USA > Indiana > Adams County > Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana : Containing portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each : a condensed history of the state of Indiana : portraits and biographies of some of the prominent men of the state : engravings of prominent citizens in Adams and Wells counties, with personal histories of many of the leading families, and a concise history of the counties and their cities and villages, pt. 2 > Part 29
USA > Indiana > Wells County > Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana : Containing portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each : a condensed history of the state of Indiana : portraits and biographies of some of the prominent men of the state : engravings of prominent citizens in Adams and Wells counties, with personal histories of many of the leading families, and a concise history of the counties and their cities and villages, pt. 2 > Part 29
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Some years after their marriage they became pioneers of Henry County, where they cleared a farm in the wilderness. They sold their farm in Henry County in 1837 and moved to La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana, where Mrs. Galyean died soon after, leaving tive children-Elizabeth, deceased, wife of Joseph Richey; Naney, Sophia, Jane, and Samuel II., our subject being the only one now living. In 1842 the father came to Lancaster Town- ship, Wells County, and was here married to Mrs. Rachel (Pettit) Scott. Ile made his home on seetion 29 on a farm that had been opened up by James Scott, the former hus- band of Mrs. Galyean, and here he resided until his death, which oeeurred in 1861. His widow survived him about ten years.
LI ARNOLD, an active and enterpris- ing business man of Mount Zion, where he is engaged in mercantile pursuits, is a native of Ohio, born in Wayne County, June 12, 1829, a son of Samnel B. and Mary (Phillips) Arnold. ITis father was a native of Maryland and of English and German ancestry, and at an early age was taken by his parents to Pennsylvania. When twelve years of age he went with his parents to Wayne County, Ohio, and there he grew to manhood, and was married to Mary Phillips, who was born in the State of New York, of English descent. They made their home in Wayne County until about the year 1835, when they removed to Medina County, Ohio, and from there came to Wells County, Indiana, in October, 1838, by ox team, being three weeks in making the journey. Eighty aeres of timber land had been entered in Jackson Township for Mr. Arnold before they came out, and while he was elearing a small place and building his cabin the family lived with
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William Clark of Chester Township, whom they had known in Ohio. Mr. Arnold's eabin was 18\20 feet in size, covered with a board and pole roof, a hole eut in the wall served for a door, and this aperture was covered with a quilt. At first they had no fireplace, and their food was cooked on a fire built between two sleepers. Samuel B. Arnold came to the county a poor man, having but 37 cents in his pocket, but being handy with tools he had no difficulty in obtaining work. Game of all kinds was abundant, and Mr. Arnold became one of the greatest deer hunters of the county. Ile lived to enjoy the fruits of his years of toil and to see the surrounding country change from a wilderness to its prosperous condition. lle died January 16, 1875, at the age of seventy-five years. His widow still survives, and is making her home with a daughter who resides on a farm adjoining the old homestead. Although eighty years of age she is still active and does her own housework. Eli Arnold, the subject of this sketeh, was in his tenth year when brought by his parents to Wells County, and here he was reared to manhood and educated in the schools of his neighborhood. He was a soldier during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting September 25, 1861, in Company A, Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry. His regiment rendezvoused at Camp Sullivan, Indianapolis, erossed the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. Their first engagement was at New Madrid, Mis- souri, and after the evacuation of that place by the rebels the latter occupied Island No. 10, and Mr. Arnold's company was one of four that dragged a cannon of twenty-four pound calibre to a point opposite Tiptonville by hand, where they dug rifle pits and masked their cannon and the following morning fired on the rebels while they were passing. The rebels came up with six gun-boats, which
were silenced by the four companies above mentioned and their one cannon, and one rebel gunboat was disabled. Mr. Arnold was promoted to First Lieutenant, his com- mission bearing the date of October 19, 1862, and after that was in a number of minor engagements up to the siege of Vicksburg. He participated in the siege of Vieksburg, the engagement at Jackson, Mississippi, was in General Banks' Red River expedition, and in the thirteen days' skirmishing while building the dam aeross that river. After the Red River campaign, he was on duty along the Red, Arkansas and White rivers, and afterward in Tennessee. He was honor- ably discharged at Memphis, Tennessee, December 30, 1864, when he returned to his home in Wells County. Mr. Arnold followed farming in Wells County until 1867, with the exception of the time spent in the service of his country, and in the fall of that year he bought an interest in a general mercantile store at Montpelier, Blackford County, Indi- ana, to which place he removed. Heremained in Montpelier eight years, and the last two years spent there he carried on the business alone. He then moved to his farm near the old homestead in Jackson Township, where he followed agricultural pursuits four years, after which he spent one year in the merean- tile business at Dundee. He then started a store on his farm, which he eondneted four years. He then carried on business at Five Points about twenty months, when he removed to Mount Zion, where he had established a store in February, 1885, and by his fair and honest dealings and genial and accommo- dating manners he has gained the respect and confidence of his customers, and built up a good trade. Mr. Arnold has been twice married. For his first wife he married Han- nah Maria Nixon, March 22, 1854, who died December 30, 1874. Nine children were
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born to this union, of whom five are living- Sammuel E. married Melinda Slater, and resides in Lane County, Kansas; William N., of Jackson Township, married Susan C. Moffitt; Eli L. carries on his father's store at Van Buren; Jennie J. and Schuyler C. Four died in infancy -- Alice L., Melissa E., Thomas E. and one who died mimamed. Mr. Arnold was married a second time June 10, 1875, to Miss Lurinda Hart, a native of Stark County, Ohio, and a daughter of John W. Hart, who came from Ohio to Indiana, and settled in Blackford County. Three children have been born to this union-AAbner C., Susan J. and one who died in infancy. Mr. Arnold is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Patrons of Husbandry. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. lle is an elder in the Christian church. Is at present and has been for several years a notary public.
ETER LOHR ROBISON, dentist, of Bluffton, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1853, a son of William Weimer and Sophia (Eieher) Robi-
son. Ilis father being a minister his youth was spent in various places in Indiana and Ohio. From 1869 to 1873 he attended the Springfield Academy in Whitley County. In 1573 he engaged in the grocery business at Bluffton with J. IL. C. Smith, which he followed for a short time, then abandoned it on account of ill health. He then went to Kenton, Ohio, and began the study of den- tistry in the dental rooms of Drs. Cady and Dugan, remaining under their preceptorship until the spring of 1573. He then returned to Bluffton, where he practiced dentistry with Dr. Thomas Sturgis until 1877, under the firm name of Sturgis & Robison. IIc
discontinmed his practice on account of fail- ing health, and was varionsly employed nu- til 1879. In that year he resumed the practice of dentistry at Bluffton with Dr. J. E. Merriman, the firm of Robison & Merri- man continuing until 1881, when Mr. Merri- man retired from practice. Mr. Robison was married at South Whitley May 18, 1875, to Miss Willamette Merriman, daughter of Dr. E. Merriman, of that place. Two children have been born to this union, named Homer E. and Nellie. Politically Mr. Robison is a Democrat. In the spring of 1881 he was elected city clerk of Bluffton, and was re- elected in 1883, filling that position four years with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. John Robison, the great- grandfather of our subject, was a native of Scotland, coming to America in a very early day. He married a lady of German parent- age, named Barbara Dumbauld. They set- tled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The great-grandfather served all through the Revolutionary war. They were the parents of three children. Their only son, John Robison, was born in Fayette County, Octo- ber 30, 1785, and in 1803 he was married to Catherine Weimer, who was of German de- seent. They settled on the old homestead in Pennsylvania, where their children were born, three sons and five daughters, William Weimer being the youngest son, and the father of our subjeet. Ile was born in 1824, and in 1847 was married to Sophia Eicher, and to this union were born four children- Catherine, wife of William C. Williams, re- siding near Bluffton; Peter Lohr, the subject of this sketch, and two who died in infancy. The father of our subjeet subsequently pur- chased the old homestead in Fayette County, residing there until 1859, when he sold the place and removed with his family to Adams
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County, Indiana, and located in Root Town- ship, where he was soon after ordained as a Baptist minister. He had charge of the Baptist church at Bluffton for twelve years, when, in January, 1877, he went to Colum- bia City, Indiana, and had charge of the church at that place for three years. In March, 1880, he accepted a call to Auburn, Crawford County, Ohio, and while there his wife was taken sick, and after a protracted illness died at the home of her son Peter Lohr, at Bluffton, Indiana, April 13, 1881, at the age of fifty-four years. She was a faith- ful wife and mother, and a devout Christian, and was esteemed by all who knew her. In the summer of 1881 the father returned to his native State and took charge of his old home church at Donegal, Westmoreland County. In October, 1852, he was again married to Catherine Sophia Ackerman. He is at present the pastor of the church at Donegal.
OSEPH MYERS, one of the prosperous and enterprising agriculturists of Wells County, engaged in farming in Chester Township, was born in Clarke County, Ohio, the date of his birth being July 13, 1823. llis parents, Abraham and Susannah (Pence) Myers, were natives of Maryland and Penn- sylvania respectively, the father being of English origin and the mother of Dutch an- eestry. They were married in Ohio, and made that State their home for many years, the mother dying in Ohio, February 5, 1859, when our subjeet was a young man. Soon after the mother's death the father came to Indiana and located in Wells County until his death, January 1, 1864. Joseph Myers grew to manhood in his native State, living in Clarke, Logan and other counties. Ile
worked as a farm laborer in Ohio until the fall of 1853, when he came to Wells County, Indiana, and located on 160 aeres of his pres- ent farm in Chester Township. He had vis- ited the county several years previous when he purchased this land, making at that time but a small payment on his purchase, when he returned to Ohio, and every year he came to Wells County to make a payment until his land was entirely paid for. His land was covered with a heavy growth of tim- ber, and was entirely unimproved, he hav- ing to clear a space for his buildings, and with the timber he cut down he erected his hewed-log house. In February, 1854, he was married to Miss Mary Jones, a native of Ran- dolph County, Indiana, and a daughter of Michael and Nancy Jones, who were early settlers of Wells County. They subsequently removed to Huntington County in the fall of 1866, where the father died, January 29, 1877, and the mother December 31, 1878. Mr. Myers brought his wife to his pioneer home in the woods of Chester Township, and here they passed through many trials and hardships incident to lite in a newly settled country. Mr. Myers afterward bought eighty acres of land, part of which had been cleared. He now has 320 acres of land, 205 aeres be- ing cleared, all of his property being acquired by his own exertions, the result of persever- ing industry and good management. He owned beside his present property eighty acres which he sold. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are now surrounded with all the necessary comforts of life, and have gained the respect and esteem of the whole community, and reared a family to honorable and respectable status in life. Their children are-James B., a resident of Kingman County, Kansas; George R., of Ness County, Kansas; Nancy Elizabeth, wife of R. Y. Lambert, of King- inan County, Kansas; William A., Maggie
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and Daniel. In politics Mr. Myers is a Re- publican. Ile is a member of the United Brethren church.
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OHIN A. COONS, pastor of the Chris- tian church at Nottingham, was born in Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1836, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Allison) Coons, the former born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and the latter in the State of Delaware. The parents were married in Highland County, Ohio, and October 4, 1837, they removed to Jay County, this State, where the father died December 4, 1865, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. The mother is still living, and is in her eighty-eightlı year. John A. was reared to farm life in Jay County, and this occupation he followed until he entered the ministry. He was mar- ried in his native county August 14, 1856, to Miss Catherine Hall, a native of Union County, Ohio, and to this union have been born ten children, of whom two, William T. and Dora Melville, are deceased. Those liv- ing are-Isaac O .; Mary Rebecca, wife of John Gardner, Dennis, who resides in Black- ford County; Laura Olive, wife of John Mum- ford, also residing in Blackford County; Montille Orestus, Osro Nelson, Marvin Coons and Austin Deeatur. Mrs. Coons died March 21, 1880, and then Mr. Coons decided to enter the ministry. He was first placed in charge of the congregation in Jackson Township, Blackford County, where he preached the gospel two years. Ile was then engaged at Silver Lake church, where he had charge two years. In December, 1885, he received his call to the Nottingham church, and besides attending to this charge, he is doing a great deal of missionary work around Wells, Randolph, Jay, Blackford,
Delaware and other counties. Mr. Coons- was married to his present wife July 31, 1886. She was formerly Mrs. Anna M. Eifer, whose first husband was Dr. P. J. Lanning. February 28, 1864, Mr. Coons enlisted in Company HI, One Hundred and Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, and was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, under General John A. Schofield, General Hovey being the first Division Commander, General Haskell the second and General Ruger the last one. Ile was in the engagements at Resaca, Mari- etta, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro and the two days' fight at Nashville, which occurred De- cember 15 and 16, 1864. His last engage- ment was at Kingston, North Carolina. They garrisoned Charlotte for seven months after the close of the war, and then returned home. Ile was discharged December 2, 1865. Mr. Coons was one of the charter members of Alexander Trimble Post, No. 213, Red Key, Indiana, and was the first chaplain of the post. Ile has held that office ever since its organization.
EVI WAIKEL was born in Trumbull Connty, Ohio, November 10, 1845, son of Benjamin and Susan (Bailey) Waikel. The father was born in December, 1817, and the mother February 26, 1822. Their eight children were-William, Mary, Levi, George, Henry, Frank, Alice and Sarah. All are living except Mary, and all are married and have families. William married Olive Prough; George married IIattie Meyers; Alice married John Stoffer; Henry was mar- ried in Iowa; Sarah became the wife of Peter Wickliffe, and Benjamin married Aun Woods. Levi passed his early life on his father's farm, and when seventeen years of age enlisted in
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Company G, One Hundred and First Indiana Infantry, Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. ! Ie enlisted in the fall of 1862, and went into camp October 22 at Wabash, Indiana. He was in every engage- ment in which his regiment participated, and from the fight at Perryville he faced shot and shell until the rebels laid down their arms and the unconditional surrender of the South- ern Confederacy was proclaimed throughout the States both North and South. He fought at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Buzzard Roost, Kenesaw Mount- ain, Peach-tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Resaca, thence with Sherman to the sea, fonght, marched and endured privations and dangers, and engaged in the last battle of the war-Bentonville. His regiment was on parade at the review in Washington, the grandest military display ever beheld on the American continent; and although foot-sore and weary from the toilsome march from Savannah, Georgia, to Washington, he par- ticipated in all the honors of the review. At Chickamanga he and several of his comrades narrowly escaped capture. The rebels were stationed not twenty feet from where our boys were lying in the dry bed of a creek, and the balls whistled about them like hail, but all escaped unharmed. Mr. Waikel was one of the advance gnards that captured a steamer carrying stores for the Southern army, and was one of the first to board the vessel as she steamed up to the wharf at Savannah, Georgia. From no duty did he ever shirk, and nothing was too good for him if his cash held out. He paid $15 for three plugs of tobacco, as it was very scarce; but the boys found it out before he could eoneeal it, and taking the lot divided it among the crowd in spite of his protests. His health was considerably impaired from severe ex- posure, and he suffered from rheumatism.
After his return from the army he was mar- ried, October 26, 1866, to Miss Cynthia C. Jarvis, daughter of Nelson and Priseilla (Brown) Jarvis, the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Kentucky. They were married in North Carolina, and three children, Wilmoth, Martha A. and Graeie, were born in that State. The Jarvis family came to Indiana in 1845, Joeating at Rush- ville. Two children, Mary J. and Cynthia, were born there. They came to Allen County about 1849, and later to Wells County, where Rebecca and John L. were born. The father is now deceased, and the mother is living with her youngest child in Union Township. After his marriage our subject worked several years at the carpenter's trade, a part of the time in Diekinson County, Kansas, to which State he removed in 1871. He took a home- stead claim of 160 acres, also owned and operated the first soap factory in Abilene. In the fall of 1880 he returned to Wells County, and has since been engaged in vari- ous occupations. He has done considerable work in stone masonry, both in this county and in Kansas. When the Atlantic & Chi- cago Railroad was an assured faet Mr. Waikel purchased an aere of land fronting his present residence, surveyed it into lots, erected a small store, put in a stock of goods, and is entitled to the honor of selling the first goods in the new town of Banner. He also built the first residence, and his family was the first to locate there. Their daughter Addie was the second child born in the village. Mr. and Mrs. Waikel have had eight chil- dren-Effa A., born December 22, 1869; William J., born October 26, 1871; Benja- min F., born December 21, 1873; Alwilda, born April 15, 1876; Charles H., born De- cember 7, 1877; Lawrence D., born Decem- ber 18, 1882; Addie B., born June 18, 1884, and Clinton Dewilla, born October 1, 1886.
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Mr. Waikel has built two business houses and two residences in the new town of Ban- ner, and in January, 1887, purchased and has in successful operation the first saw-mill in the village.
EVI HOOVER, farmer and mannfact- urer of tile, Jefferson Township, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1826. His parents, William and Sophia (Young) Hoover, remained, upon their farm in that county during their lifetime, and reared fourteen children, besides losing three zby death. Those who reached maturity were -Felix, Caspar, Levi, John, Martin, David, Marion, Eliza J., Sarah, Susan, Rachel, Anna, Belle and Caroline. David and Levi are residents of this county; Caspar came to this county, married Elizabeth Davis, reared five sons, and died here in 1860. Levi was married in Miami County, Ohio, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Hefner, May 6, 1850, Rev. Garsage, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Troy, officiating. July 28, 1853, Levi Hoover, with his wife and two children, Adaline and Frank Pierce, came to this county and made a location on the east half of section 23. This was then a comparatively new country, and the woods were full of game. Mr. Hoover has seen deer upon every section in this neighborhood. He erected the first log cabin upon the land, which he cleared and improved, making of it a nice farm. Ilere he remained and prospered until 1874, when he exchanged his farm for 160 acres of un- improved land, which he has since largely improved and cultivated. Numerous farm buildings now mark the thrifty farmer's acres. One can scarcely conceive that such improvements could be made in a few short
years, yet we cannot expect less, when men of energy and enterprise have made Wells County one of the best grain producing see- tions of Northern Indiana. Mr. Hoover has been three times married. To his first marriage were born Adaline, Frank P., Har- riet E., Susan S., Rachel A., Sarah J., Mary B., Martin, Vallandigham, William A., Alonzo and Minor. The second wife was. formerly Elizabeth Perry, and to this union was born one daughter-Viola. The third wife was formerly Miss Jane Nash, and they were the parents of four children- Joseph II., John L., and a pair of twins unnamed. Nine of the children are living in this county, and seven are married. Adaline married John J. Foughty, a resident of this township, and they have six children. Frank P. married Miss Ann Perry, who died leaving one child, Catherine Elizabeth; after her death Frank married Sarah P. Norton, and they have two children. Harriet E. wedded Simpson Todd, a brother of J. J. Todd, one of the most noted lawyers of this county, and has two children. Susan S. married Byron Crowl, of Jefferson . Township; she was the mother of two chil- dren, and is now deceased, also one of the children. Rachel A. became the wife of William A. Taylor, and died without chil- dren. Sarah J. is the wife of David C. Hall, a carpenter by trade, and resides in Jefferson Township; they have three children. Mary B. married Melvin Kleinknight, a farmer, and has two daughters. Martin married Winnie Double, and they reside with the parents on the home farm; they have had one child, now deceased. William married Sarah Nash, and they have one daughter. Mr. Hoover's parents had seventeen children, Mrs. Hoover's parents had seventeen children, and Mr. Iloover is the father of seventeen children. Mr. Iloover has frequently been solicited to become a candidate for official honors in his
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township, but has persistently declined, pre- ferring to devote his time to improving his farm. In the spring of 1556 he and his son William and Melvin Kleinknight began the manufacture of tile on the land of Mr. Hoover, who, in the spring, 1556, purchased the interest of Mr. Kleinknight, and with his son William has since conducted the business. The clay is of superior quality, with a machine having a capacity of 100 rods of five-inch and eighty rods of six-inch tile per day. Their sales have been satisfactory and the business will be pushed during the season, as well as the manufacture of brick.
TRA B. GOODSPEED, of Harrison Town- ship, was born in Athens County, Ohio, April 13, 1827. Ilis father, Nathan Goodspeed, was born June 9, 1795, in Massa- chusetts. Ilis mother, Thankful (IIolwey) Goodspeed, was also a native of Massachusetts. The parents removed to Ohio in an early day. Our subject was reared on a farm, and remained with his parents until his marriage, which occurred March 25, 1860, with Miss Harriet N. Armitage, daughter of George and Maria (Ward) Armitage, the father a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Washington County, Ohio. Mrs. Goodspeed was born in Athens County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Goodspeed followed farm- ing in his native county until the fall of 1865, when he removed to this county, where his father's family had settled one year pre- vious. January 7, 1866, the father died, and the mother, August 19, 1874. After the death of the father Mr. Goodspeed purchased the homestead of the heirs, and now has 120 acres on section 18, Harrison Township. Mr. and Mrs. Goodspeed have had four children, three of whom are living -- George
W., Francis M. married Hannah Bell Mark- ley, and Daniel HI. Thankful O. died February 14, 1873, aged twenty-three years. In politics Mr. Goodspeed is a Republican.
AMUEL KUNKLE, grain dealer, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, in 1843, a son of Michael and Julia (Mason) Kunkle. When he was four years of age his mother died, and his father afterward married Mary A. Kleinknight, who acted well a inother's part. To the first marriage were born five children, only two now surviving. To the second marriage were born seven children. Soon after his second marriage Michael Kunkle, with his family, removed to Adams Connty, this State, settling upon a farm near Decatur. Two years later they removed to Wells County, and located in Lancaster Township. Two years previous to his death Michael removed to Bluffton. ITis wife still resides in that city, and her two youngest sons live with her. Our sub- jeet purchased a tract of land upon which the village of Tocsin is now located. ITis marriage with Miss Elizabeth Blue occurred the year previous, and the young couple began domes- tie life in a small log cabin built in the woods, which was afterward cleared and cul- tivated by Mr. Kunkle. Here they remained until 1881, when they removed to Missouri; but the building of the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad opened a good thoroughfare from east to west, and his brother-in-law, Michael Blue, insisted that he should return and lay ont a town upon his land, it being quite a favorable location. After their return Mr. Blue surveyed a forty-acre tract into lots in the spring of 1882, and the first business house was erected the same season. Ile opened a stock of general merchandise, was appointed
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