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Lewis D. Kinnard was born on the farm east of the farm on which he now resides on September 17, 1865, and is the son of John H. and Elizabeth Clay (Dunwoody) Kinnard. Both were natives of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who came to Madison county, Indiana, in the spring of 1858, locating in this township, where they lived until 1891, when the father died Nov. 19, 1891, the death of the mother following on January 16, 1892. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are now living: Lewis D. is the youngest of the family.
The home farm and the schools of the community constituted the
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early environment and influence of Lewis D. Kinnard, and after he had finished with the district schools he was entered at the Danville (Ind.) Central Normal. He finished his studies there in 1888, after which he taught for four years in Madison county, a work in which he was especially successful and popular. The business of farming, however, proved more attractive to him, and he gave up his school work to enter into agricultural activities following the death of his father in 1891. Since that time Mr. Kinnard has continued in the business and has made an excellent success of the work. General farming, cattle raising, feeding and shipping have constituted his main interests, and he has gained success and prosperity in the prosecution of the work. His hundred and sixty acres in section twenty-five is recognized as one of the finest places in the township, and stands for a generous applica- tion of genuine hard work on the part of Mr. Kinnard, formerly known as the Swain farm.
On September 4, 1889, Mr. Kinnard was married to Miss Della L. Downs. She is the daughter of Isaac and Jane G. Downs and was born in Champaign county, Illinois, coming to Madison county in 1886. To Mr. and Mrs. Kinnard three children have been born, named as follows: Charles D., born on September 14, 1891, is a graduate of the Pendleton high school and now a student in Winona Agricultural College; Helen J., born January 20, 1899, is a student in the high school; and Hugh, born February 3, 1902, is also attending the schools of the home com- munity.
Mr. Kinnard is a member of the Society of Friends and fraternally is associated as a member with Madison Lodge, No. 44, A. F. & A. M., and Sicilian Lodge, No. 234, Knights of Pythias, of which he is Past Chancellor and a member of the Grand Lodge. He is a Republican and has given good service to the party in his district. Mr. Kinnard is one of the broad-minded and liberally disposed men who mean so much in any community, and whose citizenship is always of the highest order and worth to their town and county. He, with his family, enjoys the esteem and regard of a large circle of friends and acquaintances in Fall Creek township, where they have long been known for their many excellent qualities. The family are members of the Society of Friends.
WILLIAM R. KINNARD. Since he located on the old Thomas farm in Pendleton township, securing the place on the status of a renter, the fortunes of William Rush Kinnard have kept pace with those of the most prosperous of the men of his community, and he is today the owner of the fine old place which had been the property of his wife's family years ago. Success has attended his efforts and he is reckoned among the prosperous and substantial men of the town, and one whose influ- ence and opinion are potent factors in the communal life of the place.
William R. Kinnard was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1848, and is the son of John H. and Elizabeth (Dunwoody) Kinnard, both of whom were born in the same county and state. They came to Madison county, Indiana, in 1858, locating here on the 8th of April, and settled in Fall Creek township, where they passed the remainder of their quiet and industrious lives. The father died in November, 1891, and the mother in January, 1892. The latter was a member of the Friends' church and a devout and saintly Christian woman. She reared her family of nine children in the pur.cy and piety that were her strongest characteristics, and of the nine seven are today
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filling useful places in the world. They are: Joseph D., William R., Mary F., Owen B., of Indianapolis; George L., Elnora B. and Lewis D.
William R. Kinnard was nine years old when the family came to Madison county, Indiana, and settled in this vicinity. From his early boyhood until he reached the age of twenty years he spent three months each year in the district schools, the remainder of the time being devoted to the varied forms of farm work incident to the time and place. He was twenty-one years old when he went west on a trip with the intention of finding something in which to venture as a means of liveli- hood, but his stay there was short and when he returned to his native community he joined his brother in a renting enterprise, and for three years they managed a farm on shares. He married in 1873, choosing for his wife one Mary S. Thomas, and they took up their abode on the old Thomas homestead, which Mr. Kinnard rented and which he after- wards bought. He prospered with the passing years, each succeeding season finding him advancing in the scale of success, and today he owns two hundred acres of the best farm land in Madison county, located in Fall Creek township.
Mr. Kinnard and his family are members of the Friends' church in which he was reared, and he is a Republican in politics. He is a man who is highly esteemed and respected in the township and county, and he has a host of the best of friends in this district, where he has passed his life thus far, and where his entire family was long and most favorably known.
As mentioned above, Mr. Kinnard married Miss Mary S. Thomas on January 16, 1873. She was born and reared on the farm the family now occupies, and is one of the best known and most popular women of the community. Four children were born to them, three of whom are living at this time: Alice, a graduate of the high school and the state University, and for some time a teacher, is the wife of Oliver E. Glenn, professor of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania; they have two children. Elizabeth K., a graduate of the high school and a teacher, is the wife of Edward Haines. Edith M., after her high school course, entered upon a course of study in Swarthmore College, and is now living at home with her parents.
GEORGE A. PHIPPS. In the little village of Huntsville in Fall Creek township, on the north bank of historic and picturesque old Fall creek, the principal industrial features and also business institutions are the flour mill and the saw mill which for many years have been conducted under the name and proprietorship of Mr. Phipps. A mill or factory is always an important institution in any community, and particularly is this truc of the small rural settlement of Huntsville, where the mill becomes almost the central feature of the place and around it are grouped in comparative order the church and the school and the homes of the local population. Mr. Phipps came to Huntsville more than forty years ago, learned his trade in the old Huntsville mill and finally became its proprietor. He has thus for many years been known in the business economy of this county, and is one of the highly respected citi- zens of Fall Creek township.
George Aiman Phipps was born at Weldon, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1842, a son of William and Margaret (Aiman) Phipps. Both parents spent all their lives in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. In the same county George A. Phipps was reared and
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attained his early education in the common schools while growing up on his father's farm. Most of his early education was attained in one of the old fashioned subscription schools.
In November, 1870, Mr. Phipps came to Madison county, Indiana, and took employment under his uncle, who was the owner of the grist mill at Huntsville. In that institution he learned his trade and in 1882 rented the grist mill from its owner. Three years later, in 1885, he had advanced so far as to be able to buy the property, and now for nearly thirty years it has been conducted under his name and ownership. In 1909 a fire destroyed the old grist mill, which was never rebuilt. The saw mill was not burned at the time the grist mill was destroyed. Mr. Phipps was financially interested in the glass factory and the post factory when they were located as industrial institutions in Pendleton.
In November, 1870, Mr. Phipps married Arminta Alfont. Mrs. Phipps was reared in Madison county and has been the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, namely : Margaret, a graduate of the Pendleton high school and now the wife of Ward M. Taylor of Chicago; Ben F., in the hardware business at Pendleton and a graduate of the Pendleton high school; Claude A., now deceased; Sarah, who is a graduate of the common schools and is now the wife of Ed G. Brown of Lafayette, Indiana; Harry M., of Chicago, an unmarried young man and a graduate of the local schools; Hazel M., who is a graduate of the high school and is now a stenographer at Frankfort, Indiana; Paul, who is a student in the high school. Mrs. Phipps is an active member of the Methodist church. Mr. Phipps is one of the prominent Masons of Madison county. He is affiliated with Madison lodge, No. 44, A. F. & A. M., at Pendleton, with Pendleton Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M., with Fall Creek Council, No. 42, R. & S. M., and with the Commandery, No 32, of the Knights Templar at Anderson. He has attained thirty-two degrees Scottish Rite Masonry. In politics he is an active Democrat and has long been a royal worker and supporter of the party interests and for local good government. At the present time he is a member of the Madison county council. He has also served on the township advisory board. Mr. Phipps is a quiet, unassuming man, honorable and honest in all his business relations, and has given an excellent account of the many years he has spent in this county. In his opinions he is a man of strong convictions, and what he believes. to be right he acts upon as a solid principle underlying all his character.
JOHN WILLITS JONES. . Madison county from its early pioneer his- tory to the present time has had the benefit and the productive labors of different members of the Jones family, one of whose best known mem- bers is Mr. John W. Jones of Fall Creek township. The industrial and social character of a community is the result of its citizenship, and among the many family groups which have contributed in this important regard to the development of Madison county, none could claim more credit than the Jones family, through its various representatives since early pioneer times.
Mr. John W. Jones the Fall Creek township farmer and stockman, was born in the township where he now makes his home on December 22, 1865, a son of Captain Jonathan and Elizabeth (Busby) Jones. Jonathan Jones was born in West Virginia in 1832 and d d in March 1898. He came to Madison county with his parents when he was a boy, and the Jones family established itself in Fall Creek township and
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took part in the pioneer work which then awaited the coming of every new settler. Jonathan was reared in Fall Creek township and received his education in one of the old log school houses which was the chief feature of the educational system prevailing here during the first half of the century. These schools were invariably supported by a private subscription, and were primitive in all their facilities and methods of work. Jonathan Jones married Elizabeth Busby, who was born on an adjoining farm in this county, her father having entered the land from the government. That farm is now known as the the old Lewis D. Kin- nard farm. After their marriage Jonathan Jones and wife made their home in Monroe township near Alexandria. Then in April, 1861, the Civil war having become reality, after having threatened its fury for a number of years, he organized Company D of the Thirty-Fourth Indiana Infantry, and was chosen captain. He was out at the front and in the campaigns of his regiments for about two years, when failing health compelled him to resign his commission and return home. After he had sufficiently recuperated, Governor Morton appointed him a drafting offi- cer, and he served for some time in that capacity. About the close of the war, Captain Jonathan Jones sold his farm in the northern part of Madi- son county and moved to Fall Creek township, and bought the Scott farm, situated on Liek Creek. That remained his home until 1884 at which date he moved into the city of Anderson, which remained his home until his death. His wife passed away in 1871. He was one of the prominent citizens of Madison county during his time. He was for eight years county ditch commissioner and was also assessor of Fall Creek township. Fraternally he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd-Fel- lows. There were nine children born to the parents, and the eight now living are as follows: Mahala, wife of F. P. Jackson of Anderson, Indiana ; Matilda Jones of Anderson; Isaac B. Jones of Pendleton; Sarah, who is unmarried and resides in Anderson; Etta, wife of Justice Frampton, who resides in California ; John Willits; and Morrison B. of Anderson.
Mr. John W. Jones was reared in Fall Creek township and received his education in the public schools of this locality. He spent most of his early years on a farm, and along with such schooling as the local schools afforded, has acquired a thorough knowledge of the principles and prac- tices of first-class agriculture. When he was about twenty-six years of age, on October 7, 1891, he married Miss Ella Haines, who was born and reared in Fall Creek township. In March, 1891, a few months previous to his marriage, Mr. Jones moved to the city of Anderson, where he was engaged in the ice business. This industry occupied his time and atten- tion until February, 1911, at which date he sold out his interests in the Anderson plant, and moved back to Fall Creek township. Since then he has been an out and out farmer, is the owner of 90 acres of some of the best land in the township, and makes a specialty of the raising of hogs and cattle, shipping his stock by the carload. He also has realty in Alexandria and Madison. Mr. Jones is a man of wide experience both in business and in farming, and has applied business-like methods to his present enterprise and is regarded as one of the most successful men in the agricultural line in Madison county. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the order of Elks and has for a num- ber of years been one of the influential men in the Republican party. He is a member of the Universalist church and his wife a member
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of the Society of Friends. Mr. Jones and wife have an attractive rural home, and both are among the prominent members of local society.
SAMUEL SWAIN. The old citizenship of Madison county had no bet- ter representative than the late Samuel Swain, who was born in Fall Creek township in the decade of the forties, and who died on the 9th of September, 1913. He had been continuously identified with this section of the county throughout practically all the years that intervened since the pioneer period. Mr. Swain was an infant when the first railroad was brought through the county and in the vicinity of his old home- stead, he was a boy in his teens when the Civil war broke out, and he witnessed practically every innovation and improvement which has been the teacher in a great civilization of a nation during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Samuel Swain was born February 14, 1848. It was his distinction, such as is possessed by comparatively few of the residents of Madison county, to have been born in a log cabin. That log cabin was situated on the farm where he made his home at the time of his death. A log cabin at that time was not necessarily a sign of poverty nor shiftless- ness, but was rather a representative habitation, consistent with the period of development through which the country was then passing. As a matter of fact Samuel Swain belonged to one of the thrifty and substantial Quaker families which settled in early Fall Creek township. His parents were Woolston and Mary A. (Thomas) Swain. Woolston Swain was a son of Samuel and Martha (Briggs) Swain. Both the grandparents were natives of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and spent all their lives in that portion of the old Quaker state. Woolston Swain came to Indiana in early manhood, and at Indianapolis met Miss Mary A. Thomas, who had come to Madison county in 1834, belonging to one of the first families to locate in this county. After their marriage in 1843, they located in Madison county, and spent all the rest of their lives in this vicinity on this farm. The father was a farmer, and he and his wife were active members of the Friends church. They were the parents of five children, named as follows: Anna M., who is unmarried; Samuel; Rebecca, who is unmarried; Joseph ; and Frances L., the wife of Joseph Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, president of Swarthmore College and president National Educational Society.
Samuel Swain was reared on the farm where he afterward lived and attained his education in the old district schools near this farm, and. also in the Spiceland Academy. During his early manhood he obtained a certificate and taught the district school, during the winter term, while during the summer he carried on his farming operations. Mr. Swain never married, and after his father's death he assumed the active man- agement of the home farm of one hundred and twenty acres. In the profitable cultivation of this estate he proved himself to be one of the most capable agriculturists and stock raisers in the county. Mr. Swain was a birthright member of the Friends church in this locality. In politics he was a Republican, though he was never interested in party affairs, and was always a supporter of good government. In his farm- ing operations he made a specialty of raising high-class live stock. Mr. Swain in his business and civic relations was a quiet unassuming man, who always performed his proper share of responsibilities, and never obtruded himself into the conspicuous activities of public life. His un- married sisters always made their home with him, and together they
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kept the old estate as one of the best centers of the old-time life in Madison county.
JOHN W. LEWARK. Madison county's citizenship contains few mem- bers whose careers have illustrated so well the varied battle with fortune and with circumstance as that of Mr. John W. Lewark, of Pendleton. Mr. Lewark came to Madison county a runaway boy, obtained his educa- tion between periods of hard work, went from this county to the Union ranks in the great war between the states, and since returning a veteran from that conflict has been one of the honored citizens and business men of Pendleton.
John W. Lewark was born in the city of Anderson on Ninth Street, April 20, 1842, a son of Andrew T. and Margaret (Marshall) Lewark. His father was a native of Virginia, and his mother of Ohio, and each of them when young came to Wabash, Indiana, where they were married. The family were residents first of Wabash and then of Anderson. The mother died when John W. was seven years old, and he was then bound out to David Kunts of Wabash. His adopted home did not prove con- genial, and was the scene of much hardship to the growing boy. He had few comforts and practically no opportunity for schooling, and was employed nearly all his time in hard work in a brickyard and other occu- pations. When he was fourteen years of age he had reached the limit of his endurance and on Christmas day of 1856 he ran away from the Wabash home in which he had spent several years. He came to Madison county in the fall of 1857, where a half-sister lived. He remained with his half-sister for some time, and subsequently moved to Anderson where he secured work in a brickyard. In 1858 he located at Pendleton, being then sixteen years of age, and did farm work for some time. In 1861 he had begun work at the carpenter's trade and was getting along very prosperously in this work until August, 1861, when the demands upon his patriotism caused him to throw down his tools and enlist for the war of preservation of the Union. He became a member in Company D of the Thirty-Fourth Indiana Volunteers, and saw long and arduous service in the Army of the Mississippi and continued a soldier until November 6, 1865, when he received his discharge in Texas.
On returning to Pendleton, he took up work at the carpenter's trade, and followed this vocation energetically until February, 1872. At that date he engaged in the livery business and it is this line of enterprise with which his name has been identified at Pendleton for forty years. Mr. Lewark is one of the oldest liverymen in Madison county, and by straightforward dealing and good management has made a reputation throughout his part of the county and no business man in Pendleton enjoys more esteem than this pioneer liveryman.
On May 2, 1867, he married Miss Emily E. Shattuck who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and came to Indiana in 1866, being a teacher in the Pendleton schools up to the time of her marriage. After forty years of happy married life, she passed away on May 3, 1907, and was the mother of six children, namely: Anna, wife of William Tague; Clara, wife of Morris Townsand; Amy, the widow of Frank Datros; Mina, wife of Frank Homan; Edith C., who is Mrs. Alley; and Clarence L., who is a resident of North Carolina.
On March 16, 1910, Mr. Lewark married Mary Robins of Anderson, this county. Mrs. Lewark was born in Madison county in March, 1862. Mr. Lewark has always been a member of the Methodist church since
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his boyhood. He is a popular member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, and is affiliated with Madison Lodge A. F. & A. M. For many campaigns he was an active Republican voter, but in 1912 joined the Progressive ranks.
OSCAR F. MINGLE, D. V. S. A resident of Pendleton for the past four years, and the only doctor of veterinary surgery in that locality, Dr. Mingle is a progressive young citizen and has made a very excellent success in his profession and in general affairs of citizenship in this locality.
Oscar F. Mingle was born in Hancock county, Indiana, May, 28, 1878, a son of Madison and Martha D. (Jackson) Mingle. The father now makes his home in Pendleton and the mother passed away in the fall of 1906. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are living in 1913.
Dr. O. F. Mingle, the youngest of the family, received his primary education in the district schools. His early schooling was accomplished during the winter months, and in the summer time he assisted in the work of the home farm. After leaving the common schools, he had a varied experience as a farmer, and during that time evinced a great fondness for horses and live stock in general. This fondness extended through a natural study and close observation of the habits and nature of the domestic animals, and it was from this predisposition that he finally entered the Indianapolis Veterinary College in the fall of 1906. He was graduated D. V. S. in 1909, and then located at Pendleton to begin his active practice. He has no competition in this district, and has a large practice throughout the country-side. The doctor is a member of the alumni association of his college and is also a member of the Indiana Medical Association.
Dr. Mingle married in 1900 Miss Dora F. Kirkman, of Fall Creek township. Mrs. Mingle is a graduate of the common schools and has spent practically all her life in this section of Madison county. They are the parents of one son, Carroll K., who was born November 8, 1902. Carroll is a student in the Pendleton schools and has a record as a school boy probably not excelled anywhere in the county, since throughout his school period he has never been absent at a regular school session nor tardy and is now in the fourth grade of the public schools.
Fraternally Dr. Mingle is affiliated with Madison Lodge A. F. & A. M. and with the Knights of Pythias Lodge. His wife is a member of the Methodist church in Pendleton. Politically Dr. Mingle is a Demo- crat, though he has never taken much part in political affairs. He is the owner of forty acres of land in Hancock county, Indiana, and with the prosperity which at this early date he has already won through his energy and progressive ability, the future looks large with commerce for him and family.
A. W. Cook. One of the oldest and most esteemed residents of Fall Creek township, Mr. Asahel Walter Cook has spent the most of a long life of eighty years in this county, has given a long period of service as a teacher and educator, and for a number of years was a trustee of his home township first elected in 1890 for five years, then re-elected in 1899 'for another four years. The opportunities for suc' service in behalf of the public come only to the man whose integrity and efficiency are proved beyond all doubt to the citizenship, and the fact of public
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