Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (2 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 3 of 4)

Holiness Band

Union City. - The '' Holiness Work'' commenced in Union City under the labors of Rey. Mr. Lynch, pastor of the Methodist Church, about ten years ago. Father Carter was the first to enjoy the blessing, under the labors of Brother Lynch, during the revival of 1870-71, and he continued to enjoy that blessing and a sense of full acceptance and a perfect salvation till the close of his long and useful and devoted life. He spoke of his enjoyment of full salvation at every class-meeting, and showed by his daily walk that he possessed what he professed. During the summer of 1871, Brother Lynch, with about thirty of his members, went to Urbana Camp-meeting, he being anxious that they should avail themselves of this opportunity of seeking the blessing. About twenty of the members from Union City professed to receive the baptism of perfect love at that place. Weekly meetings were held for six years in the promotion of Holiness, but after that time the interest somewhat abated, and the meetings were permitted to close and gave place to the Cottage Prayer-meetings, held by the Young Men's Christian Association. Five years ago (1876), in the meetings conducted by Rev. Mr. Vigus, the work revived again and several professed to receive the blessing, but no special meetings were held till 1878. In the spring uf that year, a young man by the name of Crouser came to Union City, and held meetings for three or four weeks in the Methodist Episcopal and United Brethren Churches and the surrounding country. His extreme doctrine seemed to cause ee division of sentiment among Christians to some extent. One result of his meetings was the formation of a '' Holiness Band," who have held their separate meetings once or twice a week. The band has numbered from twelve to twenty persons. During the sum- sometimes twenty miles for that purpose. At the present time, about sixty persons in Union City profess enjoyment of the blessing of Holiness; and, on the whole, the work is on the advance. Two camp-meetings have been held at Union City Fair Grounds for the promotion of the cause, one by the Holiness Band, in connection with the Warsaw Holiness Camp-Meeting Association, and one by the Methodist Episcopal Church of Union City and the association just named, The meetings took place in the summers of 1879 and 1880. During the winter of 1880-81, a series of meetings were held in Union City under the direction of the Holiness Band, at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, continuing some two weeks. At the preseut time three meetings are held weekly in this interest - Tuesday evening, at the Methodist Hpiscopal Church; Friday evening, at the United Brethren Church, on the Ohio side, and one by the Band on Sabbath afternoon. Some opposition has been developed in process of time, both in the churches and outside of them, and the advocates of Holiness have borne a measure of reproach and evil speaking on account of their faith in this behalf; but grace has vouchsafed them meekly and joyfully to endure reproach and persecution for their faith in the grace of full salvation applied to their souls. The doctrine of Holiness as held by them may be briefly stated thus: There are two states of Christian experience- - a lower and a higher state. The first is commonly attained at conversion, in which the soul is turned to God and set upon his services; but the passions remain still with more or less power to tempt and distress and sometimes to lead astray the struggling soul. The second is gained by prayer for and faith in this special blessing; and in this second or higher state, the power of temptation in the mind is wholly removed, and the soul is fully saved from sin and enabled by the strength of divine grace to live wholly free therefrom and in the full enjoymeut of perfect love. Some hold that the power of appetite and passion is wholly destroyed; others seem not clear in their view upon this latter point. With many the doctrine of Holiness exists as a firm and steadfast and intelligent faith in the power of Christ to save them from present sin and a humble and constant reliance upon and a trust in Him for entire freedom from known and constant transgression, coupled with a deep conviction of their helplessness in themselves and their need of entire dependence upon Christ for His indwelling power constantly put forth to accomplish thvir ful] salvation from the power and the fact of sin. In others,. there would appear to be somewhat a fanaticism and a kind of imagination of freedom from sin while yet it is clearly evident, to others, at least, that the persons in question possess their full share of human infirmity, both in the power of passion in their souls and in the actual yielding thereto by them. In fact, some of the professors of Holiness show that they are no better than other men. The practice of such naturally brings the doctrine into disrepute. A special doctrine of Holiness would seem to have been maintained of old in the Christian Church, notably by the Methodists in the time of Wesley, and for many years after that day and more or less down to the present time. The Methodists as a society, however, appear to have declined from their early faith and practice in this respect. Among most professors of religion at present, the '' Doctrine of Holiness" as held by its special advocates is judged to be rather fanatical and somewhat injurious to the influence of religious truth in thecommunity. One thing, however, must be admitted to be correct - that the faith of the churches in the attainability of a high degree of Christian purity is far too weak, and that they need to awake to the great command, " Be ye holy, for I am holy."

In the spring of 1874, a paper was circulated and signed by twenty-two persons, residents of the city, containing a call fora meeting for the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association for Union City and vicinity. The meeting was held in May, 1874, and officers were chosen as follows: James F. Rubey,

President; J. N. Hoover, Vice President; M. A. Harlan, Secretary; Simon Hedrick, Treasurer; John S. Starbuck, Corresponding Secretary; Bentley Masslick, Levi Reck, W. T. Worthington, John C. Read, J. N. Galloway, Executive Committee. A constitution was adopted, some of the features of which are given below:

PREAMBLE. - We, the subscribers, actuated by a desire to promote evangelical religion among the young men of Union City and vicinity, and impressed with the importance of forming an association in which we may labor together for the great end proposed, do hereby agree to adopt for our government the following constitution :

Classes Of Members

The association occupied a room at No. 38 Columbia street. In June, 1874, Messrs. Hedrick, Starbuck and Rubey report attendance upon a Young Men's Christian Association Convention at Dayton, and state that they found an excellent spirit pervading the assembly and great enthusiasm in the prosecution of their work. In December, 1874, a Young Men's Christian Association Convention was held at Union City: Rev. L. J. Templin was appointed to deliver the welcoming address on the part of the association, and the pastors of the churches were invited to do the same in behalf of their respective societies.

May 3, 1875, Rev. L. J. Templin was appointed delegate to the national convention at Richmond, Va., May 26, and Brethren Worthington, Foster, Hedrick, Fisher, Masslich, Read and Starbuck delegates to the district convention at Richmond, Ind., on the 15th and 16th instant.

November 14, 1875, "Week of Prayer" observed throughout the city and at the reading-room, and a union Sabbath meeting at the M. BE. Church, November 21, 1875. Services as follows:

Sabbath, November 21 - Methodist Episcopal Church, Hedrick, Starbuck and Fisher, with meetings during the week at the reading-room, at 8:30 A. M. and 6:30 P. M., for prayer.

July 1, 1876, Brethren Fisher and Starbuck were appointed delegates to the International Convention at Toronto, Canada, to be held July 12, 1876.

November 12, 1877, report of work for the year shows as follows: Sabbath meetings held, 26; services, 188; members attending, 376; accessions to the church, 56; cottage prayer-meetings held, 111.

February 11, 1878, report made that the course of lectures by Prof. J. C. Fletcher iiad resulted in a debt on the association of $11.25. The association met for the tirst time in their own property.

December 16, 1878, reported forty-seven country and village meetings, with good attendance and interest; thirty-five cottage prayer- meetings, twenty-three Bible readings and twelve Murphy meetings.

November 17, 1879, report of cottage prayer-meetings during the year, eighteen. School in progress at Beunett's Schoolhouse from April to September, with a good interest and an average attendance of fifty. Otber meetings reported, thirty.

For several years, great activity was shown by the association and much good was accomplished. The past year, their work has been mostly suspended, though the association still exists. They own the building donated by James Moorman, estimated to be worth $2,500, with a debt of $250. During a portion of the time, Sabbath Bible meetings for reading and study were held at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, but the Sabbath is so fully taken with regular meetings in connection with the various churches of the city, leaving little or no time for any outside work that but few could be found who would attend the Bible readings, and they were at length discontinued.

In November, 1881, the week of prayer was observed in Union City by a union meeting, as follows: Presbyterian Church, Monday and Wednesday evenings; United Brethren, Tuesday and Friday evenings; Methodist, Thursday evening and Disciples' Church, Saturday evening. Some interest was manifest and a considerable attendunce was obtained during the week at the various houses of worship, though only a bare fraction of those who should have taken part in this renewal of prayer and effort for the souls of the young to bring them to regeneration and salvation.

Prominent Ministers, Etc

Below will be found bioyraphies of a few persons out of the many who have in days past been active leaders of religious sentiment, or earnest workers in the cause of Christ in the region. They are given, not because they are the most important among the noble band of Christian heroes whose lot has fallen in these parts, but because these persons were especially accessible, or because the facts concerning their life and work were within reach. The denomination, as also the township to which they respectively belonged is pointed out with each statement.

Rev. Thomas Addington, Franklin, Christian,was born in 1829, in Wayne County, Ind. His father moved to Randolph County, Ind., in 1834, settling one and a half miles southeast of Maxville. He married Martha Aun Hughes in 1851. They resided on his father's farm until 1865, and from that time mostly on Bear Creek, in Franklin Township. They have had five children, all living, and two married, and the oldest, Emerson, is also a preacher. T. A. attended the common schools, as also the Union Literary Institute, and Liber College in Jay County, Ind., and was ordained a minister of the Christian denomination, sometimes called New Lights, in 1858. He is a talented, influential and useful preacher, and his field of labor has extended through Randolph, Jay, Blackford and Wells Counties, etc. Elder Addington gave us a brief statement of the society to which he belongs, which we subjoin.

Between 1792 and 1802, three separate bodies of Christians arose in different and distant localities, entirely unknown to each other, and from different sources.

In the East, from the Congregationalists and Baptists; in the South from the Methodists, and in the West (Cane Ridge, Ky.), from the Presbyterians. Their chief men were: In the East, Dr. Smith; in North Carolina, Elder Jones; in Kentucky, Elders Stone, Purviance, Thompsvun, etc. By and by they became acquainted, and united on this basis: and were early known as such; but Elder Barton W. Stone, in the Christian branch, adopted Campbell's views, and took many with him, and the name also; and since that time many of the Disciples claim the name Christian. The original Christians claim, however, that the name "Christian " as a modern denominational appellation, belongs rightfully to them, and not to the Disciples.

Elder Addington has preached extensively and successfully in the region in connection with the Christian (New Light) Church. He is reckoned a prominent clergyman, and is doing much good among the people to whom he preaches.

He is, in politics, a Republican, having in his early life been an Abolitionist. One of his sons though a young man, is an ordained preacher in the Christian Church, and gives high promise, by Divine favor, of future usefulness in gathering the '' Lord's harvest" in the great world-field; and he has before him, if God spare his life among men, the prospect of many years of labor for Christ and human salvation.

Elder Thomas Addington is ready with the pen as well as fluent in speech, and he has contributed many valuable articles to the press upon important subjects pertaining tu religion and morality.

Uriah Ball, magistrate, Disciple, was born at Woodstock, Vt., in 1807, and came to Warren County Ohio, in 1817; went down the Mississippi, spending time in Tennessee and Missouri: returned through Kentucky to Warren County, Ohio, and remained until 1829; then went to Cincinnati, and to Oxford, Vhio, in 1831; and to Randolph County, Ind., southeast of Winchester, in 1835-60. He lived at Lynn in 1860-67, and moved to Union City in 1867. He married Susannah Wrench in 1830, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bragg in 1867. He has had four children, all dying in infancy. My. Ball served an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and followed the business for twenty years. He was also a farmer, and besides sold goods at Lynn seven years. At Union City, he was a carpenter until too feeble to work (1877).

He was Justice of the Peace for Washington Township nine years, from 1846 to 1851, and has been Justice in Union City from 1878 to 1882. He has been a member of the Disciples' Church for forty-four years, some of the time Elder, and also Local Preacher for many years.

Rey. C. G. Bartholomew, late pastor of Disciples, Union City, was born in Brown County, Ohio, in a country log cabin, in 1830. His removals have been as follows: Clermont County, Ohio, 1850; Campbell County. Ky., 1858; Leavenworth, Kan., 1860; Jefferson College, Ky., 1861; Rockville, Parke Co., Ind., 1863; La Porte County, Ind., 1869; Indianapolis, 1872; Rush County, Ind. 1875; Wayne County, Ind, 1876; Irvington, Indiana, 1877; Cambridge, Indiana, 1878; Union City, Ind., 1879. His occupation has been teaching, preaching and medicine. Teaching and preaching, 1848 to 1863; studying medicine, 1853 to 1854, and again in 1862 and 1863 in Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery. He practiced medicine and preached, and was engaged also for a time in secular pursuits. Since 1872, his time has been devoted exclusively to preaching until a year or two past.

He has been largely connected with evangelical and missionary work in his denomination in Pennsylvania, New York, IIlinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. He has long been a life director of the American Christian Missionary Society. Besides regular pastoral work, his evangelist and missionary labors have been abundant, and, by the Divine favor, many souls have been led to profess Christ through his means.

Mr. B. has a large and interesting family. In 1852, he married Ann Davidson. They have had ten children, seven sons and three daughters; eight still living. None are married, and seven are at home - -a lovely and happy group of youth, a joy to the hearts of the loving parents, and giving high promise of activity, usefulness and success in the maturity of manhood and womanhood yet to come.

For some twenty years, Mr. B. has been a large contributor to the current literature of the time, embracing an extensive range of religious, political, scientific and social subjects. In Kentucky, during the war, he was steadfastly, openly and thoroughly Union; aud, though in no sense a partisan politician, he maintains firmly sound morality as an integral part of true political science, holding with the wise man that '' righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." He has been from the beginning to this day an earnest thorough, radical and enthusiastic worker in the great cause of total abstinence, and it is a part of his religion to abound in every good word and work.

Mr. Bartholomew has for some two years engaged in general religious work, in the regions of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, etc. During the summer of 1880, he employed some months in speaking to his fellow-citizens upon political themes, in the interests of the Republican party and the election of Garfield to the Presidency; and at the present time (April, 1882), he is a candidate for the Republican nomination as State Senator from the joint district composed of the counties of Randolph and Delaware, seeking that position from an especial desire to further the interests of the temperance cause in general and of constitutional prohibition in particular.

Elkanah Beard, Winchester, Friend, was born in Washington Township, Randolph County, Ind., in 1833, being the son of William Beard, and the grandson of Dr. Paul Beard, one of the first pioneers of Washington Township. He married Irena Johnson, daughter of Silas Johnson, and grand-daughter of Jesse Johnson, another pioneer of that vicinity. She was born in 1835, and they were married in 1852. Their residence was near Lynn Friends' Meeting-House, until 1873, at which time they removed to Winchester, which they have reckoned to be their home for the past eight years. They have, however, spent much time in other parts of the world. Both Elkanah and his wife became recorded ministers among Friends somewhat early in life; and in 1863, about a week after Vicksburg was taken by the Union forces, Elkanah went there, and in the fall his wife also joined in the work among the freedmen, set on foot by the Society of Friends. In the course of time many schools were established by them throughout the South, and Elkanah and his wife had the oversight of those in Mississippi and Louisiana. Those of which they had charge were at Vieksburg and Jackson, Miss.. Beard's Levee, Papaw Island, Lauderdale, and Young's Point, La.

They remained in the South much of the time, six years, with Vicksburg as headquarters. In 1869, they came North, and went to India as missionaries, spending a year at the Holy City of Benares, on the Ganges (Benares being to the Hindoo what Jerusalem is to the descendants of Israel), establishing at length a mission at Jabulpoor, on the Nerbuddah Kkiver, in Central India, a city of 80,000 inhabitants, and dwelling in that town more than a year. Mrs. B.'s health failed, and they were obliged to return to America, having spent more than three years abroad. Mrs. B, had an abscess in the side, internally, and, for two years and four months, was nearly helpless, being unable to walk or dress herself. The physicians, both in India, and in England where they stayed two months in the vain attempt to effect a cure, as also in America, pronounced her disease incurable. She lay thus helpless for years, apparantly a hopeless case. Her mind, however, dwelt much and long on the precious and abundant promises of Christ to his beloved ones; and it seemed to her, and at length she felt sure, that there was ground for faith that the Lord would, in answer to the '"'prayer of faith," grant her full deliverance.

They had been eighteen months in America, and were sojourning at Richmond, Ind., when, on the morning of the 19th of January, 1874, she was healed instantly by faith in Christ. She arose from her bed that morning, dressed herself, walked a mile and a half that day, and has been well and strong ever since. Her husband and herself both declare she had not been able to walk nor dress herself during the whole twenty-eight months; but from that morning her abscess ceased and has not troubled her to this hour. It was about the time of the '' Crusade," and she went out with the " praying women," kneeling in the snow, and has ever since been active and healthy:

She says: "I felt that the promises were true, and that they were mine; and I grasped the promise, and, as my faith took hold on Christ, I felt the healing power thrill through my frame as sharply as I ever felt anything, and [ knew that I was well; and I sprang from my bed in an ecstacy of bliss, and, if ever a soul rejoiced and' praised the Lord, I was that soul."

Mrs. B. has no theory, and offers no explanation; but she says, like the man born blind who was healed by the Savior, "One thing I know, whereas I was for twenty-eight months a helpless invalid, I arose at once healed and sound, and have been so from that day to this hour."

The mission begun by them in Indja has been maintained, its location being changed, however, from. Jabulpoor to Ho-shungo-bad, also on the Nerbuddah River. They had two schools, and Mrs. B. spent some time in "zenana" vjgiting. The ''zenana" is the portion of the dwelling set apart for females, into which no male person, except, perhaps, the lord of the mansion, is ever permitted to enter. Very few were open even to female visits, but some were so, and these Mrs. B. visited. Her school contained about forty "high caste" girle, from ten to fifteen years old, many of whom were already married, marriage at ten years being not at alluncommon. The pupils were taught Hindoo literature, as also they received moral and religious instruction.

The girls were ''hired" to attend school, the compensation being, however, very small, according to our idea of values; 4 to 4 a cent a day was all they were paid, which sum, even the small - est of the two named, was, nevertheless, enough to buy a pupil her dinner. Some of these girls, though of high caste, were poor, and lived at very small oost. The work of HKlkanah was with the people at larga, especially with the students of King's College, a Hindoo sehool of high rank, containing promise. Many of these, as also others, were daily visitors at his house, to whom he gave religious instruction. He also made frequent visits to the temples and elsewhere, reading and speaking to the thronging crowds in those places. One part of their work was to teach to speak and read English, to prepare the young men for Government employ, and through them access was obtained to families in many cases.

The girls are exceedingly shy of men, and they must never be seen by the male sex. One day Elkanah came to the door and knocked and spoke. In a twinkling, every pupil had disappeared, in the utmost consternation.

They spent several months at first, part of the time in London, England, and part in Benares, in acquiring the Hindoo language. There are two kinds, the Hindoo, or common speech, and the Ur-du [oor doo] or court language. Mrs. B. learned the Hindoo, and Mr. B. the Ur-du, so that between the two they had both.

After nearly three years' stay abroad, they returned to America and to Lynn; and in 1873, Winchester was made their home. Since that time several years have been spent by them in missionary work among the Western Indians, beginning in 1877.

Before this, however, and the year after Mrs. B.'s wonderful recovery, they made a religious visit to California and Oregon, spending six months in that labor, visiting the scattered members of the Society of Friends in those distant regions, holding meetings, preaching, etc.

They joined Rev. E. P. Hammond in his revival work in that country, being engaged eight weeks in meetings in San Francisco, Sacramento, and in Portland, Ore.

On the way down the coast from San Francisco to San Bernardino, April 20, 1875, when about one hundred and twenty-five miles from San Francisco, the steamer ran into a deep fog and was wrecked upon the rocks almost in a moment, there being eight feet of water in the hold when the passengers were roused from their beds to face the terrible danger. The Captain was drinking and fooling away his time in the cabin, having given peremptory orders for the ship's course against the remonstrances of the pilot that they were too near the shore. The passengers escaped mostly in their night clothes, everything being lost. The wreck occurred about 8 P. M., and Mr. B. reached the shore about 1 A. M., but his wife, being in another boat, was on the waves all night, and until 11 o'clock the next day. He thought her lost. Even the Captain said, '' No hope; the lifeboat cannot live in such a sea," But it did, and they met once more, and praised the Lord for all his mercies, and for that their crowning deliverance. No lives were lost, though 200 persons were on board the doomed vessel; but the ship and its cargo were a total loss.

In 1877, they began work among the Western Indians, spending two summers in traveling through the Indian Territory and elsewhere, in visiting the tribes and engaging in religious work among them. Two years also, they kept house in the '" Territory," the last year of which was among the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, who are " Blanket Indians," 7. e., comparatively wild and living in tents. Many tribes were visited and labored with with gratifying success.

The Modocs, wild and fierce as they were among the lava beds, are tractable and quiet, gentle, tender hearted and amiable, and very docile. The Apaches and the Camanches also were visited, and some time was spent among them.

The lives of these Friends from 1863 to the present time have been indeed remarkable in labor for the poor and the darkminded; and their Christian efforts among the Freedmen, among the heathen of India, and the Western aboriginal tribes, and on the Pacific coast, as also through the Eastern States and the regions nearer home, have been crowned with a measure of success for which they devoutly thank the blessed Master and Head of the church that He has counted them worthy to bear and suffer for His dear name.

Elkanah and his wife feel thankful, moreover, that they have been instruments in God's hands in reviving the ancient activity and religious life among Friends, feeling certain as they do that the present revival among them is simply a return to the ''old paths" of 250 years ago, when their ancestors in faith were led to wait on the Spirit and work in love and praise the Lord in gladness of heart. Mr. Beard thinks he was the first in later days to go forth and hold meetings for religious awakening with other branches of Christ's people. He joined with Rey. Elijah Coate a Wesleyan preacher, at Kconomy, Ind., in a series of meetings, which was richly owned and blessed by the presence and power of the gracious Lord to awaken sinners and to com. fort and enlighten and strengthen saints.

In the fall of 1881, Elkanah and his wife set out anew in religious journeying through the land, expecting, if the Lord will, to spend several months in the work among churches of Christ in various regions of the country.

John H. Bond, son of Joseph Bond, Anti-Slavery friends, was born in North Carolina in 1807; came with his parents to Wayne County, Ind., in 1811; married Mary Hockett in 1828; moved to Stony Creek, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1831, and resides on the same place still. They have had nine children,.and eight are living, all married. His house is at the mouth of Cabin Creek, near the Winchester and Windsor pike. He is a farmer and miller; is a Friend; was an Abolitionist and an Anti-slavery Friend, and is a Republican. He and his worthy lady are kind and gentle in spirit, meek and lowly in temper, modest in demeanor," and steadfast and consistent Christians. They were very active and prominent in the operations of the Underground Railroad, of those old times, his house being one of the stations on the branch passing up Cabin Creek toward Jonesboro and elsewhere. Mr. B. was one of the charter Trustees of the Union Literary Institute, a school established in Greenville settlement, northeast of Spartansburg, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1845, for the education of colored and other indigent youth, and continued a member of the board for more than thirty year'. He was an earnest and faithful advocate of Anti-slavery truth when such advocacy was unpopular and dangerous; but he has lived to behold his views of truth triumph, and those whom for years he used to lodge clandestinely, coming to his house in the night and go ing in the night, conveyed through the land under cover of darkness, and helped to flee in secrecy and peril from point to point as though they had been felons while yet justly chargeable with no crime, but only "guilty of askin not colored like our own," he has seen to rise to light and freedom, and to equal manhood

Rey. T. A. Brandon, Union City, Christian, was born in 1828, in Darke County, Ohio. His parents moved to Miami County, Ohio, in 1831, and returned again to Darke County, Ohio, in 1839. He was converted July 25, 1840, and began to preach in 1843. His ordination as a Christian (New Light) minister took place in 1845, and he has been preaching ever since - thirty-seven years. His appointments and residences have been these: Darke County, Ohio, and Jay County, Ind., 1846; Preble County, Ohio, 1845 to 1853; Mt. Healthy, Ohio, 1853, to 1856; Marion, Ind., 1857 to 1859; Dearborn County, Ind., 1860 to 1861; Hamilton County, Ohio, 1861 to 1863; Warren County, Ohio, 1864 to 1866: Miami County, Ohio, 1867; Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1867 to 1868; Pickaway County, Ohio, 1869 to 1870; Bellefontaine, Ohio, 1871 to 1875; Union City, Ohio and Indiana, 1875 to 1881. His work while residing in Union City was general, laborious and extensive. He married Susan McCullough in 1851. They have had four children, all living. In Gospel labor, Rev. Brandon has been enabled by grace to be abundant, and tbe Lord has granted him the privilege of witnessing much fruit from the seed sown by his hand. During thirty-seven years, he has preached 7,000 sermons, baptized 1,- 200 persons, and received into church fellowship between three and four thousand souls, and has married about one thousand two hundred couples. He vowed at the outset to know only "Christ and Him crucified," and God has given him strength to keep the vow. He is yet blowing the Gospel trumpet, and the good Lord is still giving him souls for his hire, and honoring the word proclaimed through his feeble lips.

The Christian denomination numbers about one hundred thousand, chiefly in New England, and the Northern, Middle and Western States, several hundred ministers, and not quite so many churches as ministers.

The Christian Church sprang about the same time from three distinct and independent sources--New England, the Baptists, Dr. Smith; North Carolina, the Methodists, Elder Jones; Kentucky, the Presbyterians, Elders B. W. Stone, Purviance, Thompson, ete. The great Cane Ridge revival, among the Presbyterians in Kentucky, about 1800, was greatly famous in those days, and the world has scarcely ever known its equal, and its effects remain extensively to this day. In November, 1881, Rev. Brandon removed to Lebanon, Ohio, as the pastor of the Christian Church at that place.

Thomas Butts, White River, was born in 1778; came to White River, near Mt. Zion, Randolph County, in 1824, and married Elizabeth Surface, and after her death he married again. He died many years ago, having been the father of eight children. He entered land at first, and at his death owned 240 acres.

Rev. Nathan T. Butts, White River, Methodist, was born in 1838, in Randolph County, Ind., and married Louisa Macy in 1858. His wife dying, he married again. He has six children, and lives on his father's homestead. He has been a teacher fourteen years, and is now a clergyman and a farmer.

He has represented Randolph County in the Indiana House of Representatives, and was a candidate for Senator, coming near succcess. Mr B. is a man of intelligence and influence. When in the Legislature, he was Chairman of the Committee on Temperance. He was in part author and framer of the famous bill sometimes called the '' Baxter bill," and less frequently, but more properly, the Butts-Baxter bill, or the Baxter-Butts bill. The facts, stuted somewhat briefly. are these:

Mr. Butts, after his election and before the assembling of the Legislature, had prepared a bill intended to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, and to make the liquor seller, as also the owner of the building, responsible for damage done by the sale. Mr. Baxter presented one having as its principal feature local option, so-called, in some form. Half a dozen bills in all, probably, were brought forward. The whole subject aud the bills were referred to a Committee, of which Mr. Butts was

Chairman. A sub-committee was appointed, of which Messrs. Baxter and Butts were members; and, by this sub-committee, chiefly by the two gentlemen named, a new bill was framed, combining various features of the other bills; and this new draft was submitted to Messrs. Buker, Harrison, Mellett, Barber and Jacobs, and perhaps others; and after udditions and changes to suit their suggestions, the paper thus prepared was presented to the House of Representatives by Chairman Butts November 13, 1872, at the special session. Only one speech was made against the bill, viz., by Mr. Schmuck, and one in its favor, to wit, by Mr. Butts. Several amendments were presented, all by Mr. Butts, to perfect the bill and bring all friends of temperance to its support, and it passed both Houses, and became a law by the approval of Gov. Hendricks, February 27, 1873.

There is a fact of interest connected with his signing the bill, to wit: He was taken seriously ill, so much so that he entertained doubts of his own recovery. His anxiety for the success of the measure was so strong that he required the act to be brought to his sick room, and he signed it in bed. The vote on the passage stood (in the House), fifty-five to twenty-six. Ayes, forty-four Republicans, eleven Democrats; Noes, six Republicans, twenty Democrats.

Some points in the law were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and it was repealed by the next Legislature. The Indiapa Supreme Court has been famous, by the way, for killing measures of public utility. Many years ago it nearly destroyed the public school system by a characteristic decision, then this temperance law, and lastly the constitutional amendments, voted on in the spring of 1880 and having majorities in their favor (of those voting upon them) of from fifteen to fortynine thousand.

The ground of the adverse decision in this last case is somewhat difficult to state. The vote was taken on the same day with the spring township elections (April, 1880), and the majority of the court seemed to hold that it could not be known that the number voting in favor of the amendments, any or all of them, was a majority of the voters present for any purpose on that day. At another time, the same Supreme Court is understood to have held that they could not know judicially that a pint is less than a quart: and that the averment that liquor was sold by the pint was not equivalent to saying that it was sold in less quantity than a quart.

Rev. William Coulter, pastor: of the Presbyterian Church, Union City, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1844, and moved to Defiance County, Ohio, in 18538, and enlisted in the fall of 1862; but, being young and young looking, was refused. He did enlist, however, in the Twenty-first Ohio, in the spring of 1864. The regiment was in the Army of the Cumberland; was at Chattanooga, and through the Atlanta campaign; was wounded in the arm in a skirmish on the Chattahoochie, and sent to the hospital for six weeks; went through to Savannah and to Richmond with Sherman, and was discharged (mustered out), in July, 1865. He attended the Wesleyan (Delaware) University until 1868, teaching also; was licensed as a Methodist in 1868; took Deacon's orders in 1870, Elder's orders in 1872, and in 1873, joined the Presbytery. He accepted acall from Brooklyn, Mich., in 1874, and came to Union City in 1877.

Mr. C. married Kate Rosensteel in Indiana County, Penn., in 1869. They have four-children. Mr. C. is, as to talent, solid rather than brilliant, quiet in manner and method, yet deep and sound in thought, and discreet in counsel and in action. Though comparatively young in years and in the ministerial work, he is decidedly a '' growing man," and worthy of the confidence and support of his people. On the first Sabbath in January, 1881, by the reluctant consent of his congregation, he resigned his pastorship, and the church was for a time without a leader, and he withouta charge. The society is comparatively weak in numbers, and they are scarcely able to render a suitable pastor an adequate support. Their financial burden as a congregation has been made heavier than heretofore by the purchase of a more commodious lot, and the erection of a tasteful, not to say elegant, place of worship. It is to be hoped that the severance of the pastoral tie between Mr C. and his people here will not work a serious disadvantage to either party, though it is indeed a fact that good pastors and eligible situations are more easily sought than found. Mr Coulter has removed to a pastoral work in Michigan, suffering, however, a deep affliction in the sickness and death of their oldest daughter, a lovely child, and one most dear to the hearts of the stricken parents, who was taken sick just as they were ready to remove to their new field of labor, and they remained only to see her close her eyes on earth, and to deposit her lifeless corpse in the cold and solemn tomb.

Rey. Bela W. Cropper, West River, Baptist, was born in Kentucky in 1791; married Elizabeth Ashby in 1814; came to Warren County, Ohio, in 1828, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1833. They had fourteen children, six of whom are now living. He was a farmer, living one and a half miles northwest of Huntsville, and died in 1874, eighty-three years old. He was amember of the Baptist Church, officiating aiso as a preacher among them.

Isrum H. Engle, Union City, Ind., Methodist, was born in Baltimore County, Md., in 1796. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Engle states as follows: ''My father died when I was but seven- years of age, in 1803, and in 1809, my mother bound me out for seven years, and my master took me to Clermont County, Ohio. I was to have had six months' schooling, but I got none. I went to school after I was free, one month. I got married, and that put a stop to school going. My wife had learning, and she taught me some. Her name was Rhoda Clough, and we were married in 1821, at Mr. Carey's, father of Sam Carey, and of Phebe and Alice Carey, College Hill, Ohio. My wife was born in 1800.' They lived at College Hill three years, and eleven years at Cincinnati; they moved to Jay County, Ind., in 1838, and to Union City in 1865, and to Jay County again, to reside with his children, in the fall of 1881. He was in his younger days very active and vigorous, stating that he has sawed, handled and thrown into a cellar, ten cords of wood in twelve hours. His wife, Mrs. Rhoda Ingle, died in May, 1882, aged eighty-two years.

Rey. J. T. Farson, late of Union City, Methodist, was born in the District of Columbia in 1820, being the eldest of a large family. His father moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, where he grew up, and married in 1844. His wife's name was Harriet C. Page, and she was brought up in Knox County, Ohio.

Mr. Farson came to Union City in 1852, and moved to Urbana, Tll., in the fall of 1861. He died at Champaign, IIl., near Urbana, in December, 1869, being killed by an accident. A team of horses that he was driving ran away, and'he was thrown across the railroad track, receiving from the fall a fatal wound. He was the father of eleven children, eight of whom are now living, and two are married. Three daughters are teaching in the public schools of Chicago, where they reside with their widowed mother. One, Lucia, married Bently Masslich, and has three children, residing at Union City. Another, Amanda O. Webber, resides at Urbana, Ill. One son, Jolin, is an attorney at law in Chicago. Mr. F. learned the wagon and carriage business, and followed it while at Union City, being in partnership a part of the time with William T. Worthington. At Urbana, he was a druggist, and at Champaign a dry goods merchant. He became a resident of Union City almost at its earliest settlement, in 1852. He lived at first in a log house, near Hon. N. Cadwallader's mansion, and afterward built a dwelling on the present site of the Commercial Bank. The house was afterward removed, and is yet standing on the east side of Howard, the third south of Oak He had been a inember of the Methodist Episcopal Church from his youth, and united with that society in Union City in the summer of 1852. Soon afterward he was licensed as a local preacher, and served the church in that capacity during the rest of his life. He was Superintendent of the first Sunday school in Union City, and he also taught one of the earliest day schools in the place. Mr. F. was an active Abolitionist, an enthusiastic Republican, and an earnest, warm-hearted Christian. He served for awhile as Township Trustee of Wayne Township. In every department of moral and religious activity his influence was strong and lively, and his labors became in every worthy enterprise a power for good.

Rev. Almon Greenman, Union City, was born in Summit County, Ohio, December 12, 1826. In 1886, his father moved to Northeastern Indiana, and settled where the town of Kendallville now is. The country was then a wilderness, most of the inhabitants being Indians of the Pottawatomie tribe. His opportunities for early education were only such as the log schoolhouse furnished. These were as faithfully improved as the necessity of helping to clear up a farm in the woods would allow. He was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844; was licensed to preach in 1846, and, since the autumn of 1850, has been a member of the North Indiana Conference, except two years spent in the St. Louis Conference and stationed in the city of Springfield, Mo. His fields of labor in Indiana have been as follows: Allen and Ossian Circuits, in Allen County; Allisonville Cireuit, in Marion County; Dublin Circuit, in Wayne County; New Castle, Richmond, Anderson, Muncie, Logansport, Peru, Marion, Huntington, Fort Wayne, La Grange and Union City; also four years as Presiding Elder in Goshen District. He was one of the four clerical delegates to the General Conference in Cincinnati in 1880. Not quite a year was spent in Indiana Asbury University, when Dr. Simpson, now Bishop, was its President. "What little education he has obtained was mostly gained amid the hardships and poverty of frontier life. As may be seen from the above life sketch, Rev. Greenman has risen to be among the leading men of the Methodist clergy. He is now pastor of the M. E. Church at Union City, Ind., which is a large and influential society, numbering several hundred members. He is now upon his second year of his pastorate with that congregation and the work of the Lord is evidently prospering in his hands.

John Grubbs, Nettle Creek, Methodist, emigrated from Virginia to Ohio, and afterward to Nettle Creek Township, Randolph County, in 1835. He has been an active, zealous Methodist, a local preacher of that church, and faithful in his labors for Christ. He is now eighty-eight years of age, and has been for years feeble and sometimes severely sick. Upon a jgisit to his humble dwelling, August, 1881, he was found stretched upon his bed, gasping for breath, almost speechless and suffering great distress. At the name of Christ and the mention of Heaven, however, his aged soul revived, and he was well-nigh "shouting happy;" and, in broken accents, he tried to tell how near he was to "heavenly glory."" He has been twice married, and his second wife, herself an aged matron of seventy-seven years, was patiently caring for her afflicted husband, and earnestly striving, though mostly in vain, to assuage his woes. His home is some two miles nearly east of Losantville. [A few days after the interview described above, he did indeed "go shouting home." His poor old body lies moldering in the grave, but his happy soul is at rest in the Kingdom].

Rey. Elijah Harbour came to Green Township, Randolph County, in about 1833 or 1834. He raised a large family and spent a long life upon the homestead of his choice, dying at length in 1872, after tarrying upon these mundane shores more than his full fourscore years- - eighty-four years five months and twelve days. His wife, Rhoda, had preceded him to the Spirit Land more than two years. She died May 30, 1870, aged eightytwo years two months and twenty-three days. Mr. Harbour was a Methodist and a local preacher, and was active and successful in helping to spread the knowledge and the practic® of godliness through those frontier regions. The religious exercises in connection with the interment of his earthly remains were very largely attended, and they were followed to the grave by a great throng of sympathizing neighbors and friends.

Daniel Hill, Wayne Township, Anti-slavery Friend, was born in Wayne County, Ind. in 1817; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1818, being the son of Henry Hill, late of Jericho, Wayne Township, Randolph Co., Ind. He has had three wives and four children. He resided some forty years or more at Jericho, and then removed to New Vienna, Ohio, where he now resides. He was, through his early and middle life, a farmer and a carpenter. He is now publisher of peace papers, books, etc., at New Vienna, Ohio. He wasa prominent Anti-slavery Friend, and an original Trustee of U. L. Institute, resigning in 1878, after thirty-three years' service. Daniel Hill was Senator from Randolph County at Indianapolis four years, doing for the publie faithful and energetic service. He hasbeen long and largely trusted and highly honored by the Friends, to which body he belongs. He is a recorded minister among them, and has traveled and spoken extensively as such, and also as a lecturer in the cause of peace and of Sunday schools. He is an enthsiastic friend of total abstinence and of every good and philanthropic enterprise. His temperament is cheerful and even jovial; he is kind and warm-hearted, but firm as the rocks upon every question of principle. His character is altogether that of an excellent and trustworthy citizen and of a consistent and exemplary Christian. He publishes the Friend of Peace, the Sunday

School Worker and a variety of publications upon k*ndred subjects, which spread throughout the land a sweet and tender and quiet, but yet a powerful and efficient influence for good upon the nation, to check the spirit of ambition and war, and bring the world to the real and universal practice of the true and peacefu] Gospel of Christ.

Rey. William Hunt, Huntsville, Methodist, born in Virginia in 1790, and removed to Kentucky in 1791; was a Methodist preacher in 1812; preached in Sullivan County, Ind., in Kentucky, Madison and Clark Counties, Ohio, and White River Circuit, Indiana (1816); emigrated to Randolph County, Ind., in 1818. He married Matilda Smith in 1817; then Mary Smith; had nine children; died in 1877. He became a preacher in 1812, and followed it more or less all his life. Six children are still living. He was a farmer; in his early life, he "rode circuit," but latterly he "located." He was a preacher sixty-five years. He laid out the town of Huntsville in 1834.

William S, Hunt, West River, was born in Kentucky in 1819; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1840. He married Laura Hunt, daughter of Rev. Wm. Hunt, in 1841, and has had twelve children, all living to be grown; ten are now living - seven married; heisa farmer and owns 300 acres; was Justice of the Peace seventeen years, and Township Trustee nine years; is a strong Republican and an active and respected citizen; a worthy and reliable man, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rev. Alpheus Jennings Lewellen, Farmland, Ind., Methodist, is the son of Philip Lewellen, und he was the son of Thomas Lewellen, who was the grandson of one of three brothers who came from Wales to America in a very early day. His grandmother Lewellen was a daughter of Benjamin Jennings, who came from England and settled in Somerset County, Penn., in 1776. A. J. L. was born in Randolph County, Va. in 1824, came to Indiana in 1837 and settled in the eastern edge of Delaware County. He served as an apprentice to the cabinet-making business, with Messrs. Nottingham & Swain, in Muncie, in 1844 and 1845; came into Randolph County in 1845, and resided at Windsor. He married Eleanor Kinert, of Windsor, from Pennsylvania, in 1846; he lived at Georgetown in 1851 and 1852, and sold goods. In 1853, he moved to Iowa, remaining till 1863, when he returned to Indiana. He was licensed to preach by the Quarterly Conference of the Langworthy Circuit, Upper Iowa Annual Conference, in 1862, and, in 1863, took charge of the Montpelier Circuit, North Indiana Conference, O. V. Lemon, Presiding Elder. He was admitted on trial by the North Indiana Conference, at Knightstown, Ind., April, 1864, being ordained Deacon in 1866 and Elder in 1868. He has served in the following charges: Montpelier, Warren, Alexandria, Lincoln, Xenia, Boxley, Tipton, Jerome, Eaton and Farmland. Revivals have been enjoyed in each of the above charges, with accessions to the church varying from fifty to three hundred. In one series of meetings on Xenia Circuit, 125 professed saving faith and 111 persons joined the church in two weeks. He has two brothers and one sister living, and two brothers and one sister dead. His sister (who is living) married Nelson Leonard, a son of Rev, Thomas Leonard, who lived many years at Smithfield, Delaware Co., Ind., and who now resides at Fort Wayne. His brother, Z. M. Lewellen, isa farmer near Eaton, Delaware Co., Ind. His youngest brother, Philip Wesley, is a physician at Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. He graduated at Green Castle; studied medicine at Burlington, Delaware Co., Ind.; attended lectures and graduated at Cincinnati Medical College. Mr. L. has had six children, only one living. He is stationed at present at Farmland, Randolph Co., Ind. (1880).

went tc Berlin in 1824, educated at Berlin and in theology at Elberfelt and Barmen, 1842 to 1850; came to New York in 1851, Wisconsin in 1851, Ohio in 1852; Findlay, Hancock Cv., Ohio, in 1852; Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio, in 1854; Liverpool, Medina Oo., Ohio, 1865; Monroe, Mich., in 1872; Union City, Ind, 1878. He married Caroline Marggraff in 1854; has had eight children, seven living; Evangelical Lutheran, Augsburg, confession unaltered. In his church are 140 communicants and thirty six voters; members of families, 300. The church has a parsonage. He keeps up, in the summer, a German school, and, at other times, a Saturday school for general instruction; in winter, catechism twice a week. He has a full congregation and the services are conducted wholly in German. Some of this congregation are among the most substantial and estimable citizens of the town, and Rev. Micbaelis himself appears to be a most worthy and exemplary gentleman and a valuable member of the community.

Rev. H. J. Meck, pastor of the M. E. Church, was born in Carlisle, Penn., in 1822, and married Elizabeth Elliot in 1844. He joined the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference, at Goshen, Ind., in 1855. He has preached on circuits, stations and charges as follows: Goshen, 1855; Indianapolis, 1856; Williamsburg Circuit, 1857; Hagerstown Cireuit, 1858-59; Winchester Station, 1860-61; Wabash Station, 1862-63; Kendallville Station, 1864-66; Knightstown, 1867-68; Goshen District, Presiding Elder, 1869-72; Fort Wayne, 1873; Fort Wayne, Presiding Elder, 1874; Kokomo Station, 1875-77; Union City Station, 1878-80; Bluffton, 1881. They have had thirteen children, eight still living. His work has been greatly owned and blessed with revival influences, especially at Winchester, Wabash, Kendallville, Knightstown and Kokomo. Great numbers have been added to the church through God's blessing upon his labors, in some cases from 100 to 3800 accessions taking place. Mr. Meck is sixty years of age, but still retains his vigor and energy of body and mind, and the church hopes for yet many years of efficient labor from this worthy servant of Christ. After serving the usual number of years at Union City, he was stationed at Bluffton, Wells Co., Ind., at which place he now (March, 1882) resides.

Rev. John A. Moorman, Farmland, Wesleyan and Episcopal Methodist, born in North Carolina in 1820; came to Randolph Co. in 1822. Has been twice married; his first wife was Nancy Hiatt; his second wife was Mercy Shaw; he has had ten children, nine of whom are living and four married. Mr. M. was a farmer mostly up to 1861; he sold goods in Farmland eleven years (1865 to 1876); has been insurance agent for ten years, Notary Public for fifteen years, clergyman for thirty-four years, among the Wesleyans for thirteen years and the Kpiscopal Methodists for twenty-one years. He has been a member of the Indiana Legislature for three terms - 1860-64 and 1876-78. He was in the memorable "bolt" during the civil war, resigning his seat. He was Quartermaster in the One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, a six months' regiment. Mr. Moorman is a man of active habits and pure and sterling morals, and is in every way an estimable and valuable member of society, He is a reliable Republican, as also an active temperance man and a friend of every useful and benevolent enterprise. In early times, he was an out and out Abolitionist, and, for thirteen years, a Wesleyan preacher. Within a short time past, he has become a practicing attorney at the Winchester bar.

Charles Osborn, Wayne County, Anti-slavery Friend, was born in North Carolina in 1775; came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1819; laid out Economy in 1825; married Sarah Moorman, and afterward, Hannah Swain. He had sixteen children; their

Gideon, Charles N., Parker, Narcissa, Cynthia, Jordan, Sarah, Benjamin, Anna. Six are living still--Elijah, Charles N., Parker, Jordan, Sarah and Anna (1880). Charles Osborn published the first anti-slavery paper in the United States, the Philanthro- pist, at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1817 and 1818. Its motto was "Himancipation, immediate and unconditional." This was several years before Benjamin Lundy established the Genius of Universal Emancipation, and thirteen or fourteen years before Garrison began the Liberator, at Boston, in 1831. He was recorded a minister among Friends in 1808, traveled and preached a full anti-slavery Gospel, establishing manumission societies in North Carolina and Tennessee, in 1814 and 1815; and, in 1816, remoying to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, he established the Philanthropist, as stated above. He traveled extensively as a minister among Friends in America, and visited Europe, also preaching in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Prussia and Holland, spending eighteen months across the ocean - 1832 and 1834. He had been a worthy and trusted member of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, but he was proscribed and deprived of his position in society on account of his opposition to slavery and colonization, in 1842 and 1843. He was dropped from the "Meeting for Sufferings" of the Richmond Yearly Meeting, nominally because he had co-operated with Arthur Tappan, William Lloyd Garrison and others outside the '' Body of Friends,'"' in earnest anti-slavery work. He was active in the "Separation," in 1842 and 1843, which resulted in the formation of another distinct Yearly Meeting, called Anti-slavery Friends. He moved to Michigan in 1842, and to Clear Lake, Ind., in 1848; he died at Clear Lake in 1850, in Christian love and joyful hope, seventy-five years old. His life was indeed one of earnest labor and endurance for Christ. God vouchsafed to his patient, waiting spirit abundance of peace and high views of heavenly things, and often a strong power to speak for His holy truth and a clear witness of gracious acceptance in the earnest service of a humble heart, and he has doubtless been called home to behold the glory of the Lord in His upper and better sanctuary. Charles Osborn's father, Daniel Osborn, was born in Sussex County, Del., in 1745, and his mother, Margaret Stout, in 1744, in York County, Penn. His grandfather, Matthew Osborn, was a native of England.

_ Charles W. Osborn, West River, Anti-slavery Friend, son of Isaiah Osborn, and grandson of Charles Osborn of famous antislavery memory, was born near Keonomy, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1838; attended school at Union Literary Institute and Antioch College. He married Asenath W. Wood, in 1858, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1860; they have had six children; he has taught school six years; he is afarmer; was an Abolitionist, an Anti-slavery man and is a Republican; he is a minister among Friends, and has been Clerk of Monthly Meeting for seventeen years; he is active in temperance, in Sunday schools and in al] good things. Mr. O. is highly esteemed as a Christian and a citizen. Largely under his auspices, a grove temperance and prohibition convention was held in the summer of 1881, in a grove not far from Economy, Wayne Co., Ind., lasting three days, addressed by Mrs. Malloy, Mrs. Trego, Mr. Reynolds and other temperance workers and attended by a large, earnest and enthusiastic assembly. -

Isaiah Osborn, Economy, Wayne County, Anti-slavery Friend, fourth son of Charles Osborn, was born in Tennessee in 1803. Married Lydia Worth, sister of Rev. Daniel Worth, in 1829; had eight children and died in 1846,in Wayne County, Ind.; he was a Friend, and held with the Anti-slavery Friends in the "Separation." Hecame to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1816; became a printer, and came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1819; went to Tennessee in 1822 and worked for Benjamin Lundy on the Genius of Emancipation till 1824 (in Tennessee); worked at Centerville, Ind., for John Scoté till 1827, and at Indianapolis till 1828, when he came to Wayne County. He married Lydia Worth and took to farming and teaching. He settled a short distance north of Economy, Wayne County. After his death, his widow married Mr, Baldwin, of Union County; her second husband is also dead, and she lives a widow, gentle-spirited and peaceful, with her son, Charles Osborn, in West River Township, Randolph Co., Ind. The Osborns have been noted for their steadfast adherence to principle, and their unflinching devotion to truth and right.. Isaiah settled on a farm near Economy, Ind.; was at one time Justice of the Peace, and, for many years, Assessor and Collector of Taxes; was anactive member of Friends and a warm

Robert Pogue, Union City, Ind, Methodist, was born in 1802, in Knox County, Tenn., being the eldest of nine children. His father moved to Greene County, Ohio, in 1806, and resided there till 1835, settling in Ward Township, Randolph County, in the latter year, six of his nine children having also resided in the same county; he was a miller and then a farmer, chiefly the latter. In religion, he was a Methodist and in politics a Demoerat; he lies buried in the old Prospect Graveyard, east of Deerfield. His son Robert left home at seventeen years of age, learning the trade of a distiller; at nineteen, he took up a roving life, first going into Northwestern Ohio, at the call of Capt. Riley, of African fame, for men to assist in surveying; he was too late for that, but not very long afterward, a party of three - Martin, Lewis and Pogue - set out on foot for an exploring tour through Indiana and Iliinois; they passed through Connersville, Rushville, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Springfield and Jacksonville (1821); these were but small villages, and at Indianapolis they were laying the foundations of the old State House. To Connersville, the journey was a wilderness, with very few openings; to Indianapolis and Terre Haute, almost an unbroken forest, there being a little settlement upon Walnut Creek, between In dianapolis and Terre Haute. Going up the Wabash by the Indian Battle Ground, to Austin's prairie, eighteen miles above Terre Haute, they struck out boldly across the wide plains, ninety miles, to Springfield, Ill., then a mere group of cabins. Terre Haute had one hotel and two stores, and Indianapolis but little more. They saw but one dwelling-house between the Wabash and Springfield. In Springfield, not a single good house was to be found. While there, young Pogue cast his first vote, though slightly under age, yet the cause was a good one, the question of freedom or slavery in the new State, and his vote counted one for the right side - freedom. One of the three was a cooper, and one (Pogue) was a distiller, and they arranged to settle there and set up the liquor business. Lewis and Pogue returned to Greene County, Ohio, while Martin set out from Illinois with a drove of horses to Green Bay, Wis. On the route Martin was drowned in swimming a river; he swam across to get a canoe, which proved to be locked fast. In swimming back, his strength failed, and he sank only a few rods from shore. In 1824, Mr. Pogue married Susannah Vaughn, the issue of which union has been nine children, eight of whom became grown, and four have been married, and five are still living; his wife died in Union City, Ind., in 1871, at the age of sixty-four years. Becoming disgusted with the distilling business, he began making spinningwheels for wool and flax; and, when that failed, he undertook to be a carpenter, which business, with farming, furnished him employment till he gave up work. In 1839, Mr. Pogue emigrated to Ward Township, Randolph Co., Ind. Residing there till 1866, he removed to Union City, which is still his home. He joined the Methodist Church, near Prospect, in 1842, and has been Steward, Class-Leader, Trustee, Sunday school Superintendent, or the like, sometimes two or three at once, most of the time since; he is now Steward and Class-Leader in the church at Union City. Though his father was a Democrat, Robert became a Whig, casting his first Presidential vote for John Quincy Adams in 1824; he was a Whig and then a Republican, having voted for fifteen successive Presidential elections, ending with James A. Garfield. Mr. Pogue has been active in local public affairs, especially in school matters, having been School Director, Township Clerk and School Trustee; his influence through his whole life has been for improvement in the public schools, and he feels that his efforts have not been in vain. He has suffered severely from rheumatism from his early manhood, though now, in his old age, he is more nearly free from that ailment than he was in early and middle life. Mr. Pogue is one of that happy band who makes religion the sum and substance of life, and he feels now, after forty years in the love of Christ, that the service of God is its own reward. When Mr. Pogue joined the Methodist Church, the meetings were held in Mr. Helm's chamber. Mr. D. B. Miller and Mr. Helm burnt a brick-kiln together; each built a brick house, which were nearly the first houses of

Carolina before 1774; was married ia Carolina to Elizabeth Kane, and came to Randolph County in 1819, settling at Dunkirk. west of Winchester; they had ten children, most of whom lived to be grown and to be married. He was a Friend, a Whig, Anti-slavery, Abolitionist, an abstinence advocate and a Quaker preacher. Under his counsel and influence as a leader, the little band of Friends at Dunkirk were foremost in works of humanity and love. He died about 1856, and was buried at Dunkirk, but vo memorial marks his grave; and his own relatives could not now perhaps discover or point out the place which ought now to be to them a sacred spot, where his mortal remains found their last earthly resting-place. Anna Puckett, daughter of Isom Puckett, born about 1796, married Elijah Jackson, about 1816, had eight children; was an excellent and motherly woman, an Anti-slavery Friend in the days of that movement, a recorded minister among Iriends, and of a loving, Christian spirit. She was noted in her day for being one of those 'doctor nurses,"' to whom humankind owe se much and render so little, and was greatly skilled in the use of water and of herbs for curative purposes. Her husband was a farmer and a Friend, and died about 1863. Anna died in 1876, aged eighty years. Their children have been distingu'shed for their excellence, two of her children and two of her grandchildren being recorded ministers among Friends. The children of Isom Puckett in all were ten, viz., Gincy (Ballinger), Anna (Jackson), Sally (Adamson), Olive (Diggs), Nathan, Mahala (Mason), Benjamin, Mary (Harris), Lydia (Jackson), Thomas Clarkson; they were al] born in Carolina, the youngest being only a few months old at the time of their emigration to Indiana. The daughters are all dead, and the three sons are supposed to be living. Nathan resides near Ann Arbor, Mich., having in 1882, removed from Richmond, Ind.; Benjamin, in Iowa, and Thomas Clarkson at Nora, Ill., of which place he had been a prominent and influental citizen since 1853, owning a fine landed property and dealing largely in stock, and engaging, also, in other active business undertakings; he has been the father of a large family of children, all but one of whom are still living. In early life, he was Surveyor of Randolph County, Ind., and he held several local offices during his residence in Illinois; his oldest son is a physician in a thriving town in Iowa. His marriage took place in 1852, his wife being Miss Emily Patchin, of North Gage, Oneida County, N. Y., and a sister of the wife of Rev. E. Tucker, now and for many years a citizen of Randolph County, residing at present in Union City in that county.

Rey. J. H. Quinlan, Catholic pastor, Union City, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, in 18438; went to school at Cleveland, New York and Milwaukee, 1861 to 1870; was ordained a Catholic priest at Milwaukee in 1870; Delphi, Carroll Co., Ind., in 1870 and 1872; he traveled for his health in the Northwest during the summer of 1872; Elkhart, Ind., 1872; Union City, 1876. The Catholics have at Union City a flourishing and prosperous congregation uf 150 families, with a school of ninety to one hundred and ten pupils. Three teachers are employed and the school is maintained for ten monthsin the year. The school is free to all the pupils. It is supported by the income of a fund of $5,000, contributed by Peter Kuntz, Esq., a citizen of the town and a member of the congregation. The gift is truly a magnificent one, and the Catholic society have great reason to be thankful to their worthy communicant and fellow-citizen for this act of princely generosity. The Catholics have a fine property of four lots, containing a church, parsonage, nunnery and schoolhouse, all neat and convenient, though plain and inexpensive.

Rey. Thomas Wiley, Union City Disciple. Mrs. Eleanor Ruby (1835) says: ''My husband, Thomas Wiley, became a preacher more than forty years ago. He was born and partly raised in Bourbon County, Ky., and had little education; he learned to write when a boy by getting a ''rock-slate" and having his father set copies on the slate. In early life, he undertook to teach school, and made out yery well. He had to study hard and late at night to keep ahead of his scholars, getting help ina "pinch"' from Thomas Devor, to whom he felt under great obligations. Mr. W. became a missionary preacher, traveling over much of Eastern Indiaua and Western Ohio and organizing many churches in the region. To show pioneer trials, an extract is given, somewhat condensed, from his diary: " April 10, 1852 - Went to Fort Wayne, but found no chance for a meeting. I was behind time; they did not get my letter; it rained hard before I got to town, and the weather was very wet till next day (Sunday). The congregation had gore down; not more than five or six life-like Christians. The church was poor timber at first, and they had unworthy preachers, who have done more harm than half a dozen men could do good in twelve months. One man who had his appointment in the paper, was found play ing cards and gambling among the loafers. Another was expelled from the Episcopal Church and joined the Disciples; was found to be base and was thought to have poisoned his wife to death. Like priest, like people. Doleful situation!" Mr. Wiley became weakly by incessant labor, and moved to Union City. He was made Postmaster and so remained till his death, in 1861. He owned 130 acres of land near New Lisbon. He laid out that town in 1848; the place flourished till the railroads were built and Union City was established so near. When we moved to Randolph County, the whole region was one vast wilderness. The only settlers within reach were Mr. Sheets, north of Union City; Amos Smith, north of New Lisbon; Hezekiah Fowler, father of Gabe Fowler, and Thomas Peyton, on the Converse farm. "Kid" Marquis settled on the Parent farm soon after. James Wickersham, my uncle, came shortly. There was nobody at Union City for years afterward. We used to '' neighbor" with Mr. Fowler's, four miles. We would visit them, going on foot through the woods, perhaps oncea year. Mr. Wiley began by hiring a hewed-log house built at first, before we moved. He got some leather and made some shoes, and took them up into the woods and paid for his work with shoes. The house was large and roomy, and we thought we had a palace. The whole northern country was settling while we lived there (1836 to 1852), and great numbers passed on their northward way. Many stayed overnight as they were struggling on toward their desired haven. We have had fifteen in one night, and we never charged them anything for their entertainment. One time we were busy with apples. My husband was absent, and I had invited some neighbors to come in and help us cut them. A stranger came and wished to stay. I told him " No, husband is absent, und we are to have an 'apple-cut' this evening." '' But I will be civil, and I can cut apples, too.'' At last, I invited my son-in-law to remain all night and let thestranger stay. He cut apples nicely, and was very civil and jovia]. I tried to "pump" him, but he would not be '' pumped." Finally, at breakfast, he said: ''I will tell you who I am. I am Mr. - - , one of a company who have split off from the Methodists, and we are working on our own hook. I tried to debate with one of your folks (meaning Disciple), and be whipped me out terribly." So he went on his way." Mr. Wiley broke down in health as a result of his energetic and extensive labors in the ministry, through the new and sparsely settled regions of Eastern Indiana and elsewhere, and he removed to Union City, Ind., shortly after the commencement of that town, still preaching occasionally and becominy an Elder in the newly established church of the Disciples in that place. He was also appointed Postmaster in the infant city, but his health continued to decline and in a very few years he died there. His widow married Mr. Rubey, of Wayne County, Ind., and they removed to Union City, but her second husband also died, and she now resides as a widow in the same place, aged, but active in bodily health and genial and sprightly in mental activity.

Rev. R. D. Spellman, Winchester, was born in Massachusetts in 1813, and he came to Western Reserve, Ohio, in 1817, and to Indiana in 1851. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1836, and entered the ministry in 1852. He had before that been a practicing physician, as also, in youth, a teacher three years, in Perry County, Ohio. He began the practice of medicine in 1840. His field of labor as a clergyman has been

Wayne, Henry, Randolph, Adams, De Kalb, Wabash and Madison Counties, Ind. - three-fourths of the time in Wayne, Henry and Randolph. He married, in 1842, Elizabeth Beckwith, daughter of Col. John Beckwith, Colonel of a regiment in the war of 1812. They have had four children, three living. Mr. Spellman is now superannuated, and resides in Winchester. He preaches still somewhat, and engages in temperance work, which has been his delight from his youth. Mr. Spellman is now absent from home on a trip to Eastern Ohio to attend the golden wedding of his brother, Marcus F. Spellman, of Portage County, Ohio (fall of 1881). There were in his father's family seven children, and five are living now, and of those five he is the youngest. Mr. Spellman has been, since 1852 until within two years, an active and successful Gospel preacher, and he looks back upon the work which the Lord has enabled him to accomplish with gratitude for the high favor thus conferred upon him. Edward Starbuck, Wesleyan, late of Union City, was born in North Carolina in 1813, and came with his father to Wayne County, Ind., in 1817. He resided for many years near Mt. Vernon, east of Fountain City, Wayne Co., Ind. as a farmer and brick-mason. In 1865, he removed to Union City and began business as a banker, being a stockholder and an office-holder in the First National Bank of Union City. Mr. Starbuck was three times married. His wives were Mary Vineyard, Lydia Good and Esther Ashton. He died at his home in Union City in 1874, greatly lamented by his relatives and by the public at large, and was followed to his burial in Union City Cemetery by a large, sympathizing and deeply sorrowing concourse. Mr. Starbuck was a man of strong moral and religious convictions, and of a largely benevolent spirit. He was greatly drawn to a deep sympathy for the poor and the oppressed, and was an original and life-long Abolitionist. In early life, he joined the Episcopal Methodists, but withdrew from that body and united with the Wesleyans for anti-slavery reasons, and for many years, and till his death, he maintained his connection with them, holding among them the honored position of a local preacher. Mr. Starbuck was a man of great moral worth and of deep religious feeling, active in support of religious and benevolent institutions and operations, especially those intended for the elevation of the poor and needy. The anti-slavery cause found in him a consistent, energetic and faithful advocate and supporter. He was a liberal contributor to the funds of the American Missionary Association in its work of evangelizing the freedmen. Mr. Starbuck was the father of nine children, eight of whom are living - John, Lewis, George, Elizabeth and four others. John S. has been a wholesale egg, butter and poultry dealer in Union City, Ind., and is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a valuable and reliable citizen and an estimable and useful man. One of the daughters is the wife of Dr. William Commons, a prominent physician of Union City. The third wife is still living. Rev. W. D. Stone, Union City, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1826; went back and forth with his father, Ezra Stone, to and from New Orleans, when a lad; came to Winchester, Ind., in 1839; attended County Seminary at intervals from 1839 to 1847, and again after the Mexican war, in which he enlisted in May, 1847, in the Fourth Indiana Volunteers as a private, and in which war he served fourteen months. Soon after its close, he married Miss Jane D. Poor, attending also the seminary under Prof. Cole; moved into the woods north of Winchester, cleared off six acres of land, and ''cleared out.'? In 1852, they moved to Wayne Township, and afterward to various points - Harrisville, Salem, New Lisbon, Recovery, Spartansburg, etc., and now living at Union City. He volunteered in the three-months' service in the war of 1861, being Captain of Company I, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers. The regiment was in the West Virginia campaign. On the expiration of that service, he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and was made Captain of Company C. They were in the Army of the Cumberland, under Burnside and Schofield. He was sent at one time to Boston, Mass., in charge of a company of officers and men, to take command of a body of conscripts (drafted men) in Massachusetts, and to distribute them as might be needed. Hoe was, among other battles, at Resaca, Ga., summer of 1864, and was wounded in the side by a shell, and was discharged July 21, 1864. His business has been teaching and preaching. The teaching has been done at many places - Harrisville, Salem, Bethel, Newport, Union City, Spartansburg, Recovery (Ohio), ete., ete. The preaching has been done in Michigan, in Miami and Shelby Counties, Ohio, and other places. He is an active, wide-awake, somewhat eccentric, but very energetic and successful, educator and preacher. He was almost idolized by his pupils, and is greatly esteemed by the churches to which he ministers. He is enthusiastic, acting on the Bible maxim, " Whatsvever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might." They have no children, which is true also of his brother, Gen. Asahel Stone. It is a great loss to the country that so worthy astock seems doomed to extinction, and that no children live to be an honor to the name and to perpetuate it in the land. By God's blessing, hundreds of souls have been brought upon his labors into the kingdom of the Redeemer. He is still in active service, in his fiftyfourth year, and we may hope for much service from his hands in the Master's vineyard. The cholera prevailed in Winchester in the fallof 1849. It caused a terrible panic, and many left the town. Twelve men banded together to stay and '' fight it through." The doctors mostly left. Dr. Longshore came from Deerfield, thinking he could cure cholera, but he failed utterly, and as he was riding away, a man asked for a prescription for a patient. He wrote on a scrap and handed it to the man, saying, '* Fill that, and give a dose every hour till he dies,'' and rode off as hard as he couldgo. Nothing seemed of any avail till a halfwitted fellow in a saw-mill somewhere south of Winchester dictated a remedy which proved effectual to cure the cholera. Thomas Kizer, druggist, knows what the "saw-mil]l medicine" is. They had "signal taps" for each one of the twelve. One day, Joel Avery was missing. The "tap'' was given, but no Joel. The town was searched, and at last he was found back of Wellcome Puckett's, apparently dead. But he was breathing slightly, and they made some strong lye, and filled a trough, and put him in, and he "bounced." Itrevived him, and he got well. It was a fearful time! A large number died. Some whole families were taken off. The death fiend seemed to have been turned loose upon the devoted town, unchecked, and reveling in wretchedness and desolation. Eider Stone removed from Union City in the fall of 1880, to his farm in Jackson Township, north of New Lisbon. His health, which had become quite feeble during that summer and fall, grew somewhat better, and he took up preaching and pastoral labor which he had been obliged to intermit. But it was only for a short time. His health proved still unequal to the task, and he is striving to find, though with little success, in active out-door labor and relaxation of mental exertion, a restoration of mental and bodily health and strength. During the fall of 1881, he returned to Union City to his former residence in that town, and in September they took their first trip to the prairies of Kansas.

Nathan Thomas, Wayne County, Ind., Anti-slavery Friend, was the third child of Benjamin Thomas, one of the pioneers of New Garden Township, Wayne Co., Ind. He was born about 1813, and was twice married, the last time to Mrs. Ann (Williams) Reynolds, who is still living, having been a widow since his death, nearly thirty years. Mr. Thomas had a large family of children, three of whom were by his last wife. He was wonderfully active in religious and benevolent movements; was one of the chief actors in the ''Separation," and a trusted leader among the Anti-slavery Friends. He was greatly interested in the free labor movemert, and traveled extensively in the South and elsewhere to aid in encouraging the production of cotton and marketing it by free labor. He was one of the Trustees of the U. L. Institute, and was greatly active in its support, and deeply interested in its success. His advantages in that early time had been but meager, yet he became an intelligent and influential man. His death occurred while he was stil! in the early maturity of manhood, when he was only about thirty-eight years old. The cholera swept him from among men in the fall of 1851. His early demise was indeed a severe loss, as men view things, to the comrunity and to the country. His widow, Mrs. Ann Thomas, has been from her early girlhood a remarkable specimen of untiroe ing Christian and benevolent artivity, restless and unceasing in her efforts to accomplish good, especially to the poor and friendless. She was born and reared in Ireland, belonging to a family of distinction in that country. One of her brothers was for many years a British military officer in India. Another was, during his life, an English official in Australia. A third died on the plains while on the way to California during the early gold excitement about thatregion. She returned to her native island in 1879 to visit the scenes of her youth, and it is a somewhat curious fact that, through her means, a marriage was accomplished between one of her sons and a lady of that country. He crossed the ocean during the winter of 1879-80, claimed his bride, and, returning to America in the spring, resumed his business as associated press agent in the city of Chicago; and his mother is now spending with that son in that wonderful city a pleasant and tranquil old age, enjoying the retrospect of a life spent in the active service of the Lord, and the consciousness of the comforting presence of her loving Savior.

Benjamin Thomas, Newport (now Fountain City), Ind., was born in North Carolina in 1782; came to Wayne County in 1812, being the second settler north of Richmond, Ind. He married Anna Moorman in North Carolina. Nathan Thomas, their third child, was the first white child born in New Garden Township, Wayne County. Benjamin Thomas had twelve children, six of them still liying. He remained on the land he entered till his death, about 1851. He was prominent in the '' Separation" among Friends of the Richmond Yearly Meeting on account of slavery, in 1842-45, aud was one of the principal founders of Union Literary Institute, a manual labor institution, established in 1845 and 1846, in Randolph County, for colored and other youth. He was active and influential among Friends during his whole life. He was mild and gentle in his disposition, quiet in his temper, exemplary in his life, industrious and frugal, a consistent Christian, a worthy citizen and a generoushearted, benevolent man.

John Thornburg, Friend-Methodist, Stony Creek, oldest son of Isaac Thornburg, was born in North Carolina, Guilford County, in 1794; came to Ohio in 1813; married Susannah Bales in 1815; came to Randolph County in 1824; entered 160 acres of land two miles south of Windsor, and moved to the county April, 1825. He had ten children, four born in Ohio and six in Randolph County. Lemuel Vestal had undertaken to build a mill on Stony Creek, near Windsor. He had employed his workmen, and they had got out the timber, but he could not go on, and he sold out to John Thornburg, who put up both a saw-mill und a grist-mill, the latter grinding corn and wheat, bolting with a revolving hand bolt. That mill sawed the timber to build the first frame house in Muncie, the lumber being hauled to that place by ox tearas. After owning the mills four years, he sold them to Andrew G. Dye, who, after several years, also sold to Moses Neely, who sold to Thomas W. Reese, and he built the mills anew. They have been owne¢ successively since by Neely, Mark Patty, Johnson & Dye, William A. Thornburg, Reece & Sons, Mahlon Clevenger, John Thornburg, and now by Robert Cowgill. The mill is a good one, though it lacks power somewhat. The water is not nearly so abundant and reliable as of old. The clearing-up of the lands has dried up the ground and lessened greatly the volume and steadiness of flow of the streams, and vastly decreased their value for propelling power. John Thornburg sold his land to Joseph Rooks, and the mills to Dye, and went farther up Stony Creek, and again entered 160 acres, and built a cabin, buying out also David Vestal, with twenty-five acres of cleared land, and there he remained till his death, in 1845. His widow is living yet, with Marion Hewitt, near Neff, eighty-four years old past. After her first husband's death, she married Thomas Clevenger, who was a widower with eight or nine children, only two or three of whom were grown: and so she has raised two Jarge families, seventeen in all, and still survives to look back with thankfulness upon the way in which, though rough and rugged, yet gracious and merciful, the good hand of the Lord hath led her through all the days of her lengthened pilgrimage on the earth, and to look forward to her speedy and abundant entrance into the heavenly mansions.

"Her husband, John Thornburg, was originally a Friend, but, believing in the unity of all Christians, he was prominent in forming and maintaining a congregation in his vicinity on the ground of union. It was composed chiefly of Friends and Methodists, and was often called the '' Friend-Methodist.'' Their church was called the Union Chapel, and the graveyard near where it stood is to this day spoken of as the Union Cemetery. Mr. Thornburg was himself a preacher, and while he lived the society flourished, but after his death it dwindled, and has become extinct, most of the members joining other societies.

Rey. Ebenezer Tucker, Congregationalist, Union City, born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1819, attended common schools and Cherry Valley Academy, 1826-29; Oneida Institute, New York, 1836-40; teaching winters, and manual labor summers; Auburn and Oberlin Theological Seminaries, 1841-44, graduating at Oberlin in 1844;. married Lois Patchin, North Gage, Oneida Co., N. Y., September 25, 1844; Fredericktown, Ohio, 1844; Pastor Congregational Church eighteen months, 1844-46; Principal Union Literary Institute, near Spartansburg, Ind., 1846 - 54 (school mainly for colored youth, established largely by Antislavery Friends); farmer, Nora, Ill., 1854-59; President Liber College, Jay County, Ind., 1859-68; Principal Union City one year; lamp agency, 1869; New Orleans, Professor in Straight University, 1870; Tougaloo University, Mississippi, 1871-72; missionary, Raymond, Miss., 1872-73; Union Literary Institute, Spartanburg, Ind. 1873-79; Union City, 1879. He began teaching Apri] 5, 1835, and has taught, in all, a time equal to forty-two years of eight months each. He has been a clergyman since 1844, preaching mostly without compensation, being Pastor without power for good. About four thousand youth have been members of the schools under his charge, and great numbers of young men and women in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, New York, etc., ascribe to his counsels and instructions an impulse toward light and knowledge which has urged them onward to grander heightsof wisdom and usefulness. He has had six children (four living), as follows: Granville Clarkson, Caroline Amelia, Julius Edson, Laura Frances, Charles Finney, Philo Andrew. G. Clarkson, farmer, teacher, soldier, miller, died 1882; Caroline A., died, Nora, Ill., 1858; Julius E., carpenter, miller, cabinet-maker; Laura F., teacher, milliner; Charles F., teacher; Philo A., telegrapher. G. C. married Mary A. Pomroy - Emma Teagle; Julius E., married Sarah Ellen Knight - widower; Charles F. married Cinderella Maria Campbell: Philo A. married Janetta Clapp. Ebenezer Tucker's parents were both of New England descent, his father having been born in Vermont. His maternal grand parents were natives of Connecticut, the grandfather having been a soldier in the Revolutionary war at Stonington, Conn., and an early and active pioneer ot Cherry Valley, N. Y. His father's father was born in Marlboro, N. H., about 1740, and his father's mother in Rox-