First to be mentioned in this article is the late Rev. John Hubert, one of the finest characters of the old times in Grant county. Some interesting material concerning the life of this noble minister and patriot is contained in a eulogy delivered by Rev. W. T. Arnold at the funeral of Rev. Hubert, and what follows is largely an abstract from that oration.

John Hubert was born at Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, March 30, 1825. His father and mother came to this country from France and settled on a farm in Ohio, and both died when the son was young, so that little is known of their history. When John Hubert was three years old he lost his father, and the boy was then bound out to learn the hatter's trade. He continued at this trade until the Mexican war broke out, when he responded to the call of duty and served one year. After returning he located at Sweetser, in Grant county, taking a tract of land that was given him by the government. He built a small cabin on this land, which was not only used for living purpose, but was also used to hold church services in, the people coming from miles around to attend the services. It was in that cabin that he was converted under the preaching of Brother Bradshaw, and was the only person on that charge converted in that year. He had been reared in the Presbyterian faith, but henceforth was devoted to the service of the Methodist denomination. Later he was licensed to exhort and later as a local preacher. He became very effective in this work, and held many revivals in which scores of souls were converted. He loved to preach and sing the old-time songs. He was instrumental in building two churches near and in Sweetser, a town which was located on his farm. He donated the ground for these churches, and gave liberally of his money toward their erection. After leaving Sweetser he moved to the farm where he resided until his death. For the second time during his life he felt the call of duty to go to the Civil war and enlisted in Company C of the Fifty-fourth Indiana Regiment. While in the war he was wounded through the foot by a gun shot in the battle of Vicksburg. He served fifteen months in this unpleasant struggle.

The noble Christian life of Rev. John Hubert came to a peaceful close on Thursday afternoon, January 21, 1904. From his life and its work his eulogist drew some inspiring lessons, and in these he called attention to Mr. Hubert's loyalty to God. And in his loyalty he combined a complete absence from pretension and hypocrisy. In addition to his loyalty came second his patriotism, and none excelled him in his devotion to his country and her flag. The third point brought out in the eulogy was his Christian patience, and it was said that the longer he lived the more patient and kindly he became, so that his last years passed in weakness and suffering, were never a burden upon those who cheerfully and gladly cared for him. In the words of Rev. Arnold he could say as did the Apostle Paul at the close of his life: "I am now ready to be offered, for the time of my departure is at hand, I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, henceforth there is a crown of righteousness laid up for me."

On July 4, 1849, Rev. John Hubert was united in marriage with Caroline E. Clark. Their marriage was solemnized under the roof of her father's old home, a log house with clapboards, still standing on the farm of Mr. Hubert. Caroline F. Clark was born in Pennsylvania, September 12, 1826, and was brought to Fairmount township in Grant county, a child of eleven years in 1837. Her parents were James and Sarah E. (Simons) Clark. Her maternal grandfather, Captain Simons, served in the Revolutionary war, thus introducing another military ancestor in the family relationship of Mr. James A. Hubert. Sarah E. Simons was born March 16, 1796, in Pennsylvania, in which state her husband was born February 10, 1794. They were married in that state on the banks of the Susquehanna river. James Clark began his career as a lumber rafter, which hardy occupation he combined with the more peaceful pursuits of farming. In 1837 he and his family came west, spending one season in Ohio, and then on to Grant county. He bought one hundred and eight acres in section twelve of Fairmount township, purchasing the land from John Dilley and paying ten dollars an acre. There he lived and died and improved a home, and at his death in 1876 was owner of two hundred and sixteen acres. Turning aside for a moment from following out the family history, attention will be given to that old Clark home, now owned by James A. Hubert. The house was erected about eighty-five years ago, and was built of logs, as a frame work. Later Mr. Clark covered those logs with weatherboards, and the entire structure is still in good repair. The logs were hewed on the farm, and the boards were also sawed there. The lime for the plaster and mortar for filling in the chinks and making the plaster was burned from lime rock which was obtained on the farm. That was a pioneer species of manufacturing such as perhaps few are now familiar with. The limestone was piled upon huge heaps of logs, and then the entire pile was fired and in the intense heat thus generated, the rock was reduced to lime. The timber entering into the construction of that old home was of walnut, poplar, and white oak, and of the very finest grade, all of the trees being cut from the farm. This wood is still well preserved, and the entire house is an excellent illustration of the substantial character of pioneer housebuilding. It is due to the care and veneration of Mr. Hubert for the past that this home is so well preserved. Among the articles of old-time household furniture still kept there is a very old spinning wheel once used by his Grandmother Clark. There is also her teapot of a special pattern engraved with the United States emblem, a shield and eagle and thirteen stars. There are two articles, implements used by his Grandfather Clark, one being a hand-made frow and the other a lath hatchet. On this old homestead and in the old home, Grandfather James Clark died in 1878, while his wife died in 1884. They were members of the Methodist Protestant church, and in politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. There were ten Clark children. James Clark, Jr., now lives in Fairinount City. One of the daughters, Mrs. John O. Havens, lives in Fowlerton, Grant county, and was ninety- three years of age on the twenty-third of February, 1913.

To the marriage of Rev. John Hubert and Caroline F. Clark were born four sons and one daughter, namely: Daniel, James, William, Granville, and Rinta. William died at the age of seven, and Rinta, when eleven years of age. Daniel now lives as a retired farmer in Jonesboro, and has two sons and a daughter. Granville is a fruit farmer in the state, of California, and has three daughters and one son. The mother of this family, Mrs. Caroline Hubert was a splendid Christian woman, and always a great help to her husband in all his undertakings. Her death occurred September 4, 1895.

James A. Hubert grew up and was educated in Pleasant township of Grant county, where he lived until 1877. Since that time his home has been on the farm of one hundred and sixteen acres in Fairmount township, a portion of the estate owned by his Grandfather Clark. As already stated, he has a beautiful new home, an attractive dwelling house, white with dark trimmings, and in the rear stands a fine red barn. He has prospered as a farmer, is a man of vigorous enterprise in every undertaking, and has well upheld the substantial traditions of his family.

In Grant county, on October 19, 1882, Mr. Hubert married Antonette Hamilton. She was born in Delaware county, Indiana, December 26, 1858, and was a baby when brought to Grant county. Her parents John M. and Ann S. (Hooper) Hamilton, were both natives of Adams county, Ohio, her father born in 1826 and her mother in 1827. In that county they were married, came to Indiana in 1858, and after a year in Delaware county, moved to Green township of Grant county. John M. Hamilton had a farm, and also contributed to the industrial resources of the county by operating a shingle factory. His death occurred September 1, 1877, in Green township. His wife died there February 13 1872. The Hamilton family were members of the Christian church, and Mr. Hamilton was in politics a Democrat. There were eleven children of the Hamilton name, four sons and seven daughters. One son and two daughters are still living.

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert became the parents of three children. Lodesta. A., born January 28, 1884, was educated-in the public schools, and is the wife of Eli Carter, who lives near Jonesboro. They have one son Hubert W., born November 17, 1910. Evaline died at the age of nineteen months, while John H. died at the age of one year and twenty-three days. The wife and mother, Mrs. James A. Hubert, met a sad and untimely death on September 30, 1913, when the carriage in which she was driving was struck by a fast train at the railroad crossing at Jonesboro, and she was instantly killed. During her residence in this community she grew in honor and esteem and her memory will be revered by the many friends which she drew about her. Mr. Hubert is a member- of the Methodist church, as was also his wife, and he is a Republican in polities.

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DANIEL MARINE. No family in Grant county stands higher in the scale of intelligence and culture than that of Daniel Marine and wife, whose beautiful country home is in section eight of Jefferson township. They are people who both come from pioneer stock, have lived long and experienced deeply of life, have done much more than make a home and pile up material prosperity for their later years, for at the same time they have looked well to those things which are of the higher and better life, and have gained a great amount of the respect and affection which are among the best rewards of living.

Concerning the name a family tradition runs that it gets its origin from some early disaster by sea, in which either some of the family were lost at sea, or were saved from a storm, an incident which created a permanent name for all subsequent generations. Daniel Marine's grandfather was Jonathan Marine, born near Fayetteville, North Carolina, about 1780. Of good old southern stock, and of Quaker faith he married a Quakeress, Hannah Moorman, of North Carolina. During their residence in North Carolina, most of their children were born, and in 1813 the grandparents moved north and found a home in Wayne county, Indiana, where so many of their Quaker brethren had preceded them. They located near Fountain City in that county, where Jonathan Marine died at the age of forty-five. His widow survived many years, and also died in that county. Their children were: John, William (Billy), Jonathan J., and Asa, and also several daughters.

Asa Marine was born in North Carolina, August 3, 1803, was ten years of age when he came to Wayne county, grew up on a farm, and was married near Fountain City to Lydia Huff, who was born in North Carolina, about 1808. Her father, Jesse Huff, moved with his family to Wayne county at a very early date. That was years before railroads were built, and the Huffs and also the Marines accomplished this long journey between the Atlantic Coast and the Middle West with wagons and teams. Jesse Huff and wife were Quakers and spent their lives in Wayne county. After his marriage, Asa Marine continued to live in Wayne county, until 1842, when he moved to Grant county. His first purchase of land was in Fairmont township, and later he located in Jefferson, where in time he became the owner of a large estate of four hundred acres. His land was regarded and still is considered to be the finest in quality and general fertility in the northern section of the township. Its situation is along the west side of the Mississenwa River. Many years were busily employed by him in the development of that estate, and with the improvements which he introduced it became an ideal farm. Among the ways in which he increased its value and made it attractive not only for farming purposes, but also as a home was the pretentious brick house, containing ten rooms, and basement, which he had constructed in 1860. At that time there were few residences in the county that equaled it in size and equipment and furnishings. The interest in the old homestead is increased by the fact that it was mainly a home product. The lumber that entered into its construction originally grew in trees on the farm and was cut and sawed on the place, the brick was dug and burned in kilns on the land, and a limestone quarry in the same vicinity furnished the rock which was burned for the lime. However, the feature which gave it special distinction and set it off as an aristocratic dwelling far in advance of those in Grant county at that time, were the imported French glass windows, which were both rare and somewhat costly. Asa Marine continued to live in that home and supervise his large interests until his death in February, 1876. His wife had passed away some years previously at the age of seventy-five years. Both were birthright Quakers. The children of Asa and wife were: Keziah, who died young; Mary A., who, after her marriage to John Wise, died, leaving a son and daughter, also now deceased; Julia, who married James Ballenger, and both are deceased, leaving several children; Elizabeth, the widow of Jacob Wise, a well known farmer in Jefferson township; and Daniel.

Daniel Marine, whose family relations have thus been sketched, was born in Wayne county, near Fountain City, March 1, 1841. When he was eighteen months old his parents moved to Grant county. Here he grew to manhood, had his early training in the country schools, was trained under the supervision of his father in the management of the farm, and has always been identified with the old place, having a portion of the homestead as his present farm, including the old brick residence previously described, and which is now one of the interesting landmarks in that section of the county. It is still in a good state of repair, and a comfortable dwelling for the Marine family, whose associations and early memories all go back and center about that delightful old home. Besides the dwelling, Mr. Marine in his time has improved and built several new farm buildings, and keeps his place up to the highest state of efficiency as a model stock and grain farm. He raises and feeds a large number of high grade live stock.

Mr. Marine was just at the entrance to young manhood when the Civil war broke out, and he enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company I, 101st Indiana Volunteer Infantry, served until close of the war, was discharged June 24, 1865, near Louisville, Kentucky. Daniel Marine belonged to the 14th Army Corps, under Gen. George H. Thomas and later under Gen. Jeff C. Davis. He participated in thirty or more battles and engagements but was never injured or captured. He was very sick, however, for seven months, practically all this time being in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn. While he was in the hospital his regiment participated in their fiercest battle, that of Chickamauga, where the regiment was practically cut to pieces. Daniel Marine was with his regiment at the Siege of Atlanta and went with Sherman on his historic March to the Sea and during that march there wasn't a day for four months that they did not hear the firing of cannon, being practically under fire all that time. He was with Sherman's Army, near Raleigh, North Carolina, when General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman. Mr. Marine reached home from the war July 2, 1865. His public service did not cease with his return from the army, and he has always manifested an intelligent and progressive interest in the local welfare. His politics is Republican, and for nineteen years he served as assessor, and trustee for four years, and at the present time is chairman of the advisory township board.

In Monroe township of this county, Mr. Marine married Miss Mary E. Wright, who was born in Preble county, Ohio, October 29, 1846. Mrs. Marine has well upheld her responsibilities of motherhood and as a homemaker, and is one of the best loved women in this part of the county. Her grandparents, Samuel and Jane (Taylor) Wright, were early settlers of Preble county, Ohio. Samuel Wright, born in Ireland, came with a brother when a young man to America, located first in Greenbrier county, in Western Virginia, and after his marriage Samuel moved to Pennsylvania, and finally to Preble county, Ohio, where he died at the age of ninety years; his wife was seventy when she passed away and both were Presbyterians. Robert Wright, father of Mrs. Marine, was born in Preble county, Ohio, January 15, 1816, was reared on a farm, and was married to Catherine Price, who was born in Preble county in 1813, and died November 28, 1885, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Cook) Price. Robert Wright and wife lived in Preble county until 1849, then came to Grant county, buying eighty acres of land in Monroe township, which was their home until they retired to the village of Upland, where Robert Wright died February 13, 1895, at the age of seventy-nine, having been born in 1816. His wife was born in the same year and died November 28, 1885. They were both Quakers in religion.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Marine are mentioned as follows: Charles O., born December 16, 1868, and died November 14, 1899, married Carrie Shaw, who is living and has a son Glenn M., who married Nora Kiser, and they have one child, Ortha E. Flora C. was born March 11, 1870, and died May 7, 1890, leaving one child, now Mrs. Epha A. Miller, who has two children, Leota and Grace Etta. Henry C., born March 6, 1876, and now employed with the Big Four Railroad at Beech Grove, Indiana. He married Blanche Bole, and their two children, Delight and Lewis, are both in school. Minnie A., born August 7, 1879, educated in the grade schools, married William Bragg of Jefferson township, Grant county, and they have one child, Earl, born October 7, 1896, and a member of the Upland high school class of 1914. Arthur L., born April 29, 1882, educated at Upland, and in the Valparaiso Normal College and an Indianapolis business college, has for a number of years been identified with banking and the loan business and now has his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He married Josephine Heland of Marion, and they have a daughter, Dorothy. Gladys C., graduated from the grade schools in 1903, and from the Upland high school in 1907, from the State University at Bloomington in 1913, and for four years taught school in Jefferson township. Mr. and Mrs. Marine are both active members of the Friends church.

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JOHN W. HIMELICK. The Himelick family has been identified with Grant county for about forty years, and John W. has spent nearly all his life here, being remembered for his work as a teacher, during his early manhood and is now one of the exceedingly prosperous and progressive farmers of section one in Fairmount township. His ability as a stock raiser, is recognized beyond the limits of his own community, and many of his fine shorthorns have won ribbons in the live stock shows.

The ancestry is German, and the name was first established in Pennsylvania. In that state John Himelick, great-grandfather of the Fairmount township stock raiser, located towards the close of the eighteenth century, where he lived the life of a farmer, and died when an old man. His marriage probably occurred in Pennsylvania. There were three sons: Joseph, George and John, Jr., all of whom moved west and found homes in Franklin county, Indiana, where they were married, John, Jr., lived his last years in Jennings county, Indiana, where he died and left a family. George, some years after his marriage moved out to Kansas, and his home for a number of years was in the vicinity of Leavenworth, where he died. Some of his children are still living.

Joseph Himelick, grandfather of John W. was married in Franklin county to Mary Curry, of a pioneer family, either in Franklin county or Union county. After their marriage their home was for some years in Franklin county, where all their children were born. Their son John, father of John W., was married about the time the family moved to Washington township in Madison county, where Joseph Himelick bought eighty acres of land near the corporation of Summitville, developed a good farm and spent the rest of his days there. His death occurred about 1880, and he was born in 1815. His widow is still living, a venerable old lady of ninety-one, having been born in 1822. Her home is in Summitville. She has been almost a lifelong member of the Christian church, in which denomination her husband was also a member. In politics he supported the Democratic party.

John Himelick, Sr., was born in Franklin county, Indiana, December 25, 1840, and moved to Madison county about the close of the war. Some years later, in 1875, he came to Grant county, and bought one hundred and five acres in section fourteen of Fairmount township. That farm was later sold, and another bought in Mill township near Jonesboro, where his last days were spent, and his death occurred July 12, 1906. His widow now makes her home in Summitville in Madison county. Before her marriage she was Mary C. Morris, born in Franklin county, Indiana, September 28, 1844. Her parents were Nicholas and Elizabeth (Ringer) Morris, both natives of Pennsylvania and her mother of pure German stock. Her parents were married in Franklin county, Indiana, later moving to Madison county, where they died after a long and happy married companionship of nearly sixty years. Both were seventy-five years of age, and their deaths occurred within two weeks of each other. John and Mary Himelick had a family of six sons and three daughters, among whom John W. was fifth in order of birth. George, who is a farmer in Jefferson township of Grant county married Lydia, a daughter of Jacob Wise, and has six sons and four daughters. Joseph, a farmer in Madison county, married Ella Webster, and has three sons. Elizabeth, who died when twenty-six years old was the wife of the late Ulysses Horner, and had one son and one daughter. Robert is a teacher in the state of Wisconsin, and his children are Frances and Jesse. The next is John W. Himelick. Olive, is the wife of Virgil Duling, a farmer in Fairmount township and has a daughter, Mary. Maude is the wife of William D. Moss, of Marion. Orville, who lives at Upland, married Nancy Ruley, and their children are Louise, John, Paul and Elizabeth. Earl, whois a glass worker at Jonesboro, married Dora Nelson, and has three children, Lucile, Raymond, and Robert.

John W. Himelick was born in Madison county, April 27, 1872. His education began in the public schools, was continued in the Fairmount Academy, with a course in the Danville Normal College and at De Pauw University. With this liberal equipment he devoted ten years of his young life to teaching and there are hundreds of his pupils who still recall his work and influence in kindly memories. Nearly all his work as a teacher was done in Jefferson and Fairmount townships. From teaching he turned his attention to farming, and is now the possessor of one hundred and sixty acres of fine land in section one of Fairmount township. His specialty is the breeding of thoroughbred shorthorn cattle, and his animals when exhibited have taken a number of blue ribbons. His farm has many improvements, and among those that attract the eye is a splendid stock and grain barn painted red, and a large white house, containing twelve rooms, and comfortably and tastefully furnished. Mr. Himelick married Miss Sarah Lorena Richards, a native of Jefferson township in this county. Her parents were L. G. and Mary E. Craw Richards, both natives of Indiana and married in Grant county. Mrs. Richards died in Jefferson township in. 1893 at the age of fifty-six. Mr. Richards married the second time, and now lives on his farm in Jefferson township, October 20, 1913, being his eightieth birthday. The Richards family are members of the Primitive Baptist church, and in politics Mr. Richards is a Democrat. Mrs. Himelick has two brothers, William and Leman, both of whom are married and have children, and one of his sisters is Lucina, wife of R. C. Nottingham, with children, and another sister Molly died after her marriage to Frank H. Kirkwood. Mr. and Mrs. Himelick, who have no children of their own, are members of the Methodist Protestant church, and his politics is described as Independent Democratic.

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