Hovey, Indiana

James M. Barter, who was attending college at Greencastle, Ind., when the war with Mexico broke out, and in January, 1847, took French leave of absence and joined the Fifth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, commanded by Col. James H. Lane, with which he served as color-guard on the line from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico and five miles beyond, under Gen. Scott, until the close of the war. During the war of the Rebellion he was a captain in the First Indiana Cavalry, commanded by Col. Conrad Baker (subsequently governor of Indiana) and in 1879 he established the Weekly Sun, of Mount Vernon, Ind., a Republican newspaper of which he is now (1885) editor and manager. October 9, 1858, at Elizabethtown, 111., he was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Kate Lee Leflar (died March 15, 1885), by whom he has five sons now living.

Passage source: History of Posey County, Indiana : from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. : Together with an Extended History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1886.

Rebellion wlien he enlisted as first lieutenant of Company H, First Indiana Cavalry and remained with his regiment until the following January when he resigned and was engaged in the quartermaster's department at Memphis, Tenn., until the following November, when he returned to Mount Vernon and resumed his trade, continuing until January, 1864, when he enlisted as a private in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was appointed second lieutenant of the company which position he held till the close of the war. He then returned home and that same year was elected first marshal under the city charter and served three years. He was defeated in 1868, but filled out part of his opponent's time as he (the opponent) had been convicted and sentenced to State prison for handling counterfeit money. After that he held the office eight years by re-election. In 1878 he was defeated by twenty votes for nomination on the Democratic ticket for sheriff but served again as city marshal from 1880 to 1882, and four years as deputy sheriff and jailer. In November, 1882, he was elected by his party to the sheriff's office and was re-elected in 1884. May 28, 1863, he married Anna E. Musselman, a native of the same place as our subject. They became the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living: Cora A. (wife of Lewis Stinson), Augusta M., George B. McClellan, Anna Belle, Zadia E., Helen L. and Edward S. Mr. Hayes' political views have always been Democratic. He is a Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. E., and he is recognized as an upright, enterprising citizen and a courteous able official.

Passage source: History of Posey County, Indiana : from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. : Together with an Extended History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1886.

EOBEET K. HUNTEE, a wealtliy retired citizen of Mount Vernon, Ind., was born in County Down, Ireland, November 2, 1811. He is a son of James and Ellen (Eobb) Hunter, who were natives of Scotland. The father who was a manufacturer of linen and woolen goods, started to the United States in 1832, with his family, but died while en route on the Atlantic off Cape Breton, and was buried in the ocean. The mother died a month later of cholera while on Lake Erie, and a day later one of his sisters died of the same dread disease. Eobert K. came with the surviving members of the family to Pittsburgh, Penn., where he engaged in the retail boot and shoe business, and later engaged in farming in the State. In 1857 he immigrated west and located on a farm near Mount Vernon, Ind., where he resided twelve years. In 1869 he moved to Mount Vernon where he has since made his home, and engaged in buying and selling real estate. Mr. Hunter has met with more than ordinary success financially, and has now a very handsome competency. In 1838 he married Martha Pollock, a native of Pennsylvania, who died October 4, 1872, leaving no children. Mr. Hunter is an unswerving Democrat, and is an elder and member of the Presbyterian, Church. He is recognized by all as one of the leading citizens of the town and county, and a thoroughly upright man.

Passage source: History of Posey County, Indiana : from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. : Together with an Extended History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1886.

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