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 32
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 32
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education principally at Fort Wayne, and completed it at Valparaiso, this State, in 1881. Ile began the study of medicine with Dr. B. R. Freeman, of Decatur, Indiana, and matriculated at Rushr Medical College, of Chicago, in 1883, attending three courses of lectures. Ile graduated February 17, 1886. Ile was employed at the city hospitals of Chicago two years, as nurse, prior to his . graduation. Ilis last college year he offici- ated as assistant to Dr. Thomas J. Shaw, Professor of Clinical Gynecology at the West Side Free Dispensary, Chicago. The doctor settled in Toesin in the spring of 1886, and has since had an excellent practice.
AMES P. IIALE, the present efficient mayor of Bluffton, and a publie-spirited and enterprising citizen of Wells County, was born in Bluffton, Wells County, Indi- ana, April 15, 1846. When about twelve years of age he removed with his parents from Bluffton to the farm which is still oc- enpied by his father, Bowen Hale. Here our subjeet was reared, working on the farin in the summer and attending the district school in the winter, until he was twenty-two years of age. During this time he taught one term of school of four months and also for a short time attended a private school taught by Prof. John S. McCleery. In 1868 he entered the State University at Blooming- ton, Indiana, where he took an active part in the literary and scientific societies, became a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and filled all the positions of honor that the students usually have to bestow on each other. He graduated from that institution in the scientific course a Bachelor of Science in 1872. In the spring of 1872, before leav- ing college. he was nominated by the Demo-
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eratie party of his native county for the office of county surveyor, and was elected to that position the following October, but his term of office did not begin until the following June, 1873. During the winter of 1872-'73 he again taught four months of school. In February, 1573, F. II. Rhodes resigned the office of surveyor, and Mr. Hale was appoint- ed and assumed the duties of the office at once. In 1874 he was again nominated by his party as surveyor, but owing to the posi- tion which he then took on the temperanee question his name was withdrawn from the regular tieket, and although he received a large vote he was not eleeted. At the ex- piration of his term as surveyor he entered the law office of Todd & Rinehart, and was shortly afterward admitted to the bar, and has since that time practiced his chosen pro- fession, generally alone, but for a short time was in partnership with W. J. Hilligass. He served as deputy prosecuting attorney from 1876 to 1550. In October, 1884, he was elected mayor of Bluffton, to fill an unex- pired term, eaused by the resignation of II. 1. Martin, and the following spring he was elected to the same office for a term of two years, and in May, 1887, was re-elected, and is now serving in that capacity. In his po- litical affiliations he is a stannch Democrat. June 10, 1550, Mr. Hale was married to Miss Delia Wilson, daughter of Oscar F. and Catherine B. Wilson, formerly of Zanesville, Allen County, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- son moved from Coshocton County, Ohio, to Indiana, soon after their marriage, in about the year 1855. Mrs. Wilson's maiden name was Foster, and she was related to the Fos- ters of Coshocton County, Ohio, a numerous and highly respected family. Mr. Wilson and wife were numbered among the early settlers of Allen County, Indiana. Hle en- gaged in the mercantile business at Zanes-
ville, Delphi, and at Bluffton, Indiana. Mrs. Wilson died at her home in Bluffton in Sep- tember, 1883, and Mr. Wilson at the resi- dence of Mr. Hale in 1886, leaving two children-Delia W., the wife of the subject of our sketch, and George M., now residing with Mr. Ilale. In 1873 Mr. Hale united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and is still a member of the same. IIe was made a Mason in 1874, and takes an active interest in the Masonic fraternity, and is also a mem- ber of Bluffton Chapter, No. 95, and was for two years high priest of that chapter and received the degree of the order of the high priesthood in 1876 at Indianapolis. Mr. Hale, like his father, is genial and unassum- ing in his manner, and highly respected by the people of Wells County.
OBERT M. HEDGES, fariner and stock- raiser, Ilarrison Township, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, October 31, 1817, son of Elijah and Polly (Baeksley) Hedges, natives of West Virginia. The father was a son of Charles Hedges, and of English ancestry. The mother was of Ger- man ancestry. They settled in Fairfield County in an early day and were among the pioneers of that county. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the sub- scription schools that were held in the primi- tive log cabin. He remained with his parents until he reached his majority, and October 22, 1840, was married to Miss Sophia Kirkwood, a native of Pennsylvania. Ile followed farming in his native county until the fall of 1846, then came to Indiana and purchased eighty aeres of land on see- tion 35, Harrison Township. About four- teen aeres were partially eleared. He lived on this land about six years, then sold and
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bonght 114 acres of nnimproved land on sec- tion 29, where he and three other men erected the first log cabin. He eleared and improved his new farm. He has given close attention to his business and has added to his first purchase until he now has 194 acres of well-enltivated and well-improved land. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges had thirteen children, eleven of whom are living-Mary J., Lu- einda (deceased), Jonas T., Rebecca Ann, James, Elizabeth (deceased), William, Julia, Joseph, George, Lewis 1., Samuel and John. Mrs. Hedges was a member of the Method- ist Episcopal church. She died August 27, 1870, and September 10, 1874, Mr. Hedges married Martha Willason, who died March 17, 1877. She was a member of the Presby- terian church. October 31, 1879, Mr. Hedges married Mrs. Elizabeth Kennel, formerly Elizabeth Kreps, who was a native of Pent- sylvania, and eame to Wells County with her parents when a girl. They have one child- Clara A. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Politi- eally he has always affiliated with the Dem- oeratie party.
ILLIAM HENRY BENNETT, post- master at Bluffton, Indiana, is a native of that city, born July 31, 1853. He is the eldest of three sons, and one of nine ehildren of Robert Collins and Harriet (Deam) Bennett. When he was four years of age his parents moved to Fort Wayne, where they lived until 1872, when they returned to Bluffton. He attended the public school at Fort Wayne while there, and after his re- turn to Bluffton attended the public school a short time, when he engaged in the res- taurant business, which he continued until 1879. He then entered the employ of G. F.
MeFarren, remaining with him until Jan- ary, 1886, when having received a commis- sion as postmaster at Bluffton from Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, he assumed the duties of that oflice.
OHIN BOWMAN, merehant and post- master at Tocsin, was born near Massil- lon, Stark County, Ohio, and eame with his parents, Richard S. and Mary (Shaffer) Bowman, to Wells County in October, 1857. The family then consisted of the parents, our subjeet and his brother Byron. The family located on a farm near Bluffton, where the parents still reside. One daughter, Jennie, was born in this county, now the wife of Ross Cherry, and resides at the homestead. Byron married Maggie Ulmer, and is a merchant at Bluffton. Our subject was reared upon a farm, where he acquired a practical education which was eompleted at the Bluffton High Sehools. Ile engaged in the mercantile trade in that eity in January, 1886, and Novem- ber 5 of that year he became a resident of the new village of Toesin, purchasing the stock of goods formerly owned by Samnel Kunkle. Ifis goods in Bluffton were sold prior to his removal, to Albert Shepherd, and Mr. Bow- man now devotes his time and attention to the mercantile trade in Tocsin. llis is the only store in the village, and he earries a large stoek and does an extensive business. IIe was married December 27, 1876, to Elizabeth E. Williams, daughter of James S. Williams, a resident of this county, who has lived within her boundaries forty-two years. Four children have been born to this union- Harry O., Lonis E., Albert and Jesse W. The latter is deceased. Mrs. Bowman died De- eember 18, 1885, and March 17, 1887, Mr. Bowman married Eliza J. Archibold, who
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was born near Toesin, Wells County. Mr. Bowman was appointed postmaster of Toesin January 31, 1886, vice Samuel Kunkle, re- signed in 1886.
AMES M. MERRIMAN, a pioneer of Liberty Township, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1814. His father, Elijah Merriman, was born in 1758, and his mother, Mary (McCoy) Mer- riman, was born in 1792. The father was a native of Maryland, and a son of William Merriman, who was born in 1756. The mother was a daughter of John McCoy, who was a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish parentage. The parents removed to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1816, where our subject passed his youth in helping to clear the farm and in attending the common and subserip- tion schools. He helped to hew the logs for the school-house in which he was educated. He was married April 6, 1847, to Miss Ann Tracy, daughter of George and Leah ( MeCoy) Tracy, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 8, 1818; the parents were natives of Pennsylvania. In 1836 Mr. Mer- riman came to Indiana, where he entered eighty aeres of land in Huntington County, then returned to Wayne County. In Oc- tober, 1839, he removed his wife and one child to Wells County, and entered 160 acres of land on seetion 20, Liberty Township, where he began elearing and making a home. This was previous to the organization of the township, and there were no roads. He en- dured all the hardships and privations inei- dent to the pioneer. Mr. and Mrs. Merriman are the parents of eleven children-Samantha, wife of Ruel Wright, of Huntington Coun- ty; Mahala, wife of George Mellaley, of
Liberty Township; Bance, of Smith County, Kansas: John, of Liberty Township; Traey, also a resident of Liberty Township; Dallas, a resident of Huntington County; Jasper and George O., of Liberty Township; Annie, wife of Asbury Luce; Mary Leah, now Mrs. lleckman, and Alfred, who lives at home. Mr. Merriman has served as township trus- tee, township treasurer, and held the office of magistrate fourteen years. Mrs. Merriman is a member of the Christian church, and in polities he is a Democrat. Ile owns 270 aeres of excellent land, all in a good state of enltivation.
OSEPH C. MADDOX is a native of Chester Township, Wells County, Indi- ana, born on the old Maddox homestead February 25, 1855, a son of Wesley Harvey and Eliza Aun (Grove) Maddox. He was reared on the home farm, receiving his educa- tion in the common schools of his townshipand at Bluffton. After leaving school he adopted the teacher's profession, which he followed principally for fifteen years, part of this time following the avocation of a farmer. IIe was united in marriage June 11, 1879, to Miss Elizabeth O. Dawson, who was also a native of Wells County, Indiana, a daughter of George Dawson, who is now living in Union City, Ohio. Mrs. Maddox lost her mother by death when she was but three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Maddox are the parents of one child, a son named Hugh. Mr. Mad- dox discontinued teaching in 1884, and sinee that time has devoted his entire attention to farming, and has a well-cultivated farm in Chester Township. In his political views Mr. Maddox affiliates with the Republican party. lle is an active and publie-spirited
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eitizen, and always takes an interest in every enterprise which has for its object the ad- vancement of his township or county.
F TACOB R. HARVEY, son of the old pioneer, Robert llarvey, is a native of Indiana, born in Union County, April 27, 1830. Ilis father was born near Knox- ville, Tennessee, February 29, 1788, a son of Henderson and Martha (McConnell) Harvey. Henderson Harvey was a soldier in the Rev- olutionary war. In middle life, to be rid of slavery and its pernicious influences, he left Tennessee for Pennsylvania, and later moved to Ohio, and in 1811 removed to the then Territory of Indiana. He died at an advanced age in Union County, where he was esteemed as one of its most worthy pioneers. Robert Harvey, the father of our subjeet, although afflicted with partial blindness of his left eye, volunteered in the war of 1812 and served one year. He was married in 1818 to Eliza- beth Richey, of Butler County, Ohio, at the home of her parents, returning to his home in Indiana the same year. Elizabeth Riehey was born in New Jersey in 1794, a daughter of Jacob Richey. Seven children were born to them-William, who was a inch respected eitizen of Lancaster Township, is deceased; Mrs. Mary Rohr, living in Iowa; Mrs. Mar- tha De Witt, of Bluffton; Jacob R., whose name heads this sketeh; Lorenzo D. was a member of Company G, One Hundred and First Indiana Infantry, during the late war, and died in the service at Munfordville, Ken- tueky; John lives in Huntington County, In- diana, and Rebecca, the fourth child, died in Union County, aged three years. The parents cleared a farm in the wilderness of Union County, where they made their home until 1832. In April of that year they removed
with their family to Wells County, settling on section 18 of Lancaster Township, Robert Ilarvey being the fourth man to settle in what is now Wells County. The preceding winter he had become totally blind from in- flammation of the eyes. He was the owner of three traets of land in Lancaster Town- ship, comprising about 300 acres, and pos- sessed of personal property sufficient to give him a good start in those pioneer days. The troublesome times of 1832 (the year of the Black Hawk war) induced his brothers Sam- nel and John to come from Union County and move him back there. He left his stoek and implements with a man named Joseph Knox, and returned with his brothers to Union County, where he spent the following winter. On returning to Wells County he found himself robbed of his stoek and every- thing that was movable, and never recovered anything nor heard of his rascally neighbor again, but he again accumulated property and enjoyed a good home until his death, in 1853, his widow surviving him until July 12, 1877. Jacob R. Harvey, the subject of this sketeh, now holds the patent of the old home given to his father, which is dated Sep- tember 2, 1831, and signed by President Andrew Jackson. Ile has lived on this homestead, established by his parents in 1832, ever since two years of age, with the exeep- tion of the time spent in the service of his country during the war of the Rebellion. Ilis youth was spent in toil, assisting to fell and burn the forest, elearing his father's land. At eight years of age lie began attending the log cabin subscription schools, with their split log seats, greased paper lights, and stick and elay chimney, where he received his edu- cation. September 20, 1855, he was married to Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Ilenry Mil- ler, who settled just opposite the present site of Murray in November, 1832. Mrs. Harvey
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was born on the pioneer homestead of her father, on section 18, Lancaster Township, March 15, 1834, and was the first white child born in Wells County. To Mr. and Mrs. Ilarvey have been born five children-Henry, the first born, died aged three years; William ocenpies a farm near the homestead of his parents; Jacob lives on part of the home- stead, and Robert and Charles are attending school. Mr. Ilarvey was a member of Com- pany B, Fifty-third Indiana Infantry, from October, 1864, until the close of the war. ITis regiment was a part of the Seventeenth Army Corps, and after some service in Ala- bama, Georgia, and Tennessee, joined Sher- man's army at Goldsboro, North Carolina. In politics Mr. Harvey is an ardent Repub- lican. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian church.
R. RICHARD ALBRA WALDRON was born in Dover, New Hampshire, May 23, 1832, a son of Richard and Mary (Canney) Waldron. - He is of English ancestry. Major Richard Waldron, the pro- genitor of the family in this country, coming from Somersetshire, England, settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1635. The Major was for many years Governor of the Colony of New Hampshire, and was an active partiei- pant in the French and Indian wars of his time. IIis official duties kept him in fre- quent contact with the red man. Ile finally lost his life through their treachery, being one of the victims when they, in the dead hours of night, captured the town of Dover and massacred most of its inhabitants. New Hampshire has been the home of the Waldron family since their first settlement in America, and the doctor's parents are still at this date (1887) residents of New Hampshire, being 48
well advanced in years, each having passed the eighty-third milestone. Our subject re- ceived the ordinary education afforded by the public schools, and at the age of seventeen years commenced teaching school, in order to acquire the means of defraying the expense of a higher education. In pursuance of this plan he entered Franklin Academy, located on Waldron street, Dover, where he took his collegiate preparatory course. From there he entered Amherst College, where he took his literary course. After studying medicine the subject of this sketch located in South- ern Illinois, from whence he went to Western Texas, where he remained about two years, thence returned to Southern Illinois, where he resumed the practice of his profession, remaining there until 1872, when he moved to Wells County, Indiana, loeating at Not- tingham in said county on the 23d day of May, 1872. The doctor was married to Mi- riam Griest, danghter of John and Hannah (Edmundson) Griest, at Portland, Jay County, Indiana, September 12, 1874. They have one child, a daughter, Mary R. A. Waldron, born September 22, 1875. Miriam (Griest) Wal- dron was born in York County, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1834, and moved to Jay County, Indiana, with her parents in 1850, arriving in said county on the 5th of May, the county then being alnost a wilderness. Wolves as well as deer and other wild game were mi- merous. Mrs. Waldron was one of the teach- ers of Jay County when school-houses were built of round logs, and the clapboard roofs were held in place by weight poles instead of nails, and seats were made for the pupils by splitting a small log into two parts and boring two holes in the ends of each in which wooden legs were inserted, making a durable but nneomfortable seat. Logs were split into thick plank or puncheons for floor- ing. Dr. Waldron at present (1887) is en-
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gaged in farming and stock-raising and running a general store at Nottingham, and has been postmaster at this place since 1853. Hle is also actively engaged in the practice of his profession.
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M WMC COY SMITH, Toesin, was born November 9, 1527, son of Nicholas and Leah (McCoy) Smith, who reared a family of three children-McCoy, Edwin and Phebe. Nicholas Smith first married Miss MeFadden, and they had seven chil- dren. Leah was a widow at the time of her marriage with Mr. Smith, and the mother of eight children. Three sets of children were cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Our sub- jeet learned three trades in Ohio, but never made a business of either. In 1849 he first came to Wells County and took a claim, but through a technicality in law, he was granted a patent bearing the signature of Millard Fillmore, in 1851. Mr. Smith's paternal an- cestors were German. His grandfather Nieh . olas was a Captain during the war of the Revolution. His great-uncle Henry was con- sidered the best swordsman in Washing- ton's army, under whom both served during the entire war. His grandmother was of Welsh origin. They were the parents of eighteen children, and saw the fourth gene- ration before their death. The descendants upon whom their eyes had rested numbered 403. The grandfather died at the age of one hundred and ten and the grandmother at one hundred and fifteen. They lived and died in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, at the foot of the mountains. Our subject built a cabin on the land he first entered. Soon after his arrival he formed the acquaintance of his present wife, Miss Mary Blue, in rather a peenliar manner. In the early days neighbors
were far apart, and the young folks occasion- ally gathered for amusement in the cabin of some of the settlers. Mr. Smith was a bach- elor, very lively, and the life and soul of the company he was in. For a joke, he pro- claimed that he could tell fortunes. One evening as the family were sitting around the huge fireplace, the young people insisted upon having their fortunes told. Smith was the oraele of the evening, and when it eame Miss Blue's turn, although McCoy had never spoken to her, the moment he took her hand he exclaimed, " Why, this woman will become my wife." There seemed to be an affinity, and although neither had thought of marry- ing, the result proved theirs to be a very harmonious union. May 17, 1855, this eonple was married at the home of the bride's parents, Uriah and Rachel Blue, Rev. Wilson Donaldson performing the ceremony. Mr. Smith's maternal ancestry were of Irish ori- gin. Ilis grandmother was a daughter of Colonel Gaddis, of Revolutionary fame, and her husband belonged to his regiment. Thus the ancestry on both sides were " blue-bloods" and noted for loyalty to the cause of Ameri- can freedom. To Colonel Gaddis is ascribed the honor of raising the first liberty-pole in the United States, a fact of which his de- scendants may well feel proud. He also rid the country of a notorious gang of robbers, by getting a band of pieked men of his former Revolutionary foree; forty robbers were killed before they made an uncondi- tional surrender. Colonel Gaddis was in command of a regiment at Crawford's defeat, and had the latter followed the advice of Gaddis, the Indians would have been routed, with small loss. Hle rescued Crawford from the savages, but he was again captured and burned at the stake. Mrs. Smith's great- grandfather, Uriah Blue, was a rifleman under General Washington and one of his sharp-
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shooters. Ile moved to Boone, Kentucky, and from there to Miami County, Ohio. Mrs. Smith's grandfather carried provisions to Wayne's army at Fort Wayne. After the marriage of Mr. Smith he settled down to real pioneer work. He cleared his land, and his love for the chase kept his larder well supplied with meats. Children came to grace their home in the wild woods --- Emma Rosa- lie, wife of Albert Weible; Jasper N., who S married Ina Belle Sower" Serena, wife of Ivan Kleinknight; John M., and one that died in infancy. From the first, Mr. Smith predicted that a railroad would traverse this neighborhood from west to east, having walked over the ground and noted the fertile soil, and fine location for a road-bed. There- fore, he was not surprised when the thunder of the massive iron wheels reverberated through the township, nor amazed when a thrifty village sprang up almost before his eyes. The log cabin in which Mr. Smith and his wife began their married life has long since been replaced by a handsome frame building. They have been prosperous, and their prosperity is due entirely to industry, economy and good management.
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NDREW J. FOUST, an active and en- terprising citizen of Jackson Township, where he resides on section 11, was born in Salamonie Township, Huntington County, Indiana, May 15, 1860, a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Neil) Foust. Jonathan Foust was born in Highland County, Ohio, of German- English descent. When he was eight or nine years old he was brought by his parents to Salamonie Township, Huntington County, they being among the first settlers of that county, and are yet living on the original homestead, the father eighty-six and the
mother eighty-four years of age. Jonathan Foust was reared on the old homestead amid scenes of pioneer life, assisting in making a farm ont of the forest, living with his parents until after his marriage. He then removed to a forty-acre tract of timber land which he owned in Salamonie Township, where his wife died in January, 1864. Some two or three years afterward he sold his land and bought eighty aeres one mile north, which he owned about four years, when he bought 235 acres along the Salamonie River in Jackson Town- ship, Wells County, where he lived until No- vember, 1885. Ile then disposed of this land and went to Washington County, Arkansas, where he now has a farm of 170 acres, and is still engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ile was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a member of Company I, Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry, and was in the Fourteenth Ariny Corps. He was in all the engagements of the Atlanta campaign, and was with Sher- man on his march from Atlanta to the sea and through the Carolinas to Washington, where he participated in the grand review at the close of the war. Andrew J. Foust, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Ihunting- ton and Wells counties, the last half of his life to this time being spent in Jackson Township. He received his education in the schools of Jackson Township, completing his studies at Bluffton, and at the age of nine- teen taught his first school. Since that time he has devoted every winter to that pro- fession, and has taught in all forty seven months, becoming a popular and successful teacher. February 24, 1883, he was married to Miss Mary Batson, who was born in Wells County July 8, 1860, a daughter of Samuel J. and Catherine (Huffman) Batson. They are the parents of two children -- AAda M. and Delmar. Mr. Foust is a member of the Protestant Methodist church, and his wife
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