Johnson County, Indiana - The whole text, 1913 (part 10 of 11)

i'etcr D. LaGrange attended tlu pul)lic schools of his neighljorhood and then was a student at Hopewell Academy, completing his education in Flaaover College, and he therefore recei\ed a thorough training for life's duties. After his marriage in 1874 he engaged in the grocery- business in partnersliip with Isaac N. LaGrange, his brother, for two years, and then located on his father's farm, while for the past eigh; een years he has owned his present large farm, which comprises two hundred and fifty acres. The place is splendidly improved with good and substantial buildings and such other improvements as characterize an up-to-date farm. In 1912 Mr. LaGrange erected a fine new bungalow in which he is nov/ living w hile he rents his farm, not caring longer to take active charge of the same. His agricultural interests were carefully looked after by him during his active years and he was numbered among the successful and practical farmers of the county.

In 1 874 Mr. LaGrange married Maggie B. Brewer, and they have reared three children : Mrs. Leota White, of Franklin, to whom has been born a daughter, Pauline; Edgar Adonis, of the Franklin Hardware Company, who married Una Dixon, and they have had three children, of whom two survive, Loren and Richard; Roy, w^ho has charge of the milk receiving station at Whitcland, married Helen Boon, and they have two children, Edwin and Janette Evlyn.

In politics Mr. LaGrange has given his support to the Republican part)-, but has never been a seeker after the honors and emoluments of public ofiice. Religiously, he gives his earnest support to the Presbyterian church, of which he is a faithful member, while his fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order, in the workings of which he is deeply interested. Mr. LaGr.nge has during his life time shown himself worthy of the higli esteem in which ho is held. His life has been filled with activity and usefulness, while his untiringenergy and ability have secured for him a conspicuous and honorable place among the citizens of his community. His strict integrity and unpretcndin^-'^ bearing have elevated him in the confidence of his fellow citizens, and his influence has always been e.xerted in the interests of those things which have helped to elevate his fellowmen socially, morally and educationally. Because of his successful career and his high personal character, he is eminently entitled to representation among the leading men of his county.

Albert List

The best title one can establish to the high and generous esteem of an intelligent community is a protracted and honorable residence therein. Alliert List, one of the best known and most highly esteemed men of Johnson ccarity, has resided here many years, and his career has been a most commen L- hie one in every respect. Beginning life under none too favorable auspice-, he allowed nothing to deter him and, by persistent industry and the exerci?; of sound common sense in his operations, he gained the rewards for which he labored, and is today numbered among the substantial and influential men of his community.

Albert List was born in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, on November 4, 1830, and is a son of Garrett and Elizabeth (Voris) List. Garrett List, who was born in Shelby county, K.jntucky, in 1S08, was a farmer and cine to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1820, entering one hundred and forty acre? of government land, a part of which he cleared and on which he built a log cal in. In 1834 he brought his family here and here they remained for twenty-: ivc years, when he moved to a farm near IndianapoHs, in Marion count}-, where his death occurred in 1S91. The subject's rnotlier, who also was a native of Kentucky, died in Jolinson county in 1844. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Albert is the eldest. After the death of his first wife, Garrett I,ist married :\[elinda Alcorn, to which union were also born eight childreru Politically. Garrett List was aligned with the Democratic party until 1S56, when he joined the Republican party, with which he remained identified until his death. He never was an office seeker, but while a resident of Marion county he rendered efficient service as justice of the peace. Religiously, he was a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder for many years.

Albert List recei\-ed a somewhal limited school education in the logcabin schools of tb.e pioneer period, and at the age of fourteen years his father hired him out until the age of eighteen years, when he was given his time. At the age of fourteen he began work as a farm hand and the following years were characterized by labor of the mC'St strenuous kind. He was steady in his habits and economical in the use of his money, so that when twenty-three yeais old he was cnauled to buy one Imndred acre^ of land in Marion county. To the operation of that land he applied himself and in his operations met with splendid success. After remaining on that farm for twenty-five years. Mr. List returned to his present farm in Franklin township, where he has since resided. He is the owner of one hundred and ten acres of high-class land, which he rents, haxing retired from active labor some years ago. Pie resides in a fine old brick house, which he remodeled into a hrjine of comfort and convenience, and here he is enjoying the rest which his former years of toil so richly entitle him to. The farm is up-to-date, the buildings, fence and other details of the place reflecting great credit on the owner.

Mr. List has been twice married, first, in 1854. to Eliza Hoefgcn, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in 1868. To this union were born five children, namely: Adeline, who, on September 6. 1876. was married to Charles C. Van Nuys, to whom she bore four children, Watson M. (who lives on the old Van Nuys homestead, which is one of the landmarks of Johnson county). Edna (who became the wife of Rev. Gilbert Voorhies. now of Rockwell City, Iowa), Ruth (the wife of Charles McGeehe, of Redondo Beach, California) and Catharine (the wife of A. E. Granger, of Marion. Iowa) ; Ella became the wife of T. R. Alexander, of Marion, Iowa, and they have a daughter, Mabel; Mattie, who married J. B. Jones, of this county, and they ha\e three children, Mellie. Maxwell and Dorothy, all residents of John- son .county: George and ^^Iclinda are deceased. On September 29, 1870, Mr. List married Amelia Lockwood, the daughter of William and Eliza (Armstrong) Lockw'ood. William Lockwood was born in Providence, New Brunswick, and moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1835, where he followed his vocati')n, that of a carpenter. Sometime after the Civil war he came to Indiana, lixaiing at Southport near Indian.apolis, where his death occurred some time aftur bis retirement from active life. Lo him and his wife were born tweh-e children, of whom onl}- two are living, ]\Irs. List and a si.ster. Politically. :^.!r. Lockwood gave his support to the Rei)ub]ican party. Religiously, he wa^ formerly a member of the Episcopalian church, but later affiliated with .Ik- Presbyterian church. To Albert and Amelia List were born two daughter-., Mary Louise, tlie wife of Professor Sniith, of 1.51oomington, and the motier of one daughter, \\'inifred, and Nellie, deceased.

Politically, ~S\v. List is a Re[)ublican, while his religiijus membershii; i.-. with the Tbjpewell Presln'terian church. Tie v.as formerly a member of .lie Masonic order at Soulhiiort, but subsequently transferred his membership u> the lodge at Eranklin. T'ersonallw Mr. Eist possesses those cp1alitie^ \\h cli gain friendships and in the community where he has lived for three decade.^ he is held in the warmest regard, because of his splendid business cail-er and his hiob cbararter.

The gentleman to a brief review of whose life and characteristics di; reader's attention is herewith directed is among tlie favorably known and representative citizens of Clark township, Johnson county. He has by his indo;!"!!- table enterprise and progressive methods contributed in a material wa>- to Ik advancement of his locality and during the course of an honorable career habeen fairh- successful in his ])usine^s enterprises, having been a man of .miergy, sound judgment and honesty of purpose, and is thus well deser\ing "i mention in this volume.

Harry B. Shephard, who is successfully engaged in the mercantile In -;- ness at Rock Lane, Clark township, Johnson county, Lidiana, was born in Jefferson county, this state, on April 5, 1880. He is a son of John T. :nd Anna Bell (Reeves) Shephard. naciNes also of Jefferson count}'. John T. Shephard was born on February 14, 1854, and died on November 28, 19:0. He was a son of Miles and Serena Shephard. and was married on January r. 1874, to Anna Bell Reeves, to which union were born six children, three sen- and three daughters, namely : Grace, Irene, Harry B., WiUiam F., Fannie and John. The subject's father spent his entire hfe in Jefferson county, excepting about two years in Johnson county, and was a man of eminent respectabihty, who enjoyed the esteem of aU who knew him. '

The subject of this sketch received his education in the common schools of Dupont, where he attended until eighteen years of age. In.iSgS, fired by a spirit of loyalty and patriotism, he enlisted in Company U, One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers, for service during the Sijanish- American war and served one year. His regiment was one of the first to march to Havana after the occupation of that city and the regiment was discharged after the army left the island. ]\lr. Shephard was present at the official evacuation of Cuba, which occurred at Havana on Jaiuiary i, 1899. After the war Mr. Shephard took up the vocation of photography and landscape artist at Dupont, Jefferson county, for which work he had a natural aptitude. About a year later, however, he engaged in contract painting, whicli he carried on with, fair success for six months. On ]\Jarch 16, 1900, he engaged in the merchandise business at Rock Lane, under the firm name of Day &- Shephard, a partnersh.ip which lasted about one year and ten niunths, when Mr. Shephard bought his partner's interest. He then continued business under his own name until November, 19 12. when the firm name was changed to H. B. Shephard & Company. J. W. Trulock buying an interest in the business. Mr. Trulock had been in the employ of }ilr. Sliephard for al)ouL five years, having begun work in the store at the age of fifteen years and proved a man of not only good habits, but of marked business abilit)-. Tlu business has l;een remarkably successful from the begiiming when Mr. Shephard started in with a capital of less than two hundred dollars. Ho\ve\er, .when Mr. Shephard bought Mr. Day's interest, the business invoiced fifteeri hundred dollars, and now about five thousand dollars' worth of merchandise is carried in stock. Sound business judgment and courteous treatment of his patrons have been the elements which have contributed to the success of the business and now Messrs. Shephard and Trulock are numbered among the most successful business men of their comnnmity. Islr. Shephard owns the building in which the store is located and also a nice residence at Rock Lane.

On July 16, 1900, Mr. Shephard married Grace L. Rayborn. of Jefferson county, the daughter of Frank Rayborn, though she was born and reared in Canaan, Indiana. To them has been born one child, Monta L., born in 1902. Mr. Shephard is a member of Lodge ?To. 385. Knights of Pythias, at Acton, and his religious membership is with the IMethodist Episcopal church. ^Ir.

Shephard is one of the highly respected citizens of his community, having established a firm reputation for honesty of purpose in his dealings wii.h his fellow men and by being the advocate of clean and wholesome principles in the home, society and politics.

Garrett Ditmars

A review of the life of the honored subject of this memoir must of necessity be brief and general in its character. To enter fully into the interesting details of the career of the late Garrett Ditmars, touching the struggles of his early manhood and the successes of his later years, would far transcend the limits of this article. He filled a large place in the ranl:s of the active, energetic and public-spirited citizens of his day and generation, and the memories which attach to his name and character form no inconsiderable chapter in the history of his adopted county, where he did his work and achieved his success.

Garrett Ditmars was a nati-ic of New Jersey and was the son of Peter Ditmars, also a native of that state and the descendant of good old Jb:il]and stock, a lineage which played a l.irge part in tlie settlement and development of various sections of this country, various lines from which he descended being mentioned in tlie early annals of the colonies. In April, 1830, Garrett Ditmars emigrated from Somerset county. New Jersey, to Warren CDuntv, Ohio, where he remained six years, and in the spring of 1836 he cane to Johnson county, Indiana, locating on a tract of land about two miles no^th of Franklin. Two years later he moved to Union township. Garrett Ditmars took an active part in the early development of his locality, of which he was a pioneer, and among those men of courage and stamina who laid tlie foundation for the subsequent splendi i civilization which has characterized this locality, Garrett Ditmars deserves his full share of credit.

Garrett Ditmars was married to Sarah Verbryck, who also was born in New Jersey, on January 20, 1/85. the daughter of William and Rebecca (Low) Verbryck. Her father, who was an honored citizen of his locality. had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, attaining to the rank of major, and lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years. To Mr. and Mrs. Ditmars were born thirteen children, of \v\ om twelve were reared to maturity, and four are now li\ing, namely: Cornelius, who lives west of Franklin; John T.. of Hopewell: Mrs. Rehecca Dour ell, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Richard v., of Franklin. The deceased are William, Mrs. Mary Hall, Mrs. Jane Van Nuys, Mrs. Margaret McCaslin, Mrs. Caroline Van Nuys, Peter, Magdalena, Jacob and Edward.

Otis M. Vandivier

The importance that attaches to the lives, character and work of the early settlers of Johnson county and the influence they ha\e exerted upon the cause of humanity and civilization is one of the most absorbing themes that can possibly attract the attention of the local chronicler or historian. If great and beneficent results - results that endure and bless luankind - - are the proper measure of the good men do, then who is there in the world's history that may take their places above the hardy pioneer. To point out the way, to make possible our present advancing civilization, its happy homes. its arts and sciences, its discoveries and inventions, its education, literature, culture, refinement and socal life and joy, is to be th.e truly great benefactors of mankind for all time. This was the great work accomplished by the early settlers and it is granted by all that they builded wiser than thev knew. Among the pioneer families of Johnson county who are still identified witli this locah'ty no family has as large a representation in the county as th: Vandivier family, meml)ers of which have played an important part in civic and public affairs. A worthy representative of this family is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch, who is not only a successful faruicr, but is also giving efficient service as trustee of Clark township.

The Vandivier family is originally from Germany, the first emigrant ancestor, Peter V^andivier, who was born in 1760 and died in 1S23, having first settled in Pennsylvania, later moved to Virginia, and finally made his home in Kentucky, where he died. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Lagrange, was born in 1769 and died in 1S55. They were the parents of six children, one of whom, Peter, was born in 17S5. On ]March 2, iSoi, he married Sarah Garshwiler, a native of Kentucky-, and in 1826 they came to Johnson county, settling on the Martinsville road, where he entered a homestead in Union township. To him and his wife were born a large famil}-, fotirteen children in all, and all settled on the Martinsville road, the family owning practically all the land from that locality to the Morgan county line. These children with the dates of their birth are as follows: Madiso", December 15, 1809; Eliza (Mrs. Byers), February 9. iSii : Strawther, August 30, 1S12; John. April 18, 1814; William T., January 29, 1815: Susan (Mrs. P>yers), May 2-], i8r7; Peter, Xoveniber i, 1818: Jo-;ei)h S., January 6, i82c>;

Madison Vandivier, the eldest of the above children, \vho was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, came with his father to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1825. Here he engaged in the mercantile business, running a country store, and was also an extensive live stock- dealer. He served as county tax collector, in the prosecution of the duties of the office traveling over the countiy on horseback. On Xovemljcr 10, 183J, he married [Mildred Admire, who was born July 13, 1813, and died on March 10, 1S54. To them were born the following children: William A., l>orn September 2S, 1S33; Sarah Ann (Mrs. Davis), April 27, 1836; James Sylvester, October i, 1838; Susan, June 6, 1840; James M., July 11, 1842; I'rancis M., December 2, 1853. On September 6, 1855, Air. Vaii(li\ier married IMatilda Davis, and to them was birn a daughter, Emily, who became the wife of James Woods.

James M. Vandivier, as stated above, was born on July 11, 1842, died on November 15, 1898. At the early age of ten years he was left to his own resoiu'ces, but he was equal to the demands upon him and made a succt ss of his business career. His early lii'e was spent on a farm, but later he b<came a merchant at Bud, where he has prospered and attained to a respe -table position in the community. In 1864 he married Ida C. Ragsdale, daughter of Henderson Ragsdale, and to them were born the following children: Ara v., an undertaker at bYankb'n ;; Otis M., the immediate subject of this sketch; Minnie D., who married a Mr. Eccles and now lives on the old homestead; Annie E., who died in 1S90, and Rollie J., also on the old homestead. Ara V. was born January 20, 1865, married Josie A. Kerlin who was born Octoljcr 22, 1S64, their marriage occurring on August 5, 1886. They have" devoted their lives to farming, in which they are successfid to an eminent degree. To them ha\'e been born. tviO children : Kenneth V., born November 10, 1887, died March 8, 1895; Clancy C, born Alay 24, 1890. The mother of these children died on March 26, 1898. Erom 1899 to 1903, Ara V. Vandivier was a deputy sheriff of Johnson county under Sheriff J. S. Brown. In 1899 he married Isabella W. Dangherty, to which union were born three children: James Rheil, July 15, 1900 : Alary Catharine, April 16, 1902, and Robert Polk, December 26, 1903. In 1905 Mr. Vandivier engaged in undertaking, in which b" has been successful. Minnie D. Vandivier, who was born February 6, 1870, was married tu E. M. Eccles, and they have one child, Mildred, born in December, 1902. Rollie J. Vandivier, who was born Februarv 20, 1S79, married Esther W. Demaree on September i.

Otis M. Vandivier, the immediate subject of this sketch, received his education in the country schools of his locality and in the normal school. He was the first pupil enrolled in the high school in Union township and after the completion of his studies, in 1890, he began teaching school, in which vocation he was engaged for eighteen years in the district schools of this county. During the same period he was also in agricultural work, to which he devoted his time during school vacations. In 1900 he bought one .hundred and three acres of his present farm, and in 1910 bought eighty-five acres additional. He is now the owner of one hundred and eighty-eight acres of good, tillable land and all in cultivation except about thirty acres of timber which is used largely for grazing purposes. He gives his careful attention to every detail of his farm work. He feeds large numbers of live stock, averaging an output of fifty head of hogs annually, six cattle and about eighteen to twenty-five sheep. Plis farm is in many respects one of the best in the township, and owing to his persistent industry, progressive methods of carrying forward his work, Mr. Vandivier has met with a gratifying degree of success, being generally considered one of the best farmers in his section of the county. He has a splendid residence wiilth all the mudcrn impro\-ements and the general appearance of the place is a credit to tlie owner.

On March 22, 1S93, O^^^ ^^- Vandivier was united in marriage to Blanche C. Hamilton, the daughter of William H. Hamilton, and they are the parents of two children: Harold Henderson, born January 26, 1904, and Aaron Augustus, born November 19, 1910. Politically, ^Nlr. Vandivier gives his support to the Democratic party, and in 190&' was elected trustee of Clark township, in which position he is now serving, lisis term having been extended to six years by legislative enactment. Religiously, he is a member of the Bush Grove Baptist church, in the success of which he takes a deep interest. His fraternal membership is with the Providersce lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Vandivier has taken an active sad intelligent interest in loc al affairs and is counted upon always as a supporter of any movement for the bettennent of the community in which he lives. He is the historian of the Vandivier family reunions, this being, as before stated, the largest in Johnson county, and he has recorded many interesting and valuable facts of local history, especially as pertaining to his family. Ikxause of his sterling persoi al qualities, his genial disposition and the materia.'I success to which he has <'.ttained, he is held in high regard in the comu'iunity where he lives and lii.s friends are in number as his acquaintances.

Johnson county, Indiana, has reason to take pride in the personnel of her corps of medical men from the earliest days in her history to the present time, and on the roll of honored names that indicates the services of distinguished citizens in this field of endeavor there is reason in reverting with gratification to that of Dr. Rufus Webster Terhune, of Whiteland, who has attained eminence in his chosen calling and for a number of years has stood among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in a community long distinguished for the high order of iti medical talent, ile realized early that there is a purpose in life and that there is no honor not founded on worth and no respect not founded on accomplishment. Ilis life and labors have bccji eminently worthy because they have contriljuted to a proper understanding of life and its problems.

Rufns Webster Terhune was born near Samaria, Johnson county, Indiana, October 21, 1866. He attended the district schools and afterwards the Trafalgar high school, where he graduated March 14, 1S84, with first honors. Having industriously studied to complete the high school course during the winter terms of six months each and having devoted his summer vacations to a special training for teaching, he obtained a high grade teacher's license two months after his high school commencement and began his work as a teacher September 14, 1885. He had long felt a preference for the science of medicine, the study of which h',: began upon reaching his majority and continued with energy not only during his vacations, but also at nights while devoting his days to the work of teaching. He entered the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1889 and graduated June 18, 1891, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and on February 15, 1892, he located at \\'hiteland and entered at once upon the active practice of his profession. He soon demonstrated his ability and for several years has been numbered among the successful physicians of his county. He has been actuated throughout his professional life by the highest ideals and has never compromised his usefulness by countenancing any but noble and legitimate practice. He has always maintained, the high dignity of his calling and has keenly felt the responsibility resting upon him as a minister of the healing art. He possesses a thoroughly disciplined mind and is a close and critical student of medical literature and of the trend of modern thought in the science to which his life and servi:es have been devoted.

His ability and success have earned for him a high reputation in his community and the genuine respect of his professional colleagues. In the public and civic life of his community Doctor Terhune has long been a prominent and intlucntial figure. He served as town clerk and treasurer of Whiteland for tlie year 1897. In 189S he was elected coroner of Johnson county, and was thrice elected, making a total of eight years in which he served in this responsible position. He was again elected town clerk and treasurer of Whiteland for the years 1910 and 1911. Since the expiration of his term as clerk and treasurer he has served as president of the board of trustees of Whiteland and has been instrumental in building cement sidewalks on every street in towi\; has opened up new streets, built sewers, secured electric light service and paved Main street. He has been health officer for the town since 190S, and has assiduously given his time and energy to establi:;h those conditions which so largely promote the healthfulness of the community. His interest in public health, pre\entive medicine and child welfare caus.d him to be the pioneer i7iedical inspector of schools in Johnson county. He prepared a series of papers on "School Hygiene," which he read to teachers' institutes and thus helped to arouse a public sentiment in favor of improvement which resulted in the erection of the present commodious and sanitary high school building in Whiteland. Doctor Terhune is a member of t'le Johnson County jMedical Society, th; Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He has served the County Medical Society as president and secretary f jr several years. By way of recreation. Doctor Terhune reads history. He has a good historical library and takes ui intelligent interest in the intensive study of the annals of Johnson county a: id has done much original re.'^earch. The results of his investigation he has published under the title of '"Historical Sketches of Medicine and Medical in the Early Days of Johnson County." He contributed the article regarding the early physicians of Johnson county for Dr. G. W. H. Kein- 'per's ''Medical History of Indiana"' (chapter on ^Medicine in Branigin's Hstory). For ten years he has been a laborious collector of Terhune genealo^- in all parts of the United States. This material he has published under the title of "Albert Albertsen ter Huen and his Descendants." A few years a^o he prepared and published an illustrated chart and "A Manual of Scientific Temperance," several thousand copies of which -svere placed in the public schools for use in teaching the harmful effects of alcohol upon the human system.

Politically, Doctor Terhune is an active and enthusiastic member of the Democratic party. Fraternally, he is a Modern Woodman of America and a Knight of Pythias. Religiously, his affiliations are with the Bethany Preslyteriaii church at Whiteland.

. Doctor'.Xerhune has been, twice married. His first marriage was with Mrs. : Lena Enfield :Doran, of .Louisville, _Ky., on June 21, 1892, whose death coccurred on-. the. 15th day of October, 1898. His^second marriage was with lEvabel Robinson, of Minneapolis, Minn., on the nth of August, 1909. To ; this union; h.ave been born. two children : Helen Irene Terhune, September ;7, 1910, and.WebsterLucian Terhune,; January-7, 1912.

1 During the period of his professional practice -in this community, Doctor 'jTerhune . has ; not only^gained.therespect of his, confreres in his chosen -profession,' but has also sustained a. sound reputation for uprightness and -nobility of character in all. the relations of hfe. He has realized that to those attain. determinate success in the medical profession there must be not cotily given, technical, ability, but also a broad, human sympathy which must T pass from mere- sentiment to be an actuating motive for helpfulness. Mis r useful life as one of the world's workers has been one of devotion to his c.calling and he merits, specific mention in the annals of his county, where he i;has given the best of his powers. and talents for- the aiding and betterment of his kind.

. Doctor Terhune is descended from a long line of sterling ancestors, \;ho jhave been pa.rticlilarly distinguished for their courage and integrity. The : patient genealogist laboriously delving in the quaint and musty records of IsNew Amsterdam is rewarded by discovering early in the year 1650 a nrnie : not previously found therein. And a prosecution of the search is rewarded : by finding an occasional repetition of the same name in a variety of forms. S Sometimes ii appears as "Albert Albertse," or "Elbert Elbertse"; again it is written "Albert xA.lbertsen ter Hucn," or "Alberzen ter Heun,'' or "ter Hum n," or "ter Huyii." or "ter Huen." These forms are but variants of the modern name Terhune. (I) "Albert Albertse," the first of the name in America, the common ancestor of all the lerhunes that have lived and died throi gh- -. out the years since that early day. His wife's name was Geertje (Gertrude), : and they were, the parents of two sons and .four daughters :

3. Albert .Albertsen, Jr., born August 13, 1651. . 4. Annetje (Anna) Albertse, born March 3, 1653. ; 5. .--Styntje (Christiana) Albertse (in Qoes Janse Romyn May 2, iSt'o). 6. - Sarah Albertse, married Hanse Van Noorstrant. Albert.Albert.se, the immigrant, was bom about the year 1615, evide.itly in Hunen (Tluinen or Huynen). Holland, where his father, Albert, and faiiiily ..had located after their flight from France. Old records and family tradit ons establish the tact sufficiently well that the family was of French Huguenot origin, and that it has suffered the s?.nie senseless persecutions that were inflicted upon thousands of other families of the noblest people of France in that cruel, intolerant age. The confiscation of their estates aud their expulsion from their native land left them utterly destitute in stange lauds. People of refinement and aflluence were compelled to resort to manual labor, sometimes of the most menial kind, in order to earn a scant livelihood. Albert Albertse chose the less laborious handicraft of ribbon wea\ing. But he was ill content in Holland, even though he had married one of its fair-haired daughters. Visions of the New World, \vith its alluring call to the down-trodden and the oppressed of all nations, kept arising in his mind. He longed to recoup the ruined fortunes of the family and own once more a landed estate. So he finally braved the stormy Atlantic ar'd sought a. home in New Amsterdam. The vo3'age was probably made in the year 1637.

In a roll call of the residents of King's county, province of Xew York, who took the oath of allegiance to the English king on the 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th days of September, 1687, the name of "Elbert Elbertse" heads the list of residents of Platlands with the declaration that he had been a resident of the country for fifty years. His career was one of trial and stress. He found that a little Dutch village in the Xew World was no i)!;'.ce in v^'hich to build up a greax ribbon-weaving industry. Besides the failures of this enterprise he had various other troubles and was engaged in much litigation for two or three years. Finally he turned to the soil for a livelihood and in 1657 rented and cultivated a farm on the Xyack or Najack tract in Xew Utrecht, Long Island, owned by Cornelius Werckhu\eri and held for the heirs of the estate of Jacques Cortelyou. Here he built a rude home, after the manner of the Dutdi pioneer farmers, consistirig ^f a dug-out cellar and a small house covered bj a heavy thatch of straw and located on a hillside for drainage and near a spring that fresh water might be available. But he was soon deprived of this jpoor, squalid excuse for a home. As a result of danger from Indian hostilities, Albert Albertse, widi other scattered farmers, was ordered by the director-general and council of New Amsterdam to destroy their homes and repair to the garrison village of New Utrecht for protection from the savag.es. This flight from danger Albert Albertse flatly refused to make. He wa.-? consequently haled before the council and fined fifty guilders fi:ir non-confommity to the orders of the government. He refused to pay the fine and was remanded to prison, but was finallv released upon his promise to join Iti the erection of a house in the villa'3-c of New Utrecht. But no sooner was the house completed than he left New Ulrecht and went to Flatlands where he bought fifty acres of land of Jacob Van Couwenhovcn. To obtain a deed as provided in the agreement to purchase he was obliged to appear before the burgomaster's and schepen's court which forced Cowenhoven to make good the terms of the agreement.

On July 1 6, 1660, he obtained a deed for a piece of land in Flatlands from Jacob Stendman, the deed being recorded in Dutch on page 214 of "Calendar of New York Historical Manuscript." He sold the lease of his New Utrecht farm to Nathaniel Britton, April 3, 1664, and in 1665 purchased more of the Cowenhoven tract and a tract from Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff, and on the Stoothoff land he erected a dwelling house. In the tax-roll of 1676, his personal property in Flatlands was assessed for £129 sterling and his real estate, 20 morgans of land (50 acres) at £58 sterling. His name, with that of his wife, Geertje, appears on the records of the Dutch Reformed church of Flatlands as members. About this time he joined with Jaqucs Cortelyou and other residents of Flatlaeds, including the Gerretsons, Van Winkles and Spiers in the purchase of the Acquaehanock (Passaick) patent of fnc thousand acres of land on the Passaic river in Bergen county, East New Jersey, which ])urchase was the begimiing of the settlement that resulted in the town of Flackensack. The prO|)irietor of the Acquaehanock patent received a conformatory patent from the governor-general and council of East New Jersey in 1685, as recorded on page 118, volume i, of the journal of the government and council.

(IT) Jan Alhertse, eldest son of the ribbon wea\-er, was born probably in New^ Amsterdam, but no record of his birtf^ has been preserved. He accompanied his parents to Flatlands, where he was a farmer. His name is _on the records of the Dutch Reformed church of that place as a member in 1677; as a deacon in 1687. He took the oath of allegiance to the Enghsh crown, as a native, in 1687, and he was a lieuteeant of militia in 1691, and a captain in 1700. In 1690 he and others obtained a tract of land near Duck Creek, at St. John's on the Delaware. (Val EH, Documents of Colonial History.) He married Annetje Roelefse Sc&nmeck, at Flatlands, July i, 1683. She died in 1688 and he married Jtmfi: 6, 1691, Margrietje Van Schyellen (Van Sichlen). - According to the recOirds of the Dutch church at Flatlands, he paid November i, 1686, sixteen giatlders for a grave for his son; on March 25, 168S, nineteen guilders for 31 grave for his wife; Aj ril 15, 1693, twenty guilders for a grave for his mother; December i, 1703, twelve gtiilders, ten St., for a grave and the use of a pall; and November 5, 1704, twenty-two guilders for graves for two of his children. His will is dated February 20, 1696. He died, it is supposed, in 1705. He signed his name "Jan Albertsen Ter Hunen." His children were as follows : Alber!, born at Flatlands, April 13, 1684, married Aeltje \'oorhces, October 17, 1708; (HI) Roelof (see sketch); Ancke, of whom there is no further trace.

(HI) Roeiof Terhune, son of Jan Albertse and Annetje Roelefse (Schneck) Terhune, was born in Flatlands, Long Island, in 1686. He married Morretje Gerretse \\^yckhoff, daughter of Gcrret Pieterse Wyckhofil', at Flatlands, May 5, 1706. They were the parents of eight children, as follows; Albert (IV j, Gerret, W'illenitjc, Marya, Hyntie, AeUie, Margrietje, Ante. Roeluf continued to live at Flatlands. He was captain of the Fifth Con;pany of King's county, Long Island, militia in 1715. Below is a copy of his will ;

February 20, 1753, I, Roelof Terhune, of Gravesend, in King's count}, Being very sick, will that, after pajincnt of debts, etc., etc., I leave to my son, Gerret '"my great selver kop, and my keenen swoord, and my ledcr britses, and the selver botten hoels."

I give to jiiy son Rocloff - a gun, to that child of my son Albert named Roelof, my gun and great Bybel. To son Albertus - All that farm where I nov.- live and the meadow that lies in the Flatlands meadow, and he slia'l pay one hundred and fifty pounds to each of my daughters, \\'illimenti(.. Marya, Hyntie, Alise and Margaret. To my son Gerret, one hundred and twenty pounds out of a piece of land in Flatbush bounded by Bernardu^ Ryders or Johanes lot and so by the highway. The surplus of money to m children and to children of daughter Ante, deceased - named Roelof, Johanes and Marya. Roelof, twenty pounds, Johanes, forty pounds and Marya, sixty pounds. To my wife, five pounds and bed and bedstead with its furniture. If she lives with my son, Albertus, he shall pay her ten pounds a year. If not, he shall pay her sixteen pounds a year. Two sons and "sonindaw Jooster ye Younger" executors, they shall sell the lot above mentioned and use the interest for the use of my wife, but if she is not in want, they shall l)ay to my "poer sister, Geroeb, recla'=e, three pounds, eight shillings and seven

(IV) Gerret or Garrett Terliunc, son of Roelof and Morretje (Wyckh(jff) Terhunc, was born at Flatlands, Long Island, August' 30, 1709. \\;hen quite ynung he. in company with some young cousins, sons of Albert Terhune, left Long Island and went to central Xew Jersey. There he met and married Alice A'oorhecs, daughter of Stephen Coerte A'oorhees, of New Brunswick, Xew Jersey. He eventually located in Somerset county, New- Jersey, as a farmer, where he died September 20, 1781.

CV) Stephen Terhune, son of (k'rret and Alice (\'oorhees) Terhunc, was born in Somerset county, New Jcisc)', November 27. 1735. He was married, the 5th oi September, 1755, to Margaret Cornell, who was born the same (iay as himself. Previous to the year 1755, there is nothing to heli) the genealogist in the construction of this record but musty wills, deeds and long forgotten court records. \)vA with Steplien and Marget (Cornell) Terhune it is different, b'aint memories of them still linger in tb.e minds of their descendants. It has been remembered of 'Alarget"" tb.at she was a large wonian, of a [ironounced ])londe tyjie. with fine blue e\"es. a rudd}' facc'. plenty of freckles and lot of bright red hair. l"he type still apjiears in prcfusion among her descendants even to the sixth generation. Stephen and ^larger lived on a farm near Ha'iingen, New Jersey. Those were the times when the French and Fnglish were fighting for supremacy in the western world. The war cloud hung ominou.-^ly over Pennsyhania and New York. But central N^ew Jersey behind its sheltering- mountains was a paradise of peace. Somerset county was fertile and well improved. Flighways from New York to Philadelphia spanned its full extent. Beautiful colonial houses rose on either hand. Cultivated fields were inter^perscd with umbrageous woodlands that cast a cooling shade and there were many refreshing springs and streams of unpolluted water. In this favored region Stephen and Marget lived content. Their farm more than supplied their needs and that of their growing family. They took life easy. Of winter evenings they sat before their cheerful fire of logs and read their Dutch Bible by the light of tallow candles. They spoke both the English and Dutch tongues, bit thev attended the Dutch Reformed cb.urch and brought up their children in that faith. Tliev had a large family and their family Bible, which is still in

This family remained intact for nearly twenty years and even then nothiing less potent than the dark days of the Revolutionary war was sufficient to break into its happ}' circle. New Jersey was not abstractl)- patriotic as were Massachusetts and Virginia. Even the spectacle of Washington's distressed continentals slowly straggling along the highways, hungry and without shoes or blankets, failed to rouse among the inhabitants an\ sense of their own responsil>ility in the matter. Though Washington had consumed three weeks in crossitig the pro\-ince not one hundred recruits hat' come to his assistance. But close ujion the heels of the hungry, distressec Americans came the arrogant redcoats and their brutal allies, the Hessiai mercenaries. They roamed at will L>'<er the pruviiice, ravaging the countr} as they went. Ecnces and barns were liurned, grain and stock were carrier awa}', houses looted of e\"er_\- valuable .-ukI defenseless women and girls abusec, and violated. The stolid Dutch weie at last aroused. Bitter rescntmcn' against the inwider was felt on every hand, and the youth of the land, actuatec by revenge and patriotic fervor flocked to the continental strmdard. One o'' the first to come was (VI) Williaui Terhune. His mother wotdd not -con sent to his enlistment, so he stole away from home in the night that he might be a soldier foi his country. He had not seen ten days of ser\-ice unti' there came the terrible ordeal of crossing the Delaware. He was also witl .the great commander in tlie Princeton fight and then went to ^^lorristown. H( suffered both measles and smallpox while in the service. Now, when William left his father's home at midnight to be a soldier some one else besides his mother shed tears at his departure. On a neighlioring farm lived ]Mrs. Maria (Vanarsdalen) Wan Xuice. wiifow of John \':in Nuice (Van Nuys), born 1720, died 1763. Her daughter, ]\Iaria, was bom April 25, 1762. Though she was but a child in years she had the st.iture of a woman. She had given to William her first virginal love. Her Inulding heart had burs: into blossom in his sight; after he left home those short, dark Decembe days dragged slowly by. At an early hour one bitterly cold morning, January 2, 1777, Maria heard the roar of cannon several miles away to the southward and she divined at once that a battle was on somewhere and she felt tha, wherever the fight tniglit be there \\'illiam would surel}- be found in the- thick of it. llor heart sank and for several honrs her anxiety and snsiKnise were ahnost more than she conkl bear. At kist came the blessed news that reh'eved her heart. W'iUiani, sure enough, had been in the forefront of battle, but had come forth unscathed. After four years he came home from the war and he and :\Iaria were married Marcli 23, 1781. They H\ ed at Plarl-ingen, where W'iUiam owned a farm, and tlieir family Bible records the birth, of the following children :

8. James, born January 14, j8oi ; died May 31, 1884. rnarried en January 11, 1823, Parthenia I^ancake, who was born November 2, 1798, died April 2, 1884; both died in Brown county, Indiana.

9. Ruloff, born June 23, 1803; died June 13. 1872; married first en August 26, 1824, Mary Vermillion, who was born September 8, 1808; died July I, 1864; second, on February 9, 1865, Margaret Brown, who was bora March 7, 1806; died September 18, 1867; third, on May 28, 1868, Lydia Comingore; all of'Rulofif's family lived and died in Mercer county, Kei - tucky.

As their family grew in numbers a desire to give the children better opportunities caused \\'i!liam to decide to seek a new home in that beautifil new world bcvond the mountains, wonderful stories of which had been afloat ever since the close of the Revolution. In May, 1793, occurred a great migration from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the woods and hills of beautiful Kentucky. William and Ciarrett Terhune and their families were among the number who went. Their families and household goods were placed in great canvas-co\ered wagons drawn by horses or oxen and accompanied by droves of cattle, sheep and hogs. In this way they crossed the mountains to Pittsburg, where they took Hat boats and drifted down the beautiful Ohio to Limestone (Maysville), Kentucky. Here they landed, transferred their possessions once more to the wagons and completed the overland journey to Ilarrod's Station in Mercer count}-, Kentucky. This migration was but one hundred and twenty years ago, yet the change in the country since that time has been incunceivably great. There was not a bridge nor a steamboat on the whole course of the river. ^Marietta was a little village only five years old; Cincinnati contained some two hundred and fifty lawless spirits living in squalid log cabins. The journey w^as made in June, the most beautiful season of the year. The river was yet fiush with the spring rains; wild roses bloomed in profusion along its banks; bold hills to the right and left stood clothed to their summits in the glean.iing verdure of spring. Occasionally Indians peered from the thickets in idle curiosity, or in more hostde mood exchanged shots with the riflemen on the rapidly drifting boats. Thr^e months were required to complete the journey from Plarlingcn to Harrow's Station. At night the caravan halted at some spring or stream of waltr. On Sabbath they rested. Pluntcrs helped to supply the company with food. When the cows were milked in the morning the milk was put into tea pots and. by night the rough jolting of the wagons had produced butter ready for use. Soon after his arrival at Plarrod's Station, William Terhune bought a tra:t of land on Plarrod's Run, wdiere he and his sons built a house and cleared some fields. Here the family lived for twenty-seven years and here the fou.r younger children were born. But before much of this time had elapsed the little community had felt the need of a house of prayer. ''Indeed the serior.s and religious nature of these people was the heritage of the ages. Religious liberty was cradled in the Netherlands. It means something to be of the blood of those wdio fought at Ivry or perished in the butchery of St- Bartholomew; it means much to be the children of those who suffered the horrors of Haarlem and Leyden, and who cut the dykes to let in the wild North Sea upon their homes, sooner iian prove false to their religion. Of such ancestry were the Bantas, the Brewers, tfie Rikers, the Terhunes, the Van Nuyscs, the \'an Arsdales and the Voorhees." Though they were (53) in the wilderness and without a pastor, they kept up their Sunda)- .seivices. The coloin'sts who founded Booneshorough, Harodsburg and other early settlements did not introduce pul)lic worship. But the Dutch Reformed ditl not neglect their rigid observance of worship. They were a praying people. After the pioneers were provided with homes to shelter their families they set actively to work to build a house of worship. Henry Comingore, a sonin-law of Garrett Terhune, was sent to Xew Jersey to solicit funds. He made the trip on horseback^ - a ride of six weeks either way - collected the money and brought it home in his saddle bags. Land for the church site and cemetery was bought from David Adams, ap.d a large church of logs, plastered with mud, was erected on the dry fork of Salt river about four miles south of Harrodsburg. This church, built in iSoo, and known as the "IMud Meeting House, '" is still standing. The members of the Dutch Reformed church, among whom were William and Garrett Terhune, Inn'lt this ht)use of God with tlieir own liands. It was their place of worship as long as they lived, and it yet stands as a monume it to the piety and religious zeal of its founders. A few more lines will omplete the earthly career of William Terhune. In the }-ear 1S20 he Ijoughi a tract of land of Christian Ludwic!;, five miles south of Harrodsburg. Here he died June 18, i8j8, the ow^ner of two hundred and sevent}--fi\-e acre;. He was laid to rest in a little cemetery surrounded by a stone wall, on ? beautiful eminence near the west bank of Salt ri\er. in Boyle count}-, Kentucky. His wife. ^Nlary (V'an Nuice) Terhune, followed him to their long home August 4, 184S.

(\TI) Garrett Terhune was born at Harlingen, Xew Jersey, Xo\-ember 15. 1 79 1, and was lirought by his parents to Kentucky when he was on'.v eighteen months old. He grew up on his father's farm and married Xancy - Davis on the [5th day of August, 18 13. She was the onh daughter of Edward and Sarah Da\is. and was l)orn in Teimessee April 9. 1794. The_\- were the parents of the following chiklren :

Jouxsox Couxtv, Indiana

5. James (V'lll), born February 3. 1821 ; died January 21. 1S92; married on March 17, 1842, Euscbia Neville Xay, who was born October 1 1, 1S25, died December 19, 1S92; both died in Johnson county, Indiana.

IT. ^Minerva Jane, born Jai nary 10, 1834; diefl June 30, ic;o6: married on December 2j, 1854, Joel H. lloback, who was born July 25, 1835, who died at Dickson, Okla. Mr. Hoback was cai)tain of Company H, Fift)'- seventh Regiment Indiana \'olunteer Infantr\-.

Garrett Terhune lived on a farm near Xe\-ada, Mercer county, Kentuckv. from August, 1813, to Septemlicr, 1S30, when he came to Johnson county, Indiana. At the time of ais removal from Kentucky he had a wife and nine children. He had found life imi^ossible upon the limestone bibs of his native state and he braved tlu hardships of the wilderness that his children might have the advantages vhich he knew could ne\er be theirs in tlie old neighborhood. Banta's Histcry of John.>on county, says: "In the fall of 1830 Garrett Terhune and hi> brother, James, arrived from Kentucky and settled on the east side of Union township, a mile west of Peter \'andivier's place. Garrett Terhune had a wife and ten children to maintair.. besides two horses and a dozen hea 1 o( cattle. He paid a man thirty d liars been made and when the end of die journey ha<l been reached the movers' goods and their families were literall\- turned out in the woods. The brothers at once built two open camps, ten feet apart and facing each other. In the space between they made the camp hre at which the meals were cooked "and around ^vhich both families gathered of niglUs, listening to the moan of the autumn winds in the tree tops and the howl of the prowling wolves. At the end of six weeks they abandoned their cami>s for a double cabin which they had erected in the meanwhile." The story of the hardships endured by Garrett Terhune and his family, as told by a son who survives, presents a most pathetic picture of the time :

"The hrst and second planting of corn failed, and the third which came was ruined by the frost. There was no grain for the cattle and many of them died. The horses were so poor that they could not work in the plow beyond tw-o hours at a time, but had to be turned out to graze. Before the second year's crop came 'My. Terhune had to have corn for bread. T never ate acorns because 1 had alisolutel}' nothing else to eat,' said James, the son, 'but I often ate acorns because T was himgry atid had not enougli of other things.' The meal was low in. the barrel and the corn pone was cut into twelve equal pieces at each repast. The father without money went to the Tlawpatclv (a setllement iii Ijarthulomew couiil) ), to buy bread, where he met a distant relative who sold him the needed grain and waited for the money: Thus they tided over their day of distress till the new crop came."

The tract of land on which Garrett Terhune lived was an eighty-acre tract six miles southwest of I'ranklin, on the Franklin and ^Martinsville road. In the year 1S39 he removed to an eighty-acre tract of land on the "Three Notched Road" about one mile northwest of the present site of Trafalgar, Ind. His first \vife, the n'otlier of his children, died there February 18, 1851. On August 3, 1S51, he married Mrs. Jane Forsyth, who was born September 20, 1787, and died Feliruary 2, 1S56, and on September 4, 1S57, he married Mn. Nancy P'ickerel, v/lio v,as born Februaiy 3, 1794. Fie died January 24, 1875. He was a member of the Christian Protestant church, as was also his v.-ife. Politically he was a Democrat.

I'VIIF) James 'J'erhune, fifth child of Garrett and Xancy Davis Terhune, was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, February 3, 1S21. At the age of nine he was brought to the dreaiy wilderness of Johnson county, Indiana. The country was de\oid of the comforts and advantages of civilization and the boy thus grew up face to face with all the hard phases of pioneer life; its loil, its sickness, its gloomy solitude; iis utter lack of books or of educational advantages of any kind. In his boyhood the only schools were taught in miserable log houses with greased paper windows, enormous fire places and muc' plastered walls. Flis opportunities to attend these schools were few and there were no books at his command. In the absence of any text books he learned to read and spell in the "Testament." Upon reaching his majority he married Eusebia Neville Nay, jMarch 17, 1S42. She was the daughter of Asa B. Nay and Lucinda (Whitesides) Nay, and was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, Octob^er 11, 1825. Her father, Asa B. Nay, in early life, was a teacher and later a minister in the Primitive Baptist church. He was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, November 30, 1799, and died in Boone county, Indiana, December i, 1876. He was a son of Samuel and Nancy Nay. Samuel Nay was born in Culpcper county, ^''irginia, ^larch 9, 1763, and died in Johnson county, Indiana, September 30, 1S4S. He was a soldier in the Revolution. After his marriage, Mr. Terhune bought a farm and went to work with great energy. Farming was his life work. He finally owned and beautified a farm of one hundred and fifty acres two miles west of Trafalgar. Retiring from his farm in 18S2, lie lived for eight years in Franklin, and two years in Trafalgar before his death. He was energetic, industrious and progressive in his ideas. He donated both money and labor in 1866 to the rebuilding of the Cincinnati and [Martinsville railroad from ^lartinsvilk to Fairland, Ind. He was a man oT the highest moral worth and his wJioIe life was above repruach. He and l.is wife were Ijoth faithful niemliers of the Bethel Primitive Baptist church. He died January 21, 1892, and she followed him Decemljer 19, 1892. The\- were the parents of the following children :

S3S Johnson County, Indiana

Thomas Linval Terhune, the eldest son of James and luisebia (Nay) Terhune, was born in Johnson county, Indiana, April 17, 1844. At the time of his birth the county had not been inhabited by white men for more than twenty years. Swamps with their noisome exhalations covered much of the land and the dark wilderness was hardly broken. The environment of his early years lacked many of the element? that are contributory and almost essential to tlie highest mental and spiritual development. The schools of that time were poorly taught in dismal log houses. The homes were devoid of musical instruments, of pictures and of books. The churches were dreary and uninspiring. The only music to be heard in them was the uncultured congregational singing of hyinns tluit were drawled out a couplet at a time i'l broken meter and with a nasal intMua/iiun. The sermons were hard, doctrinal and denunciatory. Trul'- these were not the pleasant lines for a sensitive, eager-hearled lit tie lad to fall upon. But fortunately, he had honest, pious, God-fearing parents who, by precept and example, kept his young and tender feet in the pathway that letl to higher things. When he grew in years and stature he went to the country sch.col nearest his father's home an 1 learned as best he could from the j)Oor, unlearned teachers of that tiuK . And so he grew up, despite his crude eu\-ironment. to be studious, gentk and refined. When he quit tlie ccuntr}- sch.iiol-; he went to the Edinbur.^ high school arid to the "Old Academ)" at Franklin, and supplemented this by a private course of instruction under Dr. John II. ]\lartin, of Franklin, who was then the leading educator in Johnson coiuit}- and afterwards became president of Moore"s Hill College. In the winter of 1 862-3 he taught his tirst school and then l>egan a career of teaching in the country schools of Hensley township, which continued for more than thirty years. ThosJ httle roadside structures with four bare walls uere more than school houses to him. Each one was to him a sanctuary ; each one a studio where he migl t take the plastic, rebellious clay of chddhood and mould it through the years into forms of goodness and usefuhu-ss; a place where the rough diamonds picked up from the filth and rubbish of the world might be chased and wrought in that sknv and gentle way of his. patient and forbearing, into gems cf exquisite worth and beauty.

lie was united in marriage with Caroline \'ories, Decemlier 7, i86f. She was born' .\ugust 30, 1844, and died of typhoid fever July 29, 1896. Two years after the death of his wife, Air. Terhune closed his career as i teacher and came to Whiteland, where he lived until February 14, 1903. He was a man of high Christian character and utter unselfishness of natun . Oniet and unassuming e\en to the point of selfetlacenient, he was not a seeker after gain nor worldly place, and he did not try to impress himself upon a wide circle. Not only in the little things of every day, but in the broad and enduring purposes of a life time he followed the precepts of the Golden Rule. He had a perfect self-control and poise of temperament, and the rare ease of manner that comes of culture and nobility of heart. His presence wab ever kindly, serene and tender. He was not the product of his own time only, but was a composite of the best heritages of three centuries. For twelve generations his ancestors had been seriously and prayerfully considering the problems of life and eternity; of man's relation to his fellow man and to his (jod. In the perfection of his character, the purity of his life ard the sublimity of his ideals, Thomas L. Terhunc was the ultimate and highest fruition oi tweh e generations of such men and women as had gone to the making of his character and his ancestry. Thomas L. and Caroline Yories Terhune were the pareiu of two children, namely, (X) Rufus W'elister Terhune. the immediate subject of this sketch, and X'iolet V'ories Terhune, wf o was born in Johnson county, Indiana, on July 9, 1869. She was a dutiful ard helpful daughter and a kind and affectionate sister, always responsive to every call upon her sympathy and kindness.

The Bukk-Roiunson Lineage

Evabel (Robinson) Terhunc, the only daughter of Henry and Cynth a Ellen Burr Robinson, was b-orn at Lemuiul, AlinnesDta, June 6, 1S7S. xA.t tlie age of five NX-^ars she was taken by her parents U) Owatonna. where she was deprived of her father by deatli January 4, 18S5. fler mother continued to li\e in Owatonna where Evabel was in sciiool until October, 1892, when thev went to Minneai)olis to li\e. She attetided the P^merson school ard the Central high school, from which she graduated in June. 1898. She tlun entered the L'niversity of Minnesota, where she obtained an excellent classic d educatiijn. She did special wtirk in the languages and became proficient n Latin, French. German and Fnglish^ .Vfter lea\-ing college she spent two years in tra\el and then returned to Minneapolis for residence where she became a general social favorite and also an active member of the Kewayd n Chapter, Daughters of the American Re\-olution. and of the Park Avenue Congregational church. In the sun-,mer of 1906. she met Dr. R. \V . Te "- hune, of Whileland, Indiana, who was then >eeking health and strength in the "'land i)f the Dacotahs." Tlu ir aci|uaintancesliip (piickly ripened iuM.) an affection which resulted in tlieir marriage in Minneapolis on the iith dry of AugM->t, [909. After takirig up her roidence in W'hiteland, she unittd with the Bethany Presbyterian chiircli, and with the Alexander PTamiUon Chapter, Daugiiters of the American Revohition, FrankHn, Indiana. In addition to social duties, she also took an intelligent and sympathetic interest in the several phases of her husband's work, as a citizen, as a practitioner of medicine, as a public health official and as a hardworking and faithful leader of the civic and municii;al develupnicnt of his home community. But these many activities are but incidental to her environment. By nature she is thoroughly domestic in her inclinations and is, first of all and above all, a cheerful and lovable home maker and a devoted, affectionate wife and mother. To these priceless moral traits have been added a personality of rare beauty and charm. She has brought happiness into her husband's home and they live an idyllic life of perfect congeniality. They are the parents of two chddren: Helen Irene, born September 7, 1910, and Webster T^ucian, born January I, 1912.

In the paternal line Mrs. Terhune can trace her lineage no farther than her grandfather, William Robinson, who was born near New Romney, Kent, England, .Vugust 29, 1809. His father was a land owner and magistrate in his own community, but William, nut being the first-born, did not inherit the land, so upon the death of his father he left his native land and sought a newhome in the great western world. He crossed the ocean and came to Port Sarnia, Ontario, where he was married to Anne ^Matthews, January 15, 1838. Miss Matthews was also a native of England, having been born at Salisbury, Wiltshire, on the 19th of January, 1822, and had come to America in 1833. The young couple lived in Port Sarnia until 1847, when they came to the States and located in Waukesha county. A\'isconsin. Previous to the outbreak of the Civil war they moved to Leon, Wisconsin, where they li\ed until 1871 ; thence to Lemond, Minnesota, \\'here Mr. Robinson owned a farm an 1 lived until 1887. In that year they went to Owatonna. for one year and thence to Bowdle, South Dakota, where Mr. Robinson succumbed to pneumonia. May 14, 1889. After her husband's death, Mrs. Robinson lived for ten vears ^vith her daughter, Mrs. Kayser, at Minnesota, and then with another daughter, Mrs. David Gamble, at ^fillmnk, South Dakota, until Mrs. Gamble's death, and then with her son, William, at Milbank. where shs peacefully fell asleep. October 8, 1913. They were the parents of twelve children, as follows :

I. Matilda E., burn July 15, 1839. at Port Sarnia, Ontario: died December 28, 1899. at Owatonna. ?^linne>ota: married Gamble, August 29, 18 - .

3. Henry J., born at Port Sarnia, January 9, 1844; died January 4, 1885, at Owatonna, Minnesota; married on April 8, 1868, at Leon, Wisconsin, to Cyntbia Ellen Burr, who was born March 8, 1845, at Copley, Ohio.

Henry J. Robinson was born at Port Sarnia, Ontario, January 9, 184.1. He accom.panfed his parents in their removal to the States and in their fev changes of residence until their location at Leon, Wisconsin. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Robinson was anxious to become a soldier, bi t as his parents would not give their consent, he deferred to their wishes ani refrained from enlisting until after his twenty-first birthday. Then he ani his brother William enlisted at LaCrosse on the 28th day of March, 1865. ani were assigned to Company K, Fifty-eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, under Col. J. H. Lewis, . But the war was practically over and the boys were sent to the woods and swamps of Missouri to guard the Missouri Pacific railroad, then in process of construction, from the vandalism of guerillas. More monotonous service than that could not be imagined and the boys were delighted when honorabh' discharged July 28, 1865, after only four months service. Mr. Robinson returned to Leon, Wisconsin, where he was united in marriage with Cynthia Ellen Burr, the bright, attractive teacher of the village school, on the 8th of April, 186S. Tn April, 1869, the young couple went to Lemond, jNIinnesota, for residence. Here Mr. Robinson purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and engaged in farming and stock raising, in both of which he was eminently successful. Failing health induced him to take up the business of dealing in agricultural implements, for which there was an immense demand due to the rapid development of the vast fanning region? of the Northwest. His death occurred in Owatonna, Minnesota, January 4, 18S5, leaving a wife and three children, namely, Harry Leigh, Ernest Lynn and Evabel.

(1) Benjamin Burr, who came from England in the W'inthrop fleet which landed at Salem, June 22. 1630. Of all the periple who came from England to find homes in the Xew World there were none of a higher type than the nine hundred that composed that notable migration. "Not ad\-enturous, not vagabonds were these bra\-e pco])le. but \irtuous, well educated, courageous men and women, who for conscience' sake left comfortable homes with no expectation of returning."

"A part of the new immigrant^ settled at Salem, others at Cambridge and W'atertown." In all probability r.enjaniin Bmr went to Camljridge and remained there until 1635 or 1636 when the immigration from that place led to the foimding of Plartford, Connecticut, for on a memorial tablet in the Central Congregational church at Hartford may be f(,)und the name of Benjamin Burr as one of tlie original founders of that city. In .May, 1637, he vvas one of the si.xt}' \olunteers who marched under Captain J(jlin Mason to take part in. the Beipiot War. He died in Hartford (jii the 31st of }^Iarch, 16S1.

(H) Thomas Burr, a son oi Benjamin and Anne Burr, was bon at Hartford, Connecticut, January 26, 1645. ^^^ married Sarah Speck, a daughter of Cierard Speck, of Hartford. He was a member of the First church of Hartford and died in that city in 1/33.

(HI) Rev. Isaac Burr, son of Thomas and Sarah (Speck) Burr, ^vas born in Hartford in 1697. He grc:duated at ^'ale College in 1717, and 'vas ordained jvastor of the J'resbyteriat church at Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1744 he was called to Windsor, Connecticut, where he remained in charge of a Prc>l>yterian church until his death in 175:?. He married a daughter of Judge JolinEliot, grandson of John Eliot, the famous apostle to the Indirns.

(IV) Dr. Isaac Burr, Jr., son of Rev. Isaac Burr, was born in H; rtford, Connecticut, in 1724, and was a rejuitalhle physician in that city all his life.

(V) Isaac Burr, Jr.. a son of Dr. Isaac Burr, Sr., was born in 1759 in Windsor, Connecticut. He married Irene Orcott, of that place. He was a soldier of the Revolution and fought in the battle of Bennington, August 17, 1777. In the year 1804 he removed to Ellisburg. New York, where he died April 27-, 1827.

(VI) Harry Burr, son of Isaac Burr, Jr., and Irene (Orcott) Burr, was born in Dorset, \'ermont, Octolicr 20, 1803, and was taken by his parents to Kllisburg. New York, in the year 1804. He was married to Alvira Adeline Thompson, of Ellisburg, FelMuary 28, 1833. He moved the same }ear to Copley, Ohio, where he lived twelve years; thence to Florence, b>ie county, Ohio, for eight years, and thence to Fulton count}-, Ohio, for throe years. In 1866 he moved to Leon, Wisconsin, \vhere he died January 15, [876.

Alvira Adeline (Thompson) Burr was born at Ellisburg, New York, Januar}- 17. 1813. and died in Fulton county, Ohio, July 21, i834- She had descended in the paternal line from Jasper Thompson, of Ballston Spa, New 'York. He was a soldier of the Revuluiion and was severclv wounded in the leg. tie married Haiuiah Xeedliam, <if Ballston Spa, and they were the parents of seven children, as follows : Jasper, Ro!)ert, Crow ell, Eleanor, Harmer. Xeedham and Mary .\nn.

Xeedham Thom[ison was born in Ball Town Springs, Xew York, in 1790 and served as a drum major in the war of 1812. He was married to Sally Holley, of Westmoreland, Xew York, January- 30, 1812. Sally HoUey, daughter of X^athan and Cyrithia (Tillison) Holley. was born at W'estmoreland, X'ew ^"ork. June i, 1707. and died at Lei)n. Wisconsin, April 5, i88r. Other children oi X'athan and Cyntlu'a Flollcy were .\lonzo. Morgan, .\lzina and Xalhan. Da\'id Holley, Ijrother of Xathan, Sr., had a son, David, whose daughter. Marietta Hoiley, became fanous as the author .of "Josiah .Mien's Wife." "Samantha Allen at Saratoga" and other productions similar in kind.

Xeedham and Sall_\- (Holley) Thompson were the parents of Owen, Ora, A\'illiam, Ah'ira .Adeline, Cynthia, .\lzin.a Emmeline and Sally .Anne.

3. Ira Burr, born March 9, 1838. at Copley. Ohio; killed at Gettysburg, Tuly 2, r8r)3; private Company K. Fif y-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infant rv : unmarried.

5. Harlow, born May 18, 1840, at Copley, Ohio; married, first, Mrs. Jane Pray. December 22, 1861, and, second, Mrs. Laura T. Spencer; served in Third Regiment Ohio Cavalry.

7. (VII) Cynthia Ellen, born at Copley, Ohio, March 8, 1S45 ; married on April 8, 1S6S; at Leon, Wisconsin, to Henry Robinson, who was born January 9, 1844, and died January 4, 18S5.

8. Orrin, born March 23, 1847: died September 4, 1889, at Orange, Texas: married Helen Walker, Xovember 9, 1S71 ; served in Third Ohio Cavalry.

Cyntliia Ellen ( Burr) Robinson Vv-as born at Copley, Ohio, March 8, 1845, the daughter of Harry and Alvira Adeline (Thompson) Burr. She secured a good education and began teaching school at the age of nineteen years, which \ocation she followed for four years. She accompanied her father to Leon, Wisconsin, in 1866, and there met Henry J. Robinson, to whom she was married April 8. 1S68. After the death of :\Ir. Robinson, at Owatonna, Minnesota, January 4, 1885, she remained in Owatonna until both her sons had completed their high school course. In October, 1892, she removed with her son, Ernest, and daughter, Evabel, to Minneapolis, wliere she has since made her home, that she might be near her two sons, Harry and Ernest, Harry having alread}- established a business in the city before her arrival.

Harry Leigh Robinson, elder son of Henry and Cynthia Ellen (Burr) Rcbinson, was born at Leon, W'isoonsin, February 22, 1869. He was taken by his parents when but nine weeks of age to Lemond, Minnesota, where the family lived for thirteen }'ears. Then they went to Owatonna, where the boy entered the city schools, from which he graduated June i, 1887. A college education had been his ambition, but the death of his father before he was sixteen years old caused him to decide to begin at once a business career. He secured a position in a mercantile establishment in his home cit_\-, at which he worked for four years. Then feeling capable of greater things, he went to Minneapolis, where on the 2c' of March, 1892, he formed a partner- ship with Messrs. Ross A. and David F. Gamble for the purpose of establishing a wholesale fruit and produce commission business under the firm name of the Gamble-Robinson Company. In April, 1903, this business was incorporated under the original name with the following officers : President, Ross A. Gamble ; vice president, David F. Gamble ; secretary and treasurer, Harry L. Robinson. The business has grown with marvelous rai)idity from one room and a few hundred dollars of cajjital in 1892 to a corporation with fourteen branch houses and $i,ogo,oco.oo capital in 1913. This vast business operates over a territory extending seventeen hundred nn'les from Big Timber, ]Montana, to Sudbury, Ontario. Its organization and promotion has been the purpose nearest Mr. Roljinson's heart for more than twenty years. Besides the original house in. ^linneapolis, from which the business took its name, there are now thirteen branch houses. Of these diiTereut enterprises Mr. Robinson is prominent uf five and secretary and treasurer of eight. He is skillfully and masterfully promoting and developing this business to a point compared with, which its present volume will seem small indeed.

On the ^rith day of January. 1897, Mr. Robinson \vas united in marriage with Irene Allen, a descendant of promiricnt A'crmont families, but a resident of Minneapolis. She v.as born January 27, 1875, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. the daughter of Charles and Caroline (Fa.on) Allen. She is a most estimable and charming voung lad_\- and is a musician of much talent and culture. Their hoine life is ideal, and they are the parents of three children, as follows: Harold Allen Robinson, born October 9, 1900; Harry Leigh Robinson, Jr., born June 9, 1908 ;° Douglas Burr Robinson, born December 15, 1912.

Politically, Mv. Robinson is a Repuljlican and religiously, a Congregationalist. He is a member of the :\Iinneipolis Commercial Club and of the Automobile Club. By way of recreation from his strenuous business laliors Mr. Robinson travels. In person he is slender, with a refined face, and a manner so quiet and unobtrusive that one would almost think of liim as some scholarly gentleman of retiring habits rather than a hustling, successful business man of great constructive and executive ability.

Ernest Lynn Robinson, second son of Henry J. and Cynthia Ellen (Burr) Robinson, was born at Lemond, Minnesota, ^March 16, 1871. The first twelve years of his life were spent on a farm. During the cold winters of that latitude, he and his brother, Harry, walked across the prairies a mile and a hah to the little country school house. Then, on account of his father's failing health, the family went to town to live in die autumn of 1883. When Ernest was but fourteen years of age he suffered the irreparable loss of his father by death. Many days of sadness followed for the tender-hearted little lad.

but his mother was brave and far seeing and held steadfast to the purpose of securing for her chilrcn the advantages of an education. So Ernest continued his studies until he graduated from the Owatonna schools in June, 1892. In October, 1892. he went to ^linneapolis and began work for the Gamble-Robinson Commission Company, and has been connected with the firm ever since. In 1903, when the business was incorporated he became a stockholder, and in 1899 he went to the Pacific coast in the interest of the company and remained for nearly three years. While in California lie met Lulu Maude Blanev, a daughter of the Rev. Linus and Mrs. Gertrude ( Demmon ) Rlancy, of Kendallville, Indiana, and they were united in marriage at Los .Angeles, April 2, 1902. Mrs. Robinson was born July 17, 1876. Their union has been ble^sed with three beautiful little girls, as follows: Eleanor Lucille, born June 16, 1903: Dorothy June, born June 2, 1009. and \'irginia Roselda, born Xovember 13, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. R')l;inson have lived in Minneapolis since 1903, but he ha-^ continued U> travel for the firm and has been in every state in the union. as well as in Canada and Maxico. He is a faithful member of the Park Avenue Congregational church. Politically, he is a Republican. It has been Mr. Robinson's good fortune and to be endowed with a refinement of manner, an integrity of character, a kindliness of nature and a charm of personality, th.at win for him the lo\-c of all wliom he meets.

Vories Line.Vge

Caroline \'ories was descended in the paternal line from Steven Coerte or Steven Koers. the common ancestor of the V^oorhees and Van \^:iorhecs families of Xmerica. who with hi-; wife and daughter, Merghein. emigrated in A])ril, if>f>o. in the ship Bontekoe (Spotted Cow). In the old world Steven Coerte had no fann'ly name, but when he began life anew in the great new world, he adijpted as his surname the name of the village or community in Holland from which he came. This happened to be a small neighborhood of nine houses and fifty people, near Ruinen, Drenthe, Holland, known locally as "Hess" or "Hies." The father of Steven Coerte was Coerte Alberts who lived in front of Hees (Hies) or before Hees (Hies). The word "'Voor" signifies "before," so the two words were combined into the name "'Voorhees." The prefix "Wan" meaning "from" was often used and these three words "Van-Voor-Hees" thus coml.ined formed the full family name of the descendants of Steven Coerte in America. Steven Coerte was b(3rn in 1600. He married W'illempie Roelofse, who was born in 16 19 and died in 1690. On November 29, t66o, he purchased a farm of Cornelius Dirckson Hoogland, in Flatlands. on which he settled and where he died Eebruary 16, 1684. His descendants located in different places on Long Island, in New Jersey and at Caughhaughwago, Pennsylvania. .A.t the latter place I-'rancis Voorhees was born in 1763. During the winter of 1779-80 he and his widowed mother, in company with a family of Bantas, came to Kentucky and located near Harrod's Station. Francis Voorhees married Charity Montfort, about the year 1786, and mo\cd to the "Low Dutch Tract," situated in Shelby and Henry counties. He was a soldier in tb.e expeditions of Harincr and St. Clair against the Indians. When the Indian wars were brought to a close he returned to his farm, on which he remained until his dcalli in 1848. Francis and Charity (Montfort ) Voorhees were the parents of the following children : Peter, Francis, William, James, John, Fliza (Thomas), Polly (Mary Town send)). Catherine H'arber), Cliarity (Crawford), Henry, Preston, and one other.

John Vories, son of Francis and Charity (Montfort) Voorhees, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky. May 3. 1797. He was married in the year 18 10 to Mrs. Sarah (Cull}') Garrett, of Lciuisville, Kentucky, a daughter of James and Sarah Cull}', of (u-een!jriei county, X'irginia, where she was born on the 3d day of February, 178-'. Sbe had l;een married to William Garrett.

After her marriage to John \''or-es, Mrs. Sarah ( Cull_\- Tlairett) Vories was the mother of two cbiUlren, as f')lli_)ws; Hervey, born near Campbellsburg, Henry county. Kciuuck}', Januiry 2S: t8ji: Catherine, born in 1825 and married to John .\. Coons, January 2, 1843. Her\-ey A^ories was married on February 17, 1S42, to A'azaunah Carter. She was a daughter of John, ami Margaret (McClure) Carter, and was born near Christiansburg, Montgomery countw X'irtjinia. April i, [815. and came to Johnson county, Indiana, witii an uncle, John Dusing. and family in '.he year 1838. After a long life of usefulnes-^ and de\',)tion to htr fanu'ly, Mrs. \'ories ])assed away. January 17. 1898, and Mr. Vories followed her to their long home January 11, 1903. They were the parents of eight children as folk-iws : John Rufus, Caroline (mother of Rufus W. Terhune ) , William Allen, Fmmeline, James Montgomery, Angeline, Catherine and flervey Daniel.

The Nall Lineagk

Lena Enfield (Xall) ( Doran) Ti:rhune, first wife of Dr. R. W. Terhune, was born in Hodgenville, Larne coun'y, Kentucky. September 27, 18 - . She attended the city schools in her nati\ ; place and obtained a good high schc :»1 education. She was married to John Thomas Doran, of Hodgenville, November 22, 1877- To this union two children were born, Fvussell Oscar, born August 25, 187S, and John Thomas. Jr.. born July 4, 18S0. Mr. Doran died in May, 1880, after which his widow returned to the home of her father, with whom she Hved in Hodgenville, in Wichita and in SedaHa, Missouri. She soon returned, however, to her beloved Kentucky, where she was married to Dr. Terhune in Louisville, June 21, 1892. After her marriage she lived at Whiteland, Indiana, until her death, October 15, 189S. In early life she became a member of the ]Methodist Episcopal church, in which she continued until the year 1895, when she idcjitified herself with the Bethany Presbyterian church of Whiteland. Slie was a daughter of Bryant R. Nail and Catilena (Creal) Nail, of Larne county, Kentucky. Mr. Nail was born near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, October 16, 1831. He was a son of James and Amanda (Boone) Nail. James Nail was born in Scott county, Kentucky, in 1787, and was one of the first settlers in Hardin county. He was a pioneer Baptist minister and was assessor in Hardin county for many years. He was killed by a fall froin his horse in 1S42. His father was a soldier of the Revolution and also one of the first settlers in Kentucky.

Amanda Boone, mother of Bryant R. Nail, was born in Meade count/, Kentucky, in 1902. She was a daughter of Enoch and Lucy (Goldmar) Eoone. Enoch Boone, son of Sciuirc Boone and nepliew of the famous Daniel Boone, was born near Boonesborough, on the Kentucky rivei", October i5, 1777, and had the distinction of being the first white male child born in the state of Kentucky. Pie was one of the first settlers of Meade county, whe -e he died in 1862, aged eightj'-five years.

Bryant R. Nail was a carpenter, a millwright and a contractor ard builder. He 'built the Lame county court house in Hodgenville and ah o several large mills and bridges in Larne and adjoining counties. He came to Blodgenville in 1858 and lived there for twenty-nine years. In 1877 1 e -was appointed government storekeeper and ganger, from which position l.e resigned in iSSo to be the Republican candidate for representative from Lan e county. The county was normally Democratic by eight hundred votes, but Mr. Nail made such a vigorous campaign that he lacked but one hundred ard six votes of being elected. This was the best race ever made by a Republic? n in Larne county. He was again appointed storekeeper and gauger the same year and held this position until 1885. In 18S7 ^Ir. Nail went to Wichita, Kansas, near which place he bought a large farm. But three years later. le moved to Sedalia, Missouri. He died June 15, 1901. He was twice married, first to Catilena Creal, of Meade county, November 6, 1857. She was born June 15, 1833, the daughter of Armstead and Margaret (Stark) Creal. After the death of his first wife Mr. Nail was married March 22, 1864, to Virginia Young Thomas.

Mary Elizabeth Nail, eldest child of Bryant R. and Catilena (Creal) Xall, married Hon. David H. Smith, a prominent lawyer of Hodgenville, Kentucky, who served twelve years in the Kentucky State Legislature, ten years in Congress and is now a candidate for the United States Senate.

George W. Sbion

Self-assertion is believed by many people to be absolutely necessary to success in life, and there are good reasons for the entertainment of such behef. The modest man very rarely gets what is due him.^The selfish, aggressive man elbows his way to the front, takes all that is in sight and it sometimes seems that modesty is a sin, with self-denial the penalty. There are, however, exceptions to all rules and it is a matter greatly to be regretted that the exceptions to the conditions are not more numerous. One notable exception is the case of the honorable gentleman whose life history we here present, who possesses just a sufficient amount of modesty to be a gentleman at all times and yet sufficient persistency to win in the business world and at the same time not appear over bold, x^s a result of these well and happily blended qualities Mr. Simon has won a host of friends in Franklin township, Johnson county, where he is well known to all classes as a man of influence, integrity and business atiility.

George W. Simon, than whom a more popular man has not lived in Franklin township,. Johnson county, was born in Hensley township, this county, on October 19, 1864, and is a son of John B. and Sarah E. (WallaceJ Simon. The father was a native of Prussia, and came to America, landing ir New York City at the age of eighteen years. He remained in that locality two or three years, and in 1850 came to Trafalgar, Indiana, where he remained for five years. He there married and took up the vocation of farming, whict he followed during the remainder of his life. He was a man of unusua' energy and enterprise, and his efforts in a business way were rewarded with abundant success, as is evidenced from the statement that when he came to this country he was practically penniless, while a.t the time of his death he possessed an estate valued at sixty thousand dollars. He was the father of four children, George W., Ida ]\1., Cha--ley and Edward.

The subject of this sketch receive! his education in the conmion schooh of his home neighborhood and assisted his father in the operation of the home (54) farm. Upon attaining mature years he took up the vocation of farming on his own account and is now the owner of eighty-six acres of land in Franklin township, to which he gives his undivided attention. He is enterprising and progressive in all his methods, and combines stock raising with the pursuit of agriculture, feeding everything he raises on the place to his live stock, of which he breeds and raises large numbers annually.

In 1892 Mr. Simon was united in marriage with Susan Anderson, the daughter of Pe.ter and Nancy (Gibson) Anderson. The father, who was a native of the state of Kentucky, came to Johnson county with his family in his early youth and spent the remainder of his life in this county.

Politically, the subject of this sketch is a staunch supporter of the Democratic party, but has had no aspirations for office holding, being content with the exercise of the right of franchisi.'. Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of Eagles at Franklin and tak^^s an active interest in the workings of that order. Mr. Simon is a man of many praiseworthy traits, being scrupulously honest in all his dealings in the business world, and possessing rare fortitude and good judgment, advocating clean politics, wholesome living and honesty in business. It is needless to add that such a man has hosts of friends and stands high in the estimation of all who know him.

Hon. Henry Edward Lochry

The history of a county or state, as well as that of a nation, is chiefly a chronicle of the lives and deeds o'' those who have conferred honor and dignity upon socict}-. The world ju !ges the character of a community by those of its representative citizens and yields its tributes of admiration and respect to those whose words and acdons constitutes the record of a state's prosperity and pride. Among the prominent citizens of Johnson county who are well known because of the part they have taken in public affairs is Hon. Henry Edward Lochry.

Flenry E. Lochry, who operates a splendid farm of four hundred and ten acres in Clark township, Johnson county, Indiana, and who has been honored by election to the Legislature of his state, is a native of the old Blue Grass state, having been born at Louisville, Kentucky, on Noveml>er 27, 1863. He is the son of Fountain anc Rebecca A. (Bridges) Lochry, natives respectively of Kentucky and Indiana. The father was born in 1S09 and died in 1881 in Kentucky, where he had lived a life of honor and respectability.

To him and his wife were born four children: Mrs. Fannie Small, who lives in the state of Washington; Harry, deceased; Henry Edward, the subject of this sketch, and George, who died young.

Henry E. Lochry attended the schools in his native community and in 18S1, after his father's death, he and his mother came to Johnson county, Indiana, where his mother's relatives lived. She was the daughter of George Bridges, a pioneer of this county and numbered amung the prominent citizens of his day. The subject and liis mother settled in Trafalgar, where the mother is still living at the age of se\-enty years. In the spring of 18SG, IMr. Lochry located on his first farm, where he li\ed seven years, and during the following eleven years operated the farm of }>lr. Landers near by. Li 1903 he returned to his first place, to the cultivation and improvement of which he has since de\'Otcd his full attention. It is one of the best farnis in Clark township, ai. I the splendid modern residence, commodious and substantial barns, the well-kept fences and the splendid condition of the ireld.-; indicate the owner to be a man of rare judgment and wise discriminat'un in the operation of the place. He exercises good judgment in the rotat'on of crops and pays due attentiun to other modern ideas relative to the s iccessful tilling of the soil. In addition to the ordinary products of the faim, he pays due attention to the raising of live stock, which he has found a valuable and profitab.le auxiliary to successful farming.

Politically, Mr. Lochry has always been aftiliated with the Democrc tic party, in the cauipaigns of which he has taken an actixe interest. In November, 1912, he was elected representative from Johnson county to the General Assembly for a two-year term, and was assigned to the following comnu'tte.>s : Agriculture, natural resources, publ'c library, public expenditures and mii isterial. He is a man of progressive thought and sound judgment and lis legislative career during the first session of the sixty-eighth Legislature was highly commendable to him and an honor to his constituents.

Religiously, ^Ir. Lochry is a member of the Hurricane Baptist chur.:li, to wUich he gives a liberal support. Fraternally, he is a member of ihe Modern Woodmen of America and of the time-honored order of Fr.'eniasonry, in which he has attained to the degree of Knight Templar, and is also a member of Murat Temple, Xobles of the }^Iystic Shrine, at Indianapolis.

On October 22, 1885, Mr. Lc chry was married to Lillie A. Ream, a daughter of Dr. J. B. Ream, of Trafalgar, this county. To them have bten born two children, Harry R., who was born on September 4, 1886, and Ralph

L., born on July 22, 188S. Harry R. graduated from the Franklin high school and then entered Purdue University at Lafayette, where he graduated on June ti. 1913. Ralph L. also graduated from Franklin high school, and from the State University at Bloomington in June, 1912, and is now engaged in the study of medicine at Indianapolis. ]Mr. Lochry has always lived along high planes of thought and action, consequently he is admired by a large circle of friends for his honorable career, his integrity, honesty and genuine worth.

There could be no more comprehensive history written of a city or county, or even of a state and its people, than that which deals with the life work of those who, by their own endeavor and indomitable energy, have placed themselves where tlic-y well deserve the title of "progressive." and in this sketch will be found the record of one who las outstripped the less active and less able plodders on the highway of life, one who has not been subdued l)y tlie many obstacles and failures that conic to every one, but who has made them stepping stones to higher things and zt the same time that he was wmning his way in maueiial affairs of life gained a reputation for uprightness and honor.