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ANIEL WALTER, farmer, section 20, Wabash Township, came to this county in October, 1839, with his parents and ten other children. He was born in Column- biana County, Ohio, December 24, 1833, and was but six years old when his parents re- moved to the county. The family located on section 22, Wabash Township, where the father bought the right of entry of the land for twenty dollars, of a man who had entered eighty acres the day before the father reached Fort Wayne. At that time the roads were poor, and they had to cut away brush to enable them to reach their future home.
They moved from Columbiana County with a two-horse team and covered wagon, camp- ing out a part of the time and sleeping in houses the rest of the time. The father had to go to Pickaway to mill, a distance of fifty miles, a few times, before a mill was built any nearer. They used to take their wheat to Bremen, a distance of twenty-eight miles, and sell it for thirty-seven and a half cents a bnshel. Daniel was married December 11, 1856, to Miss Margaretta Smith, born April 4, 1836, in Portage County, Ohio, and when three years of age was taken by her parents to Bremen, Fairfield County, Ohio. When eight years of age her parents removed to Canton, Stark County, where she was reared to womanhood. In 1836 she came to Jay County to live with a brother, George Smith. She was accompanied by her sister Elizabeth, who afterward became the wife of Adam Stolz. Mrs. Walter's parents, George and Ann (Donoworth) Smith, were born, reared and married in Alsace, Germany. They lived there six months after marriage, then emigrated to America and settled in Portage County, Ohio. The father died in 1843, aged about thirty years. Ile was killed by the falling of a limb when felling a tree. The mother died in 1854, aged fifty-one years. They were the parents of seven chil- dren-George, Margaretta and Elizabetlı are living, and Anu, Michael, Jacob and Barbara are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Walter have had ten children, six of whom are living- William F., born November 5, 1857, and died March 3, 1860; Susanna E., born February 7, 1859, died June 12, 1862; Alla M., born January 8, 1861, married J. W. Burke; David S. and Daniel Sherman, twins, born January 9, 1865; Edwin H., born June 7, 1867; Clarence W., born January 19, 1870, died February 9, 1873; Frederick W., born May 12, 1872; Orlando II., born May 5,
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1875, died January 21, 1877, and Catherine A., born February 9, 1877. Mr. Walter is a Republican in politics, and himself and wife are members of the United Brethren church. Mrs. Walter's maternal grandparents came to America with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and both died in Stark County, Ohio; they were born in Germany. Mr. Walter enlisted, July, 1861, in Company C, Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry, with Captain Wilson, First Lieuten- ant John Q. Lewis, and Second Lieutenant Curtis H. Clark. The regiment joined Gen- eral Buell's Corps at Louisville, Kentucky. Ilis first battle was the last day's fight at Shilolı. He was in all the engagements of the regiment, being witlı General Sherman on his march from Chattanooga to Rome, Georgia. Here the regiment veteranized and were mounted, and after that were called the Eighth Indiana Mounted Artillery.
RA BUTCHER, an active and enterpris- ing business man and proprietor of the tile factory located in the western part of Portland, is a native of Jay County, Indiana, born in Greene Township March 7, 1850, his parents, Christian and Mary E. (Hofman) Butcher, being among the early settlers of the county. He was reared to the vocation of a farmer on his father's farm, and in his youth learned lessons of persevering industry, being early inured to hard work. August 4, 1874, he was united in marriage to Miss Christiann Detamore, a native of Preble County, Ohio, and a daughter of Joseplı Detamore. They are the parents of two children-Mary E. and Barbara Alice. In March, 1874, Mr. Butcher came to Port- land, and soon after engaged in working at the plasterer's trade. In the fall of 1884, in partnership with his brother-in-law, John
Detamore, he established his present large tile factory, on a tract of three acres, which he had purchased from Ira Denney, and in the spring of 1886 he bought Mr. Detamore's interest in the business, of which he has since been sole proprietor, in which he is meeting with ex- cellent success. During the year 1886 lie manufactured about $4,000 worth of tile, and this year. 1887, will probably reach $5,000. Ile manufactures all sizes of tile, ranging from two to twelve inches. In April, 1887, a gas well was sunk on a lot near his prein- ises, and he will no doubt be the first man in Jay County to burn tile with gas. Mrs. Butcher is a member of the Methodist church.
O. WELDON, proprietor of the Mer- chant's Hotel, Portland, was born in Plattsburg, New York, the date of his birth being November 6, 1839. He is a son of Ethan R. and Harriet E. (Spaulding) Weldon, his father being a native of Platts- burg, New York, and his mother born at Panton, Vermont. They removed to Farmer, Defiance County, Ohio, when our subject was quite young, and there he learned the trade of a carriage builder which he followed in company with his father for a number of years, at Farmer and Hicksville, Ohio. In 1879 the great crash in the carriage trade throughout the United States occurred, which caused Mr. Weldon and his father to abandon the business, after which Mr. H. O. Weldon conducted a livery stable until the winter of 1883-'84. January 16, 1884, he engaged in the hotel business in Portland, and has since carried on the Exchange Hotel, one of the leading hotels of the city, and a favorite resort for the traveling public. In 1862 Mr. Wel- don raised a company of 110 men for the war for the Union, but there was a delay on the
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part of the Government in receiving the company, and during this time he contracted a severe illness which prostrated him so long . that his chances for going to the front with with his company were cut off. He was united in marriage to Miss Marion E. Bowker, a native of Pottsdam, New York, born in 1838, and a daughter of Charles and Lurana (Butler) Bowker. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon are the parents of three children-Orlow S., Edith L. and Adda A. Mr. Weldon is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge at Hicksville, Ohio.
SAAC N. RARICK, M. D., has lived at Bluff Point, in Pike Township, since the spring of 1874. He was born in Darke County, Ohio, April 19, 1835, a son of Philip and Sarah (Chenowith) Rarick, his father a native of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent, and his mother of Darke County, Ohio, of Scotch extraction. The parents moved to Jay Connty, Indiana, in 1851, and settled on sec- tion 33, Pike Township, where they passed the remainder of their days. The mother died in March, 1862, and the father Septem- ber 27, 1886. They had a family of ten children -- Abraham C., is a resident of Clarke County, Iowa; Isaac N., our subject; Jacob J .; David died in infancy ; Adam C., of Clarke County, Iowa; Charles W., a physician, of Greenville, Darke County, Ohio; Ira D., of Missouri; Mrs. Susan B. Morehouse, of Noble Township; Mrs. Caroline Roberts, of Nuckolls County, Nebraska, and Catherine, died aged sixteen years. After the death of the mother the father married Mrs. Isabelle (Kenncer) Watson, widow of Dr. Watson, and to them were born five children-Mrs. Elsie Green, of Pike Township; Mrs. Rosa
Thorp, of Nebraska; Clara, Cora M., and John A. The wife died in March, 1876, and he afterward married Mrs. Mary (Short) Hiatt, who is also now deceased. Isaac N. Rarick was reared and educated in Jay County. In 1858 he went West and spent three years in Clarke County, Iowa, and Nod- away 'and Gentry counties, Missonri, return- ing to Indiana in 1861. He was married December 31, 1863, to Adeline Wood, who was born in Darke County, Ohio, October 10, 1843, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Wood, the father born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1795, and the mother in Essex County, New Jersey, in 1801. They were married in 1819 and moved to Randolph County, Indiana, in 1836, where the father died May 29, 1847. The mother now makes her home with Mrs. Rarick and is in the eighty-seventh year of her age. Of fifteen children, ten were living at the time of the father's death, but four have since died. Of those living, Absalom now is living in Ala- bama; Mary lives with Mrs. Rarick; Alex- ander and Andrew live in Ridgeville, and Elisha lives in Todd County, Minnesota. George M., William, Charles and Elijah are deceased; the two latter giving their lives for their country during the war of the Re- bellion, and the two former, enterprising young men, went West and engaged in trad- ing with the Indians, near the present town of Jackson, Minnesota, and during what is known as the Spirit Lake massacre, both were killed March 27, 1857. Mrs. Rarick, then a young lady, had spent two or three years in Blue Earth County, returning to Indiana in the fall of 1856. Dr. and Mrs. Rarick have liad two children-Ara, born October 2, 1864, and Carey, born Jannary 16, 1866, died March 14, 1866. Dr. Rarick commenced the study of medicine in 1870, and graduated from the Physio-Medical Institute, Cincin-
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nati, Ohio, in 1875. In politics he is allied to the Democratic party. He is a member of Deerfield Lodge, No. 117, A. F. & A. M.
ICHIAEL LUTTMANN, farmer, re sides on section 20, Wabash Town- ship, where he owns 120 acres of good land. He came to this county in 1854 with his wife and two children, and his mother, his father having died in Alsace, Germany, in 1842, at the age of fifty-six years. Michael was born in Germany, Au- gust 15, 1823, and came to America in 1850. His parents were Michael and Barbara Myers. The mother died at the house of her son, November 15, 1855, aged about fifty-eight years. She is buried in the Lutheran cemne- tery. When the family first landed in Amer- ica they remained in New York about two months, then went to Stark County, Ohio, where Michael went to work on the Pittsburg & Cleveland Railroad for six months. He then reinoved to near Steubenville and hired out to work on a farm for one year, living in an old log house. In 1854 he came to this county as before stated. He first bought twenty acres of land, where his house is now standing. He lived with a neighbor a few days, until he built his own shanty, which was one-story in height, puncheon floor, clap- board roof, etc., and lived in that cabin ten years. He then built a hewed-log house, that now stands back of his residence, which he built in the summer of 1886, at a cost of $1,200. He also lias a good barn. Mr. Luttmann was married October 21, 1850, to Miss Mary Brechibiel, born in Alsace, Ger- many, August 15, 1827. She canie to Amer- ica with some neighbors in 1850. Her parents both died in Alsace, the father in 1867, at the age of seventy-three years, and the mother
at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Luttmann have seven children-Mary, born July 24, 1851; Barbara, born January 28, 1853; Michael, born September 24, 1854; Jabob, born May 6, 1856; John, born No- vember 1, 1860; Margaret, born June 23, 1863; and George, born September 7, 1866. They are members of the Lutheran church.
SAAC PREMER, of Noble Township, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, August 17, 1835, and when three years of age came with his parents and grandparents to Jay County, where he has since resided. He was married November 1, 1860, to Miss Susan Hamlin, who was born in Gallia County, Ohio, and came to Jay County in 1856. She died February 26, 1863, leaving two children-R. A. Premer, born July 24, 1861, died June 8, 1885, and Susan, born February 13, 1863. Au- gust 16, 1866, Mr. Premer married Miss Mary Longacre, and they have two children-Mary A. and Frederick. In February, 1865, Mr. Premer enlisted in Company E, Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry, joining his regiment at Fort Blakely, Alabama. He participated in the capture of that place, and was discharged January 17, 1866. He then returned home and resumed his farm labors. His great- grandfather, Volantine Premer, was born in Prussia, Germany, and came to America with a brother, both of whom were sold to pay their passage to this country. Volantine was sold to a man in Pennsylvania, and his broth- er to a man in Virginia. They never heard of each other again. His great-grandmother, Margaret Premer, was born in Pennsylvania. Both grandparents died in Wayne County, Ohio. His grandfather, George Harry, was born in Pennsylvania. He came to this county with Samuel and Hiram Premer, and
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died in Noble Township in 1846, aged eighty- seven years. Ilis great-grandmother, Sarah (Rees) Harry, was born near Philadelphia, and died in Jay County in 1860, aged ninety years. Mr. Premer was reared by his grand- parents. Politically he is a Republican.
AMUEL MONEY, farmer, resides on section 22, Madison Township, where he owns eighty acres of well improved land. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio, An- gust 24, 1827, and when three years of age was brought to Mercer County, where he grew to manhood. In 1848 he came to Noble Township, this county, where he resided until 1862, then came to Madison Township and bought his present farm. About twenty acres were cleared and an old log cabin stood on the place, in which he lived six or seven years, and he then built his present honse. He was mar- ried September 7, 1848, to Miss Susan Davis, who was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, January 10, 1828, and when she was eight years old hier parents removed to Darke County, Ohio, living there until she was twelve years of age, when they came to this county, where she was reared and married. She is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Davis. Her parents had a fam- ily of ten children -- Mary, Susan, James, John M., Benjamin, William, Robert, Catherine, Nancy A. and Elizabeth. Mr. Money was a son of William and Anna (Anderson) Money, the former a native of Londonn County, Virginia, and the latter of Pennsylvania. The father died in Mercer County, Ohio, in 1846, aged sixty-nine years, and is buried on the old homestead, where he had lived so many years. The mother was abont ten years younger than the father, and died ten years later. Both had been professors of religion many years, and
were members of the Christian church. They were the parents of twelve children-Elex- ander, Rachel, Nancy, William, David, James, John A., Mary, Samnel, Josiah, Nicholas and Martha. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Money have had nine children-Elizabeth A., born July 13, 1849, died October 7, 1852; James D., born December 30, 1852; Mary E., born Marclı 30, 1856, wife of Calvin R. Whetsel; Alma- retta E., born August 6, 1858, was married December 28, 1876, to Jacob B. Lots, who died March 13, 1882; William M., born Sep- tember 21, 1860; Jolm M., born Decem- ber 27, 1863; Samuel E., born April 27, 1865, died in September of the same year; Asenath, born November 7, 1866, married Lafayette Scott June 7, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Money are members of the Christian church, and in politics he is a Democrat. His grand- father, William Money, was born in Ireland. His maternal grandfather, Alexander Ander- son, was born in Ireland and married Martha McCreery, also born in Ireland. In his grand- father Money's family were the following chil- dren-Ephraim, William, Nicholas, James and Nancy. During the late war Mr. Money en- listed March 23, 1864, in Company E, Twen- ty-third Indiana Infantry, joining his regiment at Alexandria, Virginia. He marched to Washington and participated in the grand re- view, thence to Lonisville, Kentucky, where he was mustered ont, and was discharged at Indianapolis.
ZRA W. MOON, M. D., of Portland, has been a member of the medical fra- ternity of Jay County since 1870, and during his residence here has established a large and Incrative practice. He is a native of the State of Ohio, born March 9, 1844. When he was ten years old his father, Daniel
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R. Moon, left Ohio, settling with his family in Pike Township, Jay County, Indiana, in 1854. The father was also a native of Clin- ton County, Ohio, and of Scotch descent, the first of the Moon family to come from Scot- land to America, being a member of the col- ony of William Penn, and also a member of the Society of Friends. Daniel R. Moon re- sided in Jay County until his death, whichi occurred in 1877. When he came to Jay Connty his family consisted of his wife and eight children, three of the sons being now deceased. One daughter was born after com- ing to the county, in Pike Township. Ezra W. Moon, whose name heads this sketch, grew to manhood in Jay County, and in the spring of 1864 he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana In- fantry, this being a hundred days' regiment. Five months later he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana, serv- ing until the close of the war. For two years after leaving the army his time was devoted to attending school at Liber and teaching. In 1868 he began reading medicine with Dr. Joseph Watson at College Corners, and in 1873 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was asso- ciated in his medical practice with Dr. Oliver Hoyt, who is now deceased, for about eight- cen months. Dr. Hoyt was a native of Ohio, and was educated at Lebanon, that State. He came to Portland in 1871, where he engaged in the practice of medicine. He had previ- ous to this time been engaged in teaching in Jay County. He was a man of good edn- cation and a popular and successful physician, but declining health induced him to return to Ohio, where he died. His widow is still a resident of Portland. Dr. Moon is well skilled in the knowledge of his profession, and is the representative physician of the Eclectic school of medicine in Portland. IIe
was united in marriage in Jay County to Miss Irene L. Turner, a danghter of John Turner, an early settler of Randolph County, Indiana, where Mrs. Moon was born. Mr. and Mrs. Moon have two children living- Edith I. and Edna. Their third child, Mary E., died at the age of ten years.
AVID MONEY, one of the old and re- spected citizens of Jay County, is a na- tive of Ohio, born in Jackson County, April 24, 1817, where he lived until reaching the age of eleven years. He was then taken by his parents to Mercer County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood on his father's farm. He came to Jay County, Indiana, with his par- ents May 1, 1839, where he has since made his home. He has become famous as the greatest hunter and trapper of Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana. He commenced hunt- ing and trapping in his boyhood, and has fol- lowed this pursuit through life, and as late as the spring of 1887 he trapped 130 rats, nine minks, two coons and two skunks. It is said that he at one time killed twenty deer with ten shots.
HOMAS TOWLE, of Liber, Indiana, is one of the pioneers of Jay County, the date of his arrival being April 28, 1837. Before he was of age his brother, Ira Towle, entered eighty acres of land for him, and 120 acres for himself, making his home in the county until his death in 1851. . Thomas Towle is a native of Steuben Coun- ty, New York, born May, 1820. His father was killed by the falling of a tree when he was thirteen months old, and his mother died when he was seven years old. He was the
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youngest of thirteen children, his brother Ira being the eldest. Ira spent ten years in Michigan, and then returned to New York to visit his friends, and while there Thomas de- cided to return West with him, and both lo- cated in Jay County. Mr. Towle lived in Bear Creek Township until 1853, and then located in Liber, where he has since lived. Ile married Elizabeth Montgomery, a daugli- ter of Reuben Montgomery, a pioneer of Jay County. She taught the first school in Wa- baslı Township in 1840. She was born in Steuben County, New York, in 1820, and came to Jay County in 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Towle have had eight children, seven of whom are living-Harriet A., Taylor N., Robie M., Mary E., John M., Charlotte R. and Charles G. Their youngest, Frankie E., died Jann- ary 31, 1862, aged nineteen months.
B. JAQUA, of Portland, a member of the bar, and one of the most active and enterprising citizens of Jay County, was born in Darke County, Ohio, in the year 1820, a son of Judson and Lucinda (Braffit) Jaqua, natives of New York and Pennsyl- vania, respectively. His grandfather, Ga- maliel Jaqua, was born in the State of Con- necticut, and his grandfather, James Braffit, was a native of Massachusetts. Until at- taining the age of nineteen Mr. Jaqua was reared to agricultural pursuits. He was educated principally at the academy at Cen- terville, Indiana, and for four or five years followed school teaching, and during his lei- . sure hours studied law. After completing his legal course he was admitted to the bar in 1852, at Hamilton, Ohio, and the following year came to Portland, where he has since made his home, practicing law, farming, and working for the material interests of the
community. Mr. Jacqua was married in 1848 to Miss Eliza J. Avery, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1829, and died in Portland in 1871. She was a daughter of Daniel Avery. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jaqua, six of whom are living -A. L., Genevra I., wife of Nathan B. Hawkins; J. A., M. Z., C. W. and F. B. Mr. Jaqua has done much toward building up the town of which he is a citizen, and is always interested in any enterprise which tends toward the advancement of his county. Ile in company with others built a large flouring mill at Portland; erected the Hawkins House, and established the Citizen's Bank; also built two good business rooms opposite the Citi- zen's Bank, and has given his aid toward various enterprises. He personally superin- tends the cultivation of about 300 acres of land, and has an interest in 300 or 400 acres more. Between the years 1857 and 1860 he served two or three years as county school examiner, and during the war of the Rebell- ion he was draft commissioner for Jay County. He is at present a practitioner in law, and also cashier of the City Bank.
H. GABLE, one of the active and en- terprising citizens of Portland, and the leading boot and shoe dealer of the city, is a native of Ohio, born in Ash- land County, October 18, 1843. In 1850 his father, Jolın Gable, removed from Ohio to Indiana, and settled with his family on a farm in Delaware County, where he lived until his death. He was a native of the State of Pennsylvania. Our subject was reared to the avocation of a farmer, which he followed until he enlisted in the service of his country, October 8, 1861, in Company I., Thirty- fourth Indiana Infantry. He served until
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the close of the war, re-enlisting at New Iberna, Louisiana, December 14, 1863. The Thirty-fourth Regiment was one of the best furnished by the State of Indiana, and during the war rendered excellent service. It en- tered the field October 10, 1861, with 893 men, under command of Colonel Asbury Steele. January 14, 1862, Colonel Steele re- signed at Camp Wickliff, Kentucky, and was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel T. Ryan, Among the important events in which the regiment took part, may be mentioned the battles of New Madrid, Missouri, Champion Hills, Port Gibson, Vicksburgli, and others. Toward the latter part of the war the regi- ment was sent up the Rio Grande River in Texas, and May 13, 1865, fought the battle of Pahnetto Ranch. At this place 250 men of the Thirty-fourth fought 500 rebels, and were at first successful, but at length were overpowered by the enemy and compelled to retreat. During his long service in the army Mr. Gable was constantly in active service, and participated with his regiment in many of the important engagements of the war. After the war Mr. Gable located at Hartford City, Blackford County, Indiana, and en- gaged in the boot and shoe trade, which busi- ness he has followed since the war. He came to Portland and engaged in business on Main street, where he remained about a year, when he purchased a lot on the west side of Meridian street, and erected his present fine, commodions business house, which is 21 x 55 feet in size. He began life with but little capital, and commenced his business on a small scale, but by perseverance, and the ex- ercise of good business ability, he has built up a fine trade, the average amount of stock he carries being valued at about $4,000, and he is now classed among Portland's success- ful business men. Mr. Gable was united in marriage to Miss Serilla J. Clyne, of Hart-
ford City, and of the six children born to this union, four are living-Thaddeus O., Jennie, Orlo, and an infant son. Their eldest child, Lewis A., died at the age of two years and two months. In his political views Mr. Gable is a Republican.
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