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William H. Work is of Scottish descent. His
ancestors left Scotland on account of religious persecution in 1690 and came to Holland, and in 1792 emigrated to Pennsylvania. Mr. Work was born August 30, 1817, in Clark county, Indiana. He is the son of Samuel Work, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1787. When about fifteen his father, Henry Work, emigrated to Beargrass creek, Jefferson county, Kentucky, and died there the first season. The family remained here but two years when they purchased a large tract of land near Work's landing, near Charles- town. Captain Samuel Work married Elizabeth Henley, daughter of Jesse Henley, who was born July 3, 1796, and came to Clark county from North Carolina and settled on the place where William H. Work now resides. She was a sister of Colonel Jefferson Henley, who was elected to the Legislature when just past twenty- one years of age, the first native "Hoosier" elected to Congress and the first postmaster in California. Captain Samuel Work was a farmer by occupation, and a member of the Christian church at the time of his death. He was a prac- tical and successful farmer, and a man whose many virtues endeared him to all and caused his death to be a general bereavement. He died December 28, 1871. His wife died July 5, 1850. William H. Work has always followed farming, and has been living on his present farm since 1853. April 22, 1841, he was married to Mary Fouts, daughter of Captain Jacob Fouts. The fruits of this union were three children, Frank, Lizzie, and Dr. William T. Work. The daughter was married June 21, 1866, to W. H. McIlvaine, a native of Henry county, Kentucky. In politics Mr. Work has been a Democrat, and though an earnest worker for his party's success, he has never sought or held office. Both him- self and wife are members of the Christian church. The house in which he resides was built in 1819, and the mud of which the brick was made was tramped by one barefooted man. Our subject is an intelligent and worthy citizen.
Silas Bottorff was born in Nelson county, Kentucky, November 9, 1808. Silas was the second of four children, three boys and one girl. Jacob Bottorff, the father, was a native of Pennsylvania. He moved into Kentucky at an early day, and came to Clark county in 1816. He was a farmer, and settled on the place where
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his youngest son, Jacob H., now lives. He died in 1870, in his eighty-seventh year. Silas was educated in the common schools, and was a farmer by occupation. He worked on his father's place, having his part of the proceeds until after his marriage, when he moved upon the farm where his family now reside. He managed his large farm as a stock and grain farm. He was married to Isabella Fouts October 26, 1837. She is the fifth child in a family of nine children. Her father, Jacob Fouts, was a native of North Carolina, and was born January 14, 1782, and was married, in 1806, to Mary Dongan, a native of North Carolina. They came north when the country hereabouts was a wilderness. He died October 26, 1860, and his wife October 29, 1869. Silas Bottorff was the father of five children- William A., Mollie, Carrie, Belle, and Jacob F. He was a prominent member of the Democratic party. He died Jannary 6, 1881. He was a man of good moral character, a kind husband and father, and a man whose many virtues com- mended him to the respect and esteem of his many friends and acquaintances.
Aquilla Hutchings was born in Frederick · county, Virginia, December 16, 1803. His father, Joseph Hutchings, came to this (Clark) county in 1811, but died before leaving the boat on which he came. He was the youngest of thirteen children-his brother John, of Owen township, being the only surviving member of the family. Aquilla was educated in the com- mon schools, and was a farmer and trader by occupation. He first began farming about a mile north of the present home of his family. Some fifteen years after marriage he bought the place on which he lived when he died. Septem- ber 16, 1824, he was married to Margaret Law- rence, who was the youngest in a family of six children. She was born October 17, 1808. This union was blessed with nine children, six of whom are living. Mr. Hutchings died May 17, 1879, of congestion of the lungs, in his seventy- sixth year. He never recovered from an attack of congestive chills brought on in 1855. In 1863 he was prostrated with pneumonia, and was an invalid until his death. His disease was greatly aggravated three years previous to his death by being thrown from his horse, which broke a thigh bone. William F. and Joseph L. Hutchings, two well-known citizens of Washing-
ton township, are his sons. The other surviving members of the family are: Sarah Ellen Grubb, Isabella Ann, Mary Catharine, and Louisa Vir- ginia Pound. Mr. Hutchings was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and was a zealous and honored member of the Republican party. He was a man of sterling worth, whose honesty and integ- rity, conscientious Christianity, and gentlemanly bearing brought him the esteem and love of all and caused his death to be a general bereave- ment.
Mrs. Eliza J. Colvin was born in Clark county, Indiana, January 18, 1835. She is the fourth child in a family of eight children. Her father, William Park McGee, was a native of Pennsyl- vania, and was born November 29, 1796. He moved at an early day into Kentucky and while yet a young man came to Clark county, Indiana. He was a saddler by trade, and was engaged at this in Owen township, where he was also en- gaged at farming. He died April 27, 1862. His wife died April 17, 1873. Both were mem- bers of the Presbyterian church. Eliza was edu- cated in the common schools. September 17, 1857, she was married to Cyrus Bottorff, who was the son of John Bottorff, a native of Penn- sylvania. He was born November 5, 1829, in Clark county, and grew to manhood in the vicin- ity where he was born. He followed farming as an occupation. Soon after his marriage he moved on the place where his wife now lives. He died March 17, 1864. Mr. Bottorff was an honest, upright man, who depended upon no society to carry him through life's various duties. He was a kind husband and father, a good neighbor, and a man whose many virtues endeared hiru to all. He left a wife, a daughter, and two sons, as follows: William Park, Charles, Monroe, and Amand Leonora. The widow and her two sons inanaged the large farm until her marriage De- cember 4, 1879, to James Colvin, a native of Ireland. He was born about the year 1820. When he came to this country he learned the cabinet trade at Lexington. Mrs. Colvin is from one of the oldest and most, respected families. She is a consistent member of the Presbyterian church and a lady of refinement.
Martin Adams, Jr., was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, November 28, 1797. He was the third child in a family of eleven children.
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His father was born November 5, 1766, in Mary- land. He came to Kentucky five weeks after his · marriage in 1793. He was married to Jane Mathews, who was born July 2, 1769. He clear- ed up a farm and remained upon it until 1811. In this year, on account of not being able to pro- cure a good title to his farm, he moved to Clark county and entered the land on which the sub- ject of this sketch now resides. In 1811 his father and himself went into Indiana as far as Terre Haute, and with other families planted eighty acres of corn, but in June were obliged to return on account of the unfriendliness of the Indians who then roved over that territory. Martin Adams, Sr., lived on the place until his death, which occurred August 18, 1832. His wife died January 9, 1864. Mr. Adams' educa- tional advantages were limited, his early school- ing being received in the curiously contrived old- fashioned log school-house. When of age Mar- tin Adams, Jr., bought the home place from his father, but for twenty-five years followed the river, engaged in the flatboat business. During this time he superintended his farm, and after- wards and to the present time has followed that occupation. He manages his large farm as a stock and grain farm. August 18, 1825, he mar- ried Jane H. Davis, who was born in Wood- ford, Kentucky. Her father, Solomon Davis, was at one time a resident of Jefferson county, Kentucky. They have had nine children, of whom Sina is dead. James H., Clarenda, Caro- line, Thomas, William, John, Charles, and Ada- line are still living. Mr. Adams has never sought or held any office, but has always been an ardent supporter of the Republican party. Mrs. Adams is a member of the Presbyterian church. In the spring of 1813 Mr. Adams enlisted in Big- ger's company of rangers, which was to guard the frontier. He was three months at the fort. He served twelve months, getting one dollar per day and furnished everything. Mr. Adams is a gentleman of intelligence, of strict honesty and integrity. He is one of the oldest and best known citizens of northern Clark county ; is a consistent Christian and an esteemed neighbor.
William King was born in Jackson county, In- diana, in 1837. He was a son of James King, a prominent farmer and citizen of that county, who died in 1862. William King, when a young man, received a good English education. He
was married, at the age of twenty-two, to Miss Nancy Love; they have a family of nine chil- dren, all living and make their father's house their home. Mr. King served his country dur- ing the late rebellion. His interests have been turned principally to agricultural pursuits. He has always owned a farm, and in connection with overseeing it has taught school considerably and been engaged in different businesses. In the year 1878 he was elected justice of the peace by his fellow townsmen, which position he honora- bly occupies. For the past seven or eight years Mr. King has devoted much attention to the study of law. He became a resident of this county in 1875. He is a member of the order of Knights of Honor. He joined the Baptist church at the age of fourteen; his wife joined at the age of twenty.
Dr. W. E. Wisner was born in New York State, Yates county, in 1832. He was a son of Mr. H. Wisner, a prominent, active farmer of that county. When a young man the doctor be- came infatuated with the medical profession. At about the age of twenty-six he commenced studying under Dr. Samuel H. Wright, of Dun- dee, New York, with whom he principally read. He attended his first course of lectures at Geneva, New York. Several years were spent in pursuit of his medical education and in teaching. In the year 1862 he commenced his practice proper in Memphis, Clark county, Indiana. In 1863 he came to Henryville, and has since been doing a very large practice with great success. His practice extends almost to Charlestown, and he receives calls to adjoining counties. As a surgeon his skill has always successfully met everything that came in his practice, curing cataract, etc., etc. In 1880 he added to his practice a fine stock of drugs. In 1866 Dr. Wisner and Miss Mary M. Jackson were united in marriage; she was a daughter of Jeremiah Jackson, a pioneer settler of this county, and a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Wisner is a member of the Knights of Honor, also of the Methodist church; his wife is a member of the Christian church.
Thomas Lewis was born in Monroe township, Clark county, November 9, 1819. He is a son of Mr. John Lewis, formerly from Pennsylvania, but latterly a prominent citizen and farmer of this county, who became a citizen of the same when
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this State was a Territory, and was a soldier of the War of 1812. Thomas Lewis' early life was spent in the interests of coopering, working twenty years at the same business in this county. He afterwards learned the carpenter trade, at which he has been more or less employed, in connection with farming, ever since. He has re- sided upon the farm where he still resides, in Henryville, for the past thirty years. In the year 1842 he and Miss Jane Marsh, of Barthol- omew county, were united in marriage. She died in 1846, leaving two children, a daughter and son, who died while young. Mr. Lewis married his second wife, Miss Eliza Jane Mc- Gregor, March 27, 1856. They have a family of five living children-Eliza (teacher), William B., Martha E., George Elta, Thomas H. Mr. Lewis has nearly all his life been serving his fel- low-townsmen in offices of trust, such as assessor, township treasurer, justice of the peace, etc. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are members of the Protestant church, Mr. Lewis of the Christian church and Mrs. Lewis of the Methodist church.
Dr. W. P. McGlenn was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in December, 1852. He is a son of William McGlenn, who was identified with the interests of that city twenty-five years in the foundry business. At the age of sixteen Dr. McGlenn engaged as drug clerk in his native city, at which he was employed about two years. He afterwards spent four years in Chicago in the same avocation. At this period of his life he turned his attention to the study of medicine. In the year 1875 he commenced the study under the instruction of Dr. Satterthwaite, a distin- guished surgeon, and Dr. John Goodman, a noted physician and professor in the Louisville Medical college. Dr. McGlenn graduated at the Louisville Hospital of Medicine in 1877, and was one of nine of his class, which numbered seventeen, whose grade reached ninety. The year following his graduation he spent in the Louisville hospital. The year following he prac- ticed in Louisville. In the year 1879 he located in Henryville, Clark county, Indiana, where he is enjoying the undivided confidence of the people and a very fine practice. His success has been marvelous in quite a number of interest- ing and complicated cases.
Mr. Lawrence Prall was born in Monroe town- ship, Clark county, Indiana, in 1847. He is a
son of Cornelius Prall, who was a prominent farmer and citizen of this county up to his death. He has made farming his principal occupation, received a good cominon school education, and attended the More's Hill college one academical year. In the year 1880 he was elected township trustee by his fellow-townsmen, which position he is honorably filling. In the year 1868 he married Miss Louisa Kelhoffer, a native of Germany, and they have a family of five chil- dren-three sons and two daughters. Mr. Prall is a member of the Knights of Honor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Prall are members of the Method- ist Episcopal church. Politically he is a Demo- crat.
James S. Ryan, born in Monroe township, Clark county, in 1820, is the son of Thomas Ryan, who became a citizen of this county in 1811, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. His death occurred in 1852. Mr. J. S. Ryan's early life was occupied in farming. He learned the car- penter trade with his father, and afterwards learned the cooper trade, at which he worked about twelve years, some of the time near Charlestown, and part in Henryville. Since the year 1860 he has made the carpenter trade his principal occupation, working in adjoining coun- ties and cities, and also in the State of Kentucky. He has served as justice of the peace seven years, to his honor. In the year 1844 he married Miss Cynthia Friend, a native of Jeffersonville, who died in 1861, leaving a family of five chil- dren, all of whom are grown up. The four daughters are married-two reside in this county, one in Scott, and one in New Albany: The son is making his home in Jeffersonville, being em- ployed in the car works and ship-yard. Mr. Ryan married as his second wife, in 1864, Miss Margaret Newry, by whom he has one child, a son. She died in 1866. Mr. Ryan married his third wife, Miss Margaret Allen, in 1875. They have one little daughter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ryan are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is politically a Republican.
Dr. T. V. Noakes was born at Cloverport, Breckinridge county, Kentucky, in 1849. He is a son of Dr. T. J. Noakes, a noted physician of Breckinridge county. When Dr. T. V. Noakes was a mere boy the medical profession had its charms for him, and having already re- ceived a good academical education he entered
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the office of Dr. Wizner at the age of twenty-one, and remained with him as a student two years. In the meantime he attended lectures at the Cin- cinnati hospital, and was at the same time con- nected with the School of Medicine and Sur- gery at Cincinnati. He graduated at the Louis- ville university in 1874, and immediately after commenced his practice in Otisco, Indiana, Clark county, where he met with splendid suc- cess, but at the expiration of one year, not liking the location, he went to Laprairie, Adams county, Illinois, where he practiced with great success till the fall of 1880, when he gave up his practice for a time on account of his health. In the month of February, 1880, he purchased a farm two miles southeast of Henryville, where he ex- pects to eventually make his home.
Mr. Thomas D. Lewellen was born in Wash- ington county, Kentucky, February 4, 1796. At the age of eight he moved with his father, Samuel Lewellen, to Louisville, where Mr. T. D. Lewel- len worked in a brickyard the summer he was nine years of age, at $4 a month. He made Louisville his home till he was twenty-three years of age, making the brick business his chief avo- cation. At this period he moved to Clark county, Indiana, where he leased land and cleared a farm. Purchased his farm, where he resides, in Mon- roe township in 1825, where he has since resided. About this date he entered the minis- try of the United Brethren church, and traveled five years on the circuit, which he enjoyed very much, and feels that he did the will of his Father. In the year 1818, April 16, he was mar- ried to Miss Anna Adams, who is still living, and is lacking only one day of being one and a half years older than Mr. Lewellen. They have a family of five children-two sons and three daughters. Four children are deceased. 'T'he children are all married and advanced in years, the youngest being forty-eight years of age. Mr. Lewellen claims to be a Democrat, but not of the present stock. He says that when the party fired on Fort Sumter the party left him, and the Republican party has taken the place of loyalty. He lost one son in the Rebellion and two grandsons. His love for the Northern rebel is less than that for the Southern. He is now an old, feeble man, but his views are sound and judgment good, and his love for the soldiers who preserved the country is very strong.
Mr. George Sohn was born in France in 1826; came to America in 1847; spent a few years at New Orleans and Cincinnati, at the blacksmith's trade; purchased his farm in Mon- roe township, this county, in 1858; moved upon it in 1861; was married in Cincinnati in 1863; has seven children, four daughters and three sons; is a good, sound Republican.
James Montgomery become a resident of this county at the age of eighteen. He died Thursday, January 2, 1881, at the age of ninety-three years, nine months, and one day; was born in Septem- ber, 1787. Thomas, his son, was born in Illinois in 1820, June 11; has made this county his home for the past thirty years; has nine boys living, and one daughter. Mr. Montgomery was drafted in 1864, September 20; served his country nine months. James was a soldier in the War of 1812. Both Thomas and wife are members of the Baptist church.
Mrs. Jemima Largent was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1832. She was a daughter of Jesse St. Clair; she is one of a family of four, two boys and two girls. In 1839 she and Gideon Enlow were married. They had one child. He died in 1868. Her second husband, John Largent, she married in 1871, by whom she had one son. Mr. Largent died in 1877. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Owns one hundred and nine acres.
Mr. George L. Page was born in Salem, Mas- sachusetts, in 1821. At the age of eighteen he went to sea, and roamed about six years, making the rounds to the coast of Africa, Sandwich Islands, northwest coast of America and South America, and around Cape Horn. At the age of twenty-five he came to Louisville, Kentucky, where he engaged in business off and on for about twenty years, in the meantime residing upon his farm in Monroe township, Clark county, Indiana, where he has resided since the war' Was connected with the commissary department during the war. Was married in 1845 to Miss Esther I. Berry, of Salem, Massachusetts. Their family consists of four children, having buried three; two were grown up at time of death. One son is married and is farming in this township; the other son is single and farming in Illinois. The daughters are single, and reside at home. Both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically is a Republican.
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Mr. George McClure was born in Ireland April 1, 1800. At the age of twenty-two he came to America, locating first in Baltimore, Maryland, where he engaged as clerk for the firm of George & Hayes, grocers, with whom he remained eleven years. In December, 1833, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he and Wil- liam Ross, a young man who clerked for George & Hayes at the same time, engaged in business. These young men continued in business in Louis- ville twenty years. In 1857 he moved upon his farm in Monroe township, Clark county, where he has since resided. Was married in Ireland, in 1821, to Miss Biddie Hayes, a sister of one of the firm in Baltimore. She died in June, 1868. Both were members of the Presbyterian church. Politically he is a Jackson Democrat. In the year 1851 his brother, Thomas McClure, came from Ireland and lived.upon this farm till his death, which was in the year 1866, at the age of sixty-three, leaving five children, three of whom are dead.
Mr. George McClure, son of Thomas, was born in December, 1839. Farming is his prin- cipal avocation. In the year 1866 he and Miss Lizzie Crum, of Nelson county, Kentucky, were united in marriage. They have a family of four, two sons and two daughters. Owns a nice farm of two hundred and eleven acres in Illinois Grant. Politically is a democrat.
Mr. William McClure was born in Ireland in 1827, and came to America in 1851. Made his home with his brother till he was married, which was in 1858, to Miss Margaret Ann Bodine, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. They have a family of six living children, five sons and one daughter. He purchased a farm of eighty-one acres in 1856, where he resides in Monroe township, Clark county. Recently pur- chased one hundred acres in same township. Has always been a farmer. Is a member of the Knights of Honor, and his wife is a me nber of the ladies association of the same order. Both his wife and family are members of the Presby- terian church.
Mr. A. J. Reed was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1815, January 5th, where he remained till July 6, 1828, when he came to Louisville, Kentucky, where he lived only a short time when he went to Washington, D. C., and lived with his grandfather, who was
at that time a member of Congress. He accom- panied his grandfather to West Virginia, where he lived till the fall of 1832. Saw General Jack- son sworn in each term. Returned to Louisville in November, 1832, and worked at brick burning during the season of 1834. In August of the same year he became a citizen of Clark county, Indiana, which he has called home ever since, though he spent the year 1848 in Cincinnati, during the time of the cholera. From there he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and remained till September, 1850, where he also found the cholera very bad. At this date he returned to this county, where he has since resided. In the year 1858 he purchased the farm where he now resides, in Monroe township, comprising in all three hundred and sixty acres and a beautiful home. Mr. Reed married his wife on this place February 18, 1847, her maiden name being Miss Ann Dunberry, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1823. They have five children living and seven deceased. Of the liv- ing children there are two sons and three daugh- ters. Mr. Reed and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been assessor for ten years, and six years commis- sioner. Politically he is a Democrat.
The firm of Hawes & McDietz was organized March r, 1880, consisting of Joseph J. Hawes and Thomas McDietz, the latter having con- trolled the business from from 1865. Mr. Mc- Dietz was born in Blue Lick, in 1847, a son of Mr. T. McDietz, who was born in Springville, this county, in 1811, and carried on the mercan- tile business at Blue Lick from 1834 to 1863, which was the date of his death. Mr. McDietz, Jr., was married in 1867 to Miss Mary R. Town- send. They have six children, two sons and four daughters.
Mr. Hawes was born in this county in 1838. Since he became a young man he has been on the railroad; was conductor on the Louisville & Nashville railroad but gave it up and engaged in the mercantile business. He was married December 31, 1863, to Miss Mary B. Dietz. Both are members of the lodge of Knights and Ladies of Honor.
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