S. R. VINSON, of Roberts & Vinson, hardware dealers, is a member one of the oldest families of White County, his parents being Isaac S. and Rebecca (Johnson) Vinson. S. R. Vinson was born October 18, 1840, in West Point Township, White County, receiving in youth a fair education. He enlisted in Company F, Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry on the 12th of September, 1861, and after remaining at Camp Morton about a month, was ordered into active duty, and the first important engagement in which he participated was Ball's Bluff. After this, Mr. Vinson participated in the battles of Newmarket, second Winchester, second Bull Run and Antietam, and at this last-named engagement he was wounded by a ball in the ankle. He was an inmate of Findlay Hospital at Washington, D. C., for some time, and succeeding his recovery was employed as hospital clerk until he was finally discharged with his regiment September 12, 1864. He then came home, and shortly afterward embarked in railroading, being first stationed in Iowa, subsequently at Windfall, Crown Point, and lastly at Elwood, in Indiana. In May, 1882, he discontinued railroad life, took a trip out through Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas, then returned to the county of his birth to settle down into a steady business. He formed a partnership with E. P. Roberts in the hardware trade in Monticello, and this firm is doing a good business, carrying a full stock of everything to be found in a first class store of its kind. Mr. Vinson is a Mason and a member of the I.0. 0. F.; he is a Republican in politics, and November 22, 1871, he was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie A. Firth, of Reynolds. They have two children-Maud and Hattie.

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