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PATRICK McENENEY was born in Ireland September 9, 1839, son of John and Jane (Duffy) McEneney, natives of Ireland. Subject came to America in 1853, and settled in Lafayette, Ind., where he worked at the marble cutting trade, remaining there three years. He took an ex- tended tour through the county, working at various places, but in An- gust, 1859, settled in Sullivan. He started in the marble business, his being the first shop of the kind in the place, and has ever since done a thriving and profitable business. In May, 1862, he was married to Miss Julia A. Harris, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Boles) Harris, resi- dents of Sullivan, and to this union were born five children-Addis, Min-
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nie, Francis, Stella and one that died in infancy .. Mrs. McEneney is a member of the Christian Church, and he is an A., F. & A. M. and an I. O. O. F. He has been engaged in business here for about twenty-five years and carries a large stock.
JAMES R. MCKINLEY was born in Sullivan County, near Sullivan, June 9, 1834; son and ninth child born to David and Elizabeth (Russell) Mckinley, of Irish descent. Subject's grandparents came to Sullivan about 1824, and died here. David died in September, 1861, and Eliz- abeth in September, 1864. Mr. Mckinley, in 1855, went to learn a trade with Howard & Moore, at Sullivan. He afterward went into busi- nees for himself, forming a partnership with James A. Beard, which continued until 1865, when David Crawley purchased Mr. Beard's inter- est, and these gentlemen are still carrying on the business. He was married on March 1. 1855, to Nancy A. Goben, and one child was born to them-Mary J., wife of C. J. Sherman. He and family are members of the Christian Church, and he is an A,. F. & A. M., Sullivan Lodge No. 263, and a Democrat. Mr. Mckinley is a thorough business man, and is highly respected for his many good traits of character.
HUGH MOORE is a native of Northumberland County, England, where he was born May 25, 1825, being the eleventh child born to Will- iam and Mary (Jackson) Moore. The parents were natives of England, where they lived and died. September 5, 1852, our subject sailed for America on the ship Essex, and landed at New Orleans, after a voyage of seven weeks. He went thence to St. Louis, where he followed min- ing until 1863, when he moved to St. Clair County, Ill., remaining there three years and then coming to Sullivan County, and soon became connected with the famous old Pioneer Coal Company, which was dis- banded in 1870. Soon after this, Mr. Moore and three others organized the Shelborn Coal Company, at which town they sunk a shaft, one of the best in the county. This company purchased the Sullivan Mines in 1879, of which Mr. Moore is Superintendent. An enormous business is done. May 29, 1849, Mr. Moore married Margaret, daughter of William and Jane (Hammond) Arrington, and by her has three children-Mary, wife of Joseph Hargrave: Elizabeth Ann, wife of W. M. Wilson, and Hannah: Mr. Moore and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Masonic order.
DR. ALEXANDER MARION MURPHY was born in East Tennes- see, Greene County, February 18, 1819, son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Leel) Murphy; he is a native of Virginia and she of Tennessee. They came to Indiana in 1820, and located near Bloomington, Monroe County, upon a farm. Alexander was the youngest of the two children born to them, and remained with his parents until 1841. In addition to the ordi- nary common school education, he attended the college at Bloomington several terms, when, in 1838, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. William C. Foster, of Bloomington. In 1840, he entered the Med- ical College at Louisville, Ky., took one course and then came to Car- lisle, and formed a partnership with Dr. James K. O'Haver, which con- tinued till the fall of 1843, when he entered the Medical College at Lex- ington, Ky., returning in 1844 to Carlisle; and resumed the practice of his profession, which he continued until 1846, when he entered the Uni- versity of New York. In 1857, he moved to Bloomington to educate his children. In 1860, he came to Sullivan County, but has now retired from active practice. On March 23, 1841, he was married to Miss Eliza
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Cook Sedwick, danghter of Judge John and Bettie (Rawlins) Sedwick, natives of Maryland. Nine children were born to them, three of whom are living-A. D., F. I. (wife of Dr. C. W. Cavin) and J. S. Mra. Murphy is a member of the Christian Church, and the Doctor is an Odd Fellow. He was one of the charter members of the lodge at Carlisle. Dr. Murphy was Surgeon of the Ninty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Vol- unteer Infantry from 1862 till 1864. He has been very successful in business, having about 700 acres of land, well improved and a fine res- idence in Sullivan, in addition to business rooms, etc.
THOMAS OSBURN is the ninth child born to John and Sallie (Gard- ner) Osburn, natives of Kentucky, his birth occurring in Nelson County November 20, 1825. The father was born March 19, 1789, and the mother July 11. 1792; they were married in Kentucky, October 10, 1811, and to them were born ten children. They settled in Sullivan County in 1826, and here passed the remainder of their days, the father dying Sep- tember 7, 1851, and the mother June 29, 1830. Thomas acquired a fair education in youth by making the most of his opportunities, and in June, 1851, located on eighty acres near where he now lives. This land was bought on time. Two years later he sold out and located on his father's estate, which he purchased of the heirs. He has made this farm 280 acres, and owns another tract of eighty-two acres. He married Miss Martha Pinkstun June 12, 1851, and has by her this family: Sarah F., Mary F., Simon D., Annie F., Ziba, Eliza and Eva living, and Oscar E. and three infants deceased. Mrs. Osburn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a lady of much worth. She was born near Grays- ville September 14, 1832, her parents being Dunohu and Rachel Pink- stun. Mr. Osburn is a Republican, and has taken much pains to educate his children. His son, S. D., is practicing medicine at Shelburn.
MARTIN O. PARKS was born in Spencer, Owen Co:, Ind., Decem- ber 31, 1847. For a number of years prior to 1868, he assisted his father in the mercantile business, and also took a trip to California and Oregon, but in that year entered the Union Christian College at Merom, and remained one year, at the close of which he began clerking at Mat- toon, Ill., but in about a year went to Kentucky, remaining a year and a half. He spent three years in Texas, and then returned and engaged in merchandising in Sullivan. On the 18th of September, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Florence, daughter of A. B. and Sarah (Hoke) Stansil, residents of Sullivan. The issue of this union is one son- Harry. Mr. Parks and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, and a Republican. His grandfather, James Parks, who married Nancy Moore, was born Sep- tember 26, 1781, married September 30, 1806, and died April 4, 1883. Of their ten children, four are living. By his second marriage, to Fran- ces Kendrick, he had one child, which is yet living. His son, George Parks, was born April 15, 1813, and is yet living. On the 12th of De- cember, 1833, George Parks married Sarah P. Owens, who was born March 10, 1816, and died December 4, 1851. Their children were Mercer Parks, born December 2, 1834, died saine day; James Parks, born January 21, 1836, married November 16, 1860, living; Samuel L. Parks, born December 19, 1838, died May 20, 1840; John Nelson Parks, born October 19, 1840, died December 28, 1840; Nancy Parks, born October 31, 1841, married 1864, died November 14, 1865; George N. Parks, born October 23, 1843, died July 5, 1866; Laursette Parks, born September
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26, 1845, married September 26, 1867, living; Martin Owen Parks (sub- ject); William Elijah Parks, born January 28, 1850, died November 19, 1878; Pleasant Parks, born and died on December 2, 1851. July ], 1852, George Parks re-married, his second wife being Nancy (Dixon) Hartley, born May 12, 1828, died May 2, 1854. One child -- Martha Elizabeth, born October 10, 1853, was the issue of this union. On the 22d of November, 1854, George Parks married Amelia J. (Long) McCord, who was born November 7, 1828, and died January 24, 1870. The chil- dren born to this union were Charles Andrew Parks, born August 30, 1855, married October 16, 1876, living; Janella Parks, born April 22, 1858, died December 11, 1858; Adda May Parks, born May 26, 1860, died March 26, 1861; Clarence Milton Parks, born May 22, 1863, living; Mary Long Parks, born January 7, 1870, living. On the 15th of Sep- tember, 1870, George Parks married his fourth wife, Catharine Newell Malott, who was born August 16, 1827, and is yet living.
HON. JAMES B. PATTEN is the son of Joshua and Barbara (Crooks) Patten, and passed his youth without noteworthy event on his father's farm. He was born in Sullivan County May 26, 1838, and when eighteen began teaching school to secure means to educate himself, continuing thus until 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Seventeenth Regiment, with which he served until it was mustered out. He was pro- moted First Lieutenant and Captain, and after the battle of Selma, Ala., commanded Company A. He was wounded twice-in the arm at Aubrey, Tenn., and in the foot while on a scout. He was mustered out August, 1865, but remained in the service, and was commissioned Captain of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, U. S. C. T., and served on detached duty as Judge Advocate until February, 1866, and was then mustered out. During the war he was in many engage- ments; was with McClellan in West Virginia; was at Shiloh, Munford- ville, Ky., Chickamauga, and in nearly all the battles of the Atlanta campaign; was with Gen. Wilson on the cavalry raid through Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, and had charge of 400 prisoners. After the war he engaged in milling for five years, but having read law began the practice in 1875 in Sullivan. In 1870, he was appointed United States Census Marshal. He served as City Attorney, and in 1882 was elected joint Representative of Knox, Greene and Sullivan Counties, and was re-elected in 1884. In the practice of law, he was associated with Judge Buff. Much of his time at present is spent in farming and stock raising. In October, 1865, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of Maj. William C. and Fannie (McGrew) Griffith, the issue of his marriage being six children, of whom three are living-Clarence J., Robert and Barbara D. Mr. Patten is an Odd Fellow, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church.
HARRISON B. PITTMAN was born in Sullivan Connty, October 6, 1831; was reared a farmer, and received a limited early education. He remained with his parents until the age of twenty-four, and then pur- chased forty acres of land, which he improved, and later increased to sixty. five acres. Here he lived until he bought his present farm in 1866. He has 233 acres, handsomely improved. January 23, 1856, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry D. and Clarissa (Eldridge) Williams. This lady was born in Spencer County, Ky., September 27, 1837, and has borne her husband seven children, as follows: Oliver, Mary E., Henry A , Theodore, Charles E., Harrison and Clarissa. Mrs. Pittman
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is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Pittman is a Demo. crat, and a member of the F. & A. M. His parents were Allen and Eleanor Pittman, natives of Kentucky, and were prominent people of their neighborhood.
JAMES H. REED is the son of James H. and Zerilda J. (Griffith) Reed, and was born in Sullivan, Sullivan County, April 1, 1858. He was educated in this town, attending school in winter and farming in sum- mer. In 1880, he began clerking in the drug store of Crowder & Reed, where he remained two years, and then accepted a situation with Wier & Wier, and at the end of about six months purchased a one-half interest in the drug establishment of A. N. Wier. Here he is now employed. He is regarded as one of the most active and successful young business men of the town. He is a member of the Baptist Church and a member of Lodge No. 263, F. & A. M. On the 25th of September, 1883, his marriage with Miss Flora, daughter of William Greenlee, was cele- brated.
JACKSON RICH was born in Lawrence County, Ind., November 26, 1824, the third of four children born to George and Sabrey (Hawkins) Rich, natives of North Carolina The father settled on "White Water," Indiana, in 1811, where the Indians stole his horse. He followed them to Lawrence County, where the animal was recovered, and where Mr. Rich afterward settled, but came to Sullivan County in 1850. His death occurred August 7, 1850. Subject was reared on a farm with but little education. In 1843, his father gave him forty acres of land, which he afterward, by hard labor, increased to 200 acres; but in 1851, sold out and settled on 200 of his present farm, which was afterward in- creased to 786 acres. Of this he has given all but 370 acres to his chil- dren. In the fall of 1879, he was elected County Commissioner and served three years. April 13, 1843, he married Miss Sarah A. Hender- son, who was born in Lawrence County, Ind., October 9, 1823. They have eight children living-Joseph H., Sabrey J., George A., Polly A., Andrew J., Gabriel D., Sarah and Rettie; and the following deceased : William R., Hannah A. and Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Rich are members of the Regular Baptist Church. Mr. Rich cast his first Presidential vote for James K. Polk. He and his five sons are stanch Democrats.
C. P. RIGGS is the son of Hezekiah and Lydia (Ingle) Riggs, who were natives respectively of Virginia and ; Kentucky. The father came to Indiana as a soldier in 1812, and the following year (1813) located at Carlisle, where he met the lady who became his wife. Her parents had located in the neighborhood as early as 1803. He engaged in the cabi- net business, and about the year 1815 was married. After a time he changed his occupation to farming, and continued thus until his death. C. P. Riggs was born in Fairbanks Township May 3, 1893, and re- mained with his parents until 1858, engaged principally in farming, and receiving but a limited education. In 1858, he engaged in the milling business in Turman Township, and in 1860, built a flouring mill at Shelburn, which he conducted about eight years. In 1878, he moved to : Sullivan, and in 1879 entered upon his duties as County Treasurer, to which office he had been elected. He served until 1883. He has retired from his farm and is now engaged in various occupations. His wife is Martha L., daughter of David and Anna M. (Leek) Ryerson, natives of New York. They have four children-Emma (wife of John L. Thomp- son), James R., Jessie G. and Elgar. Mr. Riggs is an Odd Fellow, a
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Mason and a Democrat, and himself and family are members of the Methodist Church
FRANKLIN ROBBINS is a native of this county and a son of Jobn and Eliza (Purcell) Robbins, natives respectively of Kentucky and In- diana, the latter being, it is said, the first white child born in Sullivan County. Our subject was born December 8, 1838, and was raised on a fanın, securing meager education at the subscription schools. When he was twenty-two years old, his father gave him seventy-five acres of land in Haddon Township, which he improved and occupied about two years, and then cold it. He next bought his present farm, which he has since increased to 160 acres. In 1878, he built a fine dwelling, two stories high, containing six rooms, which is one of the handsomest country resi- dences of the county. His wife, to whom he was married February 23, 1860, was Miss Letitia, daughter of Thomas J. and Barbara Ann (Ca- nary) Creager. She was born in this connty March 30, 1839, and has borne her husband this family: Annie B., Louisa E., Thomas J., Will- iam C., Noah O., Frank L. and Glensie G., living, and John G., deceased. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Robbins is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity.
JOHN ROGERS is a native of Kentucky, born in Hardin County October 9, 1831, son of Shacklet and Elizabeth (South) Rogers. Subject received limited education at the subscription schools, and, in 1854, took charge of a large plantation near Bowling Green for his uncle, John F. South. Here he remained one year, and then returned home, where he taught school and farmed until 1855, when he came to Indiana, locating in Sullivan County, where he taught school winters and farmed summers, teaching one or more terms in Illinois. In 1857, he bought thirty acres of land in this county, which he farmed, and kept books also for the E. & C. Railroad. After several changes he bought Lis present farm of 182+ acres in 1867. Here he at present residee. He is an influential citizen, and has served as Township Assessor six years and County Appraiser two years. October 11, 1854, he married Margaret E., dangh- ter of Thomas C. and Nancy (Yocut) South, in Hardin County, Ky., where this lady was born December 22, 1835, though reared in Coles County, Ill. They have eight living children-Thomas C., Charlotte, Margaret E., Francis R., John S., Sophronia J., Eveline and Louannie. The deceased are William H. and Mary E. Mr. Rogers is a member of the F. & A. M., and himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
B. SAUCERMAN is the son of George and Catharine (Mowery) Sau- cerman, and was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, April 12, 1821. He received a limited education, and at the age of nineteen began work at gunsmithing, at which he served an apprenticeship. In the year 1847, be settled in Sullivan County on eighty acres of partly improved land, to which were afterward added 252 acres. Here he followed farming and his trade until 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-fifth Regi- ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as private, and at Thompson's Station, TenD., was captured, and for a time was confined in Libby Prison, Rich- mond, Va, but after about a month was exchanged at City Point, and soon rejoined his regiment, participating in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, siege of Atlanta, and then marched with Sherman to the 898. In 1865, he was mustered out at Indianapolis and soon returned to Sullivan, where he has since resided, working at his trade. He is a
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superior workman and a good citizen. While in the army, he had his shoulder dislocated by a fall ; this caused his removal from his farm to Sullivan. In July, 1847, be married Miss Adaline Ewing, who died in 1848; and, in 1853, he married his present wife, Miss Jane Clugage. Mr. Sancerman is a Republican and a Presbyterian.
TMOMAS K. SHERMAN was born near Sullivan September 26, 1829, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lewis) Sherman, natives of North Carolina, who moved to Sullivan County in 1816, settling on a farm and residing there till their deaths, Samuel dying in November, 1853, and Elizabeth in January, 1848. Subject remained with his parents till 1848, when he commenced for himself, working at anything he could get to do during the summer season, and going to school in the winter. In 1849, he taught school and afterward farmed; then went into merchan- dising, which he disposed of some time after, and then went into the business in which he is at present engaged. In 1874, he was elected President of the National Bank of Sullivan, and served one year, when he accepted the position of Cashier of said bank, and served two years, after which he withdrew, and has since devoted all his attention to his mercantile business. He has held several important offices of the county, and is one of the best business men of Sullivan. He was united in mar- riage to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Jewell, October 10, 1852, daughter of Cuthbert and Elizabeth (Ryland) Jewell, natives of Virginia, who moved to Sullivan at an early day. This union has been productive of four children-Mary Elizabeth (wife of C. L. Davis), Cuthbert Jewell, Maggie (deceased) and Minnie May. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church, and he is a Democrat.
JOHN SHIELDS was born in Lawrence County, Ind., April 12, 1826, son of Jacob and Jane (Williams) Shields, natives respectively of Ken- tucky and North Carolina, who came to Indiana Territory-the father to. Orange County, and the mother to Lawrence County, she being the daughter of Vinson Williams. In about 1853-54, the father moved to Sullivan County, where he lived until his death in 1875; the mother still survives him. John Shields passed his youth in his native county, where he received the rudiments of an education. In December, 1849, he came to Sullivan County, locating on 181 acres, and has since increased this farm to 393 acres, besides what he has given to his children. His wife was Miss Nancy, daughter of John and Mary (Reed) Moore, to whom he was married in Lawrence County, April, 1849. Her birth occurred in Estill County, Ky., January 1, 1830. They have five children-Sarah A., Ziva C., James M., William P. and Jacob E .- and are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Shields is a Democrat and a public-minded citizen.
W. H. SOWER, mining engineer, Sullivan, is of Scotch descent, and was born in 1340, in Baltimore, Md. While he was yet a child, his parents moved to Philadelphia, Penn., where he was given a collegiate education. At the commencement of the civil war, he tendered his services as an engineer and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and served to the end of the great struggle. The war over, he located in Chicago, Ill., where he followed civil engineering and built by contruct many public buildings throughout the State of Illinois. He assisted in the construc- tion of the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, and afterward the Texas Pacific Railroad. His father, Dr. John Sower, came from Scotland to Baltimore, Md., about 1830, and is now a distinguished physician of
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Philadelphia, Penn. He had four sons, all of whom received a collegiate education, all of whom served from the beginning to the end of the late war, and all of whom are physicians, except the subject of this sketch. Mr. Sower married. in 1870, Miss Grace Pardee, now deceased, of Omaha, Neb., daughter of Charles B. and Grace (Belding) Pardee, by whom he has two daughters, Grace M. and Dollie, who are being educated at Philadel- phia, Penn.
ALFRED B. STANSIL was born in Knox County, Ind., December 4, 1836, his parents being Rev. William and Celia (Barbere) Stansil, na- tives of Georgia and North Carolina. The family moved to Sullivan County in 1855, and the father organized the first Baptist Church in the county Heat, where he yet resides. Subject entered the Sullivan High School, and continued thus, often teaching to get means to pay his way at succeeding terms. At the conclusion of his schooling, he engaged in the carpenter trade until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was with that gallant body of men through the war, except for about a month, which he passed in Libby Prison, having been captured at Thompson's Station March 5, 1863. He fought with his company in many of the important battles of the Atlanta campaign, and at the end of the war returned home and engaged in the carpenter trade. In 1875, he secured an interest in the Greenlee Planing Mill, with which he is now connected. His mill does a business of $25,000 worth per annum. November 4, 1858, Mr. Stan- sil married Sarah E., daughter of Jacob and Rosanna (Brentlinger) Hoke, and to their union three children have been born - Florence May (wife of M. O. Parks), Glenn and Floyd Vivian. The family are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Stansil is an Odd Fellow and served several terms as Town Trustee.
JOSEPH P. STRATTON was born in Sullivan County, Ind., near Sullivan, December 14, 1842, son of Robert S. and Mary Dangherty (Baker) Stratton, who were natives of Kentucky, and of Irish descent. They came to Sullivan County in 1831 with their parents, where they were married and where they died. Subject remained with his parents until the breaking-out of the war, when he enlisted in the Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry under Capt. Walls, remaining in the service until December. 1864, when he was wounded in the battle of Nashville, losing a leg in the conflict. He was also in the following battles: Fort Donelson, Stone River, Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign and many other battles. While lying in the hospital, his father went to see him, and took sick and died with erysipelas in the face. April 25, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Orr, daughter of Hugh and Frances (Richardson) Orr, of Sullivan, and to this union was born one child-Robert S. Mrs. Stratton died April 22, 1869, and June 19, 1872, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth (Fordyce) Talbott, and to this union were born four children-Claude, Panl and Eddie, and Pearl, deceased. Self and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is an Odd Fellow, both subordinate and encampment, also a Republican. In 1865, he attended the school at Farmersburg,' and in 1866 went to Harrisonville to learn the harness-making, remaining one year, when he returned to Sullivan and worked for S. M. Allen till he bought him out, continuing the business ever since.
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