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Jonathan A. Busby was born in Stony Creek township, November 3, 1858, a son of Isaac and Sarah A. (Conrad) Bushy. The father was a native of Greenbriar county. West Virginia, and the mother. of New . Jersey, and each came to Madison county when young, grew up together, and were married. They spent all their lives in this county, death com- ing to the father in 1879 and the mother in 1912. They were the parents of three sons and three daughters, namely: Jane. the widow of George Rambo ; Missouri, widow of Frank E. Woodward ; Jonathan, and Wade, of Lapel: Milton, postmaster at Lapel; Ida, wife of H. R. Jones, of Stony Creek township.
Jonathan A. Busby was reared. on the home farm in this township. and as a boy attended the public schools at Fishersburg. When he was seventeen years of age he had a good common school training and then began his practical career as a farmer, taking charge of the home estate after his father's death. On November 14, 1881, he married Mary J. Huntzinger. Their married life was continued for nineteen years until her death in 1900. The three children born of their marriage were: Roxie, a graduate of the Lapel high school, and the wife of Jesse Fisher of Lapel; Edna. graduate of the common schools and a student in the high school ; Arthur, who is a graduate of the common schools and lives at home with his father. Mr. Busby married on the sixth of March, 1910, Ethel Taylor, who was born in Madison county, a daughter of Leroy C. Taylor, a retired farmer and a native of this county. She re- ceived her education in the district schools of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Bushy are members of the Methodist church at Lapel, and he is one of the trustees of that church. Fraternaily he is affiliated with Lapel Lodge No. 386. Knights of Pythias, and is a past chancellor and member of the Grand Lodge. In polities he has always been a Republican up to the campaign of 1912, but the issnes in polities were such that year that he gave his vote for the Progressive party and its principles. He is secretary of the township advisory board.
ARTHUR DAVIS. A well known success as a farmer and live stock dealer has been that of Arthur Davis in Stony Creek township. He is a native of this part of Madison county, has spent most of his life within the limits of the county, and when he began his independent career it was with a capital of self-reliance and well-trained body and industrious habits rather than with money or influence. He and his wife have prospered since their marriage and their first attempt to make a home. and they now enjoy not only material prosperity but the esteem of all the community in which they reside.
Arthur Davis was born in Stony Creek township July 3, 1870. a son of D. B. Davis. being the second in a family of six children. When he was old enough he attended the district school and was a student during the winter term, up to the time he was eighteen years of age. He then took up farming as a regular occupation and continued in that line until February 28. 1893. at which date his marriage occurred to Miss Hattie Wertz. She was born in Anderson township and received her
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education in the public schools near that city. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Davis spent a time on the old home farm, and then moved to Randolph county, this state, where he spent a short time in farming, was then again on the old homestead, and several years later by the thrifty management of himself and wife, was able to buy sixty-three acres of land. Since then he has done a large business in breeding cattle and shipping by the car-load lots. Among his other enterprises he owns and operates a threshing outfit, and by the combination of his enterprise has prospered very well during the last seventeen years.
The family of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis are as follows : Clara A .; age nineteen a graduate of the common schools and of the Anderson high school; Alonzo. age eighteen, also a graduate of the com- mon and high school, and of the Commercial College at Anderson ; Ruth, a student in the high school at Anderson, and a graduate of the common schools near the old home; Doctor D .. fourteen years of age; Paul, age eleven ; Theodore, age ten ; Virginia, age seven ; and Birce. age five years. Mr: Davis is affiliated with Lodge No. 1 of the Loyal Order of Moose at Anderson. In his politics he was always a regular Republican up to the campaign of 1912 at which time he voted the Progressive ticket. He is a man of pleasing manner, and by reason of his success enjoys the esteem of the entire community about his home in Stony Creek township.
WILLIAM A. MORRIS. Among the prosperous farming estates of Stony Creek township that of which William A. Morris is proprietor is by all means one of the, most attractive viewed in its superficial aspects and also one of the most profitable as a business enterprise. Mr. Morris is a general farmer and stock raiser, owns one hundred and four acres in his own homestead, and is engaged in the operation of more than two hundred acres of land in this county.
William A. Morris was born in Miami county, Indiana, October 19, 1860, a son of Isaac and Nancy ( Haney) Morris. The paternal grand- father was William Morris, one of the old settlers of Rush county. Indiana, where Isaac Morris was born. Nancy Morris was born in Ken- tucky, and came to Madison county. Indiana. with her parents, being married in Madison county, and she and Mr. Morris making their home here until near the outbreak of the Civil war. They then moved to Miami county where Mrs. Morris died. Some years later the father re- turned to Madison county and spent his last days in Anderson town- ship. There were five children in the family, three of whom are living in 1913. namely: T. J. Morris. of Anderson township, a farmer: Maria. wife of Henry Warren of Anderson township; and William A.
Mr. William A. Morris was reared on a farm and attained his educa- tion in the district schools at Miami county. When sixteen years of age he was sent to the Amboy Academy, one of the best schools of intermediate grade in this section of the state, and he continued a student in that institution until he was nineteen years of age. He continued on the farm with his father until he was twenty-one and then came with the family. to Madison county. He was married in Lafayette township of this county in February, 1883, to Miss Hester Rogers, who was born in Madi- son county and received a common school education. They became the parents of two children, one of whom is now living, namely : Nondas, aged seven. Mr. Morris and family worship in the Methodist Protestant church of Bethal, and he is one of the trustees of that society. In poli- ties he is a Democrat, and his ability as a business man and his integrity
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as a citizen have been honored by his fellow citizens in his election to the office of township assessor of Stony Creek, in which he served for two years. Mr. Morris is a man of quiet and unassuming manner, and yet his life work as a farmer shows a noteworthy degree of practical achieve- ment and a most honorable success.
CHARLES POINDEXTER. Farming in Madison county has always been a most profitable general occupation, and though within recent years manufacturing has become so important a part of the productive activi- . ties, agriculture is likely to remain through all the years as the most substantial pursuit to which man's attention can be given here or else- where. In Stony Creek Township Mr. Poindexter is a farmer who for a number of years had experience in the industry, and finally retired to an estate in the country where his enterprise has been put to excellent use, so that he now owns one of the most attractive and valuable rural homes in Stony Creek.
Charles Poindexter is a native of the state of Illinois, born in Ver- million county, November 6, 186S, a son of James and Emily (McCallis- ter) Poindexter. The father was born in Virginia, and the mother in Adams township of Madison county, Indiana, and she now lives in An- derson at her home on Fletcher Street. The father passed away in 1879. He had been a soldier in the Civil war, serving throughout the period of hostilities from 1861 to 1865, and while a soldier came home on a furlough and married. IIe enlisted as a private, was promoted to lieutenant, and at his discharge was captain of his company. For some years after the war he lived in Illinois, but finally returned to Madison county, and his death occurred in Adams township. There were four children ir the family, named as follows: Cora, wife of Eb Parrish, of Anderson; Charles; Nettie, wife of H. Scott of Fall Creek township; Maud, wife of Martin Wiseheart of Anderson, Indiana.
Charles Poindexter was reared on a farm and also spent part of his youth in Indianapolis. His education was attained in the public schools and he continued to live on the homestead with his mother until his mar. riage. He married Miss Florence M. Stanley, of Anderson township, this county. Mrs. Poindexter was educated in the public schools. After their marriage they moved to Indianapolis where Mr. Poindexter was employed as a tool maker with one of the large industrial establishments of that city for six years, from the fall of 1891 to the spring of 1896. In the latter year he came to the farm where he lived until September, 1905, at which time he moved to the estate of eighty-five acres in Stony Creek township, which is his present home. He has displayed all the ability of a progressive farmer, and among the numerous improvements placed upon his estate is the ten-room modern house in which he and his family reside. Mr. and Mrs. Poindexter have two daughters, namely : Gretchen, wife of Lawrence White, and Vera, a student in the seventh grade of the common schools. Mr. Poindexter and family worship in the Central Christian church at Anderson. He was formerly affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics is a Pro- . gressive Democrat.
OWEN HUFFMAN. Farming, with all its branches, has been consid- ered a good line of business since the beginning of the world, but within the last quarter of a century it has been developed in a remarkable degree and at this time offers exceptional field for the man of energy, perse-
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verance and ability. One of the excellent representatives of this modern progressive class of young farmers in Madison county is Owen Huffman, of Stony Creek township, who has spent all his life in this county, and as the fruit of his own industry and good management has acquired an excellent homestead.
He was born in Stony Creek township, January 26, 1875, a son of Jasper and Celistia (Teeters) Huffman, both of whom have been long residents of this township. The third in a family of six children he was reared on the home farm in Stony Creek, and attained his education in one of the district schools of that vicinity. He completed his education when he was about sixteen years of age, and then took up the active work of farming on the home place where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age.
On October 11, 1895, he married Miss Sarah Caster, a daughter of Marion and Sarah (MeDonald) Caster. She attained her education in the common schools. After his marriage Mr. Huffman rented land from his father for three years, and then bought the farm where he now lives, a place of seventy-nine and a half acres. He and his capable wife as his assistant directed all their energies to the improvement of this estate, and by clearing and draining, by planting of trees and by careful management in every direction have made it a splendid home and its fields have been responsive in profitable erops each year. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman are the parents of one child, Edith, who was born March 20, 1895, and is a graduate of the common schools and Lapel high school. Mr. Huffman is affiliated with Lapel Lodge No. 386, Knights of Pythias, and with Lapel Lodge No. 326, A. F. & A. M. In politics he has been Republican, but in the campaign of 1912 supported the Progressive ticket.
ARCHIE C. ANDERSON. In farming and stock raising and the general business activities of Fall Creek township, Mr. Anderson is one of the leaders, and has occupied a prominent place for many years. He is a native of Madison county, has spent practically all his life here, and by persistent and honorable industry has been successful far beyond the average.
Archie Clifton Anderson was born in Fall Creek township, Madison county, September 7, 1855, a son of John A. and Elda (Hiatt) Ander- son. The founder of the family in Indiana was grandfather Wright Anderson, who came to this state in 1828 and located in Fayette county .. John A. Anderson was born in Maryland, November 10, 1826, and was about two years of age when the family moved to Indiana, where. he grew up and was married and soon after came to Madison county, loeat- ing in Fall Creek. The father has been a resident of this township and county for nearly sixty years, and now makes his home retired at a good old age with his son Archie. There were two children in the fam- ily and the other was named Rollin, who died at the age of twenty- three. When Archie C. Anderson was six months of age, his mother died and he was then taken to the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Hiatt, in Fayette county. He was reared on a farm there and obtained his education in the distriet schools, with one year in the high school. When only a boy he made up his mind that farming was his favorite vocation and though in later years his interests have in- creased and brought him into banking and other affairs, he has always retained his affection for the farm and is first and last a farmer. Mr.
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Anderson was married December 28, 1876, to Miss Caroline J. Heacock, of Wayne county, Indiana, where she was born May 7, 1856, a daughter of Daniel Heacock. She was reared on a farm in Wayne county, and educated in the district and high schools. Her death occurred No- vember 23, 1908.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Anderson located east of Pendle. . ton, where they lived for seven years and in the spring of 1884 took up their residence on the homestead they now occupy, this having been their home and endeared to them by many associations of family life for nearly thirty years. Their two children are named as follows: Stella, a graduate of the Pendleton High School and with one year in Earlham College, is now the wife of Professor E. D. Allen of Peudle- ton. Their children are Esther Allen and John Allen. Chester H. is a graduate of the Pendleton high school, and engaged in farming. He married Lulu Clark, and they are the parents of two children, Mary Elizabeth and Paul Clark. The Anderson family are communicants of the Friends church.
Mr. Anderson in business circles in Pendleton is best known as the president of the Pendleton Trust Company of which he was one of the organizers. The officers of this institution are A. C. Anderson, presi- dent ; G. R. Mingle, vice president ; R. F. Thomas, secretary and treas- urer, while the other directors are E. E. Brattain, Dr. L. HI. Thomas. and F. C. Reid. The Pendleton Trust Company was organized in 1909 with a capital stock of $25,000.00. Among his other interests Mr. Anderson owns four hundred and eight acres of land in Fall Creek township and is regarded as one of the largest farmers and stock rais- ers in Southwestern Madison county. In politics he is Independent and he is a member of the Grange.
THOMAS E. DAY. Some thirty years ago Thomas E. Day took bis bride into Stony Creek township while the wilderness conditions still prevailed and with a strong arm and courageous heart began the work of clearing out a home for himself and family. By dint of hard labor and thrifty management he has prospered, until today he is not only one of the most substantial, but also one of the most influential men in his section of the county.
Thomas E. Day is a native of the state of North Carolina where he was born April 15, 1858, and from an early age had to make his own · way in the world. His parents were Alva and Sarah ( Harris) Das, neither of the parents ever leaving North Carolina which was the state of their birth and their life and death. There were eight children in the family and Thomas E. was the sixth, and one of his sisters also lived in Indiana. The father died when Thomas E. was eight years of age. and he had little chance after that to get an education. He remained with an unele for some years, and learned more of hard physical work than the lessons which are given in schools and in books. In company with an aunt he arrived in Madison county. November 22, 1874, and soon afterward began his career on his own account.
Thirty-two years ago Mr. Day married Miss Sarah J. Shaul. and he then went into the woods and with his axe cleared ap a traet of one hundred and ten acres, which has been the basis of his home. The six living children in the family are named as follows: William H .. who is at home; Vado P., wife of Hugh Minor; Luther B .. who is married and a resident in Stony Creek township; James E .. who is married and
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lives in Stony Creek township; Iva M., who is unmarried and still in the home circle, and Lorenza, a student in the high school at Lapel. Mr. Day and family are members of the Christian church, and in politics he is a Republican, without any participation in party affairs or without ever having held any publie office. Mr. Day is the owner of one hundred and eleven acres of land in Stony Creek township and has a prosperous and well improved farm.
JOHN L. GIVENS. A resident of Madison county for sixty-five years. Mr. Givens represents the progressive rural citizenship of Stony Creek township, where he has a fine farm of sixty-two acres, with excellent im- provements and a comfortable home for himself and family.
John L. Givens was born in Green township, Madison county, No- vember 30, 1848, a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Shawl) Givens. An- drew Givens, the father was born in the state of Michigan, came to Indiana and was married in Madison county, his wife being a native of this state. He continued to reside in Madison county until his death in 1854. He and his wife were the parents of three children, the other two being N. D. Givens, of Indianapolis; and Julius Givens, who is connected with the street railway system in St. Louis. -
Mr. John L. Givens was reared in Green township until he reached his majority, and as a boy attended the district school near his home. Green township, while he was growing up, still presented almost an expanse of wilderness, and the residents were still engaged in the hard labor of elearing and grubbing and planting the first crops in the hard won fields. That was the training ground for his early life. He was married in Green township to Amanda Heshberger. and their happy married life continued until 1909 when Mrs. Givens died. She was reared in Green and Stony Creek townships and received her education in the public schools. The four sons born to their marriage are all living in 1913, namely : Horace, who is married and a resident of Stony Creek township; Elmer, who graduated from the common schools and is mar- ried and lives in Hamilton county; Willard, who graduated from the Lapel high school and in 1913 from the University of Indiana, and is now a principal of a graded school in Noblesville. this state; Asa, who finished the course in the common schools, and at the present time is in Indianapolis. Mr. Givens and family are members of the 'Progressive Dunkard Church. In polities he has always been a regular supporter of the Republican party up to the campaign of 1912 in which he voted the Progressive ticket.
VERLING STANLEY. A man who is well known to the citizens of his community by reason of his former connection with work of a journal- istic nature, Verling Stanley has for a long period been prominently identified with the farming and stock raising interests of Stony Creek township. where he is the owner of a well-cultivated farm of 260 acres. Mr. Stanley was born in Hamilton county. Indiana, June 16, 1857, and is a son of Isaac and Hannah (Nuby) Stanley.
Isaac Stanley was born in Clinton county. Ohio, and was about six- teen years of age when brought to Hamilton county, Indiana. by his parents. Here he engaged in agricultural pursuits and was reasonably successful in his operations. and at the time of his death. in 1893, his community lost one of its best citizens. His wife, a native of North Carolina, was about three years of age when brought to Hamilton county.
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and here her death occurred in 1911. They were members of the Friends' Church, in the faith of which they were married, and were the parents of five children, as follows: Verling; Melissa, who became the wife of Prof. Fellows, was a graduate of the high school and a former teacher; Edgar A., who is engaged in farming in Hamilton county, Indiana; Melvina, residing at Anderson, Indiana, the widow of Junius Knight; and Lydia, the wife of H. W. Ramsey, who is engaged in farming in Boone county, Indiana.
Verling Stanley received his primary education in the district schools adjacent to his father's farm, and supplemented this by attendance at the Union High school, at Westfield and by a course in the Indianapolis Business College. Succeeding this, he accepted a position on the New- castle (Indiana) Mercury, where he learned the printer's trade, and later, in company with Prof. Fellows, bought the Grant County Repub- lican, of Marion. One year later they sold this publication and Mr. Stanley went to Ohio, where he was editor and publisher of the New Holland News, which he conducted for one year, then becoming inter- ested in several other newspapers in Ohio. After a short period spent at his trade, on a Kansas City newspaper he received a government appointment to a position in the government printing office at Washing- ton, D. C., in which he remained four years. In 1895 Mr. Stanley came to Lapel and purchased the News, of which he was editor and publisher for four years, and at the end of that period retired from newspaper life to engage in farming and stockraising. He is now the owner of a hand- some tract of 260 acres, all in a high state of cultivation, which has been rendered more valuable by the erection of a set of buildings of substantial character and architectural beauty. Mr. Stanley has proved as good a farmer as he was newspaper man as evidenced by the gratify- ing suceess which has rewarded his efforts,
On August 14, 1898, Mr. Stanley was married to Mrs. Isabella V. (MeClintock) Ward, who was born in Jackson township, Madison county. She was educated in the district schools of her native town- ship, and was there married, November 4, 1888. to Walker Ward, who is now deceased. One child was born to this union, Grace L., born August 22, 1889, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have had one daughter: Verlina M., born May 24, 1900, who is now in the seventh grade in the public school at Lapel.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Lapel, in the work of which she has been very popular, num- bering many friends in the wide acquaintance they have formed since locating in their present home. In political matters, Mr. Stanley be- came an adherent of Progressive principles in 1912, but he has never sought public office, being content to confine his activities to his farm. of which he has every reason to be proud. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the K. of P. and the Red Men.
OLIVER E. MCCLINTOCK .. The roster of agrieulturists of Madison county who have participated prominently in the movements which have served to bring about the great progress and advancement of this see- tion of the State during the past half a century would be incomplete indeed did it not contain the name of Oliver E. Mcclintock, of Stony Creek township, who, although now a resident of the town of Lapel, has for many years been interested in farming and stock raising in Stony Creek and Jackson townships, where he is the owner of large properties.
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Mr. MeClintock belongs to that class of enterprising, energetic men to whom are due the progress and improvement of the West, while as a public servant he has and is contributing materially to the welfare of his fellow men. Mr. McClintock was born on a farm in Jackson town- ship, Madison county, Indiana, June 21, 1858, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bristol) MeClintock.
The MeClintock family is one of the old and honored ones of this section, and was founded in Indiana by Alexander MeClintock, who came as a pioneer from North Carolina. A son of this progenitor, George MeClintock, settled in Anderson when there were but three houses in that place, his journey thenee having been made by wagon, and subse- quently he located on a tract of land along the river in Jackson town- ship, where he passed the remainder of his life. Daniel Mcclintock, son of George, and father of our subject, was born in Jackson township, May 19, 1832, and died May 4, 1910. He was reared on his father's farm, received his education in the district schools and continued to reside on the homestead until within eight years of his death, when he came to Stony Creek township and located in Lapel. For forty years he was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his polities were those of the Republican party, whose candidates and principles he supported stanchly. A successful farmer, Mr. MeClintock developed an excellent property, and he was also a large breeder of pure-bred Short Horn cattle, which he served to introduce in Jackson township. He and his wife were the parents of three children: George K .; Oliver E .; and Belle V., a graduate of the Jackson public schools, and now the wife of Verling Stanley, former editor of the Lapcl News, a sketch of whose career will be found on another page of this work.
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