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USA > Indiana > Montgomery County > Portrait and biographical record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain counties, Indiana : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens : together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States > Part 78
USA > Indiana > Parke County > Portrait and biographical record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain counties, Indiana : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens : together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States > Part 78
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their parents. The eldest, Wiley W., was born in 1878, Fred G. in 1881, and Myrtle in 1885. All have been given fine educational advantages, and the eldest son has a well-established reputation as a good elocutionist, winning the prize of $5 in the county and town oratorical contest. He won a $10 prize at the County Fair, and has graduated in the graded schools of Alamo.
G EORGE T. DE VERTER, M. D., a success- ful physician residing in Waterman, Parke County, belongs to a family whose repre- sentatives for generations have been numbered among the most patriotic and honorable of our country's citizens. He was born in Waveland, Montgomery County, Ind., March 16, 1839, and is a son of George and Mary E. (Foreman ) De Ver- ter. Ilis paternal grandfather emigrated from France in Colonial days, in company with Gen. La- Fayette, and served in the Revolutionary War, af- ter which he settled in Pennsylvania, where, it is supposed, he died.
George De Verter, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania, and while following his trade of a shoemaker as a "jour," he tramped over fourteen States, and fi- nally arrived at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he mar- ried. From that place he removed to Montgomery County, Ind., and later settled in Parke County, where he died at Annapolis in 1873. He had fol- lowed his trade throughout his entire active life, and was an industrious, energetic man, kind and sympathetic in disposition, possessing a firm will and decided convictions on every subject. Prior to the Civil War, he was a Democrat, but after 1864 he voted the Republican ticket. His wife was born March 26, 1808, in Pickaway County, Ohio, and died August 4, 1891. She was the daughter of an Ohio farmer, who traced his ances- try to Germany.
Eight of nine children born to the parents of our subject grew to maturity, one having died in
childhood. Michael moved to California in 1850, and died in Arizona. He was a member of the Second California Cavalry. Lucinda died unmar- ried. Celinda, widow of Henry Laughlin, resides in Annapolis; Rebecca is the wife of Charley Booze, and resides with her daughter near Craw- fordsville; Mrs. Elizabeth Sherman died in Chil- licothe, Mo .; George T. is the subject of this no- tice; John M. served in Company A, Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry, and died in Nashville, Tenn, in 1862. The youngest member of the family, Alonzo, is a mail messenger. The mother of these elnidren was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a noble Christian woman.
After receiving a common-school education, our subject became self-supporting at the age of twelve, and two years later commenced to work as an ap- prentice to the blacksmith trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of three years. Com- pleting the trade at seventeen years of age, he worked as a journeyman carriagesmith until July 6, 1861, when he enlisted as a member of Company H, Twenty-first Indiana Infantry, of which he was chosen Fifth Corporal. He participated in the en- gagements at Ft. Jackson (at the mouth of the Mis- sissippi River), Baton Rouge, Camp Bisland, Port Hudson, Sabine Pass, Pleasant Hill, Cane River, Yel- low Bayou, and others. In 1862, he became Ser- geant, in which capacity he was discharged, July 31, 1862. While his company was returning home, it was fired into by the enemy at Gaines' Landing. on the Arkansas shore, and five were killed and ten wounded. In January, 1865, our subject went to Cincinnati, and thence to Columbus, Ohio, where he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Veteran Volunteers, or Hancock's corps, and at Washington was pro- moted to be Sergeant.
After his discharge from the army in March, 1866, our subject commenced the study of medi- cine at Annapolis, and in the winter of 1867-68 attended the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1871. He opened an office for pract ee at Howard, Parke County, Ind., where he remained for eighteen years. In 1882, he took a course of lectures at Bellevue Ilos- pital College, New York, and two years afterward
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located at Lodi, Ind., where he opened a drug store in partnership with C. L. Steinbangh.
May 21, 1879, occurred the marriage of Dr. De Verter to Miss Clara B., daughter of Christian and Susannah (Fashbaugh) Steinbaugh. Three chil- dren, Elizabeth I., William J. and Donald, have been born of the nion. Mrs. De Verter is a faith- ful member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a lady of culture, whose friends are as numerous as her acquaintances. As a Republican, Dr. De- Verter served as Trustee of Liberty Township, Parke County, from 1872 until 1878, and has oc- cupied other honored positions with efficiency. In social connections, he is a Mason, and takes an interest in fraternal work. His prosperity shows that he possesses the keen acumen of the success- ful business man, and in addition to his comforta- ble home he is the owner of two hundred and twelve acres in Liberty Township. He takes an active interest in the local work of the Grand Army of the Republic, and during the year 1892 was the President of the Regimental Reunion of the Twenty-First Indiana Volunteers, which was held at Greencastle, Ind., in' September, 1892.
B ENJAMIN F. HUDSON, M. D., is enrolled on the list of successful physicians of Mon- tezuma, Parke County, where he is en- gaged in a good practice. This gentleman was born near New Richmond, Ohio, March 16, 1826. Ilis father was David, and his mother Margaret (Jackson) Hudson, the former a son of William Iludson, who was an early pioneer of Kentucky, who moved to Clermont County, Ohio, where he took up and improved a farm, on which he lived until his premature death. Ile died in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was the father of eight, children, three sons and five daugh- ters. The father of our subject, David Hudson, was born in Kentucky, and went to Ohio with his parents, where he also located on a farm, and, like
his father, was a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. In the fall of 1832 he moved by wagon to Vermillion County, Ind., where he bought and entered one hundred and sixty acres, after- ward accumulating five hundred and forty acres more. In his political sentiments he was first a Whig, and later a Democrat, and at one time per- formed the duties of a Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner. lle died aged sixty-nine years, his wife surviving him a number of years, nurturing eight children: James II. (deceased), Benjamin F., William (who was killed by a tree falling on him when a young man), Elizabeth, El- vira, Ruhama, Cleopatra and Rebecea. The mother of our subject was born in Ohio, and was the daughter of Joseph Jackson, who went from Mary- land to that State in an early day. This gentle- man was a minister in the New Light Church. In 1832 he came to Indiana, where he passed his last days.
Our subject was reared on the old homestead, receiving a common-school and academic educa- tion in the meantime, teaching school during the winters and working on the farm during the sum- mer months. In 1851 he began the study of med- icine with Griffith & Willetts, of Newport, and three years later took a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College. In the spring of 1857 he was graduated from Miami Medical College and located in Montezuma the following June, where he has since made his home and met great success as a practitioner. In 1868 he attended lectures at Louisville, Ky., and has since become a member of the Parke County Medical Society, and of the State and Tri-State Medical Society. He has been twice chosen as Trustee, and was also Trustee of the corporation for eighteen years. Ile is a leader in politics, being a Democrat of no uncertain tone, and has been a strong advocate of its principles ever since his first ballot was cast.
Dr. Hudson was married December 19, 1858, to Mary E. Stacey, who was a native of Massachu- setts and the danghter of Jedediah F. and Clar- inda (Lynch) Stacey, the former a railroad con- tractor and an extensive grain speculator. To this conple was born one child, a daughter, Ada II., who has reached womanhood and become the wife
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of Frank S. Cumberland. The Doctor and his wife are popular in social cireles, having many friends, and their hospitality is proverbial to all who cross their threshold.
OSEPII W. TAYLOR, an intelligent and en- terprising farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 8, Ripley Township, is a member of an old and highly respected family of Montgomery County, of which he is a native, his birth occurring here in 1856. His father, Charles Taylor, was also born in this county, and was a son of Judge Taylor, who was prominent in the early history of this part of the State and in its most recent public life. The Judge was a native of Ohio. He was Judge of the County Court of Montgomery County for fifteen years, dying while an incumbent of that office in 1877. Ile was one of the pioneers of this section, entering at an early day land from the Government to the amount of four hundred acres, a part of which is the home of our subject.
At the age of twenty-one our subject's father purchased eighty aeres of land, and in order to obtain the means to improve it he taught school in the winter seasons, being very well educated, and he farmed summers. In due time he had suf- ficient means to enable him to marry and establish a home, and in 1853 he took unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Mary Ann Smith, a native of Ohio.
The subject of this brief biographical sketch re- ceived a practical education, and early became familiar with agriculture in all its departments, so that when he began his independent carcer as a farmer he was well prepared to make a success of bis undertakings. He has a small. but well-im- proved farm, supplied with neat and substantial buildings for every needed purpose, and the soil is under good cultivation. Mr. Taylor is a breeder of blooded stock, paying especial attention to raising sheep, and he has a fine flock of registered
Shropshire-Downs, two hundred in number, some of the rams being imported and valued at $100 apiece, and he has besides a choice lot of Merino sheep. Ile has also paid much attention to rais- ing the best breeds of poultry, of which he has six varieties of the finest breeds, including the Wyan- dotte. Langshans, game, etc. Some of his fowls are worth $30 apiece, and their eggs bring 84 a dozen. He has been awarded many prizes at the different State Fairs in Indiana, and through eare- ful attention to business and close study be has risen to be second to none in the county as a poul- try fancier.
Our subject's first marriage, which was solem- nized in 1881, was with Miss Hannah Wilcox, daughter of Levi Wilcox. She died in 1885, and Mr. Taylor was subsequently married to Miss Dorro Folick, a native of this county, and a daughter of Israel Folick. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor's home cirele has been widened by the birth of three children: Charles, who was born in 1886; Albert, in 1889; and Jane, in 1891.
Mr. Taylor is a member in high standing of the Second Church, and a generous portion of his means is donated to help carry it on properly. In his political sentiments our subject is a Demoerat, who thoroughly believes in his party. He is a member of the Horse Thief Detective Association, and he may always be depended upon to support all measures to establish justice, peace, and law and order in the community.
G EORGE W. ALEXANDER is engaged in carrying on his well-improved farm of one hundred and fifty-seven acres, on sec- tion 16, Sugar Creek Township, Parke County. He has lived on this place since 1861, or shortly after his marriage. Our subject was born in Guilford County, N. C., on August 29, 1832, being the son of Joseph and Catherine (Alexan- der) Alexander, who were third cousins. The former was the son of James and Nancy Alexan-
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der. Grandfather Alexander was born in Ireland and his wife was a native of Scotland. They both came to the United States with their parents when young, settling in the eastern part of North Caro- lina, where they were married. James Alexander learned the miller's trade before leaving the Em- erald Isle, and followed that occupation through- out life. For many years he owned a mill in North Carolina, but at the time of his death was only superintendent of one. Ile was a Whig and opposed to slavery, though a resident of a South- ern State. His father was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.
Our subjeet's father was one in a family of eight children, the others being Gideon, Jonathan, Cal- vin, Abbie, Sally, and two who died in infancy. They are all now deceased. Joseph Alexander learned the shoemaker's trade in early life, serving an apprenticeship at the same. He married when about twenty-two years old, and had eight chil- dren, our subject being the eldest, and the others in order of birth being as follows: Mary, James C., Naney J., Martha, Catherine L., Joseph F., and one who died in infancy. After the death of our sub- ject's mother, his father married a Miss Hamilton, by whom he had four children. He was, like his father, a Whig, and religiously held membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died at the age of sixty years.
George W. Alexander was only twelve years old when his mother died, and soon after he was bound out to Jaben Erwin to learn the carpenter's trade. For him he worked, receiving only his board and clothes for eight years, and then continued in his employ about three years afterward. Until 1861 he was engaged in carpentering, since which time he has turned his attention almost entirely to ag- ricultural pursuits, and has even succeeded better in this vocation than in the former one. Ilis skill, however, with carpenter tools has proved very useful to him time and again in the construction and repair of his buildings.
lu 1860 Mr. Alexander and Martha A. Baeus were joined in marriage. Mrs. Alexander was born on the farm where she still lives in the year 1839. Hler parents, James and Margaret (Irwin) Bacus, were natives of Ohio and Virginia, re-
spectively, being early settlers of Parke County. This farm was entered of the Government as school land in 1835, and every bit of the place was cleared by Mr. Baens. The house or cabin which he first erected was very small and of the rudest descrip- tion, but in time was replaced with a much more pretentious residence. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are the parents of two children: James B., whose wife was formerly Miss Fanny Delphina Pithod; and Flora A., wife of Chauncey Lusk. Our sub- jeet is extremely proud of his four little grand- children. He is a member of Lodge No. 27, A. F. & A. M., of Annapolis.
RCHIBALD JOHNSTON was born August 28, 1810, in Wilkes County, N. C., and removed with his parents to Washington Connty, Ind., in 1818; from there he re- moved to Putnam County, Ind., in 1822, and set- tled where Greencastle was afterward located. In 1832 he was married to Sarah Keller, who survives him.
In 1844 our subject was elected Sheriff of Put- nam County, and re-elected in 1846, serving four years. In 1848 he was elected Representative for Putnam County and was re-elected in 1850. In 1856 he was elected State Senator from Putnam County, and in 1860 he was elected State Senator for the district composed of the counties of Put- nam and Clay.
In 1865 our subject removed from Putnam County to Montgomery County, and settled upon a farm near Darlington. In 1868 he was elected Senator from Montgomery County, serving four years. In 1878 he was elected joint Representa- tive for the counties of Montgomery and Parke, and served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture for several years. His public services cover a period of forty years.
The death of Mr. Johnston occurred December 30, 1884, he being then seventy-four years, four months and two days old. He left a family of
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nine children. In his personal characteristics he was a powerful man, but only used his power to protect his honor or in defense of the weak. His convictions were strong, and he held to them with tenacity, although he was kind, obliging, gentle, firm, independent and uncompromising in what he thought was right. He was not an educated man, but made good use of what knowledge he had ac- quired. As a speaker he had neither eloquence nor finish, but a dircctness that went to the bot- tom of the matter in hand, and he took a broad common-sense view of things, which made of him a good parliamentarian. In September, 1884, he made a speech at Clove's Grove, which was listened to with pleasure by all present.
OHN W. STRAUGHIAN, M. D., the gentle- man whose name heads this sketch, is the well-known practitioner of Brown Town- ship. The evidence of Southern education so apparent in the courtesy shown by the Doctor to all with whom he has occasion to speak, is ac- counted for by the fact that he was born in Shelby County, Ky. The grandparents of our subject were John and Obedience (Scott) Straughan, both natives of Virginia. The father and two brothers of John were Revolutionary soldiers, and the brothers, going South with the army, it is supposed perished while fighting, as no tidings of them ever reached their kindred after their departure. The parents of our subject, Nathaniel S. and Mary (Brewer) Straughan, were both born in Shelby County, Ky., about the year 1810.
Dr. John Straughan was born in the year 1831, and when about a year old his parents removed from Kentucky and located near Greencastle, Ind., on a farm, where our subject grew to maturity. He received his education in the common schools, and after finishing his course accepted the position of teacher, which pursuit he followed nntil nineteen years old. His natural inclinations being toward a professional life, he resigned his position as a
pedagogue and commenced the study of medicine. He read medicine for three years with Dr. William Mathews, one of the best-known practitioners in the State at that time.
After completing his studies under Dr. Ma- thews, Dr. Straughian entered what was then known as the Indiana Central Medical College, where he remained during the winter of 1851-52. In the spring of the last-named year he located at Park- ersburgh, where he practiced for one year. In the fall of 1853 he entered the New York University of Medicine, and afterward returned to Parkers- burgh, in which vicinity he has since practiced, and is now known as the oldest practitioner doing work in the county.
Dr. Straughan was married in 1853 to Sarah .J., daughter of Robert T. Harrison, a native of Ken- tucky, who came to this county in an early day, and married Miss Melinda S. Parker, whose par- ents also rank among the old settlers of the State. Their family consisted of two daughters: the wife of our subject; and Rebecca, wife of Jasper Osborn, of Ladoga. The union of Dr. Straughan and his estimable wife has been blessed by the birth of three children: Robert A., a farmer; Dr. K. K., a sketch of whose life is given elsewhere in this vol- ume; and Mary, the wife of Robert Williams. The family of our subject's father numbered four chil- dren, of whom he is the eldest. The others are Nancy, who married Wesley Dunlavey, of Putnam County, Ind .; Margaret, who married Thomas Phillips, of Bloomington, this State; and Mary C., who became the wife of Jacob Phillips.
Dr. Stranghan enjoys an extensive practice, and has been a very successful physician. His career is one of honor to himself, and he is fortunate in the possession of a son whose abilities fit him to follow in the footsteps of an eminent father. The professional career of Dr. Straughan was inter- rupted in the winter of 1881-1882, when he served as a member of the State Legislature. The Doctor has never branched out as a specialist, but has studied all diseases with which he has come in contact, and his successful record proves his effi- ciency. As a descendant of the old Revolution- ary stoek he is, of course, a stanch Republican, politically, and can be relied on for bearty support
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in the campaigns of his party. Socially, he is a Mason and Odd Fellow, standing high in both or- ders. He and his wife are noted for their broad intelligence and the liberality of their religious views, the cause of humanity being nearer their hearts than any creed, and the tenor of their lives illustrates their belief in the brotherhood of man.
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ARRY S. AYLSWORTH is a business man of large enterprise, who figures prominently in financial circles in Fountain County, and is the head of the firm of II. S. Aylsworth & Co., of Kingman, dealers in hard- ware, stoves, wagons, buggies, road carts and ag- ricultural implements. Ile is a son of the late Jonas C. Aylsworth, who is represented in this work, and he was born in Granville, Ohio, Septem - ber 24, 1856.
Our subject comes of an old English family who were among the Colonial settlers of New England, coming to this country to enjoy religious freedom. Charles Il. was restored to the throne of England in 1660, and four years later, in 1664, the Episco- palians being admitted to the ascendancy in Church and State, commenced a severe and cruel persecu- tion upon the Dissenters, of which faith were the ancestors of our subject. At that time, one of three brothers of the family, supposed to have been named Theophilus, fled to Holland, adopted Duteh manners and customs, and his surname was changed to Elsvort. After staying a few years with the friendly Hollanders, he emigrated to America with his family and settled in New York. There his name suffered another change and his descendants are known by the name of Elsworth.
In 1670 the persecution of the Dissenters was renewed with increased virulence, and the second brother fled to this country and found a refuge in Connecticut. His posterity spell the name Ellsworth. To this family belonged the famous Chief-Justice Oliver Ellsworth, who was born in 1745, and died in 1807, aged sixty-two years;
and also William W. Ellsworth, a former Gov- ernor of Connecticut. Arthur. the third brother, of whom our subject is a lineal descendant, was born in England in 1656, and at the time of the religious persecution removed to Wales, whence lie came to this country in 1681 in the prime and vigor of early manhood. He was married in Provi- dence, R. I., to Mary Brown, and they settled at North Kingston, that State, at a place called Quitniseck Neck, where they reared a family of nine children. Their descendants, of whom there are many in that State and elsewhere, retain the original spelling of the name-Aylsworth.
The first ancestor of our subject born in Amer- ica was Philip, son of Arthur and Mary (Brown) Aylsworth, whose birth occurred in North Kings- ton, R. I., in 1692. Ile first married Rachel Green, by whom he had four children, and he af- terwards married Mrs. Dyer, a widow. The next in line of descent was Arthur, son of Philip and Rachel Aylsworth, who was born at North Kings- ton in 1720, married Freelove Dyer, who was the same age as himself, and died in 1801, she dying in 1790. They had a large family, and their son William was the great-grandfather of our subject. Hle was born at North Kingston, February 2, 1753, and was married June 5, 1774, to Catherine Hla- vens, who was born at Newport, R. I., December 11, 1750. In December, 1775, they left their na- tive State, crossed the intervening wilderness into New York, and on the 16th of the same month arrived at their destination in the town of New Canaan, Columbia County, of which they were among the first settlers, there being but few other white families in the county at that time. They endured heroically the privations incidental to life in a new country, and by diligence and frugality acquired a competency. He died Octo- ber 23, 1820, and she July 6, 1822, leaving very many friends to mourn their loss. Asahel C. Avls- worth, grandfather of our subject, was their third son, and he was born at New Canaan, February 11, 1791. lle married Harriet Conkling, who was first cousin to Roscoe Conkling, the emi- nent lawyer and statesman. In June, 1838, the grandparents of our subject removed to Granville, Ohio, the grandfather devoting himself to the de-
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velopment of a farm, and the remaining years of himself and wife were passed in that locality.
Harry S. Aylsworth, of whom we write, was only a year old when his parents removed to Ne- braska from his native State. In a few years the guerrillas drove them out of that part of the country, and they returned to their old home in Ohio. They remained there but a short time, however, and then came to Indiana in the spring of 1863 and located at Attica. Our subject re- ceived his education in the village schools of that place, and when his schooling was completed he learned the trade of a tinner of T. M. Powell, of Attica. After that he learned the business of flour packer, and he also traveled for the company that owned the mill in Attica in which his father had an interest. In 1885 he built a steamboat in com- pany with Messrs. Edward Fisher, Charles Hatton and George Hocumb, and with them made a trip down the Wabash, the Ohio and Mississippi to Arkansas and southern Missouri, the trip consum- ing four months and fifteen days. On his return Mr. Aylsworth went to work in the flour mill for a short time, and was then employed in a tin store until the next year, when he and his father and L. F. Putnam formed a stock company and built a mill at Attica. After that he went on the road selling flour manufactured by the firm, and fol- lowed that until the first week in December, 1886. At that time he came to Kingman to establish him- self in the business indicated in the first part of this sketch, said business being conducted under the firm name of H. S. Aylsworth & Co., and he has been an important factor in building up the vil- lage. He erected the first building that was put up on the south side of Main Street, and the company has a large establishment, in which is carried the largest line of goods of any store in the place. The main store is a two-story building, 20x60 feet in dimensions, with an addition on the east 23×60 feet, and another on the south 25x15 feet, with a cellar under the latter of the same size. There is also another building on Main Street that is 25x60 feet in dimensions, besides an open shed 14x60 feet in size. There are two ware- houses connected with the establishment, one 18x30 feet, and the other 18x36 feet in dimensions;
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