HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      35

from the government by David Zenor, who brought the land under a
high state of cultivation, carrying on the farm work with good success
for many years Both he and his wife were of sturdy German stock
and there are yet numerous relatives of the family living in Harrison
county, Indiana, among  whom is the Hon. W.T. Zenor who has recently
completed his third or fourth term in congress. Mr. and Mrs. David
Zenor continued to reside in Clay County until called to their final rest
both passing away at an advanced age, the father dying when nearly
ninety —three years of age, while the mother lived to the age of eighty—
three. Their family numbered ten children six sons and four daughters.
    Dr. Zenor of this review, however, is the only one of the boys now
living in Indiana. His boyhood days were spent upon the old home farm.
where he early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the
lot of the agriculturist. He also spent several years with relatives in
Illinois, and he supplemented his early education acquired in the public
schools, by study in Weselyan University at Bloomington, Illinois. The
little temple of learning in which he mastered the elementary branches,
however, was a log schoolhouse of primitive construction. He afterward
was a student in the common schools, which he attended through the
winter months while in the spring and summer he worked in the fields.
In 1859 he matriculated in the Wesleyan University where he remained
until 1862 In December, 1907, he returned to his alma mater as a visitor
and found it a flourshing school of nearly a thousand students  before
whom he read his ode to the school, which he had written for that occa—
sion. During his college days, however, he put aside his text—books in
order to respond to his country's  call, enlisting in 1862 with a company
organized at Bowling Green and which became Company D, of the Sixth
Indiana Cavalry, he served as a non-commissioned officer until the close
of the war in 1865 and was in a number of hotly contested engagements
    At the close of the war Mr. Zenor was honorably discharged and
returned home After a brief period he engaged in the drug business at
Hennepin, Illinois, where for several years he continued in that line
under the firm name of Zenor & Seaton. In 1869 he sold out to James H.
Seaton, who carried on the business for a number of years thereafter.
Dr. Zenor then removed to western Missouri and later to Kansas. He
spent nearly twenty—five years in the west devoting his energies during
much of that time to the drug business, also practicing medicine for ten
years at Crestline and at Lake City Kansas. He began the manufacture
of a special medicine, which he had prepared and which has had a good
sale for fifteen or twenty years. On leaving the west he returned to
Indiana, locating in  Brazil, where he is still engaged in the manufacture
of his medicines.
    Dr, Zenor was united in marriage in 1867 to Miss Mary E. Peacock,
and they have two children  Lillie May who is now the widow of Charles
Farlow and Arthur, who married Miss Annie Murray, and is editor of
the Carbon (Indiana) Chronicle. Dr. Zenor is a man of marked literary
taste and of considerable talent in that direction. He has now in manu-
script a small volume of poems and a story entitled "When I Was in
Tennessee." The prose volume is the account of his travels at the time
and since the war in the mountains of Tennessee and Alabama. His resi-
dence during the last sixteen years has been 617 East Pinkley strect,
Brazil,Indiana.