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Mr. Cornell is well known throughout Carroll county, and because of his public spirit and his unassuming manner and generous disposition, has the sincere regard of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
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JEREMIAH GARRISON.
Especially in the work which has to do with the cultivation of the soil are certain traits of character essential. The traits of industry, steadfast- ness of purpose and ambition are found in every successful agriculturist. Success never comes to the laggard. The above-named qualities are found in the character of Jeremiah Garrison, and may account for the place he has made for himself among his fellows. Mr. Garrison, whose industry and thrift has enabled him to live in comparative freedom from hard, grinding toil, was born in Virginia, November 18, 1829. He now lives on his farm of seventy acres which at one time comprised a tract of one hundred and ten acres of land.
The parents of Mr. Garrison were John and Sarah (Eikinberry) Gar- rison, both of whom were born in Virginia, where they remained some time after their marriage. They then migrated to Preble county, Ohio, where they remained only a short time, and next made their home in Carroll county. This happened in the fall of 1837 when Jeremiah was a lad of eight sum- mers. John Garrison came to this state in the early days, and entered one hundred and sixty acres, the southwest quarter of section 18, township 24 north, range I east. Here these good people spent the remainder of their lives, doing their work well and honoring God by a record of church mem- bership which attested to their pious natures. They were members of the Dunkard church. John Garrison lived to be seventy-six years of age. To him and his wife were born seven children, four of whom are dead. Joel and Peter, the eldest boys are deceased; Edah, who never married, is also deceased: Jeremiah, the subject of this sketch, was the fourth born; John is deceased ; Frances is the widow of George Fellows, and Jacob, the youngest, lives in the West.
Jeremiah Garrison had opportunities for only a meager education, for his assistance was needed by his parents, and he lived on a farm and worked for them until his marriage, October 4. 1859, to Sarah Clingenpeel. She is the daughter of Emanuel and Mary (White) Clingenpeel, he a native of Virginia. and she of Ohio. They became the parents of five children, of whom the eldest. David M., is deceased; John F. lives in Carroll county ; William Gordon lives near Bringhurst: Martha M. is the wife of Charles Keck and lives in Ohio: Henry M. lives on a part of the homestead place. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison have not been of a roving disposition, and have spent quiet, industrious lives on their farm. They are members of the German Baptist church. Mr. Garrison has always been a Republican and served the
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township in official capacity at various times in such a way as to reflect credit upon his honor and ability.
Jeremiah Garrison has made his life helpful for he has kept in touch with the world movements, and has tried to be of service in his own corner of the earth. His many friendships, as well as those of his capable wife, are evidence of his success in making his influence an influence for good.
JOHN C. TRENT.
That Indiana schools have for years held a prominent place among the best in the United States is not to be denied, and that this high standard has been raised through the efficiency of the teachers therein is a fact beyond contention. John C. Trent, prominent in this line of endeavor, deserves his meed of praise for the service he has rendered to the state and county. For many years he devoted his time and energies to the training and direct- ing of the receptive minds of the Indiana children, in various parts of the state.
John C. Trent was born on August 25. 1861, on his father's farm, where he now resides. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Wagoner) Trent, who were the parents of six children, all of whom grew to maturity. The names of these children follow : Sarah E., wife of J. E. Snell and now deceased; Dr. Isaac N .. living in Muncie, Indiana, is prominent as a physi- cian and surgeon; Martin M., living in Colorado; Rose Anne, wife of James Zartman, who resides in Carrollton township, this county; Clara Belle, wife of H. J. Alexander. of Noblesville, Indiana, and John C., now living in Carrollton township.
Joseph Trent was a teacher for many years in the schools of Carrollton township. Carroll county, Indiana, but followed his trade of carpenter after his retirement from the educational field. He was born in Virginia and came with his parents to Indiana in the early days, about 1829. His father was John Trent and all of the Trents in Carroll county are descendants of this man. Mary (Wagoner) Trent, wife of Joseph Trent, was the daugh- ter of Martin Wagoner, a native of Pennsylvania who came to Indiana from that state and became one of the pioneers who assisted to such a marked degree in the development of this state. When the Trent family first came to Indiana from Virginia, they settled near Bachelors Run on land very near to the place now occupied by the Walnut Stump German Baptist church.
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They lived in this place for some time and then purchased land in Carroll- ton township, near the Allen school house and it was there that John Trent died.
John C. Trent, descendant of John Trent the pioneer, began his educa- tion in the district schools of Carrollton township and when twenty years of age became a student in the Battleground Collegiate Institute, after which he taught for four years in Carrollton township, completing his education at the University of Indiana, taking as his major subject mathematics. Assured that he was now fully equipped to assist in the educational instruction of others, he accepted the position of teacher in the high school at Hagerstown, Indiana, which position he occupied for one year. After his successful experience in the Hagerstown schools, he taught for one year respectively, in the high schools of Noblesville and Muncie, Indiana. Being a man of high ideals and having the courage of his convictions, he became an instructor in the Shortridge high school at Indianapolis, where, during his term of fourteen years identification with this institution of learning, he established and was superintendent of the city of Indianapolis night schools.
The burden of both day and night schools proved too heavy for his strength and on account of failing health, John C. Trent retired to his farm of eighty acres, which is located three and one-half miles from Wheeling, after a trial in the business world of Indianapolis, which had covered a period of three years. His sojourn on the farm was of short duration for again he took up the duties of school work, this time in the schools of Wheeling, where he had charge for five years and for the past year has been teaching at Bringhurst, Indiana.
John C. Trent was the successful suitor for the hand of Etta Conrad, daughter of William Conrad, of Richmond, Indiana, and on May 3, 1887, they were united in marriage. Etta Trent was a teacher in the schools of Hagerstown at the time her future husband taught there and it was there that the romance, which was to terminate in future happiness for both, was begun. Five children have blessed their union, namely: Donald, a graduate of Shortridge high school and a business man of Indianapolis; Mary, also a graduate of Shortridge high school and the wife of Thomas Landes, now in Wenatchee, Washington; John Albert, a graduate of the Flora high school and now on the farm in Carrollton township: Margaret, a graduate of the high school at Young America, Indiana, and Robert M., who is now in school.
John C. Trent is a member of lodge No. 399, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bringhurst, Indiana, and a member and elder of the Hopewell
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Presbyterian church. Politically, he is a Republican and a stanch supporter of that party as well as of all other questions receiving his indorsement. For service rendered in the upbuilding of family and civic life, John C. Trent is fully entitled to the highest praise, and the unusual and loving regard in which he is held by his fellow citizens becomes the due reward of the sincere effort and well-directed energy which he has displayed in all his private and public career.
GEORGE W. JULIEN.
George W. Julien, of the law firm of Boyd & Julien, of Delphi, Indi- ana, was born in a log cabin, on a farm, in Monroe township, Carroll county, Indiana, January 26, 1855, being the only child of Daniel and Hannah (Abernathy) Julien. Sorrow soon darkened the door of this home, the mother dying on May 11, 1856, at the age of nineteen, and her remains rest in the old Zion churchyard, Carroll county, in the vicinity of which she was born on August 15, 1836.
The father, Daniel Julien, later married Adaline B. Hanna, a cousin of his first wife, and to them were born two children, Taylor E., of Salida, Colorado, and Blanche, the wife of Arthur C. Gros, residing near Delphi, Indiana.
Daniel. fifth of the nine children of Abel and Rachel (Banta) Julien. was born in Warren county. Ohio, September 10, 1830, and in 1843, with his father's family, made the then laborious trip, with oxen, westward to Carroll county, Indiana, settling in Madison township. There he grew to manhood amidst the rugged environment of those pioneer days, when it required faith, fortitude and physical endurance to transform the forests and swamps into the present fruitful fields of that favored locality.
At the close of the Civil War, with his wife and three children, in a covered wagon, Daniel Julien moved. to Carroll county, Missouri, but, on account of his wife's health, soon returned to Delphi, where death claimed her, on January 17, 1868, after which the children were scattered and he took up the calling of a bridge and barn builder. later spending five years in the far West, and at the end of an active, industrious life, on October 12, 1908, at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Lafayette, Indiana, laid down his burden and was buried in the Masonic cemetery at Delphi, beside his companion of forty years before, where, upon a modest stone, is carved this simple story of his career, "A Pioneer of Carroll County."
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The life of the grandfather, Abel Julien, began in South Carolina, back in the eighteenth century, January 16, 1798, and closed in Carroll county, Indiana, February 17. 1868, his first wife, the mother of all his nine chil- dren, having preceded him twenty-five years. They were the parents of the following children : Mary E., David B., Eli, Henry, Daniel, Peter, Albert A., and William F. Julien ; of whom, Peter, residing at Flora, Indiana, now in his seventy-ninth year, alone survives.
The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, Moses and Jane (Hanna) Abernathy, were both natives of South Carolina, the grand- father having been born at Charleston, in the year 1804. To them were born Mary A., who became the wife of George Miller; Oliver S., Hannah, Thomas B., Isaac N. and George W. The two last named died in boyhood, but the other four all lived to rear families and all, except Thomas B., now of Chicago, have been dead for more than thirty years.
The Hanna branch of the family is of Revolutionary stock, the descend- ants are legion and one of their number. Miss Sarah A. Hanna, of Brook- ville, Indiana. has recently published an extended genealogical history, entitled "The House of Hanna."
Jane Abernathy. the grandmother. died in Carroll county, September 16, 1859, and her husband, Moses Abernathy, died at Oxford. Indiana, March 10. 1884.
Mr. Julien having lost both his mother and step-mother, before reaching his teens, began early to earn his way in the world. He worked by the month, for Carroll county farmers, in the summer seasons, and attended the country schools in winter. until. at the age of eighteen. he began teaching in White county, Indiana. In all. he taught forty months, four terms of which were completed before he was graduated from the Delphi high school in 1878. Prior to the time of his graduation from Asbury (now DePauw) University, in the class of 188r. he was principal of the Flora schools, for the year 1879-80. and was principal of the Delphi high school for the year 1881-82. Mr. Julien studied law in the office of Judge John H. Gould. and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in May, 1884. since which time he has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Delphi, Indiana, and has invested the returns in farm lands of Carroll county and Canada. He was city attorney of Delphi from 1891 to 1894.
On November 10. 1891, at Bainbridge. Ross county, Ohio, George W. Julien was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Morrow, daughter of Dr. Coridon and Emma (Carl) Morrow. Their only child. Don M. Julien. born
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at Delphi, Indiana, May 3, 1894, was graduated from the Delphi high school in the class of 1912, and is now a senior at DePauw University.
Mrs. Julien's remote ancestors were "York State" patriots, a father and his seven sons having fought in the Continental army, and one served on the staff of General Washington. Her father was surgeon of the Forty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War and his father, John T. Morrow, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Dr. Morrow and his wife were both natives of Ohio, and both have long slept beneath the sod of the old Buckeye state, at Bainbridge, their surviving children being Maud E., John C., Mary E. and Charles A .; all except Mrs. Julien, being residents of Ohio.
Mr. Julien is a Republican in politics, a Pythian knight, being a member of the grand lodge of the domain of Indiana, and is also a member of all the local branches of Masonry, including Delphi Commandery No. 40. Knights Templar. In college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Greek-letter fraternity. to which his son also belongs. The family are all members of the Delphi Methodist Episcopal church. He has never sought public office or preferment, but has been identified with every local move- ment in the interest of community welfare and sober citizenship.
ADDISON E. SMITH.
The opinion is current among those who are given to superficial. think- ing that the history of great men only is worthy of preservation and that little merit exists among the masses of mankind to call forth the praises of the historian or the appreciation of their fellows. A greater mistake was never made. No man is great in all things and few are great in many things. Among the well-known citizens of Carrollton township, Carroll county, Indiana, who have lived quiet and unassuming lives but, who, never- theless, have accomplished things of real merit. is Addison F. Smith, a well- known farmer who lives on rural route No. 2. out of Flora, Indiana.
Mr. Smith was born in Howard county, Indiana. December 11, 1864, and is the son of W. W. and Sarah E. (Spraker) Smith. The former was born on August 11, 1841, and was the son of Henry W. and Permelia (Garr) Smith. Henry W. Smith was born in Virginia but immigrated to Kentucky when twenty-one years old. His father died about the time he was twelve years old. Permelia (Garr) Smith was a native of Kentucky,
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whose parents had come from Virginia. After rearing a family of twelve children, the parents died in Kentucky. Some fourteen years after the mar- riage of Henry W. Smith and Permelia Garr, they immigrated to Howard county, Indiana, and lived in that county until their deaths. W. W. Smith was about twelve years old when he accompanied his parents from Ken- tucky to Howard county. Indiana. He was educated in the public schools and, after he had become a young man, he married Sarah E. Spraker, and subsequently came to own a large farm in Howard county, Indiana. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and prominent citizens in the county. W. W. Smith was active in local politics. Early in life, he had been identified with the Democrat party and later became a Prohibitionist. Six children were born to W. W. and Sarah E. (Spraker) Smith, namely: Addison E .. the subject of this sketch; Amelia M., the wife of Otto Greeson, of Kokomo, Indiana; Charles N., a farmer of Montana : Omer J., a farmer of Wells county, Indiana; Alma E., the wife of Clem Hott. of Tipton county, Indiana, and Harry D., a civil engineer at Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee.
Reared on a farm in Howard county, Indiana, Addison E. Smith received a common-school education in the schools of that county, and, subsequently, attended Franklin College, where he took a course preparatory to teaching. He taught for one year in the schools of Howard county and then in the schools of western Kansas, where he homesteaded a tract of government land and where he lived for eight years. Afterward he returned to Indiana and located in Howard county.
On November 10, 1900, Addison E. Smith was married to Melissa J. Dunkin, the daughter of Benjamin S. and Sarah (Ratcliff) Dunkin, the former of whom was born in Union county. Indiana, and the latter in Henry county, Indiana. Mrs. Addison F. Smith was born on November 24, 1859. Her grandfather. Richard Dunkin, whose wife was Lydia Wilson, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, January 29, 1795. He was married in 1818. Afterward they moved from Montgomery county, Ohio, to Union county, Indiana, in 1824, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in the woods. On October 4. 1836, they moved to Carroll county, Indiana, where Mr. Dimkin bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, also in the woods. He was a man of strictly temperate habits in all things. Early in life he was identified with the Whig party, but later became a Republican. Benja- min S. and Sarah (Ratcliff) Dunkin were the parents of nine children, six of whom, Tillie. Melissa, Winfield. William, Elmer and Rev. Daniel, are now living. Tillie is the wife of Rev. E. Sanford, of Florida. Mrs. Addi-
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son E. Smith, who was educated in the district schools, later took a course in music and for a number of years taught music. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, Nellie M., who was born on July 8, 1904.
Mrs. Smith and Nellie are members of the Baptist church. Like his father before him, Addison E. Smith is identified with the Prohibition party. Mr. and Mrs. Addison E. Smith own the farm on which Mr. Smith was born and reared. Mr. and Mrs. Smith make a specialty of purebred Rhode Island Red and Leghorn chickens. They are warmly devoted to life on the farm, to the beautiful, wholesome and inspiring influences of the countryside, and are well known and highly respected citizens of Carrollton township.
THOMAS H. B. BRITTON.
Thomas H. B. Britton, farmer, living in retirement at the outskirts of Camden, Indiana, was born on September 25, 1838, in Highland county, Ohio, and is a son of Jonah and Martha (Locke) Britton. He was reared under his father's roof, remaining at home until he was about twenty years of age. His early education was obtained at the public schools, after which he attended Normal school at Lebanon, and later entered Antioch College, fitting himself for teaching. Mr. Britton taught his first school near Will- mington, Ohio, then moved to Kokomo, Indiana, and taught at Middle Fork in the northeast corner of Clinton county, for a period of one year, after which he taught in various districts, and at the Burlington Academy for ten years, during which time he was elected county superintendent of schools, in which capacity he served for ten years, his entire school work covering a period of thirty years. Politically, Mr. Britton has always given his vote to the Republican party, the first of which was cast for Abraham Lincoln.
Jonah Britton, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, and was a son of Wilson Britton. As a young man, Jonah Britton enlisted in the War of 1812, serving throughout, and returning at the close to Winchester, Virginia, where he learned the milling trade, and spent a great deal of time, operating in all, three different mills. In 1828, he bought a four-horse team and moved his family from Virginia to Ohio, settling near where New Vienna now is, and helped to lay out that town. Mr. Britton spent the remainder of his life in that locality, where he farmed from 1830 until his death, which occurred in May, 1865. He was united in marriage with Martha J. Locke, by whom he had thirteen children, six of
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whom were living in 1915: Andrew J., who lives in Illinois on a farm; Drucilla J., is the widow of Jacob Vale, and lives near Cape Horn, Wash- ington ; Thomas H. B .; William Wallace, who lives at Russells, Highland county, Ohio; Marion D., who lives near Blanchester, Clinton county, Ohio; and John L. Britton, who is a contractor at Sabina, Ohio.
Thomas H. B. Britton was united in marriage on September 29, 1860, with Lovie E. LeMaster, daughter of Isaac and Arminta ( Morris) LeMaster. She was born on November 20, 1842, at Shelbyville, Indiana, and received her education at the public schools. This union has been blest with eleven children, all of whom are living in 1915: Walter E. lives at home; John D. is at Camden, as are also Elmer N., and Oscar; Homer L. lives at Clark- son, Washington; Alvin C. makes his home at Camden; Oscar is also at Camden ; Thomas O. is in Idaho; Lloyd is in Florida; Virgil P. is at Urbana, Wabash county, Indiana, and Jessie W. lives at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Britton are members of the Christian church at Burlington, Indiana, to which they contribute liberally.
The Britton family came originally from England, and the first trace of them in America is found in Virginia. Eight brothers by the name of Britton came to America before the Revolutionary War, six of whom par- ticipated in the battle of Bunker Hill, during which two of the brothers lost their lives. One of these brothers was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.
Wilson Britton, grandfather of Thomas H. B. Britton, was a preacher in the old Christian church, and was a well-known and prominent man in his day in Virginia, where he died.
THOMAS BRENNAN.
Largely dependent upon his own resources from his youth, Thomas Brennan, whose history is here briefly mentioned, has, through his chari- table spirit, honest and conscientious dealings in his business transactions, won the admiration and high esteem of the citizens of Clymers, and the entire township in which he resides.
Thomas Brennan, farmer, living on rural route No. 33, out of Clymers, Indiana, was born on January 26, 1857. in Butler county, Ohio, and is a son of John and Bridget (Gaffney ) Brennan. He remained at home until fifteen years of age, and then began to work for Col. C. J. McGreevey, of Rock
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Creek township, where he remained nine years, and during which time he attended the district schools during the winter months. After his marriage, Mr. Brennan farmed in the employ of John C. Bright, of Clinton township, Cass county, for two years, and with the money he had saved, before and after his marriage, he was enabled to buy forty acres of land, where he set- tled, and where he still lives. Politically, Mr. Brennan gives his support to the Democratic party, and has served in some of the township offices, among which being those of township trustee, to which he was elected in 1908, and supervisor. He belongs to St. Bridget's Catholic church at Logansport, Cass county, Indiana. Fraternally, he belongs to the Foresters lodge at Logansport, and he and his family enjoy the quiet of rural life on their com- fortable farm, consisting of forty acres.
John Brennan, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, where he grew to young manhood on a farm, coming to America when about twenty-one years old. His wife, Bridget (Gaffney) Brennan, was born in County Sligo, Ireland, and came to the United States with her brother after she had grown to young womanhood. Mr. and Mrs. Brennan were married in Butler county, Ohio, where they settled and lived until 1864, when they came direct to Carroll county, Indiana, settling on Hugh Hardy's farm in Washington township. After remaining there nine years, Mr. Brennan moved to the Stanley property, giving part of his time to Hugh Hardy, and part to Michael Ryan. He died in Carroll county. Politically, he was a Democrat, and in religion he was a member of the Catholic church in Logansport, Cass county. Their children were: Mar- garet, who became the wife of Thomas C. McGreevey, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; Richard, a prosperous farmer; Bridget, who died single; Patrick, who lives in Cass county, Indi- ana; Johanna, the wife of Patrick Guckien; Mary, who died unmarried, and John, who lives in Cass county, Indiana.
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