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who marged Henry Glassena .. i dovesels Marile like maimet ; wum over and they live in Southport, Indiana. Ceny Grande Beefes lem in Veedersburg: Bessie L. married Frank- Hot-k of fimune why te call moved to Covington ; Clifford. who owns the : 11 ]Rany
Politically, Samuel Cade was a Republican, and he he was ver food interested in the progress of local affairs as well as natimal. h: here- ungin or held but one public office, preferring to devote his attention exclusively his extensive business affairs and to his nome, for some time be aware for nebo trustec. He was a stanch Methodist. He was a than of exspillary hala honest kind, charitable genial and neighborly and was great sompro and esteemed by all who knew him. The death of Mr Cale occu red on April 14, 1908.
G. D SNODDY
Agriculture has been an honored vocation trou the @ alice Emdias x usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as flore of one og and thrift, have been patron of husbandry. The free onleroy file of the farm has & decided tendency to fever and develop that ipaciendelle reload and sell-reliance which characterize true manhood, and no great: Heng elly befall a boy than to be reared in close touch with nature in the healthiol, file inspiring labor of the fields. It has always been the fruitiol soil from whole have sprung the moral bone and sinew of the country, and the majority of our nation's great warriors, wise statesmen, renowned scholars and distin- guished men of letters were born on the farm and are indebted to its carly influences for the distinction which they have attained. Among the sultan tial tillers of the soil in Fountain county. Indiana, is the enterprising gentle man under the caption of whose name this article is written, he having spring from a race of sturdy and painstaking husbandmen. .
G. D. Snoddy, of Wabash township, was born in Fountain county, on January 11, 1874, and he is the son of Samuel 1. and Susan ( Koons ) Shoddy, one of our most prominent early families, mention of whom is found on an- other page of this work, in the personal sketch of M. W. Snoddy.
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G. D. Sueddy was ramssd on the old home p's. amts -pael urale .001- Common school of his diskret also attentive aTural if The Toglie firmware aller he ton a general copro affer wp
be it twenty five years of The money ( ins present Trong in Hoy Te for melde all the improvemethis own die sime and has bronow if sp to a Mgh slan al puntivation, and he has now of the finest agidece to the county, mal. r. wortenient and ene-tantial, play a good segof our buildings Around hi- hom word cement walks, and me porch is of calent. Everything about the place indicate, thrift and prosperity His far consists of two hundred fifty- and one-tenth acres, of which two hundred acre: i tillable land, the balance being timbered and in pasture, and it is one of the choicest in this part of the county, being well improved in every respect. He carries on general agri cultural pursuits and makes a specialty of Chester \ te hog . which, owing to their superior quality, always find a very rady market. Mr. Study in a progressive farmer, arefully rotting his crops aund taking care of the soil so that it has retained its origin. rulity. His place is admirably lecated . few miles south of Covington, ir Wabash township.
Mr. Snoddy was warriel on Probe: 3, 1809, 1 Liobie Rabb. daughter of Levi and Mary J. (Como or ) Rabb, both among the early settlers of Four- tain county where they became well known and highly respected. Bom math ilies were wealthy and became influential in the affairs of the county, se; - tion of whoni will be found on another page of this work.
The union of the subject and wife has been blessed by the init's of wie child. Helen M. Snoddy, who lives at home.
Politically, Mr. Snoddy is a Republican, and white he is interested in the -Access of his party and is a man who supports all measures looking to the general upbuilding of his locality, he has never sought political offices. Fra- ternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Wabash township, and belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men at Covington.
S. L. WILKINS.
This is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a producer of wealth. He simply takes advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine, the refreshing rains, and by nature's help and by virtue of his own skill in handling nature's gifts he creates grain, hay.
He vertation. never caring for change it for anything des pre to know the he was best fitted by nature for this line of endeason ool piso be Lossalto freedom means, the freedom of the country where his fine . uis over. & bere the air is pure, where one nas time to think of sonicthrust dise fans die mon chase after the sordid dollar. He has been wise enough to .em pebesten she soil, and has therefore been Happier and healthier than if he had taken in Li fife work in some city
Mr. Wilkins was born in Mill Creek township. Fountain county, budian- December 28, 18;8. His education was somewhat limited, br. be oliconel what he could in the public schools, and he has since made the most of the strong mind and excellent judgment, reading a great deal and assim lately what he reads. He began farming when but a boy and this has been bis tric work. He started in an humble manner and by hard work and careful mens agement progressed from year to year, until he is now the owner :t .08 0 the valuable farms of his township consisting of one hundred and forty-four acres, which he has brought up to a high state of improvement and cultiva- tion, where he carries on general farming and stock raising. He has made all the superb improvements on the place that are scen today. He has lived here about thirty-one years; this vicinity lies in the fertile Wabash valley, and dur- ing his residence here of over three decades he has noted wonderful changes and has taken a very active part in the same. He has a pleasant residence and a good set of outbuildings.
Mr. Wilkins was married in 1880 to Clara Johnson, daughter of Levi and Jane ( White) Johnson. Her father was born in this county and he de voted his life to agricultural pursuits, his death occurring in 1879. The John- son family has been well and favorably known in this locality since the carly days. The death of Mrs. Wilkins' mother occurred in Wabash township, in 1893.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, namely : Fstal.
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being a part of the ad famil; jooptested waffen Ifte Been as the Land v 1990 from that time to the present in som Me Kremly affer affitope, 08 whom there are living The following The. die and set of The auchy Walter resident of Van Buren tomoule emilio fall of ryan Mal, the oi J. M. Wilkey secretary and mesurer Pile Formscon "Auf Derant m nington. The names of the ileczasof unaclairs off Theuil wens longE N. Ella. Belle and Charles. The father of the - dobren, sauce weitere curred in 1832. died in 1909. The mother was boni in fajo tebiale sind this life in the year 1910.
Ed Greenley, who first saw the light of day on January of 1851, was reared on the home place in Van Buren township and has spent the greater part of his life at or near the place of his birth. Ile enjoyed such educational ad- vantages as the public schools afforded, later attended the normal school at Ladega, grew up with a proper appreciation of the true dignity of honest toil and began life for himself as a farmer, which honorable vocation he has since followed with more than ordinary success.
Possessing sound judgment and keen discernment in matters of business. he has added to his realty from time to time until he is now one of the large land owners of the county. To his home place of one hundred and eighty acres in Van Buren township he devote his personal attention, whik a large farm of two hundred and sixty acres in the township of Wabash, he rents. receiving therefrom no small part of his income.
intheaters la mise while his home in the township y Vall Bona bir cow nection quy gene o agriculture, he dente a guest dejot nenequo . da raising of the graded sterk. to which bis sucres has heut nie continuing being at thisone one of the leading men of the transip in this one woda branch of farming.
In hi political beriet r. Greenley is a Republican but not a part of nor aspirant for office or lemership, and in religion he teiroge with for fotbaly to the U'nited Brethren church.
Mrs. Greenley was born and reared in Fountain county, andl & plus 0 beautiful character who has nobly co-operated with her husbandUm the fox motion of their mutual interests and welfare. Four children Trave real their union, namely : Nia, who married Harry Draper, a telephone Imeias Hiring at Mellot' : Mabel, Lawrence and Home all but the old - spilleren bers of the home circle.
K. V. BREWER
This well known citizen and farmer is a descendant of the old settler. Robert Brewer, wl was among the first frontiersmen to come to the wilds of western Indiana about ninety years ago and undertake the task of clearing a farm and a home from the dense woods. When he arrived the clearings in this Wabash country were few and far between and he found plenty to do in subluing the heavy timber and brush wood that cumbered the soil and kept out the sunlight. He was a man of fearlessness and courage and permitted no obstacle to stand in his way. He found here a land of wild beasts, with now and then a nomad band of Indians, with winding trails through the great forests, but no roads; the streams had no bridges and his neighbors were re mote and scattered over a vast territory. But the family became well estal lished here through perseverance, and the name Brewer has been well known in this locality since those early days, one of the best known of the present generation being R. V. Brewer, successful farmer of Wabash town. hip, who is himself a link between the pioneer epoch and the present. And he recall
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their western defile overland acessoen boleur, weber for natural a boy years, then crossed the state and jacobabout & his sons of con mel county, which place telf. ins that and coted ! Jos san. % & of dis sie_ and here lie built a log cabin in the pool- dh yooled but nel ssonthe made a beginnmno and here he made be permanent barne Beuccs 80 0 also crossed the state about that time sendt for jarcht - coulie mer lot selen an ox team and here -he met and hamip! die sidgon' fider o moin Ju los were ivin to them, only two of women are toojus at this moms dole Brewer continued farming h . the rest of fu- lit atomg wu 1836 h, weil surviving mil 1888.
R. V. Breyer, of this revis greg open the door and I Topal o no the other children with the general go gol fu jeme He plerin common schools of his fistries, tang il a leg colon W early in life and has continued this time Of war to the or self o eine der consisting of eighty deres, having shotdel to his good managentem. h is under a line -log of upraven at and murilo tion, all but a small pasture. He now rents the form with the exception ell four acres, which he works himself, just to find a little something to employ a part of his time. He cleared his land and developed it, and built a fine home and an excellent set of ontbuildings. He is spending his declining years in the midst of comfort and quiet as a result of his former years of activity.
Mr. Brewer was married in 1857 to Sarah Ella Cook, daughter of John D. and Rachael (Moody) Cook, and to this union five children have been born, namely : Delsina E. is deceased : Alva, Charles G. and Emerson M., all survive ; the other daughter, Ottis Ann, is deceased. On November 4. 1888. the subject was married a second time, his last wife being Ella Booe, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Kellum) Bode. Mr. Booe was born in the Garst ern part of Indiana, and he came to Fountain county when young. horthy after his first marriage, and here he spent the rest of his life engaged in farm! ing, his death having occurred here. Mrs. Ella Brewer was born in Fountain
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Could the lives . F the view settlers & fully apologilindh written chp att interesting, theMing sant wonderful de i w alu be. Finns at the pointer the family. Think of gle pincer gatherings on the sin nog martes fo old anhsorption school The first churches andley de bran ley , the ramy mectin . the Botons ole circuit uldes. (F husking marclie- LI coon, wolf, fox and bear finnes, and then pressante yousay that the all simple - And lead happy lives Harrison Roomlelush for helt a center for for the lonling agriculturists of Firmatam county, white lo apersone af derbeing years in honorable retirement in his pleasant home je to ffeln. Sony Il amid just such conditions as we describe above, he having hen the son of a typical frontiersman. The Randolph family braved the wilderness of the Wabash region when it was sparsely settled and when hardships and pri- vations were the rule and the conveniences of advanced civilization were the exception, but they were hardy and courageous and persevered until they succeeded.
Mr. Randolph was born on what is known as Silver Island, in the south eru part of Fountain county, Indiana. September II. 1836. He is the son of Aaron F. and Charlotte ( Lunger) Randolph. His father was born in New Jersey and from there he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when young and re mained in the metropolis on the Ohio river two years, and then he came to Fountain county, Indiana, establishing his home in the southern part of the
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Jan. vers ni general farming ano it rang le palme con alle lin and more o da anni Covington there be purchased a pleasant sear le roce in Vationgt in Green, and her be grande pending for west of the day- He has weltallmed a resuite, for he has worked hard for what he has. having begun working out when twelve years of ans and he pehetered unet he be- came one of the most progressive farmer of the locality, where lie big . spent practically all of his life, havin lived out of the county gut ten year. The has been one of the best known stock mert Mountain county and is called as an excellent judge of live stock. He ied and chippen seattle for thety will- ter: in large numbers : raised graded hogs, also bought sound shipped wegs for many years, and no small part of his annual income was derived from his judicious handling of The stock. His large and fertile ian every respect, always kept well improved and under a my state of ultima- tion, everything denoting that a gentleman of thrift and good taste bad it management in hand. He owns a fine farm of two hundred and sixty www. acres in Newton county, Indiana, which he reno.
Mr. Randolph was married in 1855 to Jenme Wright, Mawhter of Gente und Eureann ( Titus) Wright, the father a native of Portland and 1.1. mother of New Jersey. Mr. Wright, who devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, came to Ohio when a young man, thence to Montgomery county. Indiana, and he kept a hotel in the early days, on the old turnpike between Crawfordsville and Lafayette, and he also operated a farm there on which he reared his family, becoming well established and well known. At his tavern, or in those days known principally as wayside inns, stopped many a traveler to the West and not a few men of distinction in statesmanship and other fields of endeavor. There the death of the mother of Mrs. Randolph oc mired. Mr. Wright later moved to Iowa and died there at the home of 1. on.
To Mr. and Mrs. Randolph were born the following children: Lottic. who lives in Illinois, is the wife of J. C. Riley : William J. is deceased ; Mor- ton is also deceased; Lula, who is living on the Indiana state line, married (29)
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of Albert and Hester ( Beans With The Differ , Tampa Primer van- the mother of Indian a. po med his father from the I Begge state of one com gran Father of the sijest having Laer Tossed Was on bergen cutelo Fan ily at New town. Richland trolig till creme wlios lat freds forest, and there he took up langt from the - vermont it une dollar srl twenty-five cents per acre, which he developed and on which he reared fus fan ily, and became a well known pioneer of the county, audf here he spent the rest of his life engaged in farming, and on the old homestead his son, Albert Haas, was reared, and he, too, spent his life in agricultural pursuits. Late in Ble he moved to Wingate, Montgomery county, where he and his wife reside at this writing. They became the parents of two children, Guy W., of this she h. and Fra, who is living at home, she being the elder of the two.
Guy W. Haas was reared on the home farm and there worked wh na bey. and he received a fairly good education in the district schools. He took up farming for a livelihood and is now the owner of a productive and well i'm proved farm of one hundred and fifty-eight acres, most tillable, and whi hr. under his able management, yields a handsome profit from year the year. Ile
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Politdi . Br Ones is a Demest me is Mismo of Val frien bowl- p, Having been elected in mas and he im b.charges The job co for shine in a most acceptable wimmer. He helong is mar bache of Pothose of Veedershung, il , the Modern Woodmen of America
PRIN B MELLONI
Females of Fountain : anity and a chizen why muffins bos almere for o ex reset for the progress of the company of the Leny | author - boy men. His ancestral instory de traceable to frongs alice the county af - pears we have had its origin and where his forlade fred forman greater herr re coming to the New World. When intel Tadayt. co to the com than 1778 there were three Frenchir p |syle no peut here now for accompanied the forces under lis command ; me logod no boom. Later one in Virginia and one in Ohio. Jacob, the one who - 10od ih Pem-ivamia, was married and reared a family of four sons and www daughters. John Mellott, one of these sons, grew to maturity and married a lady by the name of Eve Sipes, who bore him the following children: Gideon, George. Jacob, Andy, John, William. James, Abram. Charlotte, Ida and Susan. So far as known, all the Mellotts in the United States are descendants or offspring of these three brothers.
George Mellott, second son of the above mentioned John, came to Ran- dolph county, Indiana, in an early day and on March 19. 1844, married Mrs. Barbara ( Beary) Rupert, who was born March 31. 1816, in Germany and who with her parents moved to Randolph county, Indiana, in the year 1828.
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John B. Melot Sch a Har & mth. legg Ins och was Tolara Bon- doich county, bielan jamary q. (84 ;. Ham Fefreddo agerentemal bip- app and owing to the absence of school Gehtes thuring his youth uncope. maty a meager education, the sum total of Le client attermes monolu In a little more than six months. Net, Betaling the union, 1 2 manifested a decided taste for reading and -ugh and by org posting if jan books and magazines, papers and periodical. which is called pomme de Witte became : widely read and exceeding; vel ini ordering non the national horizon peque veras with the ani e . he responded to the I'm alen : call for col unteers an ter aperol on to
years read red valiant service for the national union apolis, in .303, when bet ningen years del he accompanied ingsenfati Company K. One Hundred and Nineteenth Indiana ( avales, 0 th Tyone and during the period indicated was in the Army of the Cumberland må patron gated in a number of battles and eng igements. inchiling Bowl of Spain and the pursuit of the Confederate forces make General Home and Tenother- ion. At the expiration of his period of enlistment in 180; he received this discharge at Indianapolis and immediately thereafter returned home and re umed the peaceful pursuits of civil life, which he has still continued.
Mr. Mellott has been twi married, the first time in :864 to Synria C. Tudor, who departed this life in the month of May, 19to, and in Jime of the ensuing year he was united in the bonds of wedlock to Della Parsons, his present wife. To the first marriage four children were born, namely : Ellen. who died at age of fourteen years: George died when eighteen months old : William, who married Ora Strader and now lives in Sullivan county, Indiana : he erved as trustee of Richland township for a period of six years, before
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rimuicd the mercantile fre. . mor phes, men Le den al of me to_ deo 1 ho i still identified ith De vored aubert sie par al file- a kamy part in prompting ve mapal frente morespray Will be este of eight years duang the 090 8/strong- 18 Nozapom 3 1 who 80 6. beer postmaster of Mellou vier aune alle gre reallyfeeles mi ht- jesus a most capable, obliging dot python gabb ervare le pacte a fiecare. home in the town hulphed with al regler forpress tiene un aley- tal is one of the well to-d chen and sons querico tin : q a xxity Republican in huis polaricat afinitions to has never souelil om- less he keeps well informa & mega de i les hely de Gode cor le touch with the times in . 1 1.00 geistes o tre g influ ida visen
CHARLES HMMBIKE
Tomate .. Its. nevertheless, formashed enterpeking and desirable citirens, who base alom. most of powering or civilization in many ways. In whatever state We find Thanh But are losters in their communities and are homebuilders and law-ainding. for they are. if- inost withont exception, thrifty and assimilate very readily our mode of gov ernment, having themselves been reared under a republican form of govern- ment. So we have ever welcomed them, for they have here benefited alike themselves and tis. Of this sterling citizenship the Ramser family of Foun- tain county is a worthy exponent, and of which one of the best known men- bers of the present generation is Charles Ramser, a progressive foriner of Wabash township, he being of the second generation of Swiss in this country. his birth having occurred in Fountain county, Indiana, on September 18, 180; He is the son of John and Elizabeth ( Ritz) Ramser. The father was low
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John Ramser was twice married. Three children were found you in my union, namely : Elizabeth, John and Fred. In ISay I monie geben Ri. , and to this union sie children were born, named a falon .. 3Lar deceased ; Louisa: Henry: Charles, shape of this sket in His eo are both deceased. The mother of these children Days after os on | DO: 19, 1883.
John Raniser was a n'a who looks bude interest in politics will be sjever synight political vfices. He referred to love teni, the t of fame apollon De made vast in provements and built a fine hone.
Charles Kanner grew up on the homestead here and helped me the caller tion, and he attended the comm a school in his it-tik wol om @ Im turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, which he has continued to flow with much success all along the line. He is the owne. . i one of th. lace tarns of Wabash township, which consists of one hundert what about si. acres, eighteen acres of which is timber land, the rest long chler ad Went It is very productive and is well improved. He has a splendid der ling ml gond cutbuildings. He carries on mixed farming and no undi part of ba meine is derived from stock raising, making a specialty of Poland-China hogy and graded hogs of other breeds, his fine stock always finding a very ready market owing to their superior quality. His place is very admirably located five miles south of Covington.
Mr. Ramser was married on June 9, 1896, to Mary Jola Snoddy, the daughter of William 1. and Liza Jane (Johnson) Snoddy, one of the well known old families of Fountain county, further mention of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Ramser grew to womanhood in her
tive community and received her education in the common schools. The union of the subject and wife has been without issue.
FOUNTAIN HAD WARREN VOISATIES, DASS
Mangeally, il. Kimiet 1. a Democrat, Van he has dece, asponad by paul to bring ault has never let give: however, he is a manof page allen game, andl- a pail posted yet in current events. being a great rende api
SAMUEL RICE.
have built up comfortable homes and surrounded themselves with large kommen and personal property, none has attained a higher degree of success than the subject of this sketch. With few opportunities except what h's own effects were capable of ma 'ering, and with many discouragements to overcome. he has made an exceptional success of life, and in his latter years has the gratuita tion of knowing that the community in which he has resides has been bene- fited by his presence and his influence.
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