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On September 16, 1896, while still attending college Doctor Kinneman married Neva Ione Moore, daughter of Dr. John W. and Elizabeth (Keesling) Moore. Her parents were both born in Henry County, Indiana, where their respective families were pioneer settlers. Dr. John W. Moore's father, Philip Moore, founded the Town of Mooreland in Henry County. The Moores were of German descent several generations back. Through the Keeslings Mrs. Kinneman is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Doctor and Mrs. Kinneman have in their possession three old parchment deeds, which were given her mater- nal ancestor, John Keesling. These deeds were executed under the hand and seal of President Andrew Jackson, and bear the fol- lowing dates: Two dated August 5, 1834, and one, April 17, 1833. These are valuable heirlooms in their home, and they also have an old Bible published in 1837, and the engravings are of the old wood cuts. To their marriage have been born two children : Doris, now a student in Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana; and John, at- tending high school.
In politics Doctor Kinneman is a republican of the stalwart type, and has always greatly admired the vigorous leaders of that party who have made and moulded American history in the past half century. He is affiliated with Goodland Lodge No. 445, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Goodland Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. In the line of his profession he is a member of the Jasper & Newton County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Asso- ciation, and the American Medical Association. He is one of the principal stockholders of the State Trust & Savings Bank of Good- land. His business success has always been accompanied by a very liberal and generous conduct toward those less fortunate than him- self and in many ways he has helped to promote the welfare of his home town.
JESSE W. BOND, D. D. S. Not only in his profession as a dentist but also as a well to do business man and citizen is Doctor Bond known in Newton County, where he has resided since carly infancy. He enjoys a large practice, is very popular in social circles, and whatever he undertakes he does thoroughly and carefully.
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A son of George F. and Sarah (Bartoo) Bond, he was born at Plainfield, Illinois, January 5. 1871. His father was of English descent and a native of the State of Maine, while the mother was born in New York, and among her direct ancestors was the noted Ethan Allen, the hero at Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolution. George F. Bond was a Union soldier during the Civil war, being with Company L of the Illinois Light Artillery, and he did not live many years after he returned from the service, dying in Illinois, December I, 1871. Not long afterward, when Doctor Bond was still a child, the mother brought her little family to Jasper County, settling near Remington.
It was on a farm in Carpenter Township that Doctor Bond spent his carly youth. He attended the Remington High School, and subsequently entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, where he graduated D. D. S. with the class of 1895. He has now practiced successfully in Newton County for more than twenty years. Besides his large clientele as the leading dentist at Goodland he owns a good farm in Carroll County.
On April 9, 1903, he married A. Velma Clymer, a daughter of Doctor Keever and Rezina Ann (Black) Clymer of Goodland. To their marriage have been born three children: Keever C., Rezina A. and Willo Jean.
Doctor Bond has always voted the republican ticket but has 110 political aspirations. He and his wife are members of the Pres- byterian Church, and he is affiliated with both the Masonic Lodge No. 445 and the Royal Arch Chapter at Goodland. He is also a member of the Hazelden Golf Club.
JOHN COCHRANE, SR. With a long. and honorable career of industry and practical achievement, John Cochrane, Sr., has already celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, and for more than ten years has enjoyed the comforts of a good home and the leisure of retire- ment at Goodland. While relieved of business responsibilities, Mr. Cochrane is as alert and vigorous in matters of local citizenship as he ever was. Many local people will recall that he was the leader in the movement which drove the saloons out of Goodland. He and his wife have children and grandchildren about them and in homes of their own, and they can take an enviable satisfaction in reviewing the many years that lie behind them.
The fact that John Cochrane is a Scotchman by birth might indi- cate to many people a reason for his vigorous and independent citizenship. He was born at Dunlop in Ayrshire July 21, 1839, a son of John and Mary (Wylie) Cochrane. In 1853 all the Cochrane family came to America and settled in La Salle County, Illinois. The father died there January 12, 1868, at the age of fifty-six and is laid to rest in Waltham Cemetery. The mother later went out to Missouri to live with a daughter, and died there.
Mr. John Cochrane was about fourteen years of age when he
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came to America. Up to that time he had lived in his native shire. so intimately associated with the life and poetry of Robert Burns, and had attended such schools as were open to him. From the age of fourteen he lived in La Salle County, Illinois, and made that locality his home until 1869, when he came to Indiana and located in Union Township of Benton County. His farm was not far from Goodland, and for many years that town has been his chief market center. As a farmer and stock raiser Mr. Cochrane steadily pros- pered and continued to direct his own affairs there for thirty-four years. In 1903 he retired into Goodland and he and his wife have one of the comfortable homes of that village.
On October 24, 1864, he married Mary E. Richards, a daughter of John and Johanna (Sheahan) Richards. Her father was a native of England and her mother was born in the State of Maine and of Irish stock. To Mr. and Mrs. Cochrane were born eight children, four of whom died in infancy. Janet C. is the wife of Charles Fagan, who is superintendent of the Cascade School, in Seattle, Washington, and they have one son, Charles. Robert, who lives in Goodland, married Emma Summers, and their children are Walter L., Karl, John (deceased), and Mary E. Addie B. married Edward Strubbe, and they live in Union Township of Benton County and have a child named Hazel E. John, Jr., lives with his family on the old homestead in Union Township of Benton County, the place being known as the Maple Grove Farm; by his marriage to Jeanetta Wild he has five children : John A., Russell W., Mary E., Malcom B. and Janet E., the last being now deceased.
Mr. Cochrane has never identified himself actively with any political party, though for twenty years he has been a steadfast worker for the prohibition cause. He and his wife are both devout Presbyterians, and he has served as a ruling elder in the Goodland church of that denomination for forty-six years. Besides some property in town, including his own home, Mr. Cochrane owns about 240 acres of land near Goodland in Benton County. In his effort to live a good, honest, straightforward life, there are a host of friends who would say that Mr. Cochrane has been as successful as any man in Newton County.
CHARLES E. SAGE. Nearly sixty years have passed since the Sage family was established in Jasper County, and since then the name has been represented here by both men and women of sterling character and usefulness in all their relations.
The founder of the family in this section of Indiana was George W. T. Sage, who was born in Kentucky, a son of Alexander Sage. George Sage came to Jasper County in 1856. On March 4, 1858, he married Mary Jane Harris, who was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Harris, who were also natives of Maryland, but of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. Eight children were born to George and Mary Sage, namely: Mary E. K.,
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who married Jolin Eck and lives in Carpenter Township; one that died in infancy ; Howard F., now deceased ; Warren W .; Charles E .; John W., who lives in Goodland; and William A. and Ollie M., both deceased. The father of these children died February 19, 1875.
One of the sons is Warren W. Sage, who has a fine farm home in Milroy Township, 612 miles southeast of Rensselaer. War- ren was born in Jordan Township of Jasper County March 19, 1864, and has spent practically all his life in Jasper County, though for five ye .... he was located near Buckley, in Ford County, Kansas, during the late 'Sos. Farming and the raising of stock has supplied him with opportunities and his prosperity is represented by the ownership of 490 acres of land.
On October 10, 1886, Warren Sage married Orpha M. Farmer, daughter of George W. and Matilda ( Macy ) Farmer, both of whom were natives of Indiana. Of the six children born to their marriage one died in infancy, and the other five are: Estella; Loren C., who married Lenore Hefft, and lives in Milroy Township : Lois, Albert WV. and Harold M., all living at home. In politics Warren Sage is a democrat though in local affairs he votes for the best man, and he himself has no political aspirations. Both he and his wife are members of the Church of God, and take much part in the affairs of their home church.
The late Charles E. Sage, whose career added to the honorable associations connected with this name in Jasper County, was born September 1, 1866, in Jordan Township, Jasper County, a son of George and Mary J. (Ilarris) Sage. He grew to manhood on the old homestead farm. but when about nineteen years of age went west, and altogether spent some eleven years in Kansas and Colorado. For three years he taught school in Kansas, part of the time in the high school at Dodge City. He was also in the brick business for a while, and followed the same line after removing to Pueblo, Colo- rado, in 1888. He was at that time twenty-two years of age, and from that time until the close of his life was exceedingly active and energetic in everything he undertook.
On December 11, 1890, Mr. Sage married Miss Katie Hynds, a daughter of Joli and Jane (Littlejohn) Hynds, all of whom were born in Scotland and came to this country in 1871, settling first in Will County, Illinois, and later moving to the vicinity of Dodge City, Kansas. Mrs. Katie Sage, who since the death of her hus- band has shown exceptional business ability in managing the home farm, is the mother of seven children, one of whom died in infancy. The other six are: George E., Russell H., Raymond W., Mary E., Jeannie E. and Ruth N.
After his marriage Charles E. Sage resumed his work as a teacher, and spent four years in that vocation at Overton, Colorado. After that for six months he was identified with the brick business in Colorado Springs, and then brought his family back to Indiana and took up farming. It was as a farmer and also as a teacher that
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he was subsequently known in Jasper County until his death, which occurred August 12, 1913. There was a host of friends to mourn the passing of this vigorous and excellent citizen, and followed his remains to their last resting place in the Egypt Cemetery.
Mr. Sage was a democrat, and while living at Overton, Colorado, was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of county superintendent. He always took more or less active interest in politics, and in Jasper County served as township trustee four years. He was much in favor of all public improvements, and was one of the active organ- izers and president of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company which built the line connecting with the Exchange at Brook. He and his wife both were members of the Church of God, and he had been a loyal and working Christian since the age of fifteen. Mr. Sage at the time of his death owned 320 acres of land, and this fine farm is now being well conducted by Mrs. Sage and the children. Mrs. Sage has always donc perhaps more than the usual part of a woman both at home and outside of her home. She is an active church worker, has usually taught in Sunday school, and after she and her husband came back to Indiana she became a loyal helper to him in establishing a home and looking after the interests of the farm. Mr. Sage for some time continued school teaching after his return to Indiana, and for four years taught in the Schutte School in Newton County, and for two or three years in other dis- trict schools.
' ZIBA F. LITTLE. The people of Goodland have long looked upon Ziba F. Little as one of the community's best upbuilders. A long number of years ago he established a store which has been developed and carried on in progressive fashion to the present time, though he is no longer actively identified, having turned the management over to his son. In many other ways he has fitted into the life of the community and has well earned all the comforts and pleasures of retirement.
A son of Clark S. and Sarah A. (Van Scoy) Little, Ziba F. Little was born in Prairie Township of White County, Indiana, August 18, 1850. The Little ancestry was English while the Van Scoys were Holland people originally. Clark S. Little was born in Ohio, while his wife was a native of Virginia, and when quite young they moved to White County and were there at a time when little development had been done, and they bore their full share of pioneer responsi- bilities. When Ziba F. was about ten years of age his father moved to Brookston and engaged in the general merchandise business there for some fifteen or twenty years. He was born February 8, 1828, and died at Brookston in January, 1899.
Having gained his education in the schools of Brookston, Ziba F. Little at the age of eighteen left home and was employed as a telegrapher and station agent by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany at Reynolds and Goodland. It was through his railroad service
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that he first became identified with Goodland, but in 1877 he left the railroad and started a store, with a modest capital and with only his personal integrity and enterprise to commend him to prospective patrons. Out of this has been developed the large general store of Z. F. Little & Company, long recognized as one of the most pros- perous business establishments of Newton County. Mr. Little still employs much of his time in the store, attends to many details, though he no longer considers his daily presence there absolutely necessary. For a good many years he worked carly and late, and has fully earned ali the prosperity which has rewarded his efforts. His son Harry is now president of the company and active head of the store.
In 1875 Mr. Little married Anna Miner, daughter of Harley and Anna B. (Cole) Miner, of Goodland. Two children have been born to tlicir union, Harry and Ruby. Harry F., who is president of the Z. F. Little & Company, married Ethel Rider, and they have a child named Lulu. Ruby MI. is now the wife of John W. Hinchman, and their one child is named Evaline.
In politics Mr. Little has voted the republican ticket ever since gaining his majority. For several years he was a member of the county council, served as town trustee for two or three years, and has made himself an active factor in all public improvements. He is a past master of Goodland Lodge No. 445, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter at Goodland, and is a past master of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in the same village. Both he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Little is a director of the First National Bank of Goodland, and served as its vice president for several years until ill health made it necessary for him to retire.
. AUGUSTUS DWIGHT BABCOCK. One of the scholarly members of the Newton County bar, Augustus Dwight Babcock, lawyer and author, has had a most varied experience, and is not only known as a legist, author and student of literature, but in the more prosaic field of business, having one of the largest farm insurance agencies in this section, located at Goodland. Mr. Babcock was born Sep- tember 28, 1852, on a farm three miles south of Rensselaer, in Marion Township, Jasper County, Indiana, and is a son of Augustus Dorr and Abigail (Iliff) Babcock.
The Babcock family originated in England, and its first Ameri- can progenitor, one James Babcock, is found in the annals of Rhode Island prior to the Revolutionary war. From him have descended men who have achieved prominence and eminence in the various walks of life, men bearing the name having fought in every Ameri- can war, and particularly in the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812. Nathan Babcock, the grandfather of Augustus D. Babcock, was born in New York State, from whence he came to Indiana, settling during the '40s in Carroll County, near Delphi. About the
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year 1848 the family moved to Jasper County and settled in Marion Township, near Rensselaer, where Nathan Babcock died August 14, 1874, being laid to rest in Crockett Cemetery, four miles south- east of Rensselaer. Augustus Dorr Babcock was born in New York and accompanied his father 10 Indiana, where he passed his short career in farming, his death occurring October 11, 1858, when he was but twenty-six years, eleven months of age. Like his father, he was buried in Crockett Cemetery. Ile married Abigail Iliff, a daughter of William and Hannah Iliff, natives of Preble County, Ohio, of English descent, and they became the parents of three children : Augustus Dwight; Ruby Alice, who married White A. Harbison and lives at Kentland; and Addie Bell, the wife of Charles Lampson.
Augustus Dwight Babcock was six years of age when his father died, and following that event he was taken to Rensselaer by his mother, who three years later married Mount Etna Jordan, the family then moving to near Remington and settling on a farm. While working on farms in Carpenter and Jordan townships, Mr. Babcock secured a common school education, but his ambitions were beyond the humdrum life of the agriculturist, and when he reached his majority he began to teach school, a vocation which occupied his energies for ten years, six years of this time being passed in Grant Township, Newton County. In this period, when he could find the leisure, he applied himself earnestly and eagerly to the study of law, and in 1885 he was admitted to the bar at Kentland and at once entered practice. He has built up a good professional business and has an excellent standing among his fellow practitioners. Mr. Bab- cock's energetic nature has carried him into other fields of endeavor. and for some years he has been the representative at Goodland of the Home Insurance Company, of New York, and he has developed the largest farm insurance business in this part of the state. He also holds stock in one of the leading financial institutions of New- ton County.
In politics Mr. Babcock is a democrat, and on two occasions has been candidate for prosecuting attorney, but owing to political con- ditions has met with defeat. His fraternal connection is with Goodland Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, No. 445, and he holds membership also in the National Geographic Association. A close student of literature all of his life, Mr. Babcock is possessed of no little talent as author and poet, his "The Silver Oar and Other Poems," published in 1914, having met with great success. His new book, a prose preparation, "The End of the Trail," a romantic story of the battle of Tippecanoe, will be soon placed uppon the mar- ket, and will no doubt go far to place Mr. Babcock's name among the literary men of the Iloosier state whose work is eagerly watched for. He has been a constant and energetic friend of education and ยท has done much to elevate the standard of the Goodland public school system. His hobby is the founding of a museum, which he hopes
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to hand down to future generations. He already has many curiosities from all parts of the world, and his collection as it is already would forni the basis for a very respectable museum of curios.
Mr. Babcock was married July 5, 1888, in Benton County, Indi- ana, to Miss Maggie \. Watt, daughter of James E. and Lydia (Hagenbuch) Watt, who were of Scotch-German descent, good substantial farming people who came to Benton County, Indiana, from Illinois about the year 1870 and here passed the remainder of their lives in agricultural pursuits, being honored and respected Gratuity. Mr and Mrs. Beleuch are the parents of three children: James E., who attended Lake Forest College for a time, a graduate of the Logansport Business College, and of the Indiana Law School, at Indianapolis, who has inherited much of his father's ability and is now successfully engaged in the practice of law at Indianapolis : Augustus Dorr, who is attending Hanover College ; and Charles Dwight, a student at the Goodland High School. Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and their children are members of the Pres- byterian Church, of which Mr. Babcock for some years was a mem- ber of the board of trustees.
SUMNER H. DICKINSON. A traveler through Newton County sees many attractive homes, not only in the thriving towns, but in the agricultural districts, the evidences of enterprise crowned with success being plentiful on every side. In Grant Township stands a substantial farm residence, around which good barns and other buildings cluster and well-tilled acres stretch. Everything about the place wears an air of neatness and order, and evidences of good taste, which mark the occupants as people of intelligence, thrift and culture. Investigation shows the estate to be Maple Grove Place, owned by Sumner HF. Dickinson, one of the leading and substantial citizens of Grant Township, who from modest beginnings has devel- oped a substantial property aggregating 644 acres.
Mr. Dickinson was born September 27. 1855. near Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan, and is a son of Horatio N. and Miranda (Titus) Dickinson, natives of New York and of good old New England stock. As young married people Mr. Dickinson's parents removed from the Empire state to Calhoun County, Michigan, where they continued to be engaged in farming until 1858, in that year going to Kankakee County, Illinois, and locating on a farm in the vicinity of the Town of Manteno. There the father, who was born September 10, 1810, died January 2, 1881, while the mother, who was born September 26, 1813, died June 21, 1901, and both were laid to rest in the Wilton Center Cemetery, in Will County.
Sumner H. Dickinson was reared on his parents' farm in Kan- kakee County, Illinois, securing his education in the public schools, and was reared as a farmer, a vocation which he chose for his life work on attaining his majority. In 1878 he made a visit to a brother who had come to Newton County, and here met Elizabeth S. Con-
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stable, of Goodland, to whom he was married on March 28th of that year. She was a daughter of Richard and Mary ( Knight ) Con- stable, carly settlers and highly respected people of Grant Township. With his young bride, Mr. Dickinson returned to Ilinois, but he had seen enough of Newton County to feel that it was a very desirable place to live, and in 1883 returned to this community and took up his residence in section 29, Grant Township, where he has since lived. His beginning here was a modest one, but as the years passed he added from time to time to his holdings and now with his son, L. A. Dickinson, has 644 acres, in a high state of cultivation, a property which gains its name from a fine maple grove. The excel- Jent buildings on the farm have been the result of his enterprise, and in every sense, he may be justly considered a model and modern farmer. In addition to general farming, he has specialized to some extent in the breeding of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, and in this depart- ment has also achieved a satisfying success.
During his residence in Grant Township Mr. Dickinson has contributed liberally of his time and means in the movements that have been promoted to better ditch and road conditions. A republi- can in his political views, he served two terms as county commissioner of Newton County, was then defeated by three votes for a third term, but at the following election was again returned the victor and entered upon the duties of his office January 1, 1915. His entire public service has been one which has given his fellow-citizens the utmost satisfaction. He has never been an office seeker, and the honors which have come to him have come unsought. With his family, Mr. Dickinson belongs to the Baptist Church, being a mem- ber of the congregation at Goodland. Aside from his farm he has various interests, and is a director in the First National Bank of Goodland.
Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have been the parents of four children, namely : Miss Lillian M., who resides with her parents ; Lawrence A., who married Essie Cole and lives in Union Township, Benton County, Indiana, on a farm; Floyd, who is deceased; and Harold R., a graduate of the class of 1916, Franklin College.
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