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ton) Everson, of Ohio. She was born in Ohio, September 2, 1852. They have one child, Sadie, born December 6, 1870. Mrs. Everson is a member of the Christian church.
Robert Finch, farmer and tile manufacturer, Mace, is a son of Henry and Sarah (Swindle) Finch. Henry Finch was a native of Tennessee, and his wife was born in Virginia. In an early day they emigrated to Union county, Indiana. There he died in 1847, aged fifty-five years, and she came to Montgomery county, where she died in 1858, aged fifty-five years. Mr. Finch paid but little attention to politics. Mrs. Finch was a member of the Christian church. Robert Finch was born in Union county, Indiana, March 16, 1829. He lived there till 1848, when he came to Montgomery county. He first squatted for about two months near the spot on which school No. 3 now stands. Then two years on the land on which the cen- tral school is now located. He made several more moves in the vicinity of Crawfordsville, but' concluding that a renter's fortune would ever be extremely small he purchased, in 1856, 160 acres, the S.E. } of Sec. 20, paying $1,100. In 1858 he sold, and bought 160 acres in Secs. 5 and S, for which he paid $2,500. Since then he has sold and bought till at present he owns a good farm of 180 acres. He has increased the value of his farm by erecting a large dwelling, 40×40, two stories high. He also controls the tile factory on his place, and receives liberal patronage. He has handled a great deal of stock, and now feeds the greater part of his produce. He received but little schooling, yet has a practical knowledge of business, trans- acting not only his own but much for other people. He is solidly democratic, and in 1880 was nominated for county commissioner on the ticket of his party. In 1851 Mr. Finch was married to Christiana Hipes, of Montgomery county. Mrs. Finch died April 13, 1875, leaving a family of five children. Mr. Finch was next married to Isarelda Cason, daughter of Wm. and Martha Cason, of Walnut township. She was born in Union county, Indiana.
Isaac N. Miller, farmer and stock raiser, New Ross, was born in Greene county, Ohio, December 13, 1826. He is a son of Robert and Hannah (White) Miller, both natives of Pennsylvania. Robert Miller's father, Isaac N., and mother were born in England, and emi- grated to America prior to the revolution, in which war he was a captain. Mrs. Hannah (White) Miller's parents were born in Ire- land. The Whites are descendants of the old Scotch Covenanters, and drifted into United Presbyterianism. Robert and Hannah came to Greene county, Ohio, about 1805. There they farmed till death. He died in 1833, and she in 1834. At the age of nineteen years
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Isaac N. worked on the farm, then began carpentering, which he fol- lowed for about twelve years. In 1848 Mr. Miller traveled westward, and stopped at Ladoga, where he followed his trade. March 8, 1849, Mr. Miller was married to Naney A. Corn, daughter of William and Sarah E. (Allen) Corn, and cousin of the Hon. Joseph Allen (de- ceased), of Montgomery county. She was born October 26, 1829, in Montgomery county, whither her parents had come about the year 1828. About 1857 Mr. Miller purchased about eighty acres of land in Sec. 33, Walnut township, and became a farmer, in which occu- pation he has been eminently successful. He has added to his first eighty aeres till now he owns 2563 acres. A stately residence cost- ing $3,000 and a large barn add great value to the well cultivated farm. He keeps a great deal of stock, and, as asserted by the ap- praiser, his farm is the second best in Walnut township. In politics Mr. Miller is true and outspoken. He was rocked in a whig cradle, and has ever sought to perpetuate the principles of republicanismn. He has been an Odd-Fellow since 1849, and is also a Knight of Pythias. He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. They have four children : John W., George A., Henry A. and Ben- jamin F.
James G. Johnson, merchant, Mace, was born Septembr 1, 1837, in Butler county. Ohio, and is the son of Jesse R. and Mary (Wheat) Johnson. Jesse Johnson was a native of Butler county, Ohio, and a farmer and butcher, and kept hotel, etc. He also filled the offices of township trustee and assessor. He was a strong demo- crat all his life, and died in 1873. He was a resident of Walnut township from 1855 till 1863, when he moved to Hendricks county, where he died. His wife, Mary (Wheat) Johnson, was a native of the island of Mackinaw, and now lives in Hendricks county. Her grandfather Wheat, also Mr. Johnson's grandfather, were in the war of 1812 and were wounded. James G. Johnson spent his youth in the town school at Westchester, Ohio, till seventeen years old. He came with his parents to Walnut township in 1855 and followed the plow till about 1877, when he engaged in merchandising in Fredericksburg, and also in loaning money to some extent. He still sells a general line of goods in Mace and does a fair trade. Mr. Johnson is quite a prominent democrat. He has been township trustee and assessor, and represented Montgomery county in the legislature in the regular and special sessions of 1869. He again made the race in 1874, but was beaten by P. S. Kennedy, of Craw- fordsville. He has been clerk in the Presbyterian church, also elder. His parents were members of the same church. He was
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married, June 1, 1858, to Mary J. Loop, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth {Airheart) Loop, whose sketch appears elsewhere. She was born September 14, 1840, in Walnut township. They have had five children, two of whom are living: Ida, married to Dr. J. T. Sellers, of Roachdale ; she was born June 26, 1859; William O., born April 12, 1867. Mrs. Johnson is also a Presbyterian.
Andrew Loop, farmer, Mace, is among the old settlers of Mont- gomery county. He was born March 24, 1816, in Augusta county, Virginia. His parents, Christain and Eve (Airheart) Loop, were natives of Pennsylvania. They became residents of Virginia, and in 1834 moved to the western edge of Boone county, and settled so near Montgomery county that they felt at home when on this side of the line. In 1855 they sold the Boone county farm and bought near Beckville, in Walnut township. Mr. Loop, at death, left 220 acres. He did all his business in German, although he could write his name in English. He was a life-long democrat. He died September 20, 1879, aged ninety-one years. His wife died No- vember 1866, aged sixty-seven years. Both belonged to the German Lutheran church. Andrew Loop, son of the above, and subject of this sketch, when twenty-one years of age, began life for himself. He worked one year for his father, then bought 160 acres of land, namely the N.W. ¿ of Sec. 21, T. 18, 3 W. When he had the 160 clear of encumbrance he purchased the eighty acres south of it. He soon went to Iowa and entered 1,000 acres. This he afterward traded for eighty acres near his home farm. He has traded, bought and sold, till he now owns 384 acres, with good house, etc. He also owns a large dwelling in Mace, where he now lives in easy circumstances. His success in farming is judged by the accumulation of property. Mr. Loop has been a life-long democrat, and somewhat prominent in the township. He has twice been lieutenant of the home militia. He was constable in his young days, and since has been justice of the peace for over eight years, and township trustee two terms and is now notary public. Mr. Loop was married December 27, 1837, to Elizabeth Airheart, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Airheart, who came to Indiana in 1834 with the Loops. She and her three sisters walked from Virginia to In- diana, a distance of over 600 miles. Mr. and Mrs. Loop have seven children : Sarah E., Mary J., Christian F., Harriet E., Amanda C., William C. and Virginia, twins, and Lydia E. Elizabeth is in Kan- sas and the rest are in Montgomery county. Mrs. Loop is a Meth- odist and Mr. Loop is a Presbyterian. They have contributed their
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share of toil toward the development of the county, physically as well as morally and spiritually.
Web. Bowers, merchant, New Ross, is a son of William and Sarah (Chenoweth) Bowers. The latter was born in Indiana and former in Ohio. William Bowers was a merchant in Lebanon and Crawfordsville. He was a good speaker, and twice stumped the northern part of Indiana in behalf of the immortal Lincoln. At La Fayette convention he was a candidate for the nomination for congressman, but was beaten by Godlove S. Orth by a few ballots. He was, while in Crawfordsville, a candidate for the nomination for state's attorney. In later years he became a democrat. Although he had but little education he wrote quite extensively for the Cincin- nati "Enquirer" and Lonisville "Courier." Some years before his death he became a minister of the Christian church, and one of the most successful workers. In 1872 he went to Arkansas and or- ganized thirty-two churches, and baptized over 400 persons. He also wrote for the church papers. He died in Arkansas, November 13, 1876, after preaching five years. Web. Bowers, son of the above, was born October 25, 1853, in Lebanon, Boone county, Indi- ana. At the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed to learn the harness trade, which he followed for six years. He then engaged in the mercantile business in Arkansas for four years, during which time he was deputy postmaster one year and postmaster one year. In 1874 he came to New Ross, where he engaged in the drug trade. He carries a stock of from $900 to $1,000, with sales of about $5,000 per year. He handles school books, stationery, etc., with his drugs. He was married January 29, 1877, to Victoria Rowe, daughter of Squire Charles and Caroline (Jackson) Rowe, whose sketch appears elsewhere. She was born June 16, 1863. They have one child, Zoe. Mr. Bowers is a republican and an Odd-Fellow. He and wife are members of the Christian church.
John W. Hogsett, physician, Mace, was born November 8, 1835, in Angusta county, Virginia, and is a son of John and Polly Hog- sett, both natives of the same county. His father was captain in the home militia, and fought in the war of 1812. He died in 1857, quite aged. The mother of the doctor was an estimable lady, and, with her husband, was a member of the Presbyterian church. She is now living in Monroe county. Virginia. Mr. Hogsett lived with his parents, in Monroe county, Virginia, from two years old till eighteen, when he left home to do for himself. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed near home three years, then moved to Iowa in December 1856, where he followed the same
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occupation. In the times of the panic in 1857 work was scarce, so he improved the time attending school in Williamsburg, Iowa, where he pursued the higher branches of common school studies. In the winter of 1859 he taught, then went to Council Bluffs, and next to Rock Island, and in the spring of 1860 worked for his brother, in Ford county, Illinois. Early in the fall of 1860 he came to Crawfords- ville and started to walk to Indianapolis. Arriving at Fredericks- burg, or Mace, and being pleased with the stir and business of the place, he determined to remain here. He taught two terms of school in Walnut township. In the spring of 1861, at the first call for volunteers to put down secession, Mr. Hogsett enlisted in Co. G, 10th Ind. Inf., under Col. M. D. Manson, for three months. During this time he fought at Rich Mountain. Returning he reënlisted in Co. B, 10th Ind. A few of the engagements in which he took part are Mill Springs, where he received three slight wounds from a vol- ley fired into the company. On his way to Nashville he was taken ill and was sent into the barracks, then put in charge of detail to be returned to Louisville. Here he procured a two months' furlough. He returned at the proper time to his regiment at Corinth, and was employed in guarding the road from Courtland to Decatur, and ex- perienced several skirmishes. He was wounded at Chickamauga, on the shoulder and breast, by spent balls. He was on the Charleston campaign, at Mission Ridge, and several minor battles around Marietta, Tennessee. He was finally discharged at Indianapolis, and returned to Mace, where he began the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel Irwin. He read till the following October, then entered Rush Medical College, Chicago. In the following year he settled for the practice at Jacksonville, Fountain county, Indiana, and at. the close of two years came to Mace, and was sometime associated with Dr. Irwin. He completed his medical course at the Indiana State Medical College at Indianapolis, February 26, 1875. He was married February 17, 1869, to Rebecca A. Pogne, daughter of Silas and Betsy Pogue, old settlers of Walnut township. They have four children : Ada M., Casper W., and Daisy E. and Sherman. Mrs. Hogsett is a member of the Presbyterian church, while the doctor is a Methodist. He is a Mason and a republican.
Homer Bowers, physician, New Ross, was born August 20, 1845, in Vienna, Rush county, Indiana. His father, William Bowers, was born April 26, 1822, on a farm in Hamilton county, Ohio. When very small his parents moved to Union county, and here remained until Wmn. was about fifteen, when he went to Wayne county to ob- tain an education. He however learned the saddler and harness
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maker's trade. From here he moved to Johnson county, where he was married, January 1, 1842, to Sarah Chenoweth, who was born November 12, 1824, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Here his desire for a more thorough education prompted him to purchase a law library, to which he continually added until at the time of his death it numbered many volumes of every description, consisting chiefly of history, general literature, and religious works. From Franklin he removed to Vienna, and then to Lebanon, Boone county, where he resided ten years engaged in saddlery and harness making. He also occasionally practiced law until his health failed him, when to re- gain it he moved upon his farm in Tippecanoe county, four miles west of the battle-ground and seven miles north of La Fayette. After a residence of four years at this place the farm was traded to the Graham brothers for a stock of dry goods in Crawfordsville, March 15, 1861. After four years' experience as a merchant he sold his entire stock to Martin and moved to Lebanon, where he opened a saddlery and harness shop in which to employ his boys while he prepared himself for the ministry, being a member of the Christian church. September 1, 1870, he moved to De Witt county, Arkansas, where he was engaged as pastor at the time of his death, Novem- ber 14, 1875. In Lebanon he actively engaged in politics, and was a candidate for the legislature on the whig ticket against Judge - Daugherty. In Tippecanoe county he was the farmers' candi- date for the nomination to congress against G. S. Orth and A. S. White, which resulted in the latter's nomination. He was afterward a strong republican until he began his career as a minister. He was also a prominent Odd-Fellow in the Crawfordsville lodge. Homer lived with his parents until 1864, when he was engaged in running a branch dry-goods house in Rockville, Indiana. After his return to Crawfordsville, after nine months' mercantile experience, he began reading medicine, March 1865, in Dr. John Sloan's office. In the fall he commenced a year's course of lectures at Ann Arbor. Upon his return he began the practice of his profession in Fredericksburg, but in a few months he moved to New Ross, where he has since re- mained, and is now the oldest and most successful practitioner of the · village. On account of poor health he open a drug store in New Ross in the fall of 1876, but in February, 1878, he again began the practice of medicine with renewed energy. Mr. Bowers had the ad- vantage of an excellent common school education, after which he spent near two years in Wabash College, and one at Ann Arbor. He was commissioned postmaster of New Ross March 1, 1875, and was married August 20, 1870, to Emma C. Walker, who was born
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February 28, 1848, at Lexington, Kentucky, and is the daughter of Calvin and Emma (Pigg) Walker. Her father was born December 30, 1818, in Lexington, and married in April 1845. Her mother was born in 1823, and died of cholera July 30, 1849, in Lexington. Mr. Walker came to Crawfordsville in July 1855, and is now working at his trade in New Ross, and making his home with his daughter. Mr. Bowers is the father of four children: Herbert, Aubrey, Edgar, Virgil, and Ethel, and is a staunch republican.
John Harrison, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Mace, was born December 10, 1842, in Vanderburgh county, Indiana. His father, Joseph Harrison, is a native of England, and when fourteen years of age emigrated with his parents to Pennsylvania, and three years after to Indiana. The mother of John was born in Kentucky, and migrated with her parents to Indiana, where she was married to Joseph Harrison. She died in 1854, and he now lives near Evans- ville. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as also is he. John Harrison was raised on a farm, and received a common school education. August 4, 1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 4th Ind. Cav., 77th reg., under Col. Gray. He prided himself in being a private in the front ranks. Being in the cavalry he was mostly en- gaged in skirmishing and protecting the outskirts of the Union army. He was at Stone River, Chickamauga, Nashville, Franklin, and many other engagements, also experienced Wilson's raid, and aided in tak- ing Selma and Macon. He was discharged in July 1865. When at Dandridge, East Tennessee, he was wounded in the right hand. Re- turning to the peaceful pursuits of civil life he determined to pursue farther his education. He spent six months at Princeton Seminary, and then eighteen months at Asbury University. He was then en- gaged as teacher at Russellville. He soon quit the school-room and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and traveled as a supply. His license was granted in the spring of 1868, and in September, 1869, he was admitted to the Northwestern Indiana con- ference. He was ordained deacon by Bishop James in 1871, and ordained elder by the same bishop in 1874. His ordination was de- layed each time one year on account of sickness. Mr. Harrison's labor has been on the Harmony circuit as a supply, and since admis- sion to conference has spent one year on the Hanna circuit, in La Porte county ; one year at Maxinkuckce Lake, Marshall county; two years at Lowell, Lake county ; two years at Wheeler, Porter county; two years at Winamac,. Pulaski county ; three years at Pleasant Hill, Montgomery county ; and is at present located at Mace. . His labors have been productive of much good. Mr. Harrison was mar-
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ried September 1, 1869, to Carrie C. Cozad, daughter of the late Rev. Jacob Cozad, of Northwestern Indiana conference. She was born in Delphi, Carroll county, Indiana, July 11, 1847. They have four children : Ulela G., Bernice G., Cora E. and Genevieve. Mr. Harrison has a fine library, and is an extensive reader. He is also a republican.
C. S. Newkirk, merchant, New Ross, was born January 12, 1850, in Bartholomew county, Indiana, and is the son of D. W. and L. A. (Thurston) Newkirk. His father was a native of New York, and mother of Pennsylvania. They farmed in Indiana till 1869, when they moved to Missouri, where D. W. Newkirk died, May 7, 1872, and his wife still lives. Mr. Newkirk was a life-long democrat, and a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, his wife is a Methodist. His father fought in the revolution. C. S. Newkirk lived on a farm till thirteen years old, when he clerked in a store two years, and returned to the farm. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed till 1879, when he engaged in merchandising in New Ross. Here he keeps a stock of dry goods, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, etc., first store north of the hotel. He made his advent into Montgomery county in 1870. He was married August 10, 1875, to Sallie M. Fisher, daughter of J. S. and B. E. (Rice) Fisher. Both are members of the Christian church. He is a Mason, and a thorough democrat. He has made his own way in life, and now owns a house and lot, and a stock of goods.
Squire Charles Rowe, New Ross, was born in Devonshire, Eng- land, January 31, 1830, and is. the son of William and Elizabeth (Bond) Rowe, both natives of Devonshire. His father was a car- penter and joiner, and in 1856 went to Australia for two years, then back to Devonshire, and died there in 1858. He had seen Bona- parte deliver himself to English authorities, and had seen the re- mains of the great nation builder and world destroyer when they were brought to Paris. Charles' mother died in 1878, in Somerset- shire, England. Both were members of the Episcopal church of England. Charles Rowe served seven years' apprenticeship with his father, at carpentering and joining, in London. Being desirous of going to sea, in 1849 he shipped as ship carpenter in the vessel Lord Hungerford, and sailed to Madras, Bay of Bengal, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and to Demarara, where their cargo of 360 coolies were disposed of. He then sailed to Trinidad with sugar and rum, and thence to London after a thirteen months' voyage. About two weeks later he shipped again, in the Vernon, to Madras, Calentta, etc., out this time nine and one-half months. Remaining
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but a short time in London, he shipped the third time in the Fairy, bound for Newfoundland. Within three days' voyage of that place they fell in with an ice field, and on account of the drunkenness of the captain barely escaped destruction. At St. Johns took a cargo of codfish, and shipped to Cuba on the Camilla, then went to Santi- ago, and from there to Kingston, Jamaica. At Kingston Mr. Rowe joined an English man of war, 1851, and was two years on the West India station, then went to New Orleans, January 1853. He next sailed as a sailor on the vessel Franklin Pierce, and went to Liver- pool. After one week he shipped as second mate in the vessel John Cummins, and returned to New Orleans at the time of the yellow fever. He then made a trip to Cairo, Illinois, when there was but one house there. He traveled to Paduca and back to Cairo ; to St. Louis, and then to Quincy, Illinois. He then worked for a time at Payson, on threshing machine frames, then at his trade ; next went into central Illinois with cattle, that he might see the country. During the following winter he taught writing lessons, then clerked in a dry-goods store. In April, 1856, he was married to Jane Ward, daughter of an emigrant from England, and whom he had met on board the vessel John Cummins. He then settled in Ad- ams county, Illinois, where he followed his trade. He served three years in the late war. He was six weeks a private, then made first lieutenant, and finally captain. He resigned his commission at Montgomery, Alabama, and engaged in raising cotton for one year. Leaving the south, he settled in Boone county, Indiana, in 1867, where he worked at his trade. In 1872 he moved to Walnut town- ship, Montgomery county, where he farmed two years, and after- ward worked at his trade. In 1878 he was elected justice of the peace, and has also been deputy tax collector for two years. In 1880 he moved to New Ross. M. Rowe has seen much of the world. His family have been ten children, two dead. Those liv- ing are Victoria, now Mrs. Web. Bowers ; Florence, now Mrs. Mclaughlin ; George, Charles, Emily, Malinda, Sophia, and Dean. Mr. Rowe is a thorough democrat, and an Odd-Fellow. Mrs. Rowe is a member of the United Brethren church, and her father was a United Brethren preacher for forty years.
Thomas T. Munhall, merchant, New Ross, is a native of Zanes- ville, Ohio, and was born June 5, 1841. His father, Samuel Mun- hall, is a Pennsylvanian, and his mother, Sarah H. (Wiggins) Mun- hall, was born in Newark, New Jersey. They are now living in Forest, Illinois. He is a member of the town board, and a promi- nent republican. He and wife are members of the Forest Meth-
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odist church. They have seven children, among whom is Thomas T., the subject of this sketch. Till the war he was a farmer, and when the growl of the southern wolf was heard, and the blood of loyal men began to flow in the cause of the Union, then it was, Sep- tember 7, 1861, that Thomas T. Munhall enlisted in Co. B, 11th Ill. Cav., under Capt. James F. Johnson and Col. R. G. Ingersoll. He entered as a private, and by election or appointment he rose to the positions of second duty sergeant, orderly sergeant, second lieutenant, then captain of Co. D, of the same regiment. He con- tinued in the service for four years and forty days, during which time he was in many battles, a few of which are Shiloh, Corinth, Memphis, Vicksburg, Black River, Jackson, Miss., Jackson, Tenn., Champion Hill, Meridian, Cold Water, Bolten, Benton, Brandon, Franklin, Egypt Station, Guntown, Grand Junction, Parker's Cross Roads, Holly Springs, Clarendon. Ark., Yazoo City, and others. His discharge papers show forty-two engagements in which he participated. During his service he was neither sick, wounded, nor taken prisoner, and was never off duty. When the war was over in 1865, he returned to his home, and farmed till 1872, when he went to Indianapolis, and remained three years as foreman of the stave and heading factory of Mr. A. May, of that place. He was then sent to New Ross, to take charge of the factory of Mr. May in that town. In 1880 he took charge also of the store of A. C. May, at New Ross, and oversees both.
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