hnilt, and in a short, time the family were
settled in their new home, and the work ot
elearinn; a new farm was commenced. Tlieir
goiids were transpi.irted with teams, one of
which was the third s[ian of horses in the
township. (_).\en were in almost universal
Use in an eai'ly d:T\'. They were preferred to
horses on account of tlieir living being mostly
secured by browsing, (^uite an Indian village
was located in the southwest corner of Allen
C(jnnty, and the Indians hunted during the
winter season. They were very friendly to
the new-comers and freely shared their \'eni-
son with all who desired. White Loon, the
chief, was (piite an intimate friend of Mr.
Gorrell, ami remained npon his reservation in
iMleii County until his death. Although
AVliite Loon was a great frien<l t(j the whites,
yet it was currently reported that he had
stored away the dried tongues of ninety-nine
white men. This was not improbalile, as all
the Indians in this county were under the
control of the noted Indian chief, Tecumsoh,
and nearly all of them were engaged in the



great battle of Tippecanoe, near Lafayette,
Indiana, during the Indian war of 1812 -'13.
In iS-tT ague became prevalent, and there
were not well pco])lc enough in the neighbor-
hood to care for the sick. The winter brought
I'elief, and year by year prosperity becaino
more general. The impetus given to clearing
land by the coming of Air. Gorrell and his
brothers-in-law, James and John Glass, was
marked, there having been a few of the early
settlers who continued to live upon the prod-
ucts of their rilles and their traps, (iame
of various kinds furnished not only the meat,
but the pelts brought cash enough to ]iay
taxes and secure a few other necessary articles.
Wildcat money was plentiful enough, but it
would not pass in other States, consequently,
men were not anxious to cibtain it. In 18-17
Air. Gorrell was elected justice of the peace,
his commission bearing the name of Presi-
dent Yan Luren. Instead of trying to make
official fees, most of his time was spent in
trying to arbitrate the cases brought liefore
him. During the twenty-nine years in which
he served the people, at least three-fourths of
the cases that came before hi in were success-
fully arliitrated, and many personal friend-
ships were thus brought about. Only two
appeals were ever made from his decisions in
all those years, and both decisions were sus-
tained in the higher courts. lie has admin-
istered twenty-seven estates in this county,
some of them far up into the thousands of
dollars, all of which was done without the loss
of a dollar. James and Andrew Gorrell en-
tered the service soon after the breaking out
of the war. They enlisted in Company A,
Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, of which
James was First Lieutenant. Joseph, then a
graduate of medicine from the Buffalo Aledi-
cal College, enlisted as Surgeon of another
regiment which was formed in De Kalb
County where he resided. Cyrus enlisted in



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Company (', Sc\eiitv-iil'tli Kui^-iinent, in 1802.
llo SL'r\'etl (Jtiriiiy tliu wav uikI lu.st the si:j;ht
of Ill's n'i^flit L-3e. Jniiies resigned ami re-
tiiniutl lioiiie the bccimd year of his eniist-
iiieiit, the othei' son remained until tli(! <;lo.sc
of the war. All sei'\'ed in the most important
battles of the war. All of .Mr. Gorrell's
children are liapjiily married and all have
families. Ilis e^timalde wife, after a long
and well-spent life, was laid to rest in
( )ssian cemcter}-, ^Vjjril 25, lb7'J. Her i-u-
mains have sinee heen placed in the new
cemetery at Ussiaii. ^Ir. CJori'ell resides in
the villai^e and has a coinjjetency for his de-
clining years. Xo man Jias ever lived in Jef-
ferson Township who has done more to
cultivate and prmnote liarmony and eiitei'-
prise than our suliject. For si.\ty-two 3'ears
lie has heen a member of the Presbyterian
clmreli, and since lS3)i has been an ordained
elder. Continuously, since 1810, he has
6er\ed this ehureh in that ca])acity, and his
life has been such as proclaims the Christian
as well as the ''entleman.



';^ A. Sl'AULDlNG, M. \)., was born in
%% 1817 in J51ackford County, Indiana.
^v?^'* lie was reared a farmer boy. At the
age of nineteen he entered the high school at
Liber College, Indiana, and remained two
years; afterward attended college at Jlidge-
viUc, Indiana, two years. The next three
years wei'c spent as traveling salesman in the
AVestern States. In 1873 lie began the study
of medicine at jMontjielier, Indiana, nntler
I)r. William Kansom. After attending one
jjart and one full course of lectures at the
Ohio ]\Iedical College of (!iiicimiati, he
located at IJarber's Mills, Indiana. He was
married in the summer of lt>77 to Wiss iS'au-
nie J. iShelton, of Hartford City, Indiana,



and in the fall of the same year returned to
the ()lii(.i .Meilical, and graduated in the
sjiring of 1>'7.S. He then continued his
practice at liarber's Mills until the fall of
1882, at whicii time he located in rdull'ton,
Indiana, and has continued iu u successful
practice to the jjresent.



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OIIN STA^'LEV LOCKWOCI), farmer,
A'ottingham Township, was born in
Champaign County, Ohio, February 2,
1811, son of Alonzo and Eliza (Stanley)
Lockwood. His father was born in the State
of Maine, and followed boating during his
residence in that State and previous to his
removal to Ohio. In 1848 the family re-
moved to Indiana, locating iu iS^ottingham
Township, Wells County, where they still
reside. Here John Stanley, or Stanley, as he
is usually called, was reared to manhood, and
has always made his home in Nottingham
Township since coming to the county. In
1805 his father gave him forty acres of land,
whicli he afterward sold, and bought eighty
acres wdiere he now lives, to which he has
since added forty acres more. The land was
covered by a heavy growth of timber when
he purchased it; he now lias about eighty-
five acres cleared. May 1, 1805, he was mar-
ried to Miss Margaret E. Gibson, born in
Noble County, this State, and a daughter of
George W. and ]\[ary (Michaels) Gibson.
Her jiarents died in Noble County when she
was a child, and she was reared by her uncle
in Champaign County, Ohio. ^h-. and ilrs.
Lockwood have had six children, four of
whom are living — John "Wilbur, Eva.Ianetta,
William Ulysses antl i'earl Edwin; the de-
ceased are Hettie Mevilla and Uosetta. \\\
1801 Mr. Lockwood volunteered his services
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]\rarcli liecjiiiie :i ineinher uf Coiiipaiiy A,
I'lMty-sevoiitli lixliaiia Infaiiti-y. He juiiied
]ii.s ivgiinciit in tliis county, its iiicniliers
bL-in<r lionio on a vt-teran fiirloiifli, and went
M'ith it directly to the front, and ten days
al'ter leaving Indianajiolis they met the rebels
at ,\lcxaiidria, Louisiana. lie remained with
his legiment in Arkansas, Tennessee and
Louisiana until after the battles of Forts
Sjianish and IJlakely, and the cajjture of
ilobilc, which was the last engagement of
the civil war. lie was mustered out at iJaton
Koui^e. discharged there October 23, 1805,
and rctiii'iicd home via Cairo and Indianapo-
lis, lie lost his health in the service, and
has never entirely recovered. Politically lie
is a Reiiulilican.



.T:^ EYl OSBOrwX, of Ossian, was born in
;,'.,-■? Caiiiield, Trumbull County, Ohio. Au-
rTT- gust 12, 1827, son of Jacob and Eliza-
beth M. (Ilarrk) Osborn. James Harris,
father of Elizabeth M., was probably born in
the town of ^Milford, MitHin County, Penn-
eylvania, of Irish ancestr}'. llis wife was
Alice Woodard, and they reared a large fam-
ily of children, some of whom are living —
Elizabeth M., Mary, John, Thomas (deceased),
Margaret, James, Ann and David (deceased),
Hannah, Joseph, liobert and Itachel. Mar-
garet, Ann, James and Hannah came to In-
diana and settled in AVells County; John
settled in Adams County, the latter and
^Margaret are now deceased. John Osborn,
grandfather of our subject, was a son of
Nicholas Osborn, who came to America frotn
England prior to the Ilevolutionary war. lie
was accompanied by two brothers, and all
were soldiers in that war; but no trace of
the two brothers has ever been found since
the close of the war. Mrs. John Osborn was



•A German la<ly; they hail ten children — Con-
rad, Nicholas.. lacob, John, AVil Ham, Jonathan,
-\mos. Andrew, Mai-gai-et and Elizabeth.
Jacob Osborn was a soldier in the war of
1812. He was twice married. His first wife
was Annie Pabbitt, and their children were
— Elias, Harmon, Mary A. (deceased) and
Aaron. After the death of his wife, Jacob
married Elizabeth Harris, and their children
were — Levi, James, Margai-et and Elizabeth
(twins), Eliza J., Anna and William; all are
living and married except Anna, who married
William Gorman, and Elizabeth, who died in
infancy. The death of Jacob Osborn occurred
when our suliject was twelve years of age,
and when he was twenty-one years old he
came to Wells County and pre-empted the
northwest quarter of section 24, Union Town-
ship. He built a pole shanty on the land the
day before it was entered, ate and slept in it.
This was the western boundary of settlement
at that date. He cut and burned the first
pile of brush to cook his supper, and may be
said to have made the first clearing in his
immediate neighborhood. During the first
eight montlis of his stay in the county Mr.
Osborn worked by the month for William \K .
Cotton, who brought his family to this coun-
ty at the same time our subject came. Levi
returned to his old home in April, ISlt), and
remained until September of the following
year, then returned to his home in the new
country, bringing his wife, Catherine Ash-
burn, whom he married June 13, 1850. She
was the daughter of Josejjh and Elizabeth
(Ilart) -\shburn. Her father's people were
German, and her mother's were Irish. They
removed to this county in April, 1881, to
make their home Avith their children. Mr.
Ashburn died at tlie home of Mr. Osborn
October 12, 1880, aged eighty-si.\ years. His
wife is still living with Mr. Osborn's family,
and has reached the mature age of eighty



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ye;irs. Tlieir cliiklrcii were — (':itliorii\e,AVill-
iiiiii, A[ai-y, Jesse, JVel.soii ami Prossor. Air.
()sl)orn ercfteil a Idgcaliin on tlie sjiut wliere
liis fine t'ariii liouse now stamlis, ami tlicy oc-
cupied it < )ctober 28, 1.S50. Under its root'
ail their children were horn except the
youngest — Joseph N. married Allnmi Long-
shore; Elizal)Cth E. married (). C. Krewson;
Jacob AV. married ]'aulina Sowle; ]\[ary E.
became the wife of Orland J. Ivrewsoii, and
after liis death married his lirother Thomas;
Elias E., William AV., Etta M. and Anna M.
are unmarried and reside with their parents.
Our sul)ject made all the furniture with
which they commenced housekeeping, lllank-
ets served for doors, and not a sawed board
was used in the construction of the house,
except the lid of a clicot which was used in
making a window. The bedsteads were made
of poles, the seats of puncheon slabs, the
table of cla])boards and the lioor of the same
matei-ial. Mr. Osborn worked for some of
his neighbors by the da}', for which he re-
ceive<l corn and potatoes. Although the
woods were fidl of game, lie never hunted,
or even killed a deer or turkey, but devoted
all his time to the cultivation of his land.
They became members of the first Methodist
Episcopal church organized in the neighbor-
hood; this church is still in existence. Mr.
Oslforn has been an otlicer in the church for
almost a quarter of a century. JJuring the
progress of the war he was drafted, but after
being in camp two weeks at Indianapolis he
was released, the townshi]) having iilled her
quota. In 1853 he was elected trustee of the
township, and during his term of service the
Centre school-house was built and several
new roads laid out. Politically he is a lie-
publican, and was one of the founders of that
]iarty in this county. January 1, 1885, he
was injured by a saw falling upon his left
foot, which resulted in its amputation by Dr.



StCMiien, of I''oi-t 'Wayne, at St. . Joseph's hos-
pital. This disables him from active farm
M'ork, but his general health is \inusually
good.



T;ILLIAM McKENDREE MADDOX



%\\j:.\fjj W!'s born in (Ihcster Township, Wells
[■=3J^ County, JMarch 1, 1S58, son of A\''cs-
ley Harvey and Eliza Ann (Grove) Maddox.
lie was reared in this county and educated in
the schools of Chester Township, and also at
Ijlutl'ton. He was married August 17, 1881,
to ]\Iiss Laura Alice Twibell, also a native of
Chester Township, and daughter of John J.
and Amelia (I)Oyd) Twibell. i\Ir. and Mrs.
]\Iaddox are the parents of one child — Ilai-ry.
]\Ir. Aladdox owns sixty-tive acres of land, all
of which is cleared. Politically he affiliates
with the Republican ])arty.



§RS. JOHN G. AND GEORGE E. FUL-
TON are great-great-grandsons of
James Fulton, who immigrated to this
country from Ireland in the year 1765, ac-
companied by his brothei's, viz.: Joseph,
Robert and Abraham, and their two sisters,
]\Iargaret Fulton (^)uin and Pollic Fulton
Boyd, the latter being the honored mother of
Revs. John, James, lienjaniin and ^Vbraham
I'oyd, many descendants of whom are to-day
enumerated in the devoted ranks of Presby-
terianism. James, the great-grandfather,
was the father of five sons and one daughter,
viz.: James, Abraham, Robert, Cochran, Pen-
janiin and Sarah ; the second son being the
grandfather of the subject of tliis sketch. lie
\vas married to Ann Smith, unto whom were
born seven sons, all of whom grew to man-
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.fames, the eldest, dicil at the ailviuic-cd ao-o
of eio-hly-fuur years, near .Mun-ay, ^\'ells
('(jiiiity, Indiana, leaving his wife, ]\[argai'et
iMaliun Fnltoii, a childless widow to nioiirii
lier loss; Robert died iit the ai/c of seven ty-
eif^ht years, in Kansas, leavinir a largo fam-
ily; Abraham, yet livinir at the age of eighty
years, is hale and hearty and prond to know
that three of his sons were among the worthy
who went to the front in the late war, one of
whom gave his life Ibr the cause of freedom,
and another maimed for life at the Ijattle of
Ciiickamaiiga. JJavid and Cochran, each near
the age of seventy years, are living, the for-
mer in the State of Iowa; the latter is a
prominent physician still continiiiiig the
jiractice of medicine in Ihicyriis, Ohio. An-
drew, the youngest son, died at the prema-
tui'C age of thirty-three years, of typhoid
fever, in Bucyrus, ( )hio, he being a very large
and powerful man and \veighing 350 pounds.
John Fulton, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was born near Greensburg, in "West-
moreland County, Pennsylvania, in the year
1813. lie was married in 1S38 to Sarah
Egbert, of Fulton, Wayne County, Ohio.
The young couple came to Wells County, In-
tliana, in tlie year 1840, locating in Jetl'erson
Townshij), and immediately commenced the
arduous task of clearing and improving a
fai'hi in what was then a howling wilder-
ness. At the end of fiv(! years of strug-
gling with chills and fever, the gaunt wolf
of poverty and various other kinds of wolves,
coupled with the many hardships incident to
frontier life, they returned to Stark County,
Ohio, to spend the winter and procure the
needful supply of provisions and clothing.
During the period of this temporary sojourn
in Ohio Dr. J. (J. Fulton was born, and the
following spring they returned to their for-
mer home in Wells County'. They soon sold
this farm, however, and bought another near



the village of Kagleville, but a. short distance
from the foi-niei'. A'ftei- iiiijiroving this farm
for several years, a part of it was sold and he
removed his family to Ossian, huliaiui, and
engaged in nu^rcautile trade, which ho con-
tinued for a ])eriod of four years, at the end
of which time he returned to his farm near
Eagleville, where he continued to live until
his death in 1S5S, at the age of forty-five
years, lie died from an attack of " inilk-
sick," at the time a very common disease,
but at ])resenl I'are to lioth man antl lieasl.
John Fulton, at his death, left a widow and
eight children to mourn the loss of a kind
and indulgent husband and father. His
widow followed him to the land of rest,
six years later, at the age of forty-Hve years,
after many years of suffering of tuberculosis.
The couple had long been faithful and con-
sistent members of the United Presbyterian
church, he being a ruling elder in that church
at Murray, Indiana. The following is a list
of their children in the order of their birth
and their place of residence — Milton S. Wash-
burn, W^oodford County, Illinois, engaged in
the drug business; Martha A. Van Buskirk,
Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa; John C.
(subject of sketch); Mary Fl Lawrence,
Greensburg, Kiowa County, Kansas; Eachel
A. Park, I'due Hill, Kebraska; Clarissa A.
JMcCay, Akron, Ohio; George Fl (subject of
sketch); James C. died at the age of six
years near F^agleville, Indiana, from pro-
tracted debility following an attack of chicken-
pox. Dr. John Cahiu Fulton was born
F'ebruary 22, 1815, in Stark County, Ohio.
Flis career was uneventful and common to
that of other boys until he arrived at the
age of si.xteen, wdien that long threatening
cloud of Pebellion burst over the land and
he, in October, 1801, responded to his coun-
try's call, eidisting in Company G, Twelfth
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pinitioii of tlic time of eiilistiiieiit of the
rt'giinciit ill IVLay, lNfi"2. Ho iii^'uin eiili^teil
in Aiigust, 1802, in C'omiiHiiy (i, ( )iiu liuu-
dreil iuid First Indiiuiu N'olunteer IntUnfry,
and 25'ii'ticipatod in the many hard-fought
battles under liosecraiis. " I'ap Thomas " (as
the soldiers freijuently called General
Tlionias), and Uncle Hilly Sherman's "grand
march to the sea "' found the subject of this
sketch one of ^Major Steele's •■ mounted scouts
and foragers." .Vt the cluse of tlie w-av Dr.
J. C. Fulton returned home, and in the spring
of 18GG went to ]\Iartin, Allegan County,
Michigan, and engaged in selling general
merchandise and in reading medicine for
some years. In 1SG9 and 1870 he attended
lectures at the ^liami iledical College in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and in ^larch of the latter
year he began the practice of medicine in
ilurray, Indiana, where he has continued to
prosecute his profession ever since. In the
hope that some other boy like himself, poor
in this world's goods, may take courage, lie
states that he had but >;'J in the wide world
when he commenced to practice medicine.
This straitened financial condition on the
one hand was soon to be overcome by na-
ture's ample endowment on the other, he be-
ing possessed of a vigorous constitution and
a buoyant heart. A\'lien his professional
services were in demand he was not slow
in mounting his horse or sulky and respond-
ing, but under greater disadvantages to travel
from that of to-day. Gravel roads are a modern
convenience, the conception of which possi-
bly had not gained its identity in the minds
of the unborn generations to which " unknown
cliine" we are to-day rapidly consigning the
last of the pioneers, wdio, in the greatness
of their liearts, gave us the " corduroy " and
mud-roads. IJuggies at that time were a
I'arity, there being but two or three in the
township; at the present time, seventeen



years later, almost every young man of the
age of sixteen keeps his own horse and buggy.
January 11, 1872, Dr. d. ('. Fulton was
united in marriage to Jennie I!., daughter of
AVilliam and Caroline (Kiddle) llanna, of
Murray, AVells County, Indiana. Mrs. Dr.
Fulton's ]iarents were born in Ohio, the
t'ather in Wayne County, and the mother in
Trumbull County. They were married in
AVells County, Indiana, in 1815, where they
continued to reside on their I'arni until re-
moved by death. Mr. Ilaniia died April,
1873, at the age of lifty-six years; Mrs.
Ilanna died March, 1876, aged fifty-eight.
To Dr. John C. and Jennie 13. Fulton were
born four daughters — Minnie U., October 9,
1872; Mabel D., iMarch 31, 1881; AMie A.,
October 3, 1884; Jennie 15. ^f., December
16, 1886. Since the commencement of the
writing of this sketch, Dr. Fulton has been
called to mourn the loss liy tleath of this
noble companion and these little daughters
of that which time and wealth can never re-
place, the watchful, tender care of a loving
mother. Mrs. Dr. J. Q. Fulton died Janu-
ary 26, 1887, after a short illness of only
four days duration, from acute peritonitis.
In her death, society lost an ornament, but
heaven gained a jewel. In connection with
his practice Dr. Fulton is (juite extensively
engaged in agricultural pursuits, lie is an
ex-president of the Wells County Medical
Society, and was the delegate from Wells
County to the American Medical Association
which met in Chicago in the year 1887. lie
is the present president of the Wells
County Short-IIorn Breeders Association,
and makes a specialty of raising and selling
thoroughbred stock. His sale at his farm in
1886 of fifteen head of short-horn cattle at
public auction was the first of the kind ever
made in Wells County, and jiroved to be not
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lifoail stop towanl tlio liiixlior elevation, at
least in one branch, of the ait iit' ai;-i'ieultiire
in AVells County.

Dr. George Eghert Fulton is the seventh
child of John anil Sarah ( I'^ghert) l''ultoii. lie
is a native of AVells County, Imjiana, born
in Ossian, ( )otober 8, 1855. Ilis father and
mother's death, as has previously been stated
in the family history, left him an orphan at
tlie age of eight years, thus causing him to
be early thrown on his own resources. The
family being broken up after the mother's
death, he went to reside in Illinois with an
uncle, where he runiaiiied working on tlie
farm in the suninier and attending school in
the winter, until he attained the age of
twelve-years. At this portion of his career
he suddenly' and without any special cause
other than an intense longing for the friends
and haunts of former days, returned to his
former home in ludiaiui without asking leave
of his friends. This journey being nearly
300 miles in distance, was to say tiio least
venturesome for a boy of twelve to undertake,
and without money to pay his railroad fare
and who knew little comparatively of rail-
roads or cities. The journey, however, was
completed in two days' time, he riding part
of the distance on freight ears, the rest on
the rear platform of the jjassenger trains.
The journey necessitated several important
changes of roads, one being Chicago. After
remaining in Indiana a short time visiting
friends, he returned to Illinois and arranged
with a brother-in-law to go to Iowa; the
journey was made overland in emigrant
wacTons. Being somewhat encouraged over
his former success in travel, and having an
inordinate desire to see more of the world, he