History of Richardson Co Nebraska

Stephen Conlee Barlow, an honored veteran of the Civl War, one of the real "old timers" of Richardson county, one of the founders of the village of Dawson and for years actively identified with the affairs of the village, one of the leading merchants of the place and in other ways interested in the business life of the community, now living comfortable retired in that village, is a native of Hoosier, a fact of which he has never ceased to be proud, but has been a resident of this county since the days of the close of the Civil War and therefore seen this region grow from its original wilderness state to its present flourishing conditions as one of the richest agricultural communites in the great state of Nebraska. He has born on a farm in Shelby county, not far southeast of Indianapolis, the capital of the state of Indiana, January 15, 1843, son of Lewis and Ruth (Bishop) Barlow, both natives of Kentucky, but pioneers of Indiana, both having moved up into the Hoosier state with their respective parents in the days of their youth, the Barlows and the Bishops both settling in Shelby county in pioneer days. There Lewis Barlow and Ruth Bishop grew up and were married, establishing their home on a farm in that county, and there continuing to make their residence until 1846, when they came west and settled in Polk county, Iowa at a point six miles east of the present center of the city of Des Moines, back in territorial days. There Lewis Barlow built a log cabin and started farming presently building a log addition to that house and in that addition to starting a country store. As others presently settled in that neighborhood, the store being the center of the social life of the settlement, he laid out on his place, with the store as the center, the townsite of Rising Sun, now a flourishing suburb of the city of Des Moines.

He had to haul his merchandise up the river trail from Keokuk, then being the nearest extensive trading point. He gave to his new town of Rising Sun a plot for cemetery purposes and after his death in 1858 his body was laid away in that burying ground. He and his wife were members of the Christian church and their children were reared in that faith.

Stephen C. Barlow was four years of age when his parents moved from Indiana to Iowa and he was sixteen when his father died. He remained there assisting in the affairs of the store and of the farm until the Civil War broke out and on July 4, 1861, enlisted for service as a member of Company E, Fourth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and at the end of that term of enlistment, three years, re-enlisted, at Woodville, Alabama, and served until his final discharge, at Davenport, Iowa, August 23, 1865, having served for four years and six weeks. The Fourth Iowa was raised at Council Bluffs and went to the from under Gen. Granville M. Dodge, coming down the river. It was on this trip that Mr. Barlow got his first view of the beautiful valley of Nemaha. When the boat carrying the soldiers reached Brownsville the poeple of that vicinity turned out en masse and gave them a rousing reception. Mr. Barlow's first test under fire was at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and his last battle was that fought at Bentonville, North Carolina, this latter battle having been fought after Lee's surrender. He participated in the seige and capture of Vicksburg and in the battles at Arkansas Post, Chickasaw Bayou, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and then on with Sherman's army in the Atlantic campaign, the battles at Resaca and Dallas, and at the fall of Atlanta was in the seventh and final charge and hand-to-hand fight which effected the capture of DeGrasse's great battery. When General McPherson was killed he was within two hundred yards of that spot. He then went on with the army on the march to the sea and thence north after the taking of Savannah; witnessed the burning of Columbia and fought Johnston's army all the way through the Carolinas, the struggle culminating in the final battle at Bentonville. Mr. Barlow then went on with his command to Washington, where his regiment was accorded the honor of leading the Grand Review down Pennsylvania avenue. From Washington the regiment was sent to Louisville and while at the latter place Mr. Barlow secured a thirty-days furlough which he spent in visiting his wife and her folks out here in Richardson county, he having married after he joined the army. Rejoining his regiment at Louisville he presently returned with that command to Iowa and was finally mustered out at Davenport.

Upon the completeion of his military service, Mr. Barlow returned to his home in Iowa and there remained a year, or until the fall of 1866 when he came to Nebraska, his wife's father, Ira Draper, and family being among the pioneers of Richardson county, W. F. Draper, his brother-in-law having entered the tract of land now covered by the village of Dawson. Mr. Barlow drove through, crossing the river at Brownsville, and settled on the Stratton farm on the site of the old county seat of Geneva, where he remained for a year, at the end of which time he took a homestead one mile north and a mile east of the present village of Dawson and there established his home and proceeded to develop his place. He helped his brother-in-law, W. F. Draper, lay off the townsite of Dawson and there started a wagon shop, which he operated in addition to his farming work and after the death of his wife in 1877 moved his family to the village. He built a new shop at the point now occupied by Cooper's store and operated the same four years, at the end of which time he sold it and then started a restaurant. Meantime he had married again and after operating the restaurant for a year he sold it and bought Chittenden's store, built and addition to the store building, enlarged the stock and continued in business there until the spring of 1883, when he sold to Allen Brothers and then erected a brick store building and started a hardware store, which four years later he traded for property in Humboldt. He then opened a general store and continued operating the same until his retirement fourteen years later. Not content to live retired, he presently started another store, but two years later sold that place and retired from business permanently, being now, to use his own expressive phrase, "the president of the 'Never Sweat Club'.

Mr. Barlow is an ardent schoolman and was one of the first members of the school board in the Dawson district, a position which he occupied continuously, the exception of one year, for thirty-three years. The first school in Dawson was started in a hall where the Stiles drug store is now located, and the school board presently erected a frame school building and after that structure was destroyed by fire, a brick building, Mr. Barlow having charge of the construction of the same. Mr. Barlow was present at the first Old Settler's meeting held in Richardson county and for twenty-five years thereafter held the post of director of ceremonies of those meetings having charge of the platform and program of the two days meetings which have been so memorable a feature of the social life of the "old timers" of this county all these years. When the local cemetery association was orgainized in 1890 he was elected president of the same and has ever since held that position. For seven years he was manager of the Dawson-Nemaha Telephone Company and in numerous other ways has done well his part in the development of the village which he helped to lay out back in the days of the beginning of things in that part of the county. For many years Mr. Barlow was an ardent Republican, but of late years has been inclined to be somewhat independent in his political affiliations. He was one of the organizers of the local post of Grand Army of the Republic at Dason, whose roster came to carry the names of forty-seven veterans of the Civil War, of whom but four remain, those besides Mr. Barlow being E. W. Buser, R.C. Allen and E.T. Levy. When Mr. Barlow came to this county, Indians still were numerous hereabout and wild game, including deer, was plentiful. He has seen these primitive conditions changed to the present well-orderd and highly-developed state of things that marks this region and there are few, if any, of the old timers of this section who have a more vivid recollection or more distinct impressions of the early days than he.

Stephen C. Barlow has been twice married. On March 4, 1864, he was united in marriage to Ruth Draper whose brother, W.F. Draper. as noted above, was the original owner of the townsite of Dawson, and to that union four children were born, namely: Eugene William, who was killed while herding ponies; Louis Henry, a successful ranchman at Gillette, Wyoming; Elvon Eldred, of San Diego, California, and Ada Celia, wife of the Rev. C.F. Heim, of Eddyville, this state. The mother of these children died in 1877 at Hays City, Kansas, while on her way to the mountains with her husband, seeking a change of climate for the benefit of her health, she then being thirty-one years of age, and on June 1, 1878, Mr. Barlow married Frances Marrium Ingram, who was born in Ross county, Ohio, January 9, 1862, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Jane (Wilson) Ingram, also natives of Ohio, who came to Nebraska in 1859 and settled near Dawson, where the latter died in 1872. Jeremiah Ingram remained in this county for years afterward and then went to Oklahoma, where he died in 1913. To this second union, ten children have been born, as follows: Thomas Conlee Barlow, a noted musician, now living in the state of Washington, who served as a soldier during the Spanish-American War, serving for three years in the regular army, went to the Philippines as a Red Cross nurse and has traveled all over the world; Mary Ethel, who married William Heim, a railroad telegraph operator, now living at Phoenix, Arizona; Charles Arthur, a traveling salesman of Seattle, Washington; Stephen Francis, a railroad train dispatcher, of Vancouver, Washington; Florence May, wife of Ora Barnwell, a telegraph operator in Arizona; Mrs. Leona Ruth Price, who lives on a farm near Hastings, this state; Elma, wife of Prof. Abraham Lawrence, Jr., principal of the high school at Brownsville, this state; Mrs. Evangeline Ord, of Sheridan, Wyoming; Ralph McKinley Barlow, in the United States naval service, and Esther Loverne, who is still in school. The Barlow's are members of the --Marked out-- and have ever been active in local good works, Mr. and Mrs. Barlow for many years having been helpful in promoting all agencies having to do with the advancement of the common welfare in thier home town and in the community at large. Mr. Barlow has been a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since the year 1877 and has ever taken a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.

History of the State of Nebraska

S.C. BARLOW, dealer in heavy and shelf hardware and agricultural implements, established in 1882.

Mr. Barlow was born in Polk County, Iowa, January 15, 1843. Was educated at the Des Moines High School. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Was at the battles of Vicksburg, Atlanta, and took part in the march to the sea, and the grand review in Washington; was mustered out in 1865 and returned to Iowa.

His father was engaged in mercantile business, and S.C. was employed in his store until the fall of 1866. He then settled in Richardson County, Neb., and engaged in farming. In 1877 he moved to Dawson and engaged in mercantile business. Selling out in 1882.

Mr. Barlow was married in Polk County, Iowa, April 15, 1866, to Miss Ruth Draper of Polk County. Mrs. Barlow died in Richardson County, leaving four children-- Eugene, Louis, Elvon, and Ada.

Mr. B. is a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 43, I. O. O. F., and of the G. A. R. of Humboldt.

History of the State of Nebraska

The town of Dawson is so called rather by common usage than by exact accordance with the law. At the time of the arrival of the graders of the Atchison and Nebraska Railway in 1871, the town was laid out by W. F. Draper on his farm adjoining the track. This town was named Noraville, and to this day it has never legally had any other name, though, as already mentioned, it is now known as Dawson. To explain this apparent discrepancy, we must go back to the time a number of years prior to the starting of Dawson. In 1868 Joshua Dawson built a flouring and feed mill on the North Fork of the Nemaha, opposite where the town now lies. Shortly after the building of this mill Mr. Dawson obtained a postal service, and his office was naturally known as Dawson's Mill. Shortly after the laying out of Noraville the post office was moved to that place, but the old name of Dawson's Mill was retained up to a short time ago. The first Postmaster was E.C. Dawson, who transacted the business of the office until it was removed to Noraville. It was then taken by Mr. William Till, who was followed by B.S. Chittenden. Mr. S. C. Barlow, who now holds the office, succeeded Mr. Chittenden. The Post Office has been successively in the Dawson mill, in William Till's store in the town, in Chittenden's store south of the railway track and near the depot, band finally in Barlow's store near the center of the town.

Stephen Conley Barlow, son of Lewis Barlow, Private    Co E 4th IA Infantry, organized August 08, 1861 at Council Bluffs Iowa  Mustered out July 24, 1865.  Pension application filed August 16, 1906, certificate no. 1126922   Resident Nebraska

Widow Frances Barlow's pension application no1182669 filed December 22, 1921, certificate no 920267, resident Nebraska

History of Polk Co, pg 920        Four Mile Township

SIMS, A. B.- Farmer, section 2, P.O. Rising Sun.
Was born in this county January 30, 1849, and has resided here since. He is the owner of 196 acres of land. He married Miss F., daughter of Thos. E. Barlow, of this county. She was born in Indiana.

DAR RECORD:

Mrs. Mary F. Barlow Sims   Born in Mt. Auburn    Wife of A.B. Sims

Descendant of Lewis Barlow  Daughter of Thomas E. Barlow -1829-1906-  and Louisa Bonner -1831-1904-, his wife married - 1850
Granddaughter of Henry Barlow -1785-1886-  and Mahala Kinslo - died 1849- his wife
Gr-granddaughter of Lewis Barlow and Judah Frances Smith, his wife
Lewis Barlow served as a private in the company of Capt Michael Boyer, Colonel James Woods' 12th Virginia Regiment, 1776 -79
He was born 1775 - died in Mt Auburn, Indiana

She had 14 children, 9 sons and 5 daughters. 5 sons deceased. Mrs. Ella Hurn, Seattle, Washington, Frank Barlow, Heppner, Oregon, Daniel Scott Barlow, Heppner, Oregon, Mrs. Egbert Young, Hoquiam, Washington, Catherine Love, Colby, Kansas, Ora B. Barlow, Portland, Oregon, Mrs. Mary Hurn, Hoquiam, Washington, Joel Barlow, Oregon City, Oregon and Mrs. Minnie Schunk, Oregon City, Oregon.

Jeremiah and Amanda are buried in Oregon City Cemetery.   Verfied by tombstone inscriptions and photos by Lillie Barlow

Ann Barlow 'King' Breckenridge Obituary     July 5th 1928

Mrs. Breckenridge Passes Away

Mrs. Charles H. Breckenridge, who has been in failing health the last few months, and who, was taken seriouly ill about a week before her death, was taken to the Grandview Hospital, passed away at 10:40 A.M., July 5 1928. She was 69 years, 3 months and 22 days old. Mrs Breckenridge whose maiden name was Barlow, was born in Rockport, Missouri, March 13, 1859. In 1876 she was united in marriage to Samuel King. To this union were born four children, all of whom are living, Aurthur King and Mrs. Chas. Forman of Mabton; Mrs. I.B. Noe of Portland, Oregon; and Mrs. William Forman of Polson, Montana.

Mrs. King lost her husband when her youngest child was two weeks of age. A few years later she married Chas. H. Breckenridge of Rockport, Missouri. To this union were born eight children, six of whom are living; Andrew Breckenridge of Granger, Wash; Archie and Allen of Mabton, Wash; Mrs. Lee Alsbury of Benton City, Wash; Mrs. John Alexander and Mrs. Milton Dodsworth, of Yakima Washington.

The Breckenridges came west in 1900 and settled on a homestead in the Glade country, where they lived a number of years. Mr. Breckenridge and a daughter, Jennie, passed away within a month of each other in 1912. Martha, a daughter, passed away in infancy, also preceded her mother to the beyond.

Mrs. Breckenridge had lived either in Mabton or vicinity for the last fifteen years and until recently had taken an active part in church. Fraternal and community activities for the upbuilding of the community. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Beside her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, she leaves to mourn her loss three sisters, Mrs. Emma Downer, of Tarkio, Mo., Mrs. Juda Sons of Nemaha, Nebr., and Mrs T. C. Matchis of Yelm, Wash., a number of other relatives and a host of friends.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Mabton on Saturday afternoon, July 7th at 2 0'clock. It was attended by a large gathering of relatives and friends. The Rev C.M. Carson, of the Methodist Episcopalian Church, conducted the services. Interment was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetary at Mabton.

An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties, with an outline of the Early History of the State of Washington
Interstate Publishing Co 1904

Charles H. Breckenridge is one of Yakima's esteemed and successful farmers, who makes his home in the well known Glade settlement, fourteen miles southwest of Mabton. He is a native of the Buckeye state, born in 1856, to the union of Andrew and Maliala (Berfield) Breckenridge was born in Canada and came to Ohio with his parents when a boy.

Having married one of its daughters, he removed in 1895 to Iowa, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in the spring of 1896. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army and served until the last disloyal gun was silenced. Mrs. Breckenridge is still living.

Until he reached man's estate, the subject of our sketch lived on his father's farm, securing, in the local schools, a fair education; then he bought a farm and cultivated it for three years. At the end of that time he sold out and engaged in railroad work. After four years experience in this line he went to Missouri and resumed farming, remaining there until 1897. During the next three years, he tilled a farm in Nebraska, but the year 1900 found him in Clarkston, Washington. The following spring he filed a homestead claim to his present ranch and since that time he has been engaged in farming, stock raising and locating homesteaders.

In 1884, while a resident of Missouri, Mr. Breckenridge married Mrs. Anna King, who was formerly the wife of Samuel King. She is the daughter of William and Mary (Sherfey) Barlow, natives of Indiana and Tennessee, respectively. Her father was a miller. In an early day he settled in Missouri, where he and his wife resided until death claimed them. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. King; Arthur S., Mrs. Belle Noe, Mrs. Dora Forman and Mrs. Mollie Forman, the last three of whom are living in Yakima County. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Breckenridge are as follows: Andrew, born March 19, 1885; Archie F., December 14, 1886; Allen J., August 13, 1890; Jennie, November 04, 1892; Jessie, October 15, 1894; Eula, October 10, 1897; and Fern, May 30, 1899, the first being born in Nebraska, the second in Kansas, the next three in Missouri and the two younger in Nebraska. Mr. Breckeridge is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen. He is an active and steadfast Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His quarter section of land is all under cultivation and is a substantial testimonial to the industry and capabilities of its owner. Mr. Breckenridge is highly respected by those who know him and is a man of excellent standing in the community.

Atchison County Missouri     Services Held for Mrs. Emma Downer     Tarkio Resident Died Sunday, July 14, at the Age of 82 Years

Mrs. Emmaline Downer of Tarkio, 82 years of age, died Sunday, July 14, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.L. Thompson of Tarkio.

Services were conducted by Dr. C.D. Haskell from the Christian church on Tuesday, and burial was made in Greenhill Cemetery, Rock Port.

Emmaline Jane Barlow, daughter of Mary Jane Sherfee and William Barlow, was born on a farm near Rock Port on September 21, 1863. She was the last of a family of ten children, all of whom preceded her in death.

Her entire childhood and young womanhood was spent in the Rock Port vicinity. She attended National school and the Rock Port seminary.

She resided for a brief period in Oakley, Kan., and also in Tacoma, Wash., but returned to Atchison county to spend the remainder of her life.

As a young woman she became affiliated with the Christian church at Linden, Mo., and later on joined the Tarkio Christian church, of which she was an active and faithful member at the time of her death.

She was first married to William Howard Thompson. Of this marriage were born four children, Ethel Mae, Ernest R., Mary Agnes, and a son who died in infancy. Ethel Mae and Ernest also preceded their mother in death.

After Mr. Thompson's death, she married a second time, to Asa Cummings Downer of Belpre, Ohio, and to this union, one daughter, Esther Lee, was born.

Mrs. Downer is survivied by her daughters, Miss Esther Lee Downer of Northampton, Mass., who arrived in Tarkio last Friday night, and Mrs. Charles L. Thompson of Tarkio; also two grandchildren, Mrs. Alfred R. Goehring of Wichita, Kan., and Miss Annette Thompson of Tarkio, all of whom were present for the services.

Mrs. Florence Hurst Olwin, who departed this life Tuesday, June the fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty seven, was born May the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one mile west of Hutsonville, on a farm, than a wilderness, entered by her father in eighteen hundred and thirty eight. She was one of thirteen children born to John R. and Nancy O. Hurst, and all of them, except one brother, W. B. Hurst, of Hutsonville, have preceded her in death.

Mrs. Olwin was reared and lived in Hutsonville until about the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, when she, with her family, moved to Paris, Illinois. Here she lived for about a year before removing to Robinson where she has lived since. She was married October fourth, eighteen sixty-six, to John Olwin. He preceded Mrs. Olwin, in death February the first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

Mrs. Olwin is survived by four sons and four daughters: Charlie, Fred, Bird, and Mrs. Nan Palmer of Robinson; Mrs. Georgia Swartz, of Danville, Illinois; Oce, of Dekalb, Illinois; Mrs. Clara Hodge, of Findlay, Ohio; and Mrs. Lois Spencer, of St. Paul, Minnesota; and by eleven grandchildren. One daughter, Lola, died in eigteen eighty-nine, at the age of twenty.

Mrs. Olwin was an aunt of Judge A. L. Lowe, of Robinson, although seemingly a sister. Mr. Lowe's mother, a sister of Mrs. Olwin, died when was but two years old. At this time he became a member of the Hurst family and, reared by the parents of Mrs. Olwin, where he came to think of her as a real sister. The only other immediate member of the family surviving is Mrs. Minnie E. Hurst, now of Evansville, Indiana.

About the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Mrs. Olwin united with the Christian church of Hutsonville. She was immersed by the Reverend James Morgan, who, in eighteen fifty-eight, reorganized the Hutsonville church and for many years continued as its pastor. The present Christian church of Hutsonville, today, is the outgrowth of that organization. This step of Mrs. Olwin's marked the beginning of a long and devoted Christian life; for throughout her life, wherever she was, she was loyal and devoted to her church. But it was in her love for home, husband, and children, that one discovered the outstanding qualities of Mrs. Olwin's life. She did not seek pleasures abroad, in the social life about her; rather, with zeal to serve those she loved and created for them a home, harmonious and happy, she gathered her friends and her children's friends about her own hospitable fire side, and here poured fourth upon them all the love and devotion of the true mother that she was.

Her suffering, if suffering she knew, she bore with patience and without complaint; and to the last, as long as she was able to give expression to her thoughts, she was found inquiring for the welfare of her Hutsonville folk and friends.

The funeral service was held at the home yesterday afternoon at three. Reverend James Welch, of Greensburg, Indiana, former pastor of the First Christian Church of Robinson, preached the sermon. Interment was in the New Cemetery of Robinson.

John Olwin Passes Away at His Home in Robinson

John Olwin passed away at his home in Robinson last Saturday morning about 11 0' clock.

John Olwin, son of David and Nancy Olwin, was born December 5, 1838 in Montgomery County, Ohio, and died February 1, 1919, aged 80 years, 1 month and 26 days. At twenty-one years of age he left the parental roof embarking on the rugged pathway of life as a farm hand, worked for small wages. At the age of 23 he enlisted in the Fourty-fourth Ohio Infantry and served in the Civil war for three years taking part in several of the battles among the largest was the charge of Greenville Tennessee. At the battle of Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee, he was taken prisoner, and placed in Libby prison where he remained about 6 months. At the close of the war he came to Hutsonville and engaged in the furniture business with Fred Earnest and remained in this business only about six months. In 1867 he joined partnership with J.R. Hurst and Co. continuing in this business for 16 years. He was married to Miss Rebecca F. Hurst October 6, 1866 and to them were born nine children-- Charles H., of Robinson; Lola M., who died in May, 1889; Georgia E. Swartz, Danville; Oceola, Omaha, Nebraska; Fred B., Birdie G., Robinson; Clara Hodge, Findly, Ohio; Nancey Palmer, Robinson; and Lois B. of St. Paul, Minnesota, who with the mother still survives.

About the year 1883 he disposed of his business interests here and removed to Robinson where he engaged in the mercantile business. In 1895 he erected an elevator in connection with business and operated them until his health would no longer permit him taking an active part. In December 1906, in conjunction with others, he organized the Farmers and Producers Bank at Robinson being elected vice president and director. Mr. Olwin made many friends here by his honesty, integrity and square dealing and who will sorrow greatly to learn of his death.

Funeral services were here, held at the home Monday afternoon conducted by Rev. W. T. Walker of Mattoon, former pastor of the First Christian church of Robinson. Interment was made in New Cemetery there.

"Ivan G. Barlow, teacher, Marshall. The subject of these lines, Ivan G. Barlow, is a son of the late J. Milton Barlow, M.D., who was for many years a resident of Crawford Co. His father was educated for a physician at the Rush Medical College of Chicago and began practice at Bell Air, in Jasper County. He afterward located at Redmond, in Edgar County, where he practiced for about fourteen years.

That he might have the better facility for educating his children, he removed his family to Westfield, Illinois, in 1874. From here he removed to Eaton, Crawford Co, where he followed his chosen profession until compelled by ill health to abandon practice which he did, retiring to his farm near Martinsville, Illinois, where he died October 12, 1880.

Susan R. 'Rubottom" Barlow, mother of I.G. Barlow, is a native of Indiana. She is a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Rubottom, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana.

Mrs. Barlow is still living in the old homestead near Martinsville. Subject was born in Jasper County, Illinois, February 23, 1858; educated principally at Westfield, where he was qualified for the position of teacher, which he has acceptably filled for the past eight years, principally in Clark County. He is now in his third year in reading law. He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace in Marshall, April 5, 1881, a position held by his granddfather in this place many years ago.

He was married in Marshall, December 06, 1879, (1880 according to Family Bible) to Miss Hattie Knowlton, daughter of Benjamin Knowlton, of Massachusetts. She was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in June, 1859."

Contributed by Norma Nielson