Putnam County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 14 of 16)

"Dear Madam : - I am deputed to transmit to you a copy of resolutions adopted by members of the bar of this circuit at this place during the recent session of court in memon.- of your dear deceased husband. These resolutions you will find enclosed with this. Having taken part in their adoption, it is almost unnnecssar\- for me to express further any sentiments I entertain in relation to the sad event which called them forth. Yet I can not refrain to say to you that the unexpected news of Mr. McGaughey's death impressed me mournfully. We were of nearly the same age and we commenced our professional careers together in the same courts. During some thirteen or fourteen years we were on terms of uninterrupted friendship. I therefore could not but feel that the blow that struck him down fell very near to me.

"I deeply sympathize with you and your dear children in this bereavement, ^'our husband and their father was a man of talents and a man of honor, .\nibitious as he was. I believe that he never swerved in his integrity or in his fidelity. His death is greatly a public loss - greatly a loss to his friends and associates, but principally yours. The memory of his virtues will comfort you. You can with truth and fidelity hold out to your children the example of his life for their guidance and emulation. In this exercise I confidently believe you will realize much consolation in the dark hours of your widowhood.

"Madam : - I have neglected on account of my absence from home in sending to you before this my tribute of respect for the memory of your beloved husband. I can most fully appreciate your loss. I know the anguish of your heart, the ties that are broken, and can unite with you in the warmest sympathy of condolence.

"And in view of all this, can say the country has lost one of her brightest jewels, society an active, industrious and useful citizen, and to you and your fatherless children the loss is not only that of husljand, father, friend, brother, guardian and protector, but he was, in that more intimate and close relation, your all, the head of your family.

"You must look to the source from whence comes all our blessings, the father of the widow and the fatherless. He alone is able to heal up all our wounds, administer to us consolation in the darkest hours. Without His aid we are liable any moment to go astray. May He comfort, sustain and encourage you in this, your dark hour of trouble.

"When I visit your place I will call and deliver in person what I can not on paper, the warmest expression of my sympathy. Accept this humble tribute from one who has lately passed through the same affliction, and who most heartily joins in wishing you peace, prosperity and happiness in this life of trouble. "Your friend,

Sara M. became the wife of George Dexter Rand, of Burlington, Iowa, the wedding occurring at Greencastle, Indiana, on December 25, 1862. In a few days Mr. Rand received his commission as paymaster in the United States Volunteer Navy and reported on board the gunboat "Silver Lake," on the Ohio river at Smithland, Kentucky, under Commodore Leroy Fitch. In about a year he received his commission as paymaster in the United States Regular Navy. In 1864 he was sent to the upper Tennessee river in charge of four gunboats, which were to keep the river open from Decatur, Alabama, to Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. He served till the close of tlie Civil war, when he resigned. Remaining in the South, Mr. Rand engaged in the lumber business at Bridgeport. Alabama, and Gadsden, the same state, until 1S80, when lie came to Keokuk. Iowa, where he was manager of the Carson & Rantl Lumber Company. He was elected mayor of the city on tlie RepubHcan ticket. During his term of service a large tract of land was bought by the city, and the city council named it Rand Park in his honor. Mr. Rand was vice-president of the State Central Savings Bank, of which bank William Logan is president. Mr. Rand died November 12. 1903, and is buried in the City cemetery at Greencastle, Indiana.

^Nlary McGaughey was married to Henry Christian Heine on October 2, 1866, at Indianapolis. Indiana. After the close of the Civil war they moved to Bridgeport. Alabama, and Mr. Heine \\'as employed by the Xashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad. After Edward W. McGaughev, who was railroad agent there, moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Heine was appointed agent, which position he still fills. Mr. and Mrs. Heine became the parents of three daughters and one son, namely : Sophie, Marv, Pauline and McGaughey. Hilary married Jefferson Washburn, of New York, and both died in 1904. Mrs. Heine died in June. 1903. Pauline, alone of the children, survives. She was married to James Earls, of Tennessee, in June, 1900, and they live at Tullahoma. Tennessee.

Edward \\'. McGaughey, Jr., was a student in old Asbury L'niversitv, at Greencastle, Indiana, but during the Civil war he left college and joined an Indiana battery, seeing hard service in Kentucky. He was transferred to the United States Xavy as midshipman and served till the close of the war. He was telegrapher in the railroad office at Bridgeport, .\Iabama, and aftenvards was appointed agent. He was promoted to freight agent at Chattanooga, and later he resigned to accept a position with the Big Four railroad as traffic manager, with headquarters at Chattanooga, Tennessee, w hich position he held at the time of his death, which occurred on December 17. 1890, at Chattanooga. On October 26. 1869, at Bridgeport, Alabama, Edward McGaughey was married to X. A. Troxell, and they had three daughters. Sallie Rand McGaughey was married to John Harlan Morris, of Greencastle. Indiana, on December 28, 1898, and one son, John Raymond Morris, is the only child. Mrs. Morris died May 5. 1904, and is buried at Keokuk. Iowa. Margaret li\"es with her mother at Keokuk. Edith Genevieve married Sam V. Cox. at Keokuk, on July 2j. 1S99. and they have three daughters living, Genevieve R., Ruth E. and Grace E. They live at Keokuk.

Charles Oliver McGaughey was married to Abbie Linton, at Indianapolis. Indiana, on June 29. 1873. On October 19. 1897. at Bridgeport, Alabama, he was married to Anna Belle Hall. One son. Charles O.. is the only child. Charles O. McGaughey died at Bridgeport, Alabama, on April 25.' 1906, and is buried in Forest Hill cemetery at Chattanooga. Tennessee. Thomas Corwin McGaughey was married to Lydia Gilchrist in Indianapolis on February 22, 1872. They. lived in Chattanooga. Tennessee, a number of years, but now are living in St. Louis. Missouri. They have two daughters. Margaret married William McCarthy in Chattanooga. Tennessee, on September 3. 1895. and they have one son. Raymond. Pearl was married to James D. Leahy, at Chattanooga. Tennessee, on June 7, 1905. Thev have two daughters, and live in St. Louis. Missouri.

Henry C. Cooper

Among the enterprising and highly respected citizens of Putnam county who are deserving of a place in the county's history is Henry C. Cooper, a farmer living in Franklin township on a valuable estate which, by judicious management, he has brought to its present high standard. He was born in Clinton township, this county, March 13. i860, the son of George H. and Margaret (Thomas) Cooper. John Cooper, the paternal grandfather, was born in Kentucky, near IVIount Sterling, and he came to Putnam county, Indiana, about 1828. settling near Bainbridge. Monroe township, of which he was one of the early settlers. He later came to Clinton township, where he remained the rest of his life. George H. Cooper was about three years old when his parents brought him to Putnam county. He grew to maturity here and began farming early, making it his life work and he became very well-to-do as the result of judicious management and close application to his work. He became the owner of eight hundred acres. He was a wellread man and took considerable interest in Republican politics, being prominent in local affairs for many years. He and his wife reared a large family, eleven children having been born to them, nine of whom are living at this writing, Plenry C. of this revieAv, being the fifth in order of birth. He was reared on the home farm, which he worked when he became of proper ao-e. attending the district schools in the meantime in Clinton township, and he was a student one year at Danville. Indiana, attending the normal there. He applied himself very carefully to his work and received a very good education. He taught school two winters, but. although he made a good start as an educator, the work did not appeal to him and he returned to the more independent and lucrative line of agriculture.

Mr. Cooper was married in 1887 to Elizabeth L. Bridges, who was born in 1868. the daughter of Robert L. Bridges, her family having long been well known in Putnam county. This union has resulted in the birth of one daughter, Mabel B., born August 21, 1888. She graduated at the high scliooi and she took music at DePauw University, manifesting considerable talent in this line. She was married Januarv- i, 1910, to Ralph Cross, of Lebanon. Boone county. Indiana, and is now here, going to farm the homestead.

Mr. Cooper is the owner of two hundred acres of well improved and highly productive land in Franklin and Russell townships. He has a modern and attractive dwelling of ten rooms, located in the midst of beautiful surroundings. He has a substantial barn and other outbuildings. He keeps a good line of stock and feeds a great many cattle and hogs, being regarded as one of the leading general farmers and stockmen in Franklin township.

Mr. Cooper is a member of the ^Methodist Episcopal church. Brick Chapel. Mrs. Coijper being a member of the Universalist church. Mr. Cooper is an independent voter, preferring to support the individual whom he considers best qualified for the office sought rather than the party. Personally he is obliging, jovial, neighborly and a man whom everybody likes. His father, George H., died on December 30, 1896.

Back to the earliest settlers of Putnam county is traced the record of the Guillianis family, the many members of which have done much for the general progress of the locality, since they have all been hard workers and lawabiding and always willing to do their just share in the interest of the county. Among the best known of this family in Russell township is Fred L. Guilliams. who was born in this county, October 4, 1867, the son of Daniel Guilliams, born September 27, 1833, and the grandson of John Guilliams, born April 26, 1802, a native of Virginia, who was one of the first settlers of this countv and who married Lydia Fosher, born October 2, 1806, a native of this county : they resided on a farm at Blakesburg and were the parents of the following children : John, Christian, Daniel. Lydia. Sarah, Mary and Betsy, all deceased but Lydia, who married a Mr. Leonard and is living in Kansas. Daniel Guilliams was reared on the farm and had the advantages of the earlv schools of the backwoods. He was married to Clarissa Hart.

September 14, 1856, daughter of John M. Hart, who was born December ID, 1806, and who on February 21, 1830, married Nancy Cohvell Lockridge, who was born July 12, 1812. They were the parents of ten children, John L., Alargary E., Clarissa, Margaret, Henry C. Sarah A., Nancy P., Pauline and Eliza. The Harts also lived in Putnam county in its earliest days.

After his marriage, Daniel Guilliams began farming on his own account, which he continued for a few years, then engaged in business as a retail merchant at Portland Mills. After four years he went back to his farm. Both he and his wife belonged to the Christian church. Politically Mr. Guilliams was a Republican. His death occurred August 10. 1893, ^^'S wife surviving until August 17, 1895. They are buried in the cemetery at Blakesburg. Six children were born to them, four of whom are living, namely : John ;\I.. born October 16, 1857, married Fanny Cavins, of Illinois; he is professor of mathematics, languages and history in the normal school at Bowling Green, Kentucky ; Ida E. is a teacher in the public schools of Putnam county; Ella B., now Mrs. Morton Fordice, was born August 11, 1873, and is the mother of four children, Margery, Daniel, Mary and Rudolph.

Fred L. Guilliams, of this review, spent his boyhood days on the home farm. After completing the_ prescribed course in the common schools he was graduated from the Danville Normal School, where he prepared himself for a teacher, and for three years taught very successfully in the public schools and one year in a normal school in Florida. On April 23, 1899, he married Laura 'SI. Grimes, daughter of John and Amanda (Clodfelter) Grimes, an influential family of this county, where they have lived since the early days. Mr. and Guilliams began their married life on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, for which they paid fifty dollars per acre, that being less than one-half of its present value, for Mr. Guilliams. who has continued to reside here, has improved the place until it is equal to any in the community, he having always been regarded as one of the successful and enterprising agriculturists of the county. He has given his attention e.xclusively to farming and stock raising and is an enthusiastic poultry raiser, keeping a large number of choice fowls, from which he realizes a handsome income ; he also makes a specialty of breeding Duroc Jersey hogs of a superior quality : these are eagerly sought after and admired by all who see them. He has a neat and comfortable dwelling, nicely furnished and good outbuildings.

William Giiilliams, born at Parkersburg, Virginia, married Sarah Ferguson and they had nine children, viz : Mary Ouilliams Smith, John Giiilliams, Frances Guilliams Smith, Edgecombe Guilliams, Chanty Guilliams Myers. William Guilliams. Richard Guilliams, Xaomi Guilliams Landers, George Guilliams. Of these children. John Guilliams' paternal grandfather of Fred L. Guilliams, married Lydia Fosher and they had eight children, viz : Daniel Guilliams. Susannah Guilliams Henkle, Elizabeth Guilliams Mc- Gaughey, Sarah Guilliams McGaughey, ]Mar\- Guilliams Long, John Guilliams, Christian Guilliams and Lydia Leonard. Daniel Guilliams, father of Fred L. Guilliams. married Clarissa Hart. September 14. 1856. and thev had -^ix children, viz; John Milton Guilliams. Alice Guilliams, Charley Guilliams, Lla Emily Guilliams, Frederick Leon Guilliams (subject of sketch), and Ella B. Guilliams Fordice. Fred L. Guilliams married Laura M. Grimes April 23, 1899, and they have one child, John Leroy Guilliams. Ella B. Guilliams married Alorton Fordice and they have six children, viz : AIarger»- Morton Fordice, Rudolph Gilliams Fordice, Mary Charlotte Fordice. Daniel Kirkwood Fordice, an infant son born December 25, 1903, and Asa Olney Fordice. Mary Cohvell married John Lockridge, and they had seven children, viz : ]\Iilton Lockridge. Xancy Cohvell Lockridge (who married John M. Hart), [Matthew Lockridge, Elizabeth Lockridge, James Lockridge. Joseph Lockridge and Lou Lockridge. Of these. X'ancy Cohvell married John ^L Hart and they had nine children, as named elsewhere. Philip Hart married ^Lirgery Cohvell and they had four children, viz: John ^L Hart (grandfather of Fred L. Guilliams), born December 10, 1806, Pleasant Hart (died when eleven years old), Susanna Hart Allen, and Jane Hart.

John ^[. Hart married Xancy Cohvell Lockridge and thev had nine children, viz: John Hart, Margery Elizabeth Hart, Clarissa Hart (born July 4. 1836, who became the wife of Daniel Guilliams). ]\Largaret Priscilla Hart. Henry Clay Hart. Sarah Anne Hart, Xancy Pennelia Hart, Pauline Hart and Eliza Hart.

Daniel Fosher, born in Germany. May 12, 1763, came to America with the Hessian soldiers. His son, John Fosher, born in Franklin county. Virginia, in 1786, married Elizabeth Landers and they had nine children, viz: Christian Fosher, Lydia Fosher Guilliams, Daniel (died in infancy). Henrv- Fosher, John Fosher, Anna Fosher Guilliams, Kate Fosher Xichols. Betsy Fosher Fall, Mary Fosher Todd Smith. Of these children, Lydia Fosher (born October 2, 1806) married John Guilliams and they had eight children as o-iven elsewhere. Daniel Guilliams, the eldest of these, married Clarissa Hart and they became the parents of six children as noted elsewhere in this o-enealoo-y. The fifth of these children was Frederick Leon Guilliams (subject), who married Laura M. Grimes, daughter of John and Amanda (Clodfelter) Grimes, and they have one son. John Leroy Guilliams.

Back to the early pioneer days in Putnam county is traced the ancestry of Thomas J. McGan, one of Russell township's best known citizens, owning a good farm here and a nicely arranged and well equipped jewelry store in Russellville. beino- one of the influential and substantial men of northwestern Putnam county. His birth occurred here November 24. 1844. He is the son of James ^NlcGan, a native of Pennsylvania who went to Kentucky, from which state, in 1829, he came to Indiana, locating in Russell township, Putnam countv, when a young man. He first engaged as a laborer in a woolen mill which was operated here in the early days, in time getting a good start. He was married to Margaret. Everman, the daughter of Michael Everman, one of the oldest settlers of this county. He was the father of five children, Andy, Maro-aret, Betsy, Wesley and William, all of whom are deceased. Shortlv after his marriage Mr. McGan bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 5, adjoining the town of Russellville, and engaged in farming and stock raising and fed a great deal of stock. He was a money maker and from time to time added to his farm, owning a section of land, except one small tract, all in a body. In 1853 he erected on his original farm a verv pretentious brick house for those days, a two-story, commodious structure, having burned the brick on his own farm that entered into its construction. His wife preceded him to the grave, dying August 17, 1872, his death occurring July 20. 1873; they are buried in the Russellville cemeterv. Ten children were born to them, named as follows: William, born September 11, 1833, died August 23, 1862: Andrew J., born February 2, 1835, died Septemljer 20, 1841 ; Eli V., born July 14, 1836, died November 4 1841 ; George W., born April 8. 1838, died November 6, 1841 ; Mary, born July 17! 1839, died August i, 1840: James W., born April 11, 1841 ; died November 14, 1841 ; Benjamin F., born October 15, 1842, died December 29, 1874; Thomas J. (of this review), born November 24, 1844; Sarah, bom :March 9, 1847. died December 9, 1847; Rachael. born February 20.

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Thomas J. AIcGan was reared to manhood on his father's fami and receiveil a common school education. Upon the death of his parents he heired the home place and he has continued to reside here to the present time. He engages very successfully in farming and stock raising, keeping the old place well improved and carefully tilled, so that the soil has not depreciated in strength and value.

Mr. McGan has never assumed the responsibilities of the married state, and his sister, Rachael. now a widow, makes her home with him most of the time. She was twice married, first to James Senett, now deceased ; her last marriage was to Howard .-Vnderson. She has one child, William Senett, who is married and is living on a farm near Crawfordsville, Indiana. Six members of his father's family died with scarlet fever when young.

As stated at the onset, Mr. McGan conducts a jewelry store at Russellville, spending much of his time looking after the same; however, he lives on his farm. He enjoys a good trade with the surrounding community. He has the undivided respect of all his neighbors and has always been square in his business relations.

Albert C. Lockridge

Among Franklin township's successful farmers and influential men of affairs is Albert C, Lockridge, who is the owner of a fine farm which he renders highlv productive by the latest scientific methods, reaping abundant harvests from vear to year as the result of the energy, time and thought e.xpended upon it, and he is regarded as one of the leading young farmers of Putnam county. He comes from a good old pioneer family. His birth occurred near Greencastle, Indiana, February 20, 1873, He was reared on the home farm which he worked during crop seasons when he became old enough, attending the district schools in the winter-time, remaining on the place where he was born until he was thirteen years of age when he moved to Raccoon, in the northwest part of the county, and remained there five years. In 1891 he came to Roachdale, Franklin township. After his preliminary education in the common schools he attended DePauw University for one year, after which he took a year's course in a business school. He worked on the farm until 1900, then purchased a farm of his own, and in 1904 he built the old elevator at Roachdale and he has been engaged in the grain business ever since in connection with his farming. He buys and ships all kinds of grain and hay, having built up an extensive and lucrative business. He also has an interest in the Bainbridge lumber yard at Bainbridge, Indiana, where the firm handles not only lumber, but also cement, coal, grain and all kinds of seeds, flour, feed, etc., doing an extensive business. Besides these extensive interests, he is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and forty-two acres in section 2, Franklin township, which he looks after personally, giving it a great deal of attention, as already intimated, especially to the raising of grain, at which he is very successful. The place is well improved and he has a modern, comfortable and attractive home. He has been very successful in all his business operations owing to his soundness of judgment, his ability to forsee the outcome of present transactions and his honorable dealings with his fellow men, which has gained their confidence.

Mr. Lockridge was married to Alice Hillis, of Greencastle, where she grew to maturitv and where she received her education, being a graduate of the high school there. She is the daughter of a highly respected citizen of that place, where her family were long well known. This union has resulted in the birth of three children, Louise, born in 1897, Elizabeth, born in 1900, and Nellie, born in 1905.

Mr. and Mrs. Lockridge are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and fraternally, Mr. Lockridge is a member of Roachdale Lodge, No. 602, Free and Accepted Masons, which he has served as secretary; he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 297. He is a Prohibitionist and is a member of the board of town trustees of Roachdale. Personally he is a pleasant man to know, a good mixer, straiglitforward and unassuming.

Samuel Preston Brown

One of the men who is enjoying the fruits of his labors in his declining vears and who has found it to his advantage to remain in his native locality is Samuel Preston Brown, owner of an excellent farm near Coatesville. having by long years of patient endeavor accumulated a valuable estate, although starting out in life with small capital. He was born in Putnam county, Januarv 15. 1842, the son of Williamson and Jane (Rich) Brown, a well known old familv of this community. Grandfather Williamson Brown was a native of North Carolina, who came to Wayne county. Indiana, in 1832, locating in Flovd township, Putnam county, two years later; however, he never owned land here, although a farmer by occupation. His family consisted of nine children, namely : William, Hesekiah. Isaac, Stephen, Williamson, Xancy, Rebecca. Alary and Betsy. The father of these children died in 1840 and is buried in the cemetery at Coatesville.

Williamson Brown, Jr., was born ]\Iay 7, 1794. He remained at home until reaching maturity and attended the primitive schools of his day. On !May 16, 1804. he married Jane Rich and they located on a farm of one hundred and forty acres in, section 36, Marion township, and here he followed farming all his life. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Methodist church. They made their home on the present Brown farm, he I lying here January 2. 1876, being survi\ed by his widow until September 12, 1899; they are buried in the Coatesville cemetery. Twelve children were born to them, namely: ^^Irs. Sarah E. Xoble. a widow; Airs. Sarah A. Harsch and Airs. Emily J. Kelsey are both living in Iowa: Samuel Preston, of this review; Jabez; those now deceased are. Airs. Rachael L. Pierson. Alanuel, Samuel R., Hannah E. (who remained single). Airs. Alary A. Kelsey, John W. and Xancy Al.

Samuel P. Brown remained with his parents assisting with the work about the farm until he reached maturity. His education was gained in the local schools. On Alarch 20. 1S73, he married Sarah J. Paddock, of Dublin, Wayne county, Indiana, where her father owned a good farm.

-After his marriage Air. Brown moved onto a farm of sixty acres adjoining Coatesville on the north and he has continued to reside here. He has prospered by reason of good management and close attention to his individual affairs and also owns one hundred and eighty-eight acres adjoining, also one hundred acres in Alarion township and one hundred and forty acres in Floyd township. All his land is among the most valuable in this part of the county, has been well improved and he has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, - in fact is regarded as one of the model farmers of Putnam county and one of the best judges of livestock in this community. His judgment seldom errs in his business transactions and he hiilds high rank as one of the county's substantial and representative citizens. He has a modem, commodious and attractive home near Coatesville. his home farm adjoining the town.

took a course in the Theological School of Boston, Massachusetts. December 15, 1908. he married Grace Elizabeth McV'ey. a talented representative of a well known familv. Mr. Brown was engaged in teaching at Pachuca. Mexico: previous to his marriage he taught school in San Antonio, Texas. He is at present pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Fairview, Indiana. He is a young man with a brilliant future and is very popular wherever he is known. Air. and Mrs. Frank L. Brown have one son. Waldo Preston Brown, born March 11. 19 10. The daughter. Cora A., a young lady of refinement, is a graduate of the Coatesville schools and is still a member of the home circle. Members of this family are all Methodists in their religious beliefs. Mr. Brown is a Republican, but he has never aspired to puljlic office, being content to devote his time e.Kclusively to his individual affairs. He has always been regarded as a man in whom the utmost confidence could be reposed and, being friendiv and neighborly, he is well liked by all classes.

Madison Young

The o-entleman to a review of whose life the reader's attention is here respectfully directed, is recognized as one of the energetic and successful citizens of the north part of Putnam county, who by his enterprise and progressive methods has contributed in a material way to the general advancement of the county, especially Franklin township, where he has long maintained his home and become one of its leading men of affairs. Like many of the enterprising citizens of this section of the Hoosier state, Madison Young is a Kentuckian. having been born in the old Blue Grass state, January 8, 1856. He is the son of Harrison- and Kiziarh (Baugh) Young, both born in Kentucky where they were reared, educated and married and in 1873 they came to Putnam county, Indiana, and fanned in Franklin township where they lived until about 1883 when Mr. Young went west, but he has returned and is now living in Roachdale. He and his wife are the parents of these children : G. R., Madison. Margaret. Mary B. and Samuel K.

]\Iatlison Young grew to maturity in Kentucky, where he worked on his father's farm durin^ the summer months and attended the common schools in the winter. He came to Indiana with his parents and remained with them until he was twenty-three years of age. He had worked considerably on the farm by the month in order to get a start.

David L. Bvmaster. a man of high principles and well known in his community, was a native of Pennsylvania, who finally moved to Montgomerv county, Indiana, where he resided during the latter part of his life. One daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs, Young who is now deceased. Her name was Letha ^I.. born June lo. iSSi. and died January 14, 1893; she was a graduate of the high school at Ladoga, Indiana, and was a bright and interesting child.

Mr. Young is the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and six acres in Montgomery county, this state, which is under a high state of improvement and cultivation. He moved to Roachdale. Putnam countv, on Xoxember J3. 1906, and is residing at the corner of Washington and Walnut streets, in one of the finest and most attractive dwellings in the town or this part of the county, being equipped with all modern appliances, with basement, furnace, bath, hot and cold water, etc. It was built at an expense of three thousand dollars. He .still looks after his farm and is especially interested in good livestock, of which he is a splendid judge, and. because of the high grade of the various kinds of stock he handles, they always find a ready market.

Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Christian church at Roachdale, and Mr. Young is a charter member of the Ben Hur lodge here, carrying an insurance in the same. F^)liticall}' he is a Republican and, while he has never fijund time to take a great deal of interest in political affairs, he has ahvavs done what he could toward the betterment in any way of conditions in both Putnam and Montgomery counties, and because of his public-spirit, his cordial manners and his lionestv he is held in high fa\-or wherever he has lived.

Charles Boles Bridges

Few men of a past generation in Putnam county so impressed their strong personalities upon the minds of those with whom they came in contact, did more for the general upbuilding of the locality and left behind them a worthier recorrl than Charles Boies Bridges, who has long since joined the great ''caravan that moves to the pale realms of shade." yet the luster of his singularly pure and worthy life is still shed along the pathways of those nearest and dearest to him. and for many reasons his biographical memoir is worthy of a conspicuous position in the history of the country where he and movefl and had his being."

Mr. Bridges was born October 30, 1800. and he closed his eyes on earthly scenes March 2, 1879, thus nearly reaching the advanced milestone of four- score years. He was one of the pioneers of Putnam county, having come here seventy years ago from Kentucky, where he was born. His paternal ancestors were Enghsh and, perhaps, Welsh. His mother was an orphan whose ancestry cannot be definitely traced, being quite young when she lost her parents. William Bridges was the third son of a family of five children, James, Charles, William, George and a daughter. William Bridges settled first near Salisbury, North Carolina, during the Revolutionary war period. He was a blacksmith by trade and was pressed into the service to make shackels for the Tories. He was married to his first wife when he came to this country from England, but she did not long survive after coming to America. After this he settled in Kentucky, about the year 1790, in a vast wilderness, among the native redskins, bears, wolves and other kinds of wild animals, in what is now Aladison county. Here he married Elizabeth Wright, mother of the immediate subject of this sketch, and soon afterward moved to what is now Montgomery county, Kentucky, about eight miles from Morgan Station, the scene of an Indian massacre. To this union five sons and three daughters were born, namely: William, James, George, Charles, Milton, Tamer, Abigail and Elizabeth. These children had three half-brothers and one halfsister. Their parents were both old-time Methodists and they delighted in attended the camp meetings held in the woods of those early days where people "shouted" and "went into trances."

Charles B. Bridges knew little else than hard manual labor from the time he was six years of age to the age of twenty-six. When about nine years old he was placed in school, traversing a foot-path through the woods to a primitive log house where only such text-books as the old Columbia speller, Guthrie's arithmetic and the Bible were used. His schooling did not amount to six months in all. He was nineteen years old when his father died. He practicallv took charge of the farm, managed it and handled stock successfully, selling some of his own property to satisfy his father's creditors. In dividing the farm of one hundred acres, forty of it fell to the subject. He began supporting the family by raising hogs for market, and making a good crop the first vear. The following fall he accepted an ofTer of ten dollars per month, to go to Richmond, Virginia, and drive hogs. He made the trip thither on foot, a verv trying journey. He made another crop the following year and in the fall hired to drive hogs to Sumpterville, South Carolina. He continued farming and trading in stock and in time he accumulated some property ; however, he had many discouragements for fifteen years after he began life for himself. Borrowing nine hundred dollars, he bought a number of horses and drove them to Alabama where he sold them. Later he took a drove of horses and mules to Georgia, meeting with adverse luck, such as getting hold of a large amount of counterfeit money. After making a number of trips to the South and trading extensively in stock at home, he had. bv 1829, accumulated enough to establish a home of his own. and while cradling wheat he first saw Rachael Lockridge, a farmer's daughter who was carrying water to tlie reapers, and after a short courtship they were married on October 28. 1830. She was the daughter of Robert Lockridge. who then lived about six miles north of Mount Sterling. Kentucky. Mr. Bridges had purchased a seventy-five-acre farm near there, and the young couple went to live there in an "old log cabin." Their first child. Robert, was born October 17, 1831 ; William was born in September. 1833. Mr. Bridges sold his farm for thirty dollars per acre, a large price for that time, and upon surveying the place it was found that the boundan.- contained about nine acres more than the original estimate. The following spring he and his brother. Willis, made a trip to Indiana, which was then practically a wilderness, but little of the land being under cultivation and the inhabitants poor. They went to Montgomery county and as far as Lafayette in Tippecanoe county, only a few houses then marking the site of the last named city. After refusing to buy land very cheaply where the city of Crawfordsville now stands, they purchased a tract near Parkersburg. They could have bought land at a very low figure now covered by a part of Indianapi")lis. They returned home and moved to the new country- the following fall and here started life again in true pioneer fashion, leaving Kentucky September iS. 1S34. and. notwithstanding the subsequent hardships and privations, they never regretted making the change. The trip required twelve days to Montgomery county, Indiana, and they began clearing their wilderness land, keeping house in a one-room shack. He cleared aliout fifteen acres and planted corn, but the season was a wet one and nothing was raised. In the fall he went to Illinois, whither he had gone about a year previously, but owing to the prevalence of chills and fever did not care to locate there. He later went to Putnam county and bought land in the Foster settlement, selling out in Montgomerv- county. Here he found conditions much more favorable and soon had a good start, raising a splendid crop of corn. He liked the locality so well he purchased the old Secrist farm of one hundred and sixty acres, for which he paid six dollars per acre, and moved to the place. He improved the land, on which a house had already been built and some fences put up. and a few acres set in blue grass.

About the year 1837 Mr. Bridges and two of his neighbors began the agitation of abolishing whisky at log-rollings and husking-bees, etc.. Mr. Bridges having always been a temperate man. Within a short time thev ap- pointed a temperance meeting at Blakesburg. in\iting several noted speakers from different places ; this may be said to be the first temperance movement of this section of the state. He had a fine bhie grass farm in a few years and bought stock and kept them on the place and by 1840 had a good start again. However, those were trying times financially, following the national bank law of 1833. ^^^- Bridges had purchased another piece of land, and the panic coming on he offered it for one thousand dollars less than he had paid for it. but could not sell it. In 1843 '""^ purchased the old Myer tract of about one hundred and twenty acres, on which he moved his family and lived there three or four years, then built a new house and barn in 1845. His older boys had become large enough to attend to the place and Mr. Bridges now devoted most of his time to stock trading. In 1847 'i^ purchased the first cookstove ever brought to this community. He dealt extensively in sheep, having as many as one thousand head on the place at one time. By 185 1 he had sold all his land but about three hundred acres, and he decided to engage in the mercantile business; so, forming a partnership "with Reub Moss, they opened a store at Fincastle, Putnam county, Mr. Bridges leaving his farm to the care of his boys. A year later he bought his partner's interest and after continuing it another year he sold out. He had done well in this line of endeavor, having over four hundred names and twenty thousand dollars on his account book when he closed out. But his patrons were very prompt in paving. A vear later he built a store room at the cross roads one-half mile from his residence, afterwards called Cairo, and commenced the business again and sold goods for about two years, his son Milton, who was born in 1835, having acted as clerk. After trading in land until 1861 he bought the store back, taking his son, DeWitt, who was born in 1847, to clerk. The breaking out of the Civil war brought an increase in the price of manufactured goods and almost all commodities and he made money rapidly, continuing in business two and one-half years. He continued to look after his land and in the spring of 1868 purchased a small farm near Bainbridge. having disposed of his other possessions, built a good house and quietly spent the remaining years of his life there.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bridges. Those not mentioned above are, James, born in 1837: Elizabeth, born in 1840: Dulcenia, born in 1845: Amelia, born in 1852, and Rachael. born in 1855.

James Bridges, a worthy son of a worthy sire, lives on the okl Stevenson homestead, where he is very successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He was educated in the common schools. On November 10, 1859. lie married Marv Darnall. who died August 14. 1867. this union having resulted in the birth oi the following children, all living: Douglas. Jesse and Thomas. On September i. 1868. James Bridges married Mary Xelson Stevenson, daughter of Dr. Alexander Campbell and Mary- Jane (Gillespie) Stevenson, and tlie following children have been born to them: Sarah, Flora. Harriet; .\lexandria was born in January. 1871, and died July 19. 1887.

Charles B. Bridges was scrupulously honest in all his dealings with his fellow men ; he strictly avoided all coarse and vulgar language, and always had a soft answer with which to turn away wrath. His interest in temperance work continued unabate<l. He was one of the builders of the Universalist church in Putnam county and was always a liberal supporter of the church, and his children were reared in such a wholesome home atmosphere that they have all become members of the church and worthy of the name they bear.

Mr. Bridges" political affiliation was with the Democratic party, but he was neither bitter nor violent as a partisan. He was loyal to the Union cause. Honored in life and regretted in death, his name will long remain a fragrant memory to those who knew him. He was fortunate in the selection of a life companion and was much devoted to his wife, it being a great comfort to him that she fully sympathized with him in his religious faith and philanthropic views. She was reared a Presbyterian, but liecame an avowed believer in Universalism. Rachael Ozier (Lockridge) Bridges was born about five miles northeast of Mount Sterling. Montgomery county. Kentucky. Oct.iber 13. tSi2. Her ancestors were of Scotch-Irish and English e.xtraction. having emigrated to this country at a very early period. Her parents had a hard struggle in the early Kentucky days. Rachael was the second of a familv of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. She was reared to work about the homestead, f<jr her father (jwned a small farm and had to have assistance in making a living for his large family. One of her first duties was to keep watch over the newly sprouted corn, for in the wilderness days of the Blue Grass state farming was rendered doubly hard from the fact that innumerable birds, squirrels, etc.. destroyed the crops. When about seven years of age she began attending school in one of those old historic puncheon-rtoorecrclapboard-roofed school houses of the pioneer days of the middle West. She learned very rapidly, but her school days were brought abruptlv to a close, having attended school less than one year. Her father died when she was young and the family was left in none too favorable circumstances, but by manufacturing almost all their wearing apparel and by hard work they managed to live comfortably. When very young Rachael was put to weaving and doing other like work. She had little opportunity t. , attend social functions and up to the age of seventeen, when she met Mr.

Bridges, she had been absent from home but little. She was a woman of great fortitude, courage, strong-minded, gentle and always deeply concerned regarding the welfare of her children. Her death was triumphant, that of a tn.ie Christian, ''sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust" when the final summons came on January 3, 1881.

David Emaxuel Pavey Reed. M. D.

There is a weight of character, a native sagacity and fidelity of purpose in Dr. David E. P. Reed, of Russellville. which commands the respect of all and he has left his impress for good upon the medical, social and business circles of Putnam county, which he has ever had at heart and whose interests he has ever sought to promote and where he has built up a lucrative and very satisfactory practice. He was born at Fillmore, this county, March 14, 1867, the son of George W. and Mar\^ Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Reed, the latter the daughter of Solomon Shoemaker, of Virginia, the genealog\- of this fine old family tracing back to the "Mayflower,"' to German Scotch-Irish antecedents. George W. Reed was born in Shelby county, Kentucky. He became a member of the Eighth Regiment. Kentucky Volunteers, during the Mexican war and saw active service in Mexico. He lost the use of his eyes in blasting a well in Kentucky about 1850. Although handicapped, he was a man of sterling qualities and nothing could daunt him, consequently he learned the broommaker's trade, at which he worked after coming to Indiana. He reached an advanced age, dying in 1884, having been preceded to the grave bv his wife in 1872, and he is buried at the National Soldiers" Home at Davton. Ohio. He followed his trade at Fillmore, this county, until his wife"s death, spending his last years in the home referred to above in Ohio. Three children were born to them, namely: Margaret Ann, wife of A. R. Stevens, living in Oklahoma : Robert Solomon lives at Mattoon. Illinois ; Dr. David E. P.. of this review.

David E. P. Reed was five years of age at his mother's death, and he spent two years at the county farm, and lived for some time with James H. Hall, of Brick Chapel, growing up with Charles Hall, whose companion he was until he reached the age of twenty, where he got his board, clothing and attended the common schools, Iiaving worked for Mr. Hall from the age of eleven \'ears, receiving about one hundred dollars compensation for his labors. Desiring to become a teacher, he went to the normal school at Dan- vflle for tliree and one-halt terms, then taught in Clinton tovvn.ship. where he rendered very satisfactory service and became well known as a local educator, following teaching for a period of nine years. During the last four years of his career as teacher he read medicine, then entered the medical department of the Kentucky University at Louisville, receiving his degree with the class of 1S97. He returned to his nati\e county and began practice at Portland Mills, where he soon built up a verv' satisfactory patronage. Desiring a larger field for the exercise of his talents, he came to Russellville in 1906. since which time he has been engaged in active general practice with his usual success, his practice extending into Montgomerj- and Parke counties, being kept verv- busy \\nth his numerous patients at all times of the year, and his success has been such that his prestige is constantly growing. He is a member of the State and the American Medical Associations. He keeps well abreast of the time and is a well-read man in everything that pertains to his profession, confining his attention exclusively to his practice.

Doctor Reed was married August 20. 1890. to Lucy J. Newgent. a lady of rare culture, the daughter of \\'illiam W. and Patsy Xewgent. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. She was eighteen years old at the time of her marriage. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children, Robert H., born in 1892, is attending the local high school, and Bessie Louise, born in 1900. is also attending school.

Willard Gough

In looking over tlie list of Putnam county's most representative citizens the name of W'illard Gough should not be left out owing to the fact that he has alwavs been interested in the general progress of the county and has done what he could toward the de\-elopment of the same while carn.-ing on the affairs of his farm. He is a native of Franklin township, this county, where he was born October 6. 1857. the son of John and Eliza fCarpenter) Gough. Philip Gough. his paternal grandfather, was a native of Virginia and a fine old pioneer. The fatlier. John Gough. was a farmer and saw-mill man. and he was killed wlien his son U'illarrl was less than two years old. The mother was married a second time and A\'illard was reared by his step-father on the home fann. which he began working when but a mere lad. He attended the

''Hstrict schools during tlie winter months and received a very serviceable education. He took charge of the farm upon the death of his step-father and successfully managed the same until he was twenty-one years of age.

Willard Gough was married in September, 1878. to Mary Rogers, wdio was born in 1855, the daughter of a highly respected family. Five children were born to this union, namely: Xellie. wife of Cortland C. Gilliam, an attorney at Greencastle. Indiana, is a graduate of the common schools ; Nettie, the wife of A. P. Underwood, lives at Fincastle. this county; Grover is single and is living at Roachdale. this county : John B., who graduated from the common schools, was a teacher, and he married Lulu Pyle; Vernie V. is the wife of Otha Fowler.

The mother of the.se children passed to her rest on October 22. 1900, and Mr. Gough was again married in August, 1907, to Mrs. Laura Rettinger. a native of Monroe township. Putnam county. Indiana, having been born on September 8, 1866, the daughter of John W. and Mary (Everson) Hanks. She was educated in the common schools of Montgomery county. Indiana. Her father was a Kentuckian and her mother was a native of Montgomery county, this state, where they still live. Mrs. Gough was first married to David P. Rettinger.

Mrs. Gough is a member of the Christian church, and both she and Mr. Gough are members of the Eastern Star, the latter also being a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Roachdale Lodge. No. 602. Politically he is a Democrat and he served very acceptably as trustee of Franklin township in 1904 and in January. 1905, he took office and served until January. 1909. During his term of office he did many things that will always be gratefully remembered by his fellow citizens, having somewhat consolidated the township schools and he turned over the township to his successor free from debt.

Philip C. Carpenter, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Gough. came to this state from Virginia and settled in Franklin township. Putnam county, and the town of Carpentersville now- stands on the land he settled. He established a tannery here which was largely patronized, and he remained here until his death. He and his wife were the parents of the following children: Eliza. Alexander. Ephriam. Rufus. Elizabeth. Sarah and Lucy. Mr. Carpenter was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was known as an honest and upright man.

Mr. Gough has a neat and well kept farm of eighty acres in section 16. Franklin township, which he manages in a manner that yields a comfortable income from year to year. He was formerly engaged in the drug business and managed a general store in Carpentersville. and later at Raccoon, this county, continuing in that line for about si.x years, having moved to his present farm in 1889.

Among tlie native-born residents of Putnam county who ha\e reached a well merited success we must certainly include the name of James C. Fordice, well known resi<Ient of Russell township. Honesty and fair dealing have been his watchwords, and these twin virtues have been personified in his active life. He is the son of Joseph B. Fordice, who was born January 23, 1818, in Morgan county, Ohio, and the grandson of William Fordice, born May 11, 1786. in Nova Scotia. He married Ruama Buck. ^larch i, 1806, in Lower Canada, from which country the family moved to Morgan county. Ohio, where they lived for several years. Then Mr. Fordice moved to Putnam county, Indiana, where his children had preceded him, his desire being to spend his declining years with them. His death occurred October 2. 1862. Mrs. Fordice, who was born December 9, 1786, died November 27, 1875. They were the parents of thirteen children. Some of the sons engaged in the manufacture of fanning mills in Ohio and one of them was a manufacturer in Kentucky for five years, or until 1845, when they all came to Putnam county, Indiana, locating at Russellville, where they started a factory, and it was from this source that these sons. Nelson, George. Asa, Joseph and Jesse H.. were enabled to buy their farm land and made their start in life. Their father purchased land in section 7. adding to it from time to time until he finally owned one thousand acres all in one body. February 24. 1842. he married Rebecca Elliott, of Illinois. He devoted his life to fanning and stock raising at which he was very successful. In 1858 he was elected to the Legislature, serving very ably in that body. His death occurred February 17. 1883. He was a useful and influential man in his community. His children, of whom two are living, are as follows : James C. and Elizabeth : those deceased being Annie. John. Jesse H. and William .\. The last named was born December 9, 1842, married Celia Durham and they had two children. Myrtle and Lula. Elizabeth married William .\shby ; she was born August 30, 1852. and she became the mother of the following children living: Jesse. Joseph, Howard and Lela, those deceased being Siggie and Mary. Howard is a graduate of Wabash College and now one of its instructors in the department of mathematics.

Chester is a freshman of the same college. Leia is a teacher in the public schools. Jesse H., now deceased, was born July 14, 1853, and died in 1909. He married Lucy Allen, May 25, 1881, and they became the parents of the following; children : Margaret, Donald, Joseph. Paul and Elizabeth. Jesse H. Fordice was a successful physician and was located in Wichita, Kansas, where his death occurred. His family now resides in the state of Washington ; his son, Donald, graduated from the state college in Washington.

James C. Fordice was reared to manhood on the home farm, received a common school education, and attended Wabash College, after which he became engaged in business and for a year was treasurer of an iron industry in Martin county, Indiana. He was at one time surveyor for the road now known as the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, rendering very efficient ser^-ice and having the good will of his employers.

June 10, 1885, Mr. Fordice married Bertha Allen, daughter of Joseph Allen, of Greencastle, and after a mutually happy married life of thirteen years, she passed to her rest on August 30, 1898. Two children were born to them, Frederick, born March 31, 1886, and Harold, born January 10, 1888; both are graduates of Wabash College and are young men of much promise.

Mr. Fordice lives on the old homestead which his father purchased from Cyrus VanCleve, who entered the land from the government. He erected a one-story brick house, burning the brick himself, the house still standing on the farm. The father built a very modern house on this farm, in which his son now lives. Mr. Fordice makes farming and stock raising his occupation, and he is very successful in each: he is a money maker and one of the best known men in his township, being well read and thoroughly posted on all current events. Representing one of the oldest and largest families of the county, he has ever striven to conduct himself in a manner that would perpetuate the early record of the family for right living and right thinking. Politically he is a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church.

Aaron A. Graham

Living in honorable retirement in Russellville is Aaron A. Graham, one of Putnam county's highly respected and substantial citizens whose former life of activitv resulted to much good to his fellow men as well as to himself and immediate family. He was born in Jackson county, Indiana. May 22. 1844. son of James C. and Hilary A. fReynolds) Graham, the former a native of

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Xorth Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. In a ver>- early day they came to Indiana, later moving to Iowa. About 1854 they returned to the Hoosier state, locating at Portland Mills, Putnam county, where Mr. Graham operated a daily mail route from Waveland to Greencastle through Portland ilills. They later lived in Brown township, Montgomery county, where Mrs. Graham died at the age of seventy-seven years; he spent his last years in Iowa with his children, dving there when about eighty years of age. They were the parents of but two sons, George F. and Aaron; however, James C. Graham had been previouslv married and had children by his first wife.

When only seventeen years of age Aaron Graham gave vent to the patriotism he felt and enlisted in Company K, Si.xty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, from Jackson county, in August, 1862, and he served very faithfullv through all the vicissitudes of his regiment, receiving an honorable discharge Mav 16, 1865. He fought at Munfordville, Kentucky, Port Gibson, Black Ri'ver, Champion Hills, and at Vicksburg, being wounded in the general assault at the latter place May 22, 1863, a bullet passing through his left hand. He was sent to Graysville and as soon as he was able he was appointed ward master in the hospital there, which position he occupied for nine months, when he was ordered to Cincinnati as clerk under General Willick, commander of the depot there, and there he remained until discharged.

After returning home Mr. Graham began trading in and shipping stock at Russellville, his brother George becoming his partner. In 1867 they began buving land in Brown township, Montgomery county, one and one-halt miles from Russellville Station, starting out with eighty acres. They made monev rapidlv farming and shipping from Russellville and \^-aveland, keepin- well posted in the dailv markets, being constantly buying or in the market, shippin- two hundred cars of livestnck m .me year. Mr. Graham was also accustomed to buving horses in large numbers, which he kept on his larm until readv for market. He prospered by his judicious handhng of livestock and general farming and he became the owner of five hundred and sixty acres of good land ; he owned four hundred acres in Montgomery county and one hundred and si.xtv acres in Parke county, paying as high as fifty-five dollars per acre for improved land; it consisted of the best black land, covered with walnut and sugar trees, but he always made farming secondary to his livestock interests. However, he was known as a large wheat raiser and has sold as high as twenty-nine hundred dollars worth at one shipping. He disposed of his stock interests ten years ago and six years ago he came to Russellville to make his home. He has bought and sold considerable town property. He has a beautiful modern home, elegantlv furnished and here the many friends of the family delight to gather. He also has modern and substantial buildings on his farms. His brother, George F.. continued in the stock business all the while and still owns his fine farm in Montgomery county.

Politically Mr. Graham is a Republican, but he has never had an inclination to hold public office, being content to look after his individual affairs and leave public matters to others : however, he has always been deeply interested in the general welfare of his county. He is a liberal supporter of the local Methodist church.

Mr. Graham married Miranda Jones, of Montgomery county, . when twenty-two years old. She died ten years later. Two children were born of this union, Ida, who married Abe Grimes, of Russellville, and George F., who was but six days old when his mother died. Mr. Graham's second marriage was with Ardellie Hart, of Putnam county, who, after twenty-eight vears of mutuallv happy married life, died in December, 1901. The following children graced this second union : Zona married Fred H. Goodwin, who is in business at Russellville ; J. Blaine is associated with his father in the farming business: Everett L., now eleven years old, is attending school.

Personallv Mr. Graham is a man whom it is a pleasure to know, being generous hearted, kind, hospitable, honest in all his dealings with his fellow mer. and eminently worthy of the trust and respect they repose in him and have for him, and he is today regarded as one of the county's most representative and valued citizens.

Abel Bexton Donehew

One of Putnam county's highly honored native sons who have greatly profited by their persistent industry along legitimate lines in their own native localitv and thereby find themselves in comfortable circumstances in their declining- years is .\bel Benton Donehew, farmer and stock raiser of Russell township. He was born July 2, 1845, ^^'^^ son of Martin Donehew, bom February 24, iSio, in West Virginia. On his birthday, February 24, 1834, he married Cynthia Dyre, who was born in Union county, Tennessee, May 12, 1812. Abel B. Donehew's grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died in the service. The Donehew family came to this county about the year 1835, Martin Donehew being the first of the same, and he lived with Jesse Blake, then a bachelor and the owner of a farm here. Here Mr. and Mrs. Donehew made their home for several years. Two years before he brought his family liere he matle the trip on foot from Virginia and entered eighty acres of land in Frankhn township and worked for fifty cents a day on the National road in order to get money to pay for his land. When winter stopped the work on the same he walked back to his Virginia home and returned in the same manner the following spring, bringing his family. He made a success of farming and later bought land adjoining that which he first entered, and in 1856 built a good frame house in which he lived until his death. August 24, 1877. He was a jovial, kind-hearted man and had many friends.

Abel B. Donehew spent his boyhood days on the home farm and received a common school education. He was married on January 31, 1867, to Catherine Allen Eads, daughter of James W. and Elizabeth Eads. of Montgomery countv. Indiana. t.> whom these children were born. -Mary ^l., Xancy J., Elizabeth L.. Sidney Ann, Catherine A., James, William, Lucy H., Harriett A., Joseph M.. John H., Sarah A. and Stephen D. The parents of these children are buried in Indian Creek cemetery. They were members of the Methodist church.

Mr. and Mrs. Donehew began housekeeping on a farm in Montgomery county which they bought in 1868. After a few years they sold their farm and moved to Kansas, where they remained eight years, then moved to ^^lissouri, returning to Putnam county three years later and have since then resided here continuously. Mr. Donehew and his son, Joseph T., who remains wdth his father, are among the most enterprising farmers in their township, leasing one of the model fanns of the county, consisting of four hundred acres, under a high state of improvement and well cultivated, producing abundant harvests of all kinds from year to year under their able management. This place belongs to James V. Durham. The elder Donehew is a very pleasant and sociable man and much devoted to his family. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he and his wife are members of the Christian church. Eight children have been born to them, named as follows : Sarah E., born January i, 1869, married Charles A. Morton and they have eight children. Jay B., DeHa A.. Kitty L., Rollie E., xXettie M., James T., Monna M. and Oliver P. Argalis. born April 21, 1870, died April 17, 18S2; Joseph T., born February 18. 1872, received a common school education and is interested with his father on the farm. He is an active member of the Modern Woodmen and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Cordelia A., born February 4, 1S76, is clerking for the Brumfield dry goods store at Russellville ; she received a common school education, and has remained single. Cynthia A.,' born July 23, 1878, died September 14, 1879; EHen M.. torn

August 23, 1880, married Mr. Brumfield, a merchant at Russellville; Jessie A., born October 22, 1887, received her education in the public schools, is single, much devoted to her parents and is an estimable young lady. Stella I., born April 24, 1889, married Dwight Evans, and they are the parents of one child, Helen J.

A venerable and highly honored citizen of Putnam county, of which he is a native, is John W. Gardner, Jr., who is a living link between the early days and the progressive present, having lived to see wondrous changes locally since his boyhood days and played a conspicuous part in the same, thereby meriting the high esteem in which he is held by all who know him. Especially is he honored in Russellville and vicinity, where he resides and where he has long been regarded as a leading citizen. He was born in Russell township, two and one-half miles south of Russellville, October 10, 1833, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Bierly) Gardner, both natives of North Carolina, where they grew to maturity and married and where two of their children were born, three having been born after they came to Indiana. Two of the children were older than John \V., of this review, so it is supposed that the family came to the Hoosier state in 1827, entered land here and began a clearing in the woods where the father remained all his life, dying about 1850, when fifty-two years of age, the mother dying al)out 1848 or 1849. Her son, John W., has but a faint recollection of her. Mr. Gardner's second wife was Nancy Everman, of Indiana. He and his first wife were the parents of eight children. Five children were born to Mr. Gardner and Nancy Everman. All reached maturity but one, and of the familv of eight one other besides John W. of this review is living, Barbara Ann. the wife of Dr. John Knight, who died in Greencastle; she is living in New York and had three sons. Alex. Frederick and William. Alex went to Iowa and died in Kansas, where his last days were spent. Frederick spent his life in Russell township on a farm, dying here some time ago. Several members of this family reside in Crawfordsville. Florence is the wife of William Lenard, of Russell township. William lived in Russell township and died in Russellville at the age of seventy-two years, owning a good farm: his sons were, Edward. Clarence, Fred. Otto and Warren, living in Russellville: one daughter, Jennie, is the wife of Wall Proctor, of Russellville. and Pearl is the wife of Paul Goff, of Russell township. Bart Gardner, son of Andrew and Xancy Gardner, died in California: George, their other son, lives on a farm near Russellvilie; a daughter, ^[ary. is tlie wife of Mr. Sanders, of Cloverdale.

John W. Garchier. of this re\iew. remained (5n the home place two years after his father died. He recei\ed a meager education in the primitive schools of his day and early in life turned his attention to farming. Before he uas twenty years of age he married Lucinda Forgey, daughter of James and Jane ( VanScoik) Forgey. who li\etl in Russell township, in which Mrs. Gardner was born, being eighteen years old at her marriage; each received some aid from their famihes, enough to pay one-half on eighty acres of land, on which they built a log cabin. Here Mr. Gardner followed farming very successfully until he moved to Russellvilie, in October, 1904. having sold part of his property in the country. He had paid forty dollars per acre for land which he sold at one hundred dollars per acre. He had added to his original purchase and had well improved it. He bought a tract of two hundred and twelve acres on Ramp creek, for which he paid the sum of eight thousand dollars. He bought a modern and very desirable residence in Russellvilie for three thousand dollars. He rents his farm for cash. He was one of the first men in this county to begin breeding Shorthorn cattle, and frequently exhibited his fine cattle at local fairs. He kept some fine milk cows, and also raised many fine horses which we're greatly admired, having sold single drivers as high as six hundred dollars; he was fond of good horses and driving and no better judge of horses could be found in Putnam county. He drove one animal to Indianapolis, a distance of fifty miles, in six hours, and he could have made fifteen miles per hour.

Mr. Gardner is no politician, never seeking office; however, he loyally supports the Republican ticket. He was one of the first men in the county to sell land for one hundred dollars per acre, the same land now being worth from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five dollars per acre.

^Ir. and Mrs. Gardner became the parents of the following children: George is a farmer near Russellvilie; William is a druggist in Russellvilie; James Milton is a mechanic in the employ of the electric light plant at Russellvilie; Charles Edgar, who operated an elevator at Ladoga, died when about twenty-five years of age; Edmond Andrew is a farmer in Clinton county. Indiana ; Anna. ^laggie and Burl are all living at home, the last named being a Putnam county teacher. (47)

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have been members of the Methodist church since before their marriage. They are a fine old couple and have hosts of warm personal friends throughout the county, being highly honored by all.

Otto L. Reddish

Amono- the most progressive farmers and stock men of the younger o-eneration in Putnam county who are leading such lives as to warrant a future replete with large success and honors worthily bestowed is Otto L. Reddish, of Russell township, near Waveland. He was born February 17, 1883, in Parke county, Indiana, the son of Clay W. and Eva (Sutton) Reddish, the former the son of John C. and Mary Jane (Watson) Reddish, who came to Parke county among the early settlers and entered land which they developed: later in life Mr. Reddish engaged in the mercantile business. His son, Clav W., received a common school education and worked on the farm when a boy. March 31. 1880, he married and began farming on the home place, which he later bought. However, he in time abandoned farming and. following in the footsteps of his father, entered the mercantile profession, at Marshall. He devofed considerable attention to livestock, becoming an extensive buyer and shipper, and he was very successful at whatever he undertook. He belonged to the Missionary Baptist church and was a Republican in politics. He was regarded by all as a good and useful man. He and his wife were the parents of the following children : John, Myrtle, Warren. Cyril, Rubv and Otto L. of this review, Omer, the oldest of the children, died in childhood. The subject's paternal grandparents were Justice and Lucinda Sutton, both natives of Indiana and both now deceased. Otto L. Reddish o-rew to manhood on the home farm. After finishing the common schools he attended the Bloomingdale Academy and later to9k a business course at Indianapolis, thus becoming well equipped for life's varied duties. On June 29, 1904, he married Blanche Oglesby, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth E. 0<Tlesby, and they went to housekeeping on the farm where they have continued to make their home, located in the northeast comer of Russell township. He owns a very valuable farm of four hundred and thirteen acres, all in one body, for which he paid the sum of one hundred dollars per acre. It is reo-arded as one of the choice farms of the county and is greatly admired by all. beino- not only fortunately located, but it is well improved and under a high state of cultivation. He keeps large numbers of excellent livestock on the place, and has a moilern. commodious and attractive duelling and substantial outbuildings. He is regarded as an up-to-date farmer and stock raiser.

Reese Davis, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Reddish, was a noted minister of the Baptist church, who settled in ^lontgomerv- count\- in an early day where he did a great deal of good. Her grandfather, William J. Davis, was a very successful business man. having begun at Waveland, Montgomerv' county, later engaged in business in Indianapolis and New York city and other points, having made a small fortune twice and losing it each time; he finally went to Florida where he went into the real estate and banking business, and at his death he was worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mrs. Reddish's father was a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. The father has followed farming, and resides on a farm one mile east of Waveland. The mother died Januan,- 31, 1909. at the age of forty-six. They were the parents of two children, William H. and yhs. Reddish. William H. lives at Waveland, and is a man of considerable means, devoting his time to looking after his varied farming interests. He married Myrtle Reddish, a sister of Otto L. Reddish of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Reddish own property in Waveland. which cost ten thousand dollars to build. Mr. Reddish is regarded as one of the leading young business men of this section of the county. They are the parents of two children. Ronald L.. born Detrember 25. 1905, and Herman C. born December 22. 1907.

'Sh. Reddish is a member of Masons. Knights of Pythias. Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen. Politically, he is a Republican.

One of the highly respected citizens of Russellville. Putnam county, is William Wallace Newgent. who is living retired. He was bom November 4, 1845, in the old Newgent home, built here in 1830, now occupied by his brother Edward, in Clinton township. A sketch of the latter appears elsewhere in this volume. Nearly all of William W. Newgent's life was passed on the old place, part of which he owns, twenty-five acres. About 1901 he left the old place after his wife's death. He has been a carpenter and contractor all his life and has been fairly successful in this line of endeavor. September i. 1867, he married Patsy Slavens, daughter of Hiram and Nancy (Allen) Slavens, who was born in Clinton township in 1847. Her death occurred on June 14, 1900. Four children were born to this union, named as follows: Livonia Belle married L. L. Mitchell of Oklahoma: Ida Eldora mar- ried 'Slort F. Spencer, of Parke county : Lucy Jane married Dr. David E. P. Reed, of Russellville, a full sketch of whom appears in this work; Sarah Elizabeth married George Burke, of Clinton township.

William \V. Xewgent worked on the home place in his boyhood days, and attended the district schools during the brief winter months. He learned the carpenter's trade and became a verv- efficient workman, having assisted in the erection of many of the substantial buildings in this vicinity. He has retired from life's active duties and is making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Doctor Reed, in Russellville. He very acceptably served his township for a period of four years as assessor. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for a period of forty-five years, and he has lived up to the high ideals taught by this praiseworthy order.

The progenitors of the subject of this sketch, being of English-Scotch- Irish blood, were among the settlers of Loudoun county, Virginia, in the early vears of the eighteenth century. From this point of settlement in the Xew World the different members of the family reached out into various quarters of the west, then as wild as it was alluring. One branch of the family removed to Mount Sterling, }kIontgomery county, Kentucky, and there, on the jth day of Febraary. 1796. James L X'elson, the Putnam county pioneer, was born. In 1819 he married Mary, daughter of Col. Joshua Yates, of Mt. Sterling. Kentucky. In 1821 he made an observational survey on horseback of central Indiana, entered a tract of land about ten miles north of Greencastle. and there, in the primeval forest, erected a log house. In 1829 he put his worldly goods and his little family into a couple of covered wagons, and started for the new home in the green woods. His eldest son, Franklin P. Xelson, the father of the subject, was then a lad of eight years and it fell to his lot. in this homing pilgrimage, to follow behind and drive the cows. James I. Xelson was a typical pioneer, a man of education, strong character and stovit heart. Being a pronounced abolitionist, he gratuitously, and purelv from considerations of conscience, liberated his slaves before leaving Kentuckv. He was a profoundly religious man and. though somewhat of Puritan mold and temper, he was never an intolerant churchman. All his transactions were characterized by simplicity and hard sense. He was one of a few men, of like type and character, who were pioneer settlers in Putnam county. Happy indeed is the lot of any county whose resources are developed and whose early life is stimulated and attunetl by such a noble citizenry! The new home in the w(iods was developed, and the farm cultivated, after the manner then prex'ailing. There fourteen children were reared to maturity ; there the mother died in 1850: there, by the application of indefatigable industn.' and rare judgment, the family belongings increased from fifteen hundred dollars, the amount carried up from Kentucky in 1829, to ninety-eight thousand dollars at the death of the pioneer in 1859.

Franklin P. Xelson, at the age of twenty, married Catherine Ann, daughter of Capt. Isaac Bell, who had recently moved his family into the county from Kentucky. The young couple struggled up through all the hardships incident to poverty in a new country, making their own furniture, clothing and shoes. This initial industr}- and self denial, however, in time brought its reward, for the twain prospered, and Mr. Xelson became identified with the leading agricultural, industrial, financial, educational and moral movements of the county. His holdings of land amounted to three thousand acres: he was an incorporator and director in both the First Xational Bank of Greencastle and the Greencastle Iron and X'ail Works : he was the largest contributor to the erection and maintenance of College A\enue Methodist Episcopal church in Greencastle; he was. at Mr. DePauw's special request, tmstee of the guarantee endowment fund of the uni\ersity, and was the largest local contributor to the fund necessary to secure the endowment from Mr. Depauw. In 1868 his wife died ^vithout issue. In 1870 he married Eliza Jean Brannan, of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. To this union were born two children, the subject of this sketch, on February 8. 1871, and Eliza Jean, now the wife of Judge William \\'. Penfield. of Xew York City, on Xovember 4. 1872. Mr. X'el.son lived to see his two children grown to maturity and nn Xovember 5, 1896, his long and useful life came to its close. His widow, nt:)w in her seventieth year, has for two years past been traveling in foreign countries. She is in good health, is intensely interested in all world movements, especially those of a social and piilitical nature, and, at this writing, is in .\le.\andria. Egypt.

James B. X''elson received his education in the public schools and De- Pauw University at Greencastle, and in the University of Michigan, at .\nn .\rbor. graduating from the latter institution with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1893. ^^ ^^^^ 'I niember oi the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.

Since graduation Mr. Nelson has been engaged successfully in various lines of business, being connected officially with several important financial and industrial concerns in Indiana and Iowa. His principal business, however, is the management of his land and livestock interests, his farm holdings in Putnam, Parke and Owen counties now aggregating over twenty-three hundred acres, besides which, he has large speculative holdings in Texas and Minnesota.

In religion and politics Mr. Nelson is exceedingly liberal. He takes an active interest in all political matters but never as a contestant for place. His activities are enlisted more for the appealing men and measures than for strictly partisan weal.

In 1894 Mr. Nelson married Grace, daughter of Grafton and Julia Noble Johnson, of Greenwood, Indiana. Mrs. Nelson is from a long and worthy line of ancestry, traced through the printed genealogy back as far as the early years of the sixteenth century, the recent generations of which have been prominently identified with the history of Indiana. She is a niece of the late United States Senator James Noble; of the late Governor Noah Noble, and also of the late Gen. Samuel Canby, the noted Indian fighter who figured so conspicuously in the early history of the state. ^Ir. and Mrs. Nelson have one child, Julia Jean, who was born April 8, 1S95.

Mr. Nelson's sister is now deeply engrossed in social and civic work in New York, and is well known throughout New York city and state, not only as a speaker on civic problems and the equal franchise, but also as an organizer among women for industrial and social uplift.

Oscar Lee Reeves

No business man in Greencastle is regarded with higher favor than Oscar Lee Reeves, superintendent of the water works, who, while looking to his own interests, does not neglect to discharge his duties in fostering the upbuilding of the community in general, and while yet a young man he has proven that success comes to the persistent and the deserving.

Mr. Reeves was born June 8, 1878, on a farm seven miles northeast of Greencastle. His parents were William A. and ^^lartha E. (^IcClary) Reeves. The father was born in Monroe township. Putnam county, in 1834 and he lived in this county all his life. He devoted his attention to farming and was a quiet, honest, home-loving man whom evervbody respected. He served in the Union army during the Civil war for about eight months, in Company

The parental grandfather of Oscar L. Reeves was Stacy Reeves, a native of Kentucky, where he spent his youth and from which state he came to Putnam county. Indiana, at an early date, and spent the remainder of his life here: he was one of the county's hardy pioneers, and thus the Reeves family has been a well known one in this county for several generations.

The subject's mother was born in Kentucky, from which state she came to Putnam county. Indiana, with her parents. James and Sally Ann McClary, w hen a young girl, her family locating on what is known as the old McClary homestead in Monroe township, about seven and one-lialf miles northeast of Greencastle. Her mother is living with her daughter at Bainbridge. this county.

To Mr. and ]klrs. William A. Reeves six chiklren were born, named as follows ; Orlando is an express messenger on the Monon railroad and lives at Xew Albany. Indiana; Cordelia is the wife of C. K. Priest and is living six miles north of Greencastle: Sallie Ann died June 3. 1891 ; Homer E. is assistant superintendent of the Central Union Telephone Company at Indianapolis: Margaret T. is the wife of E. M. Hinkle. of Bainbridge, Indiana; Oscar Lee. of this review.

Mr. Reeves spent his youth on the home farm, where he was early assigned work in the fields, attending the neighboring schools in the winter time, remaining by the paternal fireside until 1900. He turned his attention to the mercantile life wiien a boy and from 1900 to 1904 was in the employ of the Cooper Brothers, in their hardware store. He then engaged in the plumbing business for himself, maintaining a very successful establishment in Greencastle until April. 1909. when he became superintendent of the Greencastle \Vater Works Company, which position he now holds and to which he is faithfully and satisfactorily devoting his exclusive attention, giving the utmost satisfaction in every respect to all concerned.

Mr. Ree\'es was married on November 14, 1900, to Clara Lee Hillis, daughter of James ]M. and Martha L. Hillis. a well known family of ^Monroe township, this county, where Mrs. Reeves" birth occurred on July 27, 1880. This union has resulted in the birth of two children. Byron H., born ^lav 15, 1903. and Gilbert ]\I., born October 5. 1906.

Mr. and Mrs. Reeves are members of the College Avenue ^lethodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Reeves is a member of the Benevolent and Protctive Order of Elks and he votes the Republican ticket.

One of the enterprising agriculturists and substantial citizens of Russell township who has long taken an abiding interest in the welfare of Putnam county in which the McGaugheys have long been represented and borne an honored name, is Frank McGaughey, who was born December 27, 1866, in this countv, the son of John and Elizabeth (Gibson) McGaughey. the father born April 12. 1839. and the mother on March 28, 1842. Frank's grandfather \yas James McGaughey. one of nine children, who, with their parents, William and Prepare (Clark) McGaughey. came from the same county in Kentucky in 1813. locating in Putnam county. Their children were, William., John. Samuel. James. Andrew. Michael. Frances, Patsey and Polly. James McGaughey, the grandfather, married Sarah Clodfelter and four children were born to this union; John. Eliza Ann. William Franklin and James Andrew. He purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in . section 22, Russell tOAvnship, on which stood a log house. He was a good farmer, and his death occurred in 1846, and in 1852 his widow married Jesse Spencer, and she died in 1859. John McGaughey. father of Frank, ofthis review, received a common school education and grew up on the home farm. He married Elizabeth Gibson, daughter of Andrew and Jane (Rambo) Gibson. He located on his father's farm where he remained and built the nice home where his widow still lives. His death occurred February 3. 1897, at the age of fiftv-seven years, nine months, and twenty-one days.

Frank McGaughey remained on the home farm and received a common school education. December 31. 1891. he married Lora Carrington. daughter of John P. Carrington. of this county, Mrs. McGaughey's parents representing two old pioneer families of Putnam county. Mr. Carrington was a farmer and he and his wife members of the Christian church. Three children were born to them, Manfred A.. Archie E. and Lora H.

Mr. and ]\Irs. McGaughey began their married life on a farm of sixty acres in section' 26, which they purchased and on which they lived until 1905, when they sold and bought one hundred and thirty acres in section 9, for which they paid one hundred dollars per acre. It was owned by John Gardner and has always been regarded as one of the best farms of its size in the countv, and since Mr. ^McGaughey became its owner its value has increased from twenty-five to fifty per cent. Altogether Mr. McGaughey owns four hundred and eighty acres and he is very successful as a farmer and stock raiser and considered one of the model and most progressive farmers of the countv. He always keeps some good stock, for which he receives the best prices owing to their excellent quality. Xo better judge of livestock is to be found in this community than he and it is a pleasure to look over his broad and well-kept acres, which yields him abundant returns for his labor from vear t.^ vear. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian church. Politically Mr. McGaughey is a Democrat and while he is deephinterested in the best things for his county, always assisting in placing the best qualified men in local offices, he is no office seeker, preferring to devote his time exclusively to his large individual afifairs.

To Mr. and Mrs. McGaughey three interesting children have been born: Rafe Ellis. June 19. 1893: Reta Myrtle, September 3, 1896; Letha INIay. ;\Iarch j8, 1904.

Personallv McGaughey is a man in whom everybody places the utmost confidence, for his relations with his fellow men have always been most cordial and fair and his home is a place of genial hospitality to the many friends of the familv.

Rufus E. Ozmext

Among the enterprising men who have taken an active part in promoting the material growth of Putnam county, Rufus E. Ozment. of Washington township, occupies a conspicuous place. Ever since reaching the age of manhood he has contributed to the prosperity of the country, earning by legitimate effort honorable position and wide influence and using l)oth for the advancement of the community along legitimate lines. Rufus E. Ozment. farmer, stock raiser and contractor, was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, November 17. 1863. being a son of Nathan and Elizabeth Ozment, the father a native of the old North state, the mother of Virginia. Howard Ozment, the subject's grandfather, was a Virginian, but in young manhood went to Guilford county. North Carolina, where he married Betsey Lister, whose antecedents were among the old families of that part of the state. Nathan, whose birth occurred in 1817, was a farmer and wagonmaker and a man of standing in the community where he resided. He sen-ed in the Confederate army, until released by paying the bounty required, but later was drafted and continued with the army until the close of the war, his duty a part (^f the time being the butchering of cattle and hogs for the troops. He married, in his native county. Elizabeth Martin, who was born September 22, 1829, among the Blue Ridge mountains of \'irginia. He had a family of ten chil.lren and departed this life near the place of his birth in 1883,

Rnfus E. Ozment remained with his parents until attaining his majority, spending the intervening years on the home farm, which he helped cultivate, but devoting the greater part of the time to the trade of wagonmaking, which his father followed and at which he early became a proficient workman. In 1882 he came to Putnam county to visit certain relatives that had settled here some years before and. being pleased with the country and its opportunities, decided not to return to his North Carolina home. Being a skillful mechanic, he soon had all the carpentry work he could do and during the six or seven years ensuing his reputation as a builder became widely known throughout the county, his partner the meanwhile being J. C. Plummer, who is now his nearest neighbor.

On October 11, 1885, Mr. Ozment was joined in the holy bonds of wedlock with Julia Rissler, whose parents, Jasper and Harriet Rissler, were members of old and highly esteemed families of Putnam county. Jasper Rissler was born in Harrison county, Indiana. June 15, 183 1, and after becoming a resident of Putnam county located on a farm in Washington township near the Clay county line, where his death occurred in the month of August, 1898; his wife, whose birth occurred on January 22, 1832, is still living, making her home at this time with her daughter, ^vlrs. Ozment.

For three years after his marriage :Mr. Ozment operated his father-inlaw's farm and at the expiration of that period moved to Clay county where he spent about the same length of time as a mechanic and tiller of the soil. In November, 1892, he moved to his present place of residence, formerly a part of the Simpson Harris farm, which he now owns, in addition to which he also owns the old Rissler homestead, about one and a half miles distant. In connection with agriculture he is engaged in carpentry, which he carries on quite extensively, being one of the largest contractors in the township, in addition to which he also does a large and successful business in constructing cement bridges, culverts, basements, etc. As a carpenter he has erected many farm and town residences in various parts of Putnam county and elsewhere, also a number of large barns and not a few public buildings, his reputation as a successful contractor being second to that of no other in this part of Indiana. For a number of years he has been associated at intervals with Mr. Plummer, and many of the largest and finest buildings in Putnam county stand as monuments to the efiiciency and skill of these two spirited and widely known mechanics.

In contracting for the erection of any kind of an edifice Mr. Ozment stipulates that it shall be turned over to the owner complete in all its parts.

and his business has grown to sucli magnitude that lie now employs from four to eight men in order to meet the demands on his time and skill. He is indeed a busy man and, judged by his labors, none have done more to advance the material interests of his section of country and as a citizen no one stands higher in the esteem and confidence of the people. He gives his support to the Democratic party, takes an active part in furthering all enterprises for the general welfare and his influence, which has always been potent and widespread, is exerted in behalf of what promises to be for the greatest good of the greatest number. He holds membership with the Masonic fraternity at Knightsville and belongs to the Royal Arch chapter at Greencastle. in addition to which he is also an active worker in the Odd Fellows lodge at Harmony and a trusted official in the several organizations with which identified.

Some years ago Mr. Ozment built the beautiful and commodious residence which his family occupies and has taken great pains to make it as nearly as possible an ideal home. The building is a model of architectural beauty and with its modern conveniences and attractive surroundings impress the beholder as the dwelhng of an intelligent, public-spirited American who ' elieves in the dignity of his calling and takes pride in the community in which he lives.

Mrs. Ozment. whose birth occurred in Washington township on the i6th day of January, 1867. has borne her hsuband ten children, viz: Jessie Lee, who married C. Huffman and lives in Putnam county. Alfred Roy, a carpenter by trade and his father"s partner, married Goldie 2vIcCormack and resides near the home farm. Lillie Mac. Harriet Elizabeth, Ruthie ^lildred. Bertha Evalyn. Man." Susan. Josephine. Lola Violet and Eugene Rissler being still members of the home circle, excepting Josephine, who died at the age of three months.