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GLEN O. CHENOWETH , county superintendent of schools of Randolph County, brings to that office a competent experience in both country and town schools as a teacher and administrator. He is a very popular schoolman, a student, and a man of high ideals in the educational world. Mr. Chenoweth was born in Greens Fork Township, Randolph County, August 8, 1894, son of C. E. and Margaret (Buckley) Chenoweth. His father, a native of the same town-ship, carried on a mercantile business at Spartansburg for many years and died in 1918. The mother was born in Preble County, Ohio, and died November 8, 1929. Glen O. Chenoweth was graduated from high school at the age of seventeen, and has been engaged in school work ever since. During 1912 he attended the Marion Normal School and in 1919 graduated from the Muncie State Normal. In 1921 he received the A. B. degree from Ball State Teachers College at Muncie. For three years he taught a one-room school in the country, for another three years was in a town school and was principal of schools until August 16, 1929, when he took the office of county superintendent of schools of Randolph County. In 1921 he married Miss Martha Hawkins, who was born in Greens Fork Township, Randolph County, daughter of W. H. and Ida (Young) Hawkins. Her father is a native of Indiana and her mother of Ohio. Mr. And Mrs. Chenoweth have two daughters, Dorothy Jean and Margaret Mae. Mr. Chenoweth is a Methodist, a Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias, and the Winchester Rotary Club. His home is at Spartansburg and his office in the courthouse at Winchester.
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DR. JOHN T. CHENOWETH , one of the most experienced as well as one of the most popular physicians and surgeons of Winchester, Randolph county, Ind., was born near Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, on the 16th of November, 1833. His father, Thomas F. Chenoweth, was a native of Ross county, Ohio, and removed with his parents to Darke county, Ohio, when about six years of age. He grew to manhood there and was married to Miss Christina Thomas, in Preble county, Ohio.
He was always a prominent and highly respected citizen of this county, and was called upon to occupy local offices at various times. He served continuously for thirty years as justice of the peace, retiring finally on account of his age. His son John was reared on the home farm, and at an early age learned to perform his share of labor incident to farm life. During the winter he attended school, and at the age of eighteen years he adopted the vocation of school teaching, which he continued for about seven years. When twenty years of age he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Z.M. Lansdown, at Greenville, remaining under his instruction for two years.
Subsequently he went to Cincinnati, Ohio and continued his studies with Dr. C.H. Cleveland. He first graduated in medicine from the Eclectic Medical institute, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterward from the Medical college of Ohio, in the same city. He began the practice of his profession in March, 1860, at Huntsville, Randolph county, Ind., remaining there for a period of three and a half years. At the end of that time he removed to Williamsburg, Wayne county, Ind., where he enjoyed a successful practice extending over a period of twelve years. In 1875 he located at Winchester, and has been one of the successful practitioners of this town ever since. He is a member of the State Medical society, and was one of the organizers of the Delaware District Medical society, and the Randolph County Medical society, and is now an active member of both. He has been actively identified with many of the public improvements of this county, and has contributed liberally to enterprises inaugurated for the advancement of the county's interests. In politics he has affiliated with the republican party since the early days of his existence. He voted for John C. Fremont for president in 1856, and has since been an active worker for the success of his party. But his attention to his profession has prevented his acceptance of numerous public positions that have been tendered him from time to time. He was made a Mason in Acacia lodge, No. 242, at Washington, Wayne county, Ind., in December, 1867, and on the 5th day of February, 1868, received the master Mason's degree in the same lodge. In January, 1873, he withdrew from that lodge to take part in the organization in the lodge at Williamsburg, and in 1875 transferred his membership to Winchester lodge, No. 56, of which he is still an active member. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F., and has received the degrees of the subordinate lodge.
On the 4th of January, 1857, Dr. Chenoweth was united in marriage with Miss Hannah V., daughter of Josiah Miller, Esq., a prominent and highly respected citizen of Darke county, Ohio. By this union they are the parents of three children, named respectively Forest A., Ethel May and Martha, all of whom are now living. In the period of his residence in this county Dr. Chenoweth has established an enviable reputation as a physician, and has gained the confidence of the public and medical fraternity alike. In social and private life he is esteemed for his uniform courtesy and kindness, and his honorable and upright character. He has steadily risen in his profession and enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice.
A PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, INDIANA
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894
Page 857
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The Chenoweths
John T. Chenoweth and his third wife, Emily (Lawrence) were the first of the Chenoweths to arrive in the Jericho neighborhood. He purchased the farm originally taken by Eenoni Hill {Benoni Hill is his name} (S31-T15E). He also owned land in S6 T19N R15E. John T. Chenoweth brought with him four children (all from the third wife), namely, Elenora, William L., John Franklin, and George Edwin. The first two of these married and remained at Jericho. Both belonged to the Jericho Friends Meeting, The two younger boys left no permanent record in the Community. Neither John T nor his wife were ever members of the Meeting. They came a little before 1875 and remained until their deaths about the turn of the century. Edwin Milton Chenoweth was the second to come. He was a younger brother of John T. Chenoweth and had married Ruth Bowen, daughter of Squire Bowen, of near Spartansburg. Edwin Chenoweth purchased the Henry Hill farm and much of the old Abram Peacock farm and lived there till his death in 1919. He moved here in 1875 and brought with him four children; Hannah Belle, George Fremont, James Lincoln, and John William (Wick). The Chenoweths were members of the Christian Church. Edwin Chenoweth was never a member of the Jericho Meeting. However, his wife, Ruth, and her son, John William (Wick), joined the Meeting in 1894. She remained a member until her death in 1900. Wick was released at an unknown date, perhaps when he removed from the neighborhood to become an oculist in Winchester.
Jericho Friends Meeting And Its Community Randolph County, Indiana 1846
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MERL CHENOWETH in his career has been an educator, banker and merchant, and during most of his active life has lived in Randolph County. He was born in Wayne County, Indiana, March 6, 1873, son of Samuel B. and Carrie (Bowen) Chenoweth, both natives of Indiana, and grandson of John B. Chenoweth. His maternal grandparents were Squire and Elizabeth (Dwiggins) Bowen, the former a native of Greene County, Ohio, and the latter of Wayne County, Indiana. Squire Bowen was a son of Ephraim and Hannah (Hale) Bowen, natives of Pennsylvania, who from Ohio in 1814 came to Eastern Indiana and comprised the fourth family of settlers in Randolph County. The father of Ephraim Bowen was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Chenoweth's father, Samuel B. Chenoweth, was born in 1845, while his mother was born in 1850. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Wayne County, later moving to a farm in Green Fork Township in Randolph County. Men Chenoweth was reared on a farm, and after the common schools attended the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville, and in 1897 completed the scientific course in Valparaiso University. His teaching experience covered a period of eight years, and after graduating at Valparaiso he served five years as superintendent of the Green Fork High School. Mr. Chenoweth in 1902 established a bank at Gaston, Indiana, conducting it for seven and a half years. On locating at Winchester he organized the bond department of the People's Loan & Trust Company, and served as manager of that department until 1923, when the business was taken over by the People's Investment & Guaranty Company, with which Mr. Chenoweth still continues as the manager. He is also president and director of the Randolph County Sales Agency, handling the Ford agency in Winchester. Mr. Chenoweth married in 1896 Miss Altha Wise, who was born at Greenville, Ohio, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Bowen) Wise. Her father was born in Germany. Her mother, a native of Randolph County, was a daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Bowen. This Ephraim Bowen was a brother of Squire Bowen, grandfather of Mr. Chenoweth. Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth have two children. Their son, Opie, is a research engineer, connected with the Wright Aviation Field at Dayton, Ohio. The daughter, Elizabeth Marie, is a student in Oberlin College in Ohio. Mr. And Mrs. Chenoweth are Methodists. He is a Republican, and by appointment he served three years in the office of mayor of Winchester. He was the organizer of the Winchester Rotary Club
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EMERSON FRANKLIN CLOYD , superintendent of schools at Cambridge City, has had an interesting range of experience as an educator, having started his work as a district schoolman and most of his teaching has been in Eastern Indiana. He was born in Darke County, Ohio, May 81, 1888, son of Calvin and Phoebe (Wright) Cloyd. His father was a native of Iowa and his mother of Randolph County, Indiana, and they are now farmers near Farmland. Emerson Franklin Cloyd attended public schools, including the Farmland High School, and was twenty years of age when he took charge of a one-room district school, He remained with that one school for four years. In 1915 he was graduated with the A. B. degree from Earlham College of Richmond, and in other intervals of teaching has taken graduate study at the University of Chicago and the University of Cincinnati. For five years he was principal of schools at Williamsburg, Indiana, and on coming to Cambridge City was principal of the high school for four years and was then made superintendent of the Cambridge City and Jackson Township schools. Mr. Cloyd since 1917 has also been a licensed minister of the Friends Church. He is a member of the National Education Association and its superintendents’ division. He is a member of the Friday Night Club, Kiwanis Club, Masonic fraternity and a Republican in polities. He married in March, 1910, Miss Elsie Nixon, who was born in Jay County Indiana, daughter of James G. and Amelia (Adams) Nixon. Her father was born in Jay County and her mother near Farmland. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd have one son, Robert F., born February 4, 1917.

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WASHINGTON CORTNER , a successful farmer and stock raiser, of Monroe township, Randolph county, Ind., comes from the Buckeye state, having been born in Darke county, January 31, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm and remained at home until his marriage, April 4, 1860, to Huldah, daughter of William and Mary A. (Dungan) Bradrick, who were married February 28, 1836, and had born to them a family of ten children, named as follows: Elizabeth, William R., Catherine, Huldah, Benjamin F., Amanda A., Mary, Mahlon, Sylvester M. and John W. The mother of these bade farewell to earth March 2, 1887, and her mortal remains lie interred in the Macksville cemetery. The aged father survives, and, as did his deceased wife, enjoys the consolation of an abiding faith in the tenets of the Methodist church.
After his marriage, Washington Cortner resided on a farm in Darke county, Ohio, for three years, and then came to Monroe township, where he owned an eighty-acre farm, all wooded. Here he built his cabin, cleared off the timber, and wrought out from the wilderness a model farm, and after a residence of ten years in the original and primitive cabin erected a fine frame dwelling and added to his farm 110 acres, and added again, until he now owns 430 acres, all well improved, and all the result of his industry and enterprise, he having had only $500 on the start. His education in early life was somewhat limited, but he was quick to learn and was enabled, in his early days, to teach two terms of school, and this disciplinarian process has given him great aid in attaining his present comfortable condition. In addition to his farming, he largely handles live stock, making a specialty of thoroughbred cattle. He also is a stockholder in the Elkhorn Gas & Oil company. He has been munificent in his contributions to school and church enterprises, having contributed $100 to the Meriom college, and equally large sums to the various church edifices of his township and to the pikes. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cortner were named as follows: Noah F., deceased; Ezra L.; Alice Jane, wife of Henry Courtner; William H.; Rosella, wife of Wm. Bosworth; Jesse and Herbert.
A PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, INDIANA
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894
Page 1097
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FRANK M. CORY , superintendent of schools at Hagerstown, has been in schoolwork since he was seventeen years of age. He is a native of Eastern Indiana, born in Randolph County, July 5, 1892. Mr. Cory's parents, John W. and Ida May (Crouse) Cory, were also native Indianans, his father of Henry County and his mother of Randolph County, and in the latter county they have spent most of their active lives as farmers. Frank M. Cory attended grade and high school, grew up on an Indiana farm, and after his first work as a teacher he attended the University of Indiana, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1917. Mr. Cory won his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University, New York, in 1923. Several Indiana communities have a high measure of appreciation of his abilities as an educator. For three years he was principal of the public school at Fountain City, for three years was superintendent at Centerville, and then became assistant county superintendent of schools at Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Cory came to Hagerstown in 1926, as superintendent of the joint schools of town and township. He married, in 1919, Miss Marie Lumpkin, a native of Randolph County, Indiana, daughter of Robert and Nora (Maulsby) Lumpkin. They have four children, Charles Robert, Walter H., Margaret Louise and James Edward. Mr. Cory is a Baptist, and in politics votes independently. He is a Royal Arch and Council Degree Mason, and is president of the executive committee of the local Boy Scouts organization. He was chairman of the Lions Club in 1931. He is a member of the School Men's Club of Indiana, the City and Town Superintendents Association of Indiana and the National Education Association.
This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don't know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
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Amy (Weirman) Cox
Amy Cox, daughter of William and Amy Weirman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1765. She married Joshua Cox, the son of William and Naomi Cox, in Pennsylvania (Monallen MM) in 1787. They removed to Wayne County, Indiana, in 1821 and became members of the New Garden MM. Joshua Cox died there the same year. By 1824. Amy (Weirman) Cox had purchased 80 acres of land in S29 T2ON R15 E, as shown. She lived here until her death around 1850, at which time she was buried in the old Jericho burying-ground. Joshua and Amy had eight children. Only five of these are known to have been associated with the Jericho neighborhood. These were Joshua, who married a Mariah McGee in Penna; William who married Ruth Griffith; Amy, who married David Lyle; Samuel, who married Edith McMillan; and Solomon, who married
Zebiar. Anne Cox was the youngest daughter (probably). She married Job Moffitt, who belonged to the White River meeting.
Jericho Friends Meeting
And Its Community
Randolph County, Indiana
1864
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Benjamin Cox did not live at any time in the Jericho neighborhood. His life-long residence was near the White River Friends Meeting. However, he was prominent in the Jericho Friends Meeting through the fact that he often preached there. He owned a quarter section of land within a mile of the Meeting-house. Further, his son William B. Married Margaret Peacock (daughter of Abram Peacock) and lived on this land as well as exhorted at Jericho for a number of years. Despite the great number of Coxes in the early neighborhood, it seems that all who remain today are descended from this same Benjamin Cox who never lived here. He is therefore worthy of inclusion. Benjamin Cox was born in North Carolina in 1785 and moved to Randolph County, Indiana with his parents. John and Patience (Piggott) Cox, in 1817. He married Ann Rhoads in North Carolina. They had eight children, two of whom married Jericho folks. Benjamin Cox taught the early schools of White River about 1820, was a recorded minister of the Friends, was one of the first three Commissioners of Randolph County, and helped to lay out the town of Winchester, as County He died in 1847 and is buried at the White River burying-ground.
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Jeremiah Cox was a man of intelligence and standing in the Community-a man of comparative distinction. He was so regarded by his contemporaries in both Wayne County (where he lived from 1805 or 06 till 1826) and in Randolph where he resided from 1826 till the time of his death about 1830.

Jeremiah Cox had three wives: Margery Piggott (daughter of Benjamin and Mary Piggott); the mother of his first eight children: Jemima Rhoads, mother of his son Elijah, and perhaps Enoch and Catherine Morrison (daughter of Robert and Hannah Morrison) who was the mother of his last seven children. These last seven children, as shown in Table II, and Elijah were the ones whom he brought to the Jericho neighborhood. Jeremiah Cox was among the first five men to settle in Wayne County, where he arrived either in 1805 or 1806. He took land on the White Water near Elkhorn Creek. His
land embraced much of the land now occupied by the city of Richmond. He was a member of the Convention, which formed the first constitution for the State of Indiana in the year 1816.

The town of Richmond was laid out in 1816 and incorporated in 1818. He was not in sympathy with the project, particularly with regard to establishments for the sale of intoxicating liquors. He is quoted as saying in effect: I had rather watch the flag of a white-tailed deer than signs advertising the sale of liquor. Accordingly, in 1818, he purchased considerable land in Randolph County, partly as shown on Fig. I and some other. He was a miller both in North Carolina, in Wayne County and later in Randolph. Accordingly, his land was located astride the streams, where waterpower sites
were available.

The exact time of his removal to Randolph is not surely known. The date of transfer of his membership, from the White Water MM. of Friends to the White River MM, was October 18, 1826. However, he built his mill (History Randolph County.
Tucker p. 98), as well as his residence at Jericho, in 1825. This mill was famous in its day and ran till the five dry years 1864-69, after which it was torn down. His house was said to be the first frame house in Randolph County, though there is some doubt of this. It is not known whether the transfer of his membership in the Meeting lagged behind the beginning of his residence. It is certain, however, that because of his interest here, he spent considerable time in the neighborhood previous to the removal of his family. His son, Elijah, lived here from the very beginning, probably to look after his father's
interests.

Jeremiah Cox was related to many of the first settlers in the Jericho and White River communities. He was a brother to John Cox of White River; an uncle to William Pickett who helped as a young man the construction of his mill: a father to
Elijah Cox, and uncle to William Cox, both of whom were charter members of the first Jericho Meeting: and more distantly related to Joshua Cox, Amy Cox, Solomon Cox, Samuel Cox; and to Absalom Gray through Absalom's first wife. In addition, he was a close friend to Abram Peacock and his following. The association of his name with that of the Meeting and the community has already been described. He was a man of great respect and influence in the early community, having been a member of the First Constitutional Convention for Indiana. However, by late 1829 or early 183) he was dead and buried in the little first cemetery. Today's association with the first Meeting has been largely forgotten.
Jericho Friends Meeting
And Its Community
Randolph County Indiana
1864
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Joshua Cox (familiarly known in the early neighborhood as "Lying" Joshua)

Joshua Cox was born in Penna around 1790 or a little earlier. His wife was named Mariah McGee. His parents moved to Wayne County around 1820 where Joshua, the father, died in 1821. The mother later moved to Randolph and settled in S29 RI5E, as shown in Fig. 1. In 1822 Joshua Cox took land in 530, just north of the present Jericho Meeting-house, where he lived till his death in 1869. Joshua and Mariah had seven children, five of whom died in Randolph County.

(There is a picture of him in the 1958, 1983 reprint of the Jericho Friends Meeting and It's Community Book Set, available at the Meeting)

Fig. 2. Joshua Cox, (commonly known as Lyin Joshua) a resident of Jericho from 1822 to 1869.

The stories which won for him the name of 'Lyin' Joshua were of the harmless variety. It is stated (Charley Hinshaw) that he never told a story in his life that was harmful to any neighbor. Rather, he was of that group of frontier raconteurs who
delighted to embellish their stories from imagination in order to make them interesting. Many frontier communities had such men. Entertainment in early days was done much more by story tellers than later. These Pennsylvania Coxes were distant relatives of those from North Carolina, the Carolina Coxes having previously come from Pennsylvania.
Jericho Friends Meeting P11
And Its Community
Randolph County, Indiana
1864
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Solomon Cox was a brother of Joshua Cox and son of Amy (Weirnan) Cox. He took land beside his mother in 529 as shown. In May 1829. He was condemned for marriage contrary to discipline. In October 1831, his wife, Zebiar, was received in membership. He lived on his original grant until September. 1831, when he sold it to his brother. Samuel (recently removed here from Centre MM of Ohio). He purchased from Seth Moffitt the Christopher Baker land which he held until 1833 when he sold it to William Kennon. In 1834, he was given a certificate to the Sugar River MM and so departed from the neighborhood. There is no record of any children except one daughter, Mary.
Jericho Friends Meeting Page 12 And Its Community Randolph County, Indiana 1846
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