Noble County, Indiana - The whole text, 1902 (part 10 of 21)

For his second wife Air. Longfellow married, on October 8, 1868, Miss Sarah E. Hindbaugh. She was born on May 6, 1844, a daughter of John S. and Mary (Moore) Hindbaugh. To this union have been born ten children, of whom seven are living. A brief enumeration of these children is as follows: Ida M. resides at home and was a student for one year at Delaware College, Noble county. Ind. ; Howard C. received his diploma from the common schools and attended one term at Delaware College; he married Cora Arnold, and they have two children. Irene and John Bryon. He is a farmer of Washington. Homer, after finishing his duties in the common schools, spent six years in Delaware College, graduating in the classical course. He took first honors in the contest of the Central Oratorical League, including colleges in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and New York. He was superintendent of schools at Forgy, Clark county Ohio, from September, 1898, to January, 1899, but his health failing at this time, he was compelled to relinquish his educational work and has not taken it up since. He anticipates enterng Ann Arbor Law School. The fourth child was Hadley K., who is now deceased. Matthew L.. now a resident of Fort Wayne, has taught two terms of school, and is now a student in his sophomore year at Delaware College. Sarah V. is unmarried; Grace O., deceased; Chlce M., and Iva Z. ; John J., deceased. Chloe is a teacher of Washington township and Iva Z. is taking the normal course at Ada. Ohio.

John S. Hindbaugh traced his lineage tn the German and was born in Pennsylvania, was a farmer, was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Christian

Mrs. Longfellow was reared in Noble county, Ind.. and was but fourteen years of age when brought here in a wagon from Ohio by her parents. She was educated in the common schools and was herself a teacher in Kosciusko, AMiitley and Noble counties.

Mr. Longfellow has been an active Republican ever since casting his first ballot, and has been honored at various times with public office. He served five years as a justice of the peace, two years as assessor, and four years as township trustee. He was also four years postmaster at Wilmot, Ind. He has at all times and in all positions proven his efficiency and firmness for offices, of public trust.

Religiously Air. and Airs. Longfellow are members of the Alethodist Episcopal church at North Webster, Ind., while socially they are popular with a host of warm personal friends. Their record in this community has been a worthy one and they rightly merit the honor and respect which is paid them.

Saaiuel Ai. Saiith

Agriculture has many old and experienced followers in the township of Elkhart, Noble county, Ind., but none more so than Samuel M. Smith, the subject of this sketch. Air. Smith was born in Bowling Green township, Licking county, Ohio, April 22, 1822, and there lived until 1853, when he came to Noble county, Intl., and here made- his home with his father until he thought tit to take to himself a life partner, and t'> the father and mother reference will he made further on.

The first land' purchased by Mr. Smith was a tract of eighty acres of woods, the greater part of which he at once cleared up and mi which he erected good, substantial ami commodious buildings for dwelling and farm purposes, hut this tract he has since increased to three hundred and twenty acres, and has now one of the best farms in Elkhart township.

Mr. Smith was joined in matrimony, in Delaware county. Ohio, January _'. 1859, with Miss Elizabeth Brown, who was horn in Harlem township, Delaware county, Ohio, January 20, 1833, and this marriage was crowned by the birth of two children - Mary E. and Joseph W. The younger of these, Joseph W., was horn in Elkhart township, August 14, 1869. and was here reared and educated and was married, November 7. 1889, to Miss Myra E. Smalley, who was horn in Mound Creek, Miami county, Kans., October 3, 1869. and is a daughter of Lewis and Sarah (White) Smalley. This happy marriage was blessed with one boy and girl. Coy M. and Charles L, who are the pets and admiration of all who are acquainted with the amiable parents. Mrs. Samuel M. Smith, the grandmother of these two interesting young children, was called away March 10, 1807, greatly deplored by the family and the entire community, by whom she had been held in the highest possible esteem.

John A. Smith, the father of Samuel M., was a native of Shenandoah count)-. Va., and was born in 1894. He married Miss Mary Wilson, who was born probably O

Pennsylvania, the marriage taking place in Muskingum county, Ohio, and the newlymarried couple coming to Noble county, Ind., in [853. Here they settled in Elkhart township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Smith being upwards of sixty years of age at the time of her death and Mr. Smith nearly seventy. They were among the most respected residents of the township and their memory will long he cherished by those who survive them. They have had a family of ten children, and of these Samuel M., the subject of this sketch, was the fourth child in order of birth.

Joseph \\\ Smith and his accomplished and amiable wife are worthy representatives of their respective ancestors, and occupy .1 high position in the regard of their many friends and in that of all their neighbors.

John Cook

The foreign-born citizens of the United States constitute an important element of population and are. as a rule, among the most industrious and thrifty of our agricultural classes, and one of these citizens is John Cook, a farmer of Elkhart township. Noble county, Ind., and the subject proper of this notice.

The parents of John Cook, Henry and Sophia Cook, were natives of Mecklenberg, Germany, who came to America in 1866 and settled in Elkhart township, Noble county, Ind.. where the father died in 1873, when sixty-seven years old. and the mother in March, 1897, at the age of eighty-four. Of their ten children, John, the subject of this sketch, was the second child in order of birth.

Jchn Cook, also a native of Mecklenburg, Germany, was born August 12, 1833, and was in his twenty-first year when became to America. For three years be worked out as a farm hand in various places, and then located' in Henry county, Ohio, where he married for his first wife Catherine Rhodes, a native of Seneca county, in the same state. For seven and a half years be continued residence in Henry county, and then came to Indiana and lived in Elkhart county frorri the fall of [862 until his coming to Elkhart township. Noble county, in 1882. and here he now owns two hundred and twenty nine and one-half acres of choice land, and lias one of the best improved and cultivated farms in the township.

To the first marriage of Mr. Cook were born five children, viz: Mary, Ella, Ida B , Ada B. and Amanda. Mrs. Catherine died in Elkhart county, Ind.. in 1868, and Mr. I ook next married, in 1871, Angeline Klink. who In n-e him four children, who were named Charles, Bert, Julia and Edward. Mr>. Angeline Cook was called away in Elkhart count}-, when about thirty-two years old, and Mr. Cook was again married, choosing for his third bride Miss Sarah C. Dull, who was born in Stark count}-, Ohio, September 13, 1850, and this union has been graced with one child, Cora S.

Mr. Cook has been a steady-going, industrious and careful farmer, and through these habits has secured a competence that makes him contented with his lot in life. He has been a moral man and a model citizen, and he and wife are members of the German M. E. church, while in politics he is a Republican. His walk through life has been such as to win the respect of all who have known him, wherever he has resided, and

John Dull, the father of Mrs. Sarah C. ( Dull ) Cook, was born in Somerset county, Perm., in 1805, and his wife, Catherine (Hountein) Dull, was a native of Westmoreland count}-, in the same state, born in 1823. They were married in Westmoreland count}-, Penn., and thence moved to Stark count}-, Ohio, from where they came to Noble county, Ind., in 1859, and lived in Washington township until 1865, when they moved to York township, where the mother passed away in 1883 and the father in December, 1885. They had a family of eleven children, of whom Mrs. Cook was the sixth in order of birth, and no more respected family ever lived in York township.

Peter Schlotterback

The subject of this brief biographical outline, who bears the distinction of having been the first white child born within the confines of Noble county, Ind.. is an exsoldier, and a prominent shoe man of the town of Ligonier. Peter Scblotterback was born February 26. 1833, on the southern edge of Perry's Prairie, a son of Gideon and Mary (Fugle) Scblotterback. Gideon Schlotterback was a native of Pennsylvania and at the age of nine years accompanied his parents upon their removal to Ohio. He remained in the Buckeye state a number of years and then, in 1832, came to Indiana and settled on Perry's Prairie, where he remained until his death. His wife, Mary, was the daughter of Adam Engle. The union of Gideon ami Mary Schlotterback was blessed with a large family, twelve children having been burn to them, seven of whom are living. Their names are as follows: Peter, the subject; Henry; Susan, deceased; Eli; Luanda, deceased; Malinda, deceased; Millie; Adam; Mary, deceased; Ira; Emma, and a daughter who died in infancy.

Peter Schlotterback pursued his studies in the public schools of Ligonier until about the age of twenty-one years. At this time he commenced working by the month, and spent two years with Andrew Ingle. He then settled at Rochester, Ind., where for about eighteen months he engaged in farming. Then, for two years, he lived on the farm' which is his present home, afterwards moving two miles south of Rochester, remaining at the last location about fifteen years. It was while living on this farm in the fall of 1864, that he enlisted for service in the Union army, and for almost a year served his country faithfully, receiving his final discharge on July 4. 1865. In 1870, Mr. Schlotterback went to Texas and remained there thirteen years, engaged in the shoe business. However, finding that the old Hoosier state still had for him superior attractions, he returned to his old home in Ligonier and has since remained here, conducting a well-stocked shoe store and retaining a large share of the public patronage.

On August 1, 1857. Peter Schlotterback was united in marriage with Miss Rosetta Flowers, a daughter of Aaron and Phoebe (Sills) Flowers. The latter couple were both natives of Ohio, and about 1853 came to Indiana and settled upon the farm where Mr. Schlotterback now lives, the mother dying there at the advanced age of eightynine years. To their union were born two children, Rosetta and Michael, the latter deceased. The marriage of Mr. Schlotterback and wife was blessed with the advent of twelve children, nine of whom are living, as follows: Harriet A., born May 19, 1859, became the wife of Jefferson Johns, and to them were born five children, W'innifred, Carrie, Daisy, Thomas and an infant daughter, deceased; Milton II. married Ricki Zimmerman, and they have 1 me child, Iva; Cassius M. married Sarah Miller; Lincoln P. is now living in California; Mary E. is the wife of Alonzo Irion; Gideon E. married Lucretia Defenbaugh; Phoebe I. became the wife of Jacob L. Albright; Iva L. is the wife of Edward E. Hutton; Aaron E. is deceased; Carlotta I. married Jacob E. Huffman; Irma W. died in infancy, and Lizzie Clara is also deceased.

Politically Air. Schlotterback is not bound by any party ties, but votes at all times for principle rather than party, giving his support to those men whom he considers m« st worthy of the public confidence. In all matters affecting the public welfare Mr. Schlotterback takes a keen and active interest, and invariably throws his influence in the direction of the higher moral, social and commercial standing of his community. His business efforts have been crowned with a large degree of success, richly merited, and now in his advanced years he is enjoying the reward of his former toil and honest endeavor.

David Tourdan

native of Columbiana county, Ohio, was born December 17. 1.841, and is a son of William and Catherine (Wolf) Jourdan, both natives of Germany, the father coming from Baden. They were married in Columbiana county, and in 1846. when David was a lad of six years of age, moved with their family to Noble county, Ind., settling on a farm in Wayne township. Here the mother died at the age of fifty-two years, her consort following her to the grave a few years later, at the age of sixty years. They were the parents of seven children, David, the subject, being the eldest.

David Jourdan passed his youthful days upon his father's farm, located about three miles from Kendallville, on what was known as "Long Marsh." There he received his education through the medium of the district school, and assisted his father in reclaiming a home farm from the wild lands out of which some of the finest farms of the country have been made. At the early age of fourteen he began working for farmers of the neighborhood and in what was then known as the "Sawyer Settlement."

When the Civil war broke out in 1861, David Jourdan was early enthused with the patriotic spirit which burst forth in all parts of the country. The first call was soon filled, and strong belief was held that the trouble would soon be overcome. It was not until October, 1862, therefore, that Mr. Jourdan entered the service, enlisting in Company M. First Indiana Sharpshooters, serving one year. He was in the engagement at Island Xo. 10, that at Pea Ridge, and the battle at Helena, Ark. The enlistment being for one year, he returned home at the expiration of his term, going to Noble county, where he engaged in working on a farm and in a saw:mill for about ten years. He then bought twenty acres of land in "Wayne township, which he improved, and whereon he settled and lived for two years. Selling this piece of property for a fair sum, he purchased one hundred acres in Elkhart township, located near the town of Cosperville. He cleared and settled on this farm, making valuable improvements and erecting good and substantial buildings. This fine piece of property became his home for twenty years. Desiring to retire from the arduous duties incident to farm life, he rented the place and engaged as a traveling salesman for the Fleming Manufacturing Company, of Fort Wayne, 'remaining with the company for six years, making his home in that city. After severing his connection with the company he returned to Cosperville and engaged in the hardware business, meeting with the same general success which had rewarded his efforts in all previous lines.

November 25, 1863, shortly after his return from the army, Mr. Jourdan married Miss Sarah Iddings,- who was born in Kendallville, Ind., July 26, 1846. They are. the parents of two children, namely : Waldo and Georgia, the latter of whom is married to James Milner, of Ligonier.

The father of Mrs. Jourdan was Jackson Iddings, a native of Seneca county, Ohio, and the mother was Barbara Dingman, who was born in Shelby county, Ohio. After marriage they moved to Indiana and settled in Wayne township, where they died, she at the age of sixty years, and he at the ripe old age of seventy-nine. They were the parents of thirteen children, Mrs. Jourdan being the sixth in order of birth. Among the fraternal organizations Air. Jourdan holds membership with the A. F. & A. M.,

The settlers of Noble count}-, Inch, of over half a century ago might with strict propriety have been designated as pioneers, as the country was at that time quite a wilderness and in many parts awaiting the first stroke of the sturdy woodman's ax in laying low the giant monarchs of the forests for the purpose of making way for the onward march of a fast-approaching civilization, as was the case with Elkhart township when the late John Pancake came here from the Buckeye state in 1846.

The pioneer's life, as even modern readers km i\v through tradition and otherwise, was one of self-sacrifice, hard toil and unwavering courage in facing the inevitable dangers attendant upon life in the depths of the mysterious forests infested with wild beasts of prey and men of equally wild propensities, and with these it was the lot of the subject of this sketch, of reverend memory, largely to contend.

John Pancake, the founder of the greatly respected family bearing that surname in Noble county at this day, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, on the old Pancake homestead, July 9, 181 8, and was reared to farming. He was first married in his native county, in 1846. to Miss Etfie A. Radcliff. who was also a native of the Buckeye state and a daughter of Job and Martha Radcliff, who were born in Yirginia. John Pancake and his bride came to Indiana the same year of their marriage and settled in Noble county on land which had been entered in 1838 in Elkhart township by his father, John Pancake, and on which he later erected the fine residence which is still the pride of the township. Here Mrs. Effie A. Pancake was called from earth in 1847, leaving one child, Elias Douglass Pancake, who died in Wichita, Kans., December 10. [883, of pneumonia.

The second marriage of John Pancake took place March 4, 1849, m Pickaway county, Ohio, to Miss Susan Cornell, a native of Virginia, born October 6. 1818 and a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Parker) Cornell, also> natives of the Old Dominion, but who died in McLean county, 111. To this second marriage were born two children, viz. : Mary E., the wid< w 1 >f Elza J. Thompson, who died in 1'errv township, Noble county, Ind., Ma)- 3. 1899; and Margaret E.

It was on his wedding day, March 4, 1849, that John Pancake and his newly-wedded wife started on horseback from Ohio for their home in Noble county. Ind.. taking eleven days to make the journey, and took up their residence on a well-appointed farm. Like his elegant brick dwelling, this farm was a model in neatness and was cultivated in the most scientific and effective manner. His crops were always sure and reliable and consequently profitable. His farm buildings were commodious and substantial, and supplied with every convenience, and his live stock of the highest strains and best pedigrees. He thoroughly understood his vocation, and had but few. if any, equals in its practice.

Mr. Pancake was broad minded and liberal in his political views, was active in local affairs, and did much toward directing the course of public events. His advice was sought on all questions of public investment in works of utility, and his foresightedness a marvel to his fellow citizens, as he never made a mistake in his forecast of results- He was a God-fearing man, incorruptible in love of truth and unswerving in his integrity. This noble old pioneer died on his estate of three hundred and eighty acres in Noble county j January 6, 1892, and his loss was a deq> sorrow to his friends and neighborhood, who felt that one of the best and wisest men of the township had been taken from their midst and that his equal would not soon be found.

Ephraim Harting

An influential agriculturist and prominent citizen of Noble county. Ind., was born in Summit county, Ohio, August 30, 1843, an(1 is a son of Richard and Anna M. (Click) Harting. both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. The father was born March 18, 1&10; and was a child of two years when his parents moved into Ohio, which was his home until 1854, when he came to Noble county. Ind., and later to Elkhart county, where he died June 28. 1888, at the age of S&venty-eight years. Twelve children composed his family: Richard, Jr., Samuel, Hezekiah, Simon. Manassa and Sarah died in early life, while Maria, Valentine, Eliza, Hannah, Ephraim and Franklin grew to adult years. Maria was the wife of William J. Miller and died in September, 1890. Valentine, now deceased, married Miss Rebecca Streby. Eliza is the widow of Joel Raber. Hannah is the wife of William Shroyer, and Franklin was united with Miss Delia Hassinger.

Ephraim Harting received his education in the public schools of Wolcottville and adopted the pursuit of husbandry as the vocation of his life. On March 17, 1887, he took up his residence on the farm he now occupies and has given his entire attention to its cultivation. He owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Noble county and eighty acres in Elkhart, which is kept in a high state of cultivation and shows the careful, painstaking farmer. Mr. Harting was joined in marriage with Miss Rebecca R. Newman, a daughter of Asbury and Margaret (Cochran) Newnam. The father died in January, 1867. Mrs. Harting was one of the seven children, viz : Nancy, wife of Levi Eshelman ; Rebecca, Mrs. Harting; Melvina F.. Mrs. Morton Whitmer, a , widow; William H., who died in childhood; Francis : Margaret J., deceased; and Charles, who died in infancy. Six children have blessed the home of Ephraim Harting, namely: John F., who was born May 22, 1867; Clara A., who was born in 1869 and died in infancy; Ida M. and Homer, who were twins and were born November 3. [871. Ida lived but a short time, but Homer has grown to manhood and is the father of two bright children, Lela M. and Lulu O. His wife was popular in the days of her maidenhood as Miss Luella Case; Cora E., who was born July 13, 1876, married M. R. Click, a farmer of St. Joseph county, this state; and Nellie E., who was born August 15, 1886. Mr. Harting was a member of the organization known as the Indiana Regulators and entered the Civil war in 1862, serving faithfully until he received his discharge about one year later on account of disability. He is an honored member of the Grand Army Post, No. 320, at Millers- burg, has served as commander and is now senior vice, and is a man whose upright character lias won him a warm place in the esteem of those who know him.

Isaac Newton Pancake

One of the foremost agricultural families of Elkhart township, Noble county, Inch, is that of the late Isaac Pancake, who was bnrn in Licking county, Ohio, in 1813, and who married Miss Eve Smith, also a native of Licking county, and born in 1827.

Mr. and Airs. Isaac Pancake were married in the county of their nativity, whence they came to Noble county, Ind., in the spring of 1845 am' settled in Elkhart township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, honored and respected by all who knew them, the father dying July 26, 1879, in his sixty-sixth year, and the mother on the 14th day of September, 1881, when fiftyeight years old. They had born to them a family of seven children, who were named in order of birth as follows: John, Joseph L., Isaac N. (the subject of this sketch). Mary, William, Geneva V. and Cora.

Isaac Newton Pancake was born in Elkhart township. Noble count)-, Ind.. January to, [847, and was reared to practical agricultural work on his father's homestead, on which he still has his residence and which be has materially assisted in developing. On September 23, 1874, he was most happily joined in marriage with Miss Eva C. Mawhorter, who was born in Elkhart township December 21, 1858; and is the accomplished daughter of Aaron and Rebecca A. Mawihlorter, of whom a full biographical sketch is given on another page of this volume. To the marriage of Air. and Mrs. Pancake have been born four children, who are still living to brighten the home circle with their cheerful countenances and winning ways, save the eldest, Warren, who died in infancy. The three survivors are named in order of birth as follows: Marion I., Harvey A. and Ethel M., the latter being the wife of Abraham Gage.

Air. and Airs. Pancake are devoted members of the Free Will Baptist church, to the support of which they are most liberal contributors and in the good work of which they are active and willing helpers.

Tiic home farm of Air. Pancake comprises eighty acres, which he keeps under a profitable state of cultivation, raising all the crops usual to this latitude. His dwelling is of modern construction and is a model of neatness exteriorly and interiorly, the latter being the special care of bis amiable helpmate. In politics Air. Pancake is a Democrat.

John E. Pancake

A representative of one of the best known families of Elkhart township, Noble county, hid., is a native of Pickaway county, Ohio, and was born July 22. [848. His father, Joseph Pancake, was also a native of Pickaway count}-, was born May 22, 1822, was reared to farming mi the old Pancake homestead, and was married in bis native county to Ruann Halstead, who was born in the same county, and there died at the early age of twenty-three, or even before she had completed her twenty-third year. Joseph Pancake died in Ottawa, ECans., January 8.

John E. Pancake was reared on the old borne farm in Wayne township, Pickaway county, and was there educated in the common schools primarily, and then attended the Union Christian College at Merom, Sullivan county. Ind.. from which he was graduated with honors. After leaving college Mr. Pancake returned to Pickaway county, Ohio, and for three terms taught school. In the summer of 1870 he left the Buckeye state and went to Franklin county, Kans., where he was employed in farming one year hef ore he entered a homestead in Wilson county, which farm he cleared up and later sold. In the spring of 1872 he came to Noble county. Ind., and for seven years was employed by the month by his uncle, the late John Pancake, and also taught school for six winters.

After leaving the monthly employ of his uncle Mr. Pancake took sole charge of the farm, hieing thoroughly practical in every agricultural detail and with all the minutiae of this particular estate. He performed his duties in so satisfactory a manner to all concerned that he was appointed, at the death of his uncle, sole administrator by the latter and is still acting in that capacity, the functions of which he is carrying on with laudable conscientiousness. Pie is the owner of one hundred and forty acres of good farming land in his own right, which he cultivates assiduously and skillfull)-, and is at all times one of the busiest of men.

Mr. Pancake is in politics a Democrat, but although very popular has never condescended to accept of public office; yet he always interests himself, and that effectually, in local affairs, giving" to them the attention that he feels every good citizen should bestow when called upon or when they present themselves in such a manner as to attract unavoidable notice uncalled for.

Mr. Pancake is still unmarried, but has a home that any woman would he proud to share. His dwelling is a model of comfort and coziness and taste, his farm buildings commodious and substantial, and his farm itself under the highest possible state of cultivation, his long experience in this vocation making- him unexcelled in its practice. Although not a member of any church, he is liberal in his contributions to all in his township and to many elsewhere, being never niggardly in this or any other respect.

Hospitable to a marked degree and genial in disposition and affable in demeanor, he entertains his friends most lavishly as well as courteously and pleasingly- His wit and humor overflow spontaneously, while his logical mind is quick in its apprehension of the merits of such questions as he and his friends may for the time being have under discussion. He is a friend of truth, and never wastes his time and breath in an argument simply for the purpose of carrying his point, right or wrong, but discusses a subject with the pure and simple desire to arrive at its true merits and intrinsic value. He is not a man to raise false hopes in the breasts of his friends and acquaintances by promising favors which he never intends to grant. He is honest and sound to the core, and what he says he means.

It were well indeed if Elkhart township had inside its limits a few more such citizens as Mr. Pancake to take an intelligent interest in shaping its public policy and guiding its progress, for it is to such as he the

John J. Wittmer

Among the skilled and prosperous agriculturists of York township. Noble county, I ml.. John J. Wittmer holds a foremost position. He is a son of John C. and Mary (Hare) Wittmer. the former of whom was a native of Niagara county, N. Y.. and was born March 7. 1801, was reared a farmer and passed all his life in his native count}-.

Benjamin Wittmer, the father of John C, was horn in Switzerland, and died in Niagara county, N. Y., at a very advanced age. and Alary ( Hare ) Wittmer was born in Niagara county, N. Y., March 22, 1807, German parentage.

To the marriage of John C. and Mary (Hare) Wittmer were burn a family of six sons and five daughters, and of these John J. was the ninth in order of birth, and had his nativity near Millersburg. Elkhart county. End., November 11. 1843. aild was reared in Elkhart county until about fourteen years of age. and then in Noble county. Ind., until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to serve this country in the suppression of the war of the Rebellion; and he performed his duty courageously and faithfully until February 10. 1863. when he was honorably discharged on account of sickness, i >r, as the expression is used in the service, "on account of physical disability." He then returned to his father's farm in Elkhart county and assisted in its cultivation until his marriage, in 1865.

fohn J. Wittmer was joined in matrimony at Albion. Ind., April 9, in the year mentioned above, with Miss Cornelia C. Norris, a daughter of William and Catherine (Deck) Norris, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, September 15. iSi<>. and died September 14. [868, and his wife, also a native of Pennsylvania, born July 3, 1813, died in York township April 7, 1882. William Norris was a minister of the German Baptist church, of which his wife was also a member. To Mr. and Mrs. Norris were born eight sons and six daughters, and of these Mrs. Wittmer was the ninth in order of birth.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wittmer located in Elkhart county, but since April, 1875. nave been residents of York township. Noble county, where Mr. Wittmer owns a fertile farm of forty acres, on which he has erected a comfortable dwelling and commodious barns and all other necessary outbuildings. This farm is well located, and through Mr. Wittmer's excellent management produces abundantly the various cereals grown in this latitude. It impresses the observer with an idea of skill and thrift on the part of the owner, and this impression is fully justified by Mr. Wittmer's excellent management.

To Mr. and Airs. Wittmer have been born a family of four children, but of these, through the fiat of an all-wise and overruling power, but one has been left to gladden the hearts of her parents and that of her husband - Susanna, now the wife of Edward DePew and the mother of four children - Olive J.. Letha C, John C. and Greeley C. AI. The three deceased children bom to Air. and Mrs. Wittmer were named Frances I-;., Katie E. and Hattie N., who all died in infancv.

John J. Wittmer and wife are devout members of and hearty co-workers in the German Baptist church, to which they contribute in maintaining freely from their means financially and by their moral influence and participation in its good work on, even' available occasion. Of this church John J. Wittmer and wife were also members. Their home is the abode of true hospitably, and their social standing is with the best people of York township!

Joseph R. Drain

Joseph R. Drain, ex-soldier of the war of the Rebellion, was born in Belfast, Ireland, about fifty-four years ago, and five years later was brought to America, his home for the past forty years having been in the state of Indiana, one of Noble county's most honored residents. He is a son of John and achel (Brown) Drain, both natives of Belfast, where they were married in 1837, and where John, Drain followed the vocation of stock-dealing. Ten children were born to them, six of whom were laid to rest in the land of their birth. Those who survived came to America in 1852, married and have reared families. These children are : Margaret, who married Joseph Pasco, a cabinet-maker of Brooklyn, t«i win nn she bore four children, one of whom, Elizabeth, is the wife of Samuel Nathan of Chicago; John and Jasper, who reside in Brooklyn; and Joseph R., whose name opens this paragraph.

year, at which time he came to Indiana. A few years later, when the Rebellion spread its dark cloud over the land, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twentyninth Indiana Volunteers, February 10, 1804, and went to the front, taking his part in many encounters of that bloody struggle, and carrying away a memento in the shape of a bayonet wound received at Charlotte, N. C. His regiment was first assigned to General Henry's regiment. General Schofield's Army Corps, and in the Army of the Cumberland, and We entered at the age of sixteen. He participated in the battles of Resaca, Ga., Lookout Mountain, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Strawberry Plains. Kenesaw Mountain, Decatur, Peach Tree Creek and Lovejoy Station. He was in the one hundred days' campaign around Atlanta. At Lovejoy Station his regiment was changed and put under command of General "Pap" Thomas, and at Franklin, Tenn.. he received a close call for his life. He was on the picket line at this terrible battle where many of his comrades fell. Mr. Drain was about the only survivor who got back to his regiment. He served faithfully his country, about twenty months.

August 6, 1864, Scott Gard, one of Mr. Drain's comrades, a resident of Elkhart, was shot in the leg and dropped, when Mr. Drain and a comrade caught him in their arms, and at this time was shot again in one of his arms. He is living to-dav. Mr. Drain was honorably discharged September 13, 1865. Some of the principal battles he participated in were: Nashville, Tenn., Wise's Forks, surrender of General J. E. Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. and he was close to the battle of Bentonville, N. C, the last action. He was close to Goldsboro,

N. C, when the boys received the joyful intelligence of I ac> surrender, and five days subsequent received the sad news of Lincoln's assassination.

Returning- to the quiet of private life he, for the first time, entered the great army of wage-earners - his first salary having been received as a soldier in the Union army, lie first engaged with a Mr. Reeves till about) 1882. as a butcher, then in 1885 he bought his present farm, which consists of one hundred and ten acres of fertile land in Terry township. This has been cultivated and improved by Mr. Drain and is one of the valuable properties of Noble county.

August 20, 1868, Mr. Drain was joined in matrimony to Miss Catherine Cochran, who was a devoted wife and mother for thirty years, when she was called to her long rest, August 13, 1898. Four children, with the husband, were left to mourn her. viz: John, born June 19, 1869. resides in Chicago, and is assistant buyer in the mammoth! establishment of Seigel. Cooper & Co. ; Isabella, who was horn April 16, 1878, married Ximon Smith, a farmer of Elkhart township, this county; Charles, who was born June 21, 1881 ; and Joseph H.. born September 10, 1887. who resides with bis parents.

Mr. Drain was married, January 31, 1900, to Miss Jennie S. Lee, his present wife. Mrs. Drain is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Ligonier. In politics Mr. Drain is a Republican, but the emoluments of office have never appealed to him. lie is an honored member of Grand Army Post, No. 125, at Ligonier. Ind., and is a man who stands well with the entire -community.

English stock running back to the year 1034. She has a genealogy of the Lee family, a volume of ^jj pages, which is the most complete volume of genealogy in the county of Noble. They came originally from England directly after the landing of t' v Pilgrim Fathers and driving their flocks :i\^A herds on farther west settled on what i now the site of Farmington, Conn. This family of Lees is one of the five distinct families of the United States, and are a family of warriors; they have figured in all the large wars of the United States, from the Revolution down to the recent Cuban contest, and were mostly 1 f religious sentiment.

Mrs. Drain is a well educated lady and was a student at the Fort Wayne College, afterwards the Taylor University. She was a teacher sixteen years, fourteen years in Indiana and two years in Washington.

Joseph L. Pancake

Joseph 1.. Pancake, of Elkhart township, Noble count}', Ind., and a skillful and prosperous farmer, is a son of Isaac N. and Eve ( Smith ) Pancake, sketches of various members of whose family appear on other pages of this work and are worthy of a careful perusal in conjunction with this biography, but a portion of which is repeated here.

[oseph L. Pancake was born in Linn county, Iowa. December 10, 1844. and in the spring of 1845 xvas brought by his parents to Elkhart township. Noble county. Ind., where his father died July 2(1. 1870, in his sixty-sixth year, and his mother September 14. 1881. in her fifty-eighth year, and were

Reared to farming on the paternal homestead. Joseph L. Pancake has fully maintained the enviable reputation of his forefathers as an agriculturist. He was a willing and able assistant to1 his father, and remained on the home farm until some years after he had attained his own majority, when, on December 22, 1870, he married, in Clear Spring township, Lagrange county, Ind., Miss Olive Peck, a native of the township last named and born July 31, 1848. On marrying he settled on the farm which is still his homestead and which now comprises one hundred and sixty acres. This land he has cleared up and improved with a dwelling equal in beauty to any other in the township, and his farm buildings are unsurpassed for convenience and sheltering and storage purposes.

Mr. and Mrs. Pancake and their two children. Verne L. and Grace, attend the English Lutheran church, and strictly adhere to its teachings, as well as take an active part in the prosecution of its work of well doing.

In politics Mr. Pancake is a Democrat, but has never condescended to seek public office at his party's hands, being satisfied to pursue the even tenor of his way as a farmer, and is doing good in a quiet and unostentatious manner, when opportunity offers itself. He finds in his home and in the society of his amiable wife and children a solace for all the cares and ills of life, which, happily for him, are few. and those few, under the circumstances, quite easily endured.

Olive Pancake, was born in Fairfield county, Conn., April 30, 1813, and his wife bore the maiden name of Sarah G Hastings - a surname memorable in the history of England. This lady was born in Junius, Seneca county, N. Y., August 19, 1816, and came with her husband from that country to Indiana and settled in. Clear Spring township, Lagrange county, early in the 'forties. There her father died June 18, 1889, in his seventyseventh year, and her mother July 25, 1890, in her seventy-fourth year. This venerable couple were among the best known and most respected of the residents of Clear Spring township, and their memory is still tenderly and affectionately cherished by many of the old-time residents. Their children were six in number and were named in order of birth as follows: Esther, Olive. John, Charles, George and Emily.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Pancake is one of the most pleasant in Elkhart township, and is widely known for its genial hospitality, its portals being ever open to friends and strangers alike. The needy are never turned away unprovided for. and the name of Joseph L. Pancake is as a household word throughout Elkhart township, while that of his wife is always uttered with profound respect.

Thomas A. Huston

Thomas A. Huston, auditor of Noble county, Ind., a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was born December 2j, 1855. and is a son of John and Rebecca (McCumsey) Huston, also natives of Mount Vernon, who both expired at their birthplace, the father at sixty-one and the mother at seventv-two years of age. Of the nine children born to these parents seven are still living- and are named as follows: Elizabeth, now Mrs, Thomas Simpson, of Mount Vernon; Eliza, wife of Farrington Maxfield, of Abbeyv.ille, La.; .Mary married George W. Simpson, of Delaware, Ohio; Sarah is now Airs. D. M. Craig, of Mount Vernon, Ohio; William W. is a farmer in Noble county, Ind. ; Thomas A., the subject of this biography : and Emma, wife of J. P. Molen. of Tiffin. Ohio.

Thomas A. Huston received his preliminary education in the public schools of Mount Vernon, and in 1874 entered the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1876. lie was united in matrimony at Philadelphia, April _»4, [882, to Miss Lucy Allen, who was also educated in the city of Brotherly Love. This lady was horn in Xew Jersey, and is a daughter of Franklin and Eliza Allen, the former of whom is now a resident oi Philadelphia, and the latter deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Huston, however, have no children.

After his graduation Air. Huston engaged in the drug business in Philadelphia for nine rears, and April 24. 1883, came to Albion, Ind.. and purchased the pharmacy of James Hamlin, which he has since conducted with flattering success, the business being now carried on under the firm name of Huston & Beck, the junior partner having been identified with the business for the past ten years as either clerk or partner.

Mr. Huston was a candidate before the primary of the Republican party of his county in 1894 as nominee for the office of county auditor, but met defeat ; but four years later he secured the nomination and was triumphant at the ensuing election, having given the people of Albion unequivocal satisfaction as town treasurer in [888 and [889. Fraternally Air. Huston is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of the Maccabees, and religiously he and his wife are Presbyterians, a denomination they most liberaly aid to support.

Airs'. Huston is descended from Quaker -lock, of English and Irish extraction, while Air. Huston's paternal great-grandfather came from County Antrim, Ireland, in 1750. Air. Huston's mother's family came from Scotland in 1754, the founder in America being Robert McCumsey. Both families were identified with the patriots of the American Revolution. Air. Huston is the owner of a fine tract of eighty acres located in Green township, which is all under a high state of cultivation, and his residence property in Albion is pleasantly situated on Piety Hill.

Willi A Ai W. Huston

From the paths of mercantile life there sometimes wanders an individual into the more ennobling field of agriculture, which later, as a rule, affords a surer means of fortune-making through the investment of capital and the exercise of industry than that secured by the former, to say nothing of the invaluable consideration of good health and physical development usually found through exercise in the open air. as has been exemplified in the life of the subject of this sketch and that of thousands of others.

William W. Huston, a thriving farmer of Elkhart township, Noble county, Ind., was born in Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, December 5, 1853, was there reared to manhood, and for ten years followed clerking for a livelihood. In the spring of 1879 he came to Noble dainty, Ind., and purchased the farm on which he still lives in Elkhart township, and which now comprises one hundred and sixty-five acres. This farm he has improved with buildings of the most modern construction, and he has also placed the soil under the most approved methods of cultivation, reaping from it crops of the kind that rejoice the soul of the husbandman, inasmuch that they repay his skill ami labor with satisfactory financial returns and present to the eye of the passerby a view suggestive not only of moral beauty but of solid thrift and palpable prosperity.

Mr. Huston was united in marriage, in Elkhart township, January 24. 1876, with Miss Alfarata Gibson, who was horn in this township, November 28, 1853, and to this felicitous union have been born several children, three of whom still survive, viz: Jennie R.. Thomas W. and Donald G. The others died in infancy.

John Huston, father of William W., a very prominent man in his day. was also a native of Knox county, Ohio, and died at Mount Vernon, in that county, in 1883, when sixty-one years of age. His wife, who had borne the maiden name of Rebecca Mc- Cumpsey, was also a native of Knox count}', Ohio, hut died in Tiffin. Seneca county, in the same state, when seventy-one years old. They had a family of nine children. William W., the subject of this sketch, was the fifth in the order of birth.

Adam (i. Gibson, the father 0 Mrs. W. W. Huston, was a native of West Virginia, who married Miss Eliza Tibbet, who was bora in Indiana and who died in Elkhart township. Noble county, in August, 1895.

Of their six children, Mrs. Huston was the fifth. Adam Gibson is greatly venerated by his fellow-citizens as one of the oldest settlers of Elkhart township.

It may here be mentioned that Thomas A. Huston, a brother of W. W. Huston, is county auditor of Noble count)', Ind., and is a gentleman distinguished, like all the family, for his politeness and unswerving sense of honor and attention to his official duties.

In politics W. W. Huston is independent, and has ever. taken a keen interest in the success of his party and an equally active interest in the welfare of his fellowcitizens and all local affairs of a public nature. Socially he and wife are very highly respected and mingled with the best people of Elkhart township.

Ebenezer C. Pierce

Although past the allotted three-scoreand-ten period, this prominent and influential representative of Noble county's pioneer citizens still retains much of the elastic vigor of his youth, while his mental faculties have developed into the richness which increases with the lapse of years, the constant stud)- of those questions which come to the front from time to time and the lessons of studious thought with their practical solution in the crucible of experience. Mr. Pierce is a pioneer of Indiana in its broadest possible term, and much of the early history of the state of his adoption is familiar to him from actual experience.

new scenes and newer conditions surrounded him, being but six years of age when his father moved with his family to Noble county, Ind., in 1837, and settled in Orange township on a farm near Wolcottville. Here he grew to- manhood, and lived with his parents on the old homestead until the age of twenty-four, when he married and settled on a farm in BToornfield township. Lagrange county. Nine years were spent on that farm, about which time his father died, and he then purchased the old homestead where his boyhood days had heen passed and moved his family thereto. Here he remained until the fall of 1872, when he traded the home place for a farm in Clay township. Lagrange county, remaining there, however, hut three years. Selling the farm in 1X75. he purchased his present home of two hundred and fifty acres located in Orange township. While it has heen partially improved, its present line condition is largely due to his clear perception of its needs and that energy which characterized him as hoy and man - the fine buildings, well-tilled fields and enexceptional fences evidencing that thrift and progressive spirit which comes fn m wide experience and intelligent application.

Ebenezer C. Pierce was first married to Miss Christina Raber, a daughter of Daniel Raher, Sr., who came to' Noble count}- in the spring of 1851, and settled in Orange township. She was horn in Summit county, Ohio. November 10. 1835, and passed away .at their home in Orange township, May 13. 1870. They were the parents of five children as follows: Frank H. ; Ida O., who died in her fifth year; Tillie M.. who is the wife of 'William Diggins, a resident of AYayne township; Owen C. : and Elsie A., "who died when about three rears old. Mr.

Pierce was again married June 6, 1872. to Mrs. .Margaret (Boyd) Lukins, a daughter of William S. Boyd, 1 1' Lagrange county. She died after a brief union of nearly two years, March 10, 1874. On August 4. 1S74. Mr. Pierce married Miss Sarah J. Snyder, ,i daughter of Thomas Snyder, an old settler of Clay township, Lagrange county, who was horn in Wayne county, Ohio, July 24, '845. She came with her parents to Lagrange county when a young girl and there grew to womanhood. By this marriage have been horn seven children, namely : Merritt (i.: Jay C. ; Lora D. and Mora 1'.., twins; Charles L.. who died when two years of age; Fred E.. who also died at the age of two years: and Pansy V.

Mr. Pierce is. as above sta'ted, one of the representative men of Noble county, and takes an active part in all matters pertaining to the public good and especially the advanced and improved methods of education. While he is active in all matters of a political character, he is ready and able to discuss those questions which deal with the national prosperity or measures touching the industrial development and agricultural resources of the country, and is firm in his opinion that the best interest of the a untry can he served through the policy of the Republican party.

In his religious views Mr. Pierce is a Baptist, and a member of the Wolcottville congregation of that faith, which has known him as a consistent and devout worshiper fi r nearly fifty years. Mrs. Pierce is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Lagrange.

The father of Ebenezer C. Pierce was Ehenezer Pierce, Sr.. who was born in Onondaga county. N. A".. October 19, 1801. His mother was a Miss Rachel McQueen, who was born in Montgomery county, N. Y.. November, 1801 ; she passed to the great beyond September 15, 1832. They were the parents of four children, of whom Ebenezer C. was the youngest. The father afterward married Julia A. Collins, a native of Vermont, who was born May 25, 1816. By this second marriage six children were born. The father, as formerly stated, passed away in Noble county. January 20, 1865.

It is to this class of citizens that Noble county owes so much for the development which has been made within her borders. and the historian who would truthfully give to future generations the salient features of a country's progress must not forget that the pioneer of the then frontier possessed qualities it would be well for all to emulate. Merrit G. Pierce was a teacher in Noble and Lagrange counties. At present he is taking a course at Huntington, Ind. He wedded Miss Emma Nichols, who has borne him one daughter, Marjorie, a little rosebud. Jay C. Pierce is an agriculturist. He received his diploma in 1893 in the common school and wedded Miss Elea Lamp, who has borne him one son, Harold, and they are residents of Orange township.

Lora D. and Flora B. Pierce are twins, and graduated from the common schools in 1894, and also graduated in the class of 1897 at Rome City. They are members O'f the Rathbone Sisters, No. 186. Miss Flora wedded George F. Diggins, who is a contractor and builder in Kendallville. Ind. Both daughters are members of the Baptist church at Wolcottville:

Pansy V. Pierce is in the second year of high school, and loves mathematics. Mrs. Pierce is the fourth in a family of six children - one son and five daughters - born to

Thomas and Mary (Carothers) Snyder. There are four living, all residents of Indiana. She was educated in the early schools of the pioneer days of Indiana, same as her husband.

Mr. Pierce tells of a school-house of 16x16 logs built up in cob style, with a "shake roof" and also heated by the oldfashioned fireplace ; the seats were slabs on blocks, and there was no desk in this schoolhouse, so primitive it was, and his text-book was the old Elementary Spelling-book or English Reader. The school was kept up by private and public funds. The teacher boarded around amongst the pupils and had only a slight command of the three R's.

Mr. Pierce has witnessed the remarkable growth of education from the little primitive log cabin to the modern school-house of today, as well as the high schools, colleges, and universities for which old Indiana is so famous. Mr. Pierce is a Republican, can feel proud in the fact that he cast his first vote for the first Free-soil candidate. Gen. John C. Fremont, and he has always supported the true policy of the Republican party, the legitimate offspring- of the parent Free-soilers. For over a quarter of a century has he and his wife traveled the journey of life together. She has ably assisted her husband in all the details of life, and they have reared a family in which they may well feel a pride, for they have educated the children and fitted them for high walks in life.

Henry Schlotterback

His father was Gideon Schlotterback, a native of Selinsgrove, Penn., born May 23, 1811. His father was Peter Schlotterback, and his great-grandfather's name was George Schlotterback. The latter, accompanied by four of his brothers, migrated to America some time before the war of the Revolution, and three of the brothers were lost during that struggle. Gideon Schlotterback removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and later, about 1832, the time of the Black Hawk war, located in Indiana, settling on Perry's Prairie. After a few years' residence here he moved onto the Adam Engle farm, and remained there until his death, August 22. 1892. His wife, whose maiden name was Alary Engle, was horn November 20, 1 8 10. in Circleville, Pickaway count}'. Ohio, and passed away January 23, 1856. To her marriage with Gideon Schlotterback. which took place April 12, 1833, there were born twelve children, five of whom died in infancy. The names of those who reached years of maturity are as follows: Peter. Henry (subject). Eli, Amelia, Adam, Ira and Emma.

Henry Schlotterback, the immediate subject of this sketch, was born October 30, 1834. He received his early education in the public schools of Ligonier. having learned the multiplication table and finished fractions at his eighteenth year. He continued his studies until he was twenty-three years old. and then taught school one term. He was engaged at the Woods school-house, where he received one dollar a day and had to cut his own wood. During all this time he had been farming for his father and continued to work there until he was thirty years old. In 1865 Mr. Schlotterback located at Brush College, Perry township, and remained there for ten years. At the end of this time he removed onto his father-inlaw's old place, the farm on which be now resides, and is the owner of two hundred and twenty-four acres of fertile ami welltilled land.

The marriage of Henry Schlotterback took place on the 7th of May. 1865, the lady of his choice being Miss Sarah E. Davis. She was born November 17, 1842. and was a daughter of John and Elizabeth A. (Atkins) Davis, and was educated in the oldfashioned school-house of unhewn logs. John Davis was born May 28, 1807. at Washington Court House, Fayette county. Ohio, and died May 7. 1870. Elizabeth Atkins was born October 4. 1824. in Brown county, Ohio, and passed away September 20, 1850. The father came to Indiana June 20. 1828. To their union were born four children, as follows: Sarah E.. wife of Henry Schotterback. subject; Erastus : Elizabeth, wife of William Pearce : and Eliza, deceased. Sarah E. Davis, at the age of nine years, was by the death of her mother left to care for the home. Bravely she took up the burden thus laid upon her, and worked hard to the end that the home might be one in fact as well as name. At twelve years of age she did all the cooking for the men who were employed in the erection of her father's house. At the age of sixteen years she commenced teaching school ami followed that occupation for three years in Sparta township.

The marriage of Henry and Sarah Schlotterback was blessed with the birth of seven children, brief mention of whom is as follows: Eden 11., born March 14. 1866, is unmarried; Anna, born May 7. 1867, became the wife of William S. LeCount. an agricul- turist of Sparta township, and they have five children. Effie, Harry (deceased). Vassy, Millard, and Lena F. : Harry B.. horn March _»'>. 1N70. married Lizzie Pollock, and they became the parents of one child, Marion L. ; Emma, born January 20. 1873. became the wife of Albert L. Deardorff, a farmer of Kosciusko county. Ind.. and they have one child, Freda M. ; John M., born October 15. ]Sj4. married Lura Salts, and they have one child: Walter E. : Jesse E.. born .April 30. 1876; and Lewis E.. born November 22, 1880. graduated from the Cromwell public school in the class of April 22, 1898, and was valedictorian of his class.

Politically Mr. Schlotterback has always been a stanch and unswerving Republican, though the honors or emoluments of office have held no inducements for him. He has done well his part in life and to-day is held in the highest respect and esteem by the community in which he lives. He has reared a family of worthy sons and daughters and now. in the evening of a long and eminently useful life, is resting in the enjoyment of the fruits of his earlv toil.

John H. Wilson

Idle honored subject of this sketch, a successful agriculturist of Washington township, Noble* county, Ind., has obtained an enviable reputation throughout his community as a man of shrewdness and sagacity, and also as a man who has obtained his present eminence, not by any questionable methods, but by persistent application, indomitable perseverance and unquestioned integrity. A firm believer in the great truth of the brotherhood of man, he has ever been guided by the principle laid down in the golden rule, and his life has been so ordered that no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil has ever rested upon him.

John II. Wilson was horn on the 20th of March, 1862, in Washington township, N( ble county, Ind., a son of Thomas J. and Nancy (Rider) Wilson, both also natives of Noble county. The paternal grandfather's name was Thomas H. Wilson, though he was familiarly known as "Judge" Wilson. Thomas J. Wilson was also a tiller of the soil and died December 5, 1892, on the farm now occupied by his widow. He was the father of three children, as follows : John H.. whose name opens this biography; Jacob Willard, who died in infancy ; Mary E., who is married to John Beezley, a farmer of Washington township, this county, and they have two children - Opal L. and James O-

John H. Wilson attended the public schools of Washington township until he was twenty-one years of age. For two years longer he remained on the home farm, working for his father. . At this time he took control of tine place and operated it on his own account. In 1885, about the time of his marriage, he settled on the farm where he now lives and has farmed this tract continuously since. He is now the owner of two hundred and fifty-nine acres of as fine agricultural property as can be found in this part of the count}'. He does not confine himself exclusively to the tilling of the soil, but also devotes considerable attention to the breeding and raising of stock, in wlh'ich industry he has been fairly successful.

son was united in marriage to Miss Barbara Huber, a daughter of Tiry and Nancy (Black) Huber, early settlers of Washington township. Tiry Huber was the father of six children, as follows: Lewis, Nancy, Barbara, Adeline and two who died in infancy. John W. Wilson and wife became the parents of one child, Mary Edith, who was burn October 3, 1886, and died July 4, inoo. She was a bright and interesting child and ihier death was a severe loss to her parents.

Tiry Huber, one of the old residents of Washington township, and a well-known citizen of the county, died on the 24th day of January, 18S1. at the age of fifty-seven years. A correspondent of the Banner, in speaking of the death of this honored citizen, says that his affliction was almost past bearing during several weeks prior to his death, which was caused by indigestion. In his death Washington township loses one of her most substantial citizens, a man of sound judgment whose knowledge was extensive and composed of all general topics, and whose counsel and decision were considered law. He had filled the office of justice for some twenty odd years, up to last spring, when be was re-elected but refused to qualify, thinking he had served the people long- enough. He leaves a family of five - wife and four children - to mourn their loss, but well provided for. His remains were interred at Salem by the Free Masons, of which order be was a member. Rev. Jabez Shaffer officiated. Peace to his ashes.

Politically Mr. Wilson was reared a Democrat, but has not been a strict partisan in the sense that be votes for part}- rather than principle. To the contrary, be lias ever felt that he owed his first dut\ to his fellow- citizens and has made it a rule to vote only for those men whom he considered best qualified to fill the offices, regardless of the party. Mr. Wilson has served one term as a member of the township advisory board. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are both active and consistent members of the denomination known as the Church of God, and as stated in bhe opening paragraph of this sketch, their system. of ethics is in accord with the teachings of that great Master whom they serve.

Socially they have always had a large circle of warm friends and their hospitable home is the center of a coterie of genial companions who find in Mr. and Mr^. Wilson two of then- most worthy members.

Agriculture, or the art of cultivating the soil, is so necessary in order to aid it in more prolificallv producing its fruits, indigenous and exotic, so necessary for the sustenance of animal life, is probably co-existent with man himself, and its development from the days of primeval man until the present time has been continuous and uninterrupted until at last it may almost lie claimed that the climax of perfection has been reached with the aid of modern implements and machinery, and steam and electric motors, although this was not altogether the condition of farming operations in the days of the deceased gentleman whose name stands at the opening of this biographical notice.

extensive land owner and farmer of Elkhart township, Noble county, Ind., was born in Bavaria, Germany, March 22, 1815, where he resided until he was about twenty years of age, hut had apparently been reared to no special trade or profession, and the supposition is that his earlier years had been passed in rural pursuits or farm labor. About the year 1835 he came to America and landed in Xew York City, then as now the commercial metropolis of the Union and chief seaport at which immigrants were debarked on reaching the new world, although it was not the only port of entry, either north or south.

The first employment the then young Mr. Lower found was as a laborer in Wall street, the great monetary center of the country; he had no money, however, with which to buy stocks or to invest in speculation, but he had plenty of muscle, determination and ambition with which to make his way in the new world, and these he employed in their legitimate function of making money. At the end of six months he had accjuired sufficient cash and the necessary information touching American ways or customs and conditions to justify a conclusion he had reached to try his luck as a rural laborer in the^then far west - a calling for which) he was well fitted. He accordingly chose Ohio as his place of destination, and in due time reached Seneca count)', that state, easily found employment as a farm laborer, and while thus engaged met and married Miss Abigail DeLong, a native of the Buckeye state. He continued his residence with his bride in Ohio until about 1837 or 1838, when he brought her to Noble county, Ind., in an ox-team.

found employment as a laborer on the canal then in course of construction at Rome City. He worked industriously and he and his wife ( who was indeed a helpmate) lived frugally for some time, until he had accpiired the means with which to enter forty acres of government land in Elkhart township. This land he cleared up from its growth of timber and improved with the ordinary log dwelling and other necessary structures common in that day, and began his life as a farmer in the true sense of the word. He labored hard, early and late, for many years, with indomitable industry and perseverance, and with one great object in view - that of adding to his estate and providing a competency for his declining years and those of his helmed wife, as well as the providing of the means for rearing and educating his children and of providing for the latter capital sufficiently for a moderately fair start in business. His industry and good management were rewarded to the full, and at the time of his lamented death, which occurred in December, 1897, he was the owner of seven hundred acres at least, most of which was situated in Elkhart township.

Daniel Lower was thrice married. To his first union - that with Abigail DeLong, as , alluded to above - there were born six chil- [ dren, viz: Elizabeth C, who is the wife of Joseph W. Marshall, whose biography appears in full on another page; William D. ; Jacob N. ; Margaret, who died when about twenty years of age: Mary A., who is the wife of Frederick Schwab, and one deceased.

Mrs. Abigail (DeLong) Lower passed away in the fall of 1846, and Mr. Lower married in March, one and one-half years later, Elizabeth Kreglow, who bore him sev- eral children, of whom four lived to mature years anil one to reach girlhood, viz: Abigail, who died when she was about fourteen years old; John A.; Daniel D. ; Barbara, who is the wife of George Dorner : and Jane, win i died when nineteen years of age.

The career through life of Daniel Lower furnished another example of the grand opportunities offered in America to the industrious and frugal youth of any nation who comes here with a pure heart and healthy constitution, and with a desire to better. through an upright life, his worldly condition. This gentleman landed in the country a poor boy. but through his personal exertions rose to a position of influence and died an honored citizen, after having filled all the duties that devolved upon him, and he left to his descendants not only great wealth, but what is of greater intrinsic value by far - an unsullied name.

James N. Harvey

For honesty and thrift the Americans turn to Scotland. A man with Scotch blood in his veins is almost invariably trusted by everybody. His work is sure to be honestly and faithfully done; his word is as good as his bond.

James N. Harvey was born on a farm in Ashland county. Ohio, December 8, 1842. His parents were both born in Scotland - his father, George Harvey, June 21, 1807, and his mother, Alary (Bremner) Harvey, July 21, 1807 - and were married May 25,

1830. Six years later they emigrated to America, sailing from Aberdeen June ir and landing in New York August 8, 1836. They settled on a farm in Ashland county, ( >hio, where they continued to live for nearly seventeen years, when they moved to Noble count)-, End., and settled on a farm in Jefferson township. April 11, 1853. Here they resided nearly twenty years, when they moved to Albion, where they spent the remaining years of their lives. Mrs. Harvey died March 6, 1886, in the seventy-ninth year of her age, and Mr. Harvey died September 22. 1893. having attained the age of eighty-six years.

They were the parents of eight children, of whom six grew to manhood and womanhood, to-wit : Jane L. and Alexander D. C., born in Scotland, and John \Y, James N., Robert and Charles Levi W., born in Ohio. Jane L. is the wife of Thomas Bevmer, of Jefferson township.

George Harvey and his son, A. D. C. Harvey, for many years were engaged in contract work. Of the buildings in which the people of Noble count)- were interested - erected by them - were the old brick courthouse, built in 1800, the county infirmary and county jail, all of them splendid evidences of good, substantial, honest and faithful work, fully sustaining the reputation of their Scotch ancestry, education and training for honesty, faithfulness and good work of the contractors.

James N. Harvey, the subject of this sketch, moved with his parents to the newfarm in Noble county in 1853, received the education afforded by the common schools, and at his majority spent several terms at Adrian College, Mich., then graduated at a commercial college in Oherlin, Ohio. He was married February 2, 1870, to Miss Isabella Johnston, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tyler) Johnston. They were of Scotch nativity, and bad born to them four children : James T., William M., Mary M. and Isabella, who, with their parents, came to America in 1854. and settled in Richland county, Ohio, where Mr. Johnston died in May, 1 881. The youngest daughter, Isabella, was born September 10, 1847, anc^ became the wife of James N. Harvey. They have one son. John W. Harvey.

In 1870 James N. settled on a farm in Jefferson township, near the old homestead, where he has continued to live for more than thirty years, his farm consisting of one hundred and twenty ocres, well stocked, well improved and operated by all of the latest, best and most improved farm machinery.

Becoming a resident of the county in Ids boyhood, Mr. Harvey is thoroughly conversant with its affairs, in which he has always taken an active interest, and in the progressive advancement of his township and neighborhood he has given his influence and encouragement.

A Republican in politics from the first organization of that part},, he has been a constant and hard worker in support of its principles. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey are both members of the United Brethren in Christ's church, where their sturdy Scotch qualities shine forth to good advantage.

John T. Craves

The census taken in Canada in the spring of [901 showed several things that greatly surprised the Canadians themselves. They had confidently expected that the census would show a large growth in the population of the new Dominion Instead, however, the population in the older parts showed a decrease, or at best an increase that was too small to measure. The reason for this strange condition of affairs is to be found not in the large death rate in Canada, but in a large emigration rate from j less productive, to the United States, where the winters are shorter and the soil more productive. The number of Canadians who have cast their lot in with Americans is very large, and almost without exception they are our best, most progressive and thoroughly loyal citizens.

Among the many excellent Canadians who have crossed the imaginary line into the United States is John T. Graves. He was born in Toronto, Canada. December 3, 1854. His father, who bore the same name as his son, John T. Graves, died when the j latter was two years old. His mother, Martha Belfer Graves, married as her second husband Josiah Jenkins. In November, 1805, the whole family moved to Noble count)', Ind., and settled in Rome City. Mr. Jenkins was in the employ of the Grand

But John T. Graves, of this biography, felt the need of getting to work. He was unwilling to grow up in idleness or in a state of dependence upon others. At the early age of thirteen he left home and went to work as a day laborer on a farm. So thoroughly had he mastered the intricacies of farming that by the time he was nineteen years of age he rented a farm in Jefferson township.

cumulated enough to buy for himself a farm of eighty acres on section 4 in Jefferson township. This was not land that had been worked over by others and had been bereft of a part of its fertility. It was virgin soil in the heart of a wilderness. Slowly Mr. Graves cleared this land, and with his savings bought more till at the present time he owns two hundred and eighty acres, all in an excellent state of cultivation. The farm is dotted by several neat, tasty and pretty buildings.

But Mr. Graves has not confined his attention entirely to farming. lie has dealt largely in stock and in buying and shipping hay. lie was married in Jefferson township. .March 16, 1880, to Miss Jeannette Beymer, a daughter of Thomas Beymer, of Jefferson township, and to the assistance he has received from her is undoubtedl) due much of his success in life. They have had three children: George T., Clarence B. and Thaddeus S. George T. is a young man of excellent education. He graduated from the Albion high school in the class of 1901, and at present time is a student in old Purdue, taking a course in pharmacy. Clarence B. is in the second year's work in Albion high school. He is an all-round student, especially in mathematics and history.

Mr. Graves is interested in the political questions of the day and studies carefull) the movements of the two principal uolitical parties of the country. Though not a politician in any sense in which the word i-. generally used, he nevertheless is sufficiently interested in local affairs to be willing to be one of the ditch commissioners of Noble county, a position of considerable responsibility and of very little emoluments.

Mrs. Graves was born in Jefferson township, Noble county. October 29, 1 S 5 7 . and a daughter of Thomas and Jane L. (Harvey) Beymer. There were four daughters, all still living, born to this union. Mrs. Graves was educated in the common schools, crude at that time, and also for a term in the high school at Rome City, Ind.

Thomas Beymer was born in Huron county, Ohio, August 0. [823, and was reared to farming. He came to Noble county, October 11, 1851, and began life in a log cabin home, hut had very little cash. Mr. Beymers father came from Germany.

Mr. Beymer cast his first vote for the first Republican candidate. Gen. John C. Frem( nt. and was an admirer of Mckinley. Mr. and Mrs. Beymer are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church.

Mrs. Beymer was horn in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. March 10, 1813. She was a little girl of five years when she came with her family to America, and was educated in Ohio. Mr. Graves cast his first presidential vote for R. 1'.. Hayes, and has always upheld the Republican banner.

Aaron E. Mawhorter

The brave ex-soldiers of the late Civil war, like the hardy agriculturists of Noble county, Ind., are deserving of special mention in a volume of this nature, and to this class of honorable citizens does the subject of this sketch belong. He was horn in Flkhart township. Noble county, Ind.. and this has been his home since his birth, which took place February 11. 1838. his only absence having been during his service in the armv and integrity of his nation's flag. His parents were the late William and Prudence (Pierson) Mawhorter, who had a family of ten children and were among the most respected of Noble county's residents. Of their ten children seven attained the years of maturity, and Aaron E. was the eldest of the family.

Aaron E. [Mawhorter was reared on the home farm, and agriculture has been his life vocation. He aided in the cultivation of the homestead until his marriage, March 22, [856, to Miss Rebecca Ann Kesler, who was horn in Morrow county, Ohio, April 4, 1841, and is a daughter of Andrew and Maria (Bowyer) Kesler, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio, who came from Morrow county; Ohio, to Noble county, Ind., in 1854, and settled in Orange township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the mother dying when about sixty-one years old and the father when about seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs. Kesler were the parents of thirteen children - seven sons and six daughters - of whom Mrs. Mawhorter was the third child in order of birth. She came to Noble county, Ind., with her parents, and more may be read of this large and interesting family in the sketch of T. Y. Kesler, of Orange township, to be found on another page of this volume.

To Mr. and Mrs. Aaron E. Mawhorter have been born three children, viz: Eva C, who i-> the wife of Newton Pancake; Prudence M., who died in childhood, and William A.

Mr. Mawhorter' s military record is most praiseworthy. lie enlisted February 14, 1865, in Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and faithfully served until September, 1866, when he was honorably discharged and then returned to his farm in Elkhart township, where agriculture has occupied his attention ever since. This farm consists of about ninety-three acres of excellent land, is improved with modern structures of all descriptions necessary for use, and is cultivated under the best methods known to practice and to science, all under the supervising eye of the owner.

Mr. and Mrs. Mawhorter are consistent members of the Free Will Baptist church, contributing freely to its support as well as aiding in its work for good.

In politics Mr. Mawhorter is a Democrat, and has served two terms as constable in Elkhart township ; fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Temperance and the G. A. R. He was also a member of the Noble County Regulators in 1857 and 185S. Socially he and his family are classed with the best people of the township, as it is proper that a native-born farmer and soldier and his family should be.

Sheldon W. Green

Sheldon W. Green is one of the substantial citizens of Sparta township. Noble county, Ind., and a farmer of excellent reputation, whose success as a stock-raiser alone lias made his name a familiar one throughout the surrounding' country. He was born May 18, i860, on the farm which is now his home and which was entered by his parents, Porter and Nancy (Kreagger) Green.

Porter Green was bom in Licking county, Ohio, October 22, 1822, and grew to manhood in that state, marrying there Miss Nancy Kreagger, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, May 18, [8"2i. In 1848 they came to Noble county, Ind., and entered the land now owned by their son, Sheldon \\ . - then raw land, on which not a stick of timber had been cut.' Here he lived and reared his family while he cleared the land, converting it fn >m an unbroken forest into a productive and profitable farm. The ten children who were born to Porter and Nancy Green are : Newton, who was born August 8, 184(1. and is a prosperous farmer residing two and onehalf miles west of Millersburg; Jasper, born January 16, 1848, who is engaged in the hardware business in Cromwell; Evaline; Adaline, who died in childhood; Angeline; Martha; Harriet; Sheldon; Laura: Alice, and subject.

Sheldon W. Green was a student in the public schools of Sparta until he was seventeen when he left the school-room for the sterner duties of life. He helped his father with the farm work until 1880. when he took entire charge of the farm until 1885, tending it for himself with such good results that in 1885 he was enabled to purchase an interest in a hardware store in Cromwell. Two years later he bought a half interest in an undertaking business in the same village, but a year later, in 1888, he traded his interest in both these enterprises for a farm. In 1 89 1, having an opportunity to purchase the old homestead, he sold his farm and invested the proceeds in the home of his childhood, where he has since resided. This property contains one hundred and fifty acres, while he owns an additional tract of forty-four jcres, which lies in Washington township, ail of which is under the highest cultivation. Mr. Green is a great lover of fine stock and has given his hobby, if it may be so called, lull sway in breeding only the best of each particular line of stock. And in this particular business he is a public benefactor in that he is a potent factor in educating the people up to being content only with the best that is to be obtained.

Mr. Green was married, October 22, 1883. to Miss Rose B. Wiley, whose parents, Austin and Ellen (Sett) Wiley, are residents of Washington township, this county. They are attendants of the Broadway Christian church, in which they take a lively interest. Mr. Green is one of the influential Republicans of Noble county and a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 408, of Cromwell.

James C. Green

The gentleman to whose life-record the following paragraphs are devoted is yet young in years, but has already attained an enviable standing among those with whom he is associated. James C. Green was horn on the 25th; of October, 1876. He is a son of Allen and Sarah (Bartley) Green, the former a native of Ohio, who died January 4, 1881. At about the age of twenty years Allen Green came to Sparta township. Noble county, Ind.. and at the time of his death he was worth probably thirty thousand dollars. His wife was a native of Kosciusko county. Ind., and by her union with Allen Green she became the mother of three children, two of whom are yet living. James C. Green is indebted to the public schools of Cromwell for his early mental training. He laid aside his books at the age of seventeen years, and has ever since followed successfully the honorable calling of an agriculturist. He owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, one hundred and sixty of which are in Kosciusko county. This is a hue tract, the rich and fertile land yielding an abundant harvest in return for the care and labor bestowed upon it. He does not confine himself exclusively to the tilling of the soil, however, but is also largely interested in the breeding and raising of live stock. He is now improving his property by the erection of a fine, new residence at a cost of about twenty-two hundred dollars. This house is being built according to the latest ideas in architecture, and will be provided with all the latest and most modern improvements.

In 1897 Mr. Green took unto himself a helpmeet in the person of Miss Leoua Rarick, a daughter of Newton and Anna (Baker) Rarick. This marriage has been blessed with the birth of a son - Carlyle, born January 2, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Green are to-day occupying an enviable standing in their community - a standing richly merited by their courteous manner, genial dispositions and genuine worth. Mr. Green's time is given almost entirely to his farming interests, and the excellent condition of his field- and farm-buildings indicates his care and supervision. He is both practical and progressive in his methods, and to his energy and perseverance is attributed the gratifying success which has attended his efforts.

Fidelity is one of his chief characteristics - such fidelity as is manifest in his devotion to family and friends and in his faithful discharge of all the varied duties of life.

William A. Cochran

This gentleman is well known as the progressive agriculturist throughout Noble and surrounding counties in Indiana, but it is as a breeder of fine horses that he has gained an extended and enviable reputation. Born in this vicinity, August 9, 1857, the seventh child of Alfred and Cynthia (Hays) Cochran, his life has become so closely identified with Perry township as to make him a leading factor in all questions of imp n'tance that have to- do with township affairs.

Alfred Cochran was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1822, and there grew to manhood. May 25, 1843, he was joined in marriage to Miss Cynthia Hays, who was born in Perr)- count)-. Ohio, December 1, 1821. The marriage was celebrated in Jackson county Ohio, and they Continued to make that state their home for six years, the young Husband engaging in farming and mechanical work. In 1849 they came to Indiana and located in Perry township, Noble county, where the}- purchased land and carried on farming operations until the death of the father in 1862. Eight children were born to them, namely: Sarah, who was born May 6. 1844, became the wife of Jason Ramsby, a farmer of this vicinity, but Sih'e died in February, 1867, leaving one child, Elbe L. ; Mary Elizabeth, who was born December 17, 1846, became the wife of George W. Vedder, a farmer of Lagrange county, Ind., and became the mother of seven children - Nettie. Ida. Eva, YYelden, Brenton, Lena and Malissa; Mahala, who was burn November 27, [848, married A. I. Ramsby, a farmer and stock-dealer of Lagrange county, and is the mother of six children - Myra, Schuyler D., Casper, Custer, Lulu M. and Hazel I).; Harvey H., who was born April 15. 1851, was taken In, me April 24, [869; Andrew J., who was born August 9, 1853, passed away September 8, 1869, about eight months after his brother Harvey: Melissa, who was bom February 22, 1856, is the wife of J. A. Denny, of Lagrange county: William A., our subject; and John W., who was born November 4. i860.

William A. Cochran attended the school of his native township and also the Ligonier high school, receiving a practical education which has been supplemented by study and observation in later life. He was reared to the life of an agriculturist, finding congenial employment in the occupation and conducting it in a business-like manner which has compelled success. Having a fondness for horses, he has made a specialty of buying, feeding and selling the very best, and is now erecting a barn which will be the finest in Noble county, and will lie used exclusively for bis horses, same being 50 by 100 feet, with basement 8 feet high and capacity for 170 tons of hay. lie can feed about thirty-five head of horses and has adequate space for buggies and carriages and a nice commodious office. The water is forced into this large barn by gasoline engine and windmill power, and tanked in the barn. The first shipment of horses he made was sixteen head, September 2j, 1901, and up to December 3 he has shipped eighty-one Lead. Since September 27 till

December 3 the value of his business has been at the rate of twelve thousand and six hundred dollars annually. lie has been thrifty and keenly alive to a good bargain and has succeeded in accumulating live hundred and fifty acres of land which is situ-, ated in Noble, Lagrange and Kosciusko counties, this state, and comprise some of the best farming land in this section. He is progressive in his methods, being quick to ad. j.l new ideas that will facilitate his work, and is one of the wide-awake farmers who lead in work they have chosen.

On March 7, 1878. Mr. Cochran led to the altar Miss Luella I lays, daughter of \\ . I). Hays, a prominent and prosperous farmer of Perry township, whose biography appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Cochran was bom August 17, 1X58. and is also presented her husband with three children, Edith (Mrs. Charles R. Stage) being the eldest. Mrs. Stage was born August 25, 1878, was educated in Ligonier high school and well instructed in piano music. Chester Pianc. the second child, was born July 8, 1880, attended high school three years, and has also taken a course in the commercial college at Big Rapids, Mich.; he new resides with his parents, as does bis sister, Florence Jessie, who was born November J 6. 1883. Jessie has likewise attended high school two years, and has received lessons in instrumental music and voice culture.

Mr. Cochran and his family are devoted members of the United Brethren church at Ligonier and take an active interest in the work of the organization. They are among the most respected and esteemed citizens of the township, and are foremost in all good works. Mr. Cochran has bean chorister tor twenty-five years, is president of the building committee and also president of the board of trustees. In politics Mr. Cochran is a stalwart Republican and cast his first presidential vote for the lamented Garfield. He has served as delegate to the U. B. conference at various times, to represent his church society.

Reuben C. Gerver

Time in its flight will soon leave the earl\- history of Indiana's pioneer days to the memory of the children of that grand type of American citizens who rescued the forests and glades from the domination of the Indian and transferred the inhospitable region into thriving cities and fertile farms. While much of that early period is now woven into the pages of history made famous by the deeds of the hardy frontiersmen, the pioneers of a substantial civilization who followed in his footsteps are the ones on whom has fallen the task of giving the world much of the data of Indiana's history. And yet the story is not complete, save 'in that traditional lore transmitted from generation to generation which affords additional interest as the years go by.

Reuben C. Gerver, the subject of this review, is a native of Stark county, Ohio, born July 5, 1883, a son of Jacob and Anna A. (Harvey) Gerver, the father a native of Little York, Penn., and the mother of Bedford county, same state. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Ohio, first located in Stark county, then removed to Tuscarawas count}-, where they remained about five years, thence to Richland county. In December. 1842, the}- came to Noble county, Ind., and settled on a tract of land in Elkhart township. Here Reuben C, then about nine years of age, passed his youthful days, assisting his father in clearing the farm and preparing the soil for cultivation, until he reached the years of manhood. Early imbued with the determination to become a landed proprietor, he married, August 16, 1855, Miss Julia Ann Long, a native of Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, born July 6, 1838. When she was about ten years of age her parents had migrated from Ohio, settling in Elkhart township. The lives of Mr. and Mrs. Gerver have been almost wholly spent in Elkhart township, and the success in life which is th'eirs to-day results from that steady application of their combined energies and determination to make for themselves a home where the declining years of life can be comfortably and happily spent.

: That they have been amply rewarded is in evidence to the visitor at their delightful home, which contains one hundred and sixteen acres of splendid land, graced with fine residence, excellent barns and out-buildings with all modern appurtenances made necessary for the successful operation of farming along progressive and up-to-date lines. They are the parents of eleven children, namely :

I Eugenia A., the wife of Emery McMillen; Willis A.; Elemine A., married to Norman Mawhorter; Mary Jane, wife of William Jourdan: Delilah G.. wife of Charles Price; Albert; Stella, who died in her thirteenth year; Cora D., wife of Charles Reed ; Charles C. ; Mable A., and Ethel May.