Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (3 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 18 of 24)

Alfred Lenox

was born in Shelby County, Ohio, September 4, 1819, while the territory now comprising that county was yet a part of Miami County. His father was John Lenox, a native of Virginia, who was bronght by his paren''s to Mariettta, Ohio, in the early settlement of that locality, and who removed to what is now Shelby County in 1810. J. L. enlisted at the beginning of the war of 1812, and served until its close, having attained the rank of Captain of scouts. He returned to his original settlement, four miles north of where the town of Sidney now is, and where he cleared a farm and raised a family. Upon this farm, young Alfred was raised, accustomed to farm work and wholly deprived of public school facilities, This deficiency was supplied by the energy and enterprise of his father, who, at his own expense, built a schoolhouse and employed a teacher for his own and for his neighbors' children. From this primitive school young Lenox entered a select school in Piqua, from which he received a certificate of graduation. On the 5th day of November, 1840, he was married to Miss Frances Ann Gish, of Montgomery County, Ohio, and to them have been born ten children, seven of whom are now living.

During the ten years from 1840 to 1850, Mr. Lenox was engaged in farming in the locality in which he was raised. During the succeeding four years, he was engaged upon public works, principally on the '' Bee Line" Railway, as contractor and superintendent of construction, in which capacity he laid the first track and constructed the first railroad works at Union City. A part of this time, he was proprietor and manager of the Forest House, the first hotel in the place. In 1854, he engaged in merchandising, keeping a general store for three years. The same year, he lost heavily by fire. Changing his business, he kept a livery-stable six years. In 1862, he was commissioned a Captain in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and was detailed on recruiting service, and afterward as Government detective. Being dissatisfied with the service, he resigned his commission and recruited a company for the One Hunired and Fifty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, with which he entered the field as ils Captain, being mustered out with his company at Winchester, Va., by reason of the termination of the war. Capt. Lenox returned to Union City, and as superintendent of construction assisted in building the railroad from Union City to Logansport. After its completion, he opened a restaurant, in which business he has continued until the present time. Mr. Lenox came to Union City in 1852, and has been a resident of the place ever since, he and his wife having now nearly or quite the longest residence in the town. He finished the first house in the city, and has witnessed the growth of the place from an unbroken forest to its present condition. He has always been active in promoting the business interests of the town and in undertakings for the bettering of society. Ue has been foremost among the friends of public schools and all educational enterprises. Union City, like most new railroad towns, was overrun with grogshops and whisky saloons, Mr. Lenox being a pronounced temperance man, and being encouraged and supported by other good citizens, made war upon the traffic, and after years of persevering effort, with expenditure of cunsiderable money and at great personal risk, the open sale of intoxicating liquors on the Indiana side of the town was entirely suppressed, nor have they since been here sold openly as a beverage. For this exemption, the citizens of the town were originally indebted very largely to the energy and steadfast activity of Capt. Lenox, as much so, perhaps, as to any other one man. Mr. and Mrs. Lenox are yet citizens of Union City, living in the enjoyment of a fair degree of health, surrounded by their children, grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and having the respect and esteem of all citizens. We but express the sentiment of all when we say that it is hoped that they may live yet many years as landmarks of the good city, and in the enjoyment of advantages which their own efforts have been so instrumental in establishing.

N. B. LEWIS was bornin 1849, at Cheshire, Delaware Co., Ohio. He was one of fifteen children by two marriages. In 1853, his father removed to New Corydon, Jay County, Ind., and, in 1859, to Union City,Ind. He was a blacksmith, and was poor, and young Noe had to work in his father's shop to help "keep the wolf from the door,'' and so he got very little school training. At twenty-two, he left the smith shop, and became a dry goods clerk with Wiggs, Polly & Co., and, in 1875, entering the boot and shoe establishment of Anderson & Johnsofi; he has been connected with that house to the present time, under three different firms. Mr. Lewis married Emma Polly, daughter of David Polly, in December, 1871. They have had two children, neither one living. His wife is a Disciple; he belongs to the I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Lewis, though a young man, isa quiet, worthy, industrious citizen, and is rapidly gaining the respect and confidence of his fellow-townsmen

WILLIAM MARSH, flagman, was born in Butler Co., Ohio, in 1818; was engaged in railroading for thirty years; he laid the track from Greenville to Union in 1852; was baggage-master on the D. & U. RR. trains for twelve years, switchman on the " Bee-Line'' three years, hand on the track three years, and for nine years past, flagman at the main crossing on Columbia street. He is employed by the ' Bee-Line," and the ' Pan-Handle"' pays half his salary. Mr. Marsh states it as a fact, that the (nearly) twenty-eight years since trains began to pass this crossing, not an accident, nor an injury of any kind has ever occurred in connection with that crossing. More than 200,000 trains and teams, vehicles, and passengers innumerable (perhaps scores of millions), have passed that street, yet, during all that time, through all these twenty-eight years of constant trattic and travel, no train, no vehicle, no living creature, no man, woman nor child, has suffered the slightest injury. Such a fact speaks volumes for the wonderful and unfailing care by the railroad companies in their intercourse with the public, and for their faithful employes, in guarding the lives and the safety of the persons, and the property intrusted to their charge. It seems a pleasing and an assuring sight for persons desirous to attempt that*dangerous passage to see the ' grizzly locks'' of our 'old friend Marsh," waving his flag, and when he gives the signal to cross, they go rapidly but trustingly forward; sure that when he proclaims to 'go ahead," no harm will happen as they jog on their onward way. Long, long may he live to wave that signal flag, and to enjoy the proud satisfaction arising from the thought that his '' backward signal"' or his '' forward wave'' has served to guard hundreds of thousands of lives and myriads of animals and vehicles from passing on to destruction, or has beckoned them onward in safety and in peace. Though his position might, by haughty aristocrats, be reckoned humble and obscure, yet it may with truth be affirmed that the faithful labor and care of one man like Flagman Marsh, is worth indefinitely more to the world than the labor performed by a dozen millionaires, yet the millionaire is good in his place, and so is the flagman at a grand thoroughfare railway crossing. Hurruh for the flagman, and may we always have one as good.

ROBERT B. McKEE was born in 1830in Adams County, Penn.; cameto Darke County, Ohio, in 1838, and to Union City, Ind., in 1852 (October). He married Margaret Manuel in 1855, and has six children, all living but one. His business for twenty-eight years has been that of a salesman in Union City, seventeen years with Joseph Turpen (five years of that time as partner), eleven years with Kirschbaum & Co. In 1880, in connection with O. C. Gordon, Treasurer of Randolph County, he bought Paxson's boot and shoe store, under the firm name of Gordon & McKee. He is Township Trustee for Wayne Township, having been elected in 1878 and again in 1880. He is an active Republican, and a prominent citizen. In 1881, he sold out his part of the shoe store to I. A. Thomas, late of Winchester, Ind., and is chiefly engaged in dealing in horses, besides his employment as Township Trustee. During the summer of 1882, he has been and is busying himself in erecting a commodious residence upon North Howard street, which is expected to be an unique model of beauty and convenience.

CHARLES McKENZIE has spent a life of great adventure and varied ex: perience, having been a rover from his youth, He was born in Nicholas County, Ky., in 1822, being the sap of James McKenzie, who was born in Maryland, of Scotch descent, July 4, 1778; moved to Darke County, Ohio, in 1812; was in the war of 1812; removed after the war to Kentucky ; was the father of ten children, and died in Kentucky, twelve miles from Maysville, in 183f. C. W. McKenzie came with his widowed mother to Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio, during the cholera season in 1832; he traveled somewhat in his boyhood. In his early manhood, he went to Canada, and, becoming acquainted with the ' Kanucks,'' was employed in several trips to Hudson's Bay, some of the time as bearer of messages for the Hudson's Bay Company, remaining in that country several years. Returning to the States, he spent three years (1842-1845) in La Grange County, Ind., going then to Jackson, Mich., and to Detroit; he afterward went Hist to New York, and by ocean voyage to New Orleans; set out for Cuba, was wrecked and landed at Mobile, Ala.; went to South America for some months, and spenttwo years in Central America, returning to the United States again, and so onward to the present time. He has been several voyages to Europe, once in 1854, and the last time some years ago. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio, from Lima, Allen Co., Ohio, Company T; served from August 12, 1862, to March 24, 1863; was crippled by a car accident at Cynthiana, Ky., and discharged therefor, receiving a back pension of $1,100, under the Act of Congress for that purpose. He has traveled over the whole country, North, South, East and West, being at the ''Centennial'' in 1876. He visits this county every few years, having a brother and sister residing at Union City (McKenzie and Mrs. Eisenhour). He has many relatives in this region. Jesse Gray, the famous hunter, was his sister's father-in-law ; William Vail, a noted pioneer and resident of Jay County, Ind., is his brotherin-law, and Charles Sumption, father of Robert Sumption, of Ridgeville, was his uncle. .

MARTIN MURPHY was born in Wayne Township, Randolph (o., Ind., in 1836; his school privileges were very limited, attending solely at the old log cabin, standing on the site of the eight-sided schoolhouse, near the Downing farm, west of the Hoover Cemetery. At sixteen, he went for himself, working out by the month for $12 to $18 a month. In 1861, he enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio (three months') Regiment, and served four months and eight days. He did not re-enlist, but served his country faithfully at home. For five years he was employed in a livery stable, under different proprietors, Branham, Ospy, Ruby, etc. In 1868, he became Marshal of Union City, in which position he served for eight years. He was Constable of Wayne Township for two years; he has also been a veterinary surgeon for twenty years, which vocation he follows still, besides being employed in the livery stable of George W. Prior. He married Mary E. Enochs in 1863. They have had eight children, five of whom are living. Mr. Murphy is a reliable citizen, and a thorough Republican. His father, an aged gentleman and a pioneer of Wayne Township, still resides on the land which he first occupied nearly fifty yearsago. Though feeble from age, he enjoys reasonable health and strength, and the comfort and peace that spring from a long life spent in the service of God, and faith in Jesus Christ for forgiveness and salvation.

W. S. MURRAY is still 2 young man, and, in the beginning of what may yet prove to be a life of activity and usefulness to his country and his kind.

Pierce was inaugurated President. He is one of eight children, his father being a carpenter, now resident in Union City. In 1861, when eight years old, his father having brought him to Deerfield, Randolph, County, and, in 1865, they moved to Union City. W.S. M. attended the Union City schools, gaining a moderate education. In 1872, he entered Branham's Restaurant, continuing therein five years. In 1878, he was elected Constable of Wayne Township, and, in 1881, City Marshal of Union City. His official duties have been performed with accuracy and faithfulness, and to the satisfaction of the community. September 30, 1875, he married Harriet Seibert, of Greenville, Ohio, and they have had two children, one of them being now living. He is a Republican, a member of K. of P., and of the Improved Order of Red Men (I. 0.0. R.) In May, 1882, he was re-elected to the position of City Marshal, having been nominated at the Republican primary election b7alarge majority. In August, 1882, he resigned the office of City Marshal, and accepted employment from the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company as Station Freight Agent at Union City.

JESSE PAXSON, boot and shoe dealer, was born in 1810 in Pennsylvania; went to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1818; went to Canal Dover in 1827 - 30; to Newville and to Brookville. He married Mary Slusser, and lived at Brookville several years. Two children were born, both died, and his wife also. In 1839, he ''tramped'' to Lake Erie, Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, Logansport, Indianapolis and Vernon. From Vernon to Madison were twentyfour miles of railway, the first he had seen, and the first in the State. He (and his comrade) rode those twenty-four miles on the cars; took boat on the Ohio River for Cincinnati; thence ''tramped'' to Goshen, Clermont Co., Ohio. There he tarried and married Catharine Bronson; had one child; lost it at Newville, Richland Co., Ohio, where his father lived. His wife was taken sick, and they returned to Goshen to her father's. She died there with consumption, that scourge of the human race, He traveled, and, finally, at Piqua, married Jane Walkup, his present wife, in 1848. Soon after this, they moved to Camden, Jay Co., Ind., and, in 1852, came to Union City. His business had been chiefly carpentering and cabinet-making. In 1856, he set up in the boot and shoe business, which has been his occupation ever since that time. Lately his active life. He sold his store to Gordon & McKee, and has been spending his time apart from the cares of business, being now already past his '' threescore years and ten," the allotted age of mortal man.

CHARLES W. PIERCE. The warehouse on the lot where Charles W. Pierce now (1881) does business, was built by Shreer & Hill for a flouring-mill in 1861. Mr. Shreer retired in 1862, giving place to Mr. McFeeley. The mill machinery was removed in 1868 or 1869, and the business was changed to that of the grain trade. Mr. McFeely died in 1872, and Hiram Vail took his place till 1873. N. Cadwallader succeeded Mr. Vail, and, in turn, sold out to Charles W. Pierce in 1874, November 5, 1875, Mr. Pierce bought out Mr. Hill and has since been sole proprietor. In 1875, the business reached $100,000. In 1879. it had grown to about $260,000. The warehouse was burned in 1878, but was rebuilt at once on a larger scale. The establishment is popular, its business and trade is steadily increasing. Mr. Pierce is connected with the M. E. Church and active in all good causes. His excellent wife is a daughter of John and Jane Fisher, a worthy and aged couple who are old pioneers, coming to the region in 1817, before Randolph was formed. Mr Pierce has just erected a splendid residence, which, when finished and furnished, will be an ornament to the city. In the spring of 1881, Mr. P. sold his grain establishment to Worth & Alexander, and he is at present engaged in '' Marriage Dowry'"' (summer 1881). In the spring of 1882, Mr. P. is understood to have bought a cattle ranche in Arkansas, and he spent some months in that region. In July, 1882, he resumed the grain-buying business at his old stand in Union City, Ind,

WILLIAM M. REEVES was born in Jackson Township, Randolph Co., Ind., September 19, 1834, being a son of James Reeves, an early pioneer of that region. He grew up a farmer's son, with only the learning obtained from the common country school of the period. In the fall of 1855, he married Esther Wiley, the daughter of Rey. Thomas Wiley, late of Jackson Township. They have had four children, and all are living. Before the war, he was a farmer. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company F, Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment; remained in the service till mustered out, at the close of the war, July 5, 1865. He was wounded by a piece of a shell striking his head at Thomson's Hill at Port Gibson, Miss., May 1, 1863. He remained in the hospital (on James' Plantation) between Grand Gulf and Vicksburg one month, and then went with the regiment (convalescent, but not able for duty), till September 22, 1863. At that date, he received leave of absence for twenty days, and he left Brashear City, La., for the North and for home. The twenty days were all consumed in reaching home. He got his papers renewed twice, but. in about twenty-five days, he learned that his regiment was on its way to Texas, and he joined them at New Orleans, and went forward, landing at Matagorda Island, Texas, and continuing with his comrades till the end. He had been captured (at Richmond, Ky.), August 20, 1862, and paroled, but returned after a short time. He was mustered as Second Sergeant; was promoted Orderly, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant. Mr. Reeves removed to Union City in 1874; was a butcher two years, and for five years he has been and is now on the city police. In religion, he is a Disciple, and in politics, a Republican. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Reeves is an esteemed and valuable citizen. In August, 1882, he was appointed City Marshal in place of Winfield S. Murray, resigned.

Mrs. Esther (McFarland) Reeves, is the wife of Dr John L. Reeves. This estimable lady is the daughter of William and Flora McFarland, who came to Randolph County, Ind., in the early winter of 1838, when their daughter was a few mouths old. Her father was a native of Kentucky, and her mother a native of Virzinia. Both were born in 1799, within a week of each other, and both emigrured to Ohio in early life. They were married in Highland County, Ohio, 1nd some years afterward removed to Darke County, settling near New Madison. Three of their children were born in Highland County, and there were eleven in all, every one of whom lived to be grown and to be married, and six of the eleven are living still. Mr. MeFarland was a pioneer during all his early life, Jackson Township being almost wholly in the woods when he male his entry into her borders. He was a sturdy, hard-working farmer, entering the land in the extreme northwestern part of Jackson Township, upon which he many years later laid out the town of New Pittsburg, on the line of the contemplated railroad leading from Union City to Portland, at the point where that line crosses from Randolph County into Jay. The town began to grow but the railroad track was not laid, and to this day nought but an unused ''griade"' exists to show what came of the thousands of dollars expended by the too eager stockholders upon that projected route. Mr. McFarland and his wife were both members of the Disciple Church, and in political faith and connection he was and still isa Democrat. I[fLis wife died in 1879, aged eighty years, and he is living still at Ridgeville, Ind,, sprightly and vigorous, though bearing the weight of eighty-three years of labor and toil. Mrs. Reeves was born near New Madison, Darke Co., Ohio, July 9, 1838, and was brought to Jackson Township, Randolph County, when only a few months old. She grew up an artless country girl at her father's backwoods home, having scanty means of education, attending a log-cabin schoolhouse with a wide-mouthed chimney, and other similar backwoods appliances, going one and a half and two miles, and in all not more than twelve months. She was married to Dr. John L. Reeves in 1855, being scarcely seventeen years old. She has been the mother of four children. Mrs. Reeves is an active woman in society, having been a member of the Disciples' Church for twentyeight years, and belonging to that sociery in Union City ever since their removal to the place. A skctch of her husband's life and career has been already given to some extent and little more need be said. With possibly one or two exceptions no person now living in the region came earlier to Jackson Township than he. All the first settlers but himself (except his mother and James Porter and his aged wife) are either dead or moved far away. His boyhood and youthful days were spent in truly backwoods fashion. He was the son of a famous hunter and a hunter himself, bringing down many an antlered denizen of the mighty forest shades. He remembers to have witnessed what is now understood to have been the earliest white man's burial within the limits of Jackson Township, which took place about 1838, or sooner, at what is now Pleasant Hill Burial-Ground, east of North Salem. The name of the man was Walker, who was a teacher, and some of whose family are residents of the region still, one of his daughters being the wife of one of the sons of Ezekiel Clough. an octogenarian pioneer of Jay County, and later a resident of Jackson Township in Randolph. Dr Reeves, though hardly an old man, being several years on the sunny side of threescore, is beginning to assume almost unconsciously the dignity of an ancient pioneer. At any rate, he delights to regale his friends with the recital of his youthful adventures while threading the paths, almost untrodden, winding scarcely visible among the gigantic tree trunks, lifting their widespreading tops above the deeply shaded earth. At one time, with a comrade older than himself, he was tracking game close by the graveyard above mentioned, when suddenly two deer showed themselves. Kach took aim, and each drew trigger, and both deer bounded out of sight in opposite directions. The gun of the older hunter snapped, and he saw only one deer and thought both guns had missed fire. He was provoked at first 10 think that neither gun had been faithful to its master. But while he would not believe the youthful hunter's declaration that his weapon had done its work and that a wounded deer was limping feebly along the forest paths, he was more deeply mortified and chagrined to find, as they did in a few minutes, the deer that had been aimed at by the gun in the hand of the youthful hunter lying bleeding and helpless, panting and ready to die, while the other one of the pair had passed into the shadow of the woods wholly unhurt. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves furnish fine examples of genuine friendliness and generous hospitality, being loved by their neighbors and esteemed by all who know them. Dr. Reeves is an earnest and unflinching Republican in politics, maintaining sturdily, however, as a cardinal principle of political activity that partisan action must be held always subordinate to public virtue and sterling individual integrity. [Note. - A slight correction is needed in the biography of Dr. Reeves elsewhere given. The date of his taking up the plastering trade should be 1848 instead of 1851.]

GEORGE W. ROSS, carriage-maker, was born in 1837, in Springfield, Ohio; was bronght to Darke County, Ohio, in 1838; came to Union City, Ind., in 1863; married Melissa Moist in 1868, and they have one child. Mr. Ross made pumps one year, and has been engaged in carriage makeng seventeen years. His business is flourishing and prosperous, and he employs several hands. The firm has been as follows: Ross & Evans, Ross & Shoper, Ross & Knapp, Ross alone. Mr. Ross is a Republican and a Disciple. He is enterprising, reliable and estimable.

JAMES FINLEY RUBEY, son of James and Hannah J. Rubey, was born August 11, 1850, being one of a family of ten children. His birthplace and youthful residence were on a farm near Hollansburg, Darke County, Ohio, his father being a physician, having an extensive practice. James spent his boyhood and youth with his father, attending the country school, as also the Hollansburg Village School, and for about three years he belonged to the Union City graded school, ending his literary education with his eighteenth year. In 1867, he moved with his father to Union City, Ind., which town has been his place of residence to the present time. In 1870, he completed a business course in the Miami Commercial College, at Dayton, Ohio. After spending eighteen months in the grain warehouse of Spenccr Hill, at Union City, he entered the First Na'ional Bank as book-keeper in 1872, serving two years in that capacity, and three years as assistant cashier, and three years also as

Saxauel L. Carter was born in Salem County, N.J., February 27, 1817. His parents were Samuel C. Carter and Mary (Lippincott) Carter, who were also natives of New Jersey. Samuel C. Carter was born in 1792, being the son of Nathan Carter, and he, 0, had his birth and rearing in the little commonwealth upon the ocean border. -\athan Carter had che remarkable family of twenty-one children; hBving had three wives - zevon children by his first wife, three by the second and eleven by the third, Four of this immense family died young, and seventeen became men and women. Ten of them were sons and eleven were daughters; but of the entire number, only two are now living, viz.: Elizaveth (Perry) Columbus, Indiana, sixty-four years old, and Hannah (Dupree), residing near Edinburg, Ind., seventy-four years old. The father of this numerous flock, as.also many, perhaps, more of' his children, emigrated to the Western country, settling in what was then called the ''New Purchase,'' in Bartholomew County, Ind., where, also, he died, at the age of seventy-six years. Samuel C. Carter, father of S. L. Carter, was the father of twelve children, four sons and eight daughters, four of whom died young and eight grew to mature age, and six are living still, three of the six being sons. The names, eto., of the twelve children are as follows: Abigail (Thomas), nine children, widow, resides at Union City, Ind.; Mary (Hedger), eight children, residing in Michigan; Samuel L., five children, resides at Union City; Rosanna (Warner), three children, died near Cincinnati, Ohio; Nathan, eight oltildren, died in Ionia, Mich.; Clement L., five children, lives at Union City; Joseph, seven children, his home is near Litchfield, Ill.; Rebecca, Martha, Susan, Rebecca Ann; all died young; Rumma (Milligan), seven or eight children, resides in Mississinewa Township, Darke Co., Ohio. Samuel C. Carter left New Jersey, September, 1817, coming to Clermont County, Ohio, removing to Cincinnati in 1821, and after residing in or near that city till 1838, hechanged his residence to Darke County, Ohio, and in 1856 he made still another removal, this time to Union City, Ind. At this place he resided till his death, in 1879, at the great age of about eighty-eight years. His wife, Mary Lippincott, was born in 1787, and died in Union City, about 1872, at the age of eighty-five years. His business was farming, and his standing was, through all his life, that of an honest, upright, earnest, faithful, respeoted citizen, having been amember of the M.E. Chufth for more than sixty years, fifty years and upward of chat long time having been spent as class-leader. His character and conduct were uniformly exemplary, and during several of the closing years of his long and useful career, he was favored to enjoy a high degree of consecration and a deep and full and abiding sense of indwelling love, giving, both to small and great, a clear, certain, unwavering testimony to the sustaining, satisfying presence and power of the Gracious Spirit in the justified and purified soul. Like so many more large and active families in the Eastern land, almost or quite the entire group have become citizens of the great and growing West, and those who still survive are bearing bravely and nobly their part in the great struggle of life. Mrs. Mary (Lippincott) Carter, wife of Nathan Carter, belonged to an energetic New Jersey stock; she had five brothers and three sisters, and they, too, became wilderness pioneers, and mostly lived and died in Illinois. As we have said, she was born in 1787, being seven years older than her husband, and she departed this life in 1872, aged eighty-five years; he came West inthespring of 1821; thirteen of his twenty-one children having been born in New Jersey, eight accompanying him in his Westward emigation; eight were born in their new domicile im the great Ohio Valley. Samuel L. Carter, born in 1817, in Salem County, N. J., made his home with his father in his various places of abode till they came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1888. Kight years afterward, he married Miss Rachel Livengood, November 5, 1846, near Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio. Three years afterward (in 1549), he moved to near Deerfield, Randolph Co., Ind., and, in 1853, the second year of the existence of that town, he made his home at Union City, which has continued to be lis residence from that time tothe present. They have had five children, allof whom are still living, viz.: Elizabeth (Jacobs), Sarah (Butcher), George L. Gece William W., Samuel T. Samuel L. Carterin occupation was carpenter, till 1858; after that he followed farming and brick-making, till 1861; he sold lumber in Union City till 1866, and soon after began the turning business, in Union City, Ohio, manufacturing hand-screws and trunk-slats; also running a sew mill for preparing his own material, and for general purposes. Mr. Carter has been a member of the M. E. Church ever since August 6, Teed, joining that society at s camp-meeting held near Cincinnati, in the neighborhood of what is now Spring Grove Cemetery, and he has been an officebearer in that church - Steward or Trustee, or both, eto. - for more than forty years. In politios, he was s Demoorat of the old school, till 1856, in which year he joined the Republican party, with which he now stands connected. He isa very strong temperance man, 80 much so that he will not support any man of any party who is known to be other than an advocate of total abstinence. Mr. Carter has always been an energetic, persevering, hard-working man of business. At one time he met with heavy losses, but-he kept his reputation unstained and his honor untarnished, and by unflagging activity and the blessing of a gracious Providence, he has been able to maintain a prosperous business, and constantly and largely to increase its amount and greatly to extend its power of production. He is only one of a large number of earnest gentlemen among the dwellers in Union City, who are not afraid to put their shoulder to the wheel and their own hands to the accomplishment of the labor to be performed. All honor to the honest, upright, God-fearing, intelligent, hard-working, successful business men of Union City and of Randolph County, and of the whole land as well. Mas. Raonst ahd aid Cazrzr, wife of Samuel L. Carter, is the daughter of - Livengood. Her parents were natives and residents of Pennsylvania, removing, however, to the West more than fifty years ago. She was born in Somerset County, Penn., in 1826, being one of twelve children. Her parents emigrated from the Keystone State to near Dayton, Ohio, in about 1880, when she was five years old. She was married to Samuel L. Carter, November 6, 1846, near Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio. She has been the mother of five children, all of whom are yet living. In the days of her childhood and youth school education, especially for girls, was not much in fashion, and she accordingly obtained but little training of that sort; yet of that education which comes from the possession of a olear head, an observing mind, a sound judgment and a tender, affectionate heart, Mra. Carter has an abundant supply. She is sensible and warm-hearted, has atrong 'mother wit'' and large memory, and is remarkable for generosity and hospitality. In the family relation and among an extensive cirole of friends, she possesses the ability to be genial and entertaining in an unusual degree. Especially has her course of life been worthy of notice, from the fact that in addition to the ordinary trials and hardships of life, she has shared the hospitality of her home with not a few relatives, besides her own immediate family, several of them having been cared for during long and trying periods of severe and languishing sickness. Her aged mother, left for the third time a desolate widow, spent the last three or four years of her eventful life with her affectionate daughter, closing her eyes at length beneath that daughter's hospitable roof, after the kindest and gentlest care administered by her affectionate hand. Mr. Carter's father made his residence during the last seven years of his life of almost fourscore and ten with his son Samuel, dying at length, superannuated and well-nigh helpless, in this blessed and pesceful haven of comfort. A niece of Mr. Carter was nursed in her lastesickness and until her death by the same untiring affection, and watched over unceasingly till the Master called the sufferer home. A grandchild, too, died at her house. Rev. Thomas Collazer, the pioneer preacher and founder of Methodism in Union City, while moving, some years after his first labors there, again to the place to renew his work for the cause of the Redeemer, therein being seized with a violent disease, was taken, of ' course, to Mrs. Carter's hospitable mansion, and there, after a brief enjeyment of their generous but unavailing care, he closed his eyes upon the soenes of mortality, to open them, we may well believe, in the 'everlasting mansions.' In all these things, in all home duties as well, and in all things pertaining to the demands of friendship, of love, of sincereand earnest affection, Mrs. Carter has ever been active, faithful and untiring. A helpmeet to her husband, a co-worker in every worthy enterprise, 8 wise and gentle mother, it may of her be truly said, in the words of the Holy Writ, '' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies." She joined the M. E. Church in about 1889, having lived a quiet but faithful and earnest Christian life during all the years that have passed since that time - so long, so long ago. Mrs. Carter end her husband were two of the persons who formed the first Methodist olass in Union City in - - , and, through all the intervening years since "that day of small things,'" they have been stanch adherents of the "' good old faith,'' and even from early youth to advancing old age, they stand ever firm and steadfast in the ways of uprightness and trath, asking themselves the question, not What is popular? but simply What is right? and endeavoring constantly to follow the direction of the ''inner light" as to every matter of practical interest and duty.

assistant caahier in the Commercial Bank (being the First National Bank reorganized). In January, 1881, Mr. Rubey was promoted to the position of cashier of the Commercial Bank, which place he still retains. He married Julia L. Skinner in 1875, and they have had two children, both living. Mr. Rubey is Republican in political faith, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, having become a member in 1868, under the pastorate of Rev. Greenman. He has held the office in that church of Recording Steward for several years. In 1878, he was elected to a place in the Union City Common Council, and was a leading and influential member of that body during his term of office. In 1882, he was a second time elected a member of Council, and now belongs to that body. Although a young man, Mr. Rubey gives evidence of sterling character, and enjoys a high reputation for ability and business talent, as well as for uprightness and integrity, nnd there would seem to be no obstacle in his pathway toward a prosperous and successful career during his maturity of manhood, if it should please a gracious Providence to spare his life and strength during the years that are to come, till he shall reach his threescore and ten.

JOSEPH L. SCHRONTZ, barber, was born in New York City, and came to Union City, Ind., in 1856; married Alice Roll in 1872, and has had two children. He set up a barber shop in 1868, being prosperous in the business, and " running'' five chairs; sold out his shop in 1880 to his brother, Charles H. Schrontz. His establishment was the oldest of the kind in town. They are Catholics, being originally from Germany. 'The father of J. L. Schrontz emigrated from that country before his son's birth, and died in 1874, being the father of nine children. ,

JOHN M. SHANK, stove store, born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1831; came to Preble County, Ohio, in 1852, and to Union City, Ind., in 1858. He learned the tinner's trade in Preble County, Ohio, during two and a half years, receiving 10 cents a day and his board; was a journeyman for several years, and set up at Union City in 1858. He was married to Sarah Stonerin 1858. They have five children. His establishment is by far the oldest of the kind in thetown. Mr. Shank has been Councilman two years, a church member ten years (United Brethren and Methodist Episcopal); Trustee of Methodist Episcopal two years ; member of Union City Lodge, F. A. M., 270, having filled every official position; member of Royal Arch Chapter, No. 94, and holding honorable stations therein.

JOHN THOMPSON SHAW was born in Grecnsfork Township, Randolph County, May 4, 1831, the spring after his father moved to the county. They occupied the tract lying in the extreme southeast corner of Greensfork Township and Randolph County. In 1846, they moved to Hollansburg, Darke Co., Ohio; in 1848, to Bethel, Wayne Co., Ind., and in 1849 to the John Harlan farm south of Spartansburg. At the age of eighteen, he worked a year or so at shoe-making in Spartansburg with his brother Samuel, and during two or three years afterward with John Taylor at the same place. He entered the grooery business , there in 1854, and the trade in dry goods in 1857, continuing therein till the present time, the first seven years of the time at Spartansburg, and for eightteen years at Union City, Ind, his establishment being one of three now existing in that city. Mr. Shaw married Priscilla C. Starbuck in 1858, and they have had seven children, three of whom are living. Mr. Shaw joined the Disciple Church at Spartansburg in 1861, and is still a member of that religious society, being an active worker, and for eight years Deacon in the Disciple Church in Union City, sometimes going out to hold religious meetings for worship and instruction with good acceptance. He is a man of character and standing, an active and thorough temperance man, of good business habits, and esteemed by his fellow-citizens. In politics, he is a Republican, and belongs to the I. 0. O. F. For eight years his residence was on the '' Ohio side," though his business has been all the time in Indiana, where also he now resides. January, 1883, he opened the ''Trade Palace'' in connection with a new firm, Shaw, Downing & Reger.

COPPY C. SMITH is the son of James C. and Jane D. Smith. J. C, Smith was born in Pennsylvania, Greene County, September 28, 1819, and emigrated to Ohioin 1827. His wife, Jane D. Smith, was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 26, 1821. They had five children, viz.: Coppy C., born January 5, 1840; Jessie D., born September 22, 1841; Alfred R., born January 23, 1844; Alice, born July 5, 1849; Laura, born July 30, 1852; all in Butler County, Ohio. Coppy C. Smith was born in the year 1840; he moved to Union County, Ind., in 1855, and in 1867 settled on a farm near the toll-gate, northwest of Union City. Remaining there two years, he changed his residence to Union City, which has since that time been his home. His business in Union City has been the keeping of a livery stable, and also of a boarding house. Mr. C. was married March 6, 1862, to Miss Lavina Gear, of Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, who was born in 1838. They have had four children, only twoof whom are now living, viz.; Lilly, born May 20, 1867; Emma, born April13, 1871. Mr. C. C. Smith is a Democrat in politics, and so also is his father, James C. Smith, who has resided for many years in Randolph County, and now lives at Union City.

SMITH BROS. Not very many years ago three brothers, William P., James and John Smith, left their native Scotland and made their way across the dashing billows of the wide Atlantic, to find a home and room to work, and grow and flourish in this grand and wondrous commonwealth of the free. They came not, however, all at once. The first one named above led the way, exploring in anxious hope the strange and unknown land, coming in 1866, and six years afterward, the two latter ventured to follow their adventurous brother in his voyage toward the shores of the setting sun. William had learned his business as a foundryman and machinist in his native land, and in 1871 became able to set up for himself in Providence, R. I. In 1872, his brothers joined him from over the tossing deep, and learned of kim the business, which together they since have pursued with gratifying success. After three years spent in that Eastern city, they thought it wise to try their fortunes in the great and growing West, and, coming to Union City, Ind., they set up an establishment in that thriving town os a foundry and machine shop. Their work at first was scant enough, having barely sufficient for their own employment. In process of time, however, integrity and skill reaped an abundant reward, and their business has largely increased, and their field of operations has been greatly extended. Originally they worked alone, but two years ago (1880), they had constant employment for eight hands, with the prospect of a much larger growth in the near future. Their business is chiefly the making and repairing of machinery in general. They build steam engines, steam pumps, and many things besides. Their trade reaches a large region of country in both Indiana and Ohio. They are expecting and intending beforea very long time to set up a regular and separate foundry, for which purpose they have already prepared a building suitable for that branch of industry. The Smith Bros. are like a large proportion of the men engaged in business in Union City, full of enterprise and energy, '' putting their own shoulders to the wheel," and counting, week in and week out, for 'full hands'"' in carrying on their chosen avocation. In politics, they belong to the Republican party. William and James are both married, the former having four, and James three children; John, being the younger of the three brothers, is still unmarried. They are all only in the prime of life, and may reasonably look forward to many years of active and successful prosecution of their calling, a vocation, in fact, honorable to them as men, and productive of great advantage to the community at large. In the spring of 1882, the firm set up a grist-mill in the vicinity of Harrisville, and the enterprise bids fair to be crowned with success, and to become both a source of profit to themselves and a means of usefulness to the entire region,

GEORGE W. SMITH was born in 1837, in Champaign County, Ohio; moved to Woodford County, IIll., in 1853; enlisted in the Sixty-eighth Illinois Infantry, Company E. His regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, in the Second Army Corps, Gen. Hancock. He was Third Sergeant, and was detailed Post Commissary with the pay of Second Lieutenant. His discharge took place in August, 1864, and in 1865, he married Louisa Enyeart. They have two children. They removed to Union City in 1867. His business is that of an artist, landscape and portrait painter, etc., and he finds large and remunerative employment in his chosen vocation. He belongs to the Disciple Church, and in politics is a Republican.

SHUGARS & BROTHER, stovedealers. Jeremiah Shugars was born January 7, 1842, in Columbia County, Penn., learned the tinner's trade at Catawissa, Penn.; came West in 1863, finishing his trade at Williamsport, Warren Co., Ind., and came to Union City in 1870, after spending four years in Pennsylvania. He has worked in this place for Pope, Clapp & Hartzell, setting up business with his brother, Reuben H. Shugars, October 18, 1881. Jeremiah Shugars married, at Union City, Ind., Sarah Mason, daughter of William Mason, an old resident of Randolph County, and they have one child. He is a member of the Disciple Church, and is Democratic in politics. Reuben H. Shugars was bora in 1840, January 27, in Columbia County, Penn. He was brought up on a farm, taught school six terms, clerked in a store two years, and took up the tin business with his brother Jeremiah at Limestoneville, Montour Co., Penn., in 1868, remaining two years, and after several years employment by the Pennsylvania Iron Company, he removed to Union City, Ind., in October, 1881, entering into partnership with his brother in stoves and tinware. He married Melinda Acor in 1869, and they have no children. Mr. S. and his estimable lady united with the Presbyterian Church in Union City shortly after their arrival at the place. They had previously belonged to the Lutheran Church at Danville, Montour Co., Penn. He is an industrious, estimable gentleman, sincere, warmhearted aud sympathetic, and is rapidly gaining friends by his praiseworthy conduct.

William K. Smith

WILLIAM K. SMITH was born in Randolph County, Ind., April 27, 1836, being the son of Jeremiah and Cynthia (Dye) Smith. His father was born in South Carolina and his mother in Ohio. His father's ancestors were from England, His great-great-grandfather was an English Quaker from Yorkshire, who settled in Pennsylvania, Bucks County, about 1727, His great-grandfather, David Smith, was born in 1736, and died in 1801. His grandfather, William Smith, was born in 1779, and died in 1831, having emigrated to Randolph County in 1817. His father, Jeremiah Smith, was born in 1805, dying in 1874 at Winchester, Ind., and his mother at the same place in 1872. Both lie side by side in the Union City Cemetery, where a beautiful and costly monument preserves and perpetuates their memory. William K. received his education chiefly at the Randolph County Seminary, which was at that time a valuable institution of learning, and under the energetic control of Profs. Spencer, Ferris, Cole, etc., many yoting men and women of promise found the means of a substantial education suited to the needs of those times. His father's desire was that William should become a member of the lega! profession. But the young man's wishes did not lie in this direction, and in 1857 he entered a dry goods store in Union City as clerk; after about a year thus spent, he acted as agent in the railroad office for a few weeks, and then undertook a course of training in the Commercial College of Cincinnati. Having completed this course he began business as a retail dealer in boots and shoes in 1859. This business increased greatly and rapidly in his hands, so that from 1862 to 1870 the establishment did a, large wholesale and jobbing trade. He has erectcd a substantial and commodious business house on Columbia street, as also a costly residence on the same street, in the north part of the city. Mr.S. was not connected with the army, except for a few days during the excitement of the Morgan raid in the summer of 1863. He is not a member of any religious society, but his wife was during her life connected with the Congregational Church. In politics he is, as also was his worthy father, an active and influential Democrat. In 1863, he married Elizabeth Farley, of Michigan, who died in 1880. They had two children, only one of whom is now living. Mr. S. feels keenly his bereavement, and has the deep sympathy of his friends and neighbors in his lonliness and affliction. During his more than twenty years of steady and careful attention to business, he has achieved a solid and substantial reputation; and his quiet, unobtrusive habits have endeared him toa large

Henry B. Smith is a son of the late Judge Jeremiah Smith and Cynthia Dye Smith, was born in Winchester, Randolph Co., Ind., November 27, 1847. He attended the common schools at Winchester until the fall of 1862, at which time he entered the Northwestern Christian University at Indianapolis, where he remained two years. In 1865, he began to learn the trade of a jeweler, and in 1869, after completing his trade, he removed to Hartford City, Blackford Co., Ind., where he now resides. Engaging in the jewelry business, he continued therein with satisfactory success till 1876. In that year Mr. Smith was elected Clerk of the Blackford Circuit Court, and he is at this time the Democratic nominee for Joint Representative for the counties of Wells and Blackford. In 1879, he, along with others, organized the Citizens' Bank of Hartford City, and atthe organization thereof he was chosen to be its President, and that position he still retains. February 8, 1872, Mr. S. was united in wedlock to Miss Nancy Alice Holliday, only daughter of the late Joseph W. and Elizabeth J. C. Holliday, and there have been born to them three daughters - Cynthia A., Elizabeth C. and Gretta. Mr. S. is & worthy member of a prominent family, children of a distinguished progenitor and pioneer, Judge Jeremiah Smith, a sketch of whose varied life has been elsewhere given. Although comparatively young he has already attained a fine reputation and an honorable standing among his fellow citizens.

JOHN DYE SMITH is the son of Hon. Jeremiah and Cynthia (Dye) Smith, and a native of Randolph County. He was born at Winchester, Ind., June 16, 1839, and spent his childhood and youth in his native town. His boyhood education was gained at the old Randolph Seminary under Profs. Faris, Spencer and Cole. In 1856, he entered the Northwestern (now Butler) University, Indianapolis, spending three years in that institution, taking the scientific course, but not graduating. The years 1859 and 1860, he spent in learning the jeweler's trade at Indianapolis with W. H. Talbott, jeweler of that city. He married Miss Adeline Teal, of Indianapolis in 1861, and settled in Winchester, purchasing the boot and shoe stock of J. B. Routh, of Winchester. He continued the business till 1863, and, in 1864, spent a summer at Shelbyville, Ind., closing out his stock. In the spring of 1865, Mr. S. set up as a jeweler in Union City, Ind., which has been his residence and his business to the present time. He has had two children, and they are both living. In politics, Mr. S.isa Democrat, and were his residence in a county where Democrats were numerous enough to give a man of that political faith the ghost of a chance, he would, doubtless, have become a prominent leader and otfice-holder. In a county so overwhelmingly Republican as Randolph, all the Democrats can do at the political feast is to stand afar off and look wishfully, but in vain, at the precious fruit to them forbidden. His talents, however, are not wholly lost to the public, since he has been for eight years one of the Board of Control of Union City, two years as Town Trustee under the old charter, and (nearly) six years as Councilman under the city organization. In 1878-80, he was appointed member of the Democratic State Central Committee for the Fifth Congressional District of Indiana. He was an original stockholder, and has been for ten years a Director, as also Secretary and Treasurer of the Winchester & Union Turnpike Company. Mr. S. has been an active and enterprising business man, and has the respect of the community, among whom he has resided so long. He has built up a thriving and successful business, his house being the leading establishment of the kind in this part of the State.

J. H. SNOOK was born in Maryland in 1829. Learned the tanner's trade at nineteen years of age; followed that business for nineteen years in his native State; left it for farming ten years; came to Union City, Ohio, in 1875. He had hitherto amassed no property, but he was energetic and upright, and had a huge family of boys, all like their father, able and willing to work. He obtained credit and bought out a brickyard from George Dutro, and working it for two years made 700,000 brick. In 1877, he began tile-making, at which also success has attended his efforts. Hitherto, by horse-power, he has manufactured several thousand dollars' worth of tile yearly, burning twenty-five to thirty kilns annually in two kiins. In 1880, he burned three kilns of brick, or 750,000 in number. In 1879, he erected a spoke factory, a building 30x80 feet, two stories high, with an engine room 30x40 feet, the latter being made in the most substantial manner. This factory has thus far been but little employed, yet the room is there and the machinery for extensive operations in that line, which will, in due time, if life be spared, be added. Within a few weeks past, Mr. S. has purchased and set up a new crushing and molding machine of the latest and most approved workmanship, at a cost of $1,000. The machine is indeed a wonderful triumph. The crusher grinds up the dirt, stones and all, and the molder projects an endless stream of '' pipe,'' which is cut into tiles as fast as the pipe is pushed from the die. By this machine 600 rods, or nearly two miles of '' pipe," can be made in a single day. Brick of excellent shape and finish can be molded also in the same machine by simply changing the "die," the work of a few moments, and Mr. 8. declares that 20,000 brick can be thrown from this machine in one day. This work, as also the work in the spoke factory, is performed by the steam engine of sixty horsepower, and the force of the engine is carried to the tile and brick machine by a rope of half-inch steel wire 844 feetin length, Mr. S. thinks his tile factory to have been, under the old methods, the most extensive in the region, and he expects in the future to burn at least fifty kilns a year. His working force varies from ten to fifteen hands, and he hopes greatly to increase the scale of his business before a long time shall elapse. He came here without means. Jn six years' time he has secured an investment of more than $20 000, with an indebtedness of only about one-fourth that amount, and he is just beginning to be fixed for business. One secret. of his success is that seven of his boys are old enough to work at the concern, and they do it with a will, thus reducing the need of hired help toa minimum. In fact, Mr. S. may well be called the father of a family, for his children number already eighteen, thirteen of whom are now living and twelve are at home, and eight (with the father) do substantially each a man's work in connection with the business three to twelve inches, any size desired being produced simply by changing the die regulating the opening from which the clay is projected from the machine. His tile factory burned up December, 1882, causing a loss of several thousand

ISAAC G. STAHL, dentist, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1880; taken to Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1831; to Perry County, Ohio, in 1839; remembers the log-cabin campaign of 1840; went to Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1861; enlisted in the Eighty-eighth Ohio, Company A; became First Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio; was discharged at the close of the war and went to Marysville, Ohio, in 1865, staying two years; to Adrian, Mich., in 1867; came to Union City, Ind., in 1868. Married Lavina Leggett, and they have one child. He was a clerk one year, and has been a dentist fourteen years. He was a member of the City Council (Trustee) three years, and is a Republican. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Union City, and they attend religious services with that society. Dr. S. is a worthy, intelligent, reliable man, deserving and receiving the esteem of those who know him. He was, in March, 1882, nominated for Mayor of Union City by the Republicans without opposition, and at the city election in May he was chosen by a large majority to that honorable and responsible post of public duty.

Edward Starbuck, Sr

The history of the pioneer settler named above is so remarkable, and so many of his descendants reside in Randoiph, that we insert a brief statement concerning him and his family in this work :

Edward Starbuck, Sr., Wayne County, Ind., was the son of William Starbuck, who was born on Nantucket Island, 1747, and moved to North Carolina, 1771; marrying soon afterward, Jane Taylor, of Virginia, a member of the Stuarts, once heirs to the English and Scotch crowns; he raised eleven children, nine girls. After the girls were all married, a lady visitor asked him, '' How many sons-in-law have you?'"' 'But nine,' said he. "Anybody that would burt at that, ought to have his horns knocked off,'"' retorted she.

Edward Starbuck, Sr., born in Guilford County, N. C., 1772; married Sarah Dwiggins, 1795. She died 1821, and he married Judith Gardner, 1822, who died 1851, and he married Hester Kemp, 1853; he died 1862, eighty-five years old, and she died 1868; he had eighteen children, ten by his first wife, and eight by his second; five boys and five girls at first, and four boys and four girls at last. All the eighteen grew up and were married, and when the youngest was twenty-three, all the children and the father were still alive; and now, when the youngest is forty-four years old, twelve are still living. Seven of them were present at a family re-union held at John Fisher's, September, 1877 - William (eighty), Jane Fisher (seventy-four), Robert (seventy-two), Andrew (seventy), Mary Dwiggtns (sixty-six), Cyrena Bickford (fortyseven) and John W. (forty-five). The occasion was the fifty-eighth anniversary of John and Jane Fisher's wedding day. The united ages were 454 years, an average of sixty-five years. When K. S. died, his offspring, children, grandchildren, etc., were nearly 300. His ten children by the first wife, were all born in North Carolina, the other eight all in Wayne County, Ind. The family may bedescribed thus: Edward Starbuck, born Guilford County, N. C., May 15,1777; parents, William Starbuck and Jane (Taylor) Starbuck. Marriage, first, Sarah Dwiggins, September 28, 1795; second, Judith Gardner, December 26, 1822; third, Hester Kemp, October 1, 1857; number of children, eighteen. Residence: 1777 to 1817, North Carolina; 1817 to 1862, Wayne County, Ind. Farmer, Whig and Republican, Friend. Died, Hillsboro, Ind., April 8, 1862, aged eighty-five. Buried, Mt. Vernon, Ind. (east of Newport). Children: Elizabeth (Knight), born 1796, eight children, died in North Carolina, 1875; William, born 1797, eight children, Wayne County, Ind.; James, born 1799, nine children, died 1861, age seventy-three; Phebe (Leverton), born 1801, nine children, died 1861, aged sixty; Jane (Fisher), born 1803, fourteen children, Union City, Ind., died 1881; Robert, born 1805, ten children, Ridgeville, Ind.; Andrew R., born 1807, eight children, Huntington, Ind.;. Lydia (Turner- Reynoids), five children, died in Illinois, in 1878, seventy-one years old; Mary Ann (Dwiggins), eight children, Rensselaer County, Ind.; Edward, born 1813, three times married, nine children, died Union City, Ind., 1874, sixty-one years; Sarah (Brown) born 1824, lives in Iowa; Milton, born 1825, resides in Huntingion County, Ind.; Ann (Grey), born 1827, lives in lowa; Jesse, born in 1829, resides in Michigan; Cyrena (Bickford), born in 1830, no children, Huntington County, Ind.; John W., born 1832, five children, lives in Union City, Ind.; Nathan, born 1834, lives in Huntington County, Ind.; Susan (Roberts). born in 1838, resides in Wayne County, Ind.

It will be seen from the statement just given, that the "Starbuck family "' have been and still are truly a '' power in the land.'"' Active, frugal, thriving, prolific, intelligent, sober-minded, devout, they have long been and they continue to be a fountain of life and light tothe region and the world. Few families can be found so numerous and so long-lived. In 1862, the entire family of eighteen children, the father and the step-mother, were alive - the oldest child sixty-five, the youngest, twenty-three. Their united ages were then 957 years, an average of forty-six years. And in 1880, the ages of the thirteen living children made 778 years, averaging about sixty years - the oldest, eighty-three; the youngest forty-two.

With such facts before us, with the fact that hundreds of families, hardy, robust, prolific, determined, aspiring, virtuous, pouring into our borders one grand, constant, perpetual inflowing stream of immigration, and of propagation, it ceases to be a mystery how and why this whilom waste and howling wilderness has come to be the " garden of the Lord;'' a fertile and beautiful

George W., son of James and Mary A. Patchell, was born March 10, 1858, in the city of Pittsburgh, Penn. His father was born at Londonderry, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1847, when fourteen years of age, where he followed the trade of molding in iron. He was married, at Pittsburgh, to Miss Mary A. Fairbourne, a native of Derby, Eng., who came to the United States with her parents when aninfant. In )861, the father enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Regiment, remaining in the Union army until the close of the war. For gallant and meritorious service, he was promoted, by successive steps, from the ranks to the office of Colonel, in which capacity he returned home with his regiment; he came with his family to Union City, Ind., in 1867, where he still resides. George, his son, and the subject of this sketch, attended the ».>o0ls of Pittsburgh until the removal of the family to Union City, acd completed his course of study in the schools of this place. At the sge of sixteen years, he entered upon an apprenticeship at the printer's trade, in the office of the Union Times, of which John Commons was then editor. Tiree years later, he purchased the Times, and has ever since continued as editor and proprietor of this paper. Under his management its sphere of usefulness has been extended, and it is recognized among the leading and influential journals of Eastern Indiana. It is a faithful exponent of the principles of the Republican party, and enjoys a very satisfactory circulation. Its editor, though a young man, has developed marked ability in his chosen profession, and occupies a high rank in the journalistic fraternity, while his social standing is ofthe best. Mr. Patchell was one of the charter members of Invincible Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Union City, and is still an active and interested member of that fraternity. He was married, on the 14th of December, 1880, to Miss Lillie Butcher, a native of Union City, and daughter of John Butcher, Esq. She is an estimable lady, and shares with her husband the regard of a large circle of friends.

Alex,A.Knapps Kob'Rt 8. Fisher

Robert §. Fisher was born in Wayne County, Ind. north of Fountain City, in 1834. His early life was on his father's old homestead. His education was obtained at U. L. Institute and Earlham College ; as also he had @ commercial course at Richmond, Ind. He tahght school several terms in Wayne and Union Counties ; in 1860 entering the Winchester Bank in the employ of James Moorman, and soon showing marked ability. The National Bank at Union City was established in 1865, with Edward Starbuck as President, and Robert 8. Fisher as Cashier. For fifteen years he was active and efficient in all public interests. He was a member and a liberal supporter of the M. E. Church and of the ¥. M. C. A., giving freely of time aod money in their help. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. He was twice married, first to Ann ienderson, second to Rosa Cottom, both of Winchester, and "gs had three children. Mr. F.

He was taken suddenly sick, and died, after one week's illness, April 8, 1880. Disease, typhoid pneumonia. He said to Capt. Jackson, his brother-in-law (who has been for years very infirm in health), "I have for years expected to see you go, and now here you are seeing me die, but it is all right. My work is done!" He was buried in Union City Cemetery, the funeral ceremonies being conducted by Rev. H. J. Meck, pastor, assisted by Revs. Greenman, Lynch, Simpson, Vigus, and others, former pastors. [Norz. - The funeral was during the session at this place of the Indiaua Annual Conference, and great numbers of ministers and laymen from abroad were present.] He left » considerable fortune to be inhe: land, flowing with milk and honey; a land swarming with a population, energetic, aspiring, ambitious, successful, rising ever higher and still higher in the scale of knowledge, virtue and prosperity, astonishing the world with multiplying proofs of greatness.

One thing is especially worthy of note in this whole pioneer history, and in similar pioneer history the world over, that emigrating nations as a rule, become strong and mighty. The colonies of the Greeks, the Romans, the Phenicians of olden time; the hordes of Northern barbarians upon Southern European and Asiatic climes, all formed great cities and strong peoples, famous for ages or even tothe present day. Our whole land is one huge theater of emigration. From St. Augustine, and Jamestown, and Plymouth, to the latest rude cabin of the in-coming settler in the wilds of Oregon, or to the sod-hut on the Kansas prairies, the vast flood of emigration sweeps with ceaseless flow across the land ; and there are life and light and power in the movement. No matter how poor and humble the emigration may be, the result is uniformly that the progeny, near or more remote, becomes st.'ong and noble. Many, nay most of the great men and noble women of this mighty West, are the sons and daughters of fathers and mothers who were poor, and not a few, very poor. Some who have risen highest, have come up from the lowest depths of poverty! 'This, toa careless observer seems strange, yet it is an open secret. 'I'here is no mystery. It takes energy, a desire for better things and a will to accomplish them to make men emigrate; and these qualities, coupled indeed with virtue, integrity, and thrift, is what brings heroic success. The grand results of this world are produced by work, hardship, energy, frugality, perseverance, virtue; and these are, as a rule, exactly what the pioneer possesses; in fact, these are what makes him be a pioneer; and, having these, and what is better still, the fear and love of God in the heart, he goes straight forward, and bravely hews his way to triumphant success! All honor to the resolute, hardy pioneer - the sturdy, on-pushing emigrant !

Let no purse-proud aristocrat, himself, mayhap, the son or grandson of just such a poor emigrant; let no wide-mouthed demagogue despise nor decry the pioneer; nay, even though he may be poor, and low, and destitute ; but let the haughty, rich and proud bow his head rather in reverent honor, as passes by his gilded mansion the covered, tattered wagon of the weary emigrant, drawn by gaunt and bony horses, or by slow and plodding oxen; the wagon filled with rosy girls, and followed by tramping, rollicking, barefooted boys, let him bow his head in honor of the future kings and queens of this widespreading land! Far worthier such a sight of honor and profound respect, than to see a fawning sycophant crawling for votes; ora wily, smooth-tongued, base-hearted demagogue, luring the "dear people"' to assist his aspiring steps to climb over their heads to high and lucrative positions, which he is no wise competent to fill. Well says the poet:

«Ts there for honest poverty, Who hangs his head and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by; We dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp; The man's the gowd, for a' that!

'What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, and a' that, The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king 0' men, for a' that!

*« Ye see yon birkie, called a lord - Wha struts and stares, and a' that; Though hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that.

'CA king can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he canna do that. For that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that!

"Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er all the earth May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, That man to man, the warld o'er. Shall brithers be and a' that !"'

JOHN 8S. STARBUCK is a son of Edward Starbuck, banker (late of Union City, Ind.). He was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1840 ; came to Union City in 1868; married Rhoda A. Robertson in 1865, and Sarah A. Zinn in 1874. He has four children. Mr. S. was a farmer till 1868, then a wholesale grocer

(including eggs, butter and poultry ;} - at first, J. Starbuck & Co., but fur ten years, alone. The business was extensive and prosperous. It is really wonderful how great the egg, butter and poultry business has come of late years to be. Some claim the trade to be greater than the pork trade or the wheat trade. At any rate it has grown to be immense. And it is another curious fact, how so small a town as Union City should be able to boast two among the largest and most important establishments of the kind in the United States, Mr. Starbuck employs from eight to sixteen hands. He is a Methodist and a Republican; was for several years Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School in Union City, and is in all respects a valuable citizen, an active Christian and a reliable man, a worthy son of an excellent, estimable and deeply lamented sire. Mr. S., in the spring of 1882, sold out his packing establishment, and after he engaged in handling coal for awhile, in September, 1882, he became a member of a company for manufacturing and handling a new patent invention, called the '' Heat Fender,' the object of which is to cause the free escape of heat during warm weather from stoves used for cooking, etc.

JOHN W. STARBUCK, druggist, is the youngest son of Edward Starbuck, Sr., late of Wayne County, Ind. He has been twice married, and has five children. He has resided in Union City for many years, being for a long time a plasterer by trade. He went into the drug business; has been a partner with his eldest son James for some eight or ten years, and for about two years with another son, both establishments being in Union City. Mr. S. is a prominent citizen; has been a member of the Board of Trustees, Assessor, etc. He has been for many years a leading member of the Disciple Church, and is in politics an active Republican.

B. F. W. STEWART, born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1830, came to Darke County, in 1882, and to Union City, Ind., in 1860. He married Amanda Powell in 1849, Martha Robbins in 1855, and Mary C. Johnson in 1865, and he has had twelve children, eight of whom are living. He was in early life a farmer, but has been for years in the grocery business, in connection with seyeral firms, Stewart & Bunch, Stewart & Strong, Stewart & Swain, Stewart alone, Stewart & Stout, twenty years in all. He has been a member of the Disciple Church for thirty-seven years. He is an Elder, and has been for six years Secretary of the Disciple Sunday School in Union City. Heis a Republican. Mr. Stewart in the winter of 1881-82, sold out his share in the firm of Stewart & Stout; but in March, 1882, he entered a new firm with Mr. Wright in his old place of business, where they are doing an encouraging business on the basis of ready pay.

GOTTFRIED STUMPPF, born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1833, came to Philadelphia in 1853; went to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854, to Logan County, Ohio in 1857, and came to Union City, Ind., in 1863. He married Louisa Ruckwiedt in 1863 (who died in 1878). They have had six children. He runs a bakery, grocery and eating saloon. He is a Lutheran in religion and a Democrat in politics.

W. H. SWAIN was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1822, married Eliza Jane Bales in 1844; came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1833, and to Union City, Ind., in 1865. He has six children, five living. He was a farmer and carpenter till he came to this place. First (at Union City) a grocer, eleven or twelve years - Stewart & Swain, Swain & Anderson, Swain & Platt, Wiley & Swain, then alone. Since 1876, Swain & Platt have been booksellers and stationers. This firm is, perhaps, the leading firm of the kind in this county. Mr. Swain is of a quiet, retiring disposition, yet fond of a joke, not aspiring but respected and reliable. He has been Trustee, Councilman, Assessor, and, doubtless, if he would permit, would be selected for other important trusts. He is in politics a Republican.

GEORGE W. SUTTON was born in Pittston, Penn., December 7, 1845. He was raised on a farm, and educated in the common schools. In 1863, when but little past seventeen years of age, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment New York Cavalry, and served two and ahalf years. He learned the plasterer's trade, which he followed for a short time. In 1867, he came to Union City, Ind., and has been engaged in various kinds of business, being lately the senior of the firm of Sutton & Law, grocers, of Union City. He is married and has one child, his wife's maiden name having been Clara A. Randall, of Dayton, Ohio.

WILLIAM THOKE (TOKAY) is a native of Germany, born in Hesse- Schomburg in 1826, and one of a family of nine children. His parents and the rest of the family remained in Germany. His father and mother are now dead, the former dying at seventy-four years old, and the latter at sixty4hree. They grieved greatiy to have him cross the mighty waters, but he came. His ocean passage was in asailing vessel, and its length was seven weeks, a severe storm occurring while on their way. On landing at New York, he came immediately to Dayton, Ohio, and, in a year, he went to Greenville, and, after six months, to New Madison; thence after twenty-one months to Union City in 1855. At this place he has resided ever since. He learned the tailor's trade from his father in Germany, and has followed that business all his life. In Union City, he first had a shop for seven years; was foreman for Bowers fourteen years, and (luring four years past he has carried on a shop of his own again. He married Catharine Schmidt in 1856, and they have had five children, four of whom are living. He belongs to the German Lutheran Church, and is a respected, industrious, thriving citizen, and a valuable member of society. His wife. Catharine Schmidt, is a native of Hesse-Cassel, in Germany, born in 1834. She came to America in 1854, landing at New York and coming to Greenville, Ohio. Her father, Simon Schmidt, was a blacksmith. She was married to Mr. Thoke two years after her arrival in this country.

JOSEPH TRITT, father of Tilghman Tritt, was born about 1791 in Maryland; was twice married, having nine children, They emigrated to Greene County, Ohio, in 1848, afterward to Champaign County, Ohio, near Urbana, and still again to Illinois, where he died some years ago. He was a carpenter, and some of the time a merchant; prominent in military circles, holding official position in the militia, and an active, upright, sober-minded, influential citizen.

therc, in the town of Frederick, in 1828; came to Greene County, Ohio, in 1843; married Elizabeth Kockfield in 1847; came to Union City in 1853; moved to Nebraska in 1871; returned to Union City in 1873, and still resides there. He has had four children. Ife has, in the course of his life, engaged in many occupations, having been undertaker, cabinet-maker, carpenter, butcher, grocer, bridge-builder, saw-miller, millwright, ete. For seven years, Mr. 'l'ritt was Superintendent of Bridges on the Bee-Line Railroad, and the same on the ''Pan-I[andle'' Railroad for three years; he was builder of bridges on the Midland Pacific Railroad in Nebraska for three years, and has worked largely as a millwright ever since 1847. Mr. Tritt is of Dutch and French descent; is a moral, upright citizen, a steady church-goer, a reliable business man, and a worthy and excellent member of the body politic.

CHARLES G. TRITT, grocer, meat merchant, carriage factory, was born in 1852 in Greene County, Uhio; came to Union City, Ind., in 1856; went to Nebraska in 186%, and returned to Union City in 1871. IIis education was obtained at the public schools, at Ridgeville College and Whitewater Seminary. He was a grocer from 1871 to 1881; firms, Tritt & Robbins, McNeal & Tritt, Tritt & Griffis, doing a business of $35,000 to $40,000 a year. This grocery is the second oldest one in town. Mr. 'I'ritt, in 1881, established the butcher business under the firm of 'ritt & Julian, sold his part of the grocery to Mr. Vinson and went into a carriage factory with James Starbuck and Pierre Gray. He married in 1880; is a member of the Disciple Congregation, a Republican, an active business man and an estimable citizen. It will be seen from this statement that Mr. Tritt has spent nearly his whole life us a resident of the town either as lad, youth vr man, and he seems proud to show his youthful associates and his maturer friends that his early training has not been for nought. He is during the summer of 1882 erccting a commodious and tasteful residence upon a curious and unique pattern, combining, it is to be hoped, both cultured elegance and substantial comfort.

FREDERICK TREUDLEY, Superintendent Union City Schools, is a young man, a graduate of one of the colleges of Indiana and a successful instructor. He came to Union City in the fall of 1879, taking a position in the High School. Upon the death of Prof. Giles F. Meade, in February, 1880, Mr. 'T. was chosen to succeed him, and has retained the position to the present time. In thesummer of 1880, he was married and they have two children. Ie is a gentleman of pleasing address, of good talents and fine culture ; is an active Christian, being a member of the Disciple Church, and energetic in whatever tends to promote the public welfare; enthusiastic in his profession, beloved by his pupils, and standing high in the estimation of his fellow-citizens.

ENOS H. TURPEN, grocer, born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1826; was bre ght to Darke County in 1828, and came to Greenville, Ohio, to learn the t.iior's trade in 1843: worked at Ithaca, Dallasand New Madison seven years ; set up aga grocer in Union City, Ind., in 1856, and during ten years he was alone in business, but since 1866 the firm has been composed of C. H. 'Turpen and William Harris, under the style of Turpen& Harris. lis wife's name was Julia Breitman, and they have had five children. The firm carry on a large grocery and produce business, including as a specialty the department of butter, eggs and poultry. This branch of their operations has grown to be very extensive. 'lhe money handled by them therein exceeds $500,000 in a single year. They are thought to be (as gatherers and shippers of these commodities) at least second, and possibly first, in the United States. They employ thirty hands, not reckoning the host of wagoners, peddlers, etc., concerned in the work atlarge. Their business extends over a large portion of the Western country. Mr. T. has been for over forty years an acceptable member of the M. E. Church, and his worthy and estimable lady is especially noted and beloved for her activity and efficiency in the work of religion and of benevolence in general. Mr. Turpen is an intelligent and industrious man of business, who, by careful economy and close attention to affairs as well as by tact and skill, has succeeded, by the steady help of his efticient and wide-awake partner, in establishing a solid, substantial business, and in acquiring a genteel and creditable income.

JOHN C. VAN NUYS was born near Bethel, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1830; has resided at Bethel, Richmond and Union City, and has been for many years a cabinet-maker and undertaker. He now follows the undertaking business in connection with Mr, Weymire, who has lately bought out Col. Isaac W. Snell. for many years employed in that department of business tn Union City. Mr. V. married Hlizabeth Porch, and they have one child. He is a member of the Disciple Church, and is, in politics, a Republican. A brother of his, Cornelius Van Nuys, employed in the lumber works of Witham, Anderson & Co., was fatally wounded in the establishment belonging to that firm in October. 1881. A large quantity of lumber piled up (under his own supervision) behind his post of labor in the shop, fell 'forward upon him, forcing him suddenly upon the saw in motion at which he was working. lle was badly cut about the face and head, and also scriously wounded in the body and loins hy the mass of lumber striking him as it fell. He lingered some thirty-six hours and sank in death, leaving a stricken wife and weeping children to mourn in bitterness of grief the fearful and fatal catastrophe.

WILLIAM A. WILEY was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1834. When two months old, his father moved to Illinois, and ina year they returned eastward, settling in White County, Ind., among the Indians. Afternine years, they moved into Howard County, Ind., and in a short time his father died at the age of twenty-eight, being the first white person buried at Kokomo. Howard County, was still an Indian reservation. W. A. W. was then ten years old, and was put immediately to work ; and from that time onward earned his own support. 'he first boots he ever had were bought with the money thus earned when a small lad, He had very litile schooling in youth, learning to read at twelve, and having not above five months schooling till of age. Attwenty-two years old, he went with a party of emigrants comprising thirteen familes traveling in wagons and bound for the Blue Earth country, Minnesota, young Wiley helping drive their cattle to pay his board as he went. On reaching the Misran.

Sissippi, taking a steamboat he passed up the river, after which, with a single comrade he '' tramped"' over portions of Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. They traveled on foot, sleeping often on the ground under the opensky. His adventures were many, being much among the Indians who were hostile in feeling. Once between Faribault and Canon City in Minnesota, he met a rough and savage Sioux Indian, with painted face and warrior costume. He says, 'I saw him coming; terribly scared, I walked on nevertheless, till as he came near, he looked so hideous that I stopped. He came up, and, as he passed, I ' shied' off and gave him the road. He turned toward me, and I gave a fearful spring. The savage fellow gave a loud, rough laugh, and went on, and I went on, too. Ile had a rifle and I had nothing, but he was not so hostile as I had feared; I was in the Spirit Lake country, just after the massacre in that region, and the Indians were hostile, and great fear was on the people. After seven months, I returned to Indiana, attended school, became myself a successful instructor, teaching at Bethel, Wayne County, Union City, Randolph County, and elsewhere." Ifis teaching life was from 1859 till 1862. In 1860, he married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Felix G. Wiggs, and they have had two children, one of whom survives. Since 1862, Mr. Wiley has been a farmer, a merchant and a grain dealer. He isan active and influential member of the Disciple Church at Union City, having been chorister for five years, and Superintendent of the Sunday school for nine years. He is also an efficient friend and supporter of education. Tor eight years, he has been a member of the City School Board of Union City, and in 1881 he was elected for three years longer. He has been City Clerk. His training was Democratic and his first vote was for James Buchanan, but, ever since '' Republicanism '' has been his political faith. Mr. Wiley is an influential citizen, energetic in every matter of public welfare, and greatly esteemed by his fellow-townsmen. His father was Ezekiel F. Wiley, the son of William Wiley, Esq., who was the brother of Rev. Thomas Wiley, an early pioneer and preacher of Jackson Township, whose fame as a missidnary is in all the region. W. A. W. is now doing business in Chicago, Ill.

RUFUS A. WILLSON, born 181, Greenwich, N. Y.; Muncie, Ind., 1841; married Mary S. Dresser. 1849,and has had six children. They moved to Union City, February 2, 1853. Mr. Willson left home at seventeen, went to Troy, N. Y., as clerk for Messrs. Merritt, wholesale and commission grocery store three and one-half years, 1835-38; at home and school, and clerk in Columbian Ifotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 1838-43. At Muncie, Ind., he was Deputy Treasurer eight years, assisting also in the Auditor's office. At Union City, he became railroad agent, first for all three roads. He opened the first set of railroad books in the place, as also he had the express business. In 1856, he became agent of Dayton & Union Railroad, continuing for eleven years. Kuntz & Willson established a lumber yard, 1867-73, becoming the most extensive in the State. Mr. Willson has retired from active business. He is a worthy citizen, and an estimable man. Mrs. Willson is a most excellent lady, a worthy Presbyterian, and is highly esteemed by those who know her. Mr. Willson has been at different times » member of the City Board. In politics, he is a Democrat of long standing. In the fall of 1880, Mr. Willson resumed business as a lumber-dealer with his former partner, Peter Kuntz. The location of this new lumber yard is just east of thé Ohio line, immediately north of the railroad tracks.

THOMAS T. WILLSON, photographer, Union City, was born Trumball County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish descent, in 1884. He came to Hardin County, Ohio, in 1835, and to Union City, Ind., in 1860. In 1861, he married Sarah J. Kerschner, and they have had four children. He was a photographer for thirty-two years. He spent a considerable time in traveling in the practice of his business; working at Lima, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Dubuque, lowa; Springfield, Urbana, Bellefontaine, Sidney, Dayton, etc., 1849-1860; came then to Union City, and resided in that town for twenty-two years. He was an I, O. O. F., and a Democrat. My. Willson is a quiet, industrious, thriving citizen. Mr. Willson died in September, 1882, His wife was born in Bedford County, Penn., in 1840, was brought to Darke County, Ohio, in the same year, was married in 1861, and has carried on a milliner's shop since 1877.

William T. Worthington

was born at Fredericksburg, Trumbull Co., Ohio, July 18, 1837. His father, Elias Worthington, was a native of Lancaster County, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Ann Atkins, of Chester County, Penn. His paternal grandfather was William Worthington, being a native of Lancaster County, Penn., who had eight children, Elias Worthington being the youngest of the group, who are mostly residents of Pennsylvania, so far asliving. Mr. Worthington's father had seven children, two boys and five girls, six of them being still alive, to wit, one son and five daughters. Elias Worthington died in 1869, having been born in 1805; and his wife in 1855, her birth having occurred in 1810. E. Worthington was a man in humble life, his vocation being that of a carpenter, earning an honorable and comfortable living by the labor of his hands. In politics, he was a Democrat. Both his wife and himself lie buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's, Auglaize County, Ohio. They moved from Eastern Ohio to Dayton in 1838, and to St. Mary's in 1850, at which place, as already stated, they both died. William, leaving home at the age of sixteen, went to New Madison, Ohio, in 1853, remaining there till 1856, to acquire the business of carriage-making. In that year, he changed his residence to Addison, Ohio; and the next year he became a citizen of Randolph County, Ind., settling in what was then the new but energetic little town of Union City, since which time (1857) his residence has continued atthat place. After seven more years of single blessedness, he took to wife Miss Sarah M. Ross, and they have been the parents of three children. At Union City, he has followed various pursuits. Among them have been the ones stated below, viz.: wagon-making, seven years ; selling drugs, one year ; grocery trade, one year; millinery, several years; wholesale notions, three years; general trading, three years. Jie now deals in organs, buggies and sewing machines, doing an extensive and profitable business. In 1857 (March 10), he joined the New-School Presbyterian Church, but shortly after coming to Union City, he united with the Methodist Episcopal