Putnam County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 5 of 16)

Mr. Allee was born in Jefiferson township, this county, on August 22, 1876. and is a son of Francis 'M. and Sarah E. (Sandy) Allee. who receive specific mention elsewhere in this work. Mr. Allee was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the public schools, being a graduate of the high school at Mt. Meridian. He became a practical farmer under the intelligent direction of his father and he remained on the home farm until 1903. when he located on his fine farm of two hundred and forty acres in section 21, Jefferson township, where he now resides. On this place he erected a commodious, well arranged and attractive residence and the place is othenvise well improved in e\eiy respect, its general appearance indicating the owner to be a man of sound judgment and excellent discrimination. He is progressive in his methods and keeps in close touch with the most advanced ideas relating to the science of husbandr}'. being considered one of the leading fanners of the township.

On January ii. 1897, Mr. Allee was united in marriage with Effie Dorsett, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Hurst) Dorsett. Robert Dorsett was a son of Abijah Dorsett and a brother to Henry C. Dorsett, both well known in this part of the state. Mar\- Hurst was a daughter of Mahlon and Lucretia Hurst, and for detailed reference to the Hurst family the reader is referred to the Hurst genealog}'. which appears elsewhere in this work. To ]Mr. and ^Irs. Allee has been born a son. Xoble Franklin Herbert Allee. The familv stand high in the social circles of the community, being esteemed bv all because of their genuine worth.

Oliver Hamptox Smith

To be a successful news-writer requires much more innate ability and stronger qualities of character than the superficial observer might think. Journalism is a profession into which many enter but few remain, the recruits to its ranks dropping out before they have made a showing of any consequence owing to their lack of proper attributes. One of the Putnam county newspaper men who has proved his mettle in this particular sphere of endeavor is Oliver Hampton Smith, reporter and writer on the Greencastle Banner, who was born June 2, 1830, near Harrisburg, Fayette county, Indiana. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, who, with a colony of homeseekers. came from the state of New York in the early twenties of the nineteenth century and settled in Fayette county. His father died when he was five vears old and his mother when he was fifteen. This left him at a tender age to battle alone in life's struggles. His boyhood education Avas limited, consisting only of the meager three months' winter schooling such as the Hoosier boys and girls received sixty and seventy years ago. In these schools the teacher was paid by subscription and "boarded around." The price of tuition was seventy-five cents, one dollar and one dollar and fifty cents per "scholar" according to the age of the pupil.

to learn the cabinetmaker's trade with Joseph I. Stretcher in that city. At that time, 1846, the population of our capital city was only six thousand.

Young Mr. Smith served his time out and worked two years at his trade. About this time he became acquainted with a man who proved to be the best friend he ever had. He was a lover of young men, a Methodist preacher and pastor of old Wesley Chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, now Meridian Street church. Indianapolis. He took occasion frequently to talk to his young friend about the future and life's duties. He persuaded him to seek a better education and offered some inducements to go to college. The result was that ^Ir. Smith entered the preparatory department of Asbury University (now DePauw), at Greencastle, Indiana. This was in 185 1 and from this historic institution Mr. Smith was graduated in 1856 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he immediately began teaching, and spent over forty years in that work and the ministry in Indiana, Arkansas and Missouri, doing a great amount of good and becoming well known in both lines of endeavor. About fifteen years ago he quit professional work, and seven years ago he came from ^faiyville, Missouri, and entered upon his present line of work.

In December, 1857, Mr. Smith was married to Elvira Allen, second daughter of the late 'S.h. and Mrs. J. R. ^I. Allen, of Greencastle. To this wedlock were born five children and all are living, namely: Willis P., commercial traveler, wholesale drugs. Portland. Oregon: Arthur A., editor and proprietor of the Tribune-Times. Port Angeles. Washington: Harry M.. editor and proprietor of the Weekly and Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana; ^Irs. Harrv E. Lippmann, of Seattle. Washington; and Mrs. John M. Saunders, of Kansas City, ^lissouri.

INIr. and Mrs. Smith celebrated their "golden wedding" on December 27, 1907. Both are in excellent health and bid fair to add yet a goodly number of vears to their alreadv extended wedded life.

John Mills Walker

Few men of past generations succeeded in impressing their personality more forcibly upon the people of ^Madison township, or left behind them a cleaner record, than the late John Mills Walker, noted among his neighbors and friends alike for his hospitality, industry and strict honesty. He was born in Putnam county October 10. 1846, and he spent his life on his native heath, from which he passed to his rest September 15. 1893. at the age of forty-seven years. He was tlie son of Hiram and Frances (.Mills) Walker, the father born in Maysville, Kentucky, and they grew to maturity in that state, marrying at Bowling Green. They came to Putnam cininty, Indiana, in an early day. and located amid primitive surroundings in ^Madison township, and there their son. John M.. was born. He did not have much opportunity to attend school, but made the best of what he did have. He assisted with the work of developing the liome place and remained there until he reached maturity. On October 31. 1S88. he was married to Lucy B. Stuner. daughter of Joseph and Martha (Hall) Stoner. a neighbor girl. He became the owner of three hundred and sixty acres, on which he carried on general farming, raising a great deal of corn on the bottom lands, which he fed to large numbers of hogs and cattle and he became well-to-do. When twenty-one years of age he started out for himself, earning his first five dollars by milking for his neighbor. John 'SI. was but a lad when his father was killed, but he soon began managing his mother's affairs and he remained with her until his marriage, then she made her home witli him ; she did not liiok to him in vain for every possible care, for it was his chief delight to minister to her wants. She reached an advanced age, dying April i. 1894; she had lived to bury eight of her ten children, having experienced a great deal of trouble resulting from much sickness in the family, but she was a woman with a strong body and mind, kind, noble and good, and bore affliction patiently.

John M. Walker was not a public man. yet he took a delight in seeing his county progress and supported any legitimate measiu'e looking to the general good. He was a Republican in politics and he died in the faith of the Christian church. He was so full of energy and persistency that he injured his health and for three years prior to his death was practically an invalid. u>n cl(jse application to farming depleting his energy. He assisted his mother in the rearing of two nephews from childhood to maturity: thev were John Young and Artie Call. All that is mortal of this e.xcellent character is sleeping the eternal sleep in the Forest Hill cemetery at Greencastle.

Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John M. Walker. - James Samuel and Frances Olive, the latter the wife of Ivan Ruark, of Stilesville : she graduated at the Greencastle high school where the son, James S.. was alsi) educate<l, later spending one \'ear in Purdue Universit\', at Lafas'ette. taking the agricultural course, with a view of making farming his life work.

Mrs. ^\'alker rents the home farm, which _\ields her a good annua! income. She is a woman of many pleasing traits of character and has hosts of friends here, as did her worthy husband.

Oliver J. Shaw

Energy, sound judgment and persistency of effort, properly applied, will always win the goal sought in the sphere of human endeavor, no matter what the environment may be or what obstacles are met with, for they who are endowed with such characteristics make of their adversities steppingstones to higher things. These reflections are suggested by the career of Oliver J. Shaw, who has fought his way to the front ranks and stanfis today among the representative citizens of Putnam county. He was born in Knox county. Ohio, in 184J, the son of Upton and Susannah (Branneman) Shaw. She was the daughter of Daniel and Magdalene Branneman. each of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The former came from Vermont and the latter from Virginia. Upton Sliaw was born in >.Iaryland. the son of William Shaw, a native of Ireland. Upton Shaw and wife were married in Knox county, Ohio, and came to Indiana in 1845. The log house in which this family spent their first night after arriving here is still standing on the farm of Oliver J. Shaw. Hardly a field was cleared in this vicinity at that time - only a few "patches" here and there. Upton Shaw entered three hundred and twenty acres from tlie government, in section 22, Jefferson township, and there he spent the rest of his days, becoming fairly well-to-do. His family consisted of eight children, an equal number of boys and girls, named as follows : Leonard : Lyman ; Hesten .\nn married William Cummings : Louis ; Oliver J. ; Adeline, who married John Butler; Amelia married William Larkin ; Mary married' Sam Wright. The father of these children died about 1874. the mother surviving many years, making her home with her son, Oliver J., of this review, until her death about 1892. The reader is referred to the sketch of John Branneman for a full history of Mrs. Upton Shaw's ancestry.

Oliver J. Shaw grew up on the home farm and remained on the parental acres until his marriage, in 1861, to Mahala .\nn Runyan, daughter of John and Zaruah f.\llen) Runyan. John Runyan came to Greencastle from \'irginia. It is believed that his father's name was James, who also came to this countv from Virginia in an early day. Jolin Runyan was a tanner and farmer near Fillmore and in later life he lived near Mt. Meridian, where his wife died about 1S83, he having survived her until about 1895.

One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J. Shaw. Florence, who married Albert Farmer, a traveling salesman, and they had one child. Zella : Mr. b\-inrer died in 1896. and his widow now makes her home in Greencastle. Her mother died in .\prii. 1894.

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Mr. Shaw has dexoted his lite to farming and stock raising and has been ver\- successful in both lines, especially the latter. About 1885 he began keeping stallions and jacks, and no\v has three stallions and four jacks of excellent grades. He has raised a great number of each also horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, making a specialty of shorthorn cattle and Poland-China hogs, but he gives most of his attention to breeding horses and mules, and enjo\ s a wide reputation as breeder of fine stock, always finding a ready market for what he raises owing to their excellent quality. A better judge of all kinds of live stock would be hard to find. He is one of the model farmers of his township, owning a valuable place of two hundred and ninety-seven acres in Jeflferson township, nearly all under cultivation, all level and could be put under the plow. It is high grade soil, well kept and under modem improvements. ^Ir. Shaw has one of the largest, best and coziest houses in this part of the county and the man}- warm friends of the family frequently gather here, sharing their generous hospitality. Their dwelling was erected about 1878.

Mr. Shaw married, in 1896, Alice Runyan. youngest sister of his first A\ife. and they ha\-e one son, Oliver Upton Shaw, now twelve years old, and a lad of much promise.

Politically }i[r. Shaw is a Democrat, and he is a member of Cloverdale Lodge. Xo. 132. Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife are both mem bers of Xew Providence Baptist church. Mr. Shaw is a whole-souled, liberal and genial man, of whom everybody speaks well who have had occasion to know him or have dealings with him.

Elder Oscar F. Laxe

A gentleman who is too well known to the readers of this history to need formal introihiction by the biographer is Elder Oscar F. Lane, son of Higgins and Angeline (Thompson) Lane, born in section 11, Monroe township. Putnam county, Indiana. May 5, 1848. There he spent his early life on the home farm, attended the common schools of his township during the winter until he was twelve years old, then entered the Bainbridge Academy where he spent two years and a part of a third year. Then for one year he took private instruction in Latin, Greek and mathematics under Rev. E. C. Johnson, of Bainbridge. During the spring of 1867 he entered the freshman class of the Xorthwestern Christian L'niversity, now known as Butler College, of Indianapolis. On account of a physical break-clown he was not in the university during 1868; entering again in January, 1869. he had completed the regular course as prescribed and two studies additional, not required in this course, at the close of the fall term of 1870. He was graduated in June, 1871. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by his alma mater in 1874. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Greek-letter fraternity, being an alumnus of Rho Chapter. April 19, 1864, he united with the Christian church at Bainbridge. Indiana, under the ministrations of Elder O. P. Badger. He soon began to take part in the public worship and was given a class in the Sunday school, ha\-ing been identified with this department of church work from early childhood. For a period of twenty-two years he ser\'ed as a Sunday school teacher or superintendent and he has delivered many Sunday school addresses. When only sixteen years of age he began preaching, delivering his first discourse at Bainbridge, January i, 1865. During the fall of the same year he was licensed by the Christian church at Bainbridge to preach. In October. 1869, he was ordained in the Central Christian church at Indianapolis by Elders O. A. Burgess, A\'. K. Pendleton and Thomas Munnell a regular minister of the gospel. He preached regularly from the time of his license for churches in Putnam county and adjoining counties until he entered college. During the time of his attendance at college he preached for churches within a short distance of Indianapolis. January i, 1871, he was called to the pastorate of the Christian church of Shelbyville. Illinois. This work he continued until failing health compelled him to resign it. He had over-worked himself while in college. As a sample of his work in college during his last two years there. we mention the fact that he '"carried" seven studies, preached nearly every Saturday night and twice on Sunday, held one revival, read four thousand pages of history, took part each week as a member of a college society and prepared and delivered four literary addresses. As a result he had a bad case of insomnia. During the spring of 1872 he spent five weeks in evangelistic work in Kansas and Missouri. Returning from this trip, he resumecl his work at Shelbyville. Illinois, but in a few days he was stricken with cerebro spinal meningitis, and he lingered between life and death for a period of seven weeks ; but as soon as he could stand in the pulpit by the aid of a cane, he renewed his work. In a short time the disease returned, which incapacitated him for work for four months - in fact, he has never fully recoxered from its effects. After resigning at Shelbyville he received calls during the close of 1872 from Bloomington. Springfield and Mattoon. Illinois, and from Terre Haute. Indiana. But considering these calls involved more than liis strength would allow, he declined them. January i, 1873, he became pastor of the Christian church at Greencastle, Indiana, serving it for one year. January I, 1874, he accepted a call from the Christian church at Laporte. Indiana, which he served ti3r two years and three months, when failing health forced him to give up regular pastorial work. It was with a struggle and much regret that he was thus forced to abandon the ambition of his life at the age of twenty-seven years. At the time he left Laporte he had flattering calls from four large churches. During the fall of 1876 he moved to the farm where he now lives and began work as a farmer. After one year of moderate outdoor exercise his health was generally improved, but for three years he was able to endure but little mental work. At the close of 1879 he took work as a minister, preaching for two and three congregations. This he continued until 1903. He is now seldom seen in the pulpit with the exception that he conducts a large number of funerals. To January i, 1910, Elder Lane hail preached one thousand and fifty-two funerals, and he had declined to officiate at about as many.

As a public speaker Mr. Lane is digniiied, earnest, argumentative, logical. sometimes very impetuous and touching and always inspires thought. Some of his best efforts have been entirely extemporaneous and impromptu, wholly inspired by the occasion. He never memorized a sermon for delivery and rarely ever uses notes in a public address. His nature is positive; what he believes he advocates with all his might. His holds that no man can be true and plead neutrality on moral issues or in regard to any subject involving the well-being of humanity. He believes in doing good and being good ; first, at home and then abroad. He believes that no man should endeavor to be more genial and polite to some other man's family than he is to his own. He has all his life been an earnest advocate of temperance and has done much both in pulpit addresses and by personal effort to bring about reform. He believes just as sincerely that God-fearing men and women should not rest until the social evil is eradicated, holding that card parties never result in good, and he has never given polic}' a [ilace before principle and believes that popularity should not be sought at the expense of right doing; that nothing is worth doing that will not stand the test of infinite years.

Elder Lane has never taught school, but has given private instructions in the languages, and has three times declined the presidency of institutions of learning; however, he is a warm friend of education and is glad to pay for the support of the public schools. He was one of twenty persons to start the Foreign Missionary Societv of the Christian church in 1875 ^Y §'^'in& one hundred dollars, and is a life member of the societv. During the Civil war he twice offered his services to his county as a volunteer, being then fifteen and at his last trial sixteen years of age, but was not accepted on account of physical disability. Politically he is a Republican. While he has had a constant interest in political issues, he never had much ambition for personal preferment or taste for office. He has three times declined nomination for office when he could have been twice elected. In 1908 he yielded to the urgent call of his party to stand for the state Legislature on the temperance issue and he succeeded in reducing the majority of his opponent one hundred and twenty votes from his previous majority.

Fraternally Mr. Lane is a member of Bainbridge Lodge, No. 75, Free and Accepted Masons, having been treasurer of the same for the past five years. In 1890 he assisted in the organization of the Farmers Institute in Putnam county. The first institute had an attendance of fifty, held at Greencastle. The ne.xt five were held at Bainbridge. Mr. Lane was county chairman for three years and during his chairmanship the attendance reached six hundred. For a period of fourteen years he was state lecturer for the institute by appointment of Prof. W. C. Latta, state superintendent. During these vears he visited nearly every county in Indiana, lecturing in some of them four different times.

Mr. Lane owns the farm on which he was born and is now successfully engaged in general farming on his well tilled and well improved place of five hundred and seventy acres, which lies in sections 11, 13 and 14, Monroe township, having added four hundred and ten acres to his inheritance, proving that he is a good manager and well grounded in modern agriculture. Never robust in health, he has succeeded as a result of strong will power, which has enabled him to accomplish the work of two men, during much of his life. He has a beautiful home in which is to be found a well selected library of the world's best literature.

In November 21, 1872. Mr. Lane was married to Mary E. Wendling, a ladv of culture and refinement, a native of Shelbyville. Illinois, and the daughter of Hon. George J. Wendling, a prominent and influential citizen of that place. Mrs. Lane was born April i, 1852. Her father was born at Strassburg, Gennanv, and her paternal grandfather was a soldier under Napoleon. Mrs. Lane received a liberal education and is a gifted musician, affable in manners, strong-minded and a favorite with a large circle of friends, having been, indeed, a true helpmate in every respect. This union has been graced by the birth of eight children, named as follows: Anna L., Carrie M., Frank W.. Edwin R.. Oscar Bruce, Nellie Ruth, Elizabeth H. and Ralph. Six of these children are living, Carrie ]M. and Ralph having passed into the silent land. Thev have seven grandchildren.

Samuel A. Hazelett

The gentleman to a review of whose Hfe and characteristics the reader's attention is herewith respectfully invited, is among the successful agriculturists and fruit growers of Putnam county, who, by energy and correct methods, has not only achieved success for himself but has also contributed in a very material way to the industrial, civic and moral advancement of his place of resia liberally remunerati\-e enterprise and won the good will of his fellow men.

Samuel A. Hazelett, son of Richard 'SI. Hazelett and wife, whose life dence. In the course of an honorable career he has established himself in records are to be found elsewhere in this work, was born in Putnam county, October 20, 1849. He attended the district schools and graduated from Asbury (now DePauw) University in 1870, having made a very creditable record in that institution. He then turned his attention to school teaching, which he followed with gratifying success for a period of two years, then moved to the state of ^Missouri, where he remained several years. Returning to Putnam county. Indiana, in 1882, he took up farming and fruit growing which he has continued with gratifying results, owning a well improved farm of two hundred twenty acres one and one-half mile southeast of Greencastle, and his suburban home of forty acres one mile from Greencastle. He has a fine orchard, well kept and of splendid variety. He is well versed in horticulture, being regarded as an authority on both horticulture and agriculture. Ele has one of the most attractive, modern and beautifully located homes in Putnam county, it being e([uipped with all modern con\-eniences. such as telephone, electric light, city water service, the latter being distributed through house and barn, and the interurban railway makes a stop close by the house.

Mr. Hazelett married Ellen Tuttle, of Homer. Licking county. Ohio, on April 26, 1877. She is the daughter of Ephriam and Judith (Channell) Tuttle. both deceased, a well known family of Licking county, where she grew to maturitv and received a liberal education. They were married at .\lbany. Missouri, where her parents had moved and where ^Ir. Hazelett was engaged in fanning. The following children have graced this union: Xellie. Richard 'M. married Xellie Savage, now engaged in the grocery business in Greencastle; Richard M. was in the Spanish- American war as a member of Company I. One Hundred Fifty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He ser\-ed throughout the war but did not see active service and received an honorable discharge. Earl T.. living at Tucson. Arizona, has I)een engaged in the railroad business since he was seventeen years of age, liaving filled many positions of trust and responsibility. He has traveled around the world, spending considerable time in China and Japan where he engaged labor for railroad construction work, also engaged in railroad construction in old IMexico. Samuel Jerome Hazelett. who graduated from the Greencastle high school in 1905, is now occupying a position in the Central National Bank of Greencastle. He married Evelyn Dumas, a native of the state of Illinois. Clarence is attending DePauw University. Lawrence is living at home. Mrs. Hazelett, who is a woman of high education and culture, was acknowledged to be one of the most intellectual and charming women in Albany, Missouri, at the time of her marriage. She is prominent in the social and club circles of her community and is an active member of the Christian church. She was one of the organizers and prime movers in the Domestic Science Club of Greencastle and is actively connected with the Woman's Au.xiliary of the Farmers Institute, being frequently called to lecture before the institutes.

Politically, !Mr. Hazelett is a Republican, but he has never held office, being too busy with his private affairs to take much interest in politics ; however, his support may be depended upon in the promulgation of all worthy objects having as their issue the betterment of his county, state and nation. He is a gentleman of pleasing manners and his pleasant home is a place where the manv friends of the familv delight to gather.

Marion Edgar Cooper

One of the thrifty farmers and well known citizens of Warren township, Putnam county, is Marion Edgar Cooper, who w-as born in this community. May 17, 1868, the son of Archibald and Frances (Connely) Cooper. The father, born February 25, 1836, in this county, was the son of Archibald Cooper, who was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, January 15, 1798, and when quite voung moved to Tennessee. When sixteen years old he enlisted in the war of 181 2 and ser\'ed until its close. On April 6, 1823, he married Elizabeth Hodges, and in. October, 1834, he moved with his family of eleven children to Putnam county, Indiana, settling in Putnamville the following vear. A few years later he moved to a farm in section 10, Warren township, where he resided until his death, which occurred on April 17, 1872. He was a blacksmith by trade and built the first shop in Warren township. Mrs.

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Cooper was l)orn in Claiborne county. Tennessee. February 14. 1800. and she died January 26, 1868. her ashes now resting beside her husband's in the cemeter}- at Bethel. Of the ele\'en chiklren tiiey brought to this countv. two of them are now living - Mrs. Margaret Duckworth, of Iowa, and James C. Cooper, of Putnamville. The latter remembers a family tradition to the effect that his maternal grandmother was scalped by the Indians, and although a very small boy at the time the family came to Indiana, he remembers well when his mother placed him in the \\'agon preparatory to making the long . overland journey from Tennessee.

Archibald Cooper, Jr.. was married on December 22. 1S44. to Frances E. Connely. the daughter of Gilmore and Jane Connely. He moved with his family from Kentucky in 1834 and settled on a two-hundred-and-seventy-acre tract of land, a part of which was the old Cooper homestead. After t%vo years' residence in Floyd county, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper moved to Putnam countv, Indiana, locating on one hundred and sixty acres in section 10, Warren township, purchasing the place at the time, and he continued to make his home here for forty years, or until his death, February 11, 1904, his widow sur- \'iving until June 26, 1907. Mr. Cooper was a farmer and stock raiser. He was one of the early commissioners of Putnam county. Politically he was a Democrat ai-.d he was one of the highly respected men of his township. He and his wife were members of the local Methodist church and they are buried in the cemetery at Greencastle. They were the parents of four children. James Walter, born July 21, 1865, received a common school education and on June 30. 1S87. married Frances Williams and one child, Ethel, was born to them on February 22, 1888; J. W. is a farmer in this county, Amanda M. Cooper, now ]\rrs. Hurst, wife of a Putnam county farmer, whom she married April 15, 1888, is the mother of two children, Bonnie and George. William Albert Cooper was born Xovember 24. 1872. and he has remained single.

Marion Edgar Cooper, of this review, spent his boyhood on the home farm and received a common school education. He was married to Nellie Lewis, daughter of W, Y. and Mary E. (Clearwater) Lewis, December 24, 1899, and they soon afterward moved to an eighty-acre farm in section 10, Warren township, which his father gave him. He has prospered by close application to his work and now owns a fine farm of two hundred and fortythree acres, having made farming and stock raising his principal life work and has been very successful in each. He has a modern, attractive and well located dwelling on the National road and his place ranks well with the best in the township in every respect. He has always had the respect and con- fidence of all his neighbors and acquaintances. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They are the parents of four children, namely: Marion L., born August 2, 1902; Mary Frances, born May 27, 1904; Ruth, born April 3, 1906; Cathryn, born December 26, 1907.

James F. O'Brien

Great achievements always excite admiration - men of deeds are the men whom the world delights to honor. To attain success in any specific line of endeavor, indicates on the part of the doer a well trained mind, mature judgment and the ability to take advantage of circumstances and make them suit his purposes. But occasionally there is found a man with a diversity of talents, which if properly de\-eloped enable him to achieve distinction in as many callings as the gifts with which he has been endowed - such a man is the honorable subject of this review, a gentleman who has done much to promote the material growth and prosperity of his county and state.

James F. O'Brien is the scion of an old and well-known familv, the history of which is' directly traceable to Brian Boroimhe (pronounced Boni). the one hundred and seventy-fifth monarch of Ireland, who was killed in battle with the Danes at Clontarf, in the year A. D. 1014. According to the most acceptable data at hand, the descendants of this early ancestor have been subdivided into twelve distinct and well defined branches, the subject springing from the O'Briens, king of Thomond, in county Tipperary, Ireland, where they ha\e been represented for nearly if not quite six hundred years, and from which they have scattered to nearly every country of the civilized world. It is also a fact worthy of note that for the last two hundred vears the eldest son has been named in honor of his grandfather, the custom being retained in the family of the subject, whose father and grandfather, John and James O'Brien respectively, were natives of county Tipperar\-, the latter a son of John O'Brien of the city of Cashel.

John O'Brien was born May 27, 1822, in Cashel, of which city his brothers. William. Edward and Thomas, were also natives, a fifth brother, James by name, having been born at a place called "'The Townsland of the O'Briens," so named in compliment to the family. Owing to the limited opportunities afforded a young man in the city of his birth, John O'Brien in 1844 left Cashel and went to Dublin, and thence to Liverpool, England, and later started on an extensive tour, which included nearly everv part of

Europe and several countries of Asia. Desiring to see more of the world, he took a vessel for America and in November, 1848, landed at Xew Orleans, from which city he continued his travels imtil, rambling over many of the states of the Union, he finally, in 1853, visited Terre Haute, Indiana, where he met a young lady with whom he was pleased and he decided to remain awhde at that place. This acquaintance ripened into love and they were married. The bride was Anna Brereton, a native of Templemore, county Tipperary. Ireland, where her birth occurred on the 26th of December, 18-0.

Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien moved to Greencastle, Indiana, where their older children were born, later transferring their residence to Washington township, Putnam county, where Mrs. O'Brien departed this life in May of the year 1867. John and Anna O'Brien were the parents of six offsprings, viz: James F., the subject of this sketch; Edward, of Canon City, Colorado; John, Jr., who lived in Chihuahua, Mexico; Mrs.' Mary- A. Thacker, of Terre Haute; Sarah E., wife of William H. Cliff, of Indianapolis, and Miss Jennie O'Brien, who resides at Springfield, Ohio.

3.1rs. O'Brien's father and mother, James and Mar>- (Ryan) Brereton, were natives of county Tipperary, Ireland, where they spent the greater part of their lives. In 1850 their sons, John and Ed\wird, and two daughters. Annie and Kate, came to the United States and remained for awhile in Xew Jersey, where certain relations \\ere then living. Anna subsequently came to Terre Haute. Indiana, where she met the gentleman who afterwards became her husband, as already stated. Some time after her death Mr. O'Brien married Rachel E. Anderson, by whom he had four sons, all of whom entered the medical profession and are now successful physicians and surgeons, William M. being located at Danville, Indiana. Thomas J. at Stilelville,' Charles A. at Fillmore and Bertram M. at Xew Winchester.

James F. O'Brien, whose name introduces this review, was born at Greencastle. Indiana, February i, 1857, and when a small boy removed with his parents to the northeastern part of Washington township. Putnam countv, where his father purchased a small farm, on which the lad spent his childhood and youth. Like the majority of country boys, his early experiences in close touch with nature in the woods and fields was without stirring incident or tragic setting, his life from the time of being able to assume his share of the duties of the farm- consisting of a round of work during the summer season, while of the winter months he attended the district school of the neio-hborhood. After finishing the common branches he entered an academv at Ladoga where he made commendalile progress in the more advanced branches (26) and on leaving that institution took a short course in the State Xormal School at Terre Haute, where he prepared himself for teaching, which calling he followed for a number of years in his own county. While engaged in educational work he served two years as principal of the schools of Reelsville, and for two terms held a similar position at Manhattan, in the meantime taking up the study of the higher branches of mathematics, besides devoting much of his leisure to reading law, a profession for which he had long manifested a decided preference.

Mr. O'Brien became an accomplished mathematician and utilized his knowledge as such in civil engineering, at which he also acquired great proficiency and skill. In 1886 he was nominated by the Democracy of Putnam county for county surveyor, to which office he was duly elected that year, and such was his record that he was chosen his own successor by an overwhelming majority. He held the position, by successive re-elections, six terms, a longer period of service than any other surveyor in the county and his official career is above the suspicion of reproach.

On retiring from his office, Mr. O'Brien turned his attention to engineering for various kinds of public work, such as turnpike roads, macadam roads and streets, and later engaged in contracting for the building of such highways, over fifty-five miles of which he constructed in Owen, Lawrence, Ripley, Putnam and other counties, besides doing a large and successful business in the building of concrete bridges in various parts of the state, the latter kind of work being something new at the time he took it up, and he was required to give bond for the solidity of the structure during the first two years. Although not so extensively engaged in the above lines of work as formerlv. he still does a very large and satisfactory business, his knowledge of the laws governing public utilities enabling him to perceive at a glance the advantage or disadvantage of accepting or rejecting certain contracts.

Mr. O'Brien's career as a lawyer dates from his admission to the bar in 1897. since which time he has built up a lucrative clientele in Putnam countv, havino- for the past six years held the office of deputy prosecuting attorney for Cloverdale. the duties of which he has discharged with credit to himself and the satisfaction of the public. He is a safe and reliable counsellor, and in the drawing of legal papers is careful and an error of sufficient import to justify rewriting is never found in any instrument emanating from his office.

Personally he enjoys great popularity, having been a h'fe-long resident of Putnam county, also for many years a trusted official whose duties brought him in contact with the people, his acquaintance is very extensive and his triends are as the number thereof. Air. O'Brien is a reader and a thinker, a close observer and possessing a sound, practical mind and well balanced judgment, his advice is sought by many and his counsels have never been found unsafe or misleading. Indeed his unsupported word has the sanctity of a written obligation.

Fraternally he holds membership with the Knights of Pythias and Masonic brotherhoods, having risen to high standing in the latter, being a Knight Templar, besides having held from time to time official positions" in both organizations. For twenty years he has been a member of the Indiana Society of Civil Engineers, in the deliberations of which he takes an active and influential part.

Air. O'Brien was married in 1879 to Elizabeth Cline. daughter of Nicholas Cline. whose father, Jacob Cline. came to America a number of years ago from Germany. Lucinda Swift, wife of Nicholas Cline and mother of Mrs. O'Brien, was a daughter of Jonathan Swift, who came from Virginia to Putnam county in 1819 and was one of the first white men to settle wtthin the present boundaries of Putnam county, camping the first night of his arrival at the big spring on what is now Spring street in the city of Greencastle, there being no houses then on the town site. Later he moved to what is now Putnamville. where he established a home and reared a large family, his descendants being among the substantial people of the county at the present time. Jonathan Swift married Catherine Byrd at Cumbedain, Kentucky, about the year 1810. The Swifts in this part of the country were lineally descended from a cousin of the noted Dean Swift and possessed many of the attributes which characterized that distinguished but unique literary genius. After marriage to Lucinda Swift, which occurred June 2. 1838. Nicholas Clme settled west of Cloverdale. where their daughter. .Mrs. O'Brien, was born, she being one of a family of two daughters and seven sons, viz : James Emory, Joe. Dr. L. C. Cline. of Indianapolis, Tillman H.. Daniel L.. present mayor of Medford. Oklahoma, and Almira J., who married Alonzo E. Chamberiain, of Cloverdale.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien have three children. Lela. the oldest, being a student in the junior year of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, and making a specialty of literature and language. Florence, the second in order of birth, married C. Bruce 0"Connell, and lives at Gary, Indiana. Francis E., the youngest of the family, is a telegrapher in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad, temporarily stationed at Hermosa, Wyoming. All three are graduates from first class educational institutions and stand high in the confidence and esteem of all who know them.

Back to the pioneer days in Putnam county, when but little of the land had been reclaimed from the wilderness through which still roamed many a wild beast, is traced the interesting life record of James Edward Quinn, who has now passed on to his reward in the mystic beyond, leaving behind him a valuable estate to his family, and, what is more to be prized, an honored name. His long life was spent for the most part in the vicinity of Bainbridge, where he accumulated a large landed estate which he improved and successfully managed for years, becoming known as one of the leading agriculturists of that locality. He grew up on the farm here and was familiar with agricultural work from his early boyhood. His birth occurred in Fleming county, Kentucky. February 9, 1820, the son of John and Sarah Quinn. John Quinn was a hardy pioneer who moved to Indiana when James E. was an infant and settled in Union county, where he began life in true first-settler fashion, finally building a very comfortable home and getting possession of a good farm, which by the hardest work imaginable he reclaimed from the woods. John Quinn died in Union county after rearing thirteen children.

James E. Quinn had a very limited opportunity to secure an education, for in his youth few schools were to be found in this locality and those that were established were of the most primitive sort, and another reason was found in the fact that as soon as he became large enough he was put to work on the home farm and assisted in making the living for the family. He came to Putnam county March i. 1846. On September 19. 1844. he married Rachael Keller, daughter of John and Sarah Keller, also early citizens of Union county. She died May 28, 1879.

To this union were born three children. Sarah B.. wife of Lewis P. Leinberger. an undertaker of Bainbridge. was born October 15. 1846. They have two children, Paul, a farmer, and Glenn, postmaster of Bainbridge. John W., born March 28, 1850. died January 28, 1874. Mary Margaret, who is well known to a large circle of friends, is living near Bainbridge ; she was born

June 18, 1845. ^^'^s reared and educated in this vicinity and on October 3, 1866. she married Frank McKee, who, after a mutually happy life together of six years, was summoned from earthly scenes on December 16, 1872. Their son. James Lee McKee. who was born November 5, 1868, received an excellent education, having attended DePauw University after passing through the common schools, and he is a member of the Phi Gamma Deha society, and is a Democrat. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted ]\Iasons. Lodge Xo. 75. Bain!:)ridge. He is known as a man of excellent business qualifications antl is very successfully managing the estate left bv his father, a part of which original estate is now within the limits of the village of Bainbridge.

James Edward Quinn. after a long and eventful life, replete with honor and success, was called to his reward on September i, 1905. All who knew him. and that included everyone in this part of the county, admired him for his kindness, pleasing address to both stranger and old acquaintance, but most of all for his clean, upright and strictly honest life which he sought to make a blessing to others while gaining material success for himself, and thus, for his many little acts of kindness and for the splendid example he set the youth of this vicinity, he will long be remembered, for those who Avere accustomed to liehold his benign, patriarchial face and his silvery hair frosted by over fourscore winters, will readily forget him. for he was indeed a grand old man.

The Collivers were an old Kentucky family, which ramified in various directions until it had representatives in many states. They gave a good account of themselves wherever they were found as they possessed the sturdy qualities which assure success. Perhaps the connection boasted no stronger man than Samuel Colli ver. who during his lifetime was engaged in active affairs and exercised a wide influence over his fellows. He was born May TO, 1818. and in the prime of life came to Putnam county, settling in Russell township. He was elected to the Legislature in 1864 and took an active and influential part in its proceedings. He early saw the necessity of good highways, was one of the first to organize a company to construct gravel roads in this part of Indiana, and was secretary of the Greencastle and Crawfordsville Gravel Road Company. He held several prominent positions and was justly regarded as "a grand old man." His death occurred March 29. 1901, and the universal remark was that Putnam county had lost one of its best citizens. His widow died August 29. 1909. He married Susan E. Thomson, member of one of the best Kentucky families, by whom he had six children, one dying in infancy. The others are Nancy F., now Mrs. Dan G. Darnall ; Richard T.. of Bainbridge; Samuel J., born July 16. 1850, died August 28. 1872: Presly O., born May 11, 1852, now judge of the thirteenth judicial district and a resident of Terre Haute; \V. D.. a farmer residing at Lafayette.

Richard Thomson Colliver. second of the children, was born in Montgomery county. Kentucky. .-Vugust 24, 1848. He obtained the usual primary education and entered old Asbury University, now DePauw, where he acquired a collegiate finishing. Having early formed a resolve to become a physician, he did more or less preliminary reading in that line and eventually became a student at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1882. Immediately afterwards he opened an office at Greenup, Illinois, where he practiced till 1890. when he removed to Roachdale where he practiced ten years. In 1902 he came to Bainbridge and has practiced his profession assiduously up to the present time. He has been a successful practitioner and ranks high in his profession. He is a Mason, being a member of Roachdale Lodge. Xo. 602, Free and Accepted Masons. He also belongs to the Tribe of Ben Hur and is a Democrat in politics.

September 14, 1886, Doctor Colliver married Leona Parker, daughter of Ephraim J. and Narcissa (Harget) Parker. She was born at Bainbridge. To this union have been born five children: Presley, Frances, Clare. Mildred and Jesse.

The Colliver family is of Scotch descent. Richard Colliver came to America from Scotland soon after the Revolutionary war, settling in Virginia and later removing to Kentucky. He married Mary Hollingshead, and they had two sons. Richard and Elijah. Richard settled in Montgomery county, Kentuckv. He married Mary McCray. by whom he had ten children. Samuel, the eighth of these, was the father of Doctor Colliver. of this review. Xo other faniilv ])v the name of Colliver is known in Putnam countv.

William Boswell

Holding worthv prestige as a citizen and standing in the front rank of Putnam county's successful agriculturists, the subject of this review is deserving of mention among the representative men of his township and it is

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The Bdsweil family in this conntry were among the earlv colonists of Virginia and in various parts of the Old Dominoin state the name is still a familiar one. John Boswell. the subject's grandfather, a Virginian bv birth, was reared in the county of Botetourt and there married Catherine Pefifley. whose antecedents were also old residents and well-to-do planters. Some time in the early forties this couple moved to Clark county. Ohi(X and later came to Putnam county, settling on the west fork of Walnut creek in Aladison township where Mr. Boswell built a .saw-mill which received its motive power from the creek. His sons. Jacob. Daniel. John and Samuel, came about the same time and settled near by. also a daughter, Mrs. William Richardson, all of whom became well known residents and were greatly esteemed bv their neio-h- ])ors and friends.

Jiihn Boswell. seni(ir. developed a good farm and spent the remainder of his life in Putnam county, losing his sight and living with his son John for S(;me years previous to his death, which occurred in his eighty-first vear. his wife preceding him to the grave.

Jacob Boswell was born in Clark county. Ohio. Januarv 27. 18 18. anil was a y(3ung man when his parents moved to huliana. He earlv turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and in tlue time located on a farm in Washington township, where he remained a few years, removing thence to Clinton township, where he lived until some time in the fifties, when he purchased the farm in Madison t<jwnship on which the remainder of his days were spent, dying there on the uth of August, 1886, at the age of sixtv-eight. In connectiiMi with tilling the soil he did considerable carpentrv work in his neighborhood and was esteemed a very proficient mechanic. He was an enterprising, industrious man and an excellent citizen, devout Christian, having long been a member of the church of Brethren near his place of residence. Sarah Darting, whom Jacob Boswell married in Clay county, Indiana, departed this life at the liome farm in Madison township on the 5th day of May, 1895. She bore her husband ten children, namely: George W.. a carpenter, who was murdered some years ago in Madison township; Catherine married William Moss, and moved to Illinois, her husband dying later in the state of Arkansas. She subsequently returned to Indiana, where her death afterwards occurred. John Henry, the third of the family, moved to Illinois in 1869, thence to Missouri and Arkansas and is now living in Texas. David, the fourth of the family, is a prosperous farmer of Madison township. William, the subject of this sketch, is the next younger. Zimiri lives in Madison town.ship. also

Marv, now Mrs. Samuel Wells. Elizabeth married Robert Gardner, a Madison township farmer. Susannah is the wife of Newton Harlan, who died in young womanhood, sometime after becoming the wife of Robert Gardner, who after her death married her older sister Elizabeth, as stated above.

William Boswell, of this review, was born June 4, 1853, on the family homestead in ^fadison township and remained under the parental roof until about twenty-three vears of age, receiving in the meantime a fair education in the public schools. On August 23, 1876, he entered the marriage relation with Nica Jane \^'e!ls. daughter of Peter Wells, of Putnam county, and immediately thereafter began farming for himself on the old Boswell homestead, where he lived until the death of his wife, four years later. Mrs. Boswell was only twentv-one vears old when summoned to the Great Beyond, anfl her loss was greatlv deplored by all who knew her. She left beside her husband one son, Ora A., a railway employe at Greencastle, a daughter, Minnie May, dying in infanc}'.

]\Ir. Boswell's second marriage was solemnized on September 23, 1881, with Lucy Wells, daughter of Joseph and Delilah (Love) Wells and a half sister of Peter Wells, the father of his first wife. Joseph Wells was a native of North Carolina, where he married in young manhood a Miss Stoner, whose death occurred some years later at Crab Orchard, Kentucky. Subsequently Mr. Wells moved to Putnam county, Indiana, and purchased a tract of land which in due time he cleared and converted into a fine farm. He \vas quite a successful man, owning at one time three hundred sixty acres of valuable land, two hundred and forty in his home farm and one hundred and twenty in the same locality, which he subsequently sold. He died in March, 1884. at the advanced age of ninety-one years, being the oldest member of the Christian Chapel church when called to his reward. Mr. Wells was one of the influential men of the community and stood high in the confidence of his fellow citizens, both locally and throughout the county. He gave unyielding support to the Democratic party and was tenacious in the support of his opinions. A sincere Christian, he exemplified his faith in his every-day life and as a profound student of the Bible he was long an authority on scriptural subjects, also on cliurch history and general religious matters, concerning which he was frequentlv consulted. ^Ir. BoswelFs third wife was Delilah Wells, to which union were born two children, the first being Mar}', who married David Bennett and spent her entire life on her father's farm, dying there September 29, 1900. leaving two sons and one daughter, Joseph. Gerald and Alta. now Mrs. Charles W. Kevt, of Clinton township. The second child being Lucy, wife of William Boswell, subject of this sketch.

Mr. Boswell now resides in Madison township and has given his entire attention to agriculture and stock raising, in both of which his success has been very gratifxing. His home farm of one hundred and twenty acres is under a high state of cultivation and otherwise well improved, in addition to which he owns another farm of one hundred and sixty acres, a half mile distant, the latter also being successfully tilled and containing good buildings and other improvements. Mr. Boswell operates both farms and tills the soil on quite an extensive scale. He also breeds and raises high-grade stock, his cattle, horses and hogs being among the best in his section of the country. In politics he is a Democrat ; he keeps in touch with the times on all matters of public interest, lends his influence to all laudable enterprises and stands high in the community. Although connected with no religious organization, he is strictly moral and upright in his dealings and a regular attendant of and liberal contrilnitor to the Brethren church, with which his wife holds membership.

!\Ir. and ^[rs. Boswell have six children, namely: Alva T., who lives with her parents: Anna ^I.. wife of F. H. Alspaugh. of Oklahoma; Mary D., who married Wallace Morris, of Greencastle : Herbert D., Homer Vilas and J- Lee, the last three still at home.

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Professional success results from merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long continued effort. Prestige in the healing art is the outcome of strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of its great underlying principles and the ability to apply theory to practice in the treatment of diseases. These qualities seem to be possessed by Wellman D. Conn, one of the best known physicians in Putnam county, who, for many years, has maintained his ofifice at Bainbridge, Monroe township.

Doctor Conn comes of an excellent pioneer ancestry, the types that have made the great Hoosier commonwealth what she is today, one of the brightest states in the Union's great constellation. His birth occurred in Wabash county. Indiana. Februar\^ 9, 1861. the son of Thomas P. and Harriet K. (Julian) Conn, who were long known as substantial farmers of Wabash county.

The Doctor attended school in Cass county, this state, later taking a course at \"alparaiso College, from which institution he was graduated with honors in 1883. He began life as a school teacher and prosecnted this line of work with much success for a period of eight years in Cass county, his services being in great demand, and he bid fair to become one of the noted educators of the state when he abandoned this line of work and took up the study of medicine, which had been a desire of long standing with him - in fact, since early boyhood he had been ambitious to enter the medical profession. With this end in view he entered the Louisville Medical College, from which he was graduated in the year 1893. Thus well equipped for his work he began practice in Clark county, Indiana, practicing there for a period of five years. He was very successful from the first and enjoyed a liberal patronage, but, seeking a broader field for the exercise of his talents, in 1898 he moved to Bainbridge, Putnam county, where he has since remained, building up a large and growing practice and establishing a lasting reputation not only as a conscientious and skilled physician, but also as a man of genuine worth and integrity.

Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 75, Free and Accepted Masons, the Bainbridge Lodge of Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias, Jennings Lodge, No. 418, Tribe of Ben Hur. He also belongs to the Clark County and Indiana State Medical Societies. He takes an abiding interest in all these organizations and his influence is felt for good in all of them. Politicallv he is a Democrat, but he is too busy with professional duties to take much part in party afifairs ; however, his support can always be depended upon in the furtherance of any movement looking to the general good of the county.

Doctor Conn was married on May 26, 1895, to Nora Inez Enloe, a native of Clark county, Indiana, where she was reared and educated and where her people were long well and favorably known. One child was born to this union, Jesse Enloe. his birth occurring on i\Iay 11. 1900. and death claimed him on December 30, 1904.

Few of the earlv pioneers reached Putnam county before Clinton Walls, who removed from his native town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and arrived in Indiana in 1826. He was born July 15, 1806, learned the carpenter's trade in early life and followed it for many years, his death occurring at Greencastle in 1880. He first married Cynthia Burton and after her death espoused Elizabeth Rrown. of K'entuckv. by whom he had eight children : Sanmel Scott.

of Parsons. Kansas : Ransom H.. deceased : Jeanette C, wife of W. J. Jolmson, of Miram Park. Minnesota: Maggie B., wife of Albert Torn, of Joplin, Missouri: Orlando M.. deceased: Melvin M., of Jefferson Barracks. St. Louis: B. F.. of Parsons. Kansas.

Edward McG. Walls, second of the family, was Ijorn at Limeclale, Putnam county, Indiana, January 19, 1S55, He remained on his father's farm until si.xteen years old. when he secured employment in the olifice of the railroad station and continued in this line of work until 1899. Part of the time he was with the Monon railroad at Limedale and after leaving the railroad service he became bookkeeper for the Central National Bank, of Greencastle, remaining with that institution for five years. In 1904 he was elected county treasurer on the Democratic ticket and made such a good record that he was re-elected in 1906, Since retiring from this office he has become assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Greencastle. of which he is a stockholder. He is a grandson of John Walls, a native of Winchester. Virginia, who enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutii:)nar\- war. and served throughout the seven years of that immortal struggle in such a way as to leave a record of which his descendants are justly proud. After the close of hostilities he came west and died at Greencastle in 1836. His son Clinton was a worthy descendant of this Revolutionary sire and his popularity is attested by the fact that the people elected him county recorder, in which ofifice he served for eight years. He and his wife were members of the Christian church.

On June r. 1880. Edward McG. Walls was married to Martha E. Staley, a nati\e of Frederick. Manidand. They have had three children: Elizabeth v.. Lela E.. and Edna S., deceased. Mr. Walls belongs to the Christian church, his wife is an Episcopalian and the daughters are Presbyterians. Mr. Walls is a deacon and trustee of his church and is a member of the [Masonic or<Ier. in which he is a Knight Teni|)Iar, and U> the Red Men. He is a good business man and enjoys general public confidence.

Charles T. Peck

Indiana was little more than a wilderness when William Baker Peck joined the adventurous band that was seeking homes in the Northwest Territory. Born in Fleming county, Kentucky, in January, 1801, he crossed the Ohio in the early twenties and made his way to Putnam county. Indiana, in which he was auKjng the first arrivals. He entered wild land and spent his early manhood in the hard task of clearing and getting it in shape for agricultural purposes. He married Margarette Stevenson, a member of one of the pioneer families, whose scions became quite prominent and influential in the early development of Putnam county. Doctor Stevenson, one of her brothers, was noted as a physician throughout western Indiana and Benjamin Stevenson, another brother, was a well known minister. William Baker and Margarette (Stevenson) Peck had ten children and the father survived until July, 1886. Thomas Virgil Peck, one of his elder sons, was bom December 16. 1S33. in Greencastle township. Putnam county, Indiana, and died April 4, 190S. He was a farmer and most of his life followed that occupation, although in his early manhood he was engaged in merchandising at Greencastle under the firm name of Stevenson & Peck. He married Mary Ruth Osborn, who was born in Bowling Green, Clay county, Indiana, October 15, 1846, and is still living. Thomas Virgil and Mary Ruth (Oslx)m) Peck had four children ; Frank Everett, the eldest, who lives on the home farm, was born April 3, 1867; Emily, the third child, was bom October 24, 1872, married Ed. Bicknell, a hardware merchant of Greencastle, and has three children : William Baker, who was born October 25, 1876, is a resident of Greencastle, and is engaged in the real estate business.

Charles Thaddeus Peck, second of the above list of children, was born in Greencastle township, Putnam county, Indiana, December 16, 1868. He grew to manhood on the paternal farm with the usual experiences that fell to country bovs of his period, and remained with the home folk until he had completed his twenty-first year. The farm was close to Greencastle and he had the benefit of the city schools. Later he entered DePauw University and went through the sophomore year, after which he taught school for three years and having for some time made up his mind to become a lawyer he availed himself of the first opportunity to begin his studies. For this purpose he entered the office of Hon. Silas A. Hays, where he spent four years in diligent application to the intricacies of this learned profession, after which he felt prepared to face the difficulties involved in the active practice. In November, 1897, he opened an office in Greencastle with Francis M. Lyon, which partnership has since continued. Mr. Peck has achieved success both in law and politics, besides establishing himself as one of the leading citizens of Putnam countv. Having been an active Republican from his early manhood, he has been honored by his party as a leader and wise counselor. For some time he served as chairman of the Republican county central committee, was elected citv attornev and held that office for six years or more. Mr. Peck is treasurer and trustee of the Greencastle Orphans' Home, of which Mary L. AlHson, now Hving in her ninety-third year, was the founder and hberal endower. Mr. Peck is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Gentlemen's Literary Club and quite popular in the social circles of the city.

On June 12. 1902. Mr. Peck married Stella, daughter of Edward Perkins, a farmer of Putnam county. She is a native of the county and descended from one of the first families who settled in this part of the state. Her ancestors came here about 1830 and their descendants have occupied places of influence in all the walks of life, being important factors in the development, growth and progress of the fine agricultural section of which Putnam county is a part. Mrs. Peck was a graduate of DePauw University, class of 1895. and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity.

Alfred Hirt

The general public has ever taken pleasure in tracing the history of a man who, starting upon life's career handicapped in many ways, has pushed forward, regardless of obstacles, and finally reached the goal of success set before him. The career of the widely known citizen whose name appears above affords an impressive example of what energy, directed and controlled by correct principles, can accomplish in overcoming an unfavorable environment and lifting its possessor from a comparatively humble origin to a position of usefulness and affluence. Mr. Hirt is too well known in Greencastle and throughout Putnam county to need an elaborate formal introduction to the people of either city or county. Eminently a self-made man, honestiv earning every dollar in his possession, he ranks with the most enterprising and successful of his compeers anrl has won a place among the representative men of his county.

.Alfred Hirt was born in Biel, canton Berne. Switzerland, and is a son of Louis F. and Margaret Hirt. The latter died in Switzerland in 1843 ^"d Mr. Hirt again married and emigrated to the L'nited States when the subject of this sketch was eleven vears old. They located at Brazil. Trumbull count\', Ohio, where the father was employed as a farm hand. Owing to the straitened financial circumstances of the family, young Alfred was not enabled to attend the public schools, but took employment as a waterboy on a railroad, at which employment he remained a year. At the end of that time he went to Canal

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Dover, Ohio, and during the following six years he was employed by various men as a farm hand, for which work he received ten dollars per month. While so employed he was taken seriously ill and. his parents being too poor to give him proper attention, he was compelled to go to the county poor house, where he remained until he had recovered. He was ambitious to improve his condition as a wage earner and to this end determined to learn a trade, becoming a carpenter's apprentice. He was engaged at this work two years, receiving the first year the magnificent salary of twenty-five dollars, and the second year thirty-five dollars.

Though not a native of this country. Mr. Hirt's patriotic sentiment was aroused at the outbreak of the Southern rebellion and on November 17, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at once proceeded to the scene of conflict. The regiment first went to W'ellsville, thence down the Ohio river to Cincinnati, where they joined the Northern armv. Mr. Hirt saw three and a half years of hard and unremitting service in the defense of his adopted country- and took part in a number of the most hotly contested battles of the war. including, among others. Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge. Chickamauga and Resaca. besides many skirmishes. Though exposed many times to the galling fire of the enemy Mr. Hirt escaped without injury, and his faithful service was recognized and rewarded by his promotion to the rank of corporal.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the military servdce. Air. Hirt went to Clay county. Indiana, where his parents had located, and there followed his trade as a carpenter. About the same time he commenced trading in staves, in which line of effort he soon met with success. Buying the lumber, he himself hewed out the staves, which he sold by contract to John PufT, a manufacturer of staves. This arrangement continued until 1876, when Mr. Hirt acquired control of the stave business there, which he thereafter conducted under his own name. Under his direction and shrewd management the business rapidly assumed large proportions, the factory employing between fiftv and one hundred hands. The business increased rapidly and e\entnallv Mr. Hirt became the principal source of supply for the Eastern sta\e market and even as far west as Omaha. He also commanded a large export business, sending his products to the markets of Germany. France. Switzerland. England. Scotland and Belgium, he eventually becoming known as the largest dealer in staves in this country. His product was always in demand particularly l>ecause of its superior quality and among the noted contracts filled bv him was in 1886. when he made the staves for the largest cask e\er made, the completed cost of wliich was si.xty thousand dollars. The staves were made from Mississippi white oak. were thirty feet in length and cost twenty-five dollars each, the entire shipment amounting to seven carloads. The completed cask was from twenty-eight to thirty-three feet in diameter and was made for .Vdolph Fruensholz & Company, of Xancy. France. The cask was on exhibition at the Paris Exposition and it is stated that one hun- <ired and fort\' men, of whom Mr. Hirt was one. dinetl at one time inside it.

In 1877 Mr. Hirt came to Putnam county and bought land in Madison townsliip. still continuing the stave business, in which he had met with such pronounced success. Shortly afterwards he was elected president of the Central National Bank of Greencastle. which position he retained during the following three years, at the end of which time he retired from his hank to continue the stave business until 1903, when he accepted the presidencv of the First National Bank of Greencastle, of which he has since remained the executive head and in the stock of which he has acquired a controlling interest. In 1903 Mr. Hirt disposed of his interests in the stave business and has since devoted his attention to his banking and landed interests. The latter holdings are extensive, comprising two hundred and forty acres of Indiana farm land, over two thousand acres of timber land in the Yazoo district, Mississippi, and heavy interests in Mexican mines. The First National Bank of Greencastle is numbered among the solid and influential monetary institutions of central Indiana, much of its success being ascribed to the sound, conservative and judicious management of its president.

Politically. Mr. Hirt is a stanch advocate of Republican principles, and he has taken an intelligent interest in public affairs, but he has never been in any sense an office seeker. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, having taken all the degrees of the York rite and those of the Scottish rite up to and including the thirty-second, also belonging to the .\ncient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has also l)een a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for forty-si.x years and has held all the chairs in the subordinate lodge. He is also a member of Lodge No. 1077, Bene\olent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious creed is that of the Presbyterian church, (jf which he is an earnest and liberal supporter, belonging to the society at Greencastle.

In the largest sense of the word, Mr. Hirt has been successful, having not only gained pecuniary independence, but. what is of greater value, the confidence and esteem of the community in which he lives. He has at all times given his support to everv movement ha\-ing for its object the upbuilding and development of the city and county and his advice is sought frequently in business circles. Many young men are indebted to Air. Hirt for good advice in their private and business affairs and not a few have been materially assisted in getting a start. A man of genial disposition and easily approached, Air. Hirt enjoys a large acquaintance, among whom are many warm personal friends.

John C. Browning

Specific mention is made of many of the worthy citizens of Putnam county within the pages of this book, citizens who have figured in the growth and development of this favored section of the great Hoosier commonwealth, and whose interests are identified with its every phase of progress, each contributing in his sphere of action to the well being of the community in which he resides and to the advancement of its normal and legitimate growth. Among this number is John C. Browning, well-known contractor and business man, peculiar interest attaching to his career from the fact that his entire useful and busv life has been spent within the borders of this county, whose interests he has ever had at heart and sought to foster while laboring to advance his own. He is therefore held in high regard by all classes.

Mr. Browning was born within one mile of Greencastle. October i6, 1856. His father, Isaac Browning, born in Kentucky, was one of the early settlers here, having come from the Blue Grass state when he was twelve years of age, and located on a farm near Greencastle, where he dex'eloped a good place and lived the remainder of his life, dying September 18, 1907. He devoted his life to fanning arid was ver\- successful. He came here with his mother, his father having died in Kentucky. The mother was known in her maidenhood as Amanda Steers, and she was a native of Putnam county. Indiana. Her death occurred thirty years ago. There were seven children in this family, namely: Hannah, who married F. .\. Hays, is deceased; Harriet died when nineteen years of age; William A. lives in Kansas: John C.. of this review ; George F. lives on the old homestead ; Scott lives near Greencastle ; Sarah Belle died when twenty years of age. The Browning family lived in Kentuckv for several generations and were leaders in various walks of life there. The maternal great-grandmother came to America from Ireland, where she was born.

seventeen years of age. He was educated in the public schools and at DePauw University. He was ambitious to launch out in the business world, and at the age nientioned abo\e he came to Greencastle and began learning the mercantile business, clerking in a store for a short time, then, about 1880, engaged in the general mercantile business with F. A. Hays.' This partnership existed for four or five years, then !Mr. Browning bought the entire stock and managed the business alone for two years. He was building up an excellent patronage and making money when, owing to ill health, he sold out and engaged in the butcher business for a period of five years. This business was not new to him, for he had maintained a butcher shop all the time he was in the mercantile business. Mr. Browning next turned his attention to general contracting and building, which he has followed with his usual success for a number of years, from time to time, and during the past two years he has followed fanning and contracting exclusively. He has erected many substantial and attractive buildings as a monument to his skill and desire to please his patrons, even trying to do more than he agrees to at the outset, consec[uently he has become one of the most popular contractors in Greencastle. He takes particular pains to see that e\ery detail of his work is correctly perfomied, the best material used and the most skilled workmen employed. He l)uilt the Locust street church, the school house at Putnamville and many fine residences.

Mr. Browning was married first on September 22, 1880, to Mary O. Hays, who was born in Woostertown, Scott county. Indiana. Her death occurred in 1895, the union being without issue. Mr. Browning's second marriage was to Mary Ina Moore, on August i. 1898. a \\oman of pleasing personality and the daughter of an excellent family. To this union two children were born, the first dying in infancy. Isaac M. was born on April 17, 1900.

ilr. Browning is a stockholder and the president of the Greencastle Wood Manufacturing Company. He also owns a fine farm in Greencastle township. He has been very successful from a financial standpoint and is one of the substantial men of the county. Politically he is a Republican, and was at one time councilman from the third ward for a period of four }'ears. during which time he rendered very faithful and praiseworthy sennce to his constituents. Fraternally he is a member of Putnam Lodge, Xo. 4^, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and Mrs. Browning are members of the Methodist church. They have a beautiful and nicely furnished home which is freciuentl}- tlie gathering place for their numerous friends.

Major Higgins Lane

The eminently worthy career of such a man as Major Hig-gins Lane is worthy of conspicuous mention in such a work as the one at hand, for many valuable lessons could be gleaned therefrom by the youth whose destinies are yet matters for the future to determine. He was Ixjrn in Montgomery county, Kentucky, July 9, 181 2, the youngest son of Col. James H. and Mary (Higgins) Lane. His parents on both sides were of English descent, the first Lanes who came to this country having settled in Loudoun county, Virginia, and the Higgins family in Fairfax county. Virginia, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The land on which the Lanes located was the arena of the battle of Bull Run. At the close of the eighteenth century Col. James H. Lane moved to Kentucky and erected the first log cabin constructed in Montgomerv countv. As a pioneer he had many encounters with the Indians. It was in this humble cabin that his son Higgins first- saw the light of day, and it was from there, among the green hiiis of his childhood, that he received the simple rudiments of education, common to this early day. In the spring of 1837 he came to Putnam county, Indiana, and, pioneer fashion, began establishing a home on unimproved land, having purchased one hundred and sixty acres in section 11, Monroe township. Returning to Kentucky, he was married on August 8, 1837, to Angeline L. Thompson, second daughter of Lloyd and Elizabeth (Jameson) Thompson. Mrs. Lane was a lineal descendant with George Washington, her great-grandmother on her mother's side being Judith Ball, first cousin to Mary Ball, Washington's mother. Mrs. Lane was a woman of strong character and unusual mental poise, considerate, affectionate and kind-hearted. Her death occurred at her home in Bainbridge, October 3, 1881, in her sixty-fourth year. To these parents were born ten children, four in Kentuck-y and six in Indiana; three died in infancy and two in early childhood, three after reaching the age of maturity, namely: Mary E.. who was born in Kentucky on December 13, 1841, died November i, 1870; Carrie L., who married Eld. J. H. Banserman, was born in Kentucky on February 5, 1844, married September 8, 1867, died May i, 1877. The only remaining children are Elder Oscar F. Lane, of Bainbridge, born May 5, 184S (a full sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work), and Elder Edwin T. Lane, of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, who was born February 7, 185 1.

The bitterly hard times caused by the low tariff bill of 1837 and the repeal of the United States banking law caused the Lane family to postpone coming- to their land in Indiana until the spring of 1844. In order to make a second payment on his land. Mr. Lane borrowed money at sixteen and twothirds per cent, interest. Three years after purchasing his Indiana land he could have bought the same kind of land for four dollars and fifty cents per acre, just one-half the price paid for it in 1837, land values having greatly depreciated in the meantime. Their first dwelling in Putnam county was a log house, costmg ten dollars, including the clearing of two acres of ground. When Higgins Lane located here he became actively identified with the civil, religious and educational interests of the state of his adoption, and he never lost an opportunity to further the interests of Putnam county. He identified himself with the Somerset Church of Christ, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, in April, 1837. Convinced under the preaching of Alexander Campbell, that Jesus is the Christ. Mr. Lane was immersed on confession of his faith by Elder John Smith. As soon as he established his home in Indiana he identified himself with the Somerset church, four miles from his home, and he was soon made an elder of that congregation, serving in this capacity for fifteen years. In i860, securing the help of Elder John Smith, of Kentucky, and Elder O. P. Badger, of Greencastle. a Church of Christ was established at Bainbridge. The present house of worship of this congregation was the result of his gifts of time and means, all the lumber used in its construction coming from his farm. He served this congregation as elder for a period of over fifteen years. The confidence of his brethren in his judgment and sense of right was such that he was often called upon to adjust church difificulties in Putnam and adjoining counties. He was liberal almo.-^t to a fault : he not only freely responded to all calls at home, but for missionary work abroad as well, having been a life member of the American Home Missionary Society of the Christian church. He was an earnest advocate of education, and among the many good acts of his useful life may be mentioned the aid he rendered in securing the charter for the Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University, at Indianapolis, through the Legislature of 1849 and 1850. of which he was a member. This university was the first in Indiana to open its doors for the coeducation of the sexes. Mr. Lane was a member of its board of directors for twenty years and he assisted very liberally in its endowment. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Greencastle. In 1872, in connection with D. T. Thornton. D. S. Ward. Thomas Bayne and John Wilkinson, he organized the Bainbridge Bank and was made its president.

During the Mexican war, Mr. Lane was elected major of a militia regiment organized in Putnam county, of which George Piercy was colonel and James Fisk lieutenant-colonel. Politically he was first a Whig, as were his father and grandfather, and he was an emancipationist, having always had o-reat sympathy for the oppressed. He alhed himself with the Republican party upon its organization and maintained his allegiance to it until his death. He was a nephew of Daniel Lane, the first secrgtary of state of Indiana, and he was a second cousin of Gen. Joseph Lane, who commanded the Indiana troops during the Mexican war and who was made first governor of Oregon and then United States senator, and who, in i860, was a candidate for the vice-presidency. Major Higgins Lane was a third cousin to Gen. James H. Lane, lieutenant-governor of Indiana from 1849 to 1853. then leader in the struggle of the Kansas settlers against the Missouri slave holders, and he was the first United States senator from Kansas. He was a brother of Henry S. Lane, one of the organizers of the Republican party and chairman of its first national convention held in Philadelphia in 1856, that nominated Gen. John C. Fremont for President. He was the first Republican governor of Indiana and the state's first Republican United States senator, and he was recognized as one of the foremost political orators of his day. At all times Higgins took an active interest in political issues, but he had no ambition for personal preferment or political office, yet, as a sense of duty, he yielded to the unanimous call of his party and was three times a representative of Putnam county in our state Assembly, each time overcoming a majority against him. As a speaker he made no attempts at rhetorical flights or ornateness, but he possessed rare native ability, was logical, argumentative, practical, impetuous and intensely earnest. He rarely ever failed to carry his point. He despised sham and hypocrisy, and held tenaciously to what he believed to be ri<'-ht. His life Avas clean and open, and those who came into contact with him at once had confidence and faith in him. He was an uncompromising temperance man. having taken the temperance pledge at the age of fifteen years, which he kept until his death. He was not only an ardent temperance advocate, but he did what he could to abolish the liquor traffic. His views against the use of tobacco were as radical as were those against the use of intoxicants. His nature was positive ; he was born to be a leader of men ; he could not be neutral on anv subject involving the interests of his fellow men. His heart was tender towards those deserving sympathy and his hand was ever open to help the distressed and needy. In social circles he displayed rare qualities, both agreeable and instructive, but he never indulged in jest or foolish things. The memorv of such men - good and true - is humanity's best heritage.

The summons came to this worthy character, public-spirited citizen, generous neighbor and Christian gentleman at his home in Bainbridge, March 4, 1877. and his body is sleeping the sleep of the just in the family cemeter}' on the farm where he lived for twenty-eight years.

Levi Shelby Moler

One of Clinton township"s most progressive citizens is Levi Shelby ^Toler. born June 28, 1865, in Putnam county. He remained at home, leading the usual life of the farmer boy until he was twenty-four years of age. when he married. August 21. 18S9. Cuma Brothers, daughter of Robert and Cvrena (Vermillion) Brothers. She was born August 7, 1869. the day of the great eclipse of the sun. her birth occurring on the farm on which she is now residing. Robert Brothers was born in Montgomerv- county. Kentucky. March 2. 1S06. and died January 12. 1883. He came to Indiana when a young man, accompanied by his mother, and entered land from the government, in Monroe township. In 1852 he came to his present farm. Cyrena Vermillion was the daughter of Elder Isaiah Vermillion, a minister in the Predestinarian Baptist church, who settletl in Monroe township. The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Moler consists of one himdred and ninety acres, formerly the home of Levi The patent for the same was issued first in 1826 and secondly in 1S27 by President John Ouincy Adams, now held by !Mrs. Moler. Robert Brothers died January 12. 1883. In 1861 he built a house on the center of the place. The present neat home of his widow, Airs. Brothers, was erected in 1900. Robert Brothers was twice married, first to Julia Ann Hensley, which resulted in the birth of the following children : Louisa is the widow of James R. M. Hamrick and lives in Greencastle ; Mary Ann is the widow of Frederick Leatherman, of Greencastle ; Rebecca Brothers married Mason Vermillion, lived in Clinton township and died when over seventy years of age; Alartha Ann married Henr}- Woolery and died in Illinois; Henry died when fifty-si.x years old; he was the father of Thomas Brothers, of Greencastle; Julia Ann married Lewis Xewgent and died when twenty-eight years old. The second marriage of Robert Brothers resulted in the birth of the following children : Melissa married William Tucker, of Princeton, Kentucky ; William is a liverA-man in Greencastle : Alice married George W. W'right, of Greencastle ; Cuma, wife of Levi S. Moler, of this review. Two children have been born to Mr. and Airs. Moler, May, now seventeen years old, who is attending high school in Clinton township: Rae, another daughter, is now six years old.

At his marriage. Air. Aloler came to the Brothers homestead; he has since bought out all the heirs of the place, he and his wife now owning the entire farm, her mother making her home with them.

Air. Aloler was a Democrat and was a candidate before the primaries January 10. 1910, for county clerk. He is an excellent fanner and has been very successful in all his affairs, keeping his place in an attractive and productive condition, always producing abundant harvests under his able management. Mr. Moler is a member of Morton Lodge, No. 469, Free and Accepted Masons, and has filled all the chairs, having been worshipful master for four years.

John Cook

The family of this name in Putnam county is of German origin. John and Wilhelmina Cook emigrated to America about 1849 ^"d settled in the state of Ohio. John Cook, their son. was born at Marietta. Ohio. March 4, 1858, and was but two years old when he lost his father by death. In early manhood he came to Putnam county, located at Greencastle in 1884 and has since been prominently identified with the commercial affairs of the city. He first engaged in hardware on rather a small scale, but under his energetic management the business has steadily grown until he is now recognized as one of the leading merchants. He occupies a large store on the Renick building corner, which is splendidly stocked with everything in the hardware line. Besides the usual contents of such a store, he carries the usual number of specialties, in which he enjoys a lucartive trade. Among these are the Studebaker wagons, of which Mr. Cook is sales agent in Greencastle. He also handles the Syracuse and Zanesville plows, which are very popular with the Indiana farmers. Other taking articles are the Majestic ranges. Jewell and Garland heaters, to say nothing of an endless assortment of every tool made out of iron and steel. Mr. Cook, who has been in business at Greencastle for twentv-six vears. is very popular with the public who trade in his line as he is always affable and square in his dealings. He is a member of the Independent Order of Otld Fellows, of which he is one of the trustees, and he has held a number of offices in the lodge. He also belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men of America. He is a stanch Republican and was nominated by his party in 1909 as a candidate for councilman at large and elected at the ensuing election. However, he has never sought office, preferring to give all his time to his business. He is a Methodist in religion and altogether a model citizen who discharges everv obligation placed upon him by the law or social customs. Mr. Cook married Clara B. Furlough of Nebraska, by whom he has had eleven children, ten living. The list follows: William A., John D.. Paul F., Fred D.. Nina, Maria. Forest. Glenn, Henry and Gertrude. The family reside in a commodious dwelling situated at No. 316 Hill street.

Henry Bicknell

One of the most progressive citizens of Putnam county is Henry Bicknell, who is carrying- on the various departments of his enterprise in Greencastle with that discretion and energy- which are sure to find their natural sequence in definite success, having by his own efforts succeeded in establishing a reputation as a hardware merchant that is second to none in this locality, and in such a man there is particular satisfaction in offering in their life historic justification for the compilation of works of this character, because they honor the community where they reside by their wholesome lives and their support of all that tends to improve the community.

Mr. Bicknell was born in Greencastle. October 21, 1866, and. unlike many of his contemporaries who sought uncertain fortune in other fields, he has remained at home, believing that better or at least just as good opportunities existed right at his own door than those to be sought elsewhere. His father. George Bicknell, was born in Philadelphia county, in what is now known as Germantown. Pennsylvania. February 18. 1828. When he was quite young his parents moved to Ohio near Sidney, living there two years. When eleven years of age he came to Brunerstown. Putnam county. Indiana, with his parents, living on a farm and attending school in the winter months. Desiring to follow some pursuit other than agriculture, he came to Greencastle in 1852 and engaged in the wagon-making business, which he followed with increasing success for a period of about thirty years, becoming widely known in tiiis line of endeavor. He then went into the hardware and implement business, which he conducted until his death in March. 1907. He was a successful business man and was admired by all who knew him for his exemplary life. He married Louesa Sheldmyer, who was bom in Johnson county. Indiana. in 1844 and who proved to be a very faithful and kind helpmate. Her death occurred in Februan.-. 1905. To Mr. and Mrs. George Bicknell six children were born, named as follows : Susana is living in Greencastle : Emma is the wife of Edgar Dick, a hardware merchant in Terre Haute: George E. is engaged in the hardware business in Greencastle; he married Emily Peck, a native of Putnam county, and three daughters have been born to them. Ruth Louise. Mary Lenora and Edna; Henry, of this review, was the fourth child in order of birth; Mary is the wife of Prof. Ernest Roller, of East I.ansing. Michigan, where he is an instructor in the college, and they are the parents of two sons. George Philip and Ernest B. ; Agnes, the youngest child, is the wife of John E. Dunlavy. a druggist of Greencastle; one son. Elwood B.. has been born to them.