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USA > Indiana > Cass County > Biographical and genealogical history of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton counties, Indiana > Part 52
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He was united in marriage with Miss Martha Walker, who comes from a highly honored pioneer family of Shelby county, this state, being the daughter of George Walker, a native of Ohio who settled in Shelby county, where at length he died; he was both a shoemaker and a farmer. His children were: Eliza J., Joseph, Martha (wife of Mr. Davis), Prudence and David, -- all of whom are deceased excepting Martha and Prudence. Mr. and Mrs. Davis' children are Lavina J., who is now Mrs. B. F. Rickard;
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Owen M., engaged in farming; Flora E., now Mrs. E. Swisher; and Ernest C., a resident of Kokomo. Mrs. Davis is a pious and intelligent member of the " Predestinarian " Baptist church.
T HOMAS N. DEVENING .- This enterprising and public-spirited citizen of Madison township, Tipton county, was born in Shelby county, this state, November 12, 1858, brought up on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools. His parents, Philip and Permelia (Robertson) Devening, were married at Shelbyville and were residents there. Philip Devening was born in France, a son of Daniel Devening, who emigrated to this country and settled in Ohio when his son was two years old, and afterward caine to Shelby county, Indiana, where he followed his trade of baker. He finally died, however, in Cincinnati. Philip Devening grew up to manhood in Shelby county, learned the baker's trade of his father and also, when a lad, drove on the canal and worked on a railroad. Finally he settled upon a farm in Shelby county, where he yet lives; he also runs a tile factory. His children are: Thomas N. (our subject), Anna, John, Mary, Laura and Nancy. The parents are members of the Baptist church.
Thomas N. Devening after reaching manhood went to Kansas, where he followed farming two years. Returning to Shelby county he assisted his father on his farm until 1883, when he married and settled upon a farm of his own; but the same year he came to Tipton county and purchased a farın, where he has improved the buildings and added to the cultivated area by ad- ditional clearing. In 1887 he exchanged this place for his present tile and brick factory at Hobbs, which he has since conducted with success. He has greatly improved the original structure and added to its productive capacity, now having a thirty-five-horse-power engine, etc. He has a good trade here, being prepared to fill any kind of orders in his line. He also has charge of the gas works of his village, and is prepared to do gas-fitting. He is a natural mechanic.
In politics he is independent, not binding himself to the ticket of any particular party. Is an active member of the Holiness Christian church, in which he was licensed one year as a preacher. He gave the ground and ren- dered other assistance in building a house of worship for his church at this place, which now has a membership of about twenty-five members.
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In matrimony he was united with Miss Flora Gunning, of Shelby county, a daughter of David and Martha F. (McCombs) Gunning, her father a native of Shelby county and a farmer and cooper by trade, who, after his marriage in Shelby county, came to Tipton county, and died here in 1886. Mrs. Gunning is a member of the New-Light Christian church. Her children are Belle, Cordelia, Leander, Thomas, Flora (wife of Mr. Devening) and Elbert; and Mr. and Mrs. Devening's only child is Horace P., born April 2, 1895. They worship at the Holiness Christian church.
AMES P. SMITH .- This representative of a prominent class of farmers J in Clay township, Howard county, was born in this township December 25, 1853, the year in which his parents, H. W. and Permelia M. (Garr) Smith, arrived here as immigrants from Kentucky. They were natives of Virginia and married in Kentucky, and after settling here at their final earthly home Mr. Smith was identified with all the progress of this county, being a large land-owner and a public-spirited citizen.
Mr. James P. Smith was reared to the hard work of the farm, attending the common schools during the winter seasons; but his educational advantages were considerably increased by attendance at the state university at Bloom- ington and Wabash College at Crawfordsville. Taking a wife in 1879, he left his parental home and settled upon the farm which he yet occupies, four miles west of Kokomo. This place he has improved by extending the clear- ing and reducing all to a high state of cultivation, ditching, tiling, etc., and remodeling the house and barn and adding other buildings, etc., until he has a finely equipped farm. For seven years he also ran a dairy, but he now gives his attention exclusively to agriculture and the raising of live stock, grading up both cattle and hogs. He is, indeed, a very intelligent and pros- perous farmer.
In his political principles he is a Democrat, but he does not aspire to office.
For his wife lie married Miss Lizzie P. Wilcox, a lady of intelligence and culture and of an honored family of Kentucky, her parents being John and Margaret (Clore) Wilcox, natives of that state, where they both yet reside. Mr. Wilcox's occupations are farming and dairying and the raising of live
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stock. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was a brother of Daniel Boone and his son Enoch was the first white child born in Kentucky. Among his ancestors the Wilcox, Clore and Boone families were among the first set- tlers of the Blue Grass state. Before the war Mr. Wilcox was the owner of a number of slaves, was a well and favorably known planter and an upright man. Both the parents were Missionary Baptists in their religious faith. Politically, Mr. Wilcox was a Democrat, conservative and deliberate, and he filled some of the township offices. His children were Sallie B., who is now Mrs. T. B. Smith; Lizzie P., the wife of our subject and the only one of that family residing in Indiana; Belle G., who is now Mrs. Clore; and George P., a farmer and stock-raiser of Kentucky. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are Frank W., Daisy B. and James L. The parents are consistent members of the Missionary Baptist church, of which Mr. Smith is a trustee and deacon.
C' HRISTIAN H. SHIVELY is one of the respected farmers and old set- tlers of Pipe Creek township, Miami county, Indiana. He was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 3, 1834, son of John E. and Elizabeth (Shively) Shively.
John E. Shively was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lancaster county, December 5, 1804, and when one and a half years old was taken by his par- ents to Montgomery county, Ohio, their settlement being in Jefferson town- ship, four miles west of Dayton, where he was reared on a frontier farm. His brothers and sisters were Daniel, David, Christian, and Susan, who became the wife of John Metzger. His parents spent the greater part of their lives in Montgomery county, his father dying there. His mother died in Clinton county, Indiana, at the ripe old age of ninety-two years. They and their family were members of the German Baptist church. The founder of the Shively family in America came to this country from Switzerland, on account of religious persecutions, about 1718 or 1719, and settled in Penn- sylvania. John E. Shively was married, August 25, 1832, in Montgomery county, to Elizabeth Shively, who was born December, 1811, in that county, daughter of David and Hannah (Cripe) Shively, her grandfather being Elder Jacob Cripe. David Shively and Hannah, his wife, were the parents of Samuel, Elizabeth and David R. John E. Shively and wife settled on the
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old Daniel Shively homestead in Jefferson township, Montgomery county, where they resided until the spring of 1851. In May of that year they made the journey by team to Indiana, being eight days on the road and landing in Pipe Creek township, Miami county, June ist. Here he settled on one hun- dred and sixty acres of land, upon which a little log cabin had been built and where two acres were cleared. In this typical pioneer hoine, with the dense forest all around him and with neighbors few and far apart, he began the work of clearing and cultivating. With the passing years he prospered, ac- quiring and improving other lands, and gave to all his children a good home. He died in 1877 at the age of seventy-three years and eleven months. It was by his own honest and persistent toil and with the aid of his good wife that his success in life was attained. He was a man of deep piety, and was a minister and for many years an elder in the German Baptist church, being one of the founders of the Pipe Creek church. His children in order of birth are as follows: David, born November 11, 1833; Christian H., December 3, 1834; Susannah, March 11, 1838; Elizabeth, December 27, 1839; Mary, May 7, 184 -; Hannah, April 7, 1844; John, October 16, 1848; Henry, April 9, 1851; and Joseph, March 15, 1854.
Christian H. Shively was about sixteen years old when, in 1851, he ac- companied his parents on their removal to Miami county, Indiana. He re- mained a member of the home circle until he reached his majority and then, receiving from his father sixty acres of land, he started out in life on his own account. His land, located on Pipe creek, was then all covered with forest, but on it was a sawmill. This mill he ran until 1862, doing a good business, and at the end of that time he built a new mill, operated by steam power. After running the new mill eight years he sold out and turned his attention to farming exclusively, to which he has since devoted his energies. To his original sixty acres he has since added from time to tiine as he has been prospered until now his farm comprises three hundred and ninety acres, all fine farming land and under a high state of cultivation, - one of the best places in the township.
Mr. Shively was married in this township, October 16, 1864, to Miss Sarah C. Garnand, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 15, 1844, daughter of Joel and Mary (Loody) Garnand. The Garnands are of German origin. Joel Garnand came from Maryland to Indiana in 1863, and on December 31 purchased two hundred and forty acres of partly improved
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land, in two tracts, which he farmed until 1890, when he retired and moved to Bunker Hill. There he died at the age of seventy-six years. His chil- dren are Jacob, Lewis, Sarah C., Maggie, Clara, James, Cassandra, Charity, Alice, David F. and Ida. Mr. and Mrs. Shively became the parents of the following named children: Ida May, born December 29, 1865; Ira Carl, November 16, 1870; Laura, April 8, 1872; Perry O., August 22, 1874; John E. H., June 23, 1877; and Glenny G., September 26, 1882. All are living except Laura, who died at the age of twelve years.
Both Mr. Shively and his wife are devout members of the German Bap- tist church and are among its most active and liberal supporters.
JOHN CAMPBELL .- One of the oldest residents of Jackson township J
Cass county, and a pioneer, is John Campbell, now a resident of Galves- ton, this county. He is a native of the great Keystone state, born in Cham- bersburg, January 10, 1821, a son of William and Elizabeth (Robison) Camp- bell. His father was a son of John and Eliza eth (Blair) Campbell. John Campbell, the grandfather, was born in Edinburg, Scotland, springing from the highland clan of Campbell. He was married near Edinburg, to Elizabeth Blair, also of Scotch ancestry. By occupation he was a farmer, and emi- grated to America about 1794, settling near Chambersburg and buying a tract of land known as a "tomahawk claim." At that early day a settler gener- ally took possession of all the land of which he could pay for the surveying, and he indicated the extent of his real estate by blazing trees around his claim. The land which Mr. Campbell came into possession of thus cost him only ten dollars.
Those were the days of trouble with hostile Indians, and these immi- grants built block houses for protection against them. The red savages molested the Campbell family. One day when occupying temporarily the block house, Mrs. Campbell sallied out to her log cabin a short distance away, taking her little child with her, and while there, sure enough! the Indians approached and she ran with her child out into the tall weeds and hid herself, and, in order to prevent the child from crying and thus betraying to the Indians their presence there, she held the throat of the child so tightly that it could not cry. The savages of course looted the cabin.
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John Campbell, the grandfather of our subject, was the son of William Campbell, who also emigrated to this country. His children were Mark, Andy, William, John, and a daughter who became the wife of a man named McPeters. John Campbell became a prosperous farmer and land-owner, who gave to each of his children a tract of land, and they all settled near the parental homestead. In their religion they were Presbyterians, the immi- grants coming to this country with an old Scotch colony, who located near Westchester, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. A few years later the Camp- bells and other families moved to the vicinity of Chambersburg, that state.
William Campbell, our subject's father, was born in 1792 near Edin- burg, Scotland, and was two years old when the family emigrated to America, in 1794. On reaching manhood he was married, about fifteen miles from Chambersburg, to Elizabeth Robison, a native of Pennsylvania and a daugh- ter of Hugh and Eliza (Blair) Robison. Both the Robisons and the Blairs were of Scotch ancestry and came with the Presbyterian colony from the old country. William Campbell settled on his father's homestead, and his chil- dren were: John, Mary H., Robert, Elizabeth, Blair, Andrew, Crawford and Margaret. Mr. Campbell was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a man of strict religious views, was industrious in his habits and exemplary in his character.
John Campbell, the subject proper of this sketch, was reared in the old Scotch colony near Chambersburg, receiving the limited education afforded by the place and time. On growing up he learned the tailor's trade in Cham- bersburg, and when about twenty-one years of age, in 1842, he came to LaFayette, Indiana, by canal and on foot, and for the first year here he worked at his trade. In 1843 he went to Rossville, this state, where he established a shop of his own and conducted it until 1849, when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of his present farm, then all heavily covered with timber. Here he settled and went heroically to work to make for himself a permanent and comfortable home. He built a log cabin and commenced clearing and by long continued hard work he at last succeeded in accoin- plishing the goal of his ambition, accumulating a handsome amount of prop- erty. At one time he owned six hundred and sixty acres of land, all of which he improved and made very valuable.
March 4, 1847, in Rossville, he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza- beth Smith, who was born near Monroe, Ohio, a daughter of John and
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(Long) Smith. She died August 20, 1849, only about two years after mar- riage, and subsequently Mr. Campbell married Miss Rebecca Spence, a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John and Esther Spence, and by this marriage there are the following children: Elizabeth. . William and Wilson (twins), John (who died at the age of about twenty- seven), Viola and Mary O.
In his religion Mr. Campbell is a Presbyterian, and in politics he is one of the original Republicans of this county, voting for John C. Fremont in 1856. For six years he was a commissioner of Cass county, and in early days was assessor for four years. He is one of the few remaining pioneers, a highly honored citizen who himself has honored agriculture by his industry and integrity. "The sun which pencils with beauty the violet also ripens and fills with nutriment the juicy herb." And "God Almighty," says Bacon, " first planted a garden; and indeed it is the source of the purest of human pleasures and the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man."
R EUBEN STROUP .- Among the farmers and honorable pioneers promi- nently identified with the general development of Tipton county is Reuben Stroup, who was born in Madison county, Ohio, June 25, 1832, and reared to honest toil as a farmer, which vocation he has followed through life.
His father, William Stroup, was a native of Pennsylvania and of Ger- man descent, and was married in Ohio to Miss Anna Thomas, a native of Maryland. William was a son of John Stroup, a native of Germany, who settled in Pennsylvania. William emigrated to Ohio, when a young man, during the middle of the last century, and served seven years in the Revolu- tionary war, in which he received a wound, and finally died in Pennsylvania. William Stroup emigrated to Ohio when a young man, married there, and followed agricultural pursuits. In 1849 he sold his farm and came to Tipton county, Indiana, where he entered a tract of land, which is the present home- stead of the family, and of this tract he made a good farm, being successful in its management. He died in 1863 at the age of seventy-eight years, well known among the pioneers of his section of the state as an honorable man and useful citizen. Politically he was a Democrat. His wife died in 1868. at the age of seventy years. They had ten children: John, deceased;
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Joseph, who died in Ohio, Polly, Jane, Rebecca, Anna, Naomi, Lavina, Reuben (our subject); and Jackson, a farmer.
Renben came with his parents to Tipton county in 1849, and aided in the development and cultivation of the farm, and, having resided here ever since, he has seen the country grow from a wilderness to its present high state of improvement. What was only a wild forest when he came here is cleared and improved, furnished with beautiful and comfortable dwellings, school-houses and churches, and even towns and villages near by, with rail- roads, etc., and sustaining thousands of civilized people. These observa- tions awaken many memories of the times when all this section of the state was covered with heavy timber, crossed with many ponds, sloughs and "slashes," and when the few settlers lived together in harmony and sympa- thy, although in great poverty, and had confidence in each other and enjoyed one another's company far more than at the present day. They were ready to help one another in raising cabins, rolling logs, etc., and the ocial gath- erings were simple, inexpensive and satisfactory.
Mr. Reuben Stroup was married September 15, 1861, and remained at his parental home until 1862, when, answering his country's call, he enlisted in the war, leaving his wife with her parents. Joining Company C, which was attached to the One Hundred and First Regiment of Indiana Volunteer In- fantry and assigned to the Army of the Tennessee, he saw much hard serv- ice; was one of that great host that marched under Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, during which for ninety days he was engaged more or less in fight- ing. Some of .he most noted battles were those of Milton, Kentucky, Chickamauga, Jonesboro, Missionary Ridge, etc. ; and he was also in many dangerous skirmishes, but he was never wounded or taken prisoner; was always on duty, never asking for a furlough. After the expiration of his term of service, three years, he was honorably discharged at Indianapolis in June, 1865.
Returning from the war he settled on the farm still occupied by him, and he continued to follow agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. After the death of his parents he bought the interest of the other heirs, built a comino- dious dwelling, large barn and outbuildings, ditched and tiled the farm and placed it in a good state of cultivation.
He was married, in Tipton county, Indiana, to Miss Maria Campbell, of an old and honored pioneer family, being the daughter of William and Nancy
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Campbell, from Kentucky. She was born in Brown county, Indiana. Mr. Campbell came to Tipton county in 1844, entering land and improving it. In 1855 he built the first frame house in the neighborhood, which is yet standing but not occupied as a residence. He was a successful farmer, although he was obliged to undergo many privations and hardships. He left the scenes of this life in 1882, at the age of seventy-seven years; and his wife departed this life in 1883 at the age of sixty-five. Both were exemplary members of the Christian church. The children were: Maria, the wife of our subject, born May 16, 1836; Joseph, a farmer; Sarah, now Mrs. Mazingo; James, a farmer; Mary, Ervin, Mahala J., David, Matilda, Dama and John.
Mr. and Mrs. Stroup have no children. They have been efficient in benevolent work, rearing two orphans and partly bringing up two others; and they did a good part by all of them. Mrs. Stroup is a member of the Christian church. In politics Mr. Stroup is a Democrat, but has never aspired to office.
H IRAM D. HATTERY, M. D .- Success does not depend so much upon the possession of talents or powers unusual to the majority of mankind, as upon the exercise of those qualities which are common to us all. Abso- Inte capability often exists in specific instances, but is never brought into the clear light of utilitarian and practical life. Hope is of the valley, while effort is climbing the mountain side, so that personal advancement comes not to the one who hopes alone, but to the one whose hope and faith are those of action. Thus is determined the full measure of success to one who has struggled under disadvantageous circumstances, and only prostrate medi- ocrity to another whose ability has been as great and opportunities wider Then we may well hold in high regard the result of individual effort and per- sonal accomplishment, for cause and effect here maintain their functions in full force. Dr. Hattery's prominent position in the business world is but he legitimate result of well directed and earnest effort, of resolute purpose and laudable ambition, and to-day he ranks among the leading citizens of Logans- port, with whose interests he has been allied for twenty-two years.
The Doctor was born in Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on the 25th of May, 1845, and is a son of Ephraim and Maria (Fabra) Hattery. His father was a native of Ohio and was of Scotch-Irish descent, and
HA. S. Hallogmit
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his mother was born in Heidelberg, Germany. They were married in Ohio and located on a farm in that state, where the mother's death occurred when she was aged fifty-one years. The father is still living, on the home- stead farm in Ohio, and has passed the eighty-fourth milestone on life's journey. They were parents of two sons and two daughters.
Dr. Hattery was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads, and supple- mented his early educational advantages by a course of study in the Hagers- town Academy, of Hagerstown, Ohio. For four years he engaged in teaching school, and during that period began the study of medicine, entering upon the active practice of his chosen profession in Amboy, Indiana. In 1873 he was graduated in the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and then took · up his residence in Waupecong, Indiana, whence he came to Logansport in 1876. Here he entered upon a successful career, his proficiency and com- prehensive understanding of the principles and practice of medical science gaining him a foremost place among those who devote their energies to that calling. He is a member of the Logansport Medical and Surgical Society and among his patrons he numbers many of the best families of the city in which he makes his home. He is a man of resourceful ability, and his efforts have not been confined alone to the line of his profession, for throughout almost his entire residence in Logansport he has been connected with its commercial interests through capital invested in the drug business. In 1890 his son, Andrew J. Hattery, established a drug store at the corner of Miami and Plum streets, Logansport, successfully conducting the same for three years, when his career was ended by death. The drug store was then sold, but after a year the Doctor re-established the business, which he has since carried on, having now one of the best equipped stores in his line in the city.
He is also a recognized leader in the ranks of the Democracy and is unfaltering in his support of the principles of his party. During the cam- paign of 1896 he labored most earnestly in its behalf, fully believing that the only solution to the national finance question lies in the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. In 1886 he received, entirely unsolicited on his part, the nomination for congress, and made a very credit- able canvass, although he failed to overcome the strong majority which the Republicans have in this district. In 1892 he was elected on the Democratic ticket as a member of the presidential electoral college. He has also been honored with a number of local offices; was a member of the Logansport 34
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