Shawnee Township (part 2 of 2)

John G. Keefer, farmer, Eob Eoy, son of Israel and Margaret (Hall) Keefer, was born in Eoss county, Ohio, August 31, 1851. He came witli his parents to Siiawnee township in the fall of ISotl, and has lived here since that time. His father was a mechanic, and tiie use of tools coming to him naturally, he learned the carpenter's trade with much freedom, but has never followed it to any great extent. He began farming in 1874. December 18, 1873, he was married to Miss Henrietta Fisher, who was born February 24, 1S51. Her father' came to Siiawnee township, and first settled near Portland, about forty years ago. He died in Eob Eoy, in December 1854. They have two children : Estella, born October 3, 1874, and Lulu, December 4, 1876. Mr. Keefer was elected assessor of Siiawnee township in the spring of 1880, for two years. Ho is a republican, active in politics and business, and an intelligent, useful citizen.

Eobert D. Keefer, carpenter and grocer, Eob Eoy, son of Israel and Margaret (Hall) Keefer, was born in Shawnee township, January 10, 1856. His parents removed from Eoss county, Ohio, to this place in 1854. He obtained a common school education, and at the age of eighteen began to learn the carpenter's trade. He has followed this business to the present time. Mr. Keefer was married, September 9, 1880, to Miss Ida, daughter of Jacob Clawson. She was born October 16, 1860. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Nehemiah. The Clawsons were early settlers in this part of the country. Mr. Keefer is a young man of spirit and enterprise, and in politics a republican.

Samuel H. Burbridge,miller, Attica, second son of Morgan Burbridge, was born in La Fayette, Indiana, March 25, 1851. He received a common school education, and was reared a miller. He came to this township in 1865, his parents preceding him one year. He was too young for military service in the late war, but his persistent ardor was three times displayed in attempts to reach a recruiting office, and disap- pointed in each case by his being taken from tlie cars and returned to his parents by acquaintances. When sixteen he left home on a trip to Missouri, and returning stopped awliiic in Illinois. Again he went to Eay county, Missouri, traveling by team, and from there successively to Baxter Springs, Kansas ; Springfield and Jefferson City, Missouri, and thence to Texas, employed to buy and drive cattle for a man at Springfield. He was in this business six months, and then returned liome. In 18T3 he visited Springfield again. February 4, 1880, while attending to his duties in the mill, he was accidentally caught in the machinery and severely injured in the left arm by liaving the flesh torn from the bone, rendering this limb permanently useless. In politics he is a republican. His father was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, December 6, 1817. In the autumn of 1822 his parents moved to Montgomery county, and settled two and one-half miles west of Crawfordsville. In tlie fall of 1823 his father bought his land at the ofBce in Terre Haute. Up to the time he was fifteen Mr. Burbridge worked on a fiirm ; then he began to learn the trade of a millwright. Wlien a boy he worked on the Michigan City mills. In connection with his business he has visited and traveled in the states of Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania. He was married December 25, 181:7, to Eachael A. Jones, who was born near Newcastle, Indiana, August 1, 1827. Their four children are Charles L., Samuel H., Eliza J. (wife.of George M. Foster), and John William. After their marriage they lived two years at Crawfordsville, and in the fall of 1849 removed to La Fayette, where he owned a foundry and machine shop four years. In 1864 he settled in Shawnee township, and bought the fiouring-mill where he lives, on the Shawnee. He is still operating it. Before this removal he was absent from home much of his time millwrighting, but since that has given little attention to his trade.

Henry Quiggle, farmer and stock raiser, Attica, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1841. His ancestry was German, and his parents were George and Mary (Shely) Quiggle. He was reared a farmer, and received a common school education. In 18G5 lie came to Fonntain county, and spent two years working as a liand on a farm. In the autumn of 1866 he returned to Pennsylvania and was married February 28, 1867, to Susan Whitmer, daughter of Henry and Katherine (Eiholtz) Whitmer, born January 7, 1845. In the spring of 1867 he returned with his wife to Fountain county, and has since lived here. They occasionally pay visits to their native home. They have had six children: Cora, born November 4, 1867; Laura, November 13, 1869; John, March 4, 1872; Ira, February 20,

1874 ; Frank, August 27, 1876, and Elmer, September 20 (died October 25), 1878. Mrs. Qaiggle belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Quiggle is a member of Richland Lodge, No. 205, A.F. and A.M., at Newtown. He was reared a democrat, but had too much intelligence to allow his manhood and usefulness to be impaired by party bondage, and so has torn away, when he thought reason dictated, from the attachments formed by early training, before his judgment had matured, and voted the republican ticket and principles as often as the other.

Alonzo Swank, miller, Rob Roy, son of Jacob and Mary Ann (Foster) Swank, was born in Warren county, Indiana, January 26, 1857. His mother died when he was nine days old, and he was taken and reared by his grandfather, "William Swank, who with his own father, Jacob, came to this county in 1830. Both were blacksmiths. The latter remained only a short time, then wont into Montgomery county. They had a smithy close to Henry Nave's. William Swank improved the farm, and built the brick house where Wm. Melvin Hatton lives, in this township. In September, 1872, the subject of this notice went into the Rob Roy mill to learn the business of milling with Messrs. Bookwalter & Claypool, and has been connected with it ever since. In November, 1876, Mr. Swank joined with Albert Donovan, and leased the mill from his employers. They ran it till August 1878, when James W. Orr bought his partner's interest in the lease, and these have operated the mill to the present time. Mr. Swank married Miss Lnella Kingora January 3, 1878. She was born May 13, 1860. They have one child. Ally, born December 17, 1878. Mr. Swank's father died in August 1875.