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the time of his death. He was killed by a fall from his horse while at a muster about 1809 or 1810. William Crow, then a lad, was bound out to & saddler in Princeton, Ind. After completing his apprenticeship, he came to Pike County, was married, and became one of the first residents of Petersburg. About 1830, he moved to a farm near Winslow, and lived in that vicinity the remainder of his life. He died April 22, 1870, and his wife in May, 1878. John was reared at home, receiving but little instruction in the schools, though he has since obtained a good practical education through his own efforts. In 1853, in company with Daniel Crow and Dr. G. B. Montgomery, he opened s store on the canal below Hosmer. After six months Montgom- ery withdrew, and in less than a year afterward, Daniel Crow died, when the business was turned over to the latter's heirs. John Crow then engaged in farming and teaching school. In 1854, he bought a farm in Marion Township which he owned until about 1865. He has since bought and sold several farms, and is now the owner of over 500 acres of land in Jefferson Town- ship. He has served eight years as sheriff of the county, and filled the clerk's office one term, having been one of the most popular officers the county has ever had. He was also candidate for auditor on the Republican ticket, but was defeated, the coun- ty being largely Democratic at the time. During the summer of 1885, he purchased a one-half interest in the Champion Steam Flouring-mills at Petersburg, though he still gives considerable attention to farming. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he served until honorably discharged on account of disability. May 21, 1870, he married Tennessee Traylor, a native of the county, by whom he is the father of five children, four of whom, William D., Edna M., Charles B. and Prentice M., are living. Mr. Crow is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is & Republi- can.
MARTIN CONDER, a native of Boyle County, Ky., came to this county in 1863. He bought 120 acres of the farm upon which he has since resided, and to which he has added until he now has 200 acres. He gives considerable attention to stock- raising, and has been very successful in his business. Mr. Con- der was born December 10, 1829, and is the seventh of ten children born to Peter and Lucinda (Hack) Conder, natives of Germany and Virginia respectively. The father, when an infant, came to the United States with his parents who located in Tennes- Bee, and later removed to Kentucky. There Peter Conder was married, and, with the exception of a few montha in Indiana, pasaed the remainder of his life. He died in 1865, and his widow afterward came to this county, where she lived until her
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death, which occurred in August, 1875. Martin was reared at home, where he remained until attaining his majority. He then rented land for three years, after which he bought a farm. He chose for a wife Rachel A. Gray, whom he married January 22, 1852. Four children have been born to this union: John F., the eldest, married Carrie Hawkins; Margaret E. is now Mrs. Jefferson Hollon; Nancy J. is the wife of Amos C. Hawkins; and Anna E. married George W. Lawrence. She died leaving one child, Bettie B. Mr. Conder is a good farmer, and recognized as an honest, upright citizen. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian Church.
SIMEON B. CARLETON, M. D., of Petersburg, Ind., is a son of Henry and Martha ( Williams) Carleton, who were natives of Virginia. Our subject is one of eleven children, and was born in Hardin County, Ky., February 17, 1840. When twelve years of age his mother died, and he and an elder brother came to Spencer County, Ind., where Simeon worked as a farm laborer during the summer and attended school during the winter, and when twenty years of age began teaching school, continuing at that business until 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Com- pany E, Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. He served his country gallantly for three years in the war of the Rebellion. He then returned to Spencer County and resumed teaching. He also studied medicine under Dr. Camp, and practiced that profession part of 1875 and 1876. He attended lectures at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876, and in 1880 graduated from an institution there and re- sumed his practice. In 1883 he went to Huntingburgh, but re- mained there but six months, and then came to Petersburg, where he has lived ever since. He has a large and paying practice. The Doctor was married in 1868, to Mary E. Taylor, who died seven years later, leaving three children: Ella, William and Nel- lie. A year later he married Belle Anderson, by whom he is the father of one child-Catherine. Mrs. Carleton has also two chil- dren by a former marriage: John and Daisy. Dr. Carleton is a Republican and a Mason, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor is a very successful and competent physician, and an enterprising business man.
PERRY W. CHAPPELL was born in Pike County, Ind., June 24, 1842, son of Stephen and Hannah (Miller) Chappell. natives of Indiana and Pennsylvania respectively. The father, who was of French descent, was born in Pike County in 1811. He passed his life raising stock and farming, and was trustee of the township a number of terms. His death occurred in 1873, The mother is still living on the homestead farm. Our subject, when twenty-three years old, began farming for himself on the home place. Three years later he removed to New Albany. Ind ..
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and engaged in mercantile pursuits two years, and then moved to Washington, Ind., and worked at the same business until 1×72. when he returned to Pike County. He remained in Long Branch two years, and then moved on a farm which he had purchased. He was elected trustee of the township and served two terms. In 1880 he was elected to the office of treasurer of Pike County, and served two terms by re-election. In 1861 he enlisted as a pri- vate in Company I. Forty-second Indiana Infantry, and served his country faithfully and well over three years. He was wound- ed in the shoulder and hip at the battle of Stone River, and yet suffers from the shoulder wound. In 1864 he married Harriett E. Totten, who died in 1876, leaving six children: Frances, Han- nah E., Harriett A., Nellie E., Dora E. and. Fielding Alexander. In 1878 he married Harriett L. Mather. They have three chil- dren: James B., Louisa D. and Merada E. Mr. Chappell is a Mason and member of the I. O. O. F. and I. O. of R. M.
EUGENE A. ELY, attorney at law of Petersburg, Ind., was born in Warsaw. Gallatin Co., Ky., October 21, 1847, and is one of six children born to the marriage of John E. Ely and Elizabeth Hatfield, natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., re- spectively. The father, who was a physician by profession, removed from Kentucky to Spencer County, Ind., in 1864, where he practiced his profession until his death. June 22, 1885. The mother died in Kentucky in 1863. Our subject followed the life of a farmer from the age of ten to eighteen years, and in the meantime prepared himself for teaching, which profession he fol- lowed in Kentucky until 1868, when he came to Spencer County. Ind., and taught school until 1871. While teaching he was an energetic student of Blackstone, and in 1871 was admitted to the Pike County bar and practiced law in that county until Septem- ber, 1873. He then came to Petersburg and established a good and paying practice. At different times he was in partnership with G. G. Reily, Levi Ferguson, C. H. Burton and lastly, with W. F. Townsend and Martin Fleener. They are now together and may be said to control the leading practice in the town and county. April 7. 1869, Mr. Ely married Rhoda M. Frank, a
native of Spencer County. They have three sons: Horace, Harry and Frank. Mr. Ely's political views are democratic. He is a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is one of Pike County's most successful practitioners. He was nom- inated on the Democratic ticket for judge of the Eleventh Judi- cial Circuit in 1884, but was defeated by a very small majority.
MARTIN FLEENER, attorney at law of Petersburg, Ind., was born in Warrick County, September 15, 1851, the eldest of four living children of a family of eight, born to the marriage of John
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J. Fleener and Louisa Bilderback. Both parents were born in Warrick County, where the father followed farming and dealt in the leaf tobacco business. In 1864 the family removed to Pike County and located in Pleasantville, where he followed the same business until 1874. The tobacco business proving unsuccessful, he has since devoted his entire time and attention to farming. Martin was raised in Warrick and Pike Counties and obtained & very good education. He learned his father's business and when seventeen years old he taught two terms of school, but soon re- turned to his former occupation. At the age of twenty he went to Illinois where he worked for one season at the tobacco busi- ness. He then came home and was appointed deputy clerk of the county courts and served one and a half years. He then re- engaged in farming at Pleasantville. In 1877 he was again ap- pointed deputy clerk and served until 1882, thoroughly acquaint- ing himself with the routine of these offices. He also served as assistant attorney-general of the State under T. W. Worlen, during 1879-80, and later was employed as expert in examining town and county records in Southern Indiana. In the mean- time he was an earnest reader of Blackstone. In 1882 he en- tered into partnership with A. H. Taylor in real estate and ab- stract title business and two years later formed his present part- nership under the firm name of Ely, Townsend & Fleener. He was admitted to the Pike County bar in March, 1885. In 1875 he married Laura Alexander. They became the parents of three children: Lucy, Kate and an infant (deceased). Mr. Fleener is a Democrat and was chairman of the State central committee in 1882. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
MOSES FRANK, a merchant of Petersburg, Indiana, is one of seven children born to Leopold Frank and wife, who were natives of Prussia, where the mother died in 1859, and where the father still resides. Moses was born in Prussia, April 28, 1844. When fifteen years old he left home and learned the mercantile business of an uncle, and four years later immigrated to the United States. and located in Petersburg, where he clerked until 1866 for a brother and cousin who were engaged in the general merchandise business. In 1868 he engaged in the business for himself, in which he has continued successfully ever since. He has a fine stock of goods and has also engaged quite extensively in buying and selling wool. He deals in fine stock and real estate, and owns some fine farming land in the county, and some good property in Petersburg. In 1871 he married Josephina Levi, a native of Prussia. They have three living children: Gus, Bernice, and Re- gina. His political views are Democratic. He is an I. O. O. F., and a member of the Hebrew fraternity I. O. B. B. He is not a member of any church, but was born in the Jewish faith. Mr.
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Frank is a well-to-do citizen and a straightforward business man of the county.
JEREMIAH WRIGHT GLADISH, editor and proprietor of the Petersburg Press, the only Republican newspaper in the county, was born in Pike County, March 1, 1855, and is one of five living members of a family of eight children born to the marriage of Richard Gladish and Eliza Ann Foster. Jeremiah W. was reared on a farm, and secured in the common schools of the district a foundation for a more liberal education in later years. In 1874 he became a student in the literary department of the State Uni- versity, and remained there one year. In 1876 he entered the law department of the same institution and became a disciple of Blackstone. He remained there one year and then began study- ing lew in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving the degree of L.L. B. in 1878. He returned home the same year and was nominee on the Republican ticket for county clerk of Pike County, but was defeated with the entire county ticket. He then began practicing his profession in Shoals, Ind., and re- mained there until July 1, 1881, when he came to Petersburg and purchased the Press, which he has conducted efficiently and suo- cessfully to the present time. He has developed it from rather a limited country sheet into a newsy, flourishing, eight-column weekly, and has enlarged the circulation and advertisements until it ranks with any of the county papers in southern Indiana. April 12, 1882, he married Louie A. Oppelt, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one child, Foster Oppelt. Mr. Gladish and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he has taken an active interest in all public and private enterprises in town and county. He is treasurer of the town school board and vice-president of the local building and loan association. Mr. Gladish is recognized in the county as a successful and enter- prising newspaper man and a moral, upright citizen.
WILLIAM C. HOLLOWAY, a prominent farmer of Pike County, Ind., was born in Brown County, Ohio, February 22, 1824. He is the eldest of five children born to the marriage of Isaac Holloway and Mary Coats, both natives of Ohio. The parents of Isaac, when he was an infant, joined the Shaker's community near Lebanon, Ohio. He remained there until fifteen years of age, when he left and went to Brown County, Ohio, where he was married, and lived until about 1844, when he removed to Pike County, Ill. He died there about 1861 or 1862. He was twice married. The mother of our subject having died in 1835, he was again married and had six children. William C. was reared at home where he remained until about twenty-one. He then went to Warren County, Ohio, where he worked on a farm by the year for four years for $476, and at expiration of that
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time he had $421, an example in economy which young men of the present day would do well to follow. After this he leased what was known as the College farm near Lawrenceburgh, Ind., for ten years, but remained only four years. He then came to Pike County and bought the farm where he has since resided. Mr. Holloway is still an active, energetic man, and by his econo- my and energy has accumulated a competency. January 11, 1854 he married Emily P. Jackson, a native of Dearborn County, Ind. They have three children: James C., a practicing physi- cian; Cors B., now Mrs. Simeon Haines, and Mary M. Both ba and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican, and previous to the organization of that party, was a Whig.
PHINEAS HORNADY, one of the wealthiest farmers in Pike County, was born on the farm where he now resides March 4, 1826. He is the youngest child in a family of six children. His father, David Hornaday, when a young man, came from Ohio to Pike County in 1812. The following year he married Hannah Whitehead, a native of Chatham County, N. C. He entered eighty acres of land where the subject of this memoir still resides; he continued to live on the same farm improving it and adding to it until his death which occurred October 18, 1839; he was for nearly twenty years a minister in the Regular Baptist Church, having had charge of the church at Highbanks. The mother died November 20, 1857. Since that time Phineas, with his three sisters, Jemima, Maria and Sophia, have continued to live at the old homestead, one of the most beautiful residences it the county. The farm consists of 360 acres of fine land and is well situated about one and a half miles west of Petersburg. Mr. Hornaday has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for about thirty years. In politics he is a Republican and io widely known as an honest, upright citizen.
HON. LEMUEL R. HARGRAVE, representative from Pike County, was born in this county February 6, 1829. He is the fifth child in a family of ten children; his father, Thomas R. Hargrave, was a native of Virginia, to which State his ancestors came from England at a very early period in the history of this country; he moved to North Carolina with his father and in 1816 came to Indiana and located in Pike County. A few years after reaching the State he married Marthe P. Traylor, and settled upon a farm in Jefferson Township. For several years he was a minis- ter in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as also were his brothers One of his sisters married John Niblack, and became the mother of Judge W. E. Niblack. Thomas R. Hargrave died in July, 1859; his widow survived him until October, 1883. Lemuel R received. a good practical education in youth; he remained at
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home until he was twenty years of age, when he began his career as a farmer for himself by renting a farm in the river bottom After two years he bought a farm which he owned for six years; he then removed to Alford, where he was engaged in a mercan- tile business for two years. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry as second lieutenant, and served until March, 1863, when he resigned on ac- count of ill health. Since the war he has given his attention to agricultural pursuits, and is now the owner of a fine farm of 186 acres. Soon after reaching manhood he married Mary J. May, who died leaving three children: Millard F., William E., and Alice J. (deceased), who married John Griffith. He chose for his second wife, Emily (Morrison) Hathaway, whom he married October 18, 1859. They have six children: Ella, Mark, Minnie, now Mrs. Thomas Mount, Frank, Lucile and Ralph. Politically, Mr. Hargrave was formerly a Whig, but is now a member of the Democratic party. In 1884 he was elected to rep+ resent the counties of Dubois and Pike in the State Legislature. receiving a majority of 1,638 votes.
DAVID WRIGHT HORTON, an old and prominent resi- dent of Petersburg is a native of New York. He was born July 10, 1826, and is the sixth in a family of eleven children. His parents were also natives of New York where the father James Horton died in 1849. The mother Elizabeth Wright came to Pike County in 1864, and lived with her son until her death in May, 1868. David received a good practical education in youth, having attended the high school at Port Byron, N. Y., and the Aurora Academy. At the age of fourteen he began to learn the shoe-maker's trade of his father. In December, 1851, he left his native State, and the following June, located at Petersburg where he has since resided and followed his trade the greater part of the time. In 1866 he was appointed deputy county surveyor, and was afterward twice elected to the office of surveyor of Pike County. He still continues to do considerable surveying. He is the owner of 150 acres of land in Jefferson Township which he bought in 1869. Mr. Horton has been three times married. In February, 1854, he married Mary Bass who died eighteen months later, and in 1860 he was united in marriage with Katharine Bass, a sister of his first wife. She died in March, 1864. He chose for his third wife Elvina Scott whom he married in Novem- ber, 1871. Mr. Horton was for many years an Odd Fellow, and took an active part in organizing the lodge in Petersburg.
JOHN HAMMOND, of the firm of Hammond & Parker, dealers in general merchandise, Petersburg, Ind., is a native of Pike County. He was born September 30, 1846, and is the youngest and only surviving one of two children born to John and Jane
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(Stewart ) Hammond. The father when a small boy came with: his parents from Pennsylvania to Pike County, Ind., and located at Highbanks. He passed his life upon the farm and died Feb- ruary 1. 1847. His widow has never married again and is still liv. ing with her son. John was reared at home with his mother who after the death of her husband removed to Dubois County. They continued to live there until about 1864, when they returned to this county. From that time until 1882 he was engaged in clerk- ing in the stores of Connelly & Barrett, William Hawthorn, and P. C. Hammond & Son. In the latter year, he engaged in the general merchandising business in which he has since continued with good success. June 30, 1880 he was united in marriage with Lillie B. Telle, a native of Washington County, Ind. To them have been born two children Horace A. and Ida. Mr. Ham- mond is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is a Republican in politics, and is one of the leading business men of the town.
REDDICK HARRELL, SR., is a native of Pike County, born July 25, 1820. His parents, Moses and Mary ( Miley ) Har- rell, came from Virginia and Kentucky respectively. The father came to Indiana about the year 1815 and a year later married and located in Petersburg, but entered 160 acres of land a short distance from town. He built a saw-mill on Pride's Creek and followed that and farming a few years, and was engaged in the mercantile business almost the remainder of his life. His death occurred December 30, 1830. The mother lived until March, 1870, Our subject was reared in Petersburg. At the age of fifteen years he began clerking in a store. At the end of four years he was appointed deputy clerk under Maj. McIntyre who was clerk of the county courts. He worked on as deputy in all the offices in the court house for over thirty-five years and became thoroughly acquainted with the duties of each office. He was township trustee eleven years and during this time was government asses- sor from 1861 to 1868. He devoted considerable time and all his surplus means in land and was very successful in his purchases and sales. As his health has somewhat failed him he has given up active life. September, 1850, he married Jane Barr who died March 7, 1882, leaving three living children: Reddick, Emory H., proprietor of the Petersburg News, and William G. Brownlow. Mr. Harrell is a Republican in politics, but is not radical in his views, voting rather for the man than for the party. He belongs to the L. O. O. F. and is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is one of the influential and enterprising citizens of Pike County.
E. H. HARRELL, editor and proprietor of the Weekly News, Petersburg, Ind., is a native of the town, born March 4, 1855. He is a son of Reddick Harrell, Sr., whose sketch appears above this. He received his education in the schools of Petersburg,
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having completed the high-school course. With the first issue of the Press, he began to learn the printing trade. He worked in the office of that paper for about five years, during which time he bought a half interest in the Press. After owning it about nine months he sold out and went to Evansville, where he was employed as compositor and assistant foreman in the Journal office for about one year. January 1, 1876, he returned to Peters- burg and bought the Press, which he conducted for four years. May 15, 1884, he issued the first number of the News. Mr. Harrell is a live energetic newspaper man, and always makes his paper a success financially. As he is fearless in expressing his opinions, he wields a considerable influence in the political and social affairs of the county.
PERRY C. HAMMOND was born in Philadelphia, Penn., September 26, 1813, and is one of two living members of seven children born to Elijah and Mary (Pollock ) Hammond, natives of Marrs and Dublin, Ireland. The father came to Pike County, Ind., in 1819, and located on a farm in Jefferson Township, where he followed farming successfully until his death in 1846. He was associate judge of the circuit court a number of years, and a Whig and Mason; he and his wife were members of the Uni- versalist Church. The mother died in 1842. Our subject re- ceived the ordinary education of the times, being greatly aided by his father and elder brother, who was educated in the East. When eighteen years old he left home and clerked in a mercantile establishment in Louisville, Ky., for about a year and a half. He then came home and engaged in the general merchandise business in Petersburg. Here he has remained ever since, with the exception of two years during the war of the Rebellion, when he assisted in getting up a draft in the county. Mr. Hammond has been very successful in his business ventures and has one of the best stores in the county. In 1837 he married Nancy Ed- mondson who died in 1855, having borne eight children, three now living, Oliver A., Perry C., partners in the mercantile busi- ness, and Flora, the wife of Dr. A. R. Byers, Mr. Hammond married Caroline Galbreath, a native of Orange County. They became the parents of two children, one now living, Ida B. He is a stanch Republican and a Mason, and he and wife are ad- herents to the Universalist faith.
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