HADLEY

Alonzo M. Hadley, senior partner of the law firm of Hadley & Abbott of Bellingham, was born in Sylvania, Parke county, Indiana, October 4, 1867, a son of Jonathan and Martha Hadley. The father was also a native of Parke county, born March n, 1831, and was there reared and educated, after which he devoted his entire life to farming in that locality. In Parke county on the nth of March, 1852, he was married to Miss Martha McCoy and they became the parents of three sons: Judge H. E. Hadley, now of Seattle; Lin H., member of congress from the Bellingham district; and Alonzo M. The father was of the Quaker faith and passed away in his native county in 1894 at the age of sixty-three years.  Alonzo M. Hadley attended the public schools of his native town until he reached the age of seventeen, when he continued his studies in the Bloomingdale Academy at Bloomingdale, Indiana. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for a year in Parke county, and later he attended Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, pursuing a two years' scientific course. At the end of that time he devoted another year to teaching in his native county and then went to Rockville, Indiana, where he entered upon the study of law in the office of Elwood Hunt, there pursuing his reading until April, 1891, when he was admitted to the bar and entered into partnership with his former preceptor under the firm style of Hunt & Hadley. There he remained until 1894, when he removed to Indianapolis, where he practiced law independently until 1898. In that year he came to Bellingham, where he became connected with the law firm of Dorr & Hadley, the latter being his brother Lin. In 1909 he was admitted to the partnership, at which time the firm name was changed to Hadley, Hadley & Abbott. On the 1st of March, 1915, Lin H. Hadley retired from the firm on his election to congress and the association between the other partners is maintained under the Foundation style of Hadley & Abbott. They are now accorded a good clientage that connects them with much important litigation and in the trial of his cases Mr. Hadley has proven himself an able lawyer of wide legal learning and notable resourcefulness in defending his cause. .In Kankakee, Illinois, on the 10th of June, 1901, Mr. Hadley was united in marriage to Miss Edna Beebe and during their residence in Bellingham they have made many warm friends. Mr. Hadley is a prominent Mason, having taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites and also of the Mystic Shrine. He is a past high priest of Bellingham Bay Chapter, No. 12, R. A. M., and past commander of Hesperus Commandery, No. 8, K. T., and at present is senior warden of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, No. 3, of the Scottish Rite. He also belongs to the Elks lodge and he is a member of the Bellingham Country Club and of the Cougar Club. He adheres to the religious faith of his ancestors, being identified with the Society of Friends, and his political belief is that of the republican party. Laudable ambition prompted his removal to the west with the hope of making for himself a creditable place in professional circles and this he has done, for Bellingham numbers him among her most distinguished and able members of the bar. - Washington, West of the Cascades: , Volume 3, Pages 242 – 245 -  By Herbert Hunt, Floyd C. Kaylor, 1917

Ira Hadley - the settlers of Montgomery County of the year 1882 number among its band the substantial farmer and splendid citizen of Bolton, Ira Hadley, of this brief review.  He came in response to the general movement of the time and place toward Kansas and emigrated from Parke County, Indiana.  He was born in the latter county and state August 30, 1845, where his father Simon Hadley settled in 1834 and where he maintained his residence till his death in 1896.  Simon Hadley was born in Chatham County, North Carolina in 1810 and was consequently 24 when he took up his residence in the wooded country of western Indiana. There he aided by physical effort the clearing up of the county in which he lived and was one of its moderately successful farmers. In his northward and westward journey he came through Ohio where he sojourned temporarily working as a farm hand and doing other manual labor as the necessities of the occasion required. He was a son of Jacob Hadley who died in North Carolina and was one of the following children, Jonathan who went into Iowa; William remained in the Old North State; Thomas died in the state of his birth - North Carolina; ... a daughter who died in Hendricks County., Indiana and was the wife of Joseph Ronsley; Eleanor, wife of Owen Lindley died at Prairie Center, Kansas; Susan who married .. Harris of North Carolina and Eunice who became the wife of ... Marshall of the old Carolina home.  Simon Hadley married Eunice Hobson who survived until 1902 and died in Parke County, Indiana at the age of 79.  Their children were Eliza deceased; Ira; William of Bloomingdale, Indiana; Narcissa of Marshall, Indiana; Elwood of the same county; Rhoda who died at Rockville, wife of MW Marshall; Samuel and Ruth of Marshall and Albert and Mahlon of the same county and state.  Ira Hadley, our subject passed his life on his father's farm in childhood and youth and received a country school training. He brought his limited accumulation of 15 years of independent effort with him to Montgomery County, Kansas and purchased land in Sec 19, Twp 33 Rg 15 where he owns 140 acres. For some years he was engaged in the nursery business, having several acres of his farm devoted to the production of a large variety of horticultural plants with the promotion of which industry he was occupied until 1896.  As a farmer, grain raising claims his attention and he goes about his daily task in a modest, unassuming way.  In the month of January 1872, Mr. Hadley married in Fountain County, Indiana, his wife being Ruth H. Towell, a daughter of Isaac H. Towell and sister of Ira N. Towell mentioned on another page of this volume.  The issue of this marriage is as follows: Oliver O., born 1875; Clara E., born 1877; Eunice A., born 1879; John W., born in 1883; and Floyd S., born in Kansas in 1889. Without fuss or show Mr. Hadley has gone about the affairs of life and has merited and won an enduring position in the estimation of his fellow citizens. He has been true to his family, true to his neighbors and true to his political party.  He has been a Republican all his life and the issues and side issues of designing politicians have not attracted him or carried him away. He is a Mason. ( From: History of Montgomery County, Kansas, 1903, Jno S Gilmore; H W Young, L. W. Duncan, page 772.) ( Contributed by Sara Hemp)

HIXON

William Hixon said he lived in the state since December 24, 1807. The Indians were then our neighbors. Came to Terre Haute in 1817, then only one shell-bark hickory cabin. Much hardship on consequence of the War of 1812. Rose came in 1818. He (Hixon) cut the first stick of timber for the Roseville mill. The first court in the county was held in Roseville in a hatter’s shop. Was in Rockville when there was not a stick amiss. Old man Patterson was the first man that did work in Rockville. McCall did the first surveying. There was then 500 Indians to one white man.  Age 73 - Indiana Patriot, 23 September 1874

HUDSON

Benjamin F. Hudson, MD is enrolled on the list of successful physicians of Montezuma, Parke County where he is engaged in a good practice. This gentleman was born March 16, 1827 near New Richmond, Ohio.  His father was Davis, his mother Margaret Jackson Hudson, the former a son of William Hudson who was an early pioneer of Kentucky, who moved to Clermont County, Ohio where he took up and improved a farm, on which he lived until his premature death. He died in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was the father of 8 children, 3 sons and 5 daughters. The father of our subject, David Hudson was born in KY and went to OH with his parents, where he also located on a farm, and, like his father, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the fall of 1832 he moved by wagon to Vermillion County, Indiana where he bought and entered 160 acres, afterward accumulating 540 acres more. In his political sentiments, he was first a Whig and later a Democrat, and at one time performed the duties of a Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner. He died aged 69 years, his wife surviving him a number of years, nurturing 8 children: James H (deceased); Benjamin F; William (who was killed by a tree falling on him when a young man); Elizabeth; Elvira; Ruhama; Cleopatra and Rebecca.  The mother of our subject was born in Ohio and was the daughter of Joseph Jackson who went from Maryland to that state in an early day. This gentleman was a minister in the New Light Church. In 1832 he came to Indiana where he passed his last days. Our subject was reared on the old homestead, receiving a common school and academic education in the meantime, teaching school during the winters and working on the farm during the summer months. In 1851 he began the study of medicine with Griffith & Willetts, of Newport and 3 years later took a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College. In the spring of 1857 he was graduated from Miami Medical College and located in Montezuma, the following June, where he has since made his home and met great success as a practitioner. In 1868 he attended lectures at Louisville, Kentucky, and has since become a member of the Parke County Medical Society and of the State and Tri-State Medical Society.  He has been twice chosen Trustee, and was also Trustee of the corporation for 18 years. He is a leader in politics, being a Democrat of no uncertain tone, and has been a strong advocate of its principles ever since his first ballot was cast.  Dr. Hudson was married Dec 19, 1858 to Mary E. Stacey, who was a native of Massachusetts and the daughter of Jedediah F. and Clarinda Lynch Stacey, the former a railroad contractor and an extensive grain speculator.  To this couple was born on child, a daughter, Ada H, who has reached womanhood and become the wife of Frank S. Cumberland. The Doctor and his wife are popular in social circles, having many friends, and their hospitality is proverbial to all who cross their threshold. - Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain Counties, Indiana.  Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893, Page 650

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