HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                  293

Clay county and embarked in the drug business at Staunton in part-
nership with his brother. While in this business, in 1872, he was nom-
inated by the Republican party for clerk of the Clay circuit court and
elected. Disposing of his drug business, be went to Bowling Green and
entered upon the discharge of his official duties. On the 25th day of
December of the same year he married Miss Rebecca A. Ayer, daughter
of John M. Ayer, of Posey township. At the close of his term of office
he engaged in banking with Alexander Brighton and Hiram Teter, at
Brazil, until the fall of 1878, when he retired and accepted the chair-
manship of the Republican county central committee. In 1880 he was
again nominated by his party for clerk of the court and again elected.
At the expiration of this term of official service, owing to failing health,
he retired from business pursuits, private and public. He died Decem-
ber 22, 1891, survived by his wife and two sons, George A. Hubbard
and John Jay Hubbard, aged forty-eight years, seven months and
twenty-three days. Mrs. Hubbard survives and resides at Brazil, closely
identified with church, charitable and literary circles of the city.

    John D. Walker, native of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, born February
7, 1834; brought up on the farm, and, at eighteen years of age, appren-
ticed to the carpentry and cabinet trade, at Shanesville, Ohio, which he
completed before he became twenty-one, then came west, locating tem-
porarily at Brazil, where he found employment with Robert Dawson
a contractor and builder, for whom he was working at the time Dawson
was killed by the Kirtleys. The same year he went to Bowling Green,
where he was employed by George May in the cabinet shop. In 1856
be worked at Spencer, then at Lancaster, where, in the latter part of
the same year, he married Miss Mary Jane Law. In 1860 he located
at Cataract, Owen county, and in the spring of 1862, at Cloverland
station, this county, where his wife and younger child were killed on the
railroad in the month of May. Very soon after this he went to Terre
Haute, where the railroad company gave him employment in the shops.
In 1864 he came to Staunton and married Miss Mary Wyeth, at some
time in the month of June of the same year. Four years later he
moved to the Planet furnace, a mile northeast of Harmony, where be
was employed as chief carpenter about the plant. At the expiration of one
year here he was induced to go to Omaha, Nebraska, in the boom days
of that city, but returned within the same year and again engaged with
the furnace company. In 1869 he located at Harmony in the furniture
and undertaking business. While living here, in the summer of 1870.
he was nominated by the Democratic party for member of the general
assembly, was elected and served at the session of 1871. Later he dis-
posed of his interests at Harmony and located at Carbon, where he
opened furniture and undertaking shops, and where he continued to
reside until the time of his death, February 11, 1889, aged fifty-five
years and four days, survived by his second wife and four children, all
daughters, one by his first wife and three by his second. In wood-
work, Walker was an expert and master mechanic.
    While in the legislature Mr. Walker was a member of the committee
on manufactures and commerce. He introduced a resolution instructing
our members of Congress to use their influence in securing the taxation
of United States bonds on equality with other property; also, a resolu-
tion instructing the committee on ways and means to inquire and report