Clinton County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1913 (part 10 of 17)

James M. Bell was born October 31, 184O. being the son of James and Jane (Givens') Bell, both native> of Pennsvlvania. The father was a farmer bv occupation, and came to Clinton county in 1848 and continued his vocation. He owned -ix hundred .acres in thi> countv. and was one of the hardest workers in inducing the turn railroad to enos this locality. He was a Democrat in politics, and was a member of the United Presbyterian church. The mother's parents were retired farmers, who came to Clinton county in i860. The father and mother died at the age of eightv-six years. The Givens familv were originally from Ireland, and the Bell family of English ancestry.

James M. Bell was one of eight children: Xancy W illiams, of Burlington. Kas. ; Mary Hamilton, of Clinton county; Margaret Shortle (deceased) ; John M., our subject; John A. (deceased): Joseph W .. Pawhuska, Okla. ; Alice Thompson (deceased), and Hiram J.. of Clinton county.

Our subject was educated in the common schools of the countv where he was born. He early learned the rudiments of the agricultural art, and he remained a farmer nearly all of his life. Eor two years he was engaged in the stave business in Frankfort and in the coal mining business in Parke county for three years. He retired from active life in 1901, and now leads a quiet life in his beautiful home in Frankfort. Inch He still owns two hundred acres of fertile and tillable land in Union township and excellent oats, corn and live stock are raised thereon. He has a tenant on his estate.

Politically, Mr. Bell is a Democrat, and was a trustee of Owen township for two terms, from 1886 to 1890. Religiously, he is a member of the Presbyterian church. Fraternally, Mr. Bell belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tribe of Ben Hur. He is also president of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company of Mulberry, this county.

In the year 1876 Mr. Bell took as his wife Susan Wallace, the daughter of Benjamin and Christy Ann (Thompson) Wallace, natives of Ohio, and farmers all their lives. The father died when Mrs. Bell was eight months old and the mother departed this life in 1901. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bell: Mabel, now Mrs. Brosier. of Dayton. O., and Myrtle, now Mrs. Myer, of Rensselaer, Ind. The latter has two children: Margaret and Jane.

Mr. Bell and wife travel very extensively. They enjoy the balmy sea breezes of the Florida shores in the winter months, and spend the sweltering days of summer, among the cool rocks of northern Maine.

Frank Reed Stewart

Prominent in the affairs of Clinton county and distinguished as a capable citizen whose kindly influence, was felt far beyond the confines of the community in which he lived, the subject of this sketch inspires an easy and pleasant task for the biographer. His magnanimity, his energetic and honest business methods live after him, for it is true that his bodily presence has disappeared. Men with large souls and willing hands are the elements that keep up civilization in the face of immorality, degradation, and dishonesty. Such a man was Frank Reed Stewart, of Frankfort, Inch, and his name has been engraved in the halls of Clinton county as one of her noblest citizens.

Mr. Stewart was born in Clinton county September 9, 1866, being the son of Henry and Nancy Ann Stewart. His father was a native of Montgomery county, and spent the days of his life in farming and stock raising. His mother was born in Clinton county. Henry Stewart was a great worker in the Antioch church during his younger days. At one time he owned all of the land where the little town of Antioch now stands, but he sold it to be plotted and made into town lots. Mr. Stewart led the singing in the church.

Frank Stewart was educated on the farm and in the very meager schools of that period. When twenty years of age, Mr. Stewart engaged in the furniture business, remaining for some time at that occupation. Subsecpiently, the livestock trade appealed to him more strongly and he entered upon that calling, and continued until his death on February 16, 1911.

In his endeavors in his chosen field of work, Mr. Stewart covered large territory, making trips to all the cities in the country, and he had a personal acquaintance with most of the leading stockmen of the United States. It was his custom to buy cattle and sheep in the West and ship them East to be sold on the market. Frequently, he made large shipments, approximating at times five thousand dollars. For a number of years, Mr. Stewart lived in the town of Darlington, Montgomery county, and his efforts were greatly responsible for the building up of that town. He was councilman for a few years.

Mr. Stewart, on December 28, 1892, was married to Emma E. Miller, the daughter of Samuel and Harriet C. Miller. The father was of good Scotch-Irish blood and was a native of the Blue Grass state. Her mother came from a stock of Indiana farmers, and is able to trace her ancestry back to a very interesting period. She lost her mother when she was but a child, and then she helped keep house for her family until the day she married Frank Stewart. Her great grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War and Iter grandfather participated in the second conflict with Great Britain in 1812, and also was the squire of Franklin, Ind., for a long time in those early days. Her grandmother on her father's side bore the name of Ross, and was descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, thus Mrs. Stewart is eligible to be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a privilege w'hich she never sought. An interesting little story of a great uncle, Thomas Miller, is to the effect that, in 1795, he was hunting in Kentucky and came upon five buffalos, one of which he wounded, when the herd attacked him furiously and drove him into a tree. He had to kill all of them before he could come down. A spoon made from a horn of one of these buffalos has been handed down in the family as an heirloom. Mrs. Stewart's father lived for fifty-two vears on a farm given to him as a wedding present. He belonged, from an early day, to the Horsethief Association of his county. Mrs. Stewart has one uncle living, and he is in the ministry at Waynetown, Montgomery countv, the Rev. John (45)

L. Miller of the Baptist church. Her sisters and brothers living are: Will and Otto, farmers near Darlington, Montgomery county; Homer, in the hardware business in above town; John W., in fruit business in Washington state; Rue C., making home in San Francisco, Cal., and Mrs. Onelia Hopper, living near Lebanon, Boone county. Two brothers are dead.

Mr. Stewart was a very public-spirited and generous man, and a great lover of his family and home. Rather inclined to a quiet disposition, he hesitated to hold public offices, but took an interest in politics. He was a Republican in politics and belong to the Methodist church and to the lodges of Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Jesse C. Blinn

It is a pleasure to sketch the biography of the old veterans of the Civil war, because their liv es are interesting and surrounded by a glamor of romance. We place them upon a pedestal in our minds and view them with wonder. To the younger generation the exciting days of '61 and '65 seem far away, and to be permitted the pleasure of hearing the talk of men to to whom the days seem but yesterday, is indeed a pleasure to be sought and cherished. The subject of this sketch faithfully played his part in the war drama, and lives today, a veritable magazine of reminiscences. Since the day of Robert E. Lee's surrender, Jesse C. Blinn has lived a life of valuable achievement in his chosen field, farming.

Mr. Blinn places the date of his birth on January 4, 1840, the place Center township, Clinton county. He was the son of Jacob and Lucinda (Thatcher) Blinn, who were among the earliest settlers in this county, having come here in the year 1830 from Warren county, O., where they were married. The father remained a farmer all of his life, and raised a family of six children: Adam (deceased), Amos (deceased), Julia (deceased), George, Jesse C., and Mary.

In his youth, Jesse Blinn attended the common schools and subsequently engaged in agricultural pursuits. The call for volunteers in 1861 was an irrisistible attraction for him, and on September 19, 1861 he enlisted in Company K. Tenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Captain Shortle in charge. His regiment became a part of the famous Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General Thomas. Mr. Blinn was mustered out in Indianapolis. Ind., on September 19, 1864. His regiment had a brilliant war record, having participated in no less than twenty-two important battles.

Mr. Blinn lost no time after his retirement from the army to seek the girl who had waited for him. He#and Margaret E. Gaddis were wedded in 1864. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Gaddis, very old settlers in the county. To them there have been born two children, Ora and Clare.

Mr. Blinn continued the work of farming until the year 1881 and then sought retirement, choosing Frankfort, Ind., as his home. Mr. Blinn has been identified with several notable movements while he has lived there. For several years he was an energetic and worthy member of the city council. Mr. Blinn constructed the opera house in Frankfort, which ranks as one of the most complete and artistic theaters in the state of Indiana. Since building it. however. Mr. Blinn has not taken active charge, but has kept it under lease.

Mr. Blinn is a Methodist and a Republican, both of which are good affiliations. He has not taken an ostentatious position in his services to the community, but has preferred to be numbered among the silent workers.

Jacob Hodgen

As the young man of today spins through the picturesque valleys and along level fields in his motor car and see the white road thread itself like a ribbon under the wheels, he does not think of the day when his father or grandfather slowly toiled along through the same country in a slow-going wagon, over stumps and logs, fording streams, ever pushing into a new countrv. Nor does he reckon that the cost of the car and the motor that hums so powerfully wrould have kept a pioneer family for many years in the midst of plenty. Their food was not bought - it was grown by themselves ; their homes were not constructed by accomplished craftsmen - they were hewed and fitted and covered by the calloused hands of the home-maker. Watch one of these old heroes today when he gazes upon the evidences of wealth around him and the twentieth-century youth. He will smile complacently and nod his head; he does not resent or criticise; he would be the first to help his own son have the comforts of the "best of them." Such a

Jacob Hodgen was born July 9, 1831, in Clinton county, twelve miles north of Frankfort, and was the son of William and Magdalene . (Smith) Hodgen. who were natives of Kentucky, coming to Clinton county during the first years of the nineteenth century and following farming all of their lives. Our subject died May 5, 1907, being the last of a family of ten children.

Mr. Hodgen received a meager common school education in his youth, but made up the deficiency in after life by reading and social intercourse. He began farming early, and continued the same until his retirement late in life. He owned one hundred and sixty acres of excellent farm land, well tiled, tillable and fenced, south of Frankfort. Mr. Hogden conducted a grocery store in Frankfort for a time preceding his retirement from active life.

In the year 1849, when the people rushed to the West in search of gold. Mr. Hodgen joined the train. Like so many others, however, unacquainted with the pitfalls of prospecting, he found his Midas-dream like the quest for the end of the rainbow. He soon returned home to this county. Before his death, Mr. Hodgen sold his farm and all other possessions with the exception of his home in Frankfort. His widow now lives in comfort and plenty.

In 1857 Mr. Hodgen married Mary McKinsev. the daughter of Mercer and Sarah (Elmore) McKinsev, both natives of Ohio, coming to Clinton county in the early days among the first families. She was born in 1S38 in a log cabin and had a log cabin education. She used to help do the farm work, remembering the days when she followed her father and dropped corn in the furrows. She was ever a strong worker in the Christian church. Noah and Hale, of Frankfort; Emma, of Kokomo; Kate, of Peru, and Mary are the survivors in a family of ten children.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hodgen were born six children : Laban, Henry, Oscar, Anna, Josephine, and Magdalene. Laban, of Winamac, Indiana, has one daughter, Lenora, and three sons, Wilber, Howard and Noble. Lenora has two girls, Atterah and Mary Louise; Noble has two girls, Ruth Lenora and Ida Evelyn; Wilber has two boys, Rushton and Tack Laban: Howard is single. Henry Hodgen, Winamac, has two children, Fern and Earl, Earl has one boy, John; Oscar and Anna Hodgen are both deceased; Josephine makes her home in Oklahoma, and Magdalene lives with her mother in Frankfort.

before his death became a strong Prohibitionist. At, one time in the eighties he held the office of count}' trustee. Fraternally, he belonged to the Society of Grangers. He was an ardent member of the Christian church.

John O. Frye

We should indeed be proud of the fact that there is no limit in this country to which natural ability, industry and honesty may not aspire. One born in the most unpromising surroundings and reared in the most adverse environment may. nevertheless, break from his fetters and rise to the highest station in the land, and the qualities do not have to be of transcendent character to enable him to accomplish this result. It is more the way he does it and his skill in grasping the opportunities presented than to any remarkable qualities possessed by him. Accordingly, it is found that very often in this countrv the chief executive of the nation or state and other high public officials possess no greater ability than thousands of others. They have simplv taken better advantage of their opportunities than their fellows. And this truth runs through every occupation. The business man rises above his competitors merely by taking advantage of conditions which others overlook or fail to grasp. It is so with the subject of this review; he has ever been wide awake and industrious, and his reward has been an enviable success.

John O. Frye was born in Morristown. Hamlin county. Tennessee, on April 20. 1875. He was the son of John B. and Nancy (Cox) Frye, the father a native of Clinton county, and the mother of the state of Virginia. By trade the father was a tanner, and was an ardent member of the Christian church. He died on May 18, 1895. He served in the Civil war, and made there a splendid record being a corporal under Capt. John \Y. Hannah, Company A. One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. He was enrolled on the Twelfth day of November, 1863. and honorable discharged from service August 31. 1865, at Greensboro, X. C.

The mother is still living with her son. Thomas, in Tennessee. Our subject was one of a family of eight, namelv: Love IT., a merchant of Ashville, N. C. ; William F.. a railroad man of Cincinnati ; Thomas, a conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; James C.. a farmer; Lillie B. Luttrell ; Florence E. Smith, and Jennie B. Wilford, the two latter deceased.

Mr. Frye spent his early days in the state of Tennessee, and received his early education in the common schools there. Before coming to Indiana.

and after leaving school, he followed railroading for several years. In 1893 he moved to Clinton county, and continued for a period of three years in the railroad business. He finally gave that up and entered the employment of the Leseure Brothers, as clerk in their cigar store. His ability soon asserted itself and he was promoted to the position of manager, which same he held for five years. Having saved enough of the worldly goods he opened up a store of his own in 1911, and in 1913 he incorporated with the Leseure Brothers under the name of J. C). Frye & Company, he being the president of the concern. Two stores are operated in Frankfort. The scope of their business is described by their advertising term: "Wholesale and retail tobacco dealers." Mr. Frye is also a stockholder in the People's Life Insurance Company and the Capital State Bank of Indianapolis.

Fraternally, Mr. Frye is one of the most prominent men in the county. His memberships include the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery, and Shrine of the Masonic Order; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; the Knights of Pythias; Improved Order of Red Men ; Hay Makers; Tribe of Ben Hur; Order of Eastern Star: Pythian Sisters: Travelers' Protective Association, and the Loyal Order of Moose. Politically, Mr. Frye is a Republican. In 1912, he ran for the office of recorder of Clinton countv, but was defeated by the narrow margin of twelve votes. He is a member of the Christian church.

Mr. Frye was united in marriage to Georgia G. Comly. the daughter of John A. and Eva (Davidson! Comly, both natives of Clinton countv. Mrs. Frye had one sister - Mrs. Isalake Auble, a school teacher at Forest, Ind. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frye: Evelena, Ellen and

Henry M. Moore

The most reliable history of a community, whether it be a township, county, or state, is one that embraces the lives of its people and provides scope for the relating of the part they played in the upbuilding of the locality. Especially ought the lives of the progressive men be detailed, those men that stand out as types of good citizens. In this cursory review will be found the record of a man who has outstripped many of his fellowmen and has achieved a highly successful career in the agricultural and business world, and has made for himself a name honored by all his contemporaries.

He was the son of William and Sarah E. Moore, of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father was a carpenter by trade. The family came to Indiana from Ohio, and lived here two years, during which time our subject was born. When he was two months old, the parents moved back to Ohio, where they remained until 1865. Then they returned to Clinton county. The parents have both passed away and their bodies now lie near Scircleville, Ind. Six children were born to their home: Carrie Miller, Mulberry, Ind.; Mary Rex, also of Mulberry; W. E. Moore, state of Kansas; Emma J. Moore, of Mulberry; Frank Moore, of Nebraska; and the subject.

Henry M. Moore was educated in the comuon schools of Oxford, O. After leaving the realm of the pedagogue, he went onto the farm in Clinton county, and continued so until 1900, at which time he was appointed drainage commissioner of Frankfort. So acceptably did he perform his duties in this capacity that he was chosen for four terms of two years each. After his service in Frankfort, he retired from active business life and farming, and has since been leading a rather quiet life.

Mr. Moore had a very brief experience in the Civil war. His intent was excellent, but circumstances robbed him of his share of the glory. When he was old enough, Mr. Moore joined Company A, One Hundred and Sixtvseventh Ohio Volunteers, as a private, but had only served four and onehalf months when the army was discharged without Mr. Moore having had the pleasure of shooting a rebel. Captain James E. Stewart and Colonel Thomas Moore were the officers in command of bis regiment.

Although living a retired life. Mr. Moore Mil takes an interest in his farms, and occasionally in the breeding of Poland China hogs, a favorite pastime with him. He owns one hundred and seven acres in Clinton county and forty acres in Boone county, and rents both of the estates. He owns his home in Frankfort, a large and beautiful place on Washington avenue, and is content to enjoy its comforts. Mr. Moore is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a Republican in politics. lie is a member of no church.

Mr. Moore married Maranda Baker, the daughter of Squire and Jane Baker of Clinton county. Squire Baker was a native of Ken tuck v and the mother came from Ohio. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Moore: Charles S. Moore, living in this county, and Edwin B. Moore, also of this county.

Mrs. Moore's parents came to this county sixty-five years ago when she was one year old. She remembers seeing many herds of deer around in the countv, and she herself drove four voke of oxen to break the land her father entered near Scireleville. Her husband, our subject, remembers when there were only five houses on the east side of the branch running through Frankfort, and no railroad in the county except the one across the Colfax corner. When Mr. and Mrs. Moore were first married they lived in a one room log cabin. Mrs. Moore had seven brothers and sisters: Elizabeth (deceased 'l : Nancy A., of Scireleville: W illiam M. (deceased), and Charles A.. John C.. Addie Lee and Clara McKinsie. all of Kansas.

Rev. M. M. Wiles

The life record of Rev. M. M. W iles, a highly respected farmer and minister of the Sugar Creek region, Clinton county, teaches that the road to success and position among men, whatever the station of life mav be, is open to all who possess the courage and fortitude to seek the elusive goal. The life of our subject has been a life of good work, it has acted, for the material, moral and intellectual uplift of those with whom he has come into contact, and the impression made is deep, so deep that time and the passing of Reverend Whies will not efface the lesson from the hearts of Clinton county.

Reverend Wiles was born October 10. [864. in Sugar Creek township, Clinton county, the son of Beter M. and Susan (Ray) Wiles, the father a native of Hamilton county, Indiana, being born there on July 1. 1841. He '-till lives on a farm near our subject, after a successful life of farming. He was a Democrat. The mother wa- a native of Sugar Creek township, this county, born there in 1836. and dying in 1876. Two children were born of the union, our subject and Add B. After the mother's death, the father married again, this time to Elizabeth Hammond, a native of Hamilton county, who died in April. 1888. In i8qo the father was married for the third time, to Elizabeth Myers, who is still living. Our subject's grandfather was Adam Wiles. He entered land from the government in Hamilton county, and there, in one yard, he lived for sixty years.

Rev. M. M. Whies graduated from the public schools of Sugar Creek township. Mr. Whies did not enter a regular theological seminary, but used his own resources to learn the profession. Naturally a great reader, and having one of the largest private libraries in Clinton county, he found the best of literature open to him, and he studied diligently from 1891 to 1895, when be became the minister of the Sugar Creek Christian church, and he remained there until a year or so ago, when he began preaching in Cass county, Indiana, carrying on the work in addition to his extensive operations in general farming and stock raising.

On September 13, 1885, Mr. Wiles was married to Edith A. Kingsolver, who was born June 12, 1865, in Boone county, Indiana, the daughter of William and Mary Jane (Whitaker) Kingsolver. Her father was born in Virginia in 1838, and died in December, 1890. The mother was a native of the Buckeye state, being born there on November 2, 1836, and came to Indiana with her parents when only a baby. She died February 9, 1908, in this state. Six children were born to the union, namely: Sanford, Milford, Edith, Samuel, Lucinda and Eliza. Our subject's wife received a good common school education in her youth. To our subject and wife the following children have been born: Lawrence, November 18, 1888. married to Efifie Rogers, have three children, Eldon, Susa and Eugene; Mary Susan, July 31, 1897, died July 29, 1902; Ethel M., February 3, 1900, now in school, and Carrie L., born June 22, 1903, also in school.

Mr. Wiles has always farmed here in Sugar Creek township, in connection with his work in the ministerial profession. He is living on his father's land, which comprises two hundred and seventy acres, all tillable with the exception of thirty acres. The ground is well tiled, and Mr. Wiles has placed upon his estate the latest improvements to be had. He makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle, Poland-China hogs, Percheron and Shire horses, and Brown Leghorn chickens, the selection being the best in the different classes of stock raising. Politically, Mr. Wiles is a Prohibitionist, and is not affiliated with anv fraternal organizations.

Albert T. Dennis

Among the capable men whose integrity and depth of character have gained a prominent place in the community and the esteem and admiration of his fellowmen is the honored subject of this sketch. A leading farmer and stockraiser of Clinton county, and a man of very good views and high ideas, his influence has ever been for the betterment of his community and the vocation in which he is interested. He ranks among the leading agriculturists of the county.

Pennsylvania and the latter of North Carolina. Benjamin Dennis was born in 1795 and was soldier in the American army during the war of 1812. Albert Dennis has four brothers and five sisters dead, and one brother living, William C. Dennis, of Greenfield, Ind., retired and father of a large family. The grandfather Dennis owned a half section of land in Pennsylvania, which he gave to the Shakers of Lebanon, O., when he joined them. Benjamin Dennis had three brothers: John, Thomas and Elijah, and one sister, who stayed with the Shakers.

Albert Dennis received his early education in a district school of Henry county, and later attended Earlhant College in 1862-63, but was forced by sickness to abandon his course there. Albert was too young to enlist in the army during the Civil war, but he had two brothers who served, John and Thomas P., the latter dying during his enlistment. Mr. Dennis moved to Frankfort in 1883, shortly after being appointed commissioner of drainage. He filled this office in a very acceptable manner for five years. For one year. Mr. Dennis clerked in a hardware store, and then went into the grocery business, where he stayed for eleven years. The call of the open field was too strong for him, however, and he retired from business life to look after his magnificent farm of two hundred and forty acres in Forrest township. This estate is in excellent condition, being one of the model farms of the state. Mr. Dennis raises corn and oats, and takes great pride in his cattle, sheep, and hogs. He now lives in Frankfort, in a very pretty and commodious home on Fast Clinton street. Part of the timber in the house was grown on the land where it stands.

Mr. Dennis is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, is a Quaker, of rather, belongs to the Society of Friends, and in politics votes the Independent ticket.

In the vear 1864, Mr. Dennis entered domestic life by marrying Emily Caroline Waddell, the daughter of Charles and Euphemia Waddell, natives of Pennsylvania. Only one child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and it died while in infancy.

Mrs. Albert Dennis is fortunate in possessing a very complete record of her large family of ancestors. Her grandparents were among the earlv settlers of the East, both being born on the shores of Maryland, and were married in North Carolina in the year 1799. Her grandparents on the maternal side were Jacob and Sarah Roush of Pennsylvania, and the greatgrandparents were John and Tane (Montgomery) Cook, of Cook county, Iceland.

F., of Indianapolis; Dilliha H., of Strawns, Ind. ; and two brothers and four sisters now dead. Her mother's brothers and sisters were James, Archie, William, Samuel, Robert, David, John, Jane and Betsy, all of whom are dead. Her father's brothers and sisters were Polly, Elizabeth, Charles, Sallie, Nancv, Henry and Jennie, all now passed from this life. The brother^ of her grandfather on her father's side were from Germany and all of them have died. They were Peter Waddell. John, Jacob, Henry, Grotford and Katherine. Jacob Waddell's grandmother's maiden name was Willis.

Maurice Hertz

There is a great deal of satisfaction to the biographer in setting before the reader the salient facts in the life of the gentleman whose name heads this paragraph, but whose >oul has traveled to "that undiscovered bourne from whence no traveler returns.-' His life was one of the highest integrity, his name was >ynonymous with good deeds, and his influence in his home community was ever helpful and progressive. Today his memory is held in profound respect by all who knew him, and his record will go down in history as one worthy of emulation.

Maurice Hertz brought with him from Germany frugalitv, economv, and industrv : his Teutonic training gave him that wealth of education which only the German system affords, and although lie left the Fatherland at the earlv age of sixteen, the schooling he possessed was far in advance of that of the American youths several years older. This element, when tempered with the Yankee grit and dadi, makes a wonderful combination, which, has meant untold benefit to every section of the United States. The Germans have filled the best positions in the land, have entered all the professions, have tilled our lands, made out laws, and have fought under the stars and stripes. Their patriotism is unquestioned, and the President of the United States occupies an equal place in their affections with their beloved Kaiser. Such is the type of men represented singlv in Mr. Hertz, and it is a source of much satisfaction to present the following in regard to his life.

Maurice Hertz was born in the little town of Guntersblum, in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt. Germany, on November 25, 1854, and was the son of Aaron and Jeanette (Wolf) Hertz, who represented the best families of the province of their home. Aaron Hertz lived under the German flag

Maurice Hertz boarded a ship for this country when he was but sixteen years old. His travels first took him to Tippecanoe county. Indiana, where he settled in the city of Lafayette, and in this place he remained a number of years in the dry goods business. He next came to Frankfort, at this time being twentv-one years of age. He founded the Hertz Dry Goods Company, which concern he managed all of his life, making a success of it. and earning a reputation of being an honest anil straightforward man of business. His friends were manv and they held him in the highest esteem and respect all of his life.

On March 21. 1 888. Mr. Hertz was united in marriage with Bella Moritz, the daughter of Mayer and Caroline (Frank) Moritz, both natives of Germany and who came to this country, settling first in Cincinnati. 0.. and later moving to the state of \'ew York. These parents were married in this country, and eight children afterward blessed the union: Moses. Pierman, Sigmund, Charles. Albert. Henrv. Laac and Bella.

Mr. Hertz, during hi> life, shunned the offers and inducements to enter public life or to hold political offices. He believed in the Republican policy and always was a liberal contributor to the support of the party. Fraternally. he was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

The following is a brief sketch of a man who. by assiduous attention to his business affairs, has achieced success among his fellows and has risen to an honorable position in the city where his interests are located. His record is plain, unadorned by strange or unusual incident, or dramatic episode, but is one of accomplishments. William B. Kramer is one of those estimable characters whose honesty and personality force them into notoriety of estimable form, which their modesty does not court, but which their good nature does not resent. Mr. Kramer occupies an enviable position

Mr. Kramer was born in Frederick county, Maryland, January 31, 1836, the son of Frederick William and Margaret (Schobl) Kramer. Frederick Kramer was a native of Maryland, and descended from good German stock, his father having come to this country in 1769 from Berlin, Prussia. He served valiantly in the Revolutionary war under General George Washington and left service at Valley Forge on account of frozen feet. He died in Frederick's county. [Maryland. Frederick Kramer was the father of thirteen children, a typical pioneer family. These were: Sarah (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased). John A. (deceased), William B., Daniel (deceased), Anna M. (deceased), Phillip E. (deceased). James T. (deceased), Franklin

William Kramer was educated in the common schools of Maryland, and after leaving them, took tip farming, which occupation he followed until the year of 1873, when he moved to Clinton county. Here he went into the planing mill and lumber business as a member of the firm known as Kramer Bros., and in 1903 this firm was incorporated with William Kramer at the head of the enterprise. It is now known as "Kramer Bros. Co..'' and continues to do a thriving business.

C. and Elizabeth ( Hays') Trundle. Her parents were natives of Maryland. Frederick- county, spending their entire lives in this state. Six children, John F.. Samuel B.. William B., XTllie, Rowland and Bertha Leuelle, have been born of this union. Mr. Kramer was forced to suffer the loss of his wife by death in the year 1909.

So far Mr. Kramer has not held any political or public offices, but contributes his services to the Democratic party. Mr. Kramer is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and the Knights Templar. At one time he was a member of the state grand lodge of the latter order.

Elias Campbell

The life of a man whose successful career is accomplished through achievements in the business world is not so replete with stirring, dramatic qualities as that of the man whose deeds have been the outcome of a military career. However, it is fully as commendable. Very fortunate is the man who may boast of a highly successful business career in addition to a career in the field. Such is the man we treat of in this sketch. He joined the ranks of the brave fellows who went to the front in '61, and he returned to civilian life to valiantly serve the interests of the public as loyally as he did the flag of his country. Mr. Campbell has been in public office several times and has always acquitted himself well by reason of his integrity, altruism, and his delightful personality.

Elias Campbell was born May 24, 1848, in Clinton county, the son of Mark and Agnes S. (Barkley) Campbell. His parents came to this county in 1848 from Franklin county, Pennslyvania, and found here a wilderness which they, undaunted, cleared for the making of their farm. Mark Campbell remained on this estate all of his life and brought up a iamily of five children there: Elias, Andrew, Sarah. William and Oliver, the last two named being dead at this writing.

Elias Campbell attended the Clinton county public schools and soon mastered everything they had to offer, then turned to the business of farming. Eighteen hundred and sixty-one and 1862 passed and the country was at a fever heat. Mr. Campbell resisted the temptation to drop hi? plow and don the blue uniform until May 7, 1863. Then, a lad of only fifteen years, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which company was attached to the Army of Tennessee. He was discharged from this first service at Indianapolis in 1864, hut immediately reenlisted in Company G. One Hundred and Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Army of the Potomac. This time he served until the end of the war, being mustered out at Indianapolis in November, 1865.

Until 1879, Mr. Campbell farmed and worked at the trade of carpentering, then went to Sedalia, Ind., where he entered the mercantile business. He continued here until 1888. While in this town he won the esteem and respect of everyone. He was recognized as a leader and he justified every confidence placed in him. For ten years he held the position of postmaster there. After moving to the city of F rankfort Mr. Campbell quickly became idenitfied with the commercial and civic interests of that place. He served for four years as street commissioner in that city', and in 1898 he took the office of deputy revenue collector for the United States in charge of a division of the seventh district of Indiana. He was appointed to this position under D. W. Plenry of Terre Haute, and is still active in the furtherance of his duties.

Mr. Campbell has been married twice, and each time he has been compelled to undergo the loss of his wife by the hand of death. His first wife was Mary Young, the daughter of Dr. R. O. Young and Margaret (Robison) Young. Her father was one of the oldest practitioners in the county and was one of the earlier pioneers of Geetingsville, Ind. Mr. Campbell married Miss Young in 1879, and ten years after, 1889, she was called to her Maker. Mr. Campbell's second wife was Kate DeCamp, the daughter of Capt. Edward Reed DeCamp and Maria (Darr) DeCamp, early settlers of Clinton county, who traveled there from the state of Ohio. Mr. Campbell's second wife died May 23, 1910. Mr. Campbell has no children of his own. but has one adopted daughter, Grace Titus, who is now Mrs. Herman Nelson of Chicago. Before her marriage she graduated as a trained nurse from the Home Hospital at Lafayette, Ind., and then took a post-graduate course at Chicago. April 8, 1911, she married Mr. Nelson, who is an adjustor for the Hart, Shaffner & Marx Company, clothiers of Chicago.

Mr. Campbell is a Republican by politics, sticking to the G. O. P. when the split came in 1912. Fraternally, lie is connected with the Free and Accepted Order of Masons, Knights of Pythias, and Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, all chapters at Frankfort, where he resides.

Francis Milton Clark

Much has been written in history and literature extolling the brave deeds of the "boys in blue"; it is eminently fitting that much more should be written, and it should be inscribed on records that are permanent. When we think of the bright-faced boys of the early sixties who left home, mothers, sweethearts, wives, everything, to fight for a great cause, we feel that each one should have an individual record to perpetuate his share in the struggle for a union. It is with pleasure that the biographer seizes the opportunity to place in print the life of one of the veterans who stands for the true tvpe of soldier, besides being a successful man of the world.

Francis Milton Clark was horn in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, November 3, 1843, the son of Daniel D. and Julia A. (Belnap) Clark. His father was a native of Connecticut, who in 1839 moved to Tippecanoe county and settled down to farming and stock raising. Three children added joy to his home: Anna A. (deceased) Francis M. and John (deceased). Politically, Daniel Clark was not active, but took great interest in the welfare of the countv, practicallv securing the first railroad through the locality.

canoe county, then, as was the custom for young men of his tlav, he took up the pursuit of agriculture. In this occupation he was engaged at the outbreak of the Civil war.

On August 8, 1862. Mr. Clark entered the Northern armv, casting his lot with Company < i, Seventy-second Indiana Volunteer Infantrv, which regiment later was changed to a mounted troop. Col. C. O. Miller in command. The troop formed a unit in the famous Wilder's Brigade. Armv of the Cumberland. With this troop. Mr. Clark served through the entire war, participating in the sanguinary battle of Chickamauga. Mr. Clark was mustered out July 7, 1865. at Indianapolis.

For a short time after the war he worked upon his farm, and on ( fctober 30, 1867, he married Sarah Elizabeth Buntin, the daughter of Elihue and Margaret f Maddux) Buntin. The bride's parents were very earlv settlers in Clinton county, coming from Kentucky. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark: Lunetta. married to Walter Paris, now dead; Roberta C. married to Finton Crull : Russell P>. ( deceased ), married to Gertrude Maish. had two children. Marjory and Frances Willard; Julia D. (deceased), and one that died in infancy.

Mr. Clark has the reputation of hieing one of the largest land owners in the county, having six hundred acres in Clinton cotmtv and nine hundred acres in other places. In every way he is the tvpical self-made man, persistent, severe, but kindly, and always ready to extend a helping hand to a neighbor. He is an enthusiastic member of the Methodist church at Frankfort. being president of the official board. T11 politics. Mr. Clark takes an interest, though he does not proclaim his views. He i- a Republican.

John T. Price

There is no vocation, however humble it may be, in which industry and perseverance, in company with an honest purpose, will not be productive of some measure of success, and in the business of farming these qualities are highly essential. Among the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Clinton county, who have already attained a large measure of success is Tohn Price, of whom we speak in this cursory review. He is descended from good Kentucky stock, and has inherited many characteristics which have stood him in good stead in life's battle for supremacy.

county, and has lived within three miles of his home here all of his life. The date of his birth was the beginning of a life, the limits of which we can not prophesy, but it is safe to say that in the years to come his works will be pointed to with pride by his children and his fellows. His father was William Price and the mother, before marriage, was Martha Wilson. The father was born October 13, 1843, in Kentucky, and moved to Clinton county, Indiana, when he was only seven years old. He died in 1910 after a long life of success in farming. He was a soldier in the Civil War, serving four years three months and twenty days in Company E, Fortieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His two brothers and seven brothers-in-law were also in the service. William Price was a Democrat in politics, and always believed in pure campaigns. The mother was born in Sugar Creek township on August 9, 1851, and still lives on the old home place near the farm of John Price. Both parents received common school educations in their youth. Six children were born to them: James, John, Charles A. (dec.), George H. (dec.), Tullia L., Tura and Ida F. (dec.).

Our subject was married March 7, 1897, to Eettie B. Ellis, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Brown) Ellis. She is a native of Montgomery county, Indiana. The father is a native of Ohio and the mother was reared in the county of her daughter's birth. The father is dead, but the mother still lives. Seven children have been born to John Price and wife: Olive Fern, June 22, 1896; William Henry, November 15, 1899; Flossie Myrtle, October 10, 1901: Raymond L., May 18. 1905; Bertha Florence, October to. 1908; Hazel Valentine. February 14. 1910. and Harvey W oodrow. July 20. 1912.

The main part of Mr. Price's activities is confined to general farming, stock shipping and breeding. Outside this he deals quite a little in real estate, and has interests in merchandise tit the Pickard Mills. He owns 260 acres of fertile land in Sugar Creek township, all but thirty acres of which is tillable and well tiled and fenced. This comprises the home place, the improvements on which were built by Mr. Price himself. In addition he has another one hundred and twenty acres in Sugar Creek township and one hundred and twenty acre> in Adams county, this state, besides a house and lot in Union City, Ind.

Mr. Price belongs to the Masonic Order at Pickard, also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Improved Order of Red Men at the same place. Politically, he is a Democrat. For a time he served on the advisory board here. He takes a great interest in education and is a strong advocate of the country schools.

The medical profession has a worthy exponent in Clinton county in the person of Dr. Melville Forest Boulden, of Frankfort, who, because of his skill and long years of practice here is well known throughout this locality and who ranks high among his professional brethren in this section of the Hoosier slate. He was, it seems, well adapted lw nature for the vocation, being in the first place, a student, who has kept well abreast ot the times in everything that pertains to his work, and also the possessor of those personal traits which one must have in order to be popular with the masses. He is a man who can be depended upon and his hundreds of patients know that they can repose the utmost confidence in him and rely upon his judgment. He is also of a sociable and optimistic nature, and believes in finding the silver lining to every cloud, maintaining that all clouds have such, and that the obstacles we dailv encounter on the road ot life should but serve to arouse our combative nature and cause us to accomplish more rather than yield to the perverse rulings of fate.

Dr. Boulden was born August 4. 1869. in Clinton county. He is a son of J. X. and. Sarah Ann( Ellmore ) Boulden. who came to Clinton county as early as 1830 and here lived the life of pioneers, and took an active part in the early development of their community. They were frugal and hard-working, and consequently established a good home in due course of time. Thev were noted for their honesty, hospitality and true Christian impulses. To them nine children were born: Asa H., Horace C., William A., Mortimer D., Oliver J.. Hattie M., Charles E.. Dr. Melville Forest, of this sketch, and Edward, who died in childhood. These children received excellent educational advantages and some made noted teachers; four of the family being engaged in teaching at the same time.

After attending the public schools at Frankfort. Dr. Boulden entered the Danville Normal, from which he was graduated in 1890. after which he taught school for six years in his native county, and was making a great success as an educator; but tiring of the school room, and believing that his true bent lay along another line, he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, where he made an excellent record during the three years he spent there. He then spent a year in the Illinois Medical College in Chicago from which he was graduated with the class of 1903. He then took a hospital course in Louisville, graduating September 30, 1903. During his spare time from college he practiced his profession at Brookville, Ind.. under Dr. Buckingham. In 1904 he located in Frankfort, where he has since remained, having built up a large and lucrative practice and taking his place in the front rank of local medical men. He is one of the most successful general practitioners the county has ever known. He is a member of the Clinton County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Society. Under his brother, Charles E. Boulden. the doctor was deputy county surveyor. Politicady, he is a Republican, and religiously, a member of the Christian chruch. He belongs to the Masonic Order. Blue Lodge and Chapter at Frankfort.

Dr. Boulden was married in October, 181)4. to Millie Buckingham, a lad}' of refinement and winning personalitv. She was born in Brookville, Tnd.. June 15, 1875. She is a daughter of Erasmus and Jennie (Myers) Buckingham, a highly esteemed old family of Brookville. where Mrs. Boulden grew to womanhood, getting her education there and in the Frankfort high school.

The union of the doctor and wife has been blessed by the birth of two children. Herbert, born May 26. 1806. now attending school; and Beatrice, born September 24. ipoo. also a student.

Rev. Clem Ricketts

On June 30, 1863. amid the primitive scenes of Sugar Creek township, Clinton couutv, a> il was fifty years ago, with much of the landscape covered with forots, and thickets, and ponds, and swamps, Rev. Clem Ricketts, the subject of this sketch, first saw the light of day. and was reared on a farm amid days when boys on the farm knew something of the trials, hardships, and privations of those early days. 1 he subject ol thi> sketch was the son of John and Arilda Ricketts. John Ricketts was born in 1812 in Fleming countv, Kcntuckv, and moved to Rush county. Indiana, when a young man. Later he came to Clinton county, which at that time was quite new, and entered land from the government, but few people lived here at this time. The countv had no natural drainage and much of it lay in swamps and flags, and willows, with deer and wild turkey, and prairie chickens and wild ducks abundant. Fevers and ague came with their toll of sickness and death.

It was a time that called for strong sturdy manhood, and Mr. Ricketts with others gave his life to overcoming the wilds of nature, and to make the once howling wilderness to bloom as the rose; and in December 1888. he was laid to his rest.

Arilda Ricketts, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, and shared with her companion the trials and hardships necessary to build for themselves a home and to rear a large family in those days, many times joining with him in the work out in the fields. Thus, worn with a life of toil and hardships for nearly three score years and ten, she too, fell asleep.

To this union, eleven children were born: James M., Priscilla Jane, Mary Ann, William L., John E., Xathan, Joseph Id., Clem, Sarah E., Ada M., and Charles W.

Clem Ricketts, the subject of this sketch, parsed the years of his early life amid the scenes common to a life on the farm, working on the farm in summer and attending the district school in the winter season, and so complete the common school course. When 18 years of age, he made a journey to the state of Kansas in an immigrant wagon, which was the usual way of going in those days. On the 14th of February, 1884, he was married to Ella Cooper, the daughter of James M. and Sarilda Cooper, of Sugar Creek township, Clinton countv. Indiana. Of this union, one child was born, Daisy May, born May 28, 1885. who is at this writing, the wife of Harry Kuhlman of Kirklin township, Clinton county.

At the age of twenty-five, the Rev. Clem Ricketts having united with the Hills Baptist church near his home, felt that he was called to preach the gospel, and entered Franklin College to fit himself for that work. His first pastorate was his home church which both licensed and ordained him to preach. This church he served as pastor for nearly thirteen years, and saw, during those years, a new commodious church house built, which he planned and carried to completion, and some two hundred and fiftv members received into the church.

Except when he was in college he has alwavs lived on the splendid, well kept farm of one hundred acres which he owns, and the time not given to study or church work, he spends working on the farm. In the spring of 1908, Mr. Clem Ricketts realized the longing of many years, in making an extensive voyage to the Holy Land, and many foreign countries, visiting Egvpt. Athens, Constantinople, Rome, and Asia Minor, thence across Europe through Italv, Switzerland, Germany, France and England. This, within itself, was an education, giving him a wider range of vision as well as helping him to better understand the Bible, by visiting the scenes where the wonderful events of the Bible occurred, and by studying the conditions of that unchanging country, where one may see the Bible lived today much the same as in the days of long ago: for the manners and customs of the people there are as changeless as are her hills and plains and mountains and seas. Such a trip is what many would enjoy, yet so few ever take - a deepening and widening of life's current.

Mr. Ricketts has always been active in the church work of the Baptist denomination. At various times he has been pastor of manv churches throughout the state and at one time was moderator of Judson Association, has had offers of city churches, but the call of the country appeals to him more than the city, and in his beautiful country home is probablv where he will spend the remainder of his days, amid the scenes he loves so well.

Joseph H. Ricketts, Atty

Joseph H. Ricketts, son of John Ricketts and brother of Rev. Clem Ricketts, was born in Sugar Creek township, Clinton county, Indiana, October 23. 1861. He passed his boyhood life on the farm, attending district school in the winter season and working on the farm in the summer. Completing the common school course, he afterwards went to Danville Normal School at Danville, Ind., and after completing a course there, he took up the work of teaching in the district schools and followed the same vocation for twelve vears. He developed a fondness for law, and entered the law school at Washington, D. C. and while there, at the age of twenty-eight, he was nominated at the Republican convention at Frankfort, Ind., for county representative.

He soon after returned home and entered the campaign with his partv, taking a verv active part, but at the election, he went down with his party, being defeated by only thirty-four votes. He afterwards was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Frankfort, Ind. He formed no partnership, but was associated with both attorneys Judge Doyal and Perry Card, and afterwards with Martin A. Morrison. He was elected chairman of the Republican county committee and in 1898. be was appointed city attornev of Frankfort, which place he held until his death.

After he had become settled, the practice of law as his life work, he united with the Disciples church in the city of Frankfort, Ind. Joseph H. Ricketts was a man among men. He w-as of the strictest integrity and withal, a man of noble impulses, whose life was clean and above reproach. His quiet, unassuming life won for him many friends. He was a good lawyer, and his counsel in law was often sought. He was building up a great law practice until in December, 1901, he was stricken with a deep seated cold which lingered with him until the following February, when pneumonia laid its hold upon him and February 8, 1902, he passed into the great beyond. Fie still lives in the memory of many who knew him best, and who knew him to be a true man.

Cicero Sims

Over ninety years have dissolved, in the mists of time, embracing the major part of the most remarkable century in all the history of the race of mankind, since the honored and venerable subject of this sketch first saw the light of day. Heaven bounteously lengthened out his life until lie saw the crowning glory of this the most wonderful epoch of all the reons of time, and rewarded the consistent living of his youth and active manhood, his early years of industry and frugality, with an old age surrounded by comfort and plenty. Mr. Sims could well have felt that hi" had been a useful, successful and happv life - a life of sunshine and shadow, of victory and defeat, according to the common lot of humanity since the world began, but nobly lived and worthily rewarded. He was a native of the section of the Hoosier state of which this volume treats and here he was content to spend his life, his long residence hat ing won for him a very high place in the confidence and esteem of his many acquaintances and friends. He noted and took part in the wondrous transformation of this country from the pioneer days to the present, saw the wilderness transformed into one of the world's richest farming communities, saw the log cabins of the first settlers give way to pretentious modern dwellings, and Indian trails to superb turnpikes. He was always deeply interested in whatever tended to promote the prosperity of his native locality and the sections where he resided were greatly indebted to him for their material, educational and moral development. He used his influence for benevolent enterprises, was always friend and liberal patron of the church, which he believed to be the most potential factor for substantial good the world has ever known or will ever know. He merited in every respect the high esteem in which he was universally held.

Cicero Sims, for a long period of years a well known teacher and attorney of this section of Indiana, was born about eight rods from where the present court house at Rushville, Rush county, now stands. He was a son of Stephen and Elizabeth (McCarty) Sims. The father was born in Cocke county Tennessee, in the year 1792, he having been a son of William and

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Amelia (Russell) Sims. William Sims was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, from which he eventually moved to Tennessee. The Sims were among the early families of the Old Dominion and Tennessee and became prominent in the various communities where they established their homes, being known as public-spirited, patriotic, progressive people. A number of them served gallantly in our various wars, William Sims, mentioned above, having had the distinction of serving on the staff of General Washington during the Revoluntionarv war. He spent the latter part of his life in Tennessee and died in that state. His widow eventually came to Indiana in a very early day and died near the town of Brookville. In that early period also came Stephen Sims, father of our subject, to the Hoosier state, settling near Rushville. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. after which he returned to Indiana. He was a pioneer of Rush county and experienced the usual privations and hardships of that period. He was a rugged, hardworking. honest man who cleared the land of i t > primeval forest and developed a good farm and a comfortable home by hard, persistent work. He was a leader in church, school and political work in his countv and was regarded as a leader in public affairs there. He was appointed school commissioner for that county and had charge of the school lands there. Removing to Boone county, this state in 1834, he also became a leader of public affairs there during the two years of his residence, but in 1836 came on to Clinton county, where he developed another farm. He built the earlv court houses at both Rushville and Connersville and he erected manv of the best residences in that section of the state. Besides being a skilled carpenter and builder, he was also an extensive brick maker, and manv of the substantial brick residences he erected are still standing. His death occurred in 1863. Politically, he was a Republican, and was active in the affairs of the part}-. In religious matters he was a Methodist. His wife was also a descendant of sterling Revolutionary stock. Her death occurred in Clinton countv.

Cicero Sims grew to manhood on the home farm, and being a son of a pioneer and growing up amid pioneer environment, he naturally found plenty of hard work to do. He received such meager educational training as the early schools of his time afforded, but. closely applving himself to such books as he could get, he acquired sufficient knowledge to teach, and he followed that profession for some time with much success. He was gifted by nature as a musician and taught music for quite awhile with equally gratifying results, his services as a musical director in the davs when rural singing schools were in vogue, being in much demand. He remaied a student and studied law, making rapid progress in the same and engaged in the practice of this profession for many years in this locality. Being appointed pension agent, he discharged the duties of that office for many years in a manner that reflected credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. He retired from active duties sometime before his death, which occurred July 6, 1913, at his home in Frankfort. Though past ninety-one years of age, lie had the appearance of a man much younger and was in fair possession of all his faculties. He had lived a careful, abstemious life.

Mr. Sims, was a Republican in politics and has always been loyal in his support of his party's principles. He was also prominent in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church for many decades, holding membership in that denomination since earl v life, (hi March 1, 1842, Mr. Sims, was united in marriage to Mary Caroline Black, who was born Tune 6, 1824, near Centerville, Ind., where she grew to womanhood and received, like her husband. the meager education of the old-time schools. She is the daughter of William and Isabella Black, early settlers of Wayne county, this state, and a well known family of the vicinity of the town of Centerville. Mrs. Sims, is still living, being past eighty-nine years of age. She has been a faithful helpmate to her husband, and has a host of warm devoted friends. To Mr. and Mrs. Sims were born the following children: James X., born April 25, 1844, a soldier in the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war. and died of camp fever at Memphis Term., during the service; Sarah C., born in i8_|6, now the wife of Rev. O. M. Merrick, of Rossville, Ind.; Nancy J.. horn in 1848. now the wife of A. J. Merrick, of Howard county; Isabelle E.. born in 1840. now the wife of J. W. Lee. of Frankfort; William M., born in 1854. now living in Florida; Stephen B.. born in 1861.

John I. Gum

One of the substantial native sons of Clinton county, who has been content to spend his life in his native community, is John I. Gum. a worthy representative of the agriculturists of this county. By close application he established those habits of industry when a boy which insured his success in later years, being able to extend, from time to time, the area of his possessions and activity. He has always used his influence in behalf of all moral and benevolent enterprises, and has been interested in whatever tended to promote the prosperity of this township and county.

John I. Gum was born December 18, 1848, in Warren township, Clinton county, Indiana, and was the son of Charles and Rebecca (Nutter) Gum. Charles Gum was bom September 2, 1802, in Virginia, moved to Indiana in 1837, and died in August, 1885. The mother was born November 24, 1806, in the Old Dominion also, and she departed from this earth on October 16, [896. Both parents received common school educations, and the father, by occupation, was a farmer all of his life, and politically was a Democrat. Seven children blessed the union, and their names were: Anson P. (dec.), Martha, Harrison (dec.), Elizabeth (dec.), Elmira (dec.), John L., and one who died without being named.

John I. Gum, in his early years, received very little education. During the progress of the great Civil War he ran away from home with the purpose of enlisting in the Union army, which he did on October 12, 1863, at Lafayette, Ind., in Company A, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, under I. L. Laflesh. During the subsequent years Mr. Gum performed every duty that was assigned to him with unswerving fidelity, most of his service consisting in guarding the railroad lines. He was honorably discharged on June 2, 1865, in St. Louis, Mo. He then returned to Clinton county, and took up farming, which was to remain his work for the rest of his life to the present time.

He was married on February 10, 1867, to Nancy E. Gallegher, who was born October 28, 1850, in Clinton county, and was the daughter of John and Charlotte (Bogan) Gallegher, people from the state of Virginia, her father being a farmer and a Republican.

Mrs. Gum received a good common school education. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gum, and they were: Lady L., born December 18, 1868, married to Harrison Quick, died April 12, 1902, children, Grace and Lady Ruth; Charlotte R., born February 25, 1871, married Harry D. Whiteman, lives in Frankfort, children, Hazel, Leslie, Clarence, Mary, and Irene; Lora Annette, born September 9, 1874, married William Taylor, children, Ethel F. and Cecil H., living with subject; Orth Porter Harrison, born September 13, 1882, died February 28, 1883, and Lennie Minnie Alice, born October 21, 1885, died December 16, 1907, married to Fred Sanderson February 15, 1903, children, Beatrice Leora and Irwin B.

John I. Gum has always farmed here, and owns one hundred and ten acres, all tillable but ten acres, which is in timber. On his farm are the latest improvements, including eighteen hundred rods of tiling. Our subject now leads rather a retired life, but carries on general farming and stock raising, including common cattle, Duroc and Berkshire hogs. He has not made a specialty of horses, although he owns a mare which has taken thirty-eight prizes at horse shows and fairs, etc., in the general purpose and coach classes. Politically, Mr. Gum is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to the Knights of Pythias at Michigantown.

Charles C. Gentry

Another one of the native sons of Clinton county who has diown a marked versatility in being able to make a living in many different things is Charles C. Gentrv, now proprietor of the Palace theater in the citv of Frankfort, one of the leading playhouses of its kind in thi> section of the state. He quickly adjusts himself to new environments and makes a success of whatever lie turns his attention to, and, being a gentleman who has the best interests of his town and county at heart and who believes in leading an honorable life, lias the good will of his hundreds of patrons.

Mr. Gentrv was born in Center township, this countv, Februarv 10. 1856. He is a son of Dr. Z. B# and Charlotte R. ( Tetlow ) Gentry. Z. B. Gentry, the father, was a physician of the old school. He received Imt a meager schooling, and learned medicine from persistent home study, and he became successful in his profession, enjoying a wide practice, which he attended to on horseback, riding all over the county. Politically, he w as a Republican, and he did much for the general upbuilding of Clinton county in its earlier davs. His death occurred on April 7. 1870. hi> widow surviving until March 12. loop, reaching an advanced age.

Charles C. Gentry grew up in his native town and here he has been content to spend his life, living to see many changes which have taken place here during that period of fifty-seven years. He was educated in the pubhc and high schools of Frankfort.

On October t 5. 1805. Mr. Gentry married Minnie D. Dorv, who was born in Cambridge Citv, Ind., February 14, 1877. a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (GroscourO Dory. The mother is deceased, but the father is living and making his home with our subject. He is a locomotive engineer bv profession, and politically is a Republican.

After Mr. Gentry left school he entered the mercantile field in which he remained until 1876 when he became assistant postmaster at Frankfort under \V. H. Hart, and he remained in that capacity until 1885, giving eminent satisfaction, then he had charge of the court room under Dr. Gard, later he went into the railway mail service in which he remained a number of years. He now owns and operates the Palace theater which he has conducted for over a vear with most satisfactory results. He owns a neat home, which he built himself, at 709 East Wabash street, where he has resided since November. 1894. Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and the Roval Arch Masons, both at Frankfort. Politically, he is a Republican.

Nicholas Peter

Aiming the representative agriculturist:* and public-spirited men ot Clinton county who, while advancing their own interests, have not neglected the'r duty to the community at large is Nicholas Peter, of Michigan township. Reared to a farming life, he has >0 applied his energies and ability as to attain a success worth}- the name, while his present high standing in the community indicates the appreciation of his sterling character.

Nicholas Peter was born into this world on September 8, 1843. ,n Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and was the son of Daniel and Mary (Burkhalter) Peter. Our subject came to Clinton countv in 1871. settling first in Madison township.

Daniel Peter, lu- father, was born on the first dav of September. 1807. in the state of lVmi'vlvania. and moved to Ohio when hut a bov, later coming to Tippecanoe county. He died on December 1889. after a long and useful life spent as a farmer, wagonmakcr and millwright. He was a Democrat until the election of Abraham Lincoln when he turned to the Republican party and there he cast his vote ever afterward. The mother was born in Ohio in the year of our second war with England, and she died in Julv, 1865. These parents received very little education for that time, but could read, write and speak German. Ten children were born to them, the six living being: William. Henry. Elizabeth. Nicholas. Calvin and Ervin.

Nicholas Peter received his early education in the common schools, mostly in Tippecanoe county, his birthplace. Being prepared for an agricultural career, he immediately entered into that vocation. He moved to Michigan township in the spring of 1891, and onto a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, all tillable with the exception of twenty acres. The land was well tiled. Besides general farming he carried on stock raising, making Poland China hogs, Shorthorn cattle, and a mixed breed of horses his specialty. Mr. Peter came here to Michigantown in February, 19 1 1 , and still owns a farm. He has a fine two story home here, and is living a retired life. Mr. Peter is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church and votes the Progressive ticket.

On May 11, 1867, Nicholas Peter was united in marriage with Emma Rothenberger, who was born in Tippecanoe county, February 26, 1848. the daughter of George and Lydia (W alters) Rothenberger. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, a farmer all of his life, and died in 1887. The mother of Mrs. Peter was also a native of the Old Keystone state, and she departed this life in March, 1903. Mrs. Peter had the advantage of a good common school training. To Mr. and Mrs. Peter have been born five children, namely: Emerson, born February 3, 1868, and married Dora Vergin. and living in Beard, this county: one died in infancy, unnamed: Dasiy, born August 29, 1873, married Preston Xewhart of this county: Mabel, born January 2, 1876, and died January 17, 1805; and Lydia, born March 31. 1878, married to Clinton Maxwell.

Dr. Ward J. Martin

Until the last half century the medical profession was in a primitive state scientificallv : men who specialized in that division of medical treatment were few and far between. However, the possibilities of dentistry became a realization; increasing population demanded men to devote their time exclusively to the trade, and consequently, improvement and progress attended the practice of the profession. Now, there is to be learned many things by the young man contemplating the dental trade : new appliances, methods and materials have been discovered and invented, and the modern dentist uses none of the primitive and painful methods once used in the care of the teeth, in fact, the only cure for the toothache seventy years ago was to pull the tooth, but now the maxim of the dentist is always "save a tooth at any cost." One who represents the best accomplishment of the profession in Clinton county is Dr. "Ward J. Martin. He has kept to the top of his profession by keeping himself informed as to the latest improvements in technical and operative matters, and by exerting himself to please the many patrons who visit his office.

Martin was a native of the county of Randolph also, having been born there on February 7, 1837, the son of Elisha and Susan (Kelley) Martin. Elisha Martin came from near Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a brickmaker by trade during his life. As an artisan in this trade he was an adept, and held a record in the making of brick by hand which has not been surpassed to the present day. In his later life he moved to Randolph county, Indiana, being one of the very first pioneers to the eastern county, and there he followed his old trade of brickmaking and building.

John K. Martin received an excellent education and from his honored father learned the art of brickmaking and building. He became proficient in this trade, and invented the first round tile in the state, making the same, and also the mold. He was the promoter of the only brick and tile manufacturing plant in that section of the Hoosier state. During the Rebellion Mr. Martin was a first lieutenant in Company C, Sixty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving three years in the struggle and acquitted himself with honor. He was wounded in the fighting around Richmond, Kentucky, and subsequently discharged. He died on March 31. 1897. Mr. Martin was married to Ann Eliza Quinn on January 13. 1858 and she was the daughter of Marison and Dorinda Quinn, and was born on November 3. 1837 at Eaton, Ohio. Fraternally, Mr. Martin was a member of the Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically, he was a Republican for manv years after the war. and once served as deputy United States marshal. Religiously, he was an Universalist. Mrs. Martin is still living.

Ward I. Martin received a common school education and naturally learned the brickmaking trade, as had his father and grandfather before him. He did not remain in this trade very long and possessing talent as a musician, secured a position with the Forepaugh circus, with which organization he traveled for seven years as a musician. Later, he was with the Diffenbaugh ten-cent circus in the same capacity. In 1892 Mr. Martin came to Frankfort and studied dentistry under Dr. J. J. Parr. Mr. Martin passed the examination and all requirements given by the State Board in 1904. and immediately began active practice in this city, which he has continued to this day, with great success and satisfaction to his many patrons. Fraternally, Dr. Martin is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also the Knights of the Maccabees. In politics he supports the Republican party.

March 24, 1873. Dr. Martin was saddened by the death of his wife on the 25th of February, 1906. On July 2, 1908 he w:as again married to Airs. Bertha Mortsolf. a native of this county. No children have been born to Dr. Alartin.

Taylor Tools

One of the best remembered and most highly respected citizens of Center township, Clinton county, of a past generation, who after a successful and honorable career, have taken up their journey to that mystic clime, the "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." leaving behind him a heritage of which his descendants may well be proud - an untarnished name - was Taylor Toops, for a long lapse of years a successful tiller of the soil, having come to this locality w hen the rich soil had not yet all been redeemed from the primordial state, and here he played well his rolein the drama of civilization. He was a man of industry and public spirit, willing at all times to do his full share in the work of development, never neglecting his larger duties to humanity, being obliging and neighborly, kind and genial, which made him popular with all cla.-se> and won the respect and good will of those with whom he came* into contact, his long life of over four score years resulting in much good to those who came into contact with him. and his example is worthy of emulation bv the younger generation.

Air. Toops was born September 6. 1832. in Jetter>on. Washington township, Clinton county, Indiana. He was a >on of Jacob and Sarah A. (Heavilon) Toops, the father was a native of Ohio and the mother of New York state. The former died in 1888 and the latter in 1874. Jacob Toops was a blacksmith by trade. His family consisted of seven children, three of whom are still living, namely: Taylor, subject of this memoir: Joseph, who was a soldier in the Civil war, is living; Alary Ann is deceased; Hector and Clinton, twins, are living; two others died in infancy unnamed.

Tavlor Toops grew to manhood on the home farm and worked hard, and, being a pioneer child, in a time when there was plenty of hard work for all and few schools to attend, his education was very limited, but he was a man of extraordinary common sense and a strong character in every way. He was married on February 23, 1863 to Dorothy Sweet, who was born near Dayton, Ind., Alarch 5, 1836. She w7as a daughter of Senicha and Elizabeth (Boyd) Sweet. They were natives of Hamilton countv, Ohio, from which they removed to Clinton county, Indiana, and spent their remaining years. Here Mrs. Toops grew to womanhood and received a common school education.

Nine children, only one of whom is deceased, were born to Taylor Toops and wife; they were named as follows: Ada, Zona, Etna, Valen, Bond, Lamta. Merle, Dean, one died in early life.

Taylor Toops began farming when a young man and made that his life work, becoming one of the successful farmers of his locality. He owned one hundred and sixty acres which he placed under a high state of improvement and cultivation. It was all tillable and well tiled. He built a fine home on this land and was comfortably fixed in every way. He always handled a good grade of live stock although was not an extensive stock raiser, paying more attention to general tanning.

Politically, he was a Democrat, but he voted for the man whom he deemed best qualified for the office sought, being somewhat of an independent thinker. He was supervisor of his township for a while, discharging the duties of the office satisfactorily to all concerned. His wife preceded him to the grave a number of years, passing away on October 29, 1897. Mr. Toops had been a strong man physically most of his long life. About 1870 he contracted stomach trouble which bothered him for about seven vears, then passed away and from that time on to his death he was in good health. He was summoned to hi> final reward on April 9. 1013. He was not much of a public man, preferring to stay pretty close about home. Three of his children, Bond, Ada and Valen. all unmarried, live on the homestead, which they operate successfully.

James A. Grove

Another of Clinton county's substantial farmers is James A. Grove, who has led an eminently useful career, devoted to the interests of himself and community. Coming to this county when the land was just assuming a profitable state he grew up and learned the art of agriculture, becoming one of the respected citizens. Success such as his is the reward of perseverance and integrity. This cursory record herein set forth will, we hope, place before the eye< of future generation' a tale worthy of emulation. It is regrettable that more and adequate scope is not affarded in which to properlv comment upon our subject's life.

Fayette county, Ohio. He was the son of Jacob and Nancy (Armstrong) Grove. Jacob Grove was a native of the Old Dominion, anti Nancy Grove came from the Buckeye state; the former died in 1866 and the latter in 1888. Jacob Grove enlisted in 1862 in the ninety day service, and after that time he reenlisted and served valiantly to the end of the conflict in 1865. He was a farmer bv occupation. Seven children bore his name, as follows: Susan, Abe, Henry, Agnes, Amis, Albert, James A., and Dora, who is deceased.

James A. Grove was fortunate to receive a common school training in his youth, after which he immediately took up farming. He was married July 22, 1888, to Jennie M. Hillis, who was born in Johnson township, Clinton county, on December 13, 1868. the daughter of John and Savannah (Jackson) Hillis, natives of Rush county, Indiana. Mrs. Grove received a common and high school education. Six children were born to the union, namely: Verna, Hillis, Lloyd, Frank, Thyrsa. and Thryl, who is deceased.

Mr. Grove owns three hundred and twenty-five acres of land in this township and it is all tillable with the exception of forty acres which is in timber and pasture. The place is fairly well fenced and adequately tiled. On this place Mr. Grove carries on high cla<s general farming.

Fraternally. Mr. Grove belongs to the Improved Order of Red A ten at Scircleville, and politically, is a Republican. He devotes liL time to the interests of his chosen vocation.

Joseph Foreman

In every community there are men whom, to take away, would be to remove the stoutest pillars of the economic and commercial life, and thereby the community would deteriorate industrially, socially and in reputation. This is a strict and fundamental law in the science of economics. Clinton county is a remarkably developed locality in the light of the above definition. There are men who have grown up with the community, and have succeeded by the sweat of their brow. These are few in comparison with the many who have seen the mirage of success in distant lands, but these few have reaped the reward of their perseverance and loyalty to the home town. Joseph Foreman is a grand example of this type, and as such it is our pleasure to narrate the few facts in connection with his life.

Foreman was born in 1842 in Henry county, Indiana, and moved to Clinton county after his marriage, where he followed the vocation of farming all of his life. Politically, he was a Democrat. He died on May 23, 1877. The mother was horn in the year 1849 in the state of Missouri, and is still living three miles north of Hillisburg. She had as good an education as the schools of her due could afford, and at one time die taught school herself. Four children were horn of the union: Molly E. Armstrong, Joseph, John S. and Leah H. After her husband's death Mrs. Foreman married the second time to Jacob Kirkendall in 1880.

After a common school education, Joseph Foreman started in the farming business and continued this until March, 1908, when he moved to Hillisburg and went into the retail business in partnership with Carter & Clark, but sold out in 191 1. He then went into the elevator business under the firm name of Foreman & Davis, sole owners of an elevator, with capacity of twenty-five thousand bushels. This elevator handles about two hundred and twenty-five thousand bushels per year. They buy and sell corn, wheat and oats, and handle salt, flour, feeds, etc. Our subject has a neat and attractive home in Hillisburg. He is assistant cashier in the bank at Hillisburg, also a director and stockholder. The Citizens' Bank lias a capital of twenty thousand dollars.

On September 20. 1892, Mr. Foreman was married to Marv D. Mann, who was born February 9. 1872. in Johnson township, this countv, and was the daughter of Jacob and Harriett { Moore) Mann. Her mother was a native of Kentucky. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Foreman: Fdith. born February 27. 1894, married to Archie Benge, and lives north of here on a farm, and b ranees, born February 9, 1900.

Fraternally, Mr. Foreman is a member of the Mas"iiic Order at Hillisburg, and also the Modern \\ oodmen. He attends the Methodist Protestant church. Politically. Mr. Foreman is a Democrat, and for a term of four years, beginning in 1904 he served as trustee of Johnson township.

Cforcf Winfield Benjamin

Few men of Clinton county were as w idely and favorably known as the late George Winfield Benjamin. He was one of the strong and influential citizens whose lives have become an essential part of the history of this section and for years his name was a synonym for all that constituted honor- (47) able and upright manhood. Tireless energy, keen perception and honesty of purpose, combined with every day common sense, were among his chief characteristics, and while advancing individual success he also largely promoted the welfare and prosperity of the community honored bv his residence.

George \Y. Benjamin was born in Newark, N. J., on November 3, 1852, and died on October 14, 1909. He. was the son of Edward J. and Mary (Hurd) Benjamin, who were both natives of the state of New Jersey. His family were originally from England, coming to this country in sailing vessels in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Edward J. Benjamin came to Clinton county when our subject was quite a small child, traveling overland in covered wagons, and settled on a farm near what is now Michigantown. In this place, favored by fertile lands and sunny skies, he remained all of his life, making a decided success of school teaching.

George W. Benjamin was educated in the common schools of this county, and thereafter followed railroading during early life. In later years he was in the coal business in Chicago.

Mr. Benjamin was married on July 10, 1872 to Anna B. Taylor, the daughter of John C. and Deborah (Ghere) Taylor. Mr. Taylor was a native of the Old Dominion, and came to Clinton county in a very early day, traveling by boat down the Ohio river and then debarking to make the remainder of the journey by wagon. He was a publisher all of his life. Eight children blessed his home: Howard (deceased). Man-. Anna B.. Martha. Tennie C.. Frank A., Charles C., and William (deceased). Both parents are now dead.

Three children have been born to the union of our subject and wife: Teannette M., of Frankfort; Francis B., of Detroit, Mich., and George \Y., Jr.

Politically, Mr. Benjamin was always a Republican, and took an active part in politics, but was never a seeker after public honors, preferring to spend his time in the care of his business. He belonged to the Presbvterian church.

Hon. Henry Y. Morrison

That industry and sound judgment, combined with a wise economy both of time and money, are the surest contributing elements to success, was exemplified in the life of the late Henry Y. Morrison, who for a number of decades was one of the leading attorneys at law of Clinton county and one of the public spirited and useful men in civic affairs in Indiana. The cause of humanity never had a truer friend than this valued gentleman who has passed to the higher life. The stereotyped words customary on such occasions seem but mockery in writing of such a man when we remember all the grand traits that went to make the character of this, one of nature's noblemen. In all the relations of life - family, church, state and society - he displayed that consistent gentlemanly spirit, that innate refinement and unswerving integrity that endeared him alike to man. woman and child.

Henry Y. Morrison was born in 1825, near West Union, Adams county, Ohio, and he was the son of James M. and Margaret (Spahr) Morrison. James Morrison, who was a native of Kentucky, was a farmer all his life. When a young man, he went to Adams county, Ohio, coming on to Indiana not long afterwards, and there, amid wild surroundings, developed a good farm. The Spahr family came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, where, for a number of generations, they have been very prominent.

Henry Y. Morrison grew to manhood on the home farm and assisted with the general work about the place, attending the country schools during the winter months w hen he became of proper age. When but a boy he manifested a laudable ambition to enter the legal profession and with this end in view he went to Indianapolis and entered the law school in that city, where he made rapid progress and was admitted to the bar in Frankfort, Indiana, and here he spent the rest of his life successfully engaged in the practice of law with an evergrowing clientele, and taking rank among the leading legal lights in this section of the state, figuring in most of the important cases in the local courts for many years and gaining a state-wide reputation. He was at one time a representative in the state Legislature, serving his district in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. In this connection he will ever be remembered for his services to the state in view' of the fact that he was the author of the famous drainage law in this state and it was through his efforts that the same was successfullv put through the Legislature. From this untold benefits have been reaped, and to his wise foresight and keen discernment for the general welfare of coming generations of his state we owe much reverence to his memorv. This one act alone marked him as one of our great men.

Mr. Morrison studied law after he was married, beginning his career under fudge Carver. He was very successful in a financial way and became owner of some of as valuable land as Clinton county can boast, owning a five-hundred-acre tract, near the town of Forest, but of this the family only retains about two hundred and sixty acres. He kept his place under a high

On February 28. 1851, Mr. Morrison was united in marriage with Nancy A. Campbell, daughter of William and Peninah (Denman) Campbell, a substantial and highly esteemed family. The father came from Pennsylvania and he devoted bis life to agricultural pursuits. He came to Clinton county, Indiana, when a young man. Peninah Denman came here from Dayton, Ohio, and they were married in this county.

Mr. Morrison was a faithful member and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church and fraternallv be belonged to the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he stood high in both church and lodge circles.

Five children were born to Henry Y. Morrison and wife, named a> follows: James, who has been twice married, first to Selina Avers, bv whom one child. Samuel, was born, w ho married Clara I '.linn, and they became the parents of one child. Bruce Blinn. James' first wife is deceased and he later married .Mice Spahr. by whom six children were born: Ruth. Marv. Milliard, Esther. James W.. Jr., and Henry Y. Martin A., second child of the subject of this memoir, married Lilian Thompson, and they became the parents of two children. Robert H. and Manila M.: the wife and mother is now deceased. Martin A. is one of Frankfort's leading attorneys and he is at this writing congressman from this district, being a prominent Democrat. He was educated in the schools of Frankfort, later attending Butler College at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. He studied law at the Universitv of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated, after making a brilliant record. John, the third child of Henry Y. Morrison and wife, is also a web known Frankfort attorney and lives at home with his mother. Margaret, the next child in order of birth, married Luther Heichert. and she is nowdeceased : they became the parents of one child. Clara, who married Charles Silverthorn. and they have one child. Martin, who is a great-grandson to the subject.

The death of Henry Y. Morrison occurred on May 30, 1906. after a long, useful and successful life. Something of his high standing in Clinton countv may be gained by perusing the following paragraphs reprinted from the f-'rank fort Morning Star, under date of Tuesday. June 19. 1906. which is an account of memorial services held to honor Mr. Morrison's memory, when eloquent tributes were given to a worthy and noble character, by the attorneys, the judge and his pastor: services in honor of the late Hon. Henry Y. Morrison, one of the oldest members of the bar, and a man deserving' of the high tributes paid his memory yesterday by attorneys and clergymen. The meeting was held in the large court room and was well attended, among those present 1>eing the widow of the man whose memory was being honored, and other members of the family. A number of ministers were also present. As an evidence of the genuineness of the eulogies there were many tears in the eyes of those who spoke. Judge Claybaugh presided at the meeting.