HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          311

    Later he turned his attention to gardening, which he made a success
by attention to business and fair dealing. He has also taken an active part
in the work of farmers’ institutes ever since their organization in Clay
and Vigo counties. For a number of years he lived in Posey township,
where he cultivated a garden and maintained a greenhouse, on a part of
the former Wools place, which he still owns, but now lives at Terre Haute,
where he owns a home, conducts a vegetable garden and greenhouses.
Mr. Maurer is a contributor to the agricultural columns of the New York
Tribune on special topics pertaining to gardening. He has three children,
Anna (Maurer) Lambert and James Maurer, living in Posey township,
and Otis D. Maurer, at Indianapolis.

    Warren D. Wolfe, a native of Connecticut, born in the year 1834;
came to Clay county, Indiana, in 1862; worked as a farm hand, and began
teaching soon after coming here in the public schools of Dick Johnson
township. In the fall of 1865 he married Sarah Webster, daughter of
Joshua Webster, a pioneer of the north end of the county. To them were
born ten children—five sons and five daughters, of whom two sons and
three daughters survive. Mr. Wolfe taught continuously for six years in
Dick Johnson township, from 1864 to 1870, and as many as three terms, or
different schools, within the same year. For three years he had the schools
of the township practically to himself, as there was then no other resident
teacher, with the supply short in other townships. In the fall of 1870 he
was elected trustee of his township, the first two years’ term. In the cam-
paign of 1872 he was the Democratic candidate for sheriff, but was de-
feated with the ticket generally. In 1888 he was elected county commis-
sioner, then re-elected, serving six years. Having moved from the farm
to the city of Brazil, he was elected a member of the city council in 1904
for the term of two years and in 1906 a member of the county council for
the term of four years. The tenure of official positions and service
entrusted to him by the public numbers fourteen years, in the discharge of
the responsibilities and duties of which he has acquitted himself honorably
and efficiently. He owns and occupies a desirable and valuable property
in the north part of the city and a well improved and valuable farm, on
which he lived for many years, in Dick Johnson township.

    David C. Stunkard, native of Ohio, born in Richland county, Novem-
ber 4, 1824, came with his parents to Clay county in 1839, when fifteen
years of age, the family locating on Otter creek, south side, about two
miles north of the site of the city of Brazil. where the father purchased
land and proceeded, by the help of the family, to make improvement and
provide a comfortable homestead. On the 11th day of April, 1850, he
married Zorelda Cromwell, daughter of Thomas I. Cromwell, who then
resided at Bowling Green. Soon after marriage he located in the town of
Brazil and for a time kept hotel in the former Buskirk house, corner Main
and South Franklin streets. Later he engaged in merchandising and the
general commission business, operating also a lumber mill and stave fac-
tory. He is said to have been the first Clay countian drawn to serve as
grand juror in the United States court at Indianapolis. In the early spring
of 1860 he was appointed deputy United States marshal, to supervise the
taking of the census of the county.
    In the campaign of 1864 he was the independent or opposition candi-