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After selling out at Clarks Hill in 1908, he operated a farm for two years in Clay township, but in 1911 established a general store at Owasco.
On April 10, 1905, William Wiggs was married to Clora J. Fetterhoff, the daughter of William and Hannah (Garsh) Fetterhoff, the former of whom was born on May 23, 1858, in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and who was the son of Samuel N. and Sarah Ann (Steinbaugh) Fetterhoff, both of whom were natives of Preble county, Ohio. They were married in Carroll county and had three children, all of whom are living, John M., who lives at Mulberry; William, the father of Mrs. Wiggs, is a farmer; and Orlando, who lives in Clay township. Mr. Fetterhoff's mother died on September 7, 1865, in Clay township, and his father on August 7, 1907, in Clay township. His father had married Barbara Ann Shaffer after the death of his first wife and to this second union were born three children, Ira F., of Madison township; Cynthia Ella, who died at the age of six years; and Etta, the wife of Henry Snyder, of Madison township. William Fetter- hoff, who was educated in the district schools of Clay township, was married on August 7, 1879, to Hannah Elizabeth Garsh, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Jane (Smith) Garsh, the former of whom was born on the farm that William Fetterhoff now owns and who was the son of Nicholas and Hannah ( Jack ) Garsh. Nicholas Garsh entered this land from the government.
Joseph and Mary Jane (Smith) Garsh were the parents of three daugh- ters, Hannah E., the wife of Mr. Fetterhoff; Devora C., the wife of Matt A. Clark, of Pratt, Kansas; and Ida, who died at the age of three years. Joseph Garsh died in 1864 and, after his death, his widow married Albert Campbell and to them were born three children.
William Fetterhoff and wife were the parents of eight children as fol- lows: Clora J., the wife of William Wiggs; Ora Edgar, who died at the age of eight months; Glenn Irvin, who died at the age of four years; Orpa Ann, who is the wife of Emerson Hufford, of Clay township; Lynn Vernon, who lives at home; Georgie Edith, who married Benjamin Metzger, of Hunt- ington county, Indiana; Ren Williams and Rue Wilda, twins.
Mr. Fetterhoff's wife owns one hundred and two and ninety-seven- hundredths acres of the old homestead, entered by Nicholas Garsh from the government: also one hundred twenty-four and eighty-five-hundredths acres, owned jointly by Mr. and Mrs. Fetterhoff; and ninety acres owned by Mr. Fetterhoff himself. Mr. and Mrs. Fetterhoff are members of the Missionary Baptist church. He is a stanch Republican and has served as justice of the peace of the township.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Wiggs have been the parents of two children, Beulah, born on July 21, 1906; and Doris, May 7, 1914.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wiggs are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Wiggs is a Democrat and is the present trustee of Clay township, having been elected to the office in November, 1914. He is a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America at Ockley, and is postmaster at Owasco. In addition to his other interests Mr. Wiggs is station agent for the railroad at Owasco.
JOHN B. MYERS.
John B. Myers. a prosperous farmer of Monroe township, Carroll county, Indiana, who occupies eighty acres of land, one-half mile from the Flora corporation line, on which he was born, March 8, 1843, is the son of Samuel and Mary (Burkett) Myers.
Mr. Myers' parents were both born in Wayne county, Indiana. His father, Samuel Myers, entered the home farm in pioneer times and was com- pelled to walk sixty miles to Crawfordsville to the land office in order to be ahead of other men, who also wanted to enter the land. In fact, all of the land in this neighborhood had been entered with the exception of this eighty-acre tract which Samuel Myers very much wanted. After entering the tract of land, he returned to Wayne county, was married and brought his wife with him to Carroll county. They cut a path from the crude road to the cabin and, from time to time, the acreage of the farm was increased until it comprised, at one time, two hundred and sixty acres. Here Samuel Myers spent the remainder of his life and died at the age of seventy-five. His wife died in 1864.
When John B. Myers was eighteen years old, in 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Indiana Battery, under Captain Sims, and served until the close of the war in 1865. He was taken prisoner in one of the engage- ments near Atlanta. Georgia, and was for some time confined in the prison at Andersonville.
After the war Mr. Myers returned to Carroll county and, for a num- ber of years, worked on his father's farm. In 1882 John B. Myers was married to Mary Eikenberry, the daughter of Isaac Eikenberry, of Monroe township. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Myers, all are living : Isaac, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland; Roy, Ora, Reuben, Vesta and Attie, all of whom are at home; Lettie, who is the wife of Nathan Pearson;
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Anna and Flossie, both of whom are nurses at Elgin, Illinois. The latter is a graduate of the high school.
After his marriage Mr. Myers bought eighty acres of land near the old homestead, which he still owns.
The Myers family are members of the Church of the Brethren at Flora. Mr. Myers votes the Republican ticket, and is more or less prominent in the councils of his party. He takes a worthy interest in all public enter- prises and movements.
REV. JOHN ULERY.
One of the best-remembered ministers in the Brethren church during the past generation in Carroll county was the Rev. John Ulery, who was born near Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, and who moved with his parents to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he was educated and where he grew to manhood. This great state will never forget the services of its early ministers of the Gospel, and it is impossible to compensate them in any way for the noble sacrifices they made. This is especially true of those that are gone, and especially true of the Rev. John Ulery, who divided his time between farming and preaching, and who continued active in the min- istry of the Gospel until his death.
John Ulery was educated in the pioneer schools of Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and lived at home with his parents until his father's death. He then began working for himself, being at that time about twelve years old. On September 4, 1853, he was married to Esther Shively, a native of Tippe- canoe county, Indiana, born on January 1, 1839. To this happy union there were born four children, two of whom are still living. The names of the Ulery children in the order of their birth are as follow: Isaac, born on July 13, 1854, died at the age of four years; Susanna, born on October 13, 1856, married Solomon Ulery and they are now residents of Clay town- ship, Carroll county; Henry, born on August 9, 1859, died at the age of thirty years; Laura Ellen, born on January 12, 1876, married William C. Welever, and they are now residents of Pyrmont, Carroll county.
About 1870, Reverend Ulery retired from active farming and five years later, in 1875, the family moved to Pyrmont, but he did not live long after his removal to that town. passing away from the scenes of his earthly labors when he was practically in the prime of his youthfulness.
After the death of the Rev. John Ulery, his widow was married to
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MRS. LAURA ELLEN WELEVER.
MRS. ESTHER L. FELIX. MRS. SUSANNA ULERY.
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Leonard Wagoner, who died a few years later. She was subsequently mar- ried to Joseph Felix. Mrs. Felix owns a farm of one hundred and three acres of well-improved land in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and also a farm of fifty-eight acres in Clay township. Besides these two farms, she owns a splendid home in Pyrmont. Mrs. Felix is a member of the Brethren church and one of the leading women in this part of Carroll county. She is a woman of generous and charitable impulses, who takes a most com- mendable part in all worthy public enterprises to which women are accus- tomed to turn their attention. She is highly respected by her neighbors and by those persons with whom she has been thrown into contact during her long and useful life.
SMITH WILSON.
Smith Wilson, a well-to-do retired farmer of Bringhurst, Monroe town- ship, Carroll county, Indiana, was born in Miami county, Ohio, on October 4, 1835, the son of John and Mary (Smith) Wilson.
Mr. Wilson's parents were both born near Gallipolis, Gallia county, Ohio. They were farmers by occupation. John Wilson moved to Pulaski county. Indiana, in 1851, and purchased eighty acres of land in Beaver Creek township. He returned to Ohio and a year later brought his family with him to Indiana. They settled in Pulaski county, where his wife, the mother of Smith Wilson, who has been sickly, recovered her health in the timber land. After clearing the farm in Pulaski county and living there for a few years, the Wilson family came to Carroll county, where John Wilson rented land in Monroe and Democrat township. He died in his eighty-ninth year and his wife in her seventy-seventh year. They had eleven children, four of whom are now living. Sarah Jane is deceased; Pierce is deceased; Eliza R. was a soldier in the One Hundred Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and is deceased; Joseph, a soldier in the One Hundred Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, is deceased; Peter is deceased; Matilda M. is the wife of James Harvey Hutcher, of Arkansas; Martha, the widow of Isaac Wayts had two children, William Andrew and John Morrison, both deceased, and her husband, who served three years in the Civil War as a member of Company A, Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, died in 1913; Mary is the widow of Phil Kingrey; John is deceased; and two others.
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Having lived at home until the outbreak of the Civil War, Smith Wil- son enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war. Upon coming back home he worked at odd jobs until the spring of 1866, when he purchased fifty acres of land in Monroe township, one mile southeast of Bringhurst. The Wilsons lived upon this farm from 1866 until July, 1913, when they removed to Bringhurst.
Smith Wilson is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Delphi. He is a Republican in politics and from 1900 to 1902 served as supervisor in Monroe township. As a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he represented the local lodge at the grand lodge at Indi- anapolis many years ago.
SAMUEL M. KIRKPATRICK.
Samuel M. Kirkpatrick, a former teacher of Carroll county, insurance agent, notary public and all-around man of affairs, was born in Burlington, Carroll county, Indiana, June 17, 1848. In addition to his other interests Mr. Kirkpatrick owns forty-five acres of land in Democrat township.
Mr. Kirkpatrick is a son of Elliott and Mary (Burns) Kirkpatrick, the former of whom was a native of Butler county, Ohio, the son of Samuel Kirkpatrick, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio. The Kirkpatricks are of Scotch-Irish descent and made Pennsylvania their home in this country. Mary (Burns) Kirkpatrick was born in Boone county, Indiana, and was a daughter of James Burns. She accompanied her father to But- ler county, Ohio, where she met Elliott Kirkpatrick, to whom she was mar- ried. After the marriage of Elliott Kirkpatrick and Mary Burns, they came to Burlington, Carroll county, Indiana, where he operated a grocery for twelve years. In 1860 he bought a farm of eighty acres, to which he later added forty, eighty and one hundred and twenty acres. He was a man of large means and an honored and respected citizen in the county. During his entire life he was active in politics. After living on his farm of eighty acres for some time. he moved to his one hundred and twenty-acre farm, where his death occurred.
Elliott Kirkpatrick and wife were the parents of seven children, all of whom grew to maturity. Samuel M. Kirkpatrick is the twin of Barbara, who is the widow of Robert Robertson. Rebecca is the wife of Henry Wagoner, of Flora, Indiana. James lives on a farm near Darwin, Indiana.
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Maria is the wife of Jacob Kirkpatrick, of Preble county, Ohio. Mary Jane, now deceased, was the wife of Charles Allen, of Logansport, Indi- ana. Susan is the wife of David Wagoner, of Carrollton, township.
Samuel M. Kirkpatrick remained at home on the farm until he was about twenty-four years of age, after which he became a student at the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Subsequently he taught school for eighteen terms in the district schools of Carroll county. He then engaged in the insurance business, which he had followed incidentally before he abandoned the school room, in Wheeling, Indiana.
On Sunday, October 24, 1882, Samuel M. Kirkpatrick was married in Wheeling, Indiana, to Ellen A. Ashby, the daughter of James and Sarah M. Ashby, of Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick lived in Wheeling for three years and then moved to Cutler, in 1886, where he engaged in the insurance business and in teaching.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick are the parents of four children: Cora May, the wife of Roy Thompson, of Radnor, Indiana, is the mother of three children, Ruth Lenore, Frank K. and Mary Belle; Laura Catherine, who died in infancy; James E., who married Leah Smith, has one son, Robert Lewis, a liveryman, of Butler; Leland Bryan, who lives on his father's farm, married Gladys Herron and they have one son, Samuel Elmo.
Mr. Kirkpatrick is a member of Wildcat Lodge No. 311, Free and Accepted Masons, and his wife is a member of lodge No. 353, Order of the Eastern Star.
The Kirkpatrick family are earnest and consistent members of the Presyterian church, and Mr. Kirkpatrick has served as trustee of this church during the past ten years. Politically, he is a an adherent of the Democratic party.
W. A. TROBAUGH, M. D.
One of the well-known physicians of Carroll county, Indiana, is Dr. W. A. Trobaugh, of Cutler. A native of the great Hoosier state, it may be said of Dr. Trobaugh personally that he is a man of strong and active sympathies and possessed of a warm and ardent temperament. Not only is he well qualified professionally for the practice of medicine, but his native sympathies have made him loved as a man as well as admired as a physician.
Dr. W. A. Trobaugh, who has practiced medicine at Cutler, in Demo- crat township, Carroll county, Indiana, for the past thirty-five years, is a
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native of Howard county, this state, born near Fairfield, five miles south of Kokomo on his father's farm, December 25, 1852. Dr. Trobaugh is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Bates) Trobaugh, the former of whom was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, and not far from Blue Springs. In 1832 Jacob Trobaugh removed with his parents to Clinton county, Indiana, and settled with them near Middle fork, when he was sixteen years of age. Subsequently, he left home and purchased land in the old Indian reserve. After selling out, he moved to a farm west of Fairfield, where he lived until 1856, when he moved to Missouri with his family. A little later, how- ever, he moved back to Indiana, on a part of his father's old home place two miles west of Middle fork. There he lived until 1878, when he moved to near Wichita, Kansas, with nearly all of the family. Seven years later he died in Kansas.
W. A. Trobaugh lived at home with his parents until they moved to Kansas, having received in the meantime the rudiments of a public-school education. He had already begun to read medicine with Dr. M. V. Young, . of Geetingsville, Indiana, two miles west of the old home farm. A little later, Doctor Young moved away, whereupon W. A. Trobaugh entered Ohio Medical College, graduating with the class of 1880 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He came to Cutler, Indiana, on May 25, 1880, thirty-five years ago, and went into partnership with Doctor Herron, an arrangement which continued for one year. After that Doctor Trobaugh took charge of the office and has been engaged in the practice of his profes- sion continuously at Cutler ever since.
Two years after coming to Cutler, on October 19, 1882, Dr. W. A. Trobaugh was married to Ida Hinkle, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Cook) Hinkle, both of whom immigrated from Pennsylvania to Indiana in pioneer times. Some of their children were born in the Keystone state. They settled near Burlington upon arriving in Indiana and later moved to Cutler where they spent the balance of their lives.
Doctor and Mrs. Trobaugh have been the parents of two children, Bruce, who died at the age of three years; and Chalmer, who lives on his father's farm of sixty acres, two and one-half miles southwest of Cutler. He married Cassie Aten, the daughter of William Aten, of Texas, where, at one time, he spent five years.
Doctor and Mrs. Trobaugh are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of Wildcat Lodge No. 311, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cutler. Politically, Doctor Trobaugh is a Democrat.
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Graduating from the Ohio Medical College in 1880, Doctor Trobaugh has also taken a course at the New York Polyclinic in 1895. Before tak- ing up the study of medicine, W. A. Trobaugh taught for four years in the schools of Clinton county. Doctor Trobaugh is a member of the Carroll County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Association.
JAMES D. LONG.
James D. Long, a prosperous farmer of Democrat township, Carroll county, Indiana, who owns two hundred acres of land one and three-quar- ters mile east of Cutler, on the Burlington and Cutler pike, has served two terms as trustee of his home township, and is therefore well known, not only to the people of Democrat township, but to the people of Carroll county as well.
Mr. Long was born two and one-half miles north of Lexington, Indiana, on the Clinton and Carroll county line, July 25, 1846, and is a son of David and Hannah (Harkrader) Long, natives of Warren and Butler counties, Ohio, respectively. David Long's father emigrated from Scotland in an early day and settled in Warren county, Ohio, and was there married, and lived in the Buckeye state the remainder of his life. He owned two hundred and twenty acres of land altogether in Warren county, Ohio. Anna Harkrader, the wife of David Long, was of German descent, her parents having come from the Fatherland in an early day.
David Long and his wife lived in Ohio for three years after their mar- riage, one child having been born to them before leaving Ohio in 1837. In the latter year they emigrated to Indiana, being among the first settlers in Owen township, Clinton county. There David Long entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. He later purchased eighty acres, and at the time of his death was the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine land. He was a prominent citizen in the pioneer life of Clinton county, and took an especially prominent part in the early politics of the county.
Thirteen children were born to David and Anna ( Harkrader) Long, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood: Washington, deceased; Catherine, the widow of W. L. Mabbitt; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Warren Adams; Martha, the widow of William Weaver; Margaret, the wife of John Lennon, of Iowa; Eliza, the wife of William McClune, also a resident of Iowa; Matilda, who was the wife of James Fennell, of Frank-
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fort, and both are now deceased; Anna was the wife of Robert Young, of Warren township, Clinton county, both now deceased; Mary, deceased, was the wife of Frank McCrary, of North Carolina; Benjamin died at Chatta- nooga while in the service of the Union army during the Civil War; Sam- uel, living one mile east of Sedalia, Clinton county, Indiana; James D., the immediate subject of this review; and Amanda, who died at the age of fourteen years.
James D. Long lived at home with his parents until he was twenty-six years old, assisting with the work on the home farm. On March 3, 1873, Mr. Long was married to Hannah L. Herron, the daughter of Doctor Her- ron, who lived near Lexington, in Democrat township, this county. After his marriage Mr. Long purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land from his father-in-law, where he lived until his removal to the farm known as the old Buren Wyatt farm of one hundred and eighty acres, where he is now living. A little later Mr. Long added twenty acres more to this farm, and is now the owner of two hundred acres of fine farming land.
Mr. and Mrs. Long are the parents of four children, three of whom are living: Edwin, who died in infancy; Estella, the wife of Manford Smith, lives on the farm adjoining her father; Carlos D., living on the home place; and Grover, living at Delphi, this county, is a graduate of Purdue University.
Fraternally, Mr. Long is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 3, at Cutler, Indiana. Politically, he is a Democrat. He has served two terms as trustee of Democrat township.
WILLIAM W. COOK.
William W. Cook, a well-to-do farmer and landowner of Democrat township, Carroll county, Indiana, who lives one-half mile north of Cutler, is a native of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, born on January 10, 1862, a son of John A. and Olive (Adams) Cook, the former of whom was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. John A. Cook was a son of Hugh Cook, of either Irish or Scotch descent, who came to America from his native coun- try in an early day. Hugh Cook emigrated from Pennsylvania to Clinton county, Indiana, traveling from Pittsburgh to Madison, Indiana, and from Madison to Indianapolis on the old wooden railway. From Indianapolis to Clinton county the journey was made overland by wagon. Hugh Cook's
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wife, before her marriage, was Hannah Aiken, and after their marriage they settled at Rossville, where, for many years, he followed the shoe- maker's trade.
John A. Cook remained at home with his parents until he reached the age of twenty-three years, and then began working upon neighboring farms. Eventually he purchased a farm of his own, which he operated very success- fully. Mr. Cook helped build the dam and mill on the site of the present Adams mill. After his marriage to Olive Adams he was engaged in the milling business in Wisconsin for two years, when he returned to Indiana and purchased eighty acres of land in the Wildcat bottoms, in Carroll county. After living in this district for a few years his wife died and Mr. Cook moved to the farm where William Draper now lives. He afterward moved to Kansas, but returned to Indiana and died at the home of his son, William W.
William W. Cook remained at home with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age and then purchased the farm of seventy-five acres where he now lives. Mr. Cook has gradually added to his land holdings until he is now the owner of two hundred and twenty-eight acres.
Mr. Cook married Jennie B. Long, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Smith) Long. Mr. Cook was born and reared in Carroll county. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the parents of four children, Nellie, Joseph, Edith and Mina, all of whom are living at home. Mr. Cook is a member of the Presbyterian church at Cutler, in which he is actively interested. Politically, he is a Democrat.
MRS. MALISSA LONG.
Mrs. Malissa Long, one of the most highly esteemed residents of Democrat township, is the daughter of Josiah and Isabelle (Schripture) Jewett, and was born in Decatur county, Indiana, on April 30, 1846. Mrs. Long's parents were also both natives of Decatur county. The Jewetts had emigrated to Indiana from Ohio and were early settlers in Decatur county, while Isabelle Jewett's parents had come to Indiana either from Ohio or Virginia. Josiah Jewett, who was a blacksmith, after his marriage lived twelve miles from Greensburg on a farm and there followed his trade for many years. In March, 1854, when Mrs. Long was eight years old, the family emigrated to Carroll county, Indiana, and settled in Burlington, where they lived for a number of years. During this period her father
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followed his trade. Subsequently, however, the family removed to a farm one mile from Burlington, where Mrs. Long lived until her marriage.
On June 11, 1875, Malissa Jewett became the wife of William Long. and after their marriage they settled on the farm where she now lives, two miles east of Cutler, in Democrat township. To Mr. and Mrs. Long were born ten children, four of whom died in infancy. The six living children are: Garfield, who lives on the home place; Maggie, the wife of Ora Ayres, of Flora; John, who operates his mother's farm; Dora, the wife of Irwin Flora; Emma, the wife of George Squires; and Roscoe, who lives on his father's farm in Clay township.
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