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Coming to Indiana in his childhood, James Goodwine, Jr., was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier and experienced all the hardships and trials which fall to the lot of the pioneer. He assisted in the development of wild land, and was an advocate of the introduction of all progressive measures. On the 15th of August, 1833, he was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Buckles, a native of Ohio and a daughter of William and Lois Buckles. They became the parents of twelve children, of whom the follow- ing are living: William H., a resident of West Lebanon, Warren county; Mrs. India Fleming; Horace G. and Fremont. Those who have passed away are John Q., Mary J., Washington, Louisa, Frank and Marion.
Throughout his active business career Mr. Goodwine carried on agricult- ural pursuits and stock-raising, and managed his interests with such ability that he acquired a very valuable property, becoming one of the wealthy men of the state. His first purchase of land comprised forty acres, which he secured from his father. With characteristic energy he began its develop- ment and soon placed the tract under a high state of cultivation. As his financial resources increased he made additional purchases until he became the owner of about fourteen thousand acres of as fine land as can be found in Indiana. He carried on farming and stock-raising on a very extensive scale, and kept on hand at all times from one to two thousand head of cattle. He gave to his mammoth business interests his personal supervision, was his own bookkeeper, bought and sold his stock and was at all times perfectly
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familiar with the minor as well as with the larger interests of his business. He possessed keen discrimination, sound judgment and untiring industry, and long before his business career was ended he was numbered among the wealthy men of the state of Indiana. Beginning in 1871, he was for many years president of the Warren County Agricultural Association and did much to advance the farming interests of the community by advocating improved machinery, progressive methods and the introduction of all that would enable the farmer to produce greater crops with minimum effort. He was broad- minded and public-spirited, and gave liberally to the support of many meas- ures for the benefit of the community and the general welfare of his adopted county. In his political views he was a Republican, but was rather liberal in politics as he was in his religious belief. He was, however, very loyal to his native land, and gave three of his sons to his country in the war of the Rebellion. John Q. died in the army while at Savannah, Georgia, and William and Frank also fought for the supremacy of the Union. The mother of these children died several years before the death of her husband, passing away in 1885.
Horace Goodwine spent the days of his boyhood and youth at his parents' home, and in early life became his father's assistant in business. He has inherited many of his father's business qualifications, is energetic, indus- trious and resolute in carrying out his plans. Above all he is straightforward and reliable in his dealings, thus enjoying the confidence and respect of all with whom he is brought in contact. He is the owner of twenty-one hun- dred acres of fine land and carries on general farming and stock-raising.
On the 8th of November, 1874, Mr. Goodwine was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Briggs, a daughter of Eli and Serena Briggs, and to them ยท have been born three children: Ora J., Edna L. and Arley Owen.
HARRISON GOODWINE.
The name of Goodwine is one of the most familiar ones to the inhabi- tants of Warren county, as it belongs to one of the honored old pioneer fam- ilies here. Many of the third and fourth generation from the founder of the name in this section are now numbered among the most intelligent, wealthy and prominent citizens of Warren county, and of this number is the subject of this sketch, of Prairie township.
James Goodwine, son of John Goodwine, was a native of Kentucky, in which state he grew to manhood and married Elizabeth Snyder. They be- came the parents of seven children who survived to mature years, namely: Elizabeth, Thomas, James, India, Martha, Harrison and John W. In the first part of this century James Goodwine and his large family removed to
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- Jackson county, Indiana, and later to Bartholomew county. In 1828 they became residents of Warren county, where James Goodwine dwelt up to the time of his death, March 12, 1851. His first wife died prior to the removal of the frmily to this section and Mr. Goodwine married Mrs. Sarah Logan, widow of William Logan and daughter of John Shumaker. One son, Abner, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodwine, and the latter survived her husband many years, departing to her reward, June 17, 1872. The only members of the family now living are John W. and Abner.
Harrison Goodwine, Sr., father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bartholomew county, and was not yet grown when he came to this portion of the state. For his companion along life's journey he chose Miss Isabel Charlton, whose birth had occurred near Knoxville, Tennessee, and whose parents had died when she was young. She had made the journey to Indi- ana with other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwine settled upon a farm in Liberty township, but the greater part of their lives was passed in Jordan township. Mr. Goodwine was extensively and successfully engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising and accumulated much valuable property. He was a man respected by all who knew him, and in his daily life he put into constant practice the teachings of Christianity. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in political faith he was a Republican. His earthly labors ceased April 13, 1887, when he was nearly sixty-five years of age. His faithful wife died November 20, 1890, aged seventy-four years, ten months and twenty-eight days. Joy and sorrow came to them, as it does to all, but they were loyal to their country, their God and the right, and what greater tribute can be paid to mortals? They gave up two of their loved sons to their native land, and followed them through long days, months and years of conflict on the fierce battle-fields of the south, only to have them fall at last, sacrifices to their country. Thomas J. was killed at the siege of Atlanta, in 1864, and William S. died while in the service, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in the spring of 1865. An infant son, twin of Josephine, and Jo- sephine herself, wife of William Cotterman, are both deceased. The living children of Harrison Goodwine, Sr., are Arthur, of Ambia, Benton county, Indiana; James, of Talbot, same county; Lafayette, who lives near Hoopes- ton, Illinois; Harrison, Jr., and Mary Jane, wife of Oscar Crane, of Rossville, Indiana.
Harrison Goodwine, Jr., was born at the old family homestead in Jordan township, Warren county, May 28, 1850. He was brought up as a farmer and has always followed agriculture as a business. His home has been in Prairie township for twenty-eight years, and he has won prosperity and is numbered among the rich and enterprising farmers of the county, owning, as he does, six hundred acres of finely improved land and other real and per-
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sonal property. He has been successful as a stock-raiser, raising as specialties the finest grades of registered short-horned cattle and Poland-China hogs; and he also owns a fine herd of deer and elk. The wife of Mr. Goodwine was formerly a Miss Mary A. Piles, and they have one daughter, Dora, and lost another little girl in infancy.
DANIEL F. GILLETT.
This well and favorably known business man of Chalmers is a native of Poweshiek county, Iowa, his birth having taken place September 3, 1856, near the town of Brooklyn. His father, Simeon Gillett, was born in the state of New York, and was a western pioneer of the sturdy, fearless type, -- the true forerunner of civilization and progress. At an early day he settled in La Salle county, Illinois, prior to the great Indian massacre, and Chicago was the nearest base of supplies, the trip thither being made with a team. About 1854 Mr. Gillett removed to Poweshiek county, Iowa, and entered a quarter-section of land, fifty miles distant from the nearest post-office, Iowa City. After he had improved his land to a certain extent he decided to re- turn to Illinois, and from 1857 to 1869 he was a resident of La Salle county. Then for a few years he carried on a farm in Benton county, Indiana, and is now living retired in the village of Raub. His father, Gideon Gillett, was likewise a native of the Empire state, though his ancestors were New Eng- landers. His forefathers were farmers. He lived to see his numerous sons. and daughters well settled in life, and died when about seventy-six years of age.
The mother of the subject of this article, Miss Eliza Baker in her girl- hood, was born in New York state, a daughter of Samuel A. Baker, also of that section of the Union, and of English descent. For a livelihood he cul- tivated a farm, and he was spared to the ripe age of seventy-eight years. Of his four children, all but Mrs. Gillett survive, she having departed this life in 1873, when forty-six years old. She had six children, namely : Sid- ney J .; Mary D., wife of J. O. Warsley; Cynthia L., wife of L. J. Warsley; Daniel F .; Naomi, wife of Elmer Shonkwiler; and Edward Hayden, de- ceased.
From his fourth until his fourteenth year Daniel F. Gillett lived in Illi- nois, and from that time until he reached his majority he lived in Benton county, Indiana, upon his father's farm. After his marriage he managed an eighty-acre farm belonging to his father for some fifteen years, and then purchased a quarter-section of land about nine miles west of Fowler, Indi- ana. This place he continued to operate until 1891, when he sold out and for the next seven years managed the farm owned by Albert Gaslee in this
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county. In 1898 he embarked in his present line of business, having bought out Higgins Brothers, hardware merchants, of Chalmers. He carries a full and well-selected line of agricultural implements, tools, light and heavy hardware, stoves, etc.
February 23, 1875, Mr. Gillett married Miss Caroline Cooper, a daugh- ter of William and Adeline (Bagwell) Cooper, and three children were born to them, namely: Joseph B .; Harley, who died at the age of two and a half years; and Winnifred, who was eighteen months old at the time of her death. Joseph B. married Mary Childress, and is a successful young farmer.
In political affairs Mr. Gillett is an uncompromising Democrat. He is identified with the Knights of Pythias, and religiously is a Presbyterian. All local improvements, the preservation of good government, the cause of edu- cation, proper training for the rising generation, and everything calculated for the public benefit, find in him a zealous supporter.
EDWIN R. PRICE.
Ever since he was appointed to the office of justice of the peace, on the 16th of September, 1895, Edwin R. Price has discharged his duties with fidel- ity, accuracy and promptness, thus winning the commendation of all his fellow citizens in Chalmers. He was born within a mile of his present home in the town just named, on his father's homestead in Prairie township, December 29, 1846, and has spent the greater share of his life in this locality. No one in the county is more highly esteemed, and his record is one of which his family have occasion to be proud.
Many years ago three brothers of the name of Price went to the terri- tory of Ohio. One, the grandfather of our subject, remained in that state, while another brother afterward went to Massachusetts, and the third settled in Missouri. A son of the last named was General Price, the famous Confeder- ate officer who engaged the Union forces in numerous skirmishes in the west, and whose daring and brilliant campaigning led the federals into many a disastrous defeat. The Prices are of English descent. Our subject's grand- father Price died in the Buckeye state, when well along in years. He was the father of one son and eleven daughters.
The parents of E. R. Price were John and Susanna (Kent) Price, both born in Ohio. The father came to Indiana at a very early day, before the Indians had departed to the west, and after living in Jasper county for a year he came to White county. Though he was a poor man when he took up his abode here, and notwithstanding the fact that he was but thirty-seven years old when he died, in the winter of 1851, he was then wealthy, for that day, and was one of the largest land-owners in the county. His widow is still living,
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now in her eighty-fifth year, a devoted member of the Universalist church. Of her nine children, five of whom were sons, five survive, namely: James K .; Nancy J., wife of Joseph Taylor; Edwin R .; Rachel R., wife of O. K. Rainier; and Daniel S. The father of Mrs. Price was James Kent, a native of Ohio and a farmer and early settler in this county, where he died when about sixty-five years of age.
The boyhood of Edwin R .. Price was spent in the usual pursuits of a farmer lad. His elementary education was such as was afforded by the dis- trict schools, and later it was his privilege to attend the academy at Battle Ground for three years. In 1867 he commenced teaching and for nine terms he was an energetic and successful instructor of the "young idea." From 1871 to 1873 he was engaged in the mercantile business, and then, selling out, he went to Lafayette and took a position as a bookkeeper. On the Ist of January, 1876, he returned to the old homestead, which he cultivated for two years, and in 1878 he went to Kansas and for six years was occupied in agricultural pursuits in that state. From 1884 until 1892 he managed a farm in the vicinity of Chalmers, and in 1895 he built his present home in the town.
For his companion and helpmate along the highway of life Mr. Price chose Miss Elizabeth Parker, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Overton) Parker. They were married April 25, 1871, and became the parents of four children-Edna, Maud, Nellie and Anna. Little Anna died in infancy.
From the time that the Presbyterian church was organized here Mr. and Mrs. Price have been actively interested in it, and for several years Mr. Price was an elder in the church. In political matters he is a Democrat, and socially he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees.
CHARLES F. WINSHIP.
Charles F. Winship, who has charge of the pumping station on the Big Four Railroad at Earl Park, Indiana, is a native " Hoosier," born at Stock- well, February 19, 1861, a son of Charles and Nancy (Peede) Winship, the former a native of Bath, Maine, and the latter of Kentucky. Charles Win- ship learned the carpenter's trade in his native city and worked at it there for several years. Then he came west to Indiana and located in Lafayette, where he contracted for and erected a number of buildings. At his death he owned a farm near Monitor Mills, Indiana, and his residence in Stockwell, Indiana. He died in October, 1876, at the age of sixty-four years. His widow is still living, now seventy-one years of age, and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Crouch, in Lafayette. There were born to this couple seven children, namely: Alice, wife of John Crouch of Lafayette, a bridge-
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builder on the Big Four Railroad; Fanny, who died when young; Charles F., the subject of this sketch; George, deceased; Harry, who is located at Quincy, Illinois, and is a bridge-builder for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company; Grace, deceased; and Bert, located at Lafayette.
Charles F. Winship attended school at Stockwell until he reached the age of sixteen, spending the summers in work on neighboring farms. He continued as a farm hand until he was twenty-two years old, when he mar- ried and settled on sixty acres of rented land. This farm he cultivated two years. The next three years he was employed at section work on the Big Four Railroad, and followed this with two years in the sawmill at Stockwell, Indiana. Then he worked for one year as stone mason in bridge construction for the Big Four Railroad, and in 1893 was appointed to the charge of the pumping station at Earl Park, which position has had his prompt and careful attention ever since. The care of such a station is one of the important interests of a road.
Mr. Winship was married October 18, 1884, at Stockwell, Indiana, to Fannie Parvis, daughter of David and Martha Parvis, who reside on a farm near Stockwell, Indiana. She is the second in a family of five children, the others being Maggie, wife of Ellis Gladden, a farmer near Frankfort, Indiana; Fred and Samuel, of Clarksville, Indiana; and Isabelle, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Winship have four children, viz .: Grace, born December 12, 1885; Chester, September 6, 1887; Herold, February 13, 1892; and Seward, April 24, 1896,-the last named a native of Earl Park and the others of Stockwell, Indiana.
Mr. Winship attends the services of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife is a member. He has been identified with the I. O. O. F. for the past six years, and politically, like his father, is an ardent Republican.
WILLIAM OWENS WALKER, M. D.
Dr. W. O. Walker, one of the most skillful and efficient physicians in White county, who has been a resident of Wolcott since 1889, was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, June 17, 1836, and is the son of William M. and Ada L. (Owens) Walker, and a grandson of William Edgar and Eliza- beth (Melford) Walker. The grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a pioneer farmer in the state of Kentucky. Owing to conflicting claims he was obliged to pay for his farm three times! William M. Walker was born on this farm in 1796, and was reared and died there in Fleming county, Kentucky, twelve miles south of Maysville. He was married to Miss Adah L. Owens, a daughter of Dr. Owens, one of the most famous early pioneer doctors of the west. Mrs. Walker was born in Kentucky and
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attended the school and academy at Maysville. She died in 1842, leaving three children who grew to adult years, the others all dying in childhood. The only one living is William Owens, the subject of our sketch, Mary Elizabeth, ten years older than he, having died at the age of forty-five; and John Edgar, who died when twenty-five, two years younger. In 1845, Mr. Walker, the father, married Miss Julia Carpenter, the daughter of William Carpenter, of Fleming county, Kentucky, who is still living at the old homestead. Mr. Walker was a thrifty, industrious man, and owned two hundred and twenty acres at the time of his death, in 1868. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, and active in all good works. He was a man not unacquainted with trouble, five of his children having died within a few days of each other, during an epidemic of scarlet fever.
William Owens Walker remained in his native county until he was sev- enteen, attending the public schools and later the academy. Many of his teachers were not unknown to fame, among them Mr. Huston, who became president of Union College, New York. When he was seventeen years old Mr. Walker went to Bourbon county and engaged in teaching school for six years, studying medicine under Dr. Abraham Cook, of Millwood, during the last year and a half of this time. He took his first course in medicine at Ann Arbor in 1860-61, and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, July 1, 1862. He first located in Lewisburg, Kentucky, and after a few months moved to Bethel, where he remained ten years, meeting with merited success. From there he went to Winchester, Clark county, and practiced for fifteen years, when his health began to fail and he was obliged to seek a residence elsewhere. He then moved to Bainbridge, Indi- ana, where he remained but a short time before going to Remington, where he entered into partnership with Dr. D. H. Patton. In the spring of 1889, he came to Wolcott, where he has since been engaged in general practice, and has a patronage extended and lucrative. He has been in the ranks for thirty-seven years and has gained an enviable reputation for accuracy and skill in the treatment of disease.
He was married October 3, 1861, in Union county, Kentucky, to Miss Mary P. Payne, a daughter of John B. and Harriet L. (Smith) Payne, na- tives of Kentucky. They were wealthy, and socially were prominent people. Three children were born to this union: William Payne, a prosperous mer- chant of Peoria, Illinois; Pearl, the wife of Wallace F. Browne, of the firm of Browne & Stewart, paper brokers of Cincinnati; and Harriet, wife of Ed- gar W. Runyan, now holding an appointment as civilian in the commissary department of the army at Cincinnati.
Dr. Walker has been a Mason for thirty years. He is a Democrat, al- though he takes no part in politics. He was president of the White County
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Medical Society for three consecutive terms, and was secretary of the board of health. He is a member of the county and state societies, and American Medical Association; keeps well abreast the times in all departments pertain- ing to his profession, having taken a post-graduate course at the Chicago Policlinic in April, 1899. He is a member and earnest worker in the Chris- tian church and has been an elder in that body since its reorganization nine years ago.
PERRY B. ANDERSON.
The record of a noble, well rounded life, full of quiet, unassuming deeds of goodness and usefulness, of duties faithfully performed, is usually a very simple, straightforward story, and the stranger who peruses the lines which chronicle a life gains little idea of the man himself, -the man who has fought bravely and conquered difficulties of every nature, perhaps. Only those who have been associated with him for years, who have been his friends and com- panions, can form a just idea of what his success and high standing in the community mean. Thus, when the fact is told that Mr. Anderson of this sketch has lived in Prairie township, Warren county, at his present home on section 10, for almost thirty years, and that no one has more friends and well wishers here than he, the best possible tribute to his sterling worth and pop- ularity has been given. A gallant soldier during the civil war, a devoted and loyal citizen in the years of peace which have followed, such a man is Perry B. Anderson.
Joseph S. and Malinda Anderson, the parents of the above, were natives of Ohio. They were married in that state and there five children were born to them. In the autumn of 1853 they removed to Indiana and took up their residence on section 12, Prairie township, Warren county. The mother died in 1857, but the father continued to dwell on the same old homestead until the spring of 1898, when he went to live in Boswell, Benton county, Indiana. His son, Harris G., who was born after the family came to this county, and Perry B., are the only ones of the six children of Joseph Anderson now living.
The birth of Perry B. Anderson occurred in Warren county, Ohio, November 17, 1844. He was reared to an agricultural life and early had instilled into his mind the noble precepts and principles which he has endeav- ored to put into daily practice since. He was a youth in his eighteenth year when he enlisted under the banner of the Union, in Company D, Eighty- sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and for nearly three years, or until the close of the war, he stood bravely at his post of duty. The hardships and expos- ure incident to army life told severely upon the lad, at first, but he would not give up, and dating from the battle of Stone river, in which he took part, he never missed but one engagement in which his regiment participated-that
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exception being the one at Peach Tree creek. Among the encounters with the rebel forces in which he was actively concerned were the battles of Perry- ville, Wild-cat Hill, Silver Springs, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Pickett's Mills, Kenesaw mountain and Jonesboro, and was present at the fierce fights at Franklin and Nashville, where the Confederates under Gen- eral Bragg were overthrown by General Thomas. When the terrible conflict between the north and the south had been terminated, he returned home, to resume the peaceful vocations of life. In 1869 he came to the valuable and well kept homestead which he now owns and occupies, and here he has a pleasant residence and all the comforts of life. He is a Republican in his political views, but has never sought or accepted public office.
October 6, 1887, Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Clara J. (Mitchell) Charles were united in marriage. Mrs. Anderson is a native of Clinton county, Indiana, a daughter of William F. and Eleanor Mitchell, of Ohio. The father died in the Buckeye state and the mother later removed to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where she passed the remainder of her days. Of their eleven children who lived to maturity only three are now living: Violet, Oliver D. and Clara J. Mrs. Anderson, who was next to the youngest in her parents' fam- ily, first married John Charles, who died January 27, 1877, and their daughter Ella is now Mrs. Thompson.
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