Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical, Part 15

Author: Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, 1852-1926; Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: 428, 502 p. : ill., ports. ;
Number of Pages: 962


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killed at Van Liew's Mill, Larwill, by the bursting of a grindstone in 1863. John Buck got his death from being struck by an express train at Larwill station. Marcellus Thomson blew out his brains in a temporary fit of insanity, in John Steele's woods, in 1870. Mrs. Essinger hanged herself with a pillow-slip to the third rail from the ground of the fence of her own door-yard. Samuel Aker hanged himself to the ladder in his barn. Jacob Long, Section Foreman, was run over and killed by an express train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, in the spring of 1881.


There seems to be no doubt that C. W. Hayden, son of David and Alma Hayden, was the first white child born in the township; the date of this, to him, memorable event was August 12, 1837. Having passed through the stages of childhood, youth and young manhood, and made the most of the meager advantages that surrounded him, he united his fortunes with those of a daughter of Alfred Hoover, Esq., of Kosciusko County, and became a farmer on his own account. A few years of this begat a spirit of adventure, and he sold his place to B. F. Thomson, who now lives there, and removed to Missouri, where he spent several years with varying success, and, his health failing, re- turned to the land of his fathers. He is now engaged in mercantile pursuits at Collamer, in this county, and whoso knows him knows a man whose word is as good as his bond.


The second person born in the township, and the first female, was Eveline, daughter of Charles and Eveline Ditton, born in September, 1837, the mother surviving but two weeks. John Thomson and other neighbors made for her a coffin from the boards of a wagon box, and the few neighbors there were in a range of half a dozen miles gathered to lay her at rest. Mrs. Ditton was a daughter of Zebulon P. Burch, a very early settler, whose old place is now occupied by Henry Norris. Mr. Burch was a prominent character in those early days, and filled several stations of honor and trust. One of the first courts held in the county was held at his house, Judge Ewing presiding. The daughter of Charles Ditton, now Mrs. Todd, resides at Lagro, Indiana, where also, her father, Charles Ditton, resides, and is highly regarded.


The third birth of which authentic information has been produced was that of Orilla, daughter of Edwin and Salima Cone, who was born 30th Jan- uary, 1839, married to Frank Inlow, April 28, 1857; removed to Missouri in the spring of 1864, and there died November 21, 1881.


Chauncey, son of Price and Martha Goodrich, was born October 7, 1839; is a prosperous and very successful builder. Most of the good brick buildings in the county can bear witness for the honest manner his work is done.


In February, 1837, Samuel Jones, first-born of John Jones, died at the house of Ezra Thomson (where the family were stopping whilst the rude cabin was being made ready to receive them) from exposure, having caught the mumps while moving to the country. This was the first death among the early settlers of Richland. The death of Mrs. Eveline Ditton, in September


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following, elsewhere referred to, was the second; and later Mr. Jones himself made the coffin of Mrs. Andrews, his sister. Mr. Andrews settled where John Steele now lives, and Mr. Jones where Alexander McNagney now lives. Older citizens will remember going to the post office, first kept in the cabin he built, a few rods south of Mr. McN.'s present residence. Messrs. Jones and Andrews came in the fall of 1836, and were among the very early settlers. W. N. An- drews, Postmaster at Larwill, is the eldest son of Mr. Samuel Andrews. An- other brother resides in Iowa.


The Eel River Baptist Church was organized in 1840, at the house of John Collins, in Cleveland Township. Among its first members were John Col- lins, William Cordill, John Cordill, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and S. A. Chaplin. To these were afterward added, by baptism and letter, Edwin Rambo and wife, Margaret Rambo, John Cuppy and wife, Mary Cuppy, Jane Collins (wife of John Collins), Mrs. Martin Collins, Isaac Collins and wife, Nancy Collins, Mrs. Chaplin (wife of S. A. Chaplin), William Norris, James Chaplin (father of S. H. Chaplin, and Mores P. Chaplin (brother of S. A. Chaplin). James Martin was the first Pastor of this little flock. February 19, 1842, S. A. Chaplin, now editor of the Restitution, at Plymouth, was licensed to preach, and on August 20, 1842, he was ordained, and for some time preached for them. A change of views in regard to the future destiny of the earth as well as of man's nature, whether immortal by nature or redemption-the view of earth restored being the future home of the redeemed-in plain English, Mil- lerism or Second Adventism-was embraced by Elder Chaplin and a number of other members of the church, who dissolved their connection with it, and it languished for several years. Reorganized December, 1845, William Norris, John Cordill, Esther Cordill, Norah Hand, Elizabeth Cuppy, Michael B. Kelly, Rebecca Riesson, K. C. Hamilton, Caroline Hamilton, Caroline Collins, George Gunter, John Cuppy and Nancy Cuppy were members. The present church was built in 1861, at a cost of $1,200. Number of members now, sev- enty-six. Present Pastor, Elder V. O. Fritz. This is the best account the meager facts in hand make possible of this society.


A Methodist society was organized near Lorain in 1840. The first preacher was Rev. Samuel Smith. Of the early members are the names of Henry Rob- erts, Joseph Tinkham, Elizabeth Tinkham, Michael and Fanny Blanchard, Price and Julia A. Goodrich, Isaac and Elizabeth Kern and Harlow Barber. As time and convenience dictated, they met at the houses of settlers. When the chapel near Cedar Lake, in Troy Township, was built, this society was merged with it, and now constitutes a part of that vigorous branch of the church.


In the early days, there was a Methodist class near John R. Anderson's, called the Union Class, which, as usual, met from house to house. With vari- ous other societies they united, in 1855, in building the Union Church. Among the earlier members were Henry Rupely and wife, John Jones and wife, A. D. Parrett and wife, Eliakim Mosher and wife, Edmond Parrish and wife and


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John Graham. There they prospered until 1880, when they built the neat and commodious Oak Grove Church, a brick edifice costing about $2,000, and are comfortably settled therein, with a membership of somewhat over thirty. If this account be faulty or meager, it is because the information sought for failed to come to hand.


A society of the Christian denomination has long been maintained at Booneville, with a comfortable church building and a strong society. Data sought for failed to come to hand, and this brief notice must suffice.


The history of education in Richland would be a repetition of that of other towns round about. The first school, taught by Zillah Adams at Summit, was a subscription school. Indiana's munificent school funds and judicious provision for schoolhouses and school appliances were then unthought of. Instead of the comfortable school desks, slab benches, with the legs inserted in auger-holes, were the seats ; the desk was of boards laid on arms inserted in the side walls of the building in the same way. Samuel Andrews and Jesse S. Perin were wont to grumble because, each having large families, they together had to pay over half the teacher's salary. Divers and numerous were the bar- rings-out of teachers, etc., etc., but Eggleston has so graphically described it in his "Hoosier Schoolmaster," that details would be superfluous. Miss Sarah Thomson (now Mrs. Jesse Arnold) taught a select school in an old log house on John Thomson's farm in the early days. Periodicals and books were scarce, and blessed was the home whose heads had not forgotten to bring a store of books when they plunged into the wilderness, for in the hand-to-hand struggle no money was to be expended for superfluities when the bare necessities of life were hard to come at. As time passed, and after the State made provision for public education, schoolhouses were built of logs (similar to the one at Summit, else- where described), at suitable distances all over the township. These were after- ward replaced with frame schoolhouses, and these latter, as they become old and are condemned, are being replaced with good substantial brick structures. It is thought that the new law taking the road work off the Trustees' hands, will tend to better oversight and general improvement of schools. The following is the present school accommodation in the township :


DISTRICTS.


Section.


Kind of House.


When Built.


Value.


No. of Pupils.


District No.


1


25


Brick


1869


$1000 00


30


District No.


2


34


Brick.


1873


1000 00


21


District No.


3.


28


Brick


1873


1000 00


30


District No.


4


32


Brick


1875


9000 00


175


District No.


5


30


Frame


1871


500 00


32


District No.


6


...


Vacant


District No.


7


8


Frame


1868


300 00


28


District No.


8


9


Brick


1881


900 00


30


District No. 9


11


Frame


No record ...


300 00


35


District No. 10


14


Frame


No record ...


400 00


35


District No. 11


22


Frame


1870


500 00


25


District No. 12


18


Frame


No record ...


300 00


30


Total.


$15200 00


471


...


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The following table shows the amounts and growth of the tuition and special school funds since the adoption of the new Constitution in 1852. It will be remembered that the special school fund is applied only for the pur- poses of building and furnishing schoolhouses, supplying them with wood, stoves, brooms and other necessaries. In 1875, in accordance with statute in that case made and provided, Township Trustees were authorized to supplement the regular tuition fund, which is the interest on funds permanently invested, by levying a tax which is termed the local tuition fund, and is shown in the subjoined table :


YEARS.


Tuition Fund.


Special School Fund.


YEARS.


Tuition Fund.


Special School Fund.


Local Tuition Fund.


1853


$ 85 31


1868.


$1353 64


$1039 68


....


1854.


288 00


..


1869


1430 09


575 25


....


1855.


431 22


..


1870.


1571 82


1581 43


......


1856.


508 30


1871


1587 02


901 48


......


1857


411 20


$182 72


1872.


1577 86


1640 23


......


1858.


475 00


174 25


1873.


1216 58


1660 64


......


1859.


435 56


194 91


1874.


1544 25


1622 65


..


1860.


755 25


606 93


1875.


2081 90


1185 89


$762 62


1861.


687 75


640 66


1876


2333 03


3602 76


421 78


1862


992 85


644 79


1877


2086 32


3832 67


10 98


1863


936 75


649 59


1878


1864 95


2877 93


......


1864.


1205 97


690 60


1879


1898 34


3463 23


1865


1032 03


667 92


1880


2164 81


2476 74


333 10


1866.


1216 78


1018 55


1881


2005 49


918 52


636 03


1867.


1297 47


1031 35


The following table shows the original entries of land by actual settlers down to 1840, as per original entry in land office :


NAMES.


Section.


Month and Day.


Year.


Acres.


Andrew Compton.


21


December 17.


1835


320


Charles Ditton ..


22


March 7


1836


160


Zebulon P. Burch


22


March 7 ..


1836


160


David Hayden.


6


March 19.


1836


318


Mores P. Chaplin


5


March 19.


1836


142


John Jones.


4


April 27


1836


242


Elijah L. Scott


19


May 10


1836


120


Ezra Thomson.


4-9


July 15


1836


480


Jesse S. Perin


30-32


August 31


1836


546


Jacob Kistler, Sr


10-12


October 8.


1836.


240


John Buntain


30


October 21.


1836


240


James Compton.


7-16


October 24.


1836


333


William Rice


5-8


March 20.


1837


120


John Burns


29


May 29


1837


120


Levi Curtis


10


June 10.


1837


200


Price Goodrich.


25


September 20.


1837


120


James Goodrich


25


September 20.


1837


80


Harlow Barber


28


October 1


1837


80


Alfred Jordan.


25


October 30.


1837


80


John R. Anderson ..


14


November 13


1837


160


David Payne.


15


November 27.


1837


160


Nathan Chapman


25


April 17


1838


200


James Grant .


26


May 2.


1838


80


Christian Souder.


11 [October 16


1838


80


Christopher Souder.


11 March 16.


1840


40


Moses Hand.


7


May 12.


1840


80


Samuel L. McPherson


8


May 12.


1840


40


..


..


Lewis Richard


WASHINGTON TP.


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Larwill, formerly Huntsville, was laid out on the line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, November 13, 1854. It was located on the corners of the four farms of H. McLallen, Sr., Truman Hunt, Jesse S. Perin and Thomas J. Hammontree. At that time the site of the village was unbroken forest west of Center and north of Main streets. Mr. Perin had a fine sugar camp, with the boiling-place where the depot now stands. Hammontree bought his place December 15, 1851, built a log cabin where Thomas Stradly's house now stands in the the spring of 1852, and had cleared a few acres ; this was all that was amiss of the forest.


It was in August, 1856, that the Pennsylvania & Ohio, the Ohio & Indi- ana and the Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroads consolidated, forming the Pitts- burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. Up to that date, Columbia City was the terminus. The work of construction was pushed forward rapidly by the new management, and before the close of that year trains were running through as far as Plymouth, and Huntsville began to come out of the wilderness. This was the era of luxuries. We had a daily mail ; lumbering hacks, whose tri- weekly visits had before been our sole dependence, were abandoned; the post office, which had for years been at Summit, one mile west, was moved to Hunts- ville, and H. McLallen, Sr., was first Postmaster, and so continued until the Lincoln administration, when E. L. Barber was appointed; afterward H. B. Whittenberger succeeded him, and last season W. N. Andrews succeeded him.


The first Station Agent was H. McLallen, Sr., succeeded by E. L. Mc- Lallen, he by H. McLallen, Jr., until 1874, when W. F. McNagney succeeded to it, and held it until he determined to adopt the legal profession, and was succeeded by W. E. Young, the present incumbent.


In 1854, Hugh McClarren built a log house on the corner where John Bruner's shop stands, and opened a traffic in "wet goods," not to very great advantage ; nor, indeed, has there ever been a prosperous business done there in that line. J. F. Smith was the first doctor; his office was where Scott Smith's residence now is ; he came here in the spring of 1854. We had also Dr. F. M. Tumbleson, and later, Drs. Firestone, 1859, and Kirkpatrick, 1860, have enjoyed long and extensive practice. Still later, Dr. Souder, Dr. Lan- caster and Dr. Webster. In the early days, Dr. McHugh, of Columbia City, did a good practice hereabouts, though his methods were rather heroic; and it was thought by many that Dr. Boss, of Warsaw, could almost raise the dead. David King was one of the vanguard ; he built a shanty and started the first shoe-shop, where Hilliard's family now live. It was there the young bloods, and old ones, too, used to repair and waste their means in riotous living on hard-boiled eggs at 4 cents a dozen, seasoned with pepper-sauce. There were a few who could make way with two dozen, several could do eighteen, and plenty who took a dozen. Isaac Broad came and built about 1856; Jerry Welker about the same time, and put up a furniture store where Dr. Kirkpat- rick lives now.


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The first store was opened by Dodge & McLallen, R. W. Dodge and H. McLallen, Sr., in a building since burned, which stood on the site of the old Washington House. The stock was varied and assorted to suit the times, with a little of everything. Barter was the rule; credit was generally asked and expected, and ready pay the exception. Dodge went out after one season, and John M. Thomson took his place. He, used to Eastern life and California excitement, found it too slow for him, and went. Mr. McLallen then went to work in earnest, and built on the corner where D. B. Clugston, Bro. & Co.'s store now is; the building has since been removed across the street, and is now Bowman's hardware store. This edifice was 22x44, two stories, with cellar walled up with hewn timber. Stone was then out of the question. This build- ing his neighbors thought entirely beyond the needs of the place. Here he continued and prospered until July 9, 1858, when he sold out to E. L. McLallen and D. B. Clugston, who carried on the business very successfully, until March, 1, 1874, when McLallen sold his interest to D. B. Clugston, who then organized the firm of D. B. Clugston, Bro. & Co., which still keeps the field with excel- lent success. In 1869, McLallen & Clugston built the fine brick store, 24x100, two stories and cellar, as it now stands. The Masonic Fraternity took and paid for seventy-five feet of the second floor for lodge-rooms, giving them 24x 75 feet for hall, ante-rooms, etc. About 1861, Edwin L. Barber built and opened a store just north of the store now owned by H. B. Whittenberger, where he flourished as merchant, Postmaster and general trader, until about 1865, when he sold store and stock to Whittenberger & Bro., and soon after built the fine store where H. B. Whittenberger now is, which he occupied until 1881, when he removed the stock and sold the store to H. B. Whittenberger, who is comfortably growing fat, wealthy and old, and not a wave of trouble rolls across his peaceful breast.


Halderman & Co. built their present store-room and commenced trade in 1867, and have steadily kept step to the music, and done their share of the business, and may be called successful merchants. A burglary and safe-blow- ing last winter is the only notable counter-current they have met, and that was not of sufficient importance to disturb Lewis' equilibrium, or cause John to lie awake nights. A. F. Martin and McLallen & Clugston, under the style of A. F. Martin & Co., started a hardware store, May 1, 1865. Mr. Martin went out and McLallen & Clugston continued awhile, then sold out to Jerry Franklin, who in turn sold out to S. B. Clevinger, who engaged in hardware trade in his present rooms in 1869. About that time, L. B. Snyder and McLallen & Clug- ston formed a partnership, and opened a new hardware store where John Bruner now is; afterward removed to where Bowman now keeps, and continued until the fall of 1881, when Bowman bought out the concern, and still continues at the old stand. L. B. Snyder, or Bolivar, as he is generally known, is widely and favorably known, and has the good-will of the entire community. Having no boys to succeed to his business, he concluded to go out of trade and take a


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rest ; he is also noted for his firm reliance. S. B. Clevinger kept on the even tenor of his way until disabled by ill-health, and has recently transferred his hardware business to his son Henry, who continues it at the old place. Dr. Kirkpatrick came in the spring of 1860; in 1864, he started a drug- store. In 1865, D. L. Whiteleather bought one-half interest, and they built a new store ; the firm was Kirkpatrick & Whiteleather until 1881, when White- leather bought the entire concern. W. N. Andrews opened a drug store oppo- site Halderman's in 1878, which concern continues to prosper.


Truman Hunt built the first grist-mill, the steam one now owned by Jos. Essig, thereby conferring an inestimable boon on the community, as otherwise they had to go ten miles to mill. This mill was built about 1860 or 1862. In 1853, Truman Hunt-" The 'Squire " as he was generally called-tore down his hewed log dwelling, a half mile west of Larwill, and moved the timbers to the village and rebuilt it on the spot where Dr. Firestone's fine mansion now is, and opened a tavern (tavern is a good word crowded out by the new fangled term hotel). This was a tavern. On a post in front was a plain oval sign, with a fish rampant depicted upon it, and below three letters-INN-only this and nothing more. The guests, however, at the inn, found good beds and good cheer. James Young afterward opened a hotel, and for the past twenty years has done most of the entertaining of strangers. In 1880, he rebuilt his house, and now keeps quite a pretentious hostelry. He also knows " black walnut from coffeenut," and is a pretty good judge of lumber, in which he has done a successful business for many years.


George Klinehance has long been a heavy lumber-dealer in this region, and has handled a great many millions of feet. "Old Business " is his pet name among the boys. Capt. Steele, now Commissioner of Roads for Rich- land Township, was long his factotum in the stock trade, the buying and ship- ping of which has long been a part of his business.


Truman Hunt, Esq., was an important character in those early days. He held his own opinions, liked to have his will, was very tenacious of his rights, and was of hasty temper, spoke with a New England twang, and looked out sharply for number one, but was a good neighbor and citizen. In 1869, he sold his farm to Dr. Firestone, and removed to Michigan, where it is believed he is still living.


Uncle Jesse S. Perin, was born in Berkshire County, Mass., July 28, 1792; moved to Michigan in 1821; came to Indiana in 1837 ; entered 546 acres of land in the immediate vicinity of Larwill ; died August 19, 1862, aged seventy years ; his wife, Laura Bird, was born on the Green Mountains, in Ver- mont, February 14, 1798. The children of these surviving are Betsy, Laura, Jesse, Achsa, Diantha. Mr. Perin was a man of mark, intelligent, with much force of character ; of portly figure, quite deaf in his later years ; a good story- teller, could sing a song and was socially inclined. Had been so long in the backwoods that his reminiscences of early life took one back to the early part


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of the century. He was of quick, fiery temper, and very positive in his way. Troy Township, Whitley County, Ind., was named at his suggestion in honor of the Township of Troy, Oakland County, Mich., from which he came to Whitley.


Thomas J. Hammontree was born in Maryland ; came here from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, December, 1851; carpenter by trade and an excellent one ; a large- framed, large-hearted man ; he was a fair specimen of the early settlers, always ready to do a good turn. In 1864, he sold his place at the village and bought the farm of the late Harper Mack, where he continued to live until his decease, and his remains lie in Lakeview Cemetery.


Henry McLallen, Sr., was born at Trumansburg, N. Y., August 3, 1808; grew up to manhood there. Was married, August 31, 1831, to Frances M. Lyman, of Northfield, Mass. Went into business on his own account about the time of his majority, and was fairly successful. The great panic of 1843, fol- lowed by the failure of a number of persons indebted to him, so embarrassed him that he could not hope to re-establish himself for a long while ; beside that, he was attracted to the Great West, which was then first brought prominently before the people. All who are familiar with the history of our Western coun- try know of, and many elderly persons will remember, the wonderful impetus given to emigration to Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, by the building of the Wabash & Erie Canal, the Ohio Canals, the National roads and other schemes of internal improvement that were, alas ! many of them, destined to be nipped in the bud by the revulsion which followed the overthrow of the National Bank and the Jacksonian era. It was under the inspiration of high expectation as to rapid development Mr. McLallen, with many others, plunged into the fastnesses of Indiana as it was in 1845. In the spring of 1845, accompanied by his brother, DeWitt McLallen, deceased, and the late Harper Mack, he came to Richland and cleared an acre and built the rude cabin which was to be the fam- ily home for many a long year, and, in the September following, coming via New York & Erie Canal from Cayuga Bridge to Buffalo; by the schooner Sarah Bugbee from Buffalo to Toledo, and with a tempestuous passage over Lake Erie ; from Toledo to Fort Wayne via the Wabash & Erie Canal, and from Fort Wayne in wagons to the old homestead in Section 3, adjoining Larwill, the family took up their abiding place. Of slender build and not inured to the severe labors of the backwoodsman, yet with courage and self-sacrifice wor- thy of a martyr, he began and continued the tremendous task of carving a farm out of the heavily timbered and unbroken forest. Isolation, dearth of intel- lectual food, malaria, all conspired to make the position hard to bear. Cheer- ful and peace-loving, easily adapting himself to surroundings, he soon found friends, and, but for his retiring disposition, might easily have held positions of trust and honor. When the railroad was built, he joined neighbors Perin, Hunt and Hammontree in laying out the village, as elsewhere noted. In 1858, he sold the homestead to David Kerr, Esq., who now occupies it. Of his bus-


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iness experience, mention has been made. The evening of his days was quietly spent among his children, his books, garden and orchard, to which he had all his life been devoted, and on October 30, 1875, he passed from earth and was laid at rest in Lake View Cemetery, originally a part of his own farm, and re- deemed from its primeval wilderness by his own hand. Mrs. McLallen still survives, though feeble and frail. The children of these are E. L. McLallen, Mrs. D. B. Clugston and H. McLallen, Jr.




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