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On July 16, 1862, Mr. Parrott enlisted in Company B, Eighty-seventh Indiana Infantry, and saw active service with his regiment. On the 6th of October, of that year, he was sunstruck at Springfield, Kentucky, but was able to take part in the battle of Perryville on the 8th. This sunstroke has caused him more or less trouble ever since, and he still feels its effects occa- sionally. He was with his regiment four months, and then he was detailed into the pioneer corps, and remained with them twenty months, after which he was sent to the First Veteran Volunteer Engineers and was with them until the close of the war, being mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, soon after receiving his discharge, on June 26, 1865, at Chattanooga. He was wounded at Stone river by a flying shell striking his hip. In a publication entitled "Indiana Officers in the War," Mr. Parrott is spoken of as second lieutenant. He was made a corporal soon after enlisting, and on April 1, 1864, was raised to the rank of sergeant in the United States Veteran Volun- teers. He served under P. V. Fox and William McLoughlin, lieutenant and acting adjutant.
Returning home after the war he again took up carpentering, carrying it on in connection with his farming. Many buildings in this vicinity are of his construction,-notably, the Smith elevator in Winamac, the Lutheran (Reformed) church, the John Frain house and barn, and the William Chap- man residence and barn. The work done for Chapman and Frain was his
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last contract work; for several years past he has retired from active labor of any kind.
George Parrott was married January 18, 1849, to Susan Emery, daugh- ter of John and Catherine (Harter) Emery. She was born in Richland town- ship, Marion county, Ohio, March 19, 1829. The children who have come to bless this home are Nancy Jane, born January 26, 1850, who is the wife of Benjamin Boyles, of Peoria: their children are Nellie, Martha, Jane and Clarissa; John Emery, who was born October 8, 1851, and married Ada Hawes and owns eighty acres in Rich Grove township: his children are Austin, Bessie, Nora, Grace, Homer, Addie, Charles and Amy; Martha Eliz- abeth, who was born August 26, 1853, and died October 29, 1878, mar- ried Frank Boyles, brother of Benjamin, and gave birth to two children, - George and Benjamin K., the latter of whom died at the age of four months; William Sewall, born September 8, 1855, who married, October 5, 1878, Etta Hawes, sister of Ada, and daughter of Daniel and Ellen (Gobel) Hawes, is a farmer of Richland township, near where his wife was born, on Sep- tember 24, 1858: their children are Elsie Eunice, born November 17, 1880, Nellie Gertrude, born August 1, 1884, Effie Katie, born August 28, 1887, George Harrison, born April 7, 1893; Susan Catherine, born March 15, 1858, married E. N. Stephenson, a molder now living in St. Louis: their children are Homer (deceased), Marshall and Percival; Ann, born September 8, 1860, who died just as she was budding into a more than brilliant womanhood, and only lacking four days of attaining her sixteenth year; Charles George, born October 3, 1866, who resides in Winamac, and is extensively engaged in insurance; he married Mary Simmons and has two children, -Fern Olive and Helen Mary. A more complete sketch of him is given on another page.
Mr. Parrott is a Republican, and while in Ohio was complimented by being elected township clerk; but, having no desire to enter political office, he declined the honor and would not serve. He is an honorable member of Winamac Lodge, No. 41, G. A. R., and is one whose friends are legion. It might be mentioned that Arthur Sewall, prominently before the public as occupying second place on the Democratic presidential ticket with William J. Bryan, in 1896, is a relative of our subject.
HON. MARION LYCURGUS SPITLER.
This worthy citizen of Rensselaer is a representative of one of the pio- neer families of Jasper county, and is well entitled to a place in the annals of a county whose development from a wild, primitive state to its present con- dition he has witnessed, being himself a material factor in the grand result. The Spitlers are of German extraction. Our subject's father, George
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W., was born in what was then Shenandoah, now Page, county, Virginia, April 23, 1813, a son of Abram and Mary (Rossenberger) Spitler, whose other children were Wesley, Zachariah, Rebecca and Mann. In 1834 George W. Spitler and his father came to Indiana for the purpose of securing a location for a future home, and in the course of their widely extended travels they visited the hamlet of Chicago, little dreaming that on the swamp at the mouth of the sluggish Chicago river would rise a city whose enterprise and achievements within half a centuryof that time would claim the attention and become the wonder of the world. The value of land, in the eyes of these Vir- ginia emigrants, consisted in broad acres of fertile farming tracts, and they finally selected some property on the banks of the Iroquois river, near the town of Brook, Newton county, and then returned to their native state.
In the following spring, 1835, George W. Spitler started for his new field of labor, making the journey with a horse and wagon. On the way he made an important stop, for in Butler county, Ohio, he was united in mar- riage with Malinda Hershman, on the 23d of April. The Hershmans had been old neighbors of his in Virginia, and on his first trip to Indiana he had visited the family and had then arranged for the marriage the next spring. The young couple made their wedding tour in the afore-mentioned wagon, and upon arriving at their destination settled down to true pioneer existence. In his youth Mr. Spitler had been very studious, and now he found that his learning was to serve him in good stead, for in the autumn of 1835 he ob- tained a position as a teacher in West Lebanon, Warren county, and, ac- companied by his wite, he spent the winter there. In 1841 he removed to a section of land which he had purchased in the vicinity of Rensselaer, and there he continued to reside during the remainder of his life. He built a good home in the village and dwelt there for a few years, but for the most part lived upon his homestead. His death was a tragic one, as he was killed by a stroke of lightning, August 17, 1863.
Probably no man did more for the founding of this county on a sub- stantial basis. He taught the first school in Rensselaer, and was ever actively concerned in educational matters. In 1839 he was appointed to the office of county clerk of Jasper county, being the first one here to occupy that post, which included the offices of auditor and recorder, those places not yet having been separated into distinct positions. So faithful and effi- cient was he that the people re-elected him three times to the same office, and frequently brought his name forward for state positions, as well. At one time he was colonel of a regiment of militia, and at all times he stood ready to lay aside his personal concerns, should his country or the public have need of him. He was a man of generous impulses, ever glad to lend a helping hand to others, and this quality led to the serious embarrassment
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of his estate at the time of his sudden demise, a condition which would have been remedied had he not been stricken when in his prime. No one ever doubted his absolute integrity, and the independence and freedom of con- science which he desired for himself he just as freely accorded to others. He was not identified with any church, but was a practical Christian, not- withstanding. His excellent wife, who had shared with him the vicissitudes of frontier life and had been a true helpmate, survived him, her death taking place March 8, 1883, when she was in her seventieth year. Mr. Spitler was an old-school Jackson Democrat and very zealous on behalf of his party. His brother Wesley came to this county some years after his own settlement here, and likewise became a prominent citizen of the county, of which he served as county surveyor, and in Newton township he held the office of trustee. He now resides near Effingham, Illinois. Another brother, Zachariah, was an early settler of what is now Washington township, New- ton county, and is still living there. Rebecca, the only sister who grew to mature years, married Thomas Buswell, and accompanied him to Newton county soon after the close of the civil war. Her husband is deceased, but she is still living at her old home in Newton county, near her brother Zacha- riah. Mann, the youngest of the family of brothers and sisters, was very prominent in his native state and for many years made his home in Page county, Virgina. He passed away a number of years ago.
The birth of Marion L. Spitler occurred March 12, 1836, in West Lebanon, Warren county, where his parents were spending their first winter in Indiana, and his father was teaching a school. He was but four months old when his parents became permanent residents of Jasper county, and in the neighborhood of Rensselaer almost his entire life has been passed. His father, being deeply impressed with the benefits of a good education, gave to his children as fine advantages as possible, and Marion L. was sent to Wabash College to complete his studies. He was graduated in that institu- tion of learning in the class of 1855. When the war of the Rebellion came on he volunteered his services in the defense of the Union, enlisting in Com- pany A, Eighty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry. He was chosen sec- ond lieutenant of his company and was soon promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was a gallant and competent officer and made an hon- orable and praiseworthy record while fighting for his native land. In 1866 he was elected clerk of the county court of Jasper county, and occupied that office for eight years, the constitutional limit of that position. He was a very able and popular official. In 1876, upon his retirement from the clerkship, he entered the law office of Thompson & Brother, of Rensselaer, his duties pertaining especially to the real-estate and abstract business, and with this firm he continued until it was dissolved in 1896, owing to the election of 42
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Simon P. Thompson to the office of circuit judge. In 1894 Mr. Spitler was elected on the Republican ticket to the Indiana legislature, representing Newton and Jasper counties. His services as a statesman reflected great credit upon himself and justified the wisdom of his fellow citizens in selecting him as their representative in the legislative halls of the state. His name is above reproach and all who know him hold him in the highest esteem. Though reared in the Presbyterian faith, he is not a member of any denom- ination, but is an earnest believer in practical Christianity, and strives to practice it in his daily life.
On the 26th of June, 1859, Mr. Spitler married Miss Mary E. Burnham, a native of Biddeford, Maine. She was reared in New Hampshire, and with her parents, Simon and Mary (Goodwin) Burnham, she went to Kansas, where she became acquainted with her future husband. She was one of fif- teen children, seven sons and eight daughters, many of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Spitler have four living children, namely: Marian E., who married F. B. Leaming and resides at Goshen, Indiana; Charles G., who mar- ried Mildred B. Powell, and is a member of the law firm of Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, of Rensselaer; Maude E., at home; and Marion L., Jr., now a stu- dent of the law department of the state university at Bloomington, Indiana.
MATTHEW HALE DUNN.
Among the influential men of Pulaski county, Indiana, probably none is more widely known or highly esteemed than the veteran grain dealer whose name heads this biography. He was born October 4, 1836, in Burlington, New Jersey, on the farm owned by his parents, Richard and Mary Ann (Simpson) Dunn.
Richard Dunn was born near Plymouth, England, on the land owned by his father, Charles Dunn, who was a farmer and land-owner. He ran away from home in his youth, taking passage as a stowaway on the vessel of his uncle, Charles Dunn. He was left in Paris and immediately took another vessel and made a tour of the Black Sea. He then decided to come to America, of which he had heard wonderful stories, and sailed for these shores, arriving in Baltimore in due time. He pushed on to Bethany, Vir- ginia, where he was employed in gardening, and later returned to Baltimore, where he followed the butcher business for a number of years. His next move was to New Jersey, where he met and married his wife, Mary Ann Simpson. In 1849 he went to Logansport, Indiana, where he farmed for two years. He continued to farm from that time, living at Winamac on the old Rudolph Hoch place, then at Kewanna and Star City, dying at the latter
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place about 1878, after a well spent life, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He was of medium size, probably five feet and three inches in height, and weighed in the neighborhood of one hundred and sixty pounds. He was a Republican and a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The mother of our subject was a native of New Jersey. She was the mother of nine children, of whom our subject was the oldest. Then came Martha, who married as her first husband Jacob Masters, who left her two children, -Samuel and Elizabeth. After his death she married Elijah Sharp, of Wichita, Kansas, by whom she had four children, Alice, and three who died. William Dunn, the third child, resides at Indianapolis, and married Rebecca Rhue. Their children are Myrtle, Nellie, deceased, Edna Mildred, and Matthew Hale, deceased. Charles, the fourth, was a soldier of the Ninth Illinois Volunteers, and forfeited his life at that vile spot, Andersonville, which will ever remain a blot on the pages of southern history. Richard died at the age of ten years. John was eleven when death claimed him. Victoria is the wife of Steven Gardner. Elizabeth married Albert Price; and Hannah died in girlhood, aged twelve years. The mother's father came to America from England and settled in New Jersey, where he owned many vessels and did an extensive business trading along the coast.
Matthew Hale Dunn began work at an early age, being but a lad of ten when he was introduced to farm work. Eight years later he entered the office of the Free Territory Sentinel, at Centerville, Indiana, edited by Ross & Vale, where he learned the trade of printer. He then went to Logansport, where he received wages, and remained five years. Realizing the advantage of an education, the next eighteen months were passed in diligent study in the school at Burnettsville. His next step was to accept a clerkship with T. H. Wilson, a grain dealer in Logansport, with whom he remained sixteen years, and became an expert in that particular line, being able to tell at a glance if an article belonged to the first, second or lower grade. This business suited him perfectly, and he left Mr. Wilson only to establish himself in the same business at Star City. He came to Star City in July, 1876, with a capital of about three thousand dollars, and purchased the business and building of T. C. Raymond, now of Boston. The first year he bought forty thousand bushels of grain, the largest amount handled by him being eighty thousand bushels of wheat and large amounts of all kinds of other grains. He is now the largest grain dealer in the county, and his integrity and honorable deal- ings have placed him above reproach.
February 22, 1861, Mr. Dunn and Sarah Margaret Hanawalt were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. She was born in Monticello, Indiana, May 28, 1837. In 1872 they built their comfortable home in this village and have been classed among our most esteemed residents. The children of
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Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are: Charles Winfield, who is in business with his father; he was born December II, 1861, and was married December 31, 1882, to Hulda Jane Truax, daughter of Peter and Jane Truax; she was born in this county January 26, 1862, and is a woman of many excellent qualities. Their children were: Simon Hale, born December 5, 1883, who died August 6, 1885; Lynn, born February 16, 1887, who died August 6, 1889; and Paul, born February 10, 1890. Carter Ann Dunn, who was born February 28, 1864, married Dr. J. F. Noland, February 28, 1883, and resides at North Judson. Sarah Alma, who was born November 7, 1866, married, August 29, 1887, Dr. P. D. Noland, a brother of Dr. J. F., and lives at Kouts; two children have been added to their household, -- Anna Belle, August 6, 1888, and Eva Margaret, November 1, 1892. Mildred Allison Dunn, who was born September 31, 1869, and died the following August. Mary Elizabeth, who was born September 10, 1871, and died February 16, 1872; Geneva Kate, who married Luke Hackett, June 27, 1894; their chil- dren are Margaret Irene, born October 22, 1895, and Catherine Louise, born December 29, 1887, who died February 6, 1888; Bessie Hale Dunn, who was born March 9, 1878, married Cecil Graffis, of Hebron, Indiana, March 29, 1894, and is the agent and operator at that station; they have one child, Thomas Hale, born February 27, 1896, and another, Richard Dunn, born December 29, 1898; Mary Francena Dunn, who was born November 9, 1880, the youngest of the family, and died August 27, 1896.
Mr. Dunn is a member of Star City Lodge, I. O. O. F., and a contrib- utor to the Baptist church, of which he is an honored member. In politics he adheres to the Republican faith, but is too much of a business man to dabble in politics. He owns a fine farm of two hundred acres in Indian Creek township, and is always sure to be at the head of all movements tend- ing to improve the community.
This sketch would be incomplete did we omit to give mention of the family of Mrs. Dunn. Her father, John Hanawalt, was born February 28, 1813, in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. He left there at the age of twenty- two and came to White county, this state, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land from the government. This was located a mile and a quarter up the river from Monticello, and in 1839 he moved his family to a house in Monticello village, which he had previously erected. At Monticello he worked at the trade of carpenter, building the first court-house erected there with timber cut from his own land. He also built many of the county bridges, furnishing the necessary timber, and later, with his wife's brother, Zachariah Rothrock, built nearly all the boats for the canal. He was of short, heavy build and never idle. A member of the Sons of Temperance, he was a firm advocate of temperance principles and a devoted member of
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the Methodist church, in which he was an earnest worker. He supported the Democratic party. His death occurred July 31, 1860, and was mourned by all in that community. His wife also was a native of Mifflin county, Penn- sylvania, where she was born November 21, 1812. She died November 7, 1883, and is buried in Monticello beside her husband. Catherine (Rothrock) Hanawalt was a daughter of Valentine and Sarah (Steely) Rothrock. She had a large family of children, most of whom are living. They are as fol- lows: Sarah Margaret Hanawalt, wife of our subject; Susan Elizabeth; George M., who died May 28, 1843, at the age of nine months; Cartus Steely and Martha Ann, twins, born March 5, 1844, while the mother was on a visit to Mifflin county, the former married George Washington Grant, and the lat- ter Joseph A. Herman; Valentine Coltin, born in January, 1848; Florence C., born February 13, 1850, and married Joseph Jennings, of Attica, this state; and Elizabeth Allison, the widow of Jesse Bostick, of Monticello. George Hanawalt, the grandfather of Mrs. Dunn, married Susan Rothrock, who died at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He lived in Mifflin county, where he was born. Their children were Henry, Margaret, Ann, Joseph, Susan and John. His father, George Hanawalt, came from Germany and married a girl that came over on the ship with him. He was accompanied by his brother, John, and the land purchased by them in Mifflin county remained in the family more than a century. George Hanawalt, Jr., was in the war of 1812. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Dunn was Valentine Rothrock, who married Sarah Steely. He was born in Germany and received a good education. After coming to this country he lived near Lewistown, Pennsylvania. In his earlier years he worked at the trade of tailor, but after- ward devoted his time and attention to farming. His children were Lazarus, Susan, Catherine, Zacharias, Leah, Margaret, Eliza, Carter, George and Valentine.
WILLIAM O. TAYLOR.
A life like that of William Ozias Taylor leaves an indelible impression upon the lives of those who were associated with him and upon following generations. The example which he set is well worthy of being emulated, and though he was prospered in most of his affairs he met the sorrows and trials which came to him, as to all, with a cheerfulness and fortitude that were the wonder and admiration of every one.
His father, Homer R. Taylor, was born June 25, 1799, in Scotland, and on the 25th of February, 1819, married Deborah Hinton, whose birth had occurred in Delaware county, Ohio, March II, 1801. He died March 2, 1847, and she died November 12, 1856, both being buried in the cemetery at Winamac, Pulaski county. Their eldest child, Orrel, born May 9, 1820, first
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married Josephus Bell, and on the 4th of March, 1844, became the wife of Stephen Bruce. Jerome, who, of her five children, alone survived to matur- ity, married Artha Messerly, of Winamac. Mrs. Bruce died April 9, 1855. Levi Homer, born July 19, 1822, was married May 9, 1844, in Ohio, and his daughter, Maria, became the wife of a Mr. Logan. Marinda, born March II, 1827, wedded Daniel C. Eckelburner, February 15, 1849, and died about 1867; their children were Eliza, Maria, Emma, Mary and Malinda. Ches- tina, born April 17, 1829, married Edward Tibbetts, October 29, 1848, and died September 20, 1850. Maria Ann, born July 30, 1831, became the wife of James R. Dukes, September 23, 1852, and died October 19, 1853. Amanda, born December 26, 1833, was a cripple, and died February 20, 1854. Har- man R., born April 23, 1836, died in Andersonville prison during the civil war, in 1864. Henry Allen, born July 19, 1838, married Elizabeth Ann Cooper, and died in the United States service in the civil war while at home on a furlough, he having contracted a pulmonary disease in the army. James H., born April 13, 1845, married, in 1872, Mary Hewitt, and they reside in Marysville, California.
William Ozias Taylor, the third child of his parents, was born July 6, 1824, in Delaware county, Ohio. The entire family, parents and ten chil- dren, drove from Ohio to Pulaski county in 1842. They had little in the way of worldly possessions save an ox team, some household goods and a little money, but they had brave hearts and were willing to work hard and endure whatever fate had in store for them; and in the end they prospered. Our subject settled on section 1, Franklin township, where he continued to dwell during the rest of his life, and at one time he owned two hundred and sixteen acres of valuable improved land. In February, 1865, his patriotism prompted him to leave his family and his business pursuits in order to render such aid to the Union as was in his power, as the war then was at a desper- ate crisis, and seemingly was never to be terminated. Enlisting in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he participated in several skirmishes with the rebels, but was kept on guard duty chiefly until the close of hostilities. Shortly after his return home he was engaged in the removal of some scaffolding from a building, when he fell and received in- juries which confined him to his bed for two years and rendered him an in- valid, practically, for ten years. He was public-spirited, and used his ballot in favor of the candidates of the Republican party. A man of high religious principle, he was a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal church, doing his full share toward the support of its work. When past the three-score and ten years of the Psalmist, he entered into eternal rest, the date of his death being March 25, 1897, and he was buried in the cemetery at Winamac.
When quite young, Mr. Taylor was married, in Ohio, to a Miss Tibbitts,
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who, with their infant son, died before the removal of the Taylor family to this state. For about three years after coming here, Mr. Taylor was en- gaged in driving a stage in Knox county, where he met the lady who became his second: wife. She was a Miss Catherine Hewitt, a native of Knox county, born October 31, 1833, and her brothers and sisters were: David, Lawson, Rose Ann," Mary, Ellen, Moses, and Ulysses Sydney. She died December 6, 1868, at the old homestead, and was buried in the Winamac cemetery. There sleeps her eldest child, Harriet Ellen, who was born January 1, 1852, married to Richard S. Parker, who died in 1874, and she was the mother of three chil- dren. She departed this life in 1878. Her daughter, Charity A., born May 3, 1870, and now a resident of Aldine, Indiana, became the wife of John Reckord, in November, 1886, and their children are Eldon, Florence, Ern- est, Frances, and Glen. Eldon, first child of Harriet Ellen Parker, born March 22, 1872, married Lily M. Daugherty in 1893, and their surviving children are Stephen, Mary E., and William Garrett. Stephen Ozias, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Parker, born May 12, 1874, died at the age of eleven months. Levi Homer Taylor, second child of William and Cath- erine Taylor, is represented in this volume. James Henry, the next in order of birth, was born November II, 1855, and resides upon his own farm, in section 12, Franklin township, and part of his house is the old school-house which he attended in boyhood, though it has been remodeled and bears no token of its former use. He married first, Ellen, daughter of Benjamin and Ellen (Justice) Cooper, their union being solemnized March 23, 1876. She was born December 31, 1856, and died March 25, 1886. Their eldest child, Cora Ellen, born February 17, 1877, married F. F. Ely, March 31, 1897, and their home is at Bass Lake, Indiana. Estella Maud, born April 6, 1878, married William Henry Alexander Garringer, April 6, 1897, and their little son, Benjamin Russell, was born February 15, 1898. Addison Leroy, born July 25, 1879, died July 4, 1880; William DuBois, born September 21, 1881, lives with Benjamin Davis; Jennie Agnes, born November 4, 1882, is at home; and Elgy Amel, was born January 28, 1885. On the 3d of April, 1889, James Henry Taylor married, for his second wife, Minnie Magdalene Conn, who was born January 17, 1867. Their eldest child, Henry Cole, died February 7, 1891; Minnie Opal, was born January 3, 1892; Mary Ruby, born October 9, 1894, died June 6, 1896; and Lowell Earl, was born Febru- ary II, 1897. Mary Deborah, the fourth child of William and Catherine Taylor, was born June 11, 1857, married William Reily in 1887, and lives in Canadian county, Oklahoma. Their children are named Mearle, Minnie, Lewis, Dollie and Daisy. The two last named, twins, were born December 12, 1891. Florence Huldah, born November 5, 1860, died October 28, 1896. She had married Alfred Cox, and their children are Alvin, Ada, Hat-
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