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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEORGE W. JULIEN.

   George W. Julien, of the law firm of Boyd & Julien, of Delphi, Indiana, was
bom in a log cabin, on a farm, in Monroe township, Carroll county, Indiana,
January 26, 1855, being the only child of Daniel and Hannah (Abernathy) Julien.
Sorrow soon darkened the door of this home, the mother dying on May 11, 1856, at
the age of nineteen, and her remains rest in the old Zion churchyard, Carroll
county, in the vicinity of which she was born on August 15, 1836.

   The father, Daniel Julien, later married Adaline B. Hanna, a cousin of his
first wife, and to them were born two children, Taylor E., of Salida, Colorado,
and Blanche, the wife of Arthur C. Gros, residing near Delphi, Indiana.

   Daniel, fifth of the nine children of Abel and Rachel (Banta) Julien, was
born in Warren county, Ohio, September 10, 1830, and in 1843, with his father's
family, made the then laborious trip, with oxen, westward to Carroll county,
Indiana, settling in Madison township. There he grew to manhood amidst the
rugged environment of those pioneer days, when it required faith, fortitude and
physical endurance to transform the forests and swamps into the present fruitful
fields of that favored locality.

   At the close of the Civil War, with his wife and three children, in a covered
wagon, Daniel Julien moved to Carroll county, Missouri, but on account of his
wife's health, soon returned to Delphi, where death claimed her, on January 17,
1868, after which the children were scattered and he took up the calling of a
bridge and barn builder, later spending five years in the far West, and at the
end of an active, industrious life, on October 12, 1908, at St. Elizabeth
Hospital, Lafayette, Indiana, laid down his burden and was buried in the Masonic
cemetery at Delphi, beside his companion of forty years before, where, upon a
modest stone, is carved this simple story of his career, "A Pioneer of Carroll
County."

   The life of the grandfather, Abel Julien, began in South Carolina, back in
the eighteenth century, January 16, 1798, and closed in Carroll county, Indiana,
February 17, 1868, his first wife, the mother of all his nine children, having
preceded him twenty-five years. They were the parents of the following children:
Mary E., David B., Eli, Henry, Daniel, Peter, Albert A., and William F. Julien;
of whom, Peter, residing at Flora, Indiana, now in his seventy-ninth year, alone
survives.

   The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, Moses and Jane
(Hanna) Abernathy, were both natives of South Carolina, the grandfather having
been born at Charleston, in the year 1804. To them were born Mary A., who became
the wife of George Miller; Oliver S., Hannah, Thomas B., Isaac N. and George W.
The two last named died in boyhood, but the other four all lived to rear
families and all, except Thomas B., now of Chicago, have been dead for more than
thirty years.

   The Hanna branch of the family is of Revolutionary stock, the descendants are
legion and one of their number, Miss Sarah A. Hanna, of Brookville, Indiana, has
recently published an extended genealogical history, entitled "The House of Hanna."

   Jane Abernathy, the grandmother, died in Carroll county, September 16, 1859,
and her husband, Moses Abernathy, died at Oxford, Indiana, March 10, 1884.

   Mr. Julien having lost both his mother and step-mother, before reaching his
teens, began early to earn his way in the world. He worked by the month, for
Carroll county farmers, in the summer seasons, and attended the country schools
in winter, until, at the age of eighteen, he began teaching in White county,
Indiana. In all, he taught forty months, four terms of which were completed
before he was graduated from the Delphi high school in 1878. Prior to the time
of his graduation from Asbury (now DePauw) University, in the class of 1881, he
was principal of the Flora schools, for the year 1879-80, and was principal of
the Delphi high school for the year 1881-82. Mr. Julien studied law in the
office of Judge John H. Gould, and was graduated from the Cincinnati I-aw School
in May, 1884, since which time he has been successfully engaged in the practice
of his profession at Delphi, Indiana, and has invested the returns in farm lands
of Carroll county and Canada. He was city attorney of Delphi from 1891 to 1894.

   On November 10, 1891, at Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio, George W. Julien was
united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Morrow, daughter of Dr. Coridon and Emma
(Carl) Morrow. Their only child, Don M. Julien, born at Delphi, Indiana, May 3,
1894, was graduated from the Delphi high school in the class of 1912, and is now
a senior at DePauw University.

   Mrs. Julien's remote ancestors were "York State" patriots, a father and his
seven sons having fought in the Continental army, and one served on the staff of
General Washington. Her father was surgeon of the Forty-third Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War and his father, John T. Morrow, was a
soldier in the War of 1812. Dr. Morrow and his wife were both natives of Ohio,
and both have long slept beneath the sod of the old Buckeye state, at
Bainbridge, their surviving children being Maud E., John C, Mary E. and Charles
A.; all except Mrs. Julien, being residents of Ohio.

   Mr. Julien is a Republican in politics, a Pythian knight, being a member of
the grand lodge of the domain of Indiana, and is also a member of all the local
branches of Masonry, including Delphi Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar. In
college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Greek-letter fraternity, to which
his son also belongs. The family are all members of the Delphi Methodist
Episcopal church. He has never sought public office or preferment, but has been
identified with every local movement in the interest of community welfare and
sober citizenship.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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