Mr. Hefron was elected mayor of Washington in May, 1871, and re-elected in 1873. In 1876 he was chosen to represent Green and Daviess Counties in the State Legislature to fill an unexpired term of Hon. Andrew HUMPHREY, who had been elected to Congress. In 1878 he was re-elected to the State Senate for a term of four years, and was one of the most active members and the acknowleged leader of the Democratic senators. When the Forty-ninth Judicial Circuit was created, Gov. Gray immediately appointed Mr. Hefron judge of the new circuit, an appointment that met with universal approval.

Politically Mr. Hefron is a Democrat, but a very liberal one. He is of Irish lineage, and was married, September 10, 1873, to Florence A. BARTON, who died December 18, 1884, leaving four children. She was a daughter of Dr. G. G. Barton, of Washington, Ind. Our subject is essentialy a self-made man.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 771

FRANCIS M. HAYNES, attorney at law, of Washington, Ind., was born in Lawrence County, this State, November 27, 1845, and is a son of John and Lavina (SAPP) Haynes, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and Maryland, and of Irish and German descent. John Haynes removed to Daviess County with his family in 1849, and located on a farm in Bogard Township, where he resided until his death July 22, 1875. Francis M. was reared on a farm, and secured a good literay education, preparing himself for teaching, which profession he followed for two years.

At the age of twenty he began studying Blackstone, and in 1872 came to this city and read law in the office of Judge James T. PERCE. He was admitted to the Daviess County bar in 1878, and formed a partnership with his preceptor (Perce) and practiced law with him until his removal from the city in 1880. He then practiced with Levi REEVES until 1883, when he continued by himself until 1885, and then formed a partnership with A. M. HARDY, and the firm stands among the foremost ranks in the legal profession to-day.

January 31, 1865, he married Matilda J. BURKETT, a native of the county. Mr. Haynes is a Republican in politics, and takes an active interest in the local campaigns in the county. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving in this and Company I, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the war of the Rebellion until July 13, 1865. He is a member of the Encampment of I.O.O.F. and G.A.R. He was wounded by the concussion of a shell at the battle of Resaca, Ga., producing spinal meningitis, from which he is still disabled. He receives a pension from the Government.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 770

CHARNER HAWKINS, African, was born near Washington, Daviess Co., Ind., March 29, 1831, and is the fourth of a family of eleven children born to Jacob and Ellen (EMBREY) Hawkins, who were natives of Charleston, S. C., where they were slaves. They came with their owners to Indiana when it was a Territory, and at its admittance into the Union as a State they obtained their freedom. The father was at this time sixteen years of age, and by his own energy and perseverance became the owner of over 1,000 acres of excellent farming land. His master's name was Hawkins, and he accordingly took that name after securing his fredom. He and wife were for some time members of the Presbyterian Church, and afterward of the African Methodist Church. The father died in 1864, and the mother in 1870.

Our subject was reared on a farm, and received very limited educational advantages. He remained with his parents to the age of twenty-two years, when he married and settled on his present farm. He has been very prosperous in his undertakings and is at the present time the owner of 260 acres of land in one tract, and thirty acres near Washington. His farm is well improved, and he has a fine two-story residence well furnished.

In 1853 he was married to Malinda GRIER. They have two children: Sylvester and Sarah E. This wife died January 17, 1873, and September 15, 1875, he was married to Millie BLAKEY, who has borne him four childrn: Dora, Clergain, Helen, and Charner. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are members of the African Methodist Church, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F., and politically is a very zealous Republican. He is one of the prominent men of the county, and is recognized as a highly honorable and upright citizen.

His father was the first African in the county, and in his younger days often made trips to Vincennes, protected from the Indians by a number of armed men, to get barrels of salt for the neighbors.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 769

A. J. HART was born near Washington, in Daviess County, Ind., and is one of eleven children born to the marriage of James Hart and Sarah KING. The father was born on the Atlantic Ocean in 1793, coming from Ireland to America. His parents settled first in Tennessee, and then in North Caolina, where the father was married. They came from there to Indiana, and here our subject was born November 15, 1831. His mother was a native of middle Tennessee, died when he was about twelve years of age, and he lived with his father until eighteen years of age, when he began doing for himself.

He first began working on the Wabash & Erie Canal, and in six months' time was promoted to superintendent, and was given a force of seventy-five or one hundred men. Two years later he with sixteen men came to Daviess County, Ind., and commenced working on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. In the fall of 1853 he quit this work and commenced farming on some of the land where he now lives.

February 8, 1854, he was married to Mary, daughter of Matthew and Margaret (HOPKINS) ARTHUR. She was born November 5, 1827. He cast his first vote for Buchannan, but since that time has been a Republican. He has been a member of the Masonic Lodge for sixteen years, and his wife a member of the Christian Church for twenty years. Mr. Hart owns 160 acres of land, 120 of which are in a good state of cultivation. In 1868 he gave up his farm life and kept a general merchandise store in Washington for three years, and then moved to Montgomery, where he followed the same occupation, and also operated a coal mine. In 1876 he returned to the farm, where he has since lived.

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ALEXANDER M. HARDY, attorney at law of Washington, Ind., was born in Ontario, Canada, in December, 1847, son of William and Sarah (MERRILL) Hardy, who were natives of the same place. Alexander was reared with his parents and secured a good literary education, attending the Victoria College of Coburg, Canada, and graduating from that institution. At the age of eighteen he began reading law, graduating from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1866. He then came to the United States and located at Natchez, Miss., where he practiced his profession, and also engaged in the newspaper business. He was appointed collector of customs at that place in 1875, under Grant.

He left that city in 1877 and went to Washington, D. C., where he was employed in the law department of the pension bureau until 1881. He then located in Paducah, where he was employed by the United States authorities as superintendent in building the Government Postoffice and Custom House. In 1885 he removed to this city, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a stanch Republican, and has taken an active part in national politics since his residence in the States. He stumped Mississippi with Hon. John A. Lynch, in 1876 (for Hayes), and was in the campaign of 1880 in Indiana and New York, and during the campaign of 1884 was in Ohio. He was married to Elizabeth LEE. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and K. of H.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 768

RICHARD HENRY GREENWOOD, treasurer of Daviess County, was born in Madison Township December 20, 1836. In 1846 his parents moved to Greene County, where they remained five years, and then returned to Daviess County, and lived in Elmore Township two years. They then settled in Washington Township, four miles southwest of Washington, where they still reside.

The subject of this sketch was married February 2, 1860, and during that and the following year was engaged in farming--one year in Veal Township and the next in Reeve. On the 25th of August, 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Company D, under Catp. John CASSIDY. He remained in the service until June, 1865, when he was mustered out, the war having come to a close. He participated in several of the hard-fought battles of the Rebellion, notably at Chancellorsville, Antietam and Gettysburg, and through the Atlanta campaign and Sherman's march to the sea. At Antietam he received a bullet wound, which disabled him for active service for about six weeks.

Upon his return from the war he became an employee of Elisha HYATT, acting for a number of years as a kind of general overseer of Mr. Hyatt's business at Tom's Hill and vicinity. He then returned to his early occupation of farming, in Steele Township, and in 1880 was elected trustee of the township. Having filled this position creditably for two years, the Democratic party in 1882 nominated him for the office of county treasurer, and elected him over the candidate of the Republican party by a majority of 229. In 1884 he was re-elected to the same office, over Martin NUGENT, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Elmore Township, by a plurality of 367. Mr. Greenwood is an honest and upright man, and an excellent public servant. He is a good citizen, and a representative of the laboring classes. He has a family of six children--five sons and one daughter-- the latter of whom has been of much service to her father in the office of county treasurer.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 767

THOMAS B. GRAHAM, SR., deceased, a prominent citizen of Daviess County, was a Kentuckian by birth, and was one of eight children born to James and Jane (MITCHELL) Graham, who wEre natives of Delaware and Pennsylvania, respectively. James Graham was born about 1772. He moved to Kentucky after attaining his majority, and there married the mother, who was about two years younger than himself. They came to Daviess County, Ind., in 1826. They both died in September, 1838, within four days of each other. Thomas B., Sr., was born December 1, 1806, and was reared in Nicholas and Bourbon Counties, Ky., and there learned the saddler's trade. After coming to Indiana he remained a resident of Daviess County up to the time of his death.

His early business life was in the retail general merchandising, and was marked by that success which characterized his whole buisness life. At different times he was associated in business with Elisha HYATT, Col, John VAN TREES and John FAIRCHILD. He was first married to Lydia McCORMICK, and after her death to Charlottte FOOTE, who also died. No children survive these wives. In 1847 he was married to Margaret HYATT, daughter of Thomas Hyatt, an early pioneer of the county. To his last marriage seven children were born, five of whom are living: Laura, Edith (wife of Dr. J. N. JONES), Ziba, a prominent farmer residing in the city, Lillie (wife of Warren SHERMAN, of Rossville, Kas.), and Thomas B. In politics Mr. Graham was a zealous Republican, but did not mingle in political schemes. He was a self-made and successful man, and has aided much in the progress of the county. Ziba F. Graham, son of Thoms and Margaret (Hyatt) Graham, was born August 30, 1853, and remained with his parents until twenty-four years of age. He then married Margaret A. CABEL, daughter of Joseph Cabel, of Washington, Ind. They have two children: Joseph B. and Robert C. Politially Mr. Graham is a Republican, and is a farmer and stock dealer by occupation. He owns 1,440 acres of fine farming land, about 1,000 acres of which are under cultivation. He is a prosperous and wideawake young farmer.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 766

JOHN J. GLENDENING, book-keeper for CABEL, WILSON & Co., Washington, Ind., was born in Allegheny County, Penn., October 13, 1845, being one of a family of six children, three of whom are living, born to Joseph and Martha (STRAUSS) Glendening, natives of Pennsylvania. In 1853 they removed from Pennsylvania to Jefferson County, Ind., where the father died, and where the mother still resides. The subject of this sketch was reared by his parents in Pennsylvania and in Jefferson County, Ind., and obtained a good literary education. He was engaged in teaching school from 1865 to 1870, when he came to Washington and entered the employ of Cabel, Wilson & Co., in the capacity of book-keeper, which position he has ever since filled in a faithful and efficient manner.

He was married, October 13, 1875, to Miss Harriet E. WRIGHT, of Daviess County, by whom he has three children: Harriet E., Pearl and John. Mr. Glendening is a stanch Republican, and has served one term as member of the city council. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and W. M. of Charity Lodge, No. 30, of Washington. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, and is universally recognized as a moral and upright citizen of Daviess County.

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JOSEPH H. GILL, of the firm of BONHAM and Gill, was born in Bond County, Ill., July 30, 1840, being a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Gill, who died in Illinois when our subjrct was ten years old. Immediately after their death he left the home farm, and at that tender age began life's battle for himself. He worked at manual labor in that State until he was sixteen years of age, when he came to Indiana and began learning the cabinet-maker's trade, at Princeton. Having mastered his trade he came to Washington in 1858, and entered the employ of MATTINGLY & MULHOLLAND, remaining with them until 1862, when he enlisted as a private soldeir in Company H, Twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving in the army until the close of the war, and being in all the battles in which his division, under Gen. A. P. Hovey, was engaged. After being discharged, at Galveston, Tex., he returned to Washington and entered the employ of Mattingly & Bonham, working for them until 1872, when Mr. Mattingly died. He continued with Mr. Bonham until 1874, when he purchased one-half interest in the business, and has since been a partner in the firm of Bonham & Gill.

Mr. Gill is a Republican in politics; is a member of the I.O.O.F., of K. of H., and of the G. A. R., and is an enterprising, successful business man. In 1868 he was married to Mary E. CARNAHAN, a native of Daviess County, by whom he has six children, named Jennie, James, Charles H., Laura, Helen and Joseph.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 765

GEORGE C. W. GEETING was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, May 26, 1853, and is a son of Isaac and Caroline Geeting. He was reared on a farm in his native county by his parents, and secured the usual common school education of the time. He came to Washington with his parents, and was for ten years engaged as clerk in the grocery and dry goods business. In 1880 he took an interest in his present jewelry business with his brother, and since 1882 has been actively engaged in connection therewith. He is a member of the K. of P, and is a Republican in politics.

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R. E. GEETING & BRO., watch-makers and jewelers, Washington, Indiana. This firm consists of Royal E. and George C. W. Geeting. They bought their present business of J. C. FARRON in 1880, starting at that time with small stock and limited capital, but by strict attention to business, economy and integrity, they have succeeded in building up a flourishing business. They carry a full line of watches, clocks, jewelry and silverware, and control a large share of the trade in this line in Daviess County.

Royal E. Geeting was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, September, 1856, and is a son of Isaac and Caroline (WATSON) Geeting, natives, respectively, of Maryland and Hamilton County, Ohio. Isaac Geeting removed to this city with his family in 1868, and he has since resided here, engaged in contracting and building, being a carpenter by trade.

The subject of this sketch worked with his father at the carpenter's trade until he was twenty-one years old, when he entered the jewelry store of N. H. JEPSON, of Washington, where he learned the watchmaker's and jeweler's trade, and continued with Mr. Jepson over three years. He then worked at his trade four months in Sullivan, Ind., when he returned to Washington and established his present business. Mr. Geeting is a Republican in politics, and is justly recognized as one of the enterprising and successful business men of Daviess County, and as a moral upright man. In November, 1881, he was married to Maggie WRIGHT, a native of this county, by whom he has one son, named Otis K. Geeting.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 764

JUDGE WILLIAM R. GARDINER, a prominent attorney of Daviess County, was born January 18, 1837, in central New York, being the youngest of a family of thirteen children born to David N. and Susanna C. (ANDREWS) Gardiner, both of whom were natives of Rhode Island. He was reared to the age of seventeen on a farm in his native State and then went to Ross County, Ohio, and studied medicine two years, attending medical lectures at Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio. He had not completed his medical course when he came to Indiana, where he worked in the employ of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company as carpenter, telegraph operator and ticket agent at different times, and also taught school in the meantime.

In the fall of 1862 he entered the law office of J. W. BURTON, in Washington, and read law one year, having read two years before under the direction of M. F. BURKE. In fall of 1863 he opened a law office at Dover Hill, Martin Co., Ind., and practiced there one year, at end of which time he located in the practice of his profession in connection with William THOMPSON, at Washington, for a few months.

In 1865 he was married to Laura A. GIBSON, of Martin County, daughter of Thomas M. Gibson, a very prominent merchant of Loogootee, and for three years was at Loogootee in his profession. He then formed a law partnership with Col. C. M. ALLEN and Hon. Nathaniel P. USHER, in Vincennes, where he remained till June, 1872, when he located at Washington, where he has ever since practiced law; with S. H. TAYLOR, one year; with Judge J. T. PIERCE, two years; with William ARMSTRONG, two years, and then with his former partner, S. H. Taylor, with whom he has been connected ever since.

Mr. Gardiner's married life has been blessed with six children, but three of whom are now living: Charles G., William R. and Susanna A. (the two sons are now in the State University at Bloomington).

He has, since the summer of 1864, been a very zealous Republican in politics, unless his vote for Mr. Greeley in 1872 is an exception. He has represented Daviess County for several years in Republican State conventions. In 1884 he was a delegate from this congressional district to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, and is distinguished as being the only Indianian who addressed the convention. He was attorney for the town of Washington in 1864 and 1865. Was appointed prosecuting attorney for the district then including Knox, Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Martin and Daviess Counties, by Gov. O. P. Morton in 1866, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of R. A. CLEMENTS, who was then elected judge of common pleas district court. On the death of R. A. Clements Mr. Gardiner was appointed by Gov. Baker to fill his unexpired term of judge. He made a race for judge of Knox and Daviess Circuit Court in 1882, carrying Daviess County, whose regular majority was about 200 Democratic by 270 majority, Newton F. MALOTT, a Democrat, being his opponent in the candidacy. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He is a self-made man and has met with well deserved success.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 763

S. CICERO ESKRIDGE, of the firm of NEAL & ESKRIDGE, of Washington, Ind., was born in this city January 29, 1861, and is a son of Elijah R. and Sarah Matilda (SMYTH) Eskridge. He was raised with his parents and graduated from the high school at this city. At the age of seventeen he began clerking in the grocery business in this city, continuing until 1882, when he engaged in the business for himself, and carried a fine line of dry goods, with John T. NEAL as partner. He has continued in the business to the present time and has met with good success. October 12, 1882, he married Ida M. MILLS, a native of Sandusky, Ohio, daughter of John R. Mills (deceased), who was a prominent stock dealer in this city. They have one child, named Harry M. Mr. Eskridge is a Democrat in his political views, and is recognized as one of the rising and successful business men of the city. He is a member of the K. of P.

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DAVIESS COUNTY, IN. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PAGE 762

JOHN DOWNEY, attorney at law, Washington, Ind., was born in Martin County, Ind., January 10, 1855. He is one of a family of twelve children (eleven of whom are now living) born to Michael and Julia (DOYLE) Downey. The father was born in Queens County, Ireland, and the mother being also of Irish descent, though born in New Jersey. Michael Downey came to the United States in 1845, and for some years followed coal mining in Pennsylvania. About the year 1850 he came to Martin County, Ind., and entered a tract of land where he has since resided, engaged in farming.

The subject of this sketch was raised on the farm with his parents, securing a good literary education and preparing himself to teach school, which profession he followed from the time he was nineteen years of age until he was twenty-two. His services were rendered in district schools, in the normal school at Dover Hill, and in Loogootee pubic schools. In the intervals of teaching he was improving his education by attendance upon the public schools of Loogootee, the normal school at Valparaiso, Ind., and the Notre Dame Univeristy at South Bend. While teaching he also began reading law, with the view of making that his profession.

In 1880 he entered the law office of GARDINER & TAYLOR, of Washington, and continued reading with them until the close of that year, when he entered the office of BYNUM & PADGETT, becoming the latter's partner after the former's removal. He has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in Washington, meeting with well-deserve, Ind., was born in Kentucky January 17, 1829. He was the third of ten children born to Joseph W. and Fannie (ROBINSON) Eskridge, who were natives of Virginia, but were raised in Kentucky. Our subject worked on the farm and at the tanner's trade until he was eighteen years old. His father died about this time and he remained with his mother until twenty-three years of age, and aided and supported the family during that time. He then learned the saddler's trade, but was not devoted to any particular business for about three years. In 1855 he came to Washington, Ind., where he worked at his trade or any labor that presented itself.

December 7, 1856, the nuptials of his marriage to Sarah M. SMYTH were celebrated, and some time later he opened a shop of his own at Edwardsport, but remained there but a short time. In December, 1858, he began working at his trade in Washington, where he continued until January, 1865, when he sold his stock and residence and went to Burlington, Iowa, and thence to Oregon. He was absent about sixteen months looking for a location, but at last returned to Washington, Ind., where he continued the harness and saddlery trade. He keeps a fine stock of goods and has been very successful in his business enterprises. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and politically has been a Democrat since the extinction of the Whig party. He cast his first presidential vote for Winfield Scott. He is one of the prominent men of the county and is highly respected as an honorable and upright citizen. To his marriage five children were born, three of whom are living: Fannie M. (wife of J. T. NEALE), Samuel C. and Lulu.

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