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GOV. CLAUDE MATTHEWS, recently elected by the Democratic party governor of Indiana, is a son of Thomas A. and Eliza (Fletcher) Matthews, both branches of the family being farmers, and his maternal grandfather serving as one of Kentucky’s representatives in Congress. He was born December 14, 1845, in Bath county, of the Blue Grass State. He attended such schools as the country afforded until fifteen years of age, when he removed to Mason county, his father having purchased a farm near Maysvi1le. Here the schools were better, of which he availed himself by riding six miles each way daily. In 1863 he entered Centre College, Danville, Ky., from which he graduated in June, 1867. January 1, 1868, occurred his marriage with Martha R. Whitcomb (only child of the late James Whitcomb, governor of Indiana, 1843 to 1849), and same year removed to his farm near Clinton, Vermillion county, this State, where he has ever since resided, engaged quite extensively in grain and stock farming. Vermillion county has always been strongly Republican, but in 1876 he was persuaded to make the race for the legislature, and was elected by nearly three hundred majority, notwithstanding that the county that year was nearly four hundred Republican on the State ticket. Mr. Matthews, in 1882, made the race for the State Senate in the district composed of Parke and Vermillion counties, and although this district was Republican by 1000 majority, he was defeated by less than three hundred. In 1890 he was called upon to head the State ticket for secretary of State and was elected by nearly twenty thousand. At the late State Convention of 1892, although a candidate for renomination as secretary of State, his party again placed him at the head of the ticket as candidate for governor. Mr. Matthews has always been engaged in farming, that being his sole interest, and intends returning to that work at the close of his official life. He has been prominent in the stock-breeding interests of the State, especially in short horn cattle. He was also an active member and is yet of the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association. and was president of his county assembly at the time of his election as secretary of State.

“Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana
Together with Biographies of Many Prominent Men of Northern Indiana and the Whole State, Both Living and Dead”
Goodspeed Brothers Publishers, Chicago
1893
John Morris Co. Printers and Binders

HON. DAVID TURPIE, one of the present senators from Indiana, in the United States Congress, is justly recognized as a man of superior ability and one of the foremost lawyers of the State. After receiving a good practical education he studied law, was admitted to the bar at Logansport, Ind., in 1849, was appointed judge of the common pleas court in 1854, and in 1856 was elected to the bench of the circuit court. In 1853, and again in 1858, he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature. In 1863 he was elected United States senator to succeed Gov. Joseph A. Wright, and after the expiration of his term was engaged in the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. He also served Marion county in the State Legislature several terms and the session of 1874-75 was elected speaker. In 1878 he was appointed one of the three commissioners selected to revise the laws of Indiana and as such served three years. In 1886 he received the appointment from President Cleveland of United States district attorney for the State of Indiana serving as such until March 3, 1887. He was elected to his present seat of United States senator February 2, 1887, and the day following his retirement from the United States marshalship witnessed his induction to a membership in the highest legislative body of our land. Judge Turpie is not only a Democrat in the highest political sense of the word, but is a Democrat in the widest acceptation of the term. Of unquestioned ability, a ready debater, a fluent orator, he stands today among the foremost men of the State.

COL. RUEL M. JOHNSON. The story of the life of the worthy citizen should be given to the public. It should be read by all our people, that they may profit by the example. Its lessons should be studied, and the good they inculcate impressed upon the minds of the youth of our land. All may glean from them kernels of wisdom for present use and store up knowledge and information which will be of benefit in after life. It is of such a citizen that we write. It is to such a man that we here point the public mind and direct the people's thought. The story of the life of the subject of this sketch is no ordinary one; for few men in the State have a more brilliant record as a soldier, or a more upright and distinguished one as a civilian, than Co1. Ruel M. Johnson, of Elkhart, Ind. Of none can it well be said that his record can be more profitably perused by the living, or with greater propriety be transmitted to the future for the benefit of those who will come after us.

The month of August, 1862, was one of the darkest for our country of all the gloomy periods of our late Civil war. Many and terrible disasters had befallen our brave armies at the front, and cast their darkest gloom over the homes of the loyal North. The demand for reinforcements to fill up the depleted ranks among the brave soldiers in the field was very great, and notwithstanding the most energetic efforts of loyal men everywhere, and their eloquent appeals to the patriotism of the people, many localities failed to respond with their proper quotas, and the minds of men desponded and their hearts shuddered lest the cause of the union should fail, and the Government be overthrown.

In this dark hour of our country's history, Ruel M. Johnson, then a mere youth, studying law at Goshen, this State, threw aside his law books, and, announcing his determination to join the armies of the union and fight for the old flag and the grand cause it represented, went out among the citizens of his county, and asked them to accompany him to the seat of war, and aid in the defense of the Government. So fervent were his appeals to their patriotism, and so effective his eloquent requests to come with him, that in the short space of five days more than one hundred of the brave sons of Elkhart county's yeomanry enrolled themselves under his leadership, and, promptly electing him as their captain, tendered their service to the Government, were accepted and later became Company D of the now renowned One Hundredth Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers. On reporting his company to the adjutant general of the State, as ready to march, Capt. Johnson was directed to proceed by wagon to Warsaw, and there he would be furnished with transportation by the commandant of the district to Fort Wayne, the rendezvous for the regiment of which his company was to form a part.

To obtain the necessary number of wagons to take a hundred men to Warsaw was no easy matter; but the young officer was equal to the emergency. The day his company was to proceed to Warsaw was also the day the Non-Combatants of the county had been ordered to appear before the county board to be relieved from liability for military duty, and hundreds of them with their wagons and teams, lined the streets of Goshen, coming as they did from all parts of the county to be excused from taking up arms in defense of the Government extending them protection. Capt. Johnson, rightly deemed these people proper subjects for "tribute," and as they were there to secure exemption from military duty, while his men were going to the" front " to bear the burden of these "Non-Combatants " as well as that of themselves, he at once pressed them, their wagons and teams into service, and thus compelled them to contribute toward the defense of their country, by transporting, free of charge the men of Company D to Warsaw, on their way to the seat of war. It is probable that this is the first instance during the war, of enforcing the "Sherman bummer" policy in any loyal State.

Arriving with his command at Warsaw, this young officer found a still greater difficulty to surmount. The Government had failed to provide transportation for his men to Fort Wayne, and the Pennsylvania railroad officials refused to carry them to that point unless they paid their fare. The Captain and his friends offered to guarantee the fare, knowing that the commandant of the district, who was then at Fort Wayne superintending the sending of other troops to the "front," would furnish the proper transportation as soon as they reached there, but this would not satisfy the railroad conductor, and the latter refused to move his train unless the men were taken off the cars, or their fare paid in money. Capt. Johnson had courage, but no money, and, having explained the circumstances and offered to guarantee the fare, without avail, taking out his watch and looking the conductor in the eye, made the following forcible little speech: "Mr. Conductor - My men are here on their way to the seat of war; they have been ordered to Fort Wayne, and they are going there tonight and on this train; I have offered everything that is fair. Now, I will give you just five minutes' time in which to make up your mind to take them there without further parley. If you do not conclude to do so in that time, I will put my own men on the engine, take possession of the train, and run it through to Fort Wayne myself." Before the time expired the conductor capitulated, the gallant captain and his men were taken into camp, and this is also the first capture of a railroad train, probably, that took place during the war. The determination, decision of character and courage thus early evinced by the young officer characterized his whole subsequent conduct during the war, and many times saved his men from various hardships and privations. From Fort Wayne this company was soon moved to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, where the One Hundredth Regiment, of which it formed a part, was duly organized and ordered to Memphis, Tenn., there becoming a part of the grand "Old Fifteenth Army Corps," commanded by Gen. Sherman, and constituting a part of the army of Gen. Grant, then beginning the movement on Vicksburg. Col. Johnson and his command bore a conspicuous part in all the actions and movements leading up to the capitulation of Vicksburg and the capture of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.

His regiment was ever afterward continued a part of the Fifteenth Army Corps which was originally organized by Gen. Sherman, and with that great commander took part in the campaign to relieve the garrison at Chattanooga, and also accompanied him in his grand march from Atlanta to the sea. At the battle of Missionary Ridge, his regiment, of which he had previously been made major for gallant conduct in the field, gained the distinction of being the first to reach the summit when the ridge was stormed. In this brilliant engagement, which was purely a voluntary movement of the whole army of Grant, Maj. Johnson, who had just come into command of his regiment through the disability of his superior, greatly distinguished himself, being in the thickest of the fight, having his horse shot from under him, receiving four bullets through his coat, and being slightly wounded by a piece of shell in the right cheek. After pursuing Bragg to Braysville, the regiment with other troops was detached to relieve Burnside at Knoxville, which having been successfully accomplished they returned, suffering sorely for food and raiment, and took up winter quarters at Scotsboro, Ala.; but were soon ordered to garrison Bellefonte, Ala.

Here Maj. Johnson thoroughly drilled his regiment, and placed them on an excellent war footing. It had the reputation of being one of the best drilled regiments of the Fifteenth Army Corps, being able to execute "on the double quick" any movement laid down in the tactics. When the spring of 1864 arrived, the whole Federal army prepared for an active and aggressive campaign. The rebels were defiant; Grant seemed almost the only Federal commander who could win battles; enlistments in the North, owing to the efforts of treasonable organizations and other causes, were slow, and the gloomiest period of the war approached and cast its darkness on the land. But the resolute soldiers in the field girded on their armor and prepared to carry the struggles, as the South itself said, "to the last ditch." The One Hundredth Regiment, still a part of the Fifteenth Army Corps, was attached to Gen. McPherson's army of the Tennessee, and with it moved toward Atlanta. It fought at Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Chattahoocee River, Decatur, Cedar Bluffs, Jonesboro, Lovejoy and Atlanta. At the battle of Resaca, Maj. Johnson, with a heavy skirmish line, flanked a rebel brigade, which, with a battery, was holding Osterhaus' Division in check, and drove it from its works, receiving great praise from Gen. McPherson, who was present on the field and observed the movement. Gen. Harrow, commanding the division, in his official report of this battle, says: "On the morning of the 13th of May, when near the Calhoun road, the command was formed in order of battle. The First Brigade, Col. Reuben Williams, Twelfth Indiana Volunteers, on the left of the first division; the Second Brigade, then Col. Charles C. Wolcott, Forty-sixth Ohio, and the Third Brigade, Co1. John M. Oliver, Fifteenth Michigan, in the reserve, and in this order moved upon the enemy, meeting but little opposition until the open road on the left of the Resacca road was reached. Here the skirmishers under Maj. Johnson, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers, were pushed rapidly forward and drove the enemy into his works on the ridge west of Resaca. At this time, Capt. Griffith's First Iowa Battery placed two guns in position, and under cover from the fire of these guns the skirmishers were again advanced by Maj. Johnson, and drove the enemy from his rifle pits on the road." Col. Albert Heath, commanding the One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers, in his report of the part taken by his regiment in this battle, says: "My officers and men conducted themselves gallantly, but I shall do injustice did I not make special mention of Maj. R. M. Johnson, of my regiment, who was in command of the skirmish line of your brigade, for his coolness, prudence and gallantry, and I most earnestly hope he may be properly rewarded for the great service he rendered that day, riding along the whole line of skirmishers, inspiring the men by his heroic example and personally directing every movement. Before the capture of Marietta, Ga., Maj. Johnson was temporarily detached from his regiment and made chief skirmish officer of his division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, and as such opened the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, capturing the outer line of the enemy before daybreak, which made it possible for him and his skirmishers to, and they did, reach the summit of the mountain, the first of any of Sherman's army. At Dallas a duty was performed by Maj. Johnson which deserves special mention. The Fifteenth Army Corps under Gen. Logan occupied the right flank of Sherman's army and was in position with its battle line in the form of an "L," with its outer side toward the enemy. The skirmish line covering its front was some three miles long. The enemy was holding Altoona pass with his lines well secured on either side of the same. To drive him from his position by a direct assault was next to impossible. Sherman concluded to force him out of this impregnable position by a flank movement to the left. This required the Fifteenth Corps to be withdrawn from his right and moved toward and to extend his left flank. It was a movement not easily accomplished without loss, because it must be done in the face of the enemy. By command of Gen. Logan, Maj. Johnson was placed in charge of this long line of skirmishers covering the front of the Fifteenth Corps, with instructions to so manage it if possible as to conceal the movement of the troops in changing from the right to the left flank of the army, and then withdraw them and rejoin his command. The space between the contending forces was covered with a thick growth of underbrush which contributed to the success of the movement. At midnight Maj. Johnson passed along his line and gave instructions to the various officers on duty, and soon thereafter fire was opened all along his line, indicating to the enemy that an attack was imminent, while the infantry at the same time began its movement from its works to the rear and left flank of our army. By daybreak our forces were all at a safe distance to the rear and some three miles from their former works and in new works, prepared to resist any attack the enemy might make upon them. Seeing this, Maj. Johnson commenced to withdraw his skirmishes from the enemy's front and so skillfully did he do this duty and so well had he managed the line during the movement of the main body of the troops, that not only did the enemy fail to discover their withdrawal during the time the movement was being made, but even his skirmishers were utterly ignorant of the withdrawal of their support until they had been brought off their line and assembled in the rear at the angle of the "L," when the gravity and danger of the situation flashed upon them, as they saw that in order to reach their command and join our forces they must march at least three miles parallel with and not more than a hundred rods distant from the enemy's lines, with nothing between them and to screen them from the enemy's observation and consequently certain capture than a mere strip of woods happily grown up with underbrush and densely covered with forest trees. At first, as was natural, they were disposed to seek safety in flight. That feeling prevailed but for a moment. There they stood, three hundred men and officers, looking each other in the eyes, and those eyes flashing back to each the intelligence that safety was to be found only in remaining calm and cool and trusting all to the skill and courage of the officer who had brought them thus far out of their dilemma. All eyes were turned to the Major. Coolly dismounting from his horse and fastening him to a tree near by, as though no enemy were in miles of them, he commanded them to fill their haversacks with hardtack found in boxes left behind by the troops when they moved out of their works. This restored their courage and dispersed their fears. They filled their haversacks with the "soldier's comforter," and prepared themselves to join their commands as if it were but an ordinary march, when in truth it was the most dangerous and hazardous one made by them during the war. To keep up the appearance of security of the situation, the Major, mounting his horse, with a loud ringing voice gave the command to "fall in," "forward, march," as if no enemy were within an hundred miles of that locality, and all along that "parallel line of march" he insisted that as much noise should be made by his men as if they were with the entire army. Upon approaching the new works where our troops were drawn up in readiness to resist an expected attack from the enemy, the Major and his command struck up the refrain, "We'll Hang Jeff Davis on a Sour Apple Tree," and this was taken up by the "boys" within the trenches and ran along the whole line of the Fifteenth Corps and no song was ever more lustily sung by any body of troops or more enjoyed by those thus safely arriving within our lines. On reaching the works, General Logan, who with his staff had come out to receive this Spartan band of soldier skirmishers, warmly greeted them and complimented the Major very highly on his skill and success in saving himself and command from capture, and also for having by his management of the skirmish line, during the movement of the troops, possibly prevented a battle in which heavy loss must have been sustained. The enemy did not discover the absence of our troops from their front or that our skirmishers had been withdrawn from the field until about three o'clock in the afternoon, and only then after having made a gallant charge on our breastworks to find them empty and abandoned by our forces. This was one of the most difficult movements made by any portion of Sherman's army during the war, and its success, especially its accomplishment without bloodshed, was largely due to the skill of the officer placed in charge of the skirmish line of the Fifteenth Army Corps on that occasion.

After the capture of Marietta, Ga., the One Hundredth Regiment, under Lieut. Col. Heath, was detached to garrison that village, and there remained while the main army of Sherman continued to advance upon Atlanta. But Maj. Johnson was too active and valuable a soldier to be allowed to remain idle and in the rear, and was, therefore, ordered to the front to serve as chief skirmish officer of Gen. Harrow's Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps in front of Atlanta and approaching that city from the direction of Decatur. On the morning of the 22d of July (the day Gen. McPherson was killed) when the enemy had withdrawn his main line from in front of Atlanta in order to concentrate his forces upon the federal left flank, though leaving a strong skirmish line to keep up appearances Maj. Johnson was ordered to throw forward his skirmishers covering the entire division front, which he skillfully and gallantly did, sweeping back the line of the enemy three miles through the woods until almost upon the fortifications around the city, observing which, and knowing the gravity of the situation, they opened upon him hotly with shell, grape and canister to check his advance. To save his command, he concentrated his skirmishers in hastily constructed rifle pits, and sent couriers to inform Gen. Harrow of his success and situation. But in the mean time the whole army swept forward and were soon in possession of the enemy's breastworks around the city of Atlanta. The couriers of Maj. Johnson failed to find Gen. Harrow, whereupon he reported for orders to• Capt. Wheeler, of Logan's staff, and was directed to assist the commanders of the brigades of the division in repelling the enemy who had thrown heavy forces upon the Fifteenth Corps. Three times the enemy in his front was repulsed with great loss. On the right of the Fifteenth Corps was the division of Morgan L. Smith, and next, on the left, Harrow's division. Through an oversight of Gen. Smith's, a large body of rebels managed, in their fourth charge upon his lines, by passing through an unprotected cut on the railroad, to reach the rear of Smith's division, which resulted in throwing his troops into great confusion. Maj. Johnson, observing this, and not knowing the cause, rode rapidly forward to ascertain the difficulty, and aid in rallying Smith's troops. Suddenly, ere he was aware, he found himself covered by the gun of the enemy who peremptorily demanded him to dismount and surrender.

Seeing at a glance the folly of disobeying, he laughingly said, "Well, boys, I guess you have got me," and he did as he was ordered. His coolness saved his life, for had he endeavored to gallop off, he would have shared the fate of Gen. McPherson, who was killed on that same day, in another part of the field, under very similar circumstances.

In speaking of the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Gen. Harrow, in his official report says: "I regret to add that, during this engagement, the gallant Maj. Johnson, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers, my picket officer, was captured by the enemy in the gorge to the rear and right of my lines while encouraging the troops to hold their position. He possessed in a high degree all those qualities which make the accomplished soldier, and his loss is severely felt." Gen. Reuben Williams, then commanding the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, in his official report of this battle, says: "I deeply regret the loss from the service, at the present time, of Maj. John B. Hams, Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, wounded, and Maj. R. M. Johnson, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, captured on the 22d, formerly of the brigade, but more recently of your staff. Their places can hardly be filled and their loss will be deeply felt in their respective regiments." The captors of Maj. Johnson took him to Atlanta, whence he was sent to East Point, thence toward Griffin, on the way to Macon, Ga., the place where federal officers captured from the Western army were imprisoned. On the third day's march toward Macon, by watching his chance, he fell back toward the rear of the column, and finally, unseen by his guards, plunged into a thicket near the roadside. Here he remained concealed until the whole column of prisoners, seventy-five officers and 1,700 men, had passed, and then as fast as he could foot it put several miles between himself and his former guards. He made good his escape, and by traveling nights, and receiving food and guidance from a friendly negro, finally reached Little River, where, unfortunately, he was recaptured by a small squad of rebels placed there to guard the bridge he attempted at night to cross. He was taken back, and in due time arrived at Macon, where he found his fellow prisoners. Soon after this, in a limited exchange of officers, he was specially chosen for exchange by Gen. Sherman, who by this selection testified to his value as an officer and soldier. Before his exchange, however, he had been conveyed to Charleston, where, with Maj. General Stoneman and other prominent federal officers, he was placed in the line of fire of federal artillery, then bombarding that city, the object being to divert the fire and save the city, by the knowledge of the peril, to the federal officers. Fortunately no one was killed.

Upon being exchanged, he returned to Atlanta and resumed command of his regiment, and, after aiding in driving Hood across the Tennessee, returned with Sherman to Atlanta, and thence with him marched to the sea. Gov. Morton, at its reception at Indianapolis, at the close of the war, thus spoke of this regiment and its gallant commander, Col. Johnson: "At Griswoldville, Ga., his regiment took part in one of the most notable engagements of the war, when 1,300 Federals whipped 12,000 rebels in a square fight without works; 300 of the noble 1,300 were of the One Hundredth Indiana, and nobly did they sustain the credit of their State by their gallant conduct on that bloody field."

"From Savannah they proceeded through the Carolinas, fighting bravely at Branchville, Congaree Creek, Columbia and Bentonville, and, in fact, capturing the whole State of South Carolina, and all of North Carolina they wanted, and arriving at Goldsboro, N. C., March 24, 1865, thus marching some 1,300 miles and fighting some seventeen heavy battles; while from Dalton to Atlanta they were continual1y under fire for one hundred days. The maneuvering of this regiment, under fire, by Col. Johnson, at Bentonville, N. C., elicited the highest praise from Gens. Logan and Howard, who were upon the field. They assisted in forcing the surrender of Johnston at Raleigh, and thence made the great 'quickstep march' of Sherman's army, by way of Petersburg and Richmond, to Washington, where they mustered out of service June 9, 1865, having 219 men and twenty-four officers." The One Hundredth Regiment, under Col. Johnson, was the first to enter Columbia, S. C. where they witnessed the spread of the fire started by the rebels to destroy the cotton, and thus prevent it from falling into the hands of the rebels. They knew that the statement of the Confederates that Columbia was fired by the federals was untrue. Col. Johnson, upon entering the city, saw the cotton bales lying in the streets on fire, and saw the flames spread and envelop the city as soon as the wind arose. He says: "It was the insane attempt of the Confederates to destroy their cotton, and prevent its falling into Sherman's hands, as was done at Savannah, that resulted in the burning of the city of Columbia, and Sherman and the Federal troops did all it was possible to do to avert and prevent that disaster."

At Bentonville, Col. Johnson, commanding his own regiment of 350 men, and the Sixth Iowa of 150 men, was directed to drive back a large cavalry division on the outposts of the enemy's front, so that Sherman's infantry could attack the main line. This he promptly and skillfully did, forcing them back to the distance of six miles. While thus engaged, a portion of the enemy's cavalry succeeded in flanking Col. Johnson's command, and in throwing a strong body of men between his advance line and his reserve. At this point, Gens. Logan, Howard and Woods and their staffs came up to observe the progress made by Col. Johnson, seeing which the rebel cavalry detachment determined to capture those general officers if it could be done. But Co1. Johnson saw the dilemma at once, and promptly shouted the order to his regiment, "Forward on the right by file into line, double quick, march, fire." The promptness with which his command was executed, no doubt saved the federal officers from capture, and they were empathic in their praises of the readiness, coolness and military skill of Col. Johnson.

It is believed this was the only time such a movement was ever made by any body of troops of any army, in any war on the field, and in battle and in the face of an enemy charging them. It was the resistance of a cavalry charge by what amounted to a bold and intrepid countercharge of infantry, and proved as unexpected to the cavalry as it was original in conception and successful in execution, and resulted in throwing the rebel cavalry into utter confusion and disorder, and in completely routing them, while it saved Col. Johnson's command, and Gens. Howard, Logan and Woods and their staffs from capture, or possibly a worse fate. The capture of these generals at that time would have been a severe blow to Sherman, the entire army and the union cause.

This ended the hard fighting for the One Hundredth Regiment, although they were present at Goldsboro and Raleigh, and marched proudly with drums and flaunting though tattered banners, at the head of Sherman's splendid army in the final grand review at Washington. Throughout his military career, Col. Johnson had shown the highest military skill and capacity. His promotions came as just and merited reward for faithful, conscientious and brilliant service. He was commissioned captain, August 22, 1862; major, August 18, 1863; lieutenant colonel January 9, 1864, and colonel May 2, 1865. After the fall of Savannah. Gen. Logan, commanding the Fifteenth Army Corps, requested Col. Johnson to become his chief of staff and promised him an immediate commission from the War Department, which would most likely have advanced him to brigadier generalship. But Col. Johnson loved his noble regiment; he had led them through all those long bloody years; had multiplied their joys and divided their sorrows, and had, at the outset, when the regiment went forth in 1862 so valiant, patriotic and full of hope, promised them that come what might, he would always remain with them. So he told Gen. Logan that he could not accept his tempting offer, and the reason therefor, and was warmly congratulated by the General for his fidelity to the magnificent old One Hundredth Regiment.

After the war, upon returning to Elkhart county, Col. Johnson soon formed a law partnership with Capt. A. S. Blake, and continued in the practice at Goshen, this State, until 1886, when he went to Santa Fe, N. M., to serve as clerk of the Supreme Court and clerk of the U. S. District Court, having been thus appointed by the chief justice of that territory. Prior to this, in 1878, he went abroad and was there some three years, traveling in Germany, studying the German language, which he mastered, and taking lectures on law and history in the famous university at Leipsic. In 1888 he resigned his position as clerk at Santa Fe, and was thus complimented by Chief Justice E. V. Long: "Your duties as clerk have been ably and faithfully performed, and to my entire satisfaction, and better in my judgment than ever before in the territory." While clerk of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, the legislature, though Republican, appointed Col. Johnson reporter of the Supreme Court, and under that appointment he edited and published the third and fourth volumes of the Supreme Court Reports of that territory. Succeeding this, he opened a law office in Las Vegas, N. M., and also engaged in mining, but in May, 1890, he returned to Elkhart county, and here has since resided. But let us go back and see something of the youth and early training of Col. Johnson, before investigating the results of his public spirit and enterprise in Elkhart county in recent years. His birth occurred in Erie county, Penn., and he was one of six children born to the marriage of Salmon A. Johnson and Miss Minerva Powell, both of whom were natives of Chittenden county, Vt. At an early age he was brought by his parents to Indiana, and was here reared and educated. The country was new and wild then, and no one who did not pass through the experience can have an idea of the self denial, sufferings and hardships of the first settlers. Ruel M., by the death of his father, was thrown upon his own efforts at the age of twelve years, but he was adventuresome, energetic, honest and persistent, and he pushed forward.

He worked on a farm summers, and attended school winters, continuing thus until he was fitted for college, whereupon he attended the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in 1858 graduated with high honors with his class. To pay his way he did anything honorable, no matter how humble, sawing wood, sweeping the recitation rooms of the university, and during the first two years, as he himself says, faring upon "pudding and salt for breakfast; salt and pudding for dinner, and a mixture of both for supper." The third year he secured a position with the professor of astronomy in the Detroit Observatory, and thereafter fared better. While in college, the question of "co-education of the sexes" came up for settlement. He took active ground in its favor, corresponding with many college presidents and other leading educators and placing their views before the regents of the university, and it was largely due to these efforts that the measure was finally adopted by that body. The women of America are greatly indebted to this man, in having opened to them the doors of the university of Michigan, a step which gained them admission to other colleges and universities and has led the way to other and equally great advantages for them in many walks of life, and the benefits of which are immeasurably great and far-reaching. Before graduating, and while yet under age, he was nominated by the Democracy of Elkhart county for county treasurer, but, though running several hundred ahead of his ticket, he was defeated at the polls. After graduating, he studied law under Hon. Robert Lowery, of Goshen, and upon admission to the bar became his preceptor's partner. Soon after this he went out to fight his country's battles. Col. Johnson has done a great work for the home-seekers of Elkhart. In this connection, the following compliment is paid him by the Elkhart Review:

"Satisfying himself, from the location of this beautiful and enterprising city, that it had a future second to no city of its population in the Northwest, he purchased several valuable business fronts, and being the owner of other business locations, he started a line of improvements which has led to the investment of a large amount of capital which, until then, had remained comparatively idle, and as a result he and other local capitalists have since that time added to the business portion of the city the following stately and lovely blocks:

"The Dodge block at a probable cost of $30,000; the Rialto, $20,000; the Elkhart block, $15,000; Truth office, $15,000; Kauffman and Crane block. 810,000; the Every block, $30,000; the Jarrett block, $20,000; the Review office, $20,000; the Shaw block, $15,000; the Jones block, $10,000; total, $185,000. Besides these really grand improvements, he has inaugurated and is pushing forward with his well-known enterprise a scheme for the building and furnishing of cheap homes to the workingmen of Elkhart, which, if taken advantage of by this class of people, will enable all of them, for about the sum they are and have been paying as rent to house themselves and their families in homes of their own. As a part of this excellent plan he has laid out his Riverside addition to the city in such sized lots that all can there be accommodated, the poor as well as the rich, and all there find homes within their reach and means and upon such terms of payment that the poorest man may no longer hesitate to purchase for fear that he cannot pay for his home, and yet the rich may also there find residence property to suit his taste and meet the strength of his purse. Many have availed themselves of this excellent chance to obtain a home upon their own terms." On February 26,1891, Col. Johnson wedded Miss Jeanette, daughter of Elias and Rachel (Felkner) Gortner. He is a Democrat, was so before, during, and has been since the war, and was the supporter of the Little Giant in his memorable race for the presidency against Lincoln in 1860. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and military order of the Loyal Legion of the Union officers of the United States. As a member of the Loyal Legion, he belongs to the Commandery of the State of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and the Grand Commandery of the United States, at Philadelphia, receiving his commission for the latter from Gen. Sheridan. Col. Johnson is yet a young man, and much of his future is before him. He is one of the most enterprising, public-spirited, honorable and conspicuous citizens of the State. When to his magnificent military history is added his clean, able record as a civilian and his acknowledged worth as a man, there is presented to the world a good representative of model American citizenship.

HON. CHARLES G. CONN. It is a pleasure to describe a man of unusual personal merit-the possessor of a combination of gifts so rare, so varied and so comprehensive that happiness and success in business were bound to follow the application of his qualities to the solution of almost any problem of life. Some men were not made to plod or to crawl, and C. G. Conn is one of them. His diversified talents rendered it easy for him to select a congenial pursuit, and his perception and intelligence guaranteed that success would reward effort. But let us take the liberty of looking into his life to examine his acts and to judge his character and accomplishments.

It is an unwritten law that the secret of success in life in all individual cases is the common property or heritage of all unfortunates of the human race. There are more followers than leaders; more imitators than originators; more of mediocre talents than transcendent gifts, and it is but natural that people, unable to grasp success by their own efforts, should seek the ascent by which others have climbed to fame and fortune. It is therefore eminently proper for the historian or delineator of character to review the lives and characters of those men who have conferred so large a sum of joy upon mankind.

Charles G. Conn is a native of Ontario county, N. Y., and was born January 29, 1844. His parents were Charles J. and Sarah (Benjamin) Conn, and his grandfather, James Conn, the latter having been a farmer of York State and an Irishman by descent. The father, Charles J., was reared in New York and resided there until 1850, when he moved west and located at St. Joseph, Mich., then a straggling young town amid the forests of the Michigan peninsula. He there engaged in farming, but a year later removed to Elkhart, Ind., where he secured more congenial employment as city school superintendent. He was well educated, possessed an active and discriminating mind and became renowned throughout northern Indiana as a cultured gentleman and an educator of unusual skill and high attainments. He followed the profession of teaching for twenty-five years and only resigned on account of failing hearing. For three years he taught in the La Porte city schools where he was also superintendent. Upon his retirement from the schoolroom he engaged in photography, and, at last, after a useful and reputable life, died in 1888, his wife having preceded him the previous year. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters, of whom but one son and one daughter are now living.

The subject of this memoir was about six years old when his parents left New York for the great west. He was thus reared almost wholly in Indiana, and is therefore a "Hoosier" by adoption, if not by birth, though there is nothing to arouse serious apprehension in this simple statement. Once upon a time the term "Hoosier" was supposed to fit a phenomenal being - a sort of satyr, half man, half goat - but that was long ago, before the wonderful common school system of Indiana, under the manipulation of men like Charles G. Conn, had wrought such astonishing mental and social results. Under this great system and with such teachers, C. G. Conn grew to early manhood at Elkhart, finishing his education at the public schools of this town.

At this time the union of the States was crumbling to pieces. The trumpet call to arms aroused all patriotic men to action. Inspired with the loyalty of the hour, C. G. Conn, on the 18th day of May, 1861, at the age of seventeen years and against his parents' wishes and protests, volunteered his services for the suppression of the rebellion, and on June 14, 1861, was mustered in as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Indiana Regiment. He was soon, by special order, transferred to the regimental band. He participated in the movements and engagements at Greenbrier, W. Va.; the Elk Water Valley campaign, then returned and moved with the federal army through Kentucky and Tennessee to Nashville; was with Buell's army, in Wood's division, at the second day's battle of Shiloh; was with the army in the mud at Corinth; was at Tuscumbia, Florence, Wartrace, McMinnville, Vervilla, and then again at Nashville, from which point he returned through Kentucky to Indiana for the purpose of re-enlisting. A fine regiment of sharpshooters was being organized at Jackson, Mich., and elsewhere, with rendezvous at Fort Dearborn, Detroit. He accordingly enlisted at Niles, Mich., January 12, 1863, in Company G, First Michigan Sharpshooters, of which he was soon made first sergeant, and was later promoted successively, for meritorious conduct, to second lieutenant on August 8, 1863, and a little later to captain of his company. When it is remembered that he was but nineteen years old when he re-enlisted, and but twenty when he was made captain, the prominence of one so young and the confidence reposed in his ability and bravery by his older comrades will excite great surprise. But it was all merited by faithful and conspicuous service. He participated in the movement which drove the rebel guerrilla Morgan out of Indiana; assisted in guarding prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, for about four months, and then with his command joined Burnside's corps, Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battle of the Wilderness, where he received a slight flesh wound which did not incapacitate him from duty; was at Spottsylvania, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor and all the bloody encounters around Petersburg. On the 30th of July, 1864, he was captured in an assault upon Petersburg, where he was slightly wounded; was thence taken "by the insolent foe" to Danville, Va., and thence to Columbia, S. C. While at Goldsboro, N. C., accompanied by Lieut. Mell, of Ravenna. Ohio, he ran the gauntlet of guards and escaped, but was recaptured the next day by the use of blood-hounds which successfully followed them and revealed their hiding place. While at Columbia. S. C., accompanied by Capt. Dicey and Lieut. Randall, both of Michigan, another unsuccessful attempt was made to escape. When Sherman was moving up through the Carolinas after his triumphant march to the sea, the federal prisoners at Columbia were removed to safer quarters, but Capts. Conn and Dicey and Lieut. Randall had themselves buried, hoping thus to escape until Sherman's "bummers" would arrive. But their hiding-place was discovered by "home guards" who were prowling around, probably in search of plunder, and, very much crest fallen, they were removed with the other unfortunates to a more secure prison. At the close of the war, after the most intense hardships and sufferings, he was released with thousand of other prisoners and returned to Indiana, where, July 28, 1865, he was honorably discharged from his country's service.

He returned to Elkhart and embarked in the grocery and bakery trade and soon after this manifested his fondness for music. After repeated efforts he invented his famous "elastic face mouthpiece" for cornets, which at once became very popular and found a faster sale than he could manufacture them. His first lathe was made from a sewing machine table and with this he first attempted to do his own work, but orders poured in upon him so fast that he was forced to give it up and hire help. Rapidly his trade grew and his employees multiplied, as his inventions were perfected, patented and placed upon the market. At the present time he is the owner of about thirty patents, many of which directly affect band instruments. Now he employs about three-hundred persons, all told, and has an annual trade of $250,000. His instruments and inventions are known throughout the world. He was wholly burned out in 1883, but soon was as active and as strong as ever. In 1887 he was compelled to establish a branch house in Worcester, Mass., to accommodate his large eastern trade.

In September, 1890, he founded the Daily and Weekly Truth, which he conducted as a Democratic organ until the spring of 1892, since which date it has been an independent periodical. Col. Conn was elected mayor of Elkhart in 1880, and re-elected the next term. In 1884 he organized the First Regiment of Artillery, Indiana Legion, of which he was made captain. He was appointed major of the First Battalion, Third Regiment, and was later made chief of artillery on Gov. Gray's staff and soon after appointed colonel of the First Regiment of Artillery. He is familiarly known as "Colonel." He is a Knight Templar in Masonry and was the first eminent commander of the commandery at Elkhart and was one of its chief organizers. He is also a Knight of Pythias and was at one time lieutenant colonel of the uniformed rank of that order. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, is commander of Elmer Post at Elkhart, is president of the Veterans' Association and belongs also to the Loyal Legion. He has taken an active interest in all public improvements of the city and county, particularly the improvement of the local hydraulic water power. Voluntarily he established, last year, in his factory what is known as the" profit sharing plan," by which his workmen are divided into classes and all made to share in just and equitable proportions. The first year resulted in a surplus of $9,000 being divided among the employees. This plan, he proclaims, produces a better class of workmen, insures better work and greater profits and is so popular that one-half of the applicants can not be employed. While a member of no church organization, he is a devout believer in the Christian religion and a liberal contributor to church organizations. He is a Democrat and besides serving as mayor has served by election in the lower house of the State Legislature. In 1892 he became the candidate of the Democracy of the thirteenth district for congressmana and was elected by a large and decisive majority. Col. Conn married in 1867 Miss Kate Hazleton, by whom he is the father of one daughter, Sallie. He owns about six hundred acres of land in and adjoining the city, besides numerous lots, his manufacturing and newspaper interests, and is thus one of the wealthiest citizens of northern Indiana. True merit never fails to win. In whatever field of action Col. Conn has been called, he has shown his superior qualities and high character. As soldier, inventor, citizen, legislator and humanitarian he has given the world an ornate life, well worth the emulation of youth.

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DR. FRANKLIN MILES has been known to the people of Elkhart since his boyhood and to the profession in the United States for many years, and to the citizens generally since 1874. His early days were passed in public schools until the age of seventeen years, when he became a pupil in Williston Seminary, Massachusetts. When he left that school for Phillip's Academy, Andover, Mass., he felt that there was little or nothing in the course of study which he did not know. From Phil1ips he went to New Haven and entered the Sheffield Scientific School; thence to Yale College, Conn., and completed an extensive legal education at Columbia College, New York City, the leading law school of the country. The choice of a profession often suggested itself to him during his college days. Medicine or Law was the question. His philosophy pointed to the first as the more useful and noble, and he selected it.

Shortly after leaving Columbia College, he entered the University of Michigan, where he won the attention of medical faculty and fellow students by his close investigations and long hours of study. His record at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and the Chicago Medical College points out his determination to analyze subjects and understand every problem presented before casting it aside. He read somewhere an Italian writer and remembered his advice: "Non fidatevi al alchemista povero, o al medico ammalato" (Do not trust a poor alchymist or a sick physician.) He determined to fathom the theory and practice of medicine and succeeded. Not content with his varied chase after knowledge, he is next found in the State Eye and Ear Infirmary of Illinois, prosecuting the closest study of those delicate organs and reasoning for himself the dependence of each on the other and on the whole human system. He did not hide this acquired knowledge from the world, but gave it to the people in a number of papers or works prepared with great care. Among such works may be named" Nervous Diseases,", The Permanent Cure of Headache without Change of Occupation," "Heart Disease," "Weak Eyes a Nervous Disease," "Diseases of the Ear," "Important Facts Concerning Headache and Other Nervous Disease's," "The Use of Spectac1es in the Treatment of Diseases of the Brain," etc., etc. These treatises were not written in college days. They are the works of a mind trained in the schools and subsequently subjected to the experiences of everyday practice; for Dr. Miles commenced the practice of his profession in Chicago, where he resided for some years. In 1873 he began to study the relationship between the brain and eye and the brain and heart, and in time could trace the effect of the one upon the other. Understanding his subject he traced diseases to first causes and effected some most extraordinary cures. In 1875 he took up the subject of the heart with the same result and so on until it is a question if any curable eye, heart or nervous disease can escape cure under his treatment. The progress made by the medical company which bears his name is the most certain index to his successes in the wide field of medical practice. Prior to 1887 his great remedies only blessed the people whose physician he was, today they are known throughout the United States and Canada. During the year named the Miles Medical Company was organized for the manufacture of the Doctor's new remedies. They became articles of commerce and were gradually introduced until their efficacy was recognized, when a great trade in them was inaugurated. The new laboratory at Elkhart, Ind., speaks of the advances of half a decade and tells, if anything is required to tell, that the remedies manufactured therein are a boon to the people. It is one of the great industries of Elkhart, employing a large clerical force of nearly one hundred persons, a number of skilled compounders or chemists. The Doctor, however, devotes his entire time to the treatment of difficult and complicated cases which come to him from all portions of the United States, in his private institute. Dr. Miles' sympathies are as wide as the recognition of his remedies. Every case submitted to him is conscientiously studied and every patient who appears before him is treated by a man who knows the responsibility he takes. A patient in calling upon him seldom fails to notice that he met a professional man rather than a tradesman; that is a physician who gives his soul to drive away disease rather than the one who simply seeks a fee and has no soul to give. Kind, as a good physician should be, his heart goes out to the afflicted. This is actual sympathy, born with him. It is no wonder that one molded so should seek the medical profession, for no one possessed of pure sympathy with humanity can use it with grander results than the physician.

HON. ROBERT W. McBRIDE. The family of which Judge McBride is a distinguished member is of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to the United States soon after the Revolutionary war and previous to the war of 1812. Augustus, father of Robert W., was born in Ohio and was there reared and married to Martha A. Barnes, also a native of Ohio and of English descent, some of whose ancestors served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. In the war with Mexico in 1846-7 Augustus McBride enlisted in the Seventh United States Infantry and was in the army of Gen. Scott in its campaign against the city of Mexico, participating in all the assaults on the various citadels guarding the national roads which led to the capital. After the triumphal occupation of the city by the army of Gen. Scott, and in February, 1848, Augustus McBride unfortunately died and now lies buried in the land of the Montezumas. He left a widow and family to mourn his untimely death and also left them a heritage of honor and patriotism.

At the time of his father's death Robert W. McBride was about six years old, his birth having occurred in Richland county, Ohio, January 25, 1842. He was therefore too young to realize his great loss or to be able to forecast the trials, struggles and self-denials of the future without a father's guidance and care. But life was real and before him and he was compelled to rely mainly on his own resources of body and mind. He attended the district school in Ohio and in Iowa and an academy once maintained at Kirkville, Iowa. In 1859, when in his eighteenth year, having passed the local examination for teachers, he applied for and was given the task of teaching district school in Mahaska county, Iowa, and was so successful that he continued to follow this occupation for three years.

It was now 1862 and a bloody war was upon the land and all was confusion and uncertainty. In the autumn of this year Mr. McBride went to Mansfield, Ohio, where he accepted a position as clerk in the store of B. S. Runyan and remained there about a year. On the 27th of November, 1863, he enlisted in the "Union Light Guards," an independent squadron of cavalry of picked men organized by Gov. David Tod and was du1y mustered in at Columbus. The men composing this fine squadron had been selected by the county military committees throughout the State and Mr. McBride had been chosen to represent Richland county. Mr. McBride remained with the "Guards" for about six months, when he met with a severe accident and was permanently disabled for active service and has remained lame to this day. Upon his recovery from the accident he served on detached duty as clerk of a military commission and later at the central guard house at Washington. In January, 1865, he was transferred to the war department and served as clerk under Lieut. Col. Breck in the adjutant general's office until his company was mustered out of service and honorably discharged, September, 14, 1865. Upon his discharge from the army he was promptly appointed to the clerkship in the office of the quarter-master general, but he had a higher ambition than a subordinate position under the Government, and after a service as such for two months he resigned and returned to Mansfield.

While yet a boy, aged sixteen, he had taken a fancy to the study of law and had, as opportunity would permit, studied the principal text-books of that profession. This study he continued while teaching and while in the service, so that when the war closed he had mastered the elements of law. The winter succeeding his return from the war he taught school in Richland County, but the next spring went to Waterloo, Ind., and engaged as clerk for R. M. and W. C. Lockhart. The next winter he again began teaching in Ohio, but before the term was over he received the appointment of enrolling clerk for the State senate of Indiana and served with credit until the legislature adjourned. In April, 1867, he was admitted to the bar at Auburn, DeKalb county, and the following September formed a partnership for the practice with Hon. J. I. Best, with whom he was associated until July, 1869. He became associated with Joseph L. Morlan in the practice December 15, 1870, and so continued until the death of the latter in 1878, William H. Leas having been associated with them two years. Since 1878 Mr. McBride has carried on the practice alone. As a lawyer he has become distinguished throughout the State. Absolutely self-made, he has left no stone unturned to become a master of his profession. Soon after he began the practice he acquired a high reputation as a practitioner of unusual ability, persistence, force and adroitness, and as a result rose rapidly to the top of his profession and enjoyed a large practice and the unbounded confidence of his fellow lawyers and the people. As an all-around lawyer he has probably no superior among the bar of northern Indiana. He is calm, dispassionate, eloquent, and all his arguments are firmly grounded upon legal and equitable principles and hence he always has great weight with the court. In 1882, so prominent had he become and so great was the confidence of his professional brethren in his sound sense, legal knowledge and personal honor, that he was elected judge of the thirty-fifth judicial circuit, comprising the counties of De Kalb, Steuben and Noble. When he entered upon the discharge of his judicial duties the business of the district, owing to the ill health of his predecessor, was two years behind and in a chaotic condition; but in a little more than a year, so hard did he work, the docket was cleared and so remained until the end of his term. His decisions were noted for their fidelity to just principles and law and few were ever reversed by the Supreme Court-never a criminal case. No other circuit judge of the State was more prompt in the discharge of his duties than Judge McBride.

In 1890 he removed to Elkhart and the same fall was a candidate on the Republican State ticket for judge of the Supreme Court, but went down with the entire Republican ticket in defeat. On December 17, 1890, he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court by Gov. Hovey to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Mitchell. He is a member of the board of trustees of Depauw University and assisted in organizing the National Guard of the State and was the first lieutenant colonel of the Third Regiment of Infantry and is second colonel. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, past eminent commander of Apollo Commandery No. 19, at Kendallville, a member of the Committee on Grievances and Appeals in the Grand Lodge, a member of the State Encampment of the G. A. R. and a member of the Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F., K. of P., and the A. O. U. W. He is an enthusiastic student of the natural sciences and is one of the best, if not the best, ornithologist and botanist in northern Indiana, having pursued these studies as a recreation. He is also, and has been for more than twenty years, an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On September 27, 1868, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida S., daughter of Dr. Chamberlain, of Waterloo, Ind., a lady of rare personal accomplishments, by whom he has four children: Daisy I., born September 25, 1869; Charles H., born November 10, 1871; Herbert W., born October 5, 1873, and Martha C., born February 13, 1876. No family in the State stands higher, socially or neighborly, and no citizen is held in deeper respect than Judge McBride. Mrs. McBride is at this time (1892) Department President of the Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.

HON. GEORGE T. BARNEY, attorney at law and general insurance agent, was born April 10, 1822, at Willsboro, Essex County, N. Y., and is the oldest of four living children in a family of thirteen born to the marriage of Samuel Barney and Abagail Adsit. The father was a native of Whitehall, N. Y., and the mother of Willsboro, N. Y., their respective births occurring March 14,1792, and August 3, 1798. Samuel Barney was also the name of George T. Barney's grandfather, and he, with his three brothers, Solomon, Charles and William, immigrated from Ireland to the colonies of America some years prior to the Revolutionary war. Solomon was the eldest of these brothers, at that time being about twenty years old, and all their immediate relatives being dead he determined, with his brothers, to seek home and fortune in the new world. They settled at Salisbury, Vt., induced to do so by old neighbors having previously crossed the Atlantic and were there doing well, and having been reared in an iron district the brothers engaged in that industry.

All the Barneys in this country are said to be the direct descendants of these four brothers. Samuel Barney, Jr., the father of the Barneys of Elkhart, was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood and was a "bloomer," or now known as an ironmaker, by trade. Taking great pride in his work he became an expert and commanded much higher wages than his fellow workmen. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and the last twenty years of his life lived at Birmingham, Ohio.

George T. Barney, when ten years of age, moved with his parents to Ohio, and in youth secured only the limited education of the common schools. When fourteen years old he began life's battles upon his own responsibility, and from that time until attaining man's estate was engaged in carpentering, joining, coopering and kindred pursuits. In 1847 he moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., where, about two years later, he was elected constable. Succeeding this he received the appointment of Deputy United States Marshal, and, still later, Government timber agent for the northern district of Michigan. January 15. 1852, he married and moved to Marquette, and at the close of his term was appointed sheriff, and later was twice elected to that position, serving in all five years. He was then elected city recorder, in reality police judge, which he resigned in 1862 to recruit troops to put down the rebellion. Having served eighteen months in Company E, Fourth Ohio Infantry during the war with Mexico, he was called upon to raise a company. This he did for the First Michigan Infantry and was elected captain; but owing to defective health his services were not accepted by the Government. In 1863 he moved to Ligonier, Ind., where, with his brothers, he embarked in merchandising, continuing the study of law which he had begun in Michigan and where, while at Marquette, he had been admitted to the bar. In 1867 he removed to Elkhart, began the practice or law in conjunction with writing insurance, at which he has acquired a competency and at which he is still engaged. Mr. Barney is a Knight Templar Mason, au Encampment Degree Odd Fellow, and was Grand Secretary of Grand Encampment of I. O. O. F. of Michigan. He is a Democrat, and besides having been elected to represent Elkhart county in the lower house of the State Legislature, was elected and served six years as city judge of Elkhart. To his marriage with Mary A. Munsell, one son - George E. - has been born. Both Mr. and Mrs. Barney are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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