Carroll County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1882 (part 1 of 7)

Biographical sketches

The subject of this biography is the descendant of a highly honored ancestry. He was the grandson of Samuel Bridge, a native Englishman, who came to America while yet a young man, and a short time prior to the Revolutionary war. At the outbreak of that long and sanguinary struggle, he was living near Lexington, Mass., and here, adjacent to his home, occurred the first conflict of arms in the war which led to the independence of the colonies. Becoming thoroughly in sympathy with the colonists, he espoused their cause, promptly volunteered, and rendered heroic service in the Federal army. During the war, probably in 1778, John Townsend Bridge, his son, the father of our subject, was born in the city of Boston. After reaching man's estate, he emigrated to Hamilton Cuunty, Ohio, and soon thereafter, wedded Miss Mary, daughter of John Harper. Mr. Harper and wife had foivnd their way thither from Virginia, the State of their nativity. The maiden name of Mrs. Harper, the mother of Mary, was Margaret Carr, a native of Ireland. Later in the history of the "Old Dominion," the Carr family became one of considerable prominence. Soon after his marriage to Miss Harper, Mr. Bridge crossed the Ohio River to seek his fortune in Kentucky, but, a year or two later, retm'ned to Warren County, Ohio and located near the town of Lebanon. Here John Bridge, the subject of this sketch, was born, in January, 1806, the second son and third child. Soon after his birth, the parents moved to Riley Township, Butler County, Ohio, where were born the rest of the family - four brothers and two sisters, viz. : James, Hannah, Joseph, Thomas, William and Maiy. Of the entire family, three brothers only are now living - James, Thomas and William. The former is a resident of Logansport, Ind. ; the two latter reside in Ohio. Joseph Bridge, one of the younger brothers, died in Carroll County, Ind., in the month of July, 1879.

John T. Bridge, the father, was a farmer and was deemed successful in his honorable vocation. Hoping to better his condition he moved about the spring of 1818 to Franklin County, Ind.; thence in the fall of 1819 to Pendleton, Madison County. But two years had elapsed here when death robbed the family circle of wife and mother, and a year later the insatiate destroyer summoned the father. The large family thus so sadly afflicted became broken up, and the younger members found a home with their Grandfather Harper then a resident of Butler County, Ohio. John, however, the subject of our sketch, having nearly reached the age of maturity, returned to Butler County and hired out as a farm laborer among his father's old friends and neighbors, continuing so to do for some time subsequent to his marriage. He was maiTied March 13. 1834. to Rosanna Carr, near Hamilton. Ohio. October 18. 1837, he landed in Can-oil County and settled, in Carrollton Township, on the farm now owned by A. J. Wickard, Esq. He remained there until 1852, when he moved to Camden and engaged in the dry goods trade. In 1868, he

Jacob C. Bridge

JACOB C. BRIDGE. Jacob C. Bridge, the son of John Bridge, was born near Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, May 11. 1835. While yet in his infancy, his father moved to this county and settled in Carrollton Township. At the age of ten. he put his hands to the plow and rendered his father substantial aid on the farm. In the winter, he enjoyed such educational advantages as were attainable in a log schoolhouse in the neighborhood. In 1852. he went with his father to Camden and assisted him in the dry goods business for about a year. During 1854, he clerked for the late Matthew Rogers, in Camden, and received for his services $100, During 1855, he clerked for Sterrett & Rankin. Camden, at iin increased salary - 1200, In May. 1856, he came to Delphi, where he clerked for Joel Dewey, who was then conducting a store in a frame building where Moore's Block now stands. In 1857, he returned to Camden and engaged as clerk in a store owned by his father, J. M. Justice and Dr, F, G. Armstrong. He remained with them about two yeai's, and then went to Cincinnati to learn book-keeping. In 1859, he retm-ued to Delphi, where he clerked for C. & G. G. Moore until the spring of 1862; afterwai-d, for Gaylord, Frisbie & Co. (Bolles' store) until spring of 1864; then with Wellhouse & Co., clothiers, eighteen months; then with Crooks & Donavan nearly tvvu yeai-s; and then with Noah Corey, grocer, until March 16, 1871, when he engaged with John Lenon in the grain trade. He is yet in the service of Mr. Lenon. He was married, March 27, 1862, to Miss Emmeline J. Witherow. They were married at Dry Run, Perm. . whither Miss Witherow was visiting at the time. Mr. Bridge is considered one ef the best and most successful business men in tlie county.

James H. Barnes

JAMES H. BARNES. The subject of this sketch sjjrings fi-om an old New York family of Scotch-Irish descent, noted for patriotism and courage in defending civil and religious liberty in America.

I dm-ing the Revolution, and commanded a company of minutei men in the State of New York, After the close of the Revoluj tionary war, his grandfather, James Barnes, settled in the State this article, to Indiana, settling at Fort Harrison, Vigo County, where, in 1818, he was elected Judge of the County; thence, in 1828, he moved to Adams Township, in this (Carroll) county, at a point about twelve miles above Delphi, where the grandfather of our subject laid out the town of Lockport, which was at the time named Barnesville. After the construction of the Wabash & Erie Canal, owing to the location of locks at that point, the name of the village was changed to Lockport. Here James H. Barnes, father of our subject, spent many years in the mercantile business, fi'eighting goods with ox teams from Cincinnati over wretched roads of that primitive day, requiring many days, sometimes weeks, to make the passage. He was a quiet, amiable man, enjoying the fullest confidence and esteem of the community. He was a man of unobtrusive disposition, a singulai'ly conscientious and God-fearing man, holding the reins of family government with a tenacity that savored of Puritanic firmness - for which all his children are grateful now, as the evil fruits of the modern lax system are so painfully apparent all over oiu- land at the present day. In 1833, he was married to Margaret Mountz, by whom he raised a large family, of whom James H. is the second.

James H. Barnes was born in the small village of Lockport, March 20, 1836. As he grew into manhood, he worked for his father on the farm and attended school during the winter months. After the completion of the canal, his father and an uncle built a large warehouse, and, under the firm name of W. A. & J. H. Barnes, conducted a general merchandise and produce business. In 1854, at the death of his father, James, then eighteen years of age, quit the farm and assisted his uncle in the store. He remained with him five years, when, at the age of twenty-three, he was elected Recorder of the county. He entered upon the duties of the ofBce in 1859. AA'hen the war broke out, following the patriotic precedents of his ancestry, he quickly determined to enter the service of his country. He accordingly appointed the late Henry M. Graham Deputy Recorder, and enlisted, July 15, 1862, in Company A, Seventy-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, as a private soldier. It is proper to say that at the expiration of his official service he was honored, though absent, with a nomination for a second term. His regiment was ordered into service in Kentucky, and placed on duty at Louisville; thence ordered to Lebanon, where Company A was deta!ehed and sent to Muldraugh's Hill to guard the railway tunnel. After a short service at that point, the company rejoined the regiment, and participated in a series of marches and countermarches through Kentucky and Tennessee, the monotony of which was broken occasionally by slight skirmishes with the enemy. The march from Frankfort to Gallatin was rendered memorable by its severity. The command reached Murfreesboro just after the terrible tight at Stone River, and, January 3, went into winter quarters, and remained in camp until June 24. So far, the regiment belonged to the infantry arm of the service, but, during the encampment, it was re-organized, mounted, and armed with the celebrated Spencer rifles. It was then assigned to duty on the command which has passed into history as " Wilder's Lightning Brigade." Prior to the re-organization, the regiment was employed in the construction of breastworks; afterward, in foraging, raiding and hunting for bushwhackers. Company A led the advance on Hoover's Gap, and, by reason of the rapid firing rendered possible by the Spencer rifles, dislodged the enemy from his stronghold and rendered a Union victory more easy in achievement than had been ex])ected. ITience the command nioved to Tullahoma, was armed with mountain howitzers, and ordered to cut the railway at Deckerd's Station. On the Cumberland Mountains, the enemy was encountered, and the howitzers were left on the field. The movements of the command in detail will be found in the history of the regiment on another page of this work. Its movements were rapid and continuous, and aiforded, in its successive skirmishing, ample opportunity to test the courage and daring of the true soldier to the utmost. At the skirmishing at Chickamauga Bridge, Company A led the column, and three times repulsed the enemy. During the second charge, the officer in command of the company retired, and Mr. Barnes, then a Sergeant, assumed command. After this memorable battle, the command fell back to Chattanooga and started on the " Wheeler Raid," a series of rapid marches and interesting skirmishes, which culminated in the fierce engagement at Farmington. The regiment then went into winter quarters near Himtsville, Ala., and Mr. Barnes was sent home on recruiting service. In May, 1864, he rejoined his command at Columbia. Tenn.. and, remaining with it, participated in the fighting at Dalton, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain and Rottenwood Creek. In the latter tight, his horse was shot and killed. After reaching Atlanta, the regiment was ordered back to Louisville, where it was re-organized and remounted. While at Louisville, after an arduous and honorable service as private. Corporal and Sergeant, Mr. Barnes was commissioned Second Lieutenant of his company, December 11, 1864. Sixteen days later, he was commissioned First Lieutenant. From Louisville, the regiment moved to Gravelly Springs, Tenn., and went into winter quarters. In the spring, the regiment was assigned to duty in Wilson's Cavalry Corps, and participated in all the marches and skirmishes which have made Wilson's cavalry famous in history. Lieut. Barnes commanded the advance in the skirmishing which led to the engagement at Ebenezer Church, and also participated in the fight at Selma, Ala. He pai'ticipated in the capture of Macon, Ga., and then was sent with a detachment to guard supplies at Oglethorpe, and thence thi'ough Andersonville to Americus, near which place oeciured, during his stay, the captm-e of " Jeff" Davis. In the latter part of May, the regiment was ordered back to Nashville, where it went into camp preparatory to being mus tered out: thence to Indiana] )alis. where it was mustered out ami paid, July 6, 1865.

Mr. Barnes then returned to Delphi and formed a p:u-tnershiii with R. J. Barnett in the stove and tinware business. Aft»r about two years in this service, he took charge of the di-y goods store of the late Hem-y Bolles. A few months later, he went into business for himself, in the room occuj)ied by Mi'. Bolles, and has been eminently successful. Under the firm name of J. H. Barnes & Bro., the business has been conducted since 187S. and mat(> rially enlarged.

Mi-. Barnes has been thrice married. His first marriage oc curred October 3, 1862, to Miss Eraeline Gregg, who died JIarch 2(), 1868. July 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Rachel Stan sel. By the hand of death he was dejirived of her companion ship January 10, 1875. He was again married, February ~. 1877, to Miss Mary E. Barker, of Fall River. Mass.

Mr. Barnes was rewed in the religious faith of the Associate Presbyterian, or, more commonly, the Seceder Church. In 1862. however, he united with what was then styled the New School Presbyterian Church, and has since been an earnest worker there in. His wife is also affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Barnes has been sviccessful in his life-work, and enjoys the esteem ever accorded to a valued citizen.

The subject of this sketch was boru in Lockporf. Adams Township, Carroll Co., Ind. March 11, 1S3.S. He is the lineal descendant of an honorable and patriotic ancestry, briefly sketched in the biogi-aphy of his brother. James H. Barnes, on the preceding page. While yet a lad. his father moved on a fai-m, where Edward, as he gi-ew up, found active employment, spending his winters, however, in school. The death of his father, in 1854, devolved greater responsibilities upon him, but he bravely met them, and was highly successful in his conduct of the farm. At the age of twenty years, he left the farm and entered school in the city of Delphi, where he pm-sued his studies with vigor for some time, and then entered the academy at Waveland. He spent about two yeai's at the Waveland school, passing his vacations in the Auditor's oflfiee of CaiToll County. Wlien the war broke out, he promptly enlisted in Company A, Ninth Indiana Infantry, in response to the lii'st call for volunteers. He participated in the mai'ches and battles of the regiment in the Western Virginia campaign, and took an active part in the sharp engagements at Philippi, Lam'el Hill and CaiTiok's Ford. After the expiration of his Virginia campaign, he returned to Delphi, and j promptly re-enlisted in Company A, Second Indiana Cavalry September 18, 18(51, whch, by the way, was the first comjilete regiment of cavahy raised in Indiana. Mr. Bai-nes was appointed First Sergeant of the company. The regiment entered the service the latter pai't of Decemlier. 18()1. In Februai-y, 18(52, it marched with Buell's ai'my towai'd Nashville, whence it moved to the Tennessee River, reaching the field of Shiloh and participating in the second day's fight. On the 9th of April, it had a skirmish with the enemy on the road to Corinth, and on the loth jjai'ticipated in the shar|i engagement at Pea Ridge. About this time. Mr. Barnes was taken sick, and, dm-ing his sickness, received the appointment of Fii-st Lieutenant of his company, which he I'ejoined just in time to pai'ticipate in the occupation of Corinth. Thence he pai'ticipated in the movements of Buell's army , into Northern Alabama, and in the battle of Tusciunbia, and j afterward in the Tennessee campaign, resulting in the battles of | McMinnville and Gallatin. At the latter place, a part of the regiment, including Company A, was suiTounded by the enemy, and only escaped capture by a heroic charge. In this engage- 1 ment, his horse was shot under him. Afterward, the command , participated in the Bragg and Biiell campaign in Kentucky, engaging the enemy at Vinegar Hill and PeiTyville. It then re- ; sumed observations in Tennessee and Georgia, participating in ' the engagements at Ti'iune and Chickamauga, where he commanded his company. The command was then ordered to East Tennessee to relieve Knoxville from the threatened attack of Gen. ' Longstreet. On the 13th of March, 1864. Mr. Bai'nes was made ^ a prisoner of war, and sent to Salisbury. On the 29th of May, while en route to a rebel prison in Georgia, he, with three other officers, succeeded in escaping from the train by sawing out the iron bars and escaping through the car window while the train was moving up a heavy gi-ade near Chestei-ville, Ga. After | wearying marches by night, under the guidance of plantation I negroes, they crossed the mountains in North Cai'olina and arrived safe within the Union lines at Knoxville on the 30th of June. After accepting a fm-lough to recuperate his health, he j rejoined his regiment at Cartersvllle, Ga., and continued with it, in command of the company, thi-ough the remainder of its serv- ] ice, participating in the Wheeler raid through Tennessee. Returning from this raid, he was honorably mustered out, with his regiment, at Indianapolis, July 22, LSC)"). IVIi-. Barnes returned to Deli)hi, and, after a short time spent in teaching, opened a news and book store, a business he has successfully conducted to the present time.

He was mairied, November 10, 18(54, to Miss Mary E. Mai'tin, daughter of the late Lewis Martin, Esq., one of the pioneer business men of Delphi. After its organization, he became a member of Boothroyd Post, G. A. R., of Delphi. He and his wife have tor many yeare been active members of the Presbyterian Church.

John J. Bragunier

Abraham and Elizabeth Bragunier. the parents of our subject, were natives of Franklin County, Penn. The husband was of French extraction, and the wife of German lineage. In 1830, the family moved to this county, landing in Delphi in April. Mr. Bragtmier at once purchased the farm east of this city yet owned by J. J. Bragunier. On this farm, in an old hoixse yet standing, John was born July 3. 1836. He received such an education as the common schools of his day afforded, and worked with his father on the farm. January 4, 1859, his father died, and his mother was called to her long home April 16, 1867. John remained on the farm until the civil war broke out, when he promptly enlisted. Septerdber 18, 1861, in Company A, Fortyfirst Regiment Indiana Volunteers (Second Cavalry). The regiment, as soon as properly equipped, was ordered into service in Kentucky, where it did excellent and constant work in the varied duties devolved upon the cavalry arm of the service. Its first engagement was on the bloody field of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862, and it was present at the evacuation of Corinth. From the latter place the regiment was ordered back to Reynolds" Station, whence it served guarding wagon trains through to Athens, Ala. Afterward, the regiment started in pursuit of the rebel Gen. John Morgan. The command found him at Gallatin, Tenn., and. as Mr. Bragunier says, got soundly thrashed. Thence the regiment was ordered in front of Murfreesboro, where the armies on both sides were concentrating preparatory to one of the decisive and most disastrous battles of the war. Mi-. Bragunier was not permitted to participate in the final struggle at Stone River by reason of a serious mistake, which sent him to the hospital. On the night of September 8, 1862, his company was ordered out on a reconnoitering expedition. When retm-ning, about midnight, the company was carelessly fired into by the Union pickets, and he received a rifle-shot woiuid in the wrist of his right ai'm. He was taken to Hospital No. 8, at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained for five months, and, during this period of suffering, on several occasions his tenure on life was exceedingly fi-ail. By reason of his wound, which left his arm compai'atively useless, he was honorably discharged fi-om the service Februai-y 5. 1863. when he returned home. In the spring of 1864. he engaged in the hat business in this city, but pm-sued it about a year only when he sold out and engaged in the dry goods business with M. Simpson, irnder the fii'm name of Simpson & Bragunier. This line of business he pm-sued less than a year, when he disposed of his interest and retiu-ned to the farm. He continued farming until in July, 1881, when he retiu-ned to Delphi and engaged in the undertaking business, forming a pai-tnership with Clayton E. Cox. This copartnership is still existing.

ent Order of Odd Fellows since Febniary 27, 1868, when he united with Carroll Lodge, No. 174. He was elected Noble Grand October 7, 1869, and, March 31, 1870, was elected Representative to the Grand Lodge. He united with Delphi Lodge, No. 28, January 27, 1873, by cai-d, and represented that lodge in the Grand Lodge in the May sessions of 1878 and 1880. Joined Carroll Encampment in 1868, and was a chai-ter member of Adina Lodge, No. 7'J, D. of R. He has repeatedly represented his Encampment in the State Grand Body. He was married, April 18, 1865, to Sarah A. Halsey. The family ties were broken by her death November 9, 1879. Mr. Bragunier is regarded as one of our best citizens.

The subject of this brief sketch was born in the State of New Jersey August 2S, 178-1. Five years later, his parents moved to Mason County, Ky., where they located and continued to reside for thirty-six yeai-s. In 1825, he removed to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he remained until April 2, 1839, when he started for Delphi. He reached his journey's end on the 17th day of April, 1829, and stopped temjjorai-ily with the family of John Bobbins. After a few days, he moved to Delphi and occupied a log house which stood on Main street, just opposite the Carroll Lodge Hall. I. O. O. F. In the February following, he moved into the edge of Tippecanoe. County, and lived on a farm known in later years as the " Walters jilaoe. " In the latter part of December, 1830, he returned to Delphi and moved into a house he had erected on the lot just west of Duukle & Kilgore's agriculttu-al store. In this building, which will doubtless be remembered by a few of the surviving pioneers, he kept a boardinghouse. At the e.Kpiration of three years, he moved on a farm, which he had pm'chased, located two miles southwest of Delphi, Assisted by his son, he at once entered ujion the severe labor incident to developing a fai-m from the native, forest. There were at the time roving bands of Indians passing to and fro, but they were quite friendly, and gave no annoyance. Upon this farm he spent the remainder of his days, and died March 3, 1867.

Mr. Cox was married, August 28, 1810, to Miss Isabella Logan, in Mason County, Ky. One son - Joseph - and two daughters - Elizabeth (Mi-s. Nathaniel Wilson) and Ann (Mrs. John L. Lyon) - were the fruits of the union. Of the family, Mrs. Lyons is the only member now living.

Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox, the only son of Enoch Cox, Sr., was born in Mason County, Ky., December 25, 1818: died on the old homestead, near Delphi, December 31, 1868. He was about ten years of age when he came with his father to Carroll County. His education was that of a farmer' s boy, and he pursued the vocation of a farmer through life. April 28, 1840, he was married to Miss Elizabeth E. Jackson, who was born in Giles County, Va., May 24, 1818, and who is still living. After his marriage, he moved into Madison Township and resided there six or seven years, when he returned to the old homestead and pas.sed the remainder of his days thereon. Two sons - Enoch and Joseph A. - are yet living in this city.

Mr. Cox was an enthusiastic member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for many years. He united with Delphi Lodge, No. 28, December 8, 1851. He represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge of Indiana, and was a member of the Encampment. In all the relations of life, Joseph Cox proved an honorable man and a tjood citizen.

John A. Cartwright

The brithplaceof the subject of this review was the little town of Jackson, Mahoning Co., Ohio, and, on the 17th day of November, 1881, he passed the milestone that marked the fifty-tirst year of his age. In 1851, while in attendance at a seminary in Jackson, his parents, John C. and Margaret (McCorkle) Cartwright, the former a native of Virginia and the latter born in Philadelphia, moved into Indiana and located in Wells County. Early in the subseqiient year, John A. followed his parents into this State, and, in the winter of 1852, engaged tor the first time in the occupation of teaching school. The term was for there months, and he received for his service the sum of $15 and his board - the latter furnished by the patrons of the school. Limited heretofore to the district school, with a season at the seminary, he now entered the State University at Bloomington, Ind., and was graduated from there in the class of 1855. His current college expenses were met with money obtained from teaching school from time to time during the continuance of the course. After graduation, he was invited to take control of and for four years was Principal of a then flourishing institute at Sugar Grove, Tippecanoe County. In the intervals between school years, he read an entire com-se of law, in the office of Ward & Taylor, of La Fayette, never, however, engaging in the practice. In 1859, he removed to Carroll County, and in Delphi continued in his favorite vocation, having control of the public schools for three years.

The succeeding fifteen years, from 1863 to 1878, were mainly occupied by Mr. Cartwright in the capacity of a public servant. His first official position was that of County Examiner, in which he served two years - from 1863 to 1865. From 1867 to 1868, he was Mayor of the city of Delphi. At the expiration of the mayoralty, he was chosen a School Trustee of Delphi, a position I which, two years later, he resigned, to make the race as a candi- I date of the Democratic party for the Auditorship of Carroll Countj'. Successful, in 1870, in the latter race, and efficiently and com-- te usly discharging his duties as Auditor for four years, he was re-elected to the same office in 1874. It is due to Mr. Cartwright ! to say that, while in all his political contests, he has had the i strongest partisan opposition, yet never has a word been uttered I against his fitness or ability, nor the slightest breath of suspicion ' raised against his integrity or- trustworthiness. His record as an officer has been satisfactory to both parties.

Though occupied in public service, he has also found time to devote to mercantile pursuits. From 1867 to the present date, he has more or less actively engaged in the lime business, a portion of the time with his brother, and, since 1873, associated with the Delphi Lime Company, the last thi'ee years acting as its Secretary and Treasurer. Since 1 878, also, he has been a partner with his brother in the retail grocery trade. He has the reputa- ! tion of being a shrewd, yet careful business man, with a good ca- I paoity for detail, and the fact that he holds the responsible position in the Delphi Lime Com|)auy referred to above sufficiently I attests the confidence reposed in him by his mercantile assocmtes. On the 25th day of December, 1860, Mr. Cartwright was marj ried to Miss Susannah Hyatt, at Sugar (Jrove, Tippecanoe County. I The result of this is five children - Jessie B., John H., George O., Mary A. and Josephine L. The eldest daughter. Miss Jes

REED CASE, Sr., Deceased. The subject of this sketch was born in Nelson County, Ky., January 29, 1808, and died in Delphi, October 23, 1871. William Case, his father, moved to Indiana in the summer of 1808, and settled in the northeast part of what is now Orange County, In the spring of 1809, owing to the presence of some hostile Indians, he returned to Kentucky, and located in Shelby County. In 1810, he again determined to cast his lot in Indiana, and moved to HaiTison County ; thence to Washington County, In 1811 ; thence again to Orange County, where he settled permanently When Reed Case attained to the age of sixteen, desiring to begin business for himself, and having become skilled as a briekmason, he moved to Danville, Hendricks Co., and took a contract of building the court house, the first one erected in the county. He was there during a period of three years. In 1832, he took a contract on the National road through the counties of Hendricks and Putnam. In 1836, he weut to Miami Count}', and took a contract on the Wabash & Erie Canal then under construction. Afterward, be took a contract on the same public work below this city, at what is known as the Falling Spring Bluffs, located in the edges of Carroll and Tippecanoe Counties. In 1838, he formed a partnership with the late James Spears, under the firm name of Spears & Case ; and purchased an unfinished canal contract of Valerius Armitage, now deceased. In 1839, the firm built the steamboat canal and locks on the Wabash, opposite Pittsburg. During 1842, the fLrm also built the papermill race, and the side cut leading from the canal to the warehouse at the foot of Main street, Delphi. In the year 1843, the firm built a warehouse and a packing house, and conducted the general produce and pork trade on an extensive scale. In 1845, the company was enlarged, and the general business increased by the admission to the firm of James P. Dugan, under the name and style of Spears, Case & Co. During the year 1863, the firm erected the large, packing establishment just east of Delphi, and, in addition to the grain and general banking business, carried on an immense business in packing pork and beef, until the death of Mr. Case, in 1871. His educational advantages were, as a matter of course, limited, as is always the case in pioneer life ; but an abundance of pluck and energy more than compensated for this deficiency. He was possessed of unusual executive ability, and at the immature age of sixteen he began his business career as a contractor. In his business ventures he was generally highly successful, and he died possessed of a large estate. It too often occurs that accumulated wealth serves to chill the heart of its possessor, and freeze out the kindly sentiments and impulses of even a naturally generous heart ; but such was not the case with the subject of this sketch. He was generous to a fault, and the name of Reed Case was a household word, and a joy in the homes of the poor who enjoyed his acquaintance and esteem. He was initiated into Delphi Lodge, No. 28, I. O. 0. F., March 30, 1846, and likewise held a worthy membership in Carroll Encampment, No. 22, of the Patriarchal branch of the order.

Mr. Case was twice married. Three sons and a daughter, viz., John S., James S., Reed and Josephine (Mrs. B. F, Schermerhorn), were the fruits of the first union. By his second wife, who was the sister of his first wife, he had one son - Charles G. Case. They are all living. John S. is farming near this city, James is in the commission business in Chicago, Reed in the same business at Indianapolis, and Charles in the same at Cincinnati. His widow, who survives him, makes her home in Cincinnati with her son Charles.

John S. Case, Sr., a brother of Reed Case, Sr., came to this county in 1843, and now resides with his nephew, John S. Case, Jr., near this city. The family, and especially the subject of this sketch, has figured largely in the development of the county, and has, individually and in its entirety, enjoyed the confidence and highest regard of the people. No higher tribute can be paid to the living, or to the memory of the dead.

sie, is a rei^ent crraduatc of the Deli)hi High School. Mrs. Cai-twright is a member of the Methodist Church, a woman with the fondest attachment for home life, and an a>ji'eeable and dignified lady in society.

In politics, Ml-. Cartwright is an active member of the Democratic party, one of the leaders of the party in Carroll County, and the present Chairman of the County Central Committee. For years he has attended as a delegate its State conventions.

As a citizen, Mr. Cartwi-ight stands high in the esteem of his fellow-men. his temperate life, ijuiet demeanor and close attention to business commanding respect and gaining for him the regard and contidence. not only of the c.mraunity, but of the entire county.

Henderson Dunkle

Henderson Dunkle was the tifth son in a family of eleven children (seven boys and four girls) born to George Dunkle and Elizabeth (Boggs) Dunkle. in Fannettsbm-g, Franklin Co.. Penn.

His immediate ancestors on the paternal side were of German descent, and hailed fi'om Lancaster County. Penn.. while on the maternal side tl ey were of .Anglican birth. Grandfather Boggs was a soldier of the American fUTuy in the Revolutionary war.

The subject of this personal narrative, although approac- ing the s adows of threescore years, has resided in but two localities - Fannettsbm-g, Penn., where he was born on the 5th day of April. 1821), and Delphi. Ind. , whither 1 e came in 1.S37. at the youthful age of eleven years, in the company and protection of William Dunkle. an elder brother.

Before arriving at the age of citizenship, he had mastered, in the office of R. C. Green, the compositor's craft, and fiom 184-1- to 184'S engaged in the publication of the Carroll E.rpresx. a weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the Whig party. In 1851 and 1852. he worked as compositor in the office of Applegate & Graham, who had begun the publication of the still extant Delphi Times'.

Subsequently, and as a j>roof of his reliability. Mr. Dunkle was for sixteen successive years a faithful and efficient clerk in the hardware store of Dunkle & Kilgore - a term of service which might have been prolonged had not the citizens of " Old Carroll " interrupted it. and attested their appreciation of the man and his character, by electing him. in 1871. their County Treasurer - a position so creditably tilled by him as to bring about, in 1873, his re-election to the same office. A few years of rest, and his l)0]iularity as a county official takes form, in 1878. in his election tf) the office of .\uditor of CaiToll County, which position he hiilda to-day.

In 1847, he married Mary Dewey, the first white child born - ii] Delphi, and daughter of Aaron Dewey, who taught the first school and built the first brick houses in Can-oU County. Five I children have been born to them, three of whom - Emma C t Charles H. and Lizzie D. - are yet living. Mi-s. Duntle has always lieen recognized as a thoroughly consistent Christian wo- ! man. full of stiu-dy domestic qualities, which endear her to her I family and to the community in which she lives.

Mr. Dunkle has been a member of the Deljihi Lodge of I. O. O. F. since the age of twenty-one years, filling all the offices of this order, and being a member of the Grand Lodge. He is to-day the oldest continuous living member of Delphi Lodge. In politics, he is an ardent Republican, yet his private and official life has been characterized by such integrity of purpose and aflTability of manner that, whenever a candidate", he receives a generous support from citizens of all political deiioniinatioiis, without regard to party affiliations.

There is no better citizen in Carroll County than the sulijcct of this biographical sketch. Charitable, genial, public-spirited, his record of half a century in this community deserves the liigh est commendation.

James P. Dugan

The subject of this biograjihical sketch was born in Champaign Coimty. Ohio, June 9, 1812. His father was a native of Ireland and his mother of Pennsylvania. After spending his boyhood in the counties of Campaign. Darke and Madison, and receiving what might be deemed a liberal education, he went to Cincinnati at the age of twenty-three and accepted a situation in a wholesale di-y goods store. In 1832. he accepted the responsible position of Discount Clerk in the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati. It was under the former banking system, a bank of issue, and one of the strong financial institutions of the West. In 1835. after having spent the summers of 1833 and 1834 in Deljihi. he concluded to make this place his futvu-e home. Ai-riving in the spring of 1835. he engaged in the dry goods trade. and pursued that line of business for about six years. In 1847. he entered as the junior member of the firm of Spears, Case & Co. . and conducted a banking, grain and packing business. The lii-m maintained a lai-ge business until 1872, when it was dissolved by the death of Mi-. Case. In 1873. Mr. Dugan became the President of the First National Bank of Delphi, organized under the national banking laws, and remained in that situation until the bank went into liquidation in 1877. Since that period, he has devoted his time to closing up the old firm business. Mr. Dugan. though a zealous Republican, has never held or sought any position of public trust other than that of Councilman in the municipal government of Delphi.

He was married, June 30. 1836. to Miss Miranda M. Crooks. One child. Jennie L,, was born to this union April 16. 1838. She died February 28. 1851*. She was a graduate of the Wesleyan Female College, located at Cincinnati.

Mr. Dugan was initiated into the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Franklin Lodge at Cincinnati, in 1833. and was one of the charter members of Delphi Lodge. No. 28. of Delphi, also holds membership in the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Dugan has at all times proven a liberal, publicspirited citizen, and has had the confideni-e and regard of the community in which he has so long resided.

John W. Fasvcett

John W. Fawcett was born ne-ar Hamilton. Butler Co.. Ohio, on the 17th day of May. 1829. In 1851. with his widowed mother. Jane ( Walker | Fawcett. he came to Indiana, locating in Cass County, where, in the course of a political demonstration arising out of the Pierce-Scott Presidential campaign in 1852, he had the misfortune to lose his right arm by the prematiu-e discharge of a cannon. Later in this year, he changed his location, removing this time to Carmll County, where he has since resided.

mitted, the district schools, but his education is chiefly the result of individual effort since arriving at the age of maturity, aided, doubtless, by the character of the work in which his ambition led him to engage. Incapacitated, by the loss of his arm. from pui-- siiing a line of business - that of practical mechanics - which he preferred, he turned his attention, in 1853. to school-teaching. ana continued in this laudable vocation until 186'2. in which year he was chosen Surveyor of Carroll County. To this latter position he was re-elected four successive terms, serving, in all. eight years - from 1862 to 1870.

In the meanwhile, and in connection with his duties as County Surveyor, the peojile attested their confidence in Mr. Faweett by imposing on him the additional duties of School Examiner of Carroll County, this latter term of service i-unning a period of five years - from 1865 to 1870. Again, m 1870. he is the successful recii)ientof the suffrages of the people in his election as a candidate of the Democratic party to the office of Recorder of Carroll County. Two official terms, from 1871 to 1879, in this position consumed eight more years of his life.

During his incumbency of the Recorder's office, he prepared an abstract of the titles of real estate in Carroll County, and, since 1879. has been mainly engaged in his business as abstractor. In the meantime, however, he has lent valuable assistance to the advancement of two public enterprises. As President of the association having in charge its construction, he materially aided in pushing to a rapid completion the magnificent new Odd Fellows" building. As engineer and Superintendent of several gravel roads being made in the county he has been instriunental in furthering these much-needed improvements.

He is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Delphi Lodge), having connected himself with that society in 1866. and having, in the course of his membership, filled all the chairs in the subordinate lodge of that order.

In politics, he is a conservative Democrat, never actively participating in political labor. It is due to him to say that, whenever a candidate for office, his majority has always been gi-eater than the average party majority.

On the 20th of July. 1856. he married Miss Mary Howland. the daughter of a veteran school-teacher from Orange County, N. Y. , and a teacher herself. Miss Howland. although born in Paterson. N. J., subsequently came to Logansport, Ind. , with her father, and received her education in her father's school. Four children - David A.. Eva, John and Emma - have been born to them. Mrs. Faweett is a member of the Christian Church, and an active member of the order of Daughters of Rebekah. She is a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, and a bright and affable member of society.

The best testimonial to Mr. Faweett' s social and business standing in this community is the fact of his long and successful official life. His excellent qualities were recognized and repeatedly rewarded by the people, and ho never betrayed their confidence or abused the trusts which were ])laeed in his keeping. There is no other man in this community more thoroughly respected, more orderly or more law-abiding than is the subject of this sketch.

CAPT. SAMUEL D. (iKKSH.4.M. Capt. Samuel D. Gresham, one of the jjioneers of this county. was of English extraction. The family records develop the fact that he was a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas Gresham. born in

London in 1519. who was a man of great wealth, liberal culture and high attainment in public affairs. He was the founder of the Royal Exchange of London, an advisory friend of Queen Elizabeth, and contributed largely to placing the financial affairs of England on a sound basis.

Capt. Gresham. the subject of this sketch, was born in King and Queen County, Va. . in 1808. While yet a lad. he emigrated, in company with his father, to Shelby County. Ky. ; thence to HaiTison County. Ind.. where he lived for several years. In 1828. he visited Carroll County, seeking a permanent home, and, after some observation, retiu-ned to Harrison County to make the necessary arrangements for his removal to this place. In 1830, he retiu-ned to Delphi in company with the late Dr. James H. Stewart. He at once engaged in farming, and also did a good business in flat-boating on the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. It was in the latter pursuit he received the familiar title of Captain. November 5. 1838. he was commissioned as Constable, and recommissioned April 12. 1834. May 4. 1835. under an old law of the State, he was appointed Collector of Revenue, which position he held until May 6. 1840. In pursuance of the voice of the voters of Carroll County, he assumed the duties of Sheriff August 9, 1836. and was re-elected in 1838. He served as Postmaster in the city of Delphi under the administrations of Presidents Polk. Pierce and Buchanan. From that service until the time of his death, which ocem-red July 22. 1874. he was engaged in the livery business.

He was united in marriage to his last wife. Miss Sarah Burt, in 1841. Four sons and thi-ee daughters were born to them, viz, : Edward H. . Mattie C. . Emma C. , George D. and Will A. - all now having reached the years of maturity.

Until age and infirmity weighed heavily upon him. Capt. Gresham was numbered among the leading men of the county in such questions and enterprises as from time to time arrested the attention of the public, and was a valued citizen. His wife, a most estimable lady, full of years and beloved by all who know her. is at this date still surviving him. and is gratefully cared for by her sons and daughtei's.

Edward H. Gresham

EDWARD H. GRESHAM. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in one of the groups of Carroll County officials which embellish this work, was the elder son of Capt. Samuel D. Gresham. He was born on the old McCain farm, just north of the city, August 29, 1842. The house in which he was bom is yet standing. He received in his boyhood such an education as was imparted in our common schools, which was necessarily of a limited character, yet was of that practical type which fully subserved his aims in life. After his school days were over, he assisted his father in the livery business, where he gained the practical business information which has made him a successful man. In May. 1864. he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, where he served as Corporal, and discharged his duties as a soldier with great satisfaction to his commanding re-enlisted as a jaivate in the One Himdred and Fiftieth Regiment, and. in the organization of the compimy, was commissioned as Firet Lieutenant of Company H. By reason of the detail of the ('aptain of the company on special service, he succeedeil to the command of the comjiany. which position he filled with credit to himself and the service. After the war. he re- entoreil the livory business, wliicli he eomhioteil with great success. In his political affiliations, he identified himself from boyhood with the Democratic party, and in 1871 was elected to the office of Assessor of the city of Delphi. To this position he was re-elected in 1873. In 1870. he received the nomination from his party for the office of Sheriff, and was elected by a very de cisive and highly oomplimentai-y majority. To the same responsible office ho was re-eleced in 1878. It is worthy of note to retnark' that Mr. Gresham was the tu'st person in this county elected to the same office once held by the father, and was also the first county officer born in the county. During his official service, he served to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens, irrespective of )iarty prejudice, and their good will accompanied him as he resinned the jiursuits of jirivate life and business. In his relations to the community, he has always manifested a liberal spirit of enterjirise. and has never hesitated to contribute, to an extent commensurate with his means, to any scheme which ju-omised the promotion of the public good. For several years, he was actively identified as a Director, and in other relations, with the CaiToll County Agricultural Association. He has been for many years a member of the order of Odd Fellows : was a charter member of Delphi Lodge. No. 80. of the Knights of Pythias, instituted in this city April 3. 1879. and was also a charter member of Boothroyd Post of the Grand Ai-my of the Re]>ublic. holding the office of Junior Vice Commander. He was married, Decemlier "21. 1881. to Miss Jennie D. Holmes, daughterof William Holmes. Esq.. one of our oldest and best citizens.

Mr. Gresham has in every sense of the word been "the ai'chitect of his own fortune." His high standing in this community, and the very satisfactory business he has built up and now manages, abundantly attest the fact that he has planned and builded well in life. Of such men are prosperous communities ])roduced. and by their efforts are such communities perpetuated.

Lewis Gkos

Lewis Gros is the descendant > cesti'y. His parents, yet living, ther. January 1. 1804: the mother. December 26, 1805. As an item of general interest, rather than of family record, we state as an historical fact, abundantly established by the records of Christian missions, that the uncle of Mr. Gros" maternal greatgrandfather. Christian F. Swartz. was one of the earliest missionaries to India, and was the first to estaVilish schools for the education of the natives. He spent his life in India, and died at Tanjore. Febriiary 13. 17U8. aged seventy one years. Over his tomb at Tanjore. a large memorial chapel was erected in 1829. The ]iareuts of Mr. Gros came to this country and settled in Dell)hi July 12. 1838. where he was born Sejitember 28. 18-10. He attended the city schools until he was about sixteen years of age. when he began his Inisiness career as clerk in the Delphi Post Office. In 1857. he went to Greencastle to accept a situation as clerk_ in a dry goods store. At the expiration of a year, he refm-ned to Delphi and became employed in the store of Cameron Moore, where he remained until the war broke out. On the 14th of A.pril. 1861. he enlisted in Company A. Ninth Indiana Infantry, as a private soldier. He served with his regiment through the West Virginia campaign of the thi-ee-mbnths troops, and participated in the battles at Philippi. Lam-el Hill and'Carrick's Ford. He was ])resent at the death of Private Dyson Boothroyd, who was the first Carroll County soldier killed in the war. After the term of service expired, he retm'ned to Delplii and again en tered the store of C, & G. Moore. He found it impossilile to jiursue peaceful avocations while the nation was struggling in the tlu'oes of a gi'eat civil W!U'. and thus he was im])el)od to again enter the militaiy service. He re-enlisted. July 10. 1802. in Company A. Seventy- second Indiana Infantry. He romainiHl in service with the regiment until April 13. 1803, when he was commissioned First Lieutenant and made Quartermaster of the regi ment. In the terrible battle at Chickamauga, in addition to his duties as Quartermaster, he was, by sjiecial order, assigned to duty as ordnance officer. Up to this time, though he was on s|)ecial duty and detached from his comjiany. he was on the field at all the skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged. December 4, 1864, after faithful and arduous service as Regimental Quai-termaster, he was duly commissioned and i)romoted to the command of his company. He led his company in the severe marches and skirmishes which jireceded the battle at Eben ezer Chm-ch. In this battle, and also at Selma, his command took a very active part. At the latter place, his company was assigned to the honorable but very hazai'dous duty of guai'ding the' Chicago Board of Trade Battery, one of the best and l)ravest in the service. After the cajitm'e of Macon, in which campaign he participated, he was, by order of his commanding General assigned to the command of a picked detachment detailed for s]>ecial duty to assist in the pursuit of Jefferson Davis. That tlie work was satisfactorily done our national history abundantly showeth. Thus closed his military history, and on July 7, 18('>5. after being honorably mustered out of the service, he returned to Delphi and re-entered the dry goods business with H, Gros & Co,, a position he held for fifteen yeai's, Capt. Gros relates an army incident that is worthy of mention. In June, 1804, the Federal army captiued a lai-ge cotton factory at Roswell, and he was detailed with a company of men to give the factory girls - about two hundi-ed - safe guidance and protection to Marietta. One of these girls afterward married and lived awhile in this city. March 4. 1880. he engaged in the di-y goods business for himself, and has thus fai- been highly successful.

He is an active memlier in the benevolent orders, and was a charter memlier of Bootlu-oyd Post. G. A, R. He served as Councilman fi-om the Second .Ward in 1870-71. and was elected a member of the School Board in June. 1879.

June 1. 1809, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Barnett, a daughter of the late William Barnett. An interesting little daughter. Julia, is living to bless their union. Thus far in life. Mr. Gros has been siTccessful in whatever he has undertaken. and gives jiromise of like success in the future.

David R, Harley

DAVID R, HARLEY, Ml'. Harley was the elder member of a family of seven children. He was liorn in Abingdon, Washington Co., Va.. April 10. 1822. Cleland and Hannah Harley. his jiarentfi, were native Virginians. His paternal ancestry was of Irish, and his maternal of German extraction. While yet a lad, his parents moved to Franklin Coimty, Ind, The family being of limited means, he was compelled to etirn his bread by the " sweat of the brow, " and was tiherefore unalile to fully avail himself of the full measm-e of insti-uction then im])arted in the common schools. This deficiency, however, has been happily overcome hj liberal reading in later years In 1838. he left his home and came to Tippecanoe County, where he engaged as a fiirm hand to Jonathan Mount, the father of our fellow-townsman. Daniel Mount, He remained in his service until IS-tO, when he came to Delphi and entered a school conducted by Hugh Miller. After a time thus spent, he clerked in the dry goods houses of Enoch Brown. William Bolles and George W, Pigman. respectively, until 1857, when he engaged in the lime business with E, W, Hubbard and the late Robert Mitchell, For several yeai-s. he was the business manager of the company, and successful in building up a very large and correspondingly lucrative business. He is yet largely and actively interested in the lime ti'ade as a member of the Delphi Lime Company. Ml-. Harley is a fine type of the modern American business man. During his service in clerical positions, he was ever on the alert to grasp everything that might be of service in fitting himself for the independent business relations he sooner or later expected to assume. Gifted with a keen perception of the characters of men. and fully competent to measure results as they would inevitably follow given combinations of circumstances, observation was to him what actual experience was to others. Added to these qualifications, he possessed nerve, prudence and economy - elements in themselves competent to serve successfully every man destined by condition of his youth to build for himself in life. Mr. Harley has been, in fact and in deed, the architect of his own fortune, and it is but simple justice to say that his comfortable means abundantly establishes his skill as an architect and builder in this regard. As has already been intimated, his opportunities for acquiring an education in early life were very limited, but he possessed the uncompromising desire to acquire a general information, and his leisure hours were spent in the careful perusal of useful books, as well as the current literatiire of the day. He has always been an active man in politics - first a Whig, and then, as a matter of political sequence, a Republican. It is proper and just to say that he never interested himself in politics except a matter of principle. He never sought nor wanted political preferment. He has always kept pace with the great questions of the hour, and has been able to grasp them in all their vital relations. His knowledge of public men is broad and comprehensive, and these qualifications, together with a pleasant flow of language, renders him a highly entertaining conversationalist. and one competent to instruct. He was united in marriage. June 24. 1848, to Persus J, Hubbard, Two sons and a daughter are living, the fniits of the union, viz, : Charles H,. George P. and Ella (Mrs. Edward Rinehart). After years of happy wedded life, he was called to mourn the death of his wife, November 10. 1857. Mr. Harley. in all his relations, has been a highly esteemed and valued citizen. Though nearly sixty years of age. he has yet a reasonable expectancy of several years of useful, happy life.

Mr, Hiestand is the son of David and Catherine (Shaffer) Hiestand, both of German ancestry, and was born on the 10th day of July, 1841. in Fairfield County, Ohio. Subsequently, by overland route, his parents came to CaiToll County, Ind.. ai'riving and locating in Madison Township on the 1st day of November, 1852. David Hiestand. by occupation, was a farmer, and, in the course of an industrious yet uneventful farmer's life, served awhile as Captain of an Ohio militia company, and. at a later period, as a Justice of the Peace. The subject of our sketch attended in his youth the neighboring district schools, and was favored by the additional, though somewhat limited, advantage of a year's instmction at the Battle Ground Institute, and, subsequently, a course at commercial college in Indianapolis. Retiirning home, he continued in the pleasant vocation in which a beginning had been made at the youthful age of seventeen years - namely, that of teaching school. In all, he has taiight nineteen terms, six of these in succession in the town of Prince AVilliam.

Having served in minor township offices, in 1873 he was elected as a candidate of the Democratic party to the office of Surveyor of Carroll County, serving one term. In 1879. he was again a candidate for office, this time for the Recordership of Can-oil County. To this position he was successfully elected, and is at present serving out the four-years' term. His election to the latter office brought about a change in his place of residence from Mom-oe Township - where he had gone in 1874 from his father's farm - to Delphi in the spring of 1879.

On the 4th of June. 1874. he was married to Miss Libbie A. Richardson, daughter of David Richardson, a Scotchman, who emigrated to America while yet a young man.

In our limited business relations with Mr. Hiestand, we have always found him pleasant and unassuming in manner, and care ful even to solicitude to honestly execute a trust or preserve his business integrity. He is a popular official, and, in the coui-se of his Recordership. has gained a host of friends, whose friendship, it is safe to say, he will never betray nor lose.

William W. Holmes

The subject of this sketch was born in Wood County, W. 'Va., December 15. 1816. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother of Ohio. His father pursiied the avocation of a farmer, and. in the year 1818. left Virginia and moved with his family to Montgomery County. Ohio. In 1832, the family moved to Carroll County and settled on the farm now owned by Isaac Buckley. The mother of Mr. Holmes died in 1828, and the father in 1858. William Holmes continued the business of farming with great success and good financial results. In 1874. he moved to Delphi, and since that year he has devoted his time to the supervision of his farms and to general speculative business. Mr. Holmes has been, during life, an active man, and has made but few mistakes, if any, in his business ventm-es. In his political affiliations, he is a Republican, and very positive in his convictions relative to political principles and issues. He has never been an aspirant tor official honors, and one term as Justice of the Peace is the extent of his service in respect to public trusts. A reasonable success in the conduct of his private pursuits has been his sole aim in life, and in this regard his hopes and aims have been fairly realized.

Corbly M. Knight

The ancestry of Mr. Knight, remotely, were of Ii-ish and Scotch extraction. His parents, however, were of that stalwart Pennsylvania stock which furnished so many of the early settlers of Indiana when strong men were required to change her ancient woodlands to productive farms and happy homes. The subject of this biography was bom in Miami County. Ohio. December 14. 1823. While yet a lad. his pai-ents. John and Abigail Knight, moved to Carroll County and purchased the farm yet owned by Mr. Knight, east of the fair grounds, reaching their future home November 17. 1828. There was an abundance of hai-d work to be done in developing the farm, and to this end he bent his youthful energy. His father died in December. 1837. at the age of fifty-eight, and the responsibilities of managing the farm rested then upon his shoulders. He was equal to all emergencies, however, and rapidly the forest gave way to fields of ripening grain. Mr. Knight continued to farm until in the year 18(56. when he purchased the hotel property in Delphi, and has continued the hotel business to the present time. He has in all these years been one of the foremost men of the city and county in aft'airs of public moment. He was for six years a member of the City Council, and. while occupying this official relation to the city, he did a great work in behalf of the improvement of the streets and the enlargement of the city limits. He was the Chairman of the Special Committee on Annexation of Territory to the City. and. while in this most delieate and highly responsible position, he pursued the line of duty without fear, favor or partiality. He was a stanch friend to the great enterprise of building the Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line Railway, and. in the dark days of the enterprise, he. in common with a few other of our citizens, gave it a material aid. which added new life and vigof. and rescued it from impending defeat and ruin. Mr. Knight is a man of strong impulses, and very positive in his likes and dislikes. In 1855.' he conceived a favorable opinion of Odd Fellowship, and, on July 15 of that year, he united with Delphi Lodge. No. 28. He rapidly passed the gradations of the order, and, June 27, 1859, he was elected Noble Grand. In November of the year following, he was admitted as a member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. Soon after his initiation in the subordinate lodge, he was admitted to membership in Carroll Encampment, No. 22. He pursued the work in this branch with a zeal equal to that manifested in the subordinate lodge, and in rapid succession he filled the various official stations requisite, and was admitted to the Grand Encampment. He has since repeatedly represented his lodge and Encampment in the State grand bodies. He is an enthusiastic member of Adina Lodge, No. 79, D. of R. When Delphi Lodge, No. 28, determined to build the new hall which adorns another page of this work, he was appointed to a position on the Building Committee. In this work he engaged with much enthusiasm, and his watchful interest saved the order no small sum of money.

Mr. Knight has been twice married - first, to Miss Isabelle Robinson, April 16, 1846, who died April 22, 1850: second, to Miss Sarah J. Griffith. October 16, 1851, who is yet living. His mother died November 12, 1868, aged eighty-two years. The subject of this sketch is hale and hearty, and has yet promise of years of active service in life's toil and turmoil.

James W. Kilgore

Penusylvanians. His father, Joseph Kilgore, who died in this city in 1879, reached the ripe old age of ninety years. The subject of this sketch was born in Franklin County, Ponn., October 23, 1822. Having an inherent tact for mechanical pursuits, and possessing an inventive cast of mind, he was in eai-ly life placed under such care as would develop his latent genius. Located, as he was, in the heart of the gi-eat manufacturing districts of Pennsylvania, he enjoyed unusual opportunities and facilities for acquiring a thoi'ough practical, as well as theoretical, knowledge of leading depai'tments of mechanical art His special experience, however, was acquired as millwright, molder and machin ist. Among forges, furnaces and whirring wheels he laid the foundation of his future life. In 1846. ho concluded to come West, and, on the 10th of November of that year, he reached Delphi. He at once accepted service under the firm of Dunkle & wagon-makers. He expected to remain over winter only, but continued dm'ing the following spring and summer in the employ of the firm, and, in October, formed a partnershij) with William Dunkle, under the firm name of Dunkle & Kilgore, the pai'tnership still existing. This new firm built the first wagon, complete, ever constructed in Carroll County. In 1858, the firm opened the agricultm-al depot and machinery supply store, yet maintained on Main sti-eet. About the yeai- 1802, Mi'. Kilgore introduced labor-saving machinery in the sho]is on Franklin street, and also such machinery as would enable him to build or repair portable engines. In 1872, the present commo dious brick shop, on the corner of Franklin and Wilson streets, was erected, and other iron-working machinery- added. He then rapidly increased his facilities for work, and began the construction of portable engines, building the first engine constructed in this county. In this enterprise he has been (juite successful, by reason of the superiority of his engines, both in design and construction.

In municipal affairs, as well as the affairs of the county, he has always manifested much interest, and has from time to time been called to important trusts. About the year 1852, he served one term as Township Trustee. He was also three times elected member of the City Council, his first term of service being in 1853. He was again chosen Councilman in 1803, and again in 1880. He was also a member of the Board of School Trustees when it was determined to build a larger and better school building, about the year 1803. At the October election, 1880, he was elected County Commissioner from this district which position he is now filling.

He was married, in Delphi, April 7, 1852, to Mrs. Mary A. Witherow. Three sons have been born to them - Charles H., William R. and Frank E. - all engaged with their father in the manufacturing business. Mr. Kilgore has always been regarded as one of the public-spirited men of the city and county, and has never been found lagging in any enterprise which jimmised the bettei-ment of the public weal. He is a substantial and valued citizen.

Hiram Keblin

Hiram Kerlin is the present Sheriff of Carroll County, having been elected to that official position in 1880, as the candidate of the Democratic party, and after one of the most spirited political contests ever occurring in "Old Carroll."

He is a native of the great " Keystone" State, and was born in Juniata County on the 25th day of November. 1843, whence, at the age of five years, in 1848, his father's family emigrated to Carroll County, Ind.. making the trip in a three-horse wagon.

His father, Malilon Kerlin, is a successful representative of the " tillers of the soil," and one of the foremost citizens of Carroll County, having creditably served one term as County Commissioner.

The eai'lier years of the suliject of this review do uol essentially differ fi-om those experienced by a majority of the sturdj' f ai-mers' sons of this " banner " agricultural State - having been passed, for the most part, in the summer, in the ordinary routine work of the farm, and in the winter in attendance at the district schools, until, arriving at the age of twenty-two years, he quit the farm of his father, and, independently assuming control of another, began of engage in a line of business toward which, while yet a boy, he was ambitiously inclined, viz.: The j)urchase and sale of all kinds of domestic cattle. For six years, he continued in the double business of farming and dealing in stock, when, in 1868, he left the fai'm and gave his entire attention to the purchase and shipment, under his own person il supervision, of stock to Eastern markets. In this exclusive branch of the great cattle traflfic he engaged for the succeeding ten vears - from 1868 to 1878.

In 1878, he was elected to the office of Treasm-er of the city of Delphi - a position which he occupied two years. In 1880, he was the Democratic candidate for Sheriff of Carroll County, to which office, as we have said eai'lier in this review, he was successfitlly elected.

In 18(55, on the 29th day of November, ill-. Kerlin was married to Miss S rah Martin, the result of the marriage being three children - Lillie E., Cloyd and Florence. Mrs. Kerlin is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a lady who, socially speaking, has many kind and warm-hearted fi'iends.

Mr. Kerlin, though somewhat reserved in manner, is a jileasant and accommodating gentleman. In matters of business, he is straightforward and energetic, and. being now in the very vigor of manhood, may reasonably expect a fair share of the honors and emoluments of this world.

Isaac R. Kennard was born on the 8th day of November, I 1842, in Clay Township, Carroll County, Ind, Eighteen years I of his life were passed in Clinton County, Ind., where his par- j ents, Tobias A, and Eliza (Roll) Kennard, had permanently located in 18-t8, and where, in 1862, his father died. Foiu- yeai-s later, in 1866, his widowed mother, with her family, retm-ned i again to Clay Township, Carroll County.

His gi-andfather, Thomas Kennai'd, was commissioned a Colonel of State militia in Butler County, Ohio, and subse- [ quently removing to Indiana, was sent to the State Legislatui'e as a Re|iresentative from Clinton County, and, at a still later date, represented Clinton and Carroll Counties in that body as a joint Senator. j

The subject of this sketch, in addition to the somewhat limited advantages of (country schooling, has attended se\eral select [ schools, and holds a diploma h'om the Stai' City Commercial College in La Fayette, Ind. He has recompensed the world, I however, for these educational advantages by laboring as a sue- ! cessful teacher for almost ten consecutive yeju's - from 1867 to j 1878. In the intervals, and up to the date of his election as a j county official, his time has been employed in farming consid ered by him to be his real occupation.

ship, serving with such fidelity and satisfaction, as to bring about his re-election to the same official trust two years later. In 1880, as the candidate of the Democratic party, he was elected to the position of Treasiu'er of Carroll County.

Ml'. Kennai'd enlisted as a private soldier in the late war, on liie 1st of September, 1864. He was a member of Company (i. Thirtieth Indiana Volunteers, and participated in at least two important battles - Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864: and Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864, at Hood's siege.

On the 29th day of December, 1874, he was joined in marriage to Lillie Alexander, daughter of Capt. Alexander, of Butler County, Ohio, the result of the union being one child - Alice.

He recently joined the Delphi Lodge of Odd Fellows. As we have intimated before. Mi'. Kennard is in politics a Democrat, yet he is not a politician. Possessing a quiet dignity, he at the same time atti'acts all who have relations with him by a gentlemanly deportment Those who know him best bespeak in highest erms his chai'acter as a man in private and public, and, being in the prime of life, his years of usefulness may be said to have only fairly begun.

The subject of this biographical sketch is of jnu'e English lineage. He was born in the seaboard town of Penzance, Cornwall County, England, October 27, 1841. His [jarents were poor but honorable and industrious citizens, and always on the alert to turn an honest shilling as o]iportunity offered. In his boyhood, he did not enjoy the advantages which suiTound the youth of this Republic, nor was he the recipient of the inestimable blessings confei'red by our aiagnificent system of public instruction. Natm'e, however, was generous in giving him a sple'ndid jihysical organization, ample will power, and an interminable store of energy, which largely compensated for the lack of the advantages named. The family immigi'ated to this country in 1851, and settled in Vallet Vale, a small manufacturing village neai' Boston, Mass. After remaining there a short time, the fam ily started West in pm'suit of better opportunities; but, when they reached Toledo, they found their means exhausted and their pro.'^ pects unpromising. Mr. Lathrope and his father were both ac oomplished musicians, and in this emergency music not only possessed its ancient charms, but proved a very present helji in timi' of need. Mr. Lathrojje and his father secured passage for the family on a canal-boat from Toledo to La Fayette by agreeing to enliven the weary hours of travel by au abimdance of music. Arriving at La Fayette, the father and son engaged as laborers on the Wabash Railway, then under construction, the father as shoveler, the subject of om' sketch as cart-boy. After a .short time of service, enough was saved to enable to family to return to Americus, a thriving village at that time, on the canal, seven miles west of Delphi, where they entered the employ of John Dehner, who at that time did a lucrative business in buying and l)acking ])ork. Two years were ))assed in his service, after which they rented a farm of the late Dr. Anthony Garrett, and, during; the first year, they gave an exliibition of their strength and in dustry by clearing twenty acres of ground. Thence the family came to Delphi, rented a farm of Vine Holt, Escj., and cleareii another twenty acras of the ancient woodland. Thence they moved to the old Dehner farm on Wild Cat, where they contin ued to fai'm until ISM), when they moved to this city, (lennanently located and Ijecame engaged in business.

Porte. Ind.. August 27, 1861, as leader of the regimental band of | Vnisiness, he has achieved almost a national reputation as a cortlie. Ninth Indiana Volunteers. Soon thereafter, the regiment was ordered into service in Western Virginia, rejiorting for duty at Camji Elk Water; thence to Cheat Moiintain. The command piu-ticipated in the engagements at Greenbrier and at Biiffalo Mountain. At the latter engagement, Mr. Lathrope was ser\-ing in the cajjacity of Bugler, and had received orders from Col. Moody, of his regiment, to go back along the line and give the " retreat call." In passing back, he was confronted by Maj J.

B. Milroy, who demanded to know where he was going. Mr. Lathrope informed him of the orders received, whereupon the j Major assiu'ed him that if he sounded the call he would shoot 1

, him on the spot. Mr. Lathrope solemnly asswed his biographer I that the " retreat call " was not sounded. From Virginia the regiment was sent to the Department of the Cumberland, par- ! ticipating in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 7, 1802, and [ was jiresent at the evacuation of Corinth In pursuance of the order of the War Department, the band was mustered out of service at Nashville, Tenn.. in August, 1862. Mi'. Lathrope then retm-ned to Del[)hi and resumed business. He has conducted a prosperous business, and has at all times manifested a liberal spirit in his business relations and with reference to public \ afi'airs. He served during fom' consecutive terms in the City I Council, and rendered valuable service to the city while acting in that capacity. In 1880, he was honored with the nomination for Treasiu'er of the county by the Republican [larty, but failed of an election by reason of the decisive minority of his party. It is proper to say, however, that he developed great strength, and made a race highly creditable to himself and friends, even though ending in defeat

Being a man of naturally generous impulses, he was irresistibly carried into and became a moving spirit in the benevolent institutions of the day. The following is a record of his connec tion with the benevolent orders :

Masonic - Admitted March 27, 1873, to Mount Olive Lodge, No. 48; January 14, 1876, to Delphi Chapter, No. 21, Royal Arch Masons: April 4, 1876, to La Fayette Commandery, Knights Templar; March 26, 1878, to the Indiana Consistory of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he has advanced to and including the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Rose Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, No. 36.

He was a charter member of Delphi Lodge, No. 80, Knights of Pythias, instituted April 3, 1879: held membership iu the Improved Order of Red Men in the lodge of La Fayette, and was a charter member of Boothroyd Post, No. 31, G. A. R., instituted in this city July 8, 1881. In all these orders, he has been honored with high official rank, and has represented the two former orders in the State Grand Lodges, with credit to himself and those he represented.

C. Assion, only daughter of the late Joseph Assion. Mr. Lathrope's career has been a somewhat eventful one, but he has always made the most of his opportunities. He has been successful, and enjoys the high esteem of his fellow-citizens.

net-player. He has been almost continuously a leader of a band for thirty years, and has at different times been honored with invitations from abroad to play at highly artistic entertainments, and to act in the capacity of judge in musical contests where the j best talent of the West was employed. The name of Mr. Laj thrope is a familiar and honored one in musical circles, and will so continue for many years to come.

William F. Lytle

William F. Lytle was horn iu CarroUton To\v)islii|,, Carroll County, Ind., August 26, 1844. His p;u-ents were natives of Butler County, Ohio, and moved to Carroll County in 1843, where they engaged in farming. In 1855, they moved near Dayton, in Tippecanoe County: thence, iu 1857. to Prairie Township, White County. During these years. William assi.sted his father on the farm, and received such instruction during the winter months as was imparted by the country schools. In 1857, he entered the academy at BaHle Ground, where he remained two years. When the war broke out. he enlisted. August 22. 1862, in Company K, Eighty-sixth Indiana Infantry. The regiment was mustered into the service September 4. 1862. and at once hurried to Cincinnati to protect the city against a threatened invasion by the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith. From Cincinnati, the command went by boat to Louisville, whence it started in pursuit of Bragg. In the marching and countermarching and random movements of the regiment, Mr. Lytic gained much geographical information, but no very valuable knowledge of the art of war. Finally, however, the command reached Nashville, and was assigned for duty to the Second Brigade. Third Division of the Twenty-first Ai-my Corps. Now the information to he gained was less of the geogra])hical and more of the military cast. The weary marches were soon forgotten in the leaden storm of the terrible battle at Stone River, and. in the first day's fearful struggle, Mr. Lytle received a severe rifle shot wound in the left side and breast. He was transferred to Hospital No. 13, at Nashville, and. later, was carried by boat to Hospital No. 6. at Louisville. It was nearly a year before he was able for service again. Rejoining his regiment at Chattanooga, he again saw active service in the fight at Mission Ridge, where the Eightysixth was in the storming column. He was severely, though not seriously, hurt in this engagement, by being struck on the shoulder by a piece of an exploded shell. In 1864. he was with his regiment in the long and ai-duous campaign against Atlanta, and participated in the fighting at Rocky Face Ridge. Resaca. Adairsville. Kingston, Picket's Mills. Kenesaw Mountain. Chattahoochie River. Peach Tree Creek. Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's. The regiment then fell back, participated in the Hood campaign, and was engaged in the battles at Franklin and Nashville. After these decisive battles, which served to utterly shatter the Confederate forces in the West, the regiment joined in pursuit of the demoralized enemy until driven across the Tennessee River. The command then went into camji at Huntsville, Fighting was now over, and the regiment was ordered to Nashville, where it arrived April 27, 1865, On the 6th of June fol lowing, it was mustered out of the service. Mr. Lytle, excejjt the hospital and of his convalescence after his wound at Stone Biver, was with the regiment, a private in the ranks, from first to last, in all its marches and battles, and no regiment from Indiana encountered harder service or made a better record than the Eighty -sixth.

Mr. Lytle returned to Battle Ground and engaged in the drug business. He remained there until January 15, 1868, when, having sold his business at Battle Ground, he came to Delphi and re-entered the drug business, forming a partnership with Mr. Jakes, the style of the firm being Jakes & Lytle. The firm was. highly successful in business, and rapidly enlarged their stock and patronage. In 1875. Mr. Jakes retired from the firm, and the business was continued by Mr. Lytle. During the year 1878, he. in company with his brother, started a stave and cooperage factory under the name and style of the Lytle Manufacturing Company. A few mouths later, the company abandoned this line of manufacturing, and substituted that of spokes, hubs, plow beams, etc. This line of business is still piu-sued. Changes have taken place in the business associates, but Mr. Lytle, the leading figure of the company, has remained, and iinder his management the industry has rapidly developed, so that at present it ranks with the best of its line in the West, In building up this industrial establishment, he has manifested an interminable energy and the possession of great executive ability. In 1880, the manufactm-ing department demanding so much of his attention, he disposed of an interest in the drug business to Dr. A. A. Wells, of Stockwell.

He is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding membership in Carroll Lodge, Xo. 174. and Delphi Encampment, No, 127. He was also a charter member of Boothroyd Post. G. A. B. , of this city.

Gen. Bobebt H. Milboy

One among the earliest and most prominent of the pioneers of the territory out of which Carroll County was organized was Gen. Samuel Milroy (father of Gen. B. H. Milroy). who was born August 14, 1780, in Kishakoquillas Valley, Mifflin County, Penn, His grandfather. John McElroy, the Earl of Annandale, in Scotland, and a lineal descendant of Bobert Bruce, was proscribed for supporting the cause of Charles Stuart in the attempted revolution in 1744. fled with his young wife to Ireland, and, changing his name to Milroy. after a few years emigrated to the American colonies, and, settling near Carlisle, Penn.. became a prosperous farmer. He had a family of two sons and three daughters, and afterwai'd was. with his eldest son. killed by the Indians. Henry, the surviving son, married and settled in Mifflin County, and had a family of fom- boys and two girls. Gen. Samuel Milroy (for a more extended account of whose life, political |)rominence and social virtues we respectfully refer the reader to Dr. J. H. Stewart's " Becolleetions of Carroll County "l was the third son of Hem-y Milroy. Samuel Milroy. having purchased a tract of land in Kentucky in 1809. was married the following year to Miss Martha Houston, a relative of Gen. Sam Houston, and one of a family of eleven children of a widow, who had moved to Kentucky at an early day and settled in Nelson County. Martha Houston had nine brothers, each of whom, when grown, was over six feet high. To Samuel Milroy and Martha (Honstoni Milroy were burn seven sons and thi-ee daughters.

After obtaining an elementary education in the meager country schools of those earlj' days. Gen. Milroy earnestly entreated his father to be allowed a collegiate training, offering to siu-- render his claim on th§ paternal estate therefor, but to no avail. Gen. Samuel Milroy ha>ing an aversion for " college upstarts." as he termed college graduates, and believing in self-made men. Young Bobert, however, determining upon an education, unassisted by his father if must be, and making use of his father's excellent library until twenty-four years of age. when, in 1840. on a visit to relatives' in Pennsylvania, he continued his way to Vermont, and, entering the Norwich Military University, he was graduated from that institution in 1843, being Valedictorian of his class, and taking the degrees of Master of Arts. Master of Civil Engineering and Master of Military Science. In 1850. he received a diploma from the law school at Bloomington. Ind. taking the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had. indeed, begun the study of law in 1844, but, his inclinations for a military life leading him, in 1845, to visit Texas, he took the oath of allegiance and became a citizen of the young rejiublic. Called home soon after by the death of his father, he remained to settle his father's estate, and, by the entreaties of Jiis mother, abandoning a return to Texas, he resumed the study of law once more, only to relinquish it again to enter the Mexican war as a Captain in the First Indiana Begiment. Bettu-ning from the Mexican war. and, as mentioned before, graduating at the Indiana University Law School in 1850, two years later, in 1852. he was commissioned by the Governor as President Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Indiana. In May. 1854, he located in Bensselaer. Jasper Co.. Ind., and enjoyed a successful law practice until the beginning of the war of the rebellion. After the war. he rettumed to Delphi,' Carroll County, and opened a law office, with Judge John H. Gould as a partner. In 1873. he moved to Olympia, Washington Territory, where he still resides.

On the 17th of May. 1849. he was married to Miss Mary J. Armitage, a daughter of Valerius Ai-mitage. a large contractor, at the time of his death (1838|. in the construction of the Wa bash & Erie Canal. Seven children were born of this union, only three of whom are living.

Gen. Milroy received his first military commission June 8. 1846. as Captain of the "Can-oil Horse Guai'ds." a militia com pany. A few days later, he raised a company, which he took into the Mexican war. January 15, 1861. he was commissioned as Aid-de-Camp to Gov. Henry S. Lane, with the rank of Colonel. Gen. Milroy was a thcmghtful student of history, and clearly foresaw the logic of events long before the war. but his pre dictit)n8 were not believed. So firmly impressed Wiis he that war was imminent that, on the 7th of February, 1861, he openeil a muster-roll in his law office at Bensselaer. and issued a call for troops. With all his earnest appeals, up to the fall of Fort Siunter, he had succeeded in getting but two recruits Gideon C'. Moody, afterward Ca|)taiu and a member of Gen. Thomas' staff; and Albert Guthi-idge, afterward. Cajitain. While it was still dark on the morning of receiving the news of the fall of Fort Sumter, with a martial band and by ringing the court house bell, he aroused and assembled the citizens of Bensselaer. and filled up his muster roll before breakfast, and reported the same day to Gov. Morton at Indianapolis. He was commissioned a Cap tain of the "Iroquois Gtiards " A|iril 16. 1861, and, ten days later. Colonel of Ninth Begiment Indiana Volunteers, and or

(lered to \\est Virginiii. By his personal braverv. omUvrance of harclshii)s witb his soldiers and solicitation for their comfort, he gained their confidence and won for himself an admiration closely iikin to worshi]). In (he jiresenco of an enemy he was ready for fighting, and chafed under the restraint imposed by sujierior officers in their tedious preparation for battle. He opened the battlf at Laurel Hill, in which the enemy was completely routed, in direct violation of orders. He stood the brunt of the threemonths' campaign in West Virginia, making but few reports, however, and. as a result, getting little credit for what he did in : the histories of the war. February 0. 1862. he was commissioned a Brigadier CJeneral. and. March 10, 1803. a Major General, ranking from November 29. 1802. He was never defeated but once when he held full command, and that was at Winchester. Va.. by Lee's forces, when on his raid into Pennsylvania, and through the treacherous conduct of Gens. Halleck and Schenck. Gen. Milroy's war record is that of a true soldier and a successful General. Had the same impartiality been shown him as a volunteer officer that was apparent in the advancements and opportunities allowed to West Point graduates, he would have proven still more his natural military genius. His integrity imd morality were unspotted. He was always anxious to be fighting, . but was still more anxious that the war should end. While in the service, he had three horses shot under him -one of them, a present from Jasper Coiuity. Ind.. shot twice. As an evidence of the high esteem m which he was held by officers, soldiers and citizens, he had three swords presented to him while in the service - -one. a handsome. gold-)ilated sword, by officers of his command, at Winchester. Va. ; the second, a thousand do liar sword, with sash and belt, presented by the Twenty-fifth Ohio Regiment Volunteers, and inscribed with the battles in which this regiment [jarticipated while under his command; the third sword, presented by the loyal citizens of Shelbyville and Bedford County. Tenn. Gen. Milrqy has quite a military appeMance. standing six feet two and a half inches in his stocking feet, and with a form as straight as an arrow. The war over and no more fighting to be done, he resigned from the service and resumed his law practice. Gen. Milroy always heartily encouraged public enterprises. He was one of the original movers in the effort that has resulted in the Chicago <fe Indianapolis Air Line Railroad. The existence. of the Olymjjia & Fenimo Railroad, in Washington Territory, is due to him.

He was a member of the Second Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850. In 1807. he was elected by the General Assembly of Indiana a Trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal. In 1871, he was appointed Marshal of Wyoming Territory, but declined to accept. In 1872. he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs of Washington TeiTitory. and held the office until it was abolished, in 1874. In 1875, he was ajiijointed United States Prosecuting Attorney for Washington Ten-itory, but declined to accept. The position which he holds now that of Indian Agent - he received in 1875.

There is something exceptionally high and noble in Gen. Milroy's character. To know him is to admire and love him. His fidelity to truth and right is of the most unflinching kind. .Vs a citizen and official, he is singularly |iure and conscientious. As a father and husband, he is devotedly attached to his family. If the honors and emoluments rendered to him for his services to his native land and to his fellow-men do not compensate Mm. the high esteem and regard in which he is held by all who know him should at least be a satisfaction to him and to his descendants.

Robert Mitchell

The subject of this sketch was born in Ross County, Ohio, January 2, 1823; died January 3, 1878. His parents, who were old residents of Ohio, moved to Can-oil County November 1, 1837, and located on the farm just north of Delphi yet owned by his widow. In his boyhood he was dejjrived of the educational advantages enjoyed by the youth of the present day. but for this deficiency there was ample compensation in the possession of good judgment, interminable energy and an unyielding determination to succeed in whatever was undertaken. March 15, 18-13, at the age of twenty, he was united in marriage to Miss Sai'ah A. Shaw. Immediately after his marriage, he moved to what is now known as the Greenup farm, on Deer Creek Prairie, where he lived about two years. Thence he moved to Howard County, where he remained until March. 18-17. when he returned the old homestead. In 1872. he was elected Sheriff of the county, and so faithfully and well did he perform the duties devolved upon him that he was re-elected in 1874. At the expiration of his official relations to the coiinty, he returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his days. For several years prior to his death, he had been an active member of the firm of Hubbai'd, Harley & Co.. lime manufacturers, and also was a stockholder in the Delphi Lime Company. These interests, with those of his farm, jjroved lucrative, and he rajiidly accumulated money. It was easier, however, for him to make money than to save it. because of his practical acceptance of the doctrine that " it is better to give than to receive." He was a veritable " Man of Roses " among the poor, and scattered his benefactions with an open hand. Perhaps no more fitting tribute to a noble manhood, such as he possessed, can be recited than the following, written by a friend at the time of his death: " He was the embodiment of all that is generous and honest, and if, indeed, he had a besetting fault, it was an unbridled spirit of charity. His heart ever heeded the appeals of the sorrowing, the homeless and the poor, and his benefactions were scattered with generous hand. His charities were not on the highways of life, but along its dark and devious by-paths, unseen of all save Him who searcheth the hearts of men. " He was for many years a member of Carroll Lodge, No. 1 74. I. O. O. F. . and was also a member of Can-oil Encampment. No. 22.

Hon. James Odell

Hon. James Odell was born in Wayne County, Ind., September 18, 1810. His father, James Odell, Sr., was born in the State of South Carolina March 10, 1705, and was married to Miss Sarah Martindale March 12, 17!)5.

He removed with his family to the State of Georgia in 171)9, and, after one year's residence there (1800), again removed, to the State of Ohio, settling in the valley of the Little Miami.

Again, in 1810. he removed his family to what has since become Wayne County. State of Indiana, and finally, in 1825. to the Wabash Valley, locating upon the farm now owned by John D. Wilson & Bros., of Deer Creek Township, this county. Death robbed him of his companion May 20. 1826, and he departed this life April 17, 1845, at the home of his son-in-law, Isaac Jackson, also of Deer Creek Township.