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The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Newby: Harlan D., of Hamilton county ; Charlie died when six years old ; William lives in Sheridan, Indiana ; Blanche, Bertha, John, Edith and Ethel are all at home.
Politically, Mr. Newby is a Republican. While living in Nebraska he served as road supervisor for two years, also served two years in this capacity in Marion township, Boone county, giving eminent satisfaction in both instances.
JAMES B. MOORE.
The history of Boone county reveals the handiwork of many a noble worker who wrought heroically and unselfishly. Her smiling fields and splen- did homes, her high-grade institutions, her happy prospering people speak volumes of someone's strength of arm, courage of heart, activity of brain- of someone's sacrifice. But time, that grim obliterator before whose destroy- ing fingers even the stubborn granite must, in the end succumb, is ever at his work of disintegration. Beneath his blighting touch even memory fails, and too often a life of glorious achievement is forgotten in a day. Lest we for- get, then, this tribute to James B. Moore and his family is penned. Pioneer, successful tiller of the soil and public-spirited citizen, a courageous, kindly, generous man, it is the desire of the biographer, as it must be of all who know
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him, that his deeds and his character be recorded for the benefit of those who follow after. By no means rich, as worldly possessions are estimated, he is rich in a thousand thronging memories of the rugged days long passed.
Mr. Moore was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, July 18, 1831. He is a son of Peter and Rachel (Morris) Moore. The father was born in North Carolina and the mother in New Jersey. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Morris, was a native of Ireland and the maternal grandmother, Eliza- beth Morris, was a native of New Jersey. The paternal grandparents, Jacob and Mary Ann (Stegerwault) Moore, were natives of Pennsylvania. They were all early settlers in Dearborn county, Indiana. Grandfather Moore died in 1833 of cholera, and later his widow located in Boone county where her death occurred. About 1837, grandfather Morris brought his family to Boone county and here he and his wife both died. Peter Moore and wife, parents of our subject, were married in Dearborn county, Indiana and in 1836 removed to Boone county, locating in Marion township, where Mr. Moore entered one hundred and sixty acres from the government. It was wild land, heavily timbered. He erected a log cabin on the same and cleared and placed many acres under cultivation, enduring the hardships of the usual pioneer, but he was a hard worker and nothing daunted him. Here his death occurred in 1860, his wife having preceded him to the grave in August, 1842. They were the parents of seven children, three of whom are living at this writing, James B., of this review, is the oldest ; George lives in Indianapolis, Indiana ; William W. resides in Alvin, Texas.
James B. Moore grew to manhood on the home farm where he worked liard when a boy, assisting his father clear and develop the home place. He received such education as the old-time schools, taught in log school houses afforded. He remained with his parents until his marriage on October 31. 1873 to Nancy Ann Scott, a native of Boone county, and a daughter of Harvey and Russie (Hickerson) Scott, natives of Kentucky, from which state they came to Boone county, Indiana, when young and here they were married.
After his marriage Mr. Moore located on forty acres, twenty-five acres of which was cleared, of land he had purchased in Marion township, this county. Here he resided about six years, getting a good start in life, then traded his farm to his sister for a part of the homestead, on which he moved and where he has since resided. He later purchased forty acres additional of
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the old home place from his sister. He has it all under cultivation, except some scattering timber which he has in pasture. He has been very successful as a general farmer, and is making a specialty of raising Poland-China hogs, Jersey cows and a good grade of horses .. He continued hard and active work up to 1898, since which time he has done little more than merely oversee his farm, leaving the actual work on his son. He has the following children : Joseph H. is living in Marion township; Charles E., who conducts the home farm is married and has a daughter, and the family lives with our subject and wife, constituting a mutually helpful and happy household.
Politically, Mr. Moore is a Republican, and in religions matters belongs to the Methodist Protestant church.
THOMAS J. JONES.
The well-known citizen whose name appears above is an excellent repre- sentative of the better class of retired farmers of Indiana. Mr. Jones comes from an ancestry that distinguished itself in pioneer times, he himself being a pioneer. When northern Indiana was covered with an almost interminable forest of large trees and the woods filled with wild animals, his people in- vaded the wilderness in this section of the state and began to carve a home from the primeval forests, assisted in building schools and churches, and in many ways did their part in helping to introduce the customs of civilization in the wilderness. They were sterling frontiersmen, willing to take the hardships and endure the privations in order that they might acquire the soil and the home that was sure to rise. It has been just such spirit that has caused the great West to be reclaimed and utilized, as told in Theodore Roosevelt's interesting work on "The Winning of the West."
Thomas J. Jones, a successful farmer of Marion township, Boone county, was born in Rush county, Indiana, May 18, 1838. He is a son of Benjamin and Hannah (Snelling) Jones, both natives of Kentucky, where they grew to maturity and were married, and from there they moved to Rush county, Indiana, in 1822, where Mr. Jones entered land from the govern- ment, which was heavily timbered, but he set to work with a will and cleared and improved one hundred and sixty acres of good land. This he farmed
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until 1848 when he sold out and the following year moved to Marion town- ship, Boone county, where he bought a 'partly improved farm. Here he prospered and added to his original purchase until he had a valuable place consisting of four hundred acres and there he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, becoming known through their industry and fine personal traits as leading citizens of the township.
Thomas J. Jones of this review, was the tenth child of a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, only three of whom are living at this writing. Our subject grew to manhood on the home farm and his wife at- tended the first school taught in the present district, No. 6, as it is now desig- nated. This was in 1854 and in a log cabin, formerly used as a residence, which stood opposite our subject's present home, on the north across the road. After his father broke up housekeeping our subject worked out by the day and month for a period of years. On September 19, 1861 he married Martha J. Bell, of Rush county, Indiana, a daughter of Robert and Mary J. (Moore) Bell, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. After his marriage Mr. Jones moved to a forty acre timbered tract in section 12, Marion township. He soon cleared a space and erected a log cabin. He worked hard and managed well, cleared and improved his land, adding to his original holdings as he prospered until he at one time owned a valuable farm of two hundred and thirty acres, all of which he improved. Having given considerable land to his children, he now owns but one hundred and three acres. He has a commodious home and substantial outbuildings and has one of the choice farms of the township. He has accumulated a com- petency through his close application and excellent management and has lived retired since 1903.
Mr. Jones is a Democrat, and in religious matters is a Primitive Baptist. He was liberated to preach the gospel in 1874, and ordained to the full func- tions of the Gospel ministry in 1876. From that date up to the present date, he has been a pastor of Antioch church of Marion township, and has been the pastor of from one to three other churches in Indiana. He has traveled and preached through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and West Virginia, doing a great amount of good and setting a worthy ex- ample before the younger generation. He is one of the useful and highly esteemed men of his township. His home is known as a place of old-time hospitality to the many friends of the family and Primitive Baptists.
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The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones: Jonathan M., deceased; Elizabeth Ellen, age forty-nine at home with her parents; Mary C., deceased; Nancy Margaret, wife of R. L. Jarrett; Benjamin R., deceased; Franklin C; Millie A. is the wife of Raleigh H. Cox, of Marion township; Emma Olive died when sixteen years of age.
EDGAR W. DAVIS.
There has been developed in recent years a new kind of business man. We now have the expert in business methods. Men are finding employment at large salaries who go into business houses or concerns previously unknown to them and after making a thorough study of the bookkeeping, cost of pro- duction and of selling and the general methods employed in the establish- ment, make recommendations for their improvement. When successful business men, manufacturers and financiers recognize the value of outside and scientific knowledge applied to their special lines of business, it is indeed time the farmer began to recognize and appreciate the help which it is pos- sible for him to obtain from the scientific facts and principles underlying his methods and practice. One of the wide-awake and careful twentieth cen- tury agriculturists and stock men of Eagle township, Boone county, who never loses an opportunity to seize and apply a helpful idea to his chosen vocation, is Edgar W. Davis, and as a result of his vigilance, close observa- tion and industry, he has made a pronounced success on his fine Sunny Side farm.
Mr. Davis was born in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, November 24, 1856, on a farnı, and he is the son of John W. Davis, who was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, who was a son of Bela Davis, a pioneer of Wisconsin, who was also a native of Massachusetts. John W. Davis mar- ried Harriet Stever of Trumbull county, Ohio. She was of Mohawk Dutch or Holland ancestry. Five children were born to John W. Davis and wife, namely : Edgar W., of Zionsville, Indiana ; Calvert J., of Denver, Colorado; Robert H., who died in September, 1884; John R. is a locomotive engineer on the Belt railroad, Indianapolis, Indiana; James B., one of the well known life insurance men of the United States is superintendent of the Metropolitan
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Life Insurance Company. The father of these children who devoted his life successfully to farming, now seventy-nine years of age, lives in Indianapolis with his son, John R. Davis. On February 20, 1911, the mother passed to her rest at the age of seventy-three years. They were excellent people and worthy members of the Methodist church.
Edgar W. Davis was reared on the home farm and educated in the dis- trict schools, however most of his education has been obtained by contact with the world at large. He entered the railroad service at the age of twenty years and has railroaded continuously since that time. He began with the Big Four Railroad Company, on January 10, 1876, and is one of the pioneer engineers in Indiana, having remained thirty-seven years with the above named company, during which time he was regarded as one of their most faithful and trusted employees; always known as a careful, thoughtful, conscientious and able man where his duties were required, and he had few accidents, and he ranks fifth in point of years of service with that road. He began working in the roundhouse as helper, then became fireman and eventually engineer, and no man in the state has a better record as engineer than he. He was never reduced or "laid off" for mistakes or faults, as is so often the case with railroad men. Thirty-three years out of the thirty-seven were spent as engineer.
Mr. Davis was married December 30, 1878, to Susie D. Allen, a woman of many praiseworthy characteristics, and a native of Decatur county, Indi- ana. She is a daughter of John and Anna Allen. Mr. Davis has lived in Indiana thirty-seven years. Seven years ago he purchased thirty-three and one-half acres of rich bottom land in Eagle township, and here he is spending his declining years in quiet and comfort in his cozy home which is appro- priately called Sunny Side, which is in the midst of beautiful surroundings. He farms his little place scientifically, although not on so large a scale as many of his neighbors. He keeps a high grade of Jersey cows and Plymouth Rock chickens.
Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Davis, namely: Anna E. is the wife of C. A. Mills, of Indianapolis ; Lillie Susie is the wife of H. B. Dynes, also of Indianapolis; Mary E. is at home with her father; Leonard W. is at home ; Lorin Albert is at home; Edgar died in infancy. The wife and mother was called to her rest at the age of fifty-five years on May 18, 1913. She has been a very faithful helpmeet and was a kind mother and a good
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neighbor, whom everybody esteemed. She was praised by her many friends for her beautiful christian character.
Politically, Mr. Davis is a Republican. He belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Lodge No. 492, at Indianapolis, in which he has been active. He is one of the best known railroad men in this section of the state and, being a genial, companionable gentleman has an exceptionally wide circle of friends.
WILLIAM N. LEMON.
A system of grain farming, when not much live stock is kept, depletes the supply of fertility in the soil. It has been proven that such a system of farming cannot be continued, because the yields will eventually fail to pay expenses and the interest on the investment. When all crops are fed on the farm and only the live stock is sold, there will be only a small loss in fertility each year if all the natural fertilizing material is returned carefully to the fields. The farmer must learn in Indiana, the same as they have learned in some of the older eastern states to conserve the fertility of the soil if perman- ent success is to be obtained. It is as necessary for him to do this, as it is for the manufacturer to keep the machinery and system of organization in his factory at its highest point of efficiency. If he does not do this, he can- not hope to succeed permanently. One of the well-known and successful agriculturists of Boone county who clearly understands the necessity and manner of conserving the original strength of the soil is William N. Lemon, proprietor of Maple Leaf Farm in Eagle township.
Mr. Lemon was born September 12, 1836, in a log house on the banks of a stream known as Fishback, and is a true product of pioneer days. . He is a son of William Lemon, who was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, and was a son of James Lemon, also a native of that county and state, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving under Washington. He spent his life in the Old Dominion, and in that state William Lemon grew to manhood and married Harriet Pitzer, a daughter of Roger Pitzer, also a native of Virginia, and a soldier under Washington in the patriot army. To William Lemon and wife eight children were born. In a very early day they made the long overland journey with two wagons and teams from their native state
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to Indiana, in 1832, when the country was a veritable wilderness. They located in Johnson county where they spent the winter and in the spring of 1833 they moved to Boone county where they began life in typical pioneer fashion and established a home by dint of hard toil. Only two of their chil- dren were born in Virginia and came with them to the Hoosier state; they were Mrs. Elvira Irwin, still living near Ontario, Wisconsin; Mr. Andrew Lemon, a physician, now deceased. Those born after they came to this state were Mary Elizabeth, who died in infancy ; Mrs. Sarah Shaw, deceased ; William N., of this review; Mrs. Emaline Turner, deceased; Mrs. Adelade Threewits is deceased : John Wesley, deceased. The father of these children was a robust man physically and a successful farmer, owning two hundred and forty acres of good land in Boone county, and was a large stock raiser and prominent man in his day in that locality. He built a substantial resi- dence on his place in 1857. His death occurred at the age of seventy-eight years, his widow having died nine years before at the age of sixty-four.
William N. Lemon, of this sketch, grew to manhood on the home farm, and helped with the work when a boy. He received the usual education of those early day schools. In 1860 he married Mary Bender, a native of But- ler county, Ohio, and a daughter of Peter and Mary Bender. Her father lived to be ninety-three years old and her mother eighty-six years old.
Our subject lives on the old homestead which consists of one hundred and thirty-four acres, which he has kept in splendid improvements and under a high state of cultivation and has been very successful as a general farmer and stock man. He now occupies the old colonial style home built by his father.
To our subject and wife nine children have been born, two of whom died in childhood ; they were named Elizabeth and Clementine. Those who grew up were: John B., of Eagle township; William E. lives in Cascade, Mon- tana : Jesse F. lives in Eagle township: James R. also lives in this township; Mary H. is the wife of Milton Wiesehan, of Zionsville, Indiana : Charles W., is telegraph operator in Cascade, Montana; Helen N. is keeping house for her father. The mother of the above named children departed from this life September 23, 1912 at the age of seventy-five years. She was a kind mother, a faithful helpmeet and an exceptionally good Christian. She was a very efficient member of the Womans Christian Temperance Union and the Methodist church.
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Politically, Mr. Lemon is a Republican. He is well known and highly respected throughout the county, and has made a success in life through his- individual efforts.
IRVIN T. HUCKELBERRY.
Many years have elapsed since Irvin T. Huckelberry, well-known and highly respected citizen of Eagle township, took up his residence in Boone county, and it is due entirely to his assiduous efforts and undaunted ambition that he has here gained such signal success, having begun life under none too favorable auspices. He is one of our honored veterans of the great army that saved the nation a half century ago, and this is one of the numerous reasons that we are glad to give him special mention herein.
Mr. Huckelberry was born September 4, 1844, in Clark county. He is a son of Nathaniel Huckelberry, a native of Clark county, Indiana, who was a son of Jacob Huckelberry. This is an old Virginia family of German ancestry. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Ramsey before her marriage,, and she was a native of Tennessee, and a daughter of Joshua Ramsey, also a native of that state. His father was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, serving under Washington. The parents of our subject came to Indiana in 1820, and located on a farm. The father died at the age of sixty-one years in Boone county, where he came in 1861. The death of the mother occurred in 1849. Only two children were born to them, Irvin T., of this sketch, and F. M., of Olney, Illinois, who was a soldier in the Union army, serving in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer In- fantry. Politically, the father was a Republican and he belonged to the Methodist church.
Our subject was only six years old when his mother died. He was reared on the farm and received the usual education of those early days. Although but a boy when the great war between the states began he proved his courage and bravery by enlisting on August 11, 1861 in Company H, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and he served most gallantly in numerous campaigns in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, taking part in many battles and skirmishes, and was honorably dis- charged September 24, 1865, after which he returned home and engaged in
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farming. On February 10, 1870, he married Margaret A. Byers, a native of Rush county, Indiana, where she was reared and educated. She is a daugh- ter of William Byers, a native of Virginia, where the family had long re- sided. Four children have been born to our subject and wife, three of whom died in infancy, Myrtle, Eva May and Nancy P .; Imo G. is the wife of James O. Lutz, a well-known farmer near Zionsville.
Politically, Mr. Huckelberry is a Republican, and he and his family are members of the Baptist church. The wife of our subject died January 19, 1911 at the age of sixty-four years. She was a woman of beautiful Christian character and was a faithful helpmate, was greatly beloved by a wide circle of friends. Mr. Huckelberry is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, Boone Post No. 202 at Zionsville, in which he has long been active and influential. Their splendid hall was built in 1861. Our subject has held various offices in the local post. He came to Boone county in 1861, where he has since resided and has made a pronounced success as a general farmer.
SAMUEL BERKLEY LANE.
There are many reasons why we should be as careful to conserve and put vegetable matter in the soil, looking to its fertility, if we be farmers. Soil consists simply of pulverized rocks, which contain the mineral matter that plants call for in their growth, and decayed vegetable matter. One is needed practically as much as the other. The vegetable material is needed to lighten up the particles of soil so they will not pack and shut out sun and air, which all plant growth requires as much as moisture and plant-food. Without vegetable matter in our soils they get hard in dry times and sodden in wet seasons. Something must separate these soil particles. This can be done by proper cultivation, and yet, only in an imperfect manner. One of the progressive farmers of Eagle township, Boone county who understands this and other problems of the modern phases of agriculture is Samuel Berk- ley Lane, a representative of one of our old pioneer families. He was born on the old Lane homestead where he now lives, two and one-half miles north of Zionsville, March 1, 1842. He is a son of William E. Lane, who was born in Nelson county, Kentucky, July 7, 1807, and was a son of Thomas
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Lane who was born in Highlands of Scotland, of noble ancestors, who were prominent in the early wars of Scotland. He emigrated to the United States in an early day and served seven years in the Revolutionary war under Washington. In one battle he was severely wounded on the body and arm by a sword thrust. He lived in Pennsylvania. He married Anna Ellis who was born in Scotland. William E. Lane was reared in Kentucky and there he married Elizabeth Simpson, a daughter of Thomas Simpson. She was a cousin of Gen. U. S. Grant, whose mother was a Simpson. Thomas Simp- son was a Scotchman and also served seven years in the Revolutionary war, in which he too, was wounded. He later came to Kentucky among its first settlers. William E. Lane was a great hunter in his earlier years. His family consisted of the following children: Abigail died in early life; Sarah A., was born May 22, 1832; Thomas Hayden was born May 26, 1833 and died in Emporia, Kansas, April 1, 1895; Liebding was born January 20, 1835, and died January 12, 1857: Malinda Ellen was born March 3, 1836 and died December 19, 1912; Milton was born August 14, 1837 and died September 16, 1889 in Lincoln, Nebraska: William C. was born May 25, 1839 and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska ; John W. was born February 4, 1841 and died in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 10, 1907; Isaac N. was born March I, 1842 and died June 13, 1913, on the home farm .. He was an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal church for forty years. Nelson J. Lane was born May 25, 1839 and died April 27, 1851 ; Samuel B. was born March 1, 1842, and is the twin brother of Isaac N. The father of our subject died at the advanced age of eighty-four years in 1892. The death of the mother occurred March 28, 1879.
Samuel B. Lane grew up on the home farm and he received his educa- tion in the public schools. He taught school for a period of twenty years with much satisfaction to all concerned. When the Civil war came on he enlisted in 1862 in Company I, Forty-second Infantry and served faithfully in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. from Atlanta to Savannah, thence north into the Carolinas. He has been engaged in farming since 1876, and has lived on the home place since 1866, which he has kept well improved and under a high state of cultivation. He has made a success as a general farmer and stock raiser. The place con- sists of one hundred and thirty-one acres, and is one of the desirable farms
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