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Mr. Amsden was married, April 19, 1888, to Miss Sophia Dean, daughter of Mr. A. C. Dean, of this township.
He was Deputy Assessor of Smyrna township from 1881 to 1885, four years; and has been a law student since 1881. He was made secretary of the Republican Committee from 1888 to 1890. He has been Delegate to two Republican State Con- ventions; to two Congressional and one Ju- dicial Conventions. And is chairman of the Smyrna Precinct Committee. He was a candidate for the Legislature in 1888, but was defeated in convention.
His father, Caleb Amsden, was a native of New York State, and came to Indiana in
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1830 and located in Jefferson county, at Madison. He was a traveling salesman for Mr. E. C. Barbour, of Madison. Has been a traveling salesman for the greater part of his life. In 1865 he located in Smyrna township, on a farm, where he has been ever since. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and is member of the Baptist Church at Wirt. He is now in the seventy- second year of his age.
Mrs. Amsden, the mother of the subject of this sketch, is a native of Jefferson county, Ind., and was the daughter of Ab- ner Moncrief, who was a native of Ken- tucky, and came to this county in 1808, and was one of the first settlers of the county. He was a farmer, and died in 1872, at the age of seventy-two years. He was an active member of the Baptist Church at Wirt, and was a deacon of his church for many years. Mrs. Amsden is still living, being fifty-nine years old. .
CAPT. JOHN ARMSTRONG (deceased) was born in the State of Maryland, on the Susquehanna, about the year 1789; owing to the death of his father when he was quite young, and no family records remain- ing, the exact date of his birth is not posi- tively known.
Captain Armstrong remembered Cold Friday-which was February 6, 1806, and always thought he was about seventeen years old at that time. His mother re- moved to Montgomery county, Ky., when
he was an infant, and there remained and died, leaving one half-sister to the Captain, named Axia Carson. The Captain was bound (as was the custom in those days, in Kentucky, with orphans), but he did not like his boss (he was a cabinet-maker), and ran away. He passed through Maysville, Ky., and finding a canoe there, he paddled down the Ohio to Sedansville, and from here made his way to Hamilton county, Ohio; there he found a home with an old lady named Scott, and lived with her for a short time. He next worked for a man named Moore for two years, at four dollars per month.
Later he worked for some years for Thomas Marshall, with whom he made his home for many years. In 1814 he em- barked, as a bargeman, on the keelboat "None Such," and made a trip to New Or- leans. The wages for the trip was $40 for the downward trip, and $100 for the upward trip. The "None Such" arrived at New Orleans a few days before the last bat- tle of the war of 1812 was fought there by General Jackson against Packingham. Armstrong was on the barge at the time of the battle, and distinctly heard the noise of it. He followed the life of a keelboat- man for some years, making four trips from Cincinnati and Pittsburgh to New Or- leans and back. This was a slow business and it took about twelve months to make a round trip.
In 1819 he commenced steamboating as a deck hand on the old "Gen. Pike," the first steamer ever built in Cincinnati. "It was built and principally owned by John H.
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Piatt. Jacob Strader, a clerk in Piatt's bank, was clerk on the vessel." Then Arm- strong became pilot and afterward cap- tain of many boats : "Rodolph," which he built, "Empress," and other boats that ran on the Kentucky river, and a number on the Ohio. He was at one time owner of the entire Mail Line from Cincinnati to Louisville. He continued at boating until June, 1847 (his family had been living on a farm for many years previous to this time), when he retired to his farm, in Jef- ferson county, Ind., above Brooksburg, at about the age of 56. In 1833 he had bought this farm, and had afterward im- proved it to suit his ideas of a home, so that it was all ready for him when he re- tired from the river : it had been his inten- tion for many years to enjoy life as a farm- er, and he did so for about thirty years. He died at his farm February 2, 1880.
In 1822 he was married to Miss Sarah Marshall, the daughter of Thomas Mar- shall, with whom he had made his home for many years. The issue of this mar- riage was seven children, viz : James, John, Thomas, George, Eliza Ann, Henrietta and Charles ; of these, three are living : Thomas, George and Eliza Ann.
Mrs. Armstrong died January 16, 1838, and in 1839 Captain Armstrong married Harriet, a sister of his former wife, and they had six children, all of whom are liv- ing, viz : Sarah, Margaret, Frank, Florence, Florida and Harriet.
Capt. Armstrong was successful in busi- ness and accumulated quite a little fortune, and at the same time made for himself many friends in all the classes of life which he had passed through. He was a kind husband, father and friend, esteemed by all of his neighbors. His dust rests in peace in the burial place on his farm, which overlooks the river which he loved so well, and on which so much of his life was passed.
HOLLY AUSTIN, a farmer near North Madison, was a native of Jackson county, Ohio, and was born in 1829, April 6. His parents were William and Sarah (Erwin) Austin, natives of Ohio and Vir- ginia. His father is a farmer and is still liv- ing, at 84 years of age. Mr. Austin came to Jefferson county in 1848, and has been en- gaged in farming and saw-milling for the most of the time since then. He is now engaged in farming and making cider and vinegar. He makes vinegar during the entire year, from crab-apples. He has an orchard of 1200 trees on the farm ; controls 277 acres of land. Mr. Austin was married in 1853 to Miss Aurelia Castle, of Licking county, Ohio. They have three children,-William A., Henry C. and Fred. Mr. Austin sent the first substitute to the war from Indiana-sending a substitute before there was a call for a draft in the State.
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MATTHIAS BADER was a native of Ger- many, and the son of John and Katherine (Bihler) Bader; both of his parents died in Germany.
Matthias Bader was born December 3, 1826, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to this country in 1854, and located in Indiana in the same year. He went to work by the month on the farm, and con- tinued to do so for about four years.
In 1858 he was married to Miss Mary Holwager, daughter of Frederick Holwager, a farmer of this county. After marrying, he rented a farm at money rent, and in 1861 he bought 40 acres of land, and since then has bought, at different times, land adjoining, until now he has a farm of 200 acres of good land, seven miles from Madi- son, very well improved and well stocked.
He has four children, three boys and one girl, viz: William and Annie, Charlie and Edward. William is now a farmer in Kansas; the others are at home.
Mr. Bader was drafted in 1864; for one year, was in Co. B, Fortieth Indiana Vol- unteers. He served nine months, and was in the battle of Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn. He was taken sick and sent to the hospital at Jeffersonville, where he was sick about two months, when he took small-pox, and was sent to the hospital at Louisville. He is a member of the M. E. Church at Kent.
SAMUEL BAKER, farmer, Monroe township, was the son of a Dunkard
preacher, Michael Baker, a native of Maryland, whose father came from Ger- many and was sold for his passage money, for which he broke hemp for some time.
The mother of Samuel Baker was Catherine Everly, and belonged to one of oldest families of Pennsylvania.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fayette county, Pa., July 14, 1817, and was raised on a farm until 18 years of age, when he came West, with two brothers, one of whom was a cabinet-maker. They landed at North Landing, near Rising Sun, Ind.
Mr. Baker served an apprenticeship of three years, with his brother, at the cabinet- making business, and then set up a shop of his own at Barkworks; he was a house joiner also.
He married, at the age of 22, Miss Nancy Wallick, whose grandmother was a daughter Col. Crawford, who was burned at the stake by the Indians. Mrs. Baker's grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, a ranger and Indian spy, or scout, in the early days of Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker were the parents of three children, Elzina, Sylvania and Nancy. Mr. Baker's wife died about 1847. He re- married, in 1849, to Nancy J. Haddock, whose parents were natives of Indiana ; the result of this union was three children : Alice, Belle and John. This wife died in 1865. Mr. Baker was married a third time, in 1866, to Sarah Kelley, daughter of William Kelley, a native of Pennsylvania. Some of his family are dead, the living are
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in Texas and Indiana. John, the youngest son, is at home.
The greater part of Mr. Baker's life was spent in Switzerland county, Indiana, at his trade and in the undertaking business, though he had traveled in the Far West somewhat before the Territory was made into States.
In 1865 he bought a farm of 220 acres of good land in Jefferson county, near Bryantsburg, where he has since lived as a farmer.
He is an earnest Christian, a member of the Christian Church and a good citizen.
GEORGE BARBER-firm of Barber & Cravens, paper manufacturers, Broad- way and Fifth street Madison, Ind .- was born in Madison June 28, 1836, and reared here and attended the city schools. In 1854 he went on the river, learn- ing the business of steamboat piloting from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which business he followed from 1858 to 1873. In the year 1873 he formed a partnership with Mr. Henry C. Watts, for the manu- facture of paper, and built the mill in which he is at present making paper, the firm name being Watts & Barber. This firm continued until 1885, when Mr. Charles Cravens bought out Mr. Watts' interest. Since then the firm name has been Barber & Cravens. The mill turns out about 2,400 pounds of paper every twelve hours. They employ seven men, and sell the paper
principally in Louisville, St. Louis and Memphis. The parents of Mr. Barber were Timothy and Susan (Horton) Barber, and were natives of Connecticut and Ohio, both of them coming to Indiana when quite young. His father died in 1874, at the age of 71 years. His mother is still living. Mr. Barber was first married in 1859, to Miss Sallie Fisher, of Madison, Ind. She died in 1865, leaving two children, one of whom died the next year after its mother ; the other, Carrie, is still living, and mar- ried to Mr. Charles Friedersdorff, of this city. Mr. Barber was married a second time to Miss Mary Zuck, daughter of Mr. Andrew Zuck, of this city. They have four children : Willie, Nellie, Clay W. and George Cravens. Mr. Barber is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Barber is a good citizen, of quiet, retiring disposition, and well liked by those who know him.
WILLIAM BAXTER (deceased) was the son of James Baxter, who was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country in the last century, first locating in Pennsyl- vania, afterward removing to Ohio and settling near Dayton, or rather where that city now is; here he remained for a num- ber of years, when he migrated to Jefferson county, Ind., and settled in what is now Monroe township, where he died.
The subject of this sketch was born near the Little Miami, Ohio, in 1804, and came to Jefferson county with his father
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when quite young, and spent his youth and manhood days, and died August 25, 1861. He was a farmer, and by careful saving of what he made by his industry, he was ena- bled to own 360 acres of land at the time of his death.
He married Jane Kerr, August 29, 1828, and they begot the following named chil- dren : James R., born November 25, 1829; Josiah K., September 19, 1831; Daniel T., October 1, 1833, died January 5, 1859; Oliver H. P., October 31, 1835; William A., May 27, 1838, died September 15, 1877 ; Hiram P., September 22, 1840; George W., March 16, 1843; Alonzo H. H., Au- gust 31, 1845; Edward A. Z., October 14, 1847; Leonidas N., November 17, 1849; Havanna.S., July 25, 1852; Emlona H., August 28, 1854, died when 16 months old. His wife died May 27, 1855, and on Au- gust 26, 1857, he was married to Marga- ret Kerr, a sister of his first wife. By this union there was one son, Erastus V., who was born February 3, 1859, who died at the age of two years and ten months.
Mr. Baxter was a man of prominence and never sought office. He was a member and an earnest supporter of the M. E. Church for twenty years before his death. Six of his sons were in the army during the war, and another served an enlistment in the United States army.
JAMES W. BAYLESS was born in Mad- ison, July 1, 1829, was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools.
He has never sought office, and does not like secret societies.
He owns 157 acres of good land, and runs the farm, his sister Sophronia keeping house for him, as he has never married.
His father, Nathaniel Bayless, was born March 12, 1796, in Harford county, Mary- land, near the head of Chesapeake bay; he came to Madison, Ind., about 1817. He was a house carpenter and joiner, and built many houses; among those he built was the house Mr. Chas. Alling lives in. He built the paper mill on Indian Kentucky creek, known as Sheets' Paper Mill. He sharpened a dirk knife for Mr. John Sheets, which, it is said, was the one with which Sheets killed White, in Madison, some sixty- five years ago.
In 1824 he married Miss Mary A. Whedon, who was born in New York, in March, 1806, and came to Jefferson county when 12 years of age, with her father, Stephen Whedon, an early settler of Madison.
By this marriage there were six children : George, who died at the age of 48; James W .; Nathaniel, living in Monroe township ; Stephen, who died in 1884; Anna M., who is married to John Riggle, and lives at North Madison, and Sophronia, who lives with James W., who furnishes this sketch. Mr. Nathaniel Bayless moved from Madison about 1837, to Madison township, where he bought 720 acres of land, and where he died in 1885. His widow died March 13, 1879.
There is a clock and fire shovel that has been in the family some sixty-four years.
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PERRY E. BEAR is a native of Jeffer- son county, Ind., and was born September 22, 1860. His parents were Joseph Bear, a farmer, who was born in Jefferson county, in 1834, and Margaret Whitmore, who was born in Kentucky.
His paternal grandfather, Christian Bear, was a native of Pennsylvania, and settled in Jefferson county, Ind., before the State was admitted to the Union. He was of German origin, his father being a native German.
Perry E. Bear was educated in the schools of the county, having graduated from the High School. He read law with Edward Leland, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1881. He was with Judge E. R. Wilson, of Madison, for two years.
In 1884 was elected City Attorney of Madison ; was re-elected in 1885. In 1886 was appointed deputy prosecutor of Jeffer- son county. He became the nominee of his (Republican) party for prosecuting at- torney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit in the fall of 1888, and was elected. In 1883 was married to Miss Champney. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
WM. H. H. BENEFIEL, merchant and farmer of Barbersville, Jefferson county, Ind., was born in Jefferson county, March 8, 1825.
He is the son of Wm. B. Benefiel, who, at the age of 23 years, came from Kentucky to Indiana Territory among the pioneer set-
tlers, and located in the neighborhood of Buchanan's Station (or fort), Jefferson county, in the spring of 1814; and was married, in 1816, to Miss Phobe Conner, daughter of Lewis Conner, a native of Ten- nessee, and who emigrated to Indiana Terri- tory prior to 1814.
George Benefiel and Mary Buchanan Benefiel, father and mother of Wm. B., came, with their family of seven sons and five daughters, to Indiana in the fall of 1814. The seven sons and five daughters all lived to raise large families and to an average age of seventy-three years, reckon- ing the ages of the deceased at time of death and the living at present age.
George Benefiel, father of this family of twelve children, was a native of Virginia, and the head of a numerous branch of the Benefiel family, emigrated to Kentucky in early time, and thence to Indiana; was a pioneer of Kentucky and also of Indiana, and did much to improve this State. His descendants are in almost every State and Territory of United States, and in religion in general adhere to the Presbyterian faith, and in politics uphold the principles of the Republican party.
Wm. H. H. Benefiel, subject of this sketch, was raised on a farm and educated at the district schools and Hanover College. He was married in 1856, to Marand John- son, daughter of Wm. Johnson, a native of Kentucky. The result of this union was three children-Nancy A., Wm. T. and Mary A. All are married and live in this (Jefferson) and the adjoining (Ripley) counties.
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In 1857 he engaged in the dry-goods and grocery business, at Barbersville, Jefferson county, Ind., and has continued in the same business, in the same place, ever since (thirty-two years). He has also car- ried on farming the greater part of the time. He owns a part of the farm his father owned before Indiana was a State, 290 acres, which is well improved and very productive.
He was among the first to introduce and advocate the use of commercial fertilizers in his section, and has lived to see the great benefits derived therefrom.
He belongs to an old Whig family, and at the organization of the Republican party espoused the principles of that, and has been an ardent supporter of that party ever since.
Mr. Benefiel has been successful in his business, and has accumulated some valu- able property.
He has an uncle and aunt, aged 88 and 80, the last of the original settlers of the twelve brothers and sisters of the second generation of his branch of the Benefiel family.
GEORGE R. BOLEN, hardware mer- chant, was born, in Madison, November 14, 1860. He attended the public schools of Madison; and is a graduate of Halbert's Business College.
After leaving college he entered the post-
office as clerk, under the late Col. M. C. Garber, and continued with him for four years.
In 1879 Mr. Bolen took a position with Mr. F. G. Wharton, who was in the hard- ware business, with whom he remained un- til July 1, 1888, when he bought him out.
The firm name being Geo. R. Bolen & Co., they carry a full line of shelf hard- ware and carpenters' tools; and make a specialty of breech-loading shot guns and small arms. They have a fine trade, and the long experience of Mr. Bolen in the business gives him a great advantage in the trade, as he is complete master of it.
Mr. Bolen is a member of the K. of P., and a past chancellor of the order. He is a member of the Trinity M. E. Church, of which he is an officer.
He is the son of Sims B. and Elizabeth Bolen, natives of Kentucky, who came to Madison just before the war. Mr. Sims Bolen, the father, has been superintendent of the Gas Co.'s works for about thirty years.
He was a member of the 67th Ind. Vols. during the late war, and a man respected by all who know him.
Mr. Geo. R. Bolen, the subject of this sketch, is a man of integrity and good business habits and qualifications, affable and pleasant in manner. He made many friends while in the postoffice, a place which tries the patience of both the patron and the employe, but George came out of it with more staunch friends than when he went in to it, and with his pleasant ways only made brighter by the constant trial.
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JOSEPH T. BRASHEAR, Mayor of the city of Madison, is a native of Washington county, Pa. Was born May 10, 1832. His parents were Basil and Margaret (Trotter) Brashear, who were born in Steubenville, Ohio, and Claysville, Pa. His father was a tailor by trade. His mother died when he was three years old.
Mr. Brashear received only the educa- tion afforded by the common schools of the county.
In 1848 he removed to Steubenville, Ohio, where he commenced the trade of blacksmithing, and worked there until 1851, when he came to Madison, Ind.
He continued at his trade here, and started in to work for J. S. & R. E. Neal, foundrymen, for whom he worked up to 1860. In that year he, with others, began the steamboat building, at which he con- tinued until 1865, when he went into part- nership with Mr. A. Campbell, in the manufacture of steam boilers, and remained in this for three years.
In 1868 he, with John W. Vawter, en- gaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements at N. Madison for four years, at which time he sold out his interest and engaged again in blacksmithing as foreman for Cobb, Stribling & Co., foundrymen, in Madison.
In May, 1875, he made the race for mayor of Madison on the Democratic ticket, beating the incumbent, Alexander White, 157 votes. Served for two years, when he was re-nominated, and ran against Captain Powers whom he defeated by 474 votes. This was the election of 1877. In 1879 he
again made the race for mayor, this time against John W. Linck, and was elected by forty-two votes.
In 1881 he was defeated in the Demo- cratic Convention for the nomination, and Mr. S. J. Smith, a Republican, was elected. In 1883 the Republicans re-nominated Mr. Smith, and the Democrats nominated Mr. Brashear, and he was elected by 183 ma- jority. In 1885 he was again nominated as a candidate by the Democrats, and de- feated Mr. John Pattie, Republican nomi- nee, fifty-five votes. In 1887, ran again, his opponent being Capt. H. B. Foster, whom he beat by a majority of twenty- four.
September 3, 1853, he was married to Miss Nancy Conaway, of Madison. They have eight children.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Honor. In ten years he has been absent but two times from meetings of the City Council.
WILLIAM P. BROWN is a native of Scotland. He was born July 9, 1841. He came to the United States in 1845, with his parents, who located in Jefferson county, Ind.
He was brought up on a farm in this county, and attended the common schools of the county.
He came to Madison in 1871, and worked at the carpenter's business until
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1874, when he formed a partnership with Thomas Dow in the lumber business, under the firm name of Dow & Brown, making walnut lumber a specialty, which business they have been successfully engaged in ever since.
This firm has recently bought the saw- mills situated on the corner of Front and Plum streets, Block No. 12. Their lumber yard office is on Mulberry street. They are the largest and most prominent lumber merchants in the city.
Mr. Brown was married in 1871 to Miss Mary Graham, of this county, daughter of Mr. James Graham, and has four living children : William A., Thomas M., James G. and Agnes W.
His parents were Alexander and Isabella (Martin) Brown. His father was a promi- nent farmer of this county, and died in 1882, at the age of 92 years. His mother died in 1858, at the age of 50 years.
E. BUCHANAN (deceased), formerly of Shelby township, Jefferson county, Ind., was born October 21, 1821, in Ripley county, and was the son of Wilson Bu- chanan, a native of Pennsylvania. Wilson and his three brothers came to Indiana at an early day, and made the first settlement in this neighborhood, and helped to build the first fort or blockhouse here, as a place of refuge for the settlers and of defence
against the Indians. The fort was called Buchanan's Station. They raised families under the difficulties attending pioneer set- tlement. The subject of this sketch was one of the children, and was raised a pioneer, getting an education of the best afforded at that time, which was of the simplest, and of what could in these days of advanced schools be considered the poorest, kind.
At the age of 19, in 1841, he married Miss Lucinda Connor, daughter of Mr. Louis Connor, who was also an early set- tler. The result of this union was six children : Wm. H. H., who enlisted in the Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers, and re- turned home in six months and died the same year from illness contracted in the service ; Minerva J., Lavina H., Eliza E., John W. and Edith E. His wife died September 2, 1857, and he re-married Feb. 14, 1859. This time he married Miss Rebecca Hillis, daughter of Hiram Hillis, a native of Indiana. Her mother was Louisa Atherton, daughter of Joseph Atherton, a native of Virginia. The result of this mar- riage was seven children : Mary E., Han- nah, Victoria, Hattie L., Effie M., George T. and Nellie S.
The subject of this sketch died February 19, 1883. He had been successful in life, educated his children well, and at the same time, by careful management and patient industry, had accumulated quite an amount of valuable property. At the time of his death he owned some 900 acres of well im- proved land in Ripley and Jefferson coun- ties, which is still owned by the heirs. All of his property was obtained by his own
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