ABRAHAM B. HAINES, M.D., physician and surgeon, Aurora, is a native of Indiana, born in Rising Sun, November 29, 1823. His father was Mathias HAINES (**note: anyone that has this person contact me and I will also transcribe Mathias HAINES of Ohio County for you) a skillful physician, who in 1816 located at Rising Sun, a sketch of whom appears in the medical chapter of this work. The wife of Mathias HAINES was Elizabeth (BROWN) HAINES, a native of New York City. Our subject received the benefit of the then excellent schools of his native village, and then was sent to Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where he completed his education. He read medicine under his father, and attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College one year, then was one year in the medical department of the Western Reserve College, graduating in March, 1846. In April, 1846, he located in Aurora and began the practice, devoting his entire time and ability to his chosen profession. He was married in October , 1847, to Miss Julia P. LORING, who was born in Ohio County, Ind., November 9, 1824, by which union three children, Mathias L., Thomas H., and Mary have been born. Dr. HAINES was appointed, in July 1862 surgeon of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until the close of the war, after which he returned to Aurora and resumed the practice of medicine and surgery, in his quiet way, without any ostentation whatever. He has received his full share of practice which his skill and ability justly merits. He is a member of the Dearborn County Medical Society, and of the State Medical Society. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he was made an elder in 1848. The Doctor is an exemplary Christian gentleman and a worthy citizen.

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H. D. HANOVER, general roadmaster of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, with headquarters at Aurora, Ind., was born in Wilmington, Conn., in 1836, and is the son of Charles and Candace (CLOUGH) HANOVER. The father was born in Baltimore, Md., April 3, 1797, the mother in Belchertown, Mass., September 1,1801. The parents were married March 26, 1817; the father died November 8, 1861, and mother August 21, 1871. Mr. H.D. HANOVER'S early life was spent in Wilmington, Where he acquired a common school education, and as is customary with boys he could be found at the station forming the acquaintance of firemen and engineers, one of whom he persuaded to secure for him a place as fireman. In 1853 his career as a railroad man began in the capacity of fireman on the old Western Road (now the Boston & Albany) under Wilson Eddy, master mechanic, first firing the engine "Alabama:" for one year at $1 per day between Springfield and Worcester. He was compelled to give up his position on account of being too young to endure the hard labor. In 1854 he went to the N.L.W.& P Railroad as fireman and brakeman, where he remained for two years, after which he came to the conclusion that he would like to be a track man, and went to work on section at Stafford Springs, Conn., and worked for three years. In 1858 he was persuaded to go West under promise of a position as section foreman, which he accepted, and started for Wisconsin and landed at Zanesville, which was the terminus of the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad , later the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac, and now the great system of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, where he was put on a section at Spopiere under Clark Lipe, roadmaster, remaining one year, after which he returned East and remained eight months, there West, and was given a section at Woodstock, Ill.; from there he went to Chicago. Mr. HANOVER was soon changed to a section at Milton Junction, Wis., and remained there on section, extra gang track laying, and conductor on gravel train until 1866, when he branched out to see if he could not better his condition, and chanced to meet an acquaintance, who interceded for him, and through his kind assistance he obtained a situation as conductor on a construction train on a division of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, which position was held for six months. Then Mr. HANOVER was promoted to division roadmaster on the Western Division, thence Eastern Division, officiating in that capacity for fourteen years. In December, 1880, he was promoted to general roadmaster having 629 miles of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad under his supervision, the duties of which office are being faithfully discharged at present, making nearly twenty years' service with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, and during all this term of service he has not lost one day's time, and has the good will and hearty support of his subordinates. By constant care and faithfulness to his employers all these meritorious promotions have been made as a reward for valuable services rendered. Mr. HANOVER has had over thirty years' actual experience in the track department, and is recognized as being thoroughly competent and duly qualified for the duties of his responsible position. No reference is needed of further evidence required proving the sterling worth and great public benefit of such representative men. The smoothness with which the affairs of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad move along (so far as they come under the management of Mr. HANOVER) is proof positive that he is the right man in the right place, and under his able supervision the business interests of the Ohio & Mississippi cannot but go forward to prosperity. Mr. HANOVER was married, April 29, 1859, to Miss Margaret HAMILTON. He has taken all the degrees to Masonry, and is a member of the Indiana Consistory at Indianapolis.

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DR. MYRON H. HARDING, was born August 7, 1810, in th e town of WIlliamson, Ontario Co., N.Y., and was the second son of David HARDING, who in 1820 emigrated from New York to Ripley County, Ind. Myron Holly HARDING attended the pioneer schools of Ripley County and worked at chopping, piling brush and burning log and brush piles, sometimes, on moonlight nights, working with his brothers in the clearing until a late hour. When eighteen years of age he became a school teacher and at the age of twenty entered upon the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. Cornett, of Versailles. After studying one year he successfully stood the examination before the Medical Society of Dearborn County. He then practiced as a licentiate until the year 1837, when he graduated at the Ohio Medical College. He subsequently located at Lawrenceburgh, where he continued in the successful practice of his profession until his last sickness. His practice was extensive, and his skill and learning in his profession were never questioned. He was the author of some valuable articles in the medical journals. He served as president of the Indiana State Medical Society and of the Dearborn County Medical Society. He took a warm interest in the progress of medical science and was a member of the American Medical Society. Dr. HARDING was a remarkable man. First he was a man of one work, a faithful servant of the community in his profession. He was a most devout man, and faithful husband and father. His wife and children occupied the tenderest place in his affection, their adversity his sorrow, their prosperity his delight. He was a true citizen and unhesitatingly identified himself upon the side he though best and right.l A defender of all moral principles, you knew just where you would find him, because he was a man of clear convictions and had the courage of them. In the midst of all the activities of a courageous manhood, on the 5th of June 1885, he was stricken with paralysis. He lingered on through the passing months until September 18, 1885, when his death occurred. His remains were interred in Greendale Cemetery at Lawrenceburgh. Such are the mere outlines of the life of a self-made and self-educated physician, whose indomitable will and unblemished moral character deserved the high success which crowned the career of Myron Holly HARDING, M.D. In 1838 he was united in marriage to Lucy S. PLUMMER, who died in 1864. In 1865 he was joined in marriage to Mary A. HILL. To him, by his first marriage, were born six children, three now living - Isadora H., Laura F. and David Arthur.

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SAMUEL HARRIS settled in Aurora in 1821, emigrating from near Leeds, England. He had been for many years a clergyman of the Church of England. After settling in AUrora he became a member and then pastor of the Aurora Baptist Church. He was a man of great learning. His library was for many years the most extensive and valuable one in the State, and especially rich in the theological works, which were presented after his death, by his son W. T. HARRIS, to the Hamilton Theological Seminary. Rev. Samuel HARRIS died in 1832.

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WILLIAM TELL HARRIS, was an Englishman by birth, and son of Rev. Samuel HARRIS; a gentleman of refined social qualities, great learning, and an author of some note. Mr. HARRIS was an eccentric man n many respects, but that eccentricity never led him to wound the feelings of the most sensitive - always the polite and dignified gentleman, friendly to all, but familiar with none. He was born in London in 1796, and at an early age was graduated from the University of Oxford. At the end of his collegiate course he was indentured to an apothecary, and serving a full apprenticeship received a diploma as a physician. In 1817 he came to America and spent a year in traveling through the West, mostly on foot, returning to England the following spring. Shortly after, accompanying his father's family, he immigrated to this country, and the family took up their residence in Aurora, and for forty-five years, our subject was a prominent citizen of Aurora. "Punctual in his engagements, precise in his business matters and guarded in his expressions." The following extract from a memorial of him by George W. Lane, shows that he was "not only gifted in his memory of local facts, but was unsurpassed in a much higher sense:" "In 1843 Gov. Whitcomb with a friend visited Aurora. I proposed to them a call on Mr. HARRIS. They consented, and after an introduction, the Governor noticed the extensive library which adorned the room and walking up to its heavily laden shelves with all the cheer and familiarity of a child with its toys, spoke of their value. Mr. HARRIS replied, 'These are my household gods, heirlooms of an ancient descent, with the additions of each generation.' Gov. Whitcomb responded, 'I envy you your pleasure in your retirement, with this ancient lore for you companions;' and placing his hand on a book, continued, 'this would be my favorite pastime. Do you remember where the author says----?' quoting from a passage of thrilling beauty. 'Certainly, said Mr. HARRIS, 'but that does not equal ------,' and he repeated some eloquent sentences. Gov Whitcomb replied, 'You quote from_____,' naming the author and the period, with the remark that he had not been attracted by their beauty until repeated by him. Mr. HARRIS, with a formal bow, 'Thank you, sir.' And thus they continued to quote, the other naming the author and the period, and mentioning some circumstances connected with it, until Mr. HARRIS told an interesting story which a remark of Whitcomb had called to mind. Whitcomb was silent; he didn not know the author or the period in history referred to. His face became rigid as marble, and he stood a statue of surprise. Mr. HARRIS, seeing this, came to his relief with a cheerful remark in a foreign tongue. Whitcomb was himself again, and came at him with a flash of his black eye as if it said, 'now I will have my revenge,' and replied in another language. Mr. HARRIS, receiving the charge in all the self-confidence of a prophet who knew the result, replied in still another. Whitcomb answered in yet another language, and how often it was repeated I do not remember, but I well recollect that the two silent spectators were astonished. But it was Mr. HARRIS'S time to reply; he did so in pleasant accents. Whitcomb again was silent; he understood it not. The statue resumed its position and it is not for me to say how long it would have remained had not a remark about books of ancient date galvanized it to life again. Now, it was well known that Whitcomb had one of the best selected libraries in the State, and had a reason to be proud of it. He referred to a valuable book of a certain edition; Mr. HARRIS had the same of an older date, and thus the unequal war was resumed, until Indiana's most learned governor began to show signs of a drooping crest, when, as if reminded by a new thought, he triumphantly referred to an old copy of the Bible that at great expense, he had sent a special messenger to some distant country to purchase for him. Mr. HARRIS let him tell his story, as if loath to deprive him of his well-earned laurels, then slowly took from a shelf a strange-looking book and remarked: 'Governor, had you called on me, I could have shown you a copy of much older date,' and turning its leaves read some familiar passages. One glance at its pages satisfied Whitcomb-it was a sealed book to him."

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ROBERT HARGITT, merchant, Guilford, one of the older residents of Dearborn County, was born in Miller Township in 1826. His father, Thomas HARGITT, located in the same township in 1814. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, and is still living in his eighty-seventh year. He married Ann MASON when about twenty-three years of age, and located on land deeded to him by his grandfather, Thomas HARGITT, and has since chiefly resided in the same locality. From early manhood he was engaged in the local ministry, until his advanced age compelled him to retire from that field of labor. His wife passed away many years ago. Robert HARGITT, whose name begins this notice, passed his early years on the farm, and received the ordinary common school education of those days. In 1851 he married Eliza FULLER, a native of this county, and they have three children living: Allie (wife of John EAGLE), Harry M. and Dolly. After his marriage, Mr. HARGITT took up agricultural pursuits, which he followed till 1862, when he, with his brother, George W. HARGITT, purchased the stock of general merchandise owned by Daniel Chitister, at Guilford, and engaged in mercantile business in that village. In this pursuit he has since continued, except during two years spent in the West, and his efforts have met with fine success. His stock of goods is valued at about $3,000, and he enjoys a fine country trade. For fifteen years Mr. HARGITT acted as agent for the American Express Company at Guilford. He spent about twenty years, more or less, engaged in the local ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but has given up work in that capacity. He was for many years a member of the I.O.O.F., but at length asked and received a card from that organization.

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GEORGE W. HARGITT, York Township, is native of Miller Township, born in 1832. He resided in his native neighborhood till 1855, and was employed on the farm under the ordinary parental guidance. At twenty-one years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed about three years and then removed to Illinois, where he operated one year in the lumber business. He then returned to this county, and has ever since been a resident of the same. He worked at his trade up to 1863, when he purchased, in partnership with his brother, Robert HARGITT, a stock of general merchandise of Daniel Chitister, and began his mercantile pursuit at Guilford, where he has continued the same about eighteen months. He then withdrew from the firm, and invested in a portable saw-mill, which he operated till 1872. In 1874 he purchased his present farm of forty-seven acres, on which he has resided since 1873, chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, but occasionally working at his trade. Mr. HARGITT was married, January 26, 1854, to Jane M. HANSEL, a native of this county and daughter of William HANSEL, one of the early settlers of this county. Their five children living are William T., Mercer F., Anna M., Bertha K. and Emma A. The two sons are now engaged in raising cattle in western Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. HARGITT are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and are well provided with the comforts of life as a reward for their industry. Mr. HARGITT has not been an aspirant to office, but has affiliated with the Republican party on all questions of national issue. His only part in the late war was a slight skirmish during Morgan's raid, the incidents of which are to him the source of more amusement than terror. In all his dealings with his fellow men Mr. HARGITT has never resorted to any litigation whatever, which is perhaps as good recommendation for his citizenship as could be given.

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JOHN J. HAUCK, Lawrenceburgh, was born in Germany in 1816. He was reared to early manhood in his native country, immigrating to the United States at the age of sixteen years. He located in Cincinnati and was there engaged four years in the baker's trade, which he learned of his father in the old country. In 1836 he married Ann M. HORNBERGER and in the same year came to Lawrenceburgh, and opened up a bakery and confectionery, which he conducted for several years. He entered the hardware trade subsequently and also carried a stock of dry goods, conducting these lines of business from 1843 to 1859, when his failing health compelled him to retire from active business. Mr. Hauck served in the city council for several years, and in 1873 was elected may of Lawrenceburgh, holding the office for a period of six years and discharging his duties fearlessly and creditably. In 1880 his health failed entirely, and he departed this life February 2d of that year. He was an enterprising business man, and always made his influence felt in the progressive measures relating to the city. He was one of the founders of the Miami Valley Furniture Factory, and to his energy its ultimate success was largely due. Mr. Hauck was the father of eight children, seven of whom are still living, namely: John, John J., Caroline M., Henrietta M., George F., Emma C. and Warren N. Two of the sons are grocers, located at Greenville, Ind., and a third at Indianapolis, Ind. In 1847 Mr. HAUCK, with George Ross' assistance, built the first Reformed Church in Lawrenceburgh. He was a member of the Reformed society for eleven years, but subsequently joined the Presbyterians. Both as business man and citizen Mr. HAUCK occupied and enviable position in the esteem of his associates. Warren N. HAUCK, son of John J. HAUCK, and city attorney for Lawrenceburgh, was born in the said city in 1860. He grew to maturity in the town of his birth, and was educated in its public schools, graduating in 1878. In 1880-81 he took a course in the Nelson Business College, Cincinnati, and in the fall of the latter year entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1883. He entered upon the practice of his profession in Cincinnati and continued the same in that city one year, when he came to Lawrenceburgh, May, 1884. Previous to this he had in 1882-83 attended for a time the McMichen University of Cincinnati. In the spring of 1884 he was elected to the office of city attorney of Lawrenceburgh, to fill the unexpired term of A.W. Ganes, who had tendered his resignation, and in this position he is now employed. He is a young man of excellent character, and with the qualities of mind and heart calculated to secure for him success of the highest order.

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ABIAH HAYES was born December 18, 1780, in Washington County, Penn., where he continued to reside until near his twentieth year, when he removed to the Big Bottom, where his grandfather (Joseph HAYES), and four of his uncles, had settled some years previously. He located in the valley of the Big Miami, not far from where Thomas Miller, Sr., first settled. Here he invested all his money in the purchase of two and one tenth acres of land, whereon he reared his log cabin. This tow and one-tenth acres formed the nucleus of his future fortune. With untiring energy and perseverance, which he possessed in a high degree, he mad thirty-three trading voyages to New Orleans, and sixteen times returned home on foot, through th Indian nations, and once he went around by sea with his cargo, which he disposed of at Norfolk, Va., Alexandria and Georgetown, D.C., returning home by Washington and Brownsville, paying a visit to the place of his nativity and burial place of his father, thence from Pittsburgh, by the Ohio River home. Thus at the age of fifty-five years, he had become the richest man in Dearborn County. He was cool and collected, never suffering himself to be carried away by passion, he seemed to meditate much, and converse sparingly and never was taken at a nonplus. During the war of 1812 Mr. HAYES belonged to what was called the Rangers, served one trip around by Brookville, Pipe Creek, and the head of Tanner's Creek. Seeing no enemy they returned home. Maj. McHenry was the captain; Mr. HAYES hired a substitute to finish his term of service, thus bidding adieu to the profession of arms. Mr. HAYES raised a large family, seven of whom lived to womanhood and manhood and were married. But three of them survive him -- two sons and one daughter. About eight years since he lost his wife, the companion of his youth. Some four or five weeks passed, he complained of a pain in the side of his face, which was supposed to be a boil; it grew worse and broke. On Monday the 19th Samuel Morrison and Henry Hardin visited him; he conversed freely and sensibly with them, recounting the reminiscences of the past as vividly as though they had just transpired; he retained the full enjoyment of his mental faculties to the last. He was taken with a congestive chill on Monday the 26th (having had two chills previously) which terminated his pilgrimage on earth. He died at the residence of his son, Abiah HAYES, Jr., in the vicinity of Hardinsburg, July 27, 1858, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. E. D. Long, attended by two other clergyman, at the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church, to a very large audience, among whom were to be seen pioneers Judge Isaac Dunn, who has been in the Miami Valley over sixty-nine years; Job Miller and his sister-in-law Sarah Miller, over sixty-eight years; Bailey Guard, sixty-seven years; Thomas Miller, Joseph HAYES, Walter HAYES, Jesse Hunt, Thomas Hunt, over sixty years; Jonathan Blasdall, Elizabeth Blasdall, John Cullahan, fifty-five years, and Samuel Morrison, a native of the county of Dearborn, born in 1796. Thus another of our number has been called away. Peace be to his sleeping dust. He has felled the last oak, reared the last log cabin, plowed his last furrow, his corn is laid by, his harvest is passed, he sleeps his last sleep.

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JACOB HAYES was born in Chester County, Penn., Jan.8, 1791, and immigrated with his parents to Dearborn County in 1804. They settled in the "Big Bottom," on land owned by Joseph HAYES, Jr., and Thomas Miller, Sr. Here, at the age of thirteen years, he began the labor of felling the trees of this grand old forest, and clearing up the land for cultivation; this business, alternately with farming, he pursued diligently until he became of age. He now, without any education, without means or influence, commenced his career and struggles through life. His first trip to New Orleans was as a hand with his cousin, Job Miller, who made his first trip in 1812. Jacob HAYES traveled by land three times, the whole distance through the Indian nations that embraced the dense wilderness that lay between here and there. In the summer of 1813 business of a private nature called him back to Chester County, the scenes of his early childhood, traveling the whole distance on horseback, and at a time when the roads were new and bad, and no bridges; but this was thought nothing of "in the days when we were pioneers, fifty years ago." He was a very active and prominent trader on the river, from 1820 to 1848, having from two to five flat-boats loaded with produce on the river at one time. He was prominent in establishing the Lawrenceburgh Insurance Company, and was a large stockholder, both in it and in the Lawrenceburgh Branch of the State Bank. "When the pioneers of our county drop off one by one, and especially those who have spent a long life of usefulness, in rearing the first log-cabins, clearing away this immense forest, making 'the wilderness to blossom as the rose, ; and in changing it from the home of roaming savage tribes, to the abode of civil and religious liberty, their histories should be written. The history of Jacob HAYES is the history of the times in which he lived among us, and also the history of the county. Go back seventy years and you will see the little family boat of Solomon and Mary HAYES, with their five children, descending the Ohio River and landing at Lawrenceburgh. Seventy years of his life have been spent here among us, within four miles of Lawrenceburgh. Should these things not be noted? He has done his work, he has finished his course, and what his head and hands have failed to do, his money has done." Our subject was married three times, having be each of his first two wifes two children, and six by his third wife. He left three daughters and four sons living, and three dead, twenty-one grand, and two great-grandchildren. By his industry and frugality he amassed quite a fortune, estimated at $80,000 which he leaves to his widow and seven children. By his kind and obliging nature, and under the guise of friendship he has suffered a loss of $20,000 within the last three years. His boating expeditions and extensive farming operations mad him a good judge of human nature; he was a man above mediocrity, and had he received the advantages of an early education, and the opportunity occurred for bringing out his active mind and talents, he would have made his mark in the world. In addition to this he had been blind for eighteen years previous to his death, which occurred February 25, 1874, his funeral sermon was preached by Rev. S. Tincher; services in the Methodist Episcopal Church, attended by a large congregation, among whom were the following pioneers and children of pioneers; John Callahan, Reuben Jackson, William Dils, Norval Sparks, David Nevitt, Joseph Groff, A.F. Gage, Joseph Stevens, Alexander Guard, John Ferris, J.C. Craig, Dr. M.H. Harding, E. Crosby and Mr. Roberts.

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EDWARD HAYES, farmer, Lawrenceburgh Township, was born October 11, 1837, near where he now resides, his parents being Jacob and Leah (HAYES) HAYES. His father settled in this county in 1793, and lived to the age of eighty-three years. Mr. Hayes was reared on a farm, and remained with his parents till about thirty-five years of age. He inherited a considerable tract of land from his father's estate, and by his won exertion has since made additions to this, till he now owns about 400 acres. He was married, in 1859, to Jane E. NIELD, daughter of James and Hannah (WHITELEY) NIELD, both natives of England. Their children are Edward, born in 1864; Silas V., born in 1867, and Joseph, born in 1869. Mr. HAYES is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of the many thrifty farmers of Dearborn County.

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