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was a noted local minister of the Predesti- narian Regular Baptist school of Boone county. He married Elizabeth Hinton. His father, John B. Dickerson, was also a native of Vir- ginia, was in the war of 1812, married Mary Grider, and died in Putnam county, Ind. Robert Stephenson, great-grandfather of our subject, was a native Pennsylvania and an early settler of Nicholas county, Ky. He mar- ried Martha McNulty, and became the father of the following children: William, who died an infant; Joseph, who died on a trip to New Orleans; James, Robert, and Jane. The mother of these children died, and for his sec- ond wife Mr. Stephenson married Sarah Mc- Daniel. who bore the following children: John A .. William, Thomas M., Aris J., George W., Joseph S. and Margaret J. Of these, John married Mary Adams, and George was killed by a falling tree at the age of fourteen. Oc- tober 17. 1834, the family reached Boone county. Ind., coming from Kentucky in wagons, in company with the families of Aleck Black and James Sample, and settling in Clin- ton township. Aris Stephenson, son of above and grandfather of our subject, was born in Nicholas county, Ky .. June 23, 1818, entered 160 acres of land in Clinton township and married Margaret Wiley, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Wiley, Squire Wiley, as he was familiarly called, filled the office of justice of the peace many years in Clinton township. Boone county, Ind., and was an ab- olitionist stump speaker of local note. He and wife were charter members of the Salem U. P. church, of which, for many years, he was an elder. Two children were born to the grandfather of our subject-G. W. and Robert. The grandfather was a remarkably strong man, but died, at the early age of twenty-six years, from exposure to the hard- ships of pioneer life. His wife followed him
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to the grave two years later. Robert Stephen- son, son of the above and father of our sub- ject, was born July 18, 1842. He was a school-teacher, was a volunteer in the late Civil war and received an honorable discharge,
and was married to Nancy T. Weed, daughter of John P. and Isabell (Maze) Weed. The children born to Orlistus B. Stephenson and wife are two in number and are named Lillian Hazel and Martha Corinne.
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A BNER BAKER, retired farmer of section 12. Washington township, Clinton county, Ind., was born in Wayne township, Butler county, Ohio, April 14, 180S. His father, Thomas Baker, was born October 18, 1763; his mother, Lydia (Hand) Baker, was born December 23, 1761, and they were married January 6, 1784. They had ten children, four girls and six boys, viz: Sarah, William, Rachel, Stephen, Thomas, Anna, James, John, Lucy and Abner-the last named being the only survivor. The parents were married near Trenton, N. J., and when Washington fought the battle of Trenton the cannon were distinctly heard by Mrs. Baker. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baker moved to Redstone, Pa., where they lived two or three years, then started for Butler county, Ohio, on the Big Miami river; but hearing of serious trouble with the Indians, they stopped one year on the Hockhocking river below Wheeling; then went through to Cincinnati. In the year 1800 they went to Monroe, Butler county, Ohio. After that, and to the present time, it has been called Baker's Hill. The mother died in Preble county, Ohio, January 6, 1843, the father having died a few months previous, in the
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same county. Thomas was a family name. The great-grandfather's name was Thomas, and several of his descendants were so named. Abner Baker has in his possession a letter writ- ten by his great-uncle, Nathan Baker, to his great-grandfather, Thomas Baker, who died of small-pox in New Jersey.
Thomas, the great-grandfather, born in 1707, was married in 1736, to Hannah Thompson, and settled on the Rahway river, in Essex county, N. J., then moved to the Passaic valley, bought a farm of forty acres of John Blanchard, of Elizabethtown, in March, 1738, and in 1761 bought of William Maxwell ninety-nine acres; he also bought a small tract of land from Joseph Rolph. He died of small-pox in 1767. William Baker, second son of above and grandfather of Abner Baker, was born in 1739 and died July 4, 1787. In 1762 he married Rachael Valentine, who was born in 1742 and died in April, 1790; she had a twin sister, who died June 26, 1768. William and Rachael were parents of six chil- dren: Thomas, Abner, Nathan, John, Hannah, and Sarah.
Abner Baker, the subject of this sketch, passed his early life upon his father's farm. When thirteen years of age he met with an
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accident that materially changed his life work. While seeking shelter from a storm he made an unfortunate jump, which so crippled him that he did not recover for several years, and for one year could not talk. At the age of sixteen he commenced clerking for one David Holloway, at Richmond. He remained with him one year, then entered the employ of Jon- nathan Martin, at Middletown, Ohio, with whom he remained a year, and so faithfully did he perform his duties that when Mr. Mar- tin learned that Abner wished to embark in the mercantile business on his own account he offered to purchase his goods for him, advance the money without security or interest, and wait six months for his pay. This scheme was faithfully carried out, and in March, 1828, Abner loaded two wagons with merchandise and started for LaFayette, Ind., accompanied by two brothers, James and John, and a broth- er-in-law, John Cornthwait, the brothers driv- ing a four-horse team, and Mr. Cornthwait a three-horse team. After two days' drive the goods were loaded on a boat, and the brothers and brother-in-law returned home. Mr. Ba- ker pursued his way, stopping to trade at every Indian village. At night they would tie up the boat and sleep on the banks of the river. One night Mr. Baker and Capt. Wright made their bed together of coverlids that Mr. Baker had carried from home. Mr. Baker arose at day- light, and turning around espied a large tim- ber rattlesnake lying between Capt. Wright and the spot from which he had just risen. He shouted to the captain, informing him of his dangerous bed-fellow, whereupon the cap- tain gave a sudden bound, and thus escaped from his deadly foe. Mr. Baker killed the rep- tile and preserved the ten rattles for several years. It was Mr. Baker's plan to go directly to LaFayette, having visited that point a year previous; but when he reached Logansport he was persuaded by Gen. Tipton to unload his
goods at that point and open his store. He was the first person that sold goods there. Gen. Tipton and his interpreter were the only settlers. After being there a few days he in- quired of the intepreter what his board-bill would be, and upon being informed that it would be fourteen dollars per week, he shipped his goods to LaFayette by the first boat. He rented a store from William Digby, paying four dollars a month, and boarded with Col. Johnson for one dollar and seventy-five cents per week. Here he remained during the sum- mer. In September he was taken very ill with fever, and as soon as he was sufficiently recov- ered he returned home to recruit his health. His brother William packed up his goods and kept them until his return ..
In February. 1829, he went to Cincinnati and purchased a bill of goods, taking them himself to LaFayette. During his journey he camped out for sleep and was surrounded by wolves every night. The first summer he was in LaFayette he purchased 132 feet frontage on Main street, and built a one-story frame house upon it. It was the first painted house in LaFayette. Into this house he put his new goods and his old. About the time he was fairly settled in his new store, John Ross went to see him and induced him to come to the new town of Jefferson. He at once purchased two lots of David Kilgore for $5 each, the choicest lots in the plat, one being a corner lot and the other adjoining. He bought a third lot of Samuel Olinger for $25, which was not as desirable as either one of the others. He had a house built, for which he paid $10, exclusive of the door, which Mr. Baker was to furnish himself. For two or three months he had no door except a blanket which his mother had given him before he left home. He wishes to say for the Indians that he lived in this chinked, udaubed log house, 16x20, with his blanketed door, all summer without
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losing any of his goods or being robbed of his' money. They would not enter after dark without being bidden to do so. They en- camped within ten rods of his store, armed with guns many nights, but he was never in- sulted or annoyed by them. Mr. Baker did a very profitable business until Gen. Jackson re- moved the deposits. At this time he was in debt $9,000 for goods. His creditors were considerably frightened and came here to see him; but after examining the situation, they went back satisfied that Mr. Baker would pay his debts if not molested. After settling up his business he had $1, 300 left, and bought four eighty-acre lots in Wabash county and nine in Kosciusko county, a part of which he still owns. He then went to farming, and has since followed that vocation. He now owns between 500 and 600 acres where he resides. His two sons also reside upon this farm. The eighty acres upon which his barn stands was the first eighty entered in Clinton county, and is described as the west half of southwest quarter of section 12.
Mr. Baker was the first man married in this county. In August, 1830, he was united with Catherine W. Hood. daughter of John and Nancy Hood. She was born in Westport, Ky., in September, 1811. Her father pur- chased a farm in Indiana, opposite Westport, where he lived from 1810 to 1829, when he brought his family to this county, settling near Jefferson, where they remained until their death. They lie buried in Jefferson cemetery. Mr. Baker put the first headstone and the first monument in this cemetery, to the memory of his wife's sister, who was the second person buried there. Mrs. Baker's ancestors came from Scotland and settled in South Carolina before the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Baker had born to them the following children : -Matilda died at the age of four weeks ; Dr. Robert Fulton is living at Davenport, Ia.,
and was at one time a professor in a medical college; Hood S. lives in Warsaw. Ind .; The- odore died when less than two years of age; Henry Clay died when about two years old; Caroline N. is wife of David Todd, who is be- lieved to be the oldest Presbyterian minister in Kansas; Lucy A., wife of Joseph Burroughs, a resident of Wabash, Ind .; Catherine, wife of John Ray, now deceased; John Q., living on a farm near his father's; Knox, also a farmer; Linnæus S., living in Jefferson. The death of Mrs. Baker occurred in April, 1887.
Mr. Baker is a liberal republican in politics. He has taken the Cincinnati Gazette sixty- three years without intermission, and still con- tinues to take it. He was justice of the peace for many years, his jurisdiction extending over the whole county. In 1830 he ran for county clerk, and came within two votes of being elected. He took the first paper that was sent to this county by mail, which was the "Liberty Hall," and also the Cincinnati "Gazette." He was the first person to bring dry goods into the county, and he built the first house on a town lot, and when he built it Chicago was unknown. He says that people came from Indianapolis to Jefferson to buy their salt, and for ten years Jefferson sold more dry goods than Indianapo- lis. In 1848 Mr. Baker took 300 barrels of pork to New York, that was packed at Jeffer- son, and cleared $500 on it over and above his expenses. He has heard many of the greatest orators of his day, among them being Henry Clay (who spoke to 50,000 people), John C. Calhoun, Tom Benton, Ben Butler, and also his father; General Houston of Texas, Butler of South Carolina, Jeff Davis, Tom Corwin, Gens. Scott and Cass, and in 1825 heard Lor- enzo Dow preach to a large audience. He is in the enjoyment of good health and, although eighty-seven years old, has in the past year visited eleven of the states and Canada, and is contemplating a visit to the Southern states.
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His second marriage. occurred November 8, 1886, in Little Rock, Ark., to Mrs. Sarah E. Stafford, born in Butler county, Ohio, October 3, 1819, and daughter of John and Rachel (Shafer) VanSickle, who were natives of New Jersey and Kentucky. At the age of twenty- three she was married to Edward Stafford and located . in Clarke county, Ohio, then later Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and then in Arkansas, where Mr. Stafford died, and she still remained with their only son, A. V. Stafford, until her marriage with Mr. Baker.
AVID ALTER, a prominent farmer and stock-raiser of Forest township, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., the date of his birth being March 28, 1828. His parents, John and Charity (Van Arsdel) Alter, were also natives of Pennsylva- nia, and of German ancestry, the former a son of John Alter, who served in the war of 1812, and the latter a daughter of Garnett VanArsdel, upon whose farm the battle of Gettysburg was fought. Our subject's parents, with their family, came to Indiana in 1836, and entered government land in Hancock county, near Greenfield, where Mrs. Alter died in 1841. Their family consisted of eight children: Hel- anor was for thirty years a minister in the Methodist Protestant church; John W. died from the effects of wounds received in the late Civil war; Isaac lives in Jasper county, Ind. ; David and B. F. in Clinton county; Hester and Hannah in Kansas; Jacob, the seventh child, died February 2, 1859. The father came to Clinton county in 1849, locating in Warren township (of which Forest is now a part), where he married Lucinda Black, daugh- ter of William Black. To this union were born two children-Ibba Jane, wife of Capt. L. Chamberlain, of Kansas, and one who died in infancy, the mother dying shortly after. Mr.
Alter then moved to Jasper county, where he was married to Mary Chamberlain, a native of Maryland, and of the eight children born to this union five are living. John Alter was one of the early abolitionists, and was twice mobbed in Indiana for expressing his views on the slav- ery question. He was a minister of the Meth- odist Protestant denomination, and was actively engaged in the work of the ministry for fifty- one years. He died in Jasper county, Ind., in 1876.
David Alter, whosename heads this sketch, was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to Indiana. After the death of his mother he served an apprenticeship of six years at the cabinet-maker's trade, after which he worked two years as journeyman in Peru, Ind. With two brothers he came to Jasper county, Ind., where they took up a claim and made a home for their father. In 1848 David Alter came to Clinton county, where he mar- ried, December 25, of the same year, Miss Lavona Sims, by whom he had nine children: John T., Viola (deceased), Benjamin F. (deceased), Mary Alvernon, Louise E., Sarah E. (deceased), Perry F., Martin W. and Emma. Mrs. Alter having died, Mr. Alter was next married, December 25, 1872, to Miss Rebecca Shoemaker, a daughter of Eli Shoe- maker, of Clinton county, and to this union were born three children: Christena May, who died December 11, 1893; David I. (de- ceased), and Leander C. Mr. Alter was again bereaved by the death of his wife, which oc- curred November 18, 1881. For his present wife he married Mary Jane King, November 27, 1883, her father, James King, being a res- ident of Kirklin township. To them were born two children (twins), both dying in infan- cy. Mr. Alter has, of late years, turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and is now the owner of a fine farm of 186 acres of highly cultivated land, on which are substantial and
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commodious farm buildings. His residence is comfortable and convenient, and he and his family are surrounded by the comforts of life. He is one of the most esteemed citizens of Forest township, and is at present serving as township trustee with credit to himself and his constituents, having received a majority of fifty-two votes, while his predecessor, a dem- ocrat, had received a. mjority of forty-four votes. Mr. Alter has always affiliated with the republican party, while in religion he believes in the doctrine of the Universal church, and that the Bible teaches the universal salvation of the whole human family.
OSES R. ALLEN, a leading farmer of Washington township, and one of Clinton county's representative men, is a son of John and Cynthia (Rush) Allen, natives respectively of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio and of English and Welsh- German descent. John Allen was born in Greene county, Pa., May 5, 1805, and was the seventh son in a family of twelve children born to Isaac Allen, whose ancestors settled in the Keystone state at a period antedating the war of the Revolution. When twelve years old, John Allen was taken by his parents to Butler county, Ohio, where, owing to the reduced cir- cumstances of his father, he was early thrown upon his own resources and for some time fol- lowed the river, rafting logs and luniber and various articles of merchandise-corn, flour, bacon, etc .- to New Orleans. He was quite successful in this enterprise, but, while making the last trip, suffered a serious financial loss by the sinking of his boat and all its contents while tied to bank to secure fuel, the bank being undermined and a tree falling on the boat. In 1828 he located in Clinton county, Ind., where a brother had previously entered land, and worked for the settlers until 1833,
when he invested his savings in a tract of land which he cleared and brought under cultivation. He was married in Butler county, Ohio, to Cynthia Rush, and with her lived in the old log cabin for a period of thirteen years. Oc- casionally he was engaged in hauling goods from Cincinnati to the village of Jefferson, and once, while making a trip to Chicago, narrowly escaped death from drowning in the Tippeca- noe river, which he attempted to cross on horseback, having unhitched his team and rid- ing across to test the depth of the river.
Moses R. Allen was born in Clinton county, Ind., September 10, 1838, and grew to man- hood accustomed to the manifold duties of the farm. He has followed successfully the pur- sui+ of agriculture and is now one of the larg- est land holders of Washington township. own- ing 452 acres, which are well improved and adorned with substantial buildings, the place. indeed, being a model home. Mr. Allen is a man of excellent judgment in business matters and his services are frequently in demand by his neighbors and others in the settlement of estates, drawing up instruments of writing, giving advice on legal questions, etc. MIr. Allen was married September 20, 1860, to Margaret J. Pence, daughter of Michael C. and Susannah (Stafford) Pence. The father of Mrs. Allen was born in Rockingham county, Va., August 17, 1817, and when eighteen years of age moved to Clarke county, Ohio, where, on the twelfth day of December, 1839, he was united in marriage to Susannah Stafford. He came to Clinton county in 1858, settling on a farm in Washington township, where Mrs. Pence died January 25, 1876. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pence-Catherine W. and Margaret J. (Mrs. Allen), both deceased. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Allen was blessed with the birth of six children, namely- John P., born November 3. 1862; Joseph E., August 4, 1866; Howard E., July 16, 1870;
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Thomas W., July 29, 1876; William E., Au- gust 14, 1861, died June 28, 1880; George W., February 2, 1875, died January 17, 1877.
The mother of these children, Mrs. Mar- garet J. Allen, was born in Miami county, Ohio, October 30, 1840, and died at her home in Clinton county, Ind., August 15, 1894, of abdominal tumor. She was a devoted mem- ber of the M. E. church, of which Mr. Allen is also a member. Mr. Allen is a member also of the Masonic fraternity, belongs to the G. A. R., and is a republican in politics.
Mr. Allen has a military record of which he feels deservedly proud, covering a period of over three years, during which time he marched over 4,000 miles and participated in twenty-five bloody battles. To give in detail his military experience would require a volume, and only the leading facts are herewith set forth. He enlisted September 16, 1862, in company I, One Hundredth Indiana infantry, under Capt. James N. Sims, and the following November the regiment proceeded to Memphis, Tenn., with Vicksburg as the objective point, but the latter city was not at that time reached. Mr. Allen's first active duty was as guard to the Memphis & Charleston railroad, and his first baptism of fire was at Vicksburg, in the mem- orable siege, in which he took an active part. After the surrender, he moved with Sherman's army to Jackson, Miss., taking part in the siege, thence to the Big Black river, and afterward returned to Memphis. His next movement was to Chattanooga, Tenn., near which he participated in the battles of Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain, after which he accom- panied his command to Knoxville, and later to Bridgeport, Ala. In the spring of 1864 he was in the army of Gen. Sherman, and fought throughout the Atlanta campaign, during the progress of which he was under fire about one hundred days and nights, and participated in the following historical engagements from Dal-
ton through Snake Creek Gap, to Resaca, Dal- las, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Chattahooche river, Decatur, Cedar Bluffs, Jonesboro, Love- joy Station and the final surrender of Atlanta. Mr. Allen's regiment, after the surrender, was sent on a forced march through northern Geor- gia to Alatoona, and finally returned to its old camping ground near Atlanta. After a great deal of active service in Georgia, the regiment participated in a battle near the town of Gris- wold, entered the city of Savannah December 23, 1864, thence went to Beaufort, S. C., and, marching through the Carolinas, captured suc- cessfully Branchville, Columbia, Georgetown, Bentonville, and finally reached Goldsboro March 26, 1865, after having marched 1, 300 miles and fought seventeen battles. Mr. Allen remained with his command at Greensboro until April of that year, when the regiment moved to Raleigh, thence marched by way of Petersburg, Richmond and Alexandria, Va., to Washington, D. C., reaching that city May 20, 1865. He was discharged June 20, 1865, with a record of duty bravely and uncomplain- ingly done, and it is to such brave and gallant spirits that the country is indebted for its preservation.
OSES ALLEN, one of the oldest living residents of Clinton county, Ind., was born in Butler county, Ohio, July 27, 1807. He was and educated in his native county, remained with his parents until his twenty-fifth year, and in the spring of 1831 came to Clinton county, Ind., where he worked one summer, after which he returned to Ohio; this he repeated for three successive years. February 13. 1884, he married Rachel Crull, who was born in Scioto county, Ohio, March 1, 1813. Im- mediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
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Allen moved to Clinton county, Ind., making the journey with two horses and the usual covered wagon, the canvas of which was woven from flax by Mr. Allen's own hands. They were eleven days on the road and settled upon a piece of prairie land which Mr. Allen had purchased from the government the year previous. He also entered eighty acres of timber and erected thereon, with the assist- ance of his few scattered neighbors, a small log cabin, in size about sixteen by eighteen feet, containing a single room, in which all his household effects were stored. Mr. and Mrs. Allen occupied this primitive dwelling until 1843, in November of which year they moved into a new frame house which still stands upon the old farm. Some idea of the cost of build- ing in those days may be learned from the fact that Mr. Allen obtained money to buy material by marketing his wheat at La Fayette for thirty cents per bushel, and he states that the nails used in the construction of his house were purchased for ten cents per pound. Mr. Allen now owns 240 acres of land in Clinton county, in the improvement of which he has spared no expense, the one item of tiling alone representing an outlay of $1,400. He is a re- publican in politics, though formerly a demo- crat, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Andrew Jackson Religiously he sub- scribes to the liberal creed of Universalism; Mrs. Allen is a member of the Methodist church.
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