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made in a heavy wagon. He established a home in the wilderness, where his son now lives and where, in time, he came to own one hundred and sixty acres of land. He was a member of the Universalist church, but his wife was a devout member of the Christian church. To them were born four- teen children, seven of whom are now living, David, a resident of Tennessee; Peter, of Burlington township; Richard M., the subject of this sketch; Sue, the widow of James Williams; Eliza, the widow of John Crumel, of Frank- fort, Indiana; Martin, who lives in Burlington township; Elizabeth, the widow of John Keys; Marion, the twin brother of Elizabeth; Evaline and Caroline, twins.
Richard M. Fennell was reared on the old home farm in Burlington township, the farm which he now owns. He attended the old-fashioned log school house in the township, during the winter months, where he received a good common school education and is today rated as a well-informed man. Having remained at home until twenty-one years old, he began working by the month. Subsequently, he branched out and began to trade in land, but finally lost everything. After this, he engaged in the purchase and sale of walnut timber and in this business, he made considerable money. Mr. Fen- nell also manufactured tile for a time, first at Prince Williams and later at Sedalia ; he owned altogether three tile mills and the business was a financial success. He also owned a saw-mill and was engaged in the lumber busi- ness in Carroll and Grant counties, Indiana.
Mr. Fennell's wife, before her marriage, was Margaret Beck, whose parents were natives of Virginia. She died in 1887, leaving no children.
Although Mr. Fennell is nominally a Democrat, and votes the Demo- cratic ticket, he is not a politician and has never engaged in any form of political activity. Perhaps his large success in life is due somewhat to the fact that he has remained out of politics.
STEPHEN D. LOWE.
Stephen D. Lowe, the general manager of the Burlington Telephone Company since its organization in 1905, is a native of Henry county, Indi- ana, born in March, 1851.
Mr. Lowe is the son of David R. and Elizabeth A. ( Iliff) Lowe, both of whom died when he was five years old. His father died in June, 1856. and his mother in August of the same year, in Kokomo, Indiana. David
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R. Lowe was bound out when a lad and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years old, when he began life on his own responsibility.
In 1873 Stephen D. Lowe was married to Frances Moss, the daughter of Edmund Moss, who was born on October 28, 1852. Mrs. Lowe was reared in Burlington township and educated in the Burlington public schools.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lowe rented Mr. Lowe's father- in-law's farm for two or three years. They then began farming for them- selves on forty acres, which Mr. Lowe purchased and which he still owns. In the meantime, however, he has increased the acreage of the farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe have one daughter, Laura N., who graduated from the Burlington schools and is the wife of James M. Milburn. They have one son, Elmer L., born on June 4, 1894. He is a graduate of the Burling- ton high school.
The Burlington Telephone Company was organized on February 1, 1905. Mr. Lowe, having been made manager of the company at its organ- ization, has continued in the position ever since. The officers of the com- pany are William T. Henderson, president; Stephen D. Lowe, vice-president ; J. P. Haun. secretary; and Harry Summers, treasurer. The directors include, besides the officers, P. W. Stonebraker, Ellis Logan and Joseph Tam. Mr. Lowe himself has built up the telephone system and has entire charge of the physical equipment. The entire responsibility of the manage- ment of the company is left to Mr. Lowe, since the officers and directors of the company have entire confidence in his judgment and management.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Lowe are members of the Christian church. Mr. Lowe is a member of Masonic Lodge No. III, at Burlington. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and has attended the grand lodge. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party.
JOSEPH F. LEIB.
The union soldier during the great war between the states builded wiser than he knew. Through four years of suffering and wasting hardships, through the horrors of prison pens and through the shadows of death, he layed the superstructure for the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to human freedom. The world calls those soldiers sublime. Although it was theirs to strike the chains from off the slaves and preserve the country from dissolution, the cold type of history fails adequately to measure the service which they performed. To the children of the generations yet
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unborn, it remains to record the full measure of appreciation of these valiant American soldiers of the dark days of the sixties, numbered among whom is the late Joseph F. Leib, of Democrat township, Carroll county.
Born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on December 16, 1844, the late Joseph F. Leib was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools at Bremen, Ohio. He received a good education and lived at home with his parents until his enlistment in Company H, First Ohio Cavalry at the age of seven- teen years. He served in many engagements of the war and after the war returned home and lived with his parents until October 11, 1866, when he was married to Martha J. Watts, the daughter of Joseph F. and Lucinda (Barbee) Watts. Mrs. Martha J. Leib was reared on a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, and educated in the public schools, at Westerville and Otter- bein Universities. For some time, she was a teacher in the public schools. Her father, Joseph F. Watts, and her mother, Lucinda (Barbee) Watts, were both born and reared in Franklin county, Ohio, and grew up in the same neighborhood. They lived in Franklin county until their deaths, being farmers by occupation. They had eight children, six of whom lived to maturity and three of whom are now living. John Watts is a resident of Columbus, Ohio; Joseph Watts resides at Greenville, Illinois; Mrs. Martha J. (Watts) Leib is the widow of the late Joseph F. Leib.
To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Leib were born three children, of whom one died at the age of four years. Of the other two, Joseph E. married Jane Hufford and operates a part of Mrs. Leib's farm; Nellie is the wife of Cyrus Richards and they live on the Mrs. Leib's farm.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Leib located in Cham- paign county, Illinois, where Mr. Leib was engaged in farming and stock raising. He became a well-known breeder of trotting and draft horses and was exceedingly prosperous. In 1901 the family removed to Carroll county, Indiana, and located on a farm of one hundred and eighty-seven acres in Democrat township. Mrs. Leib still owns that farm. Her husband died on August 12, 1902.
Although the late Joseph F. Leib was not a member of any church, he was a man of strong religious prepossessions and one who gave liberally to the support of all religious movements and enterprises. Fraternally, he. was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Leib is a member of the United Brethren church. She lives on her well-kept farm three and one-half miles northeast of Rossville; a quiet unassuming woman, refined and cultured, devoted to good work and highly respected in the neighbor- hood where she resides.
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JAMES M. MCCARTY.
James M. McCarty is widely known among the prosperous farmers of Democrat township as the proprietor of "Wild Cat Farm," a tract of two hundred and fourteen acres situated two and one-half miles northwest of Cutler on the Cutler and Delphi pike. He has been a valued factor in the development of agriculture in Democrat township and has been prominently identified with various interests of the community. His well-directed energies in the practical affairs of life, the capable management of his own business interests and his sound judgment, have demonstrated what may be accomplished by a man of ambition and energy.
Mr. McGarty was born in Carroll county, on September 17, 1864, and is the son of James M. and Lydia ( Tinkle) McCarty, the former of whom was born in Union county. Indiana, on August 30, 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Democrat township, Carroll county, in 1834. The former came to Carroll county when a young man and was here married to Lydia Tinkle, who bore him eight children, seven of whom are, as follow: Almira is the wife of S. B. Ashba, of Bolivar, Missouri; Robert married Sadie Catron, of Democrat township; Mary E. is the widow of W. B. Brown, of Chicago; Williard married Mary Loughner, and lives in California; James M. is the subject of this sketch; Jennie is the wife of Mr. Sneighner, of Dennis, Kansas; V. B. married Mabel Cleaver and lives at Tippecanoe county, Indiana.
Reared in Democrat township until he was sixteen years old, James M. McCarty moved with his parents to Burlington township and then to Mon- roe township and finally to Clinton county, Indiana. When he was twenty- one years old, he went West and spent the years 1886 and 1887 in the state of Washington, working on a farm and in the lumber yard. He came back to Carroll county, in 1887, and on March 28, 1889, was married to Emma R. Eaton, of Monroe township. Mrs. McCarty is the daughter of H. H. and Elizabeth Eaton, and was reared in Monroe township. Mr. and Mrs. James M. McCarty have seven living children, as follow: Earl married Ethel Porter and they live in Monroe township; Lydia is the wife of Arthur Reef : Cleo is unmarried and lives in Montana at present; Laura, who is a graduate of the common schools, married Cline Larimore and lives in Orange county, Indiana; Carey, Amy and James M., Jr., live at home. James M., Jr., is the representative of the fifth generation of the McCarty family bearing the name of James M.
The McCarty family are members of the Methodist church at Mt. Olivet.
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Mr. McCarty is a Democrat, but he takes no especial interest in politics, devoting himself rather to the supervision of his magnificent farm in Demo- crat township. Nevertheless, he is well known and highly respected as a citizen of Carroll county.
GEORGE G. SQUIER.
George G. Squier, who has been honored by the citizens of Democrat township by the election to the office of township assessor and who is a suc- cessful farmer of the township, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, February 13, 1873. Mr. Squier lives on route No. 2 out of Cutler, Indiana.
George G. Squier is the son of David and Huldah J. (Grant) Squier. The father was born in Butler county, Ohio, January 1, 1844, and the mother in Carroll county, Indiana, east of Delphi. She died in 1895.
David B. Squier came with his parents to Indiana at the age of six years. They settled in Clinton county. where they remained a short time and then moved to Clay township, Carroll county, where they lived until their deaths. Mr. Squier's grandparents were the parents of eight children, four of whom are now living: E. A .. a retired farmer of Madison town- ship: David B., a retired farmer of Delphi; Dr. George E., a physician of Brookville, Indiana: and Dr. Augustus, a physician at Frankfort, Indiana.
David B. Squier was reared in Carroll county. By his marriage to Huldah Grant there were born three children, two of whom are now living: Emma B., the wife of Sell Doty, the postmaster at Delphi; and George G., the subject of this sketch, who moved with his parents to Clay township when ten years old.
Reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of Clay town- ship, Mr. Squier attended school in the winter and worked at home on the farm during the summer. He was in the West and Northwest a couple of years. He became a brakeman on the Pennsylvania lines and remained with the Pennsylvania railroad for two years.
On December 2, 1903, Mr. Squier was married to Estella Stephens, who was born in Democrat township on January 3, 1882, and who is the daughter of Peter Stephens. He died when Mrs. Squier was eight months old.
After Mr. and Mrs. Squier were married, he hauled logs for the Ockley hoop-factory in Madison township. Later they moved to Cutler, Indiana,
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and still later to Clinton county, where they were located for three years. Since that time they have lived continuously in Democrat township.
Mr. and Mrs. Squier have three children : Dortha M., born on July 27, 1905; Chalmer C., May 26, 1907; and Ethel M., May 30, 1909. The fam- ily live on a farm of ninety-three acres of land one mile south and two and one-half miles east of the town. Elected as a Democrat in 1914, Mr. Squier is serving his first term as assessor of Democrat township. Fraternally, he is a member of Rossville Lodge No. 278, Knights of Pythias, and of Cutler Lodge No. 571, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the latter lodge he is a past grand and a member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana.
CHARLES O. KESTLE.
Among the successful young farmers of Jefferson township, Carroll county, Indiana, is Charles O. Kestle, who is a native of White county, Indiana, where he was born on October 18, 1883. Mr. Kestle is the son of George and Rachel (Reames) Kestle, the former of whom was born on July 6, 1857. in Pulaski county, and the latter of whom was born in Octo- ber. 1862, in White county, Indiana.
George Kestle, the son of Joseph and Nancy (Shields) Kestle, was edu- cated in the common schools and began life on his own responsibility when twenty-one years old. He rented a farm for seven years in Pulaski county and then purchased seventy-five acres in White county, where he farmed for four years. He sold out and then purchased eighty-five acres in Pulaski county and cultivated the land for eleven years. Subsequently he sold out again and purchased one hundred and thirty acres in Pulaski county, which he farmed for two years. He then farmed one hundred and twenty acres of land in White county for four years, after which he purchased one hundred and twenty acres in Carroll county. Some years ago he sold forty acres of this farm but still owns eighty acres. He is a stockholder in the elevator at Monticello, and from many points of view is a self-made man. On May 30. 1885, George Kestle was married to Rachel Reames, the daughter of Jonathan Reames, who was one of the first settlers in White county. To this marriage there were born seven children, Claude E., Charles Omer, May. Curtis F., Harry M. and Pearl M. Claude F. married Mabel Holmes and lives near Chalmers, in White county. They have three children. Charles Owen, who lives near Monticello, married Eva Fisher. May, who
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lives near Monticello, married Earl Dilling, and they have one child, George Raymond. . Curtis E. is unmarried and lives at home. Harry M. is unmar- ried and lives at home, as does also Pearl M. George Kestle is a Democrat and a member of the New Dunkard church.
Joseph and Nancy ( Shields) Kestle were natives of Austria-Hungary and Virginia, respectively. The former emigrated from Austria-Hungary to America and settled near Youngstown, Ohio, and in 1852 he moved to Pulaski county, Indiana, and took up farming on a tract of four hundred acres of land which he purchased and where he farmed until his death. His wife, Nancy Shields, was the daughter of William. She bore him five chil- dren, among whom are Joseph, who lives at Star City, Indiana, and who married Sarah Crowder, to which union there have been born six children; Mary, who also lives near Star City, married Alonzo Mclaughlin. They are the parents of six children; George is the father of Charles O .; Bar- bara, who lives in Pulaski county, married John Herrick, and they have six children; James resides in the West.
Charles O. Kestle received his early education in the district schools of Pulaski county and in the high school at Monticello. He also attended Purdue University for one year.
On April 10, 1907. Mr. Kestle was married to Eva Fisher, of Pulaski county, a daughter of Martin L. and Rebecca Fisher, both of whom were born in Pulaski county. The former died in 1912 and the latter in 1891. They were both members of the Presbyterian church and were farmers by occupation.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Kestle have had one son, Robert Charles Kestle, who was born on March 25, 1908.
Mr. Kestle operates one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Jefferson township and has been very successful as a farmer. Fraternally, he is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 48, at Delphi. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias at Monticello. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Kes- tle served a term as trustee of Jefferson township. having been appointed by the Carroll county board of commissioners.
Mr. and Mrs. Kestle were married in California and their son was born at Riverside, where they lived for two years after their marriage. Mr. Kestle was engaged in civil engineering work at the time with his brother- in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Kestle had been school teachers. Mr. Kestle taught three terms in White county, and Mrs. Kestle, who is a graduate of the Pulaski high school, taught four terms in Pulaski county. Both Mr. and
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Mrs. Kestle are members of the Pythian Sisters at Monticello, and are mem- bers of the Eastern Star at Monticello.
Mrs. Charles O. Kestle is the youngest of four children born to her parents. Her sister, Mildred, was the wife of C. E. Paul, a civil engineer who lived in California until Mrs. Paul's death, when he returned to Pulaski county and was elected county surveyor, a position which he now holds. Mrs. Kestle's brother, Harry, is a farmer in Pulaski county. Her brother, William E., is also a farmer in Van Buren township, Pulaski county. Indiana.
JOHN M. FORLOW.
John M. Forlow, a prosperous farmer of Burlington township, who owns eighty acres of land, situated four miles southwest of Burlington, is a native of Butler county, Ohio. Mr. Forlow was born on November 28, 1854, the son of William and Margaret ( McCloskey) Forlow, the former of whom was a native of Burks county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Butler county, Ohio. William Forlow accompanied his father, John For- low, to Ohio when a lad of four years, and there grew to manhood and was married to Margaret McCloskey. She was the daughter of John Mc- Closkey, who had also come from Pennsylvania to Ohio.
After their marriage in Butler county, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. William Forlow lived there until February, 1863, when they immigrated to Carroll county, Indiana, and settled on the home farm, near Koro. Mr. Forlow had owned the farm, however, before moving to this county. At the time of their deaths they owned two hundred and forty acres of land in Bur- lington township. They were the parents of three children: Mary Jane, who died in September, 1864; John M., the subject of this sketch, and Daniel S., who lives on the home place.
John M. Forlow lived at home with his parents until his marriage, on September 19, 1877, to Hannah James, the daughter of James C. and Mar- cella James, who were natives of Butler county, Ohio, but who reared their family in Indiana. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Forlow moved to the farm which they have since occupied, with the exception of two years spent in Sedalia. Mr. and Mrs. Forlow have five children: James, who lives on the home farm: Jesse, a resident of Flora; Addie, the widow of Henry Lauchner, of Sedalia: Maggie, the wife of Leonard Mitchell, of Bur- lington township, and Rosa, the wife of Charles Lauchner, of Sedalia.
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Mr. Forlow is a Democrat in politics and has served several terms as a member of the township advisory board. Fraternally, he is a member of Burlington Lodge No. 111, Free and Accepted Masons, and is past master of the lodge. Mrs. Forlow is a member of the Brethren church at Bur- lington, and takes an active interest in all religious works. The Forlows are well known in Burlington township and enjoy the confidence and esteem of all the people of the township.
WILLIAM LONG.
Splendid achievements always excite admiration, and men who accom- plish things are men whom the world delights to honor. Ours is an age representing progress in all lines of material activity, and the man of initia- tive is the one who forges to the front in the commercial world. Among the well-known, retired farmers of Flora, Indiana, and among its venerable citizens is William Long, one of the worthy pioneers of this section, who, in his advanced age, is still able to look after his farm properties. He is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of land, practically all of which he has made by his own efforts, but this venerable citizen has not permitted the accumulation of fortune to affect in any way his actions toward those less fortunate than he. He is a man of most sympathetic turn of mind, and has a host of warm and admiring friends who honor him for the work that he has done, and the things for which he has stood in this community.
William Long was born in Butler county, Ohio, March 16, 1835, and is a son of Noah and Barbara (Bolinger) Long, the latter of whom was a native of Germany, coming to America with her parents when only two years old. They settled in Butler county, Ohio, where she grew to woman- hood and where she was married to Noah Long. In 1845 Noah Long and family emigrated to Indiana and settled in Democrat township, Carroll county, where both lived to the end of their lives. They were the parents of two children, one of whom died in infancy, and William, of whom this narrative speaks. Noah Long was a prosperous farmer and was the owner of a quarter section of land in Democrat township. On his father's farm William Long grew to manhood. He attended the pioneer district schools a few months and remained at home with his father on the home farm as long as the latter lived.
Mr. Long was first married to Mary A. Smith, and to this union were
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born four children: Mary A., the wife of John H. Woodram; Ellen, the wife of William Hinkle, and Jennie and Alpha. The mother of these children died and afterwards Mr. Long was married to Martha Akens, who is also deceased, leaving no children. Mr. Long was subsequently married to Lissie Jewett, and to this union were born six children : Margaret, Dora, Emma, Garfield, John and Roscoe. Mr. Long was next married, in 1888, to Mrs. Lydia A. (Gaumer) Sibit, the widow of Alva Sibit. She was born in Carroll county. December 8, 1861. By her marriage to Mr. Sibit she had two children, of whom one, Edna M., is a graduate of the Flora high school.
William Long is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in Com- pany K, Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and later in Company E, Forty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving almost from the beginning to the close of that great struggle.
Fraternally, Mr. Long is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 605. He has always been a Republican in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Long are quiet and unassuming people, who are privileged to enjoy the' fruit of a substantial competency. They are well known in Flora and vicinity and enjoy the confidence and esteem of all who know them.
JOHN W. AYRES. -
The career of the late John W. Ayres was one marked by earnest and indefatigable application, not only to his personal affairs, but to the welfare of the public generally. At the time of his death, on January 2, 1909, in Democrat township, Carroll county, Indiana, he was one of the best-known citizens of the township. He served as a valiant soldier in the Civil War and there laid the foundation of a lofty character, which marked all of the relations of his life. He enjoyed a large measure of the popular confidence and esteem, and at his death had a host of friends, who mourn his loss, besides the widow, who had journeyed with him along the pathway of life, and his children.
. The late John W .. Ayres was born on June 20, 1838, the son of Will- iam Ayres, a native of Virginia. John W. Ayres was born in Virginia, and at the age of two years, his mother having died, the family was brought to a farm. near Peru, Indiana. Later, however, the father took the family back to Virginia. John W. lived in the Old Dominion state until a young man
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and then came back to Indiana a couple of years before the outbreak of the Civil War.
In 1861 John W. Ayres enlisted in Company H, Third Indiana Cavalry, and was attached to the Forty-fifth Regiment. He served for three years and then returned to Indiana and was married on January 3, 1867, to Caro- line Tinkle. Mrs. Ayres is the daughter of Isaac T. and Mahalia (Douden) Tinkle, the former of whom was born in the Old Dominion state, of Dutch ancestry, his father being Henry Tinkle. Isaac Tinkle came with his par- ents to Indiana when a mere lad. He entered one hundred and sixty acres or more of land from the government and grew up on this farm. His wife was the daughter of Augustus Douden, whose family emigrated to Indiana from Preble county, Ohio. Mahalia Douden accompanied her father to Indiana when a young woman. Her mother died in Ohio and the family settled on the farm now known as the Parse farm, near where Isaac Tinkle lived. Mahalia Douden grew up in this neighborhood and there she met Isaac Tinkle. After their marriage, they settled on a farm one and one- half miles south of where Mrs. John W. Ayres now lives. They lived there for two or three years and then moved to the farm now known as the Butcher farm, where Mrs. Ayres was born on March 28, 1851. They lived here for a great many years. He died at Greenwood, Indiana, on February II, 1914, and his wife in Frankfort, Indiana, a good many years previously. They had ten children, all of whom, except two, grew to manhood and womanhood. Six are now living, as follow: Alvah L. is a resident of Newark, Ohio; Mrs. Ayres is the widow of the subject of this sketch; Dorcas M. is the widow of Jonathan Cook, of Frankfort; Eveline is the wife of Joshua Straughn, of London. Indiana; Martha E. is the widow of Newton Lung, of Frankfort; Warren E. is a resident of near Greenwood, Marion county, Indiana. The deceased children are: Mary Jane, who was the wife of Hendricks F. Parse; Milton, who died at the age of fifteen; William H., who died on April 13, 1915, and Emma, who died in infancy. Mrs. Ayres lived with her parents until her marriage to John W. Ayres, in 1867.
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