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MILTON GARRIGUS.
HISTORY
OF
HOWARD COUNTY
INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Allen County Public Library F1. Wayne, Indiana.
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PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exertion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the residents of Howard county, Indiana, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness it has come to be a center of prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth. systems of intersecting railways, grand educational institutions, marvelous industries and immense agricultural productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the incentives, hopes, aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpet- uate the story of these people and to trace and record the social. political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of pres- ervation, and which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication. The work has been in the hands of able writers, who have, after much patient study and research, produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Howard county, Indiana, ever offered to the public. A specially valuable and inter- esting department is that one devoted to the sketches of repre- sentative citizens of this county whose records deserve perpetua- tion because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The pub-
lishers desire to extend their thanks to these gentlemen, who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citi- zens of Howard county, Indiana, for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking, and for their many ser- vices rendered in the gaining of necessary information.
In placing "Morrow's History of Howard County, Indiana," be- fore the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was pre- pared. Confident that our efforts to please will fully meet the ap- probation of the public, we are,
Respectfully. THE PUBLISHERS.
INDEX
Name. Pg.
Name. l'g.
Alexander. R. P .364
Draper, I. P. 240
Arnett, Valentine 257
Duke, George Wī 328
Arnett, Will H. 284
Duke, Alexander II.
447
Ault, Jesse
12)
Duncan, J. E.
397
Ayers, Thomas.
251
Durham, Geo. E. 538
Armstrong Landen 349
Drinkwater, W. W 209
Barnes, W. W.
52
Dye, Thos. J .. 100
Barngrover, D. P
145
Edwards, Rev. E. R 578
Benson, Wm. L
03
Ehrman, George.
302
Eikenberry, M. W
69
Farlow, L. M.
452
Bock, S. A.
278
Fleming, Johnson 405
Breedlove, Geo. W 400
Frederick, J. E
Bulk, F. C. 220
Burt, J. M
468
Butcher, John B. 177
Garrigus, Milton 17
Gerhart, Thos. S
81
Chancellor, S. R.
142
Goyer, E. V ..
444
Conkle, Jas. B. 408
Grau, Chas. W 118
Cooper, R. M.
590
Cox, Prof Sheridan 437
Coy, J. H.,
137
Coyner, M. O ..
326
Ilansell, George .. 100
Cragun, J. Harvey
383
Cranor, Chas. F
380
Croussore, J. W
372
Ilarbaugh, John
11
168
Davis, David P 94
Dellaven, J. W.
497
Hatfield. W. 334
Dimitt, F
.552
Ilaynes, P. II. W
199
Disbro, .. E 488
Haynes, Elwood. Anto Co. 35
Heady, O. C ..
595
Dolman, J. C. 174
Ilelmich. W. Il. 582
Draper, Fred C. 245
Helms. David .\
473
Draper, Harry L
ytz
Iliatt, Wilson J.
470
77
Gallion, James. 568
Carter, W. T ..
455
Cochran, J. A.
132
Goodwine, Louis 342
Conradt, A. V 572
Griffith, J. L.
84
Hall, G. W. 550
Hamilton, J. S. 519
Ilamilton, N. C. 182
Harness, Geo. W 564
Ilarris, Thomas.
152
Dixon, D. F. 491
Hatton, E. T. 180
C
Freeman, G. W 530
Blakely, J. W
208
Blazer, B. F.
98
INDEX.
Name. Pg.
Higgins, W. H 260
Myers, Joe R. 262
Hinkle, John. 575
McCune, W. C
McDade, Philip 293
McKnett, Mrs. Minnie C.
.378
McNeal, J. Hugh. 105
McReynolds, T. C. 344
McQuiston, John.
.205
Neary, John.
134
Neil, Thomas 193
Newby, Wm. F
162
Newkirk, George
182
Ogg. R. A. 427
Ogborn, W. L 86
O'Toole, T. J. .51I
Peetz, John L.
588
Jessup, John W
304
Jones, George B. 321
Penn, Thos. H
.20.1
Piercy, C. M.
72
Kelvie, W. W 308
Kollmar, Fred. .502
Pickett, John.
. 501
Korby, Frank.
235
Pitzer. John.
- 557
Kingston, George
. 205
Price, Luther D)
.222
Rapp, T. C. . 11I
Rauch, Wm. E. 163
Recknagel, Albert
254
Klum, Edward W 196
Landon, George W 350
Ross, Geo. W.
599
Ross. Joseph 1)
.599
Rich, Levi P.
44
Ridgeway, W. E.
357
Linsday, N. R. 211
Ruddell. Richard.
59
Maddox, Ulysis 1 100
Ruse, Thos. A 495
Malaby, Thos. C. 125
Saxon, John. 90
Mann, W. F 233
Schafer, George 403
Meranda, W
459
Schwenger,
II2
Shafer, D. S. 139
Shewmon, Joseph 368
Milner, Jas. F. 180
Moulder, John M 270
Showalter, II. F.
.532
Morrow, Jackson. 394
Silcox, Joseph. 485
Moorman, John B 477
Sipe, Geo. W
.584
Mugg. B. L 391
Small, J. J.
198
120
Learner, J. W 318
Loop, J. N 155
Lordeman, Rev. F 591
Lindley, J. M.
Rinehart, Ephraim 238
Kokomo Steel and Wire Co. 541 Kokomo, Marion & Western Traction Co. 344
Kirkpatrick, L. J. 23
Rhoades, Miles J
.230
Robey, E. E.
Pennington, Sol
IIO
Kautz, J. A. 291
Jackson, C. S. .161
Jenkins, D. C.
314
Jenkins, Lewis 388
llowell, W. C.
355
Hunt, Ezra .001
Jacobs, R. L. 171
Holman, M. S. 332
Holliday, John. 370
Hoon, A. E.
421
Hockett, E. S. 179
Ilogg, Taylor N 413
Name. Pg.
Hinkle, Joseph 374
Hobson, A. D.
359
Showalter, Edw. J IQI
Middleton, Wi
528
Miller, W. H. 361
Pickett, Nathan.
200
INDEX.
Name.
Pg.
Name. Pg.
Simmons, E. A.
149
Templin. Wm. T .. .449
Smith, Geo. W
276
Terrell. D. J. 507
Smith. Geo. IL 280
Trueblood, Wm.
504
Smith, Jacob L.
514
Vansickle, Jos. D. .424
Spraker, D. C.
548
Viney, John I. 434
Stahl, George 400
Waterman, L. D.
Stahl, Jacob .352
Weaver. Joseph 1
88
Stout, John 218
Weeks, Thos. B 370
Swafford, E. E. 363
Wildridge, John 523
Sweeney, E. 225
Willits, Anderson .347
Sutton, A. P 194
Wilson, Rev. S. F 580
Tate, Geo. D. 337
Wooters, William 386
Tarkington, W. E.
324
Yager, D. S .. 544
Tarkington, J. E
366
Youngman, Frederick 479
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HON. MILTON GARRIGUS.
The life of Hon. Milton Garrigus may be profitably considered in three distinct phases, all of them important. First, in the rela- tionship of private citizen, occupied with the everyday work of se- curing a livelihood, the performance of social, domestic and reli- gious duties, and gaining position in an honorable profession : sec- ond, in the relation of a soldier, defending the flag and fighting for the preservation of national unity : third, as a public official, hold- ing responsible and lucrative positions-administrative, clerical and legislative.
To begin at the beginning, his remote ancestors were French and Huguenots, some of whom immigrated to America during the colonial period. His grandfather was a Revolutionary soklier un- der Washington and his father was a drummer boy in the war of 1812 under Harrison. The oldest uncle of our subject was a colonel during that war. It is not surprising, therefore, that patriotism amounts to a passion in him. Ilis father, Timothy Lindley Gar- rigus, was one of Indiana's pioneers, settling in Wayne county in 1816, where he set to work to clear a farm ont of the forests and swamps of that county. He was also a carpenter and millwright by trade, and was known all through the region of swamps from the Ohio river to the great lakes as a minister of the church of the United Brethren of Christ. He made frequent trips on horseback through rivers and swamps and forests and was noted for zeal and his earnest, effective oratory. He was a stanch, untiring abolition- ist, who regarded human slavery as an abomination, and was a candidate of the Liberty party in 1844 for representative from Wayne county. In 1847 he brought his family to Howard county. where he built more houses and mills. In 1852 he was nominated for state senator on the anti-slavery ticket from Howard county, 2
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which party was in the minority in those early days. With bright prospects in Indiana, having cleared farms in Wayne, Marshall, St. Joseph and Howard counties, he left it all to help the state men in Kansas fight the border ruffians in 1856. He shouldered his rifle and started westward to engage in the memorable struggle for free soil and offered up his life for freedom's sake as surely as though he had been slain in battle. He died of pneumonia brought on by exposure, and was buried at Omaha. His wife, the mother of our subject, was a native of Virginia. She was a Christian woman and a member of the Methodist church for sixty years. She was one of the brave pioneer women in the early history of Indiana and an excellent rifle shot. She died at the home of the subject at the age of seventy-eight years.
Milton Garrigus is a native of Indiana, born in Wayne county September 27. 1831. He made the best possible use of the meager opportunities open to his youth and acquired a liberal education. He read every book obtainable, mostly by light of hickory bark torches after his day's work was done. He became well read in ancient and modern history and was also thorough in the common branches. Ile made excellent records in spelling schools of the pioneer times and was especially apt in mathematics, and he also took an active part in all institutes and debating societies in the vicinity. Having qualified himself for teaching, he engaged in that pursuit for seven- teen winters. This was at a time when the school year of Indiana. as related to the country schools, composed from sixty to sixty-five days. This employment as teacher of the A-B-C class and all the intermediate grades of pupils up to and including the students of English grammar and higher mathematics was of great advantage to the young man. It fixed and made practical his knowledge of text-books.
It was at the age of sixteen that Milton Garrigus came to How-
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ard county, where he began the improvement of a quarter section claim obtained by his father under the pre-emption act. For nine months he occupied a frontiersman's cabin, from February to No- vember, and opened a clearing in the rich Indian reservation of what is now Howard county before the arrival of the family. He could talk the Indian dialect and became an expert in handling the ax. rifle and canoe. Strong, energetic and industrious, he assisted in clearing that first farm and two or three others, the last of which was his own. During the early days of the county he was often elected by the people to superintend the construction of the primi- tive highways.
In 1858 he was appointed postmaster of Greentown and re- moved thither from the farm. Already he had formed the purpose to become a lawyer, and he entered upon a course of legal study while postmaster which gained his admission to the bar in 1859. His residence in Greentown continued until 1870, when he removed to Kokomo and formed a legal partnership with Colonel Charles D. Murray. This relation was dissolved by the Colonel's death and subsequently he was associated for a short time with a lawyer named Ingels, and for five years with Judge O'Brien. The latter partnership was terminated in 1880. since which time he remained alone in the successful practice of his profession until retiring in 1802. As an evidence of his standing among the lawyers the fact might be cited that in November. 1891. at a very full meeting. he was elected president of the Bar Association of Howard county. comprising nearly forty members, and filled the position in a most satisfactory manner for a period of four years. He also served as county attorney from 1876 to 1892. a period of sixteen years.
The first Confederate gun fired on Fort Sumter appealed ef- fectively to the patriotism of our subject and he responded to the call for volunteers, resigning the postmastership and entering as a
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private in Company D. Thirty-ninth Infantry, afterward the Eighth Cavalry Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. His clerical ability recom- mended him to the captain and he was soon appointed company clerk. He was captured at Perryville and paroled, but not ex- changed until long afterward. He assisted in recruiting the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, one hundred-day service. and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company A, promoted to first lieutenant and appointed adjutant. He was made post ad- jutant at Tullahoma, Tennessee, and acting assistant adjutant gen- eral of brigade until the regiment was mustered out. He then as- sisted in recruiting the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment and later recruited a company in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, of which he was commissioned captain. After the bat- tle of Nashville he was appointed inspector of the Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps. Army of the Cumberland, on the staff of General E. C. Mason. This officer gave him a very cordial letter, certifying in the most positive terms to his activity, correctness and faithfulness in the position, stating without equivo- cation that he was the best inspector the general had ever known in the army. "There was not an officer on my staff held in higher esteem," wrote General Mason, "or one on whose services I relied more in my field of duty." In fact, words could not frame a stronger or more flattering testimonial. While on parole Captain Garrigus organized the Union League of Howard county, made Union speeches and exposed the Knights of the Golden Circle.
After the war he was active in the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1881 and again in 1882 he was com- mander of Thomas J. Harrison Post of Kokomo. In 1892 he served by apopintment on the staff of Colonel A. G. Wishard, of Wisconsin, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, as assistant inspector general for the Department of Indiana.
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In May, 1901. at the state encampment, he was elected and installed commander of the Department of Indiana, serving in that capacity one year. He has always taken an active interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of this organization, often serving as a delegate to the state and national encampments and always attend- ing such gatherings. He is also a member of the Indiana Com- mandery of the Loyal Legion. During his administration Governor Matthews appointed Captain Garrigus a member of the Indian com- mission to locate and direct the permanent marking of each military organization from this state on the battlefield of Chickamauga. where that bloody battle was fought : also the position of Indiana troops on the field of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The commission was composed of ten officers, who served in some of the Indiana regiments in those battles.
As in other matters, Captain Garrigus has not proved to be a laggard in affairs political. He began his political life as a Whig. with abolition proclivities. He became a Republican upon the or- ganization of that party, and has always been a strong advocate of its principles. His political activity and enthusiasm are remarkable. He has been at all times and under all circumstances active in be- half of the party. . As a political campaign orator he is earnest in the advocacy of Republicanism, and his loyalty and party fealty have never been questioned. In 1883 he was nominated by Presi- dent AArthur for collector of the internal revenue, and when the nomi- nation was hung up in the senate he unselfishly withdrew and urged the nomination of his friend, Captain Kirkpatrick, which was made. He was school examiner under the old system for three years be- ginning in 1859, and was county superintendent under the new law from 1875 until he resigned in 1878. He was elected to the senate for a term of four years, serving in 1879 on the committee on ap- portionment for congressmen and on that of ditches and swamp
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lands, and in 1881 on the committee on corporations and railroads, being chairman of the latter. For four years he served as a mem- ber of the common council of Kokomo. He was chairman of the Republican central committee of Howard county during the cam- paigns of 1874. 1876, 1880, 1882, 1884. 1888 and 1896. In 1890 he was nominated county auditor by a phenomenal majority in a primary election and was elected in November for a term of four years beginning March 1, 1892. In 1894 he was renominated as the candidate of his party and was re-elected by the astounding ma- jority of two thousand and seventeen for a second term, which he completed in March. 1900. He was chairman of the ninth district Republican convention held at Lafayette in 1888 that renominated Hon. J. B. Cheadle for congress, and he also served in a similar ca- pacity in 1900 at the district convention held at Huntington, which selected delegates to the St. Louis national convention that nomi- nated William Mckinley for President. At the state convention in 1892 held at Ft. Wayne he was a member of the committee on res- olutions. In 1891 and 1892 he was editor and proprietor of the Kokomo Journal, a weekly political newspaper noted for its earnest- ness, aggressiveness and bright, original features. This paper he disposed of before entering upon his duties as auditor. That he has been loyal to his political convictions throughout his long and most active career is further emphasized by the fact that he cast his first presidential vote for General Scott in 1852, voted for every Republican President since that time and has attended every county and state convention of his party during all those years, besides many of the national conventions.
Captain Garrigus has been twice married. His first wife was Susan M. Whiteneck, of Greentown. All of the living children of this union are married, of whom Allen C. is now postoffice inspector for Oklahoma, maintaining his home in Kokomo, and Victor L., a
تابع مفيدة
L. SoKirkpatrick,
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clerk in the war department at Washington for the past eight years. The death of Mrs. Garrigus occurred January 3. 1900, and on Oc- tober 23, 1901, the captain was united in marriage to Marie Thomas. a native of Fayette county. To this union two children have been born, Genevieve and Leslie MI.
HON. LEX J. KIRKPATRICK.
Standing out distinctly as one of the central figures of the ju- diciary of Indiana is the name of Hon. Lex J. Kirkpatrick, of Ko- komo. Prominent in legal circles and equally so in public matters beyond the confines of his own jurisdiction, with a reputation in one of the most exacting of professions that has won him a name for distinguished service second to that of none of his contemporaries. there is today no more prominent or honored man in the state which he has long dignified by his citizenship. Achieving success in the courts at an age when most young men are just entering upon the formative period of their lives, wearing the judicial ermine with be- coming dignity and bringing to every case submitted to him a clear- ness of perception and ready power of analysis characteristic of the learned jurist, his name and work for years have been allied with the legal institutions, public enterprises and political interests of the state in such a way as to earn him recognition as one of the dis- tinguished citizens in a community noted for the high order of its talent. A high purpose and an unconquerable will, vigorous mental powers, diligent study and devotion to duty are some of the means by which he has made himself eminently useful, and every ambitious youth who fights the battle of life with the prospect of ultimate suc- cess may peruse with profit the biography herewith presented
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Lex J. Kirkpatrick is a native of Indiana and traces his gen- ealogy to a remote period in the history of Scotland, in which com- try the family of Kirkpatrick appears to have had its origin. It is a well established fact that certain of the name were living in the counties of Nithersdale and Galloway, as early as the ninth cen- tury and later by reason of the Jacobite troubles one of them was obliged to flee from Scotland and take refuge in Ireland, where the Kirkpatricks now comprise a very large and influential family, the descendants of George Kirkpatrick, constituting the most numerous branch. Another representative of the family. William Kirk- patrick, fled from Scotland during the Stuart war, and settled at Malaga, Spain. in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a man of prominence and influence, both in his own and adopted land, and is remembered chiefly as being the grandfather of Eugenie. widow of Napoleon the II, and Empress of France. The motto of the Scottish Kirkpatricks has long been the following sentiment. "1 mae sickar," or "1 make sure."
Three Kirkpatrick brothers, descendants of George Kirkpat- rick, came from Scotland to America a number of years prior to the War of Independence and settled in Pennsylvania, where they be- came actively identified with the growth and development of their respective communities. John Kirkpatrick, a son of one of these brothers, was born in the town of Easton and later moved to Harri- son county, Kentucky, where he is said to have suffered much from the depredations of the Indians. Consequently he served under General St. Clair in the latter's ill-starred expedition against the savage- and received a wound in the thigh which rendered him a cripple during the remainder of his life. Removing to Ross county. Ohio, he spent a number of years as a teacher and appears to have been a man of much more than ordinary intelligence, as well as public-spirited. He was twice married and became the father of
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eight children, five by his first wife and three by the second. Ilis eldest son. William, who was born June 8, 1776. in Pennsylvania, married in Harrison county, Kentucky. Anna Maize, whose birth occurred on April 17, of the year 1784. and whose parents immi grated to this country from Ireland some years prior to that date, and settled in the county of Harrison. Some time after their mar- riage William and Anna Kirkpatrick moved to Rush county, In- diana, where they spent the remainder of their days, he departing this life July 13. 1860, she on January 10. 1866. Of the large family that at one time gathered around the hearth-stone of this estimable couple, not one survives. John Kirkpatrick, the second child, and grandfather of the subject of this review, was born Octo- ber 23. 1802, in Harrison county, Kentucky, married in Fayette county. Indiana, in 1824, Nancy Oldham, whose birth occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 3d day of July, 1802. They also took up their residence in Rush county, and in due time became the parents of four children, namely: William, David. Stephen and Mrs. Mary Jane Austille, all living but William, who died April 4. 1874. and David. The father of these children departed this life in Rush county, August 8, 1848, the mother on the 28th day of August. 1868.
Stephen Kirkptarick, the judge's father, was born on the family homestead in Rush county, Indiana, February 10. 1832, and there grew to maturity and received such educational training as the in- different schools of the period could impart. In his twenty-first year he was united in marriage to Rebecca Jane Jackson, a native of Rush county, born February 14. 1834, the ceremony by which they were made husband and wife being solemnized on the 9th day of September, 1852. by John Legg. Esq .. well known justice of the peace of that county. William and Abigail Jackson, grandparents of Mrs. Stephen Kirkpatrick, were Virginians. Their family con-
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sisted of nine children, the seventh being Joseph Jackson, whose birth occurred in Surry county, North Carolina, March 1. 1794. and who married, November 13, 1817, Lydia Jeffrey, the latter born in the same county January 2. 1801. Joseph and Lydia Jackson in 1810 located in Union county, Indiana, and two years later moved to Rush county, settling on a farm in Washington township, where they spent the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Jackson dying Feb- ruary 8, 1841, her husband following her to the grave July 20, 1851. Of their eleven children Mrs. Rebecca J. Kirkpatrick is the only sur- vivor. Calvin C. Jackson, who died recently, was for many years a leading farmer and representative citizen of Mahaska county, Iowa, an ex-member of the legislature of that state and a successful and influential minister of the Christian church. John Tyler Jackson. the youngest of the children, for a number of years a distin- guished lawyer of Indianapolis and son-in-law of the late Lucien Barbour, died in that city on the 2d day of April, 1866.
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