Noah L. BABBS, of Rising Sun and one of the oldest residents of the place, was born in Hampshire County, Va., November 13, 1794.  His parents were John and Rebecca (LANE) BABBS, natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively, and of ENglish and Irish descent.  In 1808  his parents removed from Virginia to Cincinnati, Here the family resided until 1819, when they removed to the vicinity of Rising Sun and purchased forty acres of land, where the parents passed the remainder of their lives, the father dying at the remarkable age of one hundred and three years.  Our subject grew to manhood on the farm of his parents, remaining until nineteen years of age.  During the war of 1812 he was in New Orleans, and saw Jackson after he had won that battle which has almost immortalized him.  Returning North, Mr. BABBS went to Ohio; and during the building of the Miami Canal, he worked on it as one of the bosses.  Next he purchased a tract of land several miles back of the Ohio River, north of Cincinnati, and followed gardening for thirty odd years.  In 1871, he again purchased property in Rising Sun, where he has since resided, living a retired life, though by proxy dealing some in real estate.  Mr. BABBS first married Nancy SMITH, who died one year later. He then married Kittie ANN PHARES, who died in 1832, there having been born to the union, five children, viz.:  Charles P., William, Emeline, John and Susan.  His third wife was Amey (TUCKER) RAWLSON; one child was born to them - Virginia.  His fourth marriage occurred in 1868, to Mrs. Catharine HYNER.  Mr. BABBS is a member of the Christian Church.

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Andrew J. BARRICKLOW, of Randolph Township, was born in Ohio County in 1825.  His parents, John and Mary A. (EMMERSON) BARRICKLOW, were natives of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, respectively.  His father was a son of Daniel and Judith BARRICKLOW who was born, reared and married in Pennsylvania, and immigrated to this county about 1808 or 1809, coming via the Ohio River in a little float-boat.  He purchased land here, some of which is still in possession of the family.  He reared a family of eight children, only one of whom is now living, viz.: Merribah HANNA, wife of David HANNA , of Union Township.  The deceased are Edward, Coonrod, John, Henry, Farrington, Joseph and Sallie.  Our subject's father was but eight or nine years of age when he came to this county and here grew to maturity and married, rearing four children:  Andrew J., Daniel, Hiram and John, all still living in the county.  He was a farmer by occupation, and was quite prosperous, leaving a creditable competence at his death, which occurred about 1873.  His widow is still living in her seventy-ninth year, though in a helpless condition from paralysis, cared for by her son, Andrew, at his home.  Andre J. BARRICKLOW grew up on the farm in this township.  Being of a studious turn of mind he acquired a good education in the common schools and by self-help at the fireside, and in 1847 began the profession of teaching, which he continued to follow up to 1876, teaching twenty-eight winter terms.  He obtained a portion of his father's estate, the father and sons working together till the latter were all married, when the property was divided.  Since that time Mr. BARRICKLOW has given his chief attention to farming.  He now owns 223 acres.  Mr. BARRICKLOW was married, in 1849 to Nancy OGLEVEE, of this county, daughter of John and Margaret (MARNOCK) OGLEVEE, her father a native of Ireland and her mother, born in Pennsylvania.  they were early settlers of this county, and later moved to Ripley County, Ind., where they died.  Mr. and Mrs.. BARRICKLOW have but one child living, namely - Hiram.  Mary A., a daughter of rare musical attainments as well as other accomplishments dies at the age of about twenty-two years.  Hiram was married, in 1876, to Elizabeth CORSON, daughter of Albert CORSON, and there have two children: Jackson A. and Mary A.   Mr. BARRICKLOW is an enthusiastic Democrat and takes some interest in local politics.  He has served two terms as township trustee since 1875.  During the war Mr. BARRICKLOW was commissioned lieutenant of the "Rough and Ready Rifles,: and was subsequently made captain of the same.  The company was regularly drilled and met Morgan at old Vernon, capturing twenty-nine men and several horses.  Mr. BARRICKLOW has always been a lover of out-door sports, and has quite a local reputation as a modern Nimrod; is said to have killed the last wild deer in this locality.  In early years, with his father and brothers, he caught forty wild turkeys at a single trap.  He has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church about thirty-five years, and during that time has officiated for many years as class-collector, steward and superintendent of the Sunday-school.

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John W. BARRICKLOW, brother to the above, was born in Ohio County in 1831.  He grew up on the homestead, which was divided among the children of the family, as stated above.  He was married, in 1857, to Lucy Ann (RICHARDSON), daughter of Joseph P. RICHARDSON, an early settler of this county.  This marriage was fruitful in the birth of six children, three still living:  Zoah E., wife of William HASTINGS; John and James.  March 5, 1872, Mrs. BARRICKLOW departed this life, death ensuing from "spotted fever."  In 1873 Mr. BARRICKLOW was united in marriage with Jane NELSON, a daughter of Thomas NELSON, native of County Armagh, Ireland.  Mr. BARRICKLOW is a member of the Methodist Episcopal CHurch, and one of the thrifty farmers of this township, having always given his attention to agricultural pursuits.

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Hiram BARRICKLOW, Rising Sun, one of the representative men of Ohio County, was born in the same in 1829.  He is a son of John BARRICKLOW, who was born in 1800, and who came to this county with his father, Daniel BARRICKLOW, from Pennsylvania in 1815.  Our subject grew up on his father's farm in Union Township, and obtained the rudiments of an education in the common schools.  He began business operations for himself about 1857, inheriting a small portion from his father's estate.  He first purchased a farm valued at about $2,000, and by his able management of business affairs he has increased his realty in this count to 265 acres, besides owning some valuable town property in Rising Sun, and some Western land,  For twenty years Mr. BARRICKLOW has done quite an extensive business in dealing in stock and also in real estate and securities, being generally successful in his business enterprises.  He served for some time as trustee of Union Township, and was three years commissioner of the county.  Mr. BARRICKLOW was first married to Sarah A. PATE, daughter of William T. PATE, and they had five children:  Rebecca, wife of Stephen HASTINGS: Mary J.,  wife of David HANNA ; William T., who married Agnes FISHER; George g., who married Laura TURNER, and Anna M., wife of Lawrence TURNER.  Mrs. BARRICKLOW departed this life in 18--, and Mr. BARRICKLOW has since been united in marriage to Lizzie PATE, a native of the county and a most excellent lady.  Mr. BARRICKLOW ranks among the most thrifty business men of Ohio County.

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James S. BARNS, retired minister, Rising Sun, was born in Marion County, W. Va;., May 6, 1812.  His parents were William and Jane (GRAHAM) BARNS, natives of Maryland and West Virginia, respectively, and of English, Welsh and Irish extraction.  They were married in Marion County, W. Va., where they remained until about 1817, at which time they moved to Madison County, Ohio, and from thence, in the following year, to Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1830 to Brown County Ohio, where he died in 1833, at the age of fifty-five years.  His wife moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840, and there died in 1843 at the age of fifty-five years.   He was a physician by profession, and a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Their  family consisted of Thomas F., John W., Rebecca A., Phebe S., Frances S., William A., Rachel S., Thornton S., Reason M., and James S., our subject, the third member of the family.  He was educated in the district schools of the vicinity where he was raised, and in them acquired quite a thorough education.  But after reaching the years of maturity, he turned his attention to milling, farming and trading.  He was united in marriage, in Clermont County, Ohio, September 11, 1838 to  Miss Lydia A., daughter of Elijah and Nancy (CHAMPION) APPLEGATE.  She was born in  Clermont County, Ohio, August 3, 1819.  After Mr. BARNS' marriage, he settled in Brown County, Ohio, where he engaged in milling, and in 1841 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the grocery trade.  In 1845 he removed to Switzerland County, Ind., and purchased a farm and engaged in farming, and shortly afterward was licensed to preach, as a local minister, in that county, and in 1849 was admitted in the Indiana Conference as a traveling minister, a calling pursued till 1862, in this State, and was then sent to southern Illinois, and in 1875 was transferred back to the Southeastern Indiana Conference, and then settled at Moore's Hill, Ind., where he resided until the spring of 1885, at which time he removed to Rising Sun, where he at present resides.  Mr. and Mrs. BARNS have had born to them five children, viz.: Carroll C., Maria B., Olive E., Florence A. and Emma M.; of whom the latter two only are living.

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Abijah BENNETT, of Rising Sun, a native of Fairfield County, Conn., died in the place of his adoption February 7, 1846, aged seventy eight years.  Mr. BENNETT settled in Rising Sun in 1817, by the citizens of which place he was at several different times entrusted with important civil stations, which he performed to their satisfaction.  He was universally esteemed by all who knew him.

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Thomas A. BENNETT, of Rising Sun, and sheriff of Ohio County and a native of Ohio, was born in 1856.  He is a son of John W. and Mary E. (STANLEY) BENNETT, who were natives of Virginia.  His parents were married in the latter State, moved to Ohio and later to Ohio County, where his father died in 1864 and where his mother is still living. There are four children in the family:  James W., Thomas A., Laura and William E.  The subject of this sketch, Thomas A., grew to maturity in Ohio County, and was educated in the public schools of Rising Sun. After abandoning his educational pursuits, and for a time before, he was employed by Martin & Sullivan in the Rising Sun Tanyard, in all about three years.  He next engaged with. R. H. Gould, proprietor of the Gould Livery and Feed Stable, Rising Sun, in whose employ he remained about six years.  In November, 1884, he was elected to the office of sheriff of Ohio County, and since that time to the present his official duties have claimed his entire attention, and in their discharge he has played a very creditable part.  In May of 1885, Mr. BENNETT forsook the barren paths of celibacy, and on the 3d of that month was joined in marriage to Miss Cora GOODNER, of Rising Sun.

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Simon BEYMER, president of the National Bank of Rising Sun, Ind., is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, where he was born in 1834.  His parents, Henry and Sarah (CLARK) BEYMER, were natives of Pennsylvania.  They moved to New Albany, Ind., from Wheeling, Va., about 1850, and from there S. BEYMER, the subject of this sketch, came to Vevay in 1853, having spent two years previous as clerk of a steamboat plying on the Wabash River.  He began clerking in a store at Vevay when about twenty years of age, and soon after established himself in business by buying out his employer, having as a partner in the transaction Mr. L. BLEDSOE, with whom he continued in business in general merchandising at Florence, Ind., for twenty-eight years.  During the late war the firm did considerable business in flat boating produce, and of late Mr. BYEMER has given some attention to the hay and grain trade.  In 1872 he took stock in the National Bank of Rising Sun, which he still has invested, and since January, 1885, has officiated as president of that institution.  Mr. BEYMER was married, March 4, 1857, to Caroline HARRIS, daughter of Jacob R. HARRIS, an old and esteemed resident of Switzerland County. They have one child. Lettie, R., wife of A.P. TWINEHAM, of Princeton, Gibson Co., Ind., an attorney at law and member of the State Legislature from that county.  Mr. BEYMER is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a man of excellent character as a citizen.  In 1884 he was a prominent candidate for representative to the State Legislature, but was defeated by a small majority.

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James Billingsley, of Ohio County, died August 30, 1873.  He was born at what was designated as Old Redstone Fort ( now Brownsville), Penn., in the spring of 1776, while the parents were on their journey from Virginia to the Northwest Territory.  After a voyage of two weeks the family landed in Cincinnati, Ohio, and located on the site of the present town of Reading, where they cleared up a farm and tilled it, operating for a period of seven years, in connection with farming, a saw-mill.  In 1803, the family removed to what was then Dearborn County, and our subject since that period, until death resided in the counties of Dearborn and Ohio.

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George E. BRADFORD, baker and confectioner, Rising Sun, was born in Switzerland County, Ind., in 1853.  His parents were Jesse and Harriet (POCOCK) BRADFORD. His father was a farmer and in the spring of 1865 moved to Rising Sun, where he died two years later.  His mother departed this life in 1858.  Mr. BRADFORD was  brought up on the farm and was there engaged till about seventeen years of age, receiving his education chiefly in the public schools of Rising SUn.  He spent a few years in nomadic pursuits, and in February, 1884, purchased the confectionery establishment of S. W. Lostutter, which he has since conducted carrying a nice stock of goods and doing a good business.  Mr. BRADFORD married Miss L. A. HEMPHILL, daughter of William HEMPHILL, in 1878, and they have one child -- Jessie.

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William H. BUNGER, Randolph Township, one of the thrifty farmers of Ohio County, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1832.  He remained in his native country till eighteen years of age, and was there educated.  In 1849 he immigrated to America, leaving his parents, Frederick and Catharine BUNGER, behind.  He landed at New Orleans, and from that point came direct to Rising Sun in the same year.  He afterward spent one year in Illinois, and then returned to this county, where he has since resided.  He married, in 1855, Flora STEGEMILLER, daughter of  Frederick STEGEMILLER, and native of Hanover, Germany, and they have six children:  John W., George H., Frederick, William, Wesley and Flora A.   After his marriage Mr. BUNGER rented land till 1861, when he purchased a farm of sixty eight acres, on which he resided thirteen years, increasing it by purchase to ninety acres, which he still owns.  In 1874 he moved to his present farm of 197 acres, adding forty seven acres by a later purchase.  He has confined his attention exclusively to farming and stock raising except while engaged in constructing two miles of turnpike.  By industrious effort and good management, assisted by an exemplary wife and a group  of sober, reliable children, Mr. BUNGER has gained a handsome competency, and is still prospering.  The family is associated with the Baptist Church.

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