ALONZO J. HALL
Alonzo J. Hall, teacher, Volga, Smyrna township, Jefferson county, Ind., is a native of Jefferson county, Ind. was born December 18, 1853, brought up on a farm, was educated in the common schools of the county and graduated in 1878, at the Lebanon National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio.
After leaving school he engaged in teaching district schools in this county, and has been engaged in this work, principally, ever since; is now teaching Fairview school, in Republican township, this county.
He married, in 1885, Miss Mary A. Gasaway, daughter of Mrs. Mary A.Gasaway, of Deputy, Ind. Has one child--Homer G. Mr. Hall is a member of the Lick Branch Baptist Church. He owns a farm of eighty-eight acres of good land, one mile west of Volga postoffice.
His parents were Abner and Malinda (Walton) Hall, both natives of Indiana, and now living on a farm in Graham township. Both are members of the Lick Branch Baptist Church. His father is a prominent farmer of Graham township.
JOHN F. HAMMELL
John F. Hammell is the son of John and Mary (Aston) Hammell. His father was a native of Salem, Washington county, N.Y., and his mother of East St. Louis. His father settled in Harrison county in 1846; was a teamster in the Thirty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols., served eighteen months, when he was captured. Being attacked with rheumatism he went home. He was 58 years old when he went into the army. He was born May 31, 1803, and died in 1887.
Mr. John F. Hammell, the subject of this sketch, was born in Harrison county, Ind., May 7, 1847. He was the only son of his parents. He was reared in Jefferson county, his father removing to Trimble county, Ky., when he was but four or five years old.
In 1862, August 20, he enlisted in the Eighty-second Ind. Vols. as a private, then being only 15 years old. He served until the close of the war.
At the close of the war he worked in the ship-yard until 1874, when he opened a retail grocery, and is now doing a good business. He owns eleven house in West Madison, and holds the office of treasurer of West Madison.
He is a member of the I.O.O.F., K. of P. and G.A.R. Is Past Post Commander of G.A.R. Was the delegate from the Fourth Ind. Congressional District to the G.A.R. National Encampment, at San Francisco, Cal., in 1886.
He is at present Captain of Sons of Veterans. He was married, September 22, 1867, to Miss Sophia Blackard, of Madison, Ind., daughter of Peter and Rebecca (Johnson) Blackard, who were Virginians. They have no living children; but have one adopted daughter.
WM. WALLACE HINDS
Wm. Wallace Hinds is a native of Madison, Ind., born June 8, 1855; brought up in Madison, attended the city schools and Hanover College. He is also a graduate of the Commercial School of this city.
He became the city editor of the Madison Daily Star, June 1, 1880, and continued as such until it was absorbed in the Madison Daily Courier. He was then offered the circulation department of that paper, in January, 1884, which he accepted and held until August, 1888, when he gave up that position.
He was elected one of the trustees of the City Water Works in the spring of 1888, on the Republican ticket against a Democratic majority in the city. The trustees elected him president of the Board, and superintendent of the Water Works, which position he is still holding (Dec., 1888).
While with the Daily Courier, he was elected a member of the City Council in 1885 on the Republican ticket, and was reelected to the same position in 1886, from fourth ward of the city.
Mr. Hinds is an active Odd Fellow and a prominent member of the K. of P. Order, having held the position of Grand Inner Guard of the State, and is now District Deputy. He was captain of the Madison Division No. 10 U. Rank K. of P. He is now president of Walnut Street Fire Co. No. 4. He is an attendant of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city. Mr. W. W. Hinds is the son of James W. and Ruth C. (Cook) Hinds. His father was a native of Brattleborough, Vermont, born September 24, 1809, and came to Madison, Ind., when a young man.
He was a bricklayer and contractor; he built a great number of houses in Madison and built Hanover College and the court house in Madison. He also engaged in the mercantile business at Madison and in the coal business. He was County Commissioner of Jefferson county, and served in the City Council of Madison for a number of years. He was a prominent Republican and was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee for some years.
He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church in Madison. He was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows, having been made at one time Grand Master of the State, of that order. He was a good citizen. He died May 22, 1878, in the 69th year of his age, leaving a widow and five children; three boys and two girls.
The mother of W. W. Hinds was the daughter of David and Mary Cook and was a native of East Tennessee; she is still living at the age of seventy-six, and is quite an active, hale woman.
She is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Madison, Indiana, and is quite prominent in the work of that church and all other good works of that kind in the city; a benevolent sprit being one of the chief adornments of her character.
She was married to Dr. Joseph F. Lingle, at Paoli, Orange county, Indiana, in 1831. By this marriage she had one son, William Summerfield Lingle, who became the editor of the Lafayette (Indiana) Daily Courier, and was a prominent man in newspaper circles of the State. Mr. Lingle was also postmaster of Lafayette for four years.
In the year 1836, Mrs. Lingle was married to J. W. Hinds, and the fruits of this marriage were nine children - five boys and four girls.
