James LIDDLE, one of the leading farmers of Miller Township, was born in Dearborn County in 1824. His father, Steven LIDDLE, was a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1780, and came to this county in 1819, bringing his father with him. The family was of Scotch and English parentage, the ancestors having been residents of those countries through time immemorial. Steven LIDDLE was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had considerable reputation in a local sense, as a laborer in that capacity. He purchased land in Miller Township, and did quite a farming business in connection with his ministerial work. He was twice married, his first wife having been Isabelle CLARK, who died in England, leaving one child - Elizabeth. His second wife was Sarah THOMPSON, by whom he had nine children. He died June 27, 1851. James LIDDLE, whose name begins this notice, grew to maturity in his father's home, and was early inured to the toils and
trials of farm life. He married, in 1848, Miss Sarah J. EWBANK, , daughter of Martin C. EWBANK, and they have reared six children: Charles, Howard, Ella, Anna, Marian and Laura. After his marriage he began operations on his own responsibility, making his start in a very humble manner indeed. His first purchase of land was made about 1852, and consisted of 112 acres. By industry, perseverance and good management he has added at intervals to his original possessions till he now owns 480 acres, and with his son, 600 acres of valuable land. He has always dealt quite extensively in stock, and the rank he is now able to take among other farmers of the county is sufficient evidence of his general success. The family is associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Leander LINDSAY, farmer and dairyman, Washington Township, was born in Gallatin County, Ky., December 23, 1843, and completed his education at Georgetown College. His father, Charles, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., January 27, 1807, and immigrated to Kentucky when quite young, where he followed farming and school teaching. The mother, Minerva WILLIAMS, was born in Scott County, Ky. They were married in 1837, and raised a family of five children. His father was sherrif for four years in Gallatin COunty, Ky., and made a prompt and efficient officer. Mr. Leander LINDSAY began farming in Center Township in 1855, and located in Washington Township, where he now resides, in 1872. He was married, April 12, 1870, to Miss Harriet J. DILS, who was born in Centre Township, Dearborn Co., Ind., January 22, 1843. Five children resulted: William L., born February 24, 1871, died March 5, 1872; Mary, born February 9, 1873; Paul, born May 11, 1878;
Gracie, born March 16, 1882. Mr. LINDSAY is a member of Pleasant View Grange No. 237. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He has a fine herd of Alderny cows, and splendid facilities for taking care of the milk. He churns by horse-power, and makes a specialty of furnishing his patrons with good butter and rich buttermilk. He was raised a farmer, but has found his present employment more lucrative than tilling the soil, hence he devotes his time and talent to the butter and buttermilk business, which he began in 1877.
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John F. LINDSAY, retired, Aurora, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., May 16, 1823, and received an ordinary English education. His father, Thomas LINDSAY, was born in Kentucky in 1793, and came to Aurora in 1811, and followed carpentering up to 1829, when he returned to Kentucky, where he lived until his death, in 1870. The mother, Elizabeth (FULTON) LINDSAY, was born in Pennsylvania, and came here, in 1798, with her father, Judge Samuel FULTON, son of a Revolutionary soldier, who was one of the first associate judges of Ohio County, Ind., and served for many years as justice of the peace. John F., at the age of ten years, began the carpenter trade, and followed it up to 1882. He was married, September 3, 1845, to Lucinda POWERS; she was born in Boone County, Ky., July 21, 1824. Mr. LINDSAY moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852, and remained until 1870; then returned to his native playgrounds, and now resides on the place where he was born.
He owns twenty-three acres of land within the city limits, and has opened a stone quarry upon the same, and superintends the business himself. His wife is a member of the Baptist Church, and he of the Universalist Church. Mr. LINDSAY is a well-preserved, elderly gentleman, and bids fair for many years of usefulness to his family and friends.
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Thomas O. LINDSAY, attorney, real estate and insurance agent, Aurora, office on Main Street in Dr. Henry's block. Mr. LINDSAY was born in Rising Sun, Ind., October 17, 1849, and completed his education in the public schools at Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, John F., was born in Aurora, Ind., May 16, 1823; mother, Lucinda (POWERS) LINDSAY, was born in East Bend, Boone Co., Ky., July 21, 1824. In 1865 Thomas O. began the carpenter trade, which he followed for years, and became a very successful architect. In 1870 he came to Aurora as a contractor and builder, and has built over 180 houses, including the Opera House, all of which stand as monuments to his skill and ability as an architect and builder. Mr. LINDSAY abandoned manual labor in 1881, and engaged in his present business. He was admitted to the bar in 1882. He was married, in 1877, to Miss Vina CUNNINGHAM; she was born in Wilmington January 17, 1854. To them was born one child -- Lillian.
He is a member of Aurora Lodge No. 51, F. & A. M., and Chosen Friends Lodge No. 13, I.O. O. F.; also Harmony Lodge No. 69, K. of P.
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Job LITTLE, farmer, Sparta Township, was born in the same, March 20, 1828. His parents, Elias and Rebecca (MULFORD) LITTLE, were both natives of Ohio, and migrated from thence to Dearborn County in a very early day, settling on the same farm on which our subject now lives. They were among the early pioneers of this county, and at the time the settlement was made the county was almost an unbroken wilderness. The father died in 1869, his wife having died in 1829. He was afterward married to Mrs. Nancy HUBBARD, who died about 1843, and he then married Betsy SHEDD, who still survives. He was the father of twenty-one children, namely: Mulford, Ephraim, William, Archibald, Julia, Phebe, Mary, Martha, Esther and Job, by his first wife; Jackson, Rebecca, Myer, Sarah, Amos, Elias and David by second wife; and George, John, Ann and Elizabeth, by third wife. Our subject purchased the old homestead after his father's death, where he always resided.
He was married in Sparta Township, in 1850 to Elizabeth LINDSAY, by whom he had born to him two children, viz: Elias W. and Esther J., the latter deceased. Mrs. LITTLE died in 1854, and in the same year he married Harriet LINDSAY, a sister of the first wife, by whom he has had nine children, viz: James F., Sarah, Archibald, Ebben B., George B., William A., Charles S., Oscar E. and Fladilla M.
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Charles LODS, farmer, Kelso Township, was born in France January 15, 1825. His parents were John P. and Mary LODS, both natives of France, where they married and from where, in 1827, they immigrated to the United States. Landing at New York City; from there to Cincinnati, Ohio, they came by flat-boat, the mother dying on the way, the father came immediately to Dearborn County, settling in Logan Township, where he purchased land and was married to Margaret CHRISTOPHER. In 1837 he moved to Kelso township, purchasing the farm and settling where our subject now lives, and where he resided until his death. He was the father of eight children, viz.: Susan, Catherine, Joseph, Elizabeth, Rosanna, James, Charles, and Louisa. Charles, our subject, came with his father to this township, where he was united in marriage, May 16, 1850, to Isabelle HUDSON, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 3, 1824, a daughter of Christopher and Ann HUDSON. After his
marriage he settled on the old homestead, where he at present lives and has resided principally since. He was elected township assessor of Kelso Township in 1855, and in 1860 was elected to the State Legislature. In 1872 he was elected treasurer of Dearborn County, which office he held two terms. Mr. and Mrs. LODS are parents of five children, viz.: Louisa (deceased), born March 2, 1851; Elizabeth, born September 8, 1853; Catherine, born October 15, 1855; Charles J., born September 29, 1862; Josephine, born April 26, 1866. Mr. LODS owns 240 acres of fine land, well improved. He holds a high rank in the citizenship of his township, and in both his legislative and official career he has merited the esteem and confidence of all interested.
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Christ LOMMEL, Lawrenceburgh, the able superintendent and treasurer of Lawrenceburgh Furniture Manufacturing Company, was born in Germany, in 1834, and grew up to early manhood in his native country. In 1851, he immigrated to the United States, and soon after located at Lawrenceburgh. He was variously employed till 1868, when he began operations with the above named company, with which he has since been connected. Mr. LOMMEL(L) is among the foremost citizens of Lawrenceburgh, both in civil affairs and business enterprise, having for some time represented one of the wards in the city council, of which he is at present a member. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Lena KIRSCH, by whom he has seven children living, namely: Louise, Charles, Katie, Henry, Edward, Tina and Arthur. Amelia is deceased. Mr. LOMMEL is a member of the Druid's society, and a gentleman of excellent standing as a citizen.
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Nimrod LOTTON, grocer, Lawrenceburgh, born in Ohio County, Ind., in 1837, is a son of William and Julia (JENKINS) LOTTON. He grew to maturity in his native locality, in whose schools he obtained the rudiments of an education. He resides on a farm till 1866, when he removed to Lawrenceburgh, and engaged in the cooperage business, operating from fifteen to twenty workmen. In 1873 the panic brought on reverses which compelled him to curtail his business, and he engaged in the manufacture of beer casks till 1882, when he embarked in the grocery business, in which he still continues. Mr. LOTTON was married, July 29, 1869, to Luella G. SWOPE, who was reared in Lawrenceburgh, and three years teacher in the public schools. Her father was James SWOPE, a merchant of Lawrenceburgh for twenty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. LOTTON have two children: Iola G. and William. Mr. LOTTON was four years a member of the city council, and is generally regarded as an enterprising business man.
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John LOFTUS, farmer, of Sparta Township, was born in Ireland in May, 1827. His parents, William and Catherine (COLLINS) LOFTUS, were also natives of Ireland, and were the parents of six children, viz.: Patrick, America, Thomas, William, Mary, and John, our subject, the second member of the family. He immigrated to the United States in 1848, landing at New Orleans in May of that year. Shortly afterward he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from thence to AUrora, Ind., where he was married to Betsy HEFFREIN, by whom he has reared four sons, viz.: Michael, John, James and Thomas. In about 1865 Mr. LOFTUS purchased and moved on his present farm, where he has since resided. He owns 140 acres of fine land, well improved, and is regarded as one of the thrifty agriculturists of the township.
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Henry LONGCAMP, farmer of Clay Township, is a native of Germany, born May 14, 1843. His parents, Frederick and Mary (SHEIBUMB) LONGCAMP, were also natives of Germany, and immigrated to Dearborn County, in the year 1843, settling in Cesar Creek Township, where he died in February, 1881, his widow subsequently moving to Rising Sun, Ind., where she now resides. Their children were Frederick, Mary, Henry, Eliza, Louisa, Minnie, William and Rosena. Henry, our subject, enlisted in the war August 14, 1862, in Company E, Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry, as a private, and served until July 15, 1865, at which time he was discharged and returned home, where he was married, March 14, 1867, to Catherine RULLMAN, who was born in Dearborn County June 28, 1846. Shortly his marriage he purchased and settled on the farm where he now lives, and where he has since resided. He owns ninety-six and a half acres of fine land. Mr. and Mrs. L. are parents of three children: Henry W., deceased; John H. and Annie M.
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George C. LONGENECKER, farmer and grain dealer, Harrison Township, was born in this township January 12, 1861. His parents, Solomon and Mary (McMANAMAN) LONGENECKER, were natives of Adams County, Penn., and this county respectively. His paternal grandparents came to this county with their children about 1845-46, his father being then a small boy, though he became a prominent farmer, owing 512 acres of land. He was also engaged in the lumber business for a time, and in all his enterprises was quite successful. He reared four children; Rebecca H., Solomon, Mary E.M. and George C. He died September 13, 1884. His wife still survives and resides at Metamora, Ind., with her son and two daughters. George C., our subject, grew to the age of seventeen on the old homestead, where he now temporarily resides. In 1877 he moved to Metamora with his parents, and was then married, May 27, 1884, to Hattie L. McGUIRE, of that place, daughter of Dr. William W.
and Angeline (MARTINDALE) McGUIRE. Since his marriage Mr. LONGENCKER has been engaged in this township in farming and buying grain and stock at LONGENECKER Station. He is a young man of energy, good character, and good business qualifications.
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Otho LOWE, an energetic farmer, Lawrenceburgh Township, was born in Dearborn County in 1844. He grew to maturity on the farm, was educated in the common schools, and in 1863 married Mary S. GUARD, , and began business on his own responsibilities. He rented land a few seasons and in 1879 made a purchase to which he has since added till he now owns about 238 acres, ranging in value from $40 to $100 per acre. In 1879 Mr. LOWE was married to Bartha WAMSLEY, daughter of Moses B. WAMSLEY, Hamilton County, Ohio, his first wife having passed away previously, leaving three children: William, Lucy and Anna. Mr. LOWE is regarded as one of the most substantial farmers of Dearborn County. He is a lineal descendant of one of the earliest settlers. He is a member of the I.O. O. F and holds a ranking position in the citizenship of his community.
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Frederick F. LUCAS. Among the pioneers of Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn Co., Ind., was Frederick F. LUCAS, a Frenchman of education and culture, a watchmaker and jeweler by occupation, a native of Rennes, France, and son of the (ex-notary public) John Baptiste and Elizabeth LUCAS (nee St.CLARE), two families of distinction in that city occupying official positions in the Government, church and army. To them were born seven children - three sons and four daughters - namely: John Baptiste, Frederick Francis, Charles August, Johanna Elizabeth, Marie Angelique, Anna Marie, and Marie Josephine. At the age of eighteen years Frederick enlisted in the French Army, under Napoleon, and followed the fortunes of that illustrious leader through the last scenes of his warfare. He was one of the sufferers of the terrible scourge, the small-pox, which so weakened the army, and fought at the battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon's defeat, political differences caused him,
with many others, to immigrate to the United States, arriving at Baltimore about 1817, where he remained some time and learned the trade of watchmaker. From there he removed to Marietta, Ohio, then to Cincinnati, and from there to Lawrenceburgh, In., in the year 1820 where he settled for life. In 1824 he married Letitia NETHERY, a granddaughter of Maj. Walter CRAIG, of Wilmington, Del., who was an officer of the Revolution and for meritorious services rendered at the battle of Brandywine was awarded a large tract of land, to which she is an heir. To Frederick and Letitia LUCAS were born five children -three sons and two daughters. The two youngest sons died in childhood. The daughters, Mrs. Laura M. CHEEK and Mrs. Josephine A. DUMONT, are still living.
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Gen. Thomas J. LUCAS, postmaster at Lawrenceburgh and native of that city, was born in 1826. His parents, Frederick F. and Letitia (NETHERY) LUCAS, are mentioned in the above sketch. He was educated in the public schools of Lawrenceburgh, in which city also he learned the jeweler's trade with his father, and for many years he conducted that business. His father, born and reared during the period of the greatest military excitement of France, and directly under the influence of the genius of the great Napoleon, of whom he was a great admirer, transmitted to his son, in no mean degree, the tastes and talents of the soldier. At the early age of seventeen years he enlisted as drummer boy in the Mexican war, joining Company C, Fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, commanded by Willis A. Gorman and was soon promoted to second lieutenant, acting at one time as assistant commissary and later in the service as adjutant. He served the first year of the
war under Gen. Taylor and subsequently under Gen. Scott, and participated in several spirited engagements. In the month of August, 1847, he was landed at Vera Cruz and marched to the City of Mexico in pursuit of Santa Anna. He fought in the battles of Broken Bridge, Cerro Gordo, Wamantla, Eclisco, Pueblo and various other minor engagements. After the close of the war he returned to his home and former occupation in Lawrenceburgh. In 1848 he married Miss Ann E. MUNSON, who has since borne him five children - three sons and two daughters - the latter only now living: Mrs. Emma, wife of Frederick KINSINGER, of Cincinnati, and Miss Florence F., who is still at home. Mrs LUCAS was a daughter of Ira MUNSON, a pioneer of Hamilton County, Ohio. Her parents came originally from New Jersey, entered land in Hamilton County, losing five of their children by death from disease during the first year of their settlement there. Gen LUCAS continued the jewelry
business in Lawrenceburgh till 1861, April 18, of which year, on th event of the fall of Sumter, he began the organization of a company for military service. From this time until mustered out, January 15, 1866, he did efficient service for the Government, being almost constantly in the field, and ever ready to do his whole duty in whatever department assigned him. The following editorial, taken from the Lawrenceburgh Press of September 24, 1885, is a brief but concise summary of his military record during the late war and will give the reader a fair idea of his military capacity and of the extent of the invaluable services rendered his country during those tremendous times: "A man more modest with respect to his military services never drew a sword. Few even in his own county know that he was the most distinguished officer it produced, and at least equaled any man of his state. This was partly because of his reluctance to parade his rank and
his work, but more because that part in which his capacity was proved and he earned the notice of his commanders, was in the far South, and overshadowed by the nearer and greater operations of Sherman and Grant. Pages of newspapers made us familiar with the Atlanta and the Richmond campaigns, where a line got in about the details of Banks' and Canby's operations. We knew the Red River campaign was a failure for which Banks was responsible, but we never heard of the Custer of that bootless but bloody march. ************* A strong Democratic partisan when the war begun, he was not deceived or misled, as to his duty, an instant. He went for the flag, and made no constitutional quibble. He helped organize two companies here, raised a third, was elected captain, joined the Sixteenth Indiana, and because of his qualifications was appointed lieutenant-colonel. In the battle of Ball's Bluff, made as a diversion to cover another move, he covered the
retreat across the Potomac with 1,100 men, and retired in the last boat. His capacity here made him a colonel, and he was sent home to reorganize his one year regiment into a three years one. Before it was fairly seasoned he met Kirby Smith's invading army at Richmond, Ky., and though defeated as the little force was certain to be, the Sixteenth, on account of confidence in its commander, met the brunt of the fight in trying to delay Smith's advance, to give time for our forces to gather, and in the first of three fights in one day, lost 200 killed and wounded. Reorganizing again after the wounded were well and the captured exchanged, he went to Grant and fought in all the operations about Vicksburg, generally in advance on account of the good discipline and drill of his command. He was wounded three times in charges on the works of Vicksburg, but never left the front. After the surrender he was sent to New Orleans and put in command of a brigade
of cavalry, and did the cavalry service for Franklin's operations in the Teche country. While the work was of a skirmishing character, it was wide spread and developed his military instinct. In the winter of 1863-64 and spring of 1864, the Red River campaign, he commanded two brigades of cavalry and two batteries, in the advance, fighting every day. Many of these engagements were small cavalry battles, and they always ended in the enemy being swept from the field by the skill and dash of his forces. After Banks met the rebel army at Pleasant Hill and was defeated, rather by his own fears than by the enemy, and ordered the withdrawal, LUCAS covered the retreat of the demoralized forces, and to turn and charge the pursuing and jubilant enemy was of almost hourly occurrence. At Alexandria Banks was driven into the works, but the same force that drove him in was repulsed and driven off the field by LUCAS' pluck and his skill in handling his division.
Indeed a historian of this campaign, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, declares that but for LUCAS' courage and capacity with cavalry, Banks' army would have been ruined if not captured. From Alexandria to the Mississippi LUCAS had the advance, to clear the way of the enemy that had surrounded Banks. After this campaign he was commissioned a brigadier-general on the recommendation of officers who had seen his fitness for cavalry work. With a division of cavalry he entered upon the campaign of Mobile, and his rapidity and strategy so confused the enemy that he thoroughly invested Fort Blakely and was about to charge it when Gen. Steele's infantry arrived. After the fall of Blakely, LUCAS was brevetted major-general 'for meritorious conduct,' and sent to intercept the expected retreat of the Mobile forces; and at an engagement at Claiborne two rebel regiments were utterly annihialted. Seventy-five of the prisoners captured had sabre wounds, showing
the sort of fighting that was done. Being chief of an independent command reporting direct to Canby and receiving orders direct from him, LUCAS raided western Florida, southern Georgia, and Alabama, destroying railroads, munitions of war, and capturing or routing the troops that tried to protect them. Being in middle Mississippi when hostilities ceased, he marched west to Vicksburg, mustered out his command, whose time was expired, and was himself ordered to New Orleans to await the issue of the threatened complications with the French in Mexico; an not until that threatened cloud passed was he ordered to be mustered out, January 15, 1866. Sheridan, who was on the Mexican frontier, had heard of him, and had indicated to Canby that he was the sort of man he might want." Since the close of the war, which diminished rather than increased his fortunes, Gen. LUCAS has been variously employed. Four years he was engaged in the United States revenue service.
In 1881 he was appointed postmaster at Lawrenceburgh, and the business of that office he has since faithfully attended to. Though an ardent Democrat prior to 1881, he has since that date affiliated with the Republican Party.
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Stephen LUDLOW, Lawerenceburgh, was an early pioneer of Dearborn County. He was born at Long Hill, Morris Co., N.J., May 5, 1778. He emigrated West with his parents in 1789, and settled in Columbia, His father, John LUDLOW, was the first sheriff in Hamilton County, Ohio, appointed in 1790. Mr. LUDLOW, in the seventeenth year of his age, entered upon the duties of assistant United States surveyor with his uncle, Isaac LUDLOW, and upon his death continued with his uncle, William LUDLOW, and served in this capacity for the period of twelve years, surveying in the Western wilderness. ON the dissolution of partnership between Isac Dunn and John R. Beaty in 1808, he entered into a partnership with Isaac Dunn in the mercantile business, and continued it until 1819; during that period he made several trips to New Orleans, and walked back through the Indian nations that were between here and there, and several trips East to by goods. He was married to Miss
PORTER, daughter of John PORTER, Esp. After her decease he married Miss Leah Ann BELL. He was appointed one of the commissioners by the Legislature of Indiana in 1820, to make a selection of the four sections granted by Congress to the State for a seat of government. The commissioners met at the junction of Fall Creek and White River in June, 1820, adn after an examination of the country made their selection of the present site of Indianapolis, June 7, 1820. Mr. LUDLOW as a stout, robust man, above the medium size. By his untiring energy, perseverance and economy, he became one of the wealthiest men of the county, a useful citizen, a good neighbor, kind and affectionate husband and father. He died March 22, 1855, lamented by all who knew him.
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John R. LYNN, farmer, Washington Township, was born in the same, Dearborn Co., Ind., July 28, 1842. He attended common school and completed his education at Farmer's College in Ohio. He is also a competent and well qualified book-keeper, having graduated February 22, 1861, in Bacon's Commercial College. In early life he kept books in Cincinnati, Ohio, clerked on steamboats, and settled down to farming in 1876. Mr. LYNN was married, August 31, 1875, to Miss Kate HANNAH, who was born in Ohio County, Ind., March 8, 1853. Their three children are Mabel V., born September 2, 1876; Jessie R., born June 10, 1878; Julia F., born June 16, 1880. Mrs. LYNN'S father, William I. HANNAH, was born in Delaware, March 18, 1804, and her mother, Maribah (BARRICKLOW) HANNAH, was born in Pennsylvania September 24, 1811. They were married February 26, 1826, and raised four sons and four daughters. The father was a cooper by trade, but followed farming up to his death,
September 4, 1881. His parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. LYNN'S father was born on Arnold's Creek, Ohio County, and died April 2, 1868. His mother, Elizabeth (WALKER) LYNN, was born in Washington Township. Mr. LYNN is an I.O.O. F., and member of Hartford Lodge No. 151, F. & A. M. He was elected W. M. of Hartford Lodge in December, 1882, and reelected each following year up to the present, which proves his good qualities as a presiding officer, and that he is duly appreciated by the brethren. He is truly a self-made man. Mrs. LYNN is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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