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Mr. Simler served one term in the State Legislature, being the first native-born citi- zen to represent Harrison county. The Constitutional Convention was in session at the time, which brought him in contact with many prominent men throughout the State. He is a member of Mauckport Ma- sonic Lodge, and is at present a justice of the peace. He and his family are members of the Methodist Church. He received a paralytic stroke some years ago, which has confined him at home. He has always af- filiated with the Democratic party, and cast his first Presidential vote for Van Buren in 1836. He owns 400 acres of ex- cellent land, of which he has fifteen acres in fine fruit.
JAMES S. SIMLER was born April 3, 1843, in this county, and is a son of Isa- bel and John (Stephenson) Simler, also na- tives of this county. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. In September, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Kentucky Infantry, remain- ing in the service until the close of the war. His regiment was on reserve duty a good deal, and he participated in no severe bat- tles, but was in a number of skirmishes. He was sick for sixteen months and con- tracted rheumatism, from which he is still a sufferer. After his return home he re- ceived a paralytic stroke, which made him a cripple.
He is a member of the W. T. Jones Post, G. A. R., at New Amsterdam. He was mar- ried October 6, 1866, to Martha J. Burrows, born in October, 1851, a daughter of Solo- mon Burrows, a native of Pennsylvania, a shoemaker by trade and a soldier in the late war. They have two children : Stella
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May, born May 13, 1873, and John S., born February 28, 1877; two others died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Simler are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Simler owns 87 acres of land, about twenty of which are in fruit, mostly apples, comprising the finest varieties.
ALVIN E. SMITH, M. D., was born in this county (Harrison), February 22, 1862, and is a son of Samuel S. and Anna (Go- chenour) Smith, natives of Harrison coun- ty and Virginia. His grandfather, Thomas Smith, came from Westmoreland county, Virginia, to this county, in 1807, and lo- cated in the southern part of what is now Harrison township. The subject, Alvin E., was reared on his father's farm, educated in this county, and read medicine with Dr. John E. Lawson, of Corydon. He entered ** the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louis- ville, in 1882, from which he graduated two years later. He commenced practice at Mauckport, in this county, and has won a good practice. He is a Democrat in pol- ities, and an Odd Fellow, and a trustee of the lodge at Mauckport.
He was nominated by his political friends, the Democrats, for Circuit Clerk of the county, in the fall of 1888, and after a bitter contest and hard fight he was elect- ed. He assumed the duties of the office immediately after the election.
CHARLES W. SMITH was born in Butler county, Pa., March 7, 1811, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cunning- ham) Smith, the former a native of Ireland.
He emigrated to America and settled in Cumberland county, Pa., where he married. Believing in Horace Greeley's advice to go West, he came to Indiana, aad after wan- dering around for a time, settled in Harri- son county, which was then almost a wil- derness. Here the remainder of his life was spent. Charles W. was reared on his father's farm and received such education as was to be obtained in the country schools. January 29, 1839, he was mar- ried to Miss Lavina Zenor, a daughter of John W. Zenor, who was born in 1793, and married to Mary McIntosh. He was a man of considerable prominence, and rep- resented Harrison county several times in the legislature. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850; died May 23, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had three children, viz: John Thomas, Mary Elizabeth and Eliza M. John T. re- ceived a collegiate education, and served as assistant superintendent of schools, un- der Superintendent Bloss, of Indianapolis. He secured a position as postal clerk under President Garfield, from which he was pro- moted to clerkship in the Adjutant Gener- al's office at Washington City, where he still is engaged. After giving his children each a good education, and also a good farm to start them in life, Mr. Smith still has sufficient of the world's goods to make him and his good wife comfortable the re- mainder of their days. They are exem- plary members of the Presbyterian Church, and have been for many years.
CAPT. WILLIAM SONNER was born in Shenandoah county, Va., in 1798; he came to this county with his father, Philip P. Sonner, who was also a Virginian by
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birth, in 1817, settling in the Ripperdan Valley, Washington township. Prominently among the early families who settled in that locality about the same time, might be mentioned the Lopps, Franks, Fleshmans, who settled in 1805; John Ripperdan, who who came in 1807; the Maucks, who were among the settlers of Mauckport, and the Applegates, who settled 1807.
In 1825, William Sonner bought the farm he now lives on, and has continuously lived there ever since, and is now in his ninety-first year.
He was married September 16, 1824, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Ripperdan, Kentuckian by birth. He has reared a family of eight children.
In the early history of the State he served as Captain in the State Militia, subsequently served as Major and Quartermaster of the regiment, and was conspicuous as an officer until the regiment was disbanded.
JOHN P. SONNER was born in Harrison county, Jan. 17, 1829, and is a son of William and Mary (Ripperdan) Sonner; the former was a native of Virginia, born in the Shenandoah valley near where Sheridan made his famous ride. The Ripperdans were from Kentucky, and were of German origin. William Sonner came to Indiana in 1817, and settled in the Ripperdan Valley, where the family has since lived. John Ripperdan, grandfather of John P. Sonner, died in 1844, and his wife in 1861. John P., the subject of this sketch, was brought up on a farm and edu- cated at the State University, at Blooming- ton, but failed to graduate on account of ill health.
In 1861 he married Sarah Faith, daugh-
ter of Jacob Faith, who is still living near Mauckport. He was a Kentuckian by birth, and emigrated to Indiana about 1824. He has two brothers living near him : Thomas, aged 83 years, and Abram, 81 years, and he himself, 79 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Sonner have had born to them ten children, viz: Homer, Medora, Mary A., Bertram (deceased), Horace (died in infancy), John P., Claudia R., William H. (deceased), Sarah E. and Jacob T., the youngest. Medora is the wife of Amos Lemon, clerk of the court. Mr. Sonner has been township trustee two years ; town- ship assessor two years; justice of the peace three terms, serving his third term now, and has been clerk of the Indiana Legislature two sessions, 1853-55. He and his family are members of tl.e Method- ist church, and in politics he affiliates with the Republican party.
He was a candidate for the Legislature in 1856, against John Lemon, Sr., and was only defeated by 101 votes, running ahead of the State ticket. He was nominated in 1868 for clerk of the court, but declined the race three weeks before the election. His vocation in life, aside from the offices he has held, has been school-teaching; and he ranks as one of the best teachers of his day, and one of the best-educated men in the township.
JAMES W. STALLINGS was born on a farm in Webster township, Harrison coun- ty, Indiana, October 30, 1832, and is the son of William and Nancy R. (Rogers) Stallings ; the former born in Butler county, Kentucky, January 21, 1782, and the lat- ter in Virginia, December 30, 1791. Will- iam Stallings was the son of Samuel and Sarah Stallings. He was a farmer, re-
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moved to Harrison county, Indiana, and died October 22, 1868. His wife, Nancy Rogers Stallings, was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Rogers, and died November 26, 1875. To them were born thirteen chil- dren, of whom James W. was the youngest but one. He (James W., the subject) was brought up on the farm and educated in the common schools. He was married to Eleanor Wright, August 30, 1855, a daugh- ter of William and Melinda Wright, and was born August 31, 1838. They had two children, Woodford J., born June 29, 1856; John E., February 25, 1858, and died November 2, 1884. Mrs. Stallings died May 22, 1860, and October 17, 1861, Mr. Stallings married Alizan Abel, daugh- ter of Peter and Mary Abel, natives of Harrison county. To them were born seven children, viz: Lizzie, July 30, 1862; Ulysses G., May 1, 1865; James P., De- cember 7, 1868; Charles, July 11, 1871 ; Frank O., June 9, 1876; Minnie A., De- cember 19, 1878, and Lavina E., April 17, 1880. Mr. Stallings enlisted September 23, 1864, in Co. G, Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged June 25, 1865, by expiration of his term of service.
After the war was over he returned to his home and resumed his farm duties. He now lives on the old homestead, entered by his father, and in fact livesin the house in which he was born. All of his children but two were born in the same house. He owns 160 acres of land and is a prosperous farmer. He is a local minister of the M. E. Church, of which he has been a member for many years.
WILFORD STEPHENS was born in Boone township, Harrison county, Ind.,
Sept. 21, 1831, and is a son of Alfred Stephens, and a grandson of Nathaniel Stephens. The latter was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving all through it and taking part in most of its battles. His wife was Elizabeth Fitzgerald. They had but one child Alfred Stephens. The latter was reared on a farm and received but the limited educational facilities of that time. He became a steamboat pilot, and followed it for a number of years. He married Elizabeth Stephens, a daughter of John and Stacy (Tull) Stephens. To them were born ten children, of whom Wilford, the subject of this sketch, was the third. He was brought up on the farm and educated in the common schools. He married Miss Elizabeth Crosier, May 14, 1856. She was born Oct. 2, 1833, and is the daughter of Adam and Sarah Crosier, natives of New York, but who settled in Indiana (Harrison county) in 1816. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have had seven children, viz: Kate, born Feb. 27, 1858; Belle, June 7, 1860; Ann Eliza, Oct. 21, 1862; Edna, April 13, 1865; Alfred, Nov. 27, 1867; Adam, March 2, 1870; Mary, Dec. 25, 1872. Mary died Aug. 16, 1885, and Adam died Ang. 26, 1885. Mr. Stephens enlisted in Co. E., 144th Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, receiving his discharge Aug. 15, 1865. After leaving the army he returned home and engaged in saw-milling, and in other timber enterprises with considerable success for ten years, when he disposed of his saw- mill and all of his land except forty acres. On this lie now lives, having comparatively retired from active business pursuits.
WILLIAM H. H. STEPP was born in But- ler county, Pa., November 27, 1835, and is
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a son of Michael and Catherine (Heckhart) Stepp, the former born in Northumberland county, Pa., in 1797; the latter was also born in 1797. The elder Stepp was brought up on a farm and received but a limited education. To them were born thirteen children. About 1837 they emigrated to Missouri, remaining there until 1838, when they returned to their old Pennsylvania. home. He died in 1877 ; she died in 1882. The subject of this sketch, William H. H. Stepp, was reared on a farm and was fairly educated. He was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and became a skillful workman. At the commencement of the war, at the President's first call for troops, he enlisted April 20, 1861. He served for three months in Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was discharged, his term hav- ing expired. September 11, 1861, he re-en- listed in Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was discharged a First Sergeant, to accept the appoint- ment of Second Lieutenant, March 11, 1865, of Co. B. He was promoted to First Lieutenant August 6, 1865. And finally discharged September 11, 1865. During his service he participated in the following general battles and skirmishes : Neal's Bend, Hoover's Gap, Lavergne, Stone River, Tulla- homa, Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Buzzard Roost, Dalton, Resacca, Burnt Hickory, Picket's Mills, Altoona, Pulaski, Florence, Kenesaw Mountain, beside numer- ous skirmishes. At the conclusion of the war he returned to Butler county, Pa., followed his trade of carpenter until 1870, when he came West and settled in Harrison county, Ind. The same year he married Miss Lydia A. Lamb, a daughter of John and Martha Lamb, who was born in Harrison county. They have had seven children, six of whom are still living, viz : Mary C.,
Clara E., Altha A., Jessie J., Julia E., Winnie Z. and John C. Mary C. died May 27, 1877.
He has carried on his trade of carpenter- ing, and followed farming also, and between the two has accumulated considerable pro- perty. He is generous, hospitable and benevolent, and never took a drink of whisky or smoked a cigar or tasted tobacco in his life.
STROTHER M. STOCKSLAGER was brought up a "farmer's boy," and, as his name indicates, is of German origin. He was born on the banks of the Ohio river, Mauckport, Harrison county, Ind., May 7,1842.
He received his primary education in the common schools of his native county, and was a teacher at seventeen years of age. He finished his education in the Corydon Seminary and the State University, at Bloomington.
He enlisted in the Federal army as a private, and was mustered out a Captain in the Thirteenth Regiment Indiana Cavalry. After the war he studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar.
Upon the recommendation of Congress- man M. C. Kerr, President Johnson ap- pointed him Assessor of Internal Revenue for his District.
In 1871 he commenced the practice of law in Corydon, Ind., and continued at it until September, 1885. He is regarded as one of the best lawyers in Southern Indi- ana.
In 1874 he was elected to the State Sen- ate, and served on Judiciary Committee, taking high rank as a clear-headed legis- lator. In 1880 he was elected a Represen- tative to the Forty seventh Congress and
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re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882. He was made Chairman of the Com- mittee of Public Grounds, and was on the Committee on Pensions, also. In Congress he was regarded as a man of ability and as indefatigable worker.
At the close of Mr. Stockslager's term in Congress, the Indiana Congressional Dele- gation, together with Vice-President Hen- dricks and ex-Senator McDonald, united in presenting his name to the President for Commissioner of the General Land Office.
After the appointment of General Sparks to that office, he was appointed Assistant Commissioner, which position he held until his recent promotion to that of Commis- sioner. His appointment is generally des- ignated as the "right man in the right place." Since his appointment, he has in- stituted some important reforms in the methods of transacting business in his over- burdened bureau. His energies have been untiringly devoted to the protection of set- tlers and home-seekers on the public lands of the United States, and against land grabbers, cattle syndicates and corporations. Although his term in this position will be brief, his services there will be worthy of favorable comparison with those of his illustrious predecessors from Indiana- Whitcomb and Hendricks.
In politics, Captain Stockslager has al- ways been a straight-out Democrat of the. Jefferson type.
On July 10, 1873, he was married to Miss Kate M. Miller, daughter of G. W. Miller, of Corydon.
JAMES R. TABLER is a native of this county (Harrison), and was born February 15, 1834. He is a son of John and Patsey (Jones) Tabler, and was brought up on a farm, attended the public school, and remained
on the farm until 1864, when he went to Illinois, and spent four years in Livingston and Coles counties, farming. He then came back to Harrison county and en- gaged in stock trading for two years. He then worked on a farm, then engaged in butchering in Corydon, and in the spring of 1878 engaged in hotel and whisky busi- ness. In 1880 bought the hotel building now kept by P. A. Eurton, but the building was burned in 1883, and he rebuilt it. He now owns it and the livery stable and saloon adjoining it. Mr. Shuck has the livery stable rented. Mr. Tabler owns the two-story frame house now occupied by Huseman and others; also a saloon in Leavenworth. He was married in October, 1861, to Miss Harriet Lilly, the daughter of Richard Lilly, Esq., of this county. The parents of Mr. Tabler came to Harri- son county in 1813, when it was a wilder- ness. They fought the wolves and bears, hunted dear and wild turkeys. His father died in 1882, aged 92 years; his mother died in 1855. Mr. Tabler is a member of the Knights of Honor.
CHARLES W. THOMAS, County Super- intendent of Schools of Harrison county, was born near Lanesville (this county), May, 27, 1854, and is a son of John A. and Elizabeth Harriet Thomas, born in Harrison county, and were among the pioneers. Both of his (subject's) grand- fathers settled in the county about 1800- paternal grandfather came from North Carolina and was of English descent; ma- ternal grandfather came from Pennsylvania and was of German origin.
Jolm A. Thomas, the father of subject, was one of the pioneer school-teachers of
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Harrison county, and taught many terms in the county when it contained the State capital.
The subject was reared on the farm, and received his education in the common schools. He attended Marengo Academy, and subsequently went to Lebanon, Ohio, and then to Valparaiso, Ind., from which he graduated in 1880, having taken a classi- cal course.
He was elected County Superintendent of Schools of Harrison county in 1884, and discharged the duties of the office with sig- nal ability. He is one of the editors of the Harrison County Democrat, founded by D. J. Murr in 1886, and is an able and in- fluential paper. Mr. Thomas is a promi- nent member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities.
GEORGE W. THOMPSON was born in Harrison county, September 9, 1842, and is a son of Nathaniel W. and Elizabeth (Windell) Thompson ; the former a native of this county, and the latter of Virginia. The elder Thompson was a son of Henry Thompson, a native of Virginia; born about 1780; moved to Indiana and settled in this county, and died in 1830. He married Sarah Moreland, who was born in Virginia, and died in Harrison county in 1859.
Nathaniel Thompson was raised on a farm, and was also a millwright. He built a number of mills in this and adjoin- ing counties. He died in September, 1877. To him and his wife, Elizabeth Windell Thompson, were born ten children, of whom George, the subject, was the eldest. He was brought up as a farmer and received a good practical education. He was mar- ried December 29, 1868, to Miss Mary F.
Howsley, a daughter of William Howsley, a native of Nashville Tenn., and born in 1822. His wife was Margaret Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have had nine children, namely : Robert E., born October 4, 1869 (died July 16, 1870) ; Maggie L., born November 17, 1870; William F., born July 3, 1873 ; Alma K., born February 26, 1875; Mary E., born July 17, 1877; Nathaniel E., born January 21, 1881; Minnie R., born December 31, 1883; George W., born November 1, 1885, and Venus A., born February 14, 1888.
Mr. Thompson enlisted in Co. H, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, July 3, 1862, and was discharged July 9, 1865, his term of serv- ice having expired. Participating in all the hard service of his regiment, after the war was over he returned home and en- gaged in teaching, which he followed for twenty-one years. He also carried on farming and did odd jobs at carpentering. He is a member of the Methodist Church. Resides on his farm in Boone township, and is an exemplary citizen.
WM. NEAL TRACEWELL was born in Wood county, W. Va., February 18, 1827, and is a son of Edward and Terese (Neal) Tracewell, natives of Culpepper county, Va., and of Maryland. Grandfather was a native of England, and a minister of the Church of England, came to this country about 1784 and located in Culpepper county, as above. The Neals are also English. Wm. Neal, the subject, was reared and educated in Wood county until twenty years of age, and finished off his education at Asbury Academy, at Parkers- burg. On leaving school, he went to Front Royal, Va., to read law. He was married
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in 1848 to Miss Louisa Brown, a native of Warren county, Va. He remained there as a clerk until 1853, when he came to Corydon, and shortly after was admitted to the bar. He is now the oldest member of the bar of Corydon. His son, Robert J., is at the head of the Corydon bar, and a partner with his father. He was born in Virginia, in 1852, received a liberal educa- tion, graduating from Hanover College, and admitted to the bar in 1875, and has risen rapidly in his profession by a close application to study and to his duties.
JAMES TROTTER, Harrison county, was born in Ireland, January 1, 1812, and is a son of Hamilton and Nancy (Stringer) Trotter, natives of the "Green Isle." The elder Trotter came to America, landing in Baltimore in 1816, and came here in 1826, settling in Heth township.
He was a man of intelligence, well edu- cated, a Presbyterian, and died in 1844.
James, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm, and received a good practical education. Since his manhood, about 1830, has followed flatboating to New Orleans. He built several boats and loaded them, taking them safely down to the Southern country. During the war he, of course, had to cease the business, but in 1866 he began again. He has, perhaps, done as much flatboating as any man in the State, taking out, usually, three or four boats a year; but has done nothing in that line since 1887. He was married in 1838, to Miss Lydia Fleshman, a native of this county, and a daughter of Jonas Fleshman, who settled here about 1808, and has farmed all his life. Mr. and Mrs. Trotter have four children living, viz : Jolm
M., Sarah Ann, Hugh A. and Molly Jane. Mr. Trotter owns 243 acres of land, well improved, and is a prosperous business man. He is a member of the United Brethren Church.
JOHN W. VIERS was born in Hardin county, Ky., April 17, 1835, and is a son of William T. and Sarah (Dowdall) Viers. The former was a son of Nathan Viers, a native of Maryland, born March 24, 1774; the latter was a daughter of William and Mary Dowdall, natives of Maryland. John W., the subject of this sketch, was the eldest of nine children, and was reared on the farm, receiving a common-school edu- cation. He enlisted September 5, 1863, in Co. K, Ninety-first Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and was discharged March 23, 1864, by reason of expiration of his term of service. He returned home and resumed his farming, which he follows at this time.
JOHN WALTERS, SR., Harrison county, was born in Beren, Paltz-Londow, within eighteen miles of the French line, February 28, 1817, and is a son of Jacob and Mar- garet (Conrad) Walters, natives of Ger- many. Father came to the United States in 1834, and located in this county. He served eleven years in the army of Na- poleon Bonaparte before coming to this country-operating in Russia, Spain and France. The subject of this sketch, John Walters, is a plain and unostentatious farmer, and has lived in this county many years. In 1839, he was married to Miss Catherine Kiefer, a native of New Orleans.
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They have twelve children living and three dead. He owns 120 acres of land, well im- proved and in a fine state of cultivation. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and is an upright and honorable citizen.
WILFORD N. WATKINS, a prominent farmer of Washington township, was born in 1829, in Scott county, Mo., and moved to Harrison county, Ind., with his parents, in 1834. His father, Stephen, was a car- penter by trade, and his paternal grand- father, James Watkins, was a native of Virginia, who left that State in about 1819, coming to Shepherdsville, Ky., where he remained but a short time, when he settled in Harrison county and here continued to reside till his death in 1847. The mother of our subject was Eliza Donally, a native of Mississippi, whose family were of Welsh origin. Mr. Watkins was the third son born to this union; his two brothers older were William and John, who are both dead, and two sisters, whose nameswere respect- ively Eliza J. and Martha, who are also dead.
W. H. Watkins was married in 1852, to Miss Anna Eliza McCray, a lady of supe- rior worth and a daughter of Wheeler G. McCray, a native of Vermont, and a promi- nent and early settler in Floyd county. To this marriage have been born four chil- dren : Dr. Edward E., of Jeffersonville, Ind., and Frank. The other two, George and William, are dead.
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