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that position. He was united in marriage, November 12, 1868, to Mary C. Sargent, a daughter of the late Samuel Sargent. Five of the seven children born to this union are living-Jessie, Eva, Saylors, Harry and Roswell. When but twenty-two years of age Mr. Wright was elected to fill the office of mayor, he being the first mayor of Line- ville, which office he held for three consec- utive terms. He was justice of the peace four years, was a member of the Lineville council, and also treasurer of the Inde- pendent School District of Lineville for five years. For the past four years he has served as assessor. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was a charter member of both the Odd Fellows order and the Knights of Pythias of this place.
ILLIAM JONES, farmer and stock- raiser, residing on section IS, Clinton Township, Wayne Coun- ty, was born June 8, 1835, a son of William and Mary (Watson) Jones, natives of Maine and Ohio respectively. At the age of nine years our subject was taken by his par- ents to Medina County, Ohio, where they lived five years, removing thence to Wells County, Indiana. Three years later the family settled in LaPorte County, Indiana, where they remained three years, and in 1855 came to Wayne County, Iowa, locat- ing in Grand River Township where Will- iam Jones, our subject, improved a farm of 160 acres of wild land on section 13. He sold his farm in 1868 and bought a tract of unimproved land adjoining the town of Clio, which he brought under cultivation, selling this farm in 1878. He settled on his present farm in Clinton Township where he has 282 acres of the best land the town- ship affords, all under good cultivation. His house is comfortable and commodious, and his large barn, 55 x 58 feet, and other farm
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buildings are among the best in his neigh- borhood. He devotes considerable atten- tion to stock-raising and has on his farm a large number of fine cattle and horses. All this has been acquired by hard work, com- bined with good business management, and from a poor man he has become one of the well-to-do citizens of Clinton Township. Mr. Jones was united in marriage, Decem- ber 17, 1863, to Miss Mary Payne, daughter of J. A. and Phœbe Payne. They have a family of six children-George, Phœbe, Charles, Roy, Ellen and Salina M.
E. McINTOSH, residing in Clin- ton Township, Wayne County, on section II, is a native of Bartholo- mew County, Indiana, where he was born July 1, 1837, his parents, George W. and Elizabeth (Christie) McIntosh, being na- tives of Estill County, Kentucky. His par- ents had a family of eight children, W. E. being the second child. His early life was passed on his father's farm, and in attend- ing the common schools, where he received but a limited education. March 30, 1859, he was married to Miss Mary Imel, a daugh- ter of James and Mary Imel, residents of Wayne County. Mrs. McIntosh died Sep- tember 11, 1871, leaving four children- Rosa, William, Cary and Fred. Mr. Mc- Intosh was again united in marriage, Octo- ber 16, 1873, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Paul) Col- lins, the result of this marriage being seven children-Solomon, Johanna, Elizabeth, James, Emma, Frank and Hattic. Mrs. McIntosh came to Wayne County with relatives when eleven years of age. Her first husband, Walter Collins, was a soldier in the Union army, and is supposed to have lost his life after his discharge. He left two children. Mr. McIntosh came to Wayne County, lowa, with his parents in the spring of 1856, they locating in Clinton
Township, where our subject has since made his home, and since 1868 has lived on his present farm, which contains eighty acres of valuable land, well adapted to the raising of grain or stock. Mr. McIntosh is one of the enterprising and influential citi- zens of Clinton Township, which he has served as assessor. He has also served as a member of the School Board.
EORGE COX, one of the old and honored pioneers of Wayne County, was born in Lewis County, Virginia, July 19, 1820, and died in Washington Township, June 17, 1884. He lived with his parents, Isaac and Mary (Kniseley) Cox, until 1842, in his native State, when he re- moved to Putnam County, Indiana, remain- ing there until after his marriage. Novem- ber 8, 1844, he was married to Sarah Hayes, who was a native of Monroe County, Kentucky, a daughter of Clayborn and Mary (Cruse) Hayes, who were formerly of Halifax, Virginia. To this union were born ten children-Parmelia, Isaac E., George W., John, Marietta, Martha, Julia, Benjamin Franklin, Violet and William Frazier. Mr. Cox gave his children good ed- ucational advantages, most of whom fitted themselves for teachers, which profession they have followed successfully. Mr. Cox taught several terms of school in Putnam County, Indiana, where he remained till 1849. He then came to Wayne County, Iowa, and entered Government land in Washington Township, by a land warrant which he had received for his services in the Mexican war, having been a member of the First Illinois Infantry. Six months later he returned to Indiana, where he re- mained one year. He then returned to Washington Township, Wayne County, when he settled on the homestead farm where his family still reside. He was an
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active business man and added to his real- estate until he had 360 acres of land which he improved and brought under good cul- tivation. IIe served as deputy sheriff of Wayne County, and also held the office of justice of the peace. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Cory- don Lodge, No. 91, being initiated a Mas- ter Mason July 24, 1865. He took an act- ive interest in the advancement of his township, and by his upright and honor- able dealings won the confidence and es- teem of all who knew him.
EM. KEMPLE, grain dealer, Harvard, is a native of Marshall County, Vir- ginia, born November 29, 1850, a son of George and Margaret Kemple, who were natives of New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania respectively. Our subject was the ninth in a family of thirteen children. His youth was passed in assisting with the work of the farm and in attending the com- mon schools. In 1875 he came to Wayne County, Iowa, and bought land in Jackson Township, adjoining the town of Harvard on the south. He sold his property in 1876 and bought land adjoining the town on the east. March 2, 1876, he was married to Josephine Hood, of Marshall County, Vir- ginia, a daughter of Samuel and Elsie (Gal- laher) Hood, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Kemple have five children-Emma Alta, George H., May Belle, Lillie Blanche and Carl Wilber. Since coming here Mr. Kem- ple has always taken an active interest in every enterprise for the advancement of his township, and in fact was one of the first men to start the town of Harvard. He petitioned for a side track in 1876 which was granted in 1878. The same year he erected the first grain scales in Harvard and commenced buying grain, in which business he has since been engaged, and by his fair dealings has secured a large trade.
He is classed among the well-to-do and en- terprising young men of Jackson Township where he has a fine farm of 400 acres which is well stocked. Mr. Kemple is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and is secretary of Lodge No. 30 of Harvard.
LONZO W. SHARP, one of the pio- neers of Wayne County, and one of its well-known citizens, was born in the town of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, July 5, 1823, on the day the last negro slave in the Empire State was liberated. When eight years of age he ac- companied his father to Auburn, Cayuga County, and when twelve years of age to Hillsdale County, Michigan. His father was a farmer and to this occupation he was reared, working at it until twenty-five years of age, when he engaged in the mercantile business in Hillsdale, which he continued about six years. In 1854 he came to Iowa and entered the whole of section 19, Wal- nut Township, Wayne County. The fol- lowing year he came with his children and settled on his land, his wife having died in Michigan in 1852. He afterward sold all his land except the northwest quarter of the section, on which he still lives. In the spring of 1855 he entered 260 acres adjoin- ing his land on the west, in Jackson Town- ship, and now has a fine farm of 420 acres. He was married in 1844 to Mary Moore, a native of Ontario County, New York, who died, as before stated, in 1852. Their family consisted of four sons, two of whom died in infancy. Herbert A. is now living in New Mexico, and Frank M. lives in Jackson Township. In November, 1855, Mr. Sharp married Cecilia Janet Green- man, who was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, March 4, 1838, a daughter of Sylvester and Rachel (Maxon) Greenman. Her father died when she was six weeks old and her mother afterward married
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John Mansell. In 1846 the family removed to Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa. Mrs. Sharp is a sister of Mrs. Sabrina Phillips, of Allerton. To Mr. and Mrs. Sharp have been born three daughters-Mary M., wife of James B. Collison, of Hugo, Stevens County, Kansas ; Alice A. and Eda E. In politics Mr. Sharp is a Democrat. He represented Wayne County in the State Legislature in 1857. He has been a prom- inent and active man in promoting all measures of public benefit. He was instru- mental in establishing the mail route be- tween Des Moines and St. John, Missouri, and for sixteen years the postoffice was kept at his house. This was at Kniffin, so named in honor of David Kniffin, an early settler from Ohio. His father, Salmon Sharp, came to Iowa with his son and to- gether they entered their land. The father lived with our subject until his death, which occurred October 23, 1879. Colonel Sharp, as he was called, was born in Litch- field County, Connecticut, in 1793, and was taken when a child to Tompkins County, New York. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, participating, among others, in the battle of Lundy's Lane. His wife died January 24, 1857. They had a family of three sons and one daughter, all of whom are living. Alonzo Sharp has at different times been officially connected with his township and county, serving among others in the capacity of supervisor, and also for several years as justice of the peace.
FOIIN READ, deceased, settled in Grand River Township, Wayne County, Iowa, in May, 1856. He was a native of County Armagh, Ireland, born in 1800. He was reared in Ireland and in carly life was a great traveler. He was married in his native country and his wife died there, leaving him one son, Henry,
who came with his father to America and afterward was lost at sea. Mr. Read came to America about 1830 and for some time lived in New York, and while there mar- ried his second wife. He subsequently moved to Chicago, at that time a mere hamlet, and later entered land in Lake County, Illinois. In 1851 he went to Cali- fornia, where he remained about four years, returning to his family in Illinois about the close of 1855. In 1856 he moved to Wayne County, Iowa, and in 1859 went to the far West, returning to Wayne County in 1869. He died at the residence of his son, John M., at Allerton, in 1876. His wife survived him till March 1, 1881, her death occurring in Keokuk, Iowa. Their family consisted of four children, only two of whom are liv- ing-Martin, now of Princeton, Missouri, and John M., of Allerton. Anna died in Keokuk in, 1864, and Maggie, wife of S. C. Herbert, died in Corydon, in June, 1874.
A. JONES, one of the old pioneers of Wayne County, who lives on section 12, South Fork Township, was born in Putnam County, Indiana, April 25, 1842, his parents, William and Abigail (Davis) Jones, being natives of Kentucky, the father born in Lincoln County, and the mother in Casey County. Of their eleven children our subject was the tenth child. When nine years of age, in 1851, he came with his father to Wayne County, Iowa, and after spending a few months in South Fork Township they removed to Johns Town- ship, Appanoose County, where the father lived till his death, which occurred in 1872 at the age of seventy-six years. Our sub- ject was reared to manhood on a farm in Ap- panoose County, receiving in his youth a common-school education. He was united in marriage, August 10, 1865, to Sarah J. Duer, a daughter of John and Clarissa D.
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Duer, and of the seven children born to this union six are living-Mary O., Jessie M., Cora A., J. W., Rachel and Clarissa D. A son, Aaron W., is deceased. In 1867 Mr. Jones settled on his present farm in South Fork Township, where he has 220 acres of choice land all well improved, having a good residence, barn and outbuildings, and a fine orchard. In 1872 he engaged in the mercan- tile business in partnership with D. Given, with whom he was associated for one year, after which he carried on the same business with his nephew, R. B. Jones, for eighteen months, when he sold his interest in the business and returned to his farm in South Fork Township, where he has since been successfully engaged in raising and feeding stock in connection with his general farm- ing. He is a member of Vernon Lodge, No. 410, A. F. & A. M., of Confidence, and also belongs to the Odd Fellows order. In his political views he is independent, al- ways voting for the man whom he con- siders best suited for office.
ELITA P. MORRISON was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in the town of Washington, in 1826, and was there reared to manhood. He served an apprenticeship as a mechanic, following the cabinet-maker's trade about seventeen years. He was married in Ohio to Rebecca Law, a native of Guernsey County, that State, and to this union have been born four chil- dren-Dr. G. A. Morrison, of Seymour ; Theodore L., Emma and Minnie. Mr. Mor- rison settled in Appanoose County, Iowa, in 1856, where he engaged in farming. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Thirty-sixth lowa Infantry, and served three years, being promoted to Second Lieutenant and later to First Lieutenant, and was subsequently commissioned Cap- tain by the Secretary of War. He took 41
part in the Yazoo expedition and the bat- tle of Helena, and was present at the capt- ure of Little Rock, Arkansas. During the last year of the war he was mustering offi- cer of the Department of Arkansas. After the war he engaged in the mercantile busi- ness at Unionville, Appanoose County, Iowa, which he followed for two years when he was elected clerk of the courts of Appanoose County, serving as such four years. In the fall of 1877 he engaged in the clothing business in Seymour which he fol- lowed till 1883, since which time he has been engaged in the real estate, law and insurance business under the firm name of Rogers & Morrison. Politically Mr. Morrison is a Republican. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episco- pal church. He has been a local preacher of that denomination for twenty-five years, three years being an itinerant preacher.
H. CARPENTER, an enterpris- ing farmer and stock-raiser, of Wright Township, residing on section 12, was born in Tuscara was County, Ohio, July 10, 1833, a son of William and Mary (Stuart) Carpenter, being natives of Ohio, the father born in Tuscarawas Coun- ty. They had nine children born to them, as follows-John, James, Andrew, William, George, Edward, Mary, Elizabeth and Catherine. W. H. was the fourth son of the family. He spent his youth on his fa- ther's farm, receiving his education in the common schools of his native county, where he lived till fifteen years of age. In 1848 he went with his father to Holmes County, Ohio, where he lived nine years. He then spent seven years in McDonough County, Illinois, and in 1865 came to Wayne Coun- ty, Iowa, locating on his present farm in Wright Township in the fall of 1866. He was married August 22, 1857, to Celestia
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Jane Hueston, of Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Leonard and Celes- tia Hueston. They have thirteen chil- dren-James S., Louise R., J. W., Amanda, Alice, Andrew, Grandville, Sarah, Orlow, Jessie Lee, Frank, Edward. One daughter. Wealthy, is deceased. Mrs. Carpenter died February 24, 1885, and January 6, 1886, Mr. Carpenter married for his second wife Clarinda Davis, of Schuyler County, Illinois. Mr. Carpenter is successfully en- gaged in raising and feeding stock. He has brought his farm, which contains 259 acres, from a wild, unimproved tract of land, under excellent cultivation. His resi- dence is comfortable and commodious, and his farm buildings are among the best in his neighborhood. His large barn, which was erected in 1885, is 32 x 40 feet in size with a good stone foundation. This fine property has been acquired by his own ef- forts he having commenced life on his own account in limited circumstances.
W. FRAME, editor Corydon Demo- crat, was born in Macomb, Illinois, February 7, 1857. He came to Wayne County in 1864 and worked on a farm near Bethlehem until seventeen years of age, when he commenced teaching school. Af- ter two years teaching he entered Miller's Mercantile College, at Keokuk, Iowa, where he attended school and taught alternately for two years. He then returned to Wayne County and continued teaching until 1878 when he went to Graham County, Kansas, and opened out a land agency, surveying and locating claims. He was appointed postmaster at Millbrook, county seat of Graham County, and served for one year, when he was elected principal of schools at Alexandria, Nebraska. While teaching at Alexandria he was married at Council Bluffs, by A. A. Rogers, Superintendent
of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, to Miss Nettie Carpenter, of Hillsdale, Michi- gan. He continued to teach at Alex- andria until 1882 when he removed to Keokuk and completed his course of study in Miller's College, now under charge of Prof. C. H. Pierce. After teach- ing at Keokuk for a short time he returned to Wayne County and was elected princi- pal of the Promise City school, which posi- tion he lately resigned to take charge of the Corydon Democrat, which he is now edit- ing. He was the late Democratic candi- date for county superintendent of schools, is twenty-nine years of age, an uncompromis- ing Democrat and fights the opposition without fear or mercy.
ISAAC HAUKS, section 19, Union Township, postoffice New York, was
@ born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 15, 1828, a son of Starks and Sarah (Newhouse) Hauks, natives of Vir- ginia, but early settlers of Ohio. When sixteen years of age our subject came West to Illinois and located in Clarke County, where he worked as a farm hand by the month, split rails by the thousand and la- bored in a way that falls to the lot of few. He leased a farm of 200 acres in Edgar County which he carried on seven years and while living there exchanged live-stock valued at $500 for eighty acres of his pres- ent farm, to which he moved in 1865. A discouraging prospect confronted him and he was inclined to return to Illinois, but finally bought an old log house which he moved to his land and rebuilt and into this moved his family and concluded to try his fortune in the new country. He began working by the day at odd jobs, planted a garden, and in 1866 had a few acres of his ground broken. He split rails to fence his land and steadily improved it, and as a re-
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sult of twenty years hard work now has 160 acres of valuable land, a good house, built in 1881, protected from the winds and storms by trees of his own planting, has a fine young orchard and an abundance of small fruits. Mr. Hauks has been twice married. His first wife was Lydia Knight, of Edgar County, Illinois. At her death she left one daughter-Leah. His second and present wife was Keziah E. Knight, a sister of his first wife. They have had sev- en children, five born in Edgar County. Illinois, and two in Wayne County, Iowa- Emily, Stella, James R., Thomas, John, Dora and Charles F. Dora died aged two years.
JON. E. GLENDENNING, M. D., of Lineville, Wayne County, was born in Rush County, Indiana, August 31, 1831, a son of John and Elizabeth (Carter) Glendenning, the father a native of Brown County, Ohio, and now deceased, and the mother born in Tennessee. Our subject's grandfather, Henry. Glendenning, was a soldier in the war of 1812, his father being a native of Scotland, coming to America when a young man. Our subject's mater- nal grandfather, Elijah Carter, was a de- scendant of the noted Carters who fought the Indians and built the fort at Carter's Station, Tennessee, in the early history of the United States. E. Glendenning, whose name heads this sketch, was reared on a farm, receiving his education at the com- mon schools of his neighborhood, and at Grand River College, at Edinburg, Mis- souri, he having come to Gentry County, Missouri, with his parents in 1841. After leaving college he was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal denomination in Missouri for three years. He gave up his ministerial duties in the fall of 1853 on account of failing health. He began the study of medicine with Dr. David Macey,
of Bethany, Missouri, and later read medi- cine under Dr. G. W. Burns, of Pleasanton, Iowa. His preceptor died and he was forced into practice before completing his medical course, but finally graduated in 1865 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. He located in Lineville, where he has since lived with the exception of a year and a half, 1865-'66, spent in Corydon, and during his residence here he has built up a large and lucrative practice being well skilled in the knowledge of his chosen profession. The Doctor was married in March, 1856, to Lucinda J. Car- lisle, daughter of William Carlisle, who is now deceased. They have had five chil- dren, of whom three are living-Maggie C., Flora B. and John C. Dr. Glendevning and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has served two terms in the Iowa State Legislature. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He belongs to Mercer County (Missouri) Med- ical Society.
OBERT F. KELSO, section 9, Howard Township, postoffice Warsaw, is a native of Indiana, born in Switzer- land County, March 9, 1830, a son of Joseph and Sarah (Nelson) Kelso. He was the eldest of twelve children, and his edu- cational advantages were necessarily lim- ited as his services were early required in assisting his father on the farm. When he was four years old his parents moved to Tazewell County, Illinois, his father be- ing one of the pioneers of that county. In his youth he made many trips to Chi- cago, a distance of 140 miles, with grain and stock, driving the stock and going by teams with the grain. He made farming his principal avocation until 1864, when he began to deal in live-stock, and also carried on a meat market for a short time. In 1876 he came to Iowa and located in Wayne
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County, on his present farm in Howard Township. He owns 385 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation. His improvements, including his residence and farm buildings, are noticeably good, and his home is a model of neatness and refine- ment. Mr. Kelso was married July 2, 1852, to Miss Emily J. Brown, daughter of Asa and Catherine Brown, of Tazewell County, Illinois. They have a family of eight chil- dren-Sarah, Edith, Catherine, James W., Minnie, Alice May, Anna Dell and Joseph- ine. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso are active mem- bers of the Protestant Methodist church.
J. BLACK, section 19, Washington Township, was born in Floyd Coun- ty, Indiana, February 10, 1838, a son of William and Harriet (Clark) Black, his father a native of Mercer County, Pennsyl- vania, and his mother of Clark County, Indiana. Of a family of eleven children seven lived till maturity-James C., A. manda M., Jane, A. J., Sarah E., William J. and Rebecca R. A. J. Black remained in his native county until twenty-four years of age, working on a farm in his youth, and when not thus engaged attend- ing the district school. In 1861 he moved to Mercer County, Illinois, where he lived about fourteen years, and in 1875 came to Iowa and bought 165 acres of unimproved land in Washington Township, Wayne County. This land he has brought under a good state of cultivation, has erected a pleasant residence and comfortable barns, planted an orchard, which, added to the native groves, makes one of the most desir- able homes in the township. His wife died August 4, 1878, leaving six children-El- mer E., Ada F., George H., Charles R., William I. and Bertie. March 6, 1880, he married Maggie Piersall, and to them was born one son-Harry. Mrs. Black died
February 15, 1881, and April 6, 1882, Mr. Black was a third time married, his present wife being Mary L. Sears. They have two children-James A. Logan and Hattie A. In politics Mr. Black is an ardent Republi- can. He is one of the representative, pub- lic-spirited citizens of Washington Town- ship, counting no labor lost that tends to further its material or social interests.
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