HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      11

age of seventy—one, and the mother was born in Bridgeport., Indiana,
and died in 1903. seventy years old. They both died in Indianapolis..
Nine children were born to this union, of whom the following six are
living : John D., who is the oldest A. J., a resident of Red Oak, Iowa
Elizabeth, wife of George Clark Emma J.. wife of Leonard I Hodgins
Jacob N., a druggist of Brazil, and George C., in the United Slates naval
service, with the fleet which made the trip around the world. George
Sourwine, the father. was by trade a blacksmith and a machinist, came to
Marion county in 1835, and spent the remainder of his life, he was a
good Mason and a sound Democrat. The maternal grandfather of
our subject and the father of William Jennings Bryan were cousins.
    On the 13th of October, 1875, Dr. Sourwine married Helen Mar
Crosdale, a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born March 23, 1852, and a
daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Perch) Crosdale. Mrs. Sourwine's
parents were natives of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, each dying at the
age of eighty years. She is the only one of the nine children now living.
Her father was a tailor by trade, served in the Civil war, came to Brazil
in 1854, engaged in the drug business and in 1877 retired from the
strenuous activities of life, He was a Methodist, a Republican, a member
of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and a
practical, useful and moral citizen. Six children have been born to Dr.
and Mrs. Sourwine as follows: three who died in infancy; John G.,
a druggist of Indianapolis, Indiana ; Clinton C. Sourwine, M. D., a
graduate of the Indiana Medical College and since receiving his degree
in 1906 associated with his father in practice, married Miss Eva H.
Carpenter, of Brazil, Indiana, and Helen Irene, who died at age of
eighteen in 1903.

    ANDREW JACKSON KIDD, one of the veterans of the Civil war and an
energetic business factor of Clay county, Indiana, was born in Frederick
county, Virginia, May 14, 1841, son of Andrew and Nancy (Whit-
tington) Kidd, both of whom were natives of the same county in which
their son was born. The father died aged about sixty years in 1862 and
the mother died aged sixty-four years. They were married in Virginia
and were the parents of nine children, two of whom are now living—
Andrew J., who is the fifth child, and Anna L., widow of Henry D.
Bard, now residing in Brazil, Indiana. The father was a cooper and
also farmed upon his own one hundred and twenty-four acre tract,
which was located within the forest and there he built him a hewed log
house in which he lived and in which his son was born. In October,
1857, he removed to Indiana, locating in Brazil, where he lived a retired
life; he was justice of the peace while living in Virginia, He was a
pronounced Democrat.
    The subject of this memoir, Andrew J. Kidd, was born near Win-
chester, Virginia, and accompanied his parents to Clay county, Indiana,
when but a small boy and had resided there the greater part of his
life. He was reared to farm pursuits and attended school when oppor-
tunity afforded him the chance. When sixteen years old he went to Brazil
with his parents and there was employed in a brick-yard and also farmed
up to 1861, when he enlisted in the first call for troops to put down the
rebellion—the call for 75,000 men for three months’ service, He was a
soldier in Company F, Tenth Indiana Regiment and was discharged at
Indianapolis, after having served his full term of enlistment, He saw