Davis Township

Davis Township

This township- occupies the northeast corner of Fountain county. It contains twenty-one square sections, and five fractional ones, owing to the concave boundary formed by the "Wabash river on the north. It is about seven and one-half miles long on the east, five and one-fourth on the west, and is four sections wide. A diagonal line drawn through the township from the northeast corner of section four to the nortiiwest corner of section thirteen is as nearly correct a division between prairie and timber when settlement was begun as can be made by a stiaight line. The prairie was south of this, but not all on that side of this siippositive line was of that description. Tlie remainder of the township is embraced in the timber belt which borders on the "Wabash. A part of the surface on the east is comparatively even, while the most of the south half is boldly rolling. The soil in these parts is of exceeding fertility. The prospect is pleasing and picturesque. Extensive fields, well fenced and neatly cultivated ; capacious and lawn-like pastures, with shady groves, through which domestic stock ranges in profitable content, and sightly elevations commanding the country' around, surmounted with substantial and often costly and beautiful farm residences, meet the view on every hand. The people are generally wealthy, refined and enterprising. The larger half contained in the wooded area, which is at present partly cleared out, divided into small farms and moderately improved, is of poorer quality and less attractive. It is cut through by a number of considerable streams, whose high bluffs, covered with timber, terminate in steep escarpments. These water-courses empty into the "Wabash. Beginning in the remote northeast corner is Flint creek, next below is Grindstone, then Turkey Ilun, and after that Young's Run, or Possum Hollow creek. The south end of the township is watered by the Big Sliawnee.

Public improvements liave not been muneroiis. Tiie roads, tliongh very good when dry, will compel much outlay to make them first-class. The Wabash jand Eric canal was constructed through this township, and served as an artery of commerce until profit failed, and total neglect ensued within the short period of twenty years, from about 1842. The Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad was completed to Independence station in 1854.

Tlie iirst settlement was begun, perhaps, as early as 1824 or 1825, bnt it cannot now be said with certainty who the advance pioneers were. Tiie settlers came chiefly from Ohio, though the heads of families rarely were natives of that state, which, little more than twenty years before had been a territory to which emigration had poured from Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and in less volume from Kentucky. The earliest improvements of importance were made in the soutii half of the township, next the prairie. In 1827 Isaac Waldrip bought land, and the next year brought his family. Numerous arrivals occurred about this period, but we cannot be definite as to dates. Most of those whom we shall mention came between 1825 and 1832. On January 1, 1829, Uncle Jesse Marvin reached here on foot from Ohio, and in March entered the land where he lives. At this time Martin Sparr had improved the farm where F. M. Helterbran resides, and Mr. Marvin enjoyed the hospitality of this family during his first winter in Davis township. Sparr had made his beginning here in the spring of 1827. His son-in-law, James Morrison, was living on a part of his property. Sparr and his wife died in a little while, and Joshua Dunkin, a brother-in-law, who was here in 1830, bought out the heirs. Frederick Alenduff settled here in the autumn of 1827, and Archibald Koberts a year later, both in what was called the " Shawnee neighborhood," in the south and east part of the township. Prior to 1829 Dr. Yandes was located where Harrison Van Meter owns, and John Pierce lived on the farm now occupied by Telemachus Odell. Yandes was the first physician in the township. His practice was not more learned and skillful than his life was regular and temperate. He and a young man studying with him, named Young, were drowned while crossing the river in a canoe from Independence. William Clark, a Campbellite preacher, lived on Sec. 16, T. 21, R. 6. He moved away in the spring of 1834. George Sargent, a New Light minister, and one of the first teachers of the Word in this townsiiip, lived on the hill north of Elizah Mattox, on the Washburn farm. His son, Enoch, had his home adjoining on the east, and John, another son, where Elmer Washburn lives. John Jones was another settler. Joseph Chizum came about this time to the Sliawnee neighborhood, homo where Jasper Dunkin lives. Jehu Atherton lived in the south part of the township, on the Morris farm, a few years. A family of Funks was living on the south side also, where Isaac Bender resides. Dr. Worthington was located on the south side of the old state road, between Odell's and Earl's. Uncle Joseph Brown and his brother, Hiram, came in 1830. The former is living in the home he made titty years ago. He found Thomas and Timothy Clawson, who had immigrated the year before. The first bought out a man named Munson, who did not long remain. These brothers lived on Sec. 33; Timothy where George Brown does. Nimrod Taylor and Zachariah Linton were in that vicinity. Daniel Hopkins, however, was the lirst immigrant to the Brown neighborhood, and in fact one of the earliest to the township. He improved a place on Sec. 32. Parker was living north of Mr. Brown's, and Hartless Dnnkin was here, located on the west side of the road from Allen L. Dunkin. Subsequently he swapped farms with his brother Joshua. A man named Cook lived south of Waldrip. George Wilson, from Kentucky, was in the same neighborliood. He was a leading man. George Parnell did not come till several years after, in 1838. Samuel Ellis was another late-comer. On the river were some families; the date is 1829. Below the mouth of Flint creek lived Henry Krice, and Young's widow was at the mouth of the run which bears his name. This stream is now often called Possum Hollow creek, probably to break down or level an invidious distinction, and distribute the honor. A man named Meadows had settled where Independence station has been built. Andrew Hemphill was located on Young's Run, where he erected a saw-mill, and a few years later an overshot grist-mill just below it. The first he changed to a carding-mill. At the mouth of the run was a saw-mill, owned hy Samuel Dunkin. Gillillan subsequently had possession, and ran it some years. An old German by the name of Hetchel, who settled here as early as 1828, built a saw-mill, about 1835, on Grindstone creek. Not later tliaii tliis Henderson & Baxley liad a distillery on Young's Run, and after it was run down James and John Hempliill erected another. The first distilling in the township, however, was done by Andrew Round, who came up from Lopp's prairie early in 1S2S, and set up a small copper still. He sold it to Frederick Aleuduff, who maliufactured his own grain a few years. Corn was worth ten to twelve cents per bushel, and fifteen cents was a high price seldom obtained. Generally three bushels bought a yard of calico. In 1839 John Sherry laid out a town just below the mouth of Flint creek, and called it Fulton. He erected a large distillery, and packed pork two seasons. A few houses were built, and it was a lively place for awhile, but its existence was short. The houses have been torn down, but the locality retains the name.

We have given a pretty full list of the principal early settlers. Probably not later than 1838 there was nearly, if not fully, as numerous a population where the chief settlements were as now. Considerable numbers flocked here who were not able to buy laud, nevertheless had to cultivate the soil for a support. These renters were a class never more welcome than at that time. The very tough prairie sod stoutly resisted all attempts to subdue and pulverize it. The scouring steel plow had not yet been invented, and the only dependence was the wooden mold-board plow. Improvement of the raw land was a tedious process. After the owner had broken the sod, if he had any to spare he was glad for another to use it the following year, and have all the crop for cultivating the "second sod," so-called, which did not become thoroughly rotted the first year. If the tillage had been thorough the sod was now usually subdued, but not always so, particularly in low land, where the excessive moisture kept .the grassroots alive. The characteristics of the prairie-grass are peculiar and anomalous. On this subject a writer has said: "One of the most singular things about these great prairies is that the native grass, which was found growing everywhere when man came here, and which for ages has maintained itself against all the natural elements of extinction, has neither seed nor any other organs of propagation. "When once killed or circumscribed in any way, it could not by any process again spread. It was not merely comparatively, but positively, impossible to spread it. Nature does not seem to have furnished another case of actual absence of the quality of propagation,'^-

One feature, fresh and distinct for years, at first was the old Indian trail. Near the Shawnee mound was a village of Shawnces. The Ivickapoos had another near where Independence stands; and between these the trail ran nearly from the southeast to the nortliwcst corner

It is sometimes remarked that Gen. Harrison camped witli l.i;, ,:. | army one nigiit at the "flint lands," in the northeast corner of this I the river from the mouth of Raccoon creek. "We can offer a Eugi/c-s. ; 'I tion as to how the impression obtained. In 1813 Gen. Samuel IJoi)- kins made a military road on the east side from Raccoon when he went to destroy the Prophet's town. His route was across the north end of this township, but whether he halted his troops at the flint lands we are unable to say, not having seen his report. He returned to Fort Harrison the same way, and was soon followed by Col. Rnssel with 600 men from Fort Wayne. When the bones of the slain at Tippecanoe were gathered up for sepulture, Silas McVane and another, with teams, went from the Shawnee settlement and assisted in the solemn labor.

Fountain county was divided into townships on July 24. 1826. Shawnee embraced the territory lying north of T. 20. In 1829 Davis was established, with the area inclosed by the boundary commencing on the river at the section line between 27 and 28, R. 7, and following the same to the southwest corner of Sec. 34, T. 21, thence i,;!^ east to the county line. Election was ordered to be held at the house of John Pierce. In March, 1833, Logan was created from Davis and Shawnee, and a strip two miles wide was detached from the west side of the former. In March, 1839, Sees. 22 and 27, T. 21, R. 7, belonging to Davis, were attached to Shawnee, for reasons which will appear in the history of that township. At the same time a tract two sections in width was taken from the south side and made a part of Richland. An additional tier of sections, it appears, was added to the latter, probably at an earlier date. On this point we confess to a lack of full information. After the township was organized, Maysville became the polling-place, and continued to be until, probably in 1837, it was removed to the "Woodhook" log school-house, just east of uncle Joe Brown's. The only removal since was to the frame school-house, more soberly and frequently called Brown's, in proximity to the old building.

Subscription schools were secured as soon as a sufficient number of people had arrived to maintain them. They were held first in vacant cabins and different parts of the township. It is impossible to mention the first school nor the first teacher, but information is to the effect that two or more were perhaps nearly simultaneously begun. One of the earliest, and the most important at that period, was that in the Shawnee settlement. The house stood in the little grove just behind Salem church, and was a long, hewed-log cabin, built by Andrew Eound on a five-acre lot lie owned. When he was leaving, the people united and purchased the house and piece of ground for public use. Here were held singing, spelling and common schools, and religious exercises ; and for many years this was the chief place of popular gathering. School was commenced most probably in 1829. The Kev. James Kinkennon, a New Light preacher, taught the three first winters, and Cuitis Carmain succeeded two winters and one summer. One of the later ones, perhaps the last, was Sanford Calvert. A school was kc]>t at John Pierce's, another in the Dntton neighborhood, over in Tippecanoe, and among these three and the Attica school existed an exciting rivalry in the old-fashioned spelling-school, an institution too much neglected nowadays. Carmain trained liis scholars for the contest. Some were permitted to concentrate their whole study on the elementary spellingbook until it was mastered ; while extended tasks were allotted others, that they might perfect themselves in sections of the work. A challenge came from Attica. The " master," " nothing loth," accepted it, and selecting five of his best spellers, went down to the village at the time set. It was an hour of grave interest, and palpitating anxiety, naively and courteously concealed with mirth, sport, and cordial greetings. The moment arrived ; the school stood up in waiting. The words were given out in distinct voice, and spelled and pronounced as clearly, and with confident promptness. Round and round they passed, and one by one the contestants went down. Carmain's confidence in his well-drilled pupils was not unfounded. The ranks of their opponents grew thin, and at last melted out of sight before the perfect discipline and preparation which these encounters stimulated. Tiie Shawnee scholars triumphed on the first trial. The ulterior result was the real triumph. The absorbing interest created by love of victory was momentary, but the value acquired was permanent. In these respects the pioneers had very limited advantages, and apologies by these venerable people for lack of early opportunities are not seldom made. What can be the occasion for apology when illiteracy is actually on the increase, and putting to shame privileges unexampled in the history of the race, we are at a loss to know. In 1837, or later, a capacious brick school-house was built on the corner west of Salem Church, and was used fifteen or twenty years. The foundation proving defective it was torn down, and the frame building now standing there and used for a tenant house was erected. Schools were discontinued here wlien tlie district was divided. Josepli Poole was one of tlie first teacliers in tlie brick house. This would seat eighty or ninety scholars,' and liad a fireplace in each end. When subscription schools were kept there was a term of throe months in winter, and each scholar paid §1.50 and two cords of wood. Singing and spelling schools furnished fuel for their own use, and eliurch-goers had to provide "preaching wood." Tiie old frame school-house standing in Trustum Beverly's yard, once ' called Shawnee, was built some forty years ago. Joseph Poole tauglit first in this. Its low ceiling was not a little in the way of Moyer's high-crowned hat and the rod he wielded. As early as 1833 William - ; i Puwell taught near Maysville, and afterward iu other cabins in dii^'erent pai'ts of the township. He was a surve\'or, and often liad to close - 1 his school a week at a time to go to lay out a road. The first school taught in the northwest part of the township was by E. L. Wheeler. This man is living near Onarga, Iroquois county, Illinois. Tiie earliest school-house built from the public fund is deserving of description. Uncle Jesse Marvin having learned that the school commissioner held money to the credit of the township, took the initial step in the matter, and caused the township to be laid off into five districts. Three trustees were elected, himself among the nunibei', and a clerk and a treasurer. Tiie fund drawn amounted nearly to §300. Tiie building of the house was awarded to Mr. Marvin. It was situated near the center of Sec. 32, and was about 18x24: feet square. It was constructed of hewed logs, with straightened edges meeting within an inch, and daubed without chinking. The ceiling was 7i feet high; two windows of 8x10 glass were on each side, and one was in the end. The stove occupied the center of the room, and the teacher's desk the south . end. In the north end was the door, and pegs for hats, bonnets, shawls, and dinner-pails. On either side were ranged a long desk and bench, the former made fast to tiie wall with brackets. The- slanting lid or cover which had to be raised when putting books in or taking them out, were sawed in two, so that not more than a fourth of the scliool should be interrupted and incommoded when a single scholar had occasion to get into the desk. William Chizum and Jefferson Parrish were the earliest teachers. This house has been twice moved : the first time into the Brown neighborhood, where it was many j-ears used as well for a polling place as a school-house, and the second time to where it now stands, on AVilliam Duncan's place. Jasper Roberts is the present trustee. The township is divided into si.x districts, and has 239 scholars. Schools are maintained six months of the year. Tiie buildings arc valued at §3,000, and the furniture and apparatus, much worn, at §400. Twelve hundred dollars are annually paid to teachers, whoso

In 1832 Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon left Kirtland, Ohio, wliere tliev had just completed the establishment of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and made a pro.selyting tour in Indiana and Illinois, and perhaps elsewhere. Some success attended their labors in this township, but it was mostly confined to the floating population of renters already mentioned. Meetings were held in private houses, and in the log school-house in the rear of where Salem church stands. Mealing the sick and raising the dead were proclaimed as the efiicacious results of the Mormon faith. Immersion was performed in Shawnee creek, but when water was plentiful the pond in proximity to the scliool-house was used. An e.xhorter, Jesse Dollyhide, having his limbs drawn up by rheumatism, joined them, and was baptized. "When bronglit out of the water the impostors laid hands on him and comnwnded him to straighten his limbs.'No doubt he would have straightened them, but he did not. He abandoned them. The failure of the would-be miracle undeceived others, among them Andrew Wilson, who had been a New Light. He went back to his denomination. Still others could not be undeceived, and about thirty persons were held together in spite of this indubitable proof of imposture, who, finally, in 1834 went to Missouri, when the leaders conducted these deluded people to that state. Of the proselytes, Samuel Trullinger and Simeon Curtis and their wives engaged in the work of the Mormon ministry. These, Jo'sepli Curtis and his family, two families of Harriers, and two or three young men, composed the flock. It may be observed that this imposture never could have succeeded, had it not been that it was propagated with an industry worthy of something better, principally in distant and the more unenlightened sections, and then all it could do was to secure the most debased and ignorant of the community. The brutishness of the system, and the crimes of which it is convicted before the world, otherwise could not have had e.\istence and a following respectable for nothing but its numbers. No additions were ever made to this sect from the higher walks of mankind. It was conceived in the coarsest outrage upon credulity, and has ever since been sustained by abject ignorance. E.xpanding to a vast corporeity owning but a single will, it has been preserved and swayed by absolute personal despotism.

Post-Offick

This was on the stage route between Attica and Lafayette, and here were kept a country tavern and a relay of horses. Mrs. Pickens, it jj said, set the best table on the road. In a little time the post-office wai moved to the place on which John M. Washburn resides, and the next postmaster was Gilbert Rider. Dr. Joseph W. Newlin succeeded him and held it till about 1859, when he removed to Attica and it was dig continued. We are not certain that Adam Rhodes was not the incuin bent before Poole.

About 1854 a society of New Lights was organized at the Kerr school house, under the labors of the Rev. Samuel Gregory. William War bington, Samuel Potts, Thomas Quillin, Joel Thomas, and Zephaniah A' Wilkins, were ministers who labored here in the order named. The so i- ; ciety existed until some time during the war, when the high state of " feeling which arose at that period dismembered the organization.

Salem Baptist Church

SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH. The distance to Newtown, and the difficulty of reaching that ]ilacp in bad weather, led the members of the Baptist church living in this vicinity, late in 1871 or early in 1872, to form an "arm" and have occasional preaching here by the Rev. C. J. Bolles Sr., who was the regular preacher in charge. In the spring of the latter year Mr. John M. Washburn applied to the Newtown society for permission to or ganize a separate church. This being granted, an organization was immediately effected and a house of worship raised. The building committee were Samuel Carter, F. M. Roberts, and Isaac Bender The structure, situated on the N.W. ^ Sec. 8, T. 21, R. 6, is 38x54 feet, on a foundation of stone, and cost $3,500. It is well finished and carpeted, and encloses a baptistry, to which are attached two dresa ing-rooms, separated by a partition, which can be raised or lowered at will. The first trustees were Samuel Carter, John M. Washburn, and Thomas Marks. Tiiese are the present board, except that F. M Roberts occupies the vacancy caused by the death of Marks. From the record we learn that this was constituted a church November 23, 1872, and recognized the following day by a council of brethren from the churches at Middletown, Hopewell, and Chaunccy. The constitii ent members were Samuel Carter, Anna Carter, John M. Washburn, Catherine Washburn, Elizabeth j3cver, Isaac Lyman, Elizabeth Lymar, Lydia Marks, and Joseph Stewart, the latter joining by letter on the j day of recognition. The membership has comprised thirty, all told, since the organization, but has fallen oft so that only eighteen remain They have preaching once a month. A Sabbath-school is kept up througli the warm weather. Mr. Washburn was the superintendent in 1873, and A. C. Freeman lias filled that position the last two years. ROBERTS' CHAPEL. The Methodist worshipers in this region first had their meniber- Bhip at Bethel ; but a class was organized at Maysville, and they changed to that place. In course of time this class moved to the school-house near Jesse Marvin's. When that house was torn down aTid set up adjoining Mr. Brown's, the members assembled in the new place. These at length united with those of the same denomination at Marks' corner, and secured an appointment there. In a few years the school-house in which they were meeting was moved, and then the class went to Odell's. An interval of a few years more followed, and an appointment was obtained for Brown's seliool-house, where preaching was some time supported. Causes combining to extinguish service here, and two years having elapsed without any ministration, the people, encouraged by the liberal proposition of nncle Joe Brown, at length canvassed the subject of building a church, and resolved upon the work. Accordingly, in the summer of 1S71, they erected the handsome house they own, which is located on the S.W. ^ Sec. 33, T. 22, R. 6. It is 33x1:5 feet square, with stone underpinning. It cost $2,500, fenced and furnished, and was dedicated December 3. This was the first clnirch ever built in Davis township. The original members of the class, out of which this society has grown, were uncle Joe Brown and his wife Sarah, Chester Tuttle and his wife Nancy, and Mrs. Garrison Chiznm. Prominent among those who subsequently united were Garrison Chizum, and Hiram Brown and his wife Anna. Services are held here fortnightly. Th'e pastors who have labored on this charge are Luther Taylor, 1871-3; Samuel Godfrey, a few montiis in 1873-4, followed by Delos Wood, who completed the year and remained through 1874-5; Elijah R. Johnson, 1875-6 ; Lafayette S. Buckles, 1876-7 ; George A. Blackstock, 1877-9 ; and Wesley Prettyman, 1879-80'.

A single cemetery in the township is located at Salem church. The first interment was a little daughter of Samuel Trullinger, as early as 1830. Mrs. Moore and Joseph Wilson were the next, but it is disputed which was the second and which the third. Mr. and Mrs. Sparr followed these.

Maysville And Independence Station

MAYSVILLE AND INDEPENDENCE STATION. Maysville was laid out in 1832 or 1833 by Zephaniah Wade, proprietor. Henry Waymeyer was probably living there before. Chester Tuttle opened the first dry-goods store, Samuel Duncan had another awhile, and botli were trading there in 1840. Tiie place contained npward of a dozen houses, an hotel and stable, grocery, cooper and blacksmith shop, besides the two stores. The river-road to Lafayette passed through from Attica and the towns below. It became a canal station, and reached its highest importance when that work was building. It was the polling-place about eight years after the townsliip was organized. All accounts agree in giving it a very hard name. It is situated half a mile above Independence station. Only two houses remain on the site.

Independence Station is in the remote northwest corner of the township, and five miles above Attica. It dates from tlie time tho "Wabash Eailroad was built to this point, in 1S54. At first it bore tlio name of Fountain City. It has fewer than a dozen houses. The postoffice is Kiverside. James E. Page is the postmaster and station-agent, and tlie only store is a small grocery kept by him.

The first marriage in the townsliip was Urum Sargent to PoUv Lane, in November 182T. Next month, George Sargent and Susan Lane were united in matrimonial bonds, and the following summer John Lane and Abbie Sargent.

This township has been nearly equally divided between the two gi'eat political parties for some years, though the democrats have been a little the stronger. During the last twenty-two years the result of every political election in the township has been the same as tliat in the state, so it has passed into a saying that as Davis goes so goe? Indiana. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln got a majority of one over all, and the republicans have not since carried an election until in October, 1880. The vote for governor was, eighty-two for Landers and ninetyone for Porter.

BIOGMPHIC.\L. Andrew J. Alendnft', farmer, Attica, was born in Franklin county, Indiana, March 26, 1822. His father, Frederick Alenduft', was born near Cincinnati, and lost his father, who was killed by the Indians when he was ten months old. Nancy Meredith was the name of Mr. AlendufTs mother before marriage. This family arrived in Davis township November 2, 1827, and his father entered the eighty and erected- his cabin where the subject of this notice lives, on Sec. 5, T. 21, R. 6. He ne.xt entered eighty acres of timber and eighty of prai- rie, then he and an uncle together entered eighty acres of timber. Deer and turkeys were plentiful, and the two first years these people depended on the rifle for their meat. A few Indians might yet be seen, and lodge-poles were left sticking in the ground, and indicated where the main body of them had wintered. These were within a stone's throw of Mr. Alenduffs door-yard. Mr. Alenduff was married August 19, 1849, to Maria Emperley, who was born October 26, 1829. Nine children have been born to them : Elizabeth, October 10, 1850 ; Mary Jane, December 3, 1851 (wife of William D. Lake, of Warren county); Frederick M., April 25, 1854, died January 6, 1878; John E., February 18, 1856; Annie, April 23, 186U (wife of Hosea Thompson) ; William M., June 24, 1862 ; Ella, May 26, 1865 ; Marion, October 22, 1868, and Eddie, February 16, 1876. Mr. Alenduff owns ninety-three acres of cultivated land and fifty acres of timber. He has been constable of Davis township one term of two years, and is a republican.

Archibald Roberts (deceased), Attica, was born in Hardee county, Virginia, March 13, 1800. His mother was Mary Bosely. His father, Archibald, served as a soldier nearly throughout the revolution. Mr. Roberts began life as a laborer, and worked ten years for |S per month. The first year of this period he was in Virginia, the remainder on the Scioto bottoms not far from Chillicothe. In 1828 he came to Davis township and entered two eighties, and about 1830 married Anna Taylor, by whom was born to him one child, George. His wife died ; and October 24, 1839, he married Miss Piiebe Alenduff. She bore six children : William H., Frederick M., Mary (deceased), Joseph H., Jasper, and Charles A. Three of Mr. Roberts' sons were in the army. George was a member of the 76th 111. Vols, three years; William enlisted in the 86th Ind., but got sick and after about six months was discharged for disability. He served on the Bragg-Buell race. Frederick served out two enlistments. (See his biography.) Mr. Roberts died greatly respected. May 23, 1867, having provided an ample inheritance for his family, leaving to them 500 acres of real estate, including 140 acres of woodland. He also gave a farm to each, George, wluiam, and Frederick. The former has 175 acres where he lives, near Milford, Iroquois county, Illinois. Mrs. Roberts has been in the communion of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1857. She was born January 22, 1820, and was the daughter of Frederick and Nancy (Meredith) Alenduff. Her grandfather Meredith was a soldier of seven years and six months' service in the revolution ; he fought at the Cowpens, and Guilford Court House, and was wounded in the last battle. He ran away from home at the age of fourteen and went into the army.

His twill brother was also a soldier. During the latter part of his life he lived near O.xford, Ohio. He came hero once to visit his friends, v ! The old veteran used to rehearse with animation his recollections of ' j the revolution. !

tober 18. He remained there two years, but prior to his return was married to Sarah Camblin. This event took place January 5, 18-34, and the ne.xt fall they came to their home in Indiana. By his first wife Mr. Brown had two sons and one daughter, as follows : William, : he received a very severe wound in the lower jaw. This seriously im- v' j paired his health, and was instrumental in producing his death, which occurred November 9, 1877. His last muster out from the military service was on June 26, 1865. Mr. Brown's second wife died February 14, 1865. He married again August 2, 1866, Louisa J. Dickerson, wlio died Monday, December 2, 1878. Mr. Brown at one time owned 336 acres of land, but he has given to his children and reduced hh ea- > tate to 200, nearly all of which is under cultivation and in a good state , 1- of improvement. He cleared about lUO acres. The only democratic vote he ever cast was for Gen. Jackson for president in 182S. At the next election he voted with the Clay men, and after that, the whig party having assumed a definite organization, he acted with that until it was superseded by the republican. He has belonged to the latter since. For fifty years he has been a devout christian and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal churcJi. He has acceptably filled the oflices of class-leader, steward, and church trustee. " Uncle Joe," as he is reverently called by everyone, is indeed a father in Israel, whose pious life will long be remembered as a sweet savor of good things. His last two wives were communicants in the same church.

Mrs. Ann Watson, widow of Samuel Watson, Attica, was the daughter of William and Luan (Malatt) Van Meter, who were born in Virginia, married there, and emigrated to Ohio. In Butler county, of that state, where they lived, Mrs. Watson was born August 27, 182i. About 1832 or 1833 the family came to Davis township, and settled in the neighborhood of Uncle Joe Brown's. Here she was reared, and obtained a common education at a pioneer log school-house. April 3, 18i4, she was united in marriage with John I. Dunkin, who was born February 10, 1817. He had previously been wedded to I Margaret Dunkin, a cousin, who died within a year. He began on the place where Mrs. Watson lives, his fatiier first buying hin a piece of land, to which he added till his home embraced 2-10 acres, mostly arable. He died June 30, 1861, and she and her son, John, have bought the rights of the other heirs. Bating her third, John will own i this desirable property. Mr. Dunkin was a man of quiet disposition, were Marion Dunkin, born February 19, ISIS; Van Meter, Juno 23, 18i7; Mary Elizabeth, December 2i, lSi9 (wife of Cyrus Houts); Keason, April 15, 1853 (died February 19, 185i), and John W., February 25, 1S56. Van Meter lives in Vermilion county, Illinois, where he owns 250 acres of prairie land, and is a thriving farmer. Mrs. Watson was married a second time, to Samuel Watson, who was born near Cincinnati in 1825, and died April 6, 187-1:, aged forty-eight years and six months. He was twice drafted for the army, but " paid out " each time at a total cost of ^2,200. Mrs. Watson is not connected with any church, but has always liberally contributed to the support of the churches, and any other worthy objects appealing for aid. Her mother is still living on the old homestead near West Point.

Alexander T. Sayers, farmer, Odell, Tippecanoe county, was born in Jackson township, of that county, November 21, IS-tO. He was the youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth (Frogge) Sayers, who were early emigrants to Tippecanoe county, having arrived there from Virginia in 1831. He learned to follow the plow when n boy, and has steadily devoted himself to that calling since, and from 1871 to 1877 united the stock trade with farming. He received a good English education, attended the graded public school in his township, and lacked but one year of graduating. In 1864 he was a student in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, at Indianapolis, and was graduated in the course. October 1, 1867, he married Miss Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Anna Carter. (See sketch of Samuel Carter.) Tliey have five children: Julia, born July 2, 1S6S ; "William, March 13, 1870; Agues, September 11, 1873; Kobert, October 28, 1877; Samuel, May 26, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Sayers are communicants in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a democrat and highly respected citizen.

Samuel Carter, farmer and stock buyer, Odell, Tippecanoe county, was born in Ross county, Ohio, October 18, 1809. He was reared a farmer, and has always followed that occupation, but for a number of recent years has also dealt in stock. In 1833 he came to Indiana, and made his home about Redwood Point, in Warren county, for a year; then he came into- the Shawnee neighborhood. In 1835 he bought where he now lives, and the succeeding year. May 27, was married to Anna, daughter of James F.Mills, an original pioneer settler in Davis township. They have had six children : Margaret E., born March 27, 1837 (married Stephen Beach ; died November 3, 1868) ; Amanda, August 4, 1838 (died next day); Elizabeth, October 18, 1840 (wife of Alexander Bever, of Hillsboro); James F., September 18, 1842; Caroline, November 3, 1844 (wife of A. T. Sayers), and Robert, December 6, 1847. Mr. Carter and his wife are prominent members of the Baptist church. He has filled the ofiice of trustee of his township, and is one of the leading and substantial men of the community. In politics he is a democrat.

Trustum Beverly, farmer, Attica, eldest son of John and Rachel (Turnage) Beverly, was born near Clieraw, South Carolina, November 11, 1800. When he was an infant, Dr. Mendenhall emigrated, with his family in a four-horse wagon and a carriage to Highland county, Ohio, and his parents came also in the aforesaid fourhorse wagon. In 1840 Mr. Beverly moved to this county, bringing his aged parents with him. In the last war with England his father had served in the army a year and a half on. the northwest frontier. When he reached here Mr. Beverly had but $100. He rented a farm in the north part of Richland township, the one owned by Samuel Dimmiek, and lived on it six years. In the spring of 1850 he moved to his present place, which he had purchased the autumn before, a place of 13S acres, situated in Sec. 13, T. 21, R. 7, to which he has since added thirty acres of timber. He was married, in 1826, to Elizabeth Lowe, and by her had two children, who are living. John was born April 19, 1826, and Esaac December 13, 1828. She died in September, 1829, and he married again in 1838, this time to Sarah Houver, widow of Jacob Houver. Her maiden name was Waymeyer. She died June 28, 1875, and was the mother of six children by her first husband. They were Elizabeth, whose husband, Frederick Kinley, of Iowa, was killed at Lookout Mountain ; Margaret, who married John S. Lewis, of Vermilion county, Illinois, and died, leaving two children, Rachel, who married John Waymeyer, and died with children, and George E., who was a soldier over three years in the late war, and now lives in Iowa ; Jacob "W"., living at "Waynetown, and Melinda, wife of Clark Downey, of Iowa. Eliz.ibeth lives in Nebraska. At Margaret's death Mr. Beverly took her children, who were then very small, to raise. Both are now living with him on his farm. Their names are Jasper T. and Jacob H. The former married Miss Emma R. Deeter. They have two small children, Mark D. and Allen M. .Lewis, who play with childish mirth around their great-grandfather's knee, to delight and soothe his failing years. Mr. Beverly has always derived great pleasure from hunting, and used to make trips to Illinois for this purpose before the prairies were taken up. He has been a Mason and an Odd-Fellow twenty-five years. He voted first for Jackson, in 1828, and after that he joined the whigs, and ne.\t the republicans. This venerable man of eighty looks back on the greatest changes ever witnessed by any generation.

Frederick M. Roberts, fanner, Attica, son of Archibald Roberts, was born in Davis township, August 3, 1812. His mother, Phebe, was the daughter of Frederick Alenduft". Both his parents arrived here in 1828? He was married January 2, 1870, to Miss Maggie Duncan. She died June 10, 1871, and he married Josephine Stanley February 10, 1874. She was the daughter of Martin and Melinda (Bartlett) Stanley, and was born November 20, 1854. They have two children : Walter, born November 14, 1875, and Mary EdiUiJ^te^TOT- 30, 1878. Mr. Roberts enlisted July 6, 1863, in Co. ^^I^Flixi. Vo]^^., for six months, and served eight. The regiment" rendczvrfused and~^vv:as organized at La Fayette. It went to Fort Dearboi;n; Michigan ; thence ^to Detroit, and from there by the " Morning Star*"' steamer to Cleveland,, and the rest of the way by rail to Cincinnati and Camp Dick Robin-\^ son, where it was brigaded with three other regiments. From this > point the march was begun for Greenville, Tennessee. Here he spent the winter of 1863-4, scouting and marching, and was in two skirmishes. In that at "Walker's Ford a soldier of Co. F was killed Two from his company and five from his regiment were taken prison, ers during the winter service. He was mustered out at La Fayetto March 1, 186i. His second enlistment was February 10, 1805, in Co. F, 150th Ind. Vols. Tiie regiment was organized at Camp Carrlneton, Indianapolis, and served in the Shenandoah Valley. The raou were mustered out at Stevenson Station, and disbanded and paid ofl'at Indianapolis, August 5, 1865. His captain in the 116th was Abrani Claypool, and Col. Kice commanded the regiment. Capt. Boswcll and Col. Taylor, of La Fayette, were his officers in the 15Uth. This Inst regiment marched from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, and was at Charleston, Virginia, when Lee surrendered. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he owns a well-cultivated farm of 226 acres, and is a republican.

Allen L. Dunkin, farmer, Attica. His father, Joshua Dunkiii, born in Pennsylvania, came here from Ohio in the early settlement of this township. The exact year cannot be ascertained, but it is certain that he was here in 1830. He was twice married. His second wife, Mercy Keeler before marriage, a Connecticut woman, came hero from Huron county, Ohio, in 1S3S, the consort of Daniel Perkins. The latter dying, she married Mr. Dunkin, and the subject of this biography was the eldest issue of the union, and was born December 21, 1842. His father died in 1849. His mother had two sons and one daughter by her first marriage. Only the sons, Albert K. and Frederick A., are living. Mr. Dunkin obtained a fair English education. He was fourteen months at the State Normal School of Pennsylvania, located at Millersville, Lancaster county, in 1861 and 1862, and took a short terra in ornamental penmanship and pencil-drawing. He became an expert with the pen, and writes forty different plain and ornamental hands. From 1862 to 1867 he taught school and farmed; but the requirements of the latter business obliged him to throw up teaching, for which he has great natural taste and liking, as proved by his good success. He took two premiums at the Attica county fair for best penmanship, and at the last exhibition iiad to encounter nearly thirty lady competitors. He also took a like premium at the Covington fair. He was married June 19, 18TS, to Martha Ann, daughter of Dr. William and Mary Jane (Wright) Wade, of West Point. Their two children are Thomas Raymond, born June 19, 1879, and Mary Mercy, October 24, 1880. Mrs. Dunkin was born September 3, 1861. She is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Dunkin belongs to the Baptist church, and is a democrat. He owns 128^ acres of land, all fenced and under cultivation, except thirty-three acres of timber. He has been township trustee one term of two years, and was a candidate for reelection, but was defeated by only six votes.

Francis Marion Helterbran, former, Attica, was born in Tippecanoe county September 25, 1841. He was the seventh child in a family of eicrht by David and Ann Helterbran. When he was four years old his mother died, and at the age of eight his father broke up housekeeping and went to Peoria county, Illinois, and died there in 1864. On his' father's departure he was taken by James Grady, who lived four miles east of the Shawnee mound, and kept by him until he was fourteen; then he went to live with William Pyle, two miles west of Covincrton. At the end of three years this man died, and after this our subject shifted for himself. He has always been engaged in farming; has been an industrious, hard-working man, and had accumulated some property before his marriage. He acquired more by his wife, who inherited from her father, Joshua Dunkin. His nuptials with Emeline Dunkin took place September 25, 1862. Her five children are all livincr, and were born in the following order: William V., June 19 1863; Joshua D., October 15, 1867; Flora E., August 24, 1871; James F., September 11, 1873; Lee M., November 13, 1876 Mrs. Helterbran's mother's given name was Barbara. Her father died in 1874. He was from Adams county, Ohio. Their home, consisting of 162 acres, is the place her grandfather Dunkin bought about 1830. It is picturesquely located and well improved. The residence stands on a commanding elevation, facing the south. Mr. Helterbran was elected assessor of Davis township in each of the years 1871 and 18 <2. He is a democrat in politics.

James Williams, farmer, Attica, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio October 16, 1816. He was the fifth child in a family ot nine children bv Isaac and Mary (Hendricks) Williams. His father died in 1824 Hi^ mother lived till July, 1865, and reached the age of seventy-six From 1833 to 1838 Mr. Williams drove cattle from Ohio to New York city. He made two trips on horseback each summer, a distance of COO miles. He began at §1 a day, but his -'ages were increased until as " boss driver," which he soon beca.ne, he got $2.50 tor a dav's work. In the fall of 1838 he came to the Wabash on business for Steinbarger, of Virginia, who was a large cattle dealer and porkpacker. Mr. Williams' brother was at this time in company- with Steinbarger, and the firm was Steinbarger & Williams. Mr Wilhams attended to buying hogs and packing pork at La Fayette, Ghnton and Torre Haute, and was in this business two years. At the end of this time he had saved some money, and in 1840 returned to Oliio, and went one year to Blendon College, a Presbyterian school taught by Ebenezer Washburn, a very able mathematician. The boys irreverently called this school "Frog College," which greatly annoyed the sedate and dignified professor. . In 1S45 Mr. Williams removed to Fountain county, and permanently settled in Davis township. Early next year he went back and married Miss Sarah C. Hufl'man, of Go-. Iambus. They have had nine children, as follows: Joseph H. (married Miss Kebecca French), Emma A. (widow of Irvin Burklialter, of La Fayette), Mary Josephine (wife of Robert Manning, of La Fayette), James Milton (deceased), Eebecca H. (wife of Frank Trullinger), Edwin L, Walter V., Jessie G. and Lilian B. (deceased). Except two years, from the fall of 1859 to the spring of 1862, that Mr. Williams was away, he has lived in Davis township since his first settlement. During his absence he lost by fire his brick residence, which had cost him $7,500. He rebuilt for §14,000 when infiated war prices ruled. At one time his farm contained 450 acres, but iiaving sustained serious reverses lie sold oft' a part, and now has 120. He has belonged to the masonic fraternity twenty-five years, and is a republican. In his prime he was a man of great bodily strength, steady nerves, and deliberate judgment. In health and physical vigor he is now but a wreck of his former self. Mrs. Williams is a descendant of the Stuarts of Scotland. Her great-grandfather was Archibald Stuart, commander of a vessel in the English navy during the American revolution. He owned large possessions in this country, which were confiscated. His government, to remunerate him for his losses, gave him a tract of land, ten miles square, in Xova Scotia. The city of Halifax stands on part of this. Her grandfather Hufl'man lived in Franklin county, Ohio, where he owned the whole of Plain township.

John M. Washburn, farmer, Attica, youngest child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Mann) Washburn, was born in Brown county, Ohio, March 21, 1807. In 1826 he removed with his father's family to Montgomery county, this state, and settled eight miles west of Crawfordsville. He lived there most of the time till 1849, when he came to Davis township, and made his home near where he now lives. Before he came he had followed milling seven years, and has been in the business altogether ten years. With this exception he has always been engaged in farming. He was married June 15, 1826, to Catherine Drake, of Brown county, Ohio. She was born September 4, 1807. They have had ten children: Christopher (deceased), Cornelius (deceased), Elmer (married Melinda Jane Stanle}'), Enoch (deceased), Joseph (deceased), William (married Emily Newlin, who died July 5, 1878), Rachel

(wife of J. F. Carter), Elizabeth J. (wife of tlie Rev. C. J. Belles Jr.), John (died in infancy), and Albertine (deceased). Mr. Washburn has been a professor of religion since 1854-. He was converted under the labors of the Rev. Samuel Gregory, and united with the New Light denomination. "When that society dissolved in time of tiie war he united with the Baptist church at Newtown. Mrs. Washburn made a profession at the same time that he- did, and lias belonged to the same churches. Mr. Washburn has filled the offices of clerk, deacon and treasurer with faithful zeal in both denominations. He and his wife are prominent members of the Salem Baptist church, and he is one of the trustees. Mr. Washburn lias been a life-long democrat, and cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson for president, in 1828. He is one of the most influential and respected men of his township.

John Beverly, farmer, Attica, son of Trustum and Elizabeth (Loe) Beverly, was born in Greene county, Ohio, April 18, 1825. (See Trustum Beverly's biography.) He married Elizabeth Van Meterj daughter of William and Luan (Malatt) Yan Meter, who came here in the first settlement of the township. Their children were six in number: Rosetta, born July 31, 1851, died November 1, 1860; Oliver T., November 2, 1850, died December 29, 1856; Alice Adeline, April 1, 1858; John Fremont, September 10, 1860; Lucy Jane, September, li, 1862; Elizabeth, November 27, 1866, died February, 16, 1869. Mrs. Beverly died December 8, 1866, aged thirty-eight years, four months and fourteen days. Mr. Beverly's history is no ordinary instance of what frugality and steady and patient industry can achieve when intelligently united. Twenty-nine years ago he was working as a common laborer; to-day he owns 200 acres of rich and valuable land, forty acres being timber, the rest in a good state of cultivation. This property, the E. i of N.E. i and S.E. i Sec. 7, T. 21, R. 6, worth $9,000, has been made e.xclusively by himself and his fomily. It is pleasing to observe that this result lias not been accomplished at the expense of certain considerations which cannot be ignored except to the discredit of human nature. Mr. Beverly has recognized his responsibility as a man, and the head of a family, by bringing constantly into his house books and papers, the important sources of information, without which in abundance no one need expect to keep abreast of the age. He regularly takes a full stipply of newspapers and agricultural papers, and stock journals. Men who read and are students of the times will promptly and unmistakably show it. Mr. Beverly will be found to be such a man. He is a decided republican.

(Beasley) Odell, left Ohio and settled in Waj'iie township, Tippecjinoo county, this state, where they lived until 1837. Country schools at this time were of little value, and they moved to Crawfordsviile to educate their children. They lived there four years, during whidi time Mr. Odell was continuously at school, except one summer. Moving back to Jackson township, in Tippecanoe eount^', he lived there till March, 1854, and then came iiito Fountain county and settled on bis present farm, in Davis township, on Sec. 12, T. 21, E. 7. In 1S57 he moved again into Tippecanoe county, but returned again in the autumn of 1860. This was his last removal. He was married October 15, 1848, to Charlotte E. Bailey, of Adams county, Ohio. They have had the following children: Thomas "W., born December 29, 1849 - Angelica C, July 30, 1851 ; infant daughter, born and died September 3, 1853; John O., September 27, 1854; Susan Mary, July 28, 1857; Charlotte D., March 21, 1860; Frank T., March 3, 1862, died August 22, 1863 ; Abraham Lincoln, September 17, 1864. Mr. Odell was elected trustee of Davis township in 1856, and had served half his term -when he moved away the next year. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1848, and his wife somewhat longer. He was once a Mason, but has been unaftiliated several years. lie originally belonged to the whig party and cast his first vote for Zachary Taylor, but when that went to pieces he became a republican. His farm, situated in the southwest corner of the township, comprises 460 , acres of valuable land, all in Sec. 12 except 100 acres. This is nearly all fenced, mostly under cultivation, in a high state of improvement, and adorned and enhanced with an elegant brick residence. Mr Odell is one of the substantial, public-spirited men of his community.

Elijah Earl, farmer, Attica, was born in Toledo county, Ohio, November 27, 1828. His parents were James and Mary B. (Adams) Earl, who removed from Ohio in 1831, and. settled near La Fayette. His ancestry on his father'^ side was English, and on his mother's Scotch-Irish. His father was twice drafted in the last war with England, and served each time; and was near being at the surrender of Detroit. His regiment was on the way from Lower Sandusky when 200 were detached to garrison the place. He was of this number, and 60 escaped being present on that humiliating occasion. He bore a part in several skirmishes, and was in the army at the declaration of peace. He was a genial, happy man, who took unbounded delight in recounting his adventures and the incidents of his early history. While on the frontier he improved his opportunities to view the region of country now comprised in Seneca county, Ohio, and being greatly enamored of its generous natural advantages, went there in 1824 and made a home among the Indians. He was the first wliite settler in tlie county. As already stated, he removed in 1831 and settled near La Fayette, in this Btate. The subject of this sketch was married, February 14, 1856, to Miss Salome C. Grouse, who was born in Marion county, Indiana, August IS, 1836. He had lived until this time where his father did, but the present year moved to Warren county, living there two years, and then coming to Fountain, where he has since resided, in Davis township, on the E. i of S.E. i Sec. 12, T. 21, R. 7. Mrs. Earl's ancestors were German ; her grandfather Grouse came from Saxony and settled in^Indianapolis when there were but half a dozen houses in the place. She is the mother of fourteen children, two of whom are dead : Quincy A., Mary E., Yictoria S., Jennie D., Morton Elwood. Robert Bruce (deceased), "William Howard, Arthur C., Ethel G., Elijah J., Lydia M., Kate, Thomas M. (deceased), and Hermon. The parents have been members of the Presbyterian church at Newtown since 1867. Mrs. Earl united with this denomination at Dayton, Ohio, in 1853. Mr. Earl became an Odd-Fellow in 1862. He owns 180 acres of choice land, including 30 acres of woodland. Mr. Earl himself does not cultivate liis land but has it done. He is devoting his attention much of the time at present to the running of a steam thresher. He has held the office of justice of the peace of Davis township since 1861, and during this long period has had to assess but three fines. He is a republican in politics. Squire Earl is a natural mechanic. Though he never learned a trade, as they are commonly learned, he has worked several years on his own place at manufacturing. In the fall of 1860 he formed a partnership with Alexander Holmes for the manufacture of Brown's Gorn-Planter. Holmes and his brother Andrew had the right of the state. They made these planters one year, then the firm dissolved, and Mr. Earl and Gyrus Ellis went together in the manufacture of riding corn-cultivators one year. The third year Mr. Earl carried on the business alone. Since that he has done some irregular mechanical labor, the most important of wliich has been the making of threshing-machines or separators, power wood-saws, and bee-liives.

James E. Pace, railroad agent and postmaster, Independence Station, son of James h" and Ellen P. (Eldridge) Page, was born in Fairfield, Wayne county, Illinois, February 13, 1843. He received a f\iir English education at the select schools in La Fayette, and the Institute at Waveland. His father dying when he was an infant, his motlier returned home to Mount Garmel, Illinois, where he Jived till nine years old, when she married the Kev. Harvey S. Shaw, Methodist minister. She died at Monticello, White county, Indiana, May 14, 1858. Following this event he chose his tinelc, Richard H. Eldridge, of La Fayette, his guardian, and lived witli him and clerked in his drug store. In the fall of 18G1 his uncle obtained a situation for him as hardware clerk in Terre Haute. While there he was enrolled, July 17, 1862, in Co. E, 71st Ind. Inf. This regiment, with eight others, fought a severe battle at Eichmond, Kentucky, against 15,000 rebels under Gen. Kirby Smith, and was captured. This occurred August 30, 1863, and lasted thirteen hours. The men were paroled September 2. The 71st returned to Indiana, and when exchanged was sent into Kentucky to do guard duty on the Louisville &K"ashville railroad. At Muldrangh's Hill, December 28, 1862, it was again captured, after holding out eight hours with 600 against 7,000 surrendered conditionally to Gen. John Morgan. He paroled the men, and they returned a second time to the state. Tlie following winter and spring the command was organized into a cavalry regiment, and numbered the 6th. "When, in 1863, Morgan made his incursion into this state, the 6th joined in the operations to oppose his crossing the Ohio, and to harass and capture him after- ward. In September the regiment went to Camp Nelson via Louisville. Companies E and K were detailed here to go to Kuoxville, Tennessee, as an escort for a drove of cattle, and were there during the siege. Next spring the regiment assembled at Camp Nelson and were remounted. It moved south from here and joined Sherman near Dalton, Georgia, and was attached to Stoneman's command. When the latter went on his disastrous expedition to release the Union prisoners, a part of the 6th helped compose his force. Before the fall of the city the remnant, with which Mr. Page was connected, was sent back to guard the railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta, and in September went to Nashville and was remounted. It moved thence to Pulaski, where a part of the Union forces were attacked by Forest, who, being defeated, was pursued by all the troops into Northern Alabama. The 6th proceeded to Dalton, Georgia, and was at that place when Hood began his invasion of Tennessee: it fell back leisurely to Nashville, and was there throughout the siege. Mr. Page was mustered out at Pulaski, Tennessee, June 17, 1865, and was paid ofi'and disbanded at Indianapolis. After clerking a short time again in the same store he left in Terre Haute, he went to Carlinville, Illinois, and engaged in the hardware business, first in partnership with Harvey Finsley, and next Henry Eldred. He bought out the latter, and in 1867 made an assignment. He returned to La Fayette, and in 1868 came to Attica as a life-insurance agent, and at length was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper, first in a drug and afterward in a hardware store. In 1876 he came to Independence and took charge of the station, and in January, 1877, was appointed agent of the Wabash company. Next June he