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GENEALOGY 977.2 B525 v.1
M. L.
GENEALOGY COLLECTION
1
GEN
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00827 1915
GENEALOGY 977.2 B525 v.1
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF
Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski
Counties, Indiana.
ILLUSTRATED.
Gc 977.2 B525 V.1
VOLUME I.
CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1899.
INDEX.
1362802
A.
Adams, Henry I., 952. Adams, John H., 492. Ade, George, 613. Ade, John, 612. Albangh, Jacob S., 198. Alkire, Samuel, 372. Alter, Moses B., 813. Anderson, James, 278. Anderson, Perry B., 556. Anderson, William S., 278. Archer, David, 1042. Archer, Samuel, 1036. Ashby, John, 259. Austin, William B., 405.
B.
Babcock, William C., 43. Badger, Lewis B., 915. Bailey, Eben E., 878. Barcus, Samuel D., 443. Barger, Joseph, 566. Barnard, Obed, 26. Barnes, John F., 39. Barnes. Thomas J., 948. Barr, Eliza J., 388. Barr, James R., 368. Bartlett, Jefferson, 399. Bates, Valentine, 608. Baugh, Samuel L., 160. Baugh, William S., 293. Baxter, Frank R., 565. Beck, Charles H., 207. Beckett, George A., 231. Bedford, Fitz William, 840. Benjamin, Jared, 746. Berkley, Auburt L., 136. Best, Samuel, 991. Bevis, Philemon, 858. Bishop, Edgar C., 378. Blake, James, 685. Blind, Charles O., 108. Blind, Michael, 144. Boldman, William, 369. Borders, Burlingame, 859. Borders, John F., 804. Borders, Warren W., 853. Borders, Wesley, 860. Bostick, Thomas S., 341. Bork, Louis, 558. Born, Samuel, 472.
Bott, William L., 627. Bowers, George J., 695. Boyer, John, 441. Boyles, George W., 250. Brackney, Arthur J .. 401.
Brand, Eli, 974. Brand, John, 57.
Brand, Samuel, 67. Brant, David, 464.
Bridge, George M., 941.
Bringham, George. W., 966. Brewer, John C., 1069. Brockway, Charles T., 344. Brown, Charles E., 327.
Brown, Elizabeth, 107. Brown, George H., 107. Brown, George S., 722.
Brown, John C., 329.
Brown, John W., 85.
Brown, Louis, 856. Bryan, David, 1043.
Bryant, W. S., 869.
Buck, James, 295. Bull, Andrew J., 939. Bunnell, Abraham R., 354.
Burk, George W., 736. Burkhalter, William H., 403. Burnham, James A., 109.
Burns, George W., 890. Burns, William, 444. Burson, George, 824. Burt, Thomas W., 400.
Byers, Samuel B., 843.
C.
Caldwell, Harry J., 381. Carmichael, William P., 1030. Carper, Marshal, 660. Cassell, Job X., 456. Cheesman, John, 238.
Chilcote, Mordecai F., 137. Childress, Johnson E., 1045. Chilton, James S., 420. Circle, Emanuel, 1007. Clark, James H., 1034. Clark, John D., 908. Clark, Robert J., 610. Clary, John C., 206. Claypool, Richard W., 178. Cleveland, Albert W., 791. Clouse, Jacob, 773. Cloyd, John, 64.
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INDEX.
Coen, John, 598. Coffelt, Jonathan A., 783. Coffroth, William R., 557. Colborn, Amos S., 196. Compton, William C., 94. Cook, Clark, 228. Cooper, Richard, 578. Cottingham, Melvin, 429. Cox, William L., 124.
Crabb, Vincent R., 713.
Crane, Oliver P., 172.
Crane, Robert F., 380.
Crane, William M., 3.5.
Crawford, George W., 334.
Crawford, Lutetia, 885.
Crockett, Thomas A., 710.
Cronkhite, Hosea, 298.
Crosson, John M., 412.
Crouch, Jeptha, 950. Crouse, Alexander H., 96.
Crouse, Jerome H., 22.
Crow, Benjamin F., 77.
Crow, Walter H., 73. Crow, William, 80.
Cunningham, Cyrus, 949.
D.
Dague, William H., 222.
Daseke, Gustav, 1027.
Davis, John G., 613.
Davis, Samuel, 132.
Day, George W., 748.
Decker, James K. P., 184.
Decker, Samuel, 185.
Dellinger, Philip, 792.
De Poy, William S., 1022.
Dibell, E. Burritt, 820. Dinwiddie, Lee, 529.
Dilts, Charles W., 811.
Dilts, Moses A., 664.
Dobbins, Moses G., 491.
Dobbins, Simon U., 126.
Dobbins, William T., 505.
Dorner, Frederick, 885. Douthit, James W., 702. Dowell, Simeon A., 727.
Drake, Robert S., 712.
Driscol, Charles C., 958.
Dukes, James R., 834.
Dunn, George N., 245.
Dunn, James, 504. Dunn, John, 980.
Dunn, Matthew H., 650.
Du Teil, Frank, 532. Duvall, Cyrus W., 604.
Dwiggins, Robert S., 360.
Dyer, George W., 395.
E.
Eacock, George J., 488. Eaton, Amos V., 52. Engle, Daniel, 1054. Engle, John C., 1052. Engle, Joseph A., 1062.
Evans, Henry H., 956. Evans, William F., 166. Ewalt, John F., 979.
F.
Fahnestock, Jacob W., 524.
Farden, Joseph D., 280.
Fenton, Samuel C., 303.
Ferguson, Brazillia F., 728.
Ferguson, George H., 965.
Fewell, Benjamin, 425.
Fidler, Orlando, 29. Fisher, David L., 848.
Fleming, Winfield S., 525.
Flesher, Henry B., 961.
Fletcher, Robinson, 935.
Flinn, John, 846.
Flynn, David H., 428.
Foudray, Samuel T., 600.
Fox, William E., 809.
Frain, Edwin, 1011.
Frain, Felix B. T., 689.
Frain, John, 579.
Frankenfield, Ezra, 135.
Franklin, Benjamin B., 410.
Fraser, Daniel, 968.
Fraser, James, 968.
Frederick, Joseph J., 1065.
Freeman, Abram J., 500.
Freeman, Daniel R., 797.
French, Chester C., 348.
Frey, John C., 930.
Fryback, Edmund, 932.
Funk, Samuel K., 1048.
G.
Galbreath, Jacob, 677.
Garling, Frederick, 1018. Garner, Charles A., 919.
Gaunt, Joseph R., 964.
Gay, William H., 392. Gehris, Nathaniel M., 709.
Gemmer, Philip, 314. Gemmer, Wilmer H., 230. Gibson, Nathan C., 602. Gillett, Daniel F., 551.
Gilman, William W., 690.
Gladden, John, 147. Gladden, Richard, 384. Glasgow, Samuel, 788.
Gochenour, Jeremiah, 352.
Goldsberry, Peter, 326. Goodspeed, Francis E., 517. Goodwine, Abner, 308. Goodwine, Arthur C., 929. Goodwine, Fremont, 990. Goodwine, Harrison, 549. Goodwine, Horace G., 547. Goodwine, James, 567. Goodwine, William H., 322, Gorrell, Joseph J., 892. Graft, Moses C., 145. Green, Nellie E., 272. Greenfield, Benjamin, 363.
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INDEX.
Gregory, Benjamin F., 46. Gregory, John, 46. Gridley, William J., 353. Griffin, George J., 1074. Griffin, William J., 911. Grimes, Jesse, 128. Grimes, Lawson C., 128. Grimes, Simeon, 130. Grimes, William F., 129. Groscost, Reuben, 291. Gunkle, George, 265. Gunn, Edward B., 301.
H.
Hall, Edmon G., 546. Hall, James C., 90. Halstead, Micah B., 738. Hamilton, Lonis H., 729. Hammond, Edwin P., 19. Hanly, J. Frank, 508. Hanson, Samuel C., 37. Harbangh, C. Albert, 42. Harmon, John J., 795. Harmon, Waldo L., 421. Harmon, William, 422. Harrisson, George A., 161. Hatch, Jethro A., 663. Hathaway, Henry O., 574. Hathaway, Medary M., 691. Hathaway, Richard W., 595. Hawkins, Hannah, 741. Hawkins, James, 394. Hawkins, Jane, 394. Hawkins, William E., 744. Hay, James, 544. Hays, Meade S., 521. Hayworth, James N., 696. Healey, George H., 725. Hellwig, Clarence A., 970. Hellwig, Edward F., 971. Hemphill, John B., 535. Henkle, Joseph C., 786. Hershey, William H., 242. Heston, William D., 560. High, Isaac D., 701. Hillis, James D., 188. Hinchman, William, 785. Hinkle, W. J., 771. Hoffman, Horace D., 269. Hoffman, William H., 357. Holladay, Eli, 62. Hollingsworth, George K., 88. Hollingsworth, Joseph, 742. Holtam, Abel J., 855. Holtam, Jesse J., 187. Hoover, William M., 775. Hornaday, Harvey J., 397. Hornbeck, Francis T., 468. Hornbeck, Henry H., 374. Hornbeck, John W., 466. Horner, Cornelius M., 866. Hottenstein, Charles A., 957. Hubbell, Lewis W., 984. Huddleston, Will am Shipman, 673. Huddleston, William Sigler, 676.
Hufty, Thomas L., 936. Hughes, George K., 131. Huls, Henry V. T., 215. Hummel, David W., 686. Humston, Frank B., 130. Hunter, John P., 920. Hutton, Schuyler C., 453.
1.
Ilgenfritz, George, 345. Ingrim, Marion H., 723. Introductory, 1.
J.
Jackson, Relief, 376. Jamison, George A., 432. Johnson, Cyrenius, 519. Johnson, Francis, 962. Johnson, John A., 938.
Johnson, Zachary T., 516.
Jones, James E., 41. Jones, Joseph T., 995. Jones, Matthew E., 469. - Jones, Thomas, 993. Jones, Trusten A., 992.
Jones, William, 1046. Jones, William M., 533. - Judy, John F., 336. Judy, Ole R., 340. Justice Noah, 112.
K.
Keiper, George F., 149.
Kelley, D. M., 879. Kent, Alexander J., 801. Kent, Perrin, 168, 1028. Kessinger, Hiram, 899. Keys, James H., 54. Kingsbury, Clement S., 100.
Kinney. John H., 586. Kious, Joseph H., 877. Kissinger, John P., 315. Kistler, Noah, 1020. Knebel, Fredrick, 905. Korner, William S., 1015. Krick, Valentine, 918. Kult, Philip, 913. Kuhn, Charles W., 1061.
Kuhn, George M., 463. Kuhn, John A., 1056. Kuhn, Joseph M., 1057. Kuhn, Matthias, 459. Kuhn, William H., 462.
L.
LaGue, John B., Jr., 523. Lairy, M. M., 297. LaRue, John M., 11. Laughlin, David, 309. Leaming, Henry, Jr., 632. Lear, George W., 493. Lear, Hiram F., 795. Leffew, William S., 51.
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INDEX.
Leidy, James C., 977. LeMaster, Benjamin B., 1019. Letcher, J. H., 313. Levering, Abraham, 210. Levering, William H., 217. Linton, Samuel, 1009. Lisk, William, 830. Lister, Francis E., 221. Little, Elisha, 287. Logan, George W., 290. Long, George, 476. Lowry, Robert A., 693. Lucas, Martin, 182.
Lugar, William, 914. Lyman, Edwin B., 193. Lyons, Newton, 605.
M.
Maibauer, Frederick, 896.
Major, John F., 541.
Mallon, John H., 1064.
Malsbary, John V., 454.
Marker, James B., 641.
Marshall, George E., 757.
Martin, John H., 92. Martindale, William, 431.
Matthews, I. N., 387.
Mavity, John M., 102.
Mavity, James S., 48.
McAdam, James, 435.
McBroom, James H., 24.
McCabe, James, 113.
McCain, Cornelius, 770.
McCain, Richard C., 745.
Mcconahay, Orlando, 734.
McCord, Joseph H., 772.
McCormick. John F., 507.
McCoy, Alfred, 390.
McCray, Greenberry W., 705.
McCray, Warren T., 767.
McDole, Samson, 1000.
McDonald, Malcolm A., 164.
McDonald, Thomas M., 902.
McGahan, George, 271.
McGinlev, Furman E. D., 983.
McGrath Robert H., 44.
McGrath, Robert M., 45.
McGuire, Thomas, 761.
McIntosh, Lewis, 399. McMullen, James W., 268.
Merrick, Thomas L., 14.
Mikels, George W., 284.
Miller, Albert B., 176. Miller, Frederick, 661.
Miller, John, 176.
Miller, John P., 1025.
Miller, Melville W., 976.
Miller, Walter B., 174.
Miller, William H., 959.
Mills, Charles E., 539. Mills, John W., 271.
Mills, William E., 266.
Mitchell, James H , 208. Montgomery, Isaac H., 69.
Montgomery, James W., 253. Moore, Hiram W., 757. Moore, S. Herbert, 895. Motter, Thomas S., 179. Mullen, Lafayette, 790. Murdock, James, 777 Murray, William W., 944. Myers, Gabriel, 248.
N.
Nattinger, Charles A., 489.
Netherton, William E., 669
Newton, Charles E., 996.
Newton, Edwin F., 997.
Nisewander, Absalom, 312.
Noe, Lewis J., 630.
Nolin, Samuel K., 203.
Nordyke, Adin, 485.
Nowels, David, 831.
0.
Odle, Richard G., 446. Ogborn, Frank B., 258.
Owings, Luther, 358.
P.
Paris, Berry, 850.
Parker, Isaac, 93.
Parkison, Addison, 740.
Parkison, Robert A., 778.
Parks, George D., 227.
Parrott, Charles, 815.
Parrott, George, 644.
Paul, Tilghman, 502.
Payne, James W., 440.
Peak, Morris, 765.
Pearce, Fernandez E., 782.
Peck, Albert D., 755.
Pence, Curtes M., 362.
Perry, Joseph S., 407.
Perry, William, 759.
Peter, Daniel, 141.
Peter, Calvin, 142.
Peter Family, The, 139.
Peters, Elihu, 86.
Peterson, Charles P., 258.
Peterson, Jonas A., 256.
Pfeiffer, George H., 169.
Phares, Charles G., 498.
Phebus, David, 326.
Phillips, Simon, 587.
Pierce, William C., 703.
Pingry, David, 358.
Plummer, Albert, 536.
Porter, Walter V., 784.
Posey, Cyrus L., 1004. Pribble, Rufus, 245.
Price, Edwin R., 552. Pruner, Wiley E., 571. Pullin, Charles, 706.
Purviance, David B., 235.
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INDEX.
Q Quick, Samuel M., 997. Quigley, Peter, 597.
R.
Rabb, Joseph M., 59. Randall, John W., 482. Randle, James T., 751. Randolph, Edgar D., 954 Raub, Adams D., 884.
Rawn, Nathan, 584. Ray, John N., 114. Recher, Lawson H., 625. Reed, Nate J., 47.
Reser, David M., 262. Rexstrew, Foster, 621. Reynolds, A. W., 823. Rhoades, William H., 904.
Rhode, John W:, 261. Rhode, Seymour T., 439. Rhode, William C., 436. Rhodes, William P., 318. Risk, James Kirby, 760. Robb, Bolivar, 8. Roberts, Charles A., 829. Robertson, Henry, 925. Robinson, Charles C. 190. Robinson, George M., 720. Robinson, Thomas H., 576. Rodgers, Elisha, 307. Rodgers, James M., 512. Roenbaugh, Frederic L., 195. Rogers, Luke, 1013. Rogers, Robert C., 275. Ross, John, 423. Rossiter, Henry, 960. Roth, John A., 282. Row, John H., 342. Rowe, Winfield S. 477. Rush, William, 426.
S.
Sale, Andrew C., 310. Sale, William W., 274. Sample, Robert W., 946. Sappington, John W., 450. Saunderson, James T., 514. Sayler, Isaac, 827. Sayler, William H., 479. Schilling, John. 496. Schooler, James W., 934. Schwartz, Charles, 764. Sebring, John, 1002. Severson, Wilbur F., 350. Sharp, Joseph A., 803. Shaw, James B., 304, Sheetz, Warren, 75. Sheffer, Jacob, 143. Shelby, John B., 236. Shelland, John D., 474. Shideler, Isaac M., 458. Shipps, Charles, 417. Shively, William, 863.
Simison, John, 16. Simms, Dan W., 872. Simpson, Justus L., 1039. Small, Gilbert, 593. Smith, Bernard G., 437.
Smith, Dawson, 451. Smith, George H., 540.
Smith, Jacob J., 1031. Smith, John M., 224. Smith, Parmenas G., 953.
Smyth, James D., 543. Snoddy, Alfred N., 433. Snyder, Charles M., 202. Solomon, William, 495. Spacy, Samuel S., 972. Spencer, Solomon, 671. Spencer, William, 430. Spitler, Marion L., 647. Staley, Patterson, 278. Stanley, Mary A., 409. Stewart, James F., 414. Stewart, James W., 323. Stidham, Jasper H., 32. Stillwell, William F., 768. Stimson, Charles O., 365. Stipp, Joseph M., 684. Stipp, Martin V., 680. Stork, John H., 201. Storms, Daniel E., 192. Strohm, Harry A., 763. Summers, Michael, 281. Swadley, James M., 138. Swisher, Jesse, 501.
T.
Talbott, Daniel, 105. Talbott, Rachel, 103. Taylor, Aaron Y., 881. Taylor, Anthony, 754. Taylor, Elizabeth, 233.
Taylor, George W., 683. Taylor, Levi H., 657.
Taylor, Lorenzo D., 370. Taylor, Stephen O., 286. Taylor, Sylvester, 119.
Taylor, William O., 653. Thompson, Alfred, 675.
Thompson, Charles E., 332. Thompson, Simon P., 888. Throckmorton, Edmund, 78. Throckmorton, Neville 1., 844.
Tilson, Washburn, 171. Tomlinson, Jesse, 299. Triplett, Charles E., Sr., 748. Triplett, Charles E., Jr., 751. Truby, Charles 1., 60. Tucker, Albert E., 614.
Tucker, Elon W., 617.
V.
Van Alstine, George W., 607. Vanatta, Joseph S., 481. Van Natta, William S., 83. Van Voorst, James S., 531. Von Auw, Maximilian J., 591.
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INDEX.
W.
Willoughby, William H., 416.
Wills, John R., 572. Wilson, Catharine, 383.
Walker, Everett A., 865.
Wilson, David B., 335.
Walker, William O., 554.
Wilson, Jesse E., 118.
Walker, William S., 225. Walton, Daniel, 497.
Wilson, Perry A., 1059.
Ward, Philip F., 568. Ward, Philip J., 851.
Winter, Jeremiah, 868.
Warner, John W., 288.
Wishard, William W., 640.
Warner, Joseph F., 212.
Wolcott, Anson, 816.
Washburn, Isaac L., 623.
Washburn, Samuel S., 158.
Wood, Daniel J., 882.
Watson, Anderson, 981.
Wood, Harvey W., 718.
Watson, John, 810.
Wood, J. Fletcher, 294.
Waymire, Daniel W., 487.
Wood, Will. R., 875.
Waymire, Frederic, 484.
Woodhams, Henry, 247.
Weaver, Erasmus M., 526.
Woodlock, David, 887.
Webb, Reuben T., 319.
Woodruff, Hubert D., 1012.
Weber, P. J., 13.
Webster, John C., 240.
Y.
Weeks, Charles L., 618.
Weldon, David, 717.
Yeoman, David H., 818.
Wells, George, 1051.
Yeoman, James, 730. Yeoman, Joseph, 780.
Wentz, William, 1058.
Yopst, Albert E., 391.
West, Alexander L., 732.
York, Noble J., 821.
Weyand, Isaiah, 589.
Yost, Aaron, 928.
Wickersham, Job, 561.
Yost, Amos D., 928.
Wickwire, Chester W., 715.
Yost, Charles W., 928.
Wilburn, James, 838.
Yost, David, 926.
Wiley, Ulric Z., 5.
Yost, John, 928.
Wilgus, William, 232.
Z.
Williams, Duncan McA, 34. Williams, Elmer C., 1071. Williamson, Jeremiah, 658.
Zimmerman, John, 267.
Wadsworth, George, 447.
Wilson, Warren, 943.
Winship, Charles F., 553.
Wolcott Enterprise, 865.
Wendt, John, 1070.
INTRODUCTORY.
Out of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote: "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Farther than this what propriety can there be in advancing reasons for the compilation of such a work as the one at hand? The counties of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Warren and Pulaski, now venerable with age and honors, have sustained within their confines men who have been prominent in the history of the state and nation from the early colonial epoch. Their annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood and womanhood, and, as Sumner said, "The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true great- ness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of individual men and the destinies of states are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure; their influence wholly unexpected until declared by results. When they inspire men to the exercise of courage, self-denial, enterprise, industry, and call into play the higher moral elements; lead men to risk all upon conviction, faith,-such causes lead to the planting of great states, great nations, great peoples. The nation is greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men, and the intrinsic safety depends not so much upon methods and measures as upon that true manhood from whose deep sources all that is precious and permanent in life must at last proceed. Such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the individuals instru- mental in the production of a great nation. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out this as a logical result. They have wrought on the lines of the greatest good.
Ceaselessly to and fro flies the deft shuttle which weaves the web of human destiny, and into the vast mosaic fabric enter the individuality, the effort, the accomplishment of each man, be his station that most lowly, or one of majesty, pomp and power. Within the textile folds may be traced the line of each individuality, be it the one that lends the beautiful sheen of honest worth and honest endeavor, or one that dark and zigzag finds its way through warp and woof, marring the composite beauty by its blackened threads, ever in evidence of the shadowed and unprolific life. Into the great aggregate each individuality is merged, and yet the essence of each is never 1
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lost, be the angle of its influence wide-spreading and grateful, or narrow and baneful. In his efforts he who essays biography finds much of profit and much of alluring fascination when he would follow out, in even a cursory way, the tracings of a life history, seeking to find the keynote of each respect- ive personality. These efforts and their resulting transmission can not fail of value in an objective way, for in each case may the lesson of life be conned, " line upon line; precept upon precept."
Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the individual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a suc- cessful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the exist- ence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of those of successes are the records of failures or semi-failures that one is constrained to attempt an analysis in either case and to determine the method of causation in an approx- imate way. The march of improvement and progress is accelerated day by day, and each successive moment seems to demand of men a broader intelli- gence and a greater discernment than did the preceding. Successful men must be live men in this age, bristling with activity, and the lessons of biog- raphy may be far-reaching to an extent not superficially evident. A man's reputation is the property of the world. The laws of nature have forbidden isolation. Every human being either submits to the controlling influence of others, or, as master, wields a power for good or evil on the masses of man- kind. There can be no impropriety in justly scanning the acts of any man as they affect his public, social and business relations. If he be honest and successful in his chosen field of endeavor, investigation will brighten his fame and point the path along which others may follow with like success. Not alone are those worthy of biographic honors who have moved along the loftier planes of action, but to an equal extent are those deserving who are of the rank and file of the world's workers, for they are not less the con- servators of public prosperity and material advancement.
Longfellow wrote: " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." If this golden sentence of the New England bard were uniformly applied, many a man who is now looking down with haughty stare upon the noble toilers on land and sea, sneering at the omission of the aspirate, the cut of his neighbor's coat or the humbleness of his dwelling, would be voluntarily doing penance in sackcloth and ashes, at the end of which he would handle a spade or, with pen in hand, burn the midnight oil in his study, in the endeavor to widen the bounds of liberty or to accelerate the material and spiritual progress of his race. The humble and lowly often stand representative of the truest nobility of character, the deepest patriotism and the most exalted purpose,
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and through all the gradations of life recognition should be had of the true values and then should full appreciation be manifested.
In the Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Warren and Pulaski Counties the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task set them. The work is purely biographical in its province, and in the collation of material for the same there has been a constant aim to use a wise discrimination in regard to the selection of subjects, and yet to exclude none worthy of representation within its pages. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial makeup of the counties in the past have been given due recognition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathetic interest of those concerned or the inability to secure the information demanded. Yet, in both the contemporary narrative and the memoirs of those who have passed on to " that undiscovered coun- try from whose bourne no traveler returns," it is believed that there has been such utilization of material as to more than fulfill all stipulations and prom- ises made at the inception of the undertaking.
In the compilation recourse has been had to divers authorities, includ- ing various histories and historical collections, and implying an almost end- less array of papers and documents, public, private, social and ecclesiastical. That so much matter could be gathered from so many original sources and then sifted and assimilated for the production of a single work without incur- ring a modicum of errors and inaccuracies, would be too much to expect of any corps of writers, no matter how able they might be as statisticians or skilled as compilers of such works. It is, nevertheless, believed that no inaccuracies of a serious nature can be found to impair the historical value of the volumes, and it is further believed that the results will supply the demand which called forth the efforts of the publishers and the editorial corps.
To other and specific histories has been left the task of touching the general history of the counties, for the function of this work is aside from this and is definite in its scope, so that a recapitulation would be out of har- mony with the compilation. However, the incidental references made to those who have been the important actors in the public and civic history of the counties will serve to indicate the generic phases and will shadow forth much to those who can "read between the lines." In conclusion we can not do better than to quote another of Carlyle's terse aphorisms: "There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, - the life of a man."
Ulric Z. Wiley.
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
HON. ULRIC Z. WILEY.
The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave the perpetual record establishing his character by the concensus of opinion on the part of his fellow men. That great factor, the public, is a discriminating factor, and yet takes cognizance not of objective exaltation nor yet objective modesty, but delves deeper into the intrinsic essence of character, strikes the keynote of individuality, and pronounces judicially and unequivocally upon the true worth of the man-invariably distinguishing the clear resonance of the true metal from the jarring dissonance of the baser. Thus in touching upon the life history of the subject of this review the bio- graphist would aim to give utterance to no fulsome encomiums, to indulge in no extravagant praise; yet would he wish to hold up for consideration those points which have shown the distinction of a pure, true and useful life, -one characterized by indomitable perseverance, broad charity, marked ability, high accomplishments and well earned honors. To do this will be but to reiterate the dictum pronounced upon the man by his fellow men.
Judge Wiley is a gentleman whom the people of Benton county delight to honor. His life thus far has been spent in the Hoosier state, and his popularity as an attorney at law, legislator and judge of the appellate court of Indiana is not bounded by the lines of political parties. He is what the world is pleased to call a " self-made man." Born in Jefferson county, Indi- ana, November 14, 1846, of a family of four sons and three daughters, whose parents were the Rev. Preston Pritchard and Lucinda Weir (Maxwell) Wiley, he is the youngest. His father was born in Brown county, Ohio, and is de- scended from one of seven brothers who came to America from Scotland prior to the war of the Revolution. The grandfather, Joseph Wiley, located in southern Indiana about 1811. As was somewhat common at the time, he did not recognize all the advantages of education and when his son Preston desired his assistance that he might pursue a course in Hanover College, he told him that he would give him a good farm but could not send him to school. The son, however, not dismayed by this, determined to gain a
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