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are living. The subject is now President of the Board of Trustees of the incorporated town of Morristown. He was the candidate of the Democratic party for the office of Township Trustee of Hanover Township, and was defeated by a small majority. His success is due to strict attention to business, and exercise of due economy. He is respected by all who know him.
JESSE W. ROBINSON is a native of Rush County, Ind., born December 27, 1843. He was the fifth of a family of seven child- ren, born to Osmyn and Nancy ( Holton) Robinson, natives of Mason County, Ky., and who emigrated to Rush County in the winter of 1832. This was their wedding tour, and they rode on horseback, across the Ohio on the ice, and into the woods of Rush County, where they remained until death, enduring all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. The father's death occurred in 1847, and the mother's, in 1874. Our subject received a common school education, which was much improved in later years by reading and observation. In 1871, Mr. Robinson mar- ried Miss Susan Frazee, a native of Rush County, and daughter of E. S. and Francis (Austin) Frazee, natives of Kentucky, who emigrated to Rush County in 1840. To this union were born six boys, viz .: Samuel Osmyn, December 18, 1873; John C., Novem- ber 5, 1875: James H., April 3, 1878; William D., August II, ISSO; Jesse B., November 12, 1882, Edward F., October 12, 1886. Soon after marriage, he purchased a tract of land in Rush County, where he lived until ISSo, when he removed to Hanover Town- ship, Shelby County, where he has since resided. He now owns 190 acres, in this county, and 160 acres near Springfield, Mo. He is now engaged in the breeding of thorough-bred Short Horn cattle. He is a member of the Christian Church, and has been a Sunday School teacher for the past fifteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are held in high esteem, as respected and honored citizens. Politi- cally, Mr. Robinson is a Prohibitionist.
SAMUEL SALISBURY, M. D., is a native of Clinton County, Ohio, born July 14, 1836, son of John and Mary Liston Salis- bury, natives of Scioto County, Ohio, and of Scottish-German descent. The father of our subject was a Methodist Episcopal minister, as was two of his brothers, William and Abraham. The former died in Ohio, as did also the mother, in the year 1845. Our subject was reared on the farm and received a liberal educa- tion, having attended school at Asbury, now DePauw University, at Greencastle for four years. At the age of twenty-one years he joined the Cincinnati Methodist Episcopal Conference, and preached the gospel for ten years following, during which period he devoted much of his time to the study of medicine, and since 1869 has been
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a successful practitioner of medicine in Shelby County. He was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Jennie Coffman, June 5, 1865, a native of Preble County, Ohio, born August 6, 1844. Her parents were Daniel and Margaret Neff Coffman, natives of Germany. To this union four children born, viz. : Charles Walter, Mary and Purdie. Politically, Dr. Salisbury is a Republi- can, and usually exerts a live interest in political affairs. The family a remembers of the Methodist Episcopal Church and occupy a posi- tion of confidence and esteem in the vicinity in which they reside.
MADISON TALBERT, a native of Union County, Ind., born January 28th, 1835, is the second of a family of eleven children, born to Anderson and Mary A. (Robbins) Talbert, natives of Ran- dolph County, N. C., who emigrated to Preble County, Ohio, in 1832. In 1833, they removed to Union County, Ind., and to Han- over Township, Shelby County, in 1837, where they acquired about 700 acres of land. Our subject received a common school educa- tion. He was reared on a farm, and removed to Hanover Town- ship with his parents in 1837, where he remained until October 9th, 1873, when he was married to Miss Susan Carter, daughter of Landen and Nancy ( Vaughn) Carter, natives of North Carolina, who emigrated to this township in an early day. To this marriage were born three children, viz .: Harrison, October 30, 1874; Aggie, August 12th, 1877, and Myrtie, June 13th, ISSO. Mr. Talbert owns 13412 acres of land, nearly all under cultivation and well im- proved. For the past three years Mr. Talbert has been engaged in breeding Short Horn cattle, having at present twenty-five very fine ones. For eight years he has given a great deal of attention to the apiary business, and is the owner of 100 stands of fine Italian bees. He belongs to the Knights of Labor, and has been a devoted member of the Masonic Order for fifteen years. Politically, he is a Prohibitionist, and is also a member of the United Brethren Church. He has ever been known as an industrious and enterprising man, and is an honored citizen.
ALFRED SMITH TUCKER, a retired farmer, was born in South Carolina, June 16th, ISIO. He is a son of Jesse and Rhoda (Smith) Tucker, both natives of the same State. The father's death occurred in his native State, and that of the mother in Shelby County, Ind., in 1874. Our subject received a common school education, according to the custom in those days, was reared a farmer, and to this occupation has given almost his entire attention to the present time. At eleven years of age, he was "bound out" to Mr. Isaac Jones, of South Carolina, with whom he remained one year, and then left for parts unknown. During his lonely voyage, which he made without money, and scarcely sufficient clothing to
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cover his nakedness, he narrowly escaped drowning on one occa- sion, and finally reached the Georgia line, where he met an old acquaintance with whom he remained about six weeks. He was discovered and taken back to his mother's home, after which he was released by Mr. Jones, who afterward became insane. He then was employed in various occupations until he was seventeen years old. On the 19th day of June, 1827, he married Miss Jane Collins. To this marriage seven children were born, viz .: Ed- mond T., Susan E., Oliver N., Nancy J., John A., William L. and Rhoda A. These children were all born in South Carolina, where his wife's death occurred April 20, 1842. He then removed to Georgia with his family. August 25, 1844, he married Elizabeth Hendricks, a native of Georgia. Four children blessed this union, viz .: James V., Moraline D., Jesse H. and George E. In I851, Mr. Tucker came to Rush County, where he lived three years, and then located in Shelby County, on a rented farm, over which he presided three years, and then purchased 160 acres in Hanover Township. September 15, 1873, Mrs. Tucker died. He married Miss Martha J. Mauldin, August 27, 1874, and the result of this mar- riage was the following issue: an infant son, unnamed (deceased), Nettie, Mattie, another infant son, unnamed (deceased). This wife died September 4, ISSI, aged forty-one years. He was married August 17, 1882, to Mrs. Mary Kimback (Donaldson), born Oc- tober 13, 1846, and of Irish extraction. Our subject is the owner of 310 acres of land in Shelby County, which is under cultivation and well improved. When our subject located in Shelby County, he settled in the midst of a dense forest, and ensconced his family beneath the shelter of a rail pen, where they existed until the erec- tion of a substantial " pole cabin " was completed. From this finally grew the comfortable and substantial buildings which now surround him. In ISSo, the subject, in company with W. A. Bodine, estab- lished the Morristown Bank, in which he served as President until the bank was closed in 1884. In the spring of 1885, he retired from active life, and moved to Morristown with his family, and pur- chased of Mr. Bodine, the most handsome and commodious resi- dence in Hanover Township. He was for a time, a member of the Know-Nothing organization, this being the only secret order to which he ever belonged. He is a member of the Christian Church, and his wife is a member of the organization known as the " Shakers." He was a volunteer under John C. Calhoun, in the struggle of South Carolina, against the Union, for the admission of foreign merchandise, free of duty, into ports of that State, and the declaration of President Andrew Jackson, to the citizens at that time, made our subject a thorough Jacksonian Democrat, although
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since the organization of the Republican party, he has been its ad- vocate. Although he is living a retired life, he still superintends the tillage of his farm.
WILLIAM HARRIS TYNER, of Hanover Township, was born in Franklin County, Ind., May 31, ISI9, and is the elder of two children of Elijah and Martha Tyner, whose maiden name was McCune. His father, who was of Irish descent, was a native of Abbyville District, South Carolina, and was born in 1799. The paternal grandfather of our subject, was an old line Baptist minis- ter, who emigrated to the Indiana Territory, in 1805, and located near Brookville. The father of Mr. Tyner was three times mar- ried; first to the mother of our subject, who was of Scotch descent, and whose death occurred about 1822; second, to Miss Mary Nel- son, who died in 1830; and third to Miss Sarah Ann Hilverstoutin, whose death occurred in 1832. In early manhood our subject's father removed from Franklin to Hancock County, where he lived an honorable and creditable life. His death occurred February I, 1872. William H. Tyner recieved an ordinary education at the district schools, but later in life acquired through his own effort, a valuable fund of practical knowledge. By occupation Mr. Tyner is a farmer and now owns 207 acres of well improved land. In addi- tion, however, to his farming interests, he deals in stock. March 25, IS4I, Mr. Tyner was united in marriage to Miss Emily, daugh- ter of Adam and Susanah ( Hensley) Virt, both natives of Ken- tucky. Mrs. Tyner was also born in that State, May 24, IS21. To the above union were born these children, Martha E., Mary J., Elijah H., John N., Oliver P., Joseph M., Henry C., Hannah E., an unnamed infant (deceased), Samuel F., Deloris, Charlotte, Philip S., and Sarah. In politics, Mr. Tyner was formerly a Whig and is now an ardent Republican. Mr. Tyner is a representative of one of the first Indiana families, and is now recognized as one of the leading citizens of the community in which he resides.
WILLIAM W. WILCOXON, is a native of Montgomery County, Md. He was born February 22, 1844, and is the third son of eight chil- dren, born to Jesse P., and Elizabeth (Kemp) Wilcoxon, both natives of the same State, and who came to Shelby County in IS59. and located on Section 29, Hanover Township, where they remained several years, and then removed to Freeport, where the father died September IS, 1865. Our subject received a common school edu- cation, was reared on a farm, where he remained until twenty years of age, and September 26, 1864, enlisted in the Forty-eighth Indiana Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, Company I, and remained in the service until the close of the war, being mustered out June 30, 1865. In April, 1886, he was elected Trustee of Hanover
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Township, by the franchise of the Republican voters of the town- ship. He now owns eighty-five acres of land on Sections 9 and 16, of this township, which is well improved. He was married to Miss Nancy Jane Sleeth, August 26, 1866, a native of Shelby County, born January 19, 1845, daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Frazier) Sleeth of this county. To this marriage nine children were born as follows: Caleb S., David H., Richard Z., Thomas O., Franklin, two infant sons who died unnamed, Emma and Pearl. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcoxon are members of the United Brethren Church. In 1885, our subject established an agricultural depot åt Gwynnville, to which he added a hardware and grocery department. He is in partnership with Messrs. W. A. Wortman and W. H. Leisure. Since the establishment of this business the proprietors of the same have enjoyed a growing business, which is now yielding handsome and satisfactory returns.
CHARLES T. WILLIAMS, grocer and hardware dealer, at Mor- ristown, is a native of Favette County, Ind., born August 3, 1855, and is the youngest son of eleven children born to John and Mary A. (Reynolds) Williams, natives of Delaware, who emigrated to In- diana about the year 1836, and settled in Fayette County, where the father died in the early part of 1857. The subject of this biography received a common school education and was reared on a farm. At the age of eighteen years he began life for himself. by working as a farm hand. which he followed until the year 1882, when he engaged in the drug business in Morristown, purchasing the stock of Mr. C. H. Daily. To this business he gave his attention for three years, when he disposed of the same to Handy & Cre- meens. In April, 1886, he established a grocery and hardware store in the same town, and is now conducting a thriving business. His marriage to Miss Anna E. Connaway occurred January 5, 1875. She is a native of Union County, Ind., born September 29, 1855. To this union four children were born, viz .: Mamie H., Monti- cello E., Hattie A., and Paul T. Mr. Williams is a member of Valley Lodge No. 627, I. O. O. F., of Morristown. Politically, he is a Democrat, and always manifests a live interest in political af- fairs. He owns, aside from his business, a neat and comfortable residence in the above named village. He is recognized as a suc- cessful young business man, and is held in high esteem by those with whom he has formed acquaintance. Mrs. Williams is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a very estimable lady.
WILLIAM WOLFE, one of the pioneer farmers of Hanover Town- ship, was born in Scott County, Ky., January 12, 1809, son of Jacob and Euphemy (Cannon) Wolf, natives of Maryland and Delaware,
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of German-Irish origin. The parents of Mr. Wolfe were born in 1779, and his father died in Hancock County, Ind .. in IS37, and his mother in 1840. The Wolfe family came to Indiana in IS28, and located in Hancock County, and subsequently the subject of this biography removed to Shelby County. He received a limited education at the early time school-house. By occupation, Mr. Wolfe has been a life long farmer, and now owns 200 acres of land. His marriage occurred in 1832, to Miss Editaca Tyner, a daughter of Soloman and Jemima (Henderson) Tyner, a native of Indiana, born in 1819. Mrs. Wolfe died about 1836, and April 4, 1839, Mr. Wolfe was united in marriage to Nancy M. Smith, who was born in Virginia, February 4, ISIS, and is a daughter of William' and Ann (Alexander ) Smith, natives of Virginia. To the above marriage were born these children: Sarah E., Jerusha E., Warren W., Cornelia A., Pharaba and Edward C. Politically, Mr. Wolfe is and always has been an unchanging friend to the Democratic party. He is a Mason and a member of Morristown Lodge No. 193. He and wife are member of the Christian Church. The life of Mr. Wolfe has been successful and he is one of the prosperous farmers of Hanover Township.
JACOB G. WOLF, M. D., is a native of Huntingdon, now Blair, County, Penn., born February 8, 1823, and the youngest son of . seven children born to Jacob and Lydia (Hendershott) Wolf, na- tives respectively of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, who emigrated to Union County in 1834. where they resided one year, and then removed to Wayne County, where they resided until their respect- ive deaths, the father's April 29, 1844, aged sixty-one years, and the mother's January 13, 1867, aged eighty-seven years. The sub- ject of this biography received a liberal education, having attended Asbury, now DePauw, University for three years, after which he began the study of medicine under Dr. Calvin West, of Hagers- town, Wayne County, Ind., with whom he remained three years. He then attended the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati for two terms and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1849, and practiced medicine in Hagerstown until IS51, when he removed to Morristown, Shelby County, where he has since resided, as a resident practioneer - with the exception of five years, when he served as County Clerk. In the fall of 1856 he attended the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 1857. He is the possessor of diplomas from two of the leading medical institutions of the country. His marriage to Miss Virginia A. Ricketts, a native of New Jersey, was solemnized May 26, 1846. To this union were born seven children, viz .: Will- iam R., Lydia M. (deceased), Julia, Alma, Henry (deceased),
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Agnes, and Charles (deceased). Mrs. Wolf died in 1867. On the 18th of March, 1869, Dr. Wolf was married to Mrs. Elvira J. Winship, a native of Rush County, born January S, 1834. Our subject is the owner of 139 acres of land in Hanover Township, which is in a fair state of cultivation, and is improved in a substan- tial manner. In October, 1867, Mr. Wolf was elected to the office of County Clerk of Shelby County, on the Democratic ticket, in which position he served four years. Ile is a member of Morris- town Lodge No. 193, F. & A. M., and was once a member of the I. O. O. F., but withdrew therefrom by card. In the former he has taken the Chapter, Council and Commandery degrees. As a practitioner the Doctor has been successful to a satisfactory degree, as a citizen, he is held in high esteem by the residents of Morristown and surrounding country. He has been a member of the school board for a number of years, and for the past eight years has been president of that body.
HENRY G. WOLF, general merchant at Morristown, is a native of Shelby County, Indiana, born December 8, 1861, and is the only son of seven children, born to Henry G. and Emeline ( Henderson ) Wolf, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The father came to Indiana in 1834. Our subject received a first-class education, having attended Earlham College, near Richmond, Ind., for three successive years, also Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- lege at Indianapolis, one term. He was reared on a farm where he remained until he was twenty-six years of age. He was married to Miss Minnie Hill, a daughter of Thomas E. and Amanda (Powers) Hill, September 18, 1884. Mrs. Wolf was born Novem- ber 30, 1865, in Hancock County, Ind. To this union, one child, Edwin E .. was born August 19, 1885. In 1887, he removed from Hanover Township to Morristown, where he purchased a general merchandise store, and is now retailing dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, etc., of which he carries a full and complete assortment and is doing a satisfactory business. He is a member of Navarre Lodge No. 157, K. of P., of Morristown. Politically, he is a Democrat. He is a rising young man of Morristown, and commands the respect of the citizens of the entire community.
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WILLIAM BARLOW is a native of Bartholomew County, Ind., where he was born, March 30, 1831, being the youngest son of Jacob and Rebecca Pile Barlow, who were natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. They were married in the latter State, emigrated to Indiana in 1821, and continued residents until their
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death. Our subject remained at home and assisted his parents on the farm until he attained the age of twenty-seven. He re- ceived what was for those days a common education, such as was to be obtained in the primitive log school-houses. October 21, I858, his marriage with Catharine Lamar was solemnized, and to their union these three children have been born, Victoria, Izora and Leona. Mr. Barlow has always made farming his occupation and he has been quite successful. He now owns 190 acres of well improved land. He formerly belonged to I. O. O. F., but has been on demit for several years. In politics, he has been a Republican.
HIRAM COMSTOCK, M. D., of Smithland, is a native of Madison County, Ohio, where he was born March 17, 1820, the son of James and Chloe (Bull) Comstock, who were natives of Vermont and Connecticut, respectively. In 1824, they removed to Hamilton County, Ohio, where our subject was reared to manhood, from whence they removed to Montgomery County where the Doctor commenced reading with his father. He came in 1843, to Green- field where he engaged in the practice, remaining there until 1846, when he removed to Freeport. this county. September, 1848, he returned to Ohio and entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cin- cinnati, that institution graduating him and conferring the degree of M. D. in March, 1849; he then resumed his practice in Freeport, continuing there until 1855, when he located at Marietta, and has since been engaged in active practice. May, 1843, his marriage with Rebecca J. Mills was solemnized, and to their union three children were born: James A., who married Mary Anderson; Frances S., wife of William F. Garrison; John T., whose consort was Fannie Chamberlain. June 21, 1851, he suffered the bereave- ment of losing his beloved wife. May, 1852, his and Nancy E. Morgan's nuptials were celebrated, this union was of comparative short duration, death again taking his wife September, 1856. Sep- tember, 1857, Lucy A. McCrea became his wife, and their union has been blessed with these three children: Ella, now Mrs. George Frederick: William D. and Edward D. He has always enjoyed a very large, perhaps the most extensive, practice of any physician in the county, which proved very lucrative, but recently he has been compelled to retire from active work. He and wife are mem- bers of the Methodist Protestant Church. He also belongs to the Odd Fellows fraternity, having united with that organization in 1846. In politics he is a Republican.
JAMES COOPER, a citizen and native of Hendricks Township, was born June 11, 1830, being the youngest in a family of seven children, born to James and Rebecca (Updegraff) Cooper, who were both natives of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, where both
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grew to man and womanhood, and were married. They emigrated to what is now Laurel, Fayette County, in a very early day, from there they came on to Rush County, living there about three years, coming in February, 1830, to Shelby County; about three weeks later the father died. His widow survived him a number of years, making this county her home until her death, which occurred May 15, 1855. Our immediate subject remained with his mother as long as she lived. He received a limited education, such as the facilities of those days afforded. March II, 1855, his marriage with Mary A. (Hartman ) Kendall, was solemnized, and to their union four children have been born, of whom, but this one is now living, William M., who has married Eliza Snyder. Mrs. Cooper was a daughter of Sampson and Mary (Omert) Hartman. both natives of Pennsylvania, they were also early settlers of Bartholo- mew County. Mr. Cooper has always made farming his occupa- tion, and he has been quite successful. He now owns 356 acres of well improved land. Ile and wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. In politics he is a Republican, and was honored by his party with the nomination to the position of County Com- missioner, but his party being in the minority, he with the rest of the ticket was defeated, but to his credit it may be said, that he carried his own township, which ordinarily has a Democratic ma- jority of seventy.
ITHAMAR DAVISON, ex-member of the Board of Commissioners of Shelby County, is among the old settlers of this county, and claims a birthright in Addison Township, where he was born on the 25th day of November, 1826. His parents. James and Martha (Libby) Davison, settled in the county in IS21, and experienced the hardships of an early settler's life. The subject of this sketch remained at home till the year 1850, working on the farm, except a short time in 1847, when he enlisted as a volunteer in the Mexi- can war, but soon afterward met with an accident that required him to remain at home. In the spring of IS50, he started for Cali- fornia by the overland route, the company he went with being fitted out at Ottumwa, Iowa. Four months and twenty days were consumed in making the journey, the party remaining in Salt Lake some ten days, receiving every kindness at the hands of Brigham Young and others while there. They arrived at Placerville on the 20th of August, in a good healthy condition. Mr. Davison im- mediately went into the mines, with a Mr. Marshall, but after about a month, the snow began to fall, which drove them in the valley. Their mines did not pan out well. He remained in and about El Dorado County, until 1856, some of the time running a hotel. In the month of May of that year, he left by steamer for New
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York, via Panama, arriving home about the 20th of June, in time for the Cincinnati Democratic Convention. He soon after went to Iowa, remaining until spring, and then left again for California, going by water. After reaching there, he went into the mines fifteen miles east of Sacramento, on the American River, and re- mained three months, when he received an appointment as Super- intendent of Farming, on the Klamath Indian Reservation, where ke remained till 1859. He then took a voyage to South America, returning however, to the Reservation, after a short absence of a few months. That winter there was a big flood, which washed the land so badly, as to cause change of Reservation to Smith River Valley, forty miles away. Here Mr. Davison went and remained until 1866, when he returned home. In 1864, while in California, he was commissoned as Major of the State Militia; he spent most of IS66 and 1867, in Washington City, attending to official business. He was present at the National Democratic Convention in New York, in 1868, which nominated Horatio Seymour for the Presidency. During the winter of 1868, he took a trip to Hav- ana, Cuba, for his health, returning on the same boat, his health much improved. He went home in April, 1868, and spent that summer with his father, in Brandywine Township. On the 30th of December, 1869, Mr. Davison was married to Mrs. Cecilia Peutzer daughter of John M. and Hannah Dodds, and moved on the farm where he now resides. He has since been identified with the in- erests of Shelby County. In 1874, he was elected County Commissioner; was re-elected in 1876, and the duties of that position he has filled to the complete satisfaction of the whole county. Mr. Davison's mother died in 1854; his father in 1877; they were both members of the Protestant Methodist Church; he was a native of Tennessee, she of Virginia. Mrs. Davison is a lady well qualified to fulfill the duties of a wife; her father, John M. Dodds, was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of Vir- ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Davison are at present living on a fine farm of over 300 acres, lying about five miles from Shelbyville, and on the Shelbyville and Marietta Turnpike. It is especially adapted to grain and stock raising. Mr. Davison may well look back over his eventful life, now in the autumn of his years, and think with pleasure, of all he has passed through, and that now he can settle down to a well deserved rest, surrounded by all the comforts of civilized life, and having the popularity, which is due him for his able performance of whatever duties the office, which he has so well filled, may have imposed upon him. Mr. Davison has not held any public position since the expiration of his second term as County Commissioner, but has devoted his time to agricultural
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