Linton Township
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CULBERTSON BOYLL, farmer, Pimento, is the son of Henry and Sarah (PARK) BOYLL, of Kentucky, and was born in that state February 10, 1807, his father being a native of Virginia. He came to Vigo county in 1839 and located in Linton township, settling in the green woods, at which time there was game in abundance. On coming to this part of the county he entered eighty acres, and by thrift, economy, and energetic hard work, has now a splendid farm of 240 acres, well improved, fenced, and in good cultivation. In 1838 he married, in Kentucky, Miss Nancy HEDGES, a native of that state, and they have a family of thirteen children, six boys and seven girls. He got his education at the subscription school, and from his youth upward has been a farmer.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 439
DAVID M. BOYLL, farmer, Pimento, is the son of Culbertson and Nancy (HEDGES) BOYLL, pioneers of Vigo county, and is a native of the county, having been born here in Linton township in 1843. He has been engaged in farming all his life with the exception of the time he was in the army. In 1864 he enlisted in the 43rd reg. Ind. Vol., and served with it until the close of the war, and was wounded in the fight at Mark's Mill, in which the regiment was engaged. Mr. BOYLL received his education at the district school, is yet unmarried, and resides with his parents on the homestead in Linton township.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 439
JOHN C. FOXWORTHY, retired farmer, Pimento, is the oldest man now living in the township, and is one of the oldest and best known settlers in the county. He was born in Virginia in 1797, his parents being natives of that state, his mother, Louisa (BREDWELL) FOXWORTHY, being the daughter of one of the oldest settlers there, and her father was one of the freeholders of Virginia. September 28, 1828, he married Mary PIERSON, daughter of Moses PIERSON, the first settler of Pierson township, and who was for many years a Baptist minister of the Union church. She was born September 1801, and is the only child of Moses PIERSON now living. They have had a family of three children, not one of whom is now living, the only descendant they have being a grandson. The names of their children were Louisa M., born July 22, 1825; Coleman W., born June 2, 1827, and Mary E., born August 28, 1828. Mary E., died September 29, 1829; Coleman W., June 3, 1856, and Louisa M., January 27, 1869. Mr. FOXWORTHY came to Vigo county in the fall of 1828, and settled in Linton township and engaged in farming principally, working occasionally at the cooper trade, which he learned in his youth. He has now sold out all his land except three and a half lots in the village of Pimento, and is enjoying a rest during his declining days, which he has well earned, all he has made being the result of hard work and constant industry. He was the first trustee of Linton township, is a true-blue democrat and is well known throughout the county. In religion he is a Universalist, while Mrs. FOXWORTHY belongs to the old Baptist church.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 438
HIRAM FRAKES, farmer, Prairie Creek, was born in Vigo county, September 8, 1830, and is the son of John and Nancy (PARKER) FRAKES, who were among the earliest settlers of the county. At the age of thirteen he accompanied his parents to Porter county, this state, where his father carried on a business in pottery manufacture. Up to 1857 he worked altogether at his father's business in Porter county, with the exception of a short time, when he returned to Vigo county and got married, returning again to Porter county. Since coming back to this township, twenty-three years ago, he has engaged entirely in farming, and by close attention to business, good tact and management, he has now a beautiful farm of 108 acres, well improved and in good cultivation. His father died in Porter county in 1860 [I have father's date of death as 1878. I think Hiram may have lived in that part of Prairie Creek that was given over to Linton Twp. - see history of Linton Twp.].
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 440
THEODORE HALBERSTADT, boarding-house keeper, Pimento, is a native of Franklin county, Indiana, born August 30, 1835. He remained in that county until 1854, when he moved to Sullivan county, this state, accompanied by his parents, Thomas and Leahnah (KENTLEY) HALBERSTADT, who had a family of fifteen children, fourteen of whom lived to be men and women. His father died in 1857 and his mother in 1869. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. K, 7th reg. Ind. Vols., and was discharged in 1862, he having been severely wounded at the battle of Greenbrier Mountain, West Virginia, in which his regiment was engaged, and for which he now draws a pension from the government. During his youth and until 1877 he had been engaged in farming. In that year he came to Pimento and bought a house and lot, and now runs a boarding house, in which by close attention to business he is building up a good connection. In Paris, Illinois, he married Miss Nancy THAYER, of West Virginia, August 13, 1863, whose brother, Eli THAYER, died while in the army, at New Madrid, March 2, 1862, he being at that time a member of Co. A, 7th Ill. Cav.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 442
W.R. HAMPTON, farmer and general merchant, Pimento, is a native of Virginia, born in 1831, and came to this county, locating in Linton township, twenty-five years ago, that is, in 1856. In 1864 he married Miss Sarah E. PIERSON, daughter of Taylor PIERSON, one of the pioneers of Pierson township, and they have a family of six children, three boys and three girls. He is a prominent and popular man in the township and well known throughout the county, having served two terms of township trustee. On coming to this county he engaged in farming, and runs a general country store. He is a leading member of the A.F. and A.M., was the second secretary of the Pimento Lodge and has been a member of it for eighteen years. He owns forty acres of land in Pierson township, also three lots in Pimento, and is a democrat in politics.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 441
N.B. KENNETT, merchant, Pimento, is a native of Spencer county, Kentucky, having been born there October 14, 1839, and is the son of Joseph H. and Rhoda (ST. CLAIR) KENNETT. He came to Vigo county March 16, 1851, and engaged in farming until 1865, at which time he commenced business in Pimento as a general merchant, in which business he has continued since and has built up a splendid trade, giving constant employment to two clerks and carrying a stock amounting to 85,000. He is also postmaster. On March 1, 1860, he married Matilda T. MOORE, and they have a family of six children living and one dead. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and is candidate before the democratic convention for county treasurer.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - pp. 440-441
JAMES P. LEINBERGER, dealer in general merchandise, Pimento, owns the establishment in the handsome store under the Odd-Fellows' hall, and it is filled with a handsome and well assorted stock of dry goods, groceries and general line of goods suitable for a general country store. Mr. LEINBERGER, is a native of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Robert and Sarah (BAYNE) LEINBERGER. On coming west he located first in Putnam county, this state, leaving there for Terre Haute in 1871. He received his early education at the district school, and has been engaged at clerking for fourteen years, and April 22, 1880, he began business in this town on his own account, the name of the firm being Leinberger & Co. The store-room is 60x24 feet, handsomely fitted up in every particular, and with Mr. LEINBERGER's business experience, tact, and good management, we predict for him a very successful career. In 1878 he married Miss Sarah A. ST. JOHN, a native of this county. Mr. LEINBERGER has been engaged in teaching during the last five years. He is in politics a republican. Is a member of Lodge No. 51, I.O.O.F., also a member of the A.F. and A.M., Lodge No. 86, and of the A.O.U.W., Lodge No. 27.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - pp. 441-442
W.C. MOORE, farmer, Pimento, was born in Kentucky June 22, 1827, and in 1853 he came to this county and entered eighty acres of canal land. He then went west for a year and ran a stage on the plains. During his early life he was over a good deal of Missouri, Mexico and California, finally settling back to Vigo county in 1854, and has been engaged in farming in this county ever since. Mr. MOORE has a beautiful farm of 165 acres in a good state of cultivation, with handsome residence and good farm buildings, in fact, one of the best fixed up farms in this part of the county. In 1855 he married Miss SCOTT and they have a family of five children, four boys and one girl: Milton F., Melvin J., Willis T., Marshall H. and Lucretia Emily. His eldest son is engaged as clerk with Mr. N.B. KENNETT, at Pimento. Mr. MOORE has acquired all of his property by his own industry and close attention to business. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church as are also all his family. In politics he is a democrat.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 441
BLUFORD STEELE, farmer, Pimento, one of the most prominent men in the township, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Bullet county, that state, December 22, 1816. During his youth he worked on the farm, taught school and worked at the carpenter's trade, and came to this county in the fall of 1842. On March 4, 1842, he married Miss HAMPTON, and she dying March 25, 1847, he married his second wife, Miss Amanda JEFFEREYS, and has a family of nine children, seven of whom are alive. Mrs. STEELE died May 3, 1880. In 1850 he was elected justice of the peace, and served until 1864, when he volunteered and joined the 85th Ind. reg., serving with it until the close of the war. On his return he was again elected justice, and still holds that office. He owns eighty acres of well improved land, and is a strong member of the democratic party.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - pp. 439-340
JOSEPH THOMPSON, farmer and sawyer, Ascension, Sullivan county, is the son of Joseph and Nancy (YEAGER) THOMPSON, and was born in Sullivan county in 1847. He got his education at the common country school, and from his youth upward has engaged in farming. His parents are natives of Vigo county, but moved to Sullivan county, where they now reside. In February, 1875, he married, in Sullivan county, Miss Susan Elizabeth GASKEN, who is a native of that county, and has one child living, Clennie, aged two years. Two years ago, in 1878, Mr. THOMPSON came to Vigo county, and set up a saw-mill, where he is at present located, with a capacity of 4,000 feet per day. The mill is driven by a handsome engine of twenty horse-power, and is kept in constant operation. Mr. THOMPSON, by his own industry and hard work, has amassed his present property, and by his energy and integrity is building up a first class business. He has about $1,500 invested in his machinery. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and owns eighty acres of land.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 440
JOHN UNDERWOOD, farmer, Pimento, was born in Richmond county, North Carolina, in November 1803, and when about twenty-three years old moved to Mississippi and there resided nine years. During his long life he has engaged entirely in farming; in fact, he has been a plow-boy since 1812. April 30, 1841, he moved to Vigo county, locating in Linton township, where he has lived since. At the close of the war he returned to North Carolina on a visit, and brought his aged mother back to Indiana with him. In December, 1826, he married, in North Carolina, Miss Louisa KENNIHORN, who is a native of Virginia, and has had a family of eleven children, only one of whom is now alive, Richard, who was born in this township, October 25, 1844. The youngest daughter died March 30, 1880. He owns over 100 acres of land, and has given a good deal of real estate away to his children, and has obtained all his property by his own hard work and energy. He is a prominent member of the Honey Creek Old Baptist church, and has been connected with that congregation for many years. In politics he is strongly republican.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 439
A.H. WEEKS, farmer and stock dealer, Pimento, is the son of Lewis J. WEEKS and Susanna (HAMPTON) WEEKS, and was born and raised in Londoun county, Virginia. Of his father's family three were born in Virginia, six in Kentucky and three in Vigo county. His father and mother settled in Vigo county October 8, 1832, at which time the country was very thinly settled. Mr. WEEKS was born May 2, 1840, and is the only boy of the family now living. May 2, 1860, he married Sarah Ellen FRENCH, who is a native of Virginia. Until ten years ago he has been engaged in farming; during the last ten years he has engaged largely in shipping stock and has been very successful in that business. He owns sixty-three acres of land, well improved, close to the village of Pimento, and is a leading member of the I.O.O.F. His father died some time ago but his mother is still alive and is now in her eighty-fifth year.
HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Linton Twp. - p. 438
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