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Eli Hammer kept the first " tavern" for several years. · A steam saw and grist mill was built in 1875, and operated intermit- tently until the fall of 1885, when it burned.
In 1867 the farmers of Union Township organized the Union Township Agricult- ural Association, and held two very suc- cessful exhibitions in the autumns of 1867 and 1868 at Bethlehem.
Louis Protzman is the present merchant, and William King postmaster.
NEW YORK. .
This village, in Union Township, was platted April 20, 1855, by Messrs. Oorey and Micajah Cross, and said to have been so named because it had more room to grow than our American metropolis had on Manhattan Island. The first merchant was A. Hutchinson, Sr .; Jacob Morrett, first postmaster. Others identified with the history of the village have been : Dr. John Leeper, Jacob States, Albert De Gol. yer, S. J. Lee, G. A. Bennett, D. L. Hare, and M. G. Thorp. The last named is the present postmaster.
The Christian church here was built in 57
1871 or 1872, and the Methodist church was erected in 1874.
Dr. Joel Johnson was the first physician · to reside here.
The Masonic order once flourished here, but the lodge has been removed to Confi- dence.
Messenger Post, G. A. R., was mustered in February, 1883. The first officers are : L. H. Goodell, Commander; J. N. David- son, Senior Vice-Commander ; A. W. Dunn, Junior Vice-Commander; A. A. Clark, Ad- jutant; Milton D. Rew, Chaplain ; J. Old- field, Quartermaster; E. P. Burton, Sur- geon ; George Harn, Officer of the Day ; Henry Olmstead, Sergeant ; Andrew Peak, Quartermaster-Sergeant ;. James Allison, Sergeant-Major. The original member- ship, seventeen, has been swelled to·thirty- six. Meetings are held monthly.
Champion Hill Camp, S. O. V., was organ- ized at New York in 1885, and was so named at the suggestion of L. H. Goodell.
CONFIDENCE.
Confidence is the name of an old post- office and village in Wright Township, in the northeastern part of the county. The chances for growth into a prosperous town were once fair, but are few at present, as this point has been left several miles out of the circle of railroad communication. The population is now about 100.
GENOA.
The first store in Monroe Township was opened by John Miller & Sons in 1854. This store was near the site of the village of Genoa, which was laid out by Hugh Miller, of the above-mentioned firm, in 1855. The village was so named on account of the postoffice of that name, which had just been established. Hugh Miller was post- master while he remained in the business, which was till 1857. Since then the office has belonged to the successive merchants
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of the place. For many years Walter Hartsough has been the incumbent.
Genoa was of some importance as a trad- ing point before the construction of the Rock Island Railroad, and the consequent building up of Seymour. Prominent among those who were at different times engaged in mercantile trade should be mentioned, Smith & Bennett, Hopkins & Bro., John Jamison and Conger & Michael. Many of Genoa's best men went to Sey- mour in 1872 and subsequently, and Genoa declined in importance.
WARSAW
is a postoffice in Howard Township. Pail- man Allen owns the store and mill, and also the blacksmith shop. H. L. Lough- man is postmaster.
PEORIA
was platted in 1853, in Benton Township, and aspired to become the county seat ; but failing to get this prize, it decayed until it is only represented by "Sam's Sta- tion," on the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad.
HODGE
is a postoffice on the railroad between Al- lerton and Clio.
KNIFFIN
is a postoffice on the Rock Island road between Harvard and Seymour.
BIG SPRINGS
is the name of the only postoffice in Jeffer- son Township.
LEWISBURGH is a postoffice in Clay Township.
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ON. HARVEY TANNEHILL is a native of Urbana, Ohio, born Sep- tember 5, 1822. His parents were James and Anna (Goudy) Tannehill, the former a native of Virginia, of Scotch de- scent, and the latter a native of Kentucky. His parents were farmers and in limited circumstances, and in his youth he had no advantages of school, his services being re- quired on the farm. After reaching the age of twenty years, having always had a desire to obtain an education, he attended three years what was then known as the high school of Springfield, Ohio, taught by Chandler Robbins. From 1845 till 1848 he taught school in Champaign, Clarke and Miami counties, Ohio, and then began to read law with Charles Morris, Esq., of Troy, Ohio. In August, 1851, he came to Iowa, and the following month (September) was admitted to the bar in Appanoose County, Hon. William McKay on the bench. He then began his practice at Centerville, and from the commencement controled over half the legal business of the county. He was elected in 1853, prosecuting attorney of Appanoose Coun- ty. He held this office two years, and in the meantime, during the absence of the county judge, performed the duties of that court, ex-officio. In 1855 he was elected county judge of Appanoose County, enter-
ing upon the duties in January, 1856, and filling the office a term of four years. In 1866 he was elected judge of the Second Judicial District of Iowa, for a term of four years. Since the expiration of the latter term, in 1871, he has devoted his ex- clusive attention to the practice of his profession, at Centerville, and has been en- gaged as counsel on most of the important cases in the county. His reputation as an honorable and reliable attorney is not con- fined to the county in which he lives, but extends all over the State of Iowa. Judge Tannehill was married May 29, 1856, to Miss Anna M., daughter of Dayton and Eliza (Crawford) Miller, of Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Tannehill died March 25, 1885. Their only child, William, died in infancy. Judge Tannehill is a member of the Pres- byterian church, as was also his wife.
¡AMES MERRITT, auditor of Appa- noose County, Iowa, was born at Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana, April 17, 1850. He is a son of Moses and Lucy A. (Nugen) Merritt, early settlers of Center Township, where he was reared, be- ing but five years of age when his parents came to Iowa. He attended the common schools till fifteen years of age, and then
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began clerking in the mercantile stores of the city. He was with William Clark a year, and with General F. M. Drake six years. In 1871 he and his brothers, George W. and Thomas, formed a partnership, under the firm name of Merritt Brothers, and engaged in the general mercantile busi- ness. In 1883 they, in addition to their other business, began operating in coal. They sunk the shaft known as the Standard, which they are still working, employing a large number of miners. In politics Mr. Merritt is a Republican. In 1881 he was elected treasurer of Centerville, an office he held two years. In November, 1885, he was elected auditor of Appanoose County. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge, chapter and commandery of Centerville. He was married February 16, 1875, to Miss Flora Chatterton, of Centerville. They have had four children, but three are living-Edith, Roy and Lucy. Their eldest, Edward, died October 16, 1877, aged six months.
OSES MERRITT is a native of Centerville, Wayne County, Indi- ana, born July 4, 1823. He was reared in his native county, remaining there till the spring of 1855, when he removed to Mercer County, Illinois, and engaged in farming near New Boston one season. The following November he came to Iowa, and settled on a farm in Center Township, Appa- noose County, where he lived two years. In 1857 he removed to Centerville and en- gaged in general merchandising with Caleb Wentworth, under the firm name of Wentworth & Merritt, until the spring of 1862, when the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Merritt went to Idaho Territory and worked in the mines near Idaho City three years. In the fall of 1865 he returned to Centerville, where he lived retired from
active business several years and then took the management of the mercantile establish- ment of his sons, the Merritt Brothers. In January, 1886, he was appointed deputy auditor of Appanoose County, his son, James, having been elected auditor. Oc- tober 10, 1844, Mr. Merritt was married in Centerville, Indiana, to Lucy Ann Nugen. They have had six children, four of whom -George W., James, Thomas and Linna, are living. The sons are in business to- gether in Centerville, and Linna is the wife of William Ulrich. · A daughter, Terressa, wife of K. Harris, died in August, 1870, aged twenty-two years, and a son, Ephraim, died in 1864, aged three years. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of Jackson Lodge, No, 42. F. & A. M.
EED W. DODD, one of the oldest settlers of Taylor Township, Appa- noose County, was born near Jack- sonville, in what was then Montgomery County, now Floyd County, Virginia, the date of his birth being April 6, 1807. His parents, John P. and Sarah ,(Dickerson) Dodd, were born, reared and married in the State of Virginia, the father being a native of Franklin County. Their family consisted of four sons and three daughters, our subject being the eldest child, and of this family Reed W. and three daughters are now living. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Elijah Dickerson, was born in Halifax County, Virginia, and was of English descent. Reed W. Dodd passed his youth on a farm, for a short time attend- ing a private school, living with his parents till reaching maturity. At the age of twen- ty-two years he married Irene Montgomery, of Grayson County, Virginia, the fourth daughter of William and Martha (Hiatt) Montgomery. Of the ten children born to
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this union eight are living-Eli; Sarah, wife of William Thrift; Lydia J .; Russel, of Lucas County ; Clementina, wife of Seaton Taylor : Martha E. married E. Burnett, of Clarke County ; Leah Moore, of Creston, lowa, and Frank M. Mr. Dodd has thirty-eight grandchildren, and twenty- four great-grandchildren. In the spring of 1831 Mr. Dodd removed with his family to Hendricks County, Indiana, settling among the timber, where he cleared a farm on which he lived till the fall of 1850. He then came with his family to Appanoose County, Iowa, locating on his present farm, entering 200 acres of unbroken prairie land from the Government. Here he built a small log cabin, and commenced the im- provement of his farm the following sea- son. He has devoted considerable atten- tion to the raising of stock, principally cattle and horses, for many years, and still makes a specialty of horses. His farm now contains 204 acres of choice land under cul- tivation. Mr. and Mrs. Dodd have lived together for fifty-six years, and bid fair to live for years, both being hale and hearty. They have been members of the regular Baptist church for many years. Politi- cally Mr. Dodd was formerly an old line Whig, casting his first vote for General Jackson, but has voted the Republican ticket since the organization of that party.
L. HARVEY, editor and publisher of the Centerville Fournal, is a son of James C. and Rhoda (Nelson) Harvey, natives respectively of New Jer- sey and Pennsylvania. They were married in Pennsylvania, and afterward removed to Ohio, where they lived the greater part of their lives. They then made another move to Warsaw, Indiana, where they died. Their son, S. L., was born April 9, 1840, in Knox County, Ohio, and at the age of six- 58
teen commenced to learn the printer's trade. He has followed journalism, in one capacity or another, since. April 6, 1877, he fixed his residence at Centerville, purchas- ing the Journal. He was married February 8, 1875, in Gallatin, Missouri, to Alice Os- borne, and has now two children-Law- rence and Ralph. Mr. Harvey is politically a Democrat, religiously a Protestant Epis- copalian, and socially a Knight of Pythias.
EV. RANDOLPH M. MOORE was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, September 16, 1832. His father, Josiah Moore, was born in 1777, in Mary- land, of English descent, and his mother was a native of Fauquier County, Virginia, of German descent. They were married in Hampshire County, and our subject was the tenth of their eleven children. He was early inured to the labor of the farm, his schooling in his youth being limited to a few weeks in the winter season. Being en- dowed by nature with a desire for an ed- ucation he made the best use of his oppor- tunities, and when of a proper age he entered Hillsboro Theological College, where he remained two years, and then entered Randolph-Macon College, in Meck- lenburg County, Virginia, intending to pursue a regular course and graduate, but sickness compelled him to leave school at the end of the first year, and after regain- ing his health he was obliged to teach school to get the money to pay his expen- ses home. When twenty-one years old, he united with 1 the Methodist Episcopal church, and while at Hillsboro was licensed to preach. After returning from college he was given an appointment by his presid- ing elder, and labored on Highland circuit a year and Glennville circuit the same length of time. His next charge was on Weston circuit, Lewis County, where he
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remained until 1860, when he severed his connection with the Methodist Episcopal church and was ordained a minister in the United Brethren denomination. In 1861, Mr. Moore being loyal to his country, his position becamea trying one. He was visit- ed by an armed band of rebels, who plun- dered his house of everything of value, including wearing apparel. The citizens rallied to his relief, the rebels were driven from the neighborhood with some loss in numbers. November 11, 1861, Mr. Moore enlisted in Company C, Tenth West Vir- ginia Volunteer Infantry, and spent the first eighteen months in guarding property, scouting, and watching bushwhackers and guerrillas. He was at one time captured, but was enabled to escape by the co-opera- tion of the rebel officer in command, Lieu- tenant Mallory, who was an old friend. In 1863 his regiment was attached to the army operating in the valley of Virginia. July 2, 1863, he was captured at Beverly and taken to Libby Prison, from which he was paroled and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he was exchanged, and rejoined his regiment in April, 1864. He served under General Mulligan until that officer was killed, near Strasburg. He participated with the Eighth Corps in the famous battle at Cedar Creek. After a service of three years and four months he was honorably discharged, and in April, 1865, became a resident of Appanoose County, Iowa, locat- ing in Independence Township, on section 16, where he now owns 110 acres of valu- able land, his residence, which was erected in 1880, being one of the best in the neigh- borhood. When he left his native State he was a member of the Parkersburg Con- ference of the United Brethren church, but on coming to Iowa labored for a time with the Methodist Protestant church, subsc- quently, however, returning to the United Brethren. Much of his time in Appanoose County has been devoted to the work of
the Master, holding himself always in readiness to give religious instruction or consolation, and being always glad to pro- claim the gospel whenever or wherever the people will listen. Mr. Moore was married February 24, 1858, to Miss Maria Myers, who was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 25, 1831, a daughter of Jona- than and Malinda (Reed) Myers. Her father died when she was but three years old, and her mother in November, 1883, aged eighty- one years. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had eight children-Hannah, wife of George Scott, of Independence Township ; John J., of Harper County, Kansas ; Sally Ann, wife of William Talkington ; Charles W., Mary Jane (died aged thirteen months), Ida May, Jemima E., Benjamin F. and Thomas R.
AMUEL G. HOUSER, an enterpris- ing farmer of Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, was born in Ful- ton County, Pennsylvania, near Bedford, May 1, 1847, the youngest of a family of seven children of Bernard and Eleanor (Logan) Houser, who were also natives of the same State, and were of German and Irish descent, respectively. They resided in Bedford County till the fall of 1855 when they came to Iowa, locating in Lee County, where the father died in 1863. After the death of the father the family set- tled on a small farm in Lee County, living there till coming to Wayne County in the fall of 1865. Our subject and his mother came to Appanoose County in 1876, when they settled on his present farm, on section 6, Lincoln Township, which contains 160 acres of choice land. He has met with success in his agricultural pursuits, and be- sides his home farm, is the owner of 154 acres of meadow and timber land, which he has acquired by his own industry and good management. He is quite an extensive
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stock-raiser, and is making a specialty of Poland-China hogs, and a high grade of cat- tle. He was married in 1870 to Mary Bate- man, of Lee County, Iowa, a daughter of William Bateman, who is now a resident of Wayne County. They have six chil- dren-Charles P., Max M., David L., Clin- ton, Orvil E. and Martha E.
ALTER S. JOHNSON, Center- ville, Appanoose County, Iowa .- Tracing the records of the John- son family as far back as Mr. Johnson has any account, we find that Nicholas John- son, his great-grandfather on his father's side, was born near Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, in 1756 and died about 1844 or 18:5. Garland Johnson, his son, was born near Lynchburg in 1782, and married Miss Eliz- abeth Henslee and to them was born a large family of children. Garland Johnson moved with his family first to Cincinnati, Ohio, and shortly after to Union County, and settled about a mile and a half from Liberty, the county seat of said county. His son, Samuel H., was the father of Wal- ter S. On the mother's side the records are more complete, running back five gen- erations, as follows: First, James Butler was born in the year 1690, on Nantucket Island, as is supposed, and died in Virginia, in 1778, aged eighty-eight years. Second, Stephen Butler, son of James Butler, was born in Virginia, near Lynchburg, March 16, 1749. and died December 2, 1815, aged sixty-six years. His second wife was Mary Stanton. Third, Stephen Butler, son of the above and Mary, his wife, was born Jan- uary 20, 1786. He married Matilda John- son, daughter of Benjamin Johnson, a brother of Nicholas, great-grandfather of Walter S. Fourth, Mary E. Butler, daugh- ter of Stephen and Matilda Butler, was born May 28, 1815, and was married to
Samuel H. Johnson, May 15, 1834. Her parents also moved from Virginia to Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and thence to Union County, when she was about ten years of age. Thus the families of Nicholas and Garland Johnson and Stephen Butler, with one or two other families of Friends or Quakers, commenced a settlement a mile and a half south of Liberty, Union County, Indiana, and erected a meeting-house, where they might worship God according to the dic- tates of their own consciences. They also erected and maintained a seminary of learn- ing, known in that part of the country as Beach Grove Seminary, but perhaps better known in history as " Horton's" Academy, so called from the fact that William Hough- ton, an uncle of Walter S. Johnson, super- intended it for twenty years. This school became famous on account of its thorough- ness and also on account of the splendid moral influences in the community, so that many from abroad came to its inviting shelter and enjoyed the quiet seclusion and healthy moral atmosphere. Here Samuel H. Johnson and Mary E. Butler were reared and educated under such pure and health- ful influences, and here the former fitted himself in a pre-eminent degree for the prac- tice of medicine, a profession he adorned for the brief period he was permitted to practice. Here, amid such surroundings and influences, they learned to love each other with a pure and undying affection, and were married on the 15th day of May, 1834, and by this marriage the two families were again united. To this most happy marriage three children were born-Wal- ter S., born May 24, 1835; Matilda, Decem- ber 30, 1836, and Pleasant W., November 7, 1838. Unfortunately for the wife and children the rapidly increasing practice of the father and his continued exposure in traveling over a rough country, at the call of distress, on horseback through rain and storm finally undermined an excellent
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constitution and a fine manly physique, and he succumbed to the fell destroyer of all mankind. He died in the full assur- ance of the Christian faith and hope, July 23, 1842, having, like his Master, been con- stantly going about doing good and help- ing the needy. His early death, when he was just commencing to lay the foundation for a competency, left the wife and three helpless children to battle, unaided, the stern conflicts of life. But the mother with the strong, invincible, undying courage and love of a true, faithful Christian and firm unshaken faith in the Christian's helper, was able to sing, even when gaunt poverty stared her in the face:
" Peace, troubled soul, thou needst not fear, Thy great provider still is near, Who fed thee last will feed thee still, Be calm and sink into his will. '
She bent all her energies to surmount her troubles and by industry and rigid economy was enabled to provide a home and maintenance for herself and family. In the meantime Walter S., being the eldest, felt that a responsibility also rested upon him and began to look about for something to do, and was soon engaged in cutting stovewood at 25 cents a cord, and attending to Judge Burnside's horse. Judge Burnside was the father of Ambrose E. Burnside, late Major General in the Un- ion army, and lived in the same town. The first incident in Walter's life that he re- members with real pleasure was the time he earned the money and bought his mother a dress pattern, with great large leaves like the leaves of a grape-vine, and carried it home in triumph and presented it to her, to her great surprise and aston- ishment, especially when she saw the large, bright, flaming figures of the pattern. The mother, dear, good, considerate, mother, looked upon it with pride and joy, and with tear-dimmed eyes embraced her boy with all the ardor of a mother's love, not
for the value of the gift, but for the evi- dence that her son took more pleasure in using his hard-earned money for her than for himself. Thus encouraged he contin- ued on, trying to earn and save as best he could for the benefit of the family. When he was nine years of age he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, his parents having united with the same church several years before. In the year 1849, when he was fourteen years of age, his mother, after living a widow for seven years, married S. B. Stanton, who was a widower with a family of eight chil- dren, the eldest, Thaddeus H., now Colonel Stanton, being the same age as Walter and the youngest but a mere babe. Thus his mother, prompted by her loving Christian heart, undertook the Herculean task of supplying a mother's place to that large family, a task that she so faithfully per- formed with the help of Him who has said, " I will never leave nor forsake thee," that to this day it has been a wonder how she could do it so faithfully and success- fully. On account of this large influx into the family, the home became crowded and Walter and his sister and brother soon left to find homes for themselves. The eldest and second sons of Mr. Stanton, Thaddeus and Albert, with generous impulses, also left the home roof to seek their fortunes elsewhere. In May, 1851, his mother and step-father moved to Iowa. From this time Walter's life was somewhat unevent- ful, as most lives are in a new country. He worked with an ox-team, breaking prairie in the summer and hauling rails in the win- ter until the winter of 1853-'4, when on a trip to mill at what was then known as Will's Mill, fourteen miles east of his home at Cincinnati, he was exposed to a severe storm and almost perished with the cold and did not recover from its effects for more than a year. Thinking that his lungs were permanently diseased, and that he would
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never again be able to perform manual la- bor, yet not wishing to be idle, he bought a small stock of goods, built a storehouse in Cincinnati, lowa, the first house in the vil- lage, and commenced the mercantile busi- ness, being at that time a little past eighteen years of age. He was also appointed post- master and held other offices in the township and church at that time. About this time James X. Gibson moved from near Green- castle, Indiana, to the vicinity of Cincin- nati, Iowa, witlf his family of eight children -Jane, Sarah B., William, George, Ar- melda, Amanda, James M. and John W .; and after his removal to Iowa a sön, Colum- bus, was born. Walter made Mr. Gibson's house his home as long as he continued in the mercantle business, and the acquaint- ance with this family has always been re- garded by him as one of the most fortunate events of his life, next in importance to his having, as he thinks, the best and most devoted Christian mother that ever lived. While living in the family he of course became intimately acquainted with all its members, and gradually his acquaintance with the the second daughter, Sarah B., who was a year younger than himself, ripened into an affection more lasting than friendship, which was also reciprocated, and February 11, 1855, they were married at her father's home, a mile north of Cin- cinnati, the place now owned by John Sayers. Mr. Johnson thinks that whatever of success he has attained in life is at- tributable to the influence and loving help- fulness of his mother and wife. James Gibson and his wife were natives of Ken- tucky, and after their marriage settled at Greencastle, Indiana, where Mrs. Johnson was born in 1836. Nearly thirty-two years have elapsed since their most happy mar- riage and every day of all that time has only more fully demonstrated that the un- ion of these hearts was heaven-born and inseparable. Five children have blessed
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