History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships, Part 160

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Number of Pages: 664


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MRS. MARY E. CARTER, Bradford, is the daughter of Ilon. Jeremiah and Mrs. Cynthia Dye Smith, of Winchester, and the sister of William K. und John Dyc Smith, Esqs., prominent residents of Union City, Randolph Co., Ind. She was born at Winchester, Ind., in 1842, and was educated in the schools of that town, with perhaps a single term at Northwestern Christian University, Indianapolis In abont 1866, she was married to Frank B. Carter, a member of the Carter family, so long fanions in the history of that tewn. They have had two children, only one of whom is now living. Their residence wns ut Winchester till about 1874, at which time n removal was made te Brad- ford, Ohin, where she still resides. She has n comforinble estate, inherited from her distinguished father, the proceeds of which affords her a competent nud abundant income.


ROBERT J. CLARK, baker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1837; came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1847, He joined the Fifteenth Ohio Cavalry in 1861, and was discharged in the winter of 1864-65, having served more than three years and six months. His regiment was under Gen. Lew Wallace at Shiloh ; under Gen. Kilpatrick at Corinth ; in Straight's raid toward Macon, Ga .; under Gen. McPherson at Resaca, being one of his body guard when he was killed ; went up to Knoxville with Sherman after Longstreet ; went back to Chattanooga after the capture of Atlanta, and was discharged some months afterward. Ile lived two years in Xenin, Ohio, and in 1867 came to Union City. December, 1865, he married Anna J. Hall, and they have three children. lle is a baker and con- fectioner. When he came to Union City, he was worth just $60. lle has built up n thriving, prosperous and successful business, employing now a onpital of $3,000, and five hands besides his own family. Mr. C. belongs to the Presby - terina Church, is a Republican in politics, and enjoya fully the confidence of his fellow-townsmen and of the community.


REV. THOMAS COLCLAZER was born in Washington City in 1811, and come to Coshocton County, Obio, in 1827. In 1838, he married Hanonh John- son, but they had no children. From his carly boyhood till he threw down his haminer and took up the Gospel trumpet, he was a blacksmith. He was con- verled to Christ at. n. emmp-meeting on Dowdy's Fork, in the north part of Coshocton Cuanty, Ohio, in 1829, under the preaching of the sainted Bigelow. Shortly afterward, in 1830, he was licensed ns ah exhorter; in 1840, as a prencher, and in 1851 he began to " ride circuit,"" his first work of this kind being at Deerfield and vicinity in 1851 and 1852. 'hi this came to pass that he was the enrliest preacher at: Union City, when it first 'begun to be. His fields of labor in later years were Middletown, Henry County ; Perkinsville, below Anderson ; Bethlehem, sixteen miles enst of Indianapolis; Alexandrin, Phila- delphia (west of Greenfield ) and elsewhere. lle died suddenly, in 1865, at Union City. Coming to the house of Bro. S. L. Carter, he was taken ill on Monday morning at 11 o'clock, and on Tuesday nt 6 A. M. he breathed his last, Ilis worthy widow still resides at Union City, Ohio, commanding the esteem of all who know her.


A. B. COOPER was born at Ripley, Jackson Co., W. Vn., in 1840. His mother dying when he was an infant, he was brought up by his grandfather. At twenty years of age, he became clerk in the Pomeroy Conl Company's store, and continued one year. En isting in the service of the United States August 11, 1861, after a somewhat unusual course of events, he became a member of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. A company was raised for an independent cavalry regiment. On reaching Columbus the authorities declined to accept them unless they would sell their horses to the United States, which they declined to do. Sending them home by some: of the company, twenty-seven of their number joining with two other sim- ilar squads, forming n company, went on to Philadelphia to join an Inde- pendent regiment, understood to be in process of formation there. Having reached that city, it was discovered that this regiment could not be orgnaized unlesy they would go into the service as a Pennsylvania regiment, which was finally done, and they became the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. The first eighteen months was a severe service in the Army of the James, which, how- uver, we ennant now describe. In an expedition of fifteen days to South Anna


RES OF HON NATHAN CADWALLADER, UNION CITY, RANDOLPH CO. IND.


RES OF E H. BOWEN, WAYNE TP. RANDOLPH CO. IND.


Fratimally In D. Stone


With respect,


'OLD GEORGE'


RESIDENCE OF CAPT. WM D. STONE. WEST OAK ST. UNION CITY, IND.


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Bridge, twelve miles east of Richmond, they picked up the rebel Gen. Fitz- hugh Lee, whe had been wounded, and was visiting in that region on furlough. In an engagement, thirty-five miles from Suffolk City, Va., on the Blackwater, they captured many rebels, na niso the famous Rocket Battery, sent out from Pittsburgh, Penn., and captured previously by the confederates. The regiment was actively engaged, and was in various battles and skirmishes in many places. They were at the taking of Norfolk, the expture of Suffolk, the siege of York- town, the battle at the White House, on the Pamunkey River, and in front of Petersburg and Richmond. The affair at South Anna Bridge was by the Eleventh Pennsylvania alone. They burnt the bridge. captured 500 horses nad mules, and so many stores that they had to be burned because there were teo many for the regiment te take away with them. During the last eighteen months, Mr. Cooper was on detached duty nt Newport News. Va., as elerk in the Commissary Department. He witnessed the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimne, as also the blowing up of the Congress and the sinking of the Cumberland. There was nofight on Innd, but the Union forees were nt the time hemmed in by the rebels under MeGruder, the Federal commander being Gen. Mansfield. After his discharge, September 1, 1864, at t'ity Point, Va., he remained n year in the same position. lie then went to Middleport, near l'omerey, Ohio ; attended the Pomeroy Aenilemy for one year, and was em- ployed as clerk in the store of the l'omeroy Conl & Salt Company during twe years. In 1869, he came to Union City, and took a position in Avery & Star- buck's wholesale packing-house, being foreman in that establishment for three years. Io 1874, he became assistant under Capt. Jackson in the post office nt Union City. In 1876, he was appointed Postmaster upon the resignation of Capt. Jackson, and was re-appointed to the same position in 1880 by the unani- mons recommendation of the citizens of the town. Mr Cooper married Resa- line E. Hoffman, in 1868, in Clermont County, Ohie, and they have had three children, one of whom is dead. He is a worthy and netive member of the M. E. Church in Unien City, and & "true-blue" Republican. Mr. C. is a gen- tleman of good business habits, and possesses iu n high degree, the esteem of those who know him.


SAMUEL J. FISHER


is a young man residing at Union City, Ind., possessing a fine talent for busi- ness and enjoying a rising reputation. He was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., August 12, 1853. His parents were George H. Fisher and Louisa C. (Collett) Fisher ; his mother died about 1865, and his father married again, his second wife being Miss Mary A. Abrams, who still survives. Mr. G. II. Fisher has been the father of six children. S. J. F. resided with his parents at various places, l'ittsburgh, Penn., Ironton, Ohie, Dayton, etc., his father having been engaged in the iron business during almost his entire life, being at present Superintendeet of Clifton Iren Works nt Clifton, W. Wa. S. J. Fisher was taken by his parents to Ireeton, Ohio, in 1856, when three years of age, resid- ing there till 1874; he went thenee to Dayton, afterward to Delaware, Ohio, and still again to Union City, Ind., settling in the latter place March 21, 1878. lle attended scheel at Ironton, pursuing also n commercial course at East- man's, nt Poughkeepsie, and nt Nelson's Commercial College, Cincinnati. At Dayton, he was clerk in a drug store. He spent also one season as clerk and part owner of the steamheat Willie J., running from Cincinnati to Vicksburg and other ports on the Mississippi and some of its branches. At Union City, his business has been that of a dealer in coal, lime, wood, etc. llis marriage took place December 26, 1878, to Eliza R. Grebel, of Dayton, Ohio, and they have three children. Mr. Fisher is a Republican in politics, and is a member of F. & A. M.


H. S. FOSTER was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1834; married Maggie M. Crabbe in 1871, and has bad three children. He attended Lebanon Normal School, and has been a tencher twenty-four years-five years at Dny- ton, Ohio, five years at Union City, Ind., besides several other places. His wife died several years ngo, and he is now ( December, 1880) a widower. lle is an Episcopal Methodist, n Republican, a member of the Y. M. C. A., an ardent supperter of the temperance cause, and in general of every good and useful work. Two or three years ago, he left the business of teaching and engaged in making and selling a patent ironing-board, of which business he seems to be making a gratifying success. Since the death of his wife, he has resided with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Crabbs, who is n resident of Union City, and an active and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Chorch. In the fall of 1881, he was married to his second wife, Miss Meck, daughter of Rev. Il. J. Meck, of Bluffton, Ind. They reside in Union City, though much of his time is spent ahrond in connection with his business.


JOIN L. FRANK, born 1885, in Pennsylvania; Darke County, Ohio, 1837 ; Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio, 1842. Enlisted in the Eleventh Obio, three- months' service, 1861 ; Ninety-fourth Ohio, three-years service; served in that regiment two years, eleven months. Married Nancy Stevenson, of Greenville, Ohio, 1865 ; moved to Union City, Ind., 1866 ; five children. He is n brick- mason. and hns worked on nearly all the brick edifices in Union City, among others Branham House, 1855, Cranor's hardware store, Smith Bros.' Block, W. K. Smith's residence, Paxson & Turpen's Block. Citizens' Bank, Anderson Building. llartzell dwelling, Pierce dwelling, Lutheran parsonage, Methodist Episcopal (new) Church, Disciple Church. Bowers Block, Fletcher Block, Kuntz factory. Starbuck Block, Stewart Block, Esquire Jackson's dwelling, E. L. Anderson's former dwelling, Col. Gray's and lion. Cadwallader's residences, Masslich Building, schoolhouses both sides State line, and many others. Ile has been a member of the City Council, and in 1880 purchased the flax factory. He is a Republican and a substantial citizen. lle still owns and operates the flax-mill, conferring an advantage upon the region hy furn shing a market for material which would otherwise prove nearly worthless.


JEFFERSON GIST was horn in Kentucky in 1818. Ilis father, Joseph Gist, came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1826. J. G. came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1835, and settled in Randolph County, east of Arha, in 1839. After hammering away at that location for eighteen yenre, he tried Illinois for two years, but returned to Bethel, Wuyne County, nenr his former place of busi-


Dess, establishing himself there in 1860. After ten years of steady work in that quiet country village he concluded te try his fortunes in a somewhat larger place, and selected Union City, coming hither in 1870; since which the merry clatter of his hammer upon the ringing anvil has until Intely been heard without cessation, " week in, week out," as the days and the years roll unceasingly hy, like the flowing river's mighty current. rolling dowoward, ever downward. Mr. G. learned his trade of Samuel Van Nuys, Esq., a blacksmith, living north of Bethel, and has followed it from that day to this, more than forty years. Ile has been thrice married, taking wives as follows: First wife, 1838, Abigail Stewart, one child, died in 1839: second wife, 184], Mary Till- sen, three children, died in 1850; third wife, Anna Polly, daughter of William Polly, of Darke County, Ohio. Mr. flist has been a member of the Disciple Church for ferty-two years. In politics he was in early life a Demoerat, then a Free-Seiler, then & Republican. Ile is a fine specimen of an honest, upright, hard-working mechanic, an honor to the race and n blessing to the land ! With- in a year past, he has ceased werk upon the novil, which is well, since almost half a century of ceaseless toil has given him a right to rest.


GEORGE GRAIIS, tailor, was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1830, heing one of eight children. He emigrated to New York City in 1851, went to Chicago in the same year, to Cincinnati in 1852, and to Union ('uy in 1856, residing here ever since. He married Anna Rosenbush in 1855, and they have had five children, four living. llenry, one of his sons, is clerk in the Commercial Bank of Union City, and the other is engaged with his father in merchant tailoring. He learned the tailoring business in his native village in Germany, and has followed it ever since. He set up with Mr. Thekey as u merchant tailor, continuing eight years, then selling out to A. J. S. Bowers ; he worked at his trade for Bowers for fourteen years. In 1878, he began a separate business in connection with his son, in which they are still engaged. Mr. Grabs is an industrious and thrifty citizen. Six years ago (1876), he erected a fine brick residence on West Division street, which he now occupies. In politics, he has always been a Republican. In religion, he is a German Lutheran. He was for eight years a member of the Town Council, has been trustee of his church for more than twenty years, and was one of the building committee for the erection of the meeting-house and parsonage. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for thirty years, uniting with a German branch of that order in ('ineinnati in 1852. Mr. Grahs has won a substantial reputation among his fellow-citizens by his unvarying uprightness and his un- remitting industry, and stands to day as one of the reliable members of the community. One of his sons, Henry Grahs, was in the spring of 1880 elected Treasurer of Union City, and in May, 1882, was chosen again without opposi- tioo for a second term.


OLIVER (. GORDON, boot and shoe dealer, was born in 1845, in llenry County, Ind., came to Arba, Ind., in 1846 ; his mother died when he was three months old, and his father when Oliver was eight years of nge; he being brought up by his maternal aunt, Mrs. Jordan Fulghum ; he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth Inifiana Volunteers, Company E, in 1868, and was discharged at the close of the war. O. C. G. was clerk and merchant at Arba four years, mail carrier between Richmond aod Union City one year, and bookseller in Union t'ity five years, in the firms successively of Gordon & Co. and Gordon & Hill. Ile was elected Treasurer of Randolph County in 1876, and re-elected io 1878. In 1880, he bought n share in a boot and shoe firm with Robert B. Mckee At Union City, and a few months afterward Mr. Mckee sold his interest in the establishment to Ansel B. Thomas, so that the firm is now Gordon & Thomas, Mr. Gordon married Margaret Keever in 1866, and they have three children. He is a Republican, wide-awake and reliable, netive and successful in busi- ness and of an estimable reputation. Mr. Gordon is at present erecting & con- venient and tasteful dwelling on Plum street in Union City, and has come to be reckoned among the prominent citizens of the town.


A. EISENHOUR, barne-s-maker. Mr. Eisenhour has been a substantial citizen of this thriving town for some sixteen or seventeen years, having been engaged in the useful and honorable occupation of harness-making during all that time. lle was born and raised in Darke f'ounty, Ohio. He has been mar- ried for many years, and his wife is living, but they have no children. Mr. Eisenhour is a quiet, industrious, enterprising gentleman, obeying carefully at least that important rule, called by some the E eventh Commandment, " Mind your own business." Year in year out Mr. E. is found at his post, furnishing his goods to all who desire them. In August, 1882, he was badly hurt by handling a high-spirited and unruly horse, insomuch that his life was for a titne despaired of, but he is at this time (September, 1882,) in a fair way to re- cover from the injury received by the neeident.


JOHN FISHER


was born in North Carolina in 1792, near the old " Guilford Battle Ground. ' He left that State in 1816 on horseback. nud rode nlone (except two days' journey ) all the way to Lebanon, Ohio : and (after five or six days epent in visiting friends there) to Wayne County. Ind., having been fifteen days on the road-a pretty quick trip compared with the speed often made by families and groups coming through on a " moving " expedition. lle entered 160 acres in the winter of 1816-17, worked about, put up a eubin, was married to Jane Starbuck Septem- ber 16, 1819, by Adam Boyd, the only Justice of the Peace in Wayne County at the time (so Mr. Fisher states). There were no Justices in New Garden Township till 1822 or 1823. Edward Starbuck and Solomon Thomas were the first, and they were elected both nt once. Mr. F. and his wife began to keep "onbin " October 7, 1819; and they lived on that farm till January, 1866, more than forty-six years. They have been married nearly sixty-one years ! [1880.] They came to Union City in 1866. Mr. F. is now in his eighty. eighth year, and his wife in her seventy-seventh. They are sprightly for their age, both living with their son-in-law, Capt. J. R. Jackson. John Fisher was an orphan hoy at six years old. His father died in Decem- ber, and his mother in September, 1798. He was raised by an older brother. His father had ten children, who all lived to be grown and


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have families. Jane Starbuck (hia wife) was born in 1803 in Guilford County, N. C. She came with her father, Edward Starbuck, to Wayne County in 1817. She is one of eighteen children who were all living And married when the youngest was twenty-three years old ! And now (1882), when the youngest is forty-four, twelve of the eighteen are living still ! John and Jane Fisher have had sixteen children ; eight lived to be grown and six are living yet. The eight grown were Daniel, born in 1821 in Champaign County, 111., 400 acres of land, three children ; Joseph, born in 1823 in Cali- fornia, and in 1850 died there; Edward, Vermillion County, 'Ill., 210 acres, seven children; Phebe (Baldwin, Bailey, Reed), Winchester, five children ; Robert. S. [ace his account elsewhere] ; Annn (Commons, Pierce), Union City, one child ; John, Champaign County, Ill., eighty acres, one child ; Lydia (Jackson), Union City, two children. John Fisher died at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles W. Pierce, in Union City, Ind., February 8, 1881, in his eighty-ninth year. He bnd enjoyed fine health for so old a man for years, and there seemed no apparent reason why he might not tarry among the living for years to come. But it was not to be. In one of the fearfully slippery times during the winter of 1880-81, in undertaking to go up the steps at the door of Mr. Pierce's dwelling, he slipped And fell and broke his thigh. He lingercd for some weeks, and died as already stated. Ilis work was done, and the hour for which he had been long waiting came at last. He lind lived a gentle, quiet, Christian life, mostly after the manner of the Friends for almost A cent- ury ; and the dear Lord gently led him into the " upper fold " at last. In his youth he joined the Methodists (1819), but afterward he united with the Friends ; and in the " separation" he went with the " Anti-Slavery wing,"" and remained such in sentiment till his death. He was a man of sterling, Christian principle, and lived a steady, consistent life ; always standing firmly on the side of truth and right as he viewed them. At the time of his death he was the oldest citizen of the town, greatly respected and beloved. Ile had voted at every Presidential election since Madison's second term, elected in 1812, till 1880, making in all eighteen times for the office of President of the United Statea. He voted for Madison and Monroe and Adams, against Jackson And Van Buren ; for Harrison and Taylor, against Polk, Pierce, Buchanan ; for Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Garfield. The line of such a man is, as it were, a key to the history of the times. Though an orphan in his boyhood, and without property in his early manhood, it came to pass that, through the bless- ing of God upon industry, and frugality through a long and useful life, he was enabled to attain a competence, and spent his latter years in the enjoyment of abundance. All of his six surviving children were present to comfort his closing hours, and to follow his remains to their last earthly resting place in the Union City Cemetery. The funeral exercises were held at the house of C. W. Pierce, his son-in-law. They were conducted in an affecting and impressive manner by Rev. H. J. Meck, pastor of the M. E. Church, Union City, in the presence of a large company of children and relatives and friends. Father Fisher was one of A company of perhaps 100 old men who had voted at the election in 1840, when Gen. Harrison was chosen President, who were seated on the plat- form at the meeting held at the Tabernacle (outside of it) at Union City, in the campaign of 1880, and addressed by Gen. Benjamin llarrison, grandson of President Harrison, a prominent leader of the Republicans in Indiana, and at the Senatorial election in the winter of 1880-81. chosen Senator of the United States for the State of Indiana for six years ensuing. The inceting was large and enthusiastio, consisting of 8,000 or 4,000 people, gathering in from miles around in every direction, although the speech had heen intended simply for Union City and the immediate vicinity. The names of some of the old gentle, men assembled on the platform at that interesting meeting were John Fisher- Robert Murphy, Simeon Branham, Samuel Arbaugh, Morrow, Harvey Julian, Ezra Coddington, Thomas Devor, William Iliff, Adolph Warren, John C. Taylor, Lewis MeFarland, J. J. Alexander, Joseph Alexander, James Alexander. Thomas Clevinger, James, Marquis, John Wharry, William Them, Harrison Anderson, E. Tucker. Jacob Snell, William H. Swain, H. W. Darwin, Jobn Commons, John S. Johnson, B. T. Wilkerson, 8. M. Skinner, Robert l'ogue, Jesse Paxson (disabled), William Macy, Uriah Ball, Jefferson Gist, David Fer- guson, S. L. Carter, C. L. Carter, John Mitchell, John Kemble, William Parent, M. S. Willis, James Warren, and a large number of others nat now remem- bered. This band of veterans assembled ut Branham's Hotel, and, with Will- inm Isenhart and John Hartman as flag-bearers, escorted the orator of the meeting, Gen. Ben Harrison, to the platform, from which he delivered his address to a very large crowd. [See also Reminiscences of John Fisher and June Fisher. ]


GEORGE GREGORY was born in Addison County, Vt., March 28, 1826, of Quaker parentage. His father died in 1830, and in 1833 both his grand- fathers with all their grandchildren, emigrated to Ohio. Ilis mother settled with her father's family in Woodstock, Champaign t'a., Ohio, while the Gregorys went to Delaware County, In 1839, she moved to North Lewisburg, Ohio, to enjoy the 4. viety of friends. In 1847, G. G. married Mary V. Winder ud settled as a farmer. In 1850, their ridest child was born, now the wife of Edwin M. Tansey, of Union City, and in 1851 his wife died. In 1852, he -turted West, settling in Webster County, Iowa, re:iding there till 1860, and marryins This cheth F. Davie. In Webster County, Iowa, he anld dry goods, and was also County Treasurer for two years (1856-58). In February, 1860. he get out for li' e's Peak. and engaged in mining. In March, 1861, he went to New Mexico, traveling over large portions of that territory, inhabited by Indians alone, and returning to Denver the last of June. On the 4th of July, 1861, the people at Denver refused even to hoist the Stars and Stripes, and he left in diagnat, for he would not stay where the national flag was flouted in disgrace. lle had always been a Democrat, voting in 1860 for Stephen A. Douglas, but since that time he has been a Republican. He came to Iowa; and in September, 1861, enlisted as a private in the Tenth lowa Regiment, In about four months he was detailed into the Quartermaster's Department, and in January, 1862, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in Company K, Tenth Iowa Regiment. Their Colonel hud been a General in the Hungarian Army.


Mr. G. was at the battles of New Madrid, Mo .. Tiptonville, Iuka and Corinth, and waa with Gen. Grant up to the fall of Vicksburg, at Port Gibson, Ray- mond. Jackson and Champion Hills, At the latter place he was seriously hurt hy the concussion of a shell, from the effects of which bia hearing has ever since been seriously impaired. Ile did no further duty, remaining with the regiment till the fall of Vicksburg. He could see Gens. Grant and Pemberton as they sat under the shade of a tres on the evening of the 3d of July, arrang- ing for the surrender. No cannon roared, no musketry rattled, a strange calm was upon the air that day after the constant roar of the previous forty days. Being disabled for duty, he resigned his commission August 31, 1863, and returned to his family in Ohio. In October he came to Union City, Ind., which has mostly been his residence to this time. From 1865 10 1870, he was salesman and clerk in Dukemineer & Maloy's hardware store. D. & M. sold to Cadwallader & Bowen in 1870 ; in 1872, Cadwallader sold to B. F. Codding- ton, Mr. O. remaining with the firm till 1873. In October he removed to Colorado, at the foot of the mountains. Returning in 1875, he took his old place till the firm sold out in 1878. In March, 1878, he entered a hardware store for Witham & Anderson, and is there yet. Ilis second wife died January 30, 1881. He now resides with his son-in-law, Edwin M. Tansey, Cashier of the Citizens' Bank, and a most estimable and thoroughly reliable citizen and friend, Mr. G. is n substantinl and worthy citizen, though not much inclined to public life, having been County Treasurer in Town, As stated above, 19 Biso Councilman of Union City two years, from 1865 to 1867. He is faithful in business, exemplary in his morals and a reliable member of the community.




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