Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (3 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 14 of 24)

JOHN BEARY, farmer, P. O. Saratoga, was born in Virginia August 16, 1809, and is a son of Joseph and Barbara Beary (deceased). Joseph Beary was a soldier in the war of 1812. Our subject was married in February, 1839, to Miss Susanna Overhuiser, and the following fall emigrated to this county and located in the woods, where by hard labor he made a farm. He had two children by his first wife - John H. (deceased) and Barbara A. Mrs. Beary died, and he again married, January 23, 1845; this time to Miss Susannah Grow, by whom hehad nine children, seyen living - Isabelle, Catherine, Sarah, Elizabeth, Emeline E., Josephine S. and Daniel F. Mr. Beary was a member of the German Reformed Church. Sarah died June 13, 1882. Subject died August 15, 1881.

Cyrus Bousman

Cyrus Bousman was born in White River Township, Randolph Co., Ind., February 27, 1845, and is the son of George W. Bousman, one of the early settlers of this county. His father's father came from Germany, and finally to Preble County, Ohio. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born and raised in Rockbridge County, Va., and was there married to a man by the name of Holmes, who died at the end of five years, leaving her with two children and but little means. After the death of her husband, she loaded her worldly effects into a one-horse wagon, and with her two little girls and her young brother, traveled the distance of more than six hundred miles to Preble County, Ohio, where she met G. W. Bousman, to whom she was married in 1887. In the following year, they came to this county, with only means enough to enter a quarter section of land, upon which they settled and proceeded to make a farm. The land was then an unbroken wilderness filled with wild game, and they were without neighbors nearer than three miles, and but three neighbors within five miles. Upon this farm the subject of this sketch was born in 1845, and when nine years of age, was injured by a horse stepping on his foot and crushing it. This injury confined him to his bed for one year, after which he apparently recovered, but at the age of fourteen, the trouble again came on, this time contining him to his bed four years, and leaving him crippled for life. On account of this continued disability and poor school facilities, his education has been limited, being confined to three terms of school at the 'old lost schoolhouse,'' and two terms at a seminary in Winchester.

In 1865, Mr. Bousman was married to Miss Margaret Ann Frase, and in 1866, they began life upon a rented farm. They changed location about once each year until 1869, when he took a lease on a piece of woodland belonging to his father, upon which they settled and on which he worked hard for four years. At the end of this time, poor health compelled a change of occupation. In 1878, they removed to the village of Saratoga, where Mr. Bousman engaged in a huckstering business for one year; he then learned photographing and carried on a gallery at Saratoga for three years. This business ceasing to be remunerative, he quit it in 1877, and started into a general store, selling dry goods groceries, and whatever is necessary and profitable in a small town. At the same time his wife opened a millinery store. 'These businesses they still carry on. In 1874, Mr. Bousman was made Postmaster at Saratoga, which position he yet fills, and all the time his wife has been his assistant. He has for some time been Freight and Ticket Agent for the Pan-Handle Railroad at Saratoga; also agent for the Adams Express Company. It is readily seen that he is a concentrated inhabitant, and is a useful and respected citizen. By integrity in business he has gained the confidence of the community in which he lives, and by energy, perseverance and correct habits, he has earned a cempetence, has accumulated property, and is in a fair way to enjoy a prosperity which a proper life will merit.

Margaret Ann Bousman, née Frase, is the daughter of John and Nancy Frase, and was born near the town of New Madison, Darke Co., Ohio, August 28,1846. In 1851, she was brought to this county by her parents, where she was raised on a farm, and educated in the common district schools. In 1865, she was married to Cyrus Bousman, since which time her life has been parallel with his, and for whom she has been a helpmate and valuable assistant, and with whom she has made a comfortable success of life, with him attaining creditable social position, against adverse circumstances.

THOMAS H. CLARK, farmer, P. O. Clark, was born in Warren County, Ohio, August 26, 1846, and is a son of Thomas and Susannah Clark, also natives of Warren County, and who came to this county in 1847, and now reside in Winchester. Mr. Clark was brought up on a farm, and received a common-school education. He served twenty-two months in the late war in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, Wise Fork and others. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Barbara Hobbick, by whom he had two children - Ida and Elmer. Mrs. Clark died in 1872, and, in 1875, he married Mrs. Jane Rittenour, by whom he has one child - Susannah C. Mrs. Clark had one child by her first husband, viz., William Rittenour. Mr. Clark is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns eighty acres of valuable land.

JOHN M. COLLETT, grain merchant, Randolph, was born in Warren County, Ohio, April 23, 1842, and isa son of Presley and Permelia Collett, who removed to Jay Uounty, Ind., in 1852. He was married in 1863 to Miss Cynthia A. Whitenack, by whom he has seven children - Ida E., Permelia L., Florence R., Jasper I., Isaac N., Charles P. and William E. Mr. Collett served three years in the late war in Company H, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge; he was wounded at the last-named battle. He came to this county in 1870, and in 18738 engaged in the grain business at Deerfield Station, which he still successfully follows.

DR. ROYSTON FORD, physician and surgeon, Saratoga, was born in Darke County, Ohio, November 28, 1845, and is ason of Mordecai and Mary (Tillman) Ford, natives of Preble County, Ohio. The Doctor was reared on a farm, and received a common-school education. He began reading medicine at the age of fifteen, and entered the Allopathic Department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor in 1872, where he took a thorough course in medicine. He practiced medicine in Darke County, Ohio, until the fall of 1876, when he removed to Saratoga. Here he built up a good practice, and in the winter of 1879-80, attended the Cincinnati Hospital and School of Medicine and Surgery, graduating from the latter with high honors February 27, 1880. He then returned to his practice in Saratoga, Randolph Co., Ind., where he not only has his old practice but many new patients have been added to his list. The Doctor was married January 22, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Albright, daughter of Simpson Albright, of Arcanum, Ohio. Our subject served in the late war in Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the summer of 1864.

DAVID S. HARKER, farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. Deerfield. Mr. Harker was born near Woodstown, Gloucester Co., N. J., January 22, 1827, and isa son of Enoch and Christiana Harker, also natives of New Jersey. His parents removed to Butler County, Ohio, in 1830. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in the common schools. February 3, 1848, he married Miss Mary Whitenack, a native of Warren County, Ohio, and daughter of Cornelius and Mary Whitenack. They began as renters, and lived in an old log cabin. Mr. Harker worked for ex-Gov. Morrow, of Ohio; he cleaned out his mill race; he cut wood for 40 cents per cord and boarded himself; but, by economy and hard work, he saved $200 the first two years of his married life, and he then began to farm. He now owns 303 acres of valuable land. He came to this county in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Harker have had twelve children, of whom ten are living, viz., Rebecca, Joseph, Charles, Alice, Emma, Christiana, David, Hattie, Jennie and Adella G.

JOHN KEY, farmer, P. O. Saratoga, was born in Green County, East Tenn., February 6, 1829, and is a son of Andrew and Susannah (Fields) Key, who came to this county in 1829. They settled in the woods. The wild animals and turkeys were very numerous then. Mr. Key was formerly a pupil of Ebenezer Tucker. He helped clear his father's farm, and has since cleared two farms for himself. He was married in 1858 to Miss Avis Smith, a native of Hawkins County, East Tenn., and a daughter of Caleb C. Smith. They bave had ten children, six of whom are living - Joanna, Ruth, Henry C., George, Nancy E.and Stella. In early life, Mr. Key taught school for the most part for nine years. He is now farming and raising stock, and owns 1380 acres of land. In 1880, Mr. and Mrs, Key returned to their native State on a visit.

WILLIAM O. KING, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Deerfield, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, June 21, 1888, and is a son of Bennet and Susan (Proud) King, the former a native of Fayette County and the latter of Ross County, Ohio. They came to this county in 1837, and settled in the northwest corner of Green Township. Our subject was brought up on a farm, and received a limited education. At the age of nineteen, he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until 1855. He was married, March 8, 1855, to Miss Sarah Pierce, daughter of Burket Pierce, who came to this county in 1819, and is still living, in his ninetieth year. Mr. King also buys and ships stock. He resides on Section 17, in a fine brick house which cost $4,000. He is a member of the Odd Fellows; has passed all the degrees and filled all the chairs. He filled the office of Assessor two terms and Land Appraiser one term. Mr. King's mother died September 7, 1882, in Oregon, Holt Co., Mo.

WILLIAM LEWIS, farmer, P. O. Ridgeville. bis worthy old settler is a native of the town of Belbrook, Ohio, and was born September 3, 1826. His parents, Joel and Mercy Lewis, removed with their family to this county in 1827, and settled in the woods, where the deer, wolves and turkeys were numerous. The Indians were also in this locality at times. Our subject knows all about grubbing and picking brush, rolling logs, etc., and other hard farm work. Ile attended subscription school in an old log cabin, sat on a split-log seat, and wrote on a board supported by pins in the wall. The schoolhouse was covered with clapboards, which were secured by weight-poles. He was married, October 24,1850, to Miss Anna Riddlebarger, by whom he has had eight children, six living - David J., Mary E., Thomas H., Isaac N., George W. and Jesse J. Mr. Lewis is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns 225 acres of land.

ELISHA L. LOLLAR, farmer, P. O. Saratoga. The subject of this sketch isa native of Randolph County, was born May 18, 1841, and is a son of Joseph Lollar, an early settler of this county, having located here in 1837. His mother was Sarah Pogue, daughter of William Pogue, also an early settler of this county. Mr. Lollar was brought up on a farm and educated mostly in the common schools. He was married, April 24, 1862, to Miss Mary A. Warren, daughter of John R. Warren, of whom we shall make further mention elsewhere in this work. They have had four children born to them, of whom three are living - Minnie A., Ezra E. and Annie G. Mr. Lollar is a prominent farmer-and stock-raiser of Ward Township, and owns 186 acres of valuable land. In 1862. he left home and loved ones, and went into the rebellion to fight for the liberty of his country... He served in Company H, Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle of Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and afterward discharged on account of disability occasioned by said wound. Mr. and Mrs. Lollar are members of the United Brethren Church,

WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, farmer, P. 0. Clark, was born in Guilford County, N. C., December 12, 1799, and is a son of Samuel and Mary Montgomery. His educational advantages were limited. He attended school in a log cabin, with puncheon seats and a dirt floor. He and his schoolmates employed their noons in cutting wood for the huge fire-place. He was married, in 1829, to Miss Sarah Hiatt, by whom he has had twelve childreun - John (de ceased), Eli, Phineas, Priscilla, Betsy A., Joseph N., Cyrena, Thomas N (deceased), Lovina, Susannah (deceased), Milton M. and Christena. Four sons were in the late war - Eli, Phineas, Jasper and Thomas, Thomas N. died in the service. Mr. Montgomery came to this county in 1833, and settled in the woods, where nearly all kinds of wild game abounded. The Indians were also in or near the locality in which he settled. On one occasion, while out hunting, Mr. Montgomery became lost in the woods, and while wandering around he came to an Indian wigwam which was occupied by a lone Indian and his dog. The hospitable ''red man of the forest'' shared his narrow cot of

THOMAS J. MOORE, laborer, New Pittsburg, was born in Liverpool, Eng., and is a son of Thomas and Margaret Moore. He came to America in 1834, and to Randolph County in October, 1870. He is an engineer by trade ; was on Lake Ontario two years, and on the Hudson River one year. Heis a member of the M. E. Church.

WILLIAM G. MOULTON, teacher, Saratoga. This enterprising young teacher is a native of Richmond, Ind., and was born August 5, 1856. His parents were George W. and Mary A. Moulton, of Auburn, N. Y., and New Paris, Ohio, He was reared on a farm and educated in Ridgeville College and Winchester Normal School. He began teaching in September, 1876, and is now Principal of the Saratoga Schools, which, under his wise management, are in a prosperous condition. He uses the latest normal methods in his work, and has established a systematic course of instruction. The Professor was married, April 25, 1880, to Miss Eva R. Koon, daughter of Harvey W. Koon, of New Pittsburg, this county. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member of the Epsilon RhoLiterary Society of Ridgeville College.

THOMAS G. MULLEN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Clark, was born in North Carolina January 28, 1828, and is a son of Thomas and Nancy Mullen, who removed from North Carolina to this county in 1829. Mr. Mullen received a common school education, and assisted his father on the farm. He was married, October 1, 1852, to Miss Susannah Johnson, a native of this county and daughter of John Johnson. They had six children, four living - James M., Louis A., Samantha J. and Phoebe A. Mrs. Mullen died, and on the Ist day of January, 1866, he married Mrs. Elmina Thompson, by whom he has had seven children; of these, six are living - Ida B., Frank, Flora and Clarence (twins), Bessie and Charles. Mrs. Mullen had one child by her first husband - Emma Thompson. Mr. Mullen owns 320 acres of land. He served in the late war for fourteen months in Company G, Fifty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post,Grand Gulf and Thompson's Hill.

URIAH PIERCE (deceased) was born in Ross County, Ohio, October 21, 1818, and is a son of Burket Pierce, who came to this county in 1819, and is still living at the age of ninety years. The country was wild, and there were no educational advantages except to study by his father's fire-side. He was married, in 1840, to Miss Martha A. Mock, a native of Greene County, Ohio, and daughter of Daniel Mock, who came to this county in 1824. They had six children, of whom three are living, viz.: Thomas N., John Q. and Daniel M. Thomas and John were soldiers in the late war. Mr. Pierce taught the first public school in his district, No. 3, Township 21; and organized the first Sabbath school in the neighborhood. He was a worthy member of the M. E. Cburch, a benevolent man, and a valuable member of society. He died March 11, 1878, loved by all.

ELWOOD O. PIERCE, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Ridgeville, was born in Randolph County August 27, 1855, and isa son of Joel Pierce (deceased). He was left an orphan, and his grandfather, Burket Pierce, raised him until fourteen years of age. He was educated at Ridgeville College; was married, October 2, 1876, to Miss Edith . Thompson, by whom he has had two children, one living, viz.: Laura Alice. Mr. Pierce is engaged raising stock on Section 7, and owns ninety-four acres of valuable land.

DAVID POGUE, retired farmer, P. O. Saratoga, being an old settler of Randolph County, is entitled to more than a passing notice in a work like this. He was born May 26, 1828, and is a son of Robert Pogue, who came to this county in 1837, and now resides in Union City at the age of seventy-nine years. Mr. Pogue was brought up on a farm, and educated in a subscription school, which was taught in a log cabin, with a huge fire-place in one end, and a window the length of the building and only one light high. He sat on a puncheon seat, and wrote on a slab which was supported on pins in the wall. The door of schoolhouse was made of clapboards, as also was the roof, which was secured by weight-poles. When the Pogues settled in Ward Township the land was "in the green."" Much credit is due to these old pioneers for their untiring labors in preparing the way for the prosperity of future generations. Many a day has Mr. Pogue worked in the clearing in his bare feet, sore and bleeding, and the ground frozen hard. They had to go to Richmond to mill, a distance of twenty-six miles. Our subject was married, February 15, 1855, to Miss Mary Barber, daughter of George W. Barber, an early settler of this county. They have no children, but have raised two others. Mr. and Mrs. Pogue are worthy members of the M. E. Church in Saratoga.

DR. JOHN PURCELL, physician, Deerfield, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., February 12, 1834, and is a son of David and Grace Purcell, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of New Jersey. The Doctor was brought up on a farm, and educated near and at Mount Gilead, Ohio. He read medicine under Dr. William Turner, of Waterford, Ohio. In 1867, he began the practice of medicine in that place, and in the fall of 1870 came to Deerfield, where he has built up a good practice. He was married, December 18, 1873, to Miss Sarah Lipps, by whom he has three children - David Guy, Frank M.and Charles M. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities.

JESSE RIDDLEBARGER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Deerfield, is a native of Botetourt County, Va., and was born October 2, 1825. He is a son of David and Ann Riddlebarger, who removed with their family to near Dayton, Ohio, in 1829, and to this county in 1830. Mr. Riddlebarger was raised on a farm, and attended school in a log cabin with a greased paper window, clapboard roof, puncheon floor, and split slab seats. In those early days they went to Richmond to mill, a distance of over thirty miles. Mr. R. has many a time crushed corn ina hominy block. He was married, September 28, 1852, to

Miss Lucinda Barnhart, a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, and daughter of Valentine Barnhart. Ella, Eva, Thomas, Claud, Mark, Oscar and Hattie. 240 acres, and resides on Section 18.

MILES SCOTT, farmer, P. 0. Harrisville. The subject of this sketch, having resided in Randolph County for nearly fifty years, is identified with its this. ward and Chloe Scott, who came to this county in 1832. He was brought up on a farm, and educated mostly in a subscription school, taught in a log cabin, paper pasted over a hole in the side of the house for a window. Mr. Scott knows all about grubbing and picking brush, rolling logs, and other hard work attending the making of a farm in the woodland. He was married, March 2, 1850, to Miss Sarah Ann Coffin, a native of Randolph County, and daughter of Stephen Coffin, an early settler of this county. They have had eight children, of whom four areliving - Stephen C., Edward W., Luzena M. and William H. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are worthy members of the Christian Church at Harrisville.

He has held the office of Justice of the Peace acceptably to his many constituents in Wayne Township for twelve years, and is the present incumbent.

EDWARD W. SCOTT, teacher, Harrisville. teacher is a native of Randolph County, and was born April 22, 1858. His father, Miles Scott, of Harrisville, came to this county when a small boy. Our subject was brought up on a farm and educated at Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. He is now teaching an interesting school at Randolph, Ward Township. He uses the latest approved normal methods in his work and has reduced his labors to a perfect system which the pupils all well understand. He is a member of Christian or New-Light Church.

JAMES A. SIPE (deceased) was born in Bedford County, Penn., May 12, 1823, and was a son of Conrad Sipe. During the progress of the Mexican war he enlisted in the service of the United States, in the company known as the Bedford Greys. He was at the cities of New Orleans, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Mexico and others. He came to this county in 1848, and October 6, 1850, he married Miss Nancy Sipe, daughter of John H. Sipe. They had twelve children, ten living, viz., Orlando, Almareits, John O., Lucy L., Mary J., George M., Clara A., James F., Emma R. and Henry O. Mr. Sipe was a worthy member of the M. E. Church. He died March 27,1875. He was a respected citizen, a benevolent man, and strong advocate of temperance.

JOHN SMILEY, farmer, P. 0. Pittsburgh, was born in Botetourt County, Va., March 1, 1824, and isa son of Walter and Susan Smiley, also natives of Virginia. Mr. Smiley was educated in a subscription school taught in a log cabin. He came to this county in 1841, and settled in the woods ; was married, sketch, was employed about the hotel, assisting his mother in her labors, and attending the common schools in winter. His education, however, is largely self-acquired by a patient course of study at home, after the day's work was done, and the blazing fire on the hearth at night furnished him the light to pursue this effort to acquire knowledge. As he grew up he manifested a taste for business, and to those who watched his course it was apparent that he possessed the qualities that give assurance of success. He was sober, honest and industrious, and found plenty of friends to encourage him. At the age of twenty-two years, he opened a store at Deerfield, the capital for this en- In due time he had paid his indebtedness and had a flourishing business. Two years later, he removed to Randolph, a station then recently established on the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad, and for the next thirteen years was suc- point during six years of this period. In May, 1880, he began the study, of the law, without a preceptor, having purchased the necessary text books, and In November, 1881, he was admitted to the bar of Randolph County, and is rapidly rising in the estimation of the public and the legal fraternity. He has retired from the mercantile business, and devotes all his energy to the practice of his profession. He has the qualifications of a good lawyer, and his well-known integrity secures for him the confidence of all within the scope of his practice who have legal business to transact, while those who know him best predict for him a professional success not less pronounced than that which attended his life as a merchant. His industry and prudent managementin mercantile life returned him a fortune which, though not colossal, is yet ample to secure him against the possibility of want, while his uniformly honorable dealings in business transactions secured for him the public confidence. Personally, he is a splendid specimen of physical manhood, tall and well proportioned, weighing 300 pounds; jolly and good-natured, able to receive or give a joke, and looking always at the bright side of life. His personal characteristics have won him friends, and perhaps no man in the community is more universally respected. In 1863, he was united in marriage with Miss Hettie M. Drew, a native of Steuben County, N. Y.,and daughter of Rufus B. and Mary A. Drew, both of whom are now living in Steuben County, N. Y. His wife isan estimable lady, and shares with her husband the affectionate regard of the community in which they reside. JOHN R. WARREN, having resided in this county for over forty years, is entitled to more than a passing notice in our county history. He was born in Randolph County, N. C., April 12, 1812, and is a son of James and Elizabeth Warren, who came to Wayne County about the year, 1821. James Warren early settler of this county. They have had twelve children, eleven living, viz., Hezekiah, Sarah J., Martha L., McLellan, William S., Mary A., Ezra, Emma, Henry, Noah and Pearla. Mr. Smiley owns forty acres of land on Section 12, Mr. and Mrs. Smiley are members of the Pleasant Grove Christian Church.

common schools. From 1844 to 1849, he worked in a woolen factory. He then learned the painter's trade, which he has followed more or less ever since. He came to this county in February, 1839. Miss Huldah Bragg, a grand niece of Gen. Bragg. They have had ten children, of whom eight are living - Clement G., Janetta A., Sarah E., Emma B., Mary J., James C., Anna L. and Clara R. for two years. Mrs. Smiley is a member of the Christian Church.

WILLIAM STICK, farmer and mechanic, P. O. Randolph, was born in Adams County, Penn., March 25, 1846, and is a son of Casper and Julia Stick, who removed with their family to this county in 1853. Mr. Stick learned the carpenter trade, at which he has worked, for the most part, ever since. He was married, August 14, 1873, to Mrs. Sarah Alexander, daughter of Joel Williams, of this county, They have one child - Clyde H. | Mrs. Stick had two children by her first husband - Harry O. and Violetta L. |

Alexander Vorhis

N. J., and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1852, with his father, Cornelius Vorhis. The latter was an enterprising, industrious man, and, had he lived, would doubtless have identified himself with the history and improvements of erected a dwelling house upon his land, but eleven days after the completion of his home he died. were thrown largely upon their own resources for a livelihood. His wife kept hotel at Deerfield, pursuing this enterprise until her death, in 1864, and deriving a fair income from the public patronge. His son, the subject of this

Our subject was raised on a farm, and attended subscription school in a log cabin, where he sat on a slab seat and wrote with a goose-quill on a board supported by pias in the wall. He was married, January 9, 1834, to Miss Ann Newton, and in 1836 removed to this county and purchased a pre-emption right to eighty acres of land on Section 26, in Ward Township. There was but ten acres of this cleared, and, except the ten acres, he has made a farm. He kept adding to this until at one time he owned one thousand acres. He sold his landed estate in 1875, and has retired to quiet life, and resides in the pleasant village of Saratoga, in Ward Township. He had ten children by his first wife, of whom seven are living, viz., Henry, Mary A., William, Mahala, Joseph, John F. and Martha. One of the deceased, Elizabeth, lived to the age of eighteen Mrs. Warren died April 21, 1877, and he again married to Mrs. Ann Dixon; she lived but about nine months, and he married a third time, September 16, 1880, this time to Mrs. Sarah A. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Warren are members of the M. E. Church.

JAMES M. WARREN, farmer, P. O. Union City, is a native of this county, and was born May 18, 1840. He is a son of Dolphin and Nancy Warren. He was married, September 6, 1860. to Miss Sarah E. Miller, a native of this They have had four children, three living - Sarah E., Nancy A. and Daniel D. Mr. Warren is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns 39!) acres of land. He also Mr. and Mrs, Warren are members of the Disciple Church.

WHIPPLE & HARKER, millers, Deerfield. This enterprising firm own and operate the flouring-mill at Deerfield. They run four set of buhrs, and make the best of flour. The mill was erected in 1854, by Willis Whipple, and his father, Jason Whipple. The mill now contains one purifier, and has a capacity of forty barrels in twenty-four hours. Willis Whipple, the senior member of His parents removed with their family to Jay County, Ind., in 1838. In 1848, he came to this county, and has been engaged in milling for the most part ever since. He was married, December 29, 1849, to Miss Margaret S. Miller, by whom he had ne child, Mary A. (deceased). Mr. Whipple isa member of the M. E. Church. The junior member of the firm, Joseph E. Harker, was born in Warren County, Ohio, October 24, 1850, and is a son of David S. Harker, of Ward Township, who came to this county in 1857. Mr. Harker was educated at Ridgeville College. On the 10th of April, 1872, he married Miss Mary A. Whipple, daughter of Willis Whipple, of whom we spoke above. They had two children - Alma and Leamy W. Mrs. Harker died November 5, 1878.

Wayne Township was created (as it stands at present) in 1838. It lies on the east side of Randolph County, Ind., with Jackson Township north, Darke County east, Greensfork Township on the south and White River Township at the west. The township is about eight miles north and south, and five miles east and west, containing about forty sections. It hes on both sides of the old (Wayne's) boundary, embracing most of Township 17 and the south part of Township 18 north, Range 1 west, and the north part of Township 19, and all of Township 20, Range 15 east. It is located upon Greenville and Dismal Creeks, and also on White River and Little Mississinewa River. The surface is mostly level, and some of it quite low, though probably its entire extent is tillable by proper drainage. Greenville Creek is in the southeast, Dismal in the central east, Little Mississinewa in the center and northeast and White River in the west. The western part was first settled in 1818 and onward. The Greenville & township, a part of that thoroughfare being piked. There are parts of four pikes within its bounds: First, State Line pike, from Union City south to the cld Greenville State road, six and one-fourth miles; Winchester & Union pike (north), ten miles; Winchester & Union pike (sonth), ten miles; Arba & Bartonia pike (in the township), one mile. The country is under pretty good improvement, there being some fine residences and many good farms. The first settlers were at Jericho. Amos Peacock, Benoni Hill, Hiram Hill and Abram Peacock were perhaps the first. They came in 1818. Joshua Foster (on the Griffis farm) came very early, in 1819 or 1820. Robert Murphy, three and a half miles south of Union City, came in 1834. Settlers in that region and soon after were James Griffis, on the Williamson place, came in 1833. Smith Masterson lived one mile west of Murphy's. William Kennon lived on State road, near Bartonia, in 1832. Hewas the father of Smith Kennon, northwest of Bartonia. John Dixon lived one anda half miles north of Murphy. Mr. Green lived on the State road. The first important mil] in Wayne Township was Cox's, on White River, about five miles east of Winchester, built in 1825, removed about ten years ago. It was sold to Joseph and Benjamin Pickett before a long time, and bought afterward (1853) by William Pickett, and run till 1864; stood idle through five dry years, and was pulled down in 1870. The first school probably was in Jericho settlement, among the Friends, in 1822 or 1823. Mariam Hill taught the school,in Friends' Meeting House, with twenty or twenty-five pupils. Friends' Meeting was established about 1821, at Jericho. The first school near Robert Murphy's, he says, was about 1838. Several settlers came in that year, and the neighbors built 'a little log cabin schoolhouse, with no windows, buta log cut out for light. The first meeting-house in his region was at South Salem. They used to go to Coletown, Ohio, at first where was a Congregational Church, Rev. Springer. The members of the Friends' Meeting were Benoni Hill, Amos Peacock, Henry Hill, Abram Peacock, Elijah Cox, William Cox. There was no preacher in the meeting for a long time. The first one in the bounds of the meeting was John Jones. It was a quaint but affecting sight to witness those faithful souls gathering in that humble woods cabin, and sitting in utter quiet, without a word of prayer or exhortation or song, waiting in stillness on the Lord for the power of His purifying spirit in their hearts, meeting thus week by week, month by month, year by year, without weariness and without failing, humbly and in love both with God and with men. Different settlers came at various times. Some of those who are now prominent came later. James Griffis moved to the Griffis farm in about 1838; Norton, near Bartonia; Graves, old of Randolph in 1846, and for years before and after, came very early The father of Thomas 8S. Kennon, northwest of Bartonia, came in 1830. Mr. Shockney, father of Samuel Shockney, west of Bartonia, emigrated from Maryland in 1840. Williamson, on the State Line pike, south of Union City, Ind., settled there in about 1838. Elihu Cammack, on the State road, east of Bartonia, settled there in 1846, but was born near Arbain 1817. William Pickett settled in White River Township in 1828, and in Wayne Township, atthe Cox Mill property, in 1853. The Pollys and the Masons came in early. George Thomas, son of Benjamin Thomas, near Newport, Ind., settled in Randolph County (Jericho), in 1835, and his wife in Wayne Township in 1818. William A. Macy, north of Elihu Cammack's, came there in 1852. John Hartman, northwest of William A. Macy, settled there in 1848. Gullett, west of Robert Murphy's, came to that place about 1836. Poor settled near the Griffis farm. Joshua Foster came to the same neighborhood early - 1820 or sooner; Sheets, north of Union, in 1880.

Two important railroads traverse Wayne Township, crossing each other at Union City - the " Bee Line " and the " Pan Handle," Union City being at the crossing, and Harrisville on the "Bee Line." The "Bee Line," the original Indianapolis & Bellefontaine road, was the second road in the State, built in 1851-53. The " Pan Handle" was begun about the same time, and constructed to Union City from Columbus soon after, but completed to Logansport about 1867. These roads are now parts respectively of two immense railroad corporations, holding each thousands of miles of track, and millions of dollars' worth of fixtures and apparatus.

The Greenville State road west through Wayne Township and Winchester was for many years one of the chief routes of travel between the Hast and the West.

At first, emigrants in great numbers passed westward, and in a few years vast droves of cattle came Hast on the same route. Many persons kept hotel and pasture and feed stations for people and for droves. Immense crowds of cattle used to go Hast along this route during twenty or thirty years - in fact, until the Bellefontaine Railroad dried up the business, in 1853 - seven or eight hundred fat cattle would be ina single drove. The road would be tracked in straight, deep hollows, as if logs had been "plumped" down lengthwise and taken up, leaving a huge mark across the road.

In Wayne Township, James Griffis kept one of the chief stations for droves for many years. William Robison, whose father lived not far east of Winchester, says his father kept a tavern, and also fed cattle more or less. The charges seem to have been low enough, compared with these times. The price forman and horse (supper, lodging and breakfast for both) was 374 cents. He says also that the boys had often to sleep in the barn on the hay-mow to make room for the travelers in the house. The business of feeding droves seems to have been lucrative. At least, the men who followed it appear generally to have become wealthy, principally, perhaps, for two reasons - first, they had of course large tracts of land for pasture; second, the feeding gave them a home market for all the corn and hay they could raise. The business of keeping tavern was indeed important in those early days. When all the travel from East to West went through "by land," great means of accommodation would be needed; and, as it is always, a public demand created a general supply, and on all the chief roads and in every town, one of the chief occupations used to be to keep travelers. Now that business is reduced toa minimum. The travel all goes on the railroads, and very little of it stops at all for anything, except, indeed, for a " smash- up," and that occurrence pays no attention to hotels or anything else. The "Quaker Trace" passed through the township from south to north, via Bartonia and Salem, toward Fort Wayne. The township is tolerably well drained by White River to the west, Little Mississinewa River to the north, and Greenville and Dismal Creeks toward the east; yet portions of the township need ditching badly, and future years will doubtless witness solid improvement in this respect. Several pikes lie partly in the township. The State Line pike, north and south, from Union City, the two pikes connecting Union City with Winchester, the Union & Salem pike northward, a new one eastward from Winchester toward Jericho, and the pike westward from Greenville toward Bartonia, as also the Arba & Bartonia pike. If the Greenville & Winchester pike were only made through, and one extended northward from Bartonia via Salem, and from Elihu Cammack's northward to the Winchester & Union pike, Wayne Township would be " well out of the mud." For which joyful consummation let all good men earnestly labor and strive.

A new and free pike is in construction from the Wayne County line straight north to the toll-gate southwest of Union City, which will be a very important road.

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The first entry in the county seems to have been made within the present bounds of Wayne Township. The location is about a mile west of Harrisville, on the White River. How the man who made the entry got away in there, so far from any settlement, and why he entered that particular quarter-section, would be interesting at this day to know, but probably the facts will be forever hidden in the tomb of the forgotten past. This entry was made more than a year before the first settlement, which took place in April, 1814, and some fifteen miles southeast, on Nolan's Fork.

The next entry was made by the Chenoweths, directly east of Bartonia, on Greenville Creek, being Section 26, 17, 1, a part of which is still owned and occupied by the widow of Abram Chenoweth, who died afew yearsago. Abram Chenoweth, the father

During the winter following (February 6, 1818), Jeremiah Cox, of Wayne County, who had been employed in milling for years in that region, came up to White River, a mile or two above Harrisville, and entered a whole section - Section 19, 20, 15 - on both sides of the river, with a view of erecting mills after awhile in that new county - a purpose which he accomplished about 1825.

The same year, April 15, 1818, Abram and Amos Peacock and Henry and Benoni Hill made entries and effected a settlement shortly after, i.e., in 1818. They are supposed to have been the first actual settlers in Wayne Township.

The growth of this region was but slow. After the Chenoweth entries and the Jericho colony, but little was done till many years later. The Chenoweth land was not settled till more than twenty years later (1840). The Coxes, the Peacocks and Hills came in from Wayne County and the south, but the next considerable movement entered the territory south of Union City, breaking across the line from Ohio and the Kast.

The Chenoweth who entered the land so early in Wayne Township (September 24, 1817), lived near Spring Hill, Darke Co., Ohio. He was the grandfather of Abram Chenoweth, who died a few years ago, south of William A. Macy's, near Greenville Creek.

The first Chenoweth who resided on the land was Abram Chenoweth, cousin of the one spoken of just above. He made the settlement about 1840, and the other one, whose widow lives there now, came later.

By the end of 1826, only eighteen entries had been made, and that by fourteen persons. These entries comprised about thirty-one hundred acres. Nearly all, or 2,650 acres, were taken up in a few months, almost at first, from September 24, 1817, to May 29, 1818, by the settlement of Friends. They lived there, nearly in seclusion, for years, having communication with the White River settlers toward the west, but not much any other way, except, indeed, to go to the Whitewater Mills for grinding, and the Whitewater Yearly Meeting for religious purposes.

The first religious meeting in Wayne Township was probably that of the Friends, at Jericho, and the first school the one in their meeting-house.

There are not many churches in this township. There are, outside of Union City, only four - Methodist, at Bartonia; Friends', at Jericho; Christian, at Harrisville; and Disciple, at Salem. The Friends began their society about 1820; the church at Bartonia was built about 1850; the one at Harrisville, about 1860; and the one at Salem, perhaps about 1855.

The schools in Wayne Township are in a good condition. Four of the schoolhouses have been lately built new. They are substantial and sightly edifices, well suited to their purpose.

The Trustees of Wayne Township have been Robert Murphy, Alexander Gullett, Jacob A. Macy, William Turner and Robert McKee. Mr. McKee is building (fall of 1881) two new schoolhouses of brick.

Bartonia. - Edward Barton, proprietor; A. D. Way, surveyor; location, junction of Spartansburg & Arba pike with Greenville State road; twenty-seven lots; recorded October 1, 1849; streets, none named in the plat. Distances: Spartansburg, four miles; Union City, seven and one-third miles; Winchester, eight miles; Harrisville, six miles; Saratoga, four and three-fourths miles; Arba, seven and four-fifths miles. The town is located at the point where the Richmond pike running northward reaches the Greenville & Winchester road, and stands upon Section 26, 17, 1. Some business has been done in years past, but not very much. A store, a smith shop, a wagon shop, a physician, a post office and a church have been there much of the time for twenty-five or thirty years. At one time there were two stores, a smith shop, a cabinet shop, a turning shop, a post office, a meeting-house and two physicians. But litcle is left at present. The town has dwindled, many of the dwellings are removed, the others decayed and things are in a dull way indeed. There are now one store, one smith shop, one post office and one church (Methodist Hpiscopal). Principal residents near are W. S. Morton, west; T. 5. Kennon, northwest; John Hartman, north; James Ruby, south; Daniel Stockdale, south; Richard Stockdale, southwest; Graves, Esq., west; Mr. Chenoweth, east; Branson Anderson, east; Reagan, east.

Bartonia is one of the polling places of Wayne 'Township, the other two being Union City and Harrisville. Bartonia is half a mile east of the site of the old town of Randolph, which, however, has been extinct for thirty years or more. The country around is rolling and fertile, and tho residents are thrifty and prosperous, and some possess a comfortable fortune.

miles west of Union City, and seven miles east of Winchester; recorded June 17, 1854, Job Harris, proprietor; E. L. Watson, surveyor; seventeen lots. Dickinson's Addition, William Dickinson, proprietor; recorded August 18, 1854; E. L. Watson, surveyor; streets, north and south, Elm; east and west, North; lots eighteen to thirty-five, eighteen lots. J. Alexander's Addition, Joseph Alexander, proprietor; thirteen lots; recorded November 17, 1877; streets, east and west, Main; north and south, Mill and Sugar. Distances: Union City, four and one-half miles; Bartonia, six miles; Winchester, six and one-half miles; Saratoga, five and one-half miles; Arba, thirteen and a half miles; Spartansburg, ten miles; New Pittsburg, ten miles.

The town arose with the Bellefontaine Railroad. The business of the town was but little at first, and the improvement of the village has since been slow. 'There is but one public road, and that running north and south across the railroad track. The town is too near Union City to command much business. However, some growth has been attained, and it has become the center of a meager trade. Two small additions have been made to the plat of the village, indicating an increase of population. The antecedents and commencement of the place are as follows: In 1841, just forty-one years ago, and about ten years before the birth of the town, two small cabins stood upon the site where now appears the hamlet of Harrisville. One was occupied by Michael Ingle, father of Philip Ingle, still a resident of the town. Mr. Ingle died of cholera some years afterward on the Mississippi. The 'other settler was William Dickinson, who lived near where the church now stands. Others came and at length

Job Harris. About 1851, Job Harris undertook to open a small store. Heshortly afterward laid outthe town. Before long, William Locke set up a blacksmith shop, and William Benson built a saw-mill. Mahlon Fous followed, making pumps, and sometimes tried his hand at repairing wagons. Dr. Dreer undertook to practice medicine, and Mr. Bone made and mended shoes. Job Harris kept a post office. Here we have the picture of the town in its earlier years, and truth compels us to state that the business of the ambitious little "ville" is not greatly more extensive at the present day. Some increase indeed there has been. The saw-mill was burned. Mr. Keister built another. That, too, was burned, and he built still another, attaching to it a grist-mill, and the two in one are there to-day. One store has sufficed for the trade of the town until the spring of 1881, aud now there are two. A church (Christian) was formed in 1865, and a meeting-house was erected by them in 1866. Mr. Keister built a warehouse in 1880 and bought some grain. There are a smith shop and a post office, and the pump-maker continues his vocation; there are a physician and a clergyman and a Justice of the Peace, and the mill still rears its head amid. the dwellings of the place. About twenty-five residences are found upon the various streets, and the church opens its hallowed doors for the services of religion. In those twenty-tive residences, one hundred and nine people find a home and a resting-place, so that, take it all in all, Harrisville is quite a town - much more than many a one that persists in maintaining a name and a place in the world.

Its merchants have been Messvs. Harris, Benson, Millett, Parker & Horner, Hullinger, Eyinger, Sutton, Albright, Ackels. The physicians have been Messrs. Dreer, Adams, Hullinger, St:tes, Owens. Blacksmiths: Messrs. Locke, Frazier, Kelzy, Robinson. Those now doing business are as follows: Selling goods, Messrs. Albright and Ackles; physician, Dr. Owen; clergyman, Rey. D. S. Davenport, Christian; blacksmith, Mr, Robinson; pump-maker, Mahlon Tous; miller, Mr. Keister; grist-mill, Smith Bros. reside at Union City; Postmaster, Mr. Albright; grain dealer,

Fous and William Locke also. Mr. Keister and Mr. Davenport have been here some fifteen years. No liquor is sold in the town, The Bee-Line Railroad passes through the place, and furnishes to the vicinity the convenience of a daily mail. No pike extends to the town, but it stands between two, the nearest about a mile off. When the citizens will arouse and put in that "gap," they will have free intercourse both by gravel pike and by rail with the whole boundless continent. May the wish and anxious hope erelong become a blest reality. Their school is about a half a mile away.

the polling places are Bartonia, Harrisville and three at Union ity. The great body of the votiny is done at the latter place, though Union City is near one corner of the township. In poplation, Harrisville ranks twelfth in Randolph County, the towns with morc people being Union City, Winchester, Farmland, Lynn, Spartansburg, Morristown, Huntsville, Bloomingsport, Saratoga, Windsor. Messrs. Smith, proprietors of the foundry and machine shop at Union City, have lately (1882) fitted up a fine grist-mill at Harrisville, and they seem likely to command a good patronage and to achieve a substantial success for themselves, as well as to furnish a convenience to the region in which ib is situated.

Settlers near Harrisville: William Dickinson and Michael Ingle came to the neighborhood about 1837. Samuel Conkling came from New Jersey about 1836, settling east of Whitesell's Graveyard; he raised ten children, and died in 1860, aged seyenty-three. Thomas Welch the same year; he was an old man and died soon after; his son took the farm and resided there until he died, three years ago. William Martin came about 1835, living near the second toll-gate, west of Union; he died in 1872, sixty-six years old. Joel Elwell came from New Jersey in September, 1838; has been twice married, and has had eleven children, ten grown, seven married and six living. His first wife was Elizabeth Huston, and the second wife Mary Cole, married in 1878. Mr. Elwell was born in 1806, and is now in his seventy-sixth year. George Whitesell came in 1841; he settled two and a half iniles nor theast of Harrisville; had fourteen children, twelve grown and eleven married - seven living; he was born in 1790, in North Carolina, and died in 1863. seventy-three years old. He and his wife both died in Fountain County. Ind.. in about a month after their removal thither, she being about sixty-five years old; his son, Tobias Whitesell. resides at Harrisville. Jacob Whitesell came to the neighborhood about 1839, settling near the Whitesell Cemetery. west of Union City, oa the north pike; he died in 1877, in his seventy-ninth year, and Mary, his wife. in 1863, in her seventy-second year. Jizra Coddington came about 1855, from Richland County, Ohio: he is an old man, with a family of seyen grown children. Mnch of the land north of Harrisville was owned and held by speculators. and thus was kept from occupancy. Some of it came into actual use only so late as 1880,

Randolph (old). - One mile west of Bartonia. on Greenville State road, on the east side of the "Old Boundary." Section 27, Town 17, Range 1; John McKim. James Green, proprictors; fourteen lots; Pecoded May 20, 1836; streets. cast and west, Main (State road); north and south, Main Cross. Distances: Winchester, eight miles; Bartonia, one-half mile; Spartansburg, four miles; Union City. nine iniles.

Randolph was probably the first town laid out in Wayne Township, but the business was never considerable. In 1846, there were two stores and one hotel. but probably nothing else, The hotel was kept by Bailey, and the stores were by Bailey and Mc- Intosh The town did xot prosper, and was wholly extinct by 1852. At one time, James Polly kept hotel in the town. It is a curious reminiscence of that old dead town that one of its lots was sold for taxes, and was bid off for a dollar or so by an old colored man named William Lewis, and he undertook to make it a residence, hauling logs there to build a house. The owner of the farm which included the town forbid him entering upon the lot, and he never made good his title to the premises. What aman with plenty of money could have done,-cannot now be told. but the colored man had to sucemnb and lose his dollar, and his labor in hauling the logs to boot. Citizens in the vicinity are Messrs. Graves, Mote. Kennon. Morton, Shockney, ete. The country is slightly rolling and slowly improving. no pike near the place , and no road but the State road, which in muddy weather is terrible. An old graveyard is near the town, which is still in use. Many of the residents in the region are thriving farmers. Messrs. Kennon. Shockuey and Morton are especially prominent and cuterprising.

Salem. - Loeation, Sections 11 and 12. Town 17, Range t. southwest of Union City, east of "Old Boundary." Nine lots; plat recorded December 25, 1540, David Polly. proprietor; no streets named in the plat. Polly's Addition, David Polly. proprietor; seven lots (ten to fifteen inclusive): recorded October 5, 1858. Salem is located on the road running east from Jeri. cho, three miles from the latter place. MeIntosh & Polly had

Gist had a cabinet shop. J. Locke had a smith shop. The persons who have sold goods there have been D. Polly. MeIntosh, Wiggs & Polly, Joseph Shaw, Elijah Frazier, Hardin Law. Downing & Harkrider, Alfred Dixon. Montgar. The black smiths have been J. Locke. Joshua Harlan. Amos Coughren, Thompson, William Anderson and others. Cabinet shops: Silas Gist, John T. Adams, Springer, Harlan, ete. Wagon shop. Harlan, There has been a Disciples' Chureh thirty years ov more, which has lately been revived. Among the settlers in the region have been Benjamin Dixon, Silas "Dixon, Saiuel Downing, Robert Murphy, William Woodbury, 1839; Nathan P. Woodbury, 1839; Edwin R. Woodbury, 1839; Peter Hoover, Ezekiel Gullett, Samuel Gullett, David Polly, 1840: Barnahill Polly, 1840. The town was begun mostly in the woods. and did some business for a time, but it has had the common fate of small towns near, but not on, a railroad. - Business has all died out. <A few old houses remain, most of which have families living in them. The store, the smith slop, the post office, all are

Union City, ina southwest direction. There is no pike near the town. Only mud roads exist there, and the country heing level and the surface clay, the highways are. in the wet season, nearly impassable. 'The country thirty year's avo was mostly in the woods, but improvement has or: adually iiide its way till there are now good farms and: comfortable residences to be found in the vicinity. A saw-mill has been in operation in the neighborhood for thirty years, until within a vear or two, but now it is gone. In 1852, teams used to come down through the woods - roads newly cut out and bridged up a little, from Union City, that had just started, after lwuber to help to build the infant town. The pmmense lumber yards that are now the pride and the wonder of the thriving city, had not then been thought of. Alfred Lenox, in 1852, went from Union to Pollytown (as it was then called) and hauled a load of lumber to Union City, with six yoke of oxen. The load was a whopper, and men did not believe that he would get the load through, but he did. The region around is similar to the rest of this part of the country - somewhat level and inclined to be low, and needing good thorough draining, but unproving gradually, and having some good farms and building.

Hayesville - Is a little suburb of Union City, Und., located about a mile southwest of that town, at the junction of the south pike leading to Winchester and the new pike, extending from the south line of the county northward to Union City. It has grown up within six or eight years, having been named at the inauguration of President Hayes, in March, 1877. The statement is made that the people there resolved that, if Hayes should be declared elected, their suburb should be christened Hayesville, and if not, the name should be Elizabethtown. The place contains a store, a smith shop, a toll-eate, a schoolhouse and eight or ten dwellings not far off. Of course, the close proximity prevents business from centering there. yet it is a neat and pleasant hamlet. the houses being comparatively new and the residents quiet and industrious citizens.

JAMES ALEX se: a prominent farmer of Wayne Township, was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 8, 1818, being a son of Daniel and Sarah Alexander, who removed from the county of their nativity to Preble County,

State. Daniel Alexander was a farmer, and James grew up a farmer's son, sharing from boyhood the labors and hardships of those rough and rugged days. His marriage occurred September 2, 1840, with Miss Julia A., daughter of Jacob Alexauer. Light children have been horn to them, and six of the eight survive, viz., Milton H., Mary J., Sarah E., Hugh ill Henry J. and James B. Mr. Alexander is not an early pioneer of Randolph County, emigrating thither not till 1851; some portions of the county, however, were still uncleared, and he managed to settle in the woods, even at that late day. His wife and self ure members of the Christian (New- Light) Church, and he is, in poli- Mr. Alexander is a modest and retiring, yet an estimable and releaiie citizen.

BRANSON ANDERSON. Born in 1814, in North Carolina, he came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1833; he entered forty acres adjoining John Hartnian's old place on the west, but resides at the present time on the Greeneville read, east of Bartonia. Myr. Anderson married Ilester Green, in 1842, and they bave had ten children, five of whom are still living. He now owns eighty acres, where he has his residence; he is a substanial farmer, and a reliable, life-long Demovrat.

JOHN ANDERSON, born in 1785 in Maryland ; went to North Carolina when young; married Priscilla Sexton about 1802; eame to Richmond, Ind., 1829; came to Randolph County in 1835; settled north of Greenville Creek, near Abram Chenowcth's (Jacob Macy farm), entering forty acres of land there. iTe had twelve children, all grown, and ten married before he died. His children were eight boys and four girls. He died in 1850, and his wife in 1863, at the age of seventy-seven years ; she was buried in Iloover's Graveyard. Mr. Anderson was a Democrat.

LEVEN BARTON (father of Mrs. Norton, of Bartonia) came to Bartonia about 1850, or probably sooner; he lived there about two years, then moved to Iowa, and died there. Edward Barton, son of Leven Barton, came to Randolph County, Ind., about 1846. He laid out Bartonia in 1849 (plat recorded October 1, 1849), and resided there about six years, and then removed to Iowa, in 1852, and died there. He was an enterprising citizen, a member of the Methodist Church and an excellent, upright and trustworthy man,

JACOB BENNETT lives south of the toll-gate southwest of Union City, near Hayesville. He was born in Virginia in 1809; came to Meigs County, Ohio, in 1840; moved to Jay County, Ind., in 1850; moved to Mercer County, Ohio, in 1852, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1866. He married Rachel McLaughlin in 1830, who died in 1854; he then married Elizabeth Beechan in 1855. He has had fourteen children, of whom ten are nowliving. Mr. Bennett has been an active, enterprising farmer all his life. He owns 146 acres of land, latter of Ohio. Mr. Burket was raised on a farm, receiving only a comnion education. In 1854, he married Miss Jane Ifulse, by whom he had five children, three of whom are yet living. His wife died on April 12, 1870, and on the 17th of the following September he married Mrs. Rachel A. Grim, by whom he has three children, all living. Mr. Burket has, since 1854, been the owner of a saw-mill, but in business he is classed as a farmer, living on his own farm of 160 acres, three miles west of Union City, and besides this he owns 80 acres in Darke County, Ohio. He and his wife are members of the German Reform Church.

ELIHA CAMMACK. son of John Cammack, born in Arba in 1817; married Rebecca Wigesin 1837. Lived near Arba on the old farm till he moved to his present home on the State road, east of Bartonia, in 1846, in the green woods. He now owns 168 acres there, 80 acres near Spartansburg, besides several tracts of land elsewhere. He has resided where he now lives thirty-four years (except that he sold goods at Arba a few years, returning in 1873). He has been Commissioner of Randolph County ten years. He hasa fine young vineyard with several hundred vines, giving splendid promise for the future. He is supposed to be the oldest living person native of Randolph and now residing in its limits. His wife was sick for years, lay very low for many: months, and finally died in the summer of 1880. They have had six children - John Henry, born in 1838, twice married and has six children, is a farmer and sawmiller, Wayne Township. near his father's: Francis Marion, born in 1843, has three children, railroad clerk, Sidney, Ohio; Martha Ann, born in 1845, died an infant; George Washington, born in 1848; William Winfield, born in 1851, three children, farmer, lives one mile north of his father, near Greenville Creek; Elmena Henrietta, born in 1855, unmarried, and lives with her father. Mr. Cammack is a fine specimen of the sturdy Western farmer and business man, prompt, active, firm, public-spirited and energetic, hewing his steadfast way through hardship and toil to comfort and independence.. His father and uncles were among the earliest settlers of Randolph County, near Arba. His father, John Cammack, entered land in 1814 or 1815, near Arba, and his uncle James entered his land near the same place. Of course Eliha Cammack took the brunt of pioneer life from the very start, witnessing and experiencing its many trials (and its pleasures as well) from the very beginning; for with all the present generation, there were also sources of delight open to those stalwart pioneers, affording them much enjoyment, and rendering them cheerful and contented with their lot, and even thankful and happy for all their blessings. E. C. was married in the fall of 1881, in Iowa, to a lady with the same name as himself. Mr. C. is sixty-four years of age, in the vigor of mature manhood, still hale and strong and giving promise of enjoying many years to come in the land of the living. He was, in old times, a Whig, and for years past a Republican, possessing a vigorous and independent mind, and commanding the respect and esteem of all who know him. Mr. Cammack, in December,

Abram I. Chenoweth

Abram I. Chenoweth, the first of the Chenoweth family of whom we have any record, came from England to America in 1720, They were two brothers, named Arthur and Richard Chenoweth, who settled in Berkeley County, Va,, and each married and had several children. Arthur had several sons, named James, John, Abraham, William Thomas, Arthurand Richard. The fifth son, Thomas Chenoweth, married Mary Pricket, who bore him twelve children, namely, Martha, Sarah, Mary, John, Thomas, Arthur, Richard, William, Elijah, Ann, Hannah and Abraham. This youngest son, Abraham Chenowith married Rehecca Herr, May 1,1790. They had fourteen children, whose names were, Martha, William, Jacob, Ann, John, Susannah, Mary, Noah, Sarah. Hannah, Abraham, Rebecca, Joel and Gideon. Their third son, John Chenoweth, married Mary Barger, April 18, 1820, and by her had six children, namely, William, Jacob B., Abraham J., John B., Susan and Rebesca. John Chenoweth, the father, died on the 26th day of January, 1851, and of the children, William died February 20, 1837, and John B. died August 7, 1853. The mother died October 12. 1876. The others of the family are yet living.

Of the last above-named children, Abraham J. Chenoweth is the subject of this sketch, and was born in Pike County, Ohio, on the 9th of July, 1826. When quite young, his parents removed to Darke County, Ohio, and settled in Washington ''ownship. Here he grew up, surrounded by the privations of a frontier life, and accustomed to the labor and toil of the backwoods. He was educated in the primitive schools of that day, and acquired the rudiments of an education.

he had acquired the other eighty. The land was wholly unimproved. In facet, Mr. C. eut away the underbrush and trees to make an opening for his log cabin, into which he removed and began the work of life. nently successful. 'To the original homestead he added other Jands, until at the time of his death he was the owner of 576 acres.

Mr. Chenoweth united with the M. &. Church when he was fourteen years of age, and for thirty-eizht years he was a consistent and influential member thereof, having been a (lass-Leader thirteen years. He was exact in all his business transactions, cordial with his acquaintances, a kind-hearted and generous man. THe died of typhoid fever November 9, 1878, and his mortal re- mains were followed to their final earthly resting-place in Union City Cemetery, by a large and sympathizing company of sorrowing relatives and frieuds.

Mrs. Celia H. Chenoweth was born in (Campbell County, Va., March 1, 1828, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Susan Harris. When she was in her eighth year, her parents moved to Warren County, Ohio, and in the same year to Greene County, from which place, after a short sojourn, they removed to Randolph County in 1836, and settled on a piece of land in Washington Township. She received such education as the common schools of that day could afford, und grew up as the daughter of an early settler. When ten years of age, she united with the M. E. Church, and has ever since rernained a member. On the 25th day of August, 1848, she was married, to Abraham J. Chenoweth, with whom she lived a pleisant, useful and prosperous life of a little more than thirty years, and whose respected and honored widow she now is. Her residence is yet on the old homestead, where she receives from her neighbors the respect and esteem which her virtues merit, and where she enjoys the competence which her industry and economy helped to accumulate.

JOHN T. CHENOWETH, born in Maryland in 1826. He came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1840. He was thrice married, to Rhoda Parker in 1847, to [fester Ramsey in 1852, und to Emily Lawrence in 1859. They have had eleven children, five of whom are living. Mr. O. is a Methodist and a Republican, thriving in business, and respected and esteemed in social life. He is a farmer by vocation; has been Assessor for both Green's Fork and Wayne Townships, and came within a few votes of obtaining the Republican nomina tion for Commissioner of Randolph County. Three of his brothers were in the Union army. Benjamin F., Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry, had a finger shot off; discharged June 22, 1863. George W., Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry, taken prisoner and releaseil on parole at Richmond, Ky.. August 30, 1862; wounded at Thomson's Hill, not very far from Grand Gulf, Miss., May 1, 1863 ; died May 14, 1863, of the wound received as before stated. Joshua B. joined the Eighty-fourth as a recruit. Account of land owned by the William Chenoweth family: John T. Chenoweth, Wayne Township, Jericho, 265 acres; W. C. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 120 acres; Sirah Ann (Banks), Darke County, Ohio, 240 acres; Charles W. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 200 acres; Oliver M. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 180 acres; Edwin M. Chenoweth Wayne Township, 140 acres; Benjamin F. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 76 acres; Joshua B. Chenoweth, Wayne County, 155 acres ; homestead, (rreen's Fork Township, 236 acres; Henrietta K. (Brown), Wayne County (dead), 160 acres. Total, 1,762 acres. The Chenoweth family held a large and interesting re-union August 26, 1882, at the old homestead near Arba, Ind. The family is numerous and wide-spread, and they belong to the enterprising and influential portion of the community.

OTLS COATS was born in White River Township, this county, October 25, 1842, and is a son of Isaac and Norena Coats. He was brought up on a farm, and, in common with the boys of his neighborhood, received his education in the common schools, and for three years was a teacher. On July 31, 1867, he married Miss Catharine Davenport, daughter of Rey. D. S. Davenport, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this book. They have six children, and are both members of the Christian Church. Mr. Coats is now engaged in farming.

Ancestry Of Ezra Coddington

William Coddington (grandfather of Ezra Coddington, resident of Wayne Township, Randolph Co., Ind.), was born February 8, 1751, and died in 1827. Hannah Coddington, wife of Willinm Coddington, was born September 26, 1754. Their children were as follows: Isaac, born December 19, 1774, and died April 12, 1797; John, born April 4, 1777, and died in Illinois in 1845 at the age of sixty-five years; Betsey, born January 14, 1780; Robert, born December 10, 1781, died March 10, 1782; Benjamin, born June 19, 1783, died March 8, 1855, aged seventy-two ; Martha, born December 5, 1785, died in two months. Benjamin Coddington was the father of Ezra Coddington. Benjamin's wife, Martha, was born February 12, 1786, an1 died October 15, 1826, aged forty years. Their children were as follows: Abraham, born June 14, 1805 (Ezra Coddington's oldest brother); Hannah, born June 12, 1807, living, has twelve children; Ezra, born May 12, 1809, is living, and has had seven children; Aza, born July 28, 1811, living, was never married, resides in Randolph County, Ind.; John, bora May 30, 1815, died May 31, 1836, aged twenty-one years one day; Lydia. born October 10, 1816, died April 14, 1861, having had nine children; Samuel, born September 21. 1820, died July 16, 1863, four children; Effee, born December 16, 1822, living, has four children; Elizabeth, born June 26, 1825, living, has two children; Eleanor, born in 1827, died in 1878, eight children; Sarah, born in 1829, died in 1876. Thus, kzra Coddington was one of eleven children, only six of whom are now living. An ancestor, probably the earliest in America of the family, was William Coddington, who, with eighteen others removing from Massachusetts to Narragansett Bay, purchased Aquitneck, settling in 1638, and of the little colony, William Coddington was chosen their first Governor. From him, as the original stock, are reckoned to have sprung the various branches of the connection throughout the country. Ezra Coddington's great-grandfather, whose name also was William Coddington, resiled in New Jersey, where the family was numerous, but the exact connection from this William back to the William, Governor of Aquitneck and its infant colony, we are unable to trace. Ezra's grandfather, after his marriage, moved from New Jersey to Maryland some time after the Revolutionary war, and after his marriage, which latter event oceurred, however, before the war, say 1772 or 1778. as his oldest child was born in 1774. His subsequent life was spent in Maryland, but the date of his death is to us unknown. He was well-to-do, having been the owner of 300 acres of land. lzra's father, Benjamin Coddington, was born probably in New Jersey, and was taken by his father to Maryland upon their removal thither. Benjamin Coddington, father of Ezra R, Coddington, being married about 1804, removed from Maryland to Perry County, Pike Township, Ohio, sixty miles south of Columbus in 1816, remaining in the same county till his death in 1855. Bara Coddington's grandfither, William Coddington, was a soldier through the entire war of the Revolution, being probably in the naval service. His great-grandfather's children were Robert, William, Benjamin, Betsey, Samuel - only five. The connection has been numerous, influential, and spread extensively through the country.

EZRA R. CODDINGTON, a farmer of Wayne Township, was born May 12, 1809, in Alleghany County, Md.; he is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Coddington, who settled in Perry County, Ohio, in 1816. Mr. Coddington received his early education in the log-cabin schoolhouses of early days, and in 1834 married Elizabeth J. Kennedy. They are the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living, viz., Elizabeth, Nelson, Samuel and Justina. Mr. Coddington came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1854; he has a farm of thirty-five acres under good cultivation. He isa member of the Christian Church, and in politics is a Republican, having been a Whig during the existence of that party.

JACOB CONKLYN is a native of this county, and was born April 14, 1846, being a son of Samuel and Catharine Conklyn, who were among the first settlers of the county. He received a common-school education, and in 1865 was married to Miss Mary A. Ingall, by whom he has had six children, four of whom are living. Mr. Conklyn is a successful farmer, living on his own farm of 140 acres, three miles west of Union City, and, with his wife, is a member of the Christian Church at Harrisville.

WASHINGTON CONKLYN is a native of Randolph County, being comparatively a young man, and born April 17, 1850; he was brought up on his father's farm, and is himself a farmer. His father, Samuel Conklyn (deceased) was a native of New Jersey, marrying, in 1831, Miss Sarah Smith, born in Ohio. They had six children, four of whom are still alive - Harriet, Catharine, Angeline and Washington. Samuel Conklyn was one of the earliest settlers of Wayne Township outside of Jericho, coming in 1834, when residents in the region were indeed "few and far between," and selecting for himself and his beloved flock a home in the wild and pathless woods. Washington Conklyn married Miss Julia Engle May 18, 1867, and they are the parents of four children - Sarah E., Sylvester F., William S. and Franklin C. He is a thriving and enterprising citizen, owning 160 acres of valuable land.

Rev. David 8. Davenport

was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, October 1, 1823. His parents, Noah and Catharine (Stutsman) Davenport, removed to Miami County, Ohio, in the spring of 1825, when the infant David was barely eighteen months old. When he had reached the age of twelve, they removed again to Elkhart County, Ind., and, after the lapse of ten years, he returned to the home of his boyhood, and on the 10th of September, 1846, he married Miss Margaret Coats. Their family has consisted of nine children, of which number, however, only three are living, all daughters, viz., Mary J., Martha A. and Catharine. Mr. Davenport united with the Christian (New-Light) Church in 1849, and belongs to the same denomination still. In 1856, he entered the ministry and was ordained in 1859. He came to Randolph County in 1865, and soon afterward organized the church at Harrisville. Through his labors, a large and prosperous society has been built up, and he is still its pastor, having been so at different times in all during sixteen years. Mr. Davenport has been incessant in labor both physical and ministerial. While resident in Ohio, he worked as a cooper. Becoming involved during the financial crisis, he came to Randolph well-nigh penniless. Taking up the business of bridge-building by day and preaching at night, he succeeded in paying his debts, and, moreover, laid by enough to purchase a small farm; he now owns sixty-six acres of land, and a dwelling and two lots at Harrisville. He has a good standing in his denomination, being Treasurer of the Eastern Indiana Christian Confer. ence, and also Treasurer of the Indiana State Christian Missionary Board. Mr. Davenport was a member of the Ohio Home Guards who were ordered to the front by Gov. Brough May 2, 1864; he was in several skirmishes; was with Hunter at Lynchburg, at Cumberland during the engagement with Narly, etc. Mr. Davenport is still actively and earnestly engaged in the work of preaching, rejoicing in the good measure of success with which the gracious Lord of the Vineyard has been pleased to vouchsafe to his labor of many years duration. -

BENJAMIN DIXON was born in North Carolina, emigrated thence to Butler County, Ohio, and yet again to Randolph County, about 1835. He was married four times; his wives were Sarah (ullett (sister of Ezekiel Gullett), the mother of ten children; Sarah Hisenhour, married in Indiana, one child; Nancy Bright, married in Indiana, no children; Keziah (V) Barnes, a widow lady with a family of children. The fourth wife is still living with her son, John Barnes, at Spartansburg. Mr. Dixon died about 1876; he was very old; his hair white as snow, his step feeble and tottering and his frame trembling and decrepit; his surviving widow is also venerable with age. Mr. Dixon's children were Zilpha, Alfred, Andrew, Levi, Mary (died at twenty-one from bleeding at the nose), John, Silas, Sarah, Hugh (died at two years). Eight grew up and were married and had families before any of the eight died. Mr. Dixon was a farmer by occupation, a Presbyterian in religious profession, and a Democrat in politics. Failing to maintain a Presbyterian Church, those who had belonged thereto joined other denominations, and about 1850 he attached himself to the Disciple Church, and remained with it till his death. The older members of the Dixon connection are all dead. The last, Silas, departed this life, a feeble old man, in the winter of 1880-81. The settlers in 1835 were Peter Hoover, John Dixon, Smith Masterson, Mr. Kennon, Robert. Murphy, two families by the name of Powell, James Griffis. John Dixon, brother of Benjamin Dixon, came before the other members of the connection.

SILAS DIXON was boro in 1800 in North Carolina; came to Butler County, Ohio, in 1814, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1840. He has been married four times; his wives were Mary Gullett, Kezia Cartwright, Mary Linton and Matilda Macy. They have had four children. He lived for many years, probably since his first settlement in the county, southwest of Union City and northeast of South Salem; he was a farmer. He was afflicted for

SAMUEL DOWNING, M. D., was born in Chester Co., 8. C., April 6, 1805 ; his parents were Johnand Margaret. 'I'be father died in 1870, aged ninety-three years, and the mother about 1466, also very old. Dr. Downing was one of eight children. His father came from South Carolina to Bourbon Co., Ky., in 1813, to New Paris, Preble Co., Olio, in 1815, and to Darke County, Ohio, in 1817, which latter point became his permanent residence, Samuel Downing being then twelve years old. In 1828, he began the study of medicine, privately for the most part, in which laborious but greatly useful profession he finally achieved an honorable succe:s. In 1829, he married Elizabeth Baird, and to them were born ten children, seven of whom, as also his wife, survived him. They removed to the wilds of Randolph County, Ind., in 1837, settling four miles southwest of what is now Union City, Ind., near what afterward became South Salem, upon a tract of land containing 215 acres. At first, he was largely a farmer, but, as the country became more thickly settled, his medical duties chiefly absorbed his time and strength, for in those backwoods regions, to ride on horseback day and night, winter and summer, was no "child's play," but the business rather of a robust, stalwart man. February 5, 1843, he was baptized into the Christian faith by Rev. Elihu Harlan, to which profession he held fast with greater or less steadfastness to the end of his days. In 1859, he made an extended tour into Missouri and through the farther West in search of a new location, and in 1864 he removed to Northern Michigan as a pioneer into those regions. After a residence of some five years in that State, he returned in 1870 to Randolph County, Ind., and died after a stay of eight months there, July 7, 1871, at the bouse of his son, James L. Downing, at the age of sixty-six years three months and one day, leaving behind him his wife, seven children and twenty-five grandchildren to mourn his departure from the scenes of this mortal life. Dr. Downing was a genuine pioneer from his boyhood to his death. Born in South Carolina, an emigrant to Kentucky in 1818, to Ohio in 1815, and to Darke County, Ohio, in 1817, sixty-five years ago, coming to Randolph County, Ind., where all was wild and new, in 1837, fortyfive years gone by, and to Northern Michigan in 1864, his whole career was that of one whose talents and whose strength were expended in those hardy and rugged labors the sternness and vigor of which none but an early settler can realize or even imagine. And during all this life-struggle, Dr. Downing was a man of ceaseless energy and unflagging perseverance, and he possessed, moreover, the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens in a high degree, serving them, in addition to his labors as a physician, in the position of a magistrate both in Randolph County and in Michigan, performing the duties of that station with faithfulness and success. He may have had faults (and who among men is sinless?), but they may well be buried, if any indeed there were, in the tomb of forgetfulness. Be it ours to speak rather of his excellences, which, indeed, were many, and of his praiseworthy characteristics, which were neither few nor small. While he was frank and outspoken, Dr. Downing was nevertheless genial, warm-hearted, hospitable and generous, quick and willing to bestow ever a belping hand, as ready to minister to the distresses of the poor and needy as to respond to the call of those who could boast abundance. Possessing a firm and resolute will, he could not be swerved from his convictions of justice and right, and, during a long and adventurous life, he was enabled to accomplish important and lasting results of good and blessing to his fellow-men for which many, now and in time to come, may well rejoice and be glad. His family and friends cherish the nemory of his many virtues with deep and strong affection, and his fellow-citizens mournfully regret that they have been deprived of his companionship and assistance in the stern and active duties of life,and that he was cut off in his early old age from beholding and shariog the grand and triumphant successes; of the later years produced by the abundant and persevering Jabors and hardships performed and endured by himself and such as he in that rugged older day when this blooming, smiling Western land was a dark and howling wilderness,

FRANCIS FRAZIER, bell-maker, was born in 1802 in North Carolina; came to McCowan's Creek, Ohio, in 1811; came to Randolph County, Ind., one mile east of Lynn, in 1817. His father was James Frazier, also a bell-maker; he (F. F.) married Lucinda Claywater in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1823, and they have had a eleyen children, seven of whom are living. Mr. F. and his wife are both alive, though aged and somewhat feeble. Their children are as given below: Samuel, born 1824, eight children; John, born 1826, six children, resides in Iowa; Elisha, born 1827, eight children, resides at Saratoga, Randolph Co., Ind., is a farmer and blacksmith; James, born 1829, seven children, is a farmer; Lucinda, born 1831, one child, she died on Greensfork ; Cyrus, born 1833, nine children, resides in Kansas, is a farmer ; Hannah, born in 1835, two children. she died in 1870; Isaiah, born in 18387, six children, resides in Iowa, is a farmer; Thomas, born in 1839, died an infant; Francis born in 1842, six children, resides in Wayne Township, near his father's, isa farmer: Elihu, born 1843, four children, lives on his father's place, is a farmer, Mr. F. has had fifty-seven grandchildren. F. F. has been a farmer and a bell-maker. In his day, he was greatly famous for the excellence of his bells, and there was a great demand for them, as in those forest days every herd of cows and sheep, and the horses also, needed a bell to keep the herd together and to tell the anxious hunter of stock where his wandering herd might be. He used to sell readily all the bells he could make, getting orders from a distance which he could not fill. He tells some good stories in his reminiscences of the clearness and power of his bells. Mr. F. claims also that even now, old as he is, he can make razor of better temper and keener edge than can be found in the stores. He is now very old and getting feeble, but he is still a jovial, genial companion, and an active, humble Christian, trusting God for daily bread, and waiting on the Lord in humility and sincerity, praising Him for all His tender mercies, and looking forward in joyful hope to the time now not far in the future, of final deliverance from all earthly troubles and cares, and of an abundant entrance into the Heavenly kingdom. F. F. is a member of the

Friends' Meeting at Jericho, and a meek, faithful, joyful Christian. He moved to Wayne Township many years ago. He and his wife have been joined in matrimony fitty-nine years, and they have dwelt in tenderness of connubial love and the sweet and happy comfort of holy wedlock, bearing together the sorrows and trials of the family state in the patience of joyful hope, and looking forward together to the time of their glorious deliverance from all the burdens of this mortal existence, and a blissful entrance into the mansions prepared on the shining shore behind the dark rolling river.

SAMUEL L. FULKS is a son of William Fulks, now a resident of this county, and was born in Monroe County, Va., on the 28th day of December, 1850. He wasbrought uponafarm and educated in the common schools. In 1870, he came to this county, and was married to Miss Lucy Chenowith, daughter of the late Abraham Chenoweth, on August 30,1872. They have had four | children, one of whom is dead. Mr. Fulks is a farmer, living on his own farm of sixty-four acres, in Section 26, this township, and, with his wife, is a member of the M. 8. Church,

PAUL GITTINGER (P. 0. Union City), was born in Baltimore County, Md., January 25, 1820, being a son of Jacob and Mary E. Gittinger, who emigrated to Darke County, Obio, in the autumn of 1833, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1838. They settled in the dense, nearly unbroken forests of Jackson Township among the deer, turkeysand wolves, locating in the northeastern portion of the township and of the county. P.G. was nearly grown when he | came to Randolph County, and having enjoyed some opportunity of early education, had engaged soon afterward in the business of teaching school, and continued in that employment (during the winter season) for twenty years. The schoolhouses at the time in that new and half-settled region were rude enough, made of round logs, with puncheon floor, clapboard door, stick chimney, dirt fire-place and hearth and a clapboard roof held to its place by weightpoles. The furniture consisted of split saplings for seats and puncheon writing | desk, supported by pins driven into auger holes bored in the logs forming the walls of the house. Mr. G. has lived to see these rustic cabins replaced by comfortable and tasteful edifices, substantially and even elegantly built, and supplied with convenient and often beautiful furniture. He has himself done much toward accomplishing this pleasing change, serving as a Trustee for Jackson Township during several years, besides his efficient and successful labors in the school-room. His marriage took place November 13, 1844, the maiden name of his wife having been Miss Berilla Gist, whose parents were natives of Kentucky, removing to Darke County, Ohio, in the early time. Mr. G. has had six children, only two of whom are living, viz.: Martha G. and Sarah L, One son, Andrew, died in 1876, at the age of thirty years. They removed in 1865 to Darke County, Ohio, and returned to Randolph in 1869, settling at that time in Wayne Township. Mr, Gittinger and his family are worthy members of the Christian Clurch (called sometimes ''New Lights)."'

BENJAMIN F. GRAVES, is a son of the late Levi S. Graves, Esq., and was. born in Wayne Township, Wayne County, Ind., January 11, 1849. When quite young, his father removed to Darke County, Ohio, and to Wayne Township, in this county, in 1862, buying and settling on a farm near Bartonia, where the subject of this sketch grew up, trained to farm labor, and receiving such education as was afforded by the common district schools. In 1870, he was elected as one of the Constables of Wayne Township, but resigned the office at the end of one year; was re-elected in 1873, but declined to qualify In 1875, he was appointed a special agent of the Treasury Departinent at Washington, but on account of the great risks atteading the position, as well as the uncongeniality of the business, the place was soon abandoned, In 1876, he was elected a Justice of the Peace tor Wayne Township, being commissioned by Goy. I'. A. Hendricks, to serve as such magistrate for four years, from November 4, 1876. On January 4, 1877, he was admitted as an attorney to practice at the bar of Randolph County, but owing to the duties of his office, never engaged in a general practice. In August, 1878, he removed his office to Union City, and for a portion of that year was Acting Mayor of the city. In 1879, he was appointed a teacher for one of the Indian tribes in the Indian Territory, but declined to enter upon the work. In the spring of 1880, he removed to Kansas, intending to make it his future home, but not liking the prospects of the country, he at once returned to his old home in Randolph County, and was appointed the enumerator for Wayne Township, outside the corporation of Union City, for taking the tenth United States census. On the 17th day of May, 1879, he was married to Mary M. Note, youngest daughter of the late Henry Note, of this township, and by her has one child, Harry Bruce Fremont Grave, born March 2, 1880.