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Marcus A., father of our subject, was first a Whig and then a Republican in politics, taking an active in- terest in public matters and having served his township as trustee. He was enrolled during the Civil war, but although physically disabled to enter service himself, he
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showed his loyalty by hiring a substitute, also contrib- uted toward a fund to prevent further drafts for men in his township. For more than forty years he has been an active member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. Marcus and Mary (Leonard) Hays and all their deceased children are buried in the cemetery at the old homestead, which is now owned by Marcus, the youngest son.
Samuel F. Hays, our subject, attended the Worth- ington high school, also DePauw University. He has devoted most of his attention to farming, having made this a matter of scientific investigation as a result has been able to add much valuable information to the sub- ject. He has made a close study of soils and the needs of crops and has frequently succeeded in doubling the yield, believing in the rotation of crops and the merits of judicious fertilizing. In addition to this Mr. Hays has always given considerable attention to stock raising, and here, too, he has worked along rational and progressive lines, having set aside considerable portions of his large farm for pasturage purposes, having considerable stock on hand throughout the year and dealing quite exten- sively in live stock.
Since 1896 our subject has been engaged in building bridges and gravel roads in Greene county, having done practically all the street work since that time in Worth- ington.
On May 14. 1889. Mr. Hays was united in marriage with Jennie Ingersoll, daughter of William and Marga- ret Ingersoll, both natives of this county. Three children have been born into this family, namely: Joseph I., born July 22, 1890; Lloyd Perkin, born January 14.
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1893. and Marguerite, born August 1I, 1895. Grief has come to the family, however, in the death of the mother. December 18, 1904. She was a devoted member of the Methodist church and was held in high esteem by her many friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Hays is a Republican in politics and has a con- siderable influence on the side of a clean administration of public affairs. His home, which is among the best in the county, is a place where the most congenial atmos- phere welcomes the many visitors and friends.
BENJAMIN CARRELL.
Benjamin Carrell was born March 31, 1843, in Greene county, Indiana, and died there August 30, 1905. After receiving a limited schooling and living at home until he was eighteen years old, he enlisted, in 1861, in Company C. Forty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and went through the war as a private. He was captured at Helena, Arkansas, and spent nearly a year in prison at Tyler. Texas. After the war he re- turned home and was sick for a long time, having con- tracted sore eyes while in the army, which caused the loss of sight in one of them after the war. He always worked at farming and left one hundred and seventeen acres of good land in Richland township to his family. He was supervisor and manager of gravel roads in his native township. He was a Republican and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Catherine
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Flatter. February 8, 1866, the daughter of Michael and Rachel ( Manning) Flatter, both natives of Maryland. who came to Greene county. Indiana, in 1830, and set- tled in Richland township, where he worked a farm and where both he and his wife died. They had eleven chil- dren, namely: Jesse, Jackson, Richard, Eliza, Emily, in- fant. Julia, Van Buren, Amanda, Catherine, Loretta: all except one grew to maturity.
Bnejamin Carrell and wife had thirteen children, namely : Henry, who died young: Ida S., who married Wilson Smith, of Bloomfield: John, who died in in- fancy ; infant : Alma, who married Rollie Burcham, a farmer in Taylor township: Alice, who died when two years old: Etta May, who died in infancy; Alonzo, a farmer in Richland township, who married Mary Combs ; Franklin died in childhood: Francis Marion, at home; Fred, Nellie and Ethel, all live at home, and an infant. Mrs. Carrell and the children live on the old homestead.
James Carrell, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was born April 17, 1815. and died October 23. 1865, was a native of Orange county, Indiana. He married Fernette McCoy, of Greene county, in February, 1834. They came to Daviess county, Indiana, when that county was very sparsely settled, where they both died. The names of their children follow : John B., who mar- ried Amanda Flatter, who is deceased; his widow is liv- ing at Mineral City, Indiana ; Mary, who married Solo- mon Stone, both now deceased: Martha, who married Nathaniel Ruth, and resides at Mineral City : Mary mar- ried Solomon Stone, and both are dead: Benjamin, sub- ject of this sketch: Sarah, wife of John Shatzer, of
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Bloomfield; Nancy, deceased; Jane, who married Riley Reynolds, is now deceased; Orlenia, widow of Benton O'Neill, who lives in Bloomfield : William, a farmer, who lives in Richland township; Henry, deceased.
KINSEY CULLISON.
Kinsey Cullison, of Richland township, who has spent the major part of his life in Greene county as farmer and proprietor of flour and sawmills, is a native of Ohio, being born in Coshocton county. August 18. 1829. What little schooling he has was gained before he was nine years old in a rural school. It was at this early age that he went tolive with Ephraim Cullison, with whom he remained two years. Then he lived for three years with N. Price, and in February. 1850, came to Indiana and worked for Harvey Doney and others, finally obtaining possession of land in Center township. Greene county, clearing one hundred acres himself and living in Center township until 1894. when he moved to Mineral City and bought eighty-six acres, where he farmed and operated a store, later managing a grist mill and sawmills. He was a constable and held other public offices. He has always been a Republican and a member of the Methodist church for fifty years. He enlisted in August. 1862. in Company E. Ninety-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to Louisville, Memphis and Vicksburg, taking part in the battles of Murfrees- boro and Richmond. He was badly hurt by a mule fall-
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ing on him while performing duties of wagoner and was discharged May, 1865. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Cullison first married, September 19. 1853, Nancy McCord, daughter of Abner and Mary ( Rigee) McCord, both natives of Kentucky, who came to Greene county, Indiana, in 1817, settling in Center township. The subject's first wife died in June, 1861. He married Penelope Riddle, who lived near his old home. She was a daughter of Bailey Riddle, a native of Kentucky, who came to that section of Indiana in 1821, later moving to Missouri, where he died. The subject's second wife died in January, 1877, and he married Naomi Cullison on March 1, 1881, a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Street) Cullison, natives of Coshocton county, Ohio, who came to Indiana in 1849. He was a miller and was connected with the mills there for twenty-one years. Mr. Cullison's third wife died in August, 1906. He had four children by his first wife: Sarah E., who married John Mevrideth, liv- ing in Caldwell county, Kansas; Abner, deceased : John, who married Lucy Edwards, also lives in Caldwell county, Kansas ; Josephine, who married Aaron Shafer, of Center township. Mr. Cullison had five children by his second wife: Paris, a farmer, living in Caldwell county, Kansas: Asbury, deceased; Phoebe Ann, mar- ried Samuel Pollard, who lives in Caldwell county, Mis- souri ; Emma, deceased, who married Andrew Hardetz ; Willie, a farmer in Richland township, who married Nora Johns. The subject had one child by his third wife, Guy, who is living at Monroe City, Indiana.
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Moses Cullison, the father of the subject, married Mary Wantland. They were both natives of Maryland, but were married in Ohio. He was a shoemaker. He was a Democrat and a member of the Baptist church. His wife was a member of the Methodist church. They were the parents of the following children: Margaret. deceased, who married Samuel Meredith: Hyatt, de- ceased, who married James Cullison ; Elizabeth, deceased, who married John Burch; Priscilla, deceased, who mar- ried Ray Hall: Mray, widow of Alexander McCol- lough, living in Sullivan, Indiana; Kinsey, the subject of this sketch; James W., living in Oregon; he is a teacher and farmer; Susan, deceased, who married Samuel Gozzany; Rachel, deceased.
SAMUEL FOSTER.
Samuel Foster was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, July 15. 1836, and attended school there for a few years. He enlisted. July 6, 1861, in Company C, Twenty-first Regiment, Indiana Heavy Artillery, at Bloomfield, In- diana, and was sent to Indianapolis, later to Baltimore, Maryland. Then to Ship Island, Mississippi, and was on the expendition to New Orleans. He was in the siege of Port Hudson and Baton Rouge, and also in the siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama. He was doing garrison duty until July, 1866, having served nearly five years as a private, sergeant and orderly, also second lieutenant. He was shot in the hand while in the swamps of Louisiana
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and came near bleeding to death. He also contracted a chronic disease there. He started with seventy men for New Orleans: on the sixty-mile trip they captured the steamer "Fox" and brought it to that city. He married Mary J. Hatfield, a native of Taylor township, Greene county, on January 7. 1866. They had the following children : Joseph E., deceased ; Clarence A., who mar- ried Enima Quiller on August 16, 1895: they have two children, Raymond and Mary; he has always farmed on the old place: Leonidas C., who was a railroader for several years, now living at home; he married Stella Emery; they had the following children: Inez, Sylvia, Cecil, deceased; Clarence, Carrie, who is the wife of Carl Wantland, of Bloomfield, Indiana. They have two children : Chester and Bernard.
Samuel Foster located in Taylor township at the close of the war, where he now lives on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one hundred acres of which he cleared himself. He does a general farming business and raises considerable stock. He is the son of Noah Foster. a native of Coshocton, Ohio, who married Sarah Ram- pley, a native of Maryland. He farmed in Ohio for some time and moved to Taylor township, Greene county, Indiana, in 1839, where he farmed on a one hundred and sixty acre tract. To this union were born the following children : Ethelinda, deceased; Samuel, the subject of this sketch: James, living in Washington township; Mary, Nancy, Elizabeth and Martha, all deceased : Emma, living in Monroe county, Indiana. He was a Republican. Both he and his wife were methodists. He died in 1883 and his wife died in 1886.
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MASON FAUCETT.
Mason Faucett, of Taylor Township, was born there September 2, 1844, and he has spent most of his life there. He attended school for a short time when a boy and lived with his parents. He married, in 1866, Sarah Haywood, of his own community. She was the daughter of Charles and June Haywood, natives of Ten- nessee, who first went to Pennsylvania, later coming to Greene county, Indiana. Mason Faucett had five chil- dren, namely: Emma, who married Peter Fry, of Tay- lor township; they have two children, Letha and Neva; Ettie, the wife of Willard Creighton, of Bloomfield; they have two children, Vernon and Grace: Mary, the wife of Ernest Catron, of Taylor township; they have one child, Lois; Alvin, who lives at home.
Mr. Faucett enlisted July, 1862, in Company A. One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. and served in Tennessee and Kentucky, being in several minor engagements. He enlisted a second time on Feb- ruary 2. 1864. in Company G, One Hundred and Forty- ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served in Alabama and Tennessee, being in a number of small engagements. He was discharged in September, 1865. Since the war he has lived two years in Stafford township and five years in Richland township, this county, having lived in Taylor township, his native county, for the past thirty years. He has a farm of one hundred and twenty- seven acres on which he raises all kinds of grains and many kinds of stock. He is a Republican and a member of the Christian church.
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Mason Faucett is the son of James and Willie (Mason) Faucett, both natives of North Carolina. James came with his father, Eli Mason, to Greene county, In- diana, in 1818. The latter secured two hundred acres of land. He cleared the land, which he continued to work until he contracted the smallpox and went blind. He was twice married, having four children by his first wife and two by his second. John Mason, the subject's grand- father, was a native of North Carolina, who brought his wife to Greene county, Indiana, in 1818 and settled in Richland township, where they died, leaving three sons and three daughters. James Faucett was a farmer and spent his life with his parents working the old homestead. He was a Republican and a member of the Christian church. They had nine children, namely: Lizzie, de- ceased; Harriet, living in Strafford township; Mason, the subject of this sketch; Eli, living in Richland town- ship: Eliza, living in Bloomfield; Jane, living in Taylor township; Abraham, living at Flat Rock, Illinois; Mar- tha, living in Hammond county, Kansas; Ida, living in Bloomfield. James Faucett died in 1888, and his wife died in 1891.
E. BYRD SQUIRE.
Holding distinctive prestige among the representa- tive business men of Greene county is the popular gentle- man whose name appears above. Belonging to the younger generation of merchants he has already won the esteem and confidence of all who know him. not alone
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by reason of ability displayed in his chosen calling, but also by his candid mien, generous heart and freedom from deceit. His father, William B. Squire, was a physician of high standing and wide repute, who practiced his pro- fession at Worthington for a number of years and was long recognized as a man of eminent attainment in the noble calling to which his energies were devoted.
Dr. William B. Squire was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, January 30. 1830, a son of Samuel and Jane (Stilwell) Squire, natives, respectively, of Vermont and West Virginia. Both sides of the family are of English extraction, their descent in America dating pre- vious to the Revolutionary war. The Stilwells first set- tled on Staten Island and Squires in Vermont, represen- tatives of each family having served in the early Indian wars: also in both wars with Great Britain. In 1831. Bradley Squire removed with his family from Vermont to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he engaged in agri- cultural pursuits and passed the remainder of his days. This man was the father of Samuel Squire and grand -- father of Dr. W. B. Squire. Samuel Squire devoted his life to the tilling of the soil and was a man of intelligence and wide influence in the community of his residence. He was the father of four sons and four daughters, among the former being Dr. William B. Squire, who grew to maturity on the home farm, and received his early educa- tion in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he be- gan his career as a public instructor, and while thus en- gaged took up the study of medicine, which he prose- cuted under competent preceptors until entering the Cin- cinnati School of Medicine, from which he was grad-
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uated in 1856. In the meantime ( 1855) he came to Greene county, Indiana, and located where Jasonville now stands, which town he laid out and named in honor of Jason Rodgers, a merchant and well known citizen of the place. In July, 1861, he helped recruit what after- wards became Company F, Thirty-first Indiana Infantry, but after serving about seven months he was compelled to resign his commission on account of ill health. Sub- sequently ( 1863) he re-enlisted and was made surgeon of the Fourteenth Regiment, which position he held until the close of the war. He had moved to Worthington in 1862 and on his return from the army resumed the prac- tice of medicine in that town, which to a greater or less extent he continued, receiving a reputation much more than local. In 1871 he embarked in the drug trade and in addition opened a dry goods in 1878, being quite suc- cessful in both branches of business.
Dr. Squire and Rebecca Thrasher were married in 1852 and four children blessed the union, namely : Azubia J., Samuel F., E. Byrd and Ida May. The mother, a native of Clark county, Ohio, died in 1871. In 1872 the doctor chose a second wife in the person of Mrs. Hattie A. Walker, who bore him one child, a daughter by the name of Ethel L.
Dr. Squire was originally a Whig, but when that old party fulfilled its mission and passed out of exist- ence he became a Republican and from the birth of the latter party he was one of its ardent supporters. While zealous in the advocacy of his principles and familiar with the leading issues and public questions of the time, he never aspired to political prominence, preferring to con-
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fine his entire time and attention to professional and busi- ness matters. Dr. Squire died in 1905.
E. Byrd Squire, son of Dr. W. B. and Rebecca (Thrasher) Squire, was born in Jasonville, Greene county, Indiana, and spent his childhood and youth under the parental roof, attending meanwhile the public schools of his native place. Subsequently at the age of eighteen he was graduated from the Worthington high school and immediately thereafter associated with his brother in the grocery business at the place, the firm thus constituted lasting but a short time. He next en- tered into partnership with his father in the same line of business and continued witht him during the eleven years ensuing, at the expiration of which time he purchased the entire interest and became sole proprietor of the estab- lishment. Meeting with encouraging success, Mr. Squire. in 1898, added a full line of clothing and a boot and shoe department to his store, and from this date to the present the business has grown steadily in volume and importance, being at this time the largest and most complete mercantile house in the city. In the manage- ment of his large and constantly increasing interest Mr. Squire has displayed rare business qualities and judgment of a high order, while no small share of his success is directly attributable to pleasant relations he has ever maintained with the public by studying its wants and sparing no pains to supply the same.
Mr. Squire is a Republican in politics and as such wields a strong influence for his party in local matters and general issues, having twice served the town in the responsible position of treasurer and one term in the
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common council. Like the majority of the intelligent and enterprising men he is identified with Masonic fraternity and also belongs to the fraternity of Odd Fellows, hav- ing filled all the chairs in the local lodge of the latter organization, besides taking an active and influential part in its more general deliberation.
Mr. Squire, on May 5, 1881, was united in mar- riage with Estella Jones, of Bloomfield, who has borne him two children: Josephine, a student of the Worth- ington high school, in 1908, and one that died in in- fancy.
CLYDE S. MOSS.
The great profession of journalism-a profession long noted for its talented and energetic men-has an ardent and enthusiastic worker in Clyde S. Moss, city editor of the Linton Daily Call. Mr. Moss is recognized as one of the progressive young business men of Linton, and as the moving spirit of this enterprising daily he keeps in close touch with the best interests of his home city. Following in the footsteps of his father, W. M. Moss, the pioneer newspaper man of southern Indiana (a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume), he took up newspaper work at an early age and by his own clever ability has rapidly forged to the front. He has assumed the initiative in establishing many new and exclusive features in the local newspaper field and by his tact, energy and ability has given The Call a place among the brightest and best daily newspapers of the state.
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Clyde S. Moss was born at Bloomfield, Indiana, August 8, 1882, the second son of William M. and Callie (Scott) Moss. He was educated in the high schools of Bloomfield, graduating with the class of 1902. He was appointed a cadet at Annapolis Naval Academy imme- diately after his graduation from high school, but relin- quished the appointment after six months' service, to take up newspaper work, for which he early exhibited special talent. Mr. Moss was managing editor of The Clarksville (Tennessee) Daily Journal ( 1903), where he did efficient and creditable work. He came to Linton with his father in 1904 and since then has been city editor of The Call, with the exception of several months on the reportorial staff of The Terre Haute Tribune. His work in Terre Haute attracted attention over the state and he has declined numerous flattering offers to go to other fields, but elects to remain in Linton, as his faith in the destiny of the "Pittsburg of the West" is unshak- able. Mr. Moss has done much special work for The Chicago American and other metropolitan dailies and his work has always received the highest praise.
Fraternally Mr. Moss affiliates with the Masons. Elks, Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World, and socially he is one of the best known and best liked men in Linton.
WILLIAM W. EDINGTON.
The popular and well known sheriff of Greene county, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, October 22.
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1855. He is a son of Thomas and Ursula ( Moore) Ed- ington, natives of Coshocton county. Ohio, where they were married, and where their early lives were spent. The family arrived in Greene county, Indiana, on the 13th of April. 1856, and located on a farm in Jackson town- ship, and there the parents remained until called to an- other life. The father. Thomas Edington, was born in July. 1833. and devoted his early manhood years to the profession of teaching, both in Ohio, and for some years after locating in this state. He was also a successful farmer and wood-working mechanic. He built a mill on his farm and operated that, with the aid of his sons. this being one of the first mills in the region. He was a son of Robert Edington, who was a soldier in the War of 1812. Three of father's brothers, Captain Elijah. Aquilla and Edmund, were soldiers in the Civil war. Thomas Edington died on his farm in Jackson township. January 13. 1873. and his wife died at Koleen, in the same township. September 27, 1907. These were the parents of eight children, of whom six are now living. The names in order of birth are as follows: Leroy W .. a farmer in' Wright township: Purliette, who became the wife of Norville Melton, deceased; she is now the wife of John Mclaughlin, of Koleen; William W., the subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth : Margaret Alice married William H. Mansfield, a mer- chant at Koleen, but residing in Bloomfield ( see personal sketch in this volume); Elijah W. is deputy sheriff of Greene county and a well-to-do farmer in Jackson town- ship; Thomas Leonard is a prosperous farmer in Taylor township, and Samuel Aquilla and Alvadore died in infancy.
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The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Jackson township and was married and settled on a farm of his own at the age of eighteen. He followed farming and stock raising during most of his mature years, giving special attention to the buying and shipping of stock for some eighteen years. He has also been interested in the milling business, only dispos- ing of that interest when elected to the office of sheriff in 1904. Mr. Edington owns a valuable farm of one hundred and nineteen acres adjoining the town of Bloom- field, also two buildings and some unimproved lots in Switz City. His farm is well stocked with horses, hogs and cattle, and is a valuable accessory to the monetary interests of its progressive owner.
Mr. Edington was married February 6. 1872, to Miss Harriet Rebecca, daughter of Walter and Mary ( Emery) Hayes, of Jackson township. To this union five children were born, but two of whom are now living : Icadore D., wife of Charles E. Combs (see sketch) ; Pur- liette, who died in infancy: Ioma Dale, who died in young womanhood, June 26, 1905, a successful teacher and a young lady of bright promise: Walter Lee, seven- teen, is attending school, and Alice, who died at the age of three and a half years. The family are members of the Christian church at Switz City. Mr. Edington served as assessor of Jackson township for ten years, being first elected in 1884. He was elected sheriff as a Republican, in 1904, and re-elected in 1906, receiving in each case a very large and complimentary vote. Of the fraternal societies he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Improved Order of Red Men.
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