Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (3 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 17 of 24)

The Bee Line from Indianapolis to Bellefontaine is the pioneer road of this region, having been projected in 1847 and completed in 1853, though the Dayton & Union Railroad was completed before the Bee Line. The charter was granted by the Legislature of Indiana during the winter of 1847-48. Work was begun upon the route in 1849, and the Indiana portion was joined to the Dayton & Union Railroad in January, 1853, and the Ohio portion was completed in the summer of 1853. At first the route from Indianapolis and Bellefontaine belonged to two companies. In 1859, a consolidation occurred, and in 1868 a further union took place, forming the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, under the name of the Cleveland, Columbns, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad, or familiarly the Bee Line. It transacts an immense amount of business, general and local, the statistics in detail, of which, however, cannot readily be obtained. Its trains are three passenger trains each way daily and five regular freight trains, often increased to ten or even more than that, makivg a grand total of from sixteen to twenty or thirty or even more trains daily. Counting the five radiating tracks as separate roads and reckoning the trains running on each as being distinct from seventy to one hundred trains daily reach or leave this city as a grand center of railway traffic and travel. The contrast between the new and the old in this respect is amazing. Imagine for a moment the business now handled by means of 100 daily trains to and from a single point to be transacted by horse power! The thought itself is preposterous; to make it a reality would be utterly impracticable.

The company have a passenger depot, a commodious freight warehouse and an extensive roundhouse. They maintain also a telegraph office, operated both for the company's business and also for the general public. The agents have been these: R. A. Willson, S. C. Weddington, C. Williamson, Anthony Cost, O. E. Tiffany, George W. Keridrick, H. S. Watson, R. T. Johnson, J. Q. Van Winkle, F. E. Vestal, R. T. Johnson.

f] R. A. Willson says that he began the office work for all the roads in 1853. The repair shops of the company are at Brightwood, near Indianapolis.

The Bee Line have in Randolph County five stations - Union City, Harrisville, Winchester, Farmland and Morristown or Parker. Andin the order of business they would be Union City, Winchester, Farmland, Morristown, Harrisville. The passenger depot and roundhouse are in Indiana; the freight house is in Ohio.

"Reminiscences of the Bee Line Railroad," given in substance by Thomas Neely, Esq., then and now of Muncie, Ind., in Delaware County History: Kingman Bros., Chicago; page thirtynine: "I thought we ought to have a railroad connection, but did not know where. I carried round a paper, but excited no special interest. Dr. Anthony laughed at the idea, and called it foolishness. A meeting was called, a large crowd attended and speeches were made, but no one had any idea to what point the road should run. Some said, 'to the canal at Fort Wayne.' I said no, for that will freeze up. Various points were suggested, Indianapolis, Connorsville, Fort Wayne, Bellefontaine. The two latter places made special overtures, The question was decided in a novel way. At a meeting held in the woods where Union City now stands, after several speeches had been made from a box, the matter was put to vote. Bellefontaine was directed to take one side and all others the other side. Bellefontaine carried by two-thirds over all other points. Thus the Bee Line was born, O. H. Smith was mada President, and the grand system of railroads for the great Northwest was begun." One track, indeed, then existed in the State, viz., from Indianapolis to Madison, on the Ohio River, but it was isolated and comparatively unimportant. But after the Bellefontaine had been extended to the lakes at Cleveland, the Great West began to wake to the mighty possibilities of continental travel and commerce.

That part of the system of railway called the Pan Handle road which was first completed to Union City was the track from Columbus to this point, which was put into operation about 1856. The next part was the road from Union City to Logansport. Both these divisions together amount to 197 miles. At the present time, in these days of consolidation of railways, it belongs to the system of roads owned by the Pennsylvania Rail way. This immense corporation now controls about one-twelfth of all the roads in the United States. The track from Pittsburgh to St. Louis with connecting branches is entitled the P., C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Chicago & St. Louis) Railroad, and the Columbus & Logansport track is a part of the P., C. & St. L. road, being the second division of the C., C., C. & I. road, this second division extending from Bradford to Chicago.

The passenger house at Union City was erected in 1866 or 1867, since which time its agents at this point have been David H. Reeder, E. H. Judge, N. Hamlin and P. A. Taylor. Six passenger trains and ten freight trains run daily on its tracks. The freight trains are often double or even treble, making probably a number equal to twenty freight trains per day, or, in all twenty-six trains besides frequent excursion trains to different points at various times. The amount of business done upon this road, general and local, is thus seen to be immense - almost incredible. We have no data at hand for determining the gross income of the road, either in the whole or at this point. The company has a telegraph office in its depot, the business of which, however, is confined to the affairs of the company itself. The employes of the Pan Handle Road resident at Union City amount toa large number, though just how many it is not easy to tell. Though doing a very large business, yet, strange to say, it has no separate freight house, its necessities in that respect being supplied by a comparatively small room in one end of the passenger house. The agent for some years past has been P. A. Taylor, and the freight agent Mr. Ktmire, who, though possessing ¢ome rather striking pecularities, is, nevertheless, an energetic and valuable public servant.

Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad

About 1869-70, a railroad was built through Randolph County north and south from Richmond into Michigan, via Winchester, Portland, Decatur and Fort Wayne. It passes through Washington, White River and Franklin Townships. The points in the county are Johnson's Station, Lynn, Rural, Winchester, Stone Station and Ridgeville. Considerable business is done upon the road, though by far less than upon the great east and west throughfares.

The projected road from Union City to Bluffton will cross Jackson, but Green and Stony Creak seem to be doomed to be without iron tracks across their surface.

Union & Bluffton Railroad

About 1855, a railroad was projected from Union to Portland, Jay County, and the track was mostly graded, but the road was not completed. About 1866, the project was revived, new stock was obtained, considerable work was done and it was thought the route'would be opened for travel in a few months. The matter failed again, however, and it remains a failure to the present

Camden, Jay County, with Bluffton, Wells County, and after the grade was nearly completed the work was suspended for lack of funds, and the whole thing has lain in statu quo, lo these many ears!

The proposal is now made to build a road from Bluffton to Union City, by way of Camden, Antioch, Boundary City and New Pittsburgh, uniting the two gradesabove mentioned. This road if built will be an excellent thing for the region traversed thereby, and especially for the towns through which it will pass, and will make an additional road for the thriving town at the terminus.

Aid to the amount of $100,000 is asked from the region through which it passes. Wayne and Jackson Townships, Randolph County, have voted their share; what the votes of the townships concerned in Jay County will do is yet to be told.

Railroad Connecting Union And Cambridge City

Many years ago, another road also was chartered and much work laid out upon its track extending southwestwardly, making Cambridge City, Wayne County, a point in its route. Those were the days of mighty endeavor and costly failure. So, after getting to about the same point, the grading of the track, the funds were exhausted and the project stopped. Every now and then an attempt is made to revive the enterprise, but thus far without success. There has been perhaps more thought expended upon the northeastern-extension of the route from Union City through Darke and Mercer Counties, Ohio, but still nothing has come of the talking and thinking, and probably the fact of the completion of the L., E. & W. road, via Recovery and Portland to Muncie, will injure the prospects of the route at the head of this article.

Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad

A railroad is in process of construction through the southern part of the county, making Lynn, Losantville and possibly other places to be points in its route. Work is progressing upon the track, and the present prospect seems fair for its completion.

Still the history of a thousand and one railroad enterprises in this land of ours forcibly reminds us that "Many a slip is between cup and lip," and teaches the disheartening fact that millions of expenditure lie useless and waste in half-built railroad tracks and routes cut through the woods; and that many a poor unfortunate town site has found itself stranded high on the barren shore of the land of failure.

If the two roads, the one from Bluffton to Union City and this one through the southern townships should both prove to be accomplished facts, every township in the county except Green and Stony Creek will be crossed by railroads, and furnished with convenient and accessible points of communication with the great outside world. Green also is not very far from several roads, but the prospect for a track over its soil or for a railroad town upon its surface is at the present time not encouraging

(July, 1882 - The road herein spoken of has its track laid, and regular trains have commenced to make their runs. With its eastern and western connections, the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western is expected to tuke its place at once among the great throughfares between the mighty East and the magnificent West. | formerly Wiggim & Son, but the son, Amos Wiggim, died in the fall of 1879. The factory is not nowin operation, but it is expected to start again soon. Whenin full work the establishment will employ twenty-five to thirty hands, The timber is purchased principally. from the region, brought in wagons. Their market is Dayton, Springfield, Xenia, Richmond, etc. The manufacturing process is quite curious. The wood is taken in large blocks and put into steam boxes, of which there are six, holding each three cords. The timber is cut into staves by a suitable machine and then the staves are piled in open sheds to dry. The drying requires threemonths. Heading is cut by another machine, which will turn out 10,000 pieces per day. The stave machine will cut from eighteen to twenty thousand staves per day.

Stove Stores

There are three of these establishments. The oldest is that of J. M. Shank, which has been in existence for some twentyfour years, having been begun in 1858. The next is that of Williara Kerr, opened in 1867. and the last belongs to the Shuars Brothers, who commenced their business in this line in the fall of 1881. All three of these establishments are thriving and prosperous, and the demand for goods and work of the sort furnished and performed by their proprietors appears to be constantly and largely on the increase.

Telephone Company

The Citizens' Bell Telephone Company of Union City, Ind., was formed October 21, 1880, with a capital stock of $3,000. divided into thirty shares of $100 each. The officers are: W. K. Smith, President; William Harris, Vice President; George W. Wiggs, Secretary; E. M. Tansey, Auditor and Treasurer; Pierre Gray, General Manager. The above gentlemen with Charles W. Pierce form the Board of Directors.

The company went into operation with forty-nine subscribers, March 14, 1881, at $3 per month for one year. July 12, 1881, there were fifty-seven subscribers. The work of the company is in satisfactory condition, the subscribers being highly pleased with the convenience afforded by the telephone instrument.

Tile Factory Tub And Pail Factory

The establishment is owned and operated by the Hook Brothers. They originally set up their business in Cardington, Ohio, in 1869, and removed to Union City in 1877. Af first the location of their works was on the Indiana side, near the Smith Bros. machine shop, in the west part of town. After two years the location of the business was cbanged to the Ohio side. Their invesiment in 1880 was about $10,000, and they employ twentyfive to thirty hands, buying their lumber in bolts, and making 10,000 tubs and pails a year. They conduct also a branch establishment at Versailles, Darke Co., Ohio, at which they manufacture rough lumber into staves and heading. They ship their tubs and pails extensively to Minnesota, Tennessee, Pennsy! vania, Towa and elsewhere. 'The firm are intending soon to put in new machinery and thus to double their capacity for production. The business is prosperous, and promises well for the time to come,

Turning Factory J, T. Hartzell, Wagon Works

In 1879, Mr. Hartzell set up wagon works, and is doing considerable work in that branch of industry. He also carries on an extensive mannfacturing at Greenville, Ohio, established in the winter of 1880-81. [See J. T. Hartzell, given elsewhere. |

The well is twenty-five feet wide and twenty-three feet deep. The bottom of the well is at the gravel, the thickness of which is fifteen feet. Below this is six or eight feet of hardpan; then comes fifteen feet of quicksand,'below that three feet gravel, still deeper about ten feet clay of a very fine quality, and below the clay quicksand again: How deep the quicksand is has not been determined. During 188], efforts were made to obtain a greater supply of water. Two pipes have been inserted about eleven feet below the surface of the upper gravel, and the Superintendent is now (July, 1881), sinking a four inch pipe, having bored to the lower quicksand mentioned above.

The capacity of the well at the present time is about one hundred and eighty thousand gallons in twenty-four hours, and that amount has been taken a portion of the time during the present summer. The range of the operation of the works has been from 3,800 strokes of the pump to 9,400, at twenty gallons per stroke. Since January 1, 1882, to the afternoon of July 26, 1881, the number of strokes has been 517,423, averaging 2,500 strokes per day. The engine isself-regulating, standing at forty pounds pressure, which can, however, be increased if needful to eighty pounds. Nine thousand strokes a day are equal to 7,500 gallons an hour, or 120 gallons or about three barrels every minute, making 4,500 barrels per day. It is evident that two things must be done- - the supply-of water must be increased and the wasteful use must be prevented. At onetime during the hot season in the month of July, 1881, if a fire had occurred a supply of water could have been maintained not over fifteen minutes, which is a state of affairs sufficiently alarming. The annual expenses of the works are about as follows:

The income from rent for the use of water for 1880 was about $2,700. The number of connections was about one hundred and seventy. The Boe-Line roundhouse used an immense quantity, paying $975 a year, which seems perhaps a small sum for so large a use as they make; yet the bargain is, nevertheless, not an unprofitable one for the city, since they use chiefly surplus water, 1. e., after it has passed through the general system of pipes. In the fall and early winter of 1881, the water supply was extended far north along Howard and far west along Pearl street.

One would think that meters should be employed, so that each may pay in proportion to the quantity used, which is now far from being the case. The action of the steam works sustaining a continual head of water sufficient to fill all the pipes of the city is maintained without intermission. And in case of increased demand, such as the occurrence of a fire, a heavier pressure is at once produced by creating a greater head of steam. Thus far the strength of the engine has been abundantly equal to every need.

Saw-Mill

Mr. Fisher, of the firm of Woolley & Fisher, has erected a sawmill near the electric light and motor works, and has purchased during the winter of 1SS0-S1 a large quantity of hickory timber, amounting to many thousand feet, which the mill is now working up into tongues, neck-vokes and similar things, according to the nature and capacity of the material. Mr. Fisher is already largely engaged in this branch of business, owning one saw-mill at Xenia, Ind., and renting two others in different places. He contemplates erecting a turning establishment to enable jim to complete the working up of the material which passes through his saw-mill.

In 1879, Lambert Bros., wood-workers, established a spoke and hub factory in Union City, Ohio, and are doing a large business in that line. [See other account of Lambert & Son. |

We give below. biographical sketches of present or former residents of Union City. Some have already been furnished under the heads of attorneys, physicians, clergymen, church

W. L. ALEXANDER was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1838. His father, William Alexander, came to Wayne County, Ind., from Burke County, N. C., in 1810, six years before Indiana became a State. He was the father of seventeen children, twelve of whom lived to be grown and were married, and seven are living now. He died in Wayne County July, 1856, aged eighty years three months and twenty days. In early days he wasa Democrat, and asupporter of Jackson, but afterward became a Whig, voting for Gen. Harrison, and still later wasa Free-Soiler. In religion, he was a Presbyterian of the strictest sort. In business, he was a farmer in easy circumstances, a quiet, peaceable, industrious, thriving, prosperous citizen. The son, William L., grew up on the farm, and at the age of twenty-three he enlisted in the military volunteer service, joining the Twenty-eighth Indiana Regiment, Company ©, in September, 1861. He was chiefly on detached duty at headquarters, at Indianapolis, remaining in the service about eighteen months. He had married a wife before the war. His first wife was Caroline Baker; married January, 1859. They had two children, and she died in 1864. He married again in 1873, his second wife being Elcinda Keister. They have had three children. His second wife died in the spring of 1881, and his children being all dead but one, he was left thus well-nigh '' alone in the world.'' After the war and the death of his first wife, he spent several years in traveling, being engaged in business in various ways. After that he engaged in farming near Union City till 1878, in which year he entered the grain business with John Price, and in 1881, ia connection with Mr. Worth, purchased the establishment of C. W. Pierce, a dealer of high reputation and long standing in Union City. Mr. Alexander is a member of the United Brethren Church, and in political faith is a Republican. In the winter of 1881-82, he took his third wife, in the person of Mrs. Lucinda Wright, a widow lady of Union City, Ohio. He sold out his grain establishment in the spring of 1882, but is still a resident of the town, and has re-entered active business, this time as a livery keeper, having purchased the interest of Butterfield in the stable next north of the Worthington Corner.

EDMUND L, ANDERSON, dry goods merchant (son of Harrison Anderson), was born in Greensfork Township in 1844. He married Lydia P. Paxson June, 1865, and moved to Union City in 1873. He enlisted in the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, July, 1863, and was discharged January, 1865. They have had four children. He was for three years a farmer, five years he sold goods at Spartansburg, in the firm of Anderson & Hill, for three years, in the boot and shoe business at Union City, under the firm of Paxson & Anderson, and has been four years doing business alone in dry goods, clothing, hats and caps, boots and shoes, carpets, etc. Mr. Anderson was for fourteen years a Deacon in the Disciple Church, but some time ago, for reasons of his own, resigned the position. He has beenan active temperance worker, and was a zealous church member. In 1879, he purchased Oak Grove, N. Howard, upon which he built an elegant residence. There are now standing upon the premises about three hundred trees of various kinds, from fifteen to twenty-five feet high, forming already a grateful shade, and promising in future a high degree of beauty and comfort, Mr. Anderson is still a young man (thirty-six years), but he has already achieved a flattering success, and may hope, through the Divine blessing, for many years of activity and usefulness. In the summer of 1880, he sold out his stock of goods, and spent some time in traveling through Nebraska, Dakota, Texas, etc. In February, 1881, Mr. Anderson purchased of Mr. G. Fowler his stock of groceries, and resumed business, this time as a grocer. In March, 1882, Mr. Anderson sold out his establishment to Stephen Ladd, long a resident of Union City, and later removed his business to Bloomington, Il. He is at present spending time upon his farm in the vicinity of Spartansburg, having built and furnished there a fine residence.

WILLIAM ANDERSON, blacksmith, was born in New Jersey in 1827; came to Randolph County in 1841; learned the blacksmith trade in Greenville, Ohio, in 1845-48, and settled at Union City in 1852 (August), and carries on the same shop still. He married Esther Ann House in 1851. They have had seven children, all living. His establishment is the only one (so far as known), that has stood during the whole life of the town (1852-82). He began his shop in August, 1852, some five months before the first rail was laid to the town, and his faithful hammer has been going ''rap rap'' on the resounding anvil ever since, and toe familiar, cheerful sound greets us still. He does little work now, his sons following the business in his stead. Mr. Anderson has hammered out a comfor:able competence, and is reckoned one among the substantial citizens of the town.

WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, lumber dealer, was born near Bethel, Wayne Co., Ind.; was brought up a farmer, and became a clerk at Richmond, Ind.; after three years. coming to Union City. He began business as a grocer, with W. H. Swain, continuing for several years, then becoming a dealer in dry goods, still afterward being engaged in the Citizens' Bank, and now in the lumber and hardware business (under the style of Witham, Anderson & Co., which see). Their business is quite large and increasingly successful. Mr. Anderson has been for many years an active member of the Disciple Church of Union City, as also his worthy and exemplary wife, and he is Trustee and Elder in that society. Mr. Anderson is an upright and public-spirited citizen, and interested to promote the general welfare. In political connection, he is Republican. He enjoys a high and well deserved reputation for business talent and integrity, and reliability in general. He haserected for his residence a tasteful and commodious mansion on North Howard street, which for architectural beauty and chaste elegance cannot easily be surpassed. Mr. Anderson presents another instance among the class so common in our county, and throughout the entire land, of a youth born and reared upon a farm, trained to industry, economy and thrift.

CHARLES AVERY, late of Union City, came with his parents to Deerfield in an early day. He wasa young man and boarded with Edward Edger. He married first a Miss Deem, and afterward her sister. He sold goods at Deerfield, then at Winchester, and afterward at Union City. From Union City he removed to Marion, Grant Co., Ind., and afterward to Lower California, where he now resides, so far asknown. Mr. Anderson was an active business man, being for a considerable time in partnership with W. B. Pierce, under the firm name of Pierce & Avery, carrying on a general produce business, including butter,

ADOLPHUS BARNES was born in North Carolina in 1828, and came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1829; to Randolph County in 1830 and to Spartansburg in 1835. That town was then very new. He resided there till 1878 (forty-three years), and then moved to Union City, at which he now resides. He married, ia 1844, Eliza J. Bates, daughter of John Bates, néar Tampico, Ohio. Mr. Bates was killed by the falling of a tree in his clearing a year or two before his daughter's marriage. They have had seven children, six now living. Two are at home and four are married - two in Union City, one at Spariansburg and one at Winchester. Their names are Margaret (Custer Dubois), three children; John A. Barnes, clerk, Kirschbaum, two children; Elizabeth (Campbell), Spartansburg, three children; Mary M., (Leavell), Winchester, two children. Richard A. Leavell was Clerk of the Circuit Court for Randolph County one term. Mr. Barnes and his wife and some of his children are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a hotel-keeper and a merchant for twenty to twenty-five years. In Union City, he has been Clerk, Deputy Assessor, Delinquent Tax Collector, etc.

A. J. 8. BOWERS, merchant, was born in 1841, in Philadelphia, of German parents. At the age of seventeen, he went to Pontotoc, Miss. (1858), as clerk for three years; returned to Philadelphia, and, in 1862 (at twenty-one years), he came to Union City, setting up as a clothing dealer and merchant tailor. The firm was at first Meyer & Bowers; then A. J. S. Bowers (till 1880); now Bowers & Bro. Mr. Bowers was married, in 1870, to Abigail Lewisson, of Philadelphia, and they have three children. Mr. Bowers' firm now conduct a general business - dry goods, clothing, hats, carpets, etc., etc. They have perhaps the finest and most splendid business block in the city, and claim they do a business second to none in the county. They have indeed a wonderfully prosperous establishment. Over the entrance of the cashier's inclosure is the motto, '' No mortal can command success, but our purpose is to deserve it,'' and they do. By activity, energy, unfailing courtesy, low and uniform prices, a skillful adaptation in stock tothe multiplied and ever varying wants of their numerous and ever increasing host of customers, coupled of course with a high degree of business shrewdness, Mr. Bowers has succeeded, not alone in 'deserving,' but also in "'commanding'' a triumphant mercantile success. For many years the firm occupied a building northeast corner Columbia and Pearl, but in 1875 he erected his present superb business block, corner Columbia and Oak, at which palatial quarters the firm receive their delighted patrons. Employment is furnished by them to about thirty-five hands, and their sales for 1879 were about $100,000, which amount they very largely exceeded in 1882. Messrs. Bowers & Kirschbaum are both of them of Jewish parentage and profession, but, by their honorable dealing, they have established a high reputation for integrity, and have done much to soften down end even to remove the prejudice which used so largely to prevail against that worthy and useful portion of our citizens. The Jews are, in fact, as a class, active, thriving, energetic, economical and, in many respects, especially valuable members of the body politic. And itis a pleasant spectacle to witness the dying out of ''race animosities,' and the gentle, harmonious blending of all classes of our people into one vast, grand, triumphant American nation. Mr. Bowers, on account of failing health, sold out to Coons Brosg., of Philadelphia, December, 1882, and is himself about to remove thither.

JOHN BUTCHER was born in Gallia County, Ohio, in 1840, being one of seven children. His father moved to Jay County, Ind., in 1851, and, after living there about thirteen years, returned to Gallia County, Ohio, in 1864. J. B. married, in 1859, Susann Constable, in Jackson Township, Randolph County, on the Mississinewa River. He attended school in boyhood at Lotz's Schoolhouse, a log building 'all of the olden time," having the privileges also, a rare one for those times, of a select school at North Salem, taught by Jonas Chandler, an excellent teacher of that day, who emigrated to Minnesota, and was drowned by accident in that country. Mr. Butcher came to Randolph County in 1865, spending one year asa grocer. He moved then to Missouri, teaching four years, keeping hotel one year and being a grocer four years. Returning to Union City in 1875, he became traveling salesman for Hommowun & Meredith's tobacco factory one year; kept grocery two years, and has been life insurance agent three years, being now general manager of the Pioneer Mutual Life Insurance Association, formed at Union Cityin 1880. Mr. Butcher hes had three children, one of whom is dead, and one of whom is the wife of George W. Patchel, of the Zimes. Mr. Butcher has been for twenty-one years a church member, joining at first the Christians (New Lights), and six years ago the Methodist Episcopal Church at Union City. He has been Stewerd for three years. In politics, he is a Republican. He belongs to A., F. & A. M., both the blue lodge aad the chapter. Mr. Butcher is a gentleman of character and standing, respected by his fellow-citizens, and a substantial member of the community.

Nathan Cadwallader, banker, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1826. His father moved to Greensfork, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1833. He was an active, thriving man, but he died in 1840. Nathan was the only boy, and but fourteen years old. By the ''turn of times'' and the worthlessness of "sale notes"' the family became somewhat poor. Nathan's boyish management was none of the best. They had one old bay mare, and no way to get any more or to get much else. He ''gouged along'' after a '' fashion," borrowed a horse sometimes, etc. He did most of the work that was done, though his sisters helped what they could in loading, cleaning grain, e(c. They cleaned grain by " flapping'' it on a sheet, and had to haul everything onasled. A wagon was a luxury not to be thought of. Two brothers, Thomas and Abner (bis father), came together, and settled west of Arba. Uncle Thomas is living yet, eightyfive years old, and his wife is over eighty. [He died a few months ugo. |

A. C. married Mary Thomas in about the year 1825. She died in 1868. They had five children - Nathan, Vashti (Williams), Janet Gray Ueitzman (widow), Sarepta (Chenoweth), Rachel (Bowen) - all living. N.U. attended school at Winchester Seminary, under Prof. Cole, twelve weeks. To show the primitive simplicity of those times, it may not be amiss to state that when Prof. Cole advised his aspiring country lads to invest in a box of blacking and a brush and to try their qualities, Nathan obediently procured the articles, but was utterly at a non plus, because he had no knowledge of the modus operandi, never having seen an application of the stuff. He probably has learned how by this time. He taught school four terms; was clerk for Needham, Mauzy & Co.; bought out Mauzy and sold goods at Spartansburg ; bought out Needham and sold at Newport three or four years; was partner with Raiford Wiggs at Union City; went to Cincinnati, in the firm of Gray, Cadwallader & Wiggs, as wholesale grocers; returned to Union City, and, with Col. I. P. Gray, established the Citizens' Bank in 1865. This was re-organized (same name), under Indiana law, in 1878, and he was made President. Mr. C. was State Senator in 1876 and in 1880. He has been twice married, first to Elizabeth Celinda Mauzy, then to Sarah Griffis (1854). He has three children. His present wife is a daughter of James Griffis, so long proprietor of the Griffis farm, on the Greenville State road. Mr. C., though poor when a boy, has, through his well-directed efforts, aided by a succession of fortunate circumstances, acquired a handsome fortune, and it will ever be a consolation to his filial heart that he had the unspeakable happiness to minister to the wants of his aged mother, and to smooth by the utmost kindness in his power her pathway to the tomb. She was a gentle, affectionate, pious Quaker, eminently religious and a beautiful and shining example of the loveliness of the Christian graces in their power over human life. It may be well tosay that in his religious feelings and opinions, Mr. C. inclines to those of his revered and sainted mother. She had been for many years an invalid, and her husband, kind, gentle, loving as he was during his life, would help his wife in every way possible, as by doing out the washing while his horses were eating their dinner, etc. She lived to be aged, and died not very long ago, in the fullness of years and ripe for the golden harvest of eternal life.

MRS. MARY E. CARTER, Bradford, is the daughter of Hon. Jeremiah and Mrs. Cynthia Dye Smith, of Winchester, and the sister of William K. and John Dye Smith, Esqs., prominent residents of Union City, Randolph Co., Ind. She was born at Winchester, Ind., in 1842, and was educated in the schools of that town, with perhaps a single term at Northwestern Christian University, Indianapolis. In about 1866, she was married to Frank B. Carter, a member of the Carter family, so long famous in the history of that town. They have had two children, only one of whom is now living. Their residence was at Winchester till about 1874, at which time a removal was made to Bradford, Ohio, where she still resides. She has a comfortable estate, inherited from her distinguished father, the proceeds of which affords her a competent and abundant income,

ROBERT J. CLARK, baker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1837; came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1847. He joined the Fifteenth Ohio Cavalry in 1861, and was discharged in the winter of 1864-65, having served more than three years and six months. His regiment was under Gen. Lew Wallace at Shiloh; under Gen. Kilpatrick at Corinth; in Straight's raid toward Macon, Ga.; under Gen. McPherson at Resaca, being one of his body guard when he was killed ; went up to Knoxville with Sherman after Longstreet ; went back to Chattanooga after the capture of Atlanta, and was discharged some months afterward. He lived two years in Xenia, Ohio, and in 1867 came to Union City. December, 1865, he married Anna J. Hall, and they have three children. He is a baker and confectioner. When he came to Union City, he was worth just $60. He has built up & thriving, prosperous and successful business, employing now a capital of $3,000, and five hands besides his own family. Mr. C. belongs to the Presbyterian Church, is a Republican in politics, and enjoys fully the confidence of his fellow-townsmen and of the community.

REV. THOMAS COLCLAZER was born in Washington City in 1811, and came to Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1827. In 1838, he married Hannah Johnson, but they had no children. From his early boyhood till he threw down his hammer and took up the Gospel trumpet, he was a blacksmith. He was converted to Christ at a camp-meeting on Dowdy's Fork, in the north part of Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1829, under the preaching of the sainted Bigelow. Shortly afterward, in 1830, he was licensed as an exhorter; in 1840, asa preacher, and in 1851 he began to ''ride circuit,'' his first work of this kind being at Deerfield and vicinity in 1851 and 1852. It thuy came to pass that he was the earliest preacher at Union City, when it first began to be. His fields of labor in later years were Middletown, Henry County; Perkinsville; below Anderson; Bethlehem, sixteen miles east of Indianapolis; Alexandria, Philadelphia (west of Greenfield) and elsewhere. He died suddenly, in 1865, at Union City. Coming to the house of Bro. 8. L. Carter, he was taken ill on Monday morning at 11 o'clock, and on Tuesday at 5 A. M. he breathed his last. His worthy widow still resides at Union City, Ohio, commanding the esteem of all who know her.

A. B. COOPER was born at Ripley, Jackson Co., W. Va., in 1840. His mother dying when he was an infant, he was brougbt up by his grandfather. At twenty years of age, he became clerk in the Pomeroy Coal Company's store, and continued one year. En isting in the service of the United States August 11, 1861, after a somewhat unusual course of events, he became a member of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. A company was raised for an independent cavalry regiment. On reaching Columbus the authorities declined to accept them unless they would sell their horses to the United States, which they declined to do. Sending them home by some of the company, twenty-seven of their number joining with two other similar squads, forming a company, went on to Philadelphia to join an independent regiment, understood to be in process of formation there. Having reached that city, it was discovered that this regiment could not be organized unless they would go into the service as a Pennsylvania regiment, which was finally done, and they became the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. The first eighteen months was @ severe service in the Army of the James, which, however, we cannot now describe. In an expedition of fifteen days to South Anna

Bridge, twelve miles east of Richmond, they picked up the rebel Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who had been wounded, and was visiting in that region on furlough. In an engagement, thirty-five miles from Suffolk City, Va., on the Blackwater, they captured many rebels, as also the famous Rocket Battery, sent out from Pittsburgh, Penn., and captured previously by the confederates. The regiment was actively engaged, and was in various battles and skirmishes in many places. They were at the taking of Norfolk, the capture of Suffolk, the siege of Yorktown, the battle at the White House, on the Pamunkey River, and in front of Petersburg and Kichmond. The affair at South Anna Bridge was by the Eleventh Pennsylvania alone. They burnt the bridge, captured 500 horses and mules, and so many stores that they had to be burned because there were too many for the regiment to take away with them. During the last eighteen months, Mr. Cooper was on detached duty at Newport News, Va., as clerk in the Commissary Department. He witnessed the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac, as also the blowing up of the Congress and the sinking of the Cumberland. There was nofight on land, but the Union forces were at the time hemmed in by the rebels under McGruder, the Federal commander being Gen. Mansfield. After his discharge, September 1, 1864, at City Point,. Va., he remained a year in the same position. He then went to Middleport, near Pomeroy, Ohio; attended the Pomeroy Academy for one year, and was employed as clerk in the store of the Pomeroy Coal & Salt Company during two years. In 1869, he came to Union City, and took a position in Avery & Starbuck's wholesale packing-house, being foreman in that establishment for three years. In 1874, he became assistant under Capt. Jackson in the post office at Union City. In 1876, he was appointed Postmaster upon the resignation of Capt. Jackson, and was re-appointed to the same position in 1880 by the unanimous recommendation of the citizens of the town. Mr. Cooper married Rosaline E. Hoffman, in 1868, in Clermont County, Ohio, and they have had three children, one of whom is dead. He is a worthy and active member of the M. E. Church in Union City, and a ''true-blue'"' Republican. Mr. C. is a gentleman of good business habits, and possesses in a high degree, the esteem of those who know him.

Samuel J. Fisher

is a young man residing at Union City, Ind., possessing a fine talent for business and enjoying a rising reputation. He was brn in Pittsburgh, Penn., August 12, 1853. His parents were George H. Fisher and Louisa C. (Collett) Fisher; his mother died about 1865, and his father married again, his second wife being Miss Mary A. Abrams, who still survives. Mr. G. H. Fisher has been the father of six children. S. J. F. resided with his parents at various places, Pittsburgh, Penn., Ironton, Ohio, Dayton, etc., his father having been engaged in the iron business during almost his entire life, being at present. Superintendent of Clifton Iron Works at Clifton, W. Wa. S. J. Fisher was taken by his parents to Ironton, Ohio, in 1856, when three years of age, residing there till 1874; he went thence to Dayton, afterward to Delaware, Ohio, and still again to Union City, Ind., settling in the latter place March 21, 1878. He attended school at Ironton, pursuing also a commercial course at Eastman's, at Poughkeepsie, and at Nelson's Commercial College, Cincinnati. At Dayton, he was clerk in a drug store. He spent also one season as clerk and part owner of the steamboat Willie J., running from Cincinnati to Vicksburg and other ports on the Mississippi and some of its branches, At Union City, his business has been that of a dealer in coal, lime, wood, etc. His marriage took place December 26, 1878, to Eliza R. Grebel, of Dayton, Ohio, and they have three children. Mr. Fisher is a Republican in politics, and is a member of F. & A. M.

H. 8. FOSTER was born in Montgomery County, Uhio, in 1834; married Maggie M. Crabbs in 1871, and has had three children. He attended Lebanon Normal School, and has been a teacher twenty-four years - five years at Dayton, Ohio, five years at Union City, Ind., besides several other places. His wife died several years ago, and he is now (December, 1880) a widower. He is an Episcopal Methodist, a Republican, a member of the Y. M.C. A., an ardent supporter of the temperance cause, and in general of every good and useful work. Two or thtee years ago, he left the business of teaching and engaged in making and selling a patent ironing-board, of which business he seems to be making a gratifying success. Since the death of his wife, he has resided with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Crabbs, who is a resident of Union City, and an active and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the fall of 1881, he was married to his second wife, Miss Meck, daughter of Rev. H. J. Meck, of Bluffton, Ind. They reside in Union City, though much of his time is spent abroad in connection with his business,

JOHN L. FRANK, born 1835, in Pennsylvania; Darke County, Ohio, 1837; Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio, 1842. Enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio, threemonths' service, 1861; Ninety-fourth Ohio, three-years service; served in that regiment two years, eleven months. Married Nancy Stevenson, of Greenville, Ohio, 1866 ; moved to Union City, Ind., 1866; five children. He is a brickmason, and has worked on nearly all the brick edifices in Union City, among others Branham House, 1855, Cranor's hardware store, Smith Bros.' Block, W. K, Smith's residence, Paxson & Turpen's Block, Citizens' Bank, Anderson Building, Hartzell dwelling, Pierce dwelling, Lutheran parsonage, Methodist Episcopal (new) Church, Disciple Church, Bowers Block, Fletcher Block, Kuntz factory, Starbuck Block, Stewart Block, Esquire Jackson's dwelling, E. L. Anderson's former dwelling, Col. Gray's and Hon. Cadwallader's residences, Masslich Building, schoolhouses both sides State line, and many others. He has been a member of the City Council, and in 1880 purchased the flax factory. He is a Republican and a substantial citizen. He still owns and operates the flax-mill, conferring an advantage upon the region by furn'shing a market for material which would otherwise prove nearly worthless.

JEFFERSON GIST was born in Kentucky in 1818. His father, Joseph Gist, came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1826. J. G,. came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1835, and settled in Randolph County, east of Arba, in 1839. After hammering away at that location for eighteen years, he tried Illinois for two years, but returned to Bethel, Wayne County, near his former place of busi- ness, establishing himself there in 1860. After ten years of steady work in that quiet country village he concluded to try his fortunes in a somewhat larger place, and selected Union City, coming hither in 1870; since which the merry clatter of his hammer upon the ringing anvil has until lately been heard without cessation, '' week in, week out,'' as the days and the years roll unceasingly by, like the flowing river's mighty current, rolling downward, ever downward. Mr. G. learned his trade of Samuel Van Nuys, Esq., a blacksmith, living north of Bethel, and has followed it from that day to this, more than forty years. He has been thrice married, taking wives as follows: First wife, 1838, Abigail Stewart, one child, died in 1829; second wife, 1841, Mary Tillson, three children, died in 1850; third wife, Anna Polly, daughter of William Polly, of Darke County, Ohio. Mr. Gist has been a member of the Disciple Church for forty-two years. In politics he was in early life a Democrat, then a Free-Soiler, then a Republican. He is a fine specimen of an honest, upright, hard-working mechanic, an honor tw the race and a blessing to the land! Within a year past, he has ceased work upon the anvil, which is well, since almost half a century of ceaseless toil has given him a right to rest.

GEORGE GRAUHS, tailor, was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1830, being one of eight children. He emigrated to New York City in 1851, went to Chicago in the same year, to Cincinnati in 1852, and to Union City in 1856, residing here ever since. He married Anna Rosenbush in 1856, and they have had five children, four living. Henry, one of his sons, is clerk in the Commercial Bank of Union City, and the other is engaged with his father in merchant tailoring. He learned the tailoring business in his native village in Germany, and has followed it ever since. He set up with Mr. Thokey as a merchant tailor, continuing eight years, then selling out to A. J. S. Bowers; he worked at his trade for Bowers for fourteen years. In 1878, he began a separate business in connection with his son, in which they are still engaged. Mr. Grahs is an industrious and thrifty citizen. Six years ago (1876), he erected a fine brick residence on West Division street, which he now occupies. In politics, he has always been a Republican. In religion, he is a German Lutheran. He was for eight years a member of the Town Council, has been trustee of his church for more than twenty years, and was one of the building committee for the erection of the meeting-house and parsonage. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for thirty years, uniting with a German branch of that order in Cincinnati in 1852. Mr. Grahs has won a substantial reputation among his fellow-citizens by his unvarying uprightness and his unremitting industry, and stands to-day as one of the reliable members of the community. One of his sons, Henry Grahs, was in the spring of 1880 elected Treasurer of Union City, and in May, 1882, was chosen again without opposition for a second term.

OLIVER C. GORDON, boot and shoe dealer, was born in 1845, in Henry County, Ind., came to Arba, Ind., in 1846; his mother died when he was three months old, and his father when Oliver was eight years of age; he being brought up by his maternal aunt, Mrs. Jordan Fulghum; he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, Company E, in 1863, and was discharged at the close of the war. O.C. G. was clerk and merchant at Arba four years, mail carriér between Richmond and Union City one year, and bookseller in Union City five years, in the firms successively of Gordon & Co. and Gordon & Hill. He was elected Treasurer of Randolph County in 1876, and re-elected in 1878. In 1880, he bought a share in a boot and shoe firm with Robert B. McKee at Union City, and a few months afterward Mr. McKee sold his interest in the establishment to Ansel B. Thomas, so that the firm is now Gordon & Thomas. Mr. Gordon married Margaret Keever in 1866, and they have three children. He is a Republican, wide-awake and reliable, active and successful in business and of an estimable reputation. Mr. Gordon is at present erecting a convenient and tasteful dwelling on Plum street in Union City, and has come to be reckoned among the prominent citizens of the town.

A. EISENHOUR, harnees-maker. Mr. Eisenhour has been a substantial citizen of this thriving town for some sixteen or seventeen years, having been engaged in the useful and honorable occupation of harness-making during all that time. He was born and raised in Darke County, Ohio. He has been married for many years, and his wife is living, but they have no children. Mr. Eisenhour is a quiet, industrious, enterprising gentleman, obeying carefully at least that important rule, called by some the Eleventh Commandment, '' Mind your own business,'' Year in year out Mr. E. is found at his post, furnishing his goods to all who desire them. In August, 1882, he was badly hurt by handling a high-spirited and unruly horse, insomuch that his life wae for a time despaired of, but he is at this time (September, 1882,) ina fair way to recover from the injury received by the accident.

John Fisher

was born in North Carolina in 1792, near the old '' Guilford Battle Ground.' He left that State in 1816 on horseback, and rode alone (except two days' journey) all the way to Lebanon, Ohio; and (after five or six days spent in visiting friends there) to Wayne County, Ind., having been fifteen days on the road - a pretty quick trip compared -with the speed often made by families and groups coming through on a ''moving'"' expedition. He entered 160 acres in the winter of 1816-17, worked about, put up a cabin, was married to Jane Starbuck September 16, 1819, by Adam Boyd, the only Justice of the Peace in Wayne County at the time (so Mr. Fisher states). There were no Justices in New Garden Township till 1822 or 1823. Edward Starbuck and Solomon Thomas were the first, and they were elected both at once. Mr. F. and his wife began to keep "cabin" October 7, 1819; and they lived on that farm till January, 1866, more than forty-six years. They have been married nearly sixty-one years! [1880.] They came to Union City in 1866. Mr. F. is now in his eightyeighth year, and his wife in her seventy-seventh. They are sprightly for their age, both living with their son-in-law, Capt. J. R. Jackson. John Fisher was an orphan boy at six years old. His father died in December, and his mother in September, 1798. He was raised by an older brother. His father had ten children, who all lived to be grown and

She came with her father, Edward Starbuck, to Wayne County in 1817. She is one of eighteen children who were all living and married when the youngest was twenty-three years old! And now (1882), when the youngest is forty-four, twelve of the eighteen are livins still! John and Jane Fisher have had sixteen children; eight lived to be grown and six are living yet. The eight grown were Daniel, born in 1821 in Champaign County, Ill., 400 acres of land, three children; Joseph, born in 1823 in California, and in 1850 died there; Edward, Vermillion County, Ill., 240 acres, seven children; Phebe (Baldwin, Bailey, Reed), Winchester, five children ; Robert S. [see his account elsewhere]; Anna (Commons, Pierce), Union City, one child; John, (bampaign County, Ill., eighty acres, one child; Lydia (Jackson), Union City, two children. John Fisher died at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles W. Pierce, in Union City, Ind., February 8, 1881, in his eighty-ninth year. He had enjoyed fine heallh fur so old a man for years, and there seemed no apparent, reason why he might not tarry among the living for years tocome. But it was not to be. In one of the fearfully slippery \imes during the winter of 1880-81, in undertaking td go up the steps at the door of Mr. Pierce's dwelling, he slipped and fell and broke his thigh. He lingered for some weeks, and died as already stated. His work was done, and the hour for which he had been long waiting came at last. He had lived a gentle, quiet, Christian life, mostly after the manner of the Friends for almost a century; and the dear Lord gently led him into the '' upper fold'' at last. In his youth he joined the Methodists (1819), but afterward he united with the Friends; and in the '"'separation'"' he went with the 'Anti-Slavery wing,"' and remained such in sentiment till his death. [He was a man of sterling, Christian principle, and lived a steady, consistent life; always standing firmly on the side of truth and right as he viewed them. At the time of his death he was the oldest citizen of the town, greatly respected and beloved. He had voted at every Presidential election since Madison's second term, elected in 1812, till 1880, making in all eighteen times for the office of President of the United States. He voted for Madison and Monroe and Adams, against Jackson and Van Buren; for Harrison and Taylor, against Polk, Pierce, Buchanan ; for Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Garfield. 'Ihe lile of such a man is, as it were, a key to the history of the times. Though an orphan in his boyhood, and without property in his early manhood, it came to pass that, through the blessing of God upon industry, and frugality through a long and useful life, he was enabled to attain a» competence, and spent his Jatter years in the enjoyment of abundance. All of his six surviving children were present to comfort his closing hours, and to follow his remains to their last earthly resting place in the Union City Cemetery. The funeral exercises were held at the house of C. W. Pierce, his son-in-law. They were conducted in an affecting and impressive manner by Rey. II, J. Meck, pastor of the M. BH. Church, Union City, in the presence of a large company of children and relatives and friends. Father Fisher was one of a company of perhaps 100 old men who had voted at the election in 1840, when (ren. Harrison was chosen l'resident, who were seated on the platform at the meeting held at the Tabernacle (outside of it) at Union City, in the campaign of 1880, and addressed by Gen. Benjamin Harrison, grandson of President Harrison, a prominent leader of the Republicans in Indiana, and at the Senatorial election in the winter of 1880-81, chosen Senator of the United States for the State of Indiann for six years ensuing. The meeting was large and enthusiastic, consisting of 3,000 or 4,000 people, gathering iu from miles around in every direction, although the speech had been intended simply for Union City and the immediate vicinity. The names of some of the old gentle, men assembled on the platform at that interesting meeting were John Fisher- Robert Murphy, Simeon Branham, Samuel Arbaugh, Morrow, Harvey Julian, Ezra Coddington, Thomas Devor, William Iliff, Adolph Warren, John C. Taylor, Lewis McFarland, J. J. Alexander, Joseph Alexander, James Alexander, Thomas Clevinger, James Marquis, John Wharry, William Thom, Harrison Anderson, I. Tucker, Jacob Snell, William H. Swain, H. W. Darwin, Jobn Commons, John 8S. Johnson, B. T. Wilkerson, S. M. Skinner, Robert Pogue, Jesse Paxson (disabled), William Macy, Uriah Ball, Jefferson Gist, David Ferguson, 8, L. Carter, C. L. Carter, John Mitchell, John Kemble, William Parent, M.S. Willis, James Warren, and a large number of others not now remembered. This band of veterans assembled at Branham's Hotel, and, with Willinm Isenhart and John Hartman as flag-bearers, escorted the orator of the meeting, Gen. Ben Harrison, to the platform, from which he delivcred his address to a very large crowd. [See also Reminiscences of John Fisher and Jane Fisher.

GEORGE GREGORY was born in Addison County, Vt., March 28, 1826, of Quaker parentage. lis father died in 1830, and in 1833 both his grandfathers with all their grandchildren, emigrated to Ohio. His mother settled with her father's family in Woodstock, Champaign Co., Ohio, while the Gregorys went to Delaware County. In 1839, she moved to North Lewisburg, Obio, to enjoy the Society of Friends, In 1847, G,G. married Mary V. Winder and settled as a farmer. In 1850, their eldest child was born, now the wife of Edwin M. Tansey, of Union City, and in 1851 his wife died. In 1852, he started West, settling in Webster County, Iowa, re-iding there till 1860, and marrying Elizabeth F. Davis. In Webster County, Iowa, he sold dry goods, and was also County Treasurer for two years (1856-58). In February, 1860, he set out for Pike's Peak, and engaged in mining. In March, 1861, he went to New Mexico, traveling over large portions of that territory, inhabited by Indians alone, and returning to Denver the last of June. On the 4th of July, 1861, the people at Denver refused even to hoist the Stars and Stripes, and he left in disgust, for he would not stay where the national flag was flouted in disgrace. He had always been a Democrat, votingin 1860 for Stephen A. Douglas, but since that time he has been a Republican. He came tolowa, and in September, 1861, enlisted as a private in the Tenth Iowa Regiment. In about four months he was detailed into the Quartermaster's Department, and in January, 1862, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in Company K, Tenth Their Colonel had been a General in the Hungarian Army.

Mr. G. was at the battles of New Madrid, Mo.. Tiptonville, Iuka and Corinth, and was with Gen. Grant up to the fall of Vicksburg, at Port Gibson, Ray- At the latter place he was seriously hurt by the concussion of a shell, from the effects of which his hearing hus ever since been seriously impaired. He did no further duty, remaining with the regiment till the fall of Vicksburg. He could see Gens. Grant and Pemberton as they sat under the shade of a tree on the evening of the 3d of July, arranging for the surrender. No cannon roared, no musketry rattled, a strange calm was upon the air that day after the constant roar of the previous forty days. Being disabled for duty, he resigned his commission August 31, 1863, and returned to his family in Ohio. In October he came to Union City, Ind., which has mostly been his residence to this time. From 1865 to 1870, he was salesman and clerk in Dukemineer & Maloy's hardware store. D. & M. sold to Cadwallader & Bowen in 1870; in 1872, Cadwallader sold to B. F. Coddington, Mr. G. remaining with the firm till 1873. In October he removed to Colorado, at the foot of the mountains. Returning in 1875, he took his old place till the firm sold out in 1878. In March, 1878, he entered a hardware store for Witham & Anderson, and isthere yet. His second wife died January 30, 1881. He now resides with his son-in-law, Edwin M. Tansey, Cashier of the Citizens' Bank, and a most estimable and thoroughly reliable citizen and friend. Mr. G. is a substantial and worthy citizen, though not much inclined to public life, having been County Treasurer in Iowa, as stated above, as also Councilman of Union City two years, from 1865 to 1867. He is faithful in business, exemplary in his morals and a reliable member of the community.

CHARLES S. HAKDY, druggist, born December 20, 1846, at Lebanon, Warren County, Ind.; educated in common and private schools; was bookkeeper in Cinncinati two years, came to Union City winter 1866-67, has been in the drug business, mostly alone, and his establishment is the oldest of that sort in town. He married, in 1872, Miss Eugenia Posey, of Richmond, Ind. They have two children. Miss Posey, before her marriage, had been for years a successful teacher in the public schools of Richmond, Union City, ete. Mr. Hardy was School Trustee one term, and, since 1877, has been Vice President of the Commercial Bank. He isa worthy and valuable citizen, and well deserves the reputation and success he has attained,

M. A. HARLAN is agentleman of good standing and high promise. He was born in 1850 at Hollandsburg, Darke County, Ohio, being one of seven children, five of whom are living. Mr. H. was brought up, as the great majority of our active business men have been, ona farm. His education was obtained at the common schools, at Whitewater Academy (Hillsboro, Ind.), and by one term at Holbrook's Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio. He began active life as a teacher at the ageof seventeen. Besides other places he was employed six years in the public schools of Union City, Ohio; and has been for the past three years in those of Union City, Ind. He has been teaching music for twelve years, completing his musical education at the Central Conservatory of Music, at Columbus, Ind., in 1880. His present positions are Teacher in Preparatory High School and Superintendent of Musical Instruction in the public schools of Union City, Ind, Mr. H. has belonged to the Christian (New Lights) denomination, and in politics is a Republican. He also is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1872, he came to Union City, Ind., and has been a resident there ever since. He was married in 1869 to Amanda Peden, of Darke County, Ohio, and they have had one child, and he is living. Mr. H. enjoys a rising reputation in his profession, being active, enterprising and reliable, sociable and genial withal, beloved alike by pupils and patrons, and esteemed by the community at large. December, 1882, his worthy companion and himself united with the M. E. Church, Union City, Ind.

WILLIAM HARRIS is one of the solid men of Union City, a man of sterling enterprise, who takes pride in his business, and is an honor to the city in which he resides. He was born in Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., in August, 1845, being the son of William Harris, a carriage-maker of that county, who died before his son William was boru. William resided at Ovid till twenty years old, and in 1865 moved to Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio. After clerking there for six months, he found his way to Union City, Ind. During threé years he was in the employ of W. S. Osborn, egg and butter packer, having an " interest' in the establishment during the last year. In 1868, he entered the firm of Turpen & Harris, of which he has been a member ever since. In 1868, he married Anna E., daughter of Enos H. Turpen, and they have had six children, five of them living, all daughters. In political sentiment, he is a Democrat. He has been a member of the Board of Control of Union City, for four.years, and Treasurer of the School Board for two years. Mr. H. is a man of enlightened business views and energetic temperament, having done much to advance the interests of the city, and is highly respected by his fellow-citizens. His career in, the egg, butterand poultry business is a striking example of what may be done, even in a small interior town, by intelligent skill and faithful devotion to business. We give elsewhere a detailed account of the establishment of which heis the chief manager. Mr. Harris, from being a poor man without means or the apparent prospect thereof, has become, in the course of twelve or thirteen years, and solely by his active, enlightened and judicious enterprise, one of the solid men of the city. In the fallof 1880, he purchased the beautiful and commodious mansion erected and owned by Dr. Joel N. Converse, one of the pioneers and so long one of the chief men of Union City, at a cost, it is understood, of $15,000. Heis still in the prime of life and health, and of business activity, and itis to be hoped that he may long be spared to his friends and to the community, that his activity may continue to bein the fnture, as it has already been in the past, a fountain of material good and financial blessing to himself and to the country.

E. J. HARSHMAN, Union City, Ohio, is a native of Randolph County, Ind.; he was born in Jackson Township, in 1842, the son of Reuben Harshman, an early settler, and one of nine children, He grew up a farmer's son, attending only the schools of the neighborhood. In 1862, he joined the Fiftyfourth Indiana Regiment at Indianapolis, and after the end of his term of seryice he was mustered out, December, 1863. After spending some time at

Dayton, Chicago and at his father's home, he entered the saddler's shop of Eisenhour & Co., at Union City, and acquired that trade. After some years spent otherwise, he opened a shop for himself in 1871, and is still thus employed. He married Sally French, in 1871, and they have had three children, all living. In politics, he is a Democrat. Mr. H. is industrious and thriving, a quiet member of society, diligent in his business, and confided in by his friends and the public.

SIMON HEDRICK, grain dealer, born in Fairfield County, Ohio, 1836; taken to Mercer County, Ohio, in 1839; married Amy Vail, 1860; has had five children, and has resided in Union City, Ind., for many years; his education was gained at the common schools, at Liber College, and at Lebanon Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio; he taught school several years; he has also been an agent, carpenter, lumber dealer, was for three years a grain dealer, and has since been handling lumber. Mr. Hedrick has been a church member twentyfive years, and also for six years an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, Union City; he helped to organize the first Presbyterian Sunday school there, and was for ten years its Superintendent; he was Chorister also for several years. He is an ardent Republican, an efficient worker for temperance, an active member of the Y. M. C. A., and a strong helper in every good cause. Mr. H. in his early life was a teacher, engaging in that employment for many years in Mercer and Darke Counties, Ohio, and in Randolph County, Ind., spending several of those years in the schools of Union City, Ohio, and Indiana; his health proving unequal to the labor of continued teaching, he resumed his trade as a carpenter, taking up after a time the lumber-buying business. At length he entered the grain trade, as a partner with William A. Wiley, of Union City, for two years. At the expiration of the period, he commenced with Mr. Fowler, in the same occupation, but the building changing hands, having been purchased by R. Kirschbaum, Mr. Hedrick quit the grain trade. For some months he has been working insurance and other matters of agency, as also, more especially in the purchase and sale of lumber throughout the region. Mr. Hedrick and his estimable lady are excellent members of society, and they have a most lovely and interesting group of children, the eldest of whom, Miss Aurie Hedrick, was a graduate from the Union City High School, belonging to the class of 1880, since which time she has occupied a position as teacher in the public schools of the city.

ABRAM HOKE was born in Paradise, Penn., in 1818; came to Richland County, Ohio, in 1828, and removed to Union City, Ind., in 1853; he was married to Sarah Sennett in 1840; they have had six children, all living; he was for six years a hatter; in 1844, he became a carpenter, and has worked in that employment till lately; he has now taken up bee-raising; he is a Republican and a Methodist, though troubles in the church have caused him to withdraw from membership; his children are: John W., carpenter, married, two children, Union City; Jane A. (Humphries), four children; Martin T., carpenter, unmarried, resides at home; Samuel B., carpenter, married, three children, Iowa; Helen, single, tailoress, lives at home; Alice, young. resides at home. They' seem to be a sensible, active, well-trained family, worthy, industrious and prosperous. Mr. Hoke was, in the spring of 1882, appointed by the Common Council of Union City, Ind., as Street Commissioner, and he has been for some months actively employed in the duties pertaining to that office.

. SETH HOKE, jeweler, born in Pennsylvania, 1823; came to the West, 1888, to Jackson Township, Randolph Co., Ind., 1845, and to Union Citv, in 1852 (April): he was a carpenter till 1865, and since then has been selling jewelry; his son, Edward, was the first child (now living) born in Union City, November 17, 1852. Henry Debolt's child was born sooner, but that child is dead. S. H. was for nine months a soldier in the Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry - fall of 1864 to spring of 1865; he married Elizabeth Johnson, 1846. They have had nine children, seven living. Mr. Hoke is a steady, industrious, thriving citizen, and commands the respect of the community; he is one of the '' pioneers," who came here in April, 1852, when the settlers were very few, and scarcely a house had been built in the town.

HOOK BROTHERS. Charles S. Hook was born in Montreal, Canada, 1846. William J. Hook was born as above in 1844. Both of them are of English descent. William married M. J, St. John, and has three children. Charles married Ella H. Maxwell, and has three children. They are partners in the tub and pail factory business, an account of which may be found elsewhere. They are intelligent and enterprising gentlemen, and are achieving. as they deserve, a thorough and permanent success. They are both active and enthusiastic Republicans. Charles and his wife belong to the Presbyterian Church of Union City, of which he has been chosen Deacon; he has been for some years a member of the City School Board, and he seems to be a carefnl, prudent and faithful official. Though the Hook Brothers are comparatively young, they have business capacity adequate to conduct au extensive and profitable concern, which we may fairly hope their Union City Tub and Pail Factory will more and more come to be as the yeara come and go. Though their works are in Ohio, they are both residents of Union City, Ind., having recently purchased fine dwellings on North Howard street, that street and that part of it being one of the most desirable in the entire city. Their father, aged but active, and a native of England, makes his home in his declining years with his son Charles.

JOSEPH R. JACKSON, born at Spartansburg, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1840. His parents were early settlers of the region and of that class so largely represented in the Old Burnt District, «North Carolina emigrants,'' coming from their youthful homes afar to get free from the curse and blight of slavery. His father died in 1850 at Spartansburg, of consumption. Since that time, Joseph has had to "paddle his own canoe;" until seventeen years old he worked on a farm, attending school winters; then taught school, going to Lebanon Normal School summers; while there the war broke out, and he enlisted in the Eighth Indiana, three months, and served in Virginia; taught school the next winter, and enlisted again in the Sixty-ninth Indiana Volunteer [nfantry, being commissioned as First Lieutenant Company F. He was promoted Captain after the battle of '' Chickasaw Bayou'' for recapturing a sec- tion of artillery from the rebels, and was in all the initial engagements of the siegeof Vicksburg, after which he served on staff duty or asa mounted scout in Texas, Louisiana, his experience in that line being wonderful and varied. Since the war, Capt, Jackson has resided in Union City, serving eight years ag Postmaster under President Grant. Since that time he has been engaged as loan agent. Capt. Jackson was married to Miss Fisher, daughter of John and Jane Fisher. They have had two children. Captain Jackson is a man of fine qualities and of sterling principle as well, and deeply interested in all good and useful projects, and is highly and deservedly esteemed by his fellow-citizens. He is an active and enthusiastic Republican; he was a faithful and energetic public officer, and so far as his health will permit, isan active and enterprising man of affairs. His health has been for years very precarious though less so now than formerly. He spent much timeat the C eveland Water Cure, and by great care and prudence he has been able for some years past to attend to business.

ALLEN JAQUA & CO., hardware. Mr. Jaqua came to Union City some thirteen or fourteen years ago, as an attorney at law. Before long he entered the lumber business with Peter Kuntz, after that he engaged in hardware with the same firm. In 1880, a fine brick store was erected by the firm and their hardware store is now carried on by Mr. Jaqua in that new, commodious edifice. Mr. Jaqua formerly resided at Portland, and married his wife in Jay County; she being a Miss Lewis, a member of a prominet family in that region. Mr. Jaqua was in youth and early manhood a radical Abolitionist,{and a participant in the gallant struggles for freedom in Kansas in the heroic days of that youthful member of the sisterhood of States, and, later, an active Republican; but since that time, perhaps in the Greeley campaign of 1872, he left the Republican ranks; and, during the latter years, he has been a prominent partisan of the Democratic faith. Mr. Jaqua has been a member of the Town Board of Trustees, Clerk of the Board, a member of the School Board, etc., showing that, even in the strongly Republican town of Union City, he has been honored by the generous confidence of his fellow-citizens.

THOMAS JONES is one of the active men of Union City, and belongs to the class so numerous in that thriving town whose indomitable energy and enlightened and persevering industry have turned that place, so lately a waste and desolate wilderness, into a thronged and crowded mart of business and commerce. In fact, the entire history of that wide-awake little city illustrates for the thousandth time the truth universally declared, and yet greatly overlooked and sometimes well-nigh forgotten, that capital, labor and skill, combined with economy, integrity and honor, lay the sure and solid foundations of lasting individual prosperity and success, as well as of wide spread and permanent public advantage, comfort and well being. Especially is the fact illugtrated and the truth enforced that properly regulated credit, i. e., the labor and skill of one man, combined with the surplus capital of another, in other words, the labor of men with a lack of capital of their own joined to the capital of men who prefer not to labor, or, to state the doctrine in still a different way, the employment by the younger class who have energy and character, but who lack means, of the surplus capital possessed by their older fellow-citizens, produces results, great, beneficent, far-reaching; accomplishes benefits for the whole human race, and for every individual thereof. otherwise utterty and forever impos-ible. Thomas Jones was bornin Miami County, Ohio, in 1841, . When four years old, in 1845, he went with his parents to Delaware County, Ind., locating on the Mississinewa, twelve miles north of Muncie, a region, even at. that late day, wild and vacant and covered wi h the vast unbroken woods. He belonged to one of those pioneer families, almost a host in itself, numbering four- In youth, he attended school a little, in the traditional logcabin schoolhouse, with capacious fire-place, having no jambs but only back wall and a huge mouth above, with immense back logs lugged in by four and five of the largest scholars, and fire enough to roast an-ox alive. In all he went to school perhaps six months, to Martin Reasoner a few days, to Mr. Butcher six weeks, and to a lady in the summer perhaps one month, and all the time in the spelling book.. Next he went to a Mr. Wharton, a superior teacher, who took supreme delight in seeing his pupilslearn. To him he went three full months, and beginning in the First Reader, went rapidly onward, gaining the Third Reader, reaching also the practice of writing and the study of arithmetic, accomplishing a partial knowledge of the ''Simple Rules.'' Once more young Thomas attended school, this last time, when about fifteen years old, for two or three weeks to one John Lee, boldly attempting through that whole period the mysteries of the Fourth Reader, as also holding fast to writing and arithmetic. Thus fitfully and by spells did he attain to such a height of knowledge, and such was the foundation laid in his case for the intelligence needful in the pursuits of an active business life. Mr. Jones grew up in that neighborhood and began adult life as a farmer, marrying Kate Negley (sister of Hon. Charles Negley) in 1864. In 1866, he moved to Darke County, Ohio, locating within two miles of Union City. In 1868,%he moved to the town, and took up carpentering and cabinet-making; after two years thus spent, he became for three years foreman in Peter Kuntz's lumber yard. In 1876, he set up a hardwood lumber yard on the Ohio side himself. After a year alone, he took Simon Hedrick as a partner for two years, and, abont January, 1880, he became a member of the firm of Jones, Benner & Ebert, which for two and a half years past [June, 1882] has been carrying on a large and prosperous business in their line. Mr. Jones is a member of the City Council (1880-82), and belongs to the I. 0.0. F., and to the Union City Hose Company. Heisin politics a Republican, and in religious connection a Disciple, having been a member for eleven years, and a Trustee of the congrega- Though married for seventeen years, they have no children. But their household is not without the presence and the blessing of dear beloved ones. A brother of Mrs. Negley, dying with consumption at their own house, left to their affectionate care three children, the mother also having gone to the better land; and to guard and guide these objects of their love thus providentially left to their watch-care, has been for years the delight of their hearts. These children - Laura, seventeen years; Josephine, fourteen years, and Charles, thirteen years - still survive, to repay with the fullness of fidal affection the wealth of love which has for years been lavished upon them.

PATRICK G. KENNEDY, grocer, was born in 18539, in County Kerry, Ireland: came to America in 1854, went to Sidney, and then to Piqua, Ohio, and to Union City, Ind., in 1858. He was married to Catharine J. Weize, in 1864. He had been, when a lad in Ireland, a clerk in a wholesale and retail grocery store. He became in America, at first, a common laborer, then a clerk in Piqua, and at Union City he set up a grocery store, which he carried on till his death, in 1875. He was, in religion, a Catholic, and, in politics, a Democrat.

C. S. Keynepy (brother of the foregoing) was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1841. He wasa clerk two years in Ireland, and came to Union City, Ind., in 1867, and served as clerk for his brother till his brother's death in 1875. In 1876, he set up in business for himself. He married Margaret Stack in 1878. He is a Democrat and a Catholic.

WILLIAM KERR, hardware, etc. Mr. Kerr began in the stove and tin business in about 1869 in Union City. By diligence and thrift, he increased his trade, and in a few years he added general hardware, and now he carries on perhaps the leading house in the city in his department. His father and several brothers are employed with him, and together they make a strong and energetic company of artizans. Mr. Kerr is one of the many leading citizens of Union City, who have begun with little and worked themselves into proninence and distinction, and have laid the foundations of prosperity aud business success. Mr. Kerr and his father and brothers are Democrats in politics, and altogether active, worthy and reliable citizens, adding substantially to the enterprise of the city where they reside. The elder Kerr and his sons, William and Michael, were all three soldiers in the Union army, and Michael spent three years in the regular service upon the Western plains. All three were in the same battery - Nineteenth Indiana - and Michael in the Twenty-seventh U.S. Infantry Regiment.

R. KIRSCHBAUM, merchant, born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1841; came to America in 1858. After attending school a short time, he came to Union City ; remaining a little while with his brother, he soon set up a store at Portland, Jay Co., Ind., with his brother, October, 1858. Afterward he took the business alone, and has continued it (in another firm) eversince. He removed to Union City in 1865, setting up in dry goods, etc., and he has been engtged in that line since that time. He married Flora Kahn, of Indianapolis, and they have four children. Besides the immense '' Beehive'' establishment at Union City, he has (with partners) two large branch stores; first, Portland, Jay Co., Ind., Kirschbaum & Silvernale; second, Hartford, Blackford Co., Ind. (at first Kirschbaum & Winters, but now Kirschbaum & Weiler). These branches are extensive, selling great quantities of goods; but the main store, at Union City, outdoes them both - that. is truly immense. The building is a large three-story brick, with a partial iron front. The lower story is literally crammed with goods of all sorts - dry goods, clothing, hats, carpets, etc., etc. The building (as well as the goods) belongs to Mr. K., and his business comprises selling dry goods, etc., tailoring, wool buying, etc., both wholesale and retail. In his employ may be found about twenty-five persons, clerks, tailors, seamstresses. By buying very largely for cash in the great cities, Mr. K. can sell at low prices, and yet thrive at the business. Twenty-two years ago, his beginning was small through scarcity of means ; now the splendid trade palace, corner of Pearl and Columbia, is filled with piles of goods of every imaginable variety; growing ever beautifully and rapidly less, yet ever replenishing, garments and goods disappearing as by magic every hour, the shelves and counters, nevertheless remaining constantly full. The activity shown, and the immense amount of sales day by day, clearly show what energy, prudence and trading skill can achieve. Mr. Kirschbaum is still in the prime of manhood, not yet forty years old. He seems to have been born a merchant, as his activity as a store-keeper began at Portland in 1858, and his business shrewdness and tact and success have been increasing year by year. In his eighteenth year, he took successfully the position of salesman and manager of an important mercantile enterprise. His residence is a plain, substantial mansion, Columbia, north of Oak, east side. Mr. K., in the winter of 1880-81, purchased the Coats' warehouse, and commenced the grain business, thus enlarging his already very extensive operations. When axked why he had begun this new branch of activity, he is said to have replied: ''Because I would like to keep myself busy.' Active, energetic business men possessing ''snap,'' nerve and stamina, are the bone and sinew, and muscle and brains as well of any place, and Union City seems to be blessed with a fair share of this class of men, which fact, indeed, explains the secret of its abundant and constantly growing prosperity.

Engineer, plumber, flue dealer, etc, was born in Wooster, Ohio, in 1837; resided in Mansfield, Ohio, from 1838, till 1858; Recovery, Ohio, till 1861. He enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers:in 1861 (three months). On discharge, he formed a new company, and was made their Captain; Company K, Fortieth Ohio. After two and a half years of service, a horse fell upon him, severely injuring his spine, and he was discharged for disability. He had learned the tinner's trade at Mansfield, Ohio, and was working at the trade when the war broke out. After leaving the army, he was a trader, money-loaner, carriage dealer, etc.; was one and a half years with Col. Cranor in hardware. He took up buying walnut logs, and sending them to Europe whole, also owning and running a saw-mill at Redkey, Ind. Spring of 1878, he was elected member of Council (Trustees). In that, it was resolved to erect water works, and Capt. Knapp was appointed Superintendent of Construction of water works. After their completion, he was kept in position as Superintendent of Water Works, which he held for more than seven years. In 1874, he began business as plumber and gas and steam-fitter, and in 1875 as agent for fire clay flues, fire brick, terra cotta

This trade was a new thing here, and a demand for them The first year he had hard work to sell forty pieces of flues. From February, 1880 (to April), he sold nine car-loads, 1,200 feet each. He sold in 1879 forty-three carloads sewer pipe, and seventeen car-loads from Febrvary to April, 1880. The first two years, he sold only three pair of vases, and that by the severest begging. From February to April, 1880, he disposed of 400 vases of various sizes. These facts show the incredible increase of this trade. Capt. K. has agents in 120 towns. At Muncie alone there are sold $150 worth per month of the various articles of this business. The works are at Calumet, Ohio, Jefferson County. These article are wonderfully neat and tasteful, and highly ornamental. 'They are strong and durable, impervious to water and imperishable by fire, easily and cheaply put up, and they would seem to be, by all means, preferable. Since this account was written, the business referred to has increased still more largely, but the present statistics we have not room to state.

JOUN KOONS, furniture dealer, born in 1829 in Germany, near Bingen, "fair Bingen on the Rhine;'' came to Americain 1842; he spent his time on a farm till 1848; then worked as a carpenter, working ut Dayton, Cincinnati, New Orleans, etc. He settled in Union City June, 1852, when everything was "jin the woods,' working as a carpenter till 1856, and in that year began a cabinet shop. In 1854, he married Mary Caron, of Greenville, Ohio. They have had seven children. He is a Catholic and a Democrat, and is noted for his quiet and sturdy independence of thought and action. He is highly respected by his fellow-citizens as being enterprising and successful in his business, and upright in his dealings. He has been engaged in handling furniture for nearly twenty-five years, and now carries it on extensively, both wholesale and retail, in allits branches. He owns a factory run by steam power ; is also an ''undertaker,'' and deals exiensively in lumber. He is supposed to have acquired a substantial fortune, owning, besides his factory, furniture shop and other town property, several fine farms in the region.

PETER KUNTZ, lumberman (brother of Joln Koons above). Mr. Koons was born in Hesse-larmstadt, Europe, in the year 1839; he came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1842, and to Union City in 1867. He married Mary Higi in 1879. From 1859 to 1865, he was a wood-chopper, and thus made his start. He sold lumber in Greenville, Ohio, two years, and set up at Union City in 1867; 1867-73, Kuntz & Willson, and Peter Kuntz alone, 1873- 82. The first year, the firm sold $45,000 worth, the last year of Kuntz & Willson, $100,000, and 1879, $285,000. He has a saw-mill, planing-mill, sash and door factory, etc. The establishment has about forty different machines for working in wood. le receives and handles lumber from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Canada. His business is very largely wholesale, more than 70 per cent of the lumber not coming to Union City at all; he bought in 1879 about two thousand eight hundred carloads ; he employs in his business here fifty to sixty hands. He is a Catholic and a Democrat. He gave $5,000 as a fund to support a Catholic free school in Union City, and has offered a like sum to Greenville, Ohio, on condition that the Catholics there prepare therefor by building a house, ete., which, however, has not yet been done. Mr. Kuntz, by his prompt and energetic management, has built up an immense business. Though somewhat brusque and forbidding in personal address, he has yet, by consummate business tact, drawn to his establishment a host of customers, and that host grows ever larger year by year. During the winter of 1880-81, Mr. Kuntz bought an immense quantity of logs of all kinds, paying generous prices, euriching the happy farmers, buying even elm, supposed until lately to be the most worthless of all trees. One man said that he made $4.50 a day in hauling elm to market, besides getting the stuff out of his way. The same man sold to Mr. Kuntz the logs from four ash trees, all standing on a single acre of ground, receiving for the same $78!

SLIEPHEN H. LADD, grocer, was born in Meredith, N. H., in 1827, his parents being Stephen Ladd and Sarah Adams; his father was born in Sandwich, N, H., in 1796, and died in Lawrence, Mass., in 1882, eighty-six years old; his mother died at the same place in 1878, eighty-two years old, both being then nearly of the same age. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, all of whom became grown; seven of them were married and five are still living; three reside in Massachusetts or New Hampshire and two are in Union City. Stephen Ladd, the elder, was a farmer, a Democrat and a Universalist, and his wife was an old-fashioned Baptist. Stephen H. Ladd left home at eleven years old as a peanut boy on the railroad, and he has been engaged upon railroads ever since until about three years ago as brakeman, conductor, foreman and engineer, having been engineer more than thirty years, the last ten years of which were spent in Union City as foreman of the locomotive department at Union City. The roads with which he has been connected have been the Boston & Maine, the Pennsylvania Central, the Ohio & Indiana (Crestline & Ft. Wayne) and the @leveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis (C., C., C. & I.) Railways. Mr. Ladd quit railroading in April, 1880, and in the spring of 1882 he began business as a grocer at Union City, Ind., in which he is now engaged. Mr. Ladd was married, in July, 1857, to Miss Sarah F. Hoover, of Crestline, Ohio, and they have had seven children, six of whom are living. Their names are given herewith: Ida G., Venia F., Rosa W., Hattie May (dead), Henry L., Maude D., Walter C. He is a strong temperance man and an enthusiastic Republican. Mr. Ladd has been but little connected with official station, his only engagement of that sort having been Councilman of Union City during two terms (four years). Mr. Ladd is a gentleman possessing great energy of character, and has been successful in obtaining a competence, owning a fine residence upen West Pearl street in Union City. One of his children is married, and one of them has been for some years a member of the choir in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Union City.

G. LAMBERT was born in Pennsylvania in 1825. In 1850, he emigrated to Miami County, Ohio; in 1852, to Clark County, Ohio; in 1859, to Champaign County, Ohio; in 1869, to near Union City, Ohio; and in 1877, to the city itself (Ohio side). present time, which latter years have been spent as a grain-buyer. member of the United Brethren Church; and voted for James A. Garfield for

President. He has had ten children, nine of them now living. sons are engaged in business of several kinds. For several years, he and one son have been operating as dealers in grain. In 1880, the firm was formed of Lambert, Parent & Co., and exists to-day and deals extensively in grain, handling some 200,(00 bushels during a single year. One of the sons, J. W. Lambert, is a partner in a handle factory, established in 1880. The firm turns fork handles, neck-yokes, single-trees, spokes and hubs. 'They have bought $7,000 to $8,000 worth of '' butts'' as material for their work in a single year. Their establishment seenis active and prosperous. One of them is also a partner in the firm of Lambert & McKenzie, saddle and harness makers, Union City, Ohio. They employ in all about twenty-five hands. (ne of the sons is avery active member of the United Brethren Church, being teacher in the Sunday school, class leader, etc.