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CAPT. ADIN NORDYKE is of Welsh lineage, a native of Guil- ford County, N. C., son of Robert and Elizabeth (Shaw) Nordyke, and was born January 12, 1822. When Mr. Nordyke was about ten years of age, his parents moved to Henry County, Ind. They remained in Henry County two years, and then removed to Wea Plains, in Tippecanoe County, and there lived until the spring of 1845, when it came to this township, and again began the scenes and trials of another frontier home. When about twenty-two years of age, the subject of this notice purchased the Nordyke homestead, and on January 23, 1851, was married to Miss Lucy A. Jewett, daughter of Anson Jewett, one of the first settlers of the township. To Mr. Nordyke and wife, have been born eight chil- dren-Lucy E., George, Mary E., Benajah P., Leander, William N., Robert and Minnie. Benajah P. and Robert are deceased. Mr. Nor- dyke continued farming until February 10, 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Company D, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers. In July the same year, he was detailed as a recruting officer. After Company G was organized, he was elected Second Lieutenant ; on May 4, 1864, was commissioned First Lieutenant, and on the 7th of September following was commissioned Captain of the Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers. This position he held until the close of the war and his discharge from the service, June, 1865. He is a stalwart Republican, and a member of the
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Friends' Church. He was Township Trustee under the old law and is one. of the pioneers of Princeton Township.
JOHN C. NORTIILANE, railroad agent, is a native of Wayne County, Ind. ; is of Dutch-Irish descent, and a son of Henry and Margaret (Clymers) Northlane. Mrs. Northlane is a distant relative of George Clymers, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Northlane's father was born in Germany, near Bremen, and his mother is of Ohio nativity. The subject of this mention was born August 6, 1857. Young Northlane began attending school at Elwood, in Madi- son County, when nine years of age, but afterward moved with his father to Hagerstown, Ind., and here completed his school days. In 1872, he- went to Cincinnati to learn the tinner's trade. This did not seem a suc- cess, but he continued to work at it until the dark days of the panic of 1873, when he returned to Hagerstown and began learning telegraphy, and in 1874 he was appointed assistant agent at Hagerstown, and here remained one year, and then went to Frankton, Ind., and was made act- ing railway agent at that place. He would have been commissioned agent, but he was too young to give bond. In 1878, Mr. Northlane came to Wolcott, and has since been agent of the Pan Handle Railway at this place. His marriage occurred at Anderson, Ind., on the 16th of October, 1879, to Miss Callie Guisinger. Mrs. Northlane is of Scotch- German descent. To this home have been born two children-Ethel, born August 13, 1880, and Ruth, January 18, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Northlane are of the Catholic faith, and he is a Democrat in politics.
SOLOMON RADER is the eldest in a family of fifteen children- nine boys and six girls-born to William and Elizabeth (Murphy) Rader. Mr. Rader commenced life for himself at the age of twenty years. The first summer worked on a farm at $10.25 per month, with board, washing and keeping of horse thrown in; the horse, however, had to be worked two days in each week. The next summer he moved to Cass County, near Logansport, and chopped cord-wood at 31} cents per cord and board, and the following summer he returned to the home of his boyhood, in Rush County, Ind., and spent the summer in peddling books and oil -. eloths. The next year he spent on a farm, and in March, 1852, he- started to the Territory of Oregon, by way of Cincinnati and St. Joseph, Mo. He left St. Joseph by ox-team, on the 27th of April, 1852, and ar- rived at Jacksonville, Ore., on the 22d of September. Mr. Rader en- gaged in mining, but served for a time in the Rogue River Indian war. In June, 1852, he came to Princeton Township ; his father, in the mean- time, had removed from Rush to White County. Mr. Rader was married first to Miss Mary E. McAhron, and to their union were born three chil- dren-a pair of twins, that died unnamed, and Marion. Mrs. Rader died.
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October 22, 1853, and Mr. Rader was married again January 14, 1855, and to this union have been born two children-one infant that died un- named, and C. M. Mr. and Mrs. Rader are members of the Baptist Church, and he was reared a Democrat, but is now a thorough Green- backer.
C. A. G. RAYHOUSER is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and is a son of Daniel and Magdalena (Lichtenberger) Rayhouser, de- ceased. His father died in November, 1847, and his mother in May, 1873. C. A. G. was born October 29, 1825. He received ,the educational ad- vantages of the early common schools, and in the fall of 1842 entered the academy at Ashland, Ohio, and remained one year ; then began teaching a country school, and then, for five years, attended the academy during the summer and taught school in the winter. In 1850, he had completed the classical course in Vermillion Institute, in Ashland County, Ohio, and in the fall of that year came to Fort Wayne, Ind., and began a clerkship in the dry goods store of R. W. Taylor, and the following winter was elected Principal of one of the public schools of that city, and taught un- til the following summer, when he clerked in the establishment of a Mr. Stapleford, and was afterward appointed Deputy Sheriff, which position he retained until the winter of 1854-55, when he taught a school in Whit- ley County, near Columbia City. His marriage occurred in December, 1856, to Miss Caroline Ferguson, of La Fayette, Ind. Soon after the marriage, Mr. Rayhouser was employed to finish an uncompleted term in the High School at Ligonier, Ind., and then removed to Terre Coupee, in St. Joseph County, and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Aaron Redding, and here remained for three years, and in the summer of 1860, went to Rockfield, Carroll County, and began the practice of medicine. In 1863, Mr. Rayhouser enlisted, at La Fayette, in the Twenty-second Indiana Battery, and upon the arrival of his company at Atlanta, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon for the field hospital, and afterward Surgeon of a colored regiment-First United States Heavy Artillery-and in this capacity remained for a time, and then was de- tailed to take charge of the hospital and military prison at Knoxville, Tenn., and there remained until the close of the war, in 1865, when he came to Brookston, this county, and again began the practice of his pro- fession, remaining here until October, 1868, when he removed to Wolcott and opened a drug store; retiring from the practice of medicine in 1870, he was appointed Postmaster at Wolcott. In 1881, he sold his stock of goods and began a similar business in Logansport; but, in the fall of that year, he bought back the drug stock at Wolcott. Mr. Rayhouser is a Knight Templar, having joined the Masons at Camden ; he became a member of the Chapter at Kentland, and of the Commandery at Logans-
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port. In religious opinion, Mr. Rayhouser is a Universalist, and in politics, a thorough and life-long Republican.
J. II. RIGBY is a native of Centerville, Wayne Co., Ind., son of George and Clarissa (Tharp) Rigby, and was born May 12, 1856. These are descendants from the old English race of Rigbys. In the first year of the life of young Rigby, his parents emigrated to Missouri, remained two years, and then removed to Keokuk, Iowa, and while there he shared the advantages held out by the public schools. The family remained in this city for several years, and then returned to Missouri and there re- inained until 1872, when it came to this county and settled at Seafield. Mr. Rigby worked on a farm one year, and then began general merchan- dising at the above-mentioned place. There he remained until 1880, when he removed to Wolcott and became more extensively engaged in the mercantile business. He was married, February 28, 1878, to Miss Sarah L. Wilburn, of Seafield. Mrs. Rigby died one year after the mar- riage, and in November, 1880, Mr. Rigby was united in marriage to Miss Malinda Wilburn, a sister of his first wife. To this union have been born two children, a little girl who died in infancy, and Charles Henry. Mr . Rigby is a Republican.
JOHN L. PITTS is a native of Jacksborough, Campbell Co., Tenn., born June 22, 1819, of Welsh-American lineage, son of Abijah and Mary (Gaylor) Pitts. Mr. Pitts was only eight years of age when his mother died, and his father died in 1840. While yet in his infancy, his parents removed to Washington County, Va., and from the subscription district school in that county he received his education. In 1834, the family moved to Jessamine County, Ky., and from there moved to Mer- cer County, the same State. The early life of Mr. Pitts was spent at shoe-making, working on a farm and milling. He was married, August 27, 1846, to Miss Mary Hocker, of Lincoln County, Ky. This union had one child born to it, Richard G., who is deceased. Mrs. Pitts died July 20, 1848. He was married, September 29, 1849, to Miss Lucy Ann Christopher, of Bryantsville, Ky. Four children have been born to them-Andrew T., Sarah I., William A. and Delitha A. Mr. Pitts left the old Kentucky home and settled in Big Creek Township, this county, September 28, 1853, and the next spring he moved to West Point Township, and there remained until 1863, when he came to Prince- ton Township and settled on Section 31, where he still lives and owns a good and well-improved farm. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and is, and has always been, a true Democrat.
LUKE ROGERS, son of Nathaniel S. and Rachael (Cain) Rogers, is a native of Hampshire County, Va., born November 28, 1830, and is the eldest in a family of sixteen children. The father of Mr. Rogers
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was a native of Loudoun County, Va., and was one of three men to begin the first settlement in Princeton Township, coming here in 1844, re- moving, however, from Virginia to Big Creek Township, this county, in 1837. Luke Rogers remained at home and worked for his father until he was twenty-five years of age. He was married, February 22, 1855, to Miss Harriet A. Dobbins, daughter of John and Catherine Dobbins. To Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were born five children, viz. : James P., John N., Sarah E., William and Josie. William died April 15, 1861. Mr. Rogers enlisted June, 1861, in Company K, Twentieth Indiana Volun- teer Infantry, and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis July 29, 1864. He was in the seven days' battle before Richmond, second battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where he was wounded in the right hand by an accidental discharge from his own gun. Mr. Rogers was elected Township Trustee in April, 1880, and was re-elected in 1882, having no opposition at the last election. He was formerly.a Republican, but now is a stanch Greenbacker ; he is a member of the Christian Church and of the Grand Army of the Re- public. Mrs. Rogers died March 4, 1881.
BECKWITH ROGERS, deceased, was a native of Hampshire County, Va., born January 14, 1832, and was a son of Nathaniel S. and Rachael (Cain) Rogers. When Beckwith was but a small boy, his parents removed from Virginia to White County, and in 1844 settled in Princeton Township. The early education of Mr. Rogers was such as the common early district schools of White County were capable of be- stowing; he remained at home and worked for his father until he was twenty-four years of age. The marriage of Mr. Rogers to Miss Eliza Whip, a Virginian and a daughter of William and Sarah Whip, occurred August 6, 1855. Mr. Rogers farmed on his father's land until August 10, 1862, when he enlisted in Company G, Sixty-third Indiana Volun- teers ; he was honorably discharged at Greensboro, N. C., June 21, 1865. After returning, he farmed for a short time on rented land. In 1868, he purchased the farm on which he lived and owned until his death, which occurred June 23, 1882. Mrs. Rogers still owns the farm, and is in good circumstances. To Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were born five children, viz. : Amos, Sarah M., Cora D., Ina and Harvey. Mr. Rogers was a member of the Christian Church, and Mrs. Rogers is also a member of that church. He was a stanch Republican and one of the most enter- prising men in Princeton Township.
DR. H. E. SMALL is a native of Indiana's city of railways, born October 28, 1862, and is a son of Rev. Gilbert and Francis (Garrett) Small, who are residents of Idaville, this county. When the subject of this sketch was about six years old, his parents removed from the above-
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mentioned city to the enterprising village in which they now reside, and there young Small began his school life. When seventeen years of age, he became a pedagogue, and taught two terms of district school, one in Monon Township, and the other near his home, in Jackson Township. At the age of fifteen, he began the study of his chosen profession, in the office of Dr. Black, at Idaville. Here he remained several summers, and in the spring of 1880 he continued his studies in the office of Dr. S. R. Cowger, at Monticello, and during the winters 1881-82 and 1882-83 attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. In January, 1883, Dr. Small located in Wolcott, under the firm name of Cowger & Small. Dr. Small is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
JACOB SPANGLE is of German descent, a native of Stark County. Ohio, born July 4, 1825, and one of eleven children born to Jacob and Sarah (Eby) Spangle. When Mr. Spangle was five years of age, he re- moved with his father to Crawford County, this State, and there remained until his twenty-fourth year, when he again removed with his parents to Noble County, Ind., and there lived and worked for his father until the spring of 1851, when he came to West Point Township, this county, and there lived one summer, and then came to Princeton Township, and pur- chased 174 acres of land in Section 31, where he still resides. The mar- riage of Mr. Spangle to Miss Julia A. Blackman, of Noble County, occurred March 25, 1852. To this union have been born eleven chil- dren-Elisha E., whose birth occurred December 15, 1853 ; Mayhew C., October 9, 1855: Henry C., April 4, 1857 ; Jacob M. January 8, 1859 ; William S., May 19, 1864; James F., December 28, 1865 ; George T., November 8, 1867; John M., December 26, 1871; Amy J., February 24, 1861; Lucy J., September 9, 1862; Margaret A., January 14, 1870. Mr. Spangle was reared a Jackson Democrat, then became a stanch Republican, but is now a solid Greenbacker. He has been a member in good standing in the German Baptist Church for nearly twenty years.
SAMUEL T. SPENCER is a native of Hampshire County, Va., born June 2, 1837. Samuel is the eldest of eleven children in the family of Andrew and Elizabeth (Dobbins) Spencer, and came with them to Jasper County, Ind., in 1846, and in the spring of 1851, again removed with them to Princeton Township, where the father began settle- ment on Section 7. At the age of twenty-two years, Mr. Spencer began the trials of life for himself, by doing labor on the farms of other men for two years, and then worked for his father for some time, but in August, 1862, enlisted in Company G, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers, remaining in the service until the close of the war, and after having been in sixteen
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battles was discharged June 21, 1865, at Albany, N. Y., and came home, and in December following was married to Miss Nancy J. Bunnell, of Princeton Township, daughter of J. B. and Nancy Bunnell; to this union have been born six children-Flora, Reed, Edgar, Everett, Orphia and Leta. Flora died November 4, 1871; Orphia, August 28, 1879; Everett September 10, 1879. In 1866, Mr. Spencer purchased the farm on which he now lives, and has become one of the leading farmers of the township. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are members of the Christian Church. Politically, Mr. Spencer has always been a stanch member of the Republican party.
HON. ANSON WOLCOTT is a native of Oneida County, N. Y., son of James and Louisa (Gould) Wolcott, born October 21, 1819, and is the second in a family of five children. The subject of this notice is de- scended from the old Wolcott family, which has been historically traced for six hundred years. The first ancestor in America of this gentleman came from England in 1630 and settled at Boston, then removed to Wind- sor, and was later found at Hartford. Mr. Wolcott is a distant relative of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The father of Mr. Wolcott was a man of very marked character and of almost unexcelled energy. The mother was a woman of great intelligence and much force of character. The early education of Anson Wolcott was such as could be obtained at the public schools in the Empire State. He read mathematics with ease, accuracy and rapidity. He is found at fif- teen years of age teaching his first school in Ontario County, N. Y. When twenty-one years old, he went to Louisiana and began the study of the law in the office of Judge Peets, in Claiborne Parish. He remained in the South about a year and a half, and then returned to his native State, taught school in winter, and continued his law studies in the summer. He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847, and in 1852 admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Wolcott was united in marriage to Miss Georgia Sayne, of Philadelphia, February 11, 1863. To this union was born one child, Ebon H. Mrs. Wolcott died August 4, 1877. Mr. Wolcott came to Princeton Township in 1858, and in 1866 was elected to the State Senate. He is, without question, one of the best educated men in the State, and a thorough Republican.
JAMES R. WOODS is a native of North Carolina, was born July 3, 1829, and is the son of Drury and Rhoda (Show) Wood. In the fall of 1831, the parents of Mr. Wood came to the Hoosier State and stopped over winter on Blue River, and the next spring came to Tippecanoe County and settled about ten miles southwest of La Fayette. Here the family lived for twelve years, and then removed to Benton County and
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there resided two years, and then moved into the northern part of West Point Township, where the father died in 1856, and the mother in 1878. The subject of this brief sketch remained in the West Point Township homestead until the death of his father, and then removed to the place on which he now lives in Princeton Township. He was mar- ried, April 14, 1857, to Miss Esther Thomas, daughter of John and Han- nah Thomas, of West Point Township. To this union have been born three children, viz .: John A., who died May 20, 1862, Erasmus M. and Walter H. January, 1863, Mr. Wood enlisted at Reynolds, in Company K, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry. He was discharged at Baton Rouge, La. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the Independant Order of Odd Fellows, joining February 7, 1883. Mr. Wood is a Republican.
DAVID WRIGHT is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, born May 1, 1818 ; is German-English descent, and a son of David and Mary (Cook) Wright, who had born to them a family of nine children, of whom our subject is the youngest. The father of Mr. Wright died near New Castle, Henry Co., Ind., March 3, 1845, while on his way from the old Buckeye home (which he had just sold) to Indiana. The mother died November 28, 1833. Mr. Wright received only a meager education, but now has quite an extended amount of practical knowledge. In 1838, he came to Clin- ton County, Ind., and began settlement, and in the fall of 1849 came to Big Creek Township, this county, and rented a farm of Joseph Thompson. In the fall of 1850, he came to Princeton Township and bought forty acres of land at $1.25 per acre. Mr. Wright has since purchased 160 acres, and now has one of the best improved farms in Princeton Township. March 27, 1838, he married Miss Mary Cormain, a daughter of Daniel and Jemima Cormain, of Fayette County. They have had seven chil- dren born to them, viz., Lilly A., Eliza A., Hannah E., Cheniah C., Christian J., Daniel A. and Sarah M. Mr. Wright and wife are members of the Christian Church. He has been a life-long Democrat, and is one of the pioneers of Princeton Township.
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ALFRED BALL was born in Perry County, Ohio, August 14, 1834. When seven years of age his father died. He attended school for a short time in a log schoolhouse, and worked on the farm until he was fourteen years old, when he came to White County, Ind. After remaining here some years, he returned to Ohio, and March 20, 1856,
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was married to Mary J. Leman, born August 1, 1837, daughter of Hamilton and Mary (Kirk) Leman. By this union they had three chil- dren-James W. and Hamilton (born in Ohio), and John C. (born in Indiana). Mr. Ball engaged in farming until 1863, when he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Sixth Ohio Infantry, in which he was made a Corporal. He was in the battles of Cedar Creek, Winchester, and others of the Virginia campaign. Upon his discharge, in November, 1864, he resumed farming until 1866, when he sold his place and removed to this township, where he purchased eighty acres in Section 36, with some improvements. He also conducted a saw-mill. In 1873, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected after serving four years. In addition to farming, Mr. Ball raises some stock. He is an active Repub- lican, a member of the G. A. R. and Odd Fellows, and, as is also his wife, a member of the M. E. Church.
HENRY M. BAUGHMAN was born in Ashland County, Ohio, July 28, 1831. He is a son of Samuel and Christina (Young) Baughman. Samuel Baughman was a blacksmith and farmer. When Henry was thirteen years old, he went to work for his father, who, in 1853, sold his farm and shop and removed to Noble County, Ind., where he purchased land and began general blacksmithing. Here Henry finished the trade, and April 23, 1856, was married to Sarah Eddy, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, daughter of Myron Eddy, of Noble County, to which union were born eleven children, all of whom are living-Emma J., Mary J., Eva M., Florence K., Frank D., Ulysses M., Charles S. M., Chloe G., Carrie D., Mattie and Lee G. Mr. Baughman now sold a farm he had purchased in 1860, and engaged in the merchandise business at Lisbon, which he continued until 1865, when he began a store at Mid- dlebury Station, where, in 1864, his place was robbed and burned. He then went into a meat market at Goshen, and afterward into a reaper factory. In 1867, he purchased a farm near Reynolds, on which he raised some stock. He again engaged in merchandising at Medaryville for four years, and thence he removed to this township and purchased a farm of 200 acres. He is now general manager for Turpie Brothers. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Lutheran Church.
JOHN W. BRANNAN was born in Perry County, Ohio, November 2, 1841, and is a son of Adam and Rachel Brannan, who came to this township and purchased a farm when John W. was but four years of age. After two years, his father died. John W. attended school and worked on the farm until 1861, when, at the sound of war, he enlisted in Com- pany K, Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac, at second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and in the first battles of the Wilder-
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ness. He was discharged in July, 1864. On October 26, 1865, he married Louisa J. Line, daughter of David Line, to which union were born three children-Charles S. (April 24, 1866), Nancy A., deceased (November 4, 1867), and William D., deceased (October 2, 1871). Mrs. Brannan died December 27, 1872. She was a member of the M. E. Church. March 17, 1874, Mr. Brannan married Mary E. Dunlop, widow of John Dunlop, by whom he had four children-Alice M. (born February 17, 1875), Harvey H. (October 17, 1876), Clyde M. (Decem- ber 10, 1878), and Ira O., deceased (January 18, 1883). Mr. Brannan has a fine farm of 200 acres, well improved and cultivated. He is a general farmer, but raises some stock. He is a member of the G. A. R. IIe belongs to the M. E. Church and his wife to the Presbyterian.
TERRELL BUNCH was born in Nashville, Tenn., June 6, 1828, and is a son of David and Nancy (Hart) Bunch, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of South Carolina. In 1834, the father of Terrell removed to Illinois, and here Terrell attended school and worked on the farm until the war with Mexico, when he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Illinois Infantry. In his first battle he was wounded in the leg, and car- ried to the hospital at Brownsville, Tex. On recovering, he rejoined and remained with his company until the war ended, and was mustered out June 4, 1848. Mr. Bunch was married, November 2, 1853, to Ellen Rider, daughter of Isaiah and Mary (Dunham) Rider, to which union followed six children-Israel, James B. (deceased), Terestral (deceased), Isabel (deceased), Charles and Terrell. On the outbreak of the rebell- ion, he enlisted in Company D, Ninety-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Was taken prisoner at Elizabethtown, Ky., and sent to parole camp at St. Louis. Was exchanged and sent to Vicksburg after the surrender, and thence to Texas. He was at the siege of Spanish Fort, the capt- ure of Mobile, at New Orleans, and in all those heavy battles. He re- turned home July 13, 1865, sold his farm, and moved to Morris, Grundy County, where he set up his trade of carpentering, but, after five years, resumed farming. In 1875, he came to this township and established a saloon. After two years, he again resumed farming, and was burned out. when he returned to this township and began the carpentering busi- ness. Mr. Bunch has been Sheriff, Tax Collector, Justice and Coroner. He is a Democrat, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the G. A. R.
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