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Subject: BIOS #3341 THRU 3345 - UNKNOWN CO - McNAB, MAHAN, GASH, HOOPINGARNER, CRAIGHEAD
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 06:39:21 -0500

3341 McNAB, PHILIP - McNab Evans Ford Brown Mason Waterman Beason Bailey
Blainey
3342 MAHAN, SAMUEL - Mahan Reed Dougherty Tanner
3343 GASH, JAMES S - Gash
3344 HOOPINGARNER, SIMPSON - Hoopingarner Lee Barnhill Wikoff Horner
3345 CRAIGHEAD, THOMAS B - Craighead McClure Breckinridge

#3341: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Unknown County. PHILIP McNAB, M.D., a native of Morgan
County, Ind., only son of Henry and Casandra (Evans) McNab, natives of
Kentucky, and of Scotch and Welsh
extraction respectively, was born July 12, 1833. Philip was reared upon a
farm and educated at the Northwestern Christian University at Indianapolis.
In the summer of 1859, he entered the office of Dr. Ford at Wabash, Ind.,
and began the study of medicine, and the following fall and winter took a
full course of lectures at Ann Arbor (Mich.) University. Returning to
Wabash for the summer, he attended the succeeding fall and winter at Ann
Arbor, from whence he graduated in chemistry in the spring of 1861, and in
May of this year (1861), he opened an office at La Gro, Ind., and practiced
medicine for the next two years. In March, 1863, he entered Long Island
Hospital College, Brooklyn, and in June, 1863, graduated therefrom with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine, and after another short stay at La Gro
removed to Indianapolis, where in the beginning of 1864, he formed a
partnership with Dr. R. T. Brown, professor of Natural Sciences in the
Northwestern Christian University, and for four years following pursued his
profession of physician and surgeon. In the fall of 1868, he came into
Morgan County, and the following year opened an office in West Newton, in
Marion County, where he remained about three years. In November, 1872, he
removed to Mooresville, In., where he immediately took rank among the
leading men of his profession. On July
29, 1861, he was married at Bethel, Me., to Mary, daughter of Aaron and
Rubie Mason, of that State, and by this union he has had born to him two
children - Solon Mason, now a student at Butler University, and Howard
Barlow, a resident of the Arizona Territory. Dr. McNab is respected for
the knowledge he has gained in his profession, in the practice of which he
has enjoyed more than ordinary experience. Some years since, he was
associated with Dr. L.D. Waterman, of Indianapolis, as expert in the
chemical analysis of the stomach of a Mrs. Dr. Beason, who, it was alleged,
had been murdered by her husband at Kokomo, Ind., and was one of the most
celebrated cases of the day. Later on, in 1873, he was employed in the
same capacity in the case of Basil Bailey, another notorious case, at
Frankfort, Ind., and was the author of the exhaustive synopsis of the
analysis published in the Mooresville "Enterprise", June 19, 1873. Upon
the analysis in the case first name, he was highly complimented by the
celebrated Prof. Blainey, of Chicago, who fully indorsed it in every
particular. The subject of this sketch is a man of versatile ability. His
lectures on "Medical Sciences" before the society of physicians and
surgeons, upon Physiology before the high school, and upon temperance
before the people, are noted for their purity of diction and originality of
thought and eloquence of delivery. At this writing (November 1883), Dr.
McNab is Secretary of the Mooresville Lodge of Free and Accepted Mason;
member of both County and State Medical Societies, an active
Republican in politics, an ardent "prohibitionist," a consistent member of
the Christian Church, and in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice in the
community where he is best known, and therefore most highly esteemed.

#3342: History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From
the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical
Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L.
Goodspeed. Unknown County. SAMUEL MAHAN was born in Stampers Creek
Township, Orange Co., Ind., where he now lives, August 13, 1826. He is
one of twelve children of Peter and Mary (Reed) Mahan, who were among the
earliest settlers in Orange County, having come from Kentucky in 1809,
about three years after their marriage. Their deaths occurred in June and
September, 1878. Samuel Mahan received a common school education in the
early schools of the county, and has devoted his whole life to farming.
His success is abundantly indicated by the splendid farm he now owns of 277
acres of the best land in Orange County. June 20, 1850, his marriage was
solemnized with Sarah I.
Dougherty, who has borne him a family of ten children, all living but two,
and named Franklin G., Mary E., Robert S., Peter D., Sarah J., Emily C.,
Clara B. and John W. Mrs. Mahan's parents, Robert and Sarah (Tanner)
Dougherty, were of the first settlers in the county. She was born November
8, 1832. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mahan are members of the Regular Baptist
Church, near where they live. Mr. Mahan is a Republican in politics, and
one of the best citizens of the county.

#3343: Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S. History of the Disciples of Christ in
Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Page
516. This online edition (c) 1997, James L. McMillan. Used by permission.
Unknown county. Biographical Sketch of James S. Gash. Born: Kentucky, 1833
Died: Illinois, 1909.
Mr. Gash turned to the Lord at the age of thirty. He began preaching at
once. His ministry was confined to the Military Tract. For many years he
led the singing in his home church in Macomb. At the time of his death he
had united more people in wedlock than any minister in McDonough County.
He was a brotherly man of sweet spirit and a consecrated and helpful
Christian. His end came by apolexy [sic]. The democracy of the gospel
was well illustrated in his spirit and life.

#3344: History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From
the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical
Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L.
Goodspeed. Unknown County.
SIMPSON HOOPINGARNER is a native of Guthrie Township, and was born August
19, 1833, being the eldest of ten children of George and Pharibee (Lee)
Hoopingarner. The father was a native of Kentucky and the mother of South
Carolina, and settlement was made in Indiana in the year 1818. Simpson
spent his boyhood at work on his father's farm, obtaining in the meantime
the rudiments of an education only. When manhood was reached he began
life's battle for himself. He was united in marriage with Rebecca J.
Barnhill, October 10, 1853, and to these parents three children were born,
only two of whom are now living: George W., who married Emily Wikoff, and
Joseph. Mrs. Hoopingarner died October 11, 1856, and he married Sarah E.
Horner, March 29, 1871. She has borne him six children, as follows:
Joseph M., Maggie, Dora, Belona, Elizabeth and Garfield. Mr. Hoopingarner
is a properous farmer and owns 123 acres of good land. August 12, 1862, he
enlisted in Company G, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, and served until July 7,
1865, and was honorably discharged. He was in several hot engagements. He
is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

#3345: Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and
J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Unknown
County. The Presbyterian Church. Page 461. The Presbyterian ministry of
Kentucky was reinforced, in 1786, by the accession of the Rev. THOMAS B.
CRAIGHEAD, and Rev. ANDREW McCLURE. Mr. Craighead was a native of North
Carolina. Shortley after his arrival in Kentucky, he was called to the
pastoral charge of the Shiloh congregation in Sumner county, Tenn. Here,
being opposed to the extravagancies of the times, and suspected of favoring
pelagianism, he became unpopular. In 1805, a commission was appointed by
the synod of Kentucky, which was directed to investigate the correctness of
the report of his unsoundness. The investigation which succeeded, a long
and protracted one, resulted in the suspension of Mr. Craighead from the
gospel ministry. He made several ineffectual efforts to have the
suspension removed, but did not succeed until the year 1824, when he was
enabled to make so good a vindication of himself, and to explain his views
so much to the satisfaction of the General Assembly, that they restored him
to the ministerial standing. Not
long after this event, he departed this life in Nashville, aged about
seventy years. For some time before his death, he had suffered under the
combined misfortunes of poverty and blindness. Mr. Craighead was of a tall
but spare figure, not less than six feet in height. He excelled as an
extemporaneous orator - his eloquence being of that fervid kind which
captivates and carries away the hearer in spite of himself. The Hon. John
Breckinridge said of him, that his discourses made a more lasting
impression upon his memory than those of any other man he had ever heard.

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