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In May, 1832, he was married to Lean Stinson, near New Castle. The Stin- son family came to Indiana from Tennessee, in 1819, and settled first, in Franklin County, near Brookville. In 1825, they moved to Henry County and became iden- tified in interest with that community. Mrs. Lean (Stinson) Hoover died at Hastings, Nebraska, July 26, 1894, while on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. William H. Lynn, and was buried there. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoover were the parents of nine boys and two girls who were named as follows : John S., William H., Fred- erick, De Witt C., David, Harrison, James M., Leander, George A., Sarah Cathar- ine, now the widow of Samuel A. Wilson, formerly of Muncie, and Anna Louisa, now Mrs. William H. Lynn, of Hastings, Nebraska.
In 1832 Samuel Hoover came to New Castle and entered the service of Jacob Thornburgh, as a clerk, Mr. Thornburgh being a pioneer merchant of New Castle. Soon after his marriage, as above noted, he moved to Laporte County, Indiana, where he remained a little more than a year, returning to New Castle in the Fall of 1833, which, from that time, became his permanent home. It was during this sojourn of his parents in Laporte County that John Stinson Hoover was born.
Samuel Hoover and his family have been important factors in the civil and military history of Henry County. In early life he took great interest in public events and was exceedingly active in all matters pertaining to the county's welfare and throughout his career was followed by the respect and good will of its people. He was elected Probate Judge of the county and served acceptably in that position from August 13, 1836, to August 13, 1843, a full term of seven years. He was afterwards elected clerk of the courts and served in that capacity from August, 1843, to August 14, 1850. Such was the confidence of the people in him that he was thus continued in office for a full period of fourteen years. Politically, he was a Whig until that party ceased to exist, when he became a Republican and so remained throughout his life. He died in New Castle, August 2, 1869, and at his own request, his remains were buried in the Hoover Cemetery, on the David Hoover farm, immediately north of Richmond.
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JOHN STINSON HOOVER.
While this sketch treats incidentally of Samuel Hoover and his entire family. it has particular reference to the career of John Stinson Hoover, the first born son of Samuel and Lean Hoover. He was born in Laporte County, Indiana, April 10, 1833, and when less than a year old was brought by his parents to New Castle where he continued under his parents' roof until he became of age. As a young man, he learned the printer's trade in the office of the New Castle Courier. In 1855 he went to Anderson, Indiana, where for a period of ten months he published the Madison County Democrat. Soon after this venture, he went to Illinois and the beginning of the Civil War found him at Centralia, Marion County, that State. On August 15, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company K, 3Ist Illinois Infantry, of which the late John A. Logan, who achieved so much distinction in the Civil War, was Colonel. An acquaintance had been formed at Centralia between Logan and young Hoover, in a purely accidental way, but that acquaintance ripened into a friendship which continued without interruption to the day of General Logan's death. Within three days after his muster into the service, Mr. Hoover was made Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment, an appointment wholly within the gift of his Colonel. His promotions, step by step, were rapid as will be seen from the roster of the field and staff officers preceding this sketch, the close of the war finding him a Colonel, this being the only instance during the Civil War of a soldier from Henry County serving in all the grades of the army from private to Colonel. His first battle was at Belmont, Missouri, and he was with his regiment at the taking of Forts Henry and Donelson. He was retained on garrison duty at Fort Donelson and thus missed the battle of Shiloh, but he rejoined the main army in time to take part in the Siege of Corinth. Here he was detailed as an Aid de Camp to General Henry M. Judah, but was soon transferred to the staff of his old Colonel, who had, in the meantime, become a Brigadier General. Ex- cepting a brief period during which he was attached to the staff of General Michael K. Lawler, he continued on the staff of General Logan as his personal and con- fidential Aid de Camp, until the close of the war. Thus the military history of John A. Logan is substantially the military history of John S. Hoover, the two being so closely associated from the beginning to the end. After the fall of Vicksburg, Logan became Major General and was placed in command of the 15th Army Corps. At this time Hoover was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain, in which rank he served his chief throughout the Atlanta Campaign.
In the Presidential campaign of 1864, Captain Hoover accompanied General Logan in his political tour through Illinois, and after the election the two went to Washington City and called upon President Lincoln. In the meantime the army under General Sherman had reached Savannah, Georgia, where Logan and Hoover joined their old command in time to take part in the campaign through the Carolinas. For gallant service in the Carolinas, Captain Hoover was promoted to the rank of Major. After the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House. Virginia, and the surrender of Johnston's forces in North Carolina. Logan and Hoover marched with the army under General Sherman through Virginia to Washington City and there took part in the grand review of all troops by the President at the close of the war. At this time Major Hoover was promoted
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Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel by brevet for faithful and meritorious service during the Civil War. No soldier from Henry County, Indiana, has a brighter military record than Colonel John Stinson Hoover. He was finally mustered out of the service September 6, 1865.
Colonel Hoover was not the only representative of his family in the war. His father, Samuel Hoover, was connected with the army for some months in the Paymaster's Department, and Frederick, De Witt C., David, Harrison and James M., brothers of John S. Hoover were all in the army as is shown in their respective regiments elsewhere in this history.
For two years after his retirement from the army, Colonel Hoover was a commercial traveler with headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1867 he returned to his old home in Henry County. He engaged in mercantile business first, at Middletown, and then at New Castle, and continued therein until 1872 when he became proprietor of the Taylor House, the leading hotel of the place, which he conducted successfully until 1876. In that year Colonel Hoover disposed of his hotel property and determined to go West and while looking for a location was induced by George Hazzard, the author of this History, who then had large property interests in Nebraska, to go to Hastings, Adams County, that State, a move he has never regretted. There he engaged in the grain trade but in 1878 removed from Hastings to Blue Hill, Webster County, Nebraska. He was one of the earliest settlers of that place where he continued in the grain business, his experience in that line having been altogether satisfactory. Since moving to Blue Hill, Colonel Hoover has represented the counties of Webster, Franklin and Nuckolls in the Nebraska State Senate. He was for a time, also, State Oil Inspector and for six years was postmaster of Blue Hill. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Politically, he has been an active Republican since the organization of the party.
November 7, 1867, at Middletown, Henry County, Indiana, Colonel Hoover was married to a most estimable woman, Louisa F. Lynn, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, and a daughter of George and Ann (Allison) Lynn. To this happy union were born three children, namely: William G., now residing in Kansas City, Missouri; Clara E., now Mrs. B. Koehler of Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska, and Howard L., in business at San Francisco, California. Mrs. Hoover died at Blue Hill, Nebraska, April 23, 1887. Only two members of this branch of the Hoover family are now living in Henry County, to wit, David Hoover, at New Castle, and Leander, in Franklin Township, near Lewisville.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN C. LIVEZEY,
SERGEANT, LIEUTENANT, CAPTAIN, BREVET MAJOR, U. S. V. IN THE CIVIL WAR, AND MERCHANT.
John C. Livezey was born in New Castle, Indiana, August 23, 1842. His ancestors were of old English stock and adherents of the Quaker faith, who came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and settled there at the time of the Penn Treaty. His grandparents were Nathan and Rebecca Livezey to whom were born nine children, six boys and three girls. Nathan, junior, the father of the subject of this sketch, the fifth son, was born in Philadelphia, October 4, 1813, and in his early manhood was there married to Abi Piast.
In 1839, Nathan Livezey, senior, and his wife came to Indiana, bringing their grown sons and daughters with them. The elder Livezey and most of the family settled in Prairie Township, this county, but Nathan, junior, made his home at New Castle, where he continued to live until the day of his death. To Nathan and Abi (Piast) Livezey were born seven children, Rachel, who died in infancy ; John C., the subject of this sketch; William E .; Evaline, now widow of Frank Siders, residing in Tacoma, Washington ; Julia, now Mrs. John R. Harvey, residing in New Castle; Josephine, now Mrs. Edward Kohler, residing in Hyner, Pennsyl- vania, and Nathan, now deceased, all being born in New Castle. John C., as a boy, lived at home and attended school in New Castle until nearly eighteen years of age, when he went to work to learn the carpenter trade under his father, at which he worked steadily until the beginning of the Civil War. The patriotic impulses of the time quickly stirred him to action and he took such a lively interest in the recruiting of what became Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry, and developed such manifest ability in military affairs that he was mustered into the service of the United States, as Sergeant of that company, September 16, 1861. In time, as vacancies occurred in the company, he was made Second Lieutenant and later Captain, and the history of that gallant regiment became his history until he was transferred to a wider field of usefulness in the army, being made Captain and Commissary of Subsistance, March 2, 1864. In this position he was attached to the staff of General William Grose, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Later, he was transferred to the staff of General Joseph G. Knipe, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, then operating in front of Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta, he was made Division Commissary of Subsistance and placed on the staff of General Alpheus C. Williams, commanding a division of the Twentieth Corps, under General Henry W. Slocum. In this position he went through with "Sherman to the Sea." When General Sherman's army started on its victorious march north- ward from Savannah, Georgia, Captain Livezey continued with the same corps through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington City, where he took part in the grand review of the Federal armies held in the Nation's Capital at the close of the war.
From the foregoing it may be readily seen that the experience of Captain Livezey was much more varied than fell to the lot of the ordinary young soldier in the Civil War. From the time of his muster into the service to that historic day.
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April 26, 1865, when General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered, on the fields of North Carolina, the battered remnants of the Confederate armies, Captain Livezey had fulfilled every duty with distinguished credit, and near the close of the war, March 13, 1865, was made a Brevet Major U. S. Volunteers "for gallant and meritorious service."
He resigned from the army July 7, 1865, and returned to his home in New Castle, where he has since resided, wearing the honors of his military service with easy dignity. Soon after his return from the army he engaged in the hardware business and has continued in that business ever since.
On August 27, 1866, he married Mary McCall and to this union were born two children, Gertrude, now Mrs. Charles H. Johnson of New Castle, and Frank, who is now in the hardware business with his father. Mrs. Livezey died March 22, 1900, beloved by her many friends and respected by all who knew her. She was a home woman, devoted to her family and to the domestic virtues.
On May 6, 1902, Major Livezey was united in marriage to Mary P. Waldron of New Castle. Miss Waldron, now Mrs. Livezey, is a native of Maine. Her father was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in a Maine regiment. He came to New Castle with his family in 1883 and here engaged in manufacturing. He lived in New Castle until his death and his widow now makes her home with Major and Mrs. Livezey.
Fraternally, Major Livezey is a member of Fidelity Lodge, No. 59, I. O. O. F., New Castle. He is also a member of the George W. Lennard Post, G. A. R. For nearly twenty years, Major Livezey has been secretary of the regimental association of his old regiment in which he takes great interest, and it is due to his untiring efforts, as secretary, that so many enjoyable reunions of the regiment have been held.
Major and Mrs. Livezey are both consistent members of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, in New Castle. He has never sought public preferment but has been content with devotion to his family and business interests.
His brother, William E. Livezey, who is a resident of New Castle, also entered the army during the Civil War, as Corporal, Company G, 84th Indiana Infantry. He was mustered into the service of the United States, August 10, 1862. Ap- pointed Sergeant and mustered out of the service June 14. 1865.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL VANNOTE TEMPLIN.
PRIVATE, CORPORAL, LIEUTENANT, CAPTAIN, BREVET MAJOR U. S. V. IN THE CIVIL WAR, AND MERCHANT.
The parents of Samuel Vannote Templin were Cyrus K. and Eliza (Lenning- ton) Templin. Cyrus K. was a native of Indiana, having been born in Delaware County, near Blountsville, Henry County, June 6, 1822. Eliza Lennington was also a native of Indiana, having been born near Economy, Wayne County, in the same year. The two were united in marriage in 1842. Mr. Templin, who was a black- smith by trade, moved his family about the year 1845 to the then village of Blountsville where he opened a blacksmith shop and continued to ply his trade.
To this union five children were born, namely : Samuel V., John Henry, James L., Clarinda and Cyrus K. Samuel V. Templin, the oldest child and the subject of this sketch, was born in Delaware County, near Blountsville, June 4, 1844, and was a child of tender years when his parents removed to the last named place. Cyrus K., the father, died at Blountsville, December 22, 1854, and his widow, who survived him many years, died at Losantville, Indiana, October 9, 1898, in her seventy sixth year, while on a visit to her son, Samuel V., at that place. The early death of her husband had left Mrs. Templin with a large family of children to care for and but slender means. Samuel V., the oldest child, was called upon to assume some share of the burden and was thus early accustomed to responsibility and inured to work. His employment during the Summer by the farmers of the neighborhood eked out the scanty means of the family but left him limited oppor- tunities for self improvement. In the Winter, however, he attended the country school and secured such education as the schools of that period afforded. In 1860 he commenced clerking in a store at Blountsville for Thomas R. Stanford, junior, with whom he remained for about a year. In the Spring of 1861 he went to Ashland, Henry County, to clerk for Lycurgus L. Burr, who was then the pro- prietor of a general store in that village, but he was not destined to continue long in that employment. The Civil War had commenced and in August, 1861, he enrolled his name in a company being recruited by Pyrrhus Woodward, George W. Lennard and James W. Connell, of New Castle, which organization became Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry. With this company young Templin was mustered into the service of the United States, as a private, September 16, 1861. He served as a private for more than two years when he was appointed Corporal. then Sergeant and June 24, 1864, was promoted First Lieutenant. The history of the 36th Indiana in all of its marches, skirmishes, campaigns and battles, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and the many battles of the Atlanta Campaign, up to the time of the muster out of the regiment by reason of the expiration of its term of enlistment, September 21, 1864, is the military history of Samuel V. Templin.
His record in the Civil War, however, was not permitted to terminate with the service of his old regiment. The veterans and recruits of the 36th Indiana were gathered together and formed into one company and transferred to the 30th Indiana Infantry, reorganized, and it became Company H of that regiment with Templin as its First Lieutenant. He was selected for this position from all the
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other first lieutenants of the regiment on account of the reputation he had acquired among his superior officers, for soldierly bearing, fidelity to duty and bravery in the face of the enemy. In a short time Lieutenant Templin was detached from his company as Aide de Camp on the staff of Brigadier General William Grose, com- manding the Third Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, and in this capacity was in what was known as the Hood Campaign in Tennessee, during which he participated in the battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, and the battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864. Soon after these engagements with the enemy, Lieutenant Templin received a well merited promotion as Captain and Commissary of Subsistance U. S. V., February 2, 1865. In this capacity he remained on the staff of General Grose until the last of May, 1865. At this period, many of the regiments of the army of the Cumberland were ordered to New Orleans with a view to their early transfer to Texas under General Sheridan in anticipation of trouble between France and the United States on account of Maximilian's occupation of Mexico, and Captain Templin was ordered to report at New Orleans where he was attached to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, commanded by Colonel Isaac C. B. Suman of the 9th Indiana Infantry. Arriving at New Orleans, Captain Templin was transferred with his brigade to Texas, in the vicinity of Indianola. He was in a short time, however, ordered back to New Orleans and from there to his home to await orders. He was finally mustered out of the service in September. 1865. On August 30, 1865, he received his commission as Brevet Major U. S. V., "for gallant and meritorious service" in the Civil War.
Major Templin returned to Blountsville after the war and entered the mer- cantile business there which he continued for three years or more. The venture, however, was not successful and he shortly afterwards went into the sawmill business which he conducted until 1880 when he again embarked in the dry-goods business first at Blountsville, remaining there until 1882, when he removed to Losantville, Randolph County, Indiana, where he has since continued to reside and where he has maintained a large general or department store. This last venture has met with deserved success.
Major Templin was united in marriage with Elizabeth J. Brewington July 26, 1868. She was the daughter of John D. Brewington, an old and highly respected citizen of Blountsville and. a soldier of the Civil War from Henry County, being a member of Company I, 124th Indiana Infantry. He was mustered into the service of the United States March 7, 1864, and mustered out August 31, 1865.
During the time Major Templin was a merchant at Blountsville, he was post- master from May 7, 1867, to December 16, 1869. From his union with Miss Brewington, four children were born, Eva Gertrude, now Mrs. George W. Johnson of Losantville : Clara M., now Mrs. Roy Confare of Logansport, Indiana ; Forest Clyde, in business with his father, and Carl Spencer, who died in early childhood, being the first born child.
At the time of the dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Indianapolis, May 15, 1902, Major Templin was signally honored by his old comrades in arms by being chosen as color bearer of the battle torn flag of the "Old 36th Indiana Infantry" which priceless relic of the time that tried men's
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souls is now on deposit in the State House. That was probably the last time this historic flag will be carried in public.
Much could be said as to the sterling character of Major Samuel Vannote Templin. He was a valiant soldier, loyal to his cause and faithful in duty. His several promotions indicate the estimation in which he was held by his superiors in command. As a private citizen since peace succeeded war, he is no less esteemed. He stands among the representative men of Henry and Randolph Counties and is honored by all. He has carried into his civil life the same qualities that char- acterized him as a soldier, and by his energy and resolution has achieved notable success. In his family relations, he is a devoted husband and father whose family have ever been a chief object of solicitude and care.
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Miles Murphey
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MILES MURPHEY,
PIONEER, MERCHANT, LEGISLATOR, AND COLONEL AND INSPECTOR GENERAL, STATE OF INDIANA, CIVIL WAR .*
Miles Murphey-New Castle. A history of the one would be quite incomplete without a history of the other, their interests being so closely identified and inter- woven.
Miles Murphey was born in North Carolina November 14, 1806, and died at New Castle, February 17, 1882. He came with his father, Miles Murphey, Sr., to Indiana, settling first in Wayne County, near Centreville, where they remained until 1822, and then with the family moved to Henry County, settling on Flat- rock, and as I am credibly informed occupied what is known as the John Payne farm, southeast of New Castle. He came to New Castle in 1828 and from that time until his death, embracing a period of about fifty four years, he went in and out before this people and no man among them all was more highly honored, more loved and respected and whose death was more deeply felt, mourned and deplored.
October 10, 1830, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Carpenter. To them were born Dewitt Clinton Murphey, Mrs. George W. Goodwin and Leander E. Murphey of Chicago, which city has been his residence since 1862. (Since deceased. )
The first born, Dewitt, lost his life when a lad of about seven years of age by being burned to death in a queensware crate with which he and several of his youthful companions were playing and which, while the crate filled with loose straw was turned over him, caught fire. It was the tragic ending of a most promising life. In passing it may be proper here to remark that Mrs. George W. Goodwin is probably the oldest person, now living, born within the corporate limits of New Castle. Others following in their order are Mrs. Robert B. Smith, William H. Murphey and John Thornburgh.
October 30, 1880, Colonel and Mrs. Murphey celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. It was a notable affair in very many respects, but more especially from the fact that the original ceremony was performed by Jacob Thornburgh and the anniversary ceremony by the latter's son, John Thornburgh, who said in part : "Isn't it a lesson? Fifty years ago at about this hour my father, Jacob Thornburgh, a man who was during his brief life honored and respected by all and whose memory is today revered by those who knew him best, united according to the forms of law this venerable, this happy couple, Colonel Miles Murphey and Elizabeth Murphey, who for fifty long and eventful years, have trodden the path of life together. They ought to be happy. Fifty years of married life, continued and joyous, is allotted to but few, and now it seems wonderfully appropriate, indeed it gives the son of his father pleasure unspeakable to, in a manner, confirm the bonds which he so firmly and securely sealed a half century ago. As his repre- sentative I would say, as I know he would say, 'May your wedded life continue for many, many years and no sorrow or distress ever cross your path.'"
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