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

George Nave, farmer and grain-buyer, Attica, second son of John and Anna M. (Umbarger) Nave, was born in Nicholasville, Desamond county, Kentucky, in 1817. The family removed, the next year, to Butler county, Ohio; and in 1828 to Fountain county, Indiana, settling two miles south of Attica. Here Mr. Nave has lived since, until four years ago he moved into Attica. Mr. Nave began life as a young man with very little capital, but he had energy and was industrious, and now enjoys the reward which fortune pays to a judicious combination of toil with calculation. His attention has been closely absorbed with raising grain and hogs and buying land; and it is a notable fact that he has never conveyed but one piece of land; this was fifty-seven acrea on Shawnee creek, on which the Nave mill stood, and was sold to Decatur J. Shepard. He owns 2,000 acres; of this 751 acres lie close to Attica; 80 acres on Turkey Run; 260 acres in Iroquois county, Illinois, and 900 acres in Webster county, Iowa. This is all eligible to market, and valuable. For sixty-three years Mr. Nave has renounced the claims and firmly withstood the excitement of having never in all his life cast a single ballot. He was married in 1846 to Ann Eliza Cook. Of his two sons, Hiram and Columbus, the latter is the only one living. The former died at the age of fourteen.

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

Thomas C. Wiggins, farmer, Attica, was born in Logan township, October 8, 1830. In 1828 his parents, Joseph and Sarah (Foster) Wiggins, settled in this place on Sec. 16; the next year his father entered a piece of land where the subjeet of this sketch has always lived. His father and mother both died on the place, the former in 1860 and the latter in 1872. He received a good English education at the Friends Bloomingdale Academy in Parke county, and at the Farmers' Institute in Tippecanoe county, attending each a year, after he became of age. On the 22th of February, 1862, he was united in marriage with Maria J. Herring, who died in 1869, having borne two children: Clara, born December 12, 1862, and Lettie, August 20, 1866. Mr. Wiggins has been township assessor the last five or six years, and was census enumerator of Logan township for 1880. His political views are republican.

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

Orin Arms, farmer, Attica, is a native of Vermont, having been born in Washington county, of that state, April 21, 1801. In 1824 he came to Michigan on a sight-seeing tour, and in January, 1829, again came west, this time arriving in Indiana, and making a few months' sojourn at Eugene. In the spring he went down to Natchez as a hand on a flatboat, and returned by the river to St. Louis and Galena. The Indians were numerous along the river. From Galena back to Eugene he traveled the whole distance on foot; the country would have been a continuous solitude had it not been broken by great numbers of the aboriginal inhabitants at Rock River and Peoria, and a few isolated habitations of white men, some of which were forty-five miles apart. He was at once employed by James and Robert McCollum, two New Hampshire men, and fanning-mill makers, with whom he had come from Detroit in company, in the early winter. In 1830 he and James McCollum formed a partnership to carry on this business. They came to Logan township, and at Judge Milford's made twenty of these mills; then returning to Eugene, made twenty more. The making and peddling this stock constituted their summer's work. These mills were the first manufactured in this section of Indiana. In the fall of this year he got the ape, which was punctual in visiting the settlers at all same of the year, and shaking them up in the most lively and impressive manner. Breaking this up, he diversified his western experience during the following winter with corn buying at Health Prairie, on the west side of the Wabash, between Newport and Terre Haute. When the water rose in the spring he floated his boat, laden with 2,000 bushels, down the great highway to the southern, and the only market. He had paid ten cents per bushel for this cargo, and had to dispose of it at about the same price, which taught himm the significance of a loss and gain account with the balance on the losing side. He took passage from New Orleans for New York and was sixteen days between those ports. He had the ague more or less from the time he reached the Mississippi till he disembarked at New York. Returning home to Vermont, he stayed there during the summer, and in September went back to Indiana, driving a horse and buggy all the way, except between Buffalo and Lower Sandusky he traveled by boat, and reached Eugene in about thirty days. Immediately on arrival, October 4, 1831, he married Miss Cynthia Hubbard. In December he settled in Logan township, this county, on the place which he still owns and occupies as a homestead, having purchased it from a man named Casey Emmons. The land in this neighborhood, about a mile from Attica, was then called barrens," and was considered third rate in quality. For several years now Mr. Arms varied his employment with clearing and tilling his ground, carpentering, making fanning-mills, piloting boats on the river, and anything else that he could get to do. Wages were low, money scarce, and good hands could be hired for $8 to $10 per month. His wife dying December 19, 1843, in 1846 he married Elizabeth Stevens. His first wife's children were Lucetta L., Solon H., Azro A., Laura Ann and Ira O.; and the second wife's, Amanda, Cynthia A. and Charles F. Mr. Arms has been township trustee and school officer. He was formerly a whig, but since the dissolution of that party has been a republican. In his home farm are 250 acres; he has 160 more in Benton county, forty-two in Shawnee township, and twenty acres of timber in Richland. He was never robust, but has always been in a "complaining" state of health and strength, and much doctored; yet he has far outlived the allotted length of life, accumulated considerable property, and done much good as a common citizen. His steady industry and temperate habits have, no doubt, had much to do with this. At fifteen he began using tobacco; at sixty quit the habit, laid aside his spectacles, and gradually became less nervous; now at the age of eighty few gray hairs can be found in his head, his hand is steady, and he reads well with the naked eye. Mrs. Arms is a member of the Old School Baptist church.

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

Harley Greenwood, retired, Attica, was born in Bethel, Oxford county, Maine, April 18, 1800. His father's Christian name was Nathaniel, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Mason. He obtained a good education, and when about twenty years of age left home in company with a younger brother, both seeking their fortunes in the world. They started with $20 apiece in silver, which had been given them by their parents. Mr. Greenwood still has in his possession the little purse which his mother presented him when he was leaving. They were controlled by no definite plan, but drifted to Boston and New York; going into New Jersey, stopped and remained there some time teaching school. From here they went to Virginia, arriving there on horseback, and continued school teaching. His brother finally read medicine, and in a few years went to Indiana, where he practiced a little while and then quit the profession for merchandising. He located at Rob Roy, in Fountain county. At that date this point was one of growing importance; and when the older brother arrived in the fall of 1831 it was the largest place between Indianapolis and Chicago. Our subject had a little money when he got here and at once invested it in the store in company with his brother, whom he found already engaged in trade. The county was very sickly at this early period, and the latter was stricken by disease and died in 1833. It had been the intention of the two to erect a flouring-mill, and Mr. Greenwood, acting in accordance with the original purpose, built at Rob Roy the first one of my consequence ever raised in the county. A pair of "raccoon burrs" had been doing a little work there before this time. This "corn-cracker" stood on the first ''eighty" that he bought. Mr. Greenwood now turned his attention wholly to this business and to farming. Milling became very profitable. Money was very scarce, add exchanges were carried on chiefly by barter; the merchants sold goods and took their pay mostly in wheat. Four and a half bushels made a barrel of flour; but the merchants were willing to give five bushels, furnish the barrel, and pay fifty cents, and take an article that would pass in New Orleans for two-thirds superfine; and it would have been a miracle had a miller been found who was loth to take it. For many years Mr. Green wood operated extensively, and in the meantime accumulated a handsome property. At one time he had upward of 1,100 acres of land. In 1872 he sold 600 acres for $30,500, and his landed estate now comprises 540 acres. He sold the mill in 1865 to A. A. Greenwood and F. W. McCoughtry. In 1833 Mr. Greenwood returned on horseback to the valley of Virginia, and in March was married to Miss Frances Davis. She died in November, 1837, and the following year he went again to Virginia and brought away a second wife in the person of Miss Fanny Timberlake. By the first marriage were born two children, which died in infancy. Mr. Greenwood has been a leading citizen of Fountain county, a man to whom the people always went for counsel and to transact legal and other business for them. Probably no other did so much business as administrator and guardian as he; he has had as many as thirty children under his charge at a time. His commercial honor and financial integrity were always of the highest order, and inspired the soundest confidence. Under the circumstances it was impossible for him altogether to escape office holding. He was county commissioner, probate judge, and justice of the peace. When the citizens of Shawnee township were subscribing money to raise substitutes during the rebellion Mr. Greenwood offered to give $1,000 more than any other man, and did so, paying $2,000. The amount raised was $16,000. The democrats would not be satisfied to send any other than him to Indianapolis to hire the men and disburse the funds, so he went as agent for the township. When he sold a part of his farm, in 1872, he removed to Attica, where he has since lived in retirement. Politically he is a republican. Both he and his wife have been members of the Presbyterian church thirty years. In 1836 Mr. Greenwood returned to his native home to see his dying mother, but she died before he reached there. In 1867 he paid another visit to his birthplace.

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

Marshall M. Milford, one of the earliest, and for many years one of the most conspicuous citizens of Fountain county, was born in South Carolina, August 14, 1816, and came to Indiana with his father, Judge Robert Milford, in 1827. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm, where he improved such little opportunity as he there had by reading law. He afterward took a course of instruction in civil engineering at Wabash College, and was subsequently appointed deputy clerk under Bloomer White, the first clerk of Fountain county after its organization. Mr. White dying soon after his acceptance of the clerkship, Mr. Milford served as clerk for the unexpired term, in the meanwhile pursuing his law studies. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar. In the following year he married Miss Maria J. Bartlett, of Warren county (a native of Virginia), by whom he had seven children, four of whom, with the widow, survive him. He continued in the profession of law to the time of his death, amassing a handsome competence, and acquiring a high reputation throughout the Wabash valley region for his probity, sound judgment and safe counsel. His popularity, wide acquaintance and unblemished character often caused him to be sought for some public position, but he uniformly declined all marks of political favor. In 1870 he was so prominently indicated for a congressional nomination that his selection promised to be practically unanimous, and his election a certainty, but he earnestly solicited his friends to withdraw his name. His success in life, his great influence and popularity, depended entirely on his merits as a private citizen. In personal appearance Mr. Milford was a remarkable man, over six feet in height, and weighing two hundred and twenty-five pounds. His imposing appearance and genial manner made him a conspicuous figure at the bar and in public assemblies. During a trial in the Warren circuit court at Williamsport, December 2, 1874, he was instantly stricken dead by apoplexy, while apparently in the most robust health, and without a premonitory symptom.

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

William W. Ennis, insurance agent, Attica, son of William and Mary (Crissy) Ennis, was born September 2, 1810. The Ennises were Irish. Two brothers, William and John, emigrated to America before the revolution and settled in New York city. When the war broke out John remained a royalist, but William joined the patriots and went into the military service. He was taken prisoner by Lord Howe and confined in the old Jersey prison-ship three months. He lost his property, most of which his brother got. His son William, father of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier through the war of 1812, and served in the 7th reg. N. Y. Art., doing garrison duty at Castle Garden. In 1818 he moved to Indiana and settled in Randolph county, where he cleared land and made a home. He moved to Winchester, the county seat, and lived there several years, working at his trade of shoemaking. About 1833 he moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life, and died in 1841. Mr. Ennis was reared a farmer. In 1830 he celebrated his marriage, at Winchester, with Sarah, daughter of David Wright, and niece of Judge John Wright, afterward of Illinois. She died in 1832, leaving one child, which also died shortly afterward. In 1835 he came to Fountain county and settled near Pleasant Hill, Montgomery county. He farmed there a little while, and then moved to Pleasant Hill and engaged in merchandising two years. In 1847 he removed to Attica, where he has since made his home. During six years of his residence in this place he was selling dry goods, and the next seven years boots and shoes. For many years now he has been in the insurance business. He filled the office of township trustee twelve or fourteen years in succession. When he lived in Richland township he was justice of the peace one term of four years. He was married a second time, in 1837, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Meek, an old settler of Fountain county. They have had one son and four daughters: Almira, John W., Emma, Laura and Julia. Almira is the wife of James H. Finfrock, of Attica, and John W. is an artist, and lives at Delphi. Mr. Ennis is a republican. He and his wife and two daughters are Presbyterians, and one daughter is a Methodist.

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

Samuel D. Mentzer, bridge-tender, Attica, was born near Baltimore, in Frederick county, Maryland, February 22, 1816, and was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Derr) Mentzer. He was bound out by the orphan’s court for three years to learn the carpenter's trade, but before his time had quite expired he left the man to whom he was indentured. This was in 1837. In the same year he departed from Boonesboro, where he had learned his trade, and went to Wheeling on foot; from there he went by steamboat to Louisville. After working three months at Jeffersonville he continued his travels down the river on a flat-boat, finally reaching Vicksburg. Here he worked some time, and in the meanwhile had the small-pox. He lived in the south two years, engaged at his trade in different places, and during the time made two trips to New Orleans. In 1839 he came north. A number of his friends from Boonesboro had now settled at Attica, and he was attracted to this place by their presence, where he has ever since made his home. He worked at his trade fifteen years from this time, erecting more than one hundred buildings in Attica, and then for a short period was in the grocery trade. After this he kept a livery stable seven or eight years, and was twice burned out while in the business. At the same time he began driving the bus and carrying the mail, and did this service fifteen years, attending all trains, day and night, and for twelve years making his couch on the counter of the Revere House. Being rendered unfit for this duty, he changed places with his son John, who was tending the Attica bridge, and for a few years has occupied this position. He was married here, in 1840, to Sarah Dutrow, of Boonesboro, Maryland, by whom he had sis children: George W., Emma, Annie, Samuel C., John C. Fremont, and Birdie (deceased). His son Samuel C. enlisted in the early part of the war in Co. D, 20th reg. Ind. Vols., and fought in the second battle of Bull Run; at Fredericksburg, under Burnside; at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and all the great battles in Virginia under Grant to the close of the war.

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

Azariah T. Leath, farmer, Attica, was born at Independence, Warren county, Indiana, April 28, 1838. His parents, Silas J. and May Ann (Barbry) Leath, came from Virginia in an early day and settled at Independence. At the age of six he lost his father by death, and a year later his mother died. Himself, two brothers and two sisters, thus orphaned, became scattered, and were reared by different people. For eleven years this subject lived with John Emmons. He was enrolled July 1, 1861, in Co. D, 20th reg. Ind. Vols. He witnessed the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress by the Merrimac, and the next day the engagement between this iron-clad and the Monitor. He participated in the movement of the troop on shore when the Congress was sunk - two companies of the 20th, including his own, were detailed to go down to the beach and drive off the rebels who had boarded her. He saw one of the enemy killed on her deck. The 20th Ind. regiment went into the service numbering 1,046 men, and arrived at Hatteras, North Carolina, September 25, 1861; on the 4th of October the rebels attacked the command, which made the memorable retreat southward the whole length of Hatteras Island; November 11 it arrived at Fortress Monroe, and, remaining there till February 25, 1862, was transferred to Newport News, and lay there when the Merrimac made her descent on the Union fleet. On the 10th of May the regiment left Newport News and arrived at Norfolk next day. On the 7th of June it moved again, and joined the Army of the Potomac in front of Richmond. It took an active part in the movements on the Chickahominy, and was detailed as rear guard on the retreat to Harrison's Landing. Following is a list of most of the battles and skirmishes of this regiment: seven days before Richmond ; skirmish in front of Richmond, June 19, 1862; severe skirmish while acting as rear guard of the army, 23; battle of the Orchards, 25; battle of Glendale, 30; battle of Malvern Hill, July 1; battle of Bull Run, August 29; battle of Chantilly, September 2; skirmish of Waterloo, November 7; battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 14, 15; battle of the Cedars, May 8, 1863; battle of Chancellorsville, 3, 4, 5; battle of' Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3; severe picket skirmish, Gettysburg. 4; battle of Wapping Heights, 22; suppressing July riots in New York city; battle of Kelly's Ford, November 7; battle of' Orange Grove, 27; battle of Mine Run, 29; battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 6, 1864; battle of Spottsylvania, 8-12; Cold Harbor, June 1. Mr. Leath was wounded in the left arm at this last place, on the 30th of May, two days before the regular engagement. He was a sergeant in his company, and had charge of a detail of men building breastworks at the time of the casualty. He was absent in hospital in Washington and New York till November, when he rejoined his command before Petersburg, and shared in the subsequent operations of the army until the collapse of the rebellion. He "veteraned" February 21, 1864; and was mustered out of the service at Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 12,1865. He was married December 31, 1867, to Miss Amelia P. Pearson, daughter of Enoch Pearson. Her father removed from Ohio and settled on the Big Raccoon, in Parke county, in 1824. In 1826 he came to Fountain county and made a home in Van Buren township. In 1837 he removed to Logan township, where his widow now lives. Mr. Leath owns eighty acres of land, valued at $5,000. He is a republican, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist church.

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

Monroe Milford, a prominent attorney and politician of Fountain county, Attica, was born February 17, 1842, in Logan township. His grandfather, Robert Milford, was a native of South Carolina, and a soldier of the revolution and of the war of 1812. About 1825 he emigrated, with his wife and two sons, Marshall and Milton, to Fountain county, and settled on the Shawnee prairie, two and a half miles east of Attica. The farm of 450 acres, which he improved, is now owned by the heirs of Marshall Milford. During many years, at first, he took a leading part in the transaction of official business; he assisted in organizing the county, designating its boundaries, and fixing the seat of justice, and during the earlier days of the county was probate judge, being the first incumbent of that office. After that he devoted himself to the superintendence of his farm and the education of his children, and died in January, 1869, at a ripe age. Milton, the father of our subject, was a lawyer, and lived and practiced in Attica, except during 1844 and 1845, when he resided at Delphi as superintendent of the construction of the Wabash & Erie canal from that place to Covington. He died at his home, November 18,1847, in the prime of life. His wife, whose maiden name was Maria Bantee, and whose early home was at Eaton, Ohio, died in 1855. This year Monroe entered Wabash College, and pursued the studies of the classical course some time without interruption. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 11th Ind. Vole., Capt. Elston, and served six months. He fought at Romney, Virginia, one of the early battles of the war, in which the rebels were defeated. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned to college and completed his senior year, and then formed a law partnership with his uncle, Marshall Milford, which lasted till 1867. The next year he ran for clerk of Fountain county, but was defeated. In 1871 he was elected mayor of Attica, and reelected in 1873. In 1876 he ran for state elector of the eighth congressional district on the republican ticket. In 1877 he was elected city attorney of Attica, and still holds that office. Recently he was an aspirant for the nomination for congress, his competitors being James T. Johnston, of Parke, and R. B. F. Pierce, of Montgomery. The latter was successful before the convention at Terre Haute. Mr. Milford was married April 4, 1861, to Miss Jennie Ramey, of Crawfordsville. She died August 6, 1870, and he married Miss Ellie Poole, of Philadelphia, February 28, 1873. By the first wife he had one son, Charles R., who is a student at Princeton College, in his junior year. He and his stepmother are members of the Episcopal church.

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

Norman S. Brown, farmer, Attica, was born in Ellisburg, Jefferson county, New York, in 1811. His father, Avery, was drowned when he was four months old. At the age of eleven be left home, and when fourteen apprenticed himself to the hatter's trade, but at the end of two years his employer broke up and he never finished it. He then went as a cabin-boy on a steamboat on Lake Ontario, but did not stay in this place long, and the next winter went to school. In the spring he got a place as steward on a packet on the Erie canal, and afterward was bowsman. From the fall of 1828 to the spring of 1831 he was on the canal; at this last date he came to Cleveland and went to work on the Ohio canal, and excepting the years 1837 and 1838, when he was working for a paper-mill and running a livery stable, he was employed on that route till 1844. In the spring of 1843 he came into this state on the Wabash & Erie canal, and early the following winter arrived at Attica, coming down the river on a keel-boat. He at once set up in the grocery and dry-goods trade, which he continued fourteen years. In 1849 and 1850 he kept the Exchange Hotel. From 1866 to 1877 he was express agent. Mr. Brown has owned a farm of 320 acres, situated on the opposite side of the river, for the past twenty-five years, which he has a part of the time rented, but which he now cultivates. He was married in January, 1833, to Miss Maria E. Carter, of Summit county, Ohio. They have had three children: William A., born December 25, 1833; Laura A., December 27, 1835, and Harley, January 13, 1838, died in infancy. Mr. Brown was first a whig and afterward a republican, but with him party ties have now lost their strength, and henceforth he will vote for the best man.

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

William T. Herr, farmer, Attica, was born in Logan township, December 1, 1847. His father, Samuel Herr, emigrated from Maryland to this place in 1843, and lived here two years; he then returned to that state, where his wife died, and in 1847 he came again to Indiana, taking up his home a second time in Logan township, and here he married Maria Jane Taylor, mother of the subject of this notice. She had come here from Ohio in 1830. Both parents are now dead; the father having deceased in 1851, and the mother in 1875. Mr. Herr enlisted in Co. B, 135th Ind. Vols., for 100 days, in March, and was mustered in at Indianapolis April 30, 1864. He did garrison and guard duty mostly at Stevenson and Bridgeport, Alabama, and was mustered out at Indianapolis September 21, 1864. He was married February 17, 1870, to Miss Nancy Jane Hays. They have two children: Kittie Belle, born August 4, 1875, and Arthur Garfield, May 9, 1880. During the years 1872, 1873 and 1874 Mr. Herr was living in Grant township, Vermilion county, Illinois. He has the old homestead of ninety acres, valued at $5,500. He is a republican.

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

Dr. Samuel Whitehall, Attica, was born in this place in 1848. His father, Dr. Alexander L. Whitehall, settled near Newtown, in this county, in 1832. His mother's maiden name was Sarah A. Van Gundy; she was descended from Peter Von Gunten, a Swiss- Hugnenot, able, wealthy, and distinguished in the history of his country, who aspired to the government of Berne and, being compelled to flee for his life, sought asylum in France. He and his family emigrated to America, and settled in Penn's colony; and from him have sprung the Gundys and Von Gundys. Of the former several families live in Vermilion county, Illinois. The remote history of the Whitehall family is given at length in the sketch of Nicholas Whitehall, of Richland township. The subject of this notice early began the study of medicine with his father. In 1866-7 he attended medical lectures at the Michigan University; the next year he took a course at the Eclectic Medical Institute, and the following year returned to the former institution, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1870. He at once located in his native town, remaining till 1875, when he removed to Niles, Michigan; but after four years' absence returned to resume his former practice in Attica. In 1873 he married Miss Kate E. Everett, of Urbana, Ohio. He is an Odd-Fellow and republican, and a gentleman of well cultivated mind, pleasing address, and thoroughly informed understanding.

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

William H. Young, farmer, Attica, was born in Logan township, November 26,1849, and is the son of Daniel and Mary (Nave) Young. His parents were both early settlers in this part of Fountain county. His father has farmed and dealt extensively in stock, and is now wealthy. His mother died many years since. He received his education at Wabash College and Notre Dame University, a Catholic school at South Bend, attending each one year. He has always been engaged in farming, except during 1871 and 1878, when he was clerking in the store of Samuel Clark, of Attica. He was married September 20, 1871, to Martha E. Templeton, of Williamsport, who was born December 5, 1848. They have had two children, as follows: Mary Lilly, born March 20, 1874, and Grace Ella, born January 28, and died August 21, 1880. He has 185 acres of land in Logan township, and forty in Shawnee, the whole valued at $7,000. In politics Mr. Young is a democrat.

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

J. Shannon Nave, a prominent attorney of Fountain county, Attica, the oldest child of John and Hannah J. (Shannon) Nave, was born in this county September 17, 1850. He was reared on his father's farm, and educated at Indiana University, at Bloomington, graduating in the scientific course in the class of 1872. In 1871-2 he attended law lectures at Michigan University, and in April of the latter year, his father dying, he came home and superintended the farm until November. He then entered the office of Marshall Milford, of Attica, and remained, till May, at which time he formed a law partnership with his cousin, Columbus Nave. In 1877 this was dissolved, and he continued the business alone two years, doing but little, however, as he was in failing health and laboring under the pressure of other duties. In 1878 he was elected to the lower house of the Indiana legislature by the democrats of Fountain county. He served on the following committees: claims, mines and mining, and enrolled bills. Mr. Nave's party had made the redistricting of the state an issue of the canvass, and during this session brought forward a bill for that purpose. Mr. Nave and two other democrats, not satisfied with its features, voted against it as originally introduced, and compelled their colleagues to agree to its amendment, when they changed their votes the following day. Mr. Nave was the nominee of the democratic party of Fountain and Warren counties for state senator in 1880, but was defeated for that office. In 1879 he associated Benjamin F. Hegler with himself in the law firm of Nave & Hegler. Mr. Nave was married September 30, 1879, to Miss Jennie A. Rice, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the Hon. Thomas N. Rice, of Rockville.

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

Jacob Loeb, merchant, Attica, was born in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, April 15, 1829. He was the third child of a family of ten sons. His father's given name was Benedick, and his mother's maiden name Esther Mans. When thirteen years of age he began working on a farm, handling grain and cattle, and milling, and spent his time at these various occupations until his emigration to America. In the rebellion of 1848 he served a term of three months in the Hessian army, and fought at Baden-Baden, receiving a severe wound in the right hand, partially crippling it. Mr. Loeb came to America in 1856. He had been too poor to marry in the fatherland, where a license cost $200, and a man was obliged to prove himself the possessor, in his own right, of a certain amount of property before the government would grant him a passport to the state matrimonial. So, taking his affianced bride, he sought the land of cheap licenses and free divorces, and on his arrival in New Pork city celebrated his marriage with Miss Esther Lauman, who was born December 3, 1837. On reaching La Fayette this plucky couple bound themselves without means to continue their journey, but Father Doffinger, who had never seen them before, kindly loaned them $2.50 to pay their fare to Attica, where they arrived on the first trial train on the Wabash railroad, run between the two places. Mr. Loeb bought a blind horse for $9, and traveling behind him, drove through the country peddling clothing, dry goods and notions. This business he followed four years, quitting it in 1860 with $744. He then went to butchering, after two years he received Jacob Lauman into partnership; at the end of a year this firm sold out for $7,050. The firm of S. & J. Loeb & Co. had been previously formed, and Mr. Loeb now gave his attention to the business of this company, in which was his only remaining mercantile interest. About 1864 they associated Isaac Lauman with themselves and organized a second partnership, styled Loeb, Lauman & Co. Mr. Loeb has four living children: Leo, born April 14, 1857; Henry, January 22, 1858; Louis, February 15,1859, and Charley, January 20,1867. He and his wife belong to the Benai Jeshurun congregation (Jewish church). Mr. Loeb has been an Odd-Fellow two years, and held offices of appointment in the lodge. He is a man of temperate habits, and much respected as a citizen.

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

James Martin, postmaster and grain dealer, Attica, the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth M. (Marshall) Martin, was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1825. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the saddler's trade, but never followed it. His father was a merchant, and since he was eighteen he has also been in the same business. In 1839 his father removed with his family to La Fayette, Indiana, and there Mr. Martin made his permanent residence until 1851, at which date he settled in Attica. From 1843 to 1851 he was selling goods, but in the latter year he embarked in the grain trade and has since followed that business with signal success, extending his operations over a large territory and making numerous places branches of the central point. Honorable business principles and practices, and an untiring activity and spirit of enterprise have characterized Mr. Martin's intercourse with the public and made him an enduring and gratifying reputation. He has devoted himself with singleness of purpose to his business, and never aspired to office, though he might have held very good civil positions had he ever announced a desire for such. In April, 1879, he accepted the appointment of postmaster, in which office he gives universal satisfaction. Mr. Martin has been a Mason and an Odd-fellow thirty-thee years. In politics he is thoroughly republican, pronounced in his views, though by no means unpleasant to opponents in the expression of them. Mr. Martin was married in 1851 to Miss Mary M. Gookins, of Perrysville. Four sons, all living, have been the issue of this union: Lucius G., Harvey C., Frederick V., and J. Ralph. Mrs. Martin has been a member of the Presbyterian church twenty years.

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

Harmon Loeb, merchant, Attica, was born in the state of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1827. He was the second of a family of ten sons, whose parents were Benedick and Esther (Maas) Loeb. His father was a butcher and cattle dealer, and he was reared in the same business. He received a good education in the common schools of the country. In 1850 Mr. Loeb emigrated to America, and after spending a year each in New York and Pennsylvania, he came west in 1852 and settled in Attica, where he has since made his residence and been in business. The first two years after coming here he peddled goods, and in 1854 opened a clothing store and has continued in this line of trade to the present time, combining merchant tailoring with his business, which is an important feature of it. He carries a large and varied stock, and by his integrity and fair dealing has acquired a high reputation among the people. Mr. Loeb began without means, but in the ordinary course of a prosperous business has become wealthy and respected. He is one of the oldest active business men in the place. Not long since he took his oldest son into partnership under the firm name of Loeb & Son. They do a considerable outside business in stock. Mr. Loeb was married in 1855 to Miss Sophia Joseph, who was born in 1833, and reared in the same place in Germany with himself. They have an interesting family of ten living children: Levi, born July 25, 1856; Sarah, August 12, 1857; Jennie, June 12, 1859 (deceased); Lebo, February 3, 1862; Samuel, September 3,1864; Esther, September 1,1867; Hannah, January 18, 1870; Ben, January 9, 1873; Saul, April 22, 1874, and Josie and Guessie June 6, 1876. Sarah married L. W. Joseph, September 20, 1877; they live in Stanberry, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Loeb belong to the Benai Jeshurun congregation (Jewish church). In 1860 the former became an Odd-Fellow, but is not now an active member. In polities he is an independent democrat.

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

Hansel J. Green, hardware merchant, Attica, was born in Gloucestershire, England, February 23, 1829. He was the youngest son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Phelps) Green. In 1842 the family emigrated to America and settled in Portage county, Ohio. Mr. Green was reared a farmer and obtained his education at the Atwater Academy. In 1846 they removed to Mahoning county, and there, at the age of seventeen, he was apprenticed to the timer's trade. In 1849 he went to Millersburg, Holmes county, and took charge of a stove store for a Mr. Holcomb, of whom he learned his trade. Next year he came to La Fayette, Indiana, where he worked at the tinning business two years, and then settled permanently in Attica. Here he opened a stove and hardware store, and has continued the business to the present date. He has in the meantime given considerable attention to farming. Mr. Green came here a poor man, but by untiring industry and judicious management he has acquired an independent estate. Besides his valuable mercantile interests he owns 400 acres of land adjoining Attica, 200 in Jasper county, and 160 in Kansas. He keeps some Kentucky thoroughbred horses to gratify his taste for fine stock. In the suburbs, on the heights overlooking the city from the east, is Mr. Green's home, a superb residence of brick, surrounded by spacious grounds tastefully laid out with gravel walks and drives, and shaded with forest trees. He was married February 17, 1857, to Miss Mary M. Merrick, of North Branford, New Haven county, Connecticut. She was born April 27, 1833. They have two living children: Lamonte M., born December 17, 1857, and Emma S., March 9, 1870. They have also had two others which died in infancy. Mr. Green has never been an aspirant for office, but has always attended diligently to his private business, as his honorable success fully attests. He has served as councilman and school trustee. He travels considerable in the States; in 1870 he made a trip to England, and is contemplating another, with his family, soon. His father, now 90 years old, is still living, in sound health, supporting a vigorous old age. He resides at Atwater, Portage county, Ohio. Mrs. Green is a member of the Episcopal church. Mr. Green's membership in the same church is a disputed point between bishop Talbot, of Indiana, and himself, the former claiming that he is, and the latter denying "the soft impeachment."

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

Hein Ahrens (deceased), Attica, was born in Hanover, December 5, 1831. His father was a farmer, and he was reared to the same pursuit. In 1849 he came to America on a visit, and was so pleased with the country, and the advantages it afforded to people to rise in the world, that he decided to remain. He stopped in Ohio and learned the trade of stone-cutting at Little Falls, between Piqua and Dayton. When the Wabash railroad was built to Attica he was employed to put up the piers for the bridge across the Wabash, and during his short residence conceived such a liking for the place that he settled here. He was engaged in stone-cutting and bridge-building as long as he lived; he did work on buildings and country bridges, but was chiefly employed by the railroad company. Mr. Barnhart, of Attica, who has succeeded to the extensive business which both of them carried on, learned his trade with him and was his partner the last fifteen or eighteen years of his life. They owned in company seventy-five acres of land on the west side of the river, on which was site their quarry, from which was taken the best stone in this section of the country. Mr. Ahrens was married December 4, 1659, to Miss Augusta Kemper, formerly of Ohio. The following children were born to them: John W., October 11,1860; Frederick, May 6, 1863, died in infancy; Henry Otto, June 20, 1864; Charles L., November 28, 1868; Anna Mae August 12, 1869; Kemper Grist, March 17, 1873; and Hein Rudolf, December 3, 1875. Mr. Ahrens ass a consistent 'and devoted member of the Baptist church. His widow also belongs to the same society. He died very suddenly of brain disease, on January 13, 1879. He had provided well for his household and let€ his family in good circumstances. His life was insured in the Odd-Fellows Association for $2,500. He was an industrious, trustworthy, and highly respected citizen.

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

Philip Kullmer, furniture dealer, Attica, was born in Rhendish Palatine, Germany, October 11, 1833. His father's christian name was Philip and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Bechtel. He came to America in 1851 and remained the first year in New York; then he pushed on west and stopped in La Fayette, where he began to learn the cabinet trade. In 1853 he settled in Attica, arriving on the 21st of October. He finished his trade with Daniel Rhine, and Jannary 1, 1857, started in business with Charles Rees under the firm name of Rees & Kullmer. In April, 1861, Mr. Kullmer bought out Rees, and the latter went into the army. He was alone in business until January 1, 1864, when he associated C. F. Rohlfing with himself under the style of Kullmer & Rolhfing. In 1870 the latter retired, and then he took his brother-in-law, John Meitzler, into partnership, firm of Kullmer & Meitzler. On January 1, 1878, the latter sold his interest to David B. Martin, and the present firm is Kullmer & Martin. The business house used by this firm is a three-story brick, 42x 60 feet, owned by Mr. Kullmer, and was built, by him in 1866. Mr. Kullmer was married October 26, 1858, to Katherine Meitzler, who was born in the same country as himself August 21, 1838. They have six children: Elizabeth E., born September 15, 1859; Frank, February 11, 1861; Minnie, April 22, 1862; Katie, January 4, 1868; George M., July 15, 1875; and Anna Lotta, August 21, 1877. Mr. Kullmer was city councilman from 1861 to 1865. He has been an Odd-Fellow since 1860. In politics he is a republican. In 1869 he visited his native home; all of his father's family live in the old country.

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

Isaac Lauman, merchant, Attica, was born in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, March 2, 1838, and was the youngest child of Zodick Hirsch and Jette (Fuld) Lauman. At the age of thirteen he began peddling notions, and continued in this business till 1859, when he came to America, arriving in Attica about the first of September with $6 as the extent of his worldly fortune. After a sojourn of six months in Attica he went to Dallas, Illinois, and clerked in a general store twenty months, when the firm broke up and threw him out of employment. He returned to Attica, and during the fall of 1861 bought hides and $4 making a handsome little sum of money. The next year he clerked in the store of S. and J. Loeb & Co. In 1864 this firm took Mr. Lauman into partnership, and another firm was then formed by these gentlemen under the style of Loeb, Lauman Bros Co., both of which have continued to do business up to the present time. These two firms, which are practically me, run two business houses and have a thriving trade. They deal largely in dry goods, clothing, furnishing goods, cattle and wool. Mr. Lauman was married August 27, 1866, to Miss Augusta Pfeifer, of Louisville, Kentucky, who was born in Germany, August 24, 1848. Their three living children were born as follows: Julia, September 12,1868; Belle, September 5, 1871; and Howard, November 6, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Lauman are members of the Benai Jeshurun congregation (Jewish church). He was president several years, and is now the treasurer. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1860, and has filled several offices in his lodge. He is also a member of Brazilla Lodge, No. 11 1, I. 0. B. B., of La Fayette.

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

Andrew B. Cunningham, dentist, Attica, son of Adam and Mary (Baskin) Cunningham, was born in Island county, Ohio, January 31, 1835. His early life was spent in tilling the soil and in merchandising. In 1856-7 he took a partial course of medical lectures at the Ohio College, in Cincinnati, and afterward a full course at the Ohio Dental College, graduating in the spring of 1858. He immediately located at Leesburg, Ohio, and in June, 1859, removed to Attica. He has lived in this place since, excepting one year spent at Decatur, Illinois. In the time of the war he was county agent to procure men for the military service to fill the quota of Foutain county. He obtained upward of fifty. He held the appointment of deputy United States marshal several years, beginning about 1874. He is a member of the State Dental and the Wabash Valley Dental Associations, and president of the latter body. In politics he is firmly attached to the principles, and is a warm advocate of the policy of the democratic party. Mr. Cunningham has been connected with the detective business some time, and has rendered very important service in that capacity. Of the numerous occasions on which he has shown ability for such work, one or two may be mentioned. The principal one, perhaps, was the discovery and arrest of John Jones, the murderer of James Hall. The tragedy was committed in Attica in the autumn of 1870, and Hall was apprehended, but escaped. The marshal offered a reward of $150 and the city $500. He had been at large a week when Mr. Cunningham began the pursuit. But he soon got upon his track, and refusing to be misled by the deceptive arts which the fugitive employed to conceal his true character, he followed steadily the route he had taken, and finally discovered his hiding place in Ford county, Illinois, where he recaptured him. The captor divided the rewards with the men who accompanied him. On May 25, 1875, he did a good day's work in discovering four illicit stills and capturing the distillers. Two of them were situated in the southern part of this county, and the others were across the line in Parke county. These operations were not a little dangerous, on account of the hostility of the neighborhoods to the interference of the law, but they were swiftly and skillfully performed and completely successful. In 1873 the safe of the Revere House, in Attica, was robbed most mysteriously, and the case was confided to this detective to work up and ferret out, which he did in a short time in a successful manner, recovering the stolen property, and arresting the culprit, and obtaining the evidence of his guilt at every step of his progress. Mr. Cunningham was married January 17, 1859, to Emily King, of Attica, daughter of Jackson King, who emigrated to Richland township about 1827. They have an only son living, named William.

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