Index of published biographies from "History of Henderson county" 1882 H.H. Hill and company
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I will do look ups, and post here on these published biographies from 1882 History of Henderson County: Aiken, James M. Allen, James M. Allen , Joseph Anderson, alexander Anderson, James O. Anderson,William W Annegers, G. Henry Annegers, Jr., Herman G. Annegers, Sr.,Herman G. Arthur, Martha Atkins, John H. Bailey, John A. Bailey, William Stuart Bainter, Peter C. Barnes, J.E. Barnes, Jed Barnett, John Beal, Perry Beard, Dr. E. Beaty, Ely Beckett, Joseph Biggs, John Birdsall, Paul D. Black, Albert Black,Samuel Wilson Black,William Boden, William N. Bolton, William Bowen, John Boyd, John R. Brainard, Davis S. Bredsford, Harrison Britt, Zelota Brock, John W. Brokaw, Abram Brokaw, Josiah Brook, James William Brook, John A. Brooks, Benjamin F. Bruen, John N. Bryan, William P. Bryans, David Butler, James H. Butler, Jesse Campbell, John Campbell, John Carothers Jr., Andrew Carothers Sr., Andrew Carothers, Jacob Carothers Jr., John Caswell, Janes A. Chandler, George W. Chandler, John T. Chard, William J. Clark, Lemuel T. Clover, Cornelius Cochran, William Cooper, Ephraim Cooper, John Cooper, R. Correll, Richard Cortelyou, William H Cortelyou, R.V. Cowden, George Henry Cox, John G. Crenshaw, J.W. Cronch,W.A.M. Cummings, John Cunningham,James Curry,George Curts, John Davidson, Francis Marion Davis, AbnerDavis, Andrew J. Dean, James Henry Ditto,George W. Dixson, George H. Dixson, Joseph Drew, Charles E. Duncan, john C. Duke, James Duke, Lewis Durling, A. Eames, Thadeus Edmunds, Marion Edmunds, Oliver Edwards, Adoniram Edwards, Thomas R Evans, Hamilton Evans, John Evans Jr., John Fair, William Filler, Jacob Finch, William Findley,Mitchell M. Findley, William A. Flack, Thomas S. Foote, George M Forbes, John Ford, J.L. Fort, John B. Foster, John R. Foulkes, Richard Froehlich, G.F.W. Gaddis, Robert W. Garretson, P.S. Gearhart,David Genung,Joseph Gibb, James Gibb, Paul D. Gittings,Clarence Gittings, Benjamin B. Gittings, William K. Goempler, Peter Goodnight, John Gordon, Daniel M. Gordon, MilesGraham, Albert M. Graham, Andrew G. Graham,David Graham, Russell Graham, William B. Green, Charles W. Groom, Peter Haffner,Charles Hageman, James Hall, Eugene A. Halsey,James H. Hamill, adam B. Hamilton, B.F. Hammock, William H. Hand, Lewis H. Hanna, William Harris, Nancy Harter, Isaac F. Hartley, Joseph Hazelwood, James H. Herbert, J. N. Hite, John Hixson, Winfield S. Hodson, Robert Holmes, George W. Hopkins, William T. Howard, Thomas Andrew Hugenschultz, John Henry Hunter, Samuel Huston, Matthew Huston, Walter Huston, W. O. Hutchinson, Benjamin Hutchinson, James C. Jamison, George M. Jamison, James W. Jamison, John Jamison, John C. Jamison, William Jamison, Wilson B. Jennings, Jefferson H. Johnson, Aaron Johnson, J.M. Kelly ,Henry L. Kessel, John King, Jacob R. King, Joseph S. Knox,James E. Laird, John Laut, George D. Leinbach, Daniel Linell, Joseph S. Logan, John The Lomax Family Louden, William R. Lovitt Sr.,John W. Lovitt, O.P." Lovitt, William J. Maley, William M. Marsden, William H. Marshall, Alexander Marshall, James A. Marshall, Robert Marshall, Robert W. Marshall, William Marston, Nathaniel Martin, Judge Preston Martin, N.R. Martin, Robert J. Martin, William F. Mathers, Joseph Mathers, Robert Mathews, James Maxwell, Thomas J. Maygie, Joseph H. Maynard, Lewis P. McAllister, Harry F. McCartney, David w. McCurdy, George McDill, John McDill, Robert McDill, Samuel McDonald, Hugh McDougall, John H. McFarland, John McKee, John McKim, Frank McKim, Marion McKinley, Robert A. McMillan, Robert McMillan, William McMurry, Thomas McQuown, Arthur O. McQuown, Isaac McQuown, John R. Michener, Joseph M. Mickey, Robert Mickey, Samuel Milligan, Joseph H. Milliken,Wesley Mills,John Mills, William H. Montgomery, James Montgomery, John H. Morgan, George Morgan, Thomas Morris, William Murry, David B. Muskgrove, James Negley, Jacob S. Nelson, Alexander P. Nelson, George C. Nelson, J.C. Nevius, John S. Nevius, S.P. Nichols, Isaac Nichols, Peter Nichols, Thomas Odendahl,Frederick Painter, Charles T. Park, CephasPatterson, J.B. Paul, MAA. Paul, Melzay C. Pearson, John E. Peasley, James F. Peasley, John S. Pence, John A. Pence, Thomas F. Pendarvis, Lemuel A. Pendarvis, William G. Penny, W.H. Peterman, Jacob C. Peterson, James Pfanstiehl, A.A. Phelps, Nelson H. Phelps, Stephen SumnerPlummer, Samuel G. Pogue, Eleazer Pogue, John Pogue, William G. Pollock, James Putney Jr., Ira Randall, Roswell P. Rankin, David Rankin, James F. Rankin, Samuel S. Rankin, Thomas Retzer, Jacob Reynolds, Hugh A. Reynolds, Hugh R. Rezner, EliRice, John H. Rice, William C. Richey, R.W. Richey, T.G. Robinson, William Roderick, M.L. Rodman, Robert Rodman, William H. Rogers, W.A. Rose, Hirman Rowley, John Ruberts, R.W. Ruple, S.H. Russell, A. Sage, Gideon Salter, Hon. Paul D. Schell, Charles F.W. Schenck, CorneliusSchenck, William J. Schirmer, Herman Scholtz, JusticeSchmitt, John Shook, DykemanShook, George W. Short, AbnerSimonson, Garret Simpson,Jonathon Sloan, Adam" Sloan, James" Smith, Alexander M. Smith, Asa Smith, Eli W. Smith, Samuel H. Smith,Thomas C. Smith, William E. Spangler, Jacob Stanley, WyettSteele, Cyrus W. Stevens, John H. Stewart, James G. Stewart, Samuel M. Swanson, John Talliaferro, C.W. Tharp, William Thomas, Isaac Thompson, William P. Tolman, James CaryTrask, E.H. Van Arsdale, S.B. Van Doren, William J. Van Tuyl, W.E.B. Vogt, George H. Voorhees, Henry D. Voorhees, Jaques Wadleigh, Luke Wagy, Abraham Wagy, Lemuel Walker, William C. Wallace, William B. Walters, John White, James R. Whiteman, David A. Wiegand, William Wilkins, Samuel Williams, James M Wolff, Rueben S. Woodard, Alonzo Woods, Richard H. Woodside, Hugh G. Young, Jacob and H.V."
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William Hanna Bio. from 1882 history of Henderson county
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Hanna, Crawford
Her it is, its a long one. From "1882 History of Henderson County" pgs 120-123 William Hanna, says:" I was born June 19, 1827, in fayette county, Indiana. My mothers name prior to her marriage was Crawford. She had one brother and ten siters, ten of whom, including my mother, lived to be married, raiseing families amounting in the aggregate to eighty-seven children: forty-four boys, and forty-three girls. Each of the ten sisters was an honor and a blessing to the man who married her. My father showed his good sense by marrying a Crawford, although three of his brothers had married into the same family before he did. It was a trait of my father's family, when they had found a nest of good eggs to take them all.If there had been ten Hanna men, I have no doubtbut that all would of wedded Crawfords; true, the girls would have had something to say about it, too, but as my father and his brothers never asked for anything but what was right, they usually got it. Had this been the case, I have no doubt but that they would of succeeded, and the last one would have got just as good a wife as the first one. Mrs. Jeremiah Bake, my mothers youngest sister, who settled in Henderson County in 1836, will be remembered by all the old settlers as one of the best women who ever lived in the county. My father settled in Warren county in 1835, which then included Henderson County, near where Little York now is. Our family at that time consisted of father, mother, six children, and one hired man. We wintered the first winter in a log cabin 16 x 16 feet square, cooked ,ate, and slept all in the same room, and had plenty of space left to keep everybody who came to see us. My mother was noted for being a good cook, and having a faculty of making a stranger feel at home;people used to go out of their way to get to stay overnight with us; of course, we used short bedsteads. This reminds me of an incident, though a small matter itself, still it shows in a strong light the accommodating disposition of my father. We used the short bedsteads for some years after we had plenty o fhouse room. On one occasion, when there was a long, lank fellow, by the name of Robert Hutchison, whom the old settlers will remember as being about eight feet high, had come to see my sister; they called it sparking in those days. My father had showed him to bed, and as he did so , remarked:' Mr. Hutchison, I am sorry that we have'nt a bedstead about the house long enough to accommodate you, but I will shove a table up to the foot of the bed, and when you are tired of lying doubled up just run your legs out on the table and rest them.' Whether Mr. Hutchison took this provision for his comfort as kindley as my father meant it, I never knew,but I do know that he did not marry my sister; however, he did as well , perhaps, by marryng my cousin, Elizabeth Hanna. My father gave his children as good an education as the county afforded at that time. In the winter of 1835-6, the people of our neighborhood built a school-house of round logs, with greased paper for windows, instead of glass, hewed puncheons for seats, and a door hung with leather hinges. I commenced my education in that house, with a dirt floor under me, in 1835, and finished at pleasant Green in a frame school-house twelve years later, having learned about all the teachers of those days were capable of teaching in a district school at that time. In fact , the teachers had to study of nights and Sundas to keep ahead of the scholars. The worst of it all is, I have had to unlearn a great portion of what little I had learned at school. For instance, geography taught me there were twenty-seven states in the union, and that the 'great American desert' commenced at the Missouri river, and extended to the Rocky mountains. A glance at a map of to-day stamps the atlas that istudied as an unmitigated fraud. I drove an ox team across the plains to California in 1849; made a few thousand dollars at mining and keeping 'ranch' returning in 1851. "I married Miss Sarah Findlay, daughter of James Findlay, who settled in Warren county in 1832. We have two children living and one dead. Our son is known as J. Ross Hanna. I settled on a farm of my own in Henderson countyin 1851, and followed farming on what is known as Cedar farm until the fall of 1864, when , being somewhat disgusted with the kind of implements farmers had to work with, especially plows and cultivators, I resolved to go into the manufacturing business. In that year, Messrs. W. S. Weir, Dr. W. B. Boyd, and myself, formed a joint stock company for the purpose of manufacturing farm implements, witha capital stock of $25,000. At the end of fourteen years we found our capital had inceased to $1,000,000 after having paid dividends to the amount of $163,000. In order to do this we have had to make good goods and lots of them, and in as much as we warranted our goods to give perfect satisfaction or no sale, I flatter myself that wehave been doing some good, not only to ourselves, but to our fellow men. We have a shop capacity for about six hundred men, and still we have a demand for all we can make. I am now president of the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Company, and have been for some years. Since my connection with it we have gradually been paying off the indebtedness, and we are now, although about $19,000 in debt, increasing our capacity about fifty per cent, by yearly enlarging our buildings and putting up more kilns. We have learned, by seven or eight years' experience, how to make good goods. this gives us a demand for all we can make, and more too. There is no investment that a farmer can make which will bring a better return than to buy tiling and under drain his land. I am , and have been , president of the Monmouth National Bank for seven or eight years past. While I can compliment our patrons on the fact that we have lost less than $500 by them in all this time, I am proud to be able to say that we have not lost anything by us, and I trust they never will. I am now engaged in building a railroad from Peoria, Illinois, to Kiethsburg, on the Mississippi. We commenced this enterprise in 1875. I was elected president at our first meeting , which position I still hold. we commenced with an empty treasury, and have held our own pretty well ever since. I speak advisedly on this point, as I am treasurer as well as president. We now have twenty-five miles of road completed and are running two trains daily each way from Peoria to Farmington. We have most of the grading done on the entire, ties paid for, and the bridging completed for fifty miles, costing us so far about $450,000, and bonded no debt, except for $13,000. To every man who subscribes a dollar or more, we issue certificates entitling the holder to a credit of twenty-five per cent on each bill for freight, or in payment for one-thousand mile tickets, so that all subscribers will lose will be the interest on their subscription from the time they pay it until they can ride or ship it out. When this is done, who will own the road ?do you ask. I answer that the men who had the nerve to advance the necessary money, until such time and to such a point as will enable them to realize on their bonds. I have been twice the mayor of the city of Monmouth. In matters of religion, I believe that the grace of God will finally restore to happiness the whole family of mankind. I believe that holiness and happiness are inseparably connected, and thatthe only way to be happy is to be good. I have never connected myself with any church or religious society, neither with a secret organization of any kind. I was born a democrat, raised a democrat, and expect to die a democrat, if the old party does not die before I do. I would like to say a few words to those who are finding fault with railroad, banking, and manufacturing corporations, and middle men generally. I have been on both sides of the counter, and know of a truth how it is by experience, the best of teachers. I have plowed corn from early morn till dewy eve, row by row, three times in a row with an old rusty iron shovel, bought directly from the county blacksmith, which I had stocked myself, without the intervention of a middle-man, and fed the corn thus raised to hogs, and sold them in the metropolis of Henderson County for $1.50 per hundred, net . I have swung the cradle to cut our wheat, bound it with bloody fingers, threshed it out by driving horses over it, with an ox team hauled it to market to Chicago, 200 miles away, and sold it for forty-six cents a bushel. I know by experience that we had not one-tenth of the luxuries we now have. The fact is ,railroads have made this country, and a combination of capital has enabled manufacturers to put in improved machinery and manufacture goods of a quality and at a price never dreamed of by a cross-roads mechanic. The true policy, in my opinion, and I charge nothing for it , is for every man to follow the vocation for which he is best fitted by nature, if it is nothing but raising popcorn, and exchange his products with some one who is better fitted to supply his other wants. Every article should be raised or manufactured where it can be the best and cheapest , and sold where it will bring the greatest net results, without restrictions in any way, or, in other words, free trade between man and man, this wide world over."
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