302 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY Sons and two daughters. Mrs. Koehler died January 7, 1900, aged sev- enty-six years seven months and nineteen days. George W. Grimes, native of Virginia, born in Loudoun county, October 3, 1826, son of George and Elizabeth Grimes, who emigrated to Indiana in 1840, when George, junior, was fourteen years of age, locating in Clay county, a mile south of the site of the town of Ashboro. Here, in 1842, were made and burnt the first brick, and the first brick dwelling house built, in the central part of the county. On the 19th day of Feb- ruary, 1846, George Grimes, Jr., married Clarissa Kennedy, who died on the 6th day of August, 1849. On the 26th day of September, 1850, he married Eliza A. Anderson, of Parke county. For a period of years he engaged in farming and was actively identified with agricultural interests and pursuits. In the year 1860 he introduced into the county the first improved appliances for the manufacture of sorghum molasses—the cast- iron roller mill and patent evaporating pan, which was located and oper- ated for the season of that year on the southeast corner of the crossing at the present Calvin Presnell residence, a mile and a half south of Center Point. On the 11th day of August, 1862, he enlisted in the service of his country as captain of Company I, Eighty-fifth Indiana Regiment. During the term of his service he was confined in Libby prison three months. Politically, Mr. Grimes was a Republican, and the candidate of his party in the campaign of 1870 for member of the general assembly, the com- petitor of John D. Walker, but was not successful. In 1873 he embarked in merchandising and hotel keeping at Center Point, which he conducted until 1881, a period of eight years. In 1882 he quit Clay county and moved to Terre Haute, where he was elected a member of the city council from the first ward for one term, and also honored by his party with the nomination for trustee of Harrison township, Vigo county, but was not elected. It should be said, too, that he was a justice of the peace in Sugar Ridge township, and a licensed minister in the M. E. church. He died April 24, 1896, aged sixty-nine years, six months and twenty-one days, his wife having preceded him on the 21st day of August, 1891. Milo A. Campbell, native of Clay county, son of William and Mary (McHenry) Campbell, born October 29, 1859; was brought up on the farm in Sugar Ridge township, where he resided all through life; attended the public schools, making good use of his time and opportunities, having afterward taught several terms of public school; married Clara Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Morgan. In 1894 he was nominated by the Republican party for county commissioner for the second district, and was elected over his competitor, Christian Koebler, of Jackson town- ship. In 1906 he was nominated for re-election, but was defeated by his former competitor, who had also been renominated. After a protracted and lingering sickness, he died January 21, 1909, aged forty-nine years two months and twenty-two days. Zeno Hinshaw, a native of Parke county, Indiana, where he married Abigail Huff and came to Clay county about the year 1850, locating at what is now Center Point, where, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Shadrack Huff, he embarked in the nursery business on ground now owned and occupied by Adam Mader and R. L. Kennedy. On Huff’s