Putnam County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 4 of 16)

The Hubbard family has been one of the most progressive and popular in Cloverdale township since the early history of the same and Putnam county has known no better citizen. One of the best known members of this family of the present generation is Jesse Lee Hubbard, who was born in this township Januarv 7. 1862. the son of William and Catherine (Beard) Hubbard. William Hubbard was a native of Garrard county, Kentucky, born there October 17, 1816, and he accompanied his parents to Putnam county, Indiana, in 183 1. He was the son of Wright and Lydia (W'alder) Hubbard. Wright Hubbard and wife settled in the northeast part of Cloverdale township and lived there the rest of their lives.

William Hubbard grew up on a farm in Cloverdale township and on I^Iay 2, 1S37, he married Mahala Peck, who died leaving five children, two of them still surviving, Jacob P.. now in the state of Washington, and Lydia, wife of Hiram Moser, of Jefferson township. After the death of his first wife, William Hubbard married Catherine Beard. June 2. 1853. She was born in Ohio May i, 1832, the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth ( Doup) Beard. Her parents were from Germany and the voyage across the Atlantic required si.x months, during which time two of their children died and were buried at sea. The Hubbards came to Putnam county, Indiana, and entered land from the government in section 33, Jefferson township, in 1847; they also traded for other land.

William Hubbard remained in Cloverdale township, in the east part of which he entered land, section t,S- F'^'^ children were born to his last union, three of whom are now living, namely: Hester A. Moore, of Westfield, Illinois; Jesse Lee, of this review, Hannah Horn lives in the east part of Cloverdale township on the old homestead.

W'illiam Hubbard remained on his farm until in October, 1888, when he moved to Cloverdale and lived until his death, April 24, 1889, his widow sur^aving until in May, 1906. They were highly respected people and had hosts of friends throughout this locality.

Jesse L. Hubbard grew up on the home place in Cloverdale township and there assisted with the general work about the place until his marriage. October 2, 1888, to Rosa E. Horn, the daughter of Jesse Thomas and Xancy Elizabeth (Cox) Horn. She was born in Cloverdale township. Her father was a native of Wayne county. North Carolina. He came to this county with his parents, John and Celia (Bogue) Horn. John was the son of Thomas and Phoebe Horn, the father dying in North Carolina and his wife, Phoebe, came to Putnam county, Indiana, in an early day and located in sections 35 and 36, Cloverdale township, where they entered government land. Jesse Thomas Horn lived most of his life in Putnam county and awhile in Owen county. He is mentioned at greater length on another page of this

Xancv Elizabeth Cox was born in the southeast part of Jefferson township, this county, the daughter of William Morris and Hannah Pemberton (Powers) Cox. Her father was from Virginia and came here in an early day and entered land in Jefferson township. He and his wife came all the way from the Old Dominion on horseljack, Mrs. Cox carrying a baby in her arms. They located in the forest, for the land here was new and had to be cleared. They erected a two-room log ca1)in and began life in true first-settled fashion.

The country was overrun with all kinds of wild game, and once during a storm a herd of wild deer came up to their door. They entered their land near a spring, the ground being high enough to be free from standing water.

After their marriage Jesse L. Hubbard and wife lived three years on the old Hubbard homestead. He already owned some land in section 28. Jefferson township, and built a house there after his marriage and moved into it. He has been very successful and has since added more land, now owning a fine farm of two hundred and eleven acres in Cloverdale township, thirty-seven acres lying in Jefferson township, all joining in one piece, nearly all under cultix'ation and well improved. He carries on general farming and stock raising in a manner that stamps him as being abreast of the times. In 1892 he built a four-room house and in 1908 remodeled it, adding other rooms, so that it is practically a new house, is unusually well constructed and attracti\-e from an architectural viewpoint. It is well suited in even- wav for a good comfortable home, having many of the very latest conveniences, such as a furnace, etc. It cost four thousand dollars, is tastily furnished and about it is always an air of hospitality and cheerfulness.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard seven children have been born, namely: Anna Gladys is a graduate of the Cloverdale high school; William Thomas is living on a fami at Hooper, Washington, in the southeast part of the state; Robert Lee is attending high school; Hester Florence; Omer Worth. Theodore Von and Royal Glenn.

Mr. Hubbard in 1909 made an extensive tour of the West, visiting the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific E.xposition at Seattle, Washington. Politically he was first a Democrat, but is now an ardent Prohibitionist and aids in the cause whenever possible. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and he and Mrs. Hubbard belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. They are regarded by their neighbors as being kind, good hearted and generous, and their friends are numbered by the scores.

John Samuel Michael

Amono- the citizens of Floyd township. Putnam county, Indiana, who have built up a comfortable home and surrounded themselves wdth a fair amount of landed and personal property, few have attained a higher degree of success than the subject of this review. With few opportunities except what his own efforts were capable of mastering and with some obstacles to over- come, he lias made a success of lite, and in his declining years has the gratification of knowing that the community in which he has resided has been benefited by his residence therein.

John S. Michael was born March 17, 1841. in Greencastle township, this county, and is the son of Jacob and Maria (Hulett) Michael. The former was a native of \'irginia and the son of a German emigrant, he himself not being able to read the English language. He had three brothers. Benjamin. Jacob and G. H. He was a Democrat in politics and a man of stanch integrity of character, who enjoyed the resi)ect of all who knew him. He came to Putnam county. Indiana, in 1833, being numbered among the early and active pioneers of this section of the state.

John S. ]\Iichael was reared under the parental roof and received his education in the common schools, the school which he attended being located about two and one-half miles from his home. Hk was reared to the life of a farmer and has devoted the greater part of his life to that occupation. He is now the owner of one hundred and eighteen acres of splendid and fertile land, on which he raises all the crops common to this section of the countrv, and he also gives considerable attention to the raising of livestock, giving special attention to the breeding of Aberdeen Angus cattle, in the handling of Avhich he has been very successful. Besides farming, Mr. Michael is an expert stonemason, and has done considerable work in that line, having constructed several culverts in this county. He is accomplished in several lines of work, being in some respects a jack-of-all-trades. He has lived in his present residence for forty years and has maintained the property, at a high standard of excellence, it being improved with a good residence and substantial barns and outbuildings.

On June 2, 1861, Mr. Michael was united in marriage with Marv E. Wilson, a daughter of William and Mary E. (Wilson) Wilson, and to them have been born the following children: John H.. who married Elizabeth Summers: Ida is the wife of James Snowden, of Indianapolis, this state: Jacob, a son, married Mildred Wilson, but he died leaving a son and a daughter : Ammi ; Sophia A. was the widow of G. Fitzimmons and later married Shelby Blades, living near Roachdale : Ora married Ida Brown and is living in Hendricks county, this state ; Maude, deceased ; Ernest, who lives in this county, married Xorah Oliver: Orville married Erie Montgomery.

In politics Mr. Michael is a staunch Democrat and takes an intelligent interest in local public affairs. He is a man of positive convictions and takes a firm stand on the temperance question, exerting his influence in the direction of the abolition of saloons. A remarkable fact in connection with Mr.

Michael's genealogical record is that his paternal grandfather had twentythree children, of which number twenty-two were boys. The subject is a man of commendable personal qualities and enjoys the regard and contidence of all who know him, his acquaintance in the county being extensive.

John A. Baumunk

This enterprising farmer and stock raiser hails' from Owen county. Indiana, where he was born on the 8th day of August, i860, being a son of iMichael and Christina Baumunk, both natives of Germany. Michael Baumunk was brought to America when eight years old and grew to maturity in Pennsylvania, marrying in that state when a young man, Mrs. Christina (Haynes) Smith, who also came to this country in early life. In 1834, in company with his younger brother. Peter, he came to Indiana and located in Owen county, Peter settling at Poland, in the county of Clay. Michael bought land about one-half mile from the Putnam county line and lived on the same until his death. Peter after a few years moved to the farm south of Reelsville, where he spent the remainder of his days and which is now owned and occupied by his son, Thomas Baumunk.

The death of Michael and Peter Baumunk and a daughter of the latter, Mrs. Homer Smith, occurred the same year (1901), under peculiar circumstances. Mrs. Smith departed this life in the month of August and was followed to the grave bv her father and uncle Michael: one month later Michael was called to his reward, Peter being among the chief mourners at his funeral, and in October, ensuing, Peter breathed his last, all three being interred in the cemetery at Poland.

The family of Michael and Christina Baumunk consisted of one son, John A., of this review, and two daughters, Mary E., wife of Ivan Huffman, of Washington township, and Margaret, who married John Zenor and lives at Spencer, Owen county, near which place her husband has large farming interests. Another son died in infancy.

John A. Baumunk was reared on the home place in Owen county and remained with his father until his twenty-second year; meantime he bore his full share of the labor of the farm and of winter months, during his minority, pursued his studies in the public schools until acquiring a pretty thorough knowledge of the branches taught. When twenty-two years old he severed home ties and began life for himself, choosing the honorable vocation of agriculture for his calling and has since followed the same with most gratifying results. The same year in which he left the parental roof, Mr. Baumunk was united in the bonds of wedlock with Eliza Jane Rightsell, daughter of John and Mary (Neece) Rightsell, and immediately thereafter set up his domestic establishment on a farm in Putnam county, where he continued to reside until trading the place for another tract of land in the same locality. Subsequently he made other exchanges and in 1901 moved to the farm in \\'ashington township, where he now lives and which under his judicious labors and excellent management has been brought to a high state of culti\ation and otherwise improved.

Mr. Baumunk is a careful and methodical farmer and seldom if ever fails to realize ample returns from the time and labor expended on his fields. By studying the character of soil and its adaption to the different grains and vegetables, etc.. also by a judicious rotation of crops, he has largely developed the productive capacity of his land and in addition to its tillage devotes considerable attention to livestock, especially the finer breeds of cattle and hogs. He also raises fpiite a number of mules, for which there is a wide demand and which he sells at weaning time, finding it more satisfactory and profitable to dispose of them when young than when fully grown.

In the management of his varied interests Mr. Baumunk displavs business ability of a high order and it is a fact worthy of note that evervthing to which he gives his attention proves financially successful. From the beginning of his career to the present time he has made money and it is unnecessarv to state that he is now the possessor of a comfortable competency of this world's goods. His farm, consisting of ninety acres, seventy of which is bottom land, lies in one of the richest agricultural districts of Putnam county and his splendid modern dwelling, one of the finest and most attractive homes in Washington township, crowns the summit of a beautiful knoll and commands an extensive view of the valley and surrounding country. Mr. Baumunk has furnished his home with all the latest improvements, it being in every respect up-to-date and such a dwelling as to make rural life pleasant and desirable. He believes in using the good things of this world to judicious ends, hence has not been at all sparing in providing comforts for his family and rendering the lot of those dependent upon him as agreeable as circumstance will admit.

Mrs. Baumunk bore her husband seven children and departed this life on January 7, 1907, profoundly lamented by the large circle of neighbors and friends who had learned to prize her for her many excellent qualities of head and heart. She belonged to one of the old and respected families of Putnam county and her loss was deeply mourned by all who knew her.

Of the six living children of Mr. and Mrs. Baumunk, James .Albert is the oldest : he married and moved to Illinois some years ago. where he is engaged in farming. Perrv Franklin, the second son, is with the Burdsal Paint Company, of Indianapolis, and stands high in the confidence of his employers. John Michael is at home assisting his father in cultivating the farm. Anna is in school, as is also Mary Effa and Louis Edward. Mr. Baumunk married on September i, 1909. Mrs. Lucretia (Craft) Rissler, daughter of Daniel and Jane Craft. Lucretia Baumunk has a daughter, Flossie Jane, aged six years, by her marriage to John Rissler.

George Taylor Reeves

The history of the Reeves family in Putnam county is traced back to the log-cabin days and one of the best known members is George Taylor Reeves, who has lived to see Monroe township pass through all the states of development to one of the prosperous sections of the Hoosier state. His birth occurred on February 28, 1847, the son of Stacey Lawrence and Nancy (Howlett) Reeves, the father born in Campbell county, Kentucky, September 20, 1820, and the mother was born on February 22, 1822. They came to Putnam county, Indiana, in its early days and married here in 1835, -^f''- Reeves buving land from Mr. Johnson. George \V. Howlett was among the first settlers and by the assistance of Indians he erected his first house. A pet bear followed Mr. Howlett and his family from their Kentucky home. Xancy Howlett was then only eighteen months old and the Indians often visited their hut and played with her. giving her little trinkets of their own making. Stacev L. Reeves devoted his life to farming: however, when a boy he worked for a time at the boot and shoe business in Greencastle, and he successfully maintained a shoe shop on his farm many years.

The following children were i)orn to Mr. and Mrs. Stacey L. Reeves: Sarah E. died when twenty years of age in 1861 ; Emmerine is deceased: James L. is deceased: George Taylor, of this review: Allen Wiley was born May 12. 1849: Mary C. was born March 12, 1851 ; Charles F., born November 17, 1853, was city marshal of Greencastle at one time; Annie E., born Xovemlier 3, 1855, married C. V. Johnson and is living in Crawfordsville.

Stacev L. Reeves was a fxepublican in politics, but held no offices : but he took great interest in the aff'airs of the Alethodist church, of which he was a regular attendant. He was well known in this countv, and his death oc-

George T. Ree\es attended the schools taught in the old log sclnxjl liouses in Monroe township. He lived with his father for thirty years and assisted in farming and has matle this his life work, now owning a neat little farm of forty-five acres, which, together with his stock raising, makes him a verv comfortable living.

Mr. Reeves was married on December 7. 1879. to Martha Ellen Shinn. daughter of W'illoughby and Elizabeth Frances (\\'ilson) Shinn. the father born in Mercer county, Missouri, from which place he came to Putnam county, Indiana, being then twelve years of age, having been born on February 22. 1839. Grandfather Shinn came here in the spring of the year, contracting the cholera soon afterwards which caused his death. But the family found kind friends among their neighbors and were greatly assisted in gettinj establisheil. The trip from Missouri was made in the usual mode of pioneer tra\eling. in ox carts. George T. Reeves still lives on the old Grandfather Shinn farm.

Ti) Mr. and Mrs. George T. Reeves one child, a daughter, has been born, Edith May. whose birth occurred June 24, 1884. and she married Elmer Mc- Camey. living at .\dvance, Boone county, this state, and they are the parents of three children. Effie, Oscar Lee and Hazel. Mr. McCamey is engaged in the livery business si.xteen miles east of Crawfordsville.

}v[r. Reeves is a worker in the Methodist church, being regarded as one of the pillars of the local congregation, and having been a delegate to the conference of his cliurch six times and serving on the stationing committee. Politicallv he is a Republican.

John Wilsox

It will l:e found upon examinatii5n that the person who lives the quietest and most uneventful life - <ine that is free, on the one hand, from too great degree of toil, and tree. <;n the other, from nen'ous excitement, such as falls to the lot of the dwellers of the cities, will live the longest span on earth and will to the greatest degree enjoy his declining years. It seems that all persons are given at the outset of their lives only about so much vitality, and if they squander it before they reach maturity, or if they squander it too fast at any stage of their careers, it means a premature death. Like a canrlle. thev burn out too fast and are left nothing but a wick, black and unsightlv.

But the quiet and steady life is what counts. Such a person has great reserves of vital force which he can call into action at any emergency and is thus enabled to make a better showing in a crisis than the person who is ready to fall at the least excitement. John Wilson, a highly honored and successful resident of Floyd township, is one who has had the wisdom to save his best powers for suitable occasions, and. as a result of his sober, exemplary life, he has not only consen-ed his energies, rendering him hale and hearty in his old age, but he has won the confidence and friendship of all who have formed his acquaintance.

i\Ir. Wilson was born January 23. 1838, the son of Abel and Julia A. (Holsapple) Wilson, natives of Kentucky, the former of English and the latter of German ancestry. This old pioneer family came to Putnam county, Indiana, in 1834 and developed a good farm, Abel Wilson reaching an advanced age, dying here on January 31, 1892. followed to the unseen world a few days later, February 2. 1892. by his wife. They were a fine old couple :\hnm everybody delighted to honor.

John Wilson was educated in the old log school houses of his day with their greased paper windows and slab seats. He was reared on a farm and continued that line of endeavor, having prospered by reason of close application to his work and good management and he is now the owner of one of the choice farms of Floyd township, comprising two hundred and seventeen acres, which has been placed under modern improvements and is yielding large returns for the labor expended upon it. He has a good home and is very comfortably fixed in every respect.

John Wilson was married on February i, i860, to Isabella Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, which union resulted in the birth of three children, named as follows: Delana C, born July 23, 1865: Charles A., born October i, 1867; and Gilbert A., born August 19, 1872.

The mother of these children died on July 12, 1895, and Air. ^^'ilson married again, on November 5, 1896, his last wife being Mrs. Ellen Allen, widow of Frank Allen, by whom she had one son.

Delana C. Wilson, mentioned above, received a good common school education and he later attended higher schools and fitted himself for a teacher, and for two vears he taught very successfully in Floyd township, but he left the school room for the more remunerative and less exacting life of the agriculturist and he has been well paid for the labor he has expended in this line.

Charles A. Wilson, also mentioned before, received a good common school education, graduating from the State Normal at Terre Haute, also at Franklin College, south of Indianapolis: also passed through the McCormick Seminary of Chicago, later taking a course in an oratorical school, thus becoming unusually well equipped for his life labors - that of the ministry - at which he has been very successful, now being pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian church of Chicago.

David Wallace

A successful farmer of Mill Creek township is David Wallace, who was born in [Morgan county, Indiana, December 5, 1839. the son of Elijah and Elizabeth (^lanlev) \A'allace. the former the son of David and Elizabeth (Atkins) Wallace. Elijah Wallace was born in Tennessee and it is believed his parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. The parents of David Wallace came from Tennessee to Indiana and settled near the convergence of Putnam, ^lorgan and Hendricks counties, and there followed farming and stock raising.

David \\"allace was one of a family of eleven children, namely : .Knianda. wife of Leonard Shaw, deceased; John, of Mill Creek township; James lives in ^lorgan county; David, of this review; Elizabeth is the widow of James Hill (deceased) and lives in Morgan county; Louisa Ann is the wife of Thomas Sandy, living in Cloverdale; Xancy is the wife of Samuel McCollum ; William is deceased; Surelda, deceased; Mary Ellen is the wife of Richard Brown, of Morgan county ; Adeline died when three years of age.

David Wallace's father lived in Hendricks county on a farm consisting of six hundred acres ; he also owned a large body of land in Mill Creek township. Putnam county, part of it lying in Morgan county. He was a Democrat. ah\ays active, but never held office. His death occurred July 12, 1884. David Wallace's mother died May 11, 1890.

David \\'allace grew to maturity on the farm, which he assisted in reclaiming from the wilderness, among his duties being to assist in operating his father's old "ground-hog" threshing machine. David also threshed grain with a flail and by tramping it out. His uncle had a mill in Tennessee, and before leaving that state Da\id's father worked at the shoemaker's trade for a time. He made the long journey to Indiana in a one-horse wagon, making his fortune after coming here. He bought land, fed hogs which he drove to Lawrenceburg. on the Ohio river, and when a boy his son, David, assisted in driving some of his hogs to Indianapolis.

David Wallace lived on the home farm until his marriage. February 3, 1865, to Rebecca E. Stringer. She is the daughter of Reuben and Mildred (Ludlow) Stringer. Her parents were from Kentucky. She was born in Hendricks county.

To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace four children were born, namely : Charlie died when seven vears old: Lidia died at the age of three; .\lbert and Alpha are living. The former married Shada Dale Staley, daughter of Hiram Staley. Albert is li\ing on a farm south of his father's. He and his wife have one daughter, Lola. Alpha married Walter Allee and lives in Mill Creek township, a short distance southeast of her father; they have six children, Nona ]vlarie. Jewel D.. Thelma and Velma (twins), Flossie and Albert Ross.

David Wallace has lived forty-five years on the same farm in section 8. Mill Creek township, having moved here April i, 1865. He was in Company K, Fiftv-fifth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil Politically he is a Democrat and he and his wife are both members of the Friends church.

Lorenzo D. Seckman

An enterprising and successful farmer of Putnam county, Indiana, and one who proved his loyalty to the government and his patriotism in upholding the national union, is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch and who is a native son of the Buckeye state. He was born June I, 1835, and is a son of Benjamin and Mary A. Seckman. These parents were natives of Virginia, who in 1834 moved to the state of Ohio, where they remained during the following sixteen years, removing in 1850 to Iowa. Their stav in the latter state was brief, however, as in 185 1 they came to Marion township. Putnam county, Indiana, where they bought forty acres of land, foi- which they paid twelve dollars and fifty cents per acre. Benjamin Seckman entered at once upon the task of improving this land and by dint of hard labor and rigid economy he prospered and e\entually added twenty acres to this farm. He was by trade a papermaker and he carried on this pursuit as a side line, this being prior to the advent of modern paper- making machinerv. He was a man of inflexible character and sterling integrity, and was a constant reader of the Scriptures, having reatl the Bible through manv times. He and his wife were faithful members of the Poplar Grove Methodist Episcopal church and their daily lives were consistent witli their professions. The father died on December 23, 1897. at the age of eighty-eight years, and the mother on October 20. 1895, at the age of eightyone vears. their remains being interred in the Stilesville cemetery, in Plendricks county.

Lorenzo D. Seckman remained with his parents in their various places of residence until i860, when, his patriotic spirit being aroused by the attempts of the Sc3uth to destroy the national union, he enlisted in the Fortythird Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and during the following three and a half years he rendered valiant and faithful service in the defense of Old Glory. At Marks' Mills. Arkansas, he was captured and for ten months was confined at Camp Ford. Tyler. Te.xas. On his return home he resumed farming, and in 1868 he married and settled on his father-in-law's farm, where he remained until the death of his first wife, in 1870. He then located on sixt> acres of land, which he cultivated for seven years and then sold, buying ninety acres of land in section 23. Marion town.ship, on which he has made his home during the past twenty-five years. He is a practical farmer and has achieved a distinctive success of his vocation. His place is well improved and Mr. Seckman is known as one of the substantial and enterprising farmers of the township.

On March 18. 1868, Mr. Seckman married Cynthia J. Burt(Mi. the daughter of Alfred S. and Katherine J. Burton. She was a member of the ^lissionarv- Baptist church and was a woman of culture and refinement. Her death occurred on March i. 1870, her remains being interred in the Burton family lot at Greencastle. and on February 16, 1876. Mr. Seckman was joined in marriage with Susanna O. Ouinlan. who was born in Putnam county. Indiana. September 30. 1S43. the daughter of William M. and Serelda (Sinclair) Ouinlan. the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Putnam county. Indiana. Mrs. Seckman having been for a number of years a successful teacher in the public schools. Xo children were born to the sul)ject's first marriage. To \\'illiam L. and Serelda Ouinlan have been born eight children, five of whom are living, namely : Virginia, the wife of James Denny, an attorney at Greencastle: Mrs. L. D. Seckman: Ann Missouri is unmarried and keeps house for her brother. Frank \\'. : Gramaliel B.. a farmer in ^Marion township: Lorenzo D. : Lucinda E.. the decea.sed wife of James W

Burton: Angeline A., who died unmarried. Mr. and Airs. Seckman have not been blessed with any children of their own, but they have acted the part of the good samaritians in rearing a boy from tender years to manhood. He was well educated and is still, at the age of twenty-two years, making his home with them.

\\"illiam N. Ouinlan came from Maryland to Putnam county in 1S37, being numbered among the early pioneers of the county. He had a large part in the moral and material development of the county, helping to lay the foundations of good government in this frontier section. He entered a tract of land and improved a good farm, spending the rest of his days and dying in this county. He was a son of James and Susanna (Cooper) Ouinlan, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Wales. These parents emigrated to America, locating in Maryland, where the father died at the remarkable age of one hundred and one years. James Ouinlan was loyal to his adopted land and during the war of the Revolution he served valiantly on the side of the colonies. He was a man of marked influence and stood high in his community. Mrs. Seckman possesses a number of valuable relics which have descended to her from her honored ancestry, in which she takes a justifiable pride. Among these is a set of pure silver spoons which were made for her mother from her grandfather's knee buckles. She also has a mustard cup over one hundred years old, and an exquisite sample of her grandmother's needle work. The latter, which is verv artistic in design and execution, is made on brown linen, and shows that in the early days art was prevalent which at this day would be hard to duplicate. Other relics in the collection evidence the high position which the former possessors held in society in the early days of this Republic, many of them having held high positions in relation to our early institutions and industries. Among the early generation of the Sinclairs and Ouinlans were a number of ministers who took a prominent part in advancing the civilization of the new communities in which they settled, they enjoying the confidence of all who knew them, their honor and integrity being above reproach.

Politically. Air. Seckman is a Republican and takes an intelligent interest in local public affairs, though he is not a seeker after public office. His religious membership is with the Methodist Episcopal church, in the various activities of which he takes a prominent part, giving the society an earnest and liberal support. He is a man of good parts and enjoys the high regard of all who know him.

Among the progressive, enterprising and industrious residents of Floyd township. Putnam county, Indiana, none takes higher rank than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is descended from a prominent and well-known Southern family, the Picketts having come originally from Xorth Carolina, where they occupied a prominent place in their locality. The subject's paternal grandfather, Aquilla Pickett, reared a family of fourteen children, all of whom attained to respected positions in life, being well known in Putnam county. Two brothers, Thomas and Ralph, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Seritha, still survive. The Pickett settlement in this countv numbered many members and during war times it was commonly known as Fort Pickett.

The subject's father, David Pickett, was born on the 14th of April, 18J9, and died on the 29th of January, 1909. He was born in Da\idson county, Xorth Carolina, and accompanied the family on their remo\aI to Putnam county, Indiana, in 1S30. Here the father entered land, first settling in Russell township, but three years later he moved to Floyd township, where he spent his remaining years. He was a Democrat in politics, but not an ofifice seeker, though he was induced to accept the position of overseer of roads. Though not a member of church or fraternal organizations, he was a good man and enjoyed the unbounded confidence and respect of all who knew him. His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Spaugh. and she also was a native of North Carolina. To this worthy couple were born six children, namely: Polly, Charles 'M.. Ellen, Lawrence, Sophia and Alalvina. These children are all living and all, with the exception of the last named, are residents of Floyd township.

Charles M. Pickett was born on the 26th day of July, 1856. and was reared under the parental roof. As soon as old enough he took up the work of the farm and became an able assistant to his father. After completing his education in the common schools, he became a student in the Xormal School at Danville, and then took up the occupation of teaching school, in which he was successfully engaged for fifteen years. In 1900 he served as township trustee, his former experience in the school room aiding him in his performance of the duties of the office, which he discharged for four years to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents. Since quitting the school room ]\Ir. Pickett has devoted his attention to agriculture, in which also he has met with marked success. He owns sixtv acres of as good land as can be found in the township and, being practical and systematic in his operations, lie has been enabled to realize a good profit on his land. He carries on a general line of farming, raising all the crops common to this section of the country, and also gives some attention to the raising of livestock.

On August 30, 1887. Mr. Pickett was united in marriage with Myrtie Adams, who was a native of Putnam county and a daughter of Ephraim Adams, of Greencastle. and to this union were born five children, namely : Chester. Dallas. Lelia. Rolland and Garia. all of whom are living. Mrs. Pickett died on March 25. 1898, and on February i, 1906, Mr. Pickett married Ella Hendricks, who was born in Owen county, Indiana, March 25, 1866, the daughter of John M. and Clara (Lancet) Hendricks. The father is a native of Warren township, this county, his father having been a native of Bath county, Kentucky, and a pioneer settler in Putnam county, where he entered land. Mrs. Pickett's mother is descended from German ancestry. To this second union three children have been born, twins, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Louise, born November 21, 1909.

Politically Mr. Pickett is a stanch Democrat and he takes a keen and intelligent interest in public affairs, though not an office seeker. Fraternally he is a member of Lodge Xo. 542, Free and Accepted Masons, at Groveland, which he served as worshipful master several terms and of which he is now secretary. His religious membership is \vith the Missionary Baptist church, of which he is a regular attendant and in the work of which he takes an active part. His support is always given to whatever tends to advance the highest interests of the community and because of his integrity of character, his genial disposition and his genuine worth, he is held in high esteem in the community.

In a locality ranking high for its medical talent, whose professional men take conspicuous places among their colleagues throughout the state, is Dr. William A. Moser, who is located at Belle Union, Jefferson township, Putnam county, where he is enjoying a lucrative practice and has long been known as one of the leading citizens of this section of the county. He is the descendant of one of the old and influential families of this county, having been born in the southwestern part of this township, September 19. 1869, the son of David and Sarah A. (Bryan) Moser. A full history of his ances-

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The Doctor's boyhood was spent on the home farm, where he earlv learned the art of agriculture, but when a mere lad he determined to enter the medical profession and consequently began bending every effort in that direction. He enjoyed a liberal education, having attended the public and high schools at Cloverdale and later the Xormal School at Danville. Indiana. He spent one year in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Missouri, and he then entered the medical department of the University at Indiana, located at Indianapolis, formerly known as the Indiana Aledical College, thus completing the four-years course in medicine and surgery, graduating in 1903. In ]May of that year Doctor Moser opened an office at Belle Union. Jefiferson township, at which place he has practiced ever since, meeting with a fair measure of success from the first and he now ranks as one of the leading physicians of the county.

Doctor Moser married Clara Vesta Cradick. of Owen county, Indiana, in 1894. She was the daughter of John Cradick. This union resulted in the birth of one child. O. Joyce Moser. Eleven months later ^Irs. Moser died, and in ]\Iav. igoS. ]Mr. Moser married Hazell Gillette Dobbs. daughter of George Dobbs. of Greencastle.

The Doctor is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Putnam County Medical S(X-iety and the State ^ledical Society of Indiana.

Doctor Moser possesses the happy faculty of winning and retaining many warm personal friends and the high regard in which he is held indicates on his part a determination to discharge his every duty and obligation as becomes a good man and a worthv citizen.

John S. Newgext

Few citizens of Putnam county, especially Clinton township and vicinity, were better or more favorably known than the late John S. Xewgent, He was born August 25, 1830, and after an active and useful life passed to his rest on March 14, 1894. He received a fairly good education in the common schools of his day and assisted with the work on the home place until he reached maturity, marrying Lucinda Lewis, who was born January 16.

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1S31, in Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of Aaron and Milhe (Aloseley) Lewis. This family came to Monroe township, Putnam county, Indiana, 1838. John S. Newgent served twice as county commissioner.

The Xewgent family consisted of the following children : William Talbot married Margaret Noble and lives in Putnam county; Nancy married Thomas Heady, who lives in Madison township; Sarah Elizabeth died in early life; James Edward remained with his mother; Lewis Newgent was born January 28, 1861, remained single, spending his entire life on the home farm; Nellie married Walter Sigler, of Putnam county; John S., Jr., died when thirty years of age, having married Mary Martin, by whom he had two children, Merl and Earl.

John Scady Chandler

Among the progressive citizens of Clinton township who are deserving of representation in a work of this character is John S. Chandler, who was born in the house in which he now lives, on July 6, 1850, the son of Scady and Sarah (Busey) Chandler, the latter the widow of James Roberts. Scady Chandler was a native of Virginia and was reared to manhood at Crab Orchard, Kentucky. He spent one year in Shelby county, Indiana, and in 1824 entered the 'land on which his descendants now reside in Clinton township, the entrv being made at Crawfordsville. He settled in the woods and built a half- faced shanty near the present Chandler residence. In 1S28 he erected what was then a fine substantial brick house, burning the brick on his place. Two of his-molders differed in politics, one being a Jackson man, the other favoring Adams, and they inserted the names of their favorite candidates in the year 1828. and many of the bricks bear them to this day. Scadv Chandler took a scholarship at .Wabash College. Crawfordsville, having been deeply interested in educational affairs. He was a public-spirited man and patriotic, ha\ing served in the war of 181 2 as a commissioned officer. He spent his life on the farm. Later he added to the three original brick rooms, making it a long brick house, one-story. He was well-to-do for those davs and owned about four hundred acres of land in this tract, at the time of his death, seventy-six acres at INIt. [Meridian and two hundred acres in Clark county, Illinois. He was a Democrat, but not an office seeker. He was a member of Wesley Chapel ^Methodist church. The death of this prominent and well liked old pioneer occurred on March 7. 1S64. when he lacked onlv seven days of his seventieth birthday. His first wife died early.

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bearing him one daughter, Ehza, who married David Talbot, and is deceased. Her daughter is h\ing in Ilhnois. Mr. Chandler married a second time, his last wife being Mrs. Sarah (Busey) Roberts, a sister of a brick mason who laid brick in his house. Her father, Jacob Busey, was from Kentucky. The Roberts family lived in Kentucky, where Mrs. Chandler spent her girlhood days and married James Roberts. Three children were born to Mrs. Chandler by her first husband, James Roberts, among them being a daughter. Mahala, who is now the widow of James De\ore, of Terre Haute, and is the only one of the three children li\ing. Three children were born to Mr. Chandler by his second wife, named as follows: Sarah married Jesse Mc- Pheeter and went to Illinois, where she died at the age of forty, leaving two children; Elza died near Hannibal, Missouri, having left here when a young man; John Scady, of this review. The mother of these children died in April, 1873. Scady Chandler was a man of good foresight and made early entries of lands and John S. Chandler holds as relics five old sheepskin patents, three issuetl by President ^lonroe and two by Andrew Jackson. Scady Chandler was a popular and well-known and highly respected farmer and his integrity and honor were above reproach.

John Scady Chandler spent his boyhood on the farm, operating the same with his brother until he was of age, remaining with his mother until her death in 1S73. On December J3, 1875. ^^ married .Ann Eliza Phillips, daughter of John D. and Hester A. (Smith) Phillips, the latter born near ^It. Sterling. Kentucky, and about the close of the \var came to Fillmore. Putnam county, and made that her home for several years. Her father was a shoemaker and later a farmer at Putnamville. He came to Clinton township about 1S77 and here lived until his death, .\pril 2j. 1SS5. His widowwent to Evansville, Indiana, where she still resides.

Remaining on the farm until about 1893, John S. Chandler went to Evansville for seven years, where he was interested in the lumber business in which he had been more or less interested while on the farm. He returned to the farm about 1900 and devoted his after work to this line of endeavor with varied success, on ninety-eight acres, a part of which his father had entered from the government, he buying out his mother's dowry, making one hundred and sixty-six acres, but he has sold all but ninety-eight acres. He carries on general farming. He has a fine sugar grove and takes a great deal of pains with it. He is a member of the advisory board of his township and refuses to be trustee, although often solicited by his friends; however, he takes a deep interest in local matters and always does what he can (-'4'

One child, a daughter, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Chandler: Myrtle E., bom November 22, 1876, wife of Lewis H. Carton, of Creencastle. a lumber salesman ; no children have been bom to them.

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler are members of Union Chapel Methodist church; he has filled mo.st of the church offices and is a good contributor to the support of the church. Fraternally Mr. Chandler is a member of the Masonic order, and he and his wife and daughter belong to the Eastern Star, Morton Chapter. He has long been active in lodge work.

Mr. Chandler has a neat and comfortable home which is often the o-athering place for the many friends of the family, and the immediate surroundings of the place are most pleasant. Nearby is one of the finest springs in the county, of pure, sparkling water which runs down a beautiful vale throuo-h other famis. furnishing water for stock, and in many respects this place is a verv valuable and desirable one. Air. Chandler underwent the deprivations and hardships of pioneer life and helped lay the foundation for good g(nernment and morals in this locality.

Hugh H. Parker

Among the long established and highly respected families of Putnam countv, Indiana, none have occupied a higher place in public esteem than the Parker familv, numerous representatives of which reside here and who for manv years have taken a prominent and active part in the advancement of the various business interests of the county.

The emigrant ancestor of the Parker family was John Parker, who was born and reared in England, but who. because he accidentally injured the wife of a nobleman, was banished from his native land. His coming to America was sometime prior to the war of the Revolution and relics of this ancestor are now in the hands of his great-grandson, Benjamin A. Parker, of this township, .\mong the children of this John Parker was a son, William, who was born in South Carolina about 1790. On reaching mature years, the latter married Candace Austin, and to them was born a son, William Henlev Parker. On November 27, 1827, William and Candace Austin arrived in Putnam countv. Indiana, and located on section 17, Mill Creek township, of which thev were the third settlers, their pioneer home being located in the heart of the forest. Here William Parker entered eighty acres of land, and this tract of land has remained in the family ever since, being now the property of his grandson. Benjamin A. Parker. The log cabin which they built there served as their home for many years and remained standing as late as 1906.

William Henley Parker was reared on the parental homestead in Mill Creek township and lived practically all his life there. He devoted himself to farming pursuits and was rewarded with a fair measure of success. About 1847 1''^ 3"<1 his cousin. Joel Wright, started a general store on the farm, W'hich they conducted until about 1867. At the time of the inception of this enterprise there was no other store between Stilesville, Greencastle and Cloverdale, thus they drew trade from a wide territory. Mr. Parker also engaged to some extent in the shipping of hvestock, which had to be driven to Indianapolis, as many as four hundred hogs being shipped this way in one year. He was active in politics, being affiliated with the Democratic party, and served as the first trustee of Mill Creek township. He was the leader of his party in the township and exerted a wide influence. His death occurred in 1875, '"I's ^v^t'^ having died the previous year. They were active members of the Primitive Baptist church and commanded the respect of all who knew them.

William Henley Parker married Bethena P. Dobbs, the daughter of Joel Dobbs. She was of German descent and came to Putnam county in 1S25, \\ith her parents, who were among the early settlers in this section, their farm adjoining on the west to that owned by Mr. Parker. To this worthy couple were born the following children: Martin. Candace. Sarah, Benjamin A., Martha W., Mary. Joel D., Matilda, Hugh H. and Lucy Ann. Brief mention is made of. these children as follows: Martin died at Eminence, leaxing two sons; Candace is the widow of James S. Parish and lived at Freeman. Missouri, where he died; Sarah is the wife of David W. Sherrill and lives south of Stilesville, Hendricks county, this state: Benjamin A. is referred to in a later paragraph ; Martha W. is the widow of Solomon Dorsett. deceased, of Eminence; Mary, who was the wife of Richard Stringer and lived in Morgan, county, south of Stilesville, died in 1906; Joel D., who lives in Shattuck, Oklahoma, is a widower and the father of seven children ; Matilda is the wife of Marion M. Hurst and they live north of Belle Union; Hugh H. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Lucy Ann. of Eminence, is the widow of Thomas Surber, deceased.

Benjamin A. Parker, the fourth in the order of birth of the children of William Henley and Bethena Parker, was born on the old homestead June

30, 183S. In i860 he married Hannah Pruitt, of ^^lorgan county, who died in 1861, leaving a daughter, ^Nlary Esther, who died in the summer of 1892. In 1863 Mr. Parker married Rachael Brown, of Owen county, Indiana, the daughter of Rev. John and Lydia (Smith) Brown, the former being a native of Scotland and a minister of the Campbellite church. To Benjamin and Rachael Parker were born the following children : Hannah A., Willis R., John W., Daniel, Clara. Xoah, Charles, Rena and Ona.

After his first marriage Mr. Parker moved to a farm near Broad Park, where he resided up to 1874, when he moved to Alaska, Owen county, where he li\-ed two years. In February, 1876, he located where he now resides, in Mill Creek township. Mrs. Rachael Parker died on February 28, 1897. Of their children, the following facts are noted : Hannah A. is the wife of Charles M. Dorsett, of Mill Creek township, and they have eight children, Thomas, Flora, Paul, George, Willis, Viola, Eddie and Evaline; Willis R., who married Martha Lewis, died in September, 1906; John W., who lives in Hendricks countv, married Victoria Arnold, and they have four children, Clona, Clyde, Emory and Emma, the two last named being twins; Daniel, of Alill Creek township, married Efifie Lewis, and to them have been born three children, Lester Verlin. Lloyd and Nola Marie, the last named dying in infancv; Clara first married John Grimes, by which union was born one child, Sarah Melissa, and she afterwards married Wilfred Ogles, of Morgan countv, and thev have a daughter. Myrtle: Noah, of ^lartinsville. Indiana, married Viola Humphries; Charles, who resides near his father, married Lottie Keller and thev have a daughter. Garnet Myrtle: Rena married John George and lives near her father in Mill Creek township ; Ona lives at home with her father.

Hugh H. Parker, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, was born in INIill Creek township, Putnam county. August 2S. 1852. the son of William Henley and Bethena Parker. He received his education in the common schools of the neighborhood and has ahvays pursued the vocation of farming, in which he has met with a gratifying measure of success. He owns five hundred and seventy acres of land in section 8, the land extending into Morgan county, and he also owns land in Jefferson township. He is a practical and systematic worker, keeps in close touch with every detail of his business and is numbered among the successful men of this part of the countv. His splendid estate is highly improved and the residence property is comfortable and attractive, the general appearance of the entire place indicating the owner to be a man of good taste and excellent judgment.

On February 2^. 1S75. Hugh H. Parker married Soriida Wood, a daughter of Elisha.and Rhoda (Broadstreet) Wood. Elisha Wood was born" in Washington county, Indiana, on Februar>' 3. 1S22, the son of Daniel and Margaret Wood, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather was a soUHer in the war of the Revolution, seri-ing vahantly for seven years. He was among the first settlers of Wasiiington county, Indiana, and died there at the age of eightv-four years. \Vhen Elisha Wood was fourteen years old his father died and in 1840 he and others of the family came to what is now Mill Creek township, Putnam county. On June i. 1S40, he married Rhoda Broadstreet. the daughter of Thomas Broadstreet. a pioneer settler of Putnam county, and of their seven children Mrs. Hugh Parker was the youngest. :Mrs. Rhoda Wood died April 20, 1857, and on September 8th of the same year Mr. Wood married Phoebe C. Phillips, to which union seven children were born. Mr. Wood located on a farm in section 6. Mill Creek township, in 1S45. ^t which time it was practically covered with a heavy growth of timber. Commencing life for himself with a cash capital of only ten dollars, he eventuallv became the owner of two hundred and eighty acresof good land, the result of hard work and economy. He was a faithful and active member of the Missionarv Baptist church, of which he was a trustee. His death occurred on March 14, 1906. and his widow died in June. 1909. Six children were born to Air. and ]\Irs. Hugh H. Parker, namely : Elmer, who died at the age of nine months ; Victor}', who died on February 15, 1894. at the age of seventeen years; Bessie died at the age of four years ; Bertha D. married Ancil Dorsett, who died in 1904, and they had one daughter, Gladys, who, with her mother, are now living with the subject, Hugh H. Parker; Grover Cleveland, who li\-es a half mile east of Broad Park, married Dolly Cof^man, the daughter of Andrew Coffman, of Cloverdale township, and they had one son, Gerald Ray Parker, who died at the age of seventeen months : A'ernie Clyde, the youngest son, who lives at home with his parents, attended the Normal School at Danville, but is now a student in the high school at Broad Park.

Politically Air. Parker is aligned with the Democratic party and has taken an active interest in local public affairs, having served as trustee of Mill Creek township for seven years. Religiously he and his wife are members of the Missionarv- Baptist church, to which they give an earnest and liberal support. Air. Parker is a man of large physique, is genial and whole-souled in his relations with his fellow men and in every relation- of life he displays a candidness and honesty of purpose that has gained for him the esteem of all whom he has come in contact with.

James H. Sparks

Prominent among the worthy representatives of the pioneer element in the county of Putnam is the well-known gentleman to a review of whose life the attention of the reader is now invited. For many years James Sparks has been a forceful factor in the prosperity of Cloverdale township, and now, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years, he is enjoying that rest which his long life of earnest toil so richly entitles him to.

James H. Sparks was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, on the 8th day of February, 1826, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Gilman) Sparks. The maternal great-grandfather, Henry Gilman, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, serving under General Wayne. When the subject was about twelve vears of age the family removed to Putnam county, Indiana, locating near Mount Meridian, the father buying a tract of land about a half mile east of that place. Two years later they moved to the southern part of Jefferson township, where another farm was purchased. James H. remained with his parents until he was about eighteen years old, when he went to Greencastle and apprenticed himself to leam the trade of blacksmith. About twenty years after coming to Putnam county the other members of the family removed to Clayton county. Iowa, where they made their subsequent home. Mr. Sparks was employed at the smithy's forge in Greencastle for about five vears, becoming a proficient workman, and at the end of that period he came to Cloverdale and opened a shop of his own. which he continued to operate about fifteen years. He then gave up blacksmithing and took up agriculture as a vocation, locating on his present farm in the eastern part of Cloverdale township. He gave intelligent direction to his efforts and in due time developed his farm to a fine estate. He has always been a hard worker and has been practical in his methods, so that his eiforts have been rewarded with a due meed of success. The place is well improved, containing a comfortable residence, commodious and substantial barns and outbuildings, while the general condition of the place indicates the owner to be a man of sound judgment and good taste.

On Februarv 27, 185 1, Mr. Sparks married Emily Jane Coffman, a native of Fountain county, Indiana, and the daughter of John and [Mary (Williams) Coffman. These parents were natives of Kentucky and came to Fountain county, Indiana, in an early day. In 1832. when slie was about six weeks old, the family located in Cloverdale township. Putnam county, where she grew to womanhood. John Cofifman \vas a soldier in the war of 18 12. under Gen. William Henrv Harrison, and was in the noted battle at

Murgantc)\\ n. on the river Thames, where the Indian chief Tecuniseh was killed. To Mr. and Mrs. Sparks were born si.x children, of whom but two are now living, two having died in infancy. The four who grew to maturity were James, Mary Ann, Eliza Jane and Xiles H. James lives with his father on the home farm. Mary Ann. who died April 22, 1882. was the wife of Peter Shopl. of Eminence, ^lorgan county, Indiana, anil she left two daughters, Emma and Lucy Jane. Eliza Jane, who died on February 25, 1S88, was the wife of Isaac X. Carpenter, of Cloverdale township, and she left a son. J. H. Carpenter, whose death occurred on April 19, 1908. Xiles married Elizabeth Hood and lives a short distance northeast of Cloverdale. To him and his wife have been born ten children, of which number four are living. Three of the children died in infancy, the others being briefly mentioned as follows : John William is married and is living at Mansfield. Charles P. li\es in Cloverdale township, this county. Allen died Xo\ember 18, 1901, Lee on the 29th of the same month, and Herschel on the 25th of October of the same year, the three deaths being due to typhoid fever. Of those living, Arizona and Elmer remain at home with their parents. Mrs. Emily Sparks dietl on the jth of Feljruary. 1902. at the age of si.\ty-nine years.

Religiouslv. ^[r. Sparks is a consistent meml;er of the Christian church at Cloverdale, to which his wife also belonged up to the time of her death. Fraternally, Mr. Sparks became a member of Temple Lodge, Xo. 47. Free and Accepted Masons, many years ago and is now probably the oldest Mason residing in Putnam county. He was a charter member of Cloverdale Lodge, X'o. 132, Free and Accepted Masons, to which lodge his son James also belongs. 'SU. Sparks is a member of Gen. Frank White Post. Grand Army of the Repul-ilic. at Cloverdale. this affiliation being consistent from the fact that during the Civil war Mr. Sparks enlisted in Company I. Forty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and gave effective service to his country in her hour of need. He is one of the Ijest known men in Cloverdale township and enjoys the unbounded confidence of all who know him. He has always given his support to every moxement having for its object the advancement of the best interests of the community and has been influential for good.

gent. The father was a native of Putnam county, born August 25, 1830, and the mother was born in Shelbyville. Kentucky', and came to Putnam county with her parents when seven years old. The father farmed all his life and was county commissioner two terms. He was a Democrat. He died ]\Iarch 14, 1894. He belonged to the Methodist church. He owned two farms of one hundred and sixty and eighty acres when he died. His widow still survi\-es, and lives with Lewis Newgent of this sketch. She is in her eightieth vear. These parents have seven children, namely: William T., of Parke county, Indiana; Nancy, wife of Thomas Heady, of Madison township; Sarah Elizabeth, deceased; Edward, on the old homestead; Lewis, the subject of this sketch; Millie, wife of Walter Sigler, of Clinton township; Tohn. deceased, who married Mar\' Martin, and left two children, Merl and Earl.

Lewis Newgent was reared on the farm where he has lived all his life. He received a common school education. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bethel, is a Democrat in politics and active in party affairs, having been committeeman of his precinct.

Jonathan Hansell

From an old industrious family that has enjoyed a most excellent reputation wherever its members have lived comes Jonathan Hansell, one of the best farmers of his township and a man who is deserving of the success he has achieved because he has worked for it along right lines and preferred to "eat bread by the sweat of his brow" rather than try to win fortune bv unscrupulous or questionable methods. He was born in Floyd township, Putnam countv, December 3, 1859, the son of George Hansell, who was born in Frederick countv, Virginia, April 29, 1813, and he came to Putnam county, Indiana, in 1839. He was the son of John and Hannah (Adams) Hansell. On September 15, 1836, George Hansell married Mary A., daughter of Elijah C. and Elizabeth Wilkinson, born February 18, 1817, in Highland countv, Ohio, and this union resulted in the birth of thirteen children, eight of whom are living at this writing, named as follows: Juretta is deceased; John \\'., who was a soldier in the L^nion army, a member of the Twentyseventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was killed at the battle of -\ntietani : David is living at Lena. Indiana: Elijah C. is living in Pulaski county, tliis state: Rachae! Maria lives in Greencastle ; Hannah I.. li\es in Kansas: Elizabeth .\nn is deceased: Mary Ellen, of Iowa: George \\'. is deceased: Rebecca is living in this county; Jonathan, of this review: Jehu is a contractor in .\rkansas -City. Kansas, the two latter being twins. Mrs. Hansell died March 17. 1901.

George Hansell is a Republican but he is not interested in political offices. He is a strong Methodist and a devout Christian. He died at the age of sevent}' }'ears and four months, at the old homestead, on September 11, 1883, on the land he purchased when he first came to this state from Hillsbury, Ohio, of which state his wife was a native. He has devoted his entire life to farming and has been very well repaid for his long years of hard toil.

Jonathan Hansell received a very good education in the public schools. He grew up on the home farm in this township and has devoted his attention to farming. AA'hen he was thirty years old he bought thirty acres of land, and being a hard worker he has been able to add to his original purchase until he now owns an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres which is well improved and well tilled. He has erected here a modern, commodious and desirably located dwelling which was built in 1899. Xo farm in section 21 is better adapted for the carrying on of general farming and stock raising, at which he is equally successful.

Mr. Hansell was first married on August 3, 1887. to Ollie .A. Wright, daughter of Marion and .Amanda (Chatham) Wright, of old pioneer stock. Two children were born to this union; Gracie. born May 31, 1888. married Earl Smith, who is a mail carrier at Greencastle; Blanche B. was born ]\Iay 23. 1892. and is living at home, attending high school in Floyd township. The mother of these children passed away on October 2^. 1S99, and on March 20, 1902, Mr. Hansell married Clora A. Wise, daughter of Isaac and Regina ( Xewman ) \\'ise. of Hendricks county. Four children have been born to them: Jonathan ]\Iaynard. born .April i, 1903: Ila A., born September 29, 1004: Lema B., born .August 4. 1906: Isaac Ward, born June 14, 1908.

Mr. Hansell is a handv man with tools and is something of a builder, having planned his own home and barn and worked on the local church. He is a skilled stone mason. He has never aspired to any of the county offices, and he is in favor of prohibition. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge Xo. i'},. at Bainbridgc. having been a Knight for the past fifteen years, anrl he has held all the offices in the local organization, being one of the best known members of this order in the county.

James A. Rightsell

This representative farmer and business man is a native of Putnam county, Indiana, and was born in \\'ashington township, March 20. 1S63, having first seen the hght of day on the old Rightsell homestead, which his grandfather purchased from the government. His father, John Rightsell, after living for some years on the old place, bought land in Cloverdale township and about 1S71 purchased the farm on Walnut Bottoms now owned by his son Frank. By subsequent purchases from time to time he added to his holdings until he finally became the owner of more than five hundred acres, about one hundred and si.xty consisting of bottom land, the rest lying among the hills, all being fertile and, under his control, highly cultivated. Mr. Rightsell started in life with nothing, but by industry and good management and strict economy, succeeded in amassing quite a fortune and at the time of his death was one of the wealthiest men in the southern part of Putnam countv. He was a splendid example of the successful self-made man, stood high as a citizen and was public spirited in all the term implies. He was born September 22. 1836, married, in the year of 1857, Mary Neese, and departed this life in the month of November, 1903. Mrs. Rightsell, whose birth occurred in July, 1834, was a daughter of John and Mary Xeese, early settlers of the southeastern part of Washington township, her death taking place on March 20, 1905.

The early experience of James A. Rightsell was similar in most respects to that of the majority of country lads, his childhood and youth having been spent in close touch with nature and the district schools affording him the means of a fair educational training. He remained at home until attaining his majority, when he sought his fortune in the west, going first to Kansas, where he remained two years, \'ariously employed, and at the expiration of that time proceeded further westwarfl until reaching Colorado and Wyoming. During the nineteen years he spent in the west he followefl different pursuits, farming in Kansas and contracting to supply timber and lumber to the Cripple Creek mines in Colorado, near which he also took up a preemption claim. Later he engaged as motorman with the Denver electric street car line, in which capacity he continued for five years, and shortly after resigning his position returned to Putnam county and engaged in agriculture, which he has since followed.

Mr. Rightsell moved to his present fann in Washington township in Januarv, 1903. and at the settlement of his father's estate came into poshes- sion of se\ent\- acres on wliich lie has since lived. He lias made a number of valuable improvements on his place, including a fine modern barn, thirty-six by forty-four feet in area, with a large shed sixteen by thirty-six feet, the structure being complete in all of its parts and admirably adapted to the purposes for which intended. He has brought this land to a high state of cultivation and in connection with tilling the soil devotes considerable attention to livestock, his cattle, horses and hogs being of superior breeds and among the best in this part of the county. }vlr. Rightsell's home stands on an eminence about one hundred feet above the valley and commands an extensive view of the surrounding countn.-. The home, Avhich was erected in 1S84. is a large and commodious edifice and with improvements since added is now one of the best residences in the neighborhood, being furnished with modern conveniences and meeting all the reciuirements of an attracti\-e anrl desirable rural residence.

ilr. Rightsell married at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Xo\-ember i, 1887, Hontas Xicholson. daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Xicholson, she being inn a visit to a sister at that place when the ceremony took place, ^ilrs. Rightsell was born at Fillmore. Putnam crmnty. Indiana, and died ]\rarch 15, 1897. ''t Denver. Col(jrado. leaving two children. Raymond M. and Ruth, both making their home with their uncle. Frank Rightsell, and attending the Washington township high school. Mr. Rightsell is largelv interested in the Reelsville Telephone Company, one of the leading enterprises of the kind in centra! Indiana, and is now serving as its president. This c'lmpany has grown steadily in the favor of the public until it has quite an extensive patronage, the service including one hundred and sixtv telephones throughout the county, with exchanges at Greencastle anil Poland, the rate of fifteen cents a month paying all the expenses of the concern. While interested in all that makes for the good of his communitv and the welfare of his fellow men. Mr. Rightsell takes little part in public atTairs further than \-oting his principles antl gi\ing his su])i)ort to the best (pialified candidates. He has never been a politician, much less an office seeker, but has ever stood for law, order and good government, being readv at all times to labor for these ends and to make any reasonable sacrifice fi3r what he considers the l)est interests of the body politic. While in the West he spent much of his leisure among the mountains where he found rare sport as a huntsman, and since returning home, the rifle, in the use of which he is quite an expert, aiifords him his chief means of amusement and recreation. Personally Mr. Rightsell is quite popular and has many warm friends throughout the county. Moral, upright and a fine type of the courteous American gentleman, he is a credit to the race from which he sprang, and of the community in which he was born and reared.

Oliver Nelson Houck

This is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a producer of wealth. He simply takes advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine and the refreshing rains, and applying his own hands and skill to nature's gifts he creates grain, hay, live stock, etc., all of which are absolute necessities to the inhabitants of the world. Among the up-to-date farmers of Putnam county is Oliver Nelson Houck, a member of a well known family here, the son of David Houck, whose life record, also those of the subject's brothers, Jonathan and James E., appear elsewhere in this work.

Air. Houck was born in IVIadison township, Putnam county, September 5, 1858, just three years younger than his brother Edgar. The day he was nine years of age he came to the present farm. He received a fairly good education in the local schools and early in life directed his attention to farming, having been in partnership with his brother Jonathan for five or six years. Edgar was also associated with them in general farming and stock raising. In 1892 Oliver N. came back to the old farm, of which he owns fifty-one acres. He also owns a very valuable tract of land on the west side of the creek, consisting of two hundred and ten acres, adjoining the farm of his brother Jonathan, on the old Gilmore farm. All this land has been well improved and is mostly under a high state of cultivation, Mr. Houck being regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of this part of the country. He has a commodious and attractively located dwelling, erected by himself, facing north and overlooking the valley of Walnut creek. He erected his large, substantial barn himself. For ten years he lived on about sixty acres of the old place, about one miles west of his present home. In 1903 he left there and came to his present place, erecting a dwelling in 1906. He had lived for three years in the old log house that John Gilmore built, Mr. Gilmore using the upstairs rooms where he conducted a sort of high school which was popular in those days, pupils coming from Illinois.

Mr. Houck carries on the various phases of his work with hired help, devoting- a great deal of attention to stock raising, feeding all the grain the place produces, often feeding a car load of cattle and about two hundred head of hogs at a time - in fact he has continued this annually for some time, confining his attention to the farm exclusively, and he has been very successful.

Mr. Houck was married March ii, 1880, to Gertrude Elliott, daughter of Harrison and Elizabeth (Young) Elliott, a well known family, the old Elliott homestead being about three miles from Manhattan. ]Mrs. Houck's parents having settletl there about 1S54. having come from Wayne county, this state, where they were born, reared and were m.arried. They lived there until Mr. Elliott died in 1888, at the age of seventy-one years. He was at one time county commissioner and proved to be a strong member of the board, he and Messrs. Gardner and Ballard being instrumental in building many bridges and county buildings, bridging Walnut creek in many places, also Mill creek. Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, only two are now living in Putnam county, Mrs. O. N. Houck and Dan Elliott, of Greencastle.

One son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Houck. bearing the name of Earl, now twenty-four years of age. He is engaged in the undertaking business in Terre Haute. He married Drucilla Ringo, of Clay county, Indiana, and they are the parents of one child, Walter Nelson.

Oliver N. Houck has long been active in political circles : however, he has never sought political offices, being too busy with his individual affairs, but he is deeply interested in the county's best interests and ahvays ready to lend a helping hand in furthering any movement looking to the general good.

Alfred E. Flint

Alfred E. Flint is a native son of the old Hoosier state, having been born near Versailles, Ripley county, January 4, 1866, and he is the son of Alfred and Marv A. (Anderson) Flint. Alfred Flint, who was born in Cincinnati. Ohio, was a son of William Flint, who. with his wife, came to the L'nited States from London, England. He was the son of a wealthy physician, and received a finished college education, but the father died and when William attained his majority he found himself in straitened circumstances financially. Nothing daunted, he learned the carpenter's trade and started out to carve his own fortune. Coming to America, he and his wife located in Cincinnati, and he became a dealer in large tracts of land in southern Indiana. Among his deals, was the sale of a square mile of land in Ohio county, Indiana, to Hugh Anderson and another man, who built there a grist mill, carding mill and saw mill. Mr. Flint then bought tracts of land in the northern part of Ripley county, which he later sold and then bought more land in the southern part of that county. Alary A. Flint, the subject's mother, was a daughter of Hugh and Ann Anderson, the former of whom was born, reared and educated in Scotland, while his wife was born in Ireland in very humble circumstances. Both emigrated to the United States, met for the first time at Cincinnati and were there married. It was on the Ripley county farm of Mr. Flint's that Morgan's raiders camped one night durino' the Civil war, and it was also in that neighborhood that Morgan's men captured a number of men who were being sworn in to fight him.

Alfred E. Flint was reared under the paternal roof in Ripley county until he was about eighteen years old, at which age he began teaching school. His ambition at this time was to secure a thorough education and he took up teaching in order to help defray his college expenses. After teaching two years he became a student in the State University at Bloomington, where he remained nearly three years. Returning then to Ripley county, he again engaged in teaching, completing six years in that profession in that county.

In 1890 Air. Flint bought a livery stable at Cloverdale in partnership with J. S. Hamilton. In June of the following year he also went to farming in Cloverdale township, which he found so satisfactory that in the fall of the same year he sold his interest in the livery business. A year later he again became a pedagogue and was so employed during the winters of the following six years, continuing his farming operations at the same time. In the latter enterprise Mr. Flint has been practical and systematic and he has met with a very gratifying degree of success. For alx)ut four years and until very recently Air. Flint was also interested in the furniture and undertaking business at Cloverdale. He has maintained his residence in Cloverdale during the past twelve years and is numbered among the best citizens of the town. He is actively interested in all that tends to advance the best interests of the community and exerts a definite and salutary influence in the town and township.

On the 14th day of January, 1891, Mr. Flint was united in marriage with Luella Sandy, the daughter of Aaron H. and Amanda (Allee) Sandy, and they have become the parents of three children, namely: Sidelia S., a college student at Terre Haute; Dolly F. and Sandy A., who are still members of the home circle and attending school in Cloverdale.

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Politically Mr. Flint is a Republican and takes an active part in local public affairs, though he is not a seeker after the honors or emoluments of public office. Fraternally he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern \\'oodmen of America. Religiously he and his wife are members of the Christian church, to which they give an earnest and liberal support. ]Mr. Flint is regarded as a man whose integrity of principle is unquestioned and he is a man of friendly disposition, consequently is popular in business, fraternal and social classes.

David Moser

.\mong the sturd_\' pioneers of Putnam county \\'as David Moser, the son of ^Michael and Rebecca (Stevens) IMoser. He was born in Jefiferson township, this county, August 14, 1S26. He grew up in the rude log cabin that his father built as early as 1824, when the county was very sparsely settled: He received some schooling at Cloxerdale, walking three miles night and morning. Early in his boyhood he knew what hard work meant. On November 15, 1866, he married Sarah Ann Bryan, daughter of William J. and Dulcena (Myers) Bryan. She was born in [Montgomery county. Kentucky; her father, born August 18, 1796, was the son of Andrew and Mai-\^ (Jack) Br}-an. The Bryans first came from Ireland and, penetrating into the interior, located first in Bourbon county, Kentucky, later moved to Montgomer}- county, that state. Dulcena Myers was born December 13, 1819, and was the daughter of Henry and Rebecca Myers. Her parents came from Kentucky and settled near Bainbridge, Putnam county. Dulcena Myers spent her early childhood in Bourbon and Montgomery counties. Kentucky, and was brought to the northern part of Putnam county when she was a little girl, her parents being among the earliest settlers there : they died a few years later and she went back to Kentucky where she grew to maturity and was married.

To William J. Brv-an and wife six children were born, namely: Sarah Ann. Mary .Mien. Margaret Jane, ^^'illiam Andrew. Maria Amanda and Rebecca Elizabeth.

In 1846 the Bryan family came to Putnam county and located in the southwest corner of JefTerson township. A year later he bought a farm five miles south of Greencastle on the National road where Westland is now located, his farm consisting of two hundred and seventy acres. Mr. Bryan later bought more laiul and lived there until his death, June 17, 1875, his widow surviving until April 10, 1902, dying at the age of eighty-two years, Of the children of William J. Bryan and wife only three survive, Sarah A., Mary Allen and Margaret Jane. The first named married David Moser, November 15, 1866, and this union resulted in the birth of seven children; the eldest. Louis Albert, died when one year and eight months old; Dr. William Andrew; Verna May died September 18, 1907; Laura Ellen married Otto McCoy and lives on the Bloomington road, two miles north of Cloverdale ; she is the mother of two children, Hazel Marie and Elbert Moser ; Ida Dulcena married L. F. Cradick and li\es two and one-half miles north of Cloverdale on the Bloomington road ; she is the mother of three children, Zella Fayne. Leo Moser and Gilbert ; Myrtle Florence married Jessie Cline, of Cloverdale, and they are the parents of four children, Dorothy Drew, Clifford Moser, Emory Lee and Claudie Aladge ; Emory L. married Minnie Cline and li\-es at Lawes, California, and they have three children, Glenn Closer. Geraldine and James Meredith.

Mr. and Mrs. Moser lived on his father's place for eleven months after their marriage, then bought a farm of lifty-eight acres in section 21, Jefferson township, and lived there three years, then bought a farm west of the home place. His father died in March, 1872, then David Moser and family moved back to his father's place which has been the familv home ever since.

Mr. and Mrs. David IMoser while yet young in years became members of the Christian church to which they were always loyal, Mr. Moser having taken considerable interest in the affairs of the church and was alwavs a regular attendant upon its services. The death of this good man occurred ALircli 24. 1883. Mrs. Closer still makes her home on the old farm, but spends her winters in Belle L^nion with her sister. ALary Ellen Bryan.

It would be presumptuous for the biographer to introduce to the readers of this book Edward Newgent. who is well known throughout the countv and regarded by everyone knowing him as one of Clinton township's leading citizens. He was born here, in the house which still shelters him, April 26, 1843. and, with the exception of a decade, from 1868 to 1878, has spent his life in the same dwelling, which was built in 1830. He is the son of Edward and Elizabetli (Pugh) Newgent, the former born in Shelby county, Kentucky, January 8, 1801. and the latter in the same vicinity, November 17, 1800. Thomas Xewgent, father of the former, was a Virginian, who mo\'ed to Kentucky, thence to Indiana, where he died ninety-four }ears ago. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. A twin brother, John, also came to the Hoosier state, later, and settled also in Clinton township, Putnam county, where he remained until his death; his sons. Thomas and Richard, still live here, also two daughters, Martha Ann Newgent and Eliza, wife of Joseph Jewett. It is thought that Edward Newgent came to this locality in 1825, settling on land which his wife's father owned, the latter having previously entered the land. Edward had but seventy-five cents in cash when he arrived here, but he owned some tools, and with the assistance of two sons, Charley and Richard P.. he erected a cabin near his present home and they began keeping house in that, their nearest neighbors being three or four miles away. An Indian trail crossed near the cabin, and the woods were so thick that he once got lost on his own land within one-eighth mile of his cabin, the Indians telling him the way to his own home. Pie set to work clearing his land. burning up what would now be very valuable walnut and poplar timber; but in time he prospered and owned two Inuulred and forty acres of land. He also owned two tracts of one hundred and sixty acres each in another part of the township, placing a large acreage in cultivation. He did a great deal of hauling w ith a large four-horse team, taking large cjuantities of wheat to Lafayette and bringing back goods for the local stores and even hauled between Louis\ille. Terre Haute and other remote cities. A trip of four days over the swamps to Lafayette was often made where he sold wheat for thirty-seven and one-half cents per bushel. The death of this rugged old pioneer occurred on June 22. 1853, as a result of erysipelas, resulting from vaccination. He had done a great deal of hard work and had succeeded. His first eighty acres of land was valued at one hundred dollars, for which he gave a horse, worth eighty dollars, and twenty dollars in cash. As intimated, the present Newgent home was built in 1830; it is of hewn poplar logs and was doubtless the best dwelling in the county at the time. It was always open for all who passed that way. The first meeting of local Christians was held in it until a church house could be built. Mr. Newgent often made trips to Kentucky on horseback, bringing back apple and locust trees, three of the apple trees still standing. He was active in township aft'airs, holding many local offices, as a Democrat. He is buried on the farm in the family cemetery. His widow survived to a remarkable age. dying in her ninety-third year, in March, 1893. She became head of the family at her husband's death and reared the children, taking charge of everything until 1878. She remained on the old homestead until her death. Their family consisted of t\\ elve children, eleven of whom reached maturity, namely : Charles, who lived in Clinton township, died March 5, 1909, at the age of eightyseven vears : his son Joseph lives on part of the original farm. Richard P. graduated in medicine at Louisville, practiced in Iowa, then Putnam county, living on his farm near the old home until advanced in years, dying in April, 1906. Xancy married Zimri Manker, and two children were bom to them; she is deceased. Sarah is the widow of Thomas Sigler, of Clinton township. John, who secured one hundred and sixty acres of his father's farm, was county commissioner for two terms, dying when past seventy years of age. Polly is the widow of Ezekiel White, of Parke county, this state. Isaac lives in Pulaski county, Indiana. Lewis P. died when thirty-eight years old. Lucy, the wife of Joseph Moler, lives on the place adjoining the old home. Edward, of this review. Wallace, who now lives in Russellville, has fanned part of the old homestead.

Edward Newgent, of this review, was ten years old when his father died. He remained with his mother during her lifetime, but spent ten years on another part of the fann. When the division of the home place was made in 1878, Edward got the home and forty-nine acres and there he and his mother lived until the latter's death; he delighted in caring for her. although she was helpless for many years. He had added eighty acres which ad-joins the home place, having made farming his principal life work; he has been somewhat handicapped for years by failing health. He has kept the old place well improved and has kept the buildings well repaired. His barn was built the year he was born, 1843, of solid hewn timbers.

Edward Newgent was married on November 29, 1865, to Martha Jane Holland, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Gooden) Holland, farmers of Clinton township, where Mrs. Newgent was born and reared, her birth occurring in 1849, she being sixteen years old at her marriage; her death occurred March 5, 1903. The following children were born to this union : Helen, wife of Charles Maddox. who Hves on part of the old Newgent homestead; William \\'arren is a farmer in Clinton township ; Lizzie married John Knauer and died, leaving three children; Thomas H., who works part of his father's farm, married Millie Cricks; John lives at home with his father and assists in operating the home place.

Mr. Newgent is a Democrat, but has not been an office seeker. He is a peace loving, honest man, never brought suit nor had one brought against him. and he was never called to serve on a jury except before a justice of the peace.

Joxathax Houck

Among the representative farmers of Putnam county is Jonathan Houck, who is the owner of a fine landed estate in Washington township, and is carrying on the various departments of his enterprise with that discretion and energA" which are sure to find their natural sequence in definite success. ha\nng always been a hard worker, a good manager and a man who wouki quickly grasp an opportunity when it arose, and being fortunately situated in a thriving fanning community, it is no wonder that he stands today in the front rank of the agriculturists and stockmen of this favored locality.

As is noted elsewhere in this volume, the Houck family is and for generations has been one of the leading and most influential families of Putnam county and owing to complete records of David Houck, father of Jonathan, also Oliver N. and James E.. brothers of Jonathan, appearing under separate captions here, this review will deal exclusively with the immediate subject.

Jonathan Houck was born in Clinton township, this county, two miles south of Clinton Falls. ]May 31. 1S52. and he spent his boyhood days on the home farm, remaining there until he was twenty-four years old. associated with his father. He attended the home schools during the winter months and got a fairly good education, to which he has added constantly by home reading and contact with the world at large. Early in life he- decided to follow the vocation of husbandman and he and his brothers. Edward and Henry, bought a farm of their father, consisting of two hundred acres, - the land that joins Jonathan Houck's present farm, - and this trio of brothers worked the same very successively for several years ; they also farmed some in ^Madison township and dealt in live stock extensively, buying and feeding large numbers from time to time. He and his brother Edward bought his present farm and continued to work together six or seven years. Together thev bought the father's old farm, and divided it. Edward taking the old home part at Hamrick Station and Jonathan the present place, the old Thomas Gilmore farm, his widow having built the fine house that still adorns the place, some fifty years ago ; it stands on a blufif overlooking the beautiful vallev of \\'alnut creek and is one of the finest homes in the township. Although built a half century ago. it is still substantial and attractive, having all modern conveniences which Air. Houck has added, located near the interurban line, seven miles southwest of Greencastle. It is not only known as one of the most attractive places in the county, but al.so as a place of hospitality, Mr. Hoiick and his family being genial and free-hearted entertainers to friends and wayfarers who by chance pass this way. The farm contains two hundred and six acres, one-half of which lies in the bottom. It is all under excellent improvements and has been so skillfully cultivated that the richness of the soil has in no wise diminished. Here Air. Houck carries on general farming in a very successful manner, sometimes handling stock in partnership with his brother Edward, dealing in large numbers of both cattle and hogs, often as many as three car loads of cattle and three hundred hogs at a time; they are widely known as buyers of stock cattle. Mr. Houck has in every way improved his farm, by laying some tile, etc., to make it rank with the best famis of the county, and it is one of the '"show" places of his locality. He has given it his exclusive attention, not caring to lead a public life.

Jonathan Houck married, on January 6, 1876, Alice Landes, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Hillis) Landes, both now deceased, the family home being now owned by Christian Stoner, who was named for his grandfather. For further details of this family see sketch of John L. Hillis.

To Mr. and Mrs. Houck two children have been born, namely: Laura, died in May, 1899, at the age of sixteen years; Lloyd, who is assisting his father on the home place, was born October 12, 1885.

Herbert S. Allee

Among the intelligent, enterprising and successful agriculturists of Putnam countv, none stands higher in public esteem than Herbert S. Allee. who operates a well cultivated and productive farm in Jefiferson township. A native of the township in which he lives, he has always enjoyed the confidence of all who know him and he justly merits representation in this work.