to manhood, coming
thence to Indiana with his parents. He was married in Jefferson county,
this state, to Sally Riker, daughter of John Riker, who was born and reared
in New York city, but eventually made his way to Kentucky, where he mar
ried, making his home near Boone's Station. He was a great hunter among
the forests of Kentucky, and during the war of 181 2 he used his rifle in de
fense of his country, serving as a colonel under General WUliam Henry Har
rison in the Indian wars. A pioneer of Indiana, he removed to Jefferson

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county when it was an unbroken wilderness, the home of the red men and
the haunt of all kinds of wild game common to that district. The town of
Madison was not then founded, and the work of development was still in the
future. Mr. Riker there cleared and improved a farm, upon which he spent
his remaining days, dying at an advanced age. After their marriage the
parents of our subject removed to HamUton county, Indiana, and unto them
were born nine children: Polly, wife of D. Alexander; WUliam, of this re
view; Jacob, who died in Missouri; Sarah, wife of A. Moore; Ebenezer, a
farmer of Marshall, Indiana; James and Letta, both deceased; Fletcher, of
Hamilton county, and Maria, wife of J. Wyant. The parents were mem
bers of the Primitive Baptist church and the family is one of the highest re
spectability. Amid the wild scenes of the frontier William Helms was reared to man
hood. He had few advantages in his youth, but met many hardships and
trials incident to life on the frontier. He assisted his father in the arduous
task of developing and improving a new farm and continued at his parental
home until his marriage, which occurred in 1S39. For two years he resided
in Hamilton county. In 1847 he carae to Howard county, then a tract of
wild land whose condition was that in which it was left by the hand of
nature. Mr. Helms entered from the government a tract of forty acres,
erected a pioneer cabin, and began the improvement of his property. Later,
as his financial resources increased, he extended its boundaries, and now
owns ninety-nine acres of the original tract which he secured from the gov
ernment, it bearing little resemblance to the farm which came to him through
the government deed. It has long since been transformed into rich and fer
tile fields, which yield to him a golden tribute and commodious buildings
stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise.
Mr. Helms married Miss Susan Shank, who was born in Pennsylvania,
a daughter of Daniel Shank, of German descent. He was married in Penn
sylvania and subsequently removed to Ohio, -thence to Hamilton county,
Indiana, and later to Howard county, where he entered land and improved
an excellent farm, making his home thereon until his death. His children
were Susan, wife of our subject; Elizabeth, wife of J. Helnis;-and Reuben,
who is Hving on the old family farmstead. To Mr. and Mrs. Helms were
born five children: Mark, who was killed in the Civil war: EHzabeth, wife of
W. Adkins: David and Oris, who follow farming; and Mary, wife of John

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Note. The mother of this family, a consistent member of the Adventist
church, died in 1869. In the latter part of the same year Mr. Helms
married Miss Amanda Rivers, who was born in Johnson county, Indiana, in
1S49, a daughter of John and Lamenta Rivers, of Kentucky. Her father
was a farmer and died in Johnson county, while her mother's death occurred
in Howard county. They were members of the New-Light church. Their
children were Vernada, now Mrs. Warrick; Mrs. Ann Davis; Andrew, a
farmer; Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson; Mrs. Margaret Llewellyn; Mrs. Amanda
Helms; and Mrs. Nettie Arnet. By the second marriage of Mr. Helms two
children vvere born: Dora and Arie, the latter engaged in farming. He
raarried Miss Clara Golding, daughter of Elijah and Marian C. (Powell)
Golding, who were natives of Pennsylvania, removing from that state to
Ohio and later to Indiana. Her grandfather Powell was a native of Germany.
Mr. Golding was a farmer and died in 1874. Both he and his wife were
merabers of the United Brethren church. To Arie Helms and his wife have
been born three children: Roscoe, Orville and Howard.
The subject of this review and his estimable wife hold membership in the
Christian church. In his political associations he was originally a Whig,
and when that party was superseded by the Republican party he joined its
ranks and has since been one of its stalwart advocates. He has filled all the
township offices, to which he has been elected by the vote of the people, who
have thus demonstrated their confidence in his abUity and trustworthiness.
In all pubhc positions he has fully and faithfully met every obligation depend
ing upon him, and in private life has loyally discharged all duties. Such is
the record of one of Indiana's honored pioneers, one who for a half century
has been identified with the progress and growth of Howard county, while
though almost four-score years he has witnessed the transformations which
have placed Indiana in the front rank among the sister states of the
Union.

J OHN GROGG. — Few, indeed, are the residents of Miarai county whose
^ identification therewith dates from 1S37, but for sixty-one years John
Grogg has made his home in Perry township — one of the honored pioneers
and valued citizens of the community. He was born in Stark county, Ohio,
May 12, 1823, his parents being John and Esther (Snyder) Grogg. His

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father was accidentally killed before the birth of our subject, and the mother
was left to care for her ten children. She afterward married John Moore-
hart and became a widow the second time. Later she removed to Miami
county, where she died at the home of her son John many years ago, having
reached an advanced age.
On the 7th of June, 1837, when a youth of fourteen years, John Grogg
came to Miami county with a brother and two sisters, all of whom were mar
ried. The brother was George Grogg, whose wife died in the fall of that
year, while his death occurred a few years later. The elder sister who made
the trip in 1837 was Peggy, wife of John Bowers, and he and his family are all
nowdeceased. Catherine, the younger sister, was the wife of Jacob Hoffman.
They are now deceased, but several of their children yet survive. Another
sister, Juda, wife of Hugh Miller, came to Miami county about 1839, but
both have passed away. Susan, wife of Jacob Barnhisle, also came about
the same time, but she and her husband have passed away, being survived
by several children. Another brother, Joseph Grogg, came later. He is
now deceased, but several of his children reside in Perry township. These
are all the members of the family who became residents of Miami county.
Two sisters, Sarah and Elizabeth, the former the wife of WilHam Bowers,
and the latter of John D. WUlis, remained in Ohio until their death, and a
brother, Benjamin, died in Missouri.
John Grogg is the only surviving member of the family. He lived in
the home of his brother-in-law, Jacob Hoffman, until he had attained the
age of twenty-one years and then, according to the terms of an agreement,
and in payment of his services during his minority, he received from his
brother-in-law eighty acres of land and three hundred dollars in money. He
then located on his farm, but afterward sold it and returned to Ashland
county, Ohio. He had married August 5, 1845, Miss Mary Musselman hav
ing become his wife. She was born in Lancaster county, Ohio, and was a
few months her husband's senior. About four years later Mr. Grogg returned
with his family to Miami county, locating on the farm in Perry township,
which has since been his place of residence. He became the owner of a
quarter section of unimproved land, but he began with characteristic energy
to clear and improve it and soon transformed the wUd tract into richly cul
tivated fields. Farming has been his life's occupation and in the capable
administration of his affairs he has accumulated a comfortable competence,
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1202 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
which supplies him in his declining years with all the necessities and many of
the luxuries of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Grogg spent most of their happy, married life upon the
old homestead, but in 1893 were separated bythe hand of death, which,
in February, " touched the wife, and she slept." Their marriage was blessed
with four children, three of whom are living. John is a resident of Perry
township, Miami county; Sophia Catherine is the wife of Samuel King,
of the sarae township; and Benjamin F. resides on the old homestead and is
the present trustee of Perry township. They lost their first child, Jacob,
who died in infancy.
In his political affiliations Mr. Grogg is a Democrat, and in religious
belief his worthy wife was a Baptist. He has witnessed the development of
Miami county from a wilderness to its present advanced condition, having
come to this locality more than sixty years ago. The Indians still inhabited
the region; wild game, including deer, furnished many a meal to the settler,
and wolves and other wild animals were frequently killed. In those early
days Mr. Grogg, like Nimrod, was a " mighty hunter," and many a deer and
wolf was brought down by his unerring rifle. As late as the faU of 1846
occurred one of the most exciting wolf hunts in Miami county. A large
black wolf had been prowling around for some time, doing great damage to
the young stock and eluding every trap to catch him. At length a township
hunt was organized. The men were stationed over a wide area and gradu
ally made their way toward a designated center. Finally the wolf was dis
covered and Mr. Grogg was one of three selected to kill the animal. As the
men approached the big wolf attempted to escape, but a well aimed shot
from the rifle of our subject laid low perhaps the largest wolf ever killed in
the county. With the passing of the years all the scenes and incidents of
pioneer life have become merely memories, and it remains to such men as
Mr. Grogg to perpetuate the accounts of life in Miami county when it was a
frontier locality just opening up to civilization.

J INCOLN A. GIPE. — It is the man of capability to whom advancement
-*— ' and success come. Carlyle has said, " The king is the man who can,"
and it is he who faithfully and conscienriously performs the work that falls

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to his lot, — be it humble or great, — that commands and deserves the respect
of his fellow men. In the line of his chosen vocation Mr. Gipe has proven
his right to a place in this class of the world's workers. He is filling the
position of engineer for the Pan Handle Railroad Company and at all times
is most prompt and trustworthy in the discharge of his duty.
Mr. Gipe was born in East Gerraantown, Wayne county, Indiana, on
the 30th of September, i860, a son of Dr. WilHam Gipe, one of the pioneer
settlers of that county, where he located in 1S43. He had come to this state
from Berks county, Pennsylvania, and in his early life had learned the trade
of wagonmaking, which he followed for some time. Later, however, he
.became a veterinary surgeon and to that profession devoted his energies
throughout the remainder of his days. He married Sibylla Geotle, and of
their thirteen chUdren the following are living, namely: William, a railroad
man of IndianapoHs; Charles, a prominent business raan of Alexandria, Indi
ana, who is now serving as township trustee; Frank, a traveling salesman
who represents an Indianapolis house; Warren, who is an engineer in the
employ of the Pan Handle Railroad Company; Lincoln A.; Sophia, wife of
Chris Murray, of Indianapolis; Cora, wife of William Snyder, a carpenter of
Indianapolis; Alice, wife of T. W. Bennett, an engineer on the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, living at Fort Madison, Iowa; and Gertrude,
who married William Mulno, of Rushville, Indiana.
To the schools of his native town Lincoln A. Gipe is indebted for the
educational privileges which he received. In early life it became his desire
to enter the railroad service and he began his independent business career as
an employee in the shops of the Pan Handle Railroad Company, at Indian
apolis, serving under Mr. Hazelef, one of the oldest engineers in the state.
After a few months he was assigned to duty as a yard fireman with Isaac N.
Craig, with whom he remained for a year on the road. In 1886 he was
given charge of a yard engine and was in the yard at Indianapolis for three
years and at Cambridge City for eighteen months.' In August, 1887, he was
transferred to the Richmond division and reraained in the freight service for
eighteen months, after which he was promoted to the passenger service and
removed to Logansport in 1889. Pie has since been engineer on a passenger
train and is most careful and painstaking. The history of his work contains
no record of accidents and his ability and trustworthiness have won the con
fidence and high regard of those whom he serves.

1204 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
In Cambridge City, Indiana, on the iSth of February, 1886, Mr. Gipe
was united in marriage to Miss Flora, daughter of John L. Custer, a cigar
manufacturer. They now have two children, Ruth A. and Marea May, the
latter name of the younger daughter being in honor of Mr. May, an old
schoolmate of her father. Socially Mr. Gipe is connected with the Masonic
and Knights of Pythias fraternities and has many friends in those lodges as
well as in railroad circles.

SAMUEL GLASSBURN.— " Biography is the home aspect of history, "
says one writer; and it "is the best form of history," says another..
A volume of the nature of this work may therefore be not only considered a
history, but also the basis of future historical works, — works which are not
merely accounts of badness, as most of our previous civil histories have been,
but of goodness, — of good deeds and characteristics pleasurable to contem
plate. Among those vvho have laid deep and thoroughly the foundations of
a good government and a good condition of society, are the Glassburns, who
are of the most substantial German stock.
John Glassburn, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Ger
many, who emigrated to America and served as a soldier in our Revolution
ary war, being wounded in the breast by a gunshot. A silk handerchief was
actually drawn through hira to clean out the wound ! but he finally recov
ered and lived to the age of one hundred and ten years ! and even then he
died without any sickness, being found dead in his bed ! His death occurred
at his residence in Covington, West Virginia. He was a stanch Jack
sonian Democrat and a useful pioneer. He married a lady of German
descent, and their children were Samuel, George, John, Frederick, Betsey
and Nancy. Frederick Glassburn, the father of our subject, was a native of Virginia
who married Mary Persinger, a daughter of Andy Persinger, and their chil
dren were William, Peter, Joseph, Samuel, Daniel and Andrew. Mr Glass-
burn emigrated from Virginia to Indiana, settling in Johnson county about
1834, being a pioneer there, and cleared a farm where he passed the remain
der of his life. He had always been an industrious and exemplary citizen,
and in his politics he was a Democrat.
Samuel Glassburn, his son, and the subject of this sketch, was born in

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1205
Alleghany county, Virginia, June 15, 1826, and was eight years old when
brought by his parents, in 1834, to Indiana, where he was reared to agricult
ural pursuits, and also became a skillful hunter, killing many a deer and wild
turkey, even when a boy.
At the age of seventeen years, in 1843, he shouldered His gun and left
home with his brother, Peter, and his uncle, Samuel Glassburn, to make a
general reconnoitre of the country and follow the chase. At night they slept
in the woods, using the blankets which they carried with them. Their only
provisions consisted of the wild game they killed, seasoned with salt which
they carried with them. Their mode of life kept up a vigorous appetite, so
that they could well digest their fancy-flavored wild meats. Thus they passed
through western Indiana, crossing the Wabash river at Terre Haute, the Illi
nois river at Beardstown and the Mississippi river at Fort Madison, Iowa;
and here Mr. Glassburn visited the state penitentiary, at the time when there
were but six or eight convicts confined there. Proceeding further westward,
they crossed the Des Moines river and turned southward into Missouri.
On this trip they slept in no house for six weeks and had no bread, sub
sisting almost exclusively on wild meat, which they could find almost at any
time. As "Uncle Samuel" says, " For me 'twant no trouble to knock over
a deer or wild turkey; and we roasted them at the camp fire and lived high
and got fat. " But at one place in Missouri they came to a solitary log house,
with no windows and but one door. They rapped at the door and in answer
two young women appeared. The men asked for a drink of water, and the
girls replied that they could not spare any, and that they could find water at
a creek about four mUes distant. The famished travelers found the creek.
They wintered in Iowa twenty-five mUes southwest of Fort Madison.
In that prairie country there was a plenty of prairie chickens, as well as deer.
In the spring (March, 1844), they went to PlattsvUle, in southwestern Wis
consin, and worked in the lead mines there, and afterward in lead mines also
at Taylor and at Otter Creek, on the Wisconsin river, living with the Indians.
In 1845 they returned to Johnson county, Indiana, where the boys attended
school and also " mauled " rails. In the spring of 1846 Samuel, our subject,
enlisted as a private for one year in the Mexican war, joining Captain David
Allen's company, in the Third Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. Leaving
for the seat of the contest June 15, he participated in the battle of Buena
Vista, and returned home safely a year later.

1206 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
In the autumn of 1847 he married and settled in Johnson county, and
in 1849 moved to Miami county, this state, locating in Clay township, near
where his brother, Peter, now lives, and there entered eighty acres of land,
all of which he cleared excepting twenty acres. In 1S70 he sold this place
and moved to his present farm of two hundred acres. On this he cleared
about fifty acres and made good improvements, and now has a good piece of
property. He is a typical American pioneer, has done a great amount of
hard work, has always been a straightforward man in his dealings, honorable,
independent, and as a citizen he is highly esteemed by the community.
October 26, 1847, in White River township, Johnson county, he was
united in marriage with Elizabeth Brunnemer, who was born in Alleghany
county, Virginia, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Bishop) Brunnemer.
Her father was a farmer in that county, whose chUdren were Harrison,
David, John, Ira, WUham, Harriet, Peggy, Catharine and Elizabeth. Mr
Brunnemer moved to Johnson county, Indiana, as a pioneer, and passed the
remainder of his life there, reaching the age of ninety years. . The children
of Mr. Glassburn by the marriage already noted were the following: Ander
son, born July 25, 1848; Allen, October 25, 1850; Harrison, September 30,
1852; Andrew, September 29, 1854; John, February 14, 1857; Margaret
Celena, Deceraber n, 1S58; Mary Florence, February n, 1S61; Amanda
Jane, February 23, 1863; Robert, February 17, 1865; Sarah Melissa, June
20, 1867; Walter, April 7, 1869; Neva, February 28, 1871; and Wyoma,
September 18, 1873. All these are living excepting Allen, who died March
17, 1893. Mrs. Elizabeth Glassburn, who was an excellent lady, departed this hfe
December 5, 1878, and November 30, 1879, Mr. Glassburn married Mrs.
Sarah A. E. Hartgrove, who was born April 20, 1852, in Greene township,
Morgan county, Indiana, a daughter of Isaac and Julia A. (Persinger) Coon
field. Her father was born in Marion county, this state, a son of James and
Elizabeth Coonfield. James Coonfield was of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry,
his father coming from Germany, and he emigrated from Virginia, his native
state, to Marion county, Indiana, being a pioneer there, and afterward
removed to Brown county, this state. After his marriage Isaac Coonfield
moved to Morgan county, also in this state, where he now resides. His
children are James F., Daniel W., Barbaretta, Elmaza A. and Lydia E. Mr
Coonfield is a member of the Methodist church and an exemplary citizen.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1207
Mrs. Sarah Glassburn was formerly married, in Morgan county, to James
Hartgrove, and had one son, named Isaac. By her marriage to Mr. Glass-
burn she has had one child, Paulina, who was born May 9, 18S2, and died
March 17, 1893. Mrs. Glassburn is a zealous and consistent member of the
United Brethren church, and in politics Mr. Glassburn is a Democrat.

MARCUS RICKETTS, the present trustee of Liberty township, Tipton
county, and one of its most public-spirited and enterprising citizens,
takes a deep interest in everything pertaining to the public welfare, and
withholds his support from no object calculated to prove of public benefit.
A native of Indiana, Mr. Ricketts was born in Switzerland county,
April 9, 1854, and is a son of Garrett and Alice (Manford) Ricketts, who
were born, reared and married in this state. His paternal grandparents,
Robert and Ann (La Rue) Ricketts, were both natives of Pennsylvania, but
at an early day they came to Indiana, where the former engaged in farming
and also rafted flat-boats down the rivers to New Orleans. Both he and his
wife died in Switzerland county. Their chUdren were Marcus, Garrett, Mrs.
Scott, Mrs. Tabitha Towers and John. In religious faith they were Mis
sionary Baptists. Our subject's maternal grandfather was John Manford, a
farmer by occupation, who likewise departed this life in Switzerland county.
He was of Irish descent, and the father of eight children: Charles, Hugh,
Alice, John, Maria, Cynthia, EUjah and Frank.
Garrett Ricketts, our subject's father, spent his entire life in this state
and died in Tipton county, in January, 1875, having made his horae here
from the year i860. A mechanic and mUlwright by trade, he conducted a
sawmiU for many years, and at the time of his death was also running a
store at Nevada, of which place he was one of the honored pioneers and promi
nent business men. He owned a farm in the county but never lived on it. Nine
chUdren were comprised in his family, namely: Marion, a resident of Henry
county; Eliza, wHe of C. F. Grant; Oliver, now of Marion county; Julia,
wife of W. Kesler; Minerva, wife of E. S. Lee; Alice, who flrst married G.
Roberts and after his death wedded J. Sears; Marcus, of this sketch; Mattie,
wife of J. B. Reader; and Bell, wife of D. L. Coat.
Marcus Ricketts passed his boyhood and youth at Nevada, attending the
common schools and assisting his father in the mUl and store, thus acquiring

1208 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
an excellent knowledge of business methods, which has been of much prac
tical benefit to him in later years. At the age of twenty he commenced the
struggle of life for himself, and after his father's death bought the store and
mUl, which he conducted for seven years, the following ten years being
engaged in threshing. He is still interested in the latter business in connec
tion with the operation of his farm, which he purchased a few years after his
marriage. He also erected a tile factory, which he ran for a number of years,
giving employment to many men and in this way advancing the interests of
his township and county, with whose progress and development he has been
prominently identified.
In 1S78 Mr. Ricketts was united in marriage with Miss EmUy C. Scherer,
who was born in HamUton county, Indiana, in 1S59, a daughter of Ambrose
H. and Sarah A. (Patton) Scherer, the former a native of Pennsylvania, of
German descent, and the latter a native of North Carolina. Her father
improved a farm in Tipton county, was also a minister of the Lutheran church
for raany years and was widely and favorably known, having the confidence
and respect of all with whom he came in contact. He died in 189X, but his
wife is still living and makes her home in SharpsvUle. The children born to
thern were Ellen, now the wife of R. Payne; Mrs. Margaret Thomas; Emily,
wife of our subject; Victory and Viola, twins, the former of whom married
Charles Fertic and is now deceased, while the latter is the wife of F. Cormack;
Simon P., a practicing physician of Indianapolis; Mrs. Adda Brumit; Mrs.
Lillian Berry; Julia; and Nelly. Of the five children born to Mr and Mrs.
Ricketts, one died in infancy and one at the age of nine months, while those
living are Edna G. , Hallie and Garrett A. The wife and mother, who was
a consistent member of the Lutheran church, departed this life November
23, 1892. Socially, Mr. Ricketts is identified with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees, and politicaUy he affiliates with
the Republican party, always taking an active and prominent part in local
politics. UntU within the last two years he was a member of the county
central comraittee, with which he became thus identified at the age of eight
een, and in 1SS8 he made the race for county treasurer, but was defeated by
a small majority. He has been a delegate to the state conventions of his
party, and in 1S94 was elected township trustee, an office he is now 'fiUing
with credit to himself.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1209
NATHAN KINNAMAN, a prominent citizen of Bethlehem township,
Cass county, has been engaged in agricultural pursuits upon his present
place for twenty-three years; and not only the appearance of the farm
but also the products of the same are in evidence that he is a scientific
farmer. Before proceeding, however, with further statements regarding him
personally, we may, in the order of events, give a brief notice of his parentage.
His father, Thomas Kinnaman, a native of the Keystone state, emigrated to
Indiana during its early pioneer period, setthng in Clay township, this county,
and making his home in a log cabin of his own construction. There were
but two other families in the neighborhood at that time. Here, surrounded
with the wild forest, he devoted his time and energies to the development
and equipment of a comfortable home, setting an example of industry,
patience and integrity. He was about seventy years of age at the time of
his death. His wife, whose name before marriage was Elizabeth Bennett,
died about the same age. Of their eleven children four are living, namely:
Ruth, in Logansport, the wife of John Gregory; William, who lives in
Mexico, Indiana; and Nathan and Rachel.
Mr. Nathan Kinnaman, whose sketch we have the pleasure of writing,
is a native of Washington township, this county, born June 4, 1838, and
brought up inured to the arduous labors characteristic of the pioneer farm,
and attending school first in the log school-house of the early day, with its
slab seats and desks and the teacher "boarding around among the scholars,"
and afterward in better schools as the country became more densely settled
and the people better enabled to have educational facUities. The inteUeotual
barrenness, monotony and tedium of the life which young Nathan was com
pelled to Hve being not at aU satisfactory to the broadminded, ambitious
youth, he left home at the age of seventeen, though knowing but little of the
world, with a brave heart and willing hands, in order to find wider fields and
greater opportunity. In the vicinity of La Fayette, this state, he found a
farmer who was willing to employ him. He entered his service, labored
faithfully and saved his money, letting the surplus remain in the hands of his
employer until the final settlement, when it, was found that eighty dollars
was due him. This money he sent to his brother in Kansas, who used it for
the purchase of land; and this tract he retained in his possession for many
years.

1210 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
After settlement with his employer he rented a farm, paying five hundred
dollars cash rent, which raoney he raised by selling his land in Kansas; and
here he engaged in agricultural pursuits on an extensive scale, with signal
success, not only establishing a well furnished home but also, in the course
of tirae, accumulating such an amount that he could give to each of his
children a start in the world.
In his principles of national policy he coincided with the Democratic
party up to the time of Benjamin Harrison's first candidacy for the office of
president of the United States, since which time he has been a decided
Republican. He is a highly esteeraed member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in which body he is a trustee and class-leader.
He vvas married first to Bethie Wagner, a native of the Keystone state,
who died leaving several children, namely: Andrew, a teacher in DanvUle,
Indiana, who married Miss Mattie Long and has one chUd, named Howard;
Gustine Thomas, a resident of Cass county, who married Ella Ford and has
two children, Ethel and Delbert; Willis C, who married Carrie Liggett, had
one child, Vincent H., and is now deceased, the orphan making his home
with the subject of this sketch; Addie, the wife of Charlie Erbaugh, and they
have two children, Grace and Vera; Ida, the wife of L. C. Jones, of Logans
port, having two children. Fay and Mesrea; and Carrie, who became the
wife of Louis Jones, of Fulton county, this state, and has three children,
Helen, Ruth and Laura V. By Mr. Kinnaman's second marriage there is
one child, named J. Frank.

/^HARLES HENRY UHL.— The fitring reward of a well spent and active
^^-^ business career is an honorable retirement from labor and a season of
rest in which to enjoy the fruits of former toil. Consecutive endeavor, reso
lute purpose, sound judgment and unfaltering energy bring success in the act
ive affairs of life, and when prosperity is attained these should be followed by
a period of leisure, when one raay carry out his individual desires and find de
light in pursuing plans from which business cares had withheld him. For
forty-four years Mr. Uhl, of this review, was prominentlj identified with the
industrial interests of Cass county as a leading miller of Logansport. His
career was an honorable one, in which his straightforward dealing and his
indefatigable labor brought him a handsome competence that now enables

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him to put aside the heavier burdens and find pleasurable recreation in his
home and among his friends.
Mr. Uhl was born near Cumberland, Maryland, on the 20th of October,
1841, and is a son of the late Joseph Uhl. When he was a lad of ten years
his father decided to emigrate to what was then the "far west," his object
ive point being Dixon, Illinois. The journey was made with team and wagon
and many weeks were consumed in making the trip from the head waters of
the Potomac to the capital on the banks of the White river in Indiana. From
the latter point Joseph Uhl drove through the swamps to visit some uncles
near Logansport, and was induced by them to abandon the plan of going to
Illinois. Instead he bought an eighty-acre farm in that vicinity, and thus
amid the wilds of Cass county the subject of this review was partially reared.
He also attended the primitive schools of the neighborhood to a limited
extent, but in those days it was thought more important that a robust
youth should assist in manual labor than that he should spend his time in
the school room. Accordingly Charles Uhl, at the age of thirteen, began
work in his father's mill near Logansport, and was afterward transferred to
the mill on the bank of the Eel river, where he remained until June, 1897,
when he completed forty-four years of uninterrupted service. For many
years he held a third interest in the Logansport mill in connection with his
father and his brother, Dennis Uhl, and their enterprise proved one of the
lead ng industrial interests of the community. It was associated with the up--
buUding of the county from pioneer days as well as through the period of
later development, for all legitimate business interests in a greater or less de
gree contribute to the material welfare of the community in which they are
located. On the 20th of September, 1S65, Mr. Uhl was united in marriage to
Miss Evaline, daughter of George Kistler, of Boone township, Cass county.
Their children are: Etta M., wife of J. F. Clarey, of Logansport, by whom
she has two chUdren, — Charlotte and Glenn; Amy J., wife of F. M. Taft, of
Richmond, Indiana; Jessie and Ethel. The faraily attend the Presbyterian
church, and Mr Uhl is a. Democrat in his political associations. His career
has been very successful, chiefly by reason of his natural abUity and his thor
ough insight into the business in which as a young tradesman he embarked.
Throughout his entire career his fellow-townsmen have regarded him as a
genial, courteous gentleman, whose word no man can question.

1212 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
EP. BROWN, trustee of Monroe township, Howard county, Shanghai his
post-office address, is one of the highly respected citizens of this locality.
He is a native of Indiana, born in Union county, January 12, 1840, and is of
Scotch descent. WiUiam Brown, his grandfather, was born in Scotland, and
on coming to this country settled in the south. His son Henry, the father of
E. P., was born in North CaroHna, and in 1803 came from there to Indiana,
taking up his abode in Union county, where he passed the rest of his life and
where he died in 1848, at the age of fifty-five years, a member of the Chris
tian church. Throughout his life he was engaged in farming, was prospered
in his undertakings, and at his death left considerable property. He married
Susannah Witter, daughter of Christopher Witter, a native of Germany.
She died in 1878. Of their eight children only three are now hving, namely:
Finley, a resident of Labette county, Kansas; Mary, wife of Caleb Nutt,
Union county, Indiana; and E. P., whose name heads this sketch.
E. P. Brown received his early education in the common schools of his
native county and later entered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where he
was a student for three years. From 1863 to 1865 he was engaged in teach
ing school at Connersville, Fayette county, Indiana. His chief occupation,
however, has been farming. He continued farming in Union county until
1879, when he moved to Howard county and since iSSi he has resided on
his present farm of sixty acres in Monroe township.
Politically Mr. Brown has always given his support to the Republican
party and takes a commendable interest in public affairs, especially those of
local nature. In 1SS4 he was elected township trustee, has twice been
re-elected to that office and is now its incumbent.
Mr. Brown was married February 23, 1865, to Miss Emeline Penticost,
daughter of James Penticost, of Union county, Indiana. They have two
children: J. Albert, superintendent of the Irvington school at Indianapolis,
Indiana, and a minister of the Friends' church; and William Henry.

A LBERT STOUT, who is engaged in the undertaking business at New
•*»¦ London, Howard county, Indiana, was born and reared here and has
many friends and a large acquaintance in this county. Following is a r/jr?^^/
of his life:

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Albert Stout was born in New London, Indiana, August 31, 1852, and
is a representative of a family long resident in this state. His grandfather,
John Stout, a native of North Carolina, came north to Indiana in iSii, five
years before she had attained to the honor of statehood, and settled here
among the early pioneers. His son Silas, the father of Albert, was born in
in Orange county, Indiana, and was for some years a teacher in Orange and
Parke counties. He moved to Howard county in 1846, and here he contin
ued teaching for several, years. Also he was a farmer and surveyor, and at
one time filled the office of county surveyor of Howard county. He was a
stanch member of the Society of Friends, and from the time the society was
organized at New London he was one of its most devoted and earnest mem
bers, attending its every meeting, with the exception of one year, up to the
timeof his death, in February, 18S7. The mother of our subject, whose
maiden name was Martha King, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and
died in 1891. The children of this worthy couple number six and in order
of birth are as follows: Edwin, a resident of Kokomo, Indiana; Myra,
wife of Joseph Small, of Marion, Indiana; Elma, wife of John Q. Thomas,
of Marion, Indiana; Albert, whose name forms the heading of this article;
Charles, a resident pf Georgia; and Louis, of New London, Indiana.
Albert Stout was reared on his father's farm and his advantages for
securing an education were limited to the common schools. When he
started out in life on his own account it was as a farraer, and he has been
interested in agricultural pursuits ever since. He owns a farm of eighty
acres near New London, which he rents, and has twenty-five acres at his
home place which he personally superintends. He has been engaged in the
undertaking business since the fall of 1895, and such is his manner of con
ducting funerals — courteous, thoughtful, careful and sympathetic — that his
services are in demand.
Mrs. Stout and his wife_ are both consistent members of the Friends'
church. He was married September 16, 1875, to Miss Carrie Kenworthy,
and they have two children: Lew W. and Hazel.

JAMES W. COOPER. — Among the prominent members of the Howard
^ county bar is found the subject of this review, J. W. Cooper, of Russia
ville. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, November 14, 1844, and comes of

1214 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
English ancestors. Tracing his ancestors along the agnatic line, we find his
father, James W., Sr. , was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, son of Milton,
born near Richmond, Virginia, son of Malachi, born on the James river, in
Virginia, son of Jaraes, who was a native of Kent, England. The last men
tioned left England in 1700 and made the voyage to America, selecting a
location on the James river in the Old Dominion, where he established his
new home. His people belonged to the aristocracy of England, and during
the Cromwell period took sides with the king and were all kiUed. The
descendants of James Cooper figured in the wars of this country. Malachi
Cooper was wounded in the siege of Yorktown and his son was under the
older Harrison at the battle of Fort Meigs. The Coopers in Virginia were
planters and slaveholders.
James W. Cooper, the father of our subject, was an M. D. He moved
to Iowa when a young man and practiced medicine there until 185 1, when
he came to Indiana and located at Russiaville. Here he practiced his pro
fession and also carried on the manufacture of wooden-ware. He moved to
Geneva, Kansas, in 1883, where he has since lived and where he stiU engages
in the practice of medicine, now being seventy-four years of age. General
James Wilkinson, who was the first commander-in-chief of the United
States army after General Washington resigned, was a grand uncle of the
subject of this sketch. Our subject's mother was Lucy Gregg, daughter of
John Gregg, of Campbell county, Kentucky, a veteran of the war of 1S12.
His father was an Englishman and a Revolutionary soldier. Of the ten
children born to James W. and Lucy Cooper, three are deceased. She died
in 1S72. A record of those living is as follows: Orsen, a resident of Guth
rie, Oklahoma; John N., San Francisco, California; J. W., whose name
forms the heading of this sketch; William W. , Toronto, Kansas; Oliver G. ,
Pawnee Rock, Kansas; Stanley E., Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma; and Lottie
E., wife of David Wilson, Iowa, Kansas.
J. W. Cooper attended the common schools until he was twelve years
old, when he quit in order to assist his father in the wooden-ware factory above
referred to. However, he continued his studies at home and when he grew
older he took up the study of law, spending his evenings with his law books.
In 1 88 1 he was admitted to the bar, and since then has been engaged in the
practice of his profession at RussiaviUe. For four years he was counsel for
the Clover Leaf RaUroad Company, and during his career as a lawyer he has

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1215
defended some remarkable eases. He has met with a fair degree of success
and has accumulated a nice property, now having two farms, the cultivation
of which he superintends.
Mr. Cooper has always taken a lively interest in political matters.
When he first became a voter he gave his support to the Republican party,
but recently he has identified himself with the "sUverites." A ready, enter
taining and instructive speaker, his services are always in demand in campaign
times, and he is ever ready and wiUing to lend his voice and efforts for the
advancement of the best interests of the country. Fraternally, he is both a
Mason and a member of the order of Red Men.
Mr. Cooper was married in May, 1872, to Miss Jennie Neff, daughter of
J. F. Neff, of this place. They have two children of their own, Victor and
Clinton, and an adopted daughter, Lydia B.

A C. RATCLIFF, of West Middleton, Howard county, was born in
-'*¦ Clinton county, Ohio, July 4, 1843. He is a son of Jesse and grand
son of Abner Ratcliff, both natives of North Carolina; and great-grandson
of John Ratcliff, an Englishman and sea captain, who at an early period in
the history of this country made settlement in the south.
Jesse Ratcliff in early life came north to Ohio and located in Clinton
county, where he made his home until 1852. That year he came over into
Indiana and settled in Harrison township, Howard county, where he passed the
rest of his life, dying in 1895, at an advanced age. He was a man of many
excellent traits of character and was recognized by all who knew him as a
true Christian. Throughout his Hfe he was a devoted and consistent member
of the Friends' church. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth TerrUl,
was a daughter of John TerriU, a justice of the peace and a man of local
prominence in Ohio. She died in November, 1894. Of their seven children
five are now Hving, namely: Susan, wife of H. C. Cook, of West Middle-
ton; A. C, the subject of this sketch; Abner, a resident of Flora, Indiana;
John M., Gr,eentown, Indiana; and Cyrus, of Middleton, Indiana.
A. C. Ratcliff was educated at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana,
and for ten years was engaged in teaching in this state and in Illinois. After
severing his connection with the school-room he turned his attention to

1216 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
mUling, buUt a gristmUl, and ran the same for some time. Later he was
engaged in farming for some years, but recently has sold his land and is now
living retired.
Politically he has always been a Republican and has taken an^ active
interest in local politics. For four years he has been a justice of the peace.
Reared in the Quaker faith, he still clings to it and is one of the leading sup
porters of the Friends' church at this place. On reaching the age of twenty-
one he sought admission to the Masonic fraternity, was duly accepted artd
initiated, and has since remained an acceptable member of this honored
organization. Mr. Ratcliff was married October 4, 1871, to Martha Cox, of Boone
county, Indiana. To them four chUdren have been given, three of whom
are living, — Angle, Verlin and Hester.

JOHN T. RATCLIFF, one of the representative farmers and leading men
of Howard county, owns one of the most desirable farms in Honey Creek
township. Mr. Ratcliff is a native of the neighboring state of Ohio. He was born
in Clinton county, January 17, 1843, a son of Thomas C. Ratcliff, who came
to Indiana about the middle of this century. (A personal sketch of Thomas
C. Ratcliff will be found on another page of this work.) John T. was
brought to Indiana by his parents in 1849, from that year until 1859 lived in
Henry county, and since then has made his home in Howard county. He
moved to his present farm, a fine tract of two hundred and five acres, in
1878, and here he has since been engaged in general farming, stock-rais
ing, etc.
A man of many excellent traits of character, honorable and upright in
every respect, Mr. Ratcliff has always been looked upon as one of the lead
ing men in his locality, and has frequently been honored with positions of
responsibility and trust. For fourteen years he has been a justice of the
peace. He was elected county commissioner in 1894, fiUed the office from
that time tiU 1897, and during his incumbency was the means of recovering
considerable money for the county. He has long been a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has passed all the chairs in the lodge.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1217
and now occupies the office of treasurer, which he has filled for the past
twelve years.
Mr Ratcliff was married November i6, 1876, to Miss Rebecca Wad
man, a daughter of Thomas N. Wadman, of Howard county, and they have
two chUdren, Thomas and Owen, both at home. Post-office, RussiavUle.

A W. GIFFORD, one of the representative farmers of Honey Creek
•^ township, Howard county, was born on the farm on which he now
lives, February 22, 1S52, and comes from one of the pioneer families of
Indiana. John Gifford, his grandfather, was a native of New York state, descended
from EngHsh ancestors, and came to Indiana at an early period in its his
tory, settling in Rush county. There his son Thomas, the father of A. W. ,
was born, and in that county made his home until 1840, when he moved to
Howard county, and located at Russiaville. He carried on farming opera
tions for years and also for some time engaged in the harness business
at Russiaville. He died here' April 4, 1887. Few men in this locality were
better known or more highly respected than he. In his business life he was
successful and acquired a good property, and, religiously, he was a devoted
and consistent member of the Baptist church. In his politics he was a Dem
ocrat, and at one time he was a candidate for the office of county treasurer.
His widow survives, him and is now seventy-one years of age. She was,
before marriage. Miss Mary J. Penticost, and is a daughter of Henry M.
Penticost, a native of Pennsylvania. Of the seven children born to this
worthy couple, six are now Hving, namely: Esther, a resident of Russiaville;
A. W., whose name heads this sketch; Amanda J., wife of L. J. Hayworth,
Greentown, Indiana; Augusta, wife of Charles Umpstead, Chicago, Illinois;
Frank, RussiavUle; and AHce, wife of William Robinson, Crown Point,
Indiana. A. W. Gifford, at the close of his school Hfe, went out west, where he
spent some time, and on his return home went to Chicago and worked at the
carpenter's trade. In 1885 he returned to Howard county and took charge
of the home farm, where he has since resided and given his whole attention
to agricultural pursuits, being fairly successful in his operations. His farm
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1218 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
comprises two hundred acres. For a time he was in the drug business at
RussiavUle. Mr. Gifford was married March 9, 1876, to Miss Alice Francis, a daugh
ter of George Francis, and they have had five children, four of whom are
living, namely: Charles, Carl, Harry and Gladys.
Mr. Gifford and his family worship at the Baptist church, of which he
is a liberal supporter and consistent member.

GEORGE NEWKIRK.— The Newkirk family, of which the subject of
this sketch is a member, traces its origin to Holland, but has been
identified with America since the colonial period. It was well represented
in the war of the Revolution, several of its members fighting valiantly for
independence. Abraham Newkirk, the grandfather of George, was a Penn
sylvanian who moved to Washington county, Ohio, at an early day. His
son Cyrus, our subject's father, was born in Washington, Pennsylvania;
came to Ohio with his father, and in 1851 moved over into Indiana. He
died in this state, October 2, 1855. He was a successful farmer, a pro
gressive and generous man, and stood high in the esteem of his fellow men.
Several times he was elected to and served in township offices. He married
Miss Gassy Ann Phillips, daughter of WUliam Phillips, of Virginia, a veteran
of the war of x8i2. She died in March, 1883. Seven of their eleven chil
dren are living at this writing: William, Grant county, Indiana; Margaret A.,
wife of H. S. Killgore, Grant county, Indiana; Mary A., wife of H. Bishop,
Kansas; George, whose name forms the heading of this sketch: John F.,
Grant county, Indiana; Emily E. E., wife of J. Wesley Bishop, RussiaviUe,
Indiana; and Adaline A., wife of Milton Stout, Monroe township, Howard
county, Indiana.
George Newkirk was born in Adams county, Ohio, November 5, 1842,
and at his native place passed his early boyhood and received his elementary
education. He came with his parents to Indiana and was here at the time
the war broke out. In 1862, at the age of twenty, he enlisted as a member
of Company H, One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for a
term of three years. He was with his command in the south and was a
participant in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, and in many

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1219
expeditions in the west, after Kirby Smith, John Morgan, etc., and at the
expiration of his term of enlistment, in July, 1865, he was honorably dis
charged. After the war closed Mr. Newkirk returned to his home in Indiana and
the next two years went to school. He then turned his attention to dealing
in stock. He had moved to RussiavUle in the meantime, and lived there
untU October, 1884, when he moved to his present farm of eighty acres
near West Middleton, Monroe township. Here, in addition to conducting
his farming operations, he stUl continues dealing in stock. He studied med
icine at one time and prepared himself for the practice of that profession,
but on account of failing health never practiced to any extent.
Politically, Mr. Newkirk harmonizes with the Republican party. He
has been somewhat active in local politics, and from 187S to 1884 was com
missioner of Howard county. The winter following his return from the war
he received the blue-lodge degrees of Masonry at Russiaville, in Lodge No.
82, and has been an honored member of the Masonic order ever since. Later
he took the chapter and council degrees at Kokomo, and was made a Knight
Templar at Logansport, in Commandery No. 24. Also he has membership
at Indianapolis in Murat Temple, Mystic Shrine, and the consistory at Indi
anapolis. , Religiously, he is identified with the Christian (or Apostolic) church,
in which he has been honored with the office of steward; and, like most vet
erans of the Civil war, he belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, having
his membership at Russiaville.
Mr. Newkirk has been twice married. He first wedded Miss Martha
Annie Floyd, by whom he had three children, all of whom are now deceased.
She died in 1874, and, July 18, 1S75, Mr. Newkirk married Mrs. Frances
Kingery, and they have had two chUdren, one now living, — Miss Maud.

'I yiNCENT G. CARTER, of the drug firm of Carter & Duncan, Russia-
» ville, Indiana, is one of the enterprising and popular young business
men of this place.
The Carters have long been residents of America, and Mr. Carter
belongs to the third generation of the family in Indiana. Nathaniel Carter,
his great-great-grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, and early in life went

1220 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
to North Carolina, settling in Orange county, where his son John was born;
John Carter had a son, James, who was born in North CaroHna and who
emigrated to Indiana, settling first in Parke county, and ih 185 1 removing to
Tipton county. He was by occupation a farmer and tanner. WhUe he was
a res'.dent of Parke county his son John, the father of our subject, was born.
The latter on reaching manhood engaged in farming and has foUowed that
occupation all his life. He removed to Tipton county, and it was there, July
28, 1873, that V. G., the subject of this sketch, was born.
V. G. Carter received his early education in the common schools of his
native county, and in the Franklin high school, where he was a student two
years. In 1894 he entered Rush Medical College, where he. remained untU
1S96. He left the college, however, before completing his course and
returned home. In December, 1897, the partnership of Carter &¦ Duncan
was formed, and as a member of this firm he has since been engaged in a
prosperous business.
In fraternal circles Mr. Carter is prominent and active. He is a member
of the Knights of Pythias, Red Men and Sons of Veterans. Religiously, he
is a Baptist.

WILLIAM H. NEWLIN, M. D.— The first representative of the Newlin
family in America were two brothers who came to this country from
England previous to the Revolutionary war, one settling in New York state
and the other in North Carolina. From the one who settled in the south is
the subject of this sketch descended. Thomas Newlin, a surveyor. Dr.
Newlin's grandfather, was born in North Carolina, and from there came to
Indiana in the early history of this state, settling in Orange county, and
lived to the ripe old age of ninety years. James Newlin, his son, was born
in Orange county, Indiana, sixty-five years ago. In his early life he taught
school and since leaving the school-room has devoted his time to preaching.
He has been a minister in the Friends' church for forty years. About 1850
he moved to Howard county, where he has since lived. He was pastor of a
church at Kokomo two years and for the past three years has had charge at
New London. His chief work, however, has been that of revivalist and in
the evangelistic field he has done a large amount of effective work. He
owns a fine farm of one hundred acres in this county. His wife, whose

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1221
maiden name was Rhoda Jones, was a daughter of Henry Jones, of Poplar
Grove, Howard county, a descendant of Colonel Pemberton, of Revolution
ary fame. She is now sixty years of age. Of their five children, four are
Hving, namely: William H., whose name introduces this sketch; Emma,
wife of Calvin Clark, New London, Indiana; Thomas, who resides on the old
home farm; and Ella N. , wife of Carey G. Taylor, postmaster of New Lon
don. Dr. WilHam H. Newlin was born at Poplar Grove, Howard county,
Indiana, September 6, 1865. After graduating in the high-school of his
native place, in 1884, he was for one year a student in the Spiceland
Academy. Taking up the study of medicine, he attended the Eclectic Med
ical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1889. Immediately
after his graduation he located in Young America, Indiana, where he entered
upon the practice of his profession and where he remained three years. In
1893 he moved to New London, his present location, and here he has since
conducted a successful general practice.
Dr. Newlin has a membership in the church in which he was reared, and
fraternally, he is identified with the Odd Fellows.
He was married, March 23, 1887, to Miss Florence Hayworth, daughter
of Clarkson Hayworth, of Monroe township, Howard county. They have
three children — Lolo, Roy and Horace.

QTEPHEN G. CONRAD, a prominent farmer of Bethlehem township,
^ Cass county, has been a resident of this county ever since he was seven
years of age. By industry, good judgment and economy he has succeeded
in accumulating a competence.
His father. Major David H. Conrad, was a native of Pennsylvania, a fol
lower of agricultural and pastoral pursuits, driving cattle to market before the
era of modern railroad facilities. He was a busy man, and as a pioneer he con
tributed more than his share of labor toward the development of the country.
He was noted for his strong mind, great resolution and executive ability, and
was a valuable man in the community in every way. (As an item of pass
ing interest, by the way, we may mention that he rode on the first railroad
train ever run in the United States.) His military title was derived from the

1222 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
fact that he was a major in the mUitia. He passed to the other world atthe
age of eighty-four years. For his wife he married Mary Custer, who was
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, of which county her father also
was a native. She departed this life at the age of forty years. Of the nine
chUdren by this marriage only four are now living, namely: Stephen G.,
our subject; George W., a resident near Logansport; John Q., living in Kan
sas; and Mary, the wife of Jacob Mohart, of Logansport.
Stephen G. Conrad was born October 4, 1833, in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and when seven years of age his parents emigrated to Cass
county, this state. At that rime this region was a dense forest, alive with
garae and savage animals. Nightly could the wolves be heard in their dis
mal howling, and scarcely a day or night passed without some strange experi
ences with some wUd beast or vermin. Here young Stephen was obliged to
pass the kind of Hfe that all pioneer boys had to experience, devoting his
energies to clearing the land, cultivating the farm, doing chores, etc., with
out having any good educational facilities, a subscription school for three
months in the year being all that was afforded, and only half of these for a
few terms being available by Mr. Conrad. However, his inherited capacity
and disposition have enabled hira to obtain a good practical education from
the experiences of life, reading and observation. He continued on the old
place until twenty-four years old, then rented a part of the farm and later
purchased one hundred and eighteen acres of " barrens," poor land, which
was the first land that he owned. Notwithstanding, although commencing
with nothing, he has succeeded in life, establishing a comfortable home. He
is now the possessor of four hundred and sixty acres of good land, well
improved, in Bethlehem township, which constitutes one of the best farms
in the neighborhood.
In the autumn of 1863 he enlisted in the army to defend the Union and
the government, joining the Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and was
in the service until honorably discharged, in 1865, at the close of
the war, at which time he was nurse in a hospital at Vicksburg.
He has always been identified with the best interests of the community
and has done raore than his share of work in the development of the resources
of his section.
Before he entered the army Mr. Conrad married Julia Ann Grable, a
native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, who some time afterward

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departed this Hfe. By this marriage there were two children: Frank, who
is Hving in Indian Territory; and Dora, deceased. By his second marriage
Mr. Conrad was united with EUa Cowle, of Ohio, and she also is deceased;
and by this union there were three children, as follows: George W. and R.
G., srill on the farm; and Mary E., who Hves near Fletcher's Lake, Indiana.
Lastly, Mr Conrad was married to Ella Webster, a native of England who
was brought to this country when but one year old.

¦\ 1 7ILLIAM D. CONDON, a prominent citizen of Washington township,
' * Cass county, is a genial gentleman now devoting his energies to agri
cultural pursuits.
Commencing in the order of events with his genealogy, we may state
that his paternal grandfather, Robert Condon, was a native of Ireland, born
in the year 1813, and when a young man emigrated to the United States,
setthng first in Baltimore county, Maryland. Afterward he removed to Ohio,
where he passed the remainder of his life, engaged in mechanical pursuits,
dying at the age of eighty-six years. He married Miss Cordelia Dillworth,
of English ancestry, and they had ten chUdren, namely: Elizabeth, a resident
of Ohio; WiUiam, the father of the subject of this sketch; Cordelia, residing
at Delavan, Ohio; John, living in Chicago; Larkin, who died in the army;
Mary, stUl in Ohio; Edward, of. Miami county, this state; Jane, of Ohio;
and Marmaduke, who lives in the state of Missouri.
The second child above mentioned, William, who is the father of WUl
iam D., was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, February iS, 1825, and
was eleven years of age when his parents removed to Ohio. In his youth
he had but little opportunity for school education, but being a man of
shrewd practical judgment he in due time obtained a good practical educa
tion. During the CivU war he came to Cass county, Indiana, and purchased
a tract of land, and in 1867 removed here. The first quarter-section (one
hundred and sixty acres) which he bought had upon it but little improve
ment. Subsequently he obtained more land. He went vigorously to work
in the way of cle,aring and improvement, and continued until he made all
his land into good farms. He now owns three good farms, in a high state of
cultivation, of which he stUl retains supervision, whUe he lives comparatively

1224 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
retired in the city of Logansport. As a farmer and business man he has
always been successful. In the city he has also engaged in various enter
prises, such as running a gristmill, conducting a dry-goods store, dealing in
live stock, etc. After a residence of seven years in the city he moved out
upon one of his farms, and in 1893 returned to the city.
He was united in marriage with Miss Mary Patterson, of Ohio, and their
only child is William D., whose name heads this sketch. He was born in
Lincoln county, Ohio, September 28, 1865, and was therefore but one- and
a half years of age when his parents came with him to Indiana. He received
a fair comraon-school education. After reaching years of maturity he Hved
in Logansport, where he was engaged in the retail oil business for five and a
half years. In 1897 he moved out upon one of his father's farms, which he
now occupies.
He was united in matrimony with Miss Louella Plank, and has two
children, Julia May and Herbert D.
Mr. Condon is a meraber of Eel River Lodge, No. 417, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand and chief patriarch; also
he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. In religion he is a.
member of the English Lutheran church, the house of worship being located
on the corner of one of his father's farms.

A NDREW W. STEVENS. — For many years this sterling citizen of
-'^ Logansport, Cass county, has been numbered among her progressive
business men. The success which he has achieved in life is the result of well
applied energy, industry and strict attention to business in all its details. He
owes his high standing in the commercial and social world to himself alone,
for he started out to make his own livelihood when he was a lad of but
eleven years, and, undaunted by the many obstacles which he encountered,
steadily pressed forward to the goal which he had set before him.
Born in Buckinghamshire, England, November 30, 1839, Andrew W.
Stevens is the third in a family of nine children whose parents were Thomas
and Susan (Riley) Stevens. They crossed the Atlanric in 1842 and took up
their residence in Stratford, Canada, where they remained a few years, later
setriing in Cleveland, Ohio. In the Forest city they dwelt untU 1854, when

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they removed to the town of Dover, in the same county, Cuyahoga, and
there they lived for a score of years. From 1 874 to the time of their death
the parents were citizens of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The father was a farmer
and gardener by occupation and was an industrious, unassuming man, faith
ful to his family and to his duties as a neighbor and citizen.
The educational privileges of the subject of this sketch were of a
meager order, as he attended school only a few years, and was less than twelve
when he commenced to earn his first small wages. In 1S54 he was bound
out as an apprentice to a carpenter and was industriously employed in this
caUing for several years. In January, 1857, he went to Fort Wayne, Indi
ana, vvhere he remained five years, learning the business to which he has
since devoted his attention, — plumbing and gas and steam fitting.
In July, X862, Mr. Stevens enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifth
Indiana Cavalry, and as he was very prominently concerned in the organiza
tion of the company he was commissioned second lieutenant of the same, by
Governor Morton, and served as such until he was mustered out of the serv
ice in June, 1S63, by reason of an act of congress (March 3, 1863) abolish
ing the rank in the cavalry branch of the army. Then, returning to his
home in Fort Wayne, Mr Stevens worked at his trade there until the follow
ing spring, when he accepted a position with Harney & Knowles, contract
ors, then engaged in the construction of the Logansport gas plant. When
he had completed this enterprise our subject joined Sandford Thomas, who
was then recruiting for the army, and together they undertook to raise a
company, with the understanding that Mr. Thomas was to be its captain,
while Mr. Stevens was to be the second Ueutenant. Their quota filled, the
two leaders accompanied the men to Indianapolis, where it developed that
Mr. Stevens ^as to be ignored in the matter, but with a sturdy, independ
ent spirit he addressed the men whom he had personally induced to join the
company, and upon stating the case to them they unanimously volunteered
to follow him and were eventually organized as Company K, One Hundred
and Forty-second Indiana Volunteers. Mr. Stevens was elected captain of
the company, and served as such until the close of the war, being granted
an honorable discharge July xS, 1865. He was always faithful to the duties
imposed upon him and was respected by his superiors as well as by the men
who were under his supervision.
When he was no longer needed to fight his country's battles the Cap-

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tain went to Dayton, Ohio, where he was foreman in the plumbing estab
lishment of Robeirt Ogden for a few months. In November, 1865, he went
to Burlington, Iowa, and entered into business for himself, conducting the
same about two years. The next few years he* was located in South Bend,
Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois, being foreman of a large shop in the Garden
city. In September, 1S71, he accepted a position as superintendent of the
Logansport Artificial Gas Company, and at the end of two years took a sim^
ilar place with H. H. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, having in charge the con
struction of a gas plant. His next residence was in Middletown, Ohio,
where he built a gas plant; then in Defiance, Ohio, in the same occupation,
and finally he becarae foreman of the corapany which put up the Logansport
water-works, completed in the summer of 1S76. For about eighteen months
he conducted the plumbing business of R. F Daugherty, and then, in part
nership with B. E. Hattersley, of Fort Wayne, he bought out Mr. Daugh-
erty's interest and a year and a half later purchased his partner's share, since
which time he has been alone. In 1882 he branched out into contracting on
a larger scale and has placed water-supply systems in the foUowing named
towns: Urbana, Champaign, Aurora and Galena, Illinois; Kokomo and
Edinburg, Indiana; Louisiana, Missouri; Marinette, Ripon and Antigo, Wis
consin; Athens, Ohio, and many others. He has also equipped various pub
lic buildings, such as the Soldiers' Home in LaFayette, Indiana, and carries
out large contracts for steam-fitting, etc.
Politically, Mr. Stevens is a stalwart Republican, and socially, he is
connected with Logan Post, No. 14, G. A, R. , which he assisted in organ
izing, and is a Mason of the Scottish-rite degree. He married Miss Susanna
Wachter, in this city, in October, 1864, and their three living children are
Nellie, Lulu and Walter.

"\ 11 /"ILLIAMSON WRIGHT. — No name is more prominently and honor-
' ' able associated with the history of the development and progress of
Cass county, Indiana, than that of Wright, and the subject of this review
was one who bore a conspicuous part in the substantial advancement of the
community through his connection with railroad and commercial interests.
In past ages the history of a country was the record of wars and conquests;

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1227
to-day it is the record of commercial activity, and those whose names are
foremost in its annals are the leaders in business circles. Williamson Wright
was one of the strong and influential men whose Hves have become an essen
tial part of the history of northern Indiana. Tireless energy, keen percep
tion, honesty of purpose, genius for devising and executing the right thing
at the right time, joined to every-day common sense, — these were his chief
characteristics, and while advancing individual success he also largely pro
moted the material welfare of the community.
Mr. Wright was born in Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, in May,
1 8 14, and was a son of Rev. John W. Wright, whose birth occurred in Penn
sylvania, in 1784. The grandfather came from Scotland in 1756 and first
engaged in the milHng business in Delaware, but after a short time became
involved in a litigation over the water right, and, abandoning his interests
there, removed to the Keystone state. In the pioneer days of Ohio Rev.
John W. Wright removed to Lancaster, that state, and after his son, Will
iamson, took up his residence in Logansport he also came to this city and
was the founder of the first Presbyterian church established in Cass county,
now known as the First Presbyterian church of Logansport. He was a vig
orous, earnest and zealous worker and left the impress of his strong Christian
character upon the congregation which he established.
Williamson Wright completed a liberal literary education by his grad
uation in Oxford College, and later read law, preparatory to his admission
to the bar. In the year 1835 he came to Loga,nsport, Indiana, where on the
ioth of August he began the practice of his chosen profession. His mind
was keenly analytical, his reasoning clear and cogent, his deductions logical
and his arguments before judge and jury clear and forcible. Thus he won
many notable triumphs at the bar, gaining distinctive preferment as a lawyer
of marked ability. His fitness for leadership and his thorough famUiarity
with the interests and needs of his state led to his election to the state senate
in 1840, as the representative of Cass, Miami and Fulton counties, and as a
member of the assembly he labored earnestly and effectively for the welfare
of his constituents. In 1849 he was the Whig candidate for congress. He
was instrumental in the construction of the early railroads centering in
Logansport, and in this manner contributed not a Httle to the development
and progress of the city. The prosperity ,of a community depends upon the
transportation facilities of which it can boast, and which, connecting it with

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the outside world, furnish it a market for its products and bring to it the
products of other localities. It is in this way that commercial and industrial
enterprises are built up in order to meet the public demand, and the inter
change of commodities and money brings the desired prosperity. Although
Mr. Wright arrived in Logansport with only twelve and a half cents in his
pocket, he possessed unbounded energy and a strong determination to suc
ceed, and soon acquired considerable property. His business methods con
formed to the strictest ethics of commercial life, and his integrity and relia
bility in all trade transactions were unassailable.
In early manhood Mr. Wright was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Ser-
ing, of Madison, who died in 1847. Later he wedded Miss Kate W. Swift,
daughter of Rev. E. P. Swift, D. D., of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a direct
descendant of John Eliot, the Indian apostle, who, in 1662, instructed the
red men in the Bible. There are five children of this marriage still living:
Kate, wife of E. P. Tucker, of Chicago; Lizzie G., wife of W. H. Barnhart,
of Terre Haute, Indiana; Anna Lucy, wife of C. W. Graves, of Logansport;
Etta; and Williamson Swift. The father of this family died on the i6th of
March, 1896, and his wife passed away on the 17th of February, 1897. For
sixty-one years he ranked among the representative citizens of his adopted
county, and by his upright and useful life won the respect, confidence and
esteem of all with whom he was brought in contact. He left the impress of
his individuality upon its best advancement, and through aU time he will be
numbered among the honored pioneers who laid the foundation for the
county's prosperity and substantial growth.

A X riLLIAMSON SWIFT WRIGHT.— One of the native sons of Logans-
^ ' port who has conferred honor and dignity upon the city of his birth
is W. S. Wright, who has been a leading factor in public and business life.
The history of a state as weU as that of a nation is chiefly the chronicle of
the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon
society. The world judges the character of a community by that of its
representative citizens, and yields its tributes of admiration and respect for
the genius, learning and labors of those whose works and actions constitute
the record of the state's prosperity and pride. In the world of business, in

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the field of politics and in the circles of society Mr. Wright is esteemed for
his abUity and genuine worth, and it is, therefore, consistent that he be rep
resented among the influential and prominent men of Cass county.
Born on the nth of January, 1857, he is a son of WUliamson and Kate
W. (Swift) Wright. His preUminary education, acquired in the common
schools, was supplemented by a course of study in the Wabash College, in
which institution he was graduated in the class of 1877. He then read law
for some time, was admitted to the bar, and engaged in practice for several
years. In 1890 he became assistant postmaster under D. W. Tomlinson,
but resigned in order to take editorial charge of the Logansport Journal on
the 15th of February, 1891. In August, 1892, a stock company was formed
for the purpose of purchasing the Journal, and Mr. Wright was made its
manager. He continued to serve in that capacity and from time to time
bought up shares of stock until now he is one of the principal owners of the
paper Since 1S94 he has been president of the company and under his
able administration the paper has become one of the leading papers of the
state, with a large circulation.
On the 17th of January, 1895, he became assistant secretary of state
of Indiana, under Secretary W. D. Owen, and discharged the important
duties of that position with marked fidelity until August, 1896, when his pri
vate interests demanded his attention and he resigned. He has large prop
erty and other business interests in Logansport, and the management and
control of these makes him a very busy man. He has great energy and
executive ability, and loses sight of no detail, while at the same time he
gives to the more important points due consideration. Every trust reposed
in him, whether of a public or private nature, has been fuUy discharged,
and he has proved himself in all the relations of Hfe an earnest, honest,
upright man, and a citizen of whom any coraraunity might be justly proud.

/^HARLES L. THOMAS, M. D.— High on the roll of Cass county's lead-
^^ ing citizens is inscribed the name of Dr. Charles L. Thomas, who has
attained distinctive preferment as a skilled medical practitioner; and his suc
cess is all the more creditable from the fact that it has been attained entirely
through his own efforts. He has justly won the proud American title of a

1230 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
self-made man, and by resolute purpose, energy and laudable ambition he
has gained a place among the representative men of the medical profession.
Dr. Thomas was born in Carroll county, Indiana, October 25, 1846,
the son of Samuel and Malinda (Johnson) Thomas, both of whom were natives
of Virginia, whence they removed to Carroll county in the year 1830. The
paternal grandfather, John Thomas, was a Virginian, of Welsh descent, and
became one of the pioneer settlers of Carroll county. The Doctor's father
is still living, at the age of seventy-four years, and now makes his home in
Flora, Indiana. In early life he carried on agricultural pursuits, but later
devoted his energies to the milling business.
On the home farm Dr. Thomas spent his boyhood days, assisting in the
labors of the field or enjoying the sports common among country lads. His
early education, acquired in the common schools, was supplemented by study
in the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, but at the age of seventeen he put
aside his text-books for the rifle and as a member of Company M, Eleventh
Indiana Cavalry, went forth to battle for the Union. He enlisted November
3, 1863, and was honorably discharged at St. Louis, Missouri, on the Sth of
June, 1S65. During most of the time he was engaged in detached service
with the Army of the Cumberland, and when the war was over he returned
to his home with an honorable military record.
In 1872 Dr. Thomas began the study of medicine, and entered upon
active practice on the ist of January, 1S74. He was graduated in the Indi
ana Medical College in 1S79 and has always been a close student of his pro
fession, carrying his investigation and research far beyond the average prac
titioner. He practiced in Moran, Clinton county, Indiana, for eight years
and then pursued a special course of study, — in 1 88 1-2, — in the Eye and Ear
Infirmary of New York city. Since that tirae he has practiced as an eye and
ear specialist in Logansport, meeting with gratifying success. He has attained
a high degree of proficiency in those lines and his marked ability has gained
to him a very liberal patronage. He is a member of the Cass County and
Indiana State Medical Associations, and his thorough understanding of
the science of medicine and his practical ability in applying his knowledge to
the relief of suffering humanity have gained him in professional circles a
position which is unmistakable evidence of his superior skill.
In 1876 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Thomas and Miss Mary E.
Cheney. They have one son, Charles Willard, who is now widely known as

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1231
a crack shot. The Doctor served as a member of the board of pension
examiners during Cleveland's two terms and is still filling the position. He
belongs to the Benev©lent Protective Order of Elks and is a gentleman of
genial manner, kindly disposition and sociability. He has a large circle of
warm friends in the community in which he makes his home.

JW. STEWART, M. D. — Among the most successful physicians and sur
geons of the medical fraternity of Cass county, is the subject of this
review. Though his residence in Logansport covers a period of scarcely
three years, he has already won a truly enviable reputation for skUl and
general ability, and has succeeded in gaining a large and representative
practice in the best families of this region. He stands high in the estimation
of his professional brethren, and his opinion has great weight in their councils.
He is a valued member of the Cass County Medical Society, the Indiana
State and tbe American Medical Associations, and whenever he can arrange
his affairs conveniently he attends their conventions.
The parents of the Doctor were James and Elizabeth (Cook) Stewart,
natives of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch and Irish descent, respectively. They
were married in their native state and in 1850 came to Indiana and settled
upon a farm in Carroll county. Of their nine chUdren J. W., of this sketch,
was next to the youngest. He was born May 27, 1857, and was reared upon
the old farm in Carroll county, his birthplace. When he had learned all that
he might be expected to in the country schools of the period he was sent
away from home for supplementary advantages. Having attended school in
the towns of Camden and Delphi, Carroll county, he next entered Butler
University, at Indianapolis.
At the time that Dr. Stewart made up his mind that he would devote
his future to his present profession he concluded to pursue his studies along
this Hne in the Louisville Medical CoUege. In 1877 he was graduated in
that well known institution, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Desir
ing further instruction, he continued his studies under the supervision of the
late Graham N. Fitch, M. D., who was one of the ablest members of the
medical profession in northern Indiana. Later Dr. Stewart matriculated in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of northern Indiana, in Indianapolis,

1232 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and received a diploma from that institution in 1878. The following six
months he was the house physician in the IndianapoHs City Hospital, thus
gaining valuable experience in the treatment of all classes of disease.
In 1879 Dr. Stewart, thoroughly qualified for his future work, by ex
perience and book knowledge, opened an office in the town of Burrows,
Indiana, and remained there for six years. At the end of that period he re
moved to Rockfield, this state, where, for nine years, he was very_ success
fully engaged in practice. Always a great student and determined not to
retrograde, the Doctor has kept abreast of all modern discoveries in science
pertaining to his profession, and in the spring of 1S95 he went to New York
city and took a post-graduate course in the Polyclinic Institute, paying
special attention to gynecology and surgery. July 8, 1895, he established
himself in Logansport, and at once won the respect of all with whom he
had dealings. His favorite branch of practice comprises surgery cases, , in
which department he is remarkably successful.
The Doctor is not a politician, for his time is too fully occupied with
other matters to permit him to take an active interest in public affairs, which,
however, he is not disposed to do. He contents himself with voting at all
elections. For over twenty years he has been an Odd Fellow and is a Master
Mason and a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He
was married in 1877 to Miss Amanda Gregg, of Carroll county.

JOHN A. CUTHRELL. — "A thousand items swarm around our pen" as
^ we take it in hand to compile a biographical account of this prominent
citizen of Howard county. Behold the many respects in which we can con
sider a man's life and his character ! Even an enumeration would fill a page
or more. Every focus of eloquence that is inspired by a convergence of any
series of events, experiences, thoughts, etc., in one's life reveals the weak
ness of our puny phrases.
Conforming to our Hmited space, we shaU undertake in the case before
us to give, in brief phrase, the principal outline of Mr. Cuthrell's life, tak
ing a preliminary glance, as is usual, at his ancestry. His parents were Joseph
B. CuthreU, a native of North Carolina, and Anna, nee Bingamman, a

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1233
native of Ohio. Of her remote ancestry but Httle is known. Her parents,
Allen and Bathana (Burt) Bingamman, were both natives of the Buckeye
state and died in Rush county, Indiana, where they were early settlers and
were devoted to the pursuits of agriculture. Mr. Bingamman was also a
blacksmith. Their children were Henry, Anna (mother of our subject),
Manerva, John, Eli, Eleven, William, Mary E. and Nancy J. Their father
died in 1841 and their mother survived until 1853.
Joseph B. CuthreU was left an orphan when young and "bound out " to
a planter of the Old North state, where he was obliged to labor along with
the slaves on the plantation, and during his young manhood he learned the
art of shoemaking. He remained true to his trust until he arrived at the age
of twenty-one years, when he at once started for the free and glorious state
of Indiana, in the year 1838, coming in company with a family who were
making their emigration to this state and located in Rush county.
In 1839 he was married and, " knowing that the man who consecrates
his hours by vigorous effort and an honest aim at once draws out the sting of
life and death," he rented a farm and went to work with heart and courage,
and he continued to take farms by lease and to cultivate them until 1848,
when he came to Howard county, entered government land and commenced
to evolve from it a fine farm and a permanent home. Evenings and the
wintei: seasons he improved by making and mending shoes and boots, and this
industrious habit he kept up for a number of years. Of the one hundred and
twenty acres of land which he possessed he succeeded during Hfe in reducing
eighty-seven acres to cultivation, erecting a commodious dwelling, a large
barn, etc. The improvements upon the place were monumental proofs of
his industry and sagacity. Thus was he prospering when he was accidentally
killed by the falling of a tree April 5, 1876. He had been so prominent in
developing his section of the country that his death seemed to be a specially
hard blow upon the affections of all ,the community — an irreparable loss was
felt In his political principles Mr. CuthreU was a Whig and Republican,
was influential in party work, but never aspired to office. His wife yet sur
vives, at the ripe age of seventy-nine years, and is enjoying a comfortable
home with her son, the subject of this sketch.
Before coming to Howard county, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. CuthreU
had three children, in Rush county, this state, namely: John A., who is the
subject proper of this biographical record; Mary M., who is now Mrs. D.
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1234 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Carr; and one who died in infancy; and after coming to this county the fol-
#
lowing were born: Elizabeth H., the wife of J. Peterson; Sarah J., now
Mrs. J. W. Mauler; and Joseph F., who died at the age of twenty-four
years. Mr. Joseph B. CuthreU was an infiuential member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and his wife vvas likewise a faithful and consistent mem
ber of the Christian church.
John A. CuthreU was reared to manhood in Howard county, engaged
in assisting his father to clear land, improve the farm and beautify the prem
ises, and since his youth also he has always Hved within sight of this home
stead. In 1863 he was married and built a cabin on his father's land,
and there made his home while he proceeded to labor on the old homestead
for about two years. Then, in 1866, he purchased the farm which he now
occupies, adjoining the homestead, which latter he bought after his father's
death. Thus he has in one body one hundred and seventy-three acres of
good farm land, besides which he owns another farm. When he first occu
pied his present place there was a small clearing and a log house upon it.
The transformation he has made has wonderfully eclipsed all the old-time
features, and everything seems complete. A fine residence, magnificent
barn, commodious outbuildings, etc., now grace the premises. There are
one hundred and fourteen acres ditched and tiled and in a good state of cul
tivation; on the place are two thousand rods of tiling. In X878 Mr. Cuth
reU built a sawmill, which he has since kept in operation; and also, for the
last forty years, he has been running a threshing-machine. His greatest
attention, however, has been given to agricultural pursuits, in which he has
been remarkably successful; and he has seen not only his own farm but also
those of his neighbors throughout his section of the state developed from a
terror-striking wilderness to their present domestic finish, which work has
taken time, with slow and steady pace.
In his political principles Mr. CuthreU was a Republican until recently,
when he affiliated himself with the Populist party, for which he is now the
township committeeman. He takes an active interest in public affairs, as
every patriot should. Fraternally he is a Master Mason, being a member of
Greentown Lodge, No. 341.
For his first wife he was married to Miss Anna Quick, who is from an
honored pioneer family, being a daughter of John and Sidney (Connor) Quick.
Her father is a native of Henry county, Indiana, while the Connor family

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIFTOX COUXTIES. 1285
were originally from Virginia, coming to Howard county in 1850. During
that year Mr. Connor purchased land and proceeded to improve it. By the
marriage just mentioned the children were: Alwilda, now Mrs. E. W. Bor
ings; Joseph F. , a farmer; John W., also a farmer; Jesse D., who died when
young; and Anna, who is now Mrs. Simons. Mrs.. Anna CuthreU departed
this life February 20, 1S78, a sincere and consistent member ofthe Christian
church, and June 24, 1878, Mr. CuthreU was united in marriage with Miss
Mary J. Nocks, of a family of early settlers of this county, being a daughter
of WUliam and Marinda (Howard) Nocks, of Rush county, this state, who
came to Howard county about 1S54, where Mr. Nocks bought land and
improved a farm and where he yet lives. He was formerly a Democrat in
his political views, but is now a Populist. His wife left for the invisible
world May 2, 1897, an intelligent member of the Christian church, with
which she had united when seventeen years old, and with which, therefore,
she was connected for over forty-seven years. The children, by the last mar
riage are: Sarah E. , deceased; Anna, now Mrs. Hosier; Mary J., the wife of
Mr. CuthreU; John, a farmer; WiUiam; Harvey; Clora; and Leora.

JONAH G. BROWN, a prominent and representative farmer of Union
^ township, Howard county, has by his inherited qualities been led into a
life career that places him far above the average. He was born in Wayne
county, Indiana, September 29, 1843, brought up to honest toU as a farmer's
boy and educated in the district school, making a good start on the road to
learning. His parents, Jerome and Susanna (Gardner) Brown, were both natives
of this state and were married in Wayne county, Hampton Brown, grand
father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Indian Camp, in the " ter
ritory " of Indiana; and his father, Robert Brown, was a native of England
and a preacher in the Society of Friends, who emigrated to America during
the last century. He was sent as a missionary to the Indians of the far west
and was located in the vicinity of Vincennes, which was then in the territory
of lUinois, as this was the name given for a short time to the region embraced
within the present limits of Illinois and Indiana. HamptO'^ was born in
Indian Camp, and during his chUdhood was taken to Ohio, where his father

1236 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
passed the remainder of his life and where young Hampton grew up and was
married. Later he moved to Wayne county, Indiana; and itwas about 1847
that he came to Howard county, locating where the village of Jerome now
stands. He laid out this town and named it, in honor of his son Jerome.
Pie and his sons built the first mill in this part of the county. At first it was
only a "corn-cracker," but later other facilities were added, making it a good
gristmiU; and this has since been still further superseded by a first-class flour
ing mUl. It is run by water power. Mr. Brown sold town lots, reduced
some land to cultivation and passed the remainder of his days there, dying
in 1 87 1, at a ripe old age. His first wife, whose name before marriage was
Mary Cabe, died in 1858, leaving vvith her bereaved husband a large number
of chUdren, namely: Joseph, Harvey, Jerome (father of our subject), Joel,
Charlotte (now Mrs. Galway), Eugene (who died in the army during the late
war). Napoleon B., Mrs. Vertillis Ball, Mrs. Sarah J. Hunt and Mrs. Mary
A. Fisher. For his second wife Mr. Brown was united with Mrs. Elmore,
whose name before her first marriage was Hammond. Of the children by
this raarriage two were reared to years of raaturity, namely: Manny and
Mrs. Loretta Thompson.
Mr. Jerome Brown was brought up in Wayne county, where he was
married and first established his home, renting a farm. In 1S47 he came to
Howard county and entered wild land and proceeded to improve it; and he
passed the remainder of his life there, from 1S71 to 1S75; he was also a
"silent" partner in a mercantile business, while he gave his attention princi
pally to the farm. When he came to this county little farming was done, as
but little land was cleared, and there were still some Indians in the country.
Wild game of all kinds was plentiful, and savage beasts were altogether too
numerous. At that time the nearest gristmill was at Jonesboro, twenty miles
distant, to which point the residents would take a bag of corn on horseback
and give half to the miller to get the remainder ground. No regular roads
were- laid out, and travelers were obliged to find their way through the wil
derness as well as they could by trails, blazed trees, etc. Mr. Brown be
came prominent among the farmers in the county, owning a large tract of
land and operating on a large scale. In politics he was originally a Whig
and later a Republican, a local leader in his party. He served two terms as
county commissioner, and it was while he was in office that the present
court-house was erected; and he also held other offices, as trustee, etc.

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Being a man of more than ordinary judgment, his counsel was sought by the
neighbors generally. He was therefore very influential in public affairs.
During the war he was an able defender of the Union cause. In his religion
he was a member of the Christian church. For his first wife he was united
in matrimony with Miss Susanna Gardner, of an honored pioneer family,
being the daughter of Jesse Gardner, Esq., from North CaroHna, who was an
old settler of Wayne county, this state, and later moved to Jay county,
this state, where he died in 1864. By occupation he was a farmer and
blacksmith. In religion he was a member of the Society of Friends. His
children were Susanna (mother of our subject), Mrs. Diana Wright, Mrs.
Eliza Hopkins, William and Obed; the latter died in the war of the
Rebellion. Mrs. Jerome Brown died February 5, 1S52. Her children
were Jonah G. , our subject; Dawson M., who died December 6,
1864, at Nashville, while serving his country in the Civil war as a member
of Company E, Eleventh Indiana Cavalry; William R. , who also served in
the war and died in 1875, and Jesse C. and Rowland Z. Jesse died at four
years of age and Rowland is now a minister. Mr. Jerome B own, for his sec
ond wife, married Miss Lidda Carr, of Rush county, Indiana, and by this
marriage there were six children, viz.: Biophus, Daniel, John, Morton,
Lincoln and Grant.
Mr. Jonah G. Brown, whose name heads this sketch, grew to manhood
in Howard county, assisting his father in the labors upon the farm. In
August, 1 86 1, he enlisted for three years, or during the war, in the service of
his country, in Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, or the Eighth Cavalry, which was assigned to the Army of the Cum
berland. He vvas therefore engaged in many skirmishes. When in the in
fantry he participated in some of the most important battles, as Shiloh, Cor
inth and Stone River, in the last of which he was taken prisoner and con
fined at Libby prison. Eighteen days afterward he was exchanged and
returned to his command at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His nextengagement
was in the batUe at- Chickamauga. During his service he suffered many
hardships and experienced many narrow escapes. He had his horse shot
from under him on Mission Ridge September 21, 1863. After the expiration
of three years and some days he received an honorable discharge and
returned home, after -having served his country faithfully, bravely and weU, but
receiving no wound.

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He remained at his parental home assisting his father untU the autumn
of 1869, when he was married and for one season rented a farm. In 1871
he engaged in merchandising at Jerome, and continued in that business until
1875, when he moved upon his present farm, which he had previously pur
chased. At that time there was a cabin upon it. A large portion of this
tract he has cleared, ditched and tiled, and he has added to the area of his
possessions by purchase of other land; he now has one hundred and forty
acres of good land. Upon the premises he has erected a good two-story
frame house, a large barn, convenient outbuildings, etc. His residence is
two and a half miles southeast of Greentown.
Mr. Brown chose for his life companion Miss Christena Man, of an
honored pioneer family, being the daughter of John and Barbara (Patrick)
Man, natives of the Old Dominion, who emigrated to Indiana in early days
and to this county in 1850. Mr. Man bought wild land and improved it,
making a fine farm, where he and his wife reside. Both are members of the
Christian church. His age is now seventy-five years. Their children are:
Christena, the wife of Mr. Jonah G. Brown, and William, yet unmarried, an
engineer by profession. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are the parents of Theron, an
electrician at Paducah, Kentucky; Lois, unmarried, and Waldo, who was
born June 2, 1893.
In his religious connections Mr. Brown is a member of the Christian
church, and in his social relations a meraber of the Masonic fraternity and of
Post No. 583, Grand Army of the RepubUc, of the latter of which he is now
adjutant. Politically he is a leading and prominent Republican, taking an
interest in all public affairs. He Has held the position of township trustee
and minor offices.
Thus briefly is outlined some of the principal events in the life of a wor
thy and useful citizen of Howard county, Indiana.

T2)HILIP STEVENS. — Located half a mile west of the town of Hemlock,
^ in Taylor township, Howard county, Indiana, is found the pleasant
country horae and fine farm of Philip Stevens. As one of the representative
farmers of his locality he is entitled to more than a passing mention in the
present work. His life history, as gleaned for publication, is as follows:

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PhUip Stevens was born in Shelby county, Indiana, April i6, 184S, son
of John and Catherine Stevens, natives of Germany. John Stevens came to
America with his parents when a boy, and in Shelby county, Indiana, where
the family home was established, he grew to manhood. At an early age he
worked for wages, being employed in freighting to Cincinnati, Ohio, and
subsequently, in connection with his father, bought a farm. Farming was
his life occupation. He died in 1852, leaving a wife and seven chUdren.
His wife survived him untU 1877, when her death occurred. Both were
worthy church members. Of their children, we record that Catherine is
now Mrs. J. T. Finn; Sally married a Mr. Parrish; John is engaged in farm
ing in Shelby county; Jacob and WiUiam are farmers of Tipton county, Indi
ana; Philip, the subject of this sketch, was the sixth born; and Mary, the
youngest is now Mrs. WilHam Hawkins.
PhUip Stevens was reared in his native county, in his boyhood having
the benefit of the district schools, and at sixteen started out to make his own
way in the world. He was employed first as a farm hand, and later as a ditcher,
working by the job, and at the time he reached his majority received his portion
of his father's estate — sixty dollars. To this sum was added the earnings he had
saved, making an aggregate of seven hundred dollars, and with his money he pur
chased a piece of land, which was partially improved, having a cabin thereon.
He set out an orchard and made other improvements, and in 1871 he mar
ried and forthwith settled on his land. He also rented forty acres, which for
six years he cultivated in connection with his own place. He continued to
reside in Shelby county until 1879, when he sold out and came to Howard
county. On his arrival here he bought sixty acres in Taylor township, fifty
acres of which had been cleared, and into the little cabin he moved his
family. He has since purchased thirty-six acres of adjoining land, making
ninety-six acres in all, and to the cultivation and improvement of this land
has directed his energies, meeting with a fair degree of prosperity. The log
cabin has been replaced by a modern, two-story frame house, and among
other improvements may be noted a good barn and substantial, well kept
outbuildings. Mr. Stevens carries on diversified farming and raises stock
for the support of his farm.
He was married in 187 1 to Miss Cyntha Cherry, a member of one of the
highly respected pioneer famihes of Shelby county. Mrs. Stevens is a
daughter of Eli and Mary J. (Tomlinson) Cherry, — the former a native of

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Kentucky and the latter of Ohio, — ^who came to Indiana in their youth and
were married in Shelby county. Eli Cherry was a son of William and Cyn
tha (Jackson) Cherry, of Ohio, who came over into Indiana among the early
settlers of Shelby county, and there spent the rest of their lives and died.
Their children were Andrew, Thomas, Malinda, Eliza, Steven, Mary, Eli,
Jesse, William and Delila. The maternal grandmother of Mrs. Stevens was
Julia A. Tomlinson, daughter of William Tomlinson, a Kentuckian who
became one of the pioneers cf Shelby county, Indiana. The Tomlinson
family was composed of five children: William, Amanda, Mary J., Charles
and Eliza. The Tomlinsons were identified with the Baptist church and
were ranked with the most prominent families of the locality in which they
lived. Mrs. Stevens' parents are both living, having reached venerable age,
and stUl reside at the old homestead in Shelby county. Of their children,
Mrs. Cyntha Stevens is the eldest; Martha A. is the wife of C. Alley; Amanda
is deceased; Sally is now Mrs. W. Cropper; Stephen D. is engaged in farming;
and Charles is a resident of Tipton county.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have had nine children, four of whom died when
young. Those living are Charles, Warren, Frank, Samuel and John, all at
home. They also have in their home, as one of their own family, an orphan,
Cora Smith, daughter of Cyrus and Maggie (Morris) Smith. Mrs. Smith on
on her death-bed gave this little girl to Mrs. Stevens, who has tenderly cared
for her ever since. She is now seventeen years of age.
In his political views Mr. Stevens harmonizes with the Democratic party,
and is stanch in its support, but has never been an aspirant for official
honors.

J EWIS W. HARNESS. — -Ervin township, Howard county, comprises a
'—' community of which any section of the state might be proud, on account
of the enterprising class of farmers constituting it and the high moral standard
of the leaders of society and business throughout its extent. Among these is
the subject of this sketch, who by his steady habits of industry has achieved
not only a competence but has also established and ever maintained a reputa
tion which guarantees to him any station that he might be willing to accept
He is a native of this county, born December 28, 1847, and was reared
to the honest, honorable and heavy duties of the farm. His school educa-

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tion he completed at the college at Battle Ground, this state. His father,
Jackson Harness, was a native of Boone county, Indiana, married Sarah
Thompson, a native of Tippecanoe county; and his parents, George W. and
Katie (Sowards) Harness, were both natives of Virginia and were married
there. George W. Harness, a farmer, moved west about 1820, locating in
Illinois, where he remained about two years, and then settled in Boone
county, this state; but a few years afterward he removed to Howard county,
purchasing unimproved land, of which he made a good farm and where he
passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1880, at the rare age of one hun
dred and eight years. He was a very active man all his life, enjoying the
chase, hunting bear, deer, raccoon, etc., and always keeping in his possession
a number of good hounds. He was, however, a farmer all his life, and in
this occupation he did well, although he carried on the operations of agricult
ure in the old-fashioned way. Only three days before his death he walked
six miles, such was his constitutional activity and well preserved health. He
was a man highly respected for his integrity and good sense. His children
were Solomon, who is now deceased; George W. , who resides near Kokomo;
Jackson, the father of Lewis W. ; Sophia, now Mrs. T. Polk; Jacob, living
near Kokomo; William, residing in Clinton county; and Susanna, now Mrs.
Forgy. Jackson Harness grew to manhood in CHnton county and in 1S41 came
to this locality, pur.hasing land in Cass county and later entering other land
in Howard county, altogether amounting to three hundred and twenty acres.
Soon he moved upon his land in Howard county, where he improved a large
farm and was successful in his agricultural pursuits. By further purchases
of land he became at length the possessor of seven hundred and twenty acres
altogether, and he made improvements on all these tracts. Subsequently he
purchased two hundred and sixty acres, which he gave to two sons. His
whole life was devoted to farming and stock-raising, on extensive plans, and
in aU his deaHngs he was known to be honorable. He was a Republican in
his politics, a member of the Christian church, and died in 1872, at the age
of fifty-one years. His wife, a member of the Presbyterian church, died in
1850, at the early age of twenty-eight years. Their children vvere: George
W., who died at the age of nineteen years; Wiliiam, a prominent farmer of
Ervin township; Lewis W., of whom we more parricularly write, and Benja
min F., an attorney at Kokomo. After the death of his first wife Mr

1242 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Harness married Miss Louisa Fisher, a daughter of Henry Fisher, a farmer
who had emigrated from Pennsylvania to this county about 1S4S, and the
children by the latter marriage were: Sarah J., who is now Mrs. Rating;
Thomas, a farmer of Howard county; Addison, a farmer residing in Cass
county; Mrs. Maggie Turley; Ida, who died at the age of ten years; AHce,
now the wife of S. Hush, and Rosa, who died at the age of twenty years.
Thus the father had a large number of children, and he did well by all of
them. Mr. Lewis W. Harness remained an inmate of his parental home until
he was married, in 1871, when he settled first in Cass county, and two years
afterward moved to the place where he now resides, buying two hundred
acres of good land. Here he made by his own industry and good judgment
al the substantial improvements now to be seen on the premises, for at the
first there were only a small house and only a few acres cleared. The farm
is now well ditched and tiled, and in every way in a fine state of equipment.
There is a large two-story frame house, a magnificent barn, a good orchard,
etc. Mr. Harness has dealt extensively in live stock, being one of the
heaviest shippers in the county; in "one year he handled one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars' worth of stock.
As a public-spirited citizen he is exemplary, being an influential and
efficient worker in the Republican party and taking an intelligent interest in
all the questions of the day. At this writing he is a candidate for sheriff of
the county, with every prospect of election. He is a member of the Masonic
and Odd Fellows' fraternities, and is also of the United Brethren chufch,
of which his wife also is a member. Mrs. Harness, whose name before mar
riage was Frances Williams, is an accomplished lady and of an honored fam
ily from Virginia who settled in Cass county, where her parents still live, on
a farm which her father had bought and improved. He is now seventy-six
years old, and his wife about seventy; both are members of the Christian
church. Their children are Elwood, who is a farmer by vocation but has
been in the United States Army fifteen years; Sarah Frances, wife of our
subject; Laura, now Mrs. Roseberry; John, a farmer; Melissa, who married
George Stanley and died leaving four children; Della, who is the wife of J.
HunmUler; and Walter, a farmer. The chUdren of Mr. and Mrs. Harness
are Charles M., who died young; Minnie, now Mrs. Eleman; Mrs. Ota
Davis; Harry, who died aged nineteen years; and Nellie B., unmarried.

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1243
A X /"ILLIAM E, NATION, the popular proprietor of a livery, feed and sale
V V stable, at Kokomo, and dealer in horses for the general market, was
born in Delaware county, Indiana, May 20, 1862, reared on a farm and edu
cated in the common schools. His parents, William and Mary J. (Conn)
Nation, were both natives of Delaware county, Ohio, where they were mar
ried. Enoch Nation, grandfather of WiUiam, died in Henry county, this
state. In early life he was a farmer, and afterward an attorney at law and
judge of a court. Enoch Nation and wife were strict members of the church,
and he was also a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. Their
children are: James R., Seth, WUliam (father of our subject), David,
Charles, Enoch, Rhoda, Lily A. , Emily and Sarah.
William Nation, of the above family, was brought up on a farm and in
1864 came to this county, settling upon a farm, in Liberty township, whereon
was a log house and fifteen acres cleared. Of that place he made a good
farm. Later in Hfe he came to Kokomo, where he practiced law and also
served as justice of the peace for many years. In his politics he was a
Republican, and he took an active interest in party affairs; he was honorable
in all his dealings, was well and favorably known, and died about 1875. His
wife had preceded him to the invisible world, dying in 1S73. Both were
highly respected members of the Congregational church, and he was also a
zealous Mason and Odd Fellow. His wife was a daughter of Adam Conn,
a prominent farmer of Henry county, Indiana, and an honored citizen, who
died in that county. Their children were William, Eli, Charles, Mary J.
(mother of WUliam E. Natiori), Hannah, Nancy, Emeline and Lucretia.
The children of WiUiam and Mary J. Natiori are: Enoch, engaged in the
sawmilling business; Mrs. Lucretia Howell; John, at St. Louis, Missouri;
James, a farmer of Henry county; William E., our subject; Mark O., in
Galena, Kansas; and Schuyler, somewhere in the west.
Mr. William E. Nation, of whom we more particularly write, is a self-
made man, as his parents died while he was young, and he was obliged to
undertake the "serpentine obliquities of life" (poet Young) at a compara
tively early age. An estate was left by the parents, but the administrator
squandered it. Young William found a home among farmers until the age
of sixteen 5'ears, when he came to Kokomo and at first attended school and
did some clerking in a clothing store for about a year. Next, for a time, he
aided in getting out heading at a sawmill in the woods. Returning to town,

1244 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
he drove a delivery wagon and later was employed on a construction train
on a railroad. Coming again to Kokomo, he clerked in a clothing store,
and some time afterward opened a shoe store, on his own responsibility,
which he conducted for a year, and then took a position as traveling agent
for the sale of buggies for a Cincinnati firm, and was thus employed in Iowa
for eight years. Returning again to Indiana, he continued for two years in
the same businesss, and then engaged in the retail 'buggy trade. . In March,
1897, he located in Kokomo and engg.ged in his present business, that of
keeping a livery, feed and sale stable, and dealing in horses, and in these
lines he is establishing a good record for promptness and fair dealing. He
has always been a trader and a successful business man. He has also dealt
in real estate to some extent.
In 18S3 he was united in marriage with Miss Ruth A. Thomas, an
estimable lady who is the daughter of Henry and Tacie (Neal) Thomas, early
emigrants from Ohio to this state. Mrs. Thomas was born in Montgomery
county, Ohio, a daughter of Benjamin and Susanna Neal, also of Ohio, who
came to this county in 1848, and developed a farm from the wilderness. Mr.
Thomas was a man of stern integrity and therefore honorable in all his con
duct. He died in 1879, and his wife in 1887. Their children are: Hannah,
now Mrs. J. Coppoch; Mary A., who is the wife of Mr. S. Coppoch; Tacie,
the wife of Mr. H. Thomas; Phebe, now Mrs. R. Thomas; Margaret, now
Mrs. J. Cobb; WiUiam; Susanna, the wife of, Mr Duncan; and Julia, now
Mrs. C. Brown.
Henry Thomas was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, September 29,
1827, a son of Edward and Rachel (Jones) Thomas. His father was a native
of North Carolina and his mother of Georgia. They were married in Ohio.
Edward was a son of Isaac and Sarah (Perkins) Thomas, both natives of the
Old North state. Isaac Perkins was a farmer and a great hunter, who came
to Ohio in early day when game was plentiful. Both died in Montgomery
county, Ohio. Their children were: PoUy, Elizabeth, John, William,
Edward (father of Henry), Isaac and Nehemiah.
Edward Thomas came to Ohio when thirteen years old, grew to man
hood and married, and later in life moved to Randolph county, Indiana,
where he finally died; he was a farmer throughout life. Henry Thomas grew
up to manhood in Ohio and married there, and in 1850 came to Indiana,
locating in Crawford county and later in this county, where he bought eighty

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1245
acres of land. To this he has since added and he now has two hundred and
eighty-seven acres, of which two hundred and sixty-five are cleared and in a
fine state of cultivation. On the place there are miles of tiUng, a com
modious dweUing, capacious barn, etc. Mr. Thomas is a successful farmer
and stock-raiser and an honorable man in all his deaHngs. By his first mar
riage he had eight chUdren, as foUows: Reuben and Leonidas, farmers in
Howard county; Loretta, now Mrs. F. Rhodes; Margaret, now Mrs. Fenn;
Allen, a farmer; Ruth A., wife of WUliam E. Nation; MatUda, now the wife
of Mr. Chase; Omar, engaged in agriculture. The mother of these chUdren
died December i8, 1S77, a consistent member of the New-Light Christian
church. In 1883 Mr. Thomas was again married, this time choosing Mrs.
Rachel Wiltsie, a widow, by whom he had four chUdren, namely: Orris,
Laura, Chester and Cassie. Mrs. Thomas was the daughter of Isaac and
Rachel (Overman) Elliott, her father a native of North CaroHna and her
mother of Virginia. They were married in Indiana and he entered land in
Randolph county, this state, and improved it. That farm is now occupied
bythe Soldiers' Home at Marion. Mr. Elliott died in 1871 and his wife in
1873, both consistent members of the Society of Friends. Their children
are Catharine, Reuben, Exom, Lidda, Polly, Ephraim, Johanna, Isaac,
Elijah and Elisha (twins) and Rachel (wife of H. Thomas). By the last
marriage of Mr. Thomas there are no children.
Thus it may be seen that the family connections of Mr. Nation are num
erous in this state and all are highly respected families, of such nature as
constitutes the best element of the state.

r^ENJAMIN F. RICH.— The office of township trustee in Indiana is the
*-^ most important and responsible of all local offices in the state; and it is
therefore a great testimonial to the character of any citizen to be elected to
such an office. The statement of such a fact as this goes much further than
any words of encomium we might employ.
Mr. Rich was born in Rush county, Indiana, October xo, 1862, reared
on a farm and educated at the common schools. His father, TUman Rich,
was also a native of Rush county and married Miss Mary J. Jordan, a native
of South Carolina; his father, Davis Rich, was of German descent. In

1246 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
both ancestral Unes the famUies have ever belonged to the agricultural class.
The chUdren of Davis Rich were Wheeler, Charity, Emily P., Elizabeth,
SUas, TUman (father of our subject), John, Josephus, Margaret, and Mary,
deceased. Mr. Tilraan Rich was born and reared in Rush county, this state,
and his occupation was farming until about 1863, when he carae to Tipton
county; but about a year later he returned to Rush county to the bedside of
his father, who was suffering from typhoid fever, which disease was prevail
ing as an epideraic at that tirae. Seven of his father's family were stricken
with it, of whom three died — father, grandfather and a sister. The mother
continued her residence here tUl her death, in iSSo. Both the parents were
members of the Christian church.
Mr. Rich, whose name heads this sketch, was the youngest and is the
only one living of their five children. He was less than three years old
when his father died, and he remained with his mother until he was seven
teen years of age, and then began the struggle of life for himself. He was
employed as a farm hand until he was of age and then received his portion
of his grandfather's estate, which gave him a start, and he entered into the
business of general merchandising at CurtisvUle, in partnership with Lewis
Land, February 10, 1884, and continued therein for twelve years, with the
success that attends perseverance and integrity. They did a great deal of
business by way of exchange of goods for grain and other country produce.
In 1896 Mr. Rich sold out his interest in the enterprise and engaged more
exclusively in the grain trade until some time in 1897.
In his politics he is an active and influential Democrat, taking an inter
est in all public questions, attending the primaries and nominating conven
tions all the way from county up to state. In 1894 he w:as elected township
trustee, which office he is now filling, with credit to himself and satisfaction
to the people, being the right man in the right place. His qualifications and
business talents render him eligible to any office in the county. Fraternally
he is a member of the Odd Fellows order, both of the subordinate lodge and
of the encampment.
In matrimony he was united with Miss Emma J. Land, a lady of fine
inteUect and tastes. She is a daughter of Lewis Land, who came from
Switzerland county, this state, to Tipton county in 1881, soon afterward
engaging in general merchandising, and fourteen years later he retired from
business. He was a soldier in the Civil war and now draws a pension. He is

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1247
an honorable man in aU his deaHngs, and both himself and wife are mem
bers of the Hohness church. Emma J., the wife of Mr. Rich, is his only
child, and the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Rich is Delia E., born AprU
30, xS86.

STEPHEN LEE, one of the oldest settlers of Tipton county, residing on
section 31, Cicero township, was born in Bedford county, Kentucky,
October 12, 1835, and was four years old when he was stolen by his moth
er's brother, David WUkes, and taken to Strawtown, Hamilton county, Indi
ana, and since his capture he has never seen either of his parents. When
about six years of age he was brought by his uncle to Tipton county, loca
ting in a small cabin known as a pre-emption cabin, two and a half miles
northeast of Tipton, in a locality known as Rock Prairie, and there they
Hved among Indians and wolves, panthers and bears and all sorts of wUd
game. On one occasion the wolves came into the door-yard; and Mrs.
Wilkes stood at the door, — which was supplied with only a quilt instead of
a, wooden shutting door, — and with shovel in hand kept the furious beasts
at bay, while little Stephen felt as safe inside as if a great stone wall guarded
him. Many exciting incidents happened during this wUd period.
Soon after this the little boy was taken in charge by Joseph McMurkey,
who lived in what is now Jefferson township, and brought him up to the age
of eighteen years. For three months he attended the school taught by
Henry Goar, a gentleman represented iri this work, and three months a
school taught by another man; and this was all the schooling he had, he
was kept so closely down to hard work on the farm. He never had a pair
of shoes until after he was ten years of age, either summer or winter! The
first summer pair of shoes he ever owned he worked in the harvest field to
pay for when sixteen years old.
At the age of eighteen he launched out in the world in his own care,
working by the month, for eight dollars a month during the summer season,
and during the winter seasons doing whatever he could find to do in order to
pay his board; and this method he foUowed for three years after his mar
riage. He then located upon a tract of thirty-one acres in Jefferson town
ship, remained there two years, sold the place and moved to Vermilion
county, Illinois, where he cultivated a rented farm.

1248 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
In 1S62 he enlisted in the war for the Union, as a private in Company
G, Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served two years, being in
many battles. On account of wounds received he was placed on detaU
duty, and finally was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1865.
Returning to Tipton county, he located in Jefferson township, on a
rented farm. About a year from that time he purchased forty acres of land,
built a house upon it and lived there only a year, when he sold it and bought
eighty acres which is a part of his present farm. On that tract of eighty
acres he built a log house, and in few years bought eighty acres more, join
ing on the east of where he now Hves. On these places very little improve
ment had been made, and all the improvements now seen here are the pro
ducts of his own honest industry. He has cleared three hundred acres of
wild forest land in this county in his life-time, and has certainly done his
duty toward the development of this section. He is a self-made man in every
sense of the word, educationally and financially.
In his views of the great national questions he is a decided Republican.
In public office he has been supervisor. In religion he is member of the
Christian church.
For his wife he married Anna Elizabeth SmaU, the second child of
Archibald Small, who was one of the first settlers of Tipton county. She
was born in Marion county, this state, on the ground where Indianapolis now
stands, her father having settled on eighty acres now occupied by the city.
To enter that land he worked two years to earn the money required. Mrs.
Lee, the eldest of her parents' chUdren that lived, died after having had
six children, namely: John A., of Hamilton county; Mary E., wife of Moses
Hawkenburg, a farmer in this state; James A., of Hamilton county; OHve M. ,
wife of Albert Smith, of lUionis; Alvin, a raUroad man; and Emery, a
farmer, at home.
After the death of his first wife Mr. Lee was again married, in 1874, and
by this marriage there are five children: Minnie, Myrtle, George, Charlie and
Louis, all at their parental home.

JOSEPH H. GLASS. — This well known citizen of Jefferson township,
^ Tipton county, is now serving in the responsible position of county com
missioner, an office to which he was elected in 1896 by the local Democracy.

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His labors were so satisfactory that he was renominated upon the expiration
of his term, in 1898, and he was elected with little opposUion. The busi
ness which comes within the province of the commissioners, as is generally
known, is very important to the welfare of the public, and among other mat
ters which they must attend to are the roads, some two hundred miles of
which are made of gravel. No money can be paid out by the county save
by the permission of the board of commissioners, and thus grave responsi
bility and trust rest with them.
A narive of Grant county, Indiana, born February 5, 1858, Joseph H.
Glass is a son of George D. and Mary E. (Caskey) Glass. The former came
to this state with his father, Joseph H. Glass, who was a native of Ireland,
and, coming to the United States in young manhood, had taken up his resi
dence in Kentucky, where he remained for a few years. The family settled
in Rush county, Indiana, when George D. was a boy of ten years, and there
he grew to maturity and was married. With his bride he soon removed to
Grant county, Indiana, and there they lived from 1855 to i860. In the year
last named they went to Oldham county, Kentucky, where they lived during
the Civil war. Subsequently they returned to Rush county, and in 1883
they became residents of Cicero township, Tipton county, and are still living
there. Mrs. Mary Glass, who was a native of Virginia, died when our sub
ject was but six years of age. Her father, who was a boatman on the James
river, was drowned, being swept over the falls.
Joseph H. Glass is one of six children, — three sons and three daughters.
He dimly remembers his mother and his home in Kentucky, but most of the
"associations of his childhood are connected with Indiana, where he acquired
his education. When he arrived at his majority he went west to Indian Ter
ritory, where for two and a half years he led the life of the frontiersman
being mainly occupied in herding cattle on the ranges. Tiring of that busi
ness, he returned to this state and at once settled on the place known as the
Schenk farm, six miles southwest of the town of Tipton. At the end of two
years he purchased his present homestead in section 13. This place com
prises one hundred and eight acres, and at the time he became the owner of
it only fifty- five acres had been cleared and no ditching had been done on the
land. Under his excellent management all this has been changed and the
place is now one of the best in the neighborhood. It is well improved with
substantial farm buildings, the house having been erected in 1892. Mr. Glass
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is an industrious, persevering farmer, and is meeting with success in "all his
undertakings, as he richly deserves.
February 19, 18S5, the marriage of Joseph H. Glass and Miss OtUda
Meyer took place at the home of her parents, Charles F. and Margaret Meyer,
old and respected citizens of this county. (See their sketch upon another
page of this work.) Mrs. Glass was born in the same house in which she
was married, and her parents are stiU Hving there. The only child of our
subject and wife is Noralea, born in Jefferson township, November 25, 1887.
Mrs. Glass is an esteemed member of the Presbyterian church.

ANDREW J. WOODS. — For sixteen years Mr. Woods has been con
nected with the agricultural interests of Tipton county, and is now serv
ing as superintendent of the county poor farm, to which position he was
appointed in March, 1898. He was one of the citizens that Kentucky has
furnished to the Hoosier state, his birth having occurred in Mercer county,
Kentucky, May 28, 1848. His father, Isaac L. Woods, was Hkewise a
native of that county and is now a resident of Stanford, Lincoln county, of
the same state, where he carries on agricultural pursuits. The grandfather
also was born in Kentucky and was supposed to be of English descent. The
mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Cynthia Jane Van Arsdall,
and like her husband's people claimed Kentucky as the state of her nativity. ¦
She died when Andrew J. Woods was only seven years of age, her death
occurring in Johnson county, Indiana, whither the family had removed in
185 3. The father afterward married again, his second union being with
Sarah J. Ray.
Andrew Jackson Woods is the eldest of a family of four children and
with his parents came to Indiana in early boyhood, so that his youth was
practically spent in Johnson county. He attended the common schools and
remained on the home farm with his father the greater part of the time
prior to his marriage. It was on the 17th of June, 1869, that the wedding
of Andrew J, Woods and Sarah J. Leach was celebrated, and upon a farm
in Johnson county they began their domestic life. Mrs. Woods was born in
Mercer county, Kentucky, and when a maiden of nine summers came to Indi
ana with her parents, George W. and Lucy (Brown) Leach, who also were

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natives of Kentucky. The father was of Irish descent and the mother was
of German Hneage. To Mr. and Mrs. Woods have been born two sons^
Dalton W. and Marlin M.
After his marriage Mr. Woods began farming on his own account and in
connection worked at the carpenter's trade. Coming to Tipton county in
1882, he located on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, owned by
David Campbell, and continued its cultivation for four years, also devoting
some time to carpentering during that period. He next located at Normanda,
where he carried on farming and carpentering for three years, after which he
removed to the F. M. Price farm in Jefferson township, two miles west of
Goldsmith. There he carried on agricultural pursuits on an extensive scale,
having control of two farms a part of the time. In March, 1898, he took
charge of the Tipton county poor farm, having been elected its superintend
ent on tjie Democratic ticket. With keen sagacity and sound judgment he
has planned the work of the farm and the management of its various inter
ests, and is now discharging his duties with ability and fidelity.
Mr. Woods has always given his support to the Democratic party and is
unwavering in support of the principles which were advocated by the states
man whose name he bears. Socially he is connected with Kempton Lodge,
No. 482, I. O. O. F., and is an exemplary and faithful member of that benev
olent fraternity.

FRANCIS H. WHEATLEY. — The natural advantages of this section
attracted at an early day a superior class of settlers, — a thrifty, indus
trious, progressive and law-abiding people, whose influence has given per
manent direction to the development of the locality. Among the worthy
pioneers of Tipton county Francis Wheatley holds a prominent place. He
has been prominently identified with its agricultural interests for many years,
and is to-day one of its most prosperous and substantial citizens, his home
stead being on section 16, Jefferson township.
Mr Wheatley was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, January 27,
1830, and is a son of Charles and Keturah (Ensley) Wheatley, both of whom
also were natives of Maryland and of English descent. In their family were
seven chUdren, six sons and one daughter, and our subject is the sixth in
order of birth. As his mother died when he was only four years old he made

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his home with his sister, Priscilla, the wife of John Ensley, of Dorchester
county. After about a year spent with them they removed to Greene county,
Ohio, where he was reared to manhood. On leaving his sister, at the age
of twenty-one, he began working by the month as a farm hand and was thus
employed for about six years.
In October, 1856, Mr. Wheatley led to the marriage altar Miss Marga
ret McDorraan, and they becarae the parents of four children, namely:
James W. , who married Sarah Campbell and has three children living;
Susan, wife of Oliver P. Campbell, by whom she has one son, Hugh; Fran
cis J., who married Dora Hancock and has two children, and Seralda Jane,
w'lfe of Robert Smith, by whom she has one daughter, Maggie.
After his raarriage Mr. Wheatley bought a sraall piece of land in Fayette
county, Ohio, on which he raade his horae for two years, selling out at the
end of that tirae. He then carae to Tipton county, Indiana, and located on
the place where he now resides. Success crowned his efforts in his new
home; acre after acre of his land was soon placed under the plow, and among
the many and valuable iraproveraents he has made upon the farm was the
erection of an elegant brick residence, in 1880, at a cost of five thousand dol
lars. At one time he owned about one thousand acres, and he still retains
two hundred and eighty acres, while his wife also has a good farm in Jeffer
son township. In his political views Mr. Wheatley is a Prohibitionist, as he
is a strong temperance man. He is a man of exemplary habits, commend
able purpose and unbending integrity, and in all life's relations merits the
confidence which is so freely accorded him.

J H. FERGUSON. — Among the young and enterprising farmers of Tipton
^ county there is probably none more energetic or thorough-going than
the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is successfully carrying
on operations on section 30, Jefferson township, and is now acceptably
serving as assessor of his township, his residence being on section 32.
Mr. Ferguson was born in Marion township, Boone county, Indiana,
March 18, 1870, and is of Irish descent, his great-grandfather having come
from Ireland and settled in Ohio at an early day. The grandfather was born
in that state and was among the pioneers of Clinton county, Indiana, having

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located there in 1831, and there developed a farm in the midst of the wilder
ness. He bore the name of John Ferguson and died in that county, at about
the age of eighty years.
Hugh T. Ferguson, the father of our subject, was likewise a native of
Ohio, and was only four years old when he accompanied his parents on their
removal to Clinton county, Indiana, vvhere he grew to manhood and was
educated, attending the first school taught in Frankfort. He was married,
in Boone county, to Miss Clarinda Caldwell, a native of that county, who
died when our subject was but two years and a half old, he being the tenth
child in a family of eleven children, of whom nine grew to maturity and
eight of whom are still living. After his marriage the father located on a
farm in Boone county, which he operated for sorae years, but in 1883 he
came to Tipton county and on section 28, Jefferson township, followed the
sawmUl business. He died, however, on section 21, the same township, in
February, 1896. In his political views he was a stanch Republican, and for
eight years he efficiently served as justice of the, peace in Marion township,
Boone county. Socially he was connected with the Independent Order of
Odd FeUows, and religiously was a faithful member of the Methodist Epis
copal church.
In the county of his nativity J. H. Ferguson passed the first thirteen
years of his life, pursutng his studies in the Utah and Myers schools, and after
coming with his father to Tipton county, in 1883, he attended the Deal and
Small schools, completing his education, however, at the age of twenty, by
a course in the Central Normal School, at DanviUe, Indiana. He remained
with his father until he attained the age of twenty-three, and for four years
successfully engaged in teaching in Jefferson township, Tipton county, hav
ing charge successively for one year each, of the Small, Kempton, Manlorn
and Goldsmith schools. In 1894, at the end of his service as teacher, he
was .elected township assessor of Jefferson township, on the Republican
ticket, by a majorUy of seventy-four, although his predecessor had been
elected by a majorty of only one. From the fact that the term has been
extended, Mr. Ferguson wUl continue in office until 1900, and he is proving
a most satisfactory and capable official.
On the 9th of April, 1S93, was celebrated the marriage of Mr Ferguson
and Miss Cynthia F. Ploughe, who was born in Jefferson township, October
15, 1873. Her parents, Millroy and Julia (Price) Ploughe, are likewise

1254 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
natives of Tipton county, and are worthy representatives of prominent pio
neer families. To Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson have been born two children,
namely: Alta C. and Lola A. Politically he is identified with the Repub
lican party, and socially affiliates with Sugar Creek Lodge, No. 321, I. O. O.
F. ; Zuni Tribe, No. 245, I. O. R. M., at Pickard, Indiana; and the Camp
of the M. W. A. at Kempton.

DILLARD VAN BUSKIRK.— This old settler, residing on section 18,
Cicero township, Tipton county, was born in Wayne county, this state.
May 10, iSiS. His father, Joseph Van Buskirk, was a native of Kentuckyj
was a blacksmith by trade and settled in Wayne county about 18 16, just
before Indiana was, in the same year, admitted as a state. He followed his
trade there and also farming in Henry county, to which couniy he moved,
and he afterward moved to Tipton county, where he finally died at the age
of seventy- two years. He was twice married, — the first time to Mary Huff,
by which raarriage there were six sons and one daughter. By his second
marriage he wedded Abigail Vickery, and by this union there were five chil
dren. The subject of this sketch was a son by the first marriage. His
mother, Mary (Huff) Van Buskirk, was a native of Kentucky.
Mr. Dillard Van Buskirk, whose name heads this sketch, was the second
child by the first marriage, and was reared in Wayne and Henry counties,
this state, on a farm. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed it
for sorae time, erecting a number of buildings in Wayne, Fayette and Henry
counties. Afterward he moved to Hamilton county, this state, and engaged
in the tanning business, at Cicero, in partnership with his brother, FrankUn,
and remained there tUl 1847, when he moved back to Henry county and
worked at his trade of carpentering.
It was in 1851 that he first came to Tipton county, locating in Cicero
township and engaging in farming and also at his trade. He exchanged his
tannery for a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Fulton county, Indiana,
where he lived about two years and then sold it and returned to Tipton
county, locating on a farm which he had purchased south of Tipton, and
there he resided about two years, when he sold that place also and purchased
the farm where he now resides, .four miles west of Tipton city and comprising

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eighty acres, and here he is spending the evening of his life, enjoying the
fruits of long years of honest toil.
Politically Mr. Van Buskirk first voted for Martin Van Buren for presi
dent of the United States and at the organization of the Republican party
he voted its ticket, but is now a Prohibitionist. Religiously he has been
connected with the Christian church for many years.
December i6, 1S41, Mr. Van Buskirk was united in marriage with
Rebecca Paul, a native of Heriry county, this state, the third child of Daniel
Paul, who was a native of Virginia and an early settler of Henry county.
Mrs. Van Buskirk. died in 1S91. The children in their family have been:
Thomas Benton, who died at the age of eighteen years; Mary Ellen, the wife
of Leonard Burkhardt, a farmer four miles east of Tipton; Sarah Ann,
deceased; Amanda, the wife of Enos Mitchell and residing on her father's
farm; Samuel, of Colorado; Sarah, the wife of Hon. Walter Mount, a dis
trict judge residing at Tipton; and Helen Desda, the wife of Newton Barr,
of Prairie township, this county.

ARCHIBALD SMALL. — This worthy old pioneer of Tipton county
enjoys the distinction of having been the first settler of Jefferson town
ship, and has been a witness of its entire development from the virgin forest
to its present prosperous condition. Homes and villages have sprung up on
every hand; the forests have disappeared under the woodman's ax; farms,
with fertile, well cultivated fields, fine orchards and comfortable buUdings
and all the evidences of civilization, now take the place of the tangled wilder
ness which sheltered numerous beasts of prey, and, at no very remote period,
the redmen. George Small, the father of our subject, was also one of the frontiers
men, — one of those who blazed a way through the forests for the oncoming
march of civilization. He was of Dutch descent, and was a native of Vir
ginia. About 17S0 he went to Kentucky, where he passed the rest of his
life. He was a hero of the Revolution, serving under Washington. He died
at the ripe age of eighty- seven years. His wife, also a native of Virginia,
was a Miss Betsy Woodruff prior to then marriage. She, too, was of Dutch
extraction, and she lived to be three-score and ten years of age. Of their

1256 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
twelve children all but one grew to maturity. The only survivors of the
family now are our subject and his brother, Jesse, of Hamilton county,
Indiana. The eighth child of his father's large famUy, Archibald Small was born
December 8, 1809, in Bath county, Kentucky. There he spent the first
eighteen'years of his life, then coming to Indiana, where he worked by the
month for two years or more, at one hundred dollars per year and his board.
This raoney he invested in some land eighteen miles south of Indianapolis.
This property was government land, rated at one dollar and twenty-five cents
an acre. After settling upon this land and improving it for some four years
Mr. Small sold it for four hundred dollars. This sum he invested in an
eighty-acre tract of land about a mile east of the other farm and subsequently
he bought more land, thus making his homestead one of a quarter section.
Two years or so afterward he disposed of this farm and came to Tipton
county, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres. To the north there were
no settlers until the limits of the town of Peru were reached, and as he was
the first raan to locate in the township his nearest neighbors were miles away.
He built a little cabin without windows, just to afford himself shelter while
he gave all his energiee to what was then his most serious business, — that of
making a clearing in which to plant sufficient grain, etc., for his actual needs
another year. The following fall, when the crops were garnered, he erected
a more pretentious cabin of hewed logs, and within its hospitable walls some
of the happiest years of his life were spent. Years rolled away, and by
unflagging industry and persistent enterprise he became not only well-to-do,
but highly respected in the community, by reason of his sterling characteristics
and square dealing with all. For fifty-seven years he has been a faithful and
consistent member of the Christian church, contriburing of his means and
influence to its support, and seeking to put into daily practice the noble prin
ciples he professes. In his young manhood he was a Whig, his first vote
being cast for Henry Clay; but since the organization of the Republican
party he has been one of its sincerest advocates. Now, in his declining
years, he may look back upon a weU spent life, unclouded by regrets, for he
has bravely and heroically "fought the good fight," undaunted by the diffi
culties and trials which might well have broken down the sphit of any but a
courageous Christian man.
The first wife of Mr Small was Susannah Ogle before their marriage.

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1257
and of their five children only one is now living, George, a resident of Ham-
iUon county, Indiana. In 1841 Mr. Small married Mary A. Coates, a native
of Marion county, Indiana, born November 26, 1S25. Her father, Joseph
Coates, of Ohio, was one of the first settlers of Marion county. Ten chil
dren were born to Archibald and Mary Small, namely: Sarah E., wife of
John Fox; Malinda Ann, wife of George Thompson; Marinda, widow of
Henry Larned; Lucinda C, wife of Jasper Kashman;JVIoses M., deceased; Jose
phine, wife of Alonzo Small; Marietta, at horae; Hettie R., wife of William
Innis; Thomas H. and Francis M.

PDWARD DARE SWIFT, M. D.— The regular profession of medicine at
*-^ Macy, Indiana, is ably represented by Dr. Edward D. Swift, a young
and rising physician whose native talent and industrious disposition insure
him success in his noble calling.
He was born in Keyser, Mineral county. West Virginia, on the i6th of
AprU, 1 87 1, a son of Richard W. and Mary Ida (Davis) Swift, natives also of
that state. His father was a representative of one of the pioneer families of
Virginia, and is a descendant of Irish ancestry. His great-great-granduhcle,
Robert Edwards, leased to the city the original sixty acres upon which the
city of New York now stands. There is a claim in litigation at present,
involving an immense fortune belonging to the descendants of this pioneer.
Robert Edwards purchased this land of the Dutch in 1771, leasing the land
to King George. Trinity church and the buUdings of A. T. Stewart stand
upon a portion of this land. The Davis family, as represented by Mrs.
Swift, were early pioneers in Maryland, coming from England and being near
neighbors and intimate friends of the family of George Washington in Eng
land. Three Dent brothers came also from England to Maryland, sons of
Lord Tom. Dent. This is the American origin of the family of Mrs. Swift
in the paternal line, the Dents intermarrying wUh the Edwards and Davis
famUies. General Longstreet, well known in the history of the Civil war, is
also a descendant of one of these three Dent brothers, as was also General
John Dent, of the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant's father and
Mrs. Swift's grandmother were first cousins; and the wife of Robert Lincoln
is also a descendant from the Edwards family. The family of Swifts were

1258 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
also intermarried with the Davis family, Mrs. Swift and her husband being
second cousins. Mr. Swift was a bookkeeper in Keyser, West Virginia,
where he died. May 8, 1886, the result of an accident. It was thought,
however, that he was murdered and thrown into the river in order to repre
sent that he came to his death by drowning, as he had considerable money
with him. He was a man uniformly honored and loved by every one. Six
children were thus bereft-of the care of a loving and indulgent father. Ex-
Governor Noble, of Indiana, was an uncle to Mr. Swift (father of the Doctor);
the late Hon. David Davis, of Illinois, was a first cousin of Mrs. Swift's
father, and Judge B. R. Burroughs, of Edwardsville, is a cousin of Mrs.
Swift. Dr. Swift, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest son, though the
third child in order of birth. Mary was married June 10, 1897, and died on
her bridal trip June 15th following. Her husband, Edward H. Nolan, was
a native of Missouri and is now residing in Kansas. The second of the
family is Lillian, the wife of George T. Murphy, who is one of the, managers
of a machine shop at Piedmont, West Virginia. Eleanor married Samuel
H. Musselman and resides upon a farm in Allen township, this county.
Amory Burroughs and Dent Elwood are students in the Macy schools.
Dr. Swift came to Macy, Indiana, April 7, 1894, and was joined by his
mother and brothers in May, 1895, and is stUl with his mother. He received
his elementary education in the Keyser high school, where he graduated, and
for about four years following he was employed in mercantile pursuits.
Entering the College of Physicians at Baltimore, Maryland, he began at the
¦ head of the second year's class, as he had been studying medicine for some
time previously, and he graduated with honors in 1894, after which he took
a year's post-graduate course at the Louisville Medical College, where he
received an ad-eiindem degree in' 1895.
He immediately came to Macy and began the practice of his chosen
profession, in competition with four other physicians who vvere already
established. For the first year he had a hard struggle, his youthful appear
ance being against hira; but as he became acquainted with the people his
practice increased and he has to-day a fine patronage and is recognized as a
talented and successful physician. His first year yielded him about eighteen
hundred dollars, though his expenses were high. He has added extensively
to his library, besides purchasing a home, where he and his family now live

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in comfort. He is a member of the Miami County Medical Association, and
and also of the Odd Fellows order and the Knights of Maccabees. In religion
he is a member of the Christian church, though he was reared a Presbyterian.
His mother still holds her membership in the old church in West Virginia,
of which body his father also was a member. In politics the Doctor is a
Democrat, but not aggressive, being closely devoted to his profession and
preferring solid scientific study to street gossip or politics.

/^NIS CASE. — The history of the prominent citizens of Macy would cer-
^^ tainly be incomplete without a record of the Hfe and services of him
whose name heads this sketch. Since March, 1864, he has been prominently
identified with the history of Miami county. Not only this, but he also fol
lowed the flag to the front in the dark days of the Rebellion, being one of
five brothers to -enlist in the Union army.
Onis Case was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 25th of April, 1845.
His childhood and early youthful years were spent in his native county, where
he grew to early manhood upon his father's farm. His education was
obtained principally in the public schools, though this has been materially
augmented in the more practical " school of experience." From early man
hood he has been a practical and successful business man. Beginning life
on his own account at the foot of the financial ladder, he has, by careful,
intelligent attention to business, attained an enviable position among the
weU-to-do people of Miami county, yet no shade of suspicion rests upon his
reputation for honesty and square dealing with his fellow man. He is to-day
one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens of the beautiful village of
Macy. His business career was not commenced until after the close of
the war. Enlisting as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth
Indiana Infantry Volunteers, in February, 1864, he followed the varying
fortunes of his regiment until the close of hostiliries. Returning from the
fields of carnage to the fields of agriculture, he continued his residence in
Perry township unril 1876, when he located in Macy and engaged in the
hardware business, at first in a small way; but success crowned his efforts
and the business was enlarged from year to year and prosperity was cor-

1260 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
respondingly increased. He now owns a well established business in general
hardware, vehicles, farming implements, etc., and occupies a prominent
position among the successful business men of his adopted county.
He has served two terms as justice of the peace in Macy and has
declined further official honors. In political views he is an- uncompromising
Republican, taking an active interest in local and general politics. He is
also prominently associated with the Masonic fraternity, the honored arid
time-tried society of his ancestors. But the allurements of worldly gain and
successes have not prevented his attending to those spiritual affairs which
concern men's hajipiness in the world to come.' Both he and his family are
consistent raembers of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Genealogy : Mr. Case was the youngest son of Onis and Sarah (Will
iams) Case. His father was born in Wayne county, Ohio, and mother in
Seneca county, that state, and they were married in that state. The father
died in 1848, in middle Hfe, and his wife in September, 1863, remaining a
widow till her death. They had five sons and two daughters, all of whom
are still living, excepting the elder daughter. Their names are : Augustus,
who Hves at Lincolnville, Wabash county, Indiana, and is a practicing phy
sician ; Susanna became the wife of R. R. Alexander and they are both
deceased ; Wesley is a grocer in Minnesota ; Albert and Matthew are farmers
in Kansas ; Onis is the next ; Mary is the wife of M. M. Dukes, a farmer in
this (Miami) county. Grandfather Case was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war, entering the army from New Jersey.
January i, 1868, Mr Case was married to Miss Rhoda Dukes, a daugh
ter of Stephen and Sydney (McKim) Dukes, natives of Indiana. The Dukes
family was established in Maryland several generations ago and the McKim
family is traceable to Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Case are the parents of a son
and a daughter : Rollie, who is a young man of twenty-five years, is employed
in his father's business as a bookkeeper and is a notary public ; and Miss
Ethel is a young lady. Both the children make their home with their parents.

r> EORGE FARRAR is the proprietor of the Macy Livery and Sales Sta-
^^ bles, Macy, Miami county, Indiana, and is well known in this part of
the state. There is probably no man in the county who has traveled over

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more of its soil than George W. Farrar. Not only this, but he has been an
extensive traveler in other localities, having visited most of the north central
states, either for recreation or business. He is a man of genial teraperaraent,
having hosts of friends and few, if any, enemies. Most of his life has been
spent handling horses, and no man in the county is a better judge of horse
flesh than he; yet he never takes a mean advantage in a trade. He has made
money in handling horses and livery stock, and frequently has purchased or
established barns and built up a trade for no other purpose than to sell oiit
when the proper customer came. He is jolly and whole-souled, liberal to a
fault, and with his good judgment and genial manner is destined to succeed
in whatever he undertakes. At present he owns a good new barn, well
stocked, and gives employment to two men. Adjoining his barn he has a
nice, comfortable home and apparently only lives to enjoy life.
George Farrar was born near Peru, Indiana, January 22, 1S60. He is
the eldest son of Charles and Rebecca (Ramer) Farrar. His father was born
in New York state, in 1836; came to Indiana in his young manhood, and was
married in Iowa, about 1857. He was a liveryman and horse dealer also,
and dealt somewhat in real estate. He died in Macy, in August, 1897. His
widow stUl resides at the home place. She is a member of the Christian
church, of which he also was for many years a devoted and consistent mem
ber. Their family consisted of the following children: Rachael, wife of A.
S. Slusser, resides on a farm in Allen township, Miami county, Indiana;
George W., whose narae graces this sketch; Erama, wife of L. J. Savage, a
merchant of Macy; Lloyd B., a resident of Chicago; Dorotha, wife of Freed
Oliver, a farmer residing near Macy; Bettie, wife of Charles Norris, a travel
ing salesman, lives in Rochester, Indiana; Maggie, wife of Lee MUler, a
hardware merchant of Macy; and Eva, who resides at the homestead with
her mother. Mr. Farrar was married in 1877 to Rosanna Uhey, a native of Miami
county, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Uhey, both deceased. The fruit of this
union is one child, WUliam, who now assists his father in business. For two
or three years he served as deputy postmaster and for about the same length
of rime was clerk in a restaurant and grocery. WUHam Farrar was born
January 2, 1878, and is an exemplary young man.
Politically the subject of our sketch is of Democratic faith, supporting
the same cause espoused by his father and brothers.

1262 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
JOHN SAMUEL WILSON, M. D.— Among the successful physicians of
Miama county, Indiana, prominently appears Dr. Wilson, whose name
and record deserve a place in this compilation. His identification with the
profession in this county dates from 1882. Soon after locating at Macy he
entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, where he attended two
courses of lectures, and then returned to his practice full of the enthusiasm
evolved from association with the learned and successful men of the profes
sion. From the date last mentioned until the present time he has been in
active and successful practice at Macy and in the adjacent counties. He has
a large and lucrative practice in the rich farming territory of the county, as
well as in the towns and villages. To know that Dr. Wilson has charge of a
critical case is a guaranty of prompt and faithful attendance, superior skill
and successful experience.
But the early life of our subj.ect was not by any means a "bed of roses '
without the thorns. He has practically worked out his own destiny. From a
studious farm lad he became a country school-teacher, with the ever present
thought of higher educational attainments. His vacations were usually spent
in attendance at normal schools, though he had graduated at the Springfield
(Ohio) Commercial College, at the age of fifteen. By a thorough, systematic
course of study his leisure hours were turned to good account and his rnind
well stored with useful knowledge.
Following the attainment of his majority he spent seven years as a pop
ular and successful instructor in the school-room ; yet the limited recompense
of the teacher, in connection with the uncertainty of satisfactory positions,
induced him to seek something more permanent and profitable. He came to
Indiana in 187S, and taught school the foUowing winter in Fulton county. In
the fall of 1870 he began the study of medicine, under the tuition of Dr.
C. Hector, of Rochester, and entered upon the practice of his profession at
Millark, Fulton county, in the fall of 1880. Two years later he came to this
county, as previously stated.
Dr. Wilson was born in Hampshire (now Mineral) county. West Vir
ginia, January 12, 1S52, the third son of Peter and Louisa (Hull) WUson,
also natives of that state and of English ancestors. He was ten years of age
when he was brought by his parents to Clark county, Ohio, where his youth
ful years were spent in working on his father's farm and in attendance at the
district school. He early acquired a taste for reading and study, and this

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characteristic led to his ultimate success, both as teacher and physician.
He is a gentleman of affable manner and sympathetic soul, is easUy approach
able and is a splendid specimen of physical manhood, tall and erect, with a
dignified bearing well becoming his profession.
His parents, after their marriage in their native state, emigrated to
Clark county, Ohio, in 1862, locaring upon alarm, where the father at length
died, in 1887. The widow returned to her native state the following year,
where she now resides, at the ripe old age of seventy-five years. They had
four sons and two daughters: WUUam O. is a farmer in Virginia; George
W. is a traveUng salesman in Ohio; Elizabeth is the widow of Edward Davis
and resides in West Virginia; John S., our subject, is next; Hiram R. is a
mechanic in Madison county, Ohio; and Jennie is now Mrs. Wright.
Dr WUson was married June 13, 1882, the lady of his choice being
Miss Mary E. Johnson, a daughter of Israel and Maria (Hoover) Johnson.
She was born May 29, 1862, in Fulton county, Indiana, where she was
reared to womanhood and educated. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson have three chil
dren living and three deceased. These are Beatrice, Ulysses Scudder, Lynn
(deceased), June (deceased). May Louisa and Mary (deceased). The living
are aged respectively fifteen, twelve and five years (1898).
The parents of Dr. Wilson were Methodists in their religious connec
tions. The Doctor is liberal in his religious views and has never been con
nected with any religious organization. Politically he is a Republican, and
in the campaign of 1897 led a forlorn hope in the race for representative to
the state legislature. He wields a strong influence in the politics of his
county. He is a member of the Miami County Medical Society, of which he
is president; and he is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being
a member of Macy Lodge, No. 523, F. & A. M. Besides his professional
work he is also extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising. His home
is upon the handsome farm near the village of Macy, where he has two hun
dred and eighty acres and personally superintends the operations. He gives
special prominence to the raising of s.hort-horn cattle, having a herd of
twenty-five thoroughbreds. Recently he made a sale, disposing of twenty-
seven head of thorough-bred cattle. Besides these he has a fine herd of
graded cattle, and gives attention to general stock-raising. He has won sev
eral premiums on his stock at local fairs. The Doctor's possessions are
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1264 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
fif, een thousand doUars, and his stock interests average aboutthree thousand
dollars annually.
The family genealogy is somewhat liraUed, on account of the fact that
Dr. WUson's father was the only child in the family to which he belonged,
and was reared by a Virginia planter, but every one knows that the best
class of American citizens are mostly made up of persons of obscure lineage.

PETER A. SASSAMAN, contractor and builder, Kokomo, is a nat ve of
the staid old Keystone state, born in Berks county, a son of John and
Salome (Altenderfer) Sassaman, who had five sons and six daughters, of whom
six only are now living, namely: WUliam, of Sylvan Grove, Kansas; Peter
A., our subject; Charles, of Reading, Pennsylvania; Anna, wife of David
DeLong, of Berks county, Pennsylvania; Catharine, the wife of Daniel Sarig,
of the same county; and Sallie, now Mrs. Henry Baucher, also of that
county. John Sassaman was a cabinet-maker by trade 'and passed his life in
Berks county, Pennsylvania, departing this life at the age of about forty-six
years. He was a pious member of the German Reformed church; also, he
was a member of the state militia when a great riot occurred at Hamburg,
Pennsylvania, and he aided in quelling the imbroglio, in which a number of
men were killed.. His wife, a consistent member of the German Lutheran
church, lived to the age of seventy-three years. The paternal grandfather of
Mr. Sassaman passed his life in Germany, reaching advanced life and rearing
three sons. Jacob Altenderfer, Mr. Sassaman's maternal grandfather, also
passed his whole life in Germany, his native land, reaching old age.
Longevity characterizes the family.
The subject of this sketch was brought up in Berks county, attending the
district schools for his education. At the age of twenty-one he began to learn
the carpenter's trade, which he has ever since followed with the exception of
the four years he kept a grocery in Kokomo. The year 1858 marks the time
of his emigration to Indiana, when he located in LaFayette. After residing
there and in that vicinity until 1861, he moved to Carroll county, where he
was married and made his residence for a year; since the year 1863 he has
been a resident of Kokomo, where he has witnessed, and been a prominent
participant in, the progress and development of his chosen city. Many of

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the fine residences and business houses of Kokomo attest his skill and taste,
among them the large brick business block of Armstrong, Landon & Com
pany, the court-house, the county asylum, etc. He also mide a specialty of
stair-buUding and manufactured all kinds of balustrade work by hand.
As to polirics he usually votes the Democratic ticket, but at heart he is
at the same time a strong prohibitionist. He is a good Christian man and a
good citizen.
On the ioth of December, 1862, he was united in marriage with Miss
Mary Gray, of CarroU county, Indiana, daughter of James and Ruth (Berry)
Gray, who were among the pioneer settlers of that county. By that mar
riage there were three chUdren, namely: Samuel Roll, Salhe B. and James
G. The first named died in infancy, and James G. when three years of age.
Sallie B. became the wife of Herman F. Probst a native of Germany, and
they now reside in Harper county, Kansas, where he is a grain-dealer.
They have four children, ^ — -Walter, George, John and Maria.
Mrs. Mary Sassaman, the first wife of our subject, died a devout mem
ber of the Congregational church of Kokomo. Of this religious body Mr.
Sassaman is also an influential member, and has been a deacon in the same
for eighteen years. Two brothers of Mrs. Sassaman, Samuel and Joseph
Gray, twins, now reside in Cass county. Joseph has been a member of
the state legislature, and both these gentlemen are intelligent leaders in the
community where they reside. February 4, 1869, Mr. Sassaman was united
in matrimony with Miss Rachel L. Neely, daughter of William Neely, of
Waterloo, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, stanch Presbyterians. By the last
marriage there was one child, Mary A., a beautiful and amiable young lady,
who died at the age of twenty-one years and ten months, February 28,
1 89 1. Mrs. Rachel L. Sassaman died January 25, 1S96, at the age of fifty-
two years, largely from grief at the loss of her daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Sassaman and this daughter were charter members of the Presbyterian church
of Kokomo, of which he is a ruling elder.

§AMUEL T. MILLS, who resides at No. 80 North Webster street,
Kokomo, Indiana, is one of the oldest residents of the town. He was
born in Butler county, Ohio, May 23, 1826, and is a son of Joseph and
43

1266 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Nancy (Taylor) Mills. Joseph Mills was born in Pennsylvania of Scotch
parentage, and his wife, a native of Ireland, came to America when sixteen
years old. They were the parents of six chUdren, two sons and four daugh
ters, and of this number only two are now living— Nancy, widow of Jacob
Albright, of Delaware, Ohio, and Samuel T. Their father moved to Ohio
with his parents at an early day and settled in Butler county, where he was
engaged in farming for many years, and where he reared his family. He
was a participant in the war of 1812. In 1846 he came to Indiana and set
tled in Kokomo, where he dealt in real estate. He died in Kokomo in 1853,
at the age of seventy-six years. His wife died in 1847, a year after their
arrival here. Religiously, they were Methodists.
The grandfather of our subject was also named Joseph MiUs. He was
a native.of Scoriand. His first settlement in this -country was in Pennsyl
vania, and about the year 181 2 he became one of the pioneers of Ohio. He
lived to the reraarkable age of one hundred and three years, retaining' his^
physical and mental vigor to the last. He attended a la:nd sale at Terre
Haute, Indiana, and on his way home took sick, and died at Knightstown,
where he was buried. He had five sons and two daughters. The maternal
grandfather of Mr Mills came to this country from Ireland and settled in
Pennsylvania, later removing to Ohio, where he died.
Samuel T. Mills was reared in his native county, his boyhood days
being spent in Middletown and surrounding country. His education, com
menced in the district and subscription schools, was completed at Oxford
University. When a young man he learned the trade of brick-mason, and
for many years he was engaged in contracting. He came to Howard county
in 1846 and settled on a tract of land, a little over forty acres in extent,
where his present home is now located, in the heart of Kokomo. After
securing his claim he went to Cincinnati and accepted a position as book
keeper for the firm of Blachley, Simpson & Company, with which he
reraained for about two years. At the end of this time he returned to
Kokomo, and has lived here ever since, with the exception of time spent as a
soldier in the Union ranks during the Civil war He has built a great many
of the substantial business blocks and residences of Kokomo. He followed
contracting until about 1892, and since then has been retired.
August 18, 185 1, he married Miss Elizabeth Harlan, daughter of Joseph
W. and Mary (Mulkey) Harlan, and a relative of Chief Justice Harlan.

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1267
They have three children, namely: Taylor, a brick-mason and contractor;
Nannie E. , wife of George B. Roach, of Kokomo; and Viola, at home, ag
also is her brother.
Mr. MiUs belongs to the Masonic order and the Grand Army of the
RepubUc, and politically he is a Republican. His army service had its
beginning in 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Indiana Cavalry,
and. lasted untU the close of the war. He was a participant in the battle of
Stone river, the siege of Knoxville, and a great many skirmishes, and, while
his regiment lost heavUy, many falling by his side, he escaped uninjured.
He was a private, but served much of his time as department clerk, being
under General Judy nearly a year.

JAMES C. TURNER, senior member of the firm of J. C. Turner & Com-
^ pany, grocers, 225 North Main street, Kokomo, was born in Henry
county, Virginia, April 17, 1849, a son of Elkanah and Elizabeth (Wink-
field) Turner, who also were natives of the Old Dominion. Of their six
children five are still living, the names of all being: Zachariah T. , James C. ,
George Madison, Henry Clay, Elkanah L. and Mary, — the last mentioned
of whom is deceased, and all the living are still residents of their native
state, excepting the subject of this sketch. His father was both a merchant
and a farmer all his life, and was an extensive traveler along the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, trading in tobacco, before the day of railroads. He gave
the deciding vote for the first railroad through Henry county, Virginia, had
stock in the Richmond & Danville Railroad, was at one time a member of
the Virginia legislature, was a Baptist minister, and finally died on the old
homestead, on Reed creek, in Henry county, that state, in the year 1887, at
the venerable age of eighty-six years. His widow, the mother of our sub
ject, is stUl living on the old homestead, and is now seventy-eight years of
age. Mr. Turner was previously married to a Miss Hurd, and one child by
that marriage, Jesse H., is a physician in Henry county.
William Turner, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also
a native of the Old Dominion, a farmer by vocation, was a soldier in the
. Revolutionary war, had a large number of children and lived to quite an
advanced age.

1268 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Christopher Winkfield, Mr. Turner's maternal grandfather, was also a
native of Virginia, participated in the war of x8i2, was known by the title
of "Colonel," was an agriculturist, a prominent local politician and held a
number of public offices, was the parent of six or eight children, and lived to
a good old age, dying in his native state.
J. C. Turner, of whom we more particularly write, was reared in Vir
ginia, his native state, and inured to the duties and hard experiences of farm
life, attending school during the winter intervals. He acquired a practical
knowledge of carpentering, which industry he has followed more or less a
large portion of his life. In 1887 he came to Bunker Hill, Indiana, and the
next year to Kokomo, where he has ever since made his home. After his
removal here he at first followed his trade as carpenter, continuing to the
year 1896, when he opened a grocery, and this he is now conducting with
success, for his industry and fidelity are recognized by an appreciative public.
He is a polite gentleman, unpretentious, genial and kind-hearted. His
residence is at 446 Franklin street.
On the 9th day of April, 1S6S, Mr. Turner was united in marriage with
Miss Mary E. Davis, daughter of Benjamin S. and America A. (Hunter)
Davis, and they have been blessed with five sons and three daughters,
namely: Lula E., who married Mr. Schuyler Stevens, of Kokomo, and they
have three daughters, Lena, Mary and Bessie; Elkanah B. , a starionary
engineer at the Howard Paper MiUs; John W. , employed at the Opalescent
Glass Works ever since its establishment; Lewis W., who has been em
ployed at the Clinton Hotel for several years; James D., a harness-maker;
and Ernest L., Annie E. and Gabriella M., at school.

/^ H. REYNOLDS, M. D. — Dr. Reynolds, who is successfully engaged
^^ in the practice of medicine in Kokomo, was born in Craig county.
West Virginia, on the 14th of July, 1854, and is a son of Hugh and Margaret
M. (McClannahan) Reynolds. The father is descended from Scotch-Irish
ancestry and the mother is of German-English and French descent. Hugh
Reynolds was a mUler by trade, and after freeing all his slaves in Virginia
he came to Indiana, in 1S58. For some years he engaged in farming east of
Muncie, and in 1S65 took up his residence in that city, where he mide his

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1269'
home untU his death, which occurred in 1883, at the age of seventy-four
years. His wife survived him until 1893, also passing away at the age of
seventy-four. Both were members of the Christian (Disciples') church, and
the former served as an officer in the war of the Rebellion.
The Doctor is one of a family of fourteen chUdren, four sons and ten
daughters, and of the number six are now Hving, namely: Benton, a resi
dent of Muncie, Indiana; Tobias, who is also living in Muncie; Oscar H. ;
Nancy Ellen, wife of James Shockley, of Delaware county, Indiana; Amanda,
wife of John Shockley, of Nehraska; and Sarah, wife of James Moody, of
Cedarville, Kansas.
Dr. Reynolds was a lad of four summers when brought by his father to
Indiana. He was reared in Muncie, attended its public schools, and entered
upon his business career as an employee in a sawmill, where he worked four
years. He then began to learn the carriage-maker's trade, but soon aban
doned it in order to study designing, carving and manufacturing fine furniture,
to which pursuits he devoted his energies for several years. Later he began
¦reading medicine in Muncie and subsequently attended the Curtis Physio-
Medical College, of Marion, having practiced three years before the law
went into effect. He entered upon his professional career in Muncie, where
he practiced for a number of years, and also added to his experience by
practice in the Cincinnati Hospital. In 1896 he came to Kokomo and is stiU
practicing here, his office and residence being at No. 25 West High street.
• He is ably assisted by his wife, who is a graduate ofthe Eclectic Ophthalmic
School, of IndianapoHs. They make a specialty of the treatment of diseases
of the eye, ear, nose and throat and have gained an enviable reputation in
those departments of the medical science. Dr. O. H. Reynolds is also a
magnetic healer and bears excellent testimonials from persons whom he has
healed, including many who had previously, by other physicians, been pro
nounced incurable.
Mrs. Reynolds bore the maiden name of Emma Keppler, and is a
daughter of John and Louisa (Post) Keppler. Their marriage was celebrated
AprU 19, 1897, and they have since labored together in one of the
most important lines to which man ever gives his attention, the alleviation
of the suffering of his fellow man. Dr. Reynolds is a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men, and in his political affiliations is a stanch
Repubhcan. He is not only thoroughly versed in his profession but is also

1270 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
well informed along other lines, and from the faithful performance of each
day's duty he gains inspiration and encouragement for the labors of the-
next. Pleasant and agreeable in manner, his cheery disposition as well as
his medical treatment of patients is a potent element in his success and
makes him a favorite with all with whom he comes in contact.

JUDGE JAMES O'BRIEN, a member of the law firm of O'Brien & Fel-
ker, 119 Walnut street, Kokomo, Indiana, is the subject of the following
paragraphs. Only a superior sense of the rights of man enables one to ap
preciate the principles of civU law, and when one readily understands these
principles and does honor to that profession which is specially engaged in
their application, he deserves a credit which most people fail to recognize,
although they sometimes undertake to reward a personal favorite with office.
The life of such a man as Judge O'Brien, both public and private, is an illus
tration of this superior sense, as attested by a close scrutiny.
A representative of the great state of Ohio, that model state of this
Union, that mother of modern presidents and statesmen. Judge O'Brien does
honor to that comraonwealth, by his inherited abUity as well as by his emi
nent acquirements and his general' bearing. Brown county, Ohio, is the
place of his nativity, and there he was born May 8, 1828, but was only two
and a half years old when his parents, John and Eleanor (McClughen)
O'Brien, changed their residence to Hancock county, Indiana.
His father, a native of Virginia, was a school-teacher in his young man
hood, and during the remainder of his life was engaged in agricultural pur
suits. He was but a child when taken by his parents in their emigration
from Virginia to Kentucky. In 1830 they came to Indiana, settling in Han
cock county, where they lived until 1839, when Mr. O'Brien sold out and
moved into Marion county, where he died, at the age of fifty-one years and
some months. His wife, a native of Pennsylvania, had died three or four
years previously, at the age of forty-one years. Both were prominent in the
work of the church. He was also active in behalf of the public schools-, and
for a time was county commissioner. Of their five sons and two daughters
three are still living, namely, James, George, and Nancy Jane Kimberlin, of
Hamilton county, Indiana.

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1271
George O'Brien, grandfather of the Judge, was a native of Virginia and
of Irish descent. The family line to which he belonged dated back many
generations in this country. In the war of 1812 he was a captain, but was
not called into action in any batrie. He had four children by his first mar
riage and one by his second, aU of whom are now deceased; and he departed
this life a little in advance of sixty years.
James McClughen, the Judge's maternal grandfather, was a native of
Pennsylvania and an eariy setrier of Ohio, locating in Adams county, where
he died, being upward of ninety years of age. He was a farmer and a
miUwright by vocation, and participated as a soldier in the war of 181 2.
The subject of this sketch was eleven years of age when his parents
removed from Hancock county to Marion county, this state, and on a farm
in the latter named county he was brought up to the severe responsibilities
of agricultural' life in the pioneer west. During the winter seasons he
attended the schools of the neighborhood.
In the autumn of 1849 he began the study of law, and in 1852 was
admitted to the bar. Beginning practice at Noblesville, Indiana, he con
tinued there until 1871, when he moved to Kokomo, which has ever since
been his place of residence with the exception of the time he served as judge.
He filled two vacancies, by appointment, in the office of circuit judge, — one
in the twenty-fourth judicial circuit, comprising the counties of Hamilton,
Madison, Tipton and Howard, and the other in the thirty-sixth judicial cir
cuit, embracing the counties of Tipton and Howard.
As an attorney he was counsel for the defendant in an exciting murder
trial in Howard county in the fall of 1S75, when Abraham Garr and James
D. Pratt were tried for the capital crime, and were acquitted. Besides, he
has been connected with several other important murder trials in Hamilton
county. Thus we see that his legal acumen is popularly recognized-
The Judge has always been interested in the political affairs of the
country. In his younger days he took an active part in public in behalf of
men and measures, delivering many speeches upon the rostrum. OriginaUy
he was a Whig, but ever since the Republican movement was inaugurated
he has been a decided member of that party. In 1880 he was a presidential
elector on the Republican ticket headed by James A. Garfield, of which fact
he justly feels proud. From 1S55 to 1859 he was clerk of HamUton county.
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1272 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
that body in 1863, 1S95 and 1897. These re-elections are clear testimonials
to his fidelity and capability as a legislator.
On the Sth day of May, 1S54, the Judge was married to Miss Charlotte
Louisa Lindsey, a daughter of Thomas and Lucy Lindsey, and they have
had three sons and four daughters, namely: Lucy, Ella, John L., Jessie, Will
iam Grant, Margaret E. and James Augustus. Lucy became the wife of Dr.
J. M. Moulder, of Kokomo; Ella died in infancy; John L. resides in Coffey-
ville, Kansas, where he holds a railroad position: he married Sophronia
Shields and has two children, — Jessie and William Earl; Jessie, a daughter
of the Judge, died at the age of eighteen years, her death being occasioned
by over-study; William G. married Miss Jennie Bowen, of Virginia, and they-
now -reside in Pueblo, Colorado: he is engaged in a railroad office there, his
original business being that of civil engineer; Margaret E. married George E.
Meek, a druggist in Kokomo, and they have three children, — Helen, James
and Margaret; James Augustus was united in marriage with Miss Avie A.
Crosier and they reside in Kokomo, where he is engaged in the insurance
business: they have one child, whose name is Mary Charlotte.
Judge O'Brien and his wife are influential members of the Markland
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, in which body he is one of the stewards.
Among the fraternal societies he is a member of Kokomo Lodge, No. 93,
A. F. & A. M.; of Kokomo Chapter, R. A. M., and of Commandery No. 36,
Knights Templar.
The family are in the enjoyment of a beautiful home just outside of the
corporation limits.

/^ EORGE H. GEVES, one of the leading citizens of Peru, is the worthy
^^ subject of this sketch, inasmuch as his life lustrously exerriplifies those
maxims which we are ever inculcating in our children. " The secret of a
man's success in the worid," says Dr HoUand, "resides in his insight into
the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them;" and our subject
belongs to a class of business men to whom this observation applies.
Mr Geves is a native of the Empire state, born in Fowlerville, August
12, 185 1. His parents, George and Eleanor (Oliver) Geves, natives of old
England, emigrated to America in 1849 with their children, who then were

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1273
Sarah and Henrietta. Mr. Geves, the father of George H., settled in
FowlervUle, New York, was a machinist by occupation and emigrated further
west in 1853, locating in Logansport, this state. He assisted in building
the first threshing machine made in this part of Indiana, and also set up the
first sorghum-miU in this state, which was in Cass county. In 1855 he came
to Peru, where he was first in the employ of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chi
cago Railroad Company, where he continued for many years. He died in
Peru, January 17, 1878, a consistent member of the Baptist church and a
highly respected citizen. In his political principles he was a Democrat.
•Mr. Geves, whose name heads this biographical outline, was two years
of age when he was brought to Indiana by his parents, received his educa
tion in the public schools of Logansport and Peru, coming to this city in
1864, when still a lad. Learning the drug business, under the instructions
of Joseph Kerthall, he remained with that gentleraan until his death. Becom
ing then, while not yet twenty years of age, a partner in the business with
Mrs. Kerthall, and borrowing two thousand dollars for the purpose of G. H.
Shirk, without security, he continued in the control of the establishment for
twenty-one and a half years. This is an eloquent fact in evidence of Mr.
Geves' business acumen and professional reliability. At the expiration of
the period mentioned he sold out the business for twelve thousand dollars,
within three hours after he had offered it for sale. For some years while in
that business he owned also a half interest in the livery stable which he is
now conducting. In selling out the drug store he immediately assumed the
management of the livery establishment, which he has since kept up to a
high standard of excellence and is enjoying a good patronage. His turn-outs
are first-class and he gives general satisfaction.
Exhibiting an intelligent interest in educational affairs, he was elected
a member of the school board of Peru in 1889 and held that office until
December 14, 1897, when he resigned. He was treasurer of that board for
eight years and for a time was president. He was the right man for the
place, as the public testimonial shows.
As to the fraternal organizations we may state that Mr. Geves is a mem
ber of the Masonic order, of Miami Lodge of the Odd FeUows, and of the
National Union.
September 10, 1873, he was united in the bonds of matriraony with
Miss Esther M. Black, a daughter of Samuel L. Black, an honored citizen of

1274 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Peru, a wealthy farmer and a pioneer of Miami county. Mr. and Mrs. Geves
have one daughter, born April 15, 1876, and named Daisy I.
Mr. Geves is a self-made man, successful in business, as he commenced
life for himself with nothing but his own inherited talents, and has arisen tb
prominence, at the same time winning the confldence of an intelligent and
appreciative public. The facts which we have mentioned in this brief out
line shows that what Mr. Geves has in material possessions are the accumu
lations made by his own good judgment and not by chance or aid from
friends. Said President Smith of Dartmouth: "There are three great
things essential to success, — conscientiousness, concentration and continuity.
In extremity it is character that saves a man. To one object the lines of life
should converge. This should be the focal point of thought and feeling.
Continuity is not incompatible with change; it is the reverse of a fragmentary
and desultory mode of life."

/'^ HARLES S. SULLIVAN is a sterling representative of one of the sturdy
^^-' old pioneer famUies of Pipe Creek township. He was born October 10,
185 I, on the farm where he still resides and' was reared here,- receiving a
common-school education. From his boyhood he has followed the business
of farming and is successful and well-to-do. After his marriage he settled
down here on the old home place, but a year afterward took up his abode on
a farm which was located on the banks of the Wabash river in Cass county.
His home was in that region for the next ten years, after which he returned
to his birthplace and has dwelt here ever since. His career has been marked
by absolute honesty and justice, and, without exception, his neighbors
maintain toward him the kindliest feehngs, wishing him well in every enter
prise to which he bends his energies. Religiously, he is a German Baptist
and in politics he is a Republican.
Cornelius H. Sullivan, father of the above-named gentleman, was born
in Frederick county, Maryland, February 14, 1814. He was a son of Jacob
Sullivan and wife, the latter a Miss Hoffman in her girlhood. The father of
Jacob Sullivan was a native of Ireland and Jacob was a soldier of the Revolu
tionary war. The children of Jacob Sullivan were: Jacob, John, Joseph,
Daniel, Sarauel, Frank, Cornelius H., Lydia, Mary A. and Elizabeth. Jacob
Sullivan died in Maryland at an advanced age. Cornelius Sullivan received a

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liberal education for his day, and for some time he was successfully engaged in
teaching. When he was a young man he went to Ohio and in that state was
married, in Miami county, to Miss Maria Morris, a daughter of Charles and
Abigail (Brown) Morris. Charles Morris was one of the pioneers of Miarai
county, a carpenter by trade, but for the most part he followed agricultural
pursuits, as he owned a valuable farm.' He lived to a ripe age, dying when
about -four-score and ten years old. His wife lived to about the same age.
TheirchUdren were: Mahlon, Ira, Jackson, George, Charles, Melissa, Michael,
Maria, and Jane, who died in infancy. For perhaps five 3-ears subsequent to
his marriage Cornelius H. Sullivan lived in Brandt, Miami county, Ohio, but
in 1S46 he came to this county, the journey being made in March of that
year and much of the distance being traversed by means of the canal. He
bought the land on which his son, our subject, now lives, — a quarter section,
covered' with heavy timber. He built a log cabin, and replaced this with a
substantial house at a subsequent period, and made many other improve
ments upon the place, besides clearing the land of the forest. For two
terms he taught school in this township, and for two terms he acted in
the capacity of trustee for the- township. He was first a Democrat, but
upon the organization of the Republican party he joined its supporters. He
was among the honored early members of the German Baptist church in this
township, and in all local affairs he was consulted and looked up to as an
authority. His children comprised three daughters and one son: Amelia J.,
Hannah, Charles and Caroline.
Charles S. Sullivan, whose name heads this sketch, took a very impor
tant step in his career when he united his destinies with those of Miss Hannah
M. Smith, of Tipton township, Cass county, Indiana, on the 15th of Febru
ary, 187S. She was born in that county AprU 25, 1857, a daughter of Dan
iel K. and Mary A. (Hubbard) Smith. Daniel Kelso Smith was a son of Dan
iel K. and Lydia (Winans) Smith, the former a native of Prussia, Germany.
He came to America when a young man and participated in the Revolution
ary war. He married a daughter of Aaron Winans and located on a farm in
Morris county. New Jersey. He lived to attain the age of sixty-seven years,
but hiswife died at forty-two. He- was a member of the Presbyterian church
and in politics was a Democrat. His children were named as follows:
Daniel K., Sarah A., Regina, Aaron, Eliza, Helen J., Hannah M,, Robert
and Margaretta.

1276 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Daniel K. Smith was one of the pioneers of Cass county, Indiana, set
tling there as early as 1S37. He passed through Peru when the town con
sisted of one frame house -and several log cabins. Down the Wabash river
he floated in a log canoe or pirogue, and was three times upset between
Peru and Lewisburg. In this way he lost some of his belongings and all of
his money save fifty cents. At the invitation of Lewis Boyer he settled at
Lewisburg, where he opened a blacksmith shop. After living there for six years
he removed to Tipton township, and entered eighty acres of land near Pipe
Creek. He erected a log cabin and cleared a farm, also working at his trade
as a blacksmith and for a period keeping a grocery. By thrift and the exer
cise of good business principles he acquired a competence, at last owning
about three or four hundred acres of land, on which were valuable improve
ments. He and his good wife were members of the Methodist church and he
was one of the founders of the church in his township, and for a long time
was a class-leader. He died at the age of fifty-three years. (For further
history of the family see sketch of Mortimer Smith.)
The raarriage of Charles S. Sullivan and wife has been blessed with
seven chUdren, named as follows: Otis E., born November 27, 1880; J.
Seward, February 16, 1882; Myrrie E., August 29, 1883; Edith, November
18, 1S84; Hazel, July 29, x8S6; Grace, March 8, 188S; and Mary, June 8,
1889.

JOHN LITSINBERGER.— Eighty-five years complete the present life-
^ span of John Litsinberger, one of the most venerable and respected citi
zens of Miami county and an honored pioneer who for fiftj'-eight years has
resided in this locality. He was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania,
on the 1 6th of February, 18 13, a son of George and Rebecca (Strauss) Lit
sinberger He represents one of the old Pennsylvania-Dutch families that
were established in the Keystone state long prior to the Revolution. His
grandfather was Peter Litsinberger, a farmer of Northampton county, that
state, where occurred the birth of George Litsinberger, who also chose farm
ing as a life work. The latter was married to Rebecca Strauss and they
became the parents of the following children: George, Daniel, Betsey, Polly,
Katie, Isaac, Susan, Henry, Sallie, John and Jacob. The last two were
twins and all are now deceased with the exception of our subject. In 18x9

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1277
the parents removed with their family to Fairfield county, Ohio, locating on
a farm where they made their home for about twelve years, when, in the
spring of 1830, they removed to Hancock county, Ohio. There the father
secured eighty acres of timber land, and to its development devoted his ener
gies throughout his remaining days. He was a typical pioneer, not afraid to
meet the hardships and trials of pioneer life, industrious and energetic, and
above all, honorable and upright. He held a membership in the Presby
terian church and died at an advanced age.
John Litsinberger was a lad of only six summers when he accompanied
his parents on their removal from Pennsylvania to Ohio. He was thus reared
amid the wUd scenes of the frontier, where his educational privileges were
very meager but where his training at farm labor was very protracted. In
the spring of 1840 he came to Indiana with his brother Isaac and located in
Butler township, Miami county, where he cleared land and developed a
farm. He afterward sold that property, and purchased one hundred and
twenty acres across the river, making his home thereon until his removal to
his present farm, where he has eighty acres of rich land, very different in
appearance froih the tract which came into his possession at the time of his
purchase. A dense growth of native forest trees then stood where waving
fields of grain now delight the eye and give indication of abundant harvests.
There were no improvements where now stand the substantial buildings, and
all of the improvements on the farm have been placed there by Mr. Litsin
berger, the enterprising owner.
On the 7th of January, 1852, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Sybilla
Roberson, a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, and a daughter of James and
Hannah Beard. She was first married to B. Hamilton, by whom she had
one child, Lucinda. After the death of her first husband she wedded S.
Roberson, and their children were Alex, Martha, James and Annie. These
chUdren were small when the mother became the wife of Mr. Litsinberger,
who reared the daughters, the sons dying in 1856. To our subject and his
wife was born one son, George Austin, who died at the age of two years, two
months and twenty-two days. The mother was called to the home beyond
in May, 1856. She was a member of the Methodist church and a lady of
many excellent qualities.
In his political views Mr. Litsinberger has been a Republican since the
organization of the party. His life has been a busy and useful one, and as

1278 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
the result of his labor his economy and good management he is now in com
fortable financial circurastances, and owns a good farra of seventy-eight and
a half acres. He has ever been an advocate of all moral interests and exem
plifies his belief in his daily life. Strictly temperate, he never uses intoxi
cants or tobacco in any form; a lover of peace, he has never been engaged in
lawsuits; his life is straightforward and honorable, worthy of all respect.

JOHN JOHNSON, one of Indiana's Civil war veterans and a much
respected citizen of Howard county, whose post-office address is Plevna,
is a native " Hoosier," born in Henry county, this state. May 25, 1844, son
of David and Belinda (Davis) Johnson.
The Johnsons are of English origin. Strangeman Johnson, the grand
father of John, was born in North Carolina and was engaged in farming
there until 1S36, when he emigrated to Indiana and became one of the pio
neers of Henry county. He died in that county at a ripe old age. He and
his wife, whom he married in North Carolina, were the parents of the fol
lowing named children: David, Hardy, William, Lydia and Catherine.
David Johnson, also a native of North Carolina, was born about 1821, and
was fifteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Indiana. He mar
ried in Henry county. Miss Belinda Davis, a native of Ohio and a daughter
of Jacob Davis. After their marriage they settled in Henry county and
continued to reside there until 184S, when they came to Howard county and
estabUshed their home on forty acres of timber land in Liberty township.
This land he cleared and improved, and to it he added until his farm com
prised one hundred and twenty acres. He spent the rest of his life here and
died at the age of fifty-five years, respected by all who knew him. Polit
icaUy he was a Republican. To him and his wife were born the foUowing
named children: John, Hannah J., WUliam, Louisa, Emma, Anderson,
Mary, Austin, Isabel and Oliver. Louisa died in infancy.
John Johnson was four years old when the family, as above recorded,
moved from Henry to Howard county and settled two miles northwest of
Greentown. Here his youthful days were passed and his education was
limited to the common schools of the district. When the Civil war came
on he had not yet emerged from his 'teens, but before it closed, October

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1279
24, 1S64, at the age of twenty, he enlisted as a private in Company I, One
Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for one
year or during the war. He was stationed at NashvUle and was engaged in
the second battle there, December 15 and 16, 1864. Throughout his army
service he never missed a roll call and was noted for his promptness and
-faithfulness. June i, 1865, for meritorious service, he was promoted tothe
rank of corporal, and July 14, 1S65, the war being over, he was honorably
discharged. After the war Mr. Johnson returned to his home in Liberty township,
Howard county, and March i, 1S66, he was here married to Miss Elizabeth
Harriet Covalt, a native of Brown county, Ohio, born October 18, 1848,
daughter of Jonathan and Rachel (Fritz) Covalt. Jonathan Covalt, also a
native of Brown county, Ohio, was a son of Abrahara and Ann (Davis)
Covalt, pioneers of that county, he being of Irish descent and she of sturdy
Pennsylvania Dutch. Abraham Covalt had a brother who was kUled in the
Indian war of 1812. Their father was one of the first white settlers of the
" Western Reserve " in Ohio, and it was in Brown county July 25, 1796,
that Abraham was born. When he grew up he settled on five hundred acres
of land in Cedar Valley, thirty miles from Ciricinnati, which he developed
into a nice farm. About 1862 he moved to Grant county, Indiana, and pur
chased three hundred acres of land from his son Jonathan and on this farm
he passed the residue of his life and died, his age at death being eighty- four
years. He and his wife were the parents of five children : Jonathan,
Cheniah, Ebenezer, Betsy and Alice. This venerable man and his good wife
were noted fbr their genial hospitality. In 1877 at his home was held a
reunion of the Covalt family, at which were present four generations, includ
ing one hundred and twenty-eight relatives, among them being thirty grand
children and thirty-six great-grandchildren.
Jonathan Covalt, the father of Mrs. Johnson, was reared in his native
county. His wife, whose maiden name was Rachel Fritz, vvas born Noveraber
18, 1826, daughter of Michael and Margaret (Murray) Fritz. The founder
of the Fritz family in America came from Germany. About 1855 Jonathan
Covalt and wife moved with their family from Brown county, Ohio, to Grant
county, Indiana, and settled in the woods in Green township, where he
improved a farm. He first entered one hundred and sixty acres and to this
he added afterward until his farm comprises three hundred acres. It was

1280 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
this farm that he sold to his father, as above stated. From Grant county he
came to Howard county, settUng on a quarter section located two mUes west
of Greentown, which he transformed into one of the best farms in Howard.
county. He returned to Grant county, however, and there died in 1S76.
His wUe died in Greentown in 1873. Both were members of the United
Brethren church, in which he was active for a number of years, filling the
office of class-leader. The children of this couple are John, Abraham, Ann,
Amos, Harriet, Ebenezer, Alice, Bell, Mariah, Ella and Lincoln.
After marriage Mr. John Johnson settled on twenty acres of land two miles
south of where he now lives. He built a log house, cleared the land and lived
there nine years, afterward selling out and making several different moves,
continuing, however, in Liberty township. By dint of hard work and good
management he prospered and in 1884 he bought his present farm of seventy-
five acres, and this place he has likewise improved.
The children of John and Elizabeth Johnson are: Charles W. , who was
born February i, 1S67, and died December 10, iSSi; Hardy F., born Octo
ber 31, 1868, died at the age of about thirteen years, November 9, 1S81;
Melissa M. was born January 25, 1871; WUliam A. was born March 25, 1873;
Glen died in infancy; John F. was born June 10, 1876, married Edna Conkle
Februarys, X896, and is a farmer on the old homestead; Eben died in infancy;
Pearl I. was born December 12, 1S79; and Ben was born May 7, 18S2.
Mary Melissa became the wife of WUUam C. Wilson September 18, 1S90,
and is the mother of three children, namely: Gale, Glen and Loren D.
William A. chose Hattie L. Jackson for his wife, and their marriage was
solemnized December 25, 1894. They have two children, — Mabel and Ruby,
— and reside on a good farm in Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana.
Mrs. Johnson's sister Alice married Thomas Mason, and died, leaving one
son, Loren D., then but sixteen months old. For the past three years he
has made his home in the family of our subject. He is a young man of good
principles and attainments, and is a member of the United Brethren church.
He enlisted in the late war with Spain as a corporal of Company L, One Hun
dred and FUty-eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was sent
to Camp Thomas, Chickamauga. He acted as quartermaster and treasurer
of his company and discharged his duties with skill and strict fidelity, win
ning the approval of his superior officers.
Mrs. Johnson is a member of the United Brethren church, for several

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1281
years has served as steward and class-leader and for the past eight years has
been a teacher in the Sunday-school. Her sons, John F. and Benjamin H.,
are both active in Sunday-school work, the former being a teacher and the lat
ter secretary, and they and their sister Melissa are members of the church.
Politically, Mr. Johnson affiliates with the Republican party. He is a
justice of the peace. A veteran of the Civil war, he naturally takes an inter
est in the boys who wore the blue and belongs to Hugh ,H. Willitts Post, No.
424, G. A. R. , at Greentown.

JOHN N. SULLIVAN, a prominent farmer near Peru, is a son of one of
the pioneers of Pipe Creek township. His father, Samuel Sullivan, was
born in Frederick county, Maryland, Novem^ber 20, 1811, the son of Jacob
Sullivan (see sketch of Charles S. Sullivan). Jacob Sullivan, a cabinet-maker
by trade, located in Miami county, Ohio, where he married Melinda Ander
son, who was born in that county, in 1825. Samuel Sullivan received a
common-school education and learned the shoemaker's trade. Directly after
his marriage he removed to Miami county, Indiana, in 1840, settling upon
land which he had examined ajid entered in 183S, at the government rate of
one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre. This tract is now the farm occu
pied by John N., our subject. At that time Indians were plentiful here, and
an Indian trail ran through his land. He cleared this place and made a good
farm. His children were: Mary, who died at the age of three years; Lucretia,
John N., Martha A., Lucinda M. and Lydia A. He and his wife were mem
bers of the Methodist church, and he was one of the founders of the society
in his township. In his political views he was a Republican. He died
October 26, 18S5, at the venerable age of eighty-three years, eleven months
and twenty days.
John N. Sullivan, -our subject,- was born December 27, 1S52, on the
homestead just described, receiving a common-school education, and has
always been a farmer, industrious and prosperous, and honorable in all his
deaHngs. November 26, 1876, when he was about twenty-three years of
age, he was united in matrimony with Jane Weckler, who died a year after
ward, and in 1S83 he married, in Pipe Creek township, Rosina Yard, a native
of that township and adaughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Shafer) Yard,
44

1282 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Her father was born in the north edge of Peru, and his children were Jessie,
Rosinda, Katie and Emma. After his death his widow married Joseph
McMillen. After his first marriage Mr. Sullivan settled upon the old home
stead, which he still occupies. He has ptospered and now owns a fine farm
of one hundred and seventy acres. He is also a breeder of full-blood Poland-
China hogs, Oxford sheep and barred Plymouth Rock fowls, and he is well
known for his faithful representations of the history and quality of his stock.
His children, by his secondiwife, are Ray N. and Ross. In his political
views he is a Republican, and in religion Mrs. Sullivan is a member of the
Methodist church.
Joseph Sullivan, deceased, in his day one of the well known and sub
stantial pioneers of Pipe Creek township, was born in Frederick county,
Maryland, February 14, 1805, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Huffman) Sul
livan. Jacob's father, also named Jacob, is believed to have come from
county Cork, Ireland. He settled in Maryland, where he became an influ
ential citizen, and he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Jacob
Sullivan, the father of Joseph, becarae a farmer in Frederick county, Mary
land, and the father of seven children, — John, Joseph, Daniel, Samuel,
Frank, Elizabeth and Lydia A. Mr. SulHvan was a member of the Lutheran
church, and lived to be about seventy-three years old, dying in his native
county. Joseph Sulhvan, his son, moved to Miami county, Ohio, in 1830, when
a young man, and worked at the carpenter's trade in Dayton, that state.
AprU 7, 1843, in Bethel township, Miami county, Ohio, he was married to
Mary A. Anderson, who was born in that county, June 20. 1822, a daughter.
of James and Anna (Maddox) Anderson. Her mother was a daughter of
Nathan Maddox, and her father was born in Prince William county, Vir
ginia, in 17S0, a son of Jaines and Mary (Moulton) Anderson. The James
Anderson last mentioned was of Scotch descent, and his father and a brother
were natives of Scotland. The Andersons were early colonial setriers of Vir
ginia. Mary Moulton was of English descent. The senior Anderson just men
tioned was a farmer in Prince William county, Virginia, where he passed
the closing years of his life. His children were Nannie, John, Vincent and
James. James Anderson, the father of Mrs. Sullivan, remained in Virginia two
years after his marriage, and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he

CASS, MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1283
resided ten years, following the trade of cooper. Finally, about i8[2, he
.located on a tract of wild land in the forests of Miami county, Ohio, con;^
prising one hundred and sixty acres, and there spent the remainder of his
days, dying at the age of sixty-three years, a member of the Methodist
church, and in politics an old-line Whig. He was characterized by indus
trious habits and uprightness in all his dealings. He gave land for the church
and burying-ground in his neighborhood. His wife, the mother of Mrs.
Sullivan, was born in 17S0, in Fauquier county, Virginia, and died on his
farm at the age of eighty years. They had twelve chUdren, of whom three
died in infancy. Those who Hved to years of maturity were Rebecca,
Maria, John, Nathan, Mary A., Harrison, Joseph, Wesley and Matilda, — all
of whom are now deceased excepting Mary A.
Joseph Sullivan settled in Brown county, Ohio, where he followed the
trade.of carpenter for three years. October 3, 1846, he arrived in Pipe
Creek township, Miami county, Indiana, where the survivors now reside.
Three brothers came at the same time, with their families — Samuel, Cornelius
and Joseph — and also a sister. The women came by way of the canal, with
the household goods. Mr. Sullivan settled on two hundred acres of canal
land, which he had purchased in 1840; it had been entered at Winamac,
Indiana. A claim on eighty acres adjoining had been established by a Mr.
Worrell, and a log cabin built. This also he bought, but afterward sold
forty acres to a Mr. Watters. He proceeded to clear the land and make
a good farm, placing upon it the necessary buildings and other improve-
, ments. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan's chUdren were Mary J., Henrietta, WilUam,
Byron, Martha M. and Eleazer — all of whom are living and married except
ing one son. Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Methodist church, and in
politics an old-line Whig and Republican. He was industrious, persevering,
prosperous, upright and influential. He passed from this world Deceraber
II, 1890, at the age of eighty-six years. Mrs. Sullivan is yet living, at the
age of seventy-six years, has been a member of the Methodist church ever
since she was thirty years of age, and is an excellent woman, having done
' her share in the development of a good home as well as a good state of
society in her neighborhood.
Mrs. EHzabeth McMillen was born March 27, 1S41, in Montgomery
county, Ohio, near Dayton, a daughter of Jeremiah K. and Catharine

1284 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
(Reeser) Shafer. Her father was of PennSylvania-Dutch ancestry, his
parents having been natives of the Keystone state. His father, named
Jacob, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Jeremiah K. Shafer was a wagon-
maker by trade. His children by the marriage mentioned were Isaiah J.
and Elizabeth, and by a former marriage Samuel, Findlay, Sarah, Mary,
MatUda and Margaret. In 1842 he emigrated to Miami county, Indiana,
setthng in Pipe Creek township, on eighty acres of wooded land, which he
cleared and converted into a good farm. He died in that township, aged
about seventy-three years. He had one son, Samuel, a soldier in the
Mexican war, and another son, Findlay, who participated in the great war
of the Rebellion.
Mrs. McMUlen was an infant but one year old when brought' by her
parents to Miami county, this state, and was reared among the pioneers.
June 16, 1859, in Pipe Creek township, she was united in marriage with
Alexander Yard, who besides his farm had a lime-kUn, both of which he
conducted. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1838, and was brought west
by his parents in his childhood. He died in 1 870, in Pipe Creek township,
at the age of about thirty-two years. He, too, was a Methodist and an
excellent citizen. His children, by the marriage mentioned, were Cassius,
Rosanna, Katie, Dulcinia, Winn, Emma and Elizabeth. In X871 Mrs. Yard
was united in marriage with Joseph McMillen, and by this marriage there
has been one child, named Jessie. Mrs. McMillen is a resident of Washing
ton township.

MORTIMER SMITH is one of the substantial farmers and progressive
business men of Pipe Creek township, Miami county. He comes from
one of the old pioneer families of Indiana, his relatives having been among
the founders of this state's prosperity. Born January 4, 1852, in Tipton
township, Cass county, Indiana, he is a son of Daniel K. and Mary (Hub
bard) Smith, who were residents of that locality as early as 1837. Our sub
ject received a good education for the time and for the place in which his
boyhood was spent, though the schools of that period were of small conse
quence, as compared with those of the present day. He was reared as a
farmer and has always devoted his energies to the cultivation of the soil.
Success has come to him as the direct result of his wisdom and well appHed

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industry, and among his neighbors he is a man of prominence and justly
deserved respect.
From the old famUy Bible in the possession of the Smiths the foUowing
is copied: " Daniel Kelso Smith was born in Morris county. New Jersey,
AprU 5, 1816. His wife, Mary A. Hubbard, was born in Rockaway county.
New Jersey, January 23, xSiS. Daniel K. Smith and Mary A. Hubbard
were married June 3, 1S37, in Morris county. New Jersey. Children: George
H. Smith was born July 15, 1838, in Lewisburg, Cass county, Indiana; Har
riet E., October 22, 1839; Marietta, May n, 1S42; Abby Ann Hubbard,
September 27, 1844; Mahlon Hubbard, June 10, 1847; Mortimer, January 4,
1S52; Daniel A., March 2, 1S54. Daniel A. died May 13, 187-. Daniel
Kelso Smith, the father, died AprU 14, 1872. Henry Snyder and Harriet
Elizabeth Smith were married April i, 1858, in Cass county, Indiana. James
W. Mays and Marietta Smith were married June 21, i860, in Cass county,
Indiana. Daniel Long and Abby Ann Smith were married September 8,
1864, in Ca'ss county, Indiana. Mortimer Smith and Melvina Karn were
married October 30, 1873, in Miami county, Indiana."
Mortimer Smith was married the same year that he attained his major
ity, his bride being a native of Miami county and a daughter of Isaac and
EHzabeth Karn. The young couple settled in Carroll county, Indiana,
where Mr. Smith was actively engaged in merchandising during the foUowing
four years. He then took up his abode on the old Smith homestead in Tip
ton township, Cass county. There he devoted himself industriously to the
cultivation of the place and the accumulation of a competence for the future.
In 1892 he removed to his present farm, which is one of the most fertile and
well managed homesteads in the county. It comprises one hundred acres,
laid out into fields of convenient size. The fences and buUdings are charac
terized by marked neatness and are substantially constructed. Mr. Smith is
straightforward and reliable in all his dealings, and his neighbors and numer
ous acquaintances are invariably unstinted in their commendation of his
methods. In his political preference he is a Democrat.
The first wife of Mr. Smith died in Tipton township, Cass county.
Later he married Miss Mary Ellen Snyder, who was born in Deer Creek
township, Cass county, March 2, 1864, a daughter of Henry and Sarah
(Eastern) Snyder. Henry Snyder was a native of Maryland, his birth hav
ing occurred in Washington county. May 17, 1840, his parents being John

1286 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
and Elizabeth (Leighty) Snyder The former, John Snyder, was a prosper
ous farmer in Maryland, and was of German descent. His chUdren were
David, John, Jacob, WUliam, Henry, Mary and Elizabeth. He was a Ger
man Baprist in his religious faith, and lived to a good old age. Mrs.
Smith's parents were married in April, iS6i, in Maryland, and a few years
later they carae to Indiana. In December, 1S63, they located in Deer
Creek township, and about 1869 moved to Tipton township, Cass county.
There they are sriU making their home. They are both members of the
German Baptist church and enjoy the love and respect of all who know
them. PoliticaUy Mr. Snyder is a Democrat. The brothers and sisters
of Mrs. SmUh are as follows: John H., born November 30, 1868; Charles
L. and Samuel L. (twins), December 27, 1S73; Myrtle, May 2, iSSi, and
Ora E., May 2, 1884. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith three chil
dren have been born, namely: Ethel F., June n, 1893; Edna A., March 25,
1894; and Mary G. , May 22, 1896.

REV. ISAAC SHEPLER, one of the worthy pioneers of Miami county,
is a clergyman of the German Baptist church, and is a faithful worker
in the vineyard of the Lord. He was but five years of age when he came
with his parents to this county, and he literally " grew up with thecountry."
His education was neglected until he was ten years old, as there were no
schools up to that time. His father and a few neighbors banded together in
1852 and built a log-cabin school-house on the Jefferson farm, in Washing
ton township. The forests had been interfered with but little, and, in order
that the children might not be lost on their way to or from school, the father
blazed a path through the woods with his axe, — about three-quarters of a
mile. The years have rapidly rolled away since that primitive period, and
great and wonderful changes have been brought to pass within the recol
lection of the subject of this article. Nor has he been idle and uninterested
in the march of progress; he has certainly done his share toward accomplish
ing the grand result.
Rev. Isaac Shepler is the eldest son of Abrahara and Sarah (Wessinger)
Shepler, natives of Rockingham county, Virginia, and Montgomery county,
Ohio, respectively. The father, a son of George and Sarah (Shull) Shepler,

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was born January 19, 1S21, and the mother, a daughter of John Wessinger,
was born June lo, 1823, When he was a lad of about twelve years Abra
ham Shepler removed from his native state to Montgomery county, Ohio,
and located on the old Daniel Miller farm, on Wolf creek. In August, 1841,
Abraham Shepler and Sarah Shull were united in marriage, and for seven
years thereafter they resided on a farm about three mUes west of Dayton,
Ohio. In January, 1S47, they removed to Miami county, making the jour
ney with two teams and wagons. Their children were then three in number,
namely: Isaac, John and Martha. Lydia, Sarah and Leroy were born in
Indiana. Mr. Shepler settled upon an eighty-acre tract of wooded land,
cleared off the timber and made a fine horaestead. Later he added to his orig
inal farm until the place comprised one hundred and twenty acres. After
living there for eighteen years he moved to Deer Creek township and for
about a year operated one hundred acres of land. Afterward he settled in
Pipe Creek township, and for twenty years operated a farm of one hundred
and fifty acres. In 1883 he went to Reno county, Kansas, buying there a
quarter-section of land, and three years later he bought a like amount of
land in Marion county, in the sarae state. He died June 10, 1891, aged
about seventy years. In 1S53 he became a minister and elder in the Ger
man Baptist church. By reason of his sterling worth he was a man who was
a.dmired by all who knew him. and he lived to see his children honored mem
bers of the several communities in which they dwelt.
The subject of this sketch was born in the Buckeye state October 5,
1842. His first teacher was Miss Emma Mallory, and the first schools
which he attended were managed on the subscription plan. He went to
school during the few winter months until he was about twenty years
old, and the rest of the year worked on the home farm. April 2, 1S68, he
married Mary Kellar, who was born November 8, 1844, in Pipe Creek
township, the daughter of Frederick and Eva (Gottschalk) Kellar. The
father, a native of "Germany, came to America with his parents when he
was a young man nearing his majority. He settled in Maryland, and thence
removed to Montgoinery county, Ohio, where he married Miss Gottschalk.
About 1 84 1 he removed to this township and entered the farm on which our
¦subject is now residing. It was a tract of a quarter-section, heavily covered
with rimber. He cleared the land and developed a good farm. He was
known as a man of genuine merit, his life being upright, peaceful and full of

1^88 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
kindly deeds towards his fellows. He departed this life when he was in his
seventieth year.
After his marriage Rev. Mr. Shepler lived for three years on a farm in
this township, it being situated some three miles anorthwest of his present
home. He then came to the old KeUar homestead, where he may be found
to-day. He has made many goo.d improvements upon the place and nine
years ago buUt a substantial brick house. He has cleared much of the farm
and has laid several hundred rods of tUing on the premises. No one in this
community receives and more justly deserves the respect and high regard of
all than Mr. Shepler. He is known to be a man of high principle, a stanch
friend to temperance and a supporter of "whatsoever things are of good
report." The chUdren of Mr. and Mrs. Shepler are Martha G., EHza A. and
Barbara Etta.

CHRISTIAN LANTY. — Long numbered among the industrious, successful
farmers bf Jackson township, Howard county, the subject of this sketch
is a descendant of sturdy Dutch ancestors, noted for their many sterling
traits of character, which he has inherited. He isa native of Wayne county,
Ohio, born in October, 1834. He received a district school education, and
when still quite young had mastered the various departments of farm work.
The same zeal and energy which he displayed in his youth in whatever under
taking he had on hand he still manifests, and doubtless this is one of the
secrets of his success.
The parents of our subject were Stephen and Nancy (Landor) Lanty.
The father was one of the pioneers of Wayne county, Ohio, where he cleared
a farm in the midst of the wilderness, and owned one hundred and sixty acres
at the time of his death. He was respected and trusted by those with whom
he was associated in business and all who knew him admired his many ster
ling qualities. He lived to a good old age, and finally died from the effects
of a runaway accident. His children were seven in number, namely: Jacob,
John, Stephen, Joseph, Levi, James and Christian.
Upon coming to this county in 1854, Christian Lanty bought a farm of
eighty acres in Liberty township. It was situated in a dense forest and the.
young raan had a great task before him in the clearing of the land for culti-

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1289
vation, but this he eventually accompUshed. He paid seven hundred dollars
fof his land in the first place, but increased its value to a sum many times
that amount by his weU-directed efforts and careful improvements. In 1871
he removed to the homestead where he now resides. About ten of the one
hundred and sixty acres had been cleared, and the place bore small resem
blance to the fertUe, well-cultivated farm of to-day. A substantial two-story
house of brick was erected by the owner of the property and other good
buildings meet the requirements of the general farm work. The boun
daries of the farm have been extended to the limits of one hundred and eighty-
four acres, and a good system of drainage has been put in, thus making it one
of the best farms in the township.
October 28, 1861, Mr. Lanty was married, in this county, to Barbara,
daughter of Christian Zech. Sbe was born AprU 28, 1840, and died at the
age of twenty-five years and four months, Septeraber 14, 1S65, leaving three
children to mourn her loss, namely: WiUiam H , born June 28, 1S62; Noah,
January 28, 1S64; and Mary A., September 5, 1865. November 4, 1866,
Mr. Lanty married Annie Schrock, whose birth occurred in Holmes county,
Ohio, December 16, 1836; her parents were Henry and Barbara (Milton)
Schrock. To this marriage of our subject the following named children were
born: Barbara A., July 31, 1868; Henry Stephen, December 15, 1869;
Mandilla, born December 24, 1S70, and died November 24, 1874; Orville,
twin of Mandilla, died May 10, 1873; Albert, born November 24, 1872;
John, January 10, 1S74; Jemima, October 10, 1876; and Delilah C, Feb
ruary 13, 1879. The mother of these children passed away to the other
world October 28, 1891, and in October, 1897, Mr. Lanty married Mrs.
Polly Yoder, who was born in 1837, a daughter of Henry Staley.
Mr. and Mrs. Lanty are both active members of the Mennonite church
and are identified with various enterprises having for their object the ameli
oration of mankind. They enjoy the esteem and good wUl of a large circle
of acquaintances.

r)ERRY FELLERS.— Iri the subject of this sketch the village of Macy,
* Indiana, has a trusted and honored citizen, who at this writing is serv
ing as marshal and street commissioner. Following is a brief review of
his Hfe:

1290 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Perry Fellers was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, February 19, 1844,
and is a son of George and Sarah (Donaldson) FeUers. His father was a
native of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, born October 4, 18 12, whUe
his mother was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, February 26, 1816. They
were married in 1832. They resided in Fairfield county, Ohio, until 1849,
when they removed to Hancock county, that state, where both died. They
lived on one farm for nearly fifty years. He died March 12, 1888, and she
passed away February 10, 1897. Of the eleven chUdren born to them, six
sons are now living. The eldest of this family is Daniel, who resides in
Birminghara, Indiana, and is a chair-maker; the second, Rosilla, wife of
Edward Crosier, is deceased; Noah, a carpenter by occupation, lives in
Findlay, Ohio; Mary died in early womanhood; Perry, the next in order of
birth, is the subject of this sketch; Wesley, a mechanic and unmarried,
resides in the family of his brother Perry; Catharine, wife of Lewis Crum,
died in Ohio; Julian died in infancy; Eron resides on a farm near Mount
Cory, Ohio; Harvey died in infancy; and Richard, a painter and paper-
hanger, lives in Baltimore, Ohio.
In his boyhood Perry Fellers attended the public schools of his native
state, and early in Ufe learned the trade of broom-maker, which he followed
up to the time of his enlistment in the Union army. That was November
18, 1864. He became a member of Company I, Forty-third Indiana Volun
teers, and he spent his term of enlistment in guarding prisoners at Indian
apolis. He was honorably discharged June 23, 1865.
In June previous to his enlistment he had come to Indiana and located
in Allen township, Miarai county. This place continued to be his home until
1876, when he returned to Hancock county, Ohio, there spending four years
in farming and sawraUling. In 1880 he brought his family back to Macy,
Indiana, and has lived here ever since. He has been occupied in various
ways, first as a tile-maker, next as a butcher, operating a market of his own
a part of the time, and finally he learned the shoemaker's trade. He at
present has a shoe shop, and also fills the offices of city marshal and street
commissioner. Mr. Fellers was married August 28, 1S64, to Miss Annie Sophia Syes,
a native of Preble county, Ohio, born April 7, 1846, daughter of John and
Susan (Heck) Syes, natives of Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Syes died in Miami
county, Indiana, and are buried at Five Corners, Allen township. Mr. and

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Mrs. Fellers have had three chUdren, all of whora are deceased, namely:
WiUiam, who died at the age of nine months and twenty-five days; Chariie,
at the age of sixteen years; and Eldora, also at the age of sixteen years.
For years Mr Fellers has been identified with the I. O. O. F., main
taining membership in Allen Lodge, No. 540, of which he is a past grand,
and which he has twice represented in the grand lodge of the state. Both
he and his wife are members of Mystic Jewel Lodge, No. 210, of the Rebekah
degree, and are also prominently idenrified with the Methodist Episcopal
church. He is a member of the G. A. R., and is a pensioner by reason of
disabilities incurred during his service in the late war.

J OHN CHAMP. — The subject of this biographical review has had an inter-
*-' esting and varied experience in life. His birth occurred on the Sth of
AprU, 1S30, in Pickaway county, Ohio. At the age of seven years he was
bereft of a father's care and training and from that day to this it may be said
that he has "paddled his own canoe."
At the age of ten years he accompanied his widowed mother, brothers
and sisters to Miami county, Indiana, first locating at Peru. Five years
later, — that is, in 1845, — they located upon the present site of Somerset, in
Wabash county, and erected the first house in that place. About 1S4S the
family returned to Peru and two years later removed to a farm in Kosciusko
county. After two years spent in farming they removed to Cass county and
located near the Huldah Iron Works, four miles east of Logansport. Our
subject secured a position in that establishment and continued in the employ
of the company for four years. This was practically his first independent
effort in life and he here evinced a recognition of that careful maternal train
ing which a devoted and self-sacrificing mother had given hira. His habits
of life took tangible shape and he carefully saved his earnings for the benefit
of the faraily in later years.
In 1856 the family located upon a farm in Adams township, Cass county,
and after remainirig there eight years removed to one of their own, in Fulton
county. But the war cloud was upon the country and Mr. Champ felt that his
duty was suggested by the absence of young men of his age at the front.

1292 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Though he made a great sacrifice in doing so he enlisted, in February, 1865,
as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers.
The surrender of Lee's army followed soon after, though this happy culmi
nation of military affairs could not have been foreseen at the time of his
enlistment. His loyalty to the country was fully demonstrated by his act of
enlistment and not by results achieved. He was honorably discharged from
service in Noveraber, 1865, and returned to the peaceful pursuits of life on
his farm in Fulton county.
In the spring of 1876 he returned to Miami county and located at Macy,
where he engaged in farming,' owning the farm he cultivated and the most
beautiful home in the village. This he afterward exchanged for the Macy ,
House, receiving a cash difference in the value of the properties.
Mr. Champ is a gentleman of intelligence and genial manner. Though
denied the advantages of thorough schooling in his youth, he has by careful
reading, observation and business experience — the best of all teachers — accu
mulated a good stock of general information. He has traveled extensively in
the United States and resided or been employed, in twenty different states.
In 1878 he formed a partnership with Peter Carvey in the manufacture
of drainage tiling. This business was conducted extensively and successfully
for several years. More recently, however, he has given his attention wholly
to the hotel business. The Macy House is favorably known to the traveling
public far and near. Its tables are lavishly furnished with the luxuries of
tbe season, and the establishment is a haven of rest to the hungry and wear
ied traveler. The estimable landlady presides personally over the culinary
department and no speck of dust escapes her watchful eye. Speak of
" mother's beds! " here we find them so high with fluffy feathers and snow-
white linen that a stepladder is needed to climb into them ! — so soft and
comfortable that a derrick is needed to get a person out of them in the
morning !
Besides the care and management of the hotel, Mr. Champ has held the
office of justice of the peace for the last twenty years. He also performs the
functions of mayor in a vUlage ot the caliber of this, the office of mayor not
being recognized under the state laws in towns so small. ' He is also prom- '
inently identified with the Masonic fraternity, having served his local lodge
in every capacity from the most humble position to that of worshipful master,
and serving in the latter office for several years. He is also a member of the

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1298
Grand Army of the Republic. For over forty years he and his wife have
been members af the Christian church. They are worthy and well-known
citizens, living at peace with all mankind. Mr. Champ has been successful
as a business man, accumulating .a -competence wherewith to smooth the
pathway through his declining years. His possessions are wholly the result
of his own efforts, seconded by those of his faithful, devoted wife.
The genealogy of the family is as follows: The parents of John Champ
were Joseph and Martha Ann (Baggs) Champ, — his father a native of Ken
tucky, born of Scotch and Irish ancestors, and his mother a native of Virginia,
of German ancestors. They were married in Piqua county, Ohio, about
1820, and of their seven children only three are now living, — Barbara, John
and Alexander; William, Mary, Marinda and Joseph, are deceased. Two
died in childhood and two in mature life. Barbara is the ¦ widow of William
Masterson and resides in this village; Alexander resides in Cass county, this
state, and is a farmer.
Mr. Champ was married June 23, 1859, to Miss Sarah M. Scott, a native
of Preble county, Ohio, born March 18, 1839. Her parents were Daniel
and Ellen M. (Dilhorn) Scott, the former a native of New Jersey and of
Scotch ancestry, and the latter a native of Pennsylvania and of EngHsh
ancestry. September 10, 1889, Mrs. Champ died, and on the 4th day of
February, 1895, Mr. Champ was united with Mrs. Mary J. Shoemaker, whose
maiden name was Haynes. She is a native of Indiana and a daughter of
John Haynes, who was a resident of Cass county and is now deceased. Her
first husba'fld was Dr. Soder, who was killed by lightning; and her second
husband, Mr. Shoemaker, was killed by sunstroke.
Mr. and Mrs. Champ have never had any children of their own, but
have reared a large number of other people's children. Eight little homeless
waifs have at different times found a home, with all that that word implies,
under their hospitable roof. Six of these children are now living, but no
longer under the roof that sheltered them in helplessness. Their frequent
visits to the " old home," however, accompanied by children of their own,
evince their appreciation of the generous hearts that loved and cared for them
in chUdhood. This self-sacrificing pair, who, without hope or thought of pecuniary
reward, filled their home with prattling innocents and freely expended their
means in feeding, clothing and educating dependent chUdren, wUl have a

1294 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
reward greater than earthly riches; for, did not the Savior of mankind say:
" Suffer little children to come unto rae and forbid them not, for of such is
the kingdom of heaven."

SAMUEL MUSSELMAN. — On the roll of Miami county's eariy settlers is
found the name of Samuel Musselman, who now resides on section 12,
Richland township. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
November 20, 18 19. His father, Abram Musselman, was likewise a native
of the Keystone state and lost his life in a railway accident near Baltimore,
where he had gone to visit his daughter. He was then seventy-five years of
age. In his family were seven chUdren, three sons and four daughters.
In the state of his nativity Samuel Musselraan was reared to manhood
and in the public schools acquired his education. He was there raarried, but
his first wife lived only a short tirae. In 1854 he bade adieu to home and
friends in Pennsylvania with the determination of trying his fortune in the
west, and came to Miami county, Indiana. That was in the- spring, and in
the following autumn he purchased an unimproved farm on section 12, Rich
land township. Not a furrow had been turned, the place being in its prim
itive condition, but with characteristic energy he began its development and
soon transformed the raw land into rich and fertile fields, constituting one of
the finest farms in the locality. He also erected substantial buildings, pur^
chased improved machinery and followed the most modern methods of farm
ing. When he came into possession of the place it was heavily timbered
and it required a great deal of arduous labor to prepare it for the plow, but
Mr. Musselman worked from early morning until late at night and at length
became the owner of one of the finest farming properties in the community.
This farm is now owned by his son Abram. Mr. Musselman was also the
owner of another farm, which is now the property of his son, John G.
In the fall after his arrival in Miami county Mr. Musselraan was mar
ried, in Richland township, to Miss Mary A. Firestone, a native of Penn
sylvania, who came to Miarai county with Joseph Musselraan, in whose
faraily she resided for eight years. They became the parents of eleven
children, ten of whom are living: James S., born May 7, 1857; Abram L.,
born July 15, 1858; Mary Emma, born August 18, i860; Samuel E., born
January 12, 1862; John G., born June 10, 1864; William H., born Novem-

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1295
ber 20, 1866; Joseph J,, born September 9, 1868; Laura R., who was born
September 14, 1870, and died December 13, 1889; Jacob C, born May 3,
X873; Franklin H., born July 12, 1876; and George W., born AprU 12, 1878.
Mr and Mrs. Musselman have a pleasant home and he is the possessor of
considerable capital, all of which has been acquired through his own industry
and frugality.

T ACOB C. HOCHSTETLER.— The present biography has for its subject
^ a gentleman who wore the blue during the Civil war and acted the part
of a gaUant soldier. He is a representative of one of the earlier famUies of
Peru township, Miami county, Indiana, and has spent nearly all of his Hfe here.
Jacob C. Hochstetler was born near ShanesviUe, Tuscarawas county,
Ohio, March 24, 1837, son of William and Christina (Hock) Hochstetler. In
1844, when he was a chUd of seven years, the family moved west to Indiana
and settled in Peru township, Miami county, and here the parents spent the
rest of their lives. The father died October 12, 1890, and the mother's death
occurred several years previous to that time. William Hochstetler was an
honest, upright citizen, and was a Mennonite in his religious belief. He and
his wife were the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters.
Three of the former and two of the latter are now living.
Jacob C. Hochstetler resided at the homestead until he was about nine
teen years of age. He then served an apprenticeship to the trade of car
penter, and continued at that business till the outbreak of the war of the
Rebellion. October 15, 1861, he was enrolled as a member of Company A,
Fifty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted for three
years, but served longer than that time, the date of his honorable discharge
being January 31, 1865. He left Camp Morton, Indianapolis, with his regi
ment in time to take part in the severe and important battle of Fort Donelson,
and the Fifty -second was the second regiment to secure a permanent position
within the Confederate works. The Fifty-second did not participate in the bat
tle of Shiloh, but arrived on the ground after the conclusion of that struggle
and advanced with the army to Corinth under General Halleck. Afterthe
evacuation of Corinth by the enemy the regiment wasengaged for aboutthree
months in the construction of railroad bridges and in guerrUla fighting. It
then proceeded to Memphis under General James Hulbert, where Company

1296 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
A was detached from the regiment and put aboard the boat Emily, under
comraand of Colonel Beasley, for the purpose of patroling the Mississippi
river as far north as Columbus, Kentucky, — the object being to destroy small
Confederate craft on the river and to scout along the shore. During this
service the command had a fight with guerrillas on the Tennessee side of the
river, and was ordered thence to Fort Pillow, Tennessee, where Company A
rejoined the regiment. The regiment performed garrison duty at Fort Pillow
tUl the spring of 1S64, the men in the meantime frequently engaging in
scouting. From Fort Pillow the regiment was ordered to Vicksburg, Missis
sippi, and took part in General Sherman's Meridian campaign. Mr. Hoch
stetler did not take part in the last named expedition. He was taken sick
on the way from Fort Pillow to Vicksburg, and at that time was an inmate
of the hospital at Vicksburg.
At the conclusion of the Meridian campaign the regiment returned home
on veteran furlough, but the subject of this sketch had not sufficiently recov
ered to accompany his regiment home. He, however, rejoined the reginnent
at Memphis on its return to the field, and marched with it to Tupelo, in the
command of General A. J. Smith, against General Forrest. The regiment
was recalled to Memphis, and Mr. Hochstetler being again ill, went into the
hospital in that city and was soon afterward sent to the convalescent camp
at the same place. He was there granted a furlough for thirty days and came
home. At the expiration of his furlough he rejoined his regiment at St.
Louis, and with it was ordered to join in the campaign against the Confed
erate general. Sterling Price. The captain of Company A was determined
to have Mr. Hochstetler left behind, because of his weak and emaciated con
dition, claiming that he would not be able to endure the fatigue of the cam
paign, but he pleaded so hard that he was finally allowed to go. The com
mand marched across the state of Mississippi into Kansas in pursuit of Price,
and then back to St. Louis, thus covering a distance of about eight hundred
miles, in forty days. Mr. Hochstetler bore the march well, being in better
physical condition when the regiment returned than when it started on the
campaign. At St. Louis the regiment took transports and proceeded to
reinforce General Thomas at Nashville after the battle of Franklin. Mr.
Hochstetler took part with his regiment in the famous battle of Nashville and
in the pursuit of Hood's army as far as Eastport, Mississippi. At the last
named place the subject of this sketch had his last encounter with the enemy.

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He and twd comradfes w^nt out oh a foraging expedition arid encountered a
squad of guerrUlas. They succeeded in getting back to camp, after a sharp
fight, and in bririging in with them the remains of a sheep that they had cap-
ttiired. Aflother raiding party from the same camp, and at the same time,
were not So fortunate. The latter encountered the same band of guerrillas
and lost twelve men, killed.
After the war Mr. Hochstetler followed farming for about ten years, the
following ten years was engaged in the fruit-tree business and since then he
has been engaged in farming at his present location ih Peru township.
May 5, 1867, he married Mis^ Nancy E. Baldwin, daughter of William
arid Amanda Harriet (Beaver) Baldwin. Her parents came to Miattii county,
Indiana, in early life, and were here married. Mr. Baldwin died at Petty
ville, this county, several years ago, and his widow is still living, at this
vvriting a resident of Denver, this county. Of their five children Mrs. Hoch-
sterier is the eldest, the bthets being : Alonzo, a resident of Peru, Indiana ;
Mary Alice, wife of George Porter ; George R. ; and Henry M. , who died in
childhood. Mr. and Mr^. Hochsfetler have flve children : James M. ;
William A. ; Alice May, wife of George Philips ; Rossetta, wife of iSloah
Weymouth, of Erie township, Miami county ; and Sylvester.
Iri his political views our subject harmonizes with the principles advo
cated by the Republican party. He was a charter member of the G. A. R.
pakt at Dferiver, Miami county, and later transferred to William B. Reyburn
Post, P^rO, where he now maintains his merabership.

"\ ll ^ILLIAM H. BELL. — Residing in a pleasant country home on section
"^ ' 17, Erie township, Miami county, Indiana, is found the subject of
this sketch, William H. Bell, who has long been identified with the interests
of tbis locality, and who was for twenty years engaged in teaching in this
county. Mr. Bell is a native of Miami county. He was born in Peru township,
February 13, 1842, and his parents were Pleasant L. and Laurinda (Duffield)
Bell, both natives of Indiana, the former born September 4, 18 14, and the
latter April 15, 18x9. Pleasant L. Bell was a son of Armagor BeU, who
was an early pioneer of the territory of Indiana, having come here from Ken-
45

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tucky. The Bell famUy was represented in the Indian wars in Kentucky in
the time of Daniel Boone. Pleasant L. BeU and wife came to Miami county
and settled on secrion 12, Peru township, about 1838, and there the family
lived for several years. Disposing of that place, Mr. Bell located further
south in the same township, and subsequently he bought and cleared up
several farms. Finally he bought and settled upon the farm now owned and
occupied by Joseph Richer, where he passed the rest of his life. His death
occurred June 10, 1879. The wife and mother passed away October 14,
1873. They were the parents of ten children who grew to mature years,
and of this number four sons and three daughters are still living. Pleasant
L. Bell was a well known and highly esteemed citizen. In his political rela
tions he was first a Whig and later a Republican.
WUUam H. Bell was reared to the occupation of farming. He was edu
cated in the public schools and the Peru high school and was a member of
the first class graduated in the latter institution. This class includes many
well-known residents of Peru, araong whom are George C. Miller, W. W.
Sullivan, William E. Mowbray and others. After leaving the high school
Mr. Bell was a student in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Chicago.
In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Hoover, and was with his com
mand in the southern field, operating in Tennessee, Alabama and northern
Georgia, under General Rosecrans. Before he entered the army Mr Bell
had been engaged in teaching, and after his return from the war he resumed
his work in the school-room. Altogether he taught about twenty years.
Since he quit teaching he has devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits.
March 19, 1868, Mr. Bell married Miss Nancy J. Wolfe, a native of
Pickaway county, Ohio, and a daughter of the Rev. Andrew Wolfe, a minis
ter of the United Brethren church. Mr. Wolfe is now a resident of Rich
land township, Miarai county, where he has resided since 1854. To Mr. and
Mrs. Bell have been born eight children, seven of whora are now living,
three sons and four daughters: Cora, Horace E., Alice, William A.,
Clarence F., Nellie and Lula M. A son, Richard, died in infancy. WiU
iam A., who has charge of the home farm, married Miss Inez Clevenger.
Horace E. , following the course pursued by his father in early life, is engaged
in teaching school.
Politically Mr. Bell is in accord with the 'principles advocated bythe

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Republican party and has supported this party ever since he cast his first
presidential vote, for Abraham Lincoln. He and his wife are worthy mem
bers of the United Brethren church.

JAMES T. COCKBURN. — As a river whose deep and steady current,
<J winding among fair landscapes, past blossoming fields and through busy
towns, blessing millions of people and enhancing the wealth of nations,
affords little of that wild and romantic scenery which startles the traveler or
delights the artist, so those lives which contribute most toward the improve
ment of a state and the well-being of a people are seldom the ones which
furnish the most brUliant passages for the pen of the historian or biographer.
A man of strong individuality and indubitable probity, James T. Cockburn is
one who has attained a due measure of success in the affairs of life, and who
at the same time has promoted the general welfare while enhancing individ
ual prosperity. He to-day ranks among the most progressive and enterpris
ing business men of Logansport and has gained a position of distinctive
prominence by reason of his superior ability, close application and sound
judgment. He has also maintained a lively interest in the industrial and
popular interests of the city of his home, and has contributed largely to its
progress and substantial, upbuilding.
Mr. Cockburn was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on the 27th of April, 1857,
and is a son of George T. Cockburn, who was born in Edinburg, Scotland,
in 1825, and died in Logansport August 21, 1893. He learned the machin
ist's, trade in Scotland and at the age of twenty-three years severed the ties
which bound him to his native country, sailing for the United States. He
landed at Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked at his trade for a time,
and then removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where he secured a position in the
shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, remaining in that service
unril 1868, — the year of his removal to Logansport. In this city he accepted
service with the Pan Handle Railroad Company, with which he continued
untu his death, at that time filling the position of foreman of the car depart
ment. He was a prominent Mason and in 1883 served as eminent com
mander of St. John Commandery, K. T. He also belonged to the Odd Fel
lows' society, was an enthusiastic Republican, and held membership in the

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First Baptist chtirch, in which he served as deacon. His life was well spent
in faithful devotion to all the duties of public and private Hfe, and he com
manded the respect of all who knew him. He married EHza Hu^hfes,
daughter of Dr. Hughes, who was born in Pennsylvania. They became the
parents of Amg. children. The sOns are James T. , Joseph C. and George W. ,
and the daughters are Maria and Mary. Joseph C. Cockburn was born October
17, 186(3, learned telegraphy after completing his litetary education, and Was
in the service of the Pan Handle Company for many years, his last positiori
with that corporation being that of assistant to Chief Dispatcher Tousley.
In February, 1896, he left that service to assume the management of the
extensive fire-insurance business of the firm of Cockburn Brothers. George
W. , who died in February, 1898, was also prominent in that firm and was a
Well known business man of Logansport.
James T. Cockburn acquired his preUminary education in the public
Schools of Logansport, later pursued his studies in Springfield, Ohio, and was
fitted for the practical duties of a business career by a course in Hall's Busi
ness College, of this city. While yet in his 'teens he apprenticed himself to
the painter's trade, in that department of the works of the Pan Handle Com
pany, and steadily worked his way upward until he became foreman. Later
he was promoted to the position of assistant foreman of the extensive shops
in Columbus, Ohio, and left that position in order to accept a still better one
offered him in Cincinnati, Ohio, by the Big Four Railroad Company, with
which corporation he remained until the big fires destroyed tbeir shops, when
his connection therewith was terminated.
Mr. Cockburn then turned his attention to the insurance business, aisso-
ciating himself with the Washington Life Insurance Company, of New York,
under their agent, M, T. V. Bowman, in Des Moines, Iowa. After consider
able experience with that company, in which connection he demonstrated his
ability to successfully handle the business, as a solicitor, he came to Logans
port and opened an office. He enlarged his field of labors by adding the
departments of fire insurance and real-estate dealing to the Hfe-insurartce
business, and from the beginning he met with a marked degree of success.
Within ten years the volume of his business had groWn to such proportions as
to warrant him making separate departments of the various branches, of
which there are five. Those which are now directly under the supervision of
our subject are the departments of real estate, loans, life insurance and the

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bond! security and guaranty biisiness; the fire-insurance business, being of
such magnitude as to constitute a department, is in charge of Joseph C. Cock
burn. The splendid success which has attended this enterprise is due to the
splendid business and executive ability, the wise management and unflagging
industry, of James T. Cockburn, who ranks among the foremost representa
tives of commercial interests in Logansport.
In his political views he is 4 stanch Republican, and has been mentioned
for honorable position in the service of his party, but is not an office-seeker.
A prominent Mason, he attended the triennial conclave at Denver in 1891,
and was eminent commander of St. John Commandery of Logansport in
X892-3. He has also taken the subordinate and encampment degrees of the
Odd Fellows' society, is a charter member of the Plowmen, and belongs to
the Baptist church.
Mr Cockburn was married in Logansport, March 23, 1S87, the lady of
his choice being Miss Kate T. Young. Three chUdren now grace their union:
George fl., who was born in August, 18S9; RusseU, born in March, 1894;
and Julia, born Augijst 3, 1897. A large acquaintanceship has enabled Mr.
and Mrs. Cockburn to gain a wide circle of friends, and their social qualities
have made them popular with aU.

/'^HApiLES CQOK. — For a period of forty-five years the venerable sub-
^^ ject of this sketch has been identified with Miami county. He is the
owner of a fine farm in Richland township, and throughout the years of his
residence here he has maintained a representative place among the leading
farmers of his locality.
Mr. Cook is a native of Germany. He was born in Prussia, Germany,
March n, 18x9, and is a son of John Cook. When Charles was twelve
years of age his parents left their native land and emigrated to America, set
tling in Ohio. In Franklin county, Ohio, the father died, in 1862, and
shortly after his death our subject brought his mother to Miami county,
Indiana, to be cared for by her children. She died the following year,
1863, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Christina Mull. These two, Charles
and Christina, were the only chUdren born to John Cook and wife.
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place his home until 1853, when he came over into Indiana and settled in
Miami county, here purchasing one hundred and eighty acres of land, only a
very small portion Of which had been improved. On this farm he estab
lished his home and to the clearing and cultivation of his land he directed
his efforts, and here he and his family have ever since resided.
Mr. Cook was married in Ohio to Miss Catherine Keller, and to them
have been born nine children, six of whom died in early chUdhood. Their
surviving children are Mrs. Angehne Martindale, of Fulton county, Indiana;
Mrs. Elizabeth Keim, also a resident of Fulton county; and Nelson,
who has charge of the home farm above referred to. Nelson Cook
was born at the place where he now Hves, May 22, 1856, and has never
known any other home. He married Miss Emma C. Lowe, daughter of
Isaac Lowe.
This venerable couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook, are most estimable
people. By honest industry and frugality they have acquired a compe
tence, and they have ever had the respect and esteem of the community
in which they have lived so long. They are communicants of the Epis
copal church.

/^ EORGE W. CALLAWAY.— The agricultural interests of Jefferson
^-*- township, Cass qounty, Indiana, are ably represented by the subject of
this review, George W. Callaway, a man in the prime of life and one of the
most enterprising and up-to-date farmers of the county. His post-office
address is Lake Cicott.
Mr. Callaway was born and reared on the Callaway homestead, in Jeff
erson township, Cass county, Indiana, the date of his birth being May 25,
1859. He is a son of Joshua L. and Mary J. (Timmons) Callaway, the for
mer a native of Delaware and the latter of Ohio. Their family was com
posed of three children, George W. , Willard and Izora.
Timothy Callaway, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Del
aware and in 1836 he emigrated with his family from that state to Indiana,
settling on land in Cass county. Here he was engaged in agricultural pur-
suUs for many years, acquired a large property and died at the ripe old age
of ninety years, honored and esteemed by aU who knew him. At the time
the CaUaway family removed to this state, Joshua L. was a boy of twelve

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years. He early became familiar with all the details of work on the farm
and when he grew up continued farming operations on the old home place,
as has also his son, George W. , who was born and reared here and who now
owns two hundred and fifty acres of the land settled upon by his grandfather.
George W. Callaway was educated in the Logansport high school. His
farming operations have been attended with fair success, and the general
appearance of his farm at once stamps the owner as a man of intelligence
and good management as well as one of untiring energy.
Mr. Callaway was married November 21, 1883, to Miss Emraa J. Hughs,
who, like himself, is a native of Jefferson township, this county. They are
the parents of three children: Icel, Merl and Feme.
Mr. Callaway has always given his political support to the Democratic
party and he takes an interest in public affairs, especially those of a local
nature. He is now serving as township trustee of Jefferson township, having
been elected to this office in 1894 for a term of four years. Religiously he is
identified with the Presbyterian church.

WASHINGTON BURGE. —The ancestry of the Burge family can be
traced back to Scotland, and the different generations who have
represented the family since its establishment on American soil have furnished
forth men of sterling worth, — men possessed of many of the most admirable
characteristics of the Scottish race, — the patient persistence in the pursuit of
an honorable purpose, fidehty to duty and rectitude of character. In the
subject of this review we see those same Scotrish elements, and he fully sus
tains the reputarion of the famUy, which has ever been an untarnished one.
His great-grandfather was born in the land of hills and heather, and was the
first of the name to cross the Atlantic to the New World. The grandfather,
Jesse Burge, was a native of Pennsylvania and at an early day emigrated to
Ohio, making his home upon a farm in Licking county, where occurred the
birth of his son, WiUiam Burge, the father of our subject. Having attained
to years of maturity the father married Catharine Houser, a native of Penn
sylvania. Her grandmother was born in Germany and lived to the very
advanced age of one hundred and eight years. Mr. and Mrs. WUliam Burge
became the parents of eleven children, namely: Jane, deceased; Washing-

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ton; EH; John; Mahala, deceased; WUlifim; Mahnda; and Matilda, Harvey,
Jesse and Annqi, who have also passed away.
Washington Burge was born in Licking county, Ohio, on the 4th of
July, I S3 1, and is a son of WiHiam and Catharine (Houser) Burge, who in
1 84 1 removed with their family to Iowa, living upon a farm in that state.
In 1S43 they retraced their steps as far as Indiana, and, taking up their
abode first in Wayne county, they afterward removed to Grant county, and
later to Miami county, their home being near Peru. In 1848 they came to
Cass county, locating in Miami township. Mr. Burge continued with his
father on the home farm, and on the 6th of November, 1853, was united in
marriage to Miss Rebecca Jones, a native of Miami county, Ohio, and a
daughter of Daniel and Cynthia (Raiter) Jones. They now have three chil
dren, as follow: Isadora, wife of Joseph Foust, by whom she has three
chUdren, — Harry F., Stanny M. and NeUie V. ; James H., who is interested
with his father in the ownership of one hundred and fifty acres of land, and
is a progressive business man; and Charles W. , who is employed as brake-
man on the Pennsylvania RaUroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Burge are members of the Christian church and are people
of the highest respectabUity, having many warm friends throughout the com
munity in which they Hve. In his political associations Mr. Burge is a Demo
crat, but has never been an aspirant for public office. He has in his home
farm eighty acres of land, and, as stated, is the owner of another tract of
one hundred and fifty acres, in connection vvith his son. He has been the
architect of his own fortunes and has builded wisely and well. Starting out in
life empty-handed, he has ever made the most of his opportunities, ancj though
discouragements have come they have but served to spur him on to renewed
effort with the resulting sequel of successful accomplishment. In the busi
ness world and in social circles he occupies an enviable position, and he
well deserves mention among the leading business men of Cass county.

A ARON W. HILDEBRAND,— On the 2d of August 1833, in Mont-
-^ gomery county, Ohio, Aaron W. Hildebrand was born, his parents being
Abraham and Lucy (Wirick) Hildebrand. The ancestry of the family can be
traced back to Germany, whence the great-grandfather emigrated to America

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at the tinie of the Revolutionary war. He participated in that struggle and
when tl^e independence of the nation was achieved turned his attention to
farming in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
The grandfather, Samnel Hildebrand, was a. native of Johnstown, Pennsyl
vania, and was a mUlwright by trade. He married Jane Batty, a native of
Virginia. She lived in the neighborhood of th,e Washington home in that
state and frequently saw General Washington riding on his white horse.
Removing to Montgomery county, Ohio, the grandparents of our subject
located on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which was entered from
the government. Abraham Hildebrand was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and was
only thirteen years of age at the tinie of his parents' emigration to the Buck
eye state. There he was reared to manhood and it was also in Montgomery
cqiinty that he met and married Miss Wirick, a native of that county. They
became the parents of six children, namely: Aaron W. , Jane, Mary A.,
Samuel, Sarah and David. The last two are now deceased. In 1834 the
parents bade adieu to their Ohio home and emigrated to the frontier of
Indiana, entering firom the government a tract of wild land, comprising one
hundred and twenty acres. In those early days the family lived in true
pioneer style and experienced the usual hardships and difficulties incident to
the establishment of a home on the borders of civilization. The unremitting
labors of father and sons, however, wrought a great transformation in the
raw land, which was soon made to bloom and blossom as the rose. As the
years passed, acre after acre was placed under the plow and bounteous har
vests were garnered as the reward of labor. The father continued farming
throughout his entire life and his energy and enterprise brought to him a well
deserye;d success. He was a member of the Dunkard church and in politics
was an ardent Republican, but never aspired to pohtical office. He was
highly esteemed for his sterling worth and rectitude of character, and his
death was deeply deplored. After a long, useful and honorable life, he was
called to the home beyond April i, 1895, at the age of eighty-four years; and
his widow, still surviving him, has attained the same age.
On the old family 'homestead Aaron W- Hildebrand was reared to man
hood, for when the family came to Cass county he was only in his second
year. He acquired his education in a log school-house, where he was
thoroughly instructed in the common English branches. His training at

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farra labor was not raeager, for as soon as old enough to raake a straight
furrow he began work in the fields, and has since been engaged in the
cultivation of land. He to-day owns and operates a good farra of one hun
dred and sixty acres, and upon his place has made many excellent iraprovp-
ments, which stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise.
On the 22d of March, 1S55, Mr. HUdebrand was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth Bear, a native of Carroll county, Indiana, and a daughter of
George Bear, who removed to that county from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in
1834. Mr. and Mrs. HUdebrand became the parents of three children:
Mildred F., and Albert and Alice, twins. The last named is now deceased.
The mother of this family was called to her final rest December 6, 1895, at
.the age of fifty-eight years. She was a member of the Christian church and
was a most estimable lady. Though her last years were full of suffering,
she bore all with Christian fortitude and courage. Her many excellencies of
character and her kindness of heart won her the love of all, and her friends
were many.
In politics Mr. HUdebrand is an earnest supporter of the Democracy,
but has never sought or desired public office. He, too, belongs to the
Christian church, and he supports all measures for the educational, social, _
moral or material good of the community.

A X HLLIAMB. ENYART is .a member of the firm of Enyart & Chambers,
' .' who are engaged in the bottling business at Logansport, Indiana, and
who rank with the representative business men of the city.
Mr Enyart, the senior member of the above named firm, is a native of
Cass county, Indiana, and was born September 19, 1845, son of Israel and
Temperance (Foy) Enyart. Israel Enyart was a native of Butler county,
Ohio, and lived in that state untU 1834, when he came over into Indiana and
setried in Clay township, Cass county, on a tract of government land. On
this farm he spent the rest of his life and here died in 1891, at the age of
seventy-two years. His wife was a Virginian by birth. Of their six children
all have passed away except William B. and Sarah.
William B. Enyart was born and brought up on his father's pioneer
farm and had no other educational advantages than those of the district

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school. He foUowed farming until 1870, when he turned his attention to
work at the plasterer's trade, which he followed from that year until 1S84,
and since then has been engaged in the bottling business, his present partner,
as already stated, being Mr. Chambers. He has been fairly prospered in
his operations and is the owner of valuable property, having forty-five acres
of good land in Clay township and some desirable city realty.
Mr. Enyart is a veteran of the CivU war. December 10, 1863, he
enlisted as a private in Company H, Seventy-third Indiana Volunteer Regi
ment, at Logansport, and at once donned the blue and went to the front,
serving until he was honorably discharged, at Marietta, Georgia, February
XI, 1S65. He was a participant in the battles at Decatur and Athens,
Alabama, and in a number of skirmishes, and throughout the whole of his
service acted the part of a brave, true soldier. On being discharged from
the army Mr. Enyart returned to Logansport, and he has been a resident of
this place ever since.
He has been twice married. March 10, 1873, he wedded Miss Louisa
Tippett, a native of Cass county, Indiana, who died some years later leaving
him with four children, namely: Charley, Nora, Clara and Frank. February
II, 1 886, Mr. Enyart married his present companion, whose maiden name
was Kate May, she being a native of Pulaski county, Indiana.
Like most of the worthy veterans of the CivU war, Mr. Enyart has
identified himself with that popular organization known as the Grand Array
of the Republic, his membership being with Post No. 21 of Logansport.
He is also identified with the fraternal order of Chosen Friends. Politically
he is firm in his support of the Republican party and its principles.

FREDERICK SEYBOLD', one of the best known and most highly respected
farmers of Cass county, Indiana, was born near Dayton, Ohio, January
26, 1832, and is a son of John G. and Jacobenia (Fulmer) Seybold, both
natives of Germany. Their family was composed of twelve children, six of
whom are stUl living, namely: John G., Frederick, Henry, Jacob, William
P. and Mary A., — all occupying honored and useful positions in Hfe. Those
of the famUy that have passed away were as follows: Elizabeth, Catharine,
Jacobenia, Margaret, Christ and David.

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The father of our subject, as above stated, vvas born in Germany, fl.e
remained there until in his fourteenth year when, in order to aypid being
pressed into the army of Napoleon, he ran away from home and went to
England. In 1814, while still in his 'teens, he came to America and stopped
first at Montreal, Canada, where he had a wealthy uncle who was engaged
in the wholesale clothing business. For two years he was errand-boy for
this uncle, working for his board and clothes. In x8x6 vve find him in
New York city learning the baker's trade, — a trade he followed fpr several
years there and at other places. The year 1820 he spent in North Carolina,
returning to New York city in 1 82 1 and that year marrying Miss Fulmer.
In 1822 he and his wife came west to Ohio, traveling with a one-horse wagon,
and selecting a location in Warren county, near Springsboro, where they
settled down to farming. Besides farming he did any other kind of work he
could get to do, for a time being employed on the Ohio canal. In 1832 he
purchased sixty acres in Montgomery county, Ohio, near Dayton, which he
subsequently increased by the purchase of forty acres more, and upon this
farm he passed the closing years of his. life, his death occurring there in X865,
at the age of sixty-five years. His widow survived him a. number of years,
reaching the ripe old age of ninety-two, and dying in Ohio.
Frederick Seybold, the immediate subject of this review, was born and
reared on his father's farm in Montgomery county, Ohio, and in his youth
attended school in a log school-house near his home. In X859, at the age of
twenty-eight years, he came over into Indiana and bought one hundred and
eight acres of land where he now lives, near the corporate limits of Logans
port, and to this tract he has added from time to time, as he has been able,
until now his farm comprises over five hundred acres and is ranked among
the most valuable farming lands in Cass county. Mr. Seybold, as already
indicated, is a member of a very large family, and when he started out in life
on his own account he had no capital save his own energy and a determination
to succeed, and the success he has attained is due wholly to his own honest
toil and good management.
Mr. Seybold was married January 13, 1859, to Miss Mary A. Wolfe, a
native of Montgomery county, Ohio, and a daughter of Jacob Wolfe. Their
happy union has been blessed in the birth of seven children, four of whom
died in infancy. Those living are Alfred, Lydia and Frederick D.
Mr. Seybold is an ardent Democrat, taking an enthusiastic interest in

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public affairs, and especially those of a local nature. He has filled some
positions of trust and responsibility in his township. Three times he was
elected and served as supervisor of Eel toWnship, and he has also served as
guardian, etc.

J~\ ANIEL W. PITTS. — The genrieman to a brief review bf whose life we
¦L^ now direct attention, Daniel W. Pitts, whoSe post-office address is
Amboy, Miami county, Indiana, is one of the self-made men and substantial
farmers of Jackson tbwnship.
He was born in Guilford county. North Carblina, January lo, 1846, son
of James and Rebecca (Moore) Pitts. The Pitts family is of Scotch descent,
and became identified with America as early as the colonial period. Vari
ous branches of the family have located in different parts of the United
States, always being among the pioneers of their respective localities.
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and many smaller
towns, it is beheved, were named by them.
The grandfather of Daniel W. Pitts was John Pitts, whose parents emi
grated from England and settled in the state of North Carolina at an eatly
period in the history of that commonwealth. They reared a large family bf
children, most of whom passed their lives in North Carolina, though some of
them moved to Indiana and had the honor of naming certain towns in this
state. John Pitts, grandfather of the immediate subject of this review, con
tinued to reside near fhe old homestead in North Carolina until the hour of
his death. He was twice married, and of the first union six children were
born, namely: James, John, Andrew, Henry, Millie and Pattie, the first
named being the father of Daniel W. There Was one chUd by the second
marriage, Sallie. Nearly all of the childrert lived and died near the old
homestead in North Carolina, and some of them lived to attain venerable
age. Farming has been the general occupation of the Pitts family for a
number of generations. It is interesting to note that each year there is held
at Carthage, Rush county, Indiana, a reunion of the Pitts family, and the
various representatives of the name esteem it a great privilege to be present
at these pleasant gatherings.
James Pitts, the father of our subject, was of southern birth. He was
a member of the Friends' church and by occupation was a farmer and stock-

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trader. He married, in Guilford county. North Carolina, Rebecca Moore,
daughter of Jesse and Mary Moore. Jesse Moore also was a prosperous
farmer of Guilford county, of which he was a native, and he, too, was a
member of the Friends' church and an officer in the same. His death
occurred in GuUford county many years ago. His children, in order of birth,
were Rebecca, Sarauel, Margaret, Clark, Sarah, Jesse, AbigaU and Mary.
Iraraediately after their marriage, James Pitts and wife settled on a farm in
GuUford county, and there reared their family. As above stated, he was a
stock-dealer as well as a farmer. While on one of his trading expeditions
he died. By a former marriage he had five children, William, John, Emory,
Elizabeth and Martha. His second wife survived him some years. The chil
dren by her were named Jesse, Mary, Sarah, Samuel, James, Jonathan, Daniel
W. and Henry. In 1857 Mrs. Pitts moved with her family to Indiana, some of
her children settling in Rush county and some in other parts of the state.
She died at the home of her daughter, Mary Butler, in Rush county, at the
age of sixty years. She was a woman of many virtues and was a birthright
member of the Friends' church.
Daniel W. Pitts, the immediate subject of this review, received only a
limited education in the comraon schools. Some of his brothers and sisters,
however, had better advantages, attending for some time the New Garden
boarding school in Guilford county. At the time the family removed to
Indiana Daniel W. was seventeen years old. Their journey to this state was
made in a covered wagon, — the usual manner of travel in those days, — and
four weeks were occupied in raaking the trip to Rush county, which was for
some time the family home. On reaching mature years Daniel rented land
in Rush and Henry counties and cultivated the same for two years, at the
end of that time removing to Iroquois county, Illinois. That was in 1867.
There he bought eighty acres of land, unimproved, and settled on the same
and devoted his time and attention to its improvement and cultivation, erect
ing buUdings, etc., and there he lived and prospered until 1890. That year
he came to his present location in Jackson township, Miami county, Indiana.
His years of honest and persistent toil have been rewarded with a fair degree
of success, and to-day we find him the owner of a fine farm of two hundred
and eighty acres, nicely improved and under a high state of cultivation.
Mr Pitts was married in Huntington county, Indiana, in June, 1855, at
the age of twenty-two years, to Miss Catherine Brown, who was born Feb-

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1311
ruary lo, 1844. At an early age she was left an orphan, and litrie is known
of her parentage. She died September 12, 1892, leaving four children: John
H., Laura H., Albert B. and Mary AUce. After her marriage Mrs. Pitts
became identified with the Society of Friends. She was a most amiable
woman and was loved by all who knew her. Mr. Pitts is a Prohibirionist
and an ardent temperance worker.

JOHN H. MILLER, — There is no rule for achieving success, and yet in
^ the Hfe of the successful man there are always lessons which might well
be followed. The man who gains prosperity is he who can see and utUize the
opportunities that corae in his path. The essential conditions of human
hfe are ever the same, the surroundings of individuals differ but slightly; and
when one man passes another on the highway of hfe to reach the goal of pros
perity before others who perhaps started out before hira, it is because he has
the power to use advantages which probably encompass the whole human
race. To-day among the prominent farmers and stock-breeders of the Miss
issippi valley stands Mr. Miller, who is known throughout the country as a
breeder of polled Durham cattle. Progress is the dominating spirit of the
century in America, and the farmer and stock-raiser has not been behind the
doctor, the lawyer and the merchant in following and originating improved
methods of work. The same keen discrimination, sound judgment and execu
tive ability are required in the successful agriculturist as are demanded in the
leading representatives of commercial or professional interests, and these
qualities are possessed by Mr. Miller, who ranks among the foremost stock-
' raisers of the entire country.
He was born in Jefferson township, Miami county, Indiana, November
9, 1S52, and belongs to one of the pioneer famiUes of the locality. He was
reared on a farm and early became familiar with all the duties and labors
that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He has spent his entire Ufe in
Jefferson township, and when he reached the age that demanded his entrance
into business life he determined to follow the occupation to which he had
been reared, and continued behind the plow. He was married in 1874 and
immediately thereafter took up his residence on the farm which has since
been his home, on section 9, Jefferson township. Here he has successfully

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devoted his time and energies to the culrivation of thfe fields, and hiS labors
have been rewarded With good harvests, but of late yea,ts he has made
a specialty of the breeding of fine catrie, and in this line has attained a prom
inence that classifies him among the most competent and successful cattle
raisers of the county.
Since 1891 he has made a speciaUty of the breeding of polled Durham
cattle, a hornless variety produced by muley cows and registered short-horn
bulls. Early in the spring of 1891 Mr. MUler went to Ohio and purchased
the entire herds of Dr. W. W. Crane and Salem R. Clawson, well known
originators of this stock. For some years public attention was grOwtng in
favor of polled cattle. Practical cattle-raisers had reached the conclusion
that horns are useless, their only purpose being continually to annoy, master
and mutilate other cattle and often endanger the life of man. Practically
stockmen had met this condition by dehorning, but that practice is cruel,
producing great suffering, and it was thought that a breed of pblled cattle
might be produced. Accordingly a riumber of stock-raisers in the country
made the attempt, and with excellent success. The popularity of polled cat
tle is shown by the fact that the demand far exceeds the supply, for they are
not only of value because hornless, but have excellent beef and milk produc
ing qualities. From the beginning of his efforts in the way of raising the
polled Durham cattle, Mr. Miller has been very successful. In the first
year in which he oWned his hferd, 1891, he exhibitfed at the state fairs of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with gratifying success, coming in competition
with other breeds. At the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, in
1S93, he exhibited a herd of fourteen head, receiving thirty-five preriiiums,
twelve hundred and sixty-five dollars in cash and four medals. He noW has
one hundred and fifty head of this fine breed. On Jariuary 18, 1898, he *
sold thirty head to one man for ten thousand four hundred dollars. He has
recently sold a number of head to dfealers in South America, and his Amer
ican patrons are found all over the country. A very instructive address by
Mr. Miller on the subject of cattle, delivered at the Miami County Farmers'
Institute at Peru, November 30, 1S97, is printed in the form of a small
pamphlet. On the 26th of March, 1874, Mr Miller was united in marriage to Miss
Rebecca A. Stroud, daughter of Williatn Stroud, one of the early settlers of
Cass county, where Mrs. Miller was born January 20, 1855. She died Janu-

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ary XX, 1879, leaving one daughter, Bertha E., who was born August 6, 1875.
On the 28th of November, 1881, Mr Miller was again married, his second
union being with Miss Emma Constant, daughter of Isaac and Tabitha Con
stant. She was born in Cass county, April 30, 1S62, and died April n,
X892. The chUdren of this marriage are: Walter L., who was born August
28, 1883; Herman C, born January 20, 1S87; and Grover T., born Sep
tember 19, X889.
Mr. MUler is widely known throughout the county in which his entire
Hfe has been passed and has made many warm friends. His reputation for
reliability in business circles is unassailable, and in all life's relations he com
mands the respect of those with whom he has been brought in contact. He
is a most progressive man, of great energy and force of character and is a
recognized leader in one of the lines of business that results not only to his
own profit, but also adds to the general prosperity.

JOHN G. SEYBOLD is the owner of a fine farm adjoining the city limits
^ of Logansport, Indiana, where he has resided for a period of thirty-four
years, having come here a few years after his brother, Frederick, settled in
this locality. A sketch of Frederick Seybold and a review of the family his
tory of the Seybolds will be found on another page of this work.
John G. Seybold first saw the light of day on his father's farm, in Mont
gomery county, Ohio, near the city of Dayton, September n, 1824. There
he grew to manhood and early became familiar with farming operations, and
has followed farming all his life, with the exception of four years when he
was in Dayton, engaged in the brewing business. In 1864, accompanied by
his famUy, — he having married some years before, — he came to Indiana and
located on a farm near Logansport, where, as already stated, he has since
maintained his home. He here owns three hundred acres of choice, well
improved land, has had a prosperous career as a farmer, and as a citizen
enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him.
On the 19th of July, 1S49, Mr Seybold m*rried Miss Ursula Munger, a
native of Germany and a daughter of Joseph Munger. She came to America
with her parents when only three years old and was reared on a farm in
Ohio. The fruits of this union are eleven chUdren, namely: George W. ,
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Sarah J., Rosetta, J. Byron, Mary A., Joseph A., Sylvester H., Charley,
Oscar N., Ira and Clara. Ira is a practicing physician, and three of the
sons, George W., Joseph A., and Oscar N. , are proprietors of the "Trade
Palace," one of the largest dry -goods establishments in Logansport. Mrs.
Seybold is a member of the Catholic church.
Mr. Seybold is allied with the Republican party, of which he has always
been an ardent' supporter.

WILLIAM H. McCARTY, proprietor of the White House Bakery and
Lunch Room, opposite the Pan Handle depot at Kokomo, has been a
resident of this city for about forty-seven years, and therefore has witnessed
its growth from a hamlet of only two or three houses in a wUderness to its
present stage of growth and development. He has cut ice where the junc
tion now exists.
Mr. McCarty was born near Buffalo, in the state of New York, July i6,
185 1. His parents, Cornelius and Bridget (Sullivan) McCarty, were natives
of Cork, Ireland, came to this country during the fifth decade of this century.
They were married and lived in New York state a few years, where he was
employed on the New York & Erie Railroad. Then he removed to HUls-
boro, Ohio, and in 1S52 moved to Kokomo, before the Pan Handle Railroad
was completed to this place. He engaged in various jobs, as digging wells,
clearing land, ditching, etc. He and his estimable wife have lived here tUl
the present time; both are sincere members of the Catholic church.
William H. McCarty, whose name heads this sketch, was reared in
Kokomo; was check clerk at the lower depot of the Lake Erie Railroad for
twelve years, and was transfer agent eight years at the Kokomo Junction, —
serving in all twenty years day and night, losing only eight days in all that
time! Resigning the railroad situation, he established his present business,
in which he is enjoying success. His affabUity and promptness bring him
the desired patronage.
On the first day of November, 1871, he was married to Miss Winifred
Maher, daughter of Timothy and Julia (Hogan) Maher. Her parents were
brought up in county Tipperary, Ireland, and on their emigration to America
settled in Howard county, Indiana, in 1861. Here Mr. Maher purchased a
tract of land, near Vermont, five miles from Kokomo, where he and his wife

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passed the remainder of their days, he dying at the age of sixty-two years,.
and she at the age of sixty-one. He died in May and she in the following,'
January. In the old country he was a carpenter by trade, and in the United
States was a farmer. In his politics he was a Democrat, Mr. and Mrs.
McCarty have had one son and nine daughters, of whom five are living, —
Mary, Frank, JuHa, Gertrude and Genevieve. Mary married Thomas E.
SulHvan, a gas plumber at Logansport; Frank is a graduate of the comraer-
cial department of Notre Dame College, at South Bend, and is now assistant
cashier at the Citizens' National Bank in Kokomo. The other children
named are inmates of their parental home. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty and all
their children are members of the Catholic church, and he is also a member
of the Catholic Benevolent Society. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a
self-made man, always industrious, faithful to duty, and from boyhood has
made his own way in the world. He is genial and pleasant in manner, has a
pleasant and happy greeting for every one; is honorable and straightforward
in his dealings with his fellow man, and has a host of friends. Mrs. McCarty
is a mild-mannered and pleasant lady, a genuine helpmate to her jolly hus
band, and is a worthy and estimable companion. They look on the bright
side of life and both appear much younger than they really are. They have
a good bakery and lunch room and do a fine business, which attests both
their ability and their popularity.

RICHARD D. ROSS. — There is parricular satisfaction in reverting to the
Hfe history of the honored and venerable gentleman whose narae
initiates this review, since his mind bears the impress of the historic annals
of the state of Indiana from the early pioneer days, and from the fact that
he has been a loyal son of the republic, and has attained to a position of
distinguished prominence in the thriving community in which he has long
made his home, being one of the revered patriarchs cf the county.
Richard D. Ross was born in Blount county, Tennessee, August 22,
1812, and is of Scotch and Irish lineage, his ancestors having come to
this country from county Antrim, Ireland. His grandfather, Thomas Ross,
a narive of that land, crossed the Atlantic to the UnUed States in eariy Hfe,
and, taking up his residence in Virginia, was married there, to Margaret

1816 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
Duncan, who also was born on the Emerald isle and was of Scotch lineage.
Subsequently they removed to Blount county, Tennessee, where the grand
father died. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. To him and
his whe the following named children were born: John, Joseph, Samuel,
Robert, Thomas, James, Margaret, Elizabeth, and probably some others of
whom the record is lost.
Of this family Samuel Ross, the father of our subject, was born in
Botetourt county, Virginia, in 1773, and removed with his father to Tennes
see, where he met and married Catherine, daughter of Lewis and Lucretia
(Moreland) Hill. Subsequently he removed from Blount county to Knox
county, Tennessee, and in 1830 came to Indiana, locating in Carroll county,
on eighty acres of land, then wild and unimproved. His labors, however,
converted it into a good farm. His wife died in 1843, at the age of sixty-
eight years, after which he made his home with his children, his death
occurring in Jefferson county, Iowa, in 1865, when he had attained the ven
erable age of ninety-two years. He served as a soldier in the war of 18 12
under Andrew Jackson, and was ever a loyal and faithful citizen. He was a
member of the Methodist church, and was a man of the highest respectabUity.
His family numbered eight children who lived to maturity, as follows:
Phoebe, born in Tennessee, in 1797; Margaret, born in 1799; Thomas, born
July I, iSoi; Lucretia, born in 1S03; Patsy, who died in early childhood;
Lewis, born January 9, 1808; Eliza, born AprU 10, iSio; Richard D., born
August 22, 1812; and Sarauel D., born December ig, 1815. The children
in the family of Lewis Hill were Robert, Moses, Benjamin, Frank, Catherine,
Boen and Anderson.
Richard D. Ross acquired his education in the old-fashioned subscription
schools, and when he was about eighteen years of age he came with his par
ents to Indiana. For almost three-score years and ten he has been identi
fied vvith the interests of the state, and is numbered among the honored pio
neers whose support of every beneficial movement and loyalty to the duties
of citizenship placed Indiana in the foremost rank of her sister states in the
Union. His business career has been that of the farmer, and his life, one of
industry and activity, brought him a well-merited competence.
September 12, 1837, Mr. Ross was married, in Carroll county, to Miss
Sarah J. Brown, daughter of Matthew and Mary A. (Hanna) Brown. Her
father vvas an uncle of General Burnside. A native of South Carolina, he

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became one of the pioneers of Carroll county, Indiana, where he successfully
carried on agricultural pursuits for many years. He was a worthy and
esteemed citizen and died at the age of eighty-one }'ears. He was twice
married, his second union being with Polly Duncan, by whom he had two
chUdren, WiUiam and Mary A. By his marriage to Miss Hanna he had ten
chUdren, namely: Washington, Catherine, Sarah, Mahala, Ben Franklin,
John D., Matthew W., Thomas J., Joseph and Albert.
After his marriage Mr. Ross began farming on his own account in Car
roll county, Indiana, where he opened up a new farm, making his horae
thereon until his removal to Miami county in 1861. Taking up his residence
in Deer Creek township he at once began the task of reclaiming the wild
land for purposes of cultivation and his labors were soon rewarded with good
harvests. The boundaries of his farm were also extended, as his financial
resources increased, until he became the owner of a very desirable and valu
able property of three hundred and twenty acres, on which were good
improvements. His labors were energetically prosecuted, and it is labor
which unlocks the portals of prosperity.
To Mr. and Mrs. Ross ten children were born. Thomas W. died in
infancy; Mary C. became the wife of John W. Gasaway, a farmer of Miami
county, and is the mother of five children: Sarah A., Matilda E., George R.,
Rebecca E. and James B. George W. first married Lizzie Stevenson, by
whom he has one child living, Joseph D., and after her death he married
Nannie Lovejoy, and has two children living by this union, — Ruth and Jes
sie. He is a farmer, residing near Kokomo. Matthew L. was killed while
in the service during the Civil war. Rebecca J. was married to John Wil
helm and is now deceased. Harvey D., a farmer, married Martha Saxon for
his first wife, and had two children, Moses D. and Nira B,, and by his second
marriage, to Mrs. Alice Smith, has a daughter, Laura. James B. raarried
Rose Lovejoy and their children are Blanche and Warren. He, too, is a fol
lower of agricultural pursuits. Joseph A. is deceased. Emily E. became the
wife of James McHale, a farmer of Clay township, and their children are
Albert E., Bessie G. , James A.. and John Jay. Laura B., the youngest of
our subject's family, is deceased. The faithful mother died September 27,
1872, at the age of fifty-three years and three months. She was a mem
ber of the Methodist church and was an earnest Christian woman, greatly
beloved by her many friends. Mr. Ross also belongs to that denomination,

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contributing liberally to its support, and takes a very active part in its work.
He has been a class-leader and steward for many years, has aided in building
several churches in this locality and has done all in his power t-o promote the
cause. In early life he was a Jacksonian Democrat in his political views,
but upon the organization of the Republican party he joined its ranks and
has since followed its banner. During the war he was a strong Union man,
and gave two of his sons to the service, both George and Matthew being mem
bers of the Thirty- ninth Indiana, also known as the Eighth Indiana Cavalry.
The latter was shot and killed in a skirmish near Rockingham, North Caro
lina, March 7, 1865. Mr. Ross has always been a man of strong character,
resolute purpose and absolute fidelity to any cause in which he believes. His
honesty is proverbial and his word is as good as his bond. He has borne his
full share in the work of public progress and improvement, and in his declin
ing years enjoys the love and high regard of his life-long associates.

JAMES DEAN. — Among the worthy citizens of Howard county who com-
^ mand the respect of friends and neighbors by an upright, honorable life
is Jaraes Dean, who has been identified with this locality since the pioneer
epoch, when the county was on the very border. of civilization. The present
prosperity and advanceraent of the county is largely due to the stable found
ation for progress and improvement laid by those worthy " first settlers,"
of whom our subject was one. He also belongs to that class of self-made
raen whose energy and industry enables them to triumph over many obstacles
and win the success which is the goal toward which every business man is
traveling, but which, alas! so many do not reach.
Mr. Dean is a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Mercer
county on the 14th of October, 1822. His parents were James and Keziah
(Bunnell) Dean, both of whom were natives of Virginia, The father was a
farmer by occupation and died during the eariy chilhood of our subject, who
remained with his widowed raother until she, too, was called to the home
beyond. The father was a Democrat in his political affiliations, and his fel
low townsmen gave evidence of their confidence in hira by electing him to
several local offices. In his family were eleven children, namely: WUliam,
Edmond, Roseann, Polly, Mella, Eliza, James, Harrison, John, Thomas and
George.

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Owing to his father's eariy death and the limited financial circumstances
in which the mother was left, James Dean had few educational privileges in
his youth. In fact he did not learn to read unril after his marriage, when
he attended school for a short time. His native intelligence, observation
and experience in the practical affairs of life, however, have made hira well
informed and have enabled him to meet the duties of life in a satisfactory
manner. He was reared on a farm and reraained in Kentucky until 1844,
\vhen he went to Ohio. Afterward, however, he returned to the state of his
narivity and in 1845 carae to Indiana, locaring in Henry county. He sub
sequently lived in several localities before coming to Howard county in 1847.
Here he entered forty acres of land from the government, built a little cabin
and began to improve his property. As his financial resources increased he
extended the boundaries of his farm by additional purchase, and the home
stead is now very valuable, owing to the highly cultivated condition of the
fields and the many excellent improvements to be found thereon. He has
resided on his farm for half a century and in his present house for over forty
years. When Mr. Dean came to Howard county only here and there at rare
intervals could be seen a tract of cleared land, and an occasional cabin in the
midst of the forest was almost the only indication that the advance of civili
zation had been made. There were no roads, and various kinds of wild game
could be had in abundance. There were also some wild animals, including
wolves, that made the nights hideous with their howling. Hunting parties of
Indians still roamed through the forest and sometimes visited the settle
ments and the town of Kokomo, which then consisted of only a few cabins.
There was a small log court-house standing by the side of the swamp, but
there was no "hostelry or inn of any kind where the traveler could secure
entertainment for the night. Since Mr. Dean's arrival he has seen the wild
lands transformed into beautiful homes and farms, while towns and villages
have sprung up and grown into thriving cities; churches and schools have
led in the intellectual and .moral progress of the community, industrial and
manufacturing concerns have promoted commercial activity and the county
is now peopled by a thriving population possessing aU the comforts and
accessories of the older-settled east.
Mr Dean married Miss Miranda Tennell, a member of the Christian
church and a most estimable and refined lady whose death, which occurred in

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1885, was deeply mourned. They had seven children: W. O., an attorney of
Windfall, Indiana, who served in the Civil war and received a bullet wound
in the hand; Elizabeth; Zachariah T.; Benjamin F. ; Armilda; J. Cyrus and
Thomas E. In 1886 Mr. Dean was again married, his second union being
with Mrs. Mary Bates, a widow, who by her first marriage had six children,
although only one is now living, Lewis. Her parents were Archibald and
Catherine (Moore) Beard, both of whom were natives of Kentucky, in which
state they were married, removing thence, in 1850, to Boone county, Indi
ana, where the father purchased and operated a farm. His death occurred
in 1877, and his wife passed away in 1S66. Both were members of the
United Brethren church and were most estimable people, having the warm
regard of raany friends. Their children were Elizabeth; Mary, wife of our
subject; Richard; Margaret; and George W. ; but only three are now living.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dean were born three children: Oraar, born July 31,
1 887; Palmer, born October 30, 1889; and Grace, born December 22, 1891.
In early life Mr. Dean becarae a supporter of the Whig party, and on
the organization of the Republican party he joined its ranks and has since
marched under its banner. He has never aspired to office, but is deeply
interested in the growth and success of his party. Both he and his wife are
leading and influential members of the United Brethren church and for
many years their house has been the home of the ministers visiting this
locality. Mr, Dean is very active and earnest in church work, contributes
liberally to its support and does aU in his power to advance its cause. The
most honorable business methods have ever characterized his deaHngs, his
duries of citizenship are faithfully discharged and in private life he is known
as a loyal husband, father and friend.

"\yy MLTER A. OSMER, a skUled and well-known civil engineer of Logans
port, Indiana, is an Englishman by birth and early association and an
American by adoption. He was born in Kent county, England, November
7, 1847, a son of English parents.
WiUiam Osmer, the father of our subject, came with his family to Amer
ica in 1855, and engaged in the lumber business in Michigan, first at Grand
Haven and later at Big Rapids. In 1861, when the great war was inaugu-

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rated, he tendered his services to the Union, enlisting as a member of Captain
H. S. Clubb's company, and served through the war as the Captain's clerk,
his command being with the Sixteenth Army Corps. After the war he was
more or less active in politics, affiliating with the Republican party till the
Greeley campaign, when he joined issues with the Democrats and ever after
ward acted with that party. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary A.
Tomlyn, died in 1879. and he survived her only two years, his death occurring
in Boone county, Iowa. The surviving children of this worthy couple are as
foUows: Sidney T. , general agent of the Bankers' Life Insurance Association,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sarah A., wife of George WUkins, of Nelson, Illi
nois; Walter A., whose name appears at the head of this sketch; and Wilham
A., ex-secretary of the city councU, of St. Louis, Missouri, and a manufact
urer of that city. A daughter, Agnes, is deceased; she was the wife of George
A, Carson. Walter A. Osmer received his education in the high school and academy
of Grand Haven, Michigan. But before his school days were over the war
came on, and, young as he was, he was anxious to join the army, which he
did. He saw service with his father in Captain Clubb's corps of clerks, and
was an orderly sergeant. After a service of six months he was taken sick,
and on account of illness was compelled to leave the army.
At the age of nineteen Mr. Osmer began the study of engineering. He
took a course of one year in a preparatory school and then began practical
work, his first engineering being on the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis
Railroad. In September, 1870, he came to Logansport and joined the
engineer corps on the location, and later on the construction, of the Eel
River RaUroad, having charge of the work on the road. He was with that
company untU 1S73, at which time the road was completed. Next, he took
charge of twenty-eight miles, building second track on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago Railroad between Delphos and La Fayette, Ohio, and in
October of the same year he went into the service of the Erie Railway Com
pany, in New York state, and was assistant engineer of maintenance of way
of its eastern division. The following year he came back to Indiana and
took charge of the buUding of five miles of the Logansport, Crawfordsville &
Southwestern Railroad. Succeeding this he had charge of work on the Van
dalia line north of Logansport.
In 1875 Mr. Osmer was appointed city civU engineer of Logansport and

1322 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
had charge of the construction of the water-works, which plant was put in
that year and the next, and, with the exception of the year 1883, he was the
incurabent of that office till 1891. Since his retirement from public office he
has been engaged in general engineering, employed both in public works and
for corporations. At this writing he is chief engineer of the proposed Indian
apolis, Logansport & Chicago Railroad.
Public-spirited and progressive, Mr. Osmer is in many ways looked upon
as a leader and is identified with numerous enterprises and organizations.
He is a director in the Business Men's Association of Logansport; was one
of the organizers, and the first president of the Indiana Engineers' Associ
ation, which was organized in 1878; was vice president of the tenth district
of the Good Roads Association, of the state, and is a member of the State
Board of Commerce. Also he is identified with the Masonic order, having
his membership in Orient Lodge. No. 272, F, & A. M. , and in the chapter
and coraraandery, all at Logansport. He became a voter about the time his
father turned from the Republican party to the Democracy, and when he cast
his first vote it was for Greeley. Ever since that campaign he has been in
harmony with the Democratic party and has been one of its strong local
supporters. Mr. Osmer has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name
was Ella F. LaRose, and who was a daughter of John S. LaRose, he wedded
April 30, 1879. She died February 9, 1889, and December 28, 1S93, he
married Miss Anna V. LaRose, her sister, the accomplished superintendent
of the Logansport schools. Mrs. Osmer was the first lady superintendent of
schools in the state. The children by Mr. Osraer's first marriage are Fred
erick L. and William L. By his second wife he has one son, Walter L.

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'"ESLEY A. NOEL. — Born in Tipton township, Cass county, Septem
ber 13, 185S, Wesley A. Noel was reared on a farm and acquired his
education in the district schools of the neighborhood. He entered upon his
business career on attaining his majority, but continued to make his home
with his father untU twenty-five years of age, when he removed to his pres
ent home, which has since been his place of residence.
Mr. Noel was united in marriage to Miss Eliza PhUlips and the house-

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hold was brightened by the presence of two daughters, Elsie and Grace. One
son, Charles, died when about eighteen months old. The home farm com
prises eighty acres of land on section 29, Tipton township, Cass county, and
is located on the road between Walton and Bunker HUl. In connection with
the cultivation of his land and the raising of the grains best adapted to this
climate, Mr. Noel is extensively and successfully engaged in the breeding of
registered Poland China hogs, to which industry he has devoted his energies
for twelve years. He has done much to improve the grade of hogs in this
part of the state, and also makes a specialty of raising full-blooded Plymouth
Rock chickens: has exhibited his chickens at the state fairs in Indianapolis,
for which he received a number of prizes; has a wide reputation as a raiser
of fine poultry, and is a member of the North Central Poultry Association.
Mr. Noel is a man bf great energy and determination, and his success is the
reward of his own labors. His life has always been a busy one, and indo
lence forms no part of his nature. In connection with his other interests he
has also operated a steam thresher, and has added not a little to his income
in that way.
In politics Mr. Noel is a Populist, and in religious belief is a Universalist.
His life has been a busy, useful and honorable one, and aU who know him
esteem him highly for his sterling worth.

CHARLES L. NEWLON, who for many years has been prominently
indentified with the farming interests of Tipton county, was born in
Culpeper county, Virginia, February 13, 1837, his parents being James and
Sarah (Bently) Newlon, who were born, reared and married in Virginia,
whence they emigrated to Indiana, in 1S40. Locating in Rush county, the
father cultivated rented land untU 1850, when he removed with his family to
Tipton county, Indiana, setriing in Prairie township, when he entered land
from the goverment and improved a farm. Part of his land was marshy
and covered with rimber, but with characteristic energy he began its develop
ment, and in course of time the wild tract was transformed into rich and
productive fields. There James Newlon made his home untU his death,
which occurred in 1879. In politics he was a Democrat, but never aspired
to office. His wife, who was a member of the Methodist church, passed

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away previous to the demise of her husband. In their family were six chil
dren: John, a farmer of Prairie township, Tipton county; Charles; Daniel,
deceased; Mrs. Susan Foster; Rebecca, wife of N. Bouse; and Louisa, who
died at the age of sixteen years.
Charles L. Newlon was only three years of age when brought by
his parents from Virginia to Indiana. He accquired his education in the
common schools, and through his youth assisted in the development and
improvement of the home farm, remaining with his parents until his mar
riage, which occured in 1S59. He then located upon the farm which is now
his home and has since devoted his energies untiringly to agricultural pursuits.
He owns and operates one hundred and forty acres of good land, the greater
part of which is under a high state of cultivation, while a commodious resi
dence and substantial barns and outbuildings add to the value and attractive
appearence of the place and are unmistakable evidence of his enterprise and
thrift. He has also set out a good orchard and ditched and tiled the place,
and has one of the best improved farms in the county. In addition to
the cultivation of the cereals best adapted to the climate, he has success
fully followed stock-raising, and during the summer season operated a
thresher. In X859 Mr. Newlon married Miss Sarah E, Coons, a representative of
an honored pioneer famUy, her parents being WUliam and Rebecca (Crane)
Coons, natives of Virginia, whence they emigrated to Johnson county, Indi
ana, in 1823. There the father opened up a farm which he cultivated unril
1853, when he came with his family to Tipton county and purchased the
tract of land upon which our subject now resides. ' He also entered a tract
of eighty acres from the government, and began the development of his land.
At different times he was identified with the Whig, Know-nothing and Demo
cratic parties. His death occurred in 1S77, and his wife died two years
later, in 1S79, They were the parents of three chUdren: Elizabeth A.,
who became the wife of Esquire Smith, and died leaving nine children;
Sarah E. , wife of our subject; and Mary J., widow of Austin Davenport,
and the owner and manager of a good farm in Tipton county.
Mr. and Mrs. Newlon also have three children: Allen, who is con
ducting a feed stable in Tipton; Mary J., wife of Sam Grayson; and James
W., who manages the homestead farm. The. family are widely known
throughout the county and their friends are many. Mr. Newlon has taken

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quite an active part in politics, as a supporter of Democratic principles, and
has served for one term as justice of the peace, but has never been an office-
seeker. His energies have always been devoted to his farming interests, and
he is known as an honorable, upright business ri:ian, whose sterling worth
has gained him high regard.

TOHN H. EMSWILER.— Among the earlier and weU known physicians
y, of Peru was the gentleman whose name heads this memoir He was
born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1S27, received his literary
education in his native town and attended medical lectures in the city of
New Orleans, and in 1856 became a resident of Peru. Here, after following
his profession for a number of years, he entered mercantile business, which
he continued until his death, October 4, 1884.
He was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Miller, daughter of Robert
Miller, who survives her husband and is still a resident of Peru. In this
faniily are three sons and one daughter, — Charles C, of Peru; Walter H. ;
Grace, wife of James W. Test, of Richmond, Indiana; and Robert Guy
of Peru. Dr. Emswiler was held in high esteem, was an enterprising and pro
gressive citizen, and at the time of his death was a member of the school
board of the city of Peru.

WILLIAM CHARTERS, deceased, one of the early settlers of Peru
township, Miami county, Indiana, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
in 1788, was a soldier in the war of x8x2, and later located in Lewistown,
Mifflin county, in his native state, where he was united in marriage with Miss
Elizabeth Comfort. In 1846 he came to Indiana with his family; after a
year's residence in the village of Peru he settled on a farm two miles west,
in Peru township, which he procured of Thomas Daniels, it being a part of
the section obtained by WilHam Daniels from the government; and of this
place William Charters made a homestead, and here lived until his death,
which occurred in 1863. His wife survived about ten years, dying in 1873.

1326 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
They brought with them to Miami county two sons and two daughters. Of
these only one son, Samuel, and his sister, Mrs. Mary Sizor, of Cass county,
are living. David and Margaret are the names of the deceased.
David, the eldest of the children, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1S21,
and married Eliza Long, daughter of John Long, who was an early settler
of Cass county, a prominent citizen and at one time a representative to the
legislature and at another county commissioner. He died in 1882, leaving
a wife, five sons and two daughters; two other daughters had died pre
viously. Two young raen, nephews of Mrs. WiUiam Charters, came with the
family from Pennsylvania. They were B. S. McClintic and WiUiam Com
fort, who became well known citizens and are now both deceased.

JAMES FORGY, who resides on section 30, Peru township, is a son of
Stewart Forgy. The latter was born in Kentucky, December 3, 1789,
and died February 12, 1841. When a young man he went to Ohio and
married Margaret Gilson, who was born July 13, 1792, in Pennsylvania. He
continued to reside in Ohio until he came to Indiana in 1833. In the spring
of this year he first came and made his location, and moved here in Septem
ber following. The land on which he settled was known as canal land, was
wholly unimproved and covered with a dense growth of timber, and here he
labored and improved the land, and here he passed the remainder of his life.
He was an industrious citizen and a worthy member of the community.
Both himself and wife were members of the Presbyterian church, and were
devoted to their religious duties. The wife and mother survived the husband
and father for a number of years, passing away October 31, 1863. Mr.
Stewart Forgy and wife became the parents of six children, all of whom
were born in Ohio; but of this once numerous pioneer family only James is
now living. John G., born in iSn, died in 1837; Jesse C.', born in 1S20,
died in 1839; Elizabeth S., born in 1825, died in 1841; Archibald, born in
18 1 3, died many years ago; Mary E., born in 18 16, became the wife of
Solomon Holman and died many years ago.
Mr. James Forgy, the youngest member of his father's family, was born
in Clark county, Ohio, April iS, 1833, and was an infant only about six

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months old when the family emigrated to Indiana; and here he grew up
and has always lived at the homestead which he now owns. October 7,.
1869, he was united in marriage with Miss Calahr Sho waiter, a native of
Virginia, who came to Indiana with her parents after the war of the Rebell
ion, although the marriage took place in Missouri, whither her people had
moved from Miami county, Indiana. She passed to the other life on the
X7th of January, 1896,- leaving a son, who was born June 20, 1SS8. A
daughter, Nora by name, died in September, 1893, at the age of eighteen
years.

pBENEZER P. LOVELAND, deceased,— Among the early citizens of
*— • Peru, Indiana, none were held in greater esteem than the gentleman
whose name we are pleased to place at the top of this article. The follow
ing facts in regard to his life are taken largely from a biography which
appears in the history of Miami county, published in 1887.
Ebenezer P. Loveland was born at West Rutland, Vermont, November
25, 1817, son of Colonel Joseph and Beulah (Pratt) Loveland. When he
was ten years of age his parents moved to Granville, Ohio, where he attended
school until his sixteenth year. His father dying at that time, he was com
pelled to rely chiefly on his own resources, and shortly afterward engaged in
teaching, which he continued for several years, pursuing in the meantime his
literary studies. He early chose the profession of law for a life work and
began his preparatory reading for the same under competent instructors at
Richmond, Indiana, where he remained tUl 1S40, when he removed to Miami
county and began the practice of law in Peru, where his abilities won for him
a conspicuous place. He continued in active practice at the Miarai bar for a
period -of fifteen years, during which time he achieved the distinction of
never having lost an important case intrusted to his management.
In 1S56 Mr. Loveland entered the field of journalism, and founded the
Peru Republican, which was the first successful effort to run a newspaper in
opposition in Miami county. From 1863 to 1867 he was engaged as assist
ant paymaster, Indiana Legion, w.ith headquarters at Indianapolis, and at
the time the Democratic merabers of the legislature resigned their seats to
prevent the passage of the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution,
was the Republican candidate for the legislature, but was defeated by a very

1328 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
small majority. He always took a leading part in the internal improvement
of the county, and was largely instrumental in inaugurating the present effi
cient turnpike system of Miami county. He also took an active interest in all
measures having for their object the best interests of Peru, and while editor
of the Republican persistently urged upon the citizens the propriety of
improving and beautifying their premises, and of improving and keeping in
repair the streets of the city. He early took a decided stand in favor of
temperance reform in Indiana and was an active member of the Sons of
Temperance (having been a total abstainer since he signed the Washington
pledge when a small boy in his native Vermont), and in 1851 was a delegate
to the grand division of that organization, for his state, which met in Indian
apolis. While in attendance at this meeting he was chosen a delegate to the
national division, which convened at Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of
1S52. In 1853 he was made vice-president of the railroad then in process
of construction between La Porte and Peru. He was active in his endeavors
to secure the location of the Howe Sewing Machine Works in this city, and
it was while trying to save the company's property, February 10, 1871, that
he met a violent death by being crushed beneath a burning buUding ! This
sad event cast a shade of deepest gloom over the entire city and county, for
his death was not only looked upon as a public calamity, but also a personal
loss to the many with whom he came in contact in social and business
relations. Mr. Loveland was an ardent supporter of the Republican party, honest
in his political convictions and opposed to everything that seemed like dis
honesty and trickery, He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
church, to which nearly all of his family also belonged.
October 12, 1S42, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Hood, by
whom he had seven children, viz.: Henry C, deceased; Ceha, wife of A. C.
Ealing; Alice, wife of L. MorriU; Clara, wife of B. R. Graham; Hood P.,
Robert J., and Irene, deceased. The two sons. Hood P. and Robert J., are
now associated together in the practifce of law in Peru.
Hon. Robert J. Loveland was born in Peru, January 17, 1858. He
attended the city schools tUl his thirteenth year and in 1873 entered Central
College, Franklin county, Ohio, where he completed the course, graduating
at the end of four years. He next became a student of Wabash College,
Indiana, which he attended from 1877 to 1879, returning to Peru in the lat-

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ter year and taking up the study of law in the office of Shirk & MitcheU. He
pursued his legal studies under the above named able instructors untU the
spring of xSSo. Prior to that rime, during his vacations, he was engaged
in teaching in Ohio and in Miami county, Indiana. He was admitted to the
bar in x88o, but did not engage in the active pracrice of his profession until
the spring of the following year, at which time he effected a copartnership
with E. T. Reasoner under the firm name of Reasoner & Loveland, which
conrinued untU 1884. He then formed a partnership with R. P. Effinger,
which conrinued for a number of years. From 1S90 to 1S94 Mr Loveland
represented Miami and Howard counties in the state senate, receiving this
honor at the hands of the Republican party, of which he has always been a
stanch member. His present business association, as above stated, is with
his brother. He is one of the ablest lawyers of the Miami county bar, and
in business, political and social circles he stands high. Religiously, he is
identified with the same organization to which other members of his family
belong, the Presbyterian church.

A BRAHAM HICKS is one of the respected farmers of Jackson township,
^*- Howard county, where he has made his horae for many years, being closely
associated with its welfare. He is a thorough, practical agriculturist and
man of business, and has been the architect of his own fortunes. His patri
otism and fidelity to his duties as a. citizen are among his marked characteris
tics, and, in times of war and peace alike, he has been one of those who
have not neglected to act the part of a worthy son of America.
The Hicks family is of English extraction, the ancestors of our subject
having been numbered amongithciearly colonists of Maryland. Isaac Hicks,
grandfather of Abraham, was born in Mar3'land and was a farmer by occu
pation. In boyhood he moved to Ohio with his father and for some tinie
was a resident of Cincinnati. He 'married Jane Beard and moved to Henry
county, Indiana, and thence after a few years to Miami county, settling
eight miles north of Peru, upon a quarter-section of land which he had
entered from the government, where he labored and prospered, becoming a
man of affluent circumstances. He ultimately gave to his youngest child
ninety acres and to each of the. others eighty acres. His children were the
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1330 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
foUowing named: John, Hannah, Mahala, Alcy, Elizabeth, Patrick (who
served in the Civil war and died while in the ranks), Isaac, WUliam, one
who died in infancy, Jane and Abraham. The last named was a hero of the
Civil war and was killed at the famous battle of Stone River. Isaac Hicks
was a meraber of the Society of Friends in early life, but afterward became
identified with the Methodist church, and during his last years was a zealous
worker in the Christian church. In polirics a Democrat, he held numerous
local offices of more or less responsibility. He was summoned to his reward
when he was in his sixty-sixth year.
John Hicks, the father of our subject, was born in January, 1813, in
HamUton county, Ohio. With his parents he moved to Henry county, Indi
ana, and at the age of twenty-two years married Catharine Showalter, a
native of Virginia. She was a daughter of Abraham and Frances (McCor
mick) Showalter, of the Old Dominion, and her brothers and sisters were
named as foUows: Williara, Sarauel, Andrew, John, Joseph, Henry, Eliza
beth, Nancy, Barbara, Catharine, Jane, Polly, and one died in infancy.
The father cleared a farm in the forests of Wayne county, Indiana, where
he settled soon after his marriage. He was in his prime at sixty years of
age and attained the advanced age of ninety-six years.
When starting upon his independent career John Hicks located on a
tract of eighty acres in the midst of the forest — property which had been
given to him by his father. This land, situated in Henry county, Indiana,
he improved, and subsequently sold for five hundred dollars. Then he went
to Miami county, this state, and entered some land, the present site of Den
ver, on the Eel river. After making his home there for a few years, during
which time he greatly developed the farm, he removed to Carroll county,
Indiana, where he lived six or eight years. His next venture was to purchase
eighty acres of land south of Miamistown, and, after clearing away the for
ests which encumbered it, he disposed of the property and for the rest of his
Hfe cultivated a small farm in Cass county. He was a deacon and elder in
the Christian church, and died strong in the faith, when in his sixty-fourth
year. He was loved and admired by all who knew him and set an example
of noble Christian manhood to all around him, well worthy of emulation.
His family comprised eleven children, namely: Elender, Abraham, Isaac,
David, Catherine, John, Austin, Francis, Mary, Elizabeth and Jane.
Abraham Hicks was born February 25, 183S, in Henry county, and.

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after completing his common-school education, he attended the state normal
school at Kokomo. Later he taught school successfully in Cass county for a
few terms. He had been eariy initiated into the mysteries of agricuUureand
was employed by his uncle, Mr. Herrell, for a year or two prior to his mar
riage. After that event he became a resident of Miarai county, and a year
later he bought a farra in Clay township, Cass county. He paid forty dollars
per acre for forty acres of land in Howard county, and diligently set about
clearing the property for cultivarion. After the heavy timber had been cut
away and the land properiy drained, it was a most desirable piece of prop
erty, and he sold at a good price. After his removal to his present home
stead, a tract of eighty acres, he proceeded to clear about forty acres, has
placed tiUngs and drains where needed and has brought the land under good
culrivation. He keeps a high grade of stock and is a wide-awake, pracrical
farmer. November 20, 1864, Abraham Hicks married Hannah M. Farr, of Grant
county, Indiana. She was born April 6, 1S47, adaughter of Washington and
Catherine (Mason) Farr The former was a native of North Carolina, and
came to this state in his youth, settling in Wayne county. There he was
married and later he became one of the substantial and respected farmers of
Van Buren township. Grant county, there clearing a farm of one hundred
and sixty acres in the woods. He entered his land at an early day, and, as
the country was wild, had abundant opportunity to engage in, his favorite
pastime of hunting. He was a member of the Protestant church and died in
the faith when he had reached the ripe age of eighty-five years. Mrs. Hicks
is one of six children, the others being John, Samuel, Margaret, Sarah and
Barbara. Abraham Hicks' children were: Marion E., born November 25,
1865; Viola C, May 23, 1868; John W. , November 20, 1869; Elsworth;
Alecta, August 19, 1872; Effie, in April, 1876, and Emma F., April 7, 18S2.
Viola C. became the wife of Francis Baywell, a farraer of Pulaski county,
Indiana, October 22, 1889, and they haye three children. Elsworth married
Jennie Fought and is engaged in farming in North Dakota. Alecta married
Rev. George Baywell, of Howard county, and is the mother of three chil
dren. Effie is the wife of Howard Hunt, a farmer of Howard county, and
they have one chUd.
Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are both members of the Christian church, the
former holding the office of deacon in the same. In politics he was a Repub-

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Hcan until recently, when he transferred his allegiance to the Populist party.
During the Civil war he served in the state militia, and was called out to do
guard duty at the time of the Morgan raid. Well known and respected in
this section of the state, he enjoys the confidence and genuine regard of all
with whom he has in any manner ever been associated.

JOSEPH H. LAIRD, V. S. — One of the leading veterinary ¦ surgeons and
liverymen of Miami county is Dr. Laird, of Bnnker Hill. He was born
in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, on the 2d of June, 1854, and is a son
of Joseph and Margaret (Henderson) Laird. During his infancy he was left
an orphan, and became an inmate of the home of John Alexander, of Hunt
ingdon county, by whom he was reared to the age of ten years. He then
came to Indiana with George Amj', who located in Cass county, where the
Doctor acquired a good practical education in the public schools, which he
attended until twenty years of age. He learned the carpenter's trade of Mr
Amy and followed that pursuit for a number of years, but a natural taste
and aptitude for his present profession led him into the fields of veterinary
surgery. From his eldest boyhood he manifested a special fondness for
horses, and when only fourteen years of age earned the money with which he
purchased a horse. Since that time he has never been without a good horse,
and is a splendid judge of the noble steed.
Entering upon the practice of veterinary surgery, the Doctor soon won
the public confidence by his skill and ability and gained a wide reputation as
a veterinary surgeon. In 1S92 he came to Bunker Hill, where he has «ince
made his home, and it was not long before he gained a practice that extends
over a wide territory. He has a comprehensive and thorough understanding
of the diseases of horses and their treatment, and in his practice his efforts
have been attended with excellent results. During the present year, 1898, he
built and equipped a good livery barn in Bunker Hill, has a number of excel
lent horses and carriages, and has already gained in this branch of his busi
ness a liberal patronage. He is thoroughly reliable in business matters, and
his evident desire to please his patrons has secured him good support.
In Cass county Mr. Laird was united in marriage to Miss Mary Welsh,
and to them were born three children: William F., who died at the age of

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eighteen years; Charles H. and Joseph H. His present wife, whom he also
wedded in Cass county, bore the maiden name of Mary L. Martin, and this
marriage has been blessed with one child, Carrie J.
In pohtics the Doctor is a Democrat and bimetaUist. He keeps well
informed on the issues of the day but has never sought office, preferring to
devote his time and energies to his business interests, in which he is meering
with weU deserved success. He is now widely known in Miami county, and
is ranked among the substantial and worthy citizens of Bunker HUl.

^^riNFIELD S. STALNAKER.— The name of Stalnaker has long been
Y V associated with the buUding interests of Logansport, and many of the
"finest residences and business blocks of the city stand as monuments of the
enterprise and handiwork of the subject of this review and his father, Eli
Stalnaker. Almost two-thirds of a century have passed since the family was
founded within the borders of Cass county by George Stalnaker, the grand
father of our subject, who located on a farra two railes east of the city of
Logansport. Since that early epoch in the history of this locality the Stal-
nakers have been prominent factors in the work of development and public
progress, and throughout the period of Logansport's substantial growth they
have contributed materially to its advancement.
EH Stalnaker was born in Randolph county. West Virginia, in 1817, and
was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Cass county.
Learning the carpenter's trade, he established his home in Logansport and
erected many of the leading buildings of the city in an early day, including
some of the business houses which still stand in the commercial center of the
county seat. He married Miss Malinda Buzan and to them were born the
foUowing children : Mrs. Mary Gordon, now of Redmond, Illinois ; Mrs.
Lucinda Rowe, of Cass county ; Mrs, Malinda Hamilton, of Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania ; Mrs. Maria Burkey, of Paris, Illinois ; Mrs. Hattie Chambers, of
Batrie Creek, Michigan ; Mrs. Sarah B. Werwohn, of Logansport ; Mrs.
Lottie Sidell, of Sidell, Kansas ; Ewell, deceased ; and Winfield Scott,
whose name begins this review.
In the city of Logansport our subject, Winfield Scott Stalnaker, was
born May 13, 1S48, and is indebted to its public-school system for the edu-

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cational privileges which he enjoyed. The usual interests of youth occupied
his boyhood .and when the time came for him to decide upon a vocation for
hfe he chose the carpenter trade. He learned the trade under the direction
of P. D. Stevens and his uncle, George Stalnaker, and after complering his
apprenticeship w-orked as a journeyman for fifteen years. He then began
contracting on his own account, his first independent venture being the
construction of three houses for Frank May, of Logansport. From that time
success has attended his efforts and he has erected on an average of fifteen
residences each year. These include some of the finest houses in the city,
among which are those of J. E. Redmond, Henry Willy, W. W. Ross, Peter
Wise, N. R. Donaldson and his own residence on College HUl. He also
erected the Spry business block under contract, and thus in the pursuit of
his chosen vocation he has erected splendid monuments to his skUl and
ability. On the 7th of February, 1878, Mr. Stalnaker was united in mar-riage to
Miss Alice Fink, the adopted daughter of the late Horace M. Bliss, one of
the most prorainent and honored citizens of Logansport, who for eight years
served as county auditor and for twelve years as county clerk. Mr. and Mrs.
Stalnaker have one son, Horace Guy, now a student in the high school. The
family occupy an enviable position in social circles and their friends in the
community are many. In business circles Mr. Stalnaker has a high standing
and his record is above question. True to the terms of a contract and hon
orable in all his raethods, he merits the confidence reposed in him and the
high regard which is entertained for him by all with whom he has been
brought in contact.

TTENRY MYERS. — This gentleman, who was one of the successful Ger-
^ -^ man pioneers of Miarai county, Indiana, was born in Hanover, Ger
many, in 1809. He was reared in his native land and there learned the
trade of shoemaker, and in 1833, accompanied by his older brother, Nicholas
C. , came to America. During his early residence in this country he was
engaged in work on the construction of the Wabash & Erie canal, and, later,
jointly with his brother, purchased a quarter-section of land in Peru town
ship, Miami county, Indiana. He made his home with his brother till his
marriage to Sarah Thornburg, who was born in Wayne county, Indiana, in

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1819. He improved the land which he first bought and added thereto, and
for many years he also worked raore or less at his trade, being one of the
first shoeraakers of the county. He was an upright, respected citizen, and
one of the first members of the Eel River Christian church. His death
occurred in February, 1888. His wife, who is stUl Uving, is at the old
homestead. Of the nine children born to Henry Myers and wife, six survive,
viz. : Mary, Jane, Kate, Julia, WUliam H. and Emraa. The deceased chil
dren were Margaret, Nicholas and Joseph.
William H. Myers, the only surviving son of Henry Myers, was born
on the farm above referred to. May n, 1854, and has passed his whole life
in this locality. He now resides on section 18, Jefferson township, which
was a part of his father's farm, and which adjoins the original homestead in
Peru township. Like his father before him, he is a thrifty and successful
farmer, and has the respect of all who know him.
Mr. Myers has been twice raarried. He first wedded Miss Arabelle
Alsbaugh. She died February 23, 1893. His present wife, formerly Miss
Melissa Runnells, was born near Walnut Station, Indiana, and is a daughter
of Emanuel and Catherine Runnells. Mr. Myers has seven children by his
first marriage, namely Henry R., Alice M., Bessie B., WUliam R., Ada G.,
Minnie M. and Harold A.

WILLIAM MARTIN CLINE. — Few men have spent a greater number
of years in Miami county than the venerable subject of this sketch.
Mr Cline was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1812. His par
ents were Henry and Christiana C. (Oldenberg) Cline, the former a native of
Philadelphia and the latter of Holland, she having come to America with her
parents in her infancy. The Oldenberg family was one of distinction in
HoUand. By .trade the father of our subject was a tailor. He died in Union
township, Miami county, Indiana. The mother died near Newport, Ken
tucky, at the home of her son. Their family consisted of five chUdren, of
whom WiUiam M. is the eldest and one of the two who are now living.
The second was Henrietta, wife of Enoch Waymire, who died in Allen town
ship, this county, at about the age of sixty-five years. Mary Ann was twice
married and was the widow of WilHam Zork at the time of her death, which
occurred in Union township, Miami county. John, the fourth in order of

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birth, has had a successful business career as a real-estate man, is now
reputed to be worth a milUon dollars, and, a widower without family, spends
his winters in Florida, taking life easy. The youngest of the family was
Mary E. , who was twice married and who died in Newport, Kentucky. A
remarkable fact in connection with the history of the Cline famil5 is that all
the deceased members died very suddenly. The last named died instantly,
without any previous illness.
When William M. was a small boy his parents moved to Ohio, stopping
first at Cincinnati, from there going to Lebanon, and thence, two years later,
to Butler county, where the family remained four years. The next move
was to Montgomery county, where the home was maintained until 1845. In
the meantime, however, young Cline had corae to Indiana. In 1835 he
carae to Miami county and bought land in Union township. This he occu
pied as a home in 1845. His original holdings here comprised one hundred
and seventy-five acres. Subsequently he purchased a hundred acres more,
and now has two hundred and seventy-five acres, in two farms, located about
a mile apart.
Mr. Cline was married in Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1836, to Miss
Mulford, daughter of the Rev. Jacob Mulford, a pioneer Baptist minister of
Montgomery county, where she was born and where her parents died. In
1845 Mr Cline came to Indiana, as above stated, and brought with him his
wife and four children, and here established his home in what was then the
wilderness of Miami county. During his early life here he endured the hard
ships and privations incident to the work of opening up a farm, building
roads, etc., and to these hardships may be added the sorrow occasioned by
the death of his wife, in 1846, and of two children soon afterward. Of the
four chUdren born of their union, two are now living: Mary E., wife of
James Gowdy, of Franklin county, Indiana; and William Henry H., a piano
manufacturer of Norwalk, Ohio. In 1848 Mr. Cline wedded Miss Lucy
Leach, a narive of South Carolina. Her father, a soldier in the war of 1S12,
died on his way home from that war and her mother died soon afterward.
Mrs. Cline was reared in the family of her uncle and was grown at the time
she came to Indiana. Mr Cline's only child by this marriage is a daughter,
Mrs. Chalraer Loekwood, who resides on the old home farm in Union town
ship. Mr. Cline continued to live on and operate his farms until 1886, when

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he purchased his present home in Denver, and has since resided here. In
187 X he suffered the loss of an eye from the kick of a horse. In speaking of
his life, Mr. Cline says he thinks he has faced more trials and reverses than
any other man in the county, but through them all he has been buoyed up
by hope and has thus prolonged his life to a ripe old age. Speaking still
further of his early life, we may note that his family home was broken up
when he was a child of ten years and he was " bound out, " as was the cus
tom in those days. His master was very severe and unkind, and to avoid
his harshness and unkindness the boy ran away when only thirteen years old,
and from that time forward made his own way in the world.
In politics Mr. Cline was first a Whig. When the Republican party
came into existence he allied himself with it and helped to organize the party
in his township. He has ever since been an ardent Republican. He is one
of the few men now living who voted for the two Harrisons for president.
So great was his admiration for the elder Harrison that he named his son for
him; and this son, it should be further stated, served his country as a Union
soldier in the CivU war.
Mr. Cline was reared, a Presbyterian. Owing, however, to his views
on baptism, he joined the Baptist church eight years ago and is now an
acceptable member of that organization. Mrs. Cline is a Presbyterian.

JOSEPH H. WAITE. — Among the representarive early citizens and
ex-Union soldiers of Perry township, Miami county, Indiana, none is
better or more favorably known than the subject of this sketch, Joseph H.
Waite, merchant and postmaster at Gilead.
Mr. Waite is a native of this township and was born March 6, 1839.
He is the eldest of six chUdren born to Sullivan and Margaret Waite, his
mother's maiden name being Woods. The former was born near Genesee
Falls, New York, in 1802, and was descended from highland Scotch ancestry.
The Waites in America are said to have descended from two brothers who
emigrated from Scotland in the early days of the colonial period. They
have become somewhat numerous throughout the Union, but doubriess all
came from the parent stock above menrioned. The grandfather of our sub
ject was a participant in the war of 1812. SulHvan Waite became fatherless

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when a chUd, his father having beena victim of the war, and not long after
this event, while he was yet a boy, the mother removed with her children to
Clark .county, Ohio. There his mother niarried a man named Stearns, and
there Hved till death. Sullivan grew to manhood in Ohio, and in that state,
in 1838, married Margaret A. Woods. In October of the same year he came
to Miami county, Indiana, and settled in Union (now Allen) township, where
he entered a tract of government land and at once set about the work of
clearing the land and making a home for himself and family. But it was not
decreed that he should survive to old age. His death occurred on the 29th
of AprU, 1S50, the result of his having been kicked by a horse nine days
before. Sullivan Waite was a man of influence in the community in which
he lived. He was upright in all his dealings with his fellow men. He was
a man of excellent judgment, and was industrious and energetic. He was
opposed to the use of intoxicating liquors in all forms, and that at a time
when it required courage and decision of character to oppose a habit so com
mon in all early settlements. Tobacco he also regarded as an evil and as
worse than useless. In his religious views he was a Methodist, but was
liberal toward other denominations. His home was the stopping place of the
preacher, and his seat at the Gilead church was never vacant on the Sabbath
day. He was a Whig in his political views, and he had the courage to
express his convicrions on all subjects. He was, in fact, a worthy repre
sentative of the best elements of pioneer life. He and his wife became the
parents of six children, — four sons and two daughters. Of these Joseph H.
is the eldest. Abner C, a resident of Peru, is the second in order of birth.
Sarah, the elder daughter, died in 1852. Charles, the next born, starved to
death in Sauisbury prison. North Carolina. He was a member of the
¦Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and his death occurred January 5,
1865. Mary E. is the wife of W. W. Loekwood of Peru, and Sullivan T.,
the youngest, is a prosperous farmer of Grant county, Indiana.
Joseph H. Waite, the imraediate subject of this review, grew to man
hood on the homestead farm. His opportunities for school instruction cov
ered a period of only twenty-two months at the district school. Yet he
acquired sufficient knowledge of books to enable him to teach successfully
two terms of school. He had this experience in the winters df 1859-60 and
1860-61, in Perry township. The war of the Rebellion having been inaugu
rated, he resolved to enlist for service in the Union cause, and on July 2,

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iS6i, he was enrolled as a member of Company A, Twenty-sixth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry. His service covered the entire period of the war, his
final discharge taking place January 15, 1866. He was with the forces that
operated in the states of Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
and Alabama. For the first eighteen months of his active service he was
engaged in the campaign against Price, in Missouri and Arkansas. He took
part in the battle of Perry Grove, December 7, 1862, where Seven thousand
Union troops drove twenty-six thousand Confederates from the field. He
was in the trenches at Vicksburg from June n, 1S63, till the surrender, and
marched with his command into the captured city and thence up the
Yazoo river, assisting in the capture of the city of that name; thence to
Baton Rouge, New Orleans and BrownsvUle. In February, 1864, he returned
home on a veteran furlough and the following April went back south, report
ing at New Orleans, After some time spent on guard duty in Louisiana, he
was sent to Mobile bay and was engaged in the investment and capture of
MobUe. He went thence to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, then on to
Lauderdale, where the regiment did guard duty, and later was employed in
the same service at other points, including Cairo and Vicksburg. Mr. Waite
entered the service as a sergeant and December 18, 1864, was coraraissioned
first lieutenant by Governor Morton, of Indiana. During his array life his health
was greatly impaired through arduous service and exposure. He had an attack
of measles as early as October, 1861, and was not able to resume his duties
tUl January 20, 1862, in the meantime being home on a furlough. Contrary
to the advice of his physicians, he rejoined his company at Butler, Missouri,
May 15, 1S62. June 29th of the same year he suffered a sunstroke and
was severely ill for a long tirae, and in September, 1863, suffered a like
misfortune. May 2, 1864, whUe at home on a furlough, he married Miss Marietta H.
Wright, whose death occurred Noveraber 28, 1882. Their happy union
resulted in the birth of four sons and seven daughters, all of whora are Uving,
viz.: WiUiam S., of South Bend, Indiana; Margaret, Josie, Anna A., Frank,
Harry, Earie L. , Emma, Laura, Carrie M. and Marietta. They are a bright,
intelligent family, — several of them being teachers.
After the war Mr. Waite was variously occupied untU 1883, when he
engaged in the mercanrile business at GUead, with Jonas LuckenbUl. Four
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business alone. For several seasons he has purchased large quantities of
wool. In connection with his mercantUe business, he has charge of the
GUead post-office, which position he has filled for a number of years, his
commissions bearing dates of 1884, 1889 and 1S97.
In politics Mr. Waite is an ardent Republican. He has twice filled the
office of township trustee. Fraternally he is a Mason in good standing;
religiously, like his honored father, he is a member of the Methodist Episco
pal church.

ABRAHAM ALEY, a pioneer of Union township, Miami county, Indiana,
was born in Greene county, Ohio, March 17, 1829, son of Isaac and
Katherine (Sipe) Aley. Isaac Aley was born near Dayton, Ohio, in
1805, and died in August, 1876; while his wife was born near YeUow Springs,
Greene county, Ohio, in 1S07, and is deceased. In 1864 the family came to
Indiana and located on a farm near Logansport, known to old residents as
the Zera Sutherland farm, and it was at this place that the father died. His
family consisted of nine children, of whom Abraham was the first born, the
others in order of birth being as follows: Melinda, born in 1832, became
the wife of Amos Carrigan, and both are now deceased, his death having
occurred at Nashville, Tennessee, while he was engaged in the Civil war;
hers near Adamsboro, Indiana. Eliza, born in 1834, is the deceased wife of
Mathew A. Mathews, a Mexican war veteran; Leander, born in 1839, in
Greene county, Ohio, was a member of the Forty-fifth Ohio Regiment, and
died while with his command at Lexington, Kentucky; Amos C, born in
1S36, resides near New Carlisle, Ohio; Ezra, born in 1843, resides near
Onega, Kansas; Samantha, born in 1844, is now the wife of John G. Hower
and resides in Loveland, Colorado; Maria, born in 1846, wife of William H.
Scott, lives in Cass county, Indiana.
Abraham Aley received his early training in one of the pioneer log
school-houses of Greene county, Ohio, and when a young man was variously
occupied, farming, working at the carpenter's trade, etc. After his marriage,
which event occurred in the autumn of 1859, he came with his wife to Indi
ana and located upon the farm where he now resides, in Union township,
Miami county. His original purchase, sixty-five acres, was then unimproved
and nearly all covered with a heavy growth of timber. Subsequently he

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bought a hundred acres more, and to the improvement and cultivation of this
land has since devoted his energies, carrying on general farming and stock-
raising. In i860 he erected a sawmill on his farm, the creek furnishing
power lor the same, and this old miU, now looked upon as a landmark, is
still in operation.
Mr Aley was married October 6, 1S59, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Miss
Elizabeth Kinsinger, a daughter of George and Rebecca (Brindle) Kinsinger,
matives of Pennsylvania, the father born in the city of Philadelphia and the
mother in Cumberland county. When about seventeen years of age she
removed with her parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio, locating in Logan
county, in which county both her parents died. Mrs. Aley is the youngest
of a family of seven children, the other members being as follows: David,
who died in Logan county, Ohio; Mary, who died in Champaign county,
that state; William, a resident of DeGraff, same state; Susanna, wife of
Daniel Koch, near DeGraff, Ohio; George, who occupies the old home place
in Logan county, and Samuel, who resides near DeGraff. Two children,
Charles K. and Alice Rebecca, have been born to Mr. and Mrs, Aley.
Both are members of the home circle and the son has charge of the farming
operations. Mr. Aley is one of the very few men now living who voted for John P.
Hale for president of the United States. He has always taken an active
interest in political affairs and has kept himself posted on the questions of
the day, in later years devoting much of his time to reading. Charle"s K. is
a member of Denver Lodge, No. 537, I. O. O. F.

SAMUEL F. JOHNSON, of Logansport, Indiana, assistant train master
of the Pan Handle RaUway Company and one of its worthy and distin
guished employees, was born in Richmond, Indiana, August 20, 1S57, son of
Hon. Calvin R. Johnson, aprominent journalist of Indiana who has been identi
fied with the press of Richmond for nearly half a century. The latter was born
near North Vernon, Indiana, in December, 1823, and it was largely in the
printing-office that he received his training and equipped himself for life's
duties. His early work as a printer was in Indianapolis. From there he
went to Richmond. He published the Broad-ax of Freedom, the first news-

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paper published in that city, and has been connected, in one capacity or
another, with every important newspaper issued in Richmond. He served
through the Civil war as lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and for raany years has been prominent in Re
publican politics. He married Miss Sarah Lewis, a daughter of one of the
prominent merchants of Richmond, whose ancestors were Virginians, and
who is a devoted and well known member of the Friends' society of Wayne
county. They are the parents of seven children, Samuel F. being the
fourth in order of birth.
Samuel F. Johnson grew up in his native town, receiving his education
in its public schools and early being taught to rely upon his own efforts.
His first earnings were as office boy, at the age of ten years, for Dr. Mcln
tyre, of Richraond. At fourteen he began railroading and promotion after
promotion was conferred upon him in rapid succession. From fourteen to
eighteen he was a freight brakeman, from eighteen to twenty-four he was a
freight conductor, and at twenty-four was made conductor of a passenger
train. In November, 1892, he was caUed from the road to his present posi
tion, that of assistant train master of the Pan Handle.
Mr. Johnson has maintained his home in Logansport since the year 1872.
He was married in this city, AprU 2, 1S77, to Miss Mattie Kendall, and they
have two children, — Harry and Eva.

TAMES H. KENNEY, a passenger conductor on the Pan Handle Rail-
^ road and a resident of Logansport, Indiana, is a young man who began
railroading when a boy and who by faithful service has earned the pro
motions he has received from time to rime.
Mr. Kenney was born near Bowmanville, Canada, October 16, i860,
and reared and educated in Crown Point, Indiana, to which place his parents
emigrated in 1866. He is a son of John and Harriet (Sprague) Kenney.
The former, an Englishman by birth and by occupation a farmer and gardener,
is deceased; the latter is a resident of Effner, Indiana. In then family were
thirteen children, James H. being the eighth in order of birth and one of the
nine who are novv living.
At the age of fifteen he began to learn the trade of machinist and later

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on became a starionary engineer at Crown Point. At eighteen he entered
the eniploy of the Pan Handle, as a switchman in their yards in Logansport,
commencing work on the fourth of July, and remained in this position two
years. Tbe next year he was a brakeman on the road. In 1 88 1 he was pro
moted to the position of freight conductor and given a Chicago run, and since
1892 he has occupied his present posirion, that of passenger conductor.
Mr. Kenney has a wife and five children. He was married in Logans
port October 29, 1884, to Edith Wickwhe, the eldest of the five children of
Isaac and Josephine (Gage) Wickwire. Mr. Wickwire is an engineer on the
Nickel Plate, running out of Chicago. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenney are Earl, Ruth, Edith, Josephine and Harold.

'T'HOMAS COURTNEY, of Logansport, Indiana, who is identified with
*^ railroading as a passenger conductor on the Chicago division of the
Pan Handle Railroad, began his career on the road when a boy in his 'teens,
and early worked his way tothe front.
Mr. Courtney is a native of the Emerald isle. He was born in county
Kerry, Ireland, June x6, 185 1, the youngest of the six children of John
Courtney. The family left their native land in 1S57 and came to America,
locating first in New York city and in 1861 coming west to Indiana and set
tling at Logansport. The year following their location here the father, who
was a railroad man, was killed on the old T. , L. & B. Railroad, near
Idaville, Indiana. Of the other members of the faraily, we record that
two of the sons were killed in the Civil war, two are railroad men resid
ing in Logansport, and the daughter, Mrs. John Burke, is also a resident of
this city. At the age of fourteen Thomas left school and found employraent, and
of his earnings he contributed to the support of the household. At sixteen,
foUowing the example of his father and brothers, he began railroading, as a
brakeman on the Chicago & Great Eastern Railroad, and in 1871, before he
was twenty years of age, was promoted to the position of freight conductor.
He has been a passenger conductor since 1S84.
In the spring of iSSi Mr. Courtney was married in Marion, Indiana, to
Miss Kate Hannafin, and they have one child, David, a promising boy of
nine years.

1344 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
FRANK H. THOMAS. — When the year 189S shall have become a Hnk in
the chain of the past, eight decades will have come and gone since the
Thomas famUy became identified with the development of Indiana. During
that time its representatives have been important factors in the progress and
advancement of the localities in which they have resided, and he, of whom
we write, is to-day one of the leading citizens of Cass county, his name being
inseparably connected with its commercial interests. All that tends toward
the mental, moral, social and material advancement of the state has received
not only the support of our subject, but also of the other members of the
family, and the history of those who bear the family name of Thomas forms
an important chapter in the annals of northern Indiana.
Hon. Hewit L. Thomas, the grandfather of Frank H., was born in
Tompkins county. New York, April 27, 1805, and was the youngest son of
Minor and Nancy (Wynans) Thomas, the latter born on the Van Rensselaer
patent in New York, the former a native of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The
Thomas family is of Welsh origin. In 1819 Minor Thomas emigrated to
Fayette county, Indiana, and was prominently and widely known as a Bap
tist minister. He owned a farm, upon which Hewit L. Thomas worked dur
ing his boyhood days, assisting in the labors of field and meadow through the
summer months, while in the winter season he acquired a fair English edu
cation in the schools of the neighborhood. At the age of eighteen he was
qualified to teach school, and followed that profession for two years, after
which he went to Oxford, Ohio, where he attended college five months. He
then returned to his farm in Fayette county, and in the spring of 18-26
removed to another farm in that county. After two years he located on a
third farm, and in the spring of 1828 opened a subscription school, which he
successfully conducted for a year. The serious illness of his father and the
need of his services at home caused him to abandon the school. In the
spring of 1831 he located on a farm in ConnersvUle township, Fayette
county, and in 1832 began hotel-keeping in Waterloo township, where he
remained for a year. In 1S34 he returned to Harrison township, Fayette
county, and in 1836 removed to CHnton township, Cass county, where he
raade his home untU the spring of 1853, when he took up his abode in Noble
township, Cass county. For ten years, between 1855 and 1865, he was
engaged in the lumber business and in merchandising in Minnesota, but in
October of the latter year located in Galveston, Cass county, where he

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formed a connection with the Continental Life Insurance Company, which
soon, however, went into bankruptcy. From that time untU his death he
represented the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of MUwaukee.
Hewit L. Thomas was married March 9, 1826, to Chariotte Helm, who
was born in Mason county, Kentucky, August 26, 1808, and was of Scotch
and English descent. Her parents were William and Elizabeth (Drumraond)
Helm, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Scotland. In an
early day her father removed to Kentucky and took part in many skirmishes
with the Indians, incident to the setriement of that state. He was with
General Harmer during an expedition against the red men, and was one of
the seventeen who escaped death and capture. He was also a major,
under General Harrison, in the war of 1S12. Both Mr and Mrs. Hewit L.
Thomas were faithful members of the Baptist church. Mr. Thomas was one
of the organizers of the church, of that denomination in Galveston, and
served as sexton twenty-two years. He also belonged to the orders of Sons
of Temperance and Temple of Honor, and was an active worker in the Sun
day-school. He also taught the children in the streets, and whenever he
met them he had a pleasant word and smile or "a charming story for them,
which endeared him to these little ones. In politics he was a Republican,
and in Clinton township, Cass county, was elected justice of the peace,
which office he resigned four years later to become associate judge, serving
in that capacity ten years. While in Noble township he held the office of
township trustee two years, and in Minnesota was elected state senator in
the fall of X856. Two years later he was elected to the lower house and
re-elected in xS6o. In 1863 he was appointed one of the three commission
ers whose duty it was to appraise the land of the Winnebago Indians. He
also held the offices of trustee and assessor for a number of years while in
Minnesota. He was president of the first agricultural society of Cass county,
and was long prominently connected with the promotion of the best inter
ests of this locality. He passed away October 23, 1895. His was truly a
Christian life in the practical sense of the term. "An indulgent father, a
devoted husband, a kind friend to all, his loving actions and seeds of truth
wiU bear rich fruit long after his ashes shall have mouldered to dust." His
wife survived him until July 3, 1898, and died in Galveston at the advanced
age of ninety years. For thirty years she was a great sufferer, but she
never complained. A local paper said of her: " Her trust was in God,
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and her faith was always sufficient for every trial. She was a true, consist
ent Christian, devoted to her family and beloved by the community in which
she lived. "
HewU L. and Charlotte Thomas were the parents of three sons, Mere
dith H., Minor T. and William H. The second. General Minor T. Thomas,
was a disringuished officer of the Civil war. He was born in ConnersvUle,
Indiana, September 24, 1S30, and at an early period in the pioneer history
of Minnesota, went to that state. He was the first volunteer from Washing
ton county, Minnesota, to join the Union army in the Civil war, becoming a
member of Corapany B, First Minnesota Infantry. By his comrades he was
chosen second heutenant, and before entering active service he was promoted
to first lieutenant. In October, 1861, when two new regiments were being
organized in Minnesota, he was recalled by the governor and made lieutenant
colonel of the Fourth Infantry. During the winter of 1 861-2 five companies
of that command in charge of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas did duty on the
frontier. In the spring the entire regiment went south and participated in
the battle of Corinth, and from May until August Colonel Thomas com
manded the regiment, his superior officer being engaged in brigade duty. In
September, 1862, he was promoted to the position of colonel of the Eighth
Minnesota, and rendered invaluable service to the state in organizing the
forces for the protection of the frontier against the Indians. It was also due
to his efforts that an uprising did not occur among the Chippewas. In the
summer of 1864 he was in comraand of an expedition, which acted in con
junction with a coramand under General Sully, and proceeded up the Mis
souri river and across the wild, unpeopled plains of the Dakotas until they
joined General Sully, in the latter part of June. Then commenced a long
chase of the savage red men, and on the 28th of July the battle of Kildeer
mountain was fought. Returning to Minnesota, Colonel Thomas started
with his regiment from Fort Snelling to join General Thomas at Nashville,
and then participated in all the military movements in that locality, including
the battles of Nashville and Murfreesboro. In the winter of 1S64-5 the
Eighth Minnesota was ordered to Washington to join General Sherman in
North CaroUna, and Colonel Thomas was placed in command of a brigade,
doing active service in the east until after the surrender of Johnston, when
the Eighth Minnesota was ordered to Charlotte, where it remained until July,
when it was raustered out at Fort Snelling. In the meantime Minor Thomas

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had been commissioned brigadier general. After the close of the war he
engaged in civil engineering, and as a railroad builder worked in Detroit,
New Orleans, Texas, California and Minnesota. He spent his last days iq,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he died October 2, 1897,
WUliam H. Thomas, the youngest son of Judge Hewit Thomas, was also
in the Union army for three years, became captain, participated in the bat
tles of NashvUle and Tupelo, and the capture of Mobile, and is now a promi
nent physician of Indianapolis
Meredith. H. Thoraas, the eldest son of Judge Thomas, and the father
of him whose name heads this article, was born in Fayette county, Indiana,
Noveraber 20, 1826, and at the age of ten years became a resident of Cass
county, where in his youth his time was devoted to the work of the farm and
the duties of the school-room. He acquired a good practical education, and
in 1845 entered upon his business career as a salesman in the store of Pollard
& Wilson, then the leading merchants of Logansport. He remained in that
position until 1S55, when he went with his father's family to Minnesota,
where in connection with his father and brother, Minor T., he engaged in
the lumber business and in merchandising. On his return to Cass county,
in 1S65, he located in Galveston, where he opened a general mercantile
establishment, and from that tirae until his death was a prominent repre
sentative of the commercial interests of the town. January 14, 1896, he
established the Galveston Bank, which he owned at the time of his death.
In 1879 he erected a large grain elevator, which he conducted until three
years prior to his death. His enterprises not only brought him individual
success, but also added to the general prosperity of the town. He was one
of the first to offer his services to the governraent during the Civil war, but
on account of physical disabUity was rejected. Severing his allegiance with
the Whig party on the organization of the Republican party, he gave to the
latter his support for some years, but prior to his death was a Prohibitionist.
He was one of the organizers of the Baptist church of Galveston, and from
the beginning served as deacon. His mind was of a serious cast; his honesty
was proverbial, and he was just and true in all the relations of life. He
passed away July 24, 1898. A sincere Christian, courteous and kind, a wise
counselor and a true friend to the needy, his loss is felt throughout the entire
community. His home Hfe was most pleasant, and he did all in his power
for the welfare and happiness of his family. He was married October 16,

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1 85 1, to Harriet A. Knowlton, who survives him. Like her husband, she
delights in doing good, and is an active worker in the Baptist church. They
became the parents of five children: Frank H.; Charles F. and Daniel W.,
twins, born February 2, 1856; Claudia B., born May 13, x866, and Mary B.,
born September 10, 1869, all yet Hving.
In taking up the personal history of Frank H. Thomas we present to
our readers the life record of one who has been long and prominently identi
fied with the interests of Galveston, and is widely and favorably known
throughout Cass county. He was born in Logansport, April 15, 1853, and
to the public-school system of that city is indebted for the educational priv
Ueges which he received. He completed the work of the junior year in the
high school, and in March, 1874, entered upon his business career as a part
ner in his father's store, the firm name of M. H. Thomas & Son being
adopted. Previous experience as a clerk in the store during vacation
months fitted him for his new responsibilities, and with a commendable
energy and ambition he entered upon his new field of labor. After three
years his two brothers, Charles F. and Daniel W. , were also admitted tothe
firm and they continued to do business in Galveston, under the firm name of
M. H. Thomas & Sons, until July i, 1882, when the partnership was dis
solved, Frank H. and Charles F Thomas continuing as proprietors. This
partnership was maintained until the spring of 1S9S, when our subject pur
chased his brother's interest in the store, and is now alone in business. He
carries a large and well assorted stock of dry goods, clothing, boots and
shoes, hats and caps, groceries and everything found in a first-class general
store, and is enjoying a liberal patronage, by reason of his honorable deal
ing, his earnest desire to please and his courtesy to his customers. Since
the father's death the bank has been purchased by Mrs. Harriet Thomas and
her three sons and it is now conducted with the following officers: F. H.
Thomas, president; C. F. Thomas, vice-president and D. W. Thomas,
cashier. On the Sth of September, 1875, Frank H. Thomas led to the marriage
altar Miss Virginia Forrest, also a native of Logansport, born December n,
1S55, her parents being John M. and Rebecca (Longstreth) Forrest, natives
of Ohio. By this marriage there is one child, Elsie M., born September 3,
187S. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are active and influential members of the
Baptist church, and the former is a valued member of the Knights of Pythias

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fraternity. He is now serving as a member of the school board of Galveston,
and the cause of education finds in him a warm friend. He is liberal in sup
port of aU church and charitable interests, is public-spirited and loyal in his
advocacy of all measures for the general good, and in the spring of 1884 he
was elected to the office of township trustee. On the expiration of his term
he declined a renomination at the hands of the Republican party, of which
he is a stanch advocate. He is a wide-awake and enterprising business man,
•honorable in his deal ngs, rarely at fault in matters of judgment, and, by his
honorable life and courteous, genial nature, at all times commands the
respect and confidence of those he meets. He is a worthy representative of
a prominent pioneer family, and this work would be incomplete without the
record of his life.

TJON. BENJAMIN F. CAMPBELL, a leader in Cass county, has been
*¦ *¦ honored with distinguished preferment in the world of politics, and as a
citizen ranks among those whose value and worth to the community cannot
be slightly estimated. For many years he was prominently connected with
the agricultural interests of Cass county, but is now living retired, enjoying
the rest which he has so truly earned and richly deserves.
Mr Campbell is a native of Stark county, Ohio, born March 4, 1835,
and is a son of Dugal and Maria (Carr) Campbell, both of whom were natives
of Washington county, Pennsylvania, the father of Scotch descent, the
mother of German-Irish lineage. Dugal Campbell was born June 10, 1803,
and with his father removed to Stark county, Ohio, during its early settle
ment. There he married, and adopted the trade of a carpenter as a means
of Hvelihood for himself and family. In 1848 he decided to remove to Indi
ana, and in May of that year located on section 3, Clay township, Cass
county, where he made his home until his death, July 29, 1852. He was a
worthy and honorable citizen, whose character bore the stamp of genuine
ness, and he maintained a reputation above question. He was a member of
the Friends' church, and his life was in harmony with the kindly Christian
spirit of that sect. His wife was born November 4, 1807, and in her chUd
hood accompanied her parents to Stark county, Ohio. She was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and died on the home farm in Clay
township, Cass county, August 20, 1867. By her marriage she become the

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raother of ten children, namely: WUliam C. ; John T. , deceased; Eve, who
has also passed away; Margaret A., widow of William Cooms, of Mexico,-
Indiana; Benjamin F. ; Harriet, Amanda and Mary J., all deceased; Rachel,
widow of Leason Hoover, and Robert C, who also has departed this life.
Amid the scenes of rural life Benjarain F. Campbell passed his boyhood
days, and through actual experience became familiar with the labors of cul-
rivating the fields and iraproving the farm. His educational privUeges were
limited to those afforded by the pioneer country schools of Indiana, but read
ing, observation and a retentive memory have made him a well informed
man, and his invesrigation has covered a wide range of subjects, so that he
is to-day a gentleman of broad general knowledge. He made farming his
life work and continued his agricultural pursuits until, putting aside the more
arduous cares of an active life, he removed to Logansport, where he is now
living retired in a pleasant home on Broadway, surrounded by many friends,
who esteem him highly for his sterling worth.
In his political views Mr. Campbell is a stalwart Republican, unfalter
ing in support of the principles of the party. He does all in his power to
promote the growth and insure the success of his party, and his labors have
been most efficacious. In 1878 he was elected to the lower house of the
state legislature, where he was a member of the committees on elections and
canals. He introduced into the assembly three bills of importance: one lor
the relief of Mrs. Lyon, of Cass county, from the bond of a defaulting trus
tee; one for the relief of the town council of Walton, legalizing its acts; and
one for the abolishment of the superior court of Cass county. Two of these
were passed, but that concerning the superior court failed. In the fall of
1897 Mr. Campbell was appointed by the governor of Indiana to represent
the eleventh congressional district in the National Road Parhament held at
NashvUle, Tennessee. He is now president of the Farmers' Institute of
Cass county, and is actively interested in all that tends toward the improve
ment of agriculture.
On the 7th of January, 1861, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to
Miss Margaret, daughter of William and  (Mosier) South. She was
born in Stark county, Ohio, May 2, 1837, and is the mother of eight chil
dren, two of whora are living, Robert A. and Blanche. The son married
Miss Corintha Shilling and has three children, Chattie, Ross and an infant.
Mrs. Margaret Campbell died January i, 1S93, and Mr. Campbell was again

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX' COUXTIES. 1851
married, January 8, 1S96, his second union being with Mary E, Kingbrough,
daughter of Joseph Brower. They have a wide circle of friends in Logans
port," and enjoy the hospitality of the best homes of the city.

PPHRAIM B. CLENDENNING.— The subject of this sketch was for many
¦I— ' years one of the leading business men of Macy. His famUy have been
represented in this state from the early pioneer days and have been identified
with the growth and progress of Miami county for over sixty years. They
have endured the hardships and privations of pioneer life and witnessed the
development of the county from a trackless wilderness, inhabited by wild
animals and wilder men, into one of the most fertile and wealthy counties in
Indiana. The days of "log cabin and hard cider" have merged into the
days of elegant homes and intelligent, thrifty people. The early log school-
houses, with their capacious fireplaces, puncheon floors, slab benches and
greased-paper windows, where only the "three Rs " were taught, have given
place to the modern school with a curriculum which prepares its graduates
for college. "The groves were God's first temples." These were super
ceded as places of public worship by the humble pioneer cabin and again by
the district school-house. The early pioneer missionaries ministered to the
spiritual wants of the first settlers in Miami county, — of which the Clenden-
ning family formed a part, — under such circurastances as these; yet the peo
ple would go on horseback for miles to attend religious services, taking their
guns with them as a protection aguinst savages and wild beasts. To-day
there is scarcely a neighborhood in the county that has not its fine church-
buUding, where the people assemble in carriages, forgetful, perhaps, that their
ancestors were not so favored. But the recoUecrion of these pioneer days is
a sweet reflection to the aged, who reraember them, and a source of pleasure
to the younger generation, who have the history by tradition. There is no
time quite so sacred in memory as the "olden time," when all were friends
and neighbors, even though separated by miles of trackless forest, with no
divisions of society by reason of honored birth, great possessions or aristo
cratic temperaments. Such were the conditions existing when the honored
ancestors of our subject first set foot upon Hoosier soil.
The parents of our subject were Robert and Cynthia (Clymen) Clenden-

1352 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
ning. The father was born in Ireland, October 15, 18 10, and emigrated to
America in 1835 and came to this county in 1837. The mother was a native
of Ohio, born February 22, 1817, and became a resident of this county about
the same time that her future husband did. They were married on the Sth
day of December, 1839. The family consisted of eight children, of whom
our subject was the eldest and was born in Union township, Miami county,
February 16, 1S41. The other members of the family were named as fol
lows: Andrew P., Levi S., William H., Ann, Robert, Ivah, Mary and Charles.
Andrew, William H., Mary and Charles are deceased. The living are mar
ried and heads of families.
When Ephraim B. was about eight years old his parents removed to
Richland township, and there he grew to manhood, working upon his father's
farm and attending the district schools; and there his mother died March 14,
1863. July 26, 1863, he led to the marriage altar Miss Martha E. Bell, who was
born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 22, 1S38. She was a daughter of Eben
and Elizabeth Bell, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of New Jersey.
After his marriage Mr. Clendenning left the parental home and engaged in
farming on his own account, in Richland township. In 1866 he returned to
his native township and there continued agricultural pursuits until 1874, when
he engaged in the mercantile business in the town of Macy. Associated with
him as the junior partner in business was Mr. Souden Carl, whose interest
our subject purchased, and Quiraby Lowe was a partner a year, after which
he also sold out to Mr. Clendenning. His last partner was A. C. Wake.
Mr. Clendenning possessed the proper temperament to succeed in mercantile
life. Possibly this characteristic was cultivated, if not acquired, during the
eight winters when he was employed as a school-teacher in his young man
hood. In September, 1874, Mr. Clendenning was appointed postmaster in
Macy, a position he held undisturbed for eleven years, or until a change in
the administration. In political views he is an ardent and uncompromising
Republican, active, earnest and influential in the councils of his party. He
has never sought official position, though he has been honored in this respect
without solicitation.
Those who know him best, and consequently are best qualifled to judge,
regard Mr. Clendenning as an upright, honorable citizen, and he enjoys the

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confidence and esteem of all who know him. He has been successful as a
farmer and business man, but his success was acquired by honesty, industry
and frugality, and not through the questionable means frequently employed
to amass riches. He is a member of the Baptist church and is also identi
fied with the K. O. T. M. Since 1893 Mr Clendenning has been retired
from mercanrile pursuits, living upon his farm adjoining the viUage of
Macy.

pLINY M. CRUME.— It is safe to predict that the man who attributes his
* lack of success to " ill luck" does not know what labor, — earnest, per
sistent labor, — is. " He can toil terribly," is what an opponent said of Sir
Walter Raleigh. That is true of all successful raen. They have simply
gained their position by dUigence and thoroughness, and it is these qualities
which have won for Mr. Grume a place among the substantial citizens of
Peru, where for some years he has been accounted one of the leading busi
ness men of the city.
Born near Lafayette, Indiana, in March, 1843, he is a son of Mark and
Malinda (HamUton) Grume. His father died when he was one year and a
half old, after which he went to live with his uncle. Dr. Pliny M. Crume,
one of the leading physicians of Preble county, Ohio. Until sixteen years of
age he found a good home with the Doctor, and then returned to the state
of his nativity, where he secured work on a farm belonging to his cousin, near
Wabash, Indiana.
When the war between the north and the south was inaugurated he was
very anxious to enlist in the service of his country, but was rejected by the
medical authorities on account of his eyesight, which had been injured by an
attack of typhus fever when he was about thirteen years of age. Twice he
offered his services and at the third attempt was successful. It was at La
fayette, Indiana, on the 14th of October, 1864, and he was ass'gned to
Company D, Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, to serve for three years or until the
close of the war. He participated in the battles of Columbia, Spring Hill,
Franklin and Nashville, and the series of engagements between Nashville and
HuntsvUle, and was ever found at his post of duty, cheerfully and loyally
defending the starry banner that has never known defeat in any of the wars
of the nation and has so recently led in the glorious victories in the southern

1354 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
islands. Mr. Crume was never in the hospital, ill or wounded, and was never
taken prisoner, and at the close ofthe war was honorably discharged, Octo-.
ber 14, 1865.
When mustered out of the service Mr. Crume returned to Indiana, and
in the spring of 1866 went to Montana, crossing the p'ains with wagons from
St. Joseph, Missouri, to Bozeman, Montana. There he engaged in gold-
mining and did various other kinds of work. But his trip was not a success
ful one, and after losing flfteen hundred dollars, he returned to Indiana,
locating in Peru, in 1872. For some time he traveled for a dental flrm and
also engaged in teaching school in Miami county for several years. He then.
entered upon his present business as a dealer in books, stationery and wall
paper, and has a large and splendidly equipped store, being the leading mer
chant in his line in the city. He enjoys an excellent trade, owing to the
well assorted stock which he carries, his endeavor to please the public and
his straightforward business raethods.
On the 25th of Septeraber, 1873, Mr Crurae wedded Miss Catherine D.
Grahara, daughter of John A. Graham, a prominent citizen of Peru and the
popular editor of the Sentinel. They became the parents of three children:
Alice, who died at the age of four years; Levica and Graham. The mother
died, and Mr. Crume afterward raarried Miss Alice Graham, a sister of his
first wife. He has been actively interested in the affairs of the city, and his fellow
townsmen, recognizing his worth and abiUly, have called him to public office.
In 1875 he was elected city clerk and so ably did he discharge the duties
of the position that he was continued therein untU 1883. In national
politics he is a stalwart Republican, but at local elections where no issue is
involved, he votes for the men whom he thinks best qualified, regardless of
party ties. Socially he is connected with Reyburn Post, G. A. R., of Peru,
and his integrity of character, strength of purpose and reliability make him
a favorite with army comrades and many friends.

TOHN W. COLESCOTT, deceased, was one of the most highly esteemed
^ citizens of Liberty township, Howard county. Coming here in his
youth, poor and without influence of friends, he persevered in his efforts to

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gain a foothold and a competence, and in time prosperity blessed him beyond
his expectations. In all the relations of life, — in business, social and home
circles, — he was upright, just and unassuming, winning the respect and
admiration of his associates by his sterling qualities of mind and heart.
The Colescotts were of Scotch extraction, and were araong the colonial
famUies of Maryland. The great-grandfather of our subject, as the tradition
in the family runs, was obliged to leave his native land because he yielded
to a spirit of indignation on one occasion and had the temerity to give an
officer a sound thrashing. The parents of John W., of this sketch were
Stephen and Rhoda (WUloughby) Colescott. The father was a well-to-do
farmer on the eastern shores of Maryland, his home being in Caroline county,
as had been that of his ancestors for generations. After the death of his first
wife Stephen Colescott married Rebecca Richardson, and their children were
William, Susan, Sarah A., Mary, Robert, Raymond, Richard, Benjamin,
Henrietta, and Catherine. The father, a devout member of the Christian
church, died at the age of seventy years. For many years he served in the
office of justice of the peace, and in his political affiliations was a Democrat.
John W. Colescott was born in Caroline county, Maryland, September
10, 1 82 1, and there received his education. Upon arriving at maturity he
was married and for two years thereafter he cultivated a farm in his native
state. In 1849 he removed to Indiana and located in Fayette county. For
eight years he carried on a mercantile establishment in Bentonville, that
county, with good success. He next took up his residence upon an eighty-
acre tract of land in Howard county, about two raUes west of Plevna, but
two years later, after making a few improvements on the place, he sold the
property. During the following eight years he managed a store in the town
of Vermont, and in 1861 setried permanently upon the larm now owned by
his widow. It then consisted of a tract of one hundred and seventy-five
acres, parrially cleared, and after finishing this work the new owner pro
ceeded to make other substantial improvements. He built a substantial resi
dence, laid more than six miles of tile and added to his original farm some
thirty acres. His success in his business undertakir.gs is the more remark
able when one considers the fact that, a few years prior to his marriage, he
had come to this state, looking about for a future home, and upon his arrival
here had but twenty-five cents in the world. He obtained employment at
farm work at four doUars a month, and was thus occupied for two years.

1356 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
receiving an advance of a dollar per month the second year. At that time
his home was in the vicinity of BrookvUle, Franklin county. During his
whole life he was noted for his excellent qualities, — for his moral habits, his
temperance and his public spirit. In politics he was a Democrat, and though
he never sought office, it was sometimes bestowed upon him by his fellow
citizens. For a few years he served as a justice of the peace. He died Jan
uary 7, 1894, when past the age allotted to man by the psalmist. His widow
is still carrying on the old homestead, and has given abundant evidence of
her financial and executive ability. To her loyal assistance, indeed, her
husband always attributed much of his prosperity in life, and by her loving,
brave counsel she aided him in adversity.
January 12, 1S47, J' W. Colescott married, in Caroline county, Mary
land, Miss Celia Wooten, who was born in Queen Anne county, same state,
December 8, 1829. She is a member of a worthy old family of Maryland,
her ancestors having settled in that state in colonial days. Her parents
were Smith and Nancy (Griffith) Wooten, of English descent. The father
was a son of Levin and Celia Wooten, whose home was upon a farm situ
ated about six miles from the town of Denton, Caroline county, Maryland.
They were rich and enterprising, owning several valuable farms. The chil
dren of Levi Wooten were eight in number, — all by his first marriage, — and
were named as follows: John, George, James, Levin, Smith, WUHam, Han
nah and Sarah. Smith Wooten's wife was a native of Kent county, Mary
land. Their famUy comprised three sons and and one daughter: George, John,
William and Celia. Smith Wooten died when in the prime of early man
hood, he being but twenty-eight years of age when his life labors ended.
His widow afterward married Thoraas Price and became the mother of two
chUdren by that union, namely: Nancy and Thomas. Smith Wooten was
a devoted member of the Methodist church and was respected and admired
by all who knew him.
The children born to John W. Colescott and wife are as follows: Wes
ley, February 20, 1848; Stephen, November 9, 1849; Emma C, April 5,
1852; Olive J., August 12, 1856; Susan, June 11; 1858; WUliam, January
25, 1861; John T., September 24, 1863; Henry F., May 14, 1S65; Mary J.,
January 19, 1868; Arthur, January 12, 1S71, and Sarah M., May 6, 1873.
The first-born came to bless the home of the young couple prior to their
removal to this state, but all the other children were born in Indiana.

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WUliam died April 30, 1894, when in his thirty-fourth year; John T. died
April 27, 1S64, aged seven months; Henry F., died June 4, 186S, at the age
of three years; and Arthur died when but five weeks old.

J SAAC DICK. — Holding a responsible position in connection with the police
* service of Kokomo, Isaac Dick is regarded as one of the representative
citizens of the locality and is widely known there. He was born in Fayette
county, Ohio, on the i6th of March, 1838, and is a son of Archibald and
Mary (Knedler) Dick, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of the Buck
eye state. In the Old Dominion the paternal grandfather, John Dick, spent
his entire life, devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits. He reared a
family of seven or eight children, and died at an advanced age. The mater
nal grandfather, George Knedler, was a native of Germany, and on leaving
the land of his birth to become an American citizen took up his residence in
Ohio, being among its early settlers. He was, too, a farmer and he died in
Fayette county, Ohio, when well advanced in years.
Archibald Dick was trained to the duties of the farm and all through his
hfe performed the labors of field and meadow. Leaving his Virginian home
at an early day, he removed to Fayette county, Ohio, and in 1853 came to
Tipton county, Indiana, where he secured land and carried on farming until
his removal to Missouri, in 1866. He located in Linn county of the latter
state and continued his residence there until his life labors were ended in
death, at the age of seventy years. His widow still survives him and is now
hving in Linn county, near Brookfield. Both were for many years faithful
members of the Methodist church and their upright lives commanded the
respect of all with whom they came in contact. They were the parents of
nine sons and one daughter, namely: Joseph; Isaac; Jacob; Ellen, widow
of Thomas Young; Archibald; George; John; Granville; and two now
deceased. The subject of this review spent the first fifteen years of his life in the
county of his nativity and then came with his parents to Tipton county. He
pursued his studies in the district schools and assisted his father in clearing
and developing two farms. He remained under the parental roof until his
marriage, which was celebrated March 25, 1859, Miss Sarah Teter becoming

1358 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
his wife. The lady is a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Eli and Sarah
(Harmon) Teter. Four children have been born to them: Mary J. ; Retta
J.; Halleck, who died at the age of nine months; and Ellen, who died at
the age of three years. The eldest daughter is the wife of WiUiam Wogga-
man, a resident of Kokomo, and they have three children, — Nellie, Daisy
and Marguerite. Retta J. married Philip Bauer, of Goldsmith, Indiana, and
they have two children, Effie and Ralph.
Mr. Dick entered upon his business career as a farmer, cultivating a
smaU tract of land untU 1866, when he went to Missouri, spending four years
in Linn county. He then returned to Indiana, locating in Kokomo, where
for a short time he engaged in the dry-goods business. Later he opened a
raeat raarket which he successfully conducted untU the spring of 1898. He
is now serving as poHceman of the city and is a faithful guardian of the pub
lic peace, fearless and loyal in the discharge of his duties.
In his political affiliations Mr. Dick is a Democrat, unwavering in sup
port of the principles of his party. He held the office of township trustee
of Jefferson township, Tipton county, for two terms, and for two years was
deputy marshal of Brookfield, Missouri, Socially he is connected with the
Odd Fellows' society, and his wife is a meraber of the Christian church.
They have a wide acquaintance in Kokomo and during their residence here
have won the friendship and regard of many of the best citizens.

JOSEPH H. CONNELL, the popular young photographer of Kokomo,
^ Indiana, whose studio is located over Hazeltine's jewelry store, has been
in business here only a few years, but long enough, however, to prove his
skill as an artist and on his own merit to establish a large trade among the
leading people of the city. Some personal mention of him is appropriate in
this work, and we are pleased to present here the following sketch of his life :
Joseph H. Connell was born in Brook, Indiana, October 15, 1868, son
of Joseph and Catherine (Hiestand) Connell, both natives of Indiana. In
the Connell family are six sons, whose names, in order of birth, are : Frank,
Joseph H., David, Isaac, Alonzo and John. Joseph Connell, the father, was
reared near Brook, Indiana, and has given his attention to farming opera
tions all his life, with the exception of three years spent as a Union soldier
during the Civil war. He now resides on a farm near Fairfield, Indiana.

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Hiram ConneU, the grandfather of our subject, carae to Indiana at an
early day in the history of this state and settled near HUlsboro, where he was
for many years engaged in farming. He died at the ripe old age of eighty
years. He was the father of a large family, six sons and six daughters, who
grew up to occupy honorable and useful positions in life. The maternal
grandfather of our subject was Gideon Hiestand. He was of German
descent, was one of the pioneer farmers of Indiana, near Brook, and lived to
a good old age. He had seven or eight chUdren.
Joseph H. ConneU, the direct subject of this sketch, came with his
parents to Kokomo when he was a small boy, and he has lived here ever
since, with the exception of six or seven years spent in. the western states.
At about the age of fifteen he began learning photography and has since
devoted his energies to the study and pracrice of this art. For some time he
was employed in the art gallery of Byron Reed, of Kokomo, and he also
worked some years for other firms, embracing every opportunity to acquaint
himself with all the latest and best methods employed in this business. In
February, 1895, he purchased the photograph gallery of W. C. Coramach
and for the past three years has conducted business alone, enjoying a large
trade and the reputation of doing first-class work in every particular. His
studio is handsomely and artistically furnished, ornamented with his own
work, and is, withal, a most attractive place to spend a leisure hour.
Mr. Connell gives his support politically to the Republican party and
fraternally is identified with the Knights of Pythias.

WILLIAM H. TURPIN, city editor of the Daily and Weekly News,
Kokomo, Indiana, was born in London, Ohio, December 18, 1843,
son of Thomas and Eliza (McMurry) Turpin, natives respectively of Virginia
•and Pennsylvania. In the Turpin family were seven children, six sons and
one daughter, namely: David, Ephraim, WilHam H., James E. , Elijah,
Thomas M. and Mary Jane. Ephraim died in the army. The others are
living. Thomas Turpin, the father, was a shepherd on the Darby plains of
Ohio, whither he had removed from Virginia when a young raan. He was
married in Ohio and there passed the rest of his life and died, his death
occurring in Lebanon, Warren county, in 1855, at the age of fifty-four years.
His wife died in 1847.

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Of the grandparents of our subject, we record that grandfather Turpin
was of Irish descent, passed his life on a farm in Virginia, and lived to a ripe
old age, dying and leaving a large family. He was a soldier in the Revolu
tionary war. The maternal grandfather of Mr, Turpin was Alexander Mc
Murry. He came from Limerick, Ireland, to this country at an early day
and settled in Pennsylvania. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-six
years, and died in Springfield, Ohio. At an early period in the history of
Ohio he was given a mail route, and carried the mail on horseback for
many years from Portsmouth to Springfield by way of Chillicothe, taking in
Columbus on the way. He was a fine scholar and one of the best-read men
in his community.
William Turpin, whose name initiates this review, lived in Madison
county, Ohio, until he was nine years old, when he went from there to Yel
low Springs, and thence to Warren county. His education was obtained in
the district schools of Madison, Warren and Greene counties, and, as his
father was a poor man, he early had to depend upon his own resources. For
twenty-two years he worked at the trade of broom-maker, in all the princi
pal cities of the west. He came to New London, Howard county, Indiana,
in 1 868, and married and settled there.
It was September 29, 1869, that he was married, the lady of his choice
being Miss Hattie E. Price, youngest daughter of Isaac Price, one of the first
four settlers in Wild Cat township, where he took up a claim of one hundred
and sixty acres of land; her mother was before marriage Miss Sarah Hethcoat.
The fruits of this union were five children, three daughters and two sons:
Daisy, Lacy T., Dessie Dell, Carl Blaine and Hazel Fern. Daisy died at
the age of two years. Lacy T. married Miss Blanche Spalding and lives in
Kokomo, where he is employed as a teacher in the public schools. The
other chUdren are members of the home circle.
Mr. and Mrs. Turpin and all their children are members ofthe Methodist
Episcopal church and, fraternally, he is identified with the A. O. U. W. and
the I. O. O. F., in the latter having membership in both the subordinate and
the encampment. Politically he is a Republican.
For a number of years Mr. Turpin has been in public life. He was
coroner of Howard county for six years, street commissioner of Kokomo nine
years, and engrossing clerk of the lower house of the legislature in 1887.
He came to Kokomo in 1883 and accepted a position as city editor of the

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Gazette, continuing with it after its consolidation with the Tribune, under
the name of the Gazette-Tribune, until iSSS. That year he went to Rich
mond and took the city editorship of the Richmond Palladium. The following
year, however, he returned to Kokomo, and was shortly afterward elected
street commissioner. He has been a resident of Howard county thirty years.
He is weU known over the state as a local writer, and has been connected
with the Chicago Tribune and Inter Ocean and other city papers, as cor
respondent.

JAMES W. HOGUE, a prosperous and prominent citizen engaged in agri-
'cultural pursuits in Union township, Howard county, was born in Fayette
county, Ohio, August 22, 1849, brought up to honest toil and educated in the
country schools. His parents, William and Sarah (Doane) Hogue, were both
natives of the Buckeye state and married there. William Hogue was a son
of James Hogue, a native of the Emerald isle, who was but three years old
when his parents emigrated to America, settling in Ohio. Receiving a liberal
education, he practiced law and was an active politician, often campaigning
for his party; and he filled offices of honor and trust; but at the same time
he owned and resided upon a farm, which he conducted and where he died.
WUliam Hogue was born on his father's farm in Ohio, and he chose farming
for his vocation, which he followed through life. He was married, in Ohio,
to Miss Sarah Doane, an accomplished lady who was of an honored Ohio
family. He also was a follower of agriculture. In 1S65 he removed to
Missouri, where he engaged extensively in both farming and stock-raising.
He died in 1S72, and after the settlement of the estate was completed his
widow came to Howard county and spent the remainder of her days with her
son. In that family were four children, viz.: James W., our subject, Dru-
ziUa, Alice and John; the last mentioned is now a resident of Marion, this
state. Mr. James W. Hogue was a child when his parents emigrated to Mis
souri, and he remained with them unril he was of age, when he began to take
the responsibilities of his own care. After traveling about for some rime he
at leng.h came to Indiana, locating in Miami county, and during the same
year was married and returned to Missouri. The following year, 1S81, he
came again to Indiana and located in Howard county, where he now resides.
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His farm comprises one hundred and sixty acres near Jerome, well improved,
with a commodious two-story frame house, a large barn and outbuildings
and many conveniences. He has cleared sorae land in addition to what was
already reduced to cultivation, has remodeled the place and put it all in good
shape; and it is now one of the best farms in the county.
In politics Mr. Hogue was formerly a Democrat, but is now a Populist.
Mr. Hogue was united in raarriage with Miss Rachel McFarland, a lady
of refineraent and culture and of an honored and prominent family of Miami
county and daughter of Enos McFarland, a successful and enterprising farmer
of that county. By this happy union there have been four children, one of
whom, however, died when young. The three yet living are Madgie, Fern
and James W. — all yet at their parental home. On April n, 1S98, after a
long and painful illness, the devoted wife and mother passed to her heavenly
reward, leaving a very large community of friends besides her own family to
mourn an irreparable loss. She was a consistent member of the Christian
church.

CM. WARE, M. D. — A well known physician, surgeon and farmer of
West Liberty, Howard county. Dr. Ware was born in Henry county,
Indiana, on the 23d of July, 1844, and upon his father's farm was reared to
manhood. He acquired his preUminary education in the common schools,
and on attaining his majority determined to devote his energies to profes
sional life. In the meantirae, however, he had served his country as one of
the defenders of the Union in the Civil war. At the age of nineteen he
responded to the call of his country for troops and joined the boys in blue of
Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Indiana Infantry, which was
assigned to service with the Army of the Cumberland. When his term of
enlistment had expired he was mustered out, in the faU of 1864, in Indianapolis,
and received an honorable discharge. Soon afterward he entered the service
of the government as teamster and remained at the front in that capacity
until the close of the war.
When hostilities had ceased the Doctor returned to his father's farm,
but his health had become so impaired as the result of exposure and hard
ships of army life that he was unfit to engage in the labor of tilling the fields
and took, up the study of medicine in the office and under the guidance of

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Drs. WiUiam and- James Scott, of Greentown. He also accompanied them
on many of their professional visits and thus gained considerable practical
knowledge while acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the principles
and theories of the science of medicine. In the winter of 1866-67 he was a
student in Rush Medical College, of Chicago, and then returning to Howard
county he engaged in pracrice for two years. On the expiration of that
period, in order to further perfect himself in the practice of medicine, he
entered the Indianapolis Medical College, where he pursued a full course and
was graduated in 1870. He then located in West Liberty, where he has
since remained, and his pronounced abUity and the close attention which he
has given to his business, have enabled him to buUd up a very large and
lucrative practice. He is a close student of his profession and his progressive
spirit prompts him to keep in touch with the advancement which is continu
ally being made by the representatives of the medical science. Neglect of
patients can never be charged to his account, and in the performance of each
day's duty he finds inspiration and strength for the labors of the next. These
sterling qualities of the successful physician have not only brought him a
large practice but have won him the confidence and comraendation of the
profession, and he holds marked prestige among the merabers of the medical
fraternity in this locality. The Doctor owns a good residence in West Lib
erty and also a valuable farm, from which he derives a good income.
The Doctor was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Zentmyer, a narive of
Howard county and a representative of an honored pioneer family of this
locahty. Her father, George W. Zentmyer, was a native of Pennsylvania
and a son of Israel Zentmyer, who was of German descent, belonging to
that class known as " Pennsylvania Dutch." George Zentmyer was a prom
inent farmer of Howard county. After the death of his wife the family was
scattered and he now makes his home among his children, being sixty-three
years of age. He cleared and improved a farm and was numbered among
the progressive agriculturists of the community. His children-were Roseann,
wife of J. Curies; Alice, wife of J. F. Hancock; Eva, wife of F. Hickman;
and Mary, the honored wife of our subject.
Dr. Ware and his wife have one child, Ralph, who was born July 19,
1 888, and is the life and light of the home. Mrs. Ware is a member of the
Methodist church and presides with gracious hospitality over their pleasant
home. The Doctor belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a valued and

1864 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
popular raeraber of the various medical societies. His pleasant, genial man
ner, his genuine worth and his unfailing courtesy have gained him the respect,
good will and high regard of many friends, and through his interest in the
city and his devotion to all moveraents calculated to prove of public benefit,
he displays the same loyal spirit which he manifested when on southern battle
fields he followed the stars and stripes to victory.
It will be interesting in this connection to note something of the famUy
of Dr. Ware, for his parents, William and Lucinda (Main) Ware, were pio
neer settlers of Hovi'ard county. His father was a native of Ohio, his mother
of Indiana, and they were raarried in Henry county, where they began their
domestic life upon a farm, remaining there until 1847, when they carae to
Howard county. Here the father entered land from the government, and
developed a farm, which he later sold and purchased the farm which is now
the property of the Doctor. He carried on agricultural pursuits throughout
his entire life, and was an energetic, industrious man. His father was John
A. Ware, a native of New Jersey, who removed from that state to Ohio, and
afterward to Henry county, Indiana, while in 1S47 he took up his residence
in Howard county. Here he made a claim, purchasing the sarae frora the
governraent, and transformed the wild tract into rich and fertile fields. Upon
that farra he made his horae until his death, which occurred in 1865. Will
iara Ware, the father of our subject, died in 1S65, but his widow stUl sur
vives, at the age of seventy-four, and is a well-preserved old lady. She is a
faithful raeraber of the New-Light or Christian church, to which her husband
also belonged. Their faraily numbered eight children: C. M.; Caroline,
wife of C. Conway; Luther S,, who is serving as justice of the peace; John
W., an agriculturist; Lewis, a farmer, raerchant and harness-maker; Henry
G., deceased; Samantha, wife of J. Salyers, and Mary M., wife of A. Covolt.

j\ T ATHAN LINDLEY. — This respected pioneer of Tipton county owns a
^ ^ fine farra and pleasant home about four miles southeast of Russiaville,
in Prairie township. He comes from good old Quaker stock, both he and
his ancestors having been merabers of the Society of Friends frora time
immemorial. He is an ordained minister of the church and from time to
time his services are required as a local preacher. Upright, honorable and

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just to all with whom he has dealings, his word is considered as good as his
bond, and his neighbors and associates have the utmost confidence in him
and regard for him. In former years he struggled bravely to make a home
for his litrie family in the Indiana wUderness, and, surmounting the great
difficulties in his pathway, has lived to see the fulfillment of many of his
cherished plans and has an assured competence for his declining years.
Mr. Lindley is an Indianian by birth. Orange county being the place of
his nativity, and the date of the event August 13, 1830, He was reared
upon a farm, and early learned the various details pertaining to the proper
management of a homestead. His education was such as the common
schools of the neighborhood afforded. The Lindleys are descended from
two brothers who came from Ireland to the United States, settling in North
Carolina. Our subject's father, Thomas Lindley, was born in North Caro
lina and accompanied his parents, Owen and Grace Lindley, to Orange
county, Indiana, where they were among the first settlers. The brothers
and sisters of Thomas Lindley were as follows: James, David, Owen, Mar
garet,  , Grace and Betsy. The parents died in Orange county, where
they had become well-to-do and respected.
Thomas Lindley chose for his wife Peggy, daughter of Robert Hollo-
weU, also from North Carolina and connected with the Society of Friends.
His other children were Smithton, Nathan, William and Mrs. Morris. The
entire life of Thomas Lindley was spent in Orange county, and, following
the example of his forefathers, he was a tiller of the soil. He died in 1S63,
having survived his wife about eleven years. Their children were nine in
number, namely: Eli, a resident of Orange county; Elizabeth, Mrs. W. Stout;
Robert, Charles and Enoch, deceased; Nathan, of this sketch; William,
deceased; Abigail, who died unmarried; and Sarah, Mrs. W. Minor.
When he had reached his majority Nathan Lindley raarried and settled
upon a farm in his native county. He managed that place until 1S59, when
he came to this county and bought two hundred acres of land, the sole
improvements being a log cabin and a small clearing around it. As the years
passed, a great transformation took place in this property under the skillful
hands and zealous labor of our subject, who has cleared seventy-five acres
himself and has it all in a high state of cultivation. Substantial ditches and
tiling, a commodious house, which replaced the cabin, barns and orchard, —
all bespeak the care and attention, the expenditure and good taste of the

1866 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
proprietor of this, one of the thriftiest farms in the county. He purchased
other tracts of land, and, after giving some property to each of his children,
still owns one hundred and fifty-one acres of the old homestead and one hun
dred and fourteen acres in another farm.
Mr. Lindley married Mary E. Braxton, who, with her brother Thomas,
is the only one left of a large family. Her parents, Jonathan and Mary
(Henley) Braxton, were also among the early settlers of Orange county.
Her father was a farmer and stock-raiser, and spent his last days at the home
of our subject. Both he and his wife were members of the Friends' church.
Their children were Julia, Martha, Anna, John H., Rebecca, Mary E., Sarah,
Thomas, Kittie and Hannah. All are deceased except Mary (Mrs. Lindley)
and Thomas. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lindley has been blessed with
seven children, namely: George T. and John B. , farmers; Milton, who died
at the age of ten years; Allie, Mrs. McReynolds; Mrs. Mary L. Seward;
Edgar, a farmer; and Lizzie, who died at the age of five years. Edgar is now
in charge of the old homestead and is married. Politically Mr. Lindley was
formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist.

TRVIN TENNELL. — Year has been added to year and decade to dec
ade until the aggregate of almost half a century has been reached since
Irvin Tennell came to Howard county. He dates his arrival in 1849, when
this district was a fronrier region, awaiting the awakening touch of the
sturdy pioneers vvho would transform its wild lands into rich farms and
beautiful homes, establish villages, churches, schools and various commercial
and industrial interests and reclaim the country for the uses of man. As
one cf the band of honored pioneers Irvin Tennell well deserves representa
tion in this volume, and with pleasure we present this review of his Hfe to
our readers. Born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, July 13, 1827, Mr. Tennell is a
son of Joseph and Lucy (Isbell) TenneU, also natives of that state, where
they were reared and married. The grandfather, George Tennell, was a
native of Virginia and served for seven years in the Revolutionary war,
receiving nine wounds during that time. After the war was ended and
Araerican independence had been proclairaed to the world through the sue-

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cessful struggle at arms, this hero sought a home in the wilderness of Ken
tucky. In order to maintain his right to the same he was obliged to fight
the Indians and was present at Dudley's defeat and the massacre which
attended it. He made farming his life work and died in his Kentucky home.
The family to which he belonged was of Scotch-Irish descent. His son,
Joseph Tennell, father of our subject, remained in Kentucky until after his
marriage, and in 1838 removed to Shelby county, Indiana, where he pur
chased a farm and made his home for fifteen years. He then came to How
ard county, where he bought land and carried on agricultural pursuits until
his death, which occurred in 1869. With the same loyal and patriotic spirit
which has ever characterized the family, he went forth to the defense of his
country in the war of 1S12, and at all times was a public-spirited citizen.
He was three rimes married. His first wife, who died in Kentucky in 1833,
was the mother of his ten children, namely: Serena, Minerva, Miranda,
America and Jobe (twins), George W., Irvin, Margaret, Ophelia, and James
B., the last named a physician of Greenville, Ohio. The mother of this fam
Uy was a member of the Baptist church and was a most estimable lady.
In the public schools Irvin Tennell acquired his education and upon his
father's farm was trained in the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the
agriculturist. He remained under the parental roof until 1S46, when again
the country became engaged in war. With the blood of Revolutionary
heroes flowing in his veins and with a strong desire to aid his country when
she needed the support of her loyal sons, he offered his services to the gov
ernment and became a member of the Third Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
under command of Colonel James H. Lane. He participated in a number
of the principal engagements, including the battle of Buena Vista, which
was almost a hand-to-hand conflict. The Mexican war in its loss of not a
single battle, has scarcely been paralleled in the history of the world untU
our recent war with Spain, a second glorious triumph for the Araerican arras!
Mr TenneU had volunteered for a year, and during the latter part of 1S47
he was mustered out and received an honorable discharge, being paid off at
New Orleans.
Returning then to Shelby county, he was there employed as a farm
hand untU 1S49, when he came to Howard county and entered eighty acres
of land from the governraent. There were few settlers in the county and
little farming had been done. The roads had not been laid out and the pas-

1368 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
sage through the country was often difficult on account of the dense forests
or the swampy condition of the land. The latter brought on fever and ague
and on account of his health Mr. Tennell was obliged to go to Wiscon
sin for a time. Kokomo contained only a few houses, and by the old log
court-house there was a pond which tended to increase the malaria. There
was but one house at Greentown, which had been the site of an Indian vil
lage, the red men having raade a little clearing and done some farming there.
Milling was done in Marion and in Jonesville and it required two days for
Mr. Tennell to make the trip to and from the mill, which necessitated his
camping out at night along the wayside. Wolves prowled around the camp
and the cabin and made nighthideous with their howling. In 1850 Mr. Tennell
was married and soon built a little cabin, in which he lived while devoting his
energies untiringly to the development of a farm. In 1854 he sold that property
and removed to Wisconsin. He followed teaming in Reedsburg, that state, for
three years and then purchased a farm which he operated until the fall of 1S60,
when he returned to Howard county, where he has "since remained. Here
he bought land, but after one year traded his farra for a stock of merchan
dise, conducting a store in Liberty for twelve years with good success. He
also engaged in the manufacture and sale of staves, and after closing out his
store began taking contracts for the building of pikes and roads in the county.
In 1 888 he purchased the farm of one hundred and sixty acres upon which he
now resides, the same being pleasantly located one mUe east of Phlox. He
did the flrst piping for gas to Kokomo and laid the pipe line for the plate-
glass factory. He has leased his farm for gas purposes, and has upon his
place two wells, from which he receives an annual rental of three hundred
dollars. Mr Tennell was married in 1850 to Miss Mary E. Zentmyer, who was
born in Union county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1831, a daughter of Israel
Zentmyer, who was of German descent and an early settler of Howard
county. He was a blacksmith by trade, but improved and operated a farm
in this county. His death occurred July 4, 1875. He was three times mar
ried and by his first union had three children: George W., Mrs. Tennell
and Rachel A. The mother died in- Rush county, Indiana, in the faith
of the Episcopal church, of which she was a member. Mr. Zentmyer
afterward raarried Mary Kiever, of Rush county, Indiana, who died leaving
two children, Enos and Jane. His third wife was Mrs. Hammons, a widow,

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and their children were Joel, Mary, Eva and Edda, Mr. and Mrs. Tennell
have four children: Millard F., a farmer; Nora A,, wife of J. W. Ware;
John A., who operates the homestead farm; and Eva M., wife of F. M.
Hickman. Mr. and Mrs. Tennell are worthy members of the Methodist church and
are actively interested in its growth. The former takes a very active part
in political affairs in the community and has been caUed upon to fill various
positions of trust and responsibility. He served as jusrice of the peace for
sixteen years, discharging his duties with fidelity, and then refused to longer
hold the office. Becoming convinced that the prosperity of the country
would be more stable on a "free-silver" basis, he supported W J. Bryan
for the presidency in 1896, and is still affiliated with the Democracy.

JTON. LUTHER McDOWELL. — Among the leading men and represent-
^ -^ ative farmers of Howard county, none enjoy a higher standing than
the subject of this sketch, Luther McDowell, who resides on his fine
farm in Ervin township, his post-office address being Ridgeway.
Mr. McDowell has been identified with this locality all his life. He was
born on Wild Cat creek, three miles south of his present home, March 29,
X847. Both his father and grandfather were named John. The former vvas
born in Ripley county, Indiana, and the latter in Bourbon county, Kentucky.
Great-grandfather McDowell was a native of Ireland, who came to this
country at an early day and located in Kentucky. He began life here as a
wage worker in Bourbon county and from that humble position worked his
way up to wealth and influence. He acquired, among other property, a
large number of slaves, but when he grew older he identified himself with the
abolition movement and freed all his human subjects. The senior John
McDowell moved from Kentucky to Ripley county, Indiana, in the year 1835.
He, too, was an abolitionist, making his home one of the stations on the
"underground raUroad," and he assisted raany slaves in making their escape.
He moved to Howard county in 1842. His son John, the father of the sub
ject of this sketch, was, like his father and grandfather, a farmer. For many
years he carried on farming on Wild Cat creek, and was fairly successful in
his operations. He was a prominent member of the Campbellite church, and

1870 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
in regard to the slavery question he shared the views of his father. He died
in 1 87 1. His wife, Sarah A., is a daughter of John Gallaher, who was- a
resident of Clinton county, this state, and she is stUl living, now seventy-six
years old. Of the nine children born to them, three are stUl living, namely:
OHver, a resident of Kokomo; Luther, the subject of this sketch; and Almedin,
wife of Thomas Coy, of Kokomo.
Luther McDowell received his education in the common schools of his
home district and in the high school at New London, and after completing
his studies at the latter place he engaged in teaching. He taught school for
twenty-two years in Howard and Carroll counties. Since leaving the school
room he has devoted his tirae and attention to agricultural pursuits, with the
exception of two years, when he was occupied in running a flour-mill in
Young America, Cass .county. In 1894 he raoved to his present farm in
Ervin township. Here he has one hundred and sixty-five acres. of land, well
improved, and is successfully carrying on general farming and stock-raising.
Mr. McDowell is a Republican and has for years taken a lively interest
in politics. With the exception of four years, he has been a member of the
Republican central comraittee since 1874, and has been active in the state
conventions of his party. His efforts, however, have been directed toward
helping his friends rather than advancing his own interests. In 1890-1 he
represented his county in the state legislature. That body was then strongly
Deraocratic. At the end of his term he declined to be a candidate for the
office again.
Fraternally, Mr McDowell is identified with both the Masonic and Odd
Fellows orders, in both of which he has been honored with high official
position. He is a member of Young America Lodge, No. 534, F. & A. M.
February 14, iSSS, he married Miss Amanda I. Wiedner, daughter of
John Wiedner, of Pennsylvania. Her people trace their origin to France.
Mr. and Mrs. McDowell have no children of their own, but are rearing two
adopted children.

TOSEPH B. TOWNSEND.— Foriunate is he who has back of him an
^ ancestry honorable and distinguished, and happy is he if his lines of life
are cast in harraony therewith. Our subject is blessed in this respect, for he
springs from a prominent family. He was born in Johnson county, Indiana,

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November iS, 1S22, and is a son of Joseph M. and Lucy (Barnette) Town-
send, natives of Maryland and Virginia, respecrively. The paternal grand
father, Joshua Townsend, was also born in Maryland, while his father was a
native of England. The former was a farmer by occupation and a soldier of
the war of 1812. At an eariy day he removed to Kentucky, and in 1822
came to Indiana, settUng in Clark county, where he developed a farm and
spent his last days. Joseph Townsend, our subject's father, also removed
from Kentucky to Indiana in 1822, but he located in Johnson county, where
he engaged in farming until his death in 1825. His wife, who was a daughter
of John P. Barnette, removed with her parents to Kentucky, and the Barnette
and Townsend farailies came together to this state and settled in Johnson
county. The Barnette famUy have won national fame as descendants of noted
Indian tribes, tracing their ancestry back to 1474, to the chief. Murmuring
Ripple, father of the chief. Dashing Stream, whose son. Scented Flower,
was the father of Pocahontas, who saved the life of Captain John Smith.
She was christened and baptized in the name of Rebecca, and afterward
married John Rolfe, She died in England leaving an infant son, Thomas
Smith Rolfe, who was brought by his father back to Virginia, where he
married and reared a faraily of twelve children, frora whora many of the
- most intellectual and aristocratic farailies of the Old Dorainion have descended,
among them being the Barnettes and Jeffersons. As a slur some one in Congress
said to Thomas Jefferson, "You are part Indian," but he replied that nothing
gave him more pleasure than to know that he was a great-great-grandson of
Pocahontas. His grandfather, WilUam Bennett, had married Rolfe's daughter
Anna, the youngest ot the twelve children. John P. Barnette, our subject's
maternal grandfather, was a great-great-grandson of Henry J. Barnette, who
was also the youngest child of a family of twelve children, and these twenty-
four chUdren vvere full cousins. To the same family belonged Ambrose
Barnette, the maternal grandfather of President Hayes. In 1784 Ambrose
and William Barnette removed to .the west by way of the Ohio river and
landed at what is now Maysville, Kentucky, proceeding thence by land to
Bourbon county. When that county was divided, John P. Barnette, our
subject's grandfather, was in Nicholas county. He entered the continental
army at the age of sixteen years and served untU the close of the Revolu
tionary war, for which service he drew a pension in later years. He and

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most of his family emigrated to Indiana in 1822 and settled in Johnson
county, north of Edinburg, where he entered a large tract of land. Here
the family has become quite numerous and prominent. Lucy Barnette
raarried Joseph Townsend and to them were born four sons, Joseph, Jr.,
John M., Luther E. and James P., but our subject is the only one now living,
making his home in Prairie township, Tipton county, four miles west of
Sharpsville. Left an orphan at the early age of six years, Joseph B. Townsend
lived with his grandmother for a tirae, and later raade his home with his
uncle. Major Shelby Townsend, until he was twenty. As his school privi
leges were very meagre, he is practically a self-educated man. After his
marriage he operated a rented farm, with good success, and on coming to
Tipton county, in September, 1853, was able to purchase one hundred and
twenty acres, where he now lives. A few acres had been cleared and a cabin
erected thereon, but the place was soon converted by him into a most desir
able farra. He now owns four hundred acres, of which over three hundred
have been ditched, tiled and highly cultivated, while commodious and sub
stantial buildings add to the beauty of the place.
Mr. Townsend was first married to Miss Eleanor Jones, of West Vir
ginia, who carae with her parents to Indiana, and their marriage was cele
brated in Johnson county. Of the ten children born to them nine reached
years of raaturity, namely: Major S,, a resident of SharpsviUe; Cynthia, who
first niarried H. Smith and after his death William Smith; William I.,
deceased; Ermina F., wife of W. Higgins; John M., deceased; Joseph M., a
farmer; Elizabeth, who died when young; Cassie, wife of W. Gapins; and
Eliza W., wife of E. Spalding. The wife and mother, who was a consistent
member of the Methodist church, departed this life December 20, 1873.
The following year Mr. Townsend wedded Mrs. Malinda A. Jones, daughter
of James Packet, a farmer of Clark county, Indiana, and three children
blessed this union: Robert H., who died at the age of sixteen years; Jesse
F., who died at the age of twelve; and Maggie L. Mrs. Townsend held
membership in the Friends' church and died in that faith June 5, 1890. In
March, 1S91, our subject was united in marriage with Mrs. Arabel Goodrich,
who by her first union had a son, James M. Her parents Were Elias and
Rachel (Rogers) Richards, the former a native of North Carolina, and both
died in Washington county, Indiana, the father in 1894, at the extreme old

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age of ninety-eight years. Both held membership in the Baptist church. In
their family were only two children, the younger being Henry D., ncw
deceased. Mr. Townsend was reared a Democrat, but on the organization of the
Republican party joined its ranks, voring for Fremont, and has since been
one of its stanch supporters. Public-spirited and enterprising he gives to all
objects calculated to advance the moral, intellectual or material welfare of
his adopted county, and is therefore one of its most valued and useful
citizens.

JOSEPH A. LEWIS. — One of the enterprising business men of Tipton
is Joseph A. Lewis, who, as a member of the firm of Kendall, Kirtley &
Lewis, is engaged in the abstracting of titles and the real-estate, loan and
insurance business. He was born in the city which is still his home, Decem
ber 5, i860, and traces his ancestry back through several generations to
George and Leah (Viney) Lewis, the great-grandparents of our subject.
Their son, Charles Lewis, the grandfather of him whose name heads this
review, was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, July 2, 1797, and was
a farmer by occupation. He became one of the pioneers of Hancock county,
Indiana, but spent his last days in Gentry county, Missouri, where his death
occurred May 5, 185 i. He married Polly Alderson, daughter of Joseph and
Polly (Newman) Alderson. Her father was born June 17, 1771, and died in
Greenbrier county. West Virginia, July 24, 1845. His wife, who was born
May 3, 1769, died in that county, AprU 13, 1S57. Mrs. PoUy Lewis was
born in Greenbrier county, December 21, 1793, and died in Hancock county,
Indiana, December 23, 1841. By her marriage she became the mother of
one daughter and four sons, and of the latter three were lawyers and one a
physician. Joseph A. Lewis, Sr, the father of our subject, was born in Greenbrier
county. West Virginia, April 24, 1824, and at an early day carae with his
parents to Indiana. He was an attorney by profession, and in 1848 took up
his residence in Tipton county, where he practiced law unril 1862, when he
went to Indianapolis. In the latter place he entered into partnership with
Messrs. Roach & McDonald, the latter afterward United States senator.
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1374 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
where he became a partner of Judge Lindsay, with whom he was associated
some years. About 1868 he went to Minnesota, where his death occurred
August 15, 1870, at the age of forty-six. His widow is now living with her
son, Joseph A., in Tipton. She bore the maiden name of Maria L. Gosney,
and was born in Hancock county, Indiana, December 17, 1S29. In that
county, on the 26th of May, 1846, she became the wife of Joseph A, Lewis,
and their marriage was blessed with four chUdren, but the first three died
before the birth of our subject. Mrs. Lewis is a daughter of Meredith Gos
ney, and a granddaughter of Benjamin Gosney. The latter had a brother
who was killed in the war of the Revolution, and their father also fought
for liberty in that war. Benjamin Gosney was born in western Virginia,
February 21, 1766, and died in Campbell county, Kentucky, March 21, 1S46.
He married Margaret Colvin, who was born in Virginia, November 2, 1775,
and died in Campbell county, Kentucky, May 21, 1849.
Meredith Gosney, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was born in
Campbell county, Kentucky, October 29, xSoi, and in his early and later
manhood followed farming, but in the middle period of his life was a dry-
goods merchant. Immediately after his marriage he removed to Hancock
county, Indiana, and about 1865 went to Hamilton county. He died on a
farm adjoining NoblesvUle, August 2, 1869. His wife, Mrs. Mary B. Gos
ney, was born in Campbell county, Kentucky, January 3, 1807, and in that
county, December 29, 1825, she became the wife of Meredith Gosney. Her
death occurred in HamUton county, Indiana, August 29, 18S9. She was a
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Huff) Caldwell, the former a native of
Ireland, born November n, 1762, and the latter born in New Jersey, March
26, 1763. His death occurred in Campbell county, Kentucky, January 20,
1822, and his wife passed away in Hancock county, Indiana, March 20,
1852. With the exception of one year spent in Frankfort, Joseph A. Lewis, of
this review, has passed his entire life in Tipton. In his youth he was
employed on a farm and acquired his education in the public schools. He
was also employed in an attorney's office, and in 1885 secured a position in
the Tipton County Bank, where he remained two years. On the expiration
of that period he engaged in the wholesale produce business in connection
with J. H. Fear and O. P. Campbell, under the firm name of Fear, Lewis
& Company, which title was changed to J. H. Fear & Company when H. H.

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Thomas was admitted as a partner. At that time a plant was established in
Frankfort and business was also carried on by the firm at several other
places. In 1890 Mr. Lewis sold his interest and turned his attention to the
drug business and to trading in live stock and breeding horses. In 1894 he
began compiling a set of abstract books, and in that Une he began business
the foUowing year in partnership with A. H. Pence and R. L. Porter, under
the firm name of J. A. Lewis & Company. On the ist .of January, 1897,
a reorganization took place and the present firm of Kendall, Kirtley & Lewis
was formed. Mr. Lewis has charge of the abstract department and his work
as an abstractor ranks with the best in the state. He is a man of great
energy and enterprise and hisweU directed efforts have brought him the suc
cess which is the just reward of honorable and industrious effort.
On the X3th of October, 1887, Mr. Lewis was married to Alice Tevis,
a daughter of Fletcher and Nancy (Martin) Tevis. Mrs. Lewis was born in
Prairie township, Tipton county, January 28, 1862, and by this marriage
have been born three children: Esther, born August 27, 1889; Fletcher T.,
who was born July 31, 1892, and died in infancy; and Florence, born Jan
uary 21, X894. Their home, at the corner of West and Washington streets,
was the birthplace of Mr. Lewis and was built by his father. In his political
views he is a Democrat and is now serving as councilman from the second
ward. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, while his wife holds mem
bership in the Methodist.

WILLIAM SMITH. — Numbered among the successful farmers and
pioneers of Tipton county is this worthy citizen of Liberty towriship.
He is a native of Virginia, born December 5, 1S26, a son of Samuel and
Lucy (McAnier) Smith, both likewise born in the Old Diminon, and of
German descent. In 1834 they removed with their family to Madison coun
ty, Indiana, where they leased land. Later they went to Hancock county,
Indiana, and entered and improved a good homestead. Samuel Smith was
a prominent member of the Methodist church and was a class-leader Hon
orable and upright in all his deaHngs, he set a worthy example to his large
family and lived to see them all respected citizens of the several commun
ities in which they located. The youngest died in infancy and the others
are named as follows: Indiana, James, John, WUliam, Elizabeth, Hutch-

1876 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
inson, Margaret, Catherine, Lucy A. and Harper. Catherine (Mrs. Van-
meter) and William are the only ones of the number now residents of Tip
ton county. WUliam Smith has always led an agricultural life. He did not have
very good educational advantages, but made the best of his limited oppor-
tunUies. He remained under the parental roof until he grew to manhood
and married, and continued there for two years subsequently to his marriage.
He then went to Illinois, but soon returned, liking this state better, and in
1852 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land in Tip
ton county. This property he was not able to entirely pay for, but ere very
many years had passed he was not only free from debt, but had a good bank
account. Having built a cabin he proceeded industriously with the great
task before him. — that of clearing and putting under cultivation his home
stead. At present he owns four hundred acres of land, all but sixty of which
are cleared, ditched and tiled, and each year his farm yields abundant har
vests. Sorae years ago Mr. Sraith gave his cabin to a son, and erected a
commodious house, which, with good barns and other buildings, gives the
farm a prosperous and thrifty appearance. In the early days of his residence
here wild game was plentiful and neighbors scarce, and among other priva
tions and hardships which he endured was that of taking his grain long dis
tances to get it ground, — no sraall matter, as. roads had not been made to any
extent. After he had partially cleared his land, Mr. Smith removed to a
farm which he had purchased in the vicinity of Sharpsville, and conducted
the place, at the sarae tirae operating a grist-mill, which he owned for fifteen
years or more. Then he traded and disposed some of his property and
returned to his old home place, where he expects to pass the remainder of
his life. Formerly he bought and shipped cattle and Hve stock to the city
markets and otherwise took an active part in various business enterprises.
He has been a true and faithful citizen, doing his duty at all times and seek
ing to promote the welfare of his neighbors and the community in general.
He has never aspired to public office, but has given his ballot to the nom
inees of the Republican party. He and his family have been identified
with the Methodist Episcopal church for years and at one time he was a
steward in the congregation.
The first wife of Mr. Smith was a Miss Mary -Stevens, a native of Rush
county, Indiana, She was one of the five children of William and Hannah

CASS. MIAMI. HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1377
(Hill) Stevens, farmers. The others are Lewis, who lives in Howard
county; Solomon and Sally, of this county; and Nancy, who is deceased.
The chUdren born to our subject and his first wife were eight in number, and
only three survive: Mrs. Sarah Foster; Samuel G., a farmer; and William,
who is managing the old homestead. The chUdren who died while young were
named Kisar, Henry J., John L.,. Rachel S. and Lucy H. The wife and
mother was summoned to the silent land in 1S77. Two years later, Mr
Smith married Mrs. Cynthia Smith, a widow, and daughter of Joseph Town-
send, and they have had two daughters. Mary A., the elder, is Mrs. Will
iam Woolridge; and the younger, Leona, is stUl at home. Joseph Town-
send, whose sketch is printed elsewhere in this volume, is a representative
cirizen of this county, and is a descendant of the famous Indian princess,
Pocahontas, whose bravery saved the Hfe of Captain Smith, according to
the old tradition in early Virginian colonial history.

]\ /IRS. RHODA DRAPER, of Araboy, Miami county, is the widow of
¦^ '' * Wesley Draper, one of the most highly respected citizens of this
county. He was born in Fayette county, Ohio, August 7, 1821, a son of
John and Mary (Rowe) Draper. Mary Rowe was the daughter of Jesse and
Sallie Rowe; and Jesse Rowe was a native of Virginia and an extensive
farmer and land-owner and pioneer of Fayette county, Ohio, residing six
miles southwest of Washington. He gave to each of his children one hun
dred acres of land. Their names were Jesse, Jackson, Susan, Jane, Sallfe,
Rev. WiUiam, James and Mary, and there may have been others. He had
been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was a devoted member of the Meth
odist church from his youth, buUt a school-house and church on his farm,
and his residence was always the home of the Methodist pioneer preacher.
He was tall and well proportioned, being six feet high, and in his moral
character was upright, honorable, frank and straightforward, being highly
respected by all who knew him. He lived to be ninety years of age, expir
ing without preliminary sickness.
John Draper, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Fayette county, Ohio,
when a young man, where he married Mary Rowe, and his father gave him
a hundred acres of land, which he cleared and converted into a good arable
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1378 BIOQRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
farm, and furnished with good buUdings. His children were David, Micajah,
Jane, Richard, John, WUliara, Elijah and Wesley. After the decease of the
mother of these children he was united in marriage with Patsey Moon, who
was born in Virginia. The only child by this marriage was Martha, who
died young. For his third wife Mr. Draper married Mrs. Jane Reece, nee
Moon, a cousin of his first wife, who by- her former marriage had two chU
dren, — Christina and Margaret. Mr. Draper hsd a good homestead, which
he increased in its area until he had two hundred and fifty acres. He was a
lifelong member of the Methodist church, a man of exalted Christian char
acter and consistent conduct. His useful Hfe was closed on his farm, when
he had reached the age of about eighty years.
Wesley Draper, his son, received his education in the old subscription
schools and followed agriculture through life. In 1S47, when he was twenty-
six years of age, at the land office in Fort Wayne, he entered a quarter-sec
tion of land in Jackson township, Miami county, in the forest, which he
cleared and reduced to a good state of cultivation.
May 3, 1848, in Randolph county, Indiana, he was united in marriage
with Mrs. Rhoda Barger, whose maiden name was Harbour, and who was
born in Fayette county, Ohio, October 12, 1823, a daughter of Elijah and
Rhoda (Capps) Harbour. Mrs. Rhoda Harbour was born in Greene town
ship, Randolph county, North Carolina, a daughter of Dempsey and Sallie
(Pool) Capps. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier, serving five years
and engaging in several battles. By occupation he was a farmer. He emi
grated from the Old North state to Ohio, settling in Highland county, where
he established a good homestead, clearing a tract of wild forest land com
prising about two hundred acres. He gave land to all his sons and property
to each of his daughters. Their names were William, James, Elijah, Mary,
and Rhoda, our subject. Mr. Capps died at the age of about eighty years,
in Illinois, where he had settled with his son Elijah. In his religion he was
a Methodist. His wife also died at the same age, in Illinois.
Elijah Harbour was born in West Virginia, March 31, 1781, a son of
David and Sallie (Spurlock) Harbour, a Methodist family. David Harbour
was a regular Baptist minister for many years, a resident of West Virginia, .
living on a farm in the Blue mountains, and also was a skillful hunter, as the
country abounded in wild game. He died on his farm there, a highly
respected citizen. His children were: Polly, Nancy, Rhoda and Elijah.

CASS. MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1879
Mrs. Harbour died, and Mr. Harbour married again, and had two chUdren, —
David and Sallie. Elijah Harbour, father of Mrs. Draper, was born March
31, 1781, in West Virginia, on the Blue Ridge, and attended school but
twenty-two days; but he zealously devoted himself to private study and soon
became an exhorter, class-leader and ulrimately a minister of his church, the
Methodist Episcopal. In Ohio he was also a jusrice of the peace for four
teen consecutive years, and was noted for keeping his docket exact and neat.
He emigrated to Ohio when a young man and married Rhoda Capps, in
Highland county, and settled on the Capps homestead. He afterward pur
chased two hundred acres of unimproved wood land, on which he made his
residence for several years. In 1S12 he settled in Fayette county, Ohio,
twelve miles southwest of Washington Court House. Emigrating to Indiana,
he located in Randolph county, about 1836, where he entered four hundred
acres of land, also in the sylvan wilderness, on the banks of the Mississinewa
river. Arriving there October 6, 1837, he built an excellent hewed-log
house, with a shingle roof, a brick chimney at each end, old-fashioned wide
fireplaces and a wide porch. At the Fort Wayne land office he entered three
hundred and eighty acres of land in one body, besides other land, making a
total of four hundred acres; and here he cleared a goodly farm and ultimately
gave to each of his sons eighty acres. He also followed surveying and made
many trips to Fort Wayne in order to locate and determine the boundaries
of lands for newcomers, made raany plats for prospectors and visitors, many
of whom he entertained freely at his house, having as many as seventeen
there at one time; and he often made other sacrifices for their benefit, and
for this he became widely and favorably known throughout the county.
The new settlers would trust hira with their money, which they had to send
to the land office at Fort Wayne in making their government entries. In
making these trips to Fort Wayne he often had "desperate " and dangerous
roads to travel, bridgeless streams to cross, and was often in danger of being
drowned, especially in Pogue river and in creeks on the Indian trails. In the
winter time he would cut a long pole, to which he would tie the money and
.take it with him on the ice in crossing these perilous streams, so that, if he
should break through, the pole, extending out upon the unbroken ice, would
sustain him, or, at least, if he should drown, the pole would indicate to
others where the accident had happened, and the money entrusted to him
would be safe. On the Indian trail to Fort Wayne was a section of road

1380 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
twenty miles in length with no house or habitation of any kind on it, and at
each end of the section only an Indian post, on one of which lived the God
freys and in the other a family named Goodboo. Mr. Harbour was also well
and favorably known araong the Indians, and was skilled as a hunter, keep
ing his family well supplied with meat, especially venison.
As a minister he married many couples and preached raany funeral
sermons, and was known far and near as "Father Harbour." He lived to
the venerable age of eighty-four years and six months, dying on his farm in
Randolph county, and being buried with the honors of Freemasonry, in which
order he was a chaplain. He was a man, of many excellencies of character,
a devoted Christian and an exemplary citizen. His wife died at the age of
eighty-two years and six months, a noble wife and mother. Their children
were David, Sallie, Thoraas, Polly, Derapsey, Nannie, Rhoda, Elizabeth and
Elijah. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Draper, in 1848, settled in Jackson
township, Miarai county, upon a quarter-section of land in the primeval for
est, which he entered and cleared. In opening here, in order to reach his
building site he had to cut a path to it from the Mississinewa river, and he
erected his cabin at the end of this path. This cabin was of the character
istic type, with mud-and-stick chimney, etc. Mr. Draper continued in the
heavy labors of clearing, cultivating, building", etc., until he had a good
horae, where all his children were born, naraely, Jane F., Rhoda A., Jen
nette E., John W., Luzetta L. and Emma A. With the aid of his faithful
wife he was enabled at length to increase his acreage by further purchases,
having after a time a total of four hundred acres, Mrs, Draper assisted in
clearing two farms, actually using the ax, saw and grubbing hoe, in which
she was as skillful as any pioneer.
Mr. Draper was a devoted member of the Methodist church, in which
he was a class-leader. He erected a house of worship on his farm, and was
really the founder of the society in his neighborhood. In his poHrics he was
a Democrat, and in his general character he was an upright, honorable citi
zen, of whom the community was proud. His useful life was closed August
22, 1897, when he had reached the age of seventy-six years, in Amboy,
whither he had retired from the heavy work of farm life April 15, 1S96.
Mrs. Draper is yet living in Amboy. She has been a life-long member
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practice. She was first married when seventeen years of age, in Randolph
county, to Lewis Barger, then twenty years of age, and the chUdren by this
union were Mary, Sarah and Lewis, who were kindly cared for in after years
by Mr. Draper, who in due time found for them a good home. Mr. Barger
was born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1S20, a son of Philip and Mary
(Schroyer) Barger, of sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The children of
PhUip Barger who grew up to years of "maturity were John, Philip, Polly and
Lewis, The last mentioned, who became the first husband of Mrs. Draper,
died at the age of twenty-six years, from the effects of exposure while driving
a four-horse team from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Fairville, Indiana, and breaking
through the ice in Elkhorn creek.
In biography ordinary phraseology seems to attribute all or nearly all
the success of life to the husband, with but little mention of the wife ; but it
must always be read ' ' between the lines " that the heroic, self-sacrificing
women who were pioneers in this state with their husbands did fully as much
work as they in the establishment of corafortable horaes and in the develop
ment of a good state of society.

LORENZO M. DOOLEY.— Since 1S82 Lorenzo M. Dooley has been a
resident of Logansport. He was born near Troy, New York, Septem
ber IS, i860, his parents being Thomas and Elizabeth (Nolan) Dooley, natives
of Ireland. The former came to theUnited States in 1853, located in lUinois,
and later returned to the east, where he married Miss Nolan. His last days
were spent in Wabash, Indiana, and for many years he was employed as a
section hand on the railroad. He died in 1855 and his wife passed away in
1870. Their surviving chUdren are J. J., who is employed as a traveUng
salesman by the firm of H. W. BuckUn & Company, of Chicago; Lorenzo
M.; Lewis, an employee in the railroad shops of Logansport; Lizzie, wUe of
S. D. Melsheimer, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Mary, wife of WUliam Bendure,
a cabinet-maker of Fort Wayne; and Nellie, wife of Charles Zeigler, a pas
senger conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad.
In his early youth Lorenzo M. Dooley accompanied his parents on their
removal to Wabash, Indiana, where he aUended school to a hmited extent.
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way in the world and experienced many hardships and encountered many
difficulties in his endeavor to gain a living. At the age of eighteen he secured
employraent in the fence gang on the C. W. & N. Railroad between Wabash
and Manchester, and after six months obtained a situation in the railroad
shops at LaFayette, Indiana. The ability to recognize and take advantage of
an opportunity — which is the key to all success — secured his appointment to the
position of brakaman. On one occasion the caller for the road wished to call
Mr. Dooley's room-mate, Mr. Sullivan, who was the regular brakeman, but the
message failed to rouse him to the call, and our subject responded and made
the run. His task accomplished, he reported at headquarters, explained the
situation, expressed his desire to engage in that vocation and was soon taken
into the service. For a year he was eraployed as brakeman on the Lake
Erie & Western Railroad, and then entered the service of the Wabash road,
making his run from Fort Wayne for two years. On the expiration of that
period he came to Logansport and served as brakeman on the Pan Handle
road until the foUowing October.
In the meantime Mr. Dooley availed himself of every opportunity that
would fit him for promotion to a more responsible and remunerative position.
He attended night schools for the instruction of passenger conductors, and
thus was made competent for the duties that devolved upon him as he was
advanced. In October, 18S2, he was made freight conductor, in 1885 extra
passenger conductor, and since iSSS has served as regular passenger conduc
tor on the Chicago division of the Pan Handle RaUroad. Fidehty to duty
has secured Mr. Dooley the confidence of his employers; his companionable
nature has made him a great favorite among his friends, and he is widely
known in raUroad and business circles.
On the 7th of January, 1S90, Mr. Dooley was united in marriage, in
Logansport, to Emma Gallagher, daughter of John G. Gallagher, station
master of the Pan Handle Railroad at Logansport. They now have one
child, Florence Josephine.

A ARON N. DUKES. — In one of his most eloquent orarions Charles
¦'^ Sumner gave utterance to the now familiar saying, " Peace hath its
victories no less renowned than war," which finds frequent exempHfication
in this utilitarian age when business enterprises have reached such mammoth

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proportions. The man whose enterprise has included within its grasp the
traffic of distant lands and the production of many and various commodities,
has really achieved a greater triumph and won far more than the warrior
who has led conquering hosts over desolate homes and amid ruins of sacked
cities. Among those who are active in winning the victories that result from
energy and enterprise in the field of commerce, Aaron N. Dukes is entitled
to a high place of honor. During a long and successful commercial life,
characterized by indomitable enterprise, he has ever maintained an enviable
reputation for the highest honor and principle, and no unworthy deed or
word has ever linked itself with his name. He stands to-day at the head of
the Indiana Manufacturing Company, one of the largest industrial concerns
of the northern part of the state, furnishing employment to four hundred
workmen, and between operatives and employer the most pleasant relations
have ever existed.
Mr. Dukes was born in Randolph county, Indiana, October 27, 1834,
his parents being William and MatUda (McKim) Dukes, the former a native
of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. Plis paternal ancestors were English,
his grandfather, Isaac Dukes, having emigrated to this country- from England
and taken up his residence in Maryland. In early life WUliam Dukes
removed from his native state to Indiana, locating in Randolph county, and
in 1846 he came to Miami county, making his home near the village of
Gilead for several years, after which he removed to a fine farm near the city
of Peru. He was a successful agriculturist and stock-raiser and a most
highly respected cirizen. His death occurred in 1879. His wife was a
daughter of WiUiam and Jane McKim, who emigrated from Ireland to the
United States near the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is related
that on the voyage to the New World the vessel on which they sailed
encountered a terrific storm, which for a time threatened the complete
destruction of all on board. The sails were riddled and torn by the fierce
gale, and in order to repair them Mrs. McKim spun threads on a litrie
spinning wheel which she was bringing to America with her, the captain
holding the wheel and Mr. McKim holding the chah in which she sat. Thus
the sails were repaired and the vessel made ready to move on.
After residing for a time in ChUlicothe, Ohio, they removed to Randolph
county, Indiana, arid about 1855 became residents of Miami county. Mr.
McKim died in 1862, and his wife passed away in 1870. Mrs. Dukes,

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
mother of our subject, passed away at her home near Peru in 1S71. By her
marriage she became the mother of the following named: Aaron N. ; Levi;
Lydia, wife of Oliver WUson; Jane, wife of John McCrea; Mary, wife of
George E. Parmer; Emma, wife of James Pugh; John; and Priscilla, wife of
Dr. Frank Black.
Aaron N. Dukes was about twelve years of age when his parents removed
to Miami county. He acquired a practical English education in the public
schools and a knowledge of agriculture on his father's farm. At the age of
seventeen years he began clerking in the mercantile house of E. H. Shirk, of
Peru, and at the end of a year became a partner of his employer in the estab-
lishraent of a general store in the town of Gilead. Two years later he
disposed of his interest in that enterprise and in 1856 went to Mankato, Min
nesota, where he was engaged in merchandising, milling and the real-estate
business until 1862. At the time of the Sioux Indian outbreak in Minnesota
he was commander of the military post at Mankato, with the rank of captain.
The terrible massacre of the settlers on that occasion had scarcely a parallel
in the history of the country.
In 1862 Mr. Dukes returned to Peru and until 1865 was again a partner
of Mr. Shirk in the general mercantile business, their house being one of the
most successful of the kind in northern Indiana. After three years they dis
posed of their business and in connection with J. H. Jaraison engaged in the
grocery and pork-packing business, and at the same time very successfully
conducted what was known as a patent fruit house, under patents issued to
the father of the present pastor of the Presbyterian church of Peru. The
method involves the use of certain chemicals, by which butter can be kept
perfectly sweet for years. In May and June, when butter is best and cheap
est, Messrs. Shirk & Jamison packed fifty thousand pounds of butter, at an
average cost of ten cents a pound, and they sold it in New York the following
February and March, at forty to forty-six cents a pound, when it was found
to be as fresh and sweet as when packed. Fruits and other perishable arti
cles also can be kept by this method for a long rime beyond their natural
period. In 1868 Mr. Dukes purchased his partner's interest in the business, and
two years later sold out, at which rime he bought the Holman farm, adjoin
ing the city of Peru. It was on this farm that oil was first found in the fall
of 1897, which created such a great excitement in the neighborhood of Peru.

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1385
The People's Oil & Gas Company's wells, sixteen in number, are located on
Mr. Dukes' farm. He is also operating a number of wells on his own
account. A part of his land he afterward laid out into town lots, known as
Dukes' first and second additions to the city of Peru. Besides these two
additions to Peru he is the proprietor of North Peru, and he, with Messrs.
MUton Shirk and R. A. Edwards, are the proprietors of East Peru. A large
number of lots have been sold, on easy monthly payments; and the many
comfortable homes obtained by laboring men on easy terms testify to their
appreciation of the opportunity of securing homes which they could not
otherwise have enjoyed. Mr. Dukes has already sold out one addition to
the city of Mankato, Minnesota, his former home, and is now platting
another addition, of eighty acres, adjoining his first, to be disposed of on hke
easy terms as his Peru property.
Mr. Dukes may well be termed a philanthropist; for few men have done
more good to his feUow men than he in the way of furnishing labor
and homes to those who need them. He builds many neat cottages,
which he sells to laboring men on monthly payments that amount to litrie
more than the rent they generally pay, and he has never yet foreclosed a
mortgage. In 1877 he was appointed assignee of the Ulrich Wagon Works in Peru,
and in 1881 he was appointed receiver of the Indiana Manufacturing Com
pany, of the same city. His connection with that enterprise has since been
maintained. In that year, 1881, the business was reorganized and duly
incorporated, with a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars. Its
officers are Milton Shirk, president, and A. N. Dukes, vice president, treas
urer and general manager. This business is an outgrowth of the old Howe
Sewing Machine Company, which was organized in 1870. Soon after the
erection of the plant the buildings were destroyed by fire, resulting not only
in great loss of property, but also in the death of two estimable citizens, E.
P. Loveland and John Cummings, who were caught by a faUing roof whUe
assisting in an attempt to save the property. On- the incorporation of the
Indiana Manufacturing Company, in 188 1, Mr Dukes assumed the manage
ment of the enterprise, then furnishing employment to one hundred work
men. Under his wise control and careful direcrion the business has steadUy
increased until a usual force of four hundred workmen is employed and at
rimes this is further increased to six hundred. The buUdings cover an area

1386 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
of eight acres in floor space and are equipped with the most modern and
improved machinery for turning out high-grade work in their line. Various
kinds of wood-work are manufactured, on an extensive scale. The wood
work for sewing-machines is manufactured for several companies, including
the New Home, the Foley & WUliams and the American & Williams, of
Montreal; also a large amount of sewing-machine work is made for export,
- nearly one hundred thousand dollars' worth of work being shipped to one firm
in England annually. The output of the works also include North Star
refrigerators, bicycle wood rims, telephone cases and various other wooden
specialries. These goods are sold not only throughout the United States,
but the company also enjoys a large foreign trade. The immense volume of
business done may be realized in a measure by recurring to the fact that
during the busier season the force of workmen is increased to six hundred,
and the total value of goods manufactured is not less than two hundred and
fifty thousand doUars annuaUy. It is a compliment to the business and
executive abUity of Mr Dukes that not once during his connection with the
enterprise have the shops been closed for a single day, and no pay-day has
passed without the workmen receiving their wages. The company manu
factures its own lumber, purchasing the timber from the surrounding country
and carrying in stock about three million feet
In September, 1858, Mr. Dukes married Miss Mary A. Thomson, a
daughter of Rev. James Thomson, the projector and founder of Wabash
College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was a man of great piety and ear
nest Christian character and for more than half a century was actively engaged
in the work of the ministry. His death occurred in Minnesota in 1870. Mr.
and Mrs. Dukes have a son, Elbert, who was born in i860, and married Miss
Ruth Baldwin, of Washington, Indiana, in 1886. One son, WilHam, born
in 1862, died when ten years of age.
Mr. Dukes is a member of the Presbyterian church, being one of the
trustees, and in politics he is a Republican, but takes no active part in the
work of the party, preferring to devote his time and energies to the manage
ment of his extensive business interests. Surrounded at his home by those
who are his warm personal friends, and favorably known by hosts of men
who for many years have transacted business with him, his career is one to
which his family and friends may refer with just pride. He stands to-day in
his mature years a strong man, strong in the consciousness of well-spent

CASS, MIAMI, HOWARD AXD TIPTOX COUXTIES. 1387
years, strong to plan and periorm, strong in his credit and good name, and
a worthy example for all young men to pattern after, as showing what intelli
gence and probity may accomplish in the way of success in life. The enter
prises he has conducted stand as monuments to his energy and abUity, and a
visible proof of what he has been able to accompUsh during a long life of
honorable activity.

T117"ILLIAM BISHOP. — Among the enterprising citizens of Cass county
who owe their success and advancement in life to their own well-
directed efforts and industry, is William H. Bishop,, of Walton. He repre
sents both the industrial and commercial interests of the town, having for
many years been an important factor in its upbuilding and in its trade circles.
He was born in the neighboring state of Ohio, January i, 183S, and spent
the first sixteen years of his life there. During that rime he attended the
common schools to some extent, walking three miles to the school-house,
but his education, like his fortune, has been largely acquired through his own
efforts. When sixteen years of age he accompanied his brother, George W.
Bishop, to Indiana, locating in Cass county, where he has since resided. He
was employed as a farm hand for a time, and then began working at the
carpenter's trade, which he followed for twelve or fifteen years, first as
a journeyman and afterward as a contractor. In connection with that
enterprise he opened an undertaking establishment and has since engaged
in business in that line. In 1879 he extended his field of labors by buying
a stock of farm implements, wagons and buggies, and in handling those
various manufactures he has built up a large and profitable trade.
Mr. Bishop was married in 1861 to Miss Emma Bennett, and to them
have been born three sons and two daughters, namely: Willis, Cora, Hub
bard, Milroy and Maude. In his social relations Mr. Bishop is an Odd
Fellow, belonging to Walton Lodge", No. 314, in which he has held all the
offices. His Hfe has been well spent, and he may truly be called a self-made
naan. Entering upon his business career empty-handed, he has steadily
improved his financial condition through energy, enterprise and careful
management, and by his keen foresight and honorable dealing has. achieved
a success which is very creditable. Honesty and integrity characterize his
dealings, and he is justly esteemed by many friends.

1888 BIOGRAPHICAL AXD GEXEALOGICAL HISTORY OF
WILLIAM B. SMITH, though he has been a member of the business
community of Logansport but a few years, has won a place of respect
and prominence among her commercial representatives that is indeed enviable.
Beginning business on a small scale he gradually increased his facilities and
has succeeded in building up a large and satisfactory trade. He possesses
genuine business talent, is energetic, enterprising and thoroughly progressive
in his methods, and above all bears a reputation for reliability equal to the
best. A son of Jaraes W. and Araanda (Campbell) Smith, our subject was
born in Bethlehem township, Cass county, January 5, 1859, and was only
nine years of age when the family removed to Logansport, where he acquired
his education. At the age of fifteen he lost his mother, and since that time
he has been dependent upon his own exertions for a livelihood. Soon after
ward he returned to the farm, and continued to engage in agricultural pur
suits until thirty-one years of age. He then came to Logansport, where he
erabarked in the harness business, carrying on operations along that line
exclusively for two years. He then enlarged his field of labor by adding a
stock of buggies, and accessories in that line, and has a well equipped car
riage repository as well as harness store. From the beginning his business
has steadily grown in volume, and he is now enjoying a profitable patronage.
In 1887 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Alice Warner, and to
thera have been born two chUdren, — Dudley and Raymond. They began
their domestic life on the farm, but after three years removed to the city,
where they have since made their home, and where they have' many warm
friends. Socially he is connected with the I. O. O. F., of Logansport, and
in his political belief he is a Prohibitionist, warmly advocating the meas
ures of that party of reform. Both he and his wife are members of the
Christian church, and are active in its various departments of usefulness.
They are always to be found on the side of the oppressed, the needy and
unfortunate, and are generous in the bestowal of their means upon worthy
enterprises and charities.

ijn:de:^c.

A
Adams, Isaiah A  766
Adkison, L. I)  304
Albright, Daniel T  1078
Alexander, Edward W  422
Aley, Abram  1340
Alford, Corrington L  1010
Amos, William H  143
Anderson, Edgar R  71
Andrews, Ellis H  208
Antrim, Alfred C  954
Antrim, Nott N  287
Armantrout, David H  729
Armstrong, Addison F  136
Armstrong, Lanty  488
Armstrong, Walter S  264
Arnett, James H., Jr  252
Arnold, Albert M  572
Aughe, William D  258
B
Bacon, Isaac T  840
Baldwin, Daniel P  796
Ballard, John W  5
Bailey, Walter C  457
Baker, Levi  1083
Barr, Elmer E  463
Barr, Ransom P  461
Batey, Thomas  652
Bath, Michael  574
Baughn, Jasper ..'.....'  1062
Baxter, Josiah K  647
Bazner, John  586
Beall, Abraham I  880
Beam, Charles F  603
Bearss, Daniel R  883
Beckley, Thomas  706
Behymer, John O  1121
Bell, William H  1297
Bennett, Dexter C  297
Bennett,. Elwood  299
Bennett, John N  548
Benson, John A  227
Berkshire, Charles  803
Berkshire, Martin V.  872
Berkshire, William H  704
Berry Family  671
Berry, Graham N  671
Berry, John H  672
Berry, Peter  671

Biddle, Horace P  1
Bishop, Rebecca  ' 419
Bishop, William  1387
Black, Ner  1031
Black, Thomas  ." ." . 703
Blair, James  1162
Boggs, Milton M  '.'. 1021
Bogue, Charles H  875
Bolton, Thomas  485
Bond, Jesse  380
Bond, Levis  10I8
Bowland, Samuel N  361
Bowyer, J. M  919
Bowyer, Sylvester C  108
Boyer, Stephen B  634
Bozarth, Isaac S  614
Bozell, George  447
Bozer, Francis M  426
Bradfield, Benjamin D  85
Bradfield, Richard R  198
Brenton, William H  907
Briggs, Robert P  1037
Brimerman, Daniel  190
Bringhurst, Thomas H  104
Brouse, Henry A  112
Brown, Charles L  316
Brown, E. P  1212
Brown, Benjamin F  515
Brown, James M  513
Brown, Jonah G  1235
Buchanan, James  364
Buck, William H  51
Burge, Washington  1303
Burgman, Charles P  559
Burkhart, George,  205
Burton, Hezekiah  904
Busby, Barnabas  378
Busjahn, Frederick A  63
C
Cady, Nelson W  286
Cain, David H  970
Callaway, George W  1302
Campbell, Benjamin F  1349
Campbell, George W  845
Campbell, James B  1007
Campbell, John  524
Campbell, Newton  455
Carney, Samuel J  885
Carter, Chauncey  887
Carter, Vincent G  1219

1390

IXDEX.

Case, H. D  577
Case, Onis  1259
Cash, Isaac N  911
Chamberlain, George R  222
Champ, John  1291
Chance, Bert V  805
Charles, George W  224
Charters, William . ;  1325
Chase, Dudley H  806
Chesnut, Joseph M  243
Chestnut, Morgan A  272
Chick, William P  340
Clark, Charles T  412
Clark, S. E  611
Clem, Willis R  311
Clendenning, Ephraim B  1351
Cline, William M  '.- 1335
Close, Daniel  '  251
Cochran, T. C  833
Cochran, Thomas  427
Cockburn, James T  1299
Cole, Charles A  553
Cole, Albert  80
Cole, Hull Benjamin  500
Coleman, Asa  829
Coleman, Jesse R  1085
Coles, Walter W  352
Colescott, John W  1354
Collett, Marcus W  347
Colter, Joseph P  268
Condon, William D  1223
Conkle, George W  640
Conn, Jesse  865
Conn, Joseph M  875
Connell, Joseph H  1358
Conner, William  1092
Conrad, Stephen G  1291
Cook, Charles  1301
Cook, Nelson  1302
Cool, Isaac N  775
Cooper, David H  570
Cooper, James W  1213
Cooper, William  239
Cory, Isaac N  350
Cotton, George  857
Courtney, Thomas  1343
Cox, Charles R  504
Cox, Jonathan D  502
Cox, J. T  199
Cox, John R  250
Cox, Sheridan  114
Cragun, Zachariah  1119
Craig, Isaac N  1167
Crail, Samuel S  752
Crane, Richard C  636
Creviston, James  1145
Crismond, J.W  658
Cromer, Robert  92
Crowe, Rebecca T  415
Crowell, George A  812
Crume, Pliny M  1353
CuthreU, John A  1232
D
Darby, Joseph M  688
Darby, Joseph M. (D. D. S.)  160
Dark, Jonathan  1069

Darland, David  333
Darnall, James M  31
Daum, Andrew  1041
Daum, Alonzo W  _ 1040
Davenport, Mary J  1111
Davis, Henry C  103
Davis, John  ,  518
Davis, Samuel  87
Dean, James  1318
De Haven, Charles A  91
De Haven, James W  118
Detamore, William D  1175
Devening, Thomas N  620
Dewees, Leander  42
Dick, Isaac  1357
Dickey, Andrew S  169
Disbrow, Zalmon  1151
Dixon, Walter J  76
Doan, Nathan W  440
Dodd, Powhattan  53!
Dodds, Andrew  309
Donnelly, William  389
Dooley, Lorenzo M  1381
Douglass, Albert H  905
Douglass, Milton  664
Downing, S. G  509
Draper, Rhoda  1377
Dritt, Henry F  iSS
Duckwall, Edwin  1044
Dukes, Aaron N  1382
Duncan, S. O  180
Durand, Orson  49
Dyar, James T  57
E
Edwards, ¦ Marshal  423
Effinger, Robert P  918
Eikenberry, W. H  183
Elliott,' Jehu T  675
EllioU, Joseph M  351
Elliott, William S  756
Ellis, James A  1046
Emmett, Lycurgus  -  126
Emswiler, John H  1325
Endicott, Lewis E  1088
Engel, Herman  1195
Enyart, Martin L  '.  1025
Enyart, William B  1306
Erbough, Philip  669
Eurit, Isaiah W  1139
Eward, John W  1072
F
Fairman, James W  314
Falk, Julius  235
Farrar, George  1260
Farrell, Patrick J  571
Fawcett, David  493
Fellers, Perry  1289
Fellow, Elijah C  1170
Fenton, Charles O  39
Ferguson, J. H  1252
Fetter, James H  897
Fields, Horatio F  125
Finch, Charles W  | . . . 244

IX'DE.Y.

1391

Fippen, George W  144
Fippen, James M .-  912
Fisher, Frank  1098
Fisher, Isaac  385
Fisk, Charles W  620
Fitch, Graham N  831
Flinn, Thomas  187
Flora, Noah  693
Floyd, E. L  1140
Foglesong, Peter J  878
Foote, Jesse  209
Ford, Charles A  584
Ford, George M  828
Foreman, Alfred B  734
Foreman & Bogue  874
Foreman, Henry W  1193
Foreman, William H  874
Forgy, James  1326
Forlow, James  898
Friermood, Ezra K  779
Friermood, Simon M  941
Friermood, William  644
Frye, Samuel  320
Fulwiler, James B  ¦  876
Fulwiler, Louis B  1094

Gard, Hugh 1  654
Gardner, Edwin S  318
Gardner, I. W  167
Garr, James O  ~  69
Garr, William W  203
Garrigus, Milton  593
Gates, J. Warren  719
Geves, George H  1272
Giffe, William T  515
Gifford, A. W  1217
Gifford, George H  1127
Gilbert, Daniel E  138
-Gipe, Lincoln A  1202
Gliss, Joseph H  1248
Glassburn, Peter  331
Glassburn, Samuel  1204
Goar, Charles S  1068
Goar, Henry  784
Goodall, Joseph B  281
Goodwin, Oliver P  673
Goodwine, Charles P  495
Goodykoontz, Harvey  837
Gordon, William M  959
Gotshall, Henry  211
Graft, David  604
Graham, John A  891
Graney, Patrick H  751
Green, Milton F  464
Green, Robert G  412
Grishaw, Jesse L  1125
Griswold, Daniel.  942
Griswold, Edward H  841
Grogg, John  1200
Groh,JohnA  226
Grose, Ahijah  ;  965
Guthrie, John  998
Gwinn, George L  141
Gwinn, Sylvester A  -.  416

H

Hadley. Joshua C  629
Hale, Charles E  278
Hamilton, John W  587
Hamilton, JpsephW  1100
Hanawalt,Valentine C  737
Hand, Oliver M  655
Haney, William E  432
Haney, William W  400
Hanks, Christopher C  ;  972
Hanshew, Jacob T  478
Harding, John  177
Harlan, Harrison  321
Harlow, George A  1142
Harness, Lewis W  1240
Harper, James  929
Harrell, Henry G  557
Harrison, John T  909
Harry, Charles L  18
Harvey, William N  1075
Hatch, Elmer M  896
Hattery, Hiram D  ''.  528
Haum, George W  172
Haynes, Elwood  29
Haynes, Joseph W  1133
Heaton, John O  20
Helm, Charles J  774
Helm, John H  772
Helm, Thomas B  879
Helms, William  1198
Henderson, Howard E  359
Henderson, James P  323
Henderson, John O  360
Henton, Benjamin  66
Heppe, William  651
Herrell, Austin  300
Herron, George W  1005
Herron, Joseph C  392
Hetherington, John P...'  267
Hicks, Abraham  1329
Higley, John  790
Hildebrand, Aaron W  1304
Himmelberger, Isaac  363
Hite, ("assius C  683
Hochstetler, Jacob C  1295
Hogue, James W  1361
Holbruner, Charles E  864
Holcombe, Aubrey W  21
Holland, William H  299
Hollingsworth, S. P  171
Holman, J. C  1137
Holman, Louis P  420
Hood, John T  1019
Hood, William N  895
Hoover, Isaac N  255
Hoover, Noah B  1036
Hoppe, Henry W  373
Horan, Michael  202
Howes, John Q. A  1118
Hughes, Charles R  213
Hughes, Martin M  463
Hull,W. H  59
Humphreys, Robert  129
Hunt, Ellsworth  4
Huron, Willis B  174
Hurst, James W  l^S

1392

I.YDEX.

Hutcherson, David T  936
Hutto, John P  1065
I
Irwin, David  86
J
Jack, Elizabeth  486
Jackson, Francis M  1182
Jackson, James  '.  166
Jackson, John  173
Jacobs, David G  709
Jamison, Eli J  135
Jenkins, John W  370
Jenks, Almon P  730
Jennings, Max  795
Jessup, Jacob  256
Johnson, Samuel F  1341
Johnson, John  1278
Johnston, John McC  827
Johnston, Robert F  :  149
Jones, Rufus T  1190
Jones, Thomas B  279
Jordan, Michael A  843
Julow, Ernest H  1032
Justice, Frank..  1188
K
Keesling, Benjamin F  ;-  899
Keiser, William H  ,.,..... 356
Keisling, Ira F  146
Kellar, Isaac H  78
Keller, Carl W  390
Keller, Elias B  538
Keller, Emil F   274
Kelly, Peter  132
Kendall, John J  575
Kenney, James H  1342
Kenney, Joseph  893
Kenny, Joseph A  1166
Kenworthy, Milton  451
Kerlin, Sylvester B  583
Kern, Lewis...,  64
Kesling, Granville  886
Killian, Daniel  643
King, Daniel  1016
Kinnaman, Nathan  1209
Kirk, Samuel T  1013
Kirkpatrick, Albert B  56
Kirkpatrick, James B  260
Kirkpatrick, Lex J  32
Kistler, Amos  710
Kistler, George. N  715
Kistler, Jonas  623
Kistler, William S  316
Klinger, Oliver P  376
Knight, James W  579
Kuhn, Henry  492
Kunse, Joseph B  60
L
Laird, Joseph H  1332
Lairy, Moses B  206
Landon, Geoige W  288
Lane, Marvin S  ; . . 336
Lanty, Christian  .-. . 1288

Larger, Jerome A  540
La Rose, John M  -.  306
La Rose, Joshua S  229
Larrison, David  855
Laymon, Rufus  413
Leach, John M  367
Learner, Barnhart  338
Learner, John W  210
Leas, James O  197
Leavell, J. W  720
Lee, Henry G  1184
Lee, Jesse  246
Lee, Stephen  1247
Leedy, Daniel  2l9
Legg, Benjamin F  740
Lenhart, John S  346
Lewis, Joseph A  1,373
Lindley, Nathan  1364
Litsinberger, John  1276
Little, Thomas  798
Loekwood, William W  83
Logan, Samuel  910
Long, Curtis  858
Long, Daniel H  866"
Long, Jacob T  632
Long, John M  '822
Longwell, Charles B  792
Loop, Joseph M  707
Louthain & Barnes   809
Loveland, Ebenezer P  1327
Low, Cornelius  .-  1061
Lutz, Joseph  106
Lybrook, -W.E  691
M
Magruder, J. W  530
Mallow. Henry M  357
Malsbury, Jacob O  818
Malsbury, Laughlin O  818"
Marshall, Ann E  96
Martin, James P  770
Maughmer, George  275
McAllister, Alfred U  725
McCarter, Melvin J  975
McCarty, William H  1314
McConnell, Stewart T  738
McCrea, Walter  699
McCreary, John F  722
McDowell, Henry P  470
McDowell, Luther  1369
McHale, Patrick  291
McKee, Courtney  1102
McKee, George P  801
McKee, John J  1102
McKinstrv Thomas  388
McMillen', James H  712
McMillen, John  748
McMillen, Lewis  157
McMillen, Robert M  894
Mercer, William S  793
Merley, George F  447
Merley, Verner C  446
Merrick, A. C  155
Meyer, Charles F . . . . ,  666
Michael, A  -188
Michael, George W  888
Middleton, Charles E  234

IXDEX.

1893

Miller, Daniel  122
Miller, Edward L  77
Miller, Isaac N  1034
Miller, John H  1311
Miller, John W  269
Miller, Levi  1096
Miller, Samuel C  631
Millhouse, Martin  844
Millikan, JamesC  933
Millikan, Thomas W  873
Mills, Samuel T  1266
MiUs, William  468
Minick, Justus  HI
Minor, John W  869
Mitchell, John  44
Mitchell, John G  1114
Moore, Peter W  610
Moreland, Henry L  10
Morgan, Felix S  778
Morris, Frank F  1157
Morrison, Daniel D  742
Morrison, John A  128
Morrow, John  394
Moss, William W  917
Mowbray, William E  221
Murden, Charles  961
Murden, George L  214
Murden, Henry  934
Murdock, Andrew J  560
Murphey, Frank C  241
Murphy, Levin G  944
Musselman, Samuel  1294
Musselman, William  1154
Myers, Henry  1334
\ Myers, Henry S  838
Myers, Isaac N  1092
Myers, John F  1091
Myers, Nicholas C  1090
Myers, William H  1335
N
Nash, William G  507
Nation, William E  1243
Neal, Charles A  228
Neal, Jackson A  417
Needham, Silas  916
Neff, Jacob L  191
Neff, Jasper N  496
Neff, Washington  192
Nelson, John C  23
Newcomer, M. V. B  158
Newkirk, George  1218.
Newlin, William H  1220
Newlon, Charles L  1323
Nicholson, Samuel E  383
Niman, Henry  1058
Noel, Wesley A . ,  1322
Nordyke, Sarah  5.36
Nutter, John  901
Nyce, Harry  ¦i'44
Nye, Albert F  399
O
Oates, Joseph D  163
Obenchain, John T  638

O'Brien, James  1270
Off, Jacob G  407
O'Hara, John W  153
Oppenheimer, Moses  763 •
Orr, Peter  471
Osborn, Andrew J  436
Osborn, William E  848
Osmer, Walter A  1320
Overdorf , George  543
Overholser, Daniel L  727
Overman, Joseph  1130
P
Parker, Ezra T  746
Passage, Henry V  231
Paul, Thomas  150
Payton, Lindsey B  627
Pershing, M.W  195
Peters, John B  1003
Phares, George W  1112
Phelps, Andrew J  341
Philbrick, Chester O  318
Phillips, Andrew  963
Pickett, Nathan  6
Pierce, George W  551
Pinkerton, Virgil H  695
Piper, Wilham O  1054'
Pitts, Daniel W  1309
Ploughe, Abraham  1108
Ploughe, Marion F  1110
Porter, Alpheus  649
Potter, William H  1056
Poundstone, J. N  262
Powell, Byron  368
Powell, James R  565
Powell, JehuZ  890
Powell, Lemuel U  561
Powell, Orlando  505
Powell, Schuyler  754
Pratt, D D  919
Pratt, Thomas G  656
Prescott, Andrew J  393
Prescott, George H., Jr  787
Purvis, James M  186
Pyke, William  434
R
Racobs, Marcellus  181
Railsback, John H  335
Ramer, Adam  685
Ratcliff, A.C  1215
Ratcliff, John T  1216
Ratcliff, Thomas C  868
Raymond, William C  "6^
RekH.G  1052
Reeder, John B  541
Reimbolt, Adam  od4
Remley, Daniel J  694
Rettig, George  '»^
Reyburn, Joseph  °'^
R'eynolds, O. H  1268
Rice,ElihuS  624
Rich, Benjamin F  If *»
Rich, John  YA
Richards, Benjamin B  ^^^

1394

IXDEX.

Richards, S.S  165
Richardson, Allen  578
Richmond, Corydon  98
Ricketts, Joseph S  1168
RickeUs, Marcus  1207
Ridenour, David C  504
Ridgway, Abijah J  498
Ridgway, Robert  480
Robards, John D  „  544
Robins, Ezekiel V  1186
Rogers, Albert A  242
Rogers, Alexander C  607
Ross, George E  375
Ross, Nathan O  326
Ross, Richard D  1315
Ross, Robert H  931
Ross, Samuel  826
Ross, William W  663
Rowe, John  836
Rubush, D.P  588
Runyan, Richard B  1149
Russell, William  939
Rust, Aaron  474
Rust, Isaac  679
S
Sandifur, Oliver H  1049
Sassaman, Peter A  1264
Saucer,William J. T  927
Schlay, Elizabeth  862
Schneeberger, Matthias  283
Seiter, Victor E  443
Sellers, Alfred P  293
Sellers, William H  344
Sewell, Theodore R  406
Seybold, Frederick  1307
Seybold, George W  824
Seybold, John G  1313
Sharp, Samuel M  1000
Sharts, Abid J  116
Shauman, Edward S  121
Shenk, Daniel A  437
Shepler, Isaac  1286
Shepler, Joseph  716
Shideler, Abraham   303
Shideler, George A  271
Shideler, William D  ,  272
Shirk, Milton  35
Shively, Christian H  622
Shively, David R  967
Shrock, Joseph  668
Shultz, John B  9
Siess, John  702
Simpson, John H  549
Sims, WiUiam  324
Slaughter, Samuel H  617
Slocum, Frances  976
Small, Archibald  1255
Small, William  852
Smith, Henry W  598
Smith, Hugh  197
Smith, James P  521
Smith, John D  1087
Smith, John E  329
Smith, Mortimer  1284
Smith, Samuel H  782

Smith, Will S  581
Smith, William  1376
Smith, William B  1388
Smith, William B..,  307'
Smith, William H  811
Snepp, James E  .-  1027
Snyder, Henry  923
Snyder, William H  924
Sowers, George W  433
Spaulding, Nathan  600
Spraker, David C  372
Spraker, F. M  354
Spurhn, W. H  1160
Staley, William H  '217
Stalnaker, Winfield S  1333
Stanley, George  194
Stephens, John H  90
Stevens, Andrew W  1224
Stevens, Benjamin C  175
Stevens, Philip  1238
Stevens, William  1164
Stewart, Earl F  75
Stewart, J. W  1231
Stitt, David  667
Stitt,Eh  665
Storer, Silas  263
Stout, Albert  1212
Strain, Rodney  101
Stratton, Frank N  123
Stroup, Reuben  526
Strouse, James H  216
-Stutesman, James F  147
Stutesman, James M  897
Sullivan, Charles S  1274
Sullivan, James  233
Sullivan, John L  245
Sullivan, John N  1281
Sullivan, Timothy  863
Summers, L. D  786
Sutton, Andrew J  17
Sutton, John E  15
Swift, Edward D  1267
Swigart, Frank  25
Switzer, Albert B  441
Swoveland, A. F  776
Swoveland, John A  1172
T
TalboU, Edward N  760
Tarkington, John E  449
Taylor, Edward R  381
Taylor, Jerome  179
Taylor, Raymond C  295
Tennell, Irvin  1366
Teter, Ebal  1008
Theobald, Jacob  94
Thomas, Charles  429
Thomas, Charles L  1229
Thomas, Ernest B  678
Thomas, Frank H  1344
Thompson, A. S  966
Thompson, Charles F  463
Thompson, Harry S  454
Thomson, William H  61
Tillett, Joseph N  102
Tillett, William  403

IXDEX.

1395

Touby, Albert C  799
Townsend, Toseph B  1370
Troutman, John F  615
Truax, Edwin R. W  511
Truman, John  386
Tucker, Harry G  72
Tucker, Henry  667
Turner, Ambrose  546
Turner, James C  1267
Turpin, William H  1369
Twells, Godfrey  201
Tyner, W.J  816
U
Uhl, Charles H  1211
Uhl, Dennis  869
Uhl, Miller  460
Ullery, Samuel W  814
Ulrich, E.W  466
V
Van Buskirk, Dillard  1254
Vice, D. B  846
W
Waite, Joseph H  1337
Wallace, Benjamin E  445
Wallace, Leroy S  1071
Wallace, Mark  343
Wampler, William M  110
Ward, James O  73
Ware, C. M  1362
Ware, Jesse W  476
Wareham, John W  1148
Warner, George B  .'  554
Watts, Daniel M  681
Watts, John W  687
Watts, William H  750
Waymire, John R  1081
Webb, Otto P  788
Weckler, Alvin L  1098
Weimer, WiUiam  1116
Weise, Peter E  724

Wellinger, Frederick  1107
Wendling, Michael  47
Wheatley, Francis H  1251
Whelchel, Thomas C  957
Williams, James H  :  237
Willits, Anderson  612
Willits, CC  82
Wilson, Andrew  119
Wilson, George W  410
Wilson, George W  285
Wilson, John S  1262
Wilson, Jonathan J  490
Wilson, Oscar  714
Wilson, Robert Q  27
Wilson, S. F  1162
Wilson, Thomas H  819
Wilson, Ulysses S  1002
Wilson, William T  821
Wilson, William T  534
Winfield, Maurice  34
Winn, Richard  701
Wisner, Sanford B  618
Wolf, George W  690
Wolford, Philip  140
Woll, Charles L  823
Wolverton, Jonathan  661
Wood, George C  1123
Wood, George P  130
Woodling, James H  906
Woodmansee, Wilson S  696
Woods, Andrew J  1250
Woolley, James M  404
Wright, Williamson  1226
Wright, Williamson S  1228 ¦
Y
Yager, Frank W  54
Yarling, John E  337
Yoars, Philip G  920
York, Wi-lliam B  1029
Young, Andrew J  735
Young, James T  396
Z
Zehring, William  1104

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