Hendricks County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1914 (part 11 of 19)

Charles Roark

Improvement and progress may well be said to form the keynote of the character of Charles Roark, a well known and influential farmer and present trustee of Washington township, and he has not only been interested in the work of advancing his individual afifairs, liut his influence is felt in upbuilding the community. He has been an industrious man all his life, striving to keep abreast the times in every respect, and as a result every mile post of the years he has passed has found him further advanced, more prosperous, and with an increased number of friends.

Charles Roark, the present trustee of "Washington township, was born in 1868 in the country where he has always resided. His ancestry is Irish, his grandparents having been born in Ireland, and coming to this country early in the nineteenth century. They first settled in Pennsylvania and later in Butler county, Ohio, from whence they came to Franklin county, Indiana. Caleb and Emily Roark, the parents of Charles, were born and married in Franklin county, Indiana, and came to this county shortly after their marriage, where they reared a family of four children : Fletcher, who is married and a street car motorman in Indianapolis: Jones, who is married and a farmer in Washington township, this county; Charles, single, who is at present the trustee of Washington township ; Mary, who is single, and is now keeping house for her brother Charles on the old home place.

Charles Roark received his education in the district schools of his neighborhood and early in life began to work upon his father's farm. For four years he has been farming the Roark homestead place and has improved the farm in many places, putting in ditches, building fences and improving the outbuildings He is regarded as one of the professional farmers of the township and a man of wideawake and progressive ideas. An indication of the esteem and regard with which he is held by his fellow citizens is shown by the fact that he was elected trustee of his home township, an office which he has been filling to the entire satisfaction of all of the citizens of the township, irrespective of party affiliations. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Plainfield, and also a member of the Salem church in his home township. Politically, he is a Democrat. He has hosts of warm friends throughout the township and, because of his reputation for honesty and integrity, he is esteemed by everyone with whom he is associated. As township trustee he has had management of the schools of the township and has been very much interested in securing the best teachers possible and keeping the schools up to the highest state of efficiency. He has also been interested in road building and is taking an advanced step in getting the roads of his township in good condition. It is safe to say that the township has never had a more proper or proficient official than Mr. Roark.

Frederick V. Beeler

The biographies of enterprising men, especially of good men, are instructive as guides and incentives to others. The examples they furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish. Some men belong to no exclusive class in life, apparently insurmountable obstacles have in many instances awakened their dormant faculties and served as a stimulus to carry them to ultimate success, if not renown. The instances of success in the face of adverse fate would seem almost to justify the conclusion that self-reliance, with a half chance, can accomplish any object. The life of Frederick V. Beeler, well-known and successful merchant of Friendswood, Hendricks county, is an example in point, for by his individual efforts and close adherence to his every duty, he has overcome the obstacles encountered on the highway of life and is now very comfortably fixed regarding this world's affairs and has at the same time won a reputation for right living among his fellow men.

Frederick V. Beeler, one of the most highly respected merchants and business men of Friendswood, was born in Morgan county, Indiana, November 25, 1851. He is one of nineteen children born to Jonas Vestal . and Elizabeth (Copenhaver) Beeler, and one of the sixteen who grew to maturity. Jonas Beeler was also a native of Morgan county and some years after his marriage he moved to Marion county, where he bought a farm and lived most ot the remainder of his Hfe, dying in 1904. The mother of Frederick V. was born in Ohio, her parents coming from Pennsylvania. She died in 1902.

Frederick V. Beeler was educated in the common schools of Morgan and Marion counties, and early in life was put on his own resources. The success which he now enjoys has been the result of constant effort and unremitting diligence. At the age of nineteen he left home and until he was twenty-five years of age worked at odd jobs, most of the time doing farm work of some kind. When he was twenty-five years of age he started in the huckster business, and for the next thirty-seven years he operated a huckster wagon in connection with a store at Friendswood. His personality and general reputation for honesty and integrity has always given him the confidence of his fellow citizens and he has occupied many public and private positions of honor and trust. He was agent for the Vandalia railroad at Friendswood for fourteen years, and has been agent for the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company for the past five years. He was postmaster for eight years, serving during Cleveland's administrations. In fact in everything in which he has engaged he has been signally successful, and his every action has denoted the man who inspires confidence because of his uprightness and frankness in dealing with his fellow men. He has a general store at Friendswood. in which he carries a large and selective stock of up-to-date goods such as are found in stores of this kind, and has a very extensive and lucrative trade in the town and surrounding country. He also has holdings in real estate in the town and county, and is now recognized, after many years of toil, as one of the successful men of the community.

Frederick Beeler was married December 7, 1873, to Ella Jewell, the daughter of Basil and Mary (Wier) Jewell. Her father was a farmer of Sullivan county and a lieutenant in the Civil War. To Mr. and Mrs. Beeler have been born three children: Arthur, born September 11, 1875, who has been married twice, his first wife being Sadie Mull, and his second wife Lulu Rush. There was one daughter, Louisa, born to the first marriage. Arthur is a contractor in Irvington; Charles J., born November i, 1876, is now with his father in his store at Friendswood. He married Elizabeth Van Cleve; Orpha. born April 6, 1879, who married O. K. Osborn, a druggist of Martinsville ; they have one son, Frederick V. Osborn, who is named after his mother's father.

Mr. Beeler is a stanch Democrat, and has always been interested in politics, taking an active part in both local and state campaigns. He has been well rewarded for his services to the party by being appointed postmaster of Friendswood under both of Cleveland's administrations, and the service which he rendered to his fellow citizens showed that he was well worthy of the position. He is a valued member of the Free and Accepted Masons of West Newton, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Morgan Lodge No. 211, Mooresville. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and have been regular attendants for more than thirty years. Mr. Beeler has always been very much interested in church affairs and is now a class leader in his church. He is a worthy representative of that type of self-made man who have been important factors in every community of our commonwealth. During his long and industrious career, he has not only gained the confidence of his fellow citizens, but as a man of force of character he has gained the respect and admiration of all of those with whom he has come in contact.

Alpheus Osborx

It is with marked satisfaction that the biographer reverts to the life of one who has attained success in any vocation requiring definiteness of purpose and determined action. Such a life, whether it be one of calm, consecutive endeavor or of sudden meteoric accomplishments, must abound in both lesson and incentive and prove a guide to young men whose fortunes and destinies are still matters for the future to determine. The subject of this sketch is distinctively one of the representative agriculturists of Hendricks county. For a number of years he directed his efforts toward the goal of success and by patient continuance in well-doing succeeded at last in overcoming the many obstacles by which his pathway was beset, and is today considered one of the foremost farmers of the county.

Alpheus Osborn. the son of Charles and Asenath (Hyatt) Osborn, was bom in Randolph county, North Carolina, November 27, 1841. Charles Osborn received only three months' schooling, but from early boyhood was compelled to work early and late upon the farm. Upon his father's death he inherited the home farm and continued the operation of this tract until his marriage. In the fall of 1850, when Alpheus was only nine years of age, the father came to Indiana, settling in Clay township, Hendricks county. He had learned the blacksmith's trade in his native state and had followed this vocation for some time, but when he came to Hendricks countv he dis- continued the blacksmithing business and devoted all of his attention to his agricultural interests, which he continued to follow until his death. He married Asenath Hyatt, the daughter of Cuthbert and Hannah Hyatt, and to this union there were born five children: Elizabeth, the wife of Robert B. Reynolds; Hannah, who became the wife of John Newman; Cuthbert, who married Minerva Grime, and, after her death, wedded Asenath Carter; Martha Sybil, the wife of Jonathan Carter, and Alpheus.

Alpheus Osborn received some education in North Carolina and completed his educational training in this county, having come with his parents to Indiana when he was nine years of age. He worked on the farm with his father until he was twenty-one years of age.

Mr. Osborn was married to Emily L. Wheeler, the daughter of Alfred and Lydia Wheeler, on August 23, 1866, and to this union there were born five children: Allen E., who married Ella Phillips, and after her death, Leona Smith, and is the father of one child. Dewy H. ; Senith E. is the wife of Elmer Wells, and they have two children, Ernest and Alpheus; Lydia J. is the wife of Morton Rudd, and they are the parents of three children, Albert, Lev.is and Cecil ; Albert married Blanche Wymer, and has one child, Lydia, who first married Roy Cooper and second Marshall Adams, and has one child, Leslie by the first marriage, and two children. Mildred and Josephine, by second marriage; Cecil married Ruth Gladstone: Mary, the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, married Arelius Dilworth, and has two children, Elsie and Edith; Elsie married Hulbert Keys, and has two children, Herman and Mary; Charles, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, married Helen Daniels.

The father of I\Irs. Osborn was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, where he married Lydia May, also a native of that state, and in the fall of 1864 they came to this county and located in Clay township, where they reared a family of ten children: Mary, the wife of Peyton Cox; Malissa died at the age of twenty-seven; Lula married Frank Beard; Alonzo married Matilda Smith; Emma, the wife of Mr. Osborne; Irene, deceased; Francis, deceased; Alfred, deceased; Addison, deceased; Corina married first John Burk and later John Pate, who is dead. The paternal grand])arents had seven children: Jesse, who married Lydia Bales; Charles, father of Alpheus Osborne; Samuel and Nathan, deceased; Daniel married first Lydia Walker and 'after her death Lydia Anthony and Rachel and Lydia, decea.'-ed. The paternal grandparents reared a family of nine children : Austin, who married Miss Armfield : Manloe, who married Phoebe Beard ; \\'illiam married Ruth

Beard; Elijah married Miranda Fry; Alfred, who married Lydia Macy; John, who married Miss Tucker; Mary became the wife of Dicks Cofifin ; Cynthia, the wife of Isaiah Dillon; Kazia, who married William Davis.

Mr. Osborn has been a Republican ever since the founding of the party, having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Although he has been a Republican for a half century he has never appealed to his party for an office. He is a member of the Friends church and takes an active interest in all of the work of the church. His has been a useful life and one which reflects credit upon himself, and through all the years in which he has lived in this county his record has been such as to win him a place among the representative men of Hendricks county.

Alva A. Ross

The gentleman to whom the reader's attention is now directed was not favored by inherited wealth or the assistance of influential friends, but in spite of these, by perseverance, industry and a wise economy, he has attained a comfortable station in life, and is well and favorably known throughout Hendricks county as a result of the industrious and honorable life he has lived. Fie is a modern and scientific agriculturist, thoroughly up-to-date in all his methods and, while advancing his individual interests, he does not neglect his duties as a citizen.

Alva A. Ross, the son of Joseph and Susan Ross, was born at Avon, Indiana, in Plendricks county, May 21, 1857. His parents were born and reared near Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Avon, Indiana, several years before the War of the Rebellion and remained there until Alva A. was about ten years of age, when they moved to the farm where Mr. Ross is now living.

Alva A. Ross received his education in the common schools of Washington townshp and started early in life to learn the practical side of farming. That he is well acquainted with all of that store of information which the successful farmer must have at his fingers' ends, is shown by his wellkept farm of today. While he carries on a general system of farming, he has made a specialty of raising black and white Crested Black Polish chickens and white Indian Runner ducks. He has not only found this a pleasure, but a profit as well, and is now recognized as one of the leading poultry fanciers of Indiana. He has won several prizes of silver cups at

Mr. Ross was married on November 5, 1879, to Emma Swank, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Swank, of Center township, this county. Mrs. Ross was born October 19, 1857, and to this first marriage of Mr. Ross were born three children : Mrs. Ethel Strickler, of Danville, who was born August 10, 1880; Mrs. Hazel McClain, of Washington township, this county, who was born May 2, 1885, and Flora G., who was born March 7, 1888, and died April 29, 1888. The mother of these children died August 11, 1889, and subsequently, in 1894, Mr. Ross married Ida Keith, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keith.

Fraternally, Mr. Ross is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Danville, while religiously, he and the members of bis family are faithful and consistent members of the Regular Baptist church. He was a Republican until 1912, but since then has been a Progressive. He and his wife are members of the Rebekahs at Danville, and Mrs. Ross belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are popular members of the social circles in which they move, and have long been regarded with esteem and respect by all who have the honor of their acquaintance.

Dependent very largely upon his own resources from his early youth, Eliel Newby, of Guilford township, has attained no insignificant success, and though he may have, like most men of affairs, encountered obstacles and met with reverses, he has pressed steadily forward, ever willing to work for the end he had in view. His tenacity and fortitude are due, no doubt, in a large measure, to the worthy traits inherited from his sterling ancestors, who were among the early pioneers of Hendricks county. The first Newbys resided in Hendricks county more than eighty-five years ago, and during all of these years the Newbys have been influential in the material and civic advancement of their county, and by their high ideals and good principles have ever thought to perpetuate the proper views of life.

Eliel Newby, the son of Harmon and Rebecca (Hyatt) Newby, was born in Guilford township, this county, November 5, 1862. Harmon Newby was born in this county on the same farm which was pre-empted by his father in this township in the year 1828, thereby giving the Newby family eighty-six years of history in this county. Harmon Newby left Hendricks county for Kansas in 1881 and Hved and died on a farm which he purchased in that state. Mrs. Harmon Newby was born in Randolph county, Indiana, and met her husband in Hamilton county, where she moved with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Newby were parents of five children: William, a farmer in the state of Washington, married and has two children; Stephen, a blacksmith of Jasonville, who is married and has three children; Jesse, a farmer of Hamilton county, who is married and has six children; Eliel, whose history is herein presented; Thomas Emory, of Kansas, who is married and has one child. Harmon Newby and his wife both died in Kansas in 1899.

Eliel Newby attended the district schools of Guilford township, and at an early age decided that he wished to become a farmer. Until his marriage he worked on his father's farm and on the other farms in the immediate neighborhood, with the result that when he was married he was already one of the best farmers in his township. In this day of specialization it is becoming increasingly customary for farmers to have some hobby, and with Mr. Newby it is fruit raising. Some years ago he became interested in the culture of small fruits and has now under cultivation several acres of his farm in fruits of various kinds, and has found it a very lucrative addition to his regular income from his farm. He owns ten acres of land, of which five are in orchard.

Mr. Newby was married February 19, 1889, to Mary A. Zimmerman, of Washington township, the daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Cole) Zimmerman. Mrs. Newby's father was a wagon builder by trade and reared a family of seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman are both dead. He died on December 25. 1904, and she on April 15, 1902. There have been five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Newby: Jessie Mae, born April 10, 1890, who is the wife of Charles A. Johnson, of Indianapolis; Florence E., born April 30. 1892, who is still at home; Horace E., born November 18, 1894: Fred E.. born April 18, 1896; Lester J., born May 9, 1901. The memljers of the Newby family are adherents of the Friends church. Mr. Xewby has achieved success, because he has given attention along right channels and has been an advocate of honest living and dealing with his fellow men. Though never animated with great ambition for public honor, he has ever lent his aid in serving the general interests of his locality, and is well fortified in his convictions, being at all times public spirited in his attitude towards all things for the benefit of the locality in which he lives. Politically, he supports the Republican party, while, religiously, he is a birthright member of the Friends church.

Thomas Britton Kinnan

The following is a sketch of a plain, honest man of affairs, who, by correct methods and a strict regard for the interests of his fellow men, was for many years one of the prominent residents of Hendricks county. As postmaster of one of the important towns of the county and as recorder of Hendricks county, he won for himself distinctive prestige in the history of the locality. He would be the last man to sit for romance or become the subject of a fancy sketch, but nevertheless his life presents much that is interesting and \aluable, and may be studied with profit by the young, whose careers are yet to be achieved. He is one of those whose integrity and strength of character have forced themselves to the front and as a result he has commanded the respect of all those citizens of his county who have known him so many years.

Thomas Britton Kinnan was born near Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana, April 1-. 1846. He is one of nine children born to Thomas and Katherine Ellen Kinnan. His father was a native of New Jersey and his mother of Maryland. They first settled in Jennings county, Indiana, about 1845. He went to Iowa in 1852, from Wayne county, Indiana, and died in 1852. The mother died in Marion county, Indiana, in 1885.

Thomas B. Kinnan was educated in the common schools of Marion and Hendricks counties and when a young man came to Plainfield, Hendricks county. Here he was married March 2, 1869, to Mary Barker Conarroe, and to this union have been born two children, Harry Joel and Daisy Britton. Harry J. was born June 23, 1871. and was married on May 30, 1908, to Rose Althea Myers, and lived at St. Paul, ^linnesota, where he was a seedsman until he removed to Indianapolis. Indiana. The daughter, Daisy Britton, was born July 8, 1881, and was for many years a teacher in the public schools. She was married on January 17, 1907, to Robert Clark Coffy, of Indianapolis, and has one daughter, Katherine, who was born May 22, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Coffy are now living in Tacoma, Washington.

Mr. Kinnan was appointed postmast£r at Plainfield by President Arthur in 1883, and sensed until the incoming Democratic administration of Cleveland. In 1886 he was elected recorder of Hendricks county on the Republican ticket and served in that office for four years. His son, Harry J., was chief deputy under his father during his full term of office. As postmaster and as recorder ]\Ir. Kinnan was an efficient official and administered the duties of his important offices with judgment and ability. JNIr. Kinnan lived in Hendricks county until 1904, when he moved to Indianapolis, and in the fall of 1910 removed to Guilford township, where he bought six and onehalf acres of land.

Mr. Kinnan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife are members of the Christian church, of which they are faithful and loyal supporters. Mr. Kinnan has led a busy and useful life, and as a public official and as a private citizen he has lived such a life as to merit the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. He enlisted on August 10, 1862, in Company C, Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under General Harrison, for eight months and re-enlisted in Company I, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was discharged April 10, 1866, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Danville, Indiana.

Horace Reeve

In his special line of effort, probably no man in central Indiana has achieved a more phenomenal success or a larger record than Horace Reeve, who is not only a farmer of large importance,' but is also a dairyman of high reputation. For a quarter of a century he has given his particular attention to the dairy business and because of the eminent success which he has achieved he has gained a reputation which extends far beyond the borders of his own locality. Sound judgment, wise discrimination and good common sense have so entered into his make-up as to enable him to carry on his business along lines that have insured his success. Because of his splendid record and his high personal qualities, he is eminently deserving of representation in the annals of his county.

Horace Reeve, the youngest of six children of Charles and Malinda (Jessup) Reeve, was born in Guilford township, this county, November 7, 1853. The other five children of the family were: Jonathan F., deceased; John J. ; Sarah : Hadley, deceased, and Mary. Charles Reeve was born in New Jersey in 181 6 and came with his parents to this county in his youth. His parents first settled in Marion county, near Indianapolis. Charles Reeve was a man of more than ordinary ability and before he reached his majority he was engaged by the local authorities to teach school in his own township.

and for the next three years he followed this profession and was still teaching when he was married. His wife was the daughter of John and Ruth Jessup. of Guilford township; she died at the age of forty-two. Charles Reeve lived on the farm on which he moved in 1858, until his death, in 1897.

Horace Reeve received a good education at home at the hands of his worthy father and in the subscription schools, which were conducted in his neighborhood. After completing his common school education he worked for his father on the home farm.

Mr. Reeve was married February 4, 1881, to Flora E. Allen, and to this union was born four children: Alice M., deceased at the age of nine; Wendell A., born September 26, 1884, a graduate of Earlham College and now with the Utah Copper Mining Company at Bingham, Utah; J. Evelyn, of Indianapolis, who married Lawrence H. Barrett, a member of the Evans Milling Company, has two children, John R. and Barbara; Wilma, born in 1890 and a graduate of Earlham College. The first wife of Mr. Reeve died April I, 1898, and on May 28, 1900, he was married to Olma Hadley, the daughter of Atlas and Elizabeth Hadley. His second wife died July 11, 1905.

Mr. Reeve has been a life-long supporter of the Republican party, but has never been acti\'e in politics. His interests for the past twenty years have been centered in his dairy, and he has at the present time one of the most expensive and successful dairies conducted by any farmer in central Indiana. The state board of inspection has complimented him upon the arrangement and equipment of his dairy and upon the sanitary manner in which it is managed. Mr. Reeve takes an interest in every department of public life which affects his fellow citizens and the general advancement of the community and has been an efficient influence in its progress and achievement. He is a faithful member of the Friends church, as are the other members of his family and takes a deep interest in the spiritual work of the church. His career has been a consistent and honorable one throughout. Because of his integrity and accomplishment, he is entitled to the sincere confidence and good will of all who know him. He and his good wife have raised a family which is an honor and credit to them, and in these children may be seen the influences which have molded their characters and made them the valuable members of society which they are today. The family residence is one of the most charming homes in the community, being substantially built of brick and surrounded by a spacious and well-kept lawn and beautiful forest trees.

Solomon D. Edwards

Among the enterprising and progressive citizens of Hendricks county none stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this sketch. He has long been actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in this county and the years of his residence here have but served to strengthen the feeling of admiration on the part of his fellow men owing to the honorable life he has led and the worthy example he has set to the younger generation, consequently the publishers of this biographical compendium are glad to give such a worthy character representation in this work.

Solomon D. Edwards, the son of John and Beulah (Perkins) Edwards, was bom in Clay township, Hendricks county, Indiana, on August 2"], 1847. His father was a native of North Carolina and came to Indiana in 1833, settling near Coatesville, in this county, and here he met his wife and after their marriage he entered some government land, which he cleared and improved upon until about 1861, at which time he purchased a farm of one hundred and forty acres near Plainfield, which he sold after a few years and went to Oregon. There he settled near Newberg and divided some of the land adjoining that town into town lots and sold them. He remained in Newberg, Oregon, until his death, becoming one of the substantial citizens of that town. To John and Beulah (Perkins) Edwards were born seven children : Asa, who married Lavina Kenworthy ; John, who married Lucinda Hodson; Nathaniel; Abagail, wife of Henry Ballinger; Lorriane, wife of Fred Downing; Nancy, wife of Levi Crews, and Solomon D.

Solomon D. Edwards attended school in the district schools of his home township and after leaving school he worked on his uncle's farm until the latter's death. On January 4, 1866. he married Mary Hornaday, who was born February 4, 1847, the daughter of Daniel and Delilah (Farmer) Hornaday, and to this union were born six children : Minnie B., the wife of W. O. Brown, is the mother of four children, Harold, Harley, Hildred and Hallie; Roscoe, who married Bertha Kendall and has three children, Christian, Kenneth and Bernard R. ; Charles E., who married Ida Job, and they have two children, Pauline and Mary; John, who married Mary Wills, and has one child, John, Jr.; Myrtle, who liecame the wife of Walter Hodson, has two children, Blair and Dalta; Maude married Verle Moon and has two children, Percy and lona. The parents of Mrs. Edwards had a family of four children: William, who married Nettie Baker; Martha, the wife

Mr. Edwards is allied with the new Progressive party, believing that in the principles advocated by it will be found a solution of most of the great political questions before the American people today. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, while in his religious faith he holds to the B'riends church, and is interested in the efforts of his church to better the condition of the community in which he lives. Mrs. Edwards was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Edwards has lived nearly three-score and ten years in this county, and during all of that time his influence has ever been on the right side of all civic and moral questions pertaining to the welfare of the community. Eor this reason he is rightly regarded as one of the representative men of Hendricks county, and is well worthy a mention in this biographical volume.

"No mother could have been more kind and loving; her thoughts were always for others and self was forgotten; always ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. She had been looking forward to the time when life's work would be over and expressed herself as waiting for the summons and that the change would be a happy one. When alone much of her time was spent in singing the sweet songs of Zion and talking to Jesus.

"She wanted her flowers while here that she might enjoy them, and this desire was realized by the kind and affectionate devotion of her dear ones.

"She leaves a husband, six children and thirteen grandchildren, one sister and many friends who will sadly miss her. The family circle is broken, mother has passed into the beyond, and her voice no more you will hear; her memory will ever be sweet to you.

" 'Fade from my sight each glittering gem. Vanish each glittering diadem; Pleasure no more I find in them, Jesus was crowned with thorns. (35)

" 'O could I soar to worlds above. That blessed abode of peace and love. How gladly would I mount and fly On angel's wings to worlds on high.' "

Henry D. Barlow

Prominent in the affairs of Hendricks county and distinguished as a citizen whose influence is far extended beyond the limits of the community honored by his residence, the name of Henry D. Barlow stands out a conspicuous figure among farmers of the locality of which this volume treats. All of his undertakings have been actuated by noble motives and high resolves and characterized by breadth of wisdom and strong individuality and his success and achievements but represent the result of fit utilization of innate talent in directing efifort along those lines where mature judgment and rare discrimination lead the way.

Henry D. Barlow, the son of James M. and Sarah E. Barlow, was born September 9, 1874, in Brown township, this county. His father was born September 13, 1845, in Washington township, Hendricks county, Indiana, the son of Harvey R. and Sarah E. (Smith) Barlow. Harvey Barlow and wife were the parents of eight children: Hannah Jane, deceased; James M., whose sketch is presented elsewhere in this volume; Ruth Ann Osborn; Mrs. Myra Alice Medsker, deceased; Harrison S. ; Harvey M., and two who died in infancy. The great-grandfather of Henry D. Barlow was Enoch Barlow, whose father was a Revolutionary soldier. Enoch Barlow came to Indiana in 1828, settling near Brownsburg, in this county, where he spent the remainder

Henry D. Barlow was accorded such education as was given in the district schools of his township, and at an early age began to work upon his father's farm. He has lived on the place where he is now residing since he was ten years of age. He has improved his farm and stocked it with modern farming implements and all the necessary accessories for successful farming, and as a tiller of the soil he has been one of the most successful and progressive of his township. He combines the raising of grain with the buying and selling of live stock and thereby, by the use of good judgment, he has been more than ordinarily successful.

Mr. Barlow was married September 9, 1896, to Minnie M. Douglass, daughter of John H. and Mary S. Douglass, of Guilford township, this county. She was born November 17, 1876, in Plainfield, and was educated in the common schools and academy of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are the parents of six children: Josephine Barlow, born May 11, 1897, died z\ugust 18, 1899; Milton Paul, born April 16, 1901, and now a pupil in the Plainfield schools; Helen, born April 18, 1905: Marjorie, born October 13, 1907, died July 21,, 1909; Mary Elizabeth, born June 19, 191 1; Frank Phillips Barlow, born May 21, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are very proud of their children and are giving them every educational advantage in order to equip them for useful careers in their later life.

Mr. Barlow is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, both subordinate and encampment, and also of the Knights of Pythias, both lodges being at Plainfield. Mr. Barlow is a man whom to know is to admire, for he has led a most exemplary life and has sought to do his whole duty in all relations with his fellow men. He is a man of honor, public spirit, charitable impulses and unswerving integrity and enterprise, and is consequently deserving of mention in a history of his county.

William All Ex Mills

Fealt}- to facts in the analyzation of the character of a citizen of the -type of William Allen Mills, a well-known and successful resident of Guil- . ford township, is all that is required to make a biographical sketch interesting to those who have at heart the good name of the community honored by his residence, because it is the honorable reputation of the man of stand- ing and affairs, more than any other consideration, that gives character and stabiHty to the body politic. While advancing his individual interests, he has never lost sight of his obligations to the community in general, where for many years he has held a high place in popular confidence and esteem.

The state of Ohio has often boasted that it has furnished some of the best citizens of every state west of it, and the history of Hendricks county shows that many of the best citizens of this county were born in the good old Buckeye state. William Allen Mills, the son of James and Ruth (Walton) Mills, was born in Ohio on September 20, 1849. James Mills was born in 1818 in Ohio and died in this county July 31, 1903. His wife was born in Ohio in 1826 and died April 30, 1901, in this county. A few years after James Mills was married he and his family came to Hendricks county and settled in Washington township on one hundred and sixty acres of land, which is now the home of Edward Mills, the brother of William Allen.

William Allen Mills received his early education in Richmond, Indiana, and early in life showed an aptitude for books. Before reaching his majority, he started to teach school and for three years followed this noble profession. In the meantime he attended Earlham College at Richmond, in order to better prepare himself for teaching. However, upon his marriage, in 1874, he decided to leave the school room and engage in farming and in 1875 he moved on to the farm where he now lives. The experience gained in the school room has not been amiss upon the farm, and the same perseverance and attention to details which made him a successful teacher has brought a full share of success to him in his agricultural pursuits.

Mr. Mills was married October 28, 1874, to Eliza Candace Spray, the daughter of J. W. and A. W. Spray. Mr. Spray died in 1902, and his widow is still living, aged eighty-seven years, and now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Mills. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mills : Walton, of Indianapolis, who is married and has one daughter ; Abbie, of Indianapolis, who married Ernest Hawkins, a nurseryman, and has three children, Clarence, Mary and Catherine E. ; Clarence, deceased; Maurice, a nurseryman of Indianapolis; James, who will graduate from a veterinary college, Indianapolis, in 1914; John, who was born in 1894 and attended the Plainfield Academy. He intends to follow the occupation of his father.

Mr. Mills gives his support to the Republican party and takes an interest in the political issues of the day, although he has never been a candidate for any political office. He and the members of his family are adherents of the Center Friends church, Marion county. He lends his support to all public enterprises which are for the public welfare of his community and is known as a public-spirited man whose influence is always on the right side of every public question. During his long residence in this township he has always been regarded as a man of upright principles, kind-hearted to those in need. Few in this community are better or more favorably known than he.

John Tucker

The history of the loyal sons and representative citizens of Hendricks county would not be complete should the name that heads this review be omitted. When the fierce fire of rebellion was raging throughout the Southland, threatening to destroy the Union, he responded with patriotic fervor to the call for volunteers and in some of the bloodiest battles for which that great war was noted proved his loyalty to the government he loved so well. During a useful life in the region where he lives he has labored diligently to promote the interests of the people, working earnestly and with little regard for his personal advancement or ease. He has been devoted to the public welfare and in all of his relations his highest ambitions have been to benefit the community and advance its standard of citizenship.

John Tucker, a worthy farmer and gallant veteran of the Civil War and son of a Civil-war veteran, was born January i6, 1845, '" Guilford township, this county. His parents were Thornton and Margaret (Bryant) Tucker, the father being a native of Virginia and his mother of Kentucky. Thornton Tucker came to this county from Virginia with his sister when he was fourteen years of age and lived here the remainder of his life. After his marriage he located on a farm which he purchased from John Pritchett. Upon the outbreak of the Ci\il \A'ar Thornton Tucker was forty-four years of age, his two oldest sons, W'illiam and John, were less than twenty, but before the close of the war the father and two sons enlisted in the service. The father enlisted in Company D, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged June 28, 1865. He died in October of the same year from disease which he contracted in the army. John enlisted February 28, 1863, in the Second Indiana Battery of Field Artillery, and was discharged July 3, 1865. He was with Banks in the Red River campaign in the Southwest and in all of the campaigns of the West during the last two years of the war, being also at the battle of Nashville. Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Tucker were the parents of ten children : William ; John,

The mother of these children died December 30, 1895. Immediately after the close of the war John Tucker returned to his home county and started in life as a farmer, and has continued at that occupation all his life. He was married August 25, 1869, to Margaret J. Almond, the daughter of James and Emily (Wier) Almond. Mr. Almond was a farmer in Guilford township and he and his wife reared a large family of ten children. Mr. and Mrs. John Tucker have long been faithful members of the Christian church and to that denomination they render generous support in all its activities. He has been a life-long Republican and is interested in the various political features of the day. He keeps well informed on important questions of the hour and is able to give reasons for his views on the various ciuestions which are today confronting the American people. Because of his sterling work, uncompromising integrity, courteous manners and congenial disposition, he has won and retained the warm regard of all with whom he associates.

Erasmus D. Thomas

The true measure of individual success is determined by what one has accomplished. An enumeration of those men of a past generation who were successful in their life work and at the same time left the impress of their strong personalities upon the community, men who won honor and recognition for themselves, and at the same time conferred honor on the locality in which they resided, would be incomplete were there failure to make specific mention of the gentleman whose name initiates thi.s paragraph, for, although Erasmus D. Thomas is now sleeping the sleep of the just, his influence still pervades the lives of those who were so fortunate as to enjoy his acquaintance and his name is deeply engraved on the pages of Hendricks county's history. His life was a busy one, for he never allowed anything to interfere with his Christian obligations or the faithful performance of his church duties, so that his entire religious life was a steady effort for the worth of Christian doctrine, the purity and grandeur of Christian principles and the beauty and elevation of Christian character. Pure, constant and noble was the spiritual flame that burned in and illumined the mortal tenement of the subject of this memoir, and the superficial observer can have but small appreciation of his intrinsic spirituality. His faith was fortified by the deepest study, and the Christian verities were with him the matters of most concern among the changes and chances of this mortal life.

Erasmus D. Thomas, one of the grand old men of Hendricks county, was born in Fayette county, Indiana, November 13, 1821, and died near Danville, Indiana, June 16, 1907. He was the son of David S. and Phoebe (Cole) Thomas, both natives of New York, where they were reared and married. They came to Indiana shortly after their marriage, settling in Fayette county, where they entered land from the government before Indiana was admitted to the Union in 1816.

Erasmus D. Thomas secured a very limited education in the schools of Fayette county, and when a young man resided a short time in Tipton county. He helped lay out the town of Tipton while that county was a wilderness, and was one of its first town officers, in pioneer times. He moved from there to Hancock county, then settled near Acton for a short time. In 1864 he moved to Hendricks county, and lived on a farm northwest of Danville in Center township. His whole life was spent in the service of God and man, either as a minister of the Gospel or as a teacher of the youth. For more than fifty years he was in the active service of teaching the glad tidings of salvation. Before entering the ministry he was engaged in teaching in the public schools for a time. Forty-four years of his ministry were in Danville, where he had charge of the Baptist church. The good that such a man can do is incalculable. He preached in a period when ministers were very poorly paid indeed, and when it was thought that they should live even as did the disciples of Biblical times.

Rev. E. D. Thomas was twice married, his first wife being Mary G. Thompson, of Fayette county. To this first marriage there were born eight children, all of whom are living: John, of Winnepeg, Canada; Mrs. Phoebe E. Morgason, of Bedford, Iowa; Charles, of Enterprise, Oregon; Lewis E., of Ashley, Ohio; Mrs. Hattie Tinder, of Fairchild, Washington; William W., living between North. Salem and Montclair; Albert M., of Marion county, Indiana; Erasmus W., pastor of the Baptist church in Danville, who succeeded his father as pastor of this church; Edward D., of Seattle, Washington, and Marshall, of Cordelle, Georgia. His first wife died in 1870, and, in 1871, Mr. Thomas was married to Mrs. Mary E. (Rosborough) Holcombe, of Gibson county, Indiana, and she is still living with her daughter in Indianapolis. She was a daughter of James and Sarah (Waters) Rosborough, a highly respected family of Gibson county in this state. To this second marriage were born six children: Dr. Harvey C, of Indianapolis;

Joseph, who died in infancy: Frank W., of Sacramento. California; Mary T., the wife of Dr. A. C. Pebworth, of Indianapolis; Raymond D., of Indianapolis; Mrs. Nellie Mitchell, with whom the mother makes her home in Indianapolis.

The life of the late Rev. E. D. Thomas was indeed a busy one, and during more than three score years he served his God and his fellow men faithfully in the pulpit and in the school room. Always calm and straightforward, when he believed he was on the right path nothing could swerve him from it, and to him home life was a sacred trust, and his greatest enjoyment was in his children and his children's children. His life was a blessing and a benediction to the community in which he spent so many of his years, and his memory will long be revered by his many friends and acquaintances.

William C. Osborne

The career of William C. Osborne, the president of the First National Bank, of Danville, presents many interesting incidents, but in this brief record it will not be profitable to go into his life in detail. Prominently identified with banking interests of Danville and Hendricks county for twenty years, he has made his influence felt in the financial circles of his community during that time. His father and grandfather were identified with the First National Bank of Danville early in its history, and some member of the family has been connected with this institution for the past half century. In the course of the half century which has elapsed since this bank was established Danville has grown from a mere village to a prosperous little city, with well paved streets and beautiful residences. During all of these years the bank has constantly enjo}'ed the fullest measure of public confidence, passing through every period of general financial stringency with stability unshaken and credit unimpaired. The bank conducts all the departments of commercial banking, making loans, discounts, the buying and selling of government bonds and exchange, issuing foreign drafts, letters of credit and making commercial loans. The safe deposit vaults are equipped in the most approved and modern manner and afford excellent facilities of the safe keeping of papers and valuables.

William C. Osborne, the son of Edmund and Martha (Cook) Osborne, was born January i6, 1865, on a farm near Kokomo, in Howard county, Indiana. His father was a native of Orange county, this state, but came to

Hendricks county when a young lad witli his parents and lived here until after his marriage, when he moved to Howard county, where he followed the occupation of a farmer for many years, and late in life moved to Hendricks county, where his death occurred. Edmund Osborne and wife were the parents of five children: John H., deceased: ^^'illiam C. ; Rosaltha: Lindley M., and Emma, deceased.

William C. Osborne received his education in the common schools of Howard and Hendricks counties, this state, and then entered the Westtown Schools, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a school under the management of the Friends church. After leaving school he began teaching and for several years followed this profession, during which time he taught in several states in the Union. He incidentally carried on farming to some extent while teaching. In 1895 he permanently located in Danville and became associated with the First National Bank as bookkeeper. He rapidly acquired the rudiments of banking and in the course of ten years has risen from the position of bookkeeper to that of the presidency of the bank. He was made cashier in 1899, and in 1909 was elected president, which position he still holds. Mr. Osborne is an able and far-seeing financier, being progressive and conservative and has had for officers men of the highest integrity and business ability. The policy of the bank is conser\ati\'e and its business is largely confined to commercial banking, a very large percentage of its deposits being individual and mercantile deposits with sufficient bank deposits to furnish an excellent par list for all of its customers.

;\Ir. Osborne was married October 24, 1900, to Christine Rogers, daughter of Jonathan and Anne (Valentine) Rogers, natives of Wayne county, Indiana, but living in Georgia at the time of the marriage of their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne are the parents of five children, Anne Martha, Florence, Elizabeth, Miriam E. and Edmund R.. all of whom are still at home with their parents.

Mr. Osborne takes an active interest in everything pertaining to the civic, moral, intellectual and commercial welfare of his county, city and community. A Republican in politics, Mr. Osborne has always taken an active interest in political affairs, but has never felt that he could spare the time from his banking interests to take an active part in political campaigns. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Central Normal College of Danville, an educational institution which has the name of doing good work in its chosen field. He is also president of the board of trustees of Earlham College Endowment Fund. He was president and one of the organizers of the Indianapolis, Danville & Western electric line, the company which built the present road between Danville and Indianapolis, and much of the success of that early company was due to his untiring efforts. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while he and all of his family are earnest members of the Friends church, to which they contribute generously of their time and substance. Mr. Osborne is a man of good business abilities, sterling integrity and fine personal address, and the history of his county would not be complete without a record of his achievements.

Joel Newlin

When such men as Joel Newlin die, not only the public heart is filled with sadness and abiding sense of loss, but there is within the sanctuary of his own household a depth of sorrow that cannot be fathomed, for with all his business ability and public usefulness, it was perhaps in his domestic life and social relations that Mr. Newlin appeared to the best advantage. According to those who knew him best, no one ever heard a whisper against his integrity. He was a temperate, well-controlled man and the idol of his family; he was of a genial, social nature, full, at times, of a quaint, homely, simple humor, that had about it the freshness of childhood; he loved his children and young folks in general, and many a young man was helped and encouraged by him in starting out in life. He was a very agreeable companion, manifesting a desire to please those with whom he came in daily contact and he left to his friends, as his choicest legacy, the remembrance of a character without a stain.

Joel Newlin, one of the best loved men of Hendricks county, was born August 26, 1824, in Clinton county, Ohio, and died in Guilford township, Hendricks county, Indiana, January 21, 19 13. His parents were John and Esther (Stubs) Newlin, he being one of twelve children, all of whom are now deceased. John Newlin came from North Carolina and settled in Ohio, where he lived his whole life. After the death of John Newlin in Ohio, his widow and the family came to Hendricks county, settling in Guilford township March 31, 1834. In the fall of 1835 the widow of John Newlin bought the farm where the family have since lived.

Joel Newlin, thus early bereft of a father's love and care, helped to assume the responsibility of caring for the family, and the strength of character which was thus developed proved of very much assistance to him in his later life. He received only a meagre education and upon reaching young manhood he was married, on August 13. 1846, to Mary Osborn, and to this union were born six children. Anna, Addison. EHas, David, Martha and Calvin.

Calvin Newlin, the youngest of the six children born to his parents, was born on February 5, 1863. He was reared on the homestead farm and received his education in the schools of his township. He was married on August 13. 1885, to Lenora Haworth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Haworth, of Clinton county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Newlin are the parents of six children: Bertha, born in October, 1886; Ada M., born r\Iay 7. 1890; William McKinley, born February 7, 1892: Edna, born Alay 15, 1895: Grace, born March 29, 1897; Evelyn, born December 23, 1904. Calvin Newlin. as well as all the members of his family, is a member of the Friends church, and to which they give freely of their means. IMr. Newlin has always farmed on the old home place on which his father lived for seventy-eight years. The subject carries on general farming on one hundred and fifty-seven acres of land. He never aspired for office and votes the Republican ticket. His father was an old-line Whig and later a Republican.

Dr. Emmett T. Davis

Success in what are properly termed the learned professions is a legitimate result of merit and painstaking endeavor. In commercial lines one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but professional advancement is gained only by critical study and consecutive research. It has only been within the last few years that special attention has been paid to the diseases of live stock, but now there are scores of colleges which have special chairs devoted to diseases of horses, cattle, swine, etc. In large cities there are men who do nothing else but minister to canine ills, and feline doctors who cater only to the special diseases of cats. Dr. Emmett T. Davis has the honor of occupying the first chair in any veterinary college in the United States on diseases of swine. The study of equine diseases has only recently been reduced to a scientific standard and gradually scientists are classifyying and describing the treatment for diseases of domestic animals of all kinds. There is no greater preventive of disease which has a wider use today than the serum which is being manufactured by Dr. Davis & Son for the prevention of hog cholera. This remedy has proven of inestimable value to the farmers of the United States.

Dr. Emmett T. Davis was born in 1868 in Belleville, Indiana. His parents were David W. and Amanda (Newby) Davis. The father of David Dax'is was born in North Carolina and came to Indiana territory before 1 81 6, and as soon as the United States government acquired what is known as the New Purchase in central Indiana he entered one thousand acres of land in what is now known as Hendricks county. David W. Davis and wife were the parents of four children: Alva Eugene, Arthur M., Emmett T. and Evon B. David Davis, who was born in Hendricks county, and here followed farming, is now living near the gulf coast in Alabama.

Doctor Davis received his elementary education in the common schools of his county and early in life became interested in the diseases of animals, particularlv the diseases of horses and hogs, and has made it his life work, specializing upon the diseases of swine. For many years he was the leading practitioner in his line in central Indiana and when the Indiana Veterinary College was established, at Indianapolis, the chairs of swine diseases and diseases of cattle and their treatment was created for his occupancy. A serum, which he has produced after many years of experimenting, for the prevention of hog cholera, has made his name known throughout the United States by men who are interested in the raising of swine. He has associated with him in his practice his sons, Dr. LaRue and Roger. However, he devotes a great deal of time as an instructor in the veterinary college at Indianapolis and to the manufacture of the hog cholera serum. He has a well-equipped hospital where the best of care is given to hogs, cattle, horses and other animals.

Doctor Davis was married August 18, 1889, to Clarice Deacon, the daughter of John and Catherine (Larue) Deacon. His wife was born January 3, 1869, in Shelby county, Indiana. She came to this county with her parents when she was a small child. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children. Larue, who is following in the footsteps of his father and is already recognized as an expert in the diseases of animals, was born January 13, 1890, and was married on October 28, 191 1, to Hortense Reeder, who died ten months later. Roger, the second son of Doctor and Mrs. Davis, is studying in the Indiana Veterinary College, and will join the firm of Emmett T. Davis & Son upon his graduation.

Politically, Doctor Davis is a Progressive; fraternally, is a Mason, Odd Fellow and Red Man, while his religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal church.

James M. Lawler

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

James M. Lawler, one of the leading farmers of Brown township, is a native of this county, having first seen the light of day on July 27, 1851, being the son of Nicholas and Anna (Buchannon ) Lawler, the latter being a native of the Blue Grass state and the daughter of Levi Buchannon. Mr. Lawler has the distinction of having lived on the same farm all his life with the exception of four years, two of which were passed in another portion of the same township.

On December 28, 1876, James M. Lawler was united in marriage with Mary E. Wilson, daughter of Jones and Telrtha (Lumpkins) Wilson, of Boone county. The Lumpkin family originally came from Putnam county, this state, and after taking up their residetice in Boone county became acquainted with the family of Wilson, Jones Wilson having passed the greater portion of his life in that county. To Mr. and Mrs. Lawler have been born three children, the eldest of the family being Charles O., whose wife was Ethel IMcDaniel, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Gossett) McDaniel, citizens of Brown township, Flendricks county. Charles O. Lawler resides in Indianapolis and is the father of two children, Esther and Mildred. Stella M., Mr. Lawler's oldest daughter, became the wife of Homer Smith, of Boone county, son of Anderson and Mary (Layton) Smith. Their home is in Brown township, just west of that of the subject, and they also have two children, Irene and Hazel Ruth. The third child of the subject is Dora A., who remains at home with her parents.

Mr. Lawler has devoted the energies of his life to the conduct of his business as an agriculturist and to the keeping and protecting of his home, being a man of decided domestic traits. His farm is generally conceded to be one of the very best farms in the township and to this praise he is certainly entitled, being one of the most energetic men of his community. Quiet and unassuming in his relations with his fellow men, he nevertheless, by reason of his sterling worth and excellent qualities of head and heart, has won an enviable place in the respect of his fellow citizens and is, therefore, eminently entitled to representation in a work of the scope intended in the present one.

John O. A. Mattern

Among the men of Hendricks county who have served their county with distinction as private citizens and public officials is John Q. A. Mattern, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Guilford township. There are certain characteristics which are found in men who are destined to act as leaders in their communities, and among these are perseverance, honesty and sincerity of purpose. These characteristics are strikingly exemplified in the man whose history is herein delineated and consequently he is justly regarded as one of the representative citizens of his county.

John A. Mattern, the son of John W. and Anna (Woodrow) Mattern, was born in Marion county, Indiana, on February ii, 1846. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania and reared a family of four children.

John Q. A. Mattern received a common school education and at an early age began to work on his father's farm. When a young man he began farming for himself as soon as married and by good management and close application to his agricultural interests he has acquired 'a farm which is one of the best in his township, it comprising three hundred and sixty acres in one body. He has always been very actively engaged in the stock-raising department of farm work and for fourteen years was a stock commissioner at the stock yards in Indianapolis. However, he has not allowed his material welfare to blind him to those civic duties which every citizen should perform. He has served as treasurer and county commissioner of Hendricks county, and in both capacities rendered faithful and efficient service to the citizenship of the county.

Mr. Mattern was married on October 6, 1869, to Dana Mills, the daughter of Jehu Mills, of this county. His wife was one of five children, two of whom died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Mattern are the parents of four children: Edwin, born February 9, 1871 ; William, born January 3, 1880, who married Jessie Smith and has two children, and is now in the stock com- mission business at Indianapolis; Laura A., born September i6, 1886, married Earl Hoffman, a farmer in Marion county, Indiana; Leota, born July 28, 1888.

On February 20, 1864, Mr. Mattern enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty- fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served under General Sherman in the famous Atlanta campaign, his military record being characterized by courage of a high order.

Politically, Mr. Mattern has been a life-long Republican; fraternally, he belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic, while his religious membership is with the Friends society.

William P. Clark

In examining the life records of self-made men, it will invariably be found that indefatigable industry has constituted the basis of their success. True, there are other elements which enter in and conserve the advancement of personal interests - perseverance, discrimination and mastering of expedient;; - but the foundation of all achievement is earnest, persistent labor. At the outset of his career Mr. Clark recognized this, and he did not seek any royal road to the goal of prosperity and independence, but began to work earnestly and diligently in order to advance himself, and the result is that he is now numbered among the progressive, successful and influential business men of Hendricks coimty.

William P. Clark, the son of Alfred and Sarah (Aker) Clark, was born January 28, 185 1, in Butler county, Ohio. Alfred Clark was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1820, his wife being born near Harri.-^burg, Pennsylvania, in July, 1834. She came to Butler county, Ohio, when she was seven years of age with her parents, and is still living in Irving, Indiana.

William P. Clark came with his parents from Butler county, Ohio, to Marion county, Indiana, when he was two years old and lived there until 1875, when he moved to the farm where he is now living. He was married April 14, 1880, to Elma Anderson, daughter of Edward and Amanda (Willits) Anderson. Mrs. Clark was born near Knightstown, Indiana, February 22, 1862. Her mother died when she was only nine months old and she was taken to her grandmother's at Noblesville, Indiana, where she lived until she was nine years old. She then went to the home of Isaac Harden, in Wash-

Mr. and Mrs. Clark have four children : Leola May, who was born March 17, 1881, and died after reaching womanhood, having married Harry Gray; Walter Raymond, who was born November 19. 1883, and died March 20, 1887; Sarah Louisa, born May 2, 1886, died March 9, 1887; and Alford A., the only child living, was born November 14, 1888. He married Merley Sarkey, daughter of Charles and Viola Sarkey, of Clermont, Indiana, and is living with her father on the old home farm.

The subject carries on a general farming business, also raising Poland- China hogs and Shorthorn cattle, and has one hundred and sixty acres on the home place, besides forty acres in Wayne township, Marion county, Indiana. He votes the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Clark is a member of Shiloh Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Clark built his fine home in 1908 and put up every building on the farm. He made all of the improvements just as they stand, for when he got the farm it was badly run down. He has laid over two thousand rods of drain tile.

Theodore T. Martin

Theodore T. Martin, the superintendent of Hendricks county schools, was born on a farm in Orange county, Indiana, August 25, 1882. His parents were Charles and Mary Ann (Ferguson) Martin, his father being a native of Germany and his mother of Indiana, her people coming from England to North Carolina and then to Indiana. Charles Martin was a machinist and later a farmer.

Superintendent Martin graduated from the public schools of his home county and later entered Central Normal College, at Danville, in 1901, where he pursued high school work. He taught three years in the district schools of Orange county, one year in the city schools of Summitville, Madison county, and four years in Hendricks county.

Mr. Martin graduated from the teachers' course (Central Normal College) in 1905; from the scientific course at the same institution in 1906 and from the Indiana State Normal School, at Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1909; he has since been a student in Indiana University.

he became superintendent of the North Salem schools, Hendricks county, and remained there for the succeeding two years. In June of 191 1 he was elected county superintendent of Hendricks county public schools by the county board of education, and was the first Democrat to hold the office in this county.

Mr. Martin was married to Eva Marie Osborne, of Clinton county, in December of 1906. They became acquainted while attending Central Normal College.

In January of 1912. in co-operation with the county board of education, Mr. Martin caused a large wall map of the county to be made and placed in every schoolroom of the county so that a study of local industries, location of town, township and county places could be determined, and a familiarity with home conditions be included in the public schools. In January of 1914 the same board, in co-operation with members of the farmers' organization, procured the services of a county agricultural agent for the leadership in developing scientific farming through the county and supervising the teaching of agriculture in the public schools.

Mr. Martin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Danville, and is a member of the Masonic lodge of North Salem. While performing his duties as county superintendent he has followed the worthy example of his predecessors and has conducted the educational affairs free from political influence and has tried to place merit as his guide.

Hon. James Milton Barlow

It is a pleasure to investigate the career of a successful, self-made man. Great honor attaches to that individual who, beginning the great struggle of life alone and unaided, gradually overcomes environment, removing one by one the obstacles from the pathway of success, and by the master strokes of his own force and vitality succeeds in forging his way to the front and winning for himself a position of esteem and influence among his fellow men. Such is the record, briefly stated, of James M. Barlow, for several decades recognized as one of the most substantial and representative citizens of Hendricks county, to a brief synopsis of whose life and character the reader's attention is herewith directed. His protracted residence in this county has made his name widelv and familiarlv known. His life and the history (36) of this locality for a period of nearly a half century has been pretty nearly one and the same thing, and he has lived to see and take a prominent part in the later growth of the community. He is a progressive man in the broadest sense of the term. Realizing the wants of the people, he has tried to supply the demands of his constituents generously and unsparingly. His has been a life of honor and trust, and no higher eulogy can be passed upon him than to state the simple truth that his name has never been coupled with anything disreputable, nor has there been the shadow of a stain upon his reputation for integrity and unwavering honesty. He has been a consistent man in all that he has undertaken, and his career in the various relations of life has been utterly without pretense. Because of his earnest life, high attainments, well rounded character and large influence, he is largely entitled to representation in a work of this character.

James Milton Barlow was born on September 13, 1845, in Washington township, Hendricks county, Indiana, and is the son of Harvey R. and Sarah E. (Smith) Barlow, the former born April i, 1818, in Scott county, Kentucky, and the latter born in Henry county, Kentucky, December 8, 1822. To these parents were born eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom four still survive, namely : The first born died in infancy ; Hannah Jane C. died in early youth ; James M., the subject of this sketch, was next in order of birth ; Ruth Ann lives in Marion county ; a daughter, who died in infancy ; Mrs. Myra Alice Medsker died at the age of forty years, leaving a husband and eight children; Harrison S., of Brownsburg, Indiana; Harvey Morton, of Brownsburg. The subject's paternal grandfather, Enoch Barlow, was the son of a Revolutonary soldier and he himself was one of the early settlers in Scott county, Kentucky, his- birth having occurred in Virginia. Eventually he moved to Indiana and in September, 1828, settled near Brownsburg, where he spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring in November, 1837. He was survived a number of years by his widow, who died on June 16, 1856. They were the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. Harvey R. Barlow was a man of considerable prominence in his community and was captain of a company of state volunteers. Harvey R. Barlow came to Indiana at the age of ten years at the time of his father's death and took upon himself the management of the home farm. He was of necessity deprived of educational advantages, two months comprising the entire period of his attendance at school. However, he was of a studious disposition and by the most persistent efforts acquired a splendid education, so that for many years he was enabled to teach school to the entire satisfaction of parents and pupils. His death occurred on August 5, 1872. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah J. Smith, and who was a native of Kentucky, died at the age of seventy-three }'ears. She came to this state in 1837, and was a woman of splendid f|uaHties of cliaracter, an ardent Presbyterian and rearing her children in that faith. In the early life of Hendricks county, Harvey Barlow was prominent and progressive in his methods, having built the first saw- and grist-mill in the county. He was a man of strong character and forceful personality, and in the community where he lived he was held in high esteem.

James M. Barlow received his elementary education in the public schools and then became a student in W^abash College. On April 30, 1864, when but eighteen years of age, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he rendered valiant service until receiving an honorable discharge in September, 1864. He took part in a number of hotly contested engagements and arduous campaigns, and received a certificate of thanks from President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin H. Stanton, for valuable services rendered by him during the Atlanta campaign. Mr. Barlow has been a very active man and at the close of the war he went on the road as a traveling salesman for Powers & Weeks, lithographers of Cincinnati, Ohio, with whom he remained for two years. He then engaged in teaching school and was thus employed in twenty-two different schools, gaining an enviable reputation as a professional teacher and good administrative officer. For awhile he also gave some attention to auctioneering, in which he was successful, and also owned and operated a butcher shop in Brownsburg, and also a drug store. Then he was employed as bookkeeper for a firm in Pittsboro, in which position he gained a good, practical experieijce. In young manhood, by rigid economy and wise m.anagement, he succeeded in acquiring a small farm, which he operated with such good success that he was enabled to add to it from time to time, until at length he became the owner of seven hundred acres of fine farming land, of which he has given four hundred acres to his children, owning now three hundred acres of land. Aside from his farming interests, Mr. Barlow is identified with the Van Camp Packing Company, of Indianapolis. Strong and forceful in his relations with his fellow men, he has gained the good will and commendation of all with whom he has been brought in contact, ever retaining his reputation among men for integrity and high character and never losing that dignity which is the birthright of a gentleman. The splendid success which came to Mr. Barlow has been directly traceable to the salient points in his character, for he started in life at the bottom of the ladder, which he mounted unaided. He is a splendid example of the virile,

Politically a Republican, Mr. Barlow has for many years been active in public affairs, and has been an important and influential factor in many movements for the welfare of his state. In 1897 and-1899 he was representative from Hendricks county in the Legislature, and in 1901-2-3 was a member of the Senate, representing the district of Boone and Hendricks counties. In these bodies his ability was recognized and he was placed on several of the most important committees. He was chairman of the agricultural committee, chairman of the committee on reformatory institutions, and on a number of other important committees in both bodies. He served his community as justice of the peace for four years, and a noteworthy feature of his administration of the office was that he was influential in having many cases settled out of court, thus saving useless litigation and expense. His decisions as justice of the peace were marked by a high sense of fairness and justice, never having a decision reversed in the higher courts. Fraternally, Mr. Barlow has been a member of Lodge No. 188, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for forty-eight years. He is also a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, Lodge No. 167, and at present a member of Post No. 186, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a charter member of John A. Hollett Post No. 242, Grand Army of the Republic. In the Knights of Pythias, Mr. Barlow has been quite prominent, having taken an active part in the organization of the Uniform Rank, being elected major of the First Battalion of the First Regiment, this being the first regiment ever organized in this body, and the first and oldest regiment in the world. Mr. Barlow served as chief of staff of Commander in Chief Thomas J. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, when the Grand Army of the Republic met at San Francisco, and has for many years been prominent in the various councils of this veteran organization. For twenty years Mr. Barlow served as president of the Old Settlers' Picnic, one of the popular and prominent organizations of Hendricks county, an annual feature of which was an address given by the governor of the state. Religiously, ]\Ir. Barlow has for many year? been a faithful and earnest member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder, and in 1903 was one of the delegates from Indiana to the general assembly of the church which met at Philadelphia. Mr. Barlow is a public spirited man in all that the term implies and is actively interested in enterprises tending to promote the general welfare, withholding his support from no movement for the good of the locality honored by his residence. His personal relations with his fellow men have ever been mutually pleasant and agreeable, and he is highly regarded

On May 17, 1871, Mr. Barlow was married to Sarah E. Hornaday, a daughter of Isaiah Hornaday, a fanner of Washington township, this county, and was one of eight children, five of whom are now living. To this union have been born eight children: William E., of Minneapolis, a teacher in the public schools, having charge of the manual training department in the South high school. He is married and the father of four children ; Henry Dickerson, a farmer on the old homestead in Washington township, has four children living; Walter Harvey, a farmer in Guilford township, has four children; Myrtle, of Plaintield, who married Fred Brudford, a merchant of that city; Virgil M., who lives in Missouri, married Edith Anderson; Albert Paul, of Plainfield, a merchant, married Marie HoUingsworth ; Harrison Porter, who died at the age of three years, and Mary S., the youngest in order of birth, who is attending college at Terre Haute, Indiana.

Hugh J. Woody

Fortunate is he who has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished, and happy is he that his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. Hugh J. Woody, a well known and progressive citizen of Pittsboro, Hendricks county, Indiana, has succeeded well at whatever he has attempted to do and, althougii he is a plain, conservative gentleman, no dou1)t if he had sought to ])e a leader of men and achie\'e public distinction, "he would have found that nature had provided well for him in the way of the proper equipment and that he only needed to call into proper use the dormant faculties.

Hugh J. Woody, the manager of the grain elevator at Pittsboro, was born February 21, 1865, one mile south of Plainfield, in Guilford township, this county. His parents were Miller and Margaret (Lacey) Woody. Miller Woody was born in North Carolina on May 15, 1836, and died in Nowata, Oklahoma, January 13, 1909, at the age of seventy-two. He moved to Hendricks county at the age of fifteen years with his parents and on September 8, 1858, was married to Margaret Lacey, of Plainfield. He lived in this county for a number of years near Pittsboro and then moved to Oklahoma, in what was then called the Cherokee strip, in i88-|.. ]\Ir. and Mrs. Miller Woody were the parents of seven children: Airs. A. M. Hawkins, of Indianapolis;

H. J., of Pittsboro; Mrs. J. D. Reynolds, of Coffeyville, Kansas: C. F. ; Mrs. J'Vank McCartney; Mrs. A. H. Gillespey, and Walter, of Nowata, Oklahoma. Miller Woody died at the home of his son-in-law, A. H. Gillespey, who was an alderman in the city of Nowata, Oklahoma. Margaret Lacey, the wife of Miller Woody, was a native of this county and died in 1877.

Hugh J. Woody spent his boyhood days in this county and early in his twenties became associated in the grain elevator business at Pittsboro and has been identified with that industry for the past twenty-seven years, fifteen years of which he has been the general manager of the company at I'ittsljoro.

Mr. Woody was married December 4, 1890, to Cora E. I:Iedge, the daughter of Chester and Sarah (Gott) Hedge. Chester Hedge was born March 4. 1840, in Pulaski county, Virginia. After his death his widow married James Mallory Leak, whose history is given elsewhere in this \'olume. Mr. and Mrs. Hedge were the parents of five children: Cora ¥... the wife of Mr. Woody; Myrtle R. ; Mary E., deceased; Ernest E. and Charles O. Mr. Hedge was a stanch Republican and a member of the Christian church, being a deacon in that denomination. He had an enviable war record, having enlisted in March, 1862, in Company F, Fortieth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, took part in the campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and among many other battles participated in the engagements of Resaca, Jonesboro, Mill Springs, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, Dallas, Rocky Faced Ridge, Atlanta, Lost Mountain and Franklin. At the latter battle he was captured, but escaped by plunging into the river and diving, and, although he was shot at several times, he made his escape safely. He was mustered out in 1865 at Indianapolis and died January 8, 1912, at Riner, Virginia. He was a member of George A. Kendall Post No. 499, Grand Army of the Republic, at Lizton.

Mr. and Mrs. Woody have three children who are still at home. Merle, Clara and Miller. Mr. Woody is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men at Lizton and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Pittsboro. While he casts his vote for the Republican party, yet he has never been an active worker in the ranks, preferring to devote all of his attention to his business. Religiously, he is by birthright a member of the Friends church, while his wife holds her membership in the Christian church. He is a man of optimistic nature, kind, considerate and one who is devoted to his home circle. He is a man to admire and esteem, for his industry and exemplary character has made him one of the highest respected citizens of his community.

Cunning Herbert Steward

Aniung the thriving farmers and stock raisers of Eel River township is Cunning Herbert Steward, who, although a resident of this county only three years, has nevertheless demonstrated his ability as a farmer of the first rank. He has tried to measure up to the standard of correct citizenship and this township is proud to numl^er him among its progressive and representative residents.

Cunning flerbert Steward, the son of Maurice and Lou (Yeager) Steward, was* born in 1883 in Morgan county, Indiana. Maurice Steward was born at Brooklyn, Morgan county, and his wife was a native of the same county. Maurice Steward is the son of William and Serelda (Rinker) Steward, and his wife was the daughter of Whalen Yeager and wife. The wife of Maurice Steward died in 1893, leaving five living children, and one who died in infancy. Shortly after Mrs. Steward's death her husband and the children moved to Putnam county, this state, and settled on a farm near Maysville. Maurice Steward is now living on a farm near Delma, in Putnam, county.

Cunning H. Steward received a good common .school education in the Putnam county schools and worked out by the month for twelve years, until his marriage. In 1910 he became interested in the buying and selling of horses, but after his marriage he turned his attention to farming and the feeding of cattle for the markets. In September, 1911, he bought forty acres where he now lives in the southeastern part of Eel River township and adjoining eighty acres which belongs to his wife. Their farm of one hundred and twenty acres is very fertile and under the present excellent system of tillage produces abundant crops of wheat, oats, corn, hay, vegetables, fruits, etc. Mr. Steward makes a specialty of no particular crop, but gives his attention to general farming in which his success has been more than ordinarily gratifying. For the past three years he has been interested quite extensively in the raising of cattle, which he finds more remunerative than agriculture alone, and by a judicious combination of the two he has achieved his greatest success.

Mr. Steward was married May 7, 191 1, to Murl Case, a native of this township and the daughter of Lewis and Josie (Call) Case. Lewis Case, the son of Rev. John and Julia Case, was born near Maysville, Kentucky. John Case was a Baptist minister who came from Kentucky to Putnam county early in the history of that part of the state and entered government land near New Maysville. He and his good wife reared a family of thirteen children, all of whom grew to maturity. He became one of the most substantial farmers of the county and presented several of his children with a farm upon their marriage. All of his children are now deceased. Lewis Case was a lifelong farmer and stock dealer and owned two hundred and sixty acres of land in the southeastern part of Eel River township, where he lived until his death, in April, 1904. Josie Call, the wife of Lewis Case, was a native of Kentucky, the daughter of John and Julia Call, and came to this county with her parents when she was about three years of age and lived here until her death in 1906.

Mr. Steward is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Rebekah and Order of Eastern Star. His wife is also a devout member of the Christian church. Personally, Mr. Steward is a very popular man, and with a personality which endears him to his many friends. He is honest, straightforward and upright in all the relations of life and he and his wife are favorites with a wide circle of friends.

Oscar Hadley

Lender a popular form of government, like ours, where the democratic - idea of equality is as fully developed as the present imperfect condition of mankind will permit, we expect as its legitimate result the triumph of individual worth and energy over all the competition that wealth and class may array against them. Here the avenues of wealth and distinction are fully opened to all. which fact enhances rather than detracts from the merits of those whose energy and integrity have triumphed over all obstacles intervening between an humble position and the attainment of those laudable ends. Obscurity and labor, at no time dishonorable, never assume more attractive features than when the former appears as the nurse of those virtues which the latter, by years of honest and persevering effort, transplant to a higher and richer soil ; hence the biographer of those men of exceptional worth whose active enterprise has won for them the distinction, pre-eminence and commanding influence in the society in which they move must be replete with facts which encourage and instruct.

Oscar Hadley, president of the Standard Live Stock Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, has for many years held marked prestige in business and ci\ic circles, occupied important official trusts, and by the exercise of those talents and qualities which were cultivated from his youth, reached an honorable position in the public mind and earned the respect and high regard of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Hadley was born on a farm in Guilford township, near Plainfield, Hendricks county, Indiana, May 3, 1858, and in order of nativity is the fifteenth of the sixteen children born to Elias and Lucinda (Carter) Hadley, the former of whom was born in the state of North Carolina and the latter in Butler county, Ohio. Elias Hadley was a boy when his father, Jeremiah Hadley, removed with his family from North Carolina to Butler county, Ohio, where he was reared to maturity and received the limited educational advantages offered by the primitive schools of the pioneer days. Prior to the attaining of his legal majority, Elias Hadley came to Indiana and selected a favorable location in Hendricks county, after which he returned to Ohio and there married Lucinda Carter, who was then in her seventeenth year. Immediately after their marriage the young couple came to Hendricks county, Indiana, and established their little home in a pioneer log house erected on the land in Guilford township which he had secured from the government, and which represented at that time a veritable forest wilderness. His father also removed to the locality at the same time and both secured tracts of government land, on a portion of which the town of Plainfield now stands. Here the young man and the old grappled vigorously w ith the giants of the forest and in due time reclaimed their farms to civilization. Jeremiah Hadley and his good wife passed the residue of their lives in Hendricks county, and on their old homestead Elias and Lucinda (Carter) Hadley continued to reside until they, too, were summoned to the life eternal, honored pioneers of the county in which they took up their abode about the year 1822. Elias Hadley was seventy -five years of age at the time of his demise, and his devoted wife passed away at the venerable age o£ eighty-four years, a true mother in Israel, whose children may well "rise up and call her blessed," and whose memory they hold in 'lasting reverence. Both she and her husband were zealous members of the Christian church, and in politics he was originally a Whig, and later a Republican, having united with the "grand old party" at the time of its organization. Of the sixteen children nine are now living. The Hadley family has been one of the best known and most highly honored in Hendricks county for many years, and its members have contributed in liberal measure to the civic and industrial development of that favored section of the state. Twelve of the sixteen children in the Hadley family lived to maturity and all were members of the same church.

Oscar Hadley was reared as a farmer boy on the old homestead farm which was the place of his nativity. His boyhood days gained to him through personal experience an appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil. He early learned the lessons of industry, self-reliance and sturdy integrity that have proved so potent in the guiding and guarding of his career as a. man among men. After completing the prescribed course of the public schools, Mr. Hadley continued his studies for one year at Butler College, at Irvington, and much of his business career has been one of intimate and successful identification with general farming and stock growing, in which latter department of industry he has gained a specially wide reputation as a successful breeder of high-grade cattle. For many years he has been numbered among the representative farmers and stock raisers of Hendricks county, where he owns a fine landed estate of two hundred and fifty acres, equipped with the best of improvements in all lines. He holds prestige as one of the leading exponents of agriculture and stock enterprises in the entire state. For several years he has been a member of the Indiana state board of agriculture, of which he served as president in 1909, giving to the work of the organization the benefits of his wide and practical experience and fine administrative ability. In 1902 Mr. Hadley became one of the organizers and incorporators of the Polled Durham Breeders' Association of the United States, the largest and most substantial organization of its kind in the world, and of which he was elected president in 1908. He has made a specialty of the breeding of the Polled Durham cattle, and on his farm are to be found the finest of specimens of this breed. He is a member of both the state and National Shorthorn Breeders' Association.