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LEXANDER M. ELGIN, one of the early settlers of Walnut Township, located where he now lives, on sec- tion 9, in the autumn of 1853. He bought 360 acres of land which he improved, but his homestead now contains only 160 acres, hav- ing given the rest to his children. Mr. Elgin was born in South Carolina, October 5, 1811, the third of nine children of James and Ellen (Masters) Elgin, who were pio- neers of Indiana, moving to that State in 1819, and there our subject was reared and was early inured to the hardships of a pio- neer farmer. The father died on the old homestead and the mother afterward went to Morgan County, Indiana, where she passed the rest of her life. Alexander Elgin was married March 10,1839, to Eliza- beth Elliot, a native of Kentucky. They lived in Morgan County, Indiana, until 1853, and improved a farm, when they came to Iowa. The wife died in 1862. They had a family of ten children born to them, six of whom are living-John, of , Walnut Township; Mrs. Martha Thomp- son, of Missouri; James, of Walnut Town- ship; Mrs. Emeline Starks, of Kansas; Clark and George, of Walnut Township. Sarah, Jane, Cora and Laura are deceased. For his second wife Mr. Elgin married
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Miss Lovina Chantler, a native of Penn- sylvania, who lived only eighteen months after her marriage. He subsequently married Mrs. Caroline (Stafford) Mur- ray, of Morgan County, Indiana. To them were born three children. The eldest two, Perry and Sarah, are with their father, and the youngest died in infancy. Mrs. Elgin died August 16, 1884, aged fifty-four years. She left one daughter by her first marriage-Mrs. Harriet Clark, of Union- ville. She was an estimable woman, an affectionate wife and mother and a kind neighbor. She, with her husband, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In early life Mr. Elgin was a Whig, but now affiliates with the Republican party. His paternal grandfather, Robert Elgin, was a native of England, and one of the early settlers of Virginia, later moving to South Carolina. His maternal grandfather, John Masters, was one of the patriots who served with General Francis Marion in the war of the Revolution.
AMES WILSON, proprietor of the Wilson coal shaft at Centerville, is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born September 22, 1834, a son of James and Janet (Young) Wilson. He was reared a miner, having worked in the mines of the Marquis of Midlothian, from childhood until he reached the age of nine- teen years. He immigrated to America in the spring of 1854. locating first at Frost- burg, Maryland, where he worked in the coal mines till the following fall. He then went to Missouri and worked in the Gra- voys coal mines until 1861, when he went to Monmouth, Illinois, and engaged in coal mining at that place as an operator, until 1881. In 1881 he came to Center- ville, Appanoose County, Iowa, where he invested in coal lands and began operating
in coal, in which he is meeting with good success. He was married at Monmouth, Illinois, in January, 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Welsh, daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Young) Welsh, both being of Scotch an- cestry. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have three children-James M., attending the Mon- mouth College, at Monmouth, Illinois ; Janet Isabelle and Libbie attending the Centerville High School. Politically Mr. Wilson is a Republican. He has served as trustee of Center Township for three years, and in 1885 was elected street commissioner of Centerville. While a resident of Illinois he served twelve years as school director. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belong- ing to the lodge, chapter and commandery at Centerville, and to the consistory at Chicago.
EVI McDONALD HENRY, mer- chant tailor, Centerville, Iowa, is a native of Ohio, born in Martinsburg, Knox County, September 11, 1832. His mother died when he was eleven years of age, and the home being broken up he was thus early thrown on his own resources, and began to learn the tailor's trade. He went to Mt. Vernon when he was thirteen years old, and there worked at his trade until he was seventeen, when he went to Columbus and worked a year. In 1851 he came West and worked at his trade in Washington, Missouri; Springfield, Bloom- ington and Clinton, Illinois; St. Paul, Min- nesota, and Platte City, Missouri, coming from the latter place to Iowa in Septem- ber, 1863. He opened a store in Center- ville, dealing in both custom and ready made clothing, and in 1867 opened a branch store in Memphis, Missouri. March 1, 1864, he enlisted in the Union army, as a private, in Company F, Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry, to serve three years or dur-
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ing the war. Four days after his enlistment he was captured at Mark's Mills, and was a prisoner at Camp Ford, Texas, ten months. He at one time, with three others, made his escape, and after hiding in the swamps seventeen days and subsisting prin- cipally on parched corn, they were recapt- ured at Grand de Coxe, Louisiana. He was discharged in 1865 and returned to Centerville, and resumed his business he had left to enter the service, and is now having a good trade. He was married October 27, 1853, to Miss Ellen Boyd. To them were born two children-John W. and George Alexander. The former died August 27, 1883, aged twenty-eight years. Mr. Henry is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery, at Centerville. He is a comrade of John L. Bashore Post, No. 122, G. A. R. He is a member of the Presbyterian and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
AMES CAIN BEVINGTON, cashier, Centerville National Bank, and city treasurer of Centerville, was born near Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 1, 1851. He came to Iowa with his parents, Matthew and Lucinda (Cain) Bev- ington, in the fall of 1864, they locating at Mount Ayr, and in 1866 he came with them to Centerville, where he was employed as a clerk in the store of J. A. Breazeale for five years. In 1873 he took a course at the Commercial College, at Keokuk, after which he was employed as bookkeeper in the store of C. R. Stanton, of this place, until 1885, and during this time he became associated with Mr. Stanton and S. W. Lane, they carrying on the mercantile business under the firm name of Stanton, Lane & Co. In May, 1885, he accepted his present position as cashier in the Center- ville National Bank. He was elected to 65
the office of treasurer in March, 1884, and re-elected in 1885 and 1886. Mr. Beving- ton was married March 12, 1874, at Center- ville, to Miss Margaret E. Evans, a daugh- ter of William and Margaret (Vestle) Evans. Mrs. Bevington died at Center- ville, May 6, 1883, leaving two children- William W. and Lois J. Mr. Bevington is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and is past grand of Centerville Lodge, No. 79.
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AMES J. MANN, a prominent farmer and early settler of Johns Township, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, June 25, 1823, a son of J. R. and Huldah (Elston) Mann, his father a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and his mother of New Jersey. His grandfather, John Mann, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers of Ohio, locat- ing in Hamilton County when it was the habitation of Indians and wild animals. When James J. was but eighteen months old his parents moved to Indiana, and set- tled in Franklin County, where his father died in 1840, and his mother in 1842. His youth was passed in assisting his father clear and improve a heavily timbered farm, and when he was eighteen years old his entire attendance at school had been seven weeks. After the death of his parents he worked by the month for neigh- boring farmers until his marriage and then rented a small farm on which he lived until 1854, when he removed to Appanoose County, Iowa, and settled in Johns Town- ship, on section 35, near the present site of Plano, entering a tract of 160 acres from the Government, which he still owns. Im- proving this farm he lived on it until 1880, when he moved to his present residence, on section 28, where he owns 171 acres. When twenty-one years of age he received $100 from his father's estate, and this was
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his only assistance, his property being the result of many years' hard work and close attention to his pursuits. Mr. Mann was married in 1846 to Susan Codrick, of Madi- son County, Indiana. She shared his trials and assisted him to make a home on the prairie, remaining his companion and help- meet until 1879, when she died, leaving one son-Peter C. In 1881 Mr. Mann married Mrs. Rachel Glasgow, of Wayne County, Iowa, a widow with five children. He has been a member of the Baptist church thirty-one years, of which he has been an active member, and for fifteen years has been deacon.
COLONEL EUGENE C. HAYNES was born near Abington, Illinois, May 11, 1844, the only son of Rev. Cyrus and Mahala (Smith) Haynes, the father a native of Tennessee and the mother of Kentucky, both of Scotch descent. His mother died when he was very young and in 1850 his father brought him to Van Bu- ren County, Iowa, leaving him with his uncle, James Kennedy, with whom he lived until 1852, when, his father having married again and settled at Centerville, he returned to his father's home. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Sixth Iowa Infantry. He was mustered in as a private and after va- rious promotions he was commissioned First Lieutenant, in August, 1864. He par- ticipated in a number of engagements, among the most important being at Athens, Missouri, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Jackson, Chat- tanooga, and in the Atlanta campaign. August 22, 1864, he was wounded by a rifle ball which necessitated three amputations of his right arm. After being in the hos- pital at Marietta, Georgia, he returned home on a sixty days' furlough when he was ordered to join his regiment, which at that time was stationed in the Carolinas. He left New York City for Hilton Heath,
South Carolina, on the steamer Fulton, and while on board acted as Adjutant. From Hilton Heath he went to Wilmington, North Carolina, where several thousand soldiers absent from the regiments, were organized into companies and regiments and started on the march to join the regu- lar army at Raleigh, Mr. Haynes again act- ing as Adjutant. At Raleigh he was de- tailed commanding officer of the Provost Guard of the Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, holding this position till after the grand review at Washington, in May, 1865. He then rejoined his regiment at Louisville, Kentucky, and was there de- tailed to take the muster roll and regiment- al property to Davenport, Iowa, where he was mustered out in August, 1865. Shortly after his discharge from the service he at- tended a private school at Birmingham, Iowa, for two terms, when he entered the lowa State University, at Iowa City, where he studied for two years. He then, in the fall of 1868, returned to Centerville, and in the following October was elected recorder of Appanoose County, holding that office by re-election for four years, and during this time he studied law under the precep- torship of Honorable H. Tannehill and was admitted to the bar about 1870. After the expiration of his term of office as recorder he formed a partnership with W. F. Ver- million, practicing law under the firm name of Vermillion & Haynes until ISSO. He then retired from the firm and became as- sociated with Hon. A. J. Baker, the present attorney general of Iowa, and ex-attor. ney general of the State of Missouri, when the law firm of Baker & Haynes, of Center- ville, was formed. In February, 1884, Mr. Haynes was appointed postmaster of Cen- terville when he dissolved his partnership with Mr. Baker, and is now the present in- cumbent. Mr. Haynes has served three terms as mayor of Centerville. In 1882 he was chosen chief clerk of the House of Rep-
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resentatives of Iowa. He was married in 1871 to Miss Elma M. Felkner, daughter of Hon. Henry Felkner, one of the first set- tlers of Iowa City, a representative of the Territorial Legislature, and a member of the first Iowa State Legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes have six children-Henry C., Bessie L., Glenn C., Lee R., Olive and Eu- gene C., all but Eugene attending the schools of Centerville. Mr. Haynes is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belong- ing to the lodge and encampment, Patri- arch Militant Temple at Centerville. He is also a member of Centerville Lodge, No. 64, K. of P., of which he is chancellor com- man ler, and is a comrade of John L. Ba- shore Post, No. 122, G. A. R., of which he is commander.
ENRY AUSTIN RUSSELL, agent of the United States and Pacific ex- press companies, at Centerville, lowa, was born near Jefferson, Pennsyl- vania, April 23, 1851, the youngest of seven sons of James and Sarah Russell, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry. In 1861 his parents came to Iowa and settled on a farm near Bloomfield, Davis County, where the mother died in October, 1875, aged seventy years, and the father December 27, 1883, aged eighty-five years. When nine- teen years of age our subject went to Lit- tle Rock, Arkansas, and taught school in that city about two years, and in 1872 be- came associated with his brother and others in the mercantile business at Lewisburg, Arkansas, under the firm name, Russell, Mason & Co. In 1875 he retired from the firm, and was employed as bookkeeper by the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Little Rock a year. In 1876 he located in Centerville, where, until 1884, he was in the drug business, and in the meantime he erected the Russell Opera Block, at a cost
of $12,000. In politics he is a Republican. He was reared in the faith of the Presby- terian church and is now a member of that denomination. January 16, 1884, he mar- ried Ella Rogers, of Jefferson, Pennsylva- nia, a daughter of Dr. W. D. Rogers. They have one child-Miles Winston, born Au- gust 15, 1885. Mr. Russell is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders.
- AMUEL BROWN, proprietor of the City Flouring Mill. Centerville, Iowa, was born in New Comers- town, Ohio, January 15, 1818, a son of William and Sarah (Swearengen) Brown, natives of Ohio, of Scotch and English an- cestry. In 1839 he began farming in Jack- son County, Ohio, and in April, 1853, came to Iowa and settled on a farm in what is now Sharon Township, Appanoose County, where he lived until 1883, when he ex- changed his farm for the mill he now owns and conducts. He was married in 1839 to Charlotte Smith. They have six children -Allen Luther, John A., Lafayette, Sam- uel Preston, Alfred M., and Alvina, wife of John A. Rands. Mr. Brown has been jus- tice of the peace of Sharon Township six years, trustee twelve years, road supervisor several years, and township supervisor one year. In politics he is a Democrat.
ENRY WESTON BLACHLEY, den- tist, Centerville, Iowa, was born at Independence, Washington County, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1849, a son of Oliver B. and Ellen Jane (Creacroft) Blach- ley, of English ancestry. In 1864 he ac- companied his parents to Fredericktown, Ohio, and there, in 1867, began the study of dentistry. In the fall of 1867 he located in Centerville, where he has built up a good
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practice. May 27, 1875, he was admitted as an active member of the Iowa State Den- tal Society, receiving the honors in a com- petitive examination of a class of seventeen. He was married March 5, 1873, to Lil- lian, daughter of Caleb and Eliza (Bald- ridge) Wentworth. They have three chil- dren-Olive Beryl, Carl and Tracy. In politics Dr. Blachley is a Democrat. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, lodge, encampment and temple.
ARVEY COCHRAN, Assessor of Caldwell Township, was born near Mount Sterling, Van Buren County, Iowa, November 4, 1843. When he was eighteen monthsold his parents, John Wes- ley and Elizabeth (Richard) Cochran, set- tled in Appanoose County, locating in what is now Odell Township, where the father followed farming. The father subsequent- ly removed his family to a farm in Sharon Township, where he died in 1855. He was a native of Kentucky, and of Scotch and Irish ancestry. The mother is now the wife of John C. Wright, of Sharon Town- ship. She was born in the State of Ohio, and is of German descent. Harvey Coch- ran began to maintain himself at the age of twelve years, being employed on a farm as chore boy, receiving his education by at- tending the district schools during the winter terms. In March, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, and while in the service was promoted to Corporal. He participated in the siege of Corinth, battles of Iuka, Jack- son, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, Chattanooga, and Tilton, Georgia. In March, 1864, he, with his regiment, veteranized by re-enlisting at Huntsville, Alabama, and was on the vet- eran corps when, October 13, 1864, his regi- ment was captured by the Confederate forces. He was first imprisoned at Cahaba,
Alabama, for a short time, when he was sent to Camp Lawton, at Milan, Georgia. Three weeks later he was sent to Blackshire, Florida, and from there to Thomasville, Georgia, thence to Andersonville, where he was imprisoned till paroled April 18, 1865. He was discharged at Davenport, Iowa, May 25. 1865, when he returned to Appanoose County, and engaged in farm- ing in Sharon Township till 1879, since which he has resided on his farm in Cald- well Township. January 28, 1868, he was married to Miss Rebecca McCoy, daughter of Gilbert and Sarah (Melott) McCoy, pio- neers of Appanoose County. Of the eleven children born to this union, two died in in- fancy. The living are-Ella, Anna and Houston (twins), Belle, George, Lillia, Wil- lie, Isa and one unnamed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cochran are members of the Method- ist Episcopal church. Mr. Cochran takes an active interest in temperance work, and is a member of Exline Lodge, No. 61, I. O. G. T., of which he is the present treasurer. In politics he votes the Democratic ticket. Mr. Cochran has held various township offices, and has served in his present po- sition as assessor since November, 1884. In 1879 he was nominated by the Repub- lican party for the election of sheriff of Appanoose County, but was defeated by a small majority.
HOMAS J. TURNER, the eldest son of William D. and Jemima Tur- ner, was born in Davis County, lowa, December 1, 1855. He was reared on a farm in Appanoose County, where his parents had moved when he was about six months old. He remained with his parents until his marriage, and then settled on a rented farm, where he lived about two years. In 1879 he bought eighty acres on the north half of the southwest quarter of section 9, Taylor . Township, which has
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since been his home. He has increased his possessions until he now owns 192 acres of choice and valuable land, all well im- proved and stocked with a fine grade of both cattle and hogs. He is one of the prosperous and enterprising young men of Taylor Township, and is laying the foun- dation for a future of wealth and influence. He was married in 1877 to Miss Mary Luse, youngest daughter of Aaron and Martha Luse, early settlers of Appanoose County. They have a family of four children- Charles A., Eunice, Eurissa and Mary.
ON. SAMUEL MILTON MOORE was born near Troy, Ohio, January 15, 1830. In 1844 his parents moved to the western part of Van Buren County, Iowa, and thence in 1847 to Lee County. From fourteen till twenty years of age he worked on his father's farm, not attending school a week in the entire time. In his twenty-first year he entered the prepara- tory department of Farmers' College, near Cincinnati, attending one year. He was then variously employed for another year, when in 1852 he entered the Des Moines College, which he attended a school year. In 1853 he began teaching, an occupation he followed almost continuously in Lee and Appanoose counties eight years, and in the meantime read law under the preceptor- ship of Miller & Fee, of Centerville. He was admitted to the bar at Centerville in 1862, and at once began the practice of his profession. In 1861 and 1862 he was coun- ty superintendent of schools. In 1863 he was elected judge of Appanoose County,and held the office by re-election seven years; at the same time for four years he was re- corder of the county. In 1870 the Legis- lature abolished the office of county judge, and he then became ex-officio county audi- tor. December 25, 1852, Judge Moore
married Miss Mary J. Pendergast, of Lee County, Iowa. They have five children- Alice E., wife of S. W. Lane; James A., William G., Irvin and Charles M. Judge Moore is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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LAYBURN C. TEATOR, one of the pioneers of Independence Township, dates his settlement at his present residence in 1853. Mr. Teator is a native of Kentucky, born in Girard County, June 7, 1804. His father, Paris Teator, was the thirteenth white child born in the State of Kentucky, and first saw the light of day March 26, 1780, in the fort which stood on the present site of Danville, Boyle County. He was a son of George Teator, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, who was a native of Maryland, his father, Paul Teator, a native of Germany, locating in Bladens- burg in the colonial days. It is supposed that all of the name Teator, now living in America, are descendents of Paul. The mother of our subject was Rebecca Totten, a native of Long Island, New York. Her father was murdered near Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, when she was a child. Of eleven children born to the parents of our subject, he is the eldest. Three of the brothers, Nelson H., Russell H., Absalom D. and a sister, Mrs. Minerva Davis, live in Ken- tucky ; one sister, Mrs. Thurza Saddler, lives in Kansas, and the others are deceased. The parents both died March 16, 1865, aged respectively eighty-four and eighty- two years. The father had been ill and the mother waited upon him until an hour before his death. Clayburn C. Teator was reared to a farm life, but in his early man- hood learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed at intervals as long as he engaged in active business. His educational ad-
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vantages in his youth were very limited, sixteen days being the extent of his attend- ance at school. His lessons have been those of experience, well learned and well remem- bered, and have fitted him for contact with and success in the duties of life. Mr. Tea- tor was married November 27, 1823, to Miss Elenor Davis, a native of Girard County, Kentucky, born September 24, 1807, a daughter of John and Rachel Davis. In 1845, with a wife and eleven children, Mr. Teator came to Iowa, and was one of the pioneers of Jefferson County. He bought an improved farm near Fairfield,. for $2,000, paying $305 in cash. With characteristic energy and good manage- ment he soon cleared his indebtedness, and in 1853 sold his farm for $4,800, and moved to Appanoose County, where he bought 640 acres of land. Mr. Teator has been a good financier and in his native State be- came quite well-to-do, but being always ready to lend a helping hand to his friends he became involved and came to Iowa a poor man. Of his 640 acres he has given 400 to his children, and now has a fine farm of 160 acres and eighty acres of tim- ber land. His wife, who was his compan- ion and helpmeet for fifty-seven years, was taken from him September 8, 1880. Their children were fifteen in number. The eld- est died in infancy, Christmas week, 1824. Cyrus N. is a prosperous farmer of Inde- pendence Township; James N. died in Ken- tucky in his seventeenth year ; George C. is a resident of Independence Township ; Rebecca is the wife of Moses Reynolds ; John R. lives in Wayne County ; William died in Lucas County, leaving a widow and four children ; Mary E. is the wife of Josephus Haines, of Kansas ; Paris R. en- listed in the war of the Rebellion, in the Sixth Kansas Infantry, and died while serving his country; Robert died in his twenty-ninth year; Rachel, deceased, was the wife of Morrison McCormick; Lysan-
der M. lives in Lucas County ; Sophrina died in Jefferson County, aged eighteen months, and an infant died in the same county ; Nancy E. is the wife of Alexander Empey, of Corydon Three sons, Cyrus N., John and Paris, served as gallant sol- diers in the war of the Rebellion. In 1832 Mr. and Mrs. Teator united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and for nearly half a century they lived together a prac- tical Christian life. Mr. Teator has eighty- six grandchildren, and eighty-three great- grandchildren. November 25, 1880, he mar- ried Mrs. Emorine VanKirk, a most estima- ble and worthy lady. Mr Teator can look back with pleasure upon a well-ordered, use- ful life, and now in his old age is blessed with many friends who honor him for the part he has taken in furthering the material and social interests of his neighborhood. He was a neighbor and friend of Henry Clay, by whom his political opinions were in- fluenced. He has always been a strong anti-slavery man, and since its organization has affiliated with the Republican party. At his father's death he inherited eight slaves, but immediately gave them their freedom. Seventeen grandsons of his father served their country in the war of the Rebellion. His grandfather accom- panied Daniel Boone on his first visit to Kentucky, and was therefore one of its . early settlers.
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