A portrait and biographical record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all of the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Indiana, Part 117

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Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
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Joel D. Carter, son above, and our subject, was born in Hendricks county, Ind., January 29, 1827; he married Zernah, daughter of Shields and Edith (Hiatt) Moore, July. 21, 1847. They were married in Guilford county, N. C., and afterward moved to Randolph county, where the mother died, in July, 1826. In 1825

they had moved to Hendricks county. They were both members of the Friends' church and in politics he was formerly a whig. His second marriage was to Asenath Kellum and the chil- dren born to them were: Smith C., Samuel R., Annie, Ester. This wife died and he mar- ried Louisa Butler. Mrs. Louisa Carter died and his fourth marriage was to Emily Hiatt. The husband owns a farm of eighty acres and the wife owns one of thirty acres. He has been overseer in the Friends' church and in politics is a republican. The children born to this last union were Edith M., Samuel M. and Louisa.

HOMAS T. ANDERSON, de- ceased, of Plainfield, Hendricks coun- ty, Ind. The grandfather of Thomas T. Anderson was born in New Jersey and moved to Ohio and married Mary Thatcher and had born to him the following children: Julia A., Thomas T., Eliza, Joel, Martha, Ruth. They both lived near Cincinnati some years, then moved to Kosciusko county, lowa. where they died. The father, Thomas T. An- derson, was born in Ohio March 20, 1815, was a brick-mason, but usually engaged in farm- ing. especially in his later life. He married Martha N. Ashcroft, daughter of Archibald and Ann Ashcroft, of Ohio. Their children, in order, were: Mary A., Lydia, Julia A., Asen- ath, all now deceased. The wife died June 9. 1857, a member of the Society of Friends. The second marriage of Thomas T. Anderson, Sr., was with Annie White, widow of Will- iam C. Williams, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Coffin) White, of Guilford county, N. C., but later of Morgan county, Ind., having come here in 1825, and building a rail pen to put goods in until they could build a cabin. Both are deceased. One child was born to Mrs. Anderson by her first marriage, Hulda A., married to a Timberlake of Indianapolis. Mrs.

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Anderson's children by her second marriage were Lanie (deceased), Joel (deceased), Ben- jamin W. and Eli H., who attended the acad- emy at Plainfield and now is living with the mother and managing a 320-acre farm, with a good house and barn. Politically he is a stanch republican.

0 R. JESSE REAGAN, of Plainfield, Ind., has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine for over forty-nine years, sixteen years at this point. He is a son of Ruel Reagan, who was born in South Carolina, in 1796, and who married, in Zanesville, Ohio, Mary Mills, daughter of Marmaduke and Patience Mills. To this union the following children were born: Samuel, Elihu, Mary, Patience, Lydia, Ra- chael, Jesse and Leama. The parents lived respectively in Illinois, and in Wayne county, Randolph county, Marion county, Morgan county and Hendricks county, Ind. He was formerly an old-line whig, but later a repub- lican, and he and wife were active members of the Friends' church. He died in Morgan county, in January of 1880, his wife preceding him in October, 1874.

Dr. Jesse Reagan, our subject, was born in Wayne county, Ind., January 21, 1826. At the age of sixteen he left the farm and at- tended Asbury (now DePauw) university, but did not graduate. He read medicine four years with Dr. Jesse Hines, of Mooresville, Morgan county, then attended the Ohio Med- ical college, and received his degree. Some years later he attended the Ohio Medical col- lege; he then located at Newton, Marion coun- ty, Ohio, and practiced eleven years; he then returned to the same college and received the degree, and some years later he took the ad eundem degree at Indiana Medical college. He has above the average medical library, up to

date, takes journals, and uses Faradic and Galvanic batteries in certain lines of chronic diseases. He received an appointment by virtue of successful examination into the regu- lar army as assistant surgeon, and served in that capacity over three years during the late Civil war. After this service he was unex- pectedly appointed by Gov. Morton, with whom he was personally acquainted, in March, 1865, surgeon-in-chief of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth regiment, Indiana volunteers. The doctor married Nancy Kine, daughter of David and Rachael (Borsy) Kine, and this union has been blessed with two children: John W. and Flora E., both deceased. The doctor and wife are members of the Christian church, in which he is an elder. He is a stanch republican in politics.

A LBERT F. SMITH, township trustee of Brown township, Hendricks coun- ty, Ind., was born February 3, 1852. His great-grandfather, James Smith, was an early pioneer of Bourbon county, Ky., and in the days of Daniel Boone, with the other early settlers, often sought refuge in the block forts of the region as a protection from the attacks of the hostile savages, and in Bour- bon county he and wife passed their remaining days. Aaron Smith, son of the above and grandfather of our subject, was born in Bour- bon county, Ky., and was one of its earliest school-teachers. He married Fanny Thomas, and early emigrated to Boone county, Ind., and entered 120 acres of land in Perry town- ship, which was then a tract of frog-ponds and a general scene of desolation, but bountifully supplied with wild game, and on this land Aaron and his wife passed away their lives. Daniel Smith, son of Aaron and father of Al- bert T., was born in Bourbon county, Ky., and was but thirteen years of age when he ac-

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companied his father to Boone county. Ind., where he was reared to manhood on the farm, attending the pioneer school meanwhile, and becoming identified later with the history and progress of the township and county. He married Leanor Smith, a distant relative and daughter of John Smith, of Kentucky, and this union was blessed with the following- named children: Albert F., Henry E., Hen- rietta (deceased), George W., Mary F., Charles (deceased) and Alice (deceased). Mr. Smith was a Jacksonian democrat, and took an active interest in local politics, and he and wife were prominent members of the Baptist church, in the faith of which Mr. Smith died, in March, 1865; his widow then married James Shirley, and this couple still reside in Boone county, the parents of one child-Peter.

Albert T. Smith has always followed farm- ing as a vocation. He married Genevra Dale, daughter of Ambrose and Amanda (Vance) Dale, and to this marriage have been born the following children, Harvey Z., Ural E., Nora and Flora (both deceased,. Myrtle M., Han- nah, Leanuth, Ambrose and Maud (deceased), Amanda, Samuel, Arthur and Hassel. Of these, Harvey Z. attended the Lebanon high- school two years, and the Danville Normal college several terms, and is now one of the successful teachers of the township; his brother, Ural, is a graduate of the common schools. The farm of Albert F. Smith. comprising sev- enty acres, is adorned by a new and modern farm residence, is improved with a large barn and suitable outbuildings, and is in a high state of cultivation. In politics Mr. Smith is a stanch democrat, and he and wife are devout Baptists, in which church he is a deacon and also a trustee. He stands for progressiveness in school and church matters, and is, indeed, a leading citizen of Hendricks county. His tact and shrewdness as an agriculturist and gen- eral business man are universally recognized.

J OEL NEWLIN, a substantial farmer of Guilford township, Hendricks county. Ind., is of sturdy Irish descent, Nicholas Newlin having emigrated from Ireland, + and settled in Newlin township, Chester coun- ty, Pa., in 1682, a contemporary of William Penn. Eli Newlin, grandfather of Joel, was born in Guilford counry. N. C., was reared on a farm and obtained his education in the Friends' school. He married Sarah Hadley in Guilford county, N. C. The father, John Newlin, was born in Guilford county, N. C., , September 1, 1783, and died May 28, 1832; the mother was born in Georgia, August 28, 1786, and died February 1, 1873. They were married in Warren county, Ohio, soon settled in Clinton county, Ohio, entered land and cleared up a home of 300 acres. The father having died comparatively young, the mother sold and moved to Indiana, two years later, and settled in Hendricks county in 1834, on a farm of 160 acres, where our subject now re- sides. The children in order of birth were named: Eli, William, Jane, Joshua, Sarah, Ruth, John, David, Phineas and Elias (twins). Joel and Ester. John was drowned in a spring when two years old; the others all lived to be married.

Joel Newlin, our subject, was born in Clin- ton county, Ohio, August 26, 1824; he was reared on a farm and always inured to farm labor and married, August 13, 1846, Mary Os- born, of Hendricks county, a daughter of David and Annie (Stanley) Osborn, who were both from North Carolina. They married April 1, 1824, and had one child born to them in North Carolina. In 1825 they came here. settled in Center township and took up 120 acres. Her father was born September 30, 1797, and her mother was born July 7, 1803. He died March 11, 1879, and she died Octo- ber 31, 1850, members of the Friends' church, in which the father was an elder and the

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mother an overseer. The father married for his second wife, November 12, 1856, Annie Montgomery. The children born to the first marriage were: Addison, Mary, Laugena, Ruth, Calvin, Maria, Nancy, William, Elizabeth, Wyatt, Asenath, Job, Eunice and Mordecai. There were no children born to the second marriage. The children of our subject are named: Annie, Addison, Elias, David, Martha, Calvin, all living. Our subject and wife miar- ried in Center township, Hendricks county, and located on a farm in Guilford township, lived there two years and then settled on the present farm, where they have continually re- sided since 1856. The farm formerly com- prised 200 acres, 120 acres of which have been equally divided with the children, leaving eighty acres in the home farm, which will com- pare favorably with any eighty-acre farm in the township. They have a good residence and barn. Both parents have been elders in the Friends' church for years. They have lived a life strictly temperate and reared a family which is an honor to their name. They stand unusually high and are favorably known to a large circle of friends.

0 R. FRANK H. HURON, one of the prominent physicians of Danville, Ind., is a native of Hendricks county and a soldier who did not hesitate to serve his country in the great Civil war. His grandfather spelled the name "Mahurin." His son dropped the "Ma" and spelled the name "Hurin." Ophniel, the grandfather of our subject, first spelled the name Huron. He was one of the pioneers of Warren county, Ohio, where he resided until his death. Benjamin O. Huron, the father of our subject, was born in Warren county, Ohio, December 31, ISII, became a farmer, and, when a young man, came to Hendricks county, in 1832, with other

members of the family, as follows: Seth, Anna (who married a Payne), Bertha (who married a Ross) and Phœbe (who married a Bernhill). Benjamin A. Huron entered 320 acres of land in Washington township, where he became a substantial farmer. In 1833 he married Catherine, daughter of Aaron and Han- nah (Moore) Harding, and to Mr. and Mrs. Huron were born ten children in the following order: Ophniel (deceased aged five years), George A., Frank H., Luella, Sarah J., Esther A., Kate, Seth T., Mary E. and Willis B. Mr. Huron and wife were members of the Method- ist church, in which he was an official for many years, and was also one of the original pro- moters of the Methodist church in this county. He had two sons old enough to serve in the Civil war and they both became soldiers: George A., who was in company I, Seventh Indiana volunteer infantry, and was promoted to quartermaster sergeant, and served three years, and Frank H., our subject, whose mili- tary sketch is given below. Mr. Huron lived to be seventy-six years old and died from the results of a railroad accident in 1887.

Dr. Frank H. Huron, our subject, was born on his father's farm March 25, 1840, re- ceived the common school education and at- tended the old Danville academy, which was an excellent institution. While here, at the age of about twenty-one years, he enlisted, April 18, 1861, in company A, Seventh regi- ment Indiana volunteer infantry. He served 105 days and was honorably discharged at In- dianapolis August 2, 1861. His company was the first to leave Hendricks county, and the regiment was the first to leave Indiana for the front. After the expiration of this service, Dr. Huron re-enlisted at Danville, Ind., July 17, 1862, in company C, Seventieth regiment In- diana volunteer infantry, for three years. He was promoted to sergeant, then color bearer, then first sergeant. He was in the battles

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of Russellville, Ky., and in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. After the fall of Atlanta, our sub- ject went with Gen. Sherman on the famous march to the sea. He was also present at the grand review at Washington, where he was honorably discharged, June 7, 1865, the war having closed. On his return from the war, he studied medicine with Dr. Cowan, of Valley Falls, Kan., and afterward attended the Hahne- mann medical college of Chicago. He first be- gan the practice of medicine at Valley Falls, Kan., in 1872, remained there until 1882, when he came to Danville, where his practice is now very extensive. In 1867 he married Elizabeth, daughter of McClure and Elizabeth (Brown) Cowan. The doctor and his wife have five children: Mary L., Edith K., Grace, Hugh and Ralph. Dr. and Mrs. Huron are members of the Methodist church, in which he has been steward. Socially, he is a member of the K. of P., and is prelate of Danville lodge, No. 46. He is also ex-post commander and sur- geon of the Danville post, G. A. R. Politi- cally, he is a stanch republican. The doctor is a patron and a wide reader of the leading medical journals of the day and keeps up with the times. He possesses a reliable medical li- brary and is a member of the Indiana Medical institute.

EORGE T. PATTISON, one of the reliable business men of Danville, Ind., and a member of the firm of Trotter & Pattison, real estate dealers and abstractors, was born July 18, 1857, in Henry county, Ind., and is the son of William B. and Susan A. (Colville) Pattison. He re- ceived his education at Lebanon, Ohio, and at the Danville (Ind.) Normal college, and has been instructor in the Normal since 1885, in the commercial department. In April, 1894, he formed his present business connection

with John W. Trotter. Mr. Pattison married. August 3. 1886, Jennie M. Downard, daughter of Robert and Catherine (King) Downard, and to this union have been born two children, Mariam and Albert N. Mr. Pattison and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is secretary of the church board. He is also a member of Silcox lodge, I. O. O. F., Danville, and has passed all the chairs. including noble grand, and has been represent- ative to the grand encampment and will repre- sent the grand lodge at its next session. In politics he is a republican.

e RASMUS D. NICHOLS, of Danville, Ind., one of the old soldiers of the Civil war, is a son of Col. Thomas Nichols, whose portrait and biography appear elsewhere. He received a good edu- cation, attending the old Danville academy, which he left to enlist, June 10, 1862, in com- pany A. Fifty-third Indiana infantry, for three years, or during the war. He served until honorably discharged two years later and re- enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana infantry, and was pro- moted to sergeant. He served nine months and was honorably discharged in 1865, on ac- count of the closing of the war. He was, for some time, on duty at Gen. Grant's head- quarters, at Savannah, and was in several skirmishes; was at Blue Springs, Tenn., Strawberry Plains and Clinch Mountain, and his brigade is known as the Persimmon brigade, on account of the supply trains and rations be- ing cut off and the troops subsisting on the forage of the country, which wasalmost barren. They lived on parched corn, persimmons, chestnuts, etc. He has been in the drug busi- ness since the war, including six years in Indi- anapolis, two in Terre Haute, and the re- mainder of the time in Danville. He married,

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in 1868, Sallie Gregg, daughter of Martin Gregg, of Danville, and they were the parents of one child, Mamie G. Fraternally Mr. Nichols is a Mason of Western Star lodge, No. 26, Danville, and of the G. A. R., Jesse S. Ogden post, No. 164, and was at one time of- ficer of the day. He is also one of the repre- sentatives to the next annual state encampment at Muncie. Mr. Nichols is one of the most genial and popular men in Danville.

S AMUEL STARBUCK, of Guilford township, Hendricks county, Ind., is one of the prominent old settlers, of English descent. His great-grand- father, Thomas Starbuck, was a citizen of Nantucket isle. Hezekiah Starbuck, his grand- father, was born on Nantucket isle, but spent his later life in Guilford county, N. C. Gayer Starbuck, father of our subject, was born on Nantucket isle also, in 1770, married Susanna Dillon (Starbuck), daughter of Jesse and Han- nah (Ruckman) Dillon, of Guilford county, N. C. The father and mother were married in Guilford county, N. C., where they lived some years and them emigrated to Clinton county. Ohio, and made a farm of 300 acres. He was a substantial citizen, and a member of the Friends' church, to which faith his wife also adhered. Politically he was a whig.

Samuel Starbuck, our subject, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, September 27, 1812, taught school some years in Clinton county, I and married, in that state, Rebecca Fineas. Mrs. Rebecca Starbuck died, and his second marriage was to Luzina Jessup. To this union the following children were born, in the order named: Isaac, Asa, Annie, Levi, Calvin, Ella, Alva, Elwood, William and Edwin A. Our subject has lived on his present farm since 1834. This farm formerly consisted of 300 acres, but he has divided all but 160 acres

with his children. He and wife are members of the Progressive Friends' church. First he was a whig. but later a republican, and is now a stanch prohibitionist.

A LBERT MAXWELL, a substantial farmer of Guilford township, Hen- dricks county, Ind., is of Scotch- Irish descent. His great-grandfather emigrated to America from Ireland. His grand- father, Hugh Maxwell, was a native of Ten- nessee, and came to Union county, Ind., in 1816, among the earliest settlers, entered land, and finally made a farm of 160 acres. He married, in Knox county, Tenn., and contin- ued to live on his farm in Union county, Ind., the remainder of his life. Hugh Maxwell, father of Albert, was born in 1801, in Knox county, Tenn. He was sixteen years of age when he came to Indiana, and received a com- mon school education. He married Annie, daughter of William and Miriam (Gardner) Talbot, from Guilford county, N. C., and prominent in the Friends' church, he being an elder and overseer, and a substantial and lead- ing farmer. The children were born in this or- der: Alpheus, Calvin (deceased), Moses, Aaron (deceased). Albert, Benjamin, Sarah, Martha, Louisa (deceased) and Mary A. Hugh Max- well and wife settled on 200 acres, and he be- came a substantial farmer. He died in 1884, and she died in 1885.

Albert Maxwell, our subject, was born in Union county, Ind., January 15, 1834, was reared on a farm and used to farm labor. He married, December 9, 1857, Maria Haworth, native of Blount county, Tenn., whose parents cleared a farm and lived in Rush county, Ind., several years, but moved back to the home county on 160 acres. Their children were born in the following order: James B., Benja- min, Solomon, Calvin, Cynthia A., Maria, Han-

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nah, Richard, Hester, Emily, Sarah, Leah and Bethema J. The mother of this family died in Hendricks county in 1878; the father is still living in Morgan county, Ind., at the age of eighty-eight years. The grandfather, Rich- ard Haworth, married Hannah Whitlock. He died in Blount county, and she married John Maxwell, and came to Wayne county, Ind. The children born to the subject are: Daton J., Annie, Arthur B., Allen, Mary, Edna, Ed- ward and Flora. Mr. Maxwell and wife were married in Vermillion county, Ind., where they resided for some time, and then immigrated to Hendricks county, Ind., in 1864. He has a farm of 160 acres which will compare favor- ably with any farm in the county. with a mod- ern farm residence and barn. They are mem- bers of the orthodox church of Friends, and politically he is a stanch republican. Both he and wife are well and favorably known.

HOMAS THOMPSON, of Coatsville, Ind., is one of the old soldiers of the Civil war, and is the son of S. and Sarah E. (Dalle) Thompson. He was born in Putnam county, Ind., of Kentucky stock, June 29, 1839, his parents coming from Montgomery county, Ky. He received the common education of his day and learned the trade of carpenter. He married Sarah E., daughter of James H. Smith, April 1, 1861. He enlisted September 10, 1861, at Bain- bridge, Ind., in company B, Forty-third Indi- ana infantry, to serve three years, or during the war, under Capt. F. M. Darnall. He was in the battles Helena, Island No. 10, siege of Memphis, Vicksburg, Fort Donelson, Fort Pillow, Mountian Meadow, Camden, Dowell's Bluff, Shreveport, La., and many skirmishes. After the war he resumed the carpenter's trade in Putnam county, Ind., and since has been engaged in the livery business at Coats-

ville, Ind. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson five children have been born: Gertrude, Cora, Frank, Fred and Maudie, all living. Mr. Thompson is a member of the I. O. O. F., at Bainbridge, Ind., and has passed all the chairs. In politics he is a republican.

OAH N. PATRICK, postmaster of Coatsville, Hendricks county, Ind., was born October 25, 1835, in Put- nam county, Ind., near Greencastle. His remote ancestors were of Scotch-Irish ex- traction and were early settlers of the Blue Ridge country of Virginia, and were active pa- triots in the war for American independence. His father, Gabriel Patrick, was born in Vir- ginia in 1805, and in 1822 located in Bath county, Ky,, whence he came, when about twenty-one years of age, to Putnam county, Ind., taught school awhile, and then returned to Bath county, Ky., married Zeziah Williams, came once more to Indiana and entered forty acres of land three and one-half miles south- west of Greencastle, where he established the first brick-kiln in the county and erected the first brick house. Ten years later he sold out, and bought 120 acres south of Mount Merid- ian, and cleared up a farm, which he sold in 1849, and purchased 320 acres in Morgan county, on which he resided until his death in 1863, at fifty-eight years of age. He had been an accomplished school-teacher, had served as justice of the peace several terms, and was the father of eleven children, viz: Herod, John, Jeremiah, Noah N., Grant, Tabitha A., Martha J., Mary, Margaret, Ruby, and W. C.

The marriage of Noah N. Patrick took place December 6, 1855, to Phobe A. Allee, daughter of Pleasant and Laura (McCarty) Allee, after which he settled in Morgan county and cleared up a good farm. In 1862, in Sep- tember, at Eminence, Morgan county, Ind.,

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Mr. Patrick enlisted in company B, Fifty- ninth Indiana volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, and served until mus- tered out, June 25. 1865, at Washington, D. C., having fought at Island No. 10, Corinth, Holly Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Chatta- nooga, in the Atlanta campaign, Resaca, Dal- ton, Buzzard's Roost, on the march of Sher- man to the sea, at Bentonville, and Fort Mc- Allister, and, in fact, in all the engagements in which his regiment took part, and then par- ticipated in the grand review at Washington. After the war Mr. Patrick engaged in mer- cantile business at Eminence, Morgan county, Ind., until Februrary 1, 1885, when he came to Coatsville and engaged in the insurance busi- ness until July 4. 1893. when he was appointed postmaster. To Mr. and Mrs. Patrick have been born three children, named Mary C., Montraville and William S. Fraternally, Mr. Patrick is a Freemason and a member of the G. A. R.

J AMES W. PHILLIPS, one of the suc- cessful farmers of Brown township, Hendricks county, is a native of Jeffer- son county, Ind., born April 7, 1837, a son of Thomas and Susan Phillips. His father was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to Indiana with his parents in an early day. Of ten children born to his parents six are still living: Newton E., James W., Alexander W., Melville, Milton A. and Susan. James W. Phillips was reared in his native county, and made it his home until the fall of 1865, when he moved to Hendricks county and in 1 867 settled on the farm where he now lives, on section twenty-two, Brown township. His farm contains 130 acres of fine land, and his improvements are large and comfortable and in good repair. Mr. Phillips is an energetic, industrious man, and is one of the prosperous

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Author: Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1080

Author:
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080