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DANIEL W. ZINK was born six miles west of Paris, in Edgar county, Illinois, July 5, 1828, a son of Emanuel and Delilah (Wright) Zink. The father, born in Kentucky, in 1780, died in Edgar county, Illinois, in 1858, and two years later, in 1860, the wife and mother was also laid to rest. She was born in Washington county, Indiana, in 1781. Daniel is the eldest of their eight children, the others being Mary Elizabeth, Nancy Jane (deceased). Barbara Ellen (deceased ). Catherine Rebecca (deceased), Susan, America and Belle E ..
Daniel W. Zink spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native county of Edgar, and after attaining the age of twenty years he became a teacher and taught about three or four terms of district school. At the close of that period he transferred his activities from a professional to an agricultural life and in time became the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of land in Edgar county, where he farmed and dealt extensively in hogs and cattle, and he was the first to introduce the Red Duroc Jersey hogs in that county. In 1850 he left the farm to become a merchant in Kansas, Illinois, and after ten years in that occupa-
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tion he had the misfortune to have his safe blown open and robbed of a great deal of money. The offender was, however, caught and im- prisoned, and after regaining his liberty made a threat to burn the store of Mr. Zink. He had been released from prison to join the army, and after serving for a short time he succeeded in carrying out his threat and burned the store to the ground. Mr. Zink then turned his attention to baling hay, conducting that business on a large scale, but after a time returned to Kansas, and in 1893 moved to Fayette township and spent two years on the old Malcolm farm, retiring at the close of that period and has since lived in West Terre Haute, where he is the owner of some houses and lots on Paris avenne. As a representative of the Republican party Mr. Zink served as a member of the county board for a number of years, and he has attained the rank of a Sir Knight in the Masonic fraternity.
He has been three times married. wedding first, when twenty-two years of age, Evelyn Wells, who died one year later, and after remaining alone for four years he married Louise Leslie. She died in 1883, after becoming the mother of nine children, of whom five sons and one daughter died in infancy, and one daughter died after attaining mature years. The two living are Maggie E., now the wife of Frank Ault, a minister in Indian Territory, and Ida, the wife of Robert Wilhoit, a prominent farmer in Westfield, Illinois. On the 18th of May, 1884. Mr. Zink married the widow of Dr. J. H. Payton, of Kentucky, who served as the first surgeon of the Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry. She bore the maiden name of Louisa Virginia Malcom, and was born in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county, Indiana, May 26, 1843, a daughter of Peter and Delilah (Riggs) Malcom, the father born in Hampshire county, West Virginia, in 1803, and died in Vigo county, in 1885, and the mother, born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1823, died here in 1884. Mrs. Zink's father was of Scotch lineage, a people who are known for their honesty, integrity and thrift. They were married in Ohio and came to Vigo county in 1840, where the husband and father was successfully engaged in farming, owning at the time of his death. about nine hundred acres of land. Of their eight children three are now living-Eliza, Anna and Louisa Virginia. Mrs. Zink remained at home until her marriage to D. WV. Rippetoe, in December of 1864. and of their two children. Charles and Jessie, the younger is now deceased. In 18So she wedded Dr. Payton, who died two years later, and in 1884 she became the wife of Mr. Zink. She has two grandchildren, one of whom lives with her father. and the other. Hila V., the daughter of Jessie Rippetoe, is with Mr. and Mrs. Zink. She is an excellent musician. Mr. and Mrs.
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Zink and their granddaughter are members of the Methodist church, Mrs. Zink is a member of the Eastern Star, the Knights and Ladies of Honor, is a state officer in the Woman's Relief Corps and is prominent missionary worker. She is a lady well known in Vigo county and the city of Terre Haute, as a woman of excellent business acumen, and one who has taken deep interest in the several societies of which she is a valued member and officer.
EDWARD SCOTT, the senior member of the firm of Scott & Warren, grocery merchants of West Terre Haute, has been identified with this industry during the greater part of his business career. It was in 1898 that he first entered the grocery trade, opening a store at Hatton, Illinois, where he remained for six months, and from there he went to Auburn, Illinois, still continuing as a grocery merchant. From that city he came in 1900, to West Terre Haute, and recently, in 1907, he admitted George Warren to a partnership in his business. The grocery house of Scott & Warren is well known to the public, and its straightforward business dealings have won for it a large patronage.
The senior member of the firm, Edward Scott, is a son of Alex- ander and Maggie (Conden) Scott, who moved with their respective parents from their native state of Ohio to Illinois in their childhood days, and they were married in Clark county, and it was there that their son Edward was born, on the 29th of December, 1870, the younger of their two children, and his sister Ella is the wife of George Cline, of Dudley, Missouri. The wife and mother died many years ago, about 1874, but Mr. Scott is yet living and continues his farming in Clark county. It was on his old homestead there that his son Edward attained manhood's estate, receiving a public school education, and he remained on the farm until he was twenty-five years of age. During the following five years he ran a huckster wagon, and it was at the close of that period that he embarked on his mercantile career.
Mr. Scott married Bessie Richards, who was born in Danville, Illinois, a daughter of William and Cynthia (Wright) Richards, and their children are Cyrel, Syble, Eunice, Fred, Opal, "Baby." He is a Democrat and a member of the Missionary Baptist church, as is also his wife.
Mr. Richard was born in Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio, September 20. 1846. He was educated in the common schools and was a practical printer for forty years. He was a soldier in the Civil war, serving twenty months as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, also the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Volunteers. He
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received two honorable discharges. He is a Liberal Democrat and cast his first vote for Tilden. He is a Mason and a member of Kenesaw Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Danville, Illinois, and he was chaplain of the post. His wife is deceased. He makes his home at the present time in West Terre Haute.
MARTIN TERRELL ALL, the proprietor of one of the leading grocery houses of West Terre Haute, is well known in the mercantile, political and fraternal circles of this city. He started out in life for himself at the early age of twelve years and continued working at farm labor for others until reaching the age of twenty-four years. He then learned the blacksmith's trade at West Terre Haute and for fourteen years thereafter worked at his trade here, putting it aside to become the postmaster of West Terre Haute during Cleveland's presidential administration. It was during his incumbency in that office that he became identified with the grocery trade, and since his retirement therefrom, four years later, he has given his entire attention to the business, and his large and well appointed store is now located on Prairie avenue, West Terre Haute.
Mr. All, although so prominently identified with the interests of this city, is a native son of Parke county, Indiana, born February 18, 1856, to Grayson and Mary (Cox) All, the former of whom was born in Bell county, Kentucky, January 19, 1806, and died in Vigo county, Indiana, December 17, 1868, and the latter, born in Ohio, September 18, 1819, died in West Terre Haute, in March, 1900. Grayson All was of Scotch-Irish descent and was a miller throughout the period of his business career. For forty-five consecutive years he was in the employ of a Mr. Blaze, in Parke county, and of John Debaun, in Prairieton, Indiana. He was a Democrat, staunch and true, and both he and his wife were church members, he of the United Brethren and she of the Congregational church. They became the parents of seven children: Ruth, the wife of Austin Piety ; David H., deceased; Reuben, who resides in West Terre Haute; John D. and Theodore, also deceased ; Martin, the subject of this review, and Lafayette, who is also a resident of West Terre Ilaute.
Mr. All, of this review, was first married to Lettie Milam, Feb- ruary 26, 1880. She was born in 1860, and died June 21, 1881. On the 15th of August, 1885. he wedded Miss Dovie M. Liston, who was born in Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1870, and they have had six children: Gladys, Leslie, Jesse. Mary, Josephine and Martin, but two, Leslie and Jesse, are deceased, and the remainder are all at home. The daughter Gladys is her father's chief clerk. The family are members of the Con-
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gregational church. Mr. All is a Democrat in his political affiliations, and he served as the town treasurer of West Terre Haute from 1898 to 1905. He has also attained prominence in the fraternal circles of his city, and is a member of the Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 824, the Knights of Pythias, Castle Hall No. 521, and the Red Men, Tribe No. 104, all in West Terre Haute, and of the Foresters, Court Rose, No. 1240, in the city of Terre Haute. He was instrumental in establishing the Odd Fellows fraternity in his home town, was its first noble grand and had the distinction of naming the lodge "New Hope." Its number is 824. He is now acting as chief patriot of the camp, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the West Terre Haute Building and Loan Association.
HENRY L. ENSMINGER entered upon his career as a railroad man at the early age of fifteen years, in 1896, and from that time to the present has remained with the Vandalia Company, being now their agent in West Terre Haute. His first work was as telegrapher in his native city of St. Jacobs, Illinois, his birth having occurred there on the 27th of June, 1881, born to John and Ollie (Hayes) Ensminger. The father was also born in the city of St. Jacobs, in 1845, and the mother was born near Rockford, Illinois, in 1855, and both are now living at West Terre Haute.
From St. Jacobs. Henry L. Ensminger was transferred to Greenville, Illinois, thence to the Union Station at Terre Haute, and was later made the agent at Macksville, Indiana. From there he came to West Terre Haute and resumed his duties as agent for the Vandalia Company. His fraternal relations connect him with the Odd Fellows order, Lodge No. 824, the Knights of Pythias, Castle Hall No. 521, and the Woodmen of America, Camp No. 3376. and his political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is now serving as the city clerk of West Terre Haute, entering upon the duties of that office in 1905, and his term will expire in 1909.
On the fifth of November. 1903, Mr. Ensminger was united in marriage to Glena All, who was born in West Terre Haute, January II. 1880, and received her educational training in its high school. Her father, David All, died in 1900. A son, John David, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ensminger, May 10, 1905. Mrs. Ensminger is a member of the Congrega- tional church.
GIDEON ALBERT HARRIS is a member of two of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Vigo county, and in its township of Sugar
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Creek, in section 25, he was born Jannary 5, 1850, a son of John and Lavina (Bennett) Harris. The mother also had her nativity in Sugar Creek township, born in 1820, and she died in February, 1900.
John Harris was born in the state of Delaware, in March, 1820, and died in Sugar Creek township. Vigo county, Indiana, in 1886. He was but a boy of ten years, when, with his father, and one sister, he left his native state for Indiana, his mother having died in his infancy. They made the entire trip with a one-horse wagon and settled on what was then known as Schisler Hill, where the senior Mr. Harris spent the remainder of his life. The family were descendants of the English and Welsh, and both the grandfather and the great-grandfather of Gideon A. Harris were slave holders in Maryland and Delaware. On the maternal side he is Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch. John Harris was always a farmer and stock raiser, and was a successful business man and an excellent financier. At the time of his death he owned eleven hundred acres of land, all in one body. He was a Republican from the formation of the party in 1860, but previously voted with the Democracy. He never sought political honors, and was therefore, never in office. Both he and his wife worshiped in the Methodist Episcopal church, and in their family were ten children, but the five eldest, Mary, James, George, Thomas and Richard, are deceased, as are also Charles Francis and Martha, the seventh and eighth born. Frances E. has never married and resides on the old homestead, and her younger sister, Lavina Barbara, is deceased.
Gideon A. Harris, the sixth born, graduated from the district schools of Sugar Creek township, and then for three years attended DePauw University, of Greencastle. From that time until the present he has remained on the old Harris homestead, and he now owns three hundred and forty acres and follows general farming. His land is also rich in coal, and he operates one mine and is a stockholder in another. Mr. Harris follows in the political footsteps of his father and votes with the Repub- lican party, and he also has fraternal relations with the Order of Red Men, Ionia Tribe, No. 104, in West Terre Haute, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 51, of Terre Haute, and with the Canton McKeen Encampment, No. 17, and with the Knights of Pythias in West Terre Haute, Castle Hall, No. 521.
On the 15th of February, 1880. he was united in marriage to Martha J. Hicklin, who was born in section 15, of Sugar Creek township, June 9, 1854, a daughter of Josiah and Lydia Jane (Shuey) Hicklin, natives respectively of Vincennes, Indiana, and of Virginia, and both are now deceased. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harris. The elder, Estella, graduated in the Indiana State Normal with the class 46
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in 1906, and is now teaching in the graded schools of West Terre Haute. Lena Louise graduated in the Terre Haute high school with the class of 1907, and is now taking post-graduate work in the same institution. Mr. Harris is a Methodist, but his wife and daughters are members of the Con- gregational church, at West Terre Haute.
In relics, Mr. and Mrs. Harris have a salt cellar with the portrait of General Washington. This little souvenir with the two silver spoons for salt, is over one hundred and fifty years old. This is the oldest relic found in Vigo county. They and their two daughters have one of the finest private libraries numbering over one thousand volumes. The family are more than ordinarily educated, father and mother both receiving good educations, as well as their accomplished daughters. Both of the daughters have taken instrumental music. In their library are two old volumes, "The Instructor," published in 1795, and "The Travels Before the Flood," published in 1797.
JACOB N. FARR .- West Terre Haute numbers among its retired merchants and soldier citizens Jacob N. Farr, who is now spending the evening of his long and useful life at his pleasant home on the corner of Market street and Johnson avenue. He was born near Harrisburg, now Uniontown, Pennsylvania, a son of John and Eleanor (Linkhorn) Farr, who came west from their native commonwealth of Pennsylvania and spent the remainder of their lives in Vigo county. The father was a wagon-maker.
Jacob N. Farr was but a lad of two years when he came with his parents to Sugar Creek township, and just one year later he lost his mother by death, and when a boy of seven he was left an orphan by the death of his father. He then went to live with his oldest brother, Jehu Farr, twenty years his senior, and who died four years ago, aged ninety- two. When he reached his sixteenth year Jacob Farr left his brother's home to learn the wagon-maker's trade in Belleville, Illinois, and for thirty years he worked at his trade in various places. He then became identified with the mercantile interests of West Terre Haute, but after fifteen years as a merchant he retired in 1903 and is now living quietly in this city, where he is the owner of eight houses and lots. In August, 1862, Mr. Farr laid aside all personal affairs and enlisted as a private in the Seventy-ninth Illinois Infantry, from which he was transferred to the First United States Veteran Volunteer Regiment, and was discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, in November, 1865. He participated in many of the historic engagements of the war, but his hardest fought battle was at Stone River, but he was present at the last battle of Nashville.
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He was wounded slightly in the left side with a minie ball. He now receives a pension of fifteen dollars a month.
On the 3d of July, 1853. Mr. Farr married Nancy A. Hanks, who was born in Boone county, Kentucky, and died in 1903, after becoming the mother of five children: Mary, deceased; Liddy A., the wife of Joseph Williams; Mary Frances, the wife of John Frost; Charles W. and Emma, who died in infancy. In February, 1904, Mrs. Harriet Weakley, of Terre Haute, became the wife of Mr. Farr. She was born in Indiana, and has one son by her former marriage, Ross Weakley, a resident of Terre Haute. Mr. Farr votes with the Republican party.
JACOB THACKERY POPP is the owner of a valuable estate in Sugar Creek township and was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, May 31, 1857, a son of John and Katherine (Knarr) Popp, both of whom were born in the fatherland of Germany. It was after their emigration to the United States, however, that they became acquainted, and they were married in Ohio. From that state they subsequently journeyed to Illinois and spent two years in Clark county, for one year resided in Jasper county, of that state, and in 1869, the family established their home in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county. John Popp was killed in the army, but his widow married again and is now the wife of a Mr. Kadel and resides at Staun- ton. Jacob T. Popp was the elder of her two children by the first union, but the daughter, Anna, is now deceased.
When a boy of fourteen Jacob T. Popp began working by the month for J. S. Casto, in Sugar Creek township, spending eighteen years in his employ. During one year he worked by the month in Adams county, Illi- nois, and then returned to the Casto farm and rented land of a widowed daughter of Mr. Casto for two years. At the expiration of that period he went to Parke county, Indiana, to become the foreman of a large farm, where he remained for three years, and thence once more returned to the Casto farm and superintended its work for five years. He then bought property in Sugar Creek township and is now the owner of a valuable estate of fifty-four acres, fifteen acres of which is devoted to the raising of berries of all kinds. His is one of the largest berry farms in this locality, and he gives almost liis entire attention to their cultivation, finding a ready market for his product in the city of Terre Haute. He is a Republican in his political affiliations.
On the 16th of September, 1888, Mr. Popp married Luln Shanks, who was born in Sugar Creek township, December 25, 1866. a daughter of George P. Shanks, and both he and his wife are deceased. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Popp are Ruby Alice, John Jacob and Margaret
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Louise. Mrs. Popp is a member of the Methodist church in that township.
GEORGE W. HARRIS, JR., who is now farming the old Harris home- stead in Sugar Creek township, was born in section 25, of the same township, November 3, 1876, a son of George W. and Cindora ( McClain) Harris. The father was born in the same vicinity as his son and name- sake, December 12, 1844, and was killed at a railroad crossing in Sugar Creek township, October 12, 1904. Mrs. Harris was born in Springfield, Ohio, August 15, 1842, and is now a resident of Terre Haute. It was in this city that she became the wife of George W. Harris, and their union was blessed by the birth of six children, but only three are now living. The eldest, Herschel, resides in Terre Haute. He graduated from the Rose Polytechnic College with the class of 1892, and is now a civil engineer and contractor. Ethel resides with her mother in Terre Haute. She attended the State Normal there, and is now teaching music.
George W. Harris, Jr., the youngest of the three living children, received a public school education and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then enlisted in the First Coast Artillery, at Fort Barrancas, Florida, as a private, and after three years' service at the fort was discharged December 26, 1901. After serving for two years he was advanced to a corporal, and following his discharge he returned to the old home farm here and began its operation. The homestead, containing about three hundred acres, has never been divided and he farms the entire tract. He is a Republican politically.
In August, 1906, Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Dorothy Carlisle, who was born in March, 1882, in Booneville, Missouri, and she was a commercial teacher in the Brown Business College, of Terre Haute, at the time of her marriage.
ALBERT BARBOUR, a prominent and well known farmer in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county, was born in Terre Haute, October 26, 1854, to Cromwell and Derexa (Whitcomb) Barbour, natives respectively of New York and Ohio, the former born on the 19th of September, 1809. His death occurred in the country, May 5, 1889, and his wife passed away in Terre Haute. They were married in Clinton, Indiana, March 26, 1840, and became the parents of ten children, of whom eight are living, namely : James, deceased ; Elizabeth, deceased ; Emma, the wife of S. N. Smith, of Muncie, Indiana ; Mary, the widow of W. H. Coffin, and a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana ; Louise, a teacher in the high school of this city ; Susie, a teacher in the city schools of Indianapolis; Raymond, a
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member of the firm of Barbour Brothers, in Terre Haute; Albert, whose name introduces this review; Jennie, the wife of N. R. Moore, a drug- gist of this city, and Florence, the wife of Francis Cleaver, of Rutland, Vermont. Mr. Barbour, the father, practiced law in Terre Haute for over twenty years, in partnership with his brother Orson and Colonel Thompson, and was well known as a practitioner at the bar of Vigo county.
Albert Barbour was reared and received his educational training in Sugar township, for his father retired from the practice of law and moved to a farm here when his son was but five years of age, and the lad remained with his father until he had reached his twenty-fifth year. Leaving his boyhood's home he then went to New Mexico and bought eleven hundred sheep and drove them up the Santa Fe trail to Kansas, where for four years he was engaged in the sheep business in Gray county, and during his sojourn there he has also become the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land. He still owns that tract in Kan- sas, and returning to Sugar Creek township he took charge of his father's farm of three hundred and thirty-seven and a half acres and has ever since continued the supervision of the old homestead. In the meantime he has added forty acres to the original boundaries. In addition to his general agricultural pursuits Mr. Barbour is a member of the firm of Barbour Brothers and is conducting a general store in Terre Haute, selling principally vehicles, and he is also operating a threshing machine and saw mill. He is a member of the advisory board at the present time and is a Republican politically.
On the 6th of October, 1883, Mr. Barbour married Miss Henrietta Harwood, born in Waterville, New York, May 24, 1867, but she came west when yet in her teens and remained at home until her marriage, which has been blessed by the birth of four children-Marion, Louise, Harwood and Mary, who died in infancy. The eldest, Marion, will graduate with the class of 1908 at the State Normal, and the two younger are attending the high school in Terre Haute.
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