Rush County, Indiana - The whole text, 1921 (part 14 of 18)

Fred F.Eli

December 12, 1833, and there grew to manhood. He received his early schooling in the neighborhood school and supplemented this by attendance at Fairview Academy and in the normal school at Danville, Ind. For several years he was engaged during the winters in teaching in the schools of his home neighborhood, teaching at the Hinchman and Scott schoolhouses, and after his marriage at the age of twenty-six, became engaged in the lumber business in Union township. This business grew to such an extent that he found it necessary to arrange a more central headquarters and he moved to Rushville, which city thereafter was the base of his extensive lumber activities, his interests expanding to cover a wide territory, particularly in the South, with offices at Indianapolis, St. Louis and Memphis. Upon his retirement from actual business he returned to Rushville, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1910. "W. C. Bell was twice married. In 1858 he was united in marriage to Nancy Smelser, who also was born in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families, and to that union one child was born, a son, 0. P. Bell, now deceased. Mrs. Nancy Bell died and in 1875 Mr. Bell married Sarah Barnes, who also was born in Rush county, a member of one of the old families of Noble township, and to this union were born two children, both still living, Mrs. Edith R. Pratt and Fred Bell. Fred Bell was born on January 7, 1879, at Indianapolis, during the time of his father's temporary residence in the state capital while looking after the extension of his growing lumber interests. The family later lived at St. Louis and at Memphis, W. C. Bell's lumber interests in the South for some years requiring his residence there, and it was in the latter city that Fred Bell received his early schooling, going on through the high school. This he supplemented by a course at Graham Academy, Rushville, and then became engaged with his father in the lumber business, continuing thus engaged until after his marriage in the spring of 1900. In 1904 he established his home on a eighty-acre farm in Union township, this county, the place on which he is still living and where he and his family are very comfortably situated. Since taking possession of that small farm Mr. Bell has gradually extended his land holdings until now he is the owner of a fine farm of 350 acres, which he has improved in excellent shape, having one of the best farm plants in that part of the county. Mr. Bell is an extensive hog feeder, feeding off from 1,000 to 1,500 head a year. He was the first man in Rush county to ship a train load of hogs in one shipment, taking a special train on the L. E. & W. railroad. That was in 1912, and his hogs brought almost the record price for that year. "When the Rush County Farmers' Federation was organized Mr. Bell was elected first president of the same, and has since continued to act in that capacity, doing much for the cause. It was on May 15, 1900, that Fred Bell was united in marriage to Nancy Sharp, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, daughter of Alfred C. and Mary (Whitton) Sharp, both of whom were born in Kentucky, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union two children have been born, Russell W. and Margaret Ann, both of whom are at home with their parents. The Bells have a very pleasant home on rural mail route No. 7 out of Rushville, and have long taken an interested and hospitable part in the general social activities of their home neighborhood. Mr. Bell is a York Rite Mason, and is also a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Murat Temple at Indianapolis. He also is a member of the Rushville Rotary Club and of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in the affairs of all of these organizations takes an active interest. In his political views he is a Republican and has ever taken a good citizen's interest in local civic affairs.

JAMES T. THRALL, a well-known farmer and live stock breeder of Orange township, for many years gave particular attention to the breeding of horses and in that line became widely known among the farmers and horsemen hereabout, and was also well known among the exhibitors at the horse shows at the state and county fairs. Of late years he has given more particular attention to the breeding of big type Poland China hogs and in that line has done much to raise the standard of this valuable type of swine throughout this region. Mr. Thrall was born over in the neighboring county of Shelby, but had the good judgment to marry a Rush county girl and take up his residence in this county and thus has for many years counted himself as of Rush county, doing well his part in the general development of that section of the county in which he has long resided. He was born on a farm in Liberty township, Shelby county, July 5, 1858, son of Richard and VerlindaC. (Worland) Thrall, both of whom also were born in that county, members of pioneer families there and who were the parents of three children, of whom Mr. Thrall alone now survives, he having had a brother, William M. Thrall, and a sister, Catherine. James T. Thrall was reared in Shelby county and there received his schooling. As a lad he made his home with his uncle, Celestian Worland, working for the latter until he reached his majority. When twenty-three years of age he married and established his home on a farm of about forty acres belonging to his fatherin-law, William A. Wagoner, in Orange township, this county, and has since been a resident of this county. For twenty years or more after beginning operations on his own behalf Mr. Thrall was extensively engaged in the breeding of horses on his farm and during that time did much to raise the standard of farm horses hereabout. He was the first man in this section to import a stallion of the heavy "coach" type, an animal that attracted much attention in its day here, and was widely exhibited. Mr. Thrall for years kept up exhibits of his horses at county fairs in this section and at the state fair and became widely known among horsemen throughout the state. Of late years, as noted above, he has been giving his attention to the breeding of Poland China hogs of the big type and is also doing well in that line, his breeding pens attracting much attention. From 1912 to 1917 Mr. Thrall conducted annual hog sales which were largely attended. He is now living on a well kept farm of 100 acres which was inherited by his wife and is continuing to supervise the operations of the same. He has an admirably equipped farm plant and he and his family are very comfortably situated. In his political views Mr. Thrall is a Democrat. Mrs. Thrall is a member of the Methodist church. It was on November 8, 1881, that James T. Thrall was united in marriage to Mary E. Wagoner, who was born in Orange township, this county, daughter of William A. and Sally (Jones) Wagoner, the latter of whom also was born in Rush county, a member of one of the pioneer families here. William A. Wagoner was born in Kentucky and was but a lad when he came up into Indiana with his parents, the family settling in Rush county, where William A. Wagoner grew to manhood and was married. He became the owner of an excellent farm in Orange township and was for years regarded as among the useful and influential citizens of that part of the county. He and his wife had four children, Mrs. Thrall having three brothers, Hayden and Bracken and Franklin P. Wagoner. To James T. and Mary E. (Wagoner) Thrall four children have been born, namely: Mabel, who married Bert Alter, a farmer of Orange township, and has three children, Acil, Agatha and Marcella ; Curtis, who is farming in Walker township and who married Oma Land and has had six children, Kyle, William, Maurice and Marjorie, and two that died in infancy; Vasco, now living at Beach Grove, near Indianapolis, where he is employe in the Big Four railroad shops, and who married Sarah Meal and has two children, Lois E. and Merle J., and Leila, who married Samuel Heiner, a farmer of Anderson township, and has two children, Richard and Helen C.

PETER NICKEL, a substantial farmer of Walker township, this county, was born on April 22, 1864, in Ripley township, Ripley county, Indiana. He is a son of Peter and Catherine (Graf) Nickel, both of whom were born in Germany but were married in the United States. The father followed farming first in Franklin county, Indiana, but after marriage he and wife removed to Ripley county and there they spent the rest of their lives as farming people. Of their family of seven children the following are living: Philip, Lewis, Susie, Mary, Louise and Peter. Peter Nickel, Jr., attended school in his native county and later came to Rush county. Here he began to work on farms by the month and so continued until his marriage, following which he rented land for eleven years before buying his valuable farm of eighty acres in Walker township. Mr. Nickel has a fine place here, with his own water plant, a modern utility in line with his progressive ideas. His surroundings show thrift and comfort, Mr. Nickel having erected a commodious dwelling with modern improvements, and rebuilt and remodeled the barn in a substantial manner. In addition to doing general farming he ships 100 head of hogs yearly. On July 30, 1892, Mr. Nickel married Pearl Shinkle, who was born in Madison county, Indiana, daughter and only child of Andrew and Mary A. Shinkle, both of that county. To Mr. and Mrs. Nickel six children have been born, five of whom are living: Donald C, a farmer in Walker township, who married Esther Rainey and has three children, Mary E., Ella M. and Evelyn; Frank L., a machinist living at Manilla, where he is engaged in the garage business, who married Hattie Taylor ; May B., who married Clarence C. Craven, a farmer in Ripley county, and Clyde C. and Carl L., both of whom are at home. Their first born, Ralph, died in infancy. Mr. Nickel and his family are members of the Christian church at Homer. A strong advocate of national temperance, Mr. Nickel has voted with the Prohibition party for many years.

ALFRED C. SHARP, a well known and substantial farmer and landowner of Union township, is a native of the old Blue Grass state, but has been a resident of Rush county since the days of his young manhood and has thus for many years regarded himself as wholly belonging here. He was born on a farm in Scott county, Kentucky, December 20, 1856, son of Leonard and Mary Sharp, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families there, and who were the parents of nine children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Adeline, Perlina, John, James, James Garrett, William, Melvina and Sallie. Reared on the home farm in Kentucky, Alfred C. Sharp received his schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood and was early trained in the ways of farming. He married at the age of twenty-four, and then began farming on his own account, remaining in Kentucky thus engaged for two years, at the end of which time he came up into Indiana with his family and located in Rush county, working as a farm hand in Rushville township for three years while he was "getting the lay of the land." He then rented an eighty-acre farm in Rushville township, but in the following year moved to Noble township, where he rented a farm of 160 acres in the Orange neighborhood, and on this latter place made his home for seven years, at the end of which time he moved to the Sexton neighborhood in Center township, where he rented a farm of 320 acres. Two years later he secured the rental of a farm of 455 acres east of Rushville and moved to that place, remaining there for nine years, during which time he purchased a farm of 120 acres in Union township as an investment, renting the same. A little more than twelve years ago Mr. Sharp moved onto this latter place, his own farm, and has since resided there. During this time he has made numerous substantial improvements on the place, erecting a new house and several other buildings, including an additional dwelling house, and has the place in strictly ship-shape form, improved in up-to-date fashion, and his farm plant is one of the best in the neighborhood. In addition to his general farming Mr. Sharp has long given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and feeds about 150 hogs a year, doing quite well in his operations. Alfred C. Sharp has been twice married. At the age of twenty-four, as noted above, he married, in Kentucky, Mary Whitton, who was born in Scott county, that state, a daughter of R. K. and Nancy J. Whitton, and to that union seven children were born, Nancy, James, Robert, "Walter and Alfred, who are living, and Mary and Verne, deceased. The mother of these children died in 1899, and in 1900 Mr. Sharp married Josephine Whitton, his deceased wife's sister. Of the surviving children of Alfred C. and Mary (Whitton) Sharp all are married save Walter, who is now residing in Canada. Nancy Sharp married Fred Bell, of Union township, this county, and has two children, Russell and Margaret. James Sharp married Anna Youngston, and is now living in South Dakota. Robert Sharp married Luella Bittner and has six children, Harold, Jeanette, Frances, Helen, Alfred and Robert. Alfred Sharp married Bessie Rogers and is running his father's farm. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 7 out of Rushville, and have ever taken an interested and hospitable part in the general social activities of their neighborhood, helpfiil in advancing and promoting the community interest.

J. B. ERTEL, a representative citizen and enterprising farmer of Washington township, this county, was born in that township, December 4, 1882, a son of Charles and Rowena (Houston) Ertel, and a grandson of Philip and Mary (Ludy) Ertel, natives of Germany. When they came to the United States they settled in the city of Philadelphia and there the grandfather engaged in the milling business, later coming to Rush county. They had four children : Charles, Philip, Elizabeth and George. Charles Ertel was born in Philadelphia and was an infant when his parents brought him to Rush county. He was reared and attended school in Union township, and assisted his father until twenty-three years old, at which time he married and began farming for himself. He bought eighty acres of land to which his father added eighty acres, and for many years this farm of 160 acres engaged his main attention. He was an honorable, upright man and industrious and practical farmer. To his first marriage to Priscilla David, three children were born, Silas Marion, Mrs. Harvina Cockran and Lewis, who died aged two years. His second marriage was to Rowena Houston, who was born at Lancaster, O., and they had nine children, four sons and five daughters: Leota, John P., Nettie, Charles D., Ida M., George F., Lucy M., Pinnah E. and Joseph Benjamin. Leota married S. L. Newhouse of Rush county; Nettie married Albert McMillan, of Madison county; Ida M. married Curtha Wagner of Rush county; Lucy M. married Walter G. Carson of Rush county; and Pinnah Elizabeth married William M. Sprong of

Madison county. Charles D. married Marie Cummins, and lives in Wild county, Colorado. George married Bessie Jane Donovant. They live in Rush county. John P. is a widower who had married two times. Joseph B. Ertel obtained his education in the public schools of Washington township and then assisted his father on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old, at which time in recognition of his help, his father gave him a farm of eighty acres. Mr. Ertel has his land under a fine state of cultivation, does general farming and feeds 100 head of hogs a year, attending carefully to his business and making his undertakings profitable. On October 19, 1902, he married Fannie B. Overhiser, who was born in Fayette county, Indiana, daughter of Willard B. and Elizabeth (Kemmer) Overhiser, and they have two children, Ruby E. and Gertrude R., both of whom are attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Ertel are members of the Plum Creek Christian Church, while the children are members of the Christian church at Raleigh. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, a member of the Blue lodge at Raleigh, and politically is a Republican.

ALBERT REED, a well known and progressive young farmer of Orange township, was born in Sugar Creek township, in the neighboring county of Shelby on January 6, 1886, son of Francis and Matilda (Alexander) Reed, both of whom were born in Indiana. Francis Reed was a farmer and followed that vocation all his life in Shelby and Rush counties. He and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom five are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch being George H., Frank G, Andrew J. and Nellie M. Reared on the farm, Albert Reed completed his schooling at Gowdy and from the days of his boyhood has been a farmer. He remained at home, working with his father until his marriage at the age of twenty-one when he rented a farm in Orange township, this county, and started out "on his own." For six years he rented and then he bought a farm of eighty acres in Orange township and there made his home for two years, at the end of which time he sold that place and bought the "eighty" on which he is now living in that same township. Since taking up his residence on this latter place Mr. Reed has made numerous substantial improvements to the place, including the erection of a silo, and is carrying on his farm operations in strictly up-to-date fashion. In addition to his general farming he gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock, feeding about 150 head of hogs annually and fifteen or twenty head of cattle, and is doing well, getting around him a very well equipped farm plant. Mr. Reed has been twice married. On November 3, 1907, he was united in marriage to Hazel Vernon, who was born in this county, daughter of John and Florence (Harcourt) Vernon, and who died on August 11, 1913, and is buried in the McCarty cemetery. On October 19, 1915, Mr. Reed married Ollie Alter, who also was born in this county, daughter of David and Margaret (Brookbank) Alter, members of old families in Rush county, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Mary Marjorie, born on January 7, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are members of the Methodist church at Gowdy and take an interested part in church work as well as in the general good works and social activities of their home neighborhood. Mr. Reed is a member of Blue Ridge lodge, No. 554, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political views he is a Democrat. The Reeds have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 4 out of Rushville.

ORPHEUS M. HARTON, one of the substantial farmers of Rushville township, is one of the representative men of Rush county, where his family has been established for a long period. He was born in Richland township, November 27, 1867, son of Joseph and Emily (Brooks) Harton, both of whom were also born in Rush county, where they became farming people. Joseph Harton was also a trader, and became a man of means, owning at one time 300 acres of land in Rush county. He and his wife had seven children, namely : William E., Charles H, Orpheus M., Clara, Margaret, Ida, and Olive. Orpheus M. Harton attended the common schools of Anderson township, and after he had completed his studies began farming with his father, remaining at home until his marriage. Following that event he rented the homestead and continued to conduct it until 1912, when he bought eighty acres in Rushville township, his present farm. Since then he has improved the place in every way and his buildings, fences and premises reflect credit on his efficiency and show that he is a good manager and takes a pride in having everything in first class order. Here he carries on general farming and stoekraising, producing about 200 head of hogs annually. October 16, 1889, Mr. Harton married Ella, daughter of George W. and Nancy C. (McNeal) Poston, both of whom were born in Rush county, which was also the birthplace of Mrs. Harton. Mr. and Mrs. Poston became the parents of five children, three of whom survive; Stella, Elizabeth and Ella. Quincy and Sanford are deceased. Mr. Harton belongs to the Milroy lodge, Knights of Pythias ; Rushville lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Phoenix lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Rushville commandery, Knights Templar; and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Indianapolis. For many years he has been a member of the Christian church of Rushville. In politics he is a Republican, but aside from exercising his right of suffrage, has not been verv active in local affairs.

SAMUEL B. ANDERSON, one of the leading farmers and stockraisers of Rushville township, was born in Richland township, this county, September 29, 1857, son of James W. and Livonia (Hopkins) Anderson, both of whom were born in Decatur county, Indiana. The parents of James W. Anderson died when he was about five years old and he was taken by his uncle, William Anderson, with whom he lived until his marriage which took place about the time he reached his majority. With his bride he came to Rush county and settled on 190 acres of land in Richland township that his guardian had bought for him and his brother John from the proceeds of their father's estate. When he came here this land was all covered with timber.

which he removed, placed the land under cultivation and added more to his holdings, at one time owning about 2,000 acres in different parts of the county. He and his wife had six children of whom four now survive, namely : Mary, Lyle, James W. and Samuel B. Samuel B. Anderson was reared in Richland township, where he attended school and made himself useful to his father on the homestead. Following his marriage he worked for his father until the death of the latter, when he moved on to a farm of his own containing 250 acres in Richland township that he had previously bought. This continued to be his homestead for ten years, but he then sold it and bought a part of his present home farm. His first purchase was of 270 acres in Rushville township, but he has since added 177 acres to it, and has one of the finest farms in the township. Since he moved onto his farm he has made many improvements, and is planning others and takes great pride in his property. On March 4, 1884, Mr. Anderson was married to Lola, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Thomas) Bartlett. Mrs. Anderson was born, reared and educated in Rush county, where her father was a prosperous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson became the parents of children as follows: Bernice, who married Alfred Senour, superintendent of the graded schools of Indiana Harbor, Ind. ; Samuel, who married Grace Megee and has two children, Richard and Amelia E., and is a farmer renting 320 acres of land in Decatur county; Jessie, Mary and Lucian, all of whom are unmarried, and Esther, graduate of DePauw University, of the class of 1921. Mr. Anderson is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rushville. He is a Republican but does not participate very actively in politics.

O. P. MORTON HINCHMAN, one of the well known and substantial farmers and landowners of Union township, was born on the place on which he is now living and has lived there most of his life. He was born on November 8, 1863, son of James II. and Anna (Saxton) Hinchman, the latter of whom, now living at Rushville, was born in the neighboring county of Fayette, a member of one of the pioneer families there. James II. Hinchman, who died in 1912, was a member of the pioneer Hinchman family of Rush county, numerous representatives of which are found here in the present generation, and was born in the old Hinchman settlement, which was grouped about the old Stringtown church. He grew \zp as a farmer in this county, and in time became the owner of the farm now owned by his son, Morton, where he continued actively engaged in farming until his retirement from the farm and removal to Rushville, where, as noted above, he died in 1912, and where his widow is still living. James II. Hinchman and wife were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born, the others being J. Gurney, who married Clara Kirkpatrick ; Delta, who is living in Rushville with his mother, and Oscar, who was killed at the age of thirteen years by the explosion of a sawmill at Sexton, this county. Reared on the home farm in Union township, 0. P. Morton Hinehman received his schooling in the old Black schoolhouse, and from the days of his boyhood was an assistant to his father in the labors of the farm. He married at the age of nineteen years and about a year later rented a farm in the neighborhood and began operations on his own account, continuing thus engaged as a renter for about ten years, at the end of which time, in 1910, he bought his father's farm and has since made his home there, he and his family being very comfortably situated. On November 15, 1882, 0. P. Morton Hinehman was united in marriage to Ann Eliza Kirkpatrick, who also was born in this county, daughter of James W. and Lucinda Kirkpatrick, members of old pioneer families here, and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Leila, who married Charles G. Meyer, and Bethel, who is at home, a valued assistant to his father on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Hinehman are members of the Plum Creek Christian church, and have ever taken an interested part in church work. Politically, Mr. Hinehman is a Republican. The Hinchmans have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 7 on the state highway out of Rushville, and have long been hospitably interested in the community's general social activities.

CYRUS HILLIGOSS, a well-known general farmer and stockraiser in Orange township, was born in Walker township, this county, June 18, 1865, a son of Sylvester and Jane (Mull) Hilligoss, both of whom were born in Walker township. The father of Mr. Hilligoss was a successful farmer and acquired 440 acres of land in Walker and Orange townships. He had four children, two of whom are living, Frederick and Cyrus. Cyrus Hilligoss obtained his education in the district school near his father's farm. He early began to help his father on the home place and when he married he rented land from his father and has continued on the same farm until the present. He carries on a general line of farming and raises about 100 head of hogs yearly. Mr. Hilligoss has been twice married. By his union with Emma Alter, who was a daughter of Abraham and Hulda (Willey) Alter, of this county, he has one child, a son, Claude Hilligoss. On June 18, 1910, Mr. Hilligoss married, secondly, Lillian Burton, who was born in Rush county, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Collins) Burton. Mrs. Hilligoss has two sisters, Mary and Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. Hilligoss have two children: Juanita L. and Cyrus C. Mr. Hilligoss and his family belong to the Big Flat Rock Christian Church. Politically he is a Democrat and fraternally is a member of the order of Red Men at Arlington, and of the Odd Fellows at Homer.

JOSEPH H. SCHOLL, superintendent, of schools at Rushville and for many years one of the most active and influential factors in the elevation of educational standards in Rush county, is a native son of Indiana and has been a resident of this state all his life. For more than a quarter of a century continually he has been devoted to the teaching profession and in that period has done much to promote the cause of education hereabout. Mr. Scholl was born in the neighboring county of Fayette on February 13, 1865, third in order of birth of the five children born to his parents, David and Mary (Job) Scholl, both of whom also were natives of the Hoosier state, members of pioneer families in this section of Indiana. David Scholl was born in Fayette county, a son of John Scholl, a substantial pioneer farmer of that county. Reared to the life of the farm he continued that vocation upon reaching manhood's estate and became a successful farmer, continuing thus engaged until his death, which occurred in 1898. His widow survived him for about eight years, her death occurring in 1906. Of their five children all are living save one, a daughter, Ella, those besides the subject of this sketch being Lewis, a well-to-do farmer of Fayette county, this state ; Henry, now a resident of Tacoma, Wash., and Iva, wife of George Jenkins, of Fayette county. Reared on the home farm. in Fayette county, Joseph H. Scholl received his early schooling in the common schools of his home neighborhood and early became inclined to the teaching profession. After some years of practical experience as a teacher in the district schools of his home county Mr. Scholl entered the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute and was graduated from that institution in 1893. He served for a year, 1893-94, as principal at Brownsburg, Ind. In the following year, 1894, he was made superintendent of the schools at Milton and continued thus engaged for three years. In the meantime he was not neglecting his further scholastic acquirements, in this direction continuing his studies at the Indiana State University at Bloomington, from which institution he was graduated in 1898, later taking a post-graduate course during two summer sessions of Columbia University. Upon receiving his diploma from the state university Mr. Scholl was selected by the school board of Carthage as superintendent of schools in that pleasant village and for six years he served in that responsible capacity. The excellent work done by him there in the meantime had attracted the attention of school authorities elsewhere and in 1904 he was called by the school board of Rushville to accept the superintendence' of the schools of that city, a position which he accepted and which he ever since has occupied. During his long incumbency as superintendent of the Rushville schools Mr. Scholl has done much to modernize the local school system and to bring the same up to the high ethical standards demanded by the cultured community these schools so admirably serve. Along all other lines having to do with cultural extension Mr. Scholl also has given his thoughtful attention and has rendered excellent service as a member of the Rushville city library board and as a member of the local chautauqua board. On August 26, 1896, Joseph H. Scholl was united in marriage to Sarah Marlatt, daughter of the Rev. A. N. Marlatt, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Mary Ann, born in Bloomington, this state, who was graduated from DePauw University and is now a member of the teaching staff of the

Greenfield (Ind.) schools, and Sarah Josephine, born at Carthage, who is now (1921) a student at DePauw University. Mrs. Scholl also is a graduate of DePauw and has ever been an efficient coadjutor of her husband in the unselfish and invaluable service to which they have for so many years been devoted. Mrs. Scholl and daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rushville and take a proper interest in church work as well as in all social movements designed to promote the cause of community betterment. Mr. Scholl is a member of the English Lutheran church. Mr. Scholl is a Republican, a member of the local Masonic lodge, the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Rushville Rotarv Club.

R. B. COOK, a well-known and progressive farmer and horseman and proprietor of a fine farm in Union township, is a native Hoosier and has lived in Indiana all his life, a resident of Rush county since the days of his childhood. He was born on a farm in Hamilton county, this state, June 28, 1867, son of William M. and Susanna (Johnson) Cook, both of whom were born in Rush county, members of old families here and the former of whom is still living. William M. Cook grew to manhood in Union township, this county, where he was born, and for some time after his marriage to Susanna Johnson continued to make his home here, but presently moved up into Hamilton county, where he was engaged in farming for a few years, at the end of which time he returned to Rush county, and established his home on his farm of 170 acres in the Glenwood neighborhood in Union township, where he remained until his retirement from the active labors of the farm and removal to Rushville, where his wife died on November 20, 1919. Since the death of his wife Mr. Cook has been making his home with the family of his son, 0. J. Cook, in Richland township. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom but two now survive, the subject of this sketch and his brother 0. J. Cook. As noted above, R. B. Cook was but a child when he came to Rush county with his parents from Hamilton county and he was reared on the home farm in Union township, receiving his schooling in the GlenWood schools. As a young man he continued on the farm, assisting his father in the operations of the same until his marriage at the age of twenty-two when he rented a farm and began operations "on his own." Some years later he bought sixty acres of the tract he now owns in Union township and has since made his home there. It was in 1895 that Mr. Cook bought that "sixty." His affairs prospered and in 1910 he bought an adjoining "eighty." In 1918 he bought another "sixty" and now has 260 acres, which he has brought to an excellent state of cultivation. For years Mr. Cook has given much attention to the breeding of fine horses and from the days of his boyhood has been an exhibitor of thoroughbred horses at the Indiana state fair and at local fairs in this section of the state. For the past year or more he has made a specialty of the breeding of Belgian draft horses. In addition he feeds out 150 or 200 head of hogs each year and is widely known as a painstaking stockman. On December 30, 1890, R. B. Cook was united in marriage to Hettie Hood, daughter of A. B. and Margaret (Gifford) Hood, and to this union three children have been born, sons all, Gifford, Donald and Fred, who are valued assistants to their father in the operations of the farm. The Cooks have a very pleasant home on rural mail route No. 1 out of Falmouth and have ever taken aii interested and helpful part in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mrs. Cook is a member of the Fairview Christian church. In their political affiliations the Cooks are Democrats.

ALBERT LOCKE WINSHIP. It is not often that the genealogical records of a family are preserved with the degree of accuracy or for the length of time of those of the Winship family. It is therefore possible here to present a complete account of this old and honored family. How truly did Ernest Byron Cole, the compiler of an excellent record of the Winship family in America, say: "This country is fast filling up with foreigners, and the time is coming when it will be an honor to be able to show that our ancestors for two hundred and fifty years have been instrumental in developing, making and defending this, the greatest country under the sun." The genealogy prepared by Mr. Cole is as nearly a complete record of the descendants of Edward "Winship, the founder of the family in America, as could be obtained from the records of the towns in which they lived, and from a thorough search through the principal libraries of New England for facts connected with their lives. The name of Winship was spelled in many ways, namely : Winshepp, Winshop, Winshape, Winshope, Winchep, Windchepp and Windship. Edward, the founder of the line in America, spelled his name Winshipp, but his descendants dropped one p, and spelled it as it is now commonly spelled, W-i-n-s-h-i-p. The record of Edward Winship will entitle all of his descendants to membership in the societies of the Sons of Colonial Times, the Colonial Dames, and other colonial organizations. The record of Jabez Winship will entitle all his descendants to membership in the Sons of the Revolution and the Daughters of the Revolution. It is a matter of indisputable record that the Winships are descendants of William the Conqueror, first Norman King of England, from whom the line of descent passed through thirty generations to Jabez Lathrop Winship, of Brookville, Ind., (1752-1827), and by examining "The Line of Descent of the Royal Family," on page 38 of John 0 'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees," there may be found the full line of descent of William the Conqueror, from Adam, the first man. A more complete genealogical record than this would be difficult to find. Edward Winship embarked for America in the good ship, "Defiance," at Harwich, England, August 10, 1635; arrived in Boston, Mass., October 3, 1635, and two days later located at Cambridge, a suburb of Boston. He purchased land, and was for many years one of the most active and energetic citizens of the town, holding several military and civil official positions. Jabez Lathrop Winship was the great-great-grandson of Edward, thus: Edward, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph. He was born at Norwich, Conn., in 1752, and during his life was active in the military affairs of the country, having served with the Colonial arms during the Revolution, and it is believed that he held a commission as captain. He married Hannah Forsythe (date unknown) in New London, Conn., and after the war was over located on the Susquehanna river in New York state, where for several years he owned and kept a hotel. Here it was, on April 23, 1787, that Jesse Winship was born. He grew to manhood in the old Empire state, but in the year 1811 decided to come west, and accordingly crossed the mountains, came down the Ohio river, and thence to Brookville, Ind., where he married Celia Lafforge. He hen removed to Fayette county, Indiana, and bought eighty acres of land, which is now included in the site of Connersville, and there, on November 27, 1820, Lewis Erwin Winship was born, the sixth child in a family of ten. In 1821, Jesse Winship moved to Anderson township, Rush county, and here the boy, Lewis E., was reared. At the age of fourteen, his father having died, he assumed the active management of the home farm, and such was his energy and ability that he increased his land holdings to 1,200 acres in this county before his death. On June 14, 1S50, Lewis Erwin Winship married Mary Jane Bennett, but on the fifth day of the following June became a widower. On March 10, 1853, he married Margaret Ruddell, and to this union five children were born: Albert Locke, born on June 3, 1854 ; Augustus Miller, September 10, 1855 ; Mattie, February 26, 1858, who died on March 24, 1871 ; Lillie, October 27, 1860, who died on March 4, 1880, and Jennie, March 18, 1870, who married Rush O. Budd, of Rush county. Albert Locke Winship was educated in the common schools of this county, and upon leaving scholastic halls took up farming with his father, with whom he continued until he became the recipient of a farm of 120 acres. He then pursued agriculture on his own account until 1904, when he was elected county auditor, and moved to Rushville. His election was a fair indication of the esteem in which he was held by the people of the county, and came as a partial reward for the faithful and efficient services he had rendered the Republican party. After his term in the office of auditor, Mr. Winship was elected cashier of the Rushville National Bank, in which he had become interested, and after a period of service of three years in this capacity was elected to the presidency of that institution, a position which he still retains. In addition to his large interests in financial circles, Mr. Winship has increased his property holdings to about 1,100 acres of as fine land as is anywhere to be found. On December 23, 1875, Albert L. Winship was married to Mary E. Moor, a daughter of Artimus and Eunice Moor, and to this union six children have heen born, namely : Elsie, who married Elbert C. Davidson and has two children, Paul and Lawrence, the first named of whom married Ruby Gwinnip and has one child, a son, Paul, Jr.; Fred, who married Mary Offutt and has one child, a son, Albert Offutt; Charles, who married Lena Wesling; Earl B., who married Jessie Finley and has one child, a daughter, Mary E. ; Lillian, who married Donald Powers, to which union was born one child, a son, Donald, and who after the death of Mr. Powers married Vincent Young, and William Winship, who is unmarried. Albert L. Winship is a Mason, a Knights Templar, a noble of the Mystic Shrine and a Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the board of trustees of St. Paul's Methodist Church at Rushville and is numbered among the most earnest supporters of the church. He has always been accounted one of the stalwart workers in the Republican party, and his efforts in behalf of the party have been no small factor in the success of the party in Rush county. His keen judgment not only in political but in business affairs rightly entitles him to a foremost position in the esteem of his fellow citizens, and it is to be recorded that just consideration is not withheld.

WALTER E. SMITH, an attorney of Rushville, was born in that city on April 19, 1878, the son of William H. and Frances 0. Smith, the latter of Franklin coiinty, Indiana, the former of South Carolina, whence he came to Rush county when a boy with his parents, Ebenezer and Mary A. Smith. They were among the pioneer settlers of Union township, and did their full part in the conversion of the land from a wilderness to a beautiful and highly cultivated farming district. William H. Smith grew to manhood on the farm and received his early schooling in the local schools. Later, having decided on a professional career, he attended the old Asbury Academy, now DePauw University, and then went to the Western Reserve Medical college at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He first practiced at Laurel in Franklin county, and then at Fairview, Fayette county. Later he moved to Rushville where throughout a practice of about fifty years he obtained and kept the confidence of the entire community. He was active in the work of the local medical organization, and was eminently successful in his profession. He was interested in farming, and invested a part of his earnings in a 132-acre farm in Rushville township. He was the father of seven children, four of whom are now living : Anna, wife of John H. Frazee ; Dr. William C. ; Luella, wife of J. E. Fish ; and Walter E., the subject of this sketch. Walter E. Smith obtained his elementary education in the schools of Rushville township, and also attended the old Graham Academy in Rushville. After being graduated from the high school he matriculated in Indiana University, where for two years he pursued the Literature and Arts course. He then entered upon the law course of the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1902. He then returned to Rushville where he commenced the practice of the legal profession, but soon enlarged his business interests by taking up the negotiation of loans, in which he has met with excellent success. On November 29, 1919, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Hazel K. Thomas, of Sumniitville, Madison county, Indiana. Mrs. Smith received her early schooling in the public schools of Summitville and then entered Fairmount Academy, from which she was graduated. She then entered the Metropolitan School of Music at Indianapolis, where she specialized on the violin, becoming very proficient. Mr. Smith is a member of the Christian church at Rushville. Fraternally, he is a member of the Rushville lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and as the principles of the Republican party coincide most nearly with his own views on political matters, he is counted among its ardent supporters.

WILLIAM M. BROOKS, one of the enterprising young agriculturists of Rush county, whose valuable farm of ninety-eight and one-half acres is located in Noble township, was born in that township, on November 18, 1884, son of William M. and Laura Delphina (Downey) Brooks, natives of Nicholas county, Kentucky, and Noble township, respectively. When he was about ten years old the elder William M. Brooks came to Rush county in company with his parents, and located at Rushville, where he later embarked in a drug business in partnership with Andrew Hinchman, this association continuing until Mr. Brooks's marriage, when he retired from the drug business, moved to Noble township and began to farm. Finding this occupation congenial and profitable he continued to invest in land until at one time he owned 600 acres of land in Rush county. His death occurred in 1896 and his widow is now living at Rushville. They had ten children, five of whom survive, namely : Minnie, Edith, Harry, Leslie, and William M. After completing his schooling in Noble township William M. Brooks took a commercial course in a business college at Richmond, Indiana, and then, returning home, began operating the homestead. Subsequently he moved to his present farm in Noble township. He has always been a general farmer and stockraiser, and feeds out from seventy-five to 100 head of hogs annually. On October 10, 1907, Mr. Brooks was married to Maxie Griffin, daughter of Marion Griffin, and they have two children, William and Howard. In his membership with Little Flat Rock Christian Church Mr. Brooks finds expression for his religious life, and he is honored in that congregation. The Republican party has in him a firm supporter, but he has not come before the public for office.

CLIFF N. WINSHIP, a well-known farmer and stockman of Anderson township, was born on the farm which he now occupies in that township, December 27, 1872, a son of Amos and Elizabeth J. (Hunt) Winship, the latter a native of Franklin county, Indiana, born in 1849. Amos Winship was born on the farm now operated by his son, in 1847, and was reared and educated in the same community, where he continued to be engaged as a general farmer and stock raiser during the remainder of his active life. He retired several years before his death, which occurred on July 23, 1915. Mr. Winship "was one of the highly esteemed men of his community and his long and honorable career was crowned by the acquirement of a gratifying property. His widow still survives him and makes her home with her son, Cliff N. Beside the latter, Mr. and Mrs. Winship had a daughter, Gertrude, wife of Arra Bennett, who died in 1912. After attending the district school in the vicinity of his father's farm in Anderson township, Cliff N. Winship pursued a course in the normal school at Rushville, and upon completing his studies returned to the home farm, where he became his father's associate. At the time of his marriage, Mr. Winship purchased 110 acres of land and began his independent career, which has been devoted to farming and the raising of live stock. Mr. Winship improved his original purchase by the erection of substantial buildings and the installation of modern machinery and labor-saving devices, and in addition to cultivating this tract also applies himself to the operation of the home farm, of which he had assumed management at the time of the retirement of his father. He is now operating 270 acres and as a stock feeder has a herd of good graded stock and feeds out about 500 head of hogs annually. Mr. Winship married Cora L., daughter of Darius and Irene (Hite) Patterson, and to this union there has been born one child, Miriam T., who is attending school at Milroy. Mr. Winship is a Democrat, but has never aspired to public office. He is a York Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Murat Temple at Indianapolis and also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Winship is known in his community as an industrious worker and a shrewd and wellinformed man of business, and has been identified with numerous phases of town and country life.

ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, a well-known farmer of Richland township and accounted among the strong and influential citizens of Rush county whose lives have become an essential part of the history of this section, is a native son of the old Hoosier state, having been born in Franklin county, Indiana, on May 1, 1869. His parents, Henry and Julia (Harris) Phillips, were natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they were reared and educated. Sometime after their marriage they moved to Franklin county, Indiana, settling near Andersonville, where Henry Phillips farmed rented land for a number of years. He and his father then bought a farm and together ran a saw and gristmill. Later he sold his farm interests to his father and thereafter to the time of his death he devoted his time to the sawmill, in which he was successful. To him and his wife were born nine children, namely: John (deceased) : Josephine, Sarah, Eli, Catherine, Robert, William, Thomas and Alden. Robert E. Phillips received his educational training in the schools of Franklin county and then assisted his father in the operation of the sawmill.

He also bought a threshing machine, which he ran until 1905, when he bought the farm which he now owns, comprising eighty-two acres of fine land, and here he is energetically carrying on general farming operations, in which he is meeting with commensurate success. He also handles live stock, feeding about 100 head of hogs annually. Mr. Phillips's place is well improved and he carries on his work in a practical and efficient way that brings maximum results. Mr. Phillips married Elizabeth Davis, the daughter of John and Emeline Davis, and their union has been blessed in the birth of four children, namely : Ethel, who became the wife of Gay Simons; Lola, who became the wife of John King and the mother of one child, Robert; Clara, who married Merlin Senour and has one child, Theodore; and Julia Emeline, deceased. Mr. Phillips is a stanch Republican. He is deeply interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the general welfare and enjoys the confidence of all who know him.

J. E. WALTHER, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Glenwood since he secured his diploma in 1912, is a native son of Missouri but has been a resident of Indiana since he was fifteen years of age and has thus long since come to regard himself almost as much a Hoosier as though "native and to the manner born." Doctor Walther was born in Jefferson county, Missouri, July 25, 1883, son of Ferdinand and Louise (Null) "Walther, the latter of whom was born in that same state. Ferdinand Walther, a miller, who is now living at Indianapolis, is a native of New York state. He and his wife have two sons, Doctor Walther having a brother, Cornelius Walther. As noted above, Doctor Walther was about fifteen when he became a Hoosier by adoption. When he was about twelve years of age his parents moved from Missouri to Athens, Illinois, where they remained until 1898 when they came to Indiana and located in Parke county, where Doctor Walther completed his common school training, being graduated from the Bloomingdale Academy in 1903. Upon leaving the academy he entered the United States civil service and was presently sent to the Philippine Islands, where he was engaged in Government civil service until 1908, in which year he returned to the states and at once entered Indiana University, from the medical college of which institution he was graduated in 1912. Upon securing his diploma Doctor Walther, who in the meantime had married, established his home at Glenwood in this county, opened an office for the practice of his profession there and has since resided in that pleasant village, having an extensive practice in the countryside thereabout. It was in 1910 that Dr. J. E. Walther was united in marriage to Winona MeCampbell, daughter of Charles and Esta McCampbell, and to this union two children have been born, sons both, Joseph and John. Doctor and Mrs. Walther have a very pleasant home at Glenwood and take an interested part in the community's general social activities. They are Republicans and the Doctor is a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons at Falmouth and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is affiliated with the Rush County Medical Society, with the Indiana State Medical Society and with the American Medical Association and is a member of the college fraternity Phi Chi, in the affairs of all of which organizations he takes a warm interest.

OLLIE N. BROWN, a well known farmer of Posey township and one of the most highly esteemed citizens of his community, is a native son of Rush county, having been born in the township in which he now lives on December 10, 1884. His parents, Jerry and Cora (Taylor) Brown, were natives, respectively, of Rush county and the state of Kentucky and were reared and educated in their native localities. Jerry Brown was a lifelong farmer in Posey township, where he owned eighty acres of good land. He and his wife became the parents of three children, two of whom, Bertha and Ollie N., are living. Ollie N. Brown pursued his educational training in the Beaver Meadow school and two years in the high school at Arlington. He then devoted his energies to work on the home farm, where he remained until his marriage. In 1906 Mr. Brown rented a tract of land from his grandfather Brown, which he operated for five years, at the end of that period going to Henry county, Indiana, where he bought a sixty-acre farm. Two years later he returned to Rush county and, in partnership with his father-in-law, bought the farm where he now lives, comprising 100 acres of land, the subject operating half of the land. He later bought thirty-two and a half acres of land across the road from his other land, thus giving him eighty-two and a half acres of land, to which he has since devoted his attention. He is thorough and methodical in his work, giving due attention to rotation- of crops and the maintenance of soil fertility, and is meeting with well-deserved success. He also gives some attention to the raising of live stock, feeding two carloads of hogs annually. On February 21, 1906, Mr. Brown was married to Ava Downey, who was born, reared and educated in Posey township, the daughter of John P. and Mary (Stevens) Downey, there being one other child, Fern, in this family. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had three children, Wilson E. (deceased), Jean E. and Fern I. Mr. Brown and his wife are members of the Christian church at Arlington. Mr. Brown is a member of the Farmers' Association and is a Democrat in his political faith.

CHARLES W. ERTEL, an enterprising and successful farmer in Washington township, this county, belongs to one of the fine old families of this section that has had much to do with agricultural development. He was born in Washington township, March 9, 1881, a son of Philip and Mary (Burnau) Ertel. His father was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and in boyhood came to Indiana with his parents, Philip and Mary (Estel) Ertel, the family locating in Rush county. Grandfather Philip Ertel was born in Germany, came to the United States when a young man, was married in Philadelphia and later in life came with his family to Indiana. He entered eighty acres of land in Washington township, Rush county, and engaged in farming and raising stock. For a time he operated a cordage mill in Union township. He and wife had four children, Philip, George, Elizabeth and Charles. Philip, the eldest son, obtained his schooling in Washington township and early showed business capacity that led to his being engaged as a traveling representative by a Philadelphia business firm. After he returned to Washington township he acquired and cleared land and sold lumber for the next ten years, after which until his death he followed farming and stockraising on what is now the farm owned by Mrs. G. Abernathy. He married Mary Burnau, of New Paris, Ohio, and they had five children : Thomas H., Mary, Charles W., living, and George and Ida, deceased. Charles W. Ertel obtained his public school training in Washington township. When he first engaged in farming he rented 160 acres that he operated for eight years, then settled on his present place, where he has 215 acres. Mr. Ertel is a careful, practical farmer and operates his land according to modern methods. He married Mrs. Marie (Messersmith) Zehner, who was born in Franklin county, Indiana. In politics Mr. Ertel is a Republican. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.

GEORGE W. YOUNG, senior member of the law firm of Young & Young at Rushville and former prosecuting attorney for this judicial district, is a native son of Rush county and has lived in this county all his life, a resident of Rushville since the days of his young manhood, for many years thus an influential factor in the cause of good citizenship hereabout. Mr. Young was born in Center township, this county, January 29, 1847, son of James and Margaret (Davis) Young, well known residents of that township in a generation that has passed. James Young was a native of the Buckeye state who came from Ohio to Indiana as a carpenter at the age of twenty-one and located in Rush county. Not long after coming here he bought a quarter of a section of land in Center township and there developed a good farm, spending the rest of his life as a farmer. James Young married Margaret Davis, who was born in County Leitrim, Connaught, Ireland, who had come to this country with her parents when twentytwo years of age, and to that union ten children were born, of whom two are still living, George W. Young having a brother, Samuel H. Young. But three of the others grew to maturity, David, James and William A. Young. George W. Young grew up on the home farm in Center township and supplemented the schooling he received in the neighborhood schools of that township by a course at Spiceland Academy, after which for four years he taught school in Jackson and Union townships. During this period he found his inclinations turning him to the study of law and presently he entered the law office of William Cullen and Benjamin Smith at Rushville, under whose preceptorship he was prepared for admission to the bar. Upon his admission Mr. Young entered the practice of his profession at Rushville and has ever since continued thus engaged, long one of the best known attorneys in the Sixth district. His son, James V. Young, has been associated with him in practice for some years, a quite mutually agreeable arrangement which has proved successful. In 1894 George W. Young was elected on the Republican ticket as prosecuting attorney of the judicial district comprising the counties of Rush and Decatur and served for one term. He also has served as attorney for the city of Rushville and during his long years of legal practice has ever been devoted to the cause of the welfare of his home community. Mr. Young is a Knight Templar and Royal Arch Mason, a member of the blue lodge, the commandery and the chapter at Rushville, and is also a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church. Mrs. Young also is a native of Rush county. She was born, Nancy Hinchman, in Union township, a member of one of the pioneer families in that part of the county. To Mr. and Mrs. Young three children have been born, James V., Delia, wife of Judge Will M. Sparks, and Iola M. (deceased). James V. Young, junior member of the law firm of Young & Young, was born on November 18, 1874, and has been a resident of Rushville all his life. Upon completing the course in the Rushville school he continued his studies at the university at Valparaiso, Ind., and at the law school at Indianapolis and upon completing his law course was admitted to the bar, immediately thereafter forming a partnership with his father for the practice of his profession at Rushville. Mr. Young is a Republican, as is his father, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Knight Templar, a member of the consistory at Indianapolis and of the commandery at Rushville. He also is a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Rushville. Mr. Young and his wife are members of the Methodist church. Mrs. Young, who was Lillian Power, also was born at Rushville.

THE MULL FAMILY has had representation in America since Colonial days, and in Rush county since the year 1826, five years following the erection of this county as a separate civic unit in the then growing group of counties which make up the Hoosier commonwealth. The first of the name in this country was David Mull, who came to America from Germany in 1740, and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, later, in 1757, moving to Loixdoun county, Virginia, where he spent the remainder of his life and where the family became well established. David Mull was the father of seven children, his last born being George Mull, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1772. When twenty-one years of age, in 1793, George Mull married Catherine Long, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1774, and after his marriage continued to maintain his home in Loudoun county until 1814, in which year he moved with his family to Warren county, Ohio, where his wife died in 1823. George Mull survived his wife about four years, his death occurring in this county in December, 1827, while on a visit to his sons who had come over here from Ohio the year before and effected a settlement in Rush county, where the family has ever since been represented. The body of George Mull was taken back to Warren county and laid beside that of his wife in the old home cemetery there. George and Catherine (Long) Mull were the parents of seven children, three of whom, George, Jacob and Frederick became pioneer residents of Rush county, the brothers coming here in March, 1826, George locating in Rushville township and Jacob and Frederick in Walker township. Jacob Mull was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1803, and was thus but little more than ten years of age when he moved with his parents into Ohio, where he grew to manhood and where he married Margaret Richinson, who was born in New Jersey in 1805, of Scottish stock. It was not long after his marriage when Jacob Mull, in the spring of 1826, settled in Rush county, locating on a farm in the eastern part of Walker township, where he remained until 1836, when he left the farm and moved to the village of Manilla, where he became engaged in mercantile business and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in June, 1861. He and his wife were the parents of four children : Cyrus, of whom more below ; George, who died at the age of seven years ; Catherine, who married Dr. James W. Trees, and Mary Ann, who married Dr. John J. Inlow. Cyrus Mull was born on the home farm in the eastern part of Walker township on March 19, 1829, and was seven years of age when his father moved from the farm to Manilla, where he received his schooling and early became trained in the ways of business in his father's store. When he reached his majority his father admitted him to partnership in the business, in which his brother-in-law, Dr. J. W. Trees, also was interested, the firm doing business under the style of J. & C. Mull & Trees. In addition to carrying on a general mercantile business at Manilla this firm also made a specialty of buying and selling live stock, and in this latter department Cyrus Mull became one of the best known stockmen in this section of Indiana, his operations covering a wide territory hereabout. His interests in other directions also expanded and he was for years a member of the board of directors of the Rushville National Bank and of the First National Bank of Shelbyville. He also had considerable land interests and to a fine farm he owned at the edge of the village of Manilla he gave much of his personal attention, erecting there one of the good homes of Rush county, a place in which he took much delight, for his home ever was a delight to him, and in that home his last days were spent, his death occurring there on July 7, 1883, he then being fifty-four years of age. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring on December 19, 1920, she then being in her eighty-first year. Mrs. Mull was Eleanor Josephine Kerrick, born at Blooming Grove, Franklin county, Indiana, January 28, 1840, daughter of the Rev. Nimrod and Mary (Masters) Kerrick, the former of whom was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and the latter in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The Rev.

Nimrod Kerrick was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church and at the time of his daughter's marriage to Cyrus Mull, September 17, 1857, was stationed at Milroy, this county, where the marriage took place. To this union eight children were born, namely : Horace E., born in 1858, who died in 1S60; Thomas K., born in 1860, who is still living, president of the Manilla Bank ; William C, born in 1863, who died in 1892 ; Frank A., born in 1S64, who died in 1913; Leonidas H., born in 1866, who died in 1917; George F., born in 1868, who died in 1915 ; Jacob C, born in 1878, who died in 1881, and Mary M., born in 1882, who is still living in the old home place at Manilla, she and her brother, Thomas K. Mull, continuing to maintain their home there. Miss Mull is an alumnus of the H. Thane Miller School for Girls at Cincinnati. Frank A. Mull, who died at his home in Rushville in 1913, had extensive farming and other interests in this county. He married Sarah E. Harpole, of Bloomington, Ind., and had been a resident of Rushville for about fourteen years at the time of his death. Leonidas H. Mull also had extensive farm interests and had for years been connected with the Manilla Bank, of which he was vice-president at the time of his death in 1917. He was a Democrat and represented this county in the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly during the session of the legislature in 1899. George F. Mull was graduated from DePauw University and from Yale law school and at the time of his death in 1915 had been for years a practicing attorney at Indianapolis, a member of the law firm of Edenharter & Mull. Thomas K. Mull, president of the Manilla Bank and the only surviving brother of this family, has always been a resident of Manilla except for about three years, in early life, when he was employed at Rushville. He has been identified with the Manilla Bank since he and his brother became its owners in 1901, and for years prior to the death of Leonidas H. Mull he and his brother were associated together in business at Manilla. Mr. Mull is a Republican and in 1894 was elected state senator from this joint senatorial district (Hancock and Rush), and thus served in the Indiana state senate during the sessions of 1895 and 1897. He is a Scottish Rite Mason (thirty-second degree) and a Shriner, as were three of his brothers, and is also a Knight of Pythias.

JACOB A. WISSING, Jr., an enterprising farmer of Walker township, this county, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, September 1, 1867, a son of Jacob and Caroline (Hertzel) Wissing, substantial farming people in Shelby and Rush counties. Jacob A. Wissing attended the public schools in Walker township and remained at home, assisting his father until 1891, after which he worked as a farm hand in different sections up to the time of his marriage. Then he bought 104 acres of good land in Walker township, which he has improved greatly, erecting new buildings and doing a large amount of ditching. He raises grain and hay and about 100 head of hogs annually. In addition to profitably operating his own farm, he farms a sixty-acre tract adjoining that belongs to his father. On April 23, 1900, he married Mrs. Erevell (Tanner) Wilber, born in Decatur county, Indiana, daughter of Ira and Lucreta (Markland) Tanner, both of Decatur county where Mr. Tanner was a carpenter. Mrs. Wissing is a member of the Baptist church at Homer. By a former marriage Mrs. Wissing became the mother of one child, Opal Wilber. She married Clarence Brown and they reside at Shelbyville. Mr. Wissing is a Democrat. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Red Men lodges at Homer.

RUSH G. BUDD, one of the prominent farmers of Rush county, conducts extensive farming operations in Rushville township from his home in Rushville. He was born on November 14, 1865, in Indianapolis, a son of John R. and Sarah R. (Singleton) Budd, both natives of New Jersey, in which state they were married. John R. Budd was a poultry dealer, but when he first came to Indianapolis he engaged in the grocery business for several years. He then reverted to his first calling, opening a commission house specializing in poultry, and in this business he was considered the pioneer in the middle West. He continued successfully throughout his entire life, which was brought to a close in 1910. The firm of J. R. Budd & Company was the first produce and poultry house in the West that could boast of a cold storage plant, and was everywhere honored for its upright business methods. Mr. Budd and his wife were the parents of five children: W. S., George W., Mattie, who died at the age of sixteen years, Rush G., and David S. Rush G. Budd was a student in the public schools of Indianapolis, and when he finished his scholastic training he entered business with his father, with whom he continued until 1893. In that year he came to Rush county, locating on a farm three miles south of Rushville. Here he lived for five years, and at the expiration of that period moved to Rushville, but has since actively carried on the affairs of the farm. This is a tract of 400 acres in Rushville township, exceptionally fine land that has been kept in a high state of production by scientific methods of management. A general farming and stock raising business is done, but the specialty is the raising of seed corn, ' ' Budd 's Yellow Dent ' ' having established itself high in the favor of hundreds of farmers. In addition to this, Mr. Budd has the distinction of having introduced the Hampshire hogs to Rush county, and for several years he raised thoroughbred animals of this breed. In 1890, Mr. Budd married Jennie Winship, a daughter of Lewis E. and Margaret Winship, ranked among the prominent citizens of the county. A more extended mention of the Winship family in America will be found in the biography of A. L. Winship, a brother of Mrs. Budd, elsewhere in this volume. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Budd, Lillian, who died in California in infancy, and Alleine, who was graduated from the Rushville high school in 1914. She then entered Goueher College at Baltimore, where she was a student for two years, at the end of which time she became a student at the Northwestern University, from which she was graduated with the class of 1918. Mr. Budd has for years been a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rushville, of which he is a member, and fraternally is a Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree in that order. Politically, Mr. Budd adheres to the principles of the Democratic party, and in political as well as civic and moral affairs takes a good citizen's part. He served the city for one term as a member of the school board, and for four years was drainage commissioner, in addition to which he is now in his second term as a member of and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Indiana village for epileptics at Newcastle, Ind.

EMORY VanDEVENTER, a well-known and substantial farmer of Union township, has been a resident of Rush county for twentyfive years and in that time has developed here a good piece of property. He was born in Hannah county, Tennessee, May 20, 1875, son of Jesse and Ann (Albert) VanDeventer, both of whom were born in that state. Jesse VanDeventer was a farmer, who died in 1877, leaving his widow with two small sons, the subject of this sketch having had a brother, Jesse, now deceased. After the death of her husband the widow VanDeventer moved to Lee county, Virginia, where she remained until 1888 when she moved to Kentucky. Emory Van- Deventer was thirteen .years of age when he went to Kentucky with his mother and his schooling was completed in that state. He remained there until he was twenty-one years old when, in 1896, he came up into Indiana and located in Rush county, renting a farm of 160 acres in the Raleigh neighborhood with a view of starting farming on his own account. Something more than a year later he married here and not long afterward rented a 200 acre farm in Union township on which he made his home for three years, at the end of which time he rented the farm on which he is now living and was there engaged in farming 208 acres for two years, at the end of which time he moved back to his former place near Raleigh and there farmed 240 acres until 1909, in which year he bought the farm of 105 acres on which he is now living and has since resided there. Since taking possession of this place Mr. VanDeventer has made numerous improvements on the farm and has an up-to-date and well equipped farm plant. It was on December 23, 1897, the year following his arrival in Rush county, that Emory VanDeventer was united in marriage to Maude Redding, who was born in this county, and to this union seven children have been born, Elsie, Anna, Jesse, Maxine, Marion (deceased, 1919), Ross (deceased, 1911) and Ruth. The VanDeventers have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 1 out of Falmouth and take an interested part in the community's general social activities. Mr. and Mrs. VanDeventer are members of the Fairview Christian church and have ever taken an earnest part in the work of the church, Mr. Van- Deventer long having been an office bearer in the church, is now one of the elders and also is a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and in his political leaning is

"independent." Mrs. VanDeventer is a member of one of the old families of Rush county, both her parents, Callaway and Vilena (Davis) Redding, having been born here. Callaway Redding was born on the farm in Washington township where he is now living and where he has lived all his life. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Bush) Redding, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of New York state, who were among the early residents of Washington township, where John Redding entered a tract of 120 acres and established his home in pioneer days. Callaway Redding has a farm of forty-six acres, a part of the old Redding place in Washington township. He and his wife have three children, Mrs. VanDeventer having two sisters, Fannie and Effie.

HIRAM B. WILSON, former principal of the high school at Rushville, now living at Milroy, was for more than thirty years prior to his retirement a few years ago engaged in the teaching profession and there are few teachers in Rush county who have a wider and more appreciative acquaintance than he. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Rush county, having been born in Rushville, and all his life has been spent here with the exception of a period of four years during which he was engaged in teaching at Rockport and during which period he also was for a year or more engaged in the newspaper business in that town. The Wilsons are of Kentucky stock, H. B. Wilson's father, the late Charles Porter Wilson, having come to Indiana from Kentucky with his parents when about sixteen years of age, in 1845, the family locating on a farm in Richland township, this county. Charles P. Wilson "grew up" in Richland and Anderson townships and in the latter married Sidenia Smith, who was born in Milroy, daughter of Austin K. Smith. He had learned the trade of tinsmith and after his marriage located at Rushville where for several years he was engaged at the trade. He then moved to Milroy, where he followed the same vocation for several years, at the end of which time he moved to Greensburg, down in the neighboring county of Decatur, and there opened a tinshop. Some time later he sold that business and then became engaged in the livery business, later moving again to Milroy, where he died in 1912. He and his wife were the parents of four children, those besides H. B. Wilson being Florence, Elizabeth and Mabel. Reared in this county, H. B. Wilson supplemented the excellent preparatory schooling he received here by attendance at the normal school at Richmond, equipping himself for the teaching profession to which he had devoted himself, and after entering actively upon that profession added to his scholastic acquirements by attendance at DePauw University and at the University of Indiana, in the meantime continuing his work in the school room and so continued until he had an honorable record of thirty years continuously engaged as a teacher, all of this service being rendered in Rush county with the exception, as noted above, of four years spent in teaching at Rockport, during one year of which period he also was engaged as editor of the Rockport Democrat. During this honorable period of service in the schools Mr. Wilson taught at Rushville for ten years, seven years of which time he was engaged as principal of the high school there. He also taught in Anderson township six years, at Milroy six years, at Manilla one year and in Posey and Jackson townships three years, his work at Milroy and Manilla being in the high school, and thus acquired an acquaintance over the county which gives him many pleasant memories in the time of his retirement. In 1916 Mr. Wilson found that the state of his health would no longer permit the close labors of the school room and he retired from the profession and has since been living quietly and pleasantly at Milroy, which he long has regarded as his home, though his vocation often had taken him elsewhere during his long period of teaching service. In 1885 H. B. Wilson was united in marriage to Abigail Rardin, who died in 1889 leaving one child, a daughter, Cloude Bernice, who married Louis Rindt and has one child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Christian church at Milroy and has long given his earnest attention to church work, serving for a short period as a member of the diaconate of the church and is now an elder. In his political affiliation he is a Democrat, and has ever given his thoughtful consideration to local civic affairs, his voice and pen ever ready to advance the cause of good government.

HAROLD BE ALL, who stands in the front rank among the practical and progressive farmers of Rush county and who has through his well-directed efforts, gained a position of deserved prominence in his community, was born in Clarksburg, Ind. on January 28, 1892, and is the second in order of birth of the six children who graced the marriage of Dr. C. M. and Myrtle (Logan) Beall, the former a native of Greene county, Ohio, and the latter of Decatur county, Indiana. C. M. Beall spent his early years in his native county, but while still a young man he was brought by his parents to Indiana, receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Richmond and at Milan. After leaving the common school he attended Moores Hill College, after which he matriculated in the Cincinnati Medical College, where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He entered upon the active practice of his profession at Clarksburg, Ind., and has remained there continuously since, being now the oldest medical practitioner in that place. He has not only enjoyed an enviable reputation because of his high professional success, but has also been successful in a financial way, being now the owner of 700 acres of splendid farming land in Rush and Decatur counties. Doctor Beall has ever taken a keen interest in agricultural matters and has given his personal attention to the farming of his land. He also handles much live stock on his land, feeding annually from seventy-five to 125 head of cattle and from 200 to 300 hogs. To Dr. C. M. and Myrtle Beall have been born six children, namely: Frank, Harold, Marion, Marjorie, Hugh and Thelma. Harold Beall received his educational training in the public schools of Clarksburg, graduating from the high school there. He then entered Purdue University, where he took the four-year agricul- tural course, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in agriculture. He then took up farming on his father 's farm near Clarksburg, where he remained for two years, and then located on the farm belonging to his father in Richland township where he now lives. This farm, which comprises 355 acres, is all located in this township and is among the best tracts of farm land in Rush county. Mr. Beall is here carrying into actual and successful practice the progressive ideas gained by him while on the experimental farm at Purdue and has demonstrated in no uncertain manner the efficiency of his education along those lines. Mr. Beall is particularly interested in the breeding and raising of pure bred live stock and is the owner of the largest pure bred Percheron herd in the state of Indiana. Every mare in his herd is a thoroughbred and he has produced some exceptionally fine stock. He also breeds pure blood Duroc Jersey hogs and pure bred Shorthorn cattle, having had as high as forty of the latter at one time. Careful and certain in all he does, yet he is progressive and is numbered among the advanced thinkers in his community along agricultural lines. In all matters affecting the welfare of the locality in which he lives he takes a deep interest and enjoys the high esteem of all who know him. When the Farmers' Federation was organized in Richland township in September, 1919, Mr. Beall was elected president of the same and is still serving in that capacity. On October 14, 1915, Mr. Beall was married to Louise Jackson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jackson, and they are the parents of three children, Helen, Barbara and Hilda. Mr. Beall and his family are identified with the Presbyterian church and in politics he gives his support to the Republican party.

JOHN F. MAPES, formerly and for years a teacher in the schools of Rush county and who is now serving his second term as trustee of Union township, making his home at Glenwood, where he has resided for years, is a native Hoosier and has resided, in this state all his life. He was born at Fayetteville (Orange) in the neighboring county of Fayette on May 15, 1865, son of Dr. John W. and Mary A. (Neal) Mapes, the latter of whom was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but was reared in Pennsylvania to which state her parents had moved from Baltimore when she was a child. Dr. John W. Mapes, who for years practiced his profession and had a drug store at Glenwood, was bora in Palmyra, New York, and was trained to the trade of shoemaker. As a young man he went to Pennsylvania and was there married, Aiigust 1, 1839, to Mary A. Neal, shortly afterward moving to Cincinnati, where he entered medical college and in due time was graduated. Upon receiving his diploma Dr. Mapes went to New Richmond, Ohio, where he opened an office and was there engaged in the practice of his profession for several years, at the end of which time he came over into Indiana and located at Cambridge City. After a sometime practice there he moved to Fayetteville (now known as Orange) in Fayette county and practiced there until 1869 when he moved to Glenwood where he established himself in practice, in connection with which he maintained a drug store, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on July 6, 1881. The Doctor's widow survived him for more than thirty years, her death occurring on August 23, 1913. John F. Mapes was but four years old when his parents became residents of Glenwood and his early schooling was received in the excellent schools of that pleasant village. He early turned his attention to the teaching profession and schooled himself for that profession by attendance at the Central Normal School at Danville and at the normal school at Marion. For five years Mr. Mapes was employed as a teacher in the schools of Fayette county and then for nine years was employed as a teacher in the schools of Rush county, thus teaching fourteen terms, during which term of useful service he became one of the best known educators hereabout. In 1904 Mr. Mapes was elected trustee of Union township and served for four years. In 1918 he again was elected trustee and is now serving the public in that useful capacity. On April 3, 1892, John F. Mapes was united in marriage to Kate Jane Stevens, who was born in the neighboring county of Fayette, daughter of Edward and Hannah (Bean) Stevens, and to this union two children have been born, Gladys, who was graduated from the Rushville high school and who died on August 6, 1915, and Maurice M. Mapes. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Glenwood and Mr. Mapes is a member of the board of trustees of the church and was a teacher of the Bible class which he helped to organize in the Sunday school. He is a Republican and has for years been looked upon as one of the leaders of that party in his section of the county. Fraternally he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the P. O. S. of A. and is past noble grand of the Odd Fellows lodge and present financial secretary of the same.

FRANK G. HACKLEMAN, M. D., of Rushville, former pension examiner, a member of the local draft board for Rush county during the progress of the World war, and for years one of the best known physicians in this section of Indiana, continuously engaged in the practice of his profession for nearly forty years, was born in Rush county and has lived here all his life. The Hacklemans are a pioneer family in Indiana, and in various lines of endeavor have created a distinct impression in the progressive development of the commonwealth. Doctor Hackleman was born in Rush county on May 30, 1859, a son of Oliver C. and Caroline (Worster) Hackleman, the former of whom was born in the neighboring county of Franklin on October 26, 1816, a member of one of the first families to settle in the Brookville neighborhood in territorial days. In 1840, he then being twenty-four years of age, Oliver C. Hackleman transferred his residence from Franklin county to Rushville, where, in association with his brother, Pleasant A. Hackleman, he founded the Rushville Whig, later and at present known as the Rushville

Republican. Pleasant A. Hackleman enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union, and when the Sixteenth regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was organized, Col. Pleasant A. Hackleman went to the front as its commander. For a year or more, Oliver C. Hackleman served as sutler for the regiment. Upon the completion of this service he returned to Rush county and engaged in farming. He spent the last ten years of his life at Rushville, his death occurring there on July 4, 1900, he then being in his eightyfourth year. Oliver C. Hackleman and his wife were the parents of eight children as follows : Thomas Worster, Pleasant 0., John L., Aldine, Frank G., Elizabeth, Caroline 0., and Hypatia. Doctor Hackleman was born and spent his boyhood on a farm in Rush county, attending the district schools. He later entered the Rushville high school taking the regular four-years course, and was graduated from this school in 1878. He spent one year in the Graham Academy and then commenced the study of medicine under Dr. John Moffett, of excellent memory in this community. Doctor Hackleman was graduated from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in March, 1882. He then entered the practice of medicine with his preceptor, Doctor Moffett, and continued with him for two years and then entered Bellevue Medical Hospital in New York City, and after a year of intensive application to clinical observation there returned to Rushville, and in 1885 resumed his practice, and has been thus engaged ever since. Upon his return to Rushville in 1885, Doctor Hackleman received appointment as a member of the board of pension examiners for this district, continuing to serve in that capacity until 1912. For the last twenty years he has made a specialty of eye, ear, throat and nose diseases. On September 29, 1887, Dr. Hackleman was united in marriage to Mary Henley, of Carthage, and to this union there were born three sons, the first born of whom died in infancy, Ward H. and Ralph W., the latter of whom was a student at Wabash College when he enlisted as a private in the United States army, when twenty years of age, to take part in the World war. In the summer of 1918 he was sent to Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis, and in the fall of that year was assigned to Camp Taylor for training as an officer, but with the signing of the armistice shortly afterward was presently discharged without a commission. He then re-entered Wabash College, from which he was graduated in 1920, and is now a student at Harvard University. Ward II. Hackleman married Catherine Wiles Hibben, of Indianapolis. Miss Hibben's father, the late Harold B. Hibben, was born in Rushville. He moved from there as a young man to Indianapolis, where he entered the wholesale dry goods business and at his death was the head of the firm of Hibben, Hollweg & Co. Ward II. Hackleman is engaged in the insurance business in Indianapolis as general agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, Mass.

He and Mrs. Hackleman are the parents of one child, Ward Hibben. Doctor Hackleman is a member of the Methodist church, as was also his wife, who at all times took an active interest in church work as well as in the general social activities of their home town, until the time of her death, April 30, 1918. The Doctor is a Republican, and has for years been regarded as one of the leaders of that party in this county. He is a member of the American Medical Society, and of the Indiana State Medical Association, always giving his close attention to the affairs of those scientific bodies. In his fraternal relations the Doctor is affiliated with the local lodges of the Masons and of the Knights of Pythias at Rushville, and is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the consistory at Indianapolis, and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Marat Temple at Indianapolis.