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Z. J. Stanley is one of the leading men of this county, and his landed estate includes hundreds of broad acres. He has ever been an agriculturist, progressive and thoughtful, and success has come to him in a large degree as the result of his well-directed efforts. His home has always been in the near vicinity of his birthplace and he is now hale and hearty at more than eighty years. In 1847 he married Martha Williams, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret Williams, a native of Wayne county. Their children were William H. and Mary M. (Mrs. Isham Esteb). The character of Mr. Stan- ley has been well summed up by an able writer in these words: "Though a Democrat in politics he has never taken an active part in political cam- paigns and has never aspired to any office or political honor, but on the con- trary has avoided public notice or notoriety, this being characteristic of the Stanley family. He is public-spirited and all improvements find in him a strong advocate and liberal supporter. It has long been known to his inti- mate friends that he is ever ready to give of his bountiful wealth to the estab- lishment of any public institution in this vicinity when the security of such is guaranteed. He is a man of warm, friendly feeling, and when once a friend to any person he is ready, even at personal sacrifice, to confer a favor or a continuation of favors. He possesses excellent judgment and his opinions carry great weight. Through good management and skillful financiering and economy, he has become one of the wealthiest individuals of Union county. He is a strong friend, a kind neighbor and an upright citizen. He has long been a member of the Masonic fraternity and stands high in the regards of his brethren."
MRS. Z. H. STANLEY.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Union county, Indiana, is in a very healthy condition, and to no one is its progressive activity more due than to the Christian lady whose name heads this reading. She has been its president since, its organization in 1891, and it is eminently proper that a brief sketch of her active and useful life should accompany this notice.
She is of English and German ancestry. Her paternal great-grandfa- ther was William Tipton, who was one of Lord Culpeper's British company of soldiers who settled in Virginia at the close of the Revolution. He and his descendants have been historic characters in Virginia, Tennessee and Indiana. A brother of William, John Tipton, settled in this state and Tip- ton county bears his name. Jacob, another brother, made his home in the fertile Shenandoah valley. John Tipton, son of William, settled early near Knoxville, Tennessee, where he had large estates. His son, Colonel J. W. H. Tipton, was born on the east Tennessee homestead and was educated for military life. He was a colonel in the Mexican war, fought at Cerro
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Gordo, Vera Cruz, and was among the American forces that captured Santa Ana's carriage, treasury and wooden leg. On his return to civil life he mar- ried Katrina Freschour, and was an extensive stock raiser and dealer until his death. His wife was a daughter of George Freschour, a son of Hans Fresch- our, the emigrant, who was born near Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to this country about the latter part of the eighteenth century. He located in east Tennessee, where his descendants are numerous and valuable citizens. Mrs. Stanley was the fifth of the eleven children of her parents, and only two of this number have died.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Tipton) Stanley's early life was passed among the mount- ains of east Tennessee, and she received the benefits of a classical education at that noted Presbyterian institution, Maryville College, at Maryville, Blount county, Tennessee. After her college days were over she taught for some time near Asheville, North Carolina. She had a great desire to enter foreign missionary work and had been accepted by the Holston conference of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church and commissioned for that field, but her parents were so grieved at the thought of her crossing the seas for so long an absence that she relinquished the plan. About this time, in 1881, while on a visit to her parents at the old home, she met a young, brilliant business man of the north who was engaged in lumbering operations near their residence. The result of this meeting was her marriage on November 15, 1883, her twenty-fourth birthday, to this gentleman, who was Zac H. Stanley, of Lib- erty, Indiana, a son of Joseph and Jane (Moon) Stanley, and grandson of Zachariah Stanley, the early emigrant to Indiana.
Mr. Stanley was born in Harrison township, November 23, 1855, edu- cated at Liberty high school, and for eight years was a popular teacher of Union county. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley first made their home in Boston, Wayne county, Indiana, and both taught school for several years, after which Mr. Stanley became a dry-goods merchant at Liberty, which became the family home. In 1894 they purchased the Keeley Institute, that had been conducted at Liberty, removed it to Richmond, where they accomplished much good work until 1896, when they disposed of it to allow Mrs. Stanley time to devote herself to the education and care of their interesting family of children. Removing to Liberty, Mr. Stanley engaged in the sale of agricult- ural implements, in which he is conducting a large trade.
From childhood Mrs. Stanley has been an active worker in Sabbath- school and church circles. After making her home in the north she became convinced that the saloon stood as the great opposition to the progress of all that is good, but the law stood back of the saloon, and therefore woman's ballot was necessary to give strength to make new laws. For about ten years she has been engaged in this suffrage movement and in temperance
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reform activities. She has organized Woman's Christian Temperance unions- in the northern and southern parts of the state, and not a union she organ- ized has ever gone down. She has an energetic and magnetic personality and is a power for good. She organized the Willard Memorial Union of Franklin county in 1898. This has already nearly quadrupled its member- ship. On June 8, 1898, the temperance people of Franklin organized a Loyal Temperance Legion, naming it Ross Stanley Legion, in honor of a bright little child of Mrs. Stanley, who, by a mysterious dispensation of Providence, was called from earth to be a perpetual inspiration to his loving mother in her work of alleviating the sorrows of earth. This legion has already quadrupled its membership. Mrs. Stanley always represents her county union at state conventions, and represented this district at the national convention at Atlanta in 1891 and at the one held at Seattle in 1899. Her family consists of three children, -Grace Tipton, Earle Morris and Zac J. Stanley, besides the babe Ross, whose beautiful features and pre- cocious intellect made so many friends in its brief residence here before it was called in so strange a manner to join the galaxy of cherubs in the upper world.
EDWIN GARDNER.
Gardner's Island, belonging to the township of Easthampton, Suffolk county, New York, and separated from the east of Long Island by Gardner's Bay, and having an undulating area of thirty-three hundred acres, was granted by the British crown to John Gardner, who was knighted by the king, and whose bones lie buried at Southampton, Long Island. This his- toric character was the progenitor of a large family of " Gardiners " and " Gardners " (note the differing orthography) who settled at Salisbury, later at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and one branch of which found its way early to North Carolina. Edwin Gardner, of Center township, Union county, Indi- ana, is a great-grandson of Stephen and Jemima (Worth) Gardner, and a grandson of Isaac and Eunice (Macy) Gardner, and a son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Gardner) Gardner. Elizabeth, wife of Aaron Gardner, was a daughter of Elihab and Sarah (Stanton) Gardner, Sarah Stanton having been a daughter of William and Phoebe (Macy) Stanton. Elihab Gardner was a son of Richard and Sarah (Macy) Gardner and Richard was a brother of Stephen, Isaac's father. Thus it appears that Aaron and Elizabeth Gardner were second cousins. Isaac Gardner, grand- father of Edwin Gardner, came to Indiana from Guilford county, North Carolina, bringing with him eleven children. The family were Quakers and were active in founding the Salem and Silver Creek churches. His home. was near the Salem meeting-house, and his farm is still in possession of his descendants, but the old house has disappeared. He settled his children about
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him and passed the declining years of his life here. He was born in 1760 and died in 1843. His wife died in 1840. Their children were born in the following order: Paul, born November 24, 1781, died May 3, 1862; Thomas, born October 24, 1783, died July 19, 1867; Matilda (Mrs. Williams Barnard) was born September 10, 1785, and died July 14, 1845; Isaac, born August 23, 1787, died May 29, 1871; David, born November 19, 1789, died October 31, 1871; Aaron, born February 7, 1792, died October 4, 1887; Rebecca, born April 6, 1794, died in childhood; Lydia (Mrs. Tristram Barnard), born March 28, 1796, died March 12, 1880; Sallie (Mrs. Jethro Barnard), born October 12, 1798, died in October, 1876; Eunice (Mrs. Jona- than Swayne), born November 21, 1801, died August 18, 1870; Rhoda (Mrs. Nathaniel Swayne), born November 22, 1806, died August 8, 1887. Tristram and William Barnard were brothers, and Jonathan and Nathaniel Swayne were brothers. All the sons lived to be more than eighty years old, and Aaron ninety-five years, seven months and twenty-seven days. All of the sons married and reared families; all were members of the Salem church until the end of their days; and all were farmers and lived on lands given them by their father. One learned the blacksmith's trade and one that of a tinner. Isaac, referred to last, had a tin shop in a corner of his house and worked in it on rainy days, when farming was out of the question. Five of the brothers, advanced in years, were photographed together. The daugh- ters all lived to be old women. The one who died youngest died at sixty. Sallie lived more than ninety years.
Aaron Gardner married his second cousin, Elizabeth Gardner, in 1819, and she died in 1833, at the age of thirty-three years. His second wife, was Sarah (Davis) Stanton, widow of Samuel Stanton and mother of Thomas Franklin Stanton, father of Mrs. Alexander P. Cook. She bore him no chil- dren and died in 1872. His children by his first marriage are referred to below.
Edwin Gardner was born on his father's farm, south of Lotus, Center township, Union county, Indiana, August 13, 1821. He learned the carpen- ter's trade and was employed at it and in farming until after the outbreak of the civil war. He was three years in the United States service as a member of the Eighty-fourth Indiana Infantry, but on account of his mechanical skill he was detailed to the engineer corps, in which he was employed in bridge- building, the construction of fortifications and in similar work, and for th s reason he never had opportunity to participate in a battle. He has prac- tically passed his life in his native town except for this experience of war. Once he went to New Jersey and once to Florida, looking around for induce- ment to move, but none presented were strong enough to hold him and he returned to Union county. 26
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In his tastes he is very democratic, in his politics and religious views independent and liberal in the extreme. A born reformer, he has been by turns an Abolitionist, a Greenbacker and a Prohibitionist. He had a birth- right in the Society of Friends and was a member of the Salem church until he had attained to manhood. He states that he was turned out of the church because he tried to learn to sing! He was married, April 3, 1847, to Miss Jemima A. Wickersham, and he adds that his wife was turned out of the church because she had married a man who had tried to learn to sing! He has an experience of Spiritualism which is comforting to him. Those who know him best say that in religion and in politics and upon all important questions he has always been somewhat in advance of his party and his more orthodox acquaintances. He is well read and has reasoned deeply, clearly and conclusively for himself. He has no sympathy with intolerance or nar- rowness, and accords to every man and woman the right of independent opinion. He is attractively venerable, pleasant, generous, and is endowed with the finest qualities of head and heart.
Mrs. Gardner was born in Henry county, Indiana, of Quaker stock, and has been to her husband a most helpful wife. Their eldest child, Amanda M., died when she was eighteen years old. Frederick D. Gardner, their son, was born September 4, 1867, and married Alexine M. Jones, a native of Ohio, and has a daughter, Helen N., aged four years. He is a railroad man and lives at Hannibal, Missouri.
CHARLES C. CROCKETT.
For about thirty years Charles C. Crockett was a faithful employe of the Panhandle Railway Company, and since 1862 he has been one of the esteemed citizens of Richmond, Wayne county. His record in the service of this com- pany is one of which he has just reason to be proud, for he was prompt, vig- ilant and efficient, one who could be trusted and who was relied upon by his superiors.
Born in the town of Norway, Maine, June 12, 1837, Charles C. Crockett is a son of Ephraim S. and Sarah B. (Wentworth) Crockett, both natives of Ohio. The father, who was a seaman for forty-two years, part of the time being an officer on shipboard, sailed around the world three times and had a very interesting career. His death occurred in 1856, while his wife survived him several years, dying in 1869. Their children were fourteen in number, Charles C. being next to the youngest, and he and his brothers Frank and Samuel, and his sister Hannah are the only survivors.
Reared and educated in the town where he was born, Charles C. Crock- ett learned the trade of steam and gas fitting when he was young, and he worked at the business for four or five years. In 1862 he came to Richmond,
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and within the first year of his residence here he obtained a position on the Panhandle Railroad. At first he was a brakeman, soon was promoted to the charge of a freight construction train, and continued in that capacity until, in August, 1868, he was very seriously injured in an accident (striking a water tank), and it was necessary for him to be laid off from employment for nearly two years. In 1871 he again began running a freight train as conductor and, once more, in 1872, he was severely hurt, in a collision with a cattle-car. Back at his post of duty within a few weeks, he was promoted to be con- ductor of the accommodation train, running between Richmond and Indian- apolis, and served as such from 1873 to 1891,-eighteen consecutive years. Since the date last mentioned he has lived in quiet retirement, as his physical disabilities, resulting from his accidents, render him unfit for severe exertion. His home, a very pleasant and comfortable one, is located in Spring Grove, a small borough adjoining Richmond. Here he owns a four-acre tract of fertile and well improved land, and a convenient house. In former years he was actively identified with the Odd Fellows' society, as a member of the lodge and encampment, and in politics he has supported the Republican party.
December 28, 1865, Mr. Crockett married Sarah League, of this place, and they became the parents of three sons and a daughter. John O., the eldest, is train dispatcher for the Vandalia Railroad, at Terre Haute; and Oscar L. is an engineer on the Panhandle Railroad, his home being in Indian- apolis. Jeanette and David are still at home.
HON. RICHARD M. HAWORTH.
For more than half a century has this well known citizen of Liberty, Union county, been prominent in local and state affairs, giving his best tal- ents and powers of heart and mind to his country and fellow men. A native of this county, his birth-place was the farm now owned by D. B. Haworth, five miles east of Liberty. The date of the event is October 14, 1821, and thus, for nearly four-score years, he has been associated with the history of this immediate region.
The great-great-grandfather of our subject was George Haworth, a native of York, England, who came to this continent in 1699 and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whence the family later emigrated into Virginia. The Haworths have long been prominent in English history, and an extended account of the family is contained in the " History of Indiana," written by Hon. William H. English, and now soon to be. published. In the line of descent, James was a son of the George Haworth before mentioned, and Richard was a grandson. The latter, Richard Haworth, grandfather of our
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subject, was born in Virginia and there married Ann Dillon, after which event he removed to Tennessee and settled on the banks of the Holston river. He reared thirteen children, one of whom was Joel, father of R. M. Haworth. Joel Haworth was born on the original location of his father on the banks of the Holston river, twenty-five miles above Knoxville, Tennessee, and for a period after he had reached maturity and married he carried on a farm sit- uated on an island in the Holston river. About 1814 he came to the north and bought some land in Illinois, though he eventually settled in Indiana. His permanent home was the farm where our subject passed his childhood, his residence there dating from 1818. James, a brother of Joel Haworth, settled near Roseburg, this county, and lived to advanced years. He was a successful farmer and was widely known as a raiser of live stock. His son, Richard G., the only one of his family to perpetuate the name, was a resi- dent of Liberty for ten years prior to his death in November, 1897, when he was eighty-four years old. Joel Haworth departed this life December 4, 1854, at the age of sixty-eight. At that time he was the owner of about fifteen hundred acres of fine farm land, a thousand acres of it being inside the limits of this county, where he had always resided from the time of his first settlement here. A valued member of the Society of Friends, with which sect the Haworths were identified in England, thereafter he was quite active in church work and put into his daily life the teachings of justice, peace and brotherly love, which had been inculcated in him from childhood. For his wife he chose Elizabeth Maxwell, who died when in her seventy-sixth year. Their eldest child, Mary, is the widow of Mark Elliott, of Wayne county, Indiana, and is now living with a son in Sterling, Kansas. Hannah married Alfred Underhill and lived near Washington, Wayne county. Both she and her husband died at the age of seventy-five years, on the farm where they had located as a young couple. Rev. Laban Haworth, born in Tennessee, formerly resided in this county, for many years was connected with the mis- sionary work of the Presbyterian church in the west. He died in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1896, at seventy-eight years of age. Ann married Elihu Hollings- worth, an honored citizen of Tippecanoe county, this state, and one of the founders of the Farmers' Institute there. She died at Farmers' Institute in 1861 and Mr. Hollingsworth went to Des Moines, Iowa, became connected with a bank there and was active in many different enterprises. He died in Des Moines and left five hundred dollars toward the building of a Friends' church in that city. Elizabeth married M. C. White, of Westfield, Indiana, and died in young womanhood. Jonathan died at twenty-six years and David lives on the old homestead.
Hon. R. M. Haworth received a good education for his day, as, after
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leaving the district schools he attended Beech Grove Academy and obtained a certificate to teach, which occupation he pursued for several winters. He continued to dwell on the old home farm for over ten years past his majority and then made his home on land in the near vicinity, which he owned and cultivated for a long time and which was then his home. He made of this section of land a most valuable homestead. At one time he owned a section of government land on the Illinois Central Railroad, in Champaign county, Illinois, but sold that property after the civil war.
His father had been a Jackson Democrat, but was strongly opposed to slavery, and when R. M. Haworth became convinced that the teachings of the party fostered the hateful practice he left its ranks. This was in 1854, and two years later he identified himself with the new Republican party. In 1860 he was elected to the legislature of Indiana, and served on the com- mittee on education and loyally supported all the measures calling for sup- plies to the Union soldiers. In 1862 he was made first draft commissioner for Union county, under the old state law, and was very active in maintain- ing the full quota of this section. Union county was presented with a prize by the state sanitary commission for donating the largest amount of money, in proportion to population, to the alleviation of the needs of our " boys in blue " in the south, and no one had been more earnest in arousing our people to this test of patriotism than had Mr. Haworth. In 1872 he was elected state senator, representing Union and Fayette counties for four years. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Cincinnati national convention of his party and made a good fight for Morton. While in the senate he was made chairman of the committee on reformatories. The question of making a penal institu- tion of the woman's reformatory at Indianapolis came up during his first year in the senate. He was opposed to it, and the scheme was " nipped in the bud " and the project abandoned. In 1884 he was elected to the house and served two sessions, -that winter and the following one. He has remained an active member of the Republican party, but is now in favor of free silver. His influence in public affairs, both local and general, has been marked for two-score years, and his devotion to the interests of the public has won him the love and admiration of his acquaintances and associates. For twenty years he was a director in the First National Bank of Union County, which institution he assisted in organizing. On affairs relating to the early settle- ment and history of this county he is a recognized authority, and has written and had published some very interesting articles on the subject. Since his marriage he has been an earnest member of the "Christian Connexion," and he is a member of the board of control of Antioch College.
The marriage of Mr. Haworth and Miss Caroline A. Brown was solem- nized December 31, 1857. The parents of Mrs. Haworth were Walter and
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Kezia Brown, of Union county. The three children born to our subject and wife are Elizabeth, Mrs. Will C. Hart, of Indianapolis, who died in March, 1899; Edith, Mrs. Frank Johnson, a resident of Indianapolis; and Lena, who married Orion L. Stivers and lives with her parents.
DAVID B. HAWORTH.
The family of which the subject of this memoir is a most honored rep- resentative is a pioneer one in Center township, Union county. He has taken a patriotic interest in everything bearing upon the upbuilding and progress of the community, and has aided in many enterprises which have greatly benefited his county and state.
David B. Haworth, twin brother of Jonathan, was born August 6, 1827, on the site of his present home, and here he spent his boyhood. On the day that the brothers attained their majority they had an opportunity to vote, and naturally availed themselves of the privilege. They so strongly resem- bled each other that when Jonathan attempted to cast his ballot he was stopped, and the matter was not satisfactorily settled until the father had brought the other son, David (who had previously voted), on the scene. That day the young men voted against Judge Burnside, a candidate for county clerk, and father of the afterward famous General Ambrose E. Burn- side. The judge was elected to the bench on the birthday of our subject and served continuously in that position for twenty-eight years thereafter. David and Jonathan Haworth helped their father in the management of the old homestead, which comprised three hundred and twenty acres, and both were active stockholders in the Liberty and College Corner pike road, which was built in 1847. Jonathan died at the age of twenty four years, and both of their parents departed this life on the old homestead. The father owned about one thousand acres of land, and was a rich and influential man for his time.
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