Gibson County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1914 (part 11 of 20)

William P. Casey vas born in Patoka. Cibson coinUy, Indiana, on I-'cbruary 5, 1861, and has spent practically his entire life in this immediate locality. His parents were William T- and Charlotte M. (Park) Casey, the former a natix'e of Posey county, Indiana, and the latter l)orn in New >'ork state. William J. Casey iiecame a merchant in Patoka. where for many years he successfully conducted business aft'airs and also served very efficiently as auditor of Gibson county, being one of the few Democrats who has served in that office up to the time of his term, which was about 1876. He was reelected for a second term, but died before entering upon the term. He came to Gibson county in young manhood, locating in Patoka, and resided there continuously up to the time of his death, which occurred in February, 1878 or 1879. His widow is still living and resides in Princeton. They were the parents of four children, namely: Howard B., who died at the age of four years; Emma, who died at the age of twelve years: \\'illiam P., the subject of this sketch ; and Luella, the wife of L. C. Embree, an attorne}' at Princeton.

William P. Casey attended the public schools of Patoka, and was later, during 1878-1879, a student in old Asbury College, now DePauw University, at Greencastle. .Vfter entering life's liattle on his own account, he was employed in various ways until, by rigid economy and persevering industry, he got a start and finally became a clerk for T. H. Jerauld, in whose store he was employed for two years. Having ambition higher than that of a clerical capacity, Mr. Casey began reading law in the office of L. C. Embree, of Princeton, but a year later he was compelled to give up his studies. During the following year he was employed in a shoe store in Indianapolis, but returned to Patoka and formed a partnership with Frank Parrett in 1883, buying the stock of Mr. Jerauld, who had died, and he has been engaged in business consecutively since, and has met with eminent success in the enterprise. About two years after starting he bought his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business on his own account. Sagacious and far-seeing in his business afifairs, Mr. Casey has been enabled to build up a large and profitable trade throughout this community and is numbered among the solid men of his locality.

On September 3. 1889, William P. Casey was married to Mary S. Bingham, the daughter of G. B. and Minerva Bingham, of Patoka, and to this union there have been born three children, namely : William Bingham Casey, of Patoka. a commercial traveler: Lucile Marie and Helen Agnes.

Fraternally, Mr. Casey is activcl_\- identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Trilie of Ben-Hur, in the work of which he takes a deep interest. Politically, he has been an acti\'e exponent of Democratic principles, and in the ranks of his party he has given efficient service. In 1898 he was nominated for the position of county auditor, and together with the rest of his ticket went down to defeat. Standing distinctively forward as one of the representative men and progressive citizens of Patoka, Mr. Casey owes his pronounced success in life almost wholly to his own efiforts, and is freely entitled to the appellation "A self-made man." His life's story contains little outside of the ordinary, and his every act has been open to the scrutiny and criticism of his fellowmen, but few, if any, of whom have found anything to condemn.

The career of tlie well-remembered gentleman whose name forms the caption of this paragraph, was a strenuous and varied one, entitling him to honorable mention among the citizens of his day and generation in the county" in which his life was so closely identified. Although his life has been brought to a close by the inevitable fate that awaits all mankind, his influence still pervades the lives of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances who revere his memory. As a business man or private citizen, he was always true to himself and his fellowmen and the tongue of calumn}- never touched him. As a soldier he proved his loyalty to the government he lo\ed so well and the long and tiresome marches in all times and situations, on the tented field, and in the line of battle, where tlie rattle of the musketry, mingled with the terrible concussion of the bursting shell and the deep diapason of the cannon's roar made up the sublime but awful chorus of death. To such as he the country is under a debt of gratitude which it cannot repay and future generations will commemorate their chivalry in story and in song.

A. D. McClure was born on December 22, 1837, near Princeton, Giljson county, Indiana, and was the son of Joseph P. and Catharine N. (De\'in) McClure, the father of Scotch descent and the mother a native of the state of Indiana. A. D. McClure passed the major portion of his life in his native state and most of it in Gibson county, the exceptions being three years' residence in Kentucky and a short time in Vincennes. He received a good, practical school education in the public schools of that locality, and as soon as he was old enough, took upon himself the battle of life, in the course of which his efiforts were rewarded by a well-merited competency. At the outbreak of the Southern insurrection, Mr. McClure gave practical evidence of his patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company H, Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was a part of the famous Wilder's brigade, and which served throughout the war, taking part in many of the most important engagements and campaigns of that conflict. Inuring a jiart of his war service, Mr. McClure served as a special scout for General Wilder. Upon return to peaceful pursuits, Mr. McClure engaged in various enterprises, and for about twenty-four years he operated the old mill at Patoka which had been established many years before, and which was one of the best known and most popular mills in this section of the state. Mr. McClure gave close attention to every detail of his business, and owing to his accommodating disposition and his attention to the wants of his patrons, he enjoyed a large and profitable patronage for many years. His death occurred on March 6, 1907. His chief characteristics seemed to be keenness of perception, a tireless energy, honesty of purpose and every-day common sense. He was successful in business, respected in social life, and as a neighbor discharged his duties in a manner becoming a liberal-minded, intelligent citizen of the state where the essential qualities of his manhood were duly recognized and prized at their true value. To write a detailed and full account of his long and useful life would require a much more elaborate article than the nature of this work permits or requires. Sufficient to say, however, that in his record there was much that was commendable and his character forcibly illustrated what a life of energy can accomplish when plans are wisely laid and actions are governed by right principles, noble aims and high ideals. His death removed from Gibson county one of her most substantial and highly esteemed citizens and the many beautiful tributes to his high standing in the world of affairs and as a man and citizen attested to the abiding place he had in the heart and affections of a host of friends.

Mr. McClure was twice married, first, on October 19, 1865, to Sarah N. Green, the daughter of Hiram Green, and to this union were born two daughters, Katherine Louise (deceased), and Mary Ellen, who is still living. Mrs. Sarah McClure died on August 28, 1871, and on November 18, 1877, Mr, McClure married Maria C. Weber, who was born in Salzwedel, Germany, the daughter of Henry and Sophia Weber. She came to America when about eighteen years of age. Henr\^ Weber was also a member of the Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which formed part of Wilder's brigade, and rose to the rank of sergeant. His death occurred in Gibson county on April 5, 1898, at the age of seventy-two years. To this Second union were born five children, namely: Nora Charlotte (deceased); Clara S., the wife of Julian Palmer, of Patoka; Ella D. (deceased) ; and Allie H., a twin of Ella, who is now the widow of Clarence J- Barker, of Fort Branch, Gibson county; .Ada Ann is the wife of Byron Bingham, of Patoka. Clarr ence J. "Barker, who was depot agent at Fort Branch, died on August 18, 1913, being stricken with uremic poisoning in the railroad station at Kansas City, while en route home from New Mexico after a residence of three years in the latter state. He and his wife had two children, John Alexander and Alma Fay.

Mr. McClure was an enthusiastic Mason, having attained to the degree of the York rite, including the order of Knights Templar, being a member of the commandery at Vincennes ; Mr. Barker was a member of the order at Sul- livan, Indiana. Religiously, Mr. AlcClure was a nieinher of the I^aptist church, and having a high conception of his ])rivileges and responsibilities as a Christian, he supported this church to the extent of his means. A man of congenial and kindly impulses, he made friends of all with whom he came in contact, and was widely known throughout Gibson county as one of her representati\ e citizens. Mrs. McClure was a member of the same church at Evansville, and her parents were also members of this church.

Indiana will soon round out one himdred years of its history. It is the record of the steady growth of a community planted in the wilderness in the last century and reaching its magnitude of today without other aid than that of continued industry. Each county has had its share in the story and every county can lay claim to some incident or transaction which goes to make the history of the commonwealth. After all, the history of a state is but a record of the doings of its people, among whom the pioneers and their sturdy descendants occupy places of no secondary importance. The story of the plain common people who constitute the moral bone and sinew of the state will always attract the attention and prove of interest to all true lovers of their kind. The first settlers of this state were in the .southern part and the hardships and disadvantages which surrounded them at every turn have long since disappeared with the march of civilization. The subject of this sketch, now deceased several years, is one of the finest exani]iles of the sturdy pioneer and frontiersman who came to this state in the years when Indians were rampant in our forests; w-hen every swamp was full of malaria; when transportation had to be carried on by water, or else by the trails which led through the woods. William Armstrong Waters not only fought the fight of the farmer in subduing the Indians and the forest, but also served his country in that long struggle which was necessary to preserve our union in the sixties.

William Armstrong Waters, the son of James R. and Nancy (Armstrong) Waters, was born in 1813, west of Owensville, in Gibson county. Indiana. His parents came from North Carolina to Christian county. Kentucky, and from thence they moved, in 1807, to what was then Knox county, Indiana. At that time Gibson county was not organized, and the lanrl which they entered upon their arrival was later a part of that count\- w hen it was organized, March 9, 1813. James R. \\'aters, the father of the subject, was a son of Thomas Watei.v, a native of Virginia, who went to North CaroHna, where James R. was born. Thomas Waters later moved to Kentucky and in 1807 he and James R., then a young man, came to Gibson county, Indiana. Thomas Waters entered land from the government in section 4, township 3 south, range 12 west. He was not able, to get his patent from the government until November 10, 181 1. Starting here in the primeval forest several years before Indiana became a state, he fought the forests by day, the Indians by night and the malaria all the time. His closest market was Vincennes and this could be reached only by an old Indian trail. On this farm, entered in 1807, Thomas R. Waters lived and died at a ripe old age, having succeeded by his native honesty and sound business judgment to the acquisition of a comfortable competence. James R. Waters entered land in section 34, township 2 south, range 12 west. His brother, William, entered the other part of the same quarter section, but later James bought his part of this land. James R., father of the subject of this sketch, married Nancy Armstrong, a native of North Carolina. In 1809 she came with her parents, John and Polly fSwayne) Armstrong, from North Carolina to Kentucky, and later to Vanderburg county, Indiana. James R. Waters lived and died on the land which he entered.

William A. Waters, whose history is here presented, was born on his father's farm and there grew up to manhood. Early in life he was married to Eliza Jones, daughter of Charles and Eleanor (Warrick) Jones. Her mother was a daughter of Capt. Jacob Warrick, one of the heroes of the battle of Tippecanoe, and after whom Warrick county was named. Her father. Charles Jones, came from North Carolina to Christian county, Kentucky, and from thence, by way of Henderson, Kentucky, then called Red Banks, to Gibson county, Indiana, in company with James R. ^Vaters, who had gone back to Christian count}', Kentucky, to collect money due him. William A. Waters bought a farm in 1825, where his children still live. It is a quarter of section 3, township 3, range 12 west, located west of Owensville, and here he lived all his life with the exception of the time when he was serving in the Civil war.

William A. Waters and his son, James, both enlisted in Company E, Forty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and followed the campaign from Chattanooga in the summer of 1863 through to Atlanta and then followed Sherman on his famous march to the sea. From thence they went up through the Carolinas to Virginia and were in the Grand Review at Washington in the summer of 1865. William A. Waters was mustered out as a lieutenant after serving seven months, resigning on account of ill health.

The I)rother contimicd tni throuyh to tlie close tif the war. Duriiii^' his two years' service in the army James R. was constantly at the front and tonght in all the battles from Chattanooga down through Georgia and up through the Carolinas until the surrender of Johnson in Ntfrth Carolina in April. 1865. Although the son saw so much of hard military service, he was never wounded and came out of the conflict in good health.

William A. Waters returned to the farm at the close of his service, and by successful business management he succeeded in ac(|uiring a \ery comfortable competence. He continued active o]ierations on the farm until his death, which occurred on August (>. 1886, his widow surviving him many years, her death occurring on February 3, 190T. at the advance<l age of eighty-one. Their union was blessed with eleven children, eight of whom grew to maturity and five of whom are still living together on the old home farm, Charles C, James B., John F.. LHlen and Martha. Charles C. Waters enlisted to fight in the Civil war, but when he went to be mustered into the service, it was found that his company was full, so he was sent back home. All of these five children own farms of their own, their total acreage aggregating nearly nine hundred acres, all of which is located in Montgomery township. None of them have ever married, preferring to keep unchanged the tie of home and family which bound them together as children on the old homestead. Here they live an unostentatious, hospitable life, doing all the good that thcv can for the communitv in which they live. No fanuly is held in higher esteem in this county than the Waters familv and no movement which has for its end the betterment of the community is ever launched which does not find in them ready and sympathetic helpers. They have alwavs displayed that consistent Christian spirit, that genuine worth that has endeared them to all classes, and their lives have been an inspiration to others.

It is the progressive, wide-awake man of atl'airs who makes the real history of a community and his influence as a potential factor of the body politic is diflficult to estimate. The examples such men furnish of ))ainstaking ctYort and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish, and there is always a full measure of satisfaction in adverting even in a casual way to their achievements in advancing the interest^ of their fellowmen and in giving strength and solidity to the institutions which make so much for the prosperity of the community. In placing the history of the influential citizen of Gibson county, Indiana, whose name forms the caption of this review, it is plainly seen that the respect and esteem which he enjoys has been won by his commendable qualities, and it is also his personal worth that has won for him the highest regard of all who know him.

Warrick D. Johnson, son of Levi and Louisa (Smith) Johnson, was bo'rn on February i, 1865, one and one-half miles east of Johnson Station. Levi Johnson was born about half way between Poseyville and Cynthiana, in 1824, the son of George and Anna (Williams) Johnson. George Johnson came to Indiana with his parents, Arthur and Lucy (Harmon) Johnson, from North Carolina in the early history of the state. George Johnson was married in this county, and after his marriage he lived in Cynthiana until after his first wife died, when he married Mary Mason, and continued to reside near Cynthiana until his death. Levi Johnson lived under the parental roof until he was old enough to work out, and then he worked at farm labor for several years in the Maumee bottoms west of Johnson Station. On October 21, 1848, he was married to Louisa Smith, w^ho was born about two miles west of Owensville, June 12, 1829, and is a daughter of Dr. John Willis and Martha (Warrick) Smith. Her father was born at Danville, Kentucky, about 1800. He studied medicine at Louisville and came to Gibson county, Indiana, in the early days of the state, buying land west of Owensville and becoming quite an extensive land owner in this county. He was among the first physicians in this part of the country, and his practice extended from Princeton to New Harmony and Evansville. He was married to Martha Crockett Warrick, who was born June 3, 1809, about two and one-half miles southwest of Owensville. She was a daughter of Captain Jacob Warrick, a hero of Tippecanoe. Doctor Smith was said to be two generations in advance of his time, and was one of the foremost physicians of that section of the state. He was educated at Danville, Kentucky, well versed not only in medicine, but in the literature of his day, and was a very interesting conversationalist. It was said that upon his death the whole township was in tears His death occurred August 17, 1835, and some years after his death his widow married Jacob Paden.

.A.fter Levi Johnson married he built a log cabin in the woods two miles west of Owensville on land where his widow still lives, and there he spent the remainder of his days. He taught school for several years before his marriage, and served as trustee of the township when a young man and was elected again in later vears.

As a fanner he was very successful and gradually added to his land holdings until he was one of the largest land owners in the township. To Mr. and Mrs. Levi Johnson were horn six children: John Willis, deceased; George Washington, who lives west of Owensville: Martha, who is living with her mother: Emma, tlie widow of John Doss Thompson, lives in Owensville; David Warrick lives two miles west of Owensville: Laura Ella died in childhood. Levi Johnson was an active Republican all his life and took a prominent part in the councils of his party. He was also a very active member of the General Baptist church, and for years was a deacon in that denomination. His death occurred on November 26, 1904.

Warrick D., son of Levi Johnson, was reared on the homestead farm. following the ordinary life of the average country boy, going to school in the winter seasons and working on his father's farm in the summers. After finishing the schools of his county, he became a student at the State Normal at Terre Haute for four terms, at the expiration of which time he engaged in teaching, followed this occupation for five years in Montgomery township, and was teaching at the time of his marriage.

In 1887 Afr. Johnson was married to Phena Boren. the daughter of Samuel and Serelda i ?ilarvel) Boren. She was born about four miles south of their present home and lived there until her marriage. Her family genealogy is set forth in sketch of T. J. Boren, elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of five children : Mata. the wife of Harvey Witherspoon, lives south of Owensville, in Union township: Warren Boren married Violet V. Benson, the daughter of Columbus and Laura (Thompson) Benson, on February 3, 1914, and is on the farm with his father: he runs a grain elevator at Johnson Station ; \\'arner Lee and George Washington, Jr., are in the high school at Owensville: Ella Marie is in the common school at Owensville.

After his marriage Mr. Johnson engaged in the operation of the farm where he is now living, and graduallv built up his farming interests by buying more land until he is now the owner of over three hundred acres of as fine land as there is in the county. In 1913 he built a handsome residence, equipped with all the modern impro\ements and one of the most beautiful country homes in the township. He owns the land on which Johnson Station is built, a town which was platted and opened for the sale of lots in 19x1. He and his son, Warren, are engaged in grain buying and selling business, shipping their grain from Johnson Station. He has been very successful in his business afifairs, owing to the fact that he has exercised sturdy persistence.

He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and also of the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically, he has affiliated with the Republican party, and has been an active worker in its behalf. He has never been a seeker after political honor, but has been content to devote his time and energy to his increasing business affairs. A study of his career shows what patient purpose and steadfast integrity will accomplish, and there is a full measure of satisfaction in recording the life history of such valuable citizens. They give strength and solidity to all the institutions and movements which have for their object the welfare of the community. He possesses in a marked degree those sterling traits of character which have commanded uniform confidence and regard, and for this reason he is toda)' honored by all who know him and is numbered among the representative men of his county.

The man who devotes his talents and energies to the noble work of ministering to tlie ills and alleviating the sufferings of humanity is pursuing a calling which in dignity, importance and beneficial results is second to no other. If true to hi? profession and earnest in his efforts to enlarge his sphere of usefulness, he is indeed a benefactor of his kind, for to him more than to any other man are entrusted the safety, the comfort and, in many instances, the lives of those who place themsehes under his care and profit by his services. It is gratifying to note in the series of personal sketches appearing in this work that there remain identified with the professional, public and civic affairs of Gibson county many who are native sons of the county and who are ably maintaining the prestige of honored names. Of this number. Dr. George C. Mason, who is prominent among the physicians and surgeons and who is practicing his profession at Oakland City, is one of the representative men of the county. He stands in the front rank of Gibson county's professional men, having been engaged. in his calling here for many years, during which time he has not only gained wide professional notoriety, but also established a sound reputation for uprightness of character in all the relations of Hfe.

on January 24, 1848, and is descended from one of the sterling did pioneer families of Gibson county. His grandfather. Rezin Mason, who founded the family in Virginia, was of Scotch birth, and a relative of the distinguished divine, Dr. John Mason. His son. Rezin Mason, Jr., father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 181 8, and came to Indiana with his mother and three sisters in 1836, and located in Gibson county. He married Elizabeth Jane Martin, the daughter of John and Jane (Steele) ^lartin, and to this union were born ten children, of whom George C, the subject of this sketch, was the first born. The latter was reared on his father's farm in Barton township, securing his education in the neighboring schools, and, being of a studious disposition, at the age of fifteen years he had acquired a good knowledge of the fundamental branches. However, his father's death at this time threw upon him the care of the family, which responsibilit}' he accepted with heroic courage, devoting himself to the support of his mother and brothers and sisters until some of the latter were old enough to relieve him of a part of the burden. During this period he did nr)t cease his efforts to gain a further education and, although confronted with many obstacles that would have discouraged one of less heroic mold, he continued his efforts in this direction and through his persistent efforts he became a welleducated and symmetrically developed man. Fortunately for this farmer boy there was in the neighborhood a Presbyterian clergyman. Rev. Rol)ert Gray, a graduate of Oberlin College. Ohio, and a man of superior college attainments, to whom young Mason went for directions in his advanced studies and to whom he recited. In this way he equipped himself for teaching in the common schools of his county and also prepared himself for college, entering the classical course in the State University, where he spent two years. During the following eight years he engaged in teaching in the public schools, and during a portion of this time he was associated with Prof. Lee Tomlin, in the Oakland City Normal School. He also served efficiently as superintendent of the public schools of Fort Branch and Hazleton. However, the pedagogical profession did not satisfy the young man's ambition, and in January, 1876, George Mason determined to engage in the medical profession as a life work, and to this end began his technical studies in Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, and later in the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis, where he was graduated in 1879. Subsequently he supplemented this professional work by studies in Eastern colleges and. thus thoroughly prepared for his life work. Doctor Mason came to Oakland City and entered upon the active prac- U8) tice of his profession, his efforts being rewarded by a large clientele. In his chosen field of endeavor, Doctor Mason has achieved success such as few attain, and his eminent standing among the leading medical men of southwestern Indiana has been duly recognized and appreciated not only in Oakland City, which has long been honored by his residence, but also throughout this section of the state. In addition to his long and creditable career in one of the most useful and exacting of professions, he has also proved an honorable member of the body politic, rising in the confidence and esteem of the public, and in every relation of life never falling below the dignity of true manhood, nor in any way resorting to methods that have invited criticism. As a citizen, he has ranked with the most influential of his compeers in affairs looking toward the betterment of his chosen city and county. His character has ever been above suspicion, and those who have been favored with an intimate acquaintance with him are profuse in their praise of his many virtues and upright character, that of a true gentleman.

Doctor Mason has long been a close student of political history, being an extensive reader, and he takes a profound interest in educational affairs, including in his linguistic attainments Latin, Greek and German, all of which he reads with equal facility. Doctor Mason is a Republican in his political views, and in 1880 was elected a representative to the Legislature by a majority of two hundred and twelve votes, being the first Republican elected in Gibson county in sixteen years. During the ensuing session of the Legislature, the Doctor had the satisfaction of voting for Benjamin Harrison for United States senator, and earnestly advocated measures which resulted in the improvement of public roads. Doctor Mason served fourteen years consecutively as president of the Oakland City school board, in which he rendered valuable service in the advancement of local educational affairs. On July 15, 1897, Doctor Mason became superintendent of the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, serving efficiently in this position for three years. He is a member of the Gibson County Medical Society ajid the State Medical Society, taking a deep interest in the proceedings of these bodies. His religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder. He has been very successful in material affairs, owning a splendid apple orchard of fifty acres near Somerville, this county, in the handling of which he has been very successful.

On July 17, 1873, at Princeton, Doctor Mason was married to Elizabeth L. Henderson, who was born in Guernsey county. Ohio, the daughter of Thomas W. and Jane (Gray) Henderson, and to this union have been born tour cliildren, two of wIidiii arc livinii-, nann.-ly : Gertrude S., wlio is the wife of Robert W. Hunter, who is engaged in the lumber business at Providence, Kentucky; Grace L., born July 17, 1881, and died January 23, 1887; George C., born September 13, 1S84. and died .\])ril 4. 1885; Russell L. is a graduate of \\'abash College, and lives in ( )akland ("\{y. l)eing a clerk in the Why clothing store.

Among the earnest men whose enterprise and depth of character have gained for them a prominent place in the comminiity and the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens is the honored subject of this sketch. A leading farmer and grain man of the locality in which he resides and a man of decided views and laudable ambitions, his influence has ever been exerted for the advancement of his kind, and in the vocations to which his energies are devoted he ranks among the representati\ e men of the county.

G. B. Bingham was born in Patoka, Gibson county, Indiana, on April 6, 1866, and is a son of Gordon Byron and Minerva (Stockwell) Bingham, the father a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and the mother of Princeton, this county. Gordon B. Bingham came to Gibson county in yoimg manhood, locating in Princeton. His father, Gordon B. Bingham, had been a well-to-do merchant in Baltimore, Maryland, and his son, the subject's father, actjuired large interests of difterent kinds, including store, flour mill, packing house, distillery, etc. He was successful in the inanagemer.t of these enterprises, and was numbered among the substantial and influential business men of the community. During the Civil war, the responsibility of looking after the affairs at home fell upon his shoulders, an.d he managed the business interests of the family in such a way as to earn the commendation of his father. Two of his brothers were in active service in the war. Captain Sylvester, in the Northern army, and John, in the Southern army. His death occurred in \HjG. He was survived many years by his widow, who died on April 13. Hpj. To them were born eight children, of whom four are living, namely : W. B. Bingham, G. B. Bingham, Mrs. \\ . P. Casey, of Patoka, and Mrs. S. G. Ingle, of San Diego, California. The subject's maternal grandmother bore the family name of Prince, and after her family the city of Princeton, Gibson county, was named.

and then engaged in the grain business and farming in partnership with his brother, the subject looking after the grain business. He has been eminently successful in this enterprise, and for many years has been numbered among the progressive and enterprising business men of Patoka. He retains his farming interests, which he has found to be a profitable investment, and gives his personal attention to every detail of his business affairs, being wide awake and following up-to-date methods in the conduct of his business.

In February, 1907, Mr. Bingham married Ada McClure, the daughter of the late A. D. McClure, of Patoka, and to them has been born one child, Mary Agnes. Politically, Mr. Bingham has been a life-long Republican, and has served as a member of the Patoka town council. He takes an intelligent interest in all affairs looking to the welfare of the community, giving his support to those measures which tend to elevate and improve local conditions. His chief characteristics are keenness of perception, tireless energy, honesty of purpose and moti\e and every-day common sense, which have enabled him not only to advance his own interest, but also largely to contribute to the moral and material advancement of the communitv.

George M. Watt

It is the progressive, wide-awake man of affairs who makes the real history of a community and his influence as a potential factor of the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples such men furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish, and there is always a full measure of satisfaction in adverting even in a casual waj' to their achievements in advancing the interests of their fellowmen and in giving strength and solidity to the institutions which make so much for the prosperity of a community. Such a man is the worthy subject of this sketch, and as such it is proper that a review of his career be accorded a place among the representative citizens of the city and county in which he resides.

George M. Watt, proprietor of one of the largest mercantile houses of Oakland City, and one of the sterling citizens of this community, was born on June 22, 1859, near Xenia, Greene county, Ohio. His parents were Hugh and Margaret (Murray) Watt, the father a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, the latter of Glasgow, Scotland. Hugh Watt followed farming and brick making, being successful in these dual nccuiKitions, and in 1864 came to Gibson county, Indiana, where he located on a farm south of Oakland City, on which he lived until his death, which occurred in the fall of 1880, at the age of seventy-four years. A man of sterling qualities of character, he enjoyed to a marked degree the confidence of the community, and was a prominent and influential member of the United Tresbyterian church. His widow survived him many years, dying in 1901. at the age of sixty-four years. She had come to America with her parents when but eleven years of age, locating in Greene county, Ohio. To Hugh and Margaret Watt were born seven children, namely: R. G., of Princeton, Indiana; Laura, deceased, who was the wife of Oliver Hammonds, of Petersburg, Indiana: Mattie, deceased: George; Stella, the wife oi James Tomlin. superintendent of the Evansville public schools; Lydia. the wife >>( ]. M. Plack, a music teacher in Spokane. Washington; and W. R . of \\'ashington, Indiana.

George ]\I. Watt attended the schools of Gibson county, being but four years of age when his parents removed to that county from Ohio. He remained with his parents, assisting with the. work of the farm until be was twenty-one years of age, when he and his brother bought a farm near Oakland City, where he lived during the following sixteen years, gi\-ing his un- . divided attention to its operation. He then entered into partnership in the undertaking business with Porter Lamb, which lasted for eight years, and in 1910 he formed a partnership with J. N. J^ickson and engaged in the hardware and agricultural implement business, which still demands his attention. They carry a complete line of shelf and heavy hardware, as w ell as a full line of agricultural implements and enjoy a full share of the pul)lic's patronage.

Politically, Mr. Watt is a Republican, and has ser\cd two terms as a member of the city council. During this ])crio(l he was an earnest supporter of the movement and largely responsible for the securing of the water works in Oakland City, though this was accomplished in the face of hard opposition. Religiously, he is a member of the Presbyterian church, to which he gives earnest support. He has been prosperous in his business affairs, and besides the mercantile interests in this city he is the owner of a good farm in Columbia township.

On November 26. 1891. Mr. A\'att was married to Flora L Crawford, who was born in Columbia township, Gibson county, Indiana, the daughter of John B. and Amanda Crawford, and to this union have been born two children, John M., now thirteen years of age. who is now attending school, and Ethel, who died at the age of one year. .Mr. Walt has performed well his duty in all the relations of life, and while advancing his own interests, has not been unmindful of the general welfare of his fellow citizens. Thus he rightl}- deser\-es a place in the history of his locality.

Thomas J. Boren

That the plenitude of satiety is seldom attained in the affairs of life is to be considered a most beneficial deprivation, for where ambition is satisfied and every ultimate end realized, if such be possible, apathy must follow. Effort would cease, accomplishment be prostrate, and creative talent waste its energies in inactivity. The men who have pushed forward the wheels of progress have been those to whom satisfaction lies ever in the future, who have labored continuously, always finding in each transitional stage, an incentive for further effort. Mr. Boren is one whose well direct-ed efforts have gained for him a position of desirable prominence in the agricultural circles of Gibson county, and his energy and enterprise have been crowned by a gratifying degree of success.

Thomas J. Boren is a native of Gibson county who has lived all his life within its bounds, and was born on August 23, 1849, near Antioch, in the southern part of Montgomery township, where he now resides. He is a son of Samuel and Zerelda (Marvel) Boren, Samuel Boren's birth-place being the same as th^t of his son. He was born in 1825, the son of John Doss and Jemima 'Bbi^en, who were among the very earliest pioneers of the county, coming here when this whole county was almost virgin wilderness. They entered government land, which is now the old Boren homestead and on which the immediate subject of this sketch resides. There John Doss Boren and wife finished their days, and there their son Samuel grew to manhood, married Zerelda Marvel and there made his home on the same tract. Zerelda Marvel was also a native of Gibson county, born in what is now the west end of Union township, the daughter of Painter and Lydia Marvel. Samuel Boren and wife were the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy and another son, John Doss, died at the age of twenty-one years. The remainiiig four are still living, namely: Thomas J., the subject of this sketch : Mrs. Phena Johnson, of Gibson county ; Mrs. ]\Ianesa ^^'asson, of Cynthiana, and Mrs. Lydia Redman of the same place. Mrs. Samuel Boren was a devoted member of the Cumberland Presbvterian church and reared her family in strict accordance with the tenets of that faith. ThelJoren family has been prominent in the liistury of the county from earhest days. John Doss Boren was a man of we;dth and intluence anil at one time the heaviest tax-payer in Montgomery township.

Thomas J. Boren grew to manhood on the same land olitained by his grandfather from the go\ernnient and when about twenty years old he made his first business venture by purchasing a tract of about fifteen acres located near his home and having on it a neat little house and barn. He remained at home until in 1872, and at the age of twenty-three was united in marriage to Eliza \\'elborn, a sister of Judge O. M. Welliorn, of Princeton. She was born in the \icinity of her present luime. For two or more years after their marriage. Thomas J. Boren anil wife li\cd on the place he had first purchased and in 1875 they mo\ed to the old Welliorn homestead, where they have since resided. It is a most beautiful countrx- home w itii a large, jjark-like yard, dotted with great forest trees and beautiful shrubs', and a most hospitable home to enter.-

Air. Boren has always employed the most modern methods in his agricultural work and is thoroughly up-to-date in all he does. In addition to his general farming, he gives ]jarticular attention to registered Hereford stock and Poland China hogs. At one time he had quite a large herd of cattle, but now keeps only a few of the very best. For one year, 1898, Mr. Boren was on the road selling Deering farm implements. He was county superintendent of rock roads for four years, 1907 to 1911, and has given his time to other public services from time to time.

Mr. and Mrs. Boren have a family of three children. Ella ]\lay. who is the wife of Walter Bixby, lives in Evansville. Indiana, and has one son, Walter Thomas. Frank, who lives in Owensville. is in the insurance business and is also deputy state oil inspector. Ilis wife was Minnie Pruitt and they have two small daughters. Alice and Martha. C. Fred Boren is located at Owensville. and for years has been superintendent of Montgomery township schools: he also deals in live stork. His wife was Belle Sunmcrs and they have one .son, Charles Frederick. Mr. Boren comes of a robust and long-lived family. His mother's grandmother Marvel died at his father's home during the Civil war at the age of one hundred and four years, and was able to read without glasses, her faculties being unimpaired, and she had sufficient strength to walk quite a distance.

yir. Boren's fraternal aftlliation is with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Princeton and the Tril)e of Ben-llur at Owensxille. Re- ligiously, both he and liis wife are members of the General Baptist church and give earnest support to that society, both with time and means. Mr. Boren is one of those solid men of brains and substance, so essential to the material growth knd prosperity of a community, and his influence has been willingly extended in behalf of every deserving enterprise that has for its object the advancement or welfare of his fellow-citizens. His estimable qualities of head and heart and the straight-forward, upright course of his daily life have won for him the esteem and confidence of the circles in which he has moved, and has given him a reputation for integrity and correct conduct such as should be coveted bv everv man.

Bartlett Bennett Hollis

It can not be other than gratifying to note that withm the pages of this compilation will be found mention of many prominent and successful citizens of the county who have here passed their entire lives and who stand representatives of the sturdy pioneer element which instituted the Herculean task of reclaiming this section of the state from the wilderness, carrying the work valiantly forward and leaving it to their sons and daughters to rear the superstructure upon the foundations thus firmly laid. Those who have been the builders and founders of Gibson county are the ones who chiefly find place in this work, and in this number mention should not be omitted of the personal career of the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this article.

Bartlett Bennett Hollis was born April 7, 1843, two and a half miles south of Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, the son of Othniel Hollis, of near Milton, Guilford county. North Carolina. Othniel Hollis was born in 1808 and was a son of Jesse and Frances (Brown) Hollis, also natives of North Carolina, the mother being a sister of Brazel Brown, who kept the first hotel in Princeton.

Jesse Hollis and family came to Gibson county in 1825, in company with Hudson Brown, and lived the first year after their arrival in the Ploosier state on the Jonathan Young farm. They secured heavily timbered land two and one-half miles south of Princeton on the state road, and made their home here for the rest of their days. Jesse Hollis died in 184S and his wife in 1853. They were the parents of the following children: Priscilla mar- ried Samuel }logue; Ella was twice iiuirricil, lirsl lu a Mr. Jislus ami iheii to Hosey Holcomb; Alary is deceased; Ulhnicl, the subject's father.

Uthniel Hollis enjoyed a very limited schooling and on his marriage went to K\ans\ille, Indiana, and engaged in the Imlel l)iisiness lor two \ears, at the enil uf which period, his father dying, lie returned to the old home place and bought out the other heirs, continuing to reside there for about thirt}' years, when he sold the propert\- and mo\ed to I'rinceton, where he died I'ebruary 14, 1S94, his wife having passed away in 1876. He was a member of the Regular Baptist church, a Whig, and later a Republican, and was well known and highly respected in his ueig:hbf)rh(5od. He married Alicha Stewart, of Mason count}-, Kentucky, a daughter of John and J'llizabeth (Trekel) Stewart, natives of \irginia. Alicha Stewarts parents removed from the Old Dominion to Maryland and later to Kentuck)'. in 1820 coming to Gibson count}-, and settling southeast of Haubstadt, where they secured land and made their hunie. They w-ere the parents of ten children, namely: Charles, Greenbury, Warner, [,uther, Stephen. John, George, Kerrila, wlnj married William Thornton, Rachael. who married James Knowles. and Alicha, the stibject's mother.

Othniel and Alicha Hollis were the parents of the following children: Frances married Robert J. Alexander and is now deceased; John is retired and living at Princeton; Sarah Ann died young; Ellen is the widow- of Capt. J. R. Ashmead, of Terra Haute, Indiana; Bartlett B. ; Cornelia is living with the subject; Louisa died of typhoid fever in 1862; an infant daughter.

Bartlett Bennett Hollis, the subject (jf this review, secured a very limited education in the schools of his early days, he attending the Orr school. On August 12, 1862, Air. Hollis enlisted in Company A, Eightieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Princeton, and after being outfitted and drilled for a brief period at Indianapolis, the company was sent to Covington, Kentuck\-, and assigned to the Twenty-third Army e'urps. The first captain of this company was named Simmonson and the second to take that position w-as Charles Brownlee, while the regiment in the course of the war was commanded by four different colonels, Denby, Brooks. Culbertson and Owen. After spending a short period in the hospital at Louisville on account of sickness, the stibject joined his regiment at Crab Orchard, and on May 14. 1864, at the battle of Resaca, he was shot through the left shoulder, the bullet passing through his left lung and coming out under the shoulder blade. He was in the hospitals at Chattanooga. Nashville. Louisville and F,vansville, and was honorably discharged from his country's service February 14, 1865. Mrs. HolHs had three brothers in the Union army, namely: Irvin was in Company F, Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry; Francis M. was a member of Company F, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and William fought in the ranks of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

On June 4, 1S72, Mr. Hollis was united in the hoi)' bonds of matrimony with Sarah Jane Polk, of Patoka township, Gibson county, the daughter of Clayborn and Rachael (Shoptaugh) Polk, who came from Hardin county, Kentucky, to this county in 1844, where the father engaged in farming and flour milling and became a prominent man. The parents of Mrs. Hollis had twelve children and those who reached maturity were: Irvin C. is living in Sanford, Florida; Isabelle is the widow of Robert Kendle, of Princeton, Indiana, and is mentioned more fully in another portion of this volume; Francis M. was a mill man in the South and West and died in Kansas; William A., who died in 1905, was a mill man at Fort Branch and had also engaged in the tile and mill business near Madisonville, Kentucky; Caleb Clark lives in Valparaiso, Indiana; Sarah Jane, Mrs. Hollis.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hollis have been born the following children: Heber Ernest is a miller at Emerson's mill at \'incennes, Indiana. He started to learn the milling business at the age of sixteen. He married Melissa Dame; Othniel (better known as "Ott") is a farmer and stock man at Patoka and married Forna Brown ; Francis Allen married Effie Martin and is farming in Patoka township; Bartlett H. died at the age of five months; John Stewart married Jessie Binkley and is a farmer in Paloka township; Rachael is the wife of Herbert Thompson, an oil driller at Bartelsville, Oklahoma; Walter is farming at home; Charles Edwin married Maude Blum and is farming in Patoka township ; Clarence V. is at home.

After his marriage Mr. Hollis lived on the Judge Ro1)inson place for about a year, then at different places in Patoka township and in 1891 located on the present farm in Patoka township, the old Polk place, where he now has eighty acres of fine land, besides ownmg the eighty acres where his son resides. A general farming and stock raising business is carried on and a first-class modern agricultural plant developed.

Believing in the principles set forth in the platform of the Socialist party, Mr. Hollis has allied himself with this party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic.

Eli J. Robb

The true measure of indixidual success is determined by what one lias accompHshed. An enumeration of those men of a past generation who were successful in their hfe work and at the same time left the impress of their strong personaHties upon the community, men w Iio won honor and recognition for themselves, and at the same time conferred lionur on the locality in which they resided, would be incom]3lete were there failure to make s])ecific mention of the gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, for although Eli J. Robb has long been sleeping the sleep of the just, his influence still pervades the lives of those who were so fortunate as to enjoy his acquaintance His name is deeply engraved on the pages of Gibson county's history, for his life was a busy one, and he never allowed anything to interfere with his Christian obligations or the faithful performance of his church duties. His entire Christian life was a steady effort for the worth of the Christian doctrine, the purity and grandeur of Christian principle and the beauty and sublimity of Christian character. Pure, constant and noble was the spiritual flame that burned in and illumined the mortal tenement of the subject of this memoir, and to the superficial observer can come but small appreciation of his intrinsic spirituality, his faith being fortified by the deepest study, and the Christian verities were with him the matters of most concern among the changes and chances of this mortal life.

The late Eh J- Robb, the son of Eli and Nancy (Davis) Robb, was born in Montgomery township, Gibson county, Indiana, in May, 1830. His father, Eli Robb, was born August 7, 1797, the son of Thomas and Lydia (Waller) Robb. Thomas Robb was born August 10. 1769, and his wife was born Februarv 21, 1777. Thomas Robb, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to this county with his family in a very early day. and settled in Montgomery townshij). on tlie farm now owned liv I'.rcsiev Robb. TIere Eli, the father of Eli J., was reared, and upon his marriage to Xancy Davis he entered government land at Griffin, in Posey county. Later he moved to what is now known as the William Shelton farm in Montgomery township. this countv, and on this farm the subject of this sketch first saw the light of dav. Shortlv before the birth of Eli J- Robb, his father died, and three years afterward his mother married Samuel Montgomery. The\- li\cd near Cynthiana and reared a large family of children. On reaching his majoritv. Eli J. Robb was married. October 8, 1851, to Zerelda Finch, a native of Vanderburg county, Indiana. She was a daughter of G. \\'. and Deliiah

(Graves) Finch. Her father was a native of Kentucky and her mother of Virginia. G. W. Finch was one of the most prominent men in the southwestern part of Indiana. He was a very active Mason and in the early days of Indiana he helped in the organization of a number of lodges in this section and it is believed that he had the honor of helping to organize the first Masonic lodge in Indianapolis. He had a Masonic apron that was given his father by George Washington's wife, a white satin apron stamped by Martha Washington with the Masonic emblems. It was given him with the request that it go to the first of his sons who should become a Mason. This son was Senator G. W. Finch, and he left it to his oldest son, who was a Mason, and thus it has been handed down until it is now owned by G. W. Finch, Jr., of Carmi, Illinois. Senator Finch came to Indiana when Evansville was a mere village and was offered the town site for a little gold watch which he owned, but refused to make the deal. He was an active Democrat all his life and the great political debates which were the rage during his days were often held at his home. He served two terms as state senator from Vanderburg county. Among his friends was the late Robert Dale Owen, who was for several years a representative in Congress.

After his marriage Eli J. Robb and wife made their home on his farm in section 36, INIontgomery township. Their marriage was blessed with two children, Hattie E., and Sarah Ann, who died at the early age of six months. On this farm Mr. and Mrs. Robb remained the rest of their days with the exception of three years, when they lived in Lincoln, Illinois, in order to give their only daughter, Hattie E., an education at Lincoln University, a Cumberland Presbyterian college. However, their daughter's health failed on account of her close application to her studies and they returned to their farm in this county, where they continued to reside until their death, Mrs. Robb's death occurring July 7, 1891, her husband surviving her twenty years, passing away on January 5, 1911.

j\lr. Robb was an ardent Prohibitionist and attended the state conventions of his part)- for many years as a delegate. His counsels were sought by the leaders of that party, and he always occupied a very prominent place in the state and county conventions. Mr. Robb was noted throughout this locality for his generous hospitality, and his doors were always open to the poor and needy. Very frequently there were several orphan children being cared for in his home, or some unfortunate being aided by him, and no man ever lived in Gibson county who was more popular or well beloved by all classes than Eli J. Robb. Although not affiliated with any church as a mem- ber, \et he was a regular atteiulanl of churcli services and e\ery church near him received some financial aiil Inmi him. It is said of him that umi c-von a tramp was ever turned hungry from his door. It is not what wo gi\c. hut what we share that renders our gifts valuai)le.

Hattie Elizabeth, the only daughter of Eli j. Robb, taught school two terms in Gibson county after leaving Lincoln University. While in Illinois, she became acquainted with her first hu.sband, Professor P. L. DeardortY, a native of that state. They were married Sei)t ember 9. 1874, and until his death he followed the occupation of a teacher. He was su])erinten(lent of schools one year at Mechanicsburg, Illinois, two years at Graysville, that state, one year at Fort Branch, Gibson countw Indiana, and the last year of his life was superintendent of the city schools at ^lattoon. Illinois. At the time of his examination for a teacher's certificate in Illinois, he passed the best examination which had ever been passed up to that time in Coles count}-. Illinois. He was a genuine scholar, a Latin student of great ability, and was also \ery active in church and Sunday school w<")rk and always strictly followed his motto, "Onward and Upward." Shortly after their marriage his health ga\e way and he went to Colorado to recuperate. On his return from Colorado to Illinois he stopped at Abilene, Kansas, at the home of Senator Burton, whose wife was a member of the Robb family, and here his death occurred Jul\- 27, 1879. Professor Deardorff was a \ery conscientious worker and while teaching he studied medicine, intending to follow that profession later on,

.\fter the death of her husband. Mrs. Deardorff returned to the home of her parents in Gibson county, where she has since lived. She was again married December 26, 1895. to Edgar H. Bailey, but the marriage did not prove congenial and after about thirteen years it was thought best to bring their marital relations to an end. Since that time Mrs. Bailey has continued her residence on the old home place where she was born in May, 1853. Here she has lived a life of usefulness, which has endeared her to every one in the community. When her mother died, Mrs. Bailey promised her to do more for the poor than they had done and this meant much, for Mr. and Mrs. Robb had been probably the most charitable people in the whole township. Mrs. Bailey considers her promise to her mother as a duty laid upon her and, as she is able, not only gives money, but also that rare symjiathy that means I'ar more. She has been a power for good to all with whom she comes in contact, gives homes to the unfortunate and oppressed, and e\en has several of the unfortunates in her own home at times. Fortunately she is possessed with the means to carry out her charitable idea'^ and the good which she does for this community has rendered her one of the best beloved women of the county. Her kindly bearing, her loving kindness, and the friendly methods of doing her good deeds, her tender and ennobling way of bringing cheer to the hearts of the unfortunate will probably never receive due credit in this world.

John D. Chism

Among the citizens of Gibson county, Indiana, who have built up a comfortable home and surrounded themselves with valuable real estate and per- - sonal property, few have attained a higher degree of success than John D. Chism. With few opportunities except what his own efforts were capable of mastering and with many discouragements to overcome he has made an exceptional success in life and in his old age has the gratification of knowing that the community in which he resides has been benefited by his presence.

John D. Chism, one of the most successful farmers in Gibson county, Indiana, was born on August 28, 1852, in Montgomery township, this county. His parents were William and Mary (Fitzgerald) Chism. William Chism was born in White county, Illinois, and his wife was a native of Posey county, this state. John Chism. the father of William Chism, was one of the first of the family to come to White county, Illinois, and when the family settled there in 1812, they were in the midst of the struggles incident to the war of 18 1 2. Howe\er, they were ne\'er troubled with the Indians, and lived in that county the remainder of their lives. William, the father of John Chism, was the only son of the family who grew to maturity. The four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Chism who grew to maturity were as follows : Mrs. Rachel Graham, Mrs. Margaret Blue, Mrs. Nancy Rudolph and Mrs. Sarah Graham. William Chism grew up in White county, Illinois, and received his limited education in the district schools of his home locality. In 1843 he left Illinois, settling in Gibson county, Indiana, about three miles north of Poseyville. Later he entered government land in Gibson county, this state, and cleared and improved a farm of respectable proportions. Here he lived the life of a farmer the remainder of his days, his death occurring in 1876. He was a life-long Democrat and, with his wife, a member of the Regular Baptist church. To Mr. and Mrs. William Chism were born eight children : James M., of Poseyville, Indiana, born October 11, 1845; Margaret, the wife of John Martin, born October 11, 1850: Hiram, born January 28, i8s=;. died

Tilly t6. 1853: Elizabeth, horn October 5, 1856. married Phili]) Martin, and lives on the old Chism homestead: William, born October 27. ICS58, died October 9, 185Q; Hattie, born January _>. jSC)z,. married John Arbuthnot, of Center township, this comity: Charles B., born August 2, 1862, is now a miner in Alaska, and John D., the immediate subject of this sketch.

John D. Chism was the third child in the family and rccci\ed his education in the schools of his home locality, finishing his educational training in the Owensville high school. That he prospered well by his schooling is shown in the fact that he was successful in securing a teacher's license and later taught school in Posey county for one year. He continued to reside at home until his mother's death, after which he bought part of his father's old farm and built a house and otherwise improved the place. Later he sold this place and bought eighty acres on the state road south of Princeton about twelve miles and here he lived for nine years. He then .sold this farm and purchased a farm near Douglas Station. Indiana, consisting of one hundred twenty acres, which he continued to ojierate for the next twenty-one years. In addition to his farming interests he also had a general store at Douglas Station and handled grain of all kinds. 'Mr. Chism has always been a \-ery successful farmer, and in fact, everything to which he has turned his attention has been successful. He has made considerable monc\- in the buying and selling of grain, live stock and agricultural products of all kinds.

John D. Chism was married November 17, 1881. to Grace B. Mauck. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alford Alauck. who are rcj^resented elsewhere in this volume. ]\Ir. and Mrs. Chism are the parents of six children : .\ngie. who married Alva Montgomery in January, iqo6. Immediately after marriage thev lived in Alontgomery township, but went west on account of Mrs. ^^Tontgomery's health and while there she died. Mrs. Montgomery left two children, Carroll, deceased in 1899, and Jeanette. Blanche L., who married Joseph McCullough, September 13, 1913. lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mary, who, after graduating from the Princeton high school, entered Indiana University at Bloomington where she is still a student: Harold, who died in 1899, at the age of four years; Lucy, who is still at home and attending high school at Princeton.

Mr. Chism is a stanch Democrat, but has never been an aspirant for any political office. His business aflfairs have occupied all of his attention and demanded all of his time, so that he has had no time to play the political .game in his countv. However, he is a man who keeps well informed on all the current affairs of the day. and has decided convictions nn important questions which he is able to set forth in a very forcible manner. As a farmer and business man he has been eminently successful and he and his wife now are the owners of several valuable farms in Gibson county, as well as personal property of various kinds. The family moved in 1913 to Princeton and bought a home at 701 South Gibson street, where they dispense hospitality to a large circle of friends and accjuaintances. Mr. Chism is a man of fine and alert mentality and is deeply interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of his community along material and moral lines, and for years has been prominent as one of Gibson county's highly respected citizens.

Lemuel O. Emmerson

The history of a county or state, as well as that of a nation, is chiefly a chronicle of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society. The world judges the character of a community by those of its representative citizens and yields its tributes of admiration and respect to those whose words and actions constitute the records of a state's prosperity and pride. Among the prominent citizens of Gibson county who are well known because of the part they have taken in public affairs is Lemuel O. Emmerson.

Lemuel O. Emmerson was born at Iving's Station, south of Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, on April 11, 1846, the son of Lemuel and Nancy (Dougan) Emmerson. The father was a son of Jesse Emmerson, who came from Lincoln county, Kentucky, to Gibson county, Indiana, on April 10, 1809, locating on what is known as the John Martin Smith place between Princeton and Owensville, and was one of the earliest settlers of this locality. He and his family floated down the Ohio river on canoes to Evansville, from there coming to Princeton, their first camp being on the present site of Judge Land's residence. At that time but little settlement had been made in this locality, the land being covered by a dense forest. Jesse Emmerson was born a British subject, his birth taking place near Culpeper, Virginia, in 1767, and it is noteworthy that he has a son, Henry P. Emmerson, who is now living in the Soldiers' Home at Lafayette, Indiana, being now (this year, 1914) eighty years Of age. Thus two generations of this family have witnessed every change in the American colonies and states since the independence of the former. Jesse Emmerson was a farmer by vocation and a man of considerable influence and force in this community. He married Elizabeth

Emmerson, who was pi\ibal)ly a Cdusin, and tu llicni were Imn! I'liurloen children, twelve sons and two daughters, five ul" wlioni were deaf and dumb, mcUiding the subject's father. Of these fourteen children, Henry P. is the only one living. The senior, Lemuel Emmerson, while living, was a successful farmer in Patoka township, this count}, and died on December 12, 1845, a few months before the birth of the subject of this sketch. He was the father of hve children, namely: Mary E. Mead, of Oakland City, Indiana; James R., of Oakland City: :\Irs. Hannah J. Rutter, deceased; Mrs. Malissa \'ickers, of Oakland City, and Lemuel O., the subject. After the father's death, the mother became the wife of Stephen Sanders, there being no issue to this union, and her death occurred in 1872 at Fort Branch, this county.

Lemuel O. Emmerson was reared on the paternal farmstead, receiving his education in the country schools of his home neighborhood. On December 8, 1863, when but sixteen years of age, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, rendering valuable service to his country, receiving an Iionorable discharge on December 8, 1866. He took part in all the campaigns and battles in which his regiment participated, including the battles around Atlanta, and thnse at Rocky Face, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Lost Mountain and Kenesaw Mountain. He helped to lay the bridge at the crossing of Chattahoochee river, at the mouth of Soap creek, and there waded the stream in the face of the enemy's fire. He was in the battle of Atlanta, where General McPherson was killed, and in the sanguinary conflict at Jonesboro. After the fall of Atlanta, Mr. Emmerson accompanied his regiment in the pursuit of Hood to Tennessee, and took part in the engagements at Columbia, Nashville, and Franklin, Tennessee, and was in the battle ni Kingston, Xorth Carolina, one of the last of that great ennlliel. ivelurning home upon the conclusion of his ser\ice, Air. Emmerson went to school for two \ears and then engaged in teaching, which commanded his attention for twenty-nine years, during all of which period he taught in Gibson county schools with the exception of four terms. In 1898 Mr. Emmerson retired from pedagogical work as a profession and was elected a justice of the peace. This position he now holds, and he has discharged his duties to tlie entire satisfaction of all who have had business in his court. Well informed in the general principles of jurisprudence and with a large sense of justice and fairness, his decisions have been marked by a soundness of judgment and correctness of view, which have received the commendation of the higher courts.

native of Gibson county and a representative of one of its sterling families. To this union there were born three children, of whom one is living, Bessie, the wife of Lewis A. Shearer, of Charleston, West Virginia. Mrs. Emmerson died in 1890, and on April 16, 1891, Mr. Emmerson married Mary E. French, of Fort Branch, this county. Politically, he is an ardent Republican, while his religious membership is with the General Baptist church. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. A man of sterling character and ciualities, he has earned and retained to a notable degree the confidence and esteem of the entire community and is clearly entitled to representation in a work of the character of the one at hand.

James Kilmartin

The history of the loyal sons and representative citizens of Gibson county would not be complete should the name that heads this review be omitted. When the fierce fire of rebellion was raging throughout the Southland, threatening to destroy the Union, he responded with patriotic fervor to the call for volunteers and in some of the bloodiest battles for which that great war was noted proved his loyalty to the government he loved so well. During a useful life he has labored diligently not only for his own material advancement, but has also been devoted to the public welfare, doing what he could to benefit the community and advance its standard of citizenship.

James Kilmartin was born July 4, 1846, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Michael and Susan (Fox) Kilmartin. Michael Kilmartin was a native of county Tipperary, Ireland, and came to America in 1840, first locating in Muskingum county, Ohio, at Dresden, where his marriage took place, the wife being a native of Wayne county, Pennsylvania. After his marriage he went to New Orleans and remained about seven years, after which he returned to Ohio and became half owner in a distillery at Dresden, which he operated until his death, in 1854, in his thirty-second year. In early life he was a contractor and builder. Susan Fox, his wife, was a daughter of Henry Fox, of Pennsylvania, he being of German descent. In an early day Henry Fox secured a land claim in Guernsey county, Ohio, and hired a man to help him move his family to his newly acquired land. On the journey a wagon broke down and Mr. Fox went to the house of a nearby settler to secure a chain to repair the trouble. He never returned, and his bod_\- was found in the ri\ei- witli the chain alxtul his nock. The man who was helping him to move look the horse and left the family there alone in the woods for several days until travelers happening along found them and helped them to their claim in Guernsey county, where the mother and her family settled and made a home. Subject's maternal grandparents had eight children : John, Mary, Delilah, Henry, Sarah, Pete and the subject's mother. All of the family lived in Ohio, except John, who as a _\-(iung man went to Polk county, ^Missouri.

To James Kilmartin's parents were born five children, as fnllows : A son died in Xew Orleans, Louisiana, in infancy; the subject: Alary and Aden are deceased; Sarah lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

The subject of this review attended the comnicm schnuls ;uul worked on the home farm until the commencement of the Civil war, when, September II, 1862, he enlisted in Company F. Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was sent to Fortress Monroe and the first battle in which subject was engaged was at Fredericksburg, A'irginia. In the spring of 1863 Air. Kilmartin's command was sent to S'luih Carcilina and was at \ew Berne and Alorris Island: July 10, 1863, they were at the siege of Fort Wagner, and then were ordered to Hilton Head, South Carulina, where the regiment was veteranized and granted a thirty days' furlough to visit their homes. Returning to Virginia, Air. Kilmartin's command was assigned to the Tenth Army Corps and they were in all the engagements up to and including Appomattox, and were granted honorable discharge June 20, 1865. when they returjied to the Buckeye state. Mr. Kilmartin's health was badly broken w hile he was in the service and he long suffered from the effects of the exposure and hardships which he endured. He remained in Ohio until 1868 and then went to Maysville, Mason county, Kentuck\-. and went in work at the cooper's trade, which he had previously learned. He wmked in different parts of Kentucky until 1880, when he came to Oakland City, Indiana, and followed his vocation there until 1900, coming then to Princeton, where he was employed in the same manner until his retirement.

In 1870, in Mays\ille, Kentucky, Air. Kilmartin was married to Frances Snidicor, of that city, a daughter of Gilbert and Alinerva (Ham])ton) Snidicor, she of Alaysville, Kentucky, and he of Orange county. New York. He was a soldier in the Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry and served four years. He was a boot and shoe mak-er by trade and a fine workman. Both he and his wife died in Maysville. To the subject and wife have been born the following children: George, who is a cooper by trade, has engaged in several different kinds of business, and is now li\-ing at home, emplo_ved with Smith & Riggs, grocers. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Tribe of Ben-Hur, and the Free and Accepted Masons ; Ida A. is at home; Minnie is the wife of Walter Riggs, grocer, of Princeton.

Mr. Kilmartin is an honored member of Archer Post, Grand Army of the Republic, is now senior vice commander of the post and has always taken an active interest in its.aiYairs. Mrs. Kilmartin is a member of the Methodist church, having belonged to it for many years.

Charles Kightly

The character of a community is determined in a large measure by the lives of a comparatively few of its members. If its moral and intellectual status be good, if in a social way it is a pleasant place in which to reside, if its reputation as to the integrity of its citizens has extended into other localities, it will be found that the standards set by the leading men have been high and their influence such as to mould the characters and shape the lives of those with whom they mingle. In placing the late Charles Kightly in the front rank of such men, justice is rendered a biographical fact universally recognized throughout the localit}- long honored by his citizenship by those at all familiar with his history. .Although a quiet and unassuming man, with no ambition for public position or leadership, he contributed much to the material, civic and moral advancement of his community, while his admirable qualities of head and heart and the straightforward, upright course of his daily life won for him the esteem and confidence of the circles in which he moved, and, although he is now sleeping the "sleep of the just," his influence still lives and his memory is greatly revered.

Charles Kightly, who for many years was well known as a successful druggist and public-spirited citizen at Oakland Cit3\ Indiana, was born in 1850 in Chatters, England, and his death occurred at his home in Oakland City on January 14, 1913. He was the son of John and Mary Kightly, who also were born at Chatters, and who came to the United States in 1852, landing at New Orleans. They came on to Evansville, Indiana, where they located on December 25, 1852, and there the father's death occurred about six months later. He was a farmer Jiy vocation and a man of clean life and excellent characteristics. He was survived many years by his widow, who died in 1902, at the age of eighty-six years. They were the parents of five

Charles Kightly received his education in the common schools of Evansville, supplementing this by a special course of training in a business college, and in 1877 he came tu Hazleton, (libson county, Indiana, and entered the employ of his uncle, Josiah Kightly, who operated a store. In addition to clerking in the store Mr. Kightly engaged in buying wheat and other grain for his uncle, and also during this period learned the drug business. The latter vocation attracted him, and in 1880 he opened a drug store on his own account at Poseyville, Indiana, which he operated for nine years with good success, but on account of poor health he was compelled to dispose of his business, and during the following two years he located at Evansville, though during that time he traveled nutch of the time. In 1892 Mr. Kightly came to Oakland City and bought the W. L.West drug store and de\oled himself to the management of this business until his death. He was a keen and sagacious business man and so managed his affairs as to reap a satisfactory pecuniary reward. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance throughout Gibson county and made many warm personal friends who esteemed him highly because of his excellent personal characteristics and his success in business affairs. He owned a splendid and attractive home in Oakland City where his widow now resides.

In 1878, Mr. Kightly married, at Hazelton. Indiana, Eva M. Gardner, who was born at Princeton. Indiana, the daughter of James T. and Martha ('Ewing) Gardner. James T. Gardner came lo Prniceton, Indiana, as a single man. and here was married. He was a cooper by trade and exentually located at Hazleton, where he worked at his trade until 1885. when he went to California and entered the soldiers' home, where he has since lived. He still makes regular trips back to his old home to see his family, his wife still residing at Hazleton. as she does not care to go so far away from the other members of her family. James T. Gardner is a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted at Princeton in Company D. Fifty-eighth Regiment Indiana Vohuiteer Infantry, with which command he served throughout the war, taking part in many of the most important battles and campaigns of that hi.storic struggle. During his residence in Gibson county he enjoyed a wide acquaintance and was highly respected by all v.ho knew him. To him and his wife were born five children, namely : Eva M. Kightly. Marion, deceased, who was the wife of William Reedy, of Hazleton: .'\gncs. the wife of Henry Briner, of Hazleton, wnth whom their mother now lives; Sallie. who died at the age of eighteen years; Clifford C, who lives at Detroit, Michigan, is district passenger agent for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad; he married May Stewart, of Dysart, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Kightly were born two daughters, Edith, the wife of Sanford Trippett, of Princeton, Indiana, who are the parents of three children, Blanche, Byron K. and Charles K. ; Blanche married B. O. Bennett, now of Caruthersville, Missouri, and is a civil engineer. They have one daughter, Martha G.

Fraternally, Charles Kightly was an appreciative member of the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Kightly is remembered by those who knew him well as a man of strong personality, but he never forced his convictions upon anyone, being notably reserved and undemonstrative. His high sense of honor restrained him from directing his activities toward any but worthy objects. He was a splendid type of the self-made man, having in him the elements that make men successful in the highest degree. Pre-eminent among his qualities was that sound judgment which is ordinarily called common sense. His good judgment extended to men as well as measures and for these reasons he was a thoroughly practical man, self-reliant, firm and resolute. To this was added the one thing necessary for the ideal business man, a scrupulous honesty in his dealings with his fellow men. His life was exemplary in every respect and his memory will long be carried by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances throughout this section of the state.

Franklin Jones

The best title one can establish to the high and generous esteem of an intelligent communitv is a protracted and honorable residence therein. The subject of this sketch, some years deceased, spent his entire life in Gibson county and because of his earnest and consistent life in the face of ill health sufficient to discourage totally one of less optimism and natural hopefulness, he earned the sincere respect and good opinion of all who knew him.

Franklin Jones was a native of Gibson county, born near Owensville, in Montgomery township in 1823, and died near where he was born June 16, 1908. He was born in the first one of four houses built on the same site and died in the last one built. He was a son of Charles and Eleanor (Warrick) Jones and the parents of Charles were Cadwallader and Martha (Pitt) Jones, natives of England. Martha (Pitt) Jones was a relative of William Pitt,

England's famous statesman, and came to America before she was married. Her people located in North Carolina, where also hxated the Jones family from England and there she and Catlwallader Jones were married. In tlieir early married life they went to Kentucky to make their home and there their son, Charles, was born in the vicinity of Hopkinsville. Cadwallader dietl there and ]\Iartha came to Indiana with her son Charles. She married the second time after locating in Gibson county, her husband !)eing Jesse Wells, and they lived on Barren creek, about three and one-half miles west of Owensville. Charles Jones took as his wife Eleanor Warrick, daughter of Capt. Jacob Warrick, who made a name for himself during the Indian wars in the early days of the state, and recei\ed a mortal wound at the hatlle of Tippecanoe. Charles Jones and wife took up their residence on land south of Owensville and lived there until their death. Twelve children were born to Charles Jones and wife, namely: Mrs. Eliza Waters; Jacob W., who ne\er married and made his home with his brother John near Midland City, Illinois, and died there at the age of eighty-eight. He had a very retentive memory and prided himself on his knowledge of the history of his family. He was also proud of the fact that his first vote was cast for Henry Clay for President of the United States, and ahva\s recalled with pleasure that he had heard Abraham Lincoln speak. He was successful financially and acci iiuilated considerable wealth during his life. The third child was Franklin, the immediate subject of this sketch: John became quite wealthy also and lived for many years near Midland Cit}-, Illinois, where he died ; Nancy, a daughter, became the wife of Abram Mauck: William always lived on his father's place south of Owensville, Indiana, and died there March 14, 1908; Robert died in infancy: Martha lived to be about forty years of age and died unmarried; Thomas Corwin Jones made his home south of Owensville. His wife was Mary Kesterson and to them were born five children. The mother and three of the children are dead. Marshall lived for many years at Beatrice. Nebraska, and died there, while James Snu'th Jones never married and died on the old homestead in Gibson county.

On December 16, 1847. Franklin Jones was united in marriage to Comfort Sharp, born near Cynthiana, Indiana, and a dauiditer of John \\right and Temperance (Sharp) Sharp. The Sharp family originally came from Carroll county, near Baltimore, Maryland, and at the close of the eighteenth century went to Kentucky, later coming to Gibson county about 1833. Benjamin Sharp, father of John Wright Sharp, secured government land which he reclaimed from the wilderness, located near the present site of Owensville, and this same tract of land is to-day known as the Frani<hn Jones estate. Benjamin Sharp and wife were the parents of twehe children, namely: Thomas, John Wright, Talbott, Micajah, Benjamin, Mary Weaver, Hannah, Nancy, Cassandra, Mrs. Sally Pollard, Prudence Pollard and Carolina Montgomery. Benjamin Sharp's wife was Elizabeth Wright.

Benjamin Sharp's brother Thomas married Rachael Elliott and settled in Gibson coimty on the land now owned by William H. Redman. There were eight children in their family, two sets of triplets and one set of twins. Their names were: James E., Horatio, George, John, Hugh, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hunter, Mrs. Temperance Sharp and her twin sister Comfort.

John Wright Sharp, son of Benjamin Sharp, married Temperance Sharp, daughter of his uncle Thomas. They had two daughters. Comfort and a child who died in infancy. John Wright Sharp and wife died when their little daughter, Comfort, was only twelve years old, and she came to live with her aunt Elizabeth Herring on the land where John Wright Jones, mentioned elsewhere in this volume, now resides, and there she made her home until her marriage to Franklin Jones. Her mother. Temperance Sharp, daughter of Thomas Sharp, was born in 1800, and when the baby. Temperance, was but two weeks old, her father started on a trip back to Maryland. ^Vhile there, the baby's Aunt Temperance gave her a ring for the little namesake, made of Guinea gold and that ring is still in existence, being in the possession of the daughters of Franklin Jones.

Franklin Jones and wife were the parents of eight children, all of whom lived past maturity. There were Eleanor W., Maria, John Wright, Martha Temperance, Eliza Jane, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Alice, and William Franklin. All are now living but Sarah Alice, who was the wife of W. O. Jones, and died leaving five children. Her husband is still living near Owensville. Eleanor W., Maria, Martha Temperance and Eliza Jane still live on the old homestead left them by their parents. They proved themselves worthy children of such excellent parents, and remained with their father and mother, caring for them through their old age. Mary, one of the daughters of the family, is the wife of Theodore Crawford and lives not far from the old home and William F. also lives in the neighborhood.

Franklin Jones was a farmer all his life, but for many years was unable to engage in the active work required about the homestead owing to continued illness which incapacitated him, and the management of the home fell very largely upon his efficient and faithful wife and the older children of the family. Notwithstanding this, however, they reared their large family.

caring for them properly, and accumulated considerable property besides. \\'hile not a member of any church society, Franklin Jones gave his religious sympathies to the Baptist church and lived in strict accordance with the rules of same. Throughout his life, his manner of living was such as to win for him many warm friends, and considering the disadvantage under wiiich lie labored, he was able to accomplish a surprising amount, l-roni hcncath iiis roof, sons and daughters have gone forth to take their places in the world, bearins: with them the consciousness of earlv and correct training.

To attain a worthy citizenship by a life that is always honored and respected, even from childhood, deserves more than mere mention. It is no easy task to resist the many temptations of youth and early manhood and plant a character in the minds and hearts of associates that will remain an unstained figure for all time. One ma\ take his place in public life through some vigorous stroke of public policy, and even remain in the hearts of friends and neighbors, but to take the same position b\- dint of the practice of an upright life and without a craving for exaltation merely for selfish ends, whose chief desires seem to be to serve others and lead a life of usefulness and honor, is worthy of the highest praise and commendation. Such 'a man is Zadok ]\I. McCleary, a man who has discharged his public and private duties as they appeared to him, honestly and in a spirit of candor and fairness. He is always ready to assist when he sees that aid is needed and he certainly deserves the high esteem in which he is held.

Zadok M. McCleary was born in Barton townsjiip. Gibson county, Indiana, December i, 1844, the son of James L. and Maria (Martin) Mc- Cleary, he a son of William, of Ohio, and he a son of Robert, of Ireland. The McCleary family were early settlers in Barton township, Gibson county, arriving in that community about the same time as the Skelton family. They settled on wild land and the family has always lived in that locality.

Subject's father was a farmer and died in 1878. at the age of sixty-five, and his wife passed away in 1877, in her sixty-fifth year. They were members of the Baptist church. To them were born eight children: ( i ) William H. is deceased. He married Jane C. Kirkpatrick and they had three children, James. John K. and Thomas W. William H. was a soldier in Company F, Fortv-second Indiana Volunteer Infantrv. (2) James W. was a member of Company F, Fortj^-second Indiana Volunteers, and was killed at Stone's River. (3) Jacob died young. (4) The subject. (5) Mary married James C. McGregor and both are deceased. (6) Anna is the wife of Miles Mc- Kane, of Chandler, Indiana. (8) Dicey D. married Neamiah Wallace and died in Essex, Missouri.

Zadok M. McCleary received little schooling and worked on the home place until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he, his father and two brothers all enlisted in Company F, Forty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his father and brothers enlisting on October 9, 1861, and the subject in December of that year, he joining the company at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was in Sherman's command on the march to the sea, and was engaged in all the battles and skrimishes incident to that memorable campaign, finally taking part in the grand review at Washington, D. C. Mr. McCleary was discharged from the army July 21, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, and returned home.

On December 22, 1865, Mr. McCleary was united in marriage to Nancy L. Kirkpatrick, of Barton township, the daughter of John and Nancy (Wilson) Kirkpatrick, who were early pioneers in Barton township, having come here from the Chester district of South Carolina, their native state. They spent their lives in Barton township, the father being a farmer. To John and Nancy Kirkpatrick were born ten children, namely : Letitia, deceased wife of James C. Minnis ; Jane, widow of William H. McCleary, of Mackey, Barton township; Robert and William, deceased; Mary, deceased, married James M. Hunter, who died in Andersonville prison; John, deceased; Nancy, the wife of Mr. McCleary; Sarah, deceased; one died in infancy; James, of Bentonville, iVrkansas.

To Mr. and Mrs. McCleary have been born eight children : Hettie died at the age of fifteen years; Laura Ann married W. D. Farris, of Barton township, and is the mother of the following children: Charles (deceased), Ella (deceased), Alva, Lillie, Floyd (deceased). Lula, John, Hazel, Josie, Earl, one died in infancy, and William; Cora married James W. Farris, of Barton township, and is the mother of five children, Harley, Mahala, Blanche, Clyde and FIar\e}- ; Clara married L. L. Bell, of Evansville, Indiana, and has five children, Russell, Fred, John, Edward and Esther; John enlisted in the regular army of the United States June 16, 1898, and was honorably discharged April 15, 1899, by general order number forty-four, from headquarters at San Juan, Porto Rico. He served all through the Spanish- American war. Previous to his army service he was with the Tutor Iron

Works at East St. Louis and was also a member of the East St. Louis police force. He died September 4, 1906. He was a splendid young man. a Mason and an Odd Fellow; Mary is the widow of David Fields, of Mt. Vernon. Illinois, and has one daughter. Edith; Emma is the widow of Crawford Martin, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; Dora is the wife of George F. Seats, a mill man of Houlka, Mississippi. They have two children, Thelma and Golden.

After the war Mr. AlcCleary lived in Barton township and followed agriculture until 189::, when he removed to Summerville, Indiana, remaining there until igof). wlien he located in Oakland City, where he has since remained.

Mr. ]\IcCleary is an honored memlier of tiie (jrand Army of the Republic, being a member of A. H. Cockrum Post No. 520, at Oakland City, and is now serving his eighth term as commander. The suliject is a faithful and earnest member of the General Baptist church at Oakland City.