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He is at present Captain of Sons of Vet- erans. He was married, September 22, 1867, to Miss Sophia Blackard, of Madi- son, Ind., daughter of Peter and Rebecca (Jolison) Blackard, who were Virginians. They have no living children ; but have one adopted daughter.
WM. WALLACE HINDS is a native of Madison, Ind., born June 8, 1855; brought
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up in Madison, attended the city schools and Hanover College. He is also a gradu- ate of the Commercial School of this city.
He became the city editor of the Madi- son Daily Star, June 1, 1880, and con- tinned as such until it was absorbed in the Madison Daily Courier. He was then offered the circulation department of that paper, in January, 1884, which he accepted and held until August, 1888, when he gave up that position.
He was elected one of the trustees of the City Water Works in the spring of 1888, on the Republican ticket against a Demo- cratic majority in the city. The trustees elected him president of the Board, and superintendent of the Water Works, which position he is still holding (Dec., 1888).
While with the Daily Courier, he was elected a member of the City Council in 1885 on the Republican ticket, and was re- elected to the same position in 1886, from fourth ward of the city.
Mr. Hinds is an active Odd Fellow and a prominent member of the K. of P. Order, having held the position of Grand Inner Guard of the State, and is now District Deputy. He was captain of the Madison Division No. 10 U. Rank K. of P. He is now president of Walnut Street Fire Co. No. 4. He is an attendant of the Second Pres- byterian Church of this city. Mr. W. W. Hinds is the son of James W. and Ruth C. (Cook) Hinds. His father was a native of Brattleborough, Vermont, born September 24, 1809, and came to Madison, Ind., when a young man.
He was a bricklayer and contractor; he
built a great number of houses in Madison and built Hanover College and the court house in Madison. He also engaged in the mercantile business at Madison and in the coal business. He was County Commis- sioner of Jefferson county, and served in the City Council of Madison for a number of years. He was a prominent Republican and was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee for some years.
He was a member of the Second Presby- terian Church in Madison. He was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows, having been made at one time Grand Mas- ter of the State, of that order. He was a good citizen. He died May 22, 1878, in the 69th year of his age, leaving a widow and five children ; three boys and two girls.
The mother of W. W. Hinds was the daughter of David and Mary Cook and was a native of East Tennessee; she is still living at the age of seventy-six, and is quite an active, hale woman.
She is a member of the Second Presby- terian Church of Madison, Indiana, and is quite prominent in the work of that church and all other good works of that kind in the city ; a benevolent spirit being one of the chief adornments of her character.
She was married to Dr. Joseph F. Lingle, at Paoli, Orange county, Indiana, in 1831. By this marriage she had one son, William Summerfield Lingle, who be- came the editor of the Lafayette (Indiana) Daily Courier, and was a prominent man in newspaper circles of the State. Mr. Lingle was also postmaster of Lafayette for four years,
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In the year 1836, Mrs. Lingle was mar- ried to J. W. Hinds, and the fruits of this marriage were nine children-five boys and four girls.
HENRY JACKSON, farmer, Shelby township, is the son of John Jackson and Matilda Jackman. His father was born in New Jersey in 1801; moved to Tennes- see about 1807, with his father Thomas Jackson, who was in the war with the Indians at the battle of the Horseshoe.
They all came to Indiana in 1822. His mother was the daughter of Robert Jack- man, who was from Maryland and also came to Indiana in 1822. She was born in Pennsylvania. They were of Irish de- scent.
The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Jefferson county, in 1836; was ed- ucated in the common schools of the county. He was married, in 1858, to Nancy Griffin, daughter of James Griffin, a native of Jefferson county ; his people came from Kentucky. Immediately after marriage he removed to Kansas, where he remained ten months, and then returned to Jefferson county, where he still resides. He has six living children-Robert, James, Matilda, Henrietta, Grace and Harry. He owns forty-six acres of well-improved land.
He succeeded in giving to all his children a better education than he had. One, Elmer, was educated for a teacher, but died at nineteen from a wound in his hand.
Four of his children are married, and all live in Shelby township; they are all farmers.
Mr. Jackson never sought office, and is a good, trusty, honorable citizen.
HENRY JINES, farmer, Monroe town- ship, is the son of Silas Jines; the latter born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 8, 1812, and came to Ohio, when 19 years of age, with his father's family. They lived there but two years, when they came to Indiana and settled in Jefferson county, Monroe town- ship, in 1835.
His father's name was Jacob Jines; was a brave soldier in the Revolutionary war, and while marching to meet Gen. Ross, was shot by two young Britishers; and he was a celebrated pioneer preacher, as well as an expert fiddler before he began to preach; he organized Big Creek Church, and helped to build up Marble Church, both in Monroe township.
Silas Jines was a soldier in the 6th Reg. Ind. Vols. during the Rebellion, as were his two sons, Henry, the subject of this sketch, and William, who were in the 22d Reg. Ind. Vols., as musicians.
Mr. Silas Jines was a prominent free- soiler abolitionist in the days that it took courage, both moral and physical, to stand for the principles avouched by those parties. He was a conductor, and his house a sta- tion, on the Underground Railroad.
Henry Jines, subject of this sketch, was born Feb. 27, 1839, in Hamilton county,
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Ohio, and came to Indiana in 1842, with his father, Silas Jines.
He was raised in a cooper shop, and re- ceived a very limited education. On July 4, 1861, he enlisted as a musician in the 22d Reg. Ind. Vol. Infantry, and served until discharged on Aug. 22, 1864. He was in all the thirty-two battles of his regiment except Pea Ridge, at which time he had small-pox. He enlisted as a private in the 16th Mounted Infantry (Ind. Troops) stationed at New Orleans, La .; he served in this regiment eight months, when he was transferred to the 13th Ind. Cav., under Johnson, on the 19th day of June, 1865. He was honorably discharged from the service of his country on the 13th day of November, 1865.
On the 6th day of December, 1865, he was married to Kesiah Kirk, daughter of Joseph Kirk, a Virginian, who came to Kentucky, and then to Indiana, in an early day. The result of this union was six children, viz: James F., Fanny L. J., Hester A., Levina L., Jacob J. and George W.
Mr. Jines is postmaster at Faulkner; is a charter member of John A. Hendricks Post, G. A. R., and was Adjutant of the Post three years, and Surgeon one, and now this year Junior Vice Commander. He owns nineteen acres of land.
It would seem that a vein of martial mu- sie ran through the blood of the Jines family, as the two paternal great-grand- fathers of Henry Jines and Dean were fifers in the Revolutionary war ; then, jump- ing over two generations, Henry and his brother William served as fifers in the
late war, serving four years one month and sixteen days.
HENRY CLAY JONES, of Madison, Ind., is the son of Joshua E. and Rachel (Coons) Jones, natives of Ross and Hamil- ton counties, Ohio. He was born Septem- ber 26, 1837, in Cincinnati. When he was only two years of age his mother moved to Jeffersonville, Ind., his father having died previous to this time; there she remained for about two years, and moved to Madison, Ind., in 1841. Mr. Jones afterward went back to Jeffersonville, to his grandfather Coons, and attended school. In 1858, he engaged in the grain and produce business in Madison, Ind., in which he continued till 1866. At this time he engaged in steam and flatboating to New Orleans and up the Kentucky river, and followed this business up to 1876, since which time he has been engaged in the log and lumber business. He has fur- nished large lots of lumber for the Govern- ment work upon the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. He, with Mr. Wm. Kirk, took the contract and built the Rising Sun dike, and he was one of the contractors to fur- nish the lumber for Dam No. 1, on the Kentucky river, and for the Portland dike at Louisville, Kentucky. Is now in saw- mill at Madison, Ind. Mr. Jones was married on December 18, 1859, to Miss Margaret Bishop, and has three living children : Elmer G., Richard J. and Ruth P. His Grandmother Jones lived to the
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very old age of 97 years, died near Chilli- cothe, Ohio. His mother died in Madi- son in 1871, at 63 years.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, farmer, Shelby township, was born in the State of Ken- tucky, March 1, 1802. He was the young- est child of Thomas Johnson, a native of Virginia, who took a trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers about the year 1804 and never returned. William Johnson's mother moved near Lexington, and afterward to Shelby county, Ky. Her family consisted of three boys and one girl. At the age of 23, Mr. Johnson came to Indiana; he landed at Madison, which was then a very small town. He settled in Shelby township, on the farm where he now lives with his son, and built himself a stone house, in which he has always resided. Previous to this, however, at the age of twenty-one, he was married to Miss Nancy Spaulding, daughter of Robert Spaulding, a native of Virginia and one of the pioneers of Ken- tucky.
He and his wife were the parents of ten children : William, Sally A., Jordan, Rhodes, Henry, Elizabeth, Miranda, Mary Jane, Francis and John. Of these all are living but Sally A. and Elizabeth, and all live in Jefferson county but William and Mary Jane, who both live in Kansas.
Mr. Johnson's wife died July 31, 1880. He has never held an office. He was edu- cated in the log school-house days, when
the chimney was in the corner of the house, and the education was of a limited and poor character. When he first settled in Indiana, two or three months were spent every spring at log rollings, until the land of his neighbors was cleared and their houses built. In those early days the equipment of a farmer, in the way of tools, was a bull-tongue plow and a chopping axe ; some time after the wooden mould board plow was introduced; then came the old Barshear, which were considered in their day as superior in kind as the advanced machinery of the present day is now. Trace chains were a luxury belonging to the richer class of farmers-the poorer were content with hickory wythes.
Mr. Johnson has laid off corn ground without either line or collar. John R. John- son, the third son of the above, and with whom he makes his home since death of his wife, was born November 4, 1839,on the farm where he now lives, and was raised a farm- er. August 14, 1862, he was married to Cynthia Barber, daughter of James Barber, a farmer of Jefferson county. They have but one child-Ettie L.
Mr. John R. Johnson was a soldier in Co. C, Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and was in all the principal engagements of his regiment during the time of service.
He is a member of the A. O. Bachman Post, No. 26, G. A. R. He is a prominent member of the Baptist Church.
He owns 67 aeres of good, well-improved land.
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EDWARD KAMPE, merchant, corner Third and Walnut streets, Madison, Ind., was a native of Germany, born in 1840, June 29. He came to the United States with his parents when only twelve years of age, and located in Madison.
He attended the common schools of the city, and after leaving school learned the trade of a carpenter, which he continued to work at until 1865, when he engaged in his present business, that of dry goods and grocery store ; he also handles feed and all kinds of seed. Mr. Kampe has continued at this business at the same place ever since, and has built up a large trade, and has been very successful. He is one of the principal stockholders and one of the direc- tors and vice-president of the First Na- tional Bank of Madison. Is also one of the stockholders and vice-president of Building Association No. 5. Mr. Kampe is a Mason and a member of the German M. E. Church. He is also a correspondent of the German National Bank of Cincin- nati, collecting much money for the Ger- mans through them. He is a notary pub- lic, and is a stockholder in the Firemen and Mechanics Insurance Company of this city, and has held stock in most all of the enterprises of the city.
He was married, in 1866, to Miss Cecelia Grebe, daughter of Jacob Grebe, an old settler of this city, and a prominent busi- ness man for many years; in the latter part of his life he was a farmer.
Mr. Kampe has one child, a son, Wesley, who is now a student at Hanover. His parents were George and Anne (Von Disen)
Kampe. His father is still living in Madison, at the age of 74 years. His mother died in 1875, at the age of 62 years. Mr. Kampe is one of Madison's best business men.
FRANCIS M. LANDON, Lancaster, Lan- caster township, was born in Hamil- ton county, Ohio, November 23, 1832; is the son of William and Elizabeth (Riggle) Landon. His father was born in Kentucky, December 22, 1810; his mother was born at Walnut Hills, Ohio, October 7, 1811. They were married at Walnut Hills, Feb- ruary 12, 1828, and raised a family of five children, of whom Francis M. is the second child. His father was a miller and farmer of this county, and died October 9, 1863, at the age of 53 years. His mother died January 2, 1860, at the age of 49 years.
His parents removed from Ohio to Scott county, Ind., when he was an infant, and about five years after removed to Jefferson county, and located on Big creek, his father buying what was known as "Settle Mill," a flour, grist and saw-mill. His father farmed, also.
The subject of this sketch attended the common schools of this county. He was married, April 15, 1856, to Miss Malinda Zenor, daughter of David Zenor, who was born at Harper's Ferry, Va., of Ger- man parentage, and who died in this county, January 5, 1887, at the age of 80 years.
Francis M. Landon and wife have five
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children, one boy and four girls: Eliza- beth, William A., Jennie, Agnes and Clara.
Mr. Landon commenced the milling busi- ness when only twelve and one-half years old, and has been engaged at the same business ever since. He took charge of the mill at that early age because the failing sight of his father incapacitated him for the work. Francis M. and his brother George built a new mill in 1856, a stone structure, 37x40, four stories high, with capacity of 100 barrels per day, at a cost of $10,000. It was destroyed by fire in 1869. His father was in debt at the time, but the young man succeeded in making a living, and paying the debt, and at the same time building up a large trade, which has remained with him ever since. His long experience has made him thorough in all departments of the mill, so that when he gets any improved ma- chinery he is able to put it up himself, also can repair almost anything about the mill.
Except for a few months of that time that he was in Jennings county, the whole of that time has been spent in Jefferson county. The mill he is now running is located at Lancaster; it is a merchant custom mill (flour and grist). His son William A. is now with him in the mill, the firm being Landon & Son.
In 1878 Mr. Landon was appointed county commissioner, to fill the unexpired term of James Baxter, and in 1880 was elected county commissioner for the term of three years, on the Republican ticket.
Mr. Landon is a member of the Baptist Church at Lancaster. Mr. Landon has been successful in his business, and very
few who have started out to make their fortunes at so young an age as he have succeeded so well. Honesty in business and probity of life have been his rule of life, and once a friend of his always a friend has been the result. He has now custom- ers who have dealt with him forty-five years. Such a testimonial is vouchsafed to few men in this world.
Mr. Landon is in remarkably good health for a man who has been so long engaged in the milling business, night and day. He deserves his success as the reward for such persevering labor, as well as for his pluck. A boy who at that age was laden with the reponsibility of a family and of debt, is seldom able to come out from under the load, and if he does is usually soured. Mr. Landon is as cheery as if everything had gone smoothly for him in this world, and does not show in his manner the troubles he has come through.
JOHN W. LINCK, attorney-at-law, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, Decem- ber 7, 1843. He was the son of Frederick E. and Esther (Todd) Linck, who were na- tives, the father of Germany, and the mother of Ireland.
His father came to the United States when sixteen years old. He was a farmer and teamster.
John W. Linck, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the common schools and at Asbury College-now DePauw Uni-
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versity-at Greencastle, Indiana, which he attended for two years after leaving the the army.
On June 19, 1861, he joined Co. K, 13th Ind. Inf. Vols., as a drummer boy ; was out in the field in active service, over three years, in that capacity, and was in all of the battles in which his regiment fought dur- ing that time.
He began the study of law in 1866, un- der the Hon. William Hale, of Iowa. He attended the lectures at the law school at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennes- see. He returned to Madison, Indiana, and continued the study of law in the office of Messrs. Allison & Friedley, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1867. During the time of studying in the office of Allison & Friedley, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served as such, for the double purpose of continuing his studies and of maintenance, as he was quite poor. He was appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, which office he held for two years, and was also City Attorney for two years. He was appointed by Gov. Baker, Prosecutor of the Criminal Court of Jefferson county, upon its organization, and was afterward elected, and held the office for nearly four years, or so long as the court was in existence.
He was United States Commissioner from 1874 to 1877.
He was director of the Indiana State Prison, South, for four years, up to 1880, when he resigned, before the expiration of
his commission, in order to accept the place of elector for the Fourth Congression- al District of Indiana on the Garfield ticket.
From 1881 to 1885, he was postmaster at Madison. In 1886 he was elected as Representative from Jefferson county to the State Legislature. While in the House of Representatives he was chairman of the committee of public buildings; chairman of the special election committee; also chairman of one branch of the committee on prisons. He was re-elected in 1888, Representative from Jefferson county on the Republican ticket. In politics he is a Republican.
He was married in 1868, to Miss Julia LaCroix, of Nashville, Tenn., who died in 1870, leaving one child, Stella Esther, and was again married to Miss Mina Frevert, who died in 1884, leaving one child, Lizzette.
Mr. Linck is a member of the G. A. R., and the order of Masons, of the I. O. O. F., Red Men, of the Grand Lodge of U. O. and K. of G. R. He was an original stock- holder in the Madison Woolen Mills. He assisted in organizing the Madison Stove Foundry, and was its first secretary. He was also one of the original stockholders in the Cotton Mill. He is a member of Fire Co. No. 1., of Madison; and a member of the M. and M. Club, Board of Trade. Mr. Linck owns 160 acres of land in Jefferson county, Ind., and a fine orange grove in Florida, together with several houses in the city of Madison.
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ZEPHANIAH LLOYD, farmer, Republi- can township, Jefferson county. The subject of this sketch is a farmer, and has always resided on a farm, having been born on . one. He was born in Somerset county, on the eastern shore of Maryland, in the year 1805.
Mr. Lloyd was left an orphan when only five years of age ; his mother died when he was only three months old. He was reared by his half-brother, Mr. Tubmond Wright, and came West, and settled in Switzerland county, Ind., in the spring of 1817, when he (Lloyd) was only twelve years old. He re- mained with his half-brother until 1822, when he was seventeen years old, when he came to Jefferson county, where he has re- sided ever since.
His brother Tubmond Wright died in March, 1828, at the age of 39 years ; he was a farmer of Switzerland county, Ind.
Mr. Lloyd was married, in 1824, to Miss Anna Latimore, who was a native of North Carolina, and came to Indiana in 1811, with her father, Daniel Latimore, who was a farmer of this county.
Mrs. Lloyd died September 23, 1881, at the age of 81 years and 8 months. She was a member of the M. E. Church .for sixty-two years. Mr. Lloyd has raised nine children, and has lived to see them all mar- ried-six girls and three boys, viz : Isabel, Elizabeth, Rhoda, Jane, Rebecca, Delpha, Oliver, Zephaniah, and Marion. Rebecca died January 31, 1868; Elizabeth died June 28, 1882 ; Rhoda died August 1, 1883.
Mr. Lloyd bought the eighty acres of land upon which he now lives in 1830.
Mr. Lloyd is the only one of his family now living ; he is one of the oldest citizens now in the county, and is a good citizen, a man who is well liked by his acquaintances,- respected by his neighbors, and loved by his friends.
He now resides in the family of his son, Zephaniah, who takes care of him, as he is almost blind, so much so as to be unable to read or do any labor which requires sight.
In June, 1887, Mr. Lloyd visited his old home, in Switzerland county, to attend an old settlers' meeting, it being seventy years since he landed in that county ; there were only three persons that were then living in the county, who were still alive. Mr. Lloyd has attended all of the old settlers' meetings of Jefferson county, and says that there are very few of them who are still living.
Mr. Lloyd has had a long and useful life, and now, at the age of 83, cannot ex- pect to tarry much longer on earth, but when he is called he will be sorrowed for as for one who has done his duty.
Zephaniah Lloyd, Jr. (or young Zeph, as he is called by his friends and neighbors), is married and has a family of two chil- dren, Eva J. and Thomas L. Eva is mar- ried to Orlando Cooperiden, a farmer of this township ; Thomas L. is in his sixteenth year, and is at home with his parents. Young Zeph. married Miss Sarah I. Cosby, of Smyrna township.
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JOSEPH H. LOCHARD (deceased) was born October 22, 1810, in Cumberland county, Pa. His father, James Lochard, was a Revolutionary soldier, of Scotch birth. After the war he came to Pennsyl- vania, and there married Mary Hicks (or Heicks), daughter of George Hicks, who was a large land owner in Cumberland county; he was bitterly opposed to the match, and the young people eloped and were married. Several children were born of this marriage, the youngest of whom was the subject of this sketch. The father emigrated, with his family, to Indiana in 1810, and settled on the site of Brooksburg, on the Ohio river, in Jefferson county. He died shortly afterward-about 1815-and was buried near the mouth of Locust creek, Kentucky. This left the family dependent on the mother and themselves. The mother, who was an invalid, suffering severely with sick headache, died a few years after the father, leaving the family in a strange, wild land without any parental protection or guidance.
In his boyhood the subject of this sketch was bound to Mr. James McCarty. During this time clothing and shoes were hard to procure, and the boy was compelled to dress in the summer in a tow linen shirt as his entire suit, always barefooted-often he would be barefooted until midwinter. When he first went to Mr. McCarty's his clothing was so wretched that Mrs. Mc- Carty-afterward Mrs. Stewart-pitied him so much that she made his first pair of pants from a large linen apron of her own. Upon the death of Mr. McCarty the boy
returned home, and being very desirous of procuring an education, he went to a Mr. Simmons, who was teaching a subscription school in the neighborhood, and bargained with him for a winter's schooling, for which he paid with beans. During this winter he found that he must have a slate in order to succeed with his studies, and how to get it without money was a problem of considerable trouble to study ; after a time he procured work for a day from a neigh- bor, for which he received one bushel of corn in payment, then he worked another day for the use of a horse, and took his bushel of corn to mill, and had it ground, and then he carried it to Madison (seven miles) and sold the corn-meal for eighteen and three-fourth cents, and with that pur- chased a slate. He studied at night by the light of burning hickory bark, and thus got a little information which was of very great value to him in after life.
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