Edward C. Lowe, who was born on May 6, 1866, at Kingston, is the son of Alfred and Isabelle (Quigley) Lowe, the former of whom was born on May 7, 1826, and who died on September 5, 1887, and the latter of whom was born on May 9, 1835, and who died on December 22, 1910. The latter was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Quigley, who was left an orphan when a small child. Alfred Lowe was the son of Seth and Rebecca Lowe, the former of whom was born in Glenwood, Wilkes county, North Carolina, on December 22, 1787, and who died in Mills county, Iowa, in May, 1871, in his eighty-fourth year. In 1879 he had moved with his father's family to Fayette county, Kentucky, not far from Lexington, and after living there for some years, had moved to Montgomery county, where, in 1810, he married Rebecca Ryan, who was born in Virginia, October 22, 1790, and who died on February 5, 1865, in her seventy-fifth year. They had seven children, Polly, Matilda, Jackson, George, Eliza, Franklin and Alfred. Eliza, born in 1819, died in her second year, and Franklin, the only survivor of this family, who was born in 1816, is now living in Carson, Iowa.

Seth and Rebecca Lowe, having come to Indiana, and settled in Dearborn county, in 1819, two years later removed to Kingston, Decatur county, and there entered land. On his trip to Decatur county, Seth Lowe was accompanied by two of his children, who after he had done some deadening, went back to Dearborn county for the remainder of the family, leaving the children in the care of two men who were assisting him in the work. Among the first pioneers of this county to plant an orchard, was Seth Lowe and people came great distances to get apples from his orchard. He was truly a temperance man and never used tobacco or intoxicating beverages, and never used profane language. A public-spirited man, he was ardently favorable to public improvements, such as pikes and railroads, and gave his land upon which to build churches and schools. He was among the first citizens of the county to introduce improved breeds of stock, importing choice animals from other states. His worthy wife was remembered long after her death. The Lowe house became known far and near for the generous hospitality accorded strangers and men weary after a long day's ride in a wagon or on horseback found shelter from storm and darkness in the Lowe home. Although they were not members of any church, they believed in the kind of Christianity as set forth and practiced by the lowly Nazarene, and the Reverend Mr. Stogdel is said to have preached in the Lowe home.

In an unbroken forest was performed the arduous toil upon which the family fortune was builded. Alfred Lowe was a farmer upon the old homestead until his father's death. He was crippled when twenty-one years old, while assisting in the construction of the Kingston church, while working on the frame of the church, he fell and broke a leg. Later he spent one year in the West after the homestead was sold, accompanying Seth and Jackson, who were pioneers in the state of Iowa. He, however, went to Kansas, and after a time returned to Indiana, and lived in the village of Kingston until his death. Alfred and Isabelle (Quigley) Lowe had eight children, as follow: Theresa Jane Ardery, wife of David A. Ardery, of Washington township; Seth Samuel, of Greensburg; Charles, of Kansas, William Walter, deceased; Edward C., the subject of this sketch; Catherine Ella, wife of Thomas M. Hamilton, of Kingston; Marsh, of Greensburg, and Arthur J., the assistant cashier of the Greensburg National Bank.

Born and reared in Decatur county, Indiana, and educated in the Kingston schools, Edward C. Lowe has had a most interesting career. After learning the blacksmith's trade early in life, he worked at the trade for one year in Greensburg, and then worked for the National Fireproofing Company, of Jersey City, New Jersey, for one year, after which he worked six months in the Philadelphia car shops, and was engaged for four years in the restaurant business at Brooklyn, New York. Returning to Greensburg in 1907, he engaged in the shoe business for five years, and then established the Rex salt business, the product of which is now manufactured by the Styers Mercantile Company, organized in 1912, with a capital of ten thousand dollars. This company manufactures and sells stock and poultry remedies, as well as One Minute Brand insect powder. The company president is Lemuel P. Dobyns, and the secretary and manager is Edward C. Lowe, Fred Styers, who was originally a member of the firm, retired, the interest having been purchased by Mr. Lowe. The firm does a business of more than five thousand dollars annually, and has its own brick building.

On May 18, 1902, Edward C. Lowe was married to Florence Heislier, of Philadelphia, the daughter of Mrs. Mary Heislier. To this happy marriage have been born two daughters and one son, Edna, Irma and William Alfred.

Mr. Lowe is a Republican, as was his father before him. He is also a Presbyterian, which was the faith of his father, the latter having been, during practically all his life, a member of the Kingston church. Edward C. Lowe is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Greensburg, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

When Edward C. Lowe's grandfather blazed his way through Decatur county over Flat Rock with two hired men, the country was all under water, and when he reached the high knoll in Fugit township, the present site of Kingston, the Indian camp-fires could be seen in the distance. Instead of the great trees and unbroken forest, there are now green pastures and fields of grain that feed the people in the uttermost parts of the earth. The wilderness of this pioneer country has been made to blossom as the rose. If the pioneers could have had the forward vision to see what nature has hidden in the air and earth, if Seth and Rebecca Lowe could have forseen the comfort and convenience of their children and grandchildren, it would have been to them like an Oriental dream. The life career of Edward C. Lowe is a worldly realization of the aims and ideals of his pioneer grandparents in this county.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Clifford F. Jones, the present head of the firm, who was born on September 30, 1886, in Chicago, Illinois, is the son of Clifford S. and Delia (Flageole) Jones, natives of Canada and Illinois, respectively. The former was born in 1865 and died, August 18, 1912. Until 1897 he was engaged in the lumber business at Chicago, and in that year located at Stanford, Illinois, where he was engaged in the lumber business until February 1, 1910. At that time he located in Greensburg and engaged in the lumber business, first under the firm name of C. S. Jones Lumber Company, but upon his death, the change in the firm, heretofore referred to, was made. A very successful business man and highly respected in the various communities where he was engaged in business, he was a member of the Democratic party, the Christian church, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife, who before her marriage was Delia Flageole, was born in Illinois in 1864, and was of French descent. Clifford F. Jones was the only child born to this union.

Educated in the public schools of, Chicago and Stanford, Illinois, and especially in the Stanford high school and the Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois, Clifford F. Jones enjoyed exceptionally fine preparation for a business career. With the exception of two years, 1907-1909, during which he was located in Colorado, and there engaged in operating a lumber yard, he was with his father continuously from the time he arrived at maturity until the father's death.

Mr. Jones was married, July 10, 1910, to Litta Woodson, a native and resident of Phillips, Nebraska. To this union have been born two children, Forbes and Gail.

Clifford F. Jones is a member of the Christian church. He is a Democrat and is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Popular in Decatur county, Clifford F. Jones has made many friends, since moving to Greensburg with his father in 1910. Not only has he established a reputation as one of the enterprising young business men of the city, but he is a man of so agreeable a personality that he has naturally attracted to himself friends in large numbers.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

George N. Reed was born in St. Paul, Decatur county, Indiana, on November 9, 1873, the son of E. R. and Mary E. (Neff) Reed, the former of whom was born near North Vernon, Indiana, and who is now sixty-seven years old and living retired in Adams. His father, Reasonable E. Reed, was an early settler of Indiana and a brick-mason by trade. Reasonable E. Reed was also one of the successful contractors of pioneer times in Decatur county and built several of the best brick houses now standing in Greensburg. He was a member of the Methodist church and a stanch Democrat throughout life. His son, E. R., the father of George N., also was a Democrat and a member of the Methodist church. Mary E. Neff was a native of Decatur county, born in old St. Omer, and died twenty-six years ago on a farm near her birthplace. Her father, William Neff, was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction. Her mother was of Irish extraction and a devout Christian woman and noble character. At the time of his mother's death, George N. Reed was only fourteen years old, and one of a family of seven children. His mother was a woman of gentle disposition and a firm believer in principles of right living. Her memory has been long cherished by the family of children she left and she is honored today for the noble part she bore in the early trials of married life.

George N. Reed lived in St. Paul until seven years of age when the family moved to a farm north of St. Paul, where they remained until he was thirteen, when the family moved back to St. Paul and, after remaining two or three years, moved to a farm north of St. Omer, living there until George N. Reed was nineteen years old. At this time he purchased a livery stable at Adams in partnership with his uncle, George T. Reed, and continued in this business for about two years, when he sold out his interest to his uncle and began working for C. E. Shields, buying grain and selling implements for three or four years. After this time Mr. Reed rented a farm near Adams known as the Griff Adkins farm and cultivated this for ten years.

In 1909 Mr. Reed went to Oklahoma, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres of land in what was known as Comanche, but what is now known as Tillman county. He owned eighty acres of this tract two and one-half years and the remainder three and a half years. As a result of his speculation in Oklahoma real estate, he made a great deal of money and upon coming to Decatur county in 1909 purchased a farm east of Greensburg, known as the Henry Duncan farm of ninety-four acres. Later he sold this farm at a profit and bought the land where he now lives, about three-quarters of a mile from Adams, situated in Washington township.

Before Mr. Reed rented the Adkins farm, he was married to Nora Wright, who was born in August, 1872, in Bartholomew county, and who is a member of the famous Wright family, the genealogy of which is given in the sketch of Caleb Stark Wright, found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Reed were married on September 12, 1896. Mrs. Reed's father, John Wright, has been deceased for fifteen years and was seventy-five years old at the time of his death. He was born in Virginia and came to Decatur county, Indiana, when twenty-five years old and engaged in farming, at which occupation he was very successful. He was a shrewd, capable business man and a student of public affairs and politics, a man who loved to read the Bible and who took a great interest in public movements.

Mr. and Mrs. Reed have had four children, as follow: Florence, Francis William, Orliff, who died in infancy, and Arthur. Besides rearing their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Reed have reared Mr. Reed's sister's son from the age of four to the age of fourteen. This nephew was Henry C. Lowe, who died in Oklahoma.

Mr. Reed for several years has made a specialty of raising hogs, corn and clover. His farm consists of level land. There is not a foot of waste in the entire tract.

George N. Reed is a Republican. He has never aspired to office and has never been especially prominent in political affairs. He is a man, however, who is well-respected by the people of his neighborhood.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Louis Willey, who was born on February 25, 1826, died at his home in Washington township, this county, on July 23, 1911, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, the son of Horace and Anna (Tate) Willey, the former of whom was born in Massachusetts on February 13, 1792, emigrated to Ohio as a young man, locating in Hamilton county, where he spent the remainder of his life. Horace and Anna (Tate) Willey were married, March 7, 1822. His wife, who was Anna Tate, was born in Pennsylvania on June 16, 1792. Horace Willey, a very substantial citizen of Hamilton county, Ohio, died on March 3, 1880. Louis Willey was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party in 1856, in which year he allied himself with the latter party and remained stanchly loyal to the principles of the same the rest of his life. During the last year of the Civil War he enlisted in behalf of the cause of the Union and served in the ranks of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, until that regiment was mustered out of service at the close of the war.

Louis Willey was reared on the paternal farm in Hamilton county, Ohio, and when a young man came to Decatur county. For a year he remained in the city of Greensburg, at the end of which time he settled on a tract of land in Washington township, which his family still owns and occupies. That was about fifty years ago, since which time the farm has been brought to a high state of cultivation, being one of the most productive and valuable farms, according to its acreage, in the county. It is unusually well improved, the farm house and outlying buildings being of a rich and substantial character, everything about the place indicating thrift, industry and good management. The Willeys have their own gas well on the place and the fuel and light question is thus quite easily disposed of by them. Louis Willey was an excellent farmer and a successful stock raiser and became known as one of the most substantial and enterprising farmers of the county. His methods were progressive and were consequently attended by good results, the Willey farm being regarded as a model throughout that section of the community. The methods so successfully adopted by his father have been followed by Andrew S. Willey, who is now managing the place, everything about the farm being kept up in first-class condition.

On April 26, 1863, Louis Willey was united in marriage to Mary Sefton, who was born on April 19, 1840, the daughter of William and Catherine (Shuck) Sefton, prominent residents of this county, the former of whom was born in 1805 and died on October 29, 1868, and the latter of whom was born on May 15, 1806, and died on October 15, 1869. William Sefton, who for years was familiarly known in this county as "Ohio Billie" Sefton, was born in Butler county, Ohio, his father having been a native of Ireland.

William Sefton married Catherine Shuck, also a native of Butler county, and came to Decatur county, settling on a farm in Clinton township, the farm now owned by Samuel Shirk, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, becoming recognized as among the most influential of the pioneer residents of that neighborhood. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Henry T., who went to Colorado some years ago and died in 1914; Eliza Ellen, deceased; Elizabeth, deceased; Michael, deceased; Isaac, a well-known resident of Greensburg, this county; Edward, deceased; Mary, who married Louis Willey, still living on the Willey farm; Sarah, who lives in Greensburg, and William W., retired, who lives in Kokomo, Indiana.

To Louis and Mary (Sefton) Willey were born three children, as follow: William Henry, who died in infancy; Andrew S., born on September 12, 1865, lives on the home place with his mother, and Frank W., born on June 30, 1869, who is a cement contractor, doing business in the city of Greensburg, this county, where he has achieved a pronounced success in business. He married Bert Douglas, October 15, 1903, to whom was born one daughter, Pauline, on January 21, 1905.

Mrs. Willey is a member of the Methodist church and for many years has been regarded as among the leaders in all good works in the community in which she lives, being held in the highest regard by all within the circle of her acquaintance. She and her son have a very pleasant home, which is the center of much genial hospitality, and they enjoy the highest esteem of all. As noted above, Andrew S. Willey is a progressive and enterprising farmer and is looked upon as one of the substantial citizens of the county, being held in the highest repute by all who know him. Mr. Willey's farm is called the Forest farm, owing to the great forest trees which still remain upon it.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Ernest D. Power, farmer and stockman of Fugit township, Decatur county, Indiana, was born on November 1, 1871, in Milroy, Rush county, Indiana, and is the son of George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power, natives of Rush county, and now living retired. The father was the son of the late John Power, a native of Kentucky and an early settler in Rush county. George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power have had three children, May, who lives at home; Ray C., who is a farmer near Milroy, and Ernest D., the subject of this sketch.

Immediately after finishing his education in the schools of Milroy, Indiana, Mr. Power purchased a farm in Rush county, in 1894, consisting of two hundred and five acres, and thirteen years later, in October, 1907, removed to Fugit township, Decatur county, purchasing his present farm at that time. He has been living in Decatur county, therefore, for about eight years, and has come to be well known in Fugit township, and in fact throughout all Decatur county, being related by marriage and otherwise to some of the oldest families in Decatur county.

Mr. Power was first married, in 1895, to Mary McCracken, the daughter of H. T. McCracken, an old settler of Fugit township. By this marriage he had one child, Ruth, aged fifteen years, who is a student in the Clarksburg high school. Mrs. Power died in October, 1910, and in October, 1911, Mr. Power was married again to Lella Logan, the daughter of Nathan M. and Rebecca (Martin) Logan, the former of whom was born on September 27, 1857, in Decatur county, and the latter of whom was born on December 29, 1860, in Decatur county.

Mrs. Power, who is the eldest child of her parents, was born on May 31, 1882, and graduated from Monmouth College in 1908. She has been the mother of one daughter, Carmen Georgia, born on August 13, 1913.

Of Mrs. Power's ancestry it may be said that her father, who owns a beautiful home of ninety acres of land in Fugit township, and one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson county, Oklahoma, was born in a brick house erected by his father, Joseph A. Logan, in 1855. Joseph A., who was born on January 9, 1821, and who was brought to Indiana, on horseback, at the age of six months, by his father and mother, Martin and Mary (Rankin) Logan, was married in 1842 to Mary Jane Straney, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, born on May 12, 1824. She died on May 26, 1888. They had eight children, of whom all are deceased, except Nathan M., the father of Mrs. Power. The deceased children were as follow: Mrs. Nancy M. May, born on March 9, 1844, died in 1909; Mrs. Mary A. Cork, October 14, 1845, died in 1911; Mrs. Margaret F. Manlove, August 13, 1847, died on August 5, 1889; John 13, November 8, 1849, is deceased; Leander, February 9, 1853, died in 1911; William R., August 20, 1855, died in 1857; Luna A., October 23, 1865, died on January 3, 1891.

A hard worker and an industrious citizen, Joseph A. Logan resided on the farm, in the house he built in 1855, the greater part of his life, the only exceptions being short residences in Oxford and Rushville. In the latter years of his life he lived with his children. He died in 1913 at the age of ninety-four years. His father, Martin, who was born in 1800, and who died on December 18, 1870, and his mother, who before her marriage was Mary Rankin, who was born in 1799, and who is now deceased, lived on the farm, now included in the limits of Lexington, Kentucky, on the site now occupied by the college. In 1821 Martin Logan journeyed to Decatur county, Indiana, and settled on a government tract of one hundred and sixty acres at a time when wolves and panthers were plentiful. This farm is now occupied by Ezra Kirby. Martin Logan was one of the founders of the Richland United Presbyterian church. He had four children, Joseph A.; Mrs. Jane McClurkin, deceased, of Iowa; Carrie, who married Hugh Logan and who is the mother of Mrs. C. M. Beale, the wife of Dr. C. M. Beale, and Dr. John Beale, a graduate of Oxford University, and for some time a student with Doctor Johnson at Clarksburg, and now residing in Kansas. Martin Logan at one time walked from his home in Decatur county to College Corner, Ohio, in one day. It was an interesting fact that the coming of the Martins, Kincaids and Logans to Decatur county was occasioned by the reports given by Uncle Billy Anderson, who returned from the battle of Tippecanoe to his home in Kentucky through Decatur county, and here saw the fine land, and told these Kentucky families about what he saw.

Nathan M. Logan's wife, to whom he was married on May 24, 1881, and who before her marriage was Rebecca Martin, is the daughter of David and Mary (Kincaid) Martin, the former of whom was born in 1833, and who died in 1896, in Decatur county. David Martin was the son of David Martin, Sr., of Kentucky, who came to Fugit township in 1821. Mrs. Ernest D. Power, who, as heretofore stated, was the eldest child born to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan M. Logan, is one of three children. The others are Luther Martin, born in 1887, and who died on January 29, 1902; the third child, Mary, who was born on August 18, 1893, was graduated from Monmouth College in 1915, the same institution as that attended by her sister.

Both the Power family and the Logan family are members of the United Presbyterian church at Springhill. Nathan M. Logan, who has been a Republican and Prohibitionist is now identified with the Progressive party, and votes for the best man at the polls. Ernest D. Power is independent politically. No prettier nor more attractive spot can be found in Decatur county than the Fugit township farm of Ernest D. Power. Mr. Power is proud of this farm, as he has every right to be, and the people of Fugit township are also proud of it, as they also have a right to be. Not only do they point with pride to the beauty of this farm, but the people of this township admire the rugged honesty, well-rounded efficiency and genial personality of its owner and one of their foremost citizens.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

John H. Powner, the father of John C., was one of the substantial citizens of Clay township, and a man who took great interest in his church. He was very successful in his business, liberal and broad-minded in his views, and a keen student of public affairs. He was a stanch and true Democrat, and not only was a Democrat politically, but was a Democrat in his personal manners and habits, and known far and near for his generous hospitality. His wife, who before her marriage, was Jane Wynkoop, was born in Franklin county, Indiana, about 1834, and died in February, 1905. John H. Powner and wife were the parents of four children, Mrs. Mary (Black) Helde, a resident of Alabama; John C., the immediate subject of this review; Dewitt Clinton, of Greensburg, and Mrs. Jennie M. Wilson, deceased.

John C. Powner was born in 1855 in Jackson township, and lived at home with his parents until his marriage to Frances Eubanks in 1875. Mrs. Powner is a daughter of George and Catherine (Wright) Eubanks, who were natives of Virginia. George Eubanks first moved to Decatur county and afterward became a farmer in Clay county, Indiana, where he died in 1876. Mr. Eubanks died in Washington township at the home of a daughter, Nancy C. Templeton. Mr. and Mrs. Eubanks were members of the Liberty Baptist church. They were the parents of four children. After his marriage, Mr. Powner lived on his father's farm until 1877, when he purchased fifty-two acres of land near the Liberty church, where he and his wife lived for four or five years, tilling the land at a profit, and purchasing what was known as the David Ward farm of eighty acres.

After remaining on the latter farm for a period of five or six years, Mr. Powner moved to a farm north of Greensburg, renting land for a short time, afterward moving to Greensburg, where he purchased property at Forest Hill. Still later the family moved to a farm owned by Mr. Powner's father, and in 1902 purchased the land where he is now living.

John C. Powner is one of Decatur county's representative farmers and citizens. He is practically retired from farm life at the present time, but still takes an active interest in the operation of his farm, which he rents to others. He is a Democrat, but is more thoroughly a patriot than a partisan, and is liberal and broad-minded in his views of men and things. He is a good farmer, a good neighbor and a good citizen. Mrs. Powner is a member of Liberty Baptist church.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Aaron Logan was born in 1841, on the old Logan homestead, about one mile from Greensburg, west, and is the son of Samuel and Susannah (Howard) Logan, the former of whom was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and who came to Decatur county with Colonel Ireland from Ireland and Colonel Hendricks, and entered land one mile from Greensburg, now known as the Logan farm. Susannah Howard was born on Paddies run in Ohio in 1805. Samuel Logan first came to Decatur county and entered land and then returned to Pennsylvania. On his way back to Indiana from Pennsylvania he stopped in Ohio and was married, and then finished his trip with his young bride. Here they lived the remainder of their lives, he dying in 1879. They were members of the Presbyterian church and he was a life-long Democrat, a man of strong character and high-minded conviction. Accustomed to hunt bears in the region around Greensburg, Samuel Logan and Colonel Hendricks killed a bear on the spot where the Greensburg waterworks is now situated. He and his wife started in life very poor, but Samuel Logan was a money-maker. He accumulated a considerable fortune. On his way across the Alleghany mountains from Pennsylvania, having started with a wagon and one horse, he traded with various people along the way until, upon his arrival, he owned six horses.

Samuel and Susannah (Howard) Logan had nine children, James, John, Mrs. Martha Anne Hitt, Mrs. Jane Deen and Mrs. Rachel Hobbs, are deceased; the latter was the wife of Alvin I. Hobbs, of Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Hamilton, the wife of Morgan Hamilton, is also deceased. Those living are Samuel Logan, Jr., who lives at Letts in Clay township; Aaron, the subject of this sketch, and Frank, of Topeka, Kansas.

Aaron Logan began life for himself after having reached his majority, and for about three years was engaged in cultivating the old home place. After this he purchased ninety-two acres of land out of what was known as the old Hillis farm, which is now owned by William Holcher. Later, however, Mr. Logan sold that farm and purchased the land where he now lives. He has always made a good living for himself and family and has always enjoyed the best things of life. In fact, there are few people living in Washington township who enjoy life more than Aaron Logan. He himself says that he gets more enjoyment out of what he can buy with a dollar than in keeping the dollar itself and for its own sake.

Mr. Logan was married early in life to Susannah Simmons, who lived near Greensburg, and who is the daughter of Edward and Polly (Howard) Simmons, both natives of Ohio, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Logan have had two children, Walter Scott Logan, who died at the age of thirty-eight, was an engineer on the Big Four railroad for fifteen years, and Sherman married Cora Patten, who is deceased, and by her had one child, Clyde L., born in 1901, who lives with his father.

The Logan family have been Democrats for the most part for several generations, and Aaron Logan is no exception to the rule. He is in fact a loyal and faithful Democrat, interested in the welfare of his party. Mr. Logan is well known in Washington township, and has always enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors and fellow citizens. Mrs. Logan is a member of the Christian church.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Charles I. Ainsworth, whose paternal ancestry, three generations back, came from England, a veteran of our greatest war, a man who, as a school teacher and farmer, has had many interesting experiences in life, is a native of Kentucky. He was born in Nicholas county on August 5, 1843, the son of Tillman and Nancy (West) Ainsworth, the former of whom was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1815, came to Decatur county in 1855 and died in 1887. Upon coining to Washington township he rented land and engaged in operating a stone quarry two miles south of Greensburg, in which connection he also operated a grist-mill, and after being engaged in this business for fifteen years, in the fall of 1863 he moved to Illinois and engaged in the mercantile business at St. Elmo, where he died. He was the son of Charles Ainsworth, a native of England. His wife, Nancy West, who was also born in Kentucky, in 1817, died two years before her husband, in 1885. They had three children: Charles I., the subject of this sketch; Mary A., deceased, and Andrew M., who lives at Yuma, Arizona.

It is to be remembered that Charles I. Ainsworth was only twenty years old at the time of his removal from Decatur county with his parents to St. Elmo, Illinois. In the meantime he had received such education as the schools of Washington township, Decatur county, afforded at that time. During this period the Civil War was being fought between the Northern and Southern states, and two years after going to Illinois, in February, 1865, Mr. Ainsworth enlisted in Company F, Seventh Illinois Cavalry, at St. Elmo, in that state. After serving three months, he was discharged, the war having come to a close. During the period of his enlistment he was on detached service and suffered from illness a considerable portion of the time. Returning from the seat of war, he located at Springfield, Illinois.

After teaching in the Illinois public schools for some time, Mr. Ainsworth worked in a store in Vandalia for one year and then engaged in farming one hundred and eighty acres for two years. He moved back to Decatur county and settled in Jackson township in the spring of 1867, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres with the money he had received from the sale of his one-hundred-and-eighty farm in Illinois. After living two years in Jackson township, he purchased a farm two miles south of Greensburg in Washington township and resided on this farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres from 1870 to 1911, a period of forty-one years. In 1911 Mr. Ainsworth moved to Greensburg and purchased splendid residence property on North Michigan avenue, where he now lives.

On September 13, 1865, after the close of the Civil War, Mr. Ainsworth was married to Rachel M. Kitchin, who was born on October 15, 1843, in Decatur county and who is the daughter of Thomas and Sarah L. (Boone) Kitchin, natives of Ohio and Kentucky, respectively. The former was a son of Joseph Kitchin, a native of Pennsylvania, who migrated to Ohio, coming thence to this county in an early day. Joseph Kitchin was a farmer and blacksmith and also a pioneer minister in the Methodist church. He was born in 1770 and died in Decatur county in 1858. His children were: Thomas, John, Bryce, Sarah and Maria. Thomas Kitchin, who was born in Ohio in 1818, immigrated to Decatur county with his brothers in 1839. He spent a part of his life in that county and a part in Boone county, dying in 1904. His wife, who before her marriage was Sarah Luffborough Boone, was a daughter of Brumfield Boone, a native of Kentucky and a son of Thomas Boone, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The children of Thomas and Sarah L. Kitchin were Mrs. Charles I. Ainsworth, Joseph B. and Frank B. On her mother's side, Mrs. Ainsworth is a relative of Daniel Boone.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Ainsworth have had eight children: Dr. Charles Bruce, a veterinary surgeon of Greensburg; Ira M., a rural mail carrier of Greensburg; Clara Ellen, who married Watson Gilmour and lives two miles east of Greensburg on a farm; Hattie Antoinette, the wife of Dr. C .B. Weaver, of Henry county; Jessie Pearl, the wife of Jacob Sherer, who lives two miles east of Greensburg on a farm; Frank K., who lives on the home farm; Mrs. Grace Edkins, who lives one-half mile south of Greensburg, and Wayne T., who lives on the home farm.

An independent Republican in politics, Charles I. Ainsworth has never been an office-seeker, and has served only in minor positions, having been a member of the township advisory board at one time. Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth and family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Greensburg, in which he is a trustee. Fraternally, he is, as heretofore mentioned, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in this order, largely because the Odd Fellows Home was erected at Greensburg, and because of the large part he had in its construction, he has devoted most of his interest and attention during recent years to this home. Mr. Ainsworth is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 36, and of Pap Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 75. Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Ainsworth are held in high regard and esteem by the people of Greensburg and Decatur county. They have reared a large family to honorable and useful lives, but, more than this, Mr. Ainsworth has never found the cares of his private business so great that he could not take a worthy interest in commendable public enterprises. His greatest public work, perhaps, is the Greensburg Odd Fellows Home, which will stand as a monument to his memory long after he has departed this life.

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"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Millard A. Hudson, who was born at Napoleon, Decatur county, Indiana, in 1858, is a son of Charles W. and Nancy (Becraft) Hudson, the former of whom was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1833, and who came to Decatur county in 1853, where he married, settling on a farm near Napoleon, and remained for five or six years, and then moved to Greensburg, where he engaged in the shoemaker trade until about three or four years prior to his death, when he removed to a farm which he had purchased from his savings, and where he lived with his son until his death in 1878. The grandfather of Mr. Hudson was born during the War of 1812, in Virginia, and died at the age of seventy-five years in Decatur county. Charles W. Hudson was a soldier in the Civil War, serving during the latter part of that great struggle as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was a stanch Republican in politics after the formation of that party, while before that time he was an ardent Whig and later in life a Democrat. He was a great student of philosophy. Mr. Hudson attended the Christian church, and few men in his neighborhood knew as much about the Bible as he. Nevertheless, he was liberal in his views, broad-minded and charitable.

At the beginning of his career, Millard A. Hudson was engaged in farming for five years for Zell Kirby, and afterward engaged in the business of photography in Greensburg, owning the leading gallery in the city. After conducting a successful business in this line for a number of years, his health failed, when on this account he was compelled to return to the farm. He then farmed on shares for Miss Kirby until her death, when he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-one acres, where he is now living and where he makes a specialty of raising corn, cattle and hogs. He has on the farm a splendid vitrified tile silo, which, as much as anything, proves the progressive spirit with which he farms. When Mr. Hudson purchased the farm he paid eighty-seven dollars an acre for the land, incurring an indebtedness of ten thousand dollars, for which he was compelled to pay five and one-half per cent interest. In less than ten years he has succeeded in entirely discharging this indebtedness. So thoroughly did Mr. Hudson enjoy the esteem and confidence of the people of his community that he was able to borrow money on his own note without security. Now that the farm is paid for, Mr. Hudson intends to build a modern home, thoroughly equipped with every modern device and for every modern process in farming.

Millard A. Hudson has never married. His sister Alice supervises the home and they are now living in happiness and comfort on the farm. Mr. Hudson is a fine type of citizen, and has made good in the face of adversity, as men who start with nothing and who, by their industry, economy and good management, gather up fortunes, deserve far more credit than those who are favored with inheritance or other aid. Millard A. Hudson deserves the very highest credit for his accomplishments and his achievements. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Greensburg, is a strong Prohibitionist and attends the Christian church at Greensburg.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Isaac W. White, who was born in Delaware county in 1842, is the son of John D. and Louisa (Earls) White, the former of whom was a native of Dearborn county, born in April, 1818, and the son of John White, a native of Virginia, whose father was born in Ireland, and who came to America some time before the American Revolution. John D. White was a prosperous farmer of Delaware county, to which he moved in about 1867, and where he lived until his death in 1895. He accumulated considerable property and was a respected citizen. He was identified with the Democratic party but, being a strong Union man, voted for Abraham Lincoln. After the war, however, he returned to his former party allegiance, and remained loyal until his death. He was a member of the Baptist church and a liberal-minded man. His wife, who before her marriage was Louisa Earls, was born in Kentucky, the daughter of a shipbuilder, who lived at Falmouth, thirty miles above Cincinnati. He died of cholera at his home in 1832. The Earls were an old and prominent family of Kentucky, probably of English origin. It is said of Grandmother White that she molded bullets while the men shot the Indians.

In May, 1862, Isaac W. White joined the Fifty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served three months. After his discharge, he joined the Fifty-fourth again and, after a year's service, joined the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, recruited at Greensburg and commanded by Colonel Gavin. He served until the end of the war and after his discharge, came home and worked in a grocery store for one year, after which he began working at his trade as a painter and interior decorator and enjoyed an extensive patronage.

In August, 1865, Isaac W. White was united in marriage to Martha Ann Lloyd, daughter of Creath Lloyd, to which union one child was born, who died in infancy. Mrs. White died on September 8, 1866, and Mr. White married, secondly, Mary Johnson, daughter of Charles Johnson, a native of Kentucky and a highly-respected citizen of this county, to which union three children were born, namely: Laura E., wife of William Kiener, of Paducah, Kentucky; Charles, a well-known resident of Greensburg, this county, and Lulu, who died young. The mother of these children died in 1875 and on January 22, 1878, Mr. White was united in marriage to Nannie J. Lloyd, a cousin of his first wife and the daughter of Carter and Nancy (Cooper) Lloyd, natives of North Carolina, to which union eight children were born, as follow: John D., who lives at Connersville, Indiana; Jesse C., also of Connersville; Nellie, who married Albert Lacy, of Greensburg, this county; Isaac W., who is a soldier in the United States regular army, now stationed at Tientsin, China; Albert F., who lives at Greensburg; Mary, who married James Ray, of Greensburg: Thomas, deceased, and one who died in infancy.

Mr. White is a well-respected citizen of Decatur county. He is a progressive, broad-minded citizen and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Charles Annis was brought by his parents from Virginia to Kentucky when he was about eight years old, where he grew to manhood and was married, living and dying in that state, in which he became a farmer and a stonemason. He was a Whig until 1856, when the Republican party was organized, and then became identified with this party, remaining loyal to it until his death in 1879. He and his wife had thirteen children, of whom J. N., the subject of this sketch, was the eighth and the only one now living. The venerable J. N. Annis grew to manhood in Kentucky and when the Civil War broke out, enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. W. A. Warner, in which company and regiment he served until the close of the war. This regiment, which saw very hard service, was attached to the Army of the Cumberland under Generals Thomas and Rosencrans. The first battle in which it participated was at Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862. They then went to Fort Donelson but arrived too late for serious service in that battle. From Fort Donelson the regiment went to Carthage, Tennessee, and thence to Murfreesboro and Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, and were then engaged in various skirmishes with Bragg's army. Through Tennessee the army marched to Georgia and engaged in the battle of Chickamauga, after which the regiment fell back to Chattanooga and there they were besieged by General Bragg's army and almost starved out. Subsequently, the battle of Mission Ridge was fought and this, indeed, was a fierce engagement. Shortly afterward, the regiment was attached to Sherman's army and marched with him from Atlanta to the sea. At the battle of Chickamauga, during a lull in the fighting, Mr. Annis and two or three of his comrades were standing in line when a rebel sharpshooter stepped from behind a tree and fired at a distance of about four hundred yards. The bullet plowed up the dirt at Mr. Annis' feet. Instantly the sharpshooter was killed. Late in the war, Mr. Annis was taken sick with the measles and confined in the hospital only eight days. On April 4, 1865, he was mustered out of service at Goldsboro, North Carolina, when he proceeded to Washington, where he was paid off and discharged on April 14, 1865, the same day on which President Lincoln was assassinated.

After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Annis returned to his Kentucky home and about a year later, on March 8, 1866, he was married to Nancy J. Powell, the daughter of James and Cynthia (Barnhill) Powell, and began life on the farm. He was engaged in farming in Kentucky until 1875, when he and his family came to Decatur county, Indiana, settling on a farm in Jackson township, where they lived for about fifteen years and then moved to a farm in Washington township, where they lived for two years. Subsequently, they lived in Clay township for five years. In 1897 they moved to Greensburg, where the family is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Annis are the parents of two children, Mrs. Mary Ketner, of Bartholomew county, and Charles, of Lafayette.

Mr. Annis identifies himself with the "Joe Cannon" Republicans. He is a patriotic citizen and greatly interested in political affairs, has always been prominent in the councils of his party and is on the firing line in most of its campaigns. Mr. and Mrs. Annis are members of the Christian church. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Royal Arch Masons, the Union Veterans' League and other societies. He is a highly respected citizen of this city and a man who is well known throughout Decatur county. Honorable and upright in all of the relations of life, he is highly respected.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.