Biographies of 149
early-day residents of Winchester and White River Township in Randolph
County, IN, yield both genealogical and historical information in
this booklet, comprised primarily of excerpts from the rare 1895
book: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph
Counties, Ind. The original book was published by A.W. Bowen
and Co., Chicago, in 1894.
This spiral bound
booklet is 8 1/2 x 11" and is printed on 60# paper. A vinyl
sheet protects the front cover. This booklet is only 74 pages long,
but it is equal to 148 pages from the original book.
This
booklet is a goldmine of information for genealogy seekers, usually
giving the names of parents, spouse, in-laws, children, siblings,
etc., as well as military service, politics, residence and occupation.
The bios include:
Ira
Adamson, Henry T. Addington, Charles S. Albright, Thomas J. Ashton;
John Baird, Jesse J. Bates, Rev. Elkanah Beard, A.C. Beeson, Richard
Bosworth, MD., George W. Bousman, Lewis S. Bowser, Strother Bromfield,
General Thomas M. Browne, George W. Browne, Benjamin Franklin
Bundy, Rev. Nathan Thomas Butts;
William
W. Canada, Silas Abiathar Canada, Jesse Canaday, Albert Canfield,
John D. Carder, Capt. George U. Carter, John J. Chaney, Dr. John
T. Chenoweth, John Wesley Clayton, Stephen Clevenger, Seth D.
Coats, Henry S. Coble, Gen. Silas Colgrove, John W. Cottom, George
Con, Rev. William M. Cox, Andrew J. Cranor;
Daniel
Davis, James E. Davis, John W. Denney, William B. Denton, John W.
Diggs, Charles C. Diggs, Edward F. Diggs, William C. Diggs, William
S. Diggs;
Lew
G. Ellingham, Capt. Edmund Engle, James S. Engle;
James
N. Fidler, James M. Fletcher, Samuel D. Fox, David Fudge;
Charles
Fremont Gray, Alfred Giberson, George Washington Gillum, John
D. Goodrich, James P. Goodrich, Percy E. Goodrich, William S.
Green, Charles Gutheil;
Amos
Hall, William Hawkins, Christopher Columbus Hawkins, William L.
Hawkins, Eli Haworth, Benjamin Hawthorne, George W. Helms, Thomas
A. Helms, Allen B. Hiatt, Edwin J. Hiatt, Enos R. Hiatt, Alpheus
F. Hickman, Benjamin F. Hall Jr., Henry W. Hill, J.E. Hinshaw,
D.E. Hoffman, John Howard, Albert F. Huddleston, MD, Union Basil
Hunt, Lieutenant Obed W. Huston;
John
Wesley Jarnagin, Edwin S. Jaqua;
Henry
P. Kizer, John W. Knight;
Anderson Johnson Lasley, Peter Lasley, Andrew
Jackson Lasley, Daniel Lesley;
Harvey E. McNees, John W. Macy, John Edgar Markle, Captain Albert
O. Marsh, Benjamin F. Marsh, Elisha B. Martin, John K. Martin,
Conrad Meyer, George W. Monks, Leander J. Monks, Alfred Thorp
Moorman, Charles W. Moorman, Luther L. Moorman, Thomas F. Moorman,
James Moorman, John Henry McGuire;
Col.
Henry H. Neff, Capt. James Lawrence Neff, John W. Newton, Alonzo
L. Nichols;
John Pegg, John A. Pegg, Samuel A. Pierce, Francis Marion Preston,
Dr. Joseph J. Pretlow, Nathan Puckett, Hiram Puckett, Luther G.
Puckett, William Y. Puckett, Nathaniel Puckett, Reverdy Puckett,
Tyre Taylor Puckett;
Dr.
Sylvania Remmel, Alfred Rice, Thomas Elwood Robinson, William
Robinson, Matthew Harlan Rubey;
Andrew
Jackson Smith, Andrew J. Stakebake, A.S. Stanley, Gen. Asahel
Stone;
Joseph
W. Thompson, Richmond Thornburg;
George
W. Veal, Frank E. Vestal;
Edwin
I. Wall, Nehemiah H. Ward, George H. Ward, Thomas L. Ward, Enos
L. Watson, James E. Watson, Isaiah P. Watts, Moorman Way, William
Randolph Way, Prof. Samuel Williams, Abraham J. Winter, C.W. Woolverton,
Edward G. Woolverton, John R. Wright, and Joseph Watts.
A brief excerpt from a WPA guide
gives some notes on the area as it was about 1939.
Wouldn't this make a unique
gift?
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