this is nice On 24 Nov 2002 16:48:34 -0700 [email protected] writes: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Luther, Stroud, Bowman, Matson, Grist, Gobel, Biggs, Barton, >Sherfey, Weinland, Randall, Scovill, >Classification: Biography > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xh.2ADE/1607 > >Message Board Post: > >This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on >Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. >I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not >know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t >know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it >has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the >biographies from it. > >Typed by Lora Radiches: > > > >Surnames in this biography are: Luther, Stroud, Bowman, Matson, Grist, >Gobel, Biggs, Barton, Sherfey, Weinland, Randall, Scovill, > >HON. PETER T. LUTHER in his profession as a lawyer and as a public >official and citizen was an interesting link between the modern >present and the rather remote past of Clay County. At the time of his >death, on August 29, 1929, citizens revived many memories of this >veteran lawyer, who had spent more than sixty years in the harness as >a practicing attorney and had been repeatedly honored with the >dignities and responsibilities of public leadership both in office and >in his party. Mr. Luther was born in Clay County, October 18, 1844, >and was nearing his eighty-fifth birthday when he died. His parents >were William and Charlotte (Stroud) Luther, and he was the last >survivor of their eleven children. His father was born in Randolph >County, North Carolina, October 27, 1804, and came when a youth to >Indiana, and married a girl from Crawford County, this state. About >1828 they located on a farm in Harrison Township, Clay County, and >were among the industrious homemakers and pionee! >rs of that region. Peter T. Luther grew up on the home farm, made the >best of his advantages in the public schools, and when nineteen years >old began teaching. Teaching enabled him to pay his expenses while in >Indiana University. In 1866, after returning home, he was nominated > by the Democratic Party as candidate for county surveyor. He was >elected and served two years, and during the winter resumed >teaching. In 1868 he was elected county recorder for a term of four >years. His first defeat as a candidate for office came with the > landslide of 1872, which swept all of the Republican nominees into >county offices. At that time he was candidate for clerk of the Circuit >Court. He was deputy sheriff from October, 1878, until October, 1880. >Mr. Luther was regarded as one of the old warhorses of the Democratic >party of the Fifth District. He described himself as a dyed in the >wool, rock-ribbed Democrat. He was very proud of his party regularity, >and could ne! >ver understand a man who would scratch a ticket or move from one party >affiliation to another. It is said that he never missed a local >political meeting of his party and for more than fifty years had >stumped the county in every political campaign and had often been >drafted by the district and state committees. He was never too busy or >too tired to lend his services to his party whether as a precinct >worker or as a political orator. After his last term in office Mr. >Luther joined another former recorder, L. J. Bowman, in an abstract >business. Mr. Bowman retired in 1882 and was succeeded by Charles E. >Matson, and the firm of Matson & Luther continued for seventeen years >as a law firm and also as abstractors of title and real estate >dealers. With the retirement of Mr. Matson, in 1899, Mr. Luther was >joined in the law and the abstract business by his son, William P. >Luther, and the firm of Luther & Luther continued until the death of >the senior partner. Mr. Luther was also vice ! >president and a director of the Davis Trust Company, was president of >the Clay County Building & Loan Association, and owned and operated a >large farm in Harrison Township. For several years he was in the >newspaper business at Bowling Green and Brazil. A native son >of Clay County, he was extremely interested in every- thing >pertaining to its history, and be supplied a great deal of valuable >information to the county centennial committees when the >centennial celebration was held. He was prominent in fraternal orders, >holding high offices and for many years attended grand lodge meetings. > Mr. Luther’s death occurred on the sixty-second anniversary of his >wedding. He married, August 29, 1867, Miss Mary Elizabeth Grist, >daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Gobel) Grist, and a granddaughter of >Nicholas and Nancy (Biggs) Grist, while her great-grand-father was >George Grist. Her grandfather, Nicholas Grist, was born in Kentucky, >came to Indiana and first ! >settled in Clark County and afterwards in Clay County. He served with >the Kentucky Volunteers in the War of 1812. Nicholas Grist is buried >in the Friendly Grove Church Cemetery in Lewis Township, Clay County. >Mrs. Luther’s father, Nicholas Grist, was a farmer and stock raiser >who spent all his life in Lewis Township, and both he and his wife are >buried in the Friendly Grove Church Cemetery. They had nine children, >Mrs. Luther, David T., Eunice, Sarah, Matilda, Rebecca, James, Rachael >E. and one that died in infancy. Mrs. Luther, her brother David and >her sisters Eunice and Rachael are the only survivors. Mrs. Luther >was born March 7, 1847, in Clay County, attended the common schools >and received tutoring at home, and during all her residence here has >been active in social welfare and civic work, being the only living >charter member of the Woman’s Reading Club of Brazil. She resides at >617 Meridian Street in Brazil. Mr. and Mrs. Luther had five children; >Minn! >ie L. is the wife of William E. Barton, of Indianapolis. William P. >married Mary M. Sherfey, and they have two children, William, a >graduate of the Indiana University, A. B., with the class of 1929, >admitted to the bar in 1930 and now associated with his father in the >law firm of Luther & Luther, and Lois Helen, a graduate of the DePauw >University and the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston. Nellie >L., the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Luther, is the widow >of Harry E. Weinland, who for many years was a prominent druggist of >Brazil, in the firm of Schultz & Weinland. They had two children, >Joseph L., a graduate of Purdue University, and Mary E., a graduate of >the class of 1981 from the Brazil High School. The two >deceased children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Luther are James C., who >died in childhood, and one who died in infancy. > > > > > >==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com