Alfred E. grew to manhood on the old Johnson homestead, and secured a common school education. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years or duiring the war. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hills, Edwards' Ferry, Jackson, Miss., and Mobile. He was wounded at Champion Hills and received his discharge in 1865. He has since farmed and owns seventy-four acres of well-improved land.

He was married, October 13, 1870, to Miss F. E. BACHELOR, a native of Washington township, born in 1824. They have four children, viz.: Hugh C., Elva M., Edie L. and Grant C. He is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a member of the I.O.O.F. since 1864.

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JOHN L. JOHNSON, the eldest son of the above sketch, was born in 1782, and when a small youth with his father, shared the wilds of a Western life; he could at the age of ninety years, name each of the ten families, who together, in 1790, came to the "territory of Knox;" he retained to a remarkable degree his memory to the day of his death. He died to the advanced age of ninety-two years; for sixty-five years he lived continuously in the same home in Daviess County; his companion during all this time, sharing his trials and joys, died two months later.

He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and participated in a number of important engagements, and at the time of his death was a pensioner on the Government, because of services rendered in that war. His politics were those of his father, Whig, and later Republican; his religous sympathies were with the Methodist Episcopal Church, he having been identified with that denomination from boyhood. "He now rests from his labors." One of his brothers, Friend, moved West with the retreating Indians; he was a silversmith by trade. He died near Muscaine, Iowa. Another brother, Elijah, who was born in 1796, met his death by a falling tree in 1848, in Daviess County, Ind.

His religion and politics were the same as his elder brother's. He left a family of nine children, eight of whom are still living, and whose average age is fifty-four years. William Johnson, a brother, was said to be the first American child born in the State of Indiana; in politics he differed from the rest, as he died a Democrat. George, the youngest, is at this writing alive, being the one one left of the large family. His seventy-seven years sit lightly upon him; he now lives near Sumner, Ill.

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JAMES JOHNSON, the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1742, was of Scotch parentage, and at the age of about thirty-eight, immigrated to what was then the Territory of Indiana. He, with nine other families, ran down the Ohio River, on what was known as keel-boats, until the Wabash was reached. Then those few pioneers poled, pulled, and rowed up the river until the little French town of Vincennes was reached, where they disembarked, and for a time mingled with the French and Indians.

These were the first Americans that made a permanent residence in Knox County, if not the first in the State. These people had moved to the New World with the hope of bettering their condition in life, and they, being farmers by occupaion, were satisfied with the outlook near Vincennes, and soon became settled on Government land, cleared the forests and were rewarded by successfully reaping largely of their growing crops. This colony was composed of brave and daring spirits, and most of that company lived to a green old age.

Mr. Johnson was blessed with a family of thirteen children; the greater number of them lived to settle in life before their father's death, which occurred about 1833, being buried with honors of war, he having for three years been a soldier in the Revolutionary war. So fell this man of toil, who was willing to leave home, nativity, and all that he held dear, that in the wilds of the far West, he might rear a home and leave a competency for his family. His ashes lie in an almost forgotten and neglected family buring ground in Knox County, and according to his religious belief will rest until he shall "meet the Lord in the air." He has many descendants yet living.

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NATHAN H. JEPSON, watch-maker and jeweler of Washington, Ind., was born in Belmont County, Ohio, January 28, 1835, and is a son of John and Hannah (HUNT) Jepson, both natives of Lancastershire, England. The former came to the United States as early as 1825, locating first in Troy, N. Y., and seven years later removed to Belmont County, Ohio. Here he followed farming until late in life, when he devoted his attention to mercantile pursuits, in which he remained engaged until disqualified for business by old age. He died in Belmont County in February, 1884, in his ninetieth year.

The subject of this sketch was brought up by his parents in St. Clairsville, Ohio, where he obtained a fair literary education. He clerked in his father's store until he was nineteen years old, when he went to Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, to learn the watch-maker's and jeweler's trade. Remaining there one and a half years he engaged in the business for himself in Steubenville, Ohio.

In 1864 he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that regiment four months as orderly sergeant. At the close of the war he established himself in business at Urbana, Ohio, where he remained until 1870, when he came to Washington, Ind., where he has continued at the same business ever since. He carries a full and select line of watches, clocks, jewelry and silverware, and enjoys a large trade both in the city and county.

Mr. Jepson is a sound Republican in politics, and has taken an active interest in the welfare of his party since his residence in the county. He was a member of the Republican State Central Committee during the campaign of 1882, but declined the position in 1884, as he was a candidate for nomination to the office of secretary of State before the Republican convention. He has been chairman of the city Republican committe a number of years, was a member of city council two years, and has on several occasions declined the nomination for mayor. He is a member of the U. S. Grant Post, No. 72, G.A.R., of Washington.

In 1863 he was married to Miss Elizabeth BLACK, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio. They have three children: John S., Lucy T., and Jessie Hunt. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jepson are members of the Presbyterian Church, he himself being one of the deacons, and he is universally and justly recognized as one of the leading, enterprising and successful business men of the community.

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JOHN JACKSON, farmer and stock raiser, is a native of the "Sucker State," born February 15, 1830, son of Daniel and Alice (COLBERT) Jackson, and is of Irish descent, and the seventh of thirteen children. His father was born in N. Y. in 1797, and his mother in Ohio in 1804. The grandfather was born in Ireland, but came to America and died in Pennsylvania. The Jackson family came to Daviess County, Ind., about 1830 and settled in Washington Township for a few years and then moved to Harrison Township, where the father died in 1879, and his mother in 1880.

Our subject spent his boyhood days on a farm, and received but little schooling. At the age of twenty-one he began for himself and worked by the month for two years, and then began farming on his own responsibility. In 1880 he moved on his present farm, and now owns 713 acres of land, nearly all of which is well improved.

He was married, in November, 1856, to Miss Melinda CHAPMAN, born in Harrison Township in 1837, daughter of R. S. Chapman. They have six children, viz.: Eli M., Milton M., Charles M., Anna M., Stella M. and Harlie M.

Mr. Jackson is a Republican in his political views, and is a member of the I.O.O.F. He takes great interest in the advancement of agriculture, and is noted as a breeder of short-horn cattle and fine hogs. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is one of the leading farmers of the county.

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HENRY H. HYATT was born in Washington, Ind., June 22, 1842, and is the second of six children born to John and Elizabeth J. (GEETINGS) Hyatt. He was raised in the city and secured a common school education. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers July 2, 1861, and served his country three years, but remained uninjured. After his return home he engaged with his father and brother in the dry goods business, continuing very successfully until 1883. He then took charge of the Hyatt House until 1885, when he abandoned that work, and is not now actively engaged in business. He owns 780 acres of land, a portion of which is the finest in the county in regard to fertitlity and location.

He was married September 5, 1864, to Mary E. HOFFMEISTER, a native of the county and daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Hoffmeister, of this city. To them were born six childrn, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are Clara, Hattie, Elizabeth and Robert C.

Mr. Hyatt is a Knight Templar Mason, Encampment of Odd Fellows and Uniform Degree of G.A.R., K. of H. and K. of P. He and family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is a very zealous Republican. He has been connected with the business interests of the city since attaining his majority, and is one of the first citizens of the county.

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GEORGE HYATT was the second of five children born to William and Rebecca (READ) Hyatt, both natives of the county, and grandson of Thomas Hyatt, who was born in Kentucky and came to Indiana in 1823, and settled on the farm where our subject now lives. He was a prominent man of the county, and all the Hyatts of the county are his descendants. He died September 22, 1848. His wife, Margaret (McFERRAN) Hyatt, died May 17, 1858.

Our subject's father was born in 1823 on a farm, and there lived until about forty-five years of age, when he moved to town and was engaged in the merchandise business for six or seven year. He then retired from that business and dealt in stock, and at his death, June 2, 1885, owned 300 acres of fine land adjoining town.

He was twice married. By his first wife, Rebecca A. READ, whom he married November 23, 1847, he became the father of these children: Mary, George, Margaret, Helen and Rebecca. This wife died April 2, 1858, and he then married Margaret McCLURE, who bore him one child-Thomas. His last marriage was September 11, 1884, to Mrs. Ella A. COUP, who survives him.

Our immediate subject was born July 10, 1850, and was reared on the farm and secured a good education in the graded schools. At the age of twenty-eight he went to California, but remained there but six months, when he returned and engaged in the general merchandise business in Epsom. At the end of three years he purchased an interest in the Washington Mills and Foundry, which was afterward destroyed by fire. In August, 1885, he began farming on the old place and now owns 270 acres of land, part of which is adjacent to town and very valuable. September 4, 1881, he was married to Florence R. CARTER, a native of the county. They have these three children: William, Alice and Mary. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and a Republican in politics.

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HON. JOHN HYATT, a prominent citizen of Daviess County, was born in Mason County, Ky., September 4, 1814. He is one of the four surviving members of a family of three sons and four daughters born to Thomas and Margaret (McPHERSON) Hyatt. The father, who was of German descent, was born in Hyattstown, Md.; removed to Kentucky when he was a young man, married there and in 1823 moved to Daviess County, Ind. Here he purchased what has since been known as the "Hyatt" farm, one-half mile north of Washington, upon which he resided until his death a short time before the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. He was well and favorably known through-out the county as one of its most enterprising and successful farmers, and as a moral, upright man. The mother of John Hyatt was of Irish descent, of Pennsylvania birth, and died on the homestead five years after the death of her husband. John Hyatt was brought up on the farm with his parents, and secured a limited education in the primitive schools of Daviess County, but he greatly improved upon this rudimentary education in later life by actual and continued contact with business life. After attaining his majority he engaged as clerk with the firm of GRAHAM & Hyatt, and continued with them four or five years.

In 1839 he engaged in the grocery business in Washington on his own account, continuing in that business exlusively two years, at he end of which time he added dry goods to his stock, and conducted these two kinds of business until 1875 without interruption. By thirty-five years' experience and attention to business he succeeded in establishing a large and lucrative trade and a comfortable competency. Unfortunately, however, in later years he became crippled financially by security, which illustrates the generous nature of Mr. Hyatt, and at the same time the folly of becoming surety for a friend.

Mr. Hyatt was originally an old-time Whig, but is now a Greenbacker. In 1840 he was elected recorder of Daviess County, serving seven years. In 1868 he was elected by the Democratic party to represent them in the Indiana State Legislature, serving in the session of 1869, and resigning with others on account of the trouble occasioned by theintroduction of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. He was re-elected to the called session of 1869. He has always taken an active interest in public and private enterprises in the county, and has especially devoted his attention and means to educational advancement. He has been a member of the school board a number of times and also of the city council. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and while he is not a member of any sectarian church, yet he believes mainly in the teachings of the Bible and extends a helping hand to the church.

Mr. Hyatt has been married four times, and has lost three wives by death. By his first wife, who was Miss Elizabeth J. GASTINGS, he was the father of seven children, four of whom are now living: Henry H., Fielding A., Samuel and Anna A., the latter now Mrs. William GIBSON, of Salina, Kas. By his second wife, who was Mary BURNS, he had one child, Charles, who is still living. By his marriage with Elizabeth BRUNER, he had three children, two of whom are now living: Cora (Mrs. E. R. TUTTLE, of St. Louis), and Anna (Mrs. Charles OHMER, of Indianapolis). He was married to his present wife, formerly Bertha BRAYFIELD, May 12, 1874. By her he has two children: Francis and Edgar.

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ELISHA HYATT (deceased) may be mentioned as one of the men who figured conspicuously in the financial affairs of the county. He was born in Mason County, Ky., October 4, 1809, and died December 31, 1885, at his home in Washington, Ind. He was a son of Thomas and Margaret Hyatt, and has been a resident of Daviess County since 1823. He remained on the farm and aided his parents until twenty-four years of age. After making several trips to New Orleans by boat, he engaged in the mercantile business with Thomas B. GRAHAM, but the partnership was dissolved in 1842. He afterward operated a distillery for two years, and later was a partner with William HELPENSTEIN in merchandising. Since 1875 he has been engaged in farming, steam-boating, pork-packing, timber traffic, and was president of the Hyatt, LEVINGS & Co.'s Bank of Washington, Ind., which failed in 1884, causing him to lose his valuable estates and property.

He was married in December, 1839, to Martha BEAZLEY, a native of the county, born in 1817. To their union eight children were born, these five now living: Elizabeth (wife of Isaac PARSONS, of Vincennes), Hiram, Lydia (wife of Hugh ROGERS), Richard, and Elisha. Politically Mr. Hyatt was a Whig and Republican, and has been a zealous member of his party. His credit was almost unlimited, and he was recognized by all as one who did much to benefit Daviess County and the city of Washington.

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ALBION HORRALL, postmaster, Washington, was born in Daviess County February 24, 1854, being the eldest of a family of seven children, five of whom are still living, born to Spillard F. and Jane (CRABB) Horrall, both natives of Daviess County, subject's grandfather having come to Daviess County by wagon from South Carolina in 1816, where he resided until his death in 1878. The father of our subject was prominent, and was for a number of years engaged in the newspaper business before the war.

In September, 1861, he enlisted as second lieutenant of Company G, Forty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of he war, and being promoted to first lieutenant and captain, and later was made an officer on Gen. John Beatty's staff. After the close of the war he was local editor of the Evansville Journal six years, and of the Evansville Courier one year. He was then local editor of the Terre Haute Gazette one year, when he returned to Washington and bought the Washington Gazette, which he conducted five or six years. He then removed to Vincennes and started the Vincennes Commercial, which he condutted three or four years, when he again returned to Washington and started the Weekly Commercial, which he ran, however, only a short time.

Since then he has resided in Washington, retired from active labor. The subject of this sketch was brought up in the newspaper business with his father, his education having been obtained in the public schools and completed at Evansville. When he was seventeen years old he worked one year as mailing clerk on the Evansville Courier, and then one year on the Terre Haute Evening Gazette. Coming then to Washington he worked at the case in the office of the Washington Gazette until he was twenty-one years old, when he entered into partnership with his father on that paper, and later in the Vincennes Commercial, continuing thus until his appointment as postmaster at Washington in 1877. This position he filled faithfully and efficiently until 1886.

In politics he has always been a stanch Republican and an active worker for his party. He is a Mason and a member of the I.O.O.F. He was married February 22, 1878, to Miss Mamie HARRIS, daughter of William P. Harris, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Horral have three children: Pearl, Laura, and Pansy. Mr. Horrall attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his family are members.

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HERMAN HIMBURG, was born in Prussia, Germany, October 19, 1832. He is the sixth of twelve children born to the marriage of Jacob Himburg and Mary SCHRAM, wo were also native Germans, and lived and died in their native land. Our subject was reared in a city of Germany, and obtained a good education in his native language, but never attended English schools. At the age of seventeen he left home and traveled as a barber over Europe until twenty-two years of age.

He then came to America and located in Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked at his trade. At the end of six months he went to Canada, and after residing there four years he went to Louisville, Ky., where he remained about six months, and in 1858 moved to Washington, Ind., and worked at his trade about seven years, and also kept barroom. In 1872 or 1873 he moved to Lettsville, where he kept a store until October 17, 1884, when he was burned out with considerable loss. Since then he has followed farming exclusively, and now owns 333 acres of land well improved.

He was united in marriage, January 22, 1855, to Mary GENTO, a native of Germany, who came to America at the same time our subject did. Mr. Himburg is not a member of any church, but is a Lutheran in belief. Politically he has always been a Democrat, and has been postmaster of Lettsville for twelve years. He is a wide-awake business man and has the respect and esteem of all.

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Thomas Donahue, station agent for the B. & O. S. W. R. R., at Washington, Daviess County, Indiana, and an expert telegrapher, is a son of Paul and Maria (Kearney) Donahue, and was born in Altoona, Pa., December 22, 1853.

Paul Donahue, a native of County Kings, Ireland, came to America in 1848, married Maria Kearney, a native of County Queens, Ireland, and to this marriage were born six children, viz: Thomas, our subject; Martin, train dispatcher at Edgerly, Calcasieu Parish, La.; Patrick, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Catherine, a public school teacher of Mitchell, Ind.; Joseph, train dispatcher of Washington, and Edward, of Mitchell. Paul Donahue found his first employment, in a regular way, on coming to America, in Pittsburg, Pa., as a railroad section foreman, and was transferred from point to point along the line until 1855, when he came to Indiana and settled in Mitchell, Lawrence County, where he continued in railroad work until his death, in July, 1891.

Thomas Donahue, our subject, attended the public schools of Mitchell, Ind., until eighteen years of age, when he began his business life as a section hand on the O. & M. railroad; next he entered the station as a student of telegraphy, and a year later became night operator, which position he filled three months, and was then transferred to Milan, Ind., nineteen months later he was sent to Vincennes, Ind., where he remained four years, and was then stationed at Aurora, Ind., for a year and a half; he was then appointed agent for the company at Medora, Ind., and remained there seven years, at which time he resigned and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was engaged in telegraphy two years. Finally, on April 10, 1890, he settled in Washington, Ind., where he has since filled, in a most satisfactory manner, the position of agent for his company.

Mr. Donahue was married, in Mitchell, Ind., October 6, 1879, to Miss Mary Jane Keane, a native of Cincinnati, and this union has been blessed with four children - Thomas, Helen, Lena, and William. The family belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Simon, and socially occupy a high position, owning a very pleasant home on Poplar street, where their numerous friends always receive a warm welcome. In politics, Mr. Donahue is a staunch democrat.

Submitted by: John D. McMullen
History of the Catholic Church in Indiana. (Logansport, Ind.: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1898.) Vol. 2, pp 392-393