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In the Cornelius family there were ten children, seven of whom reached mature years. They are as follows : Mary Ann, wife of Marion. Hise, both deceased ; Celestine, wife of G. W. Lane, of Danville, Illinois, and she is now deceased ; William F., of Linton, Indiana, engaged in the
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insurance and real estate business; Daniel B., of Linton, an architect ; Margaret Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Edward Estes Laymon, an attorney of Santiago, California, and a man of much wealth, whose other home is at Des Moines, Iowa; Sarah Emily, wife of Ransom Bedwell, of Springfield, Missouri, a farmer by occupation; Jennie, wife of Mr. Brewer, of this memoir.
John E. Brewer and wife are the parents of the following children : Walter Cornelius, born at Graysville, Indiana, September 6, 1878, unmar- ried and at home; Samuel Scott, born at Graysville, December 5, 1880, unmarried, and is an attorney, practicing law at Indianapolis, a graduate of the Indianapolis Law School, being admitted to practice in all of the courts within the United States, the date of final admission being June 7, 1907 ; Nellie, born at New Lebanon, Indiana, March 14, 1883, unmarried, a teacher at present and will graduate in the Indiana State Normal School in class of 1910; Mabel, born at New Lebanon, July 4, 1886, now at home; John Thaddeus, born at New Lebanon, August 26, 1888, also at home.
It is said that of all the members of the Brewer family none have ever been brought before the law; all are Republicans and members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the same may be said of the Cor- nelius family in detail. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer have in their possession two of the old deeds, one executed August 9, 1823, the oldest found in Sullivan county so far and given under the hand of President James Monroe, and the other deed executed November 24, 1828, is by President John Q. Adams.
WILLIAM H. JONES, JR., who is numbered among the largest land- owners and large farmers within Sullivan county, is a native of Fayette county, Ohio, born October 21, 1855, a son of William H. and Olavi (Hidy) Jones. The mother was born in Fayette county, Ohio, and the father in Denbigh, Wales. He came to this country when about twenty- five years old, landing in New York City. He spent one year at Phila- delphia, going from there to New Orleans, where he remained one year, and from that city he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for about five years he studied medicine and graduated in the same. He commenced the practice of medicine at Oak Hill, Ohio, in 1851, but after a short period there went to Jeffersonville, Ohio, and bought out the practice of another physician. He was married there and resided there almost four years, then moved onto the farm adjoining the town, which land his wife had inherited. He remained there the balance of his life, dying in 1894 at about the age of seventy-eight years. His wife died two years later, being about seventy years old. Seven children were born to Dr. Jones and wife: Mary Jane, wife of Luther M. Irwin, residing on the old homestead, near Jeffersonville, Ohio: William H., of this memoir ; Humphrey, an attorney residing in Washington Court House, Ohio; Emma O., unmarried and practicing medicine at Columbus, Ohio; Cary,
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Mary M. L. Jones.
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practicing law at London, Ohio; Minnie, wife of Dallas Reading, of Detroit, Michigan. Another child, the next to the youngest in the family, died in infancy.
William H. Jones, Jr., grew up as a farmer's son, performing what- ever work seemed best at the time, regardless of the kind. He attended the district schools while living in Ohio, and also the high school of Jeffer- sonville. At the age of nineteen years, he entered Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio, and took a four year course, graduating in 1879. Later, he taught mathematics in the same college for a year, then attended Harvard Law School one year.
After he had finished his schooling, he married and settled down on a farm, near Jeffersonville, Ohio, where he remained five years. While there, he also followed civil engineering and surveying in that and the adjoining counties. Subsequently, he moved to Washington Court House and engaged in the mortgage loan business, making loans on farm prop- erty mostly, and also conducted an abstract business, continuing there until 1899. He then sold his farm in Ohio, adjoining the town, and came to Sullivan county, Indiana, locating in Gill township, in March, 1899. He had bought his land here of the Rogers heirs, of Fayette county, with the understanding that they would help circulate a petition for the construction of a levee, so the deal for the land was not closed until this petition had been granted. The tract comprised 615 acres and the day on which the petition was granted, he purchased 120 acres addi- tional from John D. and H. Springer. To this he has added, from time to time, until he now possesses 834 acres, besides being interested in 380 acres held jointly by himself and his brother Humphrey, an attorney of Washington Court House, Ohio, who is the owner of more than three thousand acres of land. Mr. Jones is superintending this large possession in Sullivan county, besides a two hundred acre tract belonging to his sister, and on which land he holds a ten year lease. He is an extensive and thoroughgoing agriculturist, raises grain and stock, and gets the greatest possible return by feeding up the product of the land he works, thus insuring the perpetual fertility of his soil. He raises from five hun- dred to one thousand head of hogs annually, and horses and cattle in proportion.
Mr. Jones, by reason of his educational training and experience, is fully capable of doing almost any kind of business which he might embark in, but prefers the independence of a farmer's life, which to him is also one of much profit. Politically, he supports the Democratic party, seeing in its platforms and principles, that which he believes the best for the average American citizen.
He was united in marriage, October 18, 1882, to Miss Mary M. Loughead, born in Montezuma, Iowa, February 29, 1856, a daughter of C. B. and Elizabeth (Roup) Loughead. C. B. Loughead was a native of Pennsylvania, born November II, 1822, while the mother was born in Ohio, January 15, 1831. The father went to Ohio in 1845 and there engaged in carpentering and the work of a millwright. He married
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there and moved, after nine years, to Iowa and followed his trades there for about three years, then returned to Ohio, where he died in December, 1889. The mother died March 4, 1892. Mrs. Jones received her educa- tional training in the public schools in Meigs county, Ohio. She entered Buchtel College in 1877, and she was graduated in the class of 1882 in the classical department. While pursuing her scholastic course she was a teacher as assistant in Latin in Buchtel College, being such for three years. She is a member of the Universalist church.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of five children as follows : Cyrinthia, born July 11, 1884, single and attending Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio; Helen Olavi, born January 30, 1887, died March 3, 1890; William Hermon, born November 12, 1888, now in Buchtel College at Akron; Lucy, born October 8, 1890, died February 22, 1892; Ruth Elizabeth, born January 14, 1893, at home with her parents, student at New Lebanon, Ind.
LEWIS C. BAUGHMAN, one of the substantial agriculturists residing in Gill township, Sullivan county, is a son of Christopher and Emeline (Davis) Baughman. Lewis C. was born August 24, 1854. His father was a native of Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. The father came to Indiana and located in Jackson county about 1840. He was a blacksmith, and at first settled at Reddington, but soon after removed to Pea Ridge, bought a farm and erected a blacksmith's shop. He carried on his shop, and also operated his farm, for about three years, when he went to Missouri, locating in Monitor county, but subsequently he moved to Benton county, where he operated a farm in connection with the blacksmith's trade. He remained there until his death in 1862. He was united in marriage in Jackson county, his wife's people being among the pioneer settlers there. The wife died in Jennings county, on a farm about 1883. Christopher and Emeline (Davis) Baughman were the parents of nine children, as follows: Christopher, deceased; Mary, de- ceased; John, deceased ; Enoch, residing in California"; Martha, a resident of Jennings county ; Ormal G., in Jennings county ; Lewis ; William, de- ceased ; Silas E., a resident of Jackson county.
Lewis C. Baughman attended the district schools of both Barthol- omew and Jackson counties. Since eleven years of age, he has supported himself. He began work at eight dollars a month, one-half of which he gave to his mother. He continued so to work and divide his earnings until he was sixteen years of age. From that date until he was twenty- three years old, he worked for others and kept all of his earnings himself. He then married and rented a farm in Jackson county, remaining there for four years, after which he lived on and cultivated a farm belonging to his father-in-law for twenty years, which farm became the property of Mrs. Baughman. They sold this farm and purchased the one hundred and forty-three acres where they now reside. This change was brought about in 1905. Here the family expect to make their permanent home,
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and general farming and stock-raising is carried on after an orderly and modern plan, hog-raising being a special feature of the stock-farming.
Mr. Baughman was married October 19, 1881, to Mary E. Gant, born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, in February, 1858, a daughter of Riley and Martha (Wiggs) Gant. The Wiggs family came from North Carolina, her parents being early settlers in that section of the state. The father, who followed farming pursuits, died about 1887 ; the mother still survives, and resides on the old homestead in Bartholomew county. In the Gant family there were five children, Mrs. Baughman being the oldest. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Baughman are as follows : Clarence, deceased ; one who died in infancy; Alice, who died at the age of five years; another who died in infancy; Joseph L., Charles, Dewey and Estella Lenore, the last four being still at home.
Mr. Baughman is an honored member of the Knights of Pythias order, and has passed all the official chairs of his lodge, as well as repre- senting his lodge at the grand lodge of Indiana. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in his political party affiliations is a Democrat, but has not sought for, nor held political office.
GEORGE D. SCHAFFER, one of the substantial farmers living in Sul- livan county, was born near Edwardsport, Knox county, Indiana, March 22, 1860. He is the son of William and Angeline (Neal) Schaffer. The father was a native of Germany, born July 27, 1829, and the mother of Knox county, born about 1837. William Schaffer came to America in 1844, with an older brother, and first located at Washington, Davis county, Indiana, near which place he was employed as a farm hand a few years. His next employment was in the packing house of A. Simonson, Edwardsport, Indiana, where he remained a few years more and then went into a dry goods store as a clerk and later became a partner in the business, thus proving his ability to accomplish something in the busy world. He continued in trade for twenty years, at the end of which time he embarked in the real estate business. He also owned a large flat-boat, which he employed in transporting pork and corn to the far-away city of New Orleans. He only resided in Washington a short time, but lived at Edwardsport up to 1869, when he purchased a good farm in Jefferson township, Sullivan county, Indiana, where he resided for twenty years and then removed to Carlisle. The later portion of his life he spent with his children, his death occurring December 29, 1906. His first wife passed away about 1870, and he married again, and the last companion died May 1, 1882. She was born in Delaware county, and this was also her second marriage, her former husband being a Mr. Hadden, who died several years prior to her second marriage. The children by the first union of William Schaffer were as follows: Five are long since deceased and the surviving ones are: J. W., residing in Bicknell; George D., of this memoir ; W. E., of Dayton, Texas; Nora, wife of Anson Hildebrand, of Sandborn, Knox county, Indiana.
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George D. Schaffer attended the common schools of Jefferson town- ship, where he was compelled, in the absence of anything better, to sit upon split log benches, as the school building was of the most rude and primitive style. He was a dutiful son and remained under the parental roof until he reached his majority, when he bought eighty acres of land in Jefferson township and began to farm for himself. He did not move to this place, but continued to reside at the old homestead and helped care for the father until the other children were old enough to take care of the place. At this time the father moved to Carlisle, and George D. purchased the old home, disposing of his first farm. He remained on the old place until 1891, then sold it and moved to Bloomfield, Greene county, Indiana, where he engaged in the butcher business, but only for a short time. He then moved to Carlisle and remained until the death of his wife in 1892, when he broke up housekeeping and followed no special vocation until he came to his present place in the autumn of 1893. He has made many fine . and attractive improvements upon his place, which contains ninety-eight acres. At the present time ( 1908) Mr. Schaffer has his land rented, but resides on the same.
In his church connection Mr. Schaffer affiliates with the Baptist church, while in political choice he favors the Democratic party. He has never sought, or held public office. He was united in marriage, first, May 24, 1882, to Mary E. Corbin, born in Sullivan county, August 20, 1860, a daughter of John and Angeline (Douthit) Corbin. Her people were substantial farmers and the parents were both natives of Sullivan county, Indiana, and both are now deceased. Mary E. (Corbin) Schaffer died September 13, 1892. The issue by this union was three children : Ira D., now of Knox county, is the assistant cashier of a bank at Sanborn : Charles W., who died at the age of twenty-one years; and another child who died in infancy. For his second wife Mr. Schaffer married, February 28, 1894, Miss Kate C. Brentlinger, born at Carlisle, November 20, 1866, daughter of A. J. and Mary L. (Collins) Brentlinger, who were residents of Carlisle and farmers by occupation. The father died and the mother still lives at Carlisle, on the old farm. To this union there were born the following children : Clyde E. Schaffer, Ward E., Rush L., Wayne A., Fern M., all at home. The mother of this family died April 30, 1902, and June 15, 1904, Mr. Schaffer married for his third wife, Margaret E. Wampler, born near Bicknell, September 8, 1860, a daughter of Daniel and Susan (Slinkard) Wampler, residents of Knox county. Her father was a farmer, but both he and his wife are now dead. There is no issue by the last marriage of Mr. Schaffer.
DANIEL J. VAUGHN is a true type of a self-made and thorough- going farmer, whose industry and frugality have put him in possession of a most excellent farm home, which estate contains one hundred and sixty-five acres of choice land in Gill township, Sullivan county, Indiana. He is a native of Sullivan county, born October 4, 1872, son of James W.
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and Sarah E. (Hayden) Vaughn. The father and mother were also natives of Indiana, the mother being born in Orange county, and both still live on a farm in Gill township, Sullivan county. There were nine children in the family of James W. and Sarah E. Vaughn, as follows : Julia, wife of J. C. Alsop, of Cass township, Sullivan county ; Daniel J., of this sketch; Benjamin F., of Cass township; Joseph M., of the same township; Mary and Sarah (twins), who died in infancy ; Ruth M., wife of Morris Unger, residing in Terre Haute ; Hayden, at home; Paul, with his father. The father was a soldier in the Union cause at the time of the Civil war, serving in a Missouri regiment throughout the entire conflict.
Daniel J. Vaughn remained at his parents' home until he attained his majority, when his father gave him a horse, after which he worked the land in partnership with his father until 1903. Daniel J. then pur- chased one hundred and fifteen acres of land, upon which he now resides, and where he carries on a successful farming business on his own account. After he bought this farm, he "bached" one year, then rented the place a year, after which he married and moved to the farm. Subsequently he added fifty acres more to his place. Mr. Vaughan has accumulated this handsome property alone, and fully appreciates its cost as well as its value.
In his political views Mr. Vaughn is a firm and uncompromising. supporter of the fundamental principles of the Republican party. He has been too busy a man to seek office at the hands of the public, but was a deputy assessor until he was forced to abandon its duties on account of sickness. He was a deputy under Charles Farrell, assessor. Mr. Vaughn and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are exemplary Christians. In his fraternal relations he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and at one time belonged to the Odd Fellows' order, but is not connected at this time.
Mr. Vaughn was united in marriage March 19, 1905, to Miss Edith Jackson, born at Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, October 30, 1882, a daughter of George W. and Yula (Satterwhite) Jackson. The mother was born October 24, 1857, and the father April 4, 1845. The parents were both natives of Owen county, Kentucky, where they were married, coming to Indiana in 1878, first locating at Franklin. The father worked on the railroad for some years, then began farming, which vocation he still follows. In the Jackson family there were nine children, as follows : William C., of Gill township; Emma A., wife of Frank Fisher, residing near Danville, Indiana; Homer H., with his father in Gill township; Isaac, who died in infancy; Edith (Mrs. Vaughn) ; George F., with parents ; Verna D., wife of Benjamin Hale, of Gill township; Walter and Robert Lee, at home.
CHARLES L. ENGLE, who ranks among the best of the many excellent farmers tilling the fertile lands of Gill township, Sullivan county, Indiana, is a native of Jackson township, this county, born November 16, 1859, a son of Joseph B. and Letitia (Rusher) Engle, both natives of Hamilton
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township, Sullivan county, Indiana. Joseph B. Engle was born May 15, 1822, and was a farmer, as was his father, who was a native of Kentucky and served as a soldier in the war of 1812-14. He made his home in Hamilton township, Sullivan county, with his son, and there died. His wife had died previously. Joseph B. Engle served in the Mexican war one year, having enlisted in May, 1846. After his return from that war he engaged in farming and also became interested in lumbering and saw- milling. Subsequently he moved to Jackson township, remained there a few years, and then came back to his farm, where his son now resides. The father died there May 24, 1904, and his wife, who was born April 8, 1832, still survives and lives with her son, Charles L.
Charles L. Engle received the most of his schooling at the district schools of Hamilton township. In his father's family there were five chil- dren, of whom he is the youngest. He was a dutiful son assisting about the farm work, or whatever seemed best for the general interest of the family, until twenty-four years of age. Then he bought his brother's interest in the homestead, consisting of eighty acres. Here he continued to farm, later adding forty acres more to his place and making substantial improve- ments on the premises, until now he possesses one of the finest farm homes within the county, including an almost palatial residence. He does a general farming business as well as raises much stock. In church con- nection he is of the Christian faith, as were his parents. In his political 'views he is a faithful supporter of the Republican party, but has never aspired to public office. He has long been a member of the Odd Fellows' order, having passed through all of the chairs of the society at Carlisle.
Mr. Engle was united in marriage May 7, 1883, to Louise B. Willard, a sketch of whose family will be found under the head of Rufus O. Willard, her father. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Willard : . Nellie, wife of Frank Mickle, of Grape Creek, Illinois, where he is a tele- graph operator ; Abbie, in the high school of Carlisle, and residing with her parents ; Marie, at home, in high school also; Joseph, at home : Ger- trude, at home ; Rufus, at home ; Alice, at home ; William, the second in the family, is deceased.
GEORGE W. UNGER, one of the well-to-do and highly progressive farmers of Sullivan county, residing on the fifth rural free delivery route out from Carlisle, is a native of Haddon township, Sullivan county, born November 23, 1876, a son of John and Catherine (Lake) Unger. The Unger family are French, the father having come from that country about 1866. He worked for various persons at various employments for a number of years, then purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Haddon township, upon which he still resides. Possessed of all the manly and intelligent qualities of the French people, he has woven about him a large circle of admirers and friends.
Having only the advantages of the district schools of Gill and Had- don townships, George W. Unger improved this schooling, and with
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careful reading as the years have gone by he has become a well-informed man. When twenty-one years of age he rented his father's farm for about five years, then purchased forty acres in Haddon township, but did not occupy it, selling it a year later. He next bought the two hundred acre farm on which he now lives, and where he carries on an up-to-date place, dealing quite largely in stock, including a registered Clydesdale stallion and a fine jack. Politically he favors the principles laid down by the plat- form of the Republican party.
November 3, 1902, Mr. Unger was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Hale, born in Cass township. Sullivan county, Indiana; in 1880, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Clayton) Hale. Her mother is deceased and the father resides in Haddon township, where he has lived many years. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Unger ; the first died in infancy, and Richard Paul and Frank Hale are at home.
ALONZO P. PIFER, one of the busy and enterprising farmers, who reaps bountifully where he sows, within the borders of that most excellent and fertile township known as Gill, in Sullivan county, is a native of Crawford county, Illinois, born December II, 1861, a son of Oliver P. and Mary C. (Davis) Pifer. The mother was born in Licking county, Ohio, January 30, 1842, and the father, December 24, 1840, at Merom, Gill township, Sullivan county, Indiana. The father was a lifelong farmer who in 1860 owned a farm in Illinois. He was drafted into the U. S. service at the time of the Civil war, but hired a substitute to go in his place. He continued to farm in that state ten years, then removed to Haddon township, Sullivan county, Indiana, and purchased the farm upon which he still resides. He has now tilled the fields of this place for more than two score years. He was bereft of his good wife January 31, 1866.
Alonzo P. Pifer attended the district schools at what is known as the Texas school, in Haddon township, and also at Carlisle. He was industrious and of great service to his father on the farm and continued to work with a right good will until one year past his majority, when he worked out for others for two years. He then married and became a farm renter in Haddon township, continuing about four years, when he removed to his present place, where he has made many substantial im- provements. He located here in 1892. His farm consists of fifty-five acres, which he works himself, besides attending to lands in the vicinity which he has leased. He pays much attention to stock, together with grain-growing. Like every intelligent American citizen, Mr. Pifer has his own preferences in relation to parties and governmental affairs. He favors the principles of the great Democratic party, but has never sought or held public office, leaving that duty to those who see in it a pleasure and sometimes profit. He is of the Christian church faith and attends the church of that denomination.
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