HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY 24 in that state, and he was an expert in that line of work. He spent his last days in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of fifty-eight years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the German Reformed church, and was a Democrat politically. Mrs. Bubb was born in Mont gomery county, Pennsylvania, and died when eighty years of age. They were married in Pennsylvania and became the parents of six children, five daughters and a son, but only three, Elizabeth, Emma and William, are now living. William H. Bubb received his educational training in the schools of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, his father having moved there in 1849, and in April of 1867 he came to Indiana and to Brazil. He had previously studied mining engineering at the State College of Pennsylvania, and he with his fellows of junior and senior classes enlisted in a body at the time of Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in 1864. Afterward he enlisted in the three months’ service for the Civil war and re-enlisted in Corn- pany C. Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, for one year or during the war, He served in all eleven months, and after being mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, he returned to the Pennsylvania college and took a partial course, receiving the degree of B. S. Coming to Brazil in 1867, he began work as a mining engineer and helped his father to erect the first furnace in the west. In 1868 he made a western trip, going as far as southern Kansas and there enjoying the free life of a cow boy, until he went on to Jacksboro, Texas, from whence he drove sixteen head of cattle to where Coffeeville is now located, where they were bought by York and Tileston, who had the government contract to provide food for the Osage Indians. From there Mr. Bubb came east in the fall of 1869 as far as Springfield, Missouri, where he met Captain J. M. Johnson, of the Seventh Cavalry, and with him went down the White river to engage in the stock business. It was in 1871 that Mr. Bubb returned to Brazil, but after a short time went again to Missouri, to Stone county, where he contracted chills and fever and once more returned to Brazil. For a time afterward he was the mining superintendent for the Gartsherrie Coal & Mining Company, but received an injury while there which forced him to engage in office work, and for seven years thereafter he served in that capacity for the Vandalia Railroad Company. He then became the bookkeeper for the Jackman Coal & Mining Company, and is now the secretary for the Clay County Building & Loan Association. He served as a member of the city council in 1894-5, and during his term of office the first city water works was reconstructed and he was a member of the committee on street and alleys. In 1895 he was appointed to serve an unexpired term as mayor, and during his administration in this high office the remodeling of the city water works was inaugurated and the city buildings were purchased. E. S. Holliday, the present congressman, was also a member of the council at that time. In December, 1871, Mr. Bubb married Millicent M. Plumb, who was born in London, England, the daughter of William and Millicent (Mayo) Plumb, both of whom were also born in the mother country, and they are now living in Brazil, Indiana. They were married in London, and of their nine children eight are now living: Mrs. Bubb; Rebecca, now Mrs. Sheburne; Emma, now Mrs. Ahlemeyer; John; Charles; William; Nellie, now Mrs. Platt, and Ralph. Mr. Plumb, the father, was a baker by trade in London, and he made the voyage to this country in a sailing vessel some time in the ‘50s, finally drifting west to Greene county, Indiana,