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WILLIAM S. ADDLEMAN.
William S. Addleman, one of the successful farmers of Wayne county, residing in Franklin township, was born near Whitewater, October 7, 1827, belonging to one of the pioneer families of the locality. The Addlemans 'were of German lineage, and the original American ancestor was John Michel Addleman, who came from the Fatherland to the New World, arriving in this country May 24, 1752. He was born in Germany, September 12, 1723, a son of Martin Addleinan, and crossed the Atlantic because of a law which prevented his marriage to the lady of his choice. They were married on shipboard, and as he had no money his services were sold to pay for their passage. He worked at the shoemaker's trade in Philadelphia until the debt was paid, after which he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Chester county,
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Pennsylvania, throughout the remainder of his life. His second son, Joseph Addleman, was the grandfather of our subject. He married Saran Perce, and to them were born ten children. In 1826 his sons, John M. and Caleb, accompanied by their sister Orpha, came to Wayne county, Indiana, and in 1828 the father brought the remainder of the family. He located in Frank- lin township, where he spent the residue of his life, devoting his energies to the. work of the farm. He was a large, robust man, and was almost ninety years of age at the time of his death.
John M. Addleman, the father of our subject, was born April 14, 1790, and was married November 24, 1813, to Sarah Whitaker, whose birth occurred in 1796. On their removal to Wayne county, they took up their residence upon a wild tract of land, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, which he converted into a good farm. He had also mastered the cooper's, carpenter's and stone-mason's trades, which he followed to some extent, aid- ing in the erection of many of the best residences of the vicinity at an early day. In 1856 he left his farm and removed to the village of Whitewater, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. His wife survived him only ten days, passing away at the age of seventy. They were consistent mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for eight years the father served as justice of the peace. In their family were fifteen children, ten of whom grew to maturity, namely: Milton, who was killed by lightning when a young man; Anna Maria Margaret, who is the widow of William Kemp, and is liv- ing a mile north of Whitewater, at the age of eighty-one years; Joseph, who died in Franklin township, Wayne county, at the age of seventy-two years, leaving two sons, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Ardilla; John Clarkson, a carpenter, who is living in Whitewater at the age of seventy-seven; James, who died at the age of twenty-five; William S., whose name heads this sketch; Benjamin, who formerly followed carpentering, and now resides in Whitewater; Mary, wife of William H. Addleman, of Whitewater; Sarah, wife of Robert Henderson, of Lynn, Indiana; and George, a resident of Win- chester, Indiana.
William S. Addleman remained at home with his parents until twenty- four years of age, continuing to engage in the operation of the home farm even after his marriage. He also learned the trades of carpentering and coopering in his youth, and engaged in the manufacture of flour barrels and kegs. Later he purchased a small farm near Whitewater, and after trading land several times, finally purchased his present farm, which he has occupied since 1870, a period of twenty-nine consecutive years. This is one of the oldest improved farms of the county, having been settled by Isaac Commins, who entered the tract from the government and made his home thereon until his death, which occurred when he was about ninety years of age. He erected
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the house which is now the home of our subject. It is built of poplar logs and has stood for eighty years, but has been greatly remodeled by the pres- ent owner. The farm comprises one hundred and sixty-seven acres of rich land, and in addition to the cultivation of the fields Mr. Addleman has engaged extensively in the breeding and feeding of hogs for the market. He has also grown many fruits, and has found in both departments of his busi- ness a profitable source of income.
Mr. Addleman has been twice married. Before attaining his majority he wedded Judith Townsend, who died seventeen years later. Their chil- dren were Charles H., who owns a farm near his father's; Orin Davis, a farmer residing one mile west of the old homestead, who is married and has three children; Sarah Ellen, wife of Jonathan White, who resides near White- water, by whom she has seven children; and Anna Jane, wife of James Diehl, a farmer of Franklin township, Wayne county. On the 17th of March, 1866, Mr. Addleman married Miss Ellen Townsend, a sister of his former wife and the eleventh child in the family of twelve children whose parents were Jesse and Ellen (Griffis) Townsend. They resided for many years at Springboro, Ohio. The father was a blacksmith. and after his removal to Franklin town- ship, Wayne county, conducted a shop on his farm. He died at the age of sixty-three years, and his wife passed away when about the same age. They had twelve children, but only four are now living: John G., who resides near Chester, Indiana; William H., who is living on the old homestead near Whitewater; Ellen, wife of our subject; and Jesse, who is engaged in farming near Whitewater.
Mr. Addleman cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1844, and supported the Whig party until its dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the Republican party, whose banner he has since followed. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Middleboro. He is a man of energy, industry and sound judgment, and the success he has achieved in life is due entirely to his own efforts.
REV. LEWIS W. TEETER.
In Hagerstown and vicinity one of the most widely known and mnost beloved citizens is he of whom this sketch is penned. He has long been an earnest laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, and such time as he has not devoted to the ministry, of late years, has been spent in study and research and in literary work. He is a man of superior attainments, and in his denomination is an acknowledged authority in the expounding and interpreta- tion of the Scriptures and on questions of church government.
His ancestors were of German origin, and the former spelling of his sur- name was Dietrich, Anglicized to its present style. Abraham Teeter, the
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grandfather of our subject, was born and reared in the neighborhood of Roaring Springs, Pennsylvania. He married in that state Elizabeth Ulrich; at an early day removed to Miami county, Ohio, and in 1822 located in Jef- ferson township, Wayne county, Indiana, settling upon a farm one-half tnile north of the present Hagerstown. A few years later he and his faithful wife moved to a farm one and a half miles northwest of Hagerstown, where they resided until summoned to the better land. They were the parents of ten children, all but three of whom lived to maturity, and five survive at this writing, namely: Isaac, David, Sarah Zook, Zachariah and Jacob.
Daniel Teeter, the father of our subject, was born in Miaini county, Ohio, in 1820, and from the time he was two years of age until his death he lived on the old homestead of his father, in Jefferson township, Wayne county. One of his marked characteristics was his natural mechanical genius, and his skill often proved of untold benefit to himself and neighbors. He constructed a miniature steam engine having many superior features, and obtained a patent on it, but had not yet brought it to a state of completion at the time of his death, which event occurred July 20, 1876. He was a good business man, an exemplary citizen and a consistent member of the German Baptist Brethren church, with which his family have been identified for gen- erations. For a wife he chose Sarah Shultz, a native of the Keystone state, and daughter of Martin and Christena (Clapper) Shultz, who were pioneers of Wayne county. The children born to Daniel Teeter and wife are: Chris- tena, wife of Allyn S. Deeter; Lewis W .; Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Bow- man, of Hagerstown; Abraham, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Catherine, wife of Solomon Deeter; Martin, of Des Moines, Iowa; and Sarah, wife of Harrison Johnsonbaugh. The wife and mother is still living, and thus far all of her children have been spared to her.
Like his brothers and sisters, Lewis W. Teeter was born and grew to maturity on the old homestead of his grandfathers in Jefferson township, October 15, 1845, being the date of his birth. His education was obtained in the common schools and at New Castle Academy and in diligent private study; and for three years he was engaged in teaching. On the 6th of Janu- ary, 1868, he joined the German Baptist church, and after having acted in the capacity of deacon for seven years he was elected to the ministry, September 9, 1876. Three years later he was advanced to the second degree in the ministry, and upon the fortieth anniversary of his birth, October 15, 1885, he was raised to the eldership, at the same time being appointed bishop in charge of the Nettle Creek congregation, which assembles at its main house of worship, a mile west of Hagerstown, and has a membership of three hun- dred and fifty persons. This flourishing church, of which our subject has been overseer for over thirteen years, has three chapels surrounding its main
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house of worship, and from four to five miles distant from it, namely: Locust Grove, White Branch and Olive Branch, -served by five other clergymen.
In addition to his zealous labors as a pastor, Mr. Teeter is a valued member of the general missionary board of the German Baptist denomina- tion, and is the able editor of the Brethren's Advanced Quarterly, which is printed by the Brethren's Publishing House, of Elgin, Illinois. For about twenty years he had been studying for, and preparing, a commentary on the New Testament, beginning the actual compilation of the great work in 1890. After four years of arduous toil the task was completed, and in 1894 the work was published in two large octavo volumes of about six hundred pages each. Systematic and intelligent study of the Scriptures will be wonderfully facilitated to those using this commentary, and upon every hand praise is to be heard for the patient, diligent mind which evolved and worked out this masterpiece, the author putting a quarter of a century of the best years of his life into the effort of elucidating and interpreting to the nineteenth-cen- tury mind those wondrous stories and words spoken and written many cen- turies ago. Rev. Mr. Teeter is greatly beloved by his people, and is honored and respected by all who know him, regardless of creed or difference of faith.
On the 28th of October, 1866, the marriage of our subject and Miss Nancy E. Bowman, a daughter of David Bowman, was solemnized, in Jeffer- son township. Their only son, Clinton D., died at the age of twenty-two months, and their only daughter is Ida E., who is at home. Mrs. Teeter has been a loyal helpmeet and a faithful member of the church, sympathizing with and aiding her husband in every possible manner; and, it is needless to say, she is held in high regard by her numerous acquaintances, both in and outside of the church.
CHARLES H. BUNDRANT.
A prominent farmer of Connersville township, Fayette county, Indiana, Mr. Bundrant, is the representative of one of Fayette county's earliest pioneer families, and was formerly closelyidentified with the business interests of Con- nersville. He began life as a poor lad, with no one upon whom to depend in the struggle for existence, and by patient industry and untiring perseverance he has succeeded in laying up a competency that will enable him and his estimable wife to spend the evening of their life in comfort and plenty. He is a son of Thomas Bundrant and was born in the state of Virginia, March 12, 1822. Thomas Bundrant was born in Bedford county, Virginia, as were several generations of the family, the place of his birth being a farm located a few iniles north of Lynchburg. His father was John Bundrant, of French descent, and tradition has it that the name was originally Bondurant, but
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was simplified after the family was transplanted to these shores, becoming Bundrant. Thomas Bundrant grew to manhood in his native state and took up arms against England in our second struggle with that nation, in 1812. He was stationed in Virginia, and when the red-coats threatened New Orleans, during the latter part of 1814, his command was ordered to the defence of that city. However, the battle of New Orleans occurred on January 8, 1815, before they reached there, and the American forces under General Jackson achieved such a victory that the reinforcement was not required, and the command returned to Virginia. He married Miss Susan Locket and in 1830 he brought his family to Indiana, locating in Jackson township, Fayette county. His death occurred soon after moving here, in May, 1835, when he was about sixty years old, and the loving wife joined him in the better world after a separation of but four months. He was a resident of this county but a few years, and his death took place many years ago, yet the older residents well recall him as a good, true man. He believed in the Jackson school of Democracy. A large family of children were born to them, five sons and nine daughters, only three of whom are liv- ing at this time, namely: Charles H., our subject; Mrs. Francis Williams; and Mrs. Adaline Jordon.
Charles H. Bundrant was but eight years of age when his parents came to this county and had not yet reached his 'teens when he was deprived of their love and counsel. The family being a large one, the children became widely separated, our subject being bound out to William Brown, to learn the trade of a tanner. Mr. Brown at that time resided upon his farm, in Jackson township, which was sold soon afterward, when he purchased a tan- nery in Connersville, which was then but a small burg. Charles Bundrant served an apprenticeship of six years with Mr. Brown, and then entered the employ of Hall & Conwell, tanners, with whom he remained about three years. At the expiration of that time he purchased an interest in the busi- ness of Mr. Brown, and a new tannery was erected by them on the canal, on the site now occupied by the mill. This partnership was successful, and was continued eleven years, being dissolved by the death of Mr. Brown, in 1856. Mr. Bundrant then settled up the business and retired to the farm on which he now resides, on March 2, 1857.
He became a benedict on May 13, 1852, when he was joined to Miss Jane Branson, daughter of William Branson. But one child, a son, Edward L., has blessed this union. He was born August 3, 1855, and has made them the proud grandparents of four children: Viola, wife of Wheeler C. Davis; Ethel, Daniel W. and Eva Maud. They are also the great-grand- parents of a little lady, Amy Elizabeth Davis, who is so fortunate as to have four great-grandparents living. Mr. Bundrant has spent the greater part of
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his life in Connersville, and no man stands higher in the respect and esteem of the general public than does he. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1841, his wife uniting a few years afterward. He is now a Repub- lican, having formerly been a Whig, and having cast his first presidential vote for that grand statesman, Henry Clay. He has a vivid recollection of the pioneer life, the customs of those days and the privations and suffering often endured. He also recalls many amusing incidents, and it is a privilege to hear his reminiscences of those early times.
William Branson, the father of Mrs. Bundrant, was born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1792. His father, Isaac Branson, was a soldier in the Revolution. He moved to Belmont county, Ohio, where the rest of his life was spent, when William was about seventeen years old. There William was married to Miss Sarah Pickring, and in 1835 he came to Indiana and settled in Henry county, where he passed the greater part of the remainder of his life. His death occurred October 17, 1874, at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Bundrant, and his wife died December 30, 1882, in Henry county, at the home of one of her sons. She had almost reached her ninetieth birth- day. Twelve children were born to them, eight sons and four daughters, all of whom reached mature years and all of whom, except the youngest, were born in Ohio. Four sons and three daughters are living, the family being represented in this county by Mrs. Bundrant, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 15, 1826.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH B. WILLIAMS.
This honored veteran of two wars, the Mexican and civil, has a record for patriotism and loyalty to his country of which he may justly be proud. The biographer is glad to present to his numerous friends in Hagerstown, Wayne county and elsewhere some of the more salient features in his his- tory, knowing that this brief tribute to his worth will be perused with great interest.
This Captain, who is quietly passing the declining years of his life in the town just named, is a native of Camden, Delaware, his birth having occurred April 16, 1827. He was the only child of Edward W. and Matilda Williams, and was but an infant when the family settled in Philadelphia, where the mother's death occurred a short time afterward. The father re-married and several children were born of that union. Though he had lived in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, for a number of years, the Captain looked upon Phila- delphia as his real home until the outbreak of the Mexican war, when, in opposition to the wishes of his family, who were Quakers, he offered his services to the government, enlisting at Lewistown, the county-seat of Miffiin county, March 25, 1847. He expected to enter the volunteer service, but
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as congress had passed an act which permitted no more enlistment of volun- teers he became a member of the regular army, being sworn in for a term of five years, or as long as the war should last. Thus it was that he was enrolled in Company D, of the famous Eleventh United States troops, commanded by General Scott, and was a participantin the celebrated battles of Churubusco, Contreras, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec and others, finally assisting in the actual capture of the city of Mexico. He received an honor- able discharge August 16, 1848, at New York, and returned to Philadelphia.
The Captain had learned the carpenter's trade, and followed it to some extent for a few years, but did not confine his energies to that one line of em- ployment. In August, 1849, he married Sarah Jane Maben, who died in April, 1857, and of their four children three survive. In November, 1860, our sub- ject and Mary Ann Copeland were united in marriage, and the same year saw the family established in a home near Dublin, Wayne county, Indiana. Four children were born to this worthy couple, and two of the number are deceased. Mrs. Williams died in Kansas several years ago, and on the 4th of June, 1895, the Captain married Mrs. Catherine Murray, the widow of C. B. Murray.
As just stated, our subject located in Wayne county just before the war of the Rebellion commenced, and as soon as he had made his family com- fortable in their new home he made haste to proffer his services to the Union. Becoming a private in Company D, Forty-first Regiment, Second Cavalry, Indiana Volunteers, he fought under Generals Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas, in the Army of the Cumberland. At Shiloh Grant was his com- mander and at Chickamanga Rosecrans led the Union forces in which his regiment played an important part. Next, sent to Knoxville to the relief of Burnside, who was being besieged by Longstreet, the regiment completed the work assigned to it, and returning was placed under General Thomas' orders in the Atlanta campaign, shortly after the close of which the term of service of the Second Cavalry-three years-expired. A large number, however, re-enlisted, and continued, as before, active in the defense of the stars and stripes. Soon after the battle of Shiloh, March 31, 1862, our subject was commissioned second lieutenant, and as such, indeed, he had acted during that engagement. Preceding the battle of Stone river, while scouting on the extreme left of the army, at a place in Tennessee called Hartsville, the entire brigade to which the Second belonged, including the One Hundred and Sixth and One Hundred and Eighth Ohio and the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Regiments, all under the command of Colonel Moore, head of the last-mentioned regiment, were captured by the Confed- erates. The private soldiers, and all the officers, except Colonel Moore and staff and officers of the Second Cavalry, were paroled; but the last mentioned
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officers, including our subject, were exchanged in April or May, 1863. Join- ing his regiment on the 9th of June, Mr. Williams was promoted to the first lieutenancy the following day.
After the battle of Nashville, in which his command was a part of the. victorious Union forces under Thomas, which utterly routed Bragg's army, the Second Cavalry went on the renowned and successful cavalry raid through northern Alabama and southern Georgia. This series of manœuvers, as important and far-reaching in their results as any of the military operations of the war, was directed by General Wilson, who briefly summed up what had been accomplished in a letter of congratulations to his brave officers and men under date of April 7, 1865. He said: "The fruits of the victory are numerous and important; twenty-six field guns and one thirty-pound Parrott captured on the field of battle, and over seventy pieces of heavy ordnance in the arsenal and foundry, filled with every variety of military munitions, and large quantities of commissary and quartermaster's stores in depots. During your march you have destroyed seven iron works and foundries, several factories and collieries, many railroad bridges and trestle-works and large quantities of cotton. While you exult in the success which crowned your , arms, do not forget the memory of those who died that you might conquer." On the 16th of April, 1865. Columbus, Georgia, was captured, and on the same day the brigade to which Captain Williams belonged (it being under command of Colonel LaGrange, of the First Wisconsin Cavalry) captured Fort Tyler. Thence he went to Macon, Georgia, where, upon the appoint- ment of General Edward M. McCook, commander of the First Division of Cavalry, to the provisional governorship of Florida, the battalion of the Sec- ond Indiana Cavalry and a similar number of the Seventh Kentucky were detailed as escorts to the general. In June they were relieved by other troops, and, returning to Nashville, were honorably discharged July 22, 1865. The long and distinguished service of Captain Williams (whose commission to that rank bears date of October 4, 1864,) was acknowledged in the fol- lowing letter written by General McCook and personally given to the Cap- tain, upon the occasion of their meeting in the nation's capital in 1870:
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1, 1870.
Sir :- Captain J. B. Williams was one of my officers, serving with me through the war as first lieutenant, and afterward as captain of Company D, Second Indiana Cavalry, the regiment which I originally commanded. I desire to testify to the efficiency and gallantry of Captain Williams, who was one of the most reliable officers in my command, in every respect.
EDWARD M. MCCOOK. Governor of Colorado and late Major General U. S. A.
Upon resuming the ordinary duties of a citizen and business man after peace had been declared, Captain Williams inade his home in Wayne county but a few months. The great tide of western immigration carried him and
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his family with it, and for about a year he lived in Missouri. Thence going to Kansas, he was occupied in agricultural pursuits for many years, meeting with fair success. In May, 1895, he returned to this county and expects henceforth to be numbered among the citizens of Hagerstown. With the consciousness of a life well spent, of duties faithfully performed, of loyalty toward his country and his fellowmen, he is to be envied, and to his children he will leave the priceless heritage, a worthy and honored name.
DR. ABNER N. NEWTON.
The honored and venerable subject of this memoir entered into eternal rest in July, 1899, having been a resident of the city of Richmond and the old- est dentist of Wayne county. For many years he had practiced his profes- sion, with marked success, among the people of this locality, and while his- skill and ability awakened the confidence of the people his sterling worth gained their respect and unqualified esteem. Dentistry may be said to be almost unique among other occupations, as it is at once a trade, a profession and a business. Such being the case, it follows that in order to attain the highest success in it one must be thoroughly conversant with the theory of the art, must be expert in the use of the many tools and appliances incidental to the practice of modern dentistry and must possess business qualifications adequate to dealing with the financial side of the profession. In none of these qualities was Dr. Newton lacking, and therefore he attained an envi- able position among the representatives of the dental profession in this part of Indiana.
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