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In 1861, Mr. Manker enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Indiana In- fantry, as a private soldier. He par- ticipated in the battle of Shiloh, and soon after was discharged on account of physical disability, having been in the service four months.
He is an active member of the Masonic Fraternity, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.
Z. C. MATHES-The subject of this sketch, was born in Owen county, Indiana, May 4th, 1848; removed with his parents to Bloomington, Monroe
county, when ten years of age, and after that removed to Indianapolis, where he remained until he was sixteen years old, then removed to a farm near Bedford, where he followed farming until 1860, when he started to learn the tinner's trade under D. F. Tilford. He staid here until the call of Presi- dent Lincoln for volunteers, when he enlisted in the 18th Indiana Regiment Volunteers, in Capt. Short's company, and served to the close of the war. He was in all of the battles in which his regiment was engaged. When the war was over, he came home and finished his trade, and was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Hinshaw; the result of this union was six children, viz. : Minnie, James, John, Effie, Arthur and Mary. Minnie died when four years old. After marriage, he engaged in his trade and the hardware business, at Bedford, Newross and Scottsburg, where he now is doing the best busi- ness in his line in Scott county.
His father, James M. Mathes, was born in Jefferson county, Ky., July 8th, 1808 (his ancestors were natives of County Amtrim, Ireland) ; his grandfather served in the revolutionary war as quartermaster. His father was born in Shenandoah Valley, Va. James M. Mathes was one of the pioneer preachers of Indiana. The mother of Z. C. Mathes was Sophia Glover, and was born January 17th, 1800, in Virginia; lived in Mt. Ster- ling, Ky., and came to Owen county, Indiana, with her parents. She died April 20th, 1873.
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Mrs. Elizabeth J. Mathes, whose maiden name was Elizabeth J. Hin- shaw, was born in Martin county, Indiana, September 26th, 1848, is the wife of Z. C. Mathes, of Scottsburg, Scott county, Indiana. Her parents were John and Elizabeth ( White ) Hin- shaw. Her father was born in North Carolina in the year of 1816. When only ten years of age, he came to Indiana with his widowed mother, and settled for a time in Harrison county, on Blue river, staying there some six years; then he removed to Martin county and settled near Indian Springs, where he made an improvement on government land. He remained for four years, when he removed four miles east of that place, on the east fork of White river, where he settled permanently. Here he entered tract after tract of land until he owned at the time of his death, some 700 acres of land. He died at the age of forty-six.
Her mother was named Elizabeth White, and was born in Kentucky. She died about 1852.
John and Elizabeth Hinshaw had five children, viz. : William H., Arthur D., John A., Mary Ann and Elizabeth Jane, of whom three are living. Mary Ann died when two years old and John A. was killed at the battle of Antietam. John Hinshaw married a second time to Mrs. Sallie A. Dilly by whom he had one son Adrian, who died at the age of seventeen, at Bed- ford, Indiana.
RICHARD W. MONTGOMERY -Was born April 30th, 1838, and is a son of William C. and Isabelle (Reddenbaugh) Montgomery, the former a native of Jefferson county, the latter of Bartholomew county, this State, and a daughter of Philip Reddenbaugh.
William Montgomery, the grand- father of Richard W., came to Penn sylvania from Ireland in an early day Philip Reddenbaugh, the maternal grandfather of subject, emigrated from Germany about the time of the struggle for independence, and finally removed to Bartholomew county where he lived as a farmer. He once owned the land on which Columbus stands and which is now worth mil- lions.
The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm and received but a common school education. He engaged in the boot and shoe business, following it until 1872, when he was elected treasurer of the county, and served two terms. Previously he had been trustee of Jennings township.
In 1872 he was married to Mary S. Stratton, born March 6th, 1854, and a daughter of James H. Stratton, born and raised in Jefferson county, Indiana, and whose father came from Kentucky. Her mother was Sarah D. Dryden, a native of Jefferson county, and whose mother was born in Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery are the parents of five living children, viz: Walter H., born July 1st, 1873; Clyde
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S., born August 25th, 1879; Leda B., born February 6th, 1882; Cleona M., born May 19th, 1884; and Ethel F., born October 11th, 1886.
Mr. Montgomery is a prominent man in the county and deservedly popular. He is an active Mason and Odd Fellow, and a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He owns three hundred and twelve lots in Indianapolis.
A. NEWT MUNDEN-Is a native of Washington county, Indiana, and was born November 12th, 1855. He is a son of Zachary and Jane (Arbuckle) Munden, natives of the same county, and a grandson of John Munden, a Quaker minister who came from Virginia and settled in Wash- ington county in a very early day ; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Arbuckle, was also a Virginian and came to Washington county among its earliest settlers. The subject was reared on the farm and after receiving an academical course, he entered Bloomington University in 1873. Upon reaching the Junior year he left, and in 1884 entered DePauw University at Greencastle, from which he graduated in 1885. He taught school in the interval between his studies at Bloomington and Green- castle. He began the practice of law immediately after leaving college, locating in Scottsburg. He is a part- ner of Hon. William K. Marshall, of Seymour, and the firm is a strong
one with a large and lucrative prac- tice.
He is and has been prominently connected with some of the leading educational institutions of the coun- try. He was for some time professor in the Southern Illinois Normal and Business Institute. In 1881 he estab- lished at Lexington, Indiana, the Normal Collegiate Institute which he made an accomplished success, having as high as one hundred and sixty-three students at a time, and over half the counties in the State represented as well as four or five States. The school is still in a pros- perous condition, and runs through- out the year, except the summer months.
Mr. Munden was married in 1876, to Miss Addie Sickells, of Jackson county, Indiana. He ranks high in his profession as a lawyer, and is engaged upon the one side or the other of nearly every prominent case tried in his town.
ALLEN M. PEELER'S - Grand- father emigrated from North Car- olina among the first settlers to this State, and settled originally in Washington county. His father, A. M. Peeler, was born in that county, and he was born in Clark county, November 2d, 1842. His mother was Amy Griswold, a daughter of Luman Griswold, a native of New Hampshire, who emigrated to Clark county in an early day and followed
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building mills and carpentering. Many of the homes of that day as well as most of the early mills were monu- ments of his industry and ingenuity.
He accumulated some considerable property and owned some twelve hundred acres of land in Clark county, on Muddy Fork. In March, 1862, Mr. A. M. Peeler married Miss Susan Alsup, whose parents came to Indiana from Virginia when the first named State was still a territory.
They have three children, viz: Hiram D., aged twenty-two; John S., aged twenty-one; and America, aged seven- teen. Mrs. Peeler died in 1874 and in 1875 he married Elizabeth Sams, a native of Indiana. Their children are Hosier, aged twelve and Leuman, aged ten. Amy died at the age of one year. Mr. A. M. Peeler located in Scottsburg in 1879 and engaged in the livery business, in which he has been ste- cessful.
WILLIAM RICE-Was born in this county July 7th, 1838, and is a son of Giles, born Nov. 9th, 1819, in Scott county and Elizabeth (Cline) Rice. His grandfather was a native of Mas. sachusetts, from whence he removed to New York and there married, subse- quently in 1818 removing to Madison, Indiana, and later to Scott county where he resided until his death in 1833. Elizabeth (('line) Rice was born in Kentucky and married in 1837. Her parents removed to Jennings county, Indiana, in early times and
some years later settled in this county where the remainder of their lives were spent.
William Rice, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1861 to Miss Sarah F. Friedley, a daughter of William and Sarah (Hall) Friedley, the former a native of Kentucky but whose parents were Pennsylvanians, and the latter a native of Virginia. Mr and Mrs. Rice have two children : Sadie born in 1868 and Willie F. born in 1872. Sadie graduated from Moore's Hill College in the summer of 1888. Mr. Rice is a prominent and successful farmer, and owns 300 acres of well improved land. He belongs to the order of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Rice made the race for Sheriff of Scott county in 1886 but was defeated. He was elected to that office over Thomas H. Everitt, Republican candi- date, by a handsome majority in 1888.
GEORGE M. WARMOTH, M. D .- Was born in Garrard county, Ky., Oct. 27th, 1837, and is a son of James and Margaret (Simpson ) Warmoth, natives of Kentucky who emigrated to Indi- ana and settled in Scott county about the year 1839. He was reared on the farm and when fully grown returned to Kentucky where he remained some time. Ile took an irregular course at South Hanover College, Indiana, spending about two years at that insti- tution.
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He began reading medicine in 1858 with Dr. John F. Warmoth in Dubuque, Iowa.
He attended the Medical College at Keokuk in 1859, and took one course and in 1861 entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati from which he graduated in March 1862.
He was appointed assistant surgeon, shortly after, of the Twenty-fifth Ken- tucky Infantry, which was consolidated later with the Seventeenth Kentucky. He was then commissioned by Gov. Yates, of Illinois, assistant surgeon of the Forty-first Illinois Volunteers, serving with this regiment until Jan- uary, 1865, when he was commissioned surgeon of the Fifty-third Illinois with which he served until the close of the war.
Leaving the service he located in Scott county, Ind., and commenced the practice of his profession which he continued until 1867, when he was appointed assistant surgeon in the regular army. He was post surgeon at Fort Cummings, New Mexico, until April 1869, when he resigned and returned home. In 1875 he removed to Madison county, Ky., and in 1885 removed back to Scott county, locating in Scottsburg where he has since practiced his profession.
He was married in 1867 to Miss Mahala E. Rice, of Scott county, Ind. They have one child, George W., about seventeen years of age.
Dr. Warmoth owns the Miller block, one of the finest blocks in Scottsburg.
JOHN M. WATSON, M. D .- Was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, on the 18th of November, 1837. His father, James Watson, was a native of Virginia and moved to Ohio more than a century ago. He came to Indiana in 1840, and settled in Scott county, one and a half miles from Scottsburg. He was a carpenter by trade, and many of the early houses of the county were of his handiwork. He served a number of years as Justice of the Peace, and died in the spring of 1884 at an advanced age. His wife (the mother of subject) was Arabelle Pierson, a native of Hamilton county, Ohio.
Dr. Watson, the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm, and was educated in the common schools of the county. After quitting school he commenced to read medicine at Vienna, in Scott county, with Dr. Wm. B. Stage in 1858. He attended the lectures at the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, in 1858-59, and began the practice of his chosen pro- fession at Vienna.
In 1878, he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis. He located at Scotts- burg in 1876, where he has since resided, and where he enjoys a large practice-the largest by far of any physician in the county, and to which he devotes his whole attention. He was married in 1862 to Miss Sarah E. F. Miller, of Clark county. She bore him one child, and then died ; and he
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married a second time to Caroline A. Strong in 1863. By her he has six children.
Dr. Watson is a prominent member
of the I. O. O. F. and of the Knights of Honor, and a leading and deservedly popular man in the community where he lives.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
(BY JOHN M. GRESHAM.)
W Y ASHINGTON COUNTY lies in the southern part of the State of Indiana, and is of rather a rough and broken surface. It is bounded on the north by Jackson county, from which it is separated by the Muscatatuck river; on the east by Scott and Clark counties, on the south by Harrison and Crawford counties and on the west by Orange and Law- rence. It has about 510 square miles and by the census of 1880 it had a population of 18,955. Like the adjoining counties its surface partakes of timber land and "barrens" and is underlaid with the cavernous lime- stone. The barrens comprise nearly an eighth of the entire area of the county. They were originally thickly matted with wild grass and a kind of stunted shrub. The timber comprised the different kinds of oak, white and black walnut, ash, hickory, beech, elm, dogwood, maple, chestnut, sycamore, poplar, gum, wild cherry, sassafras, etc., etc. In its primitive state the county
possessed some as fine walnut, cherry and poplar timber as this section of the county can produce. It is stated that in 1878 a poplar tree was cut on the land of William Brewer, south of Salem, that was eight feet in diameter across the stump and made six saw- logs each twelve feet long; that it took fourteen horses to haul the first cut to the mill where it was sawed and that the entire tree made 12,000 feet of lumber. The bottom lands are rich and produce well; the uplands are rolling and the different cereals grow on them profusely. These lands are also well adapted to fruits. The county as a whole is one of the finest stock-raising counties in the State, the large number of running streams of pure water adding much to its adapta- bility in this branch of industry. Its drainage is through the Muscatatuck and Blue rivers and Buffalo, Elk, Rush, Twin, Clifty and Bear Creeks. In addition to these there are a num- ber of smaller streams fed by
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springs, which flow in every direction and afford the best of drainage.
Settlement .- White people visited- Washington county as early as 1800, but no permanent settlement was made until about 1807. This settlement was made by a German named George Brock, who came from Virginia and settled in what is now Washington township. He was a hunter and followed hunting and trapping for a livelihood. After spending a season here thus engaged he returned for his family and the next year (1808) brought them out; his son, George Brock, Jr., and two sons-in-law, Adam Barnett and Frederick Neidiffer accom. panying him. Another early settler was Jesse Spurgeon, who came about the time of Brock. Judge Goodlove Kemp settled north of Salem in 1808 and in 1809 Henry Dewalt, Roger Thompson, William Gordon, Andrew Pitts, William Netherton and Ben- jamin Brewer. The last named gentle- man entered the land upon which Salem is located. After the year 1809 the settlement of the county spread rapidly. Among those who came in after that time were William Wright, James Davis, Andrew Little, Isaac Miller, Jacob Miller, John Niediffer, Henry Carter, James Young, Martin Putoff, Caleb Trueblood and Thomas Hodges. The following settlers lo-
cated between 1812 and 1815 : Wil- liam Grace, C. W. Jones, Josiah Spurgeon, Isaac Overshiner, Samuel Denny, William Spurgeon, Adam Cauble, Peter Zink, Jonathan Lyon, Matthew Coffin, Lewis Woody, Nathan, James and Abel Trueblood, Zachary Nixon, Lewis Crow, Mr. Hensley, William Pitts, Thomas Pitts, Alex- ander Little, Arthur Parr and John Fleenor.
The first settlement in Posey town- ship antedated the first permanent settlement in Washington township. Thomas Polston came here as early, it is said, as 1805. Martin Royse, with his sons, John, William, and Martin, came the next year. Chas. Bailey and Elijah Harriman settled in 1808, and John Butler and Benjamin King a little later. James McGrew located on the creek, about 1811-12, and John Chenoweth in the same neighborhood about 1815. A number of other fam- ilies moved in soon after and the neighborhood rapidly settled up. Other portions of the county were also settled, and soon quite a population was scattered over it, and the people began to look forward to the organ- ization of a county of their own.
County organized .- Washington county enjoys the distinction of hav- ing its birth during the war of 1812. The following is the act creating it :
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AN ACT FOR TILE FORMATION OF A NEW COUNTY OUT OF THE COUNTIES OF HARRISON AND CLARK :
Be it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, and it is hereby enacted by the author- ity of the same, That from and after the seventeenth day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen, all that part of the counties of Harrison and Clark included within the follow- ing bounds, to-wit : "Beginning at Freeman's corner, on the meridian line ; thence southwardly with said line to the intersection of an east and west line running through the center of township I south ; thence with the same eastwardly to the summit of the Silver Creek knobs ; thence north- eastwardly with the extreme height of the same, between the waters of Silver Creek and the Blue river to the line dividing ranges VI and VII east ; thence with said range line north- wardly to the Indian boundary ; thence with said boundary to the place of beginning-shall compose one new county called and known by the name of Washington.
SECTION 2 .- And be it further enacted, That the county of Washing- ton shall enjoy all the rights and privileges appertaining to the counties heretofore established in the Indiana territory; and it shall be lawful for
the Coroners, Sheriffs, Constables and Collectors of said counties of Harri- son and Clark to make distress for all taxes, levies and officers' fees remain- ing unpaid by the inhabitants within the bounds of said new county at the time such division shall take place, and they shall be accountable for the same in like manner as if this act had never been passed ; and the courts of Harrison and Clark counties shall have jurisdiction in all suits, pleas, plaints and proceedings which may before the aforesaid 17th of January next, have been commenced, instituted and pending within the present coun- ties of Harrison and Clark ; shall be prosecuted to final judgment and effect, issue process and award execu- tion thereon.
SECTION 3 .- And be it further enact- ed by the authority aforesaid, That Joseph Paddox, Peter McIntosh and Ignatius Abel, of Harrison county, Marston G. Clark, and Joseph Bar- tholomew, of Clark county, be, and they are hereby appointed commis- sioners to designate the place for the permanent seat of justice for Wash- ington county, agreeable to an act entitled, "An act for the fixing of the seats of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off." The com- missioners above named, or others appointed by the proper court, shall
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convene at the house of William Lindlay on the Blue river, on the 17th day of January next, and then pro- ceed to discharge the duties assigned them by law.
SECTION 4 .- And be it further enacted, that the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the new county aforesaid, shall within six months after the permanent seat of justice be estab- lished, proceed to erect the necessary publie buildings thereon.
SECTION 3 .- And be it further enacted, That until suitable accommo- dations can be had (in the opinion of said court) at the seat of justice of said new county, all courts of justice for the same shall be holden at the house of William Lindlay. This act to be in force and take effect from and after the 17th day of January, A. D. 1814.
JAMES NOBLE, Speaker of the House of Representa- tives.
JAMES BERGS, President of the Legislative Council. Approved December 21st, 1813. THOS. POSEY.
The commissioners named in the above act met at the house of Wil- liam Lindlay, as provided in the act, February, 1814, and after investi- gating and discussing the merits of the different locations bidding for the seat
of justice, finally purchased 174 acres of Benjamin Brewer, where the town of Salem now stands, and thus the capital of the county was located. Isaac Blackford was appointed clerk and recorder of the new county, and was commissioned January 7th, 1814, by the Governor, and power delegated to him to swear into office and qualify all the civil and military officials of the county. Thus the municipal machinery was set in motion, and the county started on in its career of suc- cessful experiment.
TOWNSHIPS.
The first County Board-Judges Jonathan Findlay, Moses Hoggett, and Simeon Lamb -- met at the house of William Lindlay, on the 2d of Febru- ary, 1814, for the transaction of county business. Their first official act was to appoint John DePauw County Agent on a bond of 85,000. After some miscellaneous business, they divided the county into town- ships as follows:
MADISON TOWNSHIP. Beginning at where the line between the first and second townships north, crosses the meridian line; thence east into the second and third range lines; thence south to the Harrison county line ; thence west to the corner of said county ; thence to the beginning.
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LOST RIVER TOWNSHIP. Beginning at the same place ; thence east to the line between the second and third ranges ; thence north to the boundary of the county.
BLUE RIVER TOWNSHIP. Beginning at the second and third range on the south line of this county ; tlience north on said line to the north line of the second township north; thence east with said line to the Clark county line.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. Begin- ning at the northeast corner of Blue River township; thence north along the Clark county line to the main branch of the Muscatatuck river; thence down the same to White river; thence down the same to Lost River township.
DRIFTWOOD TOWNSHIP. Beginning where Washington township strikes the main branch of the Muscatatuck ; thence with the Clark county line to the bounds of this county ; thence with said bounds to the beginning.
The Courts .- The first Court of Record, or Circuit Court, as it was called, convened on the 2d day of February, 1814, at the house of Wil- liam Lindlay. It was held by Jona- than Lindlay, Moses Hoggett and Simeon Lamb, who bore the title of Judges, but neither of whom was a member of the legal profession. What was better perhaps, they were practi-
cal men of sound, common sense. They ordered the sale of town lots to be advertised in the newspapers ; selected the name Salem, for the seat of jus- tice, together with a few other minor acts, and adjourned sine die. Another session was hekl March 3d, by Judges Hoggett and Lamb. April 11th, another term of the "Circuit Court" was held by Judges Lindlay and Lamb. At this term the first grand- jury was impaneled, as follows: George Beck, foreman; Christopher Marrs, Amos Thornberg, Edmund Hensley, Goodlove Kemp, Andrew Housh, Jesse Spurgeon, David Denny, Samuel Lindley, Alexander Little, Joseph Latta, David Colglazier, James Young, William Kennedy, Jesse Dur- ham, John McPheeters, Thomas Den- ny and Amos Wright. The jury returned two indictments, viz .: Susan Deem for forgery and John Ramsey for assault and battery. John F. Ross at this term of court was appointed Prosecuting Attorney, and Henry Hurst, Davis Floyd, Alex. Dunn and George F. Pope were sworn as attor- neys. Thus were the courts of the new county organized, and the legal machinery regularly set in motion.
Court Houses .- The first court house of Washington county is thus described by a recent writer: "The public buildings in Salem, in 1820
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were strange looking structures. The old court house, called 'The Stilted Castle of Justice and Equity,' stood upon arches built of brick, rising above the ground to a height of a twelve or fifteen-foot story, leaving the whole space on the ground floor open, to be used for a market-place. But in this its ancient architects did not calculate well, for the cows, pigs, geese and every other stray animal took undis- puted possession. Fleas, lice and other vermin and filth soon rendered it unfit for a market-place and until its removal the animals occupied the fort. The structure above and resting upon the arches was one story and finished off for public offices. The approaches to this floor at the north and south entrances were composed of hewn logs rising from the ground to the main doors on the second floor, thus forming a stairway. This strange, old building was torn down in 1827 and the erection of a better court house commenced, which was completed in 1829. Before its completion, and when the frame work of the cupola was up, a Jackson meet- ing was held in town, January 8th, 1829. Old Amos Coombs was a red- hot Jackson man. He climbed up one of the corner posts of the cupola, stood upright upon the beam and shouted only as he could shout : 'Hur-
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