Howard-Blackford County IN Archives Biographies.....Haynes, Pleasant H. W. 1865 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 24, 2006, 1:58 am Author: Jackson Morrow PLEASANT H. W. HAYNES. It is with a great degree of satisfaction to the biographer when he averts to the life of one who has made the rough path of life smooth by his untiring perseverance, has attained success in any vocation requiring definiteness of purpose and determined action. Such a life, whether it be one of calm, consecutive endeavor, or of sudden meteoric accomplishments, must abound in both lesson and incentive and prove a guide to the young men whose fortunes are still matters for the future to determine. For a number of years the subject of this sketch has directed his efforts toward the goal of success in Howard county and by patient continuance has won pronounced success. Mr. Haynes was born in Clinton county, Ohio, October 15, 1865, and when eighteen years old settled in Jackson township, Howard county, Indiana, with his parents, Isaac M. and Eliza J. (Haynes) Haynes, both living on a farm five miles east of Kokomo in 1908. When nineteen years old our subject began to teach school, in 1884, having received a fairly good education in the common, high and old Normal schools. He followed teaching for twelve years, becoming one of the most successful in the county. Eight years were spent in teaching in Jackson township and four in Honey Creek and Clay townships. He kept well advised on all lines of teacher's work, but his arduous duties in the school room finally told on his health and he gave up teaching in 1896 and began farming in 1898. He was made deputy sheriff of Howard county by L. W. Harness, which position he successfully filled for four years and two months, or until 1903. He had charge of the office and also most of the field work. During this period there was much crime of various kinds, horse stealing and similar offenses, and there was loose prosecuting at times, and in order to keep crime down and break up the several gangs that operated in Howard county the sheriff's office was a busy place and a great volume of work was the result, but success attended the efforts of Mr. Haynes. In 1902 the subject was a candidate for sheriff before the primaries, receiving eleven hundred votes and carried his own town ship with a good majority over all the candidates in Howard county. He received his appointment as superintendent of the county farm in 1905 and during the three years that he has had charge of the same much excellent work has been done to the satisfaction of the authorities. The farm consists of one hundred and fifty-five acres of good land lying just west of Kokomo. The number of inmates of the farm will average from thirty-five to fifty, and sometimes even more. The county has its stock on the farm. Mr. Haynes works for a salary, keeping one hired hand and one woman servant. Mrs. Haynes is matron. The subject was married in 1895 to Lida (LaRowe) Gossett, of Greentown, the daughter of Charles LaRowe and widow of J. Leonard Gossett. Charles LaRowe is an old soldier, a temperance worker and a highly respected citizen of Howard county. The subject has one step-son. Silver Gossett. Mr. Haynes has served two years on the executive committee of the Republican party. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church. Mr. Haynes is one of the few men living who have had the privileges of reading his own obituary, of knowing what the people had to say of him at his supposed death, an account of which appeared in a Kokomo paper while the subject was living in Blackford county, news having reached that city of his demise while ill with typhoid fever. Mr. Haynes is a man of unquestioned force of character and personality, which he makes felt in Howard county where he is well and favorably known to all classes. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA BY JACKSON MORROW, B. A. ILLUSTRATED VOL. II B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (circa 1909) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/howard/bios/haynes382nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb