Hamilton County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1915 (part 8 of 14)

Martin Van Buren Forrer, the son of Martin and Eliza (Heiny) Forrer, was born May 4, 1859, in Noblesville township, Hamilton county, Indiana. His parents were both born in Pennsylvania, and after their marriage moved to the northeastern part of Ohio, and located for a short time near the cities of Orville and Massillon. About 1850 they came to Indiana and lpcated in Noblesville township, Hamilton county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, with the exception of about six years spent in Clarksville, Indiana. Martin Forrer was a life-long farmer and died in his ninetieth year in October, 1904. His wife died in October, 1909, at the advanced age of ninety-one. Four sons and two daughters were born to Martin Forrer and wife: John, Catherine, Elizabeth, Christopher, Daniel and Martin Van Buren.

The education of Martin Van Buren Forrer was received in the district schools of Hamilton county and Holbroke Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching in the public schools of his county, and for eighteen consecutive years he taught in the various schools of the county. He then spent one winter in Florida for his health, and while in that state, also taught during the winter season. On his return to Hamilton county, he again resumed teaching and taught for four years. During his long service as a teacher he had saved his money and invested it in land, and in 1898 he retired from the school room and devoted all of his attention to farming. In 1902 he was appointed rural-route mail carrier on Route 10, a substation of Noblesville, which was established at that time in Clarksville. He has now been carrying the mail out of Clarksville for the past twelve years, and with his automobile he makes the route of twentysix miles in two hours and twenty minutes.

Mr. Forrer has a very attractive farm and since acquiring it has put practically all of the improvements now on the place. Only one of the build¬ ings on the farm remains as it was when he purchased it. He has concrete walks around his house and barn, concrete fence posts, and all of his im¬ provements are of the most permanent and substantial character. Before the rural route was established, Mr. Forrer was the postmaster at Clarksville.

Mr. Forrer was married September 14, 1890, to Clara Heiny, the daugh¬ ter of Benjamin and Julia A. (Lennen) Heiny, and to this union has been born one son, Raymond W., born in 1894. Raymond attended the high school at Noblesville and is now assistant to his father on the home farm.

Benjamin Heiny, the father of Mrs. Forrer, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, the fourth child of Samuel and Anna (Schock) Heiny. Benjamin came with his parents from Wayne county to Hamilton county, Indiana, in 1839, and lived in this county the remainder of his life.

The Heiny family is of German descent, the first of the family to come to America being Jacob Heiny, who came from Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, about the middle of the eighteenth century. The seventh son of Jacob Heiny, the first member of the family to leave his native land, was Samuel, who was born in 1771, and through him the family in this county have descended. Jacob Heiny was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was a member of. the artillery in a Pennsylvania regiment. Julia A. Lennen, the mother of Mrs. Forrer, was born in Wayne township, Hamilton county, Indiana, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Lennen. Samuel Lennen was a son of Peter Lennen, who entered government land in this county among the first settlers and became a large land owner before his death. Elizabeth Davis came to this county from Ohio, making the over¬ land trip on horseback with her parents. It is interesting to note that she met her future husband, Samuel Lennen, on the way from Ohio to this county, and he aided her in crossing a swollen stream. This chance acquaint¬ ance was later renewed and ultimately resulted in their marriage. Benjamin Heiny owned a saw mill at Clarksville, in partnership with his father, and managed it for several years. In later life he returned to farming and while living on his farm his wife died. Six years later he married Mrs. Watkins and moved to a farm one and one-half miles southeast of Noblesville, where his death occurred June 14, 1910.

Mr. and Mrs. Forrer are both consistent members of the Christian church, and Mr. Forrer takes an active part in all the work of the church. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife are both members of the Order of Eastern Star. He also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias.

Charles W. Booth

It would be interesting to know how many of the citizens of Hamilton county, Indiana, have come from North Carolina. A large number of Quakers settled in that state early in the nineteenth century, but their hatred of slavery led them to leave the state and settle in the North, where slavery was not allowed. Indiana received thousands of her best citizens in the early history of this state from North Carolina, and the majority of these were of the Quaker faith. Since the Civil War many have come from North Carolina and located in Indiana, and among those who settled in Hamilton county may be mentioned Charles W. Booth, who is now a prosperous farmer of Fall Creek township.

Charles W. Booth, the son of Charles and Fanny (McKinney) Booth, was born March 4, i860, in Guilford county. North Carolina. His father died at the opening of the Civil War, and he lived with his mother until her death.

When Charles W. Booth was a lad of about thirteen years of age, he made a trip to Hamilton county, where his uncle, Joseph Booth, lived, but only stayed a short time and then returned to his old home in North Caro¬ lina. About 1884 he returned to Hamilton county, and worked on his uncle's farm bv the month. He married in the following year and continued to reside on his uncle's farm until 1892, in which year Mr. Booth bought a farm of one hundred and forty acres, which he still owns, and where he has lived since that time. He has a handsome house, which is set in attractive surroundings, and everything about the farm indicates that the owner is a man of thrift as well as of excellent taste.

Mr. Booth was married September 9, 1885, to Lizzie Cay lor, who was born about four miles east of Noblesville, the daughter of David D. and Mary Ann (Gallawav) Caylor. Mrs. Booth's father was a native of Ohio, born near Dayton, the son of Abraham and Susannah Caylor. Abraham Caylor came to Indiana in pioneer times and settled on the Haverstick farm in Hamilton county, where he lived the remainder of his days. David D. Caylor, the father of Mrs. Booth, was a carpenter by trade, and lived most of his life in Clarksville, in Wayne township. The Caylors originally came from Germany.

Mr. and Mrs. Booth are the parents of five children : Raymond, Emery, Vera, India and Mabel. Raymond married Jessie Manship, and has one son, Frankrand lives on a farm one mile north of his father's place. Emery married Maude Day, and lives one mile northwest of his father's farm. Vera is the wife of Charles Klepfer, of Oaklandon, and has one daughter, Lois. India and Mabel are still at home with their parents.

William H. Beaver

There are few older native citizens of Hamilton county than William H. Beaver. He was born in the same township where he is now living, January 13, 1836, and was reared under pioneer conditions and endured all of the privations and hardships, as well as all of the pleasures incident to life in a new country. He started in life with practically nothing, and by his own efforts and good management he has accumulated an estate of four hundred and twenty-seven acres in the township where he was born. He has been a diligent and industrious man throughout his long career, and has looked forward to the time when he could retire from active labors. While his life has been devoted primarily to his own interests, yet he has not neglected to bear his share of the burdens of his community. Born, as he was, in pioneer times he well remembers the time when all of his clothing was made at home; in fact, he never had a suit of "store" clothes until he was twentv-two years of age. He is remarkably well preserved for a man of his years, and is still able to read fine print without the aid of glasses.

William H. Beaver, one of the most substantial farmers of Fall Creek township, Hamilton county, Indiana, was born January 13, 1836, in the township, where he has always lived. He is the son of Henry and Annie (Sellers) Beaver, natives of North Carolina and Ohio, respectively. His father grew to manhood in North Carolina, and later came to Ohio, where he met and married his first wife. In 1830, or probably before that date, he came with his family to Hamilton county, Indiana, and entered a tract of government land containing half a section, and lived on this farm until his son, William H., was about thirty-five years of age. The first wife of Henry Beaver died when William H. was a babe in arms and so young that he has no recollection of his mother. His father later married Mrs. Anna (Branham) Sloan, a widow of Hamilton county, and William H. Beaver was reared by his stepmother. There were nine children by both marriages, William H. being the youngest child by the first marriage.

William H. Beaver received only a very limited education in the sub¬ scription schools of his day and remained at home until he reached his majority and then began to work in a tanvard on the old National road. However, when his father and stepmother were getting along in years, he returned home and managed his father's farm. Before he died Henry Beaver gave each of his children some of his property, dividing the farm among the children, or rather giving them notes for five hundred dollars each, which were to stand as liens against his estate. After the death of his father, William H. Beaver, took the farm subject to the claims represented by the notes and went to work with a will, gradually paying off every note. Thus William H. Beaver acquired his father's farm, and has been tilling it since that time. He not only owns the three hundred acres of the paternal estate, but has since purchased one hundred and twenty-seven acres in the same township.

After his father's death William H. Beaver married Sarah Emily Grice, who died about eight years after her marriage, leaving no children. He then married her sister, Catherine, and her death occurred about six years after their marriage, she likewise leaving no children. The first wife of Mr. Beaver inherited sixteen acres and Mr. Beaver bought out the other Grice heirs and still owns the forty acres which he thus acquired. Hi* second wife had one hundred and twenty-nine acres, in which Mr. Beaver has a life interest. In addition to these extensive tracts of land in Fall Creek township, Mr. Beaver also owns a tract of thirteen acres in Hancock county.

to the old homestead and now makes his home with Mr. Rushton, who rents the farm. The whole life of Mr. Beaver has been devoted to farming, with the exception of four years which he spent in the tan-vard. He started with only a very small share of his father's estate, but by assuming heavy in¬ debtedness, bought out the other heirs and thus became the owner of the farm, which, as a lad, he had helped to clear. His first wife, though not strong physically, was a good manager, and willingly helped her husband in many ways, for which he gladly gives her credit. His second wife, like her sister, was a true helpmate, and his efforts were ably seconded by her. As a result of his life-long endeavors he has accumulated a large amount of land, acquiring a competence, when others with better chances have but little to show for their efforts. He has seen young men who made three times the wages he did in his youth, squander their, opportunities and so conduct their affairs as to be compelled to live from hand to mouth. The career of Mr. Beaver is interesting in showing what can be accomplished by a man who starts out with the intention of accumulating a good farm, and the life of the subject of this biography should be an inspiration to the young men of the coming generation.

Leander Franklin Whetsel

The Whetsel family have been identified with the history of Hamilton county since 1850, when the first members of the family arrived in this county. Leander F. Whetsel has spent his entire life since his birth, in 1868, in Fall Creek township, in Hamilton county, Indiana, and has so con¬ ducted his affairs as to win the esteem of his fellow citizens. He has been a life-long farmer, and if to one class of people more than another the United States owes a debt of gratitude, it is to the diligent, perserving farmers, on whom our prosperity as a nation so largely depends.

Leander Franklin Whetsel, the son of Theodore and Elzina (Birch) Whetsel, was born February 14, 1867, in Fall Creek twonship, Hamilton county, Indiana. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, born December 2, 1822, and grew to manhood in his native state. He was married Febru¬ ary 5, 1850, after coming to Hamilton county, Indiana, to Elzina Birch, who was born in New York state May 4, 1832. Soon after his marriage he and his wife located in Fall Creek township, on a farm adjoining the one where L. F. Whetsel is now living. Theodore Whetsel first entered eighty acres of government land at one dollar and a quarter an acre, and after clearing part of the land and improving it he traded it for the farm on which his son, Leander, is now living. His eighty-acre farm was well improved and when he made the exchange in 1881 he secured one hundred and sixty acres, which was only partly improved. It had some buildings on it, but nearly all of it was in timber. Theodore Whetsel eventually became the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land in Fall Creek township and one hun¬ dred acres near Pendleton, Madison county. He was an extensive breeder of Poland China hogs, being recognized as one of the most successful hog raisers in the county. He was a home-loving man and looked after his farming interests diligently. He and his wife started in a primitive log cabin with puncheon floors, stick and mud chimneys, greased-paper windows and home-made furniture. When they first settled in it the township was largely swamps, with no roads and very few cabins scattered over it. Theo¬ dore Whetsel died December 2, 1901, his wife having died January 27, of the same year, after having lived nearly fifty years together. Theodore Whetsel and wife were the parents of ten children: Wilbur, who died at the age of forty, leaving a wife and two children; Daniel A., who lives in Fall Creek township; Cynthia E., the deceased wife of Branson Smith; Cornelia, the wife of John H. Sylvester, of Wayne township; Mattie M., the wife of David Adams, of Madison county, Indiana; George M., of Indianapolis; Leander Franklin, with whom this narrative deals; Alfred O., who is now living on part of the old home farm ; Pierson, who died in childhood, and one who died unnamed in infancy.

Leander F. Whetsel was thirteen years of age when his father moved on the one hundred and sixty-acre farm in 1881, and did his full share to¬ ward helping to clear the land. He remained at home until his marriage, in 1889, and since his marriage has continued to reside on the old Whetsel homestead. He owns one hundred and twenty acres of the old home farm and has bought forty acres across the road, so that he is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of fine farming land in the township.

Mr. Whetsel was married November 10, 1889, to Edna Keeling, who was born in Fall Creek township, this county, the daughter of Richard and Mary (Nicholson) Keeling. Richard Keeling was a native of Shelby county, Indiana, born in August, 1839, and was the son of Richard F. and Mary Keeling. Richard Keeling Sr., died in Shelby county, and his son, Richard, Jr., grew to manhood there and came to this county with his mother, where they located near the center of Fall Creek township. Richard, Jr., married Mary Nicholson in this county, his wife being a native of North Carolina, and coming to this county with her parents when she was about twenty years of age. H,er parents, Abel and Prudence Nicholson, settled in Wayne township, this county, and lived to advanced ages. She lived to be ninety years of age, and Abel Nicholson, who was a soldier in the Civil War, died at the age of seventy.

Mr. Whetsel and his wife have one son, Guy Loren, who was born January i, 1894. He was graduated from the high school at Fortville, In¬ diana, and married India Fisher, the daughter of Hiram Fisher, and lives on his father's farm. Mrs. Whetsel's grandmother, Mrs. Nicholson, whose maiden name was Prudence Sayles, was born in North Carolina, and she was a child of slave-holding Southerners. Her father gave each of his chil¬ dren a slave at their marriage, giving her a negro girl who had cared for her in babyhood. When Prudence Sayles came to Indiana she sold the slave her father had given her for five hundred dollars.

Politically, Mr. Whetsel is a Democrat, but has never cared to take an active part in the councils of his party. However, he lends his hearty sup¬ port to all public-spirited measures, and never fails to register his honest convictions on any subject of importance to his community. He is a mem¬ ber of the Improved Order of Red Men . and Mrs. Whetsel is a devoted member of the Christian church.

Clark Millikan

The ninety years which have elapsed since the birth of Clark Millikan in Randolph county, North Carolina, have covered a period of more than three-fourths of the history of the United States. The history of Mr. Milli¬ kan is replete with many interesting incidents, and particularly that part of his life which concerns the Civil War. Mr. Millikan is one of many ex¬ cellent citizens of Hamilton county who lived in North Carolina prior to the Civil War, and his experience during that memorable struggle is similar to that of many other members of the Friends church at that period.

Clark Millikan, the son of Samuel and Sallie (Clark) Millikan, was born April 12, 1824, in Randolph county, North Carolina. His parents both were natives of the same county, his father having been born in 1789 and his mother in 1800. Samuel Millikan was the son of Benjamin, who in turn was the son of William Millikan, of Irish ancestry. The Millikan family has traced its history back to Normandy, as far back as 800, A. D., and members of the family have been prominent in several of the countries ot western Europe. Benjamin Millikan, grandfather of Clark, lived in North Carolina on land which his father, William, had entered. During the Revo¬ lutionary War, Benjamin Millikan and his family were harried by the Tories and at one time the soldiers captured Benjamin and his wife, but owing to the laxity of the guard which was placed around them they were able to escape.

Clark Millikan grew to manhood in Randolph county, North Carolina, and on December 18, 1851, married Nancy Adams, who died on October 11, 1852, leaving one daughter, Nancy Angeline, who is still living with her father in Hamilton county, Indiana. Mr. Millikan was married a second time, on January 4, 1855, to Lydia Hinshaw, and to this second marriage seven children were born: Lewis Elwood, born October 10, 1855; an infant, born in November, 1857, who died in the following December; Florence Ellen, born June 30, i860; Lunda Martisia, bom October 2, 1862; Alice Martha, born August 7, 1864; Anna Florence, born December 5, 1869, and Lucetta Jane, born December 19, 1874, who died August 30, 1878.

A brief summary of the history of each of these seven children is here given: Lewis Elwood married Martha Ellen Barker, February 23, 1882, and resides on a farm two miles south of Sheridan. He is an active and prominent member of the Friends church, and has two children, Arza Homer and Edna Pearl. Arza is now running the farm of his grandfather. Flor¬ ence Ellen was married April 8, 1879, to L. R. Michaels, a carpenter, now living in Indianapolis. She has five children, Clifton C., Beecher A., Edgar E., Florence E. and Merritt R. Clifton married Grace Hanson and lives in Indianapolis. He is a brick mason and has a son, Robert. Beecher married Ella Maufin, and lives in Indianapolis, where he follows the trade of a brick mason. Edgar died in 1913, at the age of twenty-three.' Florence E. is the wife of James Stewart, of Indianapolis, and has one child, Helen Irene. Merritt R. is still living with his parents in Indianapolis.

Lunda Martisia, the fourth child of Clark Millikan and wife, was married March 17, i88t, to Vinson M. Moore, of Moores Crossing, near Noblesville, and has five children: Nora L., wife of Orrin Mvers, of Gray. Indiana, and the mother of two children, Lowell and Harriett; Flossie G., the wife of Rev. Pliny Cox, a minister of the Friends church, of .Mess\ck, Michigan, and the mother of two children, Leota and Larue; Cecil R., a job printer of Indianapolis, who married Ruth Layton and has one daughter; Orace C., bom December 5, 1900, and Helena, bom in 1902.

Anna Florence, the sixth, child, married February 1, 1891, Clark Stout, a grocer and meat dealer at Sheridan. They have three children: Lester

Mr. Millikan and his family were still living in North Carolina at the opening of the Civil War. He was reared in the Friends church and was opposed to war and slavery. He was drafted for service in the Confederate army, but hired a substitute to take his place. The limit age was raised later in the war and he was drafted and sent to the front. Before this he and three other members of the Friends church had paid a man forty dollars to write a memorial to the Confederate Congress, asking that Friends be al¬ lowed to pay five hundred dollars and be relieved from war duty. He and his three friends were ordered to drill and refused to do so until they heard from Congress. They were arrested and tied up by their thumbs for half a day in the rain and snow. During the forenoon that they were thus sus¬ pended the water ran down their arms into their shoes, and after dinner they were bucked and bound and punished until one of their number declared he would die if the punishment was not stopped. To save their comrade, the other three agreed to drill. They drilled but watched closely for a chance to escape. After several months at detail work near home, for which they received sixty-five cents a day and board, they were sent to a regiment and within a month, while on picket duty near Petersburg, Mr. Millikan and a number of others, left the lines and slipped over to the Yankee lines, more than one-half mile away. This happened one night while they were on duty and was probably the most exciting night's experience through which Mr. Millikan ever passed.

On this particular night when he made his escape, Mr. Millikan and three others were guarding with a campfire behind a screen of limbs. Other guards were stationed in little groups along the lines with a fire to each group. In the group of guards next to Mr. Millikan and his friends was sta¬ tioned one man whose duty was to watch the Friends constantly. About mid¬ night this man who was watching Mr. Millikan and his friends drew his cape up over his head to protect himself from the cold wind and leaned down over the fire to warm. Immediately the four men, of whom Mr. Millikan was one, made a dash for liberty. They crawled rapidly as close to the ground as possible until they were thirty or forty yards over into the pine brush, then jumped to their feet and made a dash for the Yankee lines, going up to the first Yankee sentry and surrendering. The four men, Millikan, Bell, Stewart and Beckerdite, immediately made themselves known. When they got to the guard and the Yankees saw the Confederate uniforms, the sentry shook hands and said, "Howdy, Johnnies, M and treated them well. The four men had been on one-fourth rations and were now given the first good meal they had had for several days. After they had fully explained their position the United States government took them in charge and pursuant to a proclama¬ tion just issued by President Lincoln they were sent where they would be safe from the Confederates. Mr. Millikan and about eighty others accepted the offer of the United States government and Mr. Millikan, along with some of the others, asked to be sent to Hamilton county, Indiana, where he had friends. Thus closed the war experience of Mr. Millikan, and certainly he should be honored as much as those who fought for the flag.

After reaching Hamilton county, Mr. Millikan traded his North Caro¬ lina farm of two hundred and nine acres for an eighty-acre farm two miles southeast of Sheridan, and four hundred and twenty-four dollars. This farm had a hewed log house and about nine acres of land cleared, and here he started to work in the summer of 1865. His wife and children came from North Carolina soon afterwards and joined him. He cleared this farrti and improved it with a good home and barns and outbuildings. He has since added seventeen acres, and now has a well improved farm, which is managed by one of his grandsons.

On January 4, 1915, Mr. Millikan and his wife celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They are both well preserved and are still interested in everything which concerns the welfare of their community. Both are devout members of the Friends church, as are all of their de¬ scendants. Mr. Millikan is an ardent Prohibitionist and is active in ad¬ vancing the principles of that party. He is a genial, kindly man, upright in every way, widely known and esteemed for his sterling character.

Sylvanus Moore

There were several hundred enlistments from Hamilton county, Indiana, during the Civil War, and many of those thus enlisting were boys who had not yet reached their majorities. One of these many boys was Sylvanus Moore, who was not only the youngest soldier to enlist from his county, but was probably one of the youngest in the whole state. His father served in the war as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regi- ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and Sylvanus wanted to go to the front, but was refused on account of his age. In February, 1865, he went to Indi¬ anapolis to see his father, but failed to get in touch with him. He returned to Noblesville and there saw a recruiting officer just boarding a train with a company of newly enlisted men. He told the officer he was eighteen years of age and asked to be enrolled, and although he was only a little past four¬ teen, though large for his age, the recruiting official allowed him to enlist. He was in the Shenandoah valley when Lee surrendered in April, 1865, and recalls vividly the wild jubilation of the soldiers when they heard the news. He was taken sick with typhoid fever soon after the close of the war and was nursed back to health by his father in the mountains of Maryland. Upon being told that he soon would receive his discharge, he cried for joy, and came home as soon as possible. -

Sylvanus Moore, the son of William T. and Annie (Cook) Moore, was born in Washington township, Hamilton county, Indiana, November 27, 1850. His father was born in eastern Tennessee in 1828, and at the age of three years, was brought to Union county, Indiana, by his parents, John and Louisa (Kokerham) Moore. John Moore and wife were born in east Tennessee in the valley of the Holston river, and were married there. Will¬ iam T. was their first child. In 1831 John Moore and his wife and little son made the long overland trip from eastern Tennessee to Union county, Indi¬ ana, the wife riding the one horse and carrying the small son, and the father, John, walking by the side of the horse. They camped by the way on their long journey through the wilderness and depended largely for their sub¬ sistence on game which was shot en route. When John Moore and his family arrived in Union county, Indiana, they had only three dollars in money. Soon afterward they came to Hamilton county, and entered land in the northeastern part of Washington township, the same farm now being occu¬ pied by T. J. Lindley. At that time Indians were numerous in Hamilton county and wild animals of all kinds freely roamed the dense forests. After living for some years upon this farm, which he had entered, John Moore sold it for eleven hundred doHars in silver to Aaron Lindley. He then went two miles west and entered one hundred and sixty acres where Jasper Moore, the son of John, is now living, and there remained the rest of his life. John Moore was an uneducated man, but a powerful worker, a money-maker and a man of rare good sense and judgment.

William T. Moore, the father of Sylvanus, grew up amidst pioneer sur¬ roundings. He often heard the panther's blood-curdling scream in his boy¬ hood days. He married Anna Cook, who was the daughter of Wright and

Annie Cook, natives of South Carolina, and early settlers in Hamilton county. Wright Cook owned one hundred and sixty acres of land south of Westfield at the time of the marriage of William T. Moore and Anna Cook. After their marriage William T. Moore and wife for a time rented the T. J. JJndley farm, living for some time in a log cabin, and here Sylvanus, their eldest child, was born. Afterwards William T. Moore bought a farm on the line between Adams and Washington townships, a mile north of Horton, and here on his ninety-three acres, he lived and died. He was a Methodist preacher for several years, and an earnest worker in the church. He died May 30, 1895, being found dead in his bed one morning. His wife had pre¬ ceded him to the grave two or three years. Four sons and one daughter were born to William T. Moore and wife: Sylvanus, first born; Elwood, who is now living on the old home farm; Elzena, a twin sister of Elwood, who died in childhood; John H., who married Jane Edwards; and William A., who married Susan Edwards. John H. and William A. are also twins, and married twin sisters. It is said that when either brother is sick, the other always is ill at the same time and in the same way. The two brothers live on the old home farm.

Sylvanus Moore received a good common school education in the schools of his home county, and at the tender age of fourteen, enlisted and saw service for abolit six months in the Civil War during the spring of 1865, as has already been indicated. He was married one month and nineteen days before his nineteenth birthday to Mary J. Perry, the daughter of Wyatt and Nancy (Lee) Perry. Mrs. Moore died, leaving three children, Bernie Beecher, Emerson and Nellie Grant. Bernie B. married Annie Hodson, and has six children. He is now the rural mail carrier at Cicero, having held this position for the past ten years. Emerson lives on his own farm of eighty acres in Monroe county, Indiana, near Ellettsville. He married Annie Hinshaw, and has three children. Nellie G. is the wife of Charles Fouch, of Sheridan, and has three children.

The second marriage of Mr. Moore was to Mrs. Nora (Wells) Roberts, the widow of Elwood Roberts. She was a daughter of John Wells, and died Mav 3, 1914. There were two children born to Mr. Moore's second mar¬ riage, Halsie A. and Russell Dewey. Halsie is the wife of Fred Stanbrough, and lives in Carmel, and they have one son. Russell D. is fifteen years of age and lives with his father.

After his first marriage Mr. Moore, determined to have a home of his own, bought seventy acres of timbered land mostly on credit. He has made an excellent farm of his seventy acres, on which he has been living continu¬ ously since he first acquired it. He has been a member of the Methodist

Episcopal church since he was seventeen years old and for many years has frequently filled the pulpit. He has married about thirty couples and has the satisfaction of knowing that no couple he has ever married has ever been divorced.

Politically, Mr. Moore is a stanch Republican and actively participates in the local councils of his party. He has been a candidate for the Legis¬ lature three times, being defeated by a narrow margin each time. Mr. Moore has always stood for the best welfare of his township and county, and is highly respected in his community.

Seth Jacob Hinshaw

The Hinshaw family in Hamilton county, Indiana, represents part of the great migration from the state of North Carolina to this state before and during the Civil War. In the latter part of the eighteenth century a large number of the Quakers from Pennsylvania went to North Carolina to locate, but by the time of the Civil War, the greater portion of these had left the state and settled in free territory in the North. There are several counties in Indiana in which more than half of the early settlers wfcre composed of emigrants from North Carolina. Hamilton county was fortunate in re¬ ceiving a large number of these worthy people, and among them the Hin¬ shaw family has taken an important part in the development of the county, the name being permanently linked with the history of the same.

Seth J. Hinshaw, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Barker) Hinshaw, was born July 28, 1862, in Randolph county, North Carolina. The interest¬ ing biography of his father is presented elsewhere in this volume.

Seth J. Hinshaw was a babe in arms when his father was drafted into the Confederate army, and was about four years of age when his mother brought him and his six-year-old brother from North Carolina to Indiana, his father having previously been sent by friends in Philadelphia, where he had been detained as. a prisoner of war, to this state. Seth grew to manhood on his father's farm about two and one-half miles southeast of Sheridan, and was graduated from the Sheridan high school in 1891. He had attended Savoy College in Texas for about two years and, having taken the college course there with the intention of teaching, taught during the winter of 1886-7 before entering college. He had not quite completed his high school course before attending college and after leaving there, returned to Indiana and finished up his high school course at Sheridan in 1891. However, be¬ fore completing his high school course, he had taught in the Indian school in the Chickasaw nation, twenty miles north of Tishimingo, in the present state of Oklahoma.

Immediately after his graduation from the high school Mr. Hinshaw married and moved to a farm. across the road west from where he is now living and remained there four years. He then moved to his present home and has lived on this farm since 1895. F°r the first eight years after his marriage he taught school during the winter time and devoted his summers to his farm work. He was principal of the Lamong school for seven years. He spent his first year after his marriage teaching in the public schools of Noblesville.

When he was first married, Mr. Hinshaw had one hundred and thirtyfive dollars. He rented land and started in on his own resources, teaching in the winter and farming during the summer seasons. Finally, after eight years of teaching he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land four miles north of Sheridan, going heavily in debt for the same. He sold this farm within a year and bought a farm of eighty acres in Boone county, two miles west of Lamong. He later bought eighty acres one and one-half miles northwest of Lamong. This was in the year 1904, and he held this farm until 1913, when he sold it. I11 the meantime he and his brother, Lewis E., had bought a farm of eighty acres near the Antioch Church, in Boone county, but he disposed of his interests in this farm shortly afterwards. The farm on which Mr. 'Hinshaw is now living comprises two hundred and ten acres and in addition to this he owns forty lots in the town of Sheridan. As a young man he got his start by becoming a stockholder in the Building and Loan Association at Sheridan. When the Hamilton Trust Company was organized at Noblesville he was a charter member and director and later be¬ came vice-president of the company, holding that position for two years. He is now a stockholder in the First National Bank of Sheridan.

Politically, Mr. Hinshaw has been a stanch Republican, and for many years has been a member of the county council, where he has made an ex¬ cellent record in every respect.

Mr. Hinshaw was married March 18, 1891, to Clara E. Hiatt, who was born in Washington township, this county, near Westfield, and is the daugh¬ ter of Isom and Asenath (Tomlinson) Hiatt. Her mother was a native of Indiana and her father a native of Ohio. Mr. Hiatt was a life-long farmer and spent his entire life on the farm, where his death occurred in 1896.

Mr. Hinshaw and his wife are active workers in the Friends church and Mr. Hinshaw has been a trustee of the church at Lamong ever since it was built and for many years has been chairman of the finance committee. For twelve years he was recording clerk of the Westfield Quarterly Meet¬ ing, which has a membership of twelve to fifteen hundred. He is a man of progressive ideas, active in business, public spirited and earnest in all church and benevolent enterprises. He and his wife look on the bright side of life and take occasional trips to Florida, Texas and other places in the United States. Mr. Hinshaw freely gives the credit for much of his success to his wife, and by her earnest works she has proved that she is fully entitled to the credit for much of the success which has attended his efforts. He has attained to his present enviable state of prosperity by honorable and upright means and no man in his community is held in higher esteem than is he.

Israel H. Davis

A man of the past generation in Hamilton county, Indiana, who is well remembered is Israel H. Davis. Mr. Davis was a man of pure and noble character, and one of those heroes concerning whose sacrifices little is ever heard. For more than twenty-five years he was engaged to the woman whom he finally married, but out of consideration for his afflicted brother and his aged mother, he and his bethrothed postponed their marriage from year to year. He was a man whom to know was to love and no more highly respected citizen ever lived in Hamilton county.

Israel H. Davis was born in Ohio on May 15, 1825, and died at his beautiful country home in Wayne township, Hamilton county, Indiana, May 15, j899- He grew to manhood in Ohio on his father's farm and early in life learned the wagon-maker's trade. While still a young man his father died, and his mother, Mrs. Rachel Davis, and a brother, Asa, left Ohio and settled in Howard county, Indiana. For many years the widow and her two sons lived on a farm near Kokomo, where Israel farmed and also worked at his trade. For about seventeen years Israel Davis traveled over the country with his brother, Asa, who suffered from a severe mental trouble, which necessitated his being given constant care. During these many years the brothers were in seventeen different states. About 1892 Mr. Davis returned to Howard county and resumed farming.

Mr. And Mrs. Israel H. Davis

Mr. Davis was married on August 25, 1892, at the age of sixty-seven, to Abigail Fenner, who was born eight miles east of Indianapolis, the daugh¬ ter of David and Ruth Ann (Murphy) Fenner. She spent all of her life where she was born up until the time of her marriage. Her mother died eighteen months before she was married, and after her mother's death Mr. and Mrs. Davis remained with her father for about two years. Mr. Fenner was a blacksmith by trade and died in 1894. In June, 1894, Israel H. Davis bought a farm in the western part of Wayne township, Hamilton county, Indiana, and lived on it until the time of his death in 1899. This farm of two hundred and four acres is one of the finest farms in the county, the barn alone costing seven thousand dollars. Mr. Davis did not actively engage in farming, but rented out his fields and gave the place his careful supervision. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Davis has continued to reside in their beautiful home. It was the request of her husband that she remain on the farm if she could do so conveniently and with satisfaction to herself. She is well known as a good business manager and to the people of her com¬ munity is affectionately known as "Aunt Abbie" Davis. She is a woman of strong intellect and character, and is loved by everyone who knows her.

Mr. Davis took a deep interest in all church work and in his own denom¬ ination, the Baptist church, he was an untiring and unselfish laborer. He was a man against whom no one ever could say a word, and by his honorable and upright life he left a name untarnished before the world.

The mother of Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Ruth Ann (Murphy) Fenner, was born in Green county, Ohio, and her father was a native of Pennsylvania. The Fenners moved to Indiana about 1840 and lived and died on their farm in Marion county, which they bought upon locating in this state.

Jacob Hinshaw

The career of Jacob Hinshaw, one of the most highly respected citizens of Hamilton county, Indiana, is very interesting. Born and reared in North Carolina, of Quaker parentage, he had all that abhorrence of slavery which characterized the people of that denomination. The war coming on he was conscripted in the Confederate army and forced to serve until the battle of Gettysburg, when he was captured and then severed his connection with the Confederate army. Inasmuch as Mr. Hinshaw has given a rhymed version of his life the historian will content himself with briefly summarizing here the main facts of his life.

Jacob Hinshaw was born April 22, 1834, in Randolph county, North Carolina, the son of Stephen and Hannah (Davis) Hinshaw. Jacob Hin¬ shaw was first married, in Randolph county, North Carolina, to Elizabeth Barker, bom September 23, 1836, the daughter of Seth and Margaret (Cox) Barker. H is first wife died September 23, 1882, and on February 12, 1884, Mr. Hinshaw married Huldah Barker, a sister of his first wife.

The following is a brief summary of the careers of these nine children, given in the order of their birth: Elihu B., who is a minister in the Friends church, w'ent to Hiawassee College, in Tennessee, and after his graduation from that institution, taught for twro years in the state of Tennessee, after w'hich he wrent to Texas and continued teaching. From Texas he went to Indian Territory and taught the Indians in the government school for some time, becoming a superintendent of one of the Indian reservation schools in that state. For nineteen years he taught without missing a day. He is now superintendent of the agricultural school at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, in the Haskell Institute. He is also engaged in a number of business opera¬ tions and has prospered exceedingly. He was married the day of his gradua¬ tion from college to Mollie Honeycutt. Seth J., the second child of Jacob Hinshaw and wife, is represented elsewhere in this volume. Hanna Maria lives in Monroe county, Indiana, and is the widows of T. Q. Heatherington, deceased. She has twro children, John Z. and Florence. Stephen A. mar¬ ried Elizabeth Worley and lives in Sheridan, Indiana. He is in the hard¬ ware business and has one daughter, Mary. Mary Elizabeth is the wife of Willis Cobb, and lives in Boone county, Indiana. She has two children, Grace and Leland. Lewis E., who lives twro and one-half miles south of Sheridan, married Nora Chance, and has three children, Marie, Low*ell and Myron. Anna M. is the wife of Emmerson Moore, and lives in Monroe county, Indiana. She has four children, Norris, Alvin, Emil, Jacob and Edna. Rufus V. married Estella Moore, and has two children, Vernon and Marguerite. Rufus lives in Muncie, Indiana. He taught school for several years and is now in the life insurance business. Irvin Stanley, the ninth and youngest child of Jacob Hinshaw and his first wrife, married Grace Phillips, and lives in Oklahoma. He is teaching in the high school of his home city, having received an excellent education in Earlham College, Rich¬ mond, Indiana, from which institution he was graduated. He has three chil¬ dren, Irene, Pauline and Elihu.

There was one child, Flora E., born to the second marriage of Jacob Hinshaw. Flora was born March 27, 1885, and is now the wife of Harry Kincaid, and lives at Sheridan. She has a daughter, Maxine.

Mr. Hinshaw and his wife are both loyal members of the Friends church. He is now a man past eighty years of age and is able to read with¬ out glasses. He is a man of upright character and kindly disposition, and he and his good wife ever have exerted a benevolent influence in the com¬ munity where they have spent so many years. His influence always has been for better things and no more highly respected man is living in Hamil¬ ton rounty today than Mr. Hinshaw.

The following brief summary of the career of Mr. Hinshaw was written by himself on March 3, 1909, and presents in an interesting way the main facts of his life.

So with our three younger children small, Moved to the town of Horton, thus leaving all. The old home farm and two sons in their care, And in the products of farm to share.

Professional success is based upon merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long-continued effort. Prestige in the healing art is the outcome of strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of its great underlying principles and the ability to apply theory to practice in the treatment of the ailments of mankind. Good intellectual training, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success have made the subject of this re¬ view eminent in his chosen calling and he stands today among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in a county noted for the high order of its medical talent.

Dr. Carleton H. Tomlinson, son of Levi and Eliza (Hoag) Tomlinson, was born near Westfield, this county, June 12, 1869. Levi Tomlinson was the son of Robert and Lydia (Kellum) Tomlinson, while Robert Tomlinson was the son of William Tomlinson, the first one of the family to come to this country from Ireland.

William Tomlinson, the great-grandfather of Doctor Tomlinson, emi¬ grated to this country in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settled in Guilford county. North Carolina, while the Indians were still living there in large numbers. There he met and married Martha Coppick, who had been captured by the Indians, but had been rescued a short time before her mar¬ riage. William Tomlinson was a saddler by trade, a man of great ability and enterprise and financially prosperous. He had four sons who reached maturity, Joseph, Robert, the grandfather of Doctor Tomlinson; Josiah and Allan. William Tomlinson lived far beyond the allotted years of men and survived to witness the close of the struggle for independence and the laying of a sure foundation for our present national prosperity.

Robert Tomlinson, the grandfather of Doctor Tomlinson, remained with his mother until twenty-six years of age, when he married Lydia Kellum, and to them the following children were bom: Milton, Martha, Noah, Jesse, Asenath, James, Levi, the father of Doctor Tomlinson, and Esther. Robert Tomlinson came to Hamilton county from Carolina in 1837 and purchased two hundred acres of land and remained upon the farm until his death at the advanced age of eighty-three.

Levi Tomlinson was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, near Mooresville, on a farm and then came to this county with his parents, Robert and Lydia Kellum, when a small boy. He received a good, common school edu¬ cation and remained at home until his marriage to Eliza Hoag. To Levi Tomlinson and wife were born two children, Alice and Dr. Carleton H.

Doctor Tomlinson attended the schools of Washington township, this county, and then was graduated in the Westfield Union Academy, finishing the course there in 1890. After teaching school then for one year he entered Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana, where he followed the classical course for one year, after which he entered the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis and was graduated with the class of 1895. Immediately after his graduation he was appointed an an intern in one of the local hospitals at Indianapolis and received some very valuable experience during his year's residence in the capital city. In 1896 he began the active practice of his chosen profession in Cicero, and has been continuously ministering to the people of this community since that time. He has built up a large and remunerative practice and ranks with the leading physicians and surgeons of this section of the state. In his technical skill he combines those rare qualities of sympathy, patience and kindliness which are the necessary concomitants of the successful physician. He keeps fully abreast of the times in his chosen life work, and is a member of the Hamilton County, Indiana State and National Medical Associations.

Doctor Tomlinson was married June 31, 1896, to Luella Hadley, daugh¬ ter of Benjamin and Mary Emily (Brown) Hadley, and to this union have been born two children, Russell and Mary Emily. The family are all earn- est members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take an active part in church and Sunday school work. Doctor Tomlinson is a trustee of his church and is actively engaged in the management of its affairs. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a deep interest in the work of these fraternal organiza¬ tions, being especially active in the work of the Knights of Pythias. In politics, Doctor Tomlinson has taken an active and prominent part in the affairs of the Republican party for many years, and as chairman of the Republican central committee of the county he has had active charge of the general affairs of his party for several years past in his community. He has never held any office at the hands of his party, but is now a member of the pension board of the county. Doctor Tomlinson is a wide-awake citizen, interested in all public-spirited enterprises, and all worthy local movements have received his hearty support. His life is clean and wholesome and no one in the community stands higher in the general regard of the citizens than he. He is a quiet, genial and unassuming man, easily makes friends, and, by reason of his courteous and obliging manner, retains them.

Iva J. Horney

It is interesting to note the large number of people now living in Hamil¬ ton county, Indiana, who were either born in North Carolina, or are descend¬ ants of people from that state. Iva J. Horney, a prosperous farmer, living in Washington township, is one of the many citizens of this county who were born in North Carolina, but has made his home in this county for the past half century. He is a man who is highly respected and honored in his com¬ munity, a man who has always stood for good government, good citizenship and a high standard of conduct.

Iva J. Horney, the son of Alson and Susan (Mendenhall) Horney, was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, January 14, 1854, near High Point. His parents were both natives of the same county in North Carolina, and came to Indiana, arriving in Hamilton county on the last day of 1865. Alson Horney located with his family on the Lafayette road, three miles northwest of Noblesville, where he bought eighty acres of land and started in to clear and improve his farm. At the time of his death in 1875 Alson Horney owned one hundred and twenty-five acres of well improved land. He and his wife were loyal members of the Friends church, and earnest work- ers in that denomination. The wife of Alson Horney died April 2, 1912. There were six children born to Alson Horney and wife, three of whom died in infancy, while three are still living: Iva J., Alpheus and Orena, the widow of Paul Klepp£r, deceased, who now lives at Fishers.

Iva J. Horney was about ten years of age when his parents moved from North Carolina to Hamilton county, Indiana. He received such education as was given in the common schools of his native state, and also attended school for a short time after moving to this county. He remained at home until the death of his father in 1875, and then married and began farming on a sixty-acre tract which was owned by himself and wife just north of Horton. They had a small frame house on the farm, which presented a striking contrast to the beautiful home in which they now live. On this farm Iva J. Horney and his wife have been living for the past forty years. He has a fine farm now of one hundred and ninety acres, and to each of his three children who are married, he gave forty acres of land at the time of their marriage. As a farmer he has been one of the most progressive in his township, has added the latest farming machinery as it- has appeared, and in every way has kept pace with the latest advances in agricultural methods.

Iva J. Horney was married in 1875 to Viola Keys, who was born in Washington township, this county, the daughter of John and Emily (Rich) Keys.

John Keys, the father of Mrs. Horney, was the son of Joseph Keys, a native of North Carolina, and an early settler in Johnson county, Indiana, coming to this state about 1830.. John Keys was born in Johnson county, Indiana, December 12, 1830. Some time later the Keys family came to Hamilton county, and in this county he married Emily Rich, the daughter of Peter and Amy Rich. Peter Rich was also one of the many natives of North Carolina who came to Indiana.

Mr. Horney and his wife are the parents of five children, four of whom are living, and one who died in infancy. The living children are Nora, Cove, Wallie and Eula. Nora is the wife of Alva Osborne, and lives southwest of Horton. She has four children, one of whom died in infancy, Edith, Maude and Marion. Cove married Lillie Myers, and lives just west of Horton. He has four children, three of whom are living, Ruth, Amos and Merrill. Lynn, the other child of Cove, died in infancy. Wallie married Carrie Cox, and lives in the southern part of Adams township, this county. He has one daughter, Harriett. Eula is still living with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Horney have the satisfaction of seeing their children happily mar¬ ried and with homes of their own. Mr. Horney is a man of kindly disposi- tion, charitable to the faults of his neighbors, thoroughly honest and straight¬ forward, representing in all good things the highest type of American citizenship.

August Faulstich

Among the men of sterling worth and strength of character who have made an impress on the life of the locality in which they live, none has re¬ ceived a larger meed of popular respect and regard than the gentleman whose family name is well known throughout this section of the county, August Faulstich, an. able architect and contractor of Cicero. Lifelong residence in one locality has given the people an opportunity to know him in every phase of his character, and that he has been true to life in its every phase is mani¬ fest in the high degree of confidence and regard in which he is held by those who know him. Professionally, he is a man of unusual attainments, and has achieved a splendid success among the followers of his profession, which is dual in character, combining the artistic and aesthetic with the practical and economic.

August A. Faulstich, the son of John and Elizabeth (Buscher) Faul¬ stich, was born on a farm in this county January 24, 1886, and has spent his entire life in this county. John Faulstich was bom November 27, i860, in section 29, Jackson township, and is the son of Bruno and Marv E. Faul¬ stich. Bruno Faulstich came from Germany when a young man and settled in Tipton county, where he became a prosperous farmer. To Bruno Faul¬ stich and wife were born eight children, Frank, of Madison county, this state; Ferdinand, also of Madison county; John, the father of August A.; Henry, who resides in Madison county; Charles, deceased; Fred, deceased; Maggie and William, of Madison county. John Faulstich was a large landowner and prosperous farmer of this county, but has retired from active work and is now living in Cicero, surrounded by all the conveniences and comforts of modern life. He was married April 21, 1885, to Elizabeth Buscher, the daughter of Augustus and Sarah (Mappes) Buscher. Augustus Buscher and wife had five children, Mary, deceased: Albert, deceased; Eliza¬ beth, the wife of John Faulstich; Catherine, deceased, and Augustus, deceased. To John Faulstich and wife have been born eight children, Augustus A., with whom this narrative deals; Charles, Theresa, Dorothy, William, Eva, Cath¬ erine and Clara.

White River township, this county, and then graduated from the Elwood high school at the age of fifteen years. He then began working in a glass factory but did not remain with this factory very long, and for the nevt three years engaged in farming, after which he took up stone masonry and cement work and has been following that line of industry ever since. He now does contracting and is rapidy forging to the front as one of the suc¬ cessful contractors of his section of the county. He has made a special study of architecture, having taken a course in engineering, designing and draught¬ ing, so that he is now qualified to design as well as to construct buildings. He is deeply interested in his chosen line of work and as he is still a young man he promises to become a prominent factor in his chosen field.

Politically, Mr. Faulstich is a stanch Democrat and is actively interested in the welfare of his party. At the present time he is serving as a member of the town board of Cicero, in which capacity he is taking a prominent part in the building up of his home town. .Fraternally, he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and in this organization has filled all of the offices. He also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, and is now acting as chancellor commander of his local lodge. Religiously, he is a mem¬ ber of the Catholic church and is a generous contributor to its various enter¬ prises.

James H. Hill

The history of the man whose name heads this biographical sketch is closely identified with the history of Hamilton county, Indiana, which has long been his home. He began his career in this locality in the pioneer epoch and throughout the subsequent years has been closely allied with the county's interests and upbuilding. His life has been one of untiring activity and has been crowned with a degree of success commensurate with his efforts. He is of the highest type of the progressive citizen and none more than he deserves a fitting recognition among those whose enterprise and ability have achieved results that have awakened the admiration of those who knew them. The cause of humanity never had a truer friend than James H. Hill, and in all the relations of life - family, church, state and society - he has displayed that consistent Christian spirit, that natural worth, that has endeared him to all classes. His integrity and fidelity have been manifested in every relation of life, an example which has been an inspiration to others, his influence for good having been felt in the community honored by his citizenship.

James H. Hill, one of the pioneers of this county, was born in White River township, January 1 1, 1840, the son of James M. and Sarah (Edwards) Hill. James M. Hill was born in Virginia, his father having come from Ireland to this country with his family and first settling in Carolina, but later going to Virginia. James M. Hill was a wagon maker by trade and upon reaching his maturity left his home in Virginia for Highland county, Ohio. Still later he came westward and settled in Wayne county, Indiana, and in 1836 came to Hamilton county, and settled in White River township, entering eighty acres of land under President Martin Van Buren in that year.

James M. Hill, the father of James H. Hill, was a man of unusual energy and ability and early became a man of influence in his community. Immedi¬ ately after coming to this county with his family he built a log cabin fifteen by twenty feet, cleared some of the land and commenced to farm. Later he built a large log house of two stories in order to accommodate his grow¬ ing family, as he and his good wjfe reared a family of ten children. These children in the order of theif birth are as follows: Polly, deceased; one who died in infancy ; Marion, living in Iowa ; Ora ; Lettie. deceased ; Washington, deceased; Elizabeth, deceased; Nancy, deceased; James H. ; Mahala and Sarah, deceased. The two oldest children, Polly and the unnamed child, are buried in Virginia, white the other children are buried in the cemetery of the Church of. the Brethren in White River township.

James H. Hill received his limited education in the subscription schools of his day and as a youth took his part in the labor of the fields. Early in life he commenced renting land on the shares and still later rented land from his father. Subsequently he purchased a part of the farm and gradually acquired the interests of the other heirs, so that he now owns a fine farm of two hundred acres, all under a high state of cultivation, upon which he has placed all the conveniences of the modern, up-to-date farmer and his welltilled fields yield a golden tribute in return for the care bestowed upon them. In the fall of 1910 Mr. Hill retired from the active management of the farm and moved into Arcadia, where he owns one of the finest homes in the village and where he is spending his latter days in peace and comfort.

Mr. Hill was married December 1, 1863, to Anna Elizabeth Sumner, a native of Wayne county, Indiana, daughter of Elliott and Eliza (Silbertson) Sumner, and to this union were born two children, Lettie J., who married John Carroway and has three children, James R., Earl and Frank; Eliza Ella, who married D. L. Fitzpatrick and has three children, Leo, deceased; (iwendylon and Orth. The mother of these two children died October 20, 1878.

The second marriage of Mr. Hill occurred in 1885, when he married Zeruah Tomlinson, the daughter of Noah and Abigail (Davis) Tomlinson. Noah Tomlinson came from Hendricks county, Indiana, his parents, Robert and Lydia (Kellum) Tomlinson, originally having come from North Carolina to this state, settling in Hendricks county in 1824. Noah Tomlinson and wife were the parents of eight children, Lydia, deceased; Zena, deceased; Ruth; Robert; Zeruah, the wife of Mr. Hill; Asher K. ; Martin and Finley. To Mr. Hill's second marriage was bom one daughter, Sarah Abigail, who was born September 6, 1889. She received a good common school education and later took the academic course in the college at North Manchester. She married Grant Wagner and lives at Scipio, Indiana.

Mr. Hill cast his first presidential vote in 1864 for Abraham Lincoln, and for many years afterwards supported the Republican party. However, upon the organization of the Prohibitionist party in the seventies, he felt that the principles advocated by this party were of paramount importance and consequently threw his support to this party. For many years he was a local minister of the Dunkard Church and has married many couples, in other ways also having been very prominent in church work, as have been all the members of his family. Throughout his whole life he has done everything in his power to promote the growth of the church and aid its development in every way possible. He is a man who is highly regarded by everyone who knows him, because of his clean life and wholesome way of living. He is a friend to everyone and his kindliness of heart and generosity of spirit endear him to all whom he meets.

Dr. Isaac W. Davenport

Among those who stand as distinguished types of the world's workers is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this paragraph, one of the able and honored physicians and surgeons of central Indiana. A man of fine intellectual and professional attainments, of most gracious personality, of strong and noble character, and one who has labored with zeal and devo¬ tion in the cause of the alleviation of human suffering, he is clearly entitled to representation among the progressive and enterprising citizens of Hamil¬ ton county. He is devoted to his chosen vocation and has lent honor and dignity to the medical profession, having due regard for the highest standard of professional ethics and exhibiting marked skill in the treatment of the diseases to which human flesh is heir.

Dr. Isaac W. Davenport, a prominent physician of Sheridan for the past thirty-two years, was born in Xoblesville, Indiana, January 15, 1858. To his parents, Isaac L. and Mary (Bragg) Davenport, natives respectively of North Carolina and Indiana, were born seven children, James, deceased, a soldier of the Civil War; Dr. Henderson E., deceased, also a soldier of the Civil War; Rosa J., deceased, who was the wife of Isaac Chance; George M., deceased, who died in Oregon in 1875; Dr. Isaac W. and two who died in infancy.

Isaac L., the father of Dr. Isaac W. Davenport, was born in North Carolina, the son of Jesse Davenport and wife, both of whom were also natives of North Carolina. Jesse Davenport and wife came to this state when Isaac L. was a small bov and settled at Eagle Village near the present town of Zionsville. Here Isaac L. Davenport grew to manhood, taught school for a while and then followed the carpenter's trade for a few years. Sub¬ sequently he moved ta Xoblesville and clerked in a dry goods store owned by the McCole Brothers. Still later he purchased a small farm near Little Chi¬ cago, northwest of Xoblesville, where he farmed until 1871, his death oc¬ curring in that year. His wife lived until March, 1910, passing away at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Jesse Davenport died near Eagle Village and his widow then made her home with her son, Isaac L., until her death at the age of seventy. Jesse Davenport and wife were the parents of five chil¬ dren, Isaac L., the father of Dr. Isaac \V. ; Elizabeth; Joseph; Edward and Jesse.

The mother of Dr. Isaac W. Davenport, Mary Bragg, daughter of Henderson Bragg, was of German descent and her mother's maiden name was Eyestone. The doctor's mother was the only child born to Henderson Bragg and wife. The first wife of Henderson Bragg died and he after¬ wards married a Miss Lacon, and to this second marriage were born seven children, George, John, Alfred O., James, Jane, Sarah and a son who went down on the boat Sultana, which exploded on the Mississippi river during the Civil War.

Dr. Isaac W. Davenport grew up on his father's farm near Xoblesville and attended the district schools of his home neighborhood, after which he went to the schools in Xoblesville for a time. He then entered the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis, and was graduated from that excellent medical institution in the spring of 1881, immediately locating for the active practice of his profession in Sheridan, where he has been for the past thirtythree years. It is needless to say that he has been successful, for a man with his attainments and personality could not fail to achieve success. To his technical training he adds those qualities of rare patience and magnetic per¬ sonality which go to make the successful physician.

Doctor Davenport was married March 31, 1881, to Julia A. Jackson, the daughter of Joel C. and Eunice (Davis) Jackson, and to this union has been born one son, Roland C, who is now bookkeeper and contractor for the Furnas Ice Cream Company, of Akron, Ohio. He married Glendale Carver and has one daughter, Winifred.

The wife of Doctor Davenport is a member of one of the prominent and influential families of this county. She was born on a farm between Noblesville and Westfield on July 14, 1863. Her father was a native of Mobile, Alabama, while her mother was born in North Carolina. Joel C. Jackson and wife were early settlers in Washington township, this county. They lived the lives of gentle and unostentatious farmers until their death in Sheridan. Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were the parents of six children who grew to manhood and womanhood, Viola, Lucretia, Charles, Julia A., ' John F. and Maud. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Davenport was Borter Jackson, and he was also a native of Alabama, as was his wife. They also came to Indiana and were among the early pioneers of Hamilton county.

Doctor Davenport was one of the prime movers and one of the twentyeight men who incorporated the Crown View Cemetery Association. This cemetery is located on a beautiful slope one-half mile northwest of Sheridan and there are now about five hundred people laid to rest in this "city of the dead." The cemetery is a handsome plat of ground sloping from the north to the south towards the public road and bids fair to become one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the state. These twenty-eight men took upon them¬ selves the burden of debt necessary to purchase this site and give to the citizens of this community a cemetery of which they should be proud. Doctor Davenport is a kind-hearted, public-spirited citizen and has always taken an interest in the welfare of his community.

Politically, Doctor Davenport is a "standpat" Republican, having been affiliated with that party since reaching his majority. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, belonging to Lodge No. 176 at Sheridan, and also holds membership in the Improved Order of Red Men, Lodge No.

1 17 of Sheridan. The doctor and his wife are loyal and earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which they are regular attendants and to which they give liberally of their means, believing that the church is doing a noble work in the community.

Daniel P. Whisler

In the history of Hamilton county, as applying to the agricultural inter¬ ests thereof, the name of Daniel P. Whisler occupies a conspicuous place, for through a number of years he has been one of the representative farmers of Jackson township, progressive, enterprising and persevering. Such qualities always win success, sooner or later, and to Mr. Whisler they have brought a satisfactory reward for his well-directed efforts. While he has benefited himself and the community in a material way and has retired to enjoy the fruits of his industry, he has also been an influential factor in the educational, political and moral uplift of the community favored by his residence.

Daniel C. Whisler, the son of Jacob and Sarah (Waltz) Whisler, was born October *11, 1854, in a rude log cabin on the farm where for many years he lived, about one mile south of Atlanta. Jacob Whisler was born in Penn¬ sylvania and when a young man came to Wayne county, this state, driving through with his parents, Peter Whisler and wife. Peter Whisler and his wife died in Wayne county, and in that county Jacob married and lived until 1850, when he came to this county. Most of his children were born in Wayne county. To Jacob Whisler and wife were born seven children, Naomi, de¬ ceased, Joseph, Mrs. Elizabeth Booth, Levi, deceased, Henry, Jacob and Daniel P., whose history is given in this connection.

Daniel P. Whisler received all his education in the schools of his home neighborhood and the school at Millersburg. During his boyhood days he always spent his summer vacations upon the farm and thus by the time he had finished his schooling he had a good knowledge of the rudiments of agri¬ culture.

Mr. Whisler was married March 1, 1875, to Amanda Morris, daughter of Pleasant Morris, and to this union was born one daughter, Addie, who married Ollie Kellan, they being the parents of six children, Cora, Ruth, Howard, Glen, Horace and Ollie. Mr. Whisler s first wife died and later he married Catherine Shank, the daughter of John and Anna (Schops) Shank. John Shank was born in Mannor township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and came to Wayne county, Indiana, where he became a prominent and in¬ fluential citizen. John Shank and wife reared a family of ten children, Anna, Ellen, Catherine, the wife of Mr. Whisler: Lizzie, Henry, Mary, Barbara, Amanda. Urias and Emma. To the second marriage of Mr. Whisler has been born two children, Claudia, who married Charles O. Albertson, and Lawrence, who married Marie Plock and lives in Indianapolis.

Having lived in this county for more than sixty years, Mr. Whisler is well known by the people here and takes an intelligent interest in all local affairs, being an adherent of the best principles and the best men, irrespective of party ties. He is nominally a Democrat in politics, although he is not a strict partisan in any sense of the word. During the time he was actively engaged in farming, Mr. Whisler kept abreast of the times in agricultural matters, and was recognized as one of the most scientific farmers of this section of the county. He possessed those qualities which enabled him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertook and as a result of his diligence and enterprise, he became one of the most substantial men of his community. Profiting by the labors of the past and in order to enjoy the fruits of these labors, Mr. Whisler retired from the farm May 28, 1914, turning the active management of the same over to his son Lawrence, and moved to Arcadia, where he is now living in a state of comfort to which his long life of useful toil so fully entitles him.

Theodore Richey

It is by no means an easy task to describe within the limts of this re¬ view a man who has led an active knd eminently useful life and by his own exertions reached a position of honor and trust in the line of industries with which his interests are allied. But biography finds justification, nevertheless, in the tracing and recording of such a life history, as the public claims a certain property interest in the career of every individual and the time invar¬ iably arrives when it becomes proper to give the right publicity. It is, then, with a certain degree of satisfaction that the chronicler essays the task of touching briefly upon such a record as has been that of the subject who now comes under this review.

Theodore Richey, a prosperous hardware and implement dealer of Sheridan, Indiana, was horn in Lebanon, Boone county, this state, April 28, 1851. His parents, John C. and Eliza (Williams) Richey, who were both natives of Kentucky, were the parents of seven children, James M., of Sheldon, Illinois; Theodore, of Sheridan, Indiana; Nancy Belle, the wife of Moses Shepherd, of Girard, Kansas; John Richard, of Indianapolis; Anna, who died at the age of thirteen; Joseph H., of Frankfort, Indiana; and Will¬ iam W., of Monticello, this state.

John C. Richey was reared in Nicholas county, Kentucky, and as a young man learned the tailor's trade. After his marriage he came to Indiana and settled in Lebanon, Boone county, this state, where his first wife died. He then returned to Kentucky and married again but soon came back to Lebanon and followed his trade as a tailor, living in the latter place until 1865, when he moved to Hamilton county and engaged in farming near Boxley. Later he sold his farm and engaged in the mercantile business in Boxley, in which line he continued until his death which occurred in 1876. His widow died in 1899 at the age of seventy-four years. John C. Richey was one of several children born to his parents, the others being as follows : James, Harry, Washington, Robert M. and Mary, as well as twTo or three who died in infancy. The maternal grandparents of Theodore Richey were David Ball and Mary Williams. David Williams and wife lived in Kentucky and later moved to Missouri, where they settled near Mexico, and lived the remainder of their days. They were the parents of six children, Eliza, Ann, Mollie, Kate, Joseph and Emily.

Theodore Richey lived in Lebanon, Indiana, until he was fifteen years of age and consequently received the major portion of his education in the schools of that city. He then came with his parents to Hamilton county and worked on his father's farm until he was grown to maturity. When his father moved to Boxley and engaged in the mercantile business in that place he assisted him and after his father retired from the business, Theodore moved the store to Circleville, Clinton county, this state, continuing the business in that place for the next fourteen years. For the past twenty-four years Mr. Richey has been a business man of Sheridan. He first opened a hardware store at this place and some years later helped to establish the "Golden Rule" store in Sheridan, being the general overseer of the construc¬ tion of the building. After managing this store for several years he dis¬ posed of his interest in it and again engaged in the hardware business, and has continued in that line down to the present time. He is a man of keen business ability and strict honesty and has built up a large and lucrative trade in Sheridan and the surrounding community. He is the oldest merchant in Hamilton county in point of continuous service. Mr. Richey is also a breeder of fine cattle, double standard, registered in both Shorthorn and Polled Dur¬ ham classes.

Mr. Richey was married December, 1875, to Maria McMurty, daughter of Perry and Jane ( Jones) McMurty, and to this union have been born two children, a son who died in infancy and Daisy, the wife of Marvin Thistlewaite.

Politically, Mr. Richey is a Progressive, having joined this party upon its organization in the summer of 1912. While always taking an active interest in public affairs, he has never been a candidate for any public office, preferring to serve as a private in the ranks. Mr. Richey is not an active member of any church, although his wife is a loyal member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination and he contributes to its support. Mr. Richey has ever enjoyed the esteem and respect of those who know him for his friendly manner, his business ability, his interest in public affairs and upright living.

Thomas S. Spencer

The history of the Spencer family has been traced back through the various members of the family in this country to the time when three or four brothers came to this country from England and settled in New York, Virginia and Carolina. The present generation of the Spencer family in Hamilton county are descendants of the brother who settled in Virginia. Wherever members of the Spencer family have settled they have become prosperous and useful citizens of their respective communities.

Thomas Spencer, the grandfather of Thomas Shannon Spencer, was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, in 1762, and shortly after Ohio was ad¬ mitted to the Union in 1804, he moved to that state, where he lived until his death in 1845. While living in Virginia he was a slave owner, one of the wealthiest planters of his section of the state, but later in life he decided that human slavery was not right, and selling his property in Virginia he removed to Ohio in order to take his family from among the contaminating influences of an institution that he had learned to abhor. He settled near Gallipolis, Ohio, where he followed the occupation of a farmer until his death. To this excellent citizen and believer in human freedom and his good wife were born eight children: James died in Virginia at the age of ninety- four; Abraham died in the same state during the Civil War, in which one of his sons served as a member of the Confederate army; Andrew came to Indiana in 1829, and died in Adams township in 1887; Nancy died in Ohio in 1828; Samuel came to Indiana during the thirties and lived the life of a farmer in Adams township until his death in 1844; Susan, who was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia. September 30, 1810, came to Indiana in 1832, and married Wash¬ ington McKinzie, who died many years ago; Catherine married a Mr. Mc¬ Cauley and died in Ohio many years ago. The other member of the family

Thomas B. Spencer was bom in Greenbrier county, Virginia, November 6, 1806, and came to Hamilton county, Indiana, in 1829 and settled in Adams township, but three years later moved on another farm, where he lived for more than sixty years. Thomas B. Spencer married Olivia Shannon, wrho was born in Ohio in 1811. Her parents dying when she was but a child, she was reared by her grandmother. To Thomas B. Spencer and wife were born a family of ten children, Thomas Shannon Spencer being the ninth child.

For the benefit of the generations to come w ho bear the Spencer name the following summary of these nine children is here presented : Vinton, the eldest child born to Thomas B. Spencer and wife, went to Kansas in 1857, during the border warfare in that state. He then removed to Oregon and remained in that state until 1887, when he returned to Indiana and died in Adams township, this county, August 22, 1893; Henry L., the second member of the family in order of birth, accompanied his brother, Vinton, to Kansas, and writh him returned to Indiana. In 1862 he became a member of the Tenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war. He married Marv A. Connell, and he and his wife have reared a family of four children. He is now' a prosperous farmer of Boone county, this state; Olivia, the oldest daughter, married Isaac Kimball, who served for three years in the Tenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; Mary was the wife of James Beard and resided in Boone county until her death in 1887 ; John W. served for four years in the Civil War as a member of the Fiftyseventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner by Morgan's band, but was soon afterwards released. For many years he was a prosperous farmer in Boone county, but died several years ago, leaving his widow with three children; James M. became a drummer boy in the Fiftyseventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry when but fifteen years of age and served for four years. He resides in Boone county this state; Jacob, the youngest member of the family, married Martha Cox, and has four sons and three daughters. He is at present a prosperous farmer in the state of Nebraska.

Thomas S. Spencer received only the primitive education which was given at that time in the little log school houses of his home neighborhood and never attended school more than three months during any year. He remained on the home farm until twenty-three years of age and then went to Sheridan, where he managed a drug store for two years. After disposing but after trying this for a year, decided to return to the farm, where he re¬ mained until 1888, when he again returned to Sheridan and engaged in the livery business. In June, 1893, he was appointed by President Cleveland as postmaster of Sheridan, in which capacity he served during Cleveland's administration, since which time he has been engaged in various enterprises, for the past three years having been engaged in the general contracting business, in which he has been very successful.

Mr. Spencer was married December 10, 1872, to Hannah E. Boxley, daughter of Coswell and Cordelia (Davis) Boxley, and to this union have been born two children, Claude B. and Leonidas C. Claude B. was born became interested in mechanics and subsequently became an engineer in Indi¬ anapolis, where he is now living. He married Grace McGilvery and they are the parents of six children, one of whom is deceased; Leonidas D. was born July 23, 1876, and was educated in the Bliss Electrical School at Wash¬ ington and for the last twelve years has been employed with the Indiana Terminal Traction Company. He married Alice Stone and has one son, Paul.

The Boxley family, of which Mrs. Spencer is a member, was one of the early pioneer families of this county, the town of Boxley having been named after Addison Boxley, an uncle of Mrs. Spencer's father. Addison Boxley was at one time a member of the Indiana legislature, and a prominent man in his time. George Boxley, the grandfather of Coswell Boxley, was a brigadier-general in the War of 1812, as well as an able attorney and a very wealthy slave owner of Virginia. Becoming disgusted with human slavery he freed his negroes and had he been satisfied with doing only this, would not have gotten into the trouble which followed him later on. Fired with zeal for the cause of human freedom, he tried to free all the slaves in the south, but was detected creating dissatisfaction among the slaves and caught while helping some of them to run away from their masters. For this he was arrested, thrown into jail and sentenced to death. W hile in prison awaiting his doom, his wife visited him, having concealed in the folds of her skirt a file which she gave him. W;ith this he filed off the iron bars and, making his escape, fled to Ohio and finally came to Indiana, where for many years he led a secluded life, being the first settler in Adams township, Hamilton county. For several years a reward of several thousand dollars was offered for the fugitive, dead or alive, but in the wilderness of Indiana he was never detected. He was a unique character in many ways. Possessing broad views and a liberal education he was far above the average of the men of his day, but .during the latter part of his life he did many strange things. He positively refused to pay taxes and the tax collector would seize his cat¬ tle and drive them off to Noblesville, where they would be sold to pay his taxes. Upon one occasion he followed the cattle and released them from the pound in Noblesville and took them home. For this he was arrested and fined, but refused to pay his fine. With all his eccentricities he. had a big heart, however, and when a poor man would go to him to buy a cow, he would not sell it, but would give him one, telling him to return a calf at some future time in full payment.

Politically, Mr. Spencer is a stanch Democrat, although many years ago he was a Republican. In addition to serving as postmaster of Sheridan he has served as trustee of his township and in that capacity rendered efficient service to all the citizens of his township. Religiously, he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and have always contributed generously of their substance to its support. Fraternally, he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and takes an active interest in the work of that ancient fraternal organization. Mr. Spencer is now a man of substance, but what he has gained has been solely through his own efforts, for starting in life as a poor boy he has worked his own way upward and accumulated a small competency bv his own exertions. He is one of the most substantial men of Sheridan at the present time, as well as one of its most respected citizens.

The life of the successful physician and public-spirited man whose name appears above affords a striking example of well defined purpose with the ability to make that purpose subserve not only his own ends, but the good of his fellow men as well. A native of Hamilton county, educated in the State University and a graduate of the Medical College of Indiana, Dr. Lawson W. McKenzie is peculiarly a Hoosier product. Not only has he an excellent reputation in his own town and county, but he has also been signally honored by being appointed as government physician in the Indian service, having spent five years of his life since graduation as agency physician in the west. His success has come to him because of his sound mentality and intellectual qualities which have been supplemented by the most rigid pro¬ fessional training and thorough mastery of technical knowledge. Doctor McKenzie is a man of progressive ideas, and not only takes a keen interest in his own profession, but also identifies himself with all worthy measures in his community.

Dr. Lawson W. McKenzie, the son of Francis M. and Angeline (Kercheval) McKenzie, was born in Adams township, this county, June 27, 1878. Francis McKenzie was born in the same township January 7, 1840, and here he followed the occupation of a farmer all his life with the excep¬ tion of the time he spent in the service of his country in the Civil War. He was a member of Company H, Fifty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with valor until he was discharged on account of dis¬ abilities as a result of wounds received at the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862. His death occurred at his home in this county on December 7, 1908. His wife, Angeline Kercheval, also was born in Jackson township, on March 23, 1845, ancl died June 21, 1904. She was the only one of the family born in Indiana, the rest of her brothers and sisters having been born in Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Doctor McKenzie came to Indiana from Ohio about 1816. The great-grandfather of Doctor McKenzie was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. The McKenzies are of mixed English and Scotch descent. Francis M. McKenzie and wife were the parents of four children : Emma, who died at the age of eighteen; Blanche, born February 10, 1872, is the wife of W. E. Wilson, a farmer of this county; Maud, who was born in 1876, died in infancy, and Dr. Lawson W.

Doctor McKenzie received his early education in the common schools of his county and then was graduated from the Sheridan high school, after which he entered Indiana University, where he took the pre-medical course, preparatory to entering the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis. He ranked high as a student at the State University and continued his excellent record in the Medical College at Indianapolis, from which institution he was graduated in 1904. During the practice of ten years since his graduation, Doctor McKenzie has spent five years of this time in the Indian service as government physician, making an excellent record in that capacity. For the past five years he has been practicing in Sheridan, where he has built up a large and lucrative patronage in the town and surrounding country.

Doctor McKenzie was married May 30, 1904, to Bertha Sims, daughter of James Sims and wife, of Frankfort, Indiana, and to this union there have been born two children, Marion, who died in infancy, and Lawson, Jr., born

Fraternally, Doctor McKenzie is a member of the Free and Accepted tylasons and takes a deep interest in the work of that ancient fraternal organ¬ ization. He is a fine type of the genuine American citizen and takes an active part in the civic life of his community. In all the elements of good citizenship he is all that a man could be, and because of his genuine worth and high personal character he enjoys a well deserved popularity throughout the county.