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John W., Charles William, Jacob Walter, Agnes May and Eliza Jane. The eldest, Francis Asbury, is a graduate of the Asbury University, and is a practicing lawyer at Clay City, Ind. John W. attended the Asbury University and the State University until the end of his junior year, when he entered Yale College, graduating from the Divinity School in 1876. On his way home he visited the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, and during the fall following he took charge of three Congregational churches in Iowa. He remained in this work for three years, and was then called to Michigan, and a year later to Lake City, Minn. In the fall of 1887 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Conference of Illi- nois. Charles William attended the com- mon schools and spent two years at the Bloomington State University. He then went to Dakota, where he took up a claim, paid for it in two years, returned to Indiana and married at Bloomington; farmed for three years near Bloomington. He now lives in Kansas. Walter W. attended the common schools, and spent three years as book-keeper in Minneapolis and New York City. Agnes May married Robert T. Ben- son, a farmer near Lanesville. Eliza Jane married Dr. Wm. H. Butler, of Columbus, Ind. Dr. Horner owns a very prolific fruit farm of thirty-seven acres. It is situated on a high place, where the fruit crop never fails.
JAMES JENKINS was born in Hardin county, Ky., Dec. 31, 1839, and is the son of James A. and Susan (Irwine) Jenkins. They emigrated to Harrison county, Ind., where he died in 1880 and his wife in 1887. James Jenkins, whose name heads this sketch, was the second child of his father's
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second marriage, and was reared on a farm and was educated in the common schools of his neighborhood.
He was married to Miss Mary Noon, April 8, 1860, a daughter of Calvin S. and Lauta (Clark) Noon. She had no children, and died May 13, 1881.
Mr. Jenkins enlisted in February, 1865, in Co. E, 144th Indiana Vol. Infantry, and was discharged in August, 1865. He lived in Brandenburg, Ky., five years after the war, where he followed his trade of coopering. He then went to Mississippi, and then to Arkansas. While there was ap- pointed postmaster of Council Bend, but finally came back to Harrison county, as the best place after all.
GEORGE R. KELLEY was born May 19, 1830, and is a son of James and Laura (Johnson) Kelley, the former a native of Hardin county, Ky., and a son of Gideon Kelley, whose father was Zachariah Kelley, a native of Ireland. Laura Johnson Kelley was a daughter of Robert and Rachel Jolin- son, natives of Kentucky, and whose an- cestors were from Virginia. The parents of George R. had nine children, of whom he was the eldest. He was brought by his parents to Indiana when but two years old. When he was sixteen they returned to Ken- tucky and he accompanied them, remain- ing two years ; then he came back to Indi- ana. He was married August 29, 1852, to Catharine Mulkins, daughter of Norman and Elizabeth Mulkins, the former born in Kentucky about 1803, and the latter, whose maiden name was Miller, was a native of Indiana, but her parents were Pennsylva- nians. To Mr. and Mrs. Kelley were born fourteen children, viz : Winfield S., January
17, 1853; Henry C., January 1, 1855; Emma, March 30, 1857 (died Sept. S, 1870); Robert, February 1, 1859; Alonzo L., March 16, 1861 (died Feb. 15, 1867; Laura E., December 27, 1863; James G., October 15, 1865 (died January 5, 1869) ; Sarah F., February 16, 1867; Susanna, November 4, 1871 (died March 9, 1872) ; Mary M., January 28, 1873; Edna G., April 3, 1875; Walter Q., November 30, 1877; Carrie H., September 15, 1879, and Rose C., June 16, 1881. After his mar- riage Mr. Kelley settled in Harrison, and now resides in Taylor township of that county. He is a reputable farmer and a highly respected citizen. He enlisted in the Union army September 23, 1864, and was discharged April 10, 1865, on the sur- geon's certificate of disability. The parents of subject, James and Laura Johnson Kelley, are but recently dead-the former died April 13, 1880, and the latter March 27, 1880, within little more than two weeks of each other.
CHRISTOPHER C. H. KERNS, com- mander of Ulrich Dahlgren Post, 470, G. A. R., was born in Russell county, Ky., July 3, 1840, and is a son of Isham and Louise (Hall) Kerns, the former a native of Ken- tucky. He was the son of Job Kerns, born in Germany about the year 1760, a Revolu- tionary soldier, who died in Russell county, Ky., at an advanced age. Isham Kerns was a skilled mechanic, a natural genius ; he followed blacksmithing, was a good stone mason, and also a carpenter. He served in the late war, in the Twelfth Ken- tucky Regiment, was 58 years old when he enlisted, and drove an ambulance most of the time.
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Christopher, whose name heads this sketch, was the second in the family of four children; three sons and the father served in the Federal army during the late war. Christopher enlisted in Kentucky, at the beginning of the war, and after serving some time was taken prisoner and paroled. He then came to Indiana and enlisted in the Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. C, on the 5th of September, 1864, in which he served until after the close of the war, being discharged July 12, 1865, at Montgomery, Ala. He was afterward taken prisoner at or near Dardenell, Ark., and held a prisoner about four and a half months ; imprisoned first at New Washington, Ark., then at Shreveport, La., and afterward at Tyler, Tex. Was finally exchanged at the mouth of Red river. After the war he came to Harrison county, then to Gibson county, Ind., where he was married to Miss Eliza- beth F. Huffman, September 17, 1865, who was born October 17, 1848. She was the daughter of Henry and Isabel (Reed) Huffman. They have had ten children, viz : Eliza E., Martha J., Engiba M., Anna B., Magnolia N., Sarah H., Uriel G., Octavia E., Samuel D. and Lydia L., three of whom are dead. Anna B. died August 8, 1870; Mag- nolia N. died December 29, 1873, and Lydia L. died May 3, 1885. Mr. Kerns has an ex- cellent little farm of sixty acres in Boone township, this county, which he has highly improved. He is also a justice of the peace, the office of which he has filled with satis- faction to all.
BARNETT KERKER was born in Pitts- burgh, Pa., in 1837, and was the son of Michael and Anna (Lope) Kerker, natives of Germany, who came to America when
children with their parents, and at maturity were married in Pennsylvania. To them were born seven children, of whom Barnett Kerker, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest. He was reared on a farm and received but a limited education. When the war broke out in 1861, he enlisted, in August of that year, in Co. G, of the Seventy-fourth regiment, but was discharg- ed in September, 1862, on account of wounds received in the service. His first enlistment was in Co. A, Ninteenth Penn- sylvania Volunteers, for three months.
Mr. Kerker learned the trade of a glass blower, and made several trips down the river from Pittsburgh to Louisville and Jef- fersonville, stopping at different towns, and engaged at his trade. He finally settled in Jeffersonville at the close of the war, but later came to Harrison county, where he has since resided. On the Sth of May, 1871, he was married to Miss Matilda Wissle,a Pennsylvanian. Four children were born of this marriage, viz : Anthon in 1872, John in 1874, Rose in 1876, and Edward in 1878. His wife died Feb. 28, 1882, and Oct. 13, 1884, he married Miss Lavina Coons, a native of this county. They have two children, born as follows: Alva, July 19, 1885, and Ida, May 10, 1887. Mr. Kerker emigrated to Harrison county in 1884, his first wife having died in Penn- sylvania.
JAMES M. KRON was born in Posey township, Harrison county, Ind., June 5, 1837, and is the son of Frederick and Rachel (Meek) Kron, the former born in Virginia October 1, 1810, and died in this county in 1854. He was the son of George Kron, a native of Virginia, who emigrated to Indiana in a very early day
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and settled in Harrison county, one of the pioneers who combined to make the State the paradise it is to-day.
Rachel Meek Kron was the daughter of Sylvester and Rachael Meek, natives of Ohio. James M., the subject, was the third in a family of seven children. He was reared on the farm, and educated in the common schools of the county. He enlisted in the army December 21, 1863, and was discharged June 15, 1865, for dis- ability. He was a member of Co. F, 81st Ind. Vol. Infantry, and was wounded at Jonesboro, and came home. He was married September 10, 1870, to Mrs. Sarah Goldsmith, formerly Miss Sarah Bolden, and a daughter of Sebert and Mary Bolden. Her first husband was James H. Goldsmith, and she had two children by him, viz: Martha J., born April 25, 1863, and Mary M., born July 29, 1865. Mr. Goldsmith died, and his widow married Mr. Kron as above. They have six children, viz: Emma L., born May 1, 1871; Julia A., born July 29, 1873; Selina A., born November 19, 1875; W. H., born January 1, 1878; James A., born September 1, 1880 ; Wiley, January 3, 1883. He has a farm of about forty acres of land, which he has well improved, and cultivates princi- pally in fine fruits. He also does some coopering for the neighborhood.
JAMES LANG was born in this (Har- rison) county, July, 17, 1835, and is a son of Samuel S. and Mary Ann (Current) Lang, both natives of this county, and prominent among their neighbors. James' grand- father, Robert Lang, was a native of Shelby county, Ky., and came to Indiana when it was a Territory, locating in Harrison county.
He was Justice of the Peace, County Com- missioner, and held other county offices. He died in 1856, at the age of seventy years. James, the subject, was brought up on a farm, and educated in the common schools. In 1855, he married Miss Eliza- beth Mock, a daughter of Joseph Mock, Esq., a native of Virginia, but who came to Indiana when quite small, and was a large farmer and a man of some local prominence. He died in 1862. Mr. Lang has no children, but is the oldest in a family of ten children, eight boys and two girls. After the subject are : Harry, Sam- uel C., Robert, Craven, by first wife; and Rhoda, Abraham Lincoln, Hamilton, Al- bert and Elizabeth, by a second wife. These last all died while small, except Albert and Elizabethı.
GANES LARUE, a leading farmer, was born in Harrison county, Ind., in 1818. His ancestors were of Old Virginia stock, and were among the best families who emi- grated from that State to Indiana. His father, Spencer LaRue, settled in Har- rison county in 1817, a native of Virginia, as was also his mother, Margeret (Davis) LaRue.
Ganes LaRue's educational advantages were limited to schools of the county. He is one of the successful farmers of Harri- son county. He was married, in 1844, to Miss Sallie Boley, who was born in Harri- son county in 1826, and a daughter of Isaac Boley, a pioneer who settled in the county from Virginia. This union has been blessed with ten children, all of whom have been well educated. He owns a fine farm in Jackson township, and devotes his entire time to farming and stock raising.
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SAMUEL LAWSON was born in White county, Tenn., December 8, 1829, and is a son of Pleasant and Rebecca (Morgan) Lawson ; the former a soldier in the War of 1812, and served three years in the Eighth Regulars, Col. Charles Pinckney ; the latter was a granddaughter of Gen. Daniel Mor- gan, whose famous Regiment of Riflemen was a power in the Revolutionary war. Samuel Lawson, the subject, was the fifth in a family of nine children. He was reared on the farm and received a common- school education. When war was declared against Mexico, he enlisted in Co. C, Third Kentucky Volunteers, and served out the term of enlistment, one year. He enlisted and was discharged at Louisville, Ky., and thence came to Harrison county, and engaged in blacksmithing. In 1862 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hick- man, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Hickman, natives of Virginia ; the former born in 1801, and died in 1887. They have had seven children, viz: William W., Sherman T., Martha K., Laura, Mary F., Rebecca and Andrew ; all are living except Sherman, who died August 21, 1867. Mr. Lawson was commissioned captain of an independent company, mustered in the fall of 1861, commissioned by Governor Morton, called the Lawson Grays, which he com- manded for three years and was then mus- tered in the Sixth Regiment of the State Legion. September 22, 1864, he enlisted in the Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infan- try, in which he served until mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. He saw hard service while out, and was with Sherman in his grand march to the sea, enduring the fatigue and all the hardships of that long march. He was present at the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. June 4, 1865, he was mustered out of the service and returned
home, the survivor of two wars and a high- ly respected citizen.
ISAAC E. LEFFLER was born in Posey township, Harrison county, Ind., April 5, 1846, and is the son of Peter and Ellen (Cooper) Leffler-the former also a, native of Harrison county; the latter a daughter of John and Mary (Chappell) Cooper. Isaac E. was the second in a family of four children. He was born and reared on a farm and received a good common-school education. He enlisted in 1863, in Co. F, Eighty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he was transferred to Co. F, Thirty-first Infantry, in which he served till the close of the war, being dis- charged December 18, 1865. His service in the army was hard, and among his fighting was a participation in the battle of Nash- ville, when he was on line of battle for a week, and fought two whole days. After the war was over he returned to his home, bought the old homestead farm, and in 1867, on the 7th of November, he married Miss Mary A. Shaner, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Shaner, born in Harrison county, in January, 1843. They have seven chil- dren, born as follows : Mary E., October 30, 1868; Charles E., July 7, 1870; Lavina S. N., August 17, 1874; Catherine A., July 28, 1877; John W., January 6, 1880; Richard E., November 6, 1882, and Amos G., April 10, 1884-all of whom are living.
JAMES D. LEMAY, a well-to-do farmer of the county, is a native of Albemarle county, Virginia, and was born September
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14, 1830. He is a son of William Lemay, and his mother's maiden name was Gentry, who were both Virginians by birth. His father came to Harrison county in 1833, and died in 1849.
James D. Lemay was married to Cyntha Ann, daughter of Philip Bell, deceased, of this county, in 1853. Her death occurred in Feb., 1859. In 1860 he was again mar- ried, to Miss Rebecca Jane Brown, a native of Ohio, daughter of Benjamin Brown, who was born in Virginia and removed to this county a number of years before his death.
Mr. Lemay's children were William and Henry R., who are both deceased. He has a splendid farm of 280 acres near Corydon.
DAVID F. LEMMEL was born in Jef- ferson county, Ky., January 12, 1835, and son of John and Margaret Lemmel; the former a prominent farmer of Harrison county, who died in 1851, aged sixty years ; the latter died also in 1851, aged fifty-eight years. Both were natives of Germany and came to the United States in 1832.
David F. was reared on the farm, and taught that it was an honest and inde- pendent calling.
He was married in 1856 to Miss Eliza- beth Schafer, of Harrison county, who bore five children, viz: Sarah A., Mary C., George W., Alice M. and Nannie B. The only one married is Sarah, who married George W. Yeager, of this county. Mrs. Lemmel died in 1870.
In 1872 he married Miss Nancy Nance, of Floyd county, Indiana. Mr. Lemmel owns a fine fruit farm, numbering sixty acres, on the Corydon and New Albany Turnpike road, one mile from Lanesville. It is as good land as there is in the county.
He makes a specialty of strawberries, and in 1886 sold 3,200 gallons off of four acres of ground. Mr. Lemmel is a prominent man in this neighborhood, and an enter- prising and prosperous farmer.
DANIEL F. LEMMON was born July 18, 1844, in Franklin township, Harrison county, Ind. His father, John Lemmon, a native of Spencer county, Ky., was born in 1804, and emigrated to Harrison county, Ind., in 1884. He was four times elected as a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1852, 1854, 1862 and 1864, serving his county with ability ; he also served as a county commissioner, was a man of great public spirit and indentified with all en- terprises that had in view the advance- ment of the material interests of Harrison county. He died in September, 1881. Mr. Lemmon's mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was a native of Jefferson county, Ky., and both his grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary war that gave this country independence of England, and were natives of Virginia.
Daniel F. Lemmon is the eighth of ten children, was reared on a farm, and edu- cated in the schools of Harrison county and the city of Louisville, Ky. He was county superintendent of schools from June, 1873 to November, 1884, when he resigned to accept the office of county clerk, to which he was elected in 1884.
He was married in 1863 to Lucinda J. Sharp, daughter of Wm. D. M. Sharp, of Harrison county. Six children have been born to the marriage : Cora A., Lizzie, John W., Emma, Caddie and Brandt. Mr. Lem- mon is an active member of the I. O. O. F. at Corydon.
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J. W. H. LITTELL is a native of this (Harrison) county, and was born January 27, 1840. He is a son of Hugh and De- lilah (Long) Littell; the former born August 14, 1814, and was a son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Gormley) Littell, natives of Vir- ginia. The family emigrated to Harrison county in 1817, and settled a half-mile south Corydon. Delilah Long, the wife of Hugh Littell (and mother of subject), was born in this county, and was a daughter of Levi Long, an early settler of the county, and a noted preacher in the Baptist Church here fifty years ago-a man of great natural talent and moral worth. He was an inveter- ate worker, attended five or six churches at a time, at great distances from each other, and traveled on foot or horseback, stopping where night overtook him, and receiving the hospitalities of the pioneer's cabin without money and without price. Rever- ently asking the blessing of God on all he did, his life was simple and unostentatious, his wants few and easily satisfied. His teachings, though plain and unvarnished, did as much, or more toward Christianiz- ing, what was then a new and wild coun- try, than any other influence. He lived out the measure of his days, and died in the hope of a glorious immortality. J. W. H. Littell, the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to clerk for Paul Sieg, of Corydon, which he fol- lowed for one year, when he returned to the farm. At eighteen, having received a good common-school education, he began teaching, which he continued until the storms of war commenced gathering around his home, and the Confederate, John Mor- gan, the great cavalry raider of the South, crossed the Rubicon to his fate, when he joined Capt. J. W. Marshall's company of of the "Home Legion," and took part in (as
he termed it) the "John Morgan racket." On the 4th of April, 1864, he was mus- tered into the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, commanded by Col. Johnson, the last cav- alry regiment raised, but the first equipped and sent to the front. Mr. Littell enlisted as a private, but was soon promoted to Lieutenant of Co. D. In the summer of 1865, he was promoted to Acting Assistant Regimental Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain ; at the same time he filled the po- sition of Commissary, thus holding two positions at once. He was in the Murfrees- boro and Nashville battles, and then in a chain of running fights until Hood crossed the Tennessee, also in all the engagements in around Nashville. His shirt and coat sleeve were shot through by the enemy's shell, but he received no personal injury. Since the war he has devoted his time and attention to farming, except two years just after the close of the war, when he engaged in man- ufacturing tombstones, etc. He owns about 200 acres of fine land, well improved and in an excellent state of cultivation. He has a handsome residence and is well fixed to live comfortable and well. He has one of the finest herds of cattle, consisting of Jerseys, shorthorns, etc., in Harrison county, and some very fine blooded horses. Captain Littell was married in October, 1866, to Miss Bettie A. Sieg, a daughter of J. M. Sieg, Esq., of Harrison county. The Sieg family is from Virginia originally ; John Sieg, the grandfather of Mrs. Littell, settled here in 1816, among the early set- tlers of the county. Captain and Mrs. Lit- tell have six children living, viz: Minnie, Walter, Pinckney, Joe Logan, Alonzo and Loretta. Captain Littell is a member and adjutant of Nevin Post, G. A. R .; was one of the organizers of this Post, and in 1882 elected first Commander of it, which po- sition he beld for four years. He is a
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staunch Republican, but at the same time somewhat liberal in his political sentiments. He is a great reader and well versed in the current literature of the day.
JOHN J. LOWE was born in the town of Elizabeth, Harrison county, Ind., March 24, 1833, and is a son of Nathan M. and Mary (Stephaus) Lowe ; the former a native of Albany, N. Y., and the other a daughter of John Stephaus of this county. The elder Lowe was brought up in his native city, and was liberally educated, graduat- ing from the best schools. He read medi- cine, attended lectures, graduated, and re- ceived a diploma from the best college in New York. He came West in 1825 and lo- cated in Harrison county, where he prac- ticed his profession until his death, April, 29, 1865. His wife, Mary Stephaus, was a native of this county, but her parents came from Rhode Island. John J. Lowe, the subject of this sketch, was the fourth in a family of ten children. He was brought up and educated in his native town of Eliz- abeth, and graduated from Friendship Academy of that place, an institution of learning that had a high reputation in its day. Hundreds of students attended it from all parts of the State, and at the time Mr. Lowe was a pupil, it was under the superintendence of Prof. Jolin S. Samback, a very highly-educated and cultured gentle- man. After completing his education Mr. Lowe entered the office of his father for the study of medicine, but after reading for a time, he gave up the study and turned his attention to mechanical pursuits. He be- came a skillful carpenter and plasterer, and also farmed to a large extent. For a time during the war he served the Govern-
ment as a teamster, but in April, 1865, he enlisted in Co. D, of the Forty-ninth Ind. Vol. Infantry, in which he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment, Sep- tember 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Mr. Lowe was married Sep- tember 14, 1854, to Miss Mary A. Gill- more, a daughter of Benjamin and Millie Gillmore. To them were born ten children, as follows : Laura B. and Flora V. (twins), August 16, 1857; Nathan, March, 15, 1860; Fanny A., January 18, 1862; Mar- garet A., April 24, 1865; Harriet, August 3, 1867; Clara T., February 4, 1871; Eva G., April 7, 1875; Charles H., October 21, 1877; Benjamin K., November 16, 1879; all of whom are living except three, viz : Nathan died February 3, 1861; Charles died August 27, 1878, and Benjamin died March 24, 1881. He settled on a farm of fifty acres, which is highly cultivated and well set in fine fruit trees and grapes. He has two grape vines of the Fox variety that are sixty-five years old, and rarely fail to bear fruit. Mr. Lowe is an enter- prising citizen, and a prosperous, well-to- do farmer.
JAMES LONG is a native of this (Har- rison) connty, and was born July 17, 1835. He is a son of Samuel S. and Mary Ann (Current) Long, also natives of the county. The elder Long was a prominent farmer of Harrison county, well liked by everybody who knew him. He died in 1866, leaving a family of ten children. His father, Robert Long, was a native of Shelby county, Ky., but came to Indiana when it was a Territory, locating in the present county of Harrison. He was among the earliest settlers of the county, and served as justice of the peace and
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county commissioner, nearly all through his life. He was a member of the old Whig party, but in those days the office, sought the man, not the man the office, and Democrats and Whigs alike voted for Mr. Long whenever he was a candidate for office. He died in 1856, at the age of seventy years. James Long, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest of a family of ten children, and was brought up on a farm, receiving a common-school education. In 1855 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Mock, a daughter of Joseph Mock, Esq., a native of Virginia, but who came to Indi- ana when quite young, and died in Febru- ary, 1862. Mr. Long has no children. He is one of Harrison county's most exemplary citizens, and belongs to one of the oldest families of the State, highly respected and prominent in the affairs of the county. He owns 110 acres of highly improved land, and devotes considerable time and attention to fruit culture.
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