Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . om the time he was large enoughto hold the plow, his summers were spent in the corn field and his win-ters in the little log school house on one corner of the place. His an-cesters on the paternal side were of pure English stock, and probablyemigrated to this country before the Revolutionary war. His grand-father on the mothers side, Jesse Elgin, Esq., came from Kentucky in1812, and settled at Claysville, Washington county, where he lived tobe nearly one hundred years old. His ance
Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . om the time he was large enoughto hold the plow, his summers were spent in the corn field and his win-ters in the little log school house on one corner of the place. His an-cesters on the paternal side were of pure English stock, and probablyemigrated to this country before the Revolutionary war. His grand-father on the mothers side, Jesse Elgin, Esq., came from Kentucky in1812, and settled at Claysville, Washington county, where he lived tobe nearly one hundred years old. His ancestors were long-lived on bothsides of the house. His opportunities for obtaining an education werenot first rate, and yet, by close application to his studies, he was en-abled to begin teaching school at the age of seventeen, which professionhe followed for about eleven years, having taught in the public schoolsat New Albany, in Salem High School and other places in the southernpart of the State. On the 23d of December, 1855, he was married toMary C. W., daughter of Professor James G. May, of Salem, ^^ L€^ 7-- ^-? (^ CAPTAIW-HKXRY M. SOCWELL. 455 His family now consists of his wife and five children, viz: Nannie —married daughter—Lula C, Charlie Morton, Wm. Claudeand Mary May. In 1861 he left the school room and raised a company for the 38thIndiana volunteer infantry, of which he was elected captain and wasmustered into the service in the summer of the same year. He com-manded the company until October, 1862, when he was elected majorof the regiment, which position he^held until the fall of 1863, when he wascompelled to resign on account of ill health. He took part in the greatbattles of Stone River and Perryville, besides the lesser engagements atHoovers Gap, Tennessee, and Dug Gap, Georgia. He was woundedat Perryville, but remained on the field to the end of the Stone River his horse was twice shot under him, and his clothingthree times
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