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DR. AND MRS, JOHN H. ALEXANDER.
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a native of the north of England, born near the Scottish line, who married Anna Blackburn. Their children were, Nancy, Mary Ann, Vastine, Benja- min, James Harvey, Elizabeth, Isaac Newton, Presley C., Jeretta and Marie.
Dr. John C. Alexander and Nancy Wilson were married, August 27, 1822, and were the parents of seven children, Angeline, born on May 10. 1823, who married Rev. Erastus Thayer; John H., David Wesley, March 4. 1830, died in September, 1863; James Wilson, Jr., May 12, 1837, died on January 2, 1854: Nancy Jane, October 16, 1832, who married Jacob Harness ; William Fethian and Guy Smith, twins, at Danville, Illinois, December 4, 1839. William F. died on October 7, 1847, and Guy Smith became a lawyer and, during the Civil War, was second lieutenant in Company F, Sixty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently, he was promoted to first lieutenant, captain and major and was mustered out of the service as inspector-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, November 30, 1865. At this time he was not twenty-one years old.
Educated in the country schools of Illinois and at Danville, that state, after his father's death, Dr. John HI. Alexander moved to Palestine, Illinois, where he attended the Parrish Academy and later the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. In these times the schools were very crude, especially the buildings in which they were housed. He crossed the plains to California in 1850, by mule team, during the gold fever and spent eight years in the West. Locating in Decatur county, July 7. 1858, for the practice of his profession, four years later, on September 27, 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Silas Colgrove, and was promoted to surgeon. July 15, 1864, having been commissioned assistant surgeon, September 27, 1862. He was mustered out of service on November 4. 1864.
In December, 1860, Doctor Alexander was married to Mary Tarking- ton, who was born on February 25, 1834, in Greensburg, Indiana, a daughter of Rev. Joseph Tarkington, a well-known pioneer minister of the Methodist church. Mary Tarkington attended Mrs. Larabee's school for young ladies at Greencastle, Indiana, from 1848 to 1851, in which latter year she gradu- ated. Mrs. Larabee was the wife of Prof. William Larabee of Asbury Col- lege, now DePauw University. She is an aunt of the well-known Indiana author, Booth Tarkington. Dr. and Mrs. Alexander have had two children, John T., who lives in Greensburg, and Joseph H., a traveling drug salesman of Springfield, Illinois. John T., who also is a traveling salesman, married Claudia Hill. Joseph H. married Myrilla Anderson and they have one child, Margaret June.
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A practicing physician in Decatur county ever since the close of the Civil War, Doctor Alexander served fourteen years as secretary of the board of pension examiners. \ Republican in politics, he served as secretary of the county board of health for over ten years. He was a member of the county and state medical societies and also a delegate to the American Medical Association in 1882. Ile was also in charge of the Odd Fellows' home for six and one-half years. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined that order in 1874, and is a charter member of Milford Lodge. Doctor and Mrs. Alexander are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greensburg, where the Doctor has lived in his present fine home since 1892.
HUGHI THOMAS MCCRACKEN.
Hugh Thomas MeCracken is one of the well-known, thrifty and suc- cessful farmers of historic old Fugit township, Decatur county, Indiana, who owns two hundred and forty-five acres of well-cultivated lad, well located, fertile and highly productive. He is, in the most exacting interpre- tation of the term, a twentieth century farmer, and one who, because he knows how to farm, has always been satisfied to live in the country and to enjoy life in the open with his wife and children for his nearest and closest companions. Having built a comfortable home many years ago, the Mc- Cracken family is well situated to enjoy all the comforts and conveniences of country life, and they are among the most intelligent, up-to-date and progressive people of a township, which in pioncer times has furnished the bone and sinew that has made Decatur county famous in the Hoosier state.
Hugh Thomas MeCracken was born on November 22, 1843, on the farm where he now lives, the son of John James and Sarah Ann MeCracken, the former of whom was born on October 6, 1820, and who died in 1878. He was a son of James and Sally (Meek) McCracken, and was brought to Decatur county, Indiana, by the parents when three years old. James McCracken, who was born on November 6, 1787, in Kentucky, who married Sally Meek, born in August, 1784. settled on land in the neighborhood of his grandson's farm, was a tanner by trade and learned to write by marking on leather. An elder in the Social Reformed Presbyterian church, he was well known during his day and generation. He and his wife had seven children, Hugh T., born on December 19, 1810, died in infancy; Thomas,
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April 12, 1812, married Nancy Patton ; Elizabeth, March 12, 1814, married Samuel L. Anderson; Martha, May 12, 1815, became the wife of John Kincaid ; Sally Ann, September 26, 1817, married Thomas Meek, October 4. 1838. John J. was the father of Hugh Thomas McCracken: Adam R., May 30, 1824, and married Mary J. Rankin, March 13, 1851.
Reared on the pioneer farm of his father, John J. McCracken event- ually settled on the farm and lived where James Maxwell now lives. He was widely known, especially as one of the foremost Democrats of Decatur county, and as a member of the Social Reformed Presbyterian church. John J. and Sarah Ann MeCracken had ten children, William David died in 1913; Hugh Thomas is the subject of this sketch; Martha is the wife of Samuel Stewart, of Rushville, Indiana; Mary died in youth; Benjamin B. lives in Rush county; James, who was twice married, by his second marriage to Mary Spillman, had four children; Newton Jasper lives in Shelbyville ; John Wilson and Gilbert Gordon live in Alabama ; Mrs. Myrta Ann Foley lives in Greensburg.
Educational facilities were considerably limited during the boyhood and youth of Hugh Thomas MeCracken, and his education was confined to a limited attendance at Springhill and Mt. Carmel schools. As soon as he was old enough, he assisted his father with the farm work on the old homestead farm and when he was married moved into the old house standing on his farm. By purchasing his sister's interest, he received eighty acres of his father's land, which by diligence and careful management and long and arduous toil, he has increased to two hundred and forty-seven acres. He now owns practically all of the old home place.
On October 27, 1864, Mr. McCracken was married to Martha L. Kin- caid, who was born on May 24. 1841, in Fugit township, and who is the daughter of John and Priscilla (Alexander ) Kincaid, natives of Kentucky. The latter, who was reared in Rush county, Indiana, was the daughter of John Alexander, who was born in 1813, and who died in April. 1895. It was a son of John Kincaid who entered the Kincaid land in 1821, and established a home in 1829. By his first marriage, John Kincaid had two children, Mrs. Martha L. McCracken, and Mary, deceased, the wife of David Martin, deceased; another child, John Alexander, born to this first marriage, had died in infancy. The mother dying in 1844. John Kincaid was married, a second time, to Nancy Alexander, sister of his first wife, who bore him seven children, John Andrew, deceased; Mrs. Priscilla Jane McCoy, of Fugit township; Rhoda Margaret, deceased; John Andrew, who died at
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the age of twenty-one; William Jasper, of near Springhill; Gilbert Gordon, who lives on the home place, and Cyrus, deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh MeCracken four children have been born, Cynthia Ann, the wife of Rufus Moore, who has four children, Lillian Ellen, Walter Thomas, Mary Ann; Ellen Moore married Thomas Kitehin, of Fugit township, and they have one son, John Robert; Sarah Helen married the Rev. Fred Schmunk. of Moorefield; Mary E. married Fern Power, who is now deceased, and who left one child, Ruth; Wilma Orta married James Maxwell, and lives on the old homestead in Fugit township; they have one son, William Thomas.
Politically, Mr. McCracken is a prominent leader in the councils of the Democratic party in Decatur county, and especially in Fugit township, where he lives. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken and family are members of the United Presbyterian church at Springhill.
The career of Hugh T. McCracken, it must be conceded, measures up well with the services of his distinguished ancestors, who were pioneers in this county, since he has, with somewhat better opportunities than were enjoyed by his forefathers, established a comfortable home, and reared a family of children to equally honorable and useful lives. From the stand- point of service the enterprising thrifty cultivation of his farm in Fugit town- ship is sufficient to entitle him to honorable mention as a citizen of this great county.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON.
One of the most picturesque farms and one of the most magnificent country homes to be found anywhere in Decatur county, is located in Wash- ington township, and comprises four hundred and eighty acres of fertile land, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Jackson, well-known citizens of this county. With a thoroughly modern home and beautiful, well-kept grounds, shaded by giant trees, especially neat and attractive driveways, this attractive farm bespeaks the intelligence, industry and fine appreciation of country life by its owners and proprietors. Descended from two of the very oldest families of Decatur county, they not only are among the most prosperous and influential people to be found anywhere in the county, but the family is living up to the ideals of the worthy progenitors, who during their day and generation were also leading citizens of the county.
Samuel L. Jackson, who was born on February 2, 1846, at Cincinnati,
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Ohio, is the son of William and Amelia ( Hillman) Jackson, natives of Vir- ginia and Maryland, respectively, the former of whom was born on October 13. 1797, and who died in 1869, and the latter of whom was born on January 31, 1805, and who died, March 6, 1882. They were married, July 19, 1823. Left an orphan at a tender age, William Jackson left his southern home, and made his way to Cincinnati, where he arrived in 1831. Here for a time as a protege of Nicholas Longworth I, he worked at the tailor trade and also engaged in teaming. While living in Cincinnati, he met with an accident in which he lost his left leg below the knee. One of his boyhood ambitions having been to own a farm, in 1846 he settled on a tract of land in Fugit township, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres, and two years later sold it and moved to a farm near Milford. Here he prospered beyond any expectations of his boyhood, and beyond any dreams or fancies of his early life, reaching a position of influence in the community, and passing away. June, 1869, at the age of seventy-two, rich in experience and rich in possessions of this world's goods. Of the thirteen children born to William and Amelia (Hillman) Jackson, only one, Samuel L., the subject of this sketch, and the youngest child of the family, is now living. The children, in the order of their birth, are as follow: Mrs. Sarah Ann ( Porter) Alden, born on February 20, 1825: James Henry, April 26, 1827; William Thomas, October 3, 1828; Rebecca Frances, April 9, 1830; Henry Jackson, February II, 1832; Mary Elizabeth, October 3, 1832; Mrs. Christe Ann Woodward, June 30, 1835: Mrs. Amelia Priscilla Marlow, March 14, 1837; Mrs. Louisa Layton Clark, October 28. 1838; John White, April 7, 1840; Mrs. Mary Hester Porter, March 24, 1842; Henrietta, May 21, 1844, and Samuel Latta, February 2, 1846.
That Samuel L. Jackson's progress and prosperity as a farmer are just rewards of his generous and unselfish kindness to a mother and children of a deceased sister, cannot be denied. Educated in the country schools, he lived with his mother until forty years old, and in 1886, the same year his sister, Mrs. Porter, died, he brought his mother and three sons of his departed sister to the farm, two miles west of Greensburg.
Later on in the same year, September 9. 1886, Mr. Jackson was married to Mary Hamilton, the daughter of Robert Marshall and Mary (Morgan) Hamilton, who was born on October 8, 1848, and who at the time of their marriage was two years her husband's junior. After his marriage, Mr. Jackson moved to the farm owned by Robert Marshall Hamilton, the old home place.
Robert Marshall Hamilton was born on November 17, 1811, and died
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on August 6, 1901. His wife, who, before her marriage, was Mary Morgan, was born in January, 1811, and died, February 3, 1884. They were married, September 26, 1834. He was the son of Robert Hamilton, who, in turn, was the son of William Hamilton. Robert Marshall Hamilton, who was born in Kentucky, came to Decatur county, Indiana, when twelve years old and lived in Washington township all his life. During his life he erected a large brick house on the Clarksburg turnpike in Washington township, and it is this house which has since been remodeled, until it is now one of the most beautiful and attractive farm homes in Decatur county. Of the five children born to Robert Marshall and Mary ( Morgan) Hamilton only three are now living, Charles C. and Gerard are deceased; Thomas Woodson, the eldest child, lives in Greensburg: Mrs. Sarah Rankin lives in Washington town- ship: Mrs. Samuel L. Jackson is the other living child. A very energetic man, Robert Marshall Hamilton provided well for his family, educated his children and amassed a fortune, owning at the time of his death, thirteen hundred acres of land. First an Abolitionist, then a Republican and still later a Prohibitionist, he was a man of pronounced views. It is an interesting fact that his home was an important station of the underground railway, and that he sheltered many runaway slaves during his life, narrowly escaping trouble and damages on several occasions. A member of the Presbyterian church, in the latter part of his life he gave freely of his wealth to various educational institutions, and during his day and generation had, perhaps, more to do with the educational progress of this county than any other man.
To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Jackson have been born three children, all of whom are living at home with their parents, Robert Hamilton, on January 29, 1889: Louise, November 29, 1892, and Amelia, February 12, 1894. These children attended the district schools and finished their school work in Purdue University and Oberlin College.
All the members of the Jackson family are identified with the Kingston Presbyterian church. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Independent Club, and her daughters of the Department Club and of the Kingston Progress Club. Robert Hamilton, the only son, is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Jackson joined the Greensburg Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 103, when twenty-one years of age, and has been a member all his life. Formerly a Republican in politics, he identified himself with the new Progressive party at its formation and has been active in its councils in Decatur county. All the members of the Jackson family are well known and prominent socially in Greensburg and Decatur county. They are among the most hospitable citizens to be found anywhere in the county and well deserve the high social
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regard and esteem bestowed upon them by the people of this county. Highly educated, cultured and refined, the Jackson family has added much to the wholesome community spirit and life of Washington township.
THOMAS J. KITCHIN.
Like his brother, Guy Kitchin, whose sketch is found elsewhere in this. volume. Thomas J. Kitchin is one of the highly respected and influential citizens of Fugit township, and is deserving of all the good things that come to him in this life. He is a man who attends strictly to his own affairs, and believes in letting others have the same privileges that he requires for him- self. He is broad-minded, full of sympathy for those in distress, and is generous in doing his part, when charity calls upon him.
Thomas J. Kitchin, of Fugit township, was born on September II, 1890, on the home place, and is a son of Frank Benjamin Kitchin. Thomas J. is a farmer, and is proud of his vocation, in which he takes the utmost interest. His education was obtained, first at the public schools of Kingston, after which he spent two years at the Greensburg high school, and later attended the Central Business College, at Indianapolis. He began farming on August 1, 1912, on the one hundred and sixty acres of land belonging to his father, which he has improved with a new dwelling house, and a fine barn. He is a Republican, and a member of the United Presbyterian church at Springhill.
Frank Benjamin Kitchin, father of subject, was a native of Decatur county. and lived there all his life, until his removal to Indianapolis. His present address is Indianapolis, where he is in the stock business.
Thomas J. Kitchin was married on June 19, 1912, to Miss Lillian Ellen Moore, who was born in Fugit township. She is a daughter of Rufus and Anna (McCracken) Moore. Rufus Moore was born in Covington, Ken- tucky. He now lives in Fugit township. Mrs. Kitchin graduated from the Greensburg high schools in 1911, and attended Monmouth College at Mon- mouth, Illinois, for one year, at the end of which time she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchin are members of the United Presbyterian church, where twelve families meet once a month for the purpose of discussing matters of general interest in the community in which they live. They have one son, John Robert Kitchin, born on April 30, 1913.
Rufus Sanford Moore was born on January 24, 1866, at Covington,
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Kentucky, and is a son of Joseph W. and Mary Ann (Stevens) Moore. He was employed, when quite young. in a tin shop at Clarksburg, and later in a bank at Delphi, Indiana. After his marriage, he farmed for fifteen years in Rush county, and then came to Decatur county, and now resides on the MeCracken farm. His wife is a daughter of Hugh MeCracken, an old resi- dent of Fugit township. They were the parents of the following children : Lillian Ellen ( Kitchin), born on February 11, 1891; Walter, who is now farming, and Mary Ann, who is at home.
JASPER COBB.
One of the well-known retired farmers of Decatur county, Indiana, and one of the veterans of our great Civil War, is Jasper Cobb, who was born on August 5, 1847, in Washington township on a pioneer farm, and who is the son of Dyar and Elmira (Tremain) Cobb, the former of whom was born on August 6, 1807, died in 1900, and the latter of whom was born in 1810, and who died in 1885. Dyar Cobb was a native of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and the son of Joshua Cobb, of Colonial ancestry and of Welsh descent.
In 1818 Joshua Cobb and family came down the Ohio river by boat, and, after remaining for two years in Dearborn county, on account of the dry seasons, came on to Decatur county, where only two houses could be seen from the farm he entered, to which place, in the spring of 1821, he brought his family. Here on the Michigan trail, in Marion township, Joshua Cobb pre-empted land, blazing his way through the forest from Napoleon in Ripley county. He put up a brick shack against a huge poplar log for his first home, and then felled logs and built a cabin. A large and vigorous man, he died in 1860. His wife, who was a Miss Crawford before her mar- riage, died in 1864. His eight children, Willard, Dyar, John, Percy, Elke- nah, Mrs. Maria Christy, Helen and Mrs. Martha Terhune, are all deceased, the last named dying in Illinois.
When Dyar Cobb attained his majority he cleared a farm on the Michi- gan road, and there reared his family. The owner of three hundred acres of land, he was prominent during his day and generation, but declined offi- cial preferment. He was a member of the Universalist church and a Repub- lican in politics, casting his first vote, however, for the Whig candidates in 1828. Early in life he had learned the brick-burning trade, and followed
MR. AND MRS. JASPER COBB.
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this trade occasionally. Of the twelve children born to Dyar and Elmira (Tremain) Cobb, all but four died in youth or infancy. Mrs. Nancy Hazel- rigg, the eldest, died in 1905. Among the other children were: Mrs. O. C. Elder; Mrs. Martha Stewart, of Illinois; John, Nancy, Joshua, Harvey, Mary, Newton and Jasper.
At the age of sixteen years, Jasper Cobb enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in 1864, under Captain Joseph Drake and under Colonel Gavin, serving one hundred and twenty days. He enlisted, however, for only one hundred days. Mr. Cobb eventually came into possession of the old Cobb homestead of three hundred acres, but disposed of two hundred acres of the farm in 1906. He still has one hundred acres left. Until February 14, 1898, he was actively engaged in farming, and then removed to Greensburg.
In March, 1873, Jasper Cobb was married to Ann Eliza Montgomery. They had one child, Robert, who died at the age of four and one-half years. Mrs. Cobb, the daughter of John G. H. and Sarah (Shadrick) Montgom- ery, the former of whom was born on August 14, 1819, in Kentucky, a farnier by occupation, and one who was well educated and a natural genius. Mrs. Montgomery was born on May 8, 1813. In 1849 John G. H. Mont- gomery purchased a small farin, one and one-half miles southeast of Greens- . burg, and there established a home, increasing his acreage until he owned five farms. He is now deceased, having passed from this life in 1894. He and his wife reared a family of eight children. Of these children, Nancy Jane was born on November 1, 1840, married N. S. Potter, and died on April 8, 1870; Sarah E., January 25, 1842, who married Leonard McCune, died on March 5, 1874; Mary F., in 1844, married J. C. St. John, of Greens- burg : Henry H., in 1846, was a soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty- fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He lives in Zirich, Mon- tana: Robert WV., in 1848, died in Oregon on October 1, 1911; Ann Eliza married Mr. Cobb and is a talented and gracious woman ; John Q., Septem- ber 26, 1853, lives in Grants Pass, Oregon; George, in 1854, owns and operates a garage in Greensburg.
Of Mrs. Cobb's remote ancestry, it may be said that her great-grand- father, Hugh Montgomery, was born in 1760, in Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania, and that he and his brother William were soldiers in the Revo- lutionary War. William was lost. A half-brother, George, also disappeared. Hugh Montgomery married Eva Hartman in 1784, a native of Germany. They had thirteen children, among whom were Mary, the wife of Alexan-
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der Ganst : Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson ; Thomas; Henry ; Margaret ; William; Sallie, and Hugh, Jr., the grandfather of Mrs. Cobb, who was born on August 29, 1797. While on a visit to Kentucky, he fell in love with a dis- tant cousin, Elizabeth Montgomery, and married her, October 14, 1818. They resided in Shelby county, Kentucky, until 1830, when they came to Indiana, settling two miles north of Greensburg. Here they purchased a farm one mile southeast of Greensburg. The wife died, December 4, 1859. When Hugh Montgomery was sixty-six years old he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but was refused admission in the army on account of his age. He died, April 22, 1872. His son, John G. H. Montgomery, the father of Mrs. Cobb, who married Sarah Shadrick, died in 1898.
Of Mrs. Cobb it may be said that she is a talented woman, and one who is well known in this section for her beautiful poem, the "Old Home- stead." She also is the author of that portion of the Montgomery genealogy which deals especially with the Montgomerys of Decatur county. Indiana. Mr. Cobb is a Republican, a member of the Baptist church and of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of Pap Thomas Post No. 5. Grand Army of the Republic, at Greensburg, Indiana. Mrs. Cobb is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lone Tree Chapter, of which she has been active as a charter member and she was the second treasurer of the chapter.
THOMAS DUFFEY.
Not very far from the city of Greensburg. Decatur county. Indiana, and located in Washington township, is a beautiful farm of two hundred and four acres, known as the Prairie View farm, and where the passerby may see, sitting well back from the much-traveled thoroughfare, a large frame- barn, of modern construction, and an old-time brick house. Since February 18, 1910. this has been the home of Mrs. Anna ( Koors) Duffey and children. The buildings are set well within a wide and spacious lawn with numerous trees to break the monotony of the landscape and to furnish abundant shade during the hot days of an Indiana summer.
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