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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
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WELLS COUNTY, INDIANA
A COMPREHENSIVE ChuresMUN or LOCAL HinnaAPny- MaumAs ar REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND WOMEN OF TUE COPYTY WHOSE WORKEn MIVOLT HAVE MADE THEDE NAMES TUPEDIRIADE.
SPECIAL ARTICLES PREPARED ES HOW. HUGH DOSQUENTE, EVAN T CHALFAST P. A. Ardes, Mav. D. T. Summ, Hus Jomepi & DAILEY GEORGE E FRUTAS, M. D AND THOMAS STORNHL D. D. S
ILLUSTRATED
1101 B. F. BOWEN, PUBLISHER LOGANSPORT. IND.
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Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
PREFACE. 1204303
N PLACING the Biographical Memoirs of Wells County before the citizens, the publisher can conscientiously claim that he has carried out in full every promise made in the prospectus. He points with pride to the elegance of the binding of the volume, and to the beauty of its typography, to the su- periority of the paper on which the work is printed, and to the truthfulness depicted by its portraits and the high class of art in which they are finished. Every biographical sketch has been submitted for correction and approval to the person for whom it was written, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is due solely to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. 1
The several special articles from the pens of well known citizens of the county cannot fail but be of unusual interest, the writers touching upon those phases of the county's history with which they are most familiar. The pub- lisher would here avail himself of the opportunity to thank the citizens of Wells county for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking, and for their many services rendered in assisting in the gaining of necessary information. Confident that our efforts to please will fully meet with the approbation of the public, we are,
Respectfully,
B. F. BOWEN, Publisher.
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INDEX -- PART I.
Historical Resume 18
Industrial Progress of Wells County, by Hon. Hugh Dougherty 32 Agricultural Progress in Wells County, by Evan T. Chalfant. 43 Public Education, by P. A. Allen. 49
Literature and Its Progress, by Mrs. D. T. Smith
62
The Bench and Bar, by Hon. Joseph S. Dailey.
70
Medical History of Wells County, by George E. Fulton, M. D.
78
Dentistry, by Thomas Sturgis, D. D. S.
86
INDEX -- PART II.
Abbott, A. S. 423
Abbott, Daniel W.
501
Brickley, Peter 158
Abbott, William H.
502
Brineman, C. S. 236
Abshire, Lewis C .. 258
Brineman, John 236
Alberson, Charles.
240
Brineman, Malachi. 237
Alberson, Philip B.
240
Brown, Mrs. Sarah E. 593
Buck, John M .. 334
Buckner, Capt. Philip. 567
Allen, Robert.
592
Burns, Joseph 572
Alspach, Daniel
200
Campbell, Samuel. 589
Caps, George L.
305
Archbold, T. W.
488
Caps, George W. 304
Elick, Jonas. 587
Elick, William. 552
Elzey, Abner 402
Engle, Robert M. 206
Engle, William L. 340
Falk, Joseph 453
Fatscher, Jacob 464
Batson, Nathaniel. 152
Clark, Robert. 559
Clark, Rufus B. 380
Clark, Sargeant. 380
Cloud, Thomas C.
117
Fleming, Aaron 128
Ford, Charles H. 179
Ford, Thomas 179
French, Amos 201
French, John G .. 201
Fry. Joel. 421
Fulton, Hon. George E 104
Fulton, J. C., M. D. 427
Funk, C. B. 221
Funk, John B. 366
Funk, Samuel D. 221
Garton, Henry J. 420
Bock, C. C. M .. 149
DeHaven, L. L.
181
DeHaven, Walter B. 182
Derr, Capt. E. E. 460
Dettinger, John G .. 358
Dettmer, John D. 480
Ditzler, John R. 506
Donaldson, Robert
147
Donaldson, W. A.
146
Dougherty, Hon. Hugh 89
Dulinsky, George 261
Dulinsky, William 261
Dunwiddie, William 345
Durr, John Henry
433
Dyson, Charles E 275
Dyson, George. 296
Earl, George W. 593
Ehret, William 493
Eichhorn, David 187
Eichhorn, Philip. 187
Archbold, William G.
491
Arnold, Adam 361
Arnold, William C. 547
Awkerman, Joseph. 350
Clark, I. I
154
Awkerman, Joseph, Sr.,
350
Baker, John 165
Clark, Matthew J.
154
Feeser, John G. 136
Batson, S. J.
152
Beavans, James
160
Fisher, Daniel. 549
Beavans, John W ..
160
Beberstein, Ferdinand
320
Colbert, William. 184
Cotton, George W. 190
Cotton, Samuel G. 190
Crites, Jesse. 511
Crites, John .. 511
Dailey, Hon. Joseph S. 96
Davis, Edwin R.
518
Dawson, John 225
Deam, John C. 486
Deam, John H. 500
Deam, Lewis E. 500
Garton, Marion. 418
Gavin, George M. 530
Gavin, J. B. 384
Gavin, R. F. 326
Gehrett, Amos. 219
Gehrett, Mrs. Elizabeth 143
Gehrett, Henry S.
144
Gesler, Lewis
441
Bower, Joel. 259
Bower, Henry 286
Bower, Simon 259
Bowman, William E. 348
Bevington, R. A. 180
Bickel, Simon B. 504
Bierie, Christian. 316
Bierie, Eli C ..
315
Bloxsom, James 248
Bloxsom, William. 248
Blue, C. L., M. D. 508
Blue, Hon. M. C. 581
Bock, J. W. 149
Booher, John. 266
Botts, E. H., M. D. 558
Carrysot, Adolphus 415
Chalfant, Evan L. 490
Clark, Mrs. Frances 223
Clark, John I. 381
Feeser, Josiah. 136
Beck, John M .. 344
Bevington, O. B. 180
Brickley, George 158
Allen, Hamon. 592
Allen, P. A ..
425
Alspach, John A.
311
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INDEX-PART II.
Glock, John.
471
Goodyear, J. W. 376 Kizer, Martin, Sr., 285
Green, James 254
Kleinknight, William F
495
Meyer, Peter
375
Meyer, Peter
575
Miller, Andrew J. 446
Miller, Charles M 398
Miller, G. W. G. 357
Miller, Henry .
232
Miller, Jacob
399
Miller, John A. 505
Miller, Michaei 232
Minnich,
Jacol
Minnich, John.
125
Minniear, Joseph
528
Minniear, Lewis A.
528
Mock, Daniel
106
Mock, Emsley
106
Mock, Hon. Levi
105
Moore, Cornelius.
535
Moore, Joseph B.
534
Morris, John Pickett.
568
Morris, Thomas B., M. D.
567
Mosure, Frank W.
328
Mosure, Jonathan.
328
Mounsey, James P.
539
Myers, Ludwig
484
Neff, Hercules H.
510
Neff, John N.
522
Neher, John,
299
Neher, Samuel.
299
Neher, Samuel I.
293
Nelson,
James.
163
Nelson, Solomon B
162
Nevius, George R.
487
Niriter, George
481
481
Nutter, Levi.
310
Nutter, Louis A.
310
Ochsenrider, David
314
Ochsenrider, Elias
314
Oppenheim, Albert.
578
Oppenheim, Sigmund
578
Ormsby, Albert
553
Palmer, Samuel H.
174
Park, Matthew
452
Paxson, Mahlon I.
403
Perdue, James.
118
Perdue, James, Sr.
119
Poling, Silas
540
Kilander, Perry. 197
Kilander, R. A.
144
Kimble, George W.
156
Kimble, Uzal
157
Kizer, Martin 285
Meyer, David
577
Meyer, Jonas. 336
Green, P. S ..
254
Haflich, Andrew J.
551
Haflich, Eli.
588
Haflich, Samuel A
586
Haiflich, Isaac.
443
Haiflich, William
442
Hamilton, Augustus W.
562
Hatfield, Adam
130
Hatfield, Adam, Jr
131
Hatfield, Hiram
131
Hatfield, Isaac N., M. D.
138
Hatfield, James C.
130
Hatfield, John
130
Heckley, Martin
494
Hedges, Elijah.
571
Hedges, Robert M.
571
Lee, John
279
Lee, Jonathan R.
176
Lee, William
176
Leist, George.
521
Lesh, Jacob
445
Hoopengarner, George
514
Hower, B. F.
424
Hower, John Y.
580
Hudson Family
218
Hudson, Wilson
216
Huffman, David C., M. D.
419
Huffman, George W.
230
Huffman, Henry
192
Huffman, Levi.
192
Hunsicker, Henry H.
120
Hurst, Samuel
282
Hurst, Thaddeus S ..
282
Huyette, Prof. Arthur R.
370
Huyette, Joseph R.
370
Hyde, John S.
168
Irwin, Robert C. 544
Johns, Henry E ..
277
Mann, Henry A.
166
Mann, Michael.
166
Markley, John. 383
Markley, Mrs. Jacob B. 517
Markley, Jonathan J.
447
Markley, William D.
383
Mast, Abraham
498
Mast, Uriah .
497
Matlack, David T
537
Matlack, William.
537
Merriman, Alfred T
542
Metts, A. H., M. D .. 463
Metts, John I., M. D.
467
Prillaman, Lewis
103
Ralstian, William
329
125
Lancaster, Harvey B.
456
Lancaster, Louis G.
312
Lancaster, Nathan
313
Lassiter, H. H ..
557
Leavengood, Silas G.
547
Lechner, George W.
474
Helm, George.
381
Henline, Joseph H.
400
Hogg, John H.
454
Holcomb, J. H., M. D.
438
Lipkey, William
368
Lobsiger, John
365
Lockwood, James E.
227
Long, Michael
336
Lounsbury, Smith
141
Lounsbury, Sylvester
140
McAfee, Jacob.
444
McAfee, John.
437
McBride, James L., M. D.
560
McBride, William W
583
McCollister, Henry C.
338
McCullick, H. C ..
378
McCullick, Lot.
327
McDowell, William
360
McFarren, George F.
332
McFarren, Harry
333
Johnson, Abraham W.
519
Johnson, Jonas
441
Johnson, Lewis M.
519
Johnson, Noah
556
Jones, John
515
Kain, B. F. 595
Keefer, James H .. 352
Keller, David.
143
Kemp, Joel.
386
Knott, James
185
Knott, Samuel C.
185
Krehl, Frederick 204
Krehl, Jacob F.
204
Kreigh, Samuel M.
470
Krewson, John S.
466
Kunkel, Calvin.
412
Kunkel, Michael
413
Kunkel, William
326
Meyer, Albert.
575
Popejoy, Lawson. 550
Pouless, William.
178
Niriter,
John
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INDEX-PART II.
Rapp, Frederick
483
Reeves, Dennis 284
Reeves, John H. 284
Rex, John. 461
Rinear, Charles 354
Rinear, John W.
354
Risley, Franklin P. 288
Roberts, Nathan 373
Roberts, Robert.
373
Roe, Arthur F.
491
Roe, Charles E
591
Roe, Ezekiel .
477
Roe, Jeremiah. 509
Roe, John F.
565
Rogers, Philo.
102
Rolli, Gottlieb 372
Rose, Joseph 229
Rupright, W. H .. 457
Saunders, C. B., M. D. 213
Saunders, George L.
397
Saunders, J. E., M. D.
213
Schaffter, Henry
189
Schott, G. B ..
342
Schott, Peter 318
Schwob, Amos 208
Schwob, John. 208
Schwartz, Levi 499
Scott, Nathan Macy
264
Scott, Stanton.
264
Seaman, Jonathan
554
Settlemeyer, James M. 564
Sheets, John
440
Sheets, William 440
Shepherd, Harrison 524
Shepherd, John S. 270
Shepherd, S. E .. 524
Shoemaker, W. K. 521
Shorts, Nicholas W 478
Shumaker, W. A. 253
Sills, Daniel. 363
Sixbey, Charles C. 112
Sixbey, Col. John 112
Slusher, Josiah 238
Smith, Benjamin P. 523
Smith, Jacob J. 531
Smuts, Jacob 563
Snow, Giffon 301
Snow, G. H. 294
Snow, Henry 294
Snyder, Lewis F. 475
Sours, A. W. 245
Sours, Samuel.
245
Spaulding, Levi 290
Spaulding, Stephen 290
Speheger, Abraham 211
Springer, John M.
485
Sprowl, John W. 533
Stafford, John. 198
Stafford, Nelson E. 198
Stahl, Joseph. 364
Stegkamper, Henry 169
Stogdill, Christ.
516
Studabaker, A. T .. 272
Studabaker, D. D. 570
Studabaker, Hugh D. 430
Studabaker, John 99
Studabaker, William. 272
Sturgis, John E. 435
Swaim, David H .. 122
Swaim, William T. T. 122
Taylor, Theodore 322
Taylor, Theodore, Sr. 322
Taylor, William H .. 587
Taylor, William P. 472
Templin, Sanford H.
242
Templin, Terry
242
Terhune, Albert E. 308
Terhune, Edward. 303
Terhune, Henry, Sr. 303
Terhune, William O
292
Tharp, A. B. 194
Tharp, Isaac M. 194
Todd, Jacob. 388
Todd, Jacob J. 388
Todd, Nelson K. 134
Turner, George 183
Turner, James 183
Ullman, J. A. 173
Unrue, George 251
Unrue, Joseph 251
Vitz, Rev. Peter. 280
Walbert, Hon. M. W 115
Walker, John A 513
Walters, Cyrus
455
Wasson, James 409
Wasson, Thomas M. 406
Watson, John M. 324
Watson, Mark. 324
Wells, Bunyon J. 224
Wheeler, Thomas 256
Wheeler, Thomas W. 256
Williams, Amos R .. 297
Wiley, Capt. Benjamin 171
Wiley, William 171
Wilkin, William 450
Williams, Edgar 306
Williams, John 268
Williams, J. S. 297
Williams, J. W. 263
Williams, O. R. 263
Williams, Thomas. 268
Williams, Thomas. 306
Wisner, John.
234
Woodward, W. A.
459
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INTRODUCTORY.
"Progress-man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's and not the beasts,. God is; they are: Man partly is and partly hopes to be."
-Browning.
Out of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote: "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Further than this what propriety can there be for advancing reasons for the compilation of such a work as the one at hand? Wells county, Indiana, has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in the history of the state and nation from the early territorial epoch. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble man- hood and gracious womanhood, and, as Sumner said, "The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the indi- vidual." 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 in- spire men to the exercise of courage, self-denial, enterprise and industry, and call into play the higher moral elements ; lead men to risk all upon convic- tion, faith,-such causes lead to the planting of great states, great nations, great peoples. That 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 results may not consciously be contemplated by the individuals instrumental in the produc- tion of a great nation. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work this out as a logical result. They have wrought along the lines of the greatest good.
Ceaselessly to and fro flies the deft shuttle that 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 ma- jesty, pomp and power. Within the textile folds may be traced the line of
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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 evi- dence of a shadowed and unprolific life. Into the great aggregate each in- dividuality is merged, and yet the essence of each is never 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 respective 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 in- dividual or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial develop- ment it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a successful life is none the less profitable and interesting by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of those of successes are the records of failures and semi-failures, that one is constrained to attempt an analysis in either case and to determine the method of causation in an approximate way. The march of improvement and progress is accelerated day by day, and each successive moment seems to demand of men a broader intelligence and a greater discernment than did the preceding. Successful men must be live men in this glorious twentieth century, and the lessons of biography 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 a master, wields a power for good or evil on the masses of mankind. 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 conservators of public prosperity and material advancement.
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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 appreciated, 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 effort 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, and through all the gradations of life recognition should be had of the true values, and then should full appreciation be manifested.
In this compilation, which touches upon the lives and deeds of those who have been the founders and builders of Wells county, the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the work set before them. Within these pages will be found a brief resume of the generic history of the county, together with valuable and interesting articles by special contribu- tors who are numbered among the representative citizens of the county, but the more specific province of the work is that of biography, and in the colla- tion of the 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 affairs of the county in the past have been accorded due recognition in so far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation 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 contem- porary narrative and in the memoirs of those who have passed on to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns," it is believed that there has been such utilization of material as to more than fulfill all stipu- lations and promises made at the inception of the enterprise.
In the compilation recourse has been had to divers authorities, including various histories and historical collections, and implying an almost endless array of papers and documents, public, private, social and ecclesiastical. That
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so much matter could be gathered from so many original sources and then sifted and assimilated for the production of a single work without incurring 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 there will be found no inaccuracies of so serious a nature as to impair the historical value of the volume, and it is further believed that the results will supply the de- mand which called forth the efforts of the publishers and the editorial corps.
To other and specific works has been left the task of touching in detail and with due expansiveness the generic history of the county, for the assigned function of this compilation is aside from this and is definite in its scope, so that an exhaustive recapitulation would be incompatible and, in view of the prescribed limitations, impossible. However, the incidental references made to those who have been the important actors in the public and civic history of this favored section of the great commonwealth of Indiana 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 bioghaphy,-the life of man."
PART I.
HISTORICAL RESUME.
Out of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote: "History is the essence of innumerable biographies," and though the province of this publication is distinctively that of offering generic history from this specific basis which the great philosopher so clearly apprehended, yet there can be no doubt of the incidental value, in the connec- tion, of a brief review of the genesis and rise of this favored section of the state of Indiana, and such an epitome is offered in the appending paragraphs.
As to the relative location and the topog- raphy of the county it is needless to enter into much of detail. It is situate slightly below the forty-first parallel of north lati- tude, is about eighty-five degrees west of the prime meridian of Greenwich, and eight degrees to the west of the federal capital, the meridan time being thus twenty minutes in advance of the standard, so far as practical purposes are concerned. The northern part of Indiana is a portion of that great section formerly submerged by the inland seas of which the Great Lakes are the remaining vestiges, and
its geological integrity is characterized by what has been technically designated as the drift,-the deposition of material by the ac- tion of the waters which formerly swept. over its surface. In this particular section the tendency of the strata dip is principally westward, but in Adams and Wells counties' the drift was to the northward, with an aver- age of eight feet to the mile in the dip. The county lies next east of Grant and Hunting- ton counties, and is of the fourth tier south of the line of the state of Michigan, while it extends north and south a distance of twenty-four miles, with its south boundary twenty miles in width and its north fourteen miles, Jackson township jutting out to the west on the southern border and causing" the irregularity of contour, which is some- what in the form of a reversed L. Within the borders of the county are comprised nine organic townships, or nine whole and three half congressional townships, the aggregate area of the county being three hundred and seventy-two square miles. . As to the nature of the strata underlying the surface it may be said
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that in drilling at Bluffton, the county cap- ital, to a depth of twelve hundred feet, the drift was indicated to a depth of twelve feet, and below this lay in turn, and in vary- ing depths, the following strata: Water limestone, Niagara limestone, crystal lime- stone, Clinton group, shale, slate and Tren- ton group. Though the constituency of the subsoil is in the main gravelly, excellent brick clay is found in many localities, and good limestone along the river courses and near the surface, with occasional outcrop- pings, this product being well adapted for industrial uses. A terminal moraine is found to the south of the Maumee valley, this being the summit of the watershed be- tween the Ohio river and Lake Erie, and the elevation is nearly three hundred and fifty feet above the surface of the lake mentioned, while the boulder clay is here of greater thickness than in any other point in Indi- ana; in Wells county are shown many su- perficial evidences of the glacial drift. The accumulations of sand and gravel are, geo- logically, of comparatively recent deposi- tion, while underlying is a thick stratum of excellent clay, of well maintained integrity, and this constitutes the basis of the magnifi- cent agricultural resources of this section.
As to the superficial character of the county, it is in the main gently undulating, and the elevation is sufficiently above the level of the water courses to render effec- tive drainage possible, so that practically there is but a minimum portion of land which can not be reclaimed for cultivation. Within the borders of the county are found only two lakes, and these are of insignificant dimensions. The largest water course tra- versing the county is the Wabash river, the second in size is St. Mary's, and the third is
Salamonie, while other streams which are also of value in connection with drainage and the promotion of fertility of soil are Rock, Six-Mile and Eight-Mile creeks. The native timber of the county was origin- ally very dense, and the following decidious varieties were those most in evidence, as they are at the present time: White, burr and black oak, white elm, basswood, ash of two or three varieties, beech, hickory, yel- low poplar, walnut and sugar maple. (The most prolific of the native fruits is the blackberry, which has been most abundant in its wild state. White clover and blue grass have spontaneously covered the great- er portion of the land in the county. As to the fauna of the county it may be said that in the early days the Virginia deer were plentiful, black bear were found in limited numbers, panthers were occasionally seen, as were also two varieties of wild cats; wolves were common. All these have been swept away by the onward march of civili- zation, while of the smaller animals seen in the earlier epoch only a few species remain to recall the days when this section was a veritable wilderness, in which only the In- dian, in his motley garb, disputed dominion with the beasts of the forest and field.
y As to the early settlement of Wells county, it should be stated in every histori- cal compilation that the first white man to make permanent location here was Dr. Jos- eph Knox, who also was the first to settle at any point between Fort, Recovery and Huntington. In 1829 he took up his abode on the southeast quarter of section 18, Lancaster township, and within a brief in- terval he was here joined by his sons-in- law, Vantrees and Warner, who also took up land. Tre three families remained until
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