Wayne Township (part 3 of 4)

Jason Ham was born in jSTorth Carolina, April 8, 1811, and came to Pichmond in 1819, Avith his father, Hezekiah Ham, who hired, for one year, the farm of Jeremiah Cox ; then bought the farm now or lately owned by Charles Price, two miles south of Pichmond. After about ten years he sold this farm to Alexander Grimes, and bought of Thomas Cuppy, in the township of Boston, the farm now owned by Joseph M. and Wm. Bulla, where he died, Oct. 10, 1832, aged nearly 64 years, having been born Nov. 15, 1768. Jason, then about 19 years of age, took charge of the farm, and taught school in the winter. In 1840, he was appointed collector of the taxes for that year. In 1841, he was elected county treasurer for three years, and removed to Centerville. After the expiration of his term of office, he went into the mercantile business at Centerville, and continued in it until 1850, having during this time taken the contracts for building the offices of the county clerk, treasurer, auditor, and recorder, and of the county poor-house. In 1850, he removed to Kiclimond, and commenced trade on the corner of Main and Pearl streets, where the post-ofhce no\^ is, where he continued in business most of the time for about ten years, having become owner of the property, since known as Ham's corner, of which he is still the owner. In 1860, he opened a store at Indianapolis ; and on the breaking out of the war, sold out and returned to Richmond. Shortly after he was appointed by Gov. Morton military agent for the state of Indiana, at Louisville, K}"., which ofiice he held until the war closed. In 1845, he married Elizabeth Woods, sister of Rev. Le Roy Woods. They have a son, Benjamin F. Ham, a lawyer, at Little Rock, Arkansas.

Eleazar IIiatt was born in Guilford Co., j^. C, February 10, 1783, He removed from Carolina about the year 1815, and after a residence of a few years in Ohio came to Richmond in the winter of 1818-19, and established a pottery, the first, probably, in the county. He was an early justice of the peace, and in 1825 a member of the legislature. After a residence of several years east of Richmond, he removed to ISTewport, and engaged in the mercantile busines, about the year 1828. (?) About 1838, he removed to a farm he had bought near Washington, in Clay township; thence to Chester. He married, for his first wife, Anna Williams, from N. C. Their children were : 1. Eliza, who married Jesse Reynolds, who died of a cancer on the tongue. She married, second, Samuel Hadley, and lives in Morganville, Ind. 2. Jesse, formerly merchant in Milton, now in Dublin. [See sketch, Washington township.] 8. Daniel W., son of Eleazar IIiatt, married, first, Melinda Mendenhall,and lives in Perry; second, Gulielma Sanders, of Ohio. 4. Anna Maria, who married Isaac Yotaw, of New Garden.

James Farquhar Hibberd, M. D., was born in Frederick Co., Md., jS"ov. 4, 1816, and removed with his parents to Springboro', Warren Co., O., in 1825; but, in 1826, recrossed the Alleghanies, and lived with the family of his uncle, Aaron Hibberd, near Martinsburg, Va. Here he remained until 1837, when he returned to Springboro' and studied medicine with Dr. A. Wright. In the winter of 1839-40 he attended the medical department of Yale College, and began the practice of medicine in Salem, Montgomery Co., O., in the summer of 1840-. Dr. Ilibberd was a member of the legislature of Ohio for the sessions of 1845-6 and 184G-7. The winter of 1848-9 was * spent in 'New York city, where he graduated in the spring of 1849, and immediately accepted the surgeoncy of the steamer Senator, which went to California in a vo^'age of seven and a half months, touching at the principal South American ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He traveled largely over California, and returned to the " States " in 1855, having meanwhile made a short visit there in 1853. After a few months in Dayton, O., he settled in the practice of his profession in Richmond, Indiana, in October, 1856, and has there continued since. In 1860, he was appointed Professor of Physiology and General Pathology in the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, but resigned after one session's service. In the spring of 1869, Dr. II. visited New Orleans, and went thence to New York, where he embarked for the Old World, and spent a year in traveling over Europe, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, &c. In the spring of 1871, he again made a trip to California, visiting most of the noted national wonders of that interesting state. Dr. II. is, and has long been, an active member of the county, state, and national medical societies.

David P. IIoLLOWAYwas born at Waynesville, O., December 6, 1809. In 1813, his father removed witli his family to Cincinnati, where they resided until 1823, when they came to Wayne township, and settled on the farm now owned by John S. Brown, four miles east from Richmond. Two or three years after, Mr. Ilolloway removed to Riclimond and engaged in the mercantile business. Here his son, David P., at the age of aboat fifteen, commenced his apprenticeship at the printer's trade with Edmund S. Buxton, publisher of the Public Ledger, and afterward served in the Gazette office at Cincinnati. His connection with the newspaper press commenced about the year 1833, as conductor of the Birhmond Palladium, with which his name has since been connected, with perhaps a brief interval of one or two years, imtil the present time, tjiough his business has, for the last ten years, been in the city of Washington. In 1843, he was elected as a representative in the state legislature, and the next year as senator, which office he held for six years. In 1849, he was appointed by President Taylor examiner of land offices. In 1854, he was elected a representative in Congress ; and in 1861, he was appointed by President Lincoln commissioner of j)ateuts, which office he resigned in 1865. Though not a practical farmer, he has done much for the improvement of agriculture by personal efforts, both in the county and in the state legislature. [See Agricultural Societies, pages 111-12.] He is now a partner of the firm of Holloway, Mason & Blanchard, attorneys in patent cases, in Washington. Mr. Holloway was married, ISTov. 13, 1834, to Jane Ann Paulson, who died Dec. 8, 1864, aged 52 years. Their children were John Marshall, who married Rebecca Gossage, and resides at Indianapolis; William R., who married Eliza Burbank, and is postmaster at Indianapolis ; Dayton, who died in 1858 ; Henry Clay, who married Emma Jones, and resides at Indianapolis; Allen T. ; Charles P. ; Sarah ; and Mary Ann.

Jeremiah Hubbard was born in Virginia, Feb. 13, 1777, and brought up in Person Co., N". C. He became, while a youth, a member of the society of Friends. He was in early life a school teacher. Later in life he devoted himself to the work of the ministry, traveling in many of the states. In 1837, he came to the West, and finally settled in Eichmond. In a memorial published by the Whitewater Monthly Meeting, he is represented as having evinced a " deep regard for the Holy Scriptures," and having, in his preaching, dwelt much upon the prominent doctrines of the gospel, and the " necessity of sincere and living faith." He died in the neigliborhood of ITewport, at the house of his son-in-law, Zeri Hough, ISTov. 23, 1849.

John S. Lyle, from Rockbridge Co., Virginia, came to Richmond in 1823, with his father, David Lyle, who was a brick and stone mason, and who subsequently removed to Randolph Co., where he died in 1848. John, his eldest son, resides in Richmond. In 1837, he commenced an apprenticeship in the printing business with Holloway and Davis, and worked at this trade twelve years. In 1855, he was elected justice of the peace for the term of four years, and re-elected for a second term. Before the expiration of liis second term, the war broke out, and he assisted in raising; Co. 13. of the 5th Indiana cavahy, of which he was chosen captain. In JSTovember, 1862, he was promoted to senior major of the regiment. He served in the army to the close of the war. He was with his battalion in Kentucky, within twenty miles of the rebel Gen. Morgan when he crossed the Cumberland river on his famed raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, and followed him up with his regiment until he was taken at Butiington Bar, Ohio, where Morgan's forces were routed. Major Lyle was engaged in the two battles of Blountsville, and the battles of Knoxville, Henderson's Mills, Walker's Ford, Pulaski, and the great battle of Nashville. He is at present city attorney in Richmond.

James E. Mendenhall was born in Randolph Co., X. C, July 3, 1795. While yet a child, his parents removed to South Carolina; and in 1816 to the vicinity of Richmond. About a year afterward, he went to Vevay to study medicine with his brother, and while reading there, attended one course of medical lectures in Cincinnati. In 1822, he returned to Richmond and began practice ; and after over a year's practice, he attended a course of lectures in the medical department of Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated in the spring of 1824, and returned to Richmond, being the iirst physician in the county having a diploma. In 1830, his failing health unfitting him for the arduous labors required of the profession in those early times, he removed to Liberty, Union Co., and engaged in mercantile business. He represented that county in the legislature at the session of 1833-4. In 1833, he returned to Richmond, and engaged in milling. He was a stockholder in the " Richmond Manufacturing Company," and was afterward interested in the old Richmond Foundry, on South Green street. After the failure of that establishment, he took control of the paper mill, in 1843, and continued in that business until 1854. After that time he was engaged in various mercantile pursuits to the time of his death. He was several times a member of the town council, school trustee, a member of the board of health, and in 1837 was elected first burgess of the town. He was, in 1840, a delegate to the Ilarrisburg convention whicla nominated Gen. Harrison for president. He was afterward an associate judge. Dr. M. was one of the first directors of the Indiana Central Railroad, and was the first man to ride over the railroad bridge at Eichmond, occupying a seat on the front of the locomotive, Avhich bore his name. He was also for ten years president of the Fort Wayne and Eichmond Railroad Company, and retired from that position in 1866. He joined the Masonic fraternity while residing at Vevay, and was made a Eoyal Arch Mason and Sir Knight while at the University in Kentucky ; and was one of the applicants for the first charter granted for a council in Indiana. He died February 18, 1870, and was buried with the usual masonic ceremonies, conducted by the Knights Templar. Dr. Mendenhall was married, in 1824, to Lydia Wright, daughter of John Wright, an early merchant of Eichmond. She lived but a few months after her marriage. He afterward married Sarah T. Williams, a daughter of Jesse Williams, and sister of Achilles Williams, of this city. She resides in Eichmond.

Egbert Morrisson was born October 19, 1786, in ISTorth Carolina, w^hither his parents had emigrated from Chester Co., Pa. He married Jane Price, and, in 1810, removed to Wayne Co., Indiana. Having made no purchase of land before his arrival, and having, consequently, not even a cabin of his own, he took temporary shelter in an outhouse made of logs, belonging to his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Cox, and not designed at all as a dwelling. He soon settled north of Middleboro', just within the bounds of the present township of Franklin. He resided there a few years ; but, unable to endure the hard labor of clearing a new^ farm, he sold his farm, and, with a few hundred dollars, made his second advent in the place where he spent the remainder of a long life. With a small stock of goods, he commenced the mercantile business on the corner of Main and North Front streets. His name is intimately associated with the history of Eichmond. Being one of its earliest merchants, he rode on the tide of its growing commerce, and with his frugality, prudence, and business talent, accumulated a large estate, and retired from mercantile business before the town had at- tained a high degree of commercial importance. When banking houses were established in Richmond, he invested largel}^ in bank stocks, being the owner of one-third of the stock in the Citizens' Bank. He had also a connection with the branches of the State Banks, in Richmond. Tlioiigh rich, he was a friend to the poor. With his declining years his benevolence seemed to increase. A portion of his income went to the relief of the needy and suffering. Ilis alms being unostentatiously bestowed, their amount was not generally known. The war of the rebellion opened a new field for the exercise of Christian philanthropy; and probably no man in Richmond contributed more liberally than he. Being a life-long member of the society of Friends, he was careful not to compromise his long-cherished peace principles. The crowning act of his life was the founding of a library, at a cost of §20,000, which he transferred as a gift to Wayne township, Richmond included, provision having been made for its perpetuation. It is placed under the control of a library committee, and kept by a competent lady librarian. He barely lived to see this splendid gift executed and the library building completed. A life-size portrait painting of the donor was placed in the public reception room of the building, and paid for by contributions of citizens Avithout his knowledge. The former township library has been merged in this, which is now probably the largest township library in the state. A few years before his death his general health began to fail ; and he was prevented from mingling with his fellow-citizens, and from meeting with his friends in the house of worship. In the latter part of the summer of 1865, he was seized with violent illness, which soon terminated his life. He died Sept. 12, 1865, aged nearly 79 years. A large number of friends, relatives, and citizens followed his remains to the Friends' Cemetery, three miles east from Richmond. His wife died Aug. 17, 1849, aged nearly 63 years.

Robert Alorrisson had three children : 1. Hannah, who died in 1828, at the age of 20, just after her return from Westtown, Pa., boarding-school. 2. Jonathan, who died in infancy. 3. James L., who succeeded to the estate and business of his father, as a partner in the banking firm of Mor-

Samuel E. Perkins was born at Brattleborough, Yt., December 6, 1811. He removed with his father to Conway, Mass., where he resided until 1834. He removed to Penn Yan, Yates Co., IST. Y., and studied law with Henry Welles, now or lately a judge of the supreme court of that state, and removed to Richmond, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1837. He was subsequently appointed prosecuting attorney by the governor of the state. In 1844, he was-a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic electoral ticket. In January, 1846, he was appointed by Gov. Whitehead judge of the supreme court; was reappointed, and held the office until January, 1865. In 18 - , he removed to Indianapolis. About the year 1859, he was elected Professor of Law in the Kortb -western University at Indianapolis, which oflice he held about six years. In the autumn of 1870, he was chosen Professor of Law in the State University at Bloomington. He married, in Richmond, Amanda J. Pyle, daughter of Joseph Pyle. They had nine children, only two of whom are living: Amanda, who married Oscar B. Hord; and Samuel E., now a partner in law. Judge Perkins married a second wife, Mrs. Lavinia M. Wiggins, a sister of his former wife, by whom he had a daughter, Alma Rosa, now living.

James Perry was born in Madisonville, Ohio, January 19, 1799. He removed, when about five years of age, with his father to Kentucky. In 1823, he removed to Liberty, Union Co., Ind. ; and was admitted to the practice of law in 1824. In 1840, he was elected judge of the judicial district composed of the counties of Union, Fayette, Rush, Decatur, Henry, and Wayne. At the expiration of the term of his oflice as judge, he removed to Richmond, where he still continues the practice of his profession. He was married in 1824 to Elizabeth Snow, in Union county. They had two sons : Rufus, who was born in 1832, and drowned at Centerville, at the age of 17 years ; and Oran, noticed below.

rnary 1, 1838, and removed with his father to Hichmond ia 1844. He enlisted, April 9, 1861, in Co. B, Sixteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for one year; was appointed sergeant-major in June ; served his term, and was discharged. He was commissioned adjutant of the Sixtyninth Regiment; was in the battle of Richmond, Ky., where his horse was shot from under him, and he was wounded in the leg and captured; was paroled, and afterward exchanged. He was also in the battles of Chickasaw Bluff and Arkansas Post, and promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He was afterward in the battles of Thompson's Hill, Champion Hill, Black River Bridge, Yicksburg, Jackson, Miss. ; in the several expeditions of Teche River, Texas, Red River, and Pascagoula, and the assault on the works of Fort Blakely, Alabama, in the last of which he received a severe wound in the head ; after which he was promoted to brevet colonel, having commanded the regiment more than two years. He served until July, 1865, when the regiment was mustered out of service. He was married May 16, 1866, to Jennie Poe, daughter of James M. Poe, Esq., of Richmond. He is now proprietor of the Richmond Plow "Works.

Joseph Pemberton Plummer was born in Anne Arundel Co., Md., Oct. 4, 1783. He married Susanna Husband, who died, leaving four children, a son and three daughters. In 1819, he married Lydia Husband, and removed with his family to Cincinnati, and in 1823 to Richmond. He built a two-story frame dwelling, with store-room attached, on the south-east corner of Main and Front streets, and engaged in mercantile business. In 1824, he purchased a grist-mill, and in 1825 he built an addition to it for the manufacture of oil from castor beans; but sold all in 1827, and confined his attention to his store. In 1834, he purchased and moved upon the farm now owned by Mark E. Reeves. Having lost his second wife by death, he returned to town to live with his children, two of whom, John T. Plummer and Joanna P. Laws, were then living here. With one or the other of these he resided until his death, Sept. 20, 1868. He was an active business man, a good citizen, and regardful of his social and domestic duties. He refrained almost entirely from connec- tion with political and other associations, content with the influence of an exemplary life upon those with whom he had daily intercourse. He was for many years an honored minister in the society of Friends, and an active member until his activities were impaired by his bodily infirmities, which kept him at home during the last two years of his life. His children, all by his first wife, were : 1. John T. [Sk.] 2. Mary M., who married William Owen, and is deceased. 3. Joanna P., who married John M. Laws, an early watchmaker and jeweler, and afterward for many years a merchant in Richmond. 4. Sarah C, who married Wm. Bancroft, and died in Philadelphia in 1856.

John Thomas Plummer was born in Montgomery county, Md., March 12, 1807, and removed with his father to Cincinnati in 1819, and thence, in 1823, to Richmond, where he resided until his death, April 10, 1865. He commenced the study of medicine in his eighteenth year, and graduated from Yale College just before he had attained his majority. As a physician, he was much beloved and popular, notwithstanding his extreme aversion to the means often used to gain popularity. He continued in practice until within a short time of his decease. In the spring of 1833, he was married to Hannah Wright, of Springboro', Warren county, Ohio, who died in 1836, leaving a son. In the fall of 1837, Dr. Plummer married for his second wife, Sarah 0. Pierce, of Portsmouth, N. H., who, with two sons, still survives him. Dr. P. early became a close and successful student. An intimate friend of his, himself a man of science, wrote of him after his death, as follows:

"He obtained, by his own exertions, a good, nay, a critical knowledge of the English language; studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew of the dead, and French and German of the living languages, and acquired some knowledge of several others. He was the personal friend and correspondent of l!^oah Webster, and assisted him with some western words in the preparation of his dictionary.

"Dr. Plummer's acquirements were general and profound. Jle was a naturalist, not a mere amateur or theorist, but an active and practical one, applying his knowledge to the investigations of liis surroundings, giving whatever was new and interesting to the world tlirough the scientific periodicals, more particularly Silliman's Journal, between the editor of which and himself there existed a warm personal friendship. His cabinet of specimens and preparations was at one time large, thoronghlv classified, and of especial value as illustrating the several departments of natural science as they were developed in his immediate neighborhood. During the latter years of his life, his impaired health unfitted him for exercises of this kind; and he distributed his collections to schools and to other places where he thought them likely to do most good.

" While all branches of medical science received liis careful attention, chemistry and pharmacy ^vere his favorites. The Journal of Pharmacy will testify to some of his labors in the latter direction; and as a chemist, theoretical and practical, not only as chemistry is applied to medicine, but generally, it is doubted whether he had a superior outside of those wdio are devoted to chemistry as a special profession."

He was editor of the Schoolmaster^ a paper published by IIolloAvay & Davis during the year 1839, and author of one or two Readers for Friends' schools. His w^ritings upon agricultural, educational, and scientific subjects, other than that of his profession, were numerous, and inspired by a desire to advance the interests of his fellow-men. Devoting so much of his time to his profession and to scientific and literary studies, he had little time and less inclination to take part in public business, although he w^as for a short time a stockholder in the Riclimond Gas Light and Coke Company, and its first president. Yf hile he had decided view^s on political questions, and inculcated, with his voice and, his pen, the principles of humanity, temperance, and general benevolence, he stood aloof from parties and organizations, as tending, in his opinion, to give a wrong bias to the convictions and actions of men. And he conscientiously refused to participate in any political movements, or cast a vote for any candidate who, if elected, might be required to use force in the discharge of his otficiul duties. We quote again from his friend :

"Born into the society of Friends, he continued a consistent member until death. "Without being a slave to the discipline of the society or a bigot to its tenets, he held his duty to his Maker and his fellow-man through its organization paramount to all other duty. His Christian life was not an idle one, but of active and efficient labor in whatever capacity he was called to act. Perhaps no man among the Friends was more thoroughly versed in a knowledge of the size, the progress, and the principles of their sect ; and it was all brought into use to advance the welfare of the society and the world. This made him one of the most influential members of the society. Nor was his Christianity confined to the church and its associations; but all his acts were performed as his convictions of Christian duty dictated.

"His opposition to public show or exhibition of any kind was carried almost, if not quite, to eccentricity ; and this sentiment was, doubtless, combined with others, the cause of his several times declining tendered professorships in medical schools, and leading positions in other educational institutions, as well as of deterring him from uniting with or attending formal medical organizations that held public meetings."

It is proper to add, that Dr. Plummer rendered a valuable service to the public by the writing and publishing of " A Historical Sketch," in connection with his " Directory to the City of Richmond," which appeared in 1857. The timely publication of this little book has rescued from oblivion many interesting facts and reminiscences of early times, which can not now be obtained from any other source. John T. Plummer had five children : By his first wife, Jonathan W., of the firm of Plummer & Morrisson, wholesale druggists, Richmond. By his second wife : Charles P., still living ; Joseph P., who died of cholera in 1849 at the age of 9 years ; Wm. S., who died in 1863, aged 16; and James, still living.

James ]Nt. Poe was born in Maryland, November 12, 1811, where he was married to Matilda Chandler, with whom and one child, he came to Richmond in 1888. He soon commenced teaching school, in which business he was engaged about ten years ; first, in a house at or near the Public Square, and afterward in the basement of the old frame Methodist meeting- house on Pearl street. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1846, but continued teaching during the first two years of his ofhcial term. He was elected for a second term, at the expiration of which, in 1855, he declined a re-election. In 18G3, he was again elected to the office of justice, and re-elected in 1867; and before the expiration of the term, he was elected in 1871, Mayor of the city, which office he now holds. He was for many years a notary public, and has been for about twenty years a real estate agent. In connection with others he has bought lands near and adjoining the town. Those on the south side, designated as " Poe andllittel's addition," have been annexed to the city. Mr. Poe became a member of the Pearl Street Methodist church soon after his removal to Richmond, and has for nearly twenty years served alternately as superintendent and assistant superintendent of its Sabbathschool, He has four children : Margaret, wife of James J. Pussell; Jennie, wife of Oran Perry ; Sarah Ellen, and Amanda Bell.

Mark E. Reeves, son of Mark Reeves, came from Xew Jersey to Richmond, in 1823, with his father, who was by trade a carpenter. The father being partially enfeebled by ill-healthy it was necessary for the son to commence labor at an early age ; and he was employed in the brick-yard of Wm. Cox, He next served temporarily as clerk in the stores of John Wright and Robert Morrisson. In 1824, Mr. Wright opened a store at Milton, conducted by his brother, AYm, Wright, and employed young Reeves as a clerk in that store. In 1826, he returned to Richmond, and was employed as clerk in the store of Robert Morrisson and Joseph P. Strattan [J. P. Strattan & Co.] In 1827, he went to Liberty as a clerk for Mr, Morrisson, who established a branch store at that place. In December, 1830, at the age of about 19, he commenced the mercantile business at Washington, now Clay township, with a capital of about §1,000 in goods, bought principally of Robert Morri>son on credit, and remained there about ten years. In 1836, Mark and his brother James bought the goods of J. C, Hawkins & Son, at Hagerstown, and James took the charge of this establishment. In 1840, James left the concern, and established a store in Richmond, and Mark removed to Hagerstown, con- tinning an interest in the store at Washington, in partnership with James W. Scott, for ahout five years. In 1847, Mark at Hagerstown, and James at Richmond, both discontinued business, and went to Cincinnati, where they continued trade, in partnership, until 1855. James then returned to Richmond ; and his brother has retained an interest in a large mercantile establishment in that city to the present time. In 1853, he purchased the residence and farm of the late Joseph P. Plummer near the city, to which he removed, and where he now resides, in the possession of a fortune acquired, not by luck in a few random speculations, but by a long course of prudent management, and close attention to business. It is said to have been at least an implied condition on which credit was obtained for his first goods, that he should practice due frugality in expenses. The young debtor, following the counsels of his former employer and exemplar, took board for himself and his brother James, his clerk, at 56^ cents per week, they furnishing their own bed, which was made on the store counter. The examples of Morrisson and Reeves should not be without their influence upon young men of the present time, many of whom make sad failures in attempts to acquire fortunes in a few large and hazardous operations. Mr. Reeves was married, first, to Julia Pretlow, of Virginia, by whom he had a son, Charles P. ; and after her death, to Caroline Middleton, and had by her two children, Mary T. and Arthur Middleton.

James E. Reeves, also a son of Mark Reeves, came when a small boy to Richmond. His business life, so intimately connected with that of his brother, has been in great part already sketched in the foregoing notice. On his return from Cincinnati to Richmond, in 1855, he purchased of Robert Morrisson the farm now owned by Wm. Baxter, on the west side of East Fork, near the city. In 1863, he commenced the banking business in the city, being one of the association which established the First jSTational Bank, of which he has been its president to the present time. His business habits and capacity, being similar to those of his brother, have also been attended with success. He was married, first, to Isabella Cornell, of Philadelphia, and after her death, to Mrs.

Hannah Ireland, of Peoria, Illinois. lie has, by his lirst marriage, a son, James Franklin, at present cashier of the First National Bank in Richmond ; by the second, a son, William P.

Daniel Reid was born in liockbridge county, Va., February 5, 1799. He married Letitia Scott, and in 1821 removed to Ohio, near Xew Paris, where he engaged in teaching school. In October, 1823, he removed to Richmond, and engaged as a merchant's clerk for James McGuire, and afterward for Robert Morrisson. About the year 1827 or 1828, he commenced business for himself, with Joseph P. Strattan. He was engaged alternately in trade and farming until 1838. In 1829, he was appointed postmaster, and held the office until 1836. In 1838, he was appointed by President Van Buren register of the land office at Fort Wayne. He returned to this county in 1855, and settled on a farm a mile and a half west of Richmond, where he now resides. He was an early member and ruhng elder of the United Presbyterian church in Richmond, which office he holds at the present time. Mr. Reid had seven children : 1. William S. [Sk.] 2. Mary Ann, who died at 3. 3. Mary Ann, who married Franklin P. Randolph, a lawyer, of Fort Wayne. 4. James P., who married Anna Reid, and lives in Wayne township. 5. Margaret Jane, unmarried. 6. Hannah M., who died of cholera in 1833. 7. Robert M., who emigrated to California in 1852. Mrs. Reid died September 3, 1854; and in October, 1856, Mr. Reid was joined in marriage to Mrs. Ann Dougan, then living at Niles, Mich., a daughter of Isaac Gray, an early settler in Richmond.

Wm. S. Reid, sou of Daniel Reid, was born in Rockbridge county, Ya., December 10, 1818. He removed with his father's family to Preble county, Ohio, in 1822; and in 1823 to Richmond. He married May 7, 1839, Sarah Jane Mansur, by whom he had nine children, of whom only Sarah M., Clara M., and Mansur C, are living. Mr. Reid was for a time a clerk in the land office at Fort Wayne; on a farm in Allen county about twelve years; in the dry goods trade in Rlc-limond three years ; and for several years in the pork-packing business, in which, as one of the firm of Vauueman, Reid &

Co., he still continues. He was also for a number of years, with C. C. Beeler, engaged in the grocery trade, which they discontinued in 1870.

John Sailor was horn in the city of Philadelphia, November 23, 1781. He is said to have been by trade a cabinetmaker, but carried on the business of coach-making. In the year 1811, he became a member of the Presbyterian church, and in 1812 a ruling elder, which office he held until he left the city, in 1831, and removed to Richmond. At the lirst election under the borough charter, in 1834, he was elected first burgess, the head and presiding officer of the city council. In 1840, Richmond was incorporated as a city, and Mr. Sailor was elected mayor, and held the office by successive annual elections until January, 1852 ; and although he had a limited education, the duties of the office were discharged faithfully and conscientiously, as well as with general acceptance. In 1854, he removed to GriggsvilJe, Pike county, Illinois, where his wife died the next year. In 1865, he united with the Baptist church, of which he is still a member. In the summer of 1871, he met with an accident, by which he came near losing his life. Having been iu early life a sailor, and used to climbing, he fearlessly ascended by a ladder into a cherry tree, unseen by any other person, and was soon after found lying on the ground under the tree in an unconscious state, and badly bruised, having fallen from the tree, the lowest limbs of which were eight feet from the ground.

Andrew F. Scott was born in Rockbridge county, Va., December 28, 1811; came to Wayne county in 1834; taught school one term three miles south of Richmond, and in the fall of that year engaged as clerk for Daniel Reid in his store and the post-office, iu Richmond, and continued there five years. In 1839, he went to Fort Wayne, and served as clerk one year under Mr. Reid, who was then register of the United States land office at that place, and one year under James W. Borden, receiver. In 1841, he returned to Richmond, and served as deputy under Sherift" Wm. Baker one year, and next as clerk in the store of Jesse Meek about three years. He then became interested in the business of a steamboat company on the Ohio river, and served as its clerk for two years. In 1847, he returned to Richmond, and car- riecl on the mercantile business four years. In 1851, he was elected clerk of Wayne county, and re-elected in 1855, in which office he served eight years, residing during liis clerkship at Centerville. In 1860, be again removed to Richmond, and was engaged in farming about five years, and a part of that time also in merchandising and building, having, in 1862, erected the brick block on the north-west corner of Main and Fifth streets. In July, 1865, he was made clerk of the Richmond Fire Insurance Company, and served as such during its existence of about a year and a half. In 1867, he associated with James Forkner and C. N. Elmer, [firm,Forkner, Scott &, Elmer,] in the wholesale grocery trade, in Richmond, in which he has continued till the present time. In 1839, he was married to Martha McGlathery. They had four children : Letitia A., who married Joseph McNutt, and died in 1863; John, who died in infancy; Augustus C, who resides at home ; and Mary E., wife of John M. Tennis, agent for the Erie Railway Company, residing at Memphis, Tennessee.

Caleb Shearox was born in Pennsylvania, February 29, 1778 ; came to Richmond in 1820. He was a hatter, and brought with him his shop fixtures. The roads being very bad, and hat trimmings light, he went for a time on foot to Cincinnati, and carried back his stock. He was successful in business, and accumulated a handsome property, as has been elsewhere stated. He was a stockholder in the first bank in Richmond, in the first turnpike company, and in the first railroad company, and a director in each of them. He was married, in 1819, to Elizabeth Chalfant. Ilis children were: Thomas H., who married Rachel, a daughter of James Thompson; William, who married Sarah J., and Warner, who married Rachel L., daughters of Nathan Rambo ; Oliver H., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Overman, of Center; and Ruth Ann, wife of John D, Wiggins. Caleb Shearon died January 28, 1854. The wife of T^homas II. died December 9, 1870. Oliver II. removed a few years since to Kansas.

John SxMith was born in Xorth Carolina, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Richmond in the year 1806. As an early settler, as the first merchant, and as the first proprietor of the town, he has been noticed. He settled in what is now the soutli part of the city, west from the public square, where, in 1811 or 1812, he built the house now owned by Jeremiah Hadley, the first brick house built in the town, and probably the first in the county. He was married, in I^orth Carolina, to Letitia Trueblood, who died about the year 1813, and by whom he had five sons, Kobert, Caleb, l!Tathau, John, and Samuel W., the last of whom was for a time a merchant in Richmond ; and six daughters : Mary, who was married to Thomas Nixon ; Sarah, to Thomas Lamb; Pennina, to Jesse Symonds; Elizabeth, to Stephen Holloway; ISTancy, to Daniel Trimble; Gulielma, to Joseph Meek, of Abington. After the death of his wife he married, about the year 1818, Mrs. Jane Pleas, of Ohio, by whom he had a daughter, Esther, who married Jeremiah Hadley, and died N"ov. 29, 1861. Mr. Hadley has been for many years a citizen of Richmond, and is at present, and has for several years been, the treasurer of the city school funds.

Charles W. Starr was born at Philadelphia, Feb. 28, 1792, and was married to Elizabeth Wilson, of Chester Co., Pa., who was born Feb. 14, 1798. In the year 1825, he removed with his small family to Richmond, and the next year bought the farm, of Jeremiah Cox, lying on the north side of Main street and extending to the East Fork. Cox had laid out lots east to Marion street, including the tier east side, and north to the first alley south of Sassafras street. The farm contained about 240 acres, and embraced all the lands bought by Cox north of Main street, except the part lying between the east bounds of the lots laid out on Marion [street and the river. The name of Charles W. Starr is intimately connected with the history of Richmond. His large farm, on which have been erected most of the finer class of dwellings, and nearly all the large manufacturing establishments of the city, was all laid out into lots. The value of lots sold before and since his decease is upward of $320,000, leaving still unsold lots of the value of about $60,000. He was an enterprising, energetic business man, and contributed largely to the improvement and prosperity of the town. He was an extensive house-builder. He erected a large number of buildings - business houses and dwellings. Among the former was a row on Main street, on and west of the corner of Franklin, where the First National Bank stands ; also, the Tremont House, on the north-east corner of Main and Fifth streets. He also built, about the year 1831, a cotton factory, just above the Williamsburg turnpike bridge, and run it a few years. He was highly esteemed as a citizen, and was a member of the society of Friends. He died May 1, 1855, having bequeathed his large estate to his wife - an evidence of his confidence in her ability to manage and dispose of it. The children of Charles and Elizabeth Starr were : 1. John, who died in infancy. 2. AVilliam C, who married Anna M. Chipman,and resides on ]S"inth street. 3. James M., who married Lydia C. Briggs, of Cincinnati, who died about three years after her marriage, leaving a daughter, who died soon after. He married, second, Sarah Jane King, a daughter of Levinus King. 4, 5. Mary and Samuel ; both died in infancy. 6. Hannah A., wife of Isoah S. Leeds, a merchant in Richmond. 7. Lydia W., who died at 19. 8. l^athan H., who married Clara Gustin, at Middletown, Henry Co., where they reside. 9. Joseph W., who married Alida Burr, of Xorth Bend, Ohio. 10. Benjamin, who married Josephine Iredell, who died in 1868. He resides in Richmond.

Ithamar Warner, native of iSTew England, and for several years a physician at Salisbury until after the removal of the county seat from that town, came to Richmond about the year 1820. He was unmarried, and boarded several years with Robert Morrisson. He soon acquired an extensive practice, and in time accumulated a handsome fortune, of which, at his decease, he bequeathed the principal part to the town of Richmond. The brick building on North Pearl street, near the Citizens' Bank, known as the "Warner Building," was a donation. The citizens have erected an appropriate monument over his grave. He died in March, 1835, aged about 52 years. He was never married.

John Macamy Wasson, son of Archibald Wasson, was born in Wayne township, in the year 1810. His early years were spent on the farm of his father, with whom, in 1829, he removed to Richmond. He was married to Anna, a daughter of Josiah Moore, an early settler about two miles soutii-east from Richmond. She was born in 1813. While a resident of

Richmond, he worked several years at the wagon-making business. He afterward resided at Neill's Station, where he was postmaster from 1857 to 1859; and at Chester, where he held the same office from 1861 to 1864. He also resided two years at the town of Washington, whence he removed, in March, 1870, to Richmond, where he now resides. He commenced, several years ago, the collection of materials for a History of "Wayne County, and had gathered many facts relating to the early settlement of Wayne township, including the cit}^ of Richmond, some of which are embodied in this work. Although he did not proceed to the completion of the contemplated history, the project seems to have originated with him. The children of Macarny and Anna Wasson were: 1. Elizabeth, who died in 1844, at the age of 4 years. 2. Thomas J., who enlisted, for the late war, in the 19th (Col. Solomon Meredith's) Regiment; was wounded at the battle of Galesborough, and taken to the hospital at Philadelphia. After his recovery he rejoined his regiment, and was killed in the battle of Gettysburg, in the first day's engagement, July 1, 1863. 3. Sarah Ann, wife of David Beedle. 4. William H., who enlisted, in 1863, in the 9th Cavalry, 121st Indiana Regiment; served two years, and was regularly discharged. 5. Albert C, who resides in Kansas, and is married. 6, 7. Mary and Eliza. Daniel P. Wiggins was born on Long Island, IST. Y., JSTov. 23, 1794. He married Phebe Dodge, who was born Sept. 2, 1796. In 1823, he removed with his family to Richmond. Being by trade a tanner, he was employed by Robert Morrisson to take the charge of his tannery, and a few years after was admitted as a partner. After a partnership of several years, he, with several of his sons, purchased the tannery built by John Smith. About the year 1851, he retired from the concern and all active business, with more than a competence, the reward of honest, persevering industry and prudent management. He resides with his estimable wife, at a pleasant country seat in the suburbs of the city. They are exemplary members of the society of Friends, with which they united since their settlement in Richmond. They had eleven children: 1. William, who was born Oct. 2, 1814; married Emma Pyle, a daughter of Joseph Pyle, and died March

29, 1855. 2. Henry D., born Oct. 16, 1816; married Lavinia Pyle, sister of Emma, and died April 4, 1842. Slie married, second, Judge Samuel E. Perkins, now of Indianapolis, 3. Andress S., born Aug. 15, 1818, married Rebecca Boswell, and lives near Hagerstown. 4. Stephen R., born April 12, 1820, married Delitha Ann Hunnicutt, and resides in Richmond. 5. Charles 0., born xMay 23, 1822, married Mary Thatcher. 6. John D.,.born July 26, 1824, married Ruth Shisaron. 7. Philemon F., born Sept. 16, 1826; married, first, Mary Burr, of Ohio, and after her death, Henrietta, daughter of George Mc- Culloch. 8. Mary Elizabeth, born Oct. 18, 1828, married George ^Y. Barnes, and died Oct. 28, 1862. 9. Samuel B., born March 6, 1831 ; married Virginia Van Zant. 10. Sarah Ann, born August 19, 1833; married Wm, P. Benton, and died Feb. 23, 1861. He was a collector of United States revenue at 'New Orleans, where he died, March 12, 1867. 11. Daniel P., born Sept. 20, 1835; died Feb. 14, 1855.

Jesse Williams was born January 13, 1753. He married, first, Eleanor Johnson, by whom he had four children : John, Hannah, Esther, and Caleb. After the death of his wife he married Sarah Terrell, of Lynchbnrg, Va. He afterward removed with his family to iSTorth Carolina, where he resided many years, and then [1814] removed to Ohio, and in 1820 to Richmond, where he died in 1833, and his wife the same year. They had four sons and three daughters : Micajah T. ; Achilles ; Robert, who died in Richmond in 1822 ; Jesse L., who is married, and resides at Fort Wayne; Anna, wife of Dr. Thomas Carroll, of Cincinnati ; Sarah T., widow of Dr. James R. Mendenhail, and resides in Richmond ; and Eliza, wife of John L. Burgess, of Dublin, Ind. Micajah T. came to Cincinnati as early as 1812, and died there in 1844. He was, while there, associated with Ephraim Morgan in publishing the Western Spy; a member of the legislature of Ohio; and president of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, His widow now resides with her son, Alfred K. Williams, on her place in Richmond.

Achilles Williams, son of Jesse AViUianis, was born in Grayson, now Carroll county, A'irginia, September 23, 1795. He removed, when young, with his father's family to Guilford

Co., IsT, C, to which place his grandfather had removed with his family from Maryland, in 1851 or 1852. In 1814, the family removed to Cincinnati. After a brief visit to this place, [now Eichmond,] in June, and a few months' sojourn at Waynesville, Ohio, the next ye£ir [1815] he returned in the fall to the South, and was married to Beulah Ilnthank. In 1817, he removed to Warren Co., O., and in the fall of 1818 to Richmond, and resumed his occupation - that of saddler - he being the first of that trade in the town - and continued the business for many years. He then entered into an unfortunate partnership in establishing and carrjdng on a foundry, the first in the place. The business was most disastrous to him. After giving up all his eftects to his creditors, he was still largely in debt. In 1829, he was elected county commissioner, which ofiice he held several years. He was elected as a representative in the legislature for the session of 1837-38, and as a senator for the three succeeding sessions. After the election of President Harrison, he was appointed postmaster at Richmond, but was superseded under Tyler. In 1844, he was elected county treasurer, and by reelections continued in that ofiice eleven years. Although the ofiice was then far less lucrative than now, it enabled him, by proper frugality and economy, to cancel all the debts growing out of the partnership alluded to. And he often speaks of the kindness of his fellow-citizens in thus enabling him to accomplish one of the most desirable objects of his life. He was appointed postmaster again by President Lincoln, and removed by President Johnson. He has, since the death of - Robert Morrisson, been the earliest settler with a family now living in Richmond. Plis wife died April 28, 1871.

The children of Achilles and Beulah Williams who lived to maturity, were Susan, wife of David Osborn, of Ohio; Joseph ; Rebecca, wife of Thaddeus Wright; Zalinda, who married Dr. Wilson Hobbs, of Carthage, Ind.; Robert; Martha, who married Milton Yeo, of Ohio; Sarah, wife of Benj. Webb; and Caroline, wife of Charles C. Dennis, of Indianapolis. Robert died in 1861 ; Rebecca and Martha in 1866.

father, who settled about 1-| miles west of the town of Boston, where P. Shidler now resides. Thomas commenced teaching school at the age of 18, and was engaged alternately in teaching and farming for a number of years. He married Mary Beard, a daughter of Peter Beard, of Boston, and in 1848 removed to liichmond, and engaged in the grocery business, but returned to his farm in Boston in 1849. In 1851, he returned to Richmond, and resumed the grocery and provision trade, in which he still continues. He was for several years a member of the city council ; and in May, 1867, was elected mayor, which office he filled acceptably for the regular term of two years. He had six children, besides one who died in infancy, namely : Augustus B., a practicing lawyer in liichmond ; Charles W. and George F., partners of their father in trade; Peter W. ; Mary V., and Dora B.

John Yaryan was born at Knoxville, Tenn., and removed, in the fall of 1816, with his father, to the south part of AVayne Co., Ind., which was in 1819 cut off by the formation of Union county. He studied law with Judge James Perry in 1841-42, and commenced practice in Liberty. He was in 1846 elected a representative in the legislature from Union county, and subsequently to the senate. In 1858, he removed to Richmond, where he has since been engaged in his profession.

Lodges Ix Richmond

Delabar, Gr. Sen. Deacon ; G. AV. Kemble, Gr. -Inn. Deai-on ; James B. Ray, Gr. Tyler, Alarshal ; Philip Mason, Philip A^indergriff, AVm. Youse.

until 1833, when a charter was granted to Samuel Fleming, John Finlej, and Wm. S. Addleman, to be held at Kichmond. Present officers - Daniel W. Johnston, "W. M. ; Charles E, Marlett, S. W. ; Le Roy Land, J. W. ; John J. Rouej, Treas. ; S. C. Byer, Sec'y; C. A. Hatch, S. D. ; Wm. P. Sparks, J. D. ; Edward Woolverton, Tyler. Number of members, about 100.

Odd Fellows' Provident Association of Wayne County was organized Jan. 1, 1869, by 37 members of the order, at Richmond. By the payment of a small initiation fee, and at the death of a member one dollar, a fund equal to one dolhir for each member is laid away to pay to the family of a deceased member. Four such payments have been made, amounting to nearly $1,500. 586 members of the order have attached them-

The Odd Fellows' Hall, on the south-west corner of Main and Fifth streets, was built in 1868 and 1869, and is one of the largest and finest buildings in the city. It is three stories high ; fronts on Main street 52 feet, and is 100 feet deep. The lodge rooms are in the third story; the second story is appropriated to business offices; the first story is occupied as a dry goods store, by Hadley Brothers, in the east part; and in the west part is the bookstore of Kicliolson Brothers. The building is well finished throughout, and the entire cost of the property is about $40,000.

Lyceum Hall, on the south-east corner of Fifth street and Broadway, was built in 1868-69, by a company, of which the original stockholders were : Hannah A. Free, Edmund Edmundson, John Griffith, "Wallace Fanning, Wm. Conklin, Ellen and Catharine Sofirain, Samuel Maxwell, and Luther Crocker. The building, which is three stories high, fronts on Fifth street, 62J feet, and is 90 feet on Broadway. It is a beautiful brick structure, and its location is an eligible one. Its hall, which is in the third story, is elegantly furnished, and has the capacity to seat 1,000 to 1,200 persons. The post-office was removed, the iirst of January, to the east part of the building, recently vacated by the express companies. The west part continues to be occupied by Messick & Dunham, dealers in cabinet furniture.

[A considerable amount and variety of matter was received after much more space than was assigned to the history had been filled. Wayne township and Richmond having been last canvassed, they furnish most of the matter of these supplementary pages. Omissions in a few other townships are here supplied.]

Dry Goods Merchants. - Ralph A. Paige, in 1847, commenced the mercantile business, which he still continues at the south-west corner of Main and Marion streets. He is said to have been longer continuously in trade, from the present time past, than any other dry goods merchant in the city.

Wm. Petchel, in 1847, the same year as Mr. Paige, commenced the same business, on north side of Main street, between Front and Pearl, and has for ten years past occupied his present place, 246 Main street.

Joshua W. Haines, in January, 1851, bought of John Haines his stock of goods, and still continues an extensive trade, south side of Main street, near Pearl.

Richard Jackson, formerly in trade in Cincinnati and Indianapolis, established business in Richmond, in 1853, which, either alone or in partnership, he has continued successfully to the present time.

Daniel B, Crawford, with Wm. C. Scott, commenced the dry goods trade in 1850, at " old No. 8," now 190 Main street, and continued in the business about nine years. In 1864, he resumed business, which he still continues at 242 Main street.

Emswiler & Crocker established, in 1860, a wholesale and retail trade in notions and toys, which is still continued by A. E. Crocker & Co., north side of Main street, between Pearl and Marion.

Andrew M. Miller came to Richmond about 18 years ago, and established a clothing store, and after several years engaged also in the boot and shoe trade, which he still continues at 264 Main street. In 1864 he discontinued the clothing business, and engaged largely in the tobacco and cigar trade, which he still continues on Fort Wayne avenue. He is among the successful business men of the city.

Grocers. - Clayton Hunt, formerly and for many years a mechanic in Richmond, commenced business as a grocer in 1860, at 253 Main street. From 1866 to 1868, the firm was C. Hunt & Sons ; from the latter date to the present. Hunt Brothers.

Thomas Nestor has for many years been in the grocery trade. He commenced in 1853 on Main street, between Washington and Front streets, and for the last sixteen years has occupied his present place, south-east corner of Front and Main.

George W. Barnes engaged in the grocery business, about twenty years ago, as a member of the firm of Lynde & Barnes. The business has since been for many years conducted by George W. Barnes & Co.; and, since the decease of his late partner, E. W. Yarrington, by himself alone, at 223 and 225 Main street. lie cures about 20,000 hams annually, and deals largely in flaxseed and grass seeds.

Booksellers. - James Elder established a book and stationery store, in 1846, second door east of the Citizens' Bank, and removed, in 1868, to his present stand, 255 Main street. He is the oldest bookseller in the city.

Timothy and John Xicholson, from ISTorth Carolina, succeeded Wm. E. Smith, in 1860, in the book trade. Since the year 1869, they have occupied their present spacious storeroom in the Odd Fellows' building, where they are pursuing an extensive trade in books and stationery. They have also a book-bindery.

Oliver White, in 1866, engaged in the book trade, with W. H. Lanthurn. After the withdrawal of the latter, John E. Hale became a partner. The business has since been continued under the firm name of 0. White & Co. until the present time. [Mr. White retired on the 1st of January, 1872 ; and the business is conducted by J. E. Hale & Co., at the same place, on Main street, between Franklin and Fifth.]

TV"m. S. Eeid, for buying and slaughtering pork. On the death of Mr. Wiggins soon after, Jeremy Mansur joined Mr. Reid. Mansur & Reid carried on the business until 1861 or 1862, when Mr. Mansur retired, and Gr, W. Vanneman, C. 0. Beeler, and John P. Smith became partners of Mr. Reid ; since which time the business has been continued under the firm name of Yanneman, Reid & Co. In 1867, this estabment took the name of " Charier Oak Pork House." It has the capacity to slaughter and take care of about 900 hogs a day, or about 20,000 in a season, lasting about 20 days. The average number actually handled within the last three years, prior to 1870, was about 14,000 a year, and the value of the pork annually slaughtered and sold, about $250,000. This establishment was a few years ago destroyed by fire, but was promptly rebuilt. Nearly 20,000 were slaughtered in 1870, and in the season of 1871, 20,638.

Gas Works. - In July, 1854, a charter was obtained by Charles Collier for the -Richmond Gas Light and Coke Company. The company was organized in June, 1855, with a capital of |25,000. Its stockholders were Charles Collier, Robert Morrisson, Wm. Cain, John T. Plummer, and Wm. R. Webster. John T. Plummer was its first president; Wm. R. Webster, secretary ; Wm. Cain, treasurer. The works were built by Charles Collier, and completed in December, 1855. In December, 1856, they were leased to Starr & White, [James M. Starr and Benj. C. White,] who carried on the business for about thirteen years. A new charter was granted in February, 1870, for the term of five years. James M. Starr, president; Benj. Starr, secretary. These works supply 91 street lamps, and upward of 700 private consumers. The receipts for gas in 1870 were about $19,000.

Planing Mill, etc. - William Cain, for many years a lumber dealer in the city, built, in 1870, with his sons, T. P. and William, a planing mill on Fort Wayne avenue, where, in connection with the lumber trade, they manufacture sash, blinds, flooring, scrolls, moldings, etc.

Steam Bakery. - Daniel K. & Joseph S. Zeller, in 1866, succeeded Bradbury, Strattan & Co., in the steam bakery on Sixth street, and in 1869 erected the building they now oc- ciipy, Kos. 357 and 350, where they bake the various articles in the baker's line, but more especially crackers, of which they make about 35 barrels a day. [B. F. Crawford, proprietor of AYhitewater Mills, became a partner of the Zellers the first of January, 1872.]

Hotels. - The Huntington House, elsewhere noticed, lias recently been again repaired and imiu'oved, and is at [)resent occupied hy Joseph H. Githens.

The Tremont House, corner of Main and Fifth streets, built by Charles W. Starr, in 1838, was for several years kept as the "Starr House," by Maria Hurlbut, and from 1846 to 1854, by its owner, C. W. Starr. It has for several years past been kept hy its present proprietor, John Elliott.

The Avenue House, on Fort Wayne avenue, near the railroad depot, was erected, in 1864, by Jacob Goehner. Himself and Gottleib Lichtenfels were its first proprietors. In 1869, it was re-opened by Joseph H. Githens and Henry Ricks. In April, 1871, Mr. Githens was succeeded by its present proprietor, J. B. Curtis.

Cascade Garden and Nursery. - Edward Y. Teas came to Richmond in 1863, and commenced the business of nurseryman and florist, which he continues to carry on successfully. Besides cultivating a vast variety of fruit and ornamental trees, vines, flowering plants aud shrubs, he imports many trees, plants, and seeds, and supplies the nursery and flower trade in many of the states. His oflice and greenhouses are at 255 South Pearl street; his nursery, one mile south, on the Liberty turnpike ; and his seed store and horticultural depot, at 295 Main street.

Gardner Mendenhall resides one mile and a half east from Richmond, on a highly cultivated piece of land, on which are a nursery and a greenhouse. His grounds are tastefully laid out and ornamented, and his residence is styled, and not inappropriately, " Sylvan Heights."

Richmond Medical and Surgical Sanitarium. - This institution is about a mile south-east from the city. A school called "Green Mount College" was established here by John

Haines, and coutinued for about five years. It was then sold to Dr. James E. G-ross, who fitted it up for a water cure, styled " Green Mount Retreat," and occupied it as such for about five years, having greatly improved the grounds and buildings. This property has recently been purchased by Dr. E. Small, of Boston, Mass., and elegantly fitted up; and is to be devoted, in future, to the medical and surgical treatment of diseases peculiar to women. It is a healthful and inviting home for the invalid.

Source changes here: from History of Wayne County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, by Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.), published 1884; 16,598 words in this source stream.

Wayne Township

The early settlement of Wayne Township need not be given here for the first settlement of Wayne County was within the limits of this town, and with that history and that of Richmond is given all of importance concerning the early settlement, by whom settled and from whence they came. What Wayne Township now consists of and her aggregate wealth at this time are the principal features to be recorded.

Wayne Township was one of the two townships of which Wayne County was composed in its organization in the year 1810. It was then in territory equal, if not larger than the present county. On the adoption of the State Constitution in 1816, a law was passed or a clause inserted in reference to the organizations of counties. Feb. 10, 1817, the county commissioners took action and divided what was then Wayne County into six municipal divisions, or townships. As Wayne County covered all of Union, a part of Fayette, Henry, and Randolph counties, the township of Wayne still covered an extensive territory, if not as large as it was previous to the organization of the State Government, Its first election was held at the house of Jno. Lamb. At this time Wayne Township is still the largest in the county and has within its limits a little less than one-half of the assessed wealth of the county, and probably fully one-half of its full value.

Its Area, Bounds, Etc

The last portion of the territory taken from her limits was for tlie formation of Abington and Boston townships. This gave her an area in acres of 33,200, of which there are assessed $31,216.32.

The city of Richmond has a total of real and personal assessed of $8,164,807. Linden Hill has a total of $229,435. This gives a total for Wayne Township of $11,342,862. It has also within its limits nearly one-half of the population of the county; Richmond, 12,742; township outside of Richmond, 4,586; total 17,328.

This immense wealth and progress has been achieved by the indomitable will, energy and business tact of the people of Richmond, and the prudence and knowledge of the farming population.

The township is bounded on the north by Webster, New Garden and Franklin townships; on the east by the Ohio State line; on the south by Boston, and on the west by Centre and Webster townships.

It is watered, mainly, by the Whitewater River and its three branches, or forks. East Fork enters it centrally on its east line; Middle Fork near the northeast corner, and the two joining about half a mile above the city. The West Fork, from Randolph County, enters the township directly north from Richmond, and unites with the Whitewater just above the railroad bridge. The Elkhorn, from Ohio, crosses the southeast corner of the township. Short Creek, a small stream, running a southwesterly direction, enters the Whitewater near the south line of the township. Lick Creek, running south nearly the whole length of the township, near its west line, empties into the Whitewater near the corner of Abington Township.

Linden Hill is the only place given which has more than a postoffice and store within the township. Its population in 1880 was 216, and it had an assessed valuation of real and personal property of $229,435.

The population of Wayne Township outside of Richmond was: In 1850, 3,516; in 1860, 2,834; in 1870, 3,734; in 1880, 4,586. The ejain in the township for the decade, 852; gain ot Richmond, 3,297. This shows the increase of papulation in the township and city of 4,149, which leaves only 417 as the gain outside of Wayne Township in ten years.

About 1812 a saw-mill was erected on the site now occupied by the Cascade Mills, owned by Isaac Y. Gause. The land was purchased of the Government in 1805 by Jacob Fonts, Jr., who improved the mill-site, erected the saw-mill and operated it for twenty or thirty years. Benjamin B. Moore was the next owner; he was succeeded by William Elliott, who erected a grist-mill on the old site.

Biographical

Daniel B. Barton^ son of William and Lurana Barton, was born Sept. 22, 1837, in Wayne County, Ind. He was reared on his father's farm, and educated in the common schools. He was married June 6, 1861, to Catharine E. Cox, born Nov. 30, 1844, and daughter of Jeremiah and Keturah (Hunt) Cox. They have had five children - Leon a E., born July 24, 1862; William B., June 11, 1865; Evalena K, July 20, 1868; Elmira C, Dec. 31, 1870; Florence J. L., born July 29, 1876, and died Jan. 15, 1877. Mr. Barton has followed farming through life, and his farm is the finest agricultural land on Middle Whitewater. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock and sheep. He and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. His great-grandfather, John Barton, was born in England, where he was married to a native of Scotland, and came to the United States in an early day. Our subject's grandfather, Edward Barton, was born Dec. 29, 1763, and was married in Maryland to Ann Harris. He was among the early settlers of Wayne County, and entered land in Franklin Township and followed farming till his death. He belonged to the Friends' society, and died in 1838. William Barton, subject's father, was born in Maryland, Oct. 1, 1807. and was quite young when his parents moved to Wayne County. He was married March 28, 1833, to Lurana Bos well, born in Wayne County in 1808. Of their seven children four sur- vive - Barnabas, Jane, Daniel B., Mary A. Those deceased are - Eliza A,, Sarah and Ellen. Mr. Barton followed agricultural pursuits through life. He died May 5, 1877, and his wife died May 11, 1847. They were members of the Society of Friends.

John C. Boyd, lime manufacturer and farmer, was born in Wayne County, Ind., Sept. 29, 1822. He was reared on the home farm, and obtained a good common-school education. At the age of twenty years he began working at the trade of tanner and currier, and, in partnership with Isaac Cook, carried on a tannery northwest of Middleboro, Wayne County, seven years, the firm name being Cook & Boyd. They sold out in 1856 and purchased at Middleboro one of the best stone quarries in Eastern Indiana. They constructed the first patent kiln for burning lime in Indiana, and in 1860 Mr. Boyd and Amos Cook engaged in the manufacture of lime at New Paris, Ohio. At the end of five years Mr, Boyd bought the entire business, and two years later sold a half interest to Henry R. Downing, of Hichmond, with whom he was associated four years, when they sold to Smith Bros. During this time the firm of Cook & Boyd carried on the manufacture oflime, making annually 30,000 bushels, and the same quantity at New Paris, a total of 60,000 bushels of the best quality known, supplying Pichmond, and shipping to various other points. He is also engaged in farming, owning a fine farm of over 160 acres, known as the "Spring Hill Farm." April 1, 1863, Mr. Boyd was married to Celia, daughter of Robert and Elvira Cox. They have four children - Linaes C, born Jan. 18, 1864, educated at Earlham College, and Terre Haute, Ind., now teaching at Bethel, Ind. ; Robert E., born June 8, 1866, and Elva E., born July 10, 1867, are attending Earlham College, and A. Orville, born March 2, 1872, at school near his home. Mrs. Boyd is a member of the Society of Orthodox Friends. Adam Boyd, father of our subject, was born in North Carolina, of Scotch descent. He was married in Wayne County, to Elizabeth, daughter of Amos Hawkins, who came to this county in 1806. Seven children were born to them - Alexander, Charity (deceased), John C, Henry, Jonathan D., Oliver and

Martha A. Adam was a carpenter by trade. He died at the a^e of forty-eight years; his wife, at the age of fifty years. Isaiah Branson was born Feb. 25, 1799, in Stafford County, Ya., a son of Jacob and Rebecca (Holoway) Branson, the former of English and German, and the latter of English origin. When five years of age he moved with his parents to Belmont County, Ohio, and although so young when he left Yirginia his convictions regarding the cruelty of slavery were formed, and in future years caused him to become a prominent actor in freeing the oppressed. He distinctly remembers two small slave children, who showed him their backs which were lacerated with the cowhide and the wounds filled with salt. He grew to manhood on his father's farm in Belmont County, obtaining his education at the subscription schools, but by perseverance he has become a very well educated man. He was married Aug. 25, 1828, to Sarah G., daughter of James and Susannah (Gould) Lawton, who were of English origin, and settled in Washington County, Ohio, in 1798. To them were born eight children - Elizabeth R., who graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College, died in 1878; she also practiced medicine at Boston, Mass., and at Lebanon, Ohio; James L., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Rebecca G., wife of Dr. E. B. Potter, of Paducah, Ky. ; Susannah, wife of John H. Hill, of Trinity County, Texas; Jesse, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Martha resides at home with her parents; Phoebe, deceased wife of John H. Hill, of Texas; Jacob, of Chester. At the time of his marriage Mr. Branson was engaged in the mercantile business, in CJniontown, Belmont Co., Ohio, and while there assisted a fugitive family to liberty, which caused him a law-suit of four years. He was successfully engaged in business in Uniontown from 1828 till 1831, and also at Flushing, Belmont County, from 1831 till 1837, when he retired from business on account of failing health. He purchased a farm and followed farming till 1852, when he sold out and moved to Wayne County, Ind., and resided on the Dr. Greer farm till 1859. He then traded his property for a residence and business room in Richmond, remaining there till 1861, when he bought the desirable property near Chester, where he still lives, having retired from active busi- ness. Mr. Branson and wife hold to the doctrine of Friends' society, as their parents and forefathers. Politically he is a National. His parents were reared and married in Stafford County, Ya. Tiieir home in Belmont County was always a shelter for the fugitive slaves.

Seth Brown, second child of Asher and Esther (Jones) Brown, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1830. His grandfather, Asher Brown settled in Warren County, where our subject's fatlier was born in 1806, and is still living there, and has followed agricultural pursuits through life. Our subject's mother was born in 1808 and is still living. They are the parents of three sons and two daughters. Seth was married in his nativecounty, obtained a liberal education, and spent one winter at Earlham College, near Richmond, Ind. He was married in the spring of 1855, to Martha A., daughter of Harmon and Mary (Henley) Hill, of Richmond. They have tliree daughters - Emma E., wife of Clark E. Lewis, of Saline County, 111.; Annie M., teacher, and I^aomi H., attending school at Richmond. Mr. Brown moved to Richmond in the fall of 1856, and engaged in the dry-goods business with Strattan & Coffin till the fall of 1857, when he returned to Ohio and followed farming till 1868. He then engaged in farming in Wayne County, Ind., till 1872, when he settled in Richmond, in order to give his children a good education, and followed the carpenter's trade till 1877. He then removed to their farm east of Richmond, where he still resides. This farm was first entered by Benjamin Hill, Sr., in 1806, and Harmon Hill, his son, settled on it in 1831. He was born in 1811, and married in 1829, to Mary Henley, who was born in 1813, and died in 1881. Mr. Hill died in 1877. They had five children, the eldest child being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Society of Orthodox Friends.

Daniel Bulla, eighth child ot William and Elizabeth (Hoover) Bulla, was born in the house where he now resides, Wayne Township, Wayne Co., Ind., April 13, 1814. His youth was spent in assisting his father and in attending the subscription schools. In the winter of 1836-7 he went to St. Joseph County, Ind., returning the next fall. He then helped his father build a saw-mill, and ran it four years. He then carried on the farm till 1851, when he went to Richmond, and worked in a plow-shop about five years. March 26, 1857, his mother died, and he then fmoved back to the old homestead. In 1862 his father died, and he having been appointed executor, settled up the estate. Mr. Bulla was married Feb. 3, 1848, to Caroline Clawson. Their children are - Andrew J., born Nov. 17,1848; Charles Henry, born Jan. 12, 1851; Elizabeth, born Ang. 27, 1855; William Abner, born April 9, 1858. Mr. Bulla's grandfather, Thomas Bnlla, came to America from Ireland, when a young man, and settled in Chester County, Fa,, where he married Esther Widows, by whom he had twelve children. In 1784 he moved to Randolph County, N. C. He owned six or seven slaves, but set them free in his will. William, his oldest son, was born April 14, 1777, and in 1798 married Elizabeth Hoover, daughter of Andrew Hoover, of German descent. In 1801 William Hoover moved to Warren County, Ohio; crossed the Ohio River at Cincinnati, at that time only a village. In 1803 he moved to Montgomery County, ten miles north of Dayton, on Stillwater River. There the family were all sick with the ague, and in the fall of 1806, with two others, he followed a section line through a dense wilderness of forty miles to Dearborn, now Wayne County, Ind., where he bought land and moved his family to it. He drove about seventy head of hogs to his new home. The grain for bread for the family had to be taken to Dayton, and for a short time to Eaton, to be ground. In 1810 Mr. Bulla erected a small mill on the Middle Fork of Whitewater River, which was a great accommodation to the settlers. The same year he built the house his son Daniel lives in. It is 18x 24 feet in size, every log wild cherry save one sill, which is black walnut, and two stories high. William Bulla's children were eleven in number - Anna, born Dec. 26, 1799, married Evan Chalfant, and in the fall of 1832 moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., where she died March 27, 1849; Elizabeth, born Feb. 27, 1801, married Samuel Burgess, and settled one mile southwest of Richmond, where she died, March 26, 1857; Thomas P., born March 25, 1804, married Hannah Draper, and in 1832 accompanied his brother-in-law to St. Joseph Count}', Ind., and still resides in South Bend; has been County Surve,yor twenty -five years; Andrew, born Feb. 12, 1806, was by trade a printer, and published the Western Times, a weekly paper, in Centreville; died Feb. 22, 1832, unmarried; James, born Jan. 10, 1808, was a millwright; died July 3, 1861, unmarried; William, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1810, married Mary Stephenson and moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., where he died July 2, 1862; David, born Jan. 14, 1812, married Sarah Cox, and removed to Louisville, Ky., where he died Aug. 25, 1857; Daniel, born April 13, 1814; Esther, born Sept. 28, 1816, married John W. League, of Richmond, Ind.; Sarah, born Oct. 19, 1818, married David B. Golden, and lives near Eichmond; John, born Oct. 8, 1821, married Ann H. Crompton, and is a farmer of St. Joseph County, Ind. William Bulla died in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife in her seventyseventh. Tiiey lived to see Wayne County - which was a wilderness at the time of their settlement - the seat of culture and refinement. In May, 1823, Mr. Bulla went to Richmond and while there learned that two Kentuckians had caught a slave, George Shelton, belonging to Samuel Todd, He, with some others, rescued the slave, and Mr. Bulla was sued before the Supreme Court at Indianapolis, Judge Parke presiding, and was obliged to pay $1,000 for the slave and $500 costs. The Bulla family have always been Anti-slavery Republicans and temperance men.

John Nicholson Cox was born March 14, 1834, in Montgomery County, Ind., only son of Benjamin and Sarah Ann (Nicholson) Cox. He was left an orphan at the age of thirteen years. He was reared by his Grandfather Nicholson* till he grew to manhood. He was educated at the district schools and at Green Mount College, Wayne County, and when twenty-one years of age he began teaching, which he followed part of the time for three years. The next five years he followed farming on the homestead in Franklin Township. He was married in 1859, to Angelina G., daughter of George and Ruth (Marine) Shugart, and granddaughter of George Shugart, one of the pioneer settlers of New Garden Township. To this union were sent five children - Emma M., educated at Earlham College, now teaching school; Jennie y., wife of William E. Orampton; ^NTevva L., attending Earlham College; Benjamin and Gurney S. Mr. Cox was engaged two years in the mill of Robert Cox, and was in the mercantile business from 1864 till 1867, with Robert Cox and J. C. Boyd, under the firm name of Cox & Boyd, and during this time he was also Postmaster. He then purchased the interests of his partners, and conducted the business alone for one year, when he sold out and returned to his farm. He soon after sold his farm and purchased the Nicholson homestead, where he successfully followed farming till 1882, after which he sold the farm and bought his present property, and has since been engaged in the mercantile business, and is also the Postmaster at Cox's Mills. He also owns a farm, which is cultivated by his son. He and wife belong to the Society of Orthodox Friends. His father operated a saw and grist mill, carding-mill and oil-mill in Montgomery County, Ind. He was also an extensive farmer, and at his death was worth $15,000. He died in 1817, aged forty-four years. Our subject's mother died when he was five months old. She was a daughter of John and Esther Nicholson, who settled in Wayne County about 1815. Mr. Nicholson built the first brick house in the settlement. He was a successful farmer, and died at the age of sixty-six years.

Robert Cox, son of Jeremiah, Jr., and Ruth (Andrew) Cox, was born Oct. 1,1814. He learned the trade of a millwright with Nathan Hollingsworth, of Richmond, and when twenty years old he constructed a mill east of where his present mill now stands, where he did an extensive business for twenty years. During this time he purchased a farm six miles west of Winchester. Randolph Co., Ind., where he erected a gristmill and remained several years. He constructed a mill in Illinois costing $12,000, which is now operated by his son Joseph. Selling his property in Randolph County, he bought and removed to the homestead, and was engaged for several years in the dairy business south of Richmond, with his sonin-law, W. H. Cook. It was known as the Quaker City Dairy. He was one of the stockholders and incorporators of the Second National Bank, and is still one of the Directors.

He was also extensively enf^aojed in a general mercantile' business at Cox's Mills, under the firm name of Cox & Boyd. In 1860 he built a fine brick mill, fitting it out with improved machinery, where he does an extensive business. Mr. Cox served as Postmaster at Cox's Mills, Ind., for many years. In 183i he was married to Elvira, daughter of Joseph and Celia Addington, who died in 1837. They had three children - Joseph, of Illinois; Celia, wife of J. C. Boyd, and Elvira, who died in infancy. Mr. Cox was again married in 1840 to Narcissa, daughter of Henry H. and Rachel Way, who were natives of Nantucket Island, Mass.; afterward went to North Carolina, and were settlers of Wayne County, Ind. To Mr, and Mrs. Cox have been born five children - Angelina, wife of William C.Cook; Elmira, deceased, wife of Dr. William Graham; Melinda, at home; Linneus, who died at the age of six years, and Elma,deceased, wife of Charles E. Nicholson. Benjamin Cox came with three brothers from England in an early day, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he was married. His youngest son, Jeremiah (our subject's grandfather), when seventeen years of age constructed a small grist-mill on his father's farm in North Carolina, which furnished meal for the family and neighbors. He next constructed a sawmill on Pine Creek, but the power not being equal to his desires, he purchased lands with more water-power, and built a saw and grist mill and blacksmith shop. A few years later his mills, shop and crop were washed away by the floods in August, but he rebuilt and was successfully engaged in milling and farming till 1806, when he sold his property, and not wishing to bring up his large family in a slave State, he moved to Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind. He was first married to Margery Pickett, of Randolph County, N. C, by whom he had seven children - Elizabeth, Mary, Hannah, Amy, Ruth, Margery and Jeremiah, our subject's father, Mr.Cox's second wife was Jemima Ehodes, and to this union was born one son - Elijah. His third wife was Catherine Morrison, of Randolph County, N. C. They were the parents of seven children, ot whom three survive - Robert, Catherine and William. All the family belonged to the Society of Friends. Jeremiah Cox, Sr., on coming to Richmond in 1806 entered a quarter- section of land (southwest part of what is now Richmond), and the family camped the first night near the site of the present court-house. ^ Kentuckian, who had preceded Mr. Cox, entered a half section of land on which he built a log cabin Mr. Cox purchased this land and moved his family to the lo^ cabin, which is now north of Main street, Richmond, and erected the first ^rist-miU in this vicinity. He crave land for a Friends' church and was one of the organizers of the first society. He entered another quarter-section of land in 1807, which he gave to his son Jeremiah, and m 1828 he sold his property in Wayne County and settled five miles east of Winchester, Randolph Co., Ind., where he owned three quarter-sections of land, and there he erected a gristmill for the accommodation of his neighbors. He also invested largely in land in MontgomeiT County, Ind. He was one of the Representatives from Wayne County who assisted in framing the first Constitution of the State of Indiana. He died in Randolph County in 1830 aged seven ysix years. Jeremiah Cox, Jr., was born in Randolph County, N C in 1790, and came to Wayne County, Ind., m 1806 In 1811 he settled on the land now owned by his son Robert, and soon after constructed a mill. He soon increased the mm facilities, and made and used the first flour eleva or m 2 county. In 1827 he erected a stone mill, which he perated as long as he remained^ in the business. He was first married to Ruth Andrew, ^^^^ ^^'' '^ lif^^^jlre- Pio-ht children, of whom four survive-Robert, Elihu, Jeie ^1 W Ma c^ery His second wife was Jemima Coburn ; M^wifewi Hannah Moore; his fourth wife was Rho.be H nshaw; his fifth wife was Mary W. Doyle. Mr Cox surfited Ti last wife nine months. He died in his eigh y- Sth year. He was for many years an Elder m the Friends

'1:l.^ Crar^pton, son of Merick S. and Ann (Sn.ith) CrfmTn was Sorn Aug. 10, 1837, in Wayne County, Ind^ He was r ared to manhood on his father's farm a.id educated He was leareu -,058 he was married to Mary, daughtoVS » t; cl'S Wayne Conoty. They have one son-VuiiamE., W Aug. 3, 1859, and mamed Dec.

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21, 1882, to Jennie, daughter of John N. Cox. Mr. Crainjjton began life with limited means, bat by industry and economy, has met with success. His farm contains 110 acres of well-cultivated land, with ggod residence and farm buildings. He and wife belong to the Society of Friends. Mr. Crarapton's father was born March 1, 1804, in Culpeper County, Ya., a son of Samuel Crampton, a native of England, who first settled in Virginia, but afterward removed wi^h his son xMerick to Wayne County. He was among the early settlers, and died at an advanced age. Merick Crampton, was married in Wayne County, Ind., in 1824, to Ann Smith, born in Loudoun County, Ya., in 1804, a daughter of Jacob and Ann (Spencer) Smith. They were the parents of eight children- Sarah, born Oct. 7, 1825; Kachel, Oct. 11, 1827; Martha, Nov 10, 1829; Joshua S., Jan. 9, 1832; Mary, Dec. 13, 1834- Sam uel, Aug. 10, 1837; Lutetia, April 24, 1840, and Pho^'be A Sept. 28, 1844. Mrs. Samuel Crampton's parents were born m South Carolina in 1794, and were of English and Irish origm. They came with their parents to Warren County Ohio, in 1803, where Seth and Ruth Cook were married in ' 1825. They removed to Wayne County, Ind., where Mr Cook followed farming till his death in his sixtieth year Mrs Cook died in her eighty-eighth year. They belonged to the Friends' Society. Three of their children survive-Amos Elizabeth and Mary. Isaac, Elijah, Sarah, J^^athan and Seth are deceased.

WiUmm Hmry Davis, farmer and horticulturist, is the sixth o eleven children of Lewis and Sarah (Harmau) Davis H,s father was bornin Somerset County, Penn., in 1776, of Welsh ancestry, and h,s mother a of Pennsylvania of German ancestry His parents removed to Preble County Oh,o, m an eariy day and settled on Elk Creek, near Jacksonburg, where W. H. was born Aug. 9, 1820. In 1835 thev re,noved to Wayne County, Ind.,%Lre the mo her dfed ^ed flUytwo years. The father subsequently moved to

The Davis family have an estate due them in Somerset County, Penn., and Lewis Davis returned there in 1819 to claim his interest, but the business was unsettled and he died without further prosecuting the claim. W. H. Davis obtained but a limited education. He worked for the farmers for wages, working steadily with a view of owning a farm of his own, and from his savings purchased the farm of 102 acres where he resides. When purchased it was a swamp, with a standing pond of water on a portion of it. He has drained it and made it a most valuable farm. He has seventv-two rods of hedge fence, and has put down 383 rods of tiling. He is a practical farmer, and a producer of fine fruits, preserving apples from season to season. He also makes bee culture a special and successful feature of his business. He has been a close observer of atmospheric phenomena, and predicts changes with remarkable accuracy. In December, 1842, he was married to Jane A., daughter of William and Sarah Wilson, of Shelby County, Ind. Five children were born to them, but two of whom are living - George W. and Matilda A., wife of George Irwin. The deceased are - Jane, William T., and Lovina, wife of Albert Peelle. Mrs. Davis died at the age ot thirty-three years. June 19, 1855, Mr. Davis married Jane, widow of John C. Clark, and daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Whan) Armstrong. She was born near Washington, Fayette Co., Penn., March 7, 1815. They have no children. Mr. Davis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

John Dennis^ was born in Wayne County, Ind., March 3, 1821, the eldest son of Benjamin and Clarkey (Pool) Dennis. Benjamin Dennis was born near the Allegheny Mountains, in Pennsylvania, in 1795, and at an early age removed with his parents to Ohio, and resided several years near Cincinnati. He then lived with his parents in Warren County, Ohio, till he was eighteen years old, when he went to Cincinnati, and enlisted in the war of 1812, serving one year. In 1815 he came to Milton, Wayne Co., Ind., and worked on a farm till 1819. He was married in 1819 to Clarkey Pool, who was born in 1801, and the eldest daughter of John Pool, who came from North Carolina in an early day. They were the parents of eleven children - John; Gulielma, wife of John Reese, ot

Hancock County, Ind.; Friscilla, wife of William Butler, of Henry County, Ind.; Elizabeth and Emmie, deceased; William; Jethro, of Henry County, Ind. ; Sarah A. and Benjamin S., deceased; Thomas P., died while in the war near Yicksburo-. Miss., Feb. 5, 1864, aged twenty-two years; and Albert, of Clinton Count.y, Ind. Benjamin Dennis remo\ed to Henry County, Ind., when onr subject was a year old, where he opened a farm and followed agricultural pursuits till his death in 1841. He was a member of the Society of Friends. His wife is a member of the same society, and still resides in Henry County. Our subject grew to maturity on his father's farm in Plenry County, where he was educated in the logcabin schools. May 5, 1845, he was married to Mary Ratliff, born in 1827, in Henry County, Ind., and daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Bogue) Ptailiff. They have had eight children - Sarah A., wife of Theodore Webb, engineer in oil-mill near Richmond; William H., a painter in Richmond; Elizabeth E., wife of James Akin, of Richmond; Thomas P., farming in Wayne County; Ida M., wife of Elza Williams, of Wayne County; Harry S. ; Albert, deceased, and John F. In 1847 Mr. Dennis engaged in the mercantile business in Dublin, Wayne Co., Ind., which he followed successfully till 1855. He then engaged in painting in Richmond till 1861, and in August of that year he enlisted in Company F, Thirty-Sixth Indiana Infantry for three years. In 1862 he became unfitted for duty, owing to his age and exposure of camp life. He was furloughed home where he remained nearly a year, when he reported to his command at Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he was discharged in April, 1863. He then carried on the mercantile business in Richmond till 1876, when he purchased and removed to the farm, where he is still engaged in farming and horticulture. He and wife and five youngest children belong to the Society of Friends. Mrs. Dennis's father died in Henry County, Ind., in 1855. Her mother is living in Henry County, aged seventy-seven years. They were the parents of thirteen children - Mary (wife of our subject), Samuel (deceased), Sarah, Marian, Jonathan, Henry (a soldier in the late war, died of measles, at Memphis, Tenn., in 1864), Hannah and Nancy (deceased), Huldah, Margaret, Asa, Cornelius and Amos.