Putnam County, Indiana - The whole text, 1887 (part 8 of 12)

r=e?3^S Fayette County, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1831, son of Moses and Elizabeth (Ihittermore) McCormiek,also natives of Pennsylvania and of German-Scotch-Irish ancestry. The parents lived in Pennsylvania until their decease. Our subject came to this county in 1853, first settling in Manhattan County. He was married in Irs native county, in 1851, to Miss Elnora Landes, daughter of Samuel Landes, who was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, July 10, lboH. Four of their seven children are living - Jerome, Clark, Belle, wife of Dr. Stockwell, of Oloverdale, and George. The deceased are - Columbus, Frank and Eliza. M . McCormick owns ninety acres of land where lie resides, besides | mother of nine children, seven sons and two 120 acres in Monroe County, this State. A!) ! daughters. She was a member of the Methhis property he has made by his own hard : odist Episcopal church. She received six work and good management. Politically he j slaves from her father's estate, and joined is a Greenbacker. His father was a soldier ; her husband in freeing then!. One of them in the war of 1312, and participated in the ; they brought to Greencastle, and she is now battle of Tippecanoe. Postoflice Reelsville. ; known as Aunt Charity Townsend. When land in L780, a son of Benjamin and j Permelia J. (Segur) Jones. The family set- ^m^ILTON McCOIiKLE, farmer and tied in Maryland when it was a Colony, and | t/.d- stock-raiser, resides on section 25, removed to Virginia when Benjamin was ! "^l;^"- Monroe Township, where he owns ten years old. The mother died in Maryland 123 acres of land. He was born in and the father in Virginia. They had ten ' Putnam County February 19, L8o9, son of children, six sons and four daughter. The J Mathew S. and Margaret (Patten) McCorkle, father was a farmer by occupation. Benjamin : natives of Kentucky and of Scotch- Irish anrenioved to Kentucky in 1817, where he was j eestry. The. parents came to the county in married in January, 1822, to Esther Aiexan- ! 1825, and were among the first settlers. The cler, who was born in Rockbridge County, father had 8100, which enabled him to enter Virginia, in L796. Mr. Jones removed to eighty acres of land from the Government. Putnam County in April. 1822. and entered Three of their four children are now living-- land just south of Green castle, a part of the j Hannah, widow of Hiram Jones, has one land being platted. He resided on this farm child - Jesse; Nancy, widow of Dr. W. A. until 1887, and then sold out and bought the . Uillis, has two children- Charles E. and farm of William McCarty, which consisted William M. October 14, 1864, our subject of tin; southwest quarter of section 1, Jet'- l enlisted in Company B, Forty-third Indiana ferson Township. He lived on this farm Infantry, served ten mouths, and was disuntil his death, January 22, 1845. His early charged at Indianapolis. He was married education was limited, having attended school November 14, 1865, to Miss Louis;! Coffman, only about three months. He experienced! daughter of Albert and Mary A. ('Reeves) religion when thirty-one years of age. He Coffman, pioneers of Putnam County. Her was a miller by trade, and removed to Indi- father is still living, aged seventy-one years, ana to avoid slavery. lie was very radical The mother died in 1877, aged fifty-nine years, on that and on the temperance question. Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle have had no chil- After coming to this State he was ordained a dren. lie has always been a farmer. Ho is minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Republican in politics, and belongs to the and was a local preacher until his death. In Grand Army of the Republic. An uncle of politics he was an ( >:d Line Whig. Mrs. his lather's was a soldier in the Revolution- J<>i}c> died in April, 1845. She was the i ary war. His father was born in 1803, and died March 1, 1884. His mother was born ] in 1791), and died May 4, 1872. They were j both members of the Presbyterian church. Post-office, Bainbridge.

Men, tlie former a native of Maryland and of English descent; the latter was born near Philadelphia and of Hebrew ancestry. The father was accidentally killed, in 1813, while removing to Kentucky with his family, by falling from the wagon in which they were moving. The mother died in Paris, about 1818. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Being deprived of both parcuts while still young Mr. Allen was bound to Samuel Pike, of Paris, with whom he lived until fifteen years of age, under whom he learned the trade of cotton spinning. In 1827 he came to Indiana and located at Salem, where he worked in a cotton factory one year, then learned the tailor's trade, following that calling until 1838. lie then removed to Greencastle, where he worked at tailoring until 1885, being a merchant tailor j from 1848. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but of later years a Republican, lie \ has served as member of the city council, { and as city treasurer several terms. Noveruber 2, 1S33, he was married at Putnamville, j Putnam County, to Miss Eliza -lane Mills. I Her father, John Mills, was a native of Mary- ; land and of English parentage. In an early day he was taken by his parents to Ohio, j who, with other families, removed to that ; State, but were subsequently driven away by | Indians. His father and brother were killed by them. They went to Pennsylvania and remained until peace was restored, then returned to Ohio, settling near where Cincinnati now stands. The mother, Sarah (Hardest)-) was also a native of Maryland, and of Welsh ancestry. She was also taken by her parents to Ohio, and was obliged to go to Pennsylvania to avoid the murderous savages. While in the latter State she was married to John Mills, and removed with him to Ohio, and in 1815 they came to Indiana and first located at Vevay, where they lived several years. Mary A. Mills, the eldest daughter, was the first child born in Madison, Indiana, in 181(5. They then removed to Charleston, where Mr. Mills erected the first grist-mill in that place, on the Ohio River. Before it was fully completed it was carried away by a Hood, and he lost all his possessions. He then removed to Salem, where he worked at the carpenter's trade until 1833, when they came to Putnamville, this county, and Mr. Mills engaged in the cabinet-maker's trade, which he continued until the infirmities of old age compelled him to abandon it. They both died within a few days of each other, in 1873, while living with their children at Greencastle. Mrs. Allen was reared at Salem and educated in the private school of John I. Morrison, known as Morrison's Academy, of Salem. She removed with her husband to Greencastle in 1838, settling on Ephraim street, now College avenue, where they have lived fifty years. Thirteen children have been born to them, ten of whom are living - Jerome, cashier of the First National Bank, at Greencastle; Caroline A., wife of Rev. E. F. Hasty, of the Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference; William Henry, a druggist of Indianapolis; Albert, wholesale and retail druggist in Greencastle, Indiana; Alvira, wife of Rev. O. II. Smith, of theMissouri Methodist Episcopal

Conference; Sarah E., who married J. L. Rippetoe, superintendent of schools at Connersville, this State; Joel E., a druggist of Greencastle; Alice, wife of James K. Hawk, real estate agent at San Fernando, California; Etta J., wife of M. M. Bovard, president of the university at Los Angeles, California, and Walter, a druggist at Greencastle. .Both are members of the College Avenue Methodist Church. Mr. Allen is a member of Putnam Lodge, No. 45, I. 0. 0. F., of Greencastle.

rf*% TANFIELD P. .1 AMES,a pioneer of Put- V>\ nam County,was born in Mason County, "*%P Kentucky, July 19, 1819, son of Thomas and Harriet James, natives of Kentucky, h\ the fall of 1822 he removed with his parents to this county, who settled in Cloverdale Township, where the father entered 160 acres of land, and where he met his untimely fate, as related elsewhere. Our subject was reared to manhood here, and educated in the pioneer schools of this county, lie has been a lifelong farmer, with the exception of a short time spent in carpenter's work. He was married June 23, 1839, to Miss Lemira Gifford, born February 16, 1822, in Mason County, Kentucky, and a daughter of Elisha and Nancy Gilford, who came to this county about the year 1829, and settled in Greencastle Township. To this union have been born four children, only one surviving - Ella, wife of James M. Hayes, of the firm of B. F. Hayes & Co., clothiers, of Greencastle. The deceased are - Asenath, John and one that died in infancy. Mr. James removed to Fillmore in the spring of 18S5, and is now living a retired life. He settled in Greencastle Township after his marriage, and re- ! sided there more than fifty years, lie is a j self-made man, and now, with his devoted wife, is enjoying the fruits of a well-spent life of usefulness. They have been members of the Christian church over forty-three year-. In politics Mr. James is a Democrat. He 5s a public-spirited man, and contributes liberally to whatever will benefit the community.

fOIIN W. McNARY, an early settler of Putnam County, and a resident of Fillmore, was born in Mason County, Keu- | tucky, May 4, 1814, son of John and Sarah McNary, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. His grandfather, William McNary, and two brothers of the latter, immigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary war. William was a soldier in that war, and his son John was a soldier in the war of 1812. The McNarvs are of Scotch- Irish descent. John McNary. the father oi our subject, removed from Virginia to Kentucky prior to the war of 1812, having enlisted from Mason County. He was married in that county , and in 1820 emigrated to Putnam County and settled one mile east of Greencastle, where he entered land from the Government and also purchased land. lit' lived there until about the year 1841, when he sold out and removed to Illinois, where he died in 1861, his wife having died in 184o. Their children were ten in number, of whom four survive - Harriet, Susan Jane, married John Crawford; William II. , a physician, and John W. He was a representative pioneer, and served several terms in the State Legislature. He represented this county, and also represented Putnam and Clay counties jointly. He served as trustee of Greencastle Township for a long time. He was a very enterprising man, and his death was a great loss to the community :tt large us well as to his immediate family. He built the first flat-boat at Maysville, Kentucky, and steered it to New Orleans himself, having on hoard various kinds of produce and provisions. Every winter, for twenty-six years, lie made a trip to New Orleans, down the river, generally carrying from GOO to 900 barrels of Hour at a load. John W. McNary, our subject, was twelve years old when he came to Putnam County with his father, and here he was reared to. manhood and received a rudimentary education in the early schools of his time. November 8, 1838, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Applegate, born November 8, 18 IS, in Mason County, Kentucky, and a daughter of Peter W. and Ellen (Tenness) Applegate. About ls;]0 she came to Putnam County with her parents, who were among the early settlers of the county. To Mr. and Mrs. McNary have been born six children - - William; Louisa, wife of James Sinclair; Margaret, now Mrs. William Knight; Peter, Harry and Charles 15., the latter having been a practicing physician at Fillmore. For several years our subject rented land. About the year 1845 he bought 10G| acres of land on sections 7 and 18, Marion Township, upon which he settled and improved. He has always been a farmer with the exception of nine years spent at carpenter work and wagon making. He still owns his farm. In the fall of 1885 he left his farm and removed to Fillmore, where he bought the M. A. Brann drug store, which he is still conducting under the firm name of J. W. McNary & Son, the latter being postmaster of Fillmore. They have a good trade, which is constantly increasing. Mr. McNary has served as county commissioner nine years, and was president of the board eight years. He was trustee of Marion Township one term, being the first one to serve under the new law requiring one trustee. Politically he is a Democrat.

fOHN A. HUFFMAN, farmer and stockraiser, resides on section 29, Washington "v;, Township, where he owns 168 acres of I excellent land. He was born in this county, i January 10, 1855, son of Edmond and Louisa j A. Huffman. He was reared a fanner, and has always followed that occupation, lie I was married in this county January IS, 1886, I to Miss Lucy A. Smith, daughter of L. B. ; and Louisa Smith, pioneers of Putnam | County. She was born in this county, April ! 4, 1866. Politically Mr. Huffman affiliates ! with the Democratic party. PostofRee, Reelsi ville.

OWARD E. HEN NUN was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, June '6, *^-i 1802, the son of Joseph J. Hennon, who was born in the same city December 1, I 1825. The family removed to Martin Conn - j ty, Indiana, in 1864, where Howard received | a good education in the Bedford High School. j He first worked in a printing office in Bedford. I lie came to lioachdale in 1880 and established i the Indiana Statesman in September, 1882. : This is a spicy little paper, a live sheet, up | to the times, has a constantly increasing cir- 1 dilation, and is thus a good advertising j medium. Mr. Hennon's father was county j surveyor in Muskingum County, Ohio, for j four years, and county surveyor and deputy I surveyor in Martin County, Indiana, five j years. He married Sarah McKee, and of i their eight children these four are living - Samuel J., Maggie, Howard E. and Joshua. j Minerva died in December, 1886, at the age wrote for the Statesman. Mrs. Hennon died j He was married a second time February 21, July 17,1872. Her husband is a member of | 1854, to Miss Mary E. SliODtangh, burn in the Presbyterian church. The subject of this j Putnam Comity November 25, 1829, and sketch is a member of one secret order - the | daughter of Jacob and Mary (Griffin) Shop-

^Jf AMES LEACIIMAX, an early settler of ' are living - Martha A., wife of Willis N. j|jj Putnam County and resident of Marion Mark; William W.; Harriet A., wife of

*fi Township, was born in Mr. on County, Walter Sellers; R Kentucky, April 7, 1821, son of William and A., a teacher; Ar Mary (Reeves) Leachman, the former a native I B., and Clara E. -' of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. His | his present farm on section 18, Marion Town father removed to Kentucky when nine y of age, where he married and lived \ 1830, when he removed to this co. nty, locating in Marion Township, where lie v u until his decease, which occurred in An^ ;;-t, 1858. He was a kind-hearted man ;; I an obliging neighbor. During the spring . , .>c year he attended seventy-three log-rollings. He was twice married, and the father of ion children, of whom five are living- - Fame?, John, Mary J., George and William II. He served the county as commissioner, and held other minor offices. He was a man of progressive ideas, and was well informed on the general topics of the day. James Leachman has been reared to manhood in this county, and has lived here ever since with the exception of two years spent in California during the gold excitement. He received a rudimentary education in the early schools of his time, and has been a life-long farmer. He assisted in building the first two schoolhouses in Marion Township, also the first two churches in the same township. He has

ICIIARD S. DAVIS-, farmer, section 10, Clover lale Township, was born in ~£\ Blount County, Tennessee, June 3, 1829, son of Ar 'an and Keziah (Williams) Davis. The fath-jr was born in Ashe County, North Carolina, in 1800, and the mother in Maryland in August, 1800. The maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The lather removed to Tennessee when young, and came to Putnam County in 1831. After working land near where Cloyear, he went to verdale now stands one Owen County and remained three years, then returned to Cloverdale Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred December 4, 1880. The mother died in March, 1882. They were the parents of thirteen children - eight sons and five daughters. They were members of the Baptist seen much of pioneer life, having settled here j church, of which Mr. Davis was a minister when the country was one vast wilderness, over fifty years. He was a Democrat in December 3, 1813. he was married to Miss politics, and served as trustee of Cloverdale

Township twelve years; was also county | in the livery business at Greencastle, and so commissioner one term. He was a self- continued, with the exception of a short inmade man, his early education having been terval, until 1872, when he retired from buslimited, lie was honest and upright, and iness. Lie cast his first Presidential vote for respected by all. Richard S. was two years Andrew Jackson, but is now a Republican. old when he was brought to this county by December 21, 1837, he was married to Miss his parents. lie was reared on the farm, Phebe 11. Flint, daughter of Erastus and and educated in the common schools of the Mary S. (Duel) Flint, of Philadelphia, Penncounty. November 18, 1*50, he was mar- sylvania, the former of English and the latried to Mary E. Hubbard, a native of Owen ! ter of Welsh ancestry. To Mr. and Mrs. County, and they had two children - Par- Tennant four children have been born - thena A., deceased, and Albert E. Mrs. Mary Frances, who married James A. Thomp- Davis died' December 12, 1868. She was son, of Kentucky, died while visiting her a worthy woman and a member of the Chris- friends at Greencastle, in 1872, aged thirty tian church, in 1869 Mr. Davis was married years; Elizabeth is the wife of John D. Reid, to Elizabeth J. Dismukes, who was born in of York, Nebraska; John Grigg. Jr., died in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1847. In infancy; Edward Flint resides at Sherman 1851 he settled upon his present farm, which Center, Kansas. Both arc members of the consists 'Of i 20 'acres of good land: Mr. and Christian church, and Mr. Tennant has Mrs. Davis are members of the Christian served as elder in his church forty years, church, oi' which Mr. Davis has served as Their daughter, Mrs. Reid, is a member of elder about sixteen years, lie has held the the same church, as was their daughter Mary office of assessor four years, and is now sen- at the time of her death. Mr.Tennant's parents ing as justice of the peace, an office he has were members of the Mime church. His held three years. father, Richard S. Tennant. was born at

: Trenton, New Jersey, of English parentage. - -*-'^<~:K~'~+"^' | He died at Greencastle in 18-12, aged seventyseven years. His mother, Elizabeth (Cahillj /'7<>!IN GRIGG TENNANT, a retired | Tennant, was born in Monmouth County, ' j -business man of Greencastle, was born ! New Jersey, of German-Irish descent. She 3& near the village of May's Lick, Mason died at Greencastle in I860, aged eighty-one County, Kentucky, February 1, 1805, where i years. he was reared a fanner and lived until 1830.

County and located in Greencastle Township. In 1833 he removed to Greencastle. ^AMUEL (). PEARCY, of Franklin where he engaged in wool carding for a short \y^v Township, was born in Monroe Towntime, then embarked in the mercantile bus- h-u ship, this county. May 9, 1835, son of iness, as clerk for Stand; ford and Sigler, with George and Elizabeth (Osborn) Pearcy, who whom he afterward became associated in the settled in this county in 1840. The father firm name of Standeford, Sigler & Co. was born in Tennessee in 1777, and removed Retiring from the firm in 1842, he was vari- to Kentucky witli his parents when live on sly employed for two years, then engaged years old. The mother was born November

16, 1800. The father was first married to I son died at the age of ninety-two years, aad Sally Walford and tlicry had twelve children, a daughter died at the age of ninety-three. Mrs. Pearey died and Mr. Pearey afterward Our subject has lived upon his present f<v i married the mother of our subject. By his since 1829 - almost sixty years: he is th his second marriage there were six children. | only man living of all who lived in the Of the eighteen children, only three are liv- 1 neighborhood at that time. His only livi; ing - two in Franklin Township and one in I brother resides in Texas, and Ids two sisb ("lay County, this Slate. September 21), 1 live in Illinois. Ills father was a soldie 1859, oar subject was man led to Miss j the Revolutionary war, serving under Na- Martha, daughter of William and Catherine j thaniel Greene ~ix years, and came out of the McCorkle, of Putnam County. Her parents i war unharmed. James was married Mar< . had live children, four of whom arc living. . 5. 1825, to Miss Margaret Montgomery. Mr. and Mrs. Pea rev have had thirteen chil- 1 the time of his enaraiiement be was attending

Melissa J., born August 1k 1863; Mary G, ' minister and get a license. So he quit sclie born January 27, 1865; Otis M., deceased, j and went to work mauling rails at twenty-fiv born April 9, 1S07; frank A., born August cents per day until he had earned the re- 18,1869; Lola E., born September 2, 1871; quired amount. When they went to house- George "W., born August 20, 1873; Letha L., j keeping they moved all their househn] born January 19, 1875; Linna A., born eifeets in a pack-saddle on one horse, Ins with March 29, 1876; Blanche, deceased, born . riding the other horse and carrying th< June 30, 1877; Fred M., deceased, born June clothing in her lap, while he walked and 26, 1879; Hugh S., born September 16, 1880; drove a cow, a distance of seventy mih Le.xas E. , deceased, born March 19, 1883. When arriving at their new home he traded All that are living are at home. Samuel one of the horses for an interest in a claim, has resided on his present farm of 247 acre- and ivith one horse, one colt, one cow, an< for fifteen years. His brother Milton was a out of debt he went to work to make !.:- soldier in the Union army, serving all through living. It was here he paid his first tax, 5 the war. Mr. and Mrs. Pearey are members cents. Mr. and Mrs. O'Hair had eight s< of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Pearey is ! and three daughters. Mrs. OTIair died a member of the Masonic fraternity and has August 11, 1.849, and Mr. O'Hair was agai taken all the degrees. ! married, his second wife being Perun li i raiser, Monroe Township, was born in his second wife. He has been a widower jJC Kentucky, duly 5, 1804, son of Michael j thirty-one years. His children are as foil >ws and Elizabeth O'Hair, who were natives of - Asbury, Elsburv, Greenbury, John, Bason, Sylvesa. All are as had thirlildren, and three great-grandchildren, most of whom ; since which time lie has been a resident of meet annually to celebrate the birthday of \ Montgomery County, this State, a wagontheir aged sire. Mr. O'Hair east his iirst j maker and lumber dealer by occupation, and Presidential vote for Henry Clay and lias ; in religion a member of the Christian never missed a vote since that time, lie j church. When William E-, the subject of and all of his sons take great pride in voting ; this notice, was fifteen years of age he began the Republican ticket. His ^on Simpson j to learn the printer's trade, and worked as an served three years in the Union army during ; apprentice four years; then, in the fall of the late war; was taken prisoner, and like j 1880, he established the Plainfield Progress, thousands of others, suffered the agonies of] in Hendricks Conntv, Indiana, and afterward these southern prisons. He Mas in Ander- i sold out to his partner. In 1885 he pursonville prison when Lee surrendered. Mr. I chased the Eortville Journal, Hancock O'Hair has been a member of the Methodist j County; a year afterward he sold this out, Episcopal church forty years. The following went to Lakin. Kinney County, Kansas, and is a far simile of his Iirst tax receipt, which started the Lakin Pioneer; in seven months lie has in his possession: Received of James j he sold this out, went to Chicago, and worked M. OMIair 5 cents for revenue tax for the j on the Inter-Ocean until he came to this year 1825 for two horses at s?5. Jane 29th, comity and established the Cloverdale II, e- 1826. John Park, S. C. 0." When he moved j aid, purchasing the Ousette office ofW. -I. from the mountains of Kentucky to Indiana Hood. Mr. N angle was married ^November he went to work with the intention of own- I 12. 1882, to Miss Mollie E. B.ivin, a native ing laud of his own, and by industry and , of Kentucky, born March 26, 1862. Their economy has succeeded in accumulating a I two children are Edwin Earle and Mary handsome fortune for himself, and has as- i Hazel, sisted his sons in procuring good farms near j the old homestead, where he takes great; pleasure in visiting them in his old aoe.

~\ "jT ILLIA \i K. NAl'OLE was born in | Risk. Both parents were natives of Ken- , 1/ \| Milton. Van Huron County, Iowa, j tucky, both were born in 1800, and both were 1%""; Apri] 9, 186.1, a son of Israel and I of Dutch-Irish ancestry. They had six cbil- MaryM. (iJoggegg) N angle, father a native I dren - Ennis, Nancy, James \Y.. William. of Washington County, Indiana, and the | John and Martha, James and Ennis being all mother of Kentucky. After his marriage, i that are living. Our subject was married in the elder Xaugle emigrated to Van Huron j 1S5»; to Louisa Brown, daughter of Samuel County, iowa. entered land, and engaged in | and Polly Brown, who died in 1862. For his fanning. In 1861 he sob! out there and re- j second wife James married, in 1863, .Mary turned to Washington County. Indiana, Gather wood, daughter of Yashnire Cathwhere he lived eight years. He then re- er wood, and they have nine children - moved to Ellefctsville, Monroe County, this j John 11., born April -1. 1867; Martha E., State, and was a vc^hh-nt there twelve years, born September ID, 1869; Leonard O., liovn usually harmonious family. Mr. Risk has Parke County. lie owns 2,300 acres altohis present tarn! seventeen I gether, and besides farming is busily engaged main at home and take care of him. Mr. porators, and has since been elected one of Risk is a dealer in line cattle, and has now its directors, and still holds that position.

ab«ut fifty head of as line cattle as can be Lie was al found in the township, lie is a member of j Greencastl the Masonic fraternity and belongs to Lodge j one of the No. 75.

i sent a substitute to take his place in the ^RAKKLLX PERRY NELSON, a farm- : Union army, and afterward contributed liber- K er and capitalist, a resident of Green- ally to keep the quota of Putnam County ~~ > castle, was born in the vicinity of full. February 4, 1841, he was married to Mount Sterling, Montgomery County. Ken- Miss Catherine A. Hell, daughter of Captain tucky, February 11. 1S21, son of James Land Isaac Bell, of Clinton Township, a well-known Paulina (Yeates) Nelson. Iiis father was I elder of the Presbyterian church. She died also a native <:<'i Montgomery County, and of in Greencastle, December 0, 1809, leaving no Irish-English ancestry. He was a tanner by children. Mr. Nelson was again married, avocation and came to Putnam County with March 23, 1870, to Miss Eliza dean Branhis family in 1859, settling on land in Clin- nan, daughter of James M and Eliza dean ton Township that he had previously entered (Alexander) Brannan, of Baltimore, Maryland, from the Government, He improved his of Irish-Scotch ancestry. Her father, who laud and lived upon it until his death, which was a retired merchant of Baltimore, died in occurred in I860, aged nearly sixty -five years. 1857. Her mother was a descendant of the Hi was a member of the Methodist Episco- Alexander family of Sterling, Scotland. Sho pal church, and a cla>s-leader in that church died in Baltimore in 1*07, aged fifty-two for many years. His mother was also a na- years. They were the parents of seven chiltive of Kentucky, and of English ancestry, j drcn, four of whom are living -Thomas, an She died at the homestead in Putnam Coun- attorney at law at Laredo. Texas; Mrs. Neity. in 1851, aged forty-eight years. They son, wife of our subject: George A., a manhad born to them fourteen children, seven \ ufacturer of New York City, and James R., sons and seven daughters, and all grew to ' a manufacturer at Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. manhood and womanhood, twelve of them j Nelson have two children- -James Brannan and Eliza Jean, both students at DePanw University in the class of '92. The family are all members of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

dIN M. BOWMAN, fanner and stockraiser. Marion Township, was born in Preble County, Ohio, December 25, 1835, son of Leonard and Mary M. Bowman, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia. His parents had eleven children, three of whom are still living - Gilbert L. Martha A,, wife of William Denny, of Marion Township, and John M. When the latter was two years of age his parents immigrated to this county, settling in the dense woods of Marion Township. The nearest grist-mill was three miles distant. They endured many hardships and privations, but with later years prosperity came. His father came to the county a poor man. but at his death he was the owner of 400 acres of good laud. He died in 1871, and the mother now lives with her daughter. Mrs. Denny. At one time the father was offered *75 per acre for his land, He was one of the honest pioneers of Putnam County, was widely known, and respected by all who knew him. IJis word was considered as good as his bond, lie was very modest and unassuming in his nature and never ambitious for office. In politics he was a Republican. John M. Bowman has been reared in this county, and received a limited education in the common vschools. lie was married February 24, 1804, to Miss Sarah J. Smith, born October 20, 1844, in tit is county, and a daughter of Robert L. and Elmina Smith, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of North Carolina. Her parents were among the early settlers of

Putnam County. They located in Floyd Township, and remained there until the decease of the father, which occurred August 30, 1885. Of thirteen children of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, twelve are still living - Laura 1., wife of Cass Broadstreet, of Putnam County; Linnie E., Mho married Thomas 1 'road street, and resides in this county; Mary K, Luella, Charles E., Lehulda, Ollie E., Claude O., Mattie 0., George C, Bady E. and Candace A. Mr. Bowman owns 830 acres of good land, 240 acres being in his home farm. Politically he alriliatcs with the Republican party.

l^xnrrj Floyd Township, where he owns 130 acres of land, lie was horn in Putnam County, September 17. 183-1, son of Ansalem and Alice A. (Shouse) Mason, the father a native of Massachusetts, of Yankee parentage, and the mother a native of Kentucky, of Irish descent. They came to this county in 1827, and wore the parents of twelve children, eight of whom lived to maturity, and four are now living - two sons and two daughters. Wickliffe was the seventh child. His father died October 29, 1860, aged seventy years, and the mother died July 11, 1870, aged seventy years. Our subject was reared on the farm his father entered from the Government, and lias always followed farming, although a cripple in the right arm since .November, 1849. He was married in 1850 to Miss Nancy E. Shinn, who was born in this county in 1837, and died in November, 1802. They had three children-John M., of Omaha, Nebraska; Theophiius L., also of Omaha, and "Mary A., wife of Robert L. Smith, of Floyd Township. November 26,

1868. Mr. Mason was married to Rachel M. ' vomber 0, 1827. They have had six children Hansell, daughter of George and Mary A. P.enjamin <>.. Mary Samuel II., Amcri

Han sell, the former of whom is deceased, cus E., Thomas Paid, and Kate, now deceased. Mrs. Mason was horn in this county in IS-J4. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Methodist They have had twelve children -Ulysses T., Episcopal church. The farm consists of Ezra E., Floyd B., Elijah E., Luetta, George , ninety-live acres of well cultivated land. Mr. W., Clarane I)., Myrtle A., Tony E., Oren (>.. Jones served us trustee of the township six Orsa G., and an infant deceased. Mr. Mason years. has served as justice of the peace four years, was administrator of estates sever:;] times ' and guardian several years. He and wife are members of the 'Met!.., list Episcopal ; ^fRANCIS M. LEACHMAN, a resident church. Mr. Mason started in life without |~l of Marion Township, was bom in this means and worked out by the month for sev- j ,fe^ county June 10, 183f). son of Wileral years. His early educational advantages : loughby and Elizabeth Leachman, the former were v^vy limited, having attended only the i a native of Virginia and the latter of Kensubscription schools that were held in log tucky. Willonghb's Leachman removed cabins. He tauHit school by subscription, with his family from Kentucky to Putnam He had two brothers thai served in the late County, Indiana, about the year 1.830, and war; one died and the other served his time, ; settled upon the farm now owned by William and is now living in Kansas. Postoffice, Fill- Purcell in Marlon Township, lie lived there more. a short time, then removed to a farm onehalf mile north of Fillmore, it 'being the ~*~" (a*"* *'& farm now owned by B. F. Wysong, where he

' reared his family and. resided many years. yffETER ALEXANDER JONES, a prom- He subsequently removed to Fillmore, where ai""^ inenf farmer, residing ou the southwest he died October 2, 18(57, his. wife surviving H\f quarter of section 4, Jefferson Town- him until June 26, 1*85. They wen- the ship, was born in Grceneastle Township, parents of four children George, who lives March 9, 1824, a son of Benjamin Jones, in Douglas County, Illinois; James, a resiiiow deceased, and formerly of this county, dent of Mason County, Kentucky; Mary E., When thirteen years of age he came with wife of W. 0. Ilopwood, at Greencastle, and reared on a farm and educated in the common ] year when he died. Like all pioneers lie schools that were taujrht i« tb<1 old loar house endured many trials and hardships, and was of the early day. Heine always been a con- j widely and fax slant reader; has read the New York Tribune enterprising citizen. Perhaps no other man fur thirty-five year-, lie is a staunch Re- lias <\;>ni> more toward developing the republican, but was formerly a Whig; was a sources of Marion Township than did Mr. strong believer in the principles advocated Leachman. lie was a liberal contributor toby Henry Clay. He was married January ward any enterprise that would benefit the 2, 1848, to Julia A. Hough, who was bom at community. F. M. Leachman was reared in Madison, Jefferson County, this State. No- this county, and received a common-school education. He was married March 7, 1858, resides at home; John married Miss Etta to Miss Mary J. Bridges, born February Harris, of Putnam County; Margaret, Mary,

11, 1838, in this county, and a daughter of I dune and Lizzie. Mr. Donald followed his Judge Moses T. Bridges, of this county. To trade until he was about twenty-iive years of this union have been born four children-- ; age, and then removed to America, landing Lizzie K., wife of James li. Newnam, who at New York, and corning direct to Warren, travels for Murphy. Llibben & Co., Indianap- Trumbull County. Ohio. They lived there olis, and they have had one child born to one year, where Mr. Donald Mas engaged in them, a son. Fred; Albert, Clarence and farming, then removed to Cleveland, Cuya- Ernest. Mr. Leach man owns lfJO acres of hoga County, living there seven years, whore well cultivated and well improved land, and he was engaged in the blast furnaces. He is conceded to be one of the best farmers in then came to Knightsville, Clay County, this

Marion Township. Mrs. Leachman is a mem- J State, and lived there until 1876, and then her of the Christian church, and both are came to Putnam County and purchased his greatly respected by ail who know them, present farm, but followed his usual occupa- Politicaily Mr. Leachman affiliates with the tion about three years. Since that time 1 ha- engaged in. farming and lias been quite ! successful. Himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. All they have has been earned by hard work and economy. In 1887 Mr. Donald and some friends visited his native country, remaining several months.

ood laud, in u high state of cultivation, lie was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. August LO, 1830, a son of James and Margaret (Smith) Donald. The mother was born in Scotland of English ancestry. The parents neve!- left their native country. They reared seven children, three of whom ; tember are now living- William resides in Glasgow and is foreman in decomposing chemicai iciwci « io uvm m l - - aim m^ mumu m works; 1'obert also resides in Glasgow, and 17S8. They reared ten children, four of is an iron puddler. Our subject was reared, j whom are living - one in California, one in to the occupation of engineer, and was em- Virginia, one in Iowa, and one in Indiana, ployed in the chemical works of a sulphuric George D. was married September 1L, 1S3S, acid manufactory. He was married in his to Miss Blanche Coon, and to this union native country in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth were born live children - Sarah A.. Charles, Colvin, daughter of William Colvin, who Marion, William and Bettie. All but the was born in Ireland, and removed to Scotland last two named are deceased. William marwith her parents when quite young. They j ried Emily Montgomery, daughter of George had ten children, their three eldest boy? dying ! and Elizabeth Montgomery, of this county, in infancy. Their surviving children arc--! and they have four children - Lizzie, Chrissie, Ja;nes, of Clay County, this State; William ' Fred and Ella. Bettie married James F.Stnltze, son of William A. and Catherine Stultze, i Republican ticket since 1856. He is a memand their living children are - Ella, Thomas, her of the Masonic fraternity, and his wife is James and Catherine. Mrs. Ilartman died j a member of the Christian church. January 10, 1851, and February 10, 1853, i three of whom are living- James. Frank and HjTOHN A.LLEE, deceased, a pioneer of Minnie. James married Florence Stedze; %\ Putnam County, was born in Montgom- Frank married Willie Adams; Minnie mar- ^ ery County, Virginia, September 2,

1879, Mr. Ilartman married his third wife, which occurred when he was quite young, Ellen Crogan. His parents were poor, and j leaving him a penniless boy. He was reared lected, and he was obliged to stay at home common schools of that State, After arrivand assist in making a living for the family, ino- at a sufficient age he was employed as

He never went to school a year in his life, overseer of a slave plantation. lie came to lie left Virginia at the age of twenty-three j Putnam County in 1830, purchasing section years and came to Franklin Township, j 16, Jefferson Township, of Ross & Lliggins.

bank in North Carolina, lie traded that lie married Lncretia Puitt, a native of Kendollar for one bushel of oats. He landed ; tueky. Mr. Alice was a prominent man and several of the finest buildings in the town- usually brought back goods for merchants, ship. He procured a turning-lathe and turned j He was a member of the State militia, and sons are well furnished with articles made but became a Republican upon the organ izawith his own hands. He made a very bean ti- fcion of that party. His devotion to Repubftil stand, inlaid with different materials, lican principles in their broadest sense was decided stand he took in. its favor, lie served third year, was roared in Greencastle and reas trustee of his township several years. Mrs. | ceived a common-school education. When Alice is living with her son on the old home- : fourteen years old he begun to work for wages stead. She was the mother of eight children ! in a wool -carding factory, which was owned - Francis M., a resident of Jefferson Town- \ by 1 is father and John S. Jennings, and ship; Samuel R. resides at the family home- I worked there eighteen years, lie then bestead: William II.; Julia married John : came their successor, and carried on the bus- Yermillion, and resides in Jefferson Town- iness several years. In 1858 he was elected ship; Amanda, wife of A. M. Sandy, lives j sheriff of Putnam County, serving one term, in (Jloverdale Township: Eliza married Ben- j In 1S01 he was one of the first to offer his jamin (.). Jones. j services as a volunteer to suppress the Re-

Fourte< nth Indiana Infantry, a majority of ^fpOLONEL JO HE RILEY MAIIAN, the company being students attending Ashury a retired business man of Greencastle, University at Greencastle. When the com- was horn on a farm near Flemingsbnrg, pan was organized Mr. Mahan was chosen Kentucky. February 7, 1824. the youngest of Captain, and was so commissioned by Govfour children of Isaac and .Margaret (Knight) or.. »r Morton. Soon after, while the regi- Muhan, natives of Mary hind, of Scotch- Irish nun;1 ,vas at Camp Vigo, Terre Haute, he and German ancestry. The father came to ; received the commission of Lieutenant-Colo- Ptitnam County, with his family, in 1820. ! nel of the Fourteenth Regiment, and served and located at Greencastle, where he was en- . i;i t1' it capacity until the spring of 1862, traced in contracting aiul building until 1831). when i.e was taken sick with, pneumonia, and lie then carried on the drug business until obliged to resign his commission. During a 1SG5, when he retired from business, and j pun. n of his service he was Chief of the died at Greencastle July 1,1877, while living si. ffofGeneral Lander. He returned to Greenwith his >on, John LI., aged eighty-two years. ! castle, rue b< fore fully recovering his health, In p ilitics. he was formerly u Whig, but in j was induced by Governor Morton to take later years an ardent Republican. In 1886 ! command jf the Fifty-fifth Regiment Indiana ht was elected on the Whig ticket: to the Infant"; ; : olonel. He took this regiment Lower House of the Indiana Legislature to | to the held in Kentucky, are! was in the enrepreseot Putnam County. He also served j gagemeut at Richmond. The term of service as justice of the peac<: several years. The of the Fifty-iifth expiring in September of moth;.:- of our subject was of English-German i that year he accepted the command of Camp anct -fry. She married Mr. Mali an in Ken- | Morton, a1 Indianapolis, and remained in tueky, where they were both taken by their j charge until the spring of 1863, when, by parent- when children. She came to this ; order of the Governor, lie took command county with her family in 1826, and died at ' of Camp (arriugton, at Indianapolis. There Greencastle, October 20, 1872, at the resi- j he organized the One Hundred and Fifteenth, dence of her son, aged nearly seventy-four j One Hundred and Sixteenth,One Hundred and years. Both were members of the Presby- ! Seventeenth and One Hundred and Eighteenth teri n church, John R. Malum, from his ; Regiments, Indiana In fan try, and they, with a battery of artillery and a squadron of cavalry, formed a brigade, with which be was ordered to the field, with full power of a Brigadier, being such by brevet, and was on duty in Tennessee, under Generals Burnside a!id Wilcox. The term of service of the brigade expired in the spring of 1864, and the Colonel closed his army career. After regaining his health he was engaged in general trading at Greencastle until 1887, when he retired from business. lie was married at G'-eeneastle in February, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Grooms, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Walls) Grooms. The father was a native of Virginia, and of English-German ancestry. Tn the days of Daniel Boone he was taken to Kentucky by his parents, who settled near where Lexington now stands, and where his father was killed by the Indians in early life, lie was a shoemaker by trade, but in after years was a drover, purchasing live stock, which he drove to market at Richmond and Raleigh, lie came to Putnam (--unity in 1846, and located on a farm in the vicinity of Greencastle, but soon after removed to Indianapolis, where he died in 1858, aged sixty-seven years. The mother of 'Mrs. .Malum was a native of .Maryland, also of English- German ancestiy. She was married in Kentucky, and died at Mount Sterling, that State, about 1830, aged about thirty years. Both were members of the 1 baptist church, but in later life the father became a member of the Christian church, and was an elder at the time of his death. Airs. Mahan was mostly reared at Lexington. After the death of her mother she went to live with an aunt. She attended the common school and completed her education at Airs. DeForest's Ladies Seminary, at Lexington. In 1840 she came to Greencastle with her brother, Ansel Grooms, riding the whole distance from Lexington on horseback. Mr. and Mrs.

j Mahan are members of the Presbyterian i church at Greencastle. They have no children. Air. Mahan is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 47, A. F. & A. AL, and of Greencastle Bust, No. 11, G. A. R.

| pgJALVIN HURST, farmer and stock- ; \ :' raiser, section 8»>, Marion Township, i %*h was born in this county December 10, 1 1S37, son of George and Elizabeth Hurst. j His father was a native of Virginia, and was married in Indiana to Elizabeth Ilibbs. He ! came to Putnam County with his brother, ; David Hurst, in 1822, and entered large tracts j of land in Alarion, Jefferson and Mill Creek ; townships. He settled in Jefferson Township, j where he remained until his death, which i occurred in 1865. His wife survives him, j and resides in Jefferson Township. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are living - Lurton. Isom, Jesse. Calvin, Marion and James. All was woods when the j father settled here, and lie helped to cut the | timber from the present site of Greencastle. I He endured many hardships and privations, ! and was always industrious. He favored ; public improvements, and was ready to lend \ assistance to any enterprise that would benefit the community. In his demise Putnam County lost one of its best citizens. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Old School Baptist church. Calvin Hurst was reared to manhood in this county, and received a common-school education, such as the country then afforded. January 19, 1861, he was married to Aliss Eliza J. Hroadstreet, and to this union four children were born, two of whom are deceased. The living are - Jerusha M. ami Emery E. AHs. Hurst died October 20, 1878, and July 4, 1880, Air. Hurst was married to Miranda J. Chandler, dren were E. The second wife diet Mr. Hurst settled upoi about 1874, and owns 218 acres of good land. Forty acre? lie received from his father's estate, and the rest lie has made himself. In \ politics he is a Democrat

>=TKSSF \\ . STANLEY, farmer and stock- I of hi paternal ancestors were soldiers in tlic ".r I raiser. Marion Township, was born, in \ Revolutionary war, and some of his maternal '*-'" Wayne County, Indiana, March 23, 1.8325 I ancestors served in the war of 1812. He is

- .;; of Jeremiah and Jemima Stanley, the ! of English- Welsh descent, his ancestors hav father a native of North Carolina and the ino* immigrated to America prior to the Re\ cestors were English. He was only two years j to manhood in his native count}*, and roof age when his father died, and six years ; eeivod a limited education in the early schools old when his mother died. Mis parents were ! of his time, lie was but two years old when

15, 1857, he was married to Miss Rosanna | farm of 127 acres, lie was first married {'aides, born in Wayne County January 14, j August 1, 1831;. to Nancy W. Iiarrah, a na- 1833, and daughter of Curtis and Nancy j tive of Kentucky. Sac came to Putnam Parks, natives of Ohio. The mother died ! County with her parents in an early day. To when >\it> was fifteen years of age. Her this union was born one child Ourrilda P., father is now in his eighty-fourth year, and j now deceased. - Mrs. Cox died January 23, has lived upon one farm fifty-six years. Mr. j 1842, and March 28, 1844, Mr. Cox married and Mrs. Stanley have had six children, five I Cynthia A. Vermillion, born February 14, living - Miron P., William I)., John L., j 1823, a daughter of Isaiah and Tiiiitha 0 Murrey C, Prank P. and Lizzie A. The Vermillion, who settled in Monroe Township atter died March 17, iSK7. She was the live miles north of Greencastle, in 1823 ,r^+o ,-K+* i..i,v, IT n.i-.-fo,! .-.+* P.Tt-.i.,:,. r!A,mt« "vr*..-, n,,,. ,-, <-i ,-, .-.m.,.4 i.wm,.. ,->

1865, and owns forty acres of good land. To ' ceased - Currinda. and. two that died in inthe parents of Mrs. Stanley were born eleven j fancy. Mr. Cox is a self-made man. All that he has he has made by economy, perse- | & Son; Henry Douglas, of Greencastle, ami verance and good management. Up has Mary Margaret, who was married October 1, never served us a witness for or against Ins 1873, to W. B. Kindall. Both are members neighbor in a law-suit, and has never served of the Missionary Baptist chnreh, and Mr. on the grand jury. His word is considered Van Cleave is a member of Putnam Lodge, as good as his bond. In polities he affiliates No. 45, I. O. O. F., of which he is past

Van Cleave, were natives of Virginia, and removed to Shelby County, Kentucky, about church, and both are respected members of j 1810, where the hither died in L846, aged society. sixty-three years. His mother came t;

Greencastle in 1858,- where she died it; L8G1, at the hornv of her son Jesse, aged seventytwo years. Both were members of the Mis- H TEPHEX BENNETT VA X (LEAVE, sionary Baptist church. :^v proprietor of the Vine street and South : born near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ken tucky, May 18, 1821. He was reared on ; farm and had bur limited school advantages. :~yTv. M. WRIGHT, farmer and stock-raiser, When in his twenty-first year he left his na- \A resides on section 27, Floyd Township, tive State and came to Indiana, which was "A""* where he owns 290 acres of land, lie then a Territory, locating at Columbus, where was born in that township May 20, 1841, son he engaged in farming until 1848. lie was of Martin and Leah (Chadwick) Wright, nathen engaged in butchering for a few years, I tives of North Carolina. They removed to and in 1855 came to Greencastle, where for Putnam County in 1835. where thtrs remained thirty- two years he has carried on butcher- until the decease of the lather. Our subject ing, and sixteen years of that time has occu- passed his early life on a farm and has always pied his Vine street market, fu the fall of j been a farmer. He was married January 3. 1880 lie opened his' branch market at South j L865, in this county, to Miss Amanda Ghat- End, Greencastle. November 4, 1841, he ham, who was born in this county in Novemwas married, at Columbus, to Miss Elizabeth ber, 1843, a daughter of J. W. and Sarah Abbett, daughter of James and Nancy (Jones) Chatham, and they have had three (Brent) Abbett, of Newcastle, Henry County, children Uly.-ses A., Ollie A. and Birdie L. Kentiu wy. She was born in Newcastle, but Mr. Wright is a Uepublican in politics. Febafter her eleventh year she was reared by a ruary 15, LSG3, lie enlisted in Company C, sister living near. Columbus, Indiana. Mr. One Hundred ami Forty-eighth Indiana Inand Mrs. Van Cleave have had seven children fan try, serving seven months. He was mus-

Newton, who assists his father; Joseph Law- education was limited to the subscription son, of Greencastle; Stephen Dennett, Jr., schools of the early day, but he has good Charles Thomas, who is associated with his practical sense and a fund of general informafafcher under the firm name of Van Cleave fcion. He bad about forty acres of land to start with, and has made all the rest of his property by hard work and good management, lie has a tine house, costing §1,300. PostofKce, Coatesville.

fT.\NK B. FRAKES, was horn in Lan- "% ; caster, South Carolina, January 6, 1810. -,c Her parents were Andrew and Esther Spratt, of Irish ancestry. They had seven children, only two of whom are living. Mr. Spratt was throe rimes married, our subject's mother being the first wife. By his second marriage there was one child, and by the third two children. The names <A' the children are as follows- - Laura, James, John, Jane, Pinekney, Samuel, Hettie, Mary, Catherine and Pink. Mrs. Frakes lived in South ( arolina until nineteen years of age. In 1829 she was married to Thomas R. Frakes, son of Joseph and Hannah Frakes, and after marriage tli^-y removed to Kentucky for two or three years, thence to Putnam County, where Mrs. Frakes has lived fifty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Frakes had six children- - Samuel M.,born January 22,1830; Joseph D.,born Jul) S, 1S32; Elizabeth, deceased, born May 8, 1830; Phebe T., deceased, born November 11, 1839; James Ii., born November 22, 1841; Andrew AW. born September 3, 1840. Samuel married Mary Tarrow, daughter of Richard and Mary Tarrow, and they had t\\ elve children, all living in Iowa. Joseph married Rebecca Gilky, daughter of John and Sarah Gilky, and they haw one son living in St. Louis, Missouri. Elizabeth married William Jenkins, and has been dead twenty years. Phebe married John, son of John and Sarah Gilky, and died leaving four children. James 11. married Susanna, daughter of William and Ann Wolverton, and they have twelve

Matthew, of Washington Territory; Marga- ! ret Carpenter; Rebecca Helton; William, of ! this county; John, of Missouri; Elizabeth j Lineingburger, of Illinois, and Stephen. The I latter was married in this county in 1857 to i Miss Elizabeth Heady, daughter of Emri and | Elizabeth (Slavens) Heady, a native of this ! county, and they have had seven children, of | whom six are living - Sarah E., wife of Thei odore Key, of Putnam County; John W., ' also of this county; Mary 13., James A., ! Eiia, Asa and one that died in infancy. Mr. j Latham commenced life with nothing but a horse and saddle, but being industrious and Kentucky. Joel Shields lost his father by a good manager, has been successful. Post- j death when only seven years of age, and office, Greencastle. i being the oldest of the family of three chil- brother, William Shields, had served as surveyor and recorder of Putnam County for many years. In the death of Mr. Shields Putnam < 'ounty lost one of her most useful of Joe! and Mary (Snoddy) Shields, [lis I citizens. Edward W. Shields, the subject .of father emigrated to Owen County, this State, j this sketch, was reared to manhood in this in 1820, and remained there until 1839. j county, and received a common school oduili- parents were married January, 1840. ; cation. He was married October 1. 1879, to They then removed to Putnam County. Joel ; Miss Phoebe M. Tharp, who was a native of Shields settled with his family on section 25, ; Iowa, and reared in Indiana. She -lied March Marioii Township, where he entered a piece | 8,1881, From his twenty-first to his twenty - of land and also purchased land, lie had j sixth year Mr. Shields was in very poor about 320 acres, situated in a dense'1 -forest. \ health, which at one time was thought serious; Some rime previous to his removal here he j but during the last few years he lias been brought seven men from Owen County and ; much improved, lie oAvns 570 acres of good thev cleared thirty acres of timber, and nut land in Putnam County. lie isamemberol up what was then called a shanty. A neighbor had previously set out one and one-quarter acre- of tree.- for an orchard. Like all pioneers he endured hardships and privations.

George II. Johnson, of Hendricks County; |1pLEXANDER DANIEL, retired farmer, Amanda M., wife of John S. Hunter, of this : .(A resides on section 28, Floyd Township, county, and John J., of Clark ('ounty, Kan- ; ^r" where he own.- 170 aero of laud. lie sas. Susan T. is deceased. The father died j was born in North Carolina October 22, 1820, December 23, LS07, aged sixty-seven years. ! son of Cuthbert and Catherine (Eller) Daniel, In politics he was a Republican, and before j the former a native of Virginia and of Welsh the war a Whig. He was an honest, hard . ancestry, the latter a native of North Caroworking pioneer, and respected by all who lina and of German ancestry. They removed knew him. John Snoddy, the maternal to this county in L838, where they passed grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in most of their ,ives. His mother died when the Revolutionary war. Feigns and Abner he was quite young. I lis early life was Snoddy. son of John Snoddy, wore soldiers passed on a farm and he has always followed in the war of 1S1"J. The Shields family are the occupation of a farmer, lie was married of Scotch-Irish descent, and immigrated to in this -county in ls!'» to Emma J. Randall, America previous to the Revolution, settling who wn born in Putnam County in L82-A, in Virginia. Thev subsequently removed to i daughter of \\ illiam and Nancy (McKey- nolds) Randall, pioneers of this county. Three of their six children are living - Mary M., wife of George Higgins, of Missouri; Nancy, wife of Cyrus Phillips, of La Fayette, TippCcanoe County, Indiana, and Thomas M., who married Josie Evans, of this county. Mrs. Daniel died in I860, and in 18G6 Mr. Daniel married Mary A. Higgins, who was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, January 2, 1830, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Higgins, pioneers of Hendricks County and formerly residents of Kentucky. To this union two children have been horn - Joseph A. and Alilian. Mr. Daniel is a Republican in politics, and has served two years as township trustee. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife and daughter belong to the Christian church. He started in life poor and has made all of his property himself. Postoffice, Fillmore.

USENET BO WEN a pioneer of Marion ^M Township, was born in Mecklenburg *°kM County, Virginia, February 17, 1818, son of Richard and Elizabeth Bo wen, also natives of Virginia. His paternal ancestors came from England previous to the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, James Bowen, was a a Revolutionary soldier, and was present at the capture of the British army under Lord Cornwallis. When he was eighteen years of age he came to Putnam County with his parents, who settled on section 33, Marion Township, where the mother died in 1801. The father survived a few years longer. They were the parents of eight children, of whom five are living - Dabney, of Piatt County, Missouri; Sarah, wife of John Kearns, of Buchanan County, Missouri; Charles, resiling in Wisconsin; James, of Pendleton County, Kentucky; Wesley, of this county, and Henry. Richard Bowen was among the early pioneers of Marion Township, and like other settlers had to undergo many hardships. He was a member of the Baptist church, and in politics a Republican. He was widely known, and respected by all who knew him. November 23, 1843, Henry was married to Rachel Hibbs, who was born April 24, 1824, in Tennessee, and daughter of Samuel and Rosa Ilibbs, with "whom she came to Putnam County in an early day. Her parents were among the pioneers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen have had eight children, six surviving - -William J., Nancy," wife of S. P. Vaughn, Samuel, Henry Clay, Thomas W. and Daniel S. Mr. Bowen settled upon his present farm on section 29, Marion Township, in 1844. lie owns a good farm of 250 acres of land, and has been fairly successful. He is a self-educated man, not having attended school more than six months in his life. He possesses a large fund of general information, and is well versed in the general topics of the day. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is at present serving as trustee and steward of that church; has also bee?i class-leader. In politics he is a Republican, and has served as school director with satisfaction.

RANCIS M. ALLEE, son of John and ipl Lucretia (Puitt) Allee, and a prominent ^F fanner of Jefferson Township, was born in that township November 5, 1839. He was reared on the farm, and educated in the common schools of the county, and also at Greencastle. He remained at home until his marriage, November 17, 1860, with Sarah E. Sandy, born in Owen County, this State, March 4, 1845, a daughter of William B. Sandy. After his marriage he followed farming, and still continues that occupation. 1865; Alfred, deceased, born February 19, He also gives considerable attention to stock- 1807; Mary, born February 19, 1870, died raising. When he commenced he had LOO March 31, 1870. Mrs, Pickel died November acres of land given him by his father. He 14, 1870. June 14. 1871, Mr. Pickel was lias since added to that until he new lias 000 ! married to Miss Sophia J. McFerrin, daughter acres of well cultivated land, and good, com- j of Richard and Mary McP'errin, who was fortable buildings. He is a Republican in poll- | born in Montgomery County, Indiana, Octotics, casting-his first vote for Abraham Lincoln ber 30, L845. To this union two children in 1800, being twenty-one years of age the ! were born - John A., born May 5, 1872, and day before the election. lie served four years I Lina M., born May 5. 1875. Georo-e W. as trustee of his township, and has held I married .Matilda C, daughter of Eli and other positions of trust. Mr. and Mrs. Al- j Mary Anderson, and they have one child -

William IF., Juliette F., Sarah Jen aette, ter of Willis and Nancy Dawson, and they Lizzie It., Amanda M., Herbert 8. and ' >aisy | have one child Glenn; Susan M. married ceased. Mr. Alice joined the Masonic j and they have one child - Fred P. Mr. fraternity in 1859, and is a member of Clo- j PiekePs early education was limited, having verdale Lodtre, No. 322. attended school only sixteen months in his life. The school was held in an old log school-house, with clapboard roof, puncheon ! floor, no glass in windows, slab seats and fClfc -'- PICKEL, a leading lumber mer- j slab writing-desks. lie worked as far as 'i kyV; chant of Carpentersvillc, came to Put- j long division, in Sn . i-ev's old arithmetic. In ^,;~Q1 nam County when a young man and I his boyhood days, after coming to Indiana, started in the lumber business, in which he Mr. Pickel worked for a man named Johnis still engaged,. He was born in Davidson | son, near Brick Chapel, this county, with the County, North Carolina. October 10, 1830, I understanding that he was to occupy his soii of George II. and Susanna (Haines) I evenings in study: and it was duo to this Pickel, the former bom in 1800 and the lat- \ training, in a large degree, that Mr. Pickel ter in 1812. They had five children - Alex- j is aide to carry on Lis lamely increasing ander II., Alpha, Catherine, Marcus, and business. He lias one of the largest lumber George A., deceased. The father of our sub- \ yards and mills in the county, and ships, adject died about 1850. In 1.S51 his mother ! nually, over 100 carloads of hard lumber. again married and had four more children, j When the civil war broke out, Mr. Pickel Mr. Pickel, our subject, was married Septem- | espoused the Union cause, and in 1802 he ber 5, 1854, in North Carolina, to Mary : enlisted in Company B, Fifty-fourth Indiana C, daughter of George and Mary Knouse, j Infantry, serving fifteen months. He was who was born August 31, 1880. Her par- j in the battles of Haines' Bluff, Mississippi, ents had seven children, she being the young- | and Arkansas Post, Arkansas. He was disest. Mr. and 1>lv>. Pickel had five children ! charged December 8, 1803. by expiration of - George W., born July 8, 1S00; Marcus A., term of enlistment. In 1865 he re-enlisted, born April 2, 1803; Susan M.. born April 27, j serving live months in the Eleventh Indiana

Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged at Baltimore. He served as justice of the peace eight year?, and town trustee three terms. He is a member of Hie Odd Fellows fraternity, and has been deputy department grand master of his lodge. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for seventeen years. In polities Mr. Pi ckel is a Republican, and has been from the organization of the party.

/fffAMES C. It EAT, farmer and stock-raiser M of Marion Township, was born in Picka- ^t way County, Ohio. December 2, 1834, son of Hugh and Margaret Heat. His father was a native of Frederick County, Maryland. and removed to Ohio in an early day. His mother was horn in Berkeley County, Virginia, and also emigrated to Ohio in an earlv day. His maternal grandfather, Nicholas Weitzel, was a Revolutionary soldier, and his father was a soldier in the war of 1812. In the tail of 1840 he cause to this county with his parents, who settled on section 32, Marion Township, having purchased 280 acres of iand. The father remained there until about 1863, in which year he removed to Greencastle, where he died in 1864. His wife died in 1872. They were the parents of ten children, of whom seven are living- -John N., of Kansas; George W., of Illinois; Elizabeth J., wife of Philip Amerman, of Greencastle; Mary, wife of James Wells, of Greencastle; James C, Robert L., living at Charleston, Illinois; Rev. Austin H., pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Tuscola, Illinois, and Charlotte, who is deceased. The father was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics a Republican. He was widely and favorably known, and his death was a great Joss to the community. Our subject was reared to manhood in this county, and lias been a life-long former, receiving a common school education. March 18, 1874, he was married to Miss Mary Wells, daughter of Joseph and Mary Wells, early settlers of Marion Township, having come from Preble County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Peat have had four children, two of whom are living-Arthur L. and Amy I. He located on his present farm, section 33, Marion Township, in 1874, and has been a resident there ever since. He owns 160 acres of excellent land. He is one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church at .Mount Meridian, of which he is a member. In politics he is a Republican. August 9, 1802, he enlisted in Coles County, Illinois, in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty- third Illinois Infantry, and subsequently became a member of General Wilder's Mounted Infantry, with which brigade he remained until the war closed. He was honorably discharged July 5. 1805, at Springfield, Illinois. He participated in the battles of Perry ville,< 'hiekamauga, Milton, Kenesaw Mountain, Dallas, siege of Atlanta, Selma and numerous others of minor importance. After the war he returned to his home in Putnam County, Indiana.

fOUN S. MILLMAN, firmer, and dealer in furs, formerly hatter, resides on sec- »-.\- tion 20, Floyd Township, where he owns 242 acres of laud. He was born in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, April 10, 1822, a son of John and Barbara (Shelea) Millman, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion, August 15, 1802, and was assigned to Company G, Ninety-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served two years and ten months. He participated in many noted bat- ties, and at one time was under fire from the : George A. and Martha K. Fuqua, also pio- 6th of May until the last day of August. neers of this count}7, where she was born He was engaged in the battles at Savannah, ' September 28, 1859. They have one child - Vicksburg, Jackson, Lookout Moimtaiu, j Johnnie V. Mr. Wells purchased forty acres Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, and with of land from his father, who died in 1881, Sherman on his famous march to the sea, lamented! by all who knew hint, lie was a and the battle of Goidsboro, being in every \ kind father and an indulgent husband. Willbattle in which his regiment was engaged, : iam A. is meeting with good success in as well as some when he was on detached farming, and is a promising young man. deity. After his discharge he returned to | Postoffice, Greencastle. more peaceful pursuits, and has been quite other dealers in the county. Mr. Milkman j ^ USAJS M. ' J< HI NSOX was bom ir was married in Floyd Township, January 10, ; &^yj Tennessee in 1*25, daughter of Elijah 1845, to Mary E. Lewis, who was born in 1820. ! ^p and Folly Yeates, who were born in They ha've had three children - Tamar, Mont- ! Kentucky, \\c\- father was bom in 1798, gomery M. and George K., the latter being and her mother in 17,s. She was married deceased. Montgomery is in business with January 29, 18-12, to Anderson Johnson, son his father, but pays special attention to buy- | of Thomas Johnson, of this county. Of ing and shipping cattle. Mrs. Millmaifs j their seven children six are living William mother. Charlotte (Bright) Lewis, was a na- M., Albert W.} Samuel E., Charles Y., Marion five ef New Jersey, of English ancestry, and ; M. and Martha A. William M. married claimed to be a descendant of the famous ! Mollie Ireland, a daughter of John Ireland, navigator, Sir Francis Drake. In politics I and they have live children - Blanche, jSTellie, Mr. Millman is a Republican. lie has lived , Ella, Charles and Franklin. Charles married in Floyd Township fifty years, and all his Anna Reeves, daughter of Stacy Reeve-, and voting and working of roads has been done they have one child - lames Anderson. Main this township. He has never missed an rion married Florence Thompson, and they election except when he was in the army. live at Cridgeton, Parke County, this State.

Flora; they live in Petersburg, Virginia, y-rTlLLIAM A.WELLS, firmer, resides j Mr. Johnson died in 1859. lie was killed \l \P on section 12, Madison Township, by the cars at Cloverdale, and only lived five r~x,^-j where he owns seventy-three acres of hours after the accident occurred. lie was land. He was born on this farm October born in North Carolina. His parents had is. 1861, son of Peter and Nieey Wells, | nine children who lived to the age of twentywho were pioneers of Putnam County. The i five years. The country was thinly settled parents reared twelve children, six of whom : when Mr. and Mrs. Johnson settled here, but are living. Our subject has been reared a : there were no improvements. Mr. Johnson's farmer, lie was married in this county in mother cooked the dinner for the men that 1S83 to Miss Eliza Fuqua, daughter of! raised the first building in the now lovelv

IT^r? locality, is a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he was born July 1, 1815, son of Thomas and Melinda Pursell, natives of Virginia. His father was of English descent, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, having settled in Kentucky previous to that war. In 1823 he removed with his family to Putnam County, Indiana, locating in Floyd. Township, where he passed the remainder of his days. His death occurred about the year 1827. He was the father of five children, two of whom are living - William and Mary A. He was a publicspirited man, and ready to assist any enterprise that would benefit the community. Politically he affiliated with the Democratic party. William, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood in this county, and has been a life-long farmer. He was married October 0, 1830, to Miss Zerelda Moss, daughter of Israel Moss, an early settler of this county. To this union eight children have been born - Elizabeth, who married Reuben Arnold; Sallie A., who became the wife of James Arnold; Melinda M., now Mrs. Joseph C. Butler; Frances, wife of William Arnold; Charles, William; Lydia, who married Elijah Wilkinson, and Emma, wife of George Gowin. William Pursell located upon his present farm, which is situated in the western portion of Marion Township, about twenty-seven years ago, and has resided there ever since. He owns 183 acres of excellent land, all in a #ood state of cultivation. He is a self-made man, having acquired his property by hard labor and good management, lie is a worthy and consistent member of the Christian church, of which he has served as deacon. Politically lie is a Democrat, and has served creditably as school director. He was afflicted by the loss of his wife November 27, 1880. Among all the pioneers of Putnam County no one is more highly esteemed than is Mr. Pursell.

ANIEL M. HEEL was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, October 25, ^gf 1825, and in June, 1820, his parents brought him to this county, where he was reared on a farm until he was fourteen years of age. John Keel, the father of Daniel, built a carding- machine and leased it to an Englishman, William Heaps, who operated it for two years. He carded wool and manufactured cloth. lie then sold it to William Neese. Daniel worked in the mill for some time. He was married November 28, 1844, to Miss Rachel A. McElroy, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1827. She was brought to Putnam County by her parents, where she was reared and educated. Her father, William McElroy, was born in America, but his parents were Irish. Her mother was born in Pennsylvania, and her parents were Pennsylvania Dutch. Mr. and Mrs. Reel have four children - Lawrence D., Daniel F., Mollie and Charles 1). The deceased are - William, Francis, J. R., James and John A. Reelsville was platted by John Reel, the father of our subject, and was laid out by the county surveyor, William Shields, now deceased. Mr. Reels erected the first building before it was laid out, and after that he built another dwelling and a store-house. The latter is now being used as a store by G. M.

Poster. The next building was a Iiou.^e that has .since been taken down and removed by Edward Huffman. Mr. John Reel was born iii Virginia, and was partly raared in that State. He subsequently removed to Montgomery County. Ohio, where he was married, and lived there until be came U> this county, dune 14. 1826, with his wife and four children. He located on the east side of Walnut Fork of the Eel River, .about a quarter of a mile cast of Reelsville, but feeling that that side of the river was unhealthy, he built on the opposite side, on the same site where his son Daniel now lives, and the house he built is still standing and is n<v<\ for a store-room by his son. hi tills house John Reel breathed his las., and he lies buried in the Reelsville cemetery, the land being donated by him. John and his brother, Henry Reel, now of Harrison County, Iowa, at one time built a keel-boat and loaded it with various supplies of meat, flour, meal and whisky, and started down the Ohio River, thence down the Mississippi River, and up the Arkansas to Little Rock, where they sold their supplies and also their boat. They bought a mule, which they loaded with guns and provisions, and started on their return trip for home on the .Miami River, whence they had started. They came across the Wabash, near where Vincennes now is, and struck the Eel River near Howling Green, and coming up the stream they found James A they, a white man, and stayed over night with him. lie selected the site for a mill where Reelsville. now is. It was in the fall of 1824, and they passed through this part of Putnam County, and in June, 1826, John Reel brought his family here. In .November of the following year he built a log mill and commenced to grind corn about, the middle, of the month, lie had one run of burrs, made of boulders, called u nigger heads," and these run the mil! for about ten years, lie then built a frame mill, 50x54 feet, and three run of stone, which was swept away by a Hood in August, 1*75. At that time the mill was owned by Daniel Reel. John Reel was the father of eleven children, of whom four are living Daniel, John A., Joseph H. and Elizabeth. His wife was formerly Sarah Reason, who was born in South Carolina, and when a child, in 1808, emigrated to .Montgomery County, Ohio, with her parents, where she was reared and married. She survived her husband two years. During the war of 1812 John ran away to join the army. lie carried his gun and swam the Miami River in order to accomplish his purpose. The money that was paid him for his services was afterward used in Putnam County. He paid *75 of this money to buy a skillet that could iu>vc be purchased for 50 cents.

HJHARLES SUMNER BRIDGES, asfo£ si stan t cashier of the Central National "v''- Bank, of Greencastle, is the oldest of four children of William and Nannie F. (Darnall) Bridges, and was hern at Morton, this county. November 9, 1862. When he was two years of age his parents removed to within two miles of Greencastle, settling on a farm/, and in 1879 they became residents of Greencaslle. During that year Charles entered Asbury University, graduating with the class of '83. lie was then engaged in the live stock business with his father until L884, when he accepted the position of assistant cashier of the Centra! National Rank, at Greencastle. In 1885 he was chosen trustee of Greencastle Township, to iill the vacancy occasioned by the death of his father. February 10, 18*0, he was married at Cisco, Illinois, to Miss Flora Manlove, daughter of

David Man love (deceased) and Mrs. Margaret j books with which to prosecute his studies. (Alexander) Minson, of Cisco. She graduated j He was married in Floyd Township, October at DePauw University with the class of '85. | 29,1850, to Miss Ilnhama, daughter of Mar- They have one son, born in March, 1887. Mr. j tin and Mary (Cartright) Wright, who was Bridges is a member of the Universalist | born in Liberty, Union County, Indiana, May church of Greencastle, and belongs to the 8, 1850. To this union were born twelve College fraternity Phi Delta Theta. i children, five of whom are now living - fOKlAS II. ROBINSON, M. D., of Floyd | deceased, and two children died in infancy. Township, was born in Washington I In 1851-'52 Mr. Robinson attended the Ini Comity, Virginia, July 28, 1825, son of - diana Central Medical College, which was James Robinson, who was born in Virginia ; the medical department of Asbury Univerin 1799, and Lavinia (Hopkins) Robinson, a ! sity. In the fall of 1852 he began practice in native of the same State. His parents re- Effingham County. Illinois, where he removed to this county in 1831, when he was mained six years, being instrumental in laybut six years old. They had eleven children ing out the town of .Mason in that county, - - Joanna (deceased), Abijah, Josias II., An- which is now a thriving village. In 1858 derson M.,Cassandra, Clotilda (deceased), Juli- he removed to his early home, exchanging ana Evaline (deceased),.] ane,Lawson (deceased) property and practice with Dr. William and James. His father was a school-teacher by ! Mathews, and has since been a resident pracoccupation, and many good citizens of this j ticing physician of Floyd Township, residing county received all the education they ever on section 27. where he carries on farming in acquired from him. He followed teaching I connection with his profession. In 1875 he until his death, which occurred in April, j attended the Indiana Medical College, of In- 1847. The doctor was not '* born with a j dianapolis, where he graduated. . In 1858 lie silver spoon in his mouth." He went to was nominated on the Democratic ticket as school until he was ten years old, and after joint Representative of Effingham and Faythat, until he was fourteen years old, he I ette counties, Illinois, which he declined, went to school in winter and worked at farm- He also received a nomination for Representing in the summer. He then worked j ative from the Republicans of Putnam Connout as a farm hand, working for So a j ty, which he did not accept. Politically he month until his twenty-third year the last j has always been a J effersonian Democrat, and six years at the nursery business. The first j on the breaking out of the civil war became three years he worked for Reuben Ragan, of a firm supporter of the Government. Dnr- Marion Township, this comity, and the last | ing the war he was commissioned several three for Aaron Aldridge, of Indianapolis. | times by Governor Morton to visit the army During the time he was at Indianapolis he j to aid the medical department. He was made devoted all Jus spare time to the study of i a Mason in 1853, in Effingham County, and medicine, under the guidance and instruc- has idled every office in the lodge, with the tion of Dr. William Mathews, of Floyd j exception of master. Religiously he he- Township, who generously lent him the lieves in a common origin and desmoan, iphical skbi vubs.

tiny for the human family- -4* the Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man," generally known as Universalism. It is a common acknowledgment that the doctor has one of the most logical minds in Putnam County, and to-day stands in the front rank of its physicians. lie is genial and courteous, and his door is ever open to friend and stranger alike, being hospitable and generous to a fault.

.TVc'Cli II. DO BBS, a pioneer of Putnam p"V County, was born in East Tennessee *4. i May 11, 1815, a son of Joel and Sarah j Dobbs, natives also of Tennessee, of Scotch- j Irish descent. His ancestors came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. In the fall of 1829 Joel Dobbs came to Putnam County with his family and entered, eighty acres of land in Marion Township, on section 33, now owned by J. C. Real. He first erected a cabin, principally of beech poles, 16x18 feet, in which to shelter his family. I He resided in this county but a short time, removing to Mill Creek Township, Morgan County (now Putnam). In the fall of 1837 ; lie went to Missouri, where he passed the remainder of his days. He had a large family of children, of whom the following are known to be living-- II ugh II.. Russell L, Bethina P.. who married William LI. Parker; Anderson E., Fidell II., William, Archibald j L., Orlena, Sal lie, Melinda, Mary and Annie. ! lie was twice married, and the nine first named were the children of his first wife. Our subject was in his fifteenth year when he came to Putnam County, and here he was \ (-eared and was educated in the pioneer schools of his time. He settled on the farm where he now lives on section oo, Marion j Township, in 1856, and now own© 276 acres I of good land. lie was married .May 1, 1831, to Lucy A. Hurst, a daughter of Jesse and Nancy Hurst, and to this union were born twelve children, nine of whom are living - Sadie, wife of William McCammock; Joel, Nancy J., wife of Samuel J. Bird: Bethena, wife of William II. Hicks; Orlena, wife of M. L. Puis; Martha, wife of William II. Hector; Elizabeth, wife of J. K. Burgess- Mary, wife of Milo Skelton, and Lucy A., wife of M. F. Dosett. The deceased are - Cynthia, David II. and George W. Mrs. Lucy A. Dobbs died July 13, 1875, aged sixty-three years, four months, and after a married life of forty-one year.- and two months. She joined the regular Baptist church at Mill Creek the fifth Sunday meeting in 1872. She was a kind and lovingwife and mother, and an obliging neighbor. February 21, 1876, Mr. Dobbs married Cynthia A. Skelton, daughter of John Skelton. In politics Mr. Dobbs is a Democrat, He lias served a short time as justice of the peace. He is a member of the regular Baptist, church, dating his experience back to 1860, but was baptized on Sunday, May 16, 1886, by Elder J. Whitluck.

ILLIAM DILLS, teamster, resides i/.V/| °n section 11, Madison Township, { Jp*r\ where he owns loo acres of land, besides over 400 acres in other places. He was born in Shelby County, < >hio, August 19, 1810, son of John and Agnes (Moreiand) Dills, natives of Kentucky. The father came to this county when William was three years of age. He reared six children, of whom two are living -Watson P. and Caroline. William was reared a farmer, and has always followed that occupation. in 1S67 he was married to Miss Serena, daughter of Nelson and Millie Woods, natives of Kentucky. She was born in this county in 18-1(5, her parents being early settlers of the county. They had six children, four of whom are living - Otho C, Walter S., Charles E., Laura (deceased), Alonzo and an infant. Mr. Dills is a Democrat in polities, fie had eighty acres of land to start with in life, besides a little stock. He has been very successful, and is universally respected.

TLLIAM F. BROWN, member of the \\l\\' firm of Maze & Brown, proprietors ~~~'-j~~ of the steam saw-mill at Cloverdale, was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, August 10, L838, a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Brown. J I is father was bum in Virginia in 1802 in Culpeper County, close to Culpeper Court-House, and went with his parents to Kentucky, where he was married, and where his parents died. lie was reared on the farm, ami removed to Putnam County, settling in Greencastle Township, where he lived live years. lie then removed to Washington Township, where he still resides. The mother died in Cloverdale Township in the fall of 1877. She was born in 1802, and was the mother of seven children, four of whom were boys. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. William F. came with his parents to this county when fifteen years of age, receiving a common school education. lie was reared a farmer, and remained at home until twentyeight years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself, in Tazewell County, Illinois, locating there in 1803. Jn the fall of 1835 he returned to Putnam County and resumed farming in Washington Township. In 1873 he removed to Cloverdale Township, where he followed farming until 1882, then went to j Kansas and remained until the following 1 spring. Later, he returned to this county and formed a partnership with David ll. Maze and engaged in his present businesssawing and dealing in hard-wood lumber. In \ politics Mr. l>rown is a Democrat and has ; held local offices. lie is a member of San- ; ders Lodge, No. 307, I. O. O. F., at Clover- I dale, lie was married November 24, 1864, | to Mary Burroughs, born in Mercer County, ! Kentucky, June 24, 1843, and to this union ! three children were born - Sarah E., Martha I. I and John W. Mrs. Brown died October 24, i 1875, a worthy member of the Baptist church. : Mr. Brown was again married, his second wife being Lovina J. Cristenbery, whom he I married November 23, 1870. She was born j in this county July 27, 1834, and died Noj vember 2(J, 1882, in Kansas. She was a > member of the Baptist church. Besides his j mill property Mr. Brown owns village prop- I erty. He became a member of the Baptist ,; church in 1852. He commenced life for : himself a poor man, and r.ll he has he has | earned by industry and good management.

living in Topeka, Kansas, and is ninety-two years of age. The parents of our subject reared eleven children, of whom he is next to the oldest. His father died in 1847, aged forty-seven years. His mother is still living and is seventy-nine years of age. He was married November 16, 18-18, to Elizabeth Gillen, daughter of Willis and MeKnda (Combs) Gillen, who were early settlers of Franklin Township and are now deceased. Their children are - Aaron C, who married Lillie l>. Keightley, daughter of A. T. Keightley, who died, leaving one child - Lillie l'>; Melinda M., who married Isaac E. Weddle of Roachdale, has four children - Maggie, .Bertha, Elizabeth F. and Leona; Cloe and Ettie, who are living. The deceased are - Lewis. .Julia A., Melissa, Willis, John, Ottie, and two infants. Mr. Stewart has been a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity twenty-seven years. lie is a member of the regular Baptist church. He was never sued, and never sued but one man in his life.