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of connty judge, which he held until 1859, when he was chosen to the senate, serving through the regular and a portion of the called session of 1861, when he resigned to enter the army as Captain of Co. G, 10th Iowa Volunteer In- fantry; early in 1863 he was pro- moted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and in July of that year to Colonel; his term of service expired, and he was discharged at Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 23, 1864; after his return home he was nominated and elected at the general election of 1865 to the office of county treasurer, which he held until January, 1874, since which time he has been engaged in private business; Col. Henderson has per- formed the duties which pertain to every office in the gift of the people of Warren county, and performed them well; he is a gen- tleman of high order, a kind father, a gentle husband and a close friend; he has seen almost the entire growth of the county, and whether in pioneer or later days has always had the regard of its people; Col. Henderson has been twice married, the first time to Miss Martha Haworth, of this county, Dec. 16, 1847; the issue of that marriage now living are: John H., now one of the leading attorneys of Indianola, and Alfred M., now of Marengo, Iowa; they also lost four infant children; his first wife died May 1, 1866; his second marriage occurred on the 19th of September, 1868, to Mrs. Mary C. Proudfoot, by whom he has one daughter, Mary A., born May 22, 1870.
Herron, W. A., carpenter.
Hewitt, W. G., carpenter. .
Hime, Beneville, carpenter.
Hodgin, John, teamster.
Hohl, Geo. E., blacksmith.
HOWARD, J. W., was born in Preston county, West Virginia, in
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1832, and was raised a farmer un- til sixteen years of age; he then learned the carpenter's trade, and worked for some years as a jour- neyman carpenter; he came to this county in 1854, and worked at his trade as contractor and builder, and has followed, it in all, thirty years; he owns 260 acres of land; he has held offices of assessor, jus- tice of the peace, and is the pres- ent mayor of the city; he married Miss F. E. Fortney in 1855; she was born in West Virginia, and died in 1868; he married for his second wife Mrs. M. E. Lyon in 1870; she was a native of Bloom- ington Indiana; has four children by his first marriage: Ida, Silas E., Ella O. and Minta J .; one son John, by second marriage; Mrs. Howard had two children by a for- mer marriage: Frank H. and Lau- ra E. Lyon.
Hughes, Bros., grocers.
Hughes, G. R., grocer.
Hughes, J. H., grocer.
Hunt, John, farmer.
HURSH, W. H. H .; the subject of this sketch, is a native of Cumber- land county, Pa .; born in 1840, where he was raised and made his home until he enlisted in the war of the rebellion in Co. G, Eighty- fourth Pennsylvania volunteers in September, 1862, and was mus- tered ont in July, 1865; his regi- ment consolidated
with the Fifty-seventh as veterans; he en- listed as a private but was dis- charged with First and Second Lieutenant's commissions; in Au- gust, 1865, he came to Iowa City, this State, and remained for two years; in the fall of 1867 he went south, and the remainder of that year traveled over the Sonthern States, and on the first of January, 1868, located in Alabama, and after six months came to Illinois and located at Altona; after five months he came to Iowa City and
married Miss S. E. Talbot, Octo- ber 27th, 1868, and returned; from there he came to this county in the spring of 1870, where he has resided since; they have a famn- ily of four children, Willie T., Kate L., Ada M., and an in- fant; Mr. Hursh began his trade at about 17 years of age, and has followed milling as an occupation since.
INGALLS, JOHN D., boot and
shoe dealer; son of John and Susan Foster Ingalls of Vermont; was born in that State in 1829; his parents moved to Illinois in 1836, and settled in Tremont, Taz- well county; his father is one of the original abolitionist of the country, and has advocated his principles at the ballot box when there were bnt one or two others who had the courage to follow: lis his example in the country; his honse was a station on the Under Ground Railroad, and it is a pleasant recollection in his declin- ing days, to remember that he has been the instrument in assisting to deliver many a poor human being from bondage to freedom; the subject of this sketch received the advantages afforded by the schools of the locality, and after- ward entered a printing office, and learned the trade of printer; ow- ing to impaired health he was obliged to abandon the business, and engage in other pursuits; he came to Warren county in 1854, and divided his time, the first few years, between mercantile pursuits and the printing office; in 1861 he was elected sheriff of the coun- ty and served one term, and then elected county judge, and served three . terms, until the office of county judge was abolished, and he became auditor, and was re- elected to this office for the years 1870 and 1871; in 1873 he was appointed deputy State Treasurer,
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and removed to Des Moines; he returned to Indianola in the spring of 1879, and engaged in his pres- ent business; his official record is without a stain, having filled his official positions with marked ability, and always with unswerv- ing integrity and unyielding firm- ness; he is modest and unassnm- ing in his habits and manners, and an upright citizen, enjoying the confidence of all who know him, as a straight-forward business man; he married Miss May A. Russell in 1857; she was born in Ohio; their family consists of two children: Clara E. and Foster D .; his father, a hale, hearty old gen- tleman, well on to 80 years of age, with mental faculties unimpaired, lives with him.
Ingalls, O. M., blacksmith.
TACOBY, JOEL, one of the most C enterprising citizens who ever made his home in Indianola, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylva- nia, in 1828; he learned the trade of shoemaker; he left Pennsylva- nia and went to Ohio, and from the latter place to Indiana, and came to this county in 1855, and has made it his home since that time; he organized and drilled the first company enlisted in the coun- ty during the late war; he was one of the most active and influential men in getting the city incorpora- ted, and he is entitled to great credit in regard to building the court-house; as an energetic, in- dustrious man he has few equals; always planning some public or private improvement, and never resting or halting until he sees it completed; he has infused a spirit of laudable enterprise in more than one direction, and his labors and efforts in regard to securing rail- road communication is well known to every resident of the county; he married Miss L. Waddle in
1853; she was born in Indiana; their family consists of three chil- dren, Alcesta M., Lillie, and Charles Lewis.
JONES, J. W., one of the editors of the Indianola Herald, was born in Ohio in 1850, and was raised there until fourteen years of age, and then removed to Iowa and set- tled in Oskaloosa; he learned the printer's trade and became one of the editors of the Perry Chief, published at Perry, Dallas county ; he disposed of his interest in this paper and edited the Greenfield Transcript; he came to Warren county in April, 1877, and was connected with the Republican, and in the snminer of 1879 be- came one of the editors of the In- dianola Herald; he married Miss Anna E. Irwin in 1870; she was born and raised in Oskaloosa; they have two children, Clarence C., and Laura A.
Jeys, Thomas, shoemaker. Johnson, Geo. E., clerk.
Johnson, John H., retired merchant. Johnson, Silas, clergyman.
JUDKINS, M.W ., county recorder; was born in Rush county, Indiana, in 1840, and in 1852 removed with his parents to this county, and en- gaged in farming; lie entered in the late war in 1861, and was in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. and lost his left arm; he was dis- charged August 15, 1862; he was elected county recorder in 1866,and has held the office since that time; he married Miss Fannie Harvey, who was born in Peoria county, Illinois; they have three children : Wm. H., Mary M. and Charles W. Judkins, Geo. W., clerk.
K IMBALL, A. L., attorney.
KEENEY, A. P., proprietor Madi- son House; he was born June 17, 1825, in Pulaski county, Kentucky; moved with parents
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May 18, 1827, to Montgomery, Ohio; here he was raised, and educated in subscription schools; his father died when he was but 11 years old, and he has paddled his own canoe since, as well as to help his widowed mother to raise her family of seven children; lie came to this county May 22, 1862, and bought what was then known as the John Green farm; he then moved to Squaw Orcek, after which he came to Indianola; has been in the hotel business since March 18, 1878; he has the repu- tation of keeping a first-class house, where farmers and other hungry mortals can always get a square meal; he was married June 19, 1851, to Miss Mary Bryant, a native of Indiana; they have nine children: Sylvia A., Clara E., Silas G., Nannie J., Susan A., Iven F., Gracie and Bell, living, and Lanra O. and Iva I., deceased. KIRCHER, J. E. MRS. (whose maiden name was Smith), was born in Danville, New York, and when young removed to Ohio; she mar- ried Wm. L. Kircher in 1864; he was a native of Wurtemberg, Ger- many, and was born in 1838; he was engaged in selling goods, and was one of the proprietors of the Indianola Mills; he owned a val- uable farm of 275 acres; Mr. Kirch- er died in 1876, leaving, beside the subject of this sketch, two chil- dren: Ina C. and Charles H.
KNOX, JAMES H., editor; born in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 11th of Angust, 1821; when fonr years of age his parents removed to Cadiz, Ohio; at the age of fourteen he entered a printing office, and it proved to be his in- tellectual training school; in his nineteenth year he removed to Knox county, and settled near Mount Vernon; and his time was divided between farming and printing for a few years; in No-
vember, 1854, Mr. Knox came to Iowa, and halted for a short time in Jasper county; in January fol- lowing he became a partner of the late Lieutenant Governor Need- ham, in the Oskaloosa Herald; in 1857 he removed to Indianola, and on the 2d of April of that year he published the first number of the Weekly Iowa Visitor, con- ducting it until some time after the civil war had commenced; in 1861 he was appointed postmas- ter, and resigned the office in 1862 to go in the service; he raised a Company and went South as Cap- tain of Company D, 34th Iowa Infantry; and after serving eight months was compelled to resign on account of ill health; during the campaign of 1864 he was a writer on the Burlington Hawk- eye, and the following winter he held a clerkship in the city of Washington; in 1866 he re-pur- chased the Indianola Banner, a new name for the "old Visitor," changed it to the original name, and conducted it until 1868, when he went out of journalism for four or five years; in 1873 he re- purchased the Herald, in com- pany with A. J. Graham, the present owners; on the 27th of April, 1875, he was appointed postmaster once more, and held the office four years; he married Miss Harriet M. Miller, May 17, 1847; she was a native of Miller township, Knox connty, Ohio, a town named for her father, who was a pioneer in that part of the State; their family consists of two children: Ella Angusta, wife of Lorenzo W. Billingsley, and James M .; they have lost two.
ABERTEW, J. W., farmer. L
LACY, J. T., capitalist; was born in Durham, Canada, in 1826, of English ancestry; he was edu- cated at Hanover and Lebanon
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Liberal Institute, in New Hamp- shire; in 1847 he came to Ohio, and was for several years engaged in teaching; he read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851; he came to this county in 1854, and settled in Whitebreast township; he owns over 2,000 acres of land; is one of the largest tax-payers of Warren county; he is a man of cultivation, taking great interest in educational matters, and is one of the leaders in what is calcula- ted to promote the best interests of society; he married Miss Emily McDonald, in 1852; she was born in Champaign county, Ohio; they have two children: Addis F. and Susetta M.
LAIR, DAVID; one of the oldest citizens of Warren county; born in Highland county, Ohio, in 1816, and was raised in Clinton county; he came to this county in 1846; he entered land and made a farm, and for many years has been engaged in buying stock; he has held the office of deputy sheriff; he married Miss Mary Stitt, in 1839; she was born in Clinton county, Ohio; they have three children: Daniel F., Thomas C. and John M.
LAKE, DR. C. B., physician and surgeon; was born in Erie county, New York, in 1826, and lived there until eleven years of age, and then removed to McHenry county, Illinois, and lived there until twenty years of age; he studied medicine, and graduated from the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in class of 1848-9; he settled in Green county, Wis., and engaged in the practice of his profession; in 1854 he went over- land to California, and was six months on the road; he returned in 1856, and settled in Fayette county, Iowa; he served in the late war as Surgeon of the 7th Iowa Infantry; he came to this
county in 1866, and has practiced his profession successfully since that time; he is proprietor and publisher of the Advocate, the organ of the Greenback Party of the county; he married, first, Miss Clarrissa A. Morgan, in 1850; she was born in New York, and died in September, 1853; he mar- ried for his second wife, Mary P. Kennedy, in 1857; she was a native of Portage county, Ohio; they have two children: Harry C. and Otis K.
Law, John H., merchant. Leach, J. A., Jeweler.
LISTON, W. A., dealer in books, stationery and musical instru- ments, etc .; is a son of the late Jesse and Rebecca Liston, who were among the early settlers of Warren county; he was born in Winterset, in 1850, and was raised here, and educated at the Simpson Centenary College; he has been conducting a successful business for several years; his father died in November, 1874.
Little, A. J., druggist. Locker, Geo., laborer. Longacre, Lydia.
LITZENBERG, C. S., boot and shoe dealer; he was born July 29, 1834, in Knox county, Ohio; his father died when lie was bnt one year old; his mother moved with him to Pennsylvania when he was eight years of age; his mother married again, and with her hus- band they again came to Ohio; here he lived till 1853, when he came to Henry county, Iowa; he lived here until the war broke out; he enlisted October 11, 1861, in Company G, 4th Iowa Cavalry, and served till December 11, 1863, when he was discharged for relistment as a veteran; re-enlist- ed December 12, 1863, and served to the close of the war; he was on detached duty nearly all the time; he was in the service in the Quar-
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termaster's Department; he came to this county in November, 1865; has been justice of the peace four years; mayor of Indianola one term; he followed farming till 1869, when he went into the hard- ware trade, which he followed two years; after which time he had no particular business, except that of justice of the peace, until March, 1879, when he went into the boot and shoe trade; he was married March 11, 1868, to Eliza- beth Henry, a native of Crawford county, Pennsylvania; they have a family of four children: Olivia, Herbert H., Charles and Clarence -all living.
M cCARTY, W. P., carpenter.
McCLEARY, DR. J. D., physi- cian and surgeon; was born in Wabash county, Illinois, in 1829, and was raised there on a farm; be came to this county in 1855; he studied medicine at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and for the past eighteen years has been engaged in the practice of his profession; he is a member of the Warren County Medical Society, of the National and State Society, and the North American Medical Association; he served as Assistant Surgeon in both the 34th and 46th regiments of Iowa Infantry; he married Miss Sarah A. Crosth- wait, in 1852; she was born in Fulton county, Ill .; they have four children: Irene, Horace, Les- ter and Josephine.
McClure Bros., grocers.
McClure, H. A., grocer.
McGee, James, farmer and stock- dealer.
McGowan, R. A., furniture dealer. McJudkins, W., plasterer.
McCLURE, F. A., grocer, firm of McClure Bros .; was born in Clin- ton county, Indiana, in the year 1839; where he was raised till about twelve years of age, when
his parents came to this county; he was raised on a farm; and fol- lowed farming as an occupation till abont five years ago, when he- engaged in his present business. MCKAY, CHARLES, merchant; was born in Taylorville, Ken- tucky, in 1827; he came to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1849, and settled in Hartford, Richland, township, in 1853, and was en- gaged in selling goods; in 1859 he was elected county clerk, and held the office twelve years; he married Miss Hannah Noble in 1854; she was born in Indiana; has six children, Walter N., J. O'Niel, Martha C., William F., Charles A., Frank P.
McKEE, EDD. R., capitalist; was born in Indiana in 1842, and is the son of Tabor W. and Sarah McKee; he came with his parents to this county in 1853, and were among the early settlers of the county; his father was the first to engage in the nursery business in this vicinity, and the grounds and orchards of the subject of this sketch are evidence of the success that attended his efforts in this direction; he was a man closely identified with the interest of the connty, and was honored by its citizens with the office of sheriff and county treasurer; in the lat- ter office his son acted as deputy; Mr. McKee has a banking expe- rience of eleven years, and was one of the organizers of the First National Bank, and its cashier until 1874; he married Miss Em- ma Bundy, December 24, 1863; she was born in Iowa; they have two children: W. O. and Pearl K; and have lost two: Vane V. and . an infant; Mr. McKee's father was born on the land where Cin- cinnati is situated, then known as Fort Washington; and his grand- father was in the Revolutionary War, and fought under General
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Wayne, in the war of 1812, and was shot by Indians.
McNEIL, H., attorney; was born in Ohio, and when young his par- ents removed to Indiana, where he was raised; he was educated at the University of Indiana, and graduated from that institution in 1860, taking the honors of his class; he read law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1862, and the same year came to Warren county, without funds or favor with which to pave his path way to success, but by devoting himself assiduonsly to liis profession has built up a large practice, and has faithfully studied his clients' interests; he married Miss Imogene G. Hallam, September 20, 1870; she was born in Olio, and came to this State at an early date, and was educated at Simpson Centenary College, and graduated in the class of 1870; they have three children: Carl, Ina and Harry H .; lost one son : Panl.
McNabb, J. A., laborer. Matthews, Marshal, laborer.
MAXFIELD, J. J., dentist; was born in Columbus, Franklin coun- ty, Ohio, in February, 1835, and was raised there until nineteen years of age; he came to this State in 1857, and to this county in 1867; he married Miss Mary S. Noble, in 1870; she was born in Indiana; they have two children; Harry and Katie.
Mayers, Jno., painter.
MEEK, J. T .; was born in Deca- tur county, Indiana, in 1833, and was raised there on a farm; he came to Iowa in 1851, and to this county in 1853; he enlisted as a private in Company C, 34th Iowa Infantry, and served two years, and mustered out as 2d Lieuten- ant; he has held varions township offices, and in 1873 was elected sheriff of Warren county; which office he held four years; he
married Miss L. J. Pressley, in 1857; she was born in Indianapo- lis, Indiana; they have five chil- dren: Eva, Wm. L., Clara, Charles and Louisa; lost two: Joseph, and an infant.
METCALF, H. T., grocer; was born in Ohio in the year 1842; when about two years old his par- ents emigrated to the State of Illinois, where he remained till he came to this county in the fall of 1858; he was married April 16, 1868, to Miss Mabel Woodruff, a native of Tennessee; his occu- pation during life has been in the mercantile line.
Miller, Thomas, carpenter.
Miller, R. J., plasterer.
Milligan, F. M., physician.
Mitchell, T. J., hotel keeper.
Moore, H. P., musician.
Morris, O. R., laborer.
Munger, O., painter.
TTOBLE, W. A., lumber deal- er; was born in Johnson county, Indiana, in 1836, and re- moved to this county with his parents in 1853; he was raised a farmer, and owns 310 acres of land; he served during the war in the commissary department as A. C. S., with the rank of Captain; on his return from the war he en- gaged in merchandizing; he mar- ried Miss Eliza C. Spry, in 1856; she was born in Champaign coun- ty, Ohio; they have three chil- dren: Homer L., Lenora A., and Bennie L .; lost one daughter: Lizzie G.
NOBLE, T. D., postmaster; was born in Johnson county, Indiana, in 1843, and came to this county with his parents in 1853 (his fa- ther, Dr. Noble, was one of In- dianola's most prominent and hon- ored citizens); the subject of this sketch was raised here, and enlist- ed in the 10th Iowa Infantry, du- ring the late war; he has served as deputy sheriff, and afterward
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engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he followed until his ap- pointed as postmaster; he mar- ried Miss Anna Taylor in 1868; she was born in South Bend, In- diana, and died in 1873; he after- ward married Miss Fannie An- drew, a native of Indiana; their family consists of one danghter, Mamie M., by first marriage, and a son, John A., by second marriage. NOBLE, CHAS., merchant; was born in Warren county in 1855, and was raised in Indianola, and is engaged in the grocery and pro- vision business; he married Miss Emma Patton in 1878; she was born in Iowa.
LIVE, FRED., wagon-maker. O
OLIVE, JOHN A., machinist and blacksmith; was born in England in 1823, and learned the trade of blacksmith; he emigrated to America in 1852, and settled in Iowa City, and came to this coun- ty in 1857; he has served as a member of the city council; he married Miss Mary A. Hall in 1857; she was born in Ireland; they have five children: Edward R., Oliver H., Fred. W., Walter A. and Mary B .; they have lost four: Elizabeth, John, Elmer and Caddie.
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AISLEY, W. A., thresher.
PARK, MEL. W., dealer in agri- cultural implements, wagons etc .; was born in Howard county, In- diana in 1844, and came with his parents to this county in 1852; he was raised a farmer, and fol- lowed it as an occupation for sev- eral years; he married Miss. M. A. Hewitt August 20, 1865; she was born in Indiana; they have one child: Clement L.
Park, Andrew, farmer.
PARK, DR. W. M., physician and surgeon; was born in Warren
county in September, 1852; his youth was spent in attending school, and assisting his father on the farm; having a natural taste for the practice of medicine, he made choice of it for a profession, and entered the office of Dr. Davis as a student, and after a prepara- tory course of five years gradua- ted at the Keokuk Medical College in 1876; he then entered into part- nership with his preceptor, and has been practicing his profession successfully since that time; he married Miss M. Posegate in 1878; she was born in Warren county, Iowa.
Parr, T. S., physician.
Parker, D. H., drayman.
Parrott, R. B., attorney.
Parkhurst, John S., telegraph opera- tor.
Payne, Samuel B., laborer. Peck, Wm., fariner.
PERRY, E. W., merchant; was born in Frederick county, Virgin- ia in 1833, and was raised there, receiving an academical education at Morgantown; he came to this county October 1, 1855, and en- gaged in mercantile pursuits; he enlisted in the 34th Iowa Infantry during the late war, and was com- missioned 1st lientenant of Com- pany D; after serving some time he was discharged on account of disability; after his return he en- gaged in mercantile pursuits, and has proved himself a careful and methodical business man, close in his calculations, untiring in his ap- plication and suffering no ends to get loose; with great prudence and industry he has combined un- swerving honesty, and has always claimed the highest respect of his fellow citizens; he is public spir- ited as a citizen, and ever identi- fied with the best interest and sub- stantial progress of the city; in educational matters he has taken
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great interest, and is prominent in his connection with the public schools and Simpson Centenary College; he married Miss Harriet Russell in 1857; she was born in Ohio; their family consists of four children: Frank (who is a partner with his father), Ned, Willie and Herbert; lost one daughter, Vir- ginia, and one son, Ray. Posegate, Eli, broker.
POWELL, W. F., attorney; was born in Kent county, Dele- ware, in . 1849, and was ed- ucated at Wyoming College and Simpson Centenary College, where he graduated in 1873; he taught one year in the High School; he read law, and was ad- mitted to the bar before Judge Leonard in 1875; he engaged in the abstract business, and sold out to Hall & Carruthers in 1876; he was elected mayor of the city in 1876-1877, and at present is asso- ciated with A. C. Bishop, in the practice of his profession.
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