ALLEE

F. M. Allee, farmer, Montezuma, was born in Reserve township, Parke county, Indiana, June 26, 1844. He is the son of Linus and Sarah A. (Bryant) Allee. His father was a native of Hancock county, Indiana, and died in Parke county in 1858. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in this county in about 1852. Mr. Allee has been a resident of this county the most of his life. In the late rebellion he went out in 1861 and served until June 26, 1865, in the 9th Ind. Battery, and was in several battles and a great many skirmishes. In 1865 he was married to Nancy C. Wolfe, a native of Parke county. She died in 1868. He was married again in 1877, to Mary E. Huxford, daughter of W. R. Griffith. She was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1849. - Beckwith, H. W.. History of Vigo and Parke Counties, 1880, Page 180

ATKINSON

John Atkinson.  Those who have passed a score of years in the vicinity of Bolton are familiar with the name introducing this article.  Its owner is one of the modest farmers of Independence Township and is situated on Section 30, Township 33, Range 15.  He cast his fortunes with Montgomery County in August 1881, and is an emigrant from Parke County, Indiana, where his birth occurred Nov 26, 1834.  His father, Thomas Atkinson, settled in the wooded country of Parke County in 1831, and was one of those who spent his life battling against nature and with nature in the physical development of his section of the Hoosier State. He was born in Orange County, North Carolina in 1796 and died 1871, just as he was nearing his home while returning from a visit to his native heath (sic - hearth?). He was a son of John Atkinson of North Carolina Quaker stock, whose antecedents separated from the parent church in Pennsylvania and established themselves in the 'Tar Heel State."  Thomas Atkinson married Marjorie Lindley, a daughter of David Lindley, also from North Carolina.  The children of this marriage were: Johnathan; Mary, wife of Levi Dix; Sarah, whose first husband was Thomas Marshall and second, Mr. Bedford; Dixon; David of Parke County, Indiana; Eleanor, who died single; Samuel and John, twins and Emily of Parke County, Indiana. John Atkinson of this sketch, attained his majority on the farm of his parents in which community he acquired a good common school education.  He accepted the calling of his fathers as his own and devoted himself intelligently to the tilling of the soil.  For a life companion he chose, in Feb. 1863, Mary Ellen Atkinson daughter of Hiram and Amy Marshall Atkinson, who has shared with him his successes as well as reverses for 40 years. In company with the Lindleys and Towells they came to Montgomery County in 1881, and have since resided on their farm.  Mr. Atkinson is a minister of the Friends Church and has served his community in that capacity.  He is comfortable in his surroundings enjoys the luxuries of natural gas, as a citizen, is interested in the civil affairs of his municipality.  ( From: History of Montgomery County, Kansas, 1903, Jno S. Gilmore; H. W. Young, Unknown: L. W. Duncan, page 696. )

ALEXANDER

 George W. Alexander is engaged in carrying on his well-improved farm of 157 acres on Sec 16, Sugar Creek Township, Parke County.  He has lived on this place since 1861, or shortly after his marriage.  Our subject was born in Guilford Co NC on August 29, 1832, being the son of Joseph and Catherine Alexander Alexander who were 3rd cousins.  The former was the son of James and Nancy Alexander, Grandfather Alexander was born in Ireland and his wife was a native of Scotland. They both came to the united States with their parents when young, settling in the eastern part of NC where they were married. James Alexander learned the miller's trade before leaving the Emerald Isle, and followed that occupation throughout life.  For many years he owned a mill in NC, but at the time of his death was only superintendent of one. he was a Whig and opposed to slavery, though a resident of the southern state. His father was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.  Our subjects father was one in a family of 8 children, the others being Gideon, Jonathan, Calvin, Abbie, Sally and two who died in infancy.  They are all now deceased.  Joseph Alexander learned the shoemaker's trade in early life, serving an apprenticeship at the same. he married when about 22 and had 8 children, our subject being the eldest, and the other in order of birth being as follows: Mary, James C, Nancy J, Martha, Catherine L, Joseph F and one who died in infancy. After the death of our subject's mother, his father married a Miss Hamilton by whom he had four children. He was, like his father, a Whig, and religiously held membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He died at age 60.  George W. Alexander was only 12 years old when his mother died and soon after he was bound out to Jaben Erwin to learn the carpenter's trade. For him he worked, receiving only his board and clothes for 8 years and then continued in his employ about 3 years afterward. Until 1861 he was engaged in carpentering, since which time he has turned his attention almost entirely to agricultural pursuits, and has even succeeded better in this vocation than in the former one.  His skill, however, with carpenter tools has proved very useful to him time and again in the construction and repair of his buildings.  In 1860 Mr. Alexander and Martha A. Bacus were joined in marriage.  Mrs. Alexander was born on the farm where she still lives in the year 1839.  Her parents James and Margaret Irwin Bacus, were natives of Ohio and VA, respectively, being early settlers of Parke County. This farm was entered of the Government as school land in 1835, and every bit of the place was cleared by Mr. Bacus. The house or cabin which he first erected was very small and of the rudest description, but in time was replaced with a much more pretentious residence. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are the parents of two children: James B, whose wife was formerly Miss Fanny Delphina Pithoud; and Flora A, wife of Chauncy Lusk. Our subject is extremely proud of his four little grandchildren. he is a member of Lodge No. 27, AF &AM Annapolis. - Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain Counties, Indiana.  Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893, Page 651