LINDLEY

HIRAM LINDLEY, born November 27, 1827, in Orange County, Ind., is the fourth son and seventh child in a family of nine born to William and Michael (Hallowell) Lindley, natives of North Carolina and South Carolina respectively. He was reared on a farm near Paoli, where he received the rudiments of a good English education in a Quaker school. In 1849, he purchased a water, power saw mill, which he ran for about three years. He then followed carpentering and farming in Orange County until 1857, when he removed to Paoli, and purchased a drug store. In 1869, he sold out, and for several years was engaged in various mercantile pursuits in Orange County. Removing thence to Bloomington, Monroe County, he formed a partnership in the drug business with M. F. Arnold, soon after which he purchased the other half interest, and at present enjoys a lucrative trade, having a stock of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, varnishes, stationery and wall paper, etc. He served four years as Assistant United States Assessor; and in 1874 he was Government Storekeeper at McCoy's Distillery on Stamper's Creek, Orange County. June 23, 1859, he was married to Laura White, daughter of Dr. C. White, of Paoli. They had seven children, Frank, Edmund, Walter, George, Mary, Ernest and Anna L. His wife died on April 12, 1878. November 27, 1879, he married Elizabeth Trueblood, daughter of William and Margaret Trueblood, residents of Orange County. They have one child, an infant. Mr. Lindley is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Quaker Church. - Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana Historical and Biographical, By Charles Blanchard, Published by F. A. Battey & Co, 1884, Page 576

LOUDEN

JOHN H. LOUDEN was born November 24, 1837, in Juniata County, Penn. His parents, James and Jane (Thompson) Louden, were natives of Ireland, and ot Scotch, Irish extraction. They were reared in Londonderry County, where, in 1829, they were married, coming to this country four years later. They were in Pennsylvania for one year, and then came to Indiana, locating in Fayette County,, near Connersville, where the father at present resides, the mother having died in 1846. The father is an Elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and has done much toward maintaining its principles. John, the eldest son and child, was reared on the farm, in the winter attending the district school until eighteen years of age, when he entered Dunlapsville Academy. He remained for two years, when he came to Bloomington, Monroe County, and entered the State "University. In 1861 and 1862, he taught school in Vienna, Rush County, during the winters, and in the summer of 1862 began reading law with Judge Read, of Connersville; he also assisted during the same summer in raising a company of "volunteers for the Fifth Indiana Cavalry. He went to Indianapolis with them later on, but, being taken sick, was obliged to return to .his home. In March, 1863, he married Lizzie C. Hemphill, daughter of James Hemphill. They have two sons and one daughter. In July, after his marriage, he took his wife to Bloomington, Monroe Co., Ind., with the intention of completing his studies. He had for some time charge of the Republican the only newspaper at that time published in Bloomington. In the meantime, "he commenced reading law with Judge Hughes. In 1863— 64, he was in the Law Department of the State University, and graduated in the spring of 1864. Immediately being admitted to the bar, he began the regular practice in Bloomington. He has been in partnership with Capt. John M. McCoy, now of Dallas, Texas, with Frank Wilson and the Hon. M. F. Dunn, and in February, 1876, he entered into a partnership with R. W. Miers, which firm still continues. He has never been a candidate for office, but devotes himself with the utmost zeal to "his profession, and is one of Indiana's most eminent practitioners. - Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana Historical and Biographical, By Charles Blanchard, Published by F. A. Battey & Co, 1884, Pages 576 - 577

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