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his home with our subject until his death at the age of twenty-one years; and Bertha, who died in infancy. Mr. Burgess is a Republican in his political affiliations and is a man who is highly esteemed in the community for his honorable, upright life.
SWAIN MARSHALL.
Wayne county was exceptionally fortunate in the character of her pio- neers, who, save in rare instances, possessed the pluck, fortitude and genius of the true Anglo-Saxon,-that race which appears to delight in difficulties, because thereby an opportunity is afforded to conquer them. The founders of this county were God-fearing, law-abiding citizens, patriotic and true to their native land, and conscientious in the discharge of every duty toward their fellow men.
Of such a stamp were the ancestors of the subject of this sketch. His grandparents, Miles and Martha (Jones) Marshall, were natives of North Carolina, the former born in 1789 and the latter in 1792. They removed from Tennessee to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1812, at first locating on Green's Fork, near the present town of the same name, but after a few months had passed the family returned to the state whence they had come. In the fall of 1814 they came back and made a settlement on Elkhorn creek, in what now is Boston township, and about two years later they came to the present township of Green. In the autumn of the same year Mr. Marshall bought eighty acres of land in Perry township, here making a permanent home. Both he and his wife were consistent members of the Society of Friends, their lives being governed by the noble principles of that sect. Mr. Marshall was recognized as a man of superior ability, and frequently was called upon to serve in local positions of trust and responsibility. For fifteen consecutive years he served as a justice of the peace, and for two years he was a member of the Indiana legislature. His beloved wife died in 1854, and the following year he went to Dallas county, Iowa, where he died in 1868. Only three of their ten children survive. They were named as follows: Thomas; Mitchell, who died in 1846, aged thirty-three years; Myra, who has been dead many years; Maben, who was born in 1817, died in 1898; Minerva, born in 1820, died in 1898; Margaret, who died in infancy; Calvin, born in August, 1824, and now living in Dallas county, Iowa; Collins, born in 1826, was killed by the bushwhackers during the war of the Rebellion; Miles, born in 1830, died in the fall of 1898; and Martha, born in 1832, is a resident dent of Dallas, Iowa.
Thomas Marshall, the eldest child of his parents, was born in Knox county, Tennessee, December 8, 1811. He has been a resident of Perry township for eighty-three years, and for sixty-eight years has lived upon his
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homestead, which was entered from the government by his father. For one so well along in years, he enjoys remarkably good health, and is sound in mind and body. No one in his part of the county is more thoroughly esteemed, and his life record is without stain or blemish. For twenty-two years he was a trustee of his township, but he has never sought public office, preferring to lead a retired life. By marrying the lady of his choice, one out- side the Quaker church, he was promptly excluded from membership; but, firm in his conviction that he was in the right, he pursued the pathway he had marked out for himself, and has prospered in every way. It was on the 3d of November, 1833, that his marriage to Miss Cynthia, daughter of Sylvanus and Rhoda (Worth) Swain, was celebrated. She came from North Carolina to this county with her parents in 1824, and her death occurred December 31, 1851. The second marriage of Mr. Marshall took place on the 19th of March, 1854, when Miss Elvira Macy became his wife. She is a daughter of Isaac and Eleanor (Thornburg) Macy. By the first union there were born five children, namely: Clayton, Rhoda, Swain, Alonzo and Orlando; and of the second marriage, two children were born,-Cynthia Ellen and Elmer Ellsworth. Three of the sons, Clayton (now a resident of Nebraska), Swain, and Alonzo (the present auditor of Wayne county), were Union soldiers in the great civil war.
Swain Marshall, whose birth occurred at the old homestead so long owned by his father, October 18, 1839, has been numbered among the worthy citizens of Perry township during his entire life, -three-score years. He early learned the various details of agriculture, and as he approached manhood he earnestly followed the stormy tide of events which were lead- ine up to the civil war. During the summer which followed the firing upon Fort Sumter he was plowing in the field with oxen, when a neighbor came to him and they entered into discussion upon the subject of enlisting to fight for the Union. History repeats itself, as the old saying goes, and young Marshall immediately left his plow in the field and went to town, where he enlisted, August 20, 1861, becoming a member of Company G, Eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Owing to the circumstance related above, he received the sobriquet of Putnam, and was so called by his comrades in the ranks. He was mustered into the service in the following month, and was sent to Springfield, Missouri, to serve under command of General Fremont, in the spring of 1862. After taking part in the battle of Pea Ridge, in March, he and his regiment went with General Curtis on an expedition through Arkansas. This march was a long and hard one, and Mr. Marshall proceeded much of the distance with bare feet, as many of his comrades like- wise were compelled to do. In October, of the same year, the regiment was sent from Helena up the Mississippi river, and thence upon another tour of
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Arkansas, being recalled to participate in the famous siege of Vicksburg. May Ist it was actively engaged in the battle of Grand Gulf; May 14th in that of Jackson; Champion Hills on the 16th, and the fight at Black River Bridge. The regiment joined Grant's forces at Millikin's Bend, and were among the first to invest the Confederate stronghold. Mr. Marshall was a participant in the famous charge on the enemy's works on the 22d of May, his regiment suffering the loss of one hundred and sixteen men. Soon after the surrender of Vicksburg, the gallant Eighth was sent to New Orleans, and in the follow- ing October proceeded to Texas. In January, 1864, when their term of enlistment expired, Mr. Marshall and those of his comrades who desired to continue in the service of their country as long as they were needed, re-en- listed at Indianola, Texas, and were permitted to return home for a short time on a furlough. This prevented their taking part in the unfortunate Louisiana campaign under the leadership of General Banks. Returning to New Orleans, the Eighth regiment veterans were sent to Washington in August, 1864, and thence to the front, where they were actively engaged in General Sheridan's Shenandoah valley campaign. They were in the battle of Winchester, September 19th; Fisher's Hill on the 22d, and in the famous Cedar Creek engagement, where Sheridan, though "twenty miles away," arrived in time to turn the tide of defeat into victory for the Union army. At the close of the campaign in that region, the Eighth was placed on trans- ports and sent to Savannah, Georgia, to await the arrival of Sherman and the brave men who were on the march to the sea, and in that vicinity con- tinued to do garrison duty until the end of the war. Soon after his first enlistment, Mr. Marshall was made a corporal, and later served as a sergeant. He was commissioned first lieutenant by Governor Morton, July 19, 1865, and was mustered out as such August 28 following, his honorable discharge being dated September 24, at Indianapolis. The young man's army record was of the best, and during the long four years of his service for his country he was never absent from his post of duty, and though he was actively engaged in every encounter which his regiment had with the Confederates, and went on hundreds of miles of weary marches, he escaped going to the hospital. When on his last long march, from Augusta, Georgia, to Darien, on the sea-coast, he received a sunstroke, from the effects of which he has suffered more or less ever since. .
On the 4th of March, 1871, Mr. Marshall married Miss Cynthia Swain, who was born in this township, March 11, 1847. Soon after their wedding was solemnized the young couple went to Dallas county, Iowa, where rela- tives of Mr. Marshall were living, and there the wife died, on the 8th of March, 1874. Their two children are still living, Thomas Worth, the elder, being a successful civil engineer, and Harry Swain, the younger, being an
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able assistant to his father in the care of the homestead. Returning to Wayne county, Mr. Marshall resumed farming in Perry township, and has since devoted himself to agriculture, with good financial results. His mar- riage to Miss Lucinda Swain, a sister of his first wife, was celebrated on the 23d of October, 1875. She was born April 25, 1832, her parents being Elijah and Mary Swain, honored early settlers of this township.
In his political relations Mr. Marshall is a zealous Republican. Frater- nally he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being associated with Sol. Meredith Post, No. 51. Public-spirited and progressive in all his ideas, he lends his influence to all measures which he believes useful to the majority, and always plays the part of an earnest, patriotic citizen.
NATHAN MORGAN.
Three-fourths of a century ago Nathan Morgan was born in an unpre- tentious house situated on Fifth street, on the Market House Square, Rich- mond, the date of the event being November 15, 1823. He came from good old Quaker stock, and his grandfather, John Morgan, was a native and life-long resident of the state of New Jersey. Our subject's father, Nathan Morgan, Sr., was born and reared in Blackwaytown, New Jersey, and on the 12th of May, 1813, he was united in marriage with Beulah Beetle. Of the eight children born to this worthy couple the four eldest died in infancy, and the others were William A., Beulah Ann, Mary and Nathan.
In the early part of 1823 the family set out for the west, intending to join the new Quaker settlement in Indiana. Their few necessary household effects were placed in a one-horse wagon, and while the mother and two children rode in the vehicle the father walked nearly all of the way, most of the time carrying an eighteen-months-old child. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and, having reached Richmond, he embarked in the business, which he carried on until 1850, then being succeeded by his son. His last years were spent upon a farm located about one mile and one-half north of this city. His death occurred March 7, 1885, when he was five months and twenty days over ninety-two years of age. Had it not been that he fell and crushed his hip, the accident proving fatal on account of his advanced age, he might have reached the century mark, for he was a man of remarkable vitality and had always adhered to a simple, healthful mode of life. In all his transactions his career was sigually upright, just and exemplary, and he possessed the respect of all who knew him. His first wife, Beulah, died in 1824, and three years later he married Margaret Holloway, by whom he had six children, namely: Hannah, Charles D., Elizabeth, David, Abbie and John E.
With the exception of the two years, 1847 and 1848, when he was in
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Baltimore, working as a cabinet-maker, the subject of this sketch has always made his home in Richmond, and since his return from the east he has lived at 24 North Fifth street (the name having been changed from Pearl street). From 1850 to 1856 he carried on the cabinet-making business which had formerly belonged to his father, after which he traveled for some time, selling patent rights. His next venture was to open a meat market and pro- vision store, which enterprise engaged his attention until the outbreak of the civil war.
The patriotic spirit which has always animated Nathan Morgan since his youth prompted him to enlist in the defense of the Union, September 13, 1861, for a period of three years. He was placed in Company C, Forty-first Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and after serving in the ranks for six months he was promoted to be a hospital steward. He participated in the various campaigns, in which his regiment did gallant service, and at last was wounded in a charge at Triune, Tennessee, his horse falling upon him and fracturing one of the bones of his leg below the knee. In consequence of this injury he suffered dreadfully for the remaining six months of his service, then being mustered out, October 4, 1864, at Indianapolis, and for many years he was forced, at intervals, to resort to crutches.
Thus disabled, Mr. Morgan found it very difficult to'resume the ordinary vocations of life, and for two or three years was chiefly engaged in selling patent rights. When Ezra Smith & Company organized the Church & School Furniture Company in this city, in 1868, Mr. Morgan was employed by the concern as a patternmaker, and subsequently he traveled and sold goods for them. In 1878 he opened a meat market on Fort Wayne avenue, and con- tinued to carry on the business for ten years. He still owns the property, and rents the store, being practically retired. He has taken a loyal part in local affairs, and has served as clerk, inspector and judge of elections for thirty years. Until the St. Louis convention of 1896 he was an ardent Republican from the formation of the party, but, having devoted much time to the study of the financial question, he espoused the views of H. M. Teller, and is strongly in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver, while at the same time he believes in a moderate protective tariff, and is opposed to the forcible expansion of our country's territory. He is a member of the Sol. Meredith Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he has held the position of surgeon. It appears that when he was a youth he studied medicine for a short time with an uncle, and also clerked in a drug store, and during his army experience he acted as a physician's assistant.
The marriage of Mr. Morgan and Miss Frances I. League was solem- nized in Baltimore, Maryland, June 29, 1847. Of the five children who blessed their union, three are deceased: Lewis G., who died at the age of eight years;
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George W., who died when in his thirty-third year; and Emma R., who was the wife of Albert G. Ogborn, of Richmond. Ida M., the eldest child, is the wife of O. V. Lemon, who is employed as a shipping clerk by the Richmond City Mill Works. William L. Morgan is engaged in the meat-market busi- ness in this city. Our subject and wife are among the best known citizens of Richmond, where their friends are legion.
SAMUEL J. SHIPLEY.
No death in many years has caused such profound sorrow throughout the county as did the passing away of this venerable citizen of Connersville, Indiana, Lieutenant Samuel J. Shipley, who, by long years of honorable, upright life and kindly nature, had grown into the affections of his fellow citizens to a marked degree. He was born at Wilmington, Delaware, December 24, 1813, and came to this county at the age of six years, making his home here from that time until his death, on July 11, 1897. His parents were Joseph B. and Mary H. (Test) Shipley, the former born near Brandy- wine, Delaware, November 14, 1780, and the latter a native of New Jersey. The family were of English stock and came to America soon after William Penn established his colony in Pennsylvania. They were members of the Society of Friends. Samuel Shipley, the grandfather of our subject, was born December 5, 1775, and married Jane Bennett, a sister of Caleb Bennett, who commanded a company of American soldiery at the famous battle of Brandywine. Four children were born to Joseph and Mary Shipley, viz. : Mary A., born February 29, 1805; Charles, born August 17, 1807; Ella J., born October 15, 1811; and Samuel J. The father died while the children were small, and in 1819 the mother brought her little family to Fayette county and here reared them.
Samuel Shipley was a bright, energetic lad, and it became the ambition of his life to become a sailor. In 1833 he made application for appointment as midshipman, his case being urged by General Jonathan McCarty, then member of congress from Connersville district, who took an interest in the young man and desired his success. His application receiving favorable notice, he entered upon his duties and remained in active service until his retirement, by reason of ill health, many years later. A naval academy was established in Philadelphia in 1839, which later was transferred to Annapolis, Maryland, and their first class for examination was called before the board in 1840, at which time Mr. Shipley was one of the successful competitors. He was raised to the lieutenancy in 1847, and had a long and successful career at sea, visiting nearly all the important ports in the world and meeting many exciting and interesting experiences. When the cloud of secession spread over our fair land and threatened the destruction of our beloved government,
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Lieutenant Shipley hastened to offer his services, and was stationed at Fort- ress Monroe as executive officer of the "Brandywine." Some two years later, in 1863, ill health caused him to retire from the sea and return to his- home in this county, where he passed the remainder of his life.
In 1837 Lieutenant Shipley purchased a farm in Harrison township, Fayette county, which became his home. On November 14, 1841, while home on leave of absence, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Hol- ton, daughter of Rev. Jesse and Jane Holton. The young wife lived but a short time, dying in her twenty-fourth year, in 1846, leaving an only daugh- ter, Jennie, as the comfort and companion of the bereaved husband. Father and daughter spent many happy years together in their beautiful country home, a close bond of love and sympathy binding them the more firmly to each other as the years passed, and his death has been a blow that has been well nigh unsupportable to the beloved daughter. He was a man of great energy and rare judgment, which he carried into all affairs in which he was interested. He was a man of intelligence, and few men had acquired a greater or more varied knowledge, which, coupled with his amiable disposi- tion and companionable manner, made him one of the most remarkable men of his day. He was a manly man, and the honor and esteem in which he was held by all who came in contact with him was but the just tribute to his worth.
THOMAS C. BURNSIDE.
Among the best citizens of Union county, esteemed alike for his sterling worth of character and his activity in the business world, is Thomas C. Burn- side, a worthy representative of one of the pioneer families. He was born in the town of Liberty, November 24, 1844, and is a son of Judge Edghill and Jane (Dill) Burnside. His father died when the son was only fifteen years of age, but the mother resided in Liberty until 1874. His boyhood days passed quietly, the usual duties of the home and the school-room occu- pying his attention throughout his youth. At the age of twenty, however, he entered railroad work, securing a position as brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, with which system he was connected for fifteen years. He served as conductor, first on freight and afterward on passenger trains, and for ten years was a passenger conductor on the Indianapolis & Vincennes, and Indianapolis & Louisville. divisions of this road, between Indianapolis and Louisville. No railroad man in this section of the country was more gener- ally known or had more warm personal friends, for his uniform courtesy, his kindliness and genuine worth won him the high regard of all with whom he came in contact. His relations with the railroad company were also of the most pleasant character and he won high encomiums from both the officials and patrons of the road.
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In 1884 Mr. Burnside retired from that life and located on his present farm, two miles south of Liberty. There he has since made his home, devot- ing his energies to agricultural pursuits, and his well tilled fields, substantial buildings and modern improvements indicate the supervision of a painstaking, practical and progressive owner.
In 1874 Mr. Burnside married Miss Jennie Kelly, a daughter of Seth Kelly and a representative of one of the oldest families of the county, estab- lished here in 1805. At a little later date Willis Kelly came to Indiana from Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in Laurens county, South Carolina, where he formed the acquaintance of Charity Hollingsworth, whom he married in Union county, theirs being the first wedding ceremony performed here. Mrs. Kelly's parents had died in South Carolina, and she had come to Union county with her sisters and her two brothers, David and Jonathan, whose descendants are still living in this locality. The name of Charity Hollings- worth was well known at an early day, and many leading citizens of Union county at the present time are numbered among her relatives. Willis Kelly, whom she married, was a teacher and farmer, but died in early life. His son, Seth Kelly, father of Mrs. Burnside, married Elizabeth Ann Holliday and resided on his father's farm for a long period, but his last years were spent in Liberty, where he died at the age of sixty-eight. He was one of the most enterprising agriculturists of the community and his well kept farm was widely celebrated. He took an active part in politics as a supporter of the Republican party, was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church and a great temperance worker. One of his sons, Kosciusko Kelly, resides at Liberty, and is clerk and treasurer of the town. The farm now belonging to Mr. Burnside was formerly the property of a sister of Seth Kelly, Mrs. Cynthia Haworth, wife of Richard G. Haworth, who was one of the most extensive breeders of fine stock in Union county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Burn- side have been born three children: Clara, who has engaged in teaching; Margaret, who was a teacher in the graded school at Salem; and Jennie. All are at home.
Mr. Burnside now devotes his energies to general farming. He has two hundred and ten acres in corn and wheat, and also raises hogs and Jersey cattle. He is engaged in the dairy business, and in company with a few others established a successful co-operative creamery. He has long been interested in the Farmers' Institute, has for six or seven years been a mem- ber of the institute board, and does all in his power to secure the adoption of improved methods of farming. He is a very active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, attends its conventions and was chairman of the Republican county central committee, for two years and during the Harrison campaign of 1888, but has never been a candidate for office. Belief in the
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superiority of the principles prompts his advocacy of the party, and not hope of reward in office-holding. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church, and his wife and daughters take an active interest in church work. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order; was the master of Liberty Lodge, No. 59, A. F. & A. M., for six years; has been the high priest of Liberty Chapter, and is probably the only Knight Templar in Liberty, his membership being in Roper Commandery, at Indianapolis. He has also taken the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite in the Consistory of the Valley of Indianapolis, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias fra- ternity. He has given his aid in many generous ways to the perpetuation of those forces which conserve the best interests of the community, and the course that he has followed in political, business, social and home circles commends him to the high esteem of all.
EDGHILL BURNSIDE.
The name of Judge Edghill Burnside has been inscribed high on the roll of Union county's honored pioneers and eminent men, and the part which he took in the founding and development of the county well entitles him to. prominent mention in this volume. He established the town of Liberty, in which he long made his home, laboring for its promotion and its welfare. His memory is revered by all the old settlers who knew him, and the influence of his life upon the community was most beneficial.
Born in Laurens county, South Carolina, in 1790, he was a son of Cap- tain James Burnside, whose loyalty to the cause of the crown was manifest by his service as an officer in the British army during the war of the Revolu- iton. The family were all Royalists, and their estates were confiscated by the colonies, but in return they were given grants of land on the island of Jamaica. Thither they went with Colonel Edgehill, of South Carolina, hav- ing small indigo plantations there. In 1786, however, Captain Burnside returned with his family, consisting of three daughters and four sons. In 1808 Mrs. Captain Burnside, then a widow, came with her family of four sons and two daughters to Indiana, locating in what was then Franklin county but is now a part of Union county, their home being in the little town of Wash- ington. Andrew, James and Thomas Burnside, the brothers of our subject, afterward removed from the county, Thomas and James with their mother and sisters returning to South Carolina, while Andrew went to Free port, Illinois.
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