History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Samuel Cade, farmer and stock raiser, Veedersburg, is one of the old and respected citizens of Fountain county. He is a native of the county, and was born February 4, 1826, and is the son of William and Martha (Campbell) Cade. His father was born in Delaware October 4, 1788, and married his wife in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1823. She was born January 8, 1801, and in October, 1823, they emigrated to Fountain county, Indiana, and settled in what is now Wabash township. They were among the very first settlers of the county. In an early day Mr. Cade used to run flat-bats down the Scioto river into the Ohio, thence to New Orleans, and has walked back from New Orleans three different times to the place of starting. After he came to Fountain county he took an active part in all improvements, and was a zealous worker in the cause of religion, having joined the Methodist church when a young man. He was called to try the realities of the next world November 14, 1846, and his wife January 31, 1841, Samuel Cade, the subject of this notice, was raised on a farm in Wabash township. He has accumulated a large tract of land, consisting of 1,800 acres, all of which is due to his energy and a close attention to business. He now owns the 160 acres which his father bought at the land sales in 1882. He is also the owner of the Union mills since 1873. He has one sister, Jane, who was born in this county May 3, 1824, and is probably the first born in the county. She married D. Patton, in 1844, and is now a resident of Ford county, Illinois. Mr. Cade has been twice married: first time, in 1850, to Mary F. Conover. She died June 29,1852. He married again, January 4, 1855, Miss Eliza J. Clark, daughter of David and Mary Clark. Mr. Cade has one child by first wife, William, and six by present wife: Mary F. (wife of M. Nixon), Fannie O. (wife of H. Glasscock), Martha J., David S., Clifford, and one deceased (Carrie M.).

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Levi Rabb, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, is a native of Warren county, Ohio, and was born November 7, 1827, and is the son of Johnson and Mary (Ainsworth) Rabb, who removed to Fountain county, Indiana, in 1829, and settled in Wabash township, where they were respected pioneers and citizens. They both departed this life about 1868, but are still fresh in the memories of many of the pioneers of the county. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at Hall's surrender. Levi Rabb was raised on a farm, now owned by him (which was his father's), and has followed that occupation, excepting about ten years, which he spent in carpentering. In 1853 he married Mary J. Conover, daughter of William and Jane (Mitchell) Conover, and a native of Virginia. Their family are: Annie (wife of S. S. Wells), Mary (wife of J. Bartley), Albert, Jennie, William, Libie, and one deceased (James). Mr. Rabb is the owner of a fine farm of 387 acres, the most of which is of his own accumulation. In politics he is a staunch republican.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

B. W. Graham, farmer, Covington, was born in Madison county, Ohio, June 21,1819, and is the son of James and Jane (Snodgrass) Graham, who were natives of Kentucky and came from Ohio to Parke county, Indiana, in 1822, where they remained one year; after which they came to Fountain county and settled in what is now Wabash township, on what is now known as Graham's creek. His father was born January 10, 1797, and died in this county in 1879. His wife was born in 1795, and died in about 1873. The subject of this sketch is probably as old a settler as now lives in Fountain county, having spent a life of usefulness in the way of improving and building up that part of the county in which he lives. He has always been engaged in farming, and has accnmnlated a fine property of 200 acres of well improved land. In 1842 he married Miss Ruth Crane, daughter of Moses and Susanah Crane, who came to the county about 1835. Mr. Graham's family are: Oliver, Byron J., Almira J., Julia A. and Marietta. Three deceased: Oliver, Milford and Monroe.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

James Bodine, farmer, Covington, was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1825, and is the son of William and Rebecca (Marlatte) Bodine. They were natives of Virginia, the father being born March 1, 1793, and the mother about 1797. They came to Warren county, Ohio, abont 1817, and removed to Fountain county, Indiana, October, 1829, and settled in what is now Wabash township. They had a family of seven children, four born in Ohio and three in Fountain county. They took an active part in the early improvements of that part of the county in which they lived. Although they have passed away, they are still remembered by the old settlers of the county. In 1864 the father died, and about 1869 the mother departed this life. James, our subject, was raised on his father's farm, and received a good common school education. He has occupied his time in agricultural pursuits, and is now the owner of 1,145 acres of land, well stocked and improved. He is a prominent Mason and Odd-Fellow, and is well respected by all who know him. In 1859 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Campbell, daughter of Joseph Campbell, who was one of the old and respected pioneers of the county. Mr. Bodine has four children: Flora, Robert, Thomas, and Jennie.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

O. H. Graham, farmer, Covington, was born in Fountain county, Indiana, in 1832, and is the son of James and Jane (Snodgrass) Graham, who were early and respected pioneers of Fountain county. Mr. Graham has been a resident of the county all his life. He owns 200 acres of well improved land. In 1812 he married Miss Rachel Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, and by this union they have six children: Katie, Lottie J., James W., Courtenous L., Joseph H. and Montie L.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Schuyler La Tourette, farmer, Covington, was born in Wabash township, Fountain county, Indiana, in 1834, and is the son of John and Sarah (Schenck) La Tourette, who were among the early and respected pioneers of Fountain county. The subject of this memoir was raised on a farm, and received a common school education, and has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. In the beginning of the rebellion he enlisted in Co. H, 63d Ind. Vol. Inf., as private, and at the organization of his company he was elected as first lieutenant, and after serving six months was promoted to captain, which office he honorably filled till the close of the war, participating in many of the hard fought battles; Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and numerous other engagements. His company was composed of men from his own neighborhood, and comprised some of the best soldiers Fountain county afforded. At the close of the war Mr. La Tourette was honorably discharged and returned to his native county, where he has been quite extensively engaged in farming. He is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres, of which 160 acres is the old homestead. In 1863 he married Miss Kate Cooper, daughter of John and Lotta Cooper, and a native of New Jersey. Mr. La Tourette is a member of the A.F. and A.M., and is one of Fountain county's staunch republicans.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Nelson Crane, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, was born in Warren county, Ohio, April 2, 1811, and is the son of Moses and Susanah Crane. Mr. Crane was raised a farmer, and has followed that occupation all his life. In 1835 he came to Fountain county, where he has resided on one farm for thirty-seven years. In 1833 he married Miss Sarah Meloy, a native of Warren county, Ohio, who was born September 5, 1814. They had one child, Martha, born January 2, 1834, and died the same year. Mr. and Mrs. Crane are devoted members of the Christian church, and Mr. Crane is a republican.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

J. B. Van Dorn, farmer, Covington, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1833, and is the son of Hezekiah and Hester Van Dorn, who were natives of Pennsylvania. The father was born March 26, 1790, and the mother about 1799; she died in this county about 1870. The father resides with his son, Mr. Van Dorn. They came to Fountain connty in 1836, and settled in Wabash township. Mr. Van Dorn, the subject of this sketch, has been a resident of the county since he came to it with his parents. In 1858 he married Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Elihu Jones, and by this union they have four children: Morris L., Levi W., Manford O. and Ora W.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

John Roads, farmer, Covington, was born in Warren connty, Ohio, February 24, 1820, and is the son of Jacob and Mary (Fox) Roads. Mr. Roads came to Fonntain county, Indiana, with his parents, about 1839, and has been a resident of the county ever since, engaged in farming. He is the owner of 351 acres of fine improved land, which is due to his energy and attention to business. He has been twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth E. Graham, by whom he has one child, Irlanus. His present wife is Mary A. Wolf, by whom he has eight children: John, Lewis, Harriet E. (wife of Charles Marlatte), Mary A., Amanda, John, Viola, and Emma.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Allen Yerkes, farmer, Covington, was born in Wabash township, Fountain county, in 1843, and is the son of Jacob and Ann (Shoemaker) Yerkes, who were natives of Pennsylvania. His father was born May 11, 1809, and came to Fountain county in 1839 and settled in Wabash township, where he died in 1866. The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and received a good common school education, and has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. He owns the old homestead, consisting of 207 acres. In 1866 he married Miss Serena Alexander, daughter of James and Sarah (Mitchell) Alexander. Her father is a native of Indiana, and her mother of Pennsylvania, and came to Boone county, Illinois, in an early day. Mr. Yerkes has two sons, James T. and Jones I.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Samuel Paugh, farmer, Covington, was born in Butler county, Ohio, April 15, 1813. His parents both died when he was a small boy, after which he went to live with his grandfather until twenty-one years of age. In 1840 he came to Fountain county, Indiana, and began a business life for himself. He bonght 160 acres in the woods, which he has improved and added to till he is the owner of 375 acres of as fine land as Fountain county affords. In 1843 he married Miss Rebecca Van Dorn, daughter of Hezekiah Van Dorn. The issue of this marriage are Ross, Adaline, and Estella.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

B. Yerkes, farmer, Covington, was born in Wabash township, Fountain county, Indiana, in 1841, and is the son of Jacob md Ann (Shoemaker) Yerkes, who came to the county in 1889. They have spent a useful life in improving and helping to build up all local enterprises in the neighborhood where they lived. Mr. Yerkes was raised on his father's farm, and is now one of the leading farmers of Wabash township. He owns 615 acres of fine land, well stocked and improved, as a reward for his own exertions. In 1867 he married Miss Martha E. Marlatte, danghter of Jacob and Cynthia Marlatte, who came to the county in an early day. Mrs. Yerkes was born in 1846. Their family consists of Emma, Jacob, Charles, and Sherman.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

E. M. Conover, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, was born in Fountain county, Indiana, in 1842, and is the son of William and Jane (Mitchell) Conover, who were natives of Ohio and Kentucky, and came to Fountain county in an early day. Mr. Conover served in the rebellion in the 37th Ill. reg., and participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, siege of Vicksburg, and a great many other engagements. He went out as private, and held all the offices from corporal to captain. In 1871 he married Miss Emma Rabb, daughter of John and Eliza (Maxwell) Rabb, both of whom were early pioneers of Fountain county. The family consists of two children: Lottie and Rufus.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

S. S. Yerkes, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1816, and is the son of William and Deborah Yerkes. His father died in 1829, at the age of fifty. His mother was born in 1779, and died August 25, 1844. Mr. Yerkes came to Fountain county in 1843, and began for himself by working by the month. In this way he earned money to buy some land, and by hard work and economy he has become the owner of 413 acres of land, which he has improved and got under good cultivation. He has been twice married. His first wife was Letitia Watson, married in 1848. She was a native of Kentucky, born August 2, 1827, and died in 1854. He was married again in 1855, to Ann M. Bodine, daughter of William Bodine, who was among the early settlers of Fountain county. Mr. Yerkes has two sons: William and Rolen, and one dead, Charles H.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Samuel I. Snoddy, miller, merchant and farmer, and proprietor to the village of Snoddy's Mills, was born July 15, 1828, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. His parents, Samuel and Sarah (Irwin) Snoddy, were natives of the same state, and there Mrs. Snoddy died, June 10, 1849, aged forty-five years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and the mother of ten children. After her death Mr. Samuel Snoddy came to Parke county, Indians, but in a year or so he returned to his native state. In 1852 he again sought Indiana, and September 2, 1852, during the cholera epidemic, he died at Fort Wayne. He also was a member of the presbyterian church. Samuel I., the fourth child, was schooled on the farm and in the mill. Before coming west he was married, in 1849, to Susan Koons, daughter of Jonathan and Catharine Koons, and a native of Pennsylvania. Soon after marriage they emigrated to Parke county, Indiana, where Mr. Snoddy worked in Wright's mill. In 1851 he bought the saw and grist mill of John Headley, and in 1852 settled near it on twelve acres of land, which was included in the purchase. About 1858 he bought seventy-eight acres adjoining the mill-seat. In 1868 he bought 160 acres more. He built a store near his mill about 1874, and began selling goods, and in these three branches of industry (milling, merchandising and farming) Mr. Snoddy has succeeded so well that he owns 756 acres of land and the town he founded, containing ten dwelling houses, all his own bidding. He is acknowledged to bc the leading man of his section. He began with comparatively nothing, and his success demonstrates the possibility for one to rise to fortune from even poverty's lowest depths, where there is a "will" to climb. Mr. Snoddy is a quiet but thorough republican. His three brothers, John, James D. and George, served in the civil war. George died at his home in Kansas from disease contracted in the army. James D. was a colonel and John was major in the 7th Kan. Cav. October 6,1876, death deprived Mr. Snoddy of the partner of his home. She was an amiable woman, and the mother of eleven children: William, John, Milton, Elmer, Chauncy, Purley, George, Anna (now Mrs. Richard Roberts, of Henning, Illinois), Catharine (now Mrs. Benjamin Lindley, of Fulton township, Fountain county, Indiana), Odella (Mrs. Dr. Charles Coggins, Snoddy's Mills), and Emma. Mr. Snoddy was next married December 15, 1878, to Miss Susan Fisher, of Fountain county, his present helpmate. Mr. Snoddy's portrait appears in this history.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

John Ramser, farmer, Covington, was born in Switzerland, May 27, 1821, and came to America in 1856, and in the fall of the same year came to Fountain county and began working by the month until he accumulated money enough to buy some land, and by hard work and economy he is now the owner of a fine farm of 350 acres, with good improvements. He has been twice married; once in the old country, to Miss Maria Ritz, who died in 1853; and was married again in 1859, to Elizabeth Ritz, sister of his first wife. He has three children by his first wife: Elizabeth, John, and Frederick; and three by his present wife: Louisa, Henry, and Charles; and three deceased: Maria, Julius, and Jacob.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

John Reynolds, merchant, Snoddy's Mills, is a native of England, born in 1849, and came to America in 1867, where he has been engaged in mining in Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, until he began his present occupation. He has given close attention to business, and has given general satisfaction to his many customers. In 1872 he married Miss Catharine McVey, a native of Pennsylvania, and by this marriage they have one child living, Annie, and three dead: Daniel, John D. and Patrick.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

William Reynolds, grocer, Snoddy's Mills, is a native of England, born in 1855, and came to Stringtown in 1876, and soon after embarked in the grocery bnsiness. By honest dealing and courteous treatment to his many customers he has established a good trade. In 1877 he married Miss S. Stewart, a native of Pennsylvania. By this union they have two children: Gertrude and William.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

S. A. McNamara, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, was born in Warren county, Ohio, August 4, 1840, and came to Fountain county in 1865, where he has been engaged in farming. He owns 200 acres of well improved land, which he bas earned by hard work. In 1869 he married Miss Mary Johnson, daughter of James Johnson. She was born in Warren county, Ohio, January 10, 1843. They have three children: Mary, John, and James. Mr. and Mrs. McNamara are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a radical democrat.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

W. P. Patterson, M.D., Snoddy's Mills, was born in Greene county, Tennessee, in 1851, and is the son of John Patterson. The doctor is a graduate of one of the time-honored institutions of Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating in 1878, and began the practice of medicine in Lodi, Parke county, Indiana, where he practiced one year. For the last two years he has been practicing at Stringtown, and by a strict attention to business he has entered into a lucrative practice.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Wabash Township - Biographical

Joseph Sines (deceased) was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1779, and was a son of John and Barbara Sines, both natives of Germany, who lived in Pennsylvania. Joseph was married in Pennsylvania to Mary Ann Griffith, who was born in that state in 1802. They emigrated to Ohio in 1834, and in 1838 to Fountain county, Indiana, and settled on Scott's prairie. In 1840 he bought 240 acres of school section 16, in Mill Creek township, and this he settled and improved. He died August 29, 1878. He was a whig and republican, and was township trustee several terms. His wife died in 1874, and both were members of the United Brethren church for many years. They had a family of nine children: Richard G. and John (born in Pennsylvania), Anna C., James G., Joseph (deceased), Mary A. and Samuel (born in Ohio), and George F. and Melinda G., natives of Fountain connty, Indiana, Samuel served three years in the civil war, in Co. B, 25th Ill. Inf. He was orderly sergeant, and fought at Stone River, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, where he was discharged. George F. wss born September 26, 1840, and was raised on the farm. He was married October 6, 1861, to Catharine Rayphole. She was born in Ross county, Ohio, March 16, 1843, and came with her parents to Fountain county in 1859. Mr. Sines rented a part of the homeplace. He enlisted September 2, 1862, in Co. H, 63d Ind. Vol. Inf., and served thee years. He participated at Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Burnt Hickory, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, and Atlanta, where he was wounded in the right hip. He was taken to the Knoxville hospital, then sent home. In six months he rejoined his regiment at Fort Fisher, and fought at Fort Annison and Wilmington. At the close of the war he returned to the farm. In 1867, somewhat assisted, he bought eighty acres of land. He now has 240 acres, as well as 20 acres of the old homestead. He is a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Sines have seven children: Caroline, Barbara A., Samuel C., Sylvester B., Joseph G., Mary A. and Clara.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Alexander Surbaugh; physician and surgeon, Harveysburg, was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, September 30, 1816. His father, a native farmer of Virginia, died when Alexander was three years of age. His mother, also born in Virginia, after the death of her husband married Joseph Daneron, whose death occurred in Virginia. She next married Mr. Mark Bruffee, a Methodist minister, and with him moved to Indiana in 1836, and in 1838 located three miles south of Rockville, where she died in 1846. She was a Methodist. Alexander was an only son by the first union. His parents were poor, so that the boy could not satisfy his desire for education. He, however, acquired sufficient to enable him to teach, which he followed for several years. When nineteen years old he entered the ministry in the Methodist church, and became at once succesful, yet never gave all his time to the church. In 1840 he began the study of medicine under Drs. John B. and S. T. Clark, at Russellville, Indiana, with whom he read five years, also teaching. He then finished his preparatory reading under Dr. Slavens, of Portland Mills. When writing an application for a school the doctor stepped in, and taking the written article destroyed it, and urged and induced Surbaugh to begin the active practice of medicine. Dr. Surbaugh located at Howard, Parke county, Indiana, where he remained seventeen years. In the third year he was offered a partnership with his former preceptor, but his practice continued him at Howard . Dr. Surbaugh bought a farm near Howard, which he owned for twelve years, but meeting with reverses on account of security, he sold and moved near Harveysburg, where he bought a small farm. He again sold and moved into Harveysburg, and bought the Spencer Hotel, of which he is now landlord, and also practices his profession. He is a physician of experience and success. He has quite successfully treated the disease known as milksick, having had as many as 150 cases in his time. Politically, Dr. Surbaugh was formerly a whig, but is now a republican. Dr. Surbaugh has been a Mason since 1852. He was married September 5, 1839, to Martha Ann Scott Cummings. She was born in Virginia, October 15, 1815, and came with her parents to Parke county, Indiana, about 1838. She died May 8, 1851, leaving four children, three of whom are living. Dr. Surbaugh was next married March 17, 1852, to Catharine Duzan, of Vermilion county, Indiana. She was born in Kentucky , March 25, 1824. They have nine children living: Mary V., Rachel D. and Everard M. of first family, and William O., Sarah J., Lizzie M., Frances E., Effie M. and Mollie O. of second family. Ida died April 27, 1880, of typhoid fever. This was a severe blow to the family, as she was a young lady of an intellectual and christian character, and at the interesting age of sixteen years.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Charles S. Johnston, physician and surgeon, Harveysburg, was born September 14, 1824, in Shelby county, Ohio, and is a son of James and Hannah (Berkshire) Johnston, the former a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, and the latter of Maryland. They married in Ohio, and moved in 1827 to Richland township, Fountain county, Indiana, and bought land. In 1856 James Johnston moved to Warren county, and there died in 1860, aged sixty-three, followed by his wife in 1862, aged sixty years. Both were members of the Methodist church. In the family were three daughters and two sons. Three died young. Charles S. farmed till nineteen years of age, acquiring his education mostly in his own room with but few teachers. Prior to 1848 he studied medicine one and a half years, and in that year started overland in company with twenty-seven other men and two ladies for California on a gold prospecting tour. While on the way they suffered a siege of cholera, and Mr. Johnston's skill was called into practice. Arriving at their destination he and sixteen others discovered the Shasta river gold mines, and he built the first cabin and killed the first beef in what is now Wyreka, a large mining city. He mined three years and was in the transport business three years. He also read medicine ten months with a celebrated English physician and surgeon, Dr. Bartlow, of Oregon City. In 1856 he returned to Indiana via San Francisco, Panama and New York. When his mother died he went to Jackson county, Missouri, to practice. In 1865 he returned to Fountain county, Indiana, and settled in Harveysburg. Dr. Johnston is a thorough democrat, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and has been a Knight of Pythias. He was married in 1857, to Sarah E. McClean, daughter of Robert and Jane McClean. She is a native of West Virginia. They have one child, Clara.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Volney P. Ludlow, farmer, Steam Corner, is a son of William and Ann (Abbott) Ludlow. William Ludlow was in the service of the government, and helped survey Ohio. While surveying he entered a piece of land near Cincinnati when he was eighteen or nineteen years old. There he was married to Ann (Abott) Merritt, a native of Pennsylvania. He was a member of a common stock society organized in Ohio, and about 1822 he came to Fountain county, and entered land in Van Buren township in the interest of the company. The company becoming quarrelsome he received as his share a mill seat near Portland, which he left to his wife, and he returned to Ohio, where he was taken sick and died, aged seventy-five years. He brought to Indiana a half bushel of apple-seed, and became the first nurseryman in Fountain county. He was also a rope-maker, and made the rope that hang one Richardson, the only man ever hung in Fountain connty for crime. He was a whig, and bitterly opposed to Jackson. His wife lived in Fountain county till 1861, when she died at the age of seventy-seven. In the family were six sons and three daughters. Volney P. Ludlow, son of William, was born September 3, 1885, in Fountain county, Indiana. At the death of his father, Volney, at eight years of age, was left to work his own way in life. At the age of sixteen years he began the tanner's trade; then bought out his employer, and continued the business till he enlisted, in 1847, in Co. C, 5th Ind., under Captain R. M. Evans and Commander James H. Lane, for the Mexican war. Returning, he sold his land warrant received for services, or traded it for sixty-one acres of land, giving $50 additional. Mr. Ludlow built a cabin on his farm, and in 1849 he married Rebecca A. Furr, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Inlow) Furr. She was born in Fountain county, and died in 1855, aged twenty-two years, leaving two children, yet living: Manford and Arrista. In March, 1857, Mr. Ladlow was married to Savannah Booe, daughter of John and Jane (Moffet) Booe. She was born in Fountain county in 1839, and her parents came from Ireland. Mr. Ludlow has added to his farm till he owns 192 1/2 acres, good house, etc. Politically, he started a whig, then became a republican, and in 1880 espoused the doctrine of the national party. He was an early constable, and also township trustee five terms. During the mar he was captain of the home guards. Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow are members of the Church of the Disciples. They have had nine children by the present marriage: Leona J., Charles S., Ross A., Warren C. and Arthur, living, and three infants dead, and Conner, killed when six years old by a horse. Mr. Ludlow has had an unbroken residence in Fountain county for fifty-five years.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Francis J. Glascock, farmer, Steam Corner, was born January 24, 1821, in Illinois, fifteen miles west of Vincennes, on the St. Louis Trace. His parents, Joseph and Nancy Glascock, moved from Illinois to Fountain county, Indiana, in 1825, and entered. Francis remained at home till twenty years old. He made a trip to New Orleans on a flat-boat, returned, and worked at anything he conld get to do. At the age of twenty-two years he was married to Elizabeth Reynolds, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Underwood) Reynolds. She was born September 17, 1824, and her parents were very early settlers of Fountain county. After marriage, which took place in 1843, Mr. Glascock rented the Parson place one year: then lived one year on Coal creek, then rented the Chapman property one year, then bought the Furr property, bnt his wife dying April 29, 1849, left Mr. Glascock alone. He then lived for a while with his deceased wife's people. December 20, 1849, he was married to Isabel Moffett, daughter of Thomas and Christiana (Lee) Moffett. She is a native of Indiana, and her parents were from Ireland. Mr. Glascock then bought 200 acres of his present farm. In 1858 he built a large brick house, the second in the township. This burned out before he occupied it, but he immediately rebuilt. He added land till he owned 320 acres, a part of which he has deeded away. Mr. Glascock has been a prominent democrat for many years. He was justice of the peace five years under the old law. He was the Douglas democratic nominee for representative, and was beaten by the Breckenridge democrats by thirteen votes. During the war he was continually employed in recruiting soldiers. Besides doing his own work he has settled many estates for others. He has been elder in the Church of the Disciples for thirty years, and a trustee.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Michael Hutts (deceased) was a native of Virginia, and there married Judith McCormick. They emigrated in 1829 with a blind horse, a cart, $7, and four children: Mahala, Mark, Lewis, and Giles, and settled in Jackson township, Fountain connty, Indiana, where Mr. Hutts took a lease on eighty acres of Sec. 16 for nine years. With the first $50 he accutnulated he entered forty acres of land in Jackson township. He settled on his little farm and rented his leased tract. By toil and energy he began to increase his possessions. At the time of his death he was worth $25,000. He died in 1874, in his seventy-seventh year. His wife died in 1875, aged seventy-six years. Both belonged to the Baptist church. He was a lifelong democrat. There were but the four children named.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Giles Hutts was born September 21, 1827, in Franklin county, Virginia, and came westward with his parents. He aided his father till his marriage with Harriet Crayton, February 15, 1849. She was born in Indiana. Her parents were Thomas and Susan (May) Crayton. Her mother was a sister to the Hon. George May, of Fountain county. Mr. Hutts settled on forty acres of land given him by his father, giving his father $100 in consideration for improvements in deadening. Within twelve years Mr. Hutts added another forty acres, built a house and barn, and saved $3,000. In 1865 he engaged in the mercantile business in Hillsboro, then located at Jacksonville, and in 1877 opened a store in Harveysburg. Here he keeps a stock of dry goods, clothing, groceries, etc., and is doing a good trade. He owns 120 acres of land in Fountain county and 20 acres adjoining the town of Brazil. He is worth about $10,000. Politically he has been a lifelong democrat. He is an Odd-Fellow. Mrs. Hutts is a member of the Christian church. They have had eleven children, of whom but three are living, one-boy and two girls.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

George Norris (deceased) was born in South Carolina in 1791. There he grew to manhood, and prior to the war of 1818 moved to Indiana. He married Sarah Brown, who was born in 1791 in South Carolina. In 1834 they emigrated to Fountain county, Indiana, bringing six children: Hiram, Catharine, Evaline, Sarah, William, and Martha J. Mr. Norris bought 320 acres of land in Mill Creek township and entered 280 acres. He worked his own way through life, and died in 1840. He was a solid democrat. Mrs. Norris died leaving five children. Hiram, the eldest son, had died previously.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

William Norris, son of George and Sarah Norris, was born December 11, 1821, in Union county, Indiana, and came with his parents to Fountain county when thirteen years old. He aided largely in clearing the land and opening up the way to a better state of things. At his father's death he took charge of the home farm. He was married December 2, 1844, to Orlena McClean, daughter of George and Bersheba McClean. She was born in Tennessee, and came to Fountain county with her parents when very small. Her parents died in Jackson township. George Norris before death, willed all his property to his wife, and she afterward gave each child 80 acres, but William received 160 acres, as he had the care of his mother, and now owns 200 acres. His family has numbered ten children, of whom seven are living, and one grandson. Mr. Norris has been a lifelong democrat, and has been inspector of the election board. He has been a Mason for twenty-six years. Great are the changes which he has helped to produce.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

George Redenbaugh, farmer (retired), Steam Corner, was born September 18, 1793, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. His parents, Frederick and Margaret (Haney) Redenbaugh, emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania, then to Shenandoah valley, then to Ohio, and next floated down the Ohio river on a flat-boat to Jefferson county, Indiana, where they lived till 1832. George served in the war of 1812 under Gen. Harrison, in Col. Tupper's division, and was present at the treaty made by the national forces with 600 warriors, on the west side of the river, who espoused our cause and fought their brother reds. Mr. and Mrs. Redenbaugh in 1832 emigrated to Montgomety connty, about six miles from Crawfordsville, where they died in a few years. George was married to Margaret Stucker, and in 1836 moved to Fountain county, Indiana, with a four-horse team. He arrived May 3, and unloaded his goods under two oak trees. The next morning stuck forks in the ground, cut down a tree, and made clapboards with which he covered his shed, and rived some boards which he stood up for sides, and thus enclosed his goods and family. The first year he rented fourteen acres of land near where Steam Corner is, which he planted to corn. He also cleared about eight acres of his own farm. After planting he hewed logs and built a house 1 8 x 20, in which he and family lived ten years. He then built a larger log honse, and next erected his present residence. His farm of 160 acres which he entered took all his money but about $3.50, $3 of which went to buy corn, and he spent 50 cents for chickens. He knew not from where the next would come, but it was provided. In tilling his land he used the old Smeller plow, a curiosity to his few neighbors. Mr. Redenbangh worked on, and gradually the forest gave way before him. His wife, the help through those difficult times, died March 3, 1873, aged seventy-three years. She was the mother of four boys and five girls: Margaret, Henry, Frederick, Willis, and Delila, living; Lydia, Isaac, Elizabeth, and Amy, deceased. Mr. Redenbangh is a member of the United Brethren church. He has been a lifelong and strong democrat. He is now far beyond the age allotted to man, and has lived the history of his township.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

William Myers, farmer, Steam Corner, is the second son of Abraham and Catharine (Saltsgaber) Myers. Abraham and Catharine were born in Pennsylvania, and were blessed with two sons: Isaac, born July 5, 1808, and William, born March 1, 1812. In 1836 they moved from Ohio to Indiana, staying one year, and in. the spring of 1837 bought land in the northeast part of Mill Creek township. In their old age they found a home for sixteen years with their son William. They were members of the United Brethren chnrch. He was politically a Jackson democrat, then a whig, and in his late years a republican. He died September 30, 1870, aged ninety years, and his wife died February 17, 1857, aged eighty-six six months and three days. William Myers was married in Ross county, Ohio, December 25, 1833, to Sarah Van Gundy, daughter of John and Anna M. (Davis) Van Gundy. She was born in Pennsylvania, April 6, 1808. Her parents were Pennsylvanians, and in 1836 moved to Scott's prairie, Fountain county, Indiana, where they died; he on October 21, 1860, aged ninety-three years, and she October 7, 1854, aged eighty-one years, nine months and twelve days. Mr. and Mrs. Myers settled first on Scott's prairie, and lived there nearly five years. In 1841 they moved on their present farm, which had been entered by John Van Gundy. He and wife experienced all pioneer haps and mishap. Mr. Myers taught school two winters, and was the first male teacher in the district. While he struggled with problems in the school-room wood or field, Mrs. Myers was at her reel or loom, or at other household duties. They have been long connected with the United Brethen church, of which he is a pillar. Mr. Myers was a whig, but is now a republican. Financially he has made life a success, yet has laid up no great store. In their family are five children: Maria (now Mrs. Murphey Lewis), Calvin, Harriet (now Mrs. Adam Hershberger), Melinda (now Mrs. Wilkey), and Josiah D.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Calvin Myers, son of William and Anna Myers, was born January 7, 1837, in Fountain county, Indiana. He attended school but little, and then in the log school-house of that day. At seventeen years of age he began the carpentering trade, which he followed eight years. November 4, 1858, he was married to Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of Isaac and Maria (Watts) Marshall. She was born in Fountain county December 20, 1839. After marriage they settled one-fourth mile southeast of Harveysburg, where he bought eighty acres. In two years after he sold and bought eighty acres two miles northwest of Steam Corner, then added eighty acres after the war. October 3,1863, he enlisted in Co. D 63d Ind. Vol. Inf., under Capt. E. R. Mallory and Col. I. N. Stiles. He entered active service at Chattanooga, and fought at Potato Hill, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Allatoona Mountain (six days and nights in the trenches), Big Shanty, Marietta, Kenesaw Mountain, etc. He was taken sick by being overheated by a forced march where the rebels had fired the woods. He never missed roll-call till his sickness. He was taken to the hospital and received a furlough, and spent the latter part of his time in the hospital as wardmaster, at Madison, Indiana. He returned to his farm, and in 1869 sold it. He then bought his present farm of 180 acres. In 1879 he built his large house, 16 x 32, two stories. Mr. Myers has engaged in various avenues of trade in connection with farming. He and his brother, Josiah D., have for two years dealt heavily in all kinds of stock, and are known as the Myers Brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Myers members of the United Brethren church, in which he has been trustee and steward. They have six children: John S. (a teacher and fine penman), William H., Isaac T., Milton E., Albert G. and Mary J. Mr. Myers is a republican.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Lewis P. Armstrong, physician and surgeon, Harveysborg, was born Montgomery county, Indiana, June 28, 1836. His father, Samuel Armstrong, was a native of New Jersey, and his mother, Anna (Hilmon) Armstrong, was born in Kentucky, and moved with her parents to Montgomery County, Indiana, in an early day. Samuel Armstrong left New Jersey and came to Montgomery county about 1822, and settled in Union township. He afterward owned property in Crawfordsville, and also on Scott's prairie. He died in 1839, north of Crawfordsville. His wife died in 1867. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They left six children. Lewis P. Armstrong was quite weakly when young and lived with his mother, who was a tailoress. When he was eight years old he moved with his mother to Union county, Indiana, then to Cass county. Lewis attended school three years at the Logansport Seminary. He followed teaching in Cass and Carroll counties, and two terms in Illinois. In 1859 he began reading medicine with Dr. J. Q. Howell, of Mt. Vernon, Indiana. He read two years, then one year with Dr. S. F. Landry, of Galveston, Indiana. He then attended parts of two terms of lectures at Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College. Dr. Armstrong then located for the practice of his profession at Harveysburg, in 1863. In 1865 he moved to Marysville, Illinois, and four years afterward returned to Harveysburg. In the term of 1873 and 1874 he attended Miami Medical College, from which he graduated in 1874; then continued his practice at Harveysburg. Dr. Armstrong owns 140 acres of land and town property. He is a strong republican and a Mason. He was married in 1864, to Hannah Towell, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Towell. She was born in Orange county, Indiana, and was brought by her parents to Montgomery county when she was three years old. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have fonr children, two boys and two girls.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical

Reuben Lindley, retired, was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, September 6, 1792. In 1816 he emigrated to Orange county, Indiana, where he lived till 1839, and moved to Fountain county, Indiana, and bought 120 acres of land, built a log-house in which he lived many years, and cleared his farm. He paid $1,081.50 for his farm. He brought his second wife and children, nine by the first and one by the second. He had two sons, two sons-in-law, and five grandsons in the civil war. He was a strong Jackson man, then whig, and later a republican. His first wife was Elizabeth Martin, and his second wife Dinah Towell. Lot B. Lindley, son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Martin) Lindley, was born December 27, 1819, in Orange county, Indiana. He learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed many years. He moved with his parents, in 1839, to Fountain county. In 1840 he bought eighty acres of land, and since that has added eighty acres. He has sold some and owns 106 acres. In 1856, being desirous of founding a town, he surveyed and laid off a number of lots on his land, and by offering indncements to settlers succeeded in his undertaking, as will be seen by perusing the sketch of Harveysburg. Mr. Lindley was married in 1842, to Lydia Harvey, daughter of Harlan and Ruth Harvey. He moved to Parke county, then to Fountain county, where he now lives. Mrs. Lindley died Angnst 11,1842. She was a quaker. Mr. Liadley was next married to Marettie C. Gifford. Her father, Jonathan Gifford, died when she was ten years old, and she was left to mostly support herself. Her mother lives in Parke county. Mrs. Lindley was born near Montezuma, Parke county, June 28, 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Lindley have one child (now Mrs. Elizabeth J. Morrison) living, and two children deceased, Semira E. and Margaret A. Both are Methodists, so also was their daughter Margaret, who died June 1, 1878, aged sixteen years. Mr. Lindley is a Mason.

History of Fountain County, Indiana
by H. W. Beckwith
Published by H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Chicago, in 1881
Mill Creek Township - Biographical