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member of the National Association of Manufacturers and is also connected with the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Co- lumbia Club. the Turnverein, the Canoe Club and the Athletic Club at In- dianapolis.
EDWARD A. ENOS.
Born at Walnut Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 20, 1853, Edward A. Enos came to Connersville, Fayette county, with his parents, William and Rebecca Enos, when he was but one year of age.
William and Rebecca Enos were both natives of the state of Ohio and there they received their education in the public schools and were later mar- ried. As a young man, William Enos learned the trade of a brick mason, at which he worked for a number of years in the city of Cincinnati. In 1854 he and his family came to Connersville, where they established their home, and here Mr. Enos worked at his trade until the time of his death, at the age of eighty-four years, his wife having died at the age of fifty years. In 1865 he built the first brick house in Connersville, and many of the early homes and business blocks were built under his supervision. He was a Democrat, and took a keen interest in the affairs of the city. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and were among those who took much interest in all church work. They were the parents of the following children, Amelia Jane, Laura, Edward A., William, Aaron, Emma, Clem and Clarence O., the two latter being twins. Amelia Jane is the wife of S. Adams and resides at Los Angeles, California ; Laura, William and Emma are deceased: Aaron is a successful farmer at Los Angeles, California ; Clem O. lives in Indianapolis and Clarence O. is a resident of Denver, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Enos were among the prominent and highly respected people of their home community, and were a devoted father and mother and took the greatest interest in the affairs of their children.
Edward A. Enos received his education in the local schools of his home township, and walked two miles to the school house, where he received his early educational training. He lived at home until the time of his marriage on October 17, 1877, to Mary E. Pattee, a native of Connersville, and the daughter of Desira N. and Barbara ( Powell) Pattee. Her father was born in France. where he received his education, and where he lived until he was fifteen years of age, when he came to the United States. He remained in this country but a short time, when he returned to his native -land. He
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later returned to the United States and located at Oxford, Ohio, where he lived for a time before coming to Connersville. Mr. Pattee, as a lad learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, to which he devoted his life. His death occurred in the year 1902 at the age of eighty-four years; his wife died in 1901 at the age of seventy-four years. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the services of which they took great interest. They were the parents of the following children, James, John Alfred and Mary E. James is a well-known carpenter of Connersville; John Alfred is now deceased and Mattie is the wife of Willis Suttles, of East Connersville.
Edward A. and Mary E. Enos are the parents of two children, Otto E. and Clara E. Otto E. was born on October 28, 1878. He received his primary education in the local schools, and after completing the work in the high school of Connersville, he took a course in a business college, and was for a number of years, a most successful bookkeeper. He was always a great reader and student, and made a deep study of religious subjects. In 1915, he was ordained a minister in the Nazarene church and for the past year has been located at Upland, Indiana. He is married to Emma Baylor, and to them one daughter has been born, Phyllis. Clara E. was born on November 26, 1880, and received her education in the local and the high schools, and lived at home until her marriage to Clarence Pippen, a success- ful mechanic, of East Connersville. They are the parents of two children, Otto and Mildred.
As a young man Edward A. Enos engaged in mill work, and was for several years an employee of the Hamilton and Shery mills, later known as the Hamilton Company. He learned the business thoroughly and was a most efficient man in the business. He then decided to engage in the busi- ness on his own account, and with Mr. Taylor, the saw- and planing-mill was established and conducted under the firm name of Taylor & Enos. It was thus continued until 1892, when Mr. Enos purchased the business and incor- porated it under the name of the E. A. Enos Company. He conducted the business with success until July, 1905, when he leased the business to the East Side Lumber Company for a period of ten years. In 1915, the mill was torn down and on the site were erected by Mr. Enos five splendid resi- dence properties. He has always had much faith in the city of Conners- ville, and today is the owner of thirty-three houses in that city and at East Connersville, in addition to much other real estate. He built his own home in 1877, but since that time he has remodeled and modernized the structure, until today he has a beautiful, ten-room house and one of the best in East Connersville.
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Mr. and Mrs. Enos are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and have long been prominent in the social life of their home city. Mr. Enos is affiliated with the Democratic party, and during his long resi- dence in the county has taken a keen interest in local affairs. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order at Connersville, and is a man universally respected and admired.
WILLIAM THOMAS HARRY.
William Thomas Harry, one of Jackson township's well-known farm- ers and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, is a native son of Fay- ette county and has lived here nearly all his life. He was born on a farm in Jackson township, not far from the place on which he now resides, August 7, 1867, son of John and Catherine (Spears) Harry, natives of Virginia and the former of whom was an honored veteran of the Civil War, whose last days were spent in this county, his death occurring when his son, the subject of this sketch was four years of age. His widow later remarried and is still living, now a resident of the adjoining county of Wayne.
John Harry was but a lad when his parents, Allan Harry and wife, moved from Virginia to Kentucky, shortly afterward coming on up into Indiana and locating in Grant county, where John Harry's boyhood and young manhood were spent. He then went to Franklin county, this state, and there married Catherine Spears, who also was born in Virginia and who had come into this state, by way of Kentucky, with her parents, the · family settling in Franklin county. When President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to put down the Southern rebellion was made, John Harry responded to the same and enlisted as a private in Com- pany C, Sixteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At the end of his initial term of enlistment he re-enlisted and served altogether as a sol- dier of the Union for four years and ten months, during the most of which time his command was attached to the Army of the Potomac. During his army service Mr. Harry was on one occasion captured by the enemy and for nine months thereafter was confined in Libby Prison, the terrible depriva- tions he suffered there so weakening him that he had to be carried out on a stretcher when he finally was exchanged. Upon the completion of his mili- tary service Mr. Harry returned to his home in Jackson township, this county and attempted to resume his farming, but his health was so badly broken by
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the sufferings he had undergone in a Rebel prison that he was practically an invalid from that time on and he died in 1871, the subject of this sketch being then but four years of age. John Harry left a widow and four chil- dren, all of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, John Harry, and two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Reed and Mrs. Matilda Maple. Some time after the death of her soldier husband the mother of these children married Richard Daniels and is now living near Milton, in Wayne county, in the eightieth year of her age.
William T. Harry was reared on a farm and has spent most of his life farming, though for some time in the days of his young manhood he worked in a spring factory. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 he enlisted his services and was assigned to Battery L, First Heavy Artillery, United States Army, and served until the end of his term of enlist- ment, chiefly on coast-guard duty, though for awhile he was stationed on shipboard, on patrol duty. Mr. Harry has traveled over a considerable portion of the United States, including Oregon, California, Florida and other sections. In 1901 he married and since then has been chiefly engaged in farming. For the past three years he and his wife have been making their home on the old Brumfield farm in Jackson township, where they are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. Mr. and Mrs. Harry are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take a warm interest in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mr. Harry's paternal grandfather was a pioneer Baptist preacher and rode a circuit on horseback through Grant and adjoining counties in early days, being for years one of the best-known and most influential figures in that part of the state.
On February 14, 1901, William T. Harry was united in marriage to Rosella Brumfield, who was born on a pioneer farm in the western part of Jackson township, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah (White) Brumfield, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. Daniel Brumfield was born in the western part of Jackson township in 1841, a son of John and Catherine ( Myers) Brumfield, the former a native of Ken- tucky, and the latter of Virginia, who were married in Ohio and later came to Indiana, settling in this county, where their last days were spent. John Brumfield was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, in 1806, a son of William Brumfield and wife. William Brumfield died in Kentucky and his widow and children moved to Miamisburg, near Dayton, Ohio, where John Brum- field grew to manhood and where he married Catherine Myers, who was born in Virginia and who had moved to Miamisburg, Ohio, with her parents,
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John and Catherine (Neff ) Myers. About 1830 the Myers family moved over into Indiana and settled in the western part of Jackson township, this county. About three years later John Brumfield and wife also came on over here and located on a farm adjoining the Myers place and there both families spent the remainder of their lives and are buried in a little family graveyard at the top of the bluff just south of the Brumfield home, where Mr. and Mrs. Harry are now living.
John Brumfield had been trained to the trade of a wagonmaker in Ohio and for five or six years after coming to this county followed that same voca- tion, after which he entered upon the life of an agriculturist and farmed for the rest of his life. When he took possession of his farm but a small por- tion of it had been cleared and the task of preparing the place for cultiva- tion fell upon him. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, but six of whom grew to maturity, Henry, George, John and Susan dying of typhoid fever about 1856; another died of scarlet fever at the age of two years and a daughter, Amanda, died in girlhood. Of the other six, Sarah remained a spinster and lived to the age of seventy-nine, her death occurring in April, 1915. Of those who married, Daniel, Mrs. Mary Jane Elliot and Benjamin are now deceased, there being but two survivors of the family, Mrs. Kate Neff, of Connersville, and Alonzo D. Brumfield, of Hancock county, this state.
Daniel Brumfield spent his life as a farmer on the farm in Jackson town- ship where the Harrys are now living. He erected a handsome and substan- tial home and had a good farm of one hundred and thirty-one acres there and another tract of good farm land at Mt. Zion. In addition to his gen- eral farming, he gave much attention to the raising of pure-bred live stock, with particular reference to Aberdeen cattle, and did very well in his opera- tions, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial and pro- gressive farmers in that part of the county. His wife, Hannalı White, who was born in Waterloo township, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Boyd) White, died on February 5, 1884, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Harry having a sister, Mrs. Clara Lockhart, of Connersville. Daniel Brumfield later mar- ried Anna Trusler, also a native of this county, born in Jackson township, a daughter of Milton and Isabel Trusler, and to that union was born one child, a son, Daniel Milton Brumfield, who is now living at Iowa City, an instructor in Iowa University. Daniel Brumfield died on August 29, 1915. His wife, Anna, had preceded him to the grave about two years, her death having occurred in 1913. They were members of the Universalist church and Mr. Brumfield was a member of the Everton lodge of the Independent Order of
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Odd Fellows. Daniel Brumfield was born on March 10, 1841, and his early schooling was obtained in the little log school house near Smallwood, his teacher having been the late John Lockhart. He later entered the seminary near Knightstown and finished the course there. He was twenty-one years of age when he married and he and his wife started housekeeping in a cottage on the place where Walter Neff now lives and there their daughter Rosella was born. In 1865 he bought the Jarvis Ball place, where his daughter Clara was born, and in 1875 erected the present house on that place. There he spent the remainder of his life. He was an active, energetic man and did much toward the general development of that part of the county in which he lived so long.
ULYSSES GRANT HINCHMAN.
Ulysses Grant Hinchman, one of Fairview township's best-known and most substantial farmers and for years actively identified with the public life of that community, was born on the old Hinchman farm, over the line in Union township, Rush county, a farm that had been settled by his grand- father, and has lived in that vicinity all his life. He was born on October 15, 1868, son of Allen and Nancy ( Moffett ) Hinchman, prominent residents of that community, both of whom were born in that same vicinity and both of whom are now deceased.
Allen Hinchman was born on a pioneer farm in Union township, Rush county, not far from the Fayette county line, February 3, 1836, son of John and Margaret (Nickell) Hinchman, natives of Virginia and early settlers in Rush county. John Hinchman was born in Monroe county, Virginia, October 10, 1801, a son of John and Sarah (Vinson) Hinchman, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Virginia. The senior John Hinchman was the descendant of an Englishman who came to the American colonies when the Calverts were the governors of Maryland colony. When fourteen years of age the place of his residence was changed to Monroe county, Vir- ginia, where he grew to manhood and where he married Sarah Vinson, who was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, but who had moved to Monroe county with her parents when she was a girl. To that union were born six sons and five daughters, Joseph, William, Thomas, James, John, Andrew, Polly, Melinda, Nancy, Elizabeth and Cynthia.
The junior John Hinchman grew up in the Old Dominion and in 1822, being then twenty-one years of age. he and his brother James came out to
MR. AND MRS. ULYSSES G. HINCHMAN.
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Indiana and entered land from the government in Union township, Rush county. Returning to Virginia, he there, on August 12, 1823, was united in marriage to Margaret Nickell, daughter of George and Margaret (Nelson) Nickell, natives of Monroe county, that state, the former of English descent and the latter of Irish descent. In the fall of that same year he and his bride came out here into the then "wilds" of Indiana to make their home on the land he had entered from the government the year before. Upon his arrival in Rush county, John Hinchman had but fifty cents remaining, but he and his wife had stout hearts and willing hands and they lost little time in getting their humble home established in the "spice brush." He would work all day at clearing the place of its dense growth of timber and under- brush and at night his wife, whose days would be equally well filled with the manifold duties of her household, would help him in the task of burning the accumulated brush. Thus facing difficulties that would have discour- aged less dauntless hearts, they perservered and in time had a comfortable home and were on the highway to prosperity. John Hinchman was a good manager and as he prospered he added to his land holdings until he came to be the owner of more than one thousand acres of land in Rush county, besides valuable property in Connersville, his estate at the time of his death being valued at above seventy-five thousand dollars, a considerable fortune for those days. Originally a Whig, he became a Republican upon the or- ganization of the latter party and was an ardent supporter of the principles of the same. From the very beginning of the general wave of anti-slavery sentiment he was an out-spoken Abolitionist and was one of the foremost leaders in that movement throughout this part of the state. Two of his sons, Ira and Morris, served as soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War and Ira Hinchman was severely wounded. Ever an active participant in public affairs, John Hinchman served his township in a number of positions of trust and also was for some time a member of the board of commissioners of Rush county. He gave freely to churches and schools and during the days of the railroad agitation contributed thousands of dollars to the promo- tion of railway projects in Rush county. He also contributed earlier to the building of the White Water canal and was equally liberal with his contribu- tions to the cause of better roads and public improvements in general. His death occurred on June 2, 1865, and his widow survived him for more than thirteen year's, her death occurring on October 5, 1878. She was one of the thirty persons who founded the Union Church of Christ on Ben Davis creek on June 20, 1829, one of the first organizations of the Christian church in
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Indiana, and was ever a leader in good works in the community which she had seen develop from log-cabin days, both she and her husband ever striv- ing to make better conditions of living in the neighborhood in which they took so much pride and delight. They were the parents of thirteen children, Joseph, Willianı, Madison, Margaret, James, George, Allen, John H., San- ford, Ira, Morris, Marshall and Jacob.
Allen Hinchman grew to manhood on his father's farm and his life proved him worthy of his parents. He was a man of large physique and was equally strong morally and mentally, like his father ever taking a warm in- terest in movements designed to advance the common welfare. He was an ardent Republican and in 1895 was elected to the board of commissioners of Rush county. It was during that incumbency that Rush county's new court house was built and Mr. Hinchman, as a member of the board, from the very first insisted on a building commensurate with the growing greatness of the rich county. Many shouted "economy" and he met with a storm of opposition, but he persevered, traveling to other states to get the latest ideas concerning court-house construction, and finally won out in behalf of the plans for a good court house. Before the building was completed all were applauding the spirit that had prompted him to stand out for the best. Mr. Hinchman also was vitally interested in the religious life of his community and for years was an office-bearer in the Christian church, to the affairs of which both he and his wife gave their most earnest attention.
On December 22, 1858, Allen Hinchman was united in marriage to Nancy Moffett, who was born in Fairview township, this county, April 23, 1840, a daughter of Andrew and Athalia (Rees) Moffett, worthy pioneers of Fayette county. She joined the Wylie Chapel Methodist church when a girl, but after her marriage joined the Ben Davis Creek Christian church, with which she and her husband remained affiliated until their retirement from the farm and removal to Rushville in 1900, when they transferred their church letters to the church at that place. There Mrs. Hinchman died on December 25, 1912, she then being seventy-two years of age. It has been written of her that "her Christian character shone out in her everyday life. She was cheerful in spirit, a woman of prayer, and left a legacy of an example of goodly living." After the death of his wife Allen Hinchman made his home with his son, the subject of this sketch, where his death occurred on June 4, 1915. He and his wife were the parents of seven chil- dren, but two of whom now survive, Minnie, wife of Albert E. Rich, and Ulysses G., the subject of this biographical sketch, the others having been, Margaret, who married Milton T. Smiley, and died on June 18, 1912; Nora,
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who married M. W. McCann, and died on July 30, 1907; George W., who married Pearl Shank, and died on September 7, 1908, had one daughter, Ruth E., and two who died in infancy.
Ulysses G. Hinchman grew up on the paternal farm over the line in Rush county, attending the Glenwood high school, Fairview Academy and Butler College, in which latter institution his father was a stockholder. After leaving college he began farming and after his marriage, in 1890, lie established his home on the old Andrew Moffett homestead in Fairview township, the home of his mother's father. There he lived for four years, at the end of which time, in 1894, he bought the eighty acres known as the Jesse Shortridge farm, a mile and a half south and a mile east of Fairview, and there has lived ever since. About ten years after taking possession of that place he bought an adjoining eighty and thus has a quarter of a section there, besides a quarter of a section over in Union township, Rush county, a part of the old Hinchman homestead farm there. His father gave him an "eighty" there and he later bought an adjoining tract of eighty acres, his com- bined land holdings now amounting to an even half section. Mr. Hinchman is a Republican and has held some local offices, as a matter of public duty, ever taking an earnest interest in local civic affairs, as did his father and his grandfather. Besides his farming operations he is interested in some other enterprises of a business character and is a stockholder in the Glenwood Bank. He and his family are members of the Christian church and have ever given earnest attention to church work, as well as to other community good works.
On October 22, 1890, Ulysses G. Hincliman was married. His wife, Eva M. Huston, was born at Orange, this county, April 30, 1870, and was educated in the school at Orange. She is a daughter of Thomas M. and Mary E. (Harris) Huston, both also natives of this county. Thomas M. Huston was born at Orange on February 2, 1840, a son of William and Jane (Ramsey) Huston, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of the state of Ohio. William Huston was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and when a lad was left an orphan. He later came to Indiana with his aunt, Rosanna Houston, and settled in this county, locating north of Connersville. He mar- ried Jane Ramsey, who was born in Preble county, Ohio, the first white child born in Israel township. After his marriage he located at Orange, where he spent the remainder of his life. Thomas M. Huston grew up at Orange as a farmer and remained there until 1890, when he moved to a farm near Knightstown, later removing to the city of Knightstown, where he now resides. He is a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a member of
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Company I., Third Regiment Indiana Cavalry, during the struggle between the States, later being transferred to the Eighth Indiana Cavalry. Five of his brothers and brothers-in-law also served as soldiers of the Union during that struggle. He was present at the raising of "Old Glory" over Fort Sumter, April 14, 1865, just four years after it was pulled down. Mr. Hinchman's wife, Mary E. Harris, was born in Fayette county, a daughter of William R. and Sarah Ann (Sutton) Harris, who came to this state from Pennsylvania. Sarah Ann Sutton, a native of Pennsylvania, was an orphan and came here with the McCready family. William Harris, a native of Delaware, was a school teacher in Pennsylvania, his home being along the Schuylkill river. His mother and the mother of Governor Mor- ton, Indiana's war governor, were relatives. When a young man he came down the Ohio river on a flatboat to Cincinnati and thence on up here, and was married after he came to Franklin county on March 18, 1842. He later moved to this county and during the greater part of his life here he was engaged in the making of boots and shoes, being a skilled craftsman in that line. Mary E. Harris grew up here and was married in this county. Both Thomas M. Huston and his father took an active part in local affairs. Eva M. Huston grew up at Orange and accompanied her parents when they moved to the farm near Knightstown, where she was living when she mar- ried Mr. Hinchman. To that union three children have been born, Clarence Paul, Allen Berle and Mary Athalia.
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