History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . 22 1 in 1883. He was at once appointed deputy treasurer ofGibson county. From 1889 until 1894 he held the posi-tion of postmaster at Princeton, and then for four yearstraveled as freight and passenger agent of the Peoria,Decatur & Evansville railroad, which position he resignedto accept the appointment of chief deputy collector ofinternal revenue, and July 12, 1898, he placed in the handsof his employer his resignation that he might accept thecommission urged upon him in which he was made adju-tant of the One Hun
History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . 22 1 in 1883. He was at once appointed deputy treasurer ofGibson county. From 1889 until 1894 he held the posi-tion of postmaster at Princeton, and then for four yearstraveled as freight and passenger agent of the Peoria,Decatur & Evansville railroad, which position he resignedto accept the appointment of chief deputy collector ofinternal revenue, and July 12, 1898, he placed in the handsof his employer his resignation that he might accept thecommission urged upon him in which he was made adju-tant of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana VolunteerInfantry. Lieutenant Tichenor was journal clerk of the Indianalegislature in 1886-7, and but for his youth would doubt-less have been elected to the clerkship of the supremecourt of Indiana, for which position he was a candidatein 1894. 222 HISTORY OF THE JOHN RICH BRUNT. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster John Rich Bruntis a man fitted for the responsible position he held by a lifeof varied business experiences. He was born in Madison. John Rich Brunt. county, Indiana, July 29, 1845, and is consequently theoldest man m the regiment. His grandfather was NathanLee, of Virginia, and was killed in the war of 1812 at ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTV-FIRST INLIANA. 223 Sacketts Harbor. When twenty years old LieutenantBrunt went into what was then the far west, where for fiveyears he remained, leadinj:,^ the life of a hunter and was his intention to return for a collej^iate course, butthe fascination of frontier life changed that intention, anduntil 1870 he was a scout and guide. In this year he wasunited in marriage to Miss Lois C. Vanlandingham, daugh-ter of a cousin to Hon. Clement L. Vanlandingham. Afterhis marriage he gave up the adventurous life he was lead-ing and became bookkeeper and manager for a railroad con-tractor at what afterwards became Chanute, Kansas, inwhich place Lieutenant Brunt built the first house evererected. He then served
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