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1880 · Chapman's remaining personal sketches of the township, in register form
Chapman's canvass left no substantial householder unsketched; the rest of his roll is printed here at register strength so that no name he carried is dropped. John Anderson (born in Sweden 26 September 1832, son of Andrew Johnson) came to America in 1869 penniless and by 1880 held 255 acres on Section 25 and a supervisor's seat; Lutheran; married Kate Abrison in 1853, as printed. Theodore L. Borden (born 22 September 1822 in New York) kept dry-goods and grocery in New Carlisle for ten years from the age of twenty-four, married Eliza Whitlock in 1850, and held 700 acres; the lodge met first over his store, and he was its first secretary. F. Brown (born in Indiana 7 January 1819, son of William and Eva (Kingery) Brown) taught five years, merchandised and milled twenty years in Franklin County, and in 1876 started the mill in New Carlisle, three run of stone; a Methodist steward and class-leader. James Catterlin (born 9 March 1805) came from Ohio to Galena Township, La Porte County, in 1835 and was living in New Carlisle by 1880; his father Joseph Catterlin had been a Revolutionary soldier, seven years under Washington, and died in 1823 — the township's Revolutionary tie by descent, printed at that exact strength. James Davis (born 1802 in Butler County, Ohio; died 1873) homesteaded Section 8; his widow Jane (born 1807), who had ridden horseback from Florida to Ohio at fifteen, held the homestead and 184 acres in 1880; their son Samuel spent twenty years a telegraph operator and was by then a photographer in Michigan. James N. Davison (born 30 April 1818 at Otis, Massachusetts) came with little and held 160 acres on Section 15 and a supervisor's seat; his son L. O. Davison (born in Tennessee 8 December 1844) came to the township in 1851 and farmed 80 acres; a Dunkard. R. D. Egbert (born in the county 1852), son of the pioneers Asher and Elizabeth (Dunn) Egbert, farmed 180 acres, post office Terre Coupee. Zachariah Emrich (born in Ohio 4 October 1846), of the Friends, "charitable" in the sketch's one-word character. Thomas B. Fawcett (born 1834) settled Section 31 in 1856, went to Colorado in 1860, Nevada in 1875 and California in 1860, as the dates print; the association rider "T. B. Fawcette" of the crime file is presumably this man under a variant spelling. Jacob Hooton (born in Indiana 3 March 1830), brought to the township at five and never out of it a week since, held 370 acres and a trustee's seat; both his grandfathers, his sketch notes, were in the Revolutionary War — a second descent tie, at sketch strength. Henry Hostetler (born in Canada 1841) farmed from almost nothing to 156 acres; Dunkard. Rosa Linda (Ferguson) Wilson, afterward Howland (born 3 December 1820 in Huron County, Ohio), widowed in 1860 from Benjamin Wilson — a pioneer of about 1832 who died holding 480 acres — raised four girls, two hers and two her second husband's, on a Section 8 farm by what Chapman calls her "good business qualifications," a rare woman's economic portrait in the chapter. Andrew Kinney (born 9 March 1824 in Greene County, Ohio) came with his parents in 1833; it is a Mr. Kinney whose hog-island recollection Chapman prints elsewhere in the chapter. John S. Massey (born in Indiana 1843) raised fifteen acres of wheat in 1879 that yielded fifty bushels the acre. James McCollum (born 17 November 1806 in New York), tailor for twenty years, then grocer at Terre Coupee from 1840, was that village's postmaster for ten years and a Justice of the Peace. Perry McDonald (born 1841 in New York), son of the pioneer Michael McDonald, killed in the war in 1864 — the father's course stands in the war file. Isaac Newton Miller (born 3 November 1835 in German Township), Wabash College man, owner of the township's best peach orchard and president of the Garfield and Arthur club in New Carlisle, was brother to "Maj.-Gen. Miller, of California," and son of William Miller, who started German Township's "Miller Settlement" in 1830 and sat two terms in the state Legislature. Jens Morton (born in Denmark 1836), blacksmith, completed his trade at La Porte and came to the county in 1875 by way of three years in Colorado. H. M. Nickerson (born 1833 in Warren County, Ohio) was supervisor six years and a trustee. Joseph Proud (born 19 April 1808 in Ohio) moved to the vicinity in 1835; his son Hiram Proud (born 7 November 1831) was a school director. David Smith (born 1821 in Ohio), tanner of Section 8, raised a fortune from nothing to 315 acres; Dunkard. Henry Smith (born in the county 1850) held 226 acres; his pioneer father Jonathan had held 800. Job Smith (born in New Jersey 1813) "never attended school a day in his life, but can read," came to Terre Coupee Prairie in the early 1830s, began housekeeping on $12 of furniture and a one-legged bedstead built into the corner of the cabin, and held 255 acres in 1880. James Swank (born in Ohio 1844; died 1880, the year of the canvass) farmed Section 15. K. C. Taylor (born 9 December 1832 in Champaign County, Ohio) opened a New Carlisle store in November 1864 of groceries, provisions, flour, salt, queensware, glassware, stoneware, woodenware, notions, confectioneries, school books and stationery — and held the office of Town Treasurer for fourteen years, the longest town officeholding the nineteenth-century record gives. W. Terrill (born 11 April 1844 on Section 30, where he still lived), son of Nathaniel B. and Sarah Ann (Garrett) Terrill, farmed 223 acres. Eli Wade (born 12 October 1830 in Ohio) attended school not twenty days in his life, came to the county in 1859, held 180 acres, and rode for the Anti-Horse-Thief Association. D. G. Warren (born in Ohio 3 November 1833), Freemason, farmed Section 22 after five or six years in Iowa. Asher White (born 7 December 1814 in New Jersey) came in 1830 at sixteen, was taught chiefly by his mother — six weeks of school in his life — married three times (Barbara Ketring; Jemima Druliner; Adaline Huntington), sat several terms as trustee, and held 300 acres here and 320 near Kankakee; his son by Jemima kept the hotel in New Carlisle. David White (born 17 March 1812 in Monmouth County, New Jersey), Asher's brother, drove stage five years in Ohio and settled in the township about 1838. Granville Woolman, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Allen) Woolman, came in 1834 and made sheep his specialty, clipping an average of 500 a year; his reminiscence of the Bourissa cabin is the land file's oldest eyewitness text. The township's soldiers of the sketches — Bryant, Campbell, McKinsey, Wenger and John D. White — stand in the war leg's file, and its officeholders of 1880 in the government leg's.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter, personal sketches, pp. 771–787, each name read first-hand.
- DAR cemetery inscriptions, Hamilton Cemetery (Wilson/Howland, Hubbard and family stones).