Wayne Township (part 1 of 3)

Wayne Township

ship. The family came to Wayne Township in ISSr), coDsisling of husband and wife and six children, four having been married in Ohio - George, Anna, Thomas and .John. The six unmarried were Mary, 8amuel Kzekiel, Uleanor and two others. The whole ten grew up, were married and had families. Six were sons and four were daughters; only four are now living. Mr. Gullelt was a farmer, a Methodist and a Democrat. He was a substantial pioneer, residing in the township some twenty-six years. He was verging toward old age at his emigration to this county, being near sixty years old, and he died, July 18, 18()1, aged eighty-four years. His wife outlived h«

SAMU1;L GULLKTT is the son of Ezekiel Gullelt, having been born in Butler County, Ohio, about 1821. He came, with his father, to Wayne Township in 18:«. He has been twice married. Hia first wife was Frances Wasson, daughter of David Wasson, a pioneer of the adjacent region in Darke (jOunty, Ohio, and she died in 1873. His second wife is Kllen I'erriue, from Danville, Ind. They removed, not long ago, from Iheir farm east of Salem, Randolph County, to L'nion City, where they now reside. He has liad seven children, five of whom are living; one of hia sons is Alexander, who has attained some distinction. He was a soldier ; spent some time as a clerk in Washington City ; was Township Tru.stce ; became an attorney; was elected Prosecutor for the Judicial Dis.rict to which llandolph County belongs, and, in 1880, removed to Colorado, where he is rising to prominence as a man of activity and enterprise in hia profes"ion and in business in general.

JOHN V. L. HARLAN is a native of the county. He isason of .loshuaand Luoinda Harlan, and was born on the 26th day of December, 1848. He was educated in the common district schools, and taught school one term. He learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it for some time. On January 27, 1872, he married Lucy A. Hartmau, daughter of John Hartman, whose biography is given in this work. They have hai,l five children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Harlan is mw engaged in farming, living on his own farm, five milts southwest of Union City. He and his wife are both members of the Christian Church.

JOHN HARTMAN, was born in Adams County, near Harrishurg, Pcnn., June 12, 1804, being a son of John .and Ann (liishop) Hartmau (both deceased), the former a native of Berks County, Penn., and the latter of Lancaster County in the same Slate. His education was received in the primitive cabin schoolhouse, with its usual appurtenance*. The teacher was a (iootcli-Irishmon, who would '-let out" school occasionally to "go on a spree." At the age of seventeen, Mr. H. learned the trade of a coverlet-weaver, working at that business for twelve years. He was married, February 7, 1828, to Miss Louisiana Alter, a niece of Hon. Jacob Alter, who was for many years a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature; as also a uiece of Hon. Joseph Rilner, ex-Govcrnor of the Keystone State. Mrs. Hartman was born in 180.5, and died March 10, 187!). They came to near Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio, in 183S, seeing the stars fall in November of that year, and to W.ayne Township. Randolph Co., Ind., in 1848. In 18.32, they were in Greenville only thirteen houses. He settled three and one-half miles west of Greenville, and when he removed to llandolph County, he traded that land for 200 acres in Wayne Township, where he has since lived (till he removed in 1880 to Bartonia). His .i^e is seventyeight years, but lie is hale and active, and seems more sprightly thau many far younger men. He has been lately married again, to Jli.ss Mary Woods, a daughter of Oliver Woods, Darke County, Ohio. May 16, 1880. He has had eleven children, as follows: Elizabeth, who married Windsor Wiggs, had seven children, and died in 1872 at Union City, Ind.; Jeremiah, born in 1833, two children, died in 1871 ; Solomon, born in 1835, seven children, resides iu Woyne Township, and is a farmer and teacher (see below) ; Emetine, born 1838, two children, died 1858; John, born 1841, died a Union aoldier, 1864, a mtmber of the Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry, Company C. He taught school five terms, and was at Lebanon Normal School when he enlisted. He was in four battles - Pittsburg Landing, Ciiattauooga and two others. At Pittsburg home to raise recruits, but while at home he was taken sick with lung fever, and the soldier who had passed through the dangers and the deaths of two years of war and battle unharmed, lay down to die amid friends and relatives in the home of his childhood, and passed from the scenes of earth afar from the roar of cannon and the din of conflict. But his comrades also were with him in his last hours, for they had come home to '- veteranize," and they attended his funeral in a body, and laid him to rest with the honors of war in the Union City Cemetery, where a simple tombstone oommemora!es his youthful valor ; Francis Marion, died one year old ; Jacob, born in 1846, has one child, lives with his father; Lucy, born in 184i), has four children. Most of e descendanta of John Hartman reside in Randolph County. Theic were nship Trustee of Wayne To are members of the Christian Church. J. H. is cheerful in dispofition and genial in temper, active, industrious and frugal, esteemed by his neighbors and belovnd by hia acquaintances. In politics, he is a warm-hearted and enthusiastic Republican. He now (1882) resides at South S.alem, Wayne Town-

Hartman, Wayne Township. :ame with his father to Ran- Huckeye Seminary U. L. Institute, at B taught school before he was seventeen, and has tjvught twenty-four winters. He married Sarah Ann Williamson in 18."iH, and they have had eight children. He is a prosperous and aiiccesaful farmer, taking delight in caring for all his afthirs in a neat and thorough manner. Though con-idered alightly eccentric by some, and Ipoing withal a man independent in opinion, he is a most energetic supporter of all good things. In politics, he

SOLOMON HARTMAN is the son of Johi He was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1855; dolph County, Ind., in 1848; attende " " ' Gettysburg. P " ' ' ' ' erelong, to see the world "turned upside down," or, as he would say, turned " right side up," and hopes to witness the ushering in of the new era, when everybody shall have all the money he wishes, and more, too, and when that blessed lime shall come may we all be there to see and to receive, moreover, each one his full and abundant share. Mr. H. resides near his father's old farm about five miles southwest of Onion City and a little north of Greenville Creek. Mr. H. is a thoroughly enterprising and greatly public-spirited citizen, entering heartily into every movement for the advancement of the public welfare.

HENRY HILL, Jericho, was born in 1790 in North Carolina. Coming io Wayne County, Ind., in 1817, he changed his residence to Randolph County in 1818, entering eighty acres in Wayne Township, Jericho settlement, and residing there till Ma death in 1874, fifty-six years. Mr. Hill was three times married -to Aohsah Peacock in 1814, who was born iu 1793 and died in 1830 ; to Achsah Thomas in 1831, who died in 1835, and the third time in 1837 to Avis Woodard, who died in 1877. Mr. H. had ten children, all grown and all married, and eight are living still. Asenath (Thomas), born in 1815, married George Thomas in 1833 ; has had three children ; resides at Jericho. Daniel, born in 1817, has been married three times ; is publisher of peace literature at New Vienna, Ohio. Jesse, born in 1820; married Catherine Cox; has had t wo children, died many years ago. Margaret, born in 1824 ; married Alexander Mason ; lived in Minnesota; had five children, died in 1878. Achsah, born in 1829: married Obadiah StillweU; resides near Lynn; has had two children ; husband is a former. WiUiam, born in 1832 ; married Hannah Stanbrey ; hos had nine children ; resides in Iowa. Rnohel. born in 1833 ; married Mr. Cox ; has had eleven children. Isaac, born in 1835 ; no childreii. Henry, born in 1838; has had eleven children; resides at Jericho; is a farmer. Henry Hill, Sr., has had fifty-two grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. He was a quiet, steady, reliable citizen, an Anti-Slavery Friend, a Republican, a thrifty and successful farmer, nnd an honest, faithful,

FANNY (DIGGS) HILL is the daughter of William Diggs, who was the first head of a family to settle on White River, in Randolph County. She was born in September, 1817, being supposed to have been the first white child born on White River. She was married to Matthew Hill, son of Benoni Hill, of Jericho, in 183B. Matthew Hill was born in 1814, and came with his parenta to Randolph County in 1818. They have seven children, and they live on the laud which he entered in 1837.

BENONI HILL was born in North Carolina, came to Jericho, Wayne Township, Randolph County, Ind , in 1818. Had ten children, seven of ' died about 1870. His wife'a maiden name was Polly Bosn>ll,a

MATHEW HILL is the son of Benoni Hill (deceased), having been born in 1814, in North Carolina. He'came with his father, at the age of four years, to Randolph County, in 1818. In 1837, he married Fanny Diggs, and they have had seven children, six ot whom are living and one unmarried. Mr. H. entered eighty acres and now owns 120 acres, being a thriving and successful farmer. He was au Anti-Slavery Friend, and is now a Republican. Mr. Hill, like the gre,at body of the society of which he haa been a life-long member, an earnest, faithful, steadfast adherent of Christian principles, and a quiet, humble, unassuming but useful and esteemed member of the community.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLINGER was boru in Loncaster County, Penn., June 4, 1833, ond is a son of Samuel and Lucy Hollinger, the former o native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of England. He was brought up and educated in Darke County, Ohio, to which place his parents removed when he Was four years old. In December, 1854, he was married to Miss Rebecca Shire, by whom he has had four children, only one of whom is now living. In 1872, Mr. Hollinger come to this county and aeltled at Harrisville, engaging in a geueral mercantile business for two years, being at the same time Postmaster at that place. In 1874, he sold out hia store and bought a farm of 133

PETER HOOVER, Su., born in Virginia; came to Randolph County, Ind., in the spring of 1834 ; had eight children, seven now living He died many years ago, as also his wife. She belonged to the Presbyterian Church. He was a Democrat.

PETER HOOVER, Jr., born 1810, Pendleton County, Va.; came to Darke County, Ohio, 1833, and Io Randolph County, Ind., 1834; entered 160 acres and has KiO acres still. He had only |2.50 when he got here, and he had his father and mother and their six children to core for. But by hard work and close economy he succeeded in assisting his parents, and also in gaining a reasonable competence for his old age. He was never married. An unmarried sister lives with him and cares for his affairs. He is an honest, sincere, hardworking, industrious, frugal and simple-hearted citizen; a sound Democrat

ANDREW HUTTON was born in Y'oik County, Penn., on February 4, 1834. and is a son of Solomon and Elizabeth Hutton, both natives of that county. In 1861, he married Miss Margaret Kiester, but they have no children. In 1870, he came to this county and purchased forty acres of land in Wayne Township, upon which he resides, and, besides farming, pursues the carpenter trade.

J(3SIAH KAYLOR is a aon of William and Rebecca Kaylor, and waa born in Prelde County, Ohio, February 21, 1838. He was raised on a firm and educatell in t^he common ilistriot achool. On April 18. 1860, he was married, to .Miss Lucinda Kesler, and they h.ive one child. He come to this county in February, 1878, and purchased a farm of 208 acres, five miles southwest of UnionCily, upon which he resides, engaged in farming and stock-raising. He also owns a quarler-scolion of land in Jay County. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.

WILLIAM KENNON, born in I.eland, cnme lo America when fourteen years old; lived for a time in Guernsey County, Ohio, ami came to IlanJolph County, Ind., in 1830. He settled on the Downing place, south from the tollgale south of Union City. He married Eleanor Smith, and hart four children. He owned '210 acres of land, was a Democrat, was .Justice of the Peace for four years, and was highly esteemed for integrity and inlelligonce. He died many years ago, as did also his wife, but the dale of their death cannot now be exactly told.

THOMAS S. KENNON, born in Wayne Township 1834. Married Hannah I'erkins, 18G2; has five children; owns a«0 acres; is a thriving, industrious, active farmer, and an extensive and successful stock dealer. He is likewise nn earnest and enthusiastic polilician, though he has never sought public office. He is a steadfast Republican, and lakes a prominent part in public affairs. Mr. Kennon thinks that he is the oldest person born in Wayne Township who now resides therein. There were settlers in the township twelve years in advance of his father, and, probably, children born in it before 1854, but he thinks none such are living here now. He has always been a resident of the township. His educational privileges consisted of the schools in the old hewed-log and round-top schoolhouses of the period, as also a few months at the Union Literary Institute, a manual labor institution established in 184(i,al the Greenville settlement, northeast of Spartansburg. and affording instruction to great numbers of the aspiring young men and women who were residents of the region at the time. T. S. K. was a volunteer in the civil war of 1801, first, in the Eighth Indiana three months, and again in the One Hundred and Twentyfourth Infantry, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant of his company.

cducnted in the common di I married, to Miss Catharine Hcadrich, aughter of Michael Headrich. She died March 31, 1880, leaving six children. She had been for four years a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Kunkle for five years worked at shoeinaking, and for awhile was Postmaster of Bartonia. At present, he owns a farm of 100 acres in the south part of Wayne Township, and is engaged in farming and

WILLIAM A. MACV was born in Guilford County. N. C, November 6, 1809, being ft son of Obed and Mary (Armfield) Macy, who were both natives of North Carolina. His education was very limited, the "Old North Stale" being more famous for "pitch tar, turpentine and lumber" thau for " school keeping" or " book larnin." He married Mi?s .leminia Rogers, July 4, 1833, and they had five children. Both his wives (see below) have been members of the M. E. Church, and his present wife and himself still remain such. He has owned 200 acres of land but now retains but ninety acres, having given 110 to his children. In 18-52, he wont o» a visit to his native State, and upon his return therefrom brought with him his aged mither who spent the remaiudor of her days in Randolph County. .Mr. M. emigrated to Randolph County, Ind., the year of his marriage, 1833. He resided at Spartansburg three years, on the Rogers Place, cast of Spartansburg five years, on a farm west of Granger Hall eleven years, and about twenty-eight years upon his farm north of Greenville Creek, near Abraham Chcnoweth'a. His wife died May 24, 1870, and was laid lo rest in Avba (^eojelery. In 1881, he was married again to Mrs. Morgan, widow of Frank G. Morgan, late of Spartansburg, and they now reside at that village. Mr. Macy. although sevenly-three years old, appears cheerful and sprightly like a mail of fifty years. He has had five children, only one of whom is living, to wit: Jacob Clarkson, who was born in 18311 ; married Mary Shreer in 1859, has had nine children, eight living, and lives on his father's old place, in Wayne Township. J. C. M. has been Township Trustee two terms, and Is a stock-raiser and dealer and farmer. Another of the children of J. A. M. was Caroline, who became the wife of John H. Cammack in 1862, and after having been the mother of three children, died in IBr.'J. W. A. M. is, of course, a member ofthegre.it, widespread, universal Mncy family, sprung from the original Thomas Macy, of New England, who sailed across Massachusetts Bay, around Cape Cod to Nantucket Island. The voyage in probably a fact, but the story as rendered into verse by the poet Whiltier, contains some poetic embellishments, or may possibly agree with popular tradition in that region. More than 2,000 persons have belonged to the "Macy tribe" since Thomas Macy. the sturdy Puritan,

Accounts of many other Maoys are given in the course of this work. W. A. M. is a fine old gentlennn, a prosperous farmer and blacksmith, an old-time Methodist and Abolitionist, a sincere and thorough Republican and a thoroughly upright and honest man. He suffered a severe affliction some three year-) ago in the loss of the life-long companion of his bosom, the sharer of his toils and his sorrows for well-nigh fifty years. In the winter of 1H8I-82, he was happily successful in gaining the affections and the hand of Mrs. Morgan, as already stated, and seems by this fortunate union lo have renewed his manhood, and to have grown younger by twenty ytars.

DK. WILLIAM K. MARQUIS is a son of William and Polly Marquis, and was born in Darke County, Ohio, on the Olh ilay of April. 1832. His parents were natives of Hardy County, Va., and the mother is yel living at the age of eighly-sevcn years. He was brought up on a farm, received his education in the common schools, and read medicine with Dr. Enos Williams, of Darke County, beginning the practice of his profession in 1808. In 18r)3, he married Miss Mary Bennett, by whom he had nine children. She died in October, 1875, and in March, 1H77, he married Miss Fannie Coats, by whom he has two children. For seventeen years he has been a minister of the German Baptist Church ; at present lives on his own farm of fifty-five acres in southwest part of Wayne Township, this county, and is engaged in the practice of his profes-

Mason Family

Richard Mason (father of the " Mason's') was horn in North Carolina in about 1795; came to Clinton County, Ohio, when a boy, perhaps in 1805, married .Sarih Jackson in Ohio, movcil thence to Wayne County, Ind., and to Kosciusko County, Ind., to the latter in 1834. He hail ten children, and died in 1844 in the last named county, his wife dying in Randolph County, Ind., In 1850. His children all grew up and were married, and eight still survive. They are as follows : Thomas, ten children, resides at Union City, Ind. ; Elizabelh (JIason), seven children, is dead; DelilB (Harper), four children, lives in Iowa; Louisa (Drake), seven children, is dead; William, has seven children, resides in Union; Sarah (Gunter), one child, Kosciusko County; Salina(Frazier-Milnor) nine children, Iowa ; Elihu, several children, resides in Ohio ; Mary (Conkling), four children, Wayne Township ; Jemima(Duncan), three children, Iowa. Six of them have been residents of Randolph County, Thomas, William, Salina, Elihu, M.ary and Jemima; and Thomas, William and Mary live here sllU.

THOMAS MASON, Union City, son of Richard Mason, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1813 : moved to Wayne County, Ind., in 1815, married Jane Polly, in Wayne County, in 1830; moved to Kosciusko County In 1834, and to Randolph County in 1838; has made this county his home ever since that time. He settled three miles northwest of Salem and remained there till 1805, moving in that year to Union City, retaining, however, ownership of his farm. Ills wife, Jane Polly, was born in Preble County, Ohio, In 1812, and removed to Madison County and thence lo Darke County, Ohio, the latter in 1810. Mr. M. and his wife are both active and sprightly, bearing their age well. They have been the parents of ten children, most of whom are still living. He has been all his life a farmer. He was at different limes Assessor, both of personal property and of real estate, and was four years Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township. He was at one time a member of the Disciples' Church, but is not so at the present time. His wife belongs to that Society at Salem, Randolph County. He has been, as to politics, a life-long Democrat, though he sometimes " splits" his ticket, which a " free man" has a right to do if he chooses.

ANDREW McCONNKLL was born in Miami County, Ohio, July it), 1820, and is a son John and Elizabeth McConnell. He was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools. When he was a young man, he learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for twenty years. He has been twice married, the first time to Miss Jane Innian, by whom he had si-x children, of whom four are now living. His second wife was Mrs. Matilda Clapp. by whom he has one child. Mr. .McConnell came to this county in 1850, and at present resides at Bartonia, being a Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township.

JONATHAN J. MIKESEM. was born in Darke County, Ohio. January 25, 1838, and is a son of Riley and Matilda Mikesell, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Ohio. Young Mikesell received his education In a little log schoolhouse furnished with slab seats, but so improved his time that he obtained the necessary certificate, and for awhile was engaged in teaching. He came to this county in 1855, and in 18i;2 married Miss Hannah Rarrick, daughter of Daniel Rarrick, and they have eight children. .Mr. .Mlke.'cU now owns a farm in the south part of this township, and, besiiles farming, he is, in connection with his brother, Curtis 0. Mikesell, engaged in manufacturing

1). T. MORRIS. David T. Morris is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, and was born on the loth day of December, 1823. His parents were John and Mary Morris, natives of the Stuto of Delaware, who removed from Ohio to Campbell County, Ky., when the subject of this sketch was quite small. Here he grew up on a farm until he was fifteen years old, at which time he went with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father engaged In business as a contractor and builder. Young Morris was educated principally at Fnrmers' College, situated at College Hill, near Cincinnati, which institution was then under the control and management of Gen. S. F. Cary. In 1849, he was married to Miss Mary A. Murphy, a native of Greene County, Ohio, and daughter of John C. Murphy, one of the pioneei-s of that county. They have had nine children, but four of whom - .lohn H., Ada L., Charles C. and Samuel H. - are now living. In rearing and educating his family, Mr. Morris employs a governess, and has his children instructed at home. He has been prompted to this course by his looation being remote from school facilities, as well as by his own preferences; yet no oitizon pays school-tax more cheerfully than he. After engaging in business for himself, Mr. Morris trieil various avocations. For awhile he was employed in book-keeping, then merchandising, then a hotel, and finally, farming. In 185H, he came to this county, and bought 200 acres of unimproved land on the Indiana side of the Stale line, four miles south of Union City. This land has been developed by industry and intelligent supervision into one of the most pleasant and sightly homesteads in the county, as our sketch herewith will show. Mr. Morris has a taste for the beautiful, and his hospitality is .joined to a cordiality and good will that renders a visit to his house always agreeable. Besides the resources of his farm, he Is the owner of valuable Western lands, and is a stockholder and Director of Citizens' Bank of Union Oily. Mr. Morris has always been a friend of public improvements, and among the foremost in local enterprises for the development of the country. Although employing aprivnie teacher for his own children, he is an e.-irnest advocate of public schools, and cnnlributes cheerfully of his means for their support. He was one of the original incorporators, and has usually been a Director of the Union Agricultural Association, and has contributed of his time, his money and his labor to promote its success ; and lo his influence and example, as much as thai of any other man, is lo be attributed Ihe better system of farming and improvement of farm slock of Randolph I'ounty. For some years he has given especial attengomery Boy," a grandson of the famous Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and on the dam's side showing n pe'ligree from llie lies! atuils of Iventuclcy. Mr. Morris i is in politics a Democrnt. ami is lieKl in high esteem by his fellow-citizeas.

WILLIAM S. MOKTON was born at Kichmoad, Wayne Co., lad., ia 1822. lie married Elizabelh Aan Barton (daughter of Lcven Birton)ia 1811, aul moved to Uandolph County, Ind.. near Bartooia, ia 18.56, and that is still his home. They have had nine children, only three of whom are living. He is an enterprising and prominent citizen, a thriving farmer and stock-dealer, owning 230 acres of land. In politics, he is a thorough Republican. I

.JOHN W. MOKTON is a son of WilUiam S. Morton, and was bora in , Wayne County, Ind., April 10, 1853. He was brought by his father to this I county when a child, where he grew up on his father's farm, and v." is educated i in the district schools. February 20, 1873, he married Miss Lvura E. Dan- j iels, daughter of William H. Daniels, of Georgia, and they have one child, j Mr. Morton is a farmer, and owns a farm of eighty acre.s in tlie south pirt of | Wayne Township. i

NELSON MUlll'HY was horn in Darke Cninly, Ohio, October 8, \8Zo, \ being the son of Benjamin and Huldah Murphy. His pirents came to Randolph County in 1888, when he was a child of three ye^irs, having grown up on his father's farm and received the usual backwoods eilucaiion. He was married, in 1856, to Miss Sirah E. Vail, .and they hive been the parents of eight cliildren, viz. : Ida M. (deceased). Amy J., William E., Henry L., Rena B., Robert Burns, Benjamin F. and Evan L. In 1807, he moved lo Clay County, III., returning in 1871. ,He is the owner of 187 acres of etcellent land and is an energetic and industrious farmer. .Mr. and Jlrs. Murphy are me<nbers of the Chrisiiau Church at Harrisville.

ROBERT MURPHY was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1801, his parents having emigrated thither from Pennsylvania. He came to Butler County, Ohio, In 181U, removing to Darke County, Ohio, in 182(1. His marriage, to Elizabeth Devall took place in 1827 (who was born in 1807, and died in 1847). They came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1834, where he entered eighty acres of land lat two entries), and upon that land he has resided ever since (forty-eight years). Mr. M. has been the father of fifteen children, as follows: Benjamin, born 1828, October 19; Wi liam, born 1829, October 27; Absalom, born 1830, November 15; Alzinah, born 1831, November .30; Robert, born 1833, September 14: Albert, born 1834, December 8; Mirtin, born 1836, March 7; Elizabeth, born 1837, May 3 ; Davi'l, born 1838, August 5; Elcy, born 1839, December 23: Thomns, born 1841, October 12; Rachel, born 1842, Septembers; Moses, born 1844, March 4; Asa, born 1815. November 10; John B., born 1847, March 1. His wife died March 1, 1847, upon llie birth of her last child, and for tliat long time, more than thirty-five years, Mr. M. has lived unmarried. He has been Trustee of the Township many years. Administrator of many estates, etc., showing the confidence reposed by his fellow-citizens in hia judgment and integrity. Eight of his children are still living, viz. : Benjamin, residing in Iowa, eight children ; Albert, residing in Minnesota, seven children; Martin, residing in Union City, Ind., four children ; Elizabeth (Locke), widow, one child; her husband w.ts a soldier in the Union army, and was killed near V'icksburg, summer of 18l!3 ; David, resides on the home place, five children; Elcy (Harris), widow, lives near her father's, eight children; Muses, resides in Union Citv, two children; John B., resides in Minnesota, two children. He was originally a Presbyterian, but after coming to this region of country he joined the Pi-ote.stant Meth)di3ts, and is connected with them still. Mr. M. has for fifty years or more, endeavored to exemplify the pure religion of the lowly Jesus by a meek and faithful Christian life, and in his old age he tries to serve and honor his loving Savior still. In politics, he is a sterling Republican. His first Presidential vote was given, in 1824, for John Uuincy Adams, and since that lime he has voted for President

HENRY OHLER was born in Tippecannoe County, Ind., in 1831. He is a son of Adam and Sarah Ohler, who removed to Ohio in 1834. He was married to Miss Sarah J. Shreera December 13, 186ij, and they have had seven children, six of whom are living. He came to this county in 1808, and bought a farm of 148 acres four miles southwest of Union City, upon which he now resides. During the late war, he served four months .as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-second llegiinent Ohio National Guards. His wife is a member of the Christian Church at Salem ; but he holds no church relations.

AMOS PEACOCK and ABRAM PEACOCK came together from Carolina in the fall of 1818. Four families were in company - Amos Pencock, Ahram Peacock, Henry Hill and Bcnoni Hill. The three last named settled in Jericho in 1818. Ames Peacock raised one crop in Wayne County, and came on in the fall of 1819. Amos Peacock had nine children - Aaron, Jonah, William, Elijah and Elisha (twins), Matilda, Abram, Anna and Abigail. Four are still living- William, Anna, Abigail and Elijah. William [see aftcrw.ird], Amn married Pleasant Digga, son of old William Diggs, two children, Iowa. Abigail married Joseph Diggs, son of old William Diggs, five children, Iowa. Elijah lives in Jericho, Ind., and has had several children. They are all farmers, and all tiuakers. and quiet, solid, substantial men and women. Am.is Peacock died nt Jericho July 2, 1850, aged sixty-two ye.ars nine months and eleven d.ays. Hannah Peacock, his wife, died September 8, 1807, aged seventy-four years three months and twenty-seven days. He was born in Nirth Carolina September 21. 1787. She was born in North Carolina May 11, 1793. They were married about 1812. Two children were born to them in Carolina, one in Wayne County, Ind., and six in Jericho.

WILLIAM PEACOCK was born in Wayne County, Ind., October 10, 1818, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1819, and has lived in Jericho ever since. He married Mary Thoma^ daughter of Benjamin Thomas, near Newport, Ind., in 1840. They have had three children. He is a farmer, and a Friend, and until lately, a Republican, but now a " National Greenbackcr ;"

Union Literary Institute, a manual labor institution established in 1845, by hia father-in-law, Benjamin Thomas and others, for the education of colored and other indigent youth : he is greatly esteemed his sincere, quiet, solid, unobstrusive piety, ety of Anti-Slavery Friends, he rejoined the "Body Friends," but lately, with a few others, he has withdrawn from them, forming a new " .Meeting," claiming to adhere to the mnthod.s and usages of the early and original Friends. They are almost alone, the great mass of Friends having -' progressed" greatly from the standards of aciion of fifty years ago. The " new method " Friends maintain, however, that they are in harmony not indeed with the measures of fifty years past, but with the principles and spirit of George Fox and William Penu, and the Quakers of " long, long ago. '

ELIJAH H. PE.\COCK is a twin-brother of Elisha Peacock, and they were born in Randolph County, Ind., J.anuary -28, 1820. They are sons of Amos and Hannah Peacock. Elijah received an education under the auspices of the Friends' Church, and for sever.il years followed the oarponer trade. On November 15, 1853, he married Mias Agnes Brown, a native of Cheltenham, England, and they have seven children. Mr. Peacock is now a farmer, living on his own farm of 118 acres in the southwest part of Wayne Township.

WILLIAM PICKETT, was born in Orange County, N. C, 1802. In 1818, he went to Chatham County in the same State (on Hav Riverj, to take care of liis grandfather. He died in 18il, and W. P., after staying until the fall of 1822, emigrate 1 to Richmond, Ind. He was married in 1820, and moved to Randolph County, five miles e.ist of Winchester, in 1828. His first wife's name wns Sarah Ann White, burn in 180"). Mr. P. bought eighty acres in the green woods, of Benjamin Cjx (nephew of Jeremi.ah Cox. the famous miller). Benjamin Cox was a tjuaker minister and cousin to -Mr. Pickett, since Jeremiah Cox's wife was the sister of Mr. P.'s father. Benjamin Cox was the son of John Cox, one of tlie earliest settlers on White River, east of Winchester, who fixed his residence t»o miles eist of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Pickett were the parents of twelve children, six of them bein? still living. They were as given below: Esther, Mahlon, Hinnah, Alfred, John W., Joel, Asenath, Lydia, Rebecca, Sirah, Mary and one other. Ten (or eleven) lived to be grown, to be married, and to have families. The number of grandchildren has been thirtythree. One of his «ons, Alfred Pickelt, born in 1833, joined the Eighty-fourlh Indiana, in the war for the Union, in 1802 ; was wounded at Lookout Mountiin, and died at the hospital. Mr. P. marriel for his second wife, Mrs. Mary (Hyatt) Coats, in 18T5. She is the daughter of one of the first settlers, her father making his home east of Winchester, about 1818. Mr. P. and his wife, while well stricken in. years are still healthy and cheerful, though, indeed, the days of aevere labor for this aged couple are, and ought to be, over and done, and they richly deserve to spend the brief remainder of their earthly pilgrimage in quiet .ami patient wailing for the frien Uy messenger, whose tender call diedin.^inil : . jiiy-fourth year. He was a " Friend" by birthright, and \'\ . iiu,:! II - .>11, clinging with a firm and unwavering gr.isp to the faith, tlie iiic-iliods and Ihe Suciely of his youth and his early manhood. The storms of controversy and the whirlwind of division affected not his steadfast mind. He was a genuine pioneer of the olden time, and he gave Utile heed to the changing fashions of the modern day. What he was and liad been, that he continued to be to the close of his earthly career. He was greatly attached to home and home life, leaving the farm upon which he dwelt only for necessary business. One by one, but alas! how frequently drop into the gr.ave the venerable pioneers; the relics of the generation of the olden time, who, with severe and unremitting toil, in sterling honesty, and with unswerving integrity, laid the foundations broad and deep of Ihe prosperity of the latter day.

BENJAMIN PIKE was born in North Carolina in 1825; came with hia father to Randolph County, Ind., in 1831 ; married Rachel Cox. and has three children. He has been a farmer and huckster. He is a Friend, Abolitionist and Republican. His health is poor, but he manages to be engaged in his occupation mucli of the time. Mr. P. is a blulT and plain spoken, but honest and upright citizen, and is endeavoring quietly but earnestly to accomplish ii comfortable subsistence for himself and those placed under his care.

JOHN PIKE was born in North Carolina; came to Jericho, Randolph County, about 1831 ; was twice married and had seven children : was a farmer, tinker, clock peddler, blacksmith and what not; a Quaker in religion, and a Whig, Abolitionist and Republican in politics. Caring little for the opinions of the world, he asked simply wh.at is right; and having answered the question to his own satisfaction, he followed steadily and faithfully the leadings of

THE POLLY FAMILY were an important and prominent group in the early times of Wayne Township, The elder Polly was a native of Virginia, by name, William Polly, Sr. His birth was about 1774. He was laken to Kenlucky when a lad and grew up there, marrying in that Stale. They emigrated to Ohio, county not known. Before 1812, he had settled in Preble County, Ohio, moving to Madison County in 1814, and to Darke County in 1819, twelve miles east of Greenville. He died there in 1846, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife's name was Jemima Kelso, who died at the age of sixty-two years. They had thirteen children ; twelve grew to mature age ; all the twelve were married, and eight are living still. Mr. P. was a farmer, as to his vocation, a Disciple in religious profession, and a Democrat in early times, but in his later years a " Liberty Man," voting for Birn»y for President. The names of his children are given below: Sarah (Mcintosh), had eight children, is dead; James, has had nine children, i« living in Iowa, eighty years; Mary (Snodgrass), nine hoys, is dead: Mlizahelh (Jackson-llarlani, had eight children, is deid ; Williiim, has nine children, farmer, near HoUansburjr, Ohio, seventy-four years; Jemima (Harlan), eight chil Iren, lives in Iowa, seventy years old ; Jane (Mason), ten children, resides at Union City, sixty-eight years; Isabella (Harlan), seven cliildren, Iowa, sixty-six years; Nancy (Harlan), five children, is deail; Edith (Kenida), five children, is in Iowa; David, six children, resides near Camden, Jay (^o.. Ind. ; Barnhill, four children, Mononn County, Iowa; Lucinda, died at six years old. Eight of the above have resided al some time in Randolph County, viz.: Sarah, married William Mcintosh, lived near the town of Randolph, west of Barlonia, and moved to lown and died in Monona County, in that Stale. Jame«, also lived at Randolph, having a hotel there, and, besides that, keeping store on Greenville State ru.id, east of the "GrilBs' farm," and elsewhere. He moved to Iowa some thirty years ago, and resides there still. Mary, marrieil Mr. Snodgrasa, lived neiii the town of Randolpli; moved to Delaware County, Ind., near Yorktown. Jemima (Harlan), lived near Salem, removetl to New Lisbon, and to Iowa, residing now in that State. Nancy (Harlan), lived near Salem, hut removed to Iowa. Sarah, married Tliomas Mason, lives at Union City, Ind. D^vid, owned a farm near Salem, laid out that town, s.ild goods there, and was otherwise a prominent man, rcmoveil to Union City, and was for yeai-a a leading merchant there; he failed in business and removed to near Camden, Jay Co., Ind., and now resides on a farm in that vicinity ; he is a Republican, and a member of the Disciple Church. Uarnhill, also lived near Salem for many years, moved to Marion, Ind., then to Minnesota, and still again to Iowa. He was a farmer, and a Uepublican, and a DLsciple preacher, having labored thns in the Gospel for more than forty years. Thus it will be seen iliat the I'oUy family were leading citizens in the southern part of Wayne Township in early times, for many years. But like many others among tlic pioneer families, most of the members of the connection have changed their residences, and their places in this county during the olden time are filled by those who knew tbetn not.

JOHN PRICE wa,s a native of Baltimore' County, Md. He w:is born January f), 182ij, being the son of Solomon and Barbara I'rico (deceased). They came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1H34, and to Randolph County, lud., in 1S37, the same year that vast numbers of other emigrants left their Eastern or .Southern homes to plunge into the Western wilds where land was chetp, and wolves and deer and bears were almndant. John Trice was a child of eight yeiirg old when he was brought to Darke County, Ohio, and a lad of thirteen when he found his way to Randolph ; .so that he has been n resident of this oiinty for more than forty years. In 18.5-J, he married Miss Sarah Dixon, daughter of John Dixon. They have had fourteen children, and nine of them are living, viz.: Mary A., Samuel H., Barbara E., Robert L., Martha K., Sarah 1^., John R., George E. and Emma M. Mr. Price is a large farmer, and raises stock extensively, owning 350 acres of land ; he holds also twenty-seven shares in the Union City and White River Turnpike Cnnpany, he having been, moreover. Treasurer of that corporation for eight years. .Mr. Price is an influential citizen, respected and esteemed by those who know him.

OLLEN S.\SSEK was born in Greensfork Township, Randolj.h Co., Ind., May IS, laSfi, being a son of William and Eliiabclh .Sa.sscr, who were natives of North Carolina. He received a cummon-sohool education, being re.ared a farmer's son, and toiling throughout his life to clear away the heavy timber from the surface of the gonial fruitful soil in the county of his birth and his lifelong abode. In March, 18r>'.), he married Mrs. Eliza (Harless) Williams, !r of Elias Harless. They 1 "

JOHN SHEETS was born in Maryland, of German descent, about IT'.ii); emigrated to Ohio, and about 1830, to Wayne Township, Randolph Co., Ind., entering the farm afterward owned by James Smith, and now by Hon. Naihar Cadwallader, lying a little north of Union City, in Wayne Townslii]

SAMUEL H. SHOi'KNEVis the son of William Shockney, having been born in Maryland in 18i4; he came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1840, with his father when but six years old In 186'i, he married Sarah A. Bulls, sister of Rev. Nathan T. Butts, born in 1842. They have had nine children, and six are living. The children are Rachel, Alis.a, William Thomas, Samantha, Thcodiup Howard, Harry Belmoni, Pcrley, and two others. Mr. Shockney resides on

IST'.I, he erected a residence, co.-st" $(,20U, with Ihesurroundings, $ti.OOO. The house is 5llxo2 feet, two stories, tivelve and eleven feel, and an attic, an also a basement under the whole house ; building, frame ; basement, stone ; basement five rooms, six in each story above, besides five halls, and closets to every room. The house has forty-two .loors, and twenty-seven large windows and nineteen attic windows and several in the ba4emeut. The hiuse is splendidly finished ; the front door alone, with surrounding-i, cost $200. Transoms are over every door, giving excellent ventilation. Mr. Shockney has a wind-pump, supplying water to the cellar, basement, kitchen, bath-room, barnyard, stable and field. He seems to be a plain, warm-hearted, genial firmer, not pufl'ed np by his good fortune, but disposed to enjoy life iu-a healthful and sensible m.anner.

PETER M. SHULT/, was born in Nicholas County, Ky., August 23,183-3, and is a son of George M. and Martha Shultz, who removed from Kentucky to Highland County, Ohio, the same year in which Peter was born. He Wiis educated in the common district schools of Highland County, and in 1862 came to Indiana and settled in this county. He learned the trade of carpenter and sawyer and followed it for .some time, but of late years has turned his attention to farming. In 18.').!, he married Miss Julia A. Moore, and has four children. He was a soldier during the w.ir, serving two years in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, holding a Lieutenant's ' ' " of his discharge; he and his wife are now members of d Northwest. He moved to Eel River, Im North Manchester. Eel River, Ind., in lH."il, Sheets was a farmer; in religious descent, a Lulhi His son, Lewis Sheets, resided in this region till 1 House, omong the earliest in Union City. In 18" is also A farmer, owning 200 acres of land in Indiana and 40tl acres in .Minnesota ; be is a Republican.

WILLIAM SHELLEV first opened his eyes upon the light of day in Montgomery County, Ohio, September 19. 183H, whose parents were Jacob and Rebecca Shelley. They came to Randolph County in 1840, William being a lad of eight years; bis father being a farmer, William was reared to ihe vocation uf a tiller of the ground, and he now owns and cultivates a nice, though small farm, comprising n tract of eighty acres of tilled land and woodland. He remained unmarried until 1873, and on the 6th of .ipril, of that year, he was joined in the sacred bonds of wedlock to Miss Elizabolh Dixon. They have two children - Harry G. and Nora L. The parents are both acceptable nieiriher.-j of the Christian society at Harrisville, Randolph Co., In. I.

WILLIAM SHOCKNEV, we.st of Bartonia, was born in A married Rachel Oursler in 1830, who was born in 1811, and ning in 18fi2, who was born in 1803. He had three children, is now living. Mr. Shockney came to Randolph County in I84ti,

WILLIAM S.MITH wiUi born in While River Township, Randolph Co., Ind., June 2, 1831, being a son of Dur.ant Smith, who is one of the early pioneers of Randolph, and is still living al a great agr, his wife having died a few years ago. Like most other boys he was reared on a farm, and went to school in a log cabin solioolhouse. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Samuel Conklyn, who was himself one of the earliest pioneers of the eastern part of Wayne fownship. Their children have been nine in number, to wit: .Sarah E , George W., Viola. William R., Samuel D., Charles A., Mary .M., Harry, Liietta. Mr. S. was a member of the Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, t;uuipany H, particijnling in various skirmishes and engagements. But by constant exposure his health failed, and he was accordingly discharged. Mr. S. has held the office of Assessor of Wayne Township from IStili to 1870 inclusive, discharging the duties of his responsible position with credit and to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. He is the owner of thirty-five sh.ares of stock in the Union City .'4 While River Turnpike Company; was Director of the Company for live years, and Treasurer during two years. He owns eighty acres of land, being part of his father's homestead, as also lot No. 483, on North Columbia street, I'nion City. Mr. and Mrs. Smith arc members of the Christian Church at Harrisville, though by birthright .Mr. S. belonged to the Society of Friends.

HANNAH TKETEIl was born in 1782, in Bedford County, Pcnn. Her husband's name was Abrain Teeter, and he died in 1838, in Pennsylvania. She moved to Darke County, Ohio, in 183'.l, and Randolph County, Ind., in 1840; she had ten children and eight were with her, two having been married in Darke I ounty, Ohio ; tliei-c were four boys and six girls; two boys and three girls are living now. She entered forty acres where John D. Teeter now resides, south of Union City. She raised her family, remaining a widow during thirtyfour years, and died in 1872, ninety years old. The old lady remained healthy and strong, except that she was for eight years subject to fits, and for the two last years of her life she was blind, Mrs. T. belonged to the Dunknrds. Her son, I lavid Teeter, bought a lot in Union City. The lown wa-^ laid out in 1849, and the lots were sold iu 1840-50, some of them at le.ast. David Teeter built the house since called the " Star House. " io the winter of 184!) - 50, the first house put up on the i>lat of the lown, except that two cabins were on the ground when the pint was made. A frame house was raised for Henry Debolt in 1851, and in Ihe spring of 1852 a frame was put up also for John Frazier and Jack Downing. Daniel Weimar was the contractor, but J. B. Teeter and Hezekiah Fowler put up the fr.amcs, both Debolt's and Frazier's. The next house put Uji was the Forest House, July, 1852. David Teeter died at his mother's in

, but tor twelve years he has sold medicines tnrougn lue region, lie was oorn in 1830. married .Maria Brandon, sister of Thomas A. Brandon, elergjmnn of Union City. Tliey have seven children. He is a Republican, and n steady, thriving citizen. Mrs. Teeter was a remarkable instance of a resolute woman, a widow with eight children to be supported, who vigorously pushed her way into the wild woods and sternly fought the battles of poverty and distress, coming off grandly victorious. Boldly entering the virgin forest of Randolph in her firty-cighth year, nearly old enough already to lay hard work aside, she yet survived thirty two years longer, battling with hard toil and .advanoin^r age combined, and only yielding in the con- Hid when twenty years were past aliove the allotted "threescore years and

(iEi)RGE THOMAS. Jericho, is Ihe son of Benjamin Thomas, Newport. Wayne Co., Ind. He was born in Wayne t.'ounly, Ind., in 1814, and married Asenath Hill, daughter of Henry Hill, of Jericho, Ind., in 1833 (who was barn in .North Carolina in 1815). They settled in Jericho in 1835, went to Nora, 111., iu ISr.li; 10 Newport, Ind., in 1858; to Jericho, Ind., in 1860: to Iowa in 18(i3, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 187.'i, and they now reside in Jericho, on a portion of her fatliers farm. They have had three children, one of whom is dead. The two surviving children are Elvira ( Diggs), now of Iowa, who has onechiM: Sarah (.Moore), and she resides at Jericho, and has ten children. Their husbands .-iic both farmers. Mrs. Thomas' health has boon VC17 feeble for proprietors expected the citizens to comiuuniciite with each other in the north part of the town is hard to tell. Alleys even are by no means abundant, and now, since Howard street has been cut down to make what may be hoped to be a permanent grade, interooiirso oast and west in the north part of tlio city is almost wholly obstructed.

The various additions, with names of proprietors, date of record, number of lots, location, et<!., may bo found in the general statement at the commencement of this account of the city.

The location of the town is reasonably good. The ground has a considerable elevation in some parts, rising at Oak street to the height of say twelve feet alwve the railroad tracks at the depots. Drainage and sewerage are somewhat difficult, but, with proper care r.nd skill of engineering, not impossible. . . From Oak street north and south, and also from Plum and Howard' streets oast and west (in tho main part of the town), the slope is gradual, but quite evident; and, by grading northward on Howard and Plum, a good drainage may be secured.

Much labor has been spent during past years to establish a suitable grade, not always, possibly, in the wisest manner, though doubtless every Council has tried to do what seemed to them to bo for the best, and it is to be hoped that in time a satisfactory result may be accomplished.

The town has a very serious disadvantage in the fact that gravel suitable for hard and durable streets is not easily obtained. One would think that, perhaps, by and by, gravel banks or pits near some of thovai'ious railways centering here might be utilized, and the gravel be transported hither on the cars, and hauled by wagons or drays to the streets. At any rate, Union City has had difficulty enough, thus far. in constructing streets, and with only moderate success.

It ought to be stated that, dui'ing the spring and summer of 18S2, a grand work has been performed in connection with the sidewalks of the town, and that the same work is still going on with wonderful ..cnerg}' and success.

Columbia, Oak and Pearl streets have been supplied with walks of a jnost convenient and beautiful sort, the like of which is to bo i»een in but few towns of any size. These walks are constructed, some of solid concrete and some of natural stone. The concrete presents a smooth, continuous sui-face, appai-ently firm aud lasting, and tte natui-al rock is laid down in large slabs, say foiu- by ten feet, and several inches thick.

The tract of land which forms the original plat of Union City, Ind., was pm-chased by Hon. Jere Smith, of Augustus Loveland, May 7, 18411. Mr. Smith purchased also forty acres in Ohio in 'lSr)2, between the two plats, of Fowler, father of Gabriel Fowler, now a business man of the place. That latter ti-act remained unplatted and unimproved until about 1870. Union City, Ohio, as originally platted, lay east of the forty- acre tract, which iay vacant between the two towns, preventing Union City, Ohio, from building up close to the State line. About ten years ago, this forty-acre tract was platted, and has been considerably improved. Much of it is occupied with shops, factories, lumberyards, etc.

The streets on the Indiana side are mostly at oblique angles, some, however, being at right angles to each other, and some not so. Those that ero.ss the railroad (" Bee- Line") run northwest at an angle of several degi'ees, ex<rept Stat* Line, which extends north and south.

Thj Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St Louis ("Pan-Handle") Railroad crosses here the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis (" Bee-Line ") Railroad, and the Dayton & Union Railroad has its northern terminus at this place. The city has therefore excellent railroad accommodations, enjoying direct and speedy communication with Cleveland, Cohimlms, Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Chicago aud St Louis - in fact, with the whole outside world.

boring. Through a network of mains and smaller pipes, the water is carried throughout the whole chief portion of the city, thus f ui'nishiug the town both for private purpus&s and for public use. Numerous manufacturing establishments draw from this well a plentiful supply of water. A grist-mill, several saw-mills, pianing-mills, stave factory, flax-mill, engine house, etc., etc.. are supplied with all they need, besides all other public and private uses; and still, thus far, there is enough and to spare. Hydrants, public watering troughs, private fountains, livery stables, hotels, passenger depots and dwellings as well find no lack of the life-giving fluid. Street-sprinklers and the tire department, moreover, obtain their abundant supply in the same exhaustless soiu-ce - this wondrous public well! Tho water works are indeed a priceless treasure to Union City. The original cost was $40,000. 'The capacity of the well 'has been estimated at 800 gallons per,mi):fute.

As though it were ah underground ocean, it seems thus far to have borne triumphantly every requirement. Whether there is a limit, and if so, when it will be reached, cannot be foreseen. The cost and trouble of obtaining and maintaining this supply of water for the various purposes of the city and its inhabitants has been and is exceedingly heavy; and the thought that, after all. tho source may fail, or be found to be inadequate, is not pleasant to contemplate, and it is highly desirable that such a contingency may never arise, but that future generations may rejoice, oven as does the present one, in a plentiful, undiminished, perennial flow of pure, limpid, health-giving water; that the supply may continue to bo, like the floods from the springs of salvation, "enough for all, enough for each, enough for ever more;" or, at an}' rate, enough so long as men remain on the earth to stand in "need of the life preserving fluid. During the summer of 1881, much labor was expended in trying to enlarge the supply, an account of which has already been given in another article, entitled " Union City Water Works."

In the spring of 1849, the ground on which this enterprising town has since been built was owned by a settler by the name of AugiLstus Lovelaud. There was on the tract scarcely a sign of alteration or improvement by human hands. Mr. Loveland, its owner, had a little opening and a cabin house and a log stable. The cabin stood just north of the present residence of Hon. N. Cadwallader, and the stable stood some rods farther west. He had a well in front of his cabin, which continued in use for many years after the establishment of the town, and the site of which may still be known by a heap of cobble-stones near the sidewalk on the west side of Howard street, just north of Pearl, almost in front of the old Jackson property.

The Messrs. Smith (Jeremiah and Oliver H.) having succeeded in establishing the Bellefoutaine Railroad upon its present route, conceived the idea of building up a town at the State line. Accordingly, the Loveland tract was purchased by Jeremiah Smith in May, 1849, and steps were immediately taken for the survey and platting of a town site. The growth of the place was rendered more certain by the fact that the railroad from Bello- I fontaine to Indianapolis was built by two companies, and in those days goods had always to be trans-shipped at the termination of ! each road. About the same time, moreover, measures were takea ! which were effectual to change the route of the road which had I been projected, and upon which much work had already been ' done, from Greenville to Winchester, so that the jimction with I the Bollefontaine route should be at the State line, thus securing ! at once tlu-ee important outlets to the embryo town-east, west and south - even before the new city had begun to be, except in I the brain of those who had so shrewdly planned and managed i tho whole affair. And besides, a road was planned and built I from Columbus to Union City, thus making four roads to start I the to^vn with, which, in those times, was an immense advantage. I Tho town was surveyed and platted some time between May ' and December. 1849. iis the land was purchased in May and the plat was recorded in December of that year. The lots were offered some time in the winter or spring of 1850, and, among other purchasers, David Teeter became the owner of a lot in the projected town. Mr. Teeter was the brother of John Teeter, now li\iug south of Union City, and the son of the Widow Teetei-, who, wiih her large family, planted her stake in this wild forest nearly fifty yeai-s ago. At the time of that purchase (February, 1850), no buildings were on the original site of Union City but the cabin and the stable of Augustus Loveland, as abow described.

There was a house^north of Division street, between Howard and Columbia, not far fi-om where old Mr. Carter used to live. It was oc<'upied by a Mr. Ricard. The eighty-acre tract was owned by a Mr. Orumi-ine, and Ricard rented it. Samuel Carter bought the land afterward of Mr. Crumrine. On the lot purchased by him, David Teeter proceeded, shortly afterward (say March or April, 18150), to erect a dwelling. That editico was and is at the southeast corner of Oak and Howard, and has long been known as the Star House. It was the first building erected in Union City. Mr. Teeter did not live to finish it. He had been feeble in health for some time, and he grow worse, and died iu May, 1850. The house was sold to Benjamin Hawkins, and he finished it. Mr. Montgar lived in it awhile. No other house was built in 1850. The second house was put up for Henry Debolt. It was a frame, and was built by John Teeter in the spring of 1851, and it stood near the present site of the opera house.

The third wa.s the house where Dr. Yergin now lives, a onestory frame building, replaced, in June, 1881, by an edifice with brick front. Daniel Weimai- took the contract, and John Teeter and Hozekiah Fowler, brother to Gabriel Fowler, built it for John Frazier and Jack Downing, intending it for a saloon. They used it for a year, perhaps, and quit. Those two houses were the only onas built in 1851; but in the spring of 1852, t hi ngs began to open out pretty lively. Four rai Iroad tracks were rapidly concentrating upon that point in the w^oods on the Ohio line, all of which were soon completed to Union City, but the western end of the fourth (Union City to Logansport) had to wait for several years.

The people, in the spring of 1852, seemed to begin to realize the situation, and many appeared determined to become masters of it, if possible. And so, early m 1 S52, settlei-s began to arrive. As already stated, there were just three dwelling houses - the original Loveland log mansion, the Star House (luitinished), and the house built for Henry Debolt. But by July, 1852, several houses had been erected aud several residents were on the ground.

Alfred Lenox, ouii of the earliest residents, says that when ho came. July 2. 1852. the residents on both sides of the line, but mostly in Ohio, were Messrs. J. D. Carter, Montgar. Dr. John Diehl. V\'. A. C. Dixon. Jacob Livengood. John Hayes. Schultz

The demon of liquor proved itself worthy of its ancient name on its first iutrotluction into the town, created a great row. and caused the dischiu;go of seventeen railroad hands sewn after that grog shop was opened. That saloon and another, by means of some pretty energetic measures, were obligetl to "diy up." Other attempts have been made to plant the fiery traffic in the midst of the places of business and the quiet homos of our citizens on tlie ludinna side, but without much success.

Abram Hoke, R. B. McKee, Dr. J. N. Converse. Benjamin Hawkins, Mr. Searl, Enos Tiui)en, Simeon Branham. William .A.ndprson, Samuel L. Carter, R. A. Willson. and doubtless many others, came in 1852 or e^u-ly in 185.3.

Business first began neiir the point where the Dcerfield & Greenville wagon road crosses the Dnyton & Union Railroad, J. J. Turpen was weatherboarding (here a building for a store in July, 1852. The building stands there yet. Ho set up the store of wuich he had charge, the goods belonging to Mr. W'ard. contractor on the Piqua ro:.d, in August, 1852, the first oh this ground. John D. Carter had built a saw- mill near the brewery, and cut (he first log about April 1, 1852. Alfred Lenox had tlie first grocery, October to December, 1852, near the Deorfield Crossing. He had a fine run of business, but his partner left, .-md, having uo spare time himself (Lenox was working hands ou the Dayton & Uuiou Railroad), ho sold tlio goods to a Greeuvillo firm in December, 1852.

Mr, LivengXKi had built a boarding house, perhaps the first ou that ground, just opposite the store building above mentioned, and east of the Detnticld road, and was boarding scores of hands who were working on the railroads. That boarding house is one of the cluster east of the Dcortiold road, at the extremt- i'astern end of Union City, Ohio, north of the railroad tracks.

About this time, the iron -tracks, which had been so long in preparation, were neai'ing the point. of conjunction at tlie newcity in the woods at the line; and on Christmas Day, December 25, 1852, the Dayton & Union track-layers, straining a point and laying their iron almost any way so as only to get it down, reached the line with their iron, extending the rail about a foot upon the sacred soil of Indiana. The Indianapolis line also was near at hand, and before many days, tlie western track was in town also, reaching the State line from the west, and the two tracks were so joined that, on January 24, 1853, the first through passenger train went from Dayton via Union City to Indianapolis. There was quite a village grown up between the months of September and December, 1852, near the Denfield Crossing, as though business might perhaps take hold at that place. But it did not do so. That point proved to be away from trade, and business left that spot and wandered westward. The dwellings, however, still remain (some dozen small ones), and are occupied. They are far east of the main town of Union City, Ohio, and seem almost, as it were, a village or hamlet by themselves. A strong effort was made to establish things in Ohio, near the mill, and brewery and foundry. Mr. Carter had built a saw-mill. David Fruits put up an immense fom'-story frame, intended for an opera house, hotel and what not, but hi' soon '"got through his pile," and his great frame stood there for a time, projecting far into the upper air, and nicknamed the " <leadoning" by the neighlx)i-s, until at length somebotly Iwuglit it, took one story from the top and finished the rest for use [Orr House |, Before long, a grist-mill, a brewery, a fonndi-y, etc., were ora<-ted, a store oi two was started, and heroic eflbrts wore made io hold the town in the Buckeye State. But all would not do. General business could not be made to "stick " over there, but it insisted on fleeing across the line and building its cozy nest in the balmy Hoosier State.

In fact, the original intention of the projectors was that the town should bo in Hoosierdom, and their plana could not \w readily thwarted. Besides, to make assurance doubly sure, Mr. Smith purchased forty aci-ea of land directly on the State line, on the Ohio side, and held it vacant, refusing to sell to anybody any of that tract, thus utterly pi-eventing the Ohio side from building up to the business pai-t of the Indiana side. And that gap between the two corporations continnod' for about twenty years, until the supremacy of Union City, Iiid., was supposed to bo so firmly established as to need to fear no rivalship.

The road from Bellefontaiuo was more tardy in its movements, and midsummer had nearly come before the liue was complete between the capital of the Hoosier Statu to the city of the b..>autiful spring (Bellefontaine - beautiful fountain).

About January, 1853, Courtney Hayes started a gi-ocory across the track from the old Orr Building (Ohio). There were sevend residences in Indiana, and a hotel or two had lieen started but no other business had yet begun there. In February, ]^'i':. Benjamin Hawkins built a frame house where Stewart's (hrickj grocery now stands, and put in a store of ch-y goods, and Jesse Paxson became his clerk.

[Jesso Paxson says Mr. Hawkins hauled his gt)o<is from Greenville, aud that the store was open etl out before the r,".ilroad reached this place. And Robert B. McKee, who came here in September, 1552, insists that Benjamin Hawkins was selling goods at Union when he came, in September, 1852, Mi'. Paxson would be most likely to bo correct, because he built the house, and, when the goods began to airive, Mi\ Hawkins told Mr, Paxson to open out the goods and go to selling them as his clerk, without ever asking him beforehand or making any engagement with him,]

Ml-. Lencx says : " That warehouse handled more f^^rain than any other iu tJiis city has ever done in the same time. Hundreds of wagon loads have been in waiting at once, and the grain men had to work day and night to keep u]) with the business, (iraiu was hauled" from Iveeoverv. from New Corydon. and from within six mile,-; of Ui<-hnutud."

The second warohousi' was built by .James White, but it was burned in 1857. before it hail slooil a veai-. Some men bad been gambling there til) a late hour, and the building had in some way been set on tire. In half an hour after thev left. tb(- house was all iu names. It had been set on lire before. A kindle.l fire was found in a tloiu' bai'rel up stairs, but it was )iut out. One man lost his all. !?:!.000. bui-ued in a snf.. within the buildiuu'. which (the safe) another man l.a.l .'arelesslv left open. The safe had been sol.l to the County <,'oiiitiiissi..uers. and they were to have taken it the aftt^rnoon before, but no ear could be 'had. and the agent promistnl a cai' the next day. Th.- safe was I. 'It partly open, and its contents were destroyo-d.

This t.iwn. thongli entirely distinct and separate from Uuion City. Tii.l.. is y.-t closely connected in business and social interests ili,.i,with. .It seems proper, therefore, and iu a manner

A town is said by some to have been plattoil on the Ohio side ill 1838, by whom we do not know, nor just wliere that plat was locat<=d. it is also said that Mr. Hayes made tlif first location of a town there, at the east side of the present town, near thf^ Deerlield road, as also that Mr. Fmits and Mr. Colclazer added to the town. An additional plat was made by Josiah Montgar, probal)ly in 1852. The petition for the pint, however, was presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Darke County, Ohio. September, 18'i8, andgi'anted Doceralier 5, 1853, and the plat was rouorded January 5, 18r)4. This plat consisted of forty acres, which Mr Montgar had lately purchased of Messrs. Smith, lying on both sides of the railroad. Mr. Montgar donated ten acres to the railroad for sh()[)s, depot, switches, warehouses, and what not, and a saw-mill was built opjjosite where the brewery was located.

John Hayes made an addition to the town, and so also did FredM'ick Roe and Jlr. Brownlev. Jere Smith added ton acres to the pltit. Fowler made two additicns, and others also have been appended from time to time, the last one, perhaps, being Archard's Addition. The following statement is made, in substance, by John D. Carter, who claims that his family was the first to move to the infant city.

At the first settlement of Union City, the only residents were Augustus Loveland. on the Indiana side, and John Hayes and Schultz Hayes and Mr. Conway and Mr. Frederic Roe, perhap-s, on the Ohio side. John Hayes lived near ths point at which the Greenville wagon road crosses theBeo-Line Railroad, on the west side of that thoroughfare, and Schultz Hayes on tlie fiirin still oc cupicd by a gentleman nf the same name an<l connection : and a Mr. Conway had lived in the same vicinity. They had made small openings, but all besides was deo]i and tangled wildwood and heavy and unbroken forest. The Greenville Creek region had been settled for a long time, and the laud there was already mostly occupied. The Deertield road was largely traveled, and Schultz Hayes kept a tavern, which enjoyed an abundant and extensive patronage.

Joiin D. Carter moved upon the Conway farm in August. 18JL being the Mrst famih to come there ;ifter the location of the town. having been induced so t,o do bv I:1m' nrgeiit solicitation of Hon. .lerciniah Smith, one of the tMoi,ii,-l,,is ,.f the eiiibrvo citv. He was but a bov, Jis it were, not vet Lwciitx -niie vars'of age. though a marri<-d man withal. Having erect..! a s'aw-niill near Winchester, it had been burned, and th<- citizens there, Elias Kizer and others, had aided him generously in pre])ai'iug to rebuild at that place; but. through the glowing persuasions of Mr. Smith, he changed his pui-po.se. His sawmill at Union City. Ohio, was erected in the fall of ISyl. and connnenced operations in the siiring of 1852, perhafis in .\piil of (hat vear. Mr. Cart.er. as staled, came uj.on the ground in August, IH.")! : Henry Debolt. not long after: aud .Mr. Monlgar, in .Vov.Mnbei- of the sa)n(' v.-ar. who purchased a fortv-acre tract on the pr.'sent sit<> of I'nion Clily. Ohio, and. in conneetion with .Mr. Hayc-s, -Mr. Roe. etc., laid out that town.

Thus far is the staUvment taken from th." lips of Mr. Johu D. Ca)ter. .lust who came after Messrs. Cartw, Debolt and Montgar, who appear to have setth'd in 1851, we have n..t been able to discover.

The first smith shop was ])ut uj) by Frederick Roe. in 1S58. at the south end of IMvisiou street (Ohio side), in the woods. In the same year, Lewis (iillauni had a shoe shoj). A coo])er shop was run by 1'. R. Galloway for lught months in 1855. M'ood- Imry & Hulse had another smith shoj) ux)on Division street not very far from the same time.

S. P. McJIillan and Thomas Workman erect.nl a steam gristmill, with four run of buhrs, which is yet in ojieration. with a capacity of 1(X) barrels per day. The lii-st dry goods storfl on that ground was by Morgan & Cai'ter, in 1853, opposite theflouring-mill. Brown & Archard opened a wholesale liquor store in 1850. In 1857, P. R. Galloway set up a hoop-pole establish ment, which was the large.st at that time in the State of Ohio. During the winters of l85S and 1N59, the shipments were 4(X)

The first store of all was on the Deertield road, just north of the railroad, in September, 1852. and Alfred Lenox started a grocery in the same vicinity, running it only a short time.

Mr. J. D. Carter, now of Winchester, says that he moved rom that [)lace to Union City, Ohio, building the first saw-mill on that ground in 1852, and a re.sidence; and that his family were the first to move to that town, that his mill was opposite the brewery, and that he remained at Union City till 1857. In 1800, Witham & Son built a handle factory, east of State Line and south of the railroad. The building was biu-ned, and a new one bulk in 1874, now owned by Carter & Son.

In 1870, there was business an follows: A stave factory, with twenty to thirty hands; a planing-mill, with twelve to fifteen hands: a furniture factory, t«n to fifteen bands; a hub and sjjoke factory, ten to fifteen hands; two steam sawmills and another furniture factory : a steam grist-mill with four mn of buhrs; live brick manufactories and a tile factory. At present, the business may be briefly described thus (it has been partly stated already): G. Lambert & Son's grain warehouse, handling 250,000 bushels yearly; Snook's brick, tile and neckyoke I factory (the latter not running). The brick factory can make \ 10.00(1 brick per day. The tile factory turns out about 80,000 I worth per year. The stave factory, by Wiggim & Son. in 1870, with sheds 1,200 feet and two drv hoiLses. Capacity, 20,(XK) staves and 8,000 to 10,000 heading per day. I Turning factory by Carter & Son, producing 500 dozen I clamps, 50.000 broom" handles, 2,000,000 trunk slats and the ' same number of trunk handles. Worth of i)ro<.lucts, $25,000 j annually. Force, eighteen to twenty hands. 1 Furniture factory, John Koons built in 187f). Saw-mill, wagim factory, turning factory, etc., by John T. Hartzell, in 1878, ' Tub and pail factory; Hook Brothers, came to Union City, 1 Ind., in 1877, and to their present location in 1879 They em-

I Lumber-yard, Kuntz & Willson, in 1880, a branch of the immense establishment of Peter Kuntz, increasing largely his aJi ready wonderful business.

1 in Jackson Tovraship, Union City, Ind., serving for the population of both parts of the city, and that and other outside offices supplying the entire towniship.

by a considerable vacant space, owned by Smith, uud kept out of market on purpose to hinder the growth of the Ohio side till the other part had attained a clear and permanent strength.

Most of the owners of the business establishments named reside in Indiana. There are. besides those, a few groceries, a store or two, a blacksmith shop or two, and a host of liquor saloons. There used to be a foundry and a brewery, but both are discontinued years ago.

Much of the custom of the groggeries comes from the Indiana side, and their presence is an unmitigated nuisance to the wnole place and the entire region. Indeed, the non-drinking residents of the Ohio side maintain, with how much reason we cannot tell, that, were it not for the patronage afforded from Indiana, most of the saloons would be obliged to " dry u])." When shall it

A large amount of business seemed waiting for the new railroad and the town. The completion of these jjioueer tracks marked, indeed, a grand era in the life of this region. Grain, stock and trade in general began to pour in from far and near, especially from the great, destitute region lying toward the north. The grain ti-ade of the infant town was very great. The capacity of the new warehouse was tested to the uttermost, and the crew of men employed to handle the grain were pressed day and night. AVithin three or four years, no fewer than six dry goods stores in this " new town in the woods " displayed their contents and their wares to tempt the eyes and the hearts of the teamstoi-s fresh from the farms in the surrounding regions. Other estab lishments, too - groceries, hai-dware stores, tin shops, hotels, doctors" offices, smith shops--all were here. So great was this wagon trade from the north that for many years the Union City magnates would give no encouragement to any scheme for building a northern road to Portland, Jay County, because it would give those northern " back- country " men a nearer railroad iioint. And they fought it so much as to produce tho v<>sult that when Portland obtained her road, it came not thniai;h Inion Citr. but through Winchester: and that now, whil(> I'mtlauil has tivo thriving roads, the track to that ])laee via I'nion City is still unlaid, and will perhaps long continue so. But in \s'i'2, the Bellefontaine & Indianapolis Kailroad, through I'nion City, and the road to Dayton and Cincinnati were tiuly a (iodseud. and sent a thrill of new life throughout this whole region, then, in fact, largely a wildei-ness.

The advancement of Union City, Ind.. was jit first, therefore, quite brisk - too rapid, in fact, for a solid and healthy gi-owth. It was then for several years comparatively at a standstill. Since 1872, the upward movement has been strong and nearly ''onstant. Before lSfi9. there had been no costly buildings nor rosidencos. Most were frame, and the few brick ones were Isiit of moderate size. Branham Hotel was the onlv laigi' l)rick edififc. At 1860. Esquire Jackson erected a rtne dw,-lling ..n West Pearl .street, and, soon afterward. Col. Isaac P. Cray built the dwelling (then thought to be wonderful), now the residence of Hon. N. Cadwallader. Just after these erections, building took a new impulse. Three brick ediiices went up near Paxson'sshoo store. The Citizens' Bank, and some othere on Oak street were erected about the same time. These all were at that time reckoned to be fine structm-es, and counted an honor to the little "wooden city."

In 1870, the corporation limit north was the alley, or narrow street, between Brandon and Tritt. and there was just one house on Howard and one on Plum north of that (except, indeed, the " cooper's" and Mr. Livengood's, both of which wore far in the countrj'). But tho city has been extended largely since that date, and the mania for building has become very strong and many costly residences and business blocks have made their appearance in various directions, so that now those former structures which seemed, when built, to be so sphmdid. have fallen far into the background.

The general business of the town has increased very greatly, and, considering that the city has no public advantages of location or official business, being not the CDunty seat, and being directly on the line between two counties and two States as well, and having no natural water ]u-ivilege of any sort, its gi-owth has iudeeil been a thing showing a marked energy and most praiseworthy activity on the part of her principal ; men, and in somi- respects, at least, it is superior to any town in the region. In 188'-'. the improvement still continues: several dwellings aiv being erected; the business of the |)rincipal firms is apparently and largely increasing; some new establishments have been set up, among them the Union City Carriage Company, with a capital of $10,000, intended to employ thirty tivo hands, as also the Heat Fender Comi>any doing an extensive business.

Considerable labor and e-xpense have been applied to grading and graveling the streets of Union City. Many think, indeed, that no small amount has been unwisely expended, in changing grade, regrading. digging up streets once gravelecf, etc.: but what human enterprise is free fiom mistakes '/ Within a year or two past, several thousand dollars have been expended upon North Howard street, making a regular and even slope northward, to give free and easy drainage to that part of the city. During 1881, the city graded and graveled West Pearl street, making a line highway for the western travel, as also a good connection between the factories in the western part of the town and the business part of the city. In fact, the improvement of Pearl street was one of the conditions upon which Woolley & Fisher consented to establish their electric light and motor factory near its western terminus.

The Council, during US81 -82, constructed a capacious sewer, to supply tho constantly growing demand for adeipiate and per mancnt sewerage for thi> needs of the town. Two thousand dollars are already on hand, which, with the further avails qf the sewer tax that the Council are authorized to levy each year, will suffice to complete the payment for that necessary purpose. It is to be hoped that before long, some system of lighting the streets can be established, which, indeed, the steady growth of the city will call for as a necessary improvement before tho lapse of many

The water works, described more at length elsewhere, have been and are of incalculable benefit to the town, and have done much towai'd its permanent growth and prosperity.

R S. Fisher's father was left an orphan lad iu Carolina, and came to Indiana alone on hoi-seback. over mountain and valley and flood. His wife wade her first bedstead in her nide log cabin from two pole benches, with clapboards laid across.

John S. Sturbuck was a farmer's son, and a farmer liinisclf. Ed ward Starbiick was a farmer and a bripk-masoo. A. A. Kn;i])[> was a f inner. John W. Starbuck was a farmer's son and a bricknmson. Ephraim Boweu was a farmer's son. Kiifns A. Willson was the son of a iSew Vork farmer.

A knowlinige of facts is lackinn; as to tlie rest of the prominent eiti/.ens, but probably not one in fifty of thosi' who are at the lieail of Imsinoss was anything lint a ])oor, hard-workinj^ lad, and many of them were very jioor. The same thing, indeed, is tnio of the whole county. Moorman Way was an orphan boy, and for years after his manhood was a carpent<'r and a poor man. Thomas Ward's father, wlien he came U) the connty in 181il, was t^io j)oor to enter forty acres of land. Thomas W. Kizer is the son of a i)ioae<"r farmer. Mark Diggs was an early settler, who entered his (luartersection in the woods sixty years ago. Henry H. Neff. .fames S. Gottom, the Cart<>rs, etc. . are sons of pioneers who had only a moderate amount of this world's goods, Henry NeflF being a printer's apprentice, and James Gottom a dry goods clerk. Asahel Stone was a carpenter's sou, and a carj)enter him self. .J, B. McKinney's father was very poor.

Daniel B. Miller, Ephraim L. Bowen, James lluby, the Warrens, Arthur McKew, Elihu Gammack. Ezekiel Glongh, William O. King, the Starbncks. Gideon Shaw, Philip Barger, the Hirsches, Lemuel AViggins, Willson Anderson, John Handle, William Shoemake. William M. Campbell, and scores of others. have all been of - the same sort, the sons of i)oor men, and most or all of them hard-working fai'iners. mechanics, artisans or tradesmcm. Let their children ami tlieir jiosterity heed the salutary lesson afforded by their la'oorious. energetic and snecessful a whole, are an upright, moral, intelligent, eniei-jirising. thriving and pro.sperous conununity. tbough it must be confessed that here, as well as elsewhere, vice dares to show its hydra head, and manages to accomplLsh somewhat of its mischievous, tormenting, fatal work.

as it began to be settled, but the records are not at hand earlier tban ISC):'. The minutes for ]S('»;i speak of ordinances 'pas-sed in April, IN.",.

July 20. 1870. wards declared as follows: First Ward, north of Oak and east of Howard; Second Ward, north of Oak and west of Howard; Third Ward, south of Oak and east of Howard, north of railroad: Fourth Ward, south of Oak and west of Howard, north of railroad; Fifth Ward, south of rail-

April. 1880. James Moorman offered Moornlaii's I'iirk. east side of Columbia street, to the city, and the Council aceei>ted the donation od the con(lifci(ms s])BeifiBd. In 18S0. Howard street was cut through so as to make an even slo|)e and a sufficient drainage north from Oak street, leaving the banks on each side in the highest place some ton feet. Ln 1881, Pearl street was graded and graveled to its extn^me western terminus.

Howard street has been further improved by the laying of .sidewalks (stone or brick) along much of its northern portion, and gutters, etc., in some places. The city is now laying water pipes far along the new improvements, giving North Howard, etc.. th(> full advantiiges of the wa^er works.

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The salaries of the oflit-ers in 1881 were as follows: Mayor. $200: Clerk. .S300: Treasurer. *300; Marshal. S50O; Gouncilmen, S50: Attorney, S200: night police, pi-r month: Snperint<'ndcut Wiih-r Works, 30ceni,s per hour; Board of Water Works. >"-J5..ach: Board of Health. 810 (five members). The salai-ies of the otlifi-rs alone foot, up about !?2,5lH) yoarly, while water w.irks. strci't cuttings, gi'ades, sewers and what not, make city taxes ,1 fi-aitul lmrd(<ii to bi> Iwriie. It was an unfortunate circiiMisliincc connect^nl with the water works that the city encountere i .-1 s.'iioMs arid_ expensive law suit for infringement of iiat<int, which was .s(>ttli'irat last, after great outlay of maney, by purchasing of the plaintiffs the right to continue their machinery ami methods,

Church, of which body he has been for twenty -four years a member, and an office bearer for about twenty years. Mr. Worthiogton is an active and earnest Republican, a public-spirited citizen and altogether a valuable member of the community. Quiet, gentle and unassuming in his manners and habits, he is nevertheless, energetic and successful in business ; and, by patient and astwenty years, and having but $40 in the world, he has become prominent and respected, possessing a competence in this world's goo Is, and commanding the respect and confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.

Sarah M. (Ross) WoaTiiiNOTON, the wife of Mr. William T. Worlhinglon, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, February 0, 1840, being one of ten children, six girls and four boys. Her father, Reynolds Ross, dying when she was only four years old, her mother, Eliza (Boone) Ross, supposed to have been a distant relative of Daniel Boone? the famous Kentucky pioneer hunter, was left on a farm to train and rear her numerous flock, a task which she performed worthily and well, as their subsequent lives have abundantly shown. Of the four sons, three were soldiers in the Union army, and one, a Captain, was severely wounded. Five of the daughters are living, all of whom have become estimable women and beloved and affectionate wives. Learning the business of millinery at the age of siiteen at Millersburg, she came to Union City, Ind., about 1863, and, after following her chosen vocation during a single year, she became the wife of Mr. William T. Worthington, her present husband. After a year's intermission, she again resumed her favorite occupation, and during twelve prosperous and successful years she continued therein, adding largely, moreover, by her industry and skill, to their otherwise considerable possessions. Their first child was born September 16, 1870, a daughter, Myrtle E., whose life, however, soon faded away, to bloom afresh in Paradise. May 1st, 1873, two others were born - William Harris and Nellie M. The daughter died in July of the succeeding year, hut Harry, though feeble and sickly for a time, bids fair to recover, Mrs. Worthington having for years been a worthy and acceptable communicant in the Presbyterian Chui;cb, transferred her relation to the .M. i;. society, of which her husband had long been an efficient member. Blessed i with a good stock of common sense, with activity, foresight and skill, .Mrs. j Worthington is recognized as n leader in social life, being highly esteemed, both in the church and out of it, for her active co operation in all good things. Es- j pecially is she untiring in rendering assistance to the sick and afflicted, whether j rich or poor. To-day scores of families have reason to bless her gentle ministrations and her loving sympathy. Mrs. Worthington is a faithful companion, I a devoted mother, a reliable friend, an earnest Christian and an efficient co- i laborer in every praiseworthy enterprise. Long may she survive to be an i honor to her sex and a steadfast helper in all that is useful and excellent.

WILLIAM WttlGHF, underuiker, was born in liutler County, Dhio, in 1831; was brought to Wayne County, Ind., in 1831; moved to Randolph County, Ind. (near Spartansburg), in 1863; came to Union City, ind., in 186.5; married .Jane Kerlinger, who was raised in Maryland, and they have had three children. , He has been carpenter, stock-dealer, hotel-keeper, undertaker, furniture dealer, j and is now employed in the two last mentioned. Mr. AVright is a member of i the Disciple Church, a Republican, and a steady, industrious, thriving, estima- ' ble; reliable citizen. One of his eons, in the spring of 1882, became a member of the grocery firm of Stewart & Wright, and they appear to be doing a safe and satisfactory business.

John W. Williams

JOHN W. WILLIAMS. James Williams, the father of this gentleman, was an early settler and prom- March, 1800, and died at Erie, in the same State, in' March, 1861, having been identified for many years with the mercantile interests of that city. He was the son of Isaac Williams, a survivor of the Wyoming m.ossacre. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Davis, was the daughter of George Davis, Esq., Mercer l.'ounty Penn.; she survived her husband six years, dying at Erie in tered the office of John B. Johnson as a student of law. Finishing his course of study in two and a half years, he left home to locate in the West; but at this juncture came the outbreak of the great rebellion, changing somewhat the plans he had formed. During the first year of the war (1861), he was connected with Capt. R. .M. Brown, of the Fifteenth United Slates Infantry, at the recruiting and mustering rendezvous at Erie, Penn., his early home. In March, 1863, at the solicitation of Col. William Truesdail, Chief of Army Police, under Gen. Rosecrans, he connected himself with the Army Police, Department of the ('umherlnnd. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans commanding, holding the position of Provost Judge of the Provost Marshal General's Department. This branch of the service (the Army Police) had control and supervision of all things connected with the Secret Service - sending out spies and scouta, and detecting crime and other misdemeanors within the army proper. He continued in that branch of the service until December, 18fi3, when he was Uken ill with fever at Chattanooga, Tenn., and removed to the hospital at Nashville At the latter place he lay ill for several weeks, and voluntarily retired from the service for the purpose of recuperating his health. Upon partially regaining his strength, he repaired to St. Louis, Mo., to unite himself again with the same branch of the service, under Gen. Rosecrans, who was then commanding the Department of the Missouri; and from St. Louis went to Fort Leavenworth. Kan .where he was appointed Ctiief Clerk of the Provost .Marshal General's Office, Department of Kansas, Gen. S. It. Curtis, commanding. He continued to act in this capacity until about the 1st of September, 1865, by which time the war was ended, and all volunteer troops mustered out. This branch of the service had supervision and control of the entire scout system across the plains throughout Kansas and the Territories, and as Chief Clerk, Mr. Williams had charge of the assignment of scouts to their respective. posts of duty. During the fall and winter of 1865 and the spring of 18BG he traveled extensively through the South and West, and inApril, 1866, connectedhimself with the Omaha(Neb.) Republican&s editor, occupying this position until July, 18G6. He retUTjied to Kansas at that time to en. gage in the practice of the law at Junction City, in Davies County, where he resided until 1872, practicing his profession and holding the office of United SUtes Commissioner for the Western District of Kansas. In 1872. he located at Marion Center,in .Marion County, Kan., where he practicedhis profession until the summer of 1881, removing at that time to Union City, Ind., where he still resides. While a resident of .Marion Center, Kan., on the 3d of May, 1876, he was united in marriage with .Mrs. Margaret Casper, daughter of Chris and .Mary Kinsler, of Ohio, and widow of William i;'asper, deceased.