Henry County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1906

Biographical sketches

The Hazzard family of Indiana came, originally from Sussex County. Delaware. In the early 'thirties, the family began to emigrate to Indiana. First came David Hazzard, who settled at Laurel, in Franklin County. Another 'brother, Henry, stopped at Cambridge City. Wayne County. Samuel Hazzard, the father of the author of this History, settled in New Castle in 1835, where he afterwards married Vienna, daughter of Asahel and Catharine Woodward. These three brothers were merchants of their respective towns, (ieorge W. Hazzard. the youngest brother of the family, was making his home with Samuel Hazzard in N'few Castle when, in 1843, ^'^^ was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy. There was another brother named \\'illiam. a Methodist minister, who remained in Delaware. All of these brothers were natives of Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. Their grandfather. Captain Cord Hazzard, served in the Revolution, and their father, George Hazzard. was a soldier in the War of 1812-15.

George W. Hazzard was born in Delaware. August 31. 1825. and died at the Maryland Infirmary, Baltimore, Maryland, August 14, 1862. of wounds received at the battle of White Oak Swamp, Virginia, June 30. 1862. He is buried in the Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. He married Mary Eleanor Elder of Baltimore. They had two children and his widow and one child still survive him, being residents of Washington City. In 1861 he accompanied President-elect Lincoln from Springfield to Washington City.

Williaim Ralph Henry

The best account that can be given of the appointment of William Ralph Henry, as a cadet, to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and of his subsequent tragic death, is found in a letter, received by the author of this History, from Brigadier General A. L. Miles, United States Army, Superintendent of the Academy, which is as follows :

Headquarters United States Military Academy

My Dear Sir : - In reply to your letter of the 6th instant, inquiring about certain appointees to the Military Academy from Henry County, Indiana, I beg to say that William R. Henry was admitted to the Academy on July i. 1847, aged nineteen years and three months. He was appointed from New Castle. Henry County, Indiana, on the recommendation of Congressman Caleb B. Smith. The records carry him as having been born in Virginia and as having died August 2}^, 1849, crossing Lake Erie to Buffalo, New York, while he was returning from his furlough. The following quotation from a letter addressed to Captain H. Brewerton, Superintendent of the Military Academy, and signed by H. Garrard, dated Buffalo, August 24, 1849, tells all that is known of his disappearance :

"Mr. Henry and myself were on board the steamboat Queen City, crossing from Sandusky City to Buffalo. Last night just before retiring he requested me to awake him on our arrival at Buffalo. I went to his state room, on reaching this place, this morning, but his berth was empty, although all the clothes he had worn the previous day were as he had placed them on going to bed.

"I remained together with Mr. Norris on board until every possible search and inquiry had been made, but as yet nothing has been discovered concerning his fate. Mr. Henry's trunk is in charge of James C. Harrison, Agent Reed's Line, Buffalo, New York.

Tn 1834 there emigrated from ]\'Iorgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, to New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, a man, who, for twenty years, was a prominent figure in the affairs of the county. Colonel Ralph Berkshire. In Virginia he had been a Colonel of Militia and for several vears was a member of the House of Delegates in the Virginia Legislature. There came to New Castle, with Colonel Berkshire, his son-in-law, William G. Henry, and his family. The two opened a dry goods store in New Castle, in a frame building which stood on the north side of the public square. The venture was continued for less than two years and was not a success. After this Colonel Berkshire turned his attention to the law and to politics. He was an ardent Whig and as such was elected, at the August election in 1839, to the low^er house of the Indiana Legislature. His colleague from Henry County was Robert M, Cooper. Both sat in the twenty fourth regular session of 1839-40. which convened on the first Monday in December, 1839. Colonel Berkshire was afterwards elected Probate Judge of the county, serving the full term of seven years, from August 14, 1843, being preceded by Samuel Hoover and succeeded by Milton Wayman, who held the office at the time it was abolished by the present constitution, which became effective, November i, 1851.

Berkshire died in 1854, at his home in New Castle, which stood on the ground now occupied by the handsome residence of Theodore R. Vaughan. diagonally across the street from the Presbyterian Qiurch. His remains are interred in the old cemetery in New Castle. His wife also died in New Castle and is buried in the old cemetery.

After the failure of the mercantile enterprise above mentioned, William G. Henry, who was a highly educated man and polished gentleman, and who had also been in the Virginia Legislature, turned his attention to teaching, his first school being in the old Henry County Seminary, in the Winter of 1836-37. He had among his pupils, Martin L. Bundy, Luther C. Mellett, James T. Moore and Reason Powers. In the Winter of 1838-39, he taught school in Liberty Township, near the home of the late Samuel D. Wells, and during this period, died in New Castle, and was buried in the old cemetery. He left, surviving him, his widow and four children, namely : Charles, William R., Marshall G. and Cornelia. His widow in 1842 married Thaddeus Owens, who was at one time a considerable figure in New Castle. He came from Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1834 and for several years kept hotel on what is now known as the Citizens" State Bank corner. He went from New Castle to Cambridge City and thence to Hagerstown, keeping hotel in each place. He died and was buried in Hagerstown.

When Colonel Ralph Berkshire and wife, accompanied by William G. Henry and family, came to New Castle, they brought with them the first piano ever seen in that place.

William Ralph Henry was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1828. and as stated, came to Henry County, with his parents. His grandfather, being an influential Whig and a warm supporter of Caleb B. Smith, secured his appointment to the United States Military Academy. At the end of two years spent in the Academy, he came home on furlough and while in New Castle, chancing one night to sleep in the old frame hotel, which stood where the Bund>- House now stands, he was found, the next morning, in a room distant from the one to which he had been assigned. Incidents of similar character showed him to be a somnambulist and his death, as related in the letter of General Miles, must doubtless be ascribed to this fact. The author acknowledges himself to be indebted to Judge Martin L. Bund\- for the biographical information above set forth.

John Edwin Holland

John Edwin Holland was appointed to the L'nited States ^Military Academy, West Point, New York, from New Castle, Indiana, on the recommendation of Congressman David Kilgore. entering the Academy, July i, i860, where he remained until February 3, 1861, when he resigned. The cause of his resignation was his belief that civil war was imminent and his determination to become an active participant therein. Before entering the volunteer service, however, he rendered valuable aid to the companies being organized in Henry County, because of his military knowledge, gained while at the Academy.

He entered the army in Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as Second Lieutenant. September 16, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant and mustered as such, August 3, 1863. Transferred to the Signal Corps. September 18, 1863. Honorably discharged. July 4. 1864.

The Hollands came originally from Guilford County, North Carolina, to Butler County, Ohio, settling near Oxford, and from there the family moved to Union County, Indiana. The county records relating to transfers of land show that the family came to Henry County, in the Fall of 1830, locating in Dudley Township, in the extreme southeastern part of the county. The old family record in possession of j\Irs. iNIary Waddell, of Straughn, a daughter of Henry Holland, shows the following:

The two were married in Guilford County, North Carolina, July 17, 1808, by the Reverend Moses Crume. Both are buried in the Holland Cemetery, in Dudley Township, near Straughn. Their children were as follows : John Wesley, born June 24, 1809; Laban, born October 4, 1810; Polly, -born January 20. 1812: married to Stanford Waddell, Januars- 10. 1833 ; Joshua, born November 29, 1813; Asbury. born Alarch 20, 1815; died August 19. 1856; William Hunt, born yiay 14, 1818; Henry, born Alay 19, 1820; died March 28. 1900; buried in Holland Cemetery; David, born February 16. 1822; died October 5. 1850; Elijah, born August 27, 1824; died at the residence of his brother. Henry Holland, in Dudley Township. September 24, 1863; buried in Holland Cemetery: Nancy, born August 8, 1827, died November 8. 1851 ; Lemuel, born [March 15. 1829: died April i, 1852: one child died in infancy.

Of the above named, special mention may be made of Henrv. Elijah and Joshua Holland, second. Henry Holland was for many years a farmer and honored citizen of Henry County, living near the Holland Cemetery, in Dudley Township, where he is well remembered ; Elijah Holland was for a number of years a resident of New Castle, being associated wnth his brother Joshua, in the general mercantile business, and, during the Civil War, was connected with the Paymasters' Department, under Major Martin L. Bundy, but he was compelled to relinquish the latter service on account of ill health.

Joshua Holland (second) and Nancy Ramsey were married June 6, 1838, by the Reverend D. V. Smock. The Ramsey family were from Crawford County, Pennsylvania, near Geneva. When Joshua Holland was fourteen years of age, he was apprenticed at Liberty, Union County, Indiana, to learn the trade of a cabinet maker, serving, altogether, nearly five years. After this he worked at his trade, as a journeyman, for two years and then clerked in different stores in Knightstown, for six years. His long and honorable business career began in Knightstown.

The first account of him in the public affairs of Henry County is as postmaster at Knightstown, serving from March 25, 1835, to April 6, 1837. I" 1840-41 he was Covmty Collector. This was an elective ofifice, which existed in Indiana from 1822 to 1840, and it was the Collector's duty to travel over the county, collect the taxes and deposit the proceeds with the County Treasurer, who up to 1841 was selected by the County Commissioners. At that time the office became elective and Joshua Holland was elected, serving as Treasurer for the then term of three ye^rs, from 1841 to 1844. He was thus the last County Collector and the first elected Treasurer of Henry County. This oiffce brought him from Knightstown to New Castle, Avhere he continued to reside until his death.

When his term as Treasurer had expired, he engaged in mercantile business, having for his partner, Robert Woods, of Knightstown, under the firm name of Woods and Holland. Their store was on the north side of the Court House sqtiare. This partnership continued until 1850, when l\Tr. Holland' succeeded to the business and moved his store into the south room of the Murphey Block, just then completed, where he remained in business until after the Civil War, when he built and occupied the store room now used by A'aughan and Company. He continued there until 1873, when he retired from active business. In 1883-85 Joshua Holland served as County Commissioner, which was his last public office and which may be said to have marked the termination of his long and active business and official career.

John Edwin Holland, son of Joshua and Nancy ( Ramsey ) Holland, is a w-ell remembered }-oung man of New Castle. He was educated in the public schools of the town and trained to the mercantile business in his father's store. After his discharge from the army in 1864, he took a position under his old commander. Major Isaac Kinley, in the office of the Provost Marshal for the district at Richmond, where he rendered efficient service in securing and forwarding recruits to the army and in discharging other important duties. While holding this position, he was united in marriage, at Richmond, on May 22, 1865, with Virginia Caroline Wiggins, born June 21, 1842, daughter of William and Emma (Pyle) Wiggins. The war being over he returned to New Castle and joined his father in business, but his health rapidly failed and he died April 8, 1867. His wife had died on March 17, 1867, and his remains were buried by her side in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.

Joshua Holland's family record, now in the possession of his niece, Florence (Grubbs) Starr, of Richmond, Indiana, shows the following: Joshua Holland, born at Oxford. Ohio, November 29, 1813 ; died April 20, 1894: Nancv

Ramsey, born October 19, 1815; died February 28, 1897. The two were married June 6, 1838. The children were : John Edwin, born April 5, 1841 ; died April 8, 1867; Mary Elizabeth, born December 14, 1843; died April 18, 1870; Alice lone, born September i, 1845; married to William Clinton Murphey, November 29, 1866; died December 22, 1869; William Clinton Murphey, husband of lone, born January 7, 1842; died July 21, 1898; William Henry, born September 22, 1847; died August 28, 1869; Anna EUza, born December 31, 1849; died February 27, 1872; Anna Florence Murphey, only grandchild of Joshua and Nancy Holland, was born October 12, 1867; died February 22, 1885. All of the above^ except John E. Holland and his wife, are buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle.

Charles La Fayette Calvert was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point. New York, from New Castle, Indiana, as the successor of John E. Holland, on the recommendation of Congressman David Kilgore, entering the Academy, July i, 1861, where he remained until February 19. 1864, when he resigned to enter the army in the volunteer service, in the Civil War. He enlisted in New York City, in Company F, 165th New York Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as a private, April 7, 1864. He was mustered out August 26, 1865. He served with his regiment in the Department of the Gulf. He was stationed for a time at New Orleans, Louisiana, and afterwards, when the regiment came North, he was on duty in New York Harbor. His object in entering the volunteer service was to take an active part in the war, which he saw was coming to a close, expecting to get a commission in the volunteers, and then at the close of the Avar, to be transferred to the regular army. In this, unfortunately, he did not succeed. Cadet Calvert was a born soldier and had he remained at West Point and graduated, or had he succeeded in getting his commission in the volunteers and then a transfer to the regular army, at the close of the war, he would undoubtedly have had a long and honorable military career.

In the Summer of 1863, when he was at home on furlough, the iNIorgan Raid occurred and during this time. Cadet Calvert served as a volunteer aid on the staff of Brigadier General Llenry B. Carrington, commanding the troops at Indianapolis.

James- Calvert, born May 15, 1808, and Amanda Washington Clift, born August II, 181 1, were married in Mason County, Kentucky, October 31, 1833. Wilson Clift, a brother of Amanda W., was about this time engaged in hauling bacon from New Castle, Indiana, to Cincinnati. Ohio, and there in February, 1834, the newly married couple met him and made the trip with him in hiswagon to Henry County, where they settled on eighty acres of land on Flatrock, near New Castle. Later they left the farm and moved to the latter place. In 1840 they moved to Anderson, Indiana, where Mr. Calvert engaged in mercantile business until 1846, when he sold out and returned to New Castle, where he bought of Bushrod W. Scott the frame hotel, afterwards known as the Calvert House, which stood on the corner now occupied by the Citizens' State Bank.

Annapolis And West Point

After a few years, he sold this hotel and moved to his farm, two miles northwest of New Castle, adjoining the connty farm, now owned, in large part, by Joseph M. Brown. A few years later, he rented his farm and returned to New Castle, where he leased and kept the hotel, which had formerly been his, but which had, in the meantime, become the property of George W. Lennard. Here he remained until about the breaking out of the Civil War. when he again returned to his farm, where he continued to live until 1867, when he exchanged the farm with Charles Slatter for property in Indianapolis. He moved to the Capital City and resided there and elsewhere on a near-by farm until his death, July 24, 1879, at the age of seventy one years. He is buried in the old Cemetery, New Castle. His wife died, January 18, 1890, in her seventy eighth year, at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana, where she is buried.

Charles La Fayette Calvert, son of James and Amanda W. (Clift) Calvert, was born in Anderson, Indiana, September 2, 1840. There were five other children, named respectively : James Nelson, Henry Clay, Redmond, Caroline V. and John H.

The above biographical facts were obtained from Charles L. Calvert, who is now a resident and prominent business man of Liberal, Seward County. Kansas.

Omar Bundy

Omar Bundy was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on the recommendation of Congressman Milton S. Robinson, entering the Academy, July i, 1879, where he remained until June 13. 1883. when he was graduated fiftieth in his class and promoted in the army to

1884, - and Fort Missoula, Montana, to August i8, 1885 ; under instruction at the Infantry and Cavalry School of Application, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. September i, 1885, to July i, 1887; and on Frontier duty at Fort Missoula. Montana, to May 21, 1888, - and Fort Meade, South Dakota, to March, 189T.

Served : In the Campaign against Sioux Indians in South Dakota during the Winter of 1890-91 ; at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1891 to 1898, where he performed the duties of Regimental and Post Quartermaster from April. 1895, to April, 1898. - At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he went with his regiment to Mobile, Alabama, and to Cuba ; took part in battle of El Caney, Cuba, July i, 1898, and was present at the siege of Santiago; in Cuba to July 11, 1898. - On recruiting service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to March

With Company on the field on the Island of Negros, Philippine Islands, from September I, 1899, to July 31, 1900. Acting- Inspector General, Department of the Visayas, August i, 1900, to September i, 1901. Provost Marshal, Iloilo, Philippine Islands, September i, 1901, to May 19, 1902, on which date his regiment embarked for the United States. Garrison duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from July 2, 1902. Assistant Instructor, Department of Law,

In the chapter in this History, entitled "General Officers," there is published a full biographical sketch of Judge Martin L. Bundy, Major and Paymaster U. S. V. and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel U. S. V., and incidentally that of his family. To that sketch is attached biographical reference to his son, Omar Bundy, above named, and reference is thereto made for all biographical information necessary to be supplied in regard to Omar Bundy, whose complete record at the United States Military Academy and in the Regular Army, is above set forth.

Luther Scott Welborn

Luther Scott Welborn was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on the recommendation of Congressman Milton S. Robinson, entering the Academy, July i, 1875, where he remained until June 13, 1879, when he was graduated sixteenth in a large class and promoted in the army to

Served : on Frontier duty at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, September 30 to October i, 1879 - Ute Expedition, to March 21, 1880 - Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and Scouting, to May 22, 1882 - and Fort McKinney, Wyoming (leave of absence, November 16, 1882, to March 13, 1883), to August 2, 1883; at the Military Academy as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, August 28, 1883, to October 2, 1884; on sick leave of absence, to April 2"^, 1885; on Frontier duty at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, to August 19, 1885, - Fort Supply, Indian Territory, to January 13, 1886; and on sick leave of absence, awaiting retirement,

Hazzard S History Of Henry Couxty

The Welborn family was among the early immiorants who came to Indiana from North Carolina. Joshua Welborn, the head of the family, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, July 6, 1800. Phoebe (Healey) Welborn, his wife, was also a native of the same county, where she was born June 6, 1802. She was the sister of Jesse H. Healey, the first sherifif of Henry County. The Healeys came first to Indiana in 1818, settling in Wayne County, near Richmond. In the Spring of 1821, before the organization of the County of Henry, they settled near the present townsite of New Castle. Jesse H. Healey took an active part in the organization of the county and became the first sheriff as above noted.

Owing to the favorable reports sent by Jesse to his sister in North Carolina, as to the opportunities afforded by the new county, and to their desire to escape from the environments of slavery, Joshua Welborn and his wife and two children came to Richmond in September, 1822, and in the Spring of 1823 settled in Henry County, first near the present town of New Castle and afterwards, in the southwestern part of the county, where the family has ever since played an important part.

Joshua and Phoebe (Healey) Welborn were married September 22, 1818. and were the parents of twelve children, namely: Jesse, Peter C, William J., Joel, Oliver H., Shelby R., Marion E., Martin Van Buren, Irene Ellen, Joshua T. C, Amanda and Henry C. The two oldest children were born in North Carolina but all of the others are natives of Henry County. Joshua Welborn died November 23, 1878, and Phoebe (Healey) Welborn, his wife, died October 18. 1886. and both lie buried in the Old Cemetery, at Knightstown. The only survivors of this numerous family are Jesse, who is now living in Anderson, Indiana, at the advanced age of more than ninety years, and Joshua T. C. Welborn.

Joshua T. C. Welborn was a soldier of the Civil War in Company F, nth Indiana Infantry and in Company F, 84th Indiana Infantry, reaching the rank of Captain in the latter. Shelby R. Welborn and Henry C. Welborn were also soldiers of the Civil War, the former in Company R, 42nd Indiana Infantry, and the latter in Company A, 139th Indiana Infantr}-. The military services of each of. the above named are fully set forth in their respective regiments, as published in this History.

Peter Clinard Welborn, the second son, born in Guilford County, North Carolina, December 11, 1821, and brought to Henry County by his parents, when about a year old, was the father of Luther Scott Welborn. In after life, he became a man of affairs and an important factor in business at Knightstown and vicinity, as a farmer, stock raiser and general trader. He died April to. 1896, and is buried in Glencove Cemetery, near Knightstown.

On February 20, 1845, ^e was united in marriage with Jane Eliza, daughter of Jesse and Anna Scott, by the Reverend William Lynn. The Scott family came from Rockingham County, Virginia, and were early settlers in the northern part of Rush County, Indiana, living on the south side of the State Road, one mile south of the present town of Dunreith. Peter Clinard and Jane Eliza (Scott) Welborn were the parents of the following named children: Mary Frances, now Mrs. J. Lee Furgason, of Knightstown ; William Qements ; Jessie

Ann, now widow of Professor Charles Hewitt, of Knightstown; Augusta Virginia, now Mrs. Alpheus O. Morris, of Knightstown ; Luther Scott ; Nannie Narcissa, now Mrs. WiUiam L. Manson, of Boston, Massachusetts ; and Charles Eugene, now of Kansas City, Missouri.

Luther Scott Welborn was born in Spiceland, Henry County, Indiana, November 14, 1856, and was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy, as above stated. On October 22, 1903, he was united in marriage with Luna Belle Confare, daughter of Ephraim and Angelina Confare, of Indianapolis, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Reverend Lewis Brown. Ephraim Confare was a Henry County soldier in the Civil War, who attained the rank of Captain of Artillery. His military service is fully set out in connection with the Second Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, published elsewhere in this History.

The United States Naval Academy

Prior to 1845 the training of boys for ofhcers of the line in the United States Navy was practical rather than theoretical. Midshipmen, many of them of tender age, were appointed from civil life and sent to sea, usually in groups on board of the larger ships. Some facilities for study and mental improvement were afforded, but stress was laid upon knowledge of seamanship in its various forms, from sailing a frigate down to the insignificant feat of splicing a ropeyarn.

In the year above named the "Naval School" was established at Annapolis, Maryland, on land occupied by Fort Severn, where students were admitted as midshipmen or acting midshipmen, each according to the term of his previous service. The length of the course of study was five years in the beginning, the first and fifth at the school, the intervening three at sea, but it was changed from time to time, apparently in an experimental way, until March 3, 1873, when it was fixed by law at six years, four at the Academy, two at sea, and has so continued. Likewise, the age limit of admission, at first between "fourteen and eighteen" years, was changed in 1889 to "fifteen and twenty," and in January, 1904, to '^sixteen and twenty" years. The official title of the students has also run the gamut of changes - Acting Midshipman, Cadet Midshipman, Naval Cadet and finally, again in 1902, it was fixed at Midshipman.

In 1849 ^^^ name of the institution was changed from "Naval School" to "United States Naval Academy," the corps of instructors was enlarged, the course of study extended and a system of separate departments adopted, to be followed a year later by other changes and extensions, as recommended by the board of examiners, inaugurating a system which has been continued, with some slight modifications, to the present time.

In the beginning candidates for admission to the Naval Academy were named by the Senators, Representatives and Delegates, one for each. The increase of Congressional representation, due to the admission of new States and the growth of population, aided by the decadent condition into which the Navy was permitted to fall after the Civil War, resulted in a surplus of officers of the line, and various means were resorted to to dispose of the graduates from the Academy.

motive power and the handling of a ship under sail the criterion of the accomplished officer. The introduction of steam as an auxiliary force was looked upon with contempt by old officers of the line, but. it was not to be frowned down, and won out, so that, toda}-, no man-of-war is fitted for sailing, but all are mere fighting machines. -This transformation has brought about a material change in the personnel of the Navy, and has helped to solve the problem of overproduction at the Academy.

In 1866. 187 r, 1872 and 1873 classes of cadet engineers were admitted to the Academy and graduated at the end of a two-year course. A class admitted in 1874 was given a four-year course. By an act of Congress approved August 5, 1882, it was provided that from those cadets completing the six-year course, appointments should be made each year to fill vacancies in the lower grades in the Line, Engineer and Marine Corps, and the surplus of graduates be given one year's sea pay and honorably discharged. The Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1889. provided for a division of the cadets then commencing their fourth year into two divisions, one for the Line and Marine Corps, the other for the Engineer Corps, and directed a course of study fitted to each. Tn 1899 the Engineer Corps was transferred to the Line, and thus ended a long and bitter fight for recognition by the Engineer Corps.

Meantime the rapid growth of the Navy made apparent the need of more officers. In 1900 the appointment of cadets every four years instead of every six was authorized ; in 1902 an Act of Congress provided, in addition to the naval cadets already authorized, that the President should appoint five midshipmen fthe title being changed by the same act) and two from each State, upon the recommendation of the Senators. Again in 1903 the law was amended to permit the appointment of two midshipmen by each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress, two from the District of Columbia, and five each year at large, to continue in force until June 30, 1913. The same act provided for the appointment of one midshipman from Porto Rico.

In May. 1861, the Academy was moved to Newport. Rhode Lsland, where the midshipmen were quartered in the Atlantic House and on board the frigates '"Constitution" and "Santee," moored alongside Goat Island in the harbor. It was taken back to Annapolis in the Summer of 1865, where it has since remained.

L'i^ntil 1898 most of the buildings of the Acadeni}- were very old, many of them dating back to the early part of the nineteenth century, and the accommodations were inadequate and unsuitable. The Spanish War forced attention to the needs of the institution upon Congress and a liberal plan of rebuilding the Academy was adopted. An expenditure of $8,000,000 was authorized, and the result will be the production of the finest naval institution of learning in the world.

The course of study and instruction is very much more elaborate and ad- Aanced than the term Academy would imply. It is as comprehensive as that of any university or college in the country, in fact approximates that of many post-graduate technical schools. The following representatives of Henry County families have been admitted as cadets to the Academy :

Courtland Gushing Clements was appointed Acting Midshipman, at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. September 2^. i860, on the recommendation of David Kilgore, then representing the Fifth District in Congress, of which district, Henry County was then a part. He remained at the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, and at Newport, Rhode Island, until May, 1863, when he resigned on account of failing health and injury to his eyesight. While at the Academy, he stood very high in his classes and maintained a high reputation for efficiency and discipline, in all matters pertaining to ci naval career. It has always been a matter of regret in Henry County that young Clements' health did not permit him to finish his course at the Academy and graduate as an officer in the United States Navy, in which he would undoubtedly have had a brilliant career.

Courtland Cushing Clements, son of the late James Morris and Catharine (Ferris) Clements, was born at Blooming Grove, Franklin County, Indiana, March 26, 1843. His father was a native of Caroline County, Maryland, where he was born March 2, 1805. In 1812 he moved with his parents to Warren County, Ohio, where he resided until 1826, when he moved with his parents to Blooming Grove.

On December 2, 1830, James M. Clements was married to Hester Slaughter. To this union were born four children, all of whom died in infancy, except a daughter, Tamzen V., so named for her maternal grandmother. This lady afterwards came to Henry County with her parents, where she married Theodore Newman, of Richmond, Indiana. She was born September 25, 183 1. and died March 7, 1904.

After the death of his first wife, Hester (Slaughter) Clements, James M. Clements was married in Franklin County, October 10, 1841, to Catharine Ferris, who was the sister of the late James S. Ferris and of Dr. Samuel Ferris, the latter, a well remembered physician of New Castle. This lady was born August 23, 181 5, and died December 22, 1880. To this last union were born two sons, Courtland Cushing and Milton Ferris Clements.

In 1857 James M. Clements, with his wife, daughter and two sons, moved from Franklin County to New Castle, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred June 29, 1880. Both himself and wife are buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle. He was a Civil Engineer by occupation and was held in such high esteem by the people of Henry County, that he was elected County Surveyor, for five consecutive terms, serving from November 6. i860, to November 6, 1870.

Courtland Cushing Clements, after his resignation from the Naval Academy, returned to his home in New Castle, and not long afterwards went to Denver, Colorado Territory, where for two years he acted as Receiver of the United States Land Office, for that territory. He was then appointed, by President Andrew Johnson, Register of the United States Land Office, for the Territory of Utah, and moved to Salt Lake City. In August, 1869, President Grant appointed him Surveyor General of Utah Territory, which office he held for four years.

After finishing his official career in Utah, he remained for a time in the West, subsequently, however, returning East and locating, first at New Castle, then at Richmond, Indiana, and finally at Washington, District of Columbia, where he now resides and where he is engaged in the practice of the law, giving especial attention to land and mining cases. His experience in Colorado and Utah gave him an intimate knowledge of that class of business and has secured him a highly successful and remunerative practice. Milton Ferris Clements, his only brother, had soon followed Mr. Clements to the West, living first in Colorado, then in Utah and now is a resident of the State of Washington.

At New Castle, Indiana, August 26, 1868, Courtland Cushing Clements was married to Ella, daughter of General William and Mrs. Rebecca (Jrose. The fruits of this union were I.aura Rebecca, Courtland Cushing, junior, Ella Grose, Corinne C, George Chilcott, William Grose, Guy Clement and Catharine.

William Henry Elliott

William Henry Elliott, son of the late Judge Jehu T. and Hannah S. Elliott, was born at New Castle, Indiana, July 4, 1844. Elsewhere in this history is published a biographical sketch of his father and incidentally of his family,, and to that reference is made for all the facts that should be supplied.

At the age of about sixteen years, he conceived a desire for a military career and sought appointment as a cadet to the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York. It happened, however, that the Honorable David Kilgore, Representative in Congress from the Fifth District, was able to tender him the choice of appointment to either the Military or Naval Academy. He chose the latter, and on February 23, 1861, was appointed an Acting Midshipman in the United States Navy, by the Honorable Isaac Toucey, Secretar\' of the Nav}-, and was ordered to report at Annapolis, Maryland, for examination in the following September.

In the meantime the Civil War came on, and as a matter of precaution the Naval Academy was temporarily removed to Newport, Rhode Island, where i\Ir. Elliott reported as directed, passed the required examinations and on September 27, 1861, entered upon his naval career as Acting Midshipman on board the historic frigate Constitution.

During the Summers of the four wears' course at the Academy, the several classes to which Mr. Elliott belonged, cruised in search of Confederate privateers and assisted in the blockade of the Confederate ports, serving in succession on board the frigates Macedonian and Santee, the sloops John Adams and Marion, the gunboats W^innipeg and Marblehead and the yacht America.

Mr. Elliott passed his final examinations and graduated as a Midshipman, September 25, 1865, and in the following December was ordered for duty on board the L^ S. S. Rhode Island, flagship of the North Atlantic squadron, which vessel cruised through the West Indies and along the Atlantic coast as far north as Halifax, Nova Scotia.

On December i, 1866, he was promoted to the grade of Ensign, was detached from the Rhode Island and ordered to the gunboat Huron, as ordnance and navigation officer, and sailed for Brazil. Soon after arrival at Rio de Janeiro in April, 1867, he was ordered ashore to apprehend deserters, and in defending himself against the attack of a desperado, he was compelled to use his firearms and was charged with violation of the sovereignty of the country. He at once surrendered himself to the authorities and demanded trial. He remained under detention eight months, was twice tried for his life, each time being- promptly acquitted by a jury, and in December, 1867, was set at liberty.

During the period of his incarceration, he was several times offered a free and unconditional pardon by the emperor, Dom Pedro II, but declined freedom upon any other terms than a verdict of innocence. The stand taken by Ensign Elliott, in support of his duty as an officer ordered to go armed, even in a foreign country, was commended by students of international law and his experience has been handed down to the officers of the Navy as an approved tradition.

Soon after his release and return to duty. Ensign Elliott was transferred to the U. S. S. Oninnebaug, which vessel, after a short stay at Montevideo, Uruguay, sailed to Capetown. South Africa, cruising thence up the west coast of the continent in search of evidence of slave traffic. Returning to Rio de Janeiro in the Fall, Ensign Elliott found his commission as Master, of the date March 12, 1868. and orders to return to the States on the U. S. S. Shamokin, awaiting him.

Reaching home the latter part of December, he was immediately ordered to duty at the naval station. Mound City, Illinois, where he remained a year, except a short period of time in August, 1869, when he was engaged in taking a fleet of live monitors down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, in which service he contracted a serious illness that hung to him for two years and caused a change in his life plans.

On March 26, 1869, Master Elliott was commissioned a Lieutenant by President Grant, and in the following December was ordered to duty on board the double turreted monitor Terror, at Boston ; participated in the Peabody funeral pageant at Portland, Maine, and continued to serve until April 20, 1870, when, on account of the discouraging symptoms of the illness above referred to, he felt compelled to hearken to the importunities of his family and accordingly resigned his commission, but retained his affection for the Navy and his shipmates.

Returning to his home at New Castle and finally recovering his health, Mr. Elliott took up the study of the law and, upon being admitted to the bar, entered upon the practice of the profession in partnership with his father. Judge Jehu T. Elliott, and continued alone after the death of the latter in February, 1876, until, after a short experience as editor of the New Castle Courier, in 1877, ^^ concluded that journalism best suited his taste and inclination, and arranged accordingly for the purchase of the Courier, to the publication of which he devoted his time and energies during the succeeding twenty one years.

When the war with Spain came on in 1898. Mr. Elliott, conceiving that the conflict would rest most heavily on the Navy, considered it his duty to do what he might to aid that branch of the service. He went to Washington and tendered his services to Secretary Long, and on May 11, 1898, he was re-appointed a Lieutenant and ordered to join the collier Leonidas, as executive officer, at New York, and continued in that capacity throughout the war. The Leonidas followed Ihe fleet to Key West, Santiago and Guantanamo Bay, and was about to sail with other vessels designated for the coast of Spain, when the war came to a close. Oil (October 31, 1898. Lieutenant Elliott received his honorable discharge with the thanks of President McKinley.

an attack of fever. He recovered, however, in time to represent Captain Harry Taylor, Commander of the Battleship Indiana, at the ceremony of presenting the battle flag of that ship and a rapid-fire gim, captured at Santiago, Cuba, to the State of Indiana.

It was Mr. Elliott's purpose to resume the management of the Courier, but before he had arranged to do so, he was offered an appointment in connection with the organization of the postal service of Porto Rico. He at first declined the honor, but went to Washington in response to a telegram from Senator Fairbanks, and upon arrival there was kindly, yet firmly informed by President McKinley that he had been selected for that service and was expected to accept. He agreed to go for one year. He was thereupon appointed to the newly created position of Director General of Posts of Porto Rico, and was duly empowered, by order of the President, to establish and administer the Department of Posts, wholly independent of the Military Government then in existence.

Mr. Elliott landed at San Juan, Porto Rico, February 22, 1899, ^^^^ o" the following day assumed charge of the postal service and proceeded to organize that department. He found the surroundings so dififerent from what he had anticipated, and his work so very interesting, that he concluded to remain longer than the year, and accordingly, in September following, moved his family to San Juan.

By operation of the law providing a civil government for Porto Rico, the Department of Posts lapsed on April 30, 1900. The effect of the new law was not at Washington until April 26th, on which date Mr. Elliott was informed by cable that he should be prepared to turn over the affairs of his department on May ist, and on that day, the reports and remittances of every one -of the seventy six postofiices of the island were in without an error or the loss of one cent.

Of the postal service in Porto Rico, under the direction of Mr. Elliott, Postmaster General Smith, in his annual report for 1900, was pleased to say : "The management of the service while thus conducted was efficient and the results as satisfactory as the means available would permit. A signal and acknowledged a<lyance in the whole administration of the mails followed, and the integrity "both of its direction and of its individual contact with the people was demonstrated under the most searching scrutiny, and when the act went into effect. May i. 1900, the island service, though distinct, had been so conformed to our methods that it merged into our system without disturbance or embarrassment."

Mr. Elliott proceeded to make preparations to return to his home in New- Castle, but one day he received a cablegram from Senator Fairbanks, informing him that the President had determined to appoint him Commissioner of the Interior for Porto Rico. Conceiving that whoever accepted such a position, at that formative period in the affairs of the island, should do so with the intention rf .serving a full term of four years, he hesitated, but finally accepted with that determination in mind.

He was appointed and confirmed as Commissioner. June 5, 1900, and entered upon the discharge of the duties of the position on June 15th. As Commissioner, he was a member of the Executive Council, a l)ody charged with special powers in relation to sundry matters, and which constitutes the Senate of the Legislative

Assembly. As the head of the Department of the Interior, he had charge of all pubHc lands and buildings, the construction, maintenance and repair of roads, the supervision of all franchises, the management of the health interests and telegraph system, and control of docks and harbors. An average of twelve hundred employes were under his direction and the expenditures of the department were seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum.

Much progress was made during the four years of Mr. Elliott's administration of the Department of the Interior, and his work was very interesting. Rut there came a time when he realized that he must leave it and return to his home. When his term expired in June, 1904, he was tendered, but felt compelled to decline, a promotion. As the President, however, did not wish to appoint his successor at that time, and as it suited Mr. Elliott's plans, he continued to serve until December i, 1904. His resignation was accepted by the President in the following gracious letter :

White House, Washington, November 17, 1904. INIy dear Commissioner Elliott : - In accepting your resignation, I wish to express my hearty acknowledgement of the honorable and faithful service \ou have rendered in the Island of Porto Rico. I regret that you feel obliged to leave. With best wishes, I am. Sincerely yours,

In the meantime Mr. Elliott had returned to New Castle, installed his family in the old homestead and resumed his relation as manager of the New Castle Courier, in association with his son, George A. Elliott.

Mr. Elliott was joined in marriage, January 12, 1869, with Catharine Powell, daughter of Simon T. and Elizabeth Powell. An extended sketch of Mr. Powell and incidentally of his family appears elsewhere in this history. Mrs. Elliott died July 5, 1875, without issue. On October 20, 1876, Mr. Elliott was joined in marriage with Emma Eleanor Conner, daughter of Levi L. and Lucinda (Rogers) Conner, and granddaughter of Ezekiel and Eleanor Rogers. ]\Ir. Rogers was a pioneer settler in the Sugar Grove neighborhood, west of New Castle. The issue of the marriage with Miss Conner were: George Armentrout, born I\Iarch 25, 1878; Hannah Tos, born January 10, 1880; Jean, born October 5, 1885, and Ruth, born December 31, 1891.

George A. Elliott, the son above mentioned, graduated from the New Castle High School in 1897, and attended the Indiana State University at Bloomington. He joined his father in Porto Rico in June, 1899, and acted as secretary to the Director General of Posts until May i, 1900, when he was appointed secretary to the Commissioner of the Interior of Porto Rico, and continued in that relation until October i, 1902, when he resigned and returned to New Castle. Meantime, on May 24, 1900, he was married to Lillian, daughter of J. E. and Antis Blair (Willis) Smith, of New Castle. He is now joint owner, with his father, and assistant manager of the New Castle Courier.

entered the New England Conservatory of Music in 1900. Returning to Porto Rico in 1902, she was employed as supervisor of music in the public schools of Ponce one year and was then transferred to San Juan, where she served in the same capacity another year.

Miss Jean Elliott graduated from the Girls' High School of Boston in 1902, where Mrs. Elliott had spent the past year with her three daughters for better educational advantages. Miss Jean returned to Porto Rico in 1902 and was immediately employed as teacher of English in the Ponce de Leon graded school at San Juan, and continued in that relation for two years, her school in the meantime winning a silk banner awarded to the school showing the greatest progress in English. She is now a student at the State University, Bloomington.

The paternal ancestors of Mrs. Emma Eleanor (Connor) Elliott came from Virginia and settled first in Fayette County, Indiana, moving later to Howard County, and from there in 1850 her father, Levi L. Connor, came to Henry County. Through lapse of time it is impossible to give more detailed information about her paternal ancestry.

Of her maternal ancestors, more definite information is obtainable. Her maternal grandparents were Ezekiel gind Eleanor (Hinshaw) Rogers, pioneers of Henry County. Ezekiel Rogers was born in Nova Scotia, September 11, 1801, and when a child was taken by his parents to North Carolina, where the family lived in Franklin, Iredell and Surrey counties. On September 11, 1823, in the "Old North State," Ezekiel Rogers married Eleanor Hinshaw, and in 1828 emigrated with his family to Wayne County, Indiana. In 1833 he moved to Henr}- County, where he entered, cleared and improved a farm, two and a half miles west of New Castle. He continued to reside on this farm until his death, November 12, 1883. It is worthy of note that he lived continuously on this land, which he entered from the Government, until his death. His widow who was born in Surrey County, North Carolina, December 7, 1799, died at the old home, July 16, 1885. They are both buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, west of New Casj;le.

Ezekiel and Eleanor (Hinshaw) Rogers were the parents of eleven children, namely: William A., born April 30, 1824; died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 28, 1865, while serving as a private in Company E, Ninth Indiana Cavalry ; he is buried in grave number 1,201, in the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge; he was married to Rachel Draper and they were the parents of Adolph Rogers, of New Castle. Edward M., born October 26, 1825 ; married Lavina Dyson ; died at New Castle and is buried in South Mound Cemetery. Harriet, afterwards Mrs. John Scott Connor, born June 21, 1827; died October 16, 1862; Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Zepheniah Leonard, born April 21, 1829; died at Logansport, Indiana. All of the foregoing were born in North Carolina. Lucinda, afterwards Mrs. Levi L. Connor, born May 29, 1831 ; died April 9, 1883; Joseph B., born March 15, 1833; married to Phoebe Hunt; died March 12, 1863, while a soldier in Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry. Catharine, now Mrs. Moses Bowers, born November 26. 1834; married to Moses Bowers, April 2, 1863, and resides two miles west and within sight of New Castle. Mr. Bowers was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in

Company F, 57th Indiana Infantry. Mary, afterwards Mrs. Clayton Osborne, born June 4, 1837; died April 26, 1888; George W., born February 23, 1839; never married; died February 9, 1864, while a soldier in Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry; Lydia, born May 30, 1841 ; never married; died June 21, 1862; John C, a farmer living two miles west of New Castle, born February 20, 1844; married Elmira Irwin, May 21, 1872; she died February 12, 1886, and he married Abigail Turner, April 20, 1890. Of the above, described as deceased, Harriet. Joseph B., Mary, George W., and Lydia are buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Ezekiel Rogers came of a strong and sturdy stock and his own physical strength well fitted him for the struggle of life. He and his estimable companion liegan their married life with but few material possessions, but by industry, frugalitv, proper economy and good management, they were able to provide well for their large family and to accumulate sufidcient for later years. Mr. Rogers was a man of sterling worth and integrity and was held in the highest esteem as citizen, friend and neighbor. He and his vv'ife were devout Qiristians, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and constant in attendance upon divine service, from which they derived great joy and comfort. In their old age, they put their dut\- to God ahead of all other earthly obligations and although not bigoted in their belief, they found their greatest solace in the study of religion and religious subjects. They did their full duty in the Civil War, sending three sons into the army, never to return. The precise military service of each of these soldiers will be found set forth in this History in their respective regimental and company rosters, and the records of their deaths and burials will be found in the chapter entitled the "Roll of Honor."

Levi L. and Lucinda (Rogers) Connor were the parents of Mrs. William H. Elliott. The mother was the first of the Rogers' children to be born in Indiana. She was reared on the home farm west of New Castle. She was a devout. Christian woman and was devotedly attached to her husband, her family, her home and her friends and neighbors. Levi L. Connor, the father, was born March 22, 1828, in Fayette County, Indiana, and died at his home in New Castle, September 17, 1904. During his youthful days, his parents moved from Fayette to Howard County, Indiana, where he grew to manhood. He learned the trade of a carpenter and was regarded as an expert workman. He came to Henry County, Indiana, in 1850 and from that date until his death made his home principally at New Castle. He married Lucinda, daughter of Ezekiel and Eleanor (Hinshaw) Rogers April 3 1852. To them were born six children, namely: Martha, deceased; Emma Eleanor, born July 6, 1855, ^"^ married to William H. Elliott, as stated in the preceding sketch of her husband ; John Sherman, died in Washington, D. C, where he was employed in the government printing office ; George Alva, deceased ; William Bowers, deceased ; and Marshall Homer, now and for a number of years past with the New Castle Courier. The children of Mrs. William H. Elliott are named and appropriately referred to in the sketch of William H. Elliott, above mentioned.

Levi L. Connor was twice married, his second wife being Sarah Starbuck, who survives him. He was a quiet, unobtrusive man, methodical in his movement and action, and was never more pleased than when receiving or imparting information. He was a constant reader, kept abreast of current events and was in all respects a thoroughly \vell informed man. Touching- reHgion and morals he possessed high ideals. His faith in God was strong and in all of his association with his fellow men, he adhered to the golden rule. He was an almost life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He early in life joined the Masonic fraternity, taking all of the degrees of Ancient York Masonry and later the degrees pertaining to the Royal Arch Chapter. He gave the order his enthusiastic support. Mr. Connor was an honest man, a worthy citizen, a good and obliging neighbor, a devoted husband and an indulg-ent father.