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and principles of the Republican party, though he has not been a seeker of public office. However, he has served sixteen years on the common council of Hagerstown, from which position he retired in 1910, serving at the time of the agitation of the question of cement walks and the municipal electric light proposition. His religious faith is expressed by membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1883 he was united in holy wedlock to Miss Elizabeth Ott, born Feb. 11, 1858, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Secor- Doyle) Ott, residents of Greenville, Ohio, for many years prior to their deaths, the former being a farmer. The happy union of Thomas L. McConaughey and wife was blessed by the birth of three children: Charles Leroy, born Jan. 18, 1885, who is a me- chanic, married Anna Wycoff, of Liberty, Ind., and they have two children-Albert and Stanley ; Rue Pearle is deceased; and Ralph Reo, born May 22, 1893, is employed in his father's establishment. Fraternally, Mr. McConaughey is a member of Hagerstown Lodge No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Modern Woodmen. He was one of the organizers of the Fair Association. Daniel Ott, father of Mrs. McConnaughey, was a native of Maryland, located in Darke county, Ohio, and later moved to Nevada, Mo., where he died in 1899. Mary Secor, the mother, was born and reared in Maryland and came to Darke county, Ohio, in 1863, where she died Jan. 6, 1905. The father was twice married and of his first union there were two children-Jenorce T., who resides in Kansas, and William II., who resides at Wray, Colo. His second marriage was to Mrs. Mary (Secor) Doyle, and of this union there were four children-Elizabeth, Ellen, Emma, and Ida. By a former mar- riage the mother had two daughters-Anna and Alice.
Wilmer B. McMahan has been a resident of Center township eight years. He was born in U'nion county, Indiana, Oct. 1. 1869, a son of Elijah Brazier and Aseneth Jane (Fender) McMahan. The father was born in Union county, Indiana, while the mother was born in the State of Illinois. In fact, the McMahan family have been long identified with affairs in this portion of the Hoosier State. Elijah P. McMahan followed farming as an occupation during all of his active career. He lived in Union county until about 1879, and then moved to Wayne county, locating one and one-half miles north of Webster. Ile resided there until 1893, and then came to the farm where his son, Wilmer B., now resides, and which he had previously purchased, and he continued to reside there until the winter of 1904, when he removed to Richmond. He still owns the farm in Webster township. During the Civil war he served as a member of the Nineteenth Indiana light artillery. To Elijah B. McMahan and wife there were born eight children: Mor- ton, Wilmer, Arthur, Curtis, Cora, Grace, Edith (deceased), and Burgess. Wilmer B. McMahan received his early educational training in the schools of his native county and in Webster town- ship, Wayne county. The religious faith of his family is expressed by membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. On Sept. 23, 1800, Mr. MeMahan was very happily married to Miss Elizabeth Brown, born in Clay township, Wayne county, Feb. 8, 1869, daugh-
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ter of Dr. J. R. and Mary ( Underhill) Brown, of Green's Fork, where the father died Jan. 19, 1903. He was born near Camden, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1821, and the mother in Clay township, Wayne county, March 15, 1843, and she still resides at Green's Fork. They were the parents of three children : Alfred H. resides on the farm in Clay township; Elizabeth is the wife of Mr. McMahan; and Anna M. is the wife of Spencer S. V. Bishop. By a previous mar- riage the father had a daughter, Mary L., who is the wife of E. E. Christover, of Richmond. The father came to Indiana after grad- uating from a medical college and first located at Dalton, Wayne county, but later removed to Winchester. After the Civil war he removed to Clay township and the last twelve years of his life were spent at Green's Fork. To Mr. and Mrs. McMahan there have been born two children : Edith A., May 9, 1901, and Ilerbert B., Sept. 23, 1993.
John Milton Leander Mendenhall, of Jefferson township, is one of the successful men whose industry as a farmer, stock-raiser, and all-around man of affairs has been a very important factor in building his community up to its high standard in agriculture and prosperity. He is a native of Clay township, this county, born May 20, 1847. Ilis education has been broad and his early training was so thorough, and he has made such use of his advantages that he has taken a place in the affairs of men and devoted such energy and judgment to his own affairs that he has reached a position only acquired after years of constant toil. IIe is a son of Solomon and Cecelia ( Brooks) Mendenhall. His father was a native of Stokes county, North Carolina, born Jan. 12, 1814, and his mother was born in the same State, July 18, 1811. Mr. Mendenhall's paternal grandfather was Isaiah Mendenhall, and his maternal grandfather was Jesse Brooks, born Oct. 20, 1775. and who came from North Carolina and was a pioneer settler in Wayne county. Solomon Mendenhall, father of the subject of this sketch, came to Wayne county when about twenty-one years old, settled in Clay township, where he purchased a farm and followed agricultural pursuits the residne of his life. He was a member of the Friends' church at first and later of the United Brethren. By his marriage to Cecelia Brooks two children were born: Addison G., who is a farmer in Perry township, married Phoebe Oler and they have three chil- dren-Newman, Charles, and Clara ; and John Milton L. Solomon Mendenhall died June 14, 1883, and his wife passed away Dec. 10, 1803. John Milton L. Mendenhall received his schooling in the dis- triet schols of Perry township and assisted in the work of the home farm until he attained his majority. He then began his independent career by operating his father's farm for a time and then settled on the farm of 100 acres where he is living retired with his dangh- ter and son-in-law. He came to this farm in 1871, and by per- sistent effort brought it up to a high state of cultivation. He is also a carpenter by trade, at which occupation he worked during a part of his active career, and in his retirement enjoys the confidence and respect of his neighbors. Politically, Mr. Mendenhall is a member of the Republican party. On Nov. 17, 1867, he was mited in mar-
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riage to Miss Lucy Fleming, daughter of David and Lucy (McMurray ) Fleming, of Dalton township. Mr. Fleming was a millwright by occupation. To the parents of Mrs. Menden- hall were born four children: Mary E. married Jackson Keever and they have seven children-Marens, Ella, Katy, Granville, William, Moses, and Elizabeth; Laura married John Doughty, a farmer of Dalton township, and they have five children- Charley, Frank, Anna, Josephine, and Sallie; Harriet married John Baldwin, of Wayne county, and they had three children-Ozro, Lewis, and May; and Mrs. Mendenhall, born April 26, 1849. After the death of his first wife David Fleming married a Mrs. Mills and they had two children: Francis, who is deceased, married Ella Petty and they had two children-Flora and Mande; and David W., of Dalton township, married Clara Hockett. Mrs. Mendenhall died Ang. 12, 1910, the mother of three children : Oliver P., born Sept. 6, 1869, is a farmer in Henry county, married Mary Bailey, daughter of David Bailey, of Wayne county, and they have three
children-Ilerschel, Everett, and Myrtle; David F. died in infancy ; and Hattie E., born May 22, 1884, is the wife of Frank Rinehart and they have one child, Marguerite Marie, born Feb. 9, 1907. Mr. Mendenhall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Lewis O. Morris .- Among those to whom Center township is indebted for its agricultural prestige is Lewis O. Morris, a native son of Wayne county and one of its most honored and progressive citizens. He was born in Clay township, Oct. 1, 1859, a representa- tive of one of the sterling pioneer families of this favored section of the State. Ile is a son of Oliver and Martha E. (Cook) Morri -. the former born three miles east of Richmond, March 3, 1836, and the latter one mile north of Green's Fork, in Clay township, Sept. 1, 1841, in the section where her parents settled in the pioneer era of that community. Oliver Morris was always a farmer by occu- pation. In early life he went to Ohio and located on a farm near Camden, where he resided until 1864, when he returned to Wayne county and located near Green's Fork, where he died Oct. 25, 1865, and his widow resides in Richmond. The father did much to forward material and social advancement and was one of the hon- ored and influential citizens of the communities in which he re- sided. In local affairs of a public nature he was a dominating figure, ever striving to promote the best interests of all concerned, and his early death cut short a promising career, for to him was ever given the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him. Oliver and Martha E. Morris became the parents of two chil- dren, of whom the subject of this review is the eldest and the only one living, a daughter, Inda Belle, having died in 1883, at the age of eighteen years. Lewis O. Morris was afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of Clay and Center townships. After his father's death the family resided with the parents of the widow in Clay township until 1873, when, at the age of fourteen years Lewis O. took charge of the farm in Center township, which his fa ther had purchased before he died, but had not as yet occupied. The mother continued to reside on this farm until the marriage . : f
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her son, who has operated the farm of forty-five acres in a general way. Mr. Morris is a man of much initiative power and progres- sive ideas, his business affairs are handled with discrimination and ability, and he has so ordered his course in all the relations of life as to maintain the confidence and good will of the people of his native county and all others with whom he has had business or social relations. In politics he accords allegiance to the Demo- cratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of the Metho- dist Episcopal church at Olive Hill, in which faith he was reared. On Feb. 18, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Morris to Miss Martha Jenkins, born in Montgomery county, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1860, daughter of Abijah and Francena (Russell) Jenkins. Of this union were born three children: Ethelyn, born April 7, 1882, is the wife of Charles E. Lamb, a traveling salesman of Indianapo- lis, and they have one child, Everett Morris, born Feb. 6, 1903; Lewis Everett, born July 12, 1890, died June 12, 1891 ; and Robert L .. , born Dec. 20, 1894, resides at the parental home and assists in the management of the farm. The father of Mrs. Morris was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, June 9, 1838, and the mother in Cen- ter township, Wayne county, Indiana, Jan. 26, 1841. In early life the father was a farmer, continuing at that occupation until 1864, when he came to Richmond and engaged in the grocery business and later engaged in saw-milling in Webster township. Mrs. Jen- kins's death occurred in Richmond, June 2, 1871, and in 1873 Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss A. Ella George, of Hamilton county, Indiana. He then embarked in the lumber business at Noblesville, : Ind., and later engaged as a traveling salesman for a large flouring concern and was so employed at the time of his death, Feb. 22, 1909. Of his second marriage there are two sons, Earl G. and Heber A.
Darry B. Oler, a prominent resident of Wayne county and a prosperons farmer in Jefferson township, was born in Perry town- ship, Jan. 26, 1872. He is a son of Henderson and Sarah (Adding- ton) Oler, born in Perry township, this county, the former in 1846. The paternal grandfather was Adam Oler, whose father was a pio- neer settler in Perry township, and in Adam Oler's family there were seven children : Henderson is the oldest of the family ; George W. is a farmer in Perry township, married Nannie Stover and they have a son, Emory ; Lewis P. is a farmer in Perry township, mar- ried Mrs. Jennie ( Brooks) Cain and they have two children-Farle and Ethel; Elvin, of Perry township, married Amanda J. Metters and they have three children-Clyde, Paul and Nola; Phoebe is the wife of Ulysses G. Mendenhall, a retired farmer of Perry town- ship, and they have three children-Newman, Charles and Clara ; Adaline is the wife of Elzie Shoemaker, of Randolph county ; and Fannie is the wife of William Swinn, of Economy, and they have four children-Elvin, Claude, Frank and Dora. The maternal grandfather was Bishop Addington, a prominent farmer of Perry township, and in his family there were eight children: Theodore and Edward reside in Jay county, Indiana ; Charles is a resident of Muncie, Ind. ; Rilla is the wife of Amos Baker, of Blackford county ;
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Mary A. is the wife of Ashbury Cain, of Green township; Jane is the wife of George Hardup, of Jay county ; Alice is the wife of Alva Armstrong, of Colorado; and Sarah married Henderson Oler. Of the union of Henderson Oler and wife there are three children : Darry B. is the eldest; Cicero H. is a farmer in Perry township, married May Woolford and they have a son, Virgil; and Omar is a farmer in Perry township, married to Lulu Harris. Darry B. Oler's educational advantages were limited to the district schools of the county and he began his independent career at the age of twenty years. He first rented land and farmed mitil twenty-five years old and then purchased the farm of 126 acres where he re - sides in Jefferson township, about five miles from the village of Hagerstown. The farm is among the best in the township and the improvements indicate the thrift and enterprise of the owner. The residence is a modern frame structure and one of the best in the township. On Feb. 14, 1897, in Perry township, this county, Mr. Oler was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Smith, a native of that township and a daughter of Richard and Sarah ( Hays) Smith. One child has been born to this union-Sarah Marie, born Oct 3, 1904. Mr. Smith is a farmer in Perry township, and to him and his wife were born six children : Rose is the wife of Frank Doughterty, of Hagerstown, and they have four children-Ansel, Pauline, Smith. and Julia ; John, of Dalton township, married Anna Davis and they have four children-Byrum, Howard, Sarah, and Bernice; Mrs Oler is the second in order of birth and was born Oct. 27, 1871; Eva and Dollie reside at the paternal home; and Fred, a barber in Hagerstown, married Edith Fox and they have two children -- Francis and Eugene.
Daniel Webster Pollard, a resident of Hagerstown, but for many years a prominent and influential agriculturist of Jefferson, of which township he is a native, first beheld the light of day at the home of his parents, near Hagerstown, Aug. 14, 1844, son of Samuel Cain and Sarah ( Petty) Pollard. The father was born two miles northeast of Hagerstown, on a farm, son of Samnel and Ruth ( Watson) Pollard, who migrated to this county from Ken- tucky, and here the grandfather of Daniel W. Pollard pre-empted a Government claim. Samuel Cain Pollard, the father, was born July 10, 1815, and died in March, 1863, and the mother of Daniel W. died when he was but four years old. The paternal grandparents -Samuel and Ruth ( Watson) Pollard-were born, April 15, 1783, and July 15, 1781, respectively. Samuel C. and Sarah ( Petty) Pol- lard were married in 1841, and of this union were born two chil- dren-Elizabeth and Daniel W. Elizabeth, who is deceased, ma -- ried Bailey Baldwin, a farmer near Richmond, and became the mother of a son, Albert, who resides near Richmond. The father's second marriage was to Fannie Arnold, and of this union were born two children: Edward, who resides in New Mexico, and Bashie, deceased. Daniel W. Pollard received his schooling in the district schools of Jefferson township, assisted his grandparents about the farm, mornings and evenings, and worked upon the place through- out the long summer vacations. Hence he became familiar with
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the farming industry very early in life, an occupation he pursued with success up to about two years ago, when he removed with his family to Hagerstown. In March, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Company B of the Fifth Indiana cavalry for service in the Civil war. He joined the command at Glasgow, Ky., where the regiment was kept busy in scouting the country until April 17, being in sev- eral skirmishes and burning the town of Celina, Tenn. It was in heavy scouting and skirmishing until June 22, capturing many prisoners. On July 4 it started in pursuit of Morgan's raiders and, finding them at Buffington Island, attacked and drove them in every direction, killing and capturing many and securing five pieces of artillery. ' Returning to Glasgow, it started on Ang. 18 for East Tennessee and reached Knoxville on Sept. 1, being the first regi- ment of Union troops to enter that city. It was in an expedition across the Smoky Mountains and on its return moved to Greene- ville. It was then in an expedition to Bristol, being engaged in heavy skirmishing and the battle near Zollicoffer. It was also in an engagement near Blountsville and captured a number of pris- oners. While marching toward London and Bull's Gap the regi- ment met 3,000 of the enemy near Henderson's Mill and engaged in a fierce fight, holding the enemy in check in frequent hand-to-hand combats, and when nearly surrounded cut its way through the lines and rejoined its brigade. Later, near Rheatown, it came upon the enemy's rear and engaged him again. It was in a second en- gagement near Blountsville, and was on outpost duty at Jonesboro until Nov. 6, when it moved to Cheek's Cross-Roads, thence to Tazewell, and later to Maynardville. It was in a heavy skirmish with a division of cavalry, and in heavy fighting at Walker's Ford. It marched to Blain's Cross-Roads and Bean's Station, where an- other fierce battle was fought, the regiment retreating towards Rutledge and going into camp at Blain's Cross-Roads. On Dec. 23, it moved to Mossy Creek and remained there until Jan. 14, 1864, being constantly engaged in fighting. It participated in the battle of Dandridge and made a charge on foot three-quarters of a mile in advance of the main line of battle, driving the enemy before it. On the retreat it reached Knoxville, Jan. 19, 1864, and there the horses of the regiment were turned over to the Fourteenth Illinois cavalry. The regiment made a scout on foot to Pigeon Creek, then moved to Cumberland Gap, and thence to Mt. Sterling, where it was remounted. On May I it started for Tunnel Hill, Ga., and with Stoneman's command participated in the Atlanta campaign, being engaged in all the cavalry operations from Dalton to De- catur. Marching in a raid towards Macon in July, it took part in an attack upon the enemy and drove him two miles. Near Hills- boro it participated in an engagement with a body of Wheeler's cavalry and was left on the field to hold the enemy in check until the main body was entirely out of danger. Then the regiment was surrendered by General Stoneman against Colonel Butler's earnest protest. This event occurred July 31, 1864, and Mr. Pollard was confined in Andersonville prison for two months, was then trans- ferred to Charleston and later to Florence, S. C .. and being fully
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paroled returned to Hagerstown on a thirty-days furlough. He then joined his regiment in Kentucky and with it marched to Pu- laski. Tenn., Jan. 17, 1865, at which place it remained on scouting work, capturing and dispersing bushwhackers and outlaws. It was mustered out June 16, 1865, at Pulaski. Returning home Mr. Pol- lard resumed farming, which he continued to follow throughout his active career. In politics he is actively affiliated with the Re- publican party, though he has never sought public office. For many years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has rendered effective service in the cause of the Kingdom of Righteousness. He has been twice married: first to Emeline Williams, daughter of Solomon and Margaret (Mur- phy) Williams, of Green's Fork, and of this union there were born six children: Olive Frances, born Nov. 22, 1869, is the widow of Ed Burris and resides in Hamilton county, the mother of one child, Pleasant Pollard ; Oliver, born April 8, 1871, is a farmer near Rich- mond, married to Minnie Gosset, and they have one child, Carrie Ellen ; Edgar, born Jan. 21, 1873, is a farmer in Jefferson township, married Bertha Smith, and they have one child, Ernest Marion ; Carver, born Aug. 26, 1875, is a farmer in Jefferson township, mar- ried Effie Brown; Elizabeth, born Oct. 23, 1877, is the wife of Joe Lillie, of Hagerstown, and they have three children-Beulah, Mar- garet and Zula Catherine ( twins), and Pollard Henry ; and Delia, born Feb. 9, 1880, is the wife of Earl Stigall, who operates Mr. Pol- lard's farm in Jefferson township, and they have four children- Elsie Emeline, Clarence Everett, Kenneth, and Blanche Elizabeth. The first wife having died, on June 10, 1883, Mr. Pollard was united in holy wedlock to Miss Caroline Groves, daughter of David and Nancy (Alspaugh) Groves, residents of Hagerstown for many years, where the father followed the occupation of a millwright, and where the parents both died, he in 1888 and she in 1875. Mrs. Pollard was born in East Germantown, June to, 1842, and was edu- cated in the Hagerstown schools. Her father was a native of Vir- ginia and her mother was born in Ohio, and of their twelve chil- dren, three died in infancy and six are living-Frances, William Allen, Catherine, Sally, Caroline, and Stephen.
Isaac Jay Pitts, an enterprising and successful farmer of the township of New Garden, was born on the old Harmon Pitts home- stead, two miles west of Fountain City, in Green township, May 30, 1856, a son of Harmon and Ruth (Knight) Pitts. The father was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1823, came west with his parents when only six years of age and settled in New Garden township. Wayne county, where he was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, which he pursued throughout his active career. Hle was a son of Samuel and Martha ( Meredith) Pitts, pioneers of Wayne county, who removed to and settled in New Garden township, in 1820, and resided there until their deaths. Samuel Pitts was the son of Isaac Pitts, a native of North Carolina and of Welsh and English descent. The children of Isaac Pitts, the great. grandfather of Isaac J. Pitts, were: Levi, Isaac, and Joshua, who died in North Carolina; Cadwallader, who came to Henry count;
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Indiana, where he married and spent the remainder of his life; Samuel, who immigrated to Indiana, settling in New Garden town- ship, Wayne county, which was his residence until his death ; Ben- jamin, who married Temperance Meredith, a sister of Gen. Sol Meredith, and moved to South Carolina, but later came to Newport, now Fountain City, Ind., where the remainder of his life was spent. Samuel Pitts, the grandfather of Isaac J. Pitts, married Martha Meredith, a sister of Gen. Sol Meredith, daughter of David and Mary ( Farington) Meredith, of North Carolina, and they became the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom grew to maturity. They were: William, Samuel, Nancy, Harmon, David, Polly Ann, Sarah Jane, Elizabeth, Franklin and John (twins), Harriet and Martha. Of these children, Frank, who resides in Kansas; Martha ; and Sarah Jane, who is the wife of Clarkson Thomas, are the only ones living. The parents of Martha ( Meredith) Pitts, grandmother of Isaac J. Pitts, were David and Mary ( Fairington) Meredith, natives of North Carolina, the former born Dec. 19, 1769, and the latter Dec. 17, 1774. Their children, nine in number, were as fol- lows: James, born Aug. 21, 1793; Jonathan, born Feb. 4, 1795; Jehu, born May 10, 1797; Martha, mother of Harmon Pitts, born Feb. 27, 1799; Temperance, born July 9, 1801 ; Nancy, born Nov. 2, 1803; Elizabeth, born Oct. 2, 1805; John, born Aug. 25, 1807; and Solomon, born May 29, 1810. The father, David Meredith, died May 24, 1864, and the mother passed away Ang. 14, 1849. Benja- min Pitts, a brother of Isaac J.'s grandfather, was born June 2, 1798, and died July 21, 1878. ITis wife, Temperance Meredith, died in July, 1881. They were the parents of six children: Mary J., boru July 18, 1818; Elizabeth, born April 3, 1821; Nancy E., born Aug. 17, 1825; Martha C., born Nov. 12, 1828; Benjamin F., born Feb. 17, 1832; and Luzena A., born June 7, 1834. Of these children, but two are living: Martha C. Sandifer, a resident of Kokomo, Ind., and Luzena A. Dalby, a resident of Fountain City, Ind. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ilarmon Pitts: Oliver, William, Beulah (deceased), Thomas, Isaac J. and Benja- min (twins), George, and Jennie, the last named being deceased. The parents were members of the Society of Friends and died on the old homestead. The father was a great temperance worker and was a Republican in politics. Isaac J. Pitts was reared on the farm and received his educational training in the district schools of New Garden township, this county. Farming has always been his chief occupation, having a well stocked farm, and he keeps thoroughly posted on all the scientific advances made in agricultural lines. Politically he is allied with the Republican party, and though he is an active member of that political organization has never sought public office. He and his family are members of the Society of Friends. In 1877 he was united in holy wedlock to Miss Sarah Atkinson, daughter of Ark Atkinson, an old resident of Green township, where the daughter was reared and educated. She died in 1870. In 1882 Mr. Pitts was married to Martha C. Hubbard, daughter of William and Amanda Hubbard, old residents of Wayne county. Mrs. Pitts was born three miles south of Fountain City
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