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For a year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell resided in Frances- ville and then removed to their present farm, where they have reared their family of eight children: Fannie Clara, born December 6, 1876; Frank, born September 10, 1878, and died in infancy; Earl Scott, born April 27, 1880; Jesse Pratt, born December 18, 1881; Nellie May, born August 17, 1885; Fred David and Wade Joshua, twins, born October 14, 1887; and Lillian Winnie, born April 15, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell are consistent members of the Methodist church, in which he has served as steward, and is also presi- dent of the Epworth League. He is a liberal supporter of the church; as- sisted in building the house of worship in Francesville, and is active in pro- moting the cause of Christianity among men. He also belongs to Monong Lodge, No. 208, F. and A. M., of Francesville, of which he has been secre- tary; was a member of the Patrons of Husbandry in 1872, and was one of the charter members and the secretary of the Grange. He was also a mem- ber of the Farmers' Alliance, and has served as secretary, president and county lecturer. He is a member of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Associa- tion, and has held all the lodge offices, and his name is also on the member- ship roll of the Knights of Maccabees. In politics he was formerly a Demo- crat, but now votes the Populist ticket. He has served for several years as township assessor, but has never been a politician in the sense of office-seek- ing, preferring to devote his time to his business interests. He took, how- ever, a very active interest in the presidential campaign of 1896, speaking on the rostrum for Bryan and Watson, thus spending a hundred days in the cam- paign and defraying his own expenses. At the same time he was a member
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of the Populist state central committee, which consisted of thirteen prominent Populists, and had charge of the Populist campaign of the state. Mr. Hub- bell proved both efficient and incorruptible. He was also one of the com- mittee of thirteen to organize a fusion with the Democrats. In 1884 he as- sisted in the raising of a militia company, called the Carnahan Guards, in Francesville, of which he was first elected orderly sergeant and afterward promoted and commissioned first lieutenant.
Financially Mr. Hubbell has prospered as the result of his well directed efforts and is now the owner of a valuable farm of two hundred and fifty acres. He has ever been straightforward and reliable in his business methods, and his course has commended him to the confidence of all. As a citizen he is public-spirited and progressive, advocating the cause of temperance and inorality and supporting all measures which he believes will prove of public benefit. The cause of education also finds in him a friend, and he has ever been the patron of the best books and newspapers and of all that would pro- mote intellectual activity and advancement. His son Scott and daughter Fannie are successful school-teachers, and the former is now reading law. The family is one of prominence in the community, and this history of the county would be incomplete without their record.
FREMONT GOODWINE.
Hon. Fremont Goodwine, of Williamsport, president of the Williams- port State Bank and the present state senator from the district, is a repre- sentative of one of the well known pioneer families of Warren county. He is a son of James Goodwine, and was born on the old family homestead in Pike township, May 22, 1857. In his early youth he became familiar with ยท the labors of the farm and was trained to habits of industry. His prepara- tory education was acquired in the public and high schools of West Leba- non, after which he pursued a three-years course in Purdue University. In 1878 he began teaching and for a number of years was one of the most successful educators in Warren county. In 1881 he was appointed prin- cipal of the West Lebanon public schools, and in 1887 was elected county superintendent of Warren county, a position which he held for six years. Both as teacher and superintendent his services gave entire satisfaction and his educational work was therefore eminently successful. The schools of Warren county are indebted to him in no small degree for their present excellence and worth, for he labored most effectively to advance the stand- ard of the schools and to introduce improved methods. At length turning his attention from educational work, he became identified with the banking interests of this locality and was one of the founders of the Williamsport
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State Bank. From the beginning he has served as its president, and his keen sagacity, enterprise, sound judgment and business integrity have made" this one of the soundest financial institutions in this section of Indiana. He is a man of unimpeachable honor in business, and his word is as good as any bond that was ever solemnized by signature or seal.
Mr. Goodwine's popularity as a citizen and his known ability led to his nomination and election to the senate of Indiana, and as a member of the upper house he is now striving to promote the best interests of the common- wealth and his constituency. He takes a deep interest in whatever tends to advance the material, educational, social and moral growth of the com- munity, and is a leader in public movements and measures that have for their object the general good. He is a leading member of the Presbyterian church and the cause of education finds in him a zealous friend. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and his thorough understanding of the issues of the day makes him especially efficient in his present office.
On the 15th of August, 1878, Mr. Goodwine was united in marriage to Miss Ettie A. Walker, a daughter of Dr. A. C. and A. M. Walker. She died in 1888, leaving one daughter, Gladys. Mr. Goodwine afterward mar- ried Miss Mary J. Moore, daughter of Thomas Moore, of Green Hill, Indi- ana, and they have a daughter, Marjorie. The hospitality of their pleasant home is enjoyed by their many friends who hold them in the highest regard.
SAMUEL BEST.
Esquire Best, formerly a justice of the peace of Shelby township, and now a resident of Montmorenci, Tippecanoe county, has passed nearly all his life in this county, where his grandparents were pioneers and his father almost a life-long citizen. He is of sterling German stock. Ezekiel Best, his grandfather, was a native of Germany and a farmer, who in his native land married Katharine Schoner and immediately afterward emigrated to America, settling in Pennsylvania. After a residence of several years there he moved to West Virginia, where in the forest he cleared a hundred acres of land. Subsequently he moved to Greene county, Ohio, when that sec- tion was still a wilderness, and about 1830 he came to Warren county, Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying abont 1850, at the age of ninety-three years. . His children were George, Silas, Isaac, Adam, Solomon, Peter, Susan, Elizabeth and Mary A.
Of these, Isaac Best, the father of our subject, was born February 27, 1797, in Pennsylvania. When fourteen years of age he was a drummer boy in the war of 1812. By occupation he was always a farmer. In Greene county, Ohio, whither the family had removed when he was a child, he
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married Jane Jackson, who was born in Kentucky in 1797, a daughter of Philip and Susan (Downey) Jackson. He followed agricultural pursuits, on a quarter section of land which he had entered from the government, until 1837, when he removed to Tippecanoe county, locating, in September, in Wabash township, six miles west of Lafayette. In 1843 he purchased eighty acres of land in Grand Prairie, same township, and this tract he im- proved and cultivated, spending there the remainder of his life. He also bought forty-four acres of timber land six miles south of this place. He was an exemplary citizen, being a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church; and his house was a headquarters for Methodism. In politics he was a Whig. He died June 16, 1855, aged about fifty-eight years. His children were: Delilah, William, Henry, Catharine, Sarah, Amanda, Samuel, Silas, Isaac N. and Josiah B.
Of these children, Samuel Best, our subject, was born September 6, 1832, in Greene county, Ohio, and was five years old when the family came to Indiana. At the age of twenty-one he learned the blacksmith's trade, on Grand Prairie. In April, 1862, he opened a shop in Montmo- renci, where he has since resided and continued at his trade. Politically he is a Republican. In 1882 he was elected a justice of the peace, which office he filled until 1892, when, although re-elected, he refused to serve longer. Ever since April, 1892, however, he has been a notary public. He is a member of the Methodist church.
April 13, 1854, he was married to Mary Conn, a native of Union county, Indiana, born November 10, 1827, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Thomas) Conn, and they have the following named children: William E., who was born April 20, 1855; Isaac B., September 19, 1856; James E., July 22, 1860; and Martha E., July 12, 1872. Mr. Best was mar- ried a second time, wedding Mrs. Martha Booker, nee Conn. This lady was first married to Albert Sutton, by whom her children were Mary J., John S., George W. and Rebecca A. By her second marriage she wedded Jonathan Booker, and by that union there were Jacob E. and Lewis Cass.
TRUSTEN ADAMS JONES.
The agricultural class has in its hands the present and future prosperity of Pulaski county, as has been the case in the past, with this county perhaps more than with others in northern Indiana. Included among the successful farmers is he of whom this sketch is penned-a loyal citizen, useful neigh- bor and kind husband and father.
The Jones family to which he belongs is of Scotch extraction, but sev- eral generations have come and gone since it was founded in America. Our
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subject's paternal grandfather, Levi Jones, was born prior to the war of the Revolution, about 1770, in the Keystone state, and when the second war of this country with England was being waged he was pressed into the service of this government, but was released upon his request to his colonel and the substitution of his son, Thomas, a young, hardy man, who fought until vic- tory rested upon the banners of our nation. At an early period Levi Jones and family settled in Ohio, where he worked at his trade, that of a mill- wright. His children were four sons: Thomas, Stephen, Andrew and Rob- ert, all of whom came to Pulaski county, Indiana, the two last mentioned eventually returning to Ohio, however; and three daughters: Margaret, Naomi and Catherine. (See sketch of Matthew E. Jones for further ances- tral history.)
The parents of Trusten A. Jones were Thomas and Mary V. Jones, whose other children are Esther Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Hurst, of Cass county; Lydia Ann, wife of George Williamson; and Matthew E., of this vicinity. Both parents had been previously married. The father was first united to Elizabeth Van Zandt, by whom he had seven children: Margaret, Naomi, Catherine, Robert, William, Levi and John. Mrs. Mary V. Jones had first become the wife of John Falkinburg, and the mother of Mary Ann, Abigail, Hannah, Charles, James and Caleb. She was born in Pennsylvania in 1801, and was a Miss Clifton in her girlhood, her home being near Lees- burg, Highland county, Ohio, from her tenth year until her first marriage. Thomas Jones was likewise born in the Keystone state, the date of the event being July 7, 1798. He was a millwright by trade, and was a skilled me- chanic, his services being of great use to the pioneer settlers of Ohio and In- diana, in which states his mature years were passed. It was in February, 1848, that he arrived in Pulaski county, having made the trip with teams, and being accompanied by his wife, four children, his brother William, and Richard Anders, a brother-in-law. Thomas Jones bought eighty acres of land, situated on section 22, but a later purchase of forty acres, on section 26, became his homestead, and upon this place he erected a substantial house just forty years ago. Subsequently he added another tract of forty acres, on section 25, to his former forty acres, and thus had a farm amply sufficient for his needs. He left the impress of his strong individuality upon his day, and every one associated with him in any manner was made the better for such association. By faith he was a Methodist, but when he found no church of that sect here he was not narrow enough to withhold his membership from the United Brethren, who were already established. His long and happy, because useful and unselfish, life was peacefully finished October 25, 1880, and his mortal remains were placed in the Victor cemetery.
Trusten Adams Jones was born December 17, 1837, in Fayette county,
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Ohio, and after his parents came to this locality he continued to dwell at home, finally assuming the entire management of the old homestead, as his father advanced in years. Like a dutiful son, he cared for both his parents until their life journey was ended, when he became the owner of the old farm. Of the original eighty acres he has sold forty, and still retains the other tract of similar size. He has been prospered in his various undertakings, as he justly deserves, and enjoys good opinion of his neighbors. Following in his father's footsteps, he is a member of the United Brethren church, at present being a trustee. Politically he is affiliated with the Democratic party.
On the 5th of December, 1860, Mr. Jones wedded Ann, daughter of Joseph Burge, and their eldest child, Mary Jane, born in 1861, married Willard Song, and resides on section 8, Van Buren township. Joseph T., born December 24, 1863, married Joanna Odell, and has three children, Claud Lee, Herman Carl and Flora Fay. He is an enterprising young farmer of this county. Mrs. Jones died when Joseph T. was but three days old, and on the 25th of August, 1864, the marriage of our subject and Mrs. Minerva Ann Song was solemnized. A daughter of Andrew Jackson and Hannah (Kistler) Klure, she was born December 31, 1838, the first white child born in Cass county, Indiana. Her father, who was a son of William Klure, was born June 12, 1808, and died September 15, 1862. At an early day he, with his wife and eleven children, drove from Pennsylvania to Wal- nut Creek, Boone township, Cass county, where he spent the remainder of his days. Having entered two hundred and twelve acres at a point about two miles southeast of Royal Center, he proceeded to cultivate and improve the farm until his labors were cut short by death. Religiously he was a member of the Christian church, while in politics he was a Democrat. His first wife, Hannah, died April 10, 1843, and for his second wife he chose Nancy St. Clair. The following is a list of the names of the children of the first marriage: John, Jacob, Henry, Benjamin, Samuel, Delilah, William, Charlotta, Samantha, Clarinda, Joshua, Minerva Ann and Andrew Jackson. Charlotta wedded Thomas Reed, and lives in Fulton county, and Andrew Jackson was killed in the war of the Rebellion. With the exception of these two and Mrs. Jones the children are buried by the side of their parents in the family graveyard. Mrs. Jones became the wife of Craig Hunter Song, October 28, 1857. He was born January 18, 1834, and is deceased. Their eldest child, Isaac Andrew, born October 24, 1858, died when nine months old; and Alice Alinda, born April 22, 1860, died when eleven months old. Susan Almeda, born November 23, 1862, died December 28, 1893. She was the wife of Richard Barker, and the mother of five children: Elgy K., Glenn, Zoe, Ellis and Ethel.
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The union of Mr. Jones and wife, Minerva, has been blessed with several children, of whom the eldest, Thomas Edmund, born October 24, 1865, owns a farm on section 18, Wayne township, Fulton county, and for more than a decade has been a successful business man of that locality. He was married March 15, 1887, to Ella, daughter of S. and Elizabeth (Graham) Brown, both natives of Shelby county, Indiana, the father born November 7, 1836, and the mother March 18, 1842. He died October 31, 1885, and the mother died February 25, 1874. Mrs. Ella Jones was born March 25, 1868, and to herself and husband three children have been born: Arthur LeRoy, May 14, 1889; Myrtle May, January 12, 1891; and Alvah Nelson, April 13, 1896. The youngest child died July 3, 1897. Charles Adam, born February 22, 1868, owns forty acres on section 25, Van Buren township. He was mar- ried December 12, 1892, to Martha Lively, daughter of Noah and Catherine (Van Buskirk) Lively; she was born March 26, 1866, in Ohio. Annie, eldest daughter of our subject, was born September 23, 1870, and on the 27th of February, 1890, she became the wife of Charles Eslinger Dukes. He was born May 27, 1866, on the old homestead of his parents, Andrew and Mary (Trautman) Dukes, where he is yet living. Matthew Enolds, born August 24, 1872, married Ida Hizer and resides in Grass Creek, Fulton county. Their only child, Ernest, was born. March 16, 1899. Olive Pearl, the youngest child of our subject, was born February 4, 1880, and is at home with her par- ents.
JOSEPH TREEN JONES.
To most men success comes only after years of faithful, persevering toil, as the just reward of foresight and well expended energy, and thus it has been in the case of Joseph Treen Jones, who, commencing the battle of life empty-handed, has become well-to-do, and has won the esteem of all who know him.
A son of Trusten A. Jones, whose history precedes this sketch, Joseph T. Jones was born December 24, 1863, on his parents' homestead in Pulaski county. Until he was sixteen years of age he remained at home, learning how to perform the various duties of farm management and laying the foun- dations of his future success. For a few years thereafter he worked for neighbors, carefully husbanding his earnings with a view to investment when a favorable opportunity offered. In March, 1889, he rented a quarter-sec- tion of land from Hugh Van Meter, and at the end of eighteen months he re- moved to the Traver farm, comprising eighty acres, which he cultivated for two years. Next he rented his brother Thomas' farm of fifty-four acres for three years, after which he supplied a milk route in Star City, Pulaski county.
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Subsequently he leased a forty-four-acre tract of timber land, of Samuel Michaels, of Logansport. Little of this had been cleared and no improve- ments had been made, but with characteristic industry the young man set to work and now has leveled the forest and placed more than half the land under cultivation.
On the 6th of February, 1889, Mr. Jones married Miss Joanna Odell, a native of Wayne township, Fulton county, Indiana, her birth having occurred January 25, 1864. She is a daughter of Levi and Sarah Ann (Graham) Odell, worthy citizens of Fulton county. The eldest child of our subject and wife, Claud Lee, was born May 18, 1891. Herman Carl was born July 19, 1893, and Flora Fay, the sunshine of this happy home, was born August 18, 1896. The parents are members of the United Brethren church, taking an active part in all good works. Mr. Jones uses his right of franchise in favor of the nominees of the Republican party.
CHARLES E. NEWTON.
Charles E. Newton, son of Calvin and Sarah A. Newton, was born at Kewanna, Indiana, June 16, 1859. He has always lived in either Fulton, Cass or Pulaski counties, having received his primary education in Logans- port, to which city his parents moved when he was ten years old. They returned, in 1869, to Kewanna, where he attended school until the age of sixteen. Then he commenced teaching in the common schools and taught all grades, from primary to high school, and also did much special work in summer normals. His only course of study outside of the Kewanna high school was taken in the commercial department of Hall's Business College, at Logansport, in 1893. In connection with school work he took up news- paper work, at the age of fourteen, and in 1888 bought the Kewanna Herald. In 1889 he was appointed postmaster at Kewanna, under President Harrison, turned the newspaper work over to his brother, Ed. F. Newton, who had the entire charge of the same for three years.
In 1893 Mr. Newton removed to Logansport and taught and studied in Hall's Business College; finally, in June, 1893, becoming bookkeeper for Kreis Brothers' Manufacturing Company. When that firm failed, in the autumn of that year, he, in connection with his brother, Ed. F., bought the Winamac Republican, which they still conduct.
He has been a member of the Disciples church since he was twenty-two years old, and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school of that organi- zation at Winamac for the past five years. In politics he has been a life- long Republican, and is secretary of the Republican county committee, which office he has held for the last five years. In 1880 he was census
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enumerator of Union township, Fulton county, this state. He has done something in historical work, and he is known as a careful, painstaking writer, whose logic and statistics are not to be gainsaid.
Mr. Newton married Alice Valentine, of Akron, Indiana, on June 16, 1889. To this union one son, Chester, was born, December 7, 1894. Mrs. Newton was a successful primary teacher in the schools of Fulton county.
EDWIN F. NEWTON.
Edwin F. Newton, son of Calvin and Sarah A. Newton, was born on a farm one-half mile north of Kewanna, Indiana. His parents moved to Logans- port in 1861 and he received his first education in the schools of that city. He was an invalid the greater part of his life from the age of fourteen until he reached his majority, and was thereby prevented from attending public schools as much as he would have liked, but he has endeavored to make up for his loss in that direction by an extensive course of reading, embracing all the books which could be obtained in the neighborhood and from the old township library.
He left the farm in 1888 and commenced work in the Kewanna Herald office, under the direction and supervision of his older brother, Charles E. New- ton, and in 1889 he took full charge of the office, conducting it until he sold it in 1893. He then went to Audubon, Iowa, where he worked that sum- mer as foreman of the Audubon County Sentinel, and then went to the Cher- okee strip to establish a paper for his employer. In December, 1893, Mr. Newton in connection with his brother, Charles, purchased the Winamac Republican, and he has been located here since. He is unmarried and a mem- ber of the Disciples church, in which he has been an official for a number of years.
Mr. Newton is a young man of strong individuality and enjoys the esteem and confidence of the best element of the community. He is a typical "newspaper man " and can handle the quill or the composing stick with equal facility and in a manner that characterizes only those who have long been initiated in the deepest mysteries of the "art preservative of all arts."
SAMUEL M. QUICK.
This substantial farmer and respected citizen of Salem township, Pulaski county, a soldier of the civil war, was born May 13, 1835, in Warren county, this state, a son of James and Elizabeth (Goodwine) Quick; and his father was a son of James Quick, Sr., a native of Virginia and of English descent. The last mentioned emigrated to this state in pioneer times, locating in Barthol-
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omew county, upon a large farming tract. Indians and wild animals of the larger species were abundant. By much heavy work he succeeded in de- veloping a good farm there in the dense wilderness, equipping the same with good farm structures, etc., and " setting out " a good orchard, one of the first in that county. Of the children by his first wife, James and Tunis are the only ones who grew to maturity. By his second marriage there were three children-Samuel, Martin and Aggie. He lived on this farm until his death, when he had attained the age of eighty years. He was a member of the Bap- tist church and a highly respected citizen.
His son James, the father of our subject, was born in August, 1801, in Berkeley county, Virginia, and was twenty years of age when he came to this state, with the family in their emigration to the west; and he grew up amid the surroundings just described, and to his training in the arts of agriculture he added a practical knowledge of carpentry. In that county, Bartholomew, he married Elizabeth Goodwine, who was born in Kentucky, a daughter of James Goodwine. Her father, a native of the Old Dominion, emigrated to Kentucky in early days. His children by his first wife were James, Thomas, Harrison, John, Elizabeth, Indiana and Martha. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Logan, a widow, and by this marriage there was one son, named Abner. He emigrated to Indiana soon after the settlement of the Quick family there, entered land and n ade a good home, but sold it and removed to Warren county, where also he improved a farm and became wealthy, owning a large amount of land. He died aged about sixty-eight years.
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