HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      403
great character he had a lasting influence on the progress of
popular rights. Oliver  Cromwell    His Grandfather bore the honored
name himself, was a Kentuckian and brave soldier  of the war of 1812, and
later a wealthy citizen of Clay county. His remains are buried in the
Snoddy graveyard.The father of Oliver Cromwell was Thomas I.
Cromwell, who was born in Bourbon county Kentucky, on the 16th of
September, 1804, and died in Clay county, Indiana, on the 17th of Octo—
ber, 1889, his death occurring near Bowling Green. As he came to
Indiana with his parents in 1825, shortly after he had reached his
majority, he spent more than sixty years as a strong assistant in the agri-
cultural, commercial and industrial development of this section, for
during his long and honorable career he was farmer, merchant and mine
operator. He served in the Mexican war as a member of Company C,
Second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and during the war of
the Rebellion he served his country in Company B, 133rd Infantry, from
the same county. As our subject was also a member of that organization
in the Civil war, the American genealogy of the Cromwell family presents
the patriotic record of grandfather, father and son serving in their
country's defense in three of its wars.
    Scott C. Cromwell was born in Bowling Green, Clay county, Indiana,
on the 9th of May, 1848, was educated in the common schools of his
home community, and spent the greater, portion of his life on the farm
until he was sixteen years of age. He then volunteered as a soldier of
Company B, One Hundred and thirty-third Indiana Infantry, and served
in the ranks until the close of hostilities. He returned to his father’s
farm, was married two years after the close of the war, and since that
time has been a progressive agriculturist and citizen, busily and success-
fully engaged in the honorable furtherance of his own interests and those
dependent upon him. On August 18, 1867, Mr. Cromwell was united
in marriage with Miss Mary Susan Hadden, the ceremony occurring at
Staunton, Clay county. His wife was horn in that county January 23,
1848, being a daughter of Thomas J. and Eliza (Downing) Hadden the
former being of English, and the latter of German and Irish descent.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Cromwell. Their
first child (heel an unnamed infant. Lizzie was born July 11, 1, 1872, and
married John A. Zurcher, whose parents were natives of Germany. The
following seven children have been horn to this union: Samuel, Joseph
Scott, Thomas Oliver, Bonnie Marie, Hallie May, Clarence Chester and
Blanche. The third child of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cromwell was Thomas I.,
born March 18, 1875, and died August 5, 1897. Oliver Dennis Cromwell,
the fourth, was born August 9, 1877, and on August 27, 1900, wedded
Miss Nora Lankford, the children born to them being: Floyd, December
17, 1901, and Don, in October, 1903. Mrs. Oliver Cromwell died Feb-
ruary 16, 1906. The fifth and youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Scott C.
Cromwell is Harry Herschel, born on the 29th of September, 1892.

    Isaac McIntosh, vice president and secretary of the Superior Block
Coal Company of Brazil, is thus closely associated with the development
of the natural resources of this country, in which connection he estab-
lished a paying business and one which contributes to the general pros-
perity by affording employment to a number of workmen. Mr. McIntosh
is of Canadian birth, the place of his nativity being the city of Ottawa,
while his natal day was May 16, 1849. His parents were Alexander and