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 57

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

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Lynn Graded School .- A commodious school building with two rooms was erected for the town of Lynn in about 1874, by the Township Trustee, at a cost of about $4,000. A graded school has been maintained from that time to the present. The Principals have been Messrs. Bond, Lesley, Marsh, Nichols.

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The school is still under the control of the Township Trustee. the town not being large enough to warrant an act of incorpora- tion for school purposes, or, at least, the village of Lynu not being so eager to assume the responsibility of separate and in- dependent school existence.

Pin Hook Graded School, No. 1 .- District No. 1, Greens- fork Township. has had two teachers, most of the time, for eight years, and, for a part of the time, two rooms. Some of the in- structors have been Misses Jennie Hill, Rich, Cammack, Messrs. Nichols, Brown, Ruby and others. Their schoolhouse is a fine substantial one-story brick, with two rooms. The school, liow- ever, of late is hardly large enough to justify a double school.

Ridgeville. - The schoolhouse at Ridgeville is an old frame building, with one room, and capable of accommodating only a single teacher. However, Ridgeville College furnishes rooms

Josephine Sumption, Elias Boltz, 1878; Alexander Wood, 1879; William J. Houck. Gabriel A. Jacobs, David M. Odle, 1880. The following resume of its affairs is condensed from its catalogue for 1880-81:

Students-Seniors, four; Juniors, three; Sophomores, three; Freshmen, seventeen; Preparatory seventy-nine: music, twenty- eight. Ladies, sixty-one; gentlemen, seventy-six.

Trustees (term expires 1881)-Rev. D. A. Tucker, Milhousen; W. F. Studabaker. W. T. Pettyjohn, David S. Harker, Ridge- ville: Moorman Way, Esq., Winchester; James Hanlin, Port- land; P. W. Holverstott, Marion, Ohio; Robert H. Sumption, Ridgeville. Term expires 1882; Rev. S. D. Bates, Marion, Ohio; E. C. Clough. Jordan; Dr. C. S. Arthur, Portland; Ar- thur McKew, Ridgeville; Rev. B. F. Zell, La Rue, Ohio; Sam- uel Hanlin, Portland; Dr. J. A. Henning, Redkey; Norman

RIDGEVILLE COLLEGE, RIDGEVILLE, RANDOLPH COUNTY, INDIANA.

additional for three teachers besides, so that the Ridgeville ! Lynch. Ridgeville. Term ends 1883: Rev. Asa Pierce, Dr. "younkers" have the honor, mostly, of "entering college" in | Allen H. Farquhar, Ridgeville; Richard Matchet, Jordan: Mil- their "childhood days."

Ridgeville College .-- Was founded by the Free-Will Baptists in 1867. Its first President was Rev. J. L. Collier. The present President is Rev. S. D. Bates, A. M. It has struggled with diffi- culties from the utset. The number of its students has been small; its faculty, though men and women of talent and energy, were well sustained on fair salaries till the hard times following 1873 occurred, when the income was not sufficient to pay the salaries, at which time the faculty were put upon the income to prevent increased indebtedness, as did many of the colleges of the West. A few friends, however, have clung to the institution in every struggle, and its prospects appear to be brightening. The number of its graduates has thus far been very small, as follows: Elisha Wood, John H. Sheets, B. Frank Boyer, 1876;

ton R. Hiatt. J. Collins, Ridgeville; Abram Kitchen, Spring- field, Ohio; A. J. Metsner, Portland; Joseph D. Marot, Ridge- ville.

The officers of the board are as follows: Rev. S. D. Bates, .

Chairman: W. T. Pettyjohn, Auditor; Elias Boltz, B. S., Libra- rian; M. R. Hiatt, Secretary; R. H. Sumption, Treasurer.

The Executive Committee are composed of the following gen- tlemen: Dr. A. H. Farquhar. Arthur McKew, R. H. Sumption, Milton R. Hiatt, Rev. Asn Pierce.

Faculty: Rev. S. D. Bates, A. M., President, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy; Rev. Thomas Harrison, A. M., Professor of Latin and Greek; Elins Boltz, B. S., Professor of Mathematics and German; Miss Josephine Sumption, B. S., Pre- ceptress aud teacher of French; - , Professor of Nat-

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ural Science; I. N. Nason, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek and teacher of instrumental music; R. Fricke, teacher of instrumental music.

Rev. J. L. Collier, the first President, filled the posi- tion five years with energy and efficiency. The combined labor of superintending the erection of the college building, teaching and preaching at the same time, seriously impaired his health, and he resigned his position, much to the regret of his many. friends. When his successor, Rev. S. D. Bates, assumed the re- sponsibilities of his office, in 1872, there were not quite $1,000 raised toward the endowment of the institution. He has since that time carried it up to $30,000, besides raising several thou- sand dollars toward the completion of the building, the increase of the library, apparatus, etc., etc.

While he has not engaged in teaching, and all the income was needed to remunerate those who were giving instruction, he has not received a dollar from the college treasury for all the labor he has performed for the endowment of the school, but has met his expenses by labors in other directions. It will be of historical interest to state that he instructed the late lamented President, J. A. Garfield, the winter after he was on the Ohio Canal, and persuaded him to attend a seminary with him two years, rather than sail on Lake Erie. Mr. Garfield afterward stated that this was the turning point in his life, and that he was more indebted to M .:. Bates than all other men.

The college is located at Ridgeville, a town at the crossing of the Pan Handle & Grand Rapids Railroad. The building is a three-story edifice, 108x80 feet, with eleven commodious rooms, besides cellar, and chapel and halls on the second, third and fourth floors, standing on an elevated campus of about five acres, planted with shade trees.

The number of students for the current year is stated to be double that of the former year, and the prospect seems encourag- ing. Four courses of instruction are presented - Classical, Scientific, English and Normal.

The expenses are as follows: Tuition, $6 to $10 per term of twelve weeks; instrumental music, $10 for twenty-four lessons; incidentals, $1 per term.

Ridgeville is a thriving, quiet, moral village, free from sa- loons and other places of dissipation, and with good religious ad- vantages. -

Saratoga (Ward Township) .- See Ward Township Schools.

Spartansburg Graded School .- In 1875, the public school building was completed, with three rooms, at a cost of about $7,- 000. Since that time, a graded school has been maintained, with from two to three teachers. The Principals have been as follows: Messrs. Bond, Tucker, Hahn, Bond and Polly. The public school has been mostly six months. The number of pupils en- rolled varies from seventy five to one hundred and thirty. Sev- eral times a select school has been taught in the summer. Some of the subordinate teachers have been Miss Jennie Hill, Mrs. McCoy, Emizette Wiggs. James Humphrey, Miss Penlan. The Spartan- burg school edifice is well situated, the location being a beautiful knoll just south of town, overlooking a delightful valley and pre- senting a picturesque view of cutivated field and shady woods. Several from beyond the vicinity have, each year, availed them- selves of the advantages of the school.

Union City .- The first school was taught by Miss Mary Ens- minger, in the fall of 1853. The first public school was taught by George W. Brainard, 1853-54. Next, was a school by J. T. Farson, in the "Bee Line Boarding Car," standing near the old Presbyterian Church. Next, Mr. and Mrs. Osborn taught in the little brick house on the State line, north of Mr. Dixon's. Also, Miss Anderson in a house lately occupied by Mr. E. Bunch, Columbia, north of Oak. Pinneo Case taught in White's Ware House, where Branham's restaurant now is. That ware-house, with all the books, etc., was burned in 1857. During the next two years (1857-59), N. Rowe taught in a building now owned by N. Moore, on Pearl street, and Messrs. Hitchcock and Dady, in a building opposite the former Eagle office. In 1858, a brick public schoolhouse was erected, the cast part of the present main building. Mr. and Mrs. Gray taught the first school in that building, and after them, William A. Wiley, with an assistant.

In the winter of 1860-61, Wright and Russell opened a select school in Paxson's Hall, and Miss Amanda Farson taught a school in 1861. In the winter of 1862-63, Levi Wright and wife taught the public school. Pupils enrolled, 168; compensation, $2 and $1.13 per day. Mr. Wright continued till 1864 (April). The statistics of the last term are as follows: High School, L. Wright. $2; Intermediate School, Simon Hedrick, $1.50; Primary School, Mrs. Wright, $1. Enroliment, 201. Teachers in the following years: 1864, Mr. Frash and three assistants; 1865, William D. Stone and three assistants; 1866, J. S. Leckbider and three assist- ants; 1867, Elias Loofbourrow and four assistants; 1868, Ebe- nezer Tucker and four assistants; 1869-70, Della Posey and four assistants; 1871, Ariston Dwinell and four assistants; 1872-73, W. B. Page and four to six assistants; 1874-78, J. C. Eagle and seven to eleven assistants; 1879, G. F. Meade and ten assistants (died in February, 1880); 1880-81, F. Treudley and ten assist- ants; 1881-S2, F. Treudley and eleven assistants.

The following is the account of teachers in Union City schools since 1866:

1866-Principal, J. S. Leckbider, $4.50; Ella Fisher, $2; E. E. Anderson, $2; Minnie Swain, $1.

1867-Elias Loofbourrow, $3; Jennie Baldwin, $2; Joanna Knapp, $2; Rebecca Wharton, $2; Mattie Wharry, $2.

1868 -- Ebenezer Tucker, $5.75; Mary M. Wright, $3; Mir- iam Grist, $2; Joanna Knapp, $2; Jennie Baldwin, $2.

1871-Principal, Ariston Dwinell. We have no account of his subordinates.

1872-Principal, W. B. Page, $5; E. P. Connor, $2.50; Olive Williamson, 82.25; Flora Rush, $2.25; Alice Parent, $2.

1873-Principal, W. B. Page, 85; M. J. Swayne, Lizzie 1). Starbuck, Ella R. Ferguson, Lizzie Williamson, Jennie D. Mc- Clure, Oli , e Williamson, Mattie B. Powers, $2.25 each.

1874 - - Principal, J. C. Eagle, $1,000 a year; J. V. Stewart, $4 a day; Jennie L. French, Sallie E. George, Martha A. Wil- son, Emma A. Marshall, Alice Kemp, Ruth Hutchinson, $2.50 each.

1875 --- Principal. J. C. Eagle. $1.100 a year; Daniel Leslay, $4.75 a day; Lizzie Meredith, H. S. Foster, $2.50 each; Cyrus Woodbury, Mrs. Willson, $2.37g each; Mollie Banks, $2.25.

1876-Principal. J. C. Eagle, $1,100; Charles W. Paris, $1; Lizzie Meredith, H. S. Foster, $2.50 each; Cyrus Wood- bury, Mollie Banks, Martha A. Willson, $2.25; A. R. Kemp, Laura Palmer, Edith Leslie, Clara S. Crane, Nettie Wiggs, $1.75 each.

1877-Principal, J. C. Eagle, $1,100 per year; Lizzie Mere dith, H. S. Foster, $2.50 each; G. Reynard, M. A. Willson, $2. - 12} each; Joanna Torrence, Nettie V. Wiggs, Susie Bowersox, Ella Ferguson, $2 each. [Whether there were others we do not know.]

1878-Principal, J. C. Eagle, $1,100 a year; Olive Coffeen, $3; H. S. Foster, $2.50; Ella Ferguson, M. A. Willson, $2.12} each; G. Reynard, $2.25; Mr. Torrence, Nettie V. Wiggs, $2; Susan Bowersox, $1.75; Ella Dill, $1.50; H. R. Knauer (Ger- man and music), 30 cents per hour.

1879-Principal, Giles F. Mead, $1,000 a year; F. Treudley, $3; M. D. Ozias, M. A. Harlan, $2.50; J. C. Torrence, $2.25; Incz Bartholomew, Bell Dwinell, Susie Bowersox, Ella Fergu- son, M. A. Willson, $2 each; Ella Dill, $1.50. Prof. Mead died February. 1880, and Mr. Treudley took the vacant place.

Teachers for 1880-81: Frederick Trendley, Superintendent, $1,000 a year; Mrs. M. A. Mead, High School, $540; M. A. Har- lan, teacher of No. 9 and teacher of music. $720; Mrs. J. M. Knapp, No. 8, $450; Miss Aurie Hedrick, No. 7, $405; Mise May Meredith, No. 6, $360; Miss Bell Dwinell, No. 5, $360; Miss Libbie Reeves, No. 4, $360; Miss Ella Dill, No. 3, $360; Miss Ella Ferguson, No. 2, $360; Mrs. M. A. Wilson, No. 1, $450.

Enrollment for 1830: No. 1, 100; No. 2, 84; No. 3, 83; No. 4, 67; No. 5, 56; No. 6, 48; No. 7, 46; No. 8, 45; No. 9, 37: High School, 36. Total enrollment, 602; average for 1880, 388; highest monthly average, 446; lowest monthly average, 325.

The Trustees of the Union City Schools have been as follows: J.

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N. Converse, Nathan Cadwallader, J. M. Jaynes, Edward Starbuck, Henry Jackson, Tilghman Tritt, David Ferguson, W. A. Wiley, C. S. Hardy, L. D. Lambert, O. C. Gordon, Allen Jaqua, H. H. Yergin, John S. Starbuck, C. S. Hook, William Harris. Pres- ent board, 1881, W. A. Wiley, C. S. Hook, William Harris.

A regular course of study has been established, requiring twelve years for its completion. Ninety-nine hundredths of the pupils in attendance never go through the prescribed course, but drop out anywhere between No. 1 and the third High School year. A few, however, do persist in the arduous chase after their diploma, and succeed in capturing it at last. The gradu- ates are given elsewhere.

Some efforts are now being made to obtain a library for the High School, but the attainment of that desirable end is yet mainly in the future. A good beginning, however, has been made, and some fifty valuable volumes have been obtained. A praiseworthy enterprise has been inaugurated here and elsewhere to create a love for higher and purer literature, and with some success. The form the enterprise has taken has been chiefly the celebration of the birthdays of certain distinguished poets, as Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier and possibly others, by reading and reciting extracts from their works, writing essays and crit- iques, etc. The effect, both in this city and elsewhere, has been very good. The light of a new world of beauty and love and wisdom has dawned upon the minds of the young, and they are surprised to discover how vastly superior are Thanatopsis, Evan- geline and the sweet and soft flow of the mild and gentle " Quaker Poet's" verse to the trashy dime novels, or even the blood and thunder stories or the love and murder tales of the Ledger, or the Weekly, or the Saturday Night, or any of the le- gion of sensational sheets that weekly spawn their noxious brood upon a gaping and astonished world.

The first schoolhouse in Union City was built in 1858, made of briek, with two stories and three rooms. The first addition was made in 1868, at a cost of $5,500, also built of brick, with two stories, two schoolrooms, two halls, a pump-room and an office. A second addition was made some years afterward, of wood, with two stories and two rooms. Another building has since been put up, made of wood, with two stories and four rooms. The main school building as now existing has the great- est amount of school room, with the smallest space of hall, entry and stairways, and withal, the most ready and convenient of ac- cess that we have ever seen. There are eight large school-rooms and an office, with only one stairway, one lower entry and one upper entry, both small. There are no halls nor passage ways properly so called. A single teacher standing at the top of the stairs can oversoe almost the entire ingress and egress of the pupils of all the rooms through the entries up or down the stair- way and through the outer door of the building. The course of study as at present existing may be stated in substance thus:

First Year, D Primary-Reading, charts, primer and first reader; Writing, print and script on the slate and board; Spell- ing, words in their lessons; Numbers, addition and subtraction, amounts not to exceed forty. Language and oral lessons.

Second Year, C Primary-Reading, second reader; Spelling. words of the lessons; Writing, slates. board and copy-books, with pencil; Numbers, fundamental operations, not above three figures, signs, Roman numerals to C: Language, short sentences, correct common errors, kinds of sentences, etc. Oral lessons.

Third Year, B Primary -Reading, third reader: Spelling, words in the lessons; Writing, Penmanship No. 1; Numbers, up to 1,000,000, subtraction, no carrying, multiplication to nines; Language, review verb, subject, predicate, make sen- tences. Oral lessons.

Fourth Year, A Primary- - Reading, fourth reader; Spelling, MeGuffey's Speller to page 50; Writing, copy-book, No. 3; Numbers, written arithmetic commenced; Geography, Eclectic No. 1. commenced. Language and oral lessons.

Fifth Year, B Intermediate - Reading, fifth reader begun; Spelling, Eclectic Speller to pago 71; Writing, No. 3 copy- book: Geography, Eclectic No. 1 continued; Arithmetic, men- tal and written continued. Language and oral lessons; no text- books.

Sixth Year, A Intermediate-Reading, fifth reader completed Spelling, Eclectic Speller to page 91; Writing copy-book No 4; Numbers, mental and written arithmetic through reduction Geography, primary geography completed; Language, continued no text-book. Oral lessons.

Seventh Year, C Grammar -- Reading, sixth reader; Spelling Eclectic Speller completed; Writing, copy-book, No. 5; Num- bors, mental and written, to partial payments; Geography, Eclec tic No. 2, begun ; Language, grammar (in text-book) begun. Oral lessons.

Eighth Year, B Grammar -- Reading, sixth reader; Spelling. selected lessons; Writing, copy-book No. 6; Numbers, mental. through Ray's Intellectual ; written, through Ray's Practical; Geography, Eclectic No. 2, completed; Language, grammar con- tinned. Oral lessons.

Ninth Year, A Grammar-Reading, sixth reader; Spelling, selected lessons; Writing, copy-book No. 7; Numbers, Higher Arithmetic begun; History, begun; Geography, physical, Cor- nell's; Grammar, false syntax, analysis, parsing, composition. Oral lessons.

High School Course --- First Year, grammar, arithmetic, phys- iology, botany, algebra, German and book-keeping (elective).

Second Year, algebra, natural philosophy, rhetoric, Latin be- gun. Third Year, geometry, Latin completed, chemistry, United States History, United States Constitution. Spelling, definition, composition, declamation. etc., through the course.

Recapitulation -- Primary Course, four years, Nos. 1 to 4, through fourth reader; Intermediate, two years, fifth reader; Grammar, three years; High School, three years; total course, twelve years.

If the great body of the pupils could spend twelve years in the pursuit of those courses, one might suppose they would there- by gain "oceans" of knowledge. As it is, one in a hundred "gets through," but where are the ninety and nine! And con- jecture sadly answers, "I know not where, indeed."

The text-books are as follows: McGuffey's Reader and Speller -new series; Arithmetic, Ray's; Grammar, Harvey's; Geography, Eclectic: Geography, Physical, Cornell's; Algebra, Loomis & Ray's; History, Ridpath's: Botany, Wood's; Geometry, Loomis': l'hysiology, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Steele's; Latin, Harkness'; Virgil and Cesar.

The following are the graduates:

1876-Perry Shank, Webster Lambert, Preston Woodbury. Edna Thomas-four.

1878-Jessie Ruby, Winnie Scott, Flora Hutchinson, Ella Dill, Lizzie Wiggs, Flora Branham-six.

1879 -- Jennie Reed. Charles Proctor-two.

1880-May McNeal, Neva Harrison, Aurie Hedrick, Libby Reeves-four.

1881-Herbert Mitchell, Samuel Bartholomew, Alicia Fowler, Clara Hutchinson-four.

1882-Nettie B Jackson, Clara Kavanaugh, Dora A. Clark, Jennie Hanlin, Anna Deem, Sarah A. Murray, Susan Stewart, Maynard B. McFeely, Morton H. Lambert - nine. Total, twenty-nine.

The commencement exercises, May 18, 1882, held in the ca- pacious Methodist Episcopal Church, were of a high order. The graduation essays and orations were well prepared and finely de- livered in the presence of a crowded and deeply interested as- sembly, the music was splendid, the presentation address was excellent and impressive, and the whole performance was such as to reflect great eredit upon all concerned in any way therein.

Union City, Ohio. - There had been a school building for many years, but with the growth of the town it had become more and more unsuitable for its purpose, and, after much delay and considerable trouble, the present schoolhouse was erected, iu 1872. It is built of brick, two stories high, being a plain but substantial edifice, containing at first four (but at present five) rooms. For two years, B. F. Stewart was Superintendent. G. W. Landis held the position for seven years, and F. G. Cromer was chosen as Principal during the summer of 1881. Five teachers are employed, ineluding the Superintendent.

The School Board propose, the coming season (1882), to erect

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a new schoolhouse nearly the size of the present one, which will. with the rooms now in use, furnish seven rooms, and a public hall for anniversary exercises.

The enumeration for 1881 was 440, and the enrollment for 1880-81, 230. The Catholic School, in Union City, Ind., is sup- plied with pupils very largely from the Ohio side, which fact ex- plains the small enrollment compared with the enumeration. A course of study has been arranged, covering about ten years, of which the High School embraces three years. The teachers for 1881-82 are as stated below:

F. G. Cromer, Superintendent and Principal of High School, $4; W. Johnson, Grammar School Department, $2.50; Miss Fanny Polly, Intermediate Department, $1.75; Sadie Hillard, A Primary Department, $1.75; Maggie Garber, B Primary Do- partment, $1.75.

The Trustees are A. G. Gribben, President; J. J. Norris, Sec- retary; H. S. Stockdale, Treasurer. The school seems in a healthy and properous condition, the Principal appears well qualified for his responsible task, and, under his faithful super- vision, an earnest corps of wide-awake teachers are accomplish- ing a successful work.

Ward Township .-- John B. Sipe, Trustee. Twelve school- houses, two brick, ten frame, thirteen teachers. Twenty-five em- ployed during the year, sixteen males and nine females. Seven months is the time of school. $2,680 paid for teachers; $700 paid for expenses. One graded school, two rooms, Saratoga. Trustees of township have been Olney Whipple, William Smith, two years each; D. F. Hawley, four years; Henry W. Fields, two years; Peter Stick, two years; Christian Nickey, two years; Benjamin Clevinger, four years; John B. Sipe, now [1881].

Schools in Winchester .- The first schoolhouse was a log cabin built with the corner ends sticking out. It stood on Washing- ton, at the corner of Washington and East, west of Salt Creek. It was built before 1831. Jacob Henderson was teaching school in the old cabin, when it was burned down, with all the books. in 1836. The school was then taught for a time in the old Metlı- odist Church; afterward, in the county seminary; still later, in the brick schoolhouse on South street; then, in a new schoolhouse on Will street; after that, in one built on South Main street. For a time, there were two school buildings, one in the main part of the town, southwest of the public square, and one on the principal street, north of the railroad Bee Line depot. The large brick edifice (High School) now standing, was built in 1866-67. at a cost of nearly $22,000, at a time when labor and material were very high, by Thomas W. Kizer. Township Trust- ee. The school opened in that house March 9, 1868. Another school building was erected in the south part of town, near Gen. Stone's, in 1879, made of brick, with two stories and four rooms. The cost we are not able to state.

. Winchester. - Upon the completion of the graded school building, in Winchester, in 1867, Prof. Farris, who was also the first Principal of the seminary, some twenty-five years before, was employed as Principal of the public school in the new build- ing. Since that time, the Principals have been Messrs. Cooper, Ault and Butler, the latter being now in that position.

The character of the Winchester schools has been gradually rising, until at the present time their reputation is excellent. Much effort has been put forth to provide apparatus, library, etc., for the High School, and a very creditable result in this re- spect has been attained. The corps of teachers for Winchester at present consists of Superintendent E. H. Butler, with Messrs. Bowers and Marsh and a sufficient number of active and efficient female instructors, besides Prof. W. S. Montgomery, a skillful and enthusiastic teacher of the science and the art of music, both vocal and instrumental.

The school statistics of Winchester are as follows: Enumera- tion, 670; enrolled, 560; average, 435; number in High School, 67; Senior Class, 9; graduates from High School, 32; books in library, 400. The school has a geological cabinet. and chemical and philosophical apparatus.

The commencement exercises in connection with the gradua- tion of the respective classes from year to year have become an important and deeply interesting feature of our public school

system, drawing as they do from time to time immense assem- blies to witness the performances. About thirty-nine of both sexes have finished the course at Winchester, only eleven of whom were males. It is somewhat noteworthy that in all the High Schools, the pupils who have continued to the end have been mostly of the gentler sex. At Union City, out of twenty-nine, only eight were of the "sterner sort."

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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 57

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

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