Wabash County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 11 of 16)

H. E. Jackson was not yet four years of age when he accompanied his parents to Waltz township, and his boyhood was passed in assisting his father to clear the home farm from the heavy virgin timber. In the meantime he passed several months of each winter in attending the dis¬ trict school, thus gaining an education which has since been supple¬ mented by much reading, broad experience and keen observation of men and affairs, and today he is a well-informed man on a number of gen¬ eral subjects. He early adopted agricultural pursuits for his life's work, and thoroughly trained himself in all things that combine to make the successful tiller of the soil. As was the case with his father, his earnest efforts have been rewarded by a full measure of success, and his sixty-acre tract is now as valuable as many which are much larger, for he has combined new ideas with old-time practicability, and has not been slow to adopt measures which recent investigation and discovery have shown to be helpful. All of the present improvements have been placed upon the property by Mr. Jackson, and he has a good home, a substan¬ tial barn and numerous well-built outbuildings. Mr. Jackson is a mem¬ ber of the Christian church, with which he has been connected for eleven years. Like his father, he is a republican in politics. Public life has not attracted him, but he has at all times been ready to cooperate with other energetic men of his township in forwarding movements for the general welfare of his community and its people.

Mr. Jackson was married in Waltz township to Miss Marguerite Jane Roser, and they had six children, all born in this township : 0. W., who married Anna Wright; J. A., who married Tillie Ganway; A. N., who married Miss Bessie Dalstrom; Lula Yelma, who married W. A. Shinn; Nellie N., who is single and a school teacher in Arizona, and Edith Winona, who married Homer Putnam and resides in Alberta, Canada. Mrs. Jackson died in 1889 and is buried in Waltz township.

Frank Summers. In the life of Frank Summers, now a successful farmer of Waltz township, there is to be found an example worthy of emulation by the youths of our land who are starting out in the world handicapped by a lack of money and influential friends. Left an orphan when still a small boy, his education was neglected, and he was early forced to take upon his young shoulders the burden of supporting him¬ self. As the years have passed he has steadfastly worked his own way upward, and his well-applied efforts have been rewarded by the accumu¬ lation of a good property and the esteem of a wide circle of friends. Mr. Summers was bom in Iowa October 28, 1861. His father died when he was an infant, and in 1865 the mother located at La Fontaine, but later moved to Grant county, and then to Miami county, where the son took up his residence in the home of an old farmer, Samuel Hays, in Jackson township. As a lad he worked for fifty or seventy-five cents a day, and secured such scraps of education as he could gain, although his oppor¬ tunities were few. He remained with Mr. Hays until twenty-three years of age, when he moved to another farm, but subsequently returned to the Hays farm, a tract of seventy-one acres, which after much hard work he succeeded in putting under cultivation, and also erected a good, sub¬ stantial residence. In 1902 he came to Waltz township and settled on his present property, where he has accumulated 200 acres, all of this property now being in a high state of cultivation and furnished with fine buildings. He has done about 600 rods of ditching, has his land well fenced, uses modern machinery and methods, and raises good stock, and is known among the people of his community as a progressive and enterprising agriculturist.

Mr. Summers was married (first) in 1890 to Miss Ruth Reynolds, who was a daughter of Greer and Amanda Reynolds, and they had two children: Asbury, born July 25, 1892, and Jessie, bom March 3, 1898. Mrs. Summers died in November, 1904, and Mr. Summers was married (second) to Savannah Morrison, daughter of John W. and Emma V. (Davidson) Morrison, and two children were born to this union: Oscar, born October 19, 1913, and one who died in infancy. They also have a child whom they are raising, Charline Marie Jacobs, daughter of Charles and Mina Dawes Jacobs, whose mother died at birth, and whom they are rearing as one of their own children. Mrs. Summers has the fol¬ lowing brothers and sisters : Amanda, who married George Bidelstetter ; Yergie C., who married Oliver Speelman - Pearl, who married Adolph Modricker ; Amelia, who married William C. Hovermale ; Pressley, who married Minnie Shade, and Noah C., single.

Mr. Summers has been somewhat interested in work of a fraternal nature, and belongs to Somerset Lodge of Masons. In political matters he is a republican, but has never sought nor cared for public office. During his residence in Waltz township he has formed a wide acquaint¬ ance, and his actions have ever been such as to gain him the respect and esteem of those with whom he has come into contact.

Thomas W. Logan. In every community in Indiana are found men who have risen above their fellows in business or political life, not because they have been granted greater advantages, but because their natural abilities have created opportunities of which they have been quick to take advantage. In a section life Wabash county, where good and reliable men are easily found, he who is given preferment beyond his fellows has indeed attained honor, for he has proven his reliability and usefulness. One of the men who has attained prestige in the field of agriculture in Wabash county is the Proprietor of the Purlieu Farm, T. W. Logan, of Liberty township, a skilled farmer and stock raiser, and a citizen who has the welfare of his community at heart. Mr. Logan is a native of the Hoosier state, having been born in Rush county, May 4, 1851, a son of John M. and Mary E. (Poston) Logan.

John M. Logan was born in the same county and state, and was a son of James and Elizabeth (Mann) Logan, who were early settlers of that locality, while Mrs. Logan was a daughter of Judge Elias Poston, one of the early county jurists of Rush county. The parents of Mr. Logan grew up in Rush county and were there married, and in 1856 left their native locality and came to Wabash county, locating near La Fon¬ taine, where they passed the remainder of their lives in the pursuits of agriculture, and here passed away. They were the parents of seven children, of whom three survive : Anna E., who is the wife of T. J. Wat¬ son, of La Fontaine; Martha A., who is the wife of H. C. Badger, a resident of Indianapolis; and T. W., of this review.

T. W. Logan was a lad of five years when brought to Wabash county by his parents, and here secured a good practical public school education which qualified him for teaching so that he adopted the vocation of educator and for six years had charges in the county. Mr. Logan was married to Miss Alma E. Price, of Huntington county, Indiana, and at that time settled on a farm in Wayne township, which he cleared from the wilderness. After five years he disposed of this property at a hand¬ some figure and returned to Wabash county, but in 1889 moved to Monroe county, and after five years again returned to Wabash county. Here he located on his present place, the Purlieu Farm, which he has developed to ,a high state of cultivation, a tract of 200 acres of land on which are located the finest of improvements, including a hand¬ some residence, commodious barn and substantial outbuildings. In his gen¬ eral farming operations Mr. Logan uses the latest and most highly ap¬ proved methods, and the admirable results which he obtains from his labors give ample evidence of his skill as an agriculturist. On coming to this property Mr. Logan began to give a great deal of attention to the breeding of Poland-China hogs, but since 1901 has been breeding pure blooded Duroc hogs, with which he has had excellent success. His repu¬ tation is that of a man of integrity and honorable dealing, and in his community he is held in the highest esteem and confidence.

Of the seven children born to Mr. Logan's first marriage, five are living at this time : B. Irene, a graduate of the high school and now the wife of Charles Arbaugh of Indianapolis; Mary E., a graduate of the same school and now the wife of Fred Prillaman, of Yorktown, Indiana; Lulu, a graduate of the same school, and now the wife of Elmer Prillaman, of Yorktown; Lora, w'ife of John Beilis, of Naylor, Missouri; Elizabeth, who is the wife of C. Halbert, of Yorktown; one child died in infancy; and Emma E., who died at the age of nineteen years. The mother of these children died July 21, 1912, and Mr. Logan was married (second) January 14, 1914, to Miss Nettie Bruce, who was born and reared in Indiana, and educated in the public schools of Rochester and Logansport, Indiana, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bruce, Mr. Bruce being ex-county treasurer of Fulton county, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Logan are consistent members of the Baptist church. He is a democrat in politics, but has taken only a good citizen's interest in public matters.

William H. Orr. For a period of over forty-six years the subject of this sketch has been one of the leading farmers of Lagro township. His farm is one of the largest and best under a high state of cultiva¬ tion, while the improvements upon it are among the finest and latest in design. Not only is the owner a leader in agricultural pursuits, but he has been likewise foremost in advancing the general welfare of his com¬ munity, and, although now eighty years of age, is still alert and active in mind and body, and manages his affairs with the ability of a man twenty years younger. Mr. Orr was born on a farm nine miles southeast of Newark, in Licking county, Ohio, March 20, 1834, and is a son of Benjamin and Eliza (Dustheimer) Orr.

The Orr family was founded in the United States by two brothers, John and Robert Orr, of Scotch-Irish stock, who emigrated to this coun¬ try from Ireland at an early day, John Orr, the grandfather of William H. Orr, fettling in Pennsylvania and later moving to Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life in * agricultural pursuits, and died in Licking county. Benjamin Orr, his son, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a youth when he accompanied the family to Licking county, where the rest of his life was passed. He was a farmer all of his life, as were his six sons, and was an honest, hard-working and industrious man, well deserving of the respect in which he was held by his friends and asso¬ ciates. He married Eliza Dustheimer, a native of Virginia, also de¬ ceased, and they became the parents of eleven children, as follows: Elizabeth, Jerry, Eliza, William H., Anthony, Silas, George, James, Sarah, Margaret and Phoebe. Of these William H., Anthony, Silas, George and Phoebe survive, and William H. and Phoebe are the only ones who came to Indiana.

William H. Orr grew to manhood on his father's farm in Licking county, Ohio, and there received his education in the public schools. He carefully saved his earnings, and in February, 1860, left Newark with four boy neighbors, their destination being the gold fields of California. After reaching New York City they boarded a vessel, and for twentysix days were on the water, then traveled over the Isthmus of Panama by rail, and after a long and wearisome journey reached the Golden state. There Mr. Orr soon secured work for others in the gold fields, but sub¬ sequently secured a claim of his own, then engaged in working that claim and in buying and selling others, and also worked on a sawmill. He was very successful in his operations, at times making as high as $100 per day, but his partner finally became too homesick 'to remain away any longer, and in 1866 they sold their holdings and returned to Licking county, Ohio. Not long thereafter Mr. Orr moved to Wabash county, Indiana, and, locating in Lagro township, purchased the old Peabody farm in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Emery. There he resided for several years, when he sold out to Mr. Emery and returned to Licking county to marry Martha Hazelton. Soon after they returned to Lagro township and* settled on the farm of 130 acres, which he had previously purchased, the old Levi Inyard farm which Mr. Orr bought from David Sibert. Here he erected all new buildings and made numer¬ ous improvements, and since then has added to his acreage on two occa¬ sions, 105 acres of his land being the old Hillegloss farm and thirteen acres being purchased from George Herrick. He has continued to de¬ vote his entire time and attention to his farm, and through industry, application and good management, combined with the use of practical, modern methods, he has achieved a competency and is now accounted one of the substantial men of his community. He bears the reputation of being a man of the highest integrity, whose word is as good as his bond and whose name is an honored one on commercial paper. In every¬ thing that pertains to the welfare and advancement of the community of his adoption he takes a keen and intelligent interest, and at all times is ready to give his support to good and progressive measures. In politics he is a democrat, while his fraternal connection is with Jackson Lodge of Masons of Newark, Ohio.

* Mr. and Mrs. Orr have been the parents of the following children : Edward, who is deceased; Myrtle, who is the wife of Loyal Smith and has two children, Dorothy and Bruce; Guy, who resides at home and assists his father in the work of the farm ; Bertha, who married Orval Brouthers and has two children, Pauline and Evelyn ; Benjamin, who married Hazel Hyatt and has one son, Thomas William ; and Hazel, who is deceased.

M. J. Ragan, one of the few bachelor farmers of Lagro township, and also one of the prosperous men of the township, comes of stanch Irish ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides. He is a son of Timothy and Catherine (Finan) Ragan and a grandson of Morris and Ellen Ragan, the latter couple having come from Ireland when their son Timothy was a boy of five years. They settled first in the east, later in Kentucky, and still later moved to Indiana, and in the '40s estab¬ lished themselves in Lagro township on a farm, where they spent the rest of their lives. Timothy Ragan was a young man when the family settled in this vicinity, and in a short time he married Catherine Finan, who was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Irish parentage. Bernard Finan, her father, bought a farm in Lagro township, and came here when his daughter was a child of two years, and, though he was long a land owner in the township, he spent a good many years in mercantile activities at Lagro instead of in farming. He carried on business at a decided dis¬ advantage in those early days, making his purchases in Lafayette and bringing them to Wabash by boat, but he was enterprising, and success

Pleasant A. Lines His Daughter, Mrs. Pauline Clark, And Her Son

FIVE GENERATIONS : MRS. ELIZABETH TYNER; HER DAUGH¬ TER, MRS. FLORA ANN LINES: HER SON, ALVAH LINES; HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. PAULINE CLARK, AND HER SON, followed him all his days. The canal was built after he established him¬ self at Lagro, and, though he died young, when only forty-five years of age, he had achieved a generous measure of success and stood high in the esteem of his fellow men in and about the township. He had two chil¬ dren: Catherine, who became the mother of the subject, and Bernard, who met his death while engaged in building activities in Kansas while yet a young man.

Mr. Finan's farm in the course of time fell to Mrs. Ragan, prior to her marriage, and when she married Mr. Ragan in 1850 they moved to that place and there lived until 1872, when they took up their residence on the place that is now owned and occupied by their son. The father died in September, 1911, and the mother followed him in January of the next year. He was eighty-seven at the time of his passing, and the mother was seventy-seven.

Mr. and Mrs. Ragan were the parents of nine children, here named in the order of their birth : Michael ; Margaret, the wife of Dennis Hol¬ land; Maurice J., the subject of this brief family review; Edward, Con¬ rad, Barney, Daniel, Mary, now a student in Columbia University and a teacher of some years ' experience, and James, who died in 1907. All were born in Lagro but the two last named, who were born on this farm.

Maurice J. Ragan was born at Lagro on November 23, 1860. He at¬ tended the public schools there, and when he reached an independent age devoted himself to carpentry and followed the work for ten years. For five years he was a carpenter on the Wabash Railroad, and with a crew of eleven men was engaged in building bridges and stations along the line in the vicinity of Toledo. He came to the home farm about 1890 in order that he might look after his parents, who were then in the decline of life and required the ministrations of their children. He remained on the place after the passing of the old folks and has made a creditable record as a farmer. The home is occupied by the family of Adam Judey and Mr. Ragan occupies private apartments in the house.

Mr. Ragan is a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church at Lagro, and he is fraternally identified with the Maceabee lodge at that place. He is a Democrat and active in politics in the town and county, though not an office holder or a seeker after official honors. Like most of his family, Mr. Ragan was given a fairly good education, for his father, though himself almost wholly untutored, believed in education and gave to his children the best advantages he could provide.

Edward and Lewis, brothers of the subject, were for some years pro* prietors of a drug store at Lafayette, which business they discontinued in 1906 because of the ill health of Lewis. After a good bit of moving about in search of renewed strength and health Lewis Ragan died at Tucson, Arizona, January 26, 1907, and was brought back to Lagro for burial. All the other members of the family are still living.

Pleasant A. Lines. At present living a somewhat retired life. Pleasant A. Lines has been one of the industrious men of Wabash county, linking his name with all that is honorable in agriculture and being wise and progressive in individual life. He came to Liberty town¬ ship during pioneer days and has lived through the period of wonder¬ ful development which has transformed this region into one of the richest agricultural sections of the state, witnessing its growth and materially contributing to its welfare. Now, in the evening of life, secure in the knowledge of a long and honorable record, he is quietly enjoying the comforts which his years of industry have brought.

Mr. Lines was born in Rush county, Indiana, January 16, 1840, and is a son of Thomas H. and Nancy (Sailors) Lines, natives of Rush county, where they were reared, educated and married. As early as 1842 they came to Wabash county, locating in Liberty township, where the father entered 11 9y2 acres of land, which he subsequently cleared from the timber and brush and improved into good tillable land. He continued to make his home on this property during the remaining years of his life, and through energetic and well-directed management was able to become the owner of a handsome and valuable property. Mr. and Mrs. Lines were the parents of ten children, of whom five are living at this time : Pleasant A. ; Marshall, who resides at La Fontaine ; Martha, his twin, who resides at La Fontaine and is the wife of Tobe Miller ; and Monroe, a farmer of Liberty township.

Pleasant A. Lines was past two years of age when he came with his parents to Wabash county, and his education was secured in the early district schools of Liberty township, which he attended a short time each winter while spending the summer months at farming the homestead. He was given his liberty by his father when he was twenty years of age, but had no capital save his industry and determination to succeed. Soon Mr. Lines secured employment at clearing land and preparing it for 4 ' rolling,' ' a task for which he was paid $3.25 an acre, three or four days being consumed in clearing an acre, and thus he prepared eleven acres. Subsequently he was engaged with his father and brother in conducting a threshing machine, and when the season was over engaged in splitting rails at fifty cents per hundred, getting out about 300 a day and continuing to be thus occupied until he was twenty-two years of age. It was in such tasks that Mr. Lines secured the capital which formed the nucleus for his present ample fortune. A large part of his youth was passed in the school of hard work, but it was excellent training, and his experience furnished him with much that was to prove useful to him in the years that followed.

On December 29, 1861, Mr. Lines was married to Miss Flora A. Tyner, who was born in Rush county, Indiana, and came to Wabash county with her parents as a child. Three children were born to this union, of whom two are living at this time: Ursala, who is the wife of Asa Roby, of Liberty township ; and Alva, who married Grace Dawes. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant A. Lines settled down to agricultural pursuits in Liberty township, and here, as the years have passed, they have accumulated more and more land until they now own 650 acres, a part of which, about 240 acres, are owned by Mrs. Lines and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyner. This venerable lady has reached the age of ninety years, bom March 4, 1825. Her husband, Elijah Tyner, died in April, 1877, and Mr. and Mrs. Lines have lived on the Tyner farm ever since. Thus Mr. Lines has lived within a mile of his present home for seventy-two years. It is also the home of Mrs. Tyner. The accompanying portrait of the five generations, all living in Wabash county, represents Mrs. Elizabeth Tyner and her daughter, Mrs. Flora Ann Lines, the latter's son, Alvah Lines, his daughter, Mrs. Pauline Clark, and her son, Oarnett L. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Lines are widely known in the community as people of genuine worth and stability, who take a pride in their community and have at all times endeavored to advance its best interests. They are faithful members of the Antioch Baptist church, and Mr. Lines is a republican, although he has never taken much part in public life.

George Joseph Zaiim. About forty-five years ago George Joseph Zahm began his activities as a farmer and citizen in Wabash county. He undertook the pioneer work of clearing off a tract of land and convert¬ ing its acres into cultivated fields, and the result of those labors are now witnessed in his beautiful country home of eighty acres in Lagro township, about two miles east of the village of Speiker, on the south side of the road. Mr. Zahm and his family have always been known for their quiet prosperity and solid integrity, and such has been the record of his past years that he can rest content with his accomplishments and enjoy the prosperity won through long years. Mr. Zahm has lived in Wabash county since the fall of 1868.

He was born in Perry county, Ohio, October 7, 1838, and has already rounded out more than three-quarters of a century of human life. His parents were Nicholas and Elizabeth (Garhart) Zahm. The parents were born in Germany and were married in Oldenberg. While living in the Fatherland Nicholas Zahm practiced the trade of shoemaker, but after his marriage and after six children had been born they emigrated to the United States, where three other children subsequently came into their household. For ten years their home was in Wayne county, Ohio, where the father bought a farm, and, selling that place, he moved to Perry county, Ohio, and bought a place containing sixty-two acres. Both he and his wife passed away on the old homestead, she in 1857 at the age of sixty-five, and he in 1874 on his eighty-seventh birthday. Their children were named as follows: Nicholas, Margaret, Catherine, Ann, Peter, Jacob, John, all of whom are now deceased ; Mary, widow of John Bletzacker of Lancaster, Ohio, and George J., the youngest.

George J. Zahm spent his early boyhood in Perry county, Ohio. When he was six or seven years of age he began walking back and forth to the district school, which was kept in a log building, and he spent many weary hours sitting on the rough log benches, made from split chestnut trees, smoothed off on the upper side, and supported by wooden pins driven into the under side. The work on a pioneer farm was never ending, and consequently the boys of that generation found more prac¬ tical training in plowing and planting and in swinging an ax than they got in the schools. George Zahm from an early age took his place in the woods and in the fields, helped clear the land and assisted his father with the cultivation until he was about sixteen years of age. At that time he began working at the carpenter's trade, under his brother Jacob, and for about ten years that was the source of his livelihood.

On June 14, 1864, he married Mary M. Clark, a daughter of Francis and Rebecca (Flowers) Clark. This family had early settled in Perry county, and their home was about one mile from the Zahm farm. Mary Clark was born there, and she and George Zahm were children together, and were thus married out of the same neighborhood and had the same early associations. In the fall of 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Zahm moved to Huntington, Indiana, which was then a comparatively small village, though a hustling business place. In Huntington Mr. Zahm spent about three years in the carpenter's trade and was gradually getting a little bit ahead in the world. His wife's parents had come to Huntington at the same time, buying a farm near the county seat, where they lived until their death. All made the trip from Ohio with horses and wagons, very much after the pioneer style.

In 1868 Mr. Zahm took a contract to cut timber for his brother-inlaw, William Anderson, who had bought a large tract of timber land from John Roach of Huntington. After about one year with Anderson Mr. Zahm bought his present farm in Wabash county. Its former owner was Judge J. D. Connor of Wabash. Nearly every acre of the land was at that time covered with heavy timber, and there was not a building or improvement on the farm. Mr. Zahm put up a little cabin, which is now used as a kitchen of his more commodious home, and from time to time, as his means and time allowed, he added to his residence, until it is now both an attractive and comfortable home, situated behind the trees and well back from the public highway. As soon as he had pro¬ vided for the simplest living necessities Mr. Zahm undertook the clear¬ ing of the timber from his land. He cut and hauled the logs to the canal at Lagro, which was then an important shipping point, and thus practically all the merchantable timber on his land went by the water route to market. In this way he gradually cleared off his fields, tiled it and otherwise improved the land, and for many years followed general farming with increasing prosperity. About three years ago he began renting out his fields, and has since retired from active business.

Mr. and Mrs. Zahm are now living comfortably at their old home¬ stead, which represents their joint labors and economy, and their chil¬ dren are all married and have left home, except Miss Rose, the youngest, who lives at home and looks after her parents with admirable filial devo¬ tion. Mr. Zahm is a self-made man in the fullest sense of the term, and everything that has come to him is the result of hard and honest toil. He is a man of his word, which once given is never broken ; is fair and just in all his dealings, and has a host of friends in Wabash county.

Mr. and Mrs. Zahm are the parents of the following children : Wil¬ liam Clement, who married Cora Hamilton and has one child, Marie ; Pius Francis, the second child of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Zahm, died aged about one year; Louis, who married Melinda Hamilton, a sister of Mrs. William C. Zahm, and she died in August, 1909 ; Clara, who is now Mrs. John T. McGuire and has one child, Pearl; Edward, who married Bessie Frushure, has a daughter, Virginia, and Miss Rose. The Zahms are members of St. Patrick's Catholic church at Lagro, and Mr. Zahm was for twenty-five years honored with the position of trustee in the church. On Sunday, June 14, 1914, Mr. and Airs. Zahm celebrated their golden wedding.

John David Miley. The fertile fields of Wabash county have fur¬ nished a field of labor for many of this section's most substantial citi¬ zens, for this is pre-eminently an agricultural community, and the leaders in business, social and public life are found among the tillers of the soil. John David Miley, whose comfortable home and fine farm are located in Waltz township, belongs to the class of progressive, enter¬ prising farmers who are maintaining the standard of agricultural supremacy in Wabash county. He owns two farms, aggregating 101 acres. He was born on a farm in Darke county, Ohio, December 26, 1850, and is a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Dininger) Miley, the former a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Ohio.

Isaiah Miley, a painter by trade, was a young man when he migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and in October, 1859, came from the latter state to Indiana, but prior to that, in 1836, he served under Gen. Sam Houston in the United States army in Texas. He settled on a farm in Waltz township, about two miles north of the present home of John D.* Miley, and there rounded out his life, having devoted his attention to farming and stock raising with a reasonable measure of success. He was married at Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth Dininger, and they became the parents of two sons and seven daughters : Henrietta, Catherine, Elizabeth, Daniel, John David, Melisena, Fannie Mary, Ann and Ida E. Of these all except the last named were born in Darke county, Ohio. Daniel Miley served during the last eight months of the Civil war as a private in the Fortieth Regiment, Indiana Volun¬ teer Infantry, and received his honorable discharge at the cessation of hostilities. The mother of the foregoing children died in 1894.

John David Miley was educated in the district schools of Waltz town¬ ship, and grew up to agricultural pursuits, in which he has spent his entire life. He is the owner of sixty acres in his home property, and also has forty acres near the home place, about one-half mile north. A good residence, substantial barns and outbuildings, improved machinery, good stock and well-tilled fields all testify to the enterprise of the owner, whose efforts have been consecutive and well directed, bringing him, therefore, a substantial financial return. In his political affiliations Mr. Miley is a stalwart republican, unswerving in support of the principles of that party. In the position of trustee of Waltz township, in which he served four years, and as justice of the peace for eight years, he discharged his duties with a singleness of purpose that won him the con¬ fidence of the community, and in business matters he also is well worthy of the respect in which he is held. A member of the Lutheran church, he has been liberal in his support of its various movements, and has served at various times as deacon, elder and member of the board of trustees.

Mr. Miley was married (first) to Miss Mary Alice Toomire, daughter of Bryant Toomire, and to this union there have been born four children, namely: Olive Blanche, Ida Bertha, Roscoe Reiman and Rev. Henry Germann, all born in Waltz township. Mrs. Miley died in 1879, and Mr. Miley was married (second) to Martha E. Ridenour, daughter of Isaiah A. and Elizabeth (Snavely) Ridenour. Her brothers and sisters were as follows : Elnora, who is deceased ; Louisa, who married Ira Malotte ; Levi; Minerva, who is deceased, and David, who married (first) Inez Bickel and (second) Gertrude Votair. To Mr. and Mrs. Miley there have been born children as follows: Luther Ernest, who is deceased; Franklin Orlando, who married Beulah Bond; Harry Benjamin; Rev. George Walten; John David, Jr., who married Kizzie Jacob; Lorin Edward, Lolo Elizabeth, Dwight L. and Charles Arthur, all bom in Waltz township.

Monroe Lines. Belonging to that class of workers whose practical education, quick perceptions and great capacity for painstaking in¬ dustry have advanced them to positions of importance and independ¬ ence in the field of agricultural endeavor, Monroe Lines is widely and favorably known to the people of Liberty township, among whom he -has spent his entire life. The long period of his association with the citizens of the rural communities of Wabash county has established for him a reputation for ability, resource and unflagging industry, and he may be numbered among the captains of success who have piloted their own ships into a safe harbor.

Monroe Lines was bora in Liberty township, Wabash county, In¬ diana, October 23, 1852, and is a son of Thomas H. and Nancy E. (Sailors) Lines. His parents were natives of Rush county, Indiana, where they were reared, educated and married, and in 1842, came to Wabash county and located in Liberty township, the father entering 11914 acres of land, which he subsequently cleared from the timber and improved into good tillable farm soil. He continued to make his home on this property during the remaining years of his life and through energy and enterprise was enabled to become the owner of a handsome and valuable property. Mr. and Mrs. Lines were the parents of ten children, of whom five survive : Pleasant A., who is engaged in farming in Liberty township; Marshall, who resides at La Fontaine; Martha, his twin, who is the wife of Tobe Miller and resides at La Fontaine; and Monroe.

The boyhood and youth of Monroe Lines were passed in much the same manner as those of other youths of his day and locality, the short winter terms being passed in the district schools of pioneer Wa¬ bash county, while during the remainder of the year he worked on the home farm, where he resided until his marriage, August 14, 1874, to

Missouri A. Moore. She was a daughter of William Moore, who came from Kush county and entered land in Waltz township, Wabash county, at an early date and continued to be engaged in agriculutral pursuits throughout a long and active career. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lines, of whom three are living at this time: Virden, born July 15, 1875, a graduate of the common schools, married, and past grand of Metosmia Lodge No. 533, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also a member of the Grand Lodge; Orlie 0., born December 2, 1883, who married Elva Gross and lives at Marion, Indiana; Ernest E., born June 19, 1888, single and living at home, being his father's assist¬ ant on the farm; Atha, bom February 2, 1881, now deceased; and Alverette, who died as a child.

After his marriage Monroe Lines settled down to agricultural pur¬ suits, in which he has continued to be engaged to the present time, being widely known as a skilled farmer, a good judge of live stock, and a first-class business man who has never stooped to dishonorable methods. His reputation as a citizen is that of a man possessed of public spirit and pride in his community, and his friends are as numerous as his acquaintances. Mr. Lines is now the owner of ninety-one acres of good land, located in sections 19 and 30, Liberty township, which has been accumulated through his industry and enterprise, and upon which he has made numerous improvements of a handsome and valuable character. For many years Mr. Lines was identified with the republican organization, but at the birth of the new progressive party, in 1912, he transferred his allegiance to that political power, with which he has ' since acted. He has never been an office seeker, but has ever been ready to perform his full share of the duties of citizenship.

Edwin Dawes. Any history of Wabash county would be decidedly incomplete that did not make extended mention of Edwin Dawes, now living retired in Wabash at an advanced age, for sixty years have passed .since he first came to what was then the little frontier village of Wabash, and his was probably the first frame house to be erected in the county south of the Wabash river. His career since that time has been con¬ temporary with the county's history, and through a life of industry, perseverance and well-applied effort he has gained a position for himself among the leading citizens of his community. Mr. Dawes is of English nativity and was born August 27, 1835. Edwin Dawes, his father, after whom he was named, was the third assistant cashier of the Bank of. England in London, and this occupation the younger Edwin Dawes was being educated for. His father dying before he had attained manhood, Edwin, Jr., induced his mother to allow him to come to the United States before settling down, and accordingly, in the fall of 1853, accom¬ panying a family of his acquaintance by the name of Gibson, he took passage on board a sailing vessel, and after a tempestuous voyage of seven weeks landed at New York City.

named Wabash, in Indiana, and concluded to come here on a prospecting trip. He landed here via the Wabash & Erie Canal, and, being attracted by the possibilities of the place, induced his widowed mother and his brother to come to this place in 1855. For a time they resided on a tract of land in Noble township, south of the Wabash river, having purchased 240 acres of land from the Government. This land is now known as Coppock farm. As has been said, their dwelling on this land was probably the first frame residence in the county south of the river. It was while living here that Edwin Dawes was married to Rebecca Jane Miles, daughter of John Miles, who was also a pioneer of Wabash county, and shortly after this event he moved to Wabash, and in part¬ nership with Simpson Jones, long since deceased, embarked in the retail boot and shoe business. After a number of years he sold his interest in this business, and, associated with Eli Sumner, entered the planing mill and lumber field, with an establishment one square east of the Wabash depot. Some years later the mill was destroyed by fire, with practically no insurance, and about this time Mr. Sumner died. Mr. Dawes then accepted a position with a wholesale grocery establishment, as a traveling salesman out of Toledo, Ohio, and continued to be so engaged for a number of years. When the C., W. & M. Railroad was put through, a store was built at Treaty, in Wabash county, and the owners, needing an expert bookkeeper and general assistant, persuaded Mr. Dawes to remove to that point, where for upwards of a score of years he aided in operating the store and in conducting the railroad station, the post office, the warehouse and other ventures of the owners. There his wife died in 1894. Since that time practically Mr. Dawes has lived with his children, retired from the more active cares of life. Mr. Dawes had a long and honorable business career, during which he ever mani¬ fested the strictest integrity and probity. Never incurring obligations that he did not meet nor making engagements that he did not fill, he won the unqualified trust of the business public, and his name became a synonym for commercial honesty and enterprise. In politics he is an old-time, unswerving republican, and in the early years of the Civil war and prior thereto he was prominently identified with the Underground Railroad, that system by which so many slaves found their way from the South to Canada and freedom. In religion Mr. Dawes is a Quaker, in which organization he was elder for years, and, although he has mixed with people of other denominations, he even yet frequently uses the "thee's and thou V 9 of the old-time members of the Society of Friends. He and his wife were the parents of four sons and one daughter, all of whom are still living.

Lindley A. Dawes, an ex-postmaster at Wabash, is the oldest of the children of Edwin Dawes, the old settler. He was born in the frame dwelling house erected by his father in Noble township, his birth occur¬ ring January 30, 1858. He was reared for the most part in the city of Wabash, and received his education in the public schools of this city, fol¬ lowing which he aided in the work of the store at Treaty and eventually became the owner of that business, which he subsequently traded for a livery barn in Wabash. This he conducted for some twenty-two years, later trading it for 140 acres of land in Noble township, which he still owns and upon which he now resides. He also owns 120 acres in Lagro township. On March 8, 1910, he was commissioned postmaster at Wa¬ bash, a position he continued to occupy until the spring of 1914. Mr. Dawes, naturally, is a republican, and has been stanch in his support of the principles and candidates of the Grand Old Party. He has been prominent in fraternal work, and at this time is a member of the Benev¬ olent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Independent Order of Foresters. Like his father, he is widely known throughout this part of Wabash county, and is held in high regard by a host of warm and appreciative friends.

On June 29, 1879, Mr. Dawes was married (first) to Miss Etta Coble, who died in 1891, the mother of three children: Elmina, who became the wife of Charles Jacobs and died in 1911 ; Corral, who is now the wife of Walter Thomas, and Nellie, who married Lee Wright. Mr. Dawes was married (second) August 22, 1903, to Miss Nellie Brumfield, and to this union there have been born two sons: Barton B. and Lindley A., Jr. ^ Both Mr. and Mrs. Dawes belong to religious denominations, the former to the Quakers and the latter to the Presbyterian church.

Mark Ridenour. Due credit should be accorded to those men who, in a community devoted to agricultural interests, have added perceptibly to the productiveness and prosperity of their district by reason of their splendid attention to the work they early in life applied themselves to, gaining thereby not only positions of independence and comparative wealth, but the high regard and esteem of their contemporaries. One of these is beyond all question Mark Ridenour, whose farm of 149 acres in Lagro township is a model of farming perfection, reflecting in appear¬ ance and productiveness the sterling traits of its owner and operator.

Mark Ridenour is one of the eleven children of his parents. He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on the 6th day of July, 1849, and is a son of John and Lydia (Ellwood) Ridenour, old residents of Tusca¬ rawas county. They were natives of the state of Pennsylvania, the father of German parentage and the mother of English. John Ridenour was twelve years of age before he learned to speak the English language, and he learned it after coming into contact with others who were un¬ familiar with the tongue of his household and as a result of necessity.

He became a blacksmith, and after he had taken up his residence in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, he did a flourishing business in that line, run¬ ning a shop with five fires. In 1853 the family moved to Indiana. They made the trip in wagons, and their first location was in Wabash county, just south of Wabash, in Noble township, in the heart of the woods. That was also the only home they ever knew in Indiana, for both par¬ ents ended their lives on the farm they carved out of the wilderness in comparative youth. The wife and mother passed out first, the husband and father following her. Their children were named as follows : Ben- ton; Mark, of this review; John, who died young, as did also James; Melissa, now deceased ; Emily, Ellwood, Philip, Catherine and Ida. The first four children were born in Ohio, and Mark Ridenour was a child of four years when the family moved into Wabash county, so that his entire life, barring that brief space in earliest childhood, has been passed within the confines of the county to which he came as an infant with his parents in 1853.

Mark Ridenour grew up in Noble township and attended the district schools. He early began to put in regular hours of work on the home farm, for his parents were thrifty German people who had a high regard for the value of honest labor and believed that their children should be taught to work as well as to be sent to school. So it came about that young Ridenour did his full share in the arduous work of fitting the wild land into a farm, for it was a process of years, as one will readily understand once it becomes clear that the family settled in a virgin forest and finally evolved a clean, clear and productive farm therefrom.

In 1876 Mark Ridenour married. He was then twenty-seven years of age, and he chose for his wife Sarah A. Malott, a daughter of Hiram and Mary (Pearson) Malott. They came to Wabash county from Amboy, Miami county, Indiana, at a time when their daughter, Mrs. Ridenour, was a small child. Both parents were born in Marion, Indiana, and they were people of many interesting characteristics. Quakers in their religious faith, the mother was a minister in the church, and was one of the best known and most successful members the Quaker ministry knew. She had traveled widely in Iowa, North Carolina, Canada, Kan¬ sas, Illinois and Indiana, and was loved and esteemed wherever she was known. She was a quiet woman in temperament and manner, well informed in matters pertaining to her calling, and had gained her edu¬ cation solely through her own efforts. She was a devoted wife and mother, and found time to give to the rearing of her large family of twelve children, most of whom reached years of maturity and have re¬ flected credit upon her in their years of independent activity. They were named Levi, Lydia, Sarah, David, John, Susan, Calvin, Sylvanus, Nathan, Albert, Jennie and James.

After his marriage Mr. Ridenour bought a ninety acre farm in Noble township, making the purchase from his father-in-law. A log cabin that graced the place at that time he soon replaced with a frame house, and he later disposed of the farm and bought a place on the Mill Creek pike. Fifteen years he spent in the second location, and then, in 1900, traded it for his present place, the old Hopper farm, as it was called, comprising 167 acres. Mr. Ridenour later gave his son a slice of the farm of eighteen acres, that being the portion l\dng on the west side of the road, the remainder of 149 acres lying on the east side. The two farm jointly and are among the most successful and progressive farming men in the town.

Merit Banister was about two months old at the time of the family removal to Wabash county, within whose gracious borders he has con¬ tinued to reside during the long intervening period of seventy years. He was reared to adult age on the homestead farm, in Lagro township, and he continued to be associated with the work and management of the farm until he was about eighteen years of age, in the meanwhile having duly availed himself of the advantages afforded in the district schools of the period, thereby laying adequate foundation for the broad superstructure of knowledge which he was later to upbuild through his association with the practical duties and responsibilities of life. After severing his association with the home farm Mr. Banister entered upon a virtual apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, in which he became a skilled artisan. In 1863 he established his residence in La Fontaine, where he engaged in contracting and building and had much to do with the material development of the village. He finally removed to Wabash, the county seat, where he followed his trade successfully and also worked as millwright in the paper mill that represented one of the most important industrial enterprises of the town. He continued his residence at Wabash until about 1898, when he returned to La Fontaine, where he has since maintained his home and where he is now living retired from the active labors that so long engrossed his time and at¬ tention.

Mr. Banister has always shown a lively interest in all that concerns the well being of the county that has been his home from the days of his infancy, and in a characteristically quiet and unostentatious way he has done well his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community, along both civic and material lines. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the Democratic party, and he has served since January, 1913, as a member of the board of county commissioners, as representative of the southern district of the county. Fidelity and discrimination have marked his labors in this important capacity, and he has even further fortified himself in the confidence and esteem of the community at large. He attends and gives earnest support to the Christian church in La Fontaine, of which his wife is a devoted member. He is affiliated with the Masonic frater¬ nity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is past grand of his lodge of Odd Fellows and past chief patriarch of its local organization of Patriarch Militant.

On the 24th of December, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Banister to Miss Ellen Hackney, who was born in Kentucky, but she was reared in Wabash county, having been but three years old when she came here with her parents, William and Mary Hackney. Mr. and t Mrs. Banister became the parents of two sons and one daughter, and the only one living is Harry W., who was graduated in the La Fontaine high school as a member of the class of 1902, and later completed a course in telegraphy and shorthand, he being now employed at La Fontaine.

August, 1912. He was born November 3, 1873. He married Jessie Rigbee of Wabash. Lucille Banister died August 19, 1907, aged twentynine years.

Marshall R. Ford, familiarly known hereabout as "Roy" Ford, has added something of value to the farming interests of Lagro town¬ ship by reason of his industry and progressiveness as the owner and operator of a nice place of one hundred acres about three miles northeast of Lagro. He bought this place in the year 1907 from John Kane, and it was then known widely as the old "Whitmore" or "Anderson" farm. Today, Mr. Ford's farm is designated by neither of those old familiar appellations, for his activities have made it so essentially the ' 4 Ford ' ' place that the former names are no longer applied to it.

Mr. Ford was born in Randolph county, Indiana, on February 16, 1868, and he is a son of Doctor Franklin (Doctor is an old family name. He was not a physician) and Emily (Moore) Ford, both natives of Randolph county, also, and a grandson of Rovston and Ann (Mills) Ford, pioneers of Indiana, who came to the state as children, and passed their lives in agricultural activities within its borders. The father of Emily Moore, the mother of the subject, was an Ohioan by birth, and he located in the southwest part of Henry county, Indiana, when the entire district was a wilderness.

D. F. Ford, father of the subject, was a merchant for years at Farm¬ land, and he was a veteran of the Civil war. He first enlisted for the three months of service the government called for troops for, and when that time had expired he reenlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana and served until he was discharged for disability. He again enlisted, the third time entering the 147th Indiana, and he saw much service from then until the close of the war. When peace was once more the rule in the land, Mr. Ford was elected sheriff of his county on the Republican ticket, and he was serving his second term in that office when he was killed by an escaping prisoner one night when he went to the county jail on an errand. This was in the year 1872, and he was then 33 years of age. His widow still lives at Farmland, Indiana. They had three children. Anna became the wife of Owen Longsdorf, of Farmland; Marshall Roy is the subject of this review; and Oscar, who died in infancy.

Marshall Roy Ford was a lad of six years when his father was cut down in the prime of life, and he grew up in Randolph county, attending the district schools and also the school at Farmland and at Ridgeville. He early went to work in a general store in Farmland, and he was but twenty-one when he married Arilla McNeese, daughter of Marshall and Regina (Macey) McNeese. They were married Feb¬ ruary 28, 1889, and soon thereafter Mr. Ford bought a small farm of sixty-five acres in Randolph county, which he sold some time after, com¬ ing to Wabash county in 1907 and buying his present farm of one hundred acres. Here Mr. Ford had learned much about farming, and though he was not born to the industry, he has enjoyed quite as material and marked a success as have many of his more experienced neighbors.

A stanch republican, Mr. Ford served two years as superintendent of the Randolph County Infirmary, and proved himself a capable and conscientious official in that time. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Lagro, and with his family, has membership in the Presbyterian church.

Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ford. Ethel, the eldest, is the wife of Raymond Jones, and has one daughter, Helen. Nora is engaged in school teaching in Wabash county; Ruth is a high school student ; Louie, Frank and Alice are all attending the local schools.

The family is one of the foremost ones in the community, and they have many friends here who have in the few years of their resi¬ dence in Lagro township, come to know them for the possessors of many admirable traits of character that make of them desirable friends and neighbors.

A. W. Schuler. The Schuler homestead is a fine farm of sixty-seven acres in Lagro township, located two and a half miles from Urbana on the north Manchester Pike. This place has a peculiar interest not only as a tract of land exceptionally well managed and producing the staple crops of Wabash county, but also because of the fact that it has produced two exceptionally efficient and honored county officers. It was originally the Daniel McKahan heirs* farm, and from this place Daniel McKahan, Jr., went into the office of sheriff by the vote of his fel¬ low citizens. Only recently Mr. A. W. Schuler retired from the office of county recorder, having moved from the farm after his election and having returned to it when his term of office was concluded.

Alvin Ward Schuler comes from one of the pioneer families of Wabash county. Ilis parents were Philip and Elizabeth (Buck) Schuler. Philip Schuler was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and was twelve years old when he came to Indiana with his parents Robert and Elizabeth (Rantz) Schuler. That was the journey accomplished in the early days, and after the pioneer fashion, in wagons and with teams, and after arriving in Wabash county, they located in the woods near Roann. After getting his family established Robert Schuler returned to Pennsylvania on a visit. He went back in a buggy and his horse ran away, and as a result of the injury sustained, lack of proper medical attention and the complication of what was then known as 4 'Black Ery¬ sipelas, " he died. His wife later went out to Minnesota and died at the home of her son. There were six sons and six daughters and Philip Schuler, was third in order of birth. Though only twelve years old when the family came to this county, Philip Schuler had to take his share in the clearing of the land, and was in every sense of the term a pioneer. Learning the trade of carpenter he followed that vocation for a number of years and also bought a farm two and a half miles north of Roann, which he made the basis for the accumulation of a sub¬ stantial degree of prosperity. He finally retired to Roann and lived

Noah Milam was born on April 5, 1853, and he is a son of Joel and Anna (White) Milam. The parents were natives of Virginia, who in young life moved to Ohio and there settled on a farm. They moved into Indiana in 1845, taking up their residence almost immediately on the farm in Noble township that has since that early day responded to the vigor and activities of men of the Milam family. At that time, the original purchase was represented by a tract of eighty acres of heavily timbered land. Though covered with a growth of timber that today would be worth a small fortune to any man, the sturdy trees of oak, hickory and walnut shared the common fate of the forests of that time, and were sacrificed to permit the cultivation of the virgin soil.

It should be said in passing that Joel Milam walked the distance each way from Ohiq to Wabash county, Indiana, on two different occasions prior to the time of his actual settling here in 1845. In that year he came accompanied by his young family, making the journey in an ox wagon. He built a large log house, more conspicuous for its size than for its elegance, but it served, and they were not people to complain with their lot while the necessities of life were theirs, and there was a prospect of establishing a permanent home in the wilderness. To them were born six children. The first three were born in Preble county, Ohio, and the others in Noble township, Wabash county, Indiana. They were named as follows: Joseph and John, twins; Rebecca, who died young, being the first person to be buried in the Noble township cemetery ; Elizabeth; Noah and Esther. Joseph married Elizabeth Blotter and John married Catherine Reddinger. Elizabeth became the wife of Valentine Beainer, and Noah of this review married Louise Rousch, of whom further mention will be made.

The father of Noah Milam reached a ripe old age, being eighty-seven years old when he died in 1902, and the mother died at the age of about sixty. Joel Milam was one of the most ambitious and energetic men the township ever knew, and he reared his sons to know the value of a good day 's work, as they will readily testify. He left a good name and a fair inheritance of more material character, and is well remembered among the citizens of this community, as is also the woman who was his devoted companion and the mother of his children. He was a Dunkard in his religious faith, and a republican all his days.

tively. She was one of a family of nine, the other eight being Adam, Charles, Jacob, Kate, Elizabeth, and Henry and George, who were twins. To Mr. and Mrs. Milam one son was born, - Peter Joel Milam, born on cellent standing with the best people in the community. He has pros¬ pered through his own activities and energies, and has proven himself worthy of every bit of success that has come to him. He owns 204 acres of land and his son owns 99 acres, making a fine farm of 303 acres, which they operate. He does general agriculture and stock raising. With his family Mr. Milam has a wide circle of friends here who know him for many sterling traits of heart and mind.

W. S. Williams. A fine farm of ninety acres overlooking the Wabash River, with house sitting well back from the road, has been the home place of W. S. Williams, of Lagro township since the year 1910, which year marked his purchase of this property. Mr. Williams was reared to farm life, and there are few things, if, indeed, any, in the matter of successful farming in this section of the county with which he is not reasonably familiar. A lifelong resident of the county, Mr. Williams was born on his father's farm, about two miles distant from his present home, September 14, 1852, and he is a son of John and Matilda (Seaver) Williams.

John Williams was born in Kentucky and his wife in Virginia. They were married in Fayette county, Indiana, and there spent some years. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and he plied his trade in Fayette county for some time before he began to turn his attention to farming. In the early forties he moved from Vienna, in Fayette county, to Lagro town¬ ship, this county, and here he bought 136 acres, and combined farming with cabinet making for a good many years before death claimed him. He was resident there at the time of his passing, and his widow later passed away in Huntington county. She was twice married. Her first husband was a Mr. Jonas, and she bore him two children, William and Margaret, the latter now deceased. Of her marriage with Mr. Williams there were four children. Clay, the eldest, is deceased. Josie married James Reed ; Winfield Scott, of this review, and John. The father, too, was twice married, and his first brood numbered seven, and were named Silas, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mattie, Amanda, Harriett and Mary. The five last named are now deceased.

Winfield Scott Williams was born on September 14, 1852, in the round log house common to the time, located just east of the old frame school and church building at Hopewell, Lagro township. Mr. Williams lived at home up to the time of his marriage in 1874 to Miss Anna Reed, a daughter of John and Mary (Martin) Reed, who came from Fayette county, Indiana, to this community, where Mrs. Williams was born. She was one of the four children of her parents, the others being W. M., James and Susan, the wife of Capt. E. Stone.

After his marriage Mr. Williams worked on the home farm for a year, and then they took up their residence at the home place of Mrs. Williams' people, where they continued to operate the Reed farm for eight years. During this time Mr. Williams bought land of his own in Grant county and in Wabash county also, getting his present place in 1907, and moving to it in 1910. How well he has succeeded in his work in the few years of his residence here has already been noted in a preced¬ ing paragraph, so that further details of his farming activities are unnecessary at this juncture.

Mr. and Mrs. Williams have a nice family of seven children, briefly mentioned as follows: Ward, married to Clara Horner, is the father of two children, - Hilda and Lowell, and they are residents of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where Mr. Williams is engaged in business activities. Grace married Orren Hummel, and they live in Marion, Indiana. Glenn mar¬ ried Mary Wilson, and their children are Lisle and Vaughan. They are living in Canada. Wade married Varna Poor and they live in Michigan. Ernest married Augusta Wendell, and they have a home in Wabash county. Paul and Pauline, twins, complete this interesting family, and they make their home with their parents.

Samuel T. Jackson. In the year 1829 the Jackson family was estab¬ lished in Indiana, when Samuel Jackson, grandsire of Samuel T. Jackson, of this review, accompanied by his wife and children, came to Madison county from North Carolina. He later moved on and took up his residence in Wabash county, and from then to the present writing men of the name of Jackson, members of this family, contributed in generous measure to the development and progress of this section of the country, though Samuel Jackson himself died in Iowa, where he moved late in life.

James Jackson, the son of Samuel, was born in North Carolina in 1819, and came to Indiana as a child of ten years. He was reared from then on to manhood in Madison county and there married Cecelia Thompson of Madison county, Indiana. He and his brothers, Robert and Elias Jackson came out to Wabash county in the early forties and took up a large tract of land in the wilds of Liberty township. They made the trip in a wagon, Robert in charge of the expedition, and James and his young wife found themselves in a new country, without a home ready to receive them, for their log cabin, though well under way, was not yet completed. Robert and Elias lacked the courage to face the untoward and primitive conditions to the end, and returned to Madison county, but James and his wife remained, though in later years Robert returned and made some improvements on his place, and still later Elias came back and with renewed courage, took up the burden of carving out a home for himself, but he was not equal to the herculean task and a short time after made his way back to the haunts of civiliza¬ tion again. About that time their parents came to Wabash county, too, and settled on land near La Fontaine.

James Jackson cleared up his land in Liberty township, and later sold it and moved to Noble township. He became prosperous and wellto-do and died in Wabash county at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother, however, died at the age of forty-four years, and he later married Hannah Burns. She had two sons, - Daniel and John, by a former marriage. The children of his first marriage were fourteen in number, and Samuel T. of this review was the eldest. The others are named in order of birth. William, now deceased ; Mary, also deceased ; Minerva ; James M., deceased ; Franklin P. ; Melissa E., deceased ; Laura ; John Willard; Sarah Y. ; Flora D. ; Enola May; Elizabeth I. and David H. All of them reached years of maturity with the exception of the first named daughter, who died in infancy.

Samuel T. Jackson was reared on the Liberty township farm, and he was fourteen years old when the family moved to Noble township. Sixty days in each year up to the age of fifteen years was his allow¬ ance of schooling, and that attendance was granted at a period in the year when there was nothing to be done on the farm. As the eldest of a large family, much of the hard work of the place fell to him when he was yet a boy of tender years, and he was no stranger to the arduous tasks attendant upon the clearing up of a wilderness tract of land into a productive farm. He remained at home to the age of twenty-two and thereafter for the space of four or five years he divided his time between independent work and work on the home place.

In 1872 Mr. Jackson married Sarah Kemp, and she died in 1876 leaving him three children. Emerson, the eldest, is now married to Luella Sailors, and has children Claude and Catherine, residing in Oklahoma. The others, Cecelia and Elburn, died in infancy.

On November 6, 1879, Mr. Jackson married Hannah Ramsey, a daughter of James and Mary (Welsch) Ramsey. They have one daughter, - Mary, the wife of Prof. William Cushing, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Jackson was born on her father's farm about two miles south of Lagro. Her parents came to Indiana in 1842 from the vicinity of Philadelphia, and on reaching Indiana spent two years in Richmond, after which they established themselves in Lagro township. Mr. Ram¬ sey died here in 1884 when he was seventy-two years of age and his wife died in 1893 at the age of seventy-eight. They had a family of ten children. Sarah, the first born, died as the wife of Willis McDonald ; John T. died in 1909 ; Lydia E. is deceased ; Catherine died as the wife of Mr. John T. Collins; Hannah married Mr. Jackson of this review; William B. ; James F. ; Lydia, wife of Robert Scott ; Phoebe, who mar¬ ried James Barton ; and Margaret, the wife of R. G. Fultz.

Mr. Jackson farmed at various places in the township up to the time when he bought his present place in 1900 and his eighty acre farm is another of the attractive and well kept places in the township. He has remodeled the buildings since he came into possession and many changes have added to the value and appearance of the place. He no longer farms the entire place himself, but rents out certain of his fields, and is thereby relieved of much of the care of the place, at the same time realizing a nice income from the system.

Mr. Jackson is a democrat, and his churchly relations are with the Baptist church. He and his family are stanch members and attend¬ ants, and have a wide circle of friends in and about the township where they have so long been residents.

Lieutenant William R. Hunt. One of the best known citizens of Wabash county was the late Lieutenant William R. Hunt, who gained his honorable title by active service in the war for the Union, was for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits in Liberty township, and became one of his community's prosperous men and influential citizens, gaining the respect and esteem of the people of his locality by his fair and honor¬ able dealings and upright life. He was a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic at La Fontaine, and at all times was popular with his old army comrades. His death on June 30, 1913, removed from the locality one of its best and most public spirited citizens.

William R. Hunt, the fourth son of Harrison and Diana (Lewis) Hunt, was born near New Salem, Rush county, Indiana, September 29, 1837, and was past seventy-five years of age at the time of his death. His early life was spent on the homestead farm, which he left in 1859, and with a party of young men from his neighborhood went by ox-team to Pike 's Peak. The prospects in the gold mines of that region were not promising, and in the same year all the party returned to their homes. Only a little later Mr. Hunt found ample opportunity for the satisfaction of his adventurous spirit in the war of the Rebellion. He made a long and honorable military record. On September 4, 1861, enlisting as a private in Company K of the Thirty-seventh Indiana Regiment of In¬ fantry, he was mustered into the service of the army on September 18th following and went to the front with his regiment. During his service of more than three years he participated in numerous hard-fought en¬ gagements, including those at Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga and the siege of Atlanta. He was wounded three times and by brave and faithful service won promotion from the ranks. On February 22, 1863, he was commissioned second lieutenant of his company and on October 22nd of the same year was advanced to first lieutenant, a rank which he held at the time of his honorable dis¬ charge on October 27, 1864. After the war Lieutenant Hunt returned to his home in Rush county, but in January, 1865, came to Wabash county.

In Wabash county on January 14, 1866, he married Miss Henrietta Poston, who died December 12, 1883. On September 21, 1887, Lieutenant Hunt married Mrs. Alma Z. (Downey) Hunt. By their marriage they had one son, William R., born April 21, 1891. William R. Hunt, Jr., married September 25, 1912, Miriam Grindle, and their daughter Doro¬ thy D. was born June 29, 1913.

No history of Wabash county or of those who have contributed to its material welfare and advancement would be complete that did not make mention of its worthy and energetic women, whose faithful and loving assistance has enabled their husbands to make this one of the thriving agricultural communities of the great Hoosier state. Few are better or more favorably known than Mrs. Alma Z. Hunt, widow of the late Lieu¬ tenant Hunt. For twenty-six years Mrs. Hunt has been a resident of Liberty township, and is now living in the suburbs of the town of Treaty.

was born in Virginia October 6, 1816, and her mother in Ohio on July 1, 1825. They were married in Ohio, moved to Rush county, Indiana, where they spent the remainder of their long and useful lives. Her father died April 25, 1894, and her mother on July 16, 1896. They were known as people of sterling worth and upright character, prominent in church and charitable work, and helpful and useful in their community. Of their seven children five survive: Laura D., widow of William M. Brooks of Rushville, Indiana ; Florence, wife of Charles Lines of Knightstown, Indiana ; Gertrude, wife of H. S. Carney of Rushville ; Thomas J., engaged in farming in Rush county ; and Alma Z.

Alma Z. Downey was educated in the public schools of Noble town¬ ship in Rush county, was reared on her father's farm, and was well prepared for the various responsibilities that she has subsequently as sumed. On December 27, 1876, she married Benjamin R. Hunt, a younger brother of the late Lieutenant Hunt. Benjamin R. Hunt was born March 17, 1853, and died November 14, 1879. There was one son by their marriage, Harry C., born December 27, 1878, and died March 25, 1907. He was married on September 30, 1903, to Pearl Miller.

Mrs. Hunt is now living in the environment of Treaty, Indiana, where she owns a farm of 244 acres of well-developed land. A woman of charitable impulses, she has been active in the work of the Christian church at Treaty and a treasurer of the Ladies Aid Society. Mrs. Hunt's acquaintance is extensive and her many excellences of mind and heart make her greatly beloved by a wide circle of friends.

Jesse M. Price. One of the principal industries of the agricultural community of Wabash county, and particularly of that section in which lies Paw Paw township, is the raising and shipping of valuable horses, cattle and hogs, and to this many of the most substantial men here are devoting their attention. Although it is a good country for grain, they have found by experience that it is more profitable to feed their product to their live stock and thus to turn it back into their land. Among the men who are making a distinct success of their operations is found Jesse M. Price, who is engaged in activities on his father's farm of 205 acres, a well-cultivated tract lying about two miles south of Urbana, on the west side of the Manchester turnpike. Mr. Price was born October 17* 1875, on the homestead farm, south of Wolcott, Indiana, and is a son of John and Maggie (McCallister) Price.

John Price was born in Kane county, Illinois, and was married in White county, Indiana, to Maggie McCallister, who was a native of the city of Chicago. Later they moved to Monticello, Mr. Price purchasing seventy acres at the edge of the town and embarking in the horse busi¬ ness. When his son, Jesse M. Price, had finished school and was ready to embark upon his career, the father sold both his farms and moved to Lafayette, Indiana, locating one and one-half miles from the Court House. In 1906 he sold off a part of his farm to the Big Four Railroad, for gravel, and since that time has lived practically retired. Mr. Price is a self-made man in every sense of the word. When he first came to

Indiana, his capital consisted of a pair of sorrel horses, and these he traded for his first farm. From that time forward his energy, persistence and good judgment rapidly brought him success, and today he is justly accounted one of the substantial men of his community. He is still in good health and spirits, alert in body and mind, and although seventy years of age still takes a keen interest in all that goes on about him. Mrs. Price also survives, being sixty-one years old. They have been the parents of four children, as follows: Jesse M., of this review; Frank, who is a resident of Marion, Indiana ; Roy, who died at the age of fifteen years; and Anson, who resides with his parents.

Jesse M. Price attended the district schools in the vicinity of his father's farm, and subsequently took a course in the high school at Monticello. His vacations and spare time were passed in assisting his father in the cultivation of the homestead, and for four years he was engaged in operating the farm at Lafayette. Following this he identified himself with the well-known horse-breeding firm of J. Crouch & Son, and spent five years in their employ, but in 1907, when his father purchased the present farm from Mr. DeHaven, he again resumed the tilling of the soil, in which he has met with excellent success. At that time the barn was the only building standing on the property, but Mr. Price soon put up a large modern residence and other buildings, tiled and ditched the land, and made it into a handsome and valuable farm. He follows general farming to some extent, raises a great deal of alfalfa, and, in common with other progressive farmers of this section, devotes much attention to the breeding of good horses, cattle and hogs. As a business man he has shown himself capable of seeing and grasping opportunities, but his reputation is that of a man who has never taken an unfair ad¬ vantage of his fellows in commercial transactions. He has been too busily engaged in the cultivation of his land to enter actively into public life, but in political matters supports the policies of the democratic party.

On January 21, 1893, Mr. Price was married to Miss Myrta McQuarg, daughter of Daniel and Amanda (Davis) McQuarg, of Monticello, In¬ diana, and four children have been born to this union: Morris, Ardis, Margaret and Kenneth.

Peter Neff came to Wabash county, Indiana, in 1860, from the State of California, where he had been six years, going to that state from Champagne county, Ohio. He has since been a resident of this state and community, and he lives today on the farm he bought and settled on in that early day, and he has enjoyed a long and useful career in the township.

Born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, on October 16, 1826, Peter Neff is the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Strickler) Neff, and he was one of a family of nine children born to his parents. His mother died in middle life, and the father married Rachel Romiek, who became the mother of four children. His third wife was Rachel Landacher.

twice married, his first wife, Ruth Wessner, being the mother of Rebecca, Phoebe, Elam, Asenath and Daniel. After the death of the wife and mother in February, 1849, the father married Lydia Macy, the daughter of Nathan Macy, and to them were born seven children. Several of the seven died in infancy, and only Emma and Nathan survive today. Joseph Votaw was born and reared in the Quaker faith, and all his days he was active in the work of the church.

Daniel W. Votaw received his early education in Miami and Wabash counties, and he remained at home with his father until his marriage, in 1868, when Louisa Gaunt, the daughter of Uz and Sarah Ann (Whitacre) Gaunt, became his wife. She was born in Ohio and came here when quite a young girl, in company with her family. She had seven brothers and sisters: John, George, Elizabeth, James, Hannah, Allen and Emma. Her people finally settled in Wabash county, and here they passed their remaining days.

In 1869 Daniel W. Votaw settled in Wabash county on a farm of ninety-five acres. lie now owns two hundred acres in Wabash county, in two separate farms, and has done all of the improvement work himself. The land is in excellent condition, and reflects the spirit and ambition of its owner in every detail. In more recent years Mr. Votaw has main¬ tained his residence upon a small but well kept and productive place of thirty-one acres, which is quite enough to keep him busy in these days.

To Mr. and Mrs. Votaw were born eleven children, five of whom are living: Millard F., who married Ida Fisher; Joseph W., who married Florence Barnett; Viola, the wife of Joseph Sloop; Phoebe M., the wife of Louis Baldwin and living in Florida; and Ethel, the wife of Milton Barnett and living in California.

Mr. Votaw and his son Millard are life members of the Quaker church, but Mrs. Votaw and the remainder of the children are of the United Brethren faith. Mr. Votaw 's father was first a whig in politics and later became a republican, and Mrs. Votaw 's father was a life-long democrat. Mr. Votaw has been a life-long republican. The family is well established in the community, enjoying the esteem and confidence of a wide circle of friends in and about the township.

R. C. Thompson. Twelve years ago R. C. Thompson was practically without assets, and when he bought his present place in Noble township, he went in debt for it. Today he has not only succeeded in paying for the place, but he has brought it to a high state of agricultural productive¬ ness that makes it one of the most desirable farms in the county, and with its fine collection of comfortable and modern buildings, the place is assessed today at $40,000. This, it will be admitted readily enough, is very good progress for a plain and unassuming farming man, and Mr. Thompson may well be proud of his accomplishments.

Born in Pike county, Ohio, on February 28, 1860, R. C. Thompson is the son of George W. and Rhoda (Miller) Thompson, natives of Colum¬ biana county, Ohio, where the father was a farmer. They were the parents of ten children, four of whom are yet living. The parents passed their lives in Pike county. On February 9, 1886, R. C. Thompson was married in Pike county, Ohio, to Lulu Rankin, a daughter of Milton and Martha Rankin, and their first independent home was in Sangamon county, Illinois, where they settled on a farm. They remained there for nine years, when they sold out and bought a farm in White county, Indiana, there residing for six years. It was in 1901 that they came to Wabash county and purchased their present fine place in Noble township.

Mr. Thompson's success has been remarkable, in that he began to work for himself when twenty-one as a hired man on a farm in his com¬ munity, and his possessions today have been acquired through his own skill and good management. He has worked as only a man on a farm may, and today he has a magnificent place to show for his labors. As # has been stated, his present home is valued at $40,000. Up to the time when he established himself in Noble township, Mr. Thompson gives much of the credit for their prosperity to his wife, who has done her full share in helping him to accumulate their property. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson had about $7,000 when they came to Wabash county and bought their 185 acres, paying $11,500 for the place, and going in debt about $4,000. But he has cleared off that debt and has also bought addi¬ tional land, about seventy-five acres. He does mixed farming, raising grain and stock. At the present time he is clear of all debts. The place today boasts an entire new set of fences and buildings of all kinds, and altogether, it is one of the most attractive places in the county. The house, a comfortable looking frame affair, is painted white, with a white fence surrounding it, and one of the best kept lawns one might hope to see adds much to the natural beauty of the place. Cloverdale Farm is undeniably one of the finest looking places in the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have four children. Pearl, the eldest, mar¬ ried Minor Bickel, and has two children, Armond and Dorothy Helen; Lenora, the second, is the wife of La Moyne Shellhammer ; Lorine is un¬ married ; as is. also Ardath. The family are members of the United Brethern church, and Mr. Thompson is a Democrat in his politics.

John Alexander Martin and Sanford Charles Martin. Of family names that have been identified with Wabash county since pioneer times, none have had more honored and active association with the county at large than that of Martin. Both father and son named above were sol¬ diers of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war, and the father lost his life in the war. While the son 's activities as a business man have been for a long period of years connected with Liberty Mills, he is best known over the county at large for his capable administration of the duties of sheriff a few years ago.

The late John Alexander Martin was one of the real pioneers of Wabash county. He first saw the light of day in Fayette county, Penn¬ sylvania, in 1821, and came of old and prominent American ancestors. Ho was a son of Alexander and a grandson of John Martin. John Martin was one of the early volunteers in the cause of independence during the Revolution. He was a pioneer and an Indian fighter as well as a soldier of the regular army during the Revolution, and was associated and intimate friends with such great historic characters as Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and George Rogers Clark. In the latter years of the eighteenth century he journeyed west to the state of Ken¬ tucky, and for his services rendered the government was given a section of land in Greenup county. This property, now worth many thousands of dollars because of its oil and iron deposits, was handed down through several generations of the family, but unfortunately was sold a number of years before the value of its sub-surface was realized.

John Alexander Martin spent his boyhood days at Uniontown, Penn¬ sylvania, and early in life married Amanda McLean. She was a daughter of Ephriam McLean and a granddaughter of Colonel McLean. Colonel McLean was one of the pioneer engineers of the United States, and was the man employed by the government to lay out the Mason and Dixon line from Baltimore to St. Louis. Owing to the fact that the Southern states had complained that this line was surveyed too far south, two London engineers named Mason and Dixon were employed to verify the work done by Colonel McLean. They found his line as nearly ac¬ curate as possible, and its course was never changed in any important particular, though it has always borne the names of the Englishmen who covered the ground instead of the man who performed the original work.

Soon after he was married John Alexander Martin moved from Penn¬ sylvania to the section of land owned by the family in Greenup county, Kentucky. In 1847, having sold that property, he came north to Wabash county, Indiana, which was then a veritable wilderness. His cabin home was built at North Manchester, and from there he moved to a farm near Urbana, and subsequently to another farm two miles west of Manchester, and still later to Kosciusko county. Though he was forty years of age when the war broke out, he enlisted in Company I of the Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, and first served as wTagon-master, and later was commissioned first lieutenant of his company. In April, 1862, while conducting some troops down the river he contracted diphtheria and at Cairo was taken on board a gunboat for medical treatment. The old-fashioned remedy of bleeding was resorted to, and during that operation the surgeon's knife accidentally severed his jugular vein, and he died almost immediately. His body was brought home, and was laid to rest in a soldier's grave at North Manchester. His widow survived him many years and died February 14, 1911, and is now at rest near Liberty Mills. To their marriage were born the following children : M. K. ; Sanford C. ; Alice, who married Michael Cook, deceased ; Manassa Clinton, of Kansas City, Kansas; Jessie F., who married John Folk; and Nellie, Mrs. Life Cloutman, of Kansas City, Missouri.

Sanford Charles Martin, who had a record as a soldier in the Civil war while still a boy, was thirty-five years an active business man of Liberty Mills, and now living retired at that village, was born in Greenup county, Kentucky, April 10, 1846, a son of John A. and Amanda human existence by seven or eight years at the time of his death. His early rearing was on a farm, and during his boyhood his parents moved to Fulton county, Ohio. The district schools laid the foundation of his mental training, and he was also a student in Old Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia, an institution known probably to every member of the Christian church in its association with Alexander Campbell its founder. Early in life he determined upon a career in the ministry, but for a number of years his activities were divided between his studies for his profession, and his work as an education, and in public office. He taught school for a time in Fulton county, Ohio, and while living at Wauseon, Ohio, was elected treasurer of Fulton county and by re-election served two terms. That public service was during the Civil war. He had already begun preaching after leaving the office of county treasurer, and devoted his entire time to the ministry.

In 1868 Rev. Carpenter came to Indiana, and was stationed at Wabash in charge of the local church. In a very short time, through his excep¬ tional talent as a preacher, his ability in the organization of churches, and the extension of the beneficent activities of religion into both new and old fields, he became a figure of national importance in the Christian world. He was pastor of the Christian church at Wabash for many years. He was elected by the State Sunday school association as Sunday school evangelist for the state of Indiana, a position he retained a long time, and in the discharge of his duties visited practically every section of the state. For twenty years prior to his death, Rev. Mr. Carpenter was president of Bethany Assembly, the National Chautauqua of the Christian church, with grounds located twenty miles south of In¬ dianapolis. He was one of the organizers of that institution.

Perhaps no minister ever lived who dedicated more churches than did Rev. Carpenter. The number at which he presided in this capacity reaches seven hundred and sixty-two and they were located throughout the United States and Canada. The travel necessary to reach these churches alone comprehend considerable portion of one man's life, but it was characteristic of him that he allowed no ordinary consideration to deter him from the performance of his duties. The last twenty years of his life were largely devoted to the dedication of churches.

The Rev. Mr. Carpenter was six feet two inches in height, jovial in disposition, and in every sense of the word was an optimist. His faculty of looking on the bright side of everything was translated into hope and encouragement among thousands who came to him for sympathy and mental and spiritual relief. He was an exceptional Bible student, and an orator of much power and resource. He was a firm believer in the creed he advocated, was honest in his convictions, a devoted and sincere worker, and always maintained a happy balance between practice and theory, so that he might well be described as having been a "doer of the Word." His talents as a minister, and his personal attributes rendered him a prominent and welcome personality everywhere. He was outspoken in his convictions on every subject, and his sound reason¬ ing commanded the closest attention.