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In the general Democratic defeat incurred in October, 1880, Col. Gray shared the catastrophe. But, by the death of Gov. J. B. Williams. in November, 1880, Lient. Gov. Gray was promoted to the position of Governor of Indiana, which honor he sustained with appropriate dignity, addressing the Legislature in perhaps the most voluminous message ever presented by any occupant of the gubernatorial chair to any legislative body.
Gov. Gray has two sons-Pierre and Bayard, who show tokens of decided talent, and will doubtless, at no distant day, succeed in achieving a distinguished reputation. Both have become mem. bers of the bar. Pierre is also a business man in general. and, in the summer of 1851. engaged in a carriage-making company, under the firm designation of Starbuck, Tritt & Gray, the capital stock being $10,000, and the number of hands to be employed. thirty -five.
Bayard S., in the fall of 1881, bought the office of the Port- land Sun, the Democratic paper of Jay County, Ind., and seems likely to sustain the reputation and dignity of the establishment.
L. D. LAMBERT, ATTORNEY, UNION CITY.
L. D. Lambert was born in 1827, in Wayne County, Ind .; went to Darke County, Ohio, in 1829; Allensville, Ind., in 1847, selling goods for seven years; Hollandsburg, Ohio, five years; Allensville again; Union City, Ohio, in 1839, and Union City, Ind., some time afterward.
He sold goods till 1868, then taking up the law.
He has been a member of the Board of Trustees, and was Corporation Clerk several years.
He had the honor of being the first Mayor of Union City un- der the city charter, being re-elected to a second term, hold. ing the position from 1875 to 1878.
Mr. Lambert is a substantial citizen of the town, an outspoken and efficient Republican, and altogether an estimable and relia- ble man.
He is married, and has a worthy companion and two chil- dren. both sons. One of them. Webster, is in the practice of law.
THEODORE SHOCKNEY, UNION CITY.
Theodore Shockney is a native of Randolph County, born in Wayne Township September 16, 1852.
Losing his mother at nine years old. and his father a year later, he was thus early thrown upon his own resources.
He was employed in hard farm labor during the summer, and during the winter attended the common country schools, and at sixteen years of age began teaching in the public schools, gaining, in due time, the reputation of a leading instructor in the county.
In the spring of 1872, he commenced reading law in the office of Hon. I. P. Gray, afterward Governor of Indiana, finishing his legal studies in the office with Hon. S. J. Peelle, elected member of Congress from the Seventh District in October, 1880.
In the autumn of 1877, he married Emma A. Keever, of Union City: and, in the spring of 1878, he commenced the practice of the law in that place, and in May, 1850. he was elected Mayor of Union City.
Being a young man of good talents, he is rising in the esti- mation of the public, and making for himself a solid reputation as an attorney.
At the nominating election held in April, 1882, Mr. Shock- ney received the Republican nomination for Representative to the State Legislature. by a good majority, over William E. Mur- ray, the present incumbent.
The Plain-Dealer, the only Democratic newspaper in Ran- dolph County, having been purchased by a company of Republi- cans in June, 1882. the name of the journal was changed to that of the News, and Mr. Shockney was assigned the post of editor of the paper under the new ownership.
JEREMIAH SMITH, WINCHESTER.
Jeremiah Smith was born in South Carolina in 1805, and
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came with his father. William Smith, to Randolph County, Ind., in 1817 (West River).
He moved to Winchester in early manhood, having taught sehool one term at Richmond. Ind. How he got his education is nowhere stated -- whether by the light of pine knots, or in the forest log cabin schoolhonses of that rude period, or in the woods, or in all these three ways combined. The truth (and the main faet) seems to be that he got if, and the modus operandi is little matter. And it is a somewhat remarkable faet that, in those . rugged times, men made more of themselves, with the seanty means of improvement then at their command, than boys now do, with advantages and appliances for study and mental devel- opment fit for the heir apparent to a throne.
It is an old saying-"' Necessity is the mother of invention;" and still another is, " Hunger will break through a stone wall; " and yet another, quaint and blunt and homely, but strikingly true, " Where there is a will, there is a way."
Doubtless he was "hungry " for knowledge more than the starving man for bread. He had the " will," and nature before his resolute soul opened a rugged bnt a practicable way.
He appears to have acquired a good knowledge of both law and surveying. since he praetieed both on an extensive scale.
He studied law in Winchester with Zachariah Packrit. Esq., being admitted to practice there in 1837. He was also employed in surveying the Kankakee country in about 1820-22. and per- haps elsewhere.
He was u Democrat in polities, sincere in his opinions, and fearless and uncompromising in their advocacy and maintenance. and it is no wonder that, in the extreme heat and partisanship of his latter times, when great questions stirred the public feelings to their ntmost depth, in the strong Anti-slavery and Republican county of Randolph, he should be subject to public obloquy and reprobation for his extreme political views and utterances.
In a debate with Ovid Butler on the question. " Is slavery sinful?" he took the negative, and maintained his side with marked ability.
He was honest and incorruptible. both in publie and in pri- vate life. No man ever so much as breathed a suspeion to clond or darken his fair fame in this respect.
Ho was a stern advocate of publie economy, and an uncom- promising foe to extravagance of every kind.
He built the Franklin House, Winchester, about IS39; also a residence for Himself, afterward -both of which are still good, substantial buildings, the first occupied as a hotel for years by Peter Reinheimer, and the latter now owned by Judge Silas Col- grove.
Judge Smith, by frugahty and prudent foresight, amassed a handsome fortune, much of it in landed estate.
In conjunction with Hon. O. H. Smith, he located the town of Union City. Ind.
The " Bee Line " was the pioneer road for this whole region. In faet, its track was the second of the kind in the State, and the second to enter Indianapolis, then an unimportant interior town, now one of the grandest railroad centers in the workl. The Bee Line was completed for use abont July, 1853, and Union City forthwith began a brilliant carrer of activity and prosperity.
The creation of tlus city was mainly due to the exertions of the Messrs. Smith, and they were amply rewarded by the faet that they were large (and almost sole) owners of the soil on which the new town must be built; and hence the increase in value of the land became very great.
Judge Smith maintained his resalenee in Winchester till his death. in 1874, being about sixty-nine years old.
He married Cynthia Dye, and raised a large family. There were ten children. eight of whom are now living.
Ho wrote several works. a list of which is not at hand. Con-
cerning Randolph County, he wrote " Reminiscences of Ran. dolph County." and also " Civil History of Randolph County." neither of which was ever published in book form. From these manuseripts of his. however, much of the information contained in this work has been taken.
He left six sons and two daughters. all grown and all now heads of families. The surviving children are as follows:
William H. Smith, merebant, boots and shoes. His estab. lishment was begun in 1850, and it is managed with ability and success. He has a wife and one surviving child. (She has since died. ) His residence, on Columbia, corner of Oak and Hickory, is a splendid briek mansion, one of the finest in I'nion City.
John Dye Smith, jeweler, Union City, His business, too, is of long standing. having been commenced in 1855. His estab- lishment is the leading one in that branch in Randolph County. He has a wife and two children, and has a fine residence on Sonth Columbia street, east side.
Charles C. Smith, farmer. Winchester, Ind.
Mary E., married Frank B. Carter, Bradford, Ohio.
Henry B. Smith, jeweler, Hartford, Ind.
Charlotte. wife of George W White, Bradford. Ohio.
J. Giles Smith, plumber and gas-fitter. Indianapolis.
Oliver H. Smith, resides at Union City. Ind .; is married.
Mr. Snuth's parents were consistent members of the Regular Baptist Church. IT was himself identified with the Disciples. and was active in supporting that branch of the Christian body, being also an accredited teacher among them.
He was for many years Deputy Clerk. ete .. in the office of Charles Conway, who was twenty-one years Clerk and Recorder His sons, like their honored sire, are all active Democrats. They bid fair to take good care of the handsome property loft each may build for himself a fair and sightly edifice of elegance and prosperity. of Randolph County, Ind. He has been, at different times, Deputy Sheriff. Sheriff, Prosecuting Attorney, Surveyor. Deputy | them by their father, and to make it simply a basis on which Clerk, Judge of the Cirenit Court, and for thirty years a practic ing lawyer. He is said to have been one of the best Judges of English law in the courts of Indiana.
They are said to be. without exception. active, frugal and thriving, and to be making for themselves an honorable place among the business men in the land.
Mr. Smith was first appointed Circuit Judge by the Governor of the State to fill a vacaney. and afterward hold the office during a term of seven years by popular eleetion.
He died in December. 1874. His age was not so great but that he might have lived many years longer, but his worthy and beloved companion came to a sad and sudden end by a fatal in- jury received at the depot of the Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad in Winchester. By a terrible aceident, she was thrown beneath an approaching train, and both her lower limbs were severed from her body. She survived but one day. departing this life July 7, 1872.
Her husband was, as it were, prostrated by this fearful catas- trophe to the life partner of his joys and cares, and never seemed able to rally his powers to overcome this sad calamity, and, in two and a half years, bo Jay dowu beside his beloved in the sleep, that, npon earth, "knows no waking." They repose beneath the same monument, in the Union City Cemetery.
He had, during the waturity of his power, prepared a care- fully constructed will. lovingly providing for a perpetual eare of the tombs of his parents, as also disposing of his fortune in the interest of harmony, economy and thrift, strietly enjoining upon his large family kindness, good will, fraternal affection, and moral and Christian virtue, and harmony and friendly feeling in the settling of his affairs and the distribution among them of his estate; and providing, moreover, that an iron fence, to be eon- structed around the tombs of his parents near the place of their pioneer settlement in this county sixty-fivo years ago, should be completed and preserved in perpetual memorial of their virtues, and as a lasting token of filial affection.
SETH M. WHITTEN, UNION CITY.
Seth M. Whitten, though very young, enlisted in a Michigan regiment for military service during the war of the rebellion. He saw much hardship, suffering severely, and having severa! narrow escapes from death in battle.
He was in the Eastern Army, and, at the battle of North Anna May 23, 1864, stood firmly with a few after most of the line had fallen back.
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June 3, 1864, near Cold Harbor, he forsook guard duty to go into battle line.
At Petersburg. he was conspicuous for bravery.
March 25, 1865, though unwell, he borrowed a gun and went into action. On the march, he picked up a large hatchet, which he stuck in his belt. This hatchet saved his life, for a broken shell struck the hatchet. knocked him sprawling and the gun from his hands.
The same day, he was wounded in the leg. But he kept steadily on with the line, returning to camp when the rest did.
In April, 1865, he captured a rebel flag.
Shortly afterward. he was captured, but was returned at Ap- pomattox, short of rations, but brave and plucky still
During and after the war, his eyes were greatly diseased, and at one time he was pronounced hopelessly blind. He has par- tially recovered his sight, however, though it is not strong and reliable.
Mr. Whitten was a bound boy in youth, and had but little opportunity. In the army (a strange place, no doubt). he ac- complished much faithful studying, and, after the war, became a wacher.
He was for some time at Washington, in United States service.
He has succeeded, against almost unconquerable obstacles, in mastering the profession of the law, and, amid discouragemenis that would have crushed most men. he has pressed straight for- ward, in a ceaseless and by no means a hopeless struggle for suc- cees.
He is shrewd, active, fearless and untiring, faithful to princi- ples and to his clients as well.
His record on temperance is clear and strong, pressing the fight where most fail, viz., in the field of legal prevention, giving, in that line, bold, energetic and valuable assistance in breaking the power of the coliorts of alcohol.
Mr. Whitten has an amiable Christian wife and two promis- ing children.
He took up his abode in Union City in 1875, and resides here still. He is steadily gaining in reputation and esteem among his fellow-citizens.
His wife was prostrated with severe sickness while he was absent on business at Washington, and, after lingering for some weeks, Mr. Whitten was summoned by telegram to her bedside to behold his beloved companion at the point of death, and in a few days he suffered the unspeakable affliction to close her sight- less eyes and convey her mortal remains to the home of her youth, where, amid the grief of sympathizing friends, her life. less form was consigned to the friendly tomb.
PRESTON N. WOODBURY, UNION CITY, IND.
Preston N. Woodbury, son of James Woodbury, a thriving farmer of Wayne Township, Randolph County, was born in 1856. He remained with his father till of age. working on the farm and attending school from year to year.
Residing near Union City, he became a member of the high school of that place. being one of the first graduating class. who completed their course in 1876.
His first employment after graduation was as book-keeper for Worthington & Fisher's wholesale notion store one and a half years; next as book-keeper for J. T. Hartzell, in his hardware store, three and a half years.
In June, 1881, he accepted the position of Secretary in the Pioneer Mutual Association of Union City, Ind.
In 1877, he married Florence A. Anderson, daughter of Sam- uel Anderson, late of Union Cy, and they have one child, a son.
Mr. Woodbury seems a young man of promise, and may com- mand a sterling reputation and an enviable name.
(It seems that we have made a mistake in placing Mr. Wood- bury's name among the attorneys, for which we hope to be par- doned.)
PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS.
Winchester -- Physicians, J. E. Beverly, regular: G. W. Bruce, regular; Richard Bosworth, regular; John W. Botkin, botanic; J. T. Chenoweth, regular: T. Cox, regular; J. J. Evans, regular;
Jehu Hiatt, old, out of practice, A. T. Huddleston, homoeopathic; J. E. Markle, regular; W. G. Smith, regular.
Dentists, Messrs. Huddleston, Ballard, Stanley.
In former times, Drs. Benjminin Puckett and Woody.
Union City (not here now) -- Physicians, Messrs. Diehl, Twi- ford, Humphreyville, Adam Simmons, Noah Simmons, Converse. Janes, Solsberry, Otwell, Stanton, Seward, Rubey, Hastings, Strong, Cooper.
Physicians at present, Messrs. Ferguson, Yergin, Harrison, Evans, Commons, Green, Williamson, Weimar, Grabill, Parsons, . White, Thomson, Rubey, McFarland, Fahnestock.
Dentists. Messrs. Stalil, Cowdery, Lefevre.
COUNTY AT LARGE.
Spartansburg -- Messrs. Ruby, Mitchell, Francisco, Purviance, Lawrence, Hector, Janes, Hindman, George Humphrey, Samuel Humphrey, Morgan, Berry, Baldwin.
Arba -- Messrs. Young, Kelly. Hunt, Heiner & Son, Meck.
Harrisville -Messrs. Dreer, Adams, Hollinger, Owens.
Bartonia -- Messrs. Wallace, Mitchell, Owen, Conner, Marquis.
Bloomingsport-Frazier, Gore, Strattan, Kemper, Good, Cog. geshall.
Lynn-Messrs. Beard, Banks, Adams, Hamilton, Alfred Ham- ilton, Blair, Meeks, Swain.
Buena Vista -- Messrs. Keen, Blumenback.
Huntsville-Messrs. Hunt, Jobes. Chenoweth, Eikenberry, Miller. Hunt, Jordan.
Unionsport-Messrs. Botkin, Chenoweth.
Ridgeville-Messrs. Bailey, Shoemaker, Farquhar, Hiatt.
Windsor -- Messrs. Chenoweth, Davison, Farrow.
Georgetown -- Messrs. Keener, Marine.
Deerfield-Messrs. Longshore, McAfee, Banks. Washburn, Snow, Hearn. Smith, Hall, Bosworth, Lambert. Purcell. Ballard, Clevenger.
Saratoga -Messrs. Evans, Ward
Losantville-Messrs. Berry, Franks, Lowe.
Pleasant View --- Dr. Frank.
Emmetville --- Messrs. Ore, Bailey, Capron.
Fairview-Harris, Goodwin, Fawsen, Moore. Vickers, Jolin. son, Davis. Fager.
New Pittsburg -- Messrs. Reeves, McFarland.
Macksville -- Dr. Seamans.
Farmland-Messrs. Keener, Huut, Davis, Smith, Rogers. Morristown . - Messrs. Comer, Marine, Leech, Orr, Rogers.
The above lists are perhaps only partial. They were obtained by inquiry of individuals, who depended upon memory for the replies given.
ELISHA T. BAILEY, RIDGEVILLE.
Elisha T. Bailey was born in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1821; moved to Warren County, Ohio, in 1824; to Wayne County, Ind., in 1829; to Green Township, Randolph County, in 1847; and to Ridgeville in 1850.
He married Julia A. Morgan in 1845, and Paulina Mock in 1855, and he has had eight children, six of whom are living.
He read medicine with Stanton Judkins, of Newport (Fount. ain City), Ind., from 1813 to 1947, and has practiced from 1847 to 1881, having attended lectures at Miami Medical College in 1853-54.
He was also a merchant at Emmetsville in 1847, and at Ridgeville from 1857 to 1863.
From 1860 to 1864, he held the office of Township Trustee, four years,
Dr. Bailey used to be a Whig in politics, and, in later times has been a Republican.
He is one of the pioneers of Ridgeville, having settled there before there was any town, aud resided in the place ever since.
PAUL BEARD, SR. (DECEASED).
Paul Beard, Sr., was born in North Carolina in 1779; came to Randolph County, Ind., below Lynn, near Lynn Meeting- House, in the spring of 1817, having married Hannah Pearson in
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1813 (born 1778). They had nine children --- Obed, Eunice, Will- iam, Enoch, Enoch (second), Paul, Hannah, George, John.
Paul Beard was a physician; belonged to the Friends, and died in 1857, aged seventy-seven years four months and twenty-three days.
His wife, Hannah Beard, died in 1851, aged seventy-two years five months and twenty-four days.
He was a noted man in pioneer days, both as a physician and as a citizen, being upright. respected and trustworthy, and skill- ful in his profession.
JOHN E. BEVERLY, WINCHESTER.
John E. Beverly was born in Marlboro District, S. C., Sep- tember 17, 1816.
The same fall, his parents set out for the Northwest, and, tarrying for awhile on the way, came forward in the spring with the company conducted by Paul W. Way, crossing the Ohio at Cincinnati on the ice.
Mr. Beverly's parents stopped in Wayne County for several years, removing to Randolph in 1828.
His teachers in boyhood were Henry Way, William and H. L. Macy, Elijah Brock and Samuel Johnson.
They settled seven miles west of Winchester, and somewhat south of Macksville.
As a child and a youth, Mr. Beverly was greatly eager for knowledge, attending such schools as came in his way. but using also every practicable means of self-improvement.
The opportunities of knowledge in those days were but slight. He was nearly grown before he ever saw a weekly newspaper. But the Randolph County Library was to his inquiring mind a priceless treasure. In that collection were Hume's England, Josephus, Encyclopedia Britannica, Cavallo's Natural Philosophy, a small treatise on chemistry, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, etc.
He says: "Often have I walked to town (seven miles) on Saturday afternoon, reading as I went, to exchange books."
He says further: "I had from boyhood worked much in brick yards, and had, little by little, taken to brick-laying, and become so expert as to be called for far and near."
He thinks he has done more " jobs," large and small, than any other man in the county.
But still he found time, amid the labors of the farm and the trowel, to read and to think, and to take an active interest in temperance and anti-slavery, etc.
In the fall of 1843, Dr. Woody proposed to him to read med- icine in his office. He did so, reading physic, and also continu. ing to lay brick.
During the winter of 1846-47, he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, taking clear and copions notes throughout the course, which notes he has preserved to the present time.
His father died in 1833, and, being the oldest son, he was obliged to care for the orphaned family, which he did for years, standing as a father to the fatherless brood.
He began to practice medicine with Dr. Woody, at Winches- ter, shortly afterward undertaking the profession alone.
In 1857, he removed to Fair Haven, and in 1859 returned to Winchester.
He served, during a part of the war of 1861, as medical mem- ber of the Enrolling Board for the Fifth Congressional District.
For a time, he was proprietor of Randolph County Journal.
In 1866, he removed to Richmond, Ind., returning to Win- chester in 1874, and that place has been his residence to the present time.
Dr. Beverly has mostly retired from practice.
He has been twice married-first. to Caroline Louiea Good- rich, in 1843, who died in 1853.
In 1855, he married Ann Eliza Goodrich, a sister of his for- mer wife, who is still living.
They have had several children, three of whom survive-one son, in Chicago; and two daughters, at home.
Dr. Beverly, as we have said, was an advocate of temperance, having been for years, when a young man, Secretary of the first temperance society in the region, about 1835 or sooner. He was also one of the small and despised, yet energetic band of early
Abolitionists, who succeeded at length, by the most wonderful activity, in turning the world, not upside down, but right side up, upon that most important subject.
By his thorough and consistent course through life, Dr. Bev- erly has gained, and still retains, the esteem of his fellow-citizens.
Dr. Beverly mentions, as a reminiscence of anti-slavery work, that a band of Abolitionists, among whom were Fred Douglass, Charles L. Remond, Bradburn, James Monroe, ete., held a series throughout the country of 100 conventions, making the movement a grand success. In fact, the present generation have no idea of the stern and terrible earnestness of effort put forth by that devoted class of Christian men and women, the Abolitionists of the olden time. The sterling song, indited by William Lloyd Garrison, beginning, " I am an Abolitionist, I glory in the name," fitly describes the whole brotherhood, and sisterhood as well, throughont the land.
But, though mostly forgotten by the nation at large, they have their abundant reward, the consciousness that the work on which they had set their hearts, is accomplished. The proud boast of the British poet,
" We have no slaves in England, the moment that A bondman breathes our air, that moment he is free;
They touch our country and their shackles fall."
Even so now is it, thank heaven, with our own loved native land.
So may all the evils that beset our nation be rooted up and banished forever from our midst .!
So may the strong and faithful, the firm and steadfast, the tried and true, throughout our wide spread country, band to- gether once more and continually to oppose the wrong and the false, and advocate, maintain and practice, amid obloquy, oppo- sition and scorn, if need be, and God so will, the right, the just and the true, until, as in the struggle of the olden time, now happily crowned with abundant success, the heroic combatants for that which is good and holy shall see, from time to time. with joy unspeakable, victory perched upon their banner! Or, if, in God's good pleasure, any be called away while yet the bat. tle is fierce and the conflict strong, may they close their mortal eyes sustained by an invincible faith that from the seed which. go- ing forth weeping, they have sown, shall yet be reaped a glorious harvest!
NELSON T. CHENOWETH, WINDSOR.
Nelson T. Chenoweth was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1837, being the son of Jacob Chenowethi, Esq., an old pioneer of Darke County, and residing still on the old homestead west of Nashville. He is one of a large family of grown-up boys and girls, who have all (or nearly so) risen to distinction.
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