Putnam County, Indiana - The whole text, 1887 (part 6 of 12)

I farmer. In early manhood he removed from ! Virginia to Tennessee, where he remained ! until 1834, when he removed to Putnam | County. Indiana, where he resided until his i death, lie was twice married. His first I wife, Jane Cox, died in 1828, leaving him one daughter, Harriet, now Mrs. Willis, of ! Putnam County. In l^ol he married Elizabeth Nugent, of ilankins County, Tennes- | see. Of this marriage there were born nine 1 children, all of whom with their mother survive. Three of the sons arc attorneys and one a minister. Two of the daughters have been successful teachers in the public schools. Mr. Moore was long a leading member of the j Methodist Episcopal church both in Tennessee and Indiana. In the iatter State he was a pioneer of Methodism. When he settled in Putnam County, though the county Lad been organized twelve year.-, the country was almost a wilderness, and churches and schoolhouses comparatively unknown. lie imme- ; diately became an earnest worker in the i church and active in the promotion of the | temperance reform, then scarcely agitated in I Indiana. In both these works he continued j earnest and energetic until his death. Bej lieving he could best promote temperance by I his own example, he personally abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and re- ! fused to furnish them to persons in lus I employ, even when warned that such a course would cost him the friendship and assistance of his neighbors, so indispensable in pioneer life. However, he persisted in what he deemed right, and lived to see the vast majority of his friends and neighbors adopt both his views and practice in the matter. In the church he was equally zealous and energetic. Though but a layman he was a busy organizer, and every neighborhood and settlement within his reach felt the quickening influence of his zeal and activity. There were comparatively few ministers in the country. These could not always, nor indeed often, be procured to visit the sick and Such ministrations as these received were very largely the work of earnest, intelligent laymen. In this work Mr. .Moore performed every part allowed to one not ordained a minister, and his conduct and life were such as to eminently tit him to in- nfidence of those to whom he ministered. lie was eminently a manly man. Independent in thought, decided iii his opinions, a natural leader, he was always found on the side of right and justice, whatever might be the question of the hour. and always ready to lend a helping hand to every worthy enterprise. His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, still lives at his old home in Putnam County.

vlRON II. SANDY, farmer, section 5, AA Gloverdale Township, owns *10 acres *~^^ of land lying in Jefferson and Cloverdale Townships, and is engaged in general fanning and stock-raising and feeding. He was born in Owen County, this State, dune 15, 1842, son of William B. Sandy. When about five years of age he came with his parents to this county, when he grew to manhood and received a common-school education.

lie remained at home until his marriage, which occurred April 6, 1862. with Miss Amanda Allee, who was born in Jefferson Township, February 12, 1844, a daughter of John Allee. After his marriage Mr. Sand}r located on a farm in Jefferson Township. He settled upon his present farm in September, 1882. They have had. nine children - Luclla, Eveline. I.yde, William .1., Alpha A., Francis M., Phillip A.. Ralph A. and Grace P. Mr. Sandy started in life with limited means. His father gave him a horse, and his wile received the gift of ahorse from her parents. Those horses formed their first team, lie worked for his father two years for 50 cents per day, after which he followed farming in I Jefferson Township. What he has he lias | made himself. At one time he owned 950 | acres; but in November. 1880, he sold 140 j acres. His children have received good edu- ! cational advantages, and he always takes a deep interest in educational matters.

! ^vAVii) ADKK, farmer and stock-raiser. All section 11, Monroe Township, is one of ! ^0 the prominent pioneers of Putnam Coan- | ty, ana was born in Davison County, North Carolina, March 6, 1822. II is father, Solomon Ader, was a native of Virginia, and a son of Adam Ader, who was a native of Maryland and of German ancestry. His mother, Elizabeth (Pickle") Ader. was a daughter of Valentine Pickle, also of German ancestry. David came with his parents to this State in 1827, and to this county in March, 1828, settling in the wild woods among the Indians of Russell Township. There were many wild animals and rattlesnakes when they first, settled there. Their first house was a pole cabin, 14x10 feet, only one room, which served as kitchen, dining-room, sleeping-room and parlor. Our subject had the usual pioneer experience of grubbing, chopping, picking brash and rolling logs, lie attended school in the pioneer lug school-house, which hud hoards on wooden pins for desks, a puncheon floor, and one row of lights for windows. The seats were made of split logs and the roof wps made of clapboards. During dry seasons they had to go to Indianapolis to mill, a distance of thirty-one miles, with ox teams, requiring three days to make the trip, lie was married January 9, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Aldridgc, a daughter of Nathan Aldridge, now deceased. To this union were born two children - Nathan W. and Helen E. Mrs. Ador died May 1, 1854, and January 18, 1855, Mr. Aderwas married to Mrs. Belinda C. Buchanan, whose first husband was Eli Buchanan. She was born January 27. 1824, daughter of Francis Edmonson. To this second union were born four children, two of whom arc living- -Alice P. and Francis D. By her first marriage Mrs. Ader had two children, one of whom, Emma E., is liviim. Mr. Ader's son, Nathan married Mollie Kelson, and their two children are- -Charles E. and Lillie; his present wife was formerly JMattieMcKce. Helen E. married Joseph Sherfey of Brazil, Indiana, and live of their six children are living - David A., YViniield, Mary M., Elizabeth A., and Henry E. Alice!). - narried William Davis, of Oarpentersville, this county, and they have one child - Carolina A. Emma Buchanan married Thomas Hamrick, of Belleville, Indiana, and has three children - Minnie A.. John A. and Charles T. Mr.Ader never seeks official positions, but was at one time persuaded to accept the office of justice of the peace. During the late war he did a great deal of recruiting for his township to secure men for the service, paying $18,000 for substitutes, as agent tor his township. Himself and wli'v arc members of the fEORGE B. IIILLIS, a pioneer of Putnam County, was born in this county - April G, 1828, son of Abram and Elizabeth (Peck) llillis, natives of Fleming Couni ty, Kentucky. Two of his maternal uncles | were in the war of 1812. His father's ! ancestors were Irish. His parents came to I this county from Kentucky in the fall of | 1825, the mother making the entire trip on ; horseback, carrying one child in her arms. I They were about three weeks on the road, I camping out wherever night overtook them. | They settled on section 3, Greencastle Town- ! ship, where the hither entered 160 acres of land from the Government. It was a dense i forest, and the family necessarily endured all j the hardships and privations incident to pio-

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T., and Margaret E., wife of William II. I Mr. Elliot died in August, 1871. Me was a Foreman, of Clark County, Kentucky, loving husband, i\ kind father, an obi in-i no- John L., rienry EI. and James II. were neighbor, and was respected by all who knew soldiers in the war of the Rebellion, sew- him. fn polities he was a Democrat. His ing their country faithfully. George B. j widow still owns eighty acres of land, and Ilillis, our subject, has been reared to j resides on the homestead in Mill Creek Townmanhood in this county, and received a j ship. Her parents were natives of Tennesrudimentary education in the early pioneer | see. Her father came to Indiana about sixtyschools, not having the advantages enjoyed ' years ago and first settled in Hendricks by the young men of to-day. II e was a constant j County, lie afterward removed to this reader and became well informed upon the ; county, settling in what is now known as general topics of the day. December 'J, j Mill Creek Township. The country was then 1857, he was united in marriage with MissEIiz- j a wilderness, and he endured mam- hardships, abeth Scobee, born April 2, 1837, in Mont- j He was the father of a large family of chilgomery County, Kentucky, and a daughter of | dren, of whom the following survive - Re- William and Nellie J. Scobee, the latter be- j beeca, wife of L. M. I'uis; Jane; Sallie, ingdeceased. To this union six children have widow of Jefferson Hurst; .Melissa, wife of been born - Mary J., William A., a resident William Jackson; John. Sylvester, James of Montana, Sarah E., Emma E., George 11., ; and Brice. The deceased are --William, El- Maggie M. Mr. Ilillis owns 330 acres of mina, Mary E. and Elizabeth. .Mr. Wallace land and has been a successful farmer. He j was a member of the Methodist Episcopal and his wife have made the most of their prop- J church, and in politics a Democrat. He was erty by hard work and good management, highly esteemed by all who knew him. lie is a Republican through and through in I

Mrs. Ilillis is a member of the Methodist |f|EORGE HATHAWAY, attorney-at-law Episcopal church. - l T an<^ a^stractor, at Greencastlc, is a son

"Wl of Russell L., deceased, and Mary T. .o^^m^V**. (Wood) Hathaway, and WaS born in Green- I castle October 2. 1853. lie graduated at ISflfcANKLIN ELLIOT, deceased, was a : Asbury University with the class of '75. .jj\3s son of Samuel and Catherine Elliot, the While attending the university he studied T- former one of the early settlers of the law under his father, and after his county. His first marriage was with Char- graduation he was admitted to the bar, lotto Alexander, and the}- had six children, ' and began the practice of his prolesthree of whom are living. John is in Mis- j sion with his father at Greencastlc, under the souri; Hugh and Alice arc in Illinois. For j firm name of Hathaway & Hathaway. This his second wife he married Jane Wallace, partnership continued until the death of his born in Indiana, and a daughter of Enoch lather, which occurred in L881. In 1885 he and Winnie Wallace, natives of Tennessee, began the compilation of abstract of titles of Five of their ten children are living - Syl- j Putnam County, and engaged in the abstract vester, Harriet, Mary E., Sarah E. and Briec. business at Greencastlc. In 1882, beimr one of the principal movers in the organization of the Building, Loan and Trust Association of Greencastle, known as the People's Building, Loan Lund and Saving Association, he was elected secretary. In 1886 he was elected secretary of the Putnam County Building, Loan and Trust Company, of which he was one of the principal incorporators. In 188(3 he became a stockholder in the Greencastle Electric Light Company, and was elected secretary and treasurer. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1880 was elected justice of the peace of Greencastle Township, and re-elected in 1884, but resigned sood after his election. October 4, 1877, he was married near Rock vi He, Parke County, Indiana, to Miss Alice M. McMurtry, daughter of Alexander R. and Melissa (Russell) McMurtry. She was born and reared in Parke County, and educated at the Presbyterian Female College at Greencastle. They are members of the Presbyterian church at Greencastle, of which he is one of the ruling elders, and Sabbath -school superintendent.

^JfOITN L. lilLLIS, fanner and stock- ^Jfj raiser, Greencastle Township, was born '^l in this county October 4, 1834, son of Abram and Elizabeth llillis, natives of Kentucky. Two of his maternal uncles were soldiers in the war of 1812. In the fall of 1825 his parents emigrated to this county, his mother coming the entire distance on horseback, riding a three-year-old colt, and carrying in her arms an infant six weeks old. They settled in Greencastle Township, in the woods, where the father had previously entered land. The first few weeks after their arrival they lived in an open tent while then loo- cabin was being built. The first year's crop consisted of a few acres of grain. Com-

; iug, as they did, with just money enough | to pay for the laud, they necessarily endured | many hardships and privations. The father I died in 1808, leaving to his family a good I property, which was the accumulations of a ; life of toil and good management. lie was j the father of thirteen children, of whom the I following survive - Betsey, wife of Christian j Landes; George B.; Mary, wife of Amzi j Finley; John L.; Sarah E., wife of E. L. Fox worthy; James; Abram: Emma, wife of , William Foreman; Henry II. He was a ; Republican in politics, and served several ; years as justice of the peace. Religiously he ! belonged to the Presbyterian church, lie was a skillful liter, and was frequently solicited to perform on that instrument on different j occasions. Our subject was reared in this : county, receiving but a limited education in | the early schools. In early life lie followed ! carpentering, but in later years his attention i has been given to fanning and stock-raising. July 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, , Twenty-first Indiana Infantry, and was as- : signed to the Army of the Gulf. He veter- ! anized in January, 1864. He fought at 1 Baton Rouge, Camp Bizlen, Franklin, Port j Hudson, and in numerous other engagements of less importance. He made quite a remarkable record. At no time was he a patient in the hospital; was not separated from his company during any engagement; and was the only man of a mess of six that returned home, lie was honorably discharged January 10, 1866. He enlisted as a private and was afterward promoted to Sergean t,and continued as such during the remainder of his service. February 22, 1 866, he was married to Miss Indiana Stoner, daughter of Peter Stoner, who was a pioneer of this county. They had ten children, seven of whom are living - Alva L., Alary, Ollie, Frank, Edgar, Bertha and Jennie. Mr.

Hillis owns 295 acres of good land, of which 104 acres constitutes the home farm on section 29, Greencastle Township. lie is a Republican in politics, and a member of Greencastle Post, G. A. R.

|1LLIAM B. SANDY, farmer, section | 6, Oloverdale Township, was born ^Hi near Gosport, Owen County, this State, September 3, 1820, son of Thomas and Sarah (Bush) Sandy. His father was born in North Carolina, June 15, 1797,. son of William Sandy, who came from England when a young num. and was married in North Carolina to Catherine Beck, a native of Virginia. They removed to East Tennessee in 1811, thence to Washington County, Indiana, where the father remained until his decease. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother died in Morgan County, this State, in March, 18-15, aged eighty-six years. She was the mother of eight children - live daughters and three sons. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. Thomas Sandy was twelve years old when his parents removed to Washington County. He was married in that county, in 1*17, to Sarah Bush, born in Virginia in 1787. Her father. John Hush, was born in Germany, came to America when a young man, was married in Virginia, locating near Louisville, thence to Washington County, Indiana, where he died in 1819. His wife died on the same farm. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom were boys. Thomas Sandy settled in Owen County in the spring of 1820, purchasing his land at the time of the land sale at Terre Haute, Indiana, lie remained on that farm until his death, February 25. 18G3. His wife died April &, 1846, and he afterward married Mrs. Nancy (Brown) Johns.

F5y his first marriage were six childrenthree sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Sandy were members of the Christian church. William B.. om- subject, was reared to manhood in Owen County, and educated in the pioneer log school-house. He remained at home on the farm until his marriage August 15, 1839, with Evelina | McCarty. She was born in Kentucky, May j 1, 1819. After his marriage Mr. Sandy i followed farming until the spring of 1817, ! when he removed to Putnam County and j engaged in the mercantile trade at Cloverdale. He followed that business until ls54, | since which time he has been engaged in j farming. Mr. Sandy is one of the largest j land-holders in his township, owning about I GOO acres besides what he has given to his 1 children. He makes a specialty of raising j stock. He commenced life with limited ! means, and what he has was obtained by his ! own exertions. Mrs. Sandy died March 15, ; 1881. They had five children- Aaron II., | Sarah E., who married Francis M. Alice, of ! Jefferson Township; Thomas W., William F. and James II. Mrs. Sandy Mas formerly i a Baptist, but previous to her death united | with the Christian church. January 10, | 1882, Mr. Sandy was married to Alary (Gart- | ner) Walden. who was born in Liussell Town- | ship, this county, December 27, 1839, and [ whose first husband was .John Walden. By her first marriage were three children -Em- I ily, deceased. Jesse F. and George, a resident j of California. Mr. and Mrs. Sandy have one child - Beryl B. Mr. Sandy is a strictly : temperance man, and in politics a Democrat, having cast his first Presidential vote for i James K. Polk. Aaron II. McCarty, father | of Mr. Sandy's first wife, was a native of Virginia and came to Kentucky with his parents when a boy. where he married Nancy Beavears, and removed to Owen County in cratie Central Committee of the Fifth Congressional District. Lie was married March dren, and is at present living with Mr. 10, 1875, to Miss Elizabeth N. Boleigh, of Sandy. lie was born April 5, 1791. flis Indianapolis. Four children are the fruits wife died in Owen County January 28,1885. oi' this union - Ethel, Frances, Charles and She was born January 20, 1799, and was the Edna. Mr. Arnold is a Mason, being a memmother of twelve children, eight of whom ber of the lodge, chapter and commandery, were girls. Mrs. McCarty was a member of and also belongs to the Royal Arcanum, lie the Missionary Baptist church, of which Mr. and wife are members of the Episcopal fKANCIS AMES ARNOLD was born I in Ontario, Canada, February 19, 1815, the son of John A. and Elizabeth S. j shton) Arnold. The former is well known ; Creencastle, having come to that city in j "I, and for twenty-four years dealt in j its and shoes. fie is now retired from j ive pursuits, and resides in Kansas with | --j!. i f <>n. E. J. Arnold. Of a family of -e sons and one daughter, F. A. is the ! >st i^u. lie received a s:ood eommoi school education, and graduated from the I Creencastle High School at the age of nineteen, lie then entered the Press office and learned the printer's trade, at which he worked at Creencastle, Indianapolis and Lansing, Michigan. He was also for live years an iron-molder. In 1873 he returned to Creencastle, and the year following established the Star, which he yet publishes, under the name of the Star-Press. Having no financial start or assistance, Mr. Arnold has acquired his present business and social standing, and his property, entirely by perseverance and ability. He has taken a prominent part in local politics, and is a member I and secretary of the Democratic County j Central Committee, as well as the Demo- I

C; \W. section 21, Madison Township, where J^- he owns 120 acres of land. He was born in North Carolina, December 19, 1821, son of Amos and Elizabeth Wright, also natives of North Carolina, and of Welsh- Irish ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The family settled in Madison Township in 1827, where the father died in 1876, aged eighty-eight years. The mother died in 1880, aged ninety years. Their twelve children lived to be grown, and six are now living - Linnie, Ezekiel and Ehoda of this county; Nathan, a minister of the Church of Christ, now of Douglas, Kansas; Dicey, also of Douglas. Kansas, and Turner.of Longmont,Oolorado. Our subject was reared on a farm, his present farm being a part of the old homestead. He was ordained elder of the church in 1852, and commenced preaching, and since about 1857 has been preaching in Illinois, Kansas and Indiana. December 31, 1841, he was married to Miss Celia Wright, daughter of Levi and Nancy Wright, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1818, and died February 22, 1884. Five of their six children are living - Henry C, of Kansas, married Minerva Simms, who died, and he afterward married her sister, Lueinda; Fanny, widow of Austin

Simms, resides with her father; Barton S., of Beman,Kansas; Levi M. and NaiicyE.atliome. Martha is deceased. Mr. Wright has served as township treasurer three years, and as township trustee about nine years. He is a selfmade man. His early education was limited to the common schools of his time. In politics he is a Democrat.

IK) MAS FYFFE, farmer, section 12, j Ijif Monroe Township, was horn in Mason j W County. Kentucky, October 27, 1814. ! His father, Jonathan Fyffe, now deceased, I was a native of Maryland, and an early settler of Mason Comity. His early life was passed on a farm, and his education was obtained in the early subscription schools that were taught in the primitive log school -house,, with hoards on pegs for desks, clapboard roof, puncheon floor and slab seats. The teachers were those that believed in pounding education into their pupils with ox gads. Mr. Fyffe came to this county in the fall of 183G, settling in Monroe Township, and has since resided in the comity. He lived six years in Floyd Township, and in Monroe Township the remainder of the time. The country was new when he first came, and there was but little land cleared. His salt costed one dollar a bushel. lie went to Crawfordsville and Indianapolis to mill, a distance of twenty-two and forty miles respectively. He was married January 9, 1840, to Miss Zerelda Allen, daughter of Robert Allen, now deceased, who was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky. They have had two children - Lou II. married John Q. Wilkinson and had six children- Leonora, "Wilbur, Carrol, Eddie and two deceased; and Mary C, who married Dr. Thomas L. Armstrong, veterinary surgeon, of Indianapolis, ;uu] they had one child, Jot'ic

F., who lives with her grandparents, and is quite a musician; both daughters are now deceased. Mr. Fyffe owns 167 acres of land, and it is conceded to be one of the best farms in the county, being well watered, good soil, and timber laud. His residence is of brick, 64x 33 feet, two stories in height, each twelve feet. He is president of two gravel road companies in Monroe Township. Mr. Fyffe never seeks official honors or political distinction. Both himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Fyffe's father was born in Virginia and came to Kentucky when a young man.

fHRISTIAX LANDES, a pioneer of Putnam County, was born in Augusta "fe^i County, Virginia, April 5, lsl4, son of John and Frances Landes, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry. He came to this county, in company with his brother Samuel Landes, in 1837, and for the first twelve years resided in Greencastle. He settled upon his present farm on section 31, Greencastle Township, in 1849, and has resided there ever since. lie owns 210 acres of good land, which he has obtained by his own labor and management, having come here with s500 , which he used "to advantage. He learned the blacksmith's trade in early life, which he followed many years. He was married October 1, 1840, to Miss Elizabeth A. Ilillis, daughter of Abram Ilillis, a pioneer of Putnam County. Of their twelve children ten arc living - Mary J., wife of William Butler; William II., Samuel E.. Sarah E., wife of Samuel Powen; Laura E., wife of Simpson Stoner; Alice, wife of Jonathan Houck; Albert, Flora V., now Mrs. James E. Houck, Grant and George. The deceased are - John and James. Mr. Landes is a member of the fOilN FOSHER, former, section 24, Russell Township, was born in Preble i County, Ohio, March 22, 1822. His father, John Fosher, was born in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1786, and removed to Ohio in 1806. His mother, Elizabeth Landes, was a native of Pennsylvania. The parents removed" to Russell Township in 1822, being the first settlers on Ramp ('reek. The creek was named by the father, owing to the wonderful growth of ramps (wild onions) on its hanks. Mr. Fosher built the first cabin, flour and saw-mill on the creek, lie also built a church, which he donated to all denominations, and he was one of the first Univcrsalists here. The grandfather of our subject, Daniel Fosher, was horn May 12, 1703, in Germany, coming to the United States in 1779, with his brother, who was a Hessian soldier in the Revolutionary war. John was reared on a farm and received a limited education in the early subscription schools. When a hoy he worked in his father's mill, in what was known as Blakesborongh, then a village in Russell Township. January 24, 1847, he was married to Louisa M. Goslin, daughter of James and Mary Goslin, who settled in Jackson Township in 1830. They have had nine children - Jesse B., Clay, Angel ine, Greeley, Parthena, Milton, William, Elizabeth and Cora. Milton and Cora arc deceased. Jesse married Barilla Young, resides in Ladoga and has two children- -Cora M. and Claude; Clay married Josephine Stultz, lives in Russell Township, and has four children - Theodore, Orval, Katie L. and Lizzie; Angel ine married Dr. Logan Stanley, of Fineastle, and their children are - Prudah,

John, William and Winnie (twins); Greeley married Belle Rogers, and resides in Russell Township; Parthena married Jud. Linley, of Raccoon, and has three children - Nannie and two younger ones, a girl and a boy. Mr. Fosher owns 250 acres of good land, and devotes his time to farming and stock-raising. Mrs. Fosher died December 24, 1879, and October 12, 1881, Mr. Fosher married Mrs. Louann Passmore, daughter of Samuel Glover, and widow of Archibald Passmore. By her iirst marriage were seven children - Sarah, Mary, Catherine, Taylor, Nancy, Amanda and Alice. Mr. Fosher is a member of the Fniversalist church.

jJ^EZEKIAH 11. PERRY, farmer, residing \ Q'A on section 22, Warren Township, was *W-i born in Floyd County, Indiana. October 11, 1829, a son of John S. and Sarah Perry, of Putnam County. lie came with his parents to Putnamville when a little over two years of age, in November, 1831, where he was reared till June, 1845, and then removed with his parents to the farm where he now resides. He was educated in the common schools, such as reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, spelling and history. The principal teachers he went to were Horatio T. Wakefield, who removed to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1857, and died there, and William Waynick, who removed with his parents to Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa, in the spring of 1850, and died there. Both of them were good teachers, whom he respected. He learned the potter's trade with his father, and in September, 1850, removed to Clay County, this State, where he was engaged in farming and mining and digging potter's clay, and part of the time carried on the pottery business until January 23, 1871, when he returned to

Warren Township and settled upon the old homestead, where he has since resided. Besides his interest in the homestead he owns his farm on section '-20, Brazil Township, in Clay County, on which is an extensive coal and clay bank, the clay being the tirst to be used in the pottery business in the county. Sunday, June 7, 1863, at the residence of John Hendrix, of Brazil, Brazil Township, Clay County, Mr. Perry was married to .Miss Harriet Maria Pilant, by the Rev. Ransom Hawley, a Presbyterian minister of Putnamville, who resides with his sons at Terre Haute. She was born in Henry County, Indiana, November 4, 1841, and died January 20, 1871. She was the mother of three children - Sarah Catherine, born April 2, 1804; Mary Ellen, burn May 27, 1866, died January 9, 18S4, and John Stewart, born January j 27, 1870. She was a member of the Method- j ist Episcopal church. Politically Mr. Perry ! is a Republican. lie is an extensive reader | and has read the New York weekly Tribune j since 1850, and the Greeucastle Banner j since 1866, and the Phrenological Journal j and Science of 1 fault h since 1870, besides! many oilier papers.

IPJOBERT HOOD, deceased, a pioneer of - yY Putnam County, was born in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1805. lie was reared to agricultural life in his native county, and was married in that State to Christina Rule, who was born in Virginia in 1804. Mr. Hood came from Tennessee to this county in the fall of 1828, and rented land on section 25, Warren Township, one year, then removed to Clovcrdale Township, where he leased land or. section 6 several years. In 1839 he entered land on section 32, and lived upon that farm until his death in April,

1802. Mr. and Mrs. Hood had nine children, live sons and four daughters. They were members of the Christian church, of which Mr. Hood was an elder. He owned 114 acres of land, although he was in limited circumstances when he came to the county. John R. Hood, a son of the preceding, resides on section 33, Cloverdale Township, and was born in that township March 2, 1834. He was reared in his native township ami educated in the common schools of his neighborhood. He remained at home until twentylive years of age, and November 20. 1859, he was married to Mary C. Morgan, who was born in Cloverdale. Township September 23, 1830, daughter of James I. Morgan, who was a native of Kentucky and came to Putnam County in an early day. He lived in Cloverdale Township until his death. Her mother, Melinda (Dorrel) 'Morgan, also a native of Kentucky, was the mother of eight children, seven of whom are sons. After his marriage our subject purchased and settled upon forty acres of his present farm where he still resides. He now has seventy acres, in a good state of cultivation. Politically Mr. Hood is a Democrat, and has held positions of trust in the township. He served as assessor four years. Mr. and Mrs. Hood are the parents of seven children - William J., Melinda A., Nancy £., Mary M., Sarah E., Hester M. and Inda A. They are members of the Christian church, of which Mr. Hoed has served as deacon thirteen years. William J. Hood, only son of John li. Hood, was burn at the family homestead, August 7, 1860, where lie grew to manhood. He attended the common schools of his county, and also the Central Normal School, at Danville, three terms. He taught two terms of school, commencingin the fall of 1883. March 4, L885, he purchased the office of the Cloverdale Herald of E. V. Ten nan t, in company with

September, 1885, when Mr. Mood purchased j the interest of his partner and conducted the I paper alone until December, 1886. lie then I sold to W. E. Nangle, the present editor, j since which time he has been engaged in j fOILN W. EGGERS, farmer, miller and carpenter, resides on section 10, Jackson Township, where he owns 183 acres of laud. lie was born in Floyd Township, this county, August 8, 1838, a son of Jesse and Sarah (Morphew) Eggers, natives of Indiana, the former of English and the latter of French descent. They came to this county in 1831, where the father is still living. The grandfather of our subject, William Eggers, was in the war of 1812, and came to Indiana when it was a Territory, being an early settler of Putnam County. He was born in 1795, and died October 16, 1886. John was married in this county January 19, 18(51, to Matilda A., daughter of Roland and Betsey Sutherlin, who was born in this county, Jackson Township, November 19, 18-13. They have three children - -Sarah, born May 6, 1863, married Martin T. Henry, and has two children - Alva R. and Bertha M.; Newberry I)., born January 4, 1867; Genera F., born September 6, 187-1. Mr. Eggers has held the office of school director and other local olHces. In politics he is a Democrat, and himself and wife are members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Eggers' grandfather was one of the early settlers of Putnam County. Her father died in 1876, at the age of sixty-two years. Her mother is still living, and is seventy-four years of age. She

IvSOAR W. ELLIS, farmer and dairyman, Greencastle Township, was born in '*--~~f*' Alexandria, Virginia, June 16,1831, son ot John \\r. and Sarah E. Ellis, the former a native of Virginia, of English ancestry, and the latter of England. To the parents were born thirteen children, of whom eleven are living --.Mary, wife of Frank Jean, of Los Angeles, California; Thomas ()., of Sullivan County, this State; Ann M., wife of George Riffgs, of Nebraska; Virginia, now Mrs. Robert McCormick, of .Missouri; Eldridge R., of Coatesville, Indiana; Robert, of Sullivan County; . Olivia, wife of George Warner, of the same county, and Oscar W. hi 1834 our subject came to Indiana with his parents, who settled in Sullivan County, and remained there until their decease. They were pioneers of that county. They had to cut their lumber with a whip-saw, and made their floors of puncheons. Their nearest town was Vincennes, twenty miles distant. The father was one of the first county officers, and served as overseer of the poor, and as township trustee several years. He died in 1870, and his funeral was said to be the largest ever held in Sullivan County. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church-, and contributed liberally to that church, being especially liberal to the poor people. He was a man of untiring energy and determination. When he came to this State he had about nine dollars in money and a few household goods. At his death his estate was estimated at §20,000. In politics he was a Democrat. Oscar "\V. Ellis was reared to manhood in Sullivan County, and has been a life-long farmer. During tin; past twenty years he has devoted much at- j Mrs. Wilson was born in this county in tention to the dairy business, which has 1840. They have had four children, the first proved to be quite profitable. January 7, of which died an infant; the other three are 1858, he was married to Sarah E. Buck, born May 9, 1831, in New Jersey, and a daughter of William and Pharzena Buck, the former a native of England, and the latter of Kew Jersey. Her parents emigrated to Vigo County, this State, in 133(7, thence to Greene County in a few years. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis are the parents of seven children, live living - Pharzina, wife of John Keller, or" Greencastle: llattie, William, Mary, at present attending DePauw University, and Edward. In 1861 our subject removed to this county, and has resided here ever since. He owns a line farm of eighty acres, and resides on section 31. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has served as Sunday-school superintendent, still living. Delana 0. and Charley A., a teacher, are pursuing a course of study in the State Normal at Terre Haute. Gilbert, the youngest, is at home. Mr. Wilson is a Democrat in polities, and a county commissioner at this time, and has been township assessor one term. His early educational advantages were limited, but lie possesses 51 good fund of information and common sense, and is one ol' the influential men of the county. He had but little property to begin with, and had to rent land for seven or eight vears. He got his land by going in debt for it, and by raising and selling cattle to pay for it. The farm he now owns has cost him $7,500. Mr. Wilson and his wife and three children are

£|OHN WILSON, a farmer of Floyd Ml Township, resides on section U, where '-.\i he owns 16.1 acres of good land, in a high state of cultivation. He was born in that township January 23, 183S, a son of Abel and Julia A. Wilson. They were natives of Kentucky, the former of English and the latter of German ancestry. The mother's maiden name was Kolesapple. They came to this county in L832, and are still living in the same township in which they first settled. They had six children; live of them are still living. John was the fourth child. lie was reared on his father's farm. He was married in 1S00, in Floyd Township, to Miss Nancy I., daughter of John and Anna C. Lewis, who were natives of Kentucky. The father died in 1863; the mother is still living.

p|LDEB OSCAR F. LANE, tanner, secpi tion 11, Monroe Township, was born in "Jp that township May 5. 18-18. His j father, lliggins Lane, now deceased, was a I native of Montgomery County, Kentucky, ! and came to this county in 184-1, having ' bought land here in 1S:57. He was reared t on a farm, and educated in what was then j the Northwestern Christian University, now I Butler University, graduating in June, 1871. j He preached in the Christian church seven- | teen years, when failing health compelled him to abandon that work. He began his j ministerial labors when sixteen years of age. -j He preached in Indianapolis, La Porte, Green- : castle, Cloverdale, Gosport, Rainbridge, \ Portland Mills, Indiana, also in Shelbyville, j Illinois, lie owns 150 acres of land in this 1 county, and a half interest in 160 acres in

Pulaski Comity, lie was married November 20, 1872, to Mary E. Wendling, daughter of George J. Wendling, of Shelbyville, Illinois, and a bister of Hon. George R. Wendling, the lecturer. They have seven children - Anna L., Carrie M., Frank W., Edwin R.. Oscar B., Nellie and Lizzie II. During the late war Mr. Lane enlisted twice, and was each time rejected.

^AXIEL'T. DARNALL, farmer, section j j J 2, Monroe Township, was born in that township, on the old homestead on section 5, December 16, 1844. His father, Johnson I hirnall, was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and settled in this county in 1833, and died in Cambridge, January 9, 187(1 Daniel T. was raised on a farm and educated in the common school and at Eainbridge Academy. From 1872 until 1877 he was engaged in the mercantile trade at Bainbridge, and since that time he devoted his time to his farm, lie was married, November 19, 1867, to Nancy F. Colliver, daughter of Samuel Colliver, of Monroe Township, and of their four children three are living Leslie, Cora T. and Thomas. William died at the aire of live years. Mr. Damall is a member of the regular Baptist church. Mrs. j Hamuli was born in Clark County, Ken- ' tucky. !

||ILLIAM MoCRAY, tanner, residing j i ^'f on section 5, Washington Township, I ITTFrJ was born in Bourbon County, Ken- \ tacky. March 27, 1818, son of Samuel and j Rebecca McCray, natives of Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish descent. They removed to j Putnam County in 1837, where they re- |

; mained until their decease, the father dviner \ in 1861, aged eighty-eight years, and the ! mother in 1S62. They reared nine children, i two of whom are living -Fleming, a resident ; of Monroe Township, and our subject. The I latter was reared on a farm, and has always I followed farming until within the last two j years. He was married in this county in ! 1834, to Nancy Wood, who was born in Virginia March 2, 1821, and died January 25, j 1873. To this union were born eleven chil- ; dren,thc following of whom are living -Henry ! H.,Willis, Edward, Levi, Susan, wife of Frankj lin Hall, Fleming, Charles, Laura, Harriet , E. Shields. Rebecca is deceased. In polij tics Mr. McCray is a Greenbaeker. Posti office. Fern.

-jffAMES E. QUINN, tanner, section 1, , \ Monroe Township, was born in Fleming -i County, Kentucky, February 9, 1820, son oi John Quinn, deceased, who removed to Union County, Indiana, when our subject was an infant. lie was reared on a farm, and educated in the old fashioned subscription school, taught in log cabins, with slab seats, boards on wooden pins for desks and puncheon floors. He came to this county in 1846, settling upon his present farm, where he has since resided. There was a public barbecue on his farm on the 4th of July of that year, held in a grove near a lone sugar tree that still stands to mark the place. He was married September 19, 1844, to Miss Rachel Kellar, daughter of John Kellar, and to this union have been born three children, two of whom are living - Mary M. and Sarah B. John died at the age of twenty-three years. Mary married Frank McKee, now deceased, and their one living child is James L., who is attending college a! Greencastlc; Sarah married Lewis Linber- ; tor. In 1874 .Mr. Langs.dale was appi ger, of Bainbridge, and lias had three chil- postmaster at Greencastlc by President drcn, two of whom arc living- Paul and Grant, and was reappointed hy Presidents Glenn. Mr. Quiun own- 400 acres of excel- Hayes and Arthur, getting a third term. In lent land, and devotes Ins attention to farm- 1878-'79 lie accompanied the negro exodus ing and stock-raising, lie never seeks from the South, and became widely known political distinction, lie is n member of j as " de boss of de emigrashun.v Upon the the Methodist Episcopal church, and in poli- ! election of President Cleveland Mr. Langstics is a Democrat. j dale resigned the office of postmaster, and

| istration of the Government belong to the J^jiEORGE J. LANGSDALE is a most! victors. For four years he has been Presi- - i T" pronounced stalwart Republican. He dent id' the Monumental Association, De- , - was born in Indianapolis, November 25, partment of Indiana, Grand Army of the 1837, and spent part of his youth in Ken- Republic, and he was one of the most active tuck}-. lie worked at the printers trade in in securing the appropriation of K200.000 the office of the Indianapolis Sentinel, but I from the General Assembly in 1887 to build did. not continue in the business, owing to j a monument. He has since been chosen by ill health. In 1862 he assisted in recruiting j the State- officers one of the five commission- Company L, Third Indiana Cavalry, and ers to have charge of the erection of the was mustered in as First Lieutenant. His structure. While in the army Mr. Langsfirst service was in pursuit of General John j dale returned to Indiana long enough to be Morgan, through the States of Kentucky. : united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Indiana and Ohio, and he was present at Mary E. Roberts, of Indianapolis. Of eight Morgan's capture. At Buflington's Island, ! children born, tour are now living. while General Shackelford was making an :

Colonel Hawkins, of Tennessee, Major Dick I ?T^f=JiLLIAM II. GARDNER, an early Morgan, of Kentucky, and thirty men. Dur- j \\I\k settler of Madison Township, was ing his term of service he was a member b^.^rj born in this county. November 22, of three military commissions to try offend- : 1838, son ot' Samuel and Emily Gardner, the ers against military law. He served with former a native of Virginia :'.u] the latter of the Army of the Ohio and the Army of Kentucky. The parents were among the the Cumberland, doing much hard service in ; early pioneers of Putnam County, and they East Tennessee and Georgia, part of the had ten children, of whom seven are livingtime being cut off from supplies; during John W., William II., Louisa E., wife of that time he commanded his company. He Richard Heady, ot Boone County, Indiana; assisted in editing the Sullivan Union <\uv- \ Monroe, a resident of Illinois: Lutetia A., ing the political campaign of 1866, and in ' wife of George McClintock; Josephine, wife 1807 purchased the Greencastle Banner, of j of Wallace Ramsey, of Parke County. Indiwhich he has since been editor and proprie- ana; Mary K.. wife of Charles Tony, of this county. Samuel Gardner has always been a bard-working and a public-spirited man. He served as comity commissioner several terms, and has been justice of the peace many years, lie sti'l resides in Madison Township. William IJ. has been reared in this comity, receiving a rudimentary education in the early schools, lie was married December 14, 1863, to Miss Sallie Smedley, daughter of Andrew J. and Eliza (Bradsliaw) Smedley. of this county. They have eight children, live of whom are living - Melvin, Reynolds, Alice L, Eliza E. and Sadie B. One daughter, Lelia, died April 3, 1887. Mr. Gardner own., 1:20 acres of good land, and is meeting with good success. Politically he is a Democrat. Mrs. Gardner was a school-teacher previous to her marriage. Her father was born in Kentucky and her mother in Indiana.

l||I0IIOLAS SC11ULTZ, farmer and y;L,/ stock-raiser, Jefferson Township, was "<^S born in Bremen, Germany, December 1, 1831, a son of .Nicholas and Elizabeth Schnltz. In ls54 he immigrated to America. taking passage in a sailing vessel, and after a voyage of fifty-nine days lauded in Baltimore. After working a short time in Cincinnati and Indianapolis lie came to Putnam County and opened a shoe shop at Mount Meridian, having learned that trade when young, lie removed to his present residence on section 25 in 1^58, where he owns 160 acres of good land in Ids homestead; also owns sixty acres in Cloverdale Township, lie was married April S, 1858, to Sophia Staley, who was born in Virginia in 1823, daughter of Abratn and Elizabeth Staley, who came to Putnam County in 1825, locating on section 25, Jefferson Township, where they lived un-

I til their decease. The country was then a i wilderness and Indians were plenty. They | endured all the privations incident to the ! pioneer. Of six children, Mrs. Schultz is the only one living. Her father was a hardworking man, and respected by all who knew him. l)i politics he was a Whig. Mr. | Schultz received bat a common education ; in his younger days. He has been snecess- \ fill in life, ami is a worthy citizen. Politii cally he afiiliates with the Republican party.

UCIIIBALI.) COLLINGS, farmer, seck\> tion 2, Monroe Township, was born in ~";~ Shelby County, Kentucky, May 29, ! 1819. 11 is father, Abraham Codings, now ! deceased, was a native of the same State; i his mother, Nancy (Xutgrass) Codings, was j a daughter of ('ray Nutgrass, who was a | soldier in the Revolutionary war. The father ; died when Archibald was eight years of age, i and in l>ol he came with his mother to this j county, where he lias lived most of the time ever since. His mother died in Parke : County, this State December 3i. 1886, in i the ninetieth year of her age. Our subject I was thrown upon his resources at the age oi ; eighteen years. His education was somej what limited, having attended the subscription schools in the old log cabin, with huge I fireplace in one end of the room, a mud-andstick chimney, puncheon floor, clapboard j roof, slab seats without backs, boards on \ wooden pins for desks, and one log left out : for light, with a greased paper occasionally j inserted in the aperture. Mr. Codings has I done much hard work in clearing land, burni ing logs and brush day and night. He was ; married September 1, 1841, to Miss Sarah j McClain, daughter of .John McClain, dei ceased, who was an early settler of Parke

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County. Of their six children three are liv- I ing -Emeline, Nancy and Eliza. Emeline '< married Howard F razee, of Hamilton Conn- ! ty, and lias one son, William: Nancy married James (iagland, of Bainbrklge, and Eliza married John Ragland, and has two children - Clara and Laura. Mr. Collings owns 258 acres of land, and makes a specialty of raising Jersey cattle, hogs and horses. Mrs. Collings died January 13, 1874, and ,\nnc 3, 1879, Mr. Collings married Elenora Gaines. They have three children -Joseph j S., Edna -and Lena, lie has held the office of I assessor, and was elected justice of the peace hut declined to serve.

f AMES A. HOPE- of Marion Township, is an old settler and representative :. farmer of Putnam County, and was horn in Shelby County, Kentucky, October 22, l'SoA. His father. Isaac Hope, was horn in Maryland, and his mother, Susan (Ellis) Hope, was burn in Kentucky. The Hope family came from Scotland to America about 200 years ago, settling in Maryland. Tradition says that they participated in the battle of the Boyne in Ireland. Isaac Hope came with his family from Kentucky to this county in 1835, settling on the farm on section 12, Marion Township, that is now occupied by our subject. The country was then a dense wilderness. lie first erected a log cabin, and began in a rude way to make a home. At the same time he carried on a blacksmith's shop, having learned the blacksmith's trade, and his was one of the first shops in the township, lie was the father of three children, our subject being the only one that survives. He died in 1S66, honored and esteemed by ali who knew him. When he first came to Putnam County he found it extremely difficult to furnish his family with the necessaries of life: but with maturer years prosperity came, and when he died he left a good property. James A. Hope, the subject of this sketch, has been reared to manhood in this county, and received a rudimentary education in the early schools of his time. He was married August 11, 1863, to Miss Elizabeth Newman, daughter of William ami Rachel Newman, of Fillmore, Putnam County. To this union have been born three children -Charles P., born September 13, 1867; Ohio, born February 11, 1871, and Daniel K., born September (3, 1879. Mr. Hope owns 240 acres of good land, and has been very successful as a farmer, having been a life Jong resident of Putnam County. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party. Both are respected members of society.

. the firm of Goukiing oc Ireland, iNjjjlM proprietors of the planing mill and door, sash and blind factory, at Greencastle, was born at Grafton, Massachusetts, April 7, 1830. His father, William (building, was aiso born at Grafton, and of English parentage. Hy avocation he was a tanner and currier, lie died in New York City in L837, at the age of thirty-six years. His mother, Adah (Jewelti Goulding, was born and reared in Pepperell, Massachusetts. She was twice married, her second husband being James Poutelle. who is now deceased. She died near Worcester, in 1885, aged over seventy years. She was a member of the Congregational church. William was taken by his parents to New York City when three years of age, and when he was seven years of aire his father died. After that he lived with relatives until lie was seventeen years old, | A., and Emily A. Like all pioneer.-, they when 1m.' began to learn the carpenter's trade | endured many hardships and privations. Mr. at Leominster, Massachusetts, serving an ap- ' Shields owns 220 acres of excellent land, and prentiecship of three years, lie worked at j resides on section 1. Politically he is a Deinolns trade at that place until 1850, then came j crat. Both arc highly respected member.- of to Greencastle, where, after working at jour- j society.

land under the firm name of Colliding ifc I ^vENRY SHIELDS, of Marion Township, Ireland. Politically Mr. Gonkling is a lie- j j^'j one of the oldest living settlers of his publican. In 1*51 he war, married at Green- | ~A; locality, was bom in .Jefferson County,

Myra A.. Addie, wife of Dr. E. P. Evans, of Greencastle, and of Irish ancestry, lie was reared to and Lizzie 11. i manhood on a farm, and received a rudimen-

I Indians during the first settlement of Ten- ^5jFACO.r» SHIELDS, a pioneer of .Marion | riessee. He was married in Tennessee, Octoi-\ Township, was born in Jefferson County, ber 1.2, 1.820, to Miss Jane K. Dick, daughter ^-Tennessee, October 22, 1827, son of . of Henry and Ellen Dick, natives of Yir- Henry and .lane K. Shields, the latter being ginia, who settled in Tennessee. To this deceased. In 1*30. when he was three years I union nine children were born, of whom six of age, he removed to this county with his | are living- -Jacob, Ellen IL, wife of the late parents, and has been a resident here ever Harrison El rod, of Hendricks County, Indisince. His educational advantages were neces- I ana; John IL Shields, Mary A., wife of John sarily limited, having attended school princi- j A. Phillips, of Hendricks County; Louisa pally during the winter season, at odd spells. : J., widow of Jacob W. Phillips, late of this He was married January 5, 1854, to Mary | county, and Elvira, wife of Joseph W. Elrod, M. Elrod, daughter of Joseph and Catherine ! also of this county. Toe deceased are - Elrod, early settlers of Hendricks County, | William, Prior L. and James 11. Joseph W. this State. To this union were born two I Elrod was born in Wayne County, Indian;!, children - Lydia E., wife of Spencer W. Hun- October 10, 1835. a son of Joseph and ter, and Orlando II. Mrs. Shields died June I Catherine Elrod. When a boy his parents 14, 1863, and October 19, 1865, Mr. Shields j removed to Hendricks County, Indiana, married Emily A. Cox. whose first husband I where lie was reared to manhood. He was was Jefferson Cox, of Putnam County. Her I married May 29, 1864, to Elvira A. Shields. parents, William n\u\ Ann MeCarty, were | and their three children are - Walter J)., Osearly settlers of Putnam County, and among j car O. and Ella. Mr. Elrod at present rethe first settlers of Warren Township. They sides on the farm of Mr. Shields. In the were the' parents of eleven children, of whom j fall of 1830 our subject immigrated to this five are living- Abo], Sallie, Julia A., Mary \ county with his family, and for the first seven years lived two miles south of Greencastle. Early in the year 1838 lie located in the woods on section 12, Marion Township, having entered forty acres of land from the Government. He subsequently entered and purchased more, until at one time lie owned 200 acres of land. At present he owns 160 acres of good laud that is well cultivated. His first house was made of hewed logs, and after getting well settled in it he commenced to clear and improve his land in true pioneer style. His first crop was a small patch of corn. Each year he cleared a few acres more, until out of an unbroken wilderness ho had produced a splendid farm, and now, in his declining years, he is reaping the fruits of a well spent life. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and for some time officiated as an elder of that church. Politically he is a Democrat. His wife died -June 30, 1884, having shared his ioys and sorrows nearly

£fACOB CROSBY, retired farmer, resides on section 17. Jackson Township, whore he owns 200 acres of well cultivated land, lie was boni in Mason County, Kentucky, June 8, 1800, a son of William and Catherine Crosby, of English-< icrman ancestry. J ie came to this county in LS34, locating upon his present farm two years later. Me was married in Kentucky in 1831, to Eleanor Osborn, born in that State in 1805. Six of their eight children are living - William, Elasha, Anderson ( r., of Jackson Township, Samuel lv.,( !athcrinc wife of John ttadford, Mary, wife of John Wright, has three children Eva, Lillie Laud Mirble. Mr. Crosby has served as trustee of

^WMJSTIN BOND, an early settler of PutjjWfo nam County, and now a resident of *sp? Washington Township, was born in Franklin County, Virginia, July 21, 1813, son of Robert and Ann (Starkey) Pond, the former of Irish descent and the latter of Scotch. Both were bom in Virginia. His father moved to Kentucky in 1810, and died in that State in 1828, and our subject, with his widowed mother and eight children, removed to Lawrence County, this State, in 1829, where the mother died in 1832. The parents had twelve children, of whom three are livin<r - Robert, J ane and Austin. The latter was the chief dependence of the family until the younger children were reared. \lv has always been engaged in farming. lie was married February 3, 1851, to Sarah Girton, born August 19, 1832, in Brown County, Ohio, and a daughter of Stephen and Margaret (VanZandt) Girton, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and now deceased, the latter a native of Ohio. Her parents came to Clay County, Indiana, in 1830, where the father died in February, 1864. To this union have been born eleven children, eight of whom are living - Austin P., of Kansas, Stephen G., George W., William A., Fletcher, Warren lv, Timothy C. and Alma. The deceased are - - Louisa. Martha and one that died in infancy. Mr. Bond was first married in 1835, to Miss Ann Wilson, and two of their eight children are living -John and David. His wife died in March, 1851. In the fall of 1^37 he removed to Putnam County, locating in Washington Township where he 'has since resided. Both are members of the Christian church.

Mr. Bond owns 2S0 acres of land, in a good state of cultivation, lie is a liberal contributor to both church and State, and in favor of everything that will benefit the community. Both are industrious and intelligent and are enjoying the fruits of a well spent life. Mr. Bond has served as deacon of the church for nearly half a century, He is a man of sterling integrity and is conceded to be one of the most successful business man in the township.

{ wife are members of the Disciple church. i His early educational advantages were limited, i and he suffered all the hardships and privai tious incident to pioneer life. lie is widely - and favorably known, and is one of the solid I men of the county.

BEL WILSON, retired farmer, resides j \; on section 15, Floyd Township, where j - he owns 140 acres of land. He was | born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 29, j 1814, son of Alexander and Sarah (Lucas) j Wilson, natives of Kentucky and of Irish- German ancestry. His father was a soldier ' in the war of 1812, under General Harrison, j Their seven children all grew to maturity, Abel being the. oldest. lie was reared on a farm and has always been a farmer. He was married in Washington County, this State, in 1830, to Miss Julia Ilolesapple, daughter of George M. and Phebe (II nbbard) Ilolesapple, natives of Virginia and of German ancestry. Mrs. Wilson was born in Washington County, Indiana, in 18x3. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had six children, I've of whom arc living - Alexander, of Jasper County, Illinois; George W., of Danville, Illinois; William, a resident of Vermillion County, Illinois; John and Lucy A. resides in Floyd Township, and Sarah J., deeeased. Mr. Wilson came to this county in 1832, settling in Floyd Township, where he has lived ever since with the exception of six months. lie had nothing to commence with and started by renting land and taking jobs of work. He is a Democrat 'n politics. Religiously both himself and

|mLEXAXDER GORHAM, a representalili **ve pi°neer °f Putnam County, and a ^JP8 resident of Marion Township, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, November 14, 1813, son of Alexander and Sarah (Tyler) Gorham, natives of Virginia. The Gorham family originally came from Ireland and settled in Virginia. II is parents were quite young when they removed to Kentucky. His mother was for some time obliged to take refuge with her parents in a fort, as a protection from the Indians. It was unsafe to even go as far as the gate of the fort to obtain water. The father of our subject removed with his family to this county in 1829. He entered considerable land from the Government in Marion Township, settling on section 5, where he had 240 acres of timber land, for which he paid $1,500. He lived there until his decease, which occurred in 1S37. His wife survived until 1863, and died in her ninety-third year. There were about twenty acres of clearing on his farm when he first settled upon it. The previous owner, Judge Smith, had set out a large number of peach trees and apple trees, which bore fruit the first season he was here. He had some means when he came, so that his family did not suiter the hardships of most of the pioneers. lie removed his family, which consisted of wife and eleven children, with a six-horse team and one live-horse team. He also had two saddle horses. He and his wife rode the saddle horses. The six-horse team belonged to his son William, and he returned back to ! elder. The parents of Mrs. Gorham were Kentucky with his team after leaving the natives of Virginia and removed to Kentucky family here. lie brought some household ! when young. They were amono- the first goods and some farming implements, and settlers of Marion Township. Of their twelve before leaving Kentucky he bought a good ! children, only four are living - Thomas, Elizastock of cotton, which was very useful to the ( beth, Eliza and Mary. The mother died in pioneer. He had been twice married, and was 1S31 and the father in 1SC4. They were the father of thirteen children, of whom six vevy worthy people and greatly respected by survive - Lutitia, widow of John S. Allen, I all who knew them, late of Grecncastle; Priseilla, wife of Timothy '

Beersheba, widow of Caleb Reeves, late of; ^OX. EDWIN T. LAKE, farmer, section Greencastle, and Susan, who married Samuel ; yfljf 10, Monroe Township, was born on sce- Flynn, of Fayette County, this State. Alex- I ~~~--( tion li of that township, February 7, ander Gorham, the subject of this sketch, has i 1851. His father, Hon. Higgins Lane, dealways been a fanner. He received a nidi- ; ceased, came to this county from Montgommentary education in the early subscription cry County. Kentucky, in 1844. lie was a schools of his time, and this was all. lie was j very -prominent man, having served live married February 13, 1834, to Eliza (.-. i terms in the Indiana State Legislature. Ed- Jackson, born .Tunc 13, L812, in Harrison win T. was reared a fanner, and his early County, Kentucky, and a daughter of Thomas education was obtained in the common and Nancy Jackson. In 1829 she came to | schools, and he was prepared for college by a this county with her parents, who settled in private tutor, graduating at the Northwestern Marion Township, remaining there until their Christian University, now Butler, at Irvingdecease. Mr. and Mrs. Gorham have had ton, June 15, 1871. His health became imfour children, three of whom are living - : paired, and for one year he was unable to do Mary E., wife of Isaac M. Day. of this ! anything. February 10, 1872, he was nomeounty ; JohnW. and Campbell A. « also of this j inated by the Republican party for the State county. Sarah C. is deceased. Mr. Gorham ; Legislature, and was defeated, and in 1870 owns 148 acres of well developed land, and he was nominated on joint ticket for Puthas been quite successful as a farmer. lie nam and Hendricks counties, and was elected operated the second circular saw-mill - a by a large majority, receiving 130 more votes portable mill run by steam-power - in the in Hendricks County than did Hen Harrison, county. In politics Mr. Gorham is a Demo- candidate for Governor. Before the close of erat and cast his first presidential vote for his term he had an attack of bleeding at the Andrew Jackson. He has never accepted ofri- lungs, and he was obliged to leave his labors, cial positions, though frequently solicited to but not before he had succeeded in getting do so. lie is a public-spirited man and al- several measures before the Lower House. Mc ways contributes to anything that will benefit served one session as chairman of committee the community, lie has been a member of j on Benevolent Institutions, also on enrolled the Christian church since 1838; has served lulls and House Journal. lie pushed the as deacon, and for many years officiated as Libel Hill through, which made libel a crim- had act, especially the blackening the character of women. He stood high in college, and was elected to deliver the Master's oration tlirck years after graduating, although the degree of honors had been previously abandoned by the college. lie taught school ten years, and had charge of the Bainbridge schools seven sessions. He taught at Brownsburg, Hendricks County, and New Maysville, this county. J Jo settled upon his present farm in 1882, where he owns 24-0 acres of excellent land, and gives considerable attention to graded stock, lie was married December 25, 1876, to Miss Jessie F. Darnall, daughter of the late Dr. Milton D. Darnall, Surgeon in the Forty-third Indiana Infantry, who lost his life in the service. Me was an early settler in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Lane have two children--- Henry II. and Mary E.; the former was born February 17, 1878, and the latter December 80, 1879.

V I \j V known as "Cap. Rudisill," deputy *^:.;jo"-^ clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, was born at Greencastle June 13, 1832. He graduated at Asbnry University with the class of '52, and during the winter of 1853- '54 was principal of the Greencastle High School, studying law in the meantime. He was admitted to the bar at Greencastle in 1855, and during the same year was deputized as clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, by Jacob Maginnis, and served as such under l<is successors, Melvin McKee and Henry C. Priest, until 1872, when the latter died, and Mr. Rudisill was appointed to till the vacancy. In the fall of 1874 lie was deputized by Clerk Moses I). Bridges, and afterward by his successor, John ~\V. Lee, serving in the same ofh'ce over thirty years. Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen he was deputy recorder under his father. In politics he is a Democrat. May 7, 1803, he was married at Greencastle to Miss Mary E. Eads, daughter of John and Cynthia G. (Adams) Eads, of Garrard County, Kentucky, who died at Greencastle in 1871, leaving one daughter - Callie. She was a member of the Christian church. Mr. Rudisill's father, David Rialisill, was a native of North Carolina, and of " Pennsylvania Dutch " ancestry, lie came to Putnam County in 1827, locating at Greencastle. He was a carpenter by trade, and in politics a Democrat. He served two terms, two years each, as sheriff and tax colj lector of Putnam County, as county recorder eight years, deputy sheriff fifteen years, and justice of the peace several years. He had two sons besides Milford P>., who served as county officers, both as principals and deputies. lie died at Greencastle February ~(J, 1884, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. The mother, Barbara (Carpenter) Rudisill, was also born in North Carolina and of German-Irish ancestry. She came to Putnam County, with her husband and fam- I ily, in 1827, and died at Greencastle in 18(55, 1 aged nearly seventy years. They were the ! parents of live children, three sons and two j daughters.

,f^E<>KGE T. ALLEN, tanner, section U, M>fj? Moii roe Township, was born in Mont- ^n gomery County, Kentucky, March 10, 1841, son of James Allen, a native of the same county. His uncle. John Allen, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He came to this county in the fall of 1851, settling upon the farm he now occupies. His early life was spent, on a farm, and he was educated at the Bainbridge Academy. He spent some years in clerking in stores in Bainbridge and other places. Jle was married Marcli 13, 1867, to Miss Mary Jane Lingenfelter, daughter of Valentine Lingentelter, of Hamilton County, Indiana, who was a native of Clark County, Kentucky. They have three children - Hubbard L., Prndie S. and Walter G. lie owns 210 acres of land, and devotes his attention to farming and stock-raising. Mrs. Allen died November 20, 1885, a worthy and consistent member of the Presbyterian church.

HIOMASBAYNE, proprietor of Bayne's t? steam saw-mill, at Greencastle, was ^p born on a farm near Easton, Pennsylvania, May 17, 18-40. When fifteen years of age he came to Indiana with his parents, wiio located in Tippecanoe County. During the following year lie came to this county and was employed in a flouring-mill at Pain- j bridge, and he also attended Painbridge j Academy during his residence there. In 1SG5 he purchased a saw-mill at Painbridge and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, continuing there until 1878, when he sold out and came to Greencastle, and manufactured lumber there also. In 1880 he built his present steam saw-mill. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1879 he was elected to the city council of Greencastle, being reelected in 1884. July 15, L863, he was married in Carroll County, this State, to Miss Sarah E. Uanna, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Aldridge) Banna. She was burn in Putnam County, and educated at I Bainbridsfe Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Payne ! have had four children - Edna E., born July j 15, 1865; Olive S., horn October 31, 18G7; j Thomas Dwight, born March 10, 1878, and one that died in infancy. Miss Edna was a studentat 1 >e Panw University until recently, when she had to abandon her studies owing to weak eyes. Olive is attending the De Pauw University in the class of 1890, and Dwight is attending the Greencastle public school. The parents are members of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a steward for several years. Mr. Payne has been very successful in a business point of view. In 1875 he erected the Payne block in Greencastle, and in 1878 built a substantial brick residence, one of the very best in the city. His father, James Bayne, was a native of New Jersey, and of English ancestry. He came to Indiana in 1855, locating in Dayton, where he died in 1885, aged eighty-seven years, lie was a farmer by occupation. The mother, Lydia Payne, nee Basel, was a native of Pennsylvania and of German ancestry. She died at Dayton in 1857. aged fifty-nine years. She was a member of the Dutch lieform church. The parents had eight children, four of whom are living Sarah, wife of Robert Leinberger, of Mulberry, this State; John, a resident of Danville, Indiana; Tilman, also of Mulberry, and Thomas.

SA AC BURNETT, of the firm of Lucas & Burnett, proprietors of the Raccoon saw- ^s- mill, and manufrotnrers of wire picket fence, was born in Hendricks County, this State, October 10, 1855. His father, Isaac Burnett, now deceased, was a native of Kentucky, and came to Indiana in early life. Our subject was reared in a mill, and has done little else than mill work all his life, beginning with wheeling sawdust. He was head sawyer for several years. He went to Scott County, Tennessee, in 1881, where he operated as head sawer nearly two years, then returned to Raccoon in February, 1883. They have an extensive trade, making- a specialty of saw i Mir bridge and railroad timber. April 29, 1879, he was married to Miss Alice G. Taylor, daughter of Aimer Taylor, of Hendricks Comity, and their two children are- Edna \V. and Hera J.

AVID W. HAINES, farmer and stockj|[J raiser, Jefferson Township, was horn in this county August 15, 1841, a son of Wesley and Adaline Haines. His father came to Indiana with his parents when a boy, where he was reared to manhood. He married Edaline Scott, and they had seven children, of whom six are living - James M., Harvey, William, Mary, wife of Tabor Hurst; Lorinda, wife of George Lewis, and Emily, deceased. In 1850 he united with the Missionary Baptist church and remained a member until his death, January 1, 1883. iJe was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, October 11, 1814, and removed to Putnam County in 1821. He was one of the first settlers of Washington Township, and was known and respected by all. .He followed fanning, and took an active interest in the development of the county. He located upon the farm now owned by Samuel It. Alice, where he resided a short time. At one time he served as trustee of Jefferson Township, giving good satisfaction to his constituents. Politically he was a Democrat. David W. passed his early life on a farm, and was educated in the common schools of the county. February 2, 1871, he was married to Miss Rachel Broadstreet, daughter of James and Melvina Broadstreet, early settlers of that locality. The father is deceased. He was born December 8, 1815, and died October 25, 1881. Her mother was burn June 20, 1817, and is living. They reared a large family of children, of whom seven survive - Qninton, ; Thomas, John O, Rachel, Sarah A., wife of I Henderson Lane; Nancy, wife of John Stringer, and Mary E. Her parents were | members of the Missionary Baptist church, I and were very worthy people. Mr. Haines | settled on his present farm soon after his i marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Haines are rearing j a boy, Charles Turner, who has been with | them since he was four years of age. Mr. I Haines owns 200 acres of good laud, and is a j successful farmer. Politically he is a Democrat.

| jj3|ANIEL EPPERSON, farmer, resides I 1 :))' on section 16, Jackson Township, where -k/ he owns eighty acres of land. He was { born in Shelby County, Kentucky, October | 28, 1816, son of Francis and Tabitha (Bedj ding) Epperson, also natives of Kentucky, i and of Scotch descent. They came to Putnam County in 1825, where they remained until their decease, the lather dying about 1874 and the mother in 1868. They reared eight children, four sons and four daughters, three of whom arc living. Daniel was reared to the occupation of a farmer, and lias always followed that occupation. He was married in this county, in 1811*, to Rebecca Sanders, daughter of Thomas and Sally (Morton) Sanders, natives of Kentucky, where she i was born in 1813. They had seven children. five of whom arc living - Francis married Sarah Perkins and has seven children - Frances, Louisa. E., Charlie, Harvey E., Oren P., George "W". and Clarence; John IT., of Roachdale, married Margaret Payton, and they have two children - Alonzo and LillieM.; Matilda J. married George Dean and has one child- John; Martha A. married George W. Henj d ricks and has three children - William,

Daniel and Sarah F. ; Mary E. married Lewis Hendricks and has four children - Cora B., Frank, Harvey and Cordelia M. Mr. and Mrs. Epperson and their family are members of the Christian church, and in politics he is a Democrat.

ROBERT ROLLINGS, farmer and stocki£ raiser, resides on section 8, Washing- *^\ ton Township, where he owns 118 acres of land in a good state of cultivation. He was born in Putnam County November 13, 1821, son of Jesse and Nancy (Cunningham) Rollings. His father was bom at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and removed to Kentucky at an early age. He remained there a few years, then came to Putnam County in 1819, raised a crop one year in Washington Township, then returned to Kentucky for his family. In 1821 the family came, and located in this county, where the father remained until his decease, which occurred in 1802, at the age of seventy-three years. The mother died in 1867, aged sixty-nine years. They were married in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and reared six children, three of whom are living- -John C, of this county; James F., of Kansas, and our subject. They moved here with an ox team, and were among the lirst settlers of the county. The father held the office of justice of the peace several years. Our subject was reared a farmer, and has always followed that occupation, lie was married in this county, in lM-l, to Phela A. Rissler, daughter of William and Susan (Boone) Rissler, who was born in Washington Township in 1^27. Her parents were pioneers of the county. Five of their nine children are living - John M., of Illiriiram, of this countv: Harriet O, i '% \/.\|| stock-raiser, section 4, Monroe Town- I rs|j^S ship, was born in Lincoln County, ! Tennessee, January 15, 1811. His father, - Elijah Yeates, deceased, was born in Loudoun I Comity, Virginia, son of Joshua Yeates, also 1 a native of Loudoun County, born in 1741, ! who came to Kentucky when Elijah was a i boy of eight years. Wilson's mother, forj merly Polly Woodruff, was a daughter of I Jesse Woodruff, who was a native of Virj ginia, and served seven years in the Revolu- ; tionary war. She was of Irish ancestry. j Polly Woodruff's mother was Esther Buchanan, of Irish descent. Wilson's uncles, I Enoch Yeates and William Woodruff, were soldiers in the war of 1812. lie was reared a. farmer in his native county- and received a limited education in the log cabin subscription schools of the early day. Those cabins were small, the seats were made of split logs, : without backs, slabs on the wall were used for desks, greased paper was used for windows, and the roofs were made of clapboards. The doors were also made with clapboards and had wooden hinges. The house was ornamented with plenty of ox-gads, which were used for spice. Our subject removed to Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1832, where he was married., October 3, 1>S33, to Miss Dulcena Badger, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Miller) Badger, who was born in

Montgomery County, December 9, 1816. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Culpeper County, Virginia. Her grandfather, Joshua Badger, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Her uncle, George Miller, served in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Yeates have had fifteen children, eleven of whom are living -Amanda F., Emily R., Mary E., Carrie S., dames M., Henry C, Thomas J., William W., David E., Jennie N. and B. Franklin. James, Henry, Thomas and William were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion. All are married except Henry and Jennie. Mr. Yeates has twenty grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He came to tin's county in 1881. settling where he now lives, and where he owns 318 acres of land. He lifisi never sought official honors. lie is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he was formerly a Whig, and a great admirer of Henry Clay, hut he is now a staunch Republican. He lias dealt in mules mure than forty years.

THOMAS JACKSON, of Marion Township, t\\a oldest living pioneer of Putnam County, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, May 28, 1798, son of Thomas and Nancy Jackson. His maternal ancestors came from Ireland before the Revolutionary war. His mothers father, dames little, with several others, served in the American army during that war. His father served under General Wayne in his campaign against the Indians, and subsequent to the war settled in Uourbon County, Kentucky, where he married and reared a family of twelve children. Four of these children are living Thomas, Elizabeth, Fli/a and Mary. Thomas Jackson, the subject of this ship, and lived there until their decease. To \ by the Confederate forces, under (-funeral this union have been born twelve children - 'Johnson, and in the same engagement he Thomas, John; Mary E., wife of James L. j received two gunshot wounds- one in the Browning, of Greencastle; Bertha T.. who ! breast and the other in the groin. Beingmarried Alonzo I 'ay, ot Putnam County; Andrew, Marion M., Artemas, Hercules; Flora A., wife of Daniel S. Bo wen, of this paroled, they were sent to Indianapolis to await their exchange, and while there their term of service expired and they were discounty; Eliza P., Willas M. and Nannie B. charged. Mr. Bicknell returned to Green- Mr. Jackson. Ids wife, his father, and four of j castle and established his present business. their children weigh 100 pounds each, lie; In September, 1870, his shop was destroyed is a Democrat in politic.-, has seen much of j by lire, and one year Inter he erected his present building on Jackson street. It is constructed of brick, 25x80 feet, and two stories in height. September 8, 1>;53. he was married in Madison Township, to Miss Sarah .lane Bruner, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Philips) limner, who was horn in

§ACOB WESLEY P>ICKXELL,manufact- j Monroe County, Indiana, and reared in Puturer of wagons and carriages, and \iy,\\- I nam County. They have no children. Mrs. \ era! blacksmith, at Greencastle, was born j Bicknell is a member of the College Avenue in Chester County, Pennsylvania. June 25, | Methodist Episcopal Church, of Greencastle. i^d:;. In 1813 he was br-.i.ght i>\ his par- | Politically Mr. Picknell afliliates with the ents. Georo-e and Susannah ('Moore; Bicknell, j Democratic pari v. He is a member o1 to Putnam County, the family locating in I Greencastle Post, No. LI, G. A. P. Madison Township, where Jacob learned the !

coming of age he opened a blacksmith's shop in firunerstown, in the vicinity of his father's, farm, where he curried on blacksmithing one year. In 1853 ho removed to Greencasth and worked at journey work until 1855, when he went to Walnut Mills, this county, and this county, and was educated in the common conducted a shop three years, then went to schools of his father's district. He has id- Stark County, Illinois, and purchased a farm, ways followed tanning with the exception of One year later he sold out and returned to | a lew years spent with his father in the saw- Greencastle, where he was associated with mill. He was married December 20, 1804, Henry Benick in the blacksmithing business, to Miss Harriet James, born July 10, 1847, as Bicknell & Reniek. This partnership ! a .laughter of William and Mahala James, continued until May. L861, when Mr. Pick- j who came to this county from Kentucky in nell enlisted in the Union service as a private an early day, settling mar Cloverdale. in Company A. Seven ty-eigiith Indiana In- Thomas James, father of William James, fantrv. to serve three month.-. At the battle nan his death, in 1823 or 1824, at the hands f'OilX W. GORI1 AM, a farmer of Marion 'ownship, was horn its Putnam County f June 15, 1838, so,, of Alexander and Ti/.a 0. Gorham. lie has been reared in iioor. Ha was shot by James Robertson, who then went home and shot himself, this being the first murder and suicide in the county. To Mr. and Mrs. Gorham have been born five children, four of whom are living - -

Belle Union, lie was married August 25, 1872, to Samantha J. Brown, born September ;}. 1855, in Shelby County. Indiana. She is a daughter of William II. and Mary E. Brown, the former a native of Hush County, William, Ora, Nona W. and Lola; Ada A. is j Indiana, and the latter of Greene County, deceased. Mr. Gorham owns 103 acres of ; Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Macy have good land which is well cultivated and well , been born six children -Omar W., Howard improved. In politics he is a Democrat, and ;: E., Ernest L.. Eudoras T.. Nora (). and (fenhimself and wife are members of the Chris- j evieve; the last two are deceased. Mr. Macy tian church, of which he has officiated as '. owns a good farm of 140 acres, and is a suedeacon. William James, father of Mrs. Gor- cessful farmer. In June, ls0;>, Mr. Macy ham, had been twice married, and was the j enlisted in the Seventeenth Indiana Battery father of seven children, only two of whom \ Light Artillery. He was in Sheridan's camare living -Harriet and Maria. He died Sep- i paign in the Shenandoah Valley and around tember ?', 188G. \ Richmond, participating in twenty-six battles, and was discharged in July, LS(>5. Mr. Macy came to Putnam County in 1S73, and has been a resident here ever since. lie is a

PAN I EL W. MACY, tanner, Jefferson I member of the Masonic fraternity, belong- Township, was born in Hamilton Conn- j ing to a lodge at Eminence, ty, Indiana, November 19, 1846, a son i children, eight of whom survive - Adaline, j Mary L. (Sauers) Evans, both natives of wife of Joseph Hankinson, of Nebraska; North Carolina. They came to this county Marcus M., of Kansas; Armilda J., Henry [ in lS20, settling in Floyd Township, where C. of Boone County, this State; Daniel W., j the father died in 1866, and the mother in Eudoras E., Annie, wife of Arthur "Wilmeth, 1849. Only two of their twelve children are of Henry County. Iowa, and Melvina. Soon i now living, Sylvester being the third from after their marriage they settled in Hamilton j the youngest, lie was reared on a farm and County, where they lived until 1852, then i has always followed the occupation of a removed to Clinton County, Indiana, living : farmer. lie was married in 1833 to Miss there until 1802, thence to Boone County, Mary Wesner, daughter of Jacob and Sophia thence to Henry County, Iowa, in 1872, j Wesner. Two of their live children are livwhere the father died in 1885. His mother still resides in Iowa. In 1^07 Daniel W. began to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he followed about twenty years, and for the i Evans is a member of the Methodist Episcolast thirteen years has conducted a shop at j pal church, and has served as class-leader and

Biographical .Sketches

||gjIiCHIBALD ALLEN, farmer, section j:kpc: 10, Monroe Township, was born in - .i.^ Montgomery County, Kentucky, July 11, 1827. His father, James Allen, now deceased, was a native of the same place, and removed to this county in L849. His father was John Allen, a native of Virginia. The mother of our subject was Sarah Jones, a daughter of Joseph Jones, and she was born in Montgomery County. The parents had twelve children, of whom our subject is the seventh child. Seven of the children are living - John, C , Archibald, James, William, George and Mary. Our subject came to tins county in 1852, first settling in Franklin Township. May 17, 18-48, he was married in Bourbon County, near Paris, Kentucky, to .Miss Matilda Trimble, daughter of Fergus Trimble, deceased, and they have six children James T., William II., Mollie, Chun-hill. Lillie and Holla. James married Blanche Lliggs, lives in Bainbridge and has one child -Hazel !>: William married Maggie Leavitt, lives in Monroe Township and has four children - -Lawrence, Minnie, Downie and Paul; Mollie married Brackson Ellis, oi Bainbridge; Churchill married May Gordon and had one child - Leona; Lillie became the wile <>{' Woodson Bateman, or' Marshall, Illinois. Mr. Allen is now engaged in buying and shipping stock, lie has bought, sold and shipped more mules than any other man in the State, lie owns 125 acres of land, besides giving 500 acres to his children. Mrs. Allen was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and her father was born, lived and died in that county. Her grandfather Trimble r. IIARGRAVE, farmer and stockraiser, section 28, Russell Township, 'fi9 was born in Hanover County. Virginia, May 19, 1804. His parents, William and Sarah (Toler) Ilargrave, were also natives j of Virginia, the former born in 17<><>, and | the latter in 1766. They were the parents | of seven children, of whom our subject is j the only one now living. His father resided ! in different counties in Virginia, and finally | removed to Ohio in 1820, where he died in ! less than a year from the time of his rej moval, his wife surviving him two years. j Mr. Ilargrave was married in February, j 1833, to Elizabeth Gephart. daughter of I Bernard and Sarah Gephart, who died in 1876, leaving a large family to mourn her loss. They had eight children - "William II.. .Tames M., John W., Benjamin F., Sarah K., George W., Henry C. and Anna M. All are now living. William II. married Susanna Bishop, anil they have four children - -Arthur A., Charles A.. Ida M. and Lulu lb: their oldest sou is secretary of a publishing house in Persia. James M. married Elizabeth Bowers and has two children- -John and Lillie; they reside in Kansas. John W. married Margaret Magill. and resides in Nebraska. Benjamin F. has been twit e married and both wives aredeeeased; he has no children. Sarah married Thomas Sutherland, and they have one child -Bertha. George \Y. married

Sophia Nelson, and their children are - Jessie, Metta and Minnie; they reside in Kansas. Henry married Rachel Fordice, and their children are - Ora, Walter, George and Benjamin; they are residents of Putnam County. Anna M. married David il. Grimes, and their children are ---Eddie, Bertie, George L,, Nellie, Carl and Pearl; they reside on the old homestead, Mr. Hargrave makes his home with his children. Four of his sons served in the Union army during the Rebellion. John served one year, and was discharged on account of* sickness, lie re-enlisted and participated in the great tight near Richmond, Kentucky. Washington served six months and was discharged for sickness. lie afterward re-enlisted and served until the close of the war. Mr. Hargrave's father was called into service during the war of 1812, hut was soon discharged, as he was over age. Our subject has always worked hard, and never attended school but ten weeks in his life, lie has been a member of the Presbyterian church over fifty years, and an elder for more than thirty years of this time.

§OEL DOBBS, farmer and stock-raiser, Mill Creek Township, was born in this i' county April 10, 1837, sou of Hugh II. and Lucy A. Dobbs, of Putnam County. He has been reared and educated in this county, and has always been engaged in farming and stock-raising, which he is still continuing in a successful manner. He was married August 19, 1860, to Eliza C. Keller, daughter of Lewis and Susan Keller, pioneers of Putnam County. Their children are as follows - Charles A., Franklin A., George A., Lucius A., Oscar A and Otto O. Florentine and an infant arc deceased. Mr. Dobbs owns 173 acres of land and resides on section 31, Mill

Creek Township. He received $1,500 from his lather's estate, and the rest of his property ho lias made himself. lie has cleared up several farms, and has done a great deal of pioneer work, lie is energetic and persevering, and has been successful in business. Himself and wife arc members of the reguular Predestinarian Baptist church. In politics he is a Democrat, but never seeks or accepts official positions, though frequently urired to do so.

AMES IT. C. NELSON, farmer and stock-raiser, Monroe Township, was born Clinton Township, this county, June 9,1839. ii is father, James I. Nelson, was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and removed to this county in 1S29, when the country was a wilderness and infested with wild animals. His first house was a logcabin with clapboard roof, puncheon floor, mud-and-stick chimney and a large fireplace. The mother of our subject, Polly (Yates) Nelson, was a daughter of Joshua Yates, who reared twelve children. James was the tenth of fourteen children, all of whom grew to maturity, twelve still living, the oldest sixty-six the youngest thirty-nine years, of age. He was reared on the old homestead and educated in the early subscription school I which was taught in the primitive log cabin. i with slab seats, boards on wooden pins foi i desks, and a loer left out of the walls for win- I dows. Mr. Nelson was married October 16, 1860, to Miss Georgia A. Ilymer, daughter j of Jesse P. Ilymer, who was a pioneer of this S county, and now lives in Franklin Townsh.jp, ! at the age of eighty-three years. Mr. and I Mrs. Nelson have six children - Jesse L.. j Andrew J.. Otto M., Oorie C, Samuel C and i Minnie C. Jesse married Olive Gordon and pal church, as are also their four oldest ' School for Ladies at that place. Six children children. were born to them, three of whom arc living