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Election .- At an election held in the township, at the house of Daniel Yount, on the first Monday in August, 1849, the following men voted : John Brooke, Christopher Vandeventer, Jonathan Reams, David Vaublosicon, James Brooks, John Hildebrand, Daniel Yount, Andrew Brooks, Tavner Reams, Peter Rowler, E. Yount, Enos Yount, Albert Bacon, Alexander Yount, Wesley Noland, Henry Daniels, Jeremiah Pool, George Brooke and William Poole. Wesley Noland and Alexander Yount, Clerks ; Albert Bacon, Jeremiah Pool and George Brooke, Judges of this election, at which twenty-two votes were cast. The returns of the first election held in the township could not be found.
1851 Tax-Payers .- The persons who paid tax on land owned in Cass Township, three years after its creation, were as follows: Josiah Broadrick, George Brooke, Eli Bare, James Brooke, Benjamin Bare, Robert Blackburn, William Bare, John Burkes, Henry Bare, John Bare, James Bulla, Albert Bacon, Thomas Cadwallader, John Comer, Daniel Diltz, Robert Daniels, Elias Downs, Harvey Daniels, Archibald Daniels, Samuel Fries, James R. Fowler, Harvey Headlee; William M. Haskins, Walter Haskins, John Hildebrand, George Reams, William King, John Long, G. J. Listee, S. Lassel, William Bath, Thomas McMillian, Ephraim Millison, Solomon Mosse, George McConnell, Wesley Noland, Frederick Ort, John Peters, Edwin Perry, Jeremiah Pool, Asa Perrigo,
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William Pool, Jonathan Reams, Tavner Reams, John Rathbon, Jerome Reams, Zachariah Beel, Maxwell Puse, Charles Reid, Peter Roller, Lemuel Shoemaker, A. J. Searight, Samuel L. Stie, Mary Timmons, William Timmons, Michael Williams, Joshua Williamson, Nancy Will- iamson, Ephraim Woods, James Yanlon, Christopher Vandeventer, Elias Vanaman, Sr., Elias Vanaman, Jr., Daniel Vanaman, David Vaublosi- con, Daniel Yount, E. Yount, Enoch Yount and Alexander Yount.
Land Entries .- The first land entered in the township was by Chris- topher Vandeventer, on the 1st of December, 1838, and then followed other entries, as follows: Samuel Burson, December 3, 1838; Joseph Smith, December 17, 1838; Leonard Shoemaker, July 30, 1839; Thomas McMillian, June 21, 1838 ; Alexander Searight, Sr., June 7, 1838; Samuel Long, October 7, 1839; Robert Acre, August 20, 1847 ; Elias Vanaman, August 30, 1848; Jacob Young, October 24, 1849 ; Daniel Vanaman, August 30, 1848; Thomas Townsley, April 1, 1844 ; John Jaslen, August 22, 1846 ; James R. Fowler, July 15, 1844; Isaiah Broadrick, February 20, 1845; Ephraim Millian, February 20, 1845; Jobn W. Williamson, August 8, 1843; Samuel Fry, June 25, 1844; Albert Bacon, August 17, 1846; Jacob W. Hunt, February 2, 1846 ; John Smith, February 1, 1840; Benjamin Mattix, November 27, 1847; Daniel Yount, September 24, 1842; John Lyman, October 27, 1840; Tavner Reams, November 11, 1845; William McBeth, March 27, 1844; Daniel Vaublosicon, August 12, 1843. After 1845, land entries and purchases became more numerous in the township.
Drainage .- Cass Township, though formerly one of the most wet townships in the county, is fast becoming drained. The following are some of the principal ditches in the township: Read No. 1, Read No. 2, Read, Davis, Leazenby, Huffman, Headlee and others ; Riggles, and Robins and others. Three years since and there was scarcely a public ditch in the township; now the township contains sixty-four miles of public drainage.
Post Office .- The township contains one post office, Headlee, which was established about fifteen years ago. The Postmasters at this office served in the following order : William Osborn, H. Headlee, F. Reams and N. Ploss, the present incumbent.
First Preacher and Church Interests .- The first minister in the township was Rev. Abraham Sneathen, the old pioneer circuit rider of all northern White County and southern Pulaski County. The old vet- eran is long since dead, but his work does follow him. At the house of Harvey Headlee, in 1851, occurred the organization of the first religious society in the township. The class was organized by Rev. Casper, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Burnettsville. The following are the
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names of the first members : Harvey Headlec, Margaret Headlee, Gar- etson Lister, Joan Lister, John Wiley, Mary Wiley, Silas Headlec, Jane Reams and John Downs. The society held meeting in the schoolhouse near Harvey Headlee's. The present members of the class are Silas Headlee, Angeline Headlee, Harvey Headlee, Margaret Headlee, Isaac McCloud, Mary McCloud, Edward McCloud, Emeline McCloud. J. Smith, Caroline Smith, Rosa Smith, Mary E. Watts, J. Burbridge, Mary Burbridge, Joseph Hanawalt, Catharine Hanawalt, Anna Grass- myer, John Clouse and wife, Ruben Clouse, Sr., Mary Clouse, George McCloud, Mary McCloud, Ruben Clouse, Jr. Rev. Hall, of the Bur- nettsville Circuit, is the present minister. The following are the minis- ters that have preached to the organization since 1851: Revs. Casper, Parsels, D. Dunham, William Beckner, Rogers, William Reader, P. J. Bessuier, W. Hancock, F. Cox, M. H. Wood, A. Comer, L. J. Kohler, R. H. Landers, J. T. Budd, J. W. Warner, C. L. Smith, J. W. Price, L. Armstrong, A. Thompson, T. H. McKee, J. E. Steel, J. M. Jackson, J. Brecount, R. H. Calvert, J. R. Ball and W. Hall.
The first Sabbath school in the township was organized in 1851. John Wiley was the first Superintendent, and Joseph Hanawalt is the present one.
CHAPTER XIII.
BY M. T. MATTHEWS.
ROUND GROVE TOWNSHIP-ITS CREATION AND EARLY INHABITANTS -ORIGIN OF THE NAME-LAND ENTRIES AND ELECTION RETURNS -FIRST EVENTS OF INTEREST-PINE GROVE METHODIST CHURCH -THE FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE AND TEACHER-POST OFFICES AND STATISTICS.
F TROM the time of the formation of Prairie Township in 1834, until the founding of Round Grove Township in 1858, the territory now em- braced by the boundary lines of the last-inentioned township remained at- tached to Prairie Township for political purposes, but a petition bearing the names of a majority of the frechold citizens was presented to the County Commissioners at their December session in 1858 praying the creation of a new civil township, the same to comprise all county terri- tory west of the middle of Range 5 west, of Congressional Township 25 north. After mature consideration, it was ordered by the board, that the above-mentioned territory should be detached from Prairie Township and
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constitute a new township. Round Grove Township contains thirty-six Sections, and is bounded on the north by Princeton, east by Prairie, south by Tippecanoe County and on the west by Benton County.
The creation of Round Grove Township was perfected on the 31st of December, 1858, and it was further ordered by the board that at the Round Grove Schoolhouse an election should be held on the first Monday in April, 1859, and Austin Ward was appointed Inspector of the election.
Round Grove Township derived its name from a beautiful circular grove that occupies a picturesque and commanding location in the south- ern part of the township. The grove comprises about forty acres of different kinds of timber common to this section of Indiana. From this grove, the first settlers obtained the logs for their houses and their wood for fuel, and in it the wild animals of the prairies would hide themselves.
Round Grove was suggested as the name for the new and last formed township in White County, by Austin Ward, one of the pioneers and founders of the township.
Previous to the formation of Round Grove Township the inhabitants in the territory would go to Brookston to vote if they voted at all. When an election was to be attended the voters would go on horseback or in wagons. Only the most important elections were attended and then it was as much for frolic and social intercourse with their neighbors as for any interest of a political nature.
First Settlement .- The time of the first settlement in Round Grove Township was in the spring of 1850, when Truman Rollins removed from Tippecanoe County to the township and commenced for himself a new home on the wild prairie. The Rollins cabin is supposed to have been the first house or building of any kind in the township, and this humble domicile was rudely constructed of round logs, and in dimensions was 16x18 feet. The logs were obtained from the famous Round Grove. This rude mansion was reared in the open prairie on Section 11, and for some time it was the only house for miles around. Jeremiah Stanly, a son-in-law of Rollins, came into the township at the same time and for a period lived in the Rollins cabin, but afterward erected a house for himself a short distance from the township's first cabin. Thomas Rollins also came into the township in 1850, and he, too, lived for a time in the first cabin. In 1852, Stewart Rariden moved into the township from Monroe County, Ind., and began an improvement about two miles south of Truman Rol- lins. A frame house, 18x24 feet was erected by Mr. Rariden, and this was the first frame house in Round Grove Township. In 1853, Austin Ward came into the township from Greene County, Ind., locating on Sec- tion 13, and in the same year came Milton W. Weaver, John Carrol, a man by the name of Warner, Edmond Steely and Stephen E. Baker and
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made settlement in the township. William Buskirk came in 1850. The following are among other old pioneers in Round Grove Township : John Aper, Nathan Brown, David Campbell, John Haines, Robert Steen, Will- liam Stockton, Richard Moore, Michael T. Buskirk, John Rollins, John Langnecker, Thomas Raw, Michael Buskirk, Samuel Barcus, Isaac Smith and John Hues.
The first settlers in Round Grove Township were not confined to any particular locality or district, but were scattered, and the distance between improvements was usually several miles.
The experience of some of the first residents of Round Grove Town- ship, as told in this age, is full of interest and does not fail to engage the attention of the most unconcerned. But there was a sunny as well as a shady side in the lives of those early-day settlers.
At the time of the first settlement in Round Grove Township, deer were plenty, numbered only as the snow birds ; wolves and mink were very numerous and prairie chickens might have been counted by thousands. Deer and chickens were used extensively for food by the early-day inhab- itants.
Land Entries .- The following is a list of the names of some of the persons who first entered land in Round Grove Township, with the date when the entry was made ; Mary Newton, 1848; John Roland, 1847; Edward H. Reynolds, 1848 ; Newberry Stockton, 1836 ; Levi Tolbey, 1848 ; Thomas Burch, 1848 ; Hariet Lockwood, 1846; Charles L. Stockton, 1836; Henry L. Ellsworth, 1836 ; Jonathan Burch, 1837; Martin Bishop, 1849 ; Thomas Rollins, 1848 ; John White, 1835. The first land entries in the township were made several years before any settlement had been effected.
First Elections .- The first election held in Round Grove Township was on the first Monday in April, 1859, the following men voting : John Larrabe, Robert McQueen, Roger Baker, John Apes, Stephen E. Baker, James Carrol, Thomas Rountene, Michael T. Buskirk, Granville Ward, Jeremiah Stanly, Stewart Rariden, John Rollins, Austin Ward, Samuel Ballintyne and Milton W. Weaver. Austin Ward, Inspector ; Stewart Rariden and John Rollins, Judges; Samuel Ballintyne, Clerk. This was a township election, and at it Samuel Ballintyne received fifteen votes for Justice of the Peace ; Stewart Rariden received thirteen votes for Con- stable and Austin Ward received one vote for the same office. Austin Ward received six votes for Trustee, and Milton Weaver received seven votes for the same office ; Joseph IIarris received eight votes for Super- visor, and M. V. Buskirk received seven votes for the same office. Fifteen votes were cast at this election.
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house on the second Tuesday in October, 1860, the following men voted : William Beck, Thomas Rollins, Granville Ward, Isaiah Bice, Samuel Ballintyne, Stephen E. Baker, James Carrol, John Apes, Edward Steely, Robert N. Brink, James Martin, L. B. Stockton, William H. Martin, Patrick Conner, Stewart Rariden, Jeremiah Stanly, John Demso, Nim- rod Leister, M. W. Weaver, Robert McQueen, Austin Ward, Michael T. Buskirk, Samuel D. Barnes and L. W. Wolgamuth. At this election, twenty-five votes were cast.
Births .- The first white child born in the township is supposed to have been Samuel Rariden, son of Stewart and Mary Jane Rariden; Nancy Buskirk was born about the same time.
Marriage .- The first persons married in the township were Francis Mullendore and Jane Ward, now living in Monticello.
Death .- The first person who died in Round Grove Township was Truman Rollins. The remains were interred in a private burying-ground in Tippecanoe County. As Mr. Rollins, was the first settler in the town- ship, so also was he the first deceased person.
Church .- The only church in Round Grove Township is the Pine Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, situated about a mile and a half east of Dern. The edifice is a frame 36x45 feet, and was erected in 1880 at a cost of $900. Rev. J. C. Martin, C. Stockton, James Bennett, Isaac Smith, Frank Mitchner and Robert Mays were some of the principal movers in the erection of this church. The class numbers fifty members. J. C. Martin is the present and only regular minister the congregation has had since the building of the church.
Previous to the erection of this church, the class, that had been organ- ized about fifteen years, held services in a schoolhouse. Isaac Smith and wife, Robert Smith and wife, John Russel and wife, George Mitchner and wife and Thomas Guntrip and wife were the founders of the Method- ist Episcopal class in the vicinity in which the church has been erected. The church in this locality is a credit to the township, to the neighbor- hood in which it stands and to the enterprising spirit of its founders.
Schools .- The first school in the township was taught in what has been designated as the Stanly Schoolhouse, which was a frame structure, 16x18 feet, erected near the center of the township and in School Dis- trict No. 1. The house was built about the year 1857, and Elizabeth Ballintyne was the first teacher. John Canfield, Francis M. Rogers and Daniel Campbell, were also some of the first teachers in the township. There are now seven frame schoolhouses in Round Grove Township. The last one was built in 1879.
Post Offices .- Round Grove Township has two post offices-one at Round Grove, established in 1879, and Jacob Stotts was the first Post-
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master. The other office was established at Dern in 1881. A. J. Dern was the first and is the present incumbent at the Dern office. Mr. Dern also keeps a small stock of drugs and groceries and is the township's only physician. Isaac Wright was the first doctor in Round Grove Town- ship.
Then and Now .- The picture that Round Grove Township pre- sented at its first settlement, or even at the time of its creation, had almost become extinct, only a few traces of the first settlement being now dis- cernible. The humble rude domiciles have, in the majority of cases, been exchanged for more commodious and comfortable houses ; the pole stable with its roof of grass has been cast away for something better; the roads are regularly laid out ; the once large farms have been divided and subdivided, until now they come within better range for improvement and cultivation; the wild prairie grass in many instances has been exchanged for cultivated grasses. The harmless deer and the ravenous wolf no longer roam the wild prairies, and even the inhabitants themselves have changed. The pioneers of Round Grove Township, who were once robust and strong, are now bending with age and the care and toil of many years, and now the evening of their lives is fast nearing its close, and erelong they will lay themselves down " within that tent, whose curtain never outward swings."
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
CITY OF MONTICELLO.
GEORGE BOWMAN was born February 28, 1819, in Berkeley County, Va., and is one of two surviving children in a family of seven born to George and Elizabeth (Potts) Bowman, both natives of the Old Dominion, and of German and Irish descent respectively. When yet a mere lad, the subject of this sketch was left alone by the death of his parents, and his earlier years were passed on a farm and clerking in a store. Having relatives in Indiana, he came to this State in 1840 and located at Delphi, where for about eight years he was engaged in teach- ing, and attending school at Asbury University and Wabash College, graduating from the classical course of the latter in 1853. He married Miss Ruth Angel in 1848, and the same year he removed to White County and engaged exclusively in teaching. In 1850, his wife died, succeeding which he returned to Delphi, where for the following eight years he was employed as Principal of the Delphi Schools; in 1858, he married Miss Mary D. Piper, and the fall of that year returned to White County and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits in southern Union Township. In 1861, he moved to Monticello, to take charge of the public schools, continuing as Principal until the summer of 1862, . when he resigned in order to raise a company for the war. In August, the company was mustered in as Company D, Mr. Bowman being elected Captain, and assigned to the Twelfth Indiana Volunteers. At Richmond, Ky., Capt. Bowman, with the majority of his command, and many other Union troops, was captured, and, being paroled, did not again see active service until in and around Vicksburg, after which he participated in the capture of Jackson, at which place he was slightly wounded. On the evening of November 25, while leading his company on a charge up Missionary Ridge, Capt. Bowman was wounded severely in the left thigh, and was carried off the field as dead. After being in the hospital at Nashville about two weeks, he was sufficiently recovered to come home on a furlough. On a surgical examination, he was pronounced unfit for further military duty, and accordingly was honorably discharged March
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30, 1864. In 1865, he went to Delphi, where he remained until 1871, acting as Principal of the schools of that place, and farming. Since that time he has lived in White County, and is now farming and teaching. Mr. Bowman was formerly a Whig, is now a Republican, and from 1873 to 1881, served White County as School Superintendent. He and wife are Presbyterians, and the parents of seven children-Phebe M. E., Anna, Rebecca L. (deceased), Georgia E., Caleb M., Margaret (deceased), and Caroline (deceased). To Mr. Bowman's first marriage was born one daughter, Ruth A., now Mrs. E. Black.
JOHN F. CASAD, deceased, was born in Greene County, Ohio, April 24, 1839, and when two years of age was brought by his parents, Samuel and Mary (Artz) Casad, to Carroll County, Ind., and there reared to manhood. At his majority, he chose farming as the business of his life, and followed it for nine years in Tippecanoe County. October 24, 1861, he married Miss Catharine A. Kauffman, who was born in Schenectady, N. Y., January 5, 1840, and was one of the seven children of John and Margaret Kauffman, who were of German descent. In 1869, Mr. Casad moved to Bloomington, Ind., and engaged in merchan- dising. In 1873, he removed to Norway, where he was employed in merchandising until his death from typhoid fever, August 19, 1877. Mr. Casad was an industrious citizen, a warm supporter of temperance principles, and in politics a Republican. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., by which order his remains were borne to their resting place in the family burying ground, near the old home in Carroll County. He left behind him a widow and four children-Eva M., Ida B., Frank W. and John H., all of whom reside now in Monticello.
ROBERT J. CLARK, M. D., was born in La Fayette, Ind., May 24, 1844, and is one of nine children, six yet living, born to Dr. Othiniel L. and Charille (Durkee) Clark, natives of Virginia and New York. Dr. O. L. Clark came to La Fayette when a young man in about 1825, entered upon the practice of his profession, and acted as agent for the county in the sale of town lots for the county seat. He was active in politics, was elected to the State Legislature, and then to the Senate, and served in both many years ; he was also a member of the State Constitutional Con- vention of 1852, as was also his brother, Dr. H. W. Clark, of Hamilton County. Dr. O. L. Clark was well known to the people of the State outside of his county, and his name was on a par with those of Oliver P. Morton, Schuyler Colfax, Caleb Smith, Albert L. White and others. He was an Old-Line Whig and then a Republican until Johnson's admin- istration, when he became an advocate of the reconstruction acts, and remained a Democrat until his death, December 29, 1866, at La Fayette, where his widow still survives him. He was Indian Agent in Miami
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County for many years, and was also appointed Postmaster at La Fayette by President Lincoln, but declined the office. Dr. Robert J. Clark re- ceived his literary education at the schools of La Fayette and at Notre Dame University. In March, 1863, he enlisted in the Twenty-second In- diana Light Artillery ; he was in the Atlanta campaign, and afterward with Gen. Thomas in Hood's campaign in Tennessee. He was then trans- ferred to North Carolina, where he remained till Johnston's surrender, and was finally discharged at Indianapolis, July 7, 1865. He began the study of medicine in 1867, in the office of Dr. W. S. Hammond, at Mon- ticello ; attended two terms of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and was one of the six graduates who were examined and selected from about thirty to serve as resident physicians of Cincinnati Hospital from 1870 to 1871. He then returned to Monticello, and became a partner of his preceptor, but since 1872 he has been alone. He was married in July, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Reynolds, who has borne him two chil- dren-Cornelia R. and Frederick G. Dr. Clark is a Democrat and a member of the G. A. R., and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
SAM P. COWGER, County Clerk, was born in Union Township, this county, February 29, 1844. His father, Jacob Cowger, was born in Pendleton County, Va., June 2, 1814. He was married, August 20, 1834, to Miss Sarah A. Bolton, also a native of Pendleton County, and born February 19, 1815. Four weeks after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. C. came to this county, it being then in its state of nature. Here there were six children born to them-Ann E. (deceased), M. R., Ruth A., Sam P., M. W. and J. B. Mr. Cowger died May 18, 1877; his widow survives and resides in Monticello. Sam P. Cowger, from about 1862 until 1870, was chiefly engaged at clerking in Monticello. In April of the latter year, he entered the County Clerk's office, and a year later was appointed Deputy. In 1874, he was candidate for County Clerk on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated; the next three years he was en- gaged in the drug business, during which time he served one year as Town Councilman and one year as Town Clerk. In 1878, he again be- came candidate for County Clerk, and was elected by a majority of 117, and in November, 1882, re-elected by a majority of 483. Mr. C. is still a Democrat, and a Knight of Pythias. He was married, March, 19, 1873, to Miss Alice J. Lear, daughter of John H. Lear, of Monticello. Two children were born to this union-Norma L. (deceased), and Raeburn.
W. P. CROWELL was born in Grant County, Ind., May 22, 1842, and of the eight children born to his parents, John and Susannah (Wins- low) Crowell, only three sons and one daughter are now living. The Crowell family is of English origin, and their genealogy is traced back
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six generations to Oliver Cromwell. They then bore the name of Crom- well, but, owing to the odium connected therewith, dropped the "m" in the name in this country. For over 200 years, members of this family resided in North Carolina, where there is a town named in their honor, and they were widely known as large plantation and slave owners. On his removal North, John Crowell located in Grant County, engaged in farming, and died in 1857. Mrs. Crowell is yet living, and resides in St. Joseph, Mich. W. P. Crowell, until sixteen years old, remained in his native county, receiving a good district school education. He began the study of medicine, but owing to ill-health was compelled to relinquish this, substituting dentistry in its stead. April 27, 1861, directly after the fall of Fort Sumter, he enlisted in Company H, Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry ; participated in the battle of Winchester and various skirmishes, and was discharged in June, 1862, on the expiration of his term of service. Dr. Crowell then formed a partnership with his cousin, Dr. Winslow, in the practice of dentistry at Lewisville, Henry County. In 1863, he opened an office alone in Tipton, where he was doing a good business, when, on the President's last call for troops in 1864, he began recruiting what afterward became Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana Volunteers, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, afterward being promoted to the First Lieutenancy. The spring of 1865, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp on Col. Carey's staff of the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, under Gen. Burnside. After the close of the war, Dr. Crowell returned to Indiana, and in 1867 recommenced the practice of his profession at Delphi, in partnership with Dr. Jourdan, but in 1869, the last year of his stay there, he opened a branch office in Attica. In 1869, he practiced in Logansport with Dr. Budd as a partner, and the same year opened a branch office in Monticello, to which place he removed in 1871. He has remained here ever since, and his superior workmanship has established him a first-class business. He is a Freemason, a Republican, and was married August 16, 1872, to Miss C. L. McDonald, of Delphi, their union being blessed with three children-Luella, Jesse W. and William R.
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