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J. C. Hardin was born in North Carolina in March, 1835, a son of David and Elizabeth Hardin, natives of the same State. He remained with his parents till seventeen years of age, and then lived with an uncle two years. In 1854 he came to Indiana and worked by the month four or five years, when by his economy and perseverance he had saved enough money to buy some land, and began farming for himself. He now owns 228 acres of fine land, and devotes his entire attention to his farm, also making stock-
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raising a prominent part of his business. He was married Nov. 30, 1859, to Ann Hiatt, who was born April 14, 1840, a daughter of James and Betty Hiatt, natives of Ohio, but early settlers of Henry County, where the father died in 1841, aged forty-one years, and the mother in 1848, aged forty-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have two children-I. Edwin and Horace L. They are members of the Society of Orthodox Friends. Politically he is a Republi- can and cast his first vote for President for John C. Fremont.
Moses Heller is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born July 1, 1829. He was educated in his native country and when twelve years of age began to learn the tailor's trade of his father. When twenty years of age he came to the United States in company with a younger sister, who has since died. They landed in New York and proceeded from there to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained till 1852, working at $8 a month. In April, 1852, he came to Knightstown and opened a clothing store. He came here an entire stranger but applied himself to business and his trade steadily in- creased, making it necessary to enlarge his stock from time to time. He continued in business till August, 1873, when he retired and is now living a quiet life in Knightstown. He was married in Janu- ary, 1857, to Barbara Weil, daughter of Myer and Jennetta Weil. She is a native of Germany, coming to America with her parents when seven years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Heller have been born four children-Sally, wife of Emile Kahn, of New Castle, Ind. ; Ettie (deceased); Myer and William Herbert. Mr. Heller is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, Lodge No. 99, and En- campment No. 48. He has served several years acceptably as Councilman of the city of Knightstown.
Rev. Horace N. Herrick, B. D., pastor of the Methodist Episco- pal church, Knightstown, Ind., was born in Allen County, Ind., June 17, 1846, a son of William R. and Ruth (Williams) Herrick, natives of New York, now of Fort Wayne, Ind. He was reared on a farm, attending the district schools, and subsequently attended Fort Wayne College. His father being in moderate cir- cumstances he was obliged to rely on himself and when fifteen years of age began working at the carpenter's trade, to defray the expenses of his education. When sixteen years of age he began teaching school, which was better suited to his tastes. He subse- quently attended Asbury University two terms, and in 1868 was licensed to preach, and admitted to the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He preached eight years,
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having in that time five different charges, viz .: Alexandria, one year; New Comer, three years ; North Muncie, one year; Ridgeville, two years; Hartford City, oue year. In the spring of 1876 he took a supernumerary relation to the conference, and moved to Evanston, Ill., where he took a full course in the Northwestern University and in the Garrett Biblical Institute, graduating from both institutions in the spring of 1881. He then returned to the conference and was appointed to the church in Winchester, Ind., remaining there three years, when he was sent to his present charge in Knightstown. His church here has a membership of over 350. June 28, 1868, Mr. Herrick was mar- ried to Mary E. Erick, daughter of Samuel Erick, of Allen County, Ind. They have two children-Bessie R. and William V.
Wilson Hobbs, M. D., was born in Salem, Ind., Aug. 21, 1823. His parents were among the early settlers of Southern Indiana, from North Carolina. In 1829 his mother died, and July 3, 1833, his father died, leaving a family of six children dependent on the charity of the world. When he was fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the saddle and harness maker's trade, but on account of the man's cruelty, his guardian took him away after a year's service and sent him to live with his uncle, Elisha Hobbs, near Carthage, Ind., till another place could be found for him. He remained there till November, 1841, working at such odd jobs as. he could find, and then made an arrangement with the Superin- tendent of the Friends' boarding-school at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, to split wood for the Dutch oven connected with the school, out of school hours and during vacations, to pay his expenses at the. school one year. In the fall of 1842 he began teaching school and continued till his health failed and he was obliged to seek other employment. In 1848 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Williamson, of Harveysburg, Ohio, still teaching, however, to meet his expenses. In 1850, with his wife and two children, he went to the Shawnee mission in what is now the State of Kansas, to take charge of the mission school, and there among the Shawnee Indians he began the practice of medicine, remaining till October, 1852. During the winter of 1852-'53 he took his first course of lectures at the Michigan University, Ann Arbor, and was gradu- ated by the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in the spring of 1869. In April, 1853, he located at Annapolis, Ind., and began the practice of medicine, remaining there till after the breaking out of the Rebellion. Sept. 4, 1862, he was commissioned
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Surgeon of the Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry, organized at Terre Haute, and went immediately to the defense of Cincinnati against Kirby Smith. All his military service was at the front, the most of the time detached as brigade, division or corps Surgeon. He was in the Army of the Cumberland till the capture of Atlanta, and then went with Sherman to the sea, and through the campaign of the Carolinas. He was mustered out in June, 1865, and in July located and resumed his profession at Carthage, Ind., remaining there till his removal to Knightstown, June, 1873. Dr. Hobbs is a member of the Henry County, Union District, Indiana State, and American medical societies. He was president of the State Association in 1874, and a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876. He was for many years a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Indiana, and is now a member of the examining board of Fort Wayne Medical College. Many of his papers can be found among the published transactions of the Indiana State Association, as well as in many of the leading medical journals of the country. Of late he has devoted his time largely to the matter of legal medicine and expert testimony, and to that his pen has been chiefly directed. Before the war he was School Examiner of Parke County, Ind., several years, and for the past four years he has been President of the School Board of Knightstown. Dr. Hobbs was married Oct. 12, 1846, to Zalinda L. Williams, a daughter of Achilles Williams, Beale at that time Treasurer of Wayne County, Ind. They have had a family of five sons and two daughters, all living save one son, Robert W., who died at Canon City, Col., in 1879, aged twenty- two years.
O.E. Holloway, M. D., is a son of E. B. Holloway, now re- tired and living in Indianapolis. He was born in Richmond in 1856. His early education was received at Anderson, Ind., his later at Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., now known as Depauw University. He began the study of medicine with Dr. G. C. Smythe, of Greencastle, Ind., in 1876, and graduated in 1880 from the Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis. He began his practice in Rush County, with Dr. Dillon, but in the fall of 1881 came to Knightstown where he is building up a good practice. Although young in the profession his ability and skill is recog- nized and he has the prospect of a brilliant future.
Charles S. Hubbard was born in Milton, Wayne County, Ind .. Sept. 1, 1829, the second of twelve children of Richard and Sarah
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(Swain) Hubbard. When he was ten years of age his parents moved to Henry County, and located on a farm a mile and a half from Knightstown. He was born without a right hand, yet, in spite of this disadvantage he was able to plow, chop wood, and do almost all kinds of work. He acquired a fair education and when sixteen years of age began teaching school, receiving $10 a month and boarding himself. He taught and attended school alternately till the summer of 1847, when the Friends' boarding school now Earlham College, was opened and he entered that institution. He attended three terms, and while there his father went to Raysville, and engaged in the mercantile business. Charles continued to teach some time but subsequently joined his father, and after clerk- ing for him three years was admitted as a partner with a third in- terest. A year later his father sold his interest and he and his brother-in-law, Dr. Cochran, became equal partners, but after an- other year Charles S. became sole proprietor. His business con- tinued prosperous, and in 1862 he retired from active life. After a year of idleness he opened a dry-goods store in Knightstown, in partnership with Timothy Harrison, of Richmond. They did a large and successful business for several years. In 1864 he was elected one of the three Trustees of the Soldiers', Seamen's and Orphans' Home, a State institution established that year near Knightstown. This position he held four years. In 1868 he was appointed one of the managers of Earlham College. An endow- ment fund being needed he canvassed many of the States in its interest and secured by his efforts $53,000 as a permanent fund. This was placed under the control of a board of five trustees, of which he has since been a member. In 1866 Mr. Hubbard was made a Director of the Franklin Life Insurance Company, of In- dianapolis, and served several years. He was for a number of years one of the Directors of the First National Bank, Knights- town. In 1876 he was elected to represent Henry County in the Legislature, and was re-elected in 1878. While a member of that body he took a great interest in providing an institution for imbe- cile and feeble-minded children of the State of Indiana. By great effort he succeeded in procuring the passage of a bill locating such an institution in connection with the Orphans' Home, near Knights- town. In State and local church and Sunday-school work he has long been an active worker. He has been a life-long member of the Society of Friends, and for a number of years has been a minis- ter of the church. He was married in November, 1854, to Mar-
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tha White, daughter of Toms and Millicent White, of Washington County, Ind. They have five children, a son and four daughters.
Daniel C. Jackson, Knightstown, Ind., is a native of Spice- land Township, Henry Co., Ind., born May 14, 1824, a son of Daniel and Prudence Jackson, natives of North Carolina. In 1812 Daniel Jackson came with his family to Indiana and settled on the land where the town of Milton, Wayne County, is now located. In 1818 he came to Henry County and squatted on land in the western part of Spiceland Township, and when the land came into the market he bought 380 acres, 240 acres being unimproved. He was a man of determined will, great force of character, prompt and active in all business transactions. He was widely known and universally respected. He served on the first grand jury impan- eled in Henry County. The first election was held at his house which was the voting place for three years. He engaged for a time in buying hogs, which he butchered and took to New Orleans on a flatboat. While on one of these trips he was taken with yellow fever and died in October, 1823. His wife, who was born in 1776, lived till 1869, being at her death ninety-three years and three months old. They had a family of eleven children, all of whom lived till maturity. Daniel C. Jackson was reared on the farm entered by his father. Being deprived of a father's care his educational advantages were limited. He and his brother were assisted by a neighbor, who paid their subscription at the district school, and they husked corn for him in return. Being the young- est of the family he remained on the old homestead, having twenty acres of land as his share. He has been industrious and energetic and has accumulated property, adding to his inheritance till he now owns 307 acres of improved land. He has been one of the most successful stock-raisers in the county. In 1883 he moved to Knightstown, where he built a large two-story brick residence with all modern improvements. Mr. Jackson was married in Au- gust, 1851, to Eliza Ann, daughter of Elisha and Ann Scovell. They have four sons-Winfield E., Emery M., Charles R. and Nelson H. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Christian church.
John Judge, a prominent farmer of Wayne Township, is a na- tive of Knox County, Ohio, born Sept. 23, 1825, a son of John and Mary (Drake) Judge. When about fourteen years of age he came with his parents to Henry County, Ind., and settled in Greensboro Township, and six years later moved to Iowa, where they both died. They had a family of ten children; three are de-
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ceased. John Judge was the second son, and his parents being in meager circumstances he was obliged early in life to assist in the maintenance of the family. He received but a limited education. When twenty years of age he bought his time of his parents and began life for himself. He bought a piece of land in the woods, in Harrison Township. He improved the land and lived on it six years, when he traded it for Western land and bought a farm in Greensboro Township. In 1874 he bought the farm where he now resides, which is known as the Billy Foutz farm. His buildings are all first class. His residence is a large two-story frame, with all modern improvements. He owns 525 acres of land, 330 acres where he lives and about 200 in Greensboro Township. He was married in 1846 to Sarah, daughter of William Jones. They had a family of eight children four of whom are living. Mrs. Judge died in 1864 and Mr. Judge afterward married Nancy Muters- paugh.
J. P. Julian, M. D., son of Emsley and Mary Julian, was born in Henry County, Ind., Oct. 5, 1854. He lived in Cadiz till 1861, when his father was elected County Treasurer and removed to New Castle, remaining there four years. He received a good edu- cation in the common schools and afterward attended Spiceland Academy. He subsequently taught school four or five years, and in 1878 began the study of medicine with Dr. Hasty, of Indianap- olis. In 1879 he entered the Physio-Medical College of Indiana, at Indianapolis, and graduated in March, 1881. He began the practice of his profession in Middletown, but in 1882 removed to Elizabeth City, where he is building up a good practice.
Edmund Lewis was born on the farm he now owns Dec. 5, 1823, a son of Edmund and Mary Lewis, his father a native of Virginia. In 1818 emigrated to Dayton, Ohio, and in 1821 to Henry County, Ind. He and his wife were the first settlers of Wayne Town- ship; he was here at the land sale. The Indians camped on his farm for several years, and frequently visited his house. Our sub- ject's grandfather, Alexander McNight, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war under General Washington. Edmund Lewis received his education in the log cabin subscription schools. He has always followed agricultural pursuits, and now owns a fine farm of 256 acres. He has paid considerable attention to stock-raising, owning a fine herd of cattle. He was married in 1853 to Louisa, daughter of Bartholomew and Leah Fort. They had five chil- dren-Maurice S., Rosa B. (wife of James Roof), Walter B., Flora
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A. (wife of Charles Addison), and Harry D. Mrs. Lewis died May 13, 1871, aged thirty-eight years. Jan. 19, 1884, Mr. Lewis was married to Amanda, daughter of Jacob Brooks. Politically he is a Democrat.
Washington Lewis, one of the most prominent farmers of Wayne Township, was born in Montgomery County, May 2, 1822, a son of Edmund and Mary (McNight) Lewis. When he was two years of age his parents moved to Henry County, Ind., where he was reared and educated. In 1844 he took a trip to Missouri, returning the following year. He was married in 1845 to Eliza, daughter of William and Elizabeth Albright. They have one son -William Edmund. Soon after his marriage Mr. Lewis settled on the farm where he now lives. It contains 109 acres of choice land and is well improved. His farm buildings are comfortable and commodious. His residence is a neat, two-story frame, surrounded with beautiful shrubbery and shade trees. He also owns fifty-five acres of land in Hancock County. Mr. Lewis is one of the most successful farmers and stock-raisers in the township. He is a member of Charlottesville Lodge, No. 252, F. & A. M. His son is a member of Golden Rule Lodge, No. 16.
James Mills is a native of Wales, born in April, 1840. He came to the United States when a mere lad and was reared in Columbus, Ohio, receiving his education in that city. When eighteen years of age he went to Granger's Commercial College and took a full course. After his graduation he was employed as bookkeeper for J. D. Osborn & Co. eighteen months. He then went South, but on the breaking out of the civil war returned to Columbus and was employed as chief clerk for George McDonald until 1862, when he enlisted in the Ninety-fifth Ohio as a private. Soon after he was detailed Secretary for Colonel W. S. McMillan, and shortly after as Clerk on General Nelson's staff, serving in that capacity till discharged on account of ill health. Returning to Columbus he was employed in the general freight office till his old employer, General McDonald, reorganized his business, when he was again employed by him as clerk'and bookkeeper. In January, 1864, he was offered the position of chief clerk in the general freight department of the- at Indianapolis, which he accepted. A year later he accepted the agency of the Cincinnati, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad at Knightstown, a position he held fifteen years. He then embarked in the boot and shoe business, in which he continued three years, when he sold out and bought
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the retail grocery which he still owns. Mr. Mills was married in 1862 to Elizabeth A. Jones, of Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order; was initiated in 1862, in Capital Lodge, Columbus. He is a member of the City Council of Knightstown.
Samuel H. Mc Guffin, a representative of one of the oldest fam- ilies in the county, was born Feb. 18, 1847. He was the fourth of nine children of James H. and Rhoda (Goble) McGuffin. His father was born in Virginia, Aug. 29, 1811, and when a young man came to Henry County and located in Knightstown where he worked at the carpenter's and cabinet-maker's trades several years. He then lived on the Goble farm six years, and subsequently moved to the farm now owned by Samuel H. His wife died in 1856. He now makes his home with our subject on the old home- stead. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity many years. Samuel H. McGuffin received a common-school education. He was reared to the life of a farmer and has always followed that vocation; has 120 acres of the finest bottom lands, situated on Blue River and on the Knightstown and Greensboro pike. He was married in 1876 to Mattie, daughter of J. N. Robinson. They have three children-Emma O., Zola L. and May E.
James H. Mcgillip, M. D., was born March 7, 1852, a son of James T. and Malinda McKillip, natives of North Carolina, of Irish descent. In 1867 his parents moved to Indiana and settled in Henry County, where his father died in 1876 aged fifty-one years. While in North Carolina he held the office of Sheriff twenty years. James H. received a fair education, and when fourteen years of age began the study of medicine with Dr. N. H. Kennedy, of Knightstown, and remained with him four years. He then began the practice of his profession and has become well known in the county, holding a high position in the medical brotherhood. He was married June 19, 1873, to Ada I., daugh- ter of Levi C. and Ruth A. Jackson. They have two children- Lucy A. and an infant. Politically Dr. McKillip is a Democrat.
John Morris, a prominent farmer of Wayne Township, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, April 18, 1824, a son of Lewis and Rebecca (Hoskinson) Morris, his father a native of Maryland and his mother of Virginia. His parents were married in Virginia, and afterward moved to Ohio, and from there to Henry County, Ind., in the spring of 1833. They settled on a farm north of Knightstown, where they lived the remainder of their lives. They had a family of nine children, but three of whom are living. John
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Morris was reared on a farm in Henry County, and on reaching manhood engaged in agriculture and stock raising on his own ac- count. He is one of the most successful stock-raisers in the county. He owns a fine farm of 210 acres, on which he lived forty years, but in 1874 moved to the farm in Wayne Township, where he now lives, somewhat retired. His homestead contains fifty-five acres of choice land, and his residence is a fine two-story frame build- ing. Mr. Morris was married in 1845 to Hannah, daughter of Elisha Scovell, of Henry County. They have had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are members of the Presbyterian church.
Robert I. Morrison was born in Salem, Washington Co., Ind., Nov. 3, 1835. His father, John I. Morrison, was a native of Pennsylvania, his mother of North Carolina. In 1865 J. I. Morrison was elected State Treasurer, and moved to Indianapolis. He served but one term, and afterward engaged in the wholesale grocery business, a member of the firm of Wiles, Bro. & Co. In 1873 he moved to Knightstown, where he died July 17, 1882. He was a prominent educator of the State from 1840 to 1843, being Professor of Languages in the State University, and President of its Board of Trustees for many years after. Coming to Knights- town he served as School Trustee, and superintended the building of the fine school-house there. Robert I. Morrison was reared in Salem. He graduated at the State University, Bloomington, in 1855. Soon after his graduation, in 1856, he was employed as civil engineer on the Government surveys in Minnesota, where he had a contract for sub-division of six townships, which he success- fully performed. In 1857, during the Indian troubles, all survey- ing had to be abandoned. In 1858 he was appointed clerk in the General Land Office at Washington. In April, 1861, on the call for 75,000 men, he enlisted for three months, and was in the first company mustered into the service, viz., National Rifles, Washing- ton, D. C., the company being formed of clerks in the different Government departments. They served on the Potomac and about Harper's Ferry; and July 15, 1861, were mustered out and re. instated in their previous positions. Mr. Morrison served in th Land Office till 1864. When his father assumed the duties State Treasurer, Feb. 10, 1865, he was appointed cashier and book- keeper. He filled the position two years under his father and four years under General Nathan Kimball. In 1871 he retired from the Treasurer's office, and resumed civil engineering; was em-
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ployed in Indianapolis till 1873, when he served as U. S. Inspector on Wabash River improvement. He made a map of the river from Vincennes to its mouth, and included in his surveys the Ohio up to Evansville. In 1876 he was employed in the construction of a dam at New Harmony. The contractors having abandoned it in November, on account of the disastrous floods of that year, he hired laborers and successfully completed it in the midst of winter. It was inspected and received by Major W. E. Merrill and Jared A. Smith, U. S. Engineers, on Jan. 22, 1877. In 1878 he was appointed County Surveyor by the Commissioners of Henry County, to fill the vacancy caused by S. C. Cowgill's failure to qualify, and in 1880 and 1882 was elected to the same position, his term expiring November, 1884.
Edward G. Mostler, boot and shoe manufacturer, Knightstown, Ind., is a native of Pennsylvania, born Aug. 20, 1830. He was reared and educated in his native State, and when nineteen years of age began working at the shoemaker's trade. In 1852 he came West and located at Huntsville, Madison Co., Ind., remaining there till 1860. He afterward moved to Pendleton and then to Stockwell, Ind., and in 1865 came to Knightstown. He was em- ployed by Murray & Burt, as foreman of their manufactory, till 1873, when he commenced business on his own account. He thoroughly understands every detail of his business, and by giving it his personal attention has been successful. His gentlemanly deportment and affable manners have won him many friends. In 1879 he was elected City Treasurer, and has since held the office by re-election. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity twelve years, and is one of the oldest Odd Fellows of the county. He was married in 1856 to Mary R. Maul, of Huntsville, Ind. They have a family of four sons and two daughters. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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