LACEY, MAJOR JOHN F., whose portrait is found on another page of this work, was born in West Virginia, at New Martinsville, in 1841. The days of his childhood were spent in New Martinsville and Wheeling, in the schools of which latter place and those of Mahaska county, the Major laid the foundation for his success by a thorough mastery of those rudimental branches which the artificial style of our modern schools sometimes ignore, to the great misfortune of the youth attending. Young Lacey removed to Oskaloosa with his parents in the spring of 1855, being then fourteen years of age. Having commenced the study of law, the call of April, 1861, for troops, roused the young student from his dreams over Greenleaf and Vattel. In the very front of those who sprang to answer the treasonable roar of the guns upon Sumpter, John F. Lacey enlisted in Co. H, 3d Iowa Infantry, which left Mahaska May 30, 1861, his twentieth birthday. The close of the battle at Blue Mills Landing found young Lacey a prisoner of the Southern Confederacy. Fortunately he was paroled at Lexington, Missouri, after the seige of that place, and as a paroled prisoner was discharged November, 1861; he returned to the law books in the office of Samuel A. Rice, in Oskaloosa; but when Mahaska made her great contribution to Uncle Sam, the flower of chivalry in the 33d Regiment, young Lacey, having been exchanged with the other paroled prisoners, again enlisted as private in Co. D, and was soon appointed sergeant major of the regiment. In the following spring he was promoted and commissioned first lieutenant, after which time he was on staff duty; his most active service was in the battle of Helena, the expedition on Yazoo Pass, and in the campaigns against Little Rock and Camden, and the campaign of Mobile, where he took part in the last battle of the war - the storming of Blakely. After the death of General Rice at Jenkin's Ferry, Major Lacey was appointed on the staff of General Steele as adjutant general, and acted in that capacity until after the fall of Richmond; he then went with General Steele, who commanded 40,000 men in the army of observation on the Rio Grande. Having returned to Oskaloosa in 1865, and completed his legal studies, he was admitted to the Bar, and has since been engaged in practice in that place. In 1869 he was elected to the legislature from Mahaska county, and served one term. Not only has Major Lacey served his country in the military and civil list, but he has likewise benefitted his profession in the preparation of valuable legal works; the major is energetic, a diligent student and an indefatigable worker; he published the 3d Iowa Digest, making with Judge Dillon's and Judge Hammond's the complete Digest of Iowa Reports; he also published in 1875 Lacey's Railway Digest, being a full Digest of Railway Cases and Railway Law; this is a volume of 1,000 pages, and is a very complete and exhaustive work. In that other sphere of life where mankind is to look for the most of happiness this world gives, where the soul is fed, the manhood strengthened and his nobility nourished - in his own home, Major Lacey has been abundantly blessed. The partner of his joys and the sharer of life's ills he found in the person of Miss Mattie Newell, of Ohio, whom he married September 19, 1865; four children, Nellie, Raymond, Kate and Bernice, are the complement of his family circle.

LAFFERTY, GEO. W., attorney, firm, Lafferty & Johnson, Oskaloosa. Born in Mercer county, Pa., April 9, 1838; he was brought up and received his education there; upon the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in April, 1861, in the 10th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Co. G, and afterward enlisted in the service for three years. He was in the second battle of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, and in all the battles of the wilderness up to May 31, 1864; after the war he came to Iowa and located here July 16, 1864; he read law with John R. Needham and was admitted to the bar in 1865, and was associated with him in the practice of his profession until the death of Mr. Needham, in July, 1868; he soon after associated with J. Kelly Johnson, which association still continues; he was elected district attorney in the fall of 1874, which office he still holds; he married Miss S. A. Fisher, from Warren county, O., December 26, 1865; they have one daughter, Mabel E.

LATCHEM, JAMES S., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Sherman, Poweshiek county; born in Camden county, N. J., in 1826, and came to this State in 1856; owns 152 acres of land; he married Miss Elizabeth Porch, 1852; she was born in New Jersey, and died October 17, 1866; he afterward married Mrs. Isabell Watkins, May 3, 1868; has three children, Belle, Maggie E. and Nellie E.; Mrs. Latchem was previously married to John E. Watkins, in 1856; he was born in Ohio, and died July 8, 1865; left two children, Ida I. and Laura A.

LAUGHLIN, ADAM, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Olivet; was born in the town of Elizabeth, Alleghany county, Penn., January 5, 1822; his parents moved to Carroll county, O., when the subject of this sketch was about nine years of age, where he lived until the fall of 1851, when he came to this county; he married Miss Margaret Price, in March, 1850; she was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1832; have six daughters and one son: Josephene, Rebecca, Stella, Viola M., Margaret, Carrie, and William B. Has a farm of 120 acres.

LAUGHLIN, D. F., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Olivet; owns a farm of 120 acres; was born in Elizabeth, Alleghany county, Penn., Nov. 6, 1816; he lived there about sixteen years; his parents then moved to Carroll county, Ohio, where he lived until the spring of 1847, and then removed to this county and located where he now lives; he married Miss Margaret Robertson, March 14, 1844; she was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., March 26, 1814. They have no family.

LAUGHREY, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Mauch Chunk; owns 320 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1818; came to Iowa in 1865, and settled on his present farm; he married Harriett Nash; she was born in England in 1824; they have eight children, Sarah, Melissa, Francis, John, Ross A., Caroline, Emily, and Willie; they are members of the Baptist Church.

LAWRENCE, S. B., dealer in grain, stock and agricultural implements, New Sharon; born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1832, and came to this State in 1862; owns 160 acres of land; has held office of town trustee; married Miss Kittie Benedict in 1856; she was born in Ohio.

LEATHERS, J. H., dealer in general merchandise; owns 160 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; born in Morgan county, Indiana, in 1836; came to Iowa in 1845; married M.A. Mattox in 1861; she was born in Union county, Ohio, in 1840; have two children: Cordelia J., born in 1862, and Mary Adelade, born in 1864; are members of the Christian church.

LEE, GEO. R., editor Oskaloosa Herald. Born at Verplank, New York, February 25, 1842; he was brought up and lived there, except one year spent in Connecticut, until thirteen years of age, and came with his parents to Iowa, and located in Oskaloosa in October, 1855; he entered the printing office of the Oskaloosa Times in 1858, and remained until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in the first company organized in this town under the call for 75,000 men; the company was not accepted and temporarily disbanded; he went to Illinois and enlisted in Chicago in the 1st Illinois Artillery, Co. E; their battery fired the first gun in the battle of Shiloh; on account of sickness he was obliged to return home; he was in siege of Vicksburg and siege of Jackson; after the war he returned to Muscatine county for four years, then came here and entered the Herald office, and continued there until 1877, when he became associated with Henry C. Leighton in publishing the Herald; upon the death of Mr. Leighton, January 31, 1878, he assumed the entire editorial charge of the paper. He has held the office of city clerk for four years. The subject of this this sketch is a man of taste and good order in all that he undertakes; as a compositor at the case he was among the most rapid in the west, and as foreman of the Herald office, he always kept things "in apple pie order," until by the death of Mr. Leighton, he was called to the editorial chair of the great journal, of which he had been one of its best builders. He married Miss Mary E. Dumont, daughter of Richard and Sarah Dumont, of Oskaloosa, and formerly of New York City, April 8, 1868. They have three children, Edith, Florence and Ralph, and have lost one daughter, Leona.

LEIGHTON, CHARLES, business manager of the Weekly Oskaloosa Herald, Oskaloosa; was born twelve miles east of Ottumwa, Wapello county, Iowa, January 21, 1846, and in 1847 his parents removed to Oskaloosa. When fifteen years old, he commenced in the Herald office to learn the printing business; but in May, 1864, dropped his stick and enlisted in company I, Forty-seventh Iowa Infantry, and served till October, 1864. In Dec., 1865, he went west and spent five years on the plains, and in the mountains. September 21, 1870, he was married to Hester A. Wray, who was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, December 13, 1850. The issue of this marriage was one son, Harry, and one daughter, Ida, both of whom are deceased. After marrying he went into the lumber business in Oskaloosa, in which he was engaged until February, 1878, when, by the death of his brother, the lamented Henry C. Leighton. he was called to the administration of the estate of he deceased, and became business manager of the Herald. The subject of this sketch is a self-made man, and is noted for his energetic and methodical business habits; which, together with his quiet and reserved manner, stamp him with the indelible impress of those elements of his elder brother, whose place at the desk he so worthily fills.

HENRY C. LEIGHTON. Occasionally we find a man who has been the pride of a community in his youth, a brother and friend to his neighbors in manhood, and venerated as a father in his old age, who, when in the fullness of years and honor has wrapped the "drapery of his couch about him, and lain down to pleasant dreams," an entire section of country sincerely mourns his loss, and experiences, in common with his kinsmen, the feeling of genuine affliction. But rare, very rare, is the case in which one so young as the subject of this sketch is so universally mourned as was Henry C. Leighton, who died January 31, 1878, as the age of thirty-five. We realize that the community which so honored him in his life and remembered him in death, will appreciate a sketch of his life in the History of Mahaska county.

Henry C. Leighton was born in Mt. Sterling, Ill., November 21, 1842, his parents removing to Oskaloosa in 1847. With only the common school education which has furnished equipment for some of the greatest journalists of the country, he entered the Oskaloosa Herald office at seventeen years of age, in which he worked as a typo. In August, 1862, when not yet twenty years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company D., of the gallant Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, and soon took his place among those who manifested their love for the Union by facing the enemy's guns. Immediately after his enlistment he was appointed second corporal, and from there through the office of second to that of first lieutenant. As adjutant of his regiment he mustered out August 7, 1865, just three years after date of his enlistment.

Upon his return from the army he re-entered the Herald office as one of its proprietors, and from that time till the day of his death his devotion to his profession was most constant and untiring. He sacrificed to his paper, probably his life. Chivalrous in editorial debate, enterprising in management, first in every moral reform, his journalistic career made him the idol of his friends, the admired of his rivals and opponents.

In 1870 he was chosen chairman of the Republican Central committee of Mahaska county, and subsequently served two years as chairman of the State Central committee, and for his management received the encomiums of the press throughout the state. He was post-master at Oskaloosa at the time of his death.

As secretary of Triluminar Lodge in Oskaloosa, from 1872 to 1874; as Senior Warden from 1874 till 1876; from 1876 to 1877 as its Master, he grew in high esteem among his fellow Masons. He was Eminent Commander of De Payen's Commandery from 1874 to 1876.

His death at the date above mentioned was sudden and unexpected. The Herald issued just one week previously, January 24, was in part the work of his hands, and a copy of the same was fixed in their cold clasp under the coffin lid. Inside was a paper on which was written the following stanza:

The good alone are truly great,
To him will virtue yield the prize,
Who seeks to better man's estate,
And renders earth a paradise.

A meeting of citizens, another of fellow-soldiers, his brother Sir Knights, and members of Lodge, hastened to assemble upon his death to do honor to his memory, and express sympathy to his family. The press of the entire state contained expressions of mourning and regret. But the testimony of esteem which surrounded his bier was the most tender and toughing of all. No such a concourse ever before attended a Mahaska citizen to his grave. The secretary and auditor of state, and the lieutenant-governor, his fellow-editors from Keokuk, Des Moines, Ottumwa, Pella, Marshalltown, Knoxville, Albia, Eddyville, Montezuma, New Sharon and elsewhere, testified their mourning by their presence on the Monday, February 4, appointed for his funeral. Two hundred Sir Knights and four hundred Master Masons from various parts of the state assisted in the ceremony at the open grave, including the recitation of the Lord's Prayer by the entire assembly, a service never to be forgotten by those present.

Thus did Iowa bury one of her representative men, and Iowa journalism lost one of its brightest ornaments.

LEIGHTON, TOBIAS, assistant postmaster, Oskaloosa. Born in Somerset county, Maine, April 4, 1812; he was brought up there and learned the carpenter's trade; he removed to Illinois in 1836, and lived there eight years and came to Wapello county, Iowa, in 1844; he came to Oskaloosa in 1847 and engaged in building; he is one of the early settlers, and has held town and school offices; married Miss Harriet Coe, from Greene county, Ill., December 3, 1840; they have two sons, Charles and William, and have lost six sons.

LENTZ, GEORGE, carpenter; P. O. Fremont; born in Butler county, Ohio, January 5, 1838; lived there about seven years; his parents then emigrated to Keokuk county, Iowa, about five miles from where he now lives; he moved to Fremont in 1855; is justice of the peace; he married Miss Rebecca J. Able August 12, 1861; she lived but fifteen days after marriage; she was a native of Indiana; he was married again to Sophia Pfeiffer September 15, 1861, a native of Bavaria, Germany; they have one son and three daughters, Mary E., Eda A., Arminta, and Ralph J; he was township clerk one year. and secretary of school board seven years; owns a farm on 90 acres.

LESTER, WM., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Agricola; born in County Doun, Ireland, May 10, 1829; he came to the United States in 1848, and settled in Philadelphia; afterward emigrated to Michigan, and came to this county in 1856; he married Miss Jane Bell, in 1851; she was born in Ireland; they have nine children, David, William, Betsey A., Jennie, Julia, Louisa, Joey, James, and Thomas.

LEVI, MORRIS L., dealer in ready made and custom clothing, and gent's furnishing goods, Oskaloosa; born in Clear Spring, Washington county, Maryland, August 5, 1845; he lived there until sixteen years of age, when he removed to Goshen, Indiana, and was engaged in clerking for his father until 1866, when he came to Iowa, and engaged in his present business May 1, 1866, and has continued since then doing a large and extensive business; he has held the office of city councilman, and is treasurer of Masonic Lodge, and has been connected with several other organizations.

LIBBY, J. R., farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Leighton; owns 166 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; born in Delaware in 1816; came to Iowa in 1840; removed to this county in May, 1843; he married Elizabeth Higgenbothem in 1846; she was born in 1819; they have nine children, Mary, William, Harriet, James, Charles, Elizabeth, Ida, Hester, and Jerry; they are members of the Christian Church.

LIEURANCE, A. J., physician and dealer in general merchandise, Sec. 4; P. O. Mauch Chunk; owns 25 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre; born in Warren county, Illinois, in 1853, and came to Iowa in 1853 with his parents; married Hattie Lippard in 1876; she was born in this county in 1853; have one child: Thurlow W.; Mrs. Lieurance is a member of the Christian church. Democrat.

LIEURANCE, GEORGE, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Mauch Chunk; owns 142 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1825; came to Iowa in 1844, and located in this county; married Amanda Jared in 1844; she was born in Kentucky, in 1827; have four children: Cynthia L., A. J., Joseph M., and Delbert C.; Mr. Lieurance enlisted in company C., 40th Iowa, in 1862, and was discharged in 1863; he had a commission as first lieutenant. Democrat.

LINDLY, E. D., cashier of the National State Bank; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1849, and was brought up and received his education there; came to Iowa in 1867, and located in Oskaloosa, and has been connected with the bank since 1870, and has held the position of cashier for the past three years.

LINDLY, W. A., cashier and manager of the Mahaska County Savings Bank, Oskaloosa; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1846; he was brought up and received his education at Waynesburg; he came to Iowa in 1866, and located in Oskaloosa; he was engaged in mercantile business for two years, and since then has been connected with banking business; he held the office of city treasurer for six years; married Miss Eliza Wray, from Indiana, near Indianapolis, September 20, 1870; they have two children, Mabel and Henry.

LOCKART, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Olivet; was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 19, 1816; he lived there until four years of age; his parents then moved to Licking county, Ohio, where he lived until fifteen years of age, and then moved to Franklin county, Ohio; lived there until eighteen years of age, and then moved to Fountain county, Ind.; lived there until 1846, and then came to this county; been on his present farm nineteen years; has a farm of 220 acres. He married Miss Mary Funk, Feb. 19, 1837; she is a native of Pickaway Co., Ohio; they have three sons and four daughters: Isaac M., John F., Robert E., Emma Nora (now Mrs. D. W. Hartman), Maggie, Mary E., (now Mrs. Cicero Wingfield), Alice E. (now Mrs. Henry Waldrip).

LOFLAND, COL. JOHN, collector internal revenue, Oskaloosa; born in Belmont county, Ohio, January 10, 1830, and was brought up and received his education in that State; he came to Iowa and located in Oskaloosa in 1855, and engaged in the marble business; after the breaking out of the war he went in the army; enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment Iowa Infantry, and was captain of Company D; was in the battle of Helena, July 4, 1863; also as Shell Mound, Mississippi, and in the skirmishes from Helena until the taking of Little Rock; also at Jenkin's Ferry, Spanish Fort, nine day's fight at the taking of Mobile; he was promoted, and commissioned Lieut. Colonel; though the shot passed through his clothes and hat, he was never wounded, and never lost a day's duty; after the war he returned, and was appointed assistant-assessor of internal revenue, August 1, 1869, and in 1873 was appointed to his present position, deputy- collector internal revenue; married Miss Sarah J. Bartlett, from Harrison county, Ohio, December 4, 1851; they have two children, Frank c., clerk in the post-office at Oskaloosa, and Charles W., civil engineer on the Burlington & Missouri R.R.; they lost one son, George B.

LONG, JOHN, firm of John Long & Sons, manufacturers of brick and draining tile; born in England, December 12, 1814; he was brought up and learned his business of brick and tile making, and was engaged in that business until 1868, when he came to America and located in Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the same business there until 1877, when he came here, and associated with his sons; they selected ten acres of land, and engaged in manufacturing brick and tile; they have three kilns, having a capacity of 50,000 each, and have a capacity of making 20,000 per day; they built their own machinery, and have their drying sheds heated by steam, requiring from 3,000 to 4,000 feet of steam pipe, thereby enabling them to manufacture all winter; they make an excellent quality of tile, and have a capacity of making 10,000 daily; he married Elizabeth Dawson, from England, August 30, 1838, and they have seven children, John D., Edward, Thomas, Henry, Ann, Mary J., Hannah E.

LORING, D. W., dealer in drygoods; born in Belpre, Washington county, Ohio, December 1, 1821, and was brought up there; he came to Iowa and located in Oskaloosa December 17, 1851, and engaged in the mercantile business; he used to haul his goods from Keokuk; it was a long, tedious trip, and during the winter season it was attended with much suffering from cold and exposure; Mr. Loring is the oldest merchant in this city, there being no one in business here now that was here when he came; he has held town and school offices; married Miss Mary K. Soule, from Marietta, Ohio, in March, 1853; they have two children, Mary L. and Frank W., and have lost two children, Henry and Willie.

LORING, MAJOR F. H., firm of Shaw & Loring, grocery and provision dealers, Oskaloosa; born in Centre Belpre, Washington county, Ohio, July 9, 1832, and was brought up there; during the war he enlisted in Ninety-second Regiment Ohio Infantry, Company G, July 26, 1862; he, having raised the company, was elected and commissioned captain Company g; was in battles of Reseca and Dalton, and from there to Kenesaw Mountain and Atlanta; in active service most of the time; he was under Sherman from "Atlanta to the sea"; was discharged June 25, 1865; he was in the service three years and did not receive a scratch, and was not reported off duty a single day; the last year in the army he commanded a battalion and was promoted major by brevet; he came to this county in 1865, and since then has been engaged in business here; he married Miss Delia Armstrong, from Washington county, Ohio, in 1863; they have four children, Lizzie M., Charles M., Carrie A., Mabel H.; C. R. Loring, father of Major Loring, died in 1873, at eighty-four years of age, and at that time was the oldest native born citizen in the State of Ohio.

HON. WILLIAM LOUGHRIDGE, Attorney-at-law, Oskaloosa, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his grand-parents having emigrated to America before the Revolution, settled in Pennsylvania, where his parents were born. His father, John Loughridge, was born in 1795; married Miss Rebecca McRea, and in 1820 removed to Ohio, where his wife died in 1850. He was a cabinet and chair-maker, which occupation he followed all his life, and died at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1857. The family consisted of James M., Mary, William, Susan, Samuel B., Elizabeth and Margaret.

William, the subject of this sketch, was born in Youngstown - formerly Trumbull - Mahoning county, Ohio, July 11, 1827; he had the advantage of a common school education. During his minority he worked in his father's shop, gaining a practical knowledge of the business, and was a "tramping jour" for two years, working in Rochester, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Stubenville, Ohio, studying law at every spare moment. In 1850 he entered the law office of Judge James Stewart, of Mansfield, Ohio, and the same year, at the fall term of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was admitted to the bar and practiced till April, 1852, when he formed a co-partnership in law with Gov. Mordica Bartley; subsequently he removed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of law. In 1855 he was elected mayor of Oskaloosa, and in 1856 was elected to the State Senate. In 1856 Mr. Loughridge was married to Miss D. L. Jones, of London, Ohio, the daughter of a Buckeye mechanic. She died in October, 1860, leaving two children, Charles and William. William followed his mother to the summer-land in March, 1861. In 1861 he was appointed by Gov. Kirkwood to fill the vacancy on the bench occasioned by the resignation of Judge Stone, of the Sixth Judicial District; and at the fall election of the same year, he was elected to the same office, and re-elected in the fall of 1862, this time to a full term, and served on the bench till January, 1867. In 1866 he was elected by the Republicans as Representative in Congress for the then fourth Congressional district, embracing the counties of Appanoose, Monroe, Wapello, Keokuk, Mahaska, Marion, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Benton and Tama, which was the most populous district in the United States. He was re-elected to the same office in 1868, and served to March 4, 1871. His Democratic opponent in 1868 was John P. Irish, of Iowa City, and his successor, after March 4, 1871, was M. M. Walden, of Centerville, Appanoose county.

In 1872 he was again elected as Representative in Congress from the Sixth District, comprising the counties of Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello, Keokuk, Mahaska, Marion, and Jasper. During his services as member of Congress, Mr. Loughridge stood as an able exponent and defender of the policy of the Republican party, and far above the average in the advocacy of the interests of the West. His career as a public man is too extensive for publication in such a work as this, and many of his speeches in Congress have attracted attention throughout the Nation; yet Mr. Loughridge himself is prouder of his office of mayor of the city of Oskaloosa, in 1855-6, than of any other office he ever held. He stands more than six feet high, and is a powerfully built man, being possessed of great energy and force of character. In his manner he is quiet and unassuming, yet positive and earnest in his sentiments.

LOYD, WILEY, blacksmith, New Sharon; born a slave in North Carolina, in 1834; was sold and taken to Tennessee, where he remained until he came to this State, in 1864; he married Celia Fane, in 1862; she was born in North Carolina.

LUCAS, DR. T. H., farmer, Sec. 24; manager of the poor farm; P. O. Oskaloosa; was born in Hancock county, Tenn., March 25th, 1839; he lived there but a short time, when his parents moved to Washington county, Indiana; he came to this county in 1866; has had charge of the poor farm three years; he married Miss L. A. Collins, March 27, 1864; she is a native of Indiana; they have one adopted son, Fredie. Mr. L. served nearly five years in the late rebellion; enlisted July 21, 1861, in Co E, 42d Illinois Vol. Inf.; was mustered out Dec. 25, 1865, at Port Lavaca, Texas.

LUNDY, ELI, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Granville; born in Union county, Ohio, September 10, 1826; came to this county in March, 1845, being among the earliest settlers; he has served as township treasurer of the school fund; he married Miss Lucinda Lathrop in 1848; she was born in Ohio; he enlisted in the 15th Iowa Infantry in the late war, and served until discharged.

LUNDY, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Peoria; born in Union county, Ohio, in 1822; came to this county in 1845; owns 375 acres of land; he married Miss Martha Mershon in 1842; she died in 1844; he afterward married Nancy Godby, in 1848; she was born in Kentucky; has five children: Martha, Ann, Milton, Lafayette and Cornelia.

LYON, E. B., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Oskaloosa; farm 200 acres; was born in Switzerland county, Indiana, May 12, 1824; he lived there until 1851, and then came to this county and purchased the place where he now lives, and then returned to Indiana, where he remained until 1854, and then returned to this county; has been married twice; married Eliza Granger, a native of Oberlin, O., November 8, 1846, she was born July 23, 1825, died March 9, 1857; married again to Matilda Carpenter, a native of Kentucky, but raised in Indiana, September 22, 1858, two children by first wife, Lewis and Martha; four children by second wife, Jennie, May, Albert, and Olive.

LYONS, THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Indianapolis; born in County Doun, Ireland, 1826, and came to this county in 1856; owns 160 acres of land; has held the offices of school director and treasurer, township trustee; he married Miss Ann J. Lester, in 1850; she was born in Ireland; they have two children, David and Jennie.