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John A. Deem, elected in 1882. Served in the Fifty second regular session, 1883.
Henry Marsh, of Hancock County, elected in 1882. Served in the Fifty second reg- ular session, 1883.
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John A. Deem, elected in 1884. Served in the Fifty third regular session, 1885, and in a special session March 10 to April 13, 1885.
Joseph Franklin, of Madison County, elected in 1884. Served in the Fifty third regular session, 1885, and in a special session, March 10 to April 13, 1885.
William A. Brown, elected in 1886. Served in the Fifty fourth regular session, 1887. William Grose, elected in 1886. Served in the Fifty fourth regular session, 1887; district, Henry and Fayette counties. The district continued through the two terms of Jefferson H. Claypool.
William A. Brown, elected in 1888. Served in the Fifty fifth regular session, 1889.
Jefferson H. Claypool, of Fayette County, elected in 1888. Served in the Fifty fifth regular session, 1889.
John M. Morris, elected in 1890. Served in the Fifty sixth regular session, 1891.
Jefferson H. Claypool, of Fayette County, elected in 1890. Served in the Fifty sixth regular session, 1891. There was no joint representative from this district again until 1896, when Francis T. Roots was elected.
Thomas N. White, elected in 1892. Served in the Fifty seventh regular session, 1893.
Erastus L. Elliott, elected in 1894. Served in the Fifty eighth regular session, 1895; re-elected in 1896. Served in the Fifty ninth regular session, 1897.
Francis T. Roots, of Fayette County, elected in 1896. Served in the Fifty ninth regular session, 1897.
George W. Williams, elected in 1898. Served in the Sixtieth regular session, 1899. Benjamin S. Parker, elected in 1900. Served in the Sixty first regular session, 1901.
ยท Otho Williams, elected in 1902. Served in the Sixty second regular session, 1903.
Levi Ulrich, elected in 1904. Served in the Sixty third regular session, 1905.
The last session of the General Assembly, the one which convened in January, 1905, is numbered on the journal of the General Assembly and was referred to generally in the public press as the Sixty fourth regular session. This is an error, and the session last held should be numbered the Sixty third regular session. This error in numbering the sessions has been continuous since 1861 and arose from the fact that the special ses- sion, April 24 to June 2, 1861, was numbered the Forty second regular session, whereas it should have had no number but should have been treated as a special session of the Forty first regular session. In the report of Union B. Hunt, Secretary of State in 1902, page 363, he called attention to this error and attempted to correct it, but notwithstand- ing this the sessions have continued to be erroneously numbered.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Elsewhere in this History will be found hiographical reference to Thomas R. Stan- ford, Elisha Long, Miles Murphey, Jesse H. Healey, Ralph Berkshire, Joel Reed, Isaac Parker, John W. Gruhbs, John Powell, Jesse W. Baldwin, Martin L. Bundy, Joseph Yount, James S. Ferris, Milton Peden, Nathan H. Ballenger, William Grose, Joshua H. Mellett, Charles D. Morgan, David W. Chambers, John R. Millikan, Mark E. Forkner, John A. Deem, William A. Brown, Erastus L. Elliott and Benjamin S. Parker.
The following who have represented Henry County as a part of a joint district in the lower hranch of the General Assembly never lived in Henry County, therefore this History has no concern with their biographies: Thomas Hendricks, Shelby County; William Connor, Hamilton County; Thomas Bell, George F. Chittenden, John O. Har- desty, Joseph T. Smith, Isaac Franklin and Joseph Franklin, Madison County; Henry Marsh, Hancock County; Jefferson H. Claypool and Francis T. Roots, Fayette County.
DAVID MACY. born in North Carolina, December 25, 1810, was one of the early at- torneys of New Castle, coming from Wayne County in 1832, and was very decidedly a man of affairs. During his service as a representative in the General Assembly from Henry County he was a leading advocate of internal improvements then undertaken by the State, such as huilding canals, opening highways across the State, etc. (railroads not then being considered). In 1838 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Sixth Judicial
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District of which Henry County was a part. In 1840 he moved to Lawrenceburg, where he resided until 1852, when he moved to Indianapolis. During his residence in Law- renceburg he was mayor of the city and represented Dearborn County in the General As- sembly. At Indianapolis he formed a law partnership with David McDonald. In 1855 he was elected president of the Indianapolis and Peru railway, now a part of the Lake Erie and Western system. From this time until he retired from active business he gave his attention to railroads and banking. He died May 29, 1892. His only daughter, Caroline, is the wife of Volney T. Malott, a leading banker and very wealthy citizen of Indianap- olis.
RICHARD HENDERSON was a well-known citizen of Greensboro, where he was post- master for nearly ten years, being succeeded in the office by his wife, as is shown in Chapter 1 of this History. He was the father of Isom P., Richard T. and Henry H. Hen- derson, three as gallant soldiers as went from Henry County to the Civil War or as ever wore the uniform of their country. The military record of each of the three is appropriately set out in this History.
ROBERT M. COOPER was a lawyer who lived in Raysville for twenty five years, until his death in 1849. He had a brother named Silas who for many years lived in Ogden and was justice of the peace, notary public, and later an attorney.
DAVID C. SHAWHAN resided in Fall Creek Township, where he was a farmer and general trader and in his day a very active man. He served as County Commissioner from 1837 to 1840.
SIMON SUMMERS was a farmer and leading citizen of Fall Creek Township and a man very highly esteemed. He belonged to the well-known family of that name long so prominent and influential in and around Middletown.
ROBERT I. HUDELSON came from Kentucky and settled first in Rush County just south of Ogden. Later he moved to Ogden, where he lived when he was elected to the General Assembly. He afterward moved to Knightstown, where he lived at the time of his death. He married a daughter of Waitsel M. Cary, original proprietor of Knightstown, and was himself interested in two additions to that town. John Waitsel Hudelson, a soldier of the Civil War in Company A, 57th Indiana Infantry, now living in Knightstown, is his son.
MARBLE S. CAMERON was an enterprising citizen of Knightstown. His three sons, William M., John D. and Joseph B. Cameron, whose service is elsewhere appropriately set out, were soldiers in the Civil War. The first two named are deceased. Joseph B. was deputy treasurer of Henry County under Robert M. Grubbs, is a musician of excel- lent attainment and is now connected with a leading wholesale music honse in Indian- apolis.
SAMUEL COFFIN lived for many years in Stony Creek Township. Late in life he moved to Minnesota, where he died and is buried.
SAMUEL W. STEWART was a pioneer resident of Dudley Township and a leading member of the Society of Friends.
RUSSELL JORDAN resided for a long time about a mile southwest of Blountsville. He was a man of much influence and greatly respected throughout the county. His daughter, Mrs. Erastus Burch, whose husband was a soldier in the Civil War, now lives on the home farm. A son, Anthony W. Jordan, who was also a soldier in the Civil War, lives in Blountsville.
ISAAC H. MORRIS, who was elected under the fusion of 1851, was the only Democrat to represent Henry County since Miles Murphey, then a moderate Democrat, was elected in 1837. He was from Wayne Township, a brother of John Morris, father of John M. Morris, present Judge of the Henry Circuit Court. He was the only member elected from Henry County who died while the legislature was in session.
LUTHER C. MELLETT was a member of the well-known family of that name in Prairie Township. A general biography of the Mellett family will be found elsewhere in this History in a biographical sketch of the late Judge Joshua H. Mellett, who was a brother of Luther C. George W. Woy, who was a soldier in the Civil War, married a daughter of Luther C. Mellett, and Randolph H. Mellett, who served in the navy on a gunboat in the Mississippi River, is a son, who now lives near Denver, Colorado.
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THOMAS S. LINES, commonly called "Uncle Tommy," was a Baptist minister who moved from Fayette County, where he was once sheriff, and settled in the northern part of Prairie Township, about 1850. He served as Treasurer of Henry County in 1873-5, and continued to reside in New Castle for several years thereafter. He then returned to Prairie Township, where he lived until his death. His son, Elijah H., died at home near Luray while a soldier in the Civil War, serving as a private in Company C, 5th Indiana Cavalry, and whose name will be found in the Roll of Honor in this History. Wilson R. and Squire N., sons of Elijah H. Lines, reside in the village of Messick and each has served as postmaster there. The first-named is a well-known stock buyer, the other is the merchant of the village.
JOHN HEDRICK lived in Franklin Township, three miles northwest of Lewisville, where the family has been prominent for many years. Soon after serving in the Gen- eral Assembly he moved to Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska, where he became a merchant and took an active part in politics. He died and is buried there.
ADDISON R. A. THOMPSON lived for many years on a farm immediately south of Blountsville. He was a large landholder in Henry, Wayne and Randolph counties and was possessed of much personal property; indeed he was considered one of the wealthy men of the county. During the Civil War, he was very active in support of the State and National governments and as a token of his admiration for the great war governor he named his son, Oliver P. Morton Thompson. This son inherited largely of his father's property but died soon after his father passed away. A son of Oliver P. M. Thompson now lives on the old home farm above mentioned. About 1870 Mr. Thompson became dissatisfied with the Republican party and joined the Granger and Greenback movements in which he was very active. In a fusion of the Democrats and other elements opposed to the Republican party he was elected to the General Assembly. Exum Saint, a lawyer in New Castle, can be classed politically with Mr. Thompson. Neither of them can be designated a Democrat.
CHARLES S. HUBBARD has exemplified throughout his long and useful career the value of time carefully spent and of well directed ambition, that has made that part of the great world in which he bas lived the better, happier and more prosperous for his being a part of it. Born in Milton, Wayne County, Indiana, September 1, 1829, the second of twelve children of Richard and Sarah (Swain) Hubbard, although bereft from birth of a right hand, the indomitable will that has characterized his life early displayed itself, so that from the age of ten years when with his parents he came to Henry County and located just east of Knightstown he has steadfastly and courageously carried out his carefully planned determination to prosper and be of benefit to mankind. Notwithstand- ing the infirmity spoken of he was able as a boy to plow, chop wood and do almost all kinds of work on the farm. This same energy enabled him to acquire a fair education and by teaching school in the Winter months he earned enough money to enter the Friends' boarding school, now Earlham College, Richmond, where he remained for three terms, at the end of which he entered his father's store in Raysville as a clerk. Later he purchased his father's interest in the store and conducted the business until 1862 when he sold out and retired. A year later he and Timothy Harrison, of Richmond, opened a dry goods store in Knightstown, and for several years they did a large and successful business. He was for four years one of the trustees of the Soldiers' and Sail- ors' Orphans' Home, a State institution about two miles south of Knightstown. In 1868 as one of the board of managers of Earlham College, he canvassed several States and raised a large sum of money as an endowment fund for that institute of learning. He was for a number of years one of the directors of the First National Bank of Knights- town. While a member of the General Assembly, he procured the passage of a bill pro- viding a home for feeble minded children of the State and locating it in connection with the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home above mentioned, which has since been de- tached, moved to Fort Wayne and much enlarged. He has for a great many years been active and indefatigable in church and Sunday school work, a life-long member of the Society of Friends and for a number of years was a minister in that church. Since 1890 he has been vice-president and organizing agent of the American Humane Education
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Society of Boston, Massachusetts. It is his duty to travel and organize humane societies and bands of mercy among the children in the public schools. In this capacity he has traveled throughout all New England, every State in the South except Florida, and gen- erally throughout the West. The brick residence that he now occupies in Raysville was built by him forty seven years ago and he has occupied it continuously ever since. Mr. Hubbard had four brothers in the Civil War-Henry, Edwin, George and Joseph B. The military record of all of them is appropriately set out in this History. Henry was killed in battle and his name and the circumstances of his death will be found in the Roll of Honor.
Mr. Hubbard was married in November, 1850, to Martha, daughter of Toms and Millicent White, of Washington County, Indiana. Two sons and four daughters were born to them: Francis T., born January 9, 1852, now in the railway mail service and residing at Benton Harbor, Michigan: Mary Alice, born January 6, 1854, now Mrs. Mat- thew S. Lowden, of Dakota City, Iowa; Ellen. born May 31, 1856, a most accomplished stenographer holding a position with the Drainage Board in Chicago at a salary of $1,200 a year; Henry, born February 26, 1865, died in infancy; Elizabeth T., born December 8, 1868, residing at home with her parents; Estella H., horn March 20, 1870, now the wife of Aubrey C. Wilkinson, who is associated in business in Knightstown with his father, Thomas B. Wilkinson. Mr. Hubbard has seven grandchildren and two great grandchil- dren living, the latter being the grandchildren of his son, Francis T.
WILLIAM M. BARTLETT was born May 15, 1826, in Clermont County, Ohio, of sturdy English-Scottish stock. In 1839 he came with his parents to Milroy, Rush County, Indi- ana: Here making the most of his meagre opportunities he acquired a fair education. He taught school for a time and at the age of eighteen began the study of medicine and in 1847 "hung out his shingle" in Raleigh, Rush County. There on April 20, 1848, he was married to Elizabeth J. Shepler, born October 2, 1832. They were the parents of six children, namely: Laura, now of Indianapolis, widow of Thomas W. Hall, a former prominent business man of Lewisville, whose remains are buried in the cemetery there; Rebecca. who died at the age of six years; Claudius G., one of the leading physicians of Lewisville; Hala ( Bartlett ) Cortelyow, of Bentonville, Fayette County, who has three children, Laura, Rilla and Helen: Andrew C., who married Sebbie M. Wood, of Richmond, and who was at the time of his death, July 10, 1904, a successful physician of New Cas- tle; James A., a prominent farmer of Franklin Township, who married Jennie Vernon, of Lewisville; they have one son, Claude M., who is assistant cashier of the First Na- tional Bank of Lewisville, and two daughters, Maude and Hazel Fern; William E. is the youngest son. Dr. William M. Bartlett moved from Rush County to Lewisville in 1864 and continued the practise of medicine. He built up a large practise and was not only one of the most successful medical practitioners of the county but also a man who had great influence in molding public opinion on all questions affecting local, State and Na- tional interests. He was a very liberal man, but believed also in accumulating a suffi- ciency of this world's goods to provide for the proverbial rainy day and at the time of his death which occurred May 26, 1892, he was possessed of several hundred acres of fine farming land in addition to other valuable property. His wife died April 13, 1898, and their remains rest in the cemetery at Raleigh, Rush County, five miles south of Lewisville.
THOMAS N. WHITE was born in North Carolina October 25, 1818. He became an orphan at an early age and came with an elder brother to Henry County in 1832. He re- mained with his brother for many years and about the age of twenty one years began to farm on his own account. In 1843 he bought the farm in Franklin Township on which he resided at the time of his death, April 2, 1899. He was married April 25, 1844, to Lydia Parker, a daughter of Robert and Marian (Bell) Parker, who were among the early settlers of Wayne County, where Mrs. White was born April 15, 1827. Eleven children were born to them-Maria J., deceased; Mary A., widow of Professor William W. White, now living in Germantown, Pennsylvania; Alpheus E., who lives on the old home farm; Esther A., married to Professor George White, but is now deceased; Robert A., a farmer living one mile northeast of Lewisville; David O., a farmer living in Han-
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cock County; Rebecca E., deceased; Dora, now Mrs. Absalom Knight, living in Oklahoma Territory; Thomas W., a farmer living two miles northeast of Lewisville; Edward N., a farmer living two miles northwest of New Castle; one child died in infancy. Mr. White was industrious and methodical and was held in high regard throughout the county. He gave the same intelligent and honest care to all affairs of the people when serving in an official capacity that he rigidly adhered to in private life. He served as county commissioner for six years, as is shown under the head of County Commissioners in the preceding chapter. Thomas N. and Lydia (Parker) White were members of the Society of Friends. The latter died November 15, 1898. Both are buried in Rich Square Cemetery, in Franklin Township.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS was born on a farm near Cleveland, Hancock County, October 14. 1846. His father, Richard Williams, was a substantial pioneer farmer of that county who died when the son was but three years old, leaving the early education and training of the latter to the pious and gentle though firm and thorough care of the mother, and it was largely through her tender and solicitous guardianship that he received that moral training which has remained as his guiding star through life. He was educated in the common schools of Greenfield and Knightstown with a year's course in the high school. At the age of seventeen he was a teacher in a district school and for about ten years thereafter devoted the Summer months to farming and the Winter time to teaching. He married, in 1869, Sarah E. Barnett, of Knightstown. In 1872, in partnership with his brother, Ellison Williams, and his mother's brother, John O. Hatfield, he engaged in the mercantile business in Knightstown. This establishment he has continued with chang- ing partnership, up to the present time. The firm now consists of himself and two sons, Charles and Edward B. Williams. They do a large retail business. amounting in vol- ume to at least seventy five thousand dollars a year and have occupied one location, the southeast corner of Main and Jefferson streets in Knightstown since 1872. Recently in consequence of fire destroying the old building, a new and modern structure to accommo- date the growing trade of the firm has taken its place.
OTHO WILLIAMS was born and reared in Wayne County. He early embraced the re- ligious faith commonly known as the Disciples or Christians, formerly called Campbell- ites, of which denomination he became a minister, preaching at Mooreland and perhaps at other points in the county. After his election to the General Assembly he took up his residence in New Castle, but in the Fall of 1904 he moved to New Mexico, where he now resides.
LEVI ULRICH, present incumbent, is a well-known citizen and business man of Greensboro.
SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, TERRITORIAL AND STATE.
TERRITORIAL-DATE OF MEETING.
First session at Saint Vincennes, January 12, 1801; Second, at Saint Vincennes, January 30, 1802; Third, at Saint Vincennes, February 16, 1803; Fourth, (data not ob- tainable) ; Fifth, at Borough of Vincennes. July 29, 1805; Sixth, at Borough of Vincennes, November 3, 1806: Seventh, (data not obtainable); Eighth, at Town of Vincennes, Sep- tember 26, 1808: Ninth, (data not obtainable) ; Tenth, at Town of Vincennes, November 12, 1810; Eleventh. at Town of Vincennes, November 11, 1811; Twelfth, at Town of Vin-
cennes, 1812; Thirteenth, at Town of Vincennes, February 12, 1813; ad- journed meeting at Corydon, December 6. 1813; Fourteenth, at Corydon in August, 1814; Fifteenth, at Corydon, December 4, 1815.
GENERAL AND SPECIAL SESSIONS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1816.
The sessions from the first to the eighth, inclusive, were held at Corydon; all other sessions were held at Indianapolis. All dates are inclusive.
First session, November 4, 1816, to January 3, 1817; Second, December 1, 1817, to January 29, 1818; Third, December 7, 1818, to January 2, 1819; Fourth, December 6,
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1819, to January 22, 1820; Fifth, November 27, 1820, to January 9, 1821; Sixth, Novem- ber 19, 1821, to January 3, 1822; Seventh, December 22, 1822, to January 11, 1823; Eighth, December 1, 1823, to January 31, 1824; Ninth, January 10, 1825, to February 12, 1825; Tenth, December 5, 1825, to January 21, 1826; Eleventh, December 4, 1826, to January 7, 1827; Twelfth, December 3, 1827, to January 24, 1828; Thirteenth, December 1, 1828, to January 24, 1829; Fourteenth, December 7, 1829, to January 30, 1830; Fifteenth, De- cember 6, 1830, to February 10, 1831; Sixteenth, December 5, 1831, to February 3, 1832; Seventeenth, December 3, 1832, to February 4, 1833; Eighteenth, December 2, 1833, to February 3, 1834; Nineteenth, December 1, 1834, to February 9, 1835; Twentieth, De- cember 7, 1835, to February 8, 1836; Twenty first, December 5, 1836, to February 6, 1837; Twenty second, December 4, 1837, to February 19, 1838; Twenty third, December 3, 1838. to February 16, 1839; Twenty fourth, December 2, 1839, to February 24, 1840; Twenty fifth, December 7, 1840, to February 15, 1841; Twenty sixth, December 6, 1841, to Janu- ary 31, 1842; Twenty seventh, December 5, 1842, to February 13, 1843; Twenty eighth, December 4, 1843, to January 15, 1844; Twenty ninth, December 2, 1844, to January 13, 1845; Thirtieth, December 1, 1845, to January 20, 1846; Thirty first, December 7, 1846, to January 28, 1847; Thirty second, December 6, 1847, to February 17, 1848: Thirty third, December 4, 1848. to January 5, 1849; Thirty fourth, December 3, 1849, to January 21, 1850: Thirty fifth, December 3, 1850, to February 14, 1851: Thirty sixth, December 1. 1851, to June 21, 1852. As this was the last session preceding the adoption of the new constitution it was probably prolonged on that account.
REGULAR SESSIONS UNDER PRESENT CONSTITUTION.
Thirty seventh session, January 6, 1853, to March 7, 1853; Thirty eighth, January 4, 1855, to March 5, 1855; Thirty ninth, January 8, 1857, to March 9, 1857; Fortieth, January 6, 1859, to March 7, 1859; Forty first, January 10, 1861, to March 11, 1861; Forty 'second, January 8. 1863, to March 9, 1863; Forty third, January 5, 1865, to March 6, 1865; Forty fourth, January 10, 1867, to March 11, 1867; Forty fifth, January 7, 1869, to March 8. 1869; Forty sixth, January 5, 1871, to February 27, 1871; Forty seventh, January 9, 1873, to March 10, 1873; Forty eighth, January 7, 1875, to March 8, 1875; Forty ninth, January 4, 1877. to March 5, 1877; Fiftieth, January 9, 1879, to March 10, 1879; Fifty first, Janu- ary 6, 1881, to March 7, 1881; Fifty second, January 4, 1883. to March 5, 1883; Fifty third, January 8, 1885, to March 9, 1885; Fifty fourth, January 6, 1887, to March 7 ,1887; Fifty fifth, January 10, 1889, to March 11, 1889; Fifty sixth, January 8, 1891, to March 9, 1891; Fifty seventh, January 5, 1893, to March 6, 1893; Fifty eighth, January 10, 1895, to March 11, 1895; Fifty ninth, January 9, 1897, to March 8, 1897; Sixtieth, January 5, 1899, to March 6, 1899; Sixty first, January 10, 1901, to March 11, 1901; Sixty second, January 8, 1903, to March 9, 1903; Sixty third, January 5, 1905, to March 6, 1905.
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