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Mr. Gookins was born in Perrysville, Vermillion county, Indiana, Janu- ary 9, 1847, and is the son of Milo and Mary (Barnes) Gookins. The father was born in Rupert, Vermont, in 1800, while the mother was born in Ohio in 1811. He came west when young and married in Clinton, Indiana." He de- voted the major part of his life to merchandising, in Parke and Warren, counties for the most part. His family consisted of eight children, an equal number of sons and daughters. The death of Milo Gookins occurred on August 18, 1870, and his wife passed away on August 9, 1878. The subject's paternal grandfather passed away in early life at his home in New England. Soon afterward his widow, Milo Gookins and Mary Barnes started for the west in a wagon, making the long journey from Vermont to Indiana in the days when roads were rough and streams were unbridged. Grandfather Gook- ins had originally lived in the state of New York, moving from there to Ver- mont. On the trip to the West, the subject's grandmother was taken sick at Fort Harrison, and she died in the fort, and there Milo Gookins grew to manhood.
F. B. Gookins received his education in the common schools and he has devoted his life to farming and merchandising. He has been engaged in the grocery business at Veedersburg for two and one-half years and has built up a large and growing trade with the town and surrounding country. He has a meat store and carries an excellent line of fancy and staple groceries at all seasons. He formerly lived at Sterling, where he carried on general farming and teaming, and at that time he resided in Fountain county, five miles from the town of Sterling.
Mr. Gookins was married on' November 6, 1872, to Emma Wertz, daughter of William and Rosa .( McClure) Wertz. These parents lived in Pennsylvania in early life, later moving to Fountain county, Indiana, and here Mrs. Gookins grew to womanhood and was educated. Five children have
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been born to the subject and wife, namely : Eunice married James Cook, who is a rural mail carrier; Frank W. is deceased; Esta married Elmer Marsh, a farmer, and they live on a farm three miles from Sterling; Harry R. married Mamie Lighty and they live in Sterling, where he is engaged in business with his father; Marie is at home.
Politically, Mr. Gookins is a Republican, and while he is loyal in his support of the party's principles, he has never sought political office. Frater- nally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, and in religious matters he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is very faithful in his attendance on the same.
J. E. HADLEY.
J. E. Hadley was born in Fountain county, Indiana, September 9, 1849, the son of William and Achsa (Osborne) Hadley, natives respectively of North Carolina and Indiana. The subject's grandfather, Joshua Hadley, also a North Carolinian by birth, migrated in an early day to Orange county, Indiana, removing thence after a few years to the county of Parke, where he purchased. land and in due time became a successful fariner and enterprising citizen.
William Hadley was two years old when his parents settled in Orange county. He grew to manhood on the homestead farm and in 1848 changed his residence to Fountain county, where he spent a number of years as a tiller of the soil. William and Achsa Hadley were members of the Society of Friends and are remembered as a most exemplary and excellent couple ; cach rounded out a well ordered life and left to their descendants the heritage of a name undimmed by the slightest suspicion of dishonor. Their children, six in number, were Alvin, Charles, Martha E., J. E., Milton and Elvet M., three of whom are living.
J. E. Hadley received his preliminary education in the common schools, and by diligent study at home acquired a thorough knowledge of several of the higher branches of learning, and while still a youth, he taught several terms of school, alternating his work in the school room with farming, to which he devoted the spring and summer months. Subsequently he discon- tinued teaching, the better to give his entire attention to agriculture, which honorable vocation he has followed ever since, and in the prosecution of which he has achieved success such as few attain. His farm, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land, is admirably situated in one of
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the most fertile and productive parts of the county and is well adapted to general agriculture, besides containing some excellent pasture and a sufficiency of timber for all practical purposes for years to come. Like the majority of progressive farmers, he relies largely upon live stock for an income and as a breeder and raiser of fine Poland China hogs, short horn cattle and draft horses, his reputation is second to none of his compeers. He has made all of the improvements on his place and the condition of the buildings, fences, etc., and the attractive appearance of everything on the farm, bespeaks the pres- ence of a man who believes in the dignity of his calling and who stands high in the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and fellow citizens. Politically, he votes the Republican ticket, and religiously is a birth-right member of the Society of Friends, with which church his wife and family are also identified.
In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hadley and Anna M. Robbins, daughter of William C. and Fanny (Swimm) Robbins, of North Carolina, the father for many years an honored resident of Parke county. Mr. Robbins came to Indiana in an early day, making the trip from North Carolina on horseback when the country was wild and conditions by no means favorable for traveling. He bought land in Parke county, which he cleared and developed and was long one of the prosperous farmers of the community in which he lived. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley have five children, namely: Clar- ence E., who is in the mail service at Kingman ; William A., a farmer residing a short distance north of that town; Beulah E., a teacher in the public schools of Fountain county ; Lenora Ethel, wife of Samuel Ratcliff, a farmer and hardware merchant of Kingman, and Ondus E., who lives with his parents and assists in cultivating the home farm.
HARRIS GLASCOCK.
Success has attended the efforts of Harris Glascock, a well known citi- zen of the vicinity of Veedersburg, for he has directed his efforts along legit- imate lines of endeavor and has never depended upon anyone to do his planning or his work. He comes of one of the old and highly respected fami- lies of Fountain county, and he has devoted his life to general farming and veterinary surgery, being one of the best known devotees of the latter science during more than a quarter of a century. He is not so active in the affairs of life now as formerly, having accumulated a competency to insure his old age free from want, and he is now enjoying the fruits of his long life of toil and endeavor.
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Mr. Glascock was born in Fountain county, Indiana, December 18, 1847, and is the son of Francis Jackson Glascock and Elizabeth ( Reynolds). Glas- cock. The father of the subject was three times married and his son Harris was a result of the first union. The father's birth occurred on June 21, 1821. He was a native of Kentucky, while his wife was born in Indiana, He came to Fountain county when a child and here he was married. Francis J. Glas- cock spent the rest of his life in this county, with the exception of three years in Danville, Illinois. Besides the subject, there was born of his first marriage a daughter, Harriet. His second wife was Isabella Moffett, by whom two children were born, Nancy and Henry. His third wife was Josephine Booe, which union was without issue. He devoted his life to general farming and stock raising, and he took considerable interest in public affairs. He very ably discharged the duties of justice of the peace for a period of twelve years.
Joseph Glascock, the paternal grandfather of the subject, was a soldier in the Mexican war. He made his home on a farm between Veedersburg and Hillsboro until his death and was a leading pioneer of that locality.
Harris Glascock grew to manhood on the home farm and he received his education in the common schools. He was married in 1870 to Francena Dice, daughter of William Dice, Sr. She was born in Van Buren township, Sep- tember 22, 1850. Here she grew to womanhood and received her education. Her mother was known in her maidenhood as Martha Jane Norris. Fuller mention of the parents of Mrs. Glascock may be found in the sketch of John J. Rivers, appearing on another page of this work. Mrs. Glascock was one of five children, three daughters and two sons.
To Mr. and Mrs. Harris Glascock have been born the following children : Francis Jackson, who married Alice Dyer, is a mechanic and makes his home at Sterling; Alice married John Perry, who was postmaster twelve years at Kramer, Warren county; Nettie Arnetta married W. A. Morgan and they live in Stone Bluff; Harriett married George Asberry and they live near Veeders- burg on a farm on the Stone Bluff road; Earle E. married twice, first Clara St. Clair, of Veedersburg, and secondly, Anna Cass; he is a painter by trade and lives in Chicago.
For a period of thirty-seven years Harris Glascock carried on farming and also practiced veterinary surgery, but he made no specialty of stock rais- ing. He was very successful in both lines and was regarded as one of the best veterinaries the county has ever had, his services being in great demand for miles around. He formerly owned a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he improved himself. It was very well located just east of the town of Veedersburg, but, desiring just enough land to keep him busy
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in his old age when he wanted something to employ his attention, he has sokl all his land but seven acres.
Fraternally, Mr. Glascock is a member of the Masonic order at Veeders- burg, and in religious matters he belongs to the Christian church. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never been especially active in public affairs. He has lived to see great changes in this locality since the days when he attended the old log school house, with its greased paper for window panes and its rude slabs for seats. However, he was one of those who improved such op- portunities as he had and he received a good education, and taught school very acceptably for seven terms prior to his marriage. He talks most inter- estingly of those early times.
SMITH REMSTER.
In examining the life records of the citizens of Fountain county it is gratifying to note that so many of her people have been born and reared here; in fact, have spent their entire lives in this vicinity. It proves the stability of the people and also indicates that this is an excellent place to live and that a livelihood may be here obtained with the least expenditure of labor possible, so that we have a quiet, satisfied, law-abiding and worthy citizenship and a fair and prosperous country, equal to any in the sisterhood of counties in the great Hoosier commonwealth. The Remsters are among the honored pioneer citi- zens here and they have done their full share of the work of furthering the development of the county. One of the well known members of this old fam- ily is Smith Remster, farmer and stock man near Veedersburg. He was born in Fountain county, Indiana, April 17, 1851, and is the son of Andrew and Tamson (Smith) Remster, both natives of Salem county, New Jersey, the date of the father's birth being January 19, 1829, and that of the mother's January 28, 1834. The latter was the daughter of Samuel Smith and wife. Andrew Remster spent his early life in his native state, emigrating from New Jersey to Ohio and later married in the latter state, soon after which event he and his wife sought a new home in the frontier of western Indiana, making the overland journey to Fountain county in a two-horse wagon, by way of Indianapolis, which place at that time had but a few rude huts and there was no railroad in this part of the country anywhere. They began life in true pioneer style here and by hard work had in time a comfortable home, and here they spent the rest of their lives engaged in general farming, the death of the subject's father occurring on November 22, 1865, his widow surviving many years, dying at an advanced age, on February 12, 1902. The paternal
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grandfather of the subject spent his life in New Jersey, where he reared his family of four children.
Smith Remster grew to manhood on the home farm here and when a boy he worked hard assisting his father tend to his crops and his live stock, and during the winter months he attended the common schools in his neigh- borhood, but most of his education has been obtained by home reading, books and periodicals. He has always been a farmer, and in connection with gen- eral farming he raises Poland China hogs, his excellent hogs having always found a ready market. He formerly raised short horn cattle but he now de- votes his attention to Jerseys for the most part and is making good, just as he did with the other breed, for he understands well the successful handling of live stock. He is the owner of a valuable and productive farm of one hun- dred and twenty acres, all tillable with the exception of about ten acres, on which is a young growth of timber. His farm is well located three miles north of Veedersburg, on the Attica road. Politically, Mr. Remster is a Demo- crat; however, he has never been an aspirant for political offices, the only public position he ever held being that of a member of the county council of Fountain county. He is a member of Lodge No. 246, Knights of Pythias, of. Veedersburg. In religious matters he belongs to the United Brethren church and was at one time trustee of the parsonage.
Mr. Remster was married to Ruth Galloway, daughter of George and Catherine (Coffing) Galloway, and they have one child, George Andrew Remster, who is but a child with his parents at home at this writing.
George Galloway was born in Kentucky in 1817 and died April 7, 1877, aged sixty years. He was one of the early settlers of Fountain county, his father having bought land from the government, the farm still remaining in the family.
ยท BERT O .. HUDLER.
There is much in the life record of Bert O. Hudler, editor and owner of The Kingman Star, an excellent weekly paper published at Kingman, Foun- tain county, worthy of commendation and admiration. Like many other brainy, energetic young men who have left their impress upon the magnificent devel- opment of this part of the great Hoosier state, he did not wait for a specially brilliant opening. Indeed, he could not wait, for his natural industry would not have permitted him to do so. In his early youth he gave evidence of the possession of traits of character which have made his life exceptionally suc-
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cessful and he is today admittedly one of Fountain county's foremost and best known citizens of the younger generation. Through his well edited and progressive paper he is doing much for the permanent good of the locality. whose interests he has at heart and seeks to promote in every way possible.
Mr. Hudler was born in Howard county, Indiana, near the town of Cappy, September 2, 1882. He is a son of Charles W. and Sarah A. (Bos- well) Hudler, farming people, natives of North Carolina and Ripley county, Indiana, respectively. The father resides at Boswell, this state, the mother having passed away on May 2, 1906. They became the parents of eight chil- dren, named as follows: Lavonia A. married Marion Tribbett, of Pine Vil- lage; Bert O., of this review; Maude A. married James H. Smith, of Bos- well, Indiana; Daly M. married Mary Satterthwaite, of Pine Village; Daisy M. married Robert Morelee, of Leavenworth, Kansas; Winnie L. lives in Leavenworth, Kansas; Odus E. lives in Veedersburg; Catherine Gertrude lives in Warren county, Indiana.
Charles W. Hudler, father of the above named children, is a Democrat, and, fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Bert O. Hudler received his early education at Pine Village, Indiana, laying there the foundation of a later broad and comprehensive general knowledge that has been gained through a wide course of home reading and by actual contact with the business world. When a young man he spent five months learning the boiler maker's trade, but this not proving entirely to his liking, he abandoned it and entered the office of The Warren Sentinel at Pine Village. He seemed to have marked natural ability for journalism and made rapid progress in the same. After remaining in that office a year, he pur- chased the plant, which he operated successfully eighteen months. On August / 13, 1906, he purchased The Kingman Star, one of the leading weekly news- papers of the Wabash valley, and this he still publishes. He has built up the property, brightened the paper very materially from a mechanical viewpoint, made it a newsy, modern and valuable organ for the general good of the com- munity, and rendered it a valuable advertising medium, and it has proven a very successful financial venture under his management.
Mr. Hudler was married on April 23, 1905, to Harriet A. Hickman, daughter of Harrison and Ellen (Mckenzie) Hickman, a highly respected family of Attica, Indiana. Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Hudler is, by nature, a musician of no mean ability, and devotes considerable time to the study of music, for pastime. He is a director of the Kingman Band, which is one of the best in the county, and its prestige has been due in large part to his efforts.
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JOHN W. MARTIN.
It is with pleasure that the biographer has the opportunity to place before the readers of this work the life record of the gentleman whose name ini- tiates this paragraph, for he is deemed eminently worthy of representation along with the best and most industrious citizens of Fountain county, owing to the fact that he belongs to the energetic and enterprising class that has made this favored section one of the most desirable in the great Hoosier common- wealth. Enjoying distinctive prestige as a lumberman, Mr. Martin has achieved marked success, while his practical intelligence, mature judgment and sound business principles have had much to do in molding public senti- ment in the community which lie has selected for the scene of his life labors.
John W. Martin, of Veedersburg, was born in Homer, Minnesota, March 17, 1867. He is the son of Henry M. and Mary E. (Corbin) Martin, natives of Boone county, Indiana. When a youth Henry M. Martin accompanied his parents to Minnesota and located on a farm where his father, Wesley M. Martin, ended his days. They were early residents of that section of the Gopher state. Henry M. Martin was a successful business man and a good citizen in every respect. He was a soldier in the Civil war. Henry M. Mar- tin left Minnesota in 1880 and operated a flour mill in Johnstown, Indiana, for about six years, later ran a saw mill in Crawfordsville, and in 1888 he came to Veedersburg and engaged in the heading business until 1892, in which year his plant was destroyed by fire; he then went to Terre Haute, thence to Memphis, Tennessee, and he is at this writing a resident of Jackson, Tennessee, being in the employ of W. H. Coleman & Company, of Indianapolis. There were three children in his family : Charles, who died in childhood; Mrs. Viola McCarty, and John W., of this sketch. The father of these children is a Republican, and fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
John W. Martin, of this review, spent his boyhood in Minnesota and he received his education in the common schools of that state. Early in life he entered the lumber business, in which he has remained, including handling lumber, timber and the heading business, and kindred pursuits, in all of which he has met with encouraging success. He has been connected with the same company as was his father. He came to Veedersburg from Indianapolis and has since operated a lumber yard here, enjoying an ever-growing trade, which now extends over a wide territory. He devotes all his attention to the lumber business, although he is the owner of two hundred acres of valuable and well improved land, all under a high state of cultivation.
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Mr. Martin was married on June 12, 1892, to Emma O. Osborn, daugh- ter of Elijah B. Osborn and wife, a highly respected family, and this union has resulted in the birth of two children, Louis and Mildred.
Politically, Mr. Martin is a Republican, but is not a biased partisan, be- lieving in placing the best men in office, holding principles above party. He has been a member of the city council at Veedersburg. He belongs to the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias. Religiously, he belongs to the Christian church and is a trustee in the local congregation.
ROBERT ALLEN McCORD.
One of the influential business men of southern Fountain county is Robert Allen McCord, the present popular and efficient cashier of the Bank of Kingman, who, while yet young in years, has shown what may be accom- plished by the persevering and honest man who applies himself to legitimate lines of endeavor. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished in the business world, having started in life with little assistance in any way, and he has gained a position of prominence in the community through his own unaided efforts, by hard work, good management and honorable deal- ings with his fellow men, the attributes having been backed up by sound common sense, which always brings tangible results when properly applied. And because of his industry, honesty and public spirit, and his loyalty to all movements looking to the good of the locality where he lives, Mr. McCord is highly respected by all who know him.
Robert A. McCord was born in Warren county, Indiana, May 4, 1883. He is a son of Joseph H. and Mary Adildia (Hall) McCord, of Adams town- ship, Warren county, long one of the leading families of that community. The subject grew to manhood in his native county, and he received his edu- cation in the common schools and high school at Pine Village, and thereafter engaged in farming and stock raising, making a pronounced success from the start. In June, 1909, he turned his attention from the active pursuits of farming and entered the Bank of Kingman as assistant cashier, to learn the banking business. He made rapid progress, and since 1910 he has been em- ployed as cashier of that sound and popular institution, and is still discharging the duties of the position in a manner that reflects much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of the stockholders and patrons. He also finds time for other lines of endeavor, and has an interest in the grain eleva-
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tor at the town of Yeddo, also does considerable insurance business, and he looks after his fine farm in this county, on which he keeps an excellent grade of live stock.
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Politically, Mr. McCord is a Republican, and, fraternally, he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star. He is a deacon in the Christian church.
November 16, 1910, Mr. McCord was united in marriage with Gertrude M. Glasscock, daughter of Henry and Fannie O. Glasscock, one of the best known families of Fountain county.
The Bank of Kingman was incorporated in 1891 with a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, with R. A. Booe as president, and E. S. Booe as vice- president and cashier. The present officers are E. S. Booe, president ; Henry Glasscock, vice-president; R. A. McCord, cashier. They carry on a general banking business, and the present assets are $105,000; deposits, $94,000.
JOHN A. DAGGER.
This prominent citizen and successful business man comes of good old Revolutionary stock, and ever since his birth, more than three quarters of a century ago, he has been an honored resident of Fountain county .. The Dag- ger family is of Swiss origin, but was early represented in the United States by Peter Dagger, the subject's grandfather, who served three years in the Revolutionary war and participated in a number of battles and minor engage- ments. Charles B. Dagger, son of Peter and father of the subject, was a native of Virginia and an early settler of Fountain county, Indiana, moving here in 1830 and dying six years later. His wife, Mary Waskey, in early life lived near the Natural Bridge, Virginia, having been a native of that state. She survived her husband a number of years, departing this life at a ripe old age in 1880. The family of this estimable couple consisted of three children, Virginia, who married Samuel Kerr, both deceased; Caroline, died aged thirty years, and John A., of this review.
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