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Joseph Lamb, the son of Joel and Eunice (Lamb) Lamb, was born in 1846 in Marion township, this county. His parents were both natives of North Carolina, where they were married, and shortly after this event they put all their possessions in a one-horse wagon and made the long overland trip from North Carolina to this county. They located in Marion township, where they entered forty acres of land from the government, but after a year they became discouraged and went to Ohio; but Ohio offered no better op- portunities, so they returned to Hendricks county, mortgaged their forty acres and purchased forty acres more, then, with the thrift and frugality which characterized our pioneer forefathers, they started to work to clear the farm and pay off their debts. Joel Lamb was a life-long farmer and as the years went by his efforts were increasingly successful until at his death he was the owner of two hundred and forty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Lamb were the parents of fourteen children, of whom seven died in childhood and seven reached maturity. The mother of these children died about 1870, and after- ward the father went to Kansas, where his death occurred in 1883.
Joseph Lamb, one of the seven children of his parents who grew to maturity, remained on the home farm until his marriage, at the age of twenty-
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five, at which time he married Ella Montgomery, a native of Union township, this county, and the daughter of James and Rebecca (Tharp) Montgomery. The Montgomery family came from Pennsylvania to this county early in its history, settling near Lizton.
· Upon his marriage Mr. Lamb began farming on the old home farm, but two years later he moved to the eastern part of Eel River township, where he bought eighty acres of land where he is now living. In 1886 his house, with all of its contents, was destroyed by fire, after which he built the residence in which he is now living. In 1888 his wife died, and in the same year his barn, with all of its contents, was destroyed by fire.
Mr. Lamb was married the second time on July 8, 1891, to Carrie E. Gossett, a native of Brown township, this county, and the daughter of Thomas A. and Nettie M. (Combs) Gossett. Thomas Gossett was born near Plain- field. the son of Nathaniel W. and Mary G. Gossett, who were natives of North Carolina. Thomas Gossett was born December 21, 1841, and was the eldest of a family of five brothers and seven sisters. He began teaching in the public schools in 1860 and, with the exception of the four years which he spent in the Civil War, he was engaged in public school work until February, 1899. Six years of this time he spent as county superintendent of the Hen- dricks county schools.
Mr. Gossett had a very interesting and at the same time a most harrow- ing experience during his four years' service in the Civil War. He enlisted in August, 1861, in Company I, Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer In- fantry, and during fifteen months of the four years he was incarcerated in five different prisons, Lynchburg, Belle Isle. Richmond, Virginia, Anderson- ville and Milan, Georgia. In the latter prison he contracted scurvy and his legs had to buried in the ground up to the trunk of his body in order to give him relief and to keep them from rotting off. The disease never left him until his death, and he was a constant sufferer from it. In May, 1898, one of his feet had to be amputated, and in April, 1899, he finally died, having made a life-long fight against the disease. He was a good man in every sense of the word and was responsive to all of the Christian virtues. He was a good soldier, both physically and spiritually, and fought a brave fight for over fifty years.
The second wife of Mr. Lamb is a woman of great refinement and cul- ture and before her marriage she attended the State Normal School at Terre Haute and was a teacher for three years. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb are the par- ents of four children, Loren W., Roy R., Nettie Esther and Ralph E. Loren married May Young and lives near his father, and has one son, Russell Floyd.
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Fraternally, Mr. Lamb is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and his wife is a zealous member of the Christian church. Mr. Lamb has a fine farm of one hundred and forty acres, on which he carries on a diversified system of farming in addition to raising a considerable amount of live stock each year. Personally, he is a man of genial and kindly impulses and has won a host of warm and loyal friends in the community which has been honored by his citizenship.
JOHN DURHAM.
Hard and laborious effort was the lot of John Durham during his youth and early manhood, since he was born at a time when this county was a primeval wilderness. His fidelity to duty has won for him the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been thrown in contact, and by patient continuance in good service he has gradually risen from an humble station in life to his present high standing among the leading men of Hendricks county.
John Durham was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, on May 3, 1838, and is the son of John and Mary M. (Fields) Durham, both of whom were born and reared in Boyle county, Kentucky, and were married there before coming to this state. The father of John Durham, Sr., and grand- father of the one of whom this chronicle speaks, was also called John. The grandfather was born in Virginia and came to the state of Kentucky at the age of nine with his parents and lived in a fort at Harrodsburg for a year or so because of the Indian troubles. Mary M. Fields was descended from Irish ancestry, her grandfather coming from Ireland to this country in an early day. John and Mary Durham came from Kentucky to Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1835, locating near Waveland. The grandfather of John Durham came also and entered a large amount of government land and gave a farm to each one of his children, on which to start in life.
John Durham grew up in this new environment and lived at home until his marriage, which occurred on December 22, 1865, to Lee A. Tucker, a na- tive of this county and the daughter of Lee and Miranda (Durham) Tucker. His wife is a grandmother of Nathan and David Tucker, whose history may be found elsewhere in this volume. Miranda Durham was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas Durham, her father being a distant relative of John Durham.
After Mr. Durham's marriage, in 1865, he came to Eel River township,
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this county, and began farming about half-way between Jamestown and North Salem, where he remained from December, 1865, until the fall of 1913. a period of forty-eight years. During his long career as a farmer he has seen many ups and downs and has encountered obstacles of all kinds, and yet has maintained his cheerful disposition through it all. Success has crowned his efforts and today he is the owner of five hundred and twenty acres of fine farming land in this township. However, recently he has given away all of this land but one hundred and eighty acres, dividing it among his children.
Mr. and Mrs. Durham were the parents of seven children: Charles Omer, physician and now coroner of Marion county, Indiana, who married Mary Maley, and has one daughter, Frances ; Frank C., deceased, who was a lawyer in Indianapolis for a time and later in Chicago, and died in the latter city in 1909; John L., who is on the old home farm north of North Salem, is married to Adeline Clark and they have two children, Glenn and Walter; Clarence S. is in Missouri; Harry C. and Thomas G. both live at North Salem and are engaged in farming, while Mary F. is at home with her father. The mother of these children died in 1911.
Mr. Durham has been a life-long Democrat and has always taken an intelligent interest in public affairs. He has twice been elected as trustee of Eel River township, his last term ending in 1883. He has always kept in touch with the times and the trend of current thought, and has always dis- charged the duties of citizenship in the intelligent manner becoming the level- headed American citizen of today. He has taken a deep interest in whatever makes for the material advancement of the community and endorses all worthy enterprises whereby his fellow men will be benefited and made better.
OLIVER PERRY OWEN.
Among the thriving agriculturists and stock men of Hendricks county. Indiana, Oliver Perry Owen has been especially conspicuous for many years. Few men of his experience have achieved such marked results, none occupy a more prominent place in the confidence and esteem of his fellow men, and it is safe to presume that his example and influence have done as much to promote the general interests of the locality as any other agency in the vicinity of North Salem, where he maintains his beautiful home.
Oliver Perry Owen, a stock man and farmer living one and one-half miles northwest of North Salem, was born December 23, 1855, in the north-
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western part of Eel River township, in this county. His parents, Horatio and Margaret ( Sears) Owen, were both natives of Clark county, Kentucky, where they lived until after their marriage and removal to this county in 1833, when they entered one hundred and sixty acres of government land in the north- western part of Eel River township, where they lived until 1867. They made the trip from their native state to this county in a wagon and began life under truly pioneer conditions. Horatio Owen sold his farm and moved about one and one-half miles northwest of North Salem, where he bought another tract of one hundred and sixty acres. Being a man of thrift and economy, he was enabled a few years later to add eighty acres more to this farm and at the time of his death, April 4. 1881, he was the owner of two hundred and forty acres of well-improved land in this township. His wife died February 11, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Owen were the parents of nine children, two of whom died in infancy; Hamilton died in 1867, at the age of twenty-two years ; William died at the age of thirty-two, leaving a widow and one son : Elizabeth, who died in the seventies, was the wife of James McCloud; Rebecca was the wife of Joseph Camplin and died in September, 1881; Keziah died in 1906 and was unmarried. The other two are James M. and Oliver P., and these are the only two of the original nine children who are living at the present time.
Oliver Perry Owen remained on the home farm until his marriage, which occurred on November 21, 1880, when he was united to Florence M. Duckworth, a native of this township and the daughter of James J. and Mary E. (Mark) Duckworth. James J. Duckworth was a native of Kentucky and, after his father's death in that state, came with his mother to Indiana, settling near North Salem, this county. Here he married Mary E. Mark, and en- gaged in farming until about 1879, when he moved into North Salem, but con- tinued to manage his farm. His wife died in 1877, and his death occurred on January 3, 1911. He was a Mason and a devout Methodist, while his wife belonged to the Christian church.
After his marriage, Oliver P. Owen began farming on the place where he now lives, about one and one-half miles northwest of North Salem, and has continued to reside here until the present time. He started in life with one hundred and thirty acres of land and has since added ninety-seven acres more to his homestead, which is a very productive and desirable farm, on which stands an attractive and comfortable home and substantial and conven- ient outbuildings. In connection with general farming he raises various kinds of live stock, in which he has been very successful, and is deserving of a great deal of credit for what he has accomplished, for it has been done in an honest manner, through hard work and skillful management.
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Mr. and Mrs. Owen are the parents of four children: Taylor W., who married Edna Clay, lives in North Salem; Logan married Jennie Tucker and lives on a farm one mile north of North Salem; Maggie died at the age of eleven months; Ruth is at home with her parents. Mr. Owen is a hard worker, a man of rare foresight and business ability, and has prospered from year to year and thus developed one of the best farmns in the township. He has been instrumental in the upbuilding of his community and is well known and highly respected throughout this part of the county.
PLEASANT A. HACKLEMAN.
The Hackleman family is one of the pioneer families of Indiana, the first representative of the family who came to Indiana being Abram Hackleman, who came to Indiana before it was admitted to the Union in 1816. The first members of the family lived in Rush county, Indiana, and later in Hancock county. The various members of the family have taken an active part in the community life wherever they have settled and have always been numbered among the substantial citizens of their respective communities.
Pleasant Alvie Hackleman, the son of Abram and Martha (Manwaring) Hackleman, was born October 30, 1873, in Rush county, Indiana. Abram Hackleman was born in Rush county, Indiana, September 6, 1835, the son of Richard and Hannah (McCune) Hackleman. Richard Hackleman was a native of South Carolina, the son of Abram Hackleman, and came with his parents to Rush county, this state, when a small boy, and when he was grown Rushville contained only three houses. He was a tax collector in the early history of the state, and rode on horseback from house to house collecting the taxes. He was a lifelong farmer and in the early history of the state ran a small grist-mill in the central part of Rush county. In the latter part of the thirties Richard Hackleman moved to Hancock county, Indiana, and bought a farm, living there the remainder of his life. He took a great interest in public affairs and served twenty-one years as justice of the peace, retiring from that office against the wishes of his neighbors. Hannah McCune, the wife of Richard Hackleman, was born in Pennsylvania. and came to Franklin county, Indiana, with her parents, where she lived until her marriage.
Abram Hackleman lived in Hancock county with his parents until he was of age and then moved to Rush county, where he followed farming for a few years. Later lie moved back to Hancock county and upon his father's
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death he bought out the heirs of the estate and remained on the old home farm several years. About twenty years ago Abram Hackleman moved to Boone county and located two miles west of Jamestown, buying two hundred acres in one place and over three hundred in another, and is now the owner of over five hundred acres of highly improved land in Hendricks and Boone counties.
Abram Hackleman was married in 1858 to Martha Ann Manwaring, the daughter of Solomon Manwaring and his first wife, and was a native of Sullivan county, Indiana. Solomon Manwaring was born in Franklin county, Indiana, but lived the most of his life in Sullivan county, his first wife dying when Martha was an infant. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Abram Hackleman; Rosa Belle, who married Thomas Trotter and died in 1908, leaving two children, Lena and Fred ; Pleasant A., whose history is here recorded, and James Harlan, who lives on his father's farm in Boone county, this state, and was married in 1900 to May Burns, of Decatur county, Indi- ana, and they have four children, Velma, Wayne, Grace and Ward. Mrs. Abram Hackleman died in 1902.
Pleasant A. Hackleman spent the earlier part of his boyhood in Rush county, and later removed to Hancock county with his parents, who after- wards inoved to Marion county, where they remained for a short time, and when he was about twelve years old the family moved to the southern part of Boone county, about two miles west of Jamestown, where his father has since resided.
Pleasant A. Hackleman grew to maturity on the home farm and re- ceived his education in the schools of Rush, Marion and Boone counties, and upon reaching the age of twenty-one he was married, on March 2, 1895, to Catherine Robbins, the daughter of Benjamin and Dora (Davidson) Rob- bins. Benjamin S. B. P. Robbins was born in Marion township, this county, on December 11, 1836, and was the son of Benjamin and Ruth (Parker) Robbins. Benjamin Robbins was born in North Carolina, the son of William and Leah (Lamb) Robbins. Ruth Parker was born in North Carolina in 1812, and in that state she was married to Benjamin Robbins. After two children were born to them in that state, they moved, about 1830, to Ohio. and a year later caine to Indiana and entered land in Putnam county. Benja- min Robbins was a carpenter by trade, and when he came to Putnam county he selected land on which there was water power, and he at once built a large mill five stories in height on Eel river, a mile south of Barnard, and after a time he hired a miller to operate the mill and he himself went to New Win- chester and erected a steam saw-mill, living at the latter place from about
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1850 until his death in 1858, at the age of forty-seven. His death was caused by paralysis. Ruth Parker, the wife of Benjamin Robbins, was the daughter of John and Katherine ( Parsons) Parker. John Parker was a physician and lived his whole life in his native state of North Carolina. Mrs. Ruth (Parker ) Robbins died in 1877. Benjamin Robbins, Jr., grew up under the parental roof and assisted his father in the saw-mill at New Winchester in early life. In 1874 he married Dora Davidson, the daughter of Samuel and Rena ( Parsons) Davidson, of North Salem. Samuel Davidson was born in Kentucky, and came to this state with his parents early in life. His wife was a native of North Carolina, who came here with the Robbins family, to whom she was related. For a time before his marriage, Benjamin S. B. P. Robbins clerked in a store at North Salem, part of the time in a hardware store and the remainder of the time in a drug store. After his marriage he farmed for four years, then he and John Fleece built a store room and engaged in the hardware business. He managed the store for some years and then Mr. Fleece sold out his interest and Mr. Robbins put in a grocery stock and con- ducted a store for about three years, when he sold the building and built a new business block. However, he did not engage in business again, but re-entered the carpenter trade and has since that time put up a large number of residences and many large barns in and around North Salem. He has also farmed to some extent, owning a small farm southeast of North Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are the parents of three children, Katherine, Barton and Thomas. Barton is a carpenter and builder of North Salem and married Jennie Pace, and has one son, Jack; Thomas lives in Indianapolis and is a barber and carpenter. Mrs. Robbins died July 1, 1911, and about three months later Mr. Robbins went to live with his son, Barton, at North Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins were both life-long members of the Christian church.
After Mr. Hackleman was married he went to farming on eighty acres which his father had given him on the county line between Boone and Hen- dricks counties. He has been very successful as a farmer and has acquired additional land from time to time and is now the owner of over two hundred acres of as fine land as can be found in the state. When he went on the farm it was almost bare of improvements, but he has spent a great deal of money in making it a model farm. He has built a splendid and attractive home, good barns and other outbuildings, ditched and drained it and made it one of the most attractive farms in the county.
Mr. Hackleman has allied himself with the Republican party and takes a deep interest in all the political questions of the day. His success in life has not come about without earnest effort on his part and his perseverance and
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industry have been handsomely rewarded. In addition to his landed interests, he holds stock in the Citizens State Bank, of Jamestown. He and his wife are members of the Christian church at Jamestown, and he is a deacon in this denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Hackleman have two children, Ona Gladys and Nellie Marie.
HORACE GREELEY COOK.
Life is pleasant to live when you know how to make the most of it. Some people start in life as if they had weights on their souls or were afraid to make the necessary effort to live up to a high standard. Others, by not making the proper study of the conditions of existence, or by not having that blessed trainer, a good and intelligent mother, are side-tracked at the outset and never seem thereafter able to get back on the main track. Much depends on the start, just as it does in a race. It would seem from the large success that has attended the efforts of Horace Greeley Cook, farmer and stock man of Hen- dricks county, that he not only got a proper start on the highway of life, but that he has been able to maintain the proper course all the while; but those who know him, his methods and innate characteristics, are not at all surprised that this is so.
Horace Greeley Cook, a native of this township, was born November 5, 1853, and is the son of Henderson and Nancy J. (Banta) Cook. Henderson Cook was born near Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and was the son of and Edith (Jackson) Cook. Henderson Cook grew to manhood in North Carolina, and when a young man came to this county on horseback, and for a short time managed a hotel at Belleville. While living at Belleville, he was married to Nancy J. Banta, the daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca ( Eccles) Banta. Mrs. Cook was a native of Indiana and was reared in Hendricks and Ripley counties. After his marriage, Henderson Cook traded in live stock and during the Civil War bought horses and mules and sold them to the gov- ernment. In 1872 he moved to a farm northwest of North Salem, which he already owned, and lived there until two or three years before his death, when he moved into North Salem, where he died in September, 1884. He was a staunch Republican all his life and was once nominated by his party for the office of sheriff, but did not care enough for the office to make a canvass. His widow now lives at Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Cook were the parents of seven children, five of whom are living: Mrs. Luella Myers, whose husband is city auditor of Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Edith
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R. Jones, of San Francisco; Edward and Charles M., both of whom live in Los Angeles, California, and Horace Greeley, whose history is here presented.
Horace Greeley Cook remained on the home farm until he was nearly twenty-eight years of age. He received a good common school education and later attended the academy at Belleville. Upon his marriage, in 1881, he bought forty acres in the northern part of Marion township and lived there with his wife's mother for three years. After his father's death he moved to his father's farm and remained there until 1900. He then bought the farm of one hundred and sixty-three acres which he now owns, three miles north of North Salem.
Mr. Cook was married August 28, 1881, to Hattie Walker, the daughter of David and Mary (Robbins) Walker, of Eel River township. David Walker was born June 4, 1828, in Virginia and came to this county with his parents when a small boy, they settling on what is now the Michael Higgins farm. The parents of David Walker were Goodloe and Rebecca ( Hender- son) Walker. Upon reaching his majority, David Walker married Mary Robbins, who was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, and is the daugh- ter of John and Lydia ( Parsons) Robbins. Lydia (Parsons) Robbins lived to be ninety-five years of age. Mary Walker came, with her parents, in early childhood to Ohio and three years later came to Indiana, her father entering one hundred and sixty acres of government land in Marion township, this county, about 1835. and lived there the remainder of his life. After David Walker was married he followed carpentering and contracting and lived the most of his life in the southern part of Eel River township. He enlisted in Company B, Seventh Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and died in a military prison in Florence, South Carolina, December 4, 1864, leaving a widow and three children living. Mrs. Walker remained on the farm until her children were grown and married and in 1872 she married David Jones. an ex-soldier of the Civil War, who died less than a year later. Mrs. David Walker Jones now lives with her daughter. Mrs. Cook.
Mr. Cook was allied with the Republican party until 1912, when he united with Progressive party, believing that the principles advocated by this new party were better suited to the modern conditions of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the parents of two children, Nellie and Edith. Nellie is the wife of Roy M. Sharp and lives four miles east of Ladoga on a farm; she has one daughter, Hariett Catherine. Edith is still at home with her parents. The one son born to Mr. and Mrs. Cook died in early infancy. Mr. Cook and all the members of his family have been adherents of the Christian church and give to it their earnest support. Mr. Cook has long
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