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the second war of American independence broke out and he served during the War of 1812 as a member of Captain Smith's troop of the First Ken- tucky Regiment, which performed valiant service along the Indiana frontier under the command of General Harrison. On January 18, 1814, he married, in Bracken county, Kentucky, Hannah Huff, of that county, whose parents, John and Martha Huff, natives of the state of Pennsylvania, later came to Indiana and settled in Union county, where they spent their last days. In 1814, shortly after his marriage, James Newland, in company with the two Piggmans. Jesse and Adam, and John Huff, came up into Indiana Territory looking for land and were so well pleased with the lay of the land up here in the valley of the White Water that James Newland entered a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, in what afterward came to be organized as Jennings township, this county, and the others entered one hundred and sixty-six acres each. Upon securing the title to his land James Newland returned to Kentucky and in 1818 came back up here with his family and established his home on his half section in Jennings township. He was a man of large views, sagacious and intelligent and he prospered in his under- takings, soon coming to be regarded as one of the leaders in that community, as he also was one of its most substantial citizens. He was one of the trustees of the old county library board and in other ways did his part in developing the social and cultural life of the new community. He was an ardent Mason, having joined that order in the early days of the institution of Freemasonry at Cincinnati, and all his life took an active interest in Masonic affairs. James Newland died on his old home place in Jennings township in January, 1849, and his widow survived him but six months, her death occurring in July of that same year.
John Newland was reared on the home farm in Jennings township and there spent practically all his life. As a hoy he was attentive to his studies, the schooling he received in the primitive schools of that day being supple- mented by valuable instructions received from his parents, and he taught the first school opened at Alquina. On April 20, 1843, he married Maria Edwards, daughter of William and Rachel Edwards, pioneers of that part of the county, and after his marriage established his home on the old home place, which, after the death of his parents five years later, he continued to operate the rest of his life. "Uncle" John Newland, as he was known throughout that whole countryside, was a good farmer and became the owner of four hundred and twenty-five acres of land, one of the best-improved farms in that part of the county. He was an ardent Mason and an equally ardent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of both the
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subordinate lodge and the encampment of the latter order, to which latter he was admitted on June 4, 1863. He was raised to the degree of master Mason in Warren Lodge No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, December II, 1869, and in the affairs of both of these fraternal organizations ever took an earnest interest. "Uncle" John Newland died at his home in Jennings town- ship on November 15, 1893, he then being seventy-four years, eight months and three days of age, survived by his widow and six of their seven children and seven grandchildren.
Charlie Newland farmed on the home farm south of Alquina from the days of his youth until recent years. As a boy of fifteen years he started to do things on his own behalf, his father at that time turning over to him a couple of acres of ground on which to try his hand both as a wheat farmer and as a corn farmer. The desire to do the best he knew how prompted him to give his best efforts to the cultivation of this tract and he had an acre of wheat and an acre of corn that was the pride of the neighborhood. This initial effort encouraged him to take an interest in the work of the farm and his father gave him every opportunity to acquire a careful knowledge of farming and farm management. In addition to his general farming he early began to give his attention to the raising of live stock, with particular atten- tion to the breeding of pure-bred Berkshire hogs, and he made quite a suc- cess in that line. After his marriage in 1881 he continued to make his home on the old home farm until in March, 1907, when he moved to Connersville and was there engaged in the feed business for about two years, at the end of which time he bought the farm of one hundred and fifteen acres in the southeastern part of Fairview township, where he since has made his home and where he and his wife are very pleasantly situated. The day on which Mr. Newland took possession of that farm the barn burned with all its con- tents, entailing upon him a loss of about three thousand dollars, but he immediately rebuilt the barn and now has a better one than before. An unusual series of misfortunes in his life which Mr. Newland sometimes refers to is the fact that within a period of thirteen years he broke his right leg four times, the accident in each instance being due to an apparently trivial cause. The house in which Mr. and Mrs. Newland live was built about sixty years ago and was constructed of timber grown on the place, poplar, walnut and gray, so substantially that the house still has a look of being almost new. There is a well constructed basement underneath the whole house and in one of the rooms of this basement is a great old-fashioned fireplace with a crane in it. Mr. Newland has made further improvements to the place since he took it in charge and has a very well-kept farm plant.
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As noted above, Charlie Newland was married in 1881. His wife, Margaret Belle Thomas, was born in Columbia township, this county, daugh- ter of Gilbert V. and Sarah (Allen) Thomas, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Indiana, whose last days were spent on a farm in Columbia township. Gilbert V. Thomas, who was born in 1808, came to Indiana from New York and became an early settler in Columbia township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life. His wife, Sarah Allen, was born and reared on a farm in the Duck Creek neighborhood, in Franklin. county, three and one-half miles south of Everton. Mr. and Mrs. Newland take a proper interest in the general social affairs of their home neighborhood and are helpful in all good works thereabout. Mr. Newland is a member of the Knights of Pythias, with which order he has been affiliated for thirty- three years, and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, with which organization he has been affiliated for twenty-seven years.
WILLIAM R. PHILLIPS, M. D.
Dr. William R. Phillips, a well-known practicing physician at Orange and thoroughly identified with the best interests of that community, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Chelsea, in Jefferson county, this state, October 26, 1878, son of Dr. Andrew H. and Elvira G. (McKeand) Phillips, both of whom were born in that same county and whose last days were spent there.
Dr. Andrew H. Phillips, who was born in 1844, was a son of George C. and Abigail (Harland) Phillips, the former of whom was a grandson of George C. Phillips, who came from England in 1832 and settled in Jeffer- son county, this state. Abigail Harland was a member of the widely repre- sented Harland family in this country, the family descending from two brothers, George and Michael Harland, who came to America in Colonial times and whose descendants recently held a reunion in Chicago, at which covers were laid for fifteen hundred persons, including among the number some of the foremost men of this country. When the Civil War broke out Andrew H. Phillips was but seventeen years of age. He tried to enter the service of the Union army, but his enlistment was rejected on physical grounds. He later was accepted, however, and served in the hospital service for about a year. At the close of the war he found his sympathies so closely in touch with the medical practice that he decided to become a physician and with that
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object in view came to this county and began the study of medicine in the office of his brother-in-law, Doctor Sipe, at Fayetteville, now Orange, and after a course of study under that preceptorship returned to his home in Jefferson county and began the practice of medicine at Chelsea. He later entered the Indiana Medical College and was graduated from that institution in 1875. Ten years later he entered upon a post-graduate course in the medical college at Cincinnati and was graduated from that institution in 1886, after which he resumed his practice at Chelsea, where he died on Sep- tember 8, 1888. His wife had preceded him to the grave about three years, her death having occurred in 1885. She also was born in Jefferson county, daughter of James and Sarah (Wood) McKeand, the former of whom, a cooper and shoemaker, was of Scottish descent. Dr. Andrew H. Phillips and wife were members of the Methodist church. The Doctor was a Mason, having affiliated with that ancient order while living at old Fayetteville, in this county. He took an active part in political affairs and for some years served as trustee of his home township in Jefferson county.
Dr. William R. Phillips received admirable training for the exacting profession upon which early in life he decided to enter. Though but ten years of age when his father died he had even then determind to follow his father's profession and early began reading to that end. Following his gradu- ation from the high school at Lexington, this state, he entered the Marion Normal College and continued his studies there until within about ten weeks of the time he should have graduated. He then began teaching school and for about three years was thus engaged, in the meantime pursuing privately his medical studies, and in due time entered the Kentucky School of Medi- cine at Louisville, from which institution he was graduated on July 12, 1905. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor Phillips came to Fayette county and opened an office at Orange, where his uncle, Doctor Sipe, years before had been in practice and where his father gained his early medi- cal education. There Doctor Phillips has ever since been engaged in practice and has been quite successful. He has an excellent practice and is in numerous useful ways identified with the growing interests of the community of which he has become an influential factor. Doctor Phillips is a Republican and dur- ing the memorable campaign of 1912 put in his lot with the Progressive wing of that party and was nominated for the office of coroner of Fayette county and for joint representative of Fayette and Franklin counties, but withdrew from the race in order to support James K. Mason, Republican nominee. Doctor Phillips is a Mason, as was his father, and has twice been master of Orange Lodge No. 234, Free and Accepted Masons, in which lodge he has filled all the offices save those of secretary and treasurer. He also is a mem-
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ber of the local lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men, has filled all the offices in that lodge with the exception of that of keeper of wampum, and is now district deputy great sachem of the order of this tribe.
On December 25, 1901, Dr. William R. Phillips was united in marriage to Mary Wilson, of Forest, Ohio, who was born in Hardin county, that state, daughter of Randall A. and Lydia J. (Coleman) Wilson, and who was attending the normal school at Marion at the time she met Doctor Phillips. She taught school for one term before her marriage. To Doctor and Mrs. Phillips four children have been born, one of whom, William R., died when seven weeks old. The other children are David Coleman, Nilah Grace and Richard Austin. The Doctor, his wife and family, are members of the Christian church at Orange and take a proper interest in church work, as well as in the general good works of the community in which they live, helpful in promoting all worthy causes thereabout.
JOHN C. NAYLOR.
John C. Naylor, one of Fairview township's best-known and most sub- stantial farmers, was born in a log house on a pioneer farm in Blooming Grove township, in the neighboring county of Franklin, and has lived in this section of Indiana all his life. He was born on December 6, 1856, son of Joel and Sarah (Glidewell) Naylor, both of whom were born and reared in Franklin county, members of pioneer families there, and both of whom have been dead for many years, the subject of this sketch having been orphaned when but a child.
John P. Naylor, father of Joel Naylor, was one of the earliest settlers in the Blooming Grove settlement in Franklin county. He was born in Pennsyl- vania about 1792 and when twenty years of age came to Indiana Territory on a prospecting trip, crossing the site of what is now the prosperous city of Connersville when there was but one log cabin there. He went on farther to the west and entered a tract of one hundred and sixty acres near the junction of White river and Fall creek, where the city of Indianapolis later came to be laid out by the state survey party sent out by the Legislature to locate a capital for the state. He cleared quite a bit of that track, land now a part of the city of Indianapolis, but the constant prevalence of fever and ague in the swampy country so discouraged him that he abandoned the farm and moved to Franklin county. His widowed mother and two sisters were with him, hav- ing moved out from Pennsylvania to join him in his Indiana home, and they
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established their home in Blooming Grove township upon moving to Frank- lin county and there became established as among the early settlers of that part of the county. John P. Naylor became a contractor during the time of the construction of the old White Water canal and built a number of the aqueducts along the course of that historic waterway. He was a man of robust and vigorous physique and lived to be about eighty-five years of age.
Joel Naylor grew up in Franklin county and became a carpenter and stone mason, as well as a farmer, and some two-story houses he built in his home neighborhood are still standing. He was killed by the kick of a horse in 1860, his son, the subject of this sketch being then but three years of age. His widow, who was born in Franklin county, a daughter of Nash Glidewell and wife, Virginians, who had settled in Franklin county in pioneer days, survived him about eight years, her death occurring when her son, John C., was eleven years of age.
Following the death of his mother, John C. Naylor made his home with his uncle, William Naylor, for three years, at the end of which time he went to Connersville, where he found employment in a machine shop and wood- working establishment and presently became an expert machinist and cabinet- maker, trades that he followed in that city for twenty-three years. In 1898 he traded his home in Connersville for a farm in Fairview township and on February 20, 1899, moved onto that farm, where he ever since has made his home and where he has done very well as a farmer. Mr. Naylor has a well- kept farm of one hundred and sixty-one acres and has improved the same in excellent shape, conducting his farming operations in accordance with the approved methods of modern agriculture.
On October 3, 1883, John C. Naylor was united in marriage to Isabel Waggoner, who was born in Wabash county, this state, daughter of Michael and Sarah (Clanford) Waggoner, the former of whom was born near Flat Rock, in Rush county, this state, and the latter in Pen Yan county, New York. Michael Waggoner lived at Henryville a short time after his mar- riage and then moved to Wabash county, where he farmed for a few years, at the end of which time he returned to this part of the state and settled on a farm on the north edge of Franklin county, in Blooming Grove township, where he spent most of the remainder of his life, his last days being spent in the village of Blooming Grove, where his daughter, Isabel, was living at the time of her marriage to Mr. Naylor. To that union one child has been born, a daughter, Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Naylor are members of the Methodist church and take a proper part in church work, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they live.
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RICHARD WASSON SIPE, M. D.
When Dr. Richard Wasson Sipe died at his home in Orange in the sum- mer of 1916, there was sincere mourning throughout that part of the county and throughout the neighboring sections of the counties of Franklin and Rush, for in his passing there had departed from that community a strong, personal influence that had been exerted in all good ways thereabout for more than half a century. Settling at Orange-then old Fayetteville-as a young man just out of college and full of enthusiasm for his profession. Doctor Sipe from the very beginning of his residence there, devoted his best energies to the alleviation of the ills of that neighborhood and to the promotion in all ways of the interests of the community. Always ready to relieve distress, he would go any place at any time on call of the ailing and many times in seasons of epidemic or more than usual illness would ride until exhausted. The friend of all, he was retained as the family physician in most of the families of that community through two generations, the grandchildren of his original patients coming, in their generation, to rely upon the wisdom and skill of the old physician. Counsellor and adviser, as well as physician, Doc- tor Sipe was a veritable mentor in that community for many years and his influence ever was exerted for the good. Even when enfeebled by advanc- ing years the calls upon his services continued and toward the end he often responded to these calls at times when his physical strength was probably far less than that of the patients who relied upon him, and he maintained his active practice up to within two months of his death. Lenient in matters involving fees for his services, the Doctor oftentimes neglected the mere material side of his affairs to his own financial detriment, ever declining to press a bill for services rendered in behalf of those he suspected might find it inconvenient to pay ; but he had his reward in the sense of duty well per- formed, realizing in the gratitude of those whom he thus served that higher profit which comes to those who are really servants of mankind and which is not based upon monetary standards, and his memory long will be cherished in the community he served so long and so faithfully.
Richard Wasson Sipe was a native of Indiana, born in Jefferson county, April 8. 1840, son of William and Mary (Wasson) Sipe, and lived on a farm until he was about thirteen years of age, when an attack of white-swell- ing crippled him so that for four years he was compelled to go on crutches and rendered him halt for life. Thus shut in from the ordinary activities of youth he became deeply interested in his books, presently turning his studies to account by beginning the study of medical works and thus equipped by
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preparatory study, when about twenty years of age entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, and after a four-year course in that institution was graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1864. Upon secur- ing his diploma Doctor Sipe located at Fayetteville (now Orange), in this county, opened there an office for the practice of his profession and there remained, actively engaged in practice the rest of his life. In 1872 Doctor Sipe took a post-graduate course in medicine at Indianapolis and early became recognized as one of the most thoroughly qualified physicians in this part of the state, his practice extending east as far as the White Water river, south as far as Laurel and half way to Rushville on the west. The Doctor was a busy man and ever took an active interest in the public affairs of the com- munity. For two terms he served as trustee of Orange township and served as a member of the county council from the time of the creation of that body, being a member of the council at the time of his death. He was a stanch Republican and for many years was regarded as one of the leaders of that party in this county. A man of strong religious convictions, Doctor Sipe was a member of the Presbyterian church at Glenwood and took an active part in church work, as well as in all neighborhood good works. His death occurred at his home in Orange on June 30, 1916, after a residence of more than half a century at that place.
On May 23, 1866, in Jefferson county, this state, Dr. Richard W. Sipe was united in marriage to Sarah A. Phillips, who was born in that county, a daughter of William and Nancy (Hearn) Phillips, the former a native of the state of Pennsylvania and the latter, of Kentucky. William Phillips was a son of Joshua and Mary Phillips and was but a child when his parents came from Pennsylvania to Indiana and settled in what then was the "wilds" of Jefferson county. William Phillips was reared as a farmer and became a farmer on his own account. He died when his daughter, Sarah, was but an infant and his widow continued to make her home on the old Phillips farm, where she spent the rest of her life and where her daughter Sarah lived until her marriage to Doctor Sipe. To that union were born seven children, Eva, who died in her seventh year, William, John, Clara, Fred, Florence and Richard.
William Sipe, who continues to make his home in the Sipe residence with his mother at Orange, is successfully engaged in farming. On Decem- ber 29, 1892, he was united in marriage to Hester McKee, who was born in the neighboring county of Rush, a daughter of Charles H. and Catherine McKee, the former of whom also was born in Rush county, son of John McKee, one of the pioneers of that county. Charles H. McKee spent all his
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life on the land which his father had entered from the government upon settling in Rush county in pioneer days. William Sipe and wife have four children, namely : Claude, who is a student at Hanover College; Margaret, who also attended school at Hanover and is now teaching school at Orange; Louise, now a student at Hanover, and Leon, who is still pursuing his com- mon-school studies. William Sipe is a member of the Masonic order and takes a warm interest in the affairs of the same.
Dr. John Sipe, second son of Dr. Richard W. Sipe, is a practicing physi- cian at Carthage, this state. He married Anna Jones, of Rush county and has two children, Dorothy and Clarabelle. Clara Sipe married Robert F. Titsworth, who later moved to Sedalia, Missouri, where she died in Novem- ber, 1894, leaving two children, John and Frank. Fred Sipe became a farmer and lived at Orange until his death in 1902. He left a widow, Anna Sipe, and one child, a daughter, Grace. Florence Sipe married Jesse Kennedy, a postal clerk, living at Indianapolis, and has two children, Lelia and Donald. Richard Sipe is a well-known lawyer at Indianapolis and was elected as one of the representatives from Marion county to the state Legislature in 1916. He married Grace Frazee, of Rush county and has one child, a daughter, Ruth.
FRED DOENGES.
Fred Doenges, general manager and secretary-treasurer of the White Water Creamery Company, of Connersville, and formerly and for years con- nected with the wood-working industries of that city, was born at Lawrence- burg, this state, March 15, 1878, son of Simon and Amelia (Kring) Doenges, who later became residents of Connersville and further and fitting reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Both Simon Doenges and his wife were born in Germany, but were not married until after their arrival in this country.
Fred Doenges was about thirteen years of age when his parents moved from Lawrenceburg to Connersville and in the latter city he became engaged as a wood carver in the furniture factory, a trade at which he worked there and at other points in Indiana and Ohio until in 1911, when he organized the White Water Creamery Company at Connersville, was elected secretary- treasurer of the same and was installed as general manager of the plant, a position which he still occupies. The White Water Creamery Company has built up a large business since its organization in 1911 and its product is in
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wide demand. The company owns a dairy farm of one hundred and sixty acres surrounding the famous oid "Elephant Hill," northwest of Connersville, and there maintains one of the best herds of dairy cattle in Indiana. The dairy plant has been constructed along modern lines, embodying all the latest devices for the proper production of dairy products, the dairy barn being regarded as a model of its kind. On this dairy farm still stands the old school house, which in the days it did duty as the district school there was widely known as "Elephant Hill College." It is still in an excellent state of repair and is now doing duty as a tool house, a part of the plant of the dairy company.
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