Gibson County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1914 (part 2 of 20)

In his political belief, Mr. Burton ga\e Ins support to tlie Democratic party, while, fraternally, he was a charter nienilK>r of tlie Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Lodge No. 64, at Princeton, in which he took an absorbing interest. For over hft\-three years he was one of the most active incml)ers of that body, being a regular attendant, rain or shine, and exemplifying in his daily life the beautiful and worthy precepts of that order. He had held all the offices in the lodge, being its secretary for many years, and was an attendant at many of the grand lodge sessions. At his funeral the ceremonies were conducted by his fraternal brothers and he was laid to rest in the Odd Fellows' cemetery at Princeton.

Willard A. Dill

The gentleman to whom attention is directed in ihi^ review has attained pronounced prestige by reason of native and acquired ability, as also because of his prominence in otficial position and high stantling m the domain of private citizenship. He takes a deep and abiding interest in everything pertaining to the material advancement of the town and township and every enterprise intended to promote the advancement of Gibson county is sure to receive his hearty support. He is rated as one of the progressive citizens of the connnunity in which he lives and the high respect in which he is held by all classes of people is a deserving compliment to an intelligent, broad-minded and most worth}' man.

Willard A. Dill, the jjresenl efficient assessor of Gi1>son county, was born on December i, 1871, in ( 'ohiinlii;i townshii), near Oakland < "ity. tliis county, and is the son of William .M. and .Martha Iv (Harper) Dill, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Missouri. William M. Dill came to Gibson county when about seven years old with his father, William Dill, who settled on a tract of land southwest of Oakland City, to the cultivation of which he devoted his time. His son, William M.. was also reared to the life of a farmer, but was also employed for about eight years in the milling business in Illinois. He was a man of industrious habits and splendid character, enjoying the respect of all who knew him. and his death occurred in November, 1913. His wife had died on July 13. 1909. They were the.

parents of ten children, of whom six are Hving, namely : William R., who is blind, lives with the subject of this sketch; Frank, of Evansville, Indiana; Willard A., the subject; Mrs. Sarah E. Peck, of Owensville, Indiana; Mrs. Louisa J. Whiting, of North Platte, Nebraska, and Mrs. Lulu EUenbush, of Evansville, Indiana.

Willard A. Dill was reared on a farm, receiving his education in the public schools of Patoka township, to which locality his parents had removed when he was about eight years old. After graduating from the common schools in 1892 he attended one term of school at Mt. Vernon, Indiana, and one at Cynthiana, and then went to Princeton Normal University, from which he graduated July ^1, 1896. He also attended one term at Oakland City College. He then engaged in teaching school, in which he was successfully engaged up to 1904, in all twelve years, achieving a splendid reputation as a teacher and enjoying the confidence alike of parent and pupils. In 1904 he was elected trustee of Patoka township by a majority of one thousand sixty, serving efficiently and satisfactorily in this position for four years. He then returned to teaching for two years, and in 19 10 he was elected county assessor on the Republican ticket, being one of two candidates of that political faith who were elected that year. The duties of the office of assessor are, of course, not exacting, but Mr. Dill has so far met the expectations of those who chose him for office, and has proven a popular and efficient public official.

In 1902 Mr. Dill was married to Rhoda E. Wilhite, a native of Patoka township, Gibson county, Indiana, and to them have 1)een born two children, Raymond Paul and Venus Silba.

Religiously, Mr. Dill is an earnest and faithful member of the Christian church of Princeton, as as being president of the board of trustees. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Lodge No. 64, and Encampment No. 55. at Princeton. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Princeton, Court No. 43, Tribe of Ben-Hur, and of Lodge No. 11 50, Ivnights and Ladies of Security, being financier of the latter lodge. He has been successful in his affairs and owns a valuable little truck farm one-half mile out of Princeton, south on Main street, where he makes his home and where he enjoys life. Crippled since the age of thirteen years, as a result of an attack of white swelling and compelled to walk with the assistance of crutches, Mr. Dill deserves much credit for the success which he has attained in the pursuit of his affairs, and also for the care and attention which he gave his aged parents when they were in ad\aiiced years. Genial and unassuming in his relations with his fellownien, he has so ordered his activities as to coniniand the respect of all who know him and he is eminently tleserving of a jjlace among the representative men of his vicinity.

Among the lawyers who have l)een successful in their profession in Gibson coiuitv is Harvey Harmon, the present prosecuting attorney of this county. He was born .\ugust 12, 1873, in Gibson county. Indiana, the son of John W. and Julia A. (Pruitt) Harmon. John W. Harmon's ancestors were among the very first settlers in Gibson county, the family ha\-ing located in that community near the year 1812. Har\ey Harmon's father was born and lived his entire life in that county, having been engaged in the mercantile and milling business for forty >ears. To the subject's parents were born two children, Harvey, and a sister, Grace, who married R. H. Barnett. The father. John W., is still living at Owensville, while" the mother died at the old home place.

The early education of Harvey Harmon was secured in the common schools, this being supplemented b\- a course in the high school, from which latter place he graduated in 1892. after which he attended the law school of the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, finishing his stuflies there in 180Q. After his graduation there he was emplo}ed for some time as an adjuster for the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago, sulisequently engaging in the practice of law in Princeton, where he has continued since. In 1913 Mr. Harmon was electeil prosecuting attorney of the sixty-sixth judicial circuit of Indiana and is now filling that ofifice.

In 1000 Mr. Harmon was united in marriage to Nora McGinnis. d.iughter of James and Melissa (Mauck) McGinnis, the father a hotel man at Owensville, this county, for twenty years. Mrs. Harmon's mother is now living with subject and wife, while the father is dead. To Mr. Harmon and wife have been born four children. Julia, John. Mary and Martha, all of whom are living with their parents.

In his political views, Mr. Harmon is an active worker in the Democratic party, while fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, in which order he is a Knight Templar; he is deputy grand president of the Fraternal Order

Alfred S. Ford

The success of men in business or any vocation depends upon character as well as upon knowledge, it being a self-evident proposition that honesty is the best policy. Business demands confidence and where that is lacking business ends. In every community some men are known for their upright lives, strong common sense and moral worth rather than for their wealth or political standing. Their neighbors and acquaintances respect them and the younger generation heeds their examples. They win their way through untiring energy and right principles and hold the respect of their fellow men by their genuine worth. Among the men of Gibson county, Indiana, who have won for themselves success in their chosen line of endeavor, is the one whose name appears at the top of this sketch.

Alfred S. Ford first saw the light of day on February 14, 1835, in Bedfordshire, England, the parents being James and Jane (Battison) Ford. Both were natives of England. When the subject of this sketch was about nine years old ( in 1844) the family emigrated to this country, locating near Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Not being satisfied with the site first selected, they came to Princeton, Indiana, in the fall of 1845, where they resided the remainder of their lives. There were six children in the family originally, but of these only one, the subject of this sketch, survives. The father started the first nursery in Princeton, in 1851, which he continued to operate until his death in 1882.

Alfred S. Ford received most of his education in the common schools of Princeton, and at an early age was regularly apprenticed to a carpenter. He was faithful in the discharge of his duties and made rapid advancement in his chosen trade. In due time, through careful attention to the various phases of his line, he advanced to being a builder and contractor in his own right.

Early in the Civil war, wishing to show his lo)'a!ty to his adopted country, Mr. Ford enlisted, in August, 1862, in Company A, Eightieth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and so faithfully did he discharge his assumed obligations that he was mustered out of service in 1865 as first sergeant. He was in active service all during his enlistment and was wounded in the breast by a shell at Resaca. Was in the liattle of Nashville and Wilmington, and went all through the Atlanta campaign. After the close of the war, he returned to Princeton and resumed his contracting business. In 1880 he bought the lumber business and planing mill which he now owns. PrcNious to his going into the army, he was on the town board for two terms.

In May, 1858, Mr. Ford was imited in marriage to Elizabeth .\. Rice, a nati\e of Butler county, Kentucky. To them were born seven children, six of whom are living, namely: Lucy J., wife of Elmer E. Sharp, of Greencastle, Indiana; Frank, residing at Waterloo, Iowa: Katie, who resides at home; (rieorge. a resident of B'ort Branch, Indiana ; Nellie, at hi mie, and Dale A., who is associated with his father. Mrs. Ford's parents were Washington and Lucy ( McReynolds) Rice, natives of Virginia. Her father, who had been a soldier in the war of 18 12, was a pioneer of Gibson county. He was a school teacher for many years and was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his death, in 1854. He was a public spirited man and a Whig in politics. His wife passed away in 1839. They were the parents of two children, Thomas, a school teacher, who died in 1856. and k'lizabeth, Mrs. I'ord, who was born in 1837.

Mr. Ford has always cast his influence witli the Republican party. He has been a consistent man in all he has undertaken and his career in all the relations of life has been utterly without pretense. He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him and is in every respect an excellent and enterprising citizen, one of that admirable body of men who can truly style themselves "self-made."

Charles S. Scull

The gentleman to a review of whose life the reader's attention is most respectfully directed is recognized as one of the energetic, well known business men of Gibson county, who, by his enterprise and i)n)gressive methods, has contributed in a material way to the commercial advancement of the locality where he lives. In the course of an honorable career he has been successful in the manifold lines to which his efforts have been directed and, enjoying distinctive prestige among the representative men of his community, it is eminently proper that attention be called to his achievements and due credit be accorded to his worth as an enterprising citizen.

New Jersey, while his wife was born m Indiana. Aaron Scull was reared in his native state and came to Indiana in early life, where he met his wife, and after their marriage they moved to Iowa, where he followed the occupation of a carpenter and builder the remainder of his life. To Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Scull were born nine children, five of whom are living: Ancil B. ; William L. ; Charles S., the immediate subject of this sketch; Mrs. Ida B. Crawley, who is a teacher; Mrs. Nellie Barnes, of Joliet, Illinois.

Charles S. Scull secured his education in the common schools of his neighborhood where he was reared in Iowa and has supplemented this by reading and observation of men and events. He was reared to the life of a farmer, but later in life he became interested in the sewing machine business and for a period of ten years was an agent for one of the large sewing machine companies in the state of Kentucky. Subsequently he came to Princeton, Indiana, where he engaged in the same line of business for two years, after which he bought the furniture store of A. W. Lagou in 1893, ^^^ he still owns and operates this establishment. He carries a large and well selected line of furniture and house furnishings and has for more than twenty years enjoyed his full share of the popular patronage. He possesses marked business ability and his courteous treatment of his patrons and evident desire to please all who come into his store has won him a large acquaintance throughout the county. On January 13, 1914, Mr. Scull moved into his new store, the old Wright property, on the east side of the public square. Here he had erected a three-story and basement, pressed brick building, arranged to meet the demands of his business, the conveniences including an electric passenger elevator. Mr. Scull is an active member of the Commercial Club and the Retail Merchants Association of Princeton.

Mr. Scull was married in 1901 to Sarah Whiting, the daughter of Capt. C. C. Whiting and wife, who are referred to elsewhere in this work, and to this union there has been born one son, Charles W., whose birth occurred on March 3, 1904, and who is attending the public schools of Princeton, his father intending to give him the best education Avhich the public schools afford. Politically, Mr. Scull is a Republican and has always voted for the candidates of that party. He has held no public offices, nor has ever been a seeker for a place of preferment, feeling that all of his attention could be more profitably directed toward his business. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and also of the time-honored order of Free and Accepted Masons, and takes an active and appreciative interest in these fraternal organizations. Mr. Scull bears the proud American title of self-made man and is, in the most liberal sense of the term, the architect ><( his (jwn tdrtuties. lie may well feel a sense of pride in his achievement and the honorable position to which he has attained among the enterprising and snccessful citizens of the countv and citv in which for so mnnv years he has been actively identified.

It is a well authenticated fact that success comes as the result of legitimate and well applied energy, unflagging determination and perseverance in a course of action when once decided upon. She is never known to smile upon the idler or dreamer and she never courts the loafer, only those who have diligently sotight her favor being crowned with her blessings. In tracing the history of the influential citizen of Princeton, Gibson countw Indiana, whose name forms the caption of this review, it is plainly seen that the success which he enjoys has been won by commendable qualities and it is also his personal worth that has gained for him the high esteem of those who know him.

W. E. Criswell is a native son of the old Hoosier state, being born in Warrick coimty. and is a son of J. J. and Sarah E. (McSwain) Criswell, both also natives of Indiana. J. J. Criswell has for many years been engaged in real estate business in Princeton, where he still maintains an office, and is numbered among the substantial citizens of that enterprising city. W. E. Criswell received a good common school education, completing his studies in thehigh school, after which he started out in life on his own account as a clerk in a clothing store. Then he went to Indianapolis, where for six }-ears he followed a like occupation, and in 1906 came to Princeton and entered into a partnership with Mr. Welljorn, under the firm name of W'elborn & Criswell. and they are today carrying one of the largest and most complete stocks of clothing and gents' furnishing goods in Princeton, the stock being conservatively valued at twenty thousand dollars. .\ large share of the credit for this splendid success is due to the untiring efifort and sound l)usiness judgment of Mr. Criswell, who has devoted himself assiduously to the building up of his trade, and who by his uniform courtesy to the ])atrons of his store and his insistence upon courteous treatment on the i)art of his emplovees. has made a favorable impression upon those who have patronized him. Mr. Criswell, though among the younger business men of Princeton,

Fraternally, W. E. Criswell is a member of the Tribe of Ben-Hur, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, while, socially, he holds membership in the Marion Club, of Indianapolis. Genial and unassuming in manner, Mr. Criswell easily makes friends and throughout this community, where he is well known, his friends are as the number of his acquaintances.

Joshua S. Sisson

In the respect that is accorded to men who have fought their own way to success through unfavorable environment, we find an unconscious recognition of the intrinsic worth of a character which can not only endure so rough a test, but gain new strength through the discipline. The gentleman to whom the biographer now calls the reader's attention was not favored by inherited wealth nor the assistance of influential friends, but in spite of this, by perseverance, industry and wise economy, he has attained a comfortable station in life, making his influence felt for good in his community and because of his honorable career in the education of the youth of the county and because of the fact that he is numbered among those patriotic sons of the North who assisted in saving the Union's integrity in the dark days of the sixties, he is eminently worthy a place in this book.

Joshua S. Sisson, respected citizen of Princeton and retired school teacher and farmer of Gibson county, Indiana, than whom no man in his county is more deserving of mention in a book of this character, was born January 8, 1846, in Switzerland county, Indiana, the son of John C, a native of Gallatin county, Kentucky, and Lydda Elizabeth (Stephenson) Sisson, a native of North Carolina.

In the paternal line, the subject's ancestral history is as follows: (I) Richard Sisson, who was born in 1608 and died in 1684. (II) George Sisson, eldest son of Richard Sisson, married Sarah Lawton, and of their children, the ninth in order of birth was (III) Thomas, who was the father of (IV) Giles. The latter's wife bore the name .of Elizabeth and among their children was (V) John, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. His wife bore the name of Alcha and their twelfth child was (VI) Benjamin.

Benjamin Sisson was twice married, lirst to Hannah Cranston, and tu them was born a daughter, Hannah. His second wife was Serviah i'endletun and to their union were born the following children; Mary, Ann, Ira, Julia A., Lucinda, (VU) John Crandall, Nancy A. and Eli.

John Crandall Sisson, who was a farmer, grew ti.i manhood and married in Kentucky and came to Indiana and purchased a sixty-hve-acre farm back from V'evay, Indiana. There they made their home until 1858, when they loaded their jjossessions on flat boats on the Ohio river, went through the falls at Louisville, Kentucky, and arrived at Leavenworth, Crawford county, Inchana, where they located two and one-half miles back from the river on what is known as the Milltown mad. Mere he purchased a farm ni si.\ty-live acres and on this they made their hume until after the cluse i)[ the Civil war. In 1879 they went to Knox count)-, Indiana, locating east of Hazelton, where he died on June 30, 1899. He would have been eighty-two years old on -August 3d following. His first wife died in April, 1863, and he married for his second wife Sarah McClure, who died on February 18, 191 1. Jnhn C. Sisson, while taking no active interest in politics, was a man who kept posted on such affairs. Originally he had been a Democrat, but later joined the ranks of the Republican party. He was a consistent member of the United Brethren church and a man well liked and respected. To him b\- his first wife were born twelve children, as follows: William Benjamin, who died in 1909. served throughout the Civil war. He enlisted as a ])rivate in Company E, Thirty-eighth Regiment Indiana \'olunteer Infantry, and was made second lieutenant. The Thirty-eighth saw considerable ;icti\e ser\icLand he was with it in the various battles. He was also a teacher in the publis schools for many years. Hannah Elizabeth who died in 1910. was the wife of Joseph B. Glenn and lived in Switzerland county, Indiana. Henry Crandall was a farmer who lived in Warsaw, Kentucky. (\^III) Joshua Stanley is the immediate subject of this sketch. Zachary Taylor was also a soldier who served throughout the Civil war, a member of Company E, Thirty-eighth Regiment, in the ranks of the privates. He was a shoemaker in his earlier life and for many years has been engaged in farming at Texarkana, Texas. David Harrison enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at the tender age of fifteen, after having been rejected several times on account of his youth. He served six months. After the close of the war he taught school for thirtyfive years, first in Knox county and later in Gibson county. He is now a rural mail carrier, running out of Deckard Station, Indiana, for the last eleven years. Winfield Scott was a school teacher in Gibson county for several years. He has also had a drug store at Hazleton, Indiana, for the past ten years and is also a rural mail carrier out of Hazleton. He has been active in the ranks of the Republican party and served as postmaster at Hazleton for two terms and has been a member of the Republican central committee. Mary Katherine was the next in order of birth. George Marion died at the age of eighteen years, in 1873. He was a promising young man who had fitted himself for the vocation of teaching. Andrew Cleveland, who lives at Hazleton, Indiana, was also a school teacher for a time and later associated with his brother Wintield Scott in the drug business. He now has two general stores and handles hardware and drugs at Deckard Station and Hazleton, having with him his son Raymond. He also has a drug store at Hazleton. Jane Ellen, deceased, was the wife of John Early. The youngest daughter of the family, Louisa Ann, is dead. She was the wife of James Holt.

In addition to this large and enterprising family, John C. Sisson had several children by his second wife, namely: Rebecca Belle, wife of Thomas Home, residing east of Hazleton; Nancy Alice, who died at the age of fourteen years; Samuel Francis, who lives north of Princeton and is rural mail carrier on route number six out of Princeton. He married Pearl Montgomery; John Lewis is a farmer and also carpenter and lives at Union, Indiana. His wife was Sallie Hoover. Edward Emanuel is also a farmer and carpenter and resides at Hazleton. His wife was Lizzie Wolfe.

Joshua S. Sisson received his elementary education in the common schools near Leavenworth, Indiana, but received his higher education after the close of the war. On October 6, 1863, he enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, at Leavenworth, Crawford county, and was with the Army of the Cumberland. He contracted measles while in service which cost him the sight of his right eye and impaired the vision of the left, so that it is with difiiculty he is able to see. He served until the fall of 1864, when he received his honorable discharge.

In 1867 Mr. Sisson commenced teaching school and taught until 1893. In the earlier part of his career, however, he had attended school at Oakland City, the Marengo Academy, in Crawford county, one term, four years at the State Normal School in Terre Haute, Indiana, and also at IMount Carmel Seminarv, Illinois. In all he taught for twenty-seven years, the last nine of which his average stood at one hundred per cent, for both counties on all common branches of the county schools, which is quite an unusual record. He has taught in Knox, Crav.Tord and Gi1)son counties.

In 189J Mr. Sissoii gave up his school work and located two antl onehalf miles northeast of Princeton on the Carnahan farm, lie purchased eighty-two and one-half acres, on which he remained until 1905, when he retired from active work, moved to Princeton and has disposed of his farm on which he had built the present comfortable house and made other valuable improvements.

On October 14, 1885, Mr. Sisson was united in marriage to Mora E. Farnum, of Warrick county, Indiana, a daughter of George L. and Alvina (Stuart) Farnum, he a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and she of Lockport, New York. The father was engaged in the saw-mill business and was also a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. They eventually came to Indiana and in August, 1861, he enlisted in a regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry and re-enlisted when his first enlistment expired. He was a lieutenant for one year. After returning home after the close of the war, he lived in Newburg, Indiana. He died in Knox cnunty, as did his wife also. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are living, namely: Henry, a traveling salesman in Washington; Lizzie, the wife of David Sisson, brother of the subject of this sketch; the third child is the wife of Joshua S. Sisson, and William G. is a traveling salesman out of .Mliance, Ohio. Another son, Herbert, died at the age of nine years.

Joshua S. Sisson and wife are the parents of an interesting family, all of whom have received good education. Blanche, a daughter, has been a teacher in the schools of Princeton for the past four years. Edgar B. served four years in the United States navy, being assigned to the battleship "New Jersey." He also served as hospital apprentice. He is now district traffic chief for the Cumberland Telephone Company at Madisonville, Kentucky. Rollin S. is a machinist in an automobile factory at Indianapolis. His first wife was Inez Smith and to them have been born two children, Ralph and Beatrice. His second wife is named Lizzie and they have two children. Ruth Golden, another daughter of JNIr. Sisson. is the wife of David Harder. an engineer on the Southern railroad, and they reside in Princeton. The\- have two children. Edgar and Ruth Marie. Allen Floyd is another son who is a machinist and he is located at San Fernando. California. His wife was Edith Roswell, and they have one child, John Floyd. In addition to their daughter Blanche, three other children. Hazel, Lester D. and Roger A., remain at home.

From his activities along educational lines and his long residence in Princeton, Mr. Sisson is too widelv known and universally resijccted for any attempts of the biographer to place before the public his many sterling qualities. He has always stood for whatever was highest and best along all lines and is worthy the enviable place he has won in public estimation. His fraternal affiliation is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a member with Lodge No. 20 at V^incennes, Indiana. He is also a member of Archer Post No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic, at Princeton, and his religious sympathies are with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has long been a consistent member. There is scarcely any calling more fraught with opportunities for the accomplishment of good than that of the training of the young, and in attempting to store the minds of the children under his care Mr. Sisson has ever endeavored to ha\-e his influence count always for the best.

Samuel Hamilton Woods

One of the best known men of a past generation in Gibson county, Indiana, one whose record is well deserving of a conspicuous place in his community's history, was the late Samuel Hamilton Woods, who passed from the scenes of his earthly labors on July 14, 1880, at the advanced age of eightynine years, four months and thirteen days. A pioneer of this locality, he was for many years one of the most prominent and enterprising agriculturists of the county. Perhaps his dominant and most notable characteristic was his fidelity to truth and honor. He invariably sought the things that were "honest and of good repute." In the training of his children no precepts were so constantly or so urgently insisted on as those which concern sound and worthy character. He taught that honor and truthfulness were of such commanding worth that self-interest should never under any circumstances set them aside. These principles were a standard by which he estimated men. and to which he religiously held himself. Whatever else he might do or fail to do, he meant to be, in all his actions, right before his Creator and man. His life was an inspiration to all who knew him and his memory remains to his friends and sur\iving children as a blessed benediction of a noble and upright character. While advancing his individual interests, he never lost sight of his obligations to the community in general, and during his entire mature life he held a very high place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him.

Samuel Hamilton Woods was descended from a sterling ancestry, who were characterized by that courage and spirit of self-denial without which they would not have been numbered among the founders of the new empire in the Middle West. To such as they is this section of the country indebted for its settlement and subsequent wonderful development. The members of the Woods family are many in number and have occupied honorable positions in their several localities, many of them being residents of Gibson county. Their record here is as follows :

Joseph Woods was born near Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia, August 22, 1745. He was married January 28, 1768, to Mary Hamilton, of said county. She was born in 1747 and died August 26, 1829. About 1700 Joseph Woods, together with his wife and ten children, migrated to Tennessee and settled on the Holston river about ten miles from Knoxville, where Samuel Hamilton Woods, the eleventh and last child, was born in 1791. In 1807 Joseph Woods removed with all his family, except his son Josej)!! L., to Knox county, Indiana, and settled on the Du Chien (Du Shee) river. April 10, 1809, he removed to Gibson county, Indiana, and settled on Turkey Hill in section 21, township 2 south, range 10 west, three miles southwest of Princeton. In 181 1 his son Joseph L., and family, followed from Tennessee and settled two miles west of the homestead. He died January 16, 1835, on his Turkey Hill farm.

Joseph Woods served in the Revolutionary war as a private in (.'apt. Benjamin Briggs' company, Seventh Virginia Regiment ; muster roll dated Fort Pitt, November 18, 1781, "for the year 1780 and January to October, 1 781" ; "Term of enlistment, War" ; "On command at Wheeling." His name was last borne on muster roll for June, 1783, dated at Fort Pitt, July 3, 1783, with remark: "On furlough."

Samuel H. Woods was born while his parents were lix'ing in Blount county, Tennessee, and was about sixteen years of age when the family came to Indiana, their first settlement being near Vincennes. There they remained about twfo years, coming, in the spring of 1809, to Gibson county, where they settled on a farm about four miles southwest of Princeton. Ele was reared amid the conditions surrounding pioneer life, with all its hardships and discomforts, and his early years were characterized by labor of the most strenuous kind, incident to the clearing of the land and the development of a farm. Throughout his active years he followed agriculture as a vocation and, by his indomitable energy and persistent industry, he acquired a large estate and a competenc}- that enabled him to spend his last years in quiet and contentment, enjoying the rest which his many years of toil so richly entitled him to. His last years were spent with his son Robert, who had settled on a part of the old farm, about a quarter of a mile distant from his father.

For a number of years prior to his death, his relati\'es celebrated his birthday by an annual dinner, which occasions afforded him great delight, for he delighted in the companionship of his relatives and friends. It was his pleasure to relate many reminiscences of the days when he first located in this county, and he was an authority as to many things concerning the pioneer period. He stated that when he came here there was but one house between his home and Princeton, and but one family where Princeton now is. There were then probably but four families within what is now Gibson county. The telegraph, railroads, steam mills and threshing machines were not then dreamed of. Mr. Woods was compelled to go to mill at Vincennes, tra\eling on horseback and fording the White river, though ofttimes the meal was prepared at home by pounding corn in a mortar.-

Samuel H. Woods had an honorable military record, having served in the latter part of the war of 1812, being stationed at Boupas, Illinois, under

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Lieut. William Barker. He also, pre\ious li> the battle of Tippecanoe, helped guard \ incennes, and there saw 'reciunseh with one hundred and forty warriors drawn up in front of Go\ernor Harrison's residence to hold a council. He was a man of great moral and physical courage, qualified by nature for the performance of any duty assigned him, no matter how arduous or dangerous.

Soon after Rev. John Ivell took charge of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Princeton, j\Ir. Woods identified himself with that society, and was thereafter an earnest, faithful and active member until his death. Although his life was, in the main, a busy one, he never shrank from his duties as a citizen and his obligations to his church, his neighbors and his friends. Always calm and dignified, never demonstrative, his life was, nevertheless, a persistent plea, more by precept and example than by written or spoken word, for the purity and grandeur of right principles and the beauty and elevation of wholesome character. To him home life was a sacred trust, friendship was inviolable and nothing could swerve him from the path of rectitude and honor. He had the satisfaction of seeing nearly all his children become members of the church and many of his grandchildren as well.

To Mr. Woods' marriage with Ann ^McMillan, which was consummated on November 5, 1815, were born eleven children, as follows: James M., Matthew Mc, Joseph H., Samuel Wylie. John, Robert R., David Calvin. John Brown, Sidney M., Renwick C. and Alary Ann Eliza. Of these, but two survive, INIrs. Ann Eliza Hudelson, of Princeton, widow of the late John F. Hudelson, who is referred to specifically elsewhere in this work, and Renwick Campbell ^^'oods, who lives at Kirkwood, Illinois. The death of Mrs. Ann Woods occurred at the family home on Augu.st 4, 1861. in the sexentyseventh year of her age. She was born in Chester district, South Carolina, and in 1809, with her mother, then a widow, she emigrated to Gibson county, Indiana. She was reared in the faith of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and was admitted into full communion by the Rev. John Kell, either at the time of the organization of the Pfincet(jn congregation, or at the dispensation of the second communion. Wife, mother and home-maker first of all. she did not confine her work to the boundaries of the home, but found the op])nrtunity and inclination to extend her field of usefulness into the world arcmnd her, becoming an integral part of the best things that made up the whole of the community life. As the afterglow from the setting sun gives but a faint conception of its glories at noonday, so the memories of her well-spent life reflect but a passing glimpse of the beauty of a life which was hid with Christ.

James Carithers

In early days the Middle West was often a tempting iield for energetic, ambitious, strong-minded men, and Indiana was filled with them during the time she was struggling up to a respectable position in the sisterhood of states. There was a fascination in the broad field and great promise which this newer region presented to activity that attracted many men and induced them to brave the discomforts of the early life here for the pleasure and gratification of constructing their fortunes in their own way and after their own methods. The gentleman whosdname heads this sketch is widely known in Gibson county and is one of the honored citizens of Patoka township, where he is living in honorable retirement after a strenuous life of activity in connection with agricultural pursuits. His well directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable management of his business interests and his sound judgment have brought him prosperity and his life demonstrates what ma}' be accomplished by any man of energy and ambition who is not afraid to work and who will not give up in the face of any discouragement that may arise.

James Carithers is a native of Ireland, born in county Donegal in August, 1836, a son of Alexander and Jane (Porter) Carithers, both of the above county. The father was a small farmer and also a linen weaver by trade. Desiring greater advantages for his family of growing children than their native surroundings made possible, he came to America alone in 1848, meaning to send for his family as soon as he could find a suitable location. He at first stopped at Astoria, Long Island, where he remained about a year. At that time the country was aflame with wild stories following the discovery of gold in California and, with bright dreams of what he might accomplish for his family, within a comparatively short time, Mr. Carithers set sail on the long journey around Cape Horn, Isound for the California gold fields. Pie stopped at various places and consumed six months in making the trip. Arriving at his destination in California, he made acquaintance with a doctor from Kentucky and the two became partners in their mining work. They were quite successful and had accumulated considerable, when the doctor turned traitor, clubbed Mr. Carithers over his head with his gun, robbed him and tied, leaving his victim for dead. In due time Mr. Carithers recovered and again took up the work of a miner, though not with such success, although he then felt warranted in sending for his family. He returned to New York City by way of the Isthmus of Panama, making the last lap of his journey on the steamer "Northern Light." Jn New York he stayed with relatives and awaited the arrival of his family, who came in 1855, and the same year they came west to I'rinceton, Gibson count}-, Indiana, where they have since made their homes. Mr. Carithers took his son, James, the immediate subject of this sketch, to visit the boat "Northern Light" as she lay in New York Harbor. After arriving in Gibson county, the different members of the family secured employment on farms in the vicinity and so started in life for themselves. There were in Mr. Carithers' family four sons and one daughter, namely: James, subject of this sketch; Thomas, unmarried, who resides in Center township, Gibson county, where he owns two thousand acres of fine land ; Alexander, a farmer in Patoka township and who during the Civil war was a member of Company H, Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; Mary Ann, deceased, who was the wife nf Henry P. Weatherly; and Joseph, who resides east of Princeton in Patuka township, and is president of the American National Bank of Princeton. Mr. Carithers was one of a family of six brothers who came to America in their young manhood. Mr. Carithers passed the remainder of his life in Gibson county, where his death occurred; his wife died there also.

James Carithers received but a meager education when a youth in Ireland, which was supplemented by attendance at night school and diligent attention to various lines of reading and other study, until today he is considered a well read man, unusually well informed on current events and fully alive to the interests of his community.

In 1862 Mr. Carithers enlisted in Company A, Eightieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He was first sent to Louisville, Kentucky. At the battle of Perrysville, October 8, 1862, he lost the sight of his left eye, also had part of his left ear shot ofif and was shot through the jaw. For four months he was confined to the hospital at Evansville, after which time he was sent home. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Eliza E. Townsend, daughter of Erastus D. and Lavina (Raynold) Townsend, natives of Oneida county, New York, who in 1818 left their home and came to Evansville, Indiana, by way of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. They came directly to Gibson county, where they obtained wild land, hurriedly made a small clearing sufficient for their first log cabin, and then began for them the strenuous life of the pioneer. By diligent efifort they reclaimed from the wilderness their fine large farm in Patoka township where they passed the remainder of their lives.

Thomas L., a farmer in Fatoka township; OHver L., who owns a drug store in New Castle, Indiana; Samuel, a graduate of Purdue University, who has large farming interests in northern Montana; Joseph, a farmer east of Princeton in Patoka township; Archibald, a railroad man who died in 1907; Grace, who remains at home; Gertrude, wife of Delmar Clark, a farmer in northern Montana, and Florence, a teacher in the public schools of Princeton for the last four years, and who remains at home. Mr. Carithers has given to each of his children a tine education, a valuable asset especially in this day and age.

James Carithers is a man of powerful physicjue, who has wonderfully endured his many years of hard physical labor and is today a man extremely well preservetl. He is known all over Gibson county, and especially in Patoka township, where he owns two hundred and fifty acres of excellent land, which attests his ability as a farmer employing up-to-date methods. He is also highly successful in stock raising, dividing his attention between that and general farming. Air. Carithers has an enviable place in the hearts of a vast number of friends and acquaintances who well know his sterling worth and vital interest in anything that makes for the good of any one person or of his communit}'. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church, to which he gives liberal support, and is also a member of Post No. 28, Grand Armv of the Republic, in Princeton. Such a family as that of which Mr. Carithers is the head exerts an inestimable influence for the well being of a community and represents the highest type of citizenship, a worthy example and incentive to those less favorably situated.

Joseph C. Banks

It is not an easy task to descril^e adequately a man who has led an eminenth" active and bus\- life and who has attained a position of relative distinction in the community with which his interests are allied. But Ijiography finds its most perfect justification, however, in the tracing and recording of such a life history. It is, then, with a full appreciation of all that is demanded and of the painstaking scrutiny that must be accorded each statement, and yet with a feeling of satisfaction, that the writer essays the task of touching briefly upon the details of such a record as has been that of the honored subject whose life now comes under review.

Josepli C. Daiiki, wliu is among the prominent citizens of Giljson cuunty, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1857, a son of the Ivev. Thomas C. and i\lar)- (Young) Danl<s. To this uni(jn six cliildreii were born: Josepli C, subject of this sketch, being the oldest; Mary P., wife of S. A. Stewart, of Princeton; Clara, wife ui Dr. R. M. Smiley, of Washington, Indiana; Belle, wife of Dr. W. R. Cravens, of Bloonitield, Indiana; Charles, who practices dentistry and resides at Lawrencexille, Illinois, and the youngest, Mrs. Lydia Milburn, who resides at Patnka. Indiana. Both the father and mother of this interesting family were natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and came from his home in Pennsylvania to New .Vlbany, Indiana, in 1867, at the time the subject of this sketch was ten years old, in the interest of the Ohio I*"alls Iron Works, with which intlustry he had been connected while in Pennsylvania. Along with his other duties, he acted as local preacher for his church on all possible occasions, but in 1871 he entered the Indiana general conference, fnun wliich time on he dexnted his entire time to the ministry of the Gospel up to a few years prior to his death, which occurred in 1905. ITe tilled many pastorates throughout his conference, among them being Leavenworth, Elizabeth, Harrison county; l",rie. Lawrence county; Patoka, McCutchiss, \'anderburg county; Bruceville, Knox county; Washington, .Sullivan, and Bloomfield, which was his last regular charge. In 1890 he established his home in Patoka, where he remo\ed after filling his pastorate at Bloomfield, and in which 'place he made hi^ home u]) to the time of his death on December 12, 1905. He was a man in every sense worth}- the name. .\ man of firm convictions, who fearlessly took his stand for the right at all times, and in the discharge of the duties of his mo.st sacred calling he was faithfulness itself. His wife passed away before he did. her death occurring IMarch i, 1904.

Joseph C. Danks recei\'ed his elementary education in \arious schools, later on attending Asbury College at ( ireencastle, now Del'anw l.'niversity. After leaving college, and u]) to !S7(;. he was engaged in the mercantile Inisiness in Patoka with his brother-in-law. S. .-\. Stewart. He later gave his attention to agricultural pursuit^ and saw-mill business. In 1908 he came to Princeton to reside, where he has siuLC gi\en his attention to the real estate and insurance business under the lirm name of 'I'ichenor & Danks, although Mr. Tichenor is not active in the business.

John, Estelle and Sue. Tn October, 1891, Mr. Danks was again married, his bride being Nellie Alvis, of Patoka, by whom he has had five children, Fannie, Ann, Delano, T. Charles and Clara. He still owns a commodious residence at Patoka.

Mr. Danks is a member of the Bene\olent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically, he gives his support to the Republican party. Pie leads a busy life, his business demanding much attention to detail. Quiet and unassuming in his relations with his fellow men, his sterling qualities have won for him an enviable reputation among those with whom he comes in contact.

It is an axiom demonstrated by all human ex])erience that industry is the key to prosperity. Success comes not ti) him whu idly waits fur fortune's favors, but to the faithful toiler who, \\ith chetrful celerity and sleepless vigilance, takes advantage of every circumstance calculated to promote his interests. Such a man is the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this biographical review, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, who has, within a comparatively brief period of time, advanced from an humlile station in life to a proud position among the leading professional men in a community long noted for the high order of its professional talent. Faithfulness to duty and a strict adherence to a fixed purpose, which always do more to advance a man's interests than wealth or advantageous position, have been dominating factors in his life, which has been replete with honor and success worthily attained. He is known as a man of strictly honest business principles, industrious, pleasant and agreeable.

Dr. ^^ \y. S. Trippett was born in Gibson county, Indiana, April 30, 1867, the son of Alex and Betsy A. (Phillips) Trippett. The father of the subject was born in Gibson county, as was also his wife. He was a farmer and died in 1867. the vear Doctor Trippett was born, the wife surviving him until 1Q05. To the subject's parents were born ten children, of whom four are living.

The elementary education of Doctor Trippett was acquired in the common schools, this being supplemented by a course in a business university at Lexinsftnn. Kentuck\^ after which he taught school for one year and then entered the Louisville College of Dentistry tu prepare for his suJjsequent professional career. Graduating from the dental college in iSyj, after a twoyears course, the Doctor returned to Princeton, hung out his shmgle and has since been engaged in the practice oi dentistry, in which he has been rewarded by a large patronage, liis clientele being composed of the very best citizens of the community.

Doctor Trippett is the owner of three hundred acres of fine farm land located in Washington, Center and Patoka townships, Gibson county, all of the land being rented. In addition to his holdings of farm land, the subject is the owner of the Trippett block, an oflfice building in which the Doctor's offices are located, the remainder of the Iniilding being rented for offices and store rooms. This building was originally erected by the subject in 1893, hut was destroyed by fire, the Doctor, however, immediately rebuilding.

In 1894 Doctor Trippett was united in marriage to Annie E. Cox, daughter of Lewis W. Cox, a farmer living near New Harmony in Posey county, Indiana. This union has been blessed by the birth of four children : Marjorie is sixteen years old; Lelnnd is thirteen; Roderick is twelve and Charles is nine.

The offices maintained by the subject are most complete antl are etjuipped with every known approved appliance and apparatus used in the practice of modern dentistry. The Doctor is a well read man, not alone in the works pertaining to his profession, but in general literature, and is particularly well informed on current topics of the day. He takes an active interest in every movement for the advancement and betterment of the community in which he lives and is numbered among the best and representative citizens of his. locality. He is an appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity.

Landon Kell

Throughout an active and interesting career duty has ever been the motive of action of Landon Kell, one of the progressive citizens of Princeton, Gibson county, and usefulness to his fellow men has not been by any means a secondary consideration. He has performed well his part in life, and it is a compliment worthily bestowed to say that this locality is honored in his citizenship, for he has achieved definite success through his own efforts and is thoroughly deserving of the prnud American title of self-made man. the.

term being one that, in its better sense, cannot but appeal to tl. ^ oyal adniira^ tion of all who are appreciative of our national institution, an .he privileges afforded for individual accomplishment. It is a courage to face the battle of life with a strong heart and steady hand and to win the stern cunliict by bringing to bear only those forces with which nature has equipped hini, - selfreliance, self-respect and integrity.

l.andon Kell, who for many years was numbered among the public school teachers of Gibson county and is now practically retired from active life, was born on February 17, 185 1, in Gibson county, Indiana, about two a;id one-half miles south of Oakland City. He is the son of James and Parthenia (^ Clifford) Kell. The father, who was born in Warrick county, Indiana, in 1825, was the son of Mathew and Mary (Bates) Kell, the former of whom was a native of the Chester district of South Carolina, and the mother was born in Tennessee. They came to Indiana in wagons in 1821, locating in Warrick county, near Boonville, and in 1827 came to Gibson county, where they located a tract of government land, about two and onehalf miles south of Oakland City, which the father cleared and developed into a splendid home. His death occurred in 1861, at the age of seventyseven years. His wife died in 1865, aged eighty-three. He was a wheelwright by trade, a very substantial and worthy citizen of the community and a member of the United Presbyterian church, being an elder in the Summerville Society many years. He was well known and respected throughout the locality. At the time of his death his son James was but a child. He was educated in the old log schools of "that period, where, by close attention to his stiii'.ies anil much home reading, he became a well-informed man. He spent his life on the old home place, to which he added until he liecame the owner of about four hundred sixt\- acres. In addition to the culti\ation of the farm he became an extensive stock raiser and dealer, in which he met with pronounced success. His life record was marked by industry of the most strenuous character. He took a deep interest in politics, and was a staunch sup]X)rter of the Repulalican party. Religiousl}-, !:e was a member of the United Presbyterian church In 1871 he moved to a farm east of Princeton, and in 1880 went to Madison-i-ille, Kentuck\', where his death occurred on March 31, 1801. He was an active member of the Inde]3endent Order of Odd Fellows, and also belonged to the Masonic order at Princeton. He was wideh' known and highly resjjected. Flis wife. Parthenia Clifford, was born about one mile from the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, and l)y her union with Mr. Kell she became the mother of eight children, namely: AVesterfield C, who formerly liveil east of Princelun, hut finally moved to Aladisonville, Kentucky, where he died in 1910. lie had married Sarah Brownheld, who is still living in Madisonville. They were the parents of four children, namely : James, Mary, Parthenia and W^esterlield C. Luvicey became the wife of Robert Broomtield. who died in lyoy, while her ileath occurred in 1890. They had two children, Smith and Clara. Landon, the immediate subject of this sketch. William F., a successful physician at Madisonville, Kentucky, was educated in the St. Louis Medical College. He married Martha De- Arman and to them were born live children, Robert, Carrie, Luvina, Maude and Boneviri. Nora is the wife uf Luther Ligier. near iM-ancisco. this county. Madison V. was drowned in 1870. Clara died in 1866. Cornelius S. is an engineer and lives in South AlcAllister, Oklahoma.

Landon Kell received his education in the home schools and also in the Owensville and Oakland City high schouls. He was reared to the life of a farmer and remained on the old homestead until he was twenty-tiu'ee years of age, when he removed to Oakland City and established his hume. He engaged in teaching school, following this vocation for twenty-one years, first in Columbia township and later in Patoka and Center townships and Francisco. A man of broad and accurate information and with special qualifications as a teacher, he was for many years ccmsidered one nf the leading educators of his county, his services being in demand wherexer a high standard of educational qualifications was desired. In 1896 Mr. Kell moved to Princeton, having ceased teaching in i8go, and since that time has done considerable carpenter work and painting, though not now as active in these lines as formerly, .\bout 1874 Mr. Kell was married to Maria T. Watkins. a native of Patoka township, Gibson county, Indiana, the daughter of I'arnell and Sarah (Taylor) Watkins. Parnell Watkins was born in O'Brien cunnty. Tennessee, and came to Gibson county in 1826, settling east of I'rinceton where he acquired a considerable tract of wild land, to the clearing and improvement of which he devoted himself, and lived there until man\- years later, when he moved to another tract east nf I'rincetnn. where he >pent the rest of his life. His wife, who was a nalne of Ldudun, Ivnglaml, died nn the old ])lace on which they first located after coming here, and bis death occurred later, abuut five nules east of Princeton. To Mr. and .Mrs. Kell have been born the following children: James .\., who is engaged in the newspaper business at Little Rock. Arkansas, married Fkjrence B. Radcliff. Purcell W. was killed on the Southern Railroad at \Valnut Hills. Illinois, in No\-ember, 1909. He married Julia ^ilcClure and tiic}- bad four children.

Lester, Edna, Martha and George. Edna B. Ijecanie the wife of George Bryant, who is with the Campbell Paint Company at St. Louis, Missouri, and they have two children, Joseph B. and Mary Maria. A son died in infancy. Ralph, who is unmarried and lives at home, is a mail carrier in the city of Princeton.

Politically a Republican, Mr. Kell has for many years taken an active part in politics, and has been an influential factor in the success of his party in this county, though never ambitious for a public office on his own account. Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while his fraternal relations are with the Masonic order at Princeton. Mr. Kell takes ai.good citizen's interest in public affairs, and casts his ballot in accordance with the dictates of his conscience, his support being always given to all worthy causes. In every relation in life he has been always true to his conscience and he enjoys the good will of all who know him.

Among the strong and influential citizens of Gibson county, the record of whose lives has become an essential part of the history of this section, the gentleman whose name appears above occupies a prominent place and for years he has exerted a beneficial influence in the locality where he resides. Andrew McGregor is one of the few remaining figures of the early pioneer days of Gibson county and has many interesting things to tell regarding those early times. In his boyhood wild game was plentiful around here and the present city of Princeton was then but a struggling village.

Andrew McGregor was born March 5, 183 1, in Gibson county, Indiana, the son of George and Margaret (Gordon) McGregor, he a native of \"irginia and she of South Carolina. George McGregor, when a young man, came w^estward into Ohio, where he remained for a short time, then came on to Gibson county about 1825. He obtained possession of wild land near Sommerville, Gibson county, and here he made a home and there passed the remaining years of his life. He was among the foremost farmers and stock raisers of his day, a man well known and respected in the county. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, namely: David Riley, born in 1827, who acquired a farm near Sommerville on which he lived and died ; Mary Ann, born in 1829, married Riley Harper and both are now dead; the third child was Andrew, immediate subject of this sketch; Martha jane, the widow of Joseph McGarrah, who resides in Princeton; HaniiUtm, who many years ago went to Missouri and has never since been heard from; James, a soldier of the Civil war, who was killed in the battle of Stone's River, while a member of Company F, Forty-second Regiment Indiana \'olunleer Infantry, and the youngest daughter, Lizzie, now deceased, who married William Sprowl.

Andrew McGregor had very little opportunity for schooling in early days. He remained at home until he was twenty- four years of age, when he located east of Princeton where Mackey Station now is. on the Southern railroad. He obtained a tract of wild land there w-hich he cleared and made a home, clearing the very ground on which the station now stands. I-ater he also obtained a tract of one hundred and twenty-three acres of land near Sommerville. This was also virgin ground, which he jnit in shape t(ir cultivation.

In 1855 Andrew McGregor was joined in wedlock to Harriet Burton, daughter of Amos and Polly Burton, natives of Virginia, who were among the pioneer settlers of Gibson county, where they lived and died. They also were farming people. To Andrew McGregor and wife were born seven children: Samuel, who died August 29, 1913. He worked in a mill and was a bottler of soft drinks in Princeton for a number of years before his death. His wife was Ida Brownlee. They have three children, Edward, William and Maude. The next child was Cyrus, who is a farmer and brick mason in Patoka township, Gibson county. He married Emily Connors and they have one son, Everett, Margaret J. married Jacob Leuthold, of Springfield, Missouri. John is deceased. Alice married James Osborn and both are now dead. Kate, wife of Wallace Howland, both of whom are now dead. The youngest child, Bessie, became the wife of George Nicholson and both are now dead. They had one daughter, Genevieve, who married Walter Grace of Princeton, an upholsterer for the Southern railroad at Princeton. They have one daughter, Olive. Mr. and Mrs. Grace have always made their home with her grandfather.

On August 14, 1862, Andrew McGregor enlisted in Company F. F'ortysecond Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Princeton. He was instrumental in securing fifteen volunteers for this regiment. Pie was sent to Indianapolis to be fitted out, was then ordered to Bardstown and Louisville, Kentucky, and on to Lebanon and Nashville, Tennessee. He was in the battle of Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and was with the Army of the Cumlierland. He recciveil ;ui honorable dis- charge June 25, 1865, when he returned home and took up his occupation of farming. He also operated a threshing machine and has operated saw mills in various parts of the county, but has now been retired from active duties for several years.

Mr. ^McGregor's religious sympathies are with the Presbyterian church, to which he gives generously of his time and substance. He is an earnest advocate of total abstinence and an enthusiastic worker in the cause of temperance. It naturally follows that he is a consistent member of the Prohibition party.

Mr. McGregor is wonderfully preserved for a man of his years, a splendid personality and because of his industrious habits and persistent energy he has attained definite success and enjoys the respect and high esteem of the community in which he has resided all of his long and luisy life.

Anderson E. Crowe

The true measure of individual success is determined liy what one has accomplished. An enumeration of those men who have succeeded in their special vocations in Gibson county, and at the same time are impressing their personalities on the community, men who are conferring honor on the locality in which the}- reside, would be incomplete were there failure to make specific mention of the gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, for he is an imjiortant factor in the business life of his community. The splendid success which has come to him has l^een the direct result of the salient points in his character, for, with a mind capable of laying judicious plans and a will strong enough to carry them into execution, his energy, foresight and perseverance ha\e carried him forward to a position. in the front rank of the successful men of his community. He has carried forward to successful completion whatever he has undertaken, and his business methods ha\e ever been in strict conformity with the standard ethics of commercial life. He has taken an intelligent interest in the civic life of the community and has earned the high regard in which he is held by all who know him.

Anderson E. Crowe, retired merchant tailor of Princeton, Indiana, is a native of Gibson county, born October 2, 1828, the son of William and Elizabeth (Stephens) Crowe. They had early come to Gibson county from Fleming county, Kentucky. The father was a native of Ireland, who had emigrated to America and settled in Kentucky, where he met and married Miss

Stephens, who was born and raised in Fleming ciiunty. Tot^cther tliey came to Gibson county and settled on land six miles east nf Princeton. Later he secured a farm in Patoka township, where he lived the remainder of his lite, which was only a short time, as his death occurred in 1832. In early life he was a stone cutter liy trade. William Crowe and wife were the parents of seven children, namely: Mary, deceased, who married William Foster: John and Alvin S., deceased; Louisa, wife of William Rainey, residing in Salem, Illinois; Anderson E.. the immediate subject of this sketch, and Nelson K. and Algernon S., both dead. The family was reared in the faith of the Covenanter church.

Anderson E. Crowe had only limited opportunities for schooling when a boy, and at the tender age of twelve years was placed in the tailor shop of Robert Duncan in Princeton, to learn the trade. He served w ith ^\v. Duncan about eight years, when he opened a shop of his own in ])artnership with B. F. Brownlee. This partnership continued for a short time only, when he continued the business alone. He later opened a clothing store on the south side of the square in Princeton, which he operated for a time, when he took into partnership ^^'illiam G. Foster and they opened a more pretentious clothing store on the north side of the square. This business was closed 'out and he moved to Xenia, Ohio, where he worked at his trade. It was here he met the lady who became his wife. She was Mary Mcbarland, of Cedarville, Ohio, daughter of Jacob McFarland. They were married May 29, 1856, and she died May 21, 1887. To their union were l)orn six children, namely: William M., who died in 1885: Carrie L., deceased; Mary Louisa, residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the wife of James H. Craig, .\nother daughter is Eva, wife of G. B. Ayres, of Anderson, Indiana. Anna Belle and Rose Alma remain at home, the latter being a reporter on the Princeton Clarion News. After his marriage, the subject was in the clothing business in Xenia, Ohio, and later went to Cedarville, where he worked at his trade until the outbreak of the Civil war. On September 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Forty-fourth Regiment Ohio \'olunteer Infantry, and was with tli,e Army of the Cumberland. He became ill at Mount Xernon, Kentucky, and was sent to Camp Dennison, where he remained sick for a year and was on a furlough. He was transferred to the veteran corps in Chicago and later was sent to Springfield, Illinois, where he received his discharge August 12, 1865. After leaving the army, he returned to Cedarville, Ohio, where he again opened up a tailor shop and was also for a time engaged in the saw-mill business with Joshia Mitchell. Later he returned to his old home in Prince- ton and, together with David Archer, bought out Robert Duncan. This business was continued for about eighteen years, Mr. Crowe working some at the tailor trade, until his retirement.

Mr. Crowe's life has been a busy one, full of effort and achievement, and in all his affairs he has been known as an honest and upright man. He is a member of Archer Post No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic, andN also a consistent member of the United Presbyterian church in Princeton, to whose support he contributes of his substance. Mr. Crowe is a finely preserved man for his years, retains an excellent memory and is widely known throughout Gibson county, as a great number of friends attest.

John F. Hudelson

Among the citizens of Gibson county, Indiana, who built up comfortable homes and surrounded themselves with valuable personal property, during a past generation, few attained a greater degree of success than the late John F. Hudelson, one of the earliest residents and most public-spirited citizens of this county. With few opportunities except what his own efforts were capable of mastering and with many discouragements to overcome, he achieved an exceptional success in life and in his old age had the gratification of knowing that the community had been benefited by his presence and his counsel. He was regarded as a good business man, an excellent manager, a man who possessed sound judgment and keen foresight, and who believed in pressing forward, keeping the wheels of the car of civilization ever moving up the steeps. He ever enjoyed the respect and esteem of those who knew him for his friendly manner, business ability, his interest in public affairs and upright living and he was regarded by all as one of the substantial and worthy citizens of Gibson county, in whose advancement and growth he took a conspicuous part.

John F. Hudelson was born near the city of Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, on the loth day of August, 1835, and his death occurred at his home in Princeton on October 11, 1895. ^^ "^^^ the son of Samuel and Katie (Flemming) Hudelson, the former of whom was a native of South Carolina, but who came to Gibson county, Indiana, in a very early day. Here he acquired a tract of land, which he developed into a good farm and in the early life of this community he was a prominent figure. His son, John F., was reared on the old homestead and secured his education in the district schools, which at that early cla_\' lacked in many of what are today considered essential requirements to a good common school education. Nexertheless, he was a man of strong mentality and, by much rcaijint;- and hahits of close ohservation. he liecame a man of more than <irdinary attaivcnicnls. heiuij well informed on a wide variety of subjects. Upon attaining mature years he continued agricultural pursuits on his own account and, through persevering industry and sound business methods, he was prospered through the years, so that, in April, 1882, when he retired from active farming operations, he owned nearly a thousand acres of splendid farm land, nearly all of which was in cultivation. In the year mentioned Mr. JIudelson bought a town residence at No. 503 South Hart street. Princeton, which was complelelx- remodeled into a beautiful and attractive liome b\- Mv^. 1 ludelson after her husband's death. He still maintained general supervision o\er his farm lands, which, since his death, ha\'e lieen successfully managed b\' Mrs. I ludelson, who possesses marked business ability and mature judgment in matters requiring discernment and sagacity. Mr. Hudelson became a large stockholder in the Farmers National Bank of Princeton and was a member of its board of directors, his counsel and advice being valued highly by his associates. Mr. Hudelson was a busy and industrious man, and he attained to a place of importance in his locality in which he was a constant quantity. One of the kind that make up the front rank, the kind that can be relied on, a good workman in the world's afYairs, he was a splendid specimen of the many that do the real hard work of the world in places of passing importance, and do it well. It was a kind of life that does not attract attention for its unusual brilliance or any picturesque qualities, but the kind out of which the warp and woof of the substance that goes to make up the continuous achievement of humanitv is made. His death removed from Gibson county one of her most substantial and highlv esteemed citizens and the many beautiful tributes to his high standing as a man and citizen attested to the abiding place he had in the hearts and affections of those who knew him. .Ml in all, he was a splendid example of the virile, progressive, self-made man who believed in doing well whatever was worth doing at all, a man of keen discernment and sound judgment, broad minded and fair and just in all his dealings with his fellow men. Thus he enjoyed to an eminent degree the confidence and good will of all who knew him.

On December 18, i86_'. Mr. Hudelson was united in marriage with Ann Eliza Woods, the daughter of Samuel H. and .\nn ( McMillin) Woods. Samuel H. Woods was born in Blount county. Tennessi-e. on March 1. i;()i, (29) and dietl on July 14, 1880, at the age of eighty-nine years. His father, Joseph Woods, came to Indiana in 1807, being numbered among the real pioneers of the Hoosier state and locating near Vincennes. In 1809 he located on Turkey Hill, where he achieved success as a farmer and where he spent the remainder of his years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, taking part in the battle of Tippecanoe, where General Harrison so decisively defeated the Indians, and he also helped to guard Fort \'incennes during those troublous days. To him and his wife were horn eleven children, of whom but two are now living, Mrs. Hudelson and R. C, who lives at Kirkwood, Illinois. Mrs. Hudelson is a woman of marked attainments and possesses to a nota])le degree those womanly qualities and graces which have endeared Iier to all who know her. She has taken an active interest in current events and has been president of the Woods family re-union continuously since its organization. In the civic life of the community she has been actively interested and has ])een at the head of the ladies' waiting room in the court house at Princeton. She is an earnest member of the United Presbyterian church and until recentl}- has been active in her support of the various interests of that society. She is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.

Politically, Mr. Hudelson was a life-long supporter of the Democratic party, but in local elections he assumed an independent attitude, voting for the men and measures which in his opinion were for the best interests of the community. He, too, was a faithful member of the United Presbyterian church, to the support of which he was a liberal contributor. A man of strong domestic tastes, he found his greatest enjoyment in his home, where he delighted to entertain his friends, for whom "the latch-string always hung on the outside."

There could be no more comprehensive history written of a city or county, or even of a state and its people, than that which deals with the life work of those who, by their own endeavor and indomitable energy, have placed themselves where they well deserve the title of "progressive," and in this sketch will be found the record of one who has outstripped the less active and less able plodders on the highway of life, one who has not been subdued bv the many obstacles that come to every one, but who has made them stepping stones to higher things and at the same time that he was

William AI. McClure is a native nf the eity of Princetim, born March 29. 1848, the son of Joseph P.. born Octol)er 16, 1815, on the mM .McC'hire place, and the father of Joseph was James, born in Maryland, and his father was born in Ireland, being the first of the fanu'ly to emigrate to America. He had one son and one daughter and lost his life in one of the battles of the Revolutionary war. After the close of the war, his wiclpw and tw'i children went into Kentuckw James AlcClure, Jr., and Col. Jacofi Warrick were the first white men to begin clearing the timber from the land south of the I'atoka river. In 1804 they cleared a piece of ground southwest of Princeton, put in a crop of corn and tended it through the summer. They built a stout log pen in which they placed the husked corn and covered it securely with logs in order to protect it from the bears prowling about in great numbers. They then returned to their homes in Kentucky, but were back in Gibson county again in 1806. having their families with them. June 6, 1808. James McClure was united in marriage with Malinda A^nn Warrick, who was born in Kentucky in 1788. a daughter of Colonel Jacob. James McClure was born October G. 1785, the son of Irish parentage. His mother's c'/i" jp . name was Jane and she died in Princeton. 1 wi'l^»'

Malinda Ann Warrick McClure had two lirothers and five sisters. John. Jacob, Mary, Ruth, Margaret, Elizabeth and Ellen Jane, .^t the time of her marriage to James McClure, her father, Col. Jacob Warrick, was living on what is now knov/n as the Major Smith farm, two miles east of Owensville, Indiana, and they set up their new home on the site now occupied by the McCam Summit. Here they lived for many years and reared their family. They also had a farm one mile southwest of Princeton, and James McClure also had a tannery. He was a man of importance in his day, known throughout the sparsely settled district and highly respected by all. The\- were the first couple united in marriage by the Rev. Alexander Devine after he came to Gibson coimty and they were also the first couple married snutii n\ the Patoka river. To their union were born ten sons and one daughter. Albert P., their oldest, was the first white s^VM born in Gibson county of parents married in the county. ^Then th'^rV were\Edwin, James B., Ella Jane, Josej^h P., William M.. HenryT'David H.. Robert, George W. and John W. The only member of this family now living is Robert, who resides in T.ns .Angeles. California.

to remain in Gibson county and rear a family. In his youth he received only a limited schooling at the early subscription schools and, as was the case with most young boys of his time, he was early put to the hard work of helping to clear the land and make a home. He remained on the home place and on February 13, 183-I, was united in marriage to Catherine Ann Devine, born in Princeton, a daughter of the Rev. Alexander Devine. The latter was the son of William and Sarah Devine and was born March 27, 1769. His parents were from Pottsylvania county, Virginia, and he took as his wife Snkin Nowlen. daughter of Payton and Lucy Nowlen, of Virginia, born March 12, 1771. The Rev. Alexander Devine and wife came to Gibson county in 1808 and he obtained a tract of land on which they lived to the day of their death. On this land the Independent Order of Odd Fellows' cemetery is now located. The Rev. Mr. Devine was a man of influence in his day and did much to improve the high moral tone of the growing community. They raised a numerous family, as follows : Elizaljeth, born February 22, 1792; Lucy, born May 6. 1793; James, bom June 9, 1794: Sukin, born September 22, 1796; Sarah, born February 4, 1799; Alexander, born December i-|, 1801; \'irginia, born June 2, 1803; Joseph, born May 22, 1805; Robert, born June 22, 1807; Payton Nowlen, born August 3, 1808; Mary, born July 5, 1810; Catherine .\nn, born July 8, 1812. and Mary Smith, born December 23, 1814.

After their marriage in 183.J., Joseph AlcClure and wife located about two miles southeast of Princeton. They purchased the interests of the Devine heirs and on the land so obtained they made their home, farming it to the best advantage the times afforded, and here they both died. Joseph McClure was a staunch Republican and was a member of the General Baptist church. He and his wife reared a family of twelve children, namely : Eleanor J., born June 7, 1835, married James W. Key, of Patoka, Indiana; Mary B., now deceased, born June 9, 1836, married Henry G. Wheeler, of Princeton; Alexander, deceased, born December 22, 1837; Susan Ann, deceased, born Mav 10, 1839; James B., deceased, born June 20, 1841 ; Margaret E. C, deceased, born November 6, 1843:- Joseph D., born July 9, 1844, now living retired at Evansville, Indiana; Robert M., born September 16, 1846, residing at Mound City, Kansas; William M., the immediate subject of this sketch, born September 29, 1848; George W., born July 17, 1850, is still farming the old homestead; Nancy, born December 15, 1852, wife of W. C. Hudleson, of Patoka township; Franklin P. P.. born ]\Liy 9, 1855, also engaged in farming on the old homestead in Patoka township.

This family discharged its duty to tiic Union in the dark days <<\ tlie sixties in a gratifying manner, sending five of its sons to the front, all of whom were permitted to pass through the conriict and return home. Alexander D., James. Robert and William M. were members of Company H, Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, while Joseph D. enlisted in Company F, Thirty-third Regiment. Alexander J. served with special distinction, being special scout for Generals Thomas and Wilder. He was the lirst of the ]\TcClure sons to die, his death occurring in 1902.

William M., the immediate subject of this sketch, enlisted on .March 12, 1865, and received his honorable discharge on August 8. 1865. Me was all through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, .\fter the close of the war he returned home and attended school for a year. He later took a commercial course at Evansville. Iniliana, and engaged in the drug business in St. Louis for four years. He then returned to Princeton and was associated with B. B. Estes for about two years. From 1878 to i8(;o he engaged in farming, when he disposed of his agricultural interests and entered the ranks of carpenters and contractors in Princeon, in which work he has since engaged. In 1893 he removed his family to Princeton, where they are much thought of. Mr. McClure is a man blessed with a retentive memory, to wdiose store of knowledge he is constantly adding. He is considered a man well posted on current events and a man of right principles who stands firm on his convictions. Politically, Mr. McClure is an earnest supporter of the Republican party, while his fraternal affiliations are with the Free and Accepted Masons, of which order he has been a mcmlier for the past twentyfive years. Religiously, he is a member of the Cieneral Baptist churcli and has always taken a deep interest in the prosperity of that society. He is also a member of Archer Post No. 28. Grand Army of the Republic.

Mr. McClure was married in 1878 to :\Iartha E. Latham, of Prentice, Illinois, a daughter of James and Julia A. Latham. Her father was originally a farmer in Gibson county. There are nine children in the McClure family, namely: Amy Alice, born March 30. 1881, married Jesse French, of Union township. Gibson county; Julia A., born December 2. 1882, widow of P. W. Kell. of Princeton; Lester Latham, born Jul>- 19, 1884, married Catherine Arburn. This son is in the contracting business at Pueblo, Colorado; Joseph D. D.. born July 23. 1887, is a carpenter at Princeton. He married Bertha Glazier; A'an Raymond was born April 8, 1891, and is a carpenter by trade; I'ercy M., l>orn October 5. 1894. remains at home; Jos-.

Personally, Mr. McClure is a man of genial and unassuming character, who, because of his genuine worth and staunch integrity, has won and retains the unalloyed good will of all who know him. Mrs. McClure is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is earnest in advancing its cause. They have an ideal home and cut of it young folks go forth well fitted to battle with the world and come out victorious.

John Mahan

Of the sturdy sons of the Emerald Isle it has been said that they have "won every country's freedom but their own,"' and a review of the struggle against oppression or tyranny in any land will disclose the fact that in the forefront of the battle line, if, indeed, not leading it, the valiant lads from the land of the harp and shamrock have borne well their part. During the dark days of the war between the American states in i86i-'65, probably no other country furnished more recruits to the ranks of the "boys in blue" than did Ireland, and among those worthy defenders of the integrity of their adopted country none bore a more noble part or acquitted himself with greater honor than the one whose name forms the caption of this brief biographical review. Not alone did he acquit himself well in those "times that tried men's souls," but in the pursuits of peace his record has been one of usefulness, honor and fidelity to the best principles of life.

John Mahan was born in May, 1838, in county Donegal, Ireland, the son of John and Nancy (Peoples) Mahan, both natives of the same county. The father was a farmer and died in 1854, his widow, with five children, emigrating to the United States that same year and locating at Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, where she died in i860. The five children of John and Nancy Mahan were Ellen, who married William Marrow and they lived in Gibson county, both now being deceased; Samuel, who was a farmer and is now deceased, married Mary Marrow; James married Nancy Marrow, followed farming and is now deceased; John; Hugh, a farmer in Patoka township, married Belle Greer.

John Mahan had attended school in Ireland, and on the removal of the family to this country he resumed his studies in the Gibson county schools.

tlcNOling the rcniaiiuler ul hi^- lime In assisting in ilic I'arni w i irk '>n ihc place ul his uncle, William Marrow, with whom he lived up to the time of the outbreak of the Civil war. In May, 1861, Mr. Mahan enlisted in Company H, Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Princeton, Indiana, being sent from that place, with his comrades, to Indianapolis for outfitting and preliminary instruction in military duties. The gathering clouds of war hatl by this time l)urst in all their fury and the command to which the subject was attsched was quickly ru.shed to the front, going from the Ho'isier capital first to Cincinnati and then into the state of X'irginia, where they took part in the battle of Greenbriar, then being dispatched into the Blue Grass state, where they were engaged in the battle of Bowling Green. From Kentucky the force of which Mr. Mahan was a member went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and joined General Sherman, being with him on his famous "march to the sea." The subject's brother Hugh was a member of the same company and regiment, and while in the service they were in the commands of Generals Haskell and Wilder and Major Gorman. At the dose of the war, in the spring of 1865, the brothers were lionorably discharged.

Shortly after returning home from his coimtry's service, Mr. Mahan was united in marriage to Mary Jane Greer, a native of comity Donegal, Ireland, the district in which the subject was born. She was the daughter of Henry and Jane (Marrow) Greer, who came from the "old sod" to .\merica in the early fifties and settled in Patoka township, Gibson county, Indiana, where they cleared land and established their home. The father of the subject's wife was a Union soldier, a member of Compan\- 11, Seventeenth Regiment Indiana \'olunteer Infantry. He met his death at Chattanooga, being struck by a train on a bridge. The niotiier is long since deceased. To the parents of the sul)ject's wife were born four children: Jane, Mrs. Mahan, who died .\pril 13, 1895. in her lifty-thinl year; P>ea married Hugh Mahan; Sallie is the widow of James .'\nderson, of I'nnceton; Henry is a farmer at Princeton.

After his marriage Mr. Mahan sold his land in Princeton and bought land five miles east of that place, built a good home and outbuili lings and took up the work of developing the place, in which he was quite successful, adding to his original h(jlding until he is now the owner of one hundred and eighty acres of as good land as can be found in the community. Here he lived and carried on general farming until his retirement, when he rented his farm and purchased his present liome at Xo. 612 East .State street in

To the subject and his wife were born ten children : John, Maggie and Annie are deceased ; Robert is engaged in the undertaking business in Deming, New Mexico; Henry married Margaret McCullough and is farming on the old home place; Ella M. is at home; Edith is deceased; James married Agnes Legier and is farming on the old home place; Ralph is deceased; Everett married Stella DePriest.

Mr. Mahan, w;ho is a remarkably well preserved man for his age, is a member of the Grand Ami}- of the Republic, belonging to Archer Post No. 28, at Princeton, while he is an earnest and faithful member of the United Presbvterian church.

Anderson G. Makemson

It is a pleasure to investigate the career of a successful, self-made man. Peculiar honor attaches to that individual who, beginning the great struggle of life alone and unaided, gradually overcomes unfavorable environment, removes one by one the obstacles from the pathway of success and by the master strokes of his own force and vitality succeeds in forging his way to the front and winning for himself a competency and a position of esteem and influence among his fellow-men. Such is the record of the popular citizen of Gibson county to a brief synopsis of whose life and character the following pages are devoted.

Andrew G. Makemson, whose home is at Baldwin Heights, just south of Princeton, was born in Gibson county about five miles northeast of Princeton. on October 24, 1829. His ancestors were among the \'ery first settlers in this part of the country. Andrew, his father, was born in Virginia in 1785, of sterling Scotch-Irish stock, and the father of Andrew was Joseph, a native of Scotland who brought his wife to America during the Revolutionary war and located in Virginia. There their son Andrew \\as born and, when he was still a small boy, they journeyed westward into Kentucky, locating near Shelbyville. Here, on July 30, 1811. Andrew was united in marriage to Margaret Shafer, who was born June 11, 1792. In 1820 Joseph Makemson and wife, with their oldest son, Andrew, and his wife, together with Josegh, James, Nancy and Sarah, younger children of Joseph, came to Indiana, locating in Perry county, bringing with them their horses and household goods. However, they were not pleased with their first location and in 1822 decided to come on to Gilison county. Andrew made a sled and loadeil thereon their clothing and bedding and on another horse his young wife rode into Gibson county. They secured heavily timbered land laying northeast of Princeton, hastily made a small clearing where their cabin was raised and began various improvements which all helped to make a comfortable and happy home. In this pioneer home. Andrew, the immediate subject of this sketch, lirst saw the light of day. There were at that time only five or six other settlers within a radius of two or three miles and many were the hardships they endured. Joseph Makemson and his wife died on this place and were laid to rest in what is now known as the Archer cemetery. James, one of the sons brought with them to Indiana, at one time li\ed near the old homestead, but later went to Illinois, and Sarah, one of the dauglUers. married James Finney and lived southwest of Princeton..

Andrew Makemson and wife continued to live nn the old homestead until removed by death. She died April 6. 1841, and his death occurred December 9, i860, in his seventy-_eighth year. In this old home they reared their family of eleven children. Joseph, the oldest, was a farmer. His wife was Polly Lamasters and both are dead. Xanc>- .Mien was a daughter who died young and unmarried, while Sarah became the wife of James Finney and they went to Illinois to make their home. Later the\- returned to Gibson county and !)()th died here. James, deceased, was a carpenter who also lived in Illinois for a time, but returned to his native county. Another son, William, died when small. Benjamin was a farmer, who went to lUincjis and later to Kansas, where he died. His wife \\as Elizabeth Townsend. John S., who is eighty-eight years old, is living at Corning, Iowa, a retired carpenter. Mary Jane married James Barton' (both dead) and the\- made their home in Gibson countv. The tenth child was Thomas B., who died young, and the youngest, Margaret Ann. became the wife of Robert Millis, and they make their home in Leavenworth, Kansas. Andrew and wife were members of the Covenanter church, living in strict accordance with the rules of the same, .\ndrew was known among his friends as a man of uncompromising integrity, strict and stern in his views, as had been his father before him. and highly respected in the community.