Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Humes, James K. 1845 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JAMES K. HUMES.

   James K. Humes, who, for thirteen years, was a teacher in the public schools
of Carroll county, who has served as assessor of Democrat township for the past
twenty-three years and who is now a farmer by occupation, owning ninety-seven
acres of land, three and one-half miles southeast of Cutler on the Butcher pike,
is a native of Clinton county, Indiana, born near Frankfort, January 1, 1845. He
is the grandson of John Humes, who fought under Gen. William Henry Harrison in
the battle of Tippecanoe.

   Mr. Humes is a son of Thomas and Catherine (Jennings) Humes, the former of
whom was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1815, and who came with his parents,
John Humes and wife, to Indiana, when a mere lad in 1830. They settled on the
Wild Cat prairie, not far from Dayton, renting a farm where Thomas worked for a
man by the name of Eton for a period of six years. Finally, John Humes entered
forty acres of land in Clinton county and settled on the farm. About this time
Thomas Humes entered eighty acres of land near New London, in Clinton county,
and, when twenty-seven years old, was married to Catherine Jennings. At the time
of his marriage there were only two or three acres of the farm cleared and only
a small cabin erected. They lived on that farm until James K. Humes was six or
seven years old and then sold out and moved to Delphi, where they lived for two
years. Subsequently, they rented a farm in Burlington township, this county,
where they lived for four years and then moved to Democrat township and
purchased two hundred and forty acres, upon which they spent the balance of
their lives, having at the time of their deaths two hundred, acres of land.

   Thomas and Catherine (Jennings) Humes were the parents of seven children, of
whom Margaret J. married Samuel Wasson, of Democrat township, both now being
deceased; James K. is the subject of this sketch; Thomas Jackson lives in
Freedom, Oklahoma; William Hamilton, John Milton, John Milton, Franklin Pierce
and Amanda Elizabeth are deceased. The last named was the wife of James
Radcliffe, of Cutler, who is also deceased. By his marriage, secondly, to Jane
Cupp, Thomas Humes had one child, Luella, who is also deceased. By his marriage,
thirdly, to Ruth Ann Herr, there were born two children, Irvin and Manson, both
of whom lived in Democrat township.

   James K. Humes lived at home with his parents until he was thirty-six years
old, having, in the meantime, acquired eighty acres of land. He was married on
February 24, 1889, to Caroline Pritsch, the daughter of George and Elizabeth
(Kellerman) Pritsch. both of whom were natives of Germany, born in Baden near
Heidelberg. Mrs. Humes came with her parents to America when sixteen years old.
They settled in Carroll county on thirty-nine acres of land, where they spent
the remainder of their lives.

   Mr. and Mrs. James K. Humes have been the parents of three children, namely:
Paul S. died when twenty-one months old; J. Carlisle, who is a graduate of the
Cutler high school and lives at home on the farm, and Glenn D., who also lives
at home.

   Mr. and Mrs. James K. Humes are members of the Presbyterian church at Cutler.
Mr. Humes is a Democrat in politics and has always been active in the councils
of his party in Democrat township. Fraternally, Mr. Humes is a member of the
Masonic lodge No. 508, at Sedalia.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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