Grant County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 7 of 32)

John E. Kibbey was educated in Clinton county, Ohio, and was about twenty years of age when the family moved to Grant county. Here he lived and learned the lessons of industry and thrift, was well trained in principles of honest dealing, and chose farming as his regu¬ lar vocation. On the death of his father, he became owner of this old homestead, and afterwards built a fine red bam and other out build¬ ings which are such conspicuous and valuable features of the estate. The creek which waters the farm still bears the name of John Craw¬ ford, the original owner of the land and proprietor of the old Black Horse Tavern. John E. Kibbey was a man who took an active part in local matters, was an intelligent and public spirited character, and held a high place in the esteem of his neighbors. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Masonic Lodge, and the Improved Order of Red Men, and had held chairs in these different fraternities. In politics he was a Republican.

On January 1, 1873, in Jefferson township, John E. Kibbey married Olive Carter. Mrs. Kibbey who survives her husband has the distinc¬ tion of having been born in a log cabin home in Jefferson township. The date of her birth was December 19, 1852, and she was reared and has always considered Jefferson township her home. Though a com¬ paratively young woman, she has within the scope of her early expe¬ rience, many pioneer facts, and when a young girl she did many tasks of the old-fashioned housekeeper, such as spinning yam, etc. Her par¬ ents were Ira J. and Eliza Ann (Com) Carter. Her father was born in Zanesville, Ohio, March 15, 1822, and died March 21, 1899, in Jeffer¬ son township, of Grant county. Her mother was bom in Rush county, Indiana, June 5, 1825, and is still living, quite active, although neces¬ sarily feeling the weight of eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were married in 1845, in Rush county, and in that same year began their married life in Jefferson township, of Grant county, locating on new land, and after a few years established their home on another place in the same township. They lived long and active and useful lives, were Methodists in religion and Mr. Carter was a Democrat in politics.

'The children born to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kibbey are mentioned as follows: Clarence A., who lives in Marion, and married Mary Bar¬ ley; Everet A., who now owns and occupies a part of the homestead, and by his marriage to Sarah C. Throckmorton has the following chil¬ dren: Lloyd T., Eva L., Paul K. and#Mary 0.; Ira E., who lives on his mother's farm in Jefferson township, married Maud Carmin, and has two children, Everett L. and Opal A. ; Charles P., who now runs the home farm for his mother, is unmarried; Rowland C., who is un¬ married and is in the oil fields of California ; Cora A., who is a success¬ ful teacher in Matthews; Bessie A., who died in infancy; Clinton J., died at the age of four years; John R. is a senior in the Matthews high school, and Carrie E., a junior student in the high school. Mrs. Kib¬ bey and daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Ben 0. Phillips. Chief of police of the Marion police department since 1909, the record of Mr. Phillips is one that has been a matter of much commendation and praise among the local citizens. He has been commended for the manner in which he has enforced the law, without partiality or favoritism, and in all his duties has performed his work with a quiet efficiency which means a great deal to the welfare and moral safe-guarding of a city. Marion, under Chief Phillips, has been regarded as the inferior of no Indiana city in its police department.

Ben 0. Phillips was born October 31, 1871, near Newport, Kentucky, a son of George and Jane (Hulley) Phillips, the father a native of Germany. He came to America when a young man and located in Kentucky. By trade he was a cooper, but spent most of his life as a farmer, and is now living at Madison, Indiana, to which city he removed many years ago. During the Civil war he fought for the cause of the Union in his adopted land. The mother passed away about thirteen years ago. They were the parents of a large family of ten children, all of whom are still living, and named as follows: Robert Phillips, who lives near Madison; Ben 0.; Edward, of Madison; Thomas, of Marion; William, of Madison; Otto and Bert, twins, and living in

Mr. Ben 0. Phillips received his early education at Newport and at Madison, chiefly in the latter city, and began his career as a farmer, working on a farm until he was twenty years of age. He then came to Indianapolis, and spent several years in a bicycle factory there. In 1895 similar employment in the Halliday bicycle factory at Marion brought him to this city, where he has had his home ever since. After several years in the bicycle shops, in 1892, he entered the police service as a patrolman, and in time was appointed captain, and then two years later, in 1909, was made chief of police.

Mr. Phillips was married March 29, 1893, to Oliva Butter. They had been school companions together in Madison, and their friendship was continued into later life, until their marriage at Indianapolis. The five children of their union are: Irene, Velma, Frank, Edith, Benjamin. Mr. Phillips is a Republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Crew of Neptune, and the Knights of Pythias.

Elkanah Huluey. For a long period of years the name of Hulley has been associated with Grant county life and affairs. In the follow¬ ing sketch are contained the essential facts in the career of Mr. Elkanah Hulley and also many related items of family history and local associations, so that the article becomes a brief but valuable chapter in this centennial history.

While he has been a citizen of Marion since May 29,. 1871, Elkanah Hulley is a native of Switzerland county, Indiana. His childhood and early manhood were passed in the vicinity of Vevay, and although the "Hoosier Schoolmaster" was published the year he left Switzerland county, Mr. Hulley is very familiar with scenes described in the story. The Hulley and Eggleston families were acquainted there. None of Mr. Hulley 's immediate relatives have had permanent residence in Marion, although two brothers and a sister have lived temporarily in. Grant county. He was very much interested in the Centennial Home¬ coming week at Vevay, at which point settlement was made in 1813, and all exiles were invited to meet again.

When Mr. Hulley came to Marion it was to work in the foundry and machine shop operated by his uncle, Samuel Hulley, and his cousin, Joseph Hulley. While he was connected with the foundry he was on the payroll, rented a half interest and later owned a half interest in it, but when Grant county industrial affairs were revolutionized in 1887, by the discovery of natural gas, he sold his interest in the foundry and became extension superintendent of the Citizens' Gas Company. He operated a stone quarry and crusher on the Draper-Williams land for a year and a half, but his public work has been as superintendent of the Marion Municipal Water Plant described in the special chapter on water systems of the county.

Elected to a vacancy to fill out an unexpired term of six months on the Marion school board, Mr. Hulley was seven times reelected and served as school trustee at a very important time when the city was increasing rapidly in population and business ability was required at the hands of the board - an increased school population and not enough school buildings for the requirement. While the Central building on the site of the old seminary is opposite his home on Adams street, the prevailing opinion that Mr. Hulley was instrumental in securing the town clock is a mistake. He was at the time opposed to it, but it was placed there as a result of petition by tax payers, and the city council ordered the school board to include the clock in the plans of the build- ing. He is now very glad the only town clock is there. The regret of the citizens is that there are not other town clocks scattered about in the different localities.

Samuel1 and Hannah Hulley were a well known family in the early history of Marion, and the late Joseph Hulley and his family are all of the name immediately identified with local history aside from Elkanah Hulley. On March 20, 1873, Elkanah Hulley was married to Miss Amanda Jane Neal, a daughter of Thomas J. and Elizabeth Brownlee Neal. Mrs. Hulley has spent her entire life in Marion. Her parents were contemporary with the early families, and her father was in the galaxy of old-time Marion business men once known to everybody. Mrs. Hulley has two living brothers, Charles E., and Rev. Tom C. Neal, while Dr. James C. Neal, who died a few years ago, was the Neal-Brownlee family historian. Her sisters were: Mrs. Kate Condo and Miss Mary Eliza¬ beth Neal.

The three sons bom to Mr. and Mrs. Hulley are: Lewis S. Hulley, who married Miss Mabel Heichert, and their children are Philip H., Katherine, and Elkanah; the second son is Ernest N. Hulley, who married Miss Estella Oliver, and their children are Oliver S. and Cath¬ erine Lorain Hulley ; the third son is Dr. Edwin S. Hulley, who married Miss Margaret Anderson, and their children are: Joanna Jane, and Margaret Prances Hulley. Lewis S. Hulley lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ernest N. Hulley in Allegan, Michigan, while Dr. E. S. Hulley lives in Marion.

The Hulley family belongs to the First Methodist Church in Marion, and for forty years Mr. Hulley has been chief usher there. He was for years superintendent of the Sunday school, and has been church trustee for many years. The Neal family is all musical, and Mrs. Hulley and her sons are all singers in demand at all times. Mrs. Hulley *s voice has been heard in song at funerals where she hardly knew the family, but in calling together a quartet for such occasions, when an alto voice is lacking, all musical committees seem to know that they may depend upon her. The Hulley home is near the Hulley church, and Sundays rarely pass without Mr. and Mrs. Hulley in the congregation there. Pew Marion families are more intimately associated with all the affairs of the community.

William Hillsamer. The Hillsamer and related families have been identified with Grant county since the first decade of its organization. The various members have been as a rule farmers and always good citi¬ zens, and have borne the responsibilities of life with exceptional integrity and beneficent service.

William Hillsamer, so well known in business and civic affairs in Marion county, was bom on a farm in Washington township in Grant county, now known as the James Charles farm, on July 8, 1867. His parents were Mark and Edith (Woolman) Hillsamer. Edith Woolman was bom in Marion in 1836, the Woolmans being one of the first families to locate in the city of Marion. Mark Hillsamer was bom in Warren county, Ohio, August 15, 1835, and was a son of David and Caroline (Gage) Hillsamer.

David Hillsamer, the grandfather, and the original founder of the family in Grant county, brought his family to Monroe township in 1841, but after eighteen months bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Washington township. The purchase price was eight hundred dol¬ lars. The deed which is now in the possession of William Hillsamer in Marion, is a very interesting document, not only for its age, it date being December 8, 1841, but particularly because the name of Robert

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Marshall, the grandfather of Vice-president Marshall of the United States was signed to the document as its writer. Since the date of that deed the land has been in the Hillsamer family down to the present time. David Hillsamer lived on that farm until his death in 1877, when he was sixty-seven years of age, his birth having occurred in 1810. His wife died many years earlier.

Mark Hillsamer, whose birth has already been mentioned was seven years old when the family came to Grant county. He spent all his career as a farmer and owned a place adjoining that of his father in Washington township, where he lived until he removed just a few years before his death to 229 N. Washington Street in the city of Marion. There his death occurred October 12, 1909. He was a prominent mem¬ ber of the United Brethren church in Marion. His widow is still living, and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Louisa Martin in Wash¬ ington township. There were ten children in the family of the parents, nine of them now living, namely: Lucy H., wife of Robert Thompson, of Marion; Louise E., wife of Stephen Martin, on a farm in Washington township; Marion F., who owns and occupies the old homestead; Miss Jennie, of Marion; Morton, of Marion; William; Mary D., wife of Charles Oglesby, a farmer in Washington township ; Walter, who owns and farms the old estate of his grandfather in Washington township ; Harve, who was killed in a railroad wreck at Logansport ; and Charles, who has his home on a farm in Washington township.

William Hillsamer, having been bora on a farm, and educated in the district schools, spent his youth in the occupation of the country, and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-two. He then went into the meat business in Marion, and has continued in this line of trade ever since. For some time he had a market up town, but for the past eighteen years has been at his present location on North Wash¬ ington Street. He began business in 1888. He is both a wholesale and retail dealer in meats. For the past four years he has been identified with the automobile business. On North Washington Street he owns a concrete block, one half of which is given up to his meat market and the other half to his automobile salesroom. Among the other progres¬ sions which his business management has acquired, and which helps to constitute him one of the prosperous men of Grant county, is a sixtyacre farm just at the edge of the city limits and half a mile from the business center, and he also is interested in other affairs.

On September 6, 1893, Mr. Hillsamer married Mamie E. Hedrick, daughter of J. G. and Mary (Hoover) Hedrick, of Bunker Hill, Miami county. Their son Glen is associated with his father in business. The son Roy died at the age of seven years. Mr. Hillsamer is a member of the Marion board of park commissioners, and is now serving his third year as secretary of the board. He has been a Republican since he cast his first vote, and fraternally is affiliated with the Benevolent Crew of Neptunes in Marion. Mrs. Hillsamer belongs to the Baptist Church.

Frederick Wilhelm. Prominent among the agriculturists of Grant county stands Frederick Wilhelm, a sterling citizen of Jefferson town¬ ship, "who is deserving of a tribute to his worth. At all times a most true and loyal citizen, faithful to the best interests of his country whether in peace or in war, he is honored and highly respected by all who have his acquaintance. More than sixty-five years have passed since he located here, and he has always had deeply at heart the well-being and improvement of his adopted state, and has used his influence wher¬ ever possible for the promotion of industries and institutions calculated to be of lasting benefit to this section. Mr. Wilhelm was bom at West* minster, Carroll county, Maryland, March 6, 1844, a son of Frederick and Margaret (Duncus) Wilhelm, and a member of an old Prussian family which is reviewed elsewhere in this work, in the sketch of John Wilhelm.

The father of Mr. Wilhelm wras born in Prussia, December 5, 1812, and there his parents spent their lives. He grew up in his native place, received ordinary educational advantages, for some time followed the vocation of farmer, and finally learned the trade of stone mason. As such he went to Bremen and Havre, Germany, and at the latter place was married to Margaret Duncus, who was born in Bremen, September 5, 1813. She was of pure German ancestry and was a lady of many attainments and excellent education. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm went to Russia for a short time, but soon returned to Bremen, from whence they took passage on a sailing vessel "Elizabeth" for the United States, a journey that consumed sixteen weeks. During this trip their oldest child, a daughter, was born and was named after the ship on which they were traveling. After landing at Baltimore, Maryland, the father secured employment with a Maryland planter, and for some years worked not far from the capital, but in 1847 turned his face toward the West and brought his family, including his threeyear-old son Frederick, down the river to Wheeling, West Virginia, thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from there, in a one-horse wagon to Indianapolis, Indiana. Subsequently the family moved to Delaware county, and during the next year Mr. Wilhelm purchased forty acres of land on school section No. 16, in Jefferson township, Grant county. Establishing their home in a little log cabin, these brave and sturdy pioneers started to clear and improve their property, and as the years passed erected a good house and substantial outbuildings and increased their possessions until they had between 300 and 400 acres. There the father died October 1, 1868. The mother, who survived him for a long period, come to Upland, Indiana, in her later years, and here passed away November 5, 1905, being a little past the advanced age of ninetytwo years. Before coming to the United States Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm were members of the Lutheran church, but here early joined the Shiloh Methodist Episcopal church, and throughout the remainder of their lives continued to support its movements liberally. Mr. Wilhelm was a Republican in his political views, was a stanch Union man, and lived to see the cause he considered just triumph. Of the children of the Wilhelms, Frederick, John and Noah still survive. Their sister, Eliza¬ beth, died at the age of twelve years in Jefferson township, and a brother, David, died when three years of age.

Frederick Wilhelm has been a resident of Grant county from the time he reached his fourth year. Here he received his education in the district schools, during the securing of which he assisted his father and brothers in the work of the homestead, and it was but natural that he should adopt the vocation of farmer, which he has followed through¬ out his life. In 1873 he sold the forty acres which he had purchased from his father on section 16, and bought his present home of eighty acres on section 15, then partly improved with a log cabin. Later he built his present eight-room house, with basement, painted white, a structure which would grace any property, and in 1888 erected a sub¬ stantial barn. His other improvements are modern in character, and his land is now nearly all under cultivation, yielding him handsome returns for the labor he expends upon it. He has ever been known to be honorable in business transactions, and has won his success through no chicanery. Earnest, persistent effort has overcome the obstacles

While still residing with his parents, Mr. Wilhelm enlisted August 8, 1862, in Company C, Eighty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out of the Union service July 19, 1865. Between these dates he took part in some of the most sanguine battles of the great Civil war, his first important engagement being at Mumfordville, Kentucky, where he really received his baptism of fire, On September 15, 16 and 17, 1862, occurred the battle of Mumfordville, Ken¬ tucky. and on September 17, the entire regiment was captured. The same day the regiment was paroled and on October 1, 1862, it reached Indianapolis where they were all furloughed home for twenty-seven days, then on October 27, 1862, the regiment all met again at Indianapolis where they were in a parole camp until December 5, 1862, when the regi¬ ment joined the Army of the Mississippi, then under Gen. Sherman, later under Gen. Grant. Following this he participated with that hardfighting organization in the battles under Gen. A. J. Smith, of the Sixteenth Army Corps, and throughout the Red river campaign and up and down the Mississippi under General Banks. His engagements toward the close of his service included Tupelo, Nashville, Yellow Bayou and Mobile, and after the latter he received his honorable discharge, having made a record for bravery and faithfulness to duty of which any man might well be proud.

Mr. Wilhelm was married November 5, 1868, in Jefferson township, to Miss Jane Crow, who was born in Washington township, Delaware county, Indiana, September 5, 1844, and there reared and educated, coming to Grant county in 1864. She is the daughter of John and Nancy (Johnson) Crow, the former bom in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and the latter in Guernsey county, Ohio, about the year 1816. They were married in the latter county and came at once to Delaware county, Indiana, starting their married life on a farm in Washington township, which had been entered from the Government in 1835 by the father of Mrs. Crow. After making a number of improvements, Mr. and Mrs. Crow came to Grant county and located in Jefferson township, and here the mother died in 1887, and the father, July 19, 1891, both in the faith of the Presbyterian church, of which they had been lifelong members. To. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm there were born the following children: Nora E., who became the wife of Willis Miller, of Anderson, Indiana, aU<J has one son, Ralph, attending school; John R., a resi¬ dent of Dobson, Blaine county, Montana, who married Druzie Winchell, of Marion, Indiana, and has four children living, Aline, Lewis, Fred¬ erick and Paul, all living at home, also one child, Hester, who died aged two years; Minnie M., who is the wife of the Rev. William C. Asay, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Sharpsville, Tipton county, Indiana, and has two children, Frederick Waldo Asay and Wendell Wilhelm Asay; B. Harley, a farmer of Union township, Delaware county, Indiana, who married Gertrude Keever and has a daughter, Opal; Bertha L., a graduate of Taylor University of Upland, and now a teacher in the Frankton schools, Madison county; Alta, the wife of John Webster, of Jay county, now living at Othello, Adams county, state of Washington, who has one daughter, Lucile ; and Charles, now engaged in operating his father's land, who married Grace Randolph, of Upland. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm are consistent members of the Pres¬ byterian chu^ph at Matthews. He is a Republican in politics, but has not cared for public affairs except as they affect the interests of his community. He has a firm hold on the confidence and respect of his fellow-townsmen, due not less to an irreproachable life than to a recog¬ nition of his many sterling traits of character.

J. Clarence Carr, one of the most active young business men in the city of Marion, Indiana, is a prominent figure in the real estate world in this section of the state. He is of that type of modern business men who are firm believers in the practicality of progressive methods of doing business and who are not afraid of inno¬ vations. Although of Southern birth and parentage, Mr. Carr shows none of the traits commonly associated with the easy going Southerner. He is active and energetic and although still a young man he has made a reputation as a business man of ability.

J. Clarence Carr was born on the 21st of December, 1871, in Isle of Wight county, Virginia. He is the son of Solomon J. and Mary (Vaughn) Carr, both of whom were born in Virginia. On both hi father's and mother's side his ancestors came to Virginia in the early days of the country from England. Solomon J. Carr was a large land owner and a contractor in Virginia, and he died in that state in 1875. Mrs. Carr lived until 1903. They were the parents of four children, three of whom are now living. These are Darius W. Carr of Windsor, Vir¬ ginia; Claudius L. Carr, of Lewisburg, West Virginia; and J. Clarence Carr.

The childhood and youth of J. Clarence Carr were entirely spent within the bounds of his native state. He received his earlier education in the common schools of the state and later spent two years in a military academy at Suffolk, Virginia. He began his business career as a shoe salesman for his brother at Newport News, Virginia, and later went to Norfolk, where he managed a shoe store for another brother. He re¬ mained here for two years and then he engaged in the management of a merchandise brokerage office in the same city. After two years in this line he determined to come further west and so in 1896 he came to Marion, Indiana. Here he first engaged in the merchandise brokerage business, but after a year of this he decided there was a greater opening in, the real estate field and so became engaged in real estate, insurance and first mortgage real-estate loans. He has built up a flourishing business and in addition has established a fine reputation for fair and upright dealing, a fact that is constantly increasing the volume of his business.

Mr. Carr was married on the 31st of December, 1893, to Miss Carrie E. Jones, of Norfolk, Virginia. She is the daughter of the Reverend C. J. Jones, D. D., who for two years was the pastor of tJie Christian Temple in Marion. He died in 1907. Mrs. Carr is a woman of culture and education and she and her husband are very popular in the social world of Marion.

Mr. Carr is a member of the First Methodist Church, and in addi¬ tion to being one of the stewards is very much interested in Sunday School work, being secretary of tha body. He is a Republican in poli¬ tics and a member of the I. 0. 0. F. and of the Ben Hurs.

Samuel Woods. One of the oldest of the pioneer settlers of Grant county, Indiana, is Samuel Woods, who came to Grant county in 1859. He is well known and highly respected throughout the county, and although he is now retired from active business and is also almost totally blind, yet he takes just as keen an interest in the events that occur in the outside world and in matters of local interest as he ever did. He served his country faithfully in the days of the Civil war, and the hard working and upright life that he has always led surely entitles him to the respect and friendship which is so generously accorded him through¬ out the county.

in Pennsylvania, but what his mother's name was Mr. Woods does not know, for she died when he was but a babe in arms. John Woods earned his living in a number of ways. He taught school at one time and at another conducted a hotel, and for some time was a superintendent of construction on the Pennsylvania and Ohio canal.

Samuel Woods lived in Pennsylvania until he was twenty-two years of age and then he came to Grant county, where he has lived ever since. It was only a few years after he had settled in Grant county that the Civil war came to a head and Samuel Woods enlisted as a member of Company "H," Eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. During his mili¬ tary service he suffered a terrible misfortune in having his eyes burned so badly that now he is scarcely able to see.

For eighteen years Mr. Woods worked at his trade of wagonmaker in Marion, but when his eyes became so affected that he could not see clearly enough to continue in his trade he took up teaming and worked at that for some time. He has now retired from business and makes his home with his adopted daughter, Mrs. Washburn.

For many years Mr. Woods has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has always been a loyal and active member of this ancient fraternity. He joined the order in 1863 when he was home from the front on a furlough and he is consequently one of the oldest Masons in the county in point of membership. In his religious beliefs he is a member of the Friends church, having been affiliated with this church for thirty years.

On the 24th of September, 1868, Mr. Woods was married to Harriet M. Malott, who was bom and reared in Grant county. She died on July 29, 1911. They had no children, but they adopted a daughter, Maud May Hollingsworth, who is now Mrs. Effie Washburn, of Marion.

Jesse T. Bradford. The Bradford family, of which Jesse T. Brad¬ ford, now retired, is the head, has long been prominent in Grant county, having been established here since October, 1843. Thus seventy years of identity with the county has given a wide acquaintance to the family in these parts, and each succeeding year has added its quota to the well established position of the family in honor and esteem in which it is held by the public. Seventy years on the farm is the honorable record of Jesse Bradford, but his residence in Marion dates back only to the year 1906, when he retired from active life and settled down to the peace and quiet of a retired life in the city.

Jesse T. Bradford was bom on January 20, 1836, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (Chell) Bradford. The father was a native of West Virginia, bom in that state in 1783, and the mother also was a Virginian by birth. In 1843 George Bradford came to this county, having been a visitor to Indiana some two years previous, when he bought a piece of land and made ready in some measure to transplant his Virginia family to Indiana soil. His farm was a quarter section in Washington township, and here the family settled, making their home for some years. In 1855 the senior Bradford died, after having passed twelve years in his new home. The Bradford family is one of English stock, while the Chells are of German ancestry. John Bradford, the father of George, who established the family in Indiana, came from England where he was born, and settled in Virginia, where they settled in Hardy county, now called Grant county, Virginia. George Brad¬ ford was twice married. He first married Mary Stingley and to them were bom four sons, namely : John, George, Leonard and Daniel, none of whom are alive today. The second wife was Elizabeth Chell, the mother of Jesse Bradford. Sixteen children were bom to this latter union, concerning whom brief mention is made here as follows: Rachel, who married John McNamara, is now deceased; Isaac, Henry, Moses, Casper, Joseph, and William R. are all deceased; Catherine, who married David Schuff, is living in Washington township, and is about eighty-five years old, as is her husband ; Rebecca married George W. Camblin and lives at Falls City, Nebraska ; Mary J. is dead ; Elizabeth Ann is the wife of Amos Harlan, of Huntington county, Indiana; Jesse T , of this review ; the remaining four, whose names are not available at this point, died in infancy.

Jesse T. Bradford was not what might have been called an educated man, his schooling being represented by sixty-five days attendance in the common schools of his home community. He lived on the home farm until he was twenty-five, at which time he moved to a place of his own, a quarter mile distant from the home place, located on section fifteen, in Washington township, and there he lived for forty-seven years. He still owns a share in the old home farm in section sixteen, but it is long since he took an active interest in the work of the place.

Mr. Bradford, like his father, has been twice married. His first wife was Lucy J. Gaines, who was reared in Washington township, Grant county, and to their union, which was solemnized on November 4, 1860, were born four sons: Elmer, deceased; Walter J., of Marion; Oscar C., of whom mention is made at length in another Bradford sketch to be found elsewhere in this work ; and another child, who died in infancy. On the fifth day of March, 1874, the wife and mother passed away, and on April 11, 1875, Mr. Bradford married Angeline Silvers, who bore him five children. One of the number died in infancy and the others were : Frank S., now living on the home farm ; Clarence W., an attorney of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Ernest B., of Laporte, Indiana ; and Clinton B., a resident of Grant county.

Mr. Bradford was for many years a stanch Republican in his political faith, but he later embraced Prohibition, although his support, in the main, is given to the man he regards most fitted for service, regardless of party affiliations. He is one of the honored and honorable men of the county, and his position has long been a prominent one in his community and wherever he is known.

Oscar P. Bradford. A native of the town of which he is now acting trustee, and a young business man of ability, is Oscar C. Bradford, who was born December 18, 1869, in Washington township, Grant county. He is a son of Jesse T. and Lucy J. (Gaines) Bradford, and it may be mentioned here that the Bradford family is one of the best known fam¬ ilies in Grant county today, being mentioned at greater length in the sketch of Jesse T. Bradford, preceding this brief review.

Oscar C. Bradford was born on the home farm in Grant county and received his primary education in the community schools, later supple¬ menting this elementary training by a good practical education in other schools. He finished a thorough course of study in the Indianapolis Business College in 1896, and then spent a year at DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana. In 1890 the young man began teaching, and from then until 1895 he spent the summer months in study at the Marion Normal College, his teaching being carried on during the winter seasons.

In 1900 he removed to -W arren, Indiana, and was there employed as a bookkeeper for a well known hardware firm in that place, some little time later becoming secretary-treasurer of the Warren Machine Com¬ pany, a corporation, of which he was a director. He was with this firm, whose business was the manufacturing of oil well machinery and repairs.

for three years, and in 1904 engaged in business for himself, making the hardware and implement business as the object of his interest. He located at 521-23 North Washington street, in Marion, Indiana, and continued for three years, when the business was organized into a close corporation, the stock being held by himself, his father and his brother. It has since continued in a successful and enterprising manner, and the business is regarded as one of the solid enterprises of the city.

In 1908 Mr. Bradford was elected a trustee of Washington town¬ ship, and he still holds that office. He is a prominent Democrat and was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Grant county during the presidential campaign of 1912, and the results of the election were the most victorious ever experienced by the Democrats of this section.

Mr. Bradford was married on June 17, 1899, to Ethel 0. Stevens, the daughter of Harrison and Sarah (Beach) Stevens, another pioneer family of Grant county, and highly esteemed wherever they are known. Mrs. Bradford was born in Pleasant township, Grant county, and there reared. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bradford, two of whom, Ruth M. and George R., are living. The second born, Doris A., died in 1906 at the age of five years. *

Isaiah Dawson. The Dawson name has been prominently identified with the townships of Pleasant and Jefferson since pioneer days, and Isaiah Dawson has spent all his life since his marriage in Jefferson town¬ ship, and is a progressive farmer on section thirty-six, where he culti¬ vates a fine homestead surrounded with all the comforts and facilities of modem farm life.

The Dawsons came from North Carolina, were first settled in Wayne county, Indiana. The grandfather of Isaiah was William Dawson, who was born either in North Carolina or Virginia, and was one of the early settlers of Wayne county, Indiana. He had married back east Miss Tabitha Simons. His death occurred in Wayne county when about middle life, ne was a farmer, and a member of the Christian church, but very little is known of him or his ancestors. His wife survived him a good many years, came to Grant county, and died at the home of her son Nathan Dawson in Pleasant township in 1873, when eightv-four years of age. She was an old-time Methodist, and much loved and respected for her fine qualities of heart and mind. The following are the children in her home circle: Thomas, William, Garrison, Henry, Nathan, John, Sarah Jane, and Margaret, all of whom married and all lived to be good old people and had families. William, Garrison and Thomas each served three years in Indiana regiments during the war, and came home without serious injury.

Nathan Dawson, father of Isaiah, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, and died at his home in Old Town or New Cumberland, near the little city of Matthews, July 17, 1896. He was a farmer, and fairly success¬ ful, a man of good influence and high in the esteem of his neighborhood. A short time after his marriage he located in Grant county, entering eighty acres of land from the government in Pleasant township near Jalapa, and the first home was a log cabin, with a puncheon floor, and much of the furniture was made with his own hands. He remained there until 1872, when he went west to Iowa, spending two and a half years there and a similar time in Kansas, then returning to Grant county and buying one hundred acres not far from the original home which he had secured from the government. In that homestead he died in the fall of 1882, at the age of about 72 years. His wife was Actious Owings, and she was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was brought when a child to Delaware county, Indiana, where she grew up. Her father, Rich¬ ard Owings, died in Delaware county. Of his children, Richard Lemon Owings was a pioneer in the great west and was associated with the historic character Kit Carson for about fifteen years in all the wild ventures and undertakings of that historic figure. Nathan Dawson after the death of his wife retired to New Cumberland and lived with his son Dr. C. F. Dawson, a practicing physician there, until his death, which occurred very suddenly when he was seventy-two years of age. He was a strong Republican, and though a man of little education had an excel¬ lent influence and stood high in his community. For two years, during the war, he served as a Union soldier, in two different Indiana regiments. His church membership was with the Christian denomination. Isaiah was the first son and the third child in a family of seven children, others being mentioned as follows: Elizabeth, who died in Ohio, after her marriage, and her three children are all married; Emaline died in Grant county after her marriage, leaving three children, all of whom are now established in homes of their own ; Isaiah, who was next in order of birth; Dr. C. F. Dawson, w^ho is a graduate of the Eclectic School of Medicine, and for many years has been a practicing physician at Matthews, and is now living with his second wife, having had three chil¬ dren by his first marriage ; Henry now lives on a farm near Marion, is a widower, and has two sons and one daughter ; Mollie is the wife of Joel Veach, lives on a farm in Pulaski county, and has three living children.

Isaiah Dawson was born on his father's* old homestead in Pleasant township of Grant county, October 13, 1853. Since his marriage he has been identified with Jefferson township, where his hard-working industry and good citizenship have placed him in the ranks of the most progres¬ sive people in that vicinity. He is the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres and all but fifteen acres of timberland is under the plow. A big red bam is a conspicuous feature of the place, and in 1900 Mr. Dawson built the large dwelling which shelters himself and family.

In Jefferson township, thirty-seven years ago, Mr. Dawson married Miss Rebecca Needier, who was born on the farm where she and her hus¬ band now live, in 1849. She is the daughter of Jamefc Needier, and the Needier family are long residents of Grant county, and are mentioned on other pages of this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson have lost two children in early childhood, and those living are: Pearl A., who was bora, reared and educated in Jefferson township, and now is active man¬ ager of his father's farm. He married Ella Huntzinger and they have a daughter, Mary Rebecca. Henry Ovid now lives at home with his parents, and is unmarried. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and his politics is Republican.

Charles E. Worrell. ' ' Ambition has no rest, ' ' said Bulwer-Lytton, and there are but few who are unable to cite instances that would seem to bear out the statement of the man. Twenty-four years of con¬ tinuous service as chief engineer of the National Military Home at Marion on the part of Charles E. Worrell, during which he has not once relieved the tedium of his daily task by availing himself of the annual thirty day vacation that is accorded to men, indicate something of the untiring spirit of the man - of the energy and ambition that carries him forward from day to day with no thought of rest from toil, or in self-seeking of whatever nature. He has gone on with the duties of his position from season to season, year in and out, and under his regime as chief engineer the National Military Home has advanced from a farm to one of the finest and most extensive in America, housing, as it does, 1600 men, and caring for them in the most approved methods. Mr. Worrell is in full charge of all mechanical appliances, power house, cold storage house and other similar appurtenances of the Home, and since he has been in the service, the forty-five buildings that adorn the grounds today have been built and brought into use. His work has been far reaching in its very nature, calling forth every quality of ability that a man in such a position might ever be required to apply, and Mr. Worrell has never failed in the application of his judgment as an engineer, nor has his enviable record as a man ever been impugned in any quarter.

Mr. Worrell was born in Switzerland county, Indiana, on October 14, 1858, and' is the son of N. and Abbie Ann (Hulley) Worrell, both natives of Pennsylvania, and people of English descent and parentage. The father was a stonemason and he came to Switzerland county from Pennsylvania in 1847, locating in Marion as late as in 1901, there making his last home with his son, and dying in his home in 1905. The mother passed away ere the family exodus from Switzerland county, death claiming her in 1893. They were the parents of five children, three of the number living today. Besides the subject there are William H. Worrell, who lives on the old home place, and Mrs. Anna L. Morgan, of Switzerland county, Indiana.

Charles E. Worrell received his education in the high school in the town of Vevay in Switzerland county, and also attended Moorefield Academy. He was eighteen years old when he finished his schooling and applied himself diligently, as he has done all things, to the business of learning the machinist's trade, and for ten years thereafter he was identified with that work. He then began to interest himself in the natural gas business, and he helped to drill the first gas well in Grant county. This well, located at Fourteenth and Bools street, in Marion, was drilled in 1887, and being a complete success, may be said, without fear of contradiction, to have started the gas industry that eventually came to be a gas boom, and waxed strong throughout this part of the state.

Mr. Worrell, however, did not long continue to be indentified with the newly fledged industry, and on October 1, 1889, he came to Marion as chief engineer for the National Military Home. Here he has been stationed ever since, and he is on the records as the oldest man in the service of the Home today. His duties are of a manifold nature, embrac¬ ing the actual control of the entire plant in its operation. An expert mechanical engineer, he is qualified to manage every branch of the oper¬ ating service, and drainage, sewerage, hot water, gas, steam, etc., all come under his direct supervision. That his work has been well up to standard, and above it for the most part, is well evidenced in his long continued control of the work, and every confidence is felt in his ability and integrity by the officials of the institution.

Mr. Worrell was married on October 24, 1884, to Miss Belle Hough, the daughter of William A. and Mary Hough, of Winchester, Randolph county, Indiana. Four children have been born to them, - Inez, Mabel, Helen and Elwood.

A Democrat, Mr. Worrell takes a praiseworthy interest in the affairs of the party, though he is in no sense a politician, and his fraternal affiliations are confined to his membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellow's, with which he has been identified sinoe 1880.

He is chief surgeon at the National Military Home in Marion, and is widely known for his conscientious and: able service in this position. It is a post that requires not only surgical and medical skill of the highest order, but also no small amount of executive ability, and Dr. Miller has been an extremely efficient and successful executive.

Harry Miller was born on the 3rd of August, 1867, in Shelby county, Indiana, the son of John H. and Mary J. (Robinson) Miller, both of whom were natives of Shelby county, Indiana. John H. Miller was a soldier in the Seventy-ninth Indiana Regiment during the Civil war and is now living in Shelby county, Indiana, his wife being deceased.

Dr. Miller grew up in the county of his birth, attending school at Morristown until he was ready to take his medical education. He then entered the Indiana Medical College and was graduated from this insti¬ tution with the class of 1891. During the same year, on the 30th of May, he entered the National Military Home in Marion as an interne. Here he remained as an interne for eighteen months, at the end of which time he was made first assistant surgeon to Dr. Kimball, who was at that time chief surgeon. When Dr. Kimball died in 1904, Dr. Miller was made chief surgeon, and has remained in this office ever since. He has a staff of four assistants and the care of two hundred and fifty soldiers, so his time is completely filled with his professional duties. He has, however, time for a little recreation which he finds chiefly as a member of the Marion Golf Club. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of the blue lodge, and he also belongs to the Sons of Veterans.

Major James W. Sanderson, treasurer of the National Military Home in Marion, Indiana, is one of those men whom men admire and women trust. Frankness and honesty and an entire lack of affectation in this age of shams and pretentiousness have won for him a wide popular¬ ity. He not only has a splendid record as a soldier but an enviable one as a railroad man, having been for many years in the railroad business in the central part of the United States. In the position which he now occupies, one that requires both executive and financial ability, Major Sanderson has been entirely successful, and has carried out his trust in a way that has won him much admiration.

Major Sanderson was born on a farm in Lucas county, Ohio, on the 4th of June, 1844. He is a son of David and Eliza Ann (Wood) Sander¬ son, his father having been born near Salem, Massachusetts, and his mother being a native of Ohio. David Sanderson was a farmer and lived in Lucas county, Ohio, all his life. He and his wife were the parents of five boys, of whom three are now living. Of these, Myron P. is a farmer in Lucas county, Ohio, A. D. lives in Deerfield county, Michigan, and the Major.

Until he was eighteen years of age, Major Sanderson made his home on his father's farm and when he was not engaged in helping with the work of the farm he was attending the common schools of the community. After finishing the courses offered therein he was sent to Central Ohio Conference College, at Maumee City, Ohio; where he completed his education. After this he went into railroading, entering first the service of the Lake Shore road, which was at that time known as the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad. He was later made general agent at White Pigeon, Michigan, and here he remained for nineteen and a half years. It was in 1892 that he came to Marion and Grant county, Indiana, as chief clerk for the Clover Leaf Railroad Company.

After five years in this position he entered the service of the Panhandle road, remaining with this corporation for four years. In all he com¬ pleted over thirty years of service in various railroads, both in train service and in station work, and when he left the service railroading lost a valuable and experienced man.

On the 15th of March, 1901, he came to the National Military Home in the capacity of quartermaster and acting treasurer, and in 1906 he became treasurer of this great national institution. His military record begins in 1862 when he enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Ohio Regiment for the three months term of service. He served through this enlistment and then re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, and finally came into the command of a company in the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Ohio, from which he was mustered out in September, 1865, having seen almost constant service since the beginning of his term of enlistment.

Major Sanderson was married on the 2nd of April, 1873, to Mary L. Sheldon, of Blissville, Michigan, a daughter of Judge Homer J. Shel¬ don, who was a delegate to the famous Michigan Constitutional Con¬ vention. They have one son, Zach C. Sanderson, who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has further added to his advantages by a trip abroad. He taught history in the Winona College, at Winona, Indiana, for one year and is now traveling for the Century Publishing Company. Major Sanderson has never cared to take an active part in politics for like all true soldiers he is a citizen of the United States and politics that disrupt the country and lead so often to genuine harm, seem of minor interest to him. He is, however, an advocate of the princi¬ ples of the Republican party, and casts his ballot at election times.

Alfred Pugh. One of Grant county's native sons who has attained distinction in business circles and who ranks among the most enterpris¬ ing and progressive citizens of Upland is Alfred Pugh, notary public and insurance man, who is widely known in fraternal activities of the state. Mr. Pugh comes of Welsh ancestry, his grandfather, Azariah Pugh, being an emigrant from Wales to the United States and an early settler in Virginia. Records of this ancestor have been lost, and little is known of him save that he died in Frederick county, probably in middle life, and that his wife likely died there. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters: Michael, the father of Alfred Pugh; Jesse, who died unmarried as a young man ; Catherine, wfio was married ; and Elizabeth, who married Jesse Trowbridge and died in Frederick county, Virginia.

Michael Pugh was born in that county about 1795, and there grew to manhood, being reared to agricultural pursuits. He was there mar¬ ried to Elizabeth Caudy, who was born in Hampshire county, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1805, daughter of James Caudy, a native of Ire¬ land, who came to the United States when young. Her mother was a Miss Lyon, whose father came from Ireland. They were married in Vir¬ ginia where they lived to advanced years and died in the faith of the Methodist church. After their marriage, Michael and Elizabeth Caudy removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, and there settled on a farm, but following the birth of their first child, James, came overland to Indiana, with a yoke of oxen, one horse and a covered wagon, camping by the roadside at night in true pioneer fashion. In 1834 they located on a farm in section 13, Jefferson township, Grant county, where the father entered 160 acres of land, and for some years thereafter was compelled to walk over a blazed trail through the woods all the way to Fort Wayne, this journey taking four days. On this farm Mr. Pugh made numerous improvements, building two log cabins and then a frame house, the latter of which is still standing on the old homestead and occupied by his grand¬ son. The old home farm has never gone out of the family name, but is kept as an inheritance. Mr. Pugh was a sturdy, industrious man, whose tireless industry and unbounded energy assisted him in making a success of his operations in the agricultural field. He stood six feet tall, was a man of iron nerve, and while he never saw active military service at the front, owing to his age, was captain of a local militia company at the time when soldiers were being mustered into the service. He was liberal in his donations to all worthy enterprises, and although he was a member of the Methodist Protestant church made a gift of the land for the cemetery at the Shiloh Methodist Episcopal church. He died August 23, 1863, widely mourned throughout the community, while the mother, who was a charter member of the Shiloh church, died at the old home in 1890. They belonged to the strong old pioneer stock which faced the dangers of the unknown forests, where the father with his trusty flint¬ lock supplied the family with game, while the mother remained at home and wove and spun the cloth for the clothing and blankets. Politically a Democrat, Mr. Pugh never cared for public office, preferring to devote himself to making a home for his family. To Mr. and Mrs. Pugh there were bom the following children : James, who died after his marriage to Nancy E. Stephens, by whom he had three children ; David Wesley, who married Margaret Smith, both of whom died in Grant county, leaving a son and daughter; Josiah, who died in Colorado, was married and had a family of children ; John W., who died in Upland, was twice married and had three children by his first union; Mahlon, deceased, who was married and is survived by one son ; Branson, who died leaving a widow and one daughter, one daughter having previously died ; Amos, deceased, who left a widow and had one son who had previously died ; and Alfred, Sally, Margaret and Maria Jane, all of whom died before our subject was born ; Arminda H., who married Joseph Homer, both now being deceased ; and Eliza E., who married John Needier, both being now deceased. Both Arminda II. and Eliza E. left children.

Like the most of his brothers and sisters, Alfred Pugh was bora on the old Pugh homestead in Grant county, Indiana, his natal day being May 26, 1846. He grew up on the home farm, assisting his father and attend¬ ing the district schools and those at Hartford City, and on completing his education adopted the vocation of instructor and for five years taught school in Grant and Blackford counties, where he was widely and popu¬ larly known. Later Mr. Pugh gave up the teacher's profession to enter the business field, becoming the proprietor of a livery establishment, a business which he followed for six years. During the time that he was thus engaged lie became interested in the insurance business, and after having engaged in this as a side line for some time determined to turn his entire attention thereto and accordingly disposed of his interests in the livery stable. He has continued to follow this line ever since, and the success that has rewarded his efforts demonstrates that he made no mistake when he changed vocations. It takes a peculiar talent to gain a full measure of prosperity in the insurance line - an ability that is a little different from that needed in almost any other. Strict integrity and honorable dealing play a large part, of course ; energy, persistence and enterprise are essential, and a persuasiveness and stick-to-itiveness that knows not the meaning of the word failure. Mr. Pugh handles both life and fire insurance and their various branches, represents some of the leading companies in the country, and has become widely known in the insurance field as a man who can attain results. He has also for some years served in the capacity of notary public. As early as

1878 Mr. Pugh was commissioned a justice of the peace, and served until 1882, and again in 1886 was commissioned a justice and served until 1906, thus occupying this office for almost a quarter of a century. He was the incumbent of this position when a justice had the same juris¬ diction as a justice of the peace, and through performing twenty-five marriages during the first year he acted in his official capacity became widely known as "the marrying justice/ '

Mr. Pugh was himself married in 1872, in Grant county, to Miss Hester Miles, who was born in Jefferson township, this county, May 13, 1852, and died February 22, 1892, daughter of Lorenzo and Phoebe (Wass) Miles. Her parents came from Steuben county, New York, to Rush county, Indiana, at an early day, and not long thereafter made removal to Jefferson township, Grant county, where both passed away, the father when about sixty years of age, and the mother in advanced years, she having contracted a second marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Pugh there were bom three children: Ocie V., who resides with her father and keeps house for him; Malevie L., the wife of John W. Doherty, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, who has three children, Miles A., Gayvelle E., and May H. ; and Orie Hodd, single, a well known horseman ot' Wisner, Nebraska, who works for contractors.

Mr. Pugh is a Democrat in politics, and has been active in local and state affairs, having been a delegate to numerous conventions of his party. He is one of the best known figures in the fraternal life of Grant county, being past master of Upland Lodge No. 427, F. & A. M., having been made a Mason in 1868. He joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the following year, and is past grand and past chief patriarch of Shideler Lodge No. 352 and Upland Encampment No. 213. In addi¬ tion he has four times been representative to the State Masonic Grand Lodge, three times to the State Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows, and twice to the Grand Encampment of the latter order. His friendships are only limited to the number of his acquaintances, not alone in frater¬ nal life, but in business, public and private circles of the city.

Habrt Williamson, M. D. Among the most popular men in Marion, Indiana, not only in his own profession but among people at large is Dt. Harry Williamson. He has the advantage of a thorough scientific education, long experience in his profession and a charming sympathetic personality that makes him a welcome guest even though he comes in his professional capacity. He has a large general practice and holds a high place in the regard of the people of Marion and Grant county.

Dr. Harry Williamson was born in Butler county, Ohio, on the 16th of September, 1864, the son of David and Frances (Siegrist) Williamson. Both of his parents were born in the state of Ohio and they are both living.

Dr. Williamson was educated in the public schools of Butler county, Ohio, until he was of an age to go away to school, when he was sent to the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. He received his medical education in the Indiana Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1892. He later took courses in medical work in the New York Polyclinic.

The doctor first began to practice at Knightstown, Indiana, only remaining there a year, however, before he removed to Chicago. He practiced in the city for seven years, and in the boundless opportunities of a general city practice he had the finest of practical training. In 1900 he came to Marion and began to practice. He has been located here ever since and has many warm friends throughout the city. His offices

The doctor is very much interested in the affairs of the various fra¬ ternal societies of which he is a member. In the Masons he is a Knight Templar and he is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel¬ lows and of the Elks. He is very fond of athletics and holds membership in the Country Club and in the Golf Club.

On the 30th of November, 1892, Dr. Williamson was married to Mary L. Davis, of Glenwood, Rush county, Indiana. No children have been born to the doctor and his wife.

Thomas D. Barr. Practically all of the years of Thomas D. Barr's life have been spent in faithful service to the people, not, as a man in public office, alone, but as a teacher of their children, and although his service in his various public positions is recognized and appreciated it is as a teacher that he is best known and respected. He taught in the schools of Indiana for twenty years, accomplishing much for the cause of education and although his time is now filled with the duties of his office as deputy county auditor of Grant county, Indiana, he is still keenly interested in the cause of education.

Thomas D. Barr is a descendant of one of the very first settlers in Grant county, being a great-grandson of Thomas Dean, who settled in Grant county, in Jefferson township, at a very early day. A was also one of the first school teachers in this section and in 1860 was auditor of Grant county. Thomas D. Barr is the son of John L. and Elizabeth (Dean) Barr, his father being a native of Pennsylvania and his mother having been bom in Grant county, Indiana. John L. Barr was a soldier throughout the Civil war, being a member of the First Volunteer Infantry of Iowa. After the war he practiced law in Missouri and there he died when his son was quite young.

Thomas D. Barr was born in Saint Clair county, Missouri, on the 18th of October, 1870, being one of two children bom to his parents and he is now the only living child. In 1874 he returned to Grant county with his mother and two years later in 1876 she died, leaving him an orphan of just six years of age. Although deprived of his parents he received a good education. He first attended the public schools of the section and then entered Fairmount Academy. He later attended, the Indiana State Normal College at Terre Haute and then completed his education with a business course at the Indianapolis Business College.

Mr. Barr began life as a teacher, first teaching in Grant county, in Monroe, Van Buren and Liberty township. He also taught in other parts of the state. For a time he taught in Richsquare and Lewisville, in Henry county, Indiana. He was principal of the Van Buren, Indiana, high school and taught in both the Fairmount Academy and the high schools in Fairmount.

Always keenly interested in public matters and in political questions, he took an active part in such affairs but it was not until 1906 that he accepted a public office. At this time he was principal of the high school in Van Buren and he was appointed deputy sheriff, serving in the office over a year. He resigned this office to enter the government service as a meat inspector and in 1907 resigned from this position to accept that of deputy clerk. His love for his old profession called him back once more to accept a position as teacher in the Fairmount Academy. From this school he went to the high school of Fairmount but he resigned from its teaching staff in 1911 to accept the office of deputy auditor of Grant county. He is a man full of energy and industry and has made a most

Both Mr. Barr and his wife are members of the Friends church, his wife being very prominent in this church. In politics Mr. Barr is a mem¬ ber of the Republican party and in fraternal affairs he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

Mr. Barr was married in November, 1893, to Miss Daisy Douglas Brushwiller, who was born in Jonesboro, Grant county, Indiana. Mrs. Barr is a grand-daughter of George Douglas, who was one of the early pioneers of Grant county and for seventy years was a minister of the Methodist church in Grant county. Mrs. Barr is a woman of rare intel¬ lectual attainments and is the pastor of the Friends church in Muncie, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have one son, Raymond Barr, who was bom December 18, 1895, and is now in high school,

Stephen G. Baldwin. A scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Grant county, the late Stephen G. Baldwin here passed his entire life, and his exalted integrity of character, as well as his large and worthy achievement in connection with the practical activities of life, gave him prestige as one of the representative citizens of his native, county, where he ever held inviolable place in the confidence and high regard of his fellow men, so that there is all of propriety in according to his memory a special tribute in this publication.

On the old Baldwin homestead farm, situated on the banks of Deer creek, in Mill township, Grant county, Indiana, Stephen G. Baldwin was bom on the 3d of August, 1850, and has passed the closing years of his life in the city of Marion, the judicial center and metropolis of the county, where he was summoned to eternal rest on the 13th of October, 1909, - known and revered as one of the noble and loyal citizens and representative business men of the county's capital city. The condi¬ tions and influences of the home farm compassed the boyhood and early youth of Mr. Baldwin and he thus learned the lessons of practical indus¬ try in the formative period of his life. After completing the curriculum of the Deer Creek district school he continued his studies in the graded school at Jonesboro, and thus he laid a firm foundation for the broad and liberal education which he later gained through self-discipline and active association with men and affairs. He was, however, afforded also the advantages of the Bryant & Stratton Business College in the city of Indianapolis, and the training further fortified him for the responsi¬ bilities and actions of active business affairs. As a boy he had not only assisted in the work of the home farm but also in that of the shoemaker's shop maintained by his father in the village of Jonesboro.

In 1874, at the age of twenty-four years, Mr. Baldwin established himself in the insurance and loan business at Marion, and in these lines he was one of the first in the city to build up a large and substantial business. In this important line of enterprise he continued, with large and worthy success, until his death, when he was succeeded by his only son, who still remains at the head of the S. G. Baldwin Insurance & Loan Agency, which perpetuates the name of its honored founder.

Mr. Baldwin was a man of broad views, was generous and tolerant in his judgment, was loyal and progressive as a citizen, and his name and memory are revered by all who came within the circle of his benig¬ nant influence. Though he had no desire to enter the turbulent stream of practical politics, he was well fortified in his views concerning matters of governmental and economic import and was a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party.

and found great pleasure in the propagation of flowers and ornamental shrubbery about his attractive residence premises, on South Washington street, the place becoming a veritable floral bower under his effective labors and artistic predilections. He took vital interest in all that touched the progress and prosperity of his home city and county and was a valued member of the Marion Commercial Club, of which he was a director at the time of his death.

On the 23d of August, 1877, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Baldwin to Miss Elizabeth C. Horne, who was born and reared in Grant county and who is a daughter of the late Dr. Samuel S. Home, Sr., of Jonesboro.

Moe H. Baldwin, the only son of Stephen G. and Elizabeth C. (Horne) Baldwin, was born in the city of Marion on the 19th of January, 1879, and is a scion of the third generation of the family in Grant county. He fully profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native city and after his high-school course he entered Hanover College, at Hanover, Jefferson county, after which he was matriculated in Purdue University, at Lafayette, afterward attending the celebrated University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.

A few years ago he collaborated with M. B. Edmiston in the compila¬ tion and publication of a book of caricature of Marion business men, which was entitled "Some Greater Marion Faces," and which met with high commendation and which showed many admirable specimens of his skill as an artist. Upon the death of his honored father he succeeded to the insurance and loan business established by the latter, one of the largest and most important of the kind in the state but one that is con¬ ceded to take precedence of all others in Grant county.

Mr. Baldwin is well known in his native county, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances, and he and his wife are prominent figures in the representative social activities of their home city. He pays allegiance to the Republican party, is president of the Mecca Club, holds membership in the Marion Country Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.

Austin Polsley. Among the citizens of Grant county who started out in life facing obstacles and with many disadvantages to overcome, and who have prospered and now stand among the county's substantial men, is Austin Polsley, who has an excellent farm on section twenty-four of Jefferson township, and has lived there for the past forty years.

He comes of an old Virginia family. His grandfather John H. Pols¬ ley was born in that state about 1800, married a Virginia girl, and some of their children at least were born in the state. They finally came west and settled in Henry county, Indiana, where they were pioneers. His first wife died there, leaving a large family of children, and in Henry county John H. Polsley married for his second wife, Phoebe Jones. In 1853 he went on further west, and again became a pioneer in the state of Iowa, in the southwestern section in Page county. His death occurred sometime in the seventies, when more than eighty years of age, and he was a man of unusual intelligence and information. He had been a farmer most of his life, and also merchandized for many years. By his two wives he became the father of twenty-three children. His second wife passed away in Iowa, and was likewise advanced in age.

Robert W. Polsley, father of the Grant county resident above named, was born in 1824, probably in Virginia, and was a child of his father's first marriage. He grew up in Henry county, Indiana, and learned the trade of carpenter and cabinet maker. When about twenty-two and still unmarried he came to Jefferson township in Grant county, and here met and married Mary Fergus. She was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1832, and was a small child when her parents came to Indiana. Her brother is Warren Fergus, a well known Grant county citizen, and a more complete account of this family in Grant county will be found elsewhere under the Fergus name in this volume. Mary Fergus was sixteen years old when she married, and her death occurred in December 1851, at the age of nineteen. She left one child, Austin Polsley. Robert W. Polsley, soon afterwards, married Mrs. Josina (Powers) Swearingen, a widow of Henry Swearingen, who died leaving one son, Mark Swear¬ ingen, who is now married and is a prominent banker in Muncie, Indiana, and has three children.

Robert W. Polsley by his second marriage had one child, Mary, and after her birth, and when she was about six months old in 1855, the family moved out to Page county, Iowa, spending six weeks in going across, the country with team and wagon. He took up government land in southwestern Iowa, and started the labor required for making a home in a new country. His second wife died in Iowa, in 1859. A year or two later the war broke out, and Robert W. Polsley enlisted with a Page county company, but was attached to Co. F of the First Nebraska Volun¬ teer Infantry, and served for about one year. He took part in the battle of Shiloh, but was soon afterwards stricken with dysentery, and was sent to the hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, where he died during the summer of 1862. He left two children : one of them being Austin, by his first wife, and the second being Mary, the child of his second union.

After these children were left orphans they lived with strangers and kinsmen, and thus their early advantages were of a motley char¬ acter, and they started in life with many disadvantages.

When Austin Polsley was thirteen years old, he came to live with his grandfather, S. B. Fergus, in Grant county. At the age of nineteen he returned to Iowa, but on reaching his majority, again found a home in Grant county, and in 1873 bought his present farm of eighty acres. There he has lived and prospered, has improved his land in many ways, and has put up a fine set of farm buildings, which distinguish the place as one of the most valuable in that section. The large red barn and the good white house are conspicuous in the group of farm buildings.

By his first marriage to Miss Adaline Scott of Guernsey county, Ohio, who died November 17, 1908, at the age of fifty-seven, Mr. Polsley had seven children : Milo J., unmarried, now lives in Oklahoma ; Arvina, died at the age of sixteen; Orloff is a farmer in Blackford county, Indiana, and by his marriage to Lettie Kirkpatrick has one son, Wayne. The other children died in infancy or early childhood. Mr. Polsley after the death of his first wife married Mrs. Hattie (Benson) Peele. She was bom in Morgan county, Indiana, July 28, 1867, a daughter of Temple S. and Mary (Hickman) Benson. He was a native of Ohio while the mother was born in Kentucky but was raised in Indiana. He moved to Shelby county, Indiana, in the early days, and later moved to Morgan county, Indiana, where they lived as prosperous farmers. Temple Benson was twice married, the maiden name of his first wife having been Katie Carroll of Shelby county, where she died, leaving children. Mr. Benson afterwards married a third time, and moved from Morgan county to Indianapolis, where he died in 1905, having been bora in 1830. During tiie Civil war he was a soldier in the Twenty-seventh Indiana Regiment.

His widow now lives in Indianapolis. Mrs. Polsley by her marriage with Tirey Peele, has a daughter, Naomi, the wife of Omer Huntzinger of Jefferson township. In 1900 the present Mrs. Polsley was left a widow with three children. In 1901 her house in Matthews burned and two of her children, Nina, aged sixteen months, and Merrill, aged three years, were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Polsley are Methodists in religious faith, and in politics he is an Independent Republican. His prosperity as a farmer may be further gauged by the fact that he is a director of the Matthews State Bank.

Dr. Newton W. Hiatt. Since 1889 Dr. Newton W. Hiatt has carried on the practice of dentistry in Marion, Indiana. His progress in his chosen profession has been of steady growth and he is known to be one of the most capable dentists in the county, where he has lived all his life, and is well known accordingly. Dr. Hiatt was born in Grant county, on November 25, 1865, and he is the son of Alfred and Amanda (Thomas) Hiatt, both of whom died when he was a small child. Dr. Hiatt knows practically nothing of the ancestry of early life of his parents, and beyond the fact that the father was a farmer near Roseburg, Grant county, where he spent his last days, and that he was at one time a wagon manufacturer in Marion and a Quaker in his religion, Dr. Hiatt is unable to furnish any details concerning his parents. He was one of their seven children, three of whom are now living.

Dr. Hiatt was educated in the public schools of Grant county and in the old school at College Corner and the Mississinewa School. When he had finished his schooling he went to work in a grocery store and for something like seven or eight years the young man carried on his work in that line. It was not until 1885 that he began to study dentistry in the office of Dr. Kinely in Marion, and he spent three years with that gentleman, after which he entered the Kansas City Dental College for the purpose of finishing his dental studies, and in 1889 he was graduated from that institution. Dr. Hiatt began the practice of his profession in Marion in April, 1889, and has since that time maintained an office in the Glass building. He has gained prominence and distinctive favor with the public as a dentist of no slight ability, and is one of the leading men of his profession in< this district.

Dr. Hiatt is prominent in fraternity affairs in Marion and is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and Shriner as well as having membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Tribe of Ben Hur. He was one of the founders of the Golf and Country Clubs of Marion, and is an enthusiastic and appreciative member of each of them. He is a man who is well versed in matters of interest pertaining to Marion and Grant county, and articles of his contribution with relation to the early history of Grant county are to be found in the historical section of this work. Dr. Hiatt and his family are prominent socially in Marion, and their home is known as a center of kindly hospitality by their many friends in the community.

Harley F. Hardin. In emphasizing the consistency of this publica¬ tion it is deemed most fortunate that it is possible to accord within its pages specific recognition to a large and thoroughly representative per¬ centage of those sterling and honored citizens who are aiding definitely in upholding the high standard of the bench and bar of Grant county, and to such consideration Mr. Hardin is fully entitled, as he is one of the able and successful practitioners of law in the city of Marion, the county seat, with a clientage whose prominence and importance affords voucher alike for his technical ability and the confidence reposed in him by the community. He subordinates all else to the demands of his profession and considers it well worthy of his closest application and unqualified fealty. He is a resourceful advocate and excellent counsellor, true to the ethical code of his exacting and responsible calling in which he does all in his power to conserve equity and justice. His success has been largely due to his careful preparation of all cases pre¬ sented by him before court or jury, and he has been a member of the bar of Grant county since 1901.

Mr. Hardin was born near Livonia, Washington county, Indiana, on the 29th of June, 1876, and is a son of Isaac A. and Susan P. (Thom¬ erson) Hardin, both representatives of honored pioneer families of the southern part of this state. The lineage of him whose name introduces this article is traced back to Elisha Hardin, who was a native of South Carolina, from which commonwealth he immigrated in an early day to Tennessee. His son John came from Tennessee to Indiana in 1816, the year which marked the admission of the state to the Union, and he became one of the first permanent settlers of Washington county. He was born at Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 12th of June, 1799, and thus was a youth of about seventeen years when he established his home in the wilds of Indiana. He contributed in generous measure to the initial development of Washington county and the family name has been most prominently and worthily identified with the history of that favored section of the Hoosier state. John Hardin was the great-grand¬ father of the representative lawyer to whom this sketch is dedicated and was a grandson of the founder of the Hardin family in America, the first representative of the line having immigrated from Scotland and established a home in North Carolina in the colonial epoch of our national history. The paternal grandparents of Harley P. Hardin were Andrew Jackson Hardin and Mary A. (Jones) Hardin, both of whom passed their entire lives in Indiana. John Hardin, the founder of the Indiana branch of this staunch old colonial family, was one of the most honored and influential citizens of Washington county in the early days. For many years he served as clerk of all public sales in the county, and he drafted the greater portion of the deeds and mortgages of the people of that county during the pioneer days. He was a man of superior education, as guaged by the standards of his time, and he did much to make educational provisions for the children of the pioneer community. Three of his sons were valiant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war and one of the number met his death in an engagement in Kentucky. Another was Captain John J. Hardin, who was an officer in an Indiana regiment and who is still living, his home being at Salem, Washington county.

On the maternal side the great-grandmother of the subject of this sketch bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Ash, and she was of sturdy Holland Dutch lineage. Mrs. Susan P. (Thomerson) Hardin still main¬ tains her home in Washington county and is held in affectionate regard by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle and kindly influence, her devoted husband having been summoned to the life eternal in 1896, at the age of forty-four years, and having devoted virtually his entire career to agricultural pursuits, in his native county. Mrs. Susan P. Hardin is a daughter of Isaac and Caroline (Patton) Thomerson, the former of whom still resides in Washington county, having passed the age of four score years, and the latter of whom died a number of years ago, she having been a representative of an old Virginia family.

Of the four children of Isaac A. and Susan P. (Thomerson) Hardin the eldest is Harley F., of this review ; Eva L. is the wife of Emerson H. Hall, a representative farmer of Washington county ; Edgar K. is in the employ of the firm of Graves & Company, general hardware, Salem, Ind ; and Heber C. is a prosperous merchant in the village of Campbellsburg, Washington county, these four children being scions of the fourth generation of the family in Indiana.

Harley F. Hardin gained his early experiences in connection with the sturdy discipline of the home farm and in the meanwhile made good use of the advantages afforded him in the public schools of his native county. After the completion of his studies in the high school he entered, in January, 1898, the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, where he completed a partial course in the academic or literary depart¬ ment, after which he entered the law department, in which he was grad¬ uated as a member of the class of 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He likewise gained concomitant admission to the bar of his native state, in Grant county, and the same year witnessed his admission to practice in the supreme court of the state and in the United States district court, before each of which tribunals he has presented various cases.

Mr. Hardin initia'ted the practice of his profession at Matthews, Grant county, on the 1st of August, 1901, and about two years later he came to Grant county and established himself at Pairmount, in which village he continued his professional labors until May, 1908, when he removed to Marion, the county seat, in which city he has since continued in active general practice, with a law business of substantial and essen¬ tially representative order.

Deeply appreciative of the attractions and advantages of the thriving city in which he maintains his home, Mr. Hardin is liberal and pro¬ gressive in his civic attitude, and in politics he is found as a staunch and vigorous advocate of the principles of the Republican party.

He is affiliated with the local organizations of the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Benevolent Crew of Neptune, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Christian church of Marion, in the social circles of which city they are distinctively popular.

On the 15th of September, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hardin to Miss Mary E. Burgess, who like himself was born and reared in Washington county and who is a daughter of Henry Burgess, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have four children, - Belva L., Esther M., Forrest F., and Frances E.

William C. McKinney comes of a family that pioneered it in Grant county as long ago as in 1836, and since that time the family has been prominent in the county in many lines of enterprise. Men of their name have done worthy work in the development and upbuilding of this section of the country and the name is one that is eminently worthy of perpetua¬ tion in a work of the character and purpose of this publication. The subject, as assessor of Center township and engaged in the real estate business as well, is perhaps one of the best known men in the community today, and with his family, he is accorded the genuine esteem of the best citizenship of the town.

Born in Monroe township, Grant county, Indiana, on March 12, 1854, William McKinney is the son of Elias W. and Ottilia R. (Barley) McKinney, the father born in Miami county, near Piqua, Ohio, in 1825, and the mother bom in Pennsylvania about 1830. The grandparents of the subject were Dr. William McKinney and his good wife, Sarah (Scott) McKinney. The former was born in Virginia in 1784, and his wife was doubtless a daughter of the state of Kentucky, where she married her husband. Dr. McKinney came to Grant county in 1836 from Ohio, and he may well be said to be one of the genuine pioneers of the state. He early settled in Monroe township, and there lived until his death in 1860, busy in the practice of his profession in this and adjoining counties. He and his wife were the parents of six children who lived to years of maturity, all of whom are now deceased. One of them was Elias W. McKinney, the father of William C. He was a farmer all his life. He removed from Monroe township to Pleasant township in 1865, and in 1870 made another move, this time settling in Washington township where he remained until 1896, when he retired from his farming activities and moved to Marion. There he passed his remaining days, death claiming him there in 1906.

Elias McKinney was thrice married. His first wife, the mother of William C., died when he was a year old, about 1855. He was one of the five children of his parents, two of the number dying in infancy, and the other two who reached mature years, but who are now deceased, being Mrs. Maria J. Dunn, who died in December, 1885, and Mrs. Editha O. Hicks, who died in 1892. The father later married Abigail J. Chidester, a native daughter of Grant county, and five children blessed this marriage as well, - two of the number being alive at this writing, namely, Mary E. Blue, of Marion, and Susan Belle Grendelle, of Denver, Colorado. The second wife died in 1877 and Mr. McKinney married a third time in 1881, Martha Frazee of Grant county becoming his wife. There was no issue of this marriage.

William C. McKinney was reared on the home farm of his father and received his education in the public schools of his native community. He lived at home on the farm until his marriage in 1879, when he with¬ drew from the immediate family circle and settled with his young wife on a portion of the old home place, setting up an independent household. He continued thus until 1891, when he moved into Marion, and this city has since represented him home and the scene of his principal activ¬ ities. For some two years he carried on a thriving business in contract¬ ing, prior to which time he was occupied as deputy city marshal for four years, and in 1908 he was elected assessor of Center township on the Republican ticket, the term of which office was lately extended by the state legislature from four to six years, so that he is still discharging the duties of his office. In connection with that Mr. McKinney carries on a real estate business of a more or less extensive nature, and he is on the whole, one of the best known business men of the community.

He is a man who is prominent in a number of fraternal and social orders, among which are the Junior Order of United Mechanics, of which he has been secretary for the past seventeen years; he is past counselor of the Daughters of America of which he is a trustee ; and he has a membership in the Tribe of Ben Hur, in which he is past chief and trustee. He is a member of the Congregational church, and his politics are those of a stanch and active Republican.

Mr. McKinney was married on September 11, 1879, to Miss Jennie E. Blue, a daughter of Isaiah Blue, long a resident of Washington town¬ ship. Four children have been born to them, - of which number three are living. They are Dora O., Mary A. and Alice McKinney, and all are members of the immediate family circle as yet. The fourth born child died in infancy.

Milton Marshall. Now living retired in Upland, at a comfortable home on Irwin Street, which he bought in 1909 and after moving from his farm in section thirty-five of Monroe township, Mr. Marshall has spent sixty-nine birthdays in Grant county, and is at this writing within a few months of threescore and ten years. His descendants and fellow countrymen will honor him for his service to the Union as a soldier, in the dark days of the Civil war, and since his return from the south he has been identified in a successful manner with the agricultural and stock raising activities of Grant county, until he recently gave over the strenuous endeavors of earlier years, and is now enjoying a well earned prosperity.

Milton Marshall was bom on his father's homestead in Grant county, May 16, 1844. He is a son of Robert and Jane Fanning Marshall Robert Marshall was born on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania, March 11, 1806, and died in 1905, at Carlisle in Warren county, Iowa, at the home of a son. While living in Pennsylvania, on September 26, 1826, he married for his first wife, Eliza Brannon. Early in the thirties he came to Grant county, and his name may be found in the list of those who secured land direct from the government. He was an industrious and hardy pioneer, and the results of his labors might still be seen in fields from which his axe cleared off the timber and underbrush.