Michael S. Harvey (deceased). This gentleman, who was well and favorably known to the people of Union County, was born February 1, 1819, and was a son of Francis and Elizabeth (Snyder) Harvey, who were among the first settlers of Union County. Michael S. received but a limited education, and began life as a poor boy. He had, however, plenty of good sense, pluck and energy, and, after some years, had saved sufficient means to purchase a small farm. To this he kept adding, from time to time, until he owned 283 acres, in Section 2, Liberty Township. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary Miller February 2, 1843. This lady was born in Washington County, Md., April 21, 1824. To this union six children were born – James M., Daniel T., George H., Lavina A., Ida May, and one that died in infancy. For some years prior to his death, Mr. Harvey following buying and shipping live-stock. This, as in other things, he was very successful at. He was noted for his fair dealings and scrupulous honesty, and few men were better or more highly respected than he. He was a Democrat, but of conservative views, and never aspired to any political prominence. He died October 25, 1881. His wife survives him and resides with a portion of the family upon the old homestead. They are all interested in educational matters and every laudable public enterprise, and have the respect of all who know them.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 64.


Moses S. Harvey, farmer, was born in Union County, Ind., April 1, 1823. He is a son of Francis and Elizabeth (Snyder) Harvey, whose parents were among the first settlers of this vicinity. Henderson Harvey, grandfather of Moses S. Harvey, was a native of Eastern Pennsylvania, and early in this century, with his family, emigrated to the present vicinity of the Christian Church in Harrison Township, this county. He became an extensive land owner, and gave to each of his seven sons a quarter section of land. The wife of Francis Harvey was the daughter of Michael Snyder, an account of whose early settlement on Richland Creek in 1807 is given in full in the history proper of Brownsville Township. Her birthplace was in Lee County, Va., and she was the oldest of a large family of children, and during the war of 1812 was the resolute girl referred to in the account of the old fort given in the sketch of Brownsville Township. The father of our subject was a member of the Christian New Light Church, and was an exhorter, and frequently preached. He served in the war of 1812, in the capacity of cook, and during life was occupied as a farmer. His death occurred in Brownsville Township. Moses S. Harvey, the fifth child of a family of nine children, was reared on the homestead, and his father having died when Moses S. was yet a lad, he remained on his farm with his mother until his marriage with Rosannah Miller, daughter of Henry Miller, which occurred in his twenty-fifth year. No children were born to this union. Her death occurred in September, 1876, and her loss was mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. She was a member of the Christian (Campbellite) Church. Mr. Harvey chose for his second wife Anna, daughter of Samuel and Safronia (Hazleton) Harvey, and their nuptials were celebrated May 6, 1878. To them have been born two children – Daisy Belle and Gracie Myrtle. The father is living in the vicinity of where he was born, and where his youth and early manhood were passed as a tiller of the soil. He possesses nearly 200 acres of excellent land, with good fences, and buildings thereon. In politics, he is a Democrat, and came by this political preference honestly, his father having adhered to the principles of that party. While our subject is conscientious and decided in his political preferences, he is not what is termed a “fire-eater,” and has full respect for those of other political views. He has held several township offices, but in no sense has he been an office-seeker. He is one of the five stockholders in the Liberty & Abington Turnpike Company, of which he was for a period of ten years clerk, and for more than that period has been the Treasurer of the company, in which capacity he is still acting. He is a member of the Campbellite Church, as is also his wife, and is one of the substantial farmers of the county.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 64.


A. D. Hawley, physician and surgeon, College Corner, Ohio, was born July 2, 1823, in Warren County, Ohio. His parents, Joel and Mary (Dill) Hawley, were of English descent, but both born in Queens County, N. Y. They were married in Warren County, Ohio, where the respective parents came in an early day. They always resided on a farm, and were noted for their industry and frugality. They strongly opposed slavery, and were prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A. D. Hawley’s youth was spent assisting his father on the farm, and until seventeen years of age had few and limited educational advantages. After attending an academy at Lebanon, Ohio, some two years, he began the study of medicine with his brother Albert, who was a practitioner in their native county. After some study, he entered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1848 graduated from that institution. Soon after this, he began the practice of his profession at New Paris, Ohio, where he remained until 1851, when he came to his present location, where he has since remained, successfully following his profession. He was united in marriage with Miss Phebe A. Webster in 1851. This lady was born in the Keystone State in 1825. They have a family of four sons -–Marcellus M., Charles F., Harvey L., and William H. Dr. Hawley began life a poor boy, and is a self-made and educated man. He has always been a close and careful student of pathology, as he found it in his practice, and has been a leader in the use of new and rational remedies. He owns 140 acres of land in Union Township, and a valuable home property in College Corner. He is a Republican, and a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 64 and 65.


Hon. Richard M. Haworthe, farmer, P. O. Liberty. It is often difficult to ascertain precisely the origin of names, either local or personal, as, from the mixed state of our language, and the repeated variations in its orthography, the etymology of many words is rendered dubious. The higher we ascend toward the origin of local names, the less they are ramified, and the greater the probability that any person was really born at the place whose name he bore. Many persons, after the introduction of the feudal system into England, dropped their family names, and assumed local ones. This was the case with the Monks for many years. The name of Haworth is supposed to have been originally local, but afterward assumed as a family name with the word De before it, which in process of time was discontinued. There is reason to believe it originated in the Saxon word paez, which signifies merely a hedge, and which was softened down into the old French, haie or haye. The word is of great extent, and frequently occurs in the composition of local names in England, under is dialectical varieties of hey, hay, hawe, etc.; all its other varieties are to be traced to two sources, according as places happened to be more strongly tinctured with the old language of the county or that which had succeeded it. The word hawe implies a close or trace of inclosed land, and worth signifies a way, a street, a-court, etc. From these two words the word Haworth, no doubt, is derived. During the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, there were a number of families of this name residing in the neighborhood of Haslingden, and also in the Parish of Rockdale and Forests of Rossendale, where this day many of their descendants reside. The writer of this sketch is led to the belief, from looking over old manuscript and other evidences in possession of the family in this county, that this family of Haworths are descended from James and Isabel Haworth, who lived about the middle of the seventeenth century at Rock Cliffe, near Bacup, in the Parish of Rockdale, England. A son of the above parents, George by name, emigrated to America in 1699, and, after remaining in Philadelphia a short time, took up his residence in Bucks County, where he married a lady by the name of Scarbro, and to them was born a family of six children, one of whom, James, moved to Frederick County, Va., and there married Sarah Wood. Richard, a son of theirs, married a lady by the name of Ann Dillon, and in an early day moved to the State of Tennessee, settling in Jefferson County, on the Holston River, where they reared a large family. Joel, a son of theirs, married Elizabeth Maxwell, a native of North Carolina, and settled on an island in the Holston River, where he resided until 1818, when he moved with his family to Union County, Ind., where they afterward resided. They had a family of thirteen children, our subject, Hon. Richard M. Haworth, being one of them. He was born in the county in which he now resides October 14, 1821. In his boyhood he was an inmate of that celebrated institution – the common school – which was presided over in the early settlement of Union County by men whose erudition was not as profound as that of Newton, nor as varied as that of John Quincy Adams, and who dispensed knowledge in homoeopathic doses that were sure not to make the recipient mad with learning – yet they were the lords of literature in their day. At the age of twenty-one years, Mr. Haworth enrolled his name for scholastic honors on the records of Beech Grove Seminary in his native county. While there, he added so much to his former acquirements that he left the institution with an excellent and practical education, which he has since enriched by extensive reading in historical, scientific and literary works. On leaving the seminary, he taught school two winters, and then engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which occupation he has since remained with but few interruptions. He was united in marriage with Miss Caroline A. Brown, December 31, 1857. The fruits of this union were five children – Charles S., who died in infancy; Walter B., Annie E., Edith M. and Lena K. Mrs. Haworth is a native of Union County, Ind., and is one of a family of ten children born to Walter and Kezia (La Boyteau) Brown, who settled in Union County in an early day, and were well known and highly respected people. Mr. Haworth was reared a Democrat, and at one time was a devotee to its creeds, until at length he came to believe that its tendencies were calculated to extend and perpetuate the institution of American slavery; then he withdrew from the Democratic organization, and gave his allegiance and support to the Liberty party. In 1847, he attended the National Convention of the above party, at Buffalo, N. Y., as a delegate from the district in which he resided. It was at this convention that Hale and King were nominated for President and Vice President, but who the following year withdrew their names in favor of the candidates of the Free-Soil party. Here Mr. Haworth met such men as S. P. Chase, Gerritt Smith, Owen Lovejoy, Lewis Tappan, Stanley Matthews and other great anti-slavery lights. He continued an active member of the Free-Soil party, at one time being their candidate for member of the General Assembly of the State, receiving sixty-five votes in Union County. In 1856, when the Republican party was fully organized, he entered its ranks, and has since worked for the success of its principles, with a zeal that knew no tiring, and with a hope that would admit no failure till victory mantled upon its banners. On the 19th of April, 1860, at a joint convention of the Republican party of Fayette and Union Counties, held at Connersville, he received the nomination of Representative; he was elected to that position by a good majority, his competitor being George Wilson, Esq., a man of much personal popularity. The regular session of the Legislature to which Mr. Haworth had been elected a member was one of the most stormy in the history of the State, as it was here that the friends and foes of the Union came in contact. On the 24th of April, 1861, Gov. O. P. Morton called an extra session of the Legislature, Fort Sumter having been fired upon, and the treacherous intention of the South no longer disguised. At this session there were but two committees re-organized – the Ways and Means, and that on Military Affairs. Mr. Haworth, not having been on either committee at the regular session, did not anticipate service on either, but was named as a member of the one on Military Affairs, of which W. Q. Gresham, the present Postmaster General, was Chairman. As the business of the session was pretty much all of a war nature, this committee was in session the greater part of the term. The “Legion Law” was one of the products of the committee. During the war, Mr. Haworth was a stanch Union man, and did much to aid and assist the “boys” in the field, and keep up a strong, loyal sentiment at home. In 1872, he was elected to represent his Senatorial District as State Senator. At the extra session which convened before the regular session in 1873, he was appointed Chairman of several important committees. At the session of 1874-75, the one claiming his attention more directly than any of the rest was the one on State Reformatories, it opening up a wide field to his philanthropic mind. At the Republican State Convention in 1876, he was chosen a delegate to the National Republican Convention, to be held at Cincinnati in June of that year. The Indiana delegation was instructed to present the name of her distinguished son and War Governor, Oliver P. Morton, which was fully in accord with Mr. Haworth’s views, as he had long been a personal and political friend of the distinguished Senator. When it became evident that Indiana’s favorite son could not be nominated, Mr. Haworth, in accord with the sentiments of his district, cast his vote for B. H. Bristow, and was one of five of the Indiana delegation who continued to do so until the last ballot, which resulted in the nomination of R. B. Hayes, of Ohio. Mr. Haworth, ever since the organization of the Republican party, has labored with it and for it, and still believes its mission for good is not yet ended. Both his maternal and paternal ancestors held to the religious tenets of the Friends Society. He and family are communicants of the Christian Church, a society that took its rise about the year 1800, and whose distinguishing features are: The Bible without written creed or discipline – Christian character and every day life, the test of fellowship. At home, Mr. Haworth was recognized as being one of the best and most practical farmers in the county, and as a reward for his honorable conduct and gentlemanly bearing, enjoys the respect and confidence of his neighbors to the fullest extent.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 65.


Richard G. Haworth, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Liberty. This gentleman was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., July 21, 1810. He is a son of James and Mary (Elmore) Haworth, natives of Virginia and North Carolina respectively. They were married in Tennessee, and James Haworth was a direct descendant of the Haworths who lived at Rock Cliffe, near Bacup, in the Parish of Rockdale, England, about the middle of the seventeenth century, and of George Haworth, who emigrated to America in 1699, and settled in Philadelphia. (See biography of Hon. R. M. Haworth.) In 1822, James Haworth, with his family, moved from Tennessee to Vermillion County, Ill, where they remained two years, and then moved to Union County, Ind., in the fall of 1825, and purchased 480 acres of land in Liberty Township, a portion of which is now owned by their son, the subject of this sketch. They had a family of four sons and five daughters, who, like their parents, were members of the Friends Church, and highly respected people. James Haworth departed this life February 10, 1842, and his wife on the 30th of October, ten years later. Richard G. Haworth, living as he did to the age of manhood on the frontier, was not blessed with superior educational advantages. When a small boy, he manifested a strong aptitude and liking for handling horses, and before reaching his majority he purchased a number of horses and drove them to his native State, where he disposed of them to an advantage. Since then, he has handled many horses, some of them being the best ever in the county. He attended the first State fair ever held in Indiana, and there took the first premium on a horse. About 1865, he purchased a number of fine Durham cattle, and from that time until the present he has steadily increased his herd, until now he owns thirty head of that valuable breed, all of them being registered in the American Herd Book. He has also paid considerable attention to the raising of good sheep and hogs. Take it all in all, perhaps there is not a man in Union County who is better posted in matters pertaining to stock raising and breeding than Mr. Haworth, and no man in the county has done more to improve all kinds of stock than he. He has on several occasions paid as high as $400 for a single calf, and has often sold at the same figures from his own herd. He was united in marriage with Miss Cynthia Kelley in 1836. This lady was born in Union County, Ind., in 1816, and is a daughter of Willis Kelley, one of the pioneers of this county. Mr. Haworth has always resided upon the home farm, and, at the death of his parents purchased 250 acres of it, where he has since resided. His farm is nicely located, and is one of the best improved in Union County. Mr. Haworth has always voted in opposition to the Democratic party, and during the days of slavery was one of its strongest opponents. His house was one of the stations on the “Underground Railroad,” and he was one of the conductors. He has ever been a friend to the poor and needy, and his contributions to charitable and other worthy causes have been very liberal. Like his ancestors, he is a consistent member of the Friends Church. He is one of the best known and most worthy of Union County’s citizens.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 65.


K. C. Haworth, farmer, P. O. Liberty, was born in the township in which he now resides May 23, 1857. He is a son of Willis C. and Mary T. (Rose) Haworth, both of whom were natives of Union County, Ind., where they were married and always resided. They had a family of five children. Mr. and Mrs. Haworth were well known to the people of Union County, and had the respect of all. Mr. Haworth was one of the first men in the county to attempt an improvement of his horses and cattle, and during his life handled many valuable animals of both kinds. He was a strong anti-slavery man, and ever favored the oppressed and downtrodden, and liberally contributed to all enterprises that went to build up the community in which he lived or benefit his fellow-man. He died in 1877, and his wife followed him four years later. Our subject was reared on a farm. He received a good education, having in 1876 graduated from the Liberty High School. He was united in marriage with Miss Vina C. Harlan December 28, 1881. This lady is a native of Union County, and was born September 27, 1857. Mr. Haworth has always resided upon the old homestead, which consists of 292 acres of well-improved land. He deals in live stock, and farms, and is one of the practical and successful farmers and stock-growers in Union County. He now owns two fine horses of the Norman and Hambletonian breeds, besides other fine and high-bred animals. He is a Republican, and one of the reading and well posted young men of Union County.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 65.


Jediah Hill, farmer, P. O. Dunlapsville, was born in Liberty Township, this county, January 10, 1848. His grandparents, Charles and Mercy (Hendrickson) Hill, were natives of New Jersey, where they resided until 1815, when they came to Hamilton County, Ohio, where they lived some years, and then moved to Miami County, Ohio, where they afterward resided. Mr. Hill was a plasterer and stone-mason by trade, and to him and wife were born a family of ten children. Israel Hill, son of the above parents and father of our subject, was born in Hunterdon County, N. J., August 15, 1813. He came to Ohio with his parents when but two years of age, and there grew to manhood, assisting upon the farm and receiving such education as the schools of that early day afforded. In1837, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Edwards, who was born in 1815 in Butler County, Ohio. By this union there were born the following children: Lucinda M., Charles M., William, Jediah, Mary E., Albert, Israel F., Jasper, Laura F. and Wilson T. The year following Mr. Hill’s marriage, he came to this county and purchased the farm he now resides on in Liberty Township. It consists of 210 acres, which is well improved and nicely located. He has ever since made Union County his home, where he is well and favorably known. He is a Democrat, a member of the Baptist Church, and has held numerous positions of honor and trust during his lifetime. Few men in the county are better known or more highly respected than he. Jediah Hill’s youth was passed assisting upon the farm. He received a good common school education, and on reaching his majority, with the help of his father, he purchased a small farm and began life as a farmer. He was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Bryson, March 9, 1870. She was born in Liberty Township, this county, in 1849. They have four children, viz.: Laura, Robert B., Mary C. and Fannie. Mr. Hill owns 328 acres of land, and has lately started a creamery, which he now operates in connection with farming. He is a Democrat, and has held the office of Township Trustee. He taught several terms of school when a young man, and is a well-informed and useful citizen, liberally contributing to all laudable enterprises.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 65.


Stacy Hughes, farmer, P. O. Fairfield, Ind., was born in Loudoun County, Va., September 17, 1817. When he was five years of age, his parents, Elisha and Fannie (Taylor) Hughes, left Virginia and came to this county, settling in Harmony Township. Two of Mr. Hughes’ brothers came to this county at the same time, one of whom, Samuel, was married, and had a family. They all settled in this county, and their descendants are among the most respected and useful citizens of the county. In Elisha Hughes’ family were seven children, three of whom are yet living. The Hughes family were strong anti-slavery people, and held the religious tenets of the Friends or Quaker Church. Stacy Hughes was reared upon his father’s farm, receiving such education as the schools of that early day afforded. He was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. Pigman in 1839. She was born January 9, 1819, and was a daughter of Adam Pigman, who was one of the first settlers in Harmony Township, and a man well known to the citizens of Union County. Mrs. Hughes died February 7, 1855. Two children were the fruits of this marriage, viz.: Mary H. and Lydia E. Mr. Hughes married, October 4, 1855, Mrs. Eliza Ogden, whose maiden name was Salter. This lady was born in Guilford County, N. C., March 13, 1818. By this union there is one child – Elisha T. Soon after Mr. Hughes’ first marriage, he moved to Fayette County, Ind., where he resided until 1847, when he purchased 160 acres where he now resides, which he has nicely improved and since resided upon. He has obtained what he now has, for most part, by industry and economy. He has always voted with the Whig and Republican parties, and he and his wife are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Hughes believes in progression in all things, and has broad, liberal views regarding all things.

Submitted by: Jeanie
Atlas of Union County Indiana.
J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago. 1884.
Page 65.


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