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ROBERT MORTON, farmer, Hanover township, is the son of John and Jeanette (Weir) Morton, who were natives of Scot- land, and came to the United States in 1819. Mr. Morton was born March 7, 1845, in Switzerland county, Ind., and was brought up in that county until he was eleven years of age, when he came to Jefferson county with his parents, and located in Hanover township. He is un- married and lives on his farm of 89 acres on the Hanover and Lexington Pike, three miles west of Hanover. His farm is well improved and well stocked. He is a great admirer of blooded stock, and is trying to get the best for his farm. He also owns a farm of 86 acres, two miles south of this one. He is a member of Carmel (U. P.) Church, and is one of the trustees of that church.
JOHN. W. MORTON is the son of John and Jeanette (Weir) Morton, who were na- tives of Scotland.
He was born in Switzerland county, Ind., April 3, 1835. Was raised on a farm and has been a farmer all of his life. In 1864 he joined the 137th Reg. Ind. Vols .; was a private, and was ont until near the close of the war.
He owns 93 acres of land.
He was married in 1860 to Miss Rhoda Swann, a native of Jefferson county. She died, and he married Miss Nancy Hastie, of Scott county. He has four children : James, Harry, Robert and Frank.
His father located in Jefferson county, in 1857, and died the same year. His mother died in 1875. He has two brothers and five sisters.
LOUIS MUTH, farmer, Monroe township, was a native of Bavaria, Germany; came to this country with his father, John Muth, who settled in New Marion, Ripley county, Ind. Louis learned the tailor's trade, but preferred farming.
He married, in 1872, Miss Margaret Friedersdorff, of Jefferson county, a dangh- ter of Peter Friedersdorff, a native of Hesse- Darmstadt, Germany.
The result of this marriage was four children : George, aged 17; William Bright, aged 14; Minnie, aged 11; and Maggie, aged 8. Mr. Muth belongs to the Lutheran Church, and is opposed to secret orders.
He owns 150 acres of land, and is a good farmer and a contented man.
COL. JNO. N. PATTON, farmer, Monroe township, was born in Belfast, Ireland, about the year 1750; emigrated to this country before the Revolution of 1776-83, and served in that war on the side of the Union Colonies. Among other children born to him was Matthew Patton; to Matthew was born Hezekiah E. Patton, in Bunkum county, N. C., July 25, 1779.
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Hezekiah migrated to Indiana in 1814, and settled in Jefferson county, at what is now the site of Mud Lick. Afterward bought Section 21, Township 10, Range 5 North, where he resided until 1850; then removed to North Madison, where he died.
Upon this farm, the subject of our sketch, Major (as he is usually called) John N. Patton, was born August 31, 1825. He was raised on a farm, got a good plain ed- ucation, the best afforded by the schools of the time. Taught school for a number of years, and was married on January 1, 1850, to Eliza Woodfill, daughter of Dan- iel Woodfill, of Jefferson county. After marrying he settled down to life as a farmer on the farm upon which he was born, and still resides there. The result of this union was seven children, viz : Kitty, who married George W. Altizer, and moved to Kansas, and died there; Sarah A., who died in infancy ; Mary married C. Kohl; Julia A. married Frank M. McLelandell (now a widow, 1888) ; J. Morton married Annie Taylor ; Alice Cary married to John Spann, living at New Albany, Ind .; Rob- ert E. died an infant ; Eliza H., now at home.
June 16, 1862, he was mustered into United States service as first lieutenant of Co. C, Fifty-fourth Regiment Indiana Vol. Infantry, promoted to the rank of captain, served until August 25, 1863; then organ- ized company in First Independent Battal- ion Infantry, and was made Major; at the close of service, brevetted Lieutenant-Colo- nel for services rendered. After close of
the war settled down again to the life of the farm; and he has since lived on his farm of 100 acres of land in Monroe town- ship, Jefferson county. Is a member of the G. A. R., John A. Hendricks Post, No. 107. His father's mother was Kate McCol- lough, who was a sister to Ben McCol- lough, the Confederate General, and daugh- ter of Elijah McCollough, whose father set- tled in the mountains of Virginia, nearthe North Carolina line, in the last century, and came from the Highlands of Scotland. The mother of Col. Patton was Anna Wil- son, daughter of Nathaniel Wilson, who came to this county as early as 1809; Ohioans by birth, they went to Kentucky, then Indiana.
Margaret Patton, an annt of Col. Pat- ton, organized the first Sunday-school in Jefferson county ; all who were her pupils, except James Baxter, now in Oregon, are dead.
Hezekiah E. Patton, the father of the subject of our sketch, was a soldier in the War of 1812; was an advocate for freedom and free speech, he, with Captain Isaac Chambers and James Baxter, having held a mob of some sixty persons at bay, while a free-soil abolitionist delivered a lecture in the log school-house in the year 1836. The mob were armed and equipped with all things necessary to tar- and-feather and ride the speaker on a rail, but so soon as they saw the three old stal- wart soldiers on picket, armed with their old squirrel rifles and their hunting knives in their belts, they considered discretion
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the better part of valor, and retired to the woods and held a picnic, and our subject, the son, is a firm believer in the theory That Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son. He died in July, 1856.
DR. BENJAMIN A. PENN was born in Shelby township, Jefferson county, July 22, 1824. He was the son of Ephraim and Mary Ann (Warfield) Penn.
His father was a native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of William Penn, the founder of that State.
Benjamin Penn, grandfather of Dr. Penn, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The father of Dr. Penn was born in 1784, and came to Kentucky about the year 1800; he first stopped at Maysville a short time, and removed from there to Frankfort, where he located.
He bought or entered three different tracts of land, which he lost by priority of title in other names. He married in Ken- tucky, and removed to Indiana about the year 1816, so that part of his children were born in Kentucky and the younger part in Indiana.
He settled in Shelby township, about two miles west of where the town of Canaan now is, and built the first brick house in that township.
Dr. Penn was born on this farm, and spent his life here until his thirteenth year. He attended school, first going to John
Gillespie, one of the pioneer teachers of the county. Among other teachers to whom he went were Thomas Hicklin, Wm. H. Phillipps, and Henry Mavity, who all became prominent men. The school-house was built by his father and two or three other settlers.
Dr. Penn studied in these schools, besides the elementary branches, Latin, Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. At the age of sixteen he spent one year in the office of Dr. Thomas Watson, of Shelby county, Ky., in the study of medicine. Then he returned home and read in the office of Dr. Howard Watts, of Madison, for two years. Then he read the library of Dr. Hyel Morri- son, also of Madison. About this time he went to Lewis county, Ky., and read and practiced one year with Dr. T. O. Mershon. Then he put up his shingle independently, or on his own hook, Sept. 20, 1846, at Oldtown, Ky., and practiced for three years, and then removed to a point near Camden, Carroll county, Iud. In 1853 he removed to Miami, and remained there until February, 1857, from whence he removed to Jefferson county, Ind., where he has since resided, first at Canaan for two years, and since then at Bryantsburgh.
After coming to this county he attended lectures at Cincinnati, and graduated in the class of 1864-65.
On the 4th of November, 1856, at Miami, he was married to Miss Rebecca E. Guest, and they have five children: Luke, born July 23, 1857; Mary, June 8, 1860; Ben F., April 5, 1866; John S., September 10, 1867, and Silas, September 22, 1872. The
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eldest son is a practicing physician in Aurora, Ind .; he read medicine with his father and attended lectures at the Louis- ville School of Medicine. Mary married J. G. Butt, of Illinois, and has three sons. Ben F. is traveling in Montana; John is in Janesville, Wis., attending a school of telegraphy, and Silas is still at home with his. parents.
Dr. Penn's parents both died in the 73d year of their age, his father in 1856 and his mother in 1860.
At the age of 17 Dr. Penn joined the Baptist Church, but left that church at Miami, Ind., because there was no Baptist church there, and united with the Chris- tian Church; he then withdrew from that church on account of peace principles and established a church called the Church of the Prince of Peace; but owing to a difficulty in procuring a room for meeting, it was dis- continued, and he became a member of the Hebron Baptist Church, and has remained a member in that church to the present.
Dr. Penn owns and resides on a very nice little farm of fifty acres of good land.
Since his graduation at Miami Medical College he has studied the German and Greek languages, so as to speak, read and write the German and to read and teach the Greek.
Dr. Penn was ordained a minister of the Christian Church, and has devoted a large portion of time, study and hard service in teaching and preaching the pure and un- adulterated word of God as given to the world by Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, and His Apostles, and in opposition to
human creeds, Imman churches and war under all shapes and forms.
SQUIRE PHILLIPS, farmer, Shelby township, was born in Jefferson county, in 1832. He never went to school more than three months in his life. About the time that boys are in school now, he was busy as a hand at log rolling, cabin building, and other work. He has been a farmer all of his life, and is a very good one, as the farm he now lives on, of 172} acres, testi- fies by producing more now than when he first settled on it.
He is the son of Presby and Sarah (Hall) Phillips. His father was born in Ohio, of Virginia parents, and was one of the first settlers of Jefferson county, Ind. His mother was the daughter of William Hall, who was a soldier at Valley Forge.
At the time Mr. Phillips was a boy the old wooden mould board plough was in use, and the farmers raised the flax from which clothing was made for the family.
He was married in 1857 to Mary E. Car- dinal, daughter of John Cardinal, native of England. They have four living children : Charles W., John, Samantha J. and Susan. Charles W. is practicing medicine in Scipio, is a graduate of Ohio Medical College; first studied medicine with Dr. S. B. Lewis, of Canaan. John is farming in Jefferson county, and Susan is at home. Mr. Phillips has never sought office, and
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belongs to no secret order, and is a good citizen in every sense of the word. He is a Republican in politics.
JOHN J. PILES, farmer, Monroe town- ship, was born Nov. 23, 1823, in Kentucky, and is the son of William Piles, a native of Henry county, Ky. His father, Conericus Piles, a native of Virginia, was one of the famous "hunters of Kentucky" of Daniel Boone's days, and was a Revolutionary sol- dier.
William Piles settled in Switzerland county, Ind., as early as 1825 or '26, where he lived for many years. There he married Elizabeth Haydon, who was the daughter of William Haydon, a native of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky at an early time of his life and lived there a great many years. Of this family, Ben, Jackson, Thomas and Bland Haydon were soldiers in the War of 1812-15.
Mr. John J. Piles was a son of these par- ents, and was raised on a farm. In 1846 he was married to Miss Cynthia A. Ray- burn, daughter of R. Rayburn, a native of Kentucky, of Irish ancestry. Her mother, Nancy Ryden, was a native of Kentucky.
Mr. Piles and wife have never had any children of their own, but have furnished homes for five of other parents, namely : Chas. U. Kenen, Martin L. Rayburn, Nancy J. Piles, and her two daughters, Laura B. and Elizabeth. Mr. Piles went at the first call for troops in the Rebellion, as a pri-
vate in Co. D, Thirty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and was in all the battles of his regiment, viz : Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, etc. The regiment was with Sher- man in his famous "March to the Sea." Served three years, and came back to farm- er's life, settling in Jefferson county, Mon- roe township. He is a member of the G. A. R. and is a good citizen.
JOHN F. POMMEREHN was born in Germany, March 20, 1839.
His father's name was Frederick Pom- merehn. Both of them came to the United States in 1850, on a sailing vessel, being seven weeks on the passage, arrived in October. His father died in 1882.
John F. Pommerehn settled in Jefferson county. His education was received in Ger- many. He is a farmer and has worked at milling.
He was married in 1868, to Miss Nancy Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, a native of Scotland. They have nine children : William, Jane, Anna, James, John, Mary, Thomas, Ellen and Cahancy.
He owns 142} acres of well-improved land in Jefferson county, and has a saw- mill on his farm.
Mr. Pommerehn has succeeded in mak- ing a good living, and has accumulated some property besides.
All of his children are living at home with their parents.
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Mr. Pommerehn is a member of the Masonic Order, and a well respected citizen.
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JAMES V. RAWLINGS, M. D., Wirt, Jefferson county, is a native of Jefferson county, and was born on a farm in Lan- caster township, January 3, 1859. His parents are James E. and Margaret (Wal- ker) Rawlings, natives of Jefferson county, Ind., and of England. His grandfather Vincent Rawlings was a native of Kentucky, and was one of the early settlers of Clark county, Ind., and afterward came to this county ; wasa tanner by trade, but became a farmer in Lancaster township, where he lived to a good old age.
The father of Dr. Rawlings lives in Lan- caster township, on a farm. Dr. Rawlings was reared on a farm, and was educated at the college in Danville, Ind. He studied medicine with Dr. J. W. Flanders, of Du- pont, Ind., and graduated in the spring of 1887, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Md. He began the practice of medicine at Wirt, has a large practice thus far, and a fine promise for future work.
EARL T. RECTOR was born in Lancas- ter township, Jefferson county, Jannary 12, 1842. Daniel Rector, the great-grand- father of E. T. Rector, was the founder of
the Rector family in Jefferson county ; was a native of Virginia, and came to Jefferson county as early as 1807. Daniel was in the Ranger service in the War of 1812-15, and was killed at a muster near Kent, Jef- ferson county, Ind. Daniel Rector, son of Hezekiah, was the father of the subject of our sketch ; was born and raised in Lancaster township, Jefferson county, Ind. He mar- ried Jane C. Farris, daughter of Leonard Farris, a native of New York. They had ten children, of whom Earl T. Rector was the eldest. Born and reared on a farm, was educated in the common schools of the county. Lived on the farm and learned the plasterer's trade. At the call of Presi- dent Lincoln for troops, he enlisted in Co. K, Twenty-second Reg. Ind. Vols., Col. Jeff. C. Davis. He was with his regiment in all of the battles in which the regiment was engaged ; the principal ones were Pea Ridge, Ark., Corinth, Miss., and Perrysville, Ky., Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and others. He was one of the men of his company who came out of all the battles unhurt. During his last months of service he was in the Pioneer Corps. He came home in 1864, and returned and served until 1865, when he was discharged at close of war. On one occasion, while following Price, he was detailed as forager for provisions, and during the raid he lost all of his clothing but boots and shirt; at a store he found a pair of linen pants, a cut- away coat and a stove pipe hat, all of which he appropriated as contraband of war; and in this costume fought the Jolm- ies for some time during the spring of 1862.
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He came home and settled down to a farm life, taking unto himself Miss Irene Craft, as a wife, in 1867. She was the daughter of John B. Craft, a native of New York.
They have three children : John B., Dan- iel P. and Jennie, who are all at home.
Mr. Rector is a member of the I. O. O. F. and is commander of John A. Hendricks Post, G. A. R .; was a Freemason. He spent the four best years of his life in the army. He is a good citizen and farmer.
Hezekiah Rector, grandfather of Earl T., was a captain of a company in our Colo- nial war, and he was shot by one of the company's sentinels who refused to be re- leased from duty.
DR. JOHN H. REYNOLDS was a son of Simeon L. and Charity (Tomlinson) Rey- nolds, and was born in Jefferson county, Ind., July 17, 1820. His parents were na- tives of Connecticut and of Irish and Eng- lish origin.
His father settled in Madison, Ind., in 1815, and was a carpenter by trade. For thirteen years in early life he was a mariner on the ocean. In 1820 he went from Madison to a farm in Jefferson coun- ty, and died in 1847.
Dr. Reynolds was raised on the farm, one of thirteen children, educated in the ordinary schools, afterward in a select school. At the age of 24 years.he began the study of medicine under Dr. Parley Hill, of New York (who died in Madison,
Ind.), and graduated from the University of St. Louis in 1849. He began the practice of medicine in 1844, where he now is, near Wirt, and has continuously practiced medicine since.
He was married to Miss Maria Hall, of Jefferson county, daughter of Robert M. Hall, of Kentucky, but formerly of North Carolina, and has six living children : Lou, wife of D. Morris, of Kentucky; Sallie C., wife of L. C. Holmes, a Kentucky mer- chant ; Allie, wife of Louis Levey, pub- lisher, Indianapolis; Blanche, wife of John Ross, teller in the First National Bank of Madison ; Geo. E., M. D., at Kent, Jefferson county, graduate of Indiana Medical Col- lege, and Scott H., M. D., at Scipio, Ind., graduate of Miami Medical College, Cin- cinnati, O. Dr. Reynolds owns 85 acres of land. He is a fine physician, a good citi- zen, honored of his neighbors and the pub- lic generally.
JOSEPH T. REYNOLDS, farmer, Lan- caster township, is a native of Lancaster township, Jefferson county ; was born Feb. 13, 1846, on a farm, and reared on a farm. He attended the common and high schools of the county.
He was married in 1864 to Miss Harriet E. Bonnell, a native of Ohio, but a resident of this county at the time of the marriage. They have four living children, three boys and one girl : George W., Ruth C., Andrew F. and William L.
Mr. Reynolds was elected Justice of the
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Peace in this township, in 1886, on the Republican ticket. He lives on a farm of 160 acres of good land, which is in a fine state of cultivation, lying at the edge of Dupont. His parents were William L. and Delilah (Johnson) Reynolds; mother a native of Kentucky ; father a native of Ver- mont. He came to Indiana and located at Madison in 1813; when he first came there were only log cabins in the town.
He drove the first dray in Madison. He entered one-half of the farm where his son now resides. He died in 1876, at the age of 73. His widow died in May, 1882.
JOHN RICHERT, firm of Fischer & Richiert, carriage and wagon manufac- turers, 315 East Main street, opposite Court House.
John Richert was born on the 16th day of July, 1835, in Baden, South Germany. Came to the United States in 1857, and located in Johnstown, Pa., where he remained about twenty-one months, work- ing in a rolling mill; but, with the desire to better his condition, he left Pennsylvania in 1859, and came to Madison, Ind. Here he applied himself to the trade of carriage and wagon making, and worked at it for about two years with Mr. J. B. Miller. At the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he re- mained about thirteen months working on Government wagons; while there he en- listed to help build the pontoon bridge,
that was constructed with coal barges over the Ohio river, from Cincinnati to Coving- ton, to expedite military forces and sup- plies. Soon after his return to Madison on board the boat, it was necessary for the boat officials to arm the passengers with muskets to fight their way, should they be attacked by Confederates; they how- ever reached Madison unmolested and in safety. Here he began work to lay the foundation for his present business. He enlisted with the Home Guards, and during the exciting period when Gen. Morgan was expected to cross the Ohio river and make a raid on Madison, he was one of the troops who stood guard on the river front.
He joined partnership with Mr. V. Fischer, and started in the manufacture of wagons upon a small scale. By doing good work and giving their business close atten- tion they have established a large and growing business. They commenced their business where they now are, in an old two- story frame building, but having enlarged their shops as their business increased, in the year 1874 they built the large two-story brick warerooms at present occupied by them, and commenced the manufacture of carriages also. They employ from eighteen to twenty skilled workmen.
Mr. Richert is a member of the German Lutheran Church, and for many years was one of the presiding elders; many of the improvements made are due to his good judgment, of which the congregation can be proud. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married in 1865 to Miss Elisabeth Keller, of Tell City, Ind .;
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born in the village of Ruedlinzen, Canton Shaffhausen, Switzerland. Eight children were born to them, six girls and two boys. Their names are-Anna, Elisabeth, Cath- arine, Magdalene, George, Caroline, Julia and Lemuel. Mr. Richert is a good citizen ; upright and honest in his business, his success is deserved, and his integrity has won him the esteem of his friends and the respect of all who know him. He is a good example of what may be attained in the way of competency by any who will employ the same means, honesty and perseverance.
JOHN R. RITCHIE, farmer, Creswell P. O., Smyrna township, Jefferson county, Ind., is a native of Smyrna township, and was born May 27, 1832; was raised on a farm; attended the common schools of the county, and went to Hanover College for one year. After leaving school he taught a district school in this county for three sessions. At that time teachers were elected by vote. In 1856, October 23, Mr. Ritchie was married to Miss Mary A. Dean, of this county, daughter of John Dean, a native of New York. He has three living children, two girls and one boy : Walter, Lucy and Bertha. Walter married Miss Sarah A. Amsden, of this county ; Lucy and Bertha are both living at home. Mr. Ritchie is a member of the Grange Ins. Co., and helped to organize the company. He has a farm of 247 acres of good land, well improved. He is now making a specialty
of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. He started his herd with "Miss Fannie," of well-known herd of Mr. John B. Poyntz, of Maysville, Ky., and has now a very fine herd, which he is always pleased to show to anyone. Mr. Ritchie was among the first who run a steam thresher in Jefferson county, and was the first to take a steam thresher on the hill in Trimble county, Ky. His parents were John and Sophia (Branham) Ritchie. John Ritchie was born in Ohio in the year 1807, and came to Jefferson county, with his par- ents, when only two years old, and lived in this county till his deathin 1877, July 9. In 1829 he was married, and in the spring of 1830 located on Harbert's creek, near the present postoffice of Creswell, Smyrna town- ship, where he and Robert Branham built a grist and saw-mill that was run by water ; this was one of the first water-mills in the township. They continued to run this mill for a few years, when they put in a steam- engine, making the first steam grist and saw-mill in the township. The same engine is still at work in the saw-mill to this day, having used up four boilers. At the time of starting the steam mill, Mr. Ritchie formed a partnership with Mr. Smiley Sam- ple, the firm name being Ritchie & Sample, for running the mill and a store. This firm continued about two years, when Ritchie bought out Sample's interest in the whole concern, and continued in the milling busi- ness till he died. Mr. Ritchie was 69 years old at the time of his death, at which time he owned 500 acres of land, and some houses and lots in Madison, making him worth in all about $30,000. He was the
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largest tax-payer in the township. He was a good manager. He was one of the first members of Smyrna Presbyterian Church, and was a deacon in the church for many years, and gave liberally to the church, and was foremost in assisting all deserving per- sons and enterprises. He gave $500 to Hanover College. He was the largest stock- holder in the Smyrna and Graham Turn- pike Road.
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