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Among the numerous battles in which Dr. Smith participated were the following named: Bowling Green, February 15, 1862; Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862; and Stone River, December 31, 1862; Tullahoma, July 1, 1863; Chickamauga, September 19-20; Brown's Ferry, October 27; Chattanooga. November 25; Mission Ridge and Blaine's Cross Roads, December 16, 1863; Buzzards' Roost, February 25-27, 1864; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Rocky Face Ridge, May 5-9, 1864; Resaca, May 13-17, 1864; and then, in quick succession came Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain, Pine Knob, Golgotha, Lattimer's Mills, Noonday Creek, Prairie Springs and many others. In fact the fighting was almost continuous during many months of 1864, and in September of that year, by reason of the expiration of his three-years term of service, Dr. Smith was honorably discharged, at Louis- ville, Kentucky. In January, 1865, however, he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company A, Fourth Regiment of United States Veteran Infantry, under the command of Captain Montgomery and Colonel Wood. He was soon promoted to a captaincy and served with his regiment, under General Phil Sheridan, in the famous Shenandoah campaign. Subsequently he was sent with the regiment to Washington, and after the assassination of Lin- coln they were assigned to guard the prison in which, Payne, Spangler, Dr. Mudd and Mrs. Surratt, fellow conspirators of Booth, were confined. Later they were detailed to accompany Dr. Mudd and Spangler to Tortugas island, where they were sentenced to imprisonment, and returning to Washington, the regiment witnessed the execution of the other assassins.
In 1861 Dr. Smith graduated in the Kentucky School of Medicine, and at the battle of Shiloh he was detailed as assistant surgeon in the field hos- pital. In the fall of 1865 he was examined and appointed assistant surgeon
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in the United States Army, being assigned to duty with the Fifth Regiment of United States Cavalry, a position he filled, with great credit, for five years. During the war he was wounded several times, once at Stone River, the last day of 1862, and at Mission Ridge, Liberty Gap and Kenesaw Mountain. He still carries some Confederate lead in his body, and has never fully recovered from his honorable wounds.
In 1870 Dr. Smith established an office for practice in Tell City, Indiana, where he remained for twelve years, in the meantime taking a course in the ' Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1872. In 1882 he removed to Indianapolis, a wider field of action, and there was suc- cessfully engaged in practice for nine years, during which period he pursued a course of study and was graduated in the Central College of Physicians & Surgeons, at Indianapolis, in 1886. Since 1891 he has been a resident of Metamora, where he enjoys a fine practice, and has won a well merited place among the leading members of his profession in this section of the state. He is considered an authority on medical jurisprudence, and in September, 1897, prepared and read before the Franklin County Medical Society an orig- inal article on "expert testimony, " which has commanded wide attention and favorable comment.
On the 30th of September, 1889, Dr. Smith married Miss Lulu Huddle- ston, whose father, Samuel Huddleston, was a member of the Fourth Indiana Regiment during the war of the Rebellion, and now is a citizen of Dublin, Indiana. The Doctor and wife have two promising sons: Adkison John and Noble Gordon. Some time ago Mrs. Smith took a regular course of medical study and training, and since then has been associated with her husband in practice, rendering him invaluable assistance. They have legions of friends- in various parts of this and other states.
ELIAS M. HOOVER.
Elias M. Hoover is recognized as one of the most public-spirited and patriotic citizens of Jefferson township, Wayne county. He is a strong believer in the better and more systematic education of the masses, in order that they may understand their duties and privileges as American citizens; and all other worthy public enterprises and reforms are championed by him.
Frederick Hoover, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he emigrated with his family to Liberty township, Henry county, Indiana. There he and his loved wife spent the rest of their days, living to an advanced age. They were the parents of twelve children, four sons and eight daughters, and of the entire household but three survive, namely: Christina, wife of John Easton, of Iowa; Mrs. Margaret Ulrich, of this township; and Jacob, the father of Elias M. Hoover. The latter was.
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born in the Keystone state, in 1826, and has lived principally in Indiana, for years having dwelt in this township, where he is sincerely honored. He is a minister in the German Baptist denomination, with which sect his family has long been associated. To himself and wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Rinehart, ten children were born, of whom the following nam d are living: Elias M., Abram, Jefferson, Samantha, Jennie, Horace, David and Frank. Mrs. Hoover is a daughter of Jacob Rinehart, who was a native of Maryland, but her birthplace was in Ohio.
Elias M. Hoover was born in Liberty township, Henry county, only a short distance from his present home, across the county line, May 25, 1852. In his boyhood he attended what was known as the Chicago school, in his native township, and later he was a student in Jefferson township. He has made agriculture his main business in life, and has been prospered in his various undertakings. He is affiliated with the Republican party and is not an office-seeker, but his fellow citizens, knowing well his earnest, systematic methods and his genuine desire to aid in every possible manner the public weal, elected him to the position of township trustee. They judged him rightly, for his influence has been materially felt in many directions, espe- cially in the educational department of township affairs. Without an addi- tional expenditure of money, he has so thoroughly systematized the local school management that marked improvement is noticeable in the equip- ment of schools, in the securing of better qualified teachers, in the increased .duration of terms, and in other items equally important. The same careful attention which he directs upon his own private business concerns is exercised by him in his responsible office of trustee. Following in the footsteps of his ancestors, he is a worthy member of the German Baptist church.
In 1872 Mr. Hoover married Miss Louisa Kauffman, a daughter of Amos Kauffman. The latter was a native of Pennsylvania, in which state his father died, and later the mother became the wife of Moses Myers, who removed to Indiana with his family. Mrs. Hoover was summoned to the silent land November 22, 1889, leaving two children, Flora and Hollace, to mourn her loss, a third child having died in infancy. Mrs. Hoover was a devoted wife and mother, a kind neighbor and friend, and was actively inter- ested in church work and in all kinds of helpful, Christian philanthropies.
JOHN H. MCCLURE.
This prosperous, respected farmer of Brookville township, Franklin county, Indiana, was born in this township September 16, 1849. His father, William McClure, Sr., was born in Rock Springs, Harrison county. Kell- tucky, May 1, 1802, and while yet in infancy was taken to Ohio, where they lived for several years, and in 1807 located in Franklin county, near this
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city. His education was that of the other youth of his day,-confined to a few short months in winter at a school that had none of the conveniences of the present day, headed by a teacher with meager learning. The school buildings were of logs, the furniture nothing but slab seats, with puncheon floors to give protection from the ground. Although his opportunities were so limited, he improved every chance for storing his mind with learning, and the knowledge acquired by him compares favorably with the college- bred man of to-day. It was a great pleasure to him to recall the many inter- esting incidents of his pioneer life, and numerous articles contributed by him to magazines have afforded keen pleasure to the readers. He was a firm supporter of the government during the trouble in our borders, and incited others to deeds of loyalty.
December 7, 1826, he was married to Miss Minerva Flint, and of the six children resulting from this union but two are now living, James, a resi- dent of Kansas, and William, Jr., who lives in New Haven, this state. July 21, 1842, he was married to Rebecca Spradling, who survives him. Seven children were born of this union: Lucinda, deceased; Mrs. S. R. Elwell; Elizabeth (Mrs. Walton); Emiline (Mrs. White); John H., our subject; Indi- ana (Mrs. Shepard); Evangeline (Mrs. Short), and Richard E., a resident of Metamora. Mrs. Rebecca (Spradling) McClure was the third daughter and sixth child born to John Spradling, a pioneer who is well remembered in Highland township. The death of Mr. McClure occurred at his residence on June 24, 1882, at the age of eighty years, two months and twenty-three days. He had been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty years, in which he made his pure, simple religion a part of his- every-day life. He was not without an ambition to accumulate an abun- dance of this world's goods, but he was thoroughly honest, and his gain came from his own energy and never by another's loss. He was liberal in his charities. He knew that the end was near and had made his prepara- tions to meet his Maker with a cheerfulness born of his faith in immortality, and the loving care of an all-wise Father who watches over all his children. He had rounded out a full life and was ready to lay down the burden, leav- ing with the family the assurance of a joyful reunion in the better land.
John H. McClure was brought up on his father's farm and attended the public schools in his youth. In older years he still clung to his early training and gave his attention to agriculture, taking charge of the homestead after the death of his father and making a home for his mother. In 1878 he was married to Belle Arnold, a daughter of George and Harriet Arnold, of Con- nersville. George Arnold was born in Kentucky, in 1830, and at an early age came with his parents to Hunt's Grove, Hamilton county, Ohio. He was engaged in teaching school in his younger days, and during his vaca-
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tions helped in clearing away the forest that covered their land. L. .℮ engaged in farming, and is now a man who is well posted on all ". tions of the day, whether it has to do with farming or questions c' importance. He is a Democrat. His wife died in 1874, at the a
eight years. Their children are: Belle, wife of our subject; Jacob. 1;
George; Adelia; Leonard; William, deceased; and Hester, deceased. Mr. McClure has four children: Lurton D., born February 17, 1881; Carrie B., March 3, 1883; Carl A., March 31, 1886; and Veletta, August 14, 1890. He is a member of the Christian church, to which he is a liberal contributor, and also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
WILLIAM MOUNT BANES.
It does not fall to the lot of many to have their names engraven upon the roll of honor of a nation, to have fame almost world-wide; but he who is associated with the founding and upbuilding of a county. and thus with the general prosperity of a state, has truly performed a noble part, and his pos- terity can but look upon his record with just pride.
For more than three-score years the Banes family have been numbered with the inhabitants of Franklin county, and no more sterling citizens ever dwelt in this section of Indiana. For several generations the family lived in Pennsylvania, and in Buckingham township, Bucks county, that state, our subject's father, Jonathan Banes, was born, February 12, 1817. He was a son of Jonathan and Anna (Gillingham) Banes, the former born about 1778, and the latter a daughter of John Gillingham, also of an old family in the Key- stone state. The great-grandfather of our subject on the paternal side also bore the Christian name of Jonathan. He died in 1833, aged about ninety years. After the death of his wife, Ann, Jonathan Banes, the second of the naine, came to Indiana, and passed his last years at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Emeline High, his death occurring in 1862 Mrs. High is still Being, having survived her husband, John High, who died in 1893. Her only sister, Eliza Ann, was called to the better land in girlhood. Cyrus, the eldest brother, went to the west when a young man, became an Indian scout, and it is supposed that he was slain by the redskins. John, another brother, died when about twelve years of age.
Jonathan Banes, the third of the name, born in 1817. as stated above, left the parental home when he was sixteen years of age, and served as an apprentice to the carpenter's trade in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. For a period he worked in Philadelphia, and in 1837 he came to Brookville, as he had learned of the Whitewater canal, then in process of construction, and believed that he could find employment thereon. This proved to be the case, and he was the superintendent of the building of the wood-work of the
Jonathan Banks.
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dam at Brookville, several locks, th Case dam, further down the river, and several canal bridges. In 1839 het wk the contract for the construction of the lock and an aqueduct at Wt mora but work was suspended that fall, owing to a lack of funds. The fold ing spring Mr. Banes received payment for his past labors and invest: 1 th . i nount in horses, which he drove to Pennsylvania and sold. Tha' antumno he returned, and for four years he was engaged in merchandising at Brookville, but since the spring of 1845 he has been a resident of Metamora. Having erected a cotton factory here, he operated it successfully for a number of years, in the meantime being also engaged in a mercantile business, with his brother Jenks and Calvin Jones. Of late years he has given his attention to agriculture, and to the investing in and sale of land, both in this county and in Illinois, where he entered considerable unimproved property. Long ago he won a place among the wealthy business men of the county, and he owes his means and high stand- ing entirely to his own well directed industry.
A notable event in the life of Jonathan Banes was his marriage, Septem- ber 5, 1841, to Maria Mount, a daughter of Judge David ,Mount, of Metamora. He was born in 1778, in New Jersey, and came to Indiana in 1811. Here he won distinction as a statesman and associate judge, serving in the legislature for many years, acting as one of the honorable body of representative citizens who drew up the constitution of the state, and acting as associate judge of Franklin county. His wife, whose maiden name was Rhoda Hunt, was born in New Jersey, in 1785. She survived him about twenty years, her death occurring in Februarv. 1870, and he having died May 18. 1850. Mrs. Banes, who was born June 24. 1820, is the only survivor of her family. Her sister Sarah, who became the wife of Colonel Daniel Hankins, of Connersville, died in 1839, and her brother James, who for many years was associated in business with Colonel Hankins, is deceased. Jona- than Mount, the next brother, removed to Carroll county, Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life; and Peter, the youngest, died in Wabash county, where he had lived for some time. Rebecca Ann, born in 1815, never married; and her death took place in 1849. She and Mrs. Banes were the only members of that family born in Franklin county, the others having been born in New Jersey. The two children born to Jonathan Banes and wife were William Mount and Mary. The latter, born in 1846, became the wife of E. W. High, and died September 12, 1890.
William Mount Banes, born June 5, 1843, on the site of his present home, which was the homestead of his parents, has always been a resident of Metamora township. From his youth he has devoted his time to farming and stock-raising, and the finely improved and valuable homestead which he now occupies comprises over one thousand acres. He has a beautiful home,
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where his friends are made royally welcome, hospitality being one of the marked attributes of his nature.
The marriage of Mr. Banes and Nancy, daughter of Thomas Tague, an early settler of this township, was solemnized April 6, 1871. Both of her parents died in 1871, and her death occurred ten years later, when she was in her thirty-sixth year. The three children of that marriage are Cora, Lin- nie and Leroy. Both daughters graduated from Oxford Female College, and the son is studying civil engineering at Purdue University, and is a young man of great promise. On the 29th of September, 1887, Mr. Banes married Miss Annie Olivia Clouds, daughter of the Rev. George C. and Mary A. Clouds. The former is a well known minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now located at Greensburg, Indiana. He is a native of Philadelphia, while his wife was born in Cincinnati. Mrs. Banes also is a Cincinnati lady, her birth having occurred September 29, 1863, and all but one of her seven brothers and sisters are still living. The only child of our subject and wife is Mary, who was born October 10, 1888. They are members of the Method- ist Episcopal church, and fraternally Mr. Banes is a Mason of the Royal Arch degree.
JAMES P. KENNEDY.
More than a quarter of a century has this respected citizen of Liberty- been engaged in the banking business, and for about eleven years of that period he has been the president of the Citizens' Bank of this place, which well known institution he was influential in organizing. He is deserving of great credit for the success he has achieved in his business career, for he started out in life a poor boy, and was obliged to hew out his own pathway. Added to the circumstances of poverty and lack of influential friends, he was not a strong youth, and had to battle against delicate health for several years. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, he persevered in his undertakings, and by force of will and steady application rose to prominence in the busy world.
The parents of James P. Kennedy were of Scotch-Irish stock, and both were natives of Ireland. They came to the United States in 1801, and for some years resided in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The mother died in 1827, and the father remarried some three years later. He died at the age of eighty-four years, in Decatur county, Indiana, and was survived by his second wife but a short time.
Born May 20, 1826, James P. Kennedy is the youngest of eleven chil- dren, ten of whom were boys, and he is now one of the three surviving members of the once large family circle. Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was the place of his birth, and death deprived him of his mother when he was an infant about a year old. In the common schools he obtained a fair
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education, and at sixteen he began teaching school, as the hard work of the farm was not suited to his never rugged constitution. Soon after he came to Indiana, in the winter of 1841-2, he worked at splitting rails. With a com- rade's help, two thousand rails were prepared, and when the payment agreed upon-two bushels of corn for every one hundred rails-was handed over to the young men, half of the corn was disposed of at the rate of ten cents per bushel. This amount the friend took as his share, and Mr. Ken- nedy could do no better than to trade his corn for a sow and nine pigs. He drove them home, where his father immediately assumed the ownership of the animals. For a period of ten years, perhaps, he attended high school at intervals and taught during the remainder of the time. He then embarked in merchandising, but with a very limited capital, and continued in this enterprise until 1871. In company with other parties he then organized the First National Bank of Liberty, and served as cashier of the same until the institution went into voluntary liquidation, in 1882. The following year Mr. Kennedy became interested in the establishment of the Citizens' Bank at Hope, Indiana, and for five years he acted as cashier of the same. Then, severing his connection with that bank, he opened the Citizens' Bank in Liberty, under the firm name of J. P. Kennedy & Company. This is a pri- vate banking concern, and he has stood at the head of the enterprise ever since it opened its doors to the public, in 1889. To his sagacity and fore- sight and his genius as a financier may be laid the prosperous condition of the bank, which safely weathered the financial depression of recent years, and is constantly gaining in importance.
Though reared in the principles of the Democratic party, Mr. Kenne- dy aided in the formation of the Republican party and was an earnest advocate of the same until 1884, when he became independent, and he has used his ballot of late years in favor of the man or principle that he deemed worthy of support, regardless of party lines. In 1876 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the Indiana house of representatives, and served his constituents well. In his religious opinion he is liberal, disbelieving in creeds and the dogmas of the churches, and pinning his faith in practical Christianity, which consists in purity and uprightness of purpose and deed, and loving helpfulness toward one's brother man. Fraternally, he belongs to Oxford. Lodge, No. 58, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was made a Mason in 1850 in Fairfield Lodge, Fairfield, Indiana. A strange accident, on November 12, 1898, has resulted in an invalid condition for Mr. Kennedy since that date. While crossing the platform of a passenger train, which was standing on the highway, the sudden starting of the train threw him with violence to the ground and injured his left hip in such a manner that he has not apparently gained in health from the day of the accident, suffers much 41
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pain and is forced to the constant use of crutches. The injury baffled the medical fraternity to name or mitigate.
Prior to his marriage, September 1, 1857. Mr. Kennedy went to the west and spent one summer in Kansas, and returning, was seized with typhoid fever at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was very ill for many weeks, and when partially convalescent his marriage to Miss Livonia W. Dunbar was solemnized. Their friendship had begun in their youth, in Union county, and, upon learning of Mr. Kennedy's dangerous illness Miss Dunbar went to visit him, and to nurse him back to strength, if possible. Her father, Andrew Dunbar, was then a resident of Decatur county, having removed thither from his old home in Union county. Two sons and four daughters bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, namely: Lorin M., William P., Ginevra, Allevia, Adelaide and Emmazetta.
Lorin M. Kennedy is a merchant tailor in Liberty, Indiana; William P. and Allevia are connected with their father in the Citizens' Bank. William came to Liberty from Hope, Indiana, where he had been cashier for sixteen years, on the occasion of the injury to his father caused by his fall on November 12, 1898, and became the vice-president. Ginevra, who is a member of Cooper Institute, New York city, and Emmazetta have been in New York city for the past eight years engaged in musical studies, and have attained prominence, the younger especially. She is connected with the New York Philharmonic Society, sings in one of the leading Catholic churches,-St. Anthony's church, of Brooklyn, -also in one of the prominent Jewish synagogues in New York, and is one of the leading members of Castle Square Theatre's opera company. Adelaide has been in New York city for three years and a half, engaged in the study of music and kindred subjects, returning home, however, to be her father's nurse and companion during his affliction.
WILLIAM H. H. MIDDLETON.
Soon after the close of the civil war. in 1866, Mr. Middleton settled in Richmond, Indiana, where he has since continued to dwell. During the great and dreadful struggle between the north and the south he had done all within his power in support of the Union, devoting several of the best years of his manhood to his country. He has always been a loyal patriot, in time of peace as well as of war, faithful to the principle of the " greatest good to the greatest number."
A son of Joseph and Mariam (Moon) Middleton, the subject of this nar- rative was born on the old homestead near Harveysburg, Warren county. Ohio, August 24, 1840. His father, a millwright by trade, traced his ances- try to Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. William received an ordinary public-school education and when
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