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 32

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

USA > Indiana > Boone County > 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 32
USA > Indiana > Clinton County > 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 32
USA > Indiana > Hendricks County > 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 32

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

Egbert Higbee was married May 7, 1861, to Annie Stratton, born October 2, 1840, in Preble county, Ohio. She was educated at the school managed by the Society of Friends, and is a highly cultured lady, has taught for a number of terms, and is the granddaughter of Eli Stratton, who is of English ancestors, his wife being Eunice Dallas, who sprang from Welch ancestors. He was a merchant and lived in Philadelphia. In 1822 they moved to Ohio, which was then a wilderness. His son, who was fourteen years of age, on seeing wolves, thought they were dogs and told his father he could not tell whose dogs they were. His father said, "don't stop to look at dogs, for they are wolves." He opened a country store where were sold all kinds of merchandise. One day a woman who had failed to buy calico that was fast colors came to look at some dishes, of which they were all patterns and colors made in those days. When asked which color she whould have, she repiled, "any color that will hide dirt." He built a grist mill and moved near Richmond, Ind., and there died at the age of sixty-three. He was an old-line whig. They were members of the Society of Friends, and his widow died at Raysville, Ind., aged eighty-seven years. Their children were Sarah C., who died at Richmond; Johnathan D., died at New Lon- don, Howard county; William L., died at Camden, Ohio; Joseph E., died at Carmel, Ind. William Stratton, born in 1808, was married in 1832 to Bathsheba Brown, of Preble county, Ohio, on a farm, and there they lived for fifty-three years. They were conversant with the "Under Ground Railroad" system, and knew all the stations in their part of the country, as well as the others of the Society of Friends. He was politically a republican, then a prohibitionist. In 1885 he died aged seventy-seven years. Bathsheba Brown's grandfather was an Englishman, his wife

331

OF BOONE COUNTY.

being Virgin Gaskill, who lived in New Jersey, to whom were born Joseph, Abraham and John (twins), Clayton, Mahlon, Samuel, Mary, Beulah and William. They were also Quakers, and he a whig. Grandmother Stratton's maiden name was Eunice Dallas, who was one of the girls that strewed flowers in the pathway of Gen. George Washington when he entered Trenton, N. J. Grandfather John Brown married Sarah Moore in 1806, when in her twentieth year. From New Jersey they went to Miami county, Ohio, then to Preble county, where he died aged seventy- nine years. His wife, Sarah Moore, came of a sturdy Irish ancestor, Nathaniel Moore. His wife was Bathsheba Coleman, whose parents were English. Her father was a professional diver, and died, when his daughter was only four years old, of consumption, which was caused by an accident when he was delayed for a long time under the water. Her mother died of the same disease. They were quite wealthy, but the guardian of the children managed to get their money for his own nse. They had two children, named Sarah, who lived to be over 101 years, and David, who was ninety- eight years of age. The grandmother of Mrs. Egbert Higbee was Sarah (Moore) Stratton, was endowed with a wonderfully bright intel- lect, and a woman of uncommon beauty; so pronounced was this that in the city of Tren- ton, N. J., she was known as the "Trenton Beauty," and she was still handsome at the age of ninety. She saw Gen. George Wash- ington. In 1814 she and her husband, John Brown, came to Preble county, Ohio, and in 1816 they entered 160 acres of land. He was a carpenter, but also a horticulturist, and engaged in the nursery business. They united with the Society of Friends. After the death of her husband she lived with her children, who were Nathaniel, Joseph, Bathsheba. All became good citizens of Preble county, and 16

were tillers of the soil. Mrs. Brown lived to be 101 years, one month and two days old, never became childish, nor was her wonderful intellect ever impared. On her one hundredth anniversary there was held a monster gather- ing, people coming from Virginia, Kansas, New Jersey and within sight of George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, and over 500 people took supper. Mrs. Higbee has a large photo- graph, with the likenesses of her grandmother and five generations, all females, taken on that occasion.

Egbert Higbee, the subject of our sketch, was reared in Hamilton county, Ind., where he lived till of age, when he went to Highland county, Ohio, where he labored as a carpen- ter. Not being satisfied, he came back to Hamilton county, Ind., where he purchased a saw-mill, which he operated. They moved to Elizaville in 1874, purchasing a grist-mill, saw-mill and the beautiful place which their large and commodious brick residence now occupies. This marriage was blessed with Charles E., born October 25, 1867, and Alfred E., born March 26, 1876, Mr. Higbee platted the village of Sheridan, Hamilton county, Ind., building the first house in what is now a large and prosperous town in the natural gas belt. He is a man of great energy and perseverance. Politically he is a prohi- bitionist, and he is a deacon in the Christian church. He owns lands in Kansas and other states amounting to 460 acres.

RED HOFFMAN, one of the most skillful photographers in the state of Indiana and artist of exceptionally good taste, has his studio in Lebanon, in Boone county, and had won a fine reputa- tion before settling here. He springs from an old Pennsylvania family of German origin, his father, Christopher J. Hoffman, having emni-

332

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

grated from that state to Wisconsin in 1854. Christopher is a cabinetmaker by trade and married Frances Hanson in Virginia, and they went to Wisconsin to live, settling in Pleasant Branch, Dane county, where they still reside, honored and respected.

Fred Hoffman, the artist, was born in Dane county, Wis, December 1, 1857, at Pleasant Branch, was educated in the common schools, and learned the art of photography at the cap- ital city, Madison. In 1885 he came to Indi- ana and located at Thorntown, Boone county, where for four years he conducted a first-class art gallery, doing a most successful business and confirming his reputation as an artist. In 1889 he left Thorntown and settled in Leba- non, opening his present tasteful studio on the second floor of Dick's block, South Lebanon street. This gallery is ninety by eighteen feet and is elegantly fitted with all the appliances that modern science has brought to bear on the art, chemical and mechanical. One of his specialties is the taking of life-size portraits, for which he is particularly well prepared, and for which he seems to have a peculiar and in- nate faculty. These portraits are truthful likenesses and never fail in giving satisfaction to the subject of them. Mr. Hoffman is also a fine crayon artist and has on exhibition a large assortment of his " counterfeit present- ments of nature " in this branch of art, which are worthy a visit of inspection from the art- loving public. Taste, refinement and superb execution are manifest everywhere, and clear- ness and distinctness depicted in every linea- ment. Mr. Hoffman's fame is not confined to the limits of Boone county, nor even to the borders of the state of Indiana, but has ex- tended to several of the surrounding states, where his master hand has been fully recog- nized. He is yet a young, unmarried man, with a bright future before him. He is a mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and in his poli-

tics is a republican. Fraternally, he is a member of Thorntown lodge, Knights of Pythias, and socially, his friends and acquaint- ances are among the best families of Boone . county, by whom, and likewise by the public generally, he is esteemed for his personal qual- ities as well as for his artistic taste. In the fall of 1894 Mr. Hoffman built a two-story building on East Main street, twenty by seventy feet, with an addition of twenty-eight by forty feet, the lower rooms of which will be used for studios and the upper rooms for flats, etc.

S AMUEL HOLLINGSWORTH, one of the very early settlers of Jefferson township, Boone county, Indiana, is a native of the state and was born in Union county, February 6, 1816. His parents were Isaiah and Patience (Smith) Hollings- worth, natives of North Carolina and of En- glish descent. Isaiah came to Indiana in 1800, when the now state was a territory, and he may be fully termed a pioneer. In 1833 he came to Boone county, where he lived a pure and industrious existence until his final relief from earthly cares in 1873, his wife joining him in 1877 in that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler e'er yet returned." The lamented parents had born to them ten children, the names of the living being-Joseph, Newton, Eber, Samuel, Hannah, and Caroline, the names of the deceased were Smith, Anna, Sarah and Mary.

Samuel Hollingsworth was reared by his father to a thorough knowledge of agriculture and has consequently made a success in life as a farmer. His marriage took place in January, 1841, to Miss Fanny Alexander, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Denny) Alexander. The two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hol- lingsworth are Mary J., wife of George Miller, and the mother of three children named as fol-

333

OF BOONE COUNTY.

lows: Fanny M., Richard, and Florence P. The second child of Samuel Hollingsworth was named William W., who was married, January 14, 1879, to Mary Chambers of Kentucky. This union resulted in the birth of three chil- dren, James S., Olivet, and Rosco F. After the marriage of Mr. Hollingsworth he settled down to the solid life of a farmer in the wilder- ness of Indiana, where, at that time, Indians were about as numerous as the wild animals, and of the two infestments the latter were the more preferable, inasmuch as they afforded a source of food. From a sinall farm in the be- ginning, Mr. Hollingsworth has increased his holding to 300 acres, and is now one of the most prosperous farmers in the county and one of the most highly respected. His first presi- dential vote was for the old "hero of Tippe- canoe," William H. Harrison, but, since the dissolution of the.whig party he has been a stanch republican. The son, William W., has charge of the farm.

AVID HOLLOMAN, a leading and progressive farmer of Center town- ship, Boone county, Ind., although born as far west as the state of Missouri, traces his descent to some of the early families as far east as North Carolina, and their lineage ultimately to Germany. The earliest ancestor in America of whom any de- tailed trace is had was Elisha Holloman, grand- father of David, the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this article. Elisha was a native of North Carolina, was married in that state to Rebecca Walsh, but early emi- grated to Kentucky, and thence moved, about 1819, to Crawford county in the southern part of the state of Missouri, where he passed an active and useful life until his decease, at an advanced age in 1863. a devout member of the Baptist church. William Holloman, son of

Elisha, and father of David Holloman, our sub- ject, was born in Warren county, Ky., and was a mere lad when taken to Missouri by his parents. In that state he was reared to man- hood and was there married, in Crawford county, to Miss Margaret Thompson, daughter of Lovel and Mary (Sanders) Thompson, a well known family of Missouri. Mr. Thomp- son, the father, was also a Kentuckian by birth, and Joshua Sanders, the father of Mary (Sanders) Thompson, came from a Pennsyl- vania family that long ago settled in Kentucky. As early as 1818, however, Joshua Sanders emigrated to Washington county, Mo., and later to Crawford county, Mo., of which he was a pioneer, going there when Indians held possession of that county in companionship with animals, herbivorous and carnivorous. His daughter, Mary, the grandmother of our subject, lived to be eighty-three years of age. William Holloman and wife had born to them ten children, of whom seven lived to reach the age of manhood and womanhood, and were named Robert G., David, Rebecca, Lovell T., Matilda, Sarah and William (Jr). William, the father of this family, was a promi- nent farmer and business man in Crawford county. Mo., where he passed most of his life and was looked upon as one of its most sub- stantial citizens. He died in that county in 1851, a member of the Baptist church, a demo- crat in politics, and honored by his fellow- citizens as one of the most useful and ener- getic inhabitants that Crawford county ever had within its borders.

. David Holloman, the principal of this bio- graphical notice, was born January 10, 1835, in Crawford county, Mo., as has already been intimated. He was quite well educated in the subscription schools of his district, then pioneer in their character, and at the age of eighteen, being well developed as to manhood, crossed the great plains to California, in search of gold,

334

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

his brother, Robert G., bearing him company. The expedition started March 24, 1853, and consisted of twelve wagons, of which the broth- ers acted as teamsters, and a numerous ac- companiment of adventurers in search of the auriferous deposits. The party reached the northern line of California August 5, in the same year, and the brothers at once engaged in placer mining. In 1863, Robert was seized with consumption, and the two brothers sought Santa Clara valley as a refuge for the recovery of his health, but this resort was of no avail, and Robert passed away in 1864. In 1865 David sought his home via Panama and New York, and in Crawford county, Mo., August 16, 1866, married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Dunlap, a soldier of the war of 1812, and to this union were born four children, viz .: Robert G., Reed, William T., and one that died in infancy. After following farming for nearly eight years in Missouri after marriage, Mr. Holloman took his family to Santa Clara val- ley, Cal., in the latter part of 1873, and there farming engaged his attention until 1880, when he returned to and made his home in Boone county, Ind. In the meantime, March 31, 1877, he lost his wife, and November 17, 1881, took for his second conjugal companion Miss Fannie, daughter of Mitchell M. and Eliza (Patterson) Henderson, and to this happy union have been born three children: Lila D., Newell T. and Alma M. In 1881, also, the year of his last marriage, he settled on his present fine farm of 105 acres, on which he has made numerous improvements by erecting first-class farm buildings, and thoroughly drain- ing the land by putting in about 1, 800 rods of tile, and redeeming it from its previous swampy condition. Forty acres have been thoroughly cleared, and portions of this have produced a crop of fifty bushels to the acre. Mr. and Mrs. Holloman are members of the Methodist church, in which he has been class leader,

steward, and superintendent of the Sunday- school. In politics he is a democrat, but has never been an office seeker. He is progressive in all things, is public spirited and a strong ad- vocate of education, and his children are re- ceiving the full benefit of his proclivities in this direction. Center township has no citizen that is held in higher honor, and no citizen that is more sincerely devoted to the interests and progress of the township. His son, Robert Holloman, was married February 21, 1892, to Amelia, daughter of Thomas B. Evans, a prominent farmer of the township, whose sketch will be found elsewhere.

A LBERT N. HOLLOWAY, a promi- nent manufacturer of Lebanon, of the firm of Holloway & Turner, is also one of the old soldiers of the Civil war. His ancestors were of English stock and an old American family. Jacob Holloway, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of New Jersey. He went to Pennsylvania, where he remained some years, and finally settled in Hamilton county, Ohio, and married there Hannah Cory, to which union six children were born, viz: Noah, Moses, David, Amos, Cephas and Elizabeth. Mr. Holloway was a prosperous farmer and owned a large body of land in Hamilton county, Ohio. He finally moved to Warren county, Ohio, and with his wife became greatly interested in the doctrines taught by the Shakers at Shaker Village, three miles from Lebanon, in Warren county. He finally took his wife and all his children, who were then small, and joined the Shaker community, and gave them all his property, which was then large. Here he passed the remainder of his days and died aged eighty- five years. His wife survived him and re- mained with the Shakers until her death, which occurred at the great age of ninety-one

A. N. Holloway

MRS. A. N. HOLLOWAY.

339

OF BOONE COUNTY.

years. The children gradually left the com- munity as they grew up, without any of the property except $130 each, which Mr. Hollo- way, on joining them, had arranged by con- tract for each one to have in case they left the community. Cephas alone remained and passed his life among them, and died, a few years since, aged eighty-two years, a firm be- liever ini the doctrine of the Shaker church.

Moses Holloway, the father of our subject, was born March 15, 1797, near Cincinnati, where his father was one of the very earliest pioneers. He received but a limited educa- ion, became a farmer, and was taken by his parents to live with the Shakers at the age of sixteen years. He remained with them until he was thirty-two years old, then became dis- satisfied and left the community, taking the $130. He married in Warren county, having taken as a wife one of the Shaker maidens. They ran away to get married, as marriage is strictly forbidden by this society. The name of this Shaker maiden was Rachael Johnson. They settled down in Warren county and two children were born to them : Amos and Eliza- beth.

In 1835 Mr. Holloway came to Boone county with John Higgins, afterward a promi- nent farmer and citizen of Washington town- ship. Mr. Holloway entered 120 acres of land and cleared it up from the woods, and by means of thrift he bought more until he owned 200 acres of good land. His wife died in the spring of 1837, and was the first person buried in Hopewell graveyard in Clinton township. Mr. Holloway afterward married Jeanette, daughter of John Buntin, who came to Clinton county from Kentucky in 1828 and was one of the very earliest pioneers. They were only five families living on Twelve Mile Prairie when he settled there. He soldiered in the war of 1812. To Mr. and Mrs. Holloway were born six children: Hannah, Amelia, John

W., Albert N. and Jasper M. (twins), and David H. Mr. Holloway died on his farm Feb- ruary 21, 1878, aged nearly eighty-one years. He was an old-line whig, afterward a republi- can and a strong Union man, having four sons in the Civil war: John M., Albert N., Jasper M. and David H. John M was in company A, Tenth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, and served three years and was in several bat- tles. Jasper M. was a corporal in company C, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana vol- unteer infantry, and served four months, later enlisted with subject in company E, Eleventh Indiana volunteer infantry; David H. was in company E, Eleventh regiment Indiana volun- teer infantry, and served as a private six months at the age of sixteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Holloway were members of the Christian church. He was an honorable citizen, re- spected by all.

Albert N. Holloway was born January 12, 1845, on his father's farm in Washington town- ship. He received a common education and enlisted at the age of twenty years at Lebanon, in the spring of 1864, in company C, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana volunteer infantry, for four months. He served out his enlistment and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis in July, 1864, and returned home. On the seventeenth day of February. 1865, he re-enlisted asa veteran in company E, Eleventh regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, under Capt. John T. McCauley. This was Gen. Lew Wallace's famous zouave regiment. This service was in the eastern army, and princi- pally around Baltimore. He served until the close of the war and was mustered out at Bal- timore, Md., July 26, 1865, and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis. Mr. Holloway was not sick in hospital, but served actively as a soldier with his regiment. After his return home he attended the high school at Frankfort I and gained a good education. He engaged in

340

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

school-teaching, which he continued fifteen years, mostly in Boone county. He married, March 21, 1879, Flora, daughter of Leland M. Eaton, now a substantial farmer near Elizaville. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Holloway-Jasper Cecil, Edith F., Everett J., Glenn and Jessie. In 1876 Mr. Holloway went on the home farm and cared for his father and mother until the death of his father, when he moved to a farm one mile east of Lebanon. In 1883 he engaged in the plow-handle business in Lebanon, the firm being Morris, Neff & Holloway, now Holloway & Turner. In political opinions Mr. Holloway is a stanch republican, socially a non-affiliating Odd Fellow and Knight of Maccabees, and he and wife are members of the Christian church, in which he has been deacon for several years. He has always taken an active interest in the cause of education and was president of the school board six years, and was one of the trustees at the time of the building of the new West side school and the Center school build- ing. Mr. Holloway is a self-made man. When he came out of the army he had but little education, but had the ambition to edu- cate himself, and became an efficient school- teacher, and is now a prosperous business man and representative citizen.

'ILLIAM H. HOSTETTER, a lead- ing farmer of Jackson township, Boone county, Ind., was born in Montgomery county, Ind., October 3, 1840. His great-grandfather, Henry Hos- tetter, was of German descent, and lived and died in York, Pa., where he had followed the vocation of a farmer. Great-grandfather Hos- tetter died at the age of seventy years, and his wife at eighty-eight. David Hostetter, son of the above, left his native state of Pennsylvania when very young, and for a short time lived

in Virginia, and in Pickaway county, Ohio, and then came to Indiana, and bought 240 acres of land in Montgomery county, which he improved to the fullest extent. He first mar- ried Polly Hicks, who died in Ohio, and after coming to Indiana married Mrs. Polly Boyer, a widow, whose maiden name was Wolfley. By the first marriage he was the father of the following children: Sherman, James, Beniah, Serilda, David and Mary, and by his second marriage the father of Lucky W. and Lewis L. Sherman Hostetter, son of David and father of William H., was born in Rockbridge county, Va., September 23, 1809, and was quite young when he went to Ohio with his father. When twenty-four years of age he came to Montgomery county, Ind., and soon afterward married Courtney Harrison, daughter of Robert and Polly (Hammer) Harrison, and to this union was born one child, Mary L., the mother dying soon after its birth. His second marriage was to Mary A. Byrd, daughter of Abram and Jane (Randall) Byrd, and to this union have been born the following children: William H., John B., Melissa R., Phronissa C., Abram S., James D., Margaret E., Lewis W., Allen H. and Edgar C. Sherman Hos- tetter was a republican of much promi- nence in his day, as well as a farmer of most progressive spirit, and in the latter capacity had acquired a property of over 400 acres. He had been entrusted with many important offices of honor by the people of Montgomery county, and was also their representative in the lower house of the state legislature in 1846-48. In the year 1859 he settled in Boone county, Jackson town- ship, where his abilities as a statesman were quickly recognized, and in the stirring times of 1862-64, was sent to the legislature to repre- sent the strong Union feelings of the county, which he did most forcibly and successfully. His nerve was made manifest on one occasion,

341

OF BOONE COUNTY.

when a convention was held in the legislative hall, and military rule threatened to override civil rule; a bolt was expected, and he was appointed to keep the door open; he took his stand at the designated spot, and when the chair ordered the door closed, he simply thrust his cane in the aperture and held the door open for the bolt, and thus saved the state from absolute military control. This accom- lished gentleman died December 6, 1868, and his widow died December 25, 1892.

William H. Hostetter was reared on his father's farm and was inured to hardship suffi- ciently to strengthen his muscles. August 7. 1861. he enlisted at North Sale.n, Ind., in company A. Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry, in the three-year service. He was placed in the army of the Potomac, under Gen. Banks. He fought at Winchester, Va., and at Cedar Mountain; he was also at the second battle of Bull Run; was at Antietam, where his corps commander, Gen. Mansfield, lost his S AMUEL T. HOOK, farmer and ex- soldier of Washington township, Boone county, Ind., was born in Bartholomew county, Ind., September 9, 1842. The parents were Matthias M. and Amanda MI. 'Ja- ques) Hook, who were among the early pioneers of Indiana The father died at Indianapolis, De- cember 9, 1880, at the age of seventy-two years; the mother still survives and resides at In- dianapolis, enjoying the ripe old age of eighty- three. They were the parents of eleven children, viz: Paulina, William H., John W., Lot E., Francis M., Samuel T., Mary C., Martha A., Sarah E., Lousia J., and Lodoska, all deceased except Martha A., Samuel T. and Sarah E. life, and Mr. Hostetter twice struck by bullets; was next at Chancellorsville, and at Gettys- burg. In July, 1863, his regiment assisted in subduing the New York draft riots, and in Sep- tember was sent back to the army of the Po- tomac at the river Rapidan. He was then sent west and was at Chattanooga, in the siege of Atlanta, and at the battle of Resaca, at New Hope church, and in skirmishes innumer- able. His war service lasted over three years, and his bravery has been recognized by the government with a pension of $8 per month: but the tardy recognition was not made until 1890. His comrades, however, since his re- turn home, have not failed to recall his meri- torious conduct in the field. By them he was Samuel T. Hook was married in Hancock county, Ind., October 13, 1864, to Sarah A., daughter of Louis and Phoebe (Bennett) Burke, both natives of Ohio and of English and Irish extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Burke were among the elected the first commander of Antietam post, No. 524, G. A. R., at Jamestown, Ind., which membership was later transferred to Advance, where his worth was again acknowledged, and he was placed in the same position, which he ! early settlers of Hancock county, Ind., and were

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

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