. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. western Ohio Normal school, at Ada, and it was tofurther his education he came to Logansport in April, 1885, to enter theAmerican Normal College, then situated on College Hill, north of thecity. In the winter of 1885-6 he taught in Pulaski county and it wasthere that he met Carrie Belle Tyler, whom he married May 25, this union one daughter was born, Sagie Velle Fenton, August 17,1888. Mrs. Fenton was bom in VanBuren township
. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. western Ohio Normal school, at Ada, and it was tofurther his education he came to Logansport in April, 1885, to enter theAmerican Normal College, then situated on College Hill, north of thecity. In the winter of 1885-6 he taught in Pulaski county and it wasthere that he met Carrie Belle Tyler, whom he married May 25, this union one daughter was born, Sagie Velle Fenton, August 17,1888. Mrs. Fenton was bom in VanBuren township. Clay county, In-diana, February 10, 1866, the youngest of the four children of RoxieVeUe Usher and Sage R. Tyler. Her father was born at Cape May,New Jersey, August 18, 1836. His father, Nathaniel Tyler, was ofScotch-Irish extraction and his mother, Abigail Scull, was born in Eng-land. On the maternal side, Mrs. Fenton traces her lineage back to theyear 1730, when Hezekiah Usher, who kept the first book store in Bos-ton, married Abigail Cleveland. The mother of Mrs. Fenton was bornAugust 21, 1839, in Madison county, New York, the daughter of Isis 1137038. CHARLES 0. FENTON HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY 743 Burdick and IMoses Usher. Wlien five years old she came to Indianawith her parents and grandparents, the latter being Dr. NathanielUsher and Lucy Palmer, of West Haddon, Connecticut. Dr. and were the parents of Judge John P. Usher, secretary of interiorin Abraham Lincolns cabinet. This branch of the Usher family re-moved to the state of Kansas. Mr. Fenton also taught school at the Stone and Clymer schools inClinton township, Cass county. At the time of his marriage he hadcharge of the commercial department of the American Normal Collegeand was writing editorials and reporting for the Logansport Times,receiving for his newspaper work one dollar per week. On May 28,1888, he bought the Logansport Times, then owned by twenty Prohibi-tion stockliolders. His first vote had bee
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