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successful in its choice of men to fill this ardnous and often dis- agreeable position as it has been in the selection of Mr. Gregg.
Hiram Gregg was born in Warren County, Ohio, on the 20th day of December, 1828, his father, William Gregg, being of Irish descent, and his mother, Susannah (Millard) Gregg, of Quaker lineage, and a native of Pennsylvania. In November, 1853, he emigrated from Ohio to the Hoosier State, taking up his residence originally in Deer Creek Township, whence, in 1863. he removed to his present home, in Rock Creek Township. In occupation he is a farmer, owning and managing with skill one of the best farms in his township. In 1852, on the 29th day of December. he was joined in marriage, at Dayton, Ohio, to Amanda E. Crosley, a native of Montgomery County, in that State. Six children -Emma J. (wife of I. L. Groniger), William C., John H., Lewis F., Kelly S .. Della F .- have been born of this union.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Rockfield Lodge, I. O. O. F., and in the course of his membership has filled all the chairs of the subordinate lodge of that order, and in the Grand Lodge of Indiana, in 1872, he represented the Rockfield Chapter.
Mr. Gregg had not the fortune of a school education, yet he possesses the intelligence of a self-made man-an intelligence ac- quired by reading and mixing with inen of recognized ability.
In disposition he is somewhat retiring, shunning and dislik. ing notoriety. In his own community, he is thoroughly respected as a citizen and companion. In his dealing with men he is straightforward and manly. No better or more desirable man resides in Rock Creek Township.
JOHN C. GREGG.
Among the sturdy. reputable citizens of Rock Creek Township. no one claims a greater share of neighborly confidence or com- mands greater respect for a life of industry and integrity than the subject of this biographical sketch. John C. Gregg is the son of Aaron Gregg and Elizabeth (Milard) Gregg, and was born in Deer Creek Township. Carroll County, Ind., on the 6th day of March, 1838. His mother, who was a sister of the mother of Hiram Gregg. was a native of Pennsylvania, of the Quaker per- suasion, and his father, who was the brother of the father of Hiram Gregg (two brothers having married two sisters), was born in Ohio.
Receiving in his boyhood days only the limited educational opportunities afforded by the district schools, he has availed him- self. in later years, of the education which comes from the read- ing of choice books on general information; and, feeling his own his children shall have no cause for like regrets in their future.
Moving in the footsteps of an honorable ancestry, he has been content to follow the even tenor of his way as a farmer, and. marked by the broad. green acres which he calls his own, he has made that calling a success. In the month of March. 1868, he was joined in wedlock to Miss C. M. Newell, a native of Fountain County. Ind .. and the daughter of a farmer. They have three children -- Elmer. Auna and Grace .; Mr. Gregg, as well as his estimable wife, are members of the Presbyterian Church.
In politics, Mr. Gregg is, and has been since its formation, a member of the Republican party, never, however, taking an active part in political labors. He is a shrewd and careful business inan, managing his own private affairs successfully and remuner- atively. and at the same time dealing honorably and justly with his brother.man." Society would be bettered by more of the same stamp of men and. citizens.
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JAMES W. GLASSCOCK.
The subject of this biographical sketch is of Scotch descent, and was born August 23, 1815, in Londonn County. Va. His grandfather; John Glasscock, who died in 1522. at the ripe okdl age of ninety-three years, was born and reared in the shadow of Glasgow, Scotland; emigrated to this country and served as an officer of a light-horse company in the American Army during the entire period (seven years) of the Revolutionary war. His father, Gregory, and mother. Elizabeth ( White), were natives of London County, Va., the former a soldier in the war of 1812. and partiei:' pating in the battle of Baltimore. "In 1818, when the subject of this review was three years old, his parents removed to Fleming County, Ky., and one year later to Brown County, Ohio, where. after a short residence, both died. In 1835, James W .. making the trip by way of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, came to Carroll Connty, Ind., locating first in the section of the county subse. quently called Monroe Township, whence he removed, in 1565, to Rock Creek Township, living in the latter place to the present time.
His educational advantages were exceedingly limited. At the age of twelve years; he had not received a month's schooling, and after this age, his entire attendance did not exceed twenty months. four of these being under John B. White, in Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, ex-President U. S. Grant, then seven years old, being a pupil in attendance at the same school.
Mr. Glasscock has been married twice-in 1837, to Jane B. Salisbury, in Brown County, Ohio, who died in 1856: and in 1857, to Eliza Landens, a former pupil of his, born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1821. The fruits of his fornier marriage were six children, the two eldest sous being sokliers and martyrs in . the late war. Thomas IL enlisted first, in the three-months' serv- ice, in the Twentieth Illinois (Zonave) Regiment. and subsequently in the three years' service. At the time of his enlistment, he was attending school at Joliet, Ill. Harvey M. (second son) was a member of Capt. Gaddis' independent company. afterward at- tached to the Third Indiana Cavalry, Volunteer Regiment.
In religion, he, as well as Mrs. Glasseock, are members of the Asbury McCormick was born on the Sterling farm in Deer Presbyterian Church. In politics, he is an ardent Republican, Creek Township, Carroll County. Ind., on the: 2d of February. having originally been a member of the Democratic party, but parting company with that organization on the formation of the Republican party. As a member of the party, he has never songht position, but was elected to the office of Commissioner of Carroll County in 1866, and served a fraction over three years. While living in Monroe Township, he served as Trustee three years, abont the time of the organization of the township. and, at a still later date, five years, and yet still later. one year- in all. nine years in that one capacity." In 1839 and 1840. Mr. Glass- cock engaged in the avocation of teaching school, and in the early part of his life having privately studied the theory of mechanic -. he worked. as tlie occasion gave him opportunity. in the business of building houses and barns, but his real occupation in life is and has been that of farming.
Nearing the allotted threescore years and ten. but still hale and vigorous. he is in the strictest sense of the phrase a repro. sentative citizen. Temperate and industrious, a friend of edu- cation and an encourager of the young. he is declared by those who know him best to be a large-hearted neighbor and a faithful father and husband. ..
MRS. SARAH ANN HARDY.
She was born February 8, 1831, in Montgomery County. Ohio. and was the oldest of eight children. Abont one year subsequent to the arrival of her father in Rock Creek Township -- on No- vember 4. 1854-she became the bride of Arthur MeCain. son of Daniel MeCain. of Deer Creek Township. During a briof time, their union was a happy one, but the fell destroyer forbade its long continnance." That fond husband died August 6, 1555. A little son. Arthur W., was the fruit of this marriage. He lives at this time in Deer Creek Township. Again. October 5, 1858, she formed a matrimonial alliance with Mr. John Hardy, son of John Hardy. Sr .. of Washington Township. Mr. Hardy was a native of Jumiata County, Penn .. and was born July 11. 1816. By this union, she became the mother of three children. viz .: Laura E:, Ehner and Frank L. The former is the wife of Dr. John Sharrer. of Burnettsville, White Co., Ind. Frank L. still lives with his mother at Rockfield. Ind. the two younger, Elmer and Frank U., both being single. But this home was again to be shrouded in sorrow. Mr. Hardy departed this life May 20, 1571. Thins a second time the subject of our'sketch was left a widow, and her children fatherless. Both companions had been kind and affectionate, and hence wedded life with each had been agree- able. They were both men of fine qualities. highly esteemed by the community in which they lived.
Mrs. Hardy is an amiable, Christian lady. She has been a faithful, consistent member of the Presbyterian Church since 1870.
. As to property. she is comfortably situated. She has a pleasant home at Rockfield, a view of which is herein represented. besides owning a farm of 240 acres in Deer Creek Township. Arthur W. MeCain. her oldest son, is now the head of a family. aud has charge of this farm. His wife was before marriage, Miss Lanra Atkison. daughter of William Atkison. of Rock Creek Township. %
ASBURY MCCORMICK.
1844. His mother. Matilda McCormick. was a daughter of the venerable Thomas Sterling. Her death occurred in-1864. . Dennis MeCormick, his father, was a native of . Montgomery County. Ohio, and died in Kokomo, Ind., from an injury received by the fall of a lumber kiln, when the boy Asbury was but two years old. Passing the years of his boyhood in the alternating duties of farm work and distriet school attendance, with two terms at the publie schools of Delphi. at the age of seventeen, his. youthful heart. fired by the insult to the American flag in the attempted secession of twelve Southern States, on the 4th of August. 1561, he enlisted in Company A (Capt. John B. Milroy) of the Ninth Indiana Kog iment Volunteer 'Infantry, and went to the front, there to endure fatigue and suffering with a heroic fortitude worthy of maturer years. His official discharge contains the following compliment. ary indorsoment: " In battle, he displayed coolness, bravery and intelligence, and in overy duty was prompt and faithful. proving himself the true man and sollier. (Signed) Thomas Madden. Company A, Ninth Indiana." He was present and participated in the following list of more important battles: Greenbrier and Buffalo Mountain. West Virginia: Green River, Kentucky :: Pitts burg Landing and Stone River, Tennessee, and Chickamanga. Georgia. "At the battle of Stone River. January 1. 1563, he re. ceived'a wound from a bullet striking him in the left side and
Mrs. Hardy is the daughter of. Jacob Wolf, who immigrated to Rock Creek Township from the State of Ohio about 1553. glancing off and passing through his left thigh. On the 21st of
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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY.
September, 1863. at the battle of Chickamauga, together with twenty-four other members of the Ninth Regiment. he was made | a prisoner of war. Two days after the battle, and at night. they were taken in a body to Belle Isle, thence to Smith's Prison top- posite Libby), and from there to Danville, Va .. where the winter of 1863-64 was passed without the luxury of even so much as a spark of fire. At this point they were separated. young McCor- mick. with several others, being conveyed to the prison at Auder- sonville-a prison made famous by reason of atrocities to Union sokliers. At Andersonville he remained six months. From liere. under fire of Gen. Gilmore's battery, he was taken to the Charles- town jail, thence to Florence. S. C., and back once more through Charlestown to Savannah, and in the latter city paroled. on the 30th of November. 1864. At Annapolis. Md .. after leaving prison. his weight was ninety-eight pounds. a loss from his weight at the time of capture of about fifty pounds. Of the twenty-five Union soldiers who were made prisoners together. only two (the subject of this sketch and Elias Minnick ) came back to enjoy the land whose nnity and liberty they fought so nobly to preserve. Indeed, but one lived to see the result of that terrible conflict. for Minnick died shortly after his return home. The others perished in Belle Isle. Libby and Andersonville. After his parole. Asbury MeCormick came home, and in April. 1865. re-enlisted. entering Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana Regiment as Orderly Sergeant. under Capt. Syl Berry. On the strength of his war record, recited on the back of his for- mer discharge, aided by the recommendations of two officers, upon reaching Indianapolis. Gov. Morton commissioned him an Adju- tant, in preference to eleven others, whose applications were sup- ported by stronger recommendations. Two days before the reg. iment left the city, President Lincoln was assassinated. After a few months' stay in the Shenandoah Valley. Harper's Ferry and Winchester, Va., he returned with the regiment and was mus- tered ont at Indianapolis in Angust, 1865.
Since the close of the war, although he assisted in building the steam flour-mil! at Rockfield. he has been mainly engaged in the humber business, owning and managing now, in partnership with H. K. Stauffer, a steam saw-mill.
He was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Hohnes, dangh- tor of Samuel Hohnes, February 21, 1866. Two children, Vine and Anna, have been born to them.
In religion, Mr. McCormick, as well as his wife, are members of the Methodist Church --- a faith handed down to them from their ancestors, the grandfather of Mr. McCormick having at one time been the Recording Steward in the district between Logansport and Crawfordsville.
In politics, he is a stauch Republican, and one of the active members of that party. He is also a prominent Odd Fellow, one of the charter members of the Rockfield Lodge, and has filled all the chairs of the subordinate lodge of that order.
Mr. McCormick, during the past few years. has been very ae. tive in the interests of survivors of Southern prison-pens. If Congress ever passes a bill (and it should) pensioning ex-prison- ers of the late war, a share of the credit will be due Mr. McCor. mick, for he has spent time and means in an endeavor to bring about such a result.
In business, Asbury McCormick is industrious, careful, and not wanting in capacity. He believes in integrity, and has there- fore the respect of his associates. Socially, he is genial and agreeable, and makes and retains friends and friendships with a permanence we believe to be everlasting.
WILLIAM C. MULLIN.
Mr. Mullin was born on the 5th of December. 1833. in War. ren Comity, Ohio. His father. Noah Mallin, is a native of the saine State and county: is of English-Irish descent, and was boru ou the 10th of January. 1804. When thirty years old. he (Noah) emigrated to Carroll County, and. loeating on the now valuable farm of his son. Lewis Mullin (at that date mumberinig 320 acres, and uncleared of timber). remained there until 1844. whence he removed to the little town of Rocktiold, where he yet resides, at the venerable age of seventy-eight years. By his mother. Mar garet (Crosby) Mullin. William C. is of German- Irish extraction. his mother's relatives hailing from Pennsylvania.
William C. Mullin accompanied his father in his various changes of location. and remained with him until the tenth year of the latter's residence in Rockfield. leaving home at this date to return to his father's farm. after his marriage. on the 16th of March. 1854, with Miss Elizabeth Guiliford, a native of Juniata County. Penn. Two children- Lewis N. and Hannah M. (wife of Edward Kennedy). were the fruits of this marriage. The death of Hannah M. Kennedy occurred on the Ist of May. IS81. On the 15th day of January. 1872. after a union of less than a score of years, yet doubtless a uniou rich in domestie happiness. Mrs. Mulliu passed to the eternal workl.
September 17. IST7. Mr. Mullin re-married, his second wife. whose maiden name was Kendall, being, at the time of this union. the widow of Samuel W. Guiliford. Soon after this marriage, he loft the Mullin homestead (having, provious to the death of his first wife, sol This one-half interest in that farm to his brother Lewis), and removed to the farm adjoining it on the east side, where he still resides. The mother. Lncinda (Buskirk) Kendall. of his second wife, came to Carroll County from Jackson Conuty. Ind., about forty seven years ago. she having come to the latter county from Kentucky. Mrs. Mnllin had two uneles who wore martyrs to the Union cause in the war of the rebellion. In ro. ligion, she is a Universalist, while her Imsband is a member of the Methodist Church.
Iu polities. Mr. Mullin is a supporter of the principles of the Democratic party, though he asserts himself to be no politician. believing in the good of the whole people.
Following in the wake of his worthy progenitors. he has never deserted the farm. feeling that it furnishes a livelihood conducive to health and protitable to the proprietor who mixes with his manual labor a plentiful supply of brains, as does the subject of this sketch. At present. Mr. Mullin and his son, whose home is near by, own and control together 276 acres of excellent land. Another year and Mr. Mullin will have compassed his half -con- tury of life. Vigorous and healthy, with the cares of life resting lightly on his shoulders, his chances for living the allotted three. score years and ten are excellent indeed.
LEWIS MULLIN.
The subject of this personal narrative is one of the many sub. stantial farmers of Rock Creek Township, and one of the men who, though passing their lives quietly and undemonstratively in the yearly rounds of successful farm labor, are yet the strength of this government and the bone and sinew of her institutions. because, unlike the yeomanry of foreign lands. they live in a land of freedom and of democratic principles.
Lewis Mullin is a full brother of William C. Mullin (a review of whose life precedes this sketch), and was born in Carroll
J.M. Powell MP
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RES. OF DR.J.W. POWELL, CORNER OF LAKE AND OAK STS. ROCKFIELD, CARROLL CO. IND.
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County, Ind .. on the very farm which he now owns and lives College of Chicago in 1865. he returned to Camden. associated npon, on the 25th day of September. 1536. He is the son of with his father until December. 1567. then withdrawing, he estab. lished himself. on the 29th of the same month. at Rockfield. where he has since enjoyed an extended and successful patronage. Noah Mallin and Margaret (Crosby) Mullin. for a longthier notice of whom we respectfully refer the reader to the biographical sketch of William C. Mulhu.
Thirteen years (1844 to 1857) of the life of Lewis Mullin were passed in Rockfickl: the remainder of the time. he has lived on the Mallin homestead, now a magnificent body of laud. thor. onghly improved. and containing 2273 acres. In 1862, February 27. he was joined in marriage to Miss Nancy J. Young, a native of the county of Montgomery. Ohio. Mrs. Mullin was born on the 16th of January, 1845, and is the daughter of a farmer, whose native place was Frederick Connty, Md. This nnion has been blessed with seven bright and promising children- Maggie L., William C., Sarah E., Lee Vance. Elmer L., Herbert Y. and Clif- ford R.
Mr. and Mrs. Mullin are members of the Evangelical Intheran Church.
In 1863, as a candidate of the Democratic party. with whose principles he has always firmly allied himself. Mr. Mullin was elected Trustee of Rock Creek Township, serving one year. Again, in 1872, he was re-elected to the same office, and a tie election resulting two years later. he held over -in all, four years. The people once more showed their confidence in his official integrity by re-electing him Trustee in 1850. Because of poor health, he resigned the office in the Angust following his election.
Mr. Mullin is a trustworthy neighbor. an excellent citizen, and a man whose industrious habits command the respect of his fellow-men. May his years be many and labors light.
JOHN WILLIAM POWELL, M. D.
Dr. Powell is a native of Illinois. He was born at Circle- : ville, Tazewell County, of that State, Angust 7, 1838. His father, Dr. John E. Powell, was a native of London, England, and was born Angust 27, 1800. Pursuing an elementary and general education in the schools of his native city np to thirteen years of age, he then entered upon a course of study in the London Hos- pital. There he served as it was termel an apprenticeship of seven years, and, after graduating. accepted a position as one of the surgeons of the institute. This relation he maintained up to the spring of 1833. when he emigrated to the United States. N. Y., and there renewed the practice of medicine.
Landing npon American shores, he took np his residence at Utica. , an agreeable oue. Dr. Newell being both an amiable and a prom
Subsequent to fixing his residence at Utica, he formed the acquaintance of Mary Harding, an estimable lady of English birth, and, on December 24. 1833. received her hand in marriage. Continuing here until 1836. he then removed to Tazewell County, Ill., locating upon the site since occupied by the city of Pekin. Remaining here as a pioneer physician until 1861. he again re- moved with his family to Camden, of this county. where, until abont 1869. he pursued the practice of his profession. At that period, he returned to the State of Illinois, sitnating himself at Henry, Marshall County, where he has since resided.
In the meantime. he has availed himself of a course of leet- ures at the Louisville Medical College of Lonisville, Ky .. from which he graduated with the " Honorary Degree " Feb. 25, ISSI.
Besides feeling an interest, too, in his own success. he extends his interest to the general good of the profession. Ho is an ac- tive member of the Carroll County Medical Society, and has been a member of the State Medical Society since 1566. But to verify more effectually the professional merit and characteristics of Dr. Powell. we extract from a counnunication by Dr. E. Hnutsinger. of February 12. 1879 after his removal to Chicago, and holding then the Chair of Anral Surgery in the Chicago College of Oph- thalmology and Otology. It says: " I have been intimately ac quainted with J. W. Powell. M. D .. of Rocktield. Ind .. for the past nineteen years. He is a regular graduate of one of the best medical colleges in the Quited States. By his studions and close application to his profession, together with fourteen years' ex- perience in an extensive practice. he has acquired a degree of snecess and skill that places him in the front rank of his pro fession. He is particularly serpulous and painstaking in the examination of his patients, and strictly conscientious and candid in his opinion. By means of new methods. remedies and appli ances, he is especially successful in the treatment of the eye and car affections. I can commend Dr. Powell with munch confidence to any community." etc.
By way of self maintenance, also. Dr. Powell has had his own cause to paddle, and has proven himself to less successful as a man of business than he has professionally. He now hasa pleas. ant home at Roekfield and owns two farms near said village. to both of which he gives his special management.
In his professional relations at Rockfield. he has had three successive associates, viz .. E. Huntsinger. M. D .. who joined him in the spring of 1878. This copartnership. however, was mu- tually dissolved in February. 1879, Dr. H. having been called to an important position at Chicago.
In February, ISSO, ho next formed a copartnership with Dr. C. D. Parkes, who had been his student since the fall of 15Th. Dissolving their connection the following September. 1980, in October, only a few weeks later. he accepted J. W. Nowell. M. D. his prosent partner. This professional nnion has indeed been ising young physician. He is a graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Lonisville: and. upon graduation, was awarded " third honors of his class for general proficiency."
Dr. Powell has been twice married. His first companion was Miss Libbio A. Mahune, of Battle Ground. Ind., to whom he was wedded October 3. 1865. She being sadly called to depart this life. May 25, 1577, he chose as a second help mate Miss Sarah F. Roop, of Carroll County, and to her was wedded December IS. 1878. Two children have been the welcome fruits of each mar- riage, viz., Vance M. and Gny C .. of the former, and Clarence D. and Libbie F. of the last or present: all of them are yet living.
Dr. John W., the subject of our sketch, during the years of For five years past. the Doctor has been an netive member in his boyhood, enjoyed common- school advantages, and, arriving at | the Masonic fraternity. He is zealous in politics. his sympathy the age of eighteen, commenced to read medicine : : d to clerk iu and influence being always given to the side of Democracy. Faithful in his profession, prompt and reliable in his business relations, genial in social life and affectionate in the home circle. he has an extended acquaintance and is universally estermed. a drug store at Metamora, Ill. Moving to Camden with his father in 1861. he still pursued the study of medicine, and at the same time commenced to practice. Graduating at Rush Medical
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