Charity Haupt, of Lyon County, Kansas; Mrs. Laura Pennington, of Edgar County, Illinois, and Elizabeth Adon, of Edgar County, Illinois; George S., Emma and Della, at home with their parents. Two of their children, named Sarah O. and Francis, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Martin, with four of their daughters, missouri, Elizabeth, Laura and Emma, are members of the Protestant Methodist church. In politics Mr. Martin is a Republican with Prohibition proclivities.
LEVI S. SCOTT, a prominent and enterprising agriculturist of Vermillion County, engaged in farming and stock-raising, was born on the homestead where he now resides, on section 15, Clinton Tonwship, [sic] the date of his birth being october 29, 1855, a son of Matthew W. Scott, who is now a resident of Clinton. He was reared to the vocation of a farmer, and all his life has been spent in this neighborhood. The homestead upon which he resides was his father's first home in Clinton Township, and here he lived until January 5, 1882, when he removed to Clinton. He still owns the property, his son, the subject of this sketch, managing the same, and at the same time carries on his own farm on section 21, where he has 160 acres of choice land, the latter being known as the McPheter's farm to old settlers. Levi S. Scott was united in marriage September 10, 1878, to Miss Susannah Scott, a daughter of James and Emily Scott. Though of the same name his wife was not a relative. She was born in Connorsville, Indiana, May 27, 1855. Her parents now reside in Charleston, Illinois. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Scott, named Grace D. and Ivan W. In his political views Mr. Scott affiliates with the Democratic party. Mr. Scott is classed among the active and public-spirited men of his township, and every enterprise calculated to advance the interests of his township of county has his encouragement and assistance.
CHARLES P. WALKER, superintendent and treasurer of the Norton Creek Coal Mines, and one of the leading business men of Vermillion County, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born October 22, 1849. His father, Christopher Walker, was a merchant in that city, and later was in the mercantile trade at Connorsville, Indiana, and from Connorsville he removed to logansport, Indiana. He became interested in railroad enterprises, and at the time of his death, which occurred in Chicago, Illinois, in January, 1869, he was the treasurer of the Chicago & Great Eastern, now known as the Pan-Handle Railroad. Charles P. Walker, whose name heads this sketch, received a good business education, and early in life became one of the clerical staff in the railroad treasurer's office, under the supervision of his father. He has been a resident of Clinton since the spring of 1874, and during his residence in Vermillion County he has been engaged in coal production. About 300 men on an average are employed by the Norton Creek Mining Companym and in his position as treasurer Mr. Walker is trusted with the management of large interests. The company, in order to accommodate their extensive business, erected a large building for mercantile trade, and put up several tenement houses to accommodate their employes, in Clinton Township, two and a half miles northwest of Clinton, and gave this village the name of Geneva in honor of Mr. Walker's second daughter. Mr. Walker was mar-
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ried in Logansport in 1872, to Miss Jennie Sammis, a native of Brooklyn, New York, and of the five children born to them only three are living -- Nettie, Geneva and Charles P. Fannie died in in her third year, and Rachel died in infancy. Mr. Walker belongs to both the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. He is an active, public spirited citizen, and is always interested in the welfare of his town or county.
MADISON NOLAN is a native of Vermillion County, Indiana, born May 10, 1837, and a worthy representative of one of the earliest pioneer families of the county. His parents, Samuel and Sarah (Cellars) Noland, were born, reared and May 10, 1816, were married in Shenandoah County, Virginia,, where their three eldest children were born. They left the Shenandoah Valley for Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1820, and settled in the woods on section 33, Helt Township. The father in his younger days was a school-teacher, and followed that vocation eight years. He brought with him to the county quite a cash capital, and being a man of great energy and good business management, he was soon classed among the most prosperous farmers in the county. At one time he suffered quite a loss by having $1,450 in currency stolen from his residence. After reaching manhood he affiliated with the Whig party, and became a strong anti-slavery man, and naturally became one of the organizers of the Republican party. He was a consistent Christian and a member of the Protestant Methodist church. He retained his mental and physical vigor until about three years before his death, which occurred February 9, 1872, in his eighty-first year. His estate, outside of his personal property, consisted of about 1,500 acres of land. The mother of our subject died in 1851. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nolan are as follows -- Angeline first married John Hollingsworth, and after his death married Benjamin Ailsher and reared a family by each marriage; she died in Kansas in 1883, aged sixty-five years. Alfred died at the age of twenty-eight years, leaving a widow and two children; John died in June, 1883, aged sixty-two years; James died aged forty-eight years, leaving a widow and one child; Mrs. Emily Dustheimer, a widow, residing in Kansas; Alcain, living in Edgar County, Illinois; Melinda died aged two years; Mrs. Amanda Hollingsworth, deceased; Jefferson was a member of the Twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry, and died July 25, 1865, in Edgar County, Illinois, aged thirty-three years; Mrs. Lydia Schrader, a resident of California; Madison, the subject of this sketch; Milton, who now lives in Edgar County, Illinois, was a soldier in the Seventy-ninth Illinois Infantry. Samuel Nolan was a second time united in marriage to Mrs. Lucinda Fitzgerald, who survived him about four years. Madison Nolan, whose name heads this sketch, was reared on the homestead of his parents, and educated in the schools of his neighborhood. With the exception of the time spent in the late war and two years in Kansas and Missouri, he has always lived in Vermillion County and near the home of his birth. While a young man he taught two terms of school. He was a loyal and ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln's administration, and August 12, 1862, he enlisted in defense of the Union, becoming a member of Company D, Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry. The regiment left Indiana September 3 following, and was employed on guard and garrison duty and in protecting lines of communication in Kentucky and Tennessee until