JOSIAH P. BOGUE. The gentleman whose name appears above was long one of the prominent and well known citizens of Henry county, Indiana, and a volume of this character would is not he complete were mention of such as he omitted. Though he has passed from the scene of his former labors, the tangible results of his work remain and his memory is cherished by those who knew him. Josiah P. Bogue was born in Spiceland township, this county, November 3, 1833. His grandparents were Josiah and Elizabeth Bogue, the former born in March,1772, died July 6, 1848, and the latter, born May 9, 1748, died January 11, 1853. In 1833 Josiah Bogue, together with his sons, Alfred, Charles and John, settled on a farm one mile east of Spiceland, the place now owned by Mr. Butler. John Bogue married and settled on a farm near his father and died in 1839, when in his twenty-sixth year, having no children. Charles, who died when past seventy years of age, was the father of seven children, all
now deceased. The last days of Josiah and Elizabeth Bogue were passed on the farm with their son Alfred and there they died. Their son Alfred, the father of the subject, was born March 7,1808, and married Keziah Stubbs, who was born May 9, 1804. To the union were born four children, as follows: Elizabeth, who died in comparatively early life, was the wife of Axom Sanders and the mother of two children; Jane became the wife of David Reese and lives at Des Moines, Iowa; Josiah is the subject; John lives at Spiceland. Mrs. Keziah Bogue died June 27,1836, and for his second wife Mr. Bogue married Charity Bogue, a distant relative. To this union were born the following children: Calvin XV. lives at Howard City, Kansas; Anna Emily is the wife of Alpheus Rayle, of Spiceland; Marietta is the wife of Thomas Tease, of Salem, Ohio; Charles lives in Indian Territory; Emory lives at Spiceland; Ignatius died in childhood; Ella is the wife of William Doggett, of Danville, Virginia:
Harriet is the wife of Charles Newlin, of Irvington, Indiana. Alfred Bogue's death occurred on the old homestead at Spiceland December 25, 1871, at the age of sixty-two years. His widow is still living and makes her home at Irvington, near Indianapolis. The general religious tendency of the Bogue family has been toward the society of Friends and Alfred was especially active in the work of the society. Josiah Bogue remained at home until he entered into partnership with Dr. Cochran at Spiceland in a general store. He continued in this business until about 1866, having in the meantime several different partners, but in that year sold and bought the old homestead. Inside of two weeks, however, he had sold the latter place at an advance of one thousand dollars and purchased another farm in the same vicinity, where he made his home for four years. He then was engaged for about five years in selling goods at Spiceland and later entered into a partnership in the real
estate business. He became interested in the manufacture of brick and erected a fine, large brick residence in the east part of town, it being the first brick building in Spiceland. It was erected in 1867 and is now occupied by Mr. Harvey. In 1874 he disposed of his mercantile interests and purchased a farm near the old home place, east of town. He followed farming and stock raising for four years and then again embarked in the mercantile business at Spiceland and at the same time purchased the place south of town where he resided until death and where his widow now lives. He carried on both farms in conjunction with the store, giving his attention to all the details of his varied interests and consequently being successful in all his enterprises. At length he disposed of his town business and concentrated his efforts upon his farms, though still retaining some town property. The farm which is now operated as the homestead was originally entered by Samuel Griffin
and contains one hundred and sixty acres. He eventually owned about four hundred acres and besides general farming also paid considerable attention to live stock, taking an especial pride in his hogs and horses. His death occurred very suddenly November 21, 1894, having been able on the morning of his death to attend to his stock. Both he and his wife were birthright members of the society of Friends, in which he was an elder for many years. He always attended the yearly meetings of his society and stood for all the advanced movements which were for the betterment of society in general, whether it coincided exactly with the views of the society or not. His political affiliations were with the Republican party, but he could never be induced to hold public office, though he was many times a delegate to conventions. While engaged as a clerk in the store he had industriously improved his leisure moments in the reading of law and made such progress. that he was admitted to
the bar. He was broad-minded and possessed of good judgment and was frequently on questions of importance considered a valuable counselor. Fraternally he was a Mason, being admitted to that order in 1860, but because of his active business life he could not find it convenient to attend and so took a dimit.The marriage of Josiah P. Bogue took place January 1 1859, at which time he was united to Miss Sibbie J Allen, who was born February 16,1836. Her native place was Wayne county, this state, and her parents were Herman and Nancy (Clark) Allen, both natives of Guilford county, North Carolina, where they were reared and married. When Mrs. Sibbie Bogue was three years old she was brought by her parents to Carthage, Rush county, and was there reared. She became a student at Spiceland Academy under Jeremiah Griffin. The academy was then known as the Friends Monthly Meeting School. Her future husband was also a student there and they thus became acquainted. She was acting in the
capacity of housekeeper for a brother at Spiceland from the time she left school until her marriage. To her marriage with Mr. Bogue were born the following children: 1,Cordelia, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-eight years, was educated in the common schools and later at the Spiceland Academy and at Earlham College. Her entire life was devoted to educational work and to young peoples societies and at the time of her death she was teaching in the Spiceland Academy. (2) Oneida first married Charles Rees and after his death wedded Ira Carter and lives near Spiceland. (3) Anna K. is the wife of Charles Shafer, of Benton Harbor, Michigan. engaged in the railroad postal service. (4.) Alfred is a mechanic in the steel plate works at Muncie, this state. (5) Oscar H. is living with his mother and operates the home farm. He is a graduate of the State Normal College at Bloomington with the class of 1896, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts. He is a trustee of the Friends
Academy and treasurer of the board. Mrs. Bogue is an elder in the Friends society and takes an active interest in all departments of its work. She exerts herself especially in the direction of ternperance, being member of the non-partisan branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and active in the work of that society in the county. She is deeply interested in the missionary cause, being for nine years a member of the yearly board of missions and at present is a member of the executive board. This board has charge of both the educational and missionary interests of the society and conducts a girl's school at Matamoras and one at Victoria, Mexico, also conducting a boy's school at the latter place. For nine years she has had charge of the missionary work of the quarterly meeting. In 1898 the work in the quarterly meeting doubled and has since been constantly increasing. She is a refined and amiable lady and is highly esteemed by all who know her for her many noble
and Christian acts.I do not know anything more about this family.
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JOHN Q. PRIGG. One of the best known agriculturists and high grade stock raisers in Henry county, Indiana. is John Q. Prigg, of Fall Creek township. Where he was born September 7, 1853. He acquired a good common school education and at nineteen years of age began teaching. his first term being in Madison county and seven succeeding terms in Fall Creek township, Henry county. He taught in winter, each summer being devoted to work on the farm, with which, at the age of twenty, he was presented by his father, who had made it a rule to give to each of his children a forty-acre lot upon reaching that age. John Prigg's tract lay in Delaware county, and from his earnings as a teacher he purchased an additional tract of forty acres. Of this land he cleared up thirty acres, ditched and drained it properly, lived on it about ten years and then sold it to his youngest brother. He next turned to Fall Creek township, Henry county, about 1887, purchased one hundred acres of the
old Levi Trout homestead, just north of Irondale, and this is the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Prigg. The latter is a granddaughter of Levi Trout, the original owner, who with his wife had retired to Middle-town, where they passed the remainder of their days, leaving at their death a large family, Mrs. Henderson Cummins, of whom mention is made in full on another page, being a daughter. When Mr. Prigg purchased this property it was all under cultivation. The old ditches even had been filled in and Mr. Prigg has laid one hundred rods of tiling, some of which is eight feet beneath the surface. The dwelling was erected by Mr. Trout about fifty years ago and is still in comparative good order, but Mr. Prigg, about twelve years ago, put up a modem dwelling, while the barn was built at about the same time the old house was erected; it is sixty-six feet long and has black walnut sills fourteen inches square. Mr. Prigg raises the usual crops of the climate and neighborhood and
fattens from one to two carloads of cattle each year. He is now feeding forty head for other parties, while on his own account he is breeding Polled Angus or shorthorn cattle, as well as sheep and swine, of which, as well as of horses, he has made several satisfactory exhibits at various fairs. Mr. Prigg was also one of the original stockholders and directors of the creamery at Middletown, which he still owns, but which is now closed. John Q. Prigg was married, October 11,1877, to Miss Amanda Cummins, daughter of Henderson Cummins, of Middletown, she being at the time twenty-one years of age. This marriage has been crowned by the birth of three children, namely: Blanche, who graduated from the high schools with the class of 1900 and is now a student of music under Professor Neely, of Anderson; Callie, who died when eight years old, and Hazel, still at school. In politics Mr. Prigg is independent and in religion is a member of the Bristol New Light Christian church,
of which he is the clerk. He keeps well read up in the current literature of the day, subscribes for various leading periodicals, and is very fond of driving a good horse. As a farmer and stock raiser he is classed with the best in the county and socially he and family enjoy the sincere respect of the residents of Fall Creek and adjoining townships and of the town of Middletown.
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GEORGE E. NELSON. The gentleman whose name appears above is an enterprising farmer of Dudley township, an ex-employe of the Pittsburg,Chicago, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad. He is the son of Thomas J. and Mary (Hittle) Nelson and was born in Rush county, Indiana, on the 11th day of March,1863. Thomas J. Nelson was a native of Kentucky and came with his parents to the county of Rush when a boy. He was reared on a farm, educated in the old fashioned subscription schools and beginning life as an agriculturist has continued as such to the present day. The Hittle family is of German origin and came to Indiana from the state of Pennsylvania. Thomas Nelson and Mary Hittle were married in Rush county and for some years lived on a rented farm there, Mr. Nelson subsequently purchasing land of his own. By reason of various business reverses he lost his property, but later succeeded in retrieving his fortune to the extent of buying a place of sixty-five acres in Hancock county
on which he now lives. Some time after the death of his first wife, he chose a second companion, a Mrs. Anna Riley. Thomas J. Nelson has always been an active local politician and is a man of intelligence, good judgment and a close observer of current events. The Republican party, to which he belongs, elected him at various times to fill minor local offices, in all of which he displayed capability and proved himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him. He is a member of the Christian church and has been nearly all of his life an active worker in the congregation with which he is identified. The following are the names of his six children: John F.,Marshall R., Dellie E., George E., Sarah A. and William A. George E. Nelson was five years old when his father moved to Hancock county and, like the majority of country lads, his early life was spent amid the daily routine of farm work. He became acquainted with life's rugged -realities while- following the plow, harvesting
the crops, making fences, chopping wood and the other diversified duties attendant upon agricultural pursuits and of winter seasons attending school, receiving a good practical education. In his eighteenth year he left the home fireside and began earning money of his own as a farm hand at monthly wages, but after a short time in that capacity accepted a clerkship in a general store at Gem, Indiana. Not caring to spend his life behind the counter. and with a laudable ambition to have something permanent upon which to rely for a livelihood, Mr. Nelson entered a telegraph office for the purpose of learning that useful and necessary calling. He soon developed aptness in the study and after becoming an efficient operator entered the employ of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company at Dublin, where he had charge of the station until 1898. He proved himself not only a skillful telegrapher, but faithful and efficient in the management of the company's
business at the above point during his incumbency and discharged his duties in such a manner as to win the confidence of his superiors, who parted with his services very reluctant ly, in the above year Mr. Nelson severed his connection with railroading and returned to the more quiet and in many respects more agreeable life of the farm. He has since followed agricultural pursuits with encouraging results, has a comfortable home,a well-tilled farm and is in condition to enjoy many of the comforts of this world, while laboring to lay up a competency for the future. Among his neighbors and friends Mr. Nelson is known as a man of great energy and determination, capable in the management of his farm and business affairs and a worthy and eminently respectable citizen in every relation of life. He was happily married November 8. 1888, to Miss Laura A. Hawley, daughter of Eli Hawley, an old and respected citizen of this county this union resulting in the birth of three children, Thomas
H., Mary Alta and Audrey. Until moving to the farm Mr. Nelson and family lived in the town of Dublin and were numbered with the popular people of the place. Politically Mr: Nelson is very decided in his allegiance to the Republican party and ever since his twenty-first year has been an active worker, having contributed much to the party's strength in his part of the county in a number of campaigns. The United Brethren church represents his religious creed and for some years he has been one of the leaders of the congregation to which himself and family belong; he is a zealous Sunday school worker, having served for three years as superintendent. Fraternally he holds membership with the Odd Fellows order, displaying in this organization the same zeal and enthusiasm that characterizes him in his religious and secular life. In all of his social and business relations Mr. Nelson is deservedly popular; because genial, generous and the embodiment of good companionship. To these
and other characteristics referred to, add sincerity and a desire to assist his fellow men in every laudable way and the reader has the qualities that have helped him in his career; his courage and fitness for life's duties are the best guarantee of his future success in whatever capacity he may serve and his many friends predict for him a large measure of prosperity in years to come.
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HON. WILLIAM 0. BARNARD. The administration of justice, a very important factor in the well-being of civilized society and the true bulwark in the protection of the rights of man, will be found in the courts, the presiding officers of which usually attain their exalted positions through moral characteristics, their erudition, their astuteness and keen-sightedness, their firm and unwavering sense of right and wrong, and their aptitude in sifting evidence in such a manner as to separate the pertinent from the irrelevant. William 0. Barnard. judge of the fifty-third judicial circuit of Indiana and residing at New Castle, Henry county, was born October 25, 1852, in the vicinity of Liberty, Union county, Indiana. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Dublin, Wayne county, and thence, two years later, to Fayette county, where William 0. passed his boyhood on a farm until 1866, when he came to Henry county. Of the incidents following this event mention will be
made further on; in the meantime, reference may be made to a few ancestral facts. The paternal ancestors of Judge Barnard were among the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, and of these Thomas Barnard was a colonial soldier who was killed by the Indians in the King Philip war of 1675. Among these ancestors were the Folgers and Macys, one of whom, Thomas Macy, was the first white settler on Nantucket Island, in i66o, driven from the colonies on the main land by Puritan intolerance no less than that which he had experienced in England. The crime for which he was banished was the Christian virtue of charity, he having given shelter to two strangers, who proved to. be Quakers, against which sect the Puritans were very bitter. Some time prior to the opening of the Revolutionary war many Nantucket families who were Quakers had removed to North Carolina, but African slavery, as it then existed in that state, was so obnoxious to them that many, including the Barnard family, sought
a more congenial home on the free soil of Indiana. In 1818 William Barnard, grandfather of W. 0. Barnard, settled just east of Liberty, in Union county, Indiana, on a farm and resided there until the father, Sylvester Barnard, was a young man, when he moved to Fayette county, where he died in 1861. He was one of the leaders of the early Friends (or Quakers) and took an active interest in all that the society stood for in his time. William 0. Barnard was primarily educated in the common or district schools and then for three terms attended Spiceland Academy under the tutelage of the late Clarkson Davis. During the winters, in the meantime, Mr. Barnard taught school and for one year was principal of the school at Economy, Wayne county, and for one year taught in a New Castle school. In 1876 Mr. Barnard began to read law, and upon his admission to the bar, in 1877, began practice in New Castle, being for a short time in partnership with D. W. Chambers, and afterward practicing
alone. In i886 Mr. Barnard was chosen prosecuting attorney for the eighteenth judicial circuit, composed of Henry and Hancock counties, and two years later was re-elected. In 1889 Henry county was erected as the fifty-third judicial district. bi which he also served as prosecuting attorney for two years. In 1896 Mr. Barnard was elevated to the bench, and during his term tried as many cases as any one who ever occupied the bench. Judge Barnard. has long been one of the most active members of the Republican party in Henry county, and has been earnest and consistent in his advocacy of the principles of his party. As a lawyer Judge Barnard has always been a safe and conscientious adviser and as an advocate his every address has had a tendency to place the bar of Indiana on a more elevated plane: as a judge, his decisions have been well considered and digested, and have been generally sustained on appeal. He holds relationship with several societies and fraternal organizations, and has
hundreds of warm-hearted friends who respect him for his many fine personal attributes, regardless of party or society tie. In 1876 Judge Barnard was most happily united in marriage with Miss Mary V. Hallenger, a native of Henry county, with whom he became acquainted while at school at Spiceland. They have four children, Paul, George M., Ralph W. and Ruth. Judge Barnard is not a member of any church, but on account of his wife's church relationship and his early associations and education is strongly attached to the Friends and attends and contributes to the support of the Friends meeting at New Castle.
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J.C. Hardesty, M.D. Professional success results from merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long-continued effort. Prestige in the healing art is the outcome of strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of its great underlying principles and the ability to apply theory to practice in the treatment of diseases. Good intellectual training, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success, have made the subject of this review eminent in his chosen calling and he stands today among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in a county noted for the high order of its medical talent. The subject of this sketch was born in Elkhart county, Indiana, in April, 1849, and is the son of D. E. and Harriet B. (Butte) Hardesty. His
ancestors were natives of England and upon the immigration of the family to the United States one division of the family located in the South, while the others remained in the North, the subject being descended from the latter branch. D. E. Hardesty, the father of the subject, was born and reared in Ohio, and was married in that state to Miss Harriet B. Butte. In 1849 he left his native state and located in Elkhart county, Indiana, where he bought a piece of unimproved land and made that his home until the death of his wife, when he removed to Hendricks county, and was there again married. He was the father of the following children: Jacob, Joseph, Delilah and J. C. J. C. Hardesty was reared upon the parental homestead under the care of his step- mother and worked faithfully upon the farm, in the meanwhile securing a fair education in the common schools of the neighborhood. He had a desire for a more liberal intellectual training, with a special leaning toward the science of
medicine, and with the latter profession in view read anatomy and physiology for three years before he secured the opportunity he so much desired. of entering regularly upon the work preparatory to a college training. He then entered the office of Dr. S. C. Dove and studied medicine under his preceptorage for three years longer. In the fall of 1878 he matriculated in the Medical College of Indiana and in the spring of 1880 was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. He at once located in Franklin, Wayne county, this state, and entered upon the practice of the healing art, winning for himself a good patronage and a large circle of friends. He remained there two years and in September, 1881,located at Millville, this county, where he was successfully engaged in practice until July, 1902, when he moved to New Castle and opened up an office, and has since engaged in the practice of his profession in this city His knowledge of the science of medicine is
comprehensive and accurate and by constant perusal of the best medical literature he has kept thoroughly abreast the times and won for himself a conspicuous place among his professional brethren of Henry county. The Doctor's thorough literary and professional training, together with his skill and tact in reducing his knowledge to practice, have gained him the confidence of the people of his community and his career from the beginning presents a series of continued successes which bespeak a prosperous future. Doctor Hardesty has been twice married He was first married to Miss Leona Baker, a native of Hamilton county, Indiana. She died within one year after their marriage and for his second wife the Doctor wedded Ms. Addie E. Elliott, who was a native or Henry county, but was taken by her parents to Hamilton county, this state. She attended the common and high schools, and also the academy at Spiceland. She was granted a license to teach school and taught several terms
in Henry and Hamilton counties. To this second union there were born two children as follows: George C, born August 6, 1878, is a graduate of the New Castle high school and at present is principal of the schools at Mechanicsburg, this county. He was united in marriage with Miss Josie White, of Michigan. Clara L., the younger of the children, was born December 12, 1890. In politics the Doctor is affiliated with the Republican party, but the professional demands upon his time and attention have precluded his taking an active part in public affairs. Fraternally lie is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is medical examiner for the last named order and is also examiner for several life insurance companies. He is a member of the county and state medical societies. Religiously he and his wife are members of the Friends church. He numbers among his patients many of the best families of the community, while his fidelity to every ditty in
the time of need in his chosen calling has won to him the respect and confidence of medical men whose practice covers a longer period than the years he has lived. With a full appreciation of the responsibilities resting upon him as a physician, he is aggressive, though extremely careful, and his counsel and advice in many difficult and critical cases have demonstrated that he is a growing man and not one satisfied with past achievements.
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