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worked upon the farm, and during two or three months in winter he attended the district school, and thus continued until he reached the age of nineteen. At that age he became a student in the Reynoldsburg Academy, of Franklin County, Ohio, where he at- tended one year. During the following winter of 1846-47, he taught his first term of school near Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Ohio. He then entered upon a vocation which, as his subsequent history will show, afterward became the chief occupation of his life. During the summer of 1847 he attended the academy at Reynoldsburg, and during the following winter he taught another term of school. In the spring of 1848, he entered Hanover Col- lege, where he attended two spring terms, one in 1848 and one in 1850. His second term of school was taught in his native county, and he continued there in that pursuit for six consecutive winters. He attended Geneva College one term in the spring of 1851, and another term in the spring of 1852. For two and one-half years before leaving Franklin County, he taught in the Reynoldsburg Academy. His marriage occurred in Clark County, Ind., March 31, 1853, when Caroline Adams became his wife. She was born in Clark County, Ind., April 3, 1832, and was the daughter of Martin and Jane H. (Davis) Adams, both natives of Kentucky. In the fall of 1853, Mr. and Mrs. Graham came to Indiana and lo- cated at New Washington, Clark County, where the former was Principal of an academy at that place eight years, which was inter- rupted by teaching one term in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1854-55. In September, 1862, Mr. Graham removed to Madison, Ind., where he was employed as Superintendent of Schools until 1865. In the fall of 1865, he took charge of the Columbus, Ind., schools, of which he was Superintendent for four years. He was succeeded there by his brother, Andrew Graham, who still retains the posi- tion, having now taught in that city twenty years, and acted as Superintendent of City Schools for nineteen consecutive years. In 1869, our subject came to Rushville, having been elected Superin- tendent of the Rushville City Schools, in which capacity he served thirteen consecutive years, retiring in 1883. A portion of his time since then has been occupied in teaching private school in this city, in which work he was assisted by his two daughters, Etta and Minnie. Prof. Graham and wife are the parents of four children, as follows: Ida B., born April 21, 1856, died September 28, 1871; Anna J., born May 17, 1858; Mary Etta, born August 8, 1860, and Minnie R., born August 31, 1864. Prof. and Mrs. Graham are members of the United Presbyterian Church. In politics, the for- mer is an ardent Republican. He served as County School Exam- iner from 1870 to 1872. Prof. Graham is a pleasant gentleman, a
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scholarly man, and he and wife are esteemed citizens. Ile is now serving as City Treasurer, having been elected in the spring of ISS6. He also has an interest in the Rushville Furniture Factory.
HON. THOMAS M. GREEN was born in Milroy, this county, September 16, 1853. He is the son of Samuel and Elizabeth A. (McKee) Green, residents of Rushville. He was reared upon a farm in this county. At eighteen he entered the Indiana State University, where he attended two years, completing the Sopho- more year. He then entered upon the study of law in Indianapolis, in the office of John A. Holman; at the expiration of eighteen months, owing to the impaired state of his health, he returned to the farm in this county. There one summer was spent recruiting his health. In the fall following he became a member of the Rush- ville Bar and entered the office as a student of Sleeth & Study. At the end of two years his poor health compelled him to abandon the notion of practicing law and he turned his attention to the stove and tinware trade, which he has followed ever since. In January, ISSO, he formed a partnership with M. C. Kitchen, which firm lasted four years, and during that time the firm also handled imple- ments. June 5, 1879, he was married to Anna D. Foxworthy, a native of this county, born August 12, 1855, daughter of James H. and Cynthia A. (Barrett) Foxworthy. Two sons have been born: Paul D., and Lowell, both living. Mr. Green belongs to the United Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is an ardent Repub- lican. He was elected by his party in fall of 1886, to represent Rush County, in the lower branch of the State Legislature, which office he filled with credit during the memorable session of 1887.
PLEASANT ADAMS HACKLEMAN was born in Franklin County, Ind. (then a territory), on the 15th day of November, 1814; he was the son of Major John Hackleman, who served his country as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a native of Abbeville Dis- trict, South Carolina. His mother, whose original name was Sarah Adams, was born in Stokes County, N. C .; his parents were married in what is now Franklin County, Ind., in the year 1810, and both lived to an advanced age. The early years of Pleasant A. Hackleman were spent amid the vicissitudes of pioneer life - clearing off the forests of a newly settled country. On the 31st of October, 1833, he married Sarah Bradburn (a daughter of Dr. John Bradburn, from Pennsylvania) ; after marriage he continued farming nearly three years, when he began to read law with John A. Matson, Esq., of Brookville, Ind. He pursued his studies with great assiduity, and, at the end of ten months, was licensed to prac- tice law. Immediately after his admission to the Bar in May, 1837, he removed with his family to Rushville, where he lived to the time
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of his death. He began the practice of law at Rushville, and rapidly rose to distinction in the legal profession. In August, 1837, he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Rush County, which office he held until about the 15th of May, 1841. In Au- gust, 1841, he was elected to the House of Representatives in the State Legislature. In the fall of 1847, he was appointed Clerk of the Rush County Circuit Court, in the place of John L. Robinson, resigned. In August, 1848, he was elected to fill Mr. Robinson's unexpired term, and, in August, 1849, was elected Clerk again, and served until November, 1855. He was twice selected by his political friends as their candidate for Congress - as a Whig in 1847, and as a Republican in 1858-but was not elected. His name occupied a place as Senatorial Elector for Indiana, on the Presidential ticket, in 1852. He was a delegate from the State at large to the convention at Chicago, in 1860, that nominated Abra- ham Lincoln for President. In May, 1846, he became a member of the I. O. O. F., and, ever after, felt a deep interest in the wel- fare and progress of that benevolent order, and soon became one of the leading spirits of the fraternity in the State. In July, IS51, he was the unanimous choice of the Grand Lodge of the State, as one of their Representatives in the Grand Lodge of the United States, and served in that position six years. In November, 1857, he was chosen Grand Master of the State. In addition to the la- bors necessary to a faithful discharge of these positions, he became about 1840, editor of the Rushville Whig, and soon made for it a reputation for untiring zeal and ability wider than the limits of the State. ' He subsequently edited the Rushville Republican, and did not entirely cease writing for the press until he entered the army. He was selected as one of the Commissioners or delegates from the State of Indiana to the Conference Convention which met at Washington City on the 4th day of February, 1861, for the pur- pose of attempting to reconcile the differences then existing, and averting war. Soon after the rebellion began, he offered his ser- vices to his country, and was appointed Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, then a twelve-months regiment in the service of the State, but which was turned over to the United States for the same term. In this capacity, he served nearly twelve months in northeastern Virginia and Maryland. A short time before the expiration of his term, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and ordered to report to General Hal- leck, then at Corinth. He reached there a short time after Corinth was evacuated in June, 1862, and was placed in command of the " Ist Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Army of the Mississippi," commanded by Gen. Grant, and remained there in almost entire inac-
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tivity until a few days before the battle in which he lost his life. On the 3rd day of October, 1862, in the battle before Corinth, about 3 o'clock P. M., while on horseback at the head of his brigade ral- lying his troops to stand against an overpowering foe, he received a gunshot wound across the throat, which rendered utterance difficult. He was conveyed to the Tishomingo House, Corinth, where he died about 9 P. M. the same evening. His last audible words were: "I am dying, but I am dying for my country." Thus passed away from earth one of nature's noblemen. He was emphatically a self- made man, the architect of his own fortune. He was never guilty of any kind of dissipation and was remarkably free from the fash- ionable vices of the age. He was plain, unaffected and unostenta- tious in his manners and habits. He was open-hearted, candid and generous to a fault; the needy that applied to him were never turned away empty. As a lawyer, he was profound; an honest, earnest and an able advocate, a frank and manly adversary, never attempting to conceal from his opponent the ground upon which he relied for success. Mrs. Sarah Hackleman, his wife, was born in Fayette County, Ind., March 17, 1815. She was the youngest child of Dr. John Bradburn, a physician who figured prominently in the early history of Southeastern Indiana. Dr. Bradburn was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Churchman, was of Pennsylvania-German birth. They were married in Lancas- ter, Pa., in 1793. His wife was more liberally educated than was customary among the women of the day. She was a noble woman, wise and kind, devoted to her husband and the training of her chil- dren. Mrs. Hackleman honored her parents while living, and ever cherished their memory with devoted fidelity. Dr. Bradburn and family emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, early in the present century: after residing there a few years he moved to Boone County, Ky., but on account of the institution of slavery, came to Indiana in 1813. After two or three removals, they located in Franklin County, settling permanently three miles below Brookville in the beautiful White Water valley. Here Mrs. Hackleman first met her future husband, and while they were scarcely more than chil- dren, in attendance at school, the attachment began which culmin- ated in their marriage. Mrs. Hackleman inherited many of the traits of both parents. She was high-spirited, courageous, warm hearted and impulsive, but these qualities were tempered by sound judgment and strong common sense .. She was affable and dignified in her man- ners, but somewhat reticent and retiring among strangers. In her family relations she was kind and affectionate, a devoted wife and fond mother; in her friendships, sincere and true. She was the
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mother of eleven children, ten daughters and one son, of the former two died in infancy, the third daughter, Kate, who married J. W. Mock, died in 1857, at the age of twenty, and the oldest daughter, Mary A., whose mind was diseased for many years-the effects of typhoid fever-in ISSo, at the age of forty-six. The only son, John, a bright and beautiful child, died in IS51, at the age of two years and three months. These facts show how often the mother's heart was wrung by bereavement and affliction worse than death. Six daughters survive to mourn their mother's death: Adelia ( Mrs. Clapp, of Des Moines, Iowa), Indiana, Missouri (Mrs. John Megee of Rushville, Ind.), Corolinn, Josephine (Mrs. S. C. Conner, of Rushville, Ind.), and Fanny (Mrs. I. W. Avers, of Rushville, Ind.). Not many years after she settled in Rushville, Mrs. Hackleman united with the Methodist Episcopal Church: she was devotedly at- tached to her church. Her faith in Christ as her Savior, and in the overruling Providence of God, sustained her through the various. and painful vicissitudes of life. The death of her husband left Mrs. Hackleman with no income but her pension, which by special act of Congress was raised from thirty to fifty dollars a month. For several years she toiled beyond her strength, but she was al- ways hopeful and energetic. In April, 1868, she was commissioned Postmaster of Rushville, which office she held continuously until the time of her death. She was aided in the work by her daugh- ters and other able assistants, and the duties of the office were dis- charged faithfully and with satisfaction to the public. After the death of her mother, Miss India was placed in charge until the ap- pointment of a successor, and relinquished the office June 25, ISS7. About three years previous to her death, she felt the first symp- toms of the fatal malady, organic disease of the heart; which ter- minated her life. During her first severe attack her physicians informed her that her life was likely to end very suddenly. The faith which had sustained her through the trials of life was suffi- cient for her now, and during the remainder of her life none would have judged from her cheerful demeanor that she knew she was likely to meet the last dread enemy at any moment. Her death occurred May 22, 1887, at the age of seventy-two. The extreme sufferings of her last illness were borne with patience and resigna- tion. The evening of life was sweet and pleasant to her, as she rested after the heat and burden of the day, but she was willing and ready at her Master's call, to enter upon the perfect day of life beyond. Her death was a sad and irreparable loss to her family, ยท her large circle of relatives and friends, to the church of which she was a member, and the community in which she had spent fifty years of her life.
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FRANK J. HALL, attorney at law, a portrait of whom appears in this volume, was born in Washington Township, this county. He is the son of William S. and Nancy M. (Legg) Hall, the former a native of Butler County, Ohio, of Welsh and German descent, the latter a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish and Ger- man descent. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm, where during the winter months he attended the neighborhood school, and at seventeen was so far advanced that he became a teacher, con- tinuing so employed for about two years. At twenty he entered Farmers' College, College Hill, Ohio, and there showed such ora- torical ability as to gain an enviable reputation. He left this insti- tution, however, and, in September, 1865, entered the State University at Bloomington, Ind., where, after twoyears of study he graduated with the class of 1867. He then entered the Law De- partment of the same university, and graduated in 1869, standing high in his class and in the esteem of his fellow classmen. At once the practice of his profession was begun in Rushville, where it has been continued to the present time with a marked degree of suc- cess. Besides enjoying a lucrative practice drawn from a constitu- ency of his fellow citizens, he is the attorney for three railway corporations. His scholarly and professional attainments have made him an ornament to the Bar and society of Rushville, but his innate kindliness of disposition has done even more perhaps, than these attainments towards giving him the good name which it is his priv- ilege to enjoy. Generous and kind, always consistent and manly, he has made at every stage of his career devoted personal friends. Indeed, all those attributes of mind and heart which characterize and adorn the genuine gentleman are his possessions. Twice he has been nominated, without his solicitation, by the Democratic party an a candidate for Representative of his county in the State Legislature, and though for political reasons, success was impossi- ble, his personal popularity was shown in both contests by the fact that he received much more than his party vote. In college he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
WILLIAM HAVENS, one of Rush County's pioneers, was born in Highland County, Ohio, August 19, 1820. He was the sixth of fifteen children - nine sons and six daughters, born to James and Annie Havens, both natives of Mason County, Ky., of English de- scent. His paternal grandfather was John Havens. His eight brothers were: Thompson, John P., Landy, George, Henry B., Daniel, Conwell and David, all of whom are deceased except Thompson and George, the former of whom resides in Rush County, and the latter resides at Rensselaer, Jasper County. Ilis six sisters were, Matilda, Rachel, Sarah, Martha, Emily H., and
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Mahala, of whom Matilda, Rachel, Sarah and Emily H., are de- ceased. The parents of these children lived to see all of them grown and married without a death in the family. When our sub- ject was yet a young child his parents came to Rush County, and settled in the woods about two miles west of Rushville. There his boyhood and youth were spent assisting to clear and cultivate the farm. His father was a Methodist minister, and consequently was away from home a good share of the time. In 1847, William became a sales- man in a dry goods store in Rushville. About a year later he en- gaged in that business for himself. He was married to Martha F. Maddux, May 1, 1849. She was born in the State of Kentucky. Mr. Havens continued to follow mercantile pursuits until about the vear 1876. Some time afterward he engaged in the lumber and coal trade, to which his attention has since been directed. Mr. and Mrs. Havens have had five children: Matilda F., born January 23, IS50; died March 12, 1874; Mary E .; born September 29, 1852, died August 27, 1854; William E., born June 22, 1854; Lauretta A., born January 20, 1857; Bertha A., born August 17, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Havens are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The former is an Odd Fellow, and a Republican. He is one of the time-honored pioneers of the county, and one of her most worthy and honored citizens. Mrs. Havens was born in Wood- ford County, Ky., October 17, 1831. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bussell) Maddux, both natives of Fairfax County, Va. The maternal grandmother of Mrs. Haven's mother was an own sister to George Washington's mother.
GEORGE H. HAVENS, Township Trustee, and dealer in agricul- tural implements, was born at Arlington, this county, June 20, 1844. His parents were John P. and Elizabeth (Oliver) Havens, who were both natives of Fleming County, Ky., born in ISHI and ISIO, of Scotch and English descent, respectively. John P. Havens came to Rush County in 1822, with his parents, who were Rev. James and Anna Havens. He was reared amid the scenes of pioneer life, and when he had grown to manhood located at Arling- ton. There, for many years he worked at his trade, wagon mak- ing, and kept hotel. He was one of the foremost men of his community, and was an advocate of whatever contributed to ad- vance morality. He early espoused the cause of abolition, and was one of the five in Rush County who voted for John P. Hale in IS52. He was a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than fifty years. His death occurred in August, ISS5. Mrs. Havens and seven of their twelve children still sur- vive him. George H. spent much of his early years upon the farm, and his education was obtained in the public schools at Ar-
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lington. Upon attaining his majority he began clerking in a gro- cery store at Rushville. By industry and economy he was enabled to begin business for himself in 1867, and from that time to this has been a conspicuous business man of Rushville. In 1883, he sold out his mercantile business and soon after engaged in his. present occupation, in which he has been successful. His political affillia- tions have always been with the Republicans, and as their candi- date in the spring of 1886, he was elected Trustee of Rushville Township. Miss Louisa Sexton, daughter of Dr. Marshall Sexton, became his wife January 3, 1868. She was born January 3, 1848. Their four children are: Myrta, Horatio S., Walter and Clover. Mr. and Mrs. Havens are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JEFFERSON HIELM, M. D., retired physician and capitalist, of Rushville, though not a native of Indiana, has been identified with her history for more than two-thirds of a century. He is descended from the Anglo-Saxons and the Scotch. His paternal grand- parents emigrated at an early day from England to Mason County, Ky., where he was born November 27, 1803. 1Iis mother's family came from Scotland, her native land, and settled in Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, where her father was accidentally killed. They afterward removed to Kentucky. Before their marriage, his father, William Helm, and his mother, Elizabeth Drummond, were in- mates of Bryant's Station during its memorable siege by the In- dians; and the father was engaged for some time in the border wars. March 10, ISII, the family came to Indiana Territory, and settled on the Whitewater River, five miles below Connersville, in what was known as the " Twelve-Mile Purchase." Here Mr. Helm bought three quarter sections of land, and began clearing it. At the beginning of the War of 1812, he was commissioned Colonel and placed in command of the troops guarding the frontier. They were garrisoned in block houses, built about six miles apart, and ex- tending from the Ohio to Ft. Wayne. Before leaving home, he protected his cabin by a stockade and trench, that his family might resist an attack. Many were their days and nights of anxious watchfulness, but happily, the savage foe never did more than to menace them by skulking through the surrounding forest. Colonel Helm was a brave soldier and a prominent and successful business man. His son Jefferson worked on the farm until the age of six- teen, when he began reading medicine in the office of Mason & Mof- fett,. the latter of whom was a skilled physician. Up to this time his winters had been spent at a common school in a rough log house with greased paper windows; and he never attended school in a building provided with the luxury of glass windows. But, though
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the houses were rude, the teachers were well qualified. He con- tinued his medical studies three years, living in the meantime with the Mason family. At the end of that period, he formed a partner- ship with his preceptor, Doctor Philip Mason, and commenced practice in Fayetteville, Rush Co. After one year, Dr. Mason re- turned to Connersville, and Dr. Helm went to a point three miles north, and there laid out the village of Vienna, now Glenwood. He remained there till about the year 1845, when he removed to what is now Farmington, and two years later, founded Farming- ton Academy, where three of his children were prepared for col- lege. Before commencing practice, he passed a very rigid exam- ination by the Board of Censors of the Third Medical District, at the first annual meeting of the society. This body was organized in 1827, under a special act of the Legislature: but in 1839 was merged into the Fifth District Indiana Medical Society, of which he be- came a charter member, and occupied the position either of Censor or President as long as it existed. With his medical skill and knowledge Doctor Helm combined large political intelligence and ability, and in 1850, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention he helped to revise the fundamental law of the State. Two years later he was elected to the Senate from the County of Rush, which was then a senatorial district, and served one term of four years. In 1861, having shown himself, in the investment of the proceeds of his practice and in the management of his business, to be an excellent financier, Governor Morton appointed him Sinking Fund Commissioner, an office he held two years, being one of the three Commissioners who, with a President and Cashier, had charge of $5,000,000. Two years prior to this Doctor Helm removed to Rushville, and soon afterward abandoned practice. In the Civil War, at the call for more surgeons, he was appointed Surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, but was favored, on account of age and intimate fridndship with Governor Morton, by being placed on the easy service. He served at Shiloh, Louisville, Madi- son and Evansville. Dr. Helm is a very large land owner, his pos- sessions comprising about 900 acres in Rush, and 2.000 in adjoin- ing counties, besides a large property in Indianapolis. He helped organize the Rushville National Bank, of which he has since been a Director. He married April 28, 1831, Miss Eliza Arnold, a na- tive of the Isle of Wight, England, and cousin of John Arnold, M. D. By this marriage he has had six children: Alice, wife of B. F. Claypool, a prominent attorney of Connersville: Elizabeth, wife of William A. Pattison, a wholesale druggist of Indianapolis; William H., a farmer, Jefferson, deceased, formerly an able law- yer of Rushville; Captain Isaac A., Fifth United States Infantry,.
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