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 33

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

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still holds, an honor seldom granted by the G. A. R. The many battles in which Mr. Hos- tetter took part are matters of history, and the details of each heroic contest are too numer- ous to be related in the limited scope of the biographies intended to be given in this vol- ume. William H. Hostetter was married Oc- tober 19, 1870, to Miss Margaret A., daughter of Abram and Ann (Sanderson) Nicely, and they at once went to housekeeping on their present Iarm of 240 acres in Boone county. They have had born to them a family of three children, named as follows: Neva E., Harry L. and Anita, who have all received an excel- lent education, Harry L , especially, being in- tended for a college course. Mr. Hostetter is the only republican who ever held the office of trustee in his township, and has held that of- fice three terms.

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the parents of twelve children, viz: Nancy, de- ceased; Rachael T., deceased; Sophia, de- ceased; Amanda, deceased; Samuel L. and Sarah A .; Phœbe E., deceased; Lemmon O .; Elizabeth A. (deceased) and Temperance V., twins; Mary L., and John L., deceased. Mrs. Hook was born in Hancock county, Ind., Oc- tober 13, 1844. In 1887 Mr. Hook settled on the farm on which he now lives, and where he has resided since. Mr. and Mrs. Hook are the parents of two children, viz: Frank M., born April .11, 1866, married Miss Nina J. Beck and resides in Indianapolis; he is private secretary for Mr. Van Winkle, the general su- perintendent of the C., C., C. & St. L. R. R .; Glenn H., born March 28, 1870, and married to J. Frank Daily, who is engaged in the Leb- anon National bank and resides in Lebanon. Mr. and Mr. Hook are members of the Church of God. On August 9, 1862, Mr. Hook enlisted in company B, Seventy-ninth Indiana volunteers, and served until the battle of Stone River, at which place he was shot, his wound being in the right thigh near the hip joint, which wound disabled him for further service. He was honorably discharged May 7, 1863, and now draws a pension of $24 per month. Mr. Hook is as good a citizen as he was a soldier, and his walk through life has given full evi- dence of this fact. His social standing is with the most respectable residents of the county, and there are but few people in the township who do not feel a pride in being acquainted with his family.

DDISON L. HOWARD .-- The veteran soldiers are well represented in Boone county, and we are pleased to give honorable mention of another of its members. Addison L. Howard is a promi- nent farmer and a respected citizen of Boone

county. He springs from an old colonial Ameri- can family of Scotch descent. Twelve brothers came from Scotland to the United States, one of whom-John-settled in Pennsylvania and was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He married in Pennsylvania, and was one of the early pioneers of Kentucky. His wife was Margaret, daughter of James A. Alexander, of Mason county, Ky., of which union there were eight children-Cynthia A. Mary J., John W., James A,, William J., Henry W., Addison L. and Richard W. In in 1836 Mr. Howard moved to Boone county, Ind., and camped in the woods in Clinton township, six miles northeast of Lebanon. He entered 160 acres of land in the wilderness, cleared up a farm and became a substantial farmer and a thrifty and well-to-do man. Mr. and Mrs. Howard were members of the Christian church. In political opinions he was an old time whig until the war, when he became a republican and strong Union man, and had five sons in the Civil war: John W., was in company I, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry, served through the war, and was in all the battles of his regiment; James A., was in company F, Eighty-sixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He was an orderly sergeant and was killed in the battle of Chickamauga and left on the field; William J., was in the Twentieth regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, was taken pris- oner at the battle of Lexington, Mo., when Mulligan made his famous defense of that city; Henry W., was in company I, Tenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He was an orderly sergeant, served three years, and was in all the battles of his regiment. For military record of Addison L., see sketch below. John Howard, the father of this family of patriotic soldiers, lived to be seventy-four years of age and died on his farm in Boone county. He was a good business man, a hard-

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working, pioneer citizen, and very industrious. It is not too much to say of him that his word was as good as his bond.

Addison L. Howard was born in Clinton township, Boone county, June 26, 1840. He received a good common, education and at the age of twenty-one years enlisted in company A, Eighty-sixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, at Lebanon, on August 11, 1862, under Capt. Aaron Frazee, for three years or during the war, and served until honorably dis- charged, June 15, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn. He was in the battles of Perryville, Nashville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and was in Sherman's famous Atlanta campaign. (See sketch of Jesse Neff.) He was in the battles of Jonesboro, Spring Hill, Columbia and Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Howard was not in a hospital, was neither wounded nor a prisoner, but served actively with his company and was in all its battles and skirmishes. After the war he returned to Boone county. He had mar- ried, November 3, 1861, Sarah, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Greenwell) Bartlett. To the union of Mr. and Mrs Howard were born six children-Mollie, Lizzie, Olive, Arthur and Luther (twins) and Lois. Luther died an infant.

Mr. Howard settled on a farm in Center township and became a prosperous farmer, owning 220 acres of fine land and valuable real estate in Lebanon. He votes for the party who protected him as a soldier and who carried on the war -- the republican party. He has always enjoyed the confidence of the peo- ple and has been held in high esteem by his neighbors. He is a member of the G. A. R., Rich Mountain post, Lebanon, and also a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. Mr. and Mrs. Howard are members of the Christian church. The Howards are truly one of the patriotic families of Boone county. It is seldom that five sons

of any one family are soldiers in the same war, and the record of their services should be handed down in the family from generation to generation as a lesson in patriotism to their descendants. There is no man in Boone coun- ty that is deservedly more popular than Addi- son L. Howard. He is a capable and straight- forward business man of an energetic and ac- tive disposition. He has accumulated a hand- some property by his own exertions, and his integrity is unimpeached.

J OHN A. HYSONG is one of the re- spected and prominent farmers of Jef- ferson township, Boone county, Ind., and a veteran soldier in the Civil war. His grandfather, Peter Hysong, came from Germany, bringing his wife and settling on land in Maryland. His children were John, Peter, Adam, Jacob, Kate and Polly, all born in America. At an early day Mr. Hysong moved to Kentucky and settled in Fleming county, where he became a prosperous farmer and miller; he lived to be an aged man and died in Fleming county. Peter Hysong, son of the above and father of our subject, was born in Maryland in 1799, and was brought by his parents, when young, to Fleming county, Ky. He learned the wheelwright and wagon- maker's trade, and married, in Kentucky, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Burk. Mr. Burk was an old settler of Fleming county, Ky., and a prosperous man. To Mr. and Mrs. Hysong were born nine children: John, Aaron, Stephen, Samuel, Margaret, Sarah, Huldah, Elizabeth and Susan.

Mr. Hysong moved to Indiana in 1828-9, and settled in Putnam county, and went from there to Fountain county, about 1830. He afterward lived in Montgomery county. When he came to Boone county, about 1840, he lo-

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cated on land in Center township, and finally- settled on land in Harrison township, where he died, aged about sixty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Hysong were members of the Methodist church. He voted the republican ticket and was justice of the peace, in Harrison township, rom eight to twelve years. He was a very respectable man and brought up a good family of children. Three of his sons were in the Civil war: John A., the subject of this sketch; Aaron H., in company A, Eighty-sixth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, was transferred to the marine brigade, served to the close of the war and was in many battles; Stephen C. was in company A, Eighty-sixth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, and died suddenly in camp, soon after the battle of Stone River. His company went into that battle with thirty men and lost all but three.

John A. Hysong was born in Fountain county, Ind., July 14, 1831, and was about nine years of age when his father moved to Boone county. He received his edu- cation in the common district school and learned the wagon-maker's trade at which he worked until the war broke out. Mr. Hysong was united in marriage, October 30, 1856, to Elenor, daughter of Robert and Nancy Burns. The Burns family are of Irish descent and the Cunninghams of Scotch descent. Robert Burns was a prominent farmer of Center township, where he settled in 1836. John and Elenor Hysong had born to them eight children: Charles P., Albert R., John L., Harry H., Cora B., Mary M., Dessie M. and Fred Grant. Mr. Hysong enlisted in company A, Eighty-sixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, August I, 1862, at Lebanon, and served until honorably discharged July 2, 1865. He was in the battle of Perryville and many skirmishes. After the battle of Perryville he was taken sick and was in hospital three months, after which he was on detached duty. After the close of the war

he returned to Center township. Boone county, Ind., where he bought a home in 1871. In 1881 he moved to Jefferson township, where he now owns a fine, fertile farm of 145 acres, beautifully situated close to Hazelrigg. He has drained this farm thoroughly, made good improvements, and now enjoys a pleas- ant, attractive home.

Mr. Hysong takes an active interest in pol- itics, but would never hold office. He was an old-time whig and one of the original republi- cans of Boone county, to which political faith he still firmly adheres, voting with the same unswerving loyalty with which he served his country in time of need, during that greatest war in history, and he states with pride that he has reared no democrat. He is a practical, industrious farmer, respected citizen, and stands high for his integrity and other manly character- istics. Three of Mr. Hysong's children are mar- ried. Charles P. is a member of Boone lodge, No. 9, Lebanon, F. and A. M. He married Bell, daughter of Noah Regan. He is a farmer of Harrison township, and they are the parents of four children: John P., Pearl. Ruby and Fern Grace. Cora B. married John T. Abanathy, a farmer; now deceased and leaving two chil- dren as the fruit of this union. Mabel and Nel- lie. Mary M. married Abraham S. Taylor, a farmer of Jefferson township. The three chil- dren born to them were Fred, Earl and Ruth.

Mr. and Mrs. Hysong are Presbyterians, and their son Charles P. and wife are mem- bers of the Methodist church ; Mary M. is a Presbyterian, of which church Dessie M. is also a member and the organist. She is a fine and natural musician. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hysong is brightened by the orphaned grandchildren, Mabel and Nellie, who, with their mother, reside with them. John Hy- song is a member of Boone lodge, No. 9, F. and A. M., is also a member of Lebanon chapter, No. 39, Royal Arch.

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HOMAS H. IRICK is a respected and. well known citizen of Marion town- ship, Boone county, Ind. He came from a mixture of Irish and Dutch ancestors. His father was John R. Irick, who was born in Virginia, 1808. His brother's name was David, and he had a sister Cather- ine who married a man named Rhodeheffer. John R. Irick settled in Muskingum county, Ohio, but moved in 1848 to Eagle town- ship, west of Zionsville, Boone county, Ind., where he bought 280 acres, adding to it till he had 355 acres. His first wife lived but about eleven months, and her name is not known. His second marriage was to Celia H. Scho- field, and the following children were born to them: Hannah F., married George Goodnight and lives in Kansas; Jane, married Elias Bishop; of Kansas; Thomas H .; Elizabeth, died aged about thirty-five years; Sarah A., married Henry F. Goodby, who is now dead; Mary E. married S. B. Crane, a prominent farmer of Union township, Boone county, Ind. ; Catherine married, March 6, 1860, Jesse Smith, an attorney of Zionsville, Ind. ; she died October 30, 1893; John W. married - Fore- man; he died in 1876; Isabel, married James S. Wood; David A., married Mary J. Wing; Amanda, died aged fourteen; William, died young. Mr. Irick's second wife died Novem- ber 5, 1853. His third marriage was to Mrs. Mary J. (May) Miller, and this marriage was blessed by the following children: Allen W., Ida May, Silas J., Dora, Alvin, James, Nora, Alice and Claude. This Mrs. Irick, when left a widow, married a Mr. Vermillion and moved to Texas. John R. Irick was a man of energy, industrious, and quite a trader in land. * He engaged extensively in stock raising. He formerly belonged to the Methodist church, but, on coming to Indiana, joined the Christian society. He was justice of the peace for four years, and at that time that officer had charge

of overseeing the poor. He was a stanch old- line whig, afterward joining the republican party. He was noted for his punctuality and promptness, and his word was as good as his bond. He died November 18, 1877, and was buried in Salem cemetery, Union township.

Thomas H. Irick, born November 20, 1834, in Perry county, Ohio, was reared a farmer's boy, living at home till twenty years of age, when he went to Missouri, thence came to Indiana, making his trip in one year. February 8, 1855, he married Eliza A. Roberts, born October 25, 1834. Their children were Mary J., born January 5. 1856; John N., born November 19, 1857; Francis I., born August 29, 1859; William T., born June 6, 1862; David W , born March 27, 1866. After mar- riage he farmed until 1862, when he erected a shingle factory south and west of Zionsville, which he operated for eight years. He then purchased his present farm of twenty acres. He went to Kansas in 1870, coming again to Indiana. His wife having died, he married, January 27, 1877, Mrs. Charlotte (Kimble) Cornell, born January 6, 1827, being the widow of Thomas Cornell, born in Butler county, Ohio. Their family consisted of William, born February 25, 1844; Mary A., born August 21, 1846; Sarah T., born March 30, 1850; Joseph, born September 21, 1852, died June, 1878; Isaac, born August 16, 1854, died June 12, 1880; James R., born June 30, 1861; Della W., born October 11, 1864, died September 27, 1868, and Susan M., born April 2, 1867. Mrs. (Cornell) Irick's father was Joseph Kimble, born November 6, 1805, in Hamilton county, Ohio; he was a Methodist, a democrat, and a farmer owning 200 acres of land. He was a man of jovial disposition, of exceedingly fine appearance, and took delight in being well dressed and looking well. He was married March 20, 1826, to Mary Boatman, born December 7, 1827, in Butler county,

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Ohio. He died August 27, 1864. . Their descendants were Charlotte, born January 6, 1827; Sarah A., born September 27, 1828; James H., born January 8, 1831. James Boatman's wife was Ann Mills, daughter of Sarah Mills. She was a doctress, noted for her skill, considered a splendid shot with a rifle, and quite a hunter. She came from Pennsylvania. T. H. Irick, for twenty years at odd times has worked at the carpenter's bench; engaged for six years in keeping good horses and Jacks for stock purposes, but as that became unprofitable he returned to the carpenter's trade. He erected his frame resi- dence, which is roomy and commodious, and makes a very tasty appearance. They use natural gas in their home. He is a man of social qualities and belongs to the Horse Thief Detective association, at Terhune, Ind. About 1872 he became a Mason and joined Fidelity lodge, No. 365, F. & A. M., and filled for four years the office of treasurer. He has also belonged to the I. O. R. M. at Zionsville, Ind. Politically he is a people's party man.

ARY A. ISENHOUR .- This lady is one of the old settlers of Boone county, who managed the farm many years after the death of her hus- band-Noah Isenhour-who was born March 19, 1821, in east Tennessee, Cocke county. He was the son of Martin Isenhour, who came from Germany, bringing his wife, Catherine, and several children. They were the parents of ten children-John, Elizabeth, George, Con- rad, Moses, Noah, Simeon, David, Helena, and one daughter who died young. Mr. Isen- hour had a good farm in Cocke county, Tenn., was an industrious, respected citizen, and lived to be an aged man. He was a member of the Lutheran church, to which his wife also be- longed.

Noah Isenhour, the husband of our subject, was reared a farmer, received a common edu- cation and married in Cocke county, Tenn., February 14, 1843, Mary A., daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Simms) Boyer. Mr. Boyer was an old settler of Cocke county, Tenn., of Penn- sylvania Dutch stock, and the father of a regular pioneer family of fifteen children-William, Mary A., Charles-died at thirteen years of age-Peter-died at three years of age- James, Jane, Nelson, David, Jackson - died young - Creed, Sarah, Martha, Catherine, Jonah and Harriet. Mr. Boyer died in Cocke county, an old man. He was a very industri- ous, hard-working farmer of Tennessee, and of honorable christian character, and an old-time whig in political opinions. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs, Isenhour settled on land in Cocke county, Tenn., and farmed there for about eleven years. August 31. 1853, they came to Indiana and settled on a farm of 160 acres one month later. This land was covered with heavy timber, with not a stick amiss. A clear- ing had to be made in which to build a log cabin, and Mr. Isenhour, through hard work and unceasing perseverance, finally cleared up a good farm, which he continued to improve with vigorous industry, injuring himself there- by, and causing his death at the comparative early age of fifty-three years, January 26, 1874. He was a republican and a strong Union man during the war. He was a Lutheran in relig- ious convictions, of which church Mrs. Isen- hour is also a member. Mr. Isenhour was an honorable man, much respected, and he and Mrs. Isenhour were the parents of eleven chil- dren - William, Catherine, Isaac, George, Louisa J., Elizabeth, Mary, David, Martha, Amanda and Joseph, who died at thirteen years of age. After the death of her husband, our subject managed the farm with great in- dustry and worked hard to bring up her large family of children. She was verily a light to

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their footsteps. Thirty-nine children have called her grandmother, thirty-three of whom are now living. Of the original homestead, Mrs. Isenhour has divided eighty acres among her children, and sold one acre, and still has a snug home of seventy-nine acres. She is now a member of the U. B. church. To such women as Mrs. Isenhour the community owes a deep debt of gratitude. She was a faithful mother, and spared no pains in impressing the principles of truth and honesty into the minds of her children, who are now numbered among our most respected citizens.

Isaac Isenhour, son of above and a patron of this work, now manages the home farm. He was born December 27, 1847, on his father's farm in Cocke county, Tenn., and was six years of age when the family came to Boone county, in 1853. He received a com- mon education, was reared a farmer and mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Benjamin and Catherine (Immel) Hancock. Mr. Hancock was one of the pioneers and substantial farm- ers of Boone county. To Mr. and Mrs. Isen- hour have been born four children: Martha A., Rosa B., Mildred A. and George F. Martha married Ora Ottinger, a farmer of Worth township, this county. Rosa B. married John Laughner, a shipping clerk in a wholesale con- fectionery establishment in Indianapolis. Mildred A. married Isaac Rader, a farmer of this township. Mrs. Isaac Isenhour departed this life October 28, 1881. Both husband and wife were devout members of the U. B. church. Mr. Isenhour was one of the found- ers of the U. B. church in Center township. He attended the first meeting ever held in the township, by the Rev. Wm. Forbes, a U. B. minister who preached for some time in the homes of the settlers. He has been a men- ber of this church since he was eighteen, a period of nearly thirty years. He has always taken a great interest in the prosperity of his

church and has been class leader for many years and steward for three terms. He is now Sunday-school superintendent and chorister, having a good voice for singing and a thor- ough knowledge of church music, and is now training a choir of children and young people in music, for children's day, a beautiful celebration of the U. B. church. Mr. Isen- hour has lived to see his church grow strong from humble beginnings, and has the satisfac- tion of seeing all his children members of this church, which he has always liberally aided with his means, and assisted to build the pres- ent U. B. church in his neighborhood, and hewed the first stick of timber and put to- gether the entire frame of the edifice. For two years he has taught the young ladies' class in Sunday-school. All of his children inherited, from himself and his mother, musi- cal talent and fine voices. Politically he is a stanch republican; he is a practical farmer, and is highly esteemed for his christian char- acter by all who know him.

I e SAAC J. ISENHOUR .-- Worth township boasts, among its citizens, a number of the leading men of Boone county, with whom it is proper to class Isaac J. Is- enhour, a prominent farmer and stock raiser and a man of much popularity wherever known. Mr. Isenhour was born in Monroe county, Ind., on the fifth day of January, 1841, and is a descendant of an old and highly respectable North Carolina family, several members of which emigrated to Tennessee about the year 1816. His grandparents, John and Eve Isen- hour, left Tennessee a number of years ago. emigrating to Indiana and settling in Monroe county about 1832, and Mrs. Isenhour died there some years later; subsequently John Is- enhour came to Boone county and died at the residence of one of his sons. John and Eve

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Isenhour had a family of twelve children, namely: Elizabeth, Peter, Catherine, George, John, Polly, Philip, Caleb, Jonathan, Susan, Lavina and Martin.

- Jonathan Isenhour was born in North Car- olina, November 15, 1815, and was brought by his parents from Tennessee to Monroe county, Ind., in his boyhood. He married, in the county of Monroe, November 9, 1837, Margaret Whiesand, who was born December 22, 1818, in Virginia. Mrs. Isenhour's parents were pioneers of Indiana, moving to this state when she was quite young. In the year 1848, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Isenhour moved to Boone county, since which date they have been well known and honored residents of Worth township, in the growth and development of which they have borne no insignificant part. Mr. Isenhour is a large land owner, having 250 acres in Worth township beside valuable prop- erty at Whitestown, where he now makes his home. The following are the names of their children: Rebecca L., Isaac J., John E., George W., James, William W., Ellen, Ma- tilda, Jonathan and Samuel, of whom three died in infancy. The father of this family, Jonathan, died at his home August 9, 1894, deeply lamented by his family and neighbors.

Isaac J. Isenhour grew to manhood in In- diana, and'his educational training embraced the curriculum of the common schools, which he attended during certain seasons previous to his twenty-first year. On the eighth day of August, 1861, he entered into the marriage re- lation with Sallie C. Laughner, who was born August 31, 1844, in Clinton county. Ind., the daughter of William J. and Catherine (Har- mon) Laughner. Mr. Isenhour, shortly after his marriage, engaged in farming on his father's place for a part of the proceeds, and, after re- siding upon the same about four years, pur- chased twenty acres adjoining, where he re- mained for a limited period and then bought

and settled upon his present home place in Worth township. Mrs. Isenhour died June 23, 1877, and on March 7 of the year following Mr. Isenhour was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah E. Larimore, widow of Jeremiah Lari- more and daughter of John and Priscilla (Du- lin) Larimore; Mrs. Isenhour is a native of Boone county, where she was born on the six- leenth day of August, 1843. By his first mar- riage Mr. Isenhour had one child, Zulia E., whose birth occurred October 24, 1869.

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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