Putnam County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 9 of 16)

Gilbert Sinclair

Among those citizens of Marion township, Putnam county, who have, by lives of persistent and well-directed effort, not only achieved a definite measure of material success, but, what is of greater value, have gained the respect and confidence of their fellow men, the subject of this sketch is conspicuous.

Gilbert Sinclair was born on the 23d day of April, 1840, on his father's farm situated where the town of Fillmore now stands, and is a son of Richard and Katherine (Hedden) Sinclair. These parents were natives of Shelby county, Kentucky, but came to Indiana in 1840, and bought eighty acres of land, comprising the farm abo\'e referred to, and for which he paid five dollars per acre. Here he established his pioneer home in a log cabin and vigorously applied himself to the development of the new farm, which was in many respects a strenuous task. He had in his native state learned the trade of a wheelwright and this practical knowledge stood him in good stead in his new home, his services in this capacity being of great value to many in the surrounding country. In 1850 the Vandalia railroad was surveyed through his farm and, not liking the proposition, he sold the land, for ten dollars per acre. Pie then bought one hundred and ten acres of land adjoining his former farm, for which he paid the same price per acre, the place being well improved with good buildings. Subsequently, as he was prospered, he bought other adjoining land, until eventually his land holdings amounted to three hundred and twenty acres. He was a man of many excellent qualities of head and heart and he enjoyed in a large degree the respect of all who knew him. His death occurred in 1899 and his wife died in 1895, their remains being interred in the Fillmore cemetery, which land was donated by ]\fr. Sinclair for cemeteiy purposes. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair were members of the Baptist denomination, belonging to the Salem church.

near Fillmore. Politically Mr. Sinclair was an ardent Democrat. These parents had five children, namely: Gilbert, the subject of this sketch; Mary F., the deceased wife of W. H. Cowgill ; Emily died young; James W. and Marion, who also are deceased.

Gilbert Sinclair was reared on the parental farmstead and secured a good practical education in the common schools. At the time of his marriage, in i860, he went to housekeeping in a log house on his father's farm, and he has throughout his life devoted himself to the cultivation of the soil, in which he has met with a gratifying degree of success. His first purchase was forty acres, and in 1875 he purchased a forty-acre tract adjoining, onto which he moved. His energy and determination were rewarded as the years passed and he eventually became the owner of a large and valuable farm. He has given to each of his children a farm and there still remains in the home farm four hundred and fifty acres of as good land as can be found in this part of Putnam county. Mr. Sinclair has carried on general farming and has also given considerable attention to the raising of livestock, which also he has found a profitable line. Mr. Sinclair has long occupied a leading place in the community and he has served as administrator in the settlement of a number of estates and as an arbitrator in the settlement of disputes between fellow citizens.

Politically Mr. Sinclair gives an ardent support to the Democratic party, while in religious matters he gives a liberal support to all churches, having contributed to the erection and support of several.

On March 29. i860. Mr. Sinclair was united in marriage to Susan Kinsler. a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Kinsler. of this county, and to this union have been born two children, namely: Richard R. and John. Richard R., who resides on a fine farm of one hundred and five acres in Marion township, received a good public school education, after which he attended two vears each at the State Normal and the Danville Normal Schools, after which he engaged in teaching, being now employed in the schools of Greencastle. He is a member of the Christian church at Fillmore. On October 14. 1887. he married Lizzie Campbell and they are the parents of two children. Courtland C. and Irene. Courtland graduated from the high school at Greencastle. and is now a student at DePauw University. John, after completing the common school course, attended two years each at the State and Danville Nomials, and is now devoting himself to the cultivation of his fami of fifty acres, adjoining the old homestead. On August 4. 1904. he married Laura Browning, of Montgomery county, this state, and they have two children, Helen and Paul G. Besides the children mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair reared Cora B. Flynn, aged four years, a niece of Mrs. Sinclair, and she has been a member of the family for thirty years, receiving the same care and affection accorded to their own children.

William L. Torr

The founder of this family in America was William Torr. who came from England and settled in Virginia. His son. of the same name, migrated to Kentucky where he became a farmer, married and reared a family. His son. \\"illiam. w as born in Shelby county, Kentucky, where he married Maria Kimberlin and in i8:;8 came to Putnam county. He located on land in \\'ashington township, one mile south of the present homestead. James Torr, a brother of William, followed the latter to Putnam county some years after his arrival, later went to Ohio, married and then came back to Putnam county and entered eighty acres of land. He cleared and cultivated this tract, but later bought the farm in Madison township which became his well known homestead. William Torr died in December, 1842, leaving his widow with six children, the eldest fifteen years old. The widow remained on the fami. w here she reared her children. She was a fine business woman, quick witted and well read. She was a member of the Baptist church, having joined in Kentucky, and was broad-minded and liberal in her views, refusing to belie\e that part of the human race was created to be saved and part lost. She lived a widow- for thirty years and died at the age of eighty years with her mind clear to the last. Xancy, eldest of her children, married John Raw-ley, father of the district judge of the same name. She spent most of her life in Clay county, but is now living with a son. Frank S., exjudge, at Terre Llaute. James H. was William Torr's second child: the third was America, who married Alfred Miller, of Parke county, and died at the age of sixty-six years; Eliza, the fourth child, married Benjamin Leatherman and removed to Humboldt. Nebraska, where she still resides in aged widowhood: Xiles H., who was a soldier, died in Parke county when forty years old.

\\'illiam L. Torr, youngest of the family, was born in IMadison township, Putnam county. Indiana, :\Iarch 4, 1839. He remained with his mother until thirty-four years okl and from his sixteenth year had charge of the farm. \\'hen twentv-six vears old he married Ellen, daughter of

A'olney Smitli, of Alanhattan, whose father came to the county when a boy, was appointed postmaster at Manhattan and was the oldest postmaster in the state at the time of his death. [Mr. Torr by degrees bought out the interests of the lieirs in one liundred and sixty acres of the home place and when his mother died he bought the entire estate of two hundred and forty acres, of which he still retains one hundred and seventy-five acres. He has made a fine farm of the place which as a boy he helped to clear. Seventy acres of his holdings consist of fine bottom lands. Mr. Torr has always been a general farmer, raising the cereal crops appropriate to this section and keeping as much stock as his land would justify. He feeds all his own grain and makes a specialty of hogs, of which he fattens a large number for market every year. He has devoted his whole life to his farm, expended on it much thought and labor and has made a success and ranks high among the best farmers of Putnam county. His father was a Whig and he himself has been a lifelong Republican, casting his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. He has always enthusiastically supported the principles of the Republican partv and for twenty years served on the election board. His first wife died February 13, 1893, and on September i. 1896, Mr. Torr married Mrs. Mary A. Cochran, nee Neier, of Owen county. Mr. Torr's children by his first wife are as follows: William V., a resident of Washington township, has three children, Lola, Lela and Dorothy; Maggie married Albert Stoner, of Sullivan county, and has two children, Russell and Estel : Anna M.. educated at the Terre Haute Xonnal and Danville Normal, taught for thirteen years in Putnam county, including several terms in the Greencastle schools, and died September 12, 1909, aged thirty-eight years: Arthur D.. a resident of Farmersburg. Indiana, has five children, Raymond. Stanley, Donald, Frances and Helen ; Minnie, a graduate of DePauw University, has for six years been a teacher of histon.- in the Connersville high school: Ross, a resident of Farmersburg, has three children, Irene, Glenn and Gladys Marie: Emma married J. H. Pitchford, telegraph operator for the Big Four railroad at Fillmore. Indiana, and has two children. :\Iinnie Almeda and Mildred Ellen; Edwin, on the farm with his father, married Martha Best and has two children. Margaret Ellen and Ma.hd Grace. Mr. Torr has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at ^It. Olive for fifty years, and has always taken an interest in religious work. With the exception of Philip Hutcheson. Mr. Torr has lived longest of any man in this vicinity. He is a fine type of the best class of the old-time citizen and understands the farming business from the ground up. During his long life he has proven himself a dutiful son. a kind neighbor and true friend, fulfilling all duties Ijoth public and private.

Few pioneers of this \icinitv so indelibly impressed their personalities upon their felK^w men or did more for the ,£reneral uplift of Putnam countv than the late Isaiali X'ermilion. who was duly homered and respected by all whii knew him for his long life of industry and straightforward dealings with his fellow men, and it \\as a rare treat to \isit his hospitable fireside during his last }"ears and listen to his interesting reminiscences of the past histoiy of this localitv which he saw and helped develop from practically a wilderness to one of the thriving communities of the great commonwealth of Indiana. He was born five miles northwest of Greencastle, December 2. 1838. the son of Joel and Xancy (Shaw) Vermilion, the father a native of Tennessee, from which state he came to Putnam county. Indiana, as early as 1830. He was a minister of the Baptist church, in which noble work he became known to all the old settlers, and he did not collect a penny for his services, being one of those few and noble spirits who delight to ser\-e others even at the expense of their own interests. His death occurred in 1873, his widow surviving until December 4. 1874. They were the parents of a large family, rearing eight children to maturity.

Isaiah \'ermilion farmed until he was nineteen years of age. gaining a somewhat limited education in the schools of his day. He started on liis inisiness career with only twenty-five cents, and, by thrift, industry and economv. he accumulatetl rapidly and his latter years were spent in comfort and in the nn'dst of such life's luxuries as he desired. He began the dry goods business with his brother. Thomas, in 1857. under the fimi name of Vermilion Brothers, in Mt. ^leridian, just half way between Terre Haute and Indianapolis, on the National road. This was a successful venture, but, desiring a broader field for his operations, Mr. Vermilion came to Greencastle in 1868 and embarked in business, buying an interest with Xeese & Elliott, the firm then changing to Xeese. Elliott & Vennilion. which met with varied success until 1871. when Wilds Jones purchased the holdings of Xeese and Elliott, the firm then changing to \'emiillion & Jones. In 1875 J. P. Allen purchased the interest of Mr. Jones, then the style of the firm was Vermilion & .Alien, the fonner selling out in his interest to the latter in 1879. In that year he opened business in South Greencastle with \\'. H. Howe as Howe & \'ermilion. In 1881 Xelson Wood bought Mr. Howe's interest and in 1883 ^It. Vermilion sold out to Mr. Wood. In that year he re-engaged in the dry goods business at X'o. 22 West \\'ashington street, where he remained with his usual success until his death, which occurred September 5, 1908, ha\ing been engaged in business in one place for a period of twenty-five years consecutively. He was one of the best known merchants in this and adjoining counties and his customers were his friends owing to his uniform kindness and his honesty in dealing with everyone.

Mr. V'ermilion was a noted church worker and the local Baptist congregation owed much to his liberality of both means and time in forwarding the interest of the church, always taking a dehght in its affairs. Being an earnest worker, he held all the offices in the church and he never missed a meeting. He carried his religion into his business and his every-day life and his genuine honesty and sincerity was never questioned. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and he was a Democrat in politics, but never sought office.

Mr. Vermilion married, on January 12, 1865, Caroline E. Elliott, daughter of McCamy and Harriett (Sherrel) Elliott. She was born in Putnam county, October 12, 1847. Her parents came from North Carolina; her father, also, was a Baptist minister; he lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years, dying February 15, 1906. his wife having preceded him to the grave on December 24, 1892.

^Irs. Vermilion was called to her rest in 1893. She was an excellent woman and took a great interest in religious affairs. Seven children were born to ]\Ir. and Mrs. Isaiah Vermilion,, four of whom are deceased; those living are. Miss Claude, of Greencastle; James E., of Greencastle, and Flossie, wife of Charles Hausfhland. of Greencastle.

Some of the best improved farms in Putnam county are to be found in Monroe township, the owners of which are men of indefatigable industry, practical ideas and progressive methods. Among the successful agriculturists of the township is numbered the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He has by his earnest and consecutive efforts brought his farm to a high standard of excellence and is looked upon as one of the reliable citizens of the township.

Thomas T. McKeehan was born in Whitley county. Kentucky. November 3. 1862. and is a son of Peter and Lida (Hart) McKeehan. He was reared and educated in his native county, his education being obtained in the common schools. He was engaged successfully in teaching school there for a time, and in 1886 he came to Putnam county, where he has since resided. He and his wife are the owners of one hundred and seventy acres of fine and fertile land, eligibly located, and on which are raised all the crops common to this section of the country. This land was inherited by Mrs. McKeehan from her father, the late Jacob Huffman, one of the prominent and well-known old pioneers of the county. The farm contains many excellent improvements, including a comfortable and attractive residence, a commodious and well arranged barn and other necessary outbuildings, while the well kept fences and other improvements indicate Mr. McKeehan to be a man of excellent taste and sound judgment.

On Januar}^ 22, 1893. Mr. McKeehan was united in inarriage with Alice Huffman, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ellen (Stadler) Huffman, and to them have been born four children, namely : Frederick, bom September 27, 1895 : Paul, born Januan.- 29, 1897: Frank T.. born July 2(), 1900; Lawrence, born August 17, 1905.

In politics ^tr. McKeehan gives a stanch support to the Republican part}- and takes an acti\'e interest in local public affairs, though not a seeker after pul)Iic office. Religiously he and his wife are members of the Christian church, to which they give an earnest and liberal support. Fraternally he is a member of Bainliridge Lodge, Xo. 75. Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master. Possessing marked social qualities, he easily makes acc|uaintances and wherever kno\\n he has many warm personal friends, who respect him for his genuine worth.

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This is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a producer of wealth. He simply takes advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine and the refreshing rains, and, applying his own hands and skill to nature's gifts, he creates grain, hay, livestock, etc., all of which are ab.solute necessaries to the inhabitants of the world. The commercial world has come to realize his importance and has surrounded him with many conveniences not thought of fifty years ago. The inventor has given him the self-binder, the riding plow, the steam thresher, and many other labor-saving devices. And the fanner has not been slow to take advantage of the improvements thus offered. Among the up-to-date

Aaron Jent was born July 10, 1849, ^"*^ '^ ^ ^o" °^' Lemuel and Elizabeth (Connor) Jent, who were natives of the state of Kentucky, where they were reared and married. Subsequently they came to Putnam county. Indiana, being numbered among the early pioneers of this locality. The father died on March 4, 1859, and the mother on June i. 1903. They became the parents of eleven children, of whom but six now survive, namely: John, ]Nfarv, Mrs. .\nn Perkins, Mrs. Susan Coverdell. Aaron, the subject, and Louisa E.. who, with the subject, occupies the old homestead.

Aaron Tent was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the common schools of the locality, the schools of that early day being far inferior in many respects to those of today. He was early inured to the labors of the farm and has devoted practically his entire life to agriculture, in wliich he has been fairly successful. He and his sister Marv- are now residing on a fine farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Floyd township, they having inherited this land from their mother. They have applied themselves assiduously to its cultivation and have maintained the place at a high standard of excellence. !vlr. Jent has been a hard working man and has made many permanent and substantial improvements on the place, not the least of which is a comfortable and attractive residence, which has recently been completed and which contains many modern conveniences and which is considered one of the best homes in the community.

Politically Mr. Jent gives a stanch support to the Democratic party, but is in no sense a seeker after public office, preferring to devote his aitention to his business affairs. He is a man of splendid parts and stands high ii: the estimation of his neighbors and acquaintances.

Among the members of the older generation of famiers in Putnam county, Indiana, none occupy a higher standing in their community than the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. Long residence here has but served to strengthen the hold which he has enjoyed for many years in the hearts of those who know him and now. in the golden sunset of his life, he is enjoying the rest which his former years of toil have so richlv entitled him to.

Pltxa.M Coun'Ty, Indiana

Elijah Cooper Wain is a nati\e of the old Buckeye state, ha\ing first seen the light of day in Highland county. Ohio, on March 7, 183S. He is a son of John and ^Martha (Wilkinson) Wain. The father was a native of \'irginia and was a pioneer settler in both Ohio and Indiana, coining to the latter state in 1839 and locating in Putnam county, where he took up the pursuit of agriculture, in which he was engaged up to the time of his death, which occurred in August, 18S9; his wife died in August, 189J. Politically he was first a Whig and on the dissolution of that party he became a Republican to which party he gave an earnest supp(5rt. His religious membership was with the Christian church, in the various activities of which he took a prominent part. To John and Martha Wain were born the following children: Samuel, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, born February 19, 1836, who became the wife of Allen Huffman, of Hamilton county, Ohio; Elijah C. the subject of this sketch; Mary J., born January 23, 185J, is the wife of John S. Black and li\es at Bainbridge, this county.

Elijah C. Wain received his education in the schools of Flo\d township, where he has resided continuousl}- since coming to Indiana - in fact, he has never lived more than one and a half miles from the spot where his parents first located in this county. The school house in which he studied, and to which he was compelled to walk three miles, was built of logs and was furnished in the typical style of that period, the furniture consisting mainly of puncheon seats and a rude desk for the teacher. But the lessons were well learned there, despite the unfavorable surroundings and Mr. \\'aln laid there the foundation for a good fund of information, being now considered a well informed and intelligent man. He early became an assistant to his father in the work of the farmstead and he wisely concluded that in husbandry lay his life work. At the age of twenty-three years he bought sixty-one acres of land, to the cultivation of which he devoted his energies with such success that he was enabled to buy other land until at one time his estate aggregated two hundred and forty-two acres. He has since disposed of some land, being now- the owner of one hundred and sixty acres, which is most eligibly located, a magnificent view of the surrounding country being possible from the homestead. The latter is a comfortable and attractive brick building, located on a pretty knoll, and about it there is an air of comfort and a spirit of hospitality is ever there in evidence. Mr. Wain gives his attention to general farming operations and stock raising, in both of which lines he has been successful to a gratifying degree.

During the Civil war Mr. Wain gave practical evidence of his patriotic spirit by enlisting in the Seventy-eighth Regiment Indiana A'olunteer In- fantry, with which he served sixty' days, his services consisting mainly of picket duty. He keeps aHve his old army associations by membership in the Grand xAnny of the RepubHc, belonging to the post at Bainbridge, of which he has served as junior commander.

In politics Mr. Wain renders a stanch allegiance to the Republican party, as did his father before him, and he has at all times evinced a commendable interest in local public affairs, in which he has played an influential part, though never a seeker after official honor.

Mr. Wain has been married twice, first on January 8, 1862. to Man.' R. Coffman. the daughter of Nicholas and Lavina (Dicks) Coffman, natives of Kentucky. To this union have been born nine children, of whom seven are dead, namely: Samuel, Marguerite (widow of Joseph M. Case, who died April 17. 1906, leaving two daughters), Bessie, Mattie, Olive, Grace, John, Leonard and Mary. The mother of these children, who was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died on November 26, 1894, and on the 20th of April, 1898. Mr. Wain married Rebecca J. Davis, of Hamilton county, Ohio, there being no children by the last marriage. Mr. Wain's life has been characterized by high ideals, strict integrity, indomitable industry and amicable relations with all, being thus deserving of the respect and esteem which is universally accorded him throughout the community.

John Huffman

An enterprising farmer and representative citizen of Putnam county is John Huffman, who is known as a man who, in all business affairs, is energetic, prompt and notably reliable, justice having ever been maintained by him in his relations with his neighbors and all others with whom he has had transactions, and while he has been watchful of his business and of all indications pointing to prosperity along his chosen line of work - agriculture and stock raising - his efforts resulting in the acquirement of a very satisfacton.' competence; yet this has not been alone the goal for which he has striven, for he belongs to that class of representative American citizens who promote the general prosperity while advancing individual interests.

John Huffman was Iwrn in Putnam county, Indiana, March 26, 1868. the son of Jacob and Sarah Ellen fStadler) Huffman, A sketch of these parents is to be found elsewhere in this volume.

ing the summer months and thus learned how to manage crops while a ver\' young man. and having followed this line of work all his life he now finds himself ver}- comfortably fixed in reference to material affairs. He now owns over two hundred and sixty acres of first-class land in Monroe township, the vicinity where the Huffmans have so long resided: his land has been very highly improved and from it abundant harvests are reaped from vear to year. It is well fenced, drained and is kept clean and always attracts the attention of the passerby. He has a well located, modern and comfortable dwelling and substantial and numerous outbuildings, together with the latest impro\'ed farming machinen,'.

Mr. Huffman is well known as a stock breeder and raiser, always keeping some e-Kcellent stock on hand which finds a read}- market owing to its excellent quality, for he certainly understands every detail of the stock business as is evidenced by his continued success in handling stock for many

On September 26. 1894, Mr. Huffman married ^lary Buis, daughter of George W. and Polly (Patterson) Buis. a well known family of this township, where they came from tlie state of Kentuckv'. of which they were nati\'es. To Mr. and ^Irs. Huffman two children ha\-e been born, namely: Walter A.'s birth occurred on June 2, 1896; he is attending school at Bainbridge; John Morris was born June 22. 1906.

Mr. Huffman is a Democrat and he takes more or less interest in the affairs of his party. At one time he served very acceptably as county road supervisor.

John Hexry Nichols

Reared to the sturdy discipline of the homestead farm, during all the succeeding years of his life John H. Nichols has not wavered in his allegiance to the great basic art of agriculture. To the public .schools he is indebted for the early educational privileges which were his, and he duly availed himself of the same, while he has effectively broadened his knowL edge through active association with men and affairs in practical business life which has placed him well in the front rank of citizens of Marion township. Putnam county.

John H. Nichols was born October 10. 1863. and is a son of Harvey and Jemima T Clark) Nichols. His paternal grandparents were Adam and Anna Nichols, who came to Putnam countv about 1830 and built a log cabin on an eighty-acre tract of land which he had entered. This land he cleared and eventually developed into a good farm, the tract lying about a half mile northwest of Mount Meridian, Marion township. Here they continue to make their home in the old log house, depriving themselves of the comfort of a more modern house that they might be better able to contribute to the building of churches and other religious and charitable objects. Adam Nichols died at the age of seventy-seven years and his wife at the age of fifty years, their remains being laid to rest in the family burying ground at Mount Carmel. this county. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Harvey, Margaret. Elizabeth, Henry, Anderson, Martin and Samuel.

Harvey Nichols was reared under the paternal roof and began his active life on his own account on a rented farm, which he continued to operate until near the close of the Civil war. when he offered his services to his country, remaining in the army until the close of the struggle. On his return home he bought a lifetime right in a forty-acre farm and engaged in its cultivation. His earthly career was, however, cut short, his death occurring at the early age of thirty-seven years, in 187 1. His widow, in 1879, became the wife of Leonard H. Fortune, of this county.

John H. Nichols spent the years of his youth and young manhood on the parental farmstead, receiving his education in the common schools. On the death of his father the management of the farm devolved upon the subject and his mother. Subsequently he bought his mother's interest in the fai-m. on which he has continued to engage in farming and stock raising, in which he has uniformly met with the most gratifying success. He has acquired the ownership of adjoining land and now has one hundred and ninetv acres of as good land as can be found in the township. The place contains improvements of a high order, comprising a modern and attractive residence, substantial barn and outbuildings and well-kept fences, the general appearance of the place indicating the owner to be a man of good judgment and taste.

On March 31, r886, Mr. Nichols was united in marriage to Nancy Catherine Arnold, a daughter of James and Sally Ann Arnold, and they have become the parents of the following children : Ira U.. who married Nellie Zeiner, and they have one child, Orla Glenn: Delia O. is the wife of Elisha Zeiner, a farmer in Flovd township; Ada E., Harvey C. and James Russell are at home. Religiously, J\Ir. and Mrs. Nichols are members of the Christian church and he is a member of the official board of the same, being a deacon, and also secretary and treasurer. In every avenue of life's activities in which he has engaged Mr. Nichols has performed his full part and because of his splendid personal qualities he holds the confidence of all who know him.

The science of agriculture - for it is a science as well a? an art - finds an able demonstrator as well as a successful practitioner in the person of John W. Hanks, who is widely known in central Putnam county, both as an up-to-date agriculturist and a saw-mill and lumber man. He comes of a well known and highly honored pioneer family, a detailed history of which is to be found on another page of this volume, under the caption of Alvin B. Hanks, brother of John W., of this review, hence it is deemed unnecessary to repeat the latter's genealogy here.

Tohn W. Flanks was born in Kentucky, November 22. 1844, and came to this vicinity with his father in the fall of 1851, when seven years old. He ^\ as soon put to school in the subscription school, held in the old log schoolhouse nearby and gained there the rudiments of an education which has since been considerably supplemented by general reading and observation. His first schooling was gained at Mechanic's Point, and later he attended the old Hopewell school. He worked on the parental fann during the major part of the vear and thus learned the basic principles of agriculture early in life, and he has continued to follow the independent life of the husbandman. Prospering as the years advanced, he is now the owner of an excellent farm of two hundred acres, the original old homestead of his father, which he has brought to a high state of improvement and development and on which stands a substantial, large dwelling and such modern outbuildings as to meet all his requirements. He was formerly in the saw-mill business for a period of twentv years, during which time he sawed an immense amount of hardwood lumber throughout this section of the state and became widely known and fairly successful in this line of work. His locations while thus engaged were principally at Whitesville. Colfax and Newmarket.

Mr. Hanks was married on April 2j. 1865. to :Mary Elizabeth Everson, bom in :Montgomer}' county, Indiana, February 27. 1845. daughter of George W. and Rachael CHankins) Everson, whose father was one of the prominent residents of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. :Mrs. Hank's grandfather, on the paternal side. Jacob Evers<:m. was one of the earliest pioneers

To ^Ir. and Airs. John W. Hanks the following children have been born : Laura, who lives in Roachdale. this county, married first, Pierce Rittinger, no children being born of this union, and her second husband was Willard Gough ; Cora is still a member of the home circle; Jesse M., who died at the age of twenty-eight years, married Cora Oliver; Zadia married Earl Crosby and they live in Putnam county ; John married Bert Reeves and he is successfully engaged in the hardware business at Bainbridge; Ross married Elsie Lewis and they reside in this county; Ira is single and is living at home assisting his father with the work on the farm; Daisy, who married Lawrence Friend, is now deceased; Roy died at the age of twenty-two years, single.

Mr. Hanks is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and politicallv he is a Democrat, but he does not find time or have the inclination to mingle much in party affairs. He is a member of the Christian church, in support of which he is not sparing of his means - in fact he is alwavs to be found on the right side of all questions looking to the good of his communitv.

Daniel V. Moffett

The ^Moffetts are a Kentucky product, the family having been founded in that state over a year ago and ramified from there to many parts of the \^"est. Daniel Moffett was first to cross the Ohio river into Illinois and he found his way to the state when it was undeveloped and had little to offer to the first arrivals. Daniel, however, like all the early pioneers, was brave and not to be daunted by bayous, swamps or rank prairie sod. He located in Edgar county, which, though somewhat forbidding at that time, has since been made an agricultural paradise. Along with the old pioneer came his boy. Silas H. Aloffett. who developed into a typical farm lad and helped on the farm until he reached his majority. In early manhood he became religious, joined church and gradually became one of the primitive Baptist ministers, whose unselfish work so greatly benefited the moral status of the rude pioneers. Between farming and preaching he made a living and for years before his death his voice was familiar in the pulpits of his church in Edgar county. He passed away June 2. 1905, after he had completed his seventyeighth year, and all agreed that his life had been both useful and blameless. He married Eliza Barr, bv whom he had three children. F. P. :\[offett, the eldest of these, is president of the Bainbridge Bank, at Eainbridge. Putnam county. Indiana. ]\I. B. Moffett, the second son, is a preacher and dealer in insurance at Paris. Illinois. Susan, the only daughter, married Mr. Brinkerhoff and resides at Kansas. Illinois. The mother of these children having died, the father married Xancy Da\is, of Edgar county, Illinois. The eight children by this union are as follows: Eliza J., wife of N. R. Bennett, president of The Bank of Westfield, Clark county, Illinois: Lucinda, wife of G. W. Kirkpatrick. president of a bank at Oakland. Coles county, Illinois: Daniel \ . ; Thomas, who married Lou Grubb, of Oakland. Illinois, and died in 1887; Rector married Anna Zimmerly. of Paris. Illinois, and is engaged in the insurance business: May married W. Gill, cashier of the bank at Cloverdale. Indiana; Alinnie is the wife of W. H. Miller, in the real estate business at Terre Haute; John H.. who married Jessie Cash, of Oakland. Illinois, is in the livestock commission business at the Union stock yards, in Chicago.

Daniel \'. ^loffett. third of the second set of children, was born west of Paris. Edgar county. Illinois, June 11, 1863. He lived on a farm in his native county until the completion of his twentieth year, when he began to feel the impulse that stirs all ambitious young men to find a home and career for himself. In 1883 he came to Putnam county and located in Jefferson township, near Mount Meridian, on a farm, where he lived until 1903, when he removed to Cloverdale and became president of a bank in that place, a position which he has since held. He was nominated as candidate for countv auditor on the Democratic ticket and was elected and took office on January I, 1908. He is making a popular official and discharging all his duties in a way to disarm criticism.

The Bank of Cloverdale. of which Mr. ^loffett is president, has a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, of which he owns one-third. He also takes a deep interest in agriculture, owning two hundred and sixty acres of splendid land in Teft'erson and [Marion townships, this county, which is devoted to diversified farming.

On September 6. 1883. ]V[r. Moffett married ^lary J., daughter of Jeft'er- .son Hurst, one of the well knowm men of the county. She is one of eight children, as follows: ^Morton C. Levi. William. Squire J.. James H.. George \V.. Dr. B. F. and 3>Iary J. (Mrs. Moffett). The mother having died at about the age of forty. Mr. Hurst married again and by this union had two children. Joseph B. and Flossie M. Mr. and Mrs. Moffett have one child. D. Ora. born September 6. 18C9. and who is now deputy auditor in his father's office. [Mr. Moffett is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife belong to the Baptist church. (35)

Enoch Jeremiah Isaiah Proctor

Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages and usuallv men of proper impulses as well as those of energ>- and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free outdoor life of the farm has a tendancy to foster and develop that independence of mind and self reliance which characterize true manhood, and no greater blessing can befall a boy than to be reared in close touch with nature, in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has always been the fruitful soil from which ha\e sprung the moral bone and sinew of the country, and the majority of our nation's brave warriors, renowned statesmen, famous authors and profound scholars were born on the farm and were indebted to its early influences for the distinction which they have attained.

Althouo-h E. I. I. Proctor, of Monroe township. Putnam county, has not attained national distinction in any phase of human endeavor, he came from the farm and has spent his life in this desirable line of endeavor, achieving success for himself and making his influence for good felt in his communitv. thus fulfilling his mission in the world just the same as if his nr.me was written high upon the scroll of fame. He is a native of Decatur county. Indiana, born December 5. 1859. the son of W. A. and Mary A. J. (Burch) Proctor, the father a native of Ohio, born January 22. 1823. and died October 9, 1902, reaching an old age from which he could look back over a well spent life, replete with success. He came to Putnam county. Indiana, in 1877. His wife, who was a native of Franklin county. Indiana, preceded him to the grave on January 2. 1899.

E. J. I. Proctor was educated in the common schools of his native communitv, receiving a ver}- good education. On August 4. 18S0. he married Marv lane Huffman, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ellen (Stadler) Huffman, an excellent old pioneer family, a complete sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. This union has resulted in the birth of five children, named as follows: Jasper E., born July 17, 1881 ; Verna E.. born June 3, i88\ married William Zeiner, a farmer, and lives in Floyd township: Mary E.. born November 16. 1884. maried Roy E. Priest and lives in California; Matilda E.. born May 26. 1890. married J. R. Sallust. a farmer, and is living in Monroe township: Lola E., born April 19. 1897, is attending school. Mr. Proctor has been a fanner all his life, as has been before stated, and is now the owner of a very \aluable farm of two hundred and forty acres, which are well improved m every respect and which have been so well tilled that this place ranks with the \ery best in the township. On it stands a very comfortable and well arranged dwelling and numerous substantial outliuildings. a good orchard, garden, and all that goes to make life on the farm desirable. He devotes considerable time to stock raising and has heen ver\- successful in this line, always keeping a good grade of various stock. For a time 'Siv. Proctor li\ed in Madsion county, Iowa, where he married, but returned to his native community and resumed farming here.

Politically he is a Democrat, and he is a member of the Christian church at Fillinore. Fraterna!l\- he belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge Xo. 55. also of the Knights Templar, being at present treasurer of the latter, of which he has held all the offices in the local organization. He has long taken a deep interest in lodge work and his daily life would indicate that he in carrying the humanitarian and altruistic principles which the}' seek to inculcate, into his every-day affairs.

Mr. Proctor's paternal grandfather, Joel Proctor, was born in Maine, and came to Ohio about 1820. He settled in Butler county, where he reared his family and where he died. He entered the war of 1812 in Maine and served through that war with distinction and honor. Politically a Whig, he never aspired to office nor public notoriety. Fie was well known and highly respected, his honor and integrity being a])o\e reproach. His children were W. .-\.. father of the subject, born January 23. 1823: Isaiah: Elizabeth died single: Enoch, Jeremiah. Matilda, Mrs. Thomas Hay ward ; Michael was killed in the Ci\il war. .-Ml of these seven came to Indiana and though the\- were in limited means, all accumulated large estates. William .\. and wife were worthy members of the Christian church, he being also a worth}- member of the Alasonic fraternity. William A. Proctor married Mar}- .\. J. Burch. who was born in Franklin county. Indiana, December 15, 1824., a daughter of \\"illiam and Sarah (McXutt) Burch. These parents were married in Virginia in an early da}-. The Mc- X'utt family came from Ireland and the Burch family from England. Thev can-ie to Ohio and came to Indiana about 1812, settling in Franklin county, where Indians and wild beasts roamed at will. He improved a farm from land he entered in 1812 and the farm is yet in the Burch family. Both he and his wife died at the old Burch homestead in Infliana. Their children w-ere, ^klargaret, ^Irs. Edwin Barusley : Charles: Martha, Mrs. L. Thurston: Sarah. Mrs. Robert Xoah : John .\. J.: Mary A. J., mother of the subject. Born to William Proctor were: George, a fan-ner of Iowa: John, who died in infancy: Sarah. Mrs. Joseph Scott, first, and second Lewis Zeigler: Mary. Mrs. Joseph Ogle: William B., of Indianapolis: E. J. I., the subject, and Matilda, who died vouns:.

Ivan Huffman

Conspicuous among the enterprising farmers and stock raisers of Putnam county is the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, a man whose life-long residence in the township honored by his citizenship and his success in the vocation to which his energies have been devoted have gained for him a prominent place in the ranks of those to whom Indiana is so deeply indebted for her honorable position among her sister states of the Union. Ivan Huffman belongs to one of the old and respected families of Putnam county, being the fourth son and the sixth child of Edmund and Louisa A. (Rightsell) Huffman, who were among the early pioneers of Washington township and a notice of whom appears elsewhere in this work.

On the old family homestead in the above township, where his brother Jack Huffman now lives, the subject of this review first saw the light of day, the event having occurred on July 31, 1859. In common with the majority of country lads, his early experiences amid the bracing airs and healthful exercises of outdoor life were conducive to sound and symmetrical phvsical development and he grew up strong in body and able while still a vouth to bear his proportionate share of the labor of the farm. Reared under excellent home-training, he contracted good habits and his life was exemplary and, like a dutiful son. he assisted his father in the cultivation of the farm until his twenty-second year when he took to himself a wife and helpmate and began making his own way in the world. The young lady who agreed to share his labors and his fortunes and to whom he was united in the holy bonds of matrimony in 1881. was ^lary, daughter of Michael Baumunk, a native of Owen county, and twenty years old at the time of becoming the subject's wife.

Immediatelv after his marriage ^Ir. Huft'man moved to the farm on which he still lives and which with certain other lands fell to him upon the division of his father's property in 1896. The place is locally known as the Athev farm from the fact of its having been entered by James Athey, grandfather of Lawrence Athey, the present recorder of Putnam county, the patent, which was issued in October, 1825, bearing the signature of John Ouincv Adams, at the time President of the United States. The locality is not onlv the scene of one of the earliest settlements in the county, but is interesting from a historical point of view as well, the first court after the countv organization went into effect having been held in an old sheep-shed

From his marriage until the division of the estate, as noted above, IMr. Huffman managed the fami for his father, but since that time he has carried on agriculture and stock raising for himself and with such success and profit that he is today one of the leading men of his vocation in the township. Originally he received as his share two hundred acres of the above place and an additional hundred acres of land on the opposite side of the river. Later he sold forty acres of the home farm.

The residence which the family now occupy was erected by a former owner of the farm, hut about five years ago Mr. Huffman rebuilt and remodeled the edifice, furnishing it with all the modern improvements and converting it into one of the most beautiful and attractive rural homes in the county. Standing on an imposing eminence about eighty feet above the bottom land skirting the river, the building is a noticeable structure and from it one can obtain a view of the surrounding country for many miles. Nothing has been spared in making it a comfortable and first-class home in every respect. Air. Huffman raises a great deal of corn which he feeds to his livestock, and his high-grade cattle, hogs and horses are among the finest and most valuable in this part of the state. From the sale of his domestic animals he derives the large share of his income which for a number of years has been quite liberal and, as stated in the preceding paragraph, he is fortunately situated, being independent financially and among the substantial men and progressive citizens of the township in which he has alwavs lived. Mr. Huffman takes little interest in political matters, although well informed on public questions and ever ready to give his support and influence to enterprises having for their object the welfare of his fellow- men. He stands high in the Afasonic order, belonging to the blue lodge at Knights ville, and the chapter and commandery at Greencastle.

Mr. and Mrs. Huft'man are the parents of three children, the oldest being Roscoe. who married Beulah Pallom and lives in the township of Washington; he is a farmer by occupation and a member of the Masonic fraternity; they are the parents of one son, Lawrence Edmund. Glem G.. the second of the family, married Jessie Ozment and they have one child, Dorothy; he is interested with his father in agriculture and stock raising and lives on the home farm. Lois Clara, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of the public schools and li\es at home assisting her mother with the duties of the household.

Jesse M. Jones

The hard and confining toil of the farm is greatly relieved by varying it with stock raising. The growth of the cities has been so great - in other words, the growth of the nonproducers has been so great - that the products of the farm command a much higher price than ever before. This is notablv so with livestock. The farmer now makes most any grade of livestock raising pay him for his labor. His work then will consist, in part, in growing hay and corn for his animals and in marketing the latter. Orchard and garden products may be grown as side ventures, and many other products may be raised for the prices they will bring. Among the progressive agriculturists and stock men of Putnam county, who have made an intelligent studv of these lines with the best results in view and have concluded that greater profits can be made in the careful raising of good grades of stock than in anything else to which the farmer can turn his attention, is Jesse M. Jones, who owns a valuable landed estate in Monroe township. His birth occurred on October 17. 1863, in the locality where he has spent his life. He is the son of Hiram and Hannah (McCorkle) Jones. Grandfather Jones came to Putnam county in 1840. from Kentucky, where he was born, and he spent his remaining years in this county. His son. Hiram, grew up on the fann here and spent his life in farm work, dying February 15, 1870, when his son, Jesse M.. of this review, was a small boy. Jesse M. Jones, who was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Jones, spent his youth with his grandfather. Mathew S. McCorkle. and he is at present living on the farm which was entered by Mr. McCorkle, who was a nati\-e of Fleming county, Kentucky, and who was one of the first settlers in Putnam county. When he came here he had the sum of one hundred dollars which enabled him to enter eighty acres of land from the government.

Jesse M. Jones had the advantages of the usual common school education, gained at intervals with farming on the home place. On December II. 1884, he married May Allen, born in Putnam county. June 2. 1866. the daughter of Robert and Mary E. (Slavens) Allen, whose maternal grandfather, Dr. John Slavens, was bom in Montgomer\- county, Kentucky, March I, i8ri. He came to Putnam county. Indiana, in 1826. and was one of the earlv physicians here, known throughout the country.

Three children have been born to 'Sir. and ]\[rs. Jones, named as follows: Edna Zella. born October i. 1885: Glenn S.. born February 9. 1887: Lucius Chapin. born June -'5. 1889.

Putxam Couxty, Ixdiaxa. 55I

^[r. Jones began life in a rather humble manner, but he was always inclined to hard work : this, in connection with good management, soon ga\'e him a good foothold and he rapidly accumulated property until now he is the owner of one of the best and most \aluable fanns of Monroe township, consisting of three hundred acres, which he tills in such an adroit manner as t(i make it yield a handsome income from year to year, but the chief occupation of Mr. Jones is in stock raising, at which he is regarded by all as being \ery atlej)! and on his place some fine specimens of all kinds of stock are to be found at all sea.sons; he feeds the products of his place very largelv to his stock, preparing them for market where they seldom fail to bring fancy prices. He recently sold seventy- four head of hogs at eight dollars and eighty cents per hundred, or a total of one thousand five hundred fortv-six dollars and nine cents, which is considered a record for the county, in which he is regarded by everyone as one of the leading and progressive stock raisers.

Politicallv he is a Republican - indeed, there never was a Democrat in his familv. He has a neat and attractively located home and everything about his place shows thrift and prosperity and that a gentleman of excellent taste and foresight has its management in hand.

The subject oi biogra])hy yields to no other in jjoint of interest and {jrofit. It tells of the success and defeats of men. the difficulties they have encountered, and gives an insight into the methods and plans which they have pursued. The obvious lessons therein taught will prove of great benefit if followed, and the example of the self-made man should certainly encourage others into whose cradle smiling fortune has cast no glittering crown to press forward to nobler aims and higher ideals. A man who ]M-()fited liy the worthy example of father and grandfather, both shining examples of the noble self-made American, is Jacob Huffman, an enterprising young farmer, living near Bainbridge. Putnam county, where he is well established on paternal acres and where he is carrying on the various phases of agricultural work in a manner that would do credit to the veteran farmer who had studied the condition of climate, soils, seed-time and harvest for a much longer period than has he.

Mr. Huffman is a native of Putnam county, born Januaiy 28. 1880, the son of Jacob and Sarah Ellen ( Stadler ) Huffman, one of the best known of the old pioneer families of this conmiunity. a complete record of which is to be found elsewhere in this volume, hence will not be duplicated here, except to mention their children, as follows; Mary, ATrs. E. J. I. Proctor; Charles, of Greencastle; Allen, of Greencastle ; John, a farmer; Meriam, of Los Angeles, California; Alice, ]\Irs. T. I. McKeehan; Minnie. Mrs, G. O. Gorham, of Portland, Oregon; Ida, !Mrs. Jeff Bugg, and Jacob, the subject of this sketch,

Jacob Huffman spent his boyhood days much like other lads born on the fami - working during the crop seasons as soon as he was old enough and attending the district schools during the winter months, until he had accjuired a very- serviceable education. He took quite naturallv to fanning and stock raising and decided to devote his life energies to this line of endeavor, and, although yet quite a young man, he has succeeded remarkably well and the future will no doubt amply reward such painstaking and persistent efforts as he is now putting forth. He is very comfortably situated on his father's old homestead of one hundred and fifty-seven acres, where he is carrying on general farming and where he has so labored as to now have a well-improved and well-kept place that is on a par with any in the community. He has a neat and comfortable dwelling and his place is well stocked.

Mr. Huffman was married on October 17, 1900, to Lizzie Pearl Chadd. a young woman of splendid tastes, the daughter of Thomas and Amanda (Browning) Chadd. a well known family of Putnam county. This union has resulted in the birth of one winsome daughter. Hertha Huffman, born No- 13, 1904. The Chadd family was early and prominentlv identified with the development of the farming interests of Putnam countv. and Mrs. Huff'man's parents yet reside on a fami four miles east of Greencastle. Their children are. Samuel and Otho. of Greencastle; Alva and Orphus. farmers; Lydia, unmarried: Elizabeth P., wife of the subject. The subject's paternal grandfather. Jacob Huft'man. was a native of Xew England, and. starting out on his own account, drifted into Kentucky, where he married Catherine Sellers, a native of \'irginia. In 1829 he came to Putnam count\- and entered the land where the subject now resides : here he reared his family and he and his good wife died here.

^[r. Huffman is a Democrat in his political relations, but he has ne\er sought or held public office. He is justly proud of the fact that three generations of the Huffman family have lived on the land he now owns. He is a young man of excellent character and is well liked among his neighbors. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian church at Fillmore.

Putxam Couxtv, Ixdiaxa

In all the relations of life Jacob Huffman. Sr., who has long since passed to his reward in the great beyond, proved himself equal to the responsibihties which were thrown upon him and because of his many sterling qualities he won the regard of the entire community in which he so long lived in Putnam county. His career was one of unceasing activity and it presented much that is pleasing as well as profitable to the young man just starting out in life.

Mr. Huffman was bom in Harrison county, Kentucky, March 21, 1824, the son of Jacob and Catherine (Sellers) Huffman, the former a native of New England and the latter of Virginia. Catherine, born July 17, 1792. died Februaiy 24. 1879. Their children were. Polly, Mrs. William Coffman; F.sther, Mrs. Stephen Ross: John: Susanna. Mrs. James Berg: Elizabeth, who died unmarried; Jacob: Sarelda. Mrs. Michael Smith: Hiram. When a small boy he came with his father. Jacob Huffman, in 1829 to Putnam county. Indiana, and was thus one of the early pioneers here. The elder Huffman entered land in section 36. Monroe township, from the government, which is still in the possession of his descendants and has been so skillfullv tilled by each succeeding member of the family that the land has in no way lost its original strength and fertility. Here, in the forest, which up to the coming of the Huffmans had scarcely heard the ring of a woodman's ax. the elder Huffman began clearing a spot for his cabin and started life anew, soon having a comfortable home, but not without the hardest toil. His son Jacob assisted him as soon as he was old enough, and for a short time during the winter months he attended the little log schoolhouse in that neighborhood, receiving a meager text-book training. He grew to be a hardy man, unusually strong physically, standing six feet and weighing two hundred pounds. He was, of course, a very hard worker and never stopped for obstacles, and he became very well-to-do as a result of his close attention to fanning, owning at tlie time of his death several hundred acres of good land, and having owned at one time about fourteen hundred acres.

Politically he was a Democrat, but never sought office, and in religious matters he was a Primitive Baptist in belief, but not a member of any church. He was regarded by all as a good, honest, kind-hearted man, of whom no one could say any harm, his integrity and honor jjeing above reproach. Jacob Huffman married Sarah Ellen Stadler, the daughter of

Marshall W. and Elizabeth (Ross) Stadler, natives of Kentucky, the former born July 2S. 1805. Her father was a pioneer herb doctor in Indiana and a prominent farmer, and his children were: Mary A., Margaret E., Susanna E., Sarah Ellen, Xancy J., Martha B., Armelda A. and James F. In this countv Sarah Ellen Stadler grew up and was educated, like her husband, in ti.e earlv schools of her neighborhood. The following children were born to them: Marv, Jane, Charles. Allen, John. Meriani. Alice. Minnie. Ida. Jacob, all living in Putnam county with the exception of Meriam and Minnie. the former being in California and the latter in Oregon.

Mr. Huffman's death occurred on November 2, 1905, having passed his fourscore milestones, and was hale and hearty even during the last Years of his life.

William Wood

One of Putnam county's hardy pioneers who has long since joined "the innumerable caravan that moves to the pale realms of shade," but who left a rich inheritance behind him, not so much in worldly goods but in the remembrance of good deeds and a clean life, was William Wood, who was born in Botetourt county. 'Virginia, in 1780, where he grew to maturity and county, Indiana, locating near the present Brick Chapel. Monroe township, having made the long trip overland on horseback, bringing their first born four children. Entering land here, they began life in true pioneer fashion, spending the balance of their lives on this farm, ^Ir. Wood dying in 1843 and Mrs. Wood in 1846. They were Methodists and members of the first class organization of this denomination that met at Brick Chapel, and they are buried in the cemetery there. Their family consisted of seven children, named as follows : Susan married Edward Rogers and lived near Bainbridge until he died : she died in this county when past eighty years of age: \\'illiam C. : Sarah married Willis Carter and lived near Rochester, Indiana, both dving at advanced ages: Polly, Mrs. Sam Parker, resided in Fulton countv. Indiana, and is buried there: Willis Wood died unmarried: Nelson Wood married first. Millie Vermillion and second. Catherine Leatherman : he had f(nu- children: she later married Mr. Rundel : Xancy Ann married William McCray and they both died in Monroe township, the latter in 1909. at the advanced age of ninety-two years; Dolph Wood lived in this county, married Rachael Leathennan. si.ster of Catherine, aufl lived and died in Madison township when past seventy years of age.

William Wood was born July 22. iSii. in Botetourt county, X'irginia, and died August 7, 1861. He married Lucinda Stark, who was born March 30. 1823. and who died ^[ay 11, 1885, February 14, 1839. being celebrated as their wedding dav. She was the daughter of Thomas and Gatie Stark, and she was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and when a child came to Indiana, Keating near the Brick Chapel in INlonroe township. Thomas Stark was born October 2Q, 1791, and died May 3, 1S59. Under the old state militia order. Governor Combs appointed William \\'ood second lieutenant of a company in Col. James Fish's regiment. Mrs. William Wood spent her life in Clinton township on the farm of which the present Nelson place is a part. He owned one hundred and si.xty-nine acres and built a good house near a fine spring and there William Wood lived and died, being fairly successful as a farmer: his death occurred .August 7, 1861, being survived by his wife until May 11, 1885. They were Methodists and are both buried in the cemetery- at Brick Chapel in the same lot as their parents on both sides.

Twelve children were born to Mr. ami Mrs. William Wood, ten of whom reached maturity, namely: Sarah A. lives with Xelson Wood: .Arthur lives in Champaign, Illinois: Xelson, whose sketch appears in another page of this work: Mary married Richard Fisk and lives in \\'ilson county, Kansas: Jane married Aliller Wilson and both died in Indianapolis: Andrew was killed when eighteen years of age by the accidental discharge of a gun; Hayden lives in Clinton township: Xancy Ann is the wife of William Shonkwiler, of Benton county, Indiana: Susan G. married Harvey McDonald and died when a young woman: William C. died when sixteen years of age; Benjamin F. died in childhood: Lucinda also died in childhood.

It is a fact worth recording that in 1852 William Wood, then township supervisor and working the road on the township line between Monroe and Clinton townships when ex-county commissioner, Elisha Cowgill passed and suggested that Mr. \\'ood name the hill or the creek and that he would name the other, giving Mr, Wood his choice, and the latter gave the name of Big Owl to the creek, which it still bears. Mr. Cowgill named the place Bunker hill. William Wood was a Whig and later a Republican, being well posted on all public affairs, but would not accept office. He was a worthy Methodist, also a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity. He was charitable to the afflicted and needy, a good neighbor and friend. He was widely known and highlv respected, his integrity and honor being above reproach. He was noted for his kindness in sickness and went far and near to wait on the afflicted.

Nelson Franklin Wood

One of the progressive and substantial farmers and stock raisers of Clinton township who has long endeavored to promote the general welfare of the community while advancing his own interests is Nelson Franklin Wood, who was born in Monroe township, this county, April 23. 1843. and when an infant he was brought to the place where he now resides. A full .sketch of his parents will be found on another page of this work. He remained at home until he felt the stirrings of patriotic pride which promoted him to offer his services in defense of the national honor, and enlisted in the spring of 1863 in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and he served in a very creditable and gallant manner, enduring all the vicissitudes of his company through many strenuous campaigns, and was discharged with his regiment in 1865, having been retained at Charlotte, North Carolina, for some time; even while in the army he was his mother's main support and he always took a delight in ministering to her every want.

Mr. Wood married, on September 5, 1866, Amanda L. Hinkle, widow of William ^vlorrison, and whose parents lived in Montgomery county, but she was born at Ladoga, Indiana. Her father came here from Botetourt county, \'irginia. Mrs. Wood was sixteen years old at her first marriage and twentv-three at her second. Mr. and Mrs. Wood lived the first year at the former's home. He erected his present dwelling about that time and has since conducted the home farm, he having bought out all the other heirs and he has so skillfully tilled the place that it is just as productive as in the days when his father first began to till it. He has added many modern improvements and has an excellent farm. He keeps some good stock and poultry.

One son was born to ^fr. and Mrs. \\'ood, William D.. who died when twenty years of age. being a young man of much promise. An invalid sister of the subject has made her home with him for years. He also continued to care for his mother during her lifetime. He has served in several township offices and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist church, having been among the familiar faces at the L^nion Chapel for fortv \-ears, and thev are regarded as among the leaders in the congregation there. Mr. Wood is a trustee of this church and a class leader in the same. Fraternallv he is a Mason, having been identified for some time with Morton Lodge. No. 469: the chapter and the commandery at Greencastle also have the honor of his membership. He belongs to the local post of the Grand Armv of the Republic. He is a man in whom ever>-one reposes the utmost confidence and he has numerous warm friends throughout the countv.

Earnest labor, unabating perseverance, good management and a laudable ambition to succeed - these are the elements that have brought Alvin B. Hanks prosperitv and won for him the good will and respect of all with whom he has come' in contact. A native of Putnam county, where he first saw the light of day on December 25, 185 1, he has spent the major part of his life in his native locality and is. therefore, well known here. His parents were Stephen E. and Eliza M. (Ketchins) Hanks, the former born August 29, 1813, and died May i, 1883; the mother was born December 11.^1811, and died April 7, 1896. They were for many years numbered among the well-known and highly respected residents of Putnam countv, Indiana, where they resided from the fall of 185 1, when the father bought a tract of land, which, however, he did not enter upon until the spring of 18^2. Stephen Hanks was a stanch Democrat in his political views" and. though he never sought public office for himself, he took an intelligent interest in current public affairs. He also took considerable mterest in church work as a member of the Christian church, and at his death he was buried in the Brick Chapel cemeter>-. The Hanks family to which he belonged was closely related to Xancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham

Alvin B. Hanks was born but a few months after the arrival of his parents in Putnam county, and he is the third in order of birth of the three children which now survive out of a family .of nine born to his parents, the other survivors being Mrs. Olivia Priest, of this county, and John. Alvin B. Hanks received his education in the common schools, having attended at the Locust Grove school house and he early took an active part in the operation of the home farm. He has all his life devoted his chief attention to the time-honored occupation of husbandry and in this line of effort he has achieved a definite success. He is the owner of a splendid farm, comprising one hundred and seventy acres of as good land as can be found in Afonroe township, the greater part of which is in cultivation. He carries on a general line of fanning and also devotes some attention to the raising of livestock.

The place is well improved, containing a comfortable and attractive residence, commodious barns and other necessar\- buildings, the general appearance of the place conveying an air of comfort and prosperity.

On December 24, 187J. Mr. Hanks was united in marriage with Helen Shumaker, a native of Floyd township, Putnam county, born Xovember 17, 1853, and this union has been blessed with four children, namely: Aden B.. Pearl. Belle and Eva. Mrs. Hanks is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Howren) Shumaker, of Ohio, where they were married in 1834. and two children were born to them. At an early day they moved to Indiana and settled in Floyd township. Putnam county, entering land and improving a farm. Thev remained there until all of their children were grown, when they sold out and retired to Bainbridge. Two years later they found a good home here with their daughter, Mrs. Hanks, where both died, he on August 5. 1894. and she on February 4. 1897. They belonged to the Bainbridge Christian church. He was a Republican and filled the office of justice of the peace a number of years. In young manhood he was a school teacher. Their children were Xewton. Daniel, Alvira (Mrs. King). Henry, Mary J. (Mrs. William Herrod), Lydia (Mrs. Winkinson), Abner died young, Julia (Airs. Samuel Walls), Helen (Mrs. Hanks), Monroe. In politics Mr. Hanks is a pronounced Democrat and active in the party campaigns, though the only public ofifice ever held by him was that of truant ofificer. Practical and progressive in his farming operations, shrewd, yet absolutely honest in his business affairs, courteous to his acquaintances and of a strong social disposition, Mr. Hanks has won many warm friends throughout the community.

Willia-M Dills

The name Dills deserves to. rank with the leading families of Madison township, for ever since W^illiam Dills came here from the Buckeye state he has been a leader in agricultural affairs and has taken considerable interest in the progress of the county in general. He was born in Shelby county, Ohio. August 19, 1840, the son of John and Agnes (Moreland) Dills. In 1845 '^he family moved to Putnam county, Indiana. The family first went from Kentucky to Ohio, making their long journeys through rough countries in old-fashioned covered wagons. They located seven miles west of Greencastle on the state road, in the eastern part of Madison township. Soon after coming here the father died leaving a widow with four small children, William, of this review, being the youngest; Urasmus D., born September 12, 1824. died in early life; Martha Jane, born December 13, 182S, died Mav 5, 1833. Two other children were also sons, so the mother kept the farm, developed it as best she could until the children were large enough to work it, thus keeping the family together. They were David M., who became a tanner and currier, and he died in the city of Cincinnati ; Caroline has remained with her brother William; Watson P. married and went to Iowa, now being a resident of Dallas county. The mother, after rearing her children in comfort and respectal^ilit}', pr.ssed to her rest m 1854. when fifty years of age, William being fourteen years of age at that time. He was then compelled to care for himself, consequently he received only a meager schooling, but later in life he became well informed by general reading. He saved his wages and when twenty-one years old had a start and. in time, he added more land to the home place and gave eveiy evidence of a successful future.

When twenty-four years of age ^Iv. Dills married Serena Wood, daughter of Xelson and Millie Wood, of Madison township, she being twentv-one at the time of their marriage. Mr. Dills commenced farming on his own account with eighty acres of land. Continuing to prosper he added to the place until he had a farm of about three hundred acres. Selling out, he purchased a fine farm on the Little Walnut, partly bottom land, but in a few vears he purchased back the old Dills farm, then bought the Xelson Wood farm of three hundred and sixty acres, which he added to and which he still owns. About twenty years ago he bought his present well improved farm of. two hundred acres, having been formerly owned in part by the widow of John Tucker. Mr. Dills has rebuilt the dwelling and outbuildings and in many ways added substantial improvements, and in connection with this farm he continued to operate the former Wood farm, four miles distant. He is a good manager of crops and all the diversified phases of agriculture, and he is an extensive stock raiser and dealer, feeding large numbers of hogs, cattle and mules, and he has bred some good shorthorn and Hereford cattle, registered. He is not an exhibitor, but breeds up his own stock, which is greatly admired by all. who readily concede him to be an unusually good judge of cattle. He has paid as high as tifty-five dollars per acre for his land and paid thirty dollars for most of it. He has made extensive improvements on each farm he has owned, laying a great deal of tiling and in many ways bringing his farms up to the highest standard. He is a firm believer in tiling. He has a verv substantial, attractive and well furnished home which is regarded by the many friends of the family as a place of hospitality. From this splendid dwelling an inspiring view may be had of the surrounding country.

Mr. Dills' family consists of four children, named as follows; Otho C, who is in partnership with his father; Walter S., who is farming near Muskogee, Oklahoma, is also a real estate and sand dealer; Charles E. also lives near Muskogee, Oklahoma; Laura M. is a high school teacher in Bedford, Indiana, a special and accomplished teacher of German, having graduated from DePauw University, and her first teaching was German in the high school; when not in the regular school work she spends her time at home. The mother of these children, a woman of many beautiful traits of character, was called to her rest on March 29, 1909.

Mr. Dills confines himself very closely to his business, hence his abundant success: ahhough a good Democrat, he takes no part in public life and does not aspire to office ; however, he is ready to aid in placing the best men in the local offices so that the affairs of the county will be properly managed at all times. He is a plain, unassuming, honest and industrious farmer and stock man - one of Putnam's honored and substantial citizens.

The venerable gentleman whose career is briefly sketched in the following lines is one of the oldest residents of Washington township now living and his life has been such as to gain the confidence and good will of the people of his community and to make him well and favorably known throughout the county of which he has so long been an honored citizen. In the highest sense of the term he is a self-made man and as such has met with success in material things such as few attain and made a record which may be studied with profit by the young men of the rising generation.

Tacob C. Rogers was born near Portland Mills, Putnam county, Indiana, }ilarch 14, 1823, from which date to the present time, a period of eightyseven years, he has been a resident of the county and actively interested in its development and progress. His parents, Asa N. Rogers and Polly Crabtree, were born and reared in Hardin county, Kentucky, and shortly after their marriage came to Putnam county, Indiana, locating near Portland Alills in what is now Clinton township, where Jacob C, their oldest son, was born the year following their arrival. Subsequently they had other children, sixteen in all, several of whom died in infancy, a daughter, Sarah, dying unmarried, all the others excepting the subject leaving this county at maturity and seeking their fortunes elsewhere.

Asa N. Rogers entered the land on which they settled and experienced all the vicissitudes of pioneer life. He \\as a man of great industry and energy and an excellent citizen, but was not permitted to enjoy much of the fruits of his labors, dying one month and four days after the sixty-fifth anniversary of his birth, his good wife departing this life the same year.

Jacob C. Rogers spent his childhood and youth amid the stirring scenes of the pioneer period and was put to work in the woods and fields as soon as his services could be utilized. While still cjuite young he became an expert with the ax and made a full hand at clearing and all kinds of farm labor several years before reaching the age of manhood. This active out-door life was conducive to splendid physical development anfl he grew up strong in body and with a resolute purpose to make the most of his opportunities and become of some use to the world. When nineteen years old he married and begun life for himself, choosing for a wife and helpmeet ]^Iiss Betsy Legan, who came to the county the year preceding her marriage and who was only a few days younger than himself.

The land in Washington township on which Mr. and Mrs. Rogers set up their domestic establishment had been entered a number of years before by his father, and at the time indicated the only improvements consisted of a small cabin, which with the few acres of cleared land surrounding appeared but a niche in the midst of the forest. The dwelling was of round logs, with puncheon floor, a "shake" roof, a door made of clap-boards hung on wooden hinges, light being admitted to the one room by means of the removal of a section of a log from one of the walls. The furniture used by the young couple was of the most primitive kind, in keeping with the surroundings, their onh' table for some time being a chest, which also answered for a cupboard, stools taking the place of chairs and the cooking being done at the large fireplace which took up the larger part of one side of the apartment.

Later INlr. Rogers made an addition to the building and otherwise improved it and it answered the purpose of a dwelling for a number of years, all of his children having been born within its walls. The old house is still standing and in a good state of preservation, being a forcible and eloquent reminder of a time forever past and of experiences the like of which can never again occur. (36)

When Mr. Rogers moved his wife to their new home, which he had purchased from his father, the sum total of his available cash amounted to only two dollars, one-half of which he spent for flax seed. His beginning was indeetl upon a modest scale, but by well-directed industry, prudent management and econoni}- he made substantial progress and in due time had a good farm in successful cultivation and was on the high road to prosperity. He added to his land at intervals and in the course of time became one of the largest holders of real estate in Putnam county, his possessions at one time amounting to considerable in excess of one thousand one hundred acres, all in a body and admirablv situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of central Indiana.

Realizing the need of a large and more comfortable home than the log dwelling which the family had so long occupied, Mr. Rogers subsequently built a much more commodious and pretentious frame edifice which answered the purposes of a home until 1890, when he erected his present beautiful and attractive residence, which stands on an eminence about eight miles southwest of Greencastle and commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country in every direction, including the county seat and beyond. Here, amid all of the comforts and luxuries which minister to man's happiness, he is spending the closing years of a long and strenuous as well as eminently successful life, iDeing independent as far as worldly wealth is concerned and at peace with his fellow men, his conscience and his God. While enterprising as a farmer and familiar with every phase of modern agriculture, Mr. Rogers has not depended upon the soil alone for his income, having long since learned that more could be made from livestock than from crops. For many years he was largely engaged in stock raising, having had at one time as high as one thousand five hundred sheep on his place, besides a large number of fine horses, cattle and hogs, from which he added greatly to his fortune. In his young manhood Mr. Rogers turned his hand to any kind of honorable work he could find to do. He is proud of the fact of having cleared and improved three hundred acres of fine land with his own hands and while thus engaged he turned his leisure to good account by working at blacksmithing, which trade he had learned of his father, his services as a mechanic being highly prized bv his neighbors as well as profitable to himself. Mrs. Rogers proved an earnest co-worker with her husband in their efforts to get a start in the world and added to their earnings by spinning, weaving and doing other kinds of work during the early part of their married life. Mr. Rogers now contemplates with much pleasure those early experiences when life was new and hopes were high and finds in his past little to regret and nuich to commend.

On ai"ri\ing at an age when he found it no longer necessary to prolong the struggle to add to his means, having accumulated a suiificiency for his own future comfort besides pro\-iding comfortably for his children, he discontinued active labor and. as already indicated, is now living in honorable retirement on the beautiful home farm of three hundred and fifty acres in Washington township which he reserved for his own use.

'Sir. Rogers is the father of fifteen children, all of whom grew to maturity and all but one married and reared families, thirteen of the number li\'ing at the present time, nine being residents of Putnam county. To each of these children he gave an eighty-acre farm, or its equivalent in money, and now in his old age they seem to vie with each other in ministering to his comfort and showing him honor, being obedient sons and daughters of whom any father might well feel proud. After a long and mutually happy wedded life of fifty-four years' duration, Mrs. Rogers, on the 14th of ^larch. 1906, was called to her eternal rest and on Xo\'ember 8. 1908, Mr. Rogers married his present wife. IMrs. Ellen Reese, widow of the late J. C. Reese, of Bowling Green, this state.

The following are the names of the children born to Mr. Rogers and his first wife : George A\'.. a soldier in the Civil war. enlisting at sixteen years of age. is now living at Los Angeles, California: James W., of Washington township; Franklin, a farmer of Putnam county; Reuben, a blacksmith by trade; Jacob Edgar, who owns a farm adjoining the family homestead; Daniel, who lives on a farm in the same neighborhood; Joseph died at the age of twentythree, leaving a widow; Stephen, who departed this life when nineteen years old : Sarah married John Graham and lives in Douglas county, Illinois ; Julia, wife of S. J. Swinford. lives in Coles county, Illinois; Mary, now Airs. H. Rollins, resides in Washington township, where her husband is engaged in agricultural pursuits : Emma, who married John 'White, also lives in the same township ; Kate married Henry Heiber and makes her home near Russellville ; Lucy, wife of Charles Webster, lives at Roachdale. Indiana, and Allie. the youngest, lives in Boone county, being now Mrs. Thomas Duree.

Mr. Rogers has always been enterprising and public spirited and ready at all times to lend his influence to measures and movements having for their object the welfare of his fellowmen. His character has always been above reproach, his word as sacred as his bond and all who know him speak in high praise of his sterling qualities of manhood and citizenship. He has lived long and wisely and his friends, who are legion, unite in the earnest prayer that he may be spared manv years to bless the world.

James Everett Vermilion

The best historv of a community or state is the one that deals most with the Hves and activities of its people, especially of those who, by their own endeavors and indomitable energy, have forged to the front and placed themselves where they deserve the title of progressive men. In this brief review will be found the record of one who has outstripped the less active plodders on the highway of life and among his contemporaries has achieved marked success in the business world, the name of James Everett Vennilion, Greencastle merchant, being honored by all owing to his upright life and habits of thrift and industry.

Mr. Vermilion was born November 11. 1869, in Greencastle and here he received his education, graduating from the public schools in 1886. after which he entered DePauw University, where he made a good record, but did not finish the course. Deciding to enter the law, he went to Wichita, Kansas, and studied law under his uncle for a year, but, not taking as kindly to the legal profession as he had anticipated, he returned to Greencastle and after a short time went to Indianapolis where he took a business course, after which he came back to his native city and clerked in his father's store until the latter's death, at which time he purchased the interests of the other heirs and has since been in full charge. He has built up a very extensive and lucrative patronage with the city and surrounding country, which is continuously increasing, his store being one of the finest, neatest and best kept in the city. He carries a full line of dry goods, carpets, ready-to-wear goods for ladies, and many kindred lines, of the best quality, all carefully selected and sold at reasonable prices. His store is the gathering place for rural visitors from all parts of the county and here they always find courteous and considerate treatment.

Mr. Vermilion is a Republican and he has manifested considerable interest in local affairs for some time, always ready to do anything he could for the betterment of Greencastle and vicinity. For two years he ver\- ably served as citv councilman from the second ward. He is a member of the Christian -church, and he is leading knight of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks: he is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias: he also holds membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Before the Spanish-American war he was second lieutenant of Company I. First Regiment. Indiana National Guard.

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On June 12. 1S95, Mr. Vermilion married Maude Wolfe, the refined and popular daughter of Dr. William and Belle (Porter) Wolfe, an excellent family of Brazil, Indiana, where Mrs. Vermilion was a social favorite. One child has graced this union, named Hazel, now attending school.

The family of this name has been long and favorably known in Putnam county, especially in and around Madison township. John William Stroube, perhaps the most prominent of the connection, is a son of Oliver R. and Eliza J. (Blackerby) Stroube. He was born in the southeast corner of Madison township, three and one-half miles southwest of Greencastle, December 2j, 1865. He is the second of eight children, six of whom reached maturity and are all living, namely : Erank M. ; John W. ; Charles X., a physician at Roachdale ; Earl P., of Madison township; Ida M., wife of Doctor Pollom, at Cayuga. Vermillion county, Indiana; Minnie B., wife of E. R. Bartley, of Greencastle. The father died April 3, 1901, on his old home farm, since sold: his widow now resides in Greencastle.

John William Stroube remained at home until the completion of his twenty-first year, meantime attending the common schools and assisting in the farm work. September 14, 1887, he married Ida M., daughter of James H. and Eva (Stoner) Torr, of whom more particulars may be learned from a sketch elsewhere in this volume. Ida M. was born in the old Torr homestead. October 26, 1866. After his marriage Mr. Stroube engaged in farming. In April, 1905, he removed to his present place, four miles west of Greencastle. His farm contains ninety acres, mostly included in the Torr homestead. His wife's father died October 31, 1903, but his widow is still living on part of the old home place. In November, 1908, Mr. Stroube was elected trustee of Madison township and took office January i, 1909, to serve four years. He has nine teachers under his supervision. Mr. Stroube encourages home pupils to become teachers and has measurably succeeded, as most of his teachers are residents of the township. He has a high school with a three-year course and the total enrollment is two hundred and sixty. The school buildings are above the average in structure and conveniences and Mr. Stroube visits the schools, attends the institutes and otherwise connects himself with the instructors, so as better to keep in touch with the educational system. Mr. Stroube is a prominent Democrat and has served in many party conventions. !Mary Edith, a young lady of eighteen and Mr. Stroube's only living child, is a student in the senior class of the Greeucastle high school.-

Oliver Stroube

Oliver Stroube was born July 19. 1836, in Bracken county. Kentucky, and was married March 10. 1862, to Eliza J. Blackerby, a neighbor girl and schoolmate. He was a grandson of Nicholas Stroube, who migrated from Pennsvlvania to Bracken county. His son John, the father of Oliver, was born in Bracken county and married a Reeder. Nicholas built a stone fence which is still standing and recently owned by Mrs. J. L. Hamilton, of Greencastle, who is a niece of Mr. Stroube. Oliver was a farmer and owned a farm in the southeast corner of Madison township, three miles southwest of Greencastle. On this place he spent the most of his hfe and there met his death, April 3, 1901. For some years he served as a justice of the peace in Madison township. His widow is now living with her daughter. The six children of Oliver Stroube are as follows: Frank M., present sheriff of Putnam county; John William, trustee of Madison township: Charles N., a physician at Roachdale; Earl P., a farmer in Madison township: Ida M., wife of Dr. Reginald Pollom, of Cayuga, Indiana; Armenia B.. now ^frs. E. R. Bartlev, of Greencastle.

This prominent deceased citizen of Madison township was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, March 29, 1828. When six months old he \\'as brought to Indiana by his parents, William and Maria (Kimberlin) Torr. His father died when James H. was fourteen years old and he remained with his mother until some years after his majority. October 4, 1855, he married Eva Stoner, daughter of Peter and Mary (Wells) Stoner. Eva was l)orn in Madison township, April 16. 1832, and after one year with her motlier-in-law. retired with her young husband in 1856 to her present farm. It consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, heavily mortgaged, but all this was soon cleared off and the places increased to some six or se\en hundred acres. .About twenty years ago the family moved to the present lionie. wliich was built by ex-SheritT James Brandon. At this place James H. Torr died. October 31. 1902. He was successful as an agriculturist, being a general farmer and stocktrader of more than the usual shrewdness. He prospered and left a fine estate, over which his \vid(5w still presides. Pie was full of energ)- and push, notwithstanding protracted periods of ill health, and made a great success in business. In politics he was an enthusiastic Republican and was a life-time member of the Methodist church, holding various positions in the official body. He was much attached to his family and preferred being at home ti:i anv (ither place on earth. Of the children. Florence died in childhorjd ; Josephine married Charles Allen, of Madison township; William married Clara Busby and li\es on part of the old farm; Charles married Hattie Busby and is in the real estate business at AInskogee. Oklahoma; Franklin married Fanny King and resides on the old home place; Ida married Will Stroube. who li\es on a part of the old homestead; Mar\' married Edmund F. Watts and the\" own the old home.