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G. W. DOLPH, a native of Wayne County, N. Y., was born April 8, 1845, and is one in a family of four sons born to Anson and Julia (Bartlett) Dolph, who were also natives of the Empire State. The father was a farmer by occupation but the latter part of his life turned his at- tention exclusively to dealing in live stock. He and family moved to
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Michigan in 1866, and located near Detroit, where he died April 7, 1881, and was buried in the cemetery at Burr Oak. Mr. Dolph was a Republican in politics, a member of long standing in the Baptist Church, and was three times married, his first wife, the mother of his four sons, dying in York State April 8, 1854. G. W. Dolph is among the sub- stantial men of Winamac. He was educated in the common schools of his native State, resided with his parents until he reached his majority, and in 1866 began learning telegraphy in Detroit. In December, 1866, he came to Winamac as night operator for the C. & G. E. R. R. Co., but at the end of eight months was advanced to the position of day oper- ator, a position he has ever since retained, but his employers have changed from those by whom he was first employed to the C., C. & I. C. Company, and from that to the P., St. L. & C. Company, the latter being his present employers. Aside from his duties as operator, Mr. Dolph is a partner in one of the best drug stores in Winamac. This partnership was formed in 1877, under the firm name of Dolph & Harper, the junior member of the firm having general charge of the business while the senior attends to his duties at the depot. In politics, Mr. Dolph is a Republican, and is a member of both Masonic and Odd Fellows frater- nities. His marriage with Miss R. F. Walker was solemnized January 17, 1869, his wife having been born in Ohio January 17, 1850.
JAMES R. DUKES, banker, is a native of Cass County, Ind .; was born April 6, 1833, and is a son of Ephraim Dukes, a native of Ohio and of English descent. Ephraim Dukes, when Indiana was a Territory, came here with his parents in 1818, and settled in Putnam County, and there, in about 1820, married for his second wife Miss Jane Esslinger, a native of Tennessee, but who also came to Indiana with her parents, in about 1818. To this union were born thirteen children, of whom six only are still living. About 1824, the family moved to Cass County, and thence, in 1841, to Fulton County, and thence, in April, 1842, to this county, locating in Harrison Township, where Mrs. Dukes died December 13, 1868, and Mr. Dukes April 28, 1872. Mr. Dukes was a tanner by trade, but chiefly engaged in farming. He was among the early preachers of this county, and preached more funeral sermons and solemnized more mar- riages than any other man of his day ; he also served for a number of years as one of the Associate Judges of the county. He and wife were both mem- bers of the Christian Church. James R. Dukes has resided in Pulaski County since nine years of age. He was engaged in farming until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as private, rose to Second Sergeant, and was discharged for dis- ability in March, 1863. He had cut his foot while chopping wood in Ken- tucky, and erysipelas setting in, amputation became necessary. On his re-
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turn, he served for awhile as Deputy Real Estate Appraiser ; in 1864, he was elected County Recorder, and re-elected in 1868, serving eight years ; he then engaged in mercantile trade at Star City, but in January, 1874, moved to Winamac, and continued in trade until 1879; he then sold out and retired to the old farm in Harrison Township, but in 1881 returned and established the Citizens' Bank of Winamac, of which he is Presi- dent. Mr. Dukes is a Democrat, a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the O. F. Encampment. He has been three times married, viz .: in 1852 to Maria Taylor, who died in 1853 ; in 1855, to Mary A. Rogers, widow of Richard Rogers, and daughter of Samuel McFadden; this lady bore him four children-Ella M., Frank L., Rosa L. and Addie B. (the last married to Charles J. Peters, a teacher of Winamac)-and died January 5, 1850. July 13, 1882, he married his present wife, Mrs. Edna A. McDonald.
MARK D. FALVEY, merchant, is a native of County Kerry, Ire- land, born in about 1827. He is one of two living children of a family of eight, born to Jeremiah and Mary (Ahern) Falvey, the former coming to the United States in 1865, and dying in Winamac in about 1870, and the latter dying in the old country. Mark D. Falvey resided in Ireland until 1848, when he crossed the Atlantic, and found employment for a time on the public works at Winchester, Va. The spring of 1852, he came to Springfield, Ohio, and from there the ensuing fall to Winamac, Ind. He was at the last-named place only a short time; then went to La Fayette, where he remained two years. In 1854, he returned to Pu- laski County and engaged in ditching. The fall of 1857, he engaged in merchandising at Winamac, at which he has ever since continued. He was married to Mary Casey in 1853, and they have had born to them six children-Mary (deceased), Mary, the second (deceased), Jerry H., Mi- chael D., James M. and Mark F. Mr. Falvey is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Roman Catholic Church.
J. H. FALVEY, ex-County Auditor, was born in Pulaski County, Ind., October 18, 1854, and is a son of Mark D. and Mary (Casey) Falvey. J. H. Falvey has made his place of residence in Palaski County the greater part of his life, and he is one of its most promising young men. For seven years, he attended school abroad, and in 1874 gradu- ated from the commercial department of Notre Dame University. In 1877, he was appointed Deputy County Auditor of Pulaski County, and April, 1878, was appointed to finish the unexpired term of his superior officer, who had died. He gave good satisfaction, and in 1878 was elected to a full term in this office. Mr. Falvey has just closed this term, and he leaves it bearing with him the highest commendation of his fellow- citizens, both as a private citizen and as a competent and obliging official.
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He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
J. H. GILLESPIE was born in Wayne County, Ohio, January 28, 1828, and is the son of James and Eve (Worman) Gillespie, natives re- spectively of Virginia and Maryland. The father was a shoe-maker, and also a local preacher in the Protestant Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in Steuben County, Ind. The mother, quite active at the age of seventy-eight, resides in Alliance, Ohio. J. H. Gillespie learned shoe- making from his father, and at the age of sixteen began an apprentice- ship of three years as carpenter. He came to this State in the fall of 1848, and was married in Steuben County, September 15, 1850, to Miss Lorinda A. Hazen, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Arthur and Rachel (Riffenberrick) Hazen, natives respectively of Ohio and New Jersey. Mrs. Hazen died in Indiana. Mr. Hazen, who is a carpenter, is now living, at the age of seventy-eight, at the home of our subject. J. H. Gillespie enlisted October 17, 1861, for three years or during the war, in Company H, Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry ; took part in a number of engagements, including the battle of Riddle's Point, and the first skirmish at New Madrid ; served one year and ten months ; was transferred to the non-commissioned staff as Drum Major, and by an order of the War Department was mustered out as Chief Musician in 1863. He remained home over a year, and then hired as a substitute ; joined Company B, Twenty-third Regiment ; served with Sherman on his march to the sea ; fought at Smithville and in other smaller battles, and was discharged at Indianapolis July 20, 1865. During this last term of service, Mrs. Gillespie was Postmistress at Pulaski. To Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie were born four children-Lorinda, Arthur S., Jessie and Lu- cinda A., all deceased.
ROBERT T. HEDGES, deceased, was born in Williams County, Md .. November 19, 1812. While yet a small boy, he moved with his father's family to Frankfort, Ky., thence to Bartholomew County, Ind., where he learned the trade of blacksmithing. In 1840, he was married to Elizabeth Smith, who was born near the town of Corydon, Harrison Co., Ind., September 1, 1816. He continued to work at his trade in Colum - bus, then a small town in Bartholomew County, until the fall of 1848, when he removed with his wife and three children to Pulaski County, and settled in Van Buren Township. The following summer he moved to Winamac, and in 1852 was elected to the office of County Treasurer, a position in which he served with credit for a term of two years. No- vember 18, 1854, two months after the expiration of his term of office, he died. His widow survived him, and continued to live in Winamac, until her death. There were born to them a family of five children,
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three of whom are now living-Thomas B. and Nancy J., who reside in Winamac, and William M., now living at Andrews, Ind. The Hedges family are among the old and honored ones of Pulaski County.
JOHN T. HOLSINGER is the youngest living of a family of six born to Jacob and Sarah A. (Thompson) Holsinger, who are now resi- dents of Henry County, Ind. Jacob Holsinger is a carpenter by trade, and has followed that occupation through life. He is a native of Bed- ford County, Penn., and a direct descendant of German ancestors; moved to Ohio at an early day, and March 20, 1848, married his wife in her native county, Miami. In about 1852, they moved to Henry County, Ind., but in 1858, returned to Miami County, Ohio. They remained there until 1867, when they again returned to Henry County, where they have since resided. In 1862, Mr. Holsinger enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; participated in some of the most hotly contested battles of the war ; was wounded at Cedar Creek ; arose to the rank of Sergeant, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He and wife are members of the German Baptist Church. John T. Holsinger was born August 22, 1856 ; received a good practical education in youth, and in 1872 began doing for himself as telegraph operator for the Pan Handle Railroad Company at North Jud- son, Ind. He was sent from that place to La Crosse, and in 1876 was employed as telegraph operator at Washington Heights, Ill. In 1877, he was promoted to the position of chief freight clerk, retained that office until 1880, and the fall of that year came to Winamac to fill the position of assistant cashier in the Bank of Winamac. He is yet serving in that capacity, and, in 1881 became a partner and stockholder in the bank. Mr. Holsinger is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a stanch Repub- lican in politics, and one of the enterprising young men of Pulaski County. He was married, August 25, 1881, to Mrs. Nettie (Barnett- Rowan, a widow with three children, viz .: Irvie, Louie and Earl Rowan)
WILLIAM S. HUDDLESTON, deceased, was a native of Ohio, and was born in Champaign County, that State, February 27, 1825, and was one in a family of six children, two only of whom are yet living. He came to Pulaski County, Ind., in 1849, and to Winamac in 1850, and at that time his total possessions amounted to only $50 in money and a horse. His first occupation here of any importance was school-teaching, but he was not long allowed to remain employed at this, for his energy and busi- ness qualifications soon attracted attention, and he was elected County Surveyor, a position in which he served with entire satisfaction to all concerned. He was afterward twice elected County Auditor, and as such his actions were characterized by that deep sense of honor by which he was so well known. He was foremost in all public affairs of a beneficial
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character, and always contributed largely from his means in the support of such. For a number of years prior to his death, he had been actively engaged in buying and shipping grain at Winamac, and to him is due, in a large measure, the extensive grain trade now established at this point. In a business point of view, he was quite successful, having acquired a competency by strict economy, honesty, industry, and a careful supervision of all the details of his business. In 1855, his marriage with Miss Julia A. Sigler was solemnized, and six children were the result of this union- Anna B., deceased ; Eulalie, Mrs. George L. Van Gorder ; W. S .; Rowan, deceased; Louie, and one who died in infancy. The death of Mr. Huddleston, which occurred in 1879, was universally regretted by all who knew him. His widow, who has since married H. C. Smith, of Winamac, is a native of Indiana, born October 22, 1840. She, a sister and two little brothers were left orphans by the death of their parents, Eli and Rhoda (Piatt) Sigler, when but small children, and only those who have experienced a life from childhood to maturity among strangers know of the hardships and heartaches of children who have no kind father to watch over and provide for them, and fond mother to caress them. Through such circumstances, these four children have become honored and esteemed citizens in their respective localities.
MATTHEW M. HUGHES, one of the early settlers of White County, Ind., was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., August 2, 1810. He was a son of Ellis and Sarah (Crooks) Hughes, both of whom were of Irish descent. He learned the tanner's trade when a young man, married Elizabeth Orr in March, 1831, and in April, 1835, they emi- grated to Clark County, Ill. Having relatives in White County, Ind., they removed to that place in 1844, Mr. Hughes finding employment in a brother's store at Monticello. In 1846, he began working at car- pentering, and after having earned sufficient money to purchase a farm in Union Township, he removed to that place and made it his home for a long time. In 1864, the family moved to Pulaski, Pulaski County, where Mrs. Hughes departed this life October 31, 1875, and her remains were interred in the village cemetery. Mr. Hughes moved to Winamac in 1880, and is now living with his son at the advanced age of seventy-two years. He and wife were parents of a family of ten children, whose names are Lacy C., Lucy S., Sarah E., John M. (died while serving his country in the late war), Erastus N., Maria L., Celeste L., Xariffe E., Estella and one that died in infancy. Of those named, only two are now living-Lacy C. (who married James W. Kenton, a grandson of the celebrated hunter, Simon Kenton, and who resides in Nebraska) and Erastus N. The last named was born January 28, 1843, in Clark County, Ill., but was reared to manhood chiefly in White County,
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Ind. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company G, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, served until he was discharged for disability, September 29, 1863. Mr. Hughes' occupation through life has been school teaching chiefly, and he is an instructor of twenty terms' experience. In April, 1882, he was employed as clerk for E. R. Brown & Co., at Winamac, and is yet serving in that capacity. His marriage with Miss Sophia M. Blew was celebrated November 11, 1875, and to them have been born three children-Everet H., Gertie G., and Blanche, deceased.
MARION H. INGRIM was born in Fayette County, Ohio, October 12, 1834 ; came to this county in the spring of 1843; two years later, went to Kewanna and resided there about ten years, receiving about three months' schooling each winter ; thence he went to Logansport, then to Kansas City, then to St. Louis and then to Peoria, Ill., where he served an apprenticeship on the Daily News for one year. He then traveled as a "jour " to Louisville, back to Indianapolis, where he worked on the Journal, then to St. Louis, where he secured " cases " on the Demo- crat ; thence he went to Memphis, where he worked on the dailies, and was for a time foreman of the Avalanche ; thence to Grenada, Miss., where he had charge of the Weekly Locomotive ; he then worked on the Panola (Miss.) Star, then returned to the Avalanche, at Memphis; thence he went to Vicksburg, in December, 1862, and worked on the Whig until every able-bodied printer was forced out in advance of a file of sol- diers to do guard duty or work in the trenches. There he remained until the close of the siege, July 4, 1863, when he came North and reached Winamac January 1, 1864. He then set type on the Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Journal and Cincinnati Gazette until February 16, 1865, when he returned to Winamac and purchased the Democrat office from Hon. George Burson, and continued its publication until 1870, when he sold a half-interest to Dr. F. B. Thomas, and in 1871 sold the remaining half to Ben Frank. He then took his family to Memphis, where he remained until February, 1872, when he returned to Winamac, and on the 7th of September, 1878, founded the Journal, a seven-column folio, which has, in his hands, proved a success.
W. B. JENKINS, Postmaster at Winamac, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., October 14, 1832, and is the next to the youngest of ten children, six yet living, born to Phineas and Mary (Furnace) Jenkins, who were natives of South Carolina, and respectively of Irish and English descent. Phineas Jenkins was a tanner, but chiefly fol- lowed farming through life. Both the Jenkins and Furnace families were opposed to slavery, and both moved to Ohio at an early date in the history of that State ; subsequently they came to Tippecanoe County this State, and thence, in 1840, to this county. In the fall of the same
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year, the elder Jenkins died, but his widow kept the family together until all were grown. She never re-married, and now resides at Win- amac at the advanced age of ninety years. W. B. Jenkins was reared a farmer, and also learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked to a greater or less extent until 1880, when he was appointed to his present position of Postmaster. He was married in 1865 to Miss Lucinda Agnew, daughter of J. B. and Louisa Agnew, and to this union have been born the following children : Asa M., Joseph A., William B., Fred (deceased), Mary, Ella, Charley and Perry. Mr. Jenkins is a self-made man, and is the owner of a comfortable home, other valuable town prop- erty and twenty-five acres of land adjoining the corporate limits of the town of Winamac.
JACOB KEISER was born in Clarion County, Penn., November 12, 1838. His mother died when he was but seven years of age, and Jacob was taken charge of by Judge Charles Evans, who also died within a few years ; with the widow, Jacob remained until fifteen, and then indentured himself to Col. William Alexander, publisher of the Democrat, at Clarion, for three years, at $50 per year. After finishing this trade. he contributed to the support of his father, who was a cripple and well advanced in life. In 1856, he came as far west as Wabash, Ind., walk- ing nearly the entire distance, and the next spring returned to Clarion and re-entered the Democrat office. In the spring of 1859, he went to Jefferson County, Penn., and engaged in logging and rafting ; thence he went to Pittsburgh, where he joined a crew for rafting lumber to Louis- ville, which proved a pleasant trip of nineteen and one-half days. From Louisville he went to Indianapolis, working at various points on the road ; from Indianapolis he walked to Crawfordsville, working at his trade meanwhile, and thence to Danville, Ill., where he enlisted in the Thirty- fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry as private. He served with his regiment through the Missouri campaign, participating in the battles of Pea Ridge ; for meritorious conduct in this fight he was made Second Lieutenant. He took part in the march to Batesville, Ark., and to Cape Girardeau, and thence was sent with his brigade to Pittsburg Landing. He was in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. After the fight of Stone River, he was made First Lieutenant, although he had commanded his company from the time of the Pea Ridge fight, his Captain being on detached duty. He resigned in 1864, and returned to Danville; then took a position on the Daily Journal in La Fayette, and then went to Rensselaer and took charge of the Gazette. In 1868, he formed a copartnership with Col. J. Healy in the publication of the Iroquois Press ; a year later he sold his interest and purchased the Winamac Republican, commencing its publication in March, 1869,
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and succeeded in making it a most renumerative journal. In 1872, he was appointed Postmaster of Winamac; in 1880, he resigned, and was elected State Senator. He was married in 1865 to Miss Mary J. Baker, daughter of Seth Baker, of Rensselaer, Jasper Co., Ind. His life has been a busy one, and his journal is recognized as one of the most influen- tial in Northwestern Indiana.
JOHN H. KELLY, County Clerk, and hardware dealer, was born at Glasgow March 4, 1847. His parents were both natives of " Bonnie Scotland," and his father was a weaver by occupation. In 1848, the family crossed the Atlantic and located in Pittsburgh, Penn., but remained at this place only a short time ; then moved to Montgomery County, Ind., where Mr. Kelly engaged in merchandising. From there they removed to Jasper County, next to Starke County in 1858, and from there to Cass County, where Mrs. Kelly died in 1866. While a resident of Starke County, Mr. Kelly, in 1861, enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Indiana Volun- teer Infantry, as private, served with fidelity all through the war and was discharged at its close. He was in a number of battles, was wounded severely in the thigh at Stone River, and is now living with his second wife in Cass County. John H. Kelly was with his parents until 1861, when he came to Winamac and began learning the tinner's trade with B. F. Hathaway, remaining in his employ three years, but subsequently be- coming a partner of H. P. Rowan in the hardware business. He started in life a poor boy, and has battled his way to an honorable position with his brother merchants. For the past few years, he has conducted the business entirely alone, and his stock now invoices about $3,000 worth of first-class hardware goods, including agricultural implements, stoves, etc. He was married, in 1873, to Miss Lucy J. Clark, who has borne him six children-William H., Mary (deceased), John N., Harry (deceased), Charles A. and Alice. Mr. Kelly is a Democrat in politics, has served in various local positions of trust, and the fall of 1882 was honored by his election to the office of Clerk of Courts of Pulaski County, in which ca- pacity he is now serving.
HENRY KITTINGER, M. D., was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 21, 1830. Samuel Kittinger, his father, was a carpenter by trade, and was for many years a musician in Buffalo. He married Miss Lucy Grosh, in Lancaster County, Penn., and was by her the father of four children, of whom Henry and a sister only are yet living. He came with his family to Richland County, Ohio, in about 1835, and there died about 1839. Mrs. Lucy Kittinger afterward married Charles Doyle, and is now living, again a widow, in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Kittinger accompanied his parents to Ohio, and was there reared. His early life was one of hardship and self-denial. The step-father died when Henry was about sixteen, and the
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care of the family fell upon the latter, he being the eldest of the children, and thus he was deprived of an opportunity for early study. In 1855, he left the family at Dayton in comfortable circumstances, but for many years continued to remit money for the support of those whom he had left behind. He first located at Peru, Ind., and engaged in making brick for the court house ; thence he went to Kokomo, where, in 1862, he began the study of medicine under Dr. H. C. Cole; attended lectures the win- ter of 1864-65 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and outside the regular course studied qualitative analysis, toxicology, and urine analysis. The spring of 1865, he went to Columbus, and in June grad- uated from the Starling Medical College. He then came to Winamac and entered upon the practice of his profession, acquiring a large and lucrative patronage. In 1874, he took a course at Bellevue, N. Y., grad- uating in February, 1875; he also received special instruction at the New York and Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmaries ; at De Milt's Dispensary, on throat diseases ; special private instruction in surgery, under Drs. Frank H. Hamilton and Alexander B. Mott; and physical diagnosis under Drs. A. Flint and E. G. Janeway. Returning to Winamac, he continued in practice until within the past few years, since when he has gradually retired from country and night practice, owing to failing health. Although he yet practices considerably, he is in partnership in corn buy- ing, dealing in lumber, and in operating a planing-mill. He is a member both of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, and is an Independent Republican. He was married, October 31, 1878, to Elizabeth A. Wilson, a daughter of Richard and Lucy (Webb) Wilson.
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