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HIRAM CARNAHAN is the son of Samuel and Mary A. (Marshone) Carnahan, natives of Pennsylvania and Greene County, Ohio; the birth of the former occurring April 15, 1813, and that of the latter May 14th of the same year. In 1835, Samuel Carnahan moved to Greene County, Ohio, where he was married. In his youth he worked several years on the Lower
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Mississippi, near New Orleans. In 1841, came to Lima Township, where he was employed in the Grannis Mills, and bought 40 acres of unimproved land in Clay Township ; built a house and began clearing. In this house Hiram Carnahan was born December 6, 1842. His father returned to the South, but made a brief sojourn. In 1845, he sold his farm and bought another of 100 acres in same 'township, where he died November 5, 1867, having increased his land to 340 acres. Mrs. Carnahan died at the same place January 18, 1878. Hiram Carnahan lived at home until after his father's death. Novem- ber 13, 1869, he was married to Orvilla Tedrick, who was born September 18, 1847, in Bloomfield Township, this county. They had two children-Jacob S., who died September 25, 1873, and Carrie May. Mr. Carnahan bought the farm of 81 acres where he now lives, in 1870. It is part of the old home- stead and is well improved. Mr. and Mrs. Carnahan belong to the M. P. Church. He has served as Assessor three years. Mrs. Carnahan's father, Jacob Tedrick, was born in Maryland ; and her mother, Sarah (Rathburn) Tedrick, in Licking County, Ohio.
SAMUEL CARNAHAN, JR., was born in this township March 19, 1844, son of Samuel and Mary A. (Marshone) Carnahan, natives of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio. Samuel Carnahan, Sr., came to Lima Township, this county, in 1841; bought land, then returned to the South, where he had previously worked near New Orleans, returning to this township; November 5, 1867, he died at his home; his wife followed him January 18, 1878. The subject, after attaining his majority, worked out for two years, and in 1868, bought 71 acres of land in this township, where he now lives. Mrs. Carnahan was born in Elkhart County, Ind., May 1, 1852, and was one of five children in the family of Costain and Andalusia (Gould) Rathburn, and was married to Samuel Carnahan, January 12, 1871. Her mother was a native of New York; her father, of Ohio. He came to Bloomfield Township, this county, in 1844, remained about seven years, then went into Elkhart County, but returned later to La Grange County, where he died November 19, 1875. Four chil- dren-Lester, Charles, Clara E. and Rachel A .- constitute the family of Mr. and Mrs. Carnahan. Mr. Carnahan is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are active members of the M. P. Church.
MRS. ELIZABETH DANSER was born in Fayette County, Penn., November 2, 1813, daughter of Joseph and Fannie (Shaw) Hindman, who came to the United States from Ireland when small children. They moved to Monongalia County, Va., when Elizabeth was about fourteen, and where Mr. Hindman died June 11, 1847, and Mrs. Hindman in 1864 or 1865. They were parents of two daughters. Elizabeth Hindman was married at Morgan- town, Va., December 13, 1834, to Elijah Danser, who was born in New Jersey, May 8, 1808, and taken by his parents to Monongalia County, Va. He learned the wheelwright trade, carpentering and cabinet-making, and was employed in the manufacture and sale of pumps for some time. He also worked at con- tracting and building, and furnished a large part of the flagging for the city of Cleveland and stone for piers in Cleveland Harbor. He owned boats on the Ohio & Erie Canal, and shipped quantities of stone to Canada and Cleveland. Mr. Danser moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and then, in 1835, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where he lived until he came to La Grange, in 1855. The fall following, he moved on the farm where Mrs. Danser now lives. He died, while engaged in clearing and improving his farm, August 13, 1860. Mr. Danser was a good citizen, respected by all who knew him. Mr. and Mrs. Danser had
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two children. One-Joseph H .- was a soldier in the late war, and went out as First Lieutenant of Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in 1861. He was promoted to the Captaincy in November, 1862. At the battle of Stone River he was wounded in the hip, in consequence of which he resigned his commission and returned home in 1863. Previous to entering the army he had taught several terms of school and studied law with Dr. Kennedy, of La Grange. After returning, he was admitted to the bar, but was unable to practice his profession on account of ill-health, which finally resulted in his death, at the home of his mother, October 8, 1865. The other child-Sarah J .- became Mrs. J. B. Pratt on the 9th of December, 1858. She has two children-Willma C., now Mrs. William H. Selby, married May 26, 1880, and Robert L. B. Mrs. Selby has one child-Cora. All are living together on the homestead farm in this township.
FRANKLIN DAVIS is the son of Sylvester and Hannah (Daggett) Davis, of Massachusetts. Sylvester Davis served in the war of 1812, was married in New York, and had a family of five children. He lived a pioneer's life in the States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. In Geauga County, Ohio, Franklin Davis was born, June 16, 1827, and Mrs. Hannah Davis died in 1832. In 1844, the elder Mr. Davis came to this township, and bought the farm where the subject now lives. In 1850, he went to Iowa, and from there to Kansas, about the time of the breaking-out of the "Border Ruffian " war, in which he took an active part. At one time, while staying with his nephew, the house was attacked, and twenty-seven bullet-holes made in one door. No damage but a slight injury to his nephew. Mr. Davis re- turned to Iowa, where he died, in his seventy-ninth year. In politics, he was first a Whig, then an Abolitionist, and afterward a Republican. His religious views were as many as his politics, he being in turn a Universalist, Disciple and an Adventist. The subject lived with his Grandfather Daggett, in New York, from the age of seven to sixteen ; then went to Ohio, and remained two years, coming to La Grange County in 1845, where he rented and operated a saw-mill for several years. In 1851, he bought the farm where he is now re- siding. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Elliott) Davis, is a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born October 25, 1826. They were married on the 1st of January, 1850, and seven of their children are living; three being deceased. Those living are William S., Clary L. (now Mrs. Barrows), Chloe (now Mrs. Sams), Caroline S. (now Mrs. Bulock), Frank S., Lizzie N. and Gusta A. Clary and Chloe are twins. They also have taken into their family a little niece-Mary M. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the M. P. Church. Mrs. Davis' parents were William and Lydia A. (Spidle) Elliott, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Davis was Township Trustee two years, and for the twenty-seven past years has been class-leader in the church.
EMANUEL FLECK is a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and in his twenty-second year, in 1855, came to La Porte, Ind., and learned the carpenter's trade. In November, 1856, he returned to Ohio, with $152, and purchased carpenter's tools. February 19, 1857, he married Miss Savillah Fisher, came to Indiana March 27, 1865, and bought a farm in Clay Township, on which was an old water-power saw-mill. He used this mill until October, 1866, when he built a new one on the same site. In 1870, he built a grist-mill, but the water proving insufficient, he put in an engine in 1871, and built a new circular saw-mill. He is the owner of the "Model Mills," known as Fleck's Mill, with a saw-mill containing planing, joining
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and edging machines. He also owns the right of a patent hay-rack, for Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and all territory west of the Mississippi River, and is one of the inventors of a patent buggy-top attachment. His farm is well improved, and a new frame residence has just been completed. He in- troduced the cultivation of German prunes in the county, and is the inventor of a fruit-tree protector. The spring of 1867, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and held the office eight years ; served as Trustee, and was re-elected in 1878. The following children were born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio ; Henrietta, born April 30, 1858, died in March, 1880; Laura Ann, May 28, 1859; George Washington, August 4, 1860; Amanda Jane, October 7, 1861 ; Oliver Leander, June 7, 1863 ; and Israella, November 16, 1864; those born in La Grange County-Samuel Peter, December 20, 1866; Curtis Wise, Sep- tember 21, 1869 ; Burt, January 16, 1872; Helen Izora, July 3, 1875 ; Harry B., January 29, 1877 ; Rollen, December 27, 1879, and an infant daughter, who died February 21, 1874.
SETH FORD came in 1856 to Clay Township with his parents, Jared Ford, a native of Massachusetts, born in September, 1808, and Rebecca (Ring- er) Ford, who was born in December, 1810, in Maryland. They were par- ents of four boys and three girls; and, upon their arrival in this county, the elder Mr. Ford bought the farm that his son Seth now manages, and owns also property in La Grange. He took an active part in the Regulator movement of this county, and was a member of the M. E. Church in his younger days. He died at La Grange on the 3d of May, 1881, at which place Mrs. Rebecca Ford yet resides. The subject, Seth Ford, was united to Miss Catharine Selby in marriage May 3, 1860. Her parents were Luke and Mary A. (Kissinger) Selby. The former was a native of Ashland County, Ohio, where Catharine was born September 29, 1835. Mary Selby was a native of Maryland; Mr. Ford was born in Wayne County, N. Y., March 23, 1836. They are mem- bers in good standing of the Methodist Church. Mr. Ford bought the farm where he now lives in 1858. It has fine improvements and good buildings.
CARY R. FRISBEY came to Noble County with his parents in 1842, and in 1844 moved to Lima Township, this county. His father, John Frisbey, was born in Luzerne County, Penn. ; he was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was married in June, 1817, to Mary A. Van Clief, a native of Morgan County, Ohio. She died at her home in Lima Township, in November, 1854; Mr. Frisbey then moved to this township, where he died in October, 1859. C. R. Frisbey was born February 2, 1836, in Morgan County, Ohio. He went to Wisconsin in 1855, returning to this county the following year ; September 30, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was in battle at Fort Donelson. Being unfit for service he was discharged July 17, 1862, at Battle Creek, Tenn., and returned to La Grange. September 30, 1864, Mr. Frisbey re-enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle at Nashville. July 6, 1865, they were mustered out at Nashville, and Mr. Frisbey returned to In- diana. In 1864, April 2, he was married to Julia F. Osborn, who died Sep- tember 22, 1864. He married Miss Elizabeth Boyd October 27, 1867, a na- tive of Noble County, and bought the farm where he now lives, in February, 1868. They have two children-Erie S. and Minnie M. Mr. Frisbey is a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and Mrs. Frisbey of the German Bap- tist. He was Deputy County Treasurer for about nine years, and six years served as Assessor and Real Estate Appraiser ; he now fulfills the duties as
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Justice of the Peace, to which office he was elected in June, 1879. Mr. Fris- bey has taught sixteen terms of school, and has conducted a singing school for twenty-three years ; for five years he was local correspondent of the La Grange Standard, and has written two years for the La Grange Register.
SARAH S. (BOWEN) GARMIRE was born in Stark County, Ohio, May 11, 1826. Her parents were Jacob W. and Rachel (Oldem) Bowen, both born near Pittsburgh, Penn. They were parents of twelve children, six boys and six girls. The Bowens are of English descent ; two brothers, William and David, came to America during Queen Anne's war, William settling in South Carolina and David in Pennsylvania; from the last named Mrs. Garmire is a descendant. Her marriage with Samuel Garmire took place in Stark County, Ohio, March 13, 1845, and they came to this township and settled in Septem- ber, 1848. Mr. Garmire bought eighty acres of land, and set out an orchard on his first clearing the following spring, having bought sixteen apple trees in La Grange in the fall, and had them buried during the winter. They are still bearing. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire had six children. William S. died Septem- ber 17, 1865 ; Jacob A. died April 3, 1854; Jonathan F .; Amanda J., now Mrs. George Slack ; Mary E., now Mrs. Squire Beech, and Martha, who died in infancy. Mr. Garmire died at his home January 28, 1878, and had he lived until the 15th of the following June, would have completed his sixtieth year. He had been for many years a member of the Lutheran Church, of which he was also Deacon. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire were charter members when that society was organized at La Grange. Mr. Garmire was Township Assessor a number of terms, and was always a devoted husband and father.
JONATHAN GARMIRE, son of Samuel and Sarah (Bowen) Garmire, is a native of this township, born September 4, 1849. He married Miss Eliza- beth Fuller August 24, 1875. Her father, Cyrus Fuller, was a native of Cold- water, Mich., and her mother, Mary A. (Rowe) Fuller, of Ohio; Elizabeth was their only child. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire belong to the Lutheran Church. Their only child, Earl C., was born August 24, 1876.
WILLIAM GARMIRE, JR., is the son of William Garmire, who was born May 12, 1788, near Hagerstown, Md. In his younger days, he followed flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. About 1812 or 1813, he was married at Greensburgh, Penn., to Sarah Addle- man, a native of Greene County, born August 23, 1796. In 1825, they moved to Holmes County, Ohio, where Mr. Garmire, Sr., purchased a farm. In 1863, he came to this county, where he lived a farmer's life until the time of his demise, January 7, 1879. Mrs. Sarah Garmire died in same place March 6, 1870. They had nine children, and both were prominent members of the Lutheran Church. William Garmire, Jr., the subject, learned carpentering in Benton, Holmes Co., Ohio, beginning in 1834. He worked at his trade in Iowa from the spring to fall of 1837, continuing from that time in Holmes County, Ohio, until he moved to Seneca County in 1843. During the winter of 1844-45, he worked in the cabinet shop of John Miller, at Fort Wayne, Ind. In February, 1845, he came to La Grange, and, in company with his brother, ran a cabinet shop until 1847, when he began farming on eighty acres of unimproved land in this township. This he sold after five years, and bought another eighty, only to sell in the following year, 1853, when he went to Illi- nois with the intent to locate, but returned that same year, and has since farmed one hundred and thirty-five acres in this township. The present Mrs. Garmire was Barbara E. Stromen, whom he married on the 2d of April, 1872. She
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was the daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Dukes) Stromen ; born in Summit County, Ohio, February 23, 1837. The former Mrs. Garmire died in this township February 24, 1870, leaving four children, viz .: James M., William M., Elizabeth A., now Mrs. Holsinger; and Josiah F. She came to the United States with her parents, David and Catharine Shultz, from Wurtemberg, Ger- many, where their daughter Catharine was born July 24, 1824. She married Mr. Garmire October 13, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. Mr. Garmire was foreman of the Board of Township Trustees for six years, and Assessor six years. Himself and wife belong to the Lutheran Church. He is a native of Greene County, Penn .; born September 22, 1816.
BENJAMIN GIGGY came to the United States with his parents, Bene- dict and Christina Giggy, in 1852. He was born August 29, 1844, in Canton Berne, Switzerland, and was one of five children. In Boston, Summit Co., Ohio, during the year 1853, he worked for $7 per month. Coming to this township in 1854, he was engaged in farm work for John Ray, and attended school until 1859. The three following years he worked at the stone mason's trade with his father. In August, 1863, he enlisted in Company G, Eighty- eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but at Fort Wayne was taken down with lung fever, and was not able to report for six weeks. He was then furnished transportation to Louisville, Ky., where he was again attacked with lung fever, and in December returned home. In the spring of 1864, he enlisted in Com- pany H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the war closed. During his last three months of service he was detailed as clerk at Gen. Gillen's headquarters, District East Tennessee, and was mustered out at Nashville September 25, 1865. August 12, 1866, Mr. Giggy and Miss Sarah Bowen were united in marriage. She is a native of Holmes County, Ohio; born September 26, 1846. They have had seven children, viz .: May, Ella C., Alonzo B., Clara C., Clyde, Ray (died August 14, 1880), and Carl. Mr. Giggy purchased forty acres of his farm in 1864, and the other forty in 1871, and its improved condition is mainly due to his efforts.
CHRISTIAN GIGGY, one of the leading citizens of his township, came to America in the spring of 1851, in company with his sister Ellen, now Mrs. John Roy. He is a son of Benedict and Christina (Snyder) Giggy, who were parents of three boys and two girls, and was born in Canton Berne, Switzer- land, February 1, 1832. Mrs. Christian Giggy is also a native of the same place, born in July, 1818. She married Mr. Giggy in Summit County, Ohio, in August, 1851. She was Ellen Burkhalter, daughter of John and Barbary (Pfiefer) Burkhalter, parents of ten children. Mr. Giggy landed in New York, went to Cleveland, Ohio, remained a few days working in a foundry, then went to Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio, where he worked in a stone quarry for a time, then in a saw-mill, and farmed two years. He came to this township in 1855, and worked at the stone mason's trade in connection with farming. In 1859, he bought twenty acres of improved land, that he sold in 1862, and bought the farm of one hundred and fifteen, where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Giggy are members of the Lutheran Church, and have a family of five children-Mary E., Rosanna (now Mrs. Hart), Charles W., Oscar L. and Sarah R.
JOHN GIGGY is a native of Canton Berne, Switzerland, where he was born May 14, 1838. He came to America with his parents, Benedict and Christina (Snyder) Giggy, in December, 1852. Benedict Giggy was a soldier in Switzerland for twenty-one years. John Giggy worked in a cotton factory at
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Pittsburgh, Penn., for three months, immediately after his arrival, receiving $5 per week ; he then went to Summit County, Ohio, where he worked as a stone- mason, and farmed two years ; wages from $15 to $17 per month. In 1854, Mr. Giggy came to this township, and worked for $10 per month, until he was married, October 11, 1858, to Samantha Hart. He then bought a small farm near South Milford, which he sold in 1861, and returned to this township. August 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in December, crossed the Ohio into Kentucky ; was at the battle of Fort Donelson, and was wounded at Shiloh, and was sent to the hospital at Evansville, Ind., then home on a discharge furlough. In June, 1862, he re- ported at Indianapolis, but was ordered back home; he returned again in July, however, remained three or four weeks at the soldiers' home, then started South and rejoined his regiment at Murfreesboro, and in the battle at Chickamauga was wounded in the hip, September 19, 1863, after which he walked back to Bridgeport, Ala., using a bed slat for a crutch, being three days on the road, and having nothing to eat all that time but three crackers. From there he was sent to the hospital at Nashville; remained about one month, then came home on a furlough. December 31, 1863, he again rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, and re-enlisted in the same company as a veteran, participating in all the marches and engagements until they were mustered out at Indianapolis in October, 1865. Mr. Giggy then returned to his farm that he purchased in 1862, and worked as a stone mason in connection with farming. In 1872, he sold his farm, and in 1873, purchased the old homestead, where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Giggy have a family of nine children-Ellen J. (now Mrs. Rowen), John H., Anna B., Emma R., Agnes, George F., Fred C., William M., and an infant unnamed.
JAMES GREEN is a native of the city of New York, and went to Columbiana County, Ohio, in about 1833, where he was married, May 28, 1842, to Miss Ann Brown, a native of Loudoun County, Va. In 1848 or 1849, he came to Clay Township, and bought 120 acres of timbered land, which he afterward cleared. The log cabin which he occupied when he first came to the county is still standing. In 1851, he built the first steam saw-mill in the township. This was burned in 1866, and rebuilt that year on the same site, a circular saw being substituted for the muley saw in the other mill. During the first year after coming here, they suffered a great deal from chills and fever, in getting acclimated, and experienced the other trials during the early history of the county. Of a family of nine children, only three are living, viz., Lucinda J., now Mrs. Cherry ; Mary W., now Mrs. Doney ; and Icey V. Mr. Green owns 200 acres of land, and is a man of sterling abilities, and a first-class farmer in all respects.
GEORGE W. HOFF was born in Johnson Township, this county, March 3, 1849. In 1873, he purchased the farm in this township where he is now living. Mr. Hoff has taught ten terms of school in this county, teaching his first term in Greenfield Township, in 1868. He was married to Miss Anna C. Lampman in 1876. They have a family of two children-Nellie R. and Festus E. Mr. Hoff is a member of the Methodist Church, and, in 1874, he was ap- pointed to the distinction of Deputy Appraiser.
JONAS KAUFFMAN owns a farm of 140 acres in Clay, that he pur- . chased in 1864, after selling a 200-acre farm in this same township, where he had lived in a little log cabin ten years. Previous to making his first purchase here, in 1854, Mr. Kauffman, in company with three others, was operating a
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saw-mill, built by them in Newbury Township, this county. Mr. Kauffman is the son of Stephen and Martha (Miller) Kauffman, who immigrated to Indiana in 1844, and cleared forty acres of land in Elkhart County. Here Mrs. Kauff- man died in 1854, and her husband four years later. Both were natives of Pennsylvania. They had a family of four girls and four boys. Jonas Kauff- man married Mary J. Schermerhorn March 28, 1852. She is a native of Stark County and her husband of Holmes County, Ohio. He was born August 10, 1826. They have eight children-Julia A., Mary M. (now Mrs. Sheldon Robbins), Laura A., Sarah A., Ada I., Chancey M., Gusta J. and Luther J. Mrs. Kauffman's father, Michael Schermerhorn, was born in Ger- many, and his wife, Elizabeth (McKibbin), in Ireland. Mr. Kauffman worked at the carpenter's trade from the time he was eighteen years old until 1850. He is a member of the German Baptist Church.
EDWARD M. KEASEY is a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, and the son of Christian and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Keasey, the former a native of Maine, the latter of Maryland. They were married in Fairfield County, Ohio, and were parents of nine children. In the fall of 1841, they made preparations to start for Indiana, but on the eve of their departure Christian Keasey was stricken with an attack of pleurisy, and lived but two weeks. About three months afterward, his widow came to Newbury Township, this county, with her family, and bought eighty acres of land, where they built a log cabin and com- menced clearing. Ten years later, Mrs. Keasey sold this place and bought a farm in this township, where she lived ten years, then removed to Lima Town- ship with her son Ezra, who cared for her until her death, November 14, 1872, and inherited her property. Christian Keasey and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church in Ohio, but, after coming to Indiana, she united with the M. P. Church. In 1855, Edward M. Keasey bought eighty acres of unim- proved land in this township; sold same ten years later and purchased another eighty ; then sold again and went to Iowa, prospecting, but soon returned to this county and bought a seventy-acre farm in Lima Township. In the spring of 1866, he disposed of that and returned to Clay Township where he has re- mained. November 2, 1855, the subject was united in matrimony to Miss Lu- cinda A. Merrifield, one of eight children in the family of Louis and Mary (Kyes) Merrifield, of New York. Mrs. Keasey was born in Huron County, Ohio, February 24, 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Keasey are members of the M. P. Church and have a family of six, viz., Orpha H. (now Mrs. Preston), Lillie M. (now Mrs. Yergin), Carrie L. (now Mrs. Davis), Nellie I. and Mary B.
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