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James K. Humes lived at home with his parents until he was thirty-six years old, having, in the meantime, acquired eighty acres of land. He was married on February 24, 1889, to Caroline Pritsch, the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Kellerman) Pritsch, both of whom were natives of Ger- many, born in Baden near Heidelberg. Mrs. Humes came with her parents to America when sixteen years old. They settled in Carroll county on thirty-nine acres of land, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Humes have been the parents of three children, namely : Paul S. died when twenty-one months old; J. Carlisle, who is a graduate of the Cutler high school and lives at home on the farm, and Glenn D., who also lives at home.
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Humes are members of the Presbyterian church at Cutler. Mr. Humes is a Democrat in politics and has always been active in the councils of his party in Democrat township. Fraternally, Mr. Humes is a member of the Masonic lodge No. 508, at Sedalia.
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HENRY M. CALDWELL.
Henry M. Caldwell, farmer, Camden, Washington township, Carroll county, was born on December 8, 1857, and is a son of Richard W. and Hannah (Cline) Caldwell. He grew to young manhood in Carroll county. attending the public schools in the winter and assisting with the farm work during the summer seasons. When he started out for himself he farmed on rented land, and now owns two hundred and twenty acres, located, part in Washington and part in Carrollton townships. Politically, Mr. Caldwell is a stanch Democrat, to which party he has given his active support by serving as trustee of Washington township for four years, and was the man who introduced music into the Deer Creek schools. Mr. Caldwell has always been a public-spirited man and has done much for the welfare of his township. He is a stockholder in the Camden Grain and Supply Com- pany and is also a stockholder in the Deer Creek Telephone Company.
Richard W. Caldwell, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Butler county, Ohio, and his wife, Hannah (Cline) Caldwell, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana. He came with his parents to Carroll county when a boy, his father dying soon afterward, and he was bound out to Isaac Wright until he was twenty-one years old. Mr. Wright sent him to school and cared for him, and when he started out for himself he gave him a horse, saddle and bridle, and with good management and constant indus- try, he acquired a fine tract of land, consisting of two hundred acres, all acquired through his own efforts. Mrs. Caldwell was a sister of Isaac Wright's wife. They were members of the Primitive Baptist church and the parents of three children, Henry M., Allen C., a farmer of Logans- port, and Joseph L., of Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Henry M. Caldwell was united in marriage on August 3, 1878, with Margaret A. Atwood, daughter of James and Mary J. (Shigley) Atwood. She was born on March 8, 1858, in Cass county, Indiana, and grew up in Cass and Carroll counties of this state. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have had five children. A. L. Caldwell, whose early education was secured at the public schools and later at the Deer Creek high school, has considerable talent for music, of which he is very fond, and is quite an artist on the violin. He was united in marriage with Della McCloskey and has three children. Mary H. Caldwell became the wife of W. I. Bridge, lives in Washington township, and they have four children. Roy M. Caldwell, born on May 15, 1890, is the leader of the Deer Creek band, and is a natural
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musician. Catherine Caldwell is the wife of Chester Joyce, lives in Wash- ington township, Carroll county, and they have two children. Willard O. Caldwell is the youngest, being but twelve years old. Mrs. Caldwell is a member of the Presbyterian church, to which her two daughters also belong.
Mr. Caldwell, his wife and one daughter are members of the Eastern Star.
WILLIAM J. QUINN.
William J. Quinn, a well-to-do farmer, who lives on rural route No. 2, out of Flora, in Carrollton township, Carroll county, Indiana, is a native of the county, born on April 4, 1856, six miles east of Flora.
Mr. Quinn is the son of William and Mary (Duncan) Quinn, the former of whom was born in Ireland, July 1, 1814, and who, in 1818, accompanied his parents to the United States. They first settled in Hamil- ton county, Ohio, but later emigrated to Carroll county, Indiana, during the early thirties. There the late William Quinn spent the balance of his life. A young man when the family came to Carroll county, William Quinn was later married to Mary Duncan, and to them were born nine children, six of whom are now living: Sarah E., the widow of Alexander Burk, of Chicago, Illinois; Julia, the wife of Thomas Larimore, of Burlington town- ship; David M., a farmer of Carrollton township; William J., the subject of this sketch; John L., a farmer of Carrollton township, and Carry W., who lives on the old home farm.
Reared on the farm and educated in the public schools of Carroll county, William J. Quinn was married on September 30, 1886, to Julia Hale, a native of Cass county, Indiana, and the daughter of Joseph Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn have been the parents of five children, only two of whom are now living, Maud, the wife of Walter Wharton, of Monroe town- ship, and Lester H., a graduate of the Flora high school and now a student in Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. Three children are de- ceased.
A short time after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Quinn moved to the farm of sixty acres, where they now live and which they now own. They are both members of the Presbyterian church at Wheeling. Mr. Quinn is both an elder in the church and treasurer of the congregation. Both he and his wife are active in religious work and liberal contributors to the support of the church and interested in both the work of the church and
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Sunday school. Although Mr. Quinn votes the Republican ticket and is a man whose political opinions carry weight in the neighborhood where he lives, he has never aspired to office. He is a good man, a good citizen and extremely popular in the neighborhood.
ALBERT D. O'BEAR.
The interest attaching to the history of a successful man reaches out generation after generation. Albert D. O'Bear stands today in the class of substantial and representative citizenship of Carrollton township, and owes his success to himself, alone, having struggled single-handed in his early business career, the experience of which has given him a view of all sides of human nature.
Albert D. O'Bear, farmer, Carrollton township, Carroll county, was born on January 31, 1866, on the farm where he now lives, and is a son of Horace and Rachel Y. (Watson) O'Bear. His early education was received at the district schools, after which he entered the Danville Normal College, graduating July 27, 1892, in a class of ten, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He established himself at Warsaw, where he practiced law for two years, and then returned to take charge of the home farm. Politically, Mr. O'Bear is a strong sympathizer with the policies of the Progressive party, while his fraternal alliance is with the Free and Accepted Masons in Mt. Zion Lodge No. 211, at Camden, and Lodge No. 332, Knights of Pythias, also at Camden. Mr. O'Bear was elected president of the Deer Creek Co- operative Telephone Company in 1900, and served one year, and is serving his third term in that office, being called again on January 1, 1914, and also on January 1, 1915. He is serving his sixth commission as notary public of Carrollton township.
Horace O'Bear, father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Cin- cinnati, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. He was a son of Ebenezer O'Bear. He engaged at an early age with his brothers in running a thresh- ing machine, coming later to Carroll county, where he bought the present O'Bear place, and lived there until he died. His wife was Rachel Y. (Wat- son) O'Bear, daughter of Richard Watson. They were married at Colum- bus, Ohio, and were the parents of two children, Albert D. and James O.
Ebenezer O'Bear, the paternal grandfather, was a shoemaker by trade and was an associate and life-long friend of old Nicholas Longworth and
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Bellamy Storer, and was one of the pioneers in his day in the city of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, who in after years sold his business and, with his family, moved to Fairfield county, Ohio, and became the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of good land. In his declining years he sold his farm and moved to Potaskala, Ohio, where he died, at the age of eighty-four years.
The maternal grandfather was Richard Watson, a resident of Perry county, Ohio, and owned a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of good land near Thornville, Ohio. He died at the age of thirty-six years, leaving a family of ten children. The mother of the subject of this sketch (a twin) was three years of age at the time of his death.
Albert D. O'Bear was united in marriage on January 20, 1904, with Carrie E. Timberman, daughter of John and Ella Timberman, of Wash- ington township, this county. Carrie E. Timberman was born on November I, 1881, in Washington township and received her education at the public schools. To this union have been born five children, only three of whom are now living. Theodore died when two years old; Roscoe is living at home; Herbert O. died young; Byron K. and Harry H.
Mr. O'Bear is a gentleman who has no idle time, his interests being divided between his law practice and his farm. He is a well-educated man and is a successful attorney-at-law, whose clientage consists of the best citizenship of Camden and surrounding community.
GEORGE T. GUARD.
Agriculture has been an honored and a fundamental vocation from earliest times and has attracted men of energy and ability. By its daily contact with Nature in out-of-door life, husbandry cultivates those traits of character which contribute to real manhood and lays the foundation for success in after life. The boy, therefore, who is born on a farm is fortunate, especially if by reason of the ambition within him, he makes the most of his opportunities. A striking example of this statement is found in the bio- graphy of the gentleman whose name appears above. George T. Guard, who has become conspicuous in this locality as a farmer and stock raiser, lives on his two hundred and sixty-three acres of land in this township. He was born in Dickson, Illinois, on January 31, 1861.
Mr. Guard had the advantage of wholesome environment during his early life, for his father, Rev. John L. Guard, was a minister and his mother
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was a self-forgetting, pious woman. She was, before her marriage, Anna Mary Gable. Rev. John L. Guard, who was born in Stevens City, Fred- ericks county, Virginia, which is in the Shenandoah valley, came west alone after his father's death, which occurred when the lad was eighteen years of age. At that time a Lutheran college was conducted at Springfield, Illinois, which sent agents to the East. One of these agents interested John in the work of the school, with the result that the young man came west and entered the college with a view to becoming a minister. He studied hard, and during the school term worked at the carpenter's trade in vacations. After seven years of careful preparation for his life's work he was grad- nated and entered the ministry at Dickson, Illinois. After a pastorate of nearly four years, he moved to Pennsylvania Ridge, and there for six or seven years conducted what is called a double charge. He lived there dur- ing the Civil War, and it was there his children were born. He then lived in Kickapoo, Illinois, and when George T. was nine years of age the family moved to Indiana, that being in June, 1870.
They then moved to Camden, Indiana, where Reverend Guard was in charge of a church for eight years. He then, according to the custom, was sent to a number of different charges, these including churches at Camden, Flora, Deer Creek, Mt. Pisga, Clymers, Ebenezer and Swamp. At Camden, Deer Creek, Clymers and Ebenezer he built new churches. At the end of a useful and worthy career he passed away in October, 1895. The five chil- dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Guard have lived such lives as to reflect credit upon the precept and example of their good parents. Ida Margaret became the wife of Dr. C. E. Shull, of Logansport; George T., the subject of this sketch, became a prominent farmer; John W. is a hardware merchant in Logansport; Rev. William L., of Tippecanoe City, Ohio, is prominent both in the ministry and in statesmanship, having served for two terms in the Ohio state Legislature, and Charles H., who is a prominent citizen of Camden, Indiana.
George T. Guard was early thrown upon his own resources. At seven- teen, up to which time he had lived at home, he bade farewell to the family circle and started away to earn his own livelihood. For two years he was an employee of farmers, and then drove a team in Logansport. He then went west and stayed three or four years.
On November 27, 1890, George T. Guard was married to Mary E. Fonts, a daughter of Solomon Fonts, who was a pioneer of this county. Born in Ohio, Mr. Fonts came to Indiana with his parents when but a small
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child. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Guard set up housekeeping on the farm which is now their home. Mr. Guard began farming on one hun- dred and sixty acres, which he improved and increased until he now has two hundred and sixty-three acres. While he raises a large quantity of stock, he has not dealt in registered or purebred cattle. To him and his wife three girls have been born, these being Margaret, Helen and Edith, all of whom are at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Guard have been deeply interested in church work, and their influence in the Deer Creek Presbyterian church, of which they are members, has been very great. Mr. Guard has been a deacon and an elder in this church for nearly seven years. He is an honored member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 346, at Young America. Mr. Guard is a Republican in politics, and has been for ten years on the advisory board of the township and has filled the unexpired term of supervisor.
George T. Guard is considered one of the progressive farmers of this locality, and deserves commendation for the fact that he is practically a self-made man. He and Mrs. Guard have many warm friends in the com- munity, who value them for their true worth. In his liberality toward the church and in his service to the good of the community, giving both of his means and time, Mr. Guard has honored the memory of a father whose whole life was given to the up-building of God's kingdom on earth, and a mother whose happiness consisted in serving her God and ministering to the happiness of her husband and children.
LEONARD J. WAGONER.
The venerable Leonard J. Wagoner, one of the oldest living citizens in Clay township, Carroll county, who for many years was prominent as a farmer in this county and who now lives retired on his farm of one hundred and fifty-four acres, is a native of Clay township, born on February 21, 1839.
Mr. Wagoner is the son of John and Mary (Cripe) Wagoner, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and who emigrated with his parents to Montgomery county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. The latter was born near Dayton, Ohio, and was there married to John Wagoner, who had been previously married to Miss Winebright, who bore him five children, all of whom are deceased. Of these children, Elizabeth married
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Illinois; Benjamin died in Nebraska; Susannah died at the age of twenty- David Ulrey, and they lived and died in Carroll county; David died in one; Ester married Washington Musselman, who went West during the gold rush in 1849, and who never returned. She was married the second time to Aaron Ulrey and lived with him in Carroll county until his death, when she removed to LaPlace, Illinois, where she died at the age of ninety- four years. The first Mrs. John Wagoner died in Ohio, and he was later married to Mary Cripe, who bore him nine children, all of whom are deceased except Leonard J., the subject of this sketch, and Mary, the widow of John Cripe, who died in 1905. They are the eighth and ninth in the family of John and Mary (Cripe) Wagoner. The other children, in the order of their birth, were as follow: Daniel died at the age of five years, and his remains were the first interred in the cemetery at Pyrmont; John died at the age of twenty-one and was buried at Pyrmont; Samuel died about 1910 at the age of eighty-one and was buried at Pyrmont; Abraham died in 1903 and is buried in the old German Baptist graveyard; his wife is still living in Genesee county, Michigan; Jacob died in middle life and was buried at Pyrmont; Christian died on the farm where his brother, Leonard J., now lives; Catherine, the wife of Daniel Deal, is deceased, and both are buried in the cemetery at Pyrmont.
The late John Wagoner removed to Carroll county about 1835. He built the first grist-mill and the first saw-mill on Wild Cat creek and, after operating the mill for a number of years, sold out to George Opp. At the time of his death he owned about two hundred acres of land and was a farmer and mill operator by occupation. Both he and his wife were mem- bers of the German Baptist church. He died on February 4, 1848, and his wife about the same time; both are buried in the cemetery at Pyrmont.
Leonard J. Wagoner was educated in the public schools of Carroll county and, in 1862, was married to Hannah Ulrey, a daughter of Jacob and Susan Ulrey. The marriage took place on May 4, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner have had the following children: John H., born on February 23, 1863, was educated in the public schools of Clay township. On August 28, 1891, he was married to Sarah Hensel, who has borne him two children, Iva F., the wife of Arthur Ganger, and Harry E., who lives at home .. Mrs. John H. Wagoner died in September, 1903, and after her death the husband married, on February 22, 1913, Jennie A. Prowant. He operates the home farm and is known as one of the most successful and skillful farmers in Clay township. He is prominent in the agricultural life of the township
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and takes a worthy interest in all commendable public enterprises. Jacob S., born on January 21, 1866, lives in Clay township; Isom, January 12, 1872, died in infancy; Emanuel, March 23, 1874, lives in Clinton county ; Anna, June 6, 1877, died on January 12, 1903.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Wagoner own one hundred and fifty-four acres of well-improved land. The family are all members of the German Baptist church. Mr. Wagoner was elected the minister of the church more than thirty years ago and has served during the intervening period. There is no family living in Clay township which is more favorably known than that of the venerable Leonard J. Wagoner, who has lived a long and useful life in this community and has neglected no duty, public or private, in all of the years of his life.
CHARLES ROBERT MENAUGH.
Among the citizens of a past generation in Carroll county who . impressed their personalities on the citizenship of Deer Creek township was the late Charles Robert Menaugh, who, although he labored long and unceasingly for his own personal advantage, never forgot his obligations to the public. He supported all worthy public enterprises and took a most praiseworthy part in promoting all useful public movements.
Charles Robert Menaugh was born on October 15, 1846, in Delphi, Indiana, and was the son of Thomas and Ellen (Manary) Menaugh, the former of whom was born in Washington county, Indiana, on September 19, 1818, and who removed to Carroll county at an early date. As a mere lad he was thrown upon his own resources and, after mastering all the difficulties which beset his path, he was married, in 1843, to Ellen Manary, who died early in life leaving him four children, Charles Robert, Alice, Lillie and Jennie. Charles Robert, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest; Alice, the wife of Joshua Bickell, lives in Terre Haute, Indiana; her hus- band died in 1914. Rosella, who was born on January 18, 1851, died on May 25. 1853. Lillie, the wife of Emsley Whistler, lives in San Francisco. Jennie, the wife of William Whistler, lives in Hayward. Wisconsin.
When he was eight years old, Charles Robert Menaugh removed to a farm of one hundred and sixteen acres, inherited from his father, three miles south of Delphi, where he resided until the time of his death, which occurred in January, 1912, when he was sixty-six years old.
On September 14, 1878. Mr. Menaugh was married to Edna Gillam,
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the daughter of William and Susan ( McCord) Gillam. Mrs. Menaugh is one of three children born to her parents, Francis, Martha and Edna. Fran- cis died at the age of nine years; Martha is the wife of Frank Arnott, of Spokane, Washington; Edna is the widow of Mr. Menaugh. William and Susan ( McCord) Gillam, Mrs. Menaugh's parents, resided in Carroll county. Her father was born, December 18, 1827, in Fountain county, Indiana, and was brought to Carroll county at the age of four years and here spent the remainder of his life. He was married in Carroll county on September 2, 1851. to Susan McCord, who was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, and who came to Carroll county in 1838 with her parents. Mrs. Menaugh's father died on May 1, 1904, and her mother on February 3, 1887.
To the late Charles Robert and Edna (Gillam) Menaugh were born two sons, Floyd E. and Charles Paul. Floyd E. was born on May 16, 1880, and is now a resident of Moran, Wyoming, where he is employed in the govern- ment reclamation service. He was married on June 20, 1911, to Eva Cor- nelia Musson, the daughter of William T. and Margaret E. Musson, of Sparta, Missouri. She died in 1914. Charles Paul. born on July 12, 1882, married Cora Dobbins and he operates the homestead farm.
Mr. Menaugh was a stanch member of the Masonic lodge. For thirty- five years Mrs. Menaugh has lived on the old homestead farm; she is a woman of most gracious personality and is extremely popular in the neigh- borhood where she has lived for so many years.
MICHAEL GUCKIEN.
Michael Guckien, general farmer and stockman and owner of a fine tract of land, all in a splendid state of cultivation and consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, located on the Joyce road, four miles northwest of Deer Creek, Washington township, was born on October 31, 1855, on his father's farm on Rock creek, Washington township, and is a son of Sylves- ter and Catherine (McGreevey) Guckien. He spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and remained there until his marriage, during which time his education was obtained at the district schools. At present he is an extensive dealer in a fine grade of stock of various kinds. Politically, Mr. Guckien is a stanch Democrat, but has never taken any part in local politics. In religion, he is a member of the Catholic church near New Tacoma, Indiana.
Sylvester Guckien, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
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Connaught, Ireland, and when six years old, came with his parents to the United States. They settled in Butler county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood on a farm. He was married to Catherine McGreevey, who was also a native of Connaught, Ireland, coming with her parents to Butler county, Ohio, at the age of four years. Mr. and Mrs. Guckien were mar- ried in Butler county, Ohio, and came to Carroll county, Indiana, in 1851, driving all the way. Mr. Guckien entered eighty acres of land in 1848, and afterward bought forty acres more from George Lightner, which became their home place, where they spent the remainder of their lives, Mr. Guck- ien dying in 1880, and his wife in 1873. He owned, at the time of his death, four hundred acres, and was a prominent and well-to-do man. Polit- ically, Mr. Guckien was a Democrat. Sylvester and Catherine (McGreevey) Guckien were the parents of nine children: William J., who resides at Camden; John, who died in 1906; Michael; Sylvester, who lives in Wash- ington township on the old homestead; Cornelius, who resides in North Dakota, where he follows farming; Winifred, who became the wife of Stephen Hayes, and is now a widow; Catherine, who was married to Dan- iel Barrett; Mary, who was united in marriage with Charles Moore, and Ellen, who lives in Washington township.
Michael Guckien was united in marriage on October 19, 1881, with Margaret Hayes, daughter of Lawrence and Margaret (Lone) Hayes. She was born on October 19. 1860, in Washington township, Carroll county, and received her education in the public schools and at the Catholic schools in Logansport. This union has been blest with nine children: Catherine, who died in 1911 ; Effie. a graduate of the Deer Creek high school, and a student at the Valparaiso University, after which she became a teacher at Deer Creek : Grace became the wife of Jesse Benner; Sylvester S. married Callie M. West and lives near the old home place; Anna was married to Floyd Shaffer, and lives near Deer Creek, Carroll county; Emmett and Lawrence are at home; William H. is a pupil in the Camden high school; Nora is attending school at Chicago, and will graduate in 1916.
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