The New England Genealogical Register traces the genealogy of the Gookins family from the days of King John, and the American branch of it from the original emigrant who was cotemporary with Captain Smith.  Daniel Gookin (as the name was then written) came to Newport News, Virginia, in the year 1620.  He brought with him fifty men and established a colonial settlement at that point.  Captain Smith seems to have thought that this settler had a will of his own.  During the Indian troubles, which resulted in the captain's capture, and his release through the intervention of Pocahontas, an order was issued requiring the settlers to abandon their settlements and retire to Jamestown.  Captain Smith says that “Gookin, at Newport News, having fifty men of his own, refused that order and made good his standing against the saulvages.”  Newport News had been almost forgotten until its fame as a military point was revived during the late war.  In the days of the commonwealth under Cromwell the Puritans of New England sent their missionaries to the chivalry of Virginia, and a son of the original emigrant, bearing his name, became a convert to the Puritan faith.  On the restoration of Charles II the general assembly of Virginia passed a law expelling all Nonconformists from the province.  The Puritan convert left and went to Boston, of which he became a permanent resident, and there remained during his life, in

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the course of which he rendered important public services, as speaker of the general court or assembly, commander of the army, and as assistant of Elliott in his labors for the civilization and christianizing of the Indians.  He was the father of the New England branch of the family.  Among his descendants was William Gookins, father of the subject of this sketch.
     Samuel Barnes Gookins was born in Rupert, Bennington county, Vermont, May 30, 1809.  He was the youngest of ten children of William and Rhoda Gookins.  In 1812, the family, excepting the two oldest children, daughters, who had married and settled in Vermont, emigrated to New York and took up their abode in the town of Rodman, Jefferson county.  The father died two years after, leaving the mother and her eight children dependent solely upon a good and merciful Providence and their own exertions to make their way in the world. May 5, 1823, the mother, an older brother of twenty-three and Samuel B. set out for the west.  Prior to that time the route of westward emigration had been by wagon across New York and Pennsylvania to the tributaries of the Ohio, thence by boat down that river, and sometimes up the Wabash.  By the treaty of 1821 between the United States and the Miamis, Kickapoos and Pottawatomies occupying the northern portion of Indiana, the Indian title to most of that territory was ceded to the general government.  Immediately after this session attention was directed to what has been called the northern route.  This course was taken by the party in question.  They took passage at Sacket's Harbor on the Ontario, the second steamboat that navigated the waters of Lake Ontario, and landed at Lewiston, thence around Niagara Falls by wagon, thence to Buffalo by open boat, to Detroit by schooner, to Fort Meigs at the head of Maumee bay by another schooner, to Fort Wayne by canoe, across the portage drawing their canoes by oxen to Little river, down that to the Wabash, and down the Wabash to Fort Harrison and Terre Haute, making the trip in the remarkably short space, for those times, of six weeks and two days, a great improvement upon the old route by way of the Ohio, over which if the emigrant made his way within three months he was fortunate.  Northern Indiana was then still occupied by the Indians, but they were more friendly and gave the emigrants no trouble, visiting their camp at every opportunity to exchange their wild game for bread or anything the emigrants had to spare.
     The emigrants located on Fort Harrison prairie, about two miles from Terre Haute, whither other members of the family had three years before preceded them.  In January, 1825, the mother died and the family was broken up.  S. B. lived for a time in the family of

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Captain Daniel Stringham, father of the late Commodore Horton Stringham of the United States navy; afterward, in the families of a married sister and older brother.  In July, 1826, he apprenticed himself to the late John W. Osborn, editor and publisher of the “Western Register,” the first newspaper that was published at Terre Haute.  At the end of four years, having finished his apprenticeship, he went to Vincennes, and, assisted by the late John B. Dillon, brought out the “Vincennes Gazette,” under the proprietorship of Samuel Hill.  One year later he returned to Terre Haute, took the position of editor of the “Western Register” and continued in that position until June, 1832, when the “Register” office was purchased by Thomas Dowling, who established the “Wabash Courier’’ as its successor.
     Having in view the profession of journalist, Mr. Gookins made arrangements for pursuing his avocation in Washington city, and had gone so far as to pack his trunk, and was ready to depart for his new field of labor.  He had for several years been on very intimate terms with Hon. Amory Kinney, a lawyer of high standing, then judge of the circuit court.  He had often endeavored to convince the young printer and journalist that he was fitted for the legal profession, but hitherto without success.  Returning home from his circuit on a Saturday evening, and learning of the preparations made for the departure for Washington on the following Monday, and aware also of another fact, that a matrimonial engagement existed between him and his present wife, daughter of John W. Osborn, another, and this time a successful, effort was made to convince the young man that he was predestined to be a lawyer, the consequence of which was that on the next Monday, instead of departing for Washington, he entered the office of Judge Kinney and sat down to the study of Blackstone's Commentaries.  Regretting the lack of a classical education which he had had neither the means nor the opportunity of acquiring, he consoled himself with the fact, which he learned from his instructor, that a Cady had from the shoemaker's bench attained eminence in the legal profession, with other similar examples, to which, had they sooner occurred, might have been added those of Lincoln from the farm and Johnson from the tailor's bench.  He remembered, too, the opinion of the model of his life in his former occupation, Dr. Franklin, upon the in expediency of wasting so large a portion of one's life in the acquisition of a multiplicity of languages, when one, he thought, would serve for all practical purposes; and, upon these considerations, in which the engagement already mentioned cut no small figure, he decided to make the venture upon the capital invested in an English education, considerably above the average, acquired in the country schools, which

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had been very materially improved and developed by his work at the printer's case and the editor's table, than which, if rightly improved, there is no better school.  But, young man, do not take this as an example.  If you have the opportunity for a collegiate course, avail yourself of it by all means.  Admitted to the bar of the Vigo circuit court in 1834, and to that of the supreme court in 1836, when he gained his first case in that court (4 Blackford, 260), he pursued his chosen avocation until 1850.  Residing at Terre Haute, his practice included a large circuit of courts of Indiana and Illinois.  In 1850 the Hon. John Law, then judge of the circuit including Vincennes and Terre Haute, retired from the bench, and Mr. Gookins was appointed by Gov. Joseph A. Wright, of opposite politics, to fill the vacancy.  The legislature, at their next session, did not approve of the course of Gov. Wright, and chose one of their own political sentiments instead.  In 1851 a new constitution having been adopted, making very radical changes in our judicial system, and requiring the enacting of a civil code, Mr. Gookins was induced to represent Vigo county in the legislature, the chief object of which was to aid in that work.  It was the “long session,” extending from December, 1851 (with a forty days' recess for committee work), to June, 1852, during which time a code was enacted which has formed the basis of our judicial system from that time to the present.  Mr. Gookins served on several committees, the most important of which was that for the organization of courts.  The new constitution made the judiciary elective by the people.  Mr. Gookins, coöperating with prominent members of the legal profession belonging to the two leading political parties of that time, made a vigorous effort to keep the choice of judges, especially those of the supreme court, out of the field of politics.  In this they were unsuccessful.  The politicians took the matter in hand, and the democrats first, then the whigs, in state convention, nominated each a full ticket for judges of the supreme court, instead of two from each party, as had been proposed.  On the whig ticket the nominees were Charles Dewey, David McDonald, John B. Howe and Samuel B. Gookins.  They were beaten by a majority of over 15,000.  Two years later, a vacancy having occurred by the resignation of Hon. A. L. Roache, and a political revolution having also occurred, consequent upon the repeal of the Missouri compromise, Mr. Gookins was again nominated, and was elected by a majority as large as that of his opponent two years before.  In the securing of neither of these nominations did he take any part, believing that the judiciary should be kept free from party power and influence, a principle excellent in theory, but unavailing in practice under the workings of the present system.

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     Mr. Gookins held the position of judge of the supreme court for three years and then resigned.  Two causes led to this: First, the insufficiency of the salary to support a family and pay current expenses, the legislature having fixed it at $1,200 per annum. Second, the imperative necessity of a change of climate, consequent upon a serious impairment of his physical constitution, resulting from a violent attack of pneumonia while in the legislature, from which he had never been able to rally.  He went to Chicago, where he practiced his profession from 1858 to 1875.  Mr. Gookins retained to the last his interest in literary affairs acquired in earlier days.  He has been a not infrequent contributor to the press, and an occasional one to the magazines, among which were the “Knickerbocker” and the “Continental,” both popular in their day.  In the latter will be found a political satire entitled “Tom Johnson's Bear,” written and sent to that magazine in June, 1862.  It was addressed to Mr. Lincoln, and its object was to show the absurdity of holding the negroes in slavery while their masters were seeking to destroy the government.  It had been read at a public meeting in Chicago. After it was sent to the “Continental,” and before its publication, the emancipation proclamation was issued.  It then seemed to its author inappropriate, and he endeavored to recall it, but the editor would not consent, and it came out in October of that year.  This was supplemented by another, following the proclamation of emancipation, entitled “How Mr. Lincoln Became an Abolitionist,” published in the same magazine, in June, 1863, to which any persons interested can refer.  Two other productions of his pen have been given to the public, one entitled “Tippletonia,” and the other “The White House, a Natural Drama,” in which the president's wife and the secretary of state are the dramatis personae.  They are designed to exhibit some of the features of social life in their true colors.  Some have said that literature, especially the poetic, is incompatible with law.  This is a mistake.  Moses, David and Solomon were legislators, judges and poets.  John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster wrote poetry, and none stood higher in the legal fraternity than the latter.  But if the assumption were true, there was not probably in the case under consideration enough of the literary or poetic inspiration to seriously interfere with the labors of a lifetime at the bar and on the bench.
     Judge Gookins died as he lived, an honorable, upright christian gentleman, at his home in Terre Haute, June 14, 1880.  He had been for months engaged upon the work of preparing a history of Vigo county, and only a few days before his death announced that this, his last literary work, was complete.

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     The following resolutions were passed by the Terre Haute bar:
     Again we meet to mourn the loss of a member of the Terre Haute bar.  Judge Samuel B. Gookins, the oldest member of this bar, died suddenly at his residence in this city Monday evening.  Judge Gookins was born in the State of Vermont on May 30, 1809.  He emigrated
with his widowed mother to Vigo county, Indiana, in 1823, and from that time had resided here the greater part of the time until his death.  As a journalist, lawyer, legislator, judge of the circuit court, judge of the supreme court, as a neighbor, a friend and a christian, in all the walks and all the relations of life, Judge Gookins stood without fear and without reproach among the foremost and most honored of the citizens of Indiana.  It will be the duty of the biographer and historian to do full justice to the memory of our departed brother, and when that is done, high on the roll of honor and merit, and among the most worthy and illustrious of the men of Indiana, will appear the name of Samuel B. Gookins, clarum et venerabile nomen.
     As evidence of our regard, be it
     Resolved, That the bar of this court attend the funeral of the deceased in a body.
     Resolved, That copies of this memorial and resolution be presented to the court of this county with the request that the same be spread upon the records thereof; that proper copies be delivered to the family of the deceased accompanied by the assurance of our sympathy in their affliction, and that the press of the city be requested to publish the same.

     The Chicago bar, at a meeting held a few days subsequently, passed similar resolutions of respect and regret.
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surrounding country, all of whom have borne him the highest respect as a generous, enterprising and honest gentleman.

U. R. Jeffers	The VigoWoolen Mills, of which U. R. Jeffers is now the proprietor, were built in 1860 by Messrs. C. S. & L. C. Kennedy.  Since then the mills have passed through the hands of a succession of owners, until Feb. 25, 1874, since which time Mr. Jeffers has been interested in and has operated them, and about two years ago he became sole owner of this extensive establishment.  The building occupied is forty-six feet front by 182½ feet deep, four floors in height, and supplied with the best and latest improved machinery for the manufacture of cloths, yarns, etc.  Prominent among the pieces of machinery may be mentioned one Davis & Furber self-operating machine of 288 spindles; also one Davis & Furber self-operating jack and two hand jacks; three Vigo Woolen Mills sets of cards, two of forty-eight each and one of twenty-four.  There are eighteen looms, latest improved pickers, steel shears, and many other important pieces of machinery.  The capacity of the mills is about 2,600 yards of cloth and 1,500 pounds of yarn per week.  In the operating of these mills there is given employment to about twenty-eight hands  Since Mr. Jeffers has become proprietor and owner of the mills he has gradually increased the facilities and capacity until they are now one of the important manufacturing establishments of the city.  Mr. Jeffers is a native of Steuben county, New York.  About the year 1833 his people moved to Clark county, Illinois, he being at the time about three years old. In 1844 he became a resident of Terre Haute, where he has since resided, excepting time spent in the army.  In 1864 he entered the army as sutler of 79th Ind. Vol. Inf, a three years enlisted regiment. While in the service he was twice taken prisoner by the rebels, first at Chapel Hill, Kentucky, then again at
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	Chickamauga.  This caused him a loss of about $10,000 worth of goods.  Previous to becoming interested in the Vigo Woolen Mills he had for eighteen years been engaged in the wholesale notion trade, at which business he was also successful, his being one of the large jobbing houses of the city.  In 1877 he was made general superintendent of the Vigo Agricultural Society, and in 1878 he was the president of that organization.  He is still a member of the board, and is also president of the Terre Haute Poultry and Pet Show.  He has taken quite an active part in Masonic affairs, and is at present a member of Blue Lodge, No. 19, Chapter No. 11 and Commandery No. 16, of A. F. and A. M.  During his early life he had but very little chance of obtaining an education.  He has been entirely dependent upon his own resources, and may justly be termed one of the self-made men of Terre Haute.

     Harvey Carpenter, Carpenter and joiner, No. 228 North Fourth street, Terre Haute, Indiana, was born in Cooperstown, Otsego county, New York, in 1810.  He lived there until 1844, and while there followed farming.  He came to Terre Haute in 1844, where he has since resided.  He helped to build the Wabash and Erie canal, but most of the time since coming to Terre Haute he has followed the carpenter and joiner business, and is said to be the oldest carpenter in the city.  He was married in 1834 to a Miss Elizabeth Lane, of York state, and they have had five children, only one of whom is living, a daughter, Alida A., who married Mr. Geo. Hayward, a well known citizen of Terre Haute.  They reside in the city with her parents.  She has one child, a daughter.  Mr. Carpenter is one of those who have laid up a competence for old age, and he is one of the substantial citizens of Terre Haute.

     S. E. Burnett, grocer, Terre Haute, of the firm of Smith & Burnett, southwest corner Fourth and Walnut streets, is a native of Vigo county.  At the age of fifteen years he began as clerk in the post-office at Jessup Station, Parke county, Indiana, and for nine years he remained steadily employed in that capacity; his longest absence from the office during the time being four weeks.  After he accepted the position of route agent for the Evansville, Terre Haute and Chicago railroad, continuing in their service in that capacity for about seven years.  One more change in business in 1877 brought him to Terre haute, in his present line, where, in company with Mr. Smith, he is extensively engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery and tobacco trade.  Though he has but for a few years been a member of the firm, he has already established for it a very flattering reputation, and though their house is not the largest in the city, it being 24 feet front by 80 in depth, two floors and basement, it is, however, well stocked with all necessary

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kinds of goods pertaining to the wholesale and retail trade, both in tobaccos, cigars and groceries.   They have made something of a specialty of tobaccos and cigars when selling by sample on the road, and in this line particularly they have quite an extended trade.  Though they have strong competition on all sides, Mr. Burnett has demonstrated that energy, honorable dealing and a close attention to business will build up an enviable trade.

B. H. Cornwell on Pg. 215	B. H. Cornwell (deceased), whose portrait appears in this book, was born July 3, 1827, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, and was the son of Mary (Swan) and Wm. Cornwell.  They were natives of Virginia, and the latter a descendant of the Cornwalls of England, through since the emigration of that branch of the family to the United States of which Mr. Cornwall was a descendant, for some unknown cause the letter e has been substituted for the a, a perversion that many of the descendants do not now recognize.  During his boyhood the parents of Mr. Cornwell removed to Paola, Indiana, where his life was spent until the age of nineteen years.  He acquired such early education as the school system of the place during the time of his boyhood would afford.  Having a remarkably retentive memory, and being of a studious nature, he easily acquired by his own efforts a good education, though laboring under great disadvantage to do so.  From Paola the family removed to Vincennes.  There Mr. Cornwell became interested in the clothing business, and when, in 1845, he removed to Terre Haute, he was the first merchant to open a gentlemen's clothing store, which was located on the west side of the square.  Though busily engaged in mercantile pursuits, Mr. Cornwell was alive to the political issues of the day, and during the last year of the administration of President Pierce, he was appointed and swerved as postmaster of the Terre Haute post-office, and when the next president, Mr. James Buchanan, was elected, Mr. Cornwell was reappointed to the office, and retained his position during the four years' term of Buchanan's administration. When accepting the position of postmaster Mr. Cornwell closed out his interest in the clothing trade, and when he quit the office of postmaster he again turned his attention to mercantile pursuits by embarking in the dry-goods trade, with Mr. John G. Davis as a partner.  He remained quietly engaged in the dry-goods business until the people nominated and elected him to the office of auditor of Vigo county for a four years' term.  At the expiration of his term of service they requested him to again accept the office, but he refused, principally on account of his failing health.  He again engaged in the mercantile business by entering the hardware trade, though this was mainly on account of his two sons-in-law, D. B. Otis and A. G. Aus-
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	tin, the latter still continuing the business.  After thoroughly establishing the hardware business Mr. Cornwell gave it but little more attention, his health having become too badly impaired to admit of his being confined to active business.  At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Cornwell united with the Presbyterian church, and in 1845 he was made one of the elders of the church of which he was a member.  He was a very active and zealous christian, and one who took more than ordinary interest in church affairs.  At the time of his death, which occurred in September of 1869, he was a member and an elder in good standing of the First Presbyterian church of Terre Haute, with which he had been connected for many years.  Mr. Cornwell was married in 1841 to Miss Caroline S. Brokaw, who is a native of Vincennes, Indiana, and who still survives him.  Her people were among the early settlers of Vincennes.  Her mother was a native of that place and her father settled there as early as 1812.  Her grandmother, Mrs. Henry Ruble, whose maiden name was Billings, was an intimate friend of the family of Gen. Harrison, and came with the general's family when they first came to the Wabash valley.  Both the families of Mr. and Mrs. Cornwell, so far as the genealogy can be traced, were honorable and useful members of society; some of them have held positions of honor, and none, so far as can be learned, have ever betrayed a trust.

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as McKeen Bros. bank, the firm being W. R. McKeen, Frank and Samuel McKeen.  Mr. McKeenis well known in Vigo county as one of the most enterprising, wealthy and liberal citizens of the county.

     Jacob Seitz, proprietor of the Cincinnati House, Terre Haute, is

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     J. R. Fisher

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     George Glick,

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     August F. Eiser,

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own account, June 5, 1877, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Greiner, a native of Ripley county, Indiana, and of German parentage.

     John Rankin

     Augustus Laux,

     B. H. Alvey,

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     John S. Beach,

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     front by 100 feet deep, his stock embracing everything pertaining to the retail trade of flour and food.

     John R. Vance,

     It is pretty generally understood among the citizens of Terre Haute that Chapman's dining hall, Nos. 124-8 South Fourth street, is the only first class establishment of the kind in the city.  Mr. J. H. Chapman, who has built up and established this extensive business, is a native of Connecticut, his birthplace being near the city of Hartford.  He first became a resident of Terre Haute about 1851.  For about two years after his arrival he was engaged in the manufacture and sale of chain pumps.  He then became interested in the old Clark House, in company with Mr. Clark, after whom the house was named.  At the hotel business he spent about eight years, and during that time, or in December, 1855, he married Miss Emma H. Clark, daughter of his partner.  After leaving the hotel he removed to Iowa, where he spent ten years, most of the time in agricultural pursuits and stock dealing.  In 1871 he returned to Terre Haute, and in 1876 began in his present business.  From beginning at that time on a very small scale, he has,

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as before said, established the largest business in the city in his line.  When he began business he had room to seat sixteen persons, and now he has recently fed as high as 1,500 in one day.  He uses about seven barrels of flour daily, and gives employment to twenty-five hands.  He also requires four wagons and six horses in his business.  This extensive business has all been built up by him since 1876.  As a financier there are but few men in Terre Haute who would have accomplished what he has done in the last three years. 

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     H. Kinnse, Sr.,

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    At Nos. 204 and 206 South Fourth street is to be found one of the neat and tastily arranged grocery establishments of the city of Terre Haute.  The space occupied is 36 feet front by 60 feet in depth.  The whole space is filled as full as can be done with convenience in the transaction of business with a complete, fresh and well selected stock of goods pertaining to the grocery trade.  The whole is presided over by Mr. John Zimmerman, the gentlemanly proprietor.  Though a man only twenty-seven years of age, he seems to have the business tact and shrewdness of a man of fifty years.  He is a native of Vigo county.  His people were settlers of the county as early as 1848.  Here his boyhood and school days were spent.  Here, too, at twenty-seven years of age, he is well established in business, and, should no misfortune befall him, with his good financing he will soon be one of the largest dealers in the city.

     The drug business is well represented in Terre Haute, and among those establishments that are neatly fitted up the stocked to supply any and all demands for goods in their lines is that of Messrs. Gulick & Berry, corner of Fourth and Main streets.  These gentleman are doing both a jobbing and retail business.  They occupy a building 19 feet front by 120 feet deep, three floors and basement.  Mr. Gulick, the senior member of the firm, is a native of Maysville, Kentucky.  His residence in Terre Haute dates back to 1852, since which time he has been engaged principally in the drug business.  He began first as a clerk for Dr. Mahan, one of the founders of the house of which the firm of Gulick & Berry are now proprietors.  From 1857 to 1864 he was employed as teller in what was first the Southern Bank and afterward changed or merged into the First National. From 1861 until 1865 he also held the office of city clerk, and in 1866 the existing partnership was formed,

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Mr. Berry being a native of the State of Connecticut, and having had twelve years experience in the business previous to their beginning business together.  Their only specialty is window glass and fine liquors for medicinal purposes.  Their trade both in wholesaling and retailing has been established by honesty and square dealing.  They are well known as one of the substantial business firms of Terre Haute.

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     Herman H. Apmann,

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     E. W. Johnson,

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     G. Esham,

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