LaPorte County, Indiana - Chapter 36: Religion, 1904 (part 4 of 23)

WILLIAM H. GOODHUE, of Michigan City, was bom in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 11, 1840. The ancestry of the family can be traced back to the Rev. Josiah Goodhue, who married Elizabeth Fletcher, a relative of Daniel Webster. The family was founded in America at the time of the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower in 1620. Nathaniel Goodhue; his grandfather, was a native of Windham county, Vermont, and was a lawyer by profession. He also operated a farm, and about 1820 he arrived in what was then called the far west, locating at Warren in Trumbull county, Ohio, a part of the Western Reserve. There he lived until 1840, when with his wife he removed to Michigan City, and here his last days were passed. He died about 1850, when seventyeight years of age, and his wife departed this life in 1847, at the age of sixty-six years. She bore the maiden name of Sallay Sergeant, and was a native of Dummerston, Vermont. Her father was a colonel in the Revolutionary army, and he had two brothers who were soldiers in the war for independence. To Nathaniel Goodhue and his wife were born two sons and two daughters.

William H. Goodhue, the father of the sub¬ ject of this sketch, belonged to this family. He was born in Windham county, Vermont, and after arriving at years of maturity was married to Desiah Hawkins, whose birth occurred in Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York. Her father, Harry Hawkins, was a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and married Lydia Clarke, and to them were born a number of children. Mr. Haw¬ kins served the colonists in the Revolutionary war, taking an active and helpful part in the struggle for American liberty. By occupation he was a farmer, and soon after his marriage he removed to Little Falls, New York, where he reared his family of twelve children. He died when well advanced in years, and his wile sur¬ vived him for some time and passed away in

Buffalo, New York. The Hawkins family was of English descent, and the first representatives of the name in America located here at an early period in the colonization of the new world.

When sixteen years of age William H. Goodhue, Sr., became connected with merchandising in Buffalo, New York. After his marriage he removed to Warren, Ohio, where he remained for two or three years, and in 1840 he brought his family to Michigan City, Indiana, where he became agent for the Michigan City Land Com¬ pany, acting in that capacity until the company ceased to exist. He was for ten years superin¬ tendent of transportation in the war department at Washington, D. C., but made Michigan City his home throughout that period. Finally he resigned his position at the capital and returned to this place, where he died eight years later, in 1879, passing away when at the Psalmist's span of threescore years and ten. His wife had died in 1852, being then in early womanhood. They attended the Episcopal church, and their influ¬ ence was ever on the side of right and justice. Mr. Goodhue, Sr., was one of the early mayors of Michigan City, and for many years served as councilman, taking an active part in the progress, upbuilding and development of this place. To him and his wife were bom two sons and two daughters, and of this number three are now liv¬ ing: Sarah S., William H. and Mary G., the last named the widow of Charles C. Griffith.

William H. Goodhue was brought to Michi¬ gan City when less than a year old, his parents traveling by stage all the way from Toledo, Ohio. Under the parental roof he was reared to manhood, and he began his education in the pub¬ lic schools of the town, but later enjoyed the advantages of a course in the Wesleyan Univer¬ sity at Albion, Michigan. From 1850 until 1862 he resided in Buffalo, New York, where he en¬ gaged in the hardware business, and then re¬ turned to Michigan City, where he has since made his home. For several years he was in the rail¬ road office of the New Albany & Salem Railroad Company, now the Monon Company, and after¬ ward traveled for eight years for the Ford- John¬ son Chair Manufacturing Company. During the past eighteen years he has engaged in the under¬ taking business with A. F. Earl. Politically Mr. Goodhue is a thorough-going Republican, having supported the party since casting his first presi¬ dential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church.

was a soldier of the Civil war, serving as a lieu¬ tenant in the Fourth Indiana Battery. He took part in a number of the early engagements of the war, including Shiloh and Stone River, and was captured at Chickamauga. He was held as a prisoner at Andersonville for eighteen months, and during his incarceration his health was so completely ruined that when he was released he returned to his home and died not long afterward, passing away when thirty years of age.

A. G. STANDIFORD, M. D. The medical fraternity of LaPorte county is one of the leading departments in the history of the county, and to this class belong those noble men who have given up the best part of their lives for suffering hu¬ manity. At the midnight hour or when winter's winds were sweeping across the bleak prairies these harbingers of good are called to the bed¬ side of woe and suffering and bring both scienti¬ fic aid to the physical body worn with pain and comfort and consolation to the spirit weakened and spent with mortal anguish. Among these worthy men is to be classed the name of Dr. Standiford, late of Westville, one of the best known physicians in the county from an early date. In fact he could be classed as the pioneer doctor.

He was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Janu¬ ary 27, 1816, and died February 10, 1894, the youngest in a family of three children, two sons and one daughter, born to Rev. Francis and Re¬ becca (Smith) Standiford, all deceased. Francis Standiford was born in Maryland, and his line¬ age is traced to the little country of Wales, and the early progenitors of the family landed in America early in the seventeenth century, settling in Maryland. They were related to the famous Patterson family, who were related to Jerome Bonaparte, of historic fame. Francis Standiford was a Methodist clergyman of the old southern school, and freed his own slaves. His wife, Re¬ becca Smith, was a lineal descendant of Revolu¬ tionary heroes, and her father, Captain Thomas Smith, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war under General Washington, and this fact entitles his descendants to become members of the great patriotic order of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

Dr. Standiford came with his parents to Greencastle, Indiana, when he was only ten years of age. His first training was in the public schools, and he then entered Wabash University, where he took a literary course for two years, and then engaged in the profession of teaching, which he followed for four years. He was about eighteen years old when he determined to enter the medical profession, and he began his reading in the office of Dr. Knight, of Bowling Green, Kentucky. After reading there for some time he came to LaPorte, Indiana, where he graduated, and began his practice of medicine in Clinton county, In¬ diana, about 1836, where he remained till 1838, at which time he came to Door Village, Scipio township, LaPorte county, where his father was stationed. He began practice there, during what was known as the two sickly seasons, and after remaining there two years came to Westville.

Dr. Standiford married, December 7, 1844, Miss Martha Reynolds, and four children, one son and three daughters, were born, only one of whom is now living, Clara M., now the wife of Clarence D. Hess. Mrs. Hess was formerly the wife of Scott Walton, who was a native of Penn¬ sylvania and was a locomotive engineer. One child, Mrs. Mattie Walton Weed, was born, who is a lady of more than ordinary accomplishments and grace, is a pupil in the Chicago Musical Col¬ lege, and is well known as a vocalist. Her social qualities and beaming good nature make her a prime favorite. She is the wife of Daniel West Weed, one of the young business men of West¬ ville. Mrs. Hess was educated in the Westville high school, and is also an accomplished musician, having been a pupil under an eminent French teacher in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Standiford was born in St. Lawrence county. New York, March 13, 1825, a daughter of Abram and Mary (Billington) Reynolds, who were parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters, but only three are living: Julia, wife of Daniel Shaw, of Kingsbury, Indiana; Mrs. Standiford : Elam, a retired resident of Chicago. Abram Reynolds was born in Worthington coun¬ ty, New York, in 1792, seven years before General Washington died, and he died March 13, 1872. He was a farmer and a soldier in the war of 1812. Politically he was a Jackson Democrat. He was a cousin of Governor John Reynolds, governor of Illinois during the Black Hawk war. He was a Mason, and he and his wife were members of the Baptist church. It was the 15th of June, 1836, when Mr. Reynolds and his family arrived in LaPorte, Indiana, at which time it was sur¬ rounded by the Pottawottomie Indians, and Mrs. Standiford says the whites lived in constant ter¬ ror of them. Mr. Reynolds rented land near where Kingsbury now stands. At that time there were no railroads through northwest Indiana to Chicago. The mother of Mrs. Standiford, Mary

Billington, was bom in the old Bay State of Mas¬ sachusetts, and traces her ancestory to the May¬ flower, of which ship John Billington was a pas¬ senger when she brought the sturdy Pilgrims to the bleak New England shore. Mrs. Standiford was reared in LaPorte county and educated in Kingsbury.

Dr. Standiford and his wife located at West¬ ville in the spring of 1847, and here and at Dewey in New Durham township was his field of practice till his death. Dr. Standiford was known as a gentleman of high honor and manhood, and was an ornament to the medical profession. It made no difference to Dr. Standiford who called him to the sick chamber, he always willingly re¬ sponded, and many of the members of the homes of Westville and vicinity will stand up and call him blessed. He was a man of high ideals and character, and the poor and needy never found him backward in extending the hand of help. His practice extended into Porter and Lake count¬ ries, and he traveled many a weary mile on horse¬ back, with his saddlebags, after the manner of the pioneer physician and surgeon. He was a very successful man in his business affairs as well as in his profession, and cared well for his family. At his death the county lost an estimable citizen as well as a worthy exponent of the medi¬ cal profession.

Mrs. Standiford lives a contented and peace¬ ful life in the pretty sylvan town of Westville, and is possessed of a sunny and genial nature. Her home is open to friends and strangers alike. We are pleased to present this, review of such an estimable lady.

DAVID W. CONDON, who is one of the live and progressive farmers in a county noted for its progressiveness, and who, largely through his own efforts, has become the possessor of one of the best farming estates in Clinton township, LaPorte county, is a native son of the county, and the sixth in a family of two sons and four daugh¬ ters bom to David and Catharine Condon. His father was born in Ireland, September 15, 1815, and died August 11, 1900. He was a small boy when he came to America, and made his Home successively in Canada, New York State, and Elkhart county and Michigan City, Indiana. He came to this country as a poor boy, and solely through his own industry accumulated seven hun¬ dred acres in LaPorte county, all but thirty acres of which was in Clinton township. He was a devout Catholic, and in politics a Democrat. His wife was also a native of Ireland, and was born in County Cork, September 29, 1825. She is still living, and makes her home with her son Wil¬ liam. Four children of these worthy parents are living: Ellen is the wife of George C. Burgan, a resident of Blue Island, Illinois, and an engi¬ neer on the Rock Island Railroad ; Mrs. Margaret Conlon; Nora A., wife of John Dalton, a pros¬ perous farmer of Seward county, Nebraska ; and David W.

David W. Condon was born in Clinton town¬ ship, LaPorte county, October 26, 1859, and was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools, remaining at home till his majority. After his marriage he settled down on one hun¬ dred and eighty acres of land which he inherited, and from that time to the present his record is one of steady progression, marked with industry, good management, and ability in every line in which he has engaged, so that he is to be classed among the foremost of the prosperous and up-todate farmers of the county. He has gradually added to his original place until he now has four hundred and twenty acres, thirty acres of which lies in Noble township. In 1891 he ercted a com¬ modious bam, forty-four by sixty feet, and in 1902 remodeled his residence. The farm, which is called "Homewood," and certainly deserves the title, presents a delightful appearance to the passer-by, and shows at a glance how well it is managed. Mr. Condon is very fond of high grades of horses, and all his stock is first-class.

May 2, 1883, Mr. Condon was married to Miss Emma E. Logan, who was born in LaPorte county, December 12, 1865, and is a daughter of Vorhis and Frances (Weed) Logan. Mr. Logan was born in Ohio, July 13, 1833, and is living in Noble townshp at the age of seventy, his life having been devoted to farming and threshing, in which latter work he has been known in this county for fifty years. He is one of the old pio¬ neers, having received his education and been reared under primitive conditions, and he has given his support to two great political parties, the Whig and Republican. Mrs. Logan was born in New York state, August 30, 1832, and is still in a hale and hearty old age. There are six chil¬ dren besides Mrs. Condon, as follows: Sarah, wife of Benjamin O'Hara, a farmer of Spokane, Washington; Josephine, wife of W. S. Linard, a farmer at Butler, Missouri; Charles, in Noble township; Abram, who was educated in the nor¬ mal school at Valparaiso, has been a teacher in the grammar department of the Union Mills schools for six years ; Serena, wife of Joseph Malloy, a merchant of Hanna; and Alexander

Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Condon. M. Ethel, the eldest, after completing the work of the common schools, was a student at St. Rose Academy in LaPorte, and has also taken instrumental music. Edward J. is now a student in Notre Dame, taking the literary course. Claire R. has finished the grades and is now in the high school at Union Mills. Thomas, who is very fond of mathematics, is in the eighth grade, while Maurice is in the sixth grade, and William in the fourth. Frances Bernice, Helen and Joseph com¬ plete the family.

Mr. Condon is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for General Hancock, and has been a dele¬ gate to county conventions. Mr. and Mrs. Con¬ don are members of the Catholic church at Wanatah, belong to the sodality, and take active part in the various departments of church work.

EVEREL S. SMITH, banker and merchant of Westville, Indiana, has been identified as a private citizen and business man with the west¬ ern part of LaPorte county for a third of a cen¬ tury, where he is well known and highly re¬ spected. He is the eldest of the three children of Asa and Sophronia G. (Spencer) Smith, both natives of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and born in 1808 and 1810 respectively. Asa Smith was the son of Oliver Smith and was reared and educated in the old Bay state. His occupation was farming. He was married in Massachusetts, and about 1836 came to Huntsburg, Geauga county, in northeastern Ohio, where he purchased a farm. He died there when the subject of this biography was eight years old. He was a man of strict honor and integrity, was a strong advo¬ cate of anti-slavery, and he and his wife were members of the Congregational church. Only two of their children are living: Rosine E. is the widow of George Crosby, and resides at Jef¬ ferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio.

Everel S. Smith was born in Huntsburg, Geauga county, Ohio, August 4, 1838. When nine years old he moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, with his mother, and was a resident of that county for about sixteen years. At various times up to the age of twentv-one he was a student in the Western Reserve Seminary at West Farm¬ ington. He entered Oberlin College when twen¬ ty-one, taking the classical course, and was grad¬ uated in 1863. He taught school for a short time. Before he had finished his college course, how- ever, he went to the front in defense of the stars and stripes. On May 28, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer In¬ fantry, a three-months' regiment. The company rendezvoused at Camp Chase, and the regiment was ordered to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, where it was stationed till the surrender by Colonel Miles, September 15. He received his discharge after four months and four days, service, and re¬ turned to Oberlin to finish his course of study. On September 26, 1864, he enlisted at Warren, Ohio, in the Second Ohio Cavalry, and joined the regiment near Winchester, in the Shenandoah valley. He was in hearing distance during the battle of Winchester, and while on picket duty a few miles above Winchester was taken pris¬ oner, but managed to escape from his captors. After several days of wandering, during which he repeatedly met and talked with Confederate soldiers, he reached his regiment in such plight that at first his comrades did not recognize him. While in the hands of the Confederates they had repeatedly compelled him to trade clothing with them until, instead of a heavy new suit of blue, he wore a tattered suit of gray, which enabled him to pass himself off as a Confederate soldier going home for a horse to replace one lost in a recent engagement. On March 9, 1865, after a com¬ petitive examination, Mr. Smith was commis¬ sioned first lieutenant of Company C,of the Twen¬ ty-fourth United States Colored Infantry, which was being formed at Camp William Penn in Phil¬ adelphia. While there the glad tidings of Lee's surrender, and five days later the sad news of Lincoln's assassination, was received. Soon after this the regiment was ordered to Virginia and was on provost duty south of Richmond during the summer and early fall of 1865. He was mus¬ tered out at Richmond, Virginia, October 1, after which he took a trip through the south and leased a plantation near Hernando, Mississippi, some twenty-five miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.

He then returned north and was married on November 9th to Miss Amelia Snyder, of Whiteside county, Illinois. The year 1866 was spent on the plantation he had leased in Mississippi, and his wife died there. He then returned north and in September, 1867, came to Westville, In¬ diana, which has been his home ever since. He first engaged in the drug business, and soon added a stock of groceries, and continued in this busi¬ ness twenty years. In 1887 he sold his mercan¬ tile business to E. T. Scott, the present leading dri ggist of the town. For some time previous to this Mr. Smith had done considerable business of a banking nature, carrying an account with the First National Bank of Chicago, which institu¬ tion he still represents in Westville. In the sum¬ mer of 1887, he established the Bank of West¬ ville, which he has carried on until the present time. In 1892 Mr. Smith erected a handsome brick and stone building for the accommodation of his business, and besides his bank he now con¬ ducts a store, the stock consisting of clothing, footwear and furnishing goods.

Mr. Smith is one of the leading business men of Westville, and his individual success has con¬ tributed much to the public prosperity and wel¬ fare. Besides the enterprises already mentioned he has a number of buildings in Westville, and owns two hundred and sixty acres of country real estate in New Durham and Clinton town¬ ships. On one of his farms he has about one thousand bearing apple trees.

Mr. Smith was married on March 10, 1869, to Miss Julia Noble, who was born in Porter county, Indiana, November 10, 1846, a daughter of John P. and Mary A. (Smith) Noble, pioneers of northern Indiana. Mrs. Smith was educated in the graded and high schools of Valparaiso, Indiana, and was a successful teacher in the schools of Porter county before her marriage. Four daughters comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Eva L., the eldest, is cashier in her father's bank; Nina L. is the wife of Luther A. Foster, a graduate of the State University of Minnesota and at present an attorney at law in Oklahoma territory; Mildred is a senior in the scientific course at Northwestern University at Evanston ; Elsie is also a student in the same uni¬ versity.

One of the mementoes of early days pos¬ sessed by Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a parchment deed to land in LaPorte county, executed during the administration of President Tyler, and bear¬ ing date of April 10, 1843 ; it is one of four deeds of its kind now to be found in western LaPorte county.

Mr. Smith is a Republican in politics. He cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln while a soldier in the ranks, and has voted for all the party's presidential candidates since that time. At the present time he is treasurer of the town of Westville, and is always willing to do his part in public affairs. He is a member of Westville Lodge No. 192, F. & A. M., and of the Independ¬ ent Order of Odd Fellows at the same place, also a charter member and past commander of Mar¬ tin Post No. 216, G. A. R. Mr. Smith became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church when

ELMER E. REESE, who is engaged in bus¬ iness in Rolling Prairie as a hardware merchant, was born in Wills township, La Porte county, on the 7th of July, 1863. There has been no esoteric chapter in his life history, his career always bear¬ ing the closest investigation and scrutiny, for his business methods have been straightforward and honorable, and his success has come as the result of careful management.

His father, Henry Reese, was a native of Ohio, and became a resident of LaPorte county, Indiana, in the year 1855, at which time he lo¬ cated in Wills township. He was a carpenter by trade and built many houses in this county, his excellent handiwork being still seen in many sub¬ stantial structures of this portion of the state. He is a resident of Rolling Prairie and is serving as township assessor. He married Miss Lucinda Ocker, also a native of Ohio, although reared in DeKalb county, Indiana. She, too, is still living, and of their family numbering six sons all yet survive, the youngest being twenty-three years of age.

Elmer E. Reese is the second son, and was reared on the old homestead farm in Wills town¬ ship, obtaining his education in the district schools, where he gained a good practical knowl¬ edge of the common branches of English learn¬ ing. In 1882 he came to Rolling Prairie to learn the tinner's trade and entered upon an apprentice¬ ship to C. G. Folsom. After he had mastered the business and become an expert workman he entered the employ of Taylor O'Brien in Rolling Prairie, being thus employed for six months. On the expiration of that period he began business for himself as a hardware merchant in partnership with Ed Marshall, this relationship being main¬ tained until 1888, when Mr. Reese and his brother William became the proprietors. This store has since been conducted under the name of Reese & Brother, and they carry a large and well se¬ lected line of shelf and heavy hardware. This store is well arranged, and their stock has been chosen with a view to the demands of a general trade in this line.

In 1890 Mr. Reese was united in marriage to Miss Effie Powell, a daughter of James and De¬ lilah Powell. She was born in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, and is an estimable lady, who has gained many friends during her residence in I n Porte county. Mr. Reese holds membership in the

Christian church, in which he is now serving as one of the elders, and in the work of the 0...*^ he takes an active and helpful part, doing ~ 1 his power to promote its growth and extend its influence. His political faith is that of the publican party, and in matters of citizensh is never remiss in discharging his every duty in advancing the public welfare.

GEORGE GRANT O'HARA. Throughout life George G. O'Hara has made his home near Union Mills, Indiana, upon the farm where he first saw the light of day, August 24, 1866. His father, William O'Hara, was born in Pennsyl¬ vania, February 8, 1822, and is a speculator. On reaching manhood he was married at Union Mills to Miss Martha Underwood, who was born on the 24th of July, 1831, in Richmond, Indiana, and died on the 24th of March, 1902. They be¬ came the parents of eight children, as follows: Lucetta A., born December 10, 1852, died aged twenty-seven; Mary E., born January 18, 1856; Nancy O., August 6, 1858; William W., April 22, 1861; Harriet Viola, January 28, 1864; George G., August 24, 1866 ; and John Riley and James Warren, twins, born January 12, 1869. Of this family Harriet Viola died October 9, 1865; James Warren, August 7, 1869; and John Riley, August 18, 1869. Mary E. is now the wife of Amasia Hunt, a farmer of Noble township, this county; and Nancy Olive is the wife of Alvin Bryant, a farmer of Clinton township.

George G. O'Hara has lived on the home farm continuously with the exception of one year spent in Nebraska, and in its operation he is now meet¬ ing with excellent success, for he is a thorough and painstaking agriculturist and a man of good business ability. On the 24th of February, 1890, he was married at Union Mills to Miss Clara Mills, who was bom at that place May 27, 1865, and died May 4, 1894, leaving two children: William S., who was born August 7, 1892 ; and Warren M., who was bom September 5, 1893.

Mr. O'Hara was again married February 7, 1900, his second union being with Miss Mabel E. Irwin. She was born in Silver Lake, Kansas, September 3, 1874. By the second marriage there was one child, Edgar Grant, who was bom in 1901, and died when only three months old.

Mrs. O'Hara was but a child when she came to Noble township, LaPorte county, and she was reared in this county. Her primary training was begun in the common schools, and she finished the English course in the LaPorte high school. She took five terms of work in the normal school at Valparaiso, and could have graduated in the scientific department. She also did one term's work in the kindergarten. As a teacher in La- Porte county she taught one year in Noble town¬ ship, four years in Clinton township and three years in the intermediate department at Westville. She was a teacher who took just pride in her profession.

Her father, Jesse Irwin, was born in Wiscon¬ sin, October 7, 1837, and is yet living in Noble township. He was reared to farm life, receiving his education in LaPorte county schools, and most of his life has been spent in this county. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years.

Mrs. O'Hara's mother, Sarah (Belte) Irwin, was born in LaPorte county, August 7, 1850, and died at her home near Union Mills, March 9, 1898. She was educated in the city schools of LaPorte, and was also a student under Professor Laird in Westville. She was a lady of literary talent, and was an important factor in the organ¬ izing of the Ladies' Library Associaton of West¬ ville. Her father was a native of England, and during the gold excitement, in 1852, went to the Pacific slope and was never heard of again.

Sarah Belte was born in LaPorte, Indiana, August 7, 1850^ Was married to Jesse Irwin in Westville, July 23, 1873, and died at her home near Union Mills, March 9, 1898, leaving a hus¬ band, son and daughter to keep sacred her memory.

This briefly relates the principal events of a life full of good deeds and noble aspirations. Our recollection dates back to when she was a school girl of eighteen, the acknowledged leader of her circle of companions in class work as well as so¬ cially. In school she had a faculty of going to the bottom of every premise, and was noted as a deep thinker and an able reasoner. This trait predominated through her life so that her edu¬ cation continued to the end. Coupled with this desire for foundation facts was a command of language which enabled her to express herself ablv upon all the living issues of the day.

She took a lively interest in the advancement of the human race, and was well posted on all social problems. She was an active worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and in all lines of temperance work. As a neighbor she was respected by those who knew her and her ad¬ vice was considered worth heeding. For eight

Mr. and Mrs. O'Hara are interested in the dairy business, and he has the farm well equipped for carrying on this industry. He has the best grade of Jerseys and shorthorns, and his milk is sold entirely for table use. Mrs. O'Hara ha** filled the chairs in Mary Hilton Lodge No. 359, of the Rebekahs, at Union Mills, and was a dele¬ gate to the grand assembly at Indianapolis in May, 1902.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Hara are members of the Presbyterian church, at Union Mills, and he is chairman of the board of trustees. He is a sup¬ porter of the Republican party and its principles, taking quite an active interest in public affairs. For a number of years he has been a member of the advisory board and has never withheld his support from any enterprise calculated to pro¬ mote the moral, social and material welfare of the community in which he lives.

JOHN N. FAIL. From early pioneer times John N. Fail has been a resident of Kankakee township, and his home is on section 18, where he owns a good farm of one hundred and sixty-nine acres. He was bom in this township on the 5th of December, 1834, and is the eleventh child in the family of Philip and Sarah (Nuzzum) Fail, whose history will be found in connection with B. S. Fail, his eldest brother, on another page of this work. Like the other members of the house¬ hold John N. Fail was reared to farm life, and his schooling was obtained in a log building such as was common at that period. His training at farm labor, however, was much more extended than was his opportunity for acquiring an edu¬ cation. It was necessary for him to walk three miles in order to attend school, but through the winter months he trudged almost daily to and from the little schoolhouse, and there laid the foundation for a practical education, which has enabled him to perform his business duties in a capable manner. He continued upon the old family homestead until 1857, when he left La¬ Porte county and went to Kansas, locating in Mound City, Linn county. There he remained through one spring and summer, driving a break¬ ing team. On the 3d of November, 1857, how-

On the 23d of December, 1858, Mr. Fail was united in marriage to Miss Roxy J. Morse, a native of Oneida county, New York, who came to LaPorte county when a little maiden of seven years with her mother and step-father. Mr. and Mrs. Fail now have five living children, four daughters and a son : Phebe Ellen ; Irena, the wife of Charles Bowell ; Alpheus W., who carries on farming; Roxy Belle, the wife of J. Vance Dorland, a prominent real estate and insurance man of LaPorte; and Beryl May, the wife of Willard Baker, of Anderson, Indiana. They also lost two children in infancy.

At the time of his marriage Mr. Fail located on the farm where he is now living, his first home being a little log cabin. Since that time, howeve he has erected a fine residence and has improved a farm by clearing the land, fertilizing the fields and cultivating good crops. He erected his pres¬ ent home in 1872, and his barns were built in 1880. His farm covers one hundred and sixtynine acres, and is divided into fields of convenient size by well kept fences. There are many modern equipments and accessories upon his place, and taken altogether it is a model property, indicating the careful supervision and progressive spirit of the owner.

Mr. Fail as one of the early settlers of the county has been a witness of al¬ most its entire growth and has contributed to its upbuilding. He cast his first presi¬ dential vote for James Buchanan, who was the only candidate for whom he voted that was elected. He has usually voted the Democratic ticket, but in recent years has advocated the plat¬ form of the Populist party. On one occasion he was a candidate for sheriff of his county. He be¬ longs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Rolling Prairie, and throughout his life has been true to the teaching of this old and honored fraternity.

REV. OLAF J. SILJESTROM, the pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church, at LaPorte, was born in Dalecarlia, Sweden, in 1837. His parents lived and died in that country, and he has a sister now living in northern Iowa and two brothers who are residents of Cambridge, Minnesota. His father was a farmer, and upon the home farm Olaf J. Siljestrom was reared. He acquired his early education in the schools of his native village, and his preparation was so thorough that at the age of fifteen years he was enabled to take charge of a small school as its teacher. He remained in educational work for five years, and then feeling the need of further mental training for himself, he entered' the Swedish University at Upsala, where he remained for three years, devoting him¬ self especially to the course of study designed for teachers. After leaving the university he spent two years in elementary preparation for the min¬ istry, and this was followed by eight years spent as a teacher in Sweden. His service in that direction was most commendable and gave uni¬ form satisfaction.

In the latter part of the sixties some of his brothers emigrated to America, and then wrote back to the family telling of the need of Swedish ministers to look after the spiritual welfare of the Swedish emigrants in America, the great move¬ ment, which later brought so many of the sons of Sweden to this country, having just begun at that time. About the same time Dr. Hasselquist, a Swedish minister, who had been in the United States for ten years, returned to his native land in order to induce ministers of the Lutheran church to seek the mission field of the new world, and Mr. Siljestrom, in connection with six or seven others, crossed the Atlantic in 1870. To further prepare himself for the holy calling he spent a year in the Paxton Theological Seminary, at Paxton, Illinois, now the Augustana College, at Rock Island, Illinois, and on the nth of June, 1871, he was ordained a Swedish Lutheran min¬ ister at Chisago Lake, Minnesota. His first pas¬ torate was at Madrid, Iowa, then called Swede Point, where he remained for seven years. On the expiration of that period he became pastor at Swede Valley, laboring at that place and vicinity for seven years. He then worked for two years in the mission field in Dakota, and in 1887 was called to LaPorte to take charge of the Swedish Lutheran church in this city, where he has since been located. In addition to his duties in the ministry, he has had occasion to utilize his early training and experience as a teacher in building up the parochial school and in Sunday-school teaching and other departments of the church work. His labors here have been most effective and far-reaching, and under his guidance the church has grown in numerical and spiritual strength} becoming a power for good in the com¬ munity.

The Swedish Lutheran church at LaPorte belongs to the Illinois conference of the Augus¬ tana Synod. It was organized in 1857, and the present house of worship, a beautiful brick struc- ture, was erected in 1883. It is in a very flourish¬ ing condition, and all departments of the church work are enthusiastically maintained. The act¬ ual communicants number about four hundred, and the church enjoys an affiliated membership of about six hundred.

In 1875 Rev- Siljestrom was united in the holy bonds of matrimony, in Boone, Iowa, to Miss Annette Thorson, and to them have been born eleven children, namely : Martin Emanuel, Han¬ nah Cecelia, Paul Bernard, Esther Amelia, Alma Hildred, Leonard Luther Nathaniel, Linus Antonius, George Livius Constantine, Walter Ben¬ jamin, Anna Seraphia, and Ruth Annette Elleonora. Rev. Siljestrom has been a member of the Chicago Pastors' Club (Swedish Lutheran), and still keeps in touch with that organization. He is considered a very scholarly man, an able divine and one who is greatly esteemed by his congregation and by the outside public as well. t

ABIEZER JESSUP is without doubt one of the very oldest of the living pioneers of the county of LaPorte, Indiana, and it is a pleasure to be able to record in historical form some of the details of his long career while he is yet living in the county with whose development he has been so intimately connected. Where there are now populous towns and cities, flourishing manufac¬ tories, and beautiful farmsteads ; all the improve¬ ments wrought by modern commerce and trade; social, religious, educational institutions, - in the first years that Mr. Jessup spent in this county there were only devious highways where now many trunk lines of railways pass ; settlements were few and far between and supplies had to be transported by water for long distances; farms were sometimes miles a part, people who lived five miles away called themselves "neighbors" - such were only a few of the contrasts between conditions at the beginning of Mr. Jessup's life and the end.

Abiezer Jessup was bom in Hamilton county, Ohio, June 26, 1820, and is the fourth of a family of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, bom to Daniel and Anna (Seward) Jessup, and there are four still living: Elrich, a widow, re¬ siding in Kansas ; Angie, wife of Mr. Gould, of LaPorte ; Viola, wife of John Grout, of LaPorte ; and Abiezer.

Daniel Jessup was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a mechanic, a wagon-maker, and an agri¬ culturist. He came with his parents to Hamilton county, Ohio, in an early day, and purchased a targe tract of land. In 1830 he came to northern

Indiana with his sons, and located near South Bend at first, where he remained during the win¬ ter, and in the following spring (1831), on mak¬ ing a trip to New Durham township, LaPorte county, was so pleased with the surroundings that he decided on a claim and at the government land sale in the fall purchased a tract which he and his sons at once set to work to develop. The Michigan state line, when afterward surveyed, ran very close to the place, and this sparsely set¬ tled district was called the "three mile strip." Politically Daniel Jessup was a Jackson Demo¬ crat, and was a prudent, cool-headed citizen, much respected and looked up to by his neigh¬ bors. He and his wife were members of the Christian church. Mrs. Jessup was a native of Virginia, and was a relative of William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state. She was a good, motherly woman, and possessed of the feminine virtues and strength that make the pioneer woman so worthy of honor.

Abiezer Jessup was about nine years old when he became a resident of LaPorte county, with the rest of the family, in 1830, and most of his educa¬ tion was obtained in the very primitive schools that existed in that part of Indiana. So many pictures of the rough, uncomfortable and poorly equipped schoolhouses of that epoch have been portrayed that the hardships incident to obtain¬ ing an education are familiar to all. The school was supported by subscription, lasted only about three months in the year, and the three R's were the only stock in trade of the master and the only knowledge he endeavored to inculcate in the minds of his pupils. Mr. Jessup also has some of the crude agricultural implements used by him in his early farming operations, such as the cradle and flail used for harvesting and threshing the grain.

He has also been in the Indian camp near Westville many times, and . knew personally the Indian chief Chailo, as also his successor, Shevango, and recalls the method of balloting for this latter brave, when pieces of buckskin were used for ballots, covered with Indian characters, and the election was carried on in much the same manner as that of civilized nations. Mr. Jessup has also seen many deer, bears and wolves where now are only the domestic animals. Michigan City in his time was able to boast of only two or three cabins, which he now sees to have grown to ten thousand souls, and he has witnessed the same progress in the city of LaPorte. His father was county commissioner of LaPorte county when the first court house and jail was erected.

December 18, 1844, Mr. Jessup married Miss Caroline Sharp, and all their six children are liv¬ ing except the eldest. William F. is a stockbuyer of New Durham township; Elizabeth A., the widow of Walter Geist, has a nice farm in Clinton township ; Flora is the wife of William Woolly, of Sac City, Iowa; Eddie Miles, who resides with his parents, married Miss Cath¬ erine Korros, and they have one child, Zelma, now in the fifth grade at school; and Harmon Sharp, a resident of Chicago, has three children, Loretta, Lawrence and Raymond.

Mrs. Jessup was born in Rush county, In¬ diana, March 11, 1824, and is one of the six chil¬ dren of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hayward) Sharp, one daughter besides Mrs. Jessup sur¬ viving: Martha, wife of James Monohan, of Michigan City. Thomas Sharp was bom in Ken¬ tucky and his wife in Virginia. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a farmer and came to La Porte county about 1836. He was a second cousin of Abraham Lin¬ coln. He has served in the war of 1812.

Mr. and Mrs. Jessup began life together in a log cabin in New Durham township, on one hun¬ dred and sixty acres of land, and they thoroughly deserve the success which has come to them through their long lives of industry and honor¬ able toil. Mrs. Jessup wove some of the clothes which her husband wore, and she still has the old-fashioned spinning wheel and reel, which she used while her husband was away at work in the fields with the ox teams. They now own a nice es¬ tate of three hundred and thirty-three acres in this township, where their last days are being spent in peace and contentment in keeping with their strenuous endeavors of the past. Mr. Jessup has been a life-long Democrat, and has always main¬ tained the beliefs of the great leader of that party, Andrew Jackson. He has at various times been a delegate to the county conventions of the party.

JOHN B. FAULKNOR. Perhaps no enter¬ prise to which man directs his energies brings one into closer touch with the people and the vital interests of the time than the labor of the news¬ paper correspondent. Throughout his entire busi¬ ness career Mr. Faulknor has been connected with journalism, and he is now at the head of a leading paper in LaPorte county, the Daily and Weekly Dispatch , of Michigan Gity, his labors ad¬ vancing it to a foremost position in journalistic circles. He was bom in LaPorte, Indiana, on the 29th of July, 1864, being a son of Matthias M. and Catherine (Worley) Faulknor, the former a native of New York and the latter of Virginia. He is a grandson of John K. and Elizabeth (Mount) Faulknor, the former of whom was born in New York and died in LaPorte in 1850. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Faulknor was John Worley, a native of Virginia, as was also his wife, Sarah Morris, who came from Virginia.

Matthias M. Faulknor was born in Mont¬ gomery county, New York, and after coming to Indiana took up his abode in LaPorte, where he was afciiwatd married. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Eleventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry, serving from the first call for volunteers until 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability. He entered the service as a lieutenant, but was discharged with the rank of captain. After returning from the conflict he made his home in Plymouth, Indiana, for a short time, removing thence to LaPorte, where he was engaged in the chair-finishing business until 1879. Removing to Michigan City in that year, he thereafter followed the same line of trade until 1881, when he took up his abode in South Bend, this state, that city being still his home, and for a number of years past he has been employed as a commercial traveler. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Matthias Faulknor, three sons and four daughters, as follows: Luella, the widow of C. M. Steinbarger, of South Bend, In¬ diana; Jennie, the widow of Samuel Lockhart and also a resident of that city; Mary, of South Bend; Frank E., also of that city; John B., a resident of Michigan City ; Harry E., who makes his home in Mishawaka, Indiana; and Jessie, the wife of Myron D. Puterbaugh, of Elkhart, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Faulknor are members of the Presbyterian church, and in his political af¬ filiations he is a Republican.

John B. Faulknor made his home in LaPorte, his native city, until fourteen years of age, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Michigan City, receiving his education in the schools of both places. After leaving school he accepted a reportorial position on the Michigan City Dispatch , having ever since been connected with that journal. In 1890 he acquired a con¬ trolling interest in the business, and is now its editor and publisher. Michigan City is well rep¬ resented by its enterprising newspapers, and in the journalistic circles Mr. Faulknor holds an enviable position. He is also a director of the Michigan City Library Association.

In his political affiliations he is a Democrat, and throughout the period of his majority has given a stalwart support to its principles. In his fraternal relations he is a member of Acme Lodge No. 63, F. & A. M., having been its worshipful master from 1898 until 1904; is a member of Michigan City Chapter No. 25, R. A. M. ; Michi¬ gan City Council No. 56, R. & S. M. ; Michigan City Commandery No. 30, K. T., having presided both in the council and the commandery; is a member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Indianapolis ; of Murat Temple, A. A. X. M. S. ; Washington Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias ; Halcyon Council of the Royal Arcanum ; and Michigan City Lodge No. 432, B. P. O. E.

On the 25th of November, 1897, Mr. Faulknor was united in marriage to Miss Esther Fran¬ cis, a daughter of Oscar and Mary (Dean) Fran¬ cis, the former a native of Michigan City and the latter of Ireland. Oscar Francis was a son of Thompson W. and Esther (Francis) Francis, who were married in Michigan City in 1839, the former being a native of Kentucky and the latter of Maine. Their son Oscar removed to the south shortly before the war and settled at Nashville, Tennessee, where he engaged in railroad work. His death occurred there in 1881, and he lies buried in Michigan City. Mrs. Francis came to this country from Ireland when four years old, locating in Nashville, and that city has continued to be her home to the present time. One daughter has come to brighten and bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Faulknor, Esther Frances Faulknor. The family residence is at 423 Pine street. Mr. Faulknor holds membership relations with the Episcopal church, and his wife adheres to the Catholic faith.

J. V. HICKMAN, who is now filling the po¬ sition of township trustee in Kankakee township and is a representative farmer and early settler, makes his home on section 8, where a well devel¬ oped farm of which he is the owner annually re¬ turns to him a good profit for his labors. He was born on section 16 of the same township, his natal day being February 19, 1846. His father, J. V. Hickman, was a native of Monongahela county, Virginia, and was a son of Rev. Joshua Hickman, a minister of the Baptist church, representing that section of the denomination known as hard-shell Baptists. In pioneer times he came to Indiana, settling in Henry county, where he proclaimed the gospel to the early settlers. There he re¬ mained up to the time of his death, and his in¬ fluence was a potent factor for good in the moral development of his community. The Hickmans are of Dutch descent.

of Union county, Indiana, in 1832, and in 1833 removed to LaPorte county, establishing his home on section 17, Kankakee township. He found here a district largely unimproved and unsettled, and in the work of upbuilding and progress he be¬ came an active assistant. By trade he was a blacksmith, and followed that pursuit in his earlier years, but later devoted his energies exclu¬ sively to farming. He lived to be more than seventy-five years of age, and well does he deserve to be mentioned among the representative pioneer settlers of LaPorte county. He voted with the Democratic party, and was a candidate for county commissioner at one time. He married Miss Rachel Coplin, a native of Virginia, where her girlhood days were passed. She lived to be sev¬ enty-three years of age. Her father was a prom¬ inent resident of the Old Dominion and was of Irish and Dutch lineage. He became well known as a stock-raiser, farmer and general business man. To J. V. and Rachel Hickman were born eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity, while five of the family are now living.

Mr. Hickman is the seventh son. He was reared in his native township, the common schools affording him his preliminary education, which was supplemented by study in Hillsdale College at Hillsdale, Michigan. He afterward engaged in teaching school between the ages of twenty and thirty years, following that pursuit in LaPorte county, where he became well known as a capable educator. In 1878, however, he left the school room, locating on a farm in Kankakee township. He had been married in 1873 to Miss Harriet A. Downing, a native of Kankakee township and a daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Wagner) Down¬ ing, who were old settlers of LaPorte county. Mr. and Mrs, Hickman have one son, Eugene, who married Letha Taylor, a daughter of J. C. Taylor, of LaPorte. They are now residing upon the old homestead.

In 1884 Mr. Hickman located upon the farm where he now resides, in section 8, Kankakee township, and has since been engaged in the cul¬ tivation of the soil and the raising of stock. In his business affairs he has been active and ener¬ getic, and his possessions have come to him as the reward of his earnest and persistent labor. He has been a life-long Democrat in his political views, and since the age of nineteen years has taken an active part in political work. In 1886 he was elected supervisor, and in 1888 was nomin¬ ated for the position of township trustee, but was not elected. In 1890 he was made the nominee of his party for supervisor, and was successful that time. He served until 1895, and in that year was again defeated for the position of trustee. In 1900, however, he was once more made the can¬ didate of the Democracy, and was elected by a large vote, although he had to overcome a strong Republican majority. He is proving a most cap¬ able officer as a member of the board, and re¬ ceives the commendation of all fair-minded citi¬ zens. His influence has not been limited by his business and political associations, however, for he is deeply interested in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge at Rolling Prairie and also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in this place. He has filled all of the chairs in the latter organization, and is likewise connected with the Rebekah degree. He has spent his entire life in Kankakee township, covering a residence of fiftyseven years, and matters of local progress and national advancement are causes dear to his heart. His friends are many, his genial and social na¬ ture gaining for him the good will, confidence and favorable regard of those with whom he has come in contact.

WILLIAM EATON. Almost seventy years have passed since this gentleman arrived in La- Porte county, and he has therefore witnessed al¬ most its entire development. As a public-spirited citizen he has borne his part in the work of im¬ provement, especially along agricultural lines, as his life has been devoted to farming, which occu¬ pation he still carries on near Union Mills, in Clinton township.

Mr. Eaton was bom in' Giles county, Virginia, January 12, 1822, and in October, 1834, came to LaPorte county, Indiana, with his parents. His father, John Eaton, was a native of Ireland, born about 1792, and emigrated to America about 1798 becoming a resident of Virginia. In that state he grew to manhood and married Miss Susanna Lindsey, who was also born on the Emerald Isle, in 1801. They became the parents of the follow¬ ing children : Joseph, born in 1818; Thomas L., in 1820; William, in 1822; Nancy B., in 1824; Samuel L., in 1826; Charles G., in 1828; George G., in 1829; Catharine, in 1830; Susana, in 1831 ; James Alexander, in 1833; and Elizabeth, in 1835. The last four were bom in Indiana, and the others in Virginia.

Since starting out in life for himself William Eaton has followed farming, and about fifty years ago purchased his present farm near Union Mills. Here he has eighty acres under cultiva¬ tion and twenty acres of timber land. On the 23d of April, 1857, he was married in Porter county, Indiana, the lady of his choice being Miss Mary Morrison, whose birth occurred in New York city, in 1834. Six children blessed this union: John William, born July 15, 1858; Almarette Vir¬ ginia, born March 22, i860; Henry Elmer, bom November 22, 1861 ; Kate Idela, bora April 17, 1867; Lillian Victoria, who was bora June 18, 1869, and died August 10, 1871 ; and Mary Inez, born August 9, 1871.

Mr. Eaton is a Democrat in politics, and he is a faithful and consistent member of the Meth¬ odist Episcopal church, taking an active part in its work. As a citizen, friend and neighbor he is true to every duty, and justly merits the esteem in which he is held. In September, 1902, his wife died. She was a faithful wife and a loving mother, and for almost half a century they trav¬ eled life's journey together. She was an active worker in the church. She is interred in the Union Mills cemetery.

HON. JACOB R. HALL. No history of LaPorte county would be a complete and finished record without an account of the Hall family, for since the earliest epoch in the development of this section of the state representatives of the name have been active in promoting public welfare and advancing the general progress. They have been associated with agricultural, commercial and financial interests, and their influence has ever been felt on the side of right and improvement. Hon. Jacob R. Hall was the founder of the fam¬ ily in LaPorte county. His birth occurred in Harrison county, Virginia, on the 19th of June, 1807, and back of him was an ancestry honorable and distinguished.

His father, Thomas Hall, was also a native of the Old Dominion, and in the early years of his manhood worked as a shipbuilder, but later turned his attention to agricultural interests. His death occurred in 1821, when he had reached the ad¬ vanced age of eighty years. He was a son of Samuel Hall, who was bora in the north of Eng¬ land and was of Scotch lineage. Samuel Hall became the progenitor of the family in the new world. Thinking that he might benefit his finan¬ cial conditions on this side of the Atlantic, he bade adieu to his native country and sailed for the new world, establishing his home in Bridgewater, Virginia. He was a shipbuilder by trade. His son, Joseph Hall, a brother of Thomas Hall, gained distinction as a soldier under General Washington in the Revolutionary war, while Ly¬ man Hall, another member of the family, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The coat of arms of this branch of the Hall family bears the inscription Turpi ter Desperatur (despair is base). Samuel Hall was also a cousin of Dr. John Hall, of England, who wedded Susan Shakespeare, a cousin of the world's great¬ est poet William Shakespeare, and the signet ring which solemnized their marriage is still among the Shakespeare relics at Stratford-on-Avon. Both Dr. Hall and his wife lie buried beside the great dramatist. Of the twenty-five barons who were chosen to draw up the Magna Charta, nine were direct ancestors of the Hall family and one of them was a signer of that document.

Jacob R. Hall received but limited educational privileges, for the schools in old Virginia at that time were not noted for their excellence. He was reared upon the old family homestead, and in the fall of 1827, prior to the time when he at¬ tained his majority, he left the state of his na¬ tivity and emigrated to Indiana, settling first at what is now Logansport. He had when he left home a horse, saddle and bridle and seventy-five dollars in money. He spent thirty dollars of his money on reaching the Wabash valley, and afterward loaned the remainder and lost it. His horse, too, died, and thus he was left with only a saddle and bridle. There were only three white settlers in Logansport when Mr. Hall took up his abode there, those being General Tipton, Lewis Chamberlain and Mr. Barien, a Frenchman. There were no settlers to the north as far as the lakes except a mission station, that had been es¬ tablished, and a few squatters and traders were living in that district. The country was an un¬ broken wilderness, and Mr. Hall cut out the timber for the first frame building in Logansport. He was also the first man who took a wagon from that place to Elkhart. With the early develop¬ ment and improvement of the county he was ac¬ tively and prominently associated through a num¬ ber of years. By General Tipton he was em¬ ployed to secure the good will of the Indians and to work with them in building their cabins, rais¬ ing com, etc. The red men belonged to the Miami and Pottawottomie tribes and Mr. Hall was present at all the treaties made with them.

In the year 1832 Jacob R. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Catharine Martin, a daughter of Joel Martin, of Cass county, Indiana. The young couple began their domestic life upon the farm on the western frontier, but as farm products did not bring very high prices at that time Mr. Hall was obliged to perform any kind of labor that would secure a remunerative return. Therefore he engaged in building houses, repairing wagons and wagon wheels, constructing roads and other such work as would afford him some ready money or supply him with the necessities of life. Like other pioneers he was an eminently practical man, learning his lessons from experience and adapting his knowledge in such a way that his own efforts were followed by very gratifying results.

In 1833 he removed from Cass county to LaPorte county and established his home at Round Grove, Scipio township, a mile and half east of Door Village. He made his second pur¬ chase of land of Harrison & Rambeau, including the entire grove, and he also bought out the inter¬ ests of Mr. Knight, who had settled in the grove. There was no improvement on the land save a rude log cabin, and four or five acres had been broken. It was in this primitive home that he and his family spent the first winter. It did not afford very great protection from the elements, for the snow drifted in the crevices and sometimes lay over three inches deep on the puncheon floor. A sheet was hung up over the bed in order to kep the snow out of the faces of the sleepers. Even this home was an improvement upon the condi¬ tions with which Mr. Hall was surrounded when he first came to the Wabash country, for during the first five years of his residence in this state he did not sleep upon a bed altogether for more than one year. He camped out while building cabins for the other settlers, while engaged in the con¬ struction of the Michigan road and while work¬ ing among the Indians, and he truly belonged to that class of brave pioneers to whom the country owes an unbounded debt of gratitude for what they accomplished in the reclamation of the wild districts for the purposes of civilization.

In 1835 Mr. Hall built a small frame house, to which he from time to time made additions until the year 1850, when he erected a commodious front portion to the home, and thus converted it into a comfortable and roomy residence. In 1865 he built a substantial brick barn, which to-day is almost unequalled in the state. As the seasons came and went he cleared his land, plowed and planted his crops and in the autumn gathered rich harvests. When the country became more thickly settled there was a good market for all his pro¬ ducts, and, his financial resources being thereby increased, he added to his possessions until he became the owner of a very valuable farm of five hundred acres situated on Door prairie and equipped with splendid buildings and substantial improvements.

Caroline E., who became the wife of Charles Simmons; Rachel, the deceased wife of Rev. Samuel Godfrey; Albert S., who is represented elsewhere in this work; Louisa, now the wife of Jackson Rodgers ; and William A., whose sketch is also given in this volume. The parents were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, taking an active part in its work, in its substantial growth and development. Mr. Hall died in March, 1875. He was one of the most prominent and honored of the early pioneer set¬ tlers, a man of strong force of character and up¬ right principles. His influence was widely felt for good, and he took an active and helpful part in advancing many measures which benefited the state and aided in shaping its policy. He became acquainted with many of the most distinguished and eminent men of Indiana, and enjoyed the con¬ fidence of his fellow citizens to a remarkable de¬ gree. In 1855 he represented his district in the state legislature, and no public trust reposed in him was ever betrayed in the slightest degree.

GEORGE L. McLANE, merchant and cap¬ italist of LaPorte, and with his business activity extending to other cities, has shown enterprise and progressive spirit that have proved important factors in promoting commercial expansion. There is no resident of this county who occupies a more enviable position in mercantile and finan¬ cial circles, not alone on account of the success he has achieved, but also by reason of the honor¬ able, straightforward policy he has followed : his close adherence to the most strict ethics which govern commercial life being among the salient features in his business career.

As one of LaPorte county's native sons, he was born in Noble township, February 8, 1858, and comes of Irish lineage, the family having been founded in America near the city of Phila¬ delphia many generations ago. His great-grand¬ father served in the Revolutionary war under command of Captain Bird. His grandfather was born, reared and married in Virginia, and re¬ moved to Wayne county, Indiana, during the territorial days of the state. Pioneer experiences soon became familiar to him, and amid frontier environments he carried on the work of estab¬ lishing a home for his family.

Bird McLane, the father of George L. Mc- Lane, was born in Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana, in 1817, and there resided until 1832, when he came with his father to LaPorte county, where he has since lived. Few, if any, of the residents of the county, now living, antedated his arrival, and his mind bears the impress of the early historical annals of this section of the state. In the fall of 1832 the other members of his fa¬ ther's family came from Wayne county, and a settlement was made on Rolling Prairie, where the work of developing a farm was begun. The family were living there at the time of the Sac war. In 1834 they removed to a farm at Union Mills; in what is now Noble township, and Bird McLane has since resided there. His parents died and were buried at Union Mills. When Bird McLane was fourteen years of age he and his brother drove an ox -team from Logansport to Cincinnati and returned with a load of groceries and several thousand dollars in silver for the payment of the Miami Indians. When twenty-one years of age, although in debt fifty dollars for his clothes, Bird McLane bought the farm near Union Mills upon which he now resides, and upon which he has lived for more than half a century. About 1868 he purchased a store at Kingsbury, and three years later moved it to Union Mills, but through¬ out the greater part of his life farming has been his chief occupation. His farm, now consisting of over five hundred acres, is said to be one of the finest, if not the finest, in LaPorte county, and is indeed a very valuable and attractive prop¬ erty. Mr. McLane is one of the prominent oldtime figures in northern Indiana, a man of fine character and wide influence, and although now eighty-six years of age, he still maintains as keen an interest in business and in his private and pub¬ lic affairs as he always did. He has extensive financial interests, and his possessions have all come as the just reward of his labors. Starting out in life at the age of twenty-one, handicapped by a debt of fifty dollars, he has gradually ad¬ vanced until he occupies a foremost position among the men of affluence in the county, and is equally prominent in the public regard. (Bird McLane died January 24, 1904, and his

Bird McLane wedded Abbie White Wells, in 1844. She was born January 28, 1825, and died February 10, 1901. She was a remarkable woman, and was descended from splendid ances¬ try. Her father, Theodore Hopkins Wells, was born in Connecticut, and in the early part of the nineteenth century the family emigrated to Loraine county, Ohio, where Theodore Wells was married, in 1824, to Jane Weed. In 1835 ^ey removed to LaPorte county, Indiana, and lie be¬ came a rich farmer and leading man of Noble township. He was born in 1800 and died in 1842, and although but in middle life he had already laid the foundation for a snug fortune, so that his family were left in very comfortable circum¬ stances. The Wells family was of English line¬ age, and representatives of the name came to the American colonies soon after the first settlements were made. On the family escutcheon there is no stain. Mrs. McLane's grandfather was a com¬ missary officer in the Revolutionary war, and among his treasured possessions was a personal letter written him by George Washington. On the maternal side Mrs. Bird McLane was de¬ scended from Frederick Weed, of the Thurlow Weed family, who were of French-Huguenot an¬ cestry. Frederick Weed emigrated from Con¬ necticut to Loraine county, Ohio. Mr. McLane has every reason to be proud of his mother's ancestry, who represent the highest type of sturdy and successful New Englanders that, emigrat¬ ing westward in the early days, developed this into a very rich section of the country.

In the usual manner of farmer lads, George L McLane spent his boyhood days until seven¬ teen years of age, when he turned his attention to merchandising at Union Mills, and thus en¬ tered upon a successful business career, there gaining the knowledge and experience in mer¬ cantile life that have made him one of the most prosperous merchants of northern Indiana. He built up an extensive trade at Union Mills, and there remained until about twelve years ago, when he came to LaPorte and purchased the interest of L. F. Weaver in the Frederickson & Weaver mercantile establishment, the firm then becoming Frederickson & McLane, by which name it has since been known. The store is one of the larg¬ est and most important in LaPorte, carrying an extensive line of dry-goods, carpets, curtains and the finer grades of house-furnishing goods. Mr, McLane is also a partner in the still larger store at South Bend, that of McLane, Baird & Com¬ pany, of which store his brother-in-law, Mr. Baird, is the resident partner. While engaged in merchandising Mr. McLane also became exten¬ sively interested in the wholesale grain business under the firm name of McLane & Swift, which firm he organized at Union Mills. Their busi¬ ness rapidly grew, elevators were established at a number of places, and the trade eventually reached a valuation of two million dollars per year. Two years ago Mr. McLane sold out his interest in the business, although on account of this being an incorporated company it still retains the name of McLane, Swift & Company, with headquarters at Battle Creek, Michigan.

A man of splendid business ability and marked capacity as a manager, Mr. McLane has been an important factor in the successful control of other business interests. He is one of the direc¬ tors of the LaPorte Improvement Company, and is also one of the heaviest stockholders of the Cumberland Mining Company, which owns one of the richest developed and working gold mines in Arizona, it being located in the Prescott district. He is also manager of his father's financial in¬ terests, and gives supervision to one and all of these various concerns. He quickly comprehends intricate business situations and finds the key to their unraveling. He bases his judgment upon a thorough knowledge of conditions, upon ex¬ perience and keen foresight, and his word carries weight in mercantile and financial circles.

Mr. McLane was married December 30, 1884, to Miss Mollie Josephine Baird, of Louisiana, Missouri, a daughter of P. H. and Huldah (Gunn) Baird, of one of the prominent southern families of Pike county, Missouri. They have one son, Howard McLane. Mrs. McLane is a member of the Episcopal church, and in social circles the family occupies an enviable position, while their beautiful home on Jefferson avenue is noted for its pleasing hospitality. Mr. McLane in the midst of onerous business duties finds time to aid in movements for the amelioration of the less fortunate and is most charitable to the poor and needy. He is a trustee of the Ruth C. Sabin Home for Old Ladies, and is a member of the Presbyterian church, while in the Masonic fra¬ ternity he also holds membership. He has gained wealth, but does not regard it as the primary object of life, and the person of upright character always receives from him kindly consideration and ofttimes warm friendship.

MARTIN T. KRUEGER. In 1856 there came to America from Germany Carl Krueger, the grandfather of- Martin T. Krueger. After his arrival he took up his abode in Michigan City, where he continued to reside until his life's labors were ended in death, in the early seventies, when eighty-six years of age. His wife passed to her reward about the same time, her death occurring at the age of seventy-seven years, and to this worthy old couple was born a family of four chil¬ dren, all of whom came to America.

Included in this number was Carl Krueger, Jr., a native of Mecklenburg, Germany. In his native land he served as coachman for a minister, and in 1864 he joined his parents in the new world, also taking up his abode in Michigan City, where the remainder of his days were passed with the exception of one year spent in LaPorte. His death occurred in 1896, when eighty-two years of age. Ere leaving the land of his birth Carl Krueger had married Fredericka Urbahn, whose father, Carl Urbahn, was a shepherd in Germany, and his death occurred there at the age of sixtyfive years. To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Krueger were born ten children, six sons and four daughters, and nine are still living, namely: William; Fred C. ; Otto C. ; Martin T. ; Conrad C. ; Rudolph F. ; Augusta, who became the wife of William Havekost, both of whom are now deceased; Caroline, the wife of Henry Seegert; Anna, the wife of John Brumner; and Minnie, the wife of Fred Spath. The mother of these children, who was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, still survives her husband, having reached the age of seventy-five years, and is a worthy member of the Lutheran church, with which Mr. Carl Krueger was also identified.

Martin T. Krueger was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, November 10, 1853, and was a member of the little band, consisting of father, mother and nine children, which crossed the Atlantic to America and took up its abode in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1864. As the parents were poor the children were early compelled to struggle for themselves, and at the early age of thirteen Mar¬ tin left home and secured work on a farm, re¬ ceiving six dollars a month during the summer in compensation for his services, while the winters were spent in attending the district school and in doing chores for his board. In 1870 he worked for a time in the Haskell & Barker car shops at Michigan City, after which he learned the trade of making and covering saddle-trees, but this occu¬ pation became unprofitable, and he then secured employment in a planing-mill, and was next em¬ ployed in cleaning locomotive grates for the Mich¬ igan Central Railroad Company. This work proving unhealthy, Mr. Krueger concluded to go farther west, and accordingly resumed agricul¬ tural pursuits near Mendota, Illinois, where he received twelve dollars a month as a farm hand. Continuing that occupation in Lasalle, Lee and Bureau counties, Illinois, for five years, he then returned to Michigan City in 1877 and began reading law in the office of F. G. Johnson. His preceptor died in the following year, and as Mr. Krueger had no money with which to further pur¬ sue his studies he secured the agency of the in¬ surance company lately represented by Mr. John¬ son and began business for himself, adding real estate and foreign passage to his line. After some years he was able to resume the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1886. Gradually he withdrew from the insurance business and de¬ voted himself exclusively to the practice of law. He now enjoys a large practice, and is the local attorney for the Michigan Central Railroad and the Pere Marquette Railroad, the Haskell & Barker Car Company, the First National Bank and many manufacturing firms.

Mr. Krueger cast his first ballot for Tilden and Hendricks, in Bureau county, Illinois, in 1876, this being the only Democratic vote cast in that precinct, and has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since that time. In 1879 he was elected city clerk of Michigan City, to which position he was re-elected in 1881 and again in 1883. In 1884 he was elected to repre¬ sent LaPorte county in the lower house of the Indiana legislature, in which he served as chair¬ man of the committee on cities and towns and was a member of other important committees. He in¬ troduced and passed seven measures through the house, among them several proposed amendments to the constitution of the state. He surrounded himself with a personal following which in many cases determined the fate of a bill, but rarely took much time in debate. Upon his return from the legislature Mr. Krueger was urged to again be¬ come the candidate for the office of city clerk but declined, although he afterward consented to be¬ come the councilman from his ward, which was politically Republican, being nominated by both parties, and served one term. In 1886 he was nominated by the Democratic state convention for clerk of the supreme court, but with the entire ticket was defeated.

In 1889 he was eleced mayor of Michigan City on the Democratic ticket, to which he was re¬ elected in 1891 without opposition. While in that office he inaugurated a system of public improve¬ ments such as had never before been thought of. Streets were paved, sewers constructed, the harbor bridged and a public park created on the shores of Lake Michigan, these steps being taken, however, over the protests of many citizens who thought the town not ripe for such metropolitan progress and who feared that property would be too heav¬ ily burdened with consequent taxation. All this^ opposition fell upon the mayor, and in addition to this there was an open rupture in the Democratic party over a local issue, so that when Mr. Krueger was again nominated in 1894 the discontented ele¬ ment, together with one faction of the Democratic party, joined with the Republicans and defeated him, by a small margin. Four years, however^ were enough to convince the people of Michigan City that a mistake had been made, and in 1898 he was again chosen as mayor by a majority of nearly eight hundred.

He served as chairman of the Democratic congressional convention for the tenth Indiana district in 1896, and after the convention had bal¬ loted many times without a choice his name was announced and he was nominated. The district was overwhelmingly Republican, but he deemed it his duty to accept and assist in keeping up the organization of his party. He succeeded in greatly reducing the opposition majority, but was of course defeated, carrying two counties in the district, however, that had gone Republican in the preceding elections, including his own. For twelve years he was a member and secretary of the Michigan City school board, but resigned in September, 1898. In 1898 he organized the Lake Michigan Water Company, which built the pres¬ ent system of waterworks in Michigan City, be¬ ing its present secretary and treasurer. In 1902 he was again made the mayor of this city, in which position he will have served for eleven and one-half years when his present term expires.

Mr. Krueger was married, in 1879, to Miss Rose Renspies, of Michigan City, and they have three children, - Thomas H., Edward S. and Helen M. The family reside at 1221 Michigan street in a beautiful brick residence erected in 1888.

SAMUEL BERRIDGE. This well known and highly esteemed citizen of Noble township is a self-made man who through his own well directed efforts and the assistance of his estim¬ able wife, has succeeded in acquiring a good home and competence. His early home was on the other side of the Atlantic, for he was born in Owesby, England, on the 5th of August, 1838, a son of William and Jane (Needham) Berridge, who wfere life-long residents of that country. His father was born in 1805, and died in Scipio town¬ ship, LaPorte county, March 3, 1873. His wife was born in 1811, and died in Noble township, August 3, 1858. In their family were the fol¬ lowing children : Mary Ann, George, Eliza, Sam¬ uel, John, James William and Betsey.

Samuel Berridge began his education in the schools of his native land, and after coming to this country continued his studies at Union Mills. Indiana, for a time. It was in 1855 that he emi¬ grated to America, and on landing in this coun¬ try he came at once to LaPorte county, Indiana, where he has since made his home. For some time he worked as a farm hand, and in i860 com¬ menced farming on his own account on rented land. He made his first purchase in 1886, when he bought an eighty-acre tract in section 16, Noble township, to which he has since added forty acres in section 15, making a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres. He has placed the land under excellent cultivation and has made many improvements which add greatly to the value and attractive appearance of the place. He is a good practical farmer, and well deserves the success that has crowned his efforts.

On the 15th of October, 1859, at LaPorte, Mr. Berridge was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Hockney, also a native of England, who was bom in Messingham, Lincolnshire, July 20, 1840, and came to the United States on the 2nd of July, 1 853, with her parents, William and Martha (Burrel) Hockney. Her father was bom in Eng¬ land in 1805, and died in Union Mills, Indiana, March 9, 1891. Her mother, who was born in Scotter, England, in 1809, Is stdl living at the ex¬ treme old age of ninety-four years. She is a daughter of Thomas and Ann Lillie Burrel. The latter was born in 1762 and died May 29, 1877.

Mr. and Mrs. Berridge have two children. Joseph Priestly, the elder, was born September 9, i860, and now assists his father in the operation of the home farm. He completed the common school course and also was a student two years in the LaPorte high school. Harriet Emily, bom March 1, 1863, is the wife of H. Z. Johnson, now living in Boise City, Idaho, a prominent lawyer, and they have two children, Kendrick and Katrena. She graduated in the class of 1881 in the LaPorte high school and she taught three years in the city schools of LaPorte and three years in the Austin public schools, of Austin, Illinois. She was a student of Michigan University, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for three years. She was a most successful teacher.

In his political views, Mr. Berridge is a stal¬ wart Democrat, and he takes an active and com¬ mendable interest in public affairs. He and his wife are widely and favorably known in the coun¬ ty where they have so long made their home, and they have a host of warm friends who esteem them highly for their sterling worth.

GEORGE F. SEYMOUR. Occupying an enviable position in business circles, George Fred¬ erick Seymour is honored and respected by all, not alone on account of the success he has achieved, but also by reason of the honorable, straightforward business policy lie has ever fol¬ lowed. It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but in conducting this and enlarging its scope many a man of less resolute purpose and of limited business sagacity would have failed, but Mr. Seymour has so directed his efforts that his business interests have grown apace with the progress which dominates the cen¬ tral west. Connected with real estate, finance and insurance, he is well known in LaPorte.

Mr. Seymour is a native son of this city, his birth having occurred in the house in which he now lives, in 1864. The ancestral history of the Seymour family is a long and interesting one, for it can be traced back to the time of William the Conqueror, and is represented by such distin¬ guished personages as Lady Jane Seymour and the earls of Yarmouth. The founder of the fam¬ ily in America settled on the Connecticut river in 1632, and the Seymour farm there is still in pos¬ session of representatives of the name. There were three families, and Mr. Seymour traces his lineage back to the one that lived in Norwalk, Connecticut.

George S. Seymour, his father, was born in Connecticut, in 1823, and came to the west in 1840, first locating in LaPorte, where he arrived with only five dollars. He had a desire to see Chicago, and after remaining in this city for but a short time he started to walk to the Illinois me¬ tropolis, but during the latter part of the journey obtained a ride in a peddler's cart. In the office of the clerk of Cook county he obtained a position, and among his other duties was that of taking a school census of Chicago when that city contained a population of only thirteen thousand.

In 1850 Mr. George S. Seymour returned to LaPorte for his bride, and wedded Miss Lydia Cummins Webster, the marriage taking place at tne home of Colonel Hathaway, a noted man of that day and afterward a distinguished soldier of the Civil war. Mrs. George S. Seymour is a native of New Hampshire, and belonged to the Webster family of which Daniel Webster was a representative. George S. Seymour was a law¬ yer by profession, but after 1858 devoted most of his time to the real estate, loan and insurance bus¬ iness, establishing a business which has been con¬ tinued since that date. When he went to La¬ Porte for his bride he had intended to return to Chicago, but, changing his plans, he remained in the former city and became prominent in its bus¬ iness circles. He wrote for the Home Insurance Company its first five insurance policies issued at LaPorte, and this company is still represented by the office now conducted by George F. Seymour. Mr. G. S. Seymour was a prominent Mason, at¬ tained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and assisted in establishing many of the commanderies in this part of the state. In his political views he was a Democrat, but never as¬ pired to office. He died at LaPorte in 1893, at the age of seventy years, and thus passed away a prominent and influential citizen, who stood as a high type of our sterling American manhood. His widow still survives him and is now living in Chicago.

This worthy couple had every reason to be proud of their sons, who became leading and suc¬ cessful business men. George F. Seymour has three brothers : Professor Paul H. Seymour, who is now with the Goldsmith Brothers, assavers of Chicago, is a graduate of Ann Arbor University, of Michigan, and he spent a year in studying chemistry and allied sciences in Germany. He afterward became professor of chemistry in the Detroit high school and later in the Lake Forest University, near Chicago. He has also prepared for the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D. C., some valuable monographs on chemical sub¬ jects, on which he has become a recognized au¬ thority. Walter W. Seymour had charge for ten years of the draughting department of the American Bridge Company, of Chicago, but now with the Frederick Post Company of that city. Arthur W. Seymour, of South Bend, Indiana, has charge of the extensive lumber department of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company at that place.

The fourth brother of the family is George F. Seymour, who acquired his preliminary education in LaPorte, and after completing the high school course here he spent one year as a student in the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois. From 1883 until 188 7 he held a position in the Merchants' National Bank of Chicago, after which he turned his attention to the life insurance business, traveling throughout Illinois and Indi¬ ana for two years. He then settled in Indian¬ apolis, where he continued in the insurance busi¬ ness until his father's death in 1893, when he rej turned to LaPorte, where he has since conducted the business that is yet carried on under the firm style of G. S. Seymour & Sons. He has made a close study of the insurance business, and thor¬ oughly understands its work in every 'depart¬ ment, comprising as it does multitudinous details. He is also operating in real estate and loans, and his clientage is extensive and of an important character.

C. P. Jacobs, a patent attorney of that city. They have two daughters, Helen and Ruth. In La- Porte they have gained many friends and enjoy the hospitality of the best homes of the city. Mr. Seymour is a member of the Business Men's Club, of which he was the treasurer for one year, and he is also a member and was formerly an officer of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protec¬ tive Order of Elks. He belongs to the local board of fire underwriters and the National As¬ sociation of Local Fire Insurance Agents, and is well known in insurance circles as one of the prominent and prosperous representatives of the business, while his genial, cordial nature and def¬ erence for the opinions of others have made him popular with all with whom he comes in contact.

SIDNEY BEATTY, who is occupying the position of bookkeeper with the firm of Winterbotham & Sons, contractors of provision cooper¬ age in Michigan City, was born in LaPorte, In¬ diana, on the 13th of March, 1842, and is a worthy and well known representative of an hon¬ ored pioneer family. His paternal grandfather, Dempster Beatty, was a native of Ireland, and on crossing the Atlantic to the new world became a resident of Ohio, where he remained until his re¬ moval to LaPorte county, Indiana. He cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers here, for at the time of his arrival this country was situated upon the frontier and the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun. Much of the land was still wild and uncultivated, and many of the now thriving towns and cities had not yet sprung into existence. Mr. Dempster Beatty was a cabinet-maker by trade and followed that pur¬ suit in his own home, making many articles of furniture for the pioneer households. His death occurred when he had reached the advanced age of seventy-one years.

John Beatty, the father of Sidney Beatty, was bom in Ohio and became a farmer by occupation, residing at Beatty's Corners in Cool Spring town¬ ship, LaPorte county. He arrived in this county in the winter of 1832-3 and began the develop¬ ment of a farm, transforming the tract of wild land into richly cultivated fields. For many years he continued to engage in agricultural pursuits there, and his farm became a very valuable and attractive one. He resided thereon until within five years of his death, when he retired from ag¬ ricultural life, spending his last days in Kos¬ ciusko county, Indiana, where he passed away on the 5th of July, 1885, at the age of seventy-one years and three months. He was familiar with the pioneer history of the middle west and was a participant in the Black Hawk war. Indians still visited this part of the country at the time of his arrival, and there was much wild game, but as the years passed great changes were wrought, and Air. Beatty always took a great pride in what was accomplished here and assisted in a material way in the development and improvement of this . part of the state. He served for many years as a justice of the peace, and his decisions were strictly fair and impartial. He was also township libra¬ rian. He was an adherent of Democratic prin¬ ciples up to the time of President Buchanan's ad¬ ministration, when he joined the ranks of the newly organized Republican party and continued to follow its banners until his death. As a. com¬ panion and helpmate for life's journey, Mr. John Beatty chose Miss Sarah Bosley, also a native of Ohio, and their marriage was blessed with three children: Sidney; John A., who died June 10, 1863, the age of seventeen years; and Sarah E., who died in early childhood. The mother was called to her final rest May 13, 1864, when fifty-three years of age. Both Mr. and Mrs. John Beatty were devoted members of the Baptist church, and their lives were in consistent harmony with their professions.