Kosciusko County, Indiana
Biographies
ELISHA
VAN BUREN LONG
Elisha Van Buren Long, an attorney
and postmaster of East Las Vegas, was born in Saulsbury, Wayne county,
Indiana. Few men of his years remain in such active connection with the
affairs of life, but in spirit and interests he seems yet in his prime.
His parents were Elisha and Malinda (Hale) Long, the former a son of
Christopher Long, who was born in Virginia and served as a color bearer
in the Revolutionary War under the immediate command of General
Washington. Elisha Long was born in Roanoke county, Virginia, and was
married in Ohio. Removing to Indiana, his death occurred in Brookville,
that state, in 1840. He had served as a soldier in the War of 1812 as a
member of the Ohio regiment. He was afterward for sixteen years a
member of the Indiana legislature and aided in shaping the early policy
of the state. He was superintendent of construction in the building of
the Whitewater canal from Connersville, Indiana, to Cincinnati, Ohio,
and had served as a brigadier general of the Indiana Militia prior to
his death in 1840. His widow survived only until 1848.
Elisha Van Buren Long was left an
orphan when but twelve years of age. He pursued his early education in
the public schools of Kosciusko county, Indiana, and later attended the
Newcastle (Ind.) Academy and Fort Wayne College. He studied law at
Columbia City, Indiana, and also at South Bend, that state, and was
admitted to the bar in 1859. He entered upon the active practice of his
profession at Warsaw, Indiana, where he remained until 1885, when he
was appointed by President Cleveland to the position of chief justice
of the supreme court of New Mexico territory, serving upon that bench
for five years, and proving one of the ablest jurists that has ever
occupied a place in connection with the court of last resort. He
eventually, however, resigned and entered upon the practice of law in
Las Vegas, where he still continues as one of the prominent members of
the bar.
Judge Long has held various positions
of honor and trust. In 1863 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for
the Indiana district which comprised at that time Kosciusko and Wabash
counties, remaining in that connection for three years. He was
afterward appointed by Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, later vice
president of the United States, circuit judge of the twenty-first
judicial circuit of Indiana with jurisdiction over Kosciusko, Marshall,
and Fulton counties, while later Whitley county was added to his
territory. After serving for one term by appointment he was twice
re-elected to that office and served upon the circuit court bench
for thirteen continuous years. He twice carried Kosciusko county and
the city of Warsaw by large majorities, although a democrat in
politics, when the district was strongly republican. His election as
circuit judge was therefore a merited tribute to his ability and
personal worth and was an indication of the confidence reposed in him
by his fellow townsmen.
In 1873 in Warsaw, Indiana, Judge
Long was married to Miss Alice R. Walton, and they became the parents
of two sons and two daughters: Alfred Hendricks; Boaz W., now United
States minister plenipotentiary to the republic of Salvador in Central
America; Mary A., the wife of Dr. Thomas Olney; and Teressa A. Judge
and Mrs. Long hold membership in the Episcopal church and he is a
Mason, belonging to both the blue lodge and chapter. His political
allegiance has always been given to the democratic party, which finds
in him a stalwart advocate, supporting his position by strong and
intelligent argument. After coming to New Mexico he continued to take
an active part in public affairs and was appointed by Governor L. B.
Prince as president of the board which had in charge the construction
of the New Mexico Insane Asylum at Las Vegas. In 1915 he was appointed
postmaster of East Las Vegas, which office he is now filling. Of Judge
Long it may well be said that he is exceptionally active and young for
a man of his age. The spirit of youth with its varied interests and
activities be retains, though he has reached the point where the great
majority put aside the cares and responsibilities of life. He is alert
and energetic, keeping in touch with the trend of modern thought in
relation to the great vital questions which affect the interests of
society.
Source: The Leading Facts of New Mexican History By Ralph Emerson
Twitchell Published by Torch Press, 1917
FRANK
WILLIAM BOSS
Frank William Boss. Among the county
officials of Cherokee County, one whose previous record, general
qualifications for ability and character, gave, at the time of his
election, in 1912, every ground for a successful career, and whose
discharge of the duties of his office has since vindicated the faith
placed in him, is Frank William Boss, county attorney. Mr. Boss has the
reputation of being an indefatigable worker, combining scholarship with
an active energy and forceful personality, and these qualities have
been much esteemed in an office in which the people of the county have
endeavored to place men who would lend thorough integrity and practical
efficiency to the administration.
Mr. Boss was born at Plymouth, the
county seat of Marshall County, Indiana, January 4, 1874, and is a son
of John and Mary (Conrad) Boss, and a grandson of a native of the
Canton of Berne, Switzerland, who came to the United States and spent
his latter years in farming in Kosciusko County, Indiana, where he
died. John Boss, the father of Frank \V . was born in 1839, in Berne,
Switzerland, and was twelve years of age when brought to the United
States by his parents. He had commenced his education in his native
land, and it was completed in the district schools of Kosciusko County,
Indiana, where he. was reared to manhood and brought up as a farmer. At
the time of his marriage, he engaged in farming on his own account, in
Kosciusko County, but some time thereafter removed to Marshall County,
Indiana, and located on a farm near Plymouth. He possessed the racial
characteristics of industry and honorable dealing, and through
persistent and well-directed effort succeeded in the development of a
good farm and the founding of a comfortable home. Mr. Boss continued to
be engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1900, when, feeling that he
had done his share in the world's work, he retired from active affairs
and moved to his home at Plymouth, where he now resides. In the several
communities in which Mr. Boss has made his home he has shown himself a
public-spirited citizen, who has been willing to aid good movements,
and as a generous and kindly friend and neighbor. He is a republican,
but politics has played but little part in his life, his activities
therein being principally confined to the casting of his vote. Mr. Boas
married Miss Mary Conrad, who was born in 1842, in Kosciusko County,
Indiana, and died at Plymouth, that state, in 1914. They became the
parents of the following children: Hose, who married C. W. Wade, a
retired farmer of Plymouth, Indiana; Laura, a teacher in the city
schools of Plymouth, who makes her home with her father; Ella, who is
the wife of F. E. Garn, president of a trust company at Chicago.
Illinois; Lizzie, who married W. F. Walter, and resides at Bremen,
Indiana, where Mr. Walter is engaged in the mercantile business; Jacob
H., a graduate of the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, and
now a practicing physician of the Illinois metropolis; Frank William,
of this notice; and Carrie, who is a teacher in the city schools of
Plymouth, Indiana.
Frank William Boss was brought up on
the home farm in Marshall County, Indiana, and secured his primary
education in the public schools of that vicinity. Subsequently he
pursued a course at the Plymouth High School, from which he was duly
graduated in 1894, and immediately thereafter entered the law
department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he
remained three years. Graduated with the class of 1897 and the degree
of Bachelor of Laws, he returned to Plymouth and after some further
preparation embarked upon the practice of law in his home community. He
remained there for seven years and then secured an appointment to the
position of inspector of immigration in the eastern part of the Mexican
border, there remaining for three years. In 1910 Mr. Boss located at
Scammon, Kansas, where he practiced for two years and served in the
capacity of city attorney, and in 1912, upon his election to the office
of county attorney, on the republican ticket, came to his present
location at Columbus. He has
enforced the law without fear or
favor and during his four years of office has shown himself a
courageous, energetic and entirely capable official, with a realization
of the responsibilities placed in his hands. Mr. Boss' offices are in
the Court House, while his residence, which he owns, is at No. 519
Kansas Avenue. Fraternally Mr. Boss is connected with Scammon Lodge No.
351, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Fort Scott Consistory No. 6,
thirty-second degree, Pittsburg; and Mirza Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and with the Knights of Pythias, of
Columbus.
In 1899, at Chicago, Illinois, Mr.
Boss was married to Miss Alice Lehr, daughter of H. A. and Eleanor
(Carnahan) Lehr, of Bremen, Indiana, Mr. Lehr was for some years county
auditor of Marshall County, Indiana, but is now living retired. Mr. and
Mrs. Boss are the parents of two children: Mareellua G., born January
24, 1901, who is now a junior in the Cherokee County High School, and
Eleanor Mary, born October 12, 1916.
Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans By William Elsey
Connelley Published by Lewis, 1918
ANTHONY
TAYLOR
A self- made man and industrious agriculturist of White county, Mr.
Taylor is a native of the north of England, where he was born March 29,
1835, a son of Thomas and Agnes (Bowman) Taylor. His father came to
America in 1845, landing at New York, whence he came direct to Fort
Wayne, Indiana, and later moved to Kosciusko county, where he bought
one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he farmed until his death,
that event occurring in 1849, when he was aged sixty-five years. His
wife, who also was born in England, where she was married, came to this
country with her husband and died in Kosciusko county, in 1850. The
following children were born to this couple: Thomas, who remained in
England; William lives in Kosciusko county, Indiana; Mary died in
childhood; Edward, deceased; Richard, a farmer living twenty-eight
miles west of St. Louis, Missouri; John, deceased; Jonathan, a farmer
in Kosciusko county; James, deceased; Anthony, our subject; Jane, the
wife of William Thomas, a farmer residing in Elkhart, Indiana; and Joe
and Robert, who are living on farms near Chalmers, Indiana. The
paternal grandfather was Thomas Taylor, a native of England, and the
maternal grandfather was Richard Bowman, also of England, both of whom
were farmers by occupation.
Anthony Taylor came to America with
his parents when ten years old, and five years later he was left an
orphan, his parents having died within a year of each other. He
remained on the home place for three years, and then, in 1852, he came
to White county, where he worked on the New Albany & Salem Railroad
(now the Monon), during that fall and winter, and was then employed by
various farmers in Princeton township, among whom was John Alkire. He
returned to Kosciusko for one year and then came to Brookston, where he
worked for Jackson Alkire, and later ran a threshing machine for a
couple of years. Mr. Taylor is the owner of two hundred acres of land,
which he superintends himself, and which is located five miles
northwest of Wolcott, .and the most of which he has broken, having
added valuable improvements, the most important of which is a ditch,
which now drains the major part of his land.
Mr. Taylor was married December 22,
1859, near Chalmers, Indiana, to Miss Sarah Price, daughter of John and
Susan (Kent) Price, who were natives of Ohio. Mrs. Taylor was born at
Battle Ground, Indiana, February 27, 1839, and died in 1880, aged
forty-one years. Mr. Taylor was again.
married, his second wife being Mrs.
Sarah B. (Hamilton) Kerr, who was born in Virginia April 12, 18 4 The
wedding took place at Monticello, Indiana, on March 21, 1888, and one
child has been born of this union, Josie, who is now attending school.
Of the first marriage seven children were born, as follows: James
William, who resides in Chicago, Illinois; twins, who died November 24,
1862, not named; Agnes is the wife of Frank Smith, a farmer living
southwest of Reynolds; John, deceased; Catharine, who married Charles
Moore, of Chicago; and one who died in infancy. Mr. Taylor is a stanch
Republican in his political affiliations.
Source: Biographical History of
Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties,
Indiana By Lewis Publishing Company, Lewis Publishing Co Published by
Lewis Pub. Co., 1899
LEMUEL
W. ROYSE
Lemuel W. Royse, of the Kosciusko
bar, was elected from the thirteenth district. He was born in Kosciusko
county, Indiana, January 19, 1848; was admitted to the bar and located
at Warsaw in 1874. He served in Congress from 1895 to 1899 and then
resumed practice in Warsaw, Indiana. Royse served on the Circuit bench
from 1904 to 1908. This was a solid Republican delegation, all being
lawyers but two, Jethro Hatch and Jacob D. Leighty.
Source: Courts and Lawyers of Indiana By Leander John Monks
JESSE
M. PARKER
Jesse M. Parker lives on a ranch
comprising thirty-eight acres and situated three and a half miles
northwest of Meridian, where he has resided continuously throughout the
past eighteen years. He was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, on the
11th of January, 1860, a son of Reuben and Mary (Rowe) Parker. He lost
his father when but six years of age and was reared to manhood on a
farm in his native county. In 1881, after attaining his majority, he
removed from the Hoosier state to Frontier county, Nebraska, where he
continued to reside for twenty years. On the expiration of that period
he disposed of his interests in Nebraska and subsequently spent a year
In California, after which he took up his abode on his present ranch in
Ada county. The property is splendidly Improved in every particular,
showing the careful management and cultivation of an energetic and
progressive owner. Mr. Parker raises considerable fruit, including
both sweet and sour cherries, and has won an enviable reputation as a
successful and enterprising ranchman.
It was while residing in Kosciusko
county, Indiana, at the age of twenty-one years, that Mr. Parker was
married to Miss Unity Jameson, who passed away in Nebraska, leaving a
daughter, now Mrs. Bessie Cavin, of Wilder, Canyon county, Idaho. On
the 11th of June, 1907, Mr. Parker was again married, his second union
being with Miss Emma Reinhart, whose birth occurred in Kosciusko
county, Indiana, July 6, 1865. Her parents, James 'and Eliza (Smith)
Reinhart, are both deceased. Mr. Parker returned to Indiana from Idaho
to be married in Kosciusko county. He is a Master Mason and both he and
his wife give their political allegiance to the democratic party. They
are widely recognized as people of genuine personal worth, while their,
many sterling traits of character have won them popularity among a
large circle of friends.
Source: History of Idaho By James Henry Hawley
JOHN
W. SMART
John W. Smart. A resident of Newton
County since he was four years of age, John W. Smart has long been one
of the most successful farmers of Beaver Township. His life has been
one of industry, high ideals, honorable integrity and straightforward
citizenship. He has made the best of his opportunities and no one in
Beaver Township' stands higher in the respect and esteem of his fellow
men.
Mr. Smart was born in Kosciusko
County, Indiana, March 16, 1849, a son of John and Lucinda (Clark)
Smart. Both parents were natives of the State of Ohio. John Smart moved
to Indiana and was an early settler in Kosciusko County, and he had the
distinction of putting up the first weather boarded house in the entire
county. He was a practical farmer, a man inured to hard work, and did
much in a practical way to lay the foundation of modern civilization in
two counties of Indiana. During the thirteen years he spent in
Kosciusko County he cleared up a big tract of land, and he then removed
to Newton County and again undertook the heavy task of the pioneer. His
home in Newton County was east of Brook, where he farmed for a couple
of years, and then sold out and moved to Morocco, buying a farm west of
that town.
As already stated John W. Smart was
four years of age when his parents came to Newton County. His father
had been twice married. His first wife had two children, of whom one,
Adonijah, a soldier in the Civil war, was killed at the Battle of
Chickamauga, while the other, Isaac Smart, is engaged in the lumber
business at Kentland, Indiana. His second wife was Miss Lucinda Clark,
and of the twelve children of that marriage nine are living.
John W. Smart grew up in Newton
County, attended the local schools and proved useful and competent at
every task to which he was assigned. He married Miss Melissa Goddard.
Seven children
have been born to them, and the five
now living are: R. Godfrey, William Glenwood, Sarah May, Ora and
Flossie.
After his marriage Mr. Smart engaged
in the hardware business in Morocco with William Kennedy under the firm
name of Smart & Kennedy. That was a firm that continued with mutual
profit for three years. On leaving the hardware business Mr. Smart
turned to farming, buying 255 acres in section 16 of Beaver Township.
Since then he has lived there, has prospered in all departments of
farming, and has reared a fine family of sons and daughters. He located
on the farm in 1880, and that has been his home for more than
thirty-five years. Mr. Smart is an ardent prohibitionist and an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as are also his wife and
children
Source:A Standard History of Jasper
and Newton Counties, Indiana: By Lewis H. Hamilton, William Darroch
Published by Lewis Pub. Co., 1916
Marshall Bugden, of Casco township,
started out in life by working for eight cents per day. He was thus
employed for six weeks, his duty being to keep the crows off the
cornfield. Today he is accounted one of the substantial agriculturists
of the community. Moreover, he is prominent and influential in public
affairs and his fellow-townsmen have given proof of their evidence and
trust in him by frequently calling him to public office.
Mr. Bugden was born in Kent county,
England, March n, 1839, and is a son of John and Mary (Crisp) Bugden,
who always remained residents of England. Their son Marshall was the
youngest in their family of ten children, and is the only one who ever
came to the United States. One brother and two sisters, however, are
yet living in their native country.
Marshall Bugden remained in England
until nineteen years of age. His educational privileges were somewhat
limited for he left school at the age of ten years, after which he was
employed at farm labor until he crossed the Atlantic. As stated he
earned his first money—eight cents per day—by keeping the crows off of
the cornfields for six weeks. Hearing favorable reports concerning the
business advantages and opportunities of the new world, he crossed the
Atlantic in 1858 and landed at Castle Garden, at the lower end of
Manhattan Island. He did not remain in New York city, however, but
journeyed at once westward to Kosciusko county, Indiana, where he
worked on a farm there until after the outbreak of hostilities between
the north and the south, involving the country in the Civil war. He
enlisted in August, 1861, from Kosciusko county, becoming a member of
Company B, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under command of
Captain John Murray and Colonel U. B. Reed. The regiment was assigned
to the Army of the Cumberland and Mr. Bugden served for four years,
being all of the time with the Forty-fourth Indiana. He took part in
the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, the siege
of Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. He re-enlisted
at Chattanooga and afterward did post duty from that time until the
close of the war, being mustered out at Indianapolis, after which he
returned to Pierceton, Indiana, where he remained for about one month.
He then came to Ganges township, Allegan county, in 1865, and for four
years resided in that locality, clearing part of the farm which he
purchased on section 33. At length, however, he sold that property and
bought his present farm, comprising eighty acres of land on section 15,
Casco township. This land he cleared and placed under cultivation,
devoting his entire time and attention to general agricultural pursuits
here. He has, however, made seven trips back to England, since taking
up his abode in Michigan, and finds much pleasure in visiting the
scenes of his boyhood and in renewing his acquaintance with relatives
and friends of former years.
In 1866 Mr. Bugden was united in
marriage to Miss Ellen M. Chaplin, who was born in Kosciusko county,
Indiana, March 1, 1841, a daughter of Moses P. and Sarah A. (Morris)
Chaplin, who were natives of New York and Ohio. Unto Mr. and Mrs.
Bugden have been born five children: Rose M., the wife of Theron
Johnson, who is mentioned elsewhere on another page of this work, and
who resides in Casco township; Burton C, who is a cooper and operates a
part of the old home farm; Marion J., also of Casco township; Jennie,
Mrs. Charles Simpson and Edith, who died at the age of five years.
On becoming a naturalized American
citizen Mr. Bugden gave his political allegiance to the Republican
party, which he supported until Grant's second administration. He then
became allied with the Democracy but has recently registered as an
independent and does not consider himself bound to party ties. He was
elected and served for six consecutive terms supervisor of Casco
township, being elected on the Citizens' ticket, and for two terms he
was a member of the board of review. For sixteen consecutive years he
filled the office of treasurer of school district No. 7 and lie has
always been most capable and loyal in the discharge of his official
duties. He is a fine penman and has done considerable clerical work
both while in the army and for the township, all of which might be
taken as a model of neatness and regularity. The hope that led him to
seek a home in America has been more than realized, for in this country
he found the opportunities he sought and with a persistence of effort
that is one of his marked characteristics he has continued in his
business life until he is now comfortably situated, having an excellent
farm property which returns him a good annual income.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan By
Henry F. Thomas Published by , 1907
Marshall Makemson
These are with my Makemson
family who were in several Indiana counties.
Marshall Makemson, born Jul 3 1845 in Kosciusko Co., died May 6 1928,
same co. He was buried in North Webster Cemetery.
Marshall was in the Civil War. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1865 in Co., D., Unit
152 as a Pvt.
An article in the "Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko Co., In.
B. F. Bowen, publisher, Logansport, In., 1902
"Marshall Makemson was born in Washington, twp, Jul 3, 1845, He
remained at home until his 23rd year. When a youth of 17, he
enlisted in Co. D., 152nd In. Infantry. After returning home, he
engaged in general merchandising at Pierceton, In. where he carried on
a successful business for 3 years. He then moved to a farm in
Tippecanoe twp. where he now lives. The place being one of the
several quarter sections of land which his father had divided among his
children."
Marshall married Hester Alzina Roe on Jan 16, 1868 in Kosciusko
Co. This marriage ended in divorce. Hester was born kin
1851, died in 1920. They had children: Rena, Ora, Floy, Carl.
Marshall married again to Sarah Ann Kuhn on June 8 1888 in Kosciusko
Co. She was born in 1864 and died in 1950. They had
children: Walter K., Mildred.
Another article:
Vincent Makemson, son of John and Margaret Lindsey Makemson, was born
June 1806 in Kentucky. He died March 2 1856 in Kosciusko Co., In.
He moved to Kosciusko Co., after 1835. Married Margaret Smith,
daughter of John Smith, in 1832, Logan Co., Oh. She was born 1813
in Oh. and died April 23, 1894, Washington twp, Kosciusko Co.,
In. They had children: Lindsey, John Albert.
Vincent's will dated Oct 21, 1833, Kosciusko Co. bequeaths all the
property lying in Washington twp, cattle, hogs, sheep, wagons, wheat,
horses, except for a bay mare which he gave to his son, John A.
Makemson. (date of probation of will uncertain but after 1850.)
March, 1838 - The first settlers of Washington twp, organized in March
1838, were John and Vincent Makemson. They built the first
house in the township on Section 3 in the Spring of 1835 and in the
Autumn, Vincent erected a second house in town.
John Makemson (brother to Vincent) was born Dec. 19, 1810 DeGraff Co.,
Oh., died FEb. 19, 1889, Princeton, Indiana.
He came to Indiana in 1835 with his wife and small son, Andrew.
He farmed 200 acres. John made the shoes for his family, produced
the wool which his wife spun and made into clothing.
John married Arial Davis 1834 in Logan Co., Oh. She was born 1813
in Virginia and died on Jan. 30, 1854, Princton, In.
They had children: Andrew, Margaret, Cyrus, John Wesley,
Marshall, Robert Merlin, Adaline, Wilson Burgner, Mary E.
John married a second time to Sarah Ann Bryte, daughter of Levi
and Elizabeth Milton Moore Bryte on Sep. 20 1855. They had
children:
Virginia, Alice, William Grant, Homer E.
Contributed by Ann Baughman