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S. Goodwin, James Clark, James B. Carnahan, Lewis Spears, Stephen Mastin, Jr., John Anderson, Jacob Benedick, Samuel Parsons, William White, Solomon Brennan, William C. McCor- mick, Barton Peek and Mrs. Sarah White.
MONTGOMERY .*
The town of Montgomery is located in Barr Township, on the line of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, seven miles east of the county seat of Daviess County. It was laid out by Valentine B. Montgomery, on land owned by him, in 1865. The town dates its rise and progress from 1854, at the time when the Ohio & Mississippi Railway was being surveyed through Daviess County. The first house in the place was built by James C. Montgomery, a brother of Valentine, who used it for a dwelling and store. This building is still standing, and is occupied by the man who built it. When the railroad was completed through the town, in 1857, there was then a population of about twenty, oocupying four houses. The "toun" was then literally "in the woods," a heavy growth of timber surrounding it on all sides. Valentine Montgomery then bought grain at the station, and shipped it to Louisville and Cincinnati, doing an immense business for that time. After the advent of the railroad, considerable business impetus was given to the place; houses sprang up on every side; the mechanic, the merchant, the dealer in country products found Montgomery a safe place in which to carry on their various voca- tions, and at once, as it were, the little town commenced forming its part of the history of the county named after one of the mar- tyrs of Tippecanoe. Among the first marriages to take place in the town was that of Patrick McCarty and Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of Col. James S. Morgan, one of the most prominent citizens of the county. Mr. McCarty, the groom on this impor- tant occasion, afterward represented the county in the Legislature. The first child born in Montgomery was James McCarty, son of James and Elizabeth McCarty, whose marriage is referred to above. His birth occurred in 1857. He did not remain long in his native town, but moved with his parents to the West, where he still is. In 1869, while Lloyd Clark was trustee, the first
*The remainder of this chapter was prepared by Charles G. Sofrit of Washington.
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public schools of Montgomery were founded, and they are a credit to any of the schools in the county. The Catholic Church of Montgomery, St. Peter's, was built sixteen years ago. It is a large brick structure, and has a parsonage and schoolhouse in connection with it. From its infancy to the present time the congregation has been presided over by Rev. Father Piers. In March, 1870, the town was incorporated, the record in the com- missioners' court showing its location to be in Section 26, Town 3 north, of Range 6 west. The first officers of the town failed to leave any record of their advent to office, consequently we can- not give their names, though careful search was made for some memorandum that would shed some light on the matter. The town at present has a population of over 500, the number having been largely increased within the past six months, or since the Wilson Coal Company opened their extensive mines on land ad- joining the town. The mining industry is in its infancy yet . at this place, but it promises to become one of the most important coal mining towns on the line of the Ohio & Mississippi. Montgomery is situated in the center of an excellent farming region. Its agricultural resources are great, and almost as much grain and stock are shipped from this point as from any other place in the county. This is due to the fact that the place is located in the geographical center of the county. It is also exactly mid- way between Cincinnati and St. Louis, the termini of the main line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway. The business men of the present day are J. C. Harris, miller; Crane & Grannan, James Farrell, James H. Fanning, general merchandise; Samuel J. Scott and O. B. Hixon, druggists; J. W. Perkins, hotel; Elias Hill and John Bradley, restaurants; Henry Rudolph, saddler; Matthews & Perkins, agricultural implements; W. C. Willeford and A. W. Bigham, physicians. The postmaster is James Farrell, and the town officers are: Clerk, O. B. Hixon; treasurer, Elias Hill; marshal, William Mitchell; trustees, John D. Montgomery, Joseph Cheever, Edward Matthews.
ODON.
The town of Odon, in Madison Township, is the next im- portant in size to the city of Washington. It was laid out in
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1846, by John Hastings, on the land formerly owned by Dr. J. Townsend, and was called Clarksburg. Dr. Townsend was the first settler. It contained thirty-six lots, according to the original plat, and was surveyed by P. S. Agan. The following additions to the original plat have been made: Kohr's, in 1866, by Henry B. Kohr, nineteen lots; Crook's, by Howard Crook, in 1867, six- teen lots; Olly Crook's, by Olly Crook, 1868, eleven lots; Garten's by Z. V. Garten, 1877, eight lots; McCoy's, by Hugh McCoy, 1875, forty-two lots. The postoffice was called Clark's Prairie until 1880, when the name of the place was changed to Odon, the post- office name being changed at the same time. In 1885 the place was incorporated. Odon is a thriving little town, situated in the center of a splendid agricultural country, and only needs a rail- road to develop it wonderfully. It has three churches, an ex- cellent graded school, and a population of 500 souls. There is an old Odd Fellows' lodge in active existence. Following are its officers: J. W. Burrell, D. D .; Henry Correll, N. G .; William H. Waggy, V. G .; J. W. Neall, P. S .; J. W. Burrell, R. S. The lodge was organized in 1872. A Masonic lodge was organized at this place, but it was short-lived. The first town officers of Odon, elected in 1885, were: Town board-Dr. John Dearmin, Samuel Dunlap, John Simley; clerk, W. L. Stoy; treasurer, C. L. Pear- son; marshal, Wiley Edmundson. The town was incorporated in September, 1885. The people of Odon are religiously inclined, go to church regularly, and are very much opposed to saloons. Attempts to establish a saloon in the place are met with the bit- terest opposition, and none have yet proven successful.
The first merchants of Odon were Howard Crook and Z. V. Garten, who were merchandising there in 1855. A business directory of the town at this writing would be as follows; John Haig & Son, J. M. Crooke & Son and C. L. Pearson, dry goods; W. L. Stoy and William Burdette, drugs; H. Smiley & Son, tile- makers; Sam Dougherty, tanner; B. J. Smiley, livery and hotel; J. C. Potts, cabinet-maker; Hugh McCoy, groceries; Edmundson & Callahan, blacksmiths; Alonzo Caughy, carriage-maker; Will- iam Odell, barber; Crooke & Burrell, furniture; G. D. Abraham, hardware; N. F. Dougherty, billiards; Joseph Seneff, Leighton Love, boots and shoes; H. C. Correll, tinner; E. Redman, J. H.
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Redman, William Dearmin, carpenters; D. J. Smith, A. K. Lane, John Dearmin, S. O. Culmer, M. C. Kent, B. Sears, physicians; Rev. G. F. Culmer, Rev. John Breden, ministers; Mrs. H. C. Correll, Mrs. John Burrell, Mrs. J. M. Crooke, millinery and dress-making; H. Crooke, J. D. Laughlin, attorneys; James Wat- son, bricklayer; Sam Dunlap, lumber. There is a weekly news- paper published, at Oden, by John V. Smith. It was established in 1885, and is called the Prairie Scorcher.
Cannelburg, one of the three incorporated towns of the coun- ty, was laid out by the Buckeye Cannel Coal Company-A. J. Shotwell, L. C. Harris, and Anthony Moots. September 26, 1872, ten blocks were platted, divided into 102 lots. An addition of forty-four lots was made to the place in 1884. The town of Can- nelburg sprang into existence on account of the extensive.opera- tions of the Buckeye Cannel Coal Company. It has a population of 350, a good school, and is steadily growing. There are two mines near Cannelburg, one being worked on the co-operative plan by the order of Knights of Labor. The cannel coal mined here has no superior in the State, and immense quantities of it are taken out each year. Both cannel coal and bituminous coal are worked from the same vein, the cannel overlying the other. The vein is from two and a half to five feet thick. The Buckeye Cannel Coal Company's mine was opened in 1870 by A. J. Shot- well and Clapp & Bailey. It was purchased by the present own- ers-Washington and Cincinnati capitalists-in 1881. One hun- dred and twenty-five men are worked, and from seventy to ninety cars of coal are mined weekly, each car averaging about fifteen tons of coal. Austin F. Cabel, of Washington, is the company's secretary. Most of the property in the town is owned by the company, and the only store is kept by them, W. F. O'Brien being its manager, and also the postmaster. George Rudolph keeps a hotel and boarding house. In the winter of 1881-82 the small-pox was epidemic in this place, and a large number of deaths occurred. Cannelburg was incorporated in 1884, and its town officers are: Clerk, W. F. O'Brien; treasurer, Mark Cava- naugh; marshal, Enoch Davis; trustees, James Foote, Edward Tolson, Daniel Davis.
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RAGLESVILLE.
A pretty village of perhaps 200 inhabitants, called Ragles- ville, is situated near the center of Van Buren Township. It has a church, schoolhouse, several stores, a flouring-mill and a brass band. It was laid out under the name of Stanford, June 21. 1837, by Ozias Crooke, and consists of forty-eight lots. The first settler in the vicinity was Asbury Sims, in 1832. Ozias Crooke was the first school teacher, and also the first merchant. He kept a general store there in 1840. Among the Raglesville business men of the present day are T. W. Casey, dry goods; Logan Allen, drugs, also postmaster; Thomas McCord, flouring- mill.
ELNORA. 1
This village, in Elmore Township, sprang into existence with the completion, in 1885, of the Evansville & Indianapolis Rail- road, though a postoffice and two or three stores had been on the site of the new town for several decades of years. The name of the postoffice was Owl Prairie, but the hamlet was called Owl- town. Elnora was laid out September 25, 1885, by William C. Griffith and A. R. Stalcup, with nine blocks and fifty-three lots. It promises to become an important point for the buying and shipping of corn and wheat, and other farm products, A num- ber of new buildings have recently been erected at this place. The postoffice name on the 1st of January, 1886, was changed to Elnora. The business men of Elnora are A. R. Stalcup, general store and livery; Taylor & Williams, druggists; George D. Abra- ham, dry goods; John Edmundson, blacksmith. David H. Tay- lor is the postmaster.
CORNETTSVILLE.
This post village of Bogard Township was laid out by John F. Myers and Samuel Cornett in 1875, and has a population of 100, a schoolhouse; postoffice, several stores and a blacksmith shop. Two or three churches are in the immediate neighbor- hood. The place is nine miles northeast from Washington. It has thirty-seven lots, and is very pleasantly located in an excel- lent farming section. Among the business men of the place are William R. Baker, general store and postoffice; John N. Killion, blacksmith, and Dr. J. M. Achor. The handsomest public school
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building in the county, outside of Washington, is located at Cor- nettsville.
SOUTH WASHINGTON.
This village is situated on the Petersburg road, one mile south of Washington, and has 150 inhabitants. Its population is nearly altogether made up of the employes of Cabel & Kaufman's coal mines. It draws its supplies from Washington, and has no postoffice nor church building, but one of the township school buildings is located here. Thirty-two lots were laid off at the site of the town by Levi D. Colbert, in 1874. Ministers of the Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches sometimes preach here. The place is commonly known by the euphonious title of Lickskillet, given it in days gone by, before it was dig- nified by the name of South Washington.
LETTSVILLE.
Lettsville is another hamlet of Daviess County that is much oftener designated by a vulgar cognomen bestowed upon it in bygone years, than by its proper name. Years ago at Lettsville a low-down saloon was kept in the basement or cellar of a dwelling. There was no outside door to the cellar, and the pro- prietor of the doggery, to remedy the defect, knocked out enough bricks from the wall to make a passage large enough to admit a man. On account of this circumstances the place took the name of "Hole-in-the-Wall," which clings to it to this day. A postoffice is maintained here, but there is no business house and but two or three dwellings. One of the township school buildings is hard by.
EPSOM.
Two miles from Cornettsville, and in the same township, is Epsom, which consists of a half-dozen dwellings, three stores, a postoffice and a schoolhouse. The vulgar name of the place is "Tophet." The present name was given it because the water from a well in the hamlet that was dug by a Mr. Page was thought to resemble in taste the famous Epsom salts. The first settlement was made away back in 1815, or 1816, by Peter Yount. Considerable business is done here during the winter season, when the bad roads make it difficult to get to and from
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Washington. Among the early merchants were Joseph Brown, John Kendall, John Hyatt, Dr. David Carter, William J. Wil- son, Hiram Myers, David Young and others. Among the physi- cians who have practiced and are now practicing here are Drs. David Carter, T. G. Ray, T. V. Norvell and David R. Carter. An organization of I. O. O. F. once existed here, but it was aban- doned several years ago. There are now three small stores carry- ing lines of general merchandise.
PLAINVILLE.
The completion of the new railroad, the Evansville & Indian- apolis, through Daviess County has given the village of Plain- ville, in Steele Township, ten miles as the crow flies north of Washington, quite a business boom, and a number of new build- ings were erected in the fall of 1885. Plainville is on the line of the old Wabash & Erie Canal, and was quite an important business point twenty-eight years ago, with a number of stores and a good flouring-mill. It went down, however, like hundreds of other towns, with the ill-fated canal that cost so many millions of dollars and hundreds of lives to build, only to be abandoned very shortly after its completion. Plainville continued to be a trading point, with one or two stores and a postoffice. The new road has made it of considerable importance, and it has doubled in population, while the price of town lots has very visibly in- creased. The place was laid out by W. D. McCleskey and Stephen D. Wright December 19, 1855. Its present population is about 300. Of the business men of the place William F. Killion is a grain buyer; Frank Killion, hotel; William Hildreth, general store; Thompson Cox and Carr & Gillin, blacksmiths; David Carter, O. H. McKittrick, E. D. Millis and Harry Faith, physicians. The Evansville & Indiana Railroad has a neat little depot at the place, and considerable shipping is done.
ELDON.
In 1857 David H. Kennedy, William S. Turner and Seth H. Cruse laid off, in a very elaborate manner, a town at the intersec- tion of the Wabash & Erie Canal and the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and called it Eldon. The plat showed eighteen streets
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and fifty-six blocks of lots, but the owners were disappointed in their arrangements, for the canal went down, and the scheme for making a metropolis of Eldon was a flat failure. A single dilapi- dated shanty marks the spot where the bright hopes of Eldon's founders, in that particular direction, melted into thin air.
CHELSEA AND CORBYTOWN.
Another magnificent enterprise that "died a bornin'" was the effort to build up a city at the conjunction of the Ohio & Missis- sippi Railroad and the proposed "Straightline." A town of fif- teen streets and sixty-four blocks, divided into lots, was laid out by the projector of the Straightline, Willard Carpenter, in 1857, and called Chelsea. The Straighline proved a failure; so did Chelsea. Corbytown was another town laid out on the proposed route of the Straightline, in Veal Township, six miles south of Washington. Like Chelsea its prospects faded with the failure of Willard Carpenter's railroad enterprise.
TOM'S HILL AND HUDSONVILLE.
These villages are a collection of dwelling houses, a saw-mill and stave factory located near the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad on the west branch of White River. The place and all its sur- roundings belong to Elisha Hyatt's estate. The inhabitants of Tom's Hill are all tenants, and were employes of Mr. Hyatt. Hudsonville, a hamlet of Harrison Township, was laid out in 1856 by Nelson and Daniel Jackson. It never amounted to anything, however, and has no business.
SMILEY AND FARLEN.
Smiley is a postoffice in Van Buren Township, and Farlen, a postoffice in Madison Township, that are of very recent date. Farlen has two or three dwellings and a Baptist Church. W. N. McFarlen has a general store there, and Paris Keck is a black- smith. Cumback, another postoffice, is located in Veal Town- ship.
MAYSVILLE AND GLENDALE.
This town was laid out in 1834 by John McDonald, on the land of the late Charner Hawkins. It contained seventy-two lots,
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its situation being on the Wabash & Erie Canal, four miles southwest of Washington. During the days when the great canal flourished Maysville was the most important business place in the county, but it went down with the canal, and to-day nothing re- mains but a few tumble-down houses, relics of a once thriving town's departed greatness. Glendale is in Harrison Township, and is a little hamlet eight miles southeast of Washington. There are half-a-dozen dwellings, a schoolhouse, a church, and three stores. The merchants are A. M. Ragsdale, A. T. Conley, and Dr. George W. Willeford. There is a Masonic lodge at this place. There are two secret societies at Glendale, both of which are in fair working condition. Glendale Lodge, No. 461, F. & A. M., was organized in 1878. There is a present membership, and the society owns a two-story frame lodge room and business house valued at $1,200. This building was put up in 1879. The offi- cers of this lodge are as follows: J. W. Clark, W. M .; James McGeehee, S. W .; James Porter, J. W .; Stewart Harrod, Sec .; William Clark, Treas. Star Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F., has been in existence since 1862, at which time it was organized at the house of A. T. Conley. In 1865 the society built a two- story frame building, the upper story of which is used for a lodge room, and the lower story is leased by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The principal present officers are: James Arthur, N. G .; Alfred Meads, V. G .; John Arthur, Sec. and District Deputy.
ALFORDSVILLE.
Alfordsville, in Reece Township, is the principal village in the southeastern portion of the county. It was laid off on June 3. 1845, by Isaac Harris. An attempt was made to incorporate it a few years ago, but failed for some reason. The original plat of the place shows sixty-four lots, but to these an addition of eight lots was made by Joseph A. McCord in 1867. The first settlers of the vicinity were James Alford, James P. Gilly and James Allen. These families came from North Carolina about the year 1828. Fifty years ago James Alford built the first house that stood on the ground now occupied by Alfordsville. The house is still in existence. The first resident school teachers of Alfords- ville were Tol Bartl and Barton Alford. The first merchants were
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Florian Bartl, T. H. Kyle and Joseph McCord. The latter is still in business at Alfordsville. At present the place has a popu- lation of about 175, two churches, a schoolhouse and a number of business houses, among which are those of Joseph A. McCord, H. P. Summers, Joseph Allen, Charles Allen and T. J. Alford, general merchants; Baker Bros., blacksmiths and wagon-makers, and P. A. Horrall, flouring-mill. The village of Alfordsville is near the Martin County line and is sixteen miles southeast of Washington.
CHAPTER VIII.
SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY-THE FIRST. TEACHERS AT WASHINGTON -- ANECDOTES-" BARRING OUT THE TEACHER"-THE OLD SEMINARY -LATER BUILDINGS-THE GRADED SCHOOL SYSTEM-EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS-SUPERINTENDENTS-COUNTY INSTITUTES-THE SCHOOL FUNDS-TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS-ENUMERATION.
I 'T is to be regretted that up to 1877 no effort was made to keep a record of the schools that would serve as a guide to the historian of Washington and of Daviess County. Absolutely noth- ing can be found that will shed any light on the history of the early schools of Daviess County except the treacherous memories of some of the pioneer citizens. Naturally there is much con- fusion of dates, and the statements concerning the early schools and teachers are given for all they are worth, as the writer found them. The teachers of the first schools have long since passed away and nearly all of their pupils have crossed the dark river.
EARLY SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON.
There is a diversity of opinion as to who the first school teach- er in Daviess County was. John Aikman taught a "pay school" in Washington in 1815, and also for a year or so thereafter. In the year 1816 Cyrus McCormick taught school in the old Pres- byterian Church, which stood where the Christian Church now stands. Mr. McCormick is entitled to the distinction of being the first Latin teacher in Daviess County. A history of Indiana pub- lished in 1876 states that the first school in Daviess County was taught near Maysville in the year 1811, by James C. Veal. Among his pupils were John Thompson, Joseph Hawkins, John
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Smith, Daniel Hushia, Elijah Purcell, Watis Veal, John Veal, Samuel Steen, John Steen, Margaret and Ella Steen, Margaret Purcell, John, Samuel and William Ragsdale. It is asserted that the first teacher of English grammar in the county was the Rev. Robert Davis, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, who taught a small class in 1813. He had three pupils in the gram- mar class, and from them he received the sum of $8 per annum as tuition. Among the pupils of Cyrus McCormick, the Latin teacher mentioned above, were the late Judge David McDonald, one of the most distinguished jurists of the "Hoosier State," and James A. Carnahan. Thomas Howard also taught in Washing- ton during the latter part of 1815 and until his death, which oc- curred in 1817. The next "wielder of the supple birchen rod" that we have any account of was Charles McIntire, who taught in 1822, and he was followed by W. G. Cole.
BARRING OUT THE TEACHER.
In 1824 Isaac Heaton taught school in Washington, and, en- joyed the fun of being barred out of the log schoolhouse then in use on Christmas day. Mr. Heaton was succeeded by Dudley Johnson. The youths in those days were strong, rugged and in- dependent, and the teacher had to be a man of nerve and muscle or the "big boys" would run the school for him. It is said that on one Christmas day, as was customary in these times, the scholars invited the teacher to treat them. He demurred, and a half-dozen of the strapping youngsters formed themselves into a committee, and gave the teacher notice that he could either treat or "take a duckin'." It was a remarkably cold winter that year, and he didn't care about troubling them to cut the ice in a neigh- boring pond, so he treated.
Following Johnson came W. D. Shepard, whose successors were a Scotchman named Damerel and David McDonald, after- ward judge of the United States Court for Indiana. Hiram A. Hunter, father of Prof. D. E. Hunter, who is now one of the most prominent of Indiana's educators, was the next teacher. Mr. Hunter was also a Cumberland minister. He had an able assis- tant in the person of Miss Mary Cowardin. Then the late Eman- uel Van Trees, who was a schoolmate of Judge McDonald, taught
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for a short time. After him and up to 1850 schools were conduct- ed iz' Washington by Calvin Butler, and Miss McCoy in 1835, a Miss Bruner, Mary S. Clapp, a Miss Cummings, Miss Osgood, Thomas Ballow, Miss Fisk, Josiah Peck and Mary Bascom. Dur- ing the next ten years the education of the youth of Washington depended upon the labors of Rev. F. Snell (Episcopalian), William Chase, Samuel Ghee, Miss Cressy (afterward wife of Mark Shryer, of Bloomfield), Delight Weber and Miss N. Jackson. In 1861 C. P. Parsons made an effort to start a girls' school but was unsuccessful. Other teachers after that date were the Rev. Mr. Cross, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; J. M. Barry, a Baptist preacher; Rev. McCain, a Presbyterian; Mrs. Laura Clark, How- ard Williams, Samuel Loveless, Rebecca A. Wirt, Mrs. T. R. Pal- mer, Mrs. Mary R. Dyer, Alexander Patten, Rev. John R. Phil- lips, of the Baptist Church (who was also school examiner and in 1868 a candidate for State superintendent of public instruction), Edward Wise, first superintendent of Daviess County ; E. P. Cole and wife, T. T. Pringle, W. Hays Johnson, John A. Geeting, George W. Morin, D. M. Geeting, Misses Anna S. Kennedy, Sarah Agan, Laura E. Agan, Mary E. Barton, Laura F. Ladd, Emma Trimble and Mrs. Annie C. McGuire.
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